Good morning one and all to another amazing Valentine’s day and to the morning links!
House impeaches Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Dem Wins George Santos’ Former Seat
Trump Asks SCOTUS to Weigh Presidential Immunity and Delay Trial
Joe Biden’s Classified Docs Contain More Evidence Hunter’s Influence Peddling Was A Family Affair
Impeachment evidence counters Biden’s claims, shows he met with many of son’s major foreign clients
All Trump Criminal Cases Hit Critical Juncture This Week
DOW Jones suffers worst single day since March 2023 after inflation numbers came in high
Job Gains Are Going To Immigrants
Illegal Immigrants Entering U.S. Through the Northern Border in Record Numbers
Jeff Bezos to Save Over $600 Million in Taxes by Moving to Miami
Denver Slashes City Budget to Fund Illegals
That’s all I got for today. I’m off to spend the day with the love of my life. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
mornin’ banjos
whaddup doh’
Thought of you when the local indie rag posted this retrospective.
to much W there not that diverse
You’re complaining that there’s too many women looking for men in old personal ads in newspapers?
I assumed that is the F not the W
You are correct, I was misremembering the codes. Scene was the “indie/punk/alt” rag. The other demographics had their own freely distribute rags.
Ya know, I never fucked with BackPage. CL personals got me laid a lot.
And the last one (Jugsy) still hasn’t left.
That’s a … qualified … vote of confidence for Jugsy on V-day, you hopeless romantic. 🤣
Hopeless Romantic? Or just hopeless?
For UCS:
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E22/170452
This is exactly how I feel on Dec 26th about Christmas.
In some team building this morning presented each of us with a probability question, failed to recognize it was a conditional probability question, and presented the wrong answer even after a couple of us presented the math on why he was wrong. I think used chatGPT to show him he was wrong. I used a math website to show him he was wrong. He still is saying those are all wrong.
Was it some bad take on the Monty Hall problem?
Exactly. Confused the question presented with an answer from the Monty Hall problem.
I think there is a word missing in that first sentence
It originally said “Our boss, in some…” and I got lazy and cut things out.
Does his position require being able to do math?
Its a low level management job…so no. In the past when a tech…absolutely.
It does require being able to trust feedback from his people when they present evidence of an issue.
So he’s failed.
Bingo
I think that exercise went quite well.
All you potential trouble makers have clearly identified yourselves as shitlords who need watching.
Denver Slashes City Budget to Fund Illegals
But they are net tax payers, right?
Amazing how if it’s to balance a budget there’s nothing left to cut, but if it’s to support the Democratic vote machine then get out your knives.
It’s a two-fer: buy illegal votes, and gut the election fraud detection agency.
Remember Obama rules:
Ensure to inflict as much pain on the public as possible.
Spending more to keep something closed is good if it inflicts pain.
Obligatory Sowell article on this very point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_syndrome
They make it up on volume.
/looks north at the lake
Are they swimming across? What’s the boating equivalent of a coyote?
River otter?
Beaver?
Hire a Monstro? Taking a ride with Jonah? Thats all I got.
Well, there are legends about the Lake Erie Monster (hence the minor league hockey team name).
Capt. Merrill Stubing ?
Icebacks?
Snowbacks?
Mostly walking it looks like
Seriously, they hired Florida Man to guide them through the frozen tundra? They deserved what they got.
The St. Lawrence is a for-real river.
Ok…
Do you think Canada really wants all the Progressives who threaten to move up there every election cycle?
Joe Biden’s Classified Docs Contain More Evidence Hunter’s Influence Peddling Was A Family Affair
Impeachment evidence counters Biden’s claims, shows he met with many of son’s major foreign clients
Of course the MSM will bury it as best they can or “explain” how it’s totally not what it seems like if they can’t bury it effectively.
At this point I wonder if there has been a conversation on how they can…take care of Hunter…so Biden can go all rage about how dare you talk about his dead son (part deux)
Are they going to set him up with bottled water?
Sprinkle a lil Fentanyl on Cracky.
Today is Wednesday, isn’t it?
Yes, a continuous series of attempted killings by the secret service in which they contaminate Cracky with all sorts of poisons, only to find out that Hunter is immune to all substances because his tolerance is other worldly.
It ends with Hunter pulling one of the agents aside and saying “Man, I don’t what you put on Cracky, but can you do me a solid and hit me again?”
