Gonna be a good one
The NHL playoffs has gotten off to a great start. I suppose I’ll mention that the NBA playoffs are also underway. So embed soccer games this week and the NFL Draft is almost here. And that’s it for sports.
Finally an honest headline about these cases. I didn’t think I’d ever see one calling this exactly what it is: a proxy case for people who are afraid he might win.
Yeah, sure thing buddy. Species have come and gone since the dawn of time. But man is causing them to go extinct now because we drive cars and shit. Riiiiiiiight.
Worst. Spring break. Eveeeeer.
The lunatics are almost completely running the asylum. Pretty soon these people won’t have to see a single Jew in their spaces. Which it would appear is exactly what they want.
“This could happen anywhere!” Then why does it only seem to keep happening there?
Well….he’s right. These people are censors. I don’t know why they can’t admit it.
Good news! Well, kind of. They can still take another crack at it even though the case is ridiculous. But at least the man is free for now.
She’s free to quit her job and give all her money to black people. Oh wait, she can’t do that. Instead she can signal her virtue and get paid at the same time. Which I’m sure makes her feel like she’s doing good.
These nerds have too much free time. And too few brain cells.
Here’s a great jam. No pun intended. And here’s another one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Dammit. I read that link as “A Hybrid, man-leaning, campus.”
Both turn me off in similar ways.
Trillian went woke? And isn’t she like 70 years old now, not counting temporal anomalies?
Re: lizards, I don’t think it’s the direct heat that’ll do them harm — they love hot rocks after all.
But I have witnessed the near-extinction of the horny toad in real time. When I was a kid, they were everywhere, but then fire ants killed off the big red ants that the horny toads ate. Whether warming influenced the northward migration of fire ants, I do not know.
I don’t think it did, because the ranges for the other ants and toads would have moved north as well.
I don’t know how many other lizards are so specifically tied to one food source. It’s kind of a bad idea, evolutionary-wise speaking.
My uncle only ate horny toads and he’s starving now.
Yeah, if you’re going to have one food source, you’d better be cute like pandas, otherwise you can fuck off.
Apparently those “big red ants” are harvester ants:
https://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/local/scene/2020/10/03/harvester-ants-good-soil-treat-horned-lizards-aka-horny-toads/5765242002/
Those things were terrifying as a child.
Why do you people call the horned lizard a toad?
*Foghorn Leghorn voice*
Listen heah boy, this is the South. Things are different than you Yankees might know
/FL Voice
/boys a few minis short of an army, if you know what I mean!
I used to keep those ants in my fridge when I had a horned lizard.
I believe fire ants are going to take over, at least up to the permafrost areas. There is no stopping them, you can only control small areas like around the house if you’re lucky. The US of A is a perfect habitat for fire ants, no natural competition or predators, just fertile land with lots of food. They eat anything and everything, and if you treat a mound, a new one pops up 20 feet away.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
Still, I do miss the horny toads we used to have, they were fun to handle.
Another sign of spring… ants start trying to invade the homes again. Poison traps placed, and high potency gel placed down near entryways.
Yep, I use “BioAdvanced Carpenter Ant, Termite and Insects Killer Plus.” Seems to keep the fire ants at bay as well. HVAC and the air pump for the septic system are prime targets for the little bastards, so that gets treated once a month, year round. I do the house foundation in spring, and then every other month until October.
Yosemite Sam hardest hit. I never did care for him anyway.
I can’t wait for the fruit flies.
Spring has officially arrived when the mosquitoes and deer flies show up.
Don’t forget wood ticks.
I know, they won’t forget me…
I have heard that the crazy ants are doing to the fire ants what the fire ants did to the previous ants.
Also: ants are genocidal expansionists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqECNYmM23A
I found this. History of the expansion of the fire ants.
https://fireant.tamu.edu/learn/history-of-the-red-imported-fire-ant/
No mention of humans using pesticides to eradicate existing ants, etc…
Sometime over the last many years I’ve seen the disappearance of those big flying grasshoppers, leopard frogs, garter snakes and snowshoe rabbits. As a kid those critters were plentiful. Ruffed grouse have moved on, there used to be a few, now virtually none. This area was never really farm country. Habitat has changed a little but not much.
What about the fireflies? They seem super rare around these parts anymore. 🙁
Fireflies have been in decline locally, but they still come out over the summer. The big honking grasshoppers are still around in the grasslands here as well. New (in my life at least) have been turkey and coyote in the suburbs and river otters in the rivers.
True about the new arrivals. We have a lot more deer but that’s because there is a lot less poaching
New to me in my new small town is antler-pests walking around, like a ten-minute drive from downtown where I live.
