I got no sports news, although there are some good soccer games in Europe this weekend. Now the links.
This is just horrible! I’m just kidding. They can always learn to code.
So much stunningness and bravery. They could always just choose to go elsewhere, but that would leave other people a choice. And we can’t have that!
When will this farce end? As if the Wade shit wasn’t bad enough, now we get this.
I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not really shocked.
Don’t be dicking around with skeeters. [enter pithy comment here]
They left out the biggest myth: That it’s our fucking financial business to begin with.
So the Bay Area is closing down libraries, huh? I guess they don’t want people to read have sex in public. What a bunch of fascists.
What a coincidence! I’m sure there’s nothing questionable going on. Move along, people. Move along.
Bring back the 80s! Because it was the best. The late 70s wasn’t bad either. Musically, anyway. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend as well, dear friends.
I think they’re doing pre-season testing for F1 this week… I should probably skim it to see if we’re looking at another Max-in-the-distance, everyone else fighting over 3-6th season like I expect.
Morning, Sloopy… morning, all!
The Blues won.
So did the Penguins.
Based on the little I read, it sounds like a repeat of last year with the also rans being bunched closer together for second. They try to spin the articles to make it sound like more of a competition for first, but it don’t look good for non-Red Bull fans.
Yeah, I read Max was 1.2s ahead of the rest of the field.
The non-Max news I saw was Danny Ric was a solid 4th, 1+ seconds ahead of Yuki. A return to form? We’ll see.
Gah! Make one little comment and suddenly Paul Reubens is peering at you out of nowhere!
And I only see one of his hands…. Stop it, Paul!
To be fair — some of his best acting was one-handed…
At least you didn’t run into him at his favorite theatre….
http://peewee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Pee-wee-hypnotizing-with-Dr.-Mondo.jpg
A friend in high school had that same puppet. We made a horror movie with him. “Night of the Puppet”.
Hugo!
https://peewee.com/2015/01/04/world-hypnotism-day-today-world-hypnotism-day-today
Yes Hugo! She had all those disguises and the original box.
Don’t be a jerk and say snide things about PeeWee
You’re pulling my leg but no skin off my back, Jimbo
Or invoke Codium or CoPilot to fake knowing how to code it seems… (I’m less than impressed with GenAI tools contrary to the drives and wishes of my employer, I must say…)
I prefer hand-crafted artisinal code.
Only the finest assembly with classic Japanese transistors, good sir!
Wait until the predictions that AI will make coders have to go learn to code after they lose their jobs happens!
Funny, we’re currently in the opposite boat, management-wise.
“Do not stream your code off to some cloud servers, you idiots!”
Wouldn’t this (by their definition) be a massive book banning?
I think it’s fascism.
The Nazis would have done the same thing this local government did. Think about that the next time you consider voting for a progressive.
Was thinking along the same lines. At what point to they dispense with all of the pretense, start disappearing people and seizing all of their property without explanation?
Hillary assures us that we have some wonderful locations available for extended vacations on the state’s dime.
“Was thinking along the same lines. At what point to they dispense with all of the pretense, start disappearing people and seizing all of their property without explanation?”
As soon as they feel the masses have been steeped in the bullshit long enough that the vast majority will at a minimum remain silent while their team cheers it all on?
You mean besides the Silk Road prosecutions, asset forfeiture laws, indefinite detention, and the J6 prosecutions?
I bet there were hushed talks bout seizing the property of J6ers. Hell, the VA made bullshit claims they can be denied their due benefits cause of it.
And if you think the IRS stopped engaging in the criminality encouraged by the Obama admin, you were wrong.
They have given a FYTW explanation for proposing seizing $470 million of a certain opposition political leader’s property, and handing it over to people who aren’t the claimed victims.
Question: if claiming your right to appeal requires paying the entire judgment upfront, and the judgment is more than you can raise, do you then forfeit your due process rights to appeal? For example, suppose the Trump NYC “damage” award was one trillion dollars, can the state then claim you can’t appeal to SCOTUS even though no one has that kind of money?
Or can you appeal based on a transparent attempt to deny due process?
Their hope is this ties him up enough that by the time the abuse of power is resolved they have managed to steal the 2024 election.
I expect there to be massive rioting once the color revolution types trying to steal the election are unable to do it without getting caught.
I expect people will just suck it up and take it based on Covid and the example they made of Jan 6 “insurrectionists”.
you consider voting for a progressive
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha [gasps for air] here? anyone here?
BWhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Canethia Miller, 27, was accepted onto a DC government pilot last year as she and he three children were struggling to make ends meet. The Strong Futures program is one of many across the US – but the only one to offer the cash as a $10,800 lump sum, rather than in 12 smaller monthly installments.
Miller opted for the former – and confessed to the Washington Post that she splurged more than $6,000 of the windfall on a five night trip to Miami for herself and her three sons.
Something Milton Freidman said about spending other people’s money comes to mind.
And why not? It’s not like her choice was “take the lump sum and lose your dole, or just stay on the dole.” She still has her income stream until those kids reach majority.
What about the children’s father? He seems to have gone on vacation with his family. Does he not have to pay child support? What’s up with that?
