Good morning one and all to another absolutely fantabulous day!
Biden Weighs Sanctions on Russia Over Death of Putin Critic Navalny
Biden’s campaign as delusional as he is.
SCOTUS Could Set Landmark Precedent in Trump Jan 6 Case
Israel Issues Ultimatum to Hamas Over Hostages
Apprehensions of Chinese Illegal Immigrants up 4000% at U.S.-Mexico Border Since 2021
Eric Swalwell’s Campaign Spent Thousands on Childcare and Luxury Spas
70% of largest U.S. cities lack funds to cover costs; pensions and healthcare are majority of debt
Alabama Supreme Court Rules Frozen Embryos Have Same Legal Rights as “Unborn Children”
Iowa Senate passes foreign ownership land bill
Rancher Suing Biden Over Arizona Land Grab
I hope this will be big enough to have an effect
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos! I see you’ve earned your triple word score on Scrabble for “fantabulous”.. 😉
Wait… there’s some aspect of Russia they haven’t sanctioned (or outright stolen from) at this point? I’m surprised… they’ve literally done everything short of a formal declaration of war (and arguably have done several acts of war and piracy).
Of course this is mainly all trying to look good / saving face since the moron gave the equivalent of a “Syrian red line” comment three years back. Maybe stay out of things unless we actually have a document-able national interest and don’t say things you can’t actually do? Nah… that’s crazy talk for the DC crowd….
They’ll need to start putting sanctions on Putin-adjacent and Putin-auxiliary entities. You know like Tucker Carlson, the RNC, Fox News…
Yeah — I could see them going after Tucker. The GOPe would be cheerleading them along and there was already muttering about not letting him back into the country. Seize him at customs, seize all his assets for “Russian collusion” then take 20 years to process it “to encourage the others”…
Maybe they can charge Carlson with fraud? There was that time in NYC when he told a tourist it was six blocks to Times Square when it was only four. Tourist was happy when he didn’t have to walk so far but we can’t have folks misleading other folks can we?
The Biden administration ought to issue a stern warning to Russia about any attempts to kill, imprison, issue massive fines, or otherwise intimidate opposition leaders running for President, since allowing an incumbent president to take out the opposition harms democracy and silences dissent.
/sarc
The Biden Administration didn’t give a shit when Gonzalo Lira (an American citizen), was jailed and killed in the Ukraine for free speech. Now they care about some Russian guy?
They don’t, it advances their narrative but I assume you already knew that.
All in the name to bring up Russia, Russia, Russia again. The comedy of it all is the people will fall for it again.
Shrillary is already on just that.
We must have democracy in Ukraine even if they don’t hold elections.
Their economy has not been harmed from the existing sanctions that I can tell – but it has been pushed into the welcoming arms of enemies that are more belligerent to us than Russia has been since the end of Cold War I.
China, Arabia, Korea, etc.
Good job, Brandon.
whaddup doh’
mornin’ banjos
Every time we sanction Russia, an angel gets its wings.
You know whose fault it is that we have President Let’s Go Brandon?
Abraham Lincoln.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lincoln-pardon-biden-ancestor/2024/02/19/id/1154164/
Was the man he stabbed Corn Pop’s great-great-grandfather?
Saw some reporting this morning that the PPP admin is going to try to EO their way out of the border in time to look good for the SotU. 1) Well, it isn’t like they don’t have plenty of good examples of EOs that might help (all the ones they explicitly flipped to do the opposite because of OMB on Day 1 and all).
2) I don’t think it will help Mumbles and Fumbles performance with his dead shark eyes if they actually try to get him to give a speech at this point.
I’m torn between being cheered up that they might actually need to care about the election (so maybe we’re just over the margin of “fortification” but having DC have to care is good) and thinking that the Machine doesn’t care… just the stupid little parasites who attached themselves too directly to the PPP Admin… Can’t help thinking that they could find a good reason to kick out Kamala (seriously — do you think there’s nothing in her closets they could trot out or threaten to trot out such that she’d have to resign? She can’t even keep staff and has zero political savvy…), then 25th out old Boxer to the glue factory and substitute some other empty suit to keep running things (Hair Gel or Fraulein Reichsfuhrer Whitmer probably).
For my mental health I should probably try to stick with the “cheered up” thoughts…
Is the Biden campaign’s “Hail Mary” a commitment to call a limit at 8:00 am instead of 11:00, this time?
So, double Depends night for Joe?
Gotta say, I’m not on board with frozen embryos as persons. If the freezer fails, for example, and hundreds of embryos are lost, does that mean hundreds of manslaughter charges should be filed against somebody?
I do get entertained by the legal contradictions.
I think at the base it makes sense — but you have to apply context for viability. Yes, they are potentially unborn children (being fertilized and genetically complete) — but like an unimplanted fertilized egg (so handling the unfortunate miscarriages / tubal pregnancies / whatnot), they aren’t viable without further action and accidents (either Universe or human) happen and are more likely to be fatal given their fragile state (your freezer example).
Malicious acts can / should be prosecuted more severely than “Ooops, my bad” (imho) but at the same time — you can’t hold people or equipment to the same standard as a natal ICU or a pediatrician’s office or whatnot.
