The Rams beat up on the Vikings. The World Series is finally starting. ManUre couldn’t even beat a Turkish side. And F1 is in Mexico this weekend. And that’s it for sports.
I hope everybody in this story loses. And based on the company’s financials, I might get my wish.
This is the Canada story all over again. I’m not sure who someone should apologize for the actions of others more than a century ago.
Good lord. We need to bring back some of the punishments we abandoned decades ago.
What a despicable piece of shit this woman is. By her logic, Billy Joel is the biggest Nazi of all time, since he’s played there a gazillion times.
I was told this never happened. Oh yeah, I forgot: we’re lied to all the time by politicians and media mouthpieces.
Jeez, lady. Relax. Oh well, I think prison is gonna suit her just fine.
Go get em, man! I hope he wins. But sadly, the people who violated his rights will not pay a dime or lose their jobs.
How is this the government’s business? That’s my first question. My second one is “are you fucking kidding me?”
The plaintiffs will never forget this lawsuit. Also, the answer to the headline question is no. They lack standing.
I applaud the honesty. And their strategy is probably the same as that of every other company out there. They were just nice enough to explain it.
This will actually be an interesting test case. I hope it gets to trial without being settled.
LATE BONUS LINK. No matter how much you might hate this admin, it’s not nearly enough.
Enjoy this raucous song. So many to choose from. I’ll go with this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends. Banjos and I are in Ohio for the Nebraska game and a little R&R.
“Despite having a dedicated “Request a Trader Joe’s in My City” section on the company website, the factors that determine whether a city will gain a new Trader Joe’s store are more mundane and also subjective.”
I’m missing how they were subjective…
It’s a journalist. Expecting them to know their difference between subjective and objective is a fool’s errand.
You knew damned well I’d come back with this link, Sloopy.
Now I regret posting that link in the first place.
Excuse me?
My town has one but I have never been. What is the big deal?
I only stop in when looking for yuppie grub ingredients not stocked at regular groceries before being forced to check Whole Paycheck.
They have some house label products that people seem to like but I’ve never tried them.
We don’t have that but we do have a “co-op” chain that has the same pricing strategy.
Some of their house brand products are supposed to be good. The house brand beer, I think, is from a good brewery. I haven’t been to one in years, but one of the things I liked about it was, it was relatively small and thus easy to navigate.
Reasonable prices and occasionally good, quirky products.
They usually discontinue the things I like. 🙁
We don’t go much anymore as a result.
https://www.whatsgoodattraderjoes.com/
Decent stuff in boxes and bags with vaguely “probematic” names, weak produce.
Cashiers in Hawaiian shirts.
Surprisingly affordable and good quality. Limited selection so you can get in and out quickly (good luck going fast when the store is crowded though).
Some cities are rejected for having mostly peaceful protests.
Ha!
A photo of Gibson, but no story about him.
Well played.
FREEEDOM! Friday!
Fweedom?
He’s on the woad again.
Hmm… is this why Sloopy thought of Mel?
Probably same source.
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/10/25/mel-gibson-kamala-has-the-iq-of-a-fence-post-n2402742
“What a despicable piece of shit this woman is. By her logic, Billy Joel is the biggest Nazi of all time, since he’s played there a gazillion times.”
This women is truly an entitled evil fuck. She now likely hates the country for denying her what she felt was hers.
She hates herself, most of all
I think she lacks the self awareness for that..
She hates herself, most of all
That would require human emotion and introspection.
She hated the country before she lost. Remember the basket of deplorables? That was before the election.
Hillary is a stone cold sociopath with zero awareness of other people’s humanity. That much is clear from watching her and listening to the things she has said. Her hatred began to glow white hot when Jerry Zeifman fired her from the Watergate investigation for being the “single most unprincipled person” he had ever met.
My question is ‘Why is this monster still in the public sphere?’.
Why? Because
Try again… Because especially now, it take a sociopath to run for any type of office. You have to have no shame and be ruthless. On the Dem side, it is a virtue to win at all costs.
Because, like Harris, she sucked the right dick. Let the right one in, and you too can be president.
I know it is cold — but turning off the spigot is the only way this stops. Turn off the spigot, start enforcing the border — stop making us an attractive place to move illegally. Then once we get things sorted out (and I have to think that cracking down on the chicken plants, farms, midwest factories, etc. exploiting these people), then we can move to streamline the legal process for the “high walls, wide door” type scenario.
It’s not cold. It’s the only logical solution.
