Good morning one and all to another great day and to the morning links!
Jeffrey Epstein Documents Released
‘Clinton likes them young:’ Ex-president named in 10 of the new Epstein court documents
White House Blames Republicans for Border Crisis
White House Slams Speaker Johnson for Leading a Group of GOP Lawmakers to Southern Border
DOJ Seeks Minor 6 Month Jail Sentence for Ray Epps for “Disorderly Conduct”
Judge Dismisses Most Counts Against Trump in Brian Sicknick Jan. 6 Lawsuit
Feds Hide Anti-White Discrimination Complaints
House Members to Receive Classified UFO Briefing Next Week
Manufacturing Sector in U.S. Shrinks for 14th Straight Month
Xerox to Lay Off 15% of Its Workforce
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh
suh’ banjos
Mornin’
Xerox to cut 15% of its workforce
Copy that.
Dangnabbit… now I have a duplicate comment. Should have scanned the replies first.
We need to collate them better.
I need to see that on paper
Ditto.
Tres is that a recent picture? You look toner.
Clean livin’
I didn’t know Xerox still had a workforce.
*Narrows gaze*
A laser like focus?
/waits for someone to get injured while trying to slow down a sliding car
“Xerox still has a workforce”? — Most people.
Morning, all. Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
Rochester’s economy is still strong, it’ll be fine.
Kodak will bring them all back!
Kodak is still in business?
Kinda.
They were my last really bad stock pick. I had several years of carryover losses. I love how if you pick a winner, you have to pay all your taxes that year, but when you have a spectacular loss, like I did with Kodak, you have a maximum loss you have to carry over to the following year(s) if it’s large enough.
It’s booming!
Wegmans will carry them through these hard times.
A federal judge dismissed three of five civil counts brought against former President Donald Trump and his codefendants in a Jan. 6 case related to the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.
The lawsuit was brought by Sandra Garza, the longtime ex-girlfriend of Mr. Sicknick, who died of a stroke following the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol, during which he was pepper sprayed. Ms. Garza is also the representative of Mr. Sicknick’s estate.
1) Low-level bureaucrat dies of natural causes
2) A non-spouse somehow finds standing to sue a former POTUS for this
3) ????
4) PROFIT!
#3 is no ???? Ms. Garza is also the representative of Mr. Sicknick’s estate.
I have it on good authority that Trump personally bashed his head in with a fire extinguisher.
/MSM for most of 2020
Don’t forget blasting him with a nerve agent! I mean chemical agent! Putin undoubtedly gave it to him.
The fuzz is using Novachuk now?
Trump ordered the hit.
MSM for most of 2020
The media are not prescient – except for the Bee.
No surprise — we are (and have been) at least in a recession when you get outside of massaged metrics, I expect. Shadow Depression masked by QE as mentioned yesterday wouldn’t surprise me either.
Funny how things work when you attack the foundation of the modern economy (cheap energy) and then screw up supply chains for the bonus point.
By the “old” (aka “accurate”) definition, we’ve been in a recession for a long time right?
I did mention Punk Rock Girl the other day… definitely listening to this — really should explore more by them.
Heh… in the sidebar “Instant Club Hit (You’ll Dance to Anything)”. Nice title… have to try that next.
Have aboutt a bitchin’ Camaro?
I’ve always been partial to having a Heart Like a Lion
You need some LeSabre Radar.
That’s the one I heard the most. It’s wonderful.
Good times.
Actually, listening to it now, there’s a real incel vibe to it.
“Ar-ar-ar-ar-ART fag!”
I was always partial to “Stuart”.
The best part is the first video on my YouTube sidebar is the highlights of the Ohio State/Missouri game.
I feel like we have all been well aware of the Clinton/Epstein connection for 20 years or so.
Yes. They seem to be releasing the names we already know, not the rest we assume.
Supposedly this list has been unofficially out for years and it includes people that were legitimate associates and employees. I don’t care who installed the drinking water cistern on the island but his name’s likely to be on there.
Depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.
The White House criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Wednesday for leading a group of Republican lawmakers to the southern border as Senate negotiators continue working toward an immigration policy deal.
To be fair,
conservativeseveryone with three neurons to rub together mocked AOC for her performative weeping at a parking lot fence down by the border a few years ago.I’m still wondering why we don’t use the army to do, y’know, army stuff — like turning back invaders. Or use the Department of Homeland Security to secure the homeland, or somethin’.
(Okay, I don’t wonder at all why we don’t, but a man can dream, can’t he?)
The DHS is for saving the country from White Supremacist Neo-Nazis.
And the military is for sending to shitholes to kill random people with no means of attacking us.
Yeah but it’s also for things like the Pancho Villa Expedition, and I think it’s time for PVE II.
Secure the border, repel the invasion, haul all the invaders back over the Rio Grande, and get punitive on those executing/allowing it.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-official-gets-heated-clash-reporter-who-asks-us-escalated-gaza-war-red-sea-presence
How dare representatives check in on our disaster!
“They need to approve the President’s funding request! How dare they go observe things pertinent to that funding request!”
like turning back invaders
They are bringing them in.
Homeland Security to secure the homeland
That is reserved for dissidents like you.
To be fair, Republicans did create the “crisis.” As long as the immigrants weren’t showing up in major blue cities, there was no crisis!
Jeffrey Epstein Documents Released
Meh. You still won’t get any goods and nothing else will happen.
White House Blames Republicans for Border Crisis
“If I’m elected, surge the border.” – Joe Biden
You cuntes are literally facilitating an invasion of the states.
The only reasonable explanation is absolute hatred of the American middle class.
