Good morning one and all to another wonderous day!
Inside Trump’s Meeting With House Republicans
Biden’s Awkward, Embarrassing Moments With Other Leaders at G7
Biden, Zelenskyy Sign Long-Term Security Agreement at G7
Hunter Biden’s court-verified laptop files will be at the center of his upcoming tax trial
Supreme Court Hands Down Unanimous Ruling in Key Abortion Pill Case
Secret Service agents to testify before Congress after Kamala Harris’ detail struck superior
Number of Americans filing for jobless benefits surges to 10-month high
Ignore The Polls. Republicans Have A Major Voter Turnout Problem
6 In 10 Voters Back Mass Deportations Of Illegal Aliens
California’s $20 minimum wage led to fast-food price hikes, lower customer traffic, study shows
Southern Baptist Convention Passes Anti-IVF Resolution After Emotional Debate
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Happy Friday Glibronis!
Can a brotha get a table dance?
Normally, I’d be slipping in to a jockstrap and growling “make it rain” at this point. But, I’m a respectable man with proper boyfriend now.
Tonio, thanks for giving me that laugh and I am happy to hear things are working out for you.
Give life hell!
Your dude will appreciate that you’re out there earnin’
I’m going to have to question that assessment.
How can one both be ‘respectable’ and still associate with the likes of us?
Are we talking like Hunter or like the dude from Cameo?
As an aside, Hunter in a jock just had to be a Halloween costume in some quarters, right?
Slumbrew – good question. I wouldn’t know since I’ve aged out of the Halloween costume party crowd. I would imagine some frat boy types have done that, but probably not a lot of homos because it might seem wrongthinkful.
It’s a sad day in America when a ‘mo can’t go to a Halloween party in a jock strap and boa without getting accused of wrong think.
That isn’t the America I know.
“Biden’s Awkward, Embarrassing Moments With Other Leaders at G7”
I am now convinced they are letting it come out because they want to replace him and Dr. Jill won’t let that happen cause she likes sleeping in the WH next to that cadaver.
A regular Eleanor Roosevelt, she is.
All the other Presidents are angry at Trump for having a hot wife.
Except JFK. He doesn’t envy Trump, because he’s dead.
More like Edith Wilson.
You assume they share a bed.
OK, I really though about a comeback, but you got me….
LBJ is alleged to have said he’d rather sleep with Him/Her, the two White House dogs, than Ladybird.
Taking a look at Mrs Johnson it’s hard to find fault with that.
If I had been Ladybird I would’ve been more than happy with that arrangement myself. Sheesh, imagine waking up and the first thing you see is LBJ’s mug.
But what if she was a size queen?
Joe’s just showing how considerate a man he is by turning and acknowledging the sky divers behind him whom the other G7 leaders are ignoring in their selfish rush to have a photo op. Or some spin like that.
“6 In 10 Voters Back Mass Deportations Of Illegal Aliens”
In a case where “Muh Democracy” (TM) was actually a real thing about the voters picking their leaders and the policies they want, something like this would immediately force the people in charge to address the topic as such. Instead they are gaslighting everyone, proving that when they scream about “Muh Democracy” (TM) they are not talking about the voters but their unelected and unaccountable institutions and the ability to do whatever THEY want, and fuck the voters.
It’s shocking to my how they are now openly doing things directly against the citizens of this country. Like, they are actively hurting people.
You have to break some eggs to make an omelet, brah…
It’s fucking marxism writ large.
One-note Johnny. I wonder if you would’ve said that about anti-slavery – MARXISM, deprivin’ us of ah lahwful proper-tie rights.
Lame.
Republicans might have a voter turn out issue, but, after 2020 and the “second” highest voter turnout in history, I don’t think Trump does.
But, if people keep eating the D’s black pills, then…
I’m not so sure the Republicans have a turnout problem so much as they don’t have an answer for the Dem’s early voting ballot stuffing and fraud by mail. The Republicans just don’t have a similar game.
I’d say a mixture of the two. The Ds have always had a good ground game, at least based on votes tallied. Plus, the Ds are playing every hysteria angle they can — abortion, trannies, democracy, etc. I agree that it’s easy to be lulled into a false sense of security by polls.
All of that is true. But, a huge part of the ground “game” is both getting your teams vote out, and keeping your opponents vote at home.
Black pills are working wonders for the second part.
I also think the Dems are more TEAM oriented.
Lots of Pubs just won’t vote for Donald but the Dems will cheerfully support whoever claws their way to the top no matter how awful because they play the Game.
The Repubs are doing a dandy job of keeping their own voters from bothering to vote.
By being useless, spineless cunts on a regular basis.
What Dean said. Hard to get excited about going to vote for a bunch of spineless pussies.
getting your teams vote out, and keeping your opponents vote at home.
Yay fucking democracy!!! What a goddam farce.
Don’t worry about democracy being a farce, we’re well on the way to a dictatorship of some sort.
Democracy will vote in the dictatorship, and our electorate is all about one strong man or another.