Sloop, you’re asking for logic and reason…from our erstwhile ‘masters’. Not gonna happen.
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No welfare or benefits of any kind other than a ride back to where you came from.
I would be less kind.
Trebuchet, UCS?
You’re too kind, SDF.
I would be less kind.
Why? The vast majority of them aren’t monsters, they just want a better life. And they’re being told that if they come here -even illegally- they’ll be taken care of.
Mike: Why? Sometimes you have to shoot an admiral to encourage the others.
We didnt create this situation but we have to fix it. I dont want to hear about doe-eyed children. Fuck the doe-eyed children.
“Fuck the doe-eyed children.” Where the doe-eyed children at? – Diddy Combs
“Let’s shoot some illegal immigrants to send a message to the others” is an interesting comment from someone who’s on here daily calling people who disagree with him “evil”.
My answer was “You have a choice between going home or being shot.”
If we’re going to make an example, there are plenty of violent illegals to start with.
The replacement theory is totally a conspiracy theory.
Cut out 100% of the funding for NGO’s and prosecute the admins that have been actively waging war on the United States.
“How is this the government’s business? That’s my first question. My second one is “are you fucking kidding me?””
The amount of people that want government to be their mommy/daddy or boyfriend, is our problem. These are the people that keep growing this shitshow.
We need people to go back to seeing government as a necessary evil, and feel that we should immediately tar & feather the lot if they step over the line ever again.
I want government enforced bereavement leave for when a plant dies.
But you harvested it – and smoked it.
Apropos:
https://youtu.be/YWG4Utb_L8Q?si=Z5BFEoCsJqFHe5wY
Also relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohFHsOBuLc4
None of the govt’s business….and the next link about an elephant sueing a zoo for its freedom.
Someone wants the elephant free? Buy the damned critter and put it on one of those elephant sanctuary farms. If I had that kind of money I would. Hell, I love elephants but this is not govt business.
“Good lord. We need to bring back some of the punishments we abandoned decades ago”
Battle prep for a deep state loss in a couple weeks.
… an estimated 200+ juveniles were dropped off at Knight Park in Collingswood…
Yep. We know who the “juveniles” are and who will be dropping them off.
And no arrests. I’m sure everybody will be shocked and disappointed when it happens again, too.
This sort of thing should be the obvious counterpoint to the “If women ran the world there would be peace!” crowd. All humans have the capacity for cruelty (or in this case, insanity)… it isn’t testosterone driven.
The handful of surviving matriarchies in the world today live in such poverty that favela dwellers have a better standard of living.
“The plaintiffs will never forget this lawsuit. Also, the answer to the headline question is no. They lack standing.”
OK, is that because you expect the plaintiff to go around trumpeting their cause?
He’s no dumbo — he’ll have his evidence ready in his trunk.
We are not going to discuss what is in the room.
As always, I get in on the tail end of the puns.
At least you remembered to reply.
The payout will be peanuts.
Yeah — I want the Fishing Officer (or whatever the title is) who pretty obviously had a bug up his butt for this guy to lose his job… but it can’t be on constitutional grounds (unless he takes an oath to follow it) since the real fault is the unconstitutional law the PA legislature passed that says “Fuck the 4th… we do what we want!”
And that goes back to some sort of personal penalties for legislators (and probably the governor who signed it) for passing unconstitutional laws so they don’t just go “Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?” (Or in CA / NY’s case… “Well, let’s change this semicolon… now it is a new law and you must go through the courts again!”). I suspect the people in question are already dead given this has probably been on the books for some time.
The bill of rights declares rights inalienable. It does not restrict violation of those rights. to any given agency but to govt in general. Why is this even debatable?
“Because we know better than you how to run every aspect of your business and every nuance of private transactions! Duh!”
But the commies lost the Cold War….. sure….
That’s the point.
I recently read people complaining about car insurance premiums while calling for it to cover oil changes, maintenance, tires, …
Ugh… let’s take “What ruined the American health care system” and apply it to the car market. Bold strategy, Cotton.
Of course — since a lot of these are the same assholes who want all the plebes on mass transit….. they may know exactly how it will turn out and are just lying about the premium complaints.
Progressive anti-trust policy in this country owes nothing to Marx. That was and is just as much an assertion of regulatory expertise over actual experience.
I view communism and progressivism as branches of the same technocratic tree — rule by self appointed “experts”. I never claimed Marxism won. 😉
The only common root to both of those is the Enlightenment.
