The NFL draft starts tonight. The Astros lost again (surprise!). And Liverpool completely shit the bed against their bitter rivals from across Stanley Park and now their chance at winning the league is pretty much over. And that’s it for sports.
This will be very interesting. So when they give someone a cash refund, will they just tell that person to find another way to their destination? Will those fliers have to re-book and possibly pay more? Somehow I don’t think this will go as smoothly as the proponents think to will. Not to mention there’s no way this could possibly be constitutional. This is legislating by fiat.
More! More! More! You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket. Seriously, though, I’m finally glad to start seeing trespassers and those who are deliberately preventing the free movement of others being taken to task. Too bad that never happened during the Summer Of Floyd.
“Go fuck yourself, San Diego.” Unfortunately, this might be the least bad thing this mush-brained turd did yesterday.
We finally get to see what was on the other side of the camera in that Alec Baldwin confrontation from a couple days ago. And it ain’t pretty.
The timing here is just amazing. But I’m sure it took a full three years to look into it and this isn’t political at all.
When you’ve lost Newsweek… But they don’t really care. They’re going to the mat because they know the politics of the people in this area and know the evidence doesn’t really matter.
“Hey, that’s public property. You can’t go there!” Petty tyrants.
I can explain it in one word: retarded. Those things are dangerous as shit and I’ve seen more than one set of them trash an adjacent car’s doors.
Such a great intro. And the rest of the song ain’t too shabby either. This one ain’t too shabby either. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
“Do what you do best!” — White House staff
Morning, Sloopy — Morning, all.
It’s kind of chicken and egg, but given that Congress can’t even fund the govt on a normal basis you can see why the power shifts to the Executive. That and an awful lot of just plain old Americans won’t mind that lack of legitimacy – it does something they want.
True enough — that Congress is dysfunctional in the first place opens the door… that they don’t defund the Executive every time they overstep turns it into a portal with party hats and balloons.
“Why work and be accountable when you can just delegate all your authority away” is one effective grift if you can find it.
NPR’s spin was “don’t blame her, she got into office too late to get her charges filed as soon as NY and GA.”
Still not seeing the crime here but hey, WTF do I know. Each party assigns electors, each State’s SOS receives those and certifies according to law. Who gives a damn if the opposition party sent up their electoral votes to be certified, the SOSs didn’t accept them or acknowledge them.
The crime is the color of the skin: orange.
Granted it isn’t something I’ve studied tremendously — but I thought having an alternate slate of electors for a candidate, especially when the election is contested / close / in recounts was kind of a “Duh” thing throughout the country’s history. Spinning it as “election fraud” always seemed like one of the weakest, obviously banana-repulican-persecute-thine-enemies things of the last 4 years.
Not that it apparently matters to the tame judges, voters or supporters who are just happy dandy to tear down any and all obstructions to the Uniparty so they can have their nice totalitarian regime they always dreamed of. Finallly the Rule of Laws will be dispensed with! The New
SovietDecolonized Mxn wil lead all but the former beneficiaries of the Patriarchy to a glorious Future — which is Female, but only if you think you’re Female at the moment or something….Lunacy.
I’m still trying to determine who was defrauded (since the people being charged never voted), and what damages they suffered. Because I thought that’s how fraud laws worked.
Fraud is just a thing we all agree is fraud, and defrauding someone through fraud is bad, and should be punished!
/looks up at NY
Because I thought that’s how fraud laws worked.
They did indeed, but that was before our Orange revolution.
Looks like they’re getting ready for a Mad Max style Carmageddon match….
Yeah, you now who beat the ‘Stros twice in a row? Yes, your Chicago Cubs. Despite losing our legit ace in the first inning on opening day for a month, and a slew of other injuries, we’re still 15-9. We also swept the championship-favorite Dodgers. No humdinger, dat. We’re shockingly underrated, methinks. This bodes well for me.
Today, future HoFer Justin Verlander goes against us at Wrigley. I expect a worthwhile game as we go for the sweep.
“Go fuck yourself, Arizona.”
So fucking tedious.
Arizona seems.to have suffered a hostile takeover or coup. Starting to wonder if there is a peaceful way to restore proper government there.
It’s tipped from Republican to Democrat statewide, and now the new owners of the state government are acting as one might expect from ruthless people who crave power at any cost.
This sort of thing is what the second amendment was intended to address. Which is why the government has worked so hard to neuter it.
