I mentioned yesterday that with the New Year impending and our traditional festivities with family (now with WebDom, 10b0t, Spud, and the fetal Glib), I am forced to finally stop juggling and make a choice: NPR Lady 1 or NPR Lady 2 (affectionately known as “Retread”). I have certainly gotten strong opinions from family and friends. Then again, the last time I had a choice to make, I followed their advice into disaster.
So let’s review our options:
Both of these women are remarkably intelligent. I would find no boredom in that respect. Neither of them are particularly hot, nor are either of them hideous. Which you can say the same about me. Both are highly articulate and well-read. So not much to choose there, it’s a clear tie.
NPR Prime is a pediatrician, quite successful, owns two practices. She’s remarkably sweet and kind, rather quiet and reserved, isn’t terribly snarky, is not libertarian by any means but isn’t much of a Prog either. No TDS. And has an extremely realistic view of Covidianism, maybe the first post-SP female I’ve encountered whose views in that respect line up with mine. Drives a Jeep, has an aging German shepherd who outweighs Kaiser. Loves beer and is learning to love wine- prefers reds. Divorced. WebDom and 10b0t spent an evening with her and gave me an avid Thumbs Up.
Retread is a lawyer and businesswoman, former chief counsel and then president of a large company you’d all be familiar with, former CEO of a medium size ($300MM revenue) company and later on their Board, and a Board member of a regional bank. Snarky, calls herself a “pragmatic Progressive,” has intense TDS, but doesn’t do the Word Police thing that infected Tomb Raider. Very outgoing and personable, our conversations never lag. No pets. Drives a top-drawer Mercedes. Has not yet met WebDom or 10b0t. Spent my 70th birthday with me, enjoying a nice dinner and a delightful exchange of ideas. Loves red wine and even has a few cases in her cellar. Widowed after a very happy marriage.
So there’s an interesting choice facing me. And after a lot of internal soul-searching and angst, I finally made it and arranged New Years together. Which is a big deal. OK, well it may not matter to YOU, it’s big to me.
Birthdays are also big, and we have been embiggened by the likes of the original party animal; a towering figure; a fellow with a very healthy glow; the original global warmer; the commie who designed the world’s most hideous buildings; a guy who was a musical inspiration to me and redefined Big Band; a guy unfairly cast as the villain in a quintessential feminist tale; a Jewish Indian; a farmer who had some regrets and an incredible cleaning bill; a brilliant and creative thinker whose politics denied him a deserved Nobel Prize or two; one of the funniest and sincerely nice humans to walk among us, albeit often with short legs; and one of the best parts of Fridays in my younger days.
And now for the second-best part of Sunday, the Links and ensuing discussions. For those of you whose Instagram feed resembles mine, you’ll be tempted to begin your comment with, “Gentlemen…”
I’m in a Secret Santa group. I hope whoever drew me sees this.
As usual, “reform” means “more money for government union employees.”
You know that this one will eventually end up with The Supremes.
I approve of publicity stunts which channel The Three Stooges.
Speaking of which, “It’s outrageous that they aren’t believing Al Qaeda!”
This is slightly humorous. The Old Guy brings a tune from a birthday boy, but the video is mislabeled- the song is Intermission Riff, a composition by Ray Wetzel. Still, there’s arranging and soloing here that you wouldn’t find in any other big band. Click for the funny haircuts and suits, stay for the amazing swing.
You do you, but should there not be a glibs test?
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
L’chaim!
the original party animal;
Happy birthday Thomas Nast!
a Jewish Indian;
I was going to guess Iron Eyes Cody, but I was on the right track.
My vote is still for NPR Prime, but then I’ve only voted for one successful candidate in my entire life, so I offer her my condolences at losing out on the candy inside the windowless van.
Yeah, you would think someone who cleared the first hurdle would have an advantage to getting further down the track.
It sounds simple in theory.
Happy birthday Robert Oppenheimer?
Happy birthday Charles Francis Murphy?
Happy birthday Donald Trump?
