The Steelers lost to the Browns (and the officials) last night in an insane game. F1 is back in Vegas this weekend, baby! And the track is starting to come in earlier than it did last year. The Rays may be looking for a new city to play in after St Pete told them they’re not dumping money into fixing the stadium. And club soccer is back (thank God) this weekend after yet another international break. Finally, tune in tomorrow to watch the Springboks continue to tear the ass out of Great Britain on their tour of the islands. And that’s it for sports.
I love this lawsuit. I hope it races to the Supreme Court to further gut the EPA.
It’s about time. I guess he finally came to the realization that the illegal ballots weren’t gonna get him across the finish line in first. Next time, they should tell the people counting to keep their mouths shut as they try to rig the count.
Dems should jump onboard with this. It’ll keep Linda McMahon out of the cabinet, after all. And help them avoid the unpleasantness of finding out what the department has been doing with our tax dollars for the last several decades.
How are these people making this kind of money to begin with? That’s like $25 per person who actually tunes in. I guess we know why Comcast is trying to spin the network off to some sucker.
One of us! One of us! Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble. I got nothing else.
I respect the grift. There will be no shortage of retards parting ways with their money for this.
A fool and his money are soon parted: European edition.
This is not surprising. Not one tiny bit.
If you can’t redefine a word, just cancel it! By the way, what actually happened there? That whole thing went quiet really fast and the official story stinks like a San Francisco side street.
Say what you want about Trump, but I’m glad he’s capable of learning. This is the kind of behavior that makes me think he will do well in his second term.
This goes out to everyone involved in the Ukraine-Russia war. And to everybody who loves a catchy tune. And this one is for the EU states, who are gonna be struggling to pay their power bills this winter. And to those who just like beautiful electronic music. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
Morning, Sloopy — morning, all!
Just hit me that they’re pretty lucky the atmospheric river stalled out where it did. A bit more to the East and it would be a very interesting night race (yeah yeah… the Sierra Nevadas probably would have disrupted it enough that most/all of it would have dropped in northern Nevada… let me contemplate it and chuckle mildly to myself, okay? Really, they’re gambling a bit holding it in Vegas that late in the year — November is the start of the rainy season if the cycle is good for it and all..)
Anyway… on to the links!
Just read yesterday’s afternoon post this morning. Good article on the NAS build. I’ve been meaning to do something to export SMB shares for Time Machine backups for a while. I’m still in the “cast off enterprise hardware” phase, an old Dell 2950 that is slow and noisy. The CPUs are fine, it’s just everything else about the machine, the ancient PCI bus, slow memory, etc.
I purchased this motherboard: Gigabyte MC13-LE0, because 1) AM5 socket, 2) real BMC so IPMI works. That plus a Ryzen 9 7900 (65W 12 core) gets me a fairly performant system that I should be able to cool without the noise of the 2950. I’m hung up at “figure out the virtual networking to isolate all my VMs” in Rocky 9. There is a straightforward way (lots of dummy interfaces and bridges) but it seems like there ought to be a more elegant solution. libvirt’s default networking (with dnsmasq, etc) sucks balls.
I’m curious if you were with Isilon at the time that Dell acquired them. We had a pre-Dell Isilon cluster for a long time that provided the filesystem for a departmental HPC cluster. It ran forever and didn’t give us much trouble. It was actually kind of shit as an HPC filesystem, because OneFS didn’t synchronize writes made on one node to the rest of the cluster until some buffer filled up. So one compute node could write stuff to Isilon node A, but other compute nodes reading from Isilon node B couldn’t see that data until OneFS decided to sync the write. Really complicated distributed workflows.
I joined right after EMC acquired them — the Dell merger/buyout was a year or two later if I recall correctly.
Hmm… that surprises me on the workflow (I’m not part of the Filesystem group, more “platform and kernel support for FS”) – yeah the write should be held in the journal on the writing node, but it should have ownership of those blocks and invalidate the read cache blocks of the other nodes so they have to fetch from the write node (which should return what is in the journal). That’s how I understand things anyway… but again, big caveat — I don’t work in that space proper, this may be intended behavior. I’d just be surprised.
Nice board — having an actual BMC is definitely something I’ll have to keep in mind for next build. I thought most of the ones with those options were Epyc or Xeon, but that would be definitely in my preferred remote management space.
