Heads will roll!
Man, that last game yesterday was a hell of a football game. The other one was not. In fact, the Rams-Lions was the only decent game of the weekend. But it’s always fun to see the Cowboys lose so I won’t say I wasn’t entertained. ManUre and Spuds played to a draw. As did Everton and Villa. Also, the Aussie Open is under way. And that caught me a little off guard. I’ll have to go see who played well in the tune ups and see what I should expect. Now on to…the links!
I bet it killed the writer to type out this piece. You can almost feel the coping and seething the further you get into it.
“Fuck the law!”
More authoritarian bullshit. No legislation, and it’s circumventing a court ruling. But they’ll tell you the fascists are out in Iowa today starting the process of nominating their opponent.
I’m convinced: she’s guilty. After a speech that absurd, I can reach no other conclusion. The only questions now are to determine how deep the corruption goes and if they’ll undermine anything else. And they should.
Not sure he has the authority to do this. But I sure wish whoever does would respect his wishes. It would be nice to cull some dead wood.
Damn, this is rough. I never got the appeal of this activity. I feel bad for their families.
“This just killed an island in Micronesia. Thanks a lot, JOOZ!”
What the fuck is this shit?!?! Oh wait, since it’s about the “climate,” I should have expected it to be retarded.
I’m not so sure how I feel about this. I probably shouldn’t care so long as the hot dog stays unchanged. But it feels like a bit of an end run on keeping their prices low. But it may not matter since I’ve never seen anyone eating a churro there in my entire life.
Yes, yes. Dump a bunch of money into those races! It’ll be as well spent as it was with Beto.
Here’s a super tune. No wonder that dude pulled a supermodel. Here’s another gem. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this freezing ass cold Monday, dear friends.
Jumping from a hot air balloon is a totally different sensation than a typical aircraft. It’s super quiet, no wind noise, no engine noise, etc.
You climb outside the basket and just let go.
Were they really planning to jump or just on a ride? Site won’t let me back on to read further because of my ad blocker.
They had their gear on. Planned event.
So I take that as “Those who were planning to jump, jump. Those who weren’t – were screwed and died when an Unexpected Sudden Deflation Event happened.” I assume they had no chutes or whatnot (and not being a hot air balloon enthusiast — no idea if it is usual to have spare chutes equal to the number of passengers or it just isn’t expected.
(Private browser window seems to fool it into letting me read typically, fyi).
It’s strange to me she wasn’t planning on jumping when she was a skydiving enthusiast.
Maybe more to the story, with do many survivors you’d think they’d have details.
Well, they did toss in:
How dare anyone not be down with International Socialism, the EU taking over their country and unlimited immigration changing their 1000+ year old culture! The rubes! The unwashed hoi polloi! Bow down to your betters, peasants!
Given the free hand to the pro-Hamas protests revealing just how bad things have gotten — they’d better hope there’s a political backlash that changes governments (and they don’t have a suspicious Poland-style election)… because otherwise, there’s only one style of backlash I can think of left — and it will be really, really ugly. Europe still has men who know how to work a lathe if it comes down to it (not to mention smuggling) — even their level of disarmament isn’t permanent… and Europe has historically not been very nice when they really get riled up. I don’t think these Davos-driven morons really want to keep pushing (but they think they can).
Anyway, morning all.
Morning.
What do you mean by this: “suspicious Poland-style election”?
Poland was not on board with EU immigration policies. Not keen on the Ukraine war.
Suddenly an election had a massive turn out and swung to a pro EU party
Said party immediately started arresting prior members of the government, seizing television stations and in general acting like South American left wing dictators.
It screams “fortification and EU driven coup” to me is all.
Hey, if it was good enough for Ukraine, why not Poland?
What — you mean our Intelligence Community (or “theirs”… they’ve blended from what I can tell) that also believes they know better how to run our countries might use their tactics they used against proxies and puppets in the Cold War era against nation states that aren’t toeing their line?
Harumph, harumph! You impugn their honor, Sirrah! I do declare!
You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about if you think Poland wasn’t strongly in favor of defending Ukraine. Remember that they were invaded by Russia and Belarus’ sending a whole bunch of third-world immigrants to invade over the border, so there’s no love for Russia there.
