Good morning one and all to another wonderous day! The birds are chirping, the sun is rising, and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
SCOTUS to Hear Arguments in Emergency Abortion Case
Unsealed docs expose early collaboration between Archives, Biden White House in Trump prosecution
Biden Faces Another Uncommitted Ballot Test in Pennsylvania Democrat Primary
Rand Paul Demands Answers on Dangerous Biolabs
Facebook Meddled with U.S. Elections Almost 40 Times Since 2008
Hung Jury Results in Mistrial in Trial of Arizona Rancher Charged With Killing Illegal Immigrant
Judge Dismisses Riot Charges for Over 100 Illegals Who Rushed Border
8 GOP States (And Counting) Ban Biden’s DOJ From ‘Intimidating’ Voters At 2024 Polls
California unemployment fund ‘insolvent’ due to $55B fraud, businesses to pay
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
There should very much be a “conflict of interest” equivalent for federal appointees (including those who are “temporary” because the administration can’t get them confirmed like Su). “I mismanaged California’s labor system — got promoted upward… and will now use Federal funds and policies to cover up my stupidity! Yay!”
And people wonder why I feel too black pilled to even comment some mornings. (Narrator: No, there are no such people. No one cares if you don’t comment – get over your inflated sense of importance.)
Morning, Banjos. Morning, all.
Morning, Lurker.
“The Secretary conducted an internal review and determined the Secretary does not have a conflict of interest.”
“In fact, the Secretary commended the Secretary for having the very highest integrity, and approved a substantial raise for the Secretary as well. The Secretary also granted the Secretary’s request for a paid leave of absence, since the Secretary recognizes that the Secretary has been working just so darn hard.”
Now you’re leaving Labor and going to Transportation….
It’s more like no one wonders why you’re black-pilled.
No, I don’t understand you defeatist, quasi-nihilistic depressives.
We’re not depressives! Come join us in the Absurdism camp! We have cookies! Granted, some of the cookies are delicious and some are limpet mines en croute, but things are never boring!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2Wx230gYJw
Hey, if the Feds hadn’t thrown all that COVID money at them, this would’ve blown up much sooner, so OF COURSE the Feds have to bail CA out.
Yeah, I have been hearing all of my life “the taxpayers will never be called on to rescue idiots after they have shot themselves in the dick.”
Every time I hear that I know taxpayers will be called on to rescue idiots that have shot themselves in the dick.
I wonder how many dicks could be saved if we just stopped doing that….the bailing out part, not the shooting part.
Unsealed docs expose early collaboration between Archives, Biden White House in Trump prosecution
But we’re totally not like a banana republic persecuting political opponents.
The real problem is that half the country is just fine with this.
“That would never happen here. It cant.” <— Americans in the last half of the 20th century
"It's happening here" <— Those same people today
Turns out America is full of people and people do people things. Trading freedom for security seems to be part of our nature despite there being zero evidence of this as a successful strategy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here
From 1936. Of course, that shitbird Lewis made FDR the victim rather than the perpetrator.
The real problem is that it doesn’t matter at all what the little people think of it. Our government is on the wrong side of public opinion on many issues, and doesn’t change course.
Because so many people keep voting for the same scumbags, which indicates they’re fine with what the scumbags are doing.
You can bet Mike Johnson will get re-elected.
If there’s a “Mike Hunt” in his district interested in running, I’d donate to their campaign just for the posters.
Yes, they would be priceless
*Below life-sized photo of grinning idiot* – “He might be a Hunt but he is….” well, you know the rest
Most politicians lack the depth and warmth.
Locally there is both a Schmuck and a Poindexter who run for office.
That’s true, but my point is, it no longer matters much if the scumbags win or lose popularity contests. The elected bit of government is mostly decorative at this point, and I don’t know that there’s any realistic way to change that.
Oh there are realistic ways to change it. It is realistic ways of fixing it that we really lack.
The New Soviet Man?
Davy Crockett – “Your sentiment is fine gentlemen but it the money is not yours to give” re: taxpayer relief to disaster victims
Davy Crockett after spending time in the HOR – “You gentlemen can all go to hell. As for me I am going to Texas.”
Davy Crockett after going to Texas – “This didn’t turn out well.”
Sometimes you just cant catch a break I guess.
You’re right of course. No matter who gets elected, the entrenched permanent bureaucracies run everything as they see fit.
Okay…then we should have raised what? $10,000, during the SOTU?
Better question — why does this rule even exist. There should be 24×7 cam feeds with audio of the House and Senate chambers from multiple angles.
Because they need to hide the shit they are doing and don’t want to have to defend.
This.
Saw an interview once, interviewer asked “But why do the Democrats want all of these changes that make voter fraud easier to commit?”
Guest: “Because they want to commit voter fraud.”
The obvious is….obvious.
99.99% of the shit they do doesn’t happen in the public chambers at all.