Where is Biden’s border czar[ina]?
It’s going to be completely predictable as to which names get publicized in which media outlets.
Guess who NPR lead with?
Any given TEAM RED member or DRUMPPF!!!!!!!!!!!
The White House criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Wednesday for leading a group of Republican lawmakers to the southern border
It’s just a photo op.
as Senate negotiators continue working toward an immigration policy deal.
Your policy should be to enforce the existing laws against illegal aliens.
DOJ Seeks Minor 6 Month Jail Sentence for Ray Epps for “Disorderly Conduct”
Curious since he is the only one other than the cops that I saw tell people to go into the capitol. I’m sure there is nothing to see here.
One of the first identified “ring-leaders” in the original NYT coverage.
“Other than the cops”
uh huh
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/03/1222737191/beat-tetris-willis-gibson-oklahoma-kill-screen
Suck it, Oklahoma H8ers.
Had you phrased it differently, I might have been more charitable…
… but this makes it seem like there’s so little to do that someone had the time to beat tetris.
That’s an odd way of saying “create their own fun instead of being reliant on the corporate media to spoonfeed them the latest product to consoom, resulting in increased proficiency with the physical and social worlds.”
That’s a very defensive word salad. The only evidence to support it is that… he’s playing a soviet game on a machine provided by a corporate media source.
How long have you lived in Oklahoma again? Did your growing up in NY give you a childhood of spirited games of “throw rocks at each other” or learning how to climb barbed wire fences as fast as possible to avoid the consequence of “I dare you to yell in the face of that bull?”
I know I’ve mentioned getting into a fight when I was 8 and hitting my opponent with a cow tibia that was lying around. I mean, I’ve seen the trees you have up here. They’re weak and easily uprooted. And none of them produce the kind of slingshot ammunition that a persimmon does.
We couldn’t get to the rocks and had to throw ice instead. It wasn’t ‘dodge the bulls’ but ‘dodge the bullets’ And who uses a slingshot? the 1950s ended decades ago.
I had a slingshot as a kid in the nineties…
Now Im shopping amazon for a slingshot….
Nobody can dodge bullets. Just like nobody rules the night and nothing can fart bees.
I have a slingshot collection. *shoots Himalayan pink salt at UnCivil
Oi! why are you stealing from my stash?!
Whoa! Are you seriously throwing shade at a kid wearing a Tetris Glove?
Is there no brotherhood of the glove that covers this?
There can be only one… pair.
Not the dreaded Glove Inquisition. You guys have been trying to stamp out the one glove heretics ever since Michael Jackson moon walked his way on stage and started his one glove reformation.
You sound like… a golfer.
Burn him.
I saw that. A very impressive feat.
We should invite him here when he gets old enough. Could always use a new Tulsa.
Alternate headline – OK researchers develop new autism screening tool.
Judge Dismisses Most Counts Against Trump in Brian Sicknick Jan. 6 Lawsuit
I’d ask wtf Trump had to do with this guy having a stroke (or whatever), but I know the answer is FYTW.
“Orange Man Bad!” What more do you need to know?
House Members to Receive Classified UFO Briefing Next Week
I’m not falling for this distraction. (But I want to believe…)
Full result of briefing: There are no aliens.
Whether that is true or not, that is what the House will be told.
Feds Hide Anti-White Discrimination Complaints
Whitey be so fragile.
*says the inward*
Manufacturing Sector in U.S. Shrinks for 14th Straight Month
Xerox to Lay Off 15% of Its Workforce
Listen, Jack. The economy is humming. That’s Bidenomics in action.
People don’t realize how good they have it because the media is not reporting it right!
that should help the cee oh two
The corporate axe-men have been at our office the last 2 days. My team seems to have survived unscathed because there were 2 open positions that will never be filled now.
‘Clinton likes them young:’ – hey who doesn’t (for reasonable definitions of young like 25)
Harold Chasen?
Yeah, “young” doesn’t (necessarily) mean he’s chasing around 14 year olds.
For B. Clinton, young means 16-18, depending on the age of consent of the state gets currently in.
The plaintiff in the lawsuit was 17 at the time. No wonder OMWC was never part of that circle.
He is 77. 77/2+7=45.5. So, yeah, anyone 45 or under would be “young”.
I think his number’s 33.
That’s based on an assumption that his net worth is >$1MM, so the denominator is 3, not 2.
Eventually you get so wealthy you think your denominator is your wealth.
My Dad’s net worth was nowhere near that (even adjusting for inflation) when he and my Mom got married. But he was using 3 instead of 2.
They were 27 and 18 when they got married.
I’m enough of a genealogy nut to have studied dates and ages of ancestors way back. From Colonial (think late 1600’s) through the early 20th Century, your parents’ ages were pretty much the standards for marriage.
Yeah, and even in 1960 it wasn’t a big deal.
In the context of the Epstein operation, I suspect “young” means “teenagers”.
As for age of consent, don’t forget Clinton is a rapist, so I doubt he cares that much. But I do doubt he went any younger than, say, 14.
Q: what’s the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?
A: I wouldn’t have a garbanzo bean on my face
“Ewwwwww!”
i knew that joke with “lentil” and “chest”
My self-assessment (ugh… need to go write that for work soon) of today: “Acceptable”
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Seems kindof insurrectiony, according to leftist standards.
Currently, hundreds of Pro-Palestine protesters and other activists are occupying and have shut down the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California. These protesters have disrupted the Assembly session on opening day, demanding a permanent ceasefire and an end to all U.S. military aid to Israel. Law enforcement is present on the scene, working to maintain order between the protesters and Capitol authorities.
