Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor Now Traveling With a Medic
Ronna McDaniel Announces Resignation As RNC Chair
Nikki Haley’s Backers Spent Millions Boosting Her Bid In Her Home State. She Still Lost By 20 Points
South Carolina fallout: McConnell deputy endorses Trump, Koch-backed group pulls money for Haley
Haley Wastes $76.4M in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa Defeats to Trump
Trump, Argentina’s President Milei Hold Their First Ever In-Person Meeting
EPA Finalizes Air Pollution Standards That Will Cost Jobs and Hurt the Economy
2024 Total Eclipse: Where & When
Star QB Cam Newton Gets Walloped In 7-On-1 Brawl But Somehow Doesn’t Go Down
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The medic — one “Wilford Brimley” could not be reached for comment on this story…
Morning, Banjos! Morning, all.
She’s got the beetus, eh?
You would normally think a nurse.
Yes, yes — we know Yakko.
My sole reaction or thought.
Should have happened 3 or 4 years ago…
Peanuts. Didn’t Hillary spend $1.5B?
What difference, at this point — does it make?
Hillary was the most qualified candidate ever. What is Nikki’s excuse?
Orange Man Bad?
He is a threat to Democracy.
If it wasn’t for the citizenship clause — I’m pretty sure he’d get more votes than Nikki easily at this point.
We are all swooning over Melei, I wonder how long before, or if, the bloom is off of the rose.
Has he privatized the roads yet? What a fake.
He’s been doing what he said he would do, slashed government agencies and funding (resulting in the first surplus in a dozen years), lifted import controls, lifted price controls, and devalued the peso and started the process to bring its value down to match reality. The plan is to lift currency restrictions this summer, so that will be another big test.
He has my vote.
He managed to balance their budget, and produce a surplus, for the first time in more than a decade since the socialists started pissing even more money down the rain, and did it in weeks, not years…
He definitely has my vote, and I can understand why he is an existential threat to the globalist movement…
He’s literally doing the things. It’s not like he’s taking a cautious wait-and-see approach. Even if he stopped doing all this stuff tomorrow, he would have still accomplished more than any other libertarian or fiscal conservative in the U.S. has ever done, combined
Yup.
If the eclipse were going to be hundreds of miles away, I would shrug and go in with my life.
But that it is so close has me wondering if I can get away with not showing up to work. I also wonder if *anyone* will show up for work.
My daughter missed a lot of school this year. So she has to stay in. The eclipse is passing right overhead so I am going to see if I can provide eclipse glasses for her entire class so they can go outside and watch.
Wow. All (or nearly all) of our local schools have already announced there will be no classes the day of the eclipse around.
My town is just outside the purple. Oh well, I got a good total one in NYC a few years ago – during work too 🙂 – good enough.
For the 2017? one, I did a half day at work. Went home in time to see the full eclipse in my back yard, which was nice.
If I still lived in BG, I was going to drive over to Paducah for this one. But, meh, saw the last one. Watching one sun disappear is the same as another sun disappearing.
I saw the 2017 version in Nashville, and decided that 2024 was on my list.
Wife has a conference in Denver starting on the 12th, so we’re flying into San Antonio, then driving to Fredericksburg for the big event. As a bonus, history geek me gets to see the National Museum for World War II in the Pacific while there (Admiral Nimitz was from Fredericksburg).
Fredericksburg was our first choice but we couldn’t secure a hotel room.
The Pacific War museum is definitely worthwhile. Plan on spending a large block of time there. We were there for about 5 hours and still didn’t see everything.
Ronna promised she would resign after South Carolina. Now she is just screwing around and wasting tine and resources, like she has her entire career. Quit already, or face firing.
🙁 The Eclipse is going to miss me.
I have an open seat in the car for Dallas. Some California lurkers are coming.
Lake Champlain is less than two hours away from me and is in the path of the eclipse. It’d be the easier option logistically.
I’m from Cali and I went to the last one in N. Platte NB. It was so amazing that I decided to that day to go to the one this year. I will be travelling to Waco (or at least Waxahatchie) TX. I have hopes of meeting up with a fellow Glib at Burgers-n-Wok in Valley Mills if I can work out the details.
Waxahatchie is fairly close. Once you work out the details, post in the chats. Lurkers in Dallas will start arriving on Friday, leaving on Tuesday.
I’ve got maybe a few seconds of totality – if not cloudy. Good enough.
Cloudy is the big problem. Where I am will be just fine, unless we get clouds. Then I will have to try to go east to get away from cloud cover and deal with crappy traffic.
East from Dallas area, Terrell TX, gets 4:21 totality
Correct. And since it it Terrell, it will not be too crowded.
During the last eclipse, Wyoming got crowded.
Well… that’s not surprise — that’s rather what they do.
…. goes and skims the article to see what shit they’re inflicting on us this time….
Ah, again taking cues from CARB — focus on “fine particulates” so they can micromanage everything that throws up any dust all the way to every form of combustion…
a) No government agency has ever said “Yeah, we did a good job — we’ve met our mission. We’re cool.” So no shocker there.
b) Killing the delegation of authority from Congress to agencies with overbroad authority can’t come soon enough….
c) Where the hell in the Constitution did it give Congress the power to regulate the air, anyway?
d) This from one of the weekend meme summaries leaps to mind regarding regulators and the economy… net zero through net zero production!