I bet they might first have to figure out who is each child’s father and that is a lot of work…
I have a huge problem with all these people that think if people that are poor are just given a hand up their lives will suddenly change for the better. It’s almost like they assume it’s just bad luck that people are poor and decisions made never have any consequences.
I have yet to find anyone that has told me my hypothesis is/was wrong – and then give me accurate reasons why that would be the case – when I postulated that: “If I could magically change the financial situation of every human tomorrow so that each and every person has the same amount of wealth, a week or so after that date, the vast majority of those that were poor would be complaining that they needed another reset again cause their money was gone.”
Making dumb choices seems to always be the most important determinant for people’s personal situations, but progressivism is the enemy of making good decisions, and especially dealing with consequences of bad ones.
I just had this argument with my sister regarding homelessness. She insists it’s due to housing prices. When I said giving the majority of homeless people a home isn’t going to fix their mental illness/addictions, she basically had no reply. Sure, give them a home, that home will be a trap house in a week, not “yard of the month” material. Homelessness is a symptom of a bigger problem, not the problem itself. Taking my money to “fix” it is theft.
A problem we promise to solve tomorrow with your dollars today /All Politicians In Unison
I think the biggest issue is treating “the homeless” as one great mass. They’re still individual people, not a collective. There are those that are on hard times, and only need a hand up to get themselves back on their feet. There are those who need much more guidance to change behaviors to be able to stay housed, and there are those who (by choice or due to addiction/mental illness) will never be able to care for themselves. Hell, even me breaking it down into three groups leaves out people.
“I think the biggest issue is treating “the homeless” as one great mass. They’re still individual people, not a collective. ”
Collectivism is about treating everything as a collective problem requiring a collectivist (a.k.a. big government) solution.
Complete agreement.
It still makes you a heartless MAGA fascist, though. Take comfort in that while the problems get kicked down the road another generation.
Neph is correct based on my interactions with numerous social service agencies. The most successful one on turning the homeless around skimmed the “cream of the crop” from the shelters, got them into a co-op with lots of counseling and financial aid, kept them dry and sober, and made them get a job and pay a portion of their rent that increased over time until they moved out.
Then the county got involved and said we will not let you do that – we will assign you homeless people based on our formula and, of course, equity.
The number of successful turnarounds plummeted to half within a couple years and continuing downward as the old style residents moved on.
Next time ask her how all that urban based affirmative action project housing thing worked out. When people have no personal skin in the game, and even more important, have the wherewithal to actually understand consequences of bad decisions, things will go bad and do so quick and in a YUGE way.
When your decisions are made because of emotional reasons or because of evil motivations, understanding there are consequences that will be bad or even worse, doesn’t factor in.
No problem where people lack things is “fixed” by giving them said things. Especially when identifying and understanding the underlining condition that led to the problem so you can then work on it results in accusations that you are coming at the problem they want to solve with more government handouts (which grows government and its reach into people’s lives) from a place of evil.
People that don’t actually deal with urban outdoorsmen on a regular basis usually have a pretty simplistic view of them as just lacking the funds the have a home when really, after a certain point in the homeless career, it’s a combination of mental illness, substance abuse and ultimately a lifestyle choice.
Urban outdoorsmen. I’m stealing that.
How about fenced off sort of tent cities where they’re allowed to engage in all criminality short of murder? They could be voluntary and government run even but they’d give them a place to do their drugs and engage in their delusions without effecting normal people. Most of them would be perfectly happy with that arrangement I think and further help could be offered for the ones that really want it.
The Wire already did it.
Denver has them. I’m not sure what the rules are in terms of length of stay, etc.
https://denverite.com/2023/06/05/city-council-safe-outdoor-sites-program-permanent/
Progressivism’s goal is to make everyone poor and dependent. Thus the efforts towards incompetence and the corruption of morals and wisdom. Poor life decisions is what they teach.
Yes, I have seen it many times…poor people who are poor by their own design and nothing you can do to change that. You cant save people from themselves.
“If I could magically change the financial situation of every human tomorrow so that each and every person has the same amount of wealth, a week or so after that date, the vast majority of those that were poor would be complaining that they needed another reset again cause their money was gone.”
I forget the name of it but there is an Econ theory exactly to that effect.
And she’s paying $120/month on a subsidized two bedroom apartment.
And she’s getting food stamps.
The best, the absolute cherry on top, is that she had a class on “financial literary” that taught her about saving money for a rainy day, and she’s striving to keep $50 in her savings account. SLAY, KWEEN!
$50?
That’s basically empty.
Two trips downtown and you call it empty?
With enough leftover to complete the shame and get some Taco Bell
After those two trips, yeah.
ROFL…. now do Nike, Apple and all the other supply chains in China you little idiots.
Oh right — those slaves are out of sight / out of mind… but the Great Workers Collective Socialism is helped by the unions according to your sociology Prof… so adamant you must be! Your Che poster would disapprove of you otherwise.
I love how the students seem convinced that they are in a meaningful movement to fight injustice.
So after Starbucks unionizes, expect the Great Coffee Riots over the prices. Students will demand subsidies!
I am gonna bet a whole bunch of these idiots will complain that they thought OTHER PEOPLE would have to pay more…
Like the lady that was pro Obamacare until Obamacare had her cadillac plan cancelled and she ended up with a worse plan that cost a lot more, and then whined about why she had to pay for it instead of the rich.
