Well, I’m back from New Orleans and in more or less one piece. Not so sure about Tomb Raider. Saw some good music, ate some decent food (not Creole or Cajun)- best meal of the trip was at Shaya (h/t Shpip for the recommendation). We were not attacked by roving bands of Arabs while we were in there, so I score that as a win.
The music was good, except for the last night, where we stumbled into something outstanding. We were pointed toward the Mother In Law Lounge, and ended up sitting in big easy (no pun) chairs basically amidst the band. They were playing some amazing straight-ahead jazz standards and scorching solos. Made the whole trip worthwhile.
A week together and Tomb Raider decided that I was really offensive. This took a year for her to figure out…
Speaking of a year, birthdays today include a bullshit artist whose name lives on; the founder of the world’s greatest marching band; the inventor of the world’s most famous cocktail; a guy even hornier than I am; spiritual father of modern Progressives; a guy who really put the hammer down; a great influence on me but who was somewhat dense; a guy who raped Sarah Silverman; a guy for whom freedom was not just a two syllable word; a guy famous for going around in circles; and my son’s personal hero.
Aaaaaaand…. Links.
Phrasing is not Old Joe’s strength.
We saw one of those billboards on the drive back from the airport. I think Tomb Raider was not impressed. In her mind, stuff like this is absolutely fine. “You think everything pro-Palestinian is antisemitic.” Well, generally, sure.
I love this man with all my heart.
Half a trillion is “temporary” and “emergency,” and we wonder why inflation is nuts.
Old Guy Music didn’t even make the list. I am disappoint.
The Old Man says that this world needs more Van Vliet.
The Department of Education’s federal investigation into the death of Oklahoma 16-year-old Nex Benedict could take months and yield potentially unsatisfying results for advocates who want to see big changes in how LGBTQ young people are treated in schools.
A chick started a fight in the school bathroom, lost, then OD’d a couple days later. Time to elevate the QWERTYs to the top of the victim totem pole!
Wasn’t even a chick, I think?
Yeah, it was a girl. Some kind of non-binary flapdoodle going on, but not a trans/fake “woman”.
No official cause of death yet, but the cops said it wasn’t from the fight. OD of some kind has to be at the top of the list, but nothing confirmed yet that I have heard.
OD on….fentanyl? SOP for the left…take a tragedy they created and twist it to blame the people that oppose them.
These motherfuckers make eels look like sandpaper.
She “presented as non-binary,” which is LGHDTV-speak for “socially awkward girl who still wants attention.”
I’m pleading ignorant on this, was there evidence of OD? The reason I ask is there isn’t a story I can find that supports this notion, but also, every story I can find on this is pushing an agenda. The closest I could come to a story that could be described as balanced says he poured water on one of the girls and then pushed her into the wall before being jumped. From that story, I’m gathering that the 3 girls who beat him up were not happy about a boy coming into the girls room after they were in there and, as a father of 2 girls, I can certainly appreciate their stance.
Where are you getting this person was male? I haven’t seen that anywhere.
According to several of the articles, even the ones pushing an agenda, he went by he/him and they/them pronouns interchangeably.
Soooo…a chick pretending to be a boy? A boy pretending to be a girl? A girl being a boy pretending to be a boy? Fuck, I give up.
Of course the purpose of all of this shit is to blur reality to the point where no one knows up from down…I guess they have succeeded.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084865
So…do Jews have “come to Moses” meetings?
We’ll have to check with the staff and get back with you.
Yes, but then there’s a parting of ways.
The worst part is waiting for everyone to wander in.
“You think everything pro-Palestinian is antisemitic.”
Offhand, while I’ve heard Palis say they want to kill all the Jews, I can’t recall ever hearing a Pali say they didn’t want to kill all the Jews.
To be fair, there might be some “moderates” who favor another diaspora — ship the Jews en masse to Tierra del Fuego or northern Nunavut or somewhere similar.
That immediately makes me think they want to set up some nice work camps to send them to. They can then work for freedom or something.
Umm, if I heard someone say, “I don’t want to kill all the [insert racial group name here]”, I’d pay attention to how they said ‘all’.
