Good morning one and all to another beautiful day!
House Democrats emerge from closed-door meeting divided on Biden’s fate
Trump Issues Official Sports Challenge To Biden, Who Responds Exactly How You Might Expect
Elon Musk Warns Democrats Are Making it Near ‘Impossible’ to Prove Voter Fraud
U.S. Commission Finds COVID Pandemic Caused $18 Trillion in Damage to U.S. Economy
Whistleblowers detail harrowing failure to protect migrant children pouring into U.S. under Biden
USPS to Raise Postage Stamp Prices by 7.8 Percent Beginning July 14
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Have you watched any of these silent movies you are using?
That one is from “The Three Ages”, I think, which was a spoof of some other movie (Intolerance, probably), and is available for viewing, here:
https://youtu.be/86z_rNBtmVM?si=eq74Sp_4IFdQowUr
And further reduce my likelyhood of sending mail.
Yeah, not many businesspeople have learned the lesson of Henry Ford (reduce the price as much as possible in order to increase sales).
Still, I remember once reading an article about the Great Depression, where it was mentioned that someone sold a 3 cent stamp in order to help pay for a 5 cent loaf of bread.
By my calculations, a loaf of bread today is around $3, so, based on that anecdote, stamps *should* be going for around $1.80.
Someone crossed the supply and demand inputs for their pricing calculator.
It’s not the Post Office’s fault that bread is so expensive.
Of course it is! When’s the last time you’ve mailed a loaf of bread?
Babylon Bee; you bunch of cards!
https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/white-house-visitor-logs-reveal-grim-reaper-visited-over-8-times
https://babylonbee.com/news/people-who-would-never-cheat-in-elections-horrified-by-stop-cheating-in-elections-bill
WASHINGTON D.C. — Republicans caused outrage and horror today among people who would never cheat in elections with the introduction of a new ‘Stop Cheating In Elections’ Bill.
Congressional Republicans insisted that the bill would simply prevent cheating in elections and ensure that they are fair, while people who would never cheat insisted that the problematic bill targeted them.
“I want to be clear. This bill is racist, xenophobic, transphobic, and possibly arachnophobic,” Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “It’s not the ‘no cheating’ part that bothers us because obviously we would never, ever cheat. But it’s outrageous that Republicans would want to take measures to stop us from cheating. Which we never ever do.”
Brilliant.
The whole thing is gold.
A new report by the Heritage Foundation’s Nonpartisan Commission on China and COVID-19 found that the COVID pandemic caused $18 trillion in economic losses to the U.S. and placed blame for the outbreak on the Chinese government.
US governments are responsible for much of the damage listed. China didn’t close schools, force businesses to close, pause verification for US welfare programs, …
Exactly.
“Look what you made me do!”
There’s plenty of blame to go around and the Chinese deserve their fair share. Damn shame we funded the research though and even more of a damn shame that we haven’t learned a freaking thing.
This. Everyone who could have told the truth about any aspect of covid: its origin, its deadliness, its transmissibility, and so on, lied. Just flat out lied, and it was always for political gain.
And, the object of that political gain was to remove Trump, who is still here.
On the contrary… the people pulling the strings have learned exactly what they wanted to: that they can push us around with no consequences whatsoever.
Ding ding ding!
I enjoyed Thomas Massie’s story about driving back to DC in a snowstorm to force an in-person vote on the $Trillion boondoggle covid bill.
Trump and everyone in the House were furious at him – and they were all wrong.
How dare he. Also $1T wasn’t enough! We are living with the consequences of not spending enough.
I remember when Red China was welding apartment doors shut.
Exactly. The pandemic didn’t cause shit, the government did.
I always say/said “due to the government reaction to Covid” when explaining anything to customers that was affected by the plandemic.