Where the hell in the Constitution did it give Congress the power to regulate the air, anyway?
Are you unaware of the FYTW clause?
The left is firmly. based on a Benthamite approach….the panopticon for everyone!
It’s more of the same “chasing the last 1% shit” that nobody asked for and which will no joke destroy the economy if someone doesn’t put a stop to it.
LOL
The media seemed curiously uninterested during the decades when tHe BaLaNcE was in their favor.
ACB is not exactly a reliable conservative voice anyway.
You get maybe one out of four claimaints/imaginanants who actually are.
In the end they are all politicians with dreams of social engineering.
I just figure some night to see it I can just turn around, bright eyes.
What’s the big deal? The Earth blocks my view of the sun every night.
But if you’re going to live in a powder keg, make sure you’re not giving off sparks.
Hurrah Torpedo – Total Eclipse of the Heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ
I’m just glad I won’t have to fly my Lear jet up to Nova Scotia.
You don’t think the song is about you?
Did your horse naturally won?
—“I’m just glad I won’t have to fly my Lear jet up to Nova Scotia.”—
As I am retired and living off of my children’s inheritance, I seriously considered renting a jet at Nova Scotia.
If Sotomayor hangs on for another year, and Trump wins somehow so he gets to appoint her replacement, I will probably injure myself laughing.
+1 RBG
I had the exact same thought, with the exception of the laugh. I mostly thought of the dining out on liberal tears that will take place.
That thought just crossed my mind. That would be amazing.
Added bonus, Thomas could retire and be replaced with the clone of Gorsuch that has been growing in a vat in Mara Lago.
So *that’s* what the FBI was looking for…
…cripple the economy in ways that make our enemies laugh all the way to the bank.
The Most Vulnerable Among Us(TM) are also hardest hit by a weak economy. What a wonderful self-licking ice cream cone they provide for Our Betters, where endless meddling that makes their lives worse is the justification for endless meddling.
To steal someone’s line here – ain’t no end to doin’ good.
It’s from The Outlaw Josie Wales – “Doin’ right ain’t got no end.”
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=doing+right+ain%e2%80%99t+got+no+end&&mid=992727C29AEBF60D3B44992727C29AEBF60D3B44&&FORM=VRDGAR
Our version of it has drifted from the original.
“Airforce engineer Aaron Bushnell dies in hospital after setting himself on fire outside DC Israeli Embassy screaming ‘Free Palestine!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13126695/Airforce-Aaron-Bushnell-setting-fire-DC-Israeli-Embassy.html
Well, bye.
Because writing a letter to his Congressman was too hard.
My rep is former CIA so writing to end US involvement in foreign conflicts is unlikely to be productive.
But you can trust that your rep is so wise in the ways of the world.
Leon Panetta was my rep at one time. Talk about a tool of the machine.
Somehow, I think that dude setting himself on fire will have no greater lasting effect than if he had written a strongly worded letter to his Congresscritter.
Global Warming?
The EPA can’t be pleased with him.
I know. They’ll send a bill for particulate pollution to his next of kin.
Nah, he was practicing Good Think ™, and will get a waiver.
“Well, bye.”
My thoughts exactly. These lot never seem to come forward and honestly articulate what ‘free palestine’ actually means. We know it, they know it, they know we know it but they just dont have the courage to openly expose their own evil.
There’s a white van, with an Old Man, that has free candy, if you know what I mean.
“I am in no way mentally ill.”
Sotamayor…the wise Latina that said using a constitutional standard to gauge the constitutionality of laws is a ‘novel approach’ for the court?
That one? Will be kinda sorry to see such unselfish-awareness leave the court.
To be fair, applying the Constitution as written is something that has been done rarely in the last 80 – 90 years.
My other favorite justice is Kagan….whose masters thesis was one long explanation of why socialism failed in the US. The bog standard lame excuses featuring a special emphasis on ‘we didn’t have the right people in charge’.
That is the difference between conservatism and radicalism: The conservative school’s premises are sound so they sometimes accidentally get it right.
E. O. Wilson, world-famous biologist and foremost authority on ants, when asked about socialism”
“Wonderful idea, wrong species”
Unselfish? Really? Fucking auto-incorrect.
I read that as Ayn Randian based sarcasm.
Happy accident….I am not that clever.
Sheriff McConnell is not happy right now.
“Emma Roberts bared her entire back while attending the 39th Independent Spirit Awards, which was held at the Santa Monica Pier on Sunday.
The 33-year-old Madame Web actress slipped her slim 5ft2in figure into a sexy black Valentino gown and towering platform heels selected by styling duo Brit + Kara Elkin.
Emma doesn’t normally flash so much flesh on the red carpet, but she clearly wanted to turn heads at the film festivities.
Roberts – who accessorized with Cartier earrings and statement ring – had her long flaxen locks curled by hairstylist Lisa Satorn.
