With the exception of noting that the Bears are asking to talk to Mike McCarthy for their head coaching job throwing Swissy into a potential rage, there’s not much else to mention in the sports world on this side of the pond. On the other, the league cup semifinals (first legs) start today and tomorrow. Now moving on.
Biden has banned private companies from reporting unpaid bills to other private companies. But the authoritarian is the guy that’s getting ready to take office again.
This is becoming just like cable. Which I guess was inevitable.
Keep him on ice. Why not just take him back to Georgia and put him in the ground? That’s probably what he’d have wanted anyway. Seriously.
Christ, what an asshole. I’m curious why the author thinks this executive action will take an act of congress to unwind. I guess the courts will have to decide.
Goodbye/Adieu. I do not believe he will be remembered well by history/Je ne pense pas que l’histoire se souviendra bien de lui.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! I can’t wait for this guy’s piece on the 20th.
Why should they be democracies? That’s not how it works or should work, same as any large corporation or nonprofit or anything else that requires operation.
“We’re only mutilating a few thousand kids. Relax!” I hope history is not kind to these Mengele-ites.
This song is decent. I’m hot and cold on this guy. But I do quite like this one. Some of his other catalog that people get hyped up about I can do without. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this bitter cold Tuesday, dear friends.
Just wait until the commemorative Carter Peanut Butter comes out, made with peanuts grown on the grave of Jimmy!
With a genuine Billy Beer center surprise!
Tastes like malaise and rabbits.
“Biden”… given that it is a CFPB regulation (thanks Lizzie for that unconstitutional crap-pile) and Kamala doing all the “announcing”.
PPP is deep in a pudding cup binge, mad that FRAU DOKTOR JILL seems to think he’s not useful anymore.
Whose unpaid bills?
He was a nuke sub guy — can we
throw him to the sharksbury him at sea?I thought they loaded the bodies into torpedo tubes and launched them into the sun. Or whatever the undersea equivalent is.
They should plant him near or under a monument dedicated to the failures of those that claim good intentions…
Wouldn’t that be the gates to hell?
Give that man a CI-GAR!!
Inter him at TMI. The radiation will preserve his body, just like it did the first time he visited it.
TMI dude.
The Milan derby for the Italian Super Cup yesterday was one helluva match featuring an outstanding performance from Christian Pulisic.
Good for him.
I remember when such contests might have been on my cable instead of a pay stream. Good times.
Caught it on DirectTV – CBS Sports.
IIRC I could get that channel but it is part of an expensive sports tier that comes with a zillion other channels I don’t want. When I moved recently I dropped a couple tiers I didn’t want to pay for anymore.
Funny cause I dumped a bunch of stuff but that one stuck.
I still get Fox Sports 1 (but not 2) and several MSG channels. And Yes and some other crap I don’t care about. At the end of the day, none of them are good for soccer.
I really miss the Tennis channel and I was gonna pay for the stream but turns out it is not supported on Sony/Android TVs. Whee!
I initially misread that as “The Tetris Channel”.
NPR ran Trudy’s quote… he didn’t resign. He said he intended to resign at some unspecified point in the future. Maybe a truck driver will honk is horn and such a national emergency would force Truds to retake power for the good of the country.
I saw that. All the celebration is premature. Besides, some other leftist dildo will take his place. Yay.
Because he paid attention to the Hawaiian judges in the last OMB go-around? Jackass EOs and regulations — must have 7+ years of legislative process and formal laws to change. Stupid Party ones… can be rolled back on day one.
This justice system brought to you by the spirit of Two Tier Kier… not just for Limeys anymore!
Rules for thee, but not for me..
Exactly. One way ratchet in action. Of course, this just further demonstrates why none of this power should even be with the president anyway. It is clearly legislative in nature.
I’d request to subscribe to your newsletter due to total agreement — but I’m already here and all.
“Biden has banned private companies from reporting unpaid bills to other private companies. But the authoritarian is the guy that’s getting ready to take office again.”
At the very first blush, this seems reasonable, then you think for a micro second.
This is wild. You could end up loaning someone money who has no business taking on more debt. 22k new mortgages is the number they pulled from their behind. How many of these will be defaulted on?
The US Government has a fantastic track record of encouraging mortgages to folks who can’t actually afford the loans, after all.
Home ownership – bi partisan policy!
Exactly. Between this and the oil things, it’s clear they’re just trying to sabotage the economy over the next 4 years.
Truly despicable people.
Don’t worry about the defaults comrade, we have bailout programs for that. Housing is a human right, everyone deserves a house, the system must be equitable. You’ll get your Socialism good and hard.
So, grooming gangs?
Eh, I can understand the idea of a debt being valuable enough to trade for something. But at the same time, why should an entity I’ve never heard of much less have entered into any sort of agreement with have the power to demand money from me?
I agree. Any modifications to the contractual parties (debt is a contract) should require the active concent of all three parties – debtor, creditor, and would-be creditor, unless the creditor was acquired by the new would-be creditor as that would be the same party from a legal perspective.
You probably agree to it somewhere in the terms and conditions for most loans.
In cases like debt to a service provider, I suppose they sell their right to collect on the debt to someone else, you can’t choose what they do with their property (the debt).