To quote a rather curmudgeonly fellow:
We have no hope that the Republicans in Congress, or Trump in the White House, will actually do what needs to be done. It is a fantasy to believe otherwise. It will just be tapping the brakes a little, not slamming them down to the floor or turning the damn steering wheel.
https://babylonbee.com/news/republican-party-implements-emergency-platform-change-after-seeing-how-close-they-are-to-winning-landslide-victory
If they do win by mistake, they’ll quickly do dumb things to make sure they lose in 2 years. See Paul Ryan for reference.
We don’t want to actually win! People might expect us to fix shit, and then we’d be on the hook for the results. We came close to repealing Obamacare, and John McCain waved us from that disaster. We’re happier being the plucky underdog.
/GOP ‘Leadership’
The Tories won big and ran the UK unopposed for years. Look what happened to them.
“Quick! Head to that cliff, instead!”
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types — the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.”
― G.K. Chesterton
I might not believe in God, but I’ll never be atheistic enough not to enjoy Chesterton’s way with words…
Or the flipside (about God or politics) with Christopher Hitchens.
Dear Lord, please don’t let me ever say this.
Let’s ‘Double-Click’ on the Latest Cringeworthy Corporate Buzzword
I’ll circle back with a more in depth comment on the issue later.
Why don’t you take this as an action item and put together a deck for the tiger team stand up later today.
Thanks for the heads up!
Wait, that’s not a euphemism for female masturbation?
Kindly do the needful and stop using buzzwords.
Kindly do the needful should be classified as a racist dogwhistle
I normally only see ‘kindly’ used by scammers.
Rat on a train:
I wish… but I don’t think most of the tier one helpdesk I work with are actually scammers.
Comment *
*waggles head*
we in Europe are way behind, we use last years corporate nonsense.
Don’t worry, I will let this “trickle down” on you later.
Every once in a while, the wife and I will get going on dueling buzz word speak, hers being public sector, mine having been private, just to see who can keep it up longest.
I asked AI to write an out of office using a lot of corporate buzzwords…
Hi Everyone,
I will be out of the office from [Start Date] to [End Date] for some strategic time optimization – focusing on [vague reason, e.g., professional development initiatives]. During this critical window, my ability to leverage communication channels will be limited.
For urgent matters requiring immediate bandwidth, please consider escalating to [colleague’s name] who will be acting as my key contact and championing continuity of operations.
For non-urgent inquiries, I recommend utilizing the internal knowledge-sharing platform (think: SharePoint) as a first point of contact. It’s a fantastic resource for streamlining information access and maximizing team productivity.
I look forward to re-engaging upon my return and circling back to connect on any missed opportunities for synergy.
In the meantime, stay agile and keep pushing the envelope!
Best regards,
[Your Name]
P.S. For those seeking to schedule future meetings, please utilize my online calendar management tool to identify mutually beneficial time slots. Let’s continue optimizing our collaborative efforts!
I love the prompt for give a vague reason.
DON’T KNOCK SYNERGY!!!
I will be using a variation of this for my OOO tagline next week.
I can’t stand “Corp Speak” or “Teen Speak”, but they are both so prevalent that they start to bleed into my own lexicon. I only hear it when my wife speaks my own words back to me. She also picks up on the worst of teen speak from her job.
Corp speak is a earworm wrapped around a turd floating in the executive toilet.
You know, we need an action team to bubble that up, so we can get a 1000 ft view of your blue sky solutions.
I’m sorry, I don’t see the “path forward.”
Ping me when you find a more cringe buzzword.
We will touch base on this shortly.
Followup on the bear that was shot here and made de animal rights activists mad. The latest comment I saw : predatory animals never attack females of any species, just males, so it was probably a man who snuck up on the woman and pushed her to where the bear was. So the bear could not have attacked her cause she was girl, a man must have been involved.
Is that any less stupid sounding in Romanian?
that would be off course beyond the possibility of language
So, someone doesn’t understand zoology, or have two working brain cells.
Derp.
Bears, like Supreme Court Justices, don’t know what a woman is.
Don’t they know that bears go after women during their time of the month? You need to make sure your countrypeople are aware of this important safety warning.
And dudes that identify as menstruating.
If a man speaks in the forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?
Only logical.