Didn’t read the ruling, hopefully they made that kind of point. Aren’t lawyers supposed to handle nuance / grey areas, after all? If everything was clear, binary and black and white (raycisst!) we wouldn’t need the lawyers, just a flowchart. Except for prominent forest lawyers of course….
they aren’t viable without further action
Neither is a newborn.
Neither is a thirty year old still living in your basement.
It seems like the logical conclusion to personhood beginning at conception. The most obvious thing would be to not generate embryos in bulk so have options for impanation. Yes, that will make fertility treatments more expensive.
Interestingly enough uber-wokety-woke Canadian TV show Orphan Black took the attitude that frozen embryos were “babies.”
IIRC, that was part of the Catholic Church’s problem with in vitro fertilization to begin with — the high “disposal” rate relative to actual successful implantations. At least they used to be consistent.
I think the frozen embryos are people thing is absurd. But kudos to the state Supreme Court for saying it isn’t their job to essentially write new laws to fix the consequences of brain dead legislative posturing, that the legislature needs to clean up their messes.
No “Every Sperm is Sacred” yet?
Is miscarriage now manslaughter?
could… but we all know Roberts hates doing that, so it will depend on if enough of the rest of the court swings one way or another that he has to go along.
ACB is becoming another Roberts, so I’m not optimistic they’ll get it right.
The Justices are all Dominant Culture people, so yeah, don’t get your hopes up. They’ve bucked the DC a few times, but far more often they enforce it.
Remember, these people are chosen by the president and approved by congress.
Gorsuch might be the closest to an actual free thinker that can slip through.
Kavanaugh seems surprisingly Roberts-ish as well. You would have thought his confirmation hearing and oh… being stalked for assassination might have convinced him that he isn’t getting into those cocktail parties no matter how much he tugs the forelock… but apparently not.
It shouldn’t be surprising considering he was handpicked by Kennedy. The only reason why Kennedy retired was because he saw that Kavanagh was on Trump’s potential justice list. He pretty much made a deal with Trump that he’d retire if he was replaced by Kavanagh. Then Trump pretended to act like he was deciding between multiple justices when the deal was already made.
The court isn’t 6-3 it’s 3-3-3 or really 3-3-2-1 to be more accurate. There are really only 2 conservatives on the court and one libertarian and 3 squishy moderates.
Sort of like Thomas and his idiotic gifts from friends.
Why it is almost like decades of pandering to union leaders for votes at the city and state level produces unsustainable contracts no tax base can fulfill…. hmm…. what a shock….
Aren’t they required by law…I had to stop, I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes
Why it’s almost like decades of tax cattle bailouts, plus Obama rewriting bankruptcy law on a whim convinced pols that it was OK to promise the moon.
The moon to the chosen and shit to the tax cattle.
I suspect that, to the administration, the “border crisis” is the backlogs in processing illegals so they can be released in-country. Bad optics, you know, those lines and refugee-ish camps at the border. This is an administration so beholden to anti-American leftists that they are funding Hamas and trying to ensure its survival, after all. An EO that actually stops the tsunami of illegals just isn’t in the cards with them.
I am figuring a similar method they employed with the student debt will occur. My guess, an EO that effectively grants citizenship to all; a massive push to register as many as possible on the voter rolls; courts halt the program; admin gives the court a middle finger and use some obscure procedural rule in some unknown law and continue foward.
The backlog in getting them all mail-in-ballots.
Judging by the border provisions they negotiated you are correct in your suspicion.
In its eighth annual Financial State of the Cities report, TIA found that the 75 largest cities in the U.S. had $307.4 billion worth of assets available to pay bills but their debt, including unfunded retirement benefit promises, totaled $595.3 billion.
Remember when one of Biden and Congress’ first acts in 2021 was to shower blue cities and states with printed dollars to shore up their finances?
And now the same entities are crying poor yet again. Shocking.
Oh, believe me I remember. That’s a big chunk of the money Hair Gel spread around to ensure he didn’t get recalled, after all.
Dave Smith’s last PotP podcast was on Tucker’s Russian subway adventure. His take was that Tucker was exposing American apathy and why we don’t demand better results from trillions of dollars in spending.
That one bill alone (American Rescue plan?) was $1.9 trillion and more than Russia’s entire GDP. But our subways are just sewers.
Nice tune, Banjos — thanks. Hadn’t heard them before… but quite listenable.
My pleasure.
Did I get this link form Glibs?
https://nypost.com/2024/02/19/opinion/inside-mayor-adams-migrant-debit-card-boondoggle-no-bid-bank-gets-50-million-border-crossers-up-to-10000-each/
Prepaid MasterCard, up to $10k, with no ID required? How TF can I sign up (multiple times!) for this? It would make my life soooo much easier.
Dietary needs? Like kosher?
Somebody tried to feed them pizza with pineapple on it. Or, Chicago-style.
Pineapple? So much for that.
This pisses me off.
Do you know what I’m going to do about it? I’m going to go to work every day, pay my mortgage on time and try to save a little money each month. And try to keep government involvement in my life to a bare minimum.
That oughta teach those fuckers a lesson.
Me too.
In “really should be linked tomorrow” news:
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/revolting/texas-vest-285930
And then antiques fell out of his ass.
“Wash Thiiiiis!”