Paging Teddy Roosevelt. Please come to the Final Solution for American Indians desk.
True story, Muslim cab driver walks into an O’Reilly’s parts store to get a thermostat for his Crown vic. Parts guy grabs him a thermostat. Guy picks it up, sees it is made in Israel, loudly exclaims “Israel!?” and throws it back down on the counter, spits and leaves. He seemed like a reasonable man.
The nondefense spending in this year’s bills is relatively flat compared to the previous year. Supporters say that keeping that spending below the rate of inflation is tantamount to a cut, forcing agencies to be more frugal and focus manpower on top priorities. Johnson cited a 10% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, a 7% cut to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and a 6% cut to the FBI.
See, if they wanted 10% more, and we only give them 7%, that’s a multi-billion cut projected out over fifteen years. Welcome to baseline budgeting.
When it’s talked about with wealth transfer programs, the Dems usually trot out a cavalcade of sympathetic Tiny Tims who will plead against these devastating “cuts.” But I guess it’s harder to do that when your witness is Special Agent Dominic McDogshooter.
Cuts to the EPA, ATF, and the FBI? Yes please but let’s continue to work towards 100 percent as they’re all rotten to the core.
Based on the definition of “cut”, did any of these agencies actually get lower funding than, say way back in 2020? Or even 2023?
I strongly suspect Magic Eight Ball would be giving a “Signs point to ‘No'” on that.
The second definition of cut is in projected spending 10 years out – they got a huge “cut” then.
Ahhh, the old “We’ll feast like gluttons this week, but pinky swear we’ll go on a fast next week” approach to budgeting.
Even the biggest gas tank eventually runs out of gas.
Duh
I’m not sure I want to know what my musical tastes (which are all over the map BUT with certain firm exclusions) say about my personality.
I’m looking forward to being profiled for my daily music links.
Do you like Phil Collins? I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn’t understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group’s undisputed masterpiece. It’s an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums.
LOL I do prefer the band after what’s his name left but you’re not going to trick me into liking “Invisible Touch”.
Is that another one of those songs where if you read the lyrics, they turn out to be creepy as all fuck?
Oh, the best band for that is Toad the Wet Sprocket. Really catchy pop hooks musically and some SF-quality lyrics.
I’m more of a Huey Lewis guy.
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in ’83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
I just don’t like his voice.
Yes, I like Geddy Lee’s and Donald Fagen’s.
My boss fancies that he has “eclectic” musical tastes because he likes Genesis with Peter Gabriel AND with Phil Collins. 🙄
I couldn’t tell you which songs belonged to which iteration of the group.
I’m really only familiar with the later Collins-era Genesis songs (and only the radio hits.) I do like some of Gabriel’s post-Genesis solo work.
I’d just like to be clear that my fondness for electronic music in general and PSB in particular does not mean I’m gay. My wife can attest to that.
No, really.
No… she doesn’t live in Canada… why do you ask?
Seriously!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2OlIpQgF8
😋🎶
No worries. I know lots of heteros who are into Pet Shop Boys.
At least you know guys insisting they are straight and into…
I read Rhywun’s response as “I hear a ‘straight’ guy talking about their love for Pet Shop Boys, and immediately wonder how hard it would be to turn them.”
Well, you captured my early college years in a nutshell so congrats.
* waves hand* PSB 4 ever
Maybe it was a function of being in a small town w basically just the radio but I put all the new wave bands in one basket and never really knew who else the different bands were appealing to.
Thus my surprise at the erasure concert and I was suddenly “oh. … that makes sense. ” 😆
Vince Clarke’s wife recently died. I hadn’t known he’d had one.
Don’t know what the acronym PSB stands for here, but this Urban Dictionary definition seems to indicate you’re overcompensating to ‘prove’ you’re not gay:
PSB
Pussy Smashing Brigade. Founded by Alexander the Great in 333 BC as a way to off-set rumours of his homosexuality, the PSB has continued on a sexual conquest for upwards of two millenia. In today’s lexicon, it is used to congratulate a friend for a succesful sexual adventure, or to hype up a group of young men prior to a night of pussy smashing.