I set up Netatalk at one point and it worked at the time… but I think Apple (of course) changed something and it stopped working for that. This is pretty recent… I should read over that and revisit it probably.
Today’s naughty word is “paddock”
Anyway, here is the village crazy lady explaining the Matt Gaetz drama:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1859748387291107797.html
There once was a lady from Craddock,
who unfortunately smelled like a haddock.
She still took some pride,
and dolled up as a bride —
she trolled for gold down the paddock!
Don’t let her go in the water! It will be bad for the fish…
The Bob Levinson case referenced therein is worth a look all on its own. The Spycraft 101 podcast has a very good interview on the matter.
I do love professional sports — one of the few businesses that has massive salaries, massive profits (in the best case)… and yet is constantly going begging to the taxpayers to fund their capital outlays… and gets away with it! (I’m sure all of them would love to try after all…). Any other class of business and you’d get tax breaks at best — but “build your own stupid building already!”
And in this case the stadium was terrible even when it was brand new.
Morning Joe & Co. are being paid by the CIA.
The FedGov hasn’t accumulated $35 trillion in debt by buying beanie babies.
I’d ask to subscribe to your newsletter, but I’m already a charter member.
Would make sense now that they want to spin off the network since their will be scrutiny on spending…
Funny thing – I never would’ve remember the shooter’s name, without them making a fuss about it.
Which shooter would that be?
::adjusts tinfoil Deerstalker::
Next you’ll tell me there was some mentally derange trans woman in Tennessee a while back. What strange fantasies you weave!
Lon Horiuchi.
OK, the urinals in women’s rooms is definitely trolling.
The sheer number of people who still firmly believe in astrology, witchcraft, “manifestation” or other “my energy and will can bend the universe!” counter to all experience and reality continues to astound and befuddle me. It has to be vying for The State to satiate the hole left by the lack of religious practice, I have to assume… and it obviously is a very, very strong universal human need. But whatever — not my money, not my mind they’re trying to warp, yeah.
Something needs to fill the 9am Sunday slot on Glibs!
They’re the party of SCIENCE! It’s those knuckle dragging Jesus bothering MAGA people who just want to believe in magical thinking.
“goths for palestine”
😂🤣
You can’t make this shit up…
you’re just jealous you don’t look good in black.
It’s twue. 😔
All dressed in black, and there ain’t no turning back…
I got the walkin’ talkin’ Johnny Cash Blues!
Cheer up, rhywun. 🙂
Nah… Dark MAGA Hat was just close to an Alexa when he heard the Hat and the Hair contemplating another McD’s order and he screamed out: “WHAT? A BURGER?”
Heh… you really telegraphed that one after checking the first link, Sloopy. 😉
Could have thrown in one more from that album for F1 in Vegas, I suppose.
Man, I haven’t heard that song in a coon’s age. It’s so lovely.
With all sincerity, thank you for posting it.
I may be a simple washed up ankle bender so I really can’t grasp the pedo stuff on Blue sky. Is that really behind all the kid transing? A genuine desire to keep pushing until it’s okay to have a child sex toy?
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is yes, hang the fuckers posting it.
Look is Iraq allows marriage to 9 year old why not the US?
The pedos that want you to call them MAPs are using the LGB movement as fodder, hiding behind the Ts and what they want, but the end goal is to allow them to normalize having sex with children.
Using? Hiding? There’s a segment that’s always been there from the start.
. And this one is for the EU states, who is gonna be struggling to pay their power bills this winter.
OHYEAH WELL AT LEAST WE ARE NOT FAT AND GUNNUTS LIKE MURICANS> ALSO WE HAVE BETTER FOOD AND WINE AND WHISKeY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!1111
The ICC should issue a writ to bag Merkel for what she did to Europe. That bitch enacted the revenge of the East Germans on the rest of the continent.
They got what they voted for and still getting it. *shrugs*
We imported all the European food worth eating, and made it better.
Today is the local whisky festival I hope I can limit myself to no more than 7 or 8 drams.
Probably will be easier if you stay away from the “Full’s Irish Dewes”. (“Let every man be paid in full.”)
I thought only Sconnies could walk after drinking that much whiskey.