Anyway, this isn’t really about turning debt over to collectors so much as companies being able to accurately report your liabilities.
Most mortgages and a lot of other formal debt is assignable by its terms – the creditor can sell it because the contract says he can. Now, the debtor can’t assign his obligation to pay (for pretty obvious reasons). So the debtor has typically already consented.
It’s unconscionable to hide something like that in the terms.
Especially dealing with an unsophisticated party.
NA: why should an entity I’ve never heard of much less have entered into any sort of agreement with have the power to demand money from me?
RC: So the debtor has typically already consented.
I know most people don’t read their mortgage agreements – and the all the realtors and agents got real frustrated with me when I sat there and read it during closing – but certainly for that loan contract it said right there – “hey, you know we’re going to sell this before the ink is dry on your signature, right? And you’ll be obligated to pay whatever entity we sell it too, right?” I don’t think I would have gotten anywhere claiming I didn’t have to pay my mortgage because I never entered into an agreement with New York Bank. I’d guess generally you agree to the transfer of debt up front when you enter into the agreement to take someones money as a loan.
At some point, arrived at very quickly, the terms of a contract are going to be more than “an unsophisticated party” can recite from memory. Practically the entirety of most contracts are “hidden in the terms” and there is no remedy for that other than just making it illegal to have contracts beyond a certain, very short, length.
So what are the acceptable terms for a mortgage, say? Don’t exceed a handful of bullet points.
@ Putrid “you know we’re going to sell this before the ink is dry on your signature, right?”
I got the “We’ve sold your mortage – Would you like to refinance?” letters before I even made my first regularly scheduled payment on the loan. Fortunately, the payment processing still went through the credit union and they passed it along to whoever bought the debt.
If this is specific to mortgages, that’s one thing because those are known Big Deal Contracts.
My sole experience with collections agencies has been of this pattern:
1. I get a bill from Albany Med for something that Insurance is supposed to pay for.
2. I let Albany Med and Insurance Co. fight about it.
3. I get a bill from a collections agency for some amount that I am assuming is related to the bill in point 1, though they’re never the same amount.
4. I ignore it.
5. Nothing ever happens beyond this other than perhaps a repeat of #3 and #4.
“Goes back to read the fine print on the marriage contract”
Well, damn, I didn’t know she could sell the contract out to her mother.
At Not Adahn – re med billing – I have a similar response to med bills as you but did have one that we received almost 8 years after treatment was received. I responded that I retain records for 3 years and that since I have no way to substantiate the bill that I was unable to pay it. That was the first and last time I ever heard on that one.
Every house I have bought there was someone (a notary) there at the title company going line-by-line with us, each clause needing to be signed off on. They tell you that they are going to sell the loan and that this is part of the loan parameters up front. That said, I have been going through Guild Mortgage for the last two, and they do not sell the loan but keep it in-house.
Every house I have bought there was someone (a notary) there at the title company going line-by-line with us, each clause needing to be signed off on.
Some of those practices vary by state.
In NH, no lawyer is required to be involved in closing, and at closing when the agent handed me the document, the agent gave me a summary. I didn’t have to sign off every clause, but I did read the documents in full which slowed things down.
I’ve heard in Vermont lawyers must go over the closing documents.
If you sign a negotiable instrument, (generally a note or a check) it is negotiable. That means it is an ongoing promise by you to pay the amount specified, at the terms specified to the holder of the instrument. Why on Earth would you not have to pay the money to someone who bought the right to collect on those terms from the original lender?
Bury Carter with a peanut in his mouth for the journey.
Not on his closed eyelids?
Fo the boatman…
Chiron has a wicked allergy.
Look, you’re supposed to save a penny for the ferryman, not literally pay him peanuts.
Isn’t putting a penny on the eyes an Irish custom, while the ancient Greeks put them in the mouth?
You’re not supposed to pay the ferryman until he gets you to the other side.
If you don’t pay the ferryman up front, he dumps you in the Styx.
Charon, not Chiron, sorry.
It’s spelled Χάρων
Chiron would make for a shitty ferryman. He’d constantly be stomping holes in the hull.
Chris De Burgh – Don’t Pay The Ferryman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwEMfLjxq8M
There it is.
At least somebody got the reference.
PO Nick, blast from the past. I enjoyed it when it came out.
I got it I was trying to make some sort of joke along the lines of “Don’t fear the Reaper, but the Ferryman is a cheating asshole.”
Not enough cowbell.
I always mix those two songs up, then I mix the bands up. Grrrr.
Because it was done under a poorly thought out 1953 law
Poorly thought out or purposefully crafted?
Either way, it would be interesting to hear arguments for the constitutionality of things like this. Usually the legislative can’t tie the hands of the executive, but it isn’t really the executive’s power to use in the first place…
Somehow I don’t think in 1953 they anticipated a President whose intent was to cripple the United States Economy.
Well, ackshually…
The answer is to just go and do it. Start with the assumption that the ’53 law is unconstitutional, and go from there. And if a judge, say in Hawaii, says no you are already using force majeure.
So the starting point of your gambit is the assertion that “Congress cannot delegate legislative authority to the executive or any other non-legislative entity.”