I do not recommend wikipedia on the topic of this person and his wrongthought.
Holy shit what a steaming pile… *ahem*… goes to make coffee.
One of yesterday’s stories was Wikipedia editors caught using a back channel to specifically bias entries to be more pro-Hamas. So it’s on-brand for them.
Yes, the leftist capture has been obvious for a couple decades now. I try to only go there for facts and it pisses me off when they shit their politics all over the introductory paragraphs of a giant like our person in question.
Rational Wiki is way worse.
Luigi Mangione should have used a pipe wrench.
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ohhhhh, look!
/points to mangled monkey wrench
Was it a 3D printed pie?
Ghost pie. The most feared of all pies. Besides our own Pie, of course.
Still, the other shoe has not dropped. OTOH it’s not too late to change your mind, OM. Us rubes would never know the difference.
He was just an austere religious scholar, he was going to go to college!
Yo! Pat! I’m trying out a couple of browsers you mentioned (last weekend?) – LibreWolf on my laptop and Mull on my phone. I like them fine, except they put all time stamps in GMT. I figured out how to override that in LibreWolf (yeah, that probably makes it less secure, but well…) but not in Mull. Thus all Glib comments’ time stamps are X hours off, and I have to do math if I look online to see when a particular sporting event starts, but other than that, I guess I’m more secure online. Thanks!
Ahh, yeah, I didn’t think to mention it, but when the setting privacy.resistFingerprinting is set to “true” as it is in Mull and LibreWolf, all times displayed to websites from your browser will be in GMT. In Mull, you can type “about:config” into the address bar and then “privacy.resistFingerprinting” in the search box and set it to “false.” However, that disables fingerprint resisting, which basically just means that websites can use data from your browser, such as your local time zone, screen size, canvas data, and hardware specs (if GPU acceleration is enabled) to create a more unique profile of your browser. I don’t think there’s any way to disable reporting in GMT as long as privacy.resistFingerprinting is enabled.
All of the comments timestamps are in Central time for me on Firefox. Is there a way I can configure it so that they are shown in Eastern time as God intended?
I think that’s server-side in WP, so probably not.
Eyepiece fixes that.
“No TDS. And has an extremely realistic view of Covidianism”
Winner!
I thought the same thing. I also keep in mind that the one thing not one single person on the planet is qualified to do is choose a partner for someone else. No matter what they look like on paper someone’s chosen is the person they are drawn to for a million subtle completely subjective reasons.
the heart wants what it wants, so my vote is to choose love
knowing that we must always limit our lover’s sphere to where she can be supportive
love, like everything else, really only works in a pluralistic scheme
calculating doesn’t work in so many matters…..hell, it doesn’t work in the objective realm much either: speaking from experience, it’s always the unknown that sneaks in to undermine the design, the unintended, or that ever-so-slightly off factor; there’s no risk matrix or Bayesian model to pick the right road
strongly recommend AVL@NF from yesterday
one of the funniest and sincerely nice humans to walk among us, albeit often with short legs
RIP. The Private Eyes is the funniest movie to have ever been made.
I’ll have to hunt up that movie. I used to get the giggles in church thinking about sketches from the previous night’s episode of The Carol Burnett Show, largely thanks to him.
That show was sooooo good.
Syria’s rebel leader was also quoted as saying he wouldn’t cum in her mouth, the check was in the mail, and he’s from the government and here to help.
How can you be so cynical! What possible reason for doubting the sincerity of the Al Qaeda/ISIS guy rebrand as Peace Loving Freedom Fighter do you have?
The various factions have bigger fish to fry than Israel right now meaning each other. Uniting them with a common enemy by bombing the shit out of them might help in the short term but it doesn’t seem like the smartest long-term move.
My assumption is the bombing assets. There may be people there, but that’s not the objective.
The ‘various factions’ hate Israel already. Nothing is changing that.
