Nope.
The Bills ch-, ch-, ch-, choked. The Lions were gamers. If I had to pick a SB matchup at this point, it would ne the Ravens-49ers. And I don’t think that’s very controversial. Across the pond Liverpool took several bites of the proverbial cherries. And down under, Joker got his legs under him, while Medvedev and Alvarez also moved into the final 8. On the women’s side, its absolute chaos with Coco Gauff the highest ranked player left and an absolute mess of a bracket in the other half of the draw. And that’s it for sports.
And this is why I would never rely on public transportation. Reagan would have had new drivers in those locomotives the next day. The Germans will probably just give them whatever they want.
Inflation hurt SI.
Actions have consequences. I’m not saying it’s all about going woke. But the magazine has become more of an advocacy group than a sports reporting magazine. And I believe that helped hasten their demise.
If this is true, it’s illegal. In more ways than one. Let’s see if the National Archives calls the FBI and demands some answers. I won’t hold my breath.
I’m sure the left will blame “corporate greed.” Heaven forbid they expect the authorities to do their job.
Did that dude from the Dept of Energy go to work at the TSA? That’s my working hypothesis.
So they want what Israel offered since forever? Seems reasonable. Too bad Palestinians voted against it every time they were given a chance.
Not one of the scammers.
They’re sucking the blood out of Californians. As they are won’t to do.
If they could deal with the smell, I say let them off. Just kidding. Although Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and needs to go away, they screwed whoever was giving the pension as well. And that’s wrong.
Go, Clem, Go! What an awesome song. And he doesn’t miss a beat. And here’s another gem. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this Monday, dear friends!
Mornin’ everybody
Hello!!!!!
Right back at ya.
I’m sure the left will blame “corporate greed.” Heaven forbid they expect the authorities to do their job. – I blame corporate racism. Boycott burgers
The left went from believing corporations were the enemy because of greed, to now holding this really fucked up belief corporations that collude with government to fuck people over and promote progressive agendas & lies, are awesome while still believing in corporate greed. I am baffled about how many team blue people will look down at people missing booster number 12 while not even connecting they are basically enabling the worst kind of corporate greed.
BTW, I keep telling them the problem isn’t corporate greed as much as government now acting as if it’s missing is to pick winners & losers instead of just being small and effective at doing the basics.
Look how Big Pharma went from Evil Personified to Friend of the State with the Rona Shot.
I never thought the Left would go all in on protecting Big Pharma and insisting that they be allowed to steal billions of dollars for a product that doesn’t work.
Of course it works. Things would have been much worse if they hadn’t gotten the shot!
“I’ve just come down with COVID again, but I’m happy that I’ve had the shot and gotten all of the boosters. It would have been much worse.”
It is so helpful that we have the tech to peek into Alternate Universes and check these things these days!
(/sarc)
Well, we must be in the blue universe, since we still have coffee, the Statue of Liberty is green, and there aren’t ambered locations around.
The universe’s first color was periwinkle.
I lean heavily on the proud fact I have no knowledge of what ailment I have had in the past 4 years other than *the sniffles and a cough*
Your employer must not demand testing?
FedGov tried and failed.
See Howard Stern two weeks ago. The last person in the United States to get Covid, is telling everyone who has already had it, how bad it is but thank
GodPharma for his shots.I certainly don’t want to mentally associate so many of my fellow Americans as the sheep from Animal Farm… but if the wool over their eyes fits….
The left went balls deep with Pharma as soon as Pharma gave the OK to 0bama care.
Fa… faaaa… faaacccciiiiss……… the word, it’s right there on the tip of my tongue.
Did anyone else see Bill Maher this weekend or is it only me who hates himself? Maher’s “New Rules” segment was for sanity in 2024. That same fucking episode he had Gavin Newsome on to beg him to run for President. It was really gross and embarrassing for anyone who can feel emotions.
Anyway, Bill did ask Gavin about the gender neutral toy departments in California. Gavin basically said it’s a good bill because the industry wanted it. This is not true of course, but assuming it was, Mr. Progressive Governor is saying giant corporations like Target should be allowed to pass laws in his state.
Corporations begging for legislation is only in the interest of the corporations. They can enact what they claim to be what they wanted while pointing the finger at government when the policies drive people away or upset customers. See COVID policies.
If Bill wasn’t so horny for Gavin he might have had a follow up question about passing laws at the behest of giant corporations, but alas.
No questions about palling around in Mexico with Bill Clinton either.
On a similar vein, I always tell people when they hear some billionaire say they would not object to higher income taxes, that they do so because it will cost them nothing and they will actually make even more money from a government entity with more money to be pissed away.
It causes short circuits for the idiocrat supporters.
Any time I watch a Maher clip it’s always the same thing. He starts out making a lot of sense, saying things that would normally have progressives shifting in their seats and feeling uncomfortable, and then he pivots to a barely related attack on Republicans or the right and they all clap like happy seals.
He could probably get his audience to actually think about some of their basic assumptions, but they know he’ll let them off the hook in the end so nothing is ever learned.
Bill’s curse is that he still wants to be invited to the Kool Kids events, so he can’t just admit the democrats are not just aweful, but evil now.
His curse is that he’s an authoritarian bootlicker that likes to smoke weed.
Did that dude from the Dept of Energy go to work at the TSA? That’s my working hypothesis.
We need pics of her in the undergarments to make sure they were there in the first place. Then pics without to make sure they are no longer there.
My privilege as a paunchy 50+ year old man. No one will ever, ever want to see — much less steal, my undergarments. (My wife is just being nice to me at this point, I think…)
I have gotten the love letters from the TSA in my bags a couple of times.
I haven’t flow since before 2020, so have avoided the opportunity. I will if I absolutely must, I suppose… but have been just driving so far to avoid any possibility of the TSA at this point (originally it was because I didn’t trust the whole vaxed/unvaxed/Thou Must Be Quarantined mess… now it is “Why deal with the hassle… I like to drive”)
I would say 1 in 100 TSA see themselves as what they are..glorified gatekeepers and just wave you through. You catch those on your way through, the TSA portion is a breeze. That said, funnily enough, ever since we got PreCheck, Mrs. OBE has been ‘randomly’ selected for ‘extra’ security….every….damn….time.
I am seriously thinking of not flying for a while with all the DEI going on in airline industries. It is a question of time before we have a lot of bodies.
I’d say its still safe while we have 40+ year old captains. As they get squeezed out/retire, then ya…its going to be some kid that checks all the boxes on the DIE sheet with 100 hours of virtual flight simulator time they hire.
I am far more worried about their mechanics…
I have heard some horror stories from the old timers, most of whom are looking for the exit, about how these airlines now are hiring people that fail the basics simply because the hirers can get a bonus because of skin color or internal plumbing of the candidate and they no longer really care about the skills.
It has also become easier to get a mechanic certificate in the last several years. Granted some of the changes were warranted, but my general and airframe oral and practical tests took 12 hours. Now it’s a few hours. About 2 years ago they completely overhauled part 145, changing how mechanic schools operate. Some for better some for worse.
That’s part 147, not part 145. 145 is repair stations.
I haven’t flow since before 2020…
Menopause is a bitch.
“There was nothing worth stealing in your luggage. Next time pack better things.”
Oh, there’s all kinds of kinks out there. Surely there is someone interested in your undergarments. And that someone probably works in the Biden administration.
So many scams out there that I’d never thought about. Always too late to the party.
Even the Romanians (gypsies?) are ahead of me..
I have thought about how easy it would be to hide my demise. Few friends, fewer relatives.
I have a buddy who is a private investigator who is hired by insurance companies to prove that someone is lying about being so disabled that they can’t work. All he does is show up and take pictures of them doing something that their so-called injury would make impossible if they really were hurt.
He says that everyone gets bored and starts working on some home project. That is when he takes pics of the guy working on his roof, or lugging stones around for a retaining wall.