So, an “official proceeding”…
“… working to maintain order between the protesters and Capitol authorities”
The fuck? They ought to be arresting them and dragging them off to jail.
No, no, jail is only for badthinkers. Doubleplusgoodthinkers like this are just exercising their constitutional right to mostly peaceably assemble for redress of grievances.
To be fair, the California State Capital isn’t so much of a Temple of Democracy as it is more of an Open Septic Tank of floaters and old, ripped condoms.
TRVTH.
Coming soon to a Windows 11 PC near you: A dedicated keyboard key for Microsoft’s Copilot AI. The company calls this “the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in nearly three decades”
Spun as only a marketing department can spin. The only time I use the the windows key is to see if the keyboard is connected and working correctly. It brings ups a menu and won’t input into whatever application is open unlike most every other key on the keyboard does.
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-copilot-keyboard-keys-are-coming-to-windows-11-pcs-at-ces-2024-080126519.html
I use the windows key a lot, but if they introduce something like this, might not anymore.
I use the Windows+E and Windows+R keyboard shortcuts daily.
I don’t understand the difference in what they are trying to achieve other than “we put ‘AI’ into the functionality” Its a shortcut which invokes code to do a function…what possibly more can it do?
If I hit ‘winkey + E’ will it magically know where in the directory structure I want to be based on open apps or keylogging what I am doing to determine?
If I hit ‘winkey + R’ will it prepopulate the command line?
Just silly and leave it to MS to shoehorn this in.
Accept the Copilot key or Microsoft will have it as an always on voice activated feature.
I disabled the windows key on my keyboard. Hopefully I will be able to disable the copilot key.
So much for “G_d is my co-pilot”.
*sigh*
I can’t find the old Mephaskapheles is my Copilot patch (or an image of it). Of course, that’s from nearly 30 years ago.
+ Bumble Bee Tuna
Yum Yum.
Switching virtual desktops on Windows uses it. That and WIN+R (run) shortcut are about all I use it for.
I killed Copilot as dead as I could (gpedit.msc iirc) as soon as it got pushed on me… so definitely don’t care and will consider it a waste of a key, frankly.
I pressed the Windows key for the first time after reading your comment.
Win+L is useful
I forgot about that one, I used that all the time when I worked in an office. Not so much when working at home.
I use the windows key because alt tab doesn’t seem to work on many applications these days.
Muh-fascisms.
On my first day back in office, I will terminate every open borders policy of the Biden administration and immediately restore the full set of strong Trump border policies.
Then, we will begin a record-setting deportation operation. Joe Biden has given us no choice. The millions of illegal aliens who have invaded under Biden require a record number of removals. This is just common sense.
To achieve this goal, I will make clear to every department and to state and local governments that we must use all resources and authorities available. We will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement — including parts of the DEA, ATF, FBI, and DHS.
I’m sure enforcing existing immigration law will be considered a racism or something.
Isn’t there some stupid UN convention we signed on to or an international agreement about “asylum seekers”? Yes, they’re supposed to stop in the first suitable country — but I can easily imagine a District Court judge in a suitably shopped district turning that into an injunction because they aren’t being given “suitable due process” (said suitable due process involving years) or “Federal government expectations for those already here” or something stupid.
international agreement about “asylum seekers”
Yes, and the people running Brandon just magically decided that everyone is an “asylum seeker” as opposed to the proper term “illegal alien.”
we signed
I’m sure it went through the legitimate treaty process…
Repurpose all those IRS agents to work at the border until such time as we abolish the IRS.
“But it’s *hot* down there!”
Yeah, there is a cohort of judges who will eagerly block any kind of immigration enforcement. Oddly, the nuance about “only for these plaintiffs” or “only in this district” that we see on, for example, gun control laws, will be completely missing.
DC delenda est.
Paywalled in today’s friendly venue of the NYT – run through the unreachable from my work archive.fo
Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opinion/claudine-gay-harvard-president.html
“I’ve been called the XXXX-word more times than I care to count.” I call B S before even finishing the first paragraph.
Liar?
Fake?
Porn Star?
Cunt?
Double female?
And yet some Democrats aren’t buying it.
OK, give us the names, or at least the dates and venues, where that happened. If it was via email or online, shouldn’t be hard to prove up.
Mark Cuban
@mcuban
Let me help you out and give you my thoughts on DEI
1. Diversity
Good businesses look where others don’t, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed.
You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various races, ethnicities, orientation, etc that are regularly excluded from hiring consideration. By extending our hiring search to include them, we can find people that are more qualified. The loss of DEI-Phobic companies is my gain.
1a. We live in a country with very diverse demographics. In this era where trust of businesses can be hard to come by, people tend to connect more easily to people who are like them. Having a workforce that is diverse and representative of your stakeholders is good for business.
https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1742690628465484204
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If that was all DEI was doing, it would be a good thing.
#1 is basically the James Buchanan argument on discrimination. That if, for example, the pay gap between men/women was primarily due to discrimination, then some firm would hire lots of women cheap and dominate their field.
Let see how diverse your financial team is…
https://www.markcubancostplusdrugcompany.com/team
looks diverse to me
A slant, a spic, and a slit?
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1741798929900179580
I was being nostalgic for the good old days of DEI and James Watt:
“We have every kind of mix you can have. I have a black, I have a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”
Ahh, the 80s.
Valuable teammates, all.
The Mavericks are the most diverse.
Salad.
DEI is discrimination by other means.
The loss of DEI-Phobic companies is my gain.