Make-up artist Jenna Anton defined the American Horror Story: Delicate star’s bushy brows, curled her lashes, and gave her pout a pink shade.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13124705/2024-independent-spirit-awards-Emma-Roberts-bares-Valentino-gown.html
Sadly, this is the most in-depth reporting I’m going to see all day.
It’s oddly unflattering.
Yes. I think it is the hair that makes it look off, more than the dress.
I agree. That was not great.
I liked Vicki Dugan better.
I am a sucker for a sexy back..hers? Its alright. I think the root of it was Helen Hunt’s back in As Good As It Gets.
The 33-year-old Madame Web actress
Damn, calling her ugly would be more kind.
Emma Roberts? Who?
Geez…watching the fawning over narcissists is a bit tiring to me. Go to any community college in America and you will find dozens of. young women more alluring than any ‘star’.
Sadly that doesnt last long and is a poor substitute for moral fibre, intelligence….sound character. Investing yourself in that is a huge mistake.
Want to make me drool? Show me the sacrifices you have made for others. Off of the top of your head me what the speed of light is, what the word ‘oikophobia’ means, what an asymptotic approach is, explain the difference between qualitative and quantitative data is and how limitations on our ability to gather effects our understanding. Tell me what affect, effect and affects mean.
I know….that comes off as a pretentious load of horseshit and to quote the noted wise men Page and Plant ‘searching for a woman who has never been born’.
*My first hard crush was Joni Mitchell. Clearly I am not the only one.
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/led-zeppelin/going-to-california
Ironically it turns out Mitchell is a bit of a dim bulb.
Natalie Wood and I were the same vintage and she never aged.
She really was something, wasn’t she?
One of the reasons Wagner fell under such suspicion was that all of the people that knew her knew how completely insufferable she was. Allegedly.
Those Russian genes…
That was a good memoir.
Questo:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4209069-pieces-of-my-heart
In those photos, she’s about a 4-5 on the California Surf Chick scale. I would see much better every day back in HS and college.
Where’s her butt?
Ungrateful snots.
I’m unclear on who jumped him.
Mr. Newton does not seem like a guy that suffers from a lack of enemies.
Breaking sports news: Everton’s points deduction reduced to six: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68273436
They’re now 15th, five points above the drop. Of course, there’s still hearings to come on a second charge against them – and one against Forest as well.
To all true Americans: this is commie ball so don’t worry about it.
To all true Americans: this is commie ball so don’t worry about it.
I know you already know this, but it’s more free market than any of the US Sports leagues by far.
However, the commie part seems to be that this is setting up City to get off with a slap on the wrist.
It should be every patriotic Briton’s desire to root for Liverpool in the face of that disgrace.
To all true Americans: this is commie ball so don’t worry about it.
What’s the NFL got to do with English soccer?
Monday — nothing special nor expected as such…
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“Trial lawyers pumped millions of dollars into the campaign coffers of New York politicians in a push to expand laws that made it easier to file lawsuits, according to a business advocacy group analysis.
The top 20 plaintiffs’ law firms donated $4.7 million to New York’s lawmakers including Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James from 2017 through last year, according to the report prepared by the nonprofit American Tort Reform Association…
Tort reform advocates point out that while Hochul is among the top recipients of contributions from law firms, she has sometimes rejected tort bar’s priorities, recognizing the potentially damaging economic impacts of liability expansion….
But state lawmakers continue passing bills that would increase litigation and make payouts more lucrative for the personal injury trial bar and the group labels New York City a “judicial hellhole” for nuisance and costly lawsuits.
According to the ATRA, every New York resident pays a “tort tax” of more than $2,318 every year due to excessive legal costs.”
https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/us-news/law-firms-pumped-millions-into-ny-campaigns-as-lawmakers-made-it-easier-to-sue-report/
But what if someone touched my ass thirty years ago?
This has been going on for decades.
People touching his ass? That must be some kinda ass.
Will it reach a breaking point? These “defamation” and ancient #metoo lawsuits are getting ridiculous.
“Doctors Confirm Vaccine Connection after Young Ontario Woman Paralyzed after Moderna Shot – Then Offer Her Euthanasia as Remedy
A young mother’s life has been turned upside down in the wake of receiving her Moderna COVID-19 booster shot, which has left her paralyzed from the neck down, The Canadian Independent reported.
Kayla Pollock, a 37-year-old from Mount Albert, Ontario, has had her vibrant life of motherhood and community involvement brought to a sudden halt due to what doctors have diagnosed as a severe vaccine-related reaction.
Kayla, who suffered an abusive childhood, had overcome her past to find joy in her work as a behavioral trainer for exotic animals and later as an educational assistant. The single mother, known for her active lifestyle, was compelled to get vaccinated to ensure she could continue visiting her father in his long-term care facility.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/young-ontario-woman-paralyzed-after-moderna-booster-shot/
WTF, Canada?
Woodchippers.
“It could have been worse if she didn’t get the booster.”
https://images.app.goo.gl/AqWHR6JGcrDvPer38
Canada has been regularly extending “Medical Assistance in Death”. Apparently they have a serious surplus population problem.
