What? I retired the Economics Corner, not from covering Sloopy and Banjos on the busiest day of the week. Then what hits me? Krugabe decided to start a Substack.
I haven’t decided if I want to start doing this again. Aren’t you supposed to pay for a Substack? You clowns think I’m going to pay Krugabe directly? Think about that next time they do the begathon. It might just pay for markee content like mine!
This has never happened at my outfit. Honest.
Pretty subtle for mockery if you ask me.
Trump, or someone in his circle might actually be playing 5-D chess.
Hey! That’s my bit, you faggots!
Wouldn’t it be easier to just bomb The Who?
Pay your doctor in cash and avoid Medicare all together.
I would post some shit Krugnuts posted to X, but as it turns out he stopped posting there too.
Is Krugnuts on Bluesky?
It’s where all the derpy kids hang out.
So what I am hearing here is that once again Krugabe is shilling for a Blue-Sky company. Seriously though, what kind of absolute idiots name their start up after securities fraud?
“Blue sky” isn’t securities fraud. It’s a reference to state securities laws, sometimes just to state laws for first-time issuers.
Oh, I almost forgot the “ackchually”.
adjective
fanciful; impractical:
blue-sky ideas.
(especially of securities) having dubious value; not financially sound:
a blue-sky stock.
The laws come after the term. They are called Blue-Sky laws because Justice McKenna described the type of speculative investments the laws are supposed to prevent as selling nothing but so many miles and miles of blue sky.
Dammit. I hate it when my ackchually gets ackchuallied.
Is anyone on BLSKY?
Isn’t that only fans for kiddy diddlers and bestiality freaks?
Every liberal you know probably is.
Do you want to get fooled again?
Bomb it for at least 13 years so it becomes a teenaged wasteland?
dammit!
We’ll know it’s enough when we can see for miles, and miles, and miles.
So, we should put the squeeze box on them?
You’d have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to not see this as a good idea, Mrs Walker.
You’d better, you’d better, you bet.
And create a Teenage Wasteland?
I don’t get why people think that’s a good song.
It’s just empty.
Like all WHO songs, it is just them putting up an Eminence Front for the masses.
Can’t explain, UCS.
I see what you did there, Ms. O’Grady.
I’ve never hated you cunts more than I do right now.
Well, you misspelled Cunte, and WHO is all caps.
/Teds
Oh, baby! Talk dirty to us…
I thought dudes who get excitement at your feet were a significant income stream for you?
OK, Alex….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xCChxBSRo1Y
I was SO hoping that was the talk dirty scene from Scary Movie….
The one song you’ll never hear from WM.
Are you happy Jack?
I don’t do love bombing.
Joking aside, a properly functioning WHO does some good work in the world. We should have dropped out in 2020, and invited the civilized world and countries that were willing to be honest actors (i.e., not China) to join the GHO or whatever we’d call it.
No bureaucracy will ever remain dedicated to its nominal mission, it will always devolve into a self-serving dysfunctional mess.
If Trump does put on Scuba gear and dives down to the wreckage, wouldn’t he just be playing into the notion that diversity is our strength?
[::golf clap, in ahead of the Narrowed Gaze®::]
The back to office orders, firings, and layoffs are certainly going to hinder the deep state. His freeze on grants and NGO money is probably worse. No more free money to do nefarious shit in Slovakia, Georgia, the Darien Gap, etc.
That order was frozen by a federal judge (IDK whether in whole or in part), then rescinded by the administration. I suspect it will be replaced by a series of more specific orders, each covering a different class of NGO (domestic, international, etc).
But this also plays into the hysterical propaganda mills of the left. See my Thursday evening links, the womens’ shelter propaganda post.
The EO is still in place. OMB withdrew its implementation order to address the court’s concerns. Whether checks are actually getting cut while OMB ponders, I have no clue. But OMB will issue another implementation order at some point, and the freeze will be back on, at least for a little while.
An on-again/off-again freeze will create uncertainty and chaos in various funding streams. So we have that going for us. I’m sure OMB got the message not to play cute #resistance games.
Tonio is correct. As his appointees are going into office, they are freezing money to NGOs under their purview. I do not have time to attach links this morning.
That order was frozen by a federal judge
I’m sure the judge provided a well-referenced citation of the article of the constitution that requires federal money be sent to NGOs.
Or, as per that 5d chess article, it was pushed out in order to move a lawsuit forward that defines the Executive branch as being in charge of the executive branch, contra JI.
I suspect, given how incestuous our ruling class is, the reason was “My kids will get laid off if the feds stop pumping money into the “non-profits” they “work” for”.
I’m sure OMB got the message not to play cute #resistance games.