I mean 140 ml is not that much. And unlike wine festivals, where you pay the ticket and try whatever you want, here you pay for the ticket and then you pay for everything you taste, based on how expensive the bottle. So it is expensive to overdo it, unlike wine.
I respect the grift. There will be no shortage of retards parting ways with their money for this.
Look American witches are posers. Send me money and I take it to an old gypsy woman here in Romania, much more potent magics,
How do I invest in you new business venture?
I can send you a dogecoin address
The only crypto I have is Bidens.
It is incredible to me that we still know nothing about the Steven Paddock shooting and the FBI story doesnt add up in so many ways.
Despite that is all seems to be memory holed and no one poking around. It’s like it never happened.
This is fine. (in the dog meme sense)
Newsom is both hated in California and safe in its leadership due to the nepotistic one-party rule that is the California government. – is he were truly hated there would not be a one party rule. If there is he is not hated that much.
CA is “still counting ballots.”
2+ weeks later.
🙄
well just like in carpentry, count twice report once.
It’s cunt until you have printed enough ballots to pull team blue into the win column…
Voting in blue states is often a futile exercise since the only thing that matters is the counters.
cunt until you can’t cunt no more
Relevant..
I hate Twitter reporting.
The new BlueSky reporting will be worse.
Interesting bit on how Trump voters didn’t follow through with Senate votes.
I did the opposite in PA, no vote for Trump but I did vote for McCormick (not out of any belief he’d be useful, just to spite Casey).
Culture is mysterious. Terrible, obnoxious and repressive things can happen for a long time without anybody ever seeming to care about them – until, suddenly, for seemingly no reason at all, they spark enormous outrage.
Our Green Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck has been bringing criminal speech complaints against his critics for years. As of August 2024, he had filed 805 such charges – well over half of the total raised by all cabinet ministers since September 2021 combined. Most of the rest (513) were brought by his fellow Green, the Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. Their repressions have been part of a much broader campaign by the defunct traffic light government and their ideological allies to shut up critics, and the cases have been too numerous to keep track of. The police have gone after farmers who put up signs saying they would refuse to do business with Green voters. They searched the house of a Bavarian businessmen because he displayed satirical posters mocking Habeck, Baerbock and other prominent Greens. Calling Habeck a “dumbass” on social media can cost you 2,100 Euros in fines; calling Baerbock the “dumbest foreign minister in the world” can cost you 6,000 Euros.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/schwachkopf
well unless you can scientifically prove he is the “dumbest foreign minister in the world” that sounds like slander to me
More disturbing were oblique remarks Habeck made a few days ago at the recent Green Party conference. The guiding theme of his candidacy for the chancellorship is the importance of liberal democracy and the coming clash between our European democratic order and rising (Russian or, I guess, American) authoritarianism. These are awkward topics for a man who enjoys punishing his critics, and so when Habeck came to praise “this idea of popular self-determination” or “freedom,” he felt the need to address the contradiction:
[I mean] freedom in the sense of the rule of law, not in the vulgar sense – if I may say that much, in view of the reporting of the last 24 hours. It is a mistake to believe that liberalism means thinking only of oneself. That is not freedom. Nor is it political freedom. Freedom is interwoven with conditions, with institutions.
I am not entirely sure what this means, and I’m not sure that Habeck does, either. What he is trying to say, though, is something like this: “Freedom” does not mean that Germans get to do whatever they want, politically or otherwise. They cannot just call Habeck a moron. “Freedom” is rather a conditional thing – some mysterious property that is mediated by “institutions,” like those institutions Habeck happens to control. Other understandings of “freedom,” particularly unconditional and institutionally unmediated understandings, are “vulgar” and mistaken.
He’s just echoing the pretzel logic of the administrative class elites: freedom is the freedom to do what you want as long as it’s what I tell you to do because I know best and you can’t be trusted to think for yourself.
The world’s elite honestly believe the problem the world faces today is that the serfs refuse to see the brilliance of their plans. That those plans result in massive destruction and regressive benefits for the serfs, so they are unwanted, is immaterial.
That is a lot of words to say “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”
You aren’t free unless you are free to order other people around.
Your rights include the right to control what other people do.
Like that?
German utility execs who champion the Energiewende are starting to panic after this month’s shocking 12-day wind drought.
RWE CEO Markus Krebber posted a desperate plea for more “secure” power supplies this morning on LinkedIn.