I know you’re going to use PiS’ threat to stop aiding Ukraine if the EU didn’t do something about the transit rules for Ukrainian agricultural goods, but that was more a case of them using one of the few tools they had to try to get the EU to listen, as well as an attempt to shore up support among the agrarian base.
PiS had also lost its Senate majority in the 2019 election, so it wasn’t as if it was this exceedingly popular party that lost in a major upset.
Oh, I remember the Polish F-16s and whatnot, but weren’t they also less keen on taking in Ukranian immigrants and other stuff they disagreed with Brussels on? And I thought they said a couple of times that a negotiated peace made more sense (probably because they were worried Ukraine would collapse and they’d have Russia even more on their borders).
The impression I get is that they see it as an opportunity to upgrade their defense capabilities at a discount, and help the fight against Russia there (ie. Ukraine) so that they don’t have to fight (even if metaphorically) here (ie. Poland).
I also get the impression that there’s less dislike of Ukrainian refugees since they’re not non-European third-worlders trying to bring their shithole anti-Christian cultures to Europe.
I never got the feeling they were against supporting Ukraine, much the opposite, and they’ve taken millions of (real) refugees. The only thing is they weren’t willing to give all their equipment to Ukraine, but that’s eminently reasonable.
As I said above, I got the impression that they were willing to send old equipment to Ukraine — IF — they could get better replacement equipment from the west at a discount.
There are no free lunches.
“they’ve taken in millions of refugees”
Just the hot ones I hope.
Reading that, the EU-skeptics got a plurality of the votes but all the other parties joined forces against it – so it’s not even like the strange union would seem to represent “the will of the people” to any great degree.
Poland seems to be one of many countries divided close to 50-50 on some of the big issues of the day, and both here and in the Public Media Class, when the side we like wins, it’s a mandate, while when the side we agree with loses, the election must have been fraudulent and it’s another sign of the death of liberty.
Slovakia also had elections a few months back, and there, the result was that two anti-establishment socialist parties and an anti-establishment party of the right were able to put together a majority coalition as opposed to the Parties that Like Brussels (and you can guess the rest of the positions). As you might imagine, the Public Media Class had a shitfit. I remember hearing an analyst on Radio Slovakia International’s English service refer to people who voted for the losing side as “civilized voters”. Way to dehumanize people who disagree with you.
Fucking literal vote buying. Hey — if it worked for Governor Hair Gel in the recall, they figure…!
n Hungary and Serbia, recent elections were free but not fair, democracy experts say, because the ruling parties captured the media, the courts and the electoral authorities.
Umm, oh never mind.
Also from the article
“In the Netherlands, long a haven on things like drug use, end-of-life decisions and gender issues, “
And if the new immigrants don’t support these things, then what?
That sounds to me like they’re queuing up their counterstrike like Poland where the EU favorable government got in, and is now declaring the Courts, media, their President and members of the opposition party “captured” and criminal and locking them up. Kulaks and wreckers yet again.
“because the ruling parties captured the media, the courts and the electoral authorities.
Umm, oh never mind.”
Yes, tell us more about the deep state.
Next you’ll tell me the head opposition leader was getting disqualified in unprecedented ways during those elections, that’d be really bad.
That doesn’t set off alarm bells or anything. 🙄
No, I think “She’s a fucking idiot race baiter promoted for DEI and Soros purposes” is still possible, good sir. I do think she’s guilty, too…. and as stated before — it is Fulton County. Corruption should be 100% assumed. Fulton and Dekalb are both cesspools of it.
Next you’ll tell me that you think she should be treated the same regardless of her color. Way to show your true beliefs. And on MLK jr. Day of all days. /S
Because that is a normal activity for people who aren’t about the pull the race card. 🙄
I by no means want the government to do crap to churches — but I have to confess I’m getting a little tired of the pass given to churches on the left to hold overtly political speeches / events when you know the IRS would come down like a ton of bricks (brought in by their FBI informants) if conservative churches did anything like it.
Keep pushing that chump effect, jerks.
Funny how the state AG has no interest in a corrupt local prosecutor.
It’s like clockwork: criticize a leftist POC, and it’s racism. No other possible explanation.
I notice she didn’t actually deny the accusations.
Why deny something you can de-legitimize?