Valentine’s Day Cow Art
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1757662883029127310
Because I really want a truck that tows less than a 100 miles at highway speeds.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ev-electric-vehicle-slowdown-ford-gm-tesla-b20a748e?st=aznhgfaalemvwq3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When did it become fashionable to have no knowledge of your customer base?
“Gamers are dead — gamers don’t need to be the market for video games”
When businesses hired for rightthink instead of results.
Which customer? The buyer or FedGov?
Happy birthday to the methhead aidoru!
https://youtu.be/hSAxEFhGQZs
For everyone else!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriko_Sakai
Rather tragic on some of the idol scandals.
Or the number that ended up dead at relatively young ages.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Uffda. No more buffalo mascots I guess.
Personally, I’d go with George Custer as my new mascot.
Nah. Go with Smallpox.
Like it. You could turn this into a decent logo
Also, come up with a special cheer for your sportzball teams where you demand “Blanket D”
Amherst isn’t using the Lord Jeffs anymore. Probably get some deals on old swag.
So the Indians are now claiming to be bison?
There’s a stolen valor/cultural appropriation angle of buffalo soldiers in there too.
I wager it’s yet another case of someone getting offended on behalf of someone who isn’t offended.
They claimed the moon so why not?
So no more native North American species?
At least there are some good, safe options that roll trippingly off the tongue:
Dakota Kangaroos 🦘
Dakota Koalas 🐨
Dakota Wallabies (No wallaby emoji? Now I haz a sad! 😢)
The offending bison: https://dakota.rochesterschools.org/
Principal Levi Lundak: https://dakota.rochesterschools.org/o/da/page/meet-our-principals
Impressive amount of flair. He’s just not doing the minimum.
Even at a glance, I don’t want him around my children.
He kinda looks like a bison.
Or at least ate one.
Great Crow….he even has the Fun-O-Meter
And “Garry Owen” as the school song.
My wife scored big this Valentine’s Day.
I dislocated my finger last night playing hoops and know have a knuckle the size of a walnut. She’s in for some terrific foreplay.
Oh my.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 02/14:
*24/24 words (+4 bonus words)
📖 In the top 1% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 02/14:
*40/40 words (+10 bonus words)
📖 In the top 17% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 143
Least problematic teacher-behaving-badly story I’ve seen in a long time:
https://www.iheart.com/content/2024-02-12-art-teacher-accused-of-selling-students-artwork-online-for-a-profit/
The student not only can be made whole, but they get a portfolio boost being a professional artist now.
This week’s assignment comes from a buyer in Vancouver.
I would have guessed an anonymous buyer. HB from Washington DC.
Then see your work being sold to Democratic donors for millions.
No images of the art in question?
how is this journalism?
If the teacher had made agreements with the students and parents to act as a gallery owner on their behalf, they could have taken the usual 50% or higher cut of the sales price, and no one would have had cause to complain. He’ll, they could have passed it off as teaching students how to become professional artists. But they got greedy.
So, there’s a lawsuit against the artificial magazine restriction law in DC.
Check out the argument from the defender of the restrictions:
And here I am waiting for a coherent theory on how magazine restrictions are constitutional.
I’m not even going to engage on whether they make anybody safer. Not relevant.
Need? That’s not how any of this works. Asshat can fuck right off.
Studies show that most police officers never need to fire their handguns in a self-defense situation. Obviously DC should ban generally issuing guns to police.
Where did you get the idea that “Need” has anything to do with it?
Well, naturally before you can have a right, you must submit a Certificate of Need and have it approved by the local authoritahs.
That reminds me, I still have to get some paperwork together…
If they keep getting away with this shit need for self-defense is going to have everything to do with it.
“They may want a machine gun for self-defense …”
That prior violation of rights justifies any and all future violations of rights?
Had a discussion of the ACLU with Mrs. Prole, where I said the organization that used to defend Nazis’ free speech would now call marching in Skokie hate speech. Said any alleged civil rights organization that opposes the right to self-defense has been skin-suited by authoritarians and doesn’t deserve further donations from her.
“That prior violation of rights justifies any and all future violations of rights?”
Your Supreme Court appointment, sir.
Does anyone need more than one attorney while before a judge and jury?
Does anyone need the right to remain silent?
Does anyone need to be free?