See rhywun’s response.
To repeat what I quoted yesterday, “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
Also, how could you go to NOLA and not eat Creole or Cajun?? At least some red or black beans and rice? 😕
Pork. Nope, not gonna.
And here those billboards said God had bigger problems than you eating bacon…. 😉
That is a great line.
I have no idea if it is what would be called a “spectrum” thing these days or what — but while I am capable of being around people when need be (it doesn’t stress me out or anything, just not something I seek out either), my more introverted nature translated to a lack of caring what other people thought for the most part. As such — I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t myself…. because who else would I be? Other than “not wanting to get beaten up” (which was a possibility in the non-urban South growing up skinny, nerdy and liking PSB let me tell ya), it certainly kept my stress levels down as a teenager.
I find being myself is way easier, despite the self-doubt and awkwardness
Argentine President Javier Milei was quoted as saying during a private event at the ExpoAgro rural fair in San Nicolás de los Arroyos late Wednesday that he would “piss on all” of Argentina’s provincial governors who were reluctant to endorse the reforms the Libertarian government seeks to impose.
“If they keep on screwing, I will shut down Congress,” he added.
Milei described as dictatorial by TMITE in 5… 4… 3…
I’m surprised Milei hasn’t been whacked already. No Clinton types left in Argentina?
So it turns out that the Vieux Carre has a little-known pub crawl (not that it needs one). This particular street has law firms at either end, with seven bars in between. You pick up a card at Fleesum & Tick, get a square checked off when you have a cocktail at each bar, present the filled-out card at Cheatham, Goode Esq., and you get a shirt commemorating your completion of the Toulouse Law Trek.
That’s some jest there Bo.
Just an amusing short story.
Then again, any tale about Toulouse-Lautrec is a short story.
Now that dwarfs some of the other puns.
I’m glad that someone was impressed. Well, post-impressed.
I’ll lay even monet that others go the joke too.
Go ‘gain? I don’t think so.
We’ll cezanne any opportunity to make puns.
Shouldn’t the “ex-wife’s fantasy” link be to the Milei story?
“Sri Lankan family threw 19th birthday party for student a week before he stabbed them all to death in savage massacre”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13174045/febrio-zoysa-student-ottawa-sri-lanka-family-murder.html
But how was the party?
To die for?
Once in a life?
a guy famous for going around in circles
Happy birthday Billy Preston!
I am avoiding this story at all costs because it’s political theater. I got as far as “the spin was false” as so often happens and paid no further attention. What is the most salient fact?
I don’t know what “the most salient fact” he means, but the left hates Libs of Tik Tok.
“More than 350 LGBTQ and civil rights organizations, including the Human Rights Campaign, in February called for the removal of the state’s top education official, Ryan Walters, for his anti-LGBTQ views and policies and for appointing Chaya Raichik — the conservative activist behind Libs of TikTok, whose posts often target LGBTQ people — to a state library advisory board.
Yeah, they hate her so much it’s getting obvious that she hits too close to home. But it’s easier to just make up chickenshit lies like “anti-zOMGTQ++”.
Targets LGBQWERTY by giving wider distribution to what they actually say.
“The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launched the investigation last week in response to a Feb. 21 letter from the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization”
This is my shocked face.
“Sue Benedict — Benedict’s grandmother whom they called Mom — told The Independent that Benedict “did not see themselves as male or female. Benedict saw themselves right down the middle.” Friends of Benedict during a vigil in Owasso, Okla., where they lived, said Benedict was transgender and primarily went by he/him pronouns at school but also used they/them pronouns.
LGBTQ advocacy groups have described Benedict, who was of Choctaw Nation ancestry, as identifying under the Two-Spirit, transgender and gender non-conforming umbrella.”
OFFS! She was a feminine presenting female.
Oh Christ… we have to keep track of people’s “umbrellas” now too?
So over all of it.
Aren’t all those white alphabetters appropriating Native culture?
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So what is everyone drinking (besides chai latte) ?
chateau mangot saint-emilion grand cru is not bad at all. Worked very well with a piece of grilled pork from a cut i never know how to say in americaneze
Maxwell House with a good dash of creamer, as per the usual.