Fourscore, I know you. It would take 5 minutes tops before you got so bored of hiding out in your house, that you had to go out and cut more wood.
Same here. I recently had a ‘wellness check’ from the Sheriff’s dept.
“Mr. Bailey, no one has heard from you for two weeks. We just want to make sure you are ok.”
Me – “I am ok, I just dont like to get out much. I appreciate the concern, I really do. If I die I will give y’all a call and let you know. “
Had one a couple years ago, the sheriff’s dept wanted to physically see if Mrs F was still alive, I invited them in so they could watch daytime TV with her.
He wanted to see if you would be voting D(ead) in the next election
Whose idea was that, Suthen, do you know?
If I had to pick a SB matchup at this point, it would ne the Ravens-49ers
logic would dictate Chiefs 49ers because that was what it was in 2020 and 2024 is also leap year
The can call it crime & poop bowl?
The politicos can bet what they are best known for – KC offers up BBQ and SF some homeless.
Just don’t let the Donners cater that party.
Long Pulled Pork Sammiches!
I’ve got a friend who was convinced the fix was in, and it was going to be a Chiefs/Iggles rematch. His prediction didn’t even survive the first weekend.
I can appreciate a good conspiracy theory, but the NFL is rigged theory is one that is down there with flat earth.
They’re sucking the blood out of Californians. As they are won’t to do.
Those are no true Romanians
I’m not a sports person (barring auto racing, but even then not a fanatic) — but isn’t ESPN suffering from this too? I’d say NASCAR coverage to some extent as well — but NASCAR itself seems determined to push it.
People in “entertainment” and “entertainment reporting” always seem to think they should use their audience to push their message. For other entertainment, it is easier to get away with it — if you are the product, a good chunk of those who disagree with you will roll their eyes and keep at it (to a point, Disney… to a point). But sport reporters? It seems they forgot as an industry that they’re not the product. Few people really care what they think — and most can switch coverage on a dime… they’re just trying to find out about their sport, not Reporter X’s view on life and everything.
Sure folks will have their favorites (I still listen to the Sky Sports commentators instead of the more generic F1 commentators F1 set up on their feed over the last couple of years… they’re what I’m used to and I enjoy them… though honestly, I miss the crew NBC got together when they had broadcasting rights — they’d actually argue with each other, it was fun…) — but at the end of the day, the sport is more important than the reporter and fans can find new reporting if you tick them off enough.
Anyway — for someone who barely followed the first paragraph of the links, that’s my opinion. Doubtless not worth much.
Morning anyway, Sloopy — and the rest of ya. Enjoy another work week…
Sigh. Guess someone’s blockquote has a case of the Mondays. Yeesh.
Looks like the long lost edit fairy made a return.
Thanks, Edit Fairy!
I’d say a lot of attachment to announcers is nostalgia. You used to grow up and listen to the same guys all the time, and you would learn their tics, foibles, and catchphrases.
On the other hand, I still say hearing the National Anthem at a sporting event and it not finishing with “Play Ball!” still sounds wrong to me.
…And the home of the
braveCHIEFS!Sports are generally getting harder to watch because of this. Not necessarily just the penchant for waxing poetic on life, but the general desire to insert themselves in between the viewer and the game.
No, I don’t need to miss the kickoff to hear you ask the coach the same 3 generic questions. No, I don’t need to cut away to that injured key player in his hoodie every time his replacement does something. No, I don’t care that Taylor swift is there. No, I don’t need to know about how the player’s mom called him and told him that his cat FuuFuu died in the middle of the production meeting. Describe what’s happening on the field and salt that description with tidbits gleaned from your experience, the team’s strategy, production meetings, the stats department and other sources.
ESPN is the absolute worst in this regard.
Another I reason I mostly prefer soccer and tennis – less fluff.
*Tennis on ESPN being a huge exception.
The Amazon Prime broadcasts used to have a scouts audio channel you could listen to during the Thursday night games. I much preferred that to the talking heads. They appear to have unfortunately gotten rid of it and just replaced it with a AWS powered stats version. Sticks to one camera angle for the game, with highlights for players that have gotten open or past the O line, with stats being brought up once in a while.
Ugh..I have a 4 hour meeting today. We call it “Safety Standdown” in which about 20 minutes will be relative to my job and that is lockout/tagout. Glib scrolling will be much had
How does LOTO take more than 5 seconds to explain?
“Don’t fucking touch it”
<<<——FEDGOV; fin
The men’s side is once again boringly predictable. Don’t even have to watch.
There shouldn’t be two sides.
Yup — but the Great (D) Exemption will make sure the DOJ gives us nothing (good day, sir!).
Mornin’ mornin’!
Today should be interesting. Leaving for an hour meeting with my Outpatient coordinator in a bit. I sent my formal complaint in on Friday about them sending me to an ER against my wishes. (I just wanted 15-20 min to simmer down. The ER released me (after five hours) with a clean bill of health, confirming my stated knowledge to Outpatient… *frump*.) This conversation will be interesting…. Then I have 1.5 hours of Group. It often gets pretty dark, but I always find positives.
Work is work later, but it’s been much more smooth the last few days. Most likely cuz one POS kid has kinda been ‘removed’ from the after school stuff. Most likely asshole parents, who I know are very wealthy. (The whole suburb is.)
Always see the smiley faces in headlights. Hope y’all kick ass today. Take it to the hoop.
I can’t even begin to imagine what concessions the German union wants.
Back when I was doing IoT stuff, I remember it being verboten to collect any location data more than once an hour. Anything more would be too intrusive.
Rule of Law Index 2023
1. Denmark🇩🇰
2. Norway🇳🇴
3. Finland🇫🇮
4. Sweden🇸🇪
5. Germany🇩🇪
6. Luxembourg🇱🇺
7. Netherlands🇳🇱
8. New Zealand🇳🇿
9. Estonia🇪🇪
10. Ireland🇮🇪
11. Austria🇦🇹
12. Canada🇨🇦
13. Australia🇦🇺
26. USA🇺🇸
40. Romania🇷🇴
47. Greece🇬🇷
55. Malaysia🇲🇾
56. South Africa🇿🇦
63. Argentina🇦🇷
South Africa seems high.
The same Australia and New Zealand that was throwing the unvaxed in camps not long back?
The same Canada that just (arguably) framed a reporter for “assault” so he’d stop asking questions of one of their flunkies? The same Canada that set out to financially crush opponents of the regime?
I mean — we’re no angels and are Banana Republic-ish at the moment… but I question the list. I don’t know enough about the others to comment at the moment, honestly.
A union representing many of Germany’s train drivers called Monday for another strike to press its demands for better pay and working hours in a bitter dispute with the country’s state-owned main railway operator.
I did nazi that coming.
I’m gonna have to choo on this story for a bit before I arrive at any conclusions. I won’t let it derail my day though, I can tell you that.
Glad you won’t let it get you off track. It doesn’t bode well for Germany’s engine of economic growth, though. The rest of the EU are going to start telling them “You just don’t have the same pull, man.”
You wouldn’t want to have to negotiate with someone with locomotive breath.
Even Vin Diesel?
And here I thought vin ordinaire was to be avoided.
The fascist way to an effective rail system; make them run on time.
I’m not saying it’s all about going woke.
It’s that. And people don’t read magazines anymore. It didn’t help when they put a beached whale on the cover. ///KnowYourAudience
I think their reaction to people telling them not to put beached whales on their covers was the killer…
Especially when they followed that up with a dude in a bikini.
They started the heavy model thing with Ashley Graham, who IMO is smoking hot. Dunno if the readership overall agreed, but then, I don’t read SI. I could imagine plenty of guys would go for that bootyliciousness.
Then they went waaay down the rabbit hole with ugly fat women.
I stopped in my tracks the other day when I was buying some flip-flops or whatever at Target and noticed that all the models on the walls in the clothing section were crazy ugly. Like, deliberately so. What a world.