On topic music for today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DggNxMkGJ-8
Happy Valentine’s Day to you all. This day is usually low key for us because our anniversary is the day before. Which is nice because it’s way easier to get reservations at a nice place on the 13th. This year things are a bit lean, but we spent the day together and we were happy we could do that. Thinking back, we were never going to be the couple who both worked 9-5 and went on a cruise every year. But we are putting together one hell of a story.
Congrats on the anniversary!
On our first anniversary, the best place we could afford was the Olive Garden. We ate there for many subsequent anniversaries because of “tradition”. Now we usually just stay in.
I’m gonna avoid the crowds at restaurants today and smoke a pork shoulder to make nacho Cubanos.
Told Mrs. Prole that when you’re in love, every day is Valentine’s Day.
If I said that to Mrs. TOK she’d make pretend throwing up noises. But like your Mrs., mine absolutely appreciates my cooking, especially a good BBQ.
Mine too.
We’re having leftover chicken I smoked this past weekend.
The girlfriend and I went out for paczki and pints at a local brewery last night, and are planning on hitting up another one today who’s doing a special charcuterie pretzel. Large brewhouse pretzel with dark chocolate heart-shaped cookies, chocolate-covered strawberries, x’s & o’s gummies, and chocolate-covered cherries. Roses of assorted gourmet meats, cheese cubes, assorted olives, and more.
For a moment I was worried they’d put the chocolate on the pretzel, but it was an unfortunate line break in the browser that separated the dark chocolate from the cookies.
We won’t go to a restaurant, but I will be heading out soon to buy flowers and a card.
Our first Valentine’s Day together Mrs. Holiness told me that we are broke and not to waste any money on flowers, candy or a card. Being a dumb rookie husband I listened to her. The defense of “You told me not to buy flowers!” did not carry any water in the argument that started the second I returned home empty handed.
“You expect me to not take you at your word?”
I have managed to put up a strong resistance to purchasing cut flowers for any girlfriend/event. I stick with either small live plants, or alternate material flowers (steel, leather, chocolate, etc.). The Lego kits have made it much easier.
Mrs. Holiness is pretty low maintenance. So flowers one day of the year is probably worth it.
Here is a token of my love (hands her a cut flower). It will wither and die in a few days.
That always seemed like the wrong message. I don’t buy flowers, clothing, or jewelry. I buy cheese and meat!
We are having 1/4 wheel of raclette cheese melted over steamed cauliflower with pickles and charcuterie (shark cootchie, as she calls it)
I uh…YDY
“Cloaca” sounds too clinical.
I have no doubt shark cootchie is on offer at certain select Chinese wet markets.
Exactly. The alternate flowers I get will last (well, except the chocolate ones, those get eaten). Plus, with most of the Lego flowers, if she wants, she can bring them into her salon to decorate.
I am making paella tonight.
We had always talked about going to Tahiti for an anniversary. But she became a stay at home mom, and now we have the gym, so that extra few thousand bucks never showed up. Even still, we’ve had a lot of adventures and there will be more.
I took my wife to Singapore on our 30th anniversary. It was a delayed honeymoon.
Awesome. See that’s the spirit.
Since we know the kids won’t live long in our house in Nevada, we have been planning out the financial windfall from that and one thing is to do our much delayed honeymoon.
“that extra few thousand bucks”
That would get you there. Were you planning on coming back?
Just razzin’ ya, TOK. I hope your gym gets sorted out – Mrs. Dean has had the chance to take over a couple of gyms and has passed. Long hours, hard work, dealing with the public – not easy.
Your ability to stay positive, or at least put that face on, is one of the greatest things about this site, and a real inspiration for me with all my struggles.
Happy Anniversary!
Wow thank you for that compliment! I’m not always successful but I do my best.
We’re low key on Valentine’s Day because it’s offspring #4’s birthday, so that gets more notice (17 today), and both of us score very very low on “gifts” in the “love language” thing.
Happy Arizona Statehood Day to one and all! Back in 1912 President Taft vetoed the AZ statehood bill because it had the initiative, referendum, and recall in the proposed state constitution. Taft was a judicial sort and he didn’t take kindly to those three ideas. The Territorial lege took them out, Congress passed another statehood bill and Taft signed it on this day. The new state promptly put all three back into the state constitution.
Happy Anniversary!