At some point in the future JI I would like very much to discuss in depth your misplaced disdain for the enlightenment.
I suspect we are using different definitions and viewpoints. I would prefer this forum as everyone can weigh in but perhaps I will write something lengthy and post on your personal forum.
I am up to my eyeballs in chores today.
Sorry, JI, but the common point is Plato.
Somebody dropped off too many migrants in Portugal. American and European patience is going to wear dangerously thin.
https://rmx.news/article/mass-riots-continue-in-lisbon-following-police-shooting-of-cape-verdean-immigrant/
Kill them all – let God sort them out.
Amazing how the American press is not touching that story, but at least Microsoft helpfully points out that it’s all the far right’s fault.
Of course it is. sarc
Water Conservation Officer, not even a game warden?
This is the fundamental problem with the concept of sovereignty and the state’s police power.
Last time around, Trump was a Russian agent. Now he’s a Nazi. Does she know that they were on opposite sides of a war?
Also – hasn’t Madison Square Garden demolished and rebuilt a bunch of times since then? So sadly the MAGA Nazi rally won’t really be in the same location.
Yes, it was at a different location at that time. The current location opened in the late sixties.
Don’t be silly, Putin is a Nazi too!
He’s a super evil Russo-Nazi!!!1
I have bought a Kayak to go on the lake at my moms house. I was not sure if I should get a sit in or sit on top and in the end got a seat in. Then I realized while I googled advantages and disadvantages, I could have also asked for opinions around here, which I usually do, and I didn’t. And now I wonder why it literally did not occur to me on this topic to ask opinions around here. Strange.
I got the sit in because it looked more boat like and more maneuverable than the sit on top. the sit on top was cheaper and being a calm lake, probably just as good. But it looked funny.
I was pretty sure you sit in the kayak to keep the center of gravity lower and reduce roll-over risks.
sit on
https://s13emagst.akamaized.net/products/74837/74836334/images/res_112739dc3944478c43e24cd2d0b48c61.jpg
and sit in
https://s13emagst.akamaized.net/products/41694/41693250/images/res_878f77037b16c923714c4cc18df9dcec.jpg
I would not trust the red one.
Depends on what you want to do with it. Do you need to have a tragic boating accident, with loss of personal property? Or are you using this for carving rapids?
I wasn’t even aware there is a non-sit-in kayak… I thought those were termed “paddleboards”.
Obligatory.
paddleboards you stand on, not sit
apparently sit on tops are slightly more stable but ore likely to get wet in them. anyhoo I got the sit in I will see how it goes
I’ve never used a sit on kayak.
We have 12 foot sit in ones that are extremely stable, the sit on ones would make me nervous.
Two factors involved: 1. Lower center of gravity, as mentioned, is more stable. 2. How are your hips and knees? I cant sit long on the ‘in’ seats in my canoe before it becomes torture.
How are your hips and knees – pretty good overall
Well, Olbermann seems nucking futs…
That wasn’t just a complete bs story a few days ago. It was the bat-signal for the left to go nuts. If Trump wins, they’ll try to kill and / or disqualify him. If that doesn’t work, 4 years of insanity.
Yeah. Not looking forward to that.
I hope we learned our lesson from 2020.
Unfortunately, I think it is the left that learned their lesson from 2020…. and 2017-2020.
I fortell lies, lawfare, riots and bureaucratic subtrifuge on a massive scale.
bureaucratic subtrifuge on a massive scale
Probably the biggest roadblock. Id rather it be Congress though. Hopefully Trump doesn’t go straight Pen and Paper nuts
Seems?
I assume he tweeted that immediately after reading this trash article.
Global calls for reparations are only growing louder. Why is Britain still digging in its heels?
Hilary Beckles
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/24/britain-caribbean-slave-trade-commonwealth-summit
I dont care about the article but the title is stupid. Why the fuck wopuld global calls for anything matter? anyone can call for anything.
Calls for Emily Ratajkowski to fuck Pie are getting louder, Why is Emily still digging in her heels?
Britain paid in full when it ENDED the Atlantic trade, not just it’s own involvement, but shutting down all traffic.
The attitude is If my ancestor Ug from the Paleolithic was wronged in any way shape or form by your ancestor Thrug, no matter how miniscule the wrong was (including what Ug thought was a dirty look), you owe me forever and a day.
Blood guilt.
Turn ’em into fertilizer.
You realize that Ug and Thrug’s children got married and all of their decendants are the same people?
