Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another great day and the links!
The Government Burned Through $7.5 Trillion Post-COVID
Israel, Hamas agree to temporary cease-fire, hostage release deal including freeing 3 Americans
Biden using wartime powers to expand green agenda raises concerns of overreach, best use amid wars
Jan 6 Footage Shows Capitol Police Officers Firing Rubber Bullets at Peaceful Protesters
Jan. 6 police video captures Metro D.C. officer saying ‘we go undercover as Antifa’
Some Dems Quietly Push for “Bubble Wrap” Strategy To Protect Biden During Campaign
Federal Court Finds Maryland’s Handgun License Law Unconstitutional
Truth Social Files Massive Defamation Lawsuit Against 20 Leftist Media Outlets
I Always Thought the JFK Assassination Was a Conspiracy, Then Something Changed
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Did they shove a spider up his ass to catch the fly?
glol
I sure hope when I read the links this makes sense…. Just loading the page and glancing down have to say it seems a bit of a non sequitur….
Kids these days don’t know their nursery rhymes.
*SMDH*
I know the rhyme — I just don’t see the context yet… give me a few minutes, you impeccably posh rodent.
Ah… next to last link. Got it now. Funnier in context. 😉
Itsy bitsy fly went up somebody’s ass
He tried shit but all he had was gas
no, the nurse reached in with a fly swatter
Why is it that last link freaked me out the most?
You’re not a fan of string bands?
Well, that is how they sneak in the lynchin’!
I thought it was a Sugar-Free link.
😂🤣
Then a mouse to catch the spider…
Now you know why NA is so curious about it. If he has to go in, it would muss up his top hat.
He’s a rat, not a mouse.
Why the hell did I click on that? 🤢
I get that a lot these days…
The Government Burned Through $7.5 Trillion Post-COVID – you have to spend money to get money
I imagine that is how their graft and slush fund schemes work, yes.
The yacht and vacation home industries must be booming.
The high end hooker and drug businesses sure are…
Israel, Hamas agree to temporary cease-fire, hostage release deal including freeing 3 Americans – women and children first? Or maybe thin people first cause the fatties can last longer
Hamas’s getting thee fighters for every hostage they release, plus materiel and time to recuperate and reorganize. Israel gets nothing.
Win-win-win-win!
I genuinely can’t believe the Israelis could be so stupid after October 7, but I guess the leftist rot runs too deep in the West.
Local NPR ran an oped claiming the *true* threat to Israel’s existence was Netanyahu.
How far up your own ass do you have to be to actually believe something like that? Their lack of any sense of reality is astonishing.
Well, is there a fly buzzing around you when you think it?
Their logic is:
-Israel can’t exist unless the EU and the Middle East supports them.
-The EU and MENA hate fascists
-The EU and MENA hate dead Palestinians
-Trump will empower armed White supremacist antisemite thugs to eliminate US Jews thus ending US’s support for Israel*
-Israel collapses.
*I am not making that part up.
“-The EU and MENA hate fascists”
And THAT is how you know they live in an alternate world!
Will he have his son in law, daughter (converted I think), and grandkids killed too? What an asshole.
Uh huh, like Trump is the greatest threat here.
Strong economy, rule of law, best interest of the citizenry, all threats to ….something.
Make America Great Again has become a slur.
You know who else spoke with a forked tongue?
Like almost all other threats, not a credible one.
Kaa?
Roman Maroni?
Lying dog faced pony soldiers?
Now they can shoot all the terrorists they released rather than give them food and board?
^^^This. “Enjoy your 4 days of freedom.”
I had to RTFA because I couldn’t not believe my eyes.
So, so stupid.
I’m beginning to doubt their commitment to Sparkle Motion.
“could not”
Maybe they implanted trackers in those Palestinian fighters so they can locate the tunnels.
Israel would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
“We have figured a way to plant trackers on flies! We can see exactly where the fly goes down to a 1 inch resolution!”
“Great. Now how do we make the flies stay on the fighters?”
*Both men stare at Palestinian fighter’s ass
That is a very sinister joke.
No, you have to be rather dextrous to pull it off.
Now I know where Kenny Williams and Rick Hahn landed.
/insidebaseball
Why? That only encourages more Hostage-taking. Kill the Hamas prisoners and ship their heads back to Gaza in a box.
see this is why you didn’t make it as a hostage negotiator ad are forced to work in tech
Nonsense, I just didn’t want to talk to people all day.
Hostage negotiations are incredibly stupid. I can’t believe the Israelis are dumb enough to fall for it even after October 7.
In the context of a lone, panicked criminal, you can probably talk them out of hurting the people on the scene, then take them down afterwards.
In the context of organized terror, the hostages are dead already – shoot to kill on the terrorists.
That is the only way to handle it. The people taken are not hostages, they are casualties and are already dead. The proper response is to exact a toll so massive that the hostage takers have no will to ever even think about doing it again.
Commend your soul to god
I can’t believe the Israelis are dumb enough to fall for it even after October 7.
I don’t think they fell for it so much as made a cold calculation.
Politics supersede warfare.
What is that calculation? It was Biden, wasn’t it.
Tonio, here is a good article on what Israel is thinking on it: https://unherd.com/thepost/the-hostages-fate-is-splitting-israeli/
I was thinking break out a bioweapon — but I think I watched that TNG episode where the admiral scolds Picard for not using Hugh to take out the Borg that way once too often or something.
Bioweapons are too hard to contain. Chemical is your best bet to deal with the Gazan tunnels. Something heavier than air, ideally corrosive and will fuck up their ventillation if they try to pump it back out. Doesn’t even need to be able to get around gas masks if it displaces the oxygen sufficiently to render the tunnels next to useless.
True enough. I was just trying to think of ways for this stupid deal to turn into a Trojan Horse for Hamas.