Yes, yes…it’s retardation all the way down.
Their shit is all fucked up and they are all retardeded…
They are not using their beans for sure when they say stuff like that.
Those Starbucks ARE unionized. The students protesting can’t even figure out that their demands were already met, and that the status quo is the outcome they claim to want.
If my aunt had balls she would be my uncle.
Starbucks is not a student.
I love that the number of students is not specified. It’s probably a dozen douche bags.
When they’ve brought in sufficient
invadersvotes to make all of America into California and they can happily be corrupt with no one ever calling them on it.In the shorter term and for Ms. Fani…. when OMB is locked up good and proper along with every other Republican because RICO says they’re all one big conspiracy or something. (/sarc — a little)
I read this morning that in NYC, the esteemed Letitia is going to try and prevent Trump from changing his business addresses from New York to Florida. And something like $87k/day in fines as long as he hasn’t paid his $400M tribute.
Another reason in 2021 he should have decided not to bother running again and just bought a Caribbean island and declared it a nation state with no extradition treaties. He should have seen this shit coming — but his ego just wouldn’t let him stay out of things.
I’m sure if there isn’t a New York “soak the rich when they try to leave” law like CA and other states keep trying, the pet legislator that passed the “no statue of limitations just long enough to sue OMB!” will quickly set one up so that she can prosecute and torment him regardless.
Regarding the viral-agra story:
“The theory is based on the story of a 17-year-old dengue patient in Burkina Faso who exhibited the embarrassing side effect”
Maybe the kid just has a severe case of being a 17 year old male.
Seriously? It’s based on a single teenager getting a boner? lmao
If only the lad had received some professional assistance from the medical staff.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that movie at least once.
Did someone interrupt it to tell you they didn’t believe the story the way the guy giving the campus tour that then ended up tapping his mom was telling it?
Described as a ‘soft erection’.
When I was 17 I could scratch glass….wait, I can still do that.
There are a number of conditions affecting nerves and blood flow that can cause that symptom…but a news story over one single case? WTF? They are starving for content.
Shit, up until I turned 60, even a cold breeze got me up to attention…
These days it takes a little bit more stimuation.
I had figured you were a decade or more younger.
Man, I wish!
Though I am a mere 28, I remember the fall of Berlin Wall very well.
My brain insists I remember the challenger disaster, though I was 3 1/2 at the time. At least it’s possible I did see it on TV…
My brain reminds me that while I used to believe that the Carter years were horrible, and while I believe Obama was the most evil and destructive president of my lifetime, the people running the show now for the crypt keeper occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania drive are ahead of Caret when it comes to fucking shit up bad.
60 was like flipping a switch.
Wait… people who aren’t good with money tend to blow through money you just give them? Stop the presses… the basic living stipend (or whatever it is called) people are going to get the vapors…
She must be a nazi to blow they money in Florida.
I’m just glad you didn’t go Rule 34 on us with a Harry Potter journalist fanfic.
That comment was supposed to be about citrus and making helmets from them.
(Yes, I know the helmets were not made of citsu pith)
Well no need to let that sour you on the whole thing like the rest of us scurvy dogs!
https://www.sadanduseless.com/cat-helmets-funny/
I see several folks are going for poop or other surprises in their shoes….
Sounds awfully similar to the Santa Clara sheriff approving gun permits, doesn’t it?
In other news — wealth and power seek corrupt officials to further wealth and power. Cycle continues. Humanity is a fallen species. News at 11.
Sigh.
Students at multiple U.S. colleges on Thursday urged their universities to kick Starbucks off their campuses until the coffee chain changes its labor practices.
Looking at the pic of the NYU protesting crew and… they look exactly like you’d expect. Only real surprise is that none of the chicks are aggressively obese with poison-frog hair and facial piercings.
Heh — I don’t think I’d heard it referred to in that fashion before now. I like it.
Certainly it serves the same purpose of warning anyone thinking about it of how toxic it would be….
I have heard it referred to as “danger hair”.
Poison Frog Hair for the win now. I will remember it.
If I understand the article, they a protesting Starbucks for “union busting” but the workers at the schools either do not work for Starbucks directly but are instead unionized employees of another service provider or are unionized employees of Starbucks.
They were all at Starbucks ordering giant sugary coffee milkshakes,
For some reason I was expecting Blondie. She does *cough* spring to mind when I hear “The late 70s were not bad at all….”
Ditto, except he posted her fairly recently, so figured it had to be someone else.
“…good soccer games…”
*facepalm*
News outfits seem to come and go with the weather these days. Looks like print is dying…that is long overdue.
‘Students demand…’. Seems to be a lot of that going around lately. What with all of the DEI crap and marxist navel gazing going on who has time for students? Kick the damned students off of campus.
Socialist are corrupt. News at 11.
“…given taxpayer money…”
I think I see the problem.
“Two years ago, Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, premeditated, full-scale invasion of Ukraine based on several myths, including that Ukraine was not a “real” country and was militarily weak, and that the West was in disarray and would do little to stop him.”
Uh, no, that’s not what happened. No point it reading past that point.
