My guilty pleasure is NFL football. SP and I used to spend a ridiculous amount of time watching games and, even after she and I were so disgusted with the politicization that we boycotted it, I came back after a year. Dammit. But it’s been great fun this season (so far) for a Ravens fan. Today Spud and I (Tomb Raider is not a fan so she’s avoiding us like the plague today) will revive our old Sunday tradition from our Bay Area days of cooking, eating, and drinking an all-day meal with the games going. Much intoxicated yelling, verbal abuse, and throwing of objects. The Ravens are scheduled give Browns’ fans a familiar feeling, and despite my gratitude to Neph for taking me to a game in Cleveland, I will (in the event of a Ravens victory) likely be happy to rub salt where the wound signals.
And now good birthdays, and there’s a fuck ton of them today, including a local chick who couldn’t make decent sandwiches; a guy apparently feared by the mullahs of Iran; a specialist in nucleophilic substitution and Romantic symphonies; a guy whose advertisement for toilet paper got a bit out of hand; the guy who gave the incredibly corrupt Soongs their start; a guy whose name should have been Woof Blugel Gick; Nixon’s “gift” to us, who just got bitch-slapped into oblivion; the fabulous Darlene Edwards; a damn dirty ape; someone who had what Natalie Wood could have used; a total party animal; a guy who was inconceivable; an empty-headed guy in a profession known for empty-headed guys; a hot Jewess banned from the Twatters; one of many baseball cheaters, but cheating on several levels; and WebDom’s spirit animal.
That said, let’s see what scraps of news Spud left me.
The DNC has found a new party leader.
Though to be fair, this has a little bit of the aroma of the Ghost of Kiev.
Yes, it is exactly an attack on the First Amendment. Fuck off, Ron.
Please tell me they ran a restaurant. Please, please! I have so many moo shu pork jokes…
Look, it’s true but I admit that at my age, it’s a rare occurrence.
Old Guy Music continues the theme of “songs OMWC’s band covered but these guys do it better.” This was a really fun song to play with surprisingly tricky timing changes.
I thought Tomb Raider was killed by the covid she got after only having ∞ jabs instead of the recommended ∞+1 shots.
I was expecting the owner of a life jacket company or something. Ah well.
someone who had what Natalie Wood could have used
A boyfriend not named Robert Conrad?
Joke from childhood: What kind of wood doesn’t float?
Well, what did Grace Kelly have? A bigger boat? More servants? Coffee isn’t working yet and I are dum.
Rumors around Philly, where she was from, are that she had a magical hoohah.
She can really kneecap the competition, hmm?
Nixon’s “gift” to us, who just got bitch-slapped into oblivion;
Henry Kissinger finally kicked it?
Wound? You’d be rubbing salt on multiple layers of scar tissue.
someone who had what Natalie Wood could have used;
Happy birthday Mae West!
Ha! Yeah, that would have worked with what I was thinking too.
a total party animal;
Happy birthday Erich Honecker?
Wow… he seems nice.
I guess… “at least he’s consistent”? All the generations that built Western Civilizations doubtless weep for how easily it is being handed over. (And yeah, I’m sure Romans were saying the same thing in 300 AD or so… sigh… )
More likely the Romans of said time were denying anything was wrong with their glorious empire. Only the heretics and lunatics thought there were problems.
At least their equivalent heretics could mock Senators who asked “What is Aleppo” back then too….
an empty-headed guy in a profession known for empty-headed guys;
Happy birthday Otto von Guericke!
one of many baseball cheaters, but cheating on several levels;
Happy birthday Houston Astros!
I can see his legal point. State run university fees support group that explicitly supports Hamas, a declared terrorist organization. Florida law states it is a felony to knowingly provide support to a terrorist organization, therefore state would be committing a felony (on itself?) to be providing the funds to the students.
Of course, the real answer is that the law is overly broad on “material support” if a student group chanting for it (delusional as they are) is considered such instead of where he went… but at least there’s logic to the argument.
He could have just said their support was tantamount to shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater… that seems to be the magic “Get out of 1st Amendement Jail Free!” card logic (thanks you dumbass Holmes). Yes, I know it was later overturned… but people still buy into that crap.
I think “material support” is distinct from “merely vocal support”. If you’ve got something showing money changing hands (or similar) between these dimwits and Hamas, then show it Ron. Otherwise, yeah, let the dimwits show us who they are.