Sounds dismal
See above about all I can be is myself. It works for my mornings, you do you.
Yeah; creamer *is* dismal.
::kicks rock, shuffles away::
::kid rock asks what he ever did to GT anyway!?!?::
It was Chris Rock. I was channeling Will Smith.
👏
Tim Horton’s.
Eewwwww
Coffee from Porcupine Coffee Roasting.
Cops say that Feralo and Casbohm–with the help of a third individual–removed Layman’s corpse from the residence on Monday and placed the body in the front passenger seat of his car and then headed to a nearby bank’s drive-thru window.
The best part, all that for $900.
Henceforth I shall refer to Ashtabula as “North Zanesville.”
That’s kingpin money in the meth world.
Beautiful day 14C and sunny thogh there may be a frost tonight. The stupid apricot trees have just started to bloom so i hope the frost dont fuck em up completly. After a too warm february all the trees are ready to pop.here in the suburbs at my mom’s. In the urban heat island of bucharest most have flowers already
It was overall a productive day. There was no line at the tire shop so i switched my winter tires for the summer ones for the old car. I … Hmmm not sure the right word but I scarified the lawn at mom’s place… Hope there is some rain soon we beem way too dry. Had a good meal and good wine… There are plenty of weeds already so foraged some to have a nice salad next to the pork neck..
I had forgotten the European “winter tires” requirement. Former Minnesodan me never understood that custom.
What’s a “winter tire”?
it is a tire made to operate better when cold.
scarified == de-thatched, AFAICT
I was rather depressed lately so it is nice to just enjoy the day a little ince in a while
The nondefense spending in this year’s bills is relatively flat compared to the previous year.
In other words, still wildly out of control.
Yeah — any budget that doesn’t roll back to at least 2019 is flooring-it-heading-straight-for-the-cliff land as far as I’m concerned (and yes, 2019 was ‘slower towards the cliff”, but at least getting Pandemic spending out of “Expected spending” seems a worthwhile start).
You are overgenerous. I would go back to 2008 for the baseline, that way you can cut back some of Barry O’s “temporary” boosts.
You have to increase spending so DoD can finally pass an audit.
“The image of the blonde’s embonpoint boomeranged online, drawing lusty appreciation from dudes. But their ubiquity then spawned something else: think-pieces mostly from conservative or heterodox women about a deeper cultural significance.
Writer Amy Hamm argued in the National Post that Sweeney’s breasts were beating back woke culture and the clever Bridget Phetasy heralded the return of boobs for The Spectator.
“For anyone under the age of twenty-five, they’ve likely never seen it in their lifetime — as the giggling blonde with an amazing rack has been stamped out existence, a creature shamed to the brink of extinction,” Phetasy wrote.
And then, blowback from the left flank: a flurry of angry tweets including one from writer Ali Barthwell who admitted she couldn’t get past the paywall to read Phetasy’s analysis but called Phetasy’s premise, “fatphobia, misogyny, anti-blackness, transphobia just rolled into one” anyway.
“these weird conservatives are lifting up sydney sweeney for being a thin cis white blonde with big boobs because they are mad other body types have also been on tv,” she wrote.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/entertainment/the-week-sydney-sweeneys-boobs-exploded/
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I think we’re operating off a different definition of ‘nice rack’ or ‘big boobs’.
*lights the Q signal*
Sweeney has a fantastic rack by any possible definition
Natural Double Ds don’t qualify as “big boobs”? If your newsletter is illustrated, I’m definitely subscribing.
Lol
I never heard of her before this story appeared on the NYPost… yesterday?
Well I guess if her breasts exploded this week that means I’m only a few days behind the times.
she was famous before… also best tits in Hollywood according to her grandma
No, THIS is a nice rack.
Wait… those are full. The owner of that rack never uses those spices.
I use my spices AND keep them full. It’s possible.
Why refill the existing bottles when you can just have the next one waiting in the wings for when that is empty?
Because I don’t buy spices in jars. I buy them in bulk-ish
Do you do anything to make sure your display jars don’t have a layer of old spice constantly at the bottom?