Women are significantly more into astrology than men.
The bears get so very tired of always being asked by people they just met: “What’s ursine?”
Natural consequences ensue.
Bears smell the menstruation – Brick Tamland
I’m choosing to believe that that was some troll taking the piss.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
A couple crazy kids find each other in this mixed up world.
I don’t get why people find her attractive. She’s got a weird face. If you wan to ogle a politician there’s Tulsi.
Today in how you Americans are disrespecting us poor eastern Europeans, Nicky Minaj canceled her appearance at a festival in Bucharest for now reason on the day of the concert.
Furthermore Chief Keef canceled his appearance at a festival because of passport issues and could not leave the U.S.
Romania has been deprived of Nicky Minaj and Chief Keef.
You should be thanking your lucky stars you’ve been spared that.
Talc was classified as “probably carcinogenic” due in part to limited evidence linking it to ovarian cancer, an international agency said.
Talc was classified as “probably carcinogenic” to humans by the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO).
A working group of 29 scientists from 13 countries met at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, and published their findings in The Lancet Oncology last week.
The classification is the “second highest level of certainty that a substance can cause cancer”. Talc’s previous classification was as a “possible carcinogen.”
Talc was classified “on the basis of a combination of limited evidence for cancer in humans (for ovarian cancer), sufficient evidence for cancer in experimental animals, and strong mechanistic evidence that talc exhibits key characteristics of carcinogens in human primary cells and experimental systems,” the group of experts said in a press release.
https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/07/09/talc-classified-as-probably-carcinogenic-to-humans-by-who-agency
The chief priest has dissected the bowels of an eagle and has read the following portents…
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/07/09/could-hungarian-pm-orban-face-consequences-for-his-diplomatic-world-tour
EU toadies big mad at Oban for trying to avert war and economic collapse.
The only Western oriented European leader with any damn sense and he’s consistently demonized for it.
As far as I can tell he and Trump are the only ones trying to stop the fighting. He should get a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts, instead it will probably go to Biden for getting the war rolling.
Taps out in the first sentence.
The people who are “protecting” or defending Biden telling others what they’re seeing isn’t reality by spinning and deflecting are evil. Purely.
There’s a big difference between that and lying. All politicians lie and exaggerate. We all get that. But the Dems and their allies are straight up telling you not to believe your own eyes. Not just with Biden, but the economy, Ukraine, the border, and probably a dozen other things.
Believe what the Party orders you to believe. It’s for your own good, comrade.
Man,I feel dirty typing that. How did Orwell do it?
VW mulls putting the brakes on Brussels Audi plant due to low demand for EVs
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/07/10/vw-mulls-putting-the-brakes-on-brussels-audi-plant-due-to-low-demand-for-evs
Europe’s top carmaker, Volkswagen, has announced the possible closure of its Audi factory in Brussels due to a significant drop in demand for luxury EVs. Since investing heavily in advanced technology, Audi said its sales have fallen in 2024 even though it has it introduced new car models at lower prices.
Volkswagen said the cost of finding other uses for the plant or closing it altogether would result in a price hit of some €2.6 billion in the 2024 financial year.
Aside from the whole EV mandate debacle, the software for VW’s EV platform is a shitshow.
That’s the primary driver of their Rivian investment. They want their software.
Based on the price I’d say every EV is a luxury vehicle.
Without subsidies, yes.
In CA at one time between state and fed subsidies you could get a base Model 3 for like $22k.
Funny thing is the Model 3 really has the interior of an economy car. Scandinavian design mediocre materials nothing special. That was its original design goal, but they couldn’t make the pricing work.
How about a Leaf for $19/mo?
Ok, more like $100. But still, they can’t give the fucking things away.
Can I get one without the battery pack or eletric motor? I’d want to slap a crate engine into the chassis without the hassle of ripping out the toxic waste.
Ok, I would not drive a leaf under most circumstances, but that’s actually a really good deal if you needed cheap transportation for two years.
