Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another glorious day and the links!
US Budget Deficit Doubles to $1.7 Trillion
Biggest developments in the Biden finances story this year
Republicans announce nine new House speaker candidates
Judge Temporarily Halts Gag Order on Trump in Jan 6 Case
James Comer: We Found a Lot of Suspicious Checks Written to Joe Biden From Brother Jim
The Most Expensive Judicial Race in US History Is Raising Questions
U.S. Housing Market Half as Affordable as Three Years Ago
Americans Are Burning Through Savings To Keep Biden’s Economy Afloat, Experts Say
Nokia to Cut up to 14,000 Jobs as U.S. Demand Shrinks, Growth Uncertain
Economy Minister Massa, Outsider Milei Head to Argentina Runoff
Woman returns from vacation to find home demolished by mistake
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
US Budget Deficit Doubles to $1.7 Trillion
That is just the budget gimmick number. The debt was $31,226,777,244,320.88 on 20 October 2022. It was $33,626,943,979,485.12 on 19 October 2023. That is an increase of $2.4T.
I like how the article mentions it is a bigger deficit than pre-COVID ones.
I’m sitting here thinking… “I think that’s a bigger deficit than most (if not all) pre-COVID budgets“….. still would accept “roll back the budget to 2019” as a good first step, honestly.
Revenue – Expenditures
2019 $3.5T $4,4T
2020 $3.4T $6.6T
2021 $4.0T $6.8T
2022 $4.9T $6.3T
Using an “emergency” to jack up spending had no effect.
Thanks Trump!
We don’t count the accruing interest, because FYTW.
The solution is obvious…
Give $60 billion to the IRS so those over $400k pay “their fair share” (ignoring that the IRS historically goes after those with enough money to matter, but not enough that they hire accountants / lobby for loopholes… aka the middle class)?
Don’t forget to go after those $600/year venmo transactions.
That’s a lot of helicopters….
Republicans announce nine new House speaker candidates
When are the debates?
At this point, they might as well resolve it with a rousing game of musical chairs.
Generalissimo Kevin McCarthy is still not speaker of the house…
Jeffries still doesn’t have the votes.
Seem pertinent.
Battle royale.
Hmmm… a bunch of “grass roots donors” that didn’t make such donations. That sounds awfully familiar (though I can’t dig up the actual articles right now and don’t care enough to spend my day on it)… guess that’s the new normal for money laundering. Or the old normal is just getting more exposed.
Morning, Banjos. Like the frog hat on the guinea pig.
Didn’t we know this already months ago? Why is this “raising questions” now?
This is old news. Why can’t people move on from this. Never mind this wasn’t reported when it first happened and there were no repercussions.
Did we? I thought it was a different race with mysterious voters that had no idea what folks were talking about when they tracked down small donations…. Could just be my memory, granted.
I believe it was democrats general fundraising group ACT Blue. iirc, O’Keeffe’s new org tracked down alleged doners and they claim they never donated. Many were poor retirees on limited budgets.
Ah. I guess they all do it now. And nothing else happened.
ACT blue is a true criminal enterprise, but it is protected by the machine cause it serves their purpose.
https://x.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1640902212745412609?s=20
That sounds exactly like what I was remembering. Thanks, Banjos!
That hat is adorbs on the Guinea pig. Do you put it back on after sautéing with onions and brussel sprouts?
They have Brussels sprouts in South America?
Learning and Growing…
“ Second to the Netherlands in export volume is Mexico where the climate allows nearly year-round production.[9] The Baja region is the main supplier to the US market, but produce also comes from the Mexicali, San Luis and coastal areas.”
Brussels sprout cartel – band name, or album?
Eh, album.
I remember Obama had a lot of donations under the $200 reporting limit.
Test…
keep getting a server errors.
Clearly you have failed the test.
B+
All good here. You trying to copy.paste something?
No. Just typing in text.
Wondering if this will get past the error.
I’m no legal expert, but isn’t that what, oh, I dunno, discovery is supposed to be about?
I guess not for the new Kangaroo Court model or something. You’ve got me…..
Yes, you are supposed to put all evidence on to the record to be examined by both parties prior to the start of the trial. Typically it falls between pretrial motions and the empanelling of a Jury.
Alt-take: We did these deals because we weren’t sure a jury would buy off on it.
Or, we took these deals because we’re not billionaires and the state will bankrupt us defending ourselves.
The process is the punishment.
“Jury”. You’re joking.
Right?
Loved all the comments cited over the weekend of “It can be normal to pay cash for a multi-million dollar house!” (as a government official for your whole life, no less)… “How do you KNOW he didn’t loan his brother $200k with no paperwork?” (again, as a government employee… where’d he get that kind of cheddar to just throw around?) “It isn’t a smoking gun that this happened right after big payments from the Chinese companies!”
Remembering not that long ago when Biden was widely recognized as a plagiarizing idiot who never even came close to winning a primary, much less have a credible shot for President then suddenly The Narrative(tm) was put out and all the lackeys cling to it like they’re Jack and that table is tilting is astounding. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
Trump, meanwhile, was supposed to put all of his assets in a blind trust to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Our cherished institutions and all that, doncha know.
Emoluments!
It’s almost like Biden was installed for reasons other than competence or popularity.
At the time they didn’t think he had a chance of winning.
That’s why they fortified the 2020 election…
And as I tell people: Biden is just the Weekend at Bernie’s corpse as Obama’s people are making all the decisions with Obama driving that train over the cliff.