Yup. The idiot Repubs running the state and the party before the last election were anti-Trumpists, to the point where they refused to do any kind of election reform because that might make them look Trump-adjacent. Now they have lost all statewide offices, are blocked from actually getting any election reform done and thus, retaking any statewide offices (barring, I suppose, some extraordinary circumstances). Maricopa County (Phoenix), long a source of election fraud, is now in control of statewide offices.
And it ain’t pretty.
Oh fuck, my eyes!
That’s what you get for not trusting me!
Ya WTF is that? I don’t even think SF could conjure such a creation
Crackhead Barney has to be a performance artist.
I’ll cut you.
You’ll cut me…
That much is at least admitted.
I think CB deserves a slot on “The View.”
Agreed.
I thought she was already.
I’ve hiked that staircase. What is so controversial about it? Article didn’t really say.
They closed it. They’re tearing it down. So the hoi polloi aren’t welcome on the public property anymore.
Huh, went on to actually find out why its ‘controversial’. Been closed for decades, so technically when I climbed it, I was trespassing but so were thousands of other tourist back in the 90s.
To be fair, I think they’re tearing it down because it’s in poor repair, and the government doesn’t want to get sued when someone injures themselves.
Put up a sign: “This is dangerous. You’ve been warned. If you injure yourself, you’re on your own.”
And then, when some fuckhead gets hurt, leave them there. Choices have consequences.
Arrest them and give them 3 days in jail. People deserve the government they voted for.
It was Astrid I bet.
Obligatory.
When you select for anything other than competence, competence suffers.
This. But nobody seems to give a shit – oh well.
Yeah, but it isn’t fair that everyone can’t be a Secret Service agent. Using competence as a metric for hiring is just mean.
Using competence as a metric for hiring is just
meanracist.FTFY
…and patriarchal!
Live by the DIE, die by the DIE.
So you’re saying we should roll for initiative?
*smirks from behind DM screen*
I remember it being said at the time that Richard Conry the pilot of the plane that crashed and killed Paul Wellstone was an affirmative action hire. But I couldn’t find any pic of him, so I am not 100% sure. I did find this article about a lot of issues surrounding him though. Those facts and the lack of a pic sure make me think there is some fire in all that smoke.
Conry was a white guy, the co-pilot was black.
I take it back. I missed that pic.
https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2022/10/25/f0e2f0fb-203c-404e-8be7-662dd2c5a864/thumbnail/1200×630/80f6b9429474985a7a298bdf1066be8e/857b77aab488c51a27db65460ad1f725.jpg?v=55c0f85ebcd2b956528d9c6f5a7e8871
Q: What’s worse than a gallstone?
A: A Wellstone.
I am hoping it was Crackhead Barney.
Note how they’ve quickly labelled it as “medical” so they can say that they’re not supposed to provide any details. “They’re lying. We know they’re lying. They know we know they’re lying, etc.”
PMS is medical.
So is transgenderism.
I would chalk it up to you can only push a person so far before they push back.
Nonsense. I saw the sweet martial arts skills of female secret service agents on a documentary called the West Wing. Fucking ninjas, they are.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Adorable. Animals can be so cute when they fixate on attention.
Thank you for this!
Reminds me of an old girl friend. Thanks but no thanks, Jimbo
I didn’t have you pegged as an assman
Ow!
Careful. You two don’t want Swiss to give you the stink eye.
Is that beastie a Pryzwalski’s Horse? Looks like one.
Not to mention there’s n o way this could possibly be constitutional.
That has ceased to matter some time ago.
The current court needs to pick up the pace on gutting Chevron. When is that ruling due again?
Ugh. I went to a waterfall lookout a couple days ago and the city had built an extra fence 8 feet or so from the stone wall that was always there on the edge of the cliff. Result: can’t see shit.
No fun for you. Petty indeed.
That reminds me, the new overlook for one of the waterfalls should be done now, I may have to head out this weekend and see what it looks like now. It was under construction all of last summer.
A couple of weeks ago my sister and her kids were going on vacation and had a Thursday night flight cancelled because of weather. Spirit’s next flight to Charleston was the following Monday. She ended up renting a car and driving from Rhode Island. They should have started counting out cash for that bullshit.
Did they ask Spirit to put them on another airline’s plane? Any time I’ve had a flight cancelled, that was the first thing that happened for the customers that didn’t want a flight credit and free hotel room until the next plane of that carrier could accommodate them.
Don’t know. My sister can get pretty riled up, so I assume she was asking for alternatives to missing half their vacation.