^^^ All committee work where they can do it behind closed doors is no way to legislate a supposedly ‘free’ country
I don’t have a problem with that. How are you supposed to negotiate with the other party in a place where if you offer up one inch of territory, it gets blasted out on social media that you are a flip flopper/rino/dino/squish? While the floor amendments/debates/votes need to be public, the sausage won’t get made if you make those processes transparent.*
And of course when you can’t negotiate bills then you get continuing resolutions and omnibuses.
SLD about how we’d like a lot less sausage being made.
Yep the cameras record the theatrics, the work is done well out of sight.
Well, they certainly recorded someone taking it up the ass in the recent pass. I guess that stands in for what they normally do to the country in those rooms.
“Now it’s your turn to be the taxpayer!”
‘Constituent Service’ I think they call it.
“National Security”. AKA the FYTW clause writ large.
Just weeks after learning Joe Biden had improperly retained government documents, his administration began working with federal bureaucrats in spring and fall 2021 to increase pressure on Donald Trump for similar issues and eventually prompt a criminal prosecution of the 45th president, according to government memos newly unsealed by a federal judge.
“I am rubber, you are glue…”
Morning Banjos.
More accurate headline: California ‘insolvent’.
What do you mean? THEY STILL HAVE CHECKS LEFT!
I dont understand how a state with an official Board of Equalization could become insolvent, i.e. run out of other people’s money.
How is that possible? They have a whole state agency devoted to….oh. Never mind.
You have no idea how bad the CA tax authorities are – they skim the scum of the IRS.
I suppose it could be an interesting legal case — but it sure reads like the PPP admin overreaching (may be the article spin).
I would hope that (like the entire history of humanity) the per-state abortion laws have clear exceptions for “life of the mother” such that the attending physician(s) and the family can consult and decide what to do (where possible… obviously if the mother is unconscious, bleeding out and alone it wouldn’t be, etc.) when the pregnancy is killing the mother. I wouldn’t want others to make that choice for them… it is a hard one and rightfully so.
But that should be the only type of scenario where an abortion would be needed to “stabilize care” (or whatever the phrase was) and given I expect it is already in there as an exception.. I have to assume this is a push to widen the situations it is “needed” so wide that “psychological needs” would be included — getting us to the “because she wants it” crap level.
Of course in my fantasy world — states would say “Fuck Medicaid and fuck you, FedGov for trying to control us. We’ll manage our own affairs — you actually tend to the border and foreign policy like the original deal was.” And we all know that ain’t happening.
It’s just word games. Pregnancies sometimes need to be terminated. Abortion is termination that will result in loss of life. The left says abortion is health care.
NPR’s story was saying that the anti-abortion laws are so hard that NICUs are closing. ‘Cause I guess it’s impossible to keep preemies alive if you can’t euthanize them in the womb for some reason.
The left just wants one word added. They want to be able to terminate when it could possibly harm the “social” life of the mother.
Regarding the immigrants, I am on the judge and public defender’s side here since the State failed to follow anything other than public outrage and the video it appears.
Of course, that’s true of just about every chaotic mob scene. That standard would make it nearly impossible to enforce any laws against a rioting mob.
Now do Jan 6th.
Well you see, there is a vigilantly group of patriotic citizens who established a website to identify those people who nearly overthrew our government…just one more podium and they would have done it!
Jan 6 wasn’t even done based on eyewitnesses, as required by this judge, but on video and geolocating phones.
If I had my way they would have all been shot for endangering people while aggressively invading the country, i.e. treated as an act of war.
Try doing that shit in nearly any other country in the world and see what happens.
Prosperity gives people options. Power mongers dont want people to have options. They actively act to create deprivation so that people will come to them on their knees begging for scraps in the hopes that if they are towing the lion they will be given special treatment.
If there is a clearer example of this than California I want to know who it is.
I didn’t think that guy could be more of a weasel.
Is it really a surprise that anyone who could get the necessary votes for speaker would be a weasel? It’s practically a requirement.
I saw a great substack that stated that the republican party has to die. People have false hope it will get better and keep blindly voting for assholes who then align with democrats . It has to get a lot worse before we can get actual change. The party must die. If I can find it again I will post it.
I mostly agree with that I think, the main drawback being that the absolute lunatics would seize the SC as well along with any other levers of power they haven’t already coopted and would entrench themselves to the point that it’d take a civil war to get them out. What we have now is definitely not cutting it though.
I think we’re already to the point where we can’t vote our way out of this.
The point of it was exactly that. Lunatics are running the asylum already and the repubs just look like an option. They aren’t. We have to go through the dark tunnel now and lose all hope to gain victory.
Sometimes victory never comes. Sometimes it’s just over.
We, for certain values of “we”, can still vote ourselves out of this. The problem, and I think that far too many on this site fail to see, is that most of the country want a heavy handed gov’t that coddles them. And that is what needs to change before anything else.