I would think leftists would be more likely to take up that offer, so they are reducing their own commie voting base.
Canadian healthcare
Evil exists. Monsters exist. Those horrors in the shadows? They are very real. How many of us have the sand to admit that?
“FBI Forced a Young Mother to Stand Outside Barefoot with Her 4-Yr-Old Boy in His Pajamas in 12° Weather While They Ransacked Her Home – She Lost Her Baby the Next Day
On January 6, 2021, Chris went inside the Capitol but did not cause any harm or damage – in fact, he cleaned trash off the floor, helped to stop theft of government property, asked people to leave the building, and went up to Capitol Police Officers to ask how he could help. Chris was also set up by an FBI operative that day. Chris committed no violence and did nothing wrong.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/icymi-chris-wrays-fbi-forced-young-mother-stand/
CWABOA
I would’ve considered evacuating the Hoover building before it’s demolition, now I’m pondering if it might not be better to lock everyone inside.
Didn’t Congress just approve a zillion dollars for a new giant Stasi / Pretorian Guard Headquarters?
Of course, the surveillance state is growing and that big NSA facility in Utah can’t handle all of it.
Or the hundreds of Fusion Centers and server farms of Google/Amazon that are picking up the slack.
Yes.
As I said, evil exists.
It would appear that the ‘we are as bad as china’ allegation is not far off the mark.
I think medical euthanasia should be an option for people (adults), with some restrictions. We’re kinder to animals when we put them down for their suffering than we are humans.
However, we see here (and that Charlie kid in the UK) that state-run healthcare will mean more people will be pressured into it. Death boards? tHaT wIlL nEvEr HaPpEn!!!11!
Update:
“It has been revealed that the unidentified high-altitude balloon floating over the United States this week was a hobbyist craft.
The incident caused NORAD fighter jets to scramble, and concerns were raised that the UFO could have been yet another Chinese spy balloon.
An official with the Department of Defense confirmed to CBS News that the object was a hobbyist balloon.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/balloon-floating-over-us-was-hobbyist-craft
The young hobbyists’ name was Lee Hu Phuc, a young Chinese immigrant who just got here from Mexico.
…
Shoot it down.
NENA – 99 Red Baloons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc
Bullshit. Chinese spy balloon probably launched domestically.
But the balloon identifies as a spy balloon, and who are we to deny it’s lived experience!
Shoot it down.
My hypothesis is that Firsts of flood and fire will rub out the world of unsophisticated secondry in very short order.
I think it may coincide with the eclipse.
A fellow tinfoil hat wearer indicated that a number of states are requesting emergency funds before the eclipse. I have no articles or proof to back that up at the moment.
Haley Wastes $76.4M in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa Defeats to Trump
I read somewhere on the interwebz the theory that Haley is in fact pro Trump and purposefully wastes anti Trump money that could have been better used against Trump.
Her ads were constant last week in SC. Didn’t see or hear a single Trump ad.
Her constant advertising became a good reminder to go out and vote against her on Saturday.
I don’t see it, she’s one of the swamp people.
Trump, Argentina’s President Milei Hold Their First Ever In-Person Meeting
I doubt Trumpy poo will have a libertarian turn.
I’m certain you are right.
He has proven himself prone to suggestion so if we can get a cabinet of Dr. Paul the Elder clones in there….
What Texas can teach San Francisco and London about building houses
It’s not a housing crisis — it’s a planning crisis
https://www.ft.com/content/de34dfc7-c506-4a81-b63d-41d994efaa89
who would want to live in a hellhole like Texas. Much of it isn’t even walkable in 15 minutes.
So true.
*dabs tears
Everton gets 4 pts back on appeal, jumps from 17th to 15th.
I think 6 is still too large a penalty, I expected a reduction to 4.
And there is still the 2nd possible penalty upcoming, but this puts a cap on the possibilities and Forest is going to get hit harder.
And, as said above, Man Shitty will be ignored.
Well, with the reduction, the proportional response would have them relegated to tier 8 instead of tier 13.
Paradise in Hell: Inside the life of the commandant of Auschwitz
Thoughts on the film ‘The Zone of Interest’
https://www.katjahoyer.uk/p/paradise-in-hell-inside-the-life
The Zone of Interest was recommended to me by so many people that my curiosity got the better of me, and I watched it in the cinema earlier this week. Jonathan Glazer’s film is based on a novel of the same title by Martin Amis and tells the story of how Rudolf Höß, commandant of Auschwitz, lived in a house right next to the concentration camp with his wife and five children. His is the story of a man who was able to run a camp in which, even by his own reckoning, over 1.1 million people were murdered while raising a young family in immediate proximity to the site of such horrors.
For 105 minutes, Glazer relentlessly exposes his audience to the intense contrast between the superficially ordinary lives of the Höß family and the idea that hundreds of thousands of other lives are brutally exploited and destroyed under Rudolf’s leadership next door. We see the Höß children play in their walled garden to a soundtrack of dog barking, bellowed orders and the piercing screams of Nazi Germany’s victims. But we also see these horrors penetrating the family idyll despite the high walls. At one point, the commandant tells his children to get out of the river where they had been swimming because he finds human remains in the water.