Still cheaper to cut and run than the $4 billion they just gave Rivian to continue burning cash at a quicker rate than you could by just pitching it into a fire.
The EVs won’t be sprouting in Brussels anymore?
I never cease to be amazed at the local proggies obsession with bikes. The latest: Sure we were voted the best bike city in the USA, but we still suck when compared to Europe.
So we still have so much more to do to become Bike Nirvana.
Huh. I wonder what factors could explain why those Europeans ride four times as much as we do? Maybe winter? Or the fact that Rotterdam is 125 sq miles and Minneapolis is 1000 sq miles (8000 sq miles if you include suburbs)?
Rotterdam has a winter. It’s like early Fall in Minneapolis.
To Be Fair biking in Copenhagen looked quite well set up.
They can use the other progressive obsession in the winter – trains!
35 years ago I had progs telling me that mountain bikes and monorails were the future.
And look were we are now…
Sounds like the ghost of Council Member Phyllis Kahn still haunts the corridors of the street department.
And of course MPLS is a Vision Zero city. They purport to want to reduce pedestrian deaths to zero through engineering, but every city I see that joins that cult throws more and more pedestrians into the streets in order to meet that goal. Almost seems like they have a different goal in mind.
Look, once all the predestrians are dead, you can’t have any more pedestrian deaths. It’s SCIENCE!
Are they predestrianed to die?
The death stroll is too high as it is.
Swiss is going to make you walk that statement back
Nah, Swiss is too Christian a soul to have you take up your crosswalk.
You will follow in the footsteps of Saint James to the end of the earth.
That’s Zero Vision.
Arguably zero/zero.
We went to the theater last night and saw “Sound of Hope”. That’s the Daily Caller movie about a black community that adopted a bunch of hard to place foster kids. Two of mine were from foster care, and I can say this movie is really well done. The way the kids behave, the problems the families go through, all of it seemed very familiar. I often the way black families are portrayed in movies to be cringy, but the actors were good and it all seemed pretty natural. I know a few of you have adopted kids, it’s work a watch.
One thing that stands out at me today is that in the movie, they say there are 400,000 kids in the foster system, and 100,000 ready for adoption. They called that a “crisis”. But in the headlines we have 85,000 migrant children unaccounted for. And our government gives zero fucks about it.
They story was just too juicy NOT to run:
https://freebeacon.com/media/rachel-maddow-and-her-co-stars-made-verifiably-false-statements-about-a-doctor-they-called-the-uterus-collector-now-his-30-million-lawsuit-is-headed-for-trial/
Wow. My bet is they settle with the obligatory NDA and we never hear another thing about it.
We call that hush money now. Try and keep up.
That’s weird. I haven’t heard that the “whistleblower” nurse in this case has been investigated by the FBI for HIPAA violations, unlike the whistleblower nurse who exposed sex change operations on minors. Must be because one case involves the removal of reproductive organs, and the other involves the removal of reproductive organs.
Because one is good, the other is bad, duh!
Get out.
Buried lede:
They pay Rachel Maddow $30MM a year?
Big bux in fear mongering.
$100K per viewer seems excessive.
For 1 show a week.
She’s the Howard Stern of cable news.
$30M to say Donald Trump wants to throw her in a camp.
From last night’s biometrics story. Hello? Once again, Demolition Man predicted that future.
What craziness is this? A state trooper being held to account?< Especially since it seems legit.
I can’t believe that the aren’t going to cover for one of their top earners.
My bet is he didn’t have friends there. Otherwise they would be covering for him.
The earnings part is irrelevant here.
This guy just wanted to meet some Pirates.
If Neph wants to meet some of the Cleveland Indians, I guess he should steal some land using this logic.
* There is a Minnesoda plot twist for some of you who are willing to read the article.
They Allegedly arrested the guy?
Did they maybe not actually arrest him?
Did they arrest somebody but aren’t sure it’s that guy?
Read the story dude!
NEVER!
They drove the Indians out of the Land already.
18 trillion seems like a lowball number.
The damage they did is incalculable.