This is why “RINO’s” still get elected, why we ship money to the Ukraine, and so on. Most people are still in the post WWII mindset of US hegemony, gov’t is here to help, war on poverty/crime/drugs/etc. And until that idea has been replaced in the majority of peoples vision of what the country is and does, we will still get people like Mitch McConnell and Mike Johnson. But, as more and more people are getting fukt by the gov’t, we will get more and more Trumps and MTG’s*, along with idiots like Boebert.
* I do wish she was a little more strategic in her thinking. But, thems the breaks.
The only way that’s going to change is when the country can’t do so. Which will not be pretty.
Exactly this. Republicans are the bigger enemy. They’re grifters who rake in money off of outrage over what they allow Democrats to get away with. Democrats are who they are and don’t hide it. Republicans rape their own base. They allow for the slow destruction of the country and get their base to go along with it incrementally. The key is prepping for Democrat’s inevitable destruction of the country by taking over local governments and institutions like school boards, sheriff offices, etc. So when Democrats go full communist, localities just simply tell them to go fuck themselves. Yes, they will make examples, but there’s not enough prisons and troops on the ground to implement their tyranny. The country is too vast.
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Definitely the smart way of looking at it.
He’s got a nice feud going with Massie. Last week on Twitter, Massie said he was also present in that infamous SCIF that made Johnson change his mind about everything. But Massie said nothing he heard convinced him to change his mind. So maybe Massie’s cynical heart did him some good, maybe Johnson is more gullible, or maybe Johnson just needed an excuse to do what he was already planning on doing.
And Breitbart spins it into a frakking ad. Blech.
If there’s ever a group of articles where the closing line is going to be And nothing else happened… it is everything with Rand vs. the Fed/BioMedical Establishment. He can reveal what he wants, state what he wants — nothing ever seems to come of it and no one outside of groups like us seem to notice.
I suppose when you have half the country cheering on his assaulting neighbor it should come as no surprise.
Something else did happen…
Just that one time. People won’t even remember that in a year./s
I’m sure all the black was just because she’s in mourning. 🙄
It’s because it’s slimming, besides goths are back in fashion, aren’t they?
“If you’re a Goth, where were you when we sakced Rome?” – Shirt a guy at college wore too often.
“I was one of the hidden tribes.
The Invisi-Goths.”
*slow clap*
Yeah, that isn’t how the Internet works
“Australian PM Albanese now demands social media platforms to ban memes making fun of him.”
https://t.me/disclosetv/13815
It is there. Those guys went nuts even before COVID.
Translation: “Make more memes mocking me!”
+1 Streisand effect
That whirring sound? Oh it’s just Thomas Nast.
I was thinking that Albanese understood the Streisand effect, but thought that he was too important to be affected by it. This clip though…nah. He just didn’t understand it.
I was never all that big on traveling/touristing, but it is remarkable how the plague absolutely kicked the snot out of my desire to travel to foreign countries. I used to want to visit Australia, England, Europe, etc., but now, not so much.
Norway is still on my list but it definitely got a lot shorter on place I wanted to see.
England for me. “Gutting” how far it’s fallen.
The foreign countries I once wanted to visit appear to have died years ago.
This and what RC said. The countries I always wanted to visit are mostly romantic ideas about what those countries used to be. I dont see myself leaving the US ever again, and more than that, leaving Louisiana. Ok, maybe travel to Texas. those people are….tolerable.
My “want to visit” list was never realistic in the first place.
The architecture/history geek in me wants to see Isfahan and Tabriz and Persepolis, but…
There’s a lot of places I’d like to visit if it weren’t for the locals making it more hassle (and danger) than it’s worth.
Chin up my man, if it’s how they handled covid based there’s still Sweden and Belarus.
I visited southern England in 1986 and really enjoyed it. Don’t really want to go back and wreck that memory.
Yup. The wife and I had previously talked about Australia and New Zealand. Big fat nope, now.
We loved NZ when we visited, and now I’m very glad we have those memories.
Yeah, that isn’t how the Internet works – that is how it ought to work though / WEF
Shocking revelation
David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and former CEO of its parent company, American Media Inc., told the court Tuesday that he and Trump had coordinated not just to publish positive coverage of his friend ahead of the 2016 election, but also to publish negative coverage of other presidential candidates. In doing so, Pecker practically admitted to the catch-and-kill media scheme that Trump has repeatedly denied.
Trump had asked “what can I do and what my magazines can do to help the campaign,” Pecker said. Pecker had responded that he could “publish positive stories about Trump” and “negative stories about his opponents.”
OH
MY
GOD!
National Enquirer – this is what probably decided the election.
If it’s election interference for a publication to have a preferred candidate, I suppose we won’t have to put up with the newspaper endorsements any more. But the DOJ sure has a lot of indictments to bring, don’t they?