We’re finally back at the point where the reality of the situation is overwhelming the idiotic people who want to protect and feed the hooved rats. The suburban deer culling programs are coming back and becoming more frequent.
There’s also been a couple of fox sightings, which were never around when I was a kid.
Yeah, it’s drawing attention here too. Turns out Pride flags and BLM placards don’t keep out the pests.
Without predators, deer become much more numerous and bold. Increasing wolf numbers has helped.
Fireflies are still around, but you need to be in less-landscaped areas. I can’t imagine there are any at your apartment. I thought they had gone but found they were still abundant in less developed parts of Austin.
I used to see them in my backyard in Queens frequently during the summer. Early aughts, I guess.
I should add I stopped seeing them when I moved out. Maybe they’re still there, I dunno.
Tch. Ya never cawl, ya never write…
I see plenty of fireflies every summer in my back yard in New Jersey.
Yet the wild turkeys have proliferated up here. You never used to see turkeys this far north.
A couple of weekends ago, there were 5 toms fighting over 3 hens in my back yard.
I used to have a flock roosting in my trees at night. Lily has driven them out.
The only wildlife that ventures into my yard now are rabbits (too stupid) and squirrels (too arrogant). Even chipmunks fear the fluff.
Sorta, but in my observation they hang out in different zones. Crazy ants seem to like the shaded spots with lots of cover, and the fire ants like the open sunny ones. So having a load of crazy ants in one area doesn’t seem to mean they’ll eventually get rid of the fire ants, just since they won’t go out in the open as much. On the edges, the crazy ants do seem to win, though.
They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56k6QCjJnc
That’s the clip I was looking for.
I love that movie.
Once I turned to a channel it was playing on, and I said I would watch just to the next funny part and I ended up watching the whole thing.
It’s been a couple years, about time for a rewatch.
Duh, they can’t *admit* they’re censors. That would be THEM ripping the mask off purposefully, instead of it slinkin’ off from word o’ mouth. (Cuz floated trial balloons are *supposed* to cue the signal after the wind’s attest. It doesn’t ‘fall’ on its own.)
That would be them acting ‘human.’ Mustn’t happen, for 90+% of ’em.
*ahem*
Freedom of speech means freedom FROM speech!
/stupidest bogus argument that is accepted by everyone for some reason
“Hate speech isn’t free speech.”
Neither is “Disinformation”!
Why is (are?) The Jam so great and Style Council so awful?
Awful?
Yes. The jazzy phase, as mocked in Spinal Tap and The Commitments.
Dunno, I like both.
Different musical style.
I wouldn’t call Style Awful, necessarily, although I own nothing by them and don’t really care for them that much.
Jam are brilliant of course.
FAA/Raytheon: Here is a sophisticated automation system. You will be the system administrator but we will give you no tools to have internal network monitoring. Just go by blinky lights.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
–Ancient computer saying
init lang.locale.Eng.us;
return “Nein”;
I guess I’ll have to fix it in hardware.
*gets out soldering iron*
Must be printed in Blackletter.
Did the Math. Yep, pulling numbers out of your ass and them counting on your fingers isn’t really math.
And did you put in Affirmative Action in the negative column? Or all the graft in Detroit, that only seems to go one way? No? I didn’t think so.
Through investigative research, interviews and personal recollections, McMillan examines how racism has shaped her life, as well as the lives of four other White, middle class families.
Came here to say the same thing: that’s a lot of words to say “rectally sourced statistics.”
Why do you two hate SCIENCE!?
Good to start with middle class families. Starting with poor whites probably wouldn’t have lead her to the same idiodic conclusions. As a matter of fact, it may have lead her to determine state handouts lead to a kind of dependency that tends to rope in generation after generation regardless of race.
—“Journalist and author Tracie McMillan did the math: The advantages she’s gotten over her life from being White, she estimates, amount to $371,934.30.”—
I don’t know where people get their numbers, but I would like to know how she calculated the $.40.
If I were to take a logical stab at an illogical statement: She probably took some aggregate number spewed out about the disparity between white/black salaries and punched them in.
What she’s to ideologically blinded to notice is all her “family benefits” are because she had two responsible parents and her argument is that minorities are incapable of that. She’d be screaming racist if Ben Shapiro wrote that argument.
Reading the Fox article on the Columbia protests… They make it sound like protesting Israel’s actions automatically makes protestors anti-Semitic. Maybe many of them are, but there sure is space for a difference.
I think the “Death to Israel” and “No two state solution” chants easily carry them over that goalpost.
The first, yes. Israeli leaders agree with the 2nd.
I would disagree. They have given the Palestinians both the West Bank and Gaza, and the Oslo accords tried to make them legit countries. Of course, the Palestinians turned them down so as to not pass up the chance to kill Jews, but that says noting about the nationhood on offer.