/Caesar
I mean everyone should have hobbies in their retirement…but maybe he could have chosen something better.
Damn near killed him.
It seems that the recent report of a sheriff’s deputy mag-dumping his own vehicle over a falling acorn had some of the spectators at yesterday’s car race a bit nervous.
Me at the bar yesterday: It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Daytona 500.
Bartender: Goodyear?
Me: No, the worst.
Surely that didn’t originate with you.
Bingo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqAyz1coj44
Still gets me laughing my ass off, every time.
Those films really hit a historical sweet spot. I mean you had O.J., best known for cutting and slashing (in those old Avis commercials), before he became known for, uh…
cutting and slashing ?
Also juking.
I always figured he got tired of carrying the bag…
Did Nordberg show up in the TV show? I have an idea he was mentioned.
It’s been awhile since I’ve watched, but I think Norberg was a dumb white guy in the show.
O.J. killed it in the movies, pun intended, but there was a stretch where my wife and I couldn’t rewatch the movies. (we seem to rewatch them every few years)
Of course he didn’t, and don’t call him Shirley.
Nice beaver…
“…just had it stuffed.”
Saw the Dead South in concert with my wife on Saturday.
3rd time for us and they put on a hell of a show every time.
Good news for Not Adahn! Not so much for the rest of us.
Billions Start Flowing to Chip Makers for New U.S. Factories
Biden administration pledges $1.5 billion in grants to GlobalFoundries, but hurdles remain in revitalizing domestic semiconductor manufacturing
https://www.wsj.com/tech/billions-start-flowing-to-chip-makers-for-new-u-s-factories-4d832ffd?st=6gywg61t91o234g&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
that was covered already
/looks down towards Columbus
Well, the Intel plant going in there is supposed to be a huge boon.
Eh, I hear Intel is getting a LOT more, since they’re actually US-owned.
My false-flag prediction for Ramadan: The Iranian government already has a small nuke in Rafah. When Israel messaging and activity spikes in the area, they’re going to set it off. The whole point (of course) will be to make Israel look like the party responsible for nuking half a million people, with all the attendant (ahem) fallout.
That is sadly plausible.
And DC will condemn Israel without bothering to try to determine the truth.
that’s almost incomprehensibly evil to me. but tensions are high so let’s hope things cool before this becomes possible.
I ain’t gonna lie. I’d like a mammoth-skin parka.
https://colossal.com/mammoth/
Supposedly the calves will be born in 2028.
Too much “climate change” bullshit for me to take it seriously.
It would be neat to see if they could convert the central Siberian prairies back to forest habitat for the mammoths.
One steppe at a time, I suppose.
Ouch.
Why are there so many Chinese people in Mexico?
An April 2023 email to around 500 Border Patrol agents instructed the agents to reduce the number of interview questions for Chinese illegal immigrants who are apprehended.
The list of questions was cut down from 40 to just five. This allowed a fast-track of the release of Chinese illegal immigrants into the interior of the United States and has made it more difficult for CBP agents to identify national security threats.
“What is your name?”
“What is your quest”
“What is your favorite color?”
I’m more interested in why is the Biden administration is giving them special treatment. Did the order to do so come from Pooh?
Re: the half billion penalty of Trump
Jonathan Turley points out that the people in NY who still want to do business with Trump are being punished, too.
The “don’t worry about us coming after you” line is admission that they were going after one specific person. They could have taken the high ground and gone with “nobody is above the law and we’ll prosecute anyone who commits fraud” but that would scare off even more businesses. I’m really hoping they keep stepping on their own dicks like this.
She is on record campaigning to take down Orange. There’s nothing to “admit”. There is no “high ground”.
She was elected specifically for this purpose and found a judge to do it for her.
“Secretary Booty-Juice”
https://twitter.com/MS_Sambo_/status/1759724253199347861/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1759724253199347861¤tTweetUser=MS_Sambo_
Who doesn’t want to fly domestic air in North Korea?
The group tour, first announced in January, cost around $750. That covered the round-trip airfare for the roughly 80-minute flight from the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok to North Korea’s only international airport in the capital city of Pyongyang. It also included a domestic flight to the ski resort on North Korea’s east coast and meals. The ski pass, souvenirs and other expenses were paid out of pocket.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/vacation-in-north-korea-reclusive-state-reopens-to-tourismbut-only-for-russians-7b2978ea?st=b12nql8q2rc4b32&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Do they still get the Air Koryo burger on that short flight?
I was unaware of that culinary gem!
https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-koryo-burger-201704210421-story.html
Related: Jersey boy goes to Korea, gets bumped to a jump seat *
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trip-reports/1719160-air-koryo-business-class-qr-y-cx-j-jal-f-17-days-asia.html
*and loving all of it, as would I.
That’s awesome. Having had to to got JFK on work’s dime the first paragraph was on point.
It explains why those fascinated with trains don’t regularly take trains.
It’s fun once. It’s a pain to do repeatedly and knowing how awful it will be.
FT Europe
@ftbrussels
France tightens budget as economic growth slows
https://twitter.com/ftbrussels/status/1759551531253142006
@StrawberryNOMer
You cut spending when the economy is strong NOT WHEN ITS WEAKENING
Caleb Weldon
@WeldonCaleb
Showing economic growth is right when you shouldn’t cut spending
LeftWingGuy1066 🐈
@LeftWingGuy1066
Austerity only helps the right wing.