The situation is coming to a breaking point.
https://x.com/energybants/status/1859671626952175740
Too bad about that nuclear stability…
I hear Russia’s got lots of power they’re will to sell.
we’ve got power to sell too. It’s a Trumpian conspiracy!
“shocking” 🙄
They need electricity to shock you.
Like Bob Casey, Friday Funbags never give up. Unlike Bob Casey, Friday Funbags actually win.
https://tinyurl.com/yc4w98ef
— NYT
Would one of our resident lawyers please explain to me how this was any different from the failed plea deal that Hunter Biden tried to claim voided his gun trial in Delaware? Can we expect the U.S. SC to follow this?
Thanks, I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t get it.
I’m not sure I understand the question.
In Hunter’s case the plea deal wasn’t approved by the judge.
In Smollet’s case the sweetheart deal was actually approved in some way shape or form by the state before the state changed it’s mind. I have no idea what kind of power the Chicago DA/Prosecutor has to cut a deal with or without judicial approval, but that’s what happened there. My assumption is there is either some kind of rubber stamp judicial approval or it was judicially approved and revoked.
My assumption is there is either some kind of rubber stamp judicial approval or it was judicially approved and revoked.
That would hold water if it weren’t for the FACT that it was a judge that stirred up the case for appointing a special prosecutor. Now, if the JUDGE made that appointment, then yeah, there is a separation of powers issue – he tread onto Executive turf. But that isn’t double-jeopardy. And the Biden case foundered exactly because the judge refused to sign-off on the deal. This doesn’t even appear to have been that close to actual judicial action.
Andy McCarthy called it garbage last night. Chicago doing Chicago.
Yeah, I would get voiding the conviction on the grounds that the prosecutor was not legitimately empowered to prosecute – despite the fact that a grand jury indicted Smollet both times, and with different charges I believe.
But he was not tried and no judge received a plea, so I don’t see how jeopardy attached to the prosecution dropping the charges in the first go-round.
Could this be the reason? From an article on the case: “The prosecutor’s office said at the time that Smollett was willing to turn his bond over to the city and engage in community service.”
I could see a valid argument where a person agreeing with the state to some form of punishment in a non-prosecution agreement would trigger double jeopardy, even if the case wasn’t officially dismissed with prejudice.
Yeah, that’s what the court relied on – Smollett relied on the deal and gave up something for his end. It’s basically a standard equitable contract argument that even an unwritten deal is enforceable as soon as one side relies on it to his detriment.
Then what distinguishes that from the Hunter Biden case?
I don’t think Biden ever gave up anything – as far as I know he didn’t forfeit a bond or do community service the way Smollett did – before the judge killed the deal.
Now, much turns on what Smollett was promised in exchange for holding up his side of the deal. Was it “we won’t prosecute on these charges, but we reserve the right to prosecute on others”, or perhaps “we will recommend to the judge that the charges be dismissed with prejudice”*? Or was it “we won’t prosecute for anything related to that incident”? IF the latter, and IF Smollett held up his end of the deal (which as far as I know, he did), then I think the deal is enforceable the way the court ruled. I’m not sure double jeopardy even comes into play under a contract theory of the ruling.
*While prosecutors can decide not to pursue charges, and can withdraw them, I believe only a judge can dismiss with prejudice, which triggers double jeopardy protections.
People across the political spectrum say that the UK needs an industrial strategy.
In fact, it was industrial strategy that killed our industry in the first place – Attlee is more to blame than Thatcher.
A 🧵 on how we can really revive British industry
According to the popular narrative, British industrial decline started in the 1970s and 1980s, as free trade and neoliberalism shifted us towards a more globalised economy.
Today, advocates of industrial strategy argue that Government needs to intervene to redress the balance.
In fact, Britain’s relative industrial decline starts much earlier.
By the late 19th century, Britain was falling behind the United States and Germany.
GDP growth slowed to less than 1% between 1899 and 1914, while productivity growth fell by two-thirds between 1871 and 1914.
But that didn’t mean that industry was declining everywhere.
In the Midlands and parts of the south, industry boomed in the 1930s – with specialisms in automobiles and household electrical goods.
In 1936, Leicester was actually the second-richest city in Europe.
And then came the industrial strategists.