State run university
Arguing about access to public entities is entirely too large a problem and takes up too much space in our court dockets. Most people think state schools are an obligation, but, from kindergarten on, I see them as a waste of time and wish there was some way to get them all ruled unconstitutional and sold off. The best schools of every type are private. My utopia has no public schools and therefore has no no sad thrusting from governors on scholastic endeavor.
terrorist organization
Again, a concept that shouldn’t exist at law leads to unnecessary problems; people’s (not organizations) acts are either violent or they aren’t; declaring war on terrorism is the sort of stupid shit that achieves no incremental justice but creates huge structures for government overreach. I’ll beat this drum some more: loitering, disorderly conduct, stalking, hate-crimes, and well-some-speech-crosses-the-line-into-violence are bullshit ideas and charges that serve only to give cops and judges license to slap around folks they don’t like while almost never achieving any good that could not have already been achieved with the laws that already existed.
Immunizing the organization itself from any act taken by its agents at its direction strikes me as a bad idea. Why not hold both the organization itself and the people acting on its behalf responsible? Should Pfizer Inc. walk away scot-free from the damage it has caused with the vax, for example?
I’m okay with legally defined entities. We call them corporations for a reason. Pfizer has happily defined itself under NJ law; Congress or MSNBC didn’t dream them up or redefine them every 20 minutes: ISIS! ISIL? I mean I mean Islamic State! al-Qaeda! guys I don’t like in a Toyota in Syria!!!!! yeah, that’s the ticket.
I don’t reject your instinct, but I insist that going after individuals for individual conduct generally is proper method of redress for almost every tort or crime, that’s certainly true stateside, and that it is a tiny corner of human behavior that needs some other notion/definition to be dreamed up by Congress to begin solving the problem.
And?
res ipsa loquitur
I think they rammed that point
up our asseshome Friday when they approved the “Bigger than the Pentagon!” new FBI offices after all the hearings, whistleblowers and supposed concern about how the FBI was weaponized and overstepping. “You’re bad…. so we’re going to reward the hell out of you!” And they wonder why the country more and more sees them as useless parasites.Government theory is if you make it big enough it can’t do anything.
The Republicans like sucking copdick as much as the Democrats do-the real fight is over who the agencies will be set upon to victimize.
And here I would have assigned the ones I couldn’t fire for civil service reasons to a New Mexican ghost town.
I’d rather see that than the stupid game I got.
I thought I had another “Max leads by 45 seconds” snore fest to watch… but that’s next weekend. That’s the extent of my sports watching.
Try living at the intersection of Eagles, Ravens and Steelers markets: nothing but NFC East and AFC North games.
From the map it looks like another pop/soda division and once again I’m just on the wrong side of the line.
If it turns out our Universe is powering God’s waffle iron I’m going to be a little annoyed at His divine plan, I must say.
I trust she will be suspended for such harsh treatment of an opponent. Clearly that is workplace hostility!
There’s no crying in fútbol!
cOnSpIrAcY tHeOrIsT
Never change, wikipedia.
“They say, “We don’t just stand in solidarity,’ that this is, ‘We’re in cahoots with them,” DeSantis continued. “So, the state of Florida, through our universities, we cannot be subsidizing those groups. I mean, that’s basically providing material support for terrorism.”
Yeah I’m sure college students in 2023 are saying “cahoots”, neo-con ron. /rolls eyes
Speaking of heretics and lunatics…
I hereby dub this, astro-TERF!
Caring about the sex-based rights of women and girls is entirely consistent with liberalism and equal treatment for all people. One can both stand up for the distinct rights of women and girls and support equal protection for all people under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
people they call TERFs are simply in favor of women’s sex-based rights
Misbegotten government-centered control of culture is the only reason there is any context for this article. I find this article arguably thoughtful, fairly dispassion, logically straightforward, and still utterly baseless. The thing about gender identification is not about fundamental rights; it’s all about access, and again again again, access to what!?!
all women’s bathrooms and locker rooms in places of public accommodation (including restaurants, gyms, movie theaters, etc.)