Obama III: The Revenge
Yeah, I’ve been reliably informed that government employees have no savings and live paycheck-to-paycheck, and delaying even a single paycheck for a week or so will cause them terrible hardship.
We’re going to be royally fucked when the funny money runs out.
Powell thinks he’s Volcker, but in the 70-80’s the government held only 20-40% debt to gdp, now it’s 120% and our Congress can’t get a handle on spending.
If Powell actually has the stones for it, forcing congress’ hand into fiscal responsibility would be a good outcome in the long run. Let’s just hope he doesn’t decide to opt for some dangerous method of travel, like an airplane or car…
Hotel room with faulty windows. Hey if it’s good enough for Putin.
Fawlty hotel window:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVMgtv9oIM4
True story, I stayed in a Crowne Plaza in Cuyahoga Falls OH in February where the window wouldn’t close. The first night was miserably cold. However, by the second night, ice had sealed the opening and from that point on it was quite comfy.
Uhhh, were everyone’s windows like that?
I stayed last summer in a hotel that rationed electricity. I was too exhausted to make it work, and much too so to call downstairs twice.
No, but they had no other rooms to move me into. They said.
I haven’t seen a hotel where windows open in a couple decades.
When I was at Niagara Falls I had an 8th floor room where the window opened, and had no screen, or anything to prevent a defenistration.
Gah! That is not acceptable when you’re a living bug attractant.
Yes, I’m sure the opening windows were at least partially because the falls wee in close enough proximity to hear.
They were not.
I don’t think they’re capable of fiscal responsibility, so increased borrowing costs will just get added on top of the already excessive expenditures. It’s going to snowball faster than they realize because rates on debt have gone from ~0 to 5% and may continue to rise.
5% doesn’t sound like much, but we when you take in ~20% of the economy, shelling out 6% of that just for debt payments leaves you with around 2/3rds of what you needed. And we’re already spending above our means, and with a whole host of ‘obligations’ like SS AND Medicare that are due to balloon all at the same time. It’s a train wreck that’s finally about to hit after watching it develop for the last 30 years.
This is fine.
Amid the escalating tensions in the Middle East, over 12,000 personnel from the US Navy and Marine Corps aboard ten warships have either reached or are en route to the Eastern Mediterranean, as reported by Nikkei Asia, citing data from the US Navy.
On Saturday, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III announced a series of actions aimed at bolstering the United States’ military presence in the Middle East.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group has been redirected to the Central Command area of responsibility. This move is in addition to the Navy’s largest and most advanced nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which is currently operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
I hope everyone is geared up for another mideastern conflict in which there is no benefit to the average American in the US participating. Bonus is that this one could escalate to WWIII. Fun times to be had by all.
Honestly, I didn’t know Nokia was still around.
Of course they’re still around, they’re indestructable.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-23/google-s-rise-and-nokia-s-smartphone-fall-from-grace
Eh…
Well that’s stupid.
Google needs to be put down.
We’ve gone on holiday by mistake–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2P9Px3enI
Withnail was such a complete piece of shit in that movie.
Sadly, autobiographical. Not that you didn’t know that.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/122-withnail-and-i
On a related note, this is some story:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12659925/George-Harrison-quip-beatles-fan-broke-mansion-stabbed-star-biography.html
The more I read from those extracts, the more difficult he sounds. Great parting words though: “Ah don’t care, ah’ll save it for me musical.”
On Friday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to temporarily halt her gag order on former President Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case, while he appeals the order in higher courts.
We have to keep up the illusion of impartiality, you see…
Re: Argentina, this morning NPR was all “the far-right candidate underperformed!” and “The ruling party won the election!”
Steve Inskeep, who has to be one of the most unprofessional partisan hacks ever, performatively emoted incredulity and scorn when he said “anarcho-capitalist.”
I still can’t read any of those anarchist sub-faction names without my mind substituting “Arachno-communist” and the meme of the wojack crawling with spiders.
And I can’t read Anarcho-communist without thinking of
DENNIS:
I told you. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
Naw, that’s too long, and was never very funny.
HERESY!
Now fetch……
….
THE COMFY CHAIR!
You sem awfully attached to Dennis’ scene.
And I fully expected that reaction.
I don’t trust Argentina’s elections any more than our own.
“The ruling party won the election!”
Curious, that. I suppose it was sufficiently fortified.
The federal government faces a partial shutdown in November, and there is increasing pressure to send more funds for the Ukraine and Israel wars.
Here’s a thought: why don’t the taxpayers (I know, I know) let Ukraine and Israel fund their own fucking wars?
Did they help fund our forever war? They are both such close allies that we never bothered to formalize an alliance.
What are you, some kind of Putler-loving anti-Semite?
He just loves 7th century warlords.
Woman returns from vacation to find home demolished by mistake – rebuilding it is good for the economy
Think of all that new business for the glaziers!
But the tailor!
I hope the neighbor came late to all that.
Dammit Pat, you beat me to it. I got delayed having to log in
+1 Bastiat
Now that is a funny way to spur economic growth…
Who is paying for the reconstruction? Is she being forced to take a high interest bank loan, on top of whatever other mortgage obligation she had, or is insurance covering this?
My bet is they move her to a pod and tell her to start eating bugs or else they will do the next demolition while she is home.
It was a home her family owned, so probably no mortgage. It also had sat vacant with boarded up windows for years. It doesn’t appear it was a govt job but some private company, who deservedly will get sued and lose.
What they can’t use the whole government should be allowed to use immanent domain to spur economic whatever here?
Rant all you want, but it doesn’t appear those are the facts.