Nothing sells product like advertising that makes you go “WOAH, WTF is that?”…
Cause we all look at Fugly and go, that’s my ticket!
I noticed something similar. The female mannequins were all sorts of shapes and sizes. The range for male mannequins was much less, shall I say, body positive. They were either ripped or “not fat but the belly of a guy who doesn’t work out”.
Dad bod!
Well, they do sell Women’s (=plus) sizes.
I wasn’t even looking at the women – I’m talkin’ about the men’s section.
You measure that by the amount of fabric used? If your plus size outfit uses more material than curtains for a sliding door, there is aproblem?
My wife avoids Target for that reason.
I read/subscribed to Car and Driver for decades all the way up until they put a woke mommy-blogger in charge a couple of years ago and the “women and minorities hardest hit” shit started leaching in (yes, that actual phrase was used regarding ‘predatory’ car dealers, as if there’s any other kind). It could just be that the internet is not the full problem with dropping circulation numbers, but that if you are shitting on someone’s hobby, they no longer have an interest in reading your opinion on their hobby. Sports Illustrated has been shitting on it’s audience so long I bet the only readers left were German shiesse enthusiasts.
C&D put an actual car guy back in charge, but the whole hog endorsement of EVs with almost non-existent acknowledgement of the shortfalls has really started to piss me off.
EVs are antithetical to the whole purpose of the that magazine existing; the enjoyment of driving.
LOL. Even the Grauniad can’t hide the obvious.
Well that means we should get a few more hours before we arrive at the camps.
I hope more and more come to this conclusion. The quicker, the better. But alas, we all know it doesn’t matter. Man wants to rule over man.
I have rarely met someone that has gone into government, on the policy making/enforcing side, that wasn’t there because they wanted to change society. That the change they produce, regardless of intent, is always for the worst and that they seem oblivious to obvious consequences, notwithstanding. But so many people have been conditioned that problem solving isn’t their personal responsibility but something you foist on government, is our biggest problem. Until we dissuade people from that and make the vast majority see government as a necessary evil that needs to be limited in scope and watched like by hawks, we will not fic the underlying problem.
And man (most of them) wants to be ruled, apparently.
I would’ve beaten you to that, but I had trouble tracking down the quote.
Man wants to rule over man.
And most of man is okay with that. Huxley:
Well, at least the Brave New World dystopia was better for the mid-lower class than the 1984 dystopia.
SOMA them felt real good about it.
I disagree with the pitched solution though. As much as it would be hard to get a Court that would overturn those two obviously hugely wrong (and coerced) decisions — a Constitutional Convention would almost certainly end up pitching something like the UN Declaration of Human Rights or some other monstrosity that would lock us into socialism (or beyond).
Well, barring a national divorce first, I guess.
Agreed, the time for a Constitutional Convention was probably 20 years ago maybe more. The culture now is so far removed from the intended ideals of freedom.
The time for a constitutional convention is right now. I say we get it over with.
The only condition is that every state at the convention can opt-out or form their own caucus and create multiple countries from the convention. Once that’s done, the groups can go straight to work on the financial terms of the separation and a mutual defense pact to cover the previous member states of the US, should they be inclined to do so.
That seems like the most workable solution to getting everybody close to what they want and to avoid a massive civil war.
In that context I can get on board.
Look, we couldn’t even get a popular vote to gauge public sentiment for secession in Texas. Politicians don’t want to see that answer, even if it is non-binding. No way a constitutional convention would ever fly.
If this is true, it’s illegal. In more ways than one.
Doesn’t matter. They have Democrat/Establishment privilege.
The shittiest shit-shit headline ever:
“Oakland’s only In-N-Out Burger is closing after 18 years because of soaring crime rates even though it is still turning a profit”
Yes, only profit matters. How dare they close if they make money? I saw that inference loud and clear from the commie writer.
“California sues In-N-Out and forces them to remain open as it is a public accommodation and public square” /future article probably not satire.
A CON for opening a business and a CON for closing a business.
Just last week I heard someone complaining about one of the playoff games being exclusive to Peacock+ and he was saying that he felt that sports broadcasts should be considered public goods.
I was just there to pick up some beer, so I decided not to run down a list of reasons why that would be a terrible idea.
Heh..the only thing I don’t get is old school black outs on channels. Why the leagues have retained that is just silly in the age of streaming.
I got annoyed when the girlfriend and I went out Saturday. I had been watching the game (on Hulu), get into the car, didn’t want to leave the video playing, but wanted to hear the game. OK, go into the NFL app and pull up a radio stream… which they had locked behind a paywall.
So instead of following the game, I just put on music.
I’ve heard there are ways to find the games for free.
Most stadiums are downtown, so it is still 20 bucks.
I’ve seen that story in three different outlets and they all made the same point about pRoFiTz.
In-N-Outs PR spin was literally “people over profits”, for values of people limited to employees and customers. It’s like they were trolling the MSM.
Would they still be profitable accounting for what I assume would be insane insurance rates and maybe even liability if an employee or customer was assaulted at the location?
“They just write it off. They write off everything.”
^This.
Insurance is magic money that fixes everything.
Nothing about liability? Huh.
I, for one, am happy to see another shitty burger chain go away. Now, you next, Burger Czar!
A. What Sloopy said.
B. Yes, it is about going woke. What idiocy.
C. Corrupt banana republic monkeys are corrupt. Isn’t trump being prosecuted for something regarding the archives that was legal for him to do? Prosecute these fucks. Oh right, that will never happen because fuck you.
D. Objective achieved
E. I remember when flying was a joy.
F. They will get their goddamned cease fire….when every member of Hamas is dead.
G. As intended the unchecked flood of invaders has spawned a plethora of criminal enterprises.
H. Saw that yesterday and yep, I wondered about the smell
“So they want what Israel offered since forever? Seems reasonable. Too bad Palestinians voted against it every time they were given a chance.”
I am going to point out that people need to be careful in discriminating between what many Arab countries, like Saudi Arabia, are sating in public vs. what they tell Israel behind closed doors. The Obama 3.0 administration has not been successful at really slowing or stopping Israel’s campaign to clear out the terrorists, precisely because behind the scenes SA and others are telling Israel to kill them all and not to stop until that is done. This is also why Iran has the Houthis and other proxies doing what they are doing. They are desperate to stop Israel from just destroying that investment they made and to minimize the damage of their miscalculation of letting the idiots from Hamas do the 10/7 attack. The two conflicting power centers in the ME are all hoping Israel does or doesn’t do the dirty work (hurting Iran or not).
DeSantis dropped out and endorsed Trump. The primaries are over, now we wait for the convention shenanigans.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/21/ron-desantis-drops-out-presidential-race-endorses-donald-trump/
Only if the Dems and Haley’s campaign shenanigans in NH fail. Funny how Trump called out that there was an effort for party switching just to vote against them, was decried as insane and then quietly all weekend reports of efforts were brought to light.
They wouldn’t bother with that. Trump is a pretty weak candidate they’ve already beaten.
I think things are playing out exactly as they want.
Good. He shouldn’t have run against DT anyway. It’ll be funny if Neo-con Nikki stays in long enough to get trounced in SC.
Hardly. Nikki has a ton of democrats voting for her. We shall see tomorrow.
I’d like to assume that Trump correctly views Haley as the controlled opposition that Dems want to replace him on the ballot, and savagely and explicitly calls her out on that, but I’m willing to entertain the possibility that he doesn’t get that, somehow.
Trump seems to be really taking the Biden approach so far this year. Not a peep out of him. Hard to tell what he thinks.
My question is, what if something happens to Trump? Can Desantis get back in? Or are they stuck with Haley?
Ramaswamy.
That’s the alternative. The others are deep staters.
eh… no.
Really? really?
He can recover from slipping on the ice. He’s a shoo in!