There you go: whose bathrooms? 95% of this is about public high schools (that I don’t should exist) and private property, over which government should have almost no say.
feminists who, like us, object to policies favoring “gender identity” over sex are frequently threatened on the internet or assaulted at our public events by fringe elements and slurred
Oh, actual assault which is clearly illegal and almost never happens in this case gets buoyed up by things that are not violence: threats, OMG internet threats and slurs! It’s puffed up like a poison toad because there ain’t much meat on this bone.
protect the female sex category in sports
whose sports!?! again, the existence of public schools causes more problems than it’s worth. Otherwise you send your kid to a school of your choosing that associates and competes in sports in associations with rules that you approve for your children, and none of those details would be anyone else’s fucking business, certainly not JRB46.
women’s shelter
whose shelter?
summer camp
whose summer camp?
airline
whose airline?
Most Americans believe that women and girls exist as a sex class.
Most Americans love big government and don’t see that much of our cultural strife wouldn’t exist if there weren’t this war for control of centralized, public institutions and accommodation laws that shouldn’t exist.
Payblocked, but I’m not surprised that the taxpayers are fed up with the inevitable results of their previous decisions in this matter.
Ackchually . . . . Putting people in jail for their own choices is fine. So long as those choices violate other people’s rights.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/oregon-decriminalized-hard-drugs-it-isnt-working-78ee7476?st=b3jzsq1iikl6fh3&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Thanks, Sensei.
What? Are you saying people who aren’t forced to do a thing don’t do it when the compulsion is removed?! Astonishing!
You don’t say?
Maybe what would fix things would be for you to stop voting.
LOL I didn’t read as far as that fantastic non-sequitur.
In NJ for nonviolent criminal offenses by substance abusers you can get that conviction removed if you get treatment and stay clean.
So if your habit makes you steal you can get a shot at both sobriety and a clean record.
But that’s different than the criminalization of drugs themselves.
Yeah, these types aren’t exactly dropping out and leaving the rest of us alone.
We pay when they overdose, we pay when they trash the land, we pay when they commit crimes to get their next fix or just because they’re nuts.
People are fed up with it and they don’t have the power to right all the simultaneous pathologies that have led to this situation, so back to jails – the easy solution.
Republicans/conservatives – supporters of smaller, less intrusive government. Riiiiiiiight.
I won’t argue that universities aren’t rotten, but fucking federal legislation is not the answer.
I tapped out at the first paragraph.
The folks behind that legislation should keep their fantasies of being Dommed by Marxists and other worshipers of the Almighty State in the bedroom.
From hell’s heart, I stab at thee. Honestly, not even the Birchers were this obsessed. Never mind that this giant she fears has an economy somewhere between Spain and Italy – in other words, not a match at all for the balance of Europe, if of course Europe had the same warped obsession.
Whining that we might not give Ukraine bottomless troughs of swill, I expect.
Next stop, Poland? Yeah, these people are fucking delusional.
Someone already launched missiles at Poland in the course of this conflict. And it wasn’t Russia.
Belarus also sent middle eastern “refugees” to invade Poland.
(How did they even get to a landlocked authoritarian state like Belarus in the first place, and how were they able to move around?)
How do African “asylum” seekers get across an ocean or two and end up in the USA? It’s another mystery. Migrants migrate, I guess.
Yep, knew it was the Cunte Applebaum’s Atlantic piece. God, she is insufferable.
a specialist in nucleophilic substitution and Romantic symphonies
I read that as “necrophilic” and thought, “WTF?”
Not very Romantic.
Mary Shelley might disagree.
From her descriptions the monster wasn’t exactly good looking and part of Frankenstein’s rejection.
And most corpses are particularly attractive?
(backs away slowly from Sensei…)
I’m talking about the good doctor. He was enraptured until the corpse was animated.
I didn’t especially love the work, but it gets deserved attention in literature. It’s more interesting to see its influence and what Hollywood and pop culture did to the story.
It mostly suffers from the period it was written in. That was very early in the writing of novels, and thus the ground rules hadn’t been laid down as to form and function, both of which are needed for clarity. At that point, you mostly had poetry with a bit of social commentary writing, which often blended fact and fiction. Think of Swift for the later, and Byron for the former.
Well, there is the Shiunji and the Suicide Girl series at Sexylosers. Not my thing, but I can see some people thinking that is romantic.
Not a bad day for a Sunday, though “voire” being acceptable one day as a bonus but not the other screwed my accuracy again. Sigh.
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IDF makes progress in Gaza, killing 150 Hamas terrorists in one battle
Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s combined forces are estimated at between 15,000-50,000.