Yet…
Honest mistake. Any boarded up house is fair game to raze.
Professor Jules Hilbert: Meeting an insurance agent the day your policy runs out is coincidence. Getting a letter from the emperor saying he’s visiting is plot. Having your apartment eaten by a wrecking ball… is something else entirely. Harold, you don’t control your fate.
Grrr.
IT has announced we all need to “upgrade” our passwords to 15 characters, but because of that we’ll only need to change them annually instead of quarterly.
Not entirely sure how that works or if it makes sense.
But since I’m thinking about password policies, here’ a blast form the past:
https://neal.fun/password-game/
P@ssword1234567 will suffice?
I love that game. If you put in your suggestion it should snark the line from Space Balls:”That’s what some schmo would have on his luggage!”
Nope.
It has to at least be P@assw0rd765432!
The password game is dumb. The most important thing is to teach people not to leave that written down lying around and how to spot phishing or engineering so they can avoid allowing those attack vectors. But when you are dealing with morons, especially those with college credentials that think that made them S-M-R-T smart, you are going to be screwed regardless.
It’s simple, we don’t let them use anything that requires password access.
I wish.
definitelynotapasswordharvestingscript.com
My shortest password is 24 characters, and that’s only because some websites are retarded and won’t let you use one of adequate length for proper security.
“postitisunderthekeyboard”
I have an account that uses a bog-standard English word as a password that somehow has never been hacked for the past 31 years.
Who would have guessed Sassafras
Sassafrasses don’t grow in bogs. You’re thinking of Cypresses.
That’s why no one guessed it.
Anything to do with the Marx Bros.?
No hints! I want to keep that accountintact!
It’s never Swordfish.
That’s >15 characters!
itsneverSwordfish is 17 characters.
it’sneverSwordfish is 18 characters.
“it’s never Swordfish” is 20 characters.
podestapodestapodesta
FuckYouITIDon’tWantToTypeThisShitEveryFuckingTime?
Too many shifts to capitals, and too many spots where you’d be naturally inclined to add spaces that are not in there.
Plus, where are your numerals?
Farginiceholes1&
Funny. We just did the same.
I assume the big three auditing firms just changed their security criteria.
Good news for us (and I assume you) is that no characters or numbers are required. So it really can be a phrase. However, getting up from the desk and coming back to locked computer is a PITA with long password.
I always used the manufacturers internal code for some vehicle I used to own: 68 SRL311, 78 TE50 lb and so on. Easy to remember, plus I have had enough cars that I car rotate through.
It is one area where JDM works out really well.
I used to use Japanese words and phrases, but at some point they added Japanese dictionary to the forbidden word list.
The prior policy was 8 characters including one capitalized and one “special” character. It was run against a some massive dictionary and normal “words” wouldn’t work. So “Zwak” was a no go but “Zw@k” would likely work. However that would only work once. Because you couldn’t use the same word again during the next 15 months.
It was just nuts.
Our official policy is some ridiculous length but a widely used program has an 8 character/limited or no special characters password requirement so…
Zw@k01, and each time you have to change it, you just go up one number.
Current systems can detect that and will block it.
Yup!
Don’t go up by 1… Go up by 2 or 3… That check then doesn’t work.
Our system only requires one character to differ between updates. So a pair of rolling digits works just fine.
I have a password scheme that fulfills all these requirements. It’s not exactly random, as I use real words.
US Budget Deficit Doubles to $1.7 Trillion
Chump change. We can fund all the wars all over the planet for all of time. According to Janet Yellen, that is.
By god, we may not be able to recruit enough bodies into the military, but we can spend with no such constraints!
I’m seeing a big uptick in Army recruiting commercials lately.
They are all appealing to woke idiots though. That sort would only join for free sex changes.
The military’s problems are solely from that awful redneck obstructing flag officers from getting their pay raises!
The military has that same Disney problem. They try to cater to the woke crowd, but the woke crowd isn’t going to enlist now and never was.
Republicans announce nine new House speaker candidates
The not-so-grand old party can’t stop shooting itself in the dick.
I told people Jim Jordan would have zero chance of winning that vote. He is considered by the uniparty as a disruptor and populists. The machine’s agenda is to make sure no populists – someone that will actually do what the people want instead of just giving lip service and doing what the machine wants – ever again gets in positions of power, and the speaker is third in line to the top job.
We will only be allowed to pick a speaker the uniparty can control. Get used to them making sure their will is the only thing that matters until it gets to the boiling point and the guillotines or woodchippers are brought out to deal with them.
And every one of those critters can say “but you elected me”.
I did not.
And with the number of fraudulet votes rolling about, I doubt anyone did.
He might have kept a promise or 2 that the GOP made to their base.
Kevin McCarthy was remarkable – he made a bunch of promises to get elected Speaker and immediately broke all of them.
Repubs make a deal with Hakeem, is he doesn’t keep his promises Repubs do a recall and being in the majority put the fear of dog in the demos.
Seems like the best outcome
This year has been full of big developments in the Biden story. Yet, overshadowed by the speaker fight and war in Israel, we are still waiting to get to the bottom of it. A new $200K direct payment to Joe Biden uncovered last week shows that the investigation has only just begun.
Sure but where is the evidence?
It’s flimsy. It will never hold up in a court of law.
“Joseph Biden” is a common name. How do we know it is the same Joe Biden? If it is, he probably won it playing
the hidden pea trick on the corner of the ghetto with Corn Pop. Or putting his vicious guard dogs out to stud.
Or suing drunk drivers. Or found in the cushions of the Amtrak trains.