THRUG SAY TIME TO GET MARRIED AND BURY THE HATCHET AND BY BURY THE HATCHET MEAN…
The comments below this and all the negativity towards reparations is just depressing.
Why are British people just not prepared to even have a conversation? Is it not the very LEAST you can do ? And do NOT reply with “we ended slavery” because it will expose your lack of knowledge.
https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1849552033331724633
Just saying NO is enough conversation
Wow. That was a short ride from “I’m just looking to have a conversation” to “shut up while I lecture to you”.
The other day I saw an estimate that hit 6.6 quadrillion dollars, LOL.
But no… the whole point of this silliness is to continue to lecture wypipo and to enrich various grifters.
Nobody who is not already feeding at the trough is going to see a dime.
Hm.
Wait…. does this mean i can start putting out calls for 1988 Kathy Ireland to run away with me to an island in the south pacific?
Why is 1988 Kathy Ireland digging in her heels?
Well, to start, you have the 36 years since 1988…
Don’t you opress me!
Grievance mongers dont give a flying shit about any of their fake grievances. They are grifters wanting money. “Fuck off” is the only proper response.
Why is Britain still digging in its heels?
Because they are the ones that ended the Atlantic slave trade.
And Keir Starmer’s Labour government has asserted that it will not – now or ever – participate in the payment of any form of reparation.
Broken clocks…
Every time I see “Keir Starmer”, I think of a retard that was undoubtedly bullied as a child.
Trader Joe’s is a business, not a public service. They are in the business of making money like all other businesses.
Of course a lot of their business model is based on feels. It will shake out the way it shakes out. I have no dog in this fight.
Every time I think America is turning a corner and is about to be great, I see a story like this and realize we’re completely fucked.
Stop othering us low carbers!
*I still don’t want one.
To avoid carbs, I’ve done cubano wraps with the pickle and cheese in the middle and ham on the outside. Much classier.
I’ve found that the recent variety of keto tortiallas available have been a godsend. They don’t have the flavor problems of low-carb bread, or the texture problems you often get with keto options. Plus they have the expected amount of strength and foldability of a regular tortilla.
Just be glad they didn’t turn their eyes to lettuce wraps — and do Kimchee wraps.
Achshually, you can order your sub as an “Unwich” wrapped in iceberg lettuce, and it works fine IF wrapped well enough to hold everything together. But no Kimchee AFAIK.
Turkish F-16s flying over the Hel Peninsula in Poland.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1849616529035268392
Where is Jan Sobieski when you need him
Odd place for them to be.
On the blade runner case, I’m not sure that AI really enters into the equation.
If they had told a CGI studio to make the same clip in the style of Blade Runner, the result is the same.
I’m not sure you can claim “dusty, dystopian futute” as a trademark or copyright.
for some reason when I hear blade runner these days I first think of the people in England who destroy the surveillance cameras and call themselves that
I dare say there might be some fallout from that legal position, yes.
Ooh… fallout looks just like that….
I want a Johnny Cab dystopian future.
Pretty sure under copyright law you can imitate, but you can’t replicate.
This is just another anti-Musk lefty temper fit.
Incredible work 🫡
https://x.com/LeoKearse/status/1849174001848914243
A substantial reduction of #Alzheimers disease associated with semaglutide (Ozempic) in > 1 million people with Type 2 diabetes from a nationwide data resource
https://x.com/EricTopol/status/1849455909879140656
Whaaaaat?
I have never heard that blood glucose levels were involved in Alzheimers, but in addition to semaglutids, another drug that lowers blood sugar by a different mechanism also had protective effects (to a lesser degree).
Interesting clue
So…. turns out that over 80% of alzheimers patients have type 2 diabetes.
So…. there ya go.
Some in the low carb space have been calling Alzheimers type 3 diabetes for a while now and there was some evidence of blood sugar being involved, but as all evidence in the disease not that clear
Everything is remembered had to do with amyloid plaques, and treatments centered on clearing or preventing them from forming.
amyloid plaques were the prevailing theory because the leading “experts” made their career on that and nothing else was being researched. clearing or preventing them from forming often made things worse which would indicate they were not a cause rather the defense of the body to some other cause. SO taking away the defense without taking away the cause made things worse.
there have been m,any allegations of fraud in research this being one of the more prominent
https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion
the problem imo was almost no research in other directions other than amyloid plaques, despite zero progress and tens of billions spent over 40- years. If you get zero progress, just put a quarter of the funding to search in other directions.