In weekend fighting, the IDF killed 150 Hamas terrorists in one extended battle in Gaza, along with additional senior Hamas figures, and captured key Hamas positions.
The IDF only killed 150 of the enemy in one weekend. Let’s assume that’s true and also that the fighting (given the date on the article) was Friday and Saturday. That’s…. 75 of the enemy killed per day. Let’s assume the estimate from the headline is correct. At the low end of the estimate, that’s 200 days at that rate to wipe out Hamas. It seems to me the IDF is bragging where it shouldn’t.
On the other hand, the MIC is probably thinking, “200 days? Fuck, that’s not enough time to make the real money!”
Are you telling me that someone is fighting a war that will go on after optimistic predictions of swift victory prove wrong?
First time ever for that …
Bull Run was the first full-scale battle of the Civil War. The fierce fight there forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war would be long and bloody.
yes, the marching home of Johnnie will be unavoidably delayed
the funny thing about a solid majority of the situations we discuss at glibs dot com is that we fucking knew years before that shit was gonna go bad or sideways: how is any of this a surprise to anyone?
botched linky
Also, Gaza is small and tightly packed with people. I can see a combined 150 over a couple days, no prob.
“Packed with Palis, Gaza really satisfies!”
I thought I had another “Max leads by 45 seconds” snore fest to watch
I was rooting for a hotel and restaurant workers’ strike to welcome Formula Hype-brid to Vegas.
Oh, that would be funny…
Legit LOL as Ghosn continued to wave his finger at Nissan.
‘Trespassing on private property’: Carlos Ghosn ordered to leave multimillion-dollar Beirut home
Looks like he finally lost however.
Cool link, bro!
Officials in Florida ordered state universities and colleges last month to disband chapters of the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on their campuses.
I don’t care if the State makes rules for universities and colleges it owns.
The solution is to separate education and state. Privatize the universities and colleges. As a bonus, give the academics conniption fits.
Man, do we have different tastes in music or what?
Some downtown Jazz for us others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfLmp4olRh4
+1
Frank Zappa and Groucho Marx had a baby?
“This two-step continuing resolution is a necessary bill to place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories,” Johnson said in a statement after speaking with GOP lawmakers in an afternoon conference call. “The bill will stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess.”
Fuck you cut spending. Shut it all down.
Old Guy Music is good.
With friends like this, does the GOP really need enemies? Sure, you can dump Trump – somehow – but that abortion absolutism isn’t going to win elections outside of extremely friendly precincts.
Yup. They are going to need to tailor it by state.
About that shiny new HQ…
BI Director Christopher Wray told agency staffers that he was concerned about “a potential conflict of interest” involving the selection of the bureau’s new headquarters in Maryland, according to an email obtained by NBC News.
On Thursday, the General Services Administration confirmed that the FBI’s new home would be in Greenbelt, about 13 miles northeast of Washington, seeming to bring to an end a drawn-out and politically fraught site selection process. Two other finalists were Springfield, Virginia, and Landover, Maryland.
In his unusually pointed letter to staffers, Wray said the FBI has “concerns about fairness and transparency in the process and GSA’s failure to adhere to its own site selection plan,” adding that a senior GSA executive overruled a board decision and picked land that is owned by the executive’s previous employer, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
A three-member panel had initially determined that Springfield, Virginia, was the best location. The decision of a political appointee overseeing the process to reject career officials’ “unanimous” recommendation, Wray wrote, wasn’t “‘inherently inappropriate,’ but it is ‘exceedingly rare.’”
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“It is clear that this process has been irrevocably undermined and tainted, and this decision must now be reversed,” said a statement from both of the commonwealth’s senators, eight of its House members and Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said he plans to call for an inspector general’s investigation, saying, “This process has been rotten.”
I foresee some seized phones and laptops in somebody’s future. Meanwhile, they can remain in that rat infested shithole.
Huh… guess he decided he had to fit into the rest of PPP’s senior advisers, hmm?
the HQ should be in Hartsville MO
The Bay Area is having office vacancy problems. Stick them all in Alcatraz (with little to no remodeling).
State of emergency
The 10 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles was shut down indefinitely in both directions early Saturday after two wooden pallet yards caught fire, damaging an overpass and destroying several vehicles, including a firetruck, authorities said.
Westbound and eastbound lanes of the heavily traveled freeway are closed between Alameda Street and Santa Fe Avenue while structural engineers assess the damage, said Lauren Wonder, a CalTrans spokeswoman.