Of all the stupidity I’ve seen on the internet since Assad got the boot, the biggest is the notion that the ISIS guy is going to be good to Christians and Jews. But it’s impossible in today’s world to believe that Assad is a piece of shit dictator that deserves to burn in hell and at the same time believe the new guy is no better and probably worse.
and make Mexico pay for it
Morning. One more week in OKC.
That’s what Tim McVeigh said…
Hey OBE, Live in Goldsby.
OKC is ok….
Gen X and older Millenials changing the Bring A Trailer market.
Out: Classic muscle
In: “Modern classics”
It doesn’t surprise me much. I have an (admittedly half-assed) theory that when car guys get a little scratch for a weekend toy, they go back to whatever they thought was cool when they first started paying attention to cars, typically back when they were in high school.
So for the boomers, it was Mustangs or Barracudas or the like, and for Gen X it’s the Datsun 280Z or Acura Integra R.
I’d rock an Audi Quattro coupe.
Hope ‘8 Mazda 626s make the list. I’ll be sitting on a nice bundle of cashola.
’85
Meh..not a car guy. Just want 4 wheels and forward motion at reliable intervals.
Mrs OBE on the other hand would in an instant get a classic.
Sure, you can afford what you used to be unable to afford…same thing that happened with the boomers and the ‘60s stuff. Too bad for Gen X and the Cash for Clunkers though, a lot of those desirable cars from the ‘80s and ‘90s got crushed.
Thanks, Obama
I still want a Miata.
You can still get one, they’re just stupid expensive for what they are now.
The Miata episode
If you can find one, check out the Fiat Spyder. It’s built on the Miata platform but with some Italian styling. I have the Abarth edition with a 6 speed manual and it’s stupid fun to drive.
The Fiat Multiair engine is controversial.
Controversial in what way?
Long term reliability. Opinions are mixed some claim no issues others don’t like.
Miata is not as powerful, but no turbo and simpler.
I can see concerns about the turbo, but man it makes the car more fun to drive than the Miata. It’s pretty easy to mod and there are plenty of things available.
I guess if you were going to use the car as a daily driver I can see the worry, but if it’s for a fun second car I don’t know that I’d stress about it too much. Frankly I can’t imagine it as a primary car. The interior is tiny and the trunk is about the size of a bucket you’d pick up at Lowe’s. I guess your mileage may vary.
I’d love to find my first car, an ’85 Chrysler Lazer. 2.2 turbo K car with the robot voice talking dash. PLEASE.CHECK.YOUR.DISK.BRAKE.PADS. Sadly I think they’ve gone extinct like most K cars.
I had an ’85 Daytona turbo 2.2, not the talking option, that was on the Daytona Z. And I had an ’86 Omni GLH w/2.2 turbo. Both cars were 5 speeds. I still know where the Omni is and have floated the idea of buying it back.
I forgot about the Omni. I think my dad had the Plymouth version for a while but I was too young to remember much about it.
Plymouth made the Horizon. Never made a hot rod version of it, but a 2.2 with a 5 speed could get out of its own way. The Omni GLH (Goes Like Hell) was Carroll Shelby’s idea of a competitor to the VW GTI. Shelby American made a GLHS (Goes Like Hell Somemore) that was intercooled and turbocharged.
So… buying the old muscle cars and old British cars I like might get easier?
The prices will go from insane to stupid
The prices will go from insane to stupid
Always look on the bright side of life
Yeah, I just bought my avatar ZR-1 two years ago because I liked them just out of high school. I also liked the Buick Grand Nationals, but the Buicks cost $20k new, were driven hard and now sell for $50k and up. The Corvette ZR-1s cost $60k retail (but sold for closer to $100k for 2 model years) and were then properly pampered for the last 30 years. I bought mine in pristine condition for just over $30k with just over 16k miles on the odo and it had 6 previous owners. I have had it 2 years and have just over 26k miles on it now. I’m the first owner to enjoy the car.
I just think it’s hilarious that now that all the classic mustangs and camaros have been bought, restored, and resold for a fortune, the car resto guys are trying to convince people that daily driver cars from the 60’s and 70’s are awesome.
