The Change of Season cold hit, right on time. I have pounded some Tylenol and will get these here links done, regardless! Take that, pesky virus.
- Paging OMWC, OMWC to the Red Courtesy Phone.
- You know who else promised to restore order?
- OK, enough levity – now for the serious news we all deserve.
- You people need to eat moar chocolate!
Comment section is yours.
Gunman Left Note for Failed Trump Assassination Attempt
-insert Secret Service approved joke here-
Thank you DOJ for helping put a bounty on Trump. Fine work there.
That was my first thought. They withhold evidence all the time for “security” reasons, but this is fine to broadcast to the world?
The USSS is doing their best, guys!
Yup… that was the comment most places I read about this this morning — “You suppress the Tennessee trans shooter to avoid ‘copycats’… but you literally let a nutcase put a bounty on a Presidential candidate by publishing this? WTF?”
If there was an encyclopedia entry for “Foreseeable consequences are not unintended” this would certainly look to be a good candidate.
This will no doubt appeal to the world’s dumbest hit man who likes to be paid for jobs afterwards by people in prison.
Well, they’re prosecuting him. Why not?
Obvious conclusions are obvious.
Still no sign of the visitor list to Epstein Island.
“Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and nobody can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. My boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won’t stop them now.” So let’s get going, there’s no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all.”
This will no doubt appeal to the world’s dumbest hit man who likes to be paid for jobs afterwards by people in prison.
Or to the mentally unstable people susceptible to thinking that assassinating a president is a good idea in the first place.
assassinating a president is a good idea in the first place
Well, it’s probably not a good idea, but heck, for $150grand – you sure this guy is good for that kind of money?
Found scribbled at the end of the note in different handwriting was an addendum:
“I totally did this all by myself with no assistance from any agency. Honest.”
gumption?
Who talks like that these days?
I personally felt his assassination attempt was somewhere between the bees knees and groovy.
That was pretty wizard, Urthona.
About half the people here talk like that, you whippersnapper.
Sounds like malarkey to me.
I still use gumption. Late 40s.
I thought this guy was broke. Where’s he getting $150K* in cash?
*oddly specific, no?
Where, oh where indeed. It is a mystery we may never solve.
So when you’re hiring a hit now there’s a button for “Affirm” financing which you can then pay off in monthly installments.
AssassinBlue
$150K? Trump is the biggest target ever. Even Jesus Christ got offed for only 30 pieces of silver.
https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-trump-responds-to-150000-bounty-on-his-head-by-offering-would-be-assassins-150001-to-not-kill-him
You know who else promised to restore order?
Joe Biden?
Henry Martyn Robert?
Melvil Dewey?
Kenesaw Mountain Landis?
100,000,000 autists?
Mrs. Davidson in the 4th grade?
Marie Kondo?
Will it “spark joy”?
By God, there are several terrific answers here. Was not disappoint.
Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck?
You know who else promised to restore order?
Khan Noonien Singh
You people need to eat moar chocolate!
What do you mean you people?
Khan certainly works — but I was thinking of Anakin and his quest to address the dichotomy with his thesis.
That cat video might be the best I’ve ever seen.
“Call the cops! That fucking cat is back!”
Earworm kitteh song
The Cat came back?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMffHG1V_Q
This the one I was originally thinking of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE8gsYejpQc
Yeah, that’s some funny , funny stuff.
Now see, I first read that as “Call the cops! That fucking cat is black!”
Nestlé, with a brand value of over 18.5 billion Swiss francs, remains the most valuable Swiss brand, according to the latest ranking by the London-based brand valuation consultancy Brand Finance. However, the multinational food giant has experienced a significant loss in brand value.
Swiss’s corporate masters are sending the jet to whisk him off to Geneva so he can explain what’s going on.
Call sign: Tobler One.
He should be glad the rumored takeover by Musk didn’t pan out. He’d have to report to his superiors at the Mars bar.
Heyo!
I heard about that on the news from one of those policy wonkas.
There’s gonna be Mounds of paperwork. And no Joy.
If he doesn’t show up, there’ll be a Bounty put out.
Does Nestle even make chocolate?
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
Significant loss in value? They’re only worth a hundred grand now.
You can’t even take out a hit on a President for that!
Suggest it to a room full of nutty hitmen and all you’ll get are snickers.
So is this French government an improvement? I can’t tell with European elections, what with the conservative and the liberal and the labor and the whatnot.