Teleprompter thing: forget puddin’head for a second and consider his staff. Are they actually stupid/incompetent enough to keep putting things in teleprompter text knowing he does this crap, or are they delusional, or do they hate him and do it for the lulz knowing it won’t matter to whoever’s actually in charge? (not that all of these are mutually exclusive)
I think it’s more just the Bob Ueker thing from Major League. They know no one is actually paying attention to Joe. Their base is going to vote just because OMB. They’re just not bothering to hide the crazy anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9M_fWNFU4g
Might be some career functionary that used to doingthis for a non-vegetable POTUSes (poti?). Well, since 1987 at least.
Look, the guideline says we need to include the stage directions!
More rubes getting rolled by the pros
One of the rowdies who was elected by pissed off parents to make the schools stop being stupid, gives up his one lever. You can bet that he followup meetings will either never happen or will be a kangaroo court that rubber stamps all the DEI bullshit.
Accountability? To some elected types – worst of all some that got votes from people we don’t like?
+1 struggle session
So they are still going to fund wokism, but set up committees to discuss the wokism they are funded? And these nitwits fell for that?
Do better, America.
Want to protest on the McClosky’s front lawn? Freedom of Speech!
Want to Protest on Kavanaugh’s? Freedom of Speech?
Thomas’? Freedom of Speech!
Carlson? What part of Freedom of Speech do you not understand?
Want to protest near the home of Senate Majority Leader Chuckie (Moobs) Schumer? ARREST THE INSURRECTIONISTS!
(((Protesting))) against your political allies in favor of prolonging a war that’s intended to genocide your co-tribesmen is the most current-year thing ever.
“Self-gassing Jew” has been a thing for as long as I can remember.
Schumer’s a bitch.
Spot the Not: Jill Biden
1. Si se pwah-dway
2. The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.
3. The White House is a serious place, with serious people, doing serious work.
4. The needs of the student population are often undeserved [sic]
5. I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it’s my job to teach them to write well.
6. Stress, anxiety, and depression set in when the student succumbs to feeling overwhelmed. The first sacrifice has to be school; hence, student retention rates skyrocket if there are no safeguards in place to help students cope with all they are trying to handle.
I’m gonna go with #5.
Not that I really care, but #5 I suppose. She never actually taught did she?
***
She began her career as a substitute teacher for the Wilmington public school system, then taught high school English full-time for a year at St. Mark’s High School in Wilmington.
***
She claims to have graded papers on Air Force Two.
I’d love to see her mark up on anything Joe wrote. Just grading Joe’s citations and footnotes would run a red pen out of ink.
Turns out she’s not much of a writer herself, so it’d be a case of the blind leading the blind.
https://news.yahoo.com/jill-biden-garbage-dissertation-explained-155913150.html
As I have an errand, I must reveal the answer a bit early. 2 is the Not. Joy Behar said that.
Let it be known that one does not need dementia in order to say stupid things. Also, some PhDs require more intelligence than others.
Our DEI department has hired someone to come speak to us silly, insufficiently woke and non-productive rubes:
So far, it’s just wasting money. Hopefully it stays that way.
So they are just going to continue adding letters again?
Just wait until it gets to DIE QUILTBAG DIE!
FASTER, FASTER! KILL, KILL!
You get a letter, and you get a letter, . . . . .
In an earlier thread I proposed adding an L for Loving so we can make the acronym DEBIL.
It does not. The struggle sessions will happen soon.
Well there’s a load of meaningless bullshit.
She has been recognized by Cosmopolitan! Have yoooo been recognized by any major ladies’ magazines? Didn’t think so.
It never just stays that way.
We’ve only been all-in on DEI for a few years, but so far it’s strictly been wasted money and window dressing. We are honestly too actually diverse to try and set up the typical grievance hierarchy. I don’t see the Indonesians, Turks, Arabs and Pakistanis settling for lower slots on the “Muslim” ladder. And of course, I don’t see the Chinese willing to be ranked lower than Muslims. It “helps” that our African American workforce is about the same size as our actual African one.
“These meetings make me feel excluded and like I don’t belong. The office of Inclusion and Belonging should stop forcing me to attend”
They are not mandatory.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)
Didn’t Earn It Bitch
I blame Sean.
He mentioned Kiwi music, which made me think of strawberry-kiwi, which of course lead inexorably to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rw1_FNdy-Y
Speaking of Sean and Kiwi Music. The Church will at the Keswick Theater in his back yard in June.