(I love you for spelling that correctly. Maybe I should send mass e-mails about that, plus “jell”.)
Vivek already dropped out.
He had great responses to things . However it was suspicious how often they changed in context and in the past.
Yeah, I got a huge whiff of used car salesman off that one.
He is kind of shady. However, his complete disrespect for the media, establishment, and our current system is the way forward.
Brokered convention – the establishment picks the nominee in a back room. Maybe Haley unless she has too much negative baggage. Maybe Youngkin or a similar neo-com insider who isn’t too tarnished yet.
lol no.
Trump is the establishment candidate.
He’s campaigning with Lindsey Fucking Graham.
He hired Haley.
Every establishment guy is supporting him.
He’s that guy.
FED! FED! FED!
It’s really difficult to prioritize which anti-establishment things my hero Trump did that I like best.
— Trying to force covid lockdowns to all states?
— Signing the inflation (CARES) bill that has cost average middle class Americans thousands of dollars?
— The multiple uniltateral gun control restrictions?
— Escalating wars and funds in Yemen and Afghanistan despite promising the exact opposite?
— Appointing literally every single Bush retread?
— The offer of amnesty for millions of illegals?
— Signing the legislation that made vote by mail easier and may have cost him his second election?
ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT HERO!
The question I have is: will he win the Republican nomination in 2028?
Just like the Tea Party was co-opted.
So your guy is a democrat or deep stater, then?
The Establishment is creaming their jeans right now.
There is just one more impediment to putting Nikki in the White House, and team blue is doing their dirty work for them with the novel lawsuits and ballot access.
He wrote in a statement: ‘Despite taking repeated steps to create safer conditions, our Customers and Associates are regularly victimized by car break-ins, property damage, theft, and armed robberies.’
Have you tried guns?
The future of Oakland (NSFW – language).
The past of Oakland.
That’s a nice touch. It’s almost like S.A. doesn’t give a flying fuck about their brethren.
Narrator: They never did.
Eh, I wouldn’t contribute either if it’s just going to get blown up again or converted into rockets. It’s as dumb/er as rebuilding homes in frequent disaster zones with other people’s money.
That said, your conclusion isn’t wrong.
Everybody knows it’s going to be the U.S. paying for it anyway. 🙄
Say goodbye to women’s golf.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/01/21/trans-golfer-hailey-davidson-wins-womens-tournament-one-step-closer-to-lpga-qualifier/
I keep telling women that it takes a man to do women best, and they – especially the real woke ones – all get angry at me for that assertion.
Biological women need to start boycotting this shit.
If the LPGA lets it happen, they lose their last few viewers.
The liberal guilt is stronger than I ever thought it would be.
Like who? The 5 straight women who watch LPGA? The 10 straight women who play in the LPGA?
I don’t think there’s a critical mass of women who care enough about women’s sports AND who haven’t bought into this tranny BS to put their necks on the line to take a stand.
Depends on the sport. Now that women’s tennis is big money, I expect trannies aren’t going to be very welcome. And Martina Navratoliva has already paved the way for the lesbian card to not work.
I think women’s tennis will end up being an exception to the rule. Unlike most other sports, women’s tennis is different enough from men’s to garner a viewing audience. It’s not just “tennis, but less good” like you could say about the WNBA or the LPGA.
That said, I think they’re going to have a harder time keeping the trannies out than it would seem on first blush. Tennis has a long history of being socially progressive, and it’ll be hard for them to turn away from what they’ll invariably see as the next chapter in that story. Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, Martina N, and others sit on the pantheon of progress, and there’s a seat waiting for the first person to tuck their way through Wimbledon to win a title.
Good. The witch trials in Salem had to continue until the wrong sorts got accused. Same thing – until Susie Soccer Mom starts seeing the total destruction of women’s sports and more importantly, scholarship money, go to men – this shit won’t end.
Did that dude from the Dept of Energy go to work at the TSA?
I think that creep was more into dresses.
Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has said the kingdom will not normalize relations with Israel or contribute to Gaza’s reconstruction without a credible pathway to a Palestinian state — a nonstarter for Israel’s government.
I see everyone is getting along well.
Orange County authorities arrested 48 alleged members of a Romanian crime ring who allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from low-income Californians by skimming their state benefit cards.
Anyone seen Pie?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Speaking of evil capitalists….
You can’t pass on the taxes we put on you to the consumer!!!! Wonder why health care is so fscked here.
Crush medical providers to help usher in single payer?
Ugh. I do not know what this thing “7:00 a.m.” is. Wish I hadn’t taken my a.m. stimulants.
It’s almost 9am now.
I don’t see why his puppeteers keep using this same, completely dishonest and retarded line.
Over the weekend, while speaking to reporters, Biden mocked a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
The quote suggests that Jefferson believes the American people should have the right to rebel against a tyrannical government. Biden said that if U.S. citizens really wanted to fight the government, they would need F-16 fighter jets.
“And I love people who say, the ‘blood of liberty,’ or excuse me, ‘the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots.’ Well, guess what, man, I didn’t see a whole lot of patriots that are out there walking around making sure that we have these weapons,” Biden said. “And if you really want to worry about the government, you need an F-16.”
You fucked up the quote for the dozenth time. And it is curious that you leave the “and tyrant” portion out.
I have told several people that tell me the government has F-15s, F-16s, F-35s, drones, and other hardware it can use to murder any of its citizens that call out that government has gone tyrannical that they lack the understanding of asymmetrical warfare. How many of these mechanics, pilots, drone operators, and such have family? Cause I do not have to get to the operators: just threaten or take their family (easy to do in a country with armed people). Couple that with the fact most of the government relies on/operates in urban areas that get everything from outside the urban area, and all you have to do is disrupt that traffic. Small things like this, and the government’s ability to project this power against it’s own people will end quickly.
And to those that point out that government has nukes, I remind them that it is one thing to nuke some foreign enemy and another to nuke the people that make most of the country’s food, without some real ugly consequences.
Indeed. I don’t see why people have a hard time understanding that you could turn a fighter jet into a multi-million dollar paperweight. Also, it seems odd for the (alleged) president to keep threatening citizens with bombing them.
And who expects the American military to blindly obey Der Furher’s orders, oh like, some other country?
See also: Law enforcement, medical personnel, teachers.
I do. There will be a couple of dissidents – maybe even enough to form a company or a battalion – but the rest will do as they’re told.
I see the military fracturing right along with the rest of the country.
There he goes, uniting us again.
Also, the adults are in charge again.
Christ what a fucking asshole.
Anyone still think the last election was legit or that the next one will be?
Alex Halderman hacked a Dominion machine in court and altered counts.
No and no.
After speaking with election integrity expert Garland Favorito, we discovered the courtroom display was much more serious than originally reported. J. Alex Halderman demonstrated in court how Dominion machines were hacked and altered their tabulations.
The irony that this is a Democratic group lawsuit (I think…). MSM does not seem to be covering this. I wonder why…
See, in 2020 they didn’t even have to do that, IMO (not saying they didn’t just that it was not needed). Between all the money they spent to harvest ballots from the campaign to mail them out due to the Kung Flu, followed by truckloads of these with the “D” candidate checked showing up, and and government’s massive campaign to stop misinformation (meaning things that were true but harmful to the people that wanted to remove power from the voters), they had enough of a margin in the contested areas to just pull Obama 3.0 over the finish line. Basic other criminal shit was able to be kept to a minimal because of those 2 big efforts.
Unless they manage to repeat that level of cheating in 2024, and right now it looks impossible, they are not going to be able to use this to pull a “W” this time. So I expect there will either be blatant cheating or they will simply declare the election invalid and start a campaign of terror.
Nonsense. There is a hard cap on Trump support, and penalties for showing it. Add in fortification efforts and Biden wins handily.
15 year olds in garages accept the challenge
Fetterlump gets one right.