*cue Star Trek battle theme*
Ask yourself if you really want to deal with the raging TDS the next four years is sure to bring?
It has definitely been one of the consideration factors.
qvevri saperavi is an aquiered taste. Not many here like it. Then again not many here had it. The real stuff.
I’ve also got maybe a dozen bottles of qvevri Rkatsiteli, definitely an acquired taste!
Here most Saperavi pepole tried is Moldavian made in a modern crowd pleaser style. Most would not understand the original stuff.
NPR Prime is a pediatrician – well this sells it if you can access the customer base
Pie with the windmill dunk!
I set that up for you guys. BP fastball, right down the center of the plate.
“The 280ZX is the most attainable of older Z cars.”
That’s because they suck.
Not fast in a straight line, sloppy handling, and bizarre interiors (I never could get past the steering wheels on those things) do not a great car make. If you could get a modern Corolla with a manual it’d smoke those things and be way more comfortable doing it.
Get the plus 2 version!
Shitty emissions motor and more weight and uglier. Win!
But you get the advantage of rear seats that can only be used by children and amputees.
Pair it with the usual automatic for complete driving pleasure!
Weekend Dad car? Why, yes, it is.
Ken Paxton may have been acquitted in that farce of an impeachment, but my god that man is a colossal asshole.
As AG, he generally points his asshole in the right direction, though.
Not in this case, hence my extra contempt.
Nice guys don’t rise to positions of political power in our system, at least not beyond county council or small town mayor.
wa wa wait: he’s a great Texan! oops
anyway, he is a Baylor alumnus; in spite of Ran Paul, that’s the saddest alumni body I can think of
“Texas is suing a New York-based doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills through telemedicine to a patient from the Lone Star state.”
The general rule is that a doctor practices medicine where the patient is, so to do telemedicine in TX (for example) you need to have a TX medical license. Oddly, I don’t see whether the doctor in NY has a TX license, which I think would be required to prescribe for a patient in TX. It would be weird for TX (or any state) to allow doctors from other states to treat patients in TX without a TX license or in ways prohibited by TX law.
So, yeah, the “shield laws” purporting to immunize NY doctors from breaking other state’s laws are definitely going to wind up at SCOTUS. I honestly don’t have a problem with Paxton filing this case, as it appears to be a doctor doing something in TX that is not allowed to be done in TX. I say that even though if I were writing TX abortion law, I wouldn’t write it the way TX did
we seldom disagree
but I strongly recommend our bailing out of his partisan posturing, for that is surely all Paxton ever thinks of, and instead focus on the larger, more organic principles being end-run for the purpose of maximizing an identity politics wave no matter how statist it is
* the principals should be free to do as they wish: recommend drugs or buy and take them
* state licensing is horseshit
Makes sense.
My wife had to fib about where she was for a telehealth visit when we were out of state.
How do snowbirds handle that, I wonder? Multiple doctors?
” Oddly, I don’t see whether the doctor in NY has a TX license, which I think would be required to prescribe for a patient in TX.”
A doctor from out of state once wrote a prescription for me, so maybe it depends on the state?
Yeah, I don’t think TX has an exclusive right to decide who may prescribe anything to me, even if I lived in the state.
Fuck that kind of police power.
* the principals should be free to do as they wish: recommend drugs or buy and take them
* state licensing is horseshit
Whole hearted agreement. Unfortunately, as seems to often be the case, that principle only ever gets asymmetrically applied, always in one direction. i.e. try to get an ivermectin prescription during covid from an MD in a state where it was legal/not barred and have it shipped to you. Or people who had to drive to Tennessee to get it because they couldn’t in their state and it was illegal to have an out of state prescription.
I’m on the rampart with you – get rid of state licensing, let the principals do as they wish. But don’t pretend that your purity will not be twisted to serve the collectivist where ever and when ever possible.
Tater, they probably had an in-state license.