A certain Mr. and Mrs. Glib will be there. It’s a weeknight, but F-it. I always wanted to see them.
https://pitchfork.com/news/the-church-and-afghan-whigs-announce-summer-2024-co-headlining-tour/
Shit my brain is malfunctioning this morning. Australia and NZ are two different places. I’ll need to turn it back on and off again.
“I’ll need to turn it back on and off again.”
Perfect.
I would go see Afghan Wigs, Church would be OK, but I love the Wigs middle period, they really stepped up the Soul connection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffHhrfDyisY
That is a great song. I’m a Wigs fan as well, but I’ve seen them serval times before. I’ve never seen the Church.
The newer Wigs stuff is great as well.
Light as a Feather.
https://youtu.be/n-66_afmbOc
🙂
I think “Sit With the Guru” is a sillier song, but not as much of an earworm.
“Police said none of the protesters in custody have reported any injuries”
Well, that’s too bad.
It continues to just absolutely baffle that college students are protesting in favor of rape, murder, torture, kidnapping and the genocide of Jews.
Gavin McInnis went down to a protest yesterday to have some fun with them. Said they were literally too stupid to mock or parody. Most had no idea what they were protesting or why.
Sure air quality improved, but CLIMATE CHANGE WILL KILL YOU!
Yes, air quality is better, but let’s not lose focus on the boogyman!
My wife was reading about the Trump hush money case yesterday. She didn’t know a lot about it, but she said that if your lead witness is the CEO of the National Enquirer, you must have a pretty weak case.
At least it was the Enquirer and not the Midnight Star. (The Incredible Frog Boy is on the loose again!)
What’s the Glib position on employment contracts? The extreme version would be it’s a contract that is freely entered by the parties. But the reality particular in some industries and positions is that it is more like a broadly written contract of adhesion.
Business Groups Race to Block FTC’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/big-business-groups-sue-to-block-ftcs-ban-on-noncompete-agreements-1bc8bcbb?st=n6cdmi43pja8nlk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Those workers most “unfairly” affected by them will soon be replaced by robots, so the “harm” is self-limiting.
I don’t like them, and I think they should be unenforceable in court. The right to work or start a business is a fundamental one.
I’m fine with contracts that define IP owned by the original firm and penalties if the employee uses said IP. (Similar to a NDA, really).
Flat out “You can’t go work for anyone else” and collusion in the industry to effectively block out people I’m not cool with.
If we’re talking contracts of collusion that should be unenforceable in court I’d rather start with software licenses and “Terms of Service” — especially ones they can arbitrarily change and your only recourse is to stop using what you paid for. The whole stupid model of “Moving the assembly code from long term storage into RAM or the processor registers is a copy and therefore we can use copyright laws to force behavior” is crap and has always been crap.
Absolutely. You can’t steal work product, I have no problem with that.
True, but the right to steal trade secrets or clients is not.
Trade secrets, no. Clients, yes.
Trying to get more clients, no matter who they are or has provided for them in the past, is a fundamental aspect of business.
Employment contracts are OK. I don’t like Non-Compete agreements unless there is some monetary or other compensation during it’s duration. Boiler plate NC clauses that would prevent you from making a living are BS.
That’s where I tend to fall as well.
Yep
I’m torn on it. In theory, I don’t mind the concept of a non-compete, but in practice most are overly broad (and generally unenforceable). Both current and previous jobs (both doing IT support/service/implementation) have had contracts that said a current customer could not offer a current employee a job (at times this was waived when it was an employee that the company I worked for wanted off the books, and the customer was interested in retaining their services in house). At least one had some terms that I couldn’t go to work for any client company that had contracted for services for some period of time IFF the company I worked for didn’t approve it (even after I had parted ways with them).
There is a very broad range of non-competes out there. To be enforceable, you have to receive compensation for it (which is fig leaf). In many states, there are limits on time and place for the general sort of non-compete (you can’t work for our competitors). The kind of non-compete that says “you can’t use our proprietary info to compete with us” is, as a practical matter, unenforceable for problems of proof.
Of course, if you think there should be no such thing as intellectual property, then its hard to see how you can say former employees shouldn’t be allowed to take any or all of your info to your competitors.
No poaching agreements (customers can’t offer your employees a job) are not non-competes. Also very difficult to enforce, as well. But that’s an agreement between the customer and the company, and isn’t really a non-compete at all. Those come down to a buyout price, when they matter at all, anyway (which is paid by the customer who wants to hire the employee away). Few companies are willing to piss off a good customer over an employee, so they rarely matter, in my experience.