Remember back in the early ’80s when the marxists were pushing for dope and homeless sanctuaries on the left coast and people were warning that….oh, never mind. They knew it would cause this clusterfuck, that is why they pushed it. Fuck’em.
Did I already announce ‘News at 11?’
Weird fact I just realized: Spanish Flu was 1918. Covid was 2020. I was born in 1969, which is exactly 1/2 way between them.
You’re lucky to be alive.
I was born in 1969
Obligatory: nice.
Re: Obligatory: noice
If you have Jewish family members and have repeatedly denounced white supremacy, still a Nazi.
Eric S. Edelman was undersecretary of defense for policy, 2005-2009 and is counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
David J. Kramer, executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova from 2005-2008.
Just a couple of guys who understand foreign policy.
Who ran on promises of peace and negotiation.
Zelenskyy makes Woodrow Wilson look honest.
The love child of Wilson and Harding?
The Nazi angle is overblown but there and any nation that elevates a Goddamn psycho-murderer has a Nazi issue. The Ukes also incorporated the Russians into their untermensch concept but if they managed to get rid of them the Jews wouldn’t be able to rest easy.
Was the $10k Miami vacation article from 1995? Because that outfit…guuurrrrlll.
The 90’s styles are back in fashion. One of my nephews was in awe of some of my clothes (that no longer fit me) that have been handed down to him now.
^^^ Yep.
Maybe for men…
You ladies are just mean to each other…
Women in commercials are wearing those odd high waisted, high water pants again. Not sure what decade that is from. Some type of 1970’s revival?
The girls going over to the boys house look like they were plucked from my teenage years of the girls I brought over the house with regards to their attire.
She’s…27. The woman in question is twenty-seven years old.
Mama wants to be 18 though…hell my sister in her 50s tries to dress in her daughter’s age-group trends
Looks like a dime’s worth of dirty ice, as granny might say.
Look. I’m not planning on starting to pay attention to teenage girl fashion. I didn’t pay attention to what was fashionable for a girl to wear then, and I’m sure as hell not going to start now.
I don’t even pay attention to men’s fashion. Subculture fashion FTW.
The demographics that pays attention to fashion and are willing to fork out big cash to keep up with it are not usually heterosexual men…
I had a lady a while back at work tell me she felt all bad cause she had worn the same outfit a while back.. I blinked, told her I had no clue she had worn that outfit before (and couldn’t care less that she had), then told her she must think I only own one outfit since my closet has 5 of the same item to wear just so I would end up looking the fool cause I wore a shirt that didn’t match my pants or shoes…
90s styles were not even in fashion in the 90s.
Ugh, that means the ‘60s re re re revival is just around the corner then. They’ll all be wearing bellbottoms in a year or two.
That came and went I believe in 2019 if boys friends are any indication.
I blame Friends.
I’m pretty sure my only conscious exposure to fashion in the ’90s was the Chadwick’s catalog. Now I barely look at that anymore.
Does Duluth Trading count as fashion?
Counts as clothing, keeps ya warm and not arrested.
Nobody’s giving Slopy shit for the sidebar? What is this place coming to?
Wait, I am away for a week and Sloopy is now Slopy?
What gives?
he donated an o.
To Banjos?
So Banjoos?
You don’t like the joos?
HAMAS LUVER!!!
YOU SET ME UP!
BASTAGE!
Name shortening is a slippery slope, it seems.
He moved to Vietnam I think.
I’d make another pun on his typo, but I hate Slopy seconds.
I figured he was going to fix it and invalidate any reminder.
There are times when it’s really nice having no sense of shame.
It’s so tasty that Google execs feel the need to bow and scrape and explain themselves to Elon 😆
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1761020387691790399
That is delicious.
Yeah, I am sure what they are concerned and distraught about is that they got caught doing this evil shit and it might impact their coming efforts to rig the 2024 election again in favor of whatever democrat candidate they tell the democrats they are allowed to vote for to keep the real people in power happy their globalist agenda is not under attack by the American people that have had enough of that shit.
I eagerly await the badly implemented overcorrection. You know white Zulus and shit.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Since the Iowegians are a bit slow A second Ray of Sunshine
MY next door neighbor won’t wave to me. OTOH, I can understand why
I’m approaching one year of being out of debt. It’s still surreal to pay off my bills and not be completely bereft of funds.
How have my expensive hobbies not bankrupted me?
When I was married, even though both my wife an I made good money, we always had financial troubles. Since I got divorced and the pool of money I had dropped to around 2/3rds of what it was, I have not had anything but monthly surpluses. By now I think i am caught up with what I had to pay to get out of that 23 year long arrangement.
You just need more expensive hobbies.
Might I suggest race cars, sailboats, horses, light aircraft, or redheaded ladies?
Stay away from the redheaded ladies…
Nobody can afford that.
Can confirm but man…is it fun.
Yeah, a few weeks of fun, and years of avoiding crazy…
Meh, YMMV. 12 years in and its still a fun rollercoaster.
Are you sure she isn’t a tranny based on the hot vs. crazy matrix scale? 😍
Heh…those that have met/seen her on Zoom would probably caution that tone 😉
Ex Ms Tres is a redhead. And today is/would be our anniversary.
The most amiable MLW is red-haired.