“As of now, the freeway is shut down indefinitely,” Wonder said. “I would encourage people to avoid this area between the East L.A. interchange and Alameda Street.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday night to help speed cleanup and repair and direct Caltrans to investigate whether to request federal assistance.
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Fire officials said that the fire forced several homeless people to evacuate the area and that vehicles parked under or near the freeway were damaged or destroyed. Officials said one of those vehicles was a fire engine.
Homeless people- no kidding.
The homeless start a lot of fires trying to heat up abandoned buildings.
Pallets make for the perfect fire: spaced out fuel, almost geometrically stoichiometric, the top slats of which prevent suppression water from reaching the lower levels in an easily-directed way. That’s why most codes limit stack heights and the area that the stack can cover. Almost all pallet storage inside over 6′ is illegal.
I’m not hot for more laws, of course. As I’ve told a thousand businessmen who want to argue which code is adopted by which jurisdiction, “sir, I’d worry less about that and more about what your insurers require.” Again again again: the private solution is preferred.
Stacking a ton of flammable material under overpasses seems like a bad plan.
yes
“combustible”
but yes
there are flammable solids
Fuck me. I need to drive in on Wednesday.
Should I go outside and do yard work or should I have another Irish coffee?
B then A? Then B again.
It’s turning gloomy out so I decided on more Irish coffee.
That is a silly question.
Galloway is a liar of the first order. What kind of person makes a conscious decision to side with evil? That is what this is, a deliberate, calculated siding with evil.
15K-50K? That is quite a spread. The great majority of Palestinians are sympathetic, as are many in other Arab countries. I would not discount them any more than I let the average National Socialist supporting German citizen.
I have a problem with any campus orgs receiving tax money. Invariably this very problem will arise.
Grifters are gonna grift. This FedGov is nothing but a giant crime syndicate that exists for the sole purpose of squeezing money out of the productive. Shut it the fuck down.
It is fairly normal and common for people to think other people are like themselves. That is far from the case. I dont have an answer to the drug problem but I do know that if there is one it hasn’t been implemented to date.
The Big Bang, I never bought it. Now we haver another one? Great.
The Big Bang, I never bought it. Now we haver another one?
Really, this is how you know a scientific theory is falling apart. We just don’t have a replacement yet.
Aether, dark matter, Big Bang….if you are going to have magic explain things we dont yet understand there is no need to make shit up to fill in blanks. We already have God doing that job.
“Making up shit” to fill in the blanks is how science progresses.
They are called theories, and are used to explore various ideas that can lead to tested proofs, such as the Higgs-Boson.
From Juris’ link:
To reach that endgame, we need to adjust our thinking. First, we need to understand, more deeply than we have done so far, that we have entered a new era of great-power conflict. The Russians already know this and have already made the transition to a full-scale war economy. Forty percent of the Russian state budget—another conservative estimate—is now spent annually on military production, about 10 percent of GDP, a level not seen for decades. Neither the U.S. nor its European allies have made anything like this shift, and we started from a low base.
Somebody’s seething jealousy is showing. Daddy Warbucks needs your help, boys and girls. Bring back those glorious days of WWII; Rosie the Riveter, War Bonds, rationing, all of that feel-good we’re-all-in-this-together blood lust. Make America Great Again.
Full-scale war economy, whoopie-to-do. Who is fretting about the Spanish war machine?
yeah….uh….suppose I spent 90% of my money on weaponry. Would I be a threat to the entire world? Measuring by % is of course dishonest. Big red flag.
a local chick who couldn’t make decent sandwiches
Henry Brewster Stanton (June 27, 1805 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, social reformer, attorney, journalist and politician… His wife, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was a world renowned leading figure of the early women’s rights movement.
He remembered his first desires for racial justice dated from his childhood, as he listened to a slave sing:
In my childhood we had a Negro slave whose voice was attuned to the sweetest cadence. Many a time did she lull me to slumber by singing this touching lament [the song of Miantonomi]. It sank deep into my breast, and moulded my advancing years. Before I reached manhood I resolved that I would become the champion of the oppressed colored races of my country.
what I learned from my slave down in evil, evil CT
Slavery was legal in CT until 1848. If his family was wealthy enough, they might have had a house slave.
they might have had a house slave
i’m sure of it
you probably know me well enough to know that I never miss the chance to bash on overly simple tropes, my least favorite of which is “Southerners are all evil hillbillies, so it was necessary for Lincoln, who was born in a log cabin that he built with his own two hands, to invade and suppress their yellow cake and WMD production”
So cruel Don, most people just love them some simple tropes. Then they don’t have to really think. And that suits both them and their masters.