Non-competes? Bad!
Mandatory union dues? Good!
Union contracts preventing employees form accepting job at non-union shops in the future? Best!
Bleah.
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For sloopy:
YOU LOST THE LEAGUE AT GOODISON PARK.
And on with the EPL relegation update. Crystal Palace moved to mathematically safe with their win yesterday. There are 6 teams left fighting for 3 safe positions. I am changing formats to how they can clinch either safety or relegation this weekend.
First, this weekends games of note:
Brentford @ Everton
Luton Town @ Wolverhampton
Sheffield United @ Newcastle United
Burnley @ Manchester United
Manchester City @ Nottingham Forest
Two teams can clinch safety this weekend:
Brentford is safe with:
Brentford win
or Brentford draw and (Luton Town draw/loss or Forest loss)
or Brentford loss and Luton Town loss
Everton is safe with:
Everton win and Forest loss and Luton Town draw/loss
Sheffield United is relegated with:
Sheffield United loss
or Sheffield United draw and (Forest draw/win or Luton Town win)
or Sheffield United win and Forest win
Nottingham Forest, Luton Town, and Burnley will be shuffling around for position, they cant lock up either direction yet.
*looks at watch, taps fingers*
Realistically, two of Luton, Forest, & Burnley are getting relegated.
I understand the math but Everton & Brentford are safe. Partly just on general principles but partly because Forest & Burnley play each other the last day of the season.
Ugh, first line should have been deleted.
I thought you were saying I was late in posting this. Not sure if you saw my response to you in the night thread, responding to your comment in the afternoon links thread.
Correct, its a 3 way battle for one safety spot. With 4 games to go, Everton & Brentford are going to get to safety and SU is doomed. But until it happens, you gotta be nervous. Its only 4 games, cratering 4 in a row can happen.
I made two mistakes above.
First, the 3rd Brentford line should be:
or Brentford loss and Luton Town loss and Burnley draw/loss.
The Everton line should be:
Everton win and (Forest loss or Luton Town draw/loss).
No one saw this cluster-F coming…
It’s 4D chess to get us involved?
Impossible!
Q: Does the DoD anticipate that Hamas will try to fire on them, on the operation (inaudible)?
GEN. RYDER: Look, I mean, that’s certainly a risk, again, but if Hamas truly does care about the Palestinian people, then again, one would hope that this international mission to deliver aid to people who need it would be able to happen unhindered.
Hope is not a plan, General. FFS.
When have they ever expressed this to lead the general to think such nonsense?
They care about babies…
they need more human shields!
Yeah, they care about the palestinian people so much they use them as human shields.
use them as human shields
That is why we need to starve them a bit. Want to reduce the effectiveness of those human shields as much as possible.
The GF and I have a date each week while her kid is in Hebrew School. I dropped her off at her temple. They have a dude buzzing people in there, but he’s (of course) unarmed.
Pricey real estate, super-low seating capacity. Like not even twenty seats in the sanctuary.
My sister said Hebrew was the easiest language she took in college (letters major). Granted that she probably means “easiest” to mean “effort-per-letter-grade” but why does the official Hebrew pedagogy suck so much when it comes to (((people))) successfully learning Hebrew?
Sat next to a guy reading Hebrew on a flight once. Reading a completely different script backwards looked pretty difficult for anyone used to a European language.
Japanese doesn’t put space between their words, and can be read right-to left and/or down with each column being read right to left.
And it’s really not that difficult. Hindi OTOH can go fuck itself.
When read vertically. I’ve not seen otherwise, but don’t claim it isn’t the case in some rare or historical usage.
The lack of spacing only works when you use kanji or Chinese characters. AwallofhiraganaishardtoreadevenfornativeJapanese.
Japanese, kanji, hiragana, katagana all kill me. I have enough of a hard time reading English. Hawaiian street signs kill me. By the time I try parsing all those vowels, I am four blocks down the road.
How’s your Hangul? The writing system of linguist dreams.
I briefly looked tried to make heads or tails of it, but it still looked like it was going to be just as much of a PITA as memorizing hiragana or katakana or both together.
Terrible. But I have spent almost no time learning it.
I do have to suffer through countless lectures from *every* Korean about how it is the most perfect writing system ever. And that they invented the printing press.
When I go to Korea, I become functionally illiterate. In Japan everything is at least written in English too. But the stubborn-assed Koreans all insist on only using hangul. The further away from the big city, the worse it gets.
I’d like to buy a vowel!
It’s not the only abjad out there.