Bomb collars?
Too obvious. And I don’t think we really have the tech for nano-trackers or micro-explosives. Hence my brain jumped to bio.
If you just want to track them, you can put a tag in their shoes.
Biden using wartime powers to expand green agenda
I didn’t even realize we were at war. Not sure who we are supposedly at war with.
“We’re at war with the American people.”
– .gov
Yeah, that tracks.
Can confirm
Wired actually doing a bit of journalism granted it really broke during Obama in 2013 and the whole Snowden episodes and such.
Exactly, what do you mean ‘secretive’?
Common knowledge for a decade.
Common? Doubtful, I bet a ‘Man on the street’ interview would reveal either indifference or outright no knowledge of it. WH keeps repackaging it under different names.
That would explain the lack of a declaration.
Pretty much. Between this type of thing and literally facilitating an invasion of the states, the USG is committing treason.
Not sure who we are supposedly at war with.
Eurasia.Eastasia.Sylvania!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Wh66FXZJQ
Close tags!
Well, the Von Carsteins have been a bit of a pain in the neck of late.
Treasonous piece of shit.
Poverty!
Drugs!
Terrorism!
Didn’t Biden promise us a war on cancer?
Well, his son probably has crabs, so, yeah?
Thank you for that image.
Zwak, that one made me choke on my morning Iced tea, well done.
Just now? Asshole PPP flunkies have been doing this for 3 years now…
And they’ll keep doing it because they don’t give a shit about how many times the Courts say their legal
fig leaves“theories” are wrong, Congress doesn’t actually cut their funding (as is their primary power) or anything else. Like New York state and their perpetual gun law games, “Oh, should I not have done that? Ok… how about THIS!” rules the day.grumble bitch moan complain
I’ll take a moment here to remind everyone of Trump’s use of national security tariff power.
Well? Get on with the reminding. You left out all of the details.
Since you asked. Also note that Biden retained these.
Never forget the national security imperative of domestic washing machine manufacturing!!!
I refuse to believe there are washing machines being made in this country.
Also, it’s clear that the tariffs were not punitive enough, since we’re still importing cheap Chinese crap.
I want my cheap crap to not come with a side of lining the pockets of many of the most evil people in the world. I get enough of that from the misuse of my taxes.
That is your prerogative of course – to not purchase said things. You shouldn’t be deciding that for anyone but yourself.
I would love to – but the middlemen are going to extreme lengths to hide the country of origin at the point of sale.
And then there’s the “Assembled in ___” crap where they just put the name of the place where the last two pieces were hastily fitted together before slapping it in a box. If I had a full supply chain accounting of how much came from where, I’d be happiest. Especially if it was consistantly applied.
Speed Queen.
I have one of those and they are amazing. Comes with a SEVEN year warranty. But definitely outside most people’s price range.
Is this some euphemism for a wife/girlfriend/maid?
No one is still reading this thread, but…
Related
So YOU’RE responsible for my Talisker being even more expensive than it needs to be!
In Re JFK – In terms of people actually shooting at him, there was only Oswald. For a while I was confused by the angles of impact, until I learned one key detail – the road is curved. Once I learned that, every hit on the car lined up with the window at some point during the drive past.
Whether or not Oswald was an asset of another party, I have no opinion on. I just know there wan’t a second shooter.
Everyone focuses on multiple shooters, when the shots Oswald took were not difficult. Nobody talks about the stupidity of driving the President through a city in a convertible. The real conspiracy is the Oswald was immediately eliminated by a random guy before he started talking.
We see shootings all the time now by deranged idiots who were wound up and pointed in the right direction – probably by some of the agencies JFK was trying get under control.
I’ve been to Oswald’s window. Some luck but doesn’t seem like a terribly difficult shot. I don’t hunt or target shoot, so I could be mistaken.
Ok — that’s an clear bit of evidence for housecleaning the hell out of DC cops (and likely the IC as well).
How many fucking PDs across the country have been doing this, who is coordinating it (because I doubt they all decided it was a good idea independently… looking at you, FBI ‘counter-terrorism taskforces’ most likely), what was the goal (cracking down on enemies of the Deep State, I know.. but expose it), etc. Talk about over the line.
We can see what those Fusion Centers have really accomplished.
I would have thought Ziploc to keep him fresher in the freezer between times when they need to defrost him….
How long until they pass an even worse and more unconstitutional set of rules?
This is good news, as Oregon is trying to implement some BS like this.
New Jersey still has that in place. I guess SCOTUS will have to make a ruling to get everyone on the same page.
Hawaii does the same for all firearms. Plus mandatory registration of firearms imported into the state.
NY already has five gun controls bills written and ready to be submitted and voted on overnight as soon as their latest gets overturned.
As I have said for some time, all such legislation should be automatically injoined as presumptively unconstitutional and not be able to take effect until litigated and proven otherwise.
Senior Judge Barbara Milano Keenan, an Obama appointee, wrote in the dissent that “the majority’s hyperaggressive view of the Second Amendment would render presumptively unconstitutional most non-discretionary laws in this country requiring a permit to purchase a handgun.”
And?
“… and that might enable the American people to defend themselves against the criminal chaos we’re trying to leverage into Socialism in the short term and against our tyranny in the longer term.”
Ah, that makes sense now.
Under no circumstance should a citizen be required to ask permission to exercise a right.
That’s the point. You shouldn’t have to get a permit from the government to exercise a constitutional right.
Fucking asshole. It isn’t any view, hyperaggressive or not, that renders the laws unconstitutional. The second amendment, like all of the amendments, does not grant rights. It recognizes inalienable rights we are born with. The criminal behavior is being committed by those who violate those rights.
Any action save that of denying the exercise of rights post-due process is a criminal act.
