Hug your loved ones, folks.
Links?
Okay, it’s our turn now! I’m thinking military installations or Natanz.
And now it looks like America’s wang is about to get flushed.
At least one country gets it. I feel sorry for the Dominican Republic.
It’s almost like the planet likes it a little warmer with more CO2.
Okay, that’s it for me. Peace out, Glibbies.
Nice try, WordPress! Not today. Not today.
Take this First and ram it into your stomach!
Spoken like a true Seconder
Ram it Down.
There it is.
Been there done that…thousands of time. /Gaia
Or, once again, we reverse cause and effect.
I’d like to read the actual paper on this rather than the journo’s babble.
Florida says ‘bring it’
Seriously, stay safe wang of America glibs.
Even as Hurricane Helene was pressing toward the Florida coast, AccuWeather’s team of expert meteorologists had been monitoring part of the Gulf of Mexico for yet another round of tropical trouble. On Saturday afternoon, Tropical Storm Milton formed, just hours after becoming a tropical depression, and it was expected to intensify and strike the Florida Peninsula next week as a hurricane, with torrential rain, wind and the likelihood of flooding.
Go ‘way! Batin’!
Activists have long criticized the administration of President Luis Abinader for what they say are ongoing human rights violations of Haitians and those of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic. Abinader has denied any mistreatment.
Stay on your own fucking side of the fence, and there won’t be any “human rights violations.” Problem solved.
Tropical Storm Milton
Milt?
I love you (no homo).
I was thinking the same thing.
Tropical Storm Milton is hung like a horse.
https://flaglerlive.com/091128qt-milton-berle-big-dick/
If they don’t return my stapler I’ll flood Florida.
From the schizophrenia article:
A recent study from researchers in China and the United States…
Well, fuck. That’s not a good mix.
One schizodemic, coming up!
Coming up? I’d say we’re soaking in it.
The Antarctic peninsula is warming faster than the global average, with extreme heat events happening more often, meaning the amount of vegetation there has ballooned.
Wait, there’s stuff growing on the rocks? I’m not lichen that at all.
Guess there’s never been anything there before….ever. It’s all humanity’s fault.
Did some quick math…
In 40 years, the percentage of Antarctica’s landmass that was covered in vegetation, went from 0.0000070% all the way up to 0.0000845%
Core samples have shown plenty of decayed vegetation under all that ice.
Antartica has coal beds because at one point (well ashkully several) it was near the equator.
As Roberto Duran once said, “No, moss”.
New Internet Historian Incognito Mode on AI is hilarious. The songs they make up are amazing.
I’m watching that Trump rally. He gets on stage, puts up that chart, and says “As I was saying…”
“As I was saying…”
It was quite something.
“As I was saying…”
Nice.
He may ramble, but he’s got a good sense of humor.
Elon Musk just showed up.
That’s one of those rare covers where it is better than the original. And that was basically it for the man.
It was a shame, he was just starting to get some recognition and Cancer got him.
I doubt the mission includes anything like the Salvadoran approach.
“You mean, giving money to gang members doesn’t reduce the number of gang members? That’s not what our model says!”
I can only assume we’re paying both sides, too.
“There is a broad recommendation within the IDF to respond to the Iranian attack while minimizing risks and maximizing opportunities.”
That right there is the kind of bold thinking that wins wars.
Uh oh. New tropical storm, and FEMA is already broke 5 days into the fiscal year.
Man, I forgot – new FY on Oct 1. And the Continuing Resolution means the same money to the same accounts.
Look, they may have given money to house migrants…a lot of money, but money isn’t fungible or anything. It was a completely separate program! Like Planned Parenthood. not using tax money on abortions They keep the money in different accounts and everything.
“Green Island in the Antarctic Peninsula, despite the name, is greener than expected”
I dunno. With a name like Green Island, I expect it to be pretty damn green. Just how green is it?