We filed for bankruptcy on VDay 4 years ago. We ended up arguing at Sams Club while buying toilet paper and vitamins, had hot dogs, and got a tray of cupcakes. It was not a fun day, so since, it’s been “the day we filed for bankruptcy and were in a pissy mood.”
TODAY THOUGH!!!! We have the Chiefs Superbowl parade!!!! (No, we’re not going. TV is better.)
Speaking of bad VDays, it was 18 years ago today that I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. At first I was kind of pissy on VDay, remembering chemotherapy and the hell that brought. Then, due to the many PET scans, they found a spot on my right kidney that was later determined to be renal cell carcinoma. Had old righty removed and lefty has been doing overtime with no complaints since. The odds of noticing RCC prior to pissing blood is very low – in fact, my older brother was diagnosed with RCC after he pissed blood. He’s dead now.
So, VDay has mixed feelings for me now, fortunate I went through the hell, which saved my life from the other cancer. Sad my brother didn’t have the same luck. Very happy I’m here to celebrate another VDay with my wife. I’ll probably pick up some ribeye steaks on the way home.
That’s understandable and I’m happy that was caught and you lived to Valentine another Day.
Filing for bankruptcy was a necessary evil and I felt free of my POS house. It was the argument later at Sam’s Club that leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Some red meat!
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2024/02/13/i-wonder-who-she-voted-for-illegal-alien-lakewood-church-shooter-voted-in-2020-general-election-n4926389
Why do think the Dems want millions of illegals flooding across the border?
I was told this is untrue, there is no fraud and our elections are the most secure thing on the planet, next to Biden’s storage locations.
But I thought there was no fraudulent votes!
Rubes in the Snow
How dare these wackos try to run their own government?
Actually a pretty good article. The journalo tends to write from a “what a bunch of paranoid crazies” view, but enough quotes make it into the story to make it interesting.
The million dollar quote:
I’ve had the same thoughts when we tried to pass voter ID laws. Why do they fight it so hard? Especially if there isn’t any voter fraud going on?
People might get the spark of liberty and self-governance. We cannot have those dangerous ideas running wild.
No mention of Biden’s memorable shrinkflation observations on X (obligatory – formerly the heroic Twitter) video. Darn that corporate greed! We all know that snack food manufacturers costs haven’t changed, right?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-prices-inflation-sticky-stocks-federal-reserve-jerome-powell-921d7929?st=lluvpfqgpuaox21&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My car insurance is up 25% since the beginning of 2020. Food pricing is terrible.
We had the exterior of our house completely redone last year (siding, soffits, fascia, gutters, and roof). The cost was staggering compare to the original construction costs in 2005.
The core inflation index is a fucking lie.
You need to haggle better
“Prices for goods have fallen over the last year, which is good news if you’re looking to buy a used car or washing machine.”
Mrs. TOK stopped by CVS yesterday to pick up some of those Lindor chocolate truffles. They wanted $1 per piece. And the Godiva ones were $1.25. Yes I know they raise the price for Valentine’s Day, but that was unreal. So we went without chocolate. I still get anxious when I go grocery shopping.
The best they can say is “prices aren’t increasing as much as they were a few years ago” which like saying they only punched you in the face three times instead of five so you should be happy.
Bottom line is that prices are still way up, and wages haven’t kept up, and that’s all you need to know.
Who ya gonna believe, us or your empty wallet?
It is like none of you print out my comments and keep them handy. Grocery prices are down! Down I tell you!
Then several paragraphs later…
So you wreckers and kulaks had better stop bad mouthing Brandon’s economy.
“X (obligatory – formerly the heroic Twitter)”
I’ve noticed people have stop saying the “used to be Twitter” thing.
I keep referring to it as Twitter. No X for me.
The Muslim conquests of territories were significantly different from Western colonialism. Our motivation wasn’t rooted in worldly gains or plundering wealth. In many cases, we were provoked, leading to conquests. Upon conquest, we became an integral part of the land, rather than ruling over the masses with a sense of superiority. Today, you won’t find museums in Turkish or Arab lands filled with looted artifacts from India or other regions. Muslim conquerors didn’t transfer wealth of the conquered territories but utilized them for the benefit of locals.
https://twitter.com/AyishaMuhamad/status/1757311857973489931
The Turks were not ruling in eastern Europe no sir. No wealth transfer or slave transfer either. What swell guys they were
Because they destroyed them instead.