Boxer costume
https://twitter.com/i/status/1712483260062966234
lol
I just thought of a great costume idea! Dress up as Barbie, but with boxing gloves and morgue face paint: Barbara Boxer!
Flocks of sheep replaced beeping cars in central Madrid for a ritual that follows ancient herding routes
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1716263166500606359
I remember those days from when I lived there 50 years ago
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I just hit an excluded word, “mong”.
Wut?
… the Merciful?
Shortened version of mongoloid, a person with Down’s syndrome
A Romanian journalist giving a news update. Taking cover while people casually ride their bikes past her.
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1716231702702665903
hey they all do this not just ours
I am disappointed in the content produced by someone calling themselves “DD Geoolitics.”
Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt is drawing up new package to help first time buyers in the Autumn Statement
Hunt is expected to extend the 95% mortgage guarantee for another year
Treasury is also looking at a new ISA product to help people save up a deposit
https://twitter.com/HarryYorke1/status/1715998704400830503
Don’t build and encourage loaning, that will fix the housing market.
Is Jeremy Hunt related to Mike Hunt?
FDJ (Free German Youth) carrying signs of the GDR Solidarity Committee (Solidaritätskomitee der DDR) against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism… including one, concerns the Palestinian people
https://twitter.com/RevAus199/status/1716419688899518614
Same as it ever was.
The Wessis are still cleaning up the mess the Ossis created over less than 40 years.
On Friday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan agreed to temporarily halt her gag order on former President Donald Trump in his 2020 election interference case, while he appeals the order in higher courts.
How kind of her.
U.S. Housing Market Half as Affordable as Three Years Ago
And groceries are twice as expensive. And war is breaking out all over. And there is an invasion at the border. But no mean tweets.
You are wasting your breath. TDS is one hell of a drug.
Katsushika Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa made with LEGO by Jumpei Mitsui.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1716441909483143403
Americans Are Burning Through Savings To Keep Biden’s Economy Afloat, Experts Say
That’s Bidenomics in action.
The tin-foil hat reptile part of my brain can’t help but think “So…. you’re closer to owning nothing….”
Old Biddies still exist:
https://www.nbc15.com/2023/10/20/city-orders-risqu-halloween-display-be-taken-down/
Is tat because the pole dancer is a male skeleton and the perp identified as a woman?
Someone has a bone to pick with the homeowner.
I don’t see what is wrong with it. Also, 1A, motherfucker.
I think you could claim 1A if you put political pamphlets in the hands of all the skeletons. Which would be a great defense.
Over and under that the SCOTUS is forced to let the government keep gaslighting us?
What knots will Roberts tie himself into to justify this one?
With 76 percent of votes counted, Massa surprised by pulling ahead with 35.9 percent of votes, while Milei secured 30.51 percent.
The two will compete in a Nov. 19 runoff election, with the winner to take office in December.
The far-right libertarian economist Milei had been polling as the frontrunner ahead of Massa, who has overseen inflation of almost 140 percent and poverty that has reached 40 percent.
Elections are not real.
The left always feels evil shit is justified because they are sure their end goals are noble. That’s how you get reeducation or extermination camps too.
Speaking of, the MAGAts will need a formal deprogramming. Or so I am told.
True Tolkien aficionados and art historians will find much to be annoyed about. But Στέλιος Καρέλλας on FB had AI render scenes from Lord the Rings as Byzantine mosaics, and I think it’s glorious.
https://twitter.com/_Dragases_/status/1715991476121862209
One thing I’m really looking forward to is the day when AI + CNC = affordable custom furniture.
You’ll end up with something only a mutant spawn with a multitude of limbs can use safely.
I’d have to approve the design prior to it getting sent to the CNC, naturally.
It’s already happening with laser engraving (like on my EDC slide), it just needs larger-format mills to be integrated, and obviously the tird dimension is going to be more important with furniture than it is on ornamental engraving/printing.
Interesting. Second X link that Brave refuses to display. Switching to Firefox, I get it no problem.
Balrogs don’t have wings.
We gave them Red Bull.
The Metropolitan Police announced this weekend that chanting “jihad”, as a speaker did at Saturday’s Hizb ut-Tahrir protest against Israel, is not illegal. Okay. Good to know.
Here, then, just so we’re all on the same page, is a list of things that British lawmakers and police officials believe are more arrestable offences than demanding holy war.
https://thecritic.co.uk/twelve-things-more-arrestable-than-calling-for-jihad/
So did Israel bomb the church or not?
A steady stream of rocket misfires by Hamas and Islamic Jihad have resulted in the deaths of several Palestinians since the war between Israel and Iran-backed terrorists first began earlier this month, according to one Israeli defense official.
“They are killing their own people,” Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday.
Hagari noted that one-fifth of the rockets that have been fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad have missed intended targets and landed inside Gaza, killing civilians. That number, Hagari said, amounts to more than 550 rockets.
who knows anything thats going on
So Israel admits to not protecting Palestinians like they do for Israelis? Where’s the Iron Dome for Gaza?
NASA ZeroG coffee cup.
https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1716143401773723732
ehm
Designed by Megumi Igarashi?
the shape physics demands
I’m just going to say it. It looks like a vagina.
I don’t think it mentions any particular religion…
The United States Constitution is clear: Muslim civil rights are American civil rights. There is no exception.
Hate has no place in America. Islamophobia has no place in America. We will not be silent.
…even and especially those that are in no way compatible with it.
Is Lizzie on the warpath again?
So a Muslim, say, bakery, is free to exercise its first amendment rights to, say, refuse to cater a gay wedding?