My point is more “these kids are taking it a couple of hours a week for a couple years, and seem to have less grasp (especially later in life) than people who took one year of a language in high school or one semester college/night classes”
It would seem to be something in the instructional technique.
Looks like plane ticket prices are going to go way up.
And flight selections will go way down.
Boeing bedshat again?
No, the FAA shit all over the airlines (again).
So I’m hearing I should book my flights down to Florida for Glibcruise soon, right?
I know workers have fun they shouldn’t have, but for fuck’s sake don’t film it and put it on the internet:
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1783149626821886217
That’s nothing. Watch warehousers unload a truck full of bleach that way.
Hard to tell in a war of attrition if this is an isolated circumstance or signs of a general collapse beginning. Russians able to take a key town fairly easily because one Ukrainian brigade left after not getting any supplies for some time. Another brigade refused to jump into the gap at the last minute and expose themselves.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13343997/Russia-breaks-Ukraine-line-captures-strategically-important-town-newly-arrived-brigade-fled-post-major-blow-Kyiv-just-finally-approves-huge-aid-package.html
They’re definitely buckling under the pressure-don’t know if the money will do any good at this point.
Apparently, the money didn’t do any good at any point.
That article on spy hunters was stupid. “Can be up to 20 inches or more.” Drop the words ‘up to’. Also, to cite that vehicles can be up to 8 ft wide and say that these are legal because of that one statute is stupid because you also can’t have something protruding beyond the body of the car more than 3 inches on the left and 6 inches on the right. Also, if your width is over 84 inches, you are required to display amber lights. That’s why both the Ram TRX and Ford Raptor have amber lights on them, not a styling thing like the poor 4runner guys seem to think. Vogue tires are both white and gold wall tyres (how Vogue rolls on the spelling of tires). Also, Cadillac was offering both spoked hubcaps and real spoked rims before the ’80s, the true spokes are worth a lot because they were an expensive option that most people didn’t go for. My guess is the reporter was born in the ’80s and history started with her though.
How are passenger side mirrors legal?
My better late than never answer is they are considered part of the body
For any Jazz fans.
Duke Ellington at 125: A Singular Swinging Master
Born in April 1899, the jazz pioneer ranks as the greatest all-around figure in the history of American music.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/duke-ellington-at-125-a-singular-swinging-master-dc6bfa05?st=f7cffq9waprulz4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bah. Didn’t even make the playoffs.
Not generally but I do like the Charlie Brown Christmas album guy.
Eh, he’s good and all, but I prefer the Kansas City sound of the thirties, or the cool sound of the fifties.
Give it too me dirty and wild, or effortlessly cool.
If you watch the Biden video, it’s not that he says “Pause” so much as he asserts it and then repeats it a second time quieter. “PAUSE!…pause.” He’s totally in charge of his faculties.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/301f0795-41cf-4e9e-9286-cc71bf54fc6c
Four more years!
A (kinda) short vid on the current situation in Ukraine (this guy seems to be pretty realistic in his vids from what I’ve seen):
https://youtu.be/2h9Yw7po9VA?si=nOh2FYPdFbBqzc6W
Looks like we might have approved that money just in time for the collapse.
The first unit that left their positions reportedly had not been fed or resupplied in weeks. The Ukes have their officers way behind the lines and leave to the NCOs to run things. It was those Sergeants who eventually said screw-it and retreated.
Hard to blame them really, it’s pretty evident that their government doesn’t give a damn about their lives and now a lot of the men on the line were press ganged to get them there. Probably going to see a fair bit more of this.
And the next phase of the collapse will be the Russian army extending sympathy and comradeship to the NCOs and draftees, pointing out that their leadership all the way up has abandoned them. “We’re really one people…”, etc. And it’s going to work, and the cannon-fodder will be switching sides
I’m not sure the Russian draftees are really the people to sell that particular message. At least the senior Russian officers are occasionally spotted near the front, though.
Already there. Both sides have used drones dropping leaflets or with loudspeakers to convince the other side to surrender.
We should probably start a pool on when the Russians finally win this war. The hard part may be defining what counts as winning. While I have little doubt Putin wants to add all of Ukraine to the Greater Russian Empire (I mean, all the blather about the Kievan Rus blah blah in his Carlson interview was basically justifying that), it may be that leaving a rump Ukraine in place is the smarter move diplomatically. ,This has always been a war of conquest and annexation, so tough call.