“The Barcelona High Court has sentenced a trans-identified male to six months in prison after he was found guilty of committing a crime “against fundamental human rights and public freedoms” for posting “transphobic” comments on social media. The man, who has not been named, has also been ordered to pay a fine of 3,850 Euros (approx. $4,161 USD).
The comments were made in 2020 when the man, who will be anonymously referred to as P.O., took to social media to complain about a transgender influencer. While Spanish media did not release the influencer’s name, Reduxx has learned he is Violeta Ferrer Micó, an ex-prostitute and trans activist….
In his post, P.O. called Ferrer Micó a “prototype of a faggot with tits,” and stated “he can’t stand that I’m a woman and has a pathological dislike for me.” P.O.’s contention was that he believed he was a “real woman” because he had undergone genital surgery, while Ferrer Micó was not “genuinely” transgender because he had not.
The post reached Ferrer Micó’s work WhatsApp group and he claims that he was “outed” by them and suggested that no one had known he was transgender prior to P.O.’s remarks.”
https://reduxx.info/spain-man-sentenced-to-six-months-in-prison-after-making-transphobic-comments-towards-male-ex-prostitute/
Everything about this story is retarded.
did it get to choose which prison?
Don’t call people “it”.
“The court decided to suspend his six-month prison sentence on the condition that he pay the victim 3,850 Euros in compensation for the “emotional damages caused.” He must also take a course on equal treatment and non-discrimination. Failure to do so could lead to incarceration.
In addition, P.O. is disqualified from holding employment in any profession in the fields of teaching or sports for three and a half years.”
why not? seems a good way not to use wrong pronouns
It is using the wrong pronoun. More importantly, it makes you sound way worse than anyone in this story. Even the people you hate are still human.
I don’t hate people in this story but I am annoyed at the pronoun crap that generally permeates the issue.
“It” qualifies. It is demanding others lie to affirm itself, and so, at least in my eyes, gets no benefit of civility.
Then neither do you.
Well, lets think this through. “P.O.” isn’t a woman, and calling “P.O.” that forces me to lie. I refuse to do that. Calling “P.O.” a man would be misgendering “P.O.”, and that is clearly unacceptable. “P.O.” doesn’t have two (or more) heads, so using a plural is wrong, eliminating they as a choice.
All of which leaves IT, by “P.O.’s” choice via the action IT took.
Or, following the example you set daily, we could just call IT a cunt, or an asshole something along those lines, which is pretty derogatory.
I, on the other hand, have made no requirements that require you to lie. If you want to call me IT, or bestow no civility, then OK, so it goes.
There is a huge difference between derogatory and dehumanizing.
That is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t see IT as being dehumanizing, especially in light of nothing else being available.
But in no way shape or form is calling someone a derogatory name less than uncivil, which is what you called me, and decided I was not worth of the benefits of.
It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose.
And that person was a serial killer.
Two articles that tell so much.
https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/26/russia-russia-forever-an-anatomy-of-a-left-wing-obsession/
and
https://news.yahoo.com/spy-war-cia-secretly-helps-172754832.html
If Putin is paranoid, we’ve given him plenty to fuel that.
The ’80s called, they want their villain back.
-someone with really bad BO.
Thirty years ago, a lot of lefties were mad that the Russians gave up on communism. Since then, our State Department has been taken over by the literal descendants of Trotskyites who are still mad that their guy lost out to Stalin.
When the Soviet Union fell, it was discovered that there were more communists in the west than in the former soviet nations.
And they were really, really pissed they were on the losing side. Today most of them pretend the fall of the USSR was a good thing, but their actions to Sovietize America says otherwise.
“Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.”
How would we react it the Russians were working with the Sinaloa cartel to do something like this I wonder.
are you sure they aren’t ?
Russians are prone to paranoia, in my gross overgeneralization. It’s almost overdetermined, what with WWII, the Cold War, and of course the Soviet government proving that paranoia is a self-reinforcing feedback loop.
We’ve managed to do just about everything we can to reinforce that. What a missed opportunity.
It wasn’t so much missed as purposely avoided. The people who run the agencies couldn’t accept an end to the Cold War and the ensuing budget cuts.
All the “collusion” nonsense should have been a bright flag screaming “this is a deflection from what we’re doing”. How the left got/gets away with that is a mystery to me.
Friends in high places.
ZH has a summary of the NYT article.
JFC.
Strangely enough there is no mention at all of who has been running these cities, and schools, for – I don’t know, the last 50 years at least?
of who has been running these cities, and schools – libs of tiktok, obviously.
Just like with France, I am not sure I use the word austerity in the same way as the left.
As far as I can tell in 2016 the Boston school budget was 1 billion for 57,157, in 2024 it was 1.5 for some 50000 students. It does not seem particularly austere, as it spends more than 30k per student it seems.
Austerity measures
As if.
“The climate crisis is not gender neutral”, says WMO’s Celeste Saulo
In a keynote address at the launch of the International Gender Champions Climate Impact Group, Celeste Saulo, secretary-general of the WMO, stated that women and men are affected differently by weather and climate, and therefore need gender-sensitive information and services.