Kind of makes it hard to believe anything else they write in the article
Norse marketing strikes again?
Beer.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Get in here, assholes
Mojeaux announced she would be absent and look what happens 😭
WaPo headline:
Helene response hampered by misinformation, conspiracy theories.
“Misinformation” prevents moving supplies into place, or actively helping those in need?
Sounds legit.
🙄
I don’t understand this fed response at all. And it’s obvious it’s a fiasco, because the media is providing cover.
They don’t want to criticize their friends.
The fucking article summarizes a bunch of hearsay and calls it out as fact.
Bonus. Wonder how they found person to quote?
One day after Hurricane Helene slammed into Asheville, N.C., leading to seven trees falling on her house and destroying her roof, Nicole McNeill read an alarming article that warned a second storm was barreling toward the area.
McNeill, 43, had a panic attack, her anxiety spiking and her heart pounding. She knew she didn’t have enough gasoline in her car to evacuate from yet another disaster.
“The second storm turned out to be a nonsensical rumor,” said McNeill, who works at a strategic communications firm focused on climate change. “And when you are with limited cell service and you come across misinformation, you can make a split-second decision that can have life-or-death consequences.”
Oh, there’s more than enough bullshit to go around.
strategic communications firm focused on climate change
Speaking of bullshit generation.
Doom. DOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!
Are they sending them to Haiti first, or just skipping the middleman and sending them directly to the US?
Domestic violence
Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti’s main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing widespread shock even in a country grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence.
More people were severely injured in the attack in the early hours of Thursday at Pont-Sonde, in the agricultural region of Artibonite in western Haiti. Gran Grif gang leader Luckson Elan took responsibility for the massacre, saying it was in retaliation for civilians remaining passive while police and vigilante groups killed his soldiers.
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The gang members set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in the Caribbean nation that has seen many massacres and little justice for their victims.
That’s liable to get you a somber tut-tut-ing from the U N.
You don’t think it rises to “strongly worded letter” level?
Unpossible. I have it on good authority that mass shootings only occur in America.
I blame global warming.
Or two tickets to Springfield, OH signed “Joe Biden”.
Food is Medicine:
https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1841867678912328048
exploding from less than one square kilometre in 1986 to almost 12 square kilometres in 2021.
OH
MY
GOD!
In 40 more years it’ll be like 1% of Antarctica. According to our model, which is never ever wrong.
Too soon?
*golf clap*
There it is.
“The second storm turned out to be a nonsensical rumor,” said McNeill, who works at a strategic communications firm focused on climate change.
It was probably an e-mail from her own organization.
I seem to recall there was talk of another hurricane forming, and in fact there is another one brewing in the Gulf. It’s not hard to see how that could morph into the belief that another hurricane is headed their way. Wrong, maybe, but I wouldn’t call it nonsensical.
The U.N. estimated at the end of September that 3,661 people had been killed in the gang violence since January. It believes the gangs are armed largely by guns trafficked from the United States.
Nearby countries including the Dominican Republic and U.S. have meanwhile continued to deport migrants back to Haiti.
Those darn Hoosiers, exporting death and terror.
They sure get around.
Some of us do.
Did you just call TOK a slut?!?!
No; Pete Buttigieg.
Times are tough, what with inflation and all. Gotta make a living somehow.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday urged a halt to deliveries of arms to Israel that can be used in its war against Hamas in Gaza, drawing a furious reaction from Jerusalem.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/macron-calls-to-stop-sending-israel-weapons-that-can-be-used-in-gaza-fighting/
But he wants to send trainers to Ukraine.
The Russian monitory in France isn’t big enough to worry about. And they are less explosive.
Why are the Padres’ unis so shiny?
MLB unis took a lot of heat from players about being extra shitty this year. New designer/producer. Got press! Folk do have inventive ways of making things more complicated.
Go for the Costanza cotton strategy for best results!
OMG Mattingly split his pants!