I think after the UKR army leadership collapses, Russia (with all the blather above extended to really focus on the “brotherhood” part) will set up elections in Ukraine, make sure the outcome is fortified in the right direction, and the result is a Ukraine that still exists in name but is organized in however fashion Putin wants. And that he starts using the term “undemocratic” (etc.) to criticize any of his international critics.
Russia has already annexed chunks of Ukraine. They ain’t giving that back even to a government they control. I wonder how much more they will annex, and what rump Ukraine will actually consist of.
That’s what I meant by “still exists in name but is organized in however fashion…” – the borders will be Russian-drawn. I’d bet on a little bit more official annexation, just to prove they can.
I’m betting the Ukes come back to Biden Admin. for another round of $$$billions by June 1st as the Russian offensive grinds on. One hopes the Uniparty finally realizes “enough is enough” and tells Zelensky to open negotiations. Of course, the smart part of the Uniparty will blame the foot-dragging stupid part of the Uniparty for the collapse of Ukraine and it will be a major election issue.
There’s another potential pool: Where will Zelensky’s lavish post-Ukraine compound be?
For people puzzing on the server errors:
Earlier today the squirrels were rejecting a comment I was attempting. Now they accepted it (it was the Ow!” response to Pope Jimb.)
-Harvey Weinstein Conviction Overturned On Appeal
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/harvey-weinstein-conviction-overturned-appeal
Well I’ll be dipped…
He’s still going to stay right where he is. He got 16 years for a CA case according to NBC.
“the trial judge in the disgraced mogul’s case had made a critical error, allowing prosecutors to call a series of women as witnesses who said that Weinstein had assaulted them, but whose accusations weren’t part of the charges against him”
Yeah, that’s pretty basic stuff.
But what about “their truth”?
“EXCLUSIVE How at least 13 banks may have worked with feds to SPY on transactions of hundreds of pro-gun and religious Trump supporters after January 6 ‘without warrants’
At least 13 financial institutions are being investigated by Republicans in Congress for colluding with the federal government to spy on Americans after the January 6 protests looking for ‘extremism’ indicators.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government led by top Republican Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is investigating ‘collusion’ between U.S. banks and federal agencies in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.
The Biden administration worked with banks to comb through ‘extremism’ indicators like the purchase of a religious text, like a Bible, or searches including the terms ‘MAGA’ and ‘TRUMP,’ according to shocking revelations by the committee.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13346959/banks-maga-supporters-january-6-investigation-biden-administration-trump.html
Extreme Bibles?
“shocking” “collusion”
Spying? The govt. asked and the companies gave. Privately owned bro.
Sort of like how the gov’t asked Facebook or Twitter. As soon as the G asked, it was a violation.
Not that they give a shit.
Yeah but the government needs to be able to keep kids from jumping off buildings.
Reggie Bush gets Heisman Trophy back. Does USC get their national championship back?
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40014492
He got paid a lot less than mediocre college players today.
It still annoys me when they make rule changes retroactive. There’s a lot of coaches and programs that have been sanctioned out there for doing pretty much what USC did. Is the NCAA going to reimburse those fines?
I am curious, though – now that they are giving Bush the Heisman, who will they take it away from? Does that guy have to give up the actual trophy now?
It angered me at the time because the case was so weak and there was no evidence the coaches or administration had any idea what was happening. And the guy doing the punishing was the AD of Miami of all places, while they were openly paying players.
They didnt give it to anyone else.
Give Jim Thorpe his medals back!
+ 1 Mauch Chunk!
Best most instantly recognizable intro
Good, but I disagree with most recognizable.
https://youtu.be/bZ4uGV6Goy0
Not even.
Another instantly recognizable into.
https://youtu.be/j_QLzthSkfM
Today, in stuff nobody cares about but me:
The IndyCar Series has disqualified Josef Newgarden from the season-opening race in St. Petersburg which he won handily, disqualified teammate Scott McLaughlin from third and penalized Will Power with the loss of 10 points after determining Team Penske, the team owned by IndyCar Series owner Roger Penske, violated the series’ push-to-pass rules.
Second-place finisher Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren has been promoted to first and awarded the win.
IndyCar’s longstanding practice in its road and street course races is to disable the push-to-pass system, which gives drivers an extra shot of 50hp or so, prior to starts and restarts. The system only becomes active when the series enables the buttons on the steering wheel to command the engines to deliver the extra power.
It was a software glitch. Completely unintentional.