Sure. Christians on the other hand…
…coming from one of the most hateful politicians in America not named Hillary Clinton.
I suppose she is aware that constitution doesn’t say a thing about “hate” or “phobia” but hey, virtue signaling is free I guess.
It goes beyond virtue signaling. Saying you should not allow ephemeral things lake “hate speech”, especially when you get to decide what is and is not hate speech, gives you some unprecedented powers in both controlling the narrative and programming the serfs.
Yup, it is not by accident that she directly follows the true statement above with the false flapdoodle below.
Pat Buchanan said we were a Judeo-Christian nation. He said nothing about Muslims.
I. Won’t. Be. Soothed. 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH82sJ898jg
Top 20 most sexually promiscuous nations:
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1715906003068133560
Now redo that list, excluding sheep.
No love for chicken fuckers either?
The land down under is number 1 for going down under.
*smiles*
*Hands Rebel Scum a Vegemite sandwich*
Single Glibs, just look for a woman named Matilda Silva who’s nickname is Alexandra.
I am shocked, Shocked!, that Saudi Arabia is not on that list.
Australia!
Australia!
Australia!
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Japan ahead of the US?
I don’t buy it. People just make this shit up for clicks.
Having legal prostitution must mean something.
Does sex with RealDolls count?
They left out the relevant modifier – “self-reported” promiscuity. Shocking, that people lie about sex when asked by strangers. Shocking!
The one thing you cuntes all agree on is funding the military-industrial complex.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in an interview airing Sunday that he sides with President Biden on the matter of bundling Ukraine and Israel aid together — while noting their opposing views on domestic issues.
CBS’s Margaret Brennan asked McConnell on “Face the Nation” whether it was possible to pass additional aid to Ukraine without it being tied to Israel, as some Republicans are hesitant to approve more aid to Ukraine.
“I just think that’s a mistake,” McConnell responded. “I mean, I know there are some Republicans in the Senate, and maybe more in the House, saying Ukraine is somehow different. I view it as all interconnected.”
McConnell also pushed back on other Republicans who are hesitant to approve more aid for Ukraine, saying that the aid is actually being spent more in the U.S. when ramping up production for the weapons.
Sure it’s interconnected. Giving US taxpayer money to foreign powers. It’s all the same.
“Career socialist activists ‘are pulling the strings’ on UAW strike that’s cost the economy $7.7bn and claimed 6,000 jobs: ‘Eat the rich’ union leader – on $350k salary – is being advised by hardcore left-wingers who ‘want class warfare'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12654885/uaw-strikes-socialist-activists-shawn-fain.html
CWABOA
well if the companies were not greedy we would not need Career socialist activists.
LOL go for it, commies.
There’s a dozen car companies ready to clean your clock.
Look. Fain isn’t a moron. He knows what he is doing, and chose to listen to those advisors. It’s not like he’s a Biden puppet.
The UAW voted for Fain. They can go to hell with him.
If you Google “long legs” and ask for images, almost all of them will be of human females. Even though human males tend to have longer legs on average. (Same at other search engines.)
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1716155131043942448
I also get a bunch of insects
Because they have decades of data showing what people actually click through on from such searches.
Great song. I don’t know why, just always liked it a lot, even thought I’m not a huge fan of Elton John.
This is both why liberal economists don’t like discuss inflation including food and why CEOs get paid for their industry insight.
Food Is on Sale Again. You Might Still Have Sticker Shock.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/food-is-on-sale-again-you-might-still-have-sticker-shock-fea92d17?st=qokbociyf7nryh2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I spent more on food (including booze) than electricity, gas, water, sewer and trash collection combined this past month. And I don’t eat or drink opulently by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve been making good use of persistently-on-sale $1.99 3 lb bags of apples and 5 lb bags of potatoes.
I’ve been eating more expensive foods because I had to reduce carb intake.
But chicken thighs (skin-on, bone-in) are often $1.99/lb
I bought a package of chicken thighs on sale for 99 cents/lb this week. Hell of a deal. $2.99/lb boneless skinless chicken breast is my usual dietary staple. I do oatmeal with a diced quarter of an apple and cinnamon for breakfast, chicken sandwich or chicken breast with potato and random veg for lunch, a veg, fruit and protein smoothie for dinner, and then usually cheese and crackers or peanut butter toast as a late snack. That and a handle and a half or so of bottom shelf liquor is running me right around $250/mo usually.
4 kids are blowing out our food/household budget. The oldest is 10, can eat 28 chicken nuggets in a sitting (while somehow being underweight), and I can’t imagine what our food bill is going to be for 4 teenagers plus friends. We ended up ditching Costco for Sam’s Club and haven’t looked back. Better selection, better prices, no checkout, early hours.
We usually go chicken breasts too (~15 lbs) and a rotating beef cut every week. Lots of dairy, vegetables, and fruit too. Trying to cut back on the processed carbs.
Same.
I can buy a ten pound bag of chicken thighs for about six bucks. Granted, about a pound of that is water.
Where? I have not found them for less than $2.59 per lbs. And breastesses, Q’s favorite, are now between $3.29-43.59 per lbs.
My local Butcher, where I’ve been getting all my protein of late.
43 dollars is a lot. Bresse chicken?
That is from street skanks.
On sale, my ass. I still have a large bag of emergency rice, and I need to get a big bag of dried beans just in case. I do not trust our food transport network, or Biden.