/my first thought
Oh, dear. Don Mattingly is hands-down Evansville’s ‘best’ cultural figure. Not sure if just Seinfeld or meta within, but sharp.
Him and Rosanne’s exterior shots are in Evansville. Their home is on a street my friend lived in in college. Producer Matt Williams is from here. I’m glad I haven’t been there in at least a decade. With no more family home or Schlotzky’s Deli, what’s the point?
Nice. I love that show.
“If the growth of reason is to continue, and human rationality to survive, then the diversity of individuals and their opinions, aims, and purposes must never be interfered with.”
– Karl Popper
Dangit! You said the word and I am out of bourbon.
Diversity.
I too am out of bourbon. But, there’s always the rye. Don’t mind if I do
Casino Royale remains the best Bond movie Daniel Craig is, naturally, the best Bond.
That movie has my favorite Bond Song.
https://youtu.be/HlQsC-o2y5c?si=2pywnB2OIrcTZSTr
I thought it was a little too campy.
I was always firmly in the Connery camp until Craig came along. He has that extra edginess, and his portrayal of Bond is closest to Fleming’s Bond.
Agreed – Fleming’s Bond was a brute, and Craig was the first to get that right.
I read the first few novels, and Craig in “Casino Royale” matches book Bond better than the previous actors.
Book Bond gets beaten up almost as much as Harry Dresden.
I want to watch Lazenby’s movie, and the Dalton films.
I like Connery originals ‘best’ for fun. Also for their then damn cutting-edge take on things and the fun of the 60s. The early ones are legit, good films.
However, I tend to agree. Craig and Royale are the necessary Bond grittiness the 21st needed. Well-written, acted, directed and everything. Great internal gut punches as well as the physicality. Bond knowing he got poisoned and chugging salt water to puke? Yep. Accurate! And his return and the fantastic ‘DAMMIT!’ internal anger of the villain. Clever and beautifully excellent, throughout. I think his second was pretty good as well, IIRC. The third, less- so.
I haven’t seen the one where Bond dies, but I like the idea (someone else posited elsewhere): “James Bond” is merely a military code name. Hence all the actors and eras. Makes sense to ‘end’ one of the Bonds that way. It does bite into 007s invincibility, but so it goes. Can’t nuthin’ always be the same.
The “Agent Bond Hypothesis”.
Some people get considerably upset at the idea that there are multiple James Bonds.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/JamesBond
https://collider.com/james-bond-codename-theory/
Vesper Lynn? The most beautiful Bond girl? Why, yes, she is. Look at those sultry, dusky eyes. She’s adorable.
Sorry, Vesper Lynd.
Sorry, Eva Green.
I’m not sorry. She is undoubtably the best Bond girl there is.
West Berlin?
Would with abandon. (As with many/all Bond girls.) Fun trivia for me: Carey Lowell was a Bond Girl in a Dalton film. She is also ADA Jamie Ross in OG Law & Order, possibly my second fave L&O Hand of Jack McCoy. Good actress and writers knew how to craft.
I like Bond (legit?) falling in love. Good human twist to the character. Can’t always be pumpin’ for ‘information,’ can we? I know Bond got married before, but I didn’t see that one. I think that’s the Lazenby one I’ve never seen.
Dame Judy Dench being the Damiest and the Judiest and the Denchiest
God, I love this movie
For Evan
(NSFW)
You speak gospel. David Niven was the shit.
I actually prefer Quantum of Solace to Casino Royale. Better action sequences and frankly, a more interesting plot.
I do agree that Craig really got the book Bond right. Timothy Dalton did too.
“Oh, and the valet ticket” LOL
He drives her around the the car porte cochere! This movie is so good!
According to this guy
https://x.com/shaneyyricch/status/1842707234322530382?s=19
Censorship is alive and well at Instagram.