They broke brains, destroyed marriages, ran companies bankrupt, unraveled basic trust in neighbors and institutions.
Pure evil.
They killed people. Suicides went up dramatically.
I had successfully quit drinking for almost 2 years and then resumed during “lockdown”.
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner’s daughter Violet demands mask mandates, tells LA public hearing she contracted post-viral condition
Wait, that’s not a reprint from 4 years ago?
Capristan – Miami Swim Week 2024 – Daytime Full Show – Fusion Fashion Events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVifgU_NDs
Claimed without evidence
After days spent lying low, golfing and letting Democratic infighting play out in public, Trump used his return to the campaign trail in Florida to ratchet up his attacks on both Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, indulging speculation that she could replace the president as the Democratic nominee this year and alleging, without evidence, that his son Hunter Biden is “running our government” and first lady Jill Biden “is helping.” Biden has repeatedly insisted he won’t withdraw from the race.
What a shocking thing to say.
If I call you a fucking idiot it’s because you are.
‘I am many things but I am not mean’ says Ellen DeGeneres at SF Bay Area show
Huh. I had no idea she was cancelled.
Yeah, she has it bass ackwards. Nice people are capable of being mean when they intend to. Mean people are mean even when they don’t intend it. That’s what makes them mean.
I have a bit of a conundrum. I have lived in Washington for a year and have mostly gotten by on Urgent Care and ER (all covered by my insurance).
But I need a Primary Care Provider so I called around about a month ago, and the fastest I can get in AMYWHERE is September. So be it. I made that appointment.
But now I have found a breast lump. And it hurts and just seems “wrong”. But it’s not an “OMG, I’m bleeding to death!” Emergency.
So do I wait till September or stroll into the Urgebt Care clinic today?
BF is a bit freaked out after seeing and feeling it for himself.
I have a natural tendency to minimize stuff (“it’s just a flesh wound…”) so I don’t trust my own judgment.
Urgent care will get you the referral you need.
Don’t wait even though it’s likely not serious.
This.
And you’ll get a primary doc faster that way too.
I would strongly encourage my wife not to wait if she found a lump. Take that as you wish.
Breast cancer can be aggressive. Waiting two months could be a big deal.
Urgent care today. It may be nothing to worry about, but if it does happen to be cancer and is an aggressive form, waiting until September could mean a huge difference in outcomes.
Do your health insurance have telemedicine that could back door into getting a local doc? My experience is that specialists will do their bit but won’t coordinate or manage overall care.
I’ve gotten referrals to specialists from urgent care places twice in the past year. Go do this, and don’t wait.
I’m gonna pass on the local urgent care (even though they’re great!) because they don’t have mammography machines etc.
I’m going up to Providence, Everett. They took really good care of me when I had my asthma crisis a few weeks back.
Another vote for don’t wait.
I’d go to the ER first because they will do all the scans and blood work up front and have it for an oncologist, and then if something’s wrong, you’ll get an asap referral to said oncologist.
Urgent care is worse than useless, IME, and they’ll probably send you to the ER anyway for the aforementioned scans,
Thanks, Mojo. The regional medical center/ER up here is very well equipped so I’m sure they can scan for about anything.
Thanks to all!
What are they gonna do, vote for Trump?
President Joe Biden has a new problem: a competitive race in deep blue New York.
Elected officials, union leaders and political consultants are panicking over polls showing a steady erosion of Biden’s support in a state he won by 23 points four years ago. They’re so worried they’ve been trying to convince the Biden team to pour resources into New York to shore up his campaign and boost Democrats running in a half-dozen swing districts that could determine control of the House.
Biden aides have not focused on New York, committing no significant resources to a state where they expect the president to easily win all 28 electoral college votes in November.
But the warning signs are impossible to ignore and have been building over the past year. Two private polls conducted in a swing New York House district and reviewed by POLITICO — one in September and another in March — found former President Donald Trump leading Biden there by 1 point, a virtual tie. And public polls over the last four months found Biden’s lead had winnowed to just 8 points across New York — an unusually narrow gap in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2 to 1.