Her feed could make an American prog’s head explode.
Quite a magnanimous bunch weren’t they? Now ask why there aren’t hardly any black people in the former Ottoman Empire.
Vlad Tepes says, “Whatchu talkin bout Willis?”
They were provoked into invasions by the spectacle of seeing non-Muslims walking around.
And lets do talk about the genocide in the Indian subcontinent and environs.
Double barrel 12 GA shotgun pistols?
https://americanguncraft.com/products/?_raclid=ead132aa-0a7a-4faa-9a8a-2dec6ed35696&rum130=
Pretty neat I suppose but no thanks.
How’d that happen? My bad.
Yeah, that’s a pass.
12th century England was the time of the real scientific method
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1757689429504806956
Who are you that is so knowledgeable in the ways of science?
+/- 1 duck
What manner of man are you that makes fire with no flint or tinder?
“A chemist”
The architectural fantasies of Soviet and Russian architect, draughtsman and futurist Artur Skizhali-Veys (1963–2022)
https://twitter.com/FedeItaliano76/status/1757388595504058564
to be fair, breaking a few million eggs is worth it for that glorious future
That upper right one looks like the remodel of Soldier Field in Chicago.
Do you mean that poorly rendered CGI spacecraft landed on a lovely neo-classical structure?
Artist Rajacenna can draw 8 hyper-realistic portraits simultaneously using her hands and feet at the same time.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1757471875280630150
what an odd thing to do
Impressive yet she’ll still get squeezed out by AI.
Unless she does it on twitch while wearing a bikini.
We need research!
Interesting that the faces are “upside down” as she draws them. It would never occur to me to try to do a portrait that way.
It is a known practice, especially in learning to draw the face, because it helps rid preconceived ideas of what certain facial features ‘look’ like. In this case, its just showing off though and rightly so.
I think $150k – $225k has to be the worst salary range.
You make too much to say “F*ck this place, I quit.”
Yet not enough to be financially free without a job for any significant amount of time.
https://twitter.com/TheJackForge/status/1757140668403904839
Huh? Why can’t you save more if you’re making $150k? I’m not quite at that range, but somehow I’ve managed to save enough that I could go without a job for quite a while (although it would eventually hurt my retirement prospects).
So you’re telling us you are piss-poor with the management of your finances.
Yep, idiots spend commensurate with their income and thereby get themselves trapped. Fuck that guy.
Speaking of prices, what about electronics? Computers, teevees, stereos…
Maybe I’m just out of the loop, but I don’t remember seeing any big pre-supar-bowl teevee sales as in days of yore.
Most are on the cheap right now from what I have seen and what I have to keep veering Mrs OBE away from getting right at this moment.
GPU/CPU prices are still up a bit last time I checked due to AI and crypto mining.
Should we trust misinformation experts to decide what counts as misinformation?
Science, truth, bias, ideology, postmodernism, expertise, and more.
https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/should-we-trust-misinformation-experts
it seems all “misinformation experts” say we need to trust “misinformation experts”
There sure are a lot of “What will we do about Joe?” articles floating around on the google news.
1000%
The dens made that monster. He will not leave or retire now and he has all kinds of executive power thanks to years of government mismanagement. They can cry all they want. He is going nowhere.
Also, the people running the deep state have really enjoyed the last three years of total control. They are commies, and they win with Joe. He’s not leaving.
The dems have no control over their monster. I have no pity for them.
One for Valentine’s Day: How Couples Meet, 1940-2020
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1757758817809658278
“Contrary to stubborn anthropological myth, people everywhere fall in love… The idea that romantic love is an invention of Western culture is itself an invention of Western culture, and a rather implausible one at that.”
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1757698699998732572
Where did this person get the idea anyone thought romance was even a modern invention? A shift to tie romance to marriage is a modern western trend, but to conflate that with “romance is a western invention” is disingenuous at best.
I heard this notion on the internet… like ancient X did not have love
Given the prevalence in so many myths and folklores, I find it absurd that anyone would make such an assertion.
They never read Song of Solomon obviously.
“A shift to tie romance to marriage is a modern western trend”
And even that is wrong. Now, the order of operations might have been different (first marriage, then romance), but it was still there.