The Attlee government saw the success of the Midlands as damaging to traditional industrial regions.
In 1945, it passed the Distribution of Industry Act, which aimed to push development away from ‘congested’ areas like the Midlands
The Government required that any factory set to be opened or expanded in a ‘congested’ area would be reviewed by the Board of Trade – which would aim to push industrial development back to places like Lancashire and South Wales.
Industrial strategy also meant subsidising inefficient ‘old’ industries, such as coal and steel, at the expense of new industries, such as cars and household electrical products.
https://x.com/sam_bidwell/status/1859560533608874311
“People across the political spectrum say that the UK needs an industrial strategy.”
No, what they need is to kill their entire elite class. The inbreeding has made them all fucking retarded leftards.
I don’t even think that would “save” them.
Just replace the Union Jack with the crescent and star, change the official language to Arabic, and be done with it.
They’re halfway there already.
Though the risk of that is that it might interfere with soccer and beer drinking, and thus actually raise the ire of masses.
So, you’re not actually getting rid of the Department of Education, just spreading it around?
Delete the programs.
Deck chairs need re-arranging, pay no attention to the list of the ship.
wHy Do YoU wAnT aUsTeRiTy?
Austerity is not a strong enough term for the cuts I want.
There should be less than a thousand federal employees and contractors, including elected officials and judges.
We need to make ‘Milei’ into a verb. I want to milei the government.
You get rid of the department, then you get rid of the programs by suing the departments they’re spun off to using Loper Bright as precedent.
Or, you get Congress to stop funding them.
Legislaton can delete them without shenanigans.
Well I am off wish me a strong liver.
Liver strong, and prosper!
The trials and tribulations of big tits.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/im-celebs-nicola-mclean-given-34165241
Do you want to see my shocked face?
The Irish Government Is Unbelievably Rich. It’s Largely Thanks to Uncle Sam.
A clampdown on global corporate tax dodging turned Ireland into the nouveau riche man of Europe
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/the-irish-government-is-unbelievably-rich-its-largely-thanks-to-uncle-sam-92494310?st=JpP5ds&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
DUBLIN—The Irish government is rolling in clover like never before.
The country currently has so much money it pumps cash into not one but two sovereign-wealth funds. It is so flush that the budget watchdog doesn’t warn about not having enough money but rather that the government is spending so much that it could overheat the economy.
In Dublin, authorities are building what might become the world’s most expensive children’s hospital. There are plans for a motorway to link Cork and Limerick, new flood defenses in Shannon and floating wind farms off the south coast. Outside the parliament sits a new bike shed that cost half a million dollars, houses 36 bikes and doesn’t keep out the rain. The state is spending $10 million to get children off their phones at school, including mass-buying magnetic pouches to lock the devices away so they don’t get distracted.
“The good times are back,” says Pat Woods, as he stretches his arms out over the red leather banquette of his pub the Dame Tavern in central Dublin. “Everything is flying.” Standing in a nearby street sucking on a vape, a local hairdresser marvels at what is unfolding. “The spending is wild,” he says.
Once you go for (((us))), you’ll never go back.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/31832537/boyfriend-circumcised-no-idea-how-please-him/
“As soon as I saw that he was circumcised, I was at a loss. Not only did it look and feel completely different, but I had no clue how to please him.”
Did you try sucking his cock?
LOL.
We are not complicated creatures.
When bad things happen to good people. The whole article is completely unsourced. Do better WSJ.
Senior North Korean General Wounded in Recent Ukrainian Strike, Western Officials Say
https://www.wsj.com/world/senior-north-korean-general-wounded-in-recent-ukrainian-strike-western-official-says-c138121b?st=rDiD5C&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Excellent song choices once again, Sir Sloop.
Gracias!
“Say what you want about Trump, but I’m glad he’s capable of learning. This is the kind of behavior that makes me think he will do well in his second term.”
If he plays his cards right he might get his own nickel coffee mug. I was gifted one when I moved there and I left mine to another when I departed the Texas Riviera.
Taking a page from the Biden administration Japan is going to “spend away” inflation.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/japans-cabinet-approves-141-billion-stimulus-to-boost-economy-offset-living-costs-f92fc175?st=ZRYUNT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So, will they stop when the Yen is worth $1/1000?
Currently around 154 to the dollar.