Yeah, state licensing and prescription requirements are not optimal. I for one don’t see why the Constitution isn’t enforced to require states to recognize each other’s professional (and other) licensing.
In other contexts, though, the Glibs tend to be very skeptical of prosecutors deciding not to enforce laws they happen to disagree with, so . . . .
The thing I do like about state licensing is that it keeps the AMA (or ABA in other contexts) from complete control of that field, as it allows the states to offer and be in charge of the final solution.
And I don’t think there is ever going to be a chance to do away with licensing of doctors (or lawyers for that matter)
Of course the root of this whole argument is whether/at what point the fetus/unborn child counts as a “principal” (who is presumed to be opposed to being aborted). So let the principals do as they want is fine, but when it comes to abortion it gets complicated.
The AMA does not in any way control medicine. I have no idea why this idea keeps coming up here. It just seems to be an article of unquestioned faith.
In general, a physician can write a prescription for a patient who is currently in another state and it will get filled there, provided it’s not a prescription for a controlled substance. You are presumed and supposed to have an existing relationship with the patient in your state of practice, which doesn’t appear to have been the case here.
If you are practicing telemedicine, you are generally required to have a license in the state where the patient is. It looks like this particular doctor wasn’t licensed in Texas and so was basically practicing in Texas without a license to do it, presumably counting on New York’s shield law to protect him from prosecution for not only prescribing a medication that’s illegal in Texas for this particular application but also for practicing without a state license.
I’m not in favor of state licensing in general (or of Texas’ abortion law as written), but given that it’s not going anywhere this appears to be highly questionable as it allows an end run around state law regarding a matter that the supreme court has ruled is under Texas’ authority. I’d be very surprised if the court allows this sort of behavior, but then again I’ve been plenty surprised before.
Correction: it appears the physician in question is female, so should have been “her”.
Unfortunately getting rid of state licensing would just result in federal licensing.
The AMA doesn’t control medicine, but has no problem providing “guidelines” on gender affirming care and COVID and the like. I’d not want to be a doctor facing a lawyer who is claiming I ignore AMA “guidelines”.
I’m a doctor and I’d be absolutely comfortable facing a lawyer claiming I ignored AMA guidelines, particularly on transgender medicine. Their guidelines are based on evidence that is flimsy at best. Lots of physicians, myself included, believe they actually harm patients and I’m confident I could prove it in court.
I spent all of my Friday nights in 1980 with this kind of humor along with the birthday girl Melanie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DO_dYdASvAY
It was interesting to hear my parents listening to my friends and I playing drug dealer as a 7yrold
I’ve never given it much thought, but sometimes I’ve wondered why it is that the sun and moon sometimes appear in the northern part of the sky. It seemed counterintuitive to me that this should be the case, being in the northern hemisphere.
Then when I got up early this morning and looked at the moon, I said “Yeah, the moon is definitely way far north.”
Turns out there’s a reason.
I’ll be furiously clicking refresh at the appropriate CST hour to see if this impacts IFLA.
Also, autocorrect changed “northern” to “boobs”.
Wife and I were shopping when she noticed ‘usually sex’ on my list. Neither of us could figure out what autocorrect changed that from.
“unusual”?
When the sun is above the horizon for 24 hours a day in June in the Arctic, how does it get from the west back to the east?
It tracks around on an elliptical pattern that dips close to the horizon, so it does travel east for some time.
Old Man music is good, great start to the day. Five tromboners is almost enough. Needz moar ‘boners.
Been listening to a lot of Plainsong lately. Soothes the troubled soul, and all that.
Space banjo…blade runner…thunder and rain….I use various ambients for sleeping. It helps a lot. The troubled soul part…doesnt help much.
“…a deserved Nobel…”
I thought he was a good guy, he doesnt deserve that.
One other thing I loved: he never got his PhD, said fuck that union card nonsense, just went and did brilliant research.
And even without a PhD he had a big sphere of influence.
You can tell someone’s level of intelligence by the number of concepts they grasp and how finely they can distinguish between them.