Fetterman voiced his concerns about the ongoing migration crisis and demanded a ‘secure border’ as he spoke to CNN’s The Lead anchor Jake Tapper on Friday.
The Democratic senator, 54, from Pennsylvania said, ‘I honestly don’t understand why it’s controversial to say we need a secure border.’
‘And [what] I think about immigration is, we want to provide the American Dream for any migrant. However, it seems very difficult when you have 300,000 people showing up, encountered at our border, to achieve that,’ he added.
Because borders are racist or something.
Since I didn’t know him before the stroke, I don’t know if he was always slightly more sane than his fellows, or if this was something recent.
There is absolutely no way that is the same guy.
Having lived through his Lt. Governorship, this is recent.
Biden himself just said it’s a problem.
I think they’ve just discovered that this is an issue.
Which I can only guess is hitting people not just on the bottom of the rung but those a bit higher up. Kids can’t get a job because they are losing them to the cheap imported labor, watching people who have done nothing right get all the free bennies while those who legitimately might need some help are told no… Mom’s on WIC going to get goods can’t cause the SNAP cards given to the illegals are clearing out shelves in areas.
All speculation of course.
Kicking kids out of schools to put up immigrants, overwhelming public services like hospitals, things like that are too much in the faces of the Sanctuarians for this to be brushed away.
They have to pretend it is not intention for election season. They also have to blame Trump/Republicans for the problem they created.
*intentional…
That works in almost every large American city, so why not the country as a whole?
He’s basically 2010-2015 Bernie Sanders. Not the current day Bernie who also now thinks borders are just a suggestion.
Re: SI
Back in the Sad Puppies days, Sarah Hoyt wrote a post saying “get woke go broke” had the arrow of causation backwards. Her thesis was when established brands are failing, they are forced to try and grab a new consumer base in an (usually failing) attempt at survival. This ties into ad agencies being the wokest of all industries, resulting in the desperate companies always getting the same advice as to what their new consumer base should be.
I mean, surely they have the demographics of readership, who spends money, who is more likely to purchase their product and the pivot to such a small subset of society WHILE boxing out the part that was keeping you afloat is just odd.
A whole other thing if we they were to spin up an offshoot to cater to that portion of the population.
/looks at all the Black, Hispanic, Christian, dating commercials, Spanish language commercials, or commercials for vitiligo treatment I get served on streaming sites
You’d think they’d have the demographics, yet I keep getting ads that no one in my household would have any interest in. I understand the makeup and beauty care ads (I blame the girlfriend for those), but apparently most streaming services think I’m a multi-ethnic, bilingual, single person suffering from vitiligo.
Yeah, if people’s filter bubbles really were that good, and if targeted advertising were also that good, a brand could theoretically pander to multiple, opposing demographics.
But not when there are muckrackers needing clicks.
Even if they had a downward trend, the saying was an observation that such actions only accellerated the decline. There might be some feedback elements involved when the flailing begins, but nobody’s forcing the companies to keep doubling down on approaches they’ve already proven to be failures.
I think it can be both. You have the “roll left and die” that Hoyt pointed out but that doesn’t explain Bud Light (which certainly didn’t have a cash flow problem). In a case like that, I think it’s ESG fuckery from the investment banks along with freshly brainwashed yootz getting hired into C-suite positions who then push their campus fuckery.
Honestly, I think the Bud Light thing was a legitimate outreach attempt to get under 30’s to go to the brand (from conversations I’ve had with several local brewers, the under 30 crowd does not go for beer). MillerCoors had a similar campaign that came out at the same time (they also reached out to the Pink Boots Society to partner with, who are known in the brewing world). The problem was when the backlash started, MillerCoors dropped the campaign, and issued some pablum response. AB-InBev had their marketing director go out and say they wanted to get away from the “fratty drunk boy” image, which is where the real damage came from. That’s why the Bud Light boycott grew legs.
The problem was the tranny pic on the beer can. Everything else could have been hastily swept under the rug, and the marketing VP behind all that fired, but they higher ups didn’t notice their woke hire going rogue.
It was on a handful of cans, that were never in the distribution chain. It was quite literally a prop they made for the shoot.
Yes, but then the pics of the cans went public.
If InBev’s competitors had been the ones to make and release those pics to drive down Bud Light’s market share, they could have been sued for billions. If their competitors snuck that VP into InBev as a mole, that would have been brilliant corporate sabotage.
It was an own goal.
Any indication yet whether the Emmitt Smith/Peyton Manning ad is doing Bud Light any good, or is it likely too little too late?
It’s too late at this point. American Light Lager (especially made by the big guys) is basically a commodity product. Hell, I’m not sure if I could pass a triangle test with two different big light beers. Once you have a reason (no matter how trivial) to dislike a brand, why go back to it when you can get something comparable at the same price point?
Remember also, that Bud Light tried to downplay the ad, which got them roasted by the QUILTBAG+ groups (and there were quite a few news stories about gay/lesbian bars cutting ties with AB-InBev).
Right now, the big issue in the beer world is getting the new generation interested. Based on purchasing patterns, the new drinkers are more likely to go RTD (Ready to Drink) cocktails, hard seltzer, or malt beverages (hard lemonade, iced tea, etc.).
Well, they’re all allergic to gluten and masculinity so, not a surprise that beer isn’t a big hit.
Its a not very secret secret that bars will put the wrong light lager on tap if they run out of one. Maybe the high level tasters that the big brewers hire could pass the triangle test, but no one buying Bud Light in a bar can.
For those who don’t know, the test Neph is referring too is to get 3 beers (or any product) for a taste test. Two are identical and one is different. You have to identify the one that is different.
So in this case, you have two samples of Bud Light and one sample of Coors Light (but you don’t know that is what you have) and you have to pick out the Coors Light.
If a random group can consistently do better than 1 in the 3, then the products are different.
Yes. It turns out that disparaging your customer base is a poor sales strategy.
It can probably go either way. Disney, for example, was riding high before it torched itself going woke.
Ok, but wouldn’t you say that Disney was intellectually (and creatively) bankrupt at the point they went woke?
They were riding high due to multiple acquisitions. They were creatively bankrupt and had to buy creativity they did not understand.
It seems unlikely to me that any company or ad agency would consider 0.17% of the population their new desirable customer base.
The people doing this shit are doing it because they hold flyover Joe in complete contempt.
Maybe the people doing this shit believe normal people think like them, or can be easily convinced to do so.
So Biden actually has a legitimate reason to dump Harris from the ticket – after all, she was named the border czarina!
In all out lifetimes we have never seen this at the border, under any president of either party. But it’s just a coincidence that it’s happening under Biden. Nobody knows why.
Hi ho… hi ho… it is off to offend Peter Dinklage I go…
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Ohh! You are an angry elf!
In the immortal words of Papito Gringo, hit the chocha like Sammy Sosa on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/1eOqM
Anti-Patriot Fed is at it again.
A group called the Patriot Front are currently marching down at the World Trade Center
📌#Manhattan l #NewYork
Currently, approximately 90-150 individuals identified as the “Patriot Front” and recognized as a right-wing organization are advancing towards the 9/11 World Trade Center located in downtown Manhattan in New York City. Numerous sightings have been reported from the subways into the Oculus Mall, and now towards the 9/11 World Trade Center, New York City police officers are currently keeping an eye out while escorting them as they work to maintain a separation between any counter-protesters or any other individuals.
I wonder why they get a police escort…
Professional courtesy.
I guess the DHL trucks weren’t subtle enough.
If you think that’s bizarre @elonmusk, just look at the vehicles the Patriot Front members drive!
Look at the license plates, they’re blank!!!
The Patriot Front sure does seem to prefer sensible minivans.
I like how the Community Note references 2022.
Hopefully they cleaned the camera after he ejaculated on it.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/actress-who-made-co-star-31935248
“”I had to go to church at least twice a week. We were told sex was bad and sex was wrong, and if you had sex outside marriage you’d die and stuff.”