Yeah, we basically wasted a generation’s worth of progress on Alzheimer’s due to fraud.
And some of you are opposed to the death penalty.
Yeah, we basically wasted a generation’s worth of progress on Alzheimer’s due to fraud.
80’s AIDS victims say “join the club.”
some evidence of blood sugar being involved
Did you know that some people have calling Alzheimer type 3 diabetes for some time now?
It’s not blood sugar per se that’s the problem. Much like type 2 diabetes – blood sugar is not the problem there either. It’s only the diagnostic/symptom. The underlying issue is insulin resistance and what energy substrate is available to the brain.
You can have normal blood sugar for decades with highly elevated insulin keeping it under control. But we don’t test for insulin, just blood sugar because it’s easy. So you can be in a diseased state (chronic hyperinsulemia) for decades before symptoms appear – elevated blood sugar due to loss of insulin sensitivity at the cell owing to chronically elevated insulin.
The same thing happens at the brain. When the brain losses insulin sensitivity – after decades of elevated insulin – it can no longer use glucose as an energy source. The insulin signaling to pull glucose in is compromised; without energy, parts of the brain start shutting down and dying (I would speculate that amyloid is response to this brain tissue death, not a cause). Strangely, the brain can still use ketones as an energy substrate since there is no signaling necessary and no barrier to pulling ketones into the brain. So there is some initial work indicating efficacy in ketogenic diets for stabilizing degenerative cognitive disease. But much better to just make sure you don’t live your whole life with chronically elevated insulin – I suspect that will significantly reduce Alzheimer risk.
Did you know that some people have calling Alzheimer type 3 diabetes for some time now? – first I hear of it
Alzheimers is being called Type 3 diabetes.
My wife sees a lot of stuff that asserts that Alzheimers is type 3 Diabetes. As usual, sugar is the problem.
Link is not clear. Perhaps low carb people are also more active physically?
What difference does it make really, eat fewer carbs and move around more. Neither one of those have drawbacks whether they affect dimentia or not, whether one or the other does…whatever.
Eat fewer carbs and get off of. your ass.
With that I am off to split some wood.
For some time now Alzheimers has also been called Type Three Diabetes.
yes it has been mentioned several times.
Three times?
Did you know… And I’m sure you’ve never heard this before… That some people call Alzheimers type 3 diabetes?
NO WAY!!!!!! FRFRFR???
shit I should have said NO CAP I am slow today
All joking aside – if that’s possible for me or this crowd in general – I think that’s a correct identification. The etiology in both Type 2 and Type 3 is the same, near as I can tell.
Now whether either should be called diabetes – that’s a different question. They actually have nothing to do with diabetes (Type 1) and in fact are rooted in exactly the opposite problems. Beta cells not producing insulin (Type 1) vs way to much much insulin being produced by (for the time being) healthy beta cells in response to environmental conditions.
I also have been seeing it that way for a while now.
what is your position on kayaks?
what is your position on kayaks?
Reverse Cowgirl. Nice and stable.
Some say that Alzheimer’s is being called Type 3 diabetes.
Did they? I don’t remember.
Chortle.
Still, tougher than most of the questions for Kamala….
For me, the funny part was the initial response
This is from 1948, in case you were wondering whether things have always been stupid
https://x.com/CrankyFed/status/1849238073881604123
I wonder if Hitler was accused of being Hitler when he ran for President of Germany in 1932?
He was literally Schicklgruber.
I imagine the Napolean comparisons were prevalent.
I’m not sure who someone should apologize for the actions of others more than a century ago.
The sins of the father shall be visited upon the son…but only if the father and son are white.
She explained: ‘Neo-Nazis, fascists, in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don’t think we can ignore it.’
So it’s a basket of
deplorablesnazis then. Keep attacking the voters, witch.The titular second fiddle of a fascist government calling her opponent a fascist. Got it.
“the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany”
I dunno. If memory serves, the open borders, Net Zero, etc. crowd was pledging their support for the Dems.
“With the federal government’s open border policy, these immigration population outbursts have been left for small villages like Lockland to have to deal with,” Mayor Mark Mason told WCPO.
Send them to Martha’s Vineyard.
Uncivil – thought you’d be pleased to know that I bought the Prince in the North Tower and read it in three sittings. I enjoyed it. Thanks for writing it and putting it out there.
