Gonna be a wild few weeks
Georgia has jumped over Ohio State in the CFP rankings. Which makes sense. But really, it’s win out or you don’t make it this year for all of them, barring an upset or two. This is kind of hilarious. And soccer is on an international break so not much happening there until tomorrow, so that’s it for sports.
I still don’t understand this case. How are they, in any way, responsible for anybody’s mental health? That’s the job of the parents, not an internet platform.
Shitshow
Arson? I’m shocked. SHOCKED! Of course it was arson. That’s what happens when you have no control of your infrastructure and let it turn into a free-for-all.
What a lovely family. They should go into politics.
Do your fucking job!
Maybe Guiliani was right all along. Does ignoring the small things lead to lawlessness? It’s starting to look that way. At least in that city.
This guy might want to think about disappearing. Before he’s disappeared by somebody else.
Go where the money is. I guess this will be a test case of whether or not anybody has to pay for a service before they can demand it be used. I can’t imagine them winning, but it’s 2023, so who freaking knows.
No good deed goes unpunished. In a civilized part of the country he’d still be free.
I wonder why they walked it back. I’m all for people being able to do whatever they want with their own property, but if they didn’t like the terms of sale, they didn’t have to buy.
I always loved this song. Such a diverse band. Because that band did this song just four years earlier. What a great track. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
I’m actually going to be surprised if it was arson, assuming arson requires deliberate acts (which was my understanding… IANAL and all). Gross negligence was my supposition (campfire for the indigent that was too close to the pallet stacks or spread to them by catching other nearby material).
Morning,
MarioSloopy!I’d bet it’s arson. One methed-up “resident” got mad at another because he stole his tent or shopping cart or something so he set the fire of pallets in order to kill him.
One thing’s for certain: the overriding cause is the California and LA governments.
Hmm… okay Columbo – have to say I didn’t consider homicide. You may well be right.
Just one more thing…..
Sorry, but your just saying it makes me think that’s the likely explanation. Arson? GTFO.
I’ve heard that our unhoused population likes to set fires to the shanties of their neighbors when there is a beef. So yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was arson. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it was negligence.
Back when we had our office in a sketchy part of town my buddy came in and said that it looked like there was a fire in the junkyard nearby. Turned out it wasn’t in the junkyard, but was a tent that an addict was living in near the Goodwill shelter. Since Goodwill wouldn’t admit anyone who was high or wanted to use, this guy decided to live nearby in his tent. That morning he had gotten so high that when his tent caught fire from the propane heater he was using, he couldn’t even be bothered to run away.
The guy died later that morning and I gave my buddy a tax payer award for not investigating the fire further and saving the guy. Since us tax payers would have been on the hook for all the dude’s medical bills.
It wasn’t the homeless and it’s now been figured out.
The reason for the city’s vague response, however, is it was still actually their fault.
They rent the space under freeways. In this case, they let a company store flammable hand sanitizer in pallets right up the top. Clearly visible in video and pictures prior to the incident.
I knew it had to be something dumb. Nothing flammable should be stored under bridges and I was wondering who the hell put pallets there and if they even had a legal right to do so. The hand sanitizer part is just the cherry on top. *chef’s kiss*
Well, arson isn’t about what got burned in a fire, it’s about how the fire got started.
Have they figured that out yet?
If they win against VW I see car companies rolling the cost of the services into the purchase price.
Which fucks over everybody who wants to opt out of the system.
Still…this would be like blaming Apple if the battery in an air tag goes dead and you don’t replace it so it no longer tracks.
Not sure why the LEO investigating didn’t get a court order to provide the info in an active case.
Because it was an active crime that had just happened. The cop was on the phone with “customer” service.
See my comment below. VW’s vendor didn’t have this policy – they just didn’t educate and/or empower their front line workers.
It’s still their vendor’s fault. But VW also has deeper pockets and reputational damage. This is the wronged family’s way of both lining their pockets and incentivizing the vendor and VW not to make the same mistake again. They are just haggling over the price – it’s not going to see the inside of a courtroom.
Though the individuals were attempting to steal, Hubbard was arrested because shooting at them and ramming his vehicle was not a “ reasonable” and “lawful” way to stop the crime, Bush said.
Sez who? Time for Californians to get up on their hind legs and put a stop to this nonsense. Okay… long past time.
*unless you’re the secret service.
Those bullets that he let loose – where did they end up?
For a moral people? Likely not. For a people who have lost a moral compass, are coddled from a young age and assured they’re special and can do no wrong and who are not / can not be disciplined through the formative years?
Yeah… no surprise there. And I’d add to that we’re well past ignoring the small things. Rioting, looting, mass organized theft and some assaults have been glossed over the last 8 years (or more). They’d be idiots not to realize they have carte blanche — and they’re not idiots.
I’d also say there comes a point when even someone who has started out moral may be beat down by watching everyone else get ahead by taking his stuff and eventually gives up trying to do the right thing.
Stop reading my diary.
Seriously I believe your statement accounts for a big rise in anti-depressant use.
It’s a thought that’s been lingering in the back of my mind for a while now. Especially after reading the Chump Effect article that was passed around here.
Yes. Look at the vast majority of the rest of the world where lying, stealing and violence are woven into the culture. Also, In those places trying to better yourself…raising your head up will get you smacked down hard.
I’m sure his Thetans would find a new home in that volcano brewing in Iceland…
I think that’s the first story we’ve read in a while (since the whole “Apple won’t cooperate in unlocking phones… waaah… ” frenzy a while back) where a corporation didn’t cooperate with the police in things that could potentially violate privacy. Honestly, I expect some convoluted bullshit decision that amounts to “The King’s Men asked, you should have complied!” so the message is more clear.