Consider getting some food grade buckets from Home Depot and mylar bags/oxidizers from Amazon. It didn’t cost me much. I put up ~175lbs of rice and beans during Covid. The food will keep for 30 years. I still have enough supplies to left to bucket another 175lb… just need to get around to it.
I still have about ten pounds of dried beans I bought in 2020 as an emergency reserve, plus working thru a 15 pound bag of rice.
I’d cook the beans. Dried beans only last a few years.
Quick Google search turned up an article about someone who stored beans back in 1999. Not just edible, but the beans actually sprouted when planted.
It’s a SHTF supply, not a gourmet meals supply.
Ya think?
Federal officials are warning that members of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hezbollah could be crossing through the southern border, according to an internal Oct. 20 memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The San Diego Field Office Intelligence Division of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) sent the memo warning that due to the war between Israel and Hamas, there could be encounters of terror-tied individuals who are seeking to travel to or from the Middle East via transit across the southern border. Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah, all of which are U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, have been committing attacks on Israel in a war that began with a surprise attack on hundreds of civilians on Oct. 7.
“San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,” the memo reads.
“Foreign fighters motivated by ideology or mercenary soldiers of fortune may attempt to obfuscate travel to or from the US to or from countries in the Middle East through Mexico,” the memo adds.
I’m glad that serious people are in charge.
That’s alarming. We should probably talk about it for another few weeks or months before we do anything.
McConnell also pushed back on other Republicans who are hesitant to approve more aid for Ukraine, saying that the aid is actually being spent more in the U.S. when ramping up production for the weapons.
That’s the new talking point. Team Brandon is using it, too. That money stays right here in the good ole USA. It gets used to kill a bunch of smelly foreigners, but when has that ever stopped us in the past?
Oh good. I was afraid all that money might be spent wastefully to enrich some foreign oligarch who was suspending elections and shutting down religious expression, but as long as it’s lining the pockets of Lockheed and Raytheon executives, that changes everything.
Dorothy Hosmer (US) on the adventure mostly by bicycle from Geneva to Trieste is crossing Polish- Romanian border at Śniatyn, 1938
https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/pics/docs/00/02/17/35/small/Image__439_.jpg?v=0
Fun fact: Romania no longer has a border with Poland due to Ukraine being in the way.
I thought Germany was particularly careful about having government officials advocate for eradicating Jews, but I guess I was wrong:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/22/diplo-conducted-first-gaza-paragliding-flight-shouted-free-palestine-three-months-before-terror-attack/
Just so long as he didn’t fly a flag with a swastika on it. It’s the symbols that are important, not the actual deeds.
Maybe it isn’t?
Your handlers’ propaganda is probably not any more reliable than anything the media are putting out these days.
I remain darkly amused that only one side is committing war crimes here, and it isn’t the one that started this shit.
I’m just going to assume he found out about Big Mike.
New information from a FOIA request now places Barack Obama on the scene sometime after his personal chef, Tafari Campbell, went missing and was later found drowned.
The new information was first reported by Jesse Watters Friday evening.
“We have new information tonight in the drowning death of Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell,” Watters revealed. “The Massachusetts State Police responded to our FOIA request and released their report with some redactions.”
“According to the report, Obama was on the scene shortly after Campbell went missing,” Watters said. “The report also states an unnamed female staffer jumped into the water when Tafari fell off his board, but it was already too late. He disappeared.”
All of Obumbles blowjob buddies are dead, aren’t they? I know two or three were Hillaried before his election….
Martha’s Vineyard and Water just don’t seem compatible with Democrat big shots. Next, we’ll hear that Barry actually swam 10 miles to try to get help for his overboard chef.
Just look at those defense ETFs
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Sunday that President Biden is providing “better leadership” than former President Trump at the international level.
When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Cheney on “State of the Union” whether Biden or Trump was “providing better leadership on the international stage right now,” the Wyoming Republican said “certainly” Biden is. She also took aim at Trump’s criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, who he accused of “letting us down” in 2020 just before the U.S. killed a top Iranian general.
“They were appalling comments,” she said. “And, you know, you’re absolutely right, that there should have been a response. I think that you know, every Republican member of Congress ought to be asked about those comments. Every Republican candidate for the presidency ought to be asked about those comments.”
The world is a much better, safer place.
Define “leadership.”
Leadership = Spending our money on shit we don;t want.
Leadership = Spending our money on shit
we don;tthey want.Formula Hype-brid went as usual. Turned it on just in time for the start, and was sound asleep by lap 5. Thrilling.
Speaking of, I really need to push back on Don’s claim that DFW, Houston and Austin are anything alike.
DFW is the world’s largest shopping mall.
Houston is a for-reals big southern city.
Austin is a formerly tolerant place that’s gentrified to the point where the wealthy have successfully pushed out the rapid-turnover, high-risk, low-barrier to entry economy that made it such an easy place to live in. I couldn’t really give you a concise description of its current character, nor whether it’s consistent across the place.
I agree with you, all three are completely different.
Austin is a blue dot packed full of mostly white progs, surrounded by a reddish purple band of suburbs, surrounded by a thinly populated deeply conservative countryside. With a shit-ton of Californians fleeing there, and housing prices that went from affordable to sky high in a two year period during the COVID panic.
Basically a political bullseye.
Indeed. Houston is where all on Louisiana fled after the big Hurricane. It is far more industrial. And humid. Dallas is a giant pile of money and no class. It is the least of DFW. Fort Worth and Arlington are far more interesting.
Especially if you grew up in the Arlington Museum of Art. 😉
Say the magic word
The Biden administration is designating 31 technology hubs touching 32 states and Puerto Rico to help spur innovation and create jobs in the industries that are concentrated in these areas.