At Israeli’s request, the U.S. keeps vetoing Palestine’s recognition as a state and admission to the UN.
…yes? The PLO wants UN peacekeepers to help them exterminate the Jews.
Why the US is the only country opposed to the extermination of the Jews is an exercise left to the reader.
So no 2-state solution. Which also means no peace.
I would not give a care if they weren’t looting our already depleted Treasury.
Especially when you look at the borders of the two states demanded by the Palis.
Then whyfore they both have worked on getting the Pali’s a nation? See above mentioned Oslo accords. Remember, it was Arafat who turned that down, as his people would have torn him to shreds.
Don’t forget his personal graft opportunities. He died a multi-millionaire back when that meant something. Additionally running a government is hard work so he’d would have less time for the “revolutionary” schtick.
I thought Israel had proposed a two state solution in the past, and the Palis rejected it.
Shrugs – we vetoed it. I think it’s going through the UN again and we’ll veto again.
Details, devils, etc.
It’s like when the Democrats say they want a solution to the border crisis, but their “solution” is “bring more immigrants across and give them more beneifts faster.”
Palis “two states” are a judenrein Gaza and judenrein West bank, and an Israel where Jews are (temporarily) allowed to live but has a majority Arab population and the status of Jews is determined by majority rule.
So forgive me if I don’t take their nods to fairness seriously.
Jeffery Sachs and Judge Napolitano discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/live/9JZ7ETAjIeI?feature=shared
That is the problem with free speech – people will say unpleasant things. Whether it’s Australians reading X or students at Columbia. You’re either free to say it or not.
Yep, no specific and credible threats should be should be the standard for free speech codes as per the 1A at any institution that takes public money.
NPR agrees with you. It gives literally no examples of antisemitism happening, and when asked about it, they immediately pivot to “there are Jewish students among the protestors!”
NPRs difference in coverage of these protests/BLM/Antifa and for example Charlottesville is illuminating. Because if you are against destroying artwork because of currently popular politics, you absolutely must be a white supremacist.
Generally I would agree but there is increasing amounts of violence coming from that rabble. And yes, the explicit calls for genocide.
But if you want, at least at Columbia, they’re blocking entrances, threating Jews, and similar. Suspensions at a minimum. Expulsion not out of order for some.
Sure. Once you shut down a business and impede people, it’s moved beyond protected speech. (Unless it’s a BLM riot, then go ahead and be fiery but peaceful)
Today begins Day 2 of New Gig, grading 4th Grade writing answers for Missouri’s state whatever-test.
It should not be challenging, other than navigating their new system. Good step taken! Their purposefully 35-hour work-week takes some healthcare stuff off, but even Mom agreed to weasel a bit (Read: omit reality) to help ensure I can stay on Medicaid. I’m all for a legit social safety net for those who truly need it. I certainly qualify, but don’t *need* it cuz of my parents. When the Comfy Couch lay favorably for folk, it’s mighty easy to rationalize the Free Money. Open tent flipped, the blanket is designed to catch far too many people. Like all else, if We actually focused on those who truly NEED it, We’d have a whole helluva lot more resources available to help those folk.
Grift, it’s for everyone.
Big corporations, millionaires, politicians, even the able bodied, what’s not to like? Best of all it hardly costs anyone anything.
Sure, we’re on an unsustainable path but at least we can protest about an issue we know nothing about and are unwilling to personally do anything about.
Yep. Well over $1,000,000,000,000 spent on that shit. It has to go somewhere! And it will!
Until it all collapses. Honestly? I hope(?)/expect to be dead before that happens. It certainly will within the next 50 years. World Wars don’t stay idle for long. We’re well-overdue.
So McMillan has benefited from ‘white privilege and has now written a book about it from which she benefits more from her white privilege (make money selling the book).
Ok, got it. A run of the mill grifter.
Consider: 1% or so of the human population produces all of the things we have…clothing, food, energy, housing, tools, etc. etc. If you see a human made thing you are seeing the produce of 1% of the population. The other 99% are either running around in circles handing each other pieces of paper or running some kind of con game.
Think about that the next time you dont answer your phone because you dont know who is calling. Think about that the next time you spend over an hour of your time answering questions and filling out forms to every minute you spend getting medical treatment or obtaining any government service. I can barely read websites anymore without someone asking or demanding my personal information.
Hmmmm….if AI is going to put all of the people handing each other paper out of work they are going to move into the grifting game.
*Sigh*
I need more coffee.
1% sounds low even for this country, much less third world countries where almost all the men are dirt farmers or shepherds.
Only 1% farm, fish, ranch, or work in some kind of factory?