You’re not wrong — but as he’s probably just throwing red meat to his base, I have to confess that was my immediate gut reaction as well. You can’t go sabotaging the foreign policy of the Executive Branch overtly while working there, assholes. Truman would have had them all for lunch.
As Speaker, he definitely has no authority to fire employees of the Executive branch, but since the President is a doddering senile joke, and the VP apparently has a room temperature IQ, assuming the room is an unheated shed in Minot, an argument can be made that he should inherit that authority.
a room temperature IQ
If that room is an uninsulated shed on 4×20’s property.
The media will ignore it as they always do. There will be no calls for mass firing and they’ll paint it as way to differentiate Biden from the GOP because he respects their 1A rights.
Never mind the fact that they’re fucking over all the taxpayers who should expect the government to provide the services these people will deny them while they’re skipping work.*
*that’s metaphorical. I know they mostly do nothing of value for taxpayers or anybody else.
I had not heard of any protest plans like this on FB or any emails.
Is it a real thing?
The thing is, nobody does under the civil service rules protecting pubsecs.
ding-ding-ding
Meanwhile, Vivek is the only candidate saying he can fire them by simply eliminating the agencies.
Which he cannot do unilaterally. Congress decides what executive departments to establish and fund, or not.
But the executive then actually funds it, or not.
Impeachment is the only power the legislature has to enforce it.
Nope. The executive does not fund it, Congress does. The executive must spend the money appropriated by Congress; it isn’t discretionary.
It is discretionary…subject to impeachment.
If the executive doesnt spend it, what is gonna happen?
It is de jure indiscretionary. It is de facto discretionary.
Congress is responsible for appropriating funds, which means it must be spent according to that. You really want to give the Executive the power to spend as it sees fit?
Apologies for not having a source, but he’s talked about this before on podcasts, on whether the executive “may” or “must” spend funds appropriated by Congress. I forget what statute he cited, but his stance was the executive “may” fund agencies, and by choosing not to, can effectively shut them down, it’s just that, in practice, no president has ever declined to spend the money.
A 100% sure sign that the writers of the piece need real problems in their lives to worry about. If we get to the point where we’re trying to have “eco-friendly (and probably non-trans-phobic or whatever they’ve moved onto) war, you know our concept of reality is flawed.
All of the caricaturing in the Kurt Schlichter books is over the top except for that of the media being all-in on leftist sloganeering and pandering.
But but but she can’t be retarded. Just look at her impeccable credentials.
Well! If she’s worked in Baltimore and Kansas City… why, what more should I need to know! (/sarc)
It is the end result of a brain having been turned into absolute mush with postmodern garbage-propaganda.
You are too kind in your explanation of what happened to the brain because of that drivel..
Too bad I slept through the 2nd half. I awoke to the final score and thought, “huh, that must have been a good game.”
Yeah, you missed a banger. Hopefully today’s games will be just as much fun.
Almost dreading winning as much as losing today.
I was going to watch until they announced that world-class douchebag Nick Kyrgios is one of their announcers now.
Never change, ESPN.
Narrator: ESPN will change, for the worse, guaranteed.
No kidding.
Worst sports coverage and by a wide margin. I had to sit through (well, flipping channels) forty-five minutes of them yakking before they even showed any action.
I bet it killed the writer to type out this piece.
And it’s filed under “World News”, not “Opinion”.
And it’s filed under “World News”, not “Opinion”.
What’s the difference?
-AP editor
I would love to see the (dis)informational flow of the narrative from the top of the cabal through the elite, onto the sycophants, and down to the useful idiots.
I’m hearing the smarming superiority in the first few paragraphs; I couldn’t take any more.
I stopped at about the word “peroxide”.
I stopped at: “In the Netherlands, long a haven on things like drug use, end-of-life decisions and gender issues, this score-settling paved the way for the shrill voice of Wilders.”
I assumed for years that Geert Wilders was an unhinged bigot, because that’s what the media told me,
Then I started listening to him (translated) and reading his writings.
I have read his “Marked for Death” twice. He’s a reasonable guy who wants the Netherlands to stay Dutch. He’s under 24 hour police protection and has been for years.
The author of that awful article is lying about the numbers too, by counting 2nd generation Muslim immigrants as “Dutch”. Author also downplays the numbers, but when you look at what they’ve done to Holland, that makes it all the more alarming.