I’m sorry I don’t buy this. I know I’m one of (((them))) but I have a hard time believing that even conservative congregations spend all their time saying “SEX IS TEH DEEVUL!!”. My understanding is that Christian doctrine treats sexuality as a good thing but only within the proper context.
It’s not an accident that the people that want to fool you have turned this from “Sex outside of marriage has consequences/problems” to “All sex is bad”. Just like it went from “We need to control the army of illegal invaders rushing our border” to “You hate immigration”….
As Bill Ayers said in his book dedicated to Lucifer (whom he calls the first rebel): words have power, and the left should use them to confound issues and divide the people.
I was teaching my son about this last night before bed. In an age appropriate way of course…
–Some old dead French guy
-Some old dead Italian guy
Now tell me who was more influential.
I know who was more influential, and I know which one I would rather use to teach small ones.
“Actress who made co-star ejaculate on camera in real sex scene ‘proud’
I mean, that’s not really an accomplishment.
“My understanding is that Christian doctrine treats sexuality as a good thing but only within the proper context.”
That’s typically the take.
Re: ejaculation accolades. Only thing I can take away from a comment like that is she is terrible in bed and otherwise has issues completing one of the most basic male functions when presented with a moderately attractive woman.
Agreed. Also that chick needs to go eat a burger. Not attractive.
In my years of Catholic school it wasn’t sex is bad/wrong, but having it outside of marriage was a sin (and risked terrible diseases and pregnancy), then of course the terrible interpretation of the sin of Onan.
A chick who gave a handy on camera… 18 years ago… is still trying to use that accomplishment for publicity?
The guy must have been great I guess. I don’t think anyone is still thinking about the handy they gave me 18 years ago.
My guess: When she did the film she thought that pushing the barriers like that would launch a spectacular career. It didn’t work that way and now she needs attention (entertainment industry is full of raging narcissists) and she is trying to float that again. Once again, it won’t work.
“We are border patrol now.” – TX guard
Illegals arriving at the border are pissed to learn that Texas National Guard is now in charge of the area:
“We’re looking for Border Patrol!”
Texas seized Shelby Park on January 10 and is blocking off the federal government from the area while they arrest illegals and build walls with razor wires on the border.
The pics of Katie Mox with and w/o makeup is quite the transformation.
Not that Im shocked.
whaddup doh’
Poor Dean Phillips! He can’t catch a break. Now he’s getting dragged for changing the verbiage on his campaign website.
I’m not seeing a big change in that section of the web site.
It’s about time the dems started quibbling amongst themselves and becoming less of a monolithic block. Both parties need major change if we are to avoid a marxist apocalypse.
Because believing in tedious pablum that ranges from meaningless to actively evil is something to aspire to.
Based on my observations in business school, the marketing majors were the intellectual equals of education majors.
I haven’t read a Sports Illustrated article in decades.
…. And everyone else thinks the business school is full of the dumb students. 😉
“If I had to pick a SB matchup at this point, it would ne the Ravens-49ers.”
As long as Taylor Swift is kept out of the Super Bowl. Even if Ray Lewis goes Tonya Harding.
Phillips’ website renamed a section titled “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” to “Equity & Restorative Justice”
Is that supposed to be an improvement?
No, it’s a dog-whistle to his racist wingnut admirers.
Trump just got the entire media to finally admit Nancy Pelosi was in charge of security on Jan 6
Mistake or not, I like all the talk of dementia with Trump because he mixed up names of government harpies while Biden can’t even string a sentence together.
I saw some of his speech after Iowa. He seems almost as sharp as he was in 2016.
Isn’t this going to fuck up the court cases against him? I find it hard to believe they would do that even though it is all on the record.
maybe not….none of the cases against him have anything to do with truth.
Biden can certainly string sentences together. Let’s not overstate his declining mental condition. The problem is what those sentences mean to the eventual ruin of the constitutional republic of America. It will be a mistake to keep claiming Biden is demented, doesn’t know where he is, etc. etc. when clueless voters start seeing him in carefully scripted and edited campaign ads that will portray him “presidentially.”
Odds and Ends
Well, on the one hand, I’ve been up since 5 PM yesterday. On the other hand, I finished two short stories since then. 18 more to write until I hit 52, as recommended by Ray Bradbury (I’m aware of his work)*.
So now we’re bombing Yemen. That’s odd, because if we had supported the honcho (Saleh) they had in 2011 instead of pressuring him to resign, there would have been no civil war there and thus no Houthi militants to worry about. If free and fair elections were held in every Muslim majority country today, Islamist parties would win all of them in a clean sweep. That would be bad because then there would be about 50 clones of Iran in the world. The only hope of peace is to tolerate the kings, generals, and dictators who claw their way to power in those places. Which, by the way, is what the US does for many other countries around the world.
During the Chinese civil war, the communists decided to hold the countryside where the food was, and the nationalists decided to make strongholds of the big cities. Guess who won. Hint: it wasn’t the side the US supported with enormous amounts of money and weapons.
On the subject of Social Security, the Fleming v. Nestor ruling means the government has the power to deny social security payments even to people who spent years paying in.
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The Court ruled that there is no contractual right to receive Social Security payments. Payments due under Social Security are not “property” and are not protected by the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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So there you have it. Money isn’t property (except when it is). Something, something asset forfeiture.
*Simpsons quote
Maybe mail-in voting is the problem.
Black people cant be required to show photo ID because they don’t have xerox machines?
Imagine being so shameless you don’t bat an eye spinning that bullshit on live television.
Abort abort abort
The Biden campaign will hit the airwaves in battleground states with its first abortion-focused ad of the year, featuring stark, emotional testimony from a woman personally affected by a state abortion ban who lays the blame directly on former President Donald Trump.
It comes as the campaign is launching a full-court press this week to put abortion rights front and center in the 2024 race, including with events headlined by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The push marks the campaign’s first organized effort to emphasize the issue, seeking to further galvanize voters around reproductive rights in the first presidential election after the Supreme Court ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion.
The new TV spot also follows Biden’s ramped-up attacks against Trump in the opening weeks of the year, portraying him as a direct threat to democracy. It’s part of the campaign’s efforts to warn of Trump’s plans and positions ahead of a possible matchup in November.
I can hardly wait.
“Abortion is not a federal issue. Next.”
lays the blame directly on former President Donald Trump.
Because Bad Orange Man unilaterally changed state law…
the Supreme Court ended the federal constitutional right to an abortion
That’s not what happened. But you know that.
portraying him as a direct threat to democracy
Says the admin. that has thousands of political prisoners and is prosecuting political opposition.
warn of Trump’s plans and positions
I suspect you’ll take the “push grandma off a cliff” approach. IOW, lie.
To subvert George Carlin’s line about abortion somewhat, none of those women look in danger of being impregnated. At least half probably don’t lie with men anyway.
But where do all the ugly kids come from?
Sale on Ugly Sticks?
The Cork Coypu
@CorkCoypu
The Pope is just back from the vet
https://twitter.com/CorkCoypu/status/1749096264556298310
laurence
@functi0nZer0
This is called popecocking, and he’s doing it in the hopes that he will impress a female Pope enough that he can breed
Look at the cuck pope staring at the ground!
You won’t find me wimping out like that. Mrs. Holiness gets direct stares from my steely gaze as I strut around the house.
In case Evan is reading, I hope your complaint letter for your unnecessary ER confinement comes to a satisfactory end. As a former resident of Shady Brain Farm, I can sympathize with your plight.
I told a dozen people over and over I wasn’t suicidal and what did they do? Trick me into a psych ward where I spent 3 days on suicide watch. Having spent that much time in a suicide-proof room, I can say with confidence that Epstein didn’t kill himself. Also, the Army and NSA gave me a 5-month paid vacation when I got out. Lose-win, I suppose.