Since taking office at the start of 2024, Saulo has stated that one of her priorities is to foster greater diversity within the WMO, ensuring equitable representation across gender, regional and cultural lines. She is committed to implementing the WMO Gender Equality Policy which was updated in 2023.
https://www.meteorologicaltechnologyinternational.com/news/world-meteorological-organization/the-climate-crisis-is-not-gender-neutral.html
what do you mean, “woman”?
Oh I’m sorry, I have a cold.
“World to End Tomorrow, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.”
Judging from office thermostat battles, women are far less vulnerable to temperature increases.
“Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It.
Every week in America, about 22 kids die of a drug overdose. Eighty percent of those deaths are linked to fentanyl—a cheap synthetic opioid fifty times more potent than heroin. Even with illicit drug use among middle and high school students on the decline, fatal teen overdoses have never been higher….
Later, Tasha found out that Breanna had been offered a pill at the party and told it was Percocet, which she split with her friend. By cutting the pill in half and sharing it, the teens had unwittingly taken a deadly gamble: the friend survived, but Breanna was dead within hours. Fentanyl is made so sloppily by Mexican cartels that one part of a single pill can contain a high dose of the fatal drug, while the other carries no risk….
Mexican drug gangs are primarily responsible for spreading this poison. The Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels import fentanyl’s precursor chemicals from China (in Wuhan, of all places) to Mexico, where they manufacture the drug, pressing it into counterfeit prescription pills. These pills are then moved across the border, both via legal checkpoints and illegal border crossings, to dealers in the U.S., who often use the social media app Snapchat—where messages are anonymous and disappear within an instant—to peddle the drug….
You might ask why cartels would make a drug that so easily kills off its customer base. The simple reason is greed. Even if one percent of their buyers die, the profits they’re making are worth it. It’s just collateral damage for the cartels—and they continue with business as usual.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/fentanyl-is-killing-american-kids
The only solution is to end drug prohibition.
100% correct, also 100% will not happen.
You will get an open border and prohibition. Understand this is the price of freedom.
I have been reliably informed that the price of freedom was disgusting public transportation.
Yes, it’s very expensive.
but that failed in Portland or something
Legalizing all drugs would probably decrease that type of accidental overdose while vastly increasing the number of addicts and many of the associated negative outcomes, including overdoses.
vastly increasing the number of addicts – I am not that sure that would happen. There are’t huge numbers of people who dont take drugs but would if legal.
We are watching in real time the legalization of pot in America. I’m a long time pot head and can clearly see that a lot more people are getting high now.
pot not not seen as heroin or crack, pot is not for people who take risks. Although I would be curious of vaguely accurate numbers of pot use people / frequency. How much did it increase?
I live in CO and my interactions with pot are only slightly higher than when I lived in KY or SC. I was friends with more potheads in KY than in CO.
Of course, a lot of that is that they aren’t doing it in public. So home use might be much higher.
Yeah there are the closet pot heads…I knew a lot of them back in the day due to my small business at the time. That said I don’t know a percentage but there are definitely more users now then 20 years ago. That doesn’t even take into account the whole CBD and Hemp/DeltaTHC/Delta8/etc business.
There is no set number of heroin or meth users/addicts in a country or geographic area. At different times in China’s history opium has been highly legally tolerated and highly punished. They had much more addiction and problem users when it was more available and tolerated. This is to be expected as there is an Iron Rule stating that “you generally get more of what you reward and less of what you punish”. If hard drugs were fully legalized and freely sold there is no doubt you’d have many more users. There is likely some upper limit to this. Even if fully legal you likely would not get 75% of the population as occasional or regular users. Also advertising works, companies spend tons of money on it each year.
heroine and coke have enough of a reputation that I doubt advertising would change much. Would addiction increase? Maybe. Vastly? Meh I don;t think so.
Also there would be market pressure to create better drugs with fewer side effects.
You’d probably get more users, but the deleterious effects would likely be much lower as well.
Ask anybody to name the problems with drug use, and you’ll see that most of them are created by the fact that they are illegal.
Yeah.
More users = more addicts, but the problem per addict will be lower.
Whether Addicts*problems is greater or lesser isn’t a clear calculation, but I think alcohol prohibition tends to give a good idea of which way to go.
In my experience, junkies rarely overdose unless they are trying to quit or get bad shit.
A lot of overdoses happen when they’ve quit for a while, and then start using again. They use the old dose they had become habituated to, and it kills them.
Exactly.
It doesn’t take all that much to overdose on fentanyl. Sure, it has been somewhat exaggerated with videos of cops coming within ten feet of it and falling down semi conscious, but there have been lots of cases of people thinking that they are getting something else, a pill of Percocet or oxy or coke that has been mixed with it and overdosing.
You might ask why cartels would make a drug that so easily kills off its customer base.
Yes, I do associate drug cartels with high morality.
Strangely enough there is no mention at all of who has been running these cities, and schools, for – I don’t know, the last 50 years at least?