They’re also just different degrees of socialist.
Like American elections now.
I figured that was the case, I didn’t see them hyperventilating about any politician in particular.
The hyperventilating comes when any politician expresses the mildest hesitation at letting in millions of brown people.
Well, it was a nice run
Kmart, once one of America’s leading discount retailers, is closing its last full-size store in the mainland United States.
The store, in Bridgehampton, New York, on Long Island, is due to close October 20, according to an employee who answered the phone at the store Monday morning who did not want to give her name.
Remember those Blue Light Specials? They were the bee’s knees.
I thought they were groovy in a far out way.
By the time I was a shopper – there were few truly radical deals. It was just bogus, man.
I never knew that K-Mart was originally Kreske’s. Sorry to hear they will be joining Zayre’s and Venture stores on the dust heap.
Don’t forget Sears, who put a lot of other businesses out of, well, business.
My first job out of college, I was working with a lot of guys who had just rotated off of a project with K-Mart. The stats they had about the clientele of K-Mart was astonishing.
If you were a shoplifter or a bad check writer, K-Mart was your favorite store.
I have to admit, Mrs. Holiness and I stretched the few dollars we had by going to some very sketchy K-Marts. I still have a soft spot for them.
Also today in the wasn’t that an impeachable offense? category….
WOW.
That’s way worse than I thought originally.
FUCK.
Only imaginary Russian influence involving OMB is impeachable.
He has to fly an unelected dictator to a swing state – for democracy.
Impeachable offenses and sedition seem to be all the rage in DC these days.
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Wrong
veryone knows that electric vehicles are supposed to be better for the planet than gas cars. That’s the driving reason behind a global effort to transition toward batteries.
But what about the harms caused by mining for battery minerals? And coal-fired power plants for the electricity to charge the cars? And battery waste? Is it really true that EVs are better?
The answer is yes. But Americans are growing less convinced.
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Put differently: The idea that his work shows EVs are worse for the environment would make sense only if you ignore the existence of climate change.
Molden says the climate benefits of EVs are important. His work is about a specific trade-off.
“Those people misusing it don’t bring out that tension,” he says. “They conflate and blur and obfuscate and play fast and loose with the definitions. And that’s completely wrong.”
Once you plug this giant correction factor I pulled out of my ass into the equation, the benefits of EVs are astronomically higher than the costs.
I mean this has been going back and forth for years.
I no longer have any idea if EVs are a net positive for the environment.
Conservatives will fudge because they fear socialism.
Left wingers will fudge because they want socialism.
…
No one actually knows or cares whether EVs are a net benefit in the long run.
But I can tell you one thing now. Without subsidies, the market for EVs looks vanishingly small.
And that’s very telling.
“My model is perfectly correct… according to my model! SCIENCE!”
Brings this to mind from this morning… sure the goal is to return you to a life where you can’t afford power, food or transportation by driving up the costs through regulation…. but once all you peons are dead then the climate will be great!
I looked around my neighborhood and saw no strip mines or kids dying from cancer.
Well la dee da.
*queues Vivaldi’s Four Seasons*
Open mines? Pshaw!
Did you even look into your own orphan mine?
Those little bastards would run off if you let em have fresh air!
I thought CO2 emissions were the driver of global warming? So…burning 10x as much hydrocarbons to generate an equivalent amount of energy for electricity is…better?
Can these grifters even hear themselves?
“We need a fake global crisis and we have to get the scientific community on board (to dramatically reduce human population) ” – Margaret Mead, Paul Erlicht and pals at the ’76? environmental conference. It was so evil and insane I never dreamt they would get any traction.
“The idea that his work shows EVs are worse for the environment would make sense only if you ignore the existence of climate change.”
Sounds to me like an admission that EVs are, in fact, worse for the environment in the short and medium term. Their benefits depend entirely on climate change, which is a long term problem (if it is a problem at all, of course).
Bingo.
Environmentalists have become a single ticket racket. It’s all climate change all the time. Of course huge strip mines in countries with virtual slave labor and a horrid track record of environmental catastrophes are no longer a big deal.
The best commercial ever made!
Sorry — nothing will ever beat Good investments don’t walk up — bit you on the bottom and say: We’re here for me. That’s still the GOAT.
This was in the sidebar
I mean, I love Volvos but that’s a little snotty.
Boxy, but safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikC6ewulkKs
Jaguar. For men who’d like handjobs from women they hardly know.