One of these days I intend to put together a list of commonly and mistakenly conflated concepts. One of the first to come to mind is Accreditation vs. Competence.
Greetings from Fantasyland
Kamala Harris could make history as the first woman and person of color to be elected California governor. But she’d need to really want the job.
She couldn’t see it as merely a consolation prize after losing the presidential election to Donald Trump. Nor could she view it as a stepping stone back to the White House.
California voters would sense those feelings and perhaps not elect her. Anyway, she’d probably be miserable in her work.
Rather, Harris would need to view the job as a probable career-capper, taking pride in solving complex problems that are eating away at her native state.
She’d have to be eager to deal with homelessness, the housing shortage, street crime, overregulation, a perpetual water shortage and the annual hassle of balancing a volatile state budget fed by an outdated tax system that should have been modernized years ago.
It would also be helpful if she had ever demonstrated any aptitude for that sort of problem solving.
or for anything at all other than … you know …
California grape farmers would rejoice!
right….exactly….except that it’s California
where the last thing any governor accomplished was making sure negros couldn’t carry guns
This.
They are commies. There aint no fixin’ that.
As if being first woman and person of color was not reward enough!
That is a lot of digital ink to simply say: She Sucks.
Kamala Harris could make history as the first woman and person of color to be elected California governor. But she’d need to really want the job.
She’s yesterday’s news. There’ll be a few Silicon Valley firms that need a DEI hire on the board, so Kamala will have a nice sinecure in which to enjoy her retirement.
At least, I hope that she’ll go the Dan Quayle route and
play golfdrink wine in her Nob Hill mansion for the next twenty years.she could join Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander
I’d imagine plenty of examples of Biden’s recent clemency granting were legit but why this lady?
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-grants-clemency-to-ex-doc-sentenced-to-20-years-for-diluting-cancer-patients-chemotherapy-drugs?utm_campaign=64470
She was responsible for distributing watered down chemotherapy drugs for Christ’s sake.
Sending innocent people to prison for money is pretty much kidnapping.
The judge guy? In a just world he’d die in prison for what he did.
Well she’s remorseful. Also, no more talk about Hunter with 100s of these now out in the wind.
In some Friday after noon news dump the WH explained nobody actually looked at the list name by name. Instead they applied a mechanical formula and anyone who fit was pardoned.
One day we will have single payer. She’s just ahead of her time.
Win or lose, if Harris ran to succeed the termed-out Newsom in 2026 -– as is widely speculated — her window to become president would likely be closed.
Is there anybody on this planet who seriously believes Harris could come anywhere near the Presidency again? Her only chance is to snuff Joe before time runs out.
I didn’t think Biden was ever going to get another run at it, and with more than a little help, he managed a couple decades later. Voters are morons.
Joe was a mainstay though. He was in DC at least 12x longer than she was before she ever arrived for her short-lived stint as VP, and she got arrived at all because she’s a diversity hire.
Not even the hardcore Dems that pretended to be excited about her want her back. There was genuine excitement on the part of Team Blue for Hillary. First woman pres and the Bill Clinton dreamy magic.
There was never any such excitement for Harris.
“Mystery as Open AI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is found dead in San Francisco home”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14192591/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-dead-san-francisco-home.html
No mention of the cause of death.
Suicide, They said, in a link from yesterday morning.
The way the articles mention it sounds like suicide by gunshot or some other unambiguous cause.
I got that vibe also, but we will never know if it was suicide or Epstein.
Lately it seems whistleblowing is a very dangerous profession.
It has definitely been one of the consideration factors.
“One of”? She must make a helluva peach pie.
She made me some terrific manicotti.
There’s a lot to juggle here. No Tres Cool jokes, please.
I think it would take BOTH NPR ladies to make one Tres joke.
You have my attention.
Please go on…
Harris could skip a gubernatorial bid and run again for president in 2028 when Trump is termed out. But I can’t see Democrats turning to her a second time after she lost to such a flawed human being as Trump.