The US is better at integrating them but I don’t think we’re seeing as high a ratio as they are, well, outside of Minnesoda.
Given the way the media says what Trump said, which he didn’t, does it surprise you in the least that they do this to others?
Milei – the fascist libertarian! These fucks are so unhinged that it is laughable.
No it doesn’t surprise me. In fact, that’s why I went digging for source material myself.
“Triggered by economic and cultural anxieties that have whipped up fears about immigrants,“
Or maybe, it’s the first hand experience with these particular immigrants, and government policy displacing citizens in favor of immigrants, that is whipping up fear about immigrants.
cultural anxieties – cultural factors like clean safe streets
“fear” 🙄
In some other European nations, the shift to the right has gone even further and begun to gnaw at the foundations of democracy.
I can almost hear a foot being stamped in frustration.
Words no longer have meanings.
When did words ever have meanings… for three year olds.
Like the villages in Vietnam they’ll destroy democracy to save which by definition won’t work. Then again, the storming of the Bastille was kind of an expression of democracy and when people don’t have a legitimate political outlet for their grievances and frustrations that’s what you get.
today I learned a new word: sesquipedalian
Wait til you encounter ones like this.
everyone heard that work by 18
Is it a 150-footed upright-walking animal?
In local news, there are always talks about the disproportionate special pension certain groups receive in Romania. So many judges retire at 48 with a massive pension, for example. At what age do judges usually retire in the US??
They don’t, because the positions are for life and they want the power.
Basically this. Most of the lower court judges who have accepted that they won’t accumulate any more power will retire in their early 70s.
Supreme Court justices are like the pope, stepping down without having to be carried out in a casket is a rarity. This is in part because of the power, and in part the politics of replacing them.
Some jurisdictions have elected judges serving set terms.
Good grief that’s outrageous.
Who do they think they are, cops?
I’ve always thought the churro was just about the cheapest dessert conceivable. In NYC there are migrants selling them inside every subway station. I don’t do dessert but I would prefer a cookie, though maybe not the one described in the article.
Oh for fuck’s sake… Of course Comrade Kalifornia wishes you to make your own decisions, comrades! But you might make the wrong decisions… and then, where shall we be?
Next – suit presented for not making me immune to my own stupidity.
Next, the government punishes both consumers/producers for failing to buy/sell a product that doesn’t exist but the government has determined should.
Microstamped ammo anyone?
And to a lesser extent — economical EVs?
“Well, it DOES involve interstate commerce, so…”
The collapse continues apace.
Attached to Self-Destruction
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2024/01/15/attached-to-self-destruction/
The key to understating the chasm between our economists, and by extension, our policymakers and media commentariat, the British public is to look at the “science”, if it can be called that, of economics and its history.
As Professor Jonathan Story of INSEAD Business School writes, economists by the late 19th century “decided to strip all the noise from discussion of how markets worked: God, ethics, culture, history, institutions, government, inequalities, even personal tastes, budgets and technology”, requiring the creation of an “economic man”, who bore absolutely no resemblance to real one, in order to get to the promised land of Pure Economics – Pure but always wrong.
In “Divine Economy”, Dr Stephen Long points in a similar direction. He writes that after having freed the field of economics from theology in the 18th century and from politics in the 19th, and, as a result, turned the field into a fully mathematical and abstract endeavour, entirely detached from human concerns in the 20th, economists now in the 21st have “increasingly developed an anti-humanistic mode” of thinking.
In short, by stripping humanity from all the attributes that define our lives on this planet and make us who we are, they have excused themselves from any responsibility in the chaos the blind application of their theories has created.
As opposed to dialectal materialism.
They have oversimplified the analysis of a complex subject. Same-same climate modeling.
Speaking of stupid beyond measure.
We are talking about the military that lied to Trump, that refused to follow his “order” to get out of Syria, that wasn’t deployed on J6 not out of fear of loyalty to the President, but because of the optics?
The idiot demographic this is targeted at will believe anything they are told. You could tell them that unless they walked around for the rest of their life with the largest buttplug they could find shoved all the way in, they would die from cancer, and they would cause a run on buttplugs.