When my dad was stationed in Japan in the late 1950’s the exchange rate was still set at what MacArthur had chosen it to be, 360 yen to the dollar. Despite being a lowly captain he lived like a King.
If only I could convince my wife to retire there!
Cost of living in dollar denominated terms is quite cheap.
When I first went to Okinawa in ’86, the yen was killing my poor paycheck.
Now, I’m living like a king. Everything is very cheap here. Loving it.
So, when’s the revolution scheduled? I’m sure the locals are fed up with your monarchical tendencies by now.
“Zero percent of the time, it works every time”
I noticed I haven’t been checking social media as much the last few weeks. Things have sort of settled down. But this week I’m checking first thing in the morning to see if WW III has started. It would suck if I woke up an discovered I had been killed by a Russian nuke.
You better watch yourself or you might just wake up dead.
Outside the parliament sits a new bike shed that cost half a million dollars, houses 36 bikes and doesn’t keep out the rain.
Doctor Parkinson would be proud.
I’d love to know what happened behind the dashcam car. I’m assuming he was going to rear end him and swerved, but I can’t figure out how he managed to almost do a 180 in the process,
It’s a Jeep Thing(tm) Happened on my way home from work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1gwrk7p/oc_its_a_jeep_thingtm_happened_on_my_way_home/
I can’t figure out how he managed to almost do a 180 in the process,
He was counter steering for the skid, and eased off the brakes. The car turned as the wheels began to roll. I’d be willing to say he actually did it on purpose. Nice recovery.
Toldjaso
For Democrats, the spate of hires come as a deflating — if not unexpected — development in the transition. During the presidential campaign, Democrats went all in on linking Trump to the controversial blueprint, a controversial, hard-line conservative agenda. President Joe Biden’s rapid response team decided in February to start hammering the issue, according to a person with direct knowledge of the strategy, eventually seeing the effort take off ahead of Biden’s collapse in the June debate. Kamala Harris, after replacing Biden atop the Democratic ticket, spent at least $5 million tying Trump to Project 2025, according to AdImpact.
In response, Trump distanced himself from the project — only now to turn to some of its authors for roles in his administration.
“It’s the least surprising revelation that we’ve seen in this administration,” said Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, the possible Democratic National Committee chair candidate who hoisted an oversized prop version of the 900-page policy plan at the Democratic National Convention and railed against it during prime time. “You can’t look at something that had 140 members of the previous Trump administration who had a hand in writing this, and believe for a second that he had no idea what this was. So, yeah, it’s, ‘I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.’”
Project 2025 is real and it’s coming to eat you. Trump is going to put us all in chains.
It’s impossible that two different people or organizations could arrive at and hold similar positions independently.
I didn’t read the whole thing. I read select sections. Nothing I read was horrible or controversial.
From what I know that’s a really big document and they asked a lot of Republicans to write pieces of it. So not really surprising that some will be in a Republican admin.
I like TOK’s suggestion that we classify these as ‘briar patch stories’.
Project 2025 turned me into a newt!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Guy gets a little ass anyway, even as he dogs it. Thanks, Jimbo
/Life on the farm
Inflation is when one ‘inflates’ the money supply, i.e. printing fiat money without producing more wealth. Each unit of measure will then represent a smaller and smaller portion of wealth.
If you give that money to non-productive people you have entered a death spiral.
One cannot increase spending to tackle inflation. That statement is simply gibberish.
Anonymous sources report their concerns
Officials fear that Hegseth, whose nomination had already caused controversy due to his opposition to women serving in combat, could also hurt efforts to recruit women into the military.
“When you have a leader that has already been credibly accused of sexual assault and then already has other signals in his background that he’s not concerned about the contributions that women can make to national security, it could create bad signals up and down the chain of command,” said one Defense Department official, who like others was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “I imagine there is already profound fear and anxiety among women in uniform.”
In 2017, a woman told police that Hegseth, a former Fox News host and Army veteran, sexually assaulted her after barring the door to her hotel room and seizing her cell phone. The police report was released to the media on Thursday. Hegseth, who has repeatedly denied wrongdoing, was never charged.
He’ll turn the Pentagon into a sex resort.
Anyone who’s in the public has been accused of sexual assault. He was never even charged. This is the old trick where the seriousness of the charge is supposed to be more important than a conviction.