Here’s the problem. Take software engineering, for example. At my school, during the time I was there, there was a roughly 0.5 GPA point boost for being female and a 1.0 GPA point boost for being black. The women at a 3.0 or higher and the black guys at a 2.5 or higher were given the pick of the job opportunities, and they got the prime positions along with the white/chinese/Indian guys with a 3.5 or better.
Then the Cubans of the world came in and had a decision to make. There were white/chinese/Indian guys in the low 3s, women in the high 2s and black guys in the low 2s. The proto-DEI-philes hired the diversity hires. The rest of the companies hired the white/chinese/Indian guys. Then the non-advantaged guys in the upper 2s scrounged for the rest of the opportunities and everybody else struggled to find work.
At least from my observation, the people hired by the proto-DEI-philes were highly likely to either wash out into some less technical role or end up getting married and start having kids, which resulted in leaving the workforce or moving to a less technical role. The Cubans of the world spent engineering money to hire HR or marketing or web design employees. There are certainly diamonds in the rough, but it’s not some untapped diamond vein. They generally perform in line with what one would expect given their GPA.
This whole “they bring a new perspective” thing is horseshit. Most jobs don’t need the level of creativity where different perspectives are valuable, and the ones that do aren’t going to be improved by diversity hiring.
Great insight.
Yeah, unless you’re hiring for a restaurant kitchen, I’ve always been annoyed by the “foreigners have different perspectives” thing, At best it seems value (in both senses of the word) neutral. The hidden presumption that the Western perspective is inferior is unproven, to say the least, and would seem to have a fair sized mountain of historical evidence to climb.
When the American born IT workers start kindly doing the needful, then racism will have died in the world.
Ruck you. You ask for the needful, and your request goes to the bottom of the pile.
find people that are more qualified
So you weren’t hiring the best people before because you were biased against better qualified minority candidates?
people tend to connect more easily to people who are like them.
That kinda sticks out doesn’t it?
It’s asking for a “therefore”
“therefore, majority white companies should…”
Try going to the local hospital and saying, “I’d really feel more comfortable with a doctor who looks like me. Bring me a white guy.”
But if you’re, say, a black woman and say “I want a black woman doctor”, they will fall over themselves to come up with one.
Not too long ago I was asked if Dr______would be OK to do some minor surgery on my hand. I asked, “Is he any good?” Answer from a nurse, “Oh, he’s the best”. Me, “Then that’s the one I want” I got my wish, the nurse was right.
Glad you didn’t get this guy.
Yeah, white people. And it’s been documented over and over again in recent years.
Companies have been falling over themselves to hire as many black people as they can for decades.
It is always 1955 with these people.
“I take it as a given that there are people of various races, ethnicities, orientation, etc that are regularly excluded from hiring consideration”
If he seriously believes corporate America hasn’t been frantically chasing POCs and women, he’s an idiot. And this doesn’t require any kind of statistical analysis – it’s the overt policy of many big DEI/ESG obsessed companies. What DEI-phobic companies is he talking about, here?
The dirty little secret is that the white collar workforce is so bloated that for many positions, merit doesn’t really count for much anyway. Any idiot can be a box checker who fills their days with meetings. So deprecating merit in hiring for your bloated back office doesn’t really matter that much – the problem isn’t who fills the chairs, it’s that there’s way too many chairs.
the problem isn’t who fills the chairs, it’s that there’s way too many chairs.
If you can go out of office for a couple weeks without much more than an automated message pointing to a coworker, you’re probably not all that necessary. My dept has been “understaffed” for a couple of years, yet every unfilled departure happens without the company collapsing. People are either tasked with more work or the optional stuff doesn’t get done. There are plenty of departments that wouldn’t be missed if they happened to disappear.
So you want to burn the corpse of Star Wars.
Star Wars fans and conservatives have jumped on comments by the director of a new female-led film in the franchise, leading them to believe it will be another ‘woke’ flop from Disney.
Two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has declared ‘it’s about time’ a woman shaped a Star Wars film as she is set to become the first woman and the first person of color to direct a feature film for the franchise.
Disney literally just did that with the Mary-Sue in the last trilogy.
‘I like to make men uncomfortable. I enjoy making men uncomfortable,’ she said during the panel, which she participated in after winning the Oscar for a documentary about acid attacks against Pakistani women.
So you are against your target audience. That should pay dividends…
Look for stories about Disney’s financial troubles later this year.
Kathleen Kennedy shaped the shit out of Star Wars.
And Lucas’s wife famously made many of the good calls that turned the OG Star Wars into the franchise it is.
They’ve had stronk female leads and a stronk female boss. About the only spot on the org chart that hasn’t been filled with a stronk woman is director, I guess.
Make all the “uncomfortable” movies you want, toots. Just don’t expect them to sell many tickets.
“‘It is important to be able to look into the eyes of a man and say, I am here, and recognize that, and recognize that I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable,’ she added.”
She sounds fun.
Cause when I go to a SciFi movie I want to feel uncomfortable. What a cunte
Well, it depends on the movie. I mean, Alien isn’t exactly a comfortable movie, nor is Event Horizon.
I doubt that’s the direction she’s talking about taking Star Wars though.
Ripley wasn’t stalking the franchise to finish its last vestiges.
Did you see Alien3?
At some point.
But I’ve forgotten so much that I couldn’t tell you what happened to Charles Dance.
But we were talking about the first movie.
True, I guess I am able to separate suspense/fear from finger wagging.
My guess…all that ails the Galaxy is because of white men.
Imagine a guy saying “I like to make women uncomfortable.”