? The same thing you do with any old stock. You rotate it.
Sounds like too much work.
They have a layer of right guard at the bottom.
Certainly nicer than this rack.
I’m more accustomed to These racks.
Just a different form of torture, no?
I’m going to be honest, I’ve never seen cables so neatly organized as they are in these stock photos.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/amy-hamm-wokeness-is-no-match-for-sydney-sweeneys-undeniable-beauty
We’ve spent years being chastised for desiring or admiring beauty — because beauty is rare and exclusionary, and to exclude is to hate — or so we’ve been scolded to accept by today’s diversity, equity, and inclusion fanatics. We aren’t supposed to admire Sweeney’s beauty; but we’ve done it anyways. The times, they are a-changin’. Aren’t they?
Recall the words of unrepentant thought criminal Jordan Peterson on the plus-sized model that graced the cover of Sports Illustrated two years back: “Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.” To this day the man is partly facing censure from his professional regulator over these words. We’ve all been pressured into pretending that we are bad people if we aren’t attracted to every influencer-wannabe who is unattractive by any reasonable standard of beauty. It is the adult equivalent of handing out prize ribbons to every kid on sports day — even to the kid that faceplanted in a mud puddle and couldn’t finish a potato sack race. Everyone wins, and everyone must be regarded as beautiful. Except, of course, the people who actually are.
People want to look at beauty on TV, and in art generally, but we’re being starved of it because attractiveness is deemed immoral.
As such, beauty is now political. For this we can thank the tyrannical, woke, and (ironically) minority vanguard that has for years coerced our culture into pretending that unbeautiful things are beautiful.
Amy Hamm nails Sydney Sweeney.
(I’d probably watch)
How do you know these obscure chemists?
Mural de Marx, Engels y Lenin en Etiopia
https://twitter.com/kartasuna/status/1766055511160398053
Blackface!!!
In pill form?
We’re going to build some sort of harbor facility for Gaza? What happened to those incredible amphibious assault vehicles I have heard so much about? Pack them full of boxes and drive up onto the beach and unload.
No can do, that would violate the “no boots on the ground” pledge. See, we’re going to build a dock out of pontoons and bridge decking, and our boys won’t set foot off the dock, so technically, not “on the ground.” And as long as Hamas doesn’t actually start shooting when they show up to capture all the “aid,” then everybody is happy.
Nah, they’ll just be ordered to work barefoot – with the boots left on deck.
Why are politicians only intermittently sensible?
State of the union is not good
President Joe Biden delivered a State of the Union unlike any in recent memory. He tore into former President Donald Trump, lighting into his predecessor over his handling of issues as varied as the COVID-19 pandemic, immigration, gun control, and China.
Biden seized what may be his largest audience of the election to make the opening argument in a rematch that’s likely to be uglier and more costly than the 2020 showdown. It didn’t even cost his campaign a penny, though he already has more money stockpiled than Trump.
Biden referenced “my predecessor” about a dozen times throughout his roughly 67-minute speech. Speaker Mike Johnson could be seen rolling his eyes and deeply sighing numerous times throughout the address.
When Republicans in the House chamber pushed back at times, Biden welcomed their jeers and boos.
Maybe he thought he was already at the DNC convention. It’s a good thing for him the President is exempt from the Hatch Act.
Biden’s White House communications director later confirmed that getting under the GOP’s skin was part of the point, in reference to Biden’s attacks on Trump’s signature tax law.
The president was unsparing in his criticism of Trump. He said Trump’s pandemic response showed he didn’t care about Americans.
“My predecessor failed the most basic presidential duty that he owes to the American people, the duty to care,” Biden said. “I think that’s unforgivable.”
President Unity-and-Healing. Just die, you worthless fuck.
the duty to care
Funny, I don’t recall that in Section II of the Constitution.
Nor the Oath of Office.
Biden recalls neither.
Birthdays:
Guy who raped Silverman? Can anyone take anything Silverman says seriously? Lunatics spout bullshit and get confused when people ignore them. Isn’t there some old fable about such?