I’ll buy that. It’ll burn a lot of the regulatory state in the same stroke.
Edit to add; if it takes an act of congress to unwind it, it should take an act of congress to start it. That should be the reasoning behind why it is and was unconstitutional. And why he should just plow ahead.
^This. The constitution does not give supremacy to the judiciary. Things like this need a little Jacksonian “He’s made his decision, now let him enforce it” magic.
It’ll burn a lot of the regulatory state in the same stroke.
And????
And what?
Or are you such an ingrained contrarian that you thought I was presenting that as a negative?
All that gnashing of teeth will be a boon for dentists.
So the starting point of your gambit is the assertion that “Congress cannot delegate legislative authority to the executive or any other non-legislative entity.”
The Supreme Court has done away with Chevron deference.
This is becoming just like cable.
What? You think you should get to choose what you watch (and pay for)? WHAT’S IN THAT FOR US??? /love, the networks
I was considering Fubo for awhile but the price is more than I already pay for cable + internet. No, thanks.
Yeah, the promise of a la carte never actually materialized with “streaming”, did it.
I think the real problem is the content producers – they know they have limited good product and a bunch of shit, and they want top dollar for it all.
juris imprudent:
You sure on that? The producers don’t seem to be the ones in charge right now (look at the complaints about movies/shows being “dumped to streaming”). I’d say it was more that Netflix started making money by being the first to do it, and licensing a bunch of old stuff from everyone’s library. Then those companies decided (as happened in the game industry in regards to Steam) “Why are we letting Netflix make money off of our back catalog, we can stream it ourselves!”. They then rolled out streaming services that cost more, had less content, and were less usable (hell, some of them still don’t keep track of what’s been watched).
We’re back in the consolidation part, when all of the people who’ve lost money on streaming (pretty sure that’s everyone except for Netflix) start purging content (looks over at WB/MAX/HBO Max/HBO Go) and looking to get out of running their own streaming service.
Personally, I’m more annoyed at the reluctance to release items in a physical format as a way to force subscriber lock in.
I could be wrong, but I thought this was usually the result of negotiation between the cable/sat company and the content producers and the bundling was producer driven. The theory was streaming should bust that, but instead it has followed it. Either way it ends up fucking the consumer.
juris:
Netflix has no negotiations with satellite/cable. Off the top of my head, nearly every streaming service is tied to one major studio (Amazon/MGM; Hulu/Disney; MAX/WB; etc.), and (Hollywood accounting outstanding), I’m pretty sure they’ve all lost a large amount of money over the past several years with all of the movies that have crashed and burned upon release (or got shelved to never be released).
If it was the content producers making the money, you’d see more of them doing their own releases or doing funding through crowdfunding. I know of several bands and podcasts that get by on that, but I don’t think there’s that many shows/movies getting through those.
Yeah, should have been obvious to everyone from day one. The consumer is the last consideration.
I’m sure it will only be part of the 4 year incessant bleating on how They ™ know better, we shouldn’t believe our lying eyes and should just submit, etc. All the “how could they not believe us after we lied to them repeatedly!” in the article leans that way to me.
Everything these people did in the past will be memory-holed. They are in attack mode now. Every time Trump does anything, there will be teams of people figuring out how to spin it as an existential crisis.
You’ve got me — if anything should be a meritocracy (best at research should get the say in research and the overall tone of the campus, etc…. students shouldn’t get a say in Jack over Shit barring their internal groups, certainly not the overall running of the faculty/campus), universities should.
I had to tap out of that whiny shitpile.
And yet every class is subject to a layer of Marxist claptrap. Imagine that.
“Why not just take him back to Georgia and put him in the ground? That’s probably what he’d have wanted anyway. Seriously”
I assume he has a last will and testament to cover what he wants done with his body. So, either they’re listening to that or not. No reason to assume they aren’t.
We have every reason to doubt them.
From my POV Carter probably would have wanted the attention and pomp associated with the official stuff going on. But that’s just my inkling.
Well, let’s see. On the one hand (hypothetically), we have a last will and testament requesting a quiet private ceremony. On the other, we have a corpse we can use for cheap political points over a few news cycles.
Which way do you think Our Masters will go?
Considering what they have been doing with Bidens corpse the last few weeks, I guessing they are going to do some Weekend at Jimmah’s film.
He signed an updated will on the day he voted for Kamala.
So did Rosylyn.
Oh hi, never mind us, we’re not doing anything over here.
Only WE are trustworthy and true patriots – everyone else, including the President, are suspect. There is no saving an institution that has that sentiment.
Nuke it from orbit.
One wonders if the incoming administration will have the balls to finally investigate. They could start by removing that award from around Mrs. Clinton’s chicken-neck.
“Less than 1 in 1,000 adolescents with commercial insurance”
This is a caveat big enough to drive a gelding through.
So how many kids on Medicaid got it? How many as soon as they turned 18? How many self paid or somehow obscured the services being offered.
Also, why do I not trust these researchers?
“The researchers noted that gender-affirming care is linked to “improved psychological functioning” for youth who identify as transgender and gender diverse in the U.S.”