He may even get elected president if his wife is craven enough. But that’s (D)ifferent
That sounds like something a dominatrix would say to a new client.
Hey — with such a smash hit as “Ms. Marvel” under her belt — I’m sure she’s just the creative mind Disney is looking for. Kamala Khan is everywhere these days! (/sarc)
Just because the Marvels underperformed such box office smashes as the Incredible Hulk and Ant-Man (not adjusted for inflation, just flat out making less) you think they’re done with Ms. Marvel?
Ms. Marvel has underperformed from the day she was introduced in the comics. They are still trying to make the audience settle for her, and failing.
Come get your Sci-fi Struggle Session! Only in theaters, $20 a pop!
Could John Stewart be any more of a cuck? He’s literally grovelling in tone and body language.
Sure seems clear that Epstein was operating his pedo service on behalf of Israeli intelligence in order to compromise prominent people. When he was busted, the FBI grabbed all the tapes and they have continued the blackmail of the compromised perverts who lead our country on behalf of the deep state.
Releasing names.beyond those already know isn’t going to happen unless they fail to follow orders.
Why do I get the feeling this is going to be anticlimactic?
Even though it’s been somewhat juicy thus far.
Cause it is A: names that have already been in the news and known and B: doesn’t really say anything other than fuel whatever side of the argument you land on.
Because if we every really prosecuted all the people involved there would no longer be a ruling class in this country. We cant have that.
Israeli? I assumed he was operating it on behalf of our own out of control IC. I’m sure they shared via “Five Eyes”, granted.
He was partnered with the daughter of a famous Israeli spy. Quite an unlikely coincidence.
Wasn’t Ehud Barak his Mossad handler?
https://www.martyrmade.com/featured-podcasts/the-jeffrey-epstein-series
I think it is both. It’s not like Mossad and CIA aren’t joined at the hip. My understanding is that the early money given to Epstien came from a guy with Israeli intelligence connections.
I was gonna post that link myself…very illuminating.
His whole show is really really good. I learned a lot from both the People’s Temple and the Isreal/Palestine series. Well worth your time if have 40 hours or so to spare.
Yup. This is not the client list. They may have salted a few clients in there who were already outed, for various reasons, but this is the very definition of a modified limited hangout.
Like Ray Epps doing a few weeks (if that) for a misdemeanor, when is on camera doing far more than people who have spent years behind bars, and will spend years more.
DC delenda est.
As far as I know, the link to Israeli intelligence is that Maxwell’s father was a big shot Israeli spy. If there’s any more to it than that, I haven’t seen it.
Ah, looks like there’s more to it. Shame about the 40 freaking hour podcast. I ain’t got time for that. Write it up, already.
How unfortunate.
A group of illegal immigrants from Venezuela are trying to cross illegally into Eagle Pass right now in front of the GOP House delegation of nearly 60 representatives. Some are yelling “ayuda” (help) others were asking us where they can enter. Blocked by TX razor wire.
Help yourself back to your country of origin.
But they are sure that socialism will work here!
I saw the Xerox story yesterday. The big surprise for me was that Xerox still exists.
They have diversified into other services. Bought ACS after I had left that place. I was there after ACS bought part of Mellon.
Re Clinton.
Vast-right wing conspiracy, amirite?
Other than that, imagine being someone who fought hard to defend that scumbag? I don’t even want to bring in the whole hypocrisy angle where Trump is concerned with the faux-righteous brigade and the general TDS that continues to afflict people’s minds – and souls at this part. It’s wild.
Forgive if drugs / ass, but everyone’s favorite weather autist has aged out of the OMWC window.
Maybe…she still looks like a ten year old with Downs.
Yeah, it’s not just her autism, I don’t think. There’s a serious arrested physical development thing there. I kinda like the theory that it’s fetal alcohol syndrome.
Geoffrey Miller
@primalpoly
Parents:
Suppose one has a daughter in her 20s being courted by a boyfriend who’s a potential husband.
What single question could one ask him that would be most revealing about his suitability as a long term mate?
https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1741586069647413737
what can you tell me about Uranus?
https://twitter.com/joedevon/status/1741616794434228226
It’s pronounced oo-rah-noos.
good answer it was a trick question. Alas I do not have a daughter but I can buy a 20 year old chick for you to marry.
I’m assuming you get a finder’s fee?
Neah I just find a buy one get one free deal
Wait? There’s a bulk discount?
Not that kind of bulk, I’m not Tres.
Not that kind of bulk, I’m not Tres. – don’t worry eastern Europe is not the US
No, he gets a percentage of your estate after she stabs you in the face.
It would be safer to go with a 3-year lease option.
,em>“‘It is important to be able to look into the eyes of a man and say, I am here, and recognize that, and recognize that I am working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable, and it should make you uncomfortable,’ she added.”
Unless you are somehow able to forcibly kidnap me and subject me to the Ludivico Technique, that won’t happen. Tough luck.
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I’ll look back and say “I don’t care even a little”.
Lichtenberg figures are a branching electric discharge that sometimes appears on the surface of insulating materials.
They can also be produced on wood with particularly pleasing aesthetic results.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742912782037835820
You been following Yusef around?
Timelapse of the 3 years of war in Korea (1950-1953), showing how the control of the peninsula changed between the two Cold War contenders: China and Soviet Union on the northern side vs US and allies on the southern side.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742911698925990153
Inventions 1920-1960
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1742872360015819052
https://imgur.com/gallery/SVYKKQh
After a long talk about inflation with my mostly non political little brother over the holidays, I got this picture text to me early this morning. I’m proud of the guy.