Links:
Biden. What is to say about this guy? He is so far gone on the lunatic left the only thing to do is Boo and throw…uh…rotten eggs at him and his ilk.
Watching news today keeps making me think of the collapse of European Aristocracy. Inbred, corrupt, incompetent, unaccountable fucktards doing things so wildly absurd that the world slipped through their fingers. I guess these things go in cycles.
“You think everything pro-Palestinian is antisemitic.”
Because it is. See comment above.
See comment above comment above. Can we say Melei is worse than Hitler…or do we now have to say he is worse than Trump? I lose track of the hierarchy of evil.
Worse than Satan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQpV3ST6Kso
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. – Vladimir Lenin
Commies be commies.
When I see the phrase ‘according to science’ these days I quit reading.
Of course it is. Fake hobby horses never die. Do we even know what killed the kid yet? Or do I have this one mixed up with another fake front on the culture war?
You have to be familiar with the cult film documentary The Aristocrats to get the reference (I immediately did, because I’m into that sort of morally abhorrent, utterly depraved stclip in questione clip in question. Ignore the subtitles.
Tag fail, but the link works. Only about a two-minute clip.
Big Bass psychopath music.
Questions
This has sparked speculation on social media about why the Federal Insurance Company decided to guarantee Trump’s bond and who within the company made the decision. Chubb President and CEO Evan Greenberg has history with Trump, having served on his Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations from 2018 to 2022.
The Washington Post reported it is “not clear from court records what collateral Trump presented to obtain the bond from Chubb.”
Newsweek contacted the Chubb Group press office and representatives of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign by email at 6:45 a.m. ET on Saturday. This article will be updated if either wishes to comment.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, former FBI general counsel and author Andrew Weissmann questioned who took the decision to guarantee Trump’s bond. He wrote: “$90M down, $400M to go. And the public has no idea who may have actually put up the money or provided a guaranty to support the bond. But one thing’s sure: Trump is beholden to someone for a lot of money.”
I think we can expect a major SEC/FBI/CIA investigation of Chubb and any other financial group insolent enough as to provide funding to Former President Cartoon Villain.
And… there’s the projection.
Good thing there are no questions who Biden might be beholden to for his millions.
The $400 million reference relates to the $355 million Trump was ordered to pay in February by New York Judge Arthur Engoron, who concluded he committed fraud by deliberately overvaluing a number of his assets. With interest, the full payment is expected to be around $454 million.
Daniel Miller, a lawyer and self-styled “democracy advocate,” shared Weissmann’s post on X, adding: “This is a matter of national security. The public has to know this information before voting in November.”
National security! Shadowy cabal of right wing autocrats! At this point, I hope Kim Jong Un puts up the money as an interest free personal loan.
Speaking of that $400,000,000, was there ever even an attempt to explain or justify raising the “fine” by nearly $100 million in the middle of the trial?
It’s like Alex Jones was “fined” a billion plus for expressing an honest opinion.
“Daylight Savings increases risk of heart attacks, car accidents”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/08/lifestyle/daylight-saving-time-ups-risk-of-heart-attacks-car-crashes/
Didn’t they vote to end this years ago?
It was passed by the Senate in March 2022, but never came up for a vote in the House. It was reintroduced in the current Congress, but hasn’t been acted on yet.
“MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is set to file a case with the US Supreme Court on March 15 that he says will “secure our election platforms and save our country.”
Speaking with the Illinois Review, Lindell said, “After three years of hard work, we are finally taking our case to the US Supreme Court. We will not stop until we secure our elections.”
Lindell is currently on a tour of the US to promote his Election Crime Bureau. The organization, made possible through donations to the Lindell Offense Fund and Lindell’s own funding, has over 300,000 volunteers.
Lindell said the filing in the case being brought forward includes “explosive evidence,” and he is confident that the high court will take up his case and that the eventual decision would be unanimous.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-to-file-scotus-case-to-secure-our-election-platforms-and-save-our-country
Hope springs eternal.
File a case with the Supreme Court?
Except of course the SC doesn’t hear evidence – it is all about the law as applied and Constitutionality (or not).