Start with Cowboy Action Shooting.
Then move to Mounted Cowboy Action Shooting.
But I dislike the whole cowboy aesthetic.
+ Brokeback Mountain
Electronics and blacksmithing are not super expensive as hobbies go. Get a vintage car if you want to go bankrupt. Lots of other good suggestions for bankruptcy on this thread as well.
Have you seen my Warhammer habit?
Does your Warhammer habit look anything like this?
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/warhammer-40000–714735403347410646/
It’s not really a high end hobby until you get to this level.
(From last years Cleveland Gaming Classic)
Nah, Space Marine Cosplayers are bottom tier.
TechPriest is where it’s at.
Why do that when you can put your smugness on display with a $7 cup of coffee in your hand.
Speaking of inexpensive hobbies…
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Oh No! How will we ever have any culture in Minnesoda?! The kindergarteners at a tax payer funded organization are so unhappy that they are not able to play SJW on the tax payer’s dime anymore.
My favorite is the sign one protester is holding: “No Culture Without Cultural Workers”. I wonder how many years of college it took that brilliant person to come up with that?
These days isn’t college all abut teaching people “revolutionary slogans” and indoctrinate them into marxism? Cause from what I see, teaching people to think or some advanced skillset that would make them able to pay back the insane cost of that piece of paper, isn’t part of the program.
I can’t define Minnesoda culture but I’ll know it if I ever see it
At least we are showing compassion and equity towards our criminals and bums and criminal bums.
So that asshat Mark Cuban recently admitted he was a racist piece of shit and that his companies regularly engage in illegal hiring practices based on race, now has company.
What galls me is that in my experience this phenomenon is the status quo of corporate America based on the last 2 decades of experience with this shit and that others are somehow finally waking up to that reality and acting as if it is something totally new.
So for reasons that needn’t be gotten into here, I recently read New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s “State of the Nation” address to Parliament. Admittedly, some of it is politics as usual (shit’s bad, blame your predecessor) but a few things stood out. A few exerpts:
Kiwis are a resilient bunch. But the last government treated us like a country that had lost its mojo. And because of that, we did.
We were badly let down by a broken and distracted government.
A justice system which had a deliberate strategy to empty New Zealand’s prisons, even as violent crime soared.
And an economy, where inflation crushed wages, even as Kiwis are left paying more and more tax to fund Labour’s wasteful spending.
Since 2000 our 15 year olds have slipped from 4th in the developed world for maths to 19th.
Where 79 per cent of students in the UK attend school regularly – the equivalent rate of attendance in New Zealand is just 46 per cent. That’s a year of education lost by the time they’re 15 – and that’s not fair to them or their futures.
Inflation has stayed high – the cost of living crisis isn’t over yet, with inflation here higher than Australia, the UK, the US, Canada, Japan and the EU.
Government spending is up 84 per cent since 2017 – and debt has climbed from $5 billion to a staggering projection of well over $100 billion.
New Zealand’s economy is now less productive than vast swathes of the former Eastern Bloc, including Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Lithuania.
The median full-time worker in Australia now earns $20,000 more a year than someone in New Zealand.
It’s no surprise therefore, that Kiwis have been voting with their feet. Last year a record net 44,500 New Zealanders left the country.
Full transcript here.
Some thoughts: Jacinda Ardern must be Gavin Newsom’s spirit animal, CATO will probably still rank New Zealand number one in their Freedom Index, and the economic output and people moving stats really surprised me (it’s not like you can load a U-Haul and leave NZ).
My ex married a Kiwi. The guy had to jump thru crazy amounts of red tape to GTFO.
Well, marriages to small, flightless birds isn’t a typical situation.
Love is love, and the guy wasn’t into tits.
Boobies are better.
Well, Oz will take always them. (Do many Aussies move to NZ?)
What is there do do in NZ that requires an extensive educaton. Your most important residents are sheep. And shouldn’t you be taking your schooling model form the Maori?
You need to be able to make stuff like this.
I was contemplating on the recent achievement of the private moon lander. Robotic landers are nice but with such strict protocols and parameters for the lander and yesterday, they were at risk of failing. Granted, the engineers back on this rock worked a solution and they found a way, nothing can replace a pilot. Someone with human intuition and guts to put the lander down even when all the numbers are screaming it won’t work.
+1 Sully Sullenberger
Anytime there’s a story involving gentrification of a poor neighborhood, everyone rushes to blame whitey, or the gays, or whoever happens to be improving the area by wanting to spend money there. The reason why gentrification is a bad thing is because property taxes price people out of homes they’ve been living in for years, and I can relate to this as someone who’s property tax has gone up recently. But nobody blames the government for levying a tax on fucking owning property.
Yeah, but those people move on to devalue other neighborhoods, making those places ripe for gentrification within a decade or two. Without them the whole process falls apart.
[Prop 13 waves hello]
I do.
I do all the time. My personal pet peeve is when they’re talking about extending a levy or tax (“Not a new tax!”). Yes, yes it is new. This tax was supposed to go away on the expiration date, pushing out the expiration date is adding a new tax for that whole time period.
If of course Trump was an idea person to begin with – not sure how you could ever entertain that notion. Other than this, the rest of the article wasn’t unreasonable.