Sure, the loss wasn’t all her fault. President Biden stubbornly refused to drop out of the race until it was too late for the vice president to build a strong national support base. But still she lost. And the Nixon fluke aside, parties don’t normally double down on losers.
She just needs better consultants.
I don’t think even the Dems are that stupid. It’ll be that oily sack of shit Newsome with a smattering of minority this and that challengers.
Depends on how he goes out in CA. Things keep going to shit and people might just pay attention to that. Oh, not the Democratic faithful of course, but people with at least half a functioning brain.
I am curious if Newsome’s anti-Trump rhetoric will sink him in the ’28 or ’32* elections. If things work out even reasonably well, that might be the boat anchor we all know and love.
*god help me for even thinking about that year and elections.
“Sure, the loss wasn’t all her fault. ”
That’s retatrded even for the LA Times.
Well it’s also the fault of those icky voters. You know, the ones they like to give hell when “democracy” doesn’t go their way.
And some more money.
“too late for the vice president to build a strong national support base”
She was the heir apparent for around 3 years, given that Biden said he wasn’t going to run again and the administration was branded the “Biden-Harris Administration”. She was given several high-profile issues to “lead” on. Few candidates have had a better opportunity to build a national base.
And after she was nominated, her polling numbers went down after the initial honeymoon. It wasn’t that she was closing fast but just ran out of road. Quite the opposite.
She needs a ventriloquist, or to visit Oz the Great and Powerful for the Scarecrow treatment. Biden was a fluke, 2020 was an extreme outlier in terms of conditions and the race, but in general while you can be an idiot and become president, you have to be a glib idiot. Kamala is an incoherent idiot and comes across as panicky, because she is always out of her depth and callous.
a glib idiot /= Glib anything
I am pretty sure Glibs are even less electable.
There’s a lot that can happen between now and both the next CA elections and next presidential elections, but I think Harris goes nowhere. Either she doesn’t run again or if she does, she loses. Her loss to Trump was too big for her to have a viable future.
My thinking for 2028 on the Democrat side is it is either Whitmer or Shapiro. But we’ll see what happens over the next four years.
I still want a Miata.
The modernized MGB.
You conspicuously left out their respective blow job skills. Without this data, I’m not sure how anyone can make a rational recommendation.
That said, all that matters is that you believe she’s a good fit for you. There is no more “de gustibus” topic than that of mate choice. If it were me, I would definitely lean toward NPR Prime; kind, sweet, quiet, reserved and politically neutral-ish aligns much closer than ambitious, aggressive and “pragmatic progressive”.
Go for it.
Had to explain a flat tax to a numbskull on X. Because I HAD to.
I strongly endorse flat taxes and balanced budgets
as the only combination that can inspire a majority against (the size of) the state
You know what I’m linking to
For your next trick you’ll lead a horse to water?
“But to cope with the stress of school, he did something that has tragically become all too common among minors: He ingested a Xanax laced with fentanyl that he likely acquired via Snapchat.
When he didn’t wake up from his alarm the next morning, Kathy discovered that her son had fatally overdosed.
For years, my colleagues and I on the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees have heard similar heartbreaking stories from parents across the country who have lost their children to social media harms.”
No, they lost their children due to drug prohibition.
“The legislation, which I led alongside Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), would provide parents and children with tools, safeguards and transparency to protect against online harms.
The legislation would create a duty of care for online platforms to prevent specific dangers to minors, including the promotion of suicide, eating disorders, substance abuse and sexual exploitation.”
You know who already has a “duty of care”? The parents who aren’t watching their kids.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/15/opinion/halt-the-heartbreak-house-must-pass-kids-online-safety-act/
drug prohibition lead to selling xanax laced with fentanyl?
Yes. Legal xanax doesn’t have fentanyl in it.
Damn unlicensed pharmacists!
xanax isn’t illegal.
If it had fentanyl in it, it wasn’t real Xanax, of course.
Snapchat sells drugs?
No, they’re just means of communication. If this were the 80’s these people would want to ban pagers and pay phones.