It is all that “critical thinking” our schools have started to teach.
Nothing so simple – we can go back to Huxley.
As a native Mississippian, I know how stupid we can be, but, on our worst day, we’re only a step or two more stupid than everyone else. Everyone knows who James Meredith is but only because Ole Miss was the last (1962) significant public college to integrate. It’s not like everyone else had capitulated joined modernity decades and decades earlier; it’s that Mississippi was, once again, last to get something right, thereby gaining the national spotlight and solidifying themselves a place at the front of the line of states most likely to be on the wrong side of history.
Does anyone remember the riots at UGA the year before? Bama was 1956. USSC ordered UF to integrate in 1954. UT: 1952.
The AMA admitted black doctors in 1950. The creme of society was never more than a dozen years ahead of the dumbest hayseeds in all of the South.
Some people forget that in every race, someone has to be last. Why are we doing everything we can to make sure they never finish, while we could be helping them along?
Mississippi: someone has to be last!
when I started reading the newspaper in grade school I quickly learned to hate any headline about national rankings; it meant I would shortly read that we were last or first in yet another report
please, please, please, can’t it be Oklahoma or West Virginia or Arkansas this time? I’d give my left nut to be 49th just once
Lincoln, who was born in a log cabin that he built with his own two hands,
We all know one of those hands was tied behind his back.
A comment from Rhywun, above, incited this little outburst from me:
Where are those Earthjustice fucks when our 21st century hobo jungles turn the land into a toxic waste dump? They are all in on protecting the little fishies who live next door to Space X, and the polar bears and caribou who live in the Willow drilling reserve. What about taking a long hard look at the effects of allowing bums to shit and piss anywhere they please and build mountains of trash in parks and streets? I suppose they should be rewarded for building new luxury rat habitats.
Somehow bums rank higher in the Oppression Olympics.
It is the Noble Savage writ large.
They are MIA because they dont give a fuck about the environment. Their goal is to stamp out modernity, innovation, the production of wealth, the autonomy of individuals…etc.
They aint called watermelons fur nuthin’.
https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/
I was a Muslim then, although not a practising one. If I truly condemned their actions, then where did that leave me? The underlying principle that justified the attacks was religious, after all: the idea of Jihad or Holy War against the infidels. Was it possible for me, as for many members of the Muslim community, simply to distance myself from the action and its horrific results?
I don’t know enough about Islam to have an opinion, but open, vulnerable essays like this get me every time.
We’re doing our best
In the past year, the Southwest border has received historic numbers of migrants. More than 2.4 million people. It’s been record-breaking numbers for the past few years. San Diego alone has received more than 230,000 people this year. That’s a 30% increase from the year before.
Republicans have said it’s because of the Biden administration’s weak immigration policies.
The government has said it’s a symptom of the unprecedented displacement of people worldwide. Biden has pursued a two-fold immigration policy: punishing undocumented border crossings and expanding legal avenues to apply to get into the U.S.
“We can’t stop people from making the journey,” he’s said. “But we can require them to come here, and they — that they come here in an orderly way under U.S. law.”
That’s why we’re doing everything we can to stop Texas from preventing uncontrolled border crossings, I guess.
Yes, yes we can turn them away. Shut the simpering fuck up saying we can’t.
He is so full of shit.
Extreme extremism
The White House reacted to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) new stopgap funding bill Saturday, calling it “extreme.”
“This proposal is just a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns—full stop,” a statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre read. “With just days left before an Extreme Republican Shutdown—and after shutting down Congress for three weeks after they ousted their own leader—House Republicans are wasting precious time with an unserious proposal that has been panned by members of both parties.”
“An Extreme Republican Shutdown would put critical national security and domestic priorities at risk, including by forcing service members to work without pay,” Jean-Pierre continued. “This comes just days after House Republicans were forced to pull two of their own extreme appropriations bills from the floor—further deepening their dysfunction.”