That’s the job of the parents, not an internet platform.
No, the children belong to all of us, and given that corporations are to serve the interests of the state first and foremost, they are abusing their role as guardians. It all makes perfect sense when you remember – everything within the state… .
I’m sure they tried some bullshit with the software EULA / service agreement similar to what Oracle or IBM would do with systems back in the day. BS then, still BS… Way after all the other things on the list of things I’d do if I were magically Dictator would be a constitutional amendment specifying that “copying” software from storage into RAM is part of the core functionality, does not comprise a “copy” for the purpose of copyright law and as such can not be used to leverage perpetual, one-sided bullshit “contracts”.
Sloopy makes a reasonable analogy above but there is a difference.
In his analogy the information is simply does not exist because of negligence.
Actively withholding information for the purposes of extorting business when a life is on the line…I am not. cool with that.
a constitutional amendment specifying that “copying” software from storage into RAM is part of the core functionality, does not comprise a “copy” for the purpose of copyright law and as such can not be used to leverage perpetual, one-sided bullshit “contracts”.
The problem is the word “use” listed right in front of the word “copy”.
The EULA is in force whether or not you copy the software.
*twirls mustache and laughs maniacally*
You won’t make it past the first sentence. At least, I didn’t.
Their egos are so massive they probably have a gravitational pull.
Honestly? It wasn’t that bad. I wonder who wrote it for her.
Heh. I thought the same thing. It’s not her style.
“One morning in November 2012, I knocked on the door of President Barack Obama’s suite in the Raffles Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so early that he was barely out of bed.”
Is she going for an Apocalypse Now vibe? James Bond (I mean, namedropping the hotel and all)?
Why do I doubt that people just bang on the door of the President’s hotel room, anyway.
You tap, tap, tapping at his front door?
I didn’t make it past the byline.
Like everything else with her it is a look into a twisted bizarro fun-house mirror universe.
I almost quit at first comma, but pushed on to finish the sentence.
That first sentence reads like a Martha Stewart article. “I knocked on the man who I used to work for suite door, a rare Cambodian Ebony richly embellished with scenes from Buddhist myths, $3499.99 at your local Restore, and, while he was just getting out of bed, Egyptian cotton Sheets with a thread count around 1000, $759.95 at the nearest Goodwill, of course you see I am shopping at places that let you know you are saving the environment, read Algores book, $0,09 at the nearest trash barrel…”
This is a case of NOT ignoring the small things and look where that gets you in today’s world that just that little bit more lost and violent than it was even in the nineties.
What is missing from the story is the picture of the pummeled faces of the perps after “they slipped in their cells”.
Fucking cops can’t even beat down people who fuck with them anymore? I’m not a fan of cops, but I do think that they should beat the fuck out of anyone who attacks one of their own. That would stop shit like this from happening.
‘Maybe Guiliani was right all along. Does ignoring the small things lead to lawlessness? It’s starting to look that way. At least in that city.’
One of the comments on this: why didn’t someone help the police? Well, maybe because they don’t want to get shot, or blamed when one of the knuckleheads dies. A whole lot of risk for 0 reward in getting involved with that.
Indeed. Help the cops, go to jail. Forget doing that.
Locally, maybe. Commie state? No way.
I know it’s fun to diss on cops around here but in NYC you are far more likely to get shot by a stranger than a cop.
The only sensible course of action is to move far away from any altercation that you see.
Oh, yeah, I didn’t mean the cops shooting you, though that is a possibility too…
Yeah, they all saw what happened to Danial Penny.
That is exactly who I was thinking of. Even best case scenario- you are totally in the right, you don’t get injured, you’re still going to be up shit creek if the BLM crowd gets on your case.
Go where the money is. I guess this will be a test case of whether or not anybody has to pay for a service before they can demand it be used. I can’t imagine them winning, but it’s 2023, so who freaking knows.
VW already ran damage control on this when it happened. The agent was supposed to have provided the information to law enforcement. They put more procedures in place to assure this.
This is the family getting their pound of flesh and some cold cash. It’s not going to change anything other than their bank account.
‘Police have not identified or arrested any suspects and do not believe the individuals who broke in left with any merchandise, Bush said. ‘
No victim, then no crime. The cops can shove this case where the sun don’t shine.
U.S. Needs to Be Ready for War
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. (R- Warmonger) is particularly disgusting this AM.
He's a reliable barometer for mainstream Team Red. Unrelated to the article he is also usually a very good insight into regulatory matters. Usually what Team Red will fight and what Team Red wants. I read all his editorials, but sometimes you need some Pepto after you read him.
“President Volodymyr Zelensky should ask not just for F-16s but, by a date certain, F-35s. Mr. Biden should supply them.”
He’s a goddamn retard.
That tyrannical gremlin can go fuck himself.
U.S. Needs to Be Ready for War
Can’t fight with a woke military. And we should not even be at odds with Russia, and we should be trying to be peaceful with China.
Sure we can, we sent the trannies and they/thems in a human wave attack while we train up real soldiers.
I won’t disagree that we need to be ready (Si vis pacem, para bellum is an old quote for a reason, after all).
The best way to do that? Stop diluting our forces and wasting our money all over the world, dumbass. Get critical industry back in the country and energy independence (which would have the side benefit of weakening those who are our most likely foes – win win). Stop the military worrying about what the privates’ privates are this week and back to “Make the other poor dumb bastards die for their country” as the mission statement.
If we keep sticking our dicks in. every hornet’s nest around the world as a pretense for robbing US taxpayers things are going to end badly.