That kind of agitprop is not “stupid”, it’s evil and destructive.
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“Circumventing a court ruling? How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?”
-Joe Biden (probably)
He’s just following the precedent set by Andrew Jackson.
How dare the Dutch people – wanting to live around other Dutch people in a quaint safe little village! Rather than having their town and farms turned into a giant Tower of Babylon ghetto with random people from Africa and the Middle East raping and robbing them. The nerve!
Farms? You mean the land removed from cultivation for the sake of climate change and returning it to wilderness?
Build concrete jungles to save Gaia!
If they didn’t want to get forcibly fingerbanged by Syrian economic migrants they’d have chosen to be born somewhere else.
Or get the hell away from Europe and its problems, like my Dutch ancestors did c.1630.
“…to tell a family secret- my grandmother is Dutch”
That you Clevon? I thought you were dead.
🌿 EcoSoc 🌿
@_ComradeSolar_
What is your task in the solarpunk commune?
https://twitter.com/_ComradeSolar_/status/1745917577472131188
Please be satire, please be satire, please be satire
That picturesque ivy growing on your roof is going to destroy your shingles, fuckwad.
Accumulated pine needles have the same affect. I went to steel as a solution
This is quite a deep point, worth pondering at some length. It’s not just that a system doesn’t have the intentionality its designers intended. It’s that it *does* have intentionality towards whatever the outcomes actually are (or should be modeled as such).
https://twitter.com/shylockh/status/1746715127171395630
something something paving of roads and intentions something
Foreseeable consequences are not unintentional.
You imply logic where the idiots involved have none.
Argentina is FINALLY shooting at the parasite Chinese ships that steal our fish in our own sea. Fuck off
memetic_sisyphus
@memeticsisyphus
One of the more under reported stories of the year was the small city of Chinese boats that sit off the coast of south America and fish the waters empty.
https://twitter.com/memeticsisyphus/status/1746642653167423747
Jeez, is that pic real? They should have been run off or sunk long ago.
apparently there are about 1000 ships that go around south America all year. Same complaints come from locals in western Africa
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/10/05/south-american-governments-are-trying-to-curb-illegal-fishing
The CCP is evil. They encourage and do this shit for a reason. anyone that thinks we can coexist with China will be rudely surprised when the shit comes for them.
Being able to afford a Coast Guard or Navy can come in handy.
Yep but the Chinese can’t project military power for shit. All you need to run that fleet off is a few gunboats and the will to do it.
Pretty ballsy invading other nation’s territory like that.
Never change, China.
The best Community Note I’ve seen to date.
https://twitter.com/BlackLabelAdvsr/status/1746247272243834918
Fuckers were trying to get Trebuchet money for a simple catapult…
Good that they got called out for their bait and switch tactic!
Why would someone go through the trouble of making that stupid thing and not look into what it actually is. Not only that, “catapult” is a more marketable word, few know what a trebuchet is.
“Ooh! It’s French! Classy!”
Catapult comes from the Latin word catapulta.. I guess it is not as sexy since them Romans were into gladiator fights?
Classy French? Like guillotine and abattoir?
Menage a trois…
MLK Mammary Monday is judged by the content of its “character”.
https://archive.is/ENHFF
Bonus gun babes.
https://archive.is/VuhQL
WHERE THE WHITE WOMEN AT?
The caucuses are tonight. I am hoping for six months of peace and quiet before the spam mail, calls, texts, and emails start back up for the general election.
Isn’t Iowa becoming an increasingly reliable red state?
The Republican party controls the state house, state senate, governor’s mansion, secretary of state, attorney general, and several other key state offices. The Republicans also hold two US Senate seats and three of for US House seats.
So, yes the Republican party has been resurgent in recent years.
That doesn’t change the fact that there are deep blue areas in the state, and that blue-collar, unionized labor still has a big impact on state politics. But Obama really fucked over the unions, and they have not been in the pockets of the Democrats since then.
The last two Republican Sec of State stomped out ballot-harvesting and other liberal practices started by the prior Democrat Sec State. As soon as that happened, the Republicans took over the state house.
Funny how when cheating becomes real hard to do or get away with team blue maxist Soros people stop winning, huh?