For reals. I also like how NYT comes out and says they don’t have preferred candidates and then turn around and endorse candidates cause their readership are fucking retards and clap like seals.
This seems like a trial test to somehow get support for a fairness doctrine imposed again.
The legacy media is so completely in the tank for the Dems, I think a fairness doctrine is the last thing either of them wants.
Oh, come on. The chance to trot out Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney as the token conservative voice?
They already present both sides: The pro-Biden side, and the anti-Trump side. What more do you want?
That’s different, those publications weigh the candidates objectively on the issues and issue an endorsement accordingly. It’s not their fault it always ends up being a Democrat.
Pecker? Really?
Josh Earnest, press secretary for Obama?
Reality Winner as a whistleblower?
The are too many examples of this kind of thing.
I refuse to believe all of what we think is reality is not a simulation cooked up by someone with a twisted sense of humor.
By this standard, any of the hundreds of mash-up videos of news, both local and national that parrot the same thing could be well under this definition.
But they won’t be because reasons.
NPR said “what?”
I would assume Trump’s legal time has caught wind of this
I mean…that sounds like a conspiracy to promote a catch and kill type thing to me.
Journolist was just a figment of conspiracy theorists.
The real reason we can’t have gas appliances – all that gas is needed for the lighting.
Seems like the neocon GOP are going to attempt to purge the decent GOP again-Johnson messing with Massie and not a pol but the Turtle talking trash about Carlson-I wonder if they’ve made a deal with Trump, who supported the $90,000,000,000 boondoggle bill by the way, to get rid of the more interesting characters in return for certain protections. He’s certainly stupid enough to fall for it.
Massie is very well liked in NKY. However, I suspect that is because they know his opposition votes won’t matter. If by some act of God more members started following his footsteps and the bacon stopped getting delivered, he’d be out on his ass.
NKY – bunch of rubes I assume
Ass Wednesday to the rescue!
https://archive.is/gKL0F
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Cruel and unusual
A photographer who worked for Megan Thee Stallion said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was abused as her employee.
In the suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Emilio Garcia said that after a night out in 2022 in Ibiza, Spain, he was in an SUV with the hip-hop star when she began having sex with another woman right next to him. He was unable to get out of the moving car, and would have been in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country even if he was able. Garcia was “embarrassed, mortified and offended throughout the whole ordeal,” according to the lawsuit.
Ewwww.
She should go into politics.
The photographer should have started critiquing or giving notes.
Does he not take lesbian erotic photographs? SUE THE BIGOT!
+1 bake the cake.
“Primary Protest Vote: 17% Of Republicans Vote Nikki Haley In Biggest Battleground State”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/primary-protest-vote-17-republicans-vote-nikki-haley-biggest-battleground-state
What the hell’s going on in Pennsylvania Sean? I thought you had that shit sorted out.
No idea. At least some of those are Dems that switched parties to vote.
I’m more upset that Fitzpatrick didn’t get booted.
Yes. Lots of Ds switched in the last cycle to be able to vote in the Republican primary
Wife is a Repub and she voted Haley.
Is PA a closed primary?
yes
There you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAnyI-nx4k8
missed the text
Swimwear Miss Reginetta d’Italia, Villa Zucchini, Molinella BO
There are times that I think I ought to change my voter registration to one of the major parties so I can vote in their closed primaries here.
Doesn’t matter-Haley got 17 percent of the Rep primary vote in Penn. Trump ain’t winning there no matter what anyone does.
+1 plumbing problem.
The correct (R) AG candidate won.
Yay?
Send him to Riker’s Island
Prosecutors now want Merchan to fine Trump $1,000 for each of 10 alleged violations of the gag order and to warn that imprisonment could be an option if he continues to flout restrictions. CNN’s John Miller reported Tuesday that the Secret Service, court officers and the New York City Department of Corrections have quietly consulted on what to do if Trump ends up being jailed for contempt of court. That remedy remains a distant one for now, but any eventual step in that direction cannot be ruled out since no judge can allow a defendant to mock his authority in what is in essence a show of contempt for the rule of law.
“Judge Merchan has to have control of his courtroom,” former judge and current Cooley Law School professor Jeffrey Swartz told Jim Sciutto on CNN Max. “He cannot allow someone who is under a gag order to basically say, ‘I don’t care what you think, judge, I am going to do what I want to do.’”
“With all due respeck, Your Honor…”
I agree, the judges in these cases need to be sent to jail.
Meh, there is no rule of law anymore, especially in NYC.
John Carpenter was just off a few years.
So, stay out of Antarctica?
And while a dispute over one partial gag order might seem like a small wrinkle in an individual case, it conveys a wider truth about Trump’s impact on American life.
There’s a common theme in all Trump’s four criminal cases, other legal quagmires and the single presidential term that produced two impeachments: He constantly refuses to comply with laws that apply to every other American.