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Daily Loud
@DailyLoud
BREAKING: Lil Durk has been arrested and is being charged “Murder For Hire”
He currently is being held with No Bond.
https://x.com/DailyLoud/status/1849692374894600533
Ben Sixsmith
@BDSixsmith
This will come as a tremendous shock to fans of his rap classics “Killing People”, “Ordering Hits” and “I Am the Organisational Force Behind An Extensive Series of Crimes”
A St. Petersburg woman is behind bars after she attempted to set fire to her ex-girlfriend’s home, knowing her family was inside, according to an affidavit.
Looks like the relationship went up in flames.
That’s terrible, you’re fired!
I want people to know what’s gone on at my property, and to my family, and how our rights were trampled.
The gov’t has spent generation after generation betraying the citizens. Ain’t about to change.
These agencies need to be defunded and disbanded but I will settle for a little nut-cutting. For now.
New York City Council is considering allowing pet owners to use paid sick leave to care for their animals.
They seem intent on driving every business out of the city. I’ll allow it.
That depends…where are they going?
October 23rd, 1999.
Twenty five years ago today, Norm Macdonald returned to Saturday Night Live as host 18 months after his firing and delivered an all-timer of a monologue.
https://x.com/MikeBeauvais/status/1849054829076693466
You’re not one of those fuckin’ teachers are you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7az23QCJBnQ
Can’t we all come together and agree that the horrors perpetrated at any Billy Joel show, not just the ones at MSG, far eclipse anything the German-American Bund ever did?
Yes
My wife is fine, but Wednesday she got in a car wreck. As she went through an intersection with a green light, a woman going the other way turned left, right into the driver side front corner.
https://imgur.com/gallery/crashed-corolla-no-injuries-dfhRd4c
The other lady got a ticket, and the police said my wife was not at fault, so the other lady’s insurance, Progressive, should handle it.
We also have a 12% car replacement policy with USAA. I have no idea how that works, hopefully we can afford to replace it and don’t end up with a piece of crap.
They haven’t said yet, but I’m assuming the car is totaled.
Any recommendations for a replacement car?
This one was a 2009 Corolla that we bought new in 2008, KBB value was around $5,500.
My wife is not happy, she loved her little car.
Glad she is ok. I recommend a brand new Dacia.
Buying a whole geographic regions seems a bit out of Ron’s price range.
Ron told his wife to be stoic about it.
Now Ron is stoic ally sleeping on the couch.
Ron told his wife to be stoic about it.
Now Ron is stoically sleeping on the couch.
you can say that again
Never heard of those before, but they look hideous.
Thems fightin words Dacia is the pride of the Romanian automotive industry
If she liked it, I would look around for another 2009 Corolla as the first step. That era of Toyotas is bullet-proof if maintained.
That’s what she said, but I am a little leery of buying something that old for her.
She flies to Okinawa on Sunday for 8 weeks, so we have time to figure it out.
My family has in its arsenal a 2000 Toyota Tundra, a 2007 Toyota FJ, and a 2006 Toyota 4Runner. None of them even hiccup. They’re all one-owner vehicles, though.
Glad to hear your wife is OK.
Yes, same as well. Especially after seeing those photos with airbag deployments. I do hope Mrs ron continues to be ok.
I’d concur on a total. I’m of a two minds for newer cars, but there are improvements in some areas.
Glad she is well. That sounds like a close one.
Like all large institutions the justification for their existence is far in the rearview mirror.
The justification for mandatory auto insurance was always “People used to get really screwed”
My answer now is “Have you talked to anyone that has been in an accident lately?”
I hope it all goes well with you and the Mrs. just keep a close eye on the insurance guys.
I don’t know about the 12% car replacement thing, but we have USAA too. They treated us well when my son totalled his car.
Get her a Canyonero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA
Glad she’s OK.
2010s Sonata.
Justice Melissa Hart said during Thursday’s hearing, wondering whether this ruling might someday lead to emancipating people’s pets.
Sure. Emancipate them. If you want them to die.
Five elephants in a Colorado zoo could someday sue for their freedom, if the state’s Supreme Court sides with an animal rights group and declares them “persons” under the law. But first, the justices had a few questions about cats and dogs.
Animals are not people. Animals do not have rights.
I see emancipated pets along the road on the way to work sometimes.
It doesn’t elevate the value of animal life, it devalues human life.
This.
Justice Melissa Hart
Clarissa Explains The Law
“…if. you want them to die.”
They dont give a fuck about that. What they want is you on your back showing your belly.