Again, this govt. has become everything it was never supposed to be. We had a deal and they broke the deal egregiously.
would render presumptively unconstitutional most non-discretionary laws
That’s kindof the whole point of the explicit restriction placed on the government by the BoR.
Well that certainly beats the old “Waiter? Theres a fly in my soup” joke.
Beats having a clumsy waiter — “There’s a soup on my fly!”
+$1G lawsuit.
The political compass is so bad lmao. I got bored and decided to retake it and I got libleft. This is despite the fact that I hate democracy and advocate a one party totalitarian state, I don’t believe in human rights, and I think the Red Terror was good.
https://twitter.com/EarlOfThePseud/status/1727169352263254343
ahh good ol tankies
Does it still include non-policy questions?
saira rao
@sairasameerarao
Fuck America. Fuck Israel.
The end.
https://twitter.com/sairasameerarao/status/1727148882625225149
Racist asshole continues to be an asshole.
Someone should reply to that bitch with “Fuck you”.
America has been terrible to her.
We’re so racist we let randoms from other countries in, give them all the rights of native born and even educate and advance their careers… But one time sometime asked where she was from. Real terrible stuff.
I should have posted this last night:
Mashed Potatoes a la Snoop Dogg
So… how does the name apply?
It’s (supposedly) his recipe.
½ cup (4 oz.) cognac or other brandy – RACIST !!!
2 cups heavy cream – 2 much fat milk works fine
½ cup mayonnaise – in mashed potatoes? bleah
1/5 stars would not eat
So how about an emulsion of egg, vinegar, and oil instead?
neither of those ingredients have any place in mashed potatoes
Let me guess, your recipe for mashed potatos is:
Potatos.
1: Boil potatos.
2: Mash potatos.
nope butter and milk are also added.
for 2 pounds of potatoes you need about 3-4 ounces of butter and about a cup of milk. Salt and spices to taste.
Yup. Made some yesterday. I also added a very carefully measured dollop of sour cream. Get a measuring spoon labeled ‘yeah, about like this’ and put that in.
With most base starches a little basil, thyme or parsley can be dashed in.
Rice absorbs better so I cook rice in chicken stock rather than plain salt water.
Im okay with the heavy cream, but 2 cups? Swap sour cream or crema in for the mayo and maybe Ill try it.
2 cups for 4 Pounds of potato. That’s not exactly drowning the spuds.
I’d have to be eyeballing that to ensure correct texture and consistency. I don’t measure out my milk/butter because of that. So maybe it isn’t too much.
You’re racist for calling an African American racist.
African Americans are incapable of getting picture IDs or letting hate in their hearts. It is known.
Cognac??
Henny I assume
Yup.
Mayo? In mashed potato’s?
What fresh hell is this?
Germany?
Yeah! They put corn on pizza too!
This isn’t even satire. The Bee moving to straight news?
well your link is satire
Well fuck.
Links today: Corruption, incompetence, government malice writ large. I am not going to bother replying to each one.
This government has become everything it was never supposed to be.
If we can keep it, indeed.
The founders repeatedly warned that this government would only work amoung a moral citizenry. Cultural marxism and the deliberate import of incompatible cultures has put an end to that. They warned against foreign entanglements. Instead we play world policeman.
What a shitshow.
Franklin knew. It isn’t the govt that caused the problem, it is just the result.
They were all highly educated men who had a deep understanding of why Greek democracy and Roman Republican governments ultimately failed. They tried an experiment aimed at preventing a similar failure. It kind of worked for a couple of generations until the built up pressure resulted in the Civil War. The winners then put us firmly on the Roman path of big government and empire that the Founders tried so hard to avoid.
Now we are in or maybe beyond the collapsing Republic phase.
In a sense, it’s fate. We’re just lucky to enjoy the ride while the getting is good.
The westward expansion, which the Federalists opposed, built up the pressure resulting in the Civil War. Kind of a Democratic own goal. Of course the National System advocates (Federalist then Whig) also exacerbated the regional divide (Calhoun’s arguments on that are sound even if he wasn’t). Post Civil War, DC didn’t grow excessively until the Progressive Era and the two world wars.
America’s 1800s immigrants weren’t all hardworking individualists seeking their fortune. Too many were collectivist activists fleeing failed revolutions and hoping to impose their “reforms” on the U.S
If I use The J Word on Facebook right now Facebook throttles the shit out of it. (See my last post). FB really doesn’t want to talk about how bastions of liberalism talk a big game about diversity and inclusion, but then everything they control inevitably turns to shit and chaos with angry mobs threatening to murder and burn stuff .
For my friends of the religion which this giant evil mega corporation doesn’t like us talking about what’s being done to you right now, I think it behooves you to-
A. Move away from the big blue cities.
B. Buy guns.
C. Learn how to use those guns.
D. Stop voting for the evil shits who love gun control, violent criminals, and angry mobs, so that those nice areas you can flee to which still have cute traditional stuff like “equal protection under the law” so Ilhan Omar’s brother-husband can’t just have you decapitated in the school library with impunity, stay nice and traditional.
As a block 80% of you guys keep voting for the dumbfucks who enable the assholes who want to MURDER YOU. Stop voting for that shit!
https://monsterhunternation.com/2023/11/17/facebook-and-the-j-word/
what an far right rant from ol Larry
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The gesture is great, letting those 2 yahoos wear their baseball caps at the table, particularly on T’bird Day is not. Grandpa, take off your cap! You’re supposed to be the grown-up at the table!
Unforgivable sin
GET THAT COVER OFF YOUR GRAPE!
* Thanks MCRD San Diego for making me think that every single time I see someone inside with a cap on
Shockingly, the computer doesn’t have a middle finger emoji.
.|.. ..|.