Too long. Does it get around to talking about contracts? I suppose the teachers are all starving.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9WKIHxV8AU
Another Biden/Harris infomercial from NPR
In 2022, the country’s first major climate policy, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, passed with the promise to speed up that transition, offering at least $4 billion to boost development of renewable projects like the Pinnacle Wind Farm in Keyser.
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There’s a misconception that renewables contributed to the decline in coal. But renewables had little to do with it.
After peaking in the 1920s, jobs in the coal industry have been disappearing.
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There used to be more than 800K coal miners in the U.S. Now there are 66K
The peak of coal-mining employment in the U.S. was a century ago, when the industry employed more than 800,000 people. Since then, that number has decreased by more than 90%.
I guess the amount of coal produced and sold per man is exactly what is was in the ’30s.
Now do farms.
If you’re wondering why we’re all skinny and malnourished in this country, it’s because the number of farmers has decreased from 14 million to 3 million in the last century.
In 1951, the railroad industry employed 1,400,000 people. In 2023, 140,000. Yet more tonnage was hauled by far fewer employees and locomotives. No wonder the progs want to rebuild the passenger train choo-choos!
Industrialization and automation are difficult concepts for luddites.
In 2022, the country’s first major climate policy, known as the Inflation Reduction Act
Literally lol.
The Clean Air Act cries out at night.
“the country’s first major climate policy, known as the Inflation Reduction Act”
LOL
Review: The Beekeeper
https://www.redbrick.me/review-the-beekeeper/
This is a deeply stupid film. It’s a film that has been written by someone who has worked out how things work in the world (business, the intelligence services, killing), by watching films. This is perfectly acceptable if you don’t think too hard when you watch it about how anything really works. It also means, more importantly, that you’ve seen everything in this before. Some moments are direct rip-offs, while others just vaguely remind you of other films.
This silliness revolves around Statham, playing a one-man army who, we’re told, can kill anyone. Statham plays this the way he plays any other part – with the possible exception of an inexcusable and entirely superfluous American accent, which Statham can’t do. His line delivery has the same level of gravitas as someone doing Hamlet. This is where the issue of comedy comes up. As Statham doesn’t change his performance whatever the film, whether out-and-out comedy (Spy), sincere drama (Hummingbird), or idiocy masquerading as seriousness (the Fast franchise), it’s impossible to tell from his performance how silly the film is.
I love Statham in Guy Richie movies, but I would not call him an actor with range.
That being said, that Beekeeper movie looked retarded from the first trailer.
Ayup.
Whycome you hate on Fourscore?
Statham has had a few great ones. Lock, Stock is a classic and Bank Job is a great crime flick, but yes, he is the same character in each.
Forgot about Bank Job, that was pretty good.
My all-time favorite of him was Turkish in Snatch.
Statham was made for the Crank movies. Crank 2 wasn’t nearly as good a movie as Crank, but made up for it by being five times as mental. Bai Ling playing herself was particularly engaging.
So, cut and paste standard scenes and go through the motions. Action movies are that way.
Let me guess…at some point someone runs out of a building and just as they get almost out of range there is a fiery explosion that knocks them off of their feet.
Legalizing all drugs would probably decrease that type of accidental overdose while vastly increasing the number of addicts and many of the associated negative outcomes, including overdoses.
But Amsterdam is a hippy paradise.
In Amsterdam most drugs are not legal. And most dutch don’t do drugs even if easy to get. It is mostly for tourists.
M4 50 beowulf. Insane recoil.
https://twitter.com/GunloverClub1/status/1761046112897843379
He just needs to eat some bacon cheeseburgers and try again with 40 extra pounds.
Neat! Most of the .50 loadings I have seen seem to be squarely in the “more show, less go” category (looking at you 50 Action Express).
500 Wyoming has plenty of go. So does 50 BMG. Someone should make a derringer.
The impossible crossover Contra and Tetris
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1762078095467569644
The science is clear. If humans hope to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, the switch from carbon-emitting fossil fuels that warm the planet to renewable energy like wind and solar must happen quickly.
But even though a disproportionate amount of federal renewable investment funding has gone to red states like West Virginia, those dollars have not gone very far in making good on Biden’s promise for a “just transition,” says Krause.
The problem, Krause suspects, is a lack of focus on workforce development over tax credits.
She says that investment in training programs in state and local colleges is key to revitalizing the workforce and livelihoods for the communities like Keyser.
We just need to spend more money on re-education camps. We’ll teach them to be social media influencers.
renewable energy like wind and solar must happen quickly. – which come from a magic land of the pixies and require no mining or concrete
Yeah, I have heard from proggies that all them rare earth metals and materials grow on trees..
Oh the science is clear, I’m convinced now.
Nowhere mentioned in the article: Nuclear power.
Ignoring nuclear power is how you know that they don’t really believe any of this stuff themselves. It’s all just means to an end.
Nuclear power would solve energy needs to such a degree that it would become problematic for them and make it far harder for them to kill off half of humanity as the plans call for…
Looking at the pictures in the NPR article it is tragic that West Virginia at least still had natural mountain beauty to it but now that is ruined with wind turbines sitting on top of the mountains. It probably is a slap in the face to the residents.