“United. Most of our passengers get there alive.”
Great movie.
Replace John Houseman with Drunken Orson Wells. “Waiter, another martini! I EARNED it!
Now, that would be a commercial!
Anyone remember this one? Still hilarious
Analysts say these are good arguments for smaller cars, cleaner grids, better mining, more recycling, more transit and walkable cities. They may support a case for plug-in hybrid vehicles; it depends how people use them.
But they’re not an environmental case for traditional gas cars. EVs still beat gas.
There is zero cost associated with a forced wholesale replacement of the transportation base.
“EVs still beat gas”
Numbers and evidence says otherwise.
“Analysts say these are good arguments for smaller cars”
I’ll take a big ol’ truck. Ain’t no smaller car in my future. If an electric hearse shows up I ain’t gettin’ in.
All of the breaking news! from the last 20 years has, without exception, been obvious shit we all already knew.
Also, the Diddy thing, I saw the pics from the parties. He pissed someone off. Hollywood trash has always had drug fueled screwin’ parties.
Linked on the chopstick page: ‘Bear wanders into middle school cafeteria in Colorado’
It was breakfast and they were serving Honey Nut Cheerios. What did they expect?
“…challenging macroeconomic conditions.” Is that what they are calling ‘deliberate destruction of the market’ these days? What happened to ‘Bidenomics’?
I don’t follow pop that much but I’m personally looking forward to finding out J Bieber was sodomized by P Diddy. I t involves a bet I made. long story.
I would normally not believe such a statement but you look like a seedy pickle so here we are.
Bacon with the sizzle.
Drug Fueled Screwin’ Parties!
Now that is a greatest hits album.
You know for libertarians we don’t have nearly enough of those.
Wait.
There’s women here right?
You know for libertarians we don’t have nearly enough of those.
Where’s that article about that guy with a cucumber up his butt?
I totally just hit on this entire message board.
But, you know, it’s cool if y’all aren’t into it.
There’s women here right?
In a group where the number three priority is butt sex?
No homo.
Spies on wheels
The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday proposed prohibiting key Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns – a move that would effectively bar nearly all Chinese cars from entering the U.S. market.
The planned regulation, first reported by Reuters, would also force American and other major automakers in the coming years to remove key Chinese software and hardware from vehicles in the United States.
The Biden administration has raised serious concerns about the collection of data by Chinese companies on U.S. drivers and infrastructure through connected vehicles as well as about potential foreign manipulation of vehicles connected to the internet and navigation systems. The White House ordered an investigation into the potential dangers in February.
Did Biden invite Shawn Fain to the announcement?
You can’t spy on American drivers. That’s our job.
How about commercial vehicle dash cams with cloud streaming? I’m sure there’s a foreign (already assume there’s multiple domestic) intelligence agency that is having a field day with the amount of streaming video they now have available.
I’ve seen a bunch of videos on twitter and on the ADV China podcast showing Chinese EVs just going out of control after getting rear-ended/tapped (small interactions) – running over people randomly and going the wrong direction down the road smashing into cars, motorcycles, pedestrians, etc.
Unlike some of the COVID scare vids out of China before it got over here…I don’t see these ones directly benefiting the CCP or their lackeys.
It is impossible to overstate – everything the chinese do is a scam from stem to stern. They are the lowest trust society in the world for good reason. To enter into any kind of deal with them, allow them in your house in any way, etc is beyond foolish.
The prohibitions would prevent testing of self-driving cars on U.S. roads by Chinese automakers and extend to vehicle software and hardware produced by other U.S. foreign adversaries including Russia.
“When foreign adversaries build software to make a vehicle that means it can be used for surveillance, can be remotely controlled, which threatens the privacy and safety of Americans on the road,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told a briefing.
“In an extreme situation, a foreign adversary could shut down or take control of all their vehicles operating in the United States all at the same time causing crashes, blocking roads.”
Robot kamikaze kars!
Back home from Honey Harvest. We were a few minutes late, and everyone had bailed out early. Very strange.
But we had a pleasant afternoon with Fourscore, Mrs. Fourscore, and Threescore.
Sweet!
Nice!
How was Grandview?
Great. We were over on Roy Lake about 1/2 mile or so from the main lodge.
Very quiet. The deck at the cabin sits about 3 feet back from the edge of the lake.
Threescore is a nice guy. I was glad to get to meet him.