I’d say the ratio of producers to parasites/predators is over 50%. If you get voluntarily paid for something that someone else feels adds value to their life, you’re the former.
If you steal, defraud, or tax (but I repeat myself), you’re the latter.
And from AP no less. That must have stung.
Why should they be ashamed for being righteous crusaders against OMB and Putin?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Smarter than most kids I’m personally affiliated with.. Thanks, Jimbo
lol!
Well there it is, the stupidest thing I’ve read all week.
Based upon my lived experiences, I’ve actually been impeded by anti-white racism and misandry.
Where’s my book sales?
I’ve actually been told to my face not to bother applying for a job because I was a white male. I wonder how many people have been told not to apply for a job because they were something other than a white male in the last 30 years.
When I was being converted from a temp to a full time employee at one place, it took an extra 6-8 weeks (per my supervisors) because I was a straight white guy. We also had HR protecting an employee who was watching porn at work (not even in an office, but in a shared workspace) since he “may not have access to that at home”.
At that statement, you fire HR, all of it.
Preferably with napalm as should be SOP.
Legal should have bigfooted that bullshit right out the door. Talk about a hostile work environment. Either they didn’t have in-house counsel, or their legal department should be fired along with HR.
No legal department in the office we were in, in order for us to reach out to legal at the home office, people were directed to go through HR. I sure as shit wasn’t getting involved in trying to bring it up the chain. I was in another department and just heard the complaints of the other people in the department.
So if you think legal should take a gander at what HR is doing, you have to ask HR to contact legal?
I’d have lost my fucking mind if somebody told me that was the way it worked. I was always crystal clear that anybody could contact legal directly if they thought something we were doing needed legal review.
It’s only Tuesday…
Good point.
Are people not seeing the obvious similarities to another time, say, early in the 20th century? I guess this is one of those “so that’s how people let it happen” scenarios.
Hell just look at the difference in the 21st century and the pleading with the rubes to not attack brown people who look sorta like Muslims even though those incidents were far less death culty.
I used to wonder how such a thing could happen in a civilized western country like Germany. I’m now seeing it in real time, and I no longer wonder.
I’m picturing in my mind, that a protester ends up injured and goes to a medical facility. Doctor is Jewish.
Does the protester refuse treatment? I’m sure the doctor sees only the injury and is prepared to treat the patient-to-be.
I posted this link yesterday too, but the answer to 4Scores question is: yes, racists will forego treatment if the doc/emt isn’t a real white person. At least that is what Our First Black Female Fire Captain claims.
(Her career started in 2012)
I’ll take “Shit that never happenned for One Thousand, Alex”
Our First Black Female Fire Captain is lying.
Yeah, that’s kind of an urban legend thing. I’m sure at some point 50 years ago it happened, but now it’s just handed down in ER bullshit sessions.
She began a firefighter six years ago and is now a captain. That’s seems..awfully fast.
Someone mentioned yesterday possible a geriatric dementia patient. I’d also add mentally ill or higher than a kite.
Besides flat out lying.
I’m giving some thought to joining one of the counter-protests that are popping up at the larger college in my town.
But I’m not a joiner so there’s that.
Nothing good can happen from that.
Yup.
A recent one I recall was its own event. The pro-Hamas crowd was not there, or only showed up to counter and were greatly outnumbered. Maybe George S. didn’t give them their orders in time to show up.
Joinery is voodoo.
That dovetails nicely with the modern world.
Well, it screws my perspective together.
I always lag behind, even now
Why do I suspect the local DFL won’t Santos their state Senator after she was caught burglarizing a home (in my hometown!)?
Huh. I thought DFL was more solidly in control.
Nope. They’ve had a single vote majority since the last election, but they have governed like they had a 20 vote majority.
I’m not even sure them running roughshod over the GOP and passing lots of crazy shit (Trans Safe Space, Abortions For All and squandering a $17B surplus) will cost them anything in the next election.
There’s only one stupid party.
The Highlander Party?
Instead she pays it all in taxes first so the government can launder it.
Update on the 13 year old kid that beat the 12 year old girl into the hospital using “a” Stanley cup.
1. Xe had a hit list. The existence of the hit list had been reported to school authorities.
2. Xe had compiled this hit list and begun acting upon it even though this was only xer third day at the school.
3. Xer previous school denies that they kicked xer out for being violent, though students at that school not only disagree, but say xe pulled a knife on them.
https://6abc.com/pennbrook-middle-school-fight-student-sent-to-hospital-following-incident-in-montgomery-county-cafeteria/14685285/
Huh, none of this is surprising. Imagine that.
Yeah. Crazy people do crazy things.
And get away with it.