An Aggie does not lie cheat or steal…unless it’s the hat off of someone’s head inside the student union. That doesn’t count as stealing.
No one at UCDavis would do such a thing!
Video of the fly in the Missouri man
Such an underrated movie and I could actually tolerate Julianne Moore in.
Sabine Hossenfelder
@skdh
40% of U.S. adults think they know more about climate change than climate scientists.
https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1727200004081918316
I like her videos this is a sad statement.
I want to believe I can change her.
There are of course two distinct issues – one is science and the other is not. One side conflates the two, constantly.
Science is not apocalyptic.
Sez you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgnjdW-x7mQ
Things that happened before humans even existed and things that might happen when humans are long gone; those are of little concern to humans today – except to fulfill certain psychological needs.
Well Sabine, apparently they do. They dont have a financial incentive to lie their asses off.
Yeah, 40% of U.S. adults know that 95% of climate scientists are full of shit.
… And another 14% don’t have faith in the experts.
Confess your sins, let faith in Science! Into your heart.
Guess the Settlement Number
No good guys in this video. Assholes all the way down.
‘Said Abdullahi’
He’s brown, so $1 million? Time to check the article.
I played https://squaredle.com 11/22:
*34/34 words (+13 bonus words)
📖 In the top 7% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 3
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/22:
*17/17 words (+5 bonus words)
📖 In the top 13% by bonus words
Daily Quordle 667
3️⃣2️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
Another post about the ancient game. But, I’ve never had a 2 before on quordle. So, best score ever. Lower left was a bitch and was starting to scare me.
Daily Quordle 667
5️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Nice score, kinnath
Yup… I kind of hit my mental quota for word games after doing the squardle so I just haven’t felt like quordle in a while. But here, kinnath — read ’em and laugh in derision:
Daily Quordle 667
5️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
thanks
*sigh* I thought I had the 2 on the top left but I blew that and if I had only used my usual 2nd word I would have got the 2 on the top right instead.
Daily Quordle 667
3️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Daily Quordle 664
4️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣7️⃣
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Wow! Great score and great start!
Got busy trying to finish up some work stuff before the break, forgot to post…
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/22:
*17/17 words
🎯 In the top 16% by accuracy
I played https://squaredle.com 11/22:
*34/34 words (+1 bonus word)
🎯 In the top 6% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 115
I played https://squaredle.com 11/22:
*34/34 words (+5 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 6% by accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 33
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 11/22:
*17/17 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 In the top 16% by accuracy
Not often you get conspiracists directly admitting to it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Everton/s/SX3E4bVIhx
Sorry for reddit link, but the atlantic is paywalled.
Man City and Chelsea arent getting shit done to them.
I mean sportsball who cares
Aren’t both of those soccer teams, not sportsball teams?
they are football teams so a sport with ball
Well they aren’t AFC teams or NFC teams, so are you talking about the CFL?
you are obviously confused you should take a rest day and recover
It’s Chelsea, so LFL maybe?
Everton is the enemy but this is bullshit.
Wonder if EFC can take this to CAS?
George Eaton
@georgeeaton
The Autumn Statement debate has revolved around tax cuts but only 8% of voters want lower taxes and lower spending.
Luke Tryl
@LukeTryl
The problem with this type of question is that while people say they’d rather have higher taxes and more spending they also overwhelmingly say they personally don’t want to pay higher taxes themselves.
https://twitter.com/LukeTryl/status/1727254564141961575
off course
Margaret Thatcher’s statement that the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money comes to mind.
“I wanted everyone to have healthcare, I just didn’t know I was going to pay for it.”
– CA couple that supported Obamacare after receiving their post-obamacare insurance bill.
I should also add that I feel confident that those numbers are lies. People like that certainly exist but not in those numbers.
Today someone learned the difference between stated and revealed preferences, and then promptly forgot about it.
With collectivists, it is ALWAYS about OTHER PEOPLE’S money…
Where’s my .40 cal peeps at?
https://aimsurplus.com/products/winchester-ranger-40-s-w-180grn-bonded-jhp-ra40b-50rd-box
$19.95/50 for premium self defense ammo.
*points to avatar*
https://www.luckygunner.com/winchester-40-s-w-ammo-for-sale-40sw180jhpwinrangerq4355-50#geltest
.40 cal is lame
Would you be happier just calling it 10mm?
it would certainly be more scientific
Fine. Henceforth let .40 be known as 10mm short.
Don’t be rediculous.
If we’re renaming anything, the 10mm is to be the .40 Long
10mm kurz, killing implements just sound more badass in German for some reason.
The 10mm moniker is taken by a cartridge of a different length.
No. 10mm auto is a different animal. Why have a 40 when you can have a 45 or 10mm?
The 40 is like a 16 gauge. Kicks like the more powerful round, shoots like the less powerful round.
The Animal signal has been lit.
the only real answer to guns is Desert Eagle .50
And we have someone who doesn’t understand shotguns.
I bet they prefer Smith and Wesson to Colt, too.
10mmKurtz.
So, what is your caliber of choice for self defense?
a real man does not need guns
What are you going to use to keep the Gypsies from stealing your kids?
Wolfhounds?
Good idea, the all-laser armament means no need to keep stealable ammo stockpiles around.
A pointy stick.
I forgot, your strategy is to turn into a bat and fly away.
His double-strength energy drain is a BFD.
“a real man does not need guns”
~1500 Jews look down over the edge of their clouds and ask “What did he just say?”
they obviously did not know aikido
I didn’t know aikido made you bullet proof.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245803/
you did not watch enough Steven Seagal movies in your youth
Isn’t he that comedian who got sucked out of the airplane in Executive Decision?
As the owner of a Sig P226 in .40 cal, I can assure you it is not lame.