Oh, right.
The researchers are lying.
There is actual research showing no such link but in this country it’s ignored.
Psst – it isn’t research if we can spike the publication of it.
The internet tells me there are 42 million adolescents in the US. One in a thousand would be nearly half a million.
This may not be quite the knock-out punch they think it is.
It is when you consider how bad with numbers people are. I mean, Elon could give us all a million dollars and still have money left over!
42k is a lot, but not nearly half a million.
I was told that an order of magnitude error does not invalidate the conclusions of the study.
My jaw literally dropped when I read the headline. Once again, you do not hate the media enough.
Less than 0.1% received psychiatric drugs; the other 99.9% had genitals chopped off.
Now that our Team lost we are going to try to gain favor with the new emperor.
Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been building ties with the incoming Trump administration.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ends-fact-checking-on-facebook-instagram-in-free-speech-pitch-8e46ad52?st=VAunit&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s almost like they only want to curry favor with power, regardless of who has that power. What unspeakable evil.
Blowin’ the wind?
My assumption was more driven by “this will be much cheaper”. Even Meta can’t keep setting money on fire forever (how’s that Metaverse coming, Zuck? How many billions in are you?).
Meh, that is how all business works. This is why there are donations to both sides of the aisle by the same company half the time. You are looking to see what you can get, and what you cannot get. What you have to do, and what you don’t.
Yep, Bezos and Zuck are just trying to play catchup since Elon bulldozed his way in.
Reckoning? Not if they can possibly avoid it.
That is a strong contender for stupidest analogy of the year, and we’re still in the first week.
Watch the brother on the right pay for this stunt….
#metoo
There’s something annoyingly twee going on that irritates me to no end.
Not me. I’ve been a fan for a long time. And he still put on one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen.
Oliver’s Army is a great choice, regardless.
His first couple albums are some of the best of all time. Post ’70s, not so much.
When I was Cruel was put out in the early 2000s, and it’s among his best. Fantastic album.
BP is 100 percent correct. I still listen to that one most frequently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhqIKAE7jrA&ab_channel=Desweef
Die in a fucking fire – all of them.
I especially appreciate the fingerprinting of the kids photo. “Its a classroom exercise! Quick, send these to the FBI, we got these for free!”
Odd how we never heard any stories about the cops dealing with the BLM and Antifa riots being driven to suicide.
*checks over notes* Those were jack-booted thugs in that instance.
I reject the “driven to suicide” framing. What I see is you’ve got a population (the cops in this case) who’s response to having a problem is “put a bullet in it.”
“They’d long believed Howie’s service on the Capitol Police was harming his health, and they’d repeatedly urged him to quit.”
So, you say, his job was causing him problems long before the events of J6?
Oh, and I wonder if Howie was one of the cops who beat Rosanne Boyland to death.
Oh, and I wonder if Howie was one of the cops who beat Rosanne Boyland to death.
I suppose guilt over that could lead to his suicide.
In a way you could say the suicide thug died in a fire…a reichstag fire since that drove him to it. I know, I am reaching here.
Norwegian women have, on average, the biggest tits in the world.
https://archive.is/3NwJ2
Titty Tuesday.
So you’re saying Norwegian would.
Or turning Japanese?
👏
Titty Tuesday Redux.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/06/health/teens-breasts-grew-to-triple-g-cup-size-following-covid-vaccination-study/
If only this were a common side effect.
I appreciate the small amount of pixelation lol.
There is such a thing as too big. Generally you’ve passed that line when each is rivalling the head for volume.
When was the last time you actually read a physical newspaper? Look at the picture here.
U.S. in Talks to Swap Detained Americans in Afghanistan for Guantanamo Prisoner
Biden administration negotiates for the release of three Americans in exchange for an alleged Osama bin Laden associate—and seeks to avoid political blowback
And of course they are…
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-in-talks-to-swap-detained-americans-in-afghanistan-for-guantanamo-prisoner-c2fe0df9?st=paKeSu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“When was the last time you actually read a physical newspaper?”
Sunday.
A couple months ago, if you count the free local commie weekly.
Aleksandra Glezmann, George Glezmann’s wife, said her husband now thinks trips to Washington “are just a waste of life because his government doesn’t care anyway, and that he will likely rot in jail and never come home alive.”
Oh your government cares, if they can use your life as a political pawn in some shape or fashion. Also, maybe don’t go touring a country we have bombed the shit out of for the previous 19 years.
Of course, going to Washington can also result in rotting jail.
[golf claps]
Zero sympathy.
“Glezmann, a Delta Air Lines mechanic, was touring Afghanistan when the Taliban seized him in December 2022”
Play stupid games…
Spite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP0MXJAQhmo
Conditions are grim. According to one recent survey, 38 percent of instructional staff report some form of basic-needs insecurity. Stories of adjunct faculty sleeping in cars, shopping at food pantries, and even turning to sex work spread through the industry press.
They do it for love.
Interesting, is it possible that mental illness corelates with both academia and homelessness.
You’ll know when some bum starts berating you for assuming their pronouns.
Good morning Glibs, hope you all had a good Jan. 6, and Buffalo Shaman brought you something nice. I got a slightly used lectern, and a rare, signed transcript of AOC telling about the third time she was murdered that day.