ArtNouveauDeco
@NouveauDeco
Art Nouveau doors from c. 1900 in Rosario, Argentina.
https://x.com/NouveauDeco/status/1849124656462127178
The Biden-Harris administration has allowed 700,000 illegal immigrants to remain in the United States indefinitely after closing their cases in immigration court despite them not being decided by a judge, according to a new report.
Let millions of criminal aliens in under the facade of asylum, overburdening the court system. Dismiss the “asylum” cases because they simply cannot be processed. Replace American citizens with a serf class of partially “legal” residents.
Add gaslighting
Can we keep our gas stoves and ditch the gaslighting?
The Rams beat up on the Vikings.
Pope Jimbo and I have a combined experience of more than 100 years with Vikings fandom. Neither of us is surprised.
I understand the refs were blind. Like in all sportsball games.
They were mostly bad, like always. But they missed a ridiculous face mask at the end that pissed everyone off.
That missed facemask was terrible, but they still were probably going to lose.
Friday Funbags doing the emotional labor.
https://archive.is/Fj3R0
But Trump is the fascist…
We need to arrest and detain
@elonmusk
immediately.
He is operating on behalf of Russia. Cancel all contracts, seize his facilities, lock him away in a military facility.
Now, @potus.
Not tomorrow.
Yeah. Also, cancel the election and install Kamala the Wise. Long may she reign.
Is he the worst victim of TDS?
He used to be mildly entertaining on ESPN, but has turned into an idiotic asshole.
Maybe Stephen King or Mark Hamill are the other contenders for the crown.
Olberman lost his mind during Bush II
His audience that sends him money is comprised of idiotic assholes. He may (or may not, who knows) just be a dancing monkey trying to get trinkets and coins.
Have you heard Robert DeNiro lately?
Racheal Maddow.
Maddow is just a cynical opportunist – she works like, what, one day a week now for the biggest contract on cable TV.
“ We need to arrest and detain
@elonmusk
immediately.”
So mote it be. The King o’ the Tards hath spoken.
At least Shia LaBeouf had the decency to just yell at a brick wall.
I am convinced that LaBeouf actually has untreated mental illness – not in the way we joke about somewhat deranged people on the other side of the political spectrum, but in the “potentially serious trouble living” way.
Apparently he’s a raging alcoholic which should go a long way towards explaining his behavior.
https://www.watchmojo.com/articles/the-tragic-life-of-shia-labeouf
Judging by the homeless, that’s not a mutually esclusive condition. In fact, using acohol to self-medicate mental illness is a longstanding problem.
Another Disney child star success story.
The past few mornings a couple fighters have made low altitude overflights of my neighborhood. Cargo overflights for training at Hill are not unusual, but fighters are.
I’m convinced that the October surprise will be war in the ME.
https://x.com/KimDotcom/status/1849765137542152243
In what way would that actually sway the election towards the dems?
NO NUCLEAR WAR UNTIL I GET TO DRINK THE WINE I AM AGING !!!!!
Lovely.
In what way would that actually sway the election towards the dems?
The “can’t change horses midstream” midwit vote.
There was a carrier group that was supposed to replace a different group in the area, now both have been ordered to stay. This was a few weeks ago.
We’re well past that stage. You’d have to have started the war last year to reach midstream. Anything started now we’d be on the banks and the question is “who do you think would handle this problem better?” which would not be cackles.
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/kamala-campaign
I want to believe.
It seems believable. The Dem party overall has become a freak show and this campaign a complete train wreck.
Hindsight says this was all inevitable and obvious in 2020. Or one could go back to 2008 when they put up a pure socialist nobody as a blank slate.
A guy in the throes of dementia blurts out on stage, “I’m going to pick a woman of color to be my running mate!” without bothering to check who’s on the bench. And here we are.
Do I have that right?
Doug has scandals? You wouldn’t know it by watching the MSM.
She needs to be careful going after Doug.
Those are all good qualities in a babysitter.
‘Now, it may be a leap for some people, and a lot of others may think ‘I don’t want to go there. I don’t want to say that.’ But please, open your eyes to the danger that this man poses to our country, because I think it is clear and present for anybody paying attention,’ Clinton concluded.
Institutionalize her.
They’ve given up on the Better Argument strategy and moved right on to the Please Leftie Nutcase Take Another Shot strategy. It’s obvious that’s what they’re trying to do.
Hey, she is toning down the rhetoric. Give her a break.