I am sick of the ‘we are the world’s policeman’ intrigue and adventurism. Sick to fucking death of it.
For Gender Traitor, reposting from dead thread.
2 tablespoons butter or bacon grease/lard
1/2 small yellow onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic chopped finely
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken broth
We used 1can diced fire-roasted tomatoes
If the broth had no salt then salt to taste
1-2 teaspoon sugar or Splenda
Make your roux with the chopped onion in it (butter or fat, flour, onion, garlic)
cook until onion is clear
Add broth, tomatoes, salt if needed, and sugar.
Cook down to halfish
You can of course add in other spice…some like rosemary or thyme
I like some basil or parsley
Split your biscuits and douse generously
Try not to eat too much
Have you seen the shakshuka recipe that OMWC posted quite a while ago? Seems like a similar style of cooked and thickened tomatoes for breakfast. You would just need to make the jump to poaching an egg in the gravy itself, and adding some peppers I believe.
It is one of the mother sauces, the classic tomato sauce thickened with roux. It can be steered in lots of directions depending on what you add to it.
That is one of the wonderful things about the French mother sauces…an endless universe of yum that you can never fully explore.
Very close and Suthen states it correctly. A good sauce will allow you to go in so many different directions. Add some harissa and the eggs and off to a wonderful breakfast.
Thank you! Was just treated to the more common type of biscuits and gravy (and eggs and bacon and potatoes and fruit!) by my employer. Helps take the sting out of discovering I need to work on a BS EEOC report. 😒
From having to put out a ciggie to multiple charges (felonies?) in the blink of an eye. I’m not a big lover of the fuzz but holy hell was that stupid.
It is a sign of the times.
Those charming young men were probably raised to hate the cops. And they lack a “moral compass” as noted above so just lash out at anything for the slightest reason.
IDRFA but I am guessing that garbage was back on the street before the pixels were dry on that story.
It doesn’t say, but assaulting a cop is a felony and one they don’t particularly take kindly to. They are not going to see the street for a while, I think.
Sacrificed for the woke mob.
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin is making another attempt to overturn his federal civil rights conviction in the 2020 murder of George Floyd, saying new evidence shows that he didn’t cause Floyd’s death.
In a motion filed in federal court Monday, Chauvin said he never would have pleaded guilty to the charge in 2021 if he had known about the theories of a Kansas forensic pathologist with whom he began corresponding in February. Chauvin is asking the judge who presided over his trial to throw out his conviction and order a new trial, or at least an evidentiary hearing.
Evidence at the trial showed that.
Good luck with that. He can rot in jail where he belongs.
If, arguendo, he didn’t kill St. Floyd, how do you figure he belongs in jail?
I’m sure kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes while the man slowly died below him had nothing to do with his death. Good luck convincing a jury of that.
I really, really don’t get the defense of this guy by some of you.
I really, really don’t get the defense of this guy by some of you.
Not defending the guy in anyway.
When a sitting congress-critter comes to town and tells people to rampage if the jury doesn’t convict, then trial is a sham.
Given the massive drug overdose and the initial coroner’s report of no neck damage, there is no fucking way this is guilty “beyond reasonable doubt”.
The fucker can rot in hell as far as I am concerned. But he should not be in jail in this life.
Well, there’s also the issue that its somewhat controversial whether he was actually applying pressure to the neck or more to his shoulder. I seem to recall that there was some video that looked more like the latter. I think it was some of each, but wh o knows?
And, of course, unless you cause the death of someone, you haven’t killed them and shouldn’t be tried for killing them, no matter how mean you were to them before they died.
I think the issue with this case is the obvious political prosecution and prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. Not so much defending “this guy” as saying “no guy should get banged up for murder like that”.
What I’m seeing is:
– he did bad things ABCDE and everybody agrees the’re bad things
– he evidently got convicted for ABCDEFGHIJ
– the objection is to the state throwing in the FGHIJ, lying about it, excluding evidence, etc.
So the gripes here seem to be about malfeasance by the state. Convict a man of what he actually is guilty, not other stuff, etc.
Because kneeling on the neck was used as it is supposed to NOT kill someone, it is an alternative to shooting.
The fact that you want an innocent man to rot in jail is every bit as bad as you claim others to be.
I’m sure kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes while the man slowly died below him had nothing to do with his death.
This is actually quite plausible. That’s where the disconnect between you and the rest of us is.
And this is how we get Summer of Love ’24.
never would have pleaded guilty to the charge in 2021 if he had known
Hmm. I would think you knew what you did or did not do, and made a calculated decision based on what a jury would decide.
Are you saying that an innocent person accused of a crime, who was not given pertinent information during discovery, and who on advise of counsel took a plea deal rather than risk having the book thrown at them, should STFU?
Or did I read your intent wrong?
Yes, you read it wrong. First off – you know whether you did the crime or not. If you didn’t, and you chose to plead guilty, it was a conscious decision to mitigate risk – regardless of the evidence. Second, this wasn’t a matter of discovery – at least as presented; it was evidence/theory from a third party. This isn’t the same as the matter of the relevant medical examiner perjuring himself (on the matter of neck compression).
In other words, there are legitimate ways to challenge and bogus ones – this seems to be the latter.
I don’t know if I agree with this.
He knows he used his knee to pin Floyd. He doesn’t know if that killed Floyd.
There’s a difference.
I think the real challenge should be based on the ME’s perjury (going from no evidence to concluding it was the cause of death).
It would seem kneeling on someone’s neck is lethal force. It certainly has been in other cases.