The implicit underpinning of all Trump’s pending trials – including two over his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, one over his hoarding of classified documents and other civil and fraud cases – is the same. It’s that every American is equal in the eyes of the law – a principle that even applies to ex-presidents.
Yup. All he has to do is be just like us. Is that so hard?
Well, that sure explains the absurdly unequal application of novel interpretations of the law to try to get Trump.
How the fuck do people even write this bullshit?
“that every American is equal in the eyes of the law”
How are Biden’s trials going I wonder?
-1 old, kindly, and confused
Old woman ‘parading’ through the Capitol? Jail time
Old man keeping classified documents? Its okay, he’s old and harmless.
Biden wasn’t “hoarding” his classified documents.
Rand Paul Demands Answers on Dangerous Biolabs
This headline should be followed up with “Will Likely Get None.”
🤔
This guy didn’t have a great showing. Pointlessly kicked a noncombatant, handily lost the fight to his opponant, needlessly attacked opponant after losing, then got beat up by the audience before earning himself a lifetime ban.
‘He kicked a ring girl on the derriere before his fight even started’
‘Ali Heibati’
Heibati, stop doing that!
And in a third-tier MMA league, no less.
But Trump constantly infringes this bedrock value that is the pillar of the legal system. And he will do so in the most audacious of ways on the biggest stage later this week when the US Supreme Court hears his sweeping claim that ex-presidents are immune from prosecution for acts they committed in office. The argument is an attempt to derail special counsel Jack Smith’s stalled federal election interference case against Trump. The former president posted on Truth Social on Sunday: “Without Presidential Immunity, a President will not be able to properly function, or make decisions.”
I could swear there was a time not so very long ago when Democrats and their media steno pool were adamantly opposed to the criminalization of political policy differences.
“Girl Scout, 13, is fined $400 for selling cookies on her grandparents’ driveway”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13343199/Girl-Scout-Erica-Fairbanks-McCarroll-cookies-fined.html
It’s her fault for not being Mexican.
You know, sometimes I forget how rare my surname is until it pops up.
While I may have more cousins than I can count, I don’t think these are among them.
Can’t park in the driveway? What kind of bullshit is that?
You’re supposed to park on the parkway.
Sometimes I just think that government can be unreasonable but will still support the government.
Heaven protect us from Karens in Code Enforcement. 😒
Thou shall not
hunt on the King’s landsengage in any activity, anywhere without government approval.How small is this town? Small enough for everyone to know and personally thank the code enforcement officer for doing God’s work keeping girl scouts an appropriate distance from the sidewalk?
“Donald Trump’s stunning lawyer Alina Habba, 40, takes a knife to her trolls while hacking up an avocado in mocking video – as she fires back at critics who lambasted her for chopping CELERY incorrectly”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13342537/donald-trump-lawyer-alina-habba-video-avocado.html
Everything is stupid.
Ladies and Gentleman, I am now a firm believer that NASA is just a sound stage in Hollywood.
They killed the Juice!
That is some Governor Arizona didn’t elect.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/just-lawless-arizona-governor-katie-hobbs-vetoes-bipartisan/
I will be surprised if she doesn’t get more ballots when she is up for reelection.
When I was on my business trip to Munich I went to a bar and tried one of your overpriced American bourbons. It was not bad at all, I liked it more than the ECPB, but at 15 euro for a 20ml pour goddamn that was pricey.
What is the Official Glibertarian View on the max amount to pay for a 20 ml pour of whiskey?
20ml? That is less than half the average pour in the States. For that amount? $5.
well 20 ml is rare in Europe but at that price I did not want a full pour.
I’m going to assume that’s something akin to a shot.
You’d have to pay me $50-100 to drink that.
Jigger, please.
Unrelated, thank you for reminding me that I’d bought a new Rum that I haven’t tried yet and it’s been sitting in my kitchen for a few weeks.
That is some stupid pricing. I can get Optima grade nitric for that.
Of course, euro-pricing is almost always stupid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs51OYVbfvY
A Czech made pistol that sells for $1200 US is $3000 EUR in Austria? WTF?
We would not want people to afford guns, would we?
Actually, we do.
There should be guns for every price range from top of the line down to so cheap as to be effectively disposable.
Lemme read you the mission statement of Palmetto State Armory.
My neighbor works for a chemical company. When the German engineers visit, they always go to the local brewery and buy as many cans as allowed on the return flight. They like the beer and it costs far less here.
20 ml? The glass is barely damp with that little booze in it.
yes but twice the whisky twice the price
No, I’m pretty sure it’s cheaper by the bottle on a per-ounce basis.
not in bars
Why are you buying booze in bars?
because I was in Germany and I wanted to try this whiskey and would not have paid for the full bottle even if I could find it, and I don’t think I could, for what price I could probably find it. In Romania I almost never drink in bars other than beer.
Of course you had to come back with a serious answer.
