These links today might be a bit….hasty. Turns out we decided to head out of town for a couple days so I am completing this task obscenely early because I get up at 0608 out of habit, Next up: Home Depot!
¡Enlaces!
Same old story, a call for negotiations to end the migrant crisis. The demands coming from AMLO however seem to suggest neither side is actually serious.
….but wait, there’s more! //Billy Mays
Meanwhile in Cuba, issues with tourism and farm productivity left the government with a choice between raising prices or reducing rations.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of Milei news but the trouble is the narrative machine resembles AA in Baghdad during the Gulf War. Protests began in earnest due to what the BBC for some reason is calling austerity measures.
Milei responded by declaring groups organizing protests will cover security costs and damages occurring due to their protests. How will they do that? They added dye to their crowd control water cannons, commies smurfs get the rope.
The fun part for you Bitcoin maxis and Peter Schiff types, they removed currency restrictions that previously kept the Argentine Peso artificially high. Not to worry, they will allow all business contracts to be completed under any medium of exchange. Including milk. In spite of all this, they still paid their last IMF installment on time—without going through a currency swap scheme with China.
This seems like an early 90’s day. Here’s a tune from back then.
Happy Boxing Day!!
How bout that — I didn’t even take a jab at going out today to spar with the crowds.
Everyone has a holiday plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Eight minutes after 6 AM?
I know, right! Sleeping in, what a luxury.
I was already working by then.
America could end the “crisis” on its own by just securing its own border. Crazy talk, I know.
You’re not the first to think that way, that’s for certain.
And, just to make border security a bit easier we do some negotiation. The starting point – we close the border with Mexico until they end their obvious facilitation of mass migration.
How about prosecuting the NGOs facilitating illegal migration, and charging them for the care and transport of migrants back to where they came from. Sounds like something a serious country would do.
“Meanwhile in Cuba, issues with tourism and farm productivity left the government with a choice between raising prices or reducing rations.”
For some inexplicable reason this wasn’t an issue between 1902 and 1959.
Capitalism rendered them too poor to afford rations.
“Not to worry, they will allow all business contracts to be completed under any medium of exchange. Including milk.”
No use in crying.
Sounds like the kind of contract terms just pulled right out of their butts — in the dairy air.
I only skimmed the article, but I didn’t see much fat there.
I only skimmed the article
The whole article?
Just 2%.
DAMMIT!
Just whey too slow, there, UnCiv.
Don’t have a cow, man.
Can you give it to me in raw numbers?
Y’all are just milking it now.
Well, 2% of it.
Security costs for the demonstration reached 60m pesos (£59,000; $75,000) and the “bill [would] be sent to the social movements”, a spokesman said.
That’s not even real money. I doubt George Soros will notice.
Being on the dole comes with strings attached? Works for me.
The look in those glazys.
One might think, looking at the herds of migratory foreigners traipsing the length and breadth of Mexico, it would be a burden for the country and the people. And yet, we hear nothing bout it.
It would be a burden if it wasn’t fully funded by Soros and his ilk. Instead it’s a lucrative grift for their politicians.
Interview with Gourmeltz’s owner.
Go fuck yourself, señor.
a choice between raising prices or reducing rations.
Something something congratulations, comrade, your chocolate ration has been increased.
Argentina is battling soaring inflation, with prices rising by around 150% over the last year. It is also struggling with low cash reserves and high government debt, while 40% of the population live below the poverty line.
They just love to throw that “statistic” in there any time the opportunity presents itself.
Spoiler alert: the Peronists have impoverished the nation.
If everyone is poor, no one is poor.
All they need to do is nudge those 60% a bit lower…
“Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company’s Texas factory during violent malfunction – leaving ‘trail of blood’ and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12869629/Tesla-robot-ATTACKS-engineer-companys-Texas-factory-violent-malfunction-leaving-trail-blood-forcing-workers-hit-emergency-shutdown-button.html
I work for Dick Jones!
Too bad it couldn’t ATTACK the Swedish union agitators.
https://youtu.be/Y8qpMY6RiZE
“EXCLUSIVE: Here’s What They’re Teaching In The Naval Academy’s Gender And Sexuality Class
“Most of the faculty, students, and topics of study in early Women’s Studies programs were limited by being White, middleclass, women,” the female instructor, whose name is redacted but who appears to have served as Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences during that semester, wrote in the course description.
“In the 2000’s, some Women’s Studies Departments renamed themselves Gender and Sexuality Studies in order to better reflect Women’s Studies’ growing interest in exploring Queer Theory, Masculinity Studies, Intersectionality, race, and class. Women’s Studies Programs are feminist at their hearts; Gender and Sexuality Studies Programs are not, and in fact, might even reject feminism for its original focus on White middleclass women.”