Yes, coal is over. Farming and manufacturing is pretty difficult to pull off in West Virginia due to the terrain. Nuclear power, the obvious answer if climate change is going to kill all of us, would also benefit West Virginia as they try to figure out how to transition from basically the only industry they had. Flood the state with cheap, clean energy and maybe new industries emerge.
Maybe by clear, they mean really thin.
“NIKKI “BRAINDEAD” (BIRDBRAIN?) HALEY,”
Trump is apparently incapable of acting like other than an 8th grade asshole. Just can’t act gracious in victory, needs to insult the loser. Apparently, cannot remember who appointed this “braindead” woman to be U.S. Ambassador to the UN.
Holyee Phuk, what a choice the voters have in November.
Normally I would agree…but then she stayed way too long in the race. Rake her over the coals.
I don’t remember which Glib said it, but I’m writing in Javier Milei. I canNOT face voting for either of those clowns again.
I think a lot of us said that.
That right there is precisely the reason so many people don’t want to see him as President again. There are the lefties and Dem diehards that would never vote for him, but then there are the many that see the alternative and shudder or are independents that could be persuadable, but then he continues to do shit like that. What an ejit.
There are definitely times when he should just keep his mouth shut. My dad used to say, “There are times where God saved me by putting her hand over my mouth before I said something stupid.” God must be too slow for Trump’s mouth.
Gotta get busy. Before I go I will leave a couple of thoughts:
In a hotel lobby in merry ‘ol Newcastle I noticed the clerk was a young woman with my same family name. I struck up a conversation and upon mentioning her surname she shocked me by refusing to make eye contact and said “I know my place”.
I responded with “Yeah? My name is also Suthenboy and know my place as well. I am an American.” *head held high, confident defiant tone*
She raised her head, looked me in the eye and asked kind of pleadingly “Can I go too?” I was half tempted to drop my plans and put her cute ass on the next plane out.
I think this is the only country ini the world where caste is not a consideration, or not much of one. The effects of that are deep and far reaching though most people do not understand it.
I have been feeding the local feral bees. I am trying to force a swarm. I have a couple of swarm traps out and the girls are already measuring them for carpet. I have used this strategy in the past successfully a number of times. Those little girls have gobbled up about 7lbs of sugar each day for five days now. First hatching they will be moving in.
I wish a very good morning to y’all. I will be back later.
Lack of class resentment has always been a problem for the commies in the US, which is why they’ve latched onto identity politics instead.
caste is not a consideration
Anyone who thinks they can put me in my place is welcome to try. Don’t you dare expect me to put myself there on your say-so.
That’s the American ethos, and by god there are people in this country that are exasperated with that – because they are certain they are the chosen.
Democracy has a new savior
Hunter Biden in an interview published Monday linked his continued sobriety as key to his father, President Biden, blocking former President Trump from winning the White House in November.
The president’s son, in a rare interview, said democracy is at stake in the next election and revealed there are weighty implications if he can’t remain sober.
“Most importantly, you have to believe that you’re worth the work, or you’ll never be able to get sober. But I often do think of the profound consequences of failure here,” Hunter Biden told Axios.
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“I have something much bigger than even myself at stake,” the 54-year-old told Axios. “We are in the middle of a fight for the future of democracy.”
It’s all about me me MEEEEEE!
Remember, when he says “democracy,” he means “democrats.”
The honest spelling is Democratzi.
The white supremacists right wing press keeps going after them, but the Bidens are truly America’s family. They have survived tragedy and addiction, and only a father’s love for his son has seen them through. And they are selfless public servants, always putting others ahead of their own gain.
He also spoke in a recent podcast, saying Republicans are trying to use him to destroy his father’s presidency and opening up about his sobriety.
He told Axios he is resolute to “make it through that fight clean and sober, and I feel a responsibility to everyone struggling through their own recovery to succeed.”
Your daddy is more than capable of destroying his Presidency on his own. Have a look at those approval numbers. Have a drink.
Nowhere mentioned in the article: Nuclear power.
Ignoring nuclear power is how you know that they don’t really believe any of this stuff themselves. It’s all just means to an end.
A couple of days ago there was a flurry of articles celebrating a new Presidential diktat about “restoring” the Snake/Columbia River drainage to restore fish habitat and justice for the Noble Savage. You know, they want to blow up all those hydropower dams. That’s how committed to clean energy they are.
News from the bleeding edge of journalism
In the last few years, a new trend has emerged on social media: De-influencers.
Instead of selling, de-influencers encourage their followers to stop buying things they don’t actually need. De-influencers are also using this trend as an opportunity to raise awareness about the negative impact of overconsumption on the environment.
From plastic packaging to useless gadgets that end up in landfills, over-consumption doesn’t just have a negative effect on our wallets – but also on our planet and climate change.
We look at what role can de-influencers play in helping address climate change and spreading the message of sustainable living.
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Watch almost any episode of “Shark Tank.” 3 of 4 pitches are usually for something that is useless, ridiculous, a virtue signal, or something that “should be taken out behind the barn and shot.”