It’s definitely more painful when someone pops one off indoors.
Yeah? Try anything 32 caliber. The wavelengths of gunfire are heavily dependent on caliber.
For some reason the 32s – 32H&R mag, 327 Fed Mag, 30 carbine, 30 Luger, 30 Tokerev – make the awfullest crack.
My exposure to this has been shooting IDPA indoors — I need to switch to my snowblower earpro when someone’s using .40 instead of 9mm.
The concussion from .223 and (especially) .308 when there are barricades is also kind of painful. .45 and 9mm major isn’t nearly as bad. I’m pretty sure it’s soley dependent on chamber pressure and case volume.
I will say however that the microphone in the Howard Leigh earpro is especially sensitive to/good at amplifying ATV engine noise.
I wasn’t referring to noise level, only wavelength. I dont wear protection for any caliber except the 32s. They feel like icepicks in my ears. The other calibers, even 44 mag, dont bother me.
Most of those are either magnum or bottle neck cartridges and shoot at supersonic levels of bullet speed. Of course you are gonna hear a crack.
I do know a .30 luger will punch through steel plate, as I got in trouble at a range for it once.
Re: perfortating steel, this guy has a youtube channel dedicated to it:
https://www.youtube.com/@bananaballistics
RE hostages. I heard an apocryphal story once about a PLO splinter group having taken a few back in Lebanon in the seventies. They took an American, and the CIA negotiated a cash payment for the return, and it all worked out in the end. This got the PLO group all excited, so they took a Russian hostage, thinking the same thing would happen. Well, the KGB did a little research, found out the nephew of one of the PLO heads was living in a town in Syria or someplace, proceeded to kidnap him, cut his dick off and deliver him to the PLO organization in Russia, who funded the whole project.
The Russian was returned the next day, unscathed.
Yeah, Middle East terrorist-types learned in the 70s/80s not to mess with Soviets when their operatives quietly showed up dead around town in dumpsters.
“Galileo’s defense of heliocentrism is rehashed in modern textbooks, albeit not entirely accurately. Although the Church ultimately sentenced Galileo, his persecution was driven primarily by Aristotelian professors who appealed to the Church’s authority to punish him. In 1591, Galileo’s contract was not renewed at University of Pisa, and after enduring hostility from peer professors, he left academia, apparently viewing it as hopelessly unscientific.”
https://twitter.com/P_J_Buckhaults/status/1726901961809637506
Scientific Method rose and fell along with the Enlightenment and the rest of Western Civilization.
Science advances one death at a time.
Look, let’s not get carried away. The Holy See admitted Galileo was right … in 1992.
So that means that the WHO will admit that their Rona Response might not have been perfect in 2401.
‘The Church finally admitted he was right in the 19th century.’
Yanis Varoufakis
@yanisvaroufakis
Like in every other political philosophy, there are many different views within it. But Nozick was the archetypal anarcho-libertarian / anarcho-capitalist…
https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1726615308801331656
Funny thing is later Nozick found himself quite unimpressed with his younger self. He didn’t quite recant the book, but he did highly qualify it.
Automated email: “Please complete performance evaluation for [Retiring Employee].”
Me to HR: “[Employee] is retiring and is no longer in the office.”
HR: “Please complete performance evaluation for [Employee] anyway.”
*headdesk*
He done real good.
Well in our case management complains if no one gets a bad review so give him bad review for the statistics of it.
^this
Then you can give a good review to someone who deserves it. :p
“We’re happy he’s gone.”
*meets expectations*
*work product not valuable*
*never late*
*has not demonstrated company values*
*is not a valued member of his team*
*does not cause trouble with his coworkers*
*has not completed required DEI trainings*
The worst part is that the performance evaluation plan requires a detailed narrative, including one for the goals and objectives for the next evaluation period.
I am not doing that crap for someone who’s already not coming back and is only officially on the books because there’s a lot of leave to burn through.
Oh, and the evaluation and plan have to be reviewed with the employee, and signed by them.
I am not dragging someone back to the office for pointless paperwork. It literally will have zero impact on anything in the process at this point. They only matter if I’m trying to get someone fired and need a paper trail showing attempts to rectify problem behaviors.
Goals and objectives – keep the lawn mowed and garden watered and never coming back to this craphole again.
“That’s out of title work, [Employee] is an IT Specialist, not a Tree Pruner.”
You can’t work something out where he gets a crap rating and you get credit for him leaving the company?
Agency.
This is a State Agency, and retirement papers have already been filled, with no paper trail of past behaviors to indicate any other reason for separation.
And there’s no ‘credit’ for pruning the bad apples, just months or years of more paperwork as they appeal the termination.
You could always leave the civil service yourself.
Who’s going to overpay me to argue with you then?
It is like an exit interview.
Totally useless.
OMG, that happened here too. He just freakin’ retired. He’s not on a pension or anything. Thankfully it was resolved by IT, who removed him from all systems. Ha! No way to do his evaluation now!
He’s no longer here, and it’s well deserved.
The Government Burned Through $7.5 Trillion Post-COVID
Chump change. This is no time for your crazy, far-right austerity measures. We have a revenue problem, not a spending problem and we need to hire 100,000 more IRS agents to solve it.
No matter how much money these fuckers are pissing away, the answer is never for them to cut spending..
$583B in new debt so far this year but just wait until the spending multiplier from investments in Ukrainian government employees kicks in.
Israel, Hamas agree to temporary cease-fire, hostage release deal including freeing 3 Americans
Bs. Should be more like “Release all of the hostages or we will keep killing you.”
As if Hamas has ever adhered to a ceasefire.
Biden using wartime powers to expand green agenda raises concerns of overreach
We have always been at war with the climate.