Damn Banjos, at first glance I thought you’d posted a guy in blackface playing piano.
Definitely did a double take.
I hope it’s a white car in blackface.
White car in blackface?
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41BuMMNIP0L.__AC_SY300_SX300_QL70_ML2_.jpg
Who could have possibly known that artificially raising the cost of running a business will force that business to raise prices, cut costs in other areas, or close down?
Yet more demonstration of the economic illiteracy of the left.
Trump was talking about tariffs yesterday at the meeting with the Repubs. That could be bad consumer news, Trump is no free marketeer.
Keep in mind that import duties and tariffs were originally supposed to be the main funding source for the federal government. I think, haven’t really researched it.
RC, and excise taxes – like on whiskey.
I knew I was forgetting something.
Apparently not people that demand government force the world to become socially just and pay that magical “Living wage” thingy and more?
“Ignore The Polls. Republicans Have A Major Voter Turnout Problem”
Republicans, whether it is because they don’t trust the election system, have less enthusiasm about candidates other than Trump, or simply do not get the importance of voting locally, is definitely a problem. But the problem is because they have lost all faith in government being from the people and for the people.
It’s combo of three things:
1.) The Republican base consists more of the “I just want to be left alone to grill and watch my sports”. While the left’s base are radical communists who get upset if they miss the smallest of elections.
2.) Democrats are far ahead of Republicans when it comes to get out the vote/ ballot collection organization. It took Republicans until this year to fully grasp they have a serious issue. The RNC was a giant grift for decades where little of the money went to actual party infrastructure.
3.) Republican candidates sucks. Most Republican candidates are as bad as the RNC and don’t represent the base and don’t energize the base enough to show up. Trump is the only thing keeping the party on life support. Trump gets a far higher turnout. Trump will often drag shit Republican candidates across the finish line. When he finally goes away, the party is royally fucked.
Well articulated Banjos.
For me it is always the “Leave me the fook alone” thing that hurts, but that likely comes from the fact that I am not very enthused by the quality of the candidates in the first place.
Agreed. Good summary. I would say there has been absolutely nothing to make me want to vote for them for decades. Romney? McCain? GTFO.
RJ:
As I tell people, the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Yeah, but that’s how we got Biden.
I’m not certain I agree with you. I’d argue that TEAM RED has the majority in the House in part because the NYS GOP was surprisingly smart in 2022. The Dems, finally having kicked the moderate Dems out of the state Senate after 2018, went radical with a deeply unpopular bail “reform” law. The Reps in 2022 tied every single Dem candidate, including those running for the House, to this, even though they had nothing to do with it. They flipped several seats in New York as a result.
I’d argue that the Repubs need to do more of this, tying every TEAM BLUE candidate to the craziest among them. We already know this is precisely what the Dems do in the opposite direction (eg. Todd Akin), although they also have the media carrying water for them.
The Dobbs decision also really saved the Dems in 2022.
Trump is Beetlejuice evil. He may be the lesser of two evils, but he’s entertaining in the process. That has to be worth something.
I had mixed feelings on Trump – he got hoodwinked on covid and his last year was full of mistakes.
On the other hand, he has shown giant brass balls to keep running despite the lawfare and likely jail time. He could be on a yacht enjoying the billionaire lifestyle. He seems to have recognized at least some of his mistakes and learned some things as progs have dropped their masks.
I’ll be voting for him because he truly is the Republic’s last gasp.
as bad as the RNC and don’t represent the base
See, I’ll disagree about that. They do represent the base. It’s us over here that don’t. We aren’t the Republican base, we’re the fringe.
Hell, some of us aren’t even Republicans.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/public-trust-in-government-1958-2023
Gee, what could government have done to people during that drastic decline timeline that suddenly made them not only unhappy but completely anathema to what government does?
Trust in government took its biggest drops during Nixon and W.
Accountability, and the total lack thereof, in every corner of the federal government?
Ignore The Polls. Republicans Have A Major Voter Turnout Problem
Special elections do not a turnout problem make. Democrats turn out more to off cycle elections, it is known.
That said, Trump ain’t a lock. The left still has 5 months to manufacture a win.
I am still in dread of waking up one AM to read breaking news about how Trump had some “accident”. Like the usual “His plane fell out of the sky, but stay away from the accident site, cause we are investigating, and do not pay attention to the expended SAMs or AAMs in the wreckage!”….
Won’t happen. Because it won’t need to happen.
Trump has a vote ceiling and it’s too low to beat the Dem machine.
I wasn’t going to vote for Trump, because of operation Warp Speed, but the Marcan verdict pushed me to decide to vote for him, if only because he seems to terrify the snotnoggins that are ruining the country.
I think they might also agree with your take on things…
Well, clearly they ain’t black!
– Joe Biden (probably)
The joyful irony that Trump, of all people, foments racial reconciliation.
I’m much more on the fence after the verdict than before. I still don’t like his covid stuff. I still don’t think that the electoral system is worth legitimizing. However, there aren’t many other ways to voice my dissatisfaction in the fact that we’ve moved into the political persecution phase of the American decline.