One of the tactics I heard about before the election (perhaps on Tucker?) was to capture the OMB good and hard and use it as a bulkhead against the administrative state. It appears to have worked, but we’ll see as time goes on.
So OMB needs to capture OMB?
I’m getting confused. OMB is orange; we should start referring to the Office of Management and Budget as BM.
Because then we can make poop jokes.
You Glibs, if you read only one link today, please have it be the 5D Chess one. That’s totally brilliant.
I was actually kinda hoping that nobody would pick that up from the secret Glibs editors links bucket, but WM never misses a trick.
/throws up hands for the afternoon links
🙂
WM never misses a trick. She does if they refuse to pay for the riding crop upgrade package.
She also gives you the stink eye if you as for that? And of course pay for it..
What, you want your dom to be emotionally supportive? I don’t think it works that way.
What, you want your dom to be emotionally supportive? I don’t think it works that way.
Isn’t that what ABDL is? Domination as emotional support?
Apparently I am a simple guy. I can’t keep all that nonsense straight.
A dominatrix’s emotional support is different than a squares emotional support.
dominatrix’s emotional support
upgrade package.
No, my packages are similar to the way a diner might upgrade your meal with a side. A Mk1 package you get one side, Mk2 you get two—or two of the same upgrade.
There’s no gimmicks here.
You want fries with that.
Interestingly ambiguous site name. I thought that it was in reference to poker, but the fighter plane immediately brings that definition to mind, which then opens the possibility that it’s about people really good at drawing fouls in metric football.
If it wasn’t right to frog march her out of her office… Well then I don’t want to be Fong.
The people that rigged the 2020 election and installed Slow Joe sure as fuck didn’t realize what they did was to give team MAGA the chance to actually learn where the weak points of the corruptocracy were and then recruit the right people to come after that. Had they just let Trump-Nazi-Putin win in 2020 by a whisker, they would have basically done a repeat of the 4 years before, and the guy would never have stood a chance. Now it looks like they will take scalps as the Pretendian Liawatha would say.
Glibs editors links bucket,
What the hell are you yammering on about?
He thinks you took more than your share of sausage from the shared supply.
I think she takes a LOT of sausage…
IYKWIMAITYD.
Not a second serving of strawberries?
A LOT of sausage. But never more than her share.
So I’m to believe he’s moved on from Hungry Hippos to 5D chess?
Hungry Hippos is 5-D Chess in government work.
The nice thing about substack is there is no algorithm feeding you want someone else thinks you should want.
Ehh… there kind of is. I know I get e-mails from Substack with “writers I may be interested in”.
#metoo
That kind of spam already makes me not want to engage with the site.
You can turn that off.
I guess I just ignore those. I also get other shit from substack like growth initiatives for my own.
In general, the questions reporters have been asking deserve mockery, and if you’re subtle, it’ll go right over their heads. Turned on the radio news at one point yesterday, and after the statements by whatever officials were there (including Trump and Vance, I believe,) the reporters started asking such stupid questions I had to switch it off. (Another soul-killing career I’m glad I avoided.)
Anna’s boyfriend, Pedro Henrique
An OnlyFans girlfriend is a cuck’s dream.
It does seem like every kink has its day.
I just hope to live long enough for sorority girls tag teaming overweight [my age] guys to become fashionable.
I hear if you’re a billionaire it already is.
“What would you do with a million dollars?”
FTR I am on AL today.
We received two more fork emails yesterday. One from DOD, the other from OPM with a “FAQ”.
FAQ did not answer any of the question i have or read about it. Real confusion if the offer applies to DOD or not, keeps changing.
I have read that if someone takes the offer, their job is abolished.
It seems this was poorly implemented, which only plays into the hand of the critics of downsizing government. The process and parameters should have been worked out long before inauguration, and they should have had lots more info already prepared and ready to drop. My guess is that the buyout-acceptance deadline will be extended to allow policy clarification. The delay will be harped on as a small victory by the #resistance.
I hope that you fare well with this.
It seems this was poorly implemented…
In the Trump administration?!? Where is my shocked face.
You mean, “In the government?!? Where is my shocked face.”
Snort
I miss Winston’s mom heckling me with the usual “Hey baby, wanna go out” pickup line of back when..
You’re the one that tried to pay with post-dated check.
Monopoly money..
Mr. Mayor?
Ms. Fong’s War was not quite the heroic standoff that media has painted. It seems more like she just waited for security to come get her from her office.
She’s no Leandra English.
Ms. Fong’s War This sounds like a short story by Thurber or O. Henry about a Chinese Laundress.
I think there was a pr0n of that name first.
“Wouldn’t it be easier to just bomb The Who?”
My first thought was “What did Pete Townshend do this time?”
It already happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKU_ZHWOoE&ab_channel=spydrgyrl
I love the story behind