President Joe Biden is set to announce the hubs on Monday at the White House with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
“I have to say, in my entire career in public service, I have never seen as much interest in any initiative than this one,” Raimondo told reporters during a Sunday conference call to preview the announcement. Her department received 400 applications, she said.
“No matter where I go or who I meet with — CEOs, governors, senators, congresspeople, university presidents — everyone wants to tell me about their application and how excited they are,” said Raimondo.
They all want a piece of the slush fund. How surprising.
The tech hubs are the result of a process Raimondo’s department launched in May to distribute a total of $500 million in grants to cities.
The $500 million came from a $10 billion authorization in last year’s CHIPS and Science Act to stimulate investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotech. It’s an attempt to expand tech investment that is largely concentrated around a few U.S. cities — Austin, Texas; Boston; New York; San Francisco; and Seattle — to the rest of the country.
$500 million; is that all?
*sensible chuckle*
lol
https://twitter.com/InternetH0F/status/1716344452300849260
This makes absolute sense in today’s world.
Freelance diplomat
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that his visit to Israel over the weekend strengthened his sympathy for Israelis reeling from Hamas’ attacks earlier this month.
“It was at a deeper emotional level, just the trauma and the experience,” he told reporters in Hong Kong, where he arrived Sunday, in his first public remarks since his visit. “It allows me to absorb what’s happening there very differently now. It’s not an intellectual exercise.”
The Democratic governor met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, other top Israeli officials and survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks during a 10-hour stop in Tel Aviv on Friday on his way to China for a weeklong trip on climate policy.
He said he met with a young shooting survivor and was shown graphic videos of beheadings that have been blocked in the West.
“The worst part about it — the actual video, I saw heads, beheaded people, their bodies, lay there, dead. To see someone’s eyes and mouth being poked to see if they were alive, to find out they were alive after being shot on the ground,” he said. “It connects to an understanding of the emotion of the Israelis about the atrocities that occurred, and about the 1,400 lives lost. It’s not intellectual any longer.”
Promoting American interests abroad. Building bridges. Laying foundations.
Logan Act!
(WWIII breaking out) but is my appetizer problematic?
https://twitter.com/BovyMaltz/status/1716272437157847361
It smells like fish, but tastes like chicken…
Mixed seafood is a standard appetizer somewhere?
fritto misto is usually an appetizer round here… but depends on the restaurant it can also be a main
I don’t see what part is problematic.
….as is the case with all things labeled ‘problematic’.
“But squid is time-consuming to prepare, particularly on a large scale. That initially made many restaurants reluctant to embrace it as an offering. Then China stepped in, providing cheap labor as a solution to the problem. By the late 1990s, more and more of the world’s squid was being processed in China, which was also catching more and more of the creature”
it is using cheap asian labor it seems
also I read shrimping vesels in Asia sometimes use slave labor. So shrimp is also problematic, unless from Bubba Gump
Sometimes yes, when they are out fishing. When docked, not so much.
Austin is a formerly tolerant place that’s gentrified to the point where the wealthy have successfully pushed out the rapid-turnover, high-risk, low-barrier to entry economy that made it such an easy place to live in. I couldn’t really give you a concise description of its current character, nor whether it’s consistent across the place.
Live-and-let-live-ism seems to have been stamped out almost everywhere. That is a true tragedy.
Since Joe Rogan moved there it was all downhill
Sarcasmotron set to 11!
Word!
Last night, I asserted that this report indicated that babies were beheaded. This was an overstatement. I should have said that the report established that babies were found headless, a fact that lends plausibility to claims of beheading, but which does not prove them.
https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1716118168526012839
How many causes of headlessness exist besides decapitation? I suppose you could dissolve the head in something corrosive, or have small critters eat it off, but these are even worse
Sometimes they just fall off. No reason or excuse for it.
Babies heads just fall off sometime, because their necks aren’t full developed. That’s why you can’t let them sleep on their stomach.
That’s why you are not supposed to shake a baby.
You head can just explode. It’s a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w7TOzYu5V4
I have that, no joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
Who the fuck is that and what the hell is he talking about?
he is “Think out loud for New York Magazine’s Intelligencer.”
That is how you journalism.
Passive voice isn’t just for US police I see.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1716212029684334610
What is that supposed to mean?
Some sort of virtue is signaled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog for the reply image. The original one I assume was signalling they were Trans for Palestine or some crap.
How that game plays out…
I didn’t need to see that. Thanks for the warning.
The story of the scorpion and the frog. They both die because the scorpion can’t change it’s true nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
LGBT is now LGBTH
Newsom said he didn’t have time to travel to Gaza but that he was working with U.S. officials and NGOs to get medical supplies to the region, “separately and above the aid we’re providing for Israel.”
Working with NGOs, engaging in back door money shuffling. How Presidential.
Chyna has been doing this for more than 4 decades. The people that pointed that out were always hushed by the elite and powerful connected to business dealings in Chyna because of their profits. What has changed now that makes them suddenly see this as an issue? And it is an issue…
Corporations can be awfully shortsighted sometimes and libertarianism has little solution besides not having government prop them up
Wall Street went out of its way to hide how the CCP bureaucracy was fleecing them sine the mid 1980s, because they bought into the lie that as the Chinese were exposed to the benefits of capitalism they would abandon their marxism and stop acting like thugs/criminals in any and all business dealings. They wanted the world’s largest market and the piles of money they taught they would make selling things there (it was not just about selling the rest of the world crap made with ultra cheap slave labor). Once they realized the CCP had them by the balls – they couldn’t repatriate any profits and earnings, and worse, now had Chinese knock of entities competing with them selling cheap knockoffs, which would mean they would have to take potentially several trillion in losses to break off that agreement that left them as the bottom in the relationship – they kept up the facade because the alternative was going to brutalize them.