Didn’t he promote those things? The problem is he also says a lot of obnoxious stuff.
“Germany is set to legalise cannabis today, allowing possession of up to 25 grams and cultivating up to three plants for personal use”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13117641/germany-legalise-cannabis-personal-use.html
I did not see that coming.
Anything to get votes. I really wish this didn’t keep getting tied to decrepit socialists though.
Well, there’s the new pushes for mushroom and other hallucinogens going on now.
So, smoke and drang?
I think someone has linked to this site before, and this is a juicy read.
Raz the
ExhorterDestroyer?“Taylor Swift is supported by adoring boyfriend Travis Kelce who wears her friendship bracelet as she finally storms the stage on first night of Eras Tour in Sydney after lightning delayed show – and Katy Perry and Rita Ora are there too”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13117171/Travis-Kelce-Taylor-Swift-Sydney-Accor-stadium.html
Can he look more gay?
He’s just a part of the entourage now, so yes, he probably can become more gay.
The oldest country in Europe: What’s behind Italy’s ageing problem?
https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/23/the-oldest-country-in-europe-whats-behind-italys-ageing-problem
“According to the latest data from Eurostat, Italy is the oldest country in the European Union, with an average median age of above 48.”
posted to fast. i find the term average median weird. people usually say just median. also above 48? just give the number
48.5
They have to use median since there are certain other territories in Europe where centuries-old bloodsuckers skew the average.
RCR at the Philly Car Show
I was disappointed that wasn’t Royal Crown Revue. The girlfriend and I were supposed to see them at Viva Las Vegas 2020…
She’s still salty about them not being signed for one of the later ones.
I’m going to use that in casual conversation today.
If its to your HR department, please record.
Is the correct term for a cloaca “only hole?”
🙂
We should compile a list of people stupid enough to pay big money to join this shitshow cause they are going to be complainers and life’s losers demanding student loan forgiveness at some point while working as barristas.
Such a shitshow, the link doesn’t want to go there.
All right, all right
which shitshow?
Thinking he’s calling this place a shitshow
You paid big money to join?
Well shit…I knew it was a matter of time before that Nigerian prince got me.
The “infinite” Italian fish soup in a Michelin restaurant in Tuscany with the Zazzeri family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w6vyA8Sc6Y
CBS has come a long way from dumping Rather for fake reporting.
Everything anyone ever needs to know about ‘news’ organizations
We don’t pay you to find out what happened, we pay you to parrot the narrative.
I hope she lands somewhere good or goes solo… Hey work is slowly needed in the mainstream news. Wonder why her editor isn’t getting canned too?
Maybe she could team up with Sharyl Attkisson.
From the WSJ (in the clear at RCP, but otherwise paywalled):
The narrative is that this “blows the whole case” against Biden. I follow whatever committee that is on Twitter, and I don’t remember ever seeing this guy mentioned. To me he seemed sketchy from the beginning. There’s plenty of other evidence, including bank accounts, shell businesses, wire transfers, banks reports of suspicious activity, photos of Biden, emails, text messages, and interviews with Hunter’s business associates.
The contrived spin, like with most things they manage to get their hands on, is being overdone to the point of obviousness. Once again, they’re overplaying their hand.
Ignore all the evidence, because the intel community, which already turned Carter Page, whom had been a multi decade US CIA asset after leaving the NAVY into a Russian stooge, all so they could lie to a FISA court and get warrants to spy on political opponents, has played the same “Authoritarian Shithole The Gathering – It’s a Russia Collusion!” game card…
You are forgetting the FBI’s first refusal to disclose his identity – he was too high valued as a reliable informant. Once his identity ended up disclosed, now he becomes an unreliable pariah.
That’s odd, isn’t it? Unless of course the FBI is nothing more than a Praetorian Guard operation.
Viva Frei reviewed the indictment, I believe, and said it read more like a defense of Biden than an indictment of Smirnov. It didn’t deny that the meetings Smirnov reported really happened but it claimed he got the dates wrong – they took place after Biden was no longer VP, so he couldn’t POSSIBLY have ANY political influence that would help these folks! 🙄
“However, just to be clear, all the workers at the Starbucks affiliated with NYU are unionized employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement with our food services contractor, Chartwells,” the NYU spokesperson added.
Way to do your homework, kids.
“Russia has lost 8,300 armored fighting vehicles in Ukraine; this includes 2,600 tanks, 5,100 armored personnel carriers, and 600 self-propelled artillery units.”
Let’s just ignore that Russia had around 30k tanks, iirc. I don’t think they’re about to run out of equipment anytime soon.
“Russian personnel losses are approaching 400,000 dead and wounded”
Does anyone believe this number? It could be that high, but how would anyone not actually looking at the Intel know the truth?
“U.S. support for Ukraine consists of less than 4 percent of the Pentagon’s annual budget”
No way this is true. Looks like we’ve sent over 75 billion as of last year. That’s much closer to 10% than 4%… And I don’t even believe that number either. It’s all funny budgeting tricks.
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts
“This brings us to the final myth that hangs over the war: namely, that supporting Ukraine distracts us from where we should really be concentrating our efforts — China […] the military threat China poses is still prospective.”