Kneeling on someone’s neck for that long, instead of cuffing the guy, seems to me to be excessive use of force. It can be lethal force, but according to the original ME report, wasn’t the cause of death in this case.
Shooting someone can be lethal, but people often survive being shot.
The cop appears to deserve some punishment, but he got caught up by politics and grifters and an ambitious PA and people having emotional responses instead of cooling parsing facts, and was vastly over-sentenced.
I could not understand at the time how everything factual about the case that had already been made public simply disappeared and was replaced with a bullshit narrative and by bullshit I mean that not one word of it was true.
Chauvin might be a bad apple, I dont know the guy. I do know that in this case he did nothing wrong and was convicted of a crime that never happened.
To push back on the narrative, the guy would have to be exonerated.
That would of course lead to outrage and riots, but an innocent person should not rot in jail because it inconveniences The Narrative TM.
Which I would enjoy pointing out to Mrs. Prole when her predictable outburst occurs.
The truth will always out. In this case will it out before it is too late to matter?
This won’t be the first time that someone sits in prison, unjustly, to satisfy the career needs of a prosecutor. Won’t you think of the needs of politicians?
Kamala Harris nods her head.
Or is that bobs?
We shouldn’t be “funding” anyone, but the bills could at least be single issue.
The Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2024 would allocate $14.3 billion of funds to the Department of Defense to send military aid to Israel for its response to Hamas after terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, as well as to the Department of State to help evacuate U.S. citizens from the region. After the House passed the bill on Nov. 2 by a bipartisan vote of 226 yeas to 196 nays, Marshall attempted to have the Senate pass the bill immediately but was denied unanimous consent to do so by Senate Democrats, who have opposed the bill.
“I don’t hear anyone saying, from either side of the aisle, ‘Don’t fund Israel.’ So why don’t we fund Israel today?” Marshall asked, rhetorically, on the Senate floor as he moved that the bill be passed by unanimous consent, which would waive the normal rules to which the bill is subject, including a filibuster. “Time is of the essence. The House has passed a standalone bill to fund Israel. The Senate should do the same.”
With multiple issue bills they get to vote for unpopular and/or stupid and/or corrupt shit and place the blame on the need to vote for a certain issue. They like the cover it provides for the most part, IOW feature not bug.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
No.
Nikki Haley Says Allowing People to Post on Social Media Anonymously is a ‘National Security Threat’
“Every person on social media should be verified by their name…It gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots, and the Chinese bots”
Hail Mary Haley is the neocons final hope and the actual threat to national security.
Has she never heard of the anonymously written Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers?
Pseudonym, not anon.
Or, more importantly, has she never heard of the First Amendment, and the concept of Freedom of Speech?
This is more of that Freeze Peach BS.
Sometimes ZH can really hit it out of the park
Legit LOL.
Indeed.
Yesterday someone described her as Dick Cheney in drag. I like that description better even if it makes me shudder.
That was Vivek last week.
Remarked on this yesterday.
They promised us they would not create any lists of gun owners. They created a list of gun owners
They will use this as sure as the sun rises in the morning to make a list of wrongthinkers.
You’d have to be purposefully blind at this point not to assume the worst of any government power grab.
I’m going to register as Poor Richard.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Pete Buttigeg has crossed a line. How dare the DOT make transit planners use a more realistic formula for projecting ridership? How will we get those choo-choos paid for?
Imagine the embarrassment of those poor govt workers when they go to some conference and everyone knows that they only have buses!
And they cleaned up the place for the CCP. Fuck the citizens though.
Oh look, San Francisco turned into China for President Xi’s arrival.
Finally revealing it’s true colors.
I was hoping to see a ROC flag somewhere in there, but of course not.
Banned as Hate Speech in California.
Pine: had to bounce after my comment yesterday about the hockey play. Thanks for the info: I’d not seen the clip, just read his team’s statements that it was “tragic accident.” Didn’t realize there was more to it than that.
I dont see how it could have been anything but deliberate.
More sports news:
https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news/browns-announce-qb-deshaun-watson-is-out-for-the-season
Say what you want, but he never got hurt when he was getting regular massages.
I made the statement several times locally that with the amount we were paying for Watson, if the happy endings were that important to his play style, we could afford to fly him to a Nevada brothel every week..
‘every week.’
You must be getting old if you think that is often enough. 😉
Juris, what was that you were saying about the fates getting ready to hurt me?
Browns announce QB Deshaun Watson is out for the season
Watson will undergo season-ending surgery to repair his throwing shoulder to avoid further structural damage
On the bright side, Chubb’s surgeries seem to be going well, so there’s always. next. year…
Think of it as pre-emptive.
Chubb’s surgeries seem to be going well
He’ll never be the same. See e.g. Willis Mcgahee, who never quite got back to form after getting his knee turned inside out.
Curiously there is no mention of the skin pigment of the suspects and victim.
Eight teenagers were arrested Tuesday and booked on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a 17-year-old who was fatally beaten near a Las Vegas high school this month, police said.
The eight, who were not publicly identified because they are minors, were part of a group of at least 10 people who punched, kicked and stomped Jonathan Lewis after school on the afternoon of Nov. 1, Las Vegas police officials said.
The suspects, who are ages 13 to 17, were booked on suspicion of murder, Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
He said the police department was urging that qualified suspects be charged as adults.
There is a pic of the victim, who was a white male.
Kids graduated just in time and we got out of there none too late.
‘Curiously there is no mention of the skin pigment of the suspects and victim.’
Shocking omission in today’s day and age (meaning, we can correctly infer at 99% likelihood if they were melinated or not)
Other good tells: ‘young man’ vs. ‘boy’ or ‘minor’
“At least two other people believed to have been involved in the attack have not been identified, and the police department Tuesday night planned to circulate video of the pair with the hope someone would recognize them and come forward, Johansson said.”