Oh well. All in the past. Still trying to turn my scars into souvenirs. I had a booze free weekend. Yay me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhnZYyAqE2E
A Japanese made THX Ultra AV amp with a soft open door, Vacuum Florescent Display and a remote control with an Electroluminescent display; is this peak 1990s?
https://twitter.com/DextersTechLab/status/1749238719620469069
I loved that stuff. I miss decent stereos with lots of blinky lights. There are some around, but mostly now it’s just bluetooth speakers or only high-end audio.
The minutelong ad, titled “Forced” and shared first with CNN, features an emotional direct-to-camera testimonial from Dr. Austin Dennard, a Texas OB-GYN and mother who traveled out of her state, which has a strict abortion ban, to terminate her pregnancy after learning her fetus had a fatal condition.
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Dennard ends the ad saying, “We need leaders that will protect our rights and not take them away and that’s Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Totally representative. The only way to guard against a recurrence of this one-in-one-hundred-million scenario is to provide free unlimited access to abortion up to the tenth month.
that will protect our rights and not take them away
So you are ok with being censored, disarmed and having little to no due process. Never mind the fact that abortion is not a federal issue. So Biden-Harris can do nothing.
Are you kidding? Do nothing? They can executive order up one constitutional amendment and bypass all that state ratification! Rule by decree!!!
Not mention stack the Supreme Court with abortion-loving Democrats. Another dozen should do.
: Government considering a radical scheme to help first-time buyers by backing mortgages which would require just 1% deposits.
https://twitter.com/adamtomforrest/status/1748763916300083295
the English government is in fact retarded
I’ve seen this movie before.
Monty Python’s Upper Class Twit of the Year is now a reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdFnfcxhNnA
Seems kinda terrorist-y.
A migrant who illegally crossed into the United States threatened me, saying “You find out who I am very soon,” simply because I asked him where he was from. These are the people @AliMayorkas @POTUS @DHSgov and @CBP are letting in.
Biden campaign officials hope stories like Dennard’s will resonate with voters heading into November’s election as the campaign looks to stress Trump and other Republicans are extreme and have worked to limit reproductive rights. Democrats saw success around the issue of abortion in the 2022 midterms and other recent elections, which the Biden campaign hopes to replicate in 2024.
Having a weird genetic malfunction is just like spending Spring Break blackout drunk on a beach in Florida, which is really why we need universal abortion access.
Republicans are extreme
“Extreme” is a relative term.
Extreme for values of having reasonable differing opinions.
They’re right that this is a huge Republican weakness nationally. But maybe not a Trump one.
The dude obviously does not give a single shit about restricting abortion. That may be an actual Trump strength in the general.
He should be talking about how it is now a question for the states to resolve, democracy in action. Really fire back on the Democrat-see bullshit.
In Minnesoda, the DFL has passed all sorts of laws making sure everyone can have abortions or transgender surgery whenever they want with no restrictions.
Yet, this fall they DFL is trying to put all these restrictions into the state constitution. If I was a cynical person, I’d say that the reason they are doing so is to drive turnout among the wimmin who seem to be terrified of abortion restrictions.
It will also air in battleground states during the NFL conference championship games next Sunday, which the official says features a younger and more diverse audience.
I blame Taylor Swift.
So … she did the job she’s being paid to do.
No, I still don’t believe that “romance” is real.
Just because it isn’t exploiting the romance genre tropes…
Oh it very much is. It is TEXTBOOK romance genre … except for one thing. She makes more money and has a lot more power than he does, which is wildly inappropriate in romance.
Now, if it’s real, I will say I’ll be touched because Kelce shot his shot with an out-of-his-league woman and didn’t think it would work, but it did. That makes him an Everyman.
I don’t know; I hear Travis “goes long” quite a bit.
It is his tight end that she is interested in.
Kelce has been heard humming old Buddy Holly songs.
♪ Pegging Sue, I love you ♪
I choose to believe two famous dum-dums can fall in love.
My electric tea kettle seems to be in the process of kicking the bucket. I have grown rather dependent on it. I guess that means I’ll be shopping this afternoon. Maybe I’ll spend more than $14 this time.
Well look at Daddy Warbucks here!
Brooks has electricity? He’s living the high life
Buy cheap, buy twice. Low end stuff doesn’t have all the gadgetry we need.
I’m guessing the newer higher priced ones come with a wifi that you can activate with your electric blanket so it’s hot when you wake up.
Probably true. Same internals as the $14 one, but $58 “worth” of wifi connectivity so you can start it from their proprietary and hanky app halfway across the world. Y’know, because that’s actually value added somehow.
How would he know if his water was boiling if it didn’t send a message via wifi to an app running on his phone?
And if it doesn’t have connectivity it won’t work at all.
Because reasons.
Ulkar
@ulkar_aghayeva
what are the best sci-fi novels taken as literary works and not merely as a repository of interesting futuristic ideas?
https://twitter.com/ulkar_aghayeva/status/1749271172468929012
Lewis’ space series comes to mind.
Especially That Hideous Strength.
My first thought was A Deepness in the Sky. I mean, it is also a repository of interesting futuristic ideas too, but the actual plot is literary.
Quick synopsis: Powerful man has dream to remake society in a way to prevent tragedy and pain, but is betrayed by those he loves because it is not feasible. Later, he has a chance to do it again, with the proper tool to make it possible, but that involves embracing a great evil. He must choose between achieving his life’s dream vs overthrowing evil.
Nothing particularly sci-fi about that. The Sci-Fi is just the setting.
Even shorter version: Fuck off, slavers!
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/seen-in-the-bay
Currently pulled out from behind the paywall.
today in variations on the trolley meme
https://twitter.com/cafreiman/status/1749171307860648005
Brandishing?
Wade refused comment when a Post reporter spoke to him outside his office last week. He went back inside his office and came out with what appeared to be a handgun in his right hand.
Careful, you’re talking about what journalists saw. It may have been a half-chewed poptart.
There is a pretty clear picture.
Speaking of pictures….
Ex-wife looks much nicer and prettier than Fani. Not sure why he traded.
Different > Better? Career move?
Idk. But I noticed that too.
Fani comes with the bucks, ex comes with the same equipment but no cash
It’s brandishing* if you’re a pleb.
*I mean, it isn’t really, but that’s how you or I would be treated.
Zoomed in it looks unusual, maybe a taser gun?
No, I still don’t believe that “romance” is real.
But he did that “heart” thingy with his hands after he scored that touchdown. Just like a Knight in a joust, proclaiming his twoo wov for his maiden.
I’m surprised he was able to catch the ball.
I think it’s hysterical that all the sports reporters are cooing about how that gesture is a new thing and that Kelce just came up with it.
Like, my dudes, this has been around the entertainment industry for decades and you think a football player just randomly thunk it up?
He’s a football player so yeah…
Soccer announcers refer to the wave as the Mexican Wave, because they first saw it at the World Cup in Mexico in 1986. It started in the Pacific Northwest in college football a few years earlier.
Husband says: “I wonder what they called that in the 70s when I was doing it at Dodgers games.”
Why is it so easy to get British citizenship?
https://www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/why-is-it-so-easy-to-get-british
With the recent controversy over the Social Housing Question there has been a peculiar fixation with the headline statistic, that 47.6 per cent of London socially-housed households are headed by the ‘foreign born’. The Rob Fords and Sunder Katwalas have hyperventilated at this particular metric, claiming it to be the thin end of the wedge. After all, they point out, many of these ‘foreign-born’ are actually British citizens, so classifying them in this way is deeply offensive, isn’t it?
This is silly: using ‘foreign-born’ is often used to evaluate immigration’s impact; the ONS states it is their “preferred measure”. Part of the reason for this is that citizenship is in the end an arbitrary category, which immigrants can acquire more or less easily according to the rules set by government. If every immigrant was given citizenship immediately upon arrival, it wouldn’t mean there was no impact of immigration. No self-respecting social scientist would think otherwise (looking at you, Prof Ford).