Navarro, Bannon, and Trump all headed to prison – beyond Banana Republic and into Communist dictatorship territory.
The joyful irony that Trump, of all people, foments racial reconciliation.
Telling the elites to fuck off is very equally shared across almost all demographics. Notable exception, those who think they are elite or at least elite-adjacent (and aspiring to be part of the elite).
Already there are worries the GOP won’t carry the House, and that will stop Trump’s agenda even if he wins the White House.
Even holding the House, the Republican caucus lacks the collective spine to do anything for the good of the country.
Ain’t a lock – try NO CHANCE IN HELL.
Biden wins narrowly but convincingly on election night and handily when fortification efforts are complete.
Wake up.
Known crazy bitch does not get fired, does not even get demoted to a lesser detail. Reasons for this are a complete mystery.
It must be swept under the rug so it doesn’t damage the Didn’t Earn It agenda…
If she really wanted to be a hero, she’d need to leave her gun in a public restroom.
They told her to chill out, but She Persisted!
California’s $20 minimum wage led to fast-food price hikes, lower customer traffic, study shows
Link goes to a different article. “Eighth Circuit to decide: Should car insurance cover STDs?”
Thankfully I reloaded before posting.
Safe teenage drivers?
Da Fuq?
Unless the car caught the clap, I’m not seeing how it’d come anywhere near that.
I thought teenagers were both no longer driving as much and not having as much sex.
You were either having sex in the back seat with a ho, or the driving gloves you are wearing had some STD on them that ended up transferring while you were whacking it furiously for some reason, seems to be the implication of why they wanted this perk…
You never know what you are going to get when a stranger rear ends you?
Rat on a train:
Wait… would car insurance cover pregnancy in the case of bus collision?
Well, there is that problem with tractor seats..
Fixed.
The case about morning after pills had an interesting statement from the judges:
“Because plaintiffs do not prescribe or use mifepristone, plaintiffs are unregulated parties who seek to challenge FDA’s regulation of others.”
Can we now apply that thinking to guns? Leftists don’t use icky guns. They should stop trying to ban what they don’t use.
Bad analogy, the progs would immediately say they’re not running around throwing Plan B pills into people’s mouths, while guns throw bullets around without care. I think this is a case where the standing was properly decided.
Those pills kill people. Easy answer.
guns throw bullets around without care
Guns don’t do that, they’re inanimate objects. Criminals do that.
And I agree it was decided correctly, I just want that kind of thinking applied to other situations of moral overreach.
WTF has a good point too, you could apply the logic the whole way down.
An off the cuff thought… I don’t want the courts to be involved in moral decisions, I want them to be involved in legal decisions. Decide the law, and that’s it.
RJ:
Per the Progs, the pills aren’t killing people, just lumps of cells. And if someone who takes it has complications, it was their body their choice (please ignore this for anything other than abortion)!
WTF:
We know this, but it’s the argument the Progs would make. Same as the anti-smoking rhetoric. Recently I decided to throw on the (now old) show Penn and Teller’s Bullshit. Ahh… the idyllic time when smoking bans were still being debated in NYC, there was a popular show with a libertarian bend, and Penn was fat and sane.
“Guns don’t do that, they’re inanimate objects. Criminals do that.”
Silly you, using logic.
I consider people who steal and assault others to be lumps of cells too, with no legitimate purpose. You make your own case.
My point is it is always moral overreach to regulate somebody else’s behavior, and what they choose to put in their bodies. And the Supreme Court just said that, in more articulate words. That should be used to promote other cases.
Even better RJ – apply that to fucking environmental law/regulation.
Seems like the people that want to prevent “misinformation”, “disinformation”, “hate speech”, or what those of us not stupid see as censoring things they do not want the plebes to know, have a new strategy on how to silence people, even on that rogue entity, X….
Speech is an “asset” now, don’t you know.
If I had any faith in the courts I would predict all of that nonsense to be struck down. It is wildly unconstitutional.
Good morning and happy Friday! I saw the Biden clip where a skydiver landed near him. It was painful to watch.
How embarrassing that the Italian PM had to corral him and bring him back the group.
What it clearly shows everyone is that the US is not run by that fool.
This is Obama’s third term, and the cherry on top is that he gets to make Joe Biden, a crook and someone Obama hated, take the fall for putting his “fundamentally changing America” agenda on Warp speed.
As I remind people, nobody that loved or even liked something would ever claim they needed to fundamentally change it. You only do that to things you hate/despise.
Alex: Yep. Obama and co. are third world monkeys that very much despise this country’s ideals and culture.
I guess having him in power was worth it to stop the oceans from rising.
You two will be happy to know that there is a growing awareness among people that loved Obama in office that “hey, this guy did a lot of pretty shitty stuff”.
I’m sure you’ll say too little too late, but I tell them welcome to the party.
Is the wind shifting on hyperwokeness?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/scores-of-actresses-turn-down-roles-in-play-critical-of-jk-rowling-s-gender-views/ar-BB1oa9Am
It’s probably just a case of it being a shit play rather than the particular message.
Oh come on. This has Tony written all over it.
Of course it’s a shit play, but that’s never stopped anyone in Hollywood before…
I would have guessed Shriek or Palin’s Buttplug.
Okay, what the hell is “queer-identifying”?? Not really gay but pretending to be so when it’s professionally advantageous? 🙄
Actresses or “actresses”?
How about Eliot Page, now that would be a brave and fierce performance, an acting tour de force!
Note however that Dominant Culture suggests that of course a play like this (or the two movies fellating RBG from several years back) are going to get written and staged, while all the Goodthink insisted that something like Sound of Freedom was weird and dangerous and why would anybody want to make it?
They’re realizing it makes no financial sense to commit to a project that all of 10 people will watch.
This has “Springtime for Hitler and Germany” written all over it. If it can’t make money, the investors can’t get their money back.
I don’t want the courts to be involved in moral decisions, I want them to be involved in legal decisions.
Distinction without a difference, IMO.
Courtrooms are full of legal experts. There is a reason that 12 ordinary non-legal experts are inserted into and have the final say in the trial process. There is also a very good reason that jury nullification is a thing.
Hmmmm. It sounds like a ‘You will have the correct opinion or else!’ fantasy. That’s creepy.
Having mentally ill people demand that I share in their delusions is very tiresome.
I’ve been hearing that the ATF ban on braces was struck down yesterday. It sounds like it’s been ended unless if the Supreme Court takes it up. Can’t find any legit articles though. Anyone else seeing this?
It was a District Court Ruling in Texas Here’s an article It can be appealed to the Circuit before it’s “SCOTUS or nothing”
The main issue for the ATF is that the 5th Circuit is unsympathetic to them.
Thanks, that’s a helpful article. Sounds like very good news even with the possible Circuit appeal.
Altogether possible the govt strategically takes that loss to keep it within circuit, as they did with Rock Island.
They’d have to first get it restricted to the cricuit, as the current ruling is nationwide.
Biden’s ATF loses big in ‘pistol brace’ case
Thanks. A good note to end the week on.
Yay! I’m down from 4 felonies a day back to the normal 3.
What an excellent time to have just filed another two Form 1 applications.
Oh well, I prefer real shoulder stocks anyway. And those grapes were probably sour, too…
Heard this week they neglected to turn on their body cams when they murdered that guy in Arkansas.
Tyson Foods Suspends CFO After Drunken-Driving Arrest
I guess the usual grovel plus promise of some kind of rehab didn’t work. Given the amount of prior DUIs and the public fiasco last time didn’t make him have a “come to Jesus” moment it’s hard to have much sympathy.
You’d think a CFO could afford a driver, a taxi, or at least a Lyft/Uber. Failing to use any of those options shows an amazing lack of foresight and judgement.
Our executives have a disgustingly high travel allowance, enough to turner weaker men into progressives. They still try all the time to cheat the system for corporate jet use.
So yeah, this guy sucks.
That kind of reasoning is required to be part of the C-Suite at a publicly traded company.
“You’d think a CFO could afford a driver, a taxi, or at least a Lyft/Uber. Failing to use any of those options shows an amazing lack of foresight and judgement.”
Those are just opportunities for someone else to become a witness to this idiot being a criminal or total jackass…
Lets see –
Starting Bug farms in accordance with ‘eat ze bugz’ policy
Hiring illegals while canning citizens
Has C-Suite officers who drive drunk and expect to be let off with a warning.
Even if they brought back the Cordon Bleu Anytizers, I wouldn’t break my boycott of the company.
if he got into trouble that night it would “ruin the rest of my life.”
Well then, case dismissed.
Which one of you was paying her a visit?
NJ family nearly crushed when massive ice chunk seemingly falls from plane, tears through home
Was it blue? Or was it regular wing ice?
Photographs are white, so regular wing ice.
A ‘friend’ was lauding AOC+’ plan to investigate SCOTUS for gifts/ethics violations. I pointed out no one cares ’em and are flouted constantly. I had several examples, though she did lay these on me. I haven’t looked into them yet, tho it is true I had not heard of them.
And then another one which his also kinda fun. So the ethics committee is investigating the ethical violations of another? Hrm.
Sorry for extra AP quotes w/o linkage. Gotta to run to zoo w nephews.
NBC blurb:
A highway collapse connecting workers in Idaho to jobs in Wyoming has brought attention to a long-standing schism between the wealthy and the people who cater to them. A massive landslide caused the closure of a 10-mile stretch of Teton Pass that links the two states, jeopardizing the workforce around the tourist hubs of Jackson Hole, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park.
Billionaires and investors are hiking up home prices in Wyoming, forcing workers to live farther away from their jobs. On the Wyoming side, the median home price is more than $3 million, compared to $800,000 in Idaho. People who work at landscaping companies, hospitals and other sectors serving those wealthy communities are now facing an indefinite road closure that is upending their lives.
Jackson, where the billionaires ran off the millionaires; another failure of capitalism. Never mind the road is/was a miracle of human achievement. We should probably just let it return to nature. Think of the carbon emissions.
Here’s more
I was there last summer. The billionaires have really shitted up what used to be a really cool western town. It will be interesting to see how fast they can mobilize their pocket politicians and get the road rebuilt.
Having recently-ish driven that road, I would not want that to be my daily commute. Drive twisty road up the mountain; then drive twist road down the mountain. Repeat.
About this “abortion pill”-
I don’t really want to know, but something tells me the whatever you call it in question does not just miraculously vanish into nothingness when you pop that pill.
“Fire in the front hole!”
There are 2 kinds. Plan B type pills prevent ovulation.
Abortion pills kill the fetus. There are videos and horror stories which I won’t share the link to.
But when the instructions say “Take Pill, drink a shit ton of water, go to the bathroom, and whatever you do Don’t Look!. Just keep drinking and keep visiting the restroom. Repeat as needed.” That should give one pause about what you are doing and what you are putting in your body.
I thought Plan B (Morning After Pill) prevented implantation, not ovulation?
If the suit had involved actual injury to the women who used that pill, that would be one thing. But this was a screeching anti-abortion group bitching that the FDA didn’t do what they wanted.
Now, explain to me the exact difference between these people and the environmental fuckwads that use the exact same tactic (that the regulatory agency did not arrive at the correct result).
“Trans activists hum loudly and howl like wolves to drown out speaker at NYC meeting about banning trans girls from competing in school sports
One video of the bizarre humming and howling performance given by the trans advocates – many of whom were in matching jeans and white t-shirts – showed that the woman whose voice they were drowning out is Amaya Perez, a black, bisexual woman who leads the NYC chapter of Gays Against Groomers.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13528253/Trans-activists-Manhattan-school-board-girls-sports.html
CWABOA
Is that better or worse than barking?
The trans-to-furry pipeline is probably something that should be investigated. By someone.
I am left wondering if the gay movement actually realized that it has been coopted by an entity that is hostile towards it and will eventually not just badly hurt gay people, but leave them with the blame for what this insane tranny movement has been doing.
Oh I think they have, they are just subject to attacks and cancellation like the rest of us. The difference is they still want to be part of the lefty in crowd, so it makes more of a difference to them.
The whole “you’re not actually a gay man, you’re a trans woman” thing is wild.
Talk about erasing someone…
The gay movement loves this shit. It keeps the cash coming in, gives the crazy activists something to do, and has given them a day, now a weekend, now month, now a Pride season, with the ability to cancel anybody who doesn’t bend the knee and talk about how awesome it is that they aren’t attracted to the opposite sex.
In the entire country, there are about a dozen gay people that have concerns things might be going too far and 5 are on this site.
‘Bisexuals aren’t really queer, everyone knows this. She’s probably just faking it for the cred.’
There is no Bi Erasure Awareness Day.
People picks up a the usual AITA story from Reddit.
Two observations.
1. Shit happens – be an adult.
2. You own a $225k Porsche – you don’t fucking have UIM on it? Yes, his carrier may sue his BIL on his behalf, but you aren’t doing it.
Man Cancels Family Get-Together After Brother-in-Law Drives Over His Porsche with ‘Huge Pickup’
UIM?
https://www.verpandleddy.com/car-accidents/uninsured-and-underinsured-motorist
un-insured motorist – cover damage to your vehicle if the other isn’t insured.
UnInsured Motorist would be my guess.
How about user interface management?
I’m digging the stock photo they had to include.
I can’t tell which one drives the bro dozer.
That turtleneck and flannel combo is no bueno.
Now this is a solid AITA. A lot of details are missing but are we really expecting this guy to just enjoy his IN-LAWS presence for the rest of the day?
(O.o)
Back when I was a young sysadmin, I would have been proud of such an uptime.
Now I just wince, thinking about all the unpatched vulnerabilities.
“How did the attackers gain access to our network!?”
Because someone in HR (or a PHB in IT) fell for a phishing scam?
True, but still. Let’s not go 7 years between patches.
We’re trying to get the client agency to move it’s backside to get off that box.
Oh, there’s no patches, it’s a RHEL4 machine. They stopped releasing patches for it.
Exactly.
RHEL 4:
End of full support: 2009-03-31
End of maint support: 2021-02-29
End of extended support: 2018-03-31
JFC. I hope that thing’s completely isolated from everything else.
We’re safe. All the hacking tools require at least RHEL 5.
slumbrew:
The scary thing is how many large companies have a chunk of their systems running on out of support/end of life equipment or software.
The “soft, chewy middle” model of network security is still quite popular
“But we have firewalls!”
Love the multiple news stories headlines all using “counterfeit”.
It may or may not be “counterfeit”. I’m willing to bet it was real although no idea about the quality or actual alloy. The documentation and attestations associated it were fraudulent. One guess which country it was sourced from.
Oooh, Chinesium
What the fuck is counterfeit Titanium? Is an electron missing? Fools Titanium? There is none of that shit.
As mentioned, what likely is going on is that the titanium used was improperly manufactured and didn’t meet specs/requirements. They bought crap to do this and now want to pass the blame. What? No quality control to verify what you got met standards? Boeing is run by and employs too many Didn’t Earn It idiots, and it is showing.
If this doesn’t show you the supposed “journo experts” are idiots, I don’t know what else you need to get there.
This is a relatively layman’s guide to Titanium grades. They might have used the wrong one for the application.
https://www.neonickel.com/technical-resources/general-technical-resources/comparison-between-titanium-grade-1-titanium-grade-2-titanium-grade-3-and-titanium-grade-4
Dont know the ins and outs of the titanium industry, but in the steel industry, sending the wrong grade to a customer is something that happens and is also the worst thing you can do as a supplier.
We make about 4000 different grades of steel at the mill I work in. We go to enormous lengths to ensure that we keep the grades separate and labeled. If we send a dozen tons of the wrong grade of steel to, say, Toyota and they turn that that into 10,000 gears that go into 10,000 different transmission, then we have a problem. Like a huge have to pay to fix 10,000 transmissions problem.
Lachowsky – on the business end those supplier agreements and frequently insurance surrounding them are such a BFD.
Part of the reason even in my financial business are third party vendors that form a critical part of our business are referred to as “partners”.
For critical business you have to be able to trust your vendors. For example, we all know about GM’s huge EV recall after fires. However, how many know that LG Chem is the one both responsible and paying for the bulk of the expenses? However, it is GM’s name that we know and that is tarnished.
Admitting the problem out loud….
It’s not Hispanic men, it’s men period. Carville has also said the Dems are run by a bunch of crazy women, and he’s correct there as well.
“‘Dream Come True’: Woman Unaware She Was Pregnant Gives Birth in Taco Bell Bathroom
A woman who was unaware she was pregnant gave birth to a child in the bathroom of a Taco Bell in Richmond, Virginia.
Breonni Jackson, who works as an in-home nurse, went to her local Taco Bell to pick up food for a patient. However, she realized something was up when she experienced stomach cramps.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/dream-come-true-woman-unaware-she-was-pregnant/
Sounds like she must be very fat, and not a good nurse.
Immaculate Taco Hell conception?
Is this the anti-Christ?
Well, the anti chalupa grande at least.
Sounds like actual trauma for once.
This explanation however is retarded.
or because they missed their period
This is the part I kinda don’t get.
You’re having sex, unprotected, and don’t have a period for 9 months, and you’re surprised when a baby pops out?
I get that morbidly obese people often have PCOS and don’t have consistent cycles, but I’d think that the completely lack of anything happening over 3/4 of a year would trigger a “hmm, some thing’s extra not right here. I should go see a doctor.”
Doctors cost money, so anything not obviously causing problems is ignored. Even the obvious problems are ignored. People get good at ignorning minor problems (Source – personal experience).
Narrative harder!
Their 2024 rematch is neck-and-neck, according to polls, with each seeking to make the contest a referendum on the other’s single term. Biden’s campaign was quick to try to exploit Trump’s return visit to a city he left scarred and traumatized by the Capitol riot, releasing a new campaign video that showed scenes of the assault.
“There’s nothing more sacred than our democracy, but Donald Trump’s ready to burn it all down,” a narrator said in the ad, which is airing in battleground states.
Biden, 81, was thousands of miles away from Washington when Trump showed up, participating in the G7 summit in Italy. It’s the second foreign trip in two weeks he is using an as allegory for a US presidential season he is trying to cast as a fight to save American democracy. Unveiling a series of new plans to boost Ukraine diplomatically, militarily and economically, the president recalled that the US and its allies had been repeatedly asked whether they’d stand firm for a country that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to wipe off the map.
That’s nice, but maybe we should prioritize freedom and opportunity in America. It’s worth a shot.
“That’s nice, but maybe we should prioritize freedom and opportunity in America. It’s worth a shot.”
How the fuck would that empower our betters in government to pick winners and losers while lining their pockets?
See – I think you’ve perfectly captured the problem there Alex, and you’ll note you did so with saying marxist.
“Trump got the perfect birthday present: complete capitulation by the GOP”
It’s unheard of that a political party get behind their candidate. Stay terrible, CNN.
Trump will never be president of Ukraine.
Well since he’s Putin’s vassal, he might be granted Ukraine after Russia wins.
Comment *shutting down censorship? don’t bet on it.
Bad kitty brings the truth.
It’s like squeezing a balloon. There are many other NGO’s that will do the work. And there are too many ex-government types making money off this to just retire and go away.
I picked up an electric fencer that I scored ($25 and it included an 8′ solid copper ground bar!) off of Facederp Marketplace last night. The seller left it on her picknick table and told me to leave the money in her mailbox. OK a little weird.
As soon as I pull up to the house I notice a yard flag with two upside down pineapples and “plays well with others” on it. I believe I learnt on this very site that 2 upside down pineapples is a sign for swingers.
You go in and offer your services?
I got no game.
Foil, epee, or saber?
The pigs will be too fast for that kind of fencer.
The pigs will be too busy fucking Morgan Fairchild.
Pineapples? Why not peaches and bananas?
Oh good. Another 737 Max issue.
Could be completely maintenance related or it could be an unfortunate mechanical failure. But it’s Boeing so there is a greater than zero chance this is a design issue that was known, but ignored or band-aided.
FAA investigating substantial damage to Boeing 737 Max in ‘Dutch roll’ incident
Boilerplate
For Trump and the CEOs who attended, the meeting represented an effort to mend relations after some have distanced themselves from the former president.
In 2017, the Trump administration’s major business advisory groups were disbanded after members began resigning in response to Trump’s attempt to equate “both sides” of the Charlottesville, Virginia, protests, one side of which featured white nationalists. During the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, on Capitol Hill, executives, including members of the Business Roundtable, called on Trump to stop the violence.
Some of those business leaders may be fine people.
Trump told a meeting full of House Republicans earlier in the day about the idea of imposing an “all tariff policy” that he said would enable the U.S. to get rid of income tax, according to attendees who were granted anonymity to speak about a private meeting.
The horror.
Good luck repealing the constitutional amendment?
It would certainly draw some new lines across the electorate if he tried.
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Oh, some okay news
I’d obviously prefer they said the NFA was unconstitutional (as it is) but I’ll take what I can get.
I am happy, but still don’t want any.
I have no interest, but they still should not be illegal.
Now if only there were some penalty for people in the agency who issued the illegal decree.
I’ll happily go even farther – I really don’t want anyone else having them either. The only people who enjoy bump stocks and binary triggers and such are the people who are habitually unsafe with them.
I still don’t want them illegal.
Workarounds on firearms make me nervous. Just legalize full auto so we can have true select-fire on our guns if we want.
If they ever did that, I’d probably get an HK UMP (clone, perhaps) in .45 and put a suppressor on it. It’s irrational, but I’ve just always wanted one.
That’s good news. I like that decisions seem to be getting more consistent too. Executive overreach and poorly defined rules are on their way out!
Bump stocks are back.Making up new rules on a whim are struck down.https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-strikes-down-bump-stock-ban
Wow, the Trump judges are now going after Trump!
We’ll show that other bandit what banditry looks like
A simple principle underpins a contentious Thursday decision by the U.S. and key allies to tap profits from Russian sovereign assets in support of Ukraine: Moscow must make reparations.
“Russia has to pay,” European Council President Charles Michel told CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick, after the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies agreed in principle to issue $50 billion in loans for Ukraine that are backed by the profits generated by roughly 300 billion euros ($322 billion) of Russian central bank assets frozen by the West.
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Moscow has previously denounced such a move, warning of dramatic consequences if Western leaders go ahead with the proposal. Questions have also been raised over the legality of setting such a precedent: Russia has been cut off from its frozen assets, but retains their ownership. A lengthy judicial process would have to be undertaken for their forfeit — but the profits generated by the seized assets are more readily available.
Weaponize the international financial system. Why not? It could never come back to haunt us.
Russia has to pay
Ah, back to the Treaty of Versailles style European diplomacy. That worked SOooo well.
Dude, that was like a hundred years ago. Things are different now!
+1 arc of history (bending in your colon)
Maybe we didn’t go full Versailles after the fall of the Soviet Union, but we sure helped Russia slide into a Weimar type situation with high inflation and demoralization. Then the “experts” are surprised when a Russian strongman comes along and is popular.
“Why not? It could never come back to haunt us”
Yesterday the Saudis allowed the 50 year old petrodollar agreement expire, and the russian central bank ended trading in USD and euros and adopted China’s yuan as its official benchmark currency.
This is bad news for us and really bad news long term for anyone hitching their currency to China.
Oh yeah. China’s currency may be in worse shape than ours. It’s just not as transparent or weaponized (yet). It sure will be weaponized in the future.
Yeah, if the dollar is a questionable bet, is there a shred of doubt about the yuan?
China has set up a system where it can’t course correct. Anyone who tells the truth about problems to their superiors is punished for the problems existing, so they fake the data and outward appearances, but then things fall down anyway. Everyone gets to claim it was just corrupt official X, who has been dealt with, and go on pretending the lies are truths.
We’ve done a grand old job imitating it.
Further loans secured against the interest accrued by Russian frozen assets could be forthcoming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen signaled on Thursday.
“This is not the last time this can be done. This is the first tranche and if necessary, there’s more behind it,” said Yellen, who has been actively involved in negotiating the agreement. “We’re getting Russians to help pay for the damage that it’s caused.”
And when an eventual peace treaty frees those Russian assets, who winds up on the hook for those loans? I guess if you never really intend to end the war, that’s not an issue.
What a way to have your sporting career derailed
Why Young Women Are Becoming More Liberal Than Young Men: The Gender-Equality Paradox
When you’re poor, you do what survival dictates.
When you’re rich, you can follow your preferences.
Preferences are not equally distributed across the sexes.
It’s not difficult. It’s not a paradox. Not unless you’re too stupid to apply basic logic.
Not unless you’re too stupid to apply basic logic.
We are talking academics here, aren’t we?
Drama on the high seas
The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, has turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II, its leaders and experts told The Associated Press.
The combat pits the Navy’s mission to keep international waterways open against a group whose former arsenal of assault rifles and pickup trucks has grown into a seemingly inexhaustible supply of drones, missiles and other weaponry. Near-daily attacks by the Houthis since November have seen more than 50 vessels clearly targeted, while shipping volume has dropped in the vital Red Sea corridor that leads to the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean.
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The Navy saw periods of combat during the “Tanker Wars” of the 1980s in the Persian Gulf, but that largely involved ships hitting mines. The Houthi assaults involve direct attacks on commercial vessels and warships.
“This is the most sustained combat that the U.S. Navy has seen since World War II — easily, no question,” said Bryan Clark, a former Navy submariner and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. “We’re sort of on the verge of the Houthis being able to mount the kinds of attacks that the U.S. can’t stop every time, and then we will start to see substantial damage. … If you let it fester, the Houthis are going to get to be a much more capable, competent, experienced force.”
We’re building better mice.
Turn Yemen into a glass parking lot – no Houthis, no problems with Houthis.
No mention of the Eisenhower getting hit. Rumors say it took a missile. The Captain sending an old video fed those rumors.
Doesn’t bode well for the Navy if there is a fight near Crimea or Taiwan the hypersonic missiles get thrown around.
I believe most ballistic missiles are hypersonic*, although cruise missiles and of course loitering missiles are not.
*Haven’t researched, could be wrong.
The Minuteman missile is regarded as High-Hypersonic as it has a top speed of Mach 23.
So Southern Baptists don’t mention what happens to the souls of those conceived and frozen as embryos. You better give me a full theological discourse on that before I give one shit about your resolution.
Don’t lie, you wouldn’t give a shit even if they did.
Maybe a small one?
Maybe a small one?
Then you should eat more fiber.
One late link.
None of which is really a legitimate law enforcement concern. Fuck those fascists and their NARRATIVE.
“Some Covenant School parents also opposed releasing the diary because it would force families to re-live the nightmare.”
As opposed to a long running fight, periodic leaks, and recurring headlines about both?
“further permeate the false narrative that the majority of attackers are mentally ill.”
I don’t think “permeate” is really the right word there. Regardless, why exactly why is it a false narrative, anyway? Most of them are suicidal, and suicidal ideation is right smack at the top of red flags for mental illness.
I agree with this point. Malevolent narcissism is not technically a mental illness; rather a personality disorder with limited treatment options.
No their argument is that most mass shooters are malevolent political extremists and therefore must be surveilled so they can be caught before they act. If you accept that most are “mentally ill” you are doing two things – putting psych above politics (oh, no-no-no), and, you are further enabling the therapeutic state (that believes mental illness-cum-evil can be cured, or at least medicated – but not institutionalized, because that would be bad).
the release of the diary from a transgender person could lead the public “to dismiss the attacker as mentally ill,”
Or maybe, instead of focusing on inanimate objects (teh gunz), people might start asking why there are so many broken people out there.
Meanwhile, back at the Animism Corral
A large excavator stretched to the top floor of the three-story classroom building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, making a loud wrenching sound as it punched out a window early Friday as the long-awaited demolition project got underway.
Several victims’ family members stood about 100 yards (91 meters) away in the school’s parking lot holding their cellphones to take photos and video of the event.
Nearby, Dylan Persaud, who was a student in 2018, watched as the destruction began.
Persaud had been standing near the freshman building when the shooting started that day. He lost seven long-time friends and his geography teacher, Scott Beigel, in the shooting.
“I’d like to see it gone,“ he said. “It puts a period on the end of the story. They should put a nice memorial there for the 17.”
It were the building wot dunnit.
(Totally not the school systems’ push to “mainstream” known mentally unbalanced students)
Spilled a cup of coffee on my lap this morning. From McDonald’s. Fucker didn’t put the lid on and it squeezed off. Hot off the drip. Thankfully it wasn’t prelawsuit temp but definitely above comfortable drinking temp. Only 1st degree red welt on my leg.
Woot! Lottery ticket, baby!
lol
Was he making $20 an hour to not put the lid on properly?
Some Covenant School parents also opposed releasing the diary because it would force families to re-live the nightmare.
Not because it might conflict with their political agenda. That can’t be it.
The victims’ families were invited to watch the first blows and hammer off a piece themselves if they choose.
Healing.
I don’t think “permeate” is really the right word there.
Perpetuate.
Or “promote”. But, yeah, the mouthbreather was probably reaching for perpetuate, but can’t handle words with more than three syllables.