The move away now is because it finally has gotten so bad they will just have to have government use tax payer dollars to help them recoup the massive losses their idiocy and greed inflicted on us all.
I thought during COVID companies realized it was a bad idea to depend so heavily on a country that turned off exports with the flip of a switch. Guess I was wrong.
Chu, via 二宫雪朔 on Xiaohongshu. (Pretty cool, they’re trying to guess what Chu court shamanism might have looked like. Chu was famous for its “witchcraft”.)
https://twitter.com/XianyangCB/status/1715944531865309587
Please stop with the bug nonsense.
Tyson Foods, the world’s second-largest processor and marketer of meat, has announced a joint venture with Protix, the world’s largest insect factory, to delve into the world of insect protein and lipid production, targeting the pet food, aquaculture, and livestock industries.
However, the question that looms large is, do insect proteins really hold the key to sustainability, or is this just a trendy leap onto the bandwagon of alternative protein sources?
Tyson Foods and Protix envision an insect protein processing facility on American soil that seeks to transform food manufacturing byproducts into insect proteins and lipids.
According to CNN, “that facility will use animal waste to feed black soldier flies, which will then be turned into food for pets, poultry and fish… Those flies are not going into human food, at this point.”
It’s not good for your pets either.
…at this point.
If I had my own dogs I would feed them human-grade meat and the occasional green bean. Would save on sales tax.
You will be forced to do what your betters want, or else peasant!
Kicking them where it hurts
The United Auto Workers union is expanding its strike to a Stellantis plant in Michigan that produces Ram 1500 full-size pickup trucks, dealing another blow to the major automakers as negotiations drag on.
The work stoppage includes roughly 6,800 workers at Stellantis’ Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in suburban Detroit, the union publicly announced Monday morning after initiating the walkout.
“Currently, Stellantis has the worst proposal on the table regarding wage progression, temporary worker pay and conversion to full-time, cost-of-living adjustments (COLA), and more,” the UAW said in a release.
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The facility is one of the most important U.S. plants to Stellantis, however the automaker is better poised to wait out a work stoppage at the truck plant than its crosstown rivals General Motors and Ford Motor with a relatively healthy supply of Ram pickups ready to go.
They actually make money on internal combustion trucks.
If they don’t jack up prices, their dealers will take it as market adjustment.
Yeah. What’s funny is how much Stellantis execs dislike Jeep/Ram, yet that is what keeps all their whiny socialist greenie asses from going bankrupt.
When Stellantis formed, Manly (from Jeep/Ram) was not even given a seat at the table.
Pierre Delicto whines about people not liking him!
Humidity in the house is 60%. It needs to hurry up and rain.
I didn’t think it could rain until the house elects a new speaker?
That might explain it. The skies are pregnant to bursting, yet no rain falls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3159YIe2OU
““Wait til they find out Zionists could’ve saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from the gas chambers and decided not to,” wrote Tirhakah Love, author of New York Magazine’s Dinner Party newsletter who previously publicly celebrated the death of Queen Elizabeth II.”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/23/new-york-writer-claims-zionists-worked-with-nazis-in-wwii/
CWAA
Like Soros did?
Gosh, I was expecting serious journalism the subject of that pic.
Wealth hoarders
Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday.
If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said.
Currently billionaires effectively pay far less personal tax than other taxpayers of more modest means because they can park wealth in shell companies sheltering them from income tax, the group said in its 2024 Global Tax Evasion Report.
“In our view, this is difficult to justify because it risks to undermine the sustainability of tax systems and the social acceptability of taxation,” the observatory’s director Gabriel Zucman told journalists.
A global socialist dictatorship would put those billionaire tax cheats in their proper place.
Bigots who don’t believe minorities can read or write as well as whites get their way:
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2023/10/oregon-again-says-students-dont-need-to-prove-mastery-of-reading-writing-or-math-to-graduate-citing-harm-to-students-of-color.html
What’s funny is how much Stellantis execs dislike Jeep/Ram, yet that is what keeps all their whiny socialist greenie asses from going bankrupt.
You desperately want an EV Alfa Romeo. You just don’t realize it yet.
A 2021 agreement between 140 countries will limit the scope of multinationals to reduce tax by booking profits in low-tax countries by setting a global 15% floor on corporate taxation from next year.
“Something that many people thought would be impossible, now we know can actually be done,” Zucman said. “The logical next step is to apply that logic to billionaires, and not only to multinational companies.”
In the absence of a broad international push for a minimum tax on billionaires, Zucman said a “coalition of willing countries” could unilaterally lead the way.
Although the end of banking secrecy and the corporate minimum tax have largely put an end to decades-long competition between countries on tax rates, numerous opportunities remain to reduce tax bills, the report said.
For example, the rich increasingly park wealth in real estate instead of offshore accounts while companies can exploit loopholes in the 15% corporate tax minimum.
Envy is an ugly, yet powerful, motivator.
Welp, something’s going on. A bunch of fighter jets just flew overhead. I live pretty close to the B-2 bomber base, but they never go over me and they were heading north.
Nosy Neighbor says they were A-10 “tank killers.” Take that with a shaker of salt.
Canadian Armored Divisions have crossed the NoDak border?