“Government spending in France was last recorded at 58.3 percent of GDP in 2022 . Government Spending to GDP in France averaged 53.42 percent of GDP from 1978 until 2022, reaching an all time high of 61.30 percent of GDP in 2020 and a record low of 45.20 percent of GDP in 1978”
“France recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 111.80 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2022.”
AusTERiTY… we are fucking doomed. I am really wondering what goes one in a leftist head. Besides brain rot.
What’s going on in a leftist head? Not math, that’s for sure.
An honest answer to why they are doing this would be welcome.
Happily. It’s just part of the kulturkrieg. For the folks in charge, America and Americans are the enemy, and they’re actively trying to destroy the country.
Oh wait – you mean honest from THEM….
@ Rhywun
The best I can determine, the pizzeria in Utica is the “Tony’s” that I mentioned the other day. I don’t know if it is still the same owners, but the location is right. 23 Burrstone Rd, Utica, NY 13502
👍🏻
TW: Salon
John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1 million a year to resign from Supreme Court
Oliver underscored the long history of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas’ relationship with billionaire Republican donor Harlan Crow and other wealthy benefactors who have showered Thomas with free trips in private jets and other extravagant gifts, while Thomas failed to disclose any of it. Then, Oliver made the offer to one-up these contributors, offering Thomas “one million dollars a year for the rest of your life if you simply agree to leave the Supreme Court immediately and never come back,” Oliver said, adding, “HBO is not putting up the money for this. I am personally on the hook.”
To sweeten the deal, Oliver is also throwing in a giant motorcoach worth $2.4 million, which may be extra enticing to Thomas, who has a famous affection for his own high-end vacation vehicle. Oliver says he spoke to several legal experts to ensure that this offer does not break the law.
I’m glad none of the other members of the SCOTUS take extravagant bribes.
He should have made that offer to Ginsberg to ensure a liberal justice got on the bench.
Oliver’s definitely the “smug douchebag” champion of TV hosts. Which is impressive, given the competition.
The Eastern European kabuki theater/money laundering operation holds no interest for me. Everyone involved should be imprisoned.
Biden campaign going all in on one big Hail Mary to turn their fortunes? Before reading, let me guess…..raise gas and grocery prices again?
““no jurisdiction of a bill to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties.”
I seem to recall that meant fuck-all to the courts when Trump was in office.
The cockroaches here protesting Israel’s act of self-defense have been tearing down posters of Jewish hostages. They want a ceasefire? Fuck them, and by them I mean Hamas and it’s supporters here.
The Chinese invaders are sent here by the Chicom government. How dense does one have to be not to see that? And how dense to not see that Biden and Co. are aiding and abetting our enemies?
Swalwell, run of the mill sociopathic pol. Scum of the earth.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – De Tocqueville
Fact check sites, all of whom appear to be skin suited by the left, of course says that is a false quote, never mind the truth of it. The left, as predictable as the sunrise.
Frozen embryos? I am pro-life but even I….
Seriously though, that is a bit over the top. Should we be able to prosecute murderers for the lives of their victims yet-to-be offspring?
Land ownership in Iowa? It is a state issue. Not my state, not my call.
The FedGov has no business owning land or seizing it. I wonder if Kelo could be used in some way to cut their nuts?
It’s something but not sure it will be as big as the truckers want, or as much as I want. I am not hopeful.
NYC needs so much brought in by truck on a daily basis that even a fairly small reduction could potentially cause problems.
Here’s hoping, anyway.
This seems reaaaaaaaaaaaly unlikely to me.
I want to believe.
Me too. haha.
Wait ’til the Chicoms start sending big ol’ boats full of refugees to SF, I’m talking by the 1000s.
“Keep buying our stuff or your next shipment will be live delivered to your door”
Boatloads of spies claiming to be refugees, more like it.
The Chinese invaders are sent here by the Chicom government.
First thing that came to mind in the story of the non-citizen appointed to the SF board, who is an immigration rights advocate. How the fuck are they getting money to live and remain in this country legally? Zero interest from the intrepid reporters.
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OK, google has just crossed over from “useless” to “actively harmful.”
I was looking up a piece of software online (EZCommander), and google returned literally zero links to the manufacturer. Every link went to somewhere else, the majority to (EZ Command Control Center). Since I have never in my life searched for model trains, I’m calling bullshit on the excuse of giggle tailoring its results based on my search history. What’s worse is I theoretically could substitute the model train software in a few applications for the correct motor controller, so had I given this task to a tech or intern, they would probably not have even noticed.
Any of you code monkeys want to make a few hundred thousand bucks? I need an OS/UI for a VPD tool.
Huh. I just tested searching for it myself (both on DDG and Google), and both returned this as the top link.
So, does that mean someone in my org/ip range is a model train aficionado?
I had the train stuff showing up after the actual software. Perhaps the algorithm has some idea about your predilection for trains?
/looks at the random ads the algorithm serves me
Or it’s just their shit’s all fucked up and reetarded.
First link for me, but followed up by model trains.
Are they aware that it’s the State (in this case) going after Bad Man?
Are they going to turn around at the border with Pennsylvania?