The bill, a “laddered” continuing resolution (CR) would result in some funding running out in mid-January and the rest running out in early February. It tries to dissuade negotiation on a whole-of-government omnibus funding bill and attempts to push for the two houses of Congress to negotiate on the 12 regular funding bills.
“This two-step continuing resolution is a necessary bill to place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories,” Johnson posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “The bill will stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess.”
Oh, the austerity. Millions of shoeless starving people will be begging on the streets if a single penny is cut.
I refuse to click Daily Mail links because it’s such a bandwidth hogging shitfest, but-
story
There is a headline on google news right now about how Chicago sucks so bad “migrants” are fleeing back to Venezuela.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-12739955/Chicago-unpleasant-migrants-fleeing-Venezuela-shelters.html
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15K to 50K for the number of Hamas soldiers fighting Israelis, out of a population of 2.3 million in Gaza? Even the high end number is only 2% of the population.
For a population supposedly brainwashed en masse to blindly support Hamas, seems like a remarkably low number of actual jihadis.
” In June 2021, her Twitter account was suspended for posting anti-vaccine misinformation.”
Naomi Woolf is far from a stickler for accuracy, but I wonder if what she said was true?
My hypothesis is that it happened April 3 1812 at 10:42 EST in a bathroom on Bleaker street in NYC. I think just as much evidence supports me as does her.
“Chicago is so unpleasant migrants are fleeing BACK to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused jobs, with 20,700 border crossers so-far bused to Dem-run ‘sanctuary city'”
Chicago has become so unpleasant that migrants are fleeing back to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused better paying jobs.
Since August last year, 20,700 migrants have arrived in Chicago from Texas. The Lone Star State’s Governor Greg Abbott sent migrants to Chicago and other Democrat-run cities because of their proud status as ‘sanctuary cities.’ They offer enhanced protection against detention or deportation for undocumented migrants.
Now, Illinois’ harsh winters, lack of migrant infrastructure, and ambivalent support from locals has made many people, who undertook the harsh US-Mexico border journey, actually turn around and go back home.
Venezuela-born Michael Castejon, 39, and his family have been sleeping on the floors of police stations and shelters after he could not afford to pay rent in Chicago – because his work permit was taking so long to arrive.
The family was renting an apartment through a city voucher program, that gives up to $15,000 for up to six months of rental assistance – but once it ran out, they had to give up their living space.
The dad found a job in construction, and he was getting paid in cash, but it wasn’t enough to sustain his family since they arrived in June….”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12739955/Chicago-unpleasant-migrants-fleeing-Venezuela-shelters.html
Boo fucking hoo
Virginia Beach firefighter Max Gonano was coming off a 24-hour shift on Father’s Day when he was told he’d have to work another 12 hours to cover for a staffing shortfall. By the time he got off work at 8 p.m., he’d missed the day with his two-year-old and four-year-old children and spent 36 hours straight at work.
Long shifts with little rest and last-minute schedule changes have become a routine occurrence for Gonano and his colleagues, who have worked six times the amount of mandatory overtime hours this year as they did before the pandemic.
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“It’s getting to that fever pitch moment,” said Gonano, who is president of the Virginia Beach Professional Fire and EMS union. “It’s just rampant. People are tired of working all the overtime, it’s definitely causing morale issues.”
Life is hard for a union “firefighter”. All that overtime sitting around the firehouse watching the teevee and polishing your brass. Cry me a river.
It’s a horrible job, with a multi-year waiting list of applicants.
Sure, mandatory overtime – because it’s cheaper than hiring enough qualified staff.
Shannon Pettypiece??
You can’t fool me. That was written by Derpytologist.
| Actually it is working perfectly, if your goal is to stop putting people into taxpayer-funded cages for their own choices.
Decriminalizing or legalizing hard drugs is directly responsible for a good deal of the present (literal) shitshow that routinely gets made fun of and lambasted here in the comments and links. There are, of course, other factors that are creating the junkie free for all that is presently happening in SF, Portland, and Seattle, but the removal of criminal penalties for using (and largely from selling or distributing small amounts) leads to more junkies, and most importantly more junkies doing junkie shit, such as taking public shits, creating horror camping situations and rampant theft to support their habits. The price of a fentanyl pill is less than the cost of a Happy Meal in SF, I know as I constantly work in the areas where it is sold and used. Now, this doesn’t mean I necessarily want a War on Drugs II, but I also lived in Amsterdam during the period when they fully decriminalized hard drugs and then partly reversed due to the massive, undeniable problems that I mentioned becoming even too much for the tolerant Dutch.