Our moral overlords at the U.N. are (thankfully, ineffectually) trying to stop Alabama from carrying out an execution in a novel, probably-painless way.
I wonder how frequently they chastise the many other countries that still practice it.
Since when do you have to register to read articles on the Fox News site???
The New Cruelty?
Site rather sucks anyway.
Yeah, I’d long since given up on it as a regular source of news but followed a couple of the links here only to be rudely blocked from reading them.
Yeah, saw that. Go pound sand, Fox News. You ain’t worth the hassle.
If you care, it’ll run in an Incognito/Private window
Not for me.
Huh. I run it in a Private window in Firefox without any problem – just checked it now and it works.
Also, I misread GT’s point. Private window gets around their adblocker ban.
Doesn’t work in Chrome or Edge for me.
Also runs in my “reader view”. (Press F9 on Edge)
Department of Conspiracy Theories: My officemate is an Iranian PhD student. There’s three other Iranian grad students in the office chatting with him in Farsi. I took this opportunity to ask them about the recent “unfortunate” incident there. “Who do you think did it?”
They looked at me like I was an idiot. “Everyone knows who did it, there’s no mystery.”
“Who?”
“The Iranian government.”
I know you started with “…Conspiracy Theories”, but yeah, that’s a no-brainer.
Never met and Iranian here who does not hate their government, but the sample may be a bit biased.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My granddaughter will make me a great grandfather next year. I’m too young for this shit.
Congratumalations 🎊!
Next year? So she’s gonna get pregnant in April or so?
It’s like writing 2023 on your checks.
She announced at Thanksgiving. So, yes it is this year.
Welcome to the crowd. My ggson is 4 months old, he came for Xmas, brought his parents. Didn’t say much.
First one, next I’ll have to teach him to walk.
Another apostate in the progressive-sphere.
Look what he makes us do
Any ordinary presidential candidate with the mountain of legal problems looming over Trump would have been driven out of the race long before now. But true to form, the ex-president has prospered politically – at least among GOP voters in pre-primary polls – with every indictment, charge and mug shot.
But after the latest dramatic legal developments, it’s worth reflecting on the unprecedented nature of the test Trump is yet again posing to the infrastructure of American democracy and the rule of law.
And some of the arguments he is making now also come across as rather rich, since he is seeking a level of protection for the individual choices of voters that he sought to deny them when he tried to steal President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
And what of the choices of those who voted for him? Do they not deserve to be respected? Do they not deserve a robust defense of the electoral process? Don’t they deserve a closer examination of the willy-nilly rewrite of election law preceding the election, with changes specifically intended to benefit Biden?
Honey, I’m dead — and I have been all the time. Or at least your link is.
But anyway — yeah, left out of that little rant is the concept that at least Trump’s supporters see the charges in question as *cough* trumped up and invalid. Any candidate with charges the electorate regarded as legitimate which had real evidence — yeah, that likely would have pushed them out by now.
Not that I really prefer all the stupid lawfare and drama — but that’s what we’re stuck with this year apparently. Yay.
the test Trump is yet again posing to the infrastructure of American democracy and the rule of law.
The powers that be are certainly pushing the limits.
when he tried to steal President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory
By pointing out the obvious fraud…
Remember when Bill Clinton ran for president and had legal questions like Paula Jones and Whitewater real estate deal? He immediately withdrew from the race if I remember correctly. So there is precedent.
NPR ran a story this morning about Mexico breaking up a migrant caravan. There’s no transcript up on their website yet, but there was some activist saying “The US (I think, might have been “Trump”) built a wall on its southern border, and that wall is Mexico.”
That soundbite needs to be scraped and run by OMB along with a “Promise Fulfilled” banner.
Probably wouldn’t work though on account of everyone knowing how false it is.
Just a little ironic…
The lawyer representing downtown Ottawa plaintiffs in a $300 million lawsuit against the Freedom Convoy expressed outrage Sunday over anti-Israel protesters being fined for violating a noise bylaw.
“This is an affront to our deepest and most important democratic values: the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of asswmbly [sic]. A ticket for using a megaphone for a couple of hours on a public street to protest against a horrific war? Unacceptable,” Ottawa attorney Paul Champ posted on X.
Expecting a lawyer to not be a moral hypocrite based on circumstances is like expecting seagulls to stay away from the beach.
^^ it’s literally in the job description. That said, the idea of advocating for something that you don’t personally agree with because it benefits your client/employer isn’t limited to lawyers. It’s usually a bit less of a moral issue when you get out of law, though.
What a moron. If I’m representing the truckers, that quote is in every brief I file and in every court appearance I make. Attributed, too. I’m no plagiarist, even if I did go to Harvard.
Wait a minute! I thought this was America!!!
and here I thought bullets were expensive
Dude was a felon. Probably stole a bunch of ammo. The only shoplifting charges that are actually charged.
Life’s expensive, ammo’s cheap, give them another round.
Not as expensive as fireworks.
carrying out an execution in a novel, probably-painless way.
The hysterical huffing and puffing over that is impressive. You’d think they were planning to dunk him in a vat of liquid nitrogen.
That would put us on track for the three seashells at least.
https://twitter.com/YaaraSaks/status/1742669411696378145
They go after Schwartz’s in MTL, Imma bust a cap in someone wearing a keffiyeh.
There’s never enough cup holders.
https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1742848352172294590
brah got a CB
Thats dope
Controlling Lasers through eye tracking technology
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1742809615782285517
We live in a time where people can support themselves by doing fun things and putting up videos of them enjoying it.
Uffda. When even the uber-proggy Star and Tribune starts running stories about how there is still inflation you know Joe is in trouble.