MikeS, Was it you that told him to get a haircut?
No, that was you.
LOL!
Is this the cowboy son?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/09/the-abortion-pill-killed-these-women-its-supporters-blamed-pro-lifers/
I’m confused The National Review; are you saying judicial activism is good if it’s the outcome you like?
Not the NR! They are the bastion of consistency and principle!
Not sure why I always have to point it out – but compared to a lot of sites/magazines – NR does actually feature a variety of opinions and writers – they have “editors” pieces fairly often, but most of the others are individual writers and/or news.
Because you’re the only one here who reads it?
Snark aside, this is obviously a conservative writing it. For McLaughlin to bemoan SCOTUS standing on principle is a little, well, unprincipled. Maybe he can/has made some kind of principled, conservative argument in favor of SCOTUS doing whatever he wants it to do, but I’m skeptical.
What’s more is this came out the EXACT SAME WEEKEND that Democrats were hyperventilating because Repubs were joking about Haitians eating cats.
The spittle-flecked fact checks were everywhere. This was a HOAX. They were LIARS. this was SO RACIST.
…
Meanwhile, every Democrat shared this story. The Kamala campaign announced it. They made ads for it. it began appearing in publications. Etc.
…
And the story is obviously false. Doctors in Georgia were afraid of operating on women with an ALREADY DEAD fetus inside? Really? Who the fuck is dumb enough to believe this hysterical tripe?
People that want to believe it.
The same people who think the Republicans are going to start data-mining period tracker apps and prosecute women who miss a period without having a baby?
I did something crazy and actually read most of the Georgia abortion law. It’s not very long. There are exceptions: 1) “‘Medical emergency’ means a condition in which an abortion is necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman” and 2) “‘Medically futile’ means that, in reasonable medical judgment, an unborn child has a profound and irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly that is incompatible with sustaining life after birth.”
It seems both of those conditions would have allowed an abortion in the case they are trumpeting.
Narrator: They don’t care.
So, the letter to the world that Routh wrote apologizing for failure, was written and dropped off at his friends house before he headed to the golf course.
He had no intention of seeing this through.
I think more likely he just thought his prospects were slim.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Supposedly he wrote it months ago and apparently there was a whole box of letters.
I wonder if we will get to read the others.
They might just pocket the one where he comes out as transgender.
This guys whole schtick has been an attention grab. And he’s a nutter.
If it only costs a couple hundred thousand to mitigate instances of lead in the environment, why wasn’t the $15 million/year previously
spent on lead mitigation sufficient, Samantha?
Just had to get that off my chest
Also, keep Ben Franklin out yo mouf
The craft store, or $100 bills?
You really can’t fit a craft store in your mouth.
*facepalm*
Most lead in ‘the environment’ is naturally occurring. All of the money in the world wont do a damned thing about it.
There’s a Yosemite Sam punch line in there somewhere.
The GFS has the heaviest rain to our east, but the Euro has us in the very heavy rain bands.
It’s like IFLM
All Mammary Monday women are over 18 and therefore safe from President Biden.
https://archive.is/hHNfG
Are we still allowed to say “stewardesses”?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/f1/f1-legend-dubbed-ultimate-playboy-33728970
The old-timey language thread is up page a bit.
Yes.
Also, he’s lying. And probably gay.
So now dudes in dresses want into Daughters of the American Revolution and DAR is saying, “No fucking way.” I may get back into china patterns if I feel like they need help fighting the good fight. Yes, I am a DAR.
Somewhere around here I have my grandmothers DAR number. My mother still doesn’t believe this.
Well, I do declare!
If you want rocking animal tunes, Hatebeak is the only band to listen to.
Of course with songs like “Hellbent for feathers” and “Pecking Crew” I can see why Swiss might be biased against their metal pun attitude.
Dad turned 75 today. Great seafood dinner with the family. On the way home, he started musing and I (for the first time?) mused back, re: someone being so mindfucked to AKTSHUALLY ask “How is Trump bad?”
He eventually said “I think [Trump] is literally on par with Hitler.” Dad is politically clueless, but I semi figured his RAH-RAH XY spirit would carry through. Sad, as I really kinda will have to be extra careful about if I mention I’ll be voting for him to specifically spite the DEMocratic lawfare. Mom will listen but never budge. Bro and SiL have a pink pro-Harris sign on the yard, with the intersex symbol highly featured. Yuh-huh.