How does this work vis-a-vis minor protections? Assuming the two in question are likely sub-18?
“Johansson said the fight was over stolen headphones and possibly a stolen marijuana vape pen that belonged to either Lewis or his friend. The friend had agreed to a fight in the alley after school, he said, but as the parties squared off, Lewis apparently stepped in to defend his friend and was attacked.”
Not the brightest then, usually you don’t make an appointment to get jumped. Sad still.
Unpossible. Only guns kill, not children.
According to Reddit, since brains don’t fully develop until you’re 25, you’re a literal child until then. I’m literally shaking right now.
So, you are back on the hook for XX/XY?
Well, XX is 20 but needs some $$$ help with medical issues she’s been trying to handle on her own. I was only a little older than she was when I needed help with some medical issues, but didn’t have it. I struggled alone for years, so I want to help her.
XY isn’t quite 18 yet, but he’s set out his life at least for the next 2-3 years and is chugging right along.
We have sown some consequences of having allowed them their independence so young, but in the long run, we still think we did a good thing.
A. How, exactly were they to improve mental health. Yes, responsibility of parents primarily. Social media platforms are more or less neutral in this. Look at the schools actively pumping kid’s heads full of mush and I insanity.
B. Similar….many might see the chaos and lunacy today as a lack of leadership. The fact is society would get along just fine without centralized leadership. The problems we are having are caused by deliberate, calculated actions or inactions of government. They are the enemy.
C. Look. hard enough and you will find most every family has evil in it.
D. Yes, Gulliani was right. Implement a policy, crime rates plummet. Stop implementation and crime rates skyrocket. It works because….it is right.
E. Scientology. That is all.
F, I won’t be buying a Volkswagen. There are terms in contracts but there is also human decency. I would say this is one of those egregious cases that is way over the line.
G. The legal pot business is a complete clusterfuck. Whoda thunk that would happen? That does not negate right of self defense or a good faith effort to thwart crime.
See comment at B.
“The legal pot business is a complete clusterfuck”
The combination of completely illegal at the national level and strictly licensed at the state level makes for an . . . Interesting legal environment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-14/pentagon-is-quietly-sending-israel-ammunition-laser-guided-missiles#xj4y7vzkg
I thought Israel was still serious about their military and maintaining stockpiles? Maybe not.
Also – the Ukraine is completely up shit creek now. Hearing about Generals being purged. The end-game will be ignored by our media.
Too bad. I read in the papers they had Russia on the ropes after the summer offensive.
“President Volodymyr Zelensky should ask not just for F-16s but, by a date certain, F-35s. Mr. Biden should supply them.”
Joe can pull those F-35s out of his magic army helmet.
Bleah. Misdragged on the express and the main event just brain freeze on the last 9 words. I never think of food items for some reason.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/15:
*19/19 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 In the top 18% by accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 11/15:
30/30 words
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🔥 Solve streak: 108
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The food item was my last word.
I have the greatest problem with four-letter words that begin with I or A even when they are staring me in the face.
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*19/19 words (+4 bonus words)
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🔥 Solve streak: 76
Pretty Big News and Advice/Thoughts: I have signed an offer for the Carmel & Clay County Parks & Rec. (Yep. In Indiana. This amuses me.) I’ll get $15.50/hour, working Mon-Fri from 1:45-6:15pm. Pretty much making sure kids don’t fight, some light teaching/help, and really will be quite chill for me. Young kids. I taught ’em for over a decade. I’m certainly used to it. And ain’t no public school, cuz I ain’t doin’ none o’ that. Timing also keeps it easy to make outpatient appts. It’s clearly the best option for now.
NOW. The Children’s Museum is calling me, returning my application w an interview!… I’ll be a part time youth programs instructor. $17/hour but I don’t know hours/schedule yet. Definitely has a higher upper ladder, and the possibilities for advancement is something I’m interested in doing as a Real Job, is right up my alley, and could take me anywhere, job and locale.
The mostly ‘Get a read on Evan’ interview is 15-30 min at 3:30pm. I have an in as my SiL worked there for like a decade, and my mom actually has worked with the woman doing the talking to me today! So I’ve got a lot of cards going for me. However! I don’t want to come in too steep again. Too much, too soon. Keeping outpatient is also good. I’m gonna try to feel my way through it, but I think best would be if I could be at the top of the list in like 6 months. I won’t mention this. I suppose the whole shebang will be two folk reading each other out. Which is most of our social primate lives, anyway. I’m quite good at it. Or at least I’m a good actor.
Many interesting things. I suppose the real thing to do is just be on-point and read her and the job out as much as possible, but not giving my cards (my reality) away either.
Well, gotta go to Group Outpatient. There for 1.5 hours. It’s (become) quite cool, given what it is.
Good luck, you’ve got this.
Have you considered playing it reasonably straight, rather than trying to tell people what you think they want to hear?
Yeah, but saying I’m in outpatient for drug abuse doesn’t seem like a good idea to bring up regarding why I couldn’t start work in two weeks.
Being truthful tends to help tho. Specially w my myriad disabilities. Most DIE(!) Folk dream of me. But seems awful risky, even w two in’s.
Easier and I will use the real truth of upcoming Dr appts if ‘When can you start?’ is brought up.
I’m inclined to say go for the Children’s Museum gig. Sounds as if it gives you more incentive to keep yourself straight.
Bearded Ben is losing his mind over the Israel/Hamas conflict.