The “Western comstruct” did not posit that romantic love didn’t exist. It posited that marriage amongst the upper classes was not about romantic love. Marriage was for a power and money alliance/exchange amongst those of relatively equal rank. If romantic love existed between the two, yay. The bride was property and the groom wasn’t much more than that. You were to go elsewhere for love.
The reason Victorian times are given the honor as to when romantic love grew in popularity was because the Industrial Revolution leveled some of the playing field re power and money such that lower classes with money (say, the merchant class) had a wider field to choose from which would increase the odds of finding someone to love whom they could ALSO marry without thinking first and foremost about alliances.
Romantic love has always been more for the poors and icky people more than a privilege of the upper classes.
I remember reading this from Bash.org
Well, there are a lot of reasons that love should be modeled on a potatoes and not a flower such as a rose. I mean, roses only last like a couple weeks and that’s if you leave them in water. They really only exist to be pretty– so that’s like saying: “my love for you is transitory and based solely on your appearance.”
But a potato! Potatoes last for fucking ever, man! In fact, not only will they not rot, they actually grow shit even if you just leave them in the sack– that part alone makes it a good symbol– And there’s more! There are so many ways to enjoy a potato! You can even make a battery with it! And that’s like saying “I have many ways in which I show my love for you” potatoes may be ugly, but they’re still awesome. So tell her your love is like a potato, man, and that’s like saying: “It doesn’t matter at all what you look like, I’ll still love you!”
Always remember the most important three words today.
Your boyfriend called?
“Im not pregnant”
That is a weird thing for a guy to say, but it is 2024
“Diamonds or pearls?”
Both
::reads comment:: Correct answer!
::clicks link:: ***SIGH!!!*** Not really what I had in mind… 🙄
So you’re more of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokemon_ruby_and_sapphire"<Ruby and Sapphire kind of gal?
Arg! Way to spoint the joke.
It was supposed to be a proper link
Combine the two into amethyst and we’ll talk.
“So I’m ugly and utilitarian to you?”
As a chick, I strongly advise against this approach.
leave her a surprise on the pillow
https://twitter.com/messedupfoods/status/1757763120582602811
Amber Heard? Is that you?
In a meeting with a vendor.
We’ve got a Frenchman, a programmer whose machine indicates a language setting of “German (Switzerland), so I guess he’s Swiss, and some Texans.
I have the most trouble understanding some New York people and the Frenchman. The Frenchman because of his thick accent, the New York people because they aren’t making any sense.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/love-and-liberty
Pseudointellectuals cultivate the worst base of commentators.
And in 2018, a Norwegian flight, which ironically had 85 plumbers on board, had to return to the airport due to malfunctioning toilets.
https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-787-transatlantic-flight-turned-123331259.html
I am not sure that is ironic, don’t you think?
How many of them have worked on the specific type of fixture you find on aircraft? Would the airline’s insurance cover it? Would the FAA set in if a non-certified third party worked on the plane’s systems? Clearly it’s required for a flight, so it’s regulated. Would they have the tools and parts on board?
Dreamland
Unfinished tower blocks in Los Angeles that have become a destination for vandals, graffiti artists and BASE jumping thrill-seekers have cost 3,000 hours of police time so far, authorities said Tuesday.
LAPD Chief Michael Moore told a news conference Tuesday that the Oceanview Plaza Towers in a busy downtown area of the city had “strained our deployment.”
“We have called in some officers on an overtime basis, so that we can provide for these added patrols or station them at that site to deter vandals and others from gaining access to it while also ensuring that we meet the minimum deployment requirements for stations across the city,” he said.
He was speaking after footage went viral of a man parachuting from the top of one of the towers on Monday, prompting an urgent safety warning from city mayor Karen Bass.
Video shared on Instagram appeared to show someone paragliding from the top of the towers.
——-
The towers began construction in 2015, but by 2018 money had ran out and building work stopped in 2019 after the developer went out of business, NBC 4 LA reported.
One day they just ran out of money and stopped working. Nobody knows why.
3-D printed EFP. Quite interesting to see that minus the actual explosive content, everything else can be fabricated in with the printer, to include the copper plate.
https://twitter.com/lfmanifesto/status/1757758480784523590
EFP = Explosively Formed Penetrator.
Had to look it up.
thank you for your efforts.
This might be peak Stupid for the Stupid Party.