We’re starting to see a lot more of this, aren’t we? Dangerous children (not even necessarily trans [or whatever…]) having their behavior overlooked for obvious ideological reasons.
I wonder when we hit the tipping point, and the school system starts to see (or admit to) a noticeable drop in enrollment?
David Hogg’s career is built around letting a psycho student run free.
Chris Rufo, doing the muckraking that respectable journalismists won’t do:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/dei-meets-plagiarism-at-ucla
Yeah, that guy is rapidly moving up the left’s 10 Most Wanted List. They really, really dislike him.
Huh, it is almost, almost I say, like anyone who put DEI in their thesis got rubber stamped and then failed up.
I wonder why…
Wypipo like dogs Therefore dogs are bad. Insert currently fashionable badperson descriptor as needed:
https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/dogs-slammed-as-settler-colonial-as-pooches-and-owners-blamed-for-gentrifying-nyc-by-woke-activists/
Relatedly, sorry to read about HE’s run in with Commander.
You know who else really liked dogs, especially German Shepherds?
German Shepherdesses?
Do ya like dags?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQSnua3M2lo
All the other cases are tied up in appeals that are expected to delay any trials until after the November election. If that happens, the New York case will stand as the only legal test during the campaign of whether Trump attempted to illegally manipulate an election — and the case isn’t even about the election results he tried to overthrow.
It was good enough for Al Capone.
“Illegally manipulate” Careful not to step on your own dicks AP
The AP already did that with their “asserted without evidence” that a bunch of elected Democrats are effectively keeping the presumptive Republican nominee from campaigning, somehow isn’t election interference.
If that was being done to Biden, I doubt “asserted without evidence” would be deployed.
The whole exercise with the Hunter laptop was probably the largest election interference event in my lifetime…only to be soon eclipsed by the lawfare against a legitimate candidate by the party in power.
“I have a spoiler alert: There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election. It’s called democracy,” said his attorney, Todd Blanche. “They put something sinister on this idea, as if it’s a crime. You’ll learn it’s not.”
Did the judge have that stricken from the record?
Some said prosecutors’ decision to characterize the New York case as election interference seemed to be a strategy designed to raise its visibility.
“When (Manhattan District Attorney) Alvin Bragg calls it an election interference case, that’s more of a public relations strategy,” said Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown Law and former federal prosecutor. “I think there was concern that people were looking at the other prosecutions and they weren’t discussing the Manhattan case.”
That’s an amazingly rational article, for the AP. I wonder if the editor will get suspended.
Trump just endorsed sending another pile of cash to Ukraine. A tiny corner of my brain is wondering if the deep state is quietly switching to Trump.
I don’t understand why Trump did this, other than he’s a tard who’s been promised that Z man will flip on Biden and go into detail about the whole Burisma thing come October.
I really don’t understand why the whole DNC/UKR alliance isn’t in the right-wing news more often or at all.
Starting to understand how to play the game?
I mean, if that’s what he was promised, Trump’s an idiot.
Exactly how much has racism benefited White Americans?
Exactly how much has getting up and going to work every day benefitted industrious people of every race, creed or color?
The word here is that the jury in Nogales voted 7-1 to acquit, but there was one juror who would not be swayed from her desire to put the old man in prison.
We followed the case on the news. The prosecution’s case got really weak once you got past the “man shot, somebody got shot” (which is admittedly a good start on a prosecution). What I could never figure out was the angle of the gunshot wound, which entered low in the back, just above the hips, and exited through the chest. How you get that angle from 120 yards away on tabletop flat terrain, I have no clue. The only scenario, which strikes me as highly unlikely, is that the illegal just happened to trip and be partway through falling down the instant the bullet arrived.
These guys were known drug mules. You don’t mix drug mules with manual laborers when you’re doing your people smuggling. So when the old man says they had guns, I believe him (even though somehow the cops never found any at the scene).
There was also a fair amount of fuckery by the cops, such as the sheriff going online a few days after the shooting and saying “some people just get up in the morning and want to go hunting Mexicans”.
I think with the 7-1 vote to acquit, the prosecution is somewhat unlikely to go for a retrial.
You likely don’t get that angle from 120 yards away. You get it from below, a foot or so away.
I kinda figure, based on what little I’ve read, that the “star witness” did a *lot* of on-scene cleanup before any cops arrived.
The star witness was one of the illegals with the dead guy – a repeat border offender and I believe a drug mule. His testimony was an utter train wreck, as in, they had difficulty establishing his fucking name. It later came out that the sheriff and his rookie (literally, a few weeks on the job) detective on the case interviewed him in Mexico, but somehow only a few minutes of that interview made its way into their records.
Looking for a job with the Fed agencies I see.