Jan 6 Footage Shows Capitol Police Officers Firing Rubber Bullets at Peaceful Protesters
This was known the day of and after. They provoked the crowd.
Psychotherapy is hardly any more effective than a placebo sugar pill.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1727191894017654977
I find it helpful for someone to point out to me I was not the asshole in any given situation that caused me trauma. Getting an outsider’s verdict on my cringe (“everybody’s done that”) is, indeed, helpful.
Some Dems Quietly Push for “Bubble Wrap” Strategy To Protect Biden During Campaign
The less he says the better, probably.
His latest performances are beyond pathetic.
The left, like it always does, has painted itself into a corner with their absurd extremism.
Yet he will “win” handily in a properly fortified election.
There are apparently some Democrats who don’t know how to fortify.
They need to learn from Loudoun County, which reportedly had 100% turnout.
Which turns out to have been a bad hot-take. Imagine that.
How does the secretary of state vote?
That is a better indication of fraud than anything right now.
In Mississippi? Apparently “R”.
Federal Court Finds Maryland’s Handgun License Law Unconstitutional
Gun control, in the general sense, is unconstitutional.
Women who use cannabis are twice as likely to orgasm during sex, probably because the weed calms the amygdala and increases openness to altered states of consciousness.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1725810825175126254
…I can confirm this.
‘Tis true.
I can’t, never had a problem. *Shrug*
The Quaaludes would always kick in first?
I was already going to vote for him. You don’t have to sell it to me.
Morning Joe fear mongering reaches ALL-NEW insane heights:
“He is running to end American democracy as we know it…
“[Trump] will imprison, he will execute whoever he’s allowed to imprison, execute, uh uh uh drive from the country. Just look at his past. It’s not really hard to read.”
AL SHARPTON: “No doubt about it.”
Look at his past? What alternate universe do they live in? Trump did none of those things, and even gave Hillary’s criminality a pass because he thought it would set a bad precedent to go after a political opponent.
The guy has absolutely no bloodlust at all – which of course is why they hate him as President. Not killing people around the world is just so unpresidential!
If anyone is fascistic, it is Biden (and every Dem these days). But Orange Man Bad.
What alternate universe do they live in?
It’s propaganda and progjection all the way down.
It is just so severe, and so contrary to actual examples of his behavior. It really shows how easy it is to believe 1+1=3.
I hope they spend all night up worrying that they might be somehow held accountable for all their propaganda and lies.
what would have to be on the other side for you to cross this?
https://twitter.com/RlCKYRAGE/status/1725936420332920934
Is that the Poon Tang river?
Good answer.
I’m not asking you to conform. Rather I am saying that there isn’t any room for anyone but geeks in engineering departments, especially high end ones.
This situation does not appear to be related to ability or interest but because all the nerds have gotten together and created a social environment in the engineering departments that excludes everyone else.
To illustrate, I will meet these high achieving young women with top grades in advanced math and science classes and the very top math scores. At times, they are the smartest person in their high school class or one of the smartest. Yet, they check out of engineering immediately because they don’t feel comfortable with the social environment. Meanwhile, less smart geeks in the same high school class will go on to major in engineering and do fine, which means the women (and the more sociable men) would have done fine as well. But they all left due to the environment in the college engineering department.
If you read through the responses to my post, almost all from anonymous male nerds, the reactions are largely about how they don’t want to do anything to accommodate women.
https://twitter.com/ChristineHillCo/status/1726685859817107770
there are few women engineers because nerds are icky
I have met plenty of nerdy women. You know what they have in common – not demanding that the world change to accommodate them.
Define ‘accommodate’.
hide the nerds obviously
“Christine Hill
@ChristineHillCo
Have you ever been to a college engineering department?
Way back when, I remember getting a note from MIT encouraging me to apply. Everyone was dressed like a geek with their pants on backward, walking down the infinite corridor staring at their shoes. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
Instead of chasing the women out by creating an environment that makes them feel uncomfortable, colleges could instead think of how to create spaces in engineering departments for women and other people with basic social skills. “
“People with basic social skills” at that age are not engineering material. You need thinkers, not talkers. You can teach someone to talk, but you can’t teach them to think.
Perhaps if you dated the nerds in high school they’d be socialized by college.
I have an idea: make engineering colleges just for women and just for men. Do that to all schools really.
Then they’ll screech about how the women’s schools are less prestigious and have less cachet, and how they should just kick the men out entirely instead.
I don’t accept her premise that all engineers are nerds. That said, of you find that the work environment isn’t good for you for such nebulous reasons as the culture there, leaving actually abuse it discrimination, that just means you don’t belong in that field.
Salaries for engineers are actually rising which is why there is such a push to get more people (especially women) into it. Employers don’t want to pay, it’s that simple.
She is a graduate of journalism school. I do not accept any of her premises or her conclusion.
Well I’ll admit that the first couple weeks of class in the fall are similar to watching salmon try to swim past the bears up in Alaska.
The semester starts with a ton of freshmen women who want to major in engineering. The upper class guys who are still in engineering swoop in and try to grab as many as they can before they wise up.
Just before the drop date, the halls of the engineering building would all of a sudden be just as bereft of women as before. It wasn’t because of the older guys hitting on women either. Mostly it was because the freshwomen(?) would figure out that you have to study and do a lot of homework for engineering classes. It is hard. They would look at their room mate who is majoring in English who is getting good grades despite having no homework and partying every night.
* A lot of freshmen also drop out of engineering at the same time for the same reason. Classes are hard and you have to work at them.
When I was getting my EE degree my study group was almost all married people. Including Kim a very attractive gal who, when we first met, said “You are married aren’t you? I can tell because all you married guys dress stupid and won’t share homework answers with me.”