So, she’s taken up a career in ghostwriting?
I was murdered!
I used to joke with colleagues that higher education is besieged on two fronts: by fascists on one side and neoliberals on the other. As we look ahead to a second Trump administration, however, these two threads appear ready to converge.
They’ll put you to work in a rice paddy, with a dunce cap on your head?
💯% chance the author voted for the actual fascist running the United States for the last four years.
Fascist, Communist, Conservative, Liberal, Freedom, Democracy, Socialist, Racist, Far Left/Right…..all words used but never defined. A narrow gaze and extreme skepticism should be used with anyone spouting them.
Shocking…
Instead, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) said he wants to include a debt-limit increase in the “one big beautiful bill” that Republicans will try to move through Congress using the procedure known as budget reconciliation, which averts the 60-vote Senate filibuster threshold.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/us-congress-debt-limit-trump-2c45575d?st=pEoTsG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
This is what Trump wants, isn’t it? Why blame the Speaker as a spineless squish if that bigger spineless squish is in the White House?
Of all the things I think Trump might do that could be beneficial, cutting spending and controlling debt is not one of them.
Unfortunately, it’s the main thing we need. Or at least one of the two main things we need (snapping the spine of the agencies is the other). Big picture/long run, everything else is eyewash.
If Trump doesnt do it reality will. An unsustainable system is unsustainable.
I agree RC, just trying to keep straight what we think versus what Republicans do (and which Republicans are to blame for that).
Mom not doing well at all. Kidneys shutting down. I’ve called my brothers in, contacted an estate attorney (she and her sister co-own their house and I suspect my aunt’s going to try to stab me in the back because my cousins REALLY want that house).
Sorry to read that.
So sorry to hear, Mojeaux. Especially the extra, unneeded family drama.
So sorry to hear.
Oh, hun.
Oh no! Sorry to hear that, Mojeaux.
Moj, my heart felt sympathies. My mother suffered the same problem, she went to sleep for four days and didn’t wake up. She’d been in a nursing home for 10 months.
The suffering was over, she left enough to cover her funeral expenses. My two brothers and I went to the bank, one emptied her safe box, paid the funeral home. Worked out perfectly and total family agreement.
Some aunts or whatnot I was barely aware of crawled out of the woodwork to fight over my mom’s estate 16 years ago in a development that surprised absolutely no one.
Solid estate planning is one of the best gifts you can give your family.
I’m sorry, Mo.
You have all of my sympathy. Really, I am sorry to hear that.
Co-own how? As tenants in common or as joint tenants? The way they took title (language used on the deed) matters in this situation.
Also, sorry about your Mom, your post engaged real estate lawyer brain and it short circuited my much smaller social interaction brain.
Not sure, precisely. I have a notarized statement of what is to be done with it if one of them dies, but I have never seen the mortgage or title documents.
No, it’s great. I need all the help I can get from people I trust, so whatever you have to say I will listen to.
The deed trumps other documents. If they are joint tenants the property goes to the survivor regardless of other instructions. The mortgage would not matter here, just the deed. I’m not licensed in Missouri, but if you email me at my handle here @gmail.com with the address/county I can see if I can find the deed online.
THANK YOU!!! I will do that as soon as I can get to my email again. Oh, I appreciate this so much!
Sorry 🙁
Sorry.
Sorry to hear.
Sorry Mojeaux, that all sucks.
So sorry to hear.
Sorry, Mo.
Hope the family drama doesn’t add too much stress.
Look – a squirrel!
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/elon-musk-is-roiling-european-politics-0199c66d?st=55taa3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What is his record? About like Kamala’s?
The English have been down the tubes so many time now they clearly have raised it to an art.
Unfortunately for him, as the Crown Prosecutor at the time, his fingerprints are all over one of the biggest scandals in the history of England – mass child rape by foreigners covered up by, if not aided and abetted by, the government*. And its broken cover (again), being driven by an outlet that he cannot control or intimidate.
*I read one story that the police went to a house after hearing reports of screams. They found something like 10 Pakistani men and one naked and drunk young girl (11 or 12, I think). They arrested the girl for drunkenness. No indication any of the Pakis were arrested.
Lots of stories like that because of Starmer.
In that case, I wonder if arresting her was the excuse to get her out of there without losing their jobs.
Could be, Drake. Don’t know if charges were actually pressed, but the “without losing their jobs” part goes straight up the chain in the UK’s government.
He is dumber than I even expected.
PS. I really, really hope this blows up in his face.
The British public have been so beaten down they can’t even talk about it.
Sometimes you really understand why Orwell believed a boot grinding on a face was their true destiny.
That’s pretty wild. I had no idea two tier Kier was behind that. How is he still alive?
In my digital archival of my physical media, I found that for one series I only owned half the run.
In looking for the rest of the run, I could get just the part I was missing for $22 on DVD, or the whole series for $15 on BluRay.
Used to be both blurays and more content were each more expensive.
Biden may be demented but he sure remembers how to say ‘fuck you’ with gusto.