Does this mystery whiskey have a name?
Stagg Jr.
I also tried a michter’s 10 year old rye and I liked it but not worth the price difference over the standard single barrel for me.
Sazerac and their Buffalo Trace distillery play games with quantity, availability, and unrealistic suggested retail pricing to drive hype for their products, including Stagg (rebranded from Stagg Jr relatively recently).
They make nice bourbons often, but not worth it unless you like the chase or have money to burn.
Sazerac rye is on my “not worth buying” list.
I have stopped the girlfriend from buying me some high end bourbon once (it was close to a holiday, and she wanted to get me a “surprise”). That was over $100 for a short pour. On the other hand, I’ve got no issue paying $20-40 for a high end cocktail, and would be willing to spend heavy for a bourbon at the start of the night if it peaked my interest enough.
Most expensive shot, that was supposed to not be a shot, was at McMullins and some big-wig city contractor bought my FIL and me. I think it was $60/glass and we were already half in the bag at that point and downed it like college students and cheap vodka.
Many years ago a cousin of mine didn’t believe that an Irish whiskey shot could be $20 (this was back in the early ’00s, so that was a pricey shot), so I ordered a round of Jameson (I forget the branding then, it was retired and replaced with Gold). He shot it back like a well drink.
A couple years ago, on St. Patrick’s day, I bought the girlfriend’s friend a pour of Redbreast (and got one for myself), he threw it back realized his mistake and wanted to make it up. So he bought the girlfriend, himself, and me a shot of Black Velvet. The girlfriend was… unhappy.
Well, it is Jamisons, which is another name for well whiskey.
Whiskey isn’t worth a piss if you cannot just throw it back, no matter the cost.
It depends on the venue and the alcohol.
I’ve paid $40 for a shot/sipping glass of Pappy at a local watering hole, I also have paid $40 for a double well vodka and redbull at a concert in NYC.
Yep. I’m not counting concert/sporting events with their captive market pricing.
$0.00. A single 20ml pour (1/6 gill, 0.7 fluid ounces, or the standard shot measure in what used to be Great Britain) just isn’t enough for me to enjoy.
The most I’ve ever paid for a single measure of whisky (generally a 2oz. pour if you order it neat, maybe 3oz. if the bartender likes you,) was $125, for a 21-year old Highland Park. I don’t do that nearly as much as I’d like to…
Bidenomics in action
About 4.3 million U.S. workers who previously didn’t qualify for overtime pay could soon receive time-and-a-half for working more than 40 hours a week thanks to a new rule from the Biden administration.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday unveiled a new rule that will extend overtime pay to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or $58,656 annually. Previously, only workers who made $684 or less each week, or $35,568 annually, were eligible for OT.
More money in workers’ pockets!
Don’t worry, there couldn’t possibly be any “unintended” secondary effects.
Or any legislative authorization for such a change in the law.
Or any constitutional authority granting the federal government this power.
Everything effects commerce, even non-action.
It has been determined that the commerce clause allows for a fine if you don’t eat your broccoli.
So, lets get down to brassica tax.
SWISS!
I thought they opened a new loophole using tax authority.
It’s a quantum penalty which changes form depending upon how you need to classify it.
Now that you are eligible for overtime, you must clock in and out to the minute. You must also coordinate your work schedule to ensure you don’t work more than 40 hours without management approval.
Also, camera must be on at all times if using a computer.
But if you do work more than 40 hours without approval, you must self-report it, be paid for all time actually worked approved or not, and be subject to potential discipline action for working without approval.
The new rule could result in an additional $1.5 billion in pay for employees, according to an estimate from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
“Employers will be more than able to adjust to the rule without negatively impacting the overall economy,” wrote EPI director of government affairs and advocacy Samantha Sanders and President Heidi Shierholz.
See? She’s an expert.
Oh Lord. What a maroon. Collapse of the economy is imminent.
I don’t have happy thoughts for the very near future.
“The new rule could result in $1.5 billion in productivity losses for companies, already under stress from competition outside of the US.”
There I fixed it.
From Brooks down below
Yeah, buy making everyone part-time or hourly.
Threading failure…
You aren’t supposed to act contrary to our intent.
Crabs in bucket
Tired of watching Clear customers get escorted to the front of the airport security line?
California state Sen. Josh Newman sure is.
Newman (D-Fullerton), who frequently travels between his Orange County district and Sacramento, said Clear’s system of charging a premium for special access to a taxpayer-funded service has become a regular source of outrage.
“Over time, you get kind of aware of the degree to which the Clear service has kind of an adverse effect on the people who don’t use it,” Newman said, noting that he’s among that group. “There’s something very elitist, almost un-American, about it to me.”
Here’s an idea, you fucking simpering imbecile. Put an end to the pointless security theater altogether, and just allow people to board their flights without being accosted and groped by mouthbreathing clods.
we have a saying in romania, „Dai un ban, dar stai în față”
Either John Wayne or Long Beach in which security is like, 5 minutes for each even with stupid TSA. Also, don’t fly in/out of Long Beach.