“As if being first woman and person of color was not reward enough!”
This is what doesn’t make sense.
1. Trump is an existential threat to democracy.
2. America is a racist (and sexist) country.
3. ?????
4. Let’s run a woman of color!
5. She doesn’t win
6. GOTO 2 and complain endlessly for another four years
Had to explain a flat tax to a numbskull on X. Because I HAD to.
But muh social justice!
Slutty Sunday in honor of OMWC’s geriatric, yet very busy, genitalia.
https://archive.is/YN5NT
@person rhyming with “snow blow” and one rhyming with “gay play” : Happy now?
Can you fix the Unchosen one up with someone else?
Can you fix the Unchosen one up with someone else?
Pretty sure Jews don’t watch Hallmark, despite the desultory sprinkling of Hanukka themed movies.
Jews are by definition never the Unchosen one
Here’s one you don’t see every day
Back in the late ’70s, early ’80s there was a Europa parked on a street in town.
Never more than parked though.
I hope they are fun to drive because you don’t buy them for looks.
So not much to choose there, it’s a clear tie.
Prime seems like the clear winner to me.
+1
It’s pretty clear OM loves him a challenge, which brings Retread back into contention.
Ringo: Nah, she’ll only reject me in the end and I’ll be frustrated.
And after a lot of internal soul-searching and angst, I finally made it and arranged New Years together. Which is a big deal. OK, well it may not matter to YOU, it’s big to me.
Threesome?
Who dumps $111k into restoring a Model A and has for auction at no reserve?
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1928-ford-model-a-76/
I have to assume estate sale or similar. Wow…
My first thought was something went wrong during the rebuild.
After looking over the listing, I think you’re right. It’s an estate sale or something similar.
Or this…
People do this shit all the time and I don’t get it either. Restore and enjoy would be the way, but some people restore, then get bored since it’s done and essentially fire sale it and start over. I liken it to women who create their own drama just to have something to talk about.
Who dumps $111k into restoring a Model A and has for auction at no reserve?
Current bid $12k.
“It’s an investment.”
Not sure how the car auctions go, but all the online auctions I’ve bidded on the price jumps a lot in the last 15 minutes.
The restoration costs double top of the market.
https://www.hotcars.com/ford-model-a-classic-worth-today/
And this one is nice, but I don’t think it’s ready for Pebble Beach.
Well, well, well
“Although the value can be largely subjective, and also at the seller’s discretion, the value is also contingent upon what a buyer would be willing to pay”
I was mostly making a comment that you can’t make a judgment on an auction item price until it closes.
Got it. I’m sure this isn’t going to close at $12k.
Who cares what WD and L0b0t think, which one does Kaiser prefer? Dogs know.
Damage control
State officials want to calm the nerves of New York City’s business elite after the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson sent shockwaves through the corporate world.
Gov. Kathy Hochul will broker a virtual meeting Tuesday with state law enforcement officials and about 175 corporate representatives to discuss sharing security resources.
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The executive’s shooting has unleashed social media catharsis over the killing and rage over the health insurance industry — alarming corporate leaders who have beefed up private security efforts as a result.
“Demonization of corporate executives is not new,” Wylde said. “It was part of the rhetoric in the financial crisis of 2008-09. The real estate industry has obviously been subject to it. It’s not new. Translating peoples’ anger from rhetoric into shooting someone is new.”
It’s not clear which firms will send representatives and a spokesperson for the governor declined to comment.
But the meeting is being held as state officials remain fearful private sector leaders will have more impetus to leave New York — with tax revenue suffering as a result.
Business leaders have long complained the state’s tax climate has made New York a difficult environment.
“It’s not a shithole. Honest.”
Meanwhile a big FU to the worker drones of NYC on the streets and subways from both the Mayor and Governor.
“Although the value can be largely subjective, and also at the seller’s discretion, the value is also contingent upon what a buyer would be willing to pay”
Willing buyer, willing seller; “That’s not enough to compensate me for not having it anymore.”