It is clear the left hates the free market and personal liberty because they have a one dimensional understanding of ‘signals’. The free market provides signals. The voting booth provides signals. The signals from the voting booth have gone right over their heads. They seem to be lefting even harder. I dont know what to say about that.
The author of the University article is missing that the Universities are defending AND practicing democracy. That is what democracy looks like and why our founders took so much trouble to avoid it.
Children mutilators belong against a wall.
Of all the Newspeak that drives me crazy, “gender affirming care” has now firmly supplanted “person of color” as the absolute worst. The fact that it got mainstreamed so quickly is disgusting, and is part of the reason we now are looking at a Trump Show Seasons 5-8. I think (and hope) the backlash against all the woke bullshit is just beginning, and is not just a US phenomenon.
That Central Europeans, who really suffered under the assault on language and thought, are leading on the backlash I think says a lot. We never had it as bad as they did.
They were indeed on the cutting edge of this. Unsurprisingly, it looks like the message is still not getting through. It took a while to get into this, it is going to take a while to get out.
It sure isn’t.
I am still unsure if we’ve reached a local bottom or if it gets more stupid first.
My current blood-boiler euphemism is “grooming gangs”.
No, they aren’t grooming gangs. They are child rape gangs. Racist ones, at that.
https://x.com/bariweiss/status/1876455268319433034
Bari can be and has been, not all that aware about some things, but I think she is pretty spot on here. I just look at the monumental hit job that was put on Trump from the government, media, and elite power brokers to his own massive missteps and mistakes and the fact that he won again just shows the depth of distrust to the official narrative makers. This is what I had hoped might eventually happen in the depths of the Vid hysteria.
Yes, she’s right. “Multiculturalism” is proving to be a complete failure, and the inevitable accusations of “racism” are starting to fall on deaf ears.
What the fuck is the deal with Greenland?
https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1876647175016382510
Do we really need more burden?
I’m convinced (maybe just hoping) that this is chaff to chew up news cycles. Much like the “let’s annex Canada” kerfuffle.
Agreed.
It’ll be prime real estate as climate change melts the ice.
I’ve always wanted to go there. If I come into some big money I’m gonna take a sled dog hunting trip for caribou there. I think the Trump thing is mostly bluster, and we aren’t going to “buy” Greenland, but it would be huge if they gained full independence from Denmark and aligned with the US. Massive untapped mineral deposits there, big tourism possibilities and much more there.
“…massive untapped mineral deposits…”
There is also a bit of. ice.
Economically, Greenland is not set up for independence.
Half of its employed workforce is government sector. It’s budget comes in the form of subsidy from Denmark. It will collapse if it tries to stand on its own in the state it is in now.
I wonder what the feasibility of using either nuclear or geothermal to melt that ice in the particular places might be? Also wonder what they have in terms of petroleum under that ice? If it’s anything like Alaska that would be huge. They have oil rigs all up in the Arctic so it is possible.
It has a population of 56k. It is basically a big national park, not a nation or even a province.
That is exactly what I have read about it Jarflax. It’s some of the least developed areas on the planet. Any yes, of course the massive amount of ice and snow are a main reason for that. But I have to believe that if it was a territory of the US and not Denmark it would look very different there.
Some joyous music for the day:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1ShmQHMQc&t=33s
So annoying that it put a timestamp on there. Here it is with the timestamp removed:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ec1ShmQHMQc
When does a fiddle become just an electric guitar that someone is holding up next to their chin?
At this exact moment in time.
Lockdown
President Biden is creating two new national monuments in California on Tuesday, preserving the lands from development and setting a record for the most land and waters conserved by any president, the White House said.
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In total, the White House said Biden protected 674 million acres of land and waters through monuments and other designations during his four years in office.
Bigger than Teddy Roosevelt.
That would be more than a million square miles. No idea how much of that is water, but for reference, the land mass of the US is 3MM square miles (including territorial waters, 3.8MM square miles). So the Biden administration has, in four years, made around a third of the US off limits for development.
That seems beyond belief. Check my math, but I think thats right.
Bit under a third. That IS beyond belief.
Your math appears correct (674MM acres out of 2429MM total). That’s unbelievable.
You are correct.
How long before a new crop of voters forgets what happened here and elects another commie who will simply annex all US real estate?
NPR visualized it by saying it was “Six Californias.”
Congress gave the President a power it didn’t have to begin with – WCPGW?
My friend who lives in DC and has a sister who works for the Biden Administration asked me how I felt about the election of Donald Trump. I told him that I don’t think he is that big of a danger as the Left has made him out to be and that his election was the repudiation of the Left’s nonsense from the last couple of years. He blew his gasket at that statement and went on this rant about how he’s this authoritarian strongman who will never let go of power and will jail his political opponents.
I calmy told him about the Biden Administration colluding with social media companies to suppress views that differs from the Admiration’s official policy which is a violation of our First Amendment rights and banana republic shit like the NY Legislature retroactively changing a law just to prosecute the former President and the Administration’s dismissal of inflation and even mocking those for worrying about the rising price of goods.