But they missed a ridiculous face mask at the end that pissed everyone off.
That wasn’t his face mask, it was his chinstrap.
Nope.
They wouldn’t have gone 98 yards anyway.
Vox:
How “Trump is a fascist” became Kamala’s closing argument
tl;dr- desperation
It’s nice to see that nobody seems to be falling for that. People who already thought Trump was a fascist are being validated.
The stench of desperation
The Biden administration introduced a new proposal Friday to deliver student loan forgiveness to Americans who experience “financially devastating hardships.”
Qualification rules are vague, but examples of a hardship that could make a borrower eligible for the aid include the potential economic ruin caused by a natural disaster, or a massive, unexpected medical bill.
Some borrowers could see the loan relief automatically, while others would likely have to apply for it, an Education Department official told reporters on a call Thursday.
Vote for Kamala and your sins will be forgiven.
But Elon’s lottery scheme is vote buying.
If you use tax money it’s virtuous.
Just got this
I paid off my student loans and am not GovSec. Why should I have to subsidize you lot.
We sailed right past “this is not constitutional” didn’t we.
They’ve been told 3 times. Used to be once you got slapped down by the SC, you cut that shit out.
Is “I paid a quarter million dollars for a worthless degree and now I’m unemployable at the level it would take to repay it” an example of “financially devastating hardship”?
Fasten your seat belts
Progressive Democrats warn Kamala Harris risks losing the support of a small but significant portion of her political base unless she changes her campaign’s closing message — and its messengers — immediately.
Specifically, several progressive leaders believe that the Democratic nominee has been too focused on winning over moderate Republicans in recent days at the expense of her own party’s passionate liberals. And they say that Harris’ closing message, which is increasingly centered on Republican Donald Trump and the threat he poses to U.S. democracy, ignores the economic struggles of the nation’s working class.
Some far-left leaders are also irked that Harris has shared the stage in recent days with former House Republican leader Liz Cheney and billionaire businessman Mark Cuban while progressive icons like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been relegated to low-profile roles.
They’re coming in for a hard landing.
That bloodthirsty capitalist Marc Cuban. 🙄
Mr. Radio On The Internet has mostly just been the fortunate recipient of what objectively may have been the worst business deal in modern history. He then increased that fortune by, uh, buying a basketball team and holding onto it for a bunch of years.
I am hopeful that what we are seeing is the end of the Democrat party. I am not hopeful that something better will replace it. Party or not we are still stuck with all of the authoritarians…they wont evaporate with the party.
The lesson they will have learned is that the didn’t go far enough left.
Less than two weeks before Election Day, Harris is trying to assemble a sprawling coalition featuring voting groups with conflicting priorities.
She’s relying on the traditional Democratic base — African Americans, Latinos and young people who overwhelmingly lean left. Harris’ team is aware that some liberals are frustrated by her approach, especially on her support for Israel’s war against Hamas. But the campaign sees a major opportunity to expand her coalition by winning over disaffected Republicans, especially college-educated voters in the nation’s suburbs, who are uneasy about Trump.
From the Harris campaign’s perspective, the focus on moderate Republicans at this moment is simply a matter of math.
Fuck the radical base. What are they going to do, vote for the fascist?
“Behold my smooth, brown vagina! How could you possible vote for anyone else?!”
That thing is smooth!
Totally forgot about that one.
Frustrated progressives do not discount the need to warn voters of Trump’s authoritarian leanings, but some wish her closing message was more focused on addressing voters’ overwhelming pessimism about the state of the economy and the direction of the country.
We must turn the page on malaise and discontent.
By re-electing the people who brought you malaise and discontent.
“Why don’t you try putting forth an actual platform?” isn’t that bad a message to send to Harris/Walz. A little too late, though.
To be sure, Harris is not ignoring the economy or other progressive priorities.
She has outlined plans to crack down on price gouging by corporations to help reduce the cost of groceries in addition to reducing the cost of prescription drugs, cutting taxes on the middle class while raising taxes on billionaires, offering a $25,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyers to help lower housing costs, and expanding Medicare to cover vision and hearing coverage, among other things.
We just need more government involvement in the economy. You know, a strong partnership between government and big business, to collectively steer the country into prosperity.
Why does the phrase, “strength through joy” come to mind?
Freude macht frei.
Vorsprung durch Technik?
http://www.ausmotive.com/images2011/Audi-Vorsprung-durch-Technik-01.jpg
Has she made any proposals to deal with tax gougers?