The important part is to keep repeating the innuendo over and over again until it is firmly planted in the public’s mind.
I have to admit, I can recall no woman ever accusing Adam Schiff of sexual misconduct. Maybe he’s just never let them out of the dungeon?
To be fair, any woman should be able to snap his pencil neck without much difficulty…
Officials fear that Hegseth, whose nomination had already caused controversy due to his opposition to women serving in combat, could also hurt efforts to recruit women into the military.
Women were just chomping at the bit to slog through a muddy and bloody battlefield with a 60lb ruck on their backs with bullets flying in all directions. Now that opportunity could be denied them.
Don’t be ridiculous, battlefields will have to be properly feminized so that women may participate. The enemy will surely abide by these rules!
A major problem for Hegseth but he’ll keep his privates to himself to avoid corporal punishment
I didn’t realize that Jaguar is now JaGUar as well until yesterday.
Bonus:
Glover also condemned “the level of vile hatred and intolerance” expressed by some people commenting on the marketing video and denied it was “woke.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/jaguar-luxury-automaker-defends-controversial-rebrand-amid-pivot-to-evs.html
I saw it more as Grace Jones-style performance art. But without the nice touches Grace Jones would have provided.
This is her Citroen ad:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LngD6rW-4X8
And conveniently, they are getting constant exposure in the press as the “victim”.
Fuck you, Glover you loser. You wrecked it.
For the record: I hate it. I hate you. And now I hate Jag-you-are.
The timing of this whole… thing… tells me they thought the election would end on a different note.
I think it was timed to some big Miami art event.
Thing is, the ad is almost a parody or stereotype of what people think of as Big Art. like those artists living in the loft in The Big Lebowski.
“Detractors will make some loud noises over the next few days and weeks, but the proof as to whether this is a success or not will be in the sales.”
Yeah, going all electric and openly shitting on people is really going to rocket sales.
That’s how the Brits pronounce it. The ad is beyond parody. It doesn’t even have a fucking car in it. They went all in on electrics, now they are gonna get fucked. Proper fucked.
There was some talk yesterday about why FedGov was looking at non-bank banks like PayPal, Venmo, and the like. This is the likely reason.
‘I have no money’: Thousands of Americans see their savings vanish in Synapse fintech crisis
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html
This has been an ongoing debacle. The TLDR version is the people thought they had their money in an FDIC insured bank. The reality was people’s money was invested in FDIC insured deposit accounts, but an intermediary Synapse that Yotta used has mismanaged the record keeping where the funds are and who holds them.
It cracks me up because working at financial firm I’d love to be able to our client, “sorry the third party we work with made a mistake, you’ll have to take it with them”. I can’t imagine that going over well with any regulator.
Who could be so stupid to believe this was a bank?
Luxury carmaker Jaguar has defended a rebrand that drew widespread criticism on social media this week.
They misspelled “ridicule”. Anybody who doesn’t buy a Jaguar is a racist homophobe.
This is the old trick where the seriousness of the charge is supposed to be more important than a conviction.
The merest whiff of scandal demands disqualification. These are important people doing important things.
But you can’t believe anyone who accuses a Democrat without ironclad evidence. If that pic of Al Franken faux-groping that sleeping woman hadn’t existed, he’s still be in the Senate.
Of course I am compelled to trot out one of my favorite little private amusements. Women should be like a jaguar’s suspension; supple and compliant.
Looking beyond its existing base to a new audience is a risk for Jaguar; but the very high-end corner of the luxury market has greater margins where the company will be required to sell fewer units to increase profitability, automotive industry commentator Mark Smyth told CNBC.
I remember the first time I played around with randomly plugging numbers into a spreadsheet. It was fun.
So, Mark ignores the cost of unsold inventory? It hurts a lot when product sits around rotting on lots because nobody wants to buy from you after you discover the “modern audience” equivalent is small and not into you.
That is why you have greater demand for less product. You might lose a sale here and there, but they will buy into the next run, at a premium.
It’s the Ferrari model.
Just 17.9 percent of U.S. adults have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine, and 34.7 percent have received an influenza vaccine during the 2024-25 respiratory disease season, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
I wonder why?
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5003450-cdc-report-covid-flu-vaccination/
17.9 percent
I am disappointed it is that high.