This is so fucking retarded the postmillennial deserves all the contempt that can be poured onto it. Anyone who believes this shit deserves to share in that contempt. You just can get more stupid, even if you are a progressive.
Yeah, I was having an image of Thomas or Sotomayor paging through 300,000 sets of evidence that My Pillow Guy dropped on their desk and rolling my eyes.
I do appreciate that he is pursuing voter fraud.
But damn, could he be any worse at it? If there is evidence, write up a book, link to evidence and get people talking about it. And stop talking like the SC is going to come in like superman and save the day.
You know, adding that camera to the filament printer so I could watch it from the comfort of my living room was one of the best improvements I invested in. Right up there with the remote controller so I didn’t have to drag the SD card out there.
Mornin’ y’all. Lots of hockey on today and hopefully I (honestly) get Big Things done. Productivity, but without leaving the house or any official responsibilities.
I’m sad(?) to say my use of “y’all” to my kids hasn’t sparked any of ’em to make open statements about Southern culture. It would have been fun to explain how it’s a fun word and by far the most sensible in my gig. I work with a MtF (quite troubled person) and Carmel, IN is perhaps the Bluest city/suburb in the state (and one of the most affluent in the nation). Pronouns have come up before, even with the kids. (Though that 5th grader is frequently a cunt.)
Those in my charge have always been “my kids.” I don’t have my own, and many of my kids are nameless faces, even three months in. They are popcorn kernels, endlessly bouncing in the hopper. Back when I saw groups of kids in classrooms, for however long a week, learning names and personalities was never an issue. There are certainly some ya remember. (You remember who you were. (Back atcha.))
I don’t have kids. I have flocks of other people’s children.
Lack of zeal
For some, including Warren and Rep. Maxine Waters of California, the SEC effort does not go far enough. Policymakers in Europe, California and elsewhere are plowing ahead with more aggressive climate-risk disclosure rules, they say. Indeed, the SEC, walked back its most controversial plans on companies’ carbon emissions disclosures, for example, dropping reporting on their vast supply chains.
Waters argued that, as a result, the final rule will allow banks and insurers “to continue to stick their heads in the sand about climate risk.”
“Chair Gensler’s proposal falls short of what was expected by investors, advocates and others interested in the future of our planet,” the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee said in a statement Thursday.
Environmental groups including the Sierra Club and Earthjustice are considering challenging the SEC over the rule because of the changes. Others are questioning Gensler’s own dedication to the effort.
That whole “downstream risk” assessment is complete bullshit. It would be impossible to properly quantify and apportion (even if it made the slightest sense to do so), so it would inevitably be counted multiple times by multiple entities, exaggerating it immensely. Which is, of course, a feature, not a bug.
Did the SEC somehow acquire the power to tell the CCP to quit building coal power plants? If not, they’re just trying to move production of stuff out of the U.S.
They should say the risk is coming from government regulation.
B-Day boy Mickey Spillane: “In January 1974, he appeared with Jack Cassidy in the television series Columbo starring Peter Falk in the episode “Publish or Perish”. He portrayed a writer who is murdered.”
*Tips hat* Man deserves a “Daaamn” for that alone. Columbo is in my upmost echelon. That is one of the finer episodes. I wanna rewatch. Coinky-dinkly, there was an ep on TV this morning.
And there will be two more on later tonight.
That is a good one, because really, Jack Cassidy steals every scene he’s in and that’s across three episodes IIRC.
Jack Cassidy is the best, hands down. He’s in the first one! (Pilot?) “Murder by the Book.”
He’s absolutely fantastic. And Spielberg directed it! I think his first ish-big thing.
The guy died young in a house fire IIRC.
Just imagine, he had decades more of scenery to chew though – what a loss.
He died in a house fire. Fell asleep w a cigarette, apparently.
I kinda knew of his Hollywood sex life including men, but DAMN! “Shirley Jones wrote that Cassidy had many same-sex affairs, including one with Cole Porter.” Uh. Peru, Indiana’s most famous native! Lots of artifacts in the museum and parts of festivals and local affairs. I…should have known about this early when managing the Peru Tribune.