I loved Long Beach back in the 90s … close to home … easy parking … the single, outdoor baggage carrousel … boarding from the apron.
John Wayne is fun for the take off.
I did too until I saw their latest inspection report…
we have a saying in romania, „Dai un ban, dar stai în față”
Gesundheit.
I switched my personal PC to one running the new N100 Intel chip. No fan, very little heat. Have not stress tested it outdoors yet. Really nice so far.
Work just rolled out a new security policy which is blocking me from accessing O365 from my main machine, so I’m reduced to dealing with just the work laptop now. Exactly how I wanted to spend the first several hours of my day.
The plan is to spin up a VM on my main machine to throw the work stuff in there.
When not in the office, I connect to our VDI environment and use that to remote to my work desktop.
Since all my work stuff then stays on the work machine in the office, none of their data is on my personal machine. Not even a local cache of my email.
I have an actual work laptop and no box at work. It’s an HP with a cheap token screen. I hook it to monitors and my own keyboard/mouse. The accessories from work do not meet my standard.
No VDI option, and no work desktop, only a laptop and a company provided $120 budget for “home office setup”. Spare keyboards and mice I’ve got laying around. Monitors are a different thing entirely.
I refuse to use “work budget” money for my accessories. I prefer to won it and buy ones that I like. $120 will barely even buy one good monitor.
Exactly what I said. Spare keyboards/mice will be used eventually, I prefer to keep my monitors the same model (to keep them level and matching), and they don’t usually just “go bad”, so I don’t keep spares on hand.
Oh, and UCS, work laptop is Win11.
You poor bastard.
Besides, a good keyboard runs around $100-$120. I tried chaper, but I realized I was churning through them at a rate where it didn’t make sense to keep shovelling cash out the door. Invested in a quality keyboard, and while I might be wearing through the keycaps, the switches and electronics are all fine. (the keycaps are replacable if the plastic finally goes.)
I had to look it up.
Looks like a middle of the road chip from the spec sheet. Laptop?
Yes. Running Windows 11, can run Linux. Low power consumption, good battery life and nice screen, costs under $400. Most likely the Chinese read my posts now.
Windows 11 would be a dealbreaker were I forced to use it.
I have been looking for a bare metal laptop to put linux on for my road trips since my current travel laptop just feels slow when trying to talk to the internet these days. I would also prefer not to have unncessary spyware.
I suppose I could crack open my development Pi and remove the robbon cable. It has a portable display (albeit small) and its own keyboard/mouse, and I haven’t used it for development for a while.
Agreed. I put together work proposals, all kinds of stuff not related to my “job” which make use of Office 365 a necessity. I am OK with it for now. I go back and forth. The Mighty Getac S400 is still in use for Linux, but it is like carrying a load of bricks.
Speaking of whiskey… I think I saw something recently about “Rebel Yell” changing their name because it was offensive to thin skinned retards. I had a friend in college who was quite fond of Rebel Yell. He was from Tennessee, as I recall. I may have drunk some, myself.
Correct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_(bourbon)
Southern Comfort left the plantation several years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Comfort
MGP, the owner of Rebel/Rebel Yell, has no problem promoting Remus bourbon named after a bootlegger who murdered his wife.
Remus? What’s next, Sambo?
#TooLocal Daily Ray of Sunshine
Be the first one on your block
It’ll be no slouch when it comes to on-road performance, with a 0-62-mph (0-100 km/h) time of 4.7 seconds, but range will not be its forte. The G 580’s 116-kilowatt-hour battery pack delivers about 294 miles on the European WLTP test cycle. We’ll have to see where it shakes out on the more demanding EPA test, but expect somewhere around 250 miles. Max charging speed is 200 kW. Also, in case you’re wondering, that giant battery is protected by an aerodynamically designed skid plate made of “an intelligent material mix that includes carbon.” It is an inch thick, weighs 127 pounds and is attached to the ladder frame with 50 steel screws. Mercedes says a conventional steel plate of the same size would be three times heavier. They did not mention how many screws it would have.
Range is helped ever so slightly by aerodynamic enhancements that include air curtains in the rear wheel-arch flares, special A pillar cladding and a rear lip spoiler. The coefficient of drag falls to 0.44, 0.04 better than the gas-powered version and 0.07 better than the outgoing G-Class. Nobody said this was a slippery vehicle, but those are fair numbers for an SUV with all the aerodynamic finesse of a 7,716-pound cinder block.
Mercedes has also layered on all sorts of fun tech features, like an optional light band integrated into the grille that can run animations or act as additional running lights. A new “design box” (for more storage) pictured on the blue G comes standard, but you can specify the classic spare wheel and tire on the rear door should you prefer the utility a spare provides. The otherwise silent G also has a suite of sounds to add some of the character that surely got lost when they amputated the side pipes. But, blissfully, they’ll disable themselves by default when off-roading.