I’m a little late to this party, but all 4 U.S. reps are R’s.
this is still one of the wildest graphs I’ve seen in recent times
why women and men go to college and what they expect to get out of college may have very little overlap, which explains (to the first order) a lot of differences in attendance, use, etc
https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1720201920327889083
So not a lot of men, well people assigned male at birth and actually not being a fucking cuck after years of indoctrination, go to college to make sure they get a degree to earn and less to just waste time doing stupid studies shit that leaves them buckling under massive debt and only qualified for DEI/CRT jobs and as baristas or fast food servers….
That’s crazy. In the before times, you were expected to pay off your loans in ten years. There were some government grants but the loans were private.
Now the government has taken it over and surprise, surprise – look what’s happened.
Yeah, I don’t get the staggering sums these people are talking about for non-professional degrees.
You must have not been paying attention to the massive indoctrination effort to teach these snowflakes that capitalism is evil, they should do whatever they are passionate about regardless of how expensive it is and how little it will then pay them after, and that government is then their only friend in this fight. It’s like telling hookers the pimp that treats them nice at first then bitchslaps them for not sucking enough pole so he can get cash is the good guy.
Hey has anyone seen the recent Klaus Shawb diatribe where he pointed out that there was an existential threat to their agenda to make the world a better place which he said came from people that say they are libertarians? Looks like we finally made it! Problem is Google makes sure you can’t find these videos from Doctor Evil unless you are watching them to worship.
He’s right that we’re the opposite of his ilk and it’s by definition: we want self-ownership and personal liberty while they want a top down police state dystopia where the only people who truly have it good are the elites. Too bad were so goddamn ineffective but luckily a lot of those people he brands libertarians actually aren’t and they’re better at opposing him than we are.
Just submitted an article on the basics of using an AI image generator locally. Figured it’d be simpler than rambling in the comments section.
Can’t wait to see all the new versions of Lobster Girl we come up with.
I didn’t get to working with existing images. I mentioned that for a next installment.
Where are the existing images of Lobster Girl? Asking for a friend.
👍
I will find that intersting.
LOL
Seems like a natural destination after they’ve spent months complaining about the weather in NYC.
I’m glad I’m old.
The Somalis have a pretty good grip on the grift, but they need some low end labor as well.
In Minnesota the Catholic NGO “charities” compete with the Lutheran NGO “charities” for which group can import the most immigrants/migrants/refugees.
I just made it on the last plane out of Midway on Friday. It was a bit scary. But our team made it to Denver, where it was -10 degrees just like everywhere else. We went 2-2 this weekend, making it to the championship game of our mini-tournament, but lost to our now arch-rival Ducks 3-0. (We had beaten them 3-2 in a shootout Friday). Our esteemed friend Tundra came to see two games. It was very nice to see him.
Glad you got there OK. Safe travels!
Avoid 737s from companies with active DEI plans in their talent hiring…
That shit is gonna go fucking bad sooner than later.
“Tonight on a new episode of Air Disasters…”
I love that show, but I have seen it go from super informative to a lot of the woke bull in the last few years… I doubt they would ever have the episode showing the DEI hires causing the crashes.
Delta also joins the stupid DEI fight!
I’m expecting this woman to be in an episode. I hope this is fake.
Does OBE know anyone like this?
I have never watched that channel so I just looked at their schedule and it is that show. All. Day. Long.
I *hate* that trend.
Looked at other days and the whole schedule seems to be dominated by three or four series. Ugh.
Do I recall you have a tournament in PA coming up at the ice rink in West Chester? When is it?
From the press release:
The Toyota USA Hockey Sled National Championship will expand in 2024 to incorporate each level of sled hockey (including youth). The National Championship will be held April 18-21, 2024, at the Ice Line Arena in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
If you can’t score from inside the ten, you don’t deserve to win. Try again next year, Rams.
I’ll be a Stillers fan for about 3 hours this evening. Sorry, Rhywun. You know I love you, but it’s that time of the year.
Stillers – I thought you did not drink distilled beverages
Only on days that end in “e.”
Mondae, Tuesdae, Wednesdae, Thursdae, Fridae, Saturdaw, and Sundae.
Hot Fudge Sundae came on a Tuesday.
Or something like that, been a long time since I read it. And a modern version would make a fun Netflix show.