Since The City has 85% of the “voters” in the State…
That’s an impressive feat given that the city has less than half the population of the state. 😳
Maybe my stat was coming from Metro Area v. City Limits?
This dude is saying 62% on 4% of the land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLs4hLIuHVY
He also says that upstate is empty partially due to injuns, but mostly becasue it’s too cold. I’m not sure that makes him seem reliable.
NYC has 11 Congressional districts. Rest of the state has 15.
Well, given the number of vote mills downstate, 85% of the voters is probably accurate.
There was a girl from Albuquerque
With perfect breasts – all firm and perky
Boys came from around
To see her sweet mounds
Then back home to their life of jerking
https://archive.is/wip/k1w2a
Titty Tuesday.
This has gotta be driven by jealousy.
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/suspect-connection-colorado-dorm-shooting-custody
Why didn’t they just ban guns on campus?
Because a gun-free zone would surely have prevented this.
Not so sure about that. Local crazy person – who was prohibited from owning firearms – shot and killed two cops (and wounded an EMT).
No idea why they didn’t let this guy own guns again.
Swiss, Tonio, Neph, any TPTB: I accidentally hit submit on my post for this week, please give me until end of day to clean that up and finish it.
No worries.
“Team Biden Reportedly Going All-In On One Big Hail Mary To Turn Campaign Around”
So declare an emergency, arrest every Republican, and go 100% mail in ballots.
To go with yesterday’s songs, last night on (X)Twitter I got a like by Peter Hook. So I got THAT going for me.
I dunno much about LDS, but don’t you get excommunicated for this?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/mormon-mum-racy-double-life-32162794
I did not know they updated the Temple Garments.
I would imagine the process would be to haul her in front of a Council of Love (yes, actual name of Mormon disciplinary councils) and offer her a chance to repent. If she doesn’t agree to Tow the Lion, then she’d be excommunicated.
Large demographic shift in American TV series staff.
According to Writers Guild of America West data, between 2011 and 2020, staff writers moved from 35% to 63% women, and 72% to 44% white.
https://twitter.com/Scientific_Bird/status/1759700304725971342
And there was much rejoicing.
They are (deliberately?) misusing BIPOC.
It would be racist and sexist to graph that development against a measure of quality and viewership.
To be honest, most of it sucked before too.
Ah that explains why there are so many box office flops lately. Racism and sexism. White supremacists must be researching the writers before they buy their tickets.
Can we go back to separate but equal?
Thereby demonstrating that “a ____________ that looks like America” was always a lie.
No wonder modern entertainment mostly sucks. Select for something other than competence, and competence suffers.
We’ll, it finally happened, lost my cool with a subordinate.
For the second time he complained to me that I over speak him on conference calls and when dealing with junior members;
1) example one: junior member asks (both of us ) for help with a small matter. Subordinate starts in with “have you tried this? that? The other thing?” I interject and say “there was an email put out about it this morning; I’ll forward it to you.”
2) example two: conference call with someone asking to use our facilities. I speak up and say “I’m looking at that week on the calendar, I think we should be good.” After the phone call the ‘upward feedback’ starts….
My reaction: “this is my section. MINE. I don’t need your permission to speak or make decisions. This conversation is one way and is now over.”
AITAH?
Make him your bitch.
Not enough information to determine from my side. I know that I’ve face palmed several times on high level calls when some lower level tech starts spinning wonderful fabulous theories about the potential causes of the issue that couldn’t be the cause because of half a dozen missing symptoms. Even worse when that lower level tech drops out internal information that wasn’t supposed to be passed along to the customer.
It’s been a long power struggle. He ran my section for a while between my predecessor left and when I arrived (not well by most reports) There has been low key resentment and a lot of passive aggressive power plays for the last 8 months and today I’ve had it.
back in the good old days you would solve it like gentlemen. Sword or pistol.
Which is why I’d have been dead about 20 years ago.
I had an employee that I called “Yeah But”. He was a good employee but always wanted the last word. After I’d given him his assignment he always had to have the last word, “Yeah but”…
Sometimes he made sense, like in the middle of a project I had him working on. Then I’d have to decide priorities.
The woes of being a supervisor.
Yes, but sometimes you need to be if you are going to run things.
That’s one thing that I miss about the Marines, we never had a lot of those situations.
It isn’t a very libertarian thing to say but “knowing one’s place” isn’t necessarily the least of virtues.
That’s not anti-libertarian at all. He’s being paid to do a job, with a certain role, reporting to a manager (you). He’s free to leave if he doesn’t like the terms.
/Whistles past enlistment contract
Eh, voluntary contract. Still not bothered.
(I know, different than two private parties agreeing to a contract – but still one that was voluntarily signed).
And a HUUUGE improvement over the draft.
Obviously, a military where anyone can quit at any time without consequences ain’t gonna work. Mass desertions once the bullets start flying.
Yeah, I’m with Ron. Embrace your inner asshole on this. Someone has to be the top dog.
Dealing with it now and conclusively is the way to go. Letting that crap keep festering sucks for everyone on the team.
My wtf moment was when a jr person on my team and I both wanted to take off the same couple days.
He seemed amazed that I pulled rank and told him to pick another day.