SHAPIRO: Yes, the question was about Candace Owens. I think her behavior during this has been disgraceful. Without a doubt.
She still works for my company, and I think she’s been absolutely disgraceful. I think that her faux sophistication on these particular issues has been ridiculous. It’s not her sophistication. It’s ridiculous. Everyone can see the moves that she’s making and the things that she’s saying, and I find them disreputable.
He never had much of a mind to lose.
Another ‘no good guys’ story.
Ben has always been aa bit unstable. In this case I am disappointed in Owens.
I didn’t look very closely at what she’s saying. Lots of people against American taxpayers funding the Israeli military are being labeled anti-Semitic these days.
Eh, seems like she does go too far.
She’s a shock jock. Did you notice some of the ugly stuff she said? Of course he’s pissed off.
He’s pissed off she’s saying what she said about Israelis and Jews. When she says those kinds of things about other groups he’s happy to monetize it and ridicule those who get offended.
He’s still happy to monetize it since she’s still on his payroll.
how (((typical)))
I’m sure they both suck in their own ways. I don’t pay any attention to either of them.
Appropriate, and the perfect vengeance on attention whores.
“Of course he is pissed off”
Meh, he is always pissed off.
Her decision to platform and praise Andrew Tate back in July, a proven abuser of women, both physically and emotionally, also said nothing good about her credibility.
Way to go Red State.
That’s not much of a fact based argument on Ben’s part. I don’t get it, he manages to own every blue haired college freshman he comes across. What happened here?
It is Shapiro and Jews. No matter how smart he is, this is pushing his hot buttons.
Ew!
Has anyone bothered to watch her documentary Convicting a Murderer? I am curious, but not enough to buy a DW subscription.
No, but most internet celebrity types don’t seem to have anything that interesting to say.
Let’s ask the audience
Americans are split over whether Israel’s response has been too much or about right in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack — with a majority of Democrats now saying it’s been too much, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
The results were driven by people of color and younger respondents, who were far more likely than others to say Israel has gone too far, and said their sympathies lie more with the Palestinians than Israelis.
Who gives a shit what “poll respondents” think?
Polls allow “journalists” to avoid work. Ask a bunch of people what they think, then ponder the meaning of the results. Much easier that writing a detailed history of the region and the players involved.
Yep. As I have said the time for talking, debating and diplomacy ended on Oct.7
They seem to think the Bee isn’t a parody site, and missed the sarcasm in this headline: “Biden checks his latest poll numbers to see if Israel still has a right to defend itself”.
That first track is killer. I loved that video when I was a young lad.
The V-word ist verboten
To be sure, Trump wasn’t targeting Jewish people during his speech in New Hampshire. Although he sometimes peddles antisemitic tropes, such as running a campaign ad attacking “global special interests” that featured pictures of George Soros and Lloyd Blankfein, he has also made determined efforts to wean Jewish voters from their historical affiliation with the Democratic Party. But that hardly excuses his language or diminishes its significance. As he leads the 2024 Presidential polls nearly a year out from Election Day, he’s taking the sort of hateful rhetoric that in the past he’s used about immigrants and minorities and applying it to his political enemies and legal antagonists.
Beat that tin drum, little wind-up monkey.
Vegan?
Visitors?
Vajajyay?
attacking “global special interests” that featured pictures of George Soros and Lloyd Blankfein
And?
the sort of hateful rhetoric that in the past he’s used about immigrants and minorities
Surely you can provide an example.
Since then, Trump has routinely adopted this sort of language, occasionally adding the term “fascists” to his repertoire, perhaps as an effort to muddle the meaning of the word.
Define “fascist” for us, so we’ll know who is desperately trying to muddle the meaning.
Exactly. The left uses it for anyone who disagrees with them.
And DAMN him for turning that back on us!!!! /the left
Who, what with the Biden gov’t and tech colluding for censorship, actually are fascists.
broken windows policing utterly vindicated.
Sure. Ignoring rapists, murderers, and gang violence while putting the screws to some kid with a pinch of skank weed in his pocket is effective law enforcement.
I don’t think that characterization is accurate. Now we get neither. The broken windows policing caught the gang violence.
All Presidential contests are important, of course. But this one is shaping up as a struggle for the future of the country—a struggle in which one of the major political parties is under the control of a would-be strongman, who, during his Veterans Day speech, also took the opportunity to praise the governing styles of Xi Jinping and Viktor Orbán. It’s a struggle in which the former President’s associates are reportedly busy preparing post-election plans to staff the Justice Department with Trump loyalists who are willing to target his opponents; to invoke the Insurrection Act and dispatch the military to political demonstrations; and to build giant camps to hold undocumented migrants. In other words, it’s a struggle to prevent the election of a President whose embrace of fascistic imagery and authoritarian governance goes well beyond what comes out of his mouth. That, unfortunately, is where we are. The reality cannot be avoided.
Good versus Evil.
Whose side are you on?
Last time he was supposed to have a military coup of some sort with gangs of MAGAs roaming the streets murdering people and wrecking havoc, you know, BLM/Antifa style.
The target audience here are people who haven’t watched the news in the last 3 years.
Fascistic imagery? Have they forgotten about that speech Biden gave bathed in blood red light with Marines standing behind him? That would have made Mussolini himself proud.
*Proudly clings to my guns and Bible and ponders what a deplorable is to do today*
willing to target his opponents
Unlike what the current administration is doing to him…
dispatch the military to political demonstrations
What?
build giant camps to hold undocumented migrants
These already exist and are being used to facilitate an invasion. Use them to deport instead.
fascistic imagery and authoritarian governance
Unlike the current administration that dispatches militarized police by the dozens to arrest someone wanted for alleged trespassing and maybe spraying pepper spray in the direction of a cop…
I ‘member the Biden speech with red lights and hanging banners…
So vermin versus deplorables? Pot and kettle?