His response was that all of this was necessary to protect the norms of our democracy and save our country from a dictator. At that point I saw that arguing with him was useless and tried to move on to something else, but he wouldn’t let up. He then accused me of being naive about how much we are in danger and that people like me are the reason why we will be in a Nazi like dictatorship. I tried to not blow up at him and told him I had something to do and got off the phone.
He also works at an NGO in DC so take that as you will.
Ah, a parasite about to lose its host.
All becomes clear.
Honestly, I hope the asshole suffers greatly in the displacement. That kind of stupid should hurt.
When the COVID shot mania was going on, he lectured me about getting my kids one. At the time my daughters where 2 years old and 4 months old. I got the shot because my job threatened to let us go if we didn’t, but I drew the line at my children. I finally told him that he’s my bro but don’t ever lecture me about the decisions that I make with regards to my children again or else, we’re going to have a problem.
It’s a religion, there is no reasoning someone out of their religious beliefs.
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”.
I have a friend who is M-F trans and lamented that they didn’t know how long before their existence became illegal now that Trumpenfuhrer was coming back. I responded that, from what I’ve read, Trump has a long list of atrocities on his plate: Re-enslaving all black people, deporting all brown people, repealing women’s suffrage and instating Handmaid’s Tale, and handing over America’s nuclear arsenal to Putin, so maybe making it legal to hunt LGBTQETC. people for sport would be low on the list.
Excellent.
“Have you gotten an assault rifle yet? No? Do you want one of my spares? It probably won’t save your life, but you’ll probably be able to take a few of the enforcers with you, and that’ll make it that much easier for the next guy…or whatever, you get the idea…”
“their existence became illegal”
So there are people who actually believe Trump will have them executed for being trans? Wow.
It’s so stupid. Dude was President for four years and not one trans or gay person got sent to the gulags or executed.
Ugh. There is a reason I don’t talk to any of my old friends from the Before Times.
You cannot argue with dogma, it is too deeply connected to the believer’s sense of self, and any argument no matter how rational and calm is perceived as a personal attack.
Three years ago, at HH an old friend told me, “Trump is going to jail” just matter-of-factly. I said, “I don’t think so” and the matter was dropped.
Then he said I needed to get the vaccine. I said “you’ll need boosters every three months” His response was, “So?”
He’s a retired math prof. I haven’t mentioned those conversations the past two HHs. I think he’d rather forget the conversation and we are too good of friends for me to bring it up. Besides, he’s having his own health problems, ’cause he’s old.
Boy, that really says a lot about our democracy, that we have to abandon things like rule of law and due process to save it. It almost sounds like democracy is just a fig leaf over authoritarian oligarchy…
Dude’s not thinking, he’s just repeating what his thought leaders are telling him to.
Did not expect that. Ignore the title as from the comments FL man DID return to the scene.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1hulhj4/florida_man_hits_woman_on_bike_drives_off_oc/
Praise Biden!
Gavin Newsom today issued the following statement after President Biden took action to protect the Pacific and Atlantic coasts from offshore oil and gas drilling.
Hundreds of miles of California’s iconic coastline is now fully protected from expanded offshore drilling, thanks to today’s action by President Biden. For decades, we have led the fight to protect the Pacific Coast and the millions of Californians who call these coastal communities home.
We thank the Biden-Harris Administration for taking this bold action that will pay dividends for generations to come. New offshore drilling has no place in California, and the President’s action strengthens our work to protect the coast.
We don’t need reliable affordable petroleum based energy. We can put solar panels and windmills out in the desert…
No no, put solar panels on stilts and set them where the oil derricks would have gone.
And just send me my Nobel Prize now, thanks.
Which is exactly what NY is trying to do except it’s windmills on stilts.
And nobody’s biting because it’s a money pit.
Last second decision to celebrate a “national day of mourning” – aka federal holiday – on Thursday – way to mess with everyone’s normal schedule Biden.
UCS – I know what the Squats are in Necromunda (and the old models in Rogue Trader, etc). Lore-wise, the Squats separated from the main leagues upwards of 10000 years ago when they settled on Necromunda – so I don’t think they really count per se. I do like a lot of the model designs though – may pick some up for proxies sometime – but haven’t messed with resin yet (I know the rules).
Yep. All my scheduled outages I planned back in November, screwed up cause of it. I guess I will spend the day clearing the sidewalk and deck of snow instead.
Not exactly a last minute decision. I know that there was communications last week that the markets would be closed on the 9th already.
Announced a day of mourning on the 30th. Just found out today that everything will be shut down and rescheduled for Thursday.
Italy is gonna be weird….Italian holidays like 26 Dec or 6 Jan….and then US holidays…and then the combined ones…once I get the admin done and I’m on shift work – I don’t give a crap.
I have a funeral to attend on the 10th. We’re not changing that. Business as usual these days. Last chance to party with this classmate.
Fish, I’ve been racking my brains trying to find the title or ISBN of a small* funny Italian phrasebook my parents had in the 90s. Come dire “Who in hell is Saint Philomena?” and “Si non rallenti, vomito.”
*deck of cards size, about 1/4 as fat
Sounds pretty nifty if you can dig it up.