I didn’t feel that bad. The kid had already taken off tons of time already. I had taken off almost none. I also told him I was the boss and as such got to pick first.
Told him how when I was in Okinawa my boss (a SSgt) would divide up our electronic equipment everyday with this rule: Anything that was broken or needed to be PM’ed was mine. All the working equipment was his.
Probably, but that doesn’t necessarily make you wrong. Just going from that, it sounds like you have contradictory styles. He’s a plodder, you’re a guy who just wants to get things resolved asap.
Why does schadenfreude taste so damn good?
https://youtu.be/1kZBD9xoQRQ
Just in case you’ve never heard Schadenfreude.
nose/face
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Another one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVFYQql2-24
Nice!
Rancher Suing Biden Over Arizona Land Grab
Paging Vincent Price
This is insane
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1759707482447024528
Libertopia?
there would be gun turrets on the cars
I saw a car rub paint to force by a car that was turning into a business and was partially blocking the lane. 5 seconds too much..
My reaction: “this is my section. MINE. I don’t need your permission to speak or make decisions. This conversation is one way and is now over.”
I don’t see a problem.
The National Science Foundation is allocating over $900,000 in taxpayer funds to three universities to conduct a study claiming biology courses inaccurately portray sex and gender as binary, in order to make them more inclusive for transgender and non-binary students.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-admin-pours-1-million-into-studies-aimed-at-denying-there-are-only-two-genders
they should have given that money to the poor migrants instead
That would be a less infuriating way to spend $900k.
Anyone got a term they use for their spiritual path / emotional growth journey that doesn’t sound unbearably pretentious & wanky?
https://twitter.com/jnsyaaa/status/1759318486654894368
“Self improvement”
sounds too right wing
Thank doG that this woman isn’t a Native American or your next trip to the doc could be bad. I’m assuming that if she was an Indian, her Native Knowledge would mandate this treatment for anyone near-sighted person.
In my wife’s country babies can be given the evil eye and one way to cure them is to wipe their eyes with their urine filled diaper. #IndigenousKnowledge
Sounds more like the stink eye.
Great. Now they are going to elevate this Navalny guy’s widow to some sort of international pop star.
In Bucharest they want to name a street after the guy. Fucking stupid if you ask me.
Shere Hite’s search for the female orgasm What happened to one of our most famous feminists?
https://unherd.com/2024/02/shere-hites-search-for-the-female-orgasm/
Julie Bindel
“We need to make a film about me.” That was one of the first things Shere Hite, the feminist sex researcher, said to me when I met her in May 2011. Now, three years after she died aged 77, her wish has come true. The Disappearance Of Shere Hite, released last month, charts the fascinating life of the woman responsible for exposing the uncomfortable fact that, for women, penetrative sex rarely results in orgasm.
To truly understand how revolutionary Hite’s research and findings were in the mid-Seventies, it’s important to look at what male sexologists — back then, there was no other kind — had been saying up until then. The two most famous, Sigmund Freud and Alfred Kinsey, had both promoted the notion of the “authentic” orgasm, achievable only in the vagina — in other words, as a result of penile penetration — or as Hite put it, “the great male thrust”.
search for the female orgasm
Much like the Jersey Devil, it’s just a myth.
Literally anyone who’s read historical porn knows that gamahuching, frigging, and flat-fucking were all known to cause women to spend. Before Freud was born.
Also, I’ve started reading the songs of Sappho. Not nearly as hot as I’d been led to believe.
do it in a sauna or a Turkish bath
flat-fucking ? thats a new one
It is why Not Adahn always walks around throwing sharp tacks on roads near his house. Just waiting for his chance to pounce.
Lady rats are super easy. Plus with a spreadsheet linked to my calendar, I always know when one of them is going into estrus.
Well, you are a scientist. Always looking for those long tails, right?
Ahhhhh, second wave feminism; in which everything from the laundry not being folded to the heat death of the universe is directly attributable to how horrible, insensitive and subhuman men are. By popularizing the brilliant paradoxes that men are simultaneously bumbling idiots and sophisticated predators whereas women are simultaneously superior in every way and pathetic, helpless victims, these wonderful ladies truly are the intellectual grandmothers of the 21st century AWFL grrrlbosses.
“She was accused by sexologists and academics of bias and flawed methodology. Hite had distributed 100,000 detailed questionnaires in brown paper envelopes to random addresses from the phone book. Around 4,500 were completed and returned to her.”
Ummmm… yes. That is complete shit as a methodology and a big reason why the “science” in the social “sciences” will always and forever have scare quotes around it.
So, she based her conclusions on the answers of the 4.5% of people willing to respond to random unsolicited inquiries about their intimate lives? Something tells me that is not representative of the other 95.5% of the population.
Another Strong Black Woman has been fired by The Man
Given that it is Minneapolis, I can’t decide if she was horribly, horribly incompetent, or just a reasonable person who didn’t tow the crazy progressive lion.
Incompetence doesn’t seem to be a fireable offense in government, so my guess would be that she was a non-crazy in a job where crazy is expected.
Ireland’s anti-immigration backlash is spiralling into country-wide unrest
Republican voters are turning against Sinn Fein as they reject the party’s open borders stance
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/19/mass-immigration-bringing-european-style-populism-ireland/
Demonstrators also belted “Ireland is for the Irish” and other slogans which would usually be the preserve of the republicans of Sinn Fein. But the party’s support for mass migration has alienated their Irish nationalist base, with many at the march branding them “traitors”.