Gotta say, Trump holding a rally at the exact site where he was nearly assassinated was a baller move…. but putting up the same chart and saying “as I was saying” is 11 kinds of badass
It’s insanely badass. Sorry, love the Man but hate (most) of his Presidency, but it’s Teddy Roosevelt-esque. Just hardcore. Uh. Yeah. The US is sick of the emasculation of culture and is ready to break free, though hasn’t for fear of each’s Circle of Friends. I’m worried if/when I tell my family who I am (for the first time) voting for in Nov.
So much anger having to constantly bite their tongue, The People will need much fortification for Harris to gain Power. It won’t go over well. It’s a brewing and predictable nightmare the Powers That (currently) Be accelerate into. We live in Interesting Times.
Him, bloody, fist raised, screaming “FIGHT!” should be on coffee cups ’round the US. I’m shocked it isn’t played more. Or suspicious I can’t readily see it.
It is odd that nobody seems to publicly notice this.
When Reagan was shot, SNL did a skit lampooning how many times the press showed the footage and how much over-analysis was done.
Nobody can even name the shooter. They hid everything about him once the “dissaffected right winger” narrative failed.
Insane. No interest in why the building was outside the secure zone, no interest in how this kid knew that the building would be safe…
Without X, I don’t think anyone would be discussing it outside of places like this
Or why Trump’s post Butler security detail was a couple agents a few holes ahead, no security in depth.
And odd that Trump and the ads aren’t harping on it.
“Sorry, love the Man but hate (most) of his Presidency”
I really think he was the best president of my lifetime. He’s clearly personally courageous, which is needed and may explain why his policies weren’t all bog standard.
The good: getting out of Afghanistan (remember that 20+ year war?) his biggest mistake was not pulling out before the election. The supreme Court. Tax policy. Foreign policy generally(no new wars, settled a couple issues). Making the media and the left generally rip the mask off.
The bad: overspending, COVID response could have been tamped down if he had the right instincts on it. Picking some really shitty help.
Add his predilection towards tariffs as a negative. A bump stock ban by decree by having the ATF redefine what a fully automatic weapon is. “Take the guns, due process later” or whatever that line was.
And yet he’s still miles ahead of the garbage Team Blue keeps puking up.
The bad: overspending, COVID response could have been tamped down if he had the right instincts on it.
State governors, like our POS Cuomo, wouldn’t let it. Remember the horrid term “Cuomosexual”?
Elon proved he is one of us, and he is completely black pilled.
Several of us are of the opinion that this is the last, desperate chance. Lose this one, and there won’t be another.
But Elon said it on stage to all of America.
I feel like it is me, Suthen, Elon and about a half dozen others sitting down on the group W bench, wondering why everyone else is so happy about having to pick up the garbage.
Completely black pilled would be it doesn’t matter who wins because nothing will change.
Just because they want to jail their political opponents, censor free speech and are running the place into the ground is no reason to worry.
Hey folks! Happy Sunday!
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xOQ7rolBbq8
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Err…not supposed to be a reply.
Regarding broke FEMA:
Good thing we sent all that money to Ukraine, Israel, and Hamas (and half the other countries out there).
Anyway, don’t fear. We’ll be running that printer again soon. The sonorous ‘brrr’ will be like our bedtime lullaby.
And as regards Milton.
I have a bad feeling about it. Looks like it’s headed straight for my house right now. Given the amount of damage and disruption from a storm that was 75+ miles offshore, I can’t imagine what a direct hit would look like. About 75% of the housing in Pinellas and Hillsborough are in evacuation zones. Plus almost all the businesses. The area should have invested in some serious flood protection about 100 years ago before everything got developed and the EPA was created. They’ve had the good luck of not getting hit by storms for a long time which has bred a ton of complacency.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/wawa-named-best-convenience-store-in-new-study/ar-AA1rzWPF
If you know, you know.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/butler-pa-crowd-breaks-singing-national-anthem-after/
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Damn you! Damn you to hell!