As CA car mandates normally come for the rest of us…
California lawmakers rein in bill to limit car speeds
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/california-car-speed-limit-00154155
In Europe this means every time you start the car the “alarm” will be active. You get to dig down into the menus and you can shut it off for the one trip.
Obligatory Japan reference.
For a couple of decades, JDM specification model of vehicles often included a speed chime (ja:速度警告音) which rings when a driver exceeds 105 km/h (65 mph) for standard cars and 85 km/h (53 mph) for kei cars. This speed chime was first mandated on November 21, 1974, according to Article 1 of the “Ministerial Ordinance for Partial Revision of Safety Standards for Road Transport Vehicles”.
My ’05 Saab has a chime if I go over 120 kmph (75 mph).
I changed it to go off at 100 mph.
I’ve only heard it a couple of times.
It stop going off altogether if you clip a few wires…
On new Jeeps the nanny exists, but it can be turned off permanently. And it is tied to the Nav/Sat so it more tells you when you are exceeding local speed limits, which can be useful in some states (Oklahoma).
The Tesla has three options. Off, Display a Warning, and Warning + Chime.
Default from memory, warning on the screen.
Seems completely reasonable.
“The integrity of the IndyCar Series championship is critical to everything we do,” Frye said. “While the violation went undetected at St. Petersburg, IndyCar discovered the manipulation during Sunday’s warmup in Long Beach and immediately addressed it ensuring all cars were compliant for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. Beginning with this week’s race at Barber Motorsports Park, new technical inspection procedures will be in place to deter this violation.”
The series has telemetry on all the cars. The idjits on the teevee broadcast show a running tally of push-to-pass “doses” remaining for each car. But nobody noticed when Newgarden hit the nitrous button every time the green came out? I think maybe somebody else found out and made it an issue.
Nobody wants to take away your electricity
The Biden administration on Thursday cracked down on planet-warming emissions and other pollution from power plants, aiming to make these power sources more environmentally friendly.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Thursday it had finalized a suite of rules that aim to cut the plants’ pollution.
One such rule, which regulates greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal and new gas plants, will require them to install technology that prevents 90 percent of their carbon emissions.
It also finalized rules that aim to reduce coal plants’ releases of toxic substances like mercury into the air and pollution discharges into wastewater.
A fourth agency rule issued Thursday tightens restrictions on the disposal of toxic coal waste, also known as coal ash, to prevent leaks that can contaminate groundwater.
It’s like they’re frantically trying to get as much of their wealth destruction policy into place before the election as they can.
“Today, EPA is proud to make good on the Biden-Harris Administration’s vision to tackle climate change and to protect all communities from pollution in our air, water, and in our neighborhoods,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a written statement.
He said that with the new rules, the agency is “cutting pollution while ensuring that power companies can make smart investments and continue to deliver reliable electricity for all Americans.”
Buy your diesel backup generator while you still can.
Pfft. Like you’ll be allowed to buy diesel fuel.
“Tattooed applicant claims she was denied TJ Maxx job over her ink, confronts store employees: ‘It’s so annoying’ ”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/lifestyle/tattooed-tiktoker-claims-she-was-denied-tj-maxx-job-over-her-ink-confronts-store-employees/
Not scaring the customers is important.
Jeez. Is everybody a performance artist these days? She isn’t quite Crackhead Barnie, but still a stunning performance.
Like, OMG.
She seems stable.
Thanks $20/hr minimum wage! When employers have to pay a premium for workers, they are only going to want to hire premium workers.
The most high-profile rule issued Thursday is the greenhouse gas restriction, which applies to both existing coal plants and newly constructed natural gas plants.
Under the rule, these power plants are expected to have to capture 90 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions to prevent them from going into the atmosphere and heating the planet — or come up with another way to reach equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.
In a few years we’ll be importing electricity from Mexico. Total win for the planet.
I’m starting to wonder if we shouldn’t sell our current house, which is kind of an electricity hog, and get something smaller and much more energy efficient. Ideally, cash in on whatever solar subsidies there are to get full OTG capability. Because if this sticks, the grid is going to be third-world reliable.
My plan for retirement is a smaller home with potential solar and battery storage.
It will still not be fun if your climate is anything but truly temperate. You can limp along with solar not everything is going to work depending on how hot or cool it is.
They should renovate those Hawaiian stairs and charge entry. It would be a cool tourist attraction. They did this with Caminito del Rey in Spain. https://www.spain.info/en/hiking-trails/caminito-del-rey-hiking-in-spain/
Reading the article, it sounds like the local yokels didn’t like the visitors coming into their town and annoying them.