Maybe because it’s combined with the flu “vaccine”?
I thought you couldn’t even get a flu shot without it?
I’m surprised it’s that low, based on the numbers of lone-driving-mask-wearers still gracing our streets.
Usually there is not much americanese whisky at the fest but i have tried Penelope toasted and barrel strength and is not bad.
Barrel/cask strength are good, but I find they usually do better with a bit of water to open them up.
Lamentations
Op-ed be damned; I think Ramaswamy summarized the aims of this group much better earlier this week, when he openly endorsed the idea of instituting “Milei-style cuts, on steroids.”
That’s what’s really at stake here: brutal cuts to the government. As I’ve written previously for the blog, Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, instituted severe austerity measures that caused his country’s poverty rate to skyrocket above 50% in the ensuing months. Musk has proposed similar cuts to the ones Milei instituted. And Ramaswamy clearly thinks even more crushing austerity than what Argentina has experienced should be on the menu for Americans. Milei, by the way, has said Musk and Ramaswamy — both billionaires — should push these cuts “to the very limit.”
To see how this kind of austerity has worsened poverty and malnutrition in Argentina, check out the Reuters report below. Musk and Ramaswamy’s department doesn’t have actual power to impose these kinds of cuts on its own. But one can tell from their op-ed, and their previous statements, that they’re going to use every tool at their disposal to pressure the Republicans who do have real power to carry out their frightening fiscal vision.
Hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats, jobless, homeless and begging. Fighting for scraps of food in dumpsters.
I’ll be in my bunk.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/congress-must-join-in-musk-and-ramaswamys-doge-efforts/
(Veronique de Rugy)
The biggest problem there is the American public refuses to be educated about SS/MC. They much prefer to be lied to and not made to think.
Throw entitlement into DOGE’s portfolio, and you are paving the way for nothing at all to be done.
I don’t know how to solve the entitlement problem (I know, cut them, but how do you get political and public support for that?). But I’m pretty sure if DOGE gets the stink of cutting SocSec/Medicare/Medicaid on it, it will become useless.
In their op-ed, Musk and Ramaswamy claim (without including any actual proof) that cutting these regulations will justify cutting throngs of federal jobs, though they say their department will help “support” the fired employees’ “transition into the private sector.”
I hear there are lots of agriculture jobs available, and construction, too. With proper training and encouragement, those Washington paper pushers might one day become productive members of society.
OK, this is funny.
https://x.com/_ROB_29/status/1859977915603329414
Hilarious, thanks
I dont see much talk about the new Russian weapon used on Ukraine. Have y’all seen the footage of the strike? It looks….odd. Not missile-like in some way I cant quite put my finger on.
It was launched from….where? The first thing I thought was an orbital weapon of some sort. It came down perfectly perpendicular to the ground. It looks scary as hell and going way too fast.
Any thoughts?
Not an ICBM but there are many types of Ballistic missiles (remember SCUDs? – Short Range Ballistic Missile) with a MIRV.
From some reporting, sounds like this one was a Medium range (MRBM), although some have said Intermediate range (IRBM). Technically speaking, an IRBM from North Korea could reach Guam, while they’d need an ICBM to reach Hawaii.
They are hypersonic ballistic missiles, so they’re moving a lot faster than you’re used to seeing, and come straight down at the ground.
Erik Prince has some info:
https://x.com/realErikDPrince/status/1859967586785452491
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-ukraine-a67afe28?st=7zs4rL&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Putin named it.
Y’all may be right. I knew about all of that but it may not be what I expected to see. I still have suspicions. Why would he reveal that they have such things and where they are? Are they more desperate than I realize?
We already knew, of course.
a glimpse of what once was
I had a ’72 XJ6. It would have been a fantastic car with a manual transmission instead of that Borg Warner auto.
Excellent video. Thanks!
Not sure if this will impact Moj’s side work or not.
https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/1859673679006994761?t=dSQqeL1Npzzvgx-uS9-kvw&s=19
I don’t think so. I transcribe and accurate recordkeeping is always going to be essential to patient care, but they do dictate in such a way as to make coding easier, so they may forego some things that they can’t right now (example: review of systems or comprehensive physical examination versus examining just what you’re there for).
Atlas Shrugged was trending on Twitter last night, so I jumped into the fray.