Might as well get their road warrior gig on for next week (in Buffalo) since they’ll have to go to Baltimore after that.
I thought I knew you. *sob*
Brah – this is a double down, she’s terribly wrong to cheer for the Stillers and when they lose you get to lord it over her before KC even enters the stadium.
To be fair, I have nothing against the Stillers. I would root for them over many teams but not today.
who is playing today?
Bills.
Then later two other teams I can’t recall.
Darling, you know how much I want home field advantage.
Long arm of the law
The details of the Navy SEALs’ mission and which vessel they were trying to board are still unclear, though it’s known that pirates roam the coast of Somalia hunting for cargo ships to hijack.
The Post reported that the US forces were often working with other nations on counter-piracy missions in the area, which sometimes included boarding vessels to ensure they had proper credentials and weren’t transporting illicit goods.
The AP reported that the US Navy had often conducted such interdiction missions to intercept weapons on ships heading for Houthi-controlled Yemen.
Centcom said the two sailors were “forward-deployed to the US 5th Fleet (C5F) area of operations supporting a wide variety of missions.”
The National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday that the search was “still ongoing” and that the vessel had been involved in a “normal interdiction” operation to try to disrupt the flow of weapon supplies to Yemen.
Why wouldn’t the U S Navy be policing the Gulf of Aden?
when they should be policing the coast of south america
Who polices international waters?
This isn’t a rhetorical question. Having shipping lanes free from violence is a collective good. How do we achieve this?
With a Navy from a country that profits from that trade, as Britain did for a very long time.
During WW2, merchant ships were bristling with heavy guns. Maybe we should consider a return to that.
On second thought, it would really suck if pirates managed to take one over.
(Here’s an armed freighter from WW2. I have a copy of that print)
https://griffinmilitaria.com/product/1943-u-s-navy-ship-print-by-gordon-grant-armed-freighter/
Morning all! I met with the Hamilton County Indiana Libertarian Party yesterday. Long ago I wrote a piece for them and most of them know me to some extent. I plan on writing a short thing today to A) show how they can achieve their spoken goal, reaching the yutes (“Youths.”), and ways I can help: writing monthly pieces/ social media/ something.
This is mostly just to get me in the Game, here meaning ‘writing things I actually care about,’ to get professional contacts, and to keep me busy. (Idle hands.)
Today I’ll get that out and keep it under (max) 400 words. Any thoughts?
I again met IN Gov candidate Donald Rainwater. He and others gave their ‘official’ spiels. Their messaging is all off. Lacking clarity. In my piece, “…Team Be Ruled” will be used. (Not as a slogan.) I will include that in my bit to them.
Why I didn’t write more here: I had about three hours sleep and kept editing my reply. I forgot to delete that last sentence. Must rest. Frigidity helps. Great excuse.
*Note to self*
No politician will ever give a precise speech. Vagaries come with the territory.
Nah, it wasn’t like that. Just the message itself. They all had the ‘right’ ideas with the local-ish issues. It was the lack of punch I noticed. Even in the PowerPoint, just making it newspaper-style alone would have been enough.
All your pie are belong to us
“Billionaires, for many of them, times have never been better.”
That’s a quote from Rebecca Riddell, the policy lead for economic and racial justice at Oxfam America.
“If you’d put their money in a room in 2020, and then you came back at the end of 2023, you would have found that the wealth has grown enormously,” says Riddell. “Three times the rate of inflation.”
The success of billionaires is one of the key points in a new report from global charity Oxfam International titled “Inequality Inc.” It’s an annual publication issued to coincide with the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which begins on Monday, Jan. 15. Each year since 1971, government and business leaders have come to the Swiss mountain resort town to mull over the world’s problems and possibilities.
Where do they get their money? They steal it from poor people.
No, you just put it in a room and it grows! Just like the crazy lady said.
So clearly the poor need more rooms to keep their money in.
Scrooge McDuck tried that.
This latest edition of the Oxfam report looks back over the last few years since 2020 and describes the growing unequal distribution of wealth as “the beginnings of a decade of division.”
As if those covetous commie fucks haven’t been doing their utmost to sow envy and hatred for decades.