To find out more about where the anger is coming from, I travelled to Roscrea, a sleepy town in County Tipperary, where locals have been protesting for three weeks outside of the town’s only hotel – closed down last month after the government struck a deal with its owner to house more than 160 asylum seekers there. Mary-Claire Doran, a Roscrea resident, told me the town had been transformed by an influx of around 1,000 refugees in recent years, swelling the town’s population of 5,000 by 20 per cent.
I’d have thought that after their experience with my eastern cousins*, my western cousins** would have learned their lesson regarding immigrants.
*the Anglo-Saxons
**the Irish
What unintended consequences?
Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto then asked O’Leary what he thinks about New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) attempted assurances to New York business owners, in which she told residents there was “nothing to worry about.”
“We’re very worried, every investor is worried because where is the victim? Who lost the money? This is some arbitrary decision a judge made,” O’Leary responded. “This policy … what does this say about the bar? About the legal bar in New York? Aren’t they going to question this judge? What is this?”
“I’m sorry her words fall on deaf ears to everybody,” he added. “There’s nothing she can say to justify this decision. And this has nothing to do with Trump, nothing to do with Trump. Forget about Trump, this is not a Trump situation, this is a New York problem.”
The amazing thing is nobody mentions the utter lack of even pretending this is in any way about restitution. It’s piracy, plain and simple.
Mark Steyn was writing about how you can’t even appeal a decision unless you can pony up the settlement first.
In Bucharest they want to name a street after the guy. Fucking stupid if you ask me.
Is it a dead end?
it is “whatever street the Russian embassy happens to be on”
Interesting case. If he was in Congress this would be perfectly legal however.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/an-executive-bought-a-rivals-stock-the-sec-says-thats-insider-trading-84ef8aae?st=lmmi357h3cq4k6v&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Paging Pete Rose to the ethics hotline…
Who needs a flying car when you can have a boat car!
I can only imagine the fun at the boat ramps.
There are worse ways to spend $130,000.
What could possibly go wrong?
VW leans against it’s Schwimmwagon and laughs.
‘Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers’ is a headline tailor-made for the anxieties of 2024. It is the kind of headline, indeed, that trumps the story itself: it confirms everything the typical conservative Telegraph reader intuits about what is going on across the West as we speak. The old order disappearing; a great wave of immigration replacing it; and all for some reason facilitated and even encouraged by the state – which, to top it off, forces the people already here, who can ill-afford it, to subsidise the process financially.
The actual story could never live up to that headline, and sure enough the truth as reported is much less blood-boiling than it sounds at first blush. Yes, an elderly couple were told in a letter they received from their local authority (North Northamptonshire Council) that they had to sell their home to house asylum seekers, but they received another letter three days later apologising and telling them the first had been sent in error. Their house was not going to be compulsorily purchased at all. The story was actually a bit of a damp squib, then, in its own narrow facts.
Nonetheless, it is far from a ‘nothingburger’, and has some disturbing and important connotations that are worth teasing out. For it brings to the fore the crucial connection that I have previously drawn between the ownership of property and the form of government which it is proper to label tyrannical, in that it governs in a manner which transcends law, and indeed only tolerates the existence of rules insofar as they apply to the subject, rather than the ruler himself.
What happened to the elderly couple in question has, though, first to be set in context. While no local authority anywhere in the U.K. is currently compulsorily purchasing homes that are lived in, it seems that throughout the country they have been quietly “identifying empty properties” which are owned, with the aim of buying them through compulsory purchase orders (though it is unclear whether any purchases are yet actually taking place) – and that they are doing this explicitly because of a rise in the number of asylum seekers being granted leave to remain in the country.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/02/20/justified-tyranny/
That such a letter was sent in the first place should lead to immediate gibbeting of the entire agency.
Oops, we revealed our secret plan too early.
Do Southerners know they don’t need a saying to relay every thought?
Northerners- He’s Cheap.
Southerners- That man wouldn’t give a nickel to see Jesus ridin’
a bicycle.
Northerners- She looks happy.
Southerners- Grinnin’ like a possum eatin’ a sweet
tater.
https://twitter.com/dantypo/status/1759281880791241199
Bless his heart.
I think he screwed the pooch on that one.
I don’t know, seems more useless than teats on a boar.
Northerners sound boring.
Nah. We just know better than to try to drag things out talking to people from the south, there’s only so much time in the day.
What’s this got to do with the price of eggs?
Joe wants a Navalny of his own
Julian Assange’s lawyers opened a final U.K. legal challenge Tuesday to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges, arguing that American authorities are seeking to punish him for exposing serious criminal acts by the U.S. state
Lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said there is a risk Assange “will suffer a flagrant denial of justice” if he is sent to the U.S. At a two-day High Court hearing, Assange’s attorneys are asking judges to grant a new appeal, his last legal roll of the dice in Britain
Assange himself was not in court. Judge Victoria Sharp said he was granted permission to come from Belmarsh Prison, where he has been held for five years, but had chosen not to attend. Fitzgerald said the 52-year-old Australian was unwell but did not elaborate on his health.