I don’t like working in resin, A: you have to wash off the release agent or the glue and your paint will release from the resin. B: it’s heavy and only superglue works, so you will want to pin the joints. C: you do NOT want to breathe in resin dust from drilling pin holes or cleaning mold lines (of which there will be many), so respirators are required. D: the models are removed from the molds soft, so some deformation occurs and you’ll have to correct it with gentle heat (especially at thin points in the structure) E: it’s brittle and easy to snap off details.
I have a couple legacy resin models – Eisenhorn and the Jokaero – may pick up more…will need some trial and error I guess.
Don’t think most mini-figs need pinning vice just superglue – not talking about a giant tank or anything.
You wouldn’t think it, but they do.
My Eisenhorn model kept losing its arms until I pinned them. I ended up with a kitbash which I painted up to be one of my Rogue Trader characters.
His response was that all of this was necessary to protect the norms of our democracy and save our country from a dictator.
“Look, freedom and rights are all well and good, in theory, but some people just can’t be trusted with them.”
I skimmed the higher ed article. In my (anecdote-based) opinion, like a lot of academics, he’s pretty closely identified the problem but missed the mark on cause.
(I’m trying to get around to doing a couple of pieces on higher ed from the inside).
Daily ray of sunshine:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QP6N_xNvqz8
Haha! That’s awesome!
I skimmed the higher ed article. In my (anecdote-based) opinion, like a lot of academics, he’s pretty closely identified the problem but missed the mark on cause.
Why did the bridge collapse?
a) systemic racism
or
b) gravity
False dichotomy, the correct answer was transphobia.
or possibly spansphobia.
As far as the Greenland or Annexing Canada/Mexico situation…conceptually…it actually works out really well – assuming all our constitutional rights are automatically extended by default (as one would expect) – although I would split a bunch more states along logical lines – ie separate Alberta from BC, etc. If we could unlock the real economic potential, we’d be unstoppable – and a much smaller, more defensible southern border.
This is a nifty concept – https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1876186529162481926 – although I’d stick with the current naming convention.
Except the US is already too big (in various dimensions/meanings) to be sustainably viable. Making it bigger won’t help. Adding Mexico in particular would be a complete disaster. Adding Canada would be a smaller disaster Greenland might be Puerto Rico, only with ice – not a disaster (for us), but why, really?
A real return to federalism would work. There’s no constitutional limit to the size of the House of Reps – and with tech these days, it should be easy to handle a lot more government work remotely/online. More states, let them operate more independently. Granted there’d be some issues with Mexico…but not insurmountable in the long term. ;p
“A real return to federalism would work.”
I guess while we’re fantasizing . . . .
Even then, extending the BoR to our new citizens, north and south, is going to cause massive social and political disruptions. Which will be just the tip of the iceberg of the cultural mis-fit of many of our new citizens. I guess for me, the problem isn’t that we don’t have enough foreigners in our country, so I don’t see adding more as a solution to much of anything.
Besides, federalism already failed once. Why wouldn’t it fail again, only on a bigger scale?
We don’t want mexico.
And who said citizens? They should be permanat legal residents until naturalized. After all, they were born in a foreign country.
The first thing we do when we’re annexing Canada is liberate their dairy industry and also get rid of milk in bags. I find the practice strange.
Mandate raw milk in old fashioned glass bottles.
Make Dairy Great Again!
Lurching rightward
Dana White, the Ultimate Fighting Championship president and supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, is joining the board of Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta.
White’s election as a Meta director two weeks before Trump takes office comes as Silicon Valley is courting the incoming administration, following what has been a frosty relationship with Trump and his allies, who have long accused tech platforms including Meta of anti-conservative bias.
Meta, Amazon and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have each donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Zuckerberg is among the tech titans who have dined with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago since the election. Last week Meta named Joel Kaplan, a veteran company executive and Republican who once worked in George W. Bush’s White House, its head of global policy.
White is a longtime friend of Trump who spoke at the Republican National Convention this summer and appeared in Trump’s first TikTok video. On election night, White joined Trump on stage at his victory party, thanking many of the podcasters and online influencers who, along with UFC, have been credited with boosting the president-elect’s appeal among young men.
We’re all Renaissance courtiers, now.
Next stop, “whites only” dining rooms
The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) rollback across corporate America now includes the country’s best-known fast food chain, McDonald’s (MCD).
The burger giant said in a Monday announcement that it would retire its practice of setting aspirational representation goals, known as quotas, and do away with a company pledge to hire a diverse group of suppliers in favor of “a more integrated discussion with suppliers about inclusion as it relates to business performance.”
McDonald’s added that it would also pause external surveys and change the way it refers to its diversity team to the “Global Inclusion Team.”
Make Hamburgers Great Again.
Wake me up when McDs returns to a $1.00 dollar menu, and puts the lard back in the deep fryers…
It was beef tallow, not lard.
lol
It’s almost like businesses don’t like tossing money out the window.
“change the way it refers to its diversity team to the “Global Inclusion Team”
So they’re not really changing anything, and hope everybody is too stupid to notice.
“do away with a company pledge to hire a diverse group of suppliers in favor of “a more integrated discussion with suppliers about inclusion as it relates to business performance.”
I know bureaucratic bafflegab when I see it.
They’re a bunch of GITs.