Students begin the class by performing a land acknowledgement, the syllabus shows….”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/25/navy-gender-sexuality-class/
Seriously, WTF??
Nuke it from orbit.
No one knows how. They were all too busy learning Chicana Studies.
What you expect? Classes on navigation, seamanship, and watchstanding?
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash?
Sounds like they have the second one covered.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12901185/lauren-sanchez-jeff-bezos-christmas-walk-miami.html
Curious. It was 74°F.
We are going to lose the next major war for so many reasons.
Reply to your last comment. Not due to the oligarch’s nipply girlfriend.
I still liked it.
Is it just me, or is her left nipple kind of . . . displaced?
Breasts are rarely exactly symmetrical.
* shrugs *
Some men never learn.
Bezos, apparently, is one of those men.
If Milei ends export restrictions, evil capitalists will sell all the food to foreigners, and the people will starve.
Solving the poverty problem!
“Earlier she had walked into her local police station with her brother and told them: ‘Good evening, officer, I came to introduce myself, because I just cut off my husband’s penis.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12901191/Brazilian-woman-34-cuts-husbands-penis-flushes-toilet-39-year-old-bedded-15-year-old-niece.html
Hey João, we got a form for that?
Was he not supposed to do that? All in the Family
New Remy
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/2883/porn-star-martini
Stop calling every fucking cocktail a martini. A martini is gin and dry vermouth. Vodka is OK as long as you are wearing a white dinner jacket. Otherwise, knock it off.
Looks like someone could use an appletini.
Calling dessert drinks served in cocktail glasses “martinis” is a stupid trend, but I don’t see it ending any time soon.
Vodka is ok regardless of one’s jacket, or lack thereof. However,
vodka and dry vermouth isn’t a martini under any dinner wear regime,
it’s still a kangaroo.
“Voters describe their 2024 choice between a Trump second term and a Biden second term as a choice between REVENGE or NOTHING in Daily Mail poll”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12890411/Voters-2024-choice-Trump-second-term-Biden-second-term-choice-REVENGE-Daily-Mail-poll.html
What is best in life?
A good cigar and scotch on a fine fall evening?
They think the handlers of whoever replaces Biden don’t have plans to fuck with us even more? How naive.
One more reason to not go watch the VIkes
The vision for the stadium is to turn it into a stupid example of security theater? And I have to pay for it?
“Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority”
Nice work if you can get it.
If someone is driving a 15000lb vehicle at 50mph towards the stadium, I’d more more concerned about the contents than the vehicle itself.
How you provide enhanced security without restricting access and movement is an exercise for the reader, I suppose.
Cancel all events.
Bam, secured facility, no disruption of movement.
The 9/11 foreign terrorists enabled the domestic terrorists to win. And I don’t see how we will ever defeat them because “if it saves even one life….”
But what about blimps?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_(1977_film)
Plus ça change!
Jeebus, don’t give them ideas.
46 years ago.
Nothing has changed.
Certainly not in aviation!
Horrific existential threat
That’s because the US Department of Energy (DoE) must decide whether to stop rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth, the buildout of natural gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico. So far they have granted every export license anyone has requested, and as a result the US has become the biggest gas exporter on planet earth. If they keep it up, the veteran energy analyst Jeremy Symons says that before long US liquefied natural gas exports will produce more greenhouse gases than everything that happens on the continent of Europe.
They should have stopped long ago – in part because of the damage these giant terminals are doing to the people, the fish and the air of Louisiana and Texas. But if the DoE keeps approving these licenses now, it will fly in the face of their promise in Dubai. “Transitioning away from fossil fuels” doesn’t mean stopping all use of coal, gas and oil tomorrow; sadly, that’s impossible. But it clearly means not building new infrastructure to expand the production and sale of hydrocarbons.
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When you live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce power is pointing a sheet of glass at the sun, filling a tanker with liquefied natural gas and shipping it halfway around the world is archaic. It’s also ruinous: new data from the Cornell scientist Bob Howarth this fall showed that these ships leak so much methane that it’s far worse for the climate even than exporting coal.
Solar energy is free. We don’t need natural gas anymore.
“When you live on a planet where the cheapest way to produce power is pointing a sheet of glass at the sun”
SCIENCE!!!!!
They left a “don’t” out of that pile of horseshite.
Citation:
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
Oh, and this is just such a treat. Word-salad for the 1st course.
Simulation and Lessons Learned from the Ivanpah Solar Plant Project
I do love how its “the project” after being fully funded.
Related: “This will be the last year that he and his family harvests corn. But Welker will still be a farmer — he’s going to farm the sun. ”
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2021/11/09/indiana-solar-panel-farm-largest-united-states-doral-renewables-energy-mammoth-starke-county/8529759002/
Sadly, we can’t kill as many people as we would like fast enough.