I have a difficult time buying the theory that drugs being more expensive means a better class of junkie.
Not necessarily that. But one of the arguments in favor of legalization has always been “it will lead to price decreases that will hurt cartels, and lead to less secondary problems like junkies having to steal to get their fix”. I suppose by fully legalizing fentanyl the price could drop below the present $5 a pill that is presently the wholesale street rate, but I don’t see that in any way harming the cartels, nor in making theft less common.
I have to think it’s not (just?) the decriminalization of drugs, it’s that they stopped enforcing the laws against all that junkie shit too.
Sure, it absolutely is that as well. If you just encaged the junkie shit causers the net result would be about the same number of people in cages. Before Prop 47 passed and decriminalized hard drugs you generally did not have hard drug users getting tossed in prison for years because they bought some coke, meth or heroin. I gotta go back to the Iron Law here. You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish. Does that mean we need to become Singapore and give the death penalty to drug dealers (or even users)? Not even close. But if you decriminalize or legalize hard drugs you are absolutely going to get much more terrible junkie behavior.
“ If you just encaged the junkie shit causers the net result would be about the same number of people in cages”
I think I’m ok with that; even if it’s a push I’d prefer the law punish actual criminality vs victimless crimes.
That is probably more or less where I am at on the issue as well. It’s just that one of the principle arguments of drug legalization has always been “we will have a vastly decreased prison population.” We absolutely will not, not if we want to still live without constant junkie apocalypse scenes. I think we have a severe under incarceration problem in the United States. It is my least libertarian position, but much of that is the de- institutionalization we did from the 60’s onwards. We absolutely need to bring back asylums, and much of the junkie Street populations would end up there.
the removal of criminal penalties for using (and largely from selling or distributing small amounts) leads to more junkies
My experience is that self-destructive behavior is a manifestation of structural problems and mental illness: the people who are like that make decisions in a way that normal, calculating people cannot comprehend; further, they can not be taught mainstream adult reasoning. Therefore, while I’ll throw a bone here and say maybe tolerance of drug use leads to some real, measurable, significant increase, it is nevertheless a small increase.
I’d further observe that it is one thing to tolerate drug use per se and another to tolerate tent cities on public spaces and way or confrontational behavior. Junkies belong hidden under bridges. We can’t prevent junkies, but we can quit letting them shit all over the life and world the rest of us have.
I completely agree with your first sentence. I’ve followed the drug legalization/decriminalization debate quite literally since I was 10 years old and saw Ron Paul on The Morton Downey Jr. Show advocating for complete legalization of all drugs. Several of the principle arguments in favor of doing this have not come to pass. Another is that by legalizing drugs you would see massive drops in the prison population of the United States. Massive drops in the prison population in California (which we have definitely been doing here for almost a decade now) has directly led to the current situation that I described above. You want less of that and you either put almost the same number of people in cages, or think up a completely different punishment regimen that has not been applied in the US in any modern times.
The Virginia Beach Fire Department said in a statement that fire departments nationwide have been seeing a lack of interest in the profession for various factors, including health risks, the long hours required and a relatively low salary compared to other jobs.
But several labor unions say employers should be doing more to fill the persistent vacancies, like raising wages or improving working conditions to attract new workers, rather than placing the burden on their existing employees. In some cases, labor groups say employers are using overtime as a cost-saving measure.
“What we have seen is an aggressive normalization of understaffing,” said Michelle Mahon, assistant director of nursing practice for the union National Nurses United. “The hospital industry has been capitalizing on this narrative that there’s a nursing shortage, when in fact there is not. There are a million nurses who are licensed to practice in this country who are not working in nursing largely because of understaffing and poor working conditions.”
It’s almost as if employers have revealed a preference to minimize their affiliation with unionized workers.
Or, perhaps, it has something to do with union rules restricting the pool of potential employees.
But if you decriminalize or legalize hard drugs you are absolutely going to get much more terrible junkie behavior.
If you permit (or encourage) anti-social behavior in the schools, you get more anti-social behavior.
Sure I don’t disagree that more discipline in schools is a terrible idea. I send my kids to Catholic school for that very (among a few others) reason. They don’t take bullshit behavior very kindly there. But it’s largely not poor discipline in schools that are causing what I see on the streets of cities in the West Coast.