In this setting, British citizenship really matters. British citizenship is the foundation of the whole Parekh multicultural model. British citizenship means that a new Briton’s access to all the goodies of the welfare state can’t be questioned. British citizenship means Shamima Begum deserves to come home. If British citizenship is not taken as the sole and only basis for our equality; if being born abroad and being more concerned with (say) Palestine’s national interests than our own can be weighed as additional factors, then the whole multicultural edifice starts to get pretty shaky pretty quickly.
The problem is that acquiring citizenship is in the end just a paper, administrative exercise. The Home Office sets rules and as long as you meet those rules, you can get that sweet blue passport and all the entitlements which go with. It isn’t actually very hard, as long as you can find your way to 5 years resident on the right visa (450 days can be back in the mother country though!), pass a few simple tests and pay £1,580 application fee, then you too get a late win in the lottery of life!
Only 4 per cent of applications get refused, and there’s lots of people out there willing to help you get over any obstacles. There are all kinds of reasons why you can be refused, including the right for the Home Office to say you’re not “of good character” — but using that reason declined 90 per cent between 2016 and 2020. A short stay in prison (under 12 months) restarts the clock on the residency requirement but otherwise isn’t normally considered. Outright benefit fraud is a problem, but being a welfare case with no hope of economic contribution isn’t itself a problem. English proficiency isn’t required, just enough for ‘independent use’.
In combination, some countries’ criteria can become particularly demanding. Nigeria is a great example. While allowing dual nationality (for birth nationalities), naturalisation in Nigeria requires 15 years of residence, two references of ‘good character’ (one from a religious minister), demonstration of being “capable of contributing” to Nigerian society, and personal approval by the governor of the host state. Needless to say, these conditions mean very few actually make the cut — citizenship is granted every few years, and on the last occasion this nation of over 200 million granted just 317 citizenships by naturalisation.
Such numbers aren’t out of the ordinary — India (population 1.4 billion) granted 4,844 citizenships over 5 years, requiring 12 years’ residence and a renunciation of other nationalities. China had a total of 1,448 resident naturalised persons in its 2010 Census out of a total of 1.34 billion, most of which are through family and marital links, as wider naturalisation seems to be very much a matter of government whim in the People’s Republic
I remember when citizenship was more about voting than about goodies.
Today in Britain the CCP demanded a piano player in a public place to stop filming because they were in the background
This is Britain. Not China. – the difference being?
Difference being that the Chinese purchase of Trafalgar Square hasn’t closed yet?
Less and less every day.
Democratic Socialists of America shocked to discover they are apparently a (((subsidiary))).
I’ve followed some heinous people and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a tweet as misogynistic as this.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1748937143244738819
Shut up, you tyrannical gremlin.
Zelenskyy described the former president’s rhetoric as “very dangerous” and appeared apprehensive that Trump’s idea of a negotiated solution might involve Ukraine making major concessions to Russia.
“(Trump) is going to make decisions on his own, without … I’m not even talking about Russia, but without both sides, without us,” Zelenskyy said. “If he says this publicly, that’s a little scary. I’ve seen a lot, a lot of victims, but that’s really making me a bit stressed.”
He added: “Because even if his idea (for ending the war) – that no one has heard yet – doesn’t work for us, for our people, he will do anything to implement his idea anyway. And this worries me a little.”
Newsflash, you are going to have to make concessions since you are losing with no prospect of that changing.
“The Fuhrer is working on secret weapons that will destroy the enemy just when they think they’ve achieved victory.”
Shorter Ukrainian grifter: “Trump won’t give us more money to steal”
Ushering in a new age
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday picked up an endorsement from New Hampshire’s Union Leader newspaper, less than two days out from the Granite State’s primary.
“If you can select a Republican ballot on Tuesday, we urge you to select Nikki Haley as your next president. New Hampshire is ready for a change,” the op-ed from Union Leader said. “America is ready for a change. The world is ready for a change. We want a better option than we have had for the past eight years, and Nikki Haley is that option.”
The op-ed, published Sunday, described the two most recent presidents without naming them directly as “dinosaurs” who “had their shot and nature selected them for extinction.”
“The dinosaurs from the last two administrations have indeed had their shot and Nikki Haley is the fireball from the heavens to wipe them out,” the op-ed wrote.
Fireball, followed by a mushroom cloud? It won’t be just the dinosaurs who get wiped out.
*Actually, Haley will just steer us back to globalist business as usual, bringing the WEF and the EU back to their rightful spots at the grown-ups’ table.
All 5 readers of that newspaper will vote for Nikki now.
Haley winning the nomination could lead to Rand Paul running on the LP ticket.
all fandoms are a desperate attempt by two of these groups to keep out the other one
https://twitter.com/GDPosta/status/1749072817738383430
“The Ryan Center is part of UChicago’s in-house Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the college and has been offering to perform “operating room procedures” at up to 23 weeks and six days. According to abortion finder, the college offers abortion up to 23 weeks in the pregnancy.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/uchicago-clinic-offers-very-late-term-abortions-later-than-even-planned-parenthood
They should just extend it to sophomore year.
The fetus is not considered fully developed until it has received its baccalaureate at a minimum.
They’ll be facing a stiff fine for that.
…and a decease order…
I admire them for their rigor.
Experimentation in continuous fermentation:
https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2024/01/continuous-fermentation.html
Now, if it’s real, I will say I’ll be touched because Kelce shot his shot with an out-of-his-league woman and didn’t think it would work, but it did. That makes him an Everyman.
Maybe he’ll go on tour with her when his season is over. He can drive the bus.
For a rock star or professional athlete, no woman is out of his league.
You know what Ford buyers want? Screens. Fuck reliability and multiple trips to the dealer for repairs. I want the biggest screen possible.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/cars/2024/01/22/fords-new-48-inch-dashboard-will-debut-in-2024-lincoln-nautilus/72311077007/
*sigh*
Give me a traditional gear shifter, a few knobs for adjusting the heater, and a Bluetooth connection for audio that doesn’t degrade after 10 minutes. Maybe a place to set my phone so I can follow the on-screen navigation. That’s all I need. I’ll take a backup camera, too, i guess.
I would like a button for caltrops and oil spray too.
That’s what trunk orphans are for.
I will confess I have no issues with automatic HVAC.
That said I’d give it up if we went back to all mechanical cable and wire driven system like we used to have.
I’m cool with automatic, but I want actual buttons, not touchscreen and capacitive BS. Mainly, I want two things. The ability to configure the car without my eyes leaving the road and enough robustness in the system that I can take a road trip without having to troubleshoot and work around a handful of software and hardware “quirks” and bugs.
Not quite as good as built-in, but works well enough for my 2006 Sonata. No screens.
That’s a lot of gadget for $10.
Mine is old, so I couldn’t find it to link it.
why would I want that?
It’s shiny and vaguely futuristic. Stop thinking so much and consume, consumer.
Ford just did a big recall on wet belt ecobosts. I guess they finally figured out rubber dissolves in oil.
I read that. Good luck with getting reimbursed if you paid out of pocket.
Ford botched the airbag recall, brother of PK had to have it done twice because Ford initially did the recall, and forgot to write it down. So Ford insisted he bring his car back and do it again. Ford documented it at least, but documented it wrong. So a third time, a Ford tech came to his house to disassemble his steering wheel and verify the bag was replaced. Ford did that under duress, as brother of PK was seriously pissed and said he would never bring his car back to Ford again, nor buy another Ford.
I feel like their standard business practice might be just as big a SNAFU.
We had a rear control arm replaced on our Explorer twice. They recalled it again and before I got it done I traded the car.
To be fair to Ford part of the issue you mentioned above is they have to rely on dealers. Mind you they are all in on this anticompetitive system that helps drive competition out, but it has some costs as well. It is just not unique to Ford.