I am neutral just like my nouns
These people are getting their audience all riled up. If you convince people this bullshit is true (which they will), there is no limit to what they will do to stop the next Hitler. They will feel completely justified doing anything. Election fraud and rioting will be the tamest we could expect.
The people have already been convinced.
The intelligence services run this country. Most politicians, especially on the federal level, are compromised–the intelligence community has something on them. So, they can always be controlled. The IC didn’t have kompromat on Trump; it had to be fabricated starting from 2016. Fortunately for the IC, they are in full control of the propaganda apparatus. Their propaganda has brainwashed almost half of the country that Trump is literally Hitler. Of course, you must do everything to stop the next Hitler.
it had to be fabricated starting from 2016
It should be pointed out that it was fabricated in parallel with them surveilling him looking for real dirt to use against him. They’re good at covering all the bases.
It’s the sort of demonization and dehumanizing that lead to the Tutsi’s genocide of the Hutus in Rwanda. And in the run up to most any war.
Except, this time the Hutus are well armed. So that would be fun. /sarc
All Presidential contests are important, of course. But this one is shaping up as a struggle for the future of the country
Every single election cycle is the most important one. It is known.
No Balconies or Luxury Toilets: How This City Fought Soaring Rents and Lost
I don't see how this could create supply issues.
When even the Boy Mayor of Minneapolis opposes rent control you know that it is a dumb idea.
Of course, the Minneapolis City Council being a paragon of stupidity is hell bent on pushing rent control.
supply is a myth. do you even do scientific marxism bro
No way!
Modern day ‘highwaymen’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQzM0ZoNvgM
well that’s why stagecoaches had people riding shotgun innit
Did they seek set heart of a landlord’s daughter aflutter? If not, they are just posers and not real highwaymen.
Excess deaths in 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uOxhYyfYw4
Younger adult death rate up 20% in 2023
Center of Disease Control that show mortality rates alarmingly rising for different categories.
The surge in excess deaths caught carriers off guard
15 – 19 years
% difference from 2019
2018, 1%
2020, 21%
2021, 28%
2022, 21%
2023, (Jan – May), 24%
30 – 34 years
% difference from 2019
2018, -1%
2020, 30%
2021, 42%
2022, 30%
2023, (Jan – May), 23%
40 – 44 years
% difference from 2019
2018, -2%
2020, 30%
2021, 45%
2022, 30%
2023, (Jan – May), 25%
Cause of death data show increased cardiac mortality in all ages.
For those that prefer text to video.
https://insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/excess-mortality-continuing-surge-causes-concerns
Obviously not getting their COVID boosters.
Another mysterious phenomena. Will they never end?
I’ve heard of more acquaintances with blood clots in their lungs over the past 24 months than the prior 30 years combined. A coworker ended up in the hospital last week over it.
Fun with numbers
Lawyers for Donald Trump, his sons, and his company began presenting the meat of the New York fraud-trial defense case on Tuesday, with a pair of experts who pushed an almost-anything-goes theory of how to stick a price tag on a piece of property.
Want to low-ball what your skyscraper is worth in hopes of a property tax break? Or to highball the same property to impress a bank?
It’s all good, expert witnesses said in daylong testimony at the non-jury trial, where Trump is fighting New York civil allegations that he wildly exaggerated — by billions of dollars a year — the value of his properties in a decade of financial statements.
As Trump himself put it in a pre-trial deposition two months ago, “You know, people come up with numbers. Sometimes they’re right, sometimes they’re wrong.”
Trump’s first expert agreed on Tuesday that appraisals were highly subjective.
“There are real-life examples that I’ve encountered in my 37 years of experience where they don’t get it right,” the expert, the real-estate developer Steve Witkoff, said of real-estate appraisers.
So just pick the “methodology” that helps get the outcome you want, and then show your math, said Trump’s second expert, the forensic accountant Jason Flemmons, who’s based in Washington, DC.
Flemmons said the choices were many.
The only number which matters is the one somebody is willing to put on a check.
almost-anything-goes theory of how to stick a price tag on a piece of property
I’m pretty sure the lenders decide the value. This whole case is retarded, tyrannical horseshit.
The numbers aren’t half as funny as a fraud without a victim.
Look, do want to save democracy or not?
There are two massive holes in this case. The first is that there is no victim. The loans were repaid and the insurance was issued, and none of the companies reported any problem. And the second is that they want us to believe insurance companies and banks take a customer’s word for it, and don’t do their own appraisals especially on a high value property. If I declare my $200k house is worth $12 billion, the banks are going to say “Well, he said that’s what it’s worth, guess we have no choice but to loan him $10 billion!” So stupid.
The judge believes, or worse yet is pretending to believe, that there is an objective value of real estate. Despite the economic principle that value us intrinsically subjective, aka whatever someone us willing to pat at that moment.
Let’s try that link again
We’re solidly in Christmas carol rehearsal season, so I’m just checking:
Clergy, conductors, music directors. You all know that you can’t have O Little Town Of Bethlehem this year, right? Or preferably ever, but definitely not this year.
https://twitter.com/sefkhet/status/1724542244412174461
I don’t get it.
do not sing of places in colonized territory?
It’s OK, I saw a Josh Gates special where they got the wrong Bethlehem.
Bethlehem is in the West Bank of Palestine last I checked, unless they are singing about Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
Right down the road from me.