It was pretty funny how the single guys had no immunity to Kim. If we couldn’t figure out a problem, you could be sure the guys in other study groups would tell us to get bent if we asked how they figured it out. But send Kim over and they’d cough up everything in 5 minutes.
I’m not sure if I have told this story before, but my favorite Kim story was when we had a lecture on Ethics in Engineering (mandated by the state). The prof was giving his spiel and said that as an engineer you weren’t supposed to take gifts or free dinners from clients.
Kim blurted out, “What? Fine as I am, I haven’t paid for a dinner since I was 13. I’m not starting now!”.
Everyone laughed, the prof decided discretion was the better part of valor and moved on.
If you locked her in a room with a problem, and no way of getting someone else to do the work, did she learn enough to solve it?
Yes, she was pretty sharp. When we graduated, she got the best job offer. Smart, pretty and black was irresistible to employers.
And that anecdote pushed me over to “I severely dislike this woman”.
Go back to liking her. She was well aware of the advantage she had.
She would have been a good Glib.
I decline. I dislike that attitude.
I actually went to a university without an engineering department. Comp Sci was taught out of the math department. The students were about 90% computer information systems and 10% computers science. There were lots of women but they were all in the CIS track not the CS track.
Just maybe, engineering is about more than smarts.
I thought I was going to be an architect – I had the brains and the interest. I did not have the drive or the will.
USG is assho.
Wow! Soldier leaving the army blasts the Biden admin and the state of the military. Claims he’s being charged close to $4,000 for gear he was INSTRUCTED to leave in Afghanistan during Biden’s disastrous withdrawal.
This is seriously fucked up if true.
I believe it.
The people who levy the fines for unreturned gear will follow their documented procedure, so even if it was left behind in response to an ill-advised but lawful order, the soldier will still get fined for not returning it.
Meh, just not enough info to have an opinion one way or the other. Is the military capable of this? Yep. Is a separating member capable of being a fuckup and trying to shift his lack of situational awareness? Yep.
Many years ago, over 50, I was the surveying officer in Viet Nam on cases of lost equipment. I never, ever charged a individual GI with responsibility. Combat loss, gave his rifle to a sergeant as he was being medevacced, truck abandoned in the mud. I could always find extenuating circumstances as to the disappearance of equipment.
I would have found that individual free of any and all responsibility. “Just following orders, Sir”
I’ll be interested to see if this blossoms into multiple cases, or if this is the only one. That will be telling.
Screw you, dirty American.
The influx of migrants is being felt in one Queens neighborhood, where NYCHA tenants find themselves fighting over food with the newly arrived asylum seekers.
“We do we have to take the butt of everything,” said Georgia Butler, a Queensbridge Houses resident. “This community is already suffering.” …
“They were first on line for the turkeys this morning,” Butler said. “They tell you to be there at 11 o’clock. You get there at like 10:30, 10:45, but they are already out there. The line is from over there it’s over here.”
Free food giveaways, especially during the holidays, have become a source of tension between long-time New Yorkers struggling to get by and newly arrived migrants who are using the system to survive.
What fowl behavior.
But the “migrants” didn’t come here for the free shit.
So early birds got the worms?
Quite the feather in their cap to be first in line
They needed to wattle over there faster.
Early worms got the bird.
👏
It would be fairer/more random if they just dropped them from a helicopter, like they do with cash, yes?:
As god is my witness . . . . .
I think we need to pinion this down a little better.
No good guys in that story.
Newly arrived “migrants” are already getting three squares. And the unfortunates trapped in public housing are almost certainly getting food stamps and other benefits to spend on groceries.
This theater over “food giveaways” is just performance art.
The only thing the illegal aliens deserve is a one-way flight back home.
They’re only migrants if we keep letting them stay where they have no right to be.
They walked here. Put ’em over the border and let them walk back.
Across the border to vie for more free shit?
No thanks. Send them as far from us as we can.
And most didn’t walk here, they got NGO busses.
The lack of curiosity about who organizes and executes these mass migrations puzzles me. The answers I know, the lack of curiosity I am not quite sure of.
Contrary to expectations, the correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment has weakened over time
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1727316994767368377
this is exactly according to expectations. everyone gets a degree
This is where we pretend an Ed. D. and a PhD in Physical Chemistry are the same, yes?
I don’t.
I assume these days most doctorates are not of the rigorous intellectual kind, but of a sort awarded to people unable to escape academia and get a productive job.
These people are not very bright bulbs.
Whose expectations?
Not Adan – My father and brother both have Eng. degrees. They both claim having a PhD makes one unemployable in their respective fields (metallurgical and civil E)
It tends to do that in any profession, because nobody in private sector can afford you.
We have a few PhDs running around here. They tend to gather in R&D.
Yeah, if you go that route, you’re announcing “I’d rather teach engineering than do it.”
I am such an idiot. I woke up late, starting commenting on last night’s Thanksgiving post. Didn’t even realize I was on last night’s post for an hour.
there are worse things that can happen
I once turned on my pc after a week and began absent- mindedy posting on a four day old post. I guess when the apocalypse happens I can carry on conversations on old posts indefinitely.
Back in the old days at TOS, some commenting miscreant (can’t remember who) turned a stale comment section into his own blog for a couple of weeks.
I thought the whole point of commenting was the back and forth with the other members of the commentariat.
I guess there are a brave few who view it as performance art.
Now I’m reminiscing about Agile Cyborg.
+ galactic wasp nipples leaking venom
To what end? No one reads them. That is just shouting into the void.
I sometimes use old posts to test out an html code to make sure it works the way I want it to.
And this comment is in an old post, too, of course 🙂
I think most people, on a fundamental, visceral level, realize firehosing trillions of dollars conjured out of thin air into the economy is a bad idea, and that’s why they think the economy is terrible and they don’t trust Biden to be anywhere near the controls. Eventually, you run out of checks, and the legbreakers show up at your front door.