What really baffles me is that the people peddling this shit are the ultra rich. They do this as a way, and this is me quoting them when they explain what their end goal is, to change society so they can kill off half of humanity, then put all the mouthbreathers that are left in a system where all they get comes from government to control them. And this shit is being done so these ultra rich and powerful can then become a hereditary feudal system hereditary aristocracy. And the lemmings never see through the stupid evil shit and go along..
Cause social justice!
Of course, they are exempting themselves and going after people who make money doing something productive. That successful real estate developer or plumber needs to pay their fair share. But the Davos crowd are exempt from their own policies.
The minions in all the world’s armed bureaucracies love their power to abuse and control. Evil begets evil.
All the billionaires in China are members of the Communist Party but not all members of the Communist Party are billionaires
So what’s to be done about the unequal distribution of resources?
The Oxfam report offers a few ideas, like creating businesses based on fair trade and worker cooperatives instead of being structured around benefiting shareholders.
Second, it says governments need to step up and better regulate business. “A more equal world is possible if governments shape the market to be fair,” says Riddell.
“We need to rein in corporate power directly and that includes breaking up monopolies, empowering workers, calling for a living wage, [and increasing] taxation on corporations and on the ultra-rich.”
And, of course, confiscatory taxation, because government “wealth” is always equitably distributed to the poor and most deserving.
The governments that partnered with those rent seekers making them billionaires (i.e. big pharma, big media, “climate change” related) are just the ones to make things fair.
Funny but I remember govt power being used to enforce the will of United Fruit Company in Central America. Maybe she needs to learn some real world examples like that.
“Education should be considered by governments as an investment in human capital development, the future of your people, [and] the future of your country,” he notes.
It’s an intervention the Oxfam report recommends as well, saying that investing in people and communities provides “the best bulwark against extreme corporate power.”
“We must stop normalizing extreme inequality,” summarizes Abby Maxman, President and CEO of Oxfam America. “This is not by accident, but by design.”
Altering that design is a challenge so large that the 1,600 business leaders and 60 heads of state gathered in Davos may need more than five days to surmount it.
Mass education sounds like a great idea, until you realize people from Oxfam and similar NGOs will be running it. You might as well send them all to Patrice Lumumba University.
“This is not by accident, but by design.”
Or as it is more generally known – bad luck.
Stacking the deck
The judge overseeing the defamation lawsuit filed against Donald Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll has rejected some evidence the former president planned to introduce during the civil trial as it was found to be “irrelevant” to the case.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Sunday that Trump’s legal team cannot present an interview to the jury that Carroll did with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2019 or suggest that Carroll hoped to “garner media attention” for her book in order to boost sales as a way to discredit her.
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Ahead of the civil trial, Kaplan said that Trump’s lawyers could not try and argue to the jury that the former president did not rape or sexually assault Carroll, as it was not relevant to the defamation case.
Makes you proud, don’t it?
How many of these civil/criminal judges have ruled that Trump is not allowed to present a defense?
Stalinism has no sense of humor
It’s no joke. Humorous and quirky messages on electronic signs will soon disappear from highways and freeways across the country.
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has given states two years to implement all the changes outlined in its new 1,100-page manual released last month, including rules that spells out how signs and other traffic control devices are regulated.
Administration officials said overhead electronic signs with obscure meanings, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny will be banned in 2026 because they can be misunderstood or distracting to drivers.
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“The humor part of it, we kind of like,” said state Rep. David Cook, a Republican from Globe, told Phoenix TV station CBS 5. “I think in Arizona the majority of us do, if not all of us.
He said he didn’t understand the fuss.
“Why are you trying to have the federal government come in and tell us what we can do in our own state? Prime example that the federal government is not focusing on what they need to be.”
All signs should just say “OBEY”.
A nation run by a bunch of stern faced humorless fuddy duddy authority freaks who like to micromanage everydamnthing for your own good ain’t no place to be.
The only humorous/quirky ones I’ve ever noticed were clever anti-drunk driving or anti-texting-while-driving messages. Will those be verboten too?
I like the Boston accent one.
I see this type of messages on signs going into Chicago. We should just wire all of them to Blackberry’s Blackberry.
Much as I’d love to get up and be productive, I am under a plushy electric blanket under a fluffy comforter topped with a heavily purring cat.
I must take one for the team and stay in bed a bit longer.
Woe is me.