Yes, let’s keep it that way. Driving Russia and China into each other’s arms and undermining the dollar is no big deal. *Rolls eyes*
Probably military budget aid. Foreign aid and state department aid, various treasury “loan” programs, and grants may raise the total.
how would anyone not actually looking at the Intel
What Intel? Where the hell does all the spin begin?
More people here need sidebar de-activation privileges. This shit hurts my eyes.
Potatoes have a lot of eyes….
This brings us to the final myth that hangs over the war: namely, that supporting Ukraine distracts us from where we should really be concentrating our efforts
Our resources are infinite. We can, and should, be doing everything everywhere, just like God.
I open up links and there’s a fucking sidebar. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?!
It’s the Glibertarian version of shrinkflation.
Cats living with dogs, MASS HYSTERIA!
Interesting. No matter what my zoom is set to, I do not have a sidebar on the post page.
You don’t now, no. *preen*
Heh. Using your superpowers, I see.
To the benefit of glibkind.
Listened to John Stewart’s “takedown” of Tucker’s Putin interview.
What a joke.
All he did was make sarcastic comments and his audience was clapping like trained seals.
I’ve heard people say he used to be funny and insightful, but I never saw it.
Now I see some people saying how much they respect his work with 9/11 firemen, but did he do anything? Has he started a fund for them, or did he just make speeches to Congress for more tax money?
Stewart is an establishment shill wrapped up in a faux 1990s sarcasm candy shell. He actually was good at one time but he fucking blows now.
It was bad. He spent most of the time making fun of Tucker’s face.
And the clown nose on/clown nose off schtick has always turned me off.
Stewart hasn’t been funny since January 2009.
It’s hard to be funny when you’ve got a lot of dick in your mouth (and maybe your ass too).
“Feb 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced Washington would issue more than 500 new sanctions targeting Russia as the United States seeks to increase pressure on Moscow to mark the second anniversary of its war in Ukraine.
The United States will also impose new export restrictions on nearly 100 entities for providing support to Russia and take action to further reduce Russia’s energy revenues, Biden said in a statement.”
https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/world-news/biden-hits-russia-with-over-500-new-sanctions-to-mark-second-anniversary-of-war-in-ukraine/
The whole thing is silly.
Don’t worry, we will starve those peasants yet.
Too local
So double secret super probation.
I imagine they’ll do just fine and somehow it’ll be our European vassals…whoops, allies…that get screwed.
I’ve heard people say he used to be funny and insightful, but I never saw it.
Some people mistake sneering disdain for wit.
Ahh yes, John Oliver fans.
The amazing thing is that John Stewart’s replacements were even worse than he was. People were all too easily entertained in the cable heydays. I think it is because options were so limited and controlled.
I miss AOTS.
No doubt, Samantha Bee was the worst-just terrible.
I had completely put her out of my mind. The Mrs. and I couldn’t even stand the commercials for her show. We ended up muting the TV whenever they came on.
That’s been Harry Schearer’s schtick for decades.
ZeroHedge wins the Headline Olympics for the Vice shutdown:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/once-valued-57bn-vice-media-stops-publishing-and-nothing-value-was-lost
“Vice Media Stops Publishing And Nothing Of Value Was Lost”
And we might get salty lib tears (not as salty as mermaid pussy as mentioned above, though) …
It’s almost like people don’t need dozens of media companies parroting the exact same talking points all the time.
+1 Sinclair Group
I remember when Vice made interesting stuff like The Guns of Pakistan.
Oh, damn….
Well played.
This Trump lawyer has actually been one of the better ones.
How dare they attack such a strong black woman!
WALK OF SHAME!
All the attempts to label the Willis-Wade shitshow as nothing to worry about just went up in smoke. That trial is dead. After all, they know it was not going to stick, but it was about the timing and making it hard for Trump to run in 2024.
“Araiza was originally drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 2022 NFL Draft, but he was released before the start of the ’22 regular season after he was accused in a civil lawsuit of participating in the gang rape of a minor during an off-campus party at San Diego State University in 2021,” the release added. ” Last year, Araiza was dropped from a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/star-punter-falsely-accused-of-rape-finally-signed-to-nfl-contract-by-kansas-city-chiefs
This seems to happen very often. Maybe not fire people based on accusations?
You can say it again…
“The representative from New York City has before brought up how she has been sexually assaulted when discussing political topics. She talked about the incident during the time when protestors went into the Capitol on Jan. 6. She has brought it up multiple times when Jan. 6 is brought up.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/aoc-highlights-her-own-sexual-assault-when-pro-israel-group-calls-hamas-rapist-monsters
Considering how she lied about J6…..
Didn’t she die on J6 too – at least, that’s what the Bee reported.
She’s probably been killed more times than Kenny.
“On Monday night, Shawn Crowley, one of the attorneys representing E. Jean Carroll, suggested that Carroll is considering yet another lawsuit against Donald Trump because he insists on defending himself by denying any wrongdoing.
At issue were Trump’s statements over the weekend at a rally in Michigan, where he criticized Carroll’s lawsuits and called them unfair. Crowley indicated that they’re keeping tabs on Trump’s public statements, waiting to pounce.