And they took this to trial?
That prosecutor is out of his/her mind.
Also odd that they didn’t find any bullets near the body.
Sure. What the fuck ever, you sanctimonious twat.
^
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an instance where threading could add some context
Even an anti-threaditarian could insert the quote they are referencing.
But not really needed. The comment contains multitudes.
A perfectly cromulent response to the morning. Any morning.
“Sure. What the fuck ever, you sanctimonious twat.” refers specifically to pious sackcloth and ashes anti-racist author cashing in on fad guilt trip, but may be applicable in a variety of situations.
Exactly. This is just another lefty chick horning in on Robin DiAngelo’s schtick, adding a few pseudo-sciency figures to her tome, all for consumption by other guilt-addled white chicks convinced that racial sanctification is available through a “solidarity” or “allyship” that amounts to ritual self-abnegation.
Most of what’s typically described as “white privilege” boils down to gripes about the uneven distribution and intergenerational transfer of social and financial capital, which contrary to progressive mythology doesn’t divide neatly along racial lines, and — half a century after the Civil Rights era and the passage and robust enforcement of laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race in government and public accommodations — owes mostly to choices, sound and unsound, made by individuals.
So shocking it will cause irreparable harm and trauma
Tech billionaire Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after an Australian judge ruled that his social media platform X must block users worldwide from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responded Tuesday by describing Musk as an “arrogant billionaire” who considered himself above the law and was out of touch with the public.
X Corp., the tech company rebranded in 2023 by Musk after he bought Twitter, announced last week it would fight in court Australian orders to take down posts relating to a knife attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in an Assyrian Orthodox church as a service was being streamed online on April 15.
The material was geoblocked from Australia but available elsewhere.
I think it’s only fair to let Australia decide what is appropriate for world wide media distribution.
If any country can block worldwide distribution of information, then I suppose, say, China could block worldwide distribution of US campaign speeches and ads, or worldwide distribution of news stories about the Uighurs, etc.
The public’s demanding this be blocked? Sure they are and if they actually are (they aren’t) so the fuck what?
Albanese berated Musk in several television interviews Tuesday.
“We’ll do what’s necessary to take on this arrogant billionaire who thinks he’s above the law, but also above common decency,” Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “The idea that someone would go to court for the right to put up violent content on a platform shows how out of touch Mr. Musk is. Social media needs to have social responsibility with it.”
Albanese told Sky News, “This is a bloke who’s chosen ego and showing violence over common sense.”
“This isn’t about censorship. It’s about common sense and common decency. And Elon Musk should show some,” Albanese told Seven Network.
If we don’t nip this radical anarchism in the bud, people might get the crazy notion the government is not best qualified to know what’s good for them. We all know where that leads.
Having to pay attention to Hawaiian judges is already too much, now we have to listen to Australian ones?
It’ll probably be a wash, or even a slight help, to Albanese electorally. There’s always an undercurrent of fairly passive anti-Americanism in Australia.
The only acceptable form of xenophobia.
This guy’s giving the Albanese family a bad name. The branch of the family in my neighborhood is way cooler.
https://www.albanesecandy.com/
I can see it happening.
A family member lost all confidence with a doc (hereinafter referred to as the “Quack”) seeing her in the ER and told the quack to get the senior doc in charge. Told the senior guy when he finally showed up that she didn’t want the quack touching her since he was a moron. Long story short, after she explained why she considered the quack to be a moron, senior doc said someone else would be along presently.
It worked out well; I suspect the quack had a poor reputation among the nursing staff, so the family member wasn’t treated with the disdain that a problem patient would be subjected to.
But I could see the quack rationalizing the ‘firing’ as an example of the patient being prejudiced against him. In the case of people who are incompetent and blame their shortcomings on the rest of society being racist, rewriting the store so that the patient who demanded a competent caregiver is instead described as demanding a ‘white’ caregiver would be a fairly straight-forward rationalization.
So, the Ta-Nehisi Coats syndrome?
“Grimes bares all as she turns into a Scandinavian mythological creature ahead of her second Coachella performance – after apologising for her disastrous set the week before”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13339437/Grimes-bares-turns-Scandinavian-mythological-creature-ahead-second-Coachella-performance-apologising-disastrous-set-week-before.html
She seems a bit weird.
The common advice is “never stick it in crazy.”
Elon Musk seems to want to add the corollary “You can, if you have a twelve-figure net worth.”
Like hell that is some Scandinavian mythological creature. And I like Shpip’s rider to the common advice.
Err, wearing a bodysuit isn’t exactly “baring it all”.