Scottish Episcopalian
BWAHAHahahahahahaha
For years many towns in Scotland have been flying the Pali flag at their town halls.
Beth needs to spend her time fucking herself instead of fucking with a keyboard.
Plane forced to return to airport after horse escapes on board
A pilot says the horse “managed to escape its stall” on the Boeing 747, in an audio recording of his exchange with air traffic control.
https://news.sky.com/story/plane-forced-to-return-to-airport-after-horse-gets-loose-on-board-13008688
Transcript of audio recording
Air traffic control: You should be fine. Continue on. We will have help waiting when you land.
Pilot: “Neigh, fuck that !. I am coming back.”
I always fuck these up.
Pilot: “Neigh, fuck that. I am hoofing it back”
A university lecturer allegedly went on two shoplifting sprees which saw her steal over a thousand pounds’ worth of Le Creuset cookware, ‘high-value’ steaks, wine and boutique gin, a court heard.
Pauline Al Said, 33, of Southsea, Hampshire, was caught trying to take more than £500 worth of alcohol and gifts from a garden centre while armed with a de-tagging device, jurors were told.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12751847/university-criminology-lecturer-shoplifted-high-value-m-s-steaks-spirits-garden-centre-court.html
Save the whales
However, judges Edith Brown Clement, Catharina Haynes and Andrew Oldham, who are Bush and Trump appointees, dismissed the environmental groups’ challenge.
They found that the groups did not have standing in the case because they did not show that they will suffer “certainly impending” injury or that any such issues would likely be resolved by the court.
In response, George Torgun, an attorney with Earthjustice, warned of dire consequences for the whale.
“This disappointing and unjustified ruling could be the death knell for the nearly extinct Rice’s whale,” Torgun said in a written statement.
“The oil industry fought tooth and nail to tear up basic measures to save one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world. This could be the difference between doing the bare minimum to save this species, and allowing it to vanish,” he added.
Those Earthjustice vermin couldn’t give a fuck less about whales. It’s all about killing off oil and gas.
Save those snails.
Rice’s whale
What madness is this?
Fuck off.
They’re inbreds.
“Distinct” is how you describe a subpopulation of the same species.
“Unable to mate and produce fertile offspring” is the bright line delineating a new species. Dunno how they think they determined that.
I find it hard to believe a few oil platforms are more of threat than acres and acres of offshore wind farms.
Until I saw “The oil industry…” I thought it was going to be about offshore wind turbines.
The Horror! Farmington, MN (pop 23K) won’t let a teacher fly their
freaklgbt+ flag.Chaos ensues as the lgbt storm a meeting and scream and threaten the school board. I’m sure the FBI will be all over this.
I might also add that the questionable lgbt flat looks like a Prince CD. I have no idea exactly what it is supposed to “include”.
God hates flags.
👏
This and a George Carlin quote!
*bangs head repeatedly on table*
Narcissistic personality disorder, how does it work?
“There was never any signage in the school that said that it was ok to be me,”
Why do you need permission to be yourself?
Just do it.
Xe is not looking for permission, xe is looking for praise.
Ayup
Johan Norberg
@johanknorberg
Just the other day, I said that no matter how often and clearly their old arguments are debunked, some anti-capitalists will pretend nothing happened and just invent new ad hoc arguments.
Anti-capitalists:
https://twitter.com/sefkhet/status/1724542244412174461
Firing at someone who’s trying to steal from you? Only the Secret Service gets to do that.
Read the comments first!
Random headline surfing leads me to ask:
If modern energy technology is so bad for us, why has life expectancy gone up instead of down over the last 150 years?
Medicine and a lack of the perils of hard labor. Same reason why indoor cats last longer than outdoor cats.
Rebarbarization requires a few little sacrifices.
Laurence Fox, take note: THIS is how you burn a flag
https://twitter.com/Cadmarch/status/1724702522047107125
Laura Margesin in SLOW MOTION | Miami Swim Week | Powered by DCSW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5jAIhQvHiU
From the United Nations special bureau of making shit up
Extreme weather events charged by the warming atmosphere are increasing in magnitude and frequency around the world. The last 12 months were the hottest yearlong period ever recorded, according to a recent analysis. Many recent droughts, floods and storms were found to have fingerprints of human-cause climate change, according to attribution scientists.
According to my model, my model is correct.
They have been pinching off that turd forever.
Hey assholes, the numbers are there for anyone to see. If you are going to lie your ass off at least include some kernel of truth and dont pick a lie so easily debunked.
Writers! Stop doing the things!
So tired of this bullshit. It’s why I wrote Da Rulez
Something interesting for the mechanical Glibs. Yesterday I had a job at a local church that was built in 1946. The original panic hardware on one of exit doors started to fail and the assembly where the push bar lever meets the vertical rod to lock the doors had worn completely out. I tired my few fixes with nuts and bolts to hold it together, but it needed the machined part. I told the priest I’d do some research as the company still exists (though bought out by a multinational). An entire new panic device of this type runs close to 2 grand retail so I was hoping we could find an old part. Turns out that it appears the assembly is still the same. We will see when the part comes, but from the pics it looks like they haven’t changed it. I work with lots of antique locks, but there aren’t too many mechanical things out there that have the exact same design as they did almost 80 years ago. I thought that was cool, and hope it works and I can save them a couple grand as the replacement part is $140 my cost.
That’s true. Every now and again you get lucky.
Maybe divine intervention, I did ask the priest to say a prayer that I could find the part!
Yeah, mechanisms that are basically frozen in time because they’re just RIGHT are definitely cool.
*John Browning waves*
Daily Fail getting credit when Brisker has been interviewed several times by others 😞