“We certainly watch them. It’s hard not to,” Crowley told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. “Every time Donald Trump speaks, you know, I think as we said at trial many times, he has the biggest megaphone in the world, and so everyone hears them, including us and including our client, E. Jean Carroll. And as you said, what he said was absolutely a lie.””
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/02/22/e-jean-carroll-may-sue-trump-again-n4926666
“Myth Three: Ukraine Is Hopelessly Corrupt”
Ukraine was ranked 104 in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index. on par with Serbia, Brazil, and Algeria and lower than Zambia, Argentina and Belarus.
Hope springs eternal?
“EXCLUSIVE: RNC Security Officer Who Was First Responder To Jan 6 Pipe Bomb Says Official Story ‘Makes No Sense Whatsoever’
The bomb, found minutes before protesters entered the Capitol, was attached to a 60-minute egg timer, but it had been there since the night before. “I was two feet from it. Why would someone construct a device with a one-hour kitchen timer, place it 8:30 p.m. the night before, if they intended for it to detonate 16 hours later?” he asked…
A similar bomb was found minutes after the RNC bomb was detected, directly in front of the DNC beside a bench, raising questions about how the DNC would not have located it for seventeen hours, despite a bomb-sniffing dog that walked by it. Kamala Harris, at the time a U.S. Senator and the vice-president elect, was at the DNC, meaning there would likely be extra security in place, Capolino explained.
Capolino said it’s implausible that the Secret Service would not have swept the DNC premises before Harris entered, and that “if anyone was patrolling the DNC that should have been found at like 9 p.m….
The records show that Lonnie Leroy Coffman, a 72-year-old veteran of the Vietnam war and Alabama resident, parked the pickup truck containing “loaded firearms within arms-reach of the driver’s seat, including a 9mm handgun, a rifle, and a shotgun. Also inside the pickup truck and in its covered bed were hundreds of rounds of ammunition, large-capacity ammunition feeding devices, a crossbow with bolts, machetes, camouflage smoke devices, a stun gun, cloth rags, lighters, a cooler containing eleven… Molotov cocktails” modified to operate like napalm. Coffman also had a gun on his person.
Prosecutors charged Coffman with 17 counts, then agreed to dismiss all but one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, a federal offense, and carrying a pistol without a license, a violation of city law.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-rnc-security-officer-who-was-first-responder-to-jan-6-pipe-bomb-says-official-story-makes-no-sense-whatsoever
Those pipe bombs were the real false flag since they didn’t expect the J6 thing to really go violent enough for them to call it an insurrection. In the end they were able to do that with the J6 riot, so they then decided to hide the pipe bomb shit.
I am telling you the Obama era weaponized government is not just corrupt, but evil.
Because DC is well known to be lenient about firearm violations.
America, fuck yeah
The death of a 16-year-old nonbinary high school student in Oklahoma whose family says was bullied has renewed scrutiny of anti-trans polices and political rhetoric over gender identity.
Nex Benedict identified as nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, according to their family. Benedict died Feb. 8, one day after a fight inside a girl’s bathroom at Owasso High School. Police in the Tulsa suburb have not released a cause of death but said this week that the teenager did not die as a result of injuries from the fight.
A vigil for the teenager was planned for Sunday in Owasso.
The kid must have been huge. How else could there be room for all the people standing on its body?
TW: https://reason.com/2024/02/22/the-new-york-times-implausibly-implicates-oklahomas-bathroom-law-in-the-death-of-a-nonbinary-student/
“Nex, whose given name was Dagny, was biologically female, and the fight happened in a girls’ bathroom, where Nex and another student reportedly were assaulted by “three older female students.” Although Nex apparently was bullied for identifying as nonbinary, it looks like the location of the fight was incidental.”
Non-binary is mostly bullshit. She was a feminine-presenting female.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/judge-engoron-accused-banging-secretary-opposing-counsel-previous/
Don’t click on that.
You’re not my supervisor!
Agghh, my eyes!
I immediately regret that decision.
Ditto…
Noooo!
In the days since news of Benedict’s death became public, calls from Oklahoma to a national crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youths have spiked by more than 500%, said Lance Preston, the founder and director of the Indiana-based Rainbow Youth Project USA, a group that aims to improve the safety and wellness of LGBTQ+ young people.
The group’s mental health crisis hotline typically receives an average of 87 calls per week from Oklahoma, a number that jumped to 474 calls through Thursday, Preston said.
“Unfortunately, this incident not only has scared these young people in Oklahoma, but we’re seeing kids from all over the country,” Preston said. “It’s really created kind of a storm.”
Of the calls from Oklahoma, Preston said 85% of those reported being bullied at school or on social media and nearly 80% reported fear of a physical assault. Nearly three dozen people who called the hotline identified as students at Owasso High School and more than a dozen identified as parents of students at the school.
It’s a good thing people aren’t teaching children to be afraid of their own shadows.
TVR at Jay Leno’s Garage
A boy goes into the girls’ bathroom and gets forcibly removed. Who is bullying whom?
If you want more Gemini image hilarity:
https://notthebee.com/article/my-dudes-googles-gemini-ai-is-woke-as-heck-and-people-have-the-receipts-to-prove-it
my favorites are a 19thC German couple consisting of a dot Indian and a feather Indian, plus the Q-worthy Hind lady eating a steak.