Assange has been fighting extradition for more than a decade, including seven years in self-exile in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and the last five years in the high-security prison on the outskirts of the British capital.
They need to perp walk Assange off an airplane. It will make a fantastic campaign ad.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman: “Our goal is to make sure the Hip Hop community has a seat at the table as we work on federal policy.”
https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1759670350411915364
He means Ben Shapiro I assume
New Zealand OIA request reveals the COVID vaccines increased your risk of dying
Chris Johnston submitted a OIA request to the New Zealand health authorities. The official response shows that the vaccines didn’t protect people from COVID. It killed them.
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-zealand-oia-request-reveals-the
I probably need to dig into the data myself at some point cause I aint sure what I can believe
Largest Covid vaccine study ever finds shots are linked to small increased risk of neurological, blood and heart disorders – but they are still extremely rare
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13100755/Largest-Covid-vaccine-study-finds-shots-linked-small-increased-risk-neurological-blood-heart-disorders-extremely-rare.html
if it don;t really work against the bug, even rare is unnecessary
I try not to get too into the weeds on this, because it gets me into a rage.
Shot side effects are rare, OK.
Dying from COVID also rare, but those bastards ruined people’s lives over the shot.
SERENITY NOW!
I lost more friends and acquaintances to the lockdowns (suicide, OD’s, etc.) than I did to the ‘vid.
In order to appeal, a losing party has to post a bond for the amount at issue. That’s true for federal and state courts, although there are variations hither and yon: some jurisdictions require you merely to post a bond for the original judgment, others to cover the likely interest that will pile up as your appeal works it way through the choked septic tank of American “justice”; California, for example, won’t entertain an appeal until you bond 150 per cent of the amount of the judgment.
I read an article gloating about this, in reference to Trump, yesterday. Whoever it was also mentioned the Ergoron-appointed corporate overseer who has to sign off on any deals. They are positively pissing themselves in ecstasy.
Re: Ukraine funding.
HWFO has a writeup about how countries that give a fuck are either within a well-defined box, or are ruled by a twitter caste:
https://hwfo.substack.com/p/real-talk-about-ukraine-funding
maybe some are giving secret like
“should you wash chicken in the sink” — the greatest forum thread in american culinary history, locked by a moderator after 14,456 pages of heated debate,
the american CDC has, by the way, the most pre-scientific, cargo cult understanding of the germ theory of disease, evident both in their response to covid and their stated view that “washing chicken” is like an aerosolised salmonella event. germs to them are like bad humours
the french, hanging a goose outside for 3 weeks to ripen:
americans: uh you’re going to wash that right? to remove all the poo? and like? mold?
the french: remove them? oh non, non
https://twitter.com/gbrl_dick/status/1759739528926077125
Swalwell’s wife is sales director at Ritz-Carlton. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that travel money finds its way back to her in the form of commissions.
Pac-2 picks diversity hire, so far better than that idiot Larry Scott.
Mystifying
To right-wingers, it’s a beacon of light for the rest of the continent; for liberals, it’s a warning signal to all of Latin America. Either way there’s no denying the significance of what has been happening in El Salvador, said Ishaan Tharoor in The Washington Post.
Under President Nayib Bukele, who has just won re-election in a landslide, the country has shifted from a functional multiparty democracy “to a de facto one-party state”.
In his first term, he packed the constitutional court with loyalists, thereby managing to sidestep a ban on presidents seeking consecutive terms. And, last week, he duly triumphed again at the polls, winning 87% of the vote for himself as president, while his Nuevas Ideas party won control of the national legislature. His astonishing popularity hinges on one thing only: his sweeping crackdown on El Salvador’s gangs and cartels. Within the space of a few years, El Salvador’s once “world-leading homicide rates” have been dramatically reduced, and Salvadorans have enjoyed a sense of safety they could previously only dream of.
What self-respecting lover of democracy could vote for such a man? It’s baffling.
As if liberals (in the American sense) are really worried about one-party states.
Surely just incompetence and not nefarious.
Nor have Bukele’s policies – including his eccentric decision in 2021 to make bitcoin legal tender – done anything to improve the economy, said Julia Gavarrete in El Faro (San Salvador). El Salvador is still one of Central America’s weakest economies; much of its 6.5 million-strong population can’t afford basic staples. But that hasn’t stopped other leaders in the region looking to El Salvador as the nation to copy, said Will Freeman and Lucas Perelló in The New York Times.
He’s no Lula.
Hunted for sport
he first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York.
The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that in August 2019, Daqua Lameek Ritter coaxed the woman — who is anonymously referred to as “Dime Doe” in court documents — into driving to a sparsely populated rural county in South Carolina. Ritter shot her three times in the head after they reached an isolated area near a relative’s home, according to Breon Peace, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where Ritter was arrested last January.
In recent years there has been a surge in attacks on the LGBTQ+ community. For decades, transgender women of color have faced disproportionately high rates of violence and hate crimes, according to the Department of Homeland Security. In 2022, the number of gender identity-based hate crimes reported by the FBI increased by 37% compared to the previous year.
Millions of them.
Okay, who is missing?
https://thepostmillennial.com/man-in-kilt-arrested-after-shoving-items-up-his-rectum-in-texas-antique-shop