I think most people have no idea that printing money will lead to inflation.
Just got a text from IT Lady saying how much she’s looking forward to learning to shoot this holiday weekend.
*twitterpation ensues*
Special session, or are you dragging her to winter steel?
Getting her to the point where she won’t endanger anyone at Winter Steel.
Wise move. I keep forgetting how many people don’t already know the basics.
I have become of the opinion that after one’s formative years – 8 to 15 years – if one hasn’t learned the basics by then the basics simply will not become instinctive. I am somewhat uncomfortable around such people. So far all of the males in my family began learning around the age of 4. By the age of 8 or 10 it was something we didn’t even have to think about.
I remember the stunned look on a gun store employees face once when I asked to see a Kimber 1911. He handed it to me, I handed it casually to my son (age 8) and he handled the gun as familiarly and safely as a seasoned pro. He opened the action, checked to make sure it was not loaded, closed the action, dropped the mag out, reinserted it, careful not to point at anyone at any time. We put a snap cap in and he tried the trigger.
“Dad, this or the Smith, which do you recommend? This trigger is as good as the Smith.”
The clerk was mesmerized the whole time. He could barely believe what he was seeing. “You taught him that?”
“Yes Sir, I did. I bet he is a better shot than most cops by more than a little bit.”
“I believe. you.”
Had I had a daughter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BIq75BEAI
I held a pistol for the first time about 6 years ago.
I did fire a shotgun at boy scout camp more than 5 decades ago. But that doesn’t count.
I am sorry. You are not alone. I blame parents.
I shot my first gun when I was 4. My brother and I learned to shoot on the banks of the Gila River in Southern AZ 55 years ago. We weren’t raised Jewish, Catholic or Protestant. We were raised Gun Safety and ended our prayers with ….and God Bless John Browning. My sixth grade teacher encouraged me to form a gun club with the other kids, which I did. He even encouraged us by giving us his copy of Hatcher’s notebook to read.
It was a very different time.
For me, less than four years ago.
I suspect suthen is right about instincts, but I plan to practice as much as possible, just in case.
I strongly encourage. you to do so.
Noice!
Excellent
Now I’m invested.
What an asshole
A former Obama-era National Security Council official has been captured in a series of videos using hate-laden and Islamophobic language to taunt a New York City food cart vendor.
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Seldowitz also makes derogatory comments about the Prophet Mohammed, ridiculing Islam, which he appears to believe is the vendor’s religion.
When asked via email for additional comment on the videos, Seldowitz said, “Happy to talk (Wednesday). What was absent from the video is what (the vendor) said before the video.”
Seldowitz, 64, told the Daily Beast that while he started up the conversation with the food vendor about current affairs, the video clips only show one side of the story. He told the outlet the vendor instigated the interaction by allegedly expressing his support for Hamas.
The former official also told City & State, “I regret the whole thing happened and I’m sorry.” He added, “But you know, in the heat of the moment, I said things that probably I shouldn’t have said.”
Doesn’t this moron have anything better to do?
What’s that? A dem is racist? This is my shocked face. 😐
“Some Dems Quietly Push for “Bubble Wrap” Strategy To Protect Biden During Campaign”
Wasn’t that the (successful) strategy during the 2020 campaign?
Yes. Biden just needs to shut up and sit down and win the election. Sadly that strategy works for a lot of dems, because the repubs are fucking morons who delight in sticking feet in mouth.
For 2020, they were still using the fear of COVID so locking him away and all that. For this one I think its shut him up cause voters might actually listen to him.
She dropped it like a hot rock
On Friday, a Colorado court delivered its anticipated ruling on whether former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for a second presidential term. The court had been asked to consider whether Trump could be excluded from future political office based on his involvement in the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, an argument that has gained traction after a pair of conservative legal scholars wrote an influential law-review article on it in August. Reading the Colorado court’s ruling, on the other hand, is like watching DeSean Jackson catch a spectacular pass for what would have been a game-winning touchdown, then throw away the ball one step before crossing the goal line.
A group of Colorado voters sued the state’s secretary of state earlier this fall, arguing that Colorado was obligated to remove Trump from the presidential primary ballot. They argued that his role in the aforementioned attacks on the Capitol, as well as the events leading up to it, fell under the Fourteenth Amendment’s disqualification provisions in Section Three. Trump later intervened in the lawsuit to defend himself and his actions.
Judge Sarah Wallace sided with the voters at every single step of the lawsuit. Then she decided not to cross the goal line. “The Court holds there is scant direct evidence regarding whether the Presidency is one of the positions subject to disqualification,” she wrote, referring to the offices listed in Section Three. As a result, she concluded that Trump must stay on the ballot and the lawsuit must be dismissed.
I don’t think there is any doubt her opinion was addressed directly to the appeals court. She wanted nothing more than to hand that ticking bomb off to somebody else.
Virtue signalled. Ass covered. 🙄
The idea that someone can be punished for insurrection without first having been convicted of insurrection should get laughed out of court, and the attorneys who brought the case sanctioned.
I do wonder about the standing of the voters. What injury do they suffer unless Trump wins the state?
But muh voters
A voter-approved Oregon gun control law violates the state constitution, a judge ruled Tuesday, continuing to block it from taking effect and casting fresh doubt over the future of the embattled measure.
The law, one of the toughest in the nation, was among the first gun restrictions to be passed after a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year changed the guidance judges are expected to follow when considering Second Amendment cases.
Constitution? We don’ need no steenkin constitution.
I do wonder about the standing of the voters. What injury do they suffer unless Trump wins the state?
They will be bombarded by constant reminders that not everyone fears and despises the Cartoon Villain. That will intolerable.