“Some people do care. And I know because I’ve had patients call me the N word,” she said. “I’ve had patients tell me they didn’t want me touching them, that they would rather put me back in a field than allow me to take care of them. I’ve had people when I was working in the hospital refuse an EKG to be done and we were short beds that night and I was the only tech on.”
There was a movie about that, made in the fifties or sixties. Maybe Ted’S can provide us with the title; I can’t dredge it up right now.
This one?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=irQf50m5Jvw&feature=kp
Beware the Jabberwock
President Joe Biden probably won’t carry Florida in November. But he hopes the state serves as a warning to voters elsewhere about what could happen if he doesn’t win.
Biden plans to denounce Florida’s policies, especially a six-week abortion ban taking effect next week, during a campaign event in Tampa on Tuesday. It’s just one example of how the campaign in the coming months will try to designate the now conservative-leaning state as “ground zero for Trump’s MAGA blueprint,” citing not just abortion but also looser gun laws and book removals from school libraries.
Playing no small part into the boogeyman narrative for the Biden campaign is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the abortion ban into law last year as he and Trump vied for the GOP presidential nomination.
Biden knows he has to spend time in Florida to show how “extreme” conditions have gotten in the state under DeSantis, said state Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried. “He understands that if we’re going to fight back against the extremism of the MAGA Republicans, that you got to come to the belly of the beast,” Fried said.
St Joe and the pantomime dragon.
Biden knows he has to spend time in Florida to show how “extreme” conditions have gotten in the state under DeSantis, said state Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried.
So extreme that DeSantis won re-election in a record blowout, and people are moving here at a clip of a thousand per week.
Well, Nikki is the worst.
It’s a thousand per day.
Yep. I even went and checked the figures (net gain of 359K in 2023) and still completely botched the math.
Spend more time in Florida? Great. Now we are going to get “old man addled by sun, Climate Change to blame” stories.
All the Saints in heaven must be smiling down on devout Catholic Joe Biden as he fights so hard for abortion.
Must be nice to go out there and pitch your ideas while your opponent cannot dare mutter a word.
I find this more disturbing than ‘bloodbath’.
A six-week abortion ban does seem a stupid compromise though.
But he hopes the state serves as a warning to voters elsewhere about what could happen if he doesn’t win.
Biden plans to denounce Florida’s policies, especially a six-week abortion ban taking effect next week, during a campaign event in Tampa on Tuesday.
This is happening while he is currently in office.
I , for one, encourage Biden to campaign in non-swing-states.
“This is contrast messaging,” said Kevin Cate, a Florida-based Democratic communications consultant, of Biden’s visit. “There is not a state in the union that indicts the failed MAGA leadership quite like Florida does.”
Yes, yes, of course. This may be easily verified by the millions and millions of people and businesses fleeing Florida for the soothing progressive embrace of states like New York and Massachusetts and California.
Once again, we are called upon to not believe our own eyes.
I mean, America’s strongest economy, balanced budget, decreasing debt, no income tax… no wonder they hate it.
There’s always an undercurrent of fairly passive anti-Americanism in Australia.
Jealousy.
They’re just mad that our nonpoisonous snakes outnumber the poisonous ones.
I’m a little jealous about that myself.
Hooray for Anglo Saxons!
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/in-praise-of-anglo-saxons?publication_id=1637432&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=67wdm&utm_medium=email
Muh Constitutional right to unionize
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule by the National Labor Relations Board that would have made it easier for millions of workers to form unions at big companies.
The rule, which was due to go into effect Monday, would have set new standards for determining when two companies should be considered “joint employers” in labor negotiations.
Under the current NLRB rule, which was passed by a Republican-dominated board in 2020, a company like McDonald’s isn’t considered a joint employer of most of its workers since they are directly employed by franchisees.
The new rule would have expanded that definition to say companies may be considered joint employers if they have the ability to control — directly or indirectly — at least one condition of employment. Conditions include wages and benefits, hours and scheduling, the assignment of duties, work rules and hiring.
The NLRB argued a change is necessary because the current rule makes it too easy for companies to avoid their legal responsibility to bargain with workers.
Democracy in the workplace. Or else.
“Ten bucks an hour. You are free to bargain something else. Or not.”
We had a run-in with that at my hospital. The NLRB wanted to say that every doctor on our medical staff who got paid for coverage was jointly employed by the hospital. They would not accept a settlement where we paid off the complaining physician unless we also admitted to a binding stipulation that we jointly employed what amounted to hundreds of independent physicians. And that included forcing not only the physician group who employed him at the time, but the physician group that replaced that one, didn’t even employ that doctor, and had exactly nothing to do with that doctor’s complaint, to admit to the same.
The NLRB is controlled by radical leftist union organizers. Faced with the inability to win elections no matter how hard their thumb is on the scale, they shifted to joint employment to expand their remit.