Since car and health insurance are mandated here in Minnesoda, I guess the only way to avoid rising prices is to shut off your utilities.
Coffee price at work has increased 38% over the last year.
we get free coffee at work. Unfortunately I don;t like it and sometime still buy coffee. I estimate I spend like 140 US a month on coffee
There is also free coffee, but it’s undrinkable.
I bought a Aeropress for my office coffee. I just need a water cooler with a hot tap and a bag of coffee. Cheap, good, and quick.
Not too worry, until the utility companies stop sending the threatening letters.
In his brief, Smith also sketched an ominous picture of how a future president could use the dispensations claimed by Trump. He argued against granting “immunity from criminal prosecution to a President who accepts a bribe in exchange for directing a lucrative government contract to the payer; a President who instructs the FBI Director to plant incriminating evidence on a political enemy; a President who orders the National Guard to murder his most prominent critics; or a President who sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary, because in each of these scenarios, the President could assert that he was simply executing the laws; or communicating with the Department of Justice; or discharging his powers as Commander-in-Chief; or engaging in foreign diplomacy.”
This is not an academic question in an election unfolding with the once and possibly future president vowing to use a second term to punish his enemies and adopting an increasingly extreme and autocratic platform.
Smith’s hypothetical legal argument just might be a glimpse of the future.
Well. That’s impressive. Aren’t all those high crimes exactly what the impeachment process is intended to address? All of those scenarios involve actual crimes and not just political differences of opinion.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t legislating from the prosecutor’s table outside the scope of Jack Smith’s duties?
vowing to use a second term to punish his enemies
Turnabout is fair play.
adopting an increasingly extreme and autocratic platform
There is literally nothing extreme about MAGA. And if Trump is an autocrat the current regime is a dictatorship.
immunity from criminal prosecution to a President who accepts a bribe in exchange for directing a lucrative government contract to the payer
I’m sure this has happened with every president in recent history.
a President who instructs the FBI Director to plant incriminating evidence on a political enemy
Obama, more or less
a President who orders the National Guard to murder his most prominent critics
Clinton, more or less
a President who sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary
Clinton, more or less
immunity from criminal prosecution to a President who accepts a bribe in exchange for directing a lucrative government contract to the payer
I’m sure this has happened with every president in recent history.
Are you implying that those post-presidential speaking fees and book advances are not on the up and up?
In case anybody really cares, CNN Collinson link
Maybe.
In local news, Romania signed the contract to purchase 200 patriot missiles for about one billion
Each?
Can I have a million?
Suckers!
We need a caption contest!
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2023/04/720/405/GettyImages-1241482580.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
From this article where NY joins NJ in saying goodbye to wind energy pork.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/giant-offshore-wind-project-axed-blow-bidens-green-goals
we’re gonna make the biggest windmills the best windmills
“Are these windmills for ANTS?!!!?”
“Hee hee. I like this cute little one right here.”
“Our windmills go up to 11”
“But your safety instructions say to never operate above 3.”
Also in local news, there seems to be a shortage of veterinarians in rural areas… I assume dogs in the city are more profitable than cows in the country.
In the US, the practice is split into “Lagre animal” and “Small animal” varieties. The latter being the pet-doctor. I’ve even seen a cat only practice.
we do not get the lagre breed here
The (kinda woke) Vermont farmer on youtube was complaining about finding doctors for hi9s cows
Quite a few of the large animal kind here. Undoubtedly because racehorse owners spend more than VT cowherds.
Was it in Catalina ?
On NY-9 in Saratoga.
So yesterday someone asked about the number of admirals in the Navy – 171 as it turns out. But the interesting part is the number of ships in the Navy – depends on who you ask; ranges from 280 to 445.
“Ranges from 280 to 445.”
Close enough for government work.
Those audits aren’t that detailed.
They’ve got 470 ships in four categories: active, support, ready reserve, and decommissioned reserve. So, the count depends on which categories you use.
The 280 figure seems to be active plus support ships.
I’m currently watching the Navy grad ceremony. My youngest kid’s boyfriend is graduating.
Speaking of inflation, my beer of choice (Pub Beer) just took a big jump in price. It’s from one of the “craft” brewers Bud just sold, so it was not completely unexpected. But ~20% is pretty stout.
Pub Beer is lager.
Apologies in advance.
But ~20% is pretty stout. Beyond Imperial and into Fortified.
Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped on main E22 road
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67880743
It doesnt look like that much snow.
The temperature…yeah, thats cold.
We had some people from Sweden come pitch us a new product. They arrived in January, and it was a bad day even for Iowa. The high was well below 0F and the wind was howling all day. They were shocked how cold it was.
here still 14C… warmest year continues… we might get some winter next week.
Fearmongering is all they have.
Senior campaign officials say that the venue is apt as it is where George Washington’s army endured a frigid winter in 1777-1778 before uniting his army and fighting for democracy and freedom against the British–Biden will try to rally his party for a fight against “MAGA extremism.”
MAGA is not extreme. The current admin is.
Senior campaign officials also say Washington offers a contrast with Trump as he peacefully and voluntarily stepped down from power after his time in office.
Because these things are the same…
Biden will try to cast the November election as not just about large policy differences — but as an existential threat to the republic with Trump likely to be on the ballot.
I look forward to more fortification and complete destruction of trust in elections.
ISTR Washington doing something that might possibly be considered insurrection.
Biden releases first Campaign Ad for 2024.
That’s full of a lot of bullshit.