The only question is how much all this will cost. Mercedes-Benz has yet to provide U.S. pricing for any of the 2025 G-Class range, but you can be sure we’ll bring you word when they do.
What the world is clamoring for.
So steel? Plastic?
Don’t forget the various fiberglasses and other resin-impregnated materials.
Climate.
Re this:
“R C Dean on April 24, 2024 at 8:22 am
I think we’re already to the point where we can’t vote our way out of this.”
If voting made no difference, why are Democrats trying so fucking hard to keep Trump off the ballot?
There’s some names for countries where people can’t vote at all …
And yes, I recognize the irony in someone who hasn’t voted in almost two decades saying voting does make some marginal difference compared to unchecked tyranny.
“If voting made no difference, why are Democrats trying so fucking hard to keep Trump off the ballot?”
Exactly. The US system is so decentralized that there is a complete inability to move things around, except at the margins, without massive structural change. We did see some of that structural change in 2020, which is being heavily pushed back on, albeit not successfully enough.
“In a video, Barr dramatically claimed that Biden assaulted her decades ago in a department store.
Barr, who acts distressed in the video, recounts her “experience” in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room – a parody of Carroll’s allegations against Trump.”
https://www.dailyfetched.com/roseanne-barr-breaks-internet-trolls-biden-with-rape-accusation/
LOL
Southern Comfort left the plantation several years ago
Huh. I had no idea. Not a drinker of distilled spirits anymore; for decades.
Ultra MAGA talking points
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is worried about the future of the free world.
“The geopolitical situation is probably the most complicated and dangerous since World War II,” Dimon said during a talk at the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday.
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Dimon also expressed concern about the growing US deficit and debt on Tuesday.
The country’s national debt is now over $34.5 trillion, or about $103,000 for every American. That means the country spends nearly $2.4 billion in interest each day.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell noted earlier this year that “the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path… the debt is growing faster than the economy.”
The US now spends more on debt service than on national defense and security.
Historian Niall Ferguson has also warned that empires often collapse when the costs of servicing their debt exceed the costs of national security. “Any great power that’s spending more on debt service than defense is probably not going to be great for much longer,” he said in a recent interview.
Bidenomics means investing in the future.
“The Mary Poppins of misinformation has started a new band outside the Department of Homeland Security, and this department of tortured poets is testing fresh material about the bad blood stemming from her brief leadership of the slightly longer-lived Disinformation Governance Board.
Nina Jankowicz, whose Hunter Biden laptop trutherism and chirpy songs about “information laundering” immediately made the DHS board a punch line, cofounded a nonprofit watchdog this month with former feds, D.C. think tankers and social media executives whose mission is “increasing the cost of lies that undermine our democracy.”
She introduced the American Sunlight Project in a statement written in both the first and third person on its site, which heavily showcases the CEO’s past work.
The project will “expose the infrastructure and funding behind the disinformation campaigns” that have “falsely claimed the Federal Government is overseeing a vast censorship regime in coordination with social media platforms, academic institutions, and civil society organizations,” the statement says.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/ex-dhs-disinformation-chief-starts-bipartisan-watchdog-accuses-gop-sexist
So censoring claims of censorship?
Censorship only means improperly removing goodfacts. Removing realfacts is not censorship!
Hard fought victory
The ordeal ended on Tuesday when the Senate passed the $95 billion foreign aid package, with nearly $61 billion for Ukraine, marking a long-sought foreign policy win for Biden, who has spent the past two years rallying Western support for the war-torn country in its fight against Russia. At the same time, the president has been grappling with his own battle back home to get more aid approved amid resistance from some Republicans. Biden signed that legislation – which also provides over $26 billion for Israel and humanitarian assistance and more than $8 billion for the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan – on Wednesday morning.
He alluded to the long process to get the aid passed in a speech marking the bill becoming law, saying, “I’m grateful for all those in Congress – Democrats, Republican, independents – who voted for this bill. Its path to my desk – it was a difficult path. It should have been easier and it should have gotten there sooner. But in the end, we did what America always does: We rose to the moment, we came together and we got it done.”
Biden sought to make the case for a robust aid package early on, using a primetime Oval Office address in mid-October to tie Ukraine’s battle against Russia to Israel’s nascent war with Hamas as he prepared to make a new funding request to Congress.
“Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it,” Biden said in that speech “We can’t let petty partisan, angry politics get in the way of our responsibilities as a great nation. We cannot and will not let terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin win.”
What’s a measly hundred billion dollars, when democracy hangs in the balance?
Any bets on how long it will be before Ukraine is back begging for more money to fight the Russian offensive? My bet is on or before June 1st.
I’ll take June 3rd. It’s a Monday.