The NLRB needs to be dissolved in acid.
This month’s new money-wasting project: set up my AR-15/22 with an IR laser/illuminator and white light, for use as a night shooting trainer. Why am I doing this to myself?
You want to attend “Moons Out Goons Out?”
We actually have a couple of low-light/no-light matches down this way. But yeah, my buddy really wants to do MOGO next year.
A laser cartridge would make that easier.
The Maga the.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/ny-dem-congressional-hopeful-slammed-for-die-maga-die-message-after-ukraine-aid-vote/
It still kind of surprises me how much the radical left really hates the idea of making America great.
What is an “externality” Alex?
In a major case on homelessness, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared to side with an Oregon city’s crackdown on sleeping in public. The decision could have sweeping implications for the record number of people living in tents and cars, and the cities and states struggling to manage them.
The Supreme Court had declined to hear a similar case out of Boise, Idaho, in 2019. But since then rates of homelessness have spiked. An annual federal count found more than 250,000 people living in parks, on streets, and in their vehicles. Sprawling street encampments have grown larger and expanded to new places, igniting intense backlash from residents and businesses.
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Grants Pass has no public shelter. But its local law essentially banned people from sleeping with a blanket or pillow on any public land, at any time.
During Monday’s arguments, the Supreme Court’s more liberal justices suggested this amounts to unlawfully targeting people simply because they’re homeless. “You don’t arrest babies who have blankets over them. You don’t arrest people who are sleeping on the beach,” said Justice Sotomayor.
Justice Kagan said sleeping is not a criminal act. “Sleeping is a biological necessity. It’s sort of like breathing. … But I wouldn’t expect you to criminalize breathing in public.”
Sleeping/dozing/napping not same as establishing long term residence.
I can’t understand why this ended up at the Supreme Court. Homelessness advocates’ policies have been unerringly successful at creating more homelessness everywhere they have been implemented. That’s obviously the desired end goal.
It ended up there because of the insane 9th Circus decision in Boise*, that cities can’t enforce no camping ordinances unles they also provided enough shelter beds.
*the leftists in Boise had been unhappy for years that the only shelter was the Boise Mission which was nominally religious/Christian and had rules
**the bums in Grants Pass are being represented by advocacy “nonprofit” funded by public money and state bar’s Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts theft/slush fund.
***The current governor, Kotex the Hateful Dyke, did her utmost to undermine cities in preventing bum takeovers. Fuck her and her mentally ill drunk First Spouse.
Look, if they wanted to follow rules, they wouldn’t be homeless.
Current governor, or current mayor?
“Ex-school cop on the run after allegedly killing teacher ex-wife at her school, murdering girlfriend and abducting kid on day he was due in court for child rape ”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/armed-ex-cop-accused-of-killing-his-ex-wife-girlfriend-is-on-the-run-after-being-due-in-court-for-rape/
It’s important to keep busy.
Need more SROs on campus, obviously.
Over and over, conservative justices also said homelessness is a complex policy problem and questioned whether courts like theirs should “micromanage” it.
“Why would you think that these nine people are the best people to judge and weigh those policy judgments?” Chief Justice Roberts asked.
They’re just trying to shirk their duty to relieve Congress of the heavy lifting of legislation and policymaking.
“Trans sex offender busted allegedly trying to abduct child playing outside elementary school”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/trans-sex-offender-busted-allegedly-trying-to-kidnap-elementary-school-student/
Your daily reminder that self-ID is retarded. So are journalists.
Dude. Try harder, FFS.
Huh. A local radio station reported about this case this morning. They left out the trans part.
If Ron is around, this just came out. No idea if it is good or bad. This is not someone I listen to.
https://justthenews.com/podcasts/victor-davis-hanson-show/victor-davis-hanson-stoicism-and-nonsense-roman-philosophers-and
Thanks, I’ll check it out and see if it’s worth a response.
I’ve heard his name, I think he is a standard conservative.
Wish there was a transcript.
The wife likes VDH and listens to him quite a bit. I find him a bit of a pretentious fart sniffer.
Behold the majestic omnipotence
Legal analyst Alan Dershowitz warned on Sunday about newly introduced legislation that would strip felons of Secret Service protection, saying that Democrats want former President Donald Trump “killed.”
Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, brought forth the “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act”—or the DISGRACED Act—on Friday that would terminate Secret Service protection for individuals convicted of either state or local felonies.
Trump is specifically mentioned by Thompson as someone whose protection privileges would be affected should he be found guilty as the former president faces four criminal indictments. Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case that began on Monday.
The entire apparatus of the state, focused like a magnifying glass on an ant in the sun.
Makes you proud to be an American, don’t it?