Mental health: “…displaying increasingly erratic behavior. In 1974, his neighbors were shocked to see him fully naked, watering his front lawn in the middle of the afternoon..” Some other stories. They say bipolar. Quite possibly. I will also add lots of booze+ Others. ‘Tis sad, but acting requires an odd character and temperament. Not unusual for them to stray down interesting, thus dangerous, alleys.
*Looks at mirror–maintains eye contact and slowly walks back out the room*
In 1974, his neighbors were shocked to see him fully naked, watering his front lawn in the middle of the afternoon.
Why is that shocking or erratic?
He usually did that by the light of the moon.
Dammit. I read ‘Was it shocking or erotic?’ and was very satisfied. I’d far rather be erratically shocked that be shockingly erratic. Definition of terms is incredibly important there.
It was shockingly erotic, simply as seeing it was unexpected. Or I could be shocked that I find it so erotic. The former may lead to the latter. The progress from there…is where the fun (or simple logic) lies.
You should see him in The Eiger Sanction.
That was my thought too.
And watch it on a double bill with The Dam Busters.
‘A week together and Tomb Raider decided that I was really offensive.’
Sorry to hear. Hope things work out.
Yeah, I’m wondering if she cut him off or not.
So it may have been a last tango in Naw’lins?
He did leave us hanging.
Make up sex can be pretty wild!
CommonTater mentioned Facebook billionaire Dustin Moskovitz, using a government loophole to quietly place followers of the controversial “effective altruism” movement in key national security roles in the Biden administration. He’s paying the salaries of a group of aides in the White House’s National Security Council, the Pentagon and the Department of Commerce in an arrangement which puts advocates of the movement at the heart of government.
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HA! Dustin Moskovitz! Never met him. I went to school with his wife. She was among our circle of friends. Many stories.
I had MANY opportunities to make a move and didn’t. (She’s a year older. I was intimidated cuz she IS smart and cute. Good lord, shoulda. However, we never would have ‘worked.’ She was among the vanguard of all this shit.
Lemme guess — those “effective altruists” are gonna be “altruistic” by stealing Other People’s Money and spending it on stuff that benefits Democratic politicians?
They all attended a seminar called “Making Altruism Work for You.”
Oooooh, yeah. Hardcore. I knew her from Signature School High School. She’s a year older. The whole modern progressive movement was underway there when I was there, 2001-2005. I was not the only person who were not wholly with the grain. The start-small stuff, gay rights, don’t war w Iraq, all popular with us. Just the nascency, but all there. I was certainly the only one to speak against some of it. I was a cool kid, in my own way. having my own car, that I bought and didn’t borrow from my parents, was a huuuuuge help. If only I weren’t foolish enough to squander it. (Yes, youth wasted, yes.)
Seriously, look up Cari Tuna. Yep. Small cute, Jewish-type. No? More for me…
That school was legit nuts. The first public charter school in Indiana. Very selective. I was the smart stoner who snuck out of school and to smoke and go on (paid) McDs missions for other kids. I legit took and delivered orders in school a few times.
oblig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J8__fWphE0
This dog is shivering because:
-He’s cold
-He’s a wussy pussy and something startled him
-He’s excitedly anticipating getting to lick the dregs of my coffee mug
-All of the above
-He’s a chihuahua.
-Gunfire
Strip steaks were $8.99/lb at a local grocery store today. 😁
They were more than that at the butcher. I did score some veal short ribs.
Sean? I see your Erasure and up you one Jimmy Sommerville.
Nice.
Voxconomix
So what can the Biden administration actually do about high food prices and shrinking packages?
“While the government can’t necessarily control the prices retail puts on stickers, we can give more money to low-income people to deal with those higher prices,” Elizabeth Pancotti, a strategic advisor at the progressive think tank the Groundwork Collaborative, told Today, Explained co-host Noel King.
Wheeee!
She’s the Jack Handy of economic thought.
birthdays today include a bullshit artist whose name lives on
Happy Birthday, Comicus!
Has a search party been sent out to find Mexican Sharpshooter?
From the Dashboard:
Looks as if he decided to REALLY spring forward.