…and pathetic…
Another black voice of white supremacy
Whether she was conscious of it or not, Claudine Gay’s entire life was organized around race. Race was the excuse for all of her shortcomings. It was America that made her existence and path in life possible.
We’ve made diversity our most prized virtue, believing that if we lift it high enough, we can hide the stink of America’s racist past. We wanted that first black female president of Harvard because we believed that a spectacle of race, rather than a monumental achievement of merit, would show the goodness of our country.
How desperate were we for racial innocence? So desperate that we betrayed the American principles that enabled countless blacks to reach a place in life that was an improvement upon the world they were born into! It is a sad reflection of America that we elevate the Claudine Gays of this world and not the meritorious women and men I grew up admiring.
But there is a silver-lining here: The trial of Gay in the public eye exposed the racial hypocrites and hypocrisies of our time unlike anything before.
We can hope.
Senior campaign officials say that the venue is apt as it is where George Washington’s army endured a frigid winter in 1777-1778 before uniting his army and fighting for democracy and freedom against the British–Biden will try to rally his party for a fight against “MAGA extremism.”
Why do I have an image in my head of a loyalist Biden calling for Washington and the treasonous rebels who conspired with him to be hanged in the public square?
I’m really hoping we’re moving in the right direction, and at least a few people are getting tired of this pants shitting. They are literally running on “It doesn’t matter that every aspect of life in America is going to shit because of Biden, what Trump MIGHT do if he’s elected (even though he had the chance and never did it) will be the worst thing to happen ever!” They’ve hit peak hyperbole, and can’t even think of anything worse that “Hitler” and “end of democracy.”
Is this Biden admitting he stands with George Washington and other SlaveMasters in fomenting Insurrection against the duly crowned (and settled by God Himself) King George III? Of course, Biden would have been a toady Loyalist in 1776-1783!
Yes, as long as they let him skim off some of the tax money they collected.
Police say there has been a shooting at a high school in Perry, Iowa; extent of injuries unclear
fuck
🙄
NBC not to be outdone, as one of their bullet points
Not sure how that is relevant but hey people! See it was Republicans! *hissss*
“The school shooting comes just days before the husband of a Doctor of Education is going to address a crowd and demand democracy be protected by curtailing democracy for about half the citizens of the nation.”
A quarter of Americans believe in conspiracy theory that FBI operatives organized and encouraged the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol
And 95% of Glibs. Although I’d like to know what “organized” means. Typical way to skew a question.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/04/fbi-conspiracy-jan-6-attack-misinformation/
If you removed “organized,” the percentage would have been unacceptably high for network news. Closer to 75%.
Organized? Nah. Instigated? High chance they had their dick beaters somewhere in the mix
All those voters need to be kept from voting, for democracy!
Speaking of offshore “wind power” I noticed in a story about the ones off Cape Cod that they are fifteen miles from the beach. In other words, over the horizon. Huh.
Rich folks can see them from their sloops, yachts and motor cruisers when they go out in the Atlantic to get away from the peasants on the beaches.
Our electric future continues at a blistering pace.
In fact, in 2023 GM delivered just 13,838 Ultium-based EVs: 9,154 Cadillac Lyriqs, 482 Chevrolet Blazer EVs, 461 Chevrolet Silverado EVs, 3,244 GMC Hummer EVs, and 497 BrightDrop delivery vans.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/general-motors-is-still-struggling-with-new-evs-data-show/
Democracy
The Biden campaign says the new 60-second spot highlights “the existential threat our country’s democracy faces from the MAGA extremism that now defines the Republican Party.” It draws heavily from a prominent speech Biden made in Arizona last fall, when he said that the MAGA movement “does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy” and that it posed a threat to democratic institutions.
“All of us are being asked right now: What will we do to maintain our democracy?” Biden says in the ad, asking the American people to join him in “this cause.”
“History is watching. The world is watching. And most important, our children and grandchildren will hold us responsible,” he says.
We should do away with the citizenship requirement and the Electoral College. That’ll show those MAGAs what American democracy is all about.
What does he propose to do with the members of “the MAGA movement?”
Wish them a winter of death?
Concentrate them in camps.
🐑 🐺 🐺 🍽
You’re eating the sheepdogs?
Someone’s looked back at the 1964 LBJ campaign. Expect a Biden ad soon that shows a little girl being incinerated by a hydrogen bomb. “Don’t risk World War III and the destruction of our Planet. Vote for Joe Biden, and Save Humanity.”
Time to ban the Republican Party. To save democracy, of course.
Fleas attempt circus putsch
A group of aides hired to reelect President Joe Biden is breaking with him on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
In a letter first shared with West Wing Playbook, 17 current Biden campaign staffers called directly on the president to push for a permanent ceasefire in the monthslong conflict.
“As your staff, we believe it is both a moral and electoral imperative for you to publicly call for a cessation of violence,” the staffers wrote in the letter, which was anonymously signed and posted on Medium. “Complicity in the death of over 20,000 Palestinians, 8,200 of whom are children, simply cannot be justified.”
The staffers also urged the president to end unconditional military aid to Israel and advocated for a deescalation in the region, including the release of hostages.
They don’t seem to have a very good grasp of the employer-employee relationship, do they?
Hey you little shits, go fetch some coffee and sandwiches or something.
Stake or steak holders?
The letter was organized by campaign staffers. Five of them confirmed the authenticity of the letter to West Wing Playbook. Those staffers, who were granted anonymity because of their concern of backlash, said they were motivated to organize their letter out of a sense of moral responsibility.
Moral responsibility is all well and good, but it don’t put food on the table or make the payments on the Tesla.
Put your names to your statements, weak cuntes.