The death of peaceful protest
The canaries in the coal mine of the right to protest are environmental activists who have blocked roads and bridges, glued themselves to trains, splattered artworks with paint, sprayed buildings with fake blood, doused athletes in orange powder and more to draw attention to the threats posed by climate change.
The protesters, from groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain, argue that civil disobedience is justified by a climate emergency that threatens humanity’s future.
Sunak has called the protesters “selfish” and “ideological zealots,” and the British government has responded to the disruption with laws constraining the right to peaceful protest. Legal changes made in 2022 created a statutory offense of “public nuisance,” punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and gave police more powers to restrict protests judged to be disruptive.
It was followed by the 2023 Public Order Act, which broadened the definition of “serious disruption,” allowing police to search demonstrators for items including locks and glue. It imposes penalties of up to 12 months in prison for protesters who block “key infrastructure,” defined widely to include roads and bridges.
The government said it was acting to “protect the law-abiding majority’s right to go about their daily lives.” But Parliament’s cross-party Joint Human Rights Committee warned that the changes would have “a chilling effect on the right to protest.”
It’s fascist oppression, it is.
right to protest.
I am fucking tired of this.
You have no right to take hostages for political purposes.
Especially when only certain protests are acceptable. Protest mass immigration, and the Grauniad and the entire political class will have an extreme freakout.
“blocked roads and bridges, glued themselves to trains, splattered artworks with paint, sprayed buildings with fake blood, doused athletes in orange powder”
I don’t think any of those qualify as “peaceful” protests.
I’m tried of people asking to see my Penis.
That would be a first.
The laughter would last a long time.
You also said “faggots make me puke”.
Thats when I told you to stop trying to deep throat.
Many legal and constitutional experts say the treatment of protesters is just one symptom of an increasingly reckless attitude toward Britain’s democratic structures that has been fueled by Brexit.
Speech is properly the jurisdiction of the Wise Bureaucrats in Brussels.
In Britain’s system, Parliament is meant to act as a bulwark against executive overreach. But in recent years, the government has given lawmakers less and less time to scrutinize legislation. Because the Conservative government has a large House of Commons majority, it can push bills through after perfunctory time for debate. Many laws are passed in skeleton form, with the detail filled in later through what’s known as secondary legislation, which does not receive the full parliamentary scrutiny given to a bill.
The majority running roughshod over the minority? What a shameful assault on Democracy.
“In Britain’s system, Parliament is meant to act as a bulwark against executive overreach.”
Maybe a couple of centuries ago, when “executive overreach” meant the King was getting frisky. With the Prime Minister representing the majority in Parliament, I’m not sure where that bulwark is supposed to come from.
Anyone here used privacy[.]com’s virtual credit cards? If so, any thoughts pro or con?
More for Mojeaux
I’ll refrain from sending that one to my husband.
LOL
WRT Milei: man walks down the street with sideburns like that, you know he’s not afraid of anything
My news tells me that:
* Inflation is slowing.
* Cost of living is up, tho.
* So, people are dipping into savings, retirement, and credit cards for basics like food, rent, clothes, gas, utilities.
* Solution: Stop spending money.
Could this be any more asinine?
Most folks won’t change their votes until they get unemployed.
But then the pols will campaign on UBI or increasing/extending unemployment.
“Its not so bad! Vote for me and we’ll push for another 26 weeks!”
Yeah, it could be more asinine. The people who brought this “excellence” to us will still be in power for four more years.
And what’s left of the media will carry water for them.
I brought my financial troubles on myself by getting divorced earlier this year. Went from debt-free to starting over and now paying rent. Not easy but in my case worth it.
But how anybody else who was already living paycheck to paycheck has survived the economy of the past few years is beyond me.
I think Biden really believes his handlers when they tell him the economy is great, so he really is irritated with reporters asking him about it. That man hasn’t had to balance a budget in decades.
He’s also never done an honest days labor. He’s never had bologna for supper because there wasnt anything else in the house. He’s never eaten Top Ramen at work cause it was 20/$10 at the Kroger. He’s never had to make a choice between “with this paycheck do I…a) buy food b)pay the rent c) pay the utilities….et al
Nearly all those crooks that support school lunch and breakfast have never had to use that program. Or had kids that needed to because you cant make ends meet.
I’ve just started reading “The Capitalist Manifesto” by Johan Norberg.
I’ve been a big fan of Johan Norberg’s work (The Real Adam Smith, various “Free to Choose” funded pieces). He’s a fresh face, a Swede (so not an evil American capitalist or conservative).
But getting into the first chapter of the Manifesto, I’m not sure I’m going to be recommending it or agreeing with it. I am skeptical about “globalism”, and also Norberg seems to believe Climate Change is a thing.
We shall see how the rest of it goes…