I guarantee you if the parties were reversed, a Dem in this position would not attract a single vote for expulsion from another Dem. But no, the Dems got a 100+ Stupids to willfully take one step closer to ceding total control back the Dems.
SMDH.
It’s a royal flash! German princess becomes the first aristocrat to appear naked in Playboy – and says her great-great-grandfather the last King of Saxony, would have approved
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13055389/german-princess-saxony-playboy-royal-topless.html
I’m afraid those titles got dissolved after the first world war, she’s no princess.
I saw “titties got dissolved.”
Just pixellated.
I wonder if Valentine’s day steak sales will drop significantly due to Ash Wednesday or if it’s just too passe for most to restrict themselves for the sake of stodgy unwoke religion? On that front, I’m guessing Il Papa himself will probably partake of a porterhouse today.
I think the church says you can only wear gray or black lingerie, and only unflavored lube.
Steak and BJ day is in March
You’re doing it wrong.
Tools down
Two Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now forecasting a budget shortfall of over $500 million unless Congress takes action. Other areas of the department, including Customs and Border Protection, are facing similar shortfalls, they said.
At that rate, key areas of ICE operations could run out of money by May, the officials said.
Under the bipartisan border deal, DHS was supposed to get more than $15 billion to do things Republicans had demanded, such as deporting more migrants and stopping fentanyl smuggling.
Without the new funding, the agency will not only be unprepared to deal with a rapid increase in migrant flow across the border, but it will also be unable to maintain the status quo, two DHS officials told NBC News. The officials said DHS agencies will soon have to move resources from other areas to scrape by.
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At the southwest border, meanwhile, the federal agencies will not have enough money for needed new hires, and there will be fewer arrests, detentions and deportations of immigrants.
The bill would have included $7.6 billion for ICE and it would have dramatically increased detention space for migrants.
Now not only will ICE be unable to increase detention space, but it will also have to carry out fewer deportations than it has in the past year, when deportations nearly doubled from the previous year to 142,580. It may be unable to deport many migrants who already have final orders of deportation.
Sounds like they are scheming to make their budget problems as painful and visible as possible. Standard negotiating tactics. Congress will, of course, fold like a two dollar lawn chair.
“A reduction in ICE operations would significantly harm border security, national security and public safety,” a DHS spokesperson said.
Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.
The only way to save it would be to pass a huge spending bill in which that funding only accounts for 0.5%. The only way.
That presumes ICE operations are having a noticeable positive impact on border security, etc. I for one don’t regard more rapid processing of illegals so they can roam the country indefinitely as a positive impact.
Although, I have noticed on the local news that nearly every day they report on some group of illegals that got smuggled in and caught. I have no idea why they don’t all just walk up to a border patrol station and say “Yo soy refugee. Dame asylum.” I think that’s pretty much all it takes.
That is all it takes but the message spreads slowly, I guess.
And creating a nuisance
The Democratic National Committee has taken multiple steps in recent days to portray Kennedy as a spoiler who would help Republican frontrunner Donald Trump defeat President Joe Biden, arguing Kennedy is funded primarily by wealthy donors aligned with the former president.
Last week, the DNC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Kennedy’s campaign had illegally coordinated with American Values 2024, a PAC backing his White House bid. Kennedy’s campaign has denied coordinating with the group.
In a call with reporters outlining the complaint, DNC adviser Ramsey Reid blamed Trump and his donors for turning Kennedy into a “stalking horse” by funding the PAC.
“We’re concerned that Donald Trump is disrespecting the democratic process. It’s pretty clear that Trump and his megadonors are propping up RFK Jr. as a stalking horse,” Reid said.
And that is why we cannot allow anyone the opportunity to vote for him.
Although, I have noticed on the local news that nearly every day they report on some group of illegals that got smuggled in and caught. I have no idea why they don’t all just walk up to a border patrol station and say “Yo soy refugee. Dame asylum.” I think that’s pretty much all it takes.
According to several articles I have read, they pretty much do. They show up at established collection points and wait for the border patrol bus to pick them up. It’s cheaper and easier than Uber.
From upper management:
That’s great! I’m sure that will be less confusing and sell more units. But why is my title in my email signature “Princ Engineer”?
Am I a prince? Do I get a scepter and a fancy chair? I suppose concubines are out of the question?
No, you’re a Principal, you get to rule over a school.
You engineer princs?