“We’re still acting like this is a one-party state, which for pretty much 20, 25 years it has been,” Democratic Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said. “I truly believe we’re a battleground state now.”
Needs more apocalyptic death of democracy fearmongering.
No way is NYS in play.
If it is, we’re looking at a Reagan v. Mondale shellacking.
Union construction workers in NY have said “F*ck Joe Biden” on camera. The rank and file are bucking voting orders from union management.
Those guys can say whatever they want. NYS is dominated by Team Blue.
Go reread the Musk link and get back to me on Trump’s chance of success.
I’ve seen articles this week describing Minnesota as a “battleground” state.
Um, whut? The only state that voted for Mondale over Reagan? I think it’s safely in the blue column.
So do I wait till September or stroll into the Urgebt Care clinic today?
The worst they can do is kick you out, right? Maybe they can give you a referral.
I’m heading to ER with MoJo’s excellent coaching.
Misgivings among Democrats over Biden’s waning support in New York go beyond the broader questions over his advanced age. Public polls show Democrats’ troubles in the state stem from independent voters, who are more likely to side with Republicans in their assessment of the president.
This isn’t supposed to be a referendum on Biden’s performance. It’s supposed to be another anybody-but-Trump slam dunk.
Either the scare mongering isn’t doing its job, or people are ok with Trump being a dictator as long as they can afford food and gas.
I also have a question or two. I’m using one of those Naval Vessel trackers to check out the carrier where my son in law is stationed. Right now the ship is outside LA, most likely headed to San Diego to pick up planes and pilots. Last time they went out into the ocean and you couldn’t see it’s location. How do those tracking sites work? On the map it mentions Terrestrial AIS, what is that?
Are they revealing the location for goodthinkful reasons, like the Theodore Roosevelt?
https://spire.com/spirepedia/terrestrial-ais/
Terrestrial Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a global standard for ship-to-shore, and shore-to-ship communications and contributes to collision avoidance, search and rescue operations, and maritime domain awareness through vessel tracking.
Neat. So I’m guessing they can turn that off in the open ocean, or when they’re doing something official and not just en route to somewhere?
That would be my guess.
Military aircraft use civilian transponders to operate in civilian airspace. Those get turned off for operations.
Holy shit – Biden just told the head of NATO that he’s been fucking his wife. I’m not exaggerating.
https://rumble.com/v569mgn-biden-insanely-says-to-the-secretary-of-nato-i-realized-i-was-fuking-your-w.html
Top that Sugar free!
There’s even a women doing sign language who has to point at her crotch to translate.
Ya gotta love the look on her face.
I want to believe. I am unable to verify.
That is actually not the Bee.
Must be one of those cheap fakes.
That brain is nothing be scrambled eggs at this point.
I think he said talking to.
But can someone confirm that the ESL lady heard “fucking?”
Words are getting scrambled in his head. The sign-language lady definitely heard fucking.
Biden himself realized what it sounded like he said. As did everyone in the audience and on stage.
Googling “ESL sign for fucking” doesn’t show that.
However, googling “What does pointing to crotch twice mean in ESL” gives me nothing usable.
Here’s CNN’s transcript (of course):
When you actually listen, there are not even enough syllables for it to be “talking to”.
In spite of everything, CNN still working to cover up Biden’s disabilities.
The wires in his brain are crossed and the wrong shit comes out at the wrong time.
That “forgive me” was not about what he says after. It was because he actually realized what happened.
Holy shit – Biden just told the head of NATO that he’s been fucking his wife. I’m not exaggerating.
“The President misspoke. He meant to say he was so busy fucking Jill he didn’t have time to properly prepare for the debate. That is the sort of youthful vigor and boundless energy he exhibits away from the public eye.”
Thanks Blackberry.
I would actually respect that answer rather than throwing aides under the bus.
Right?!?
Unfortunately this dude has never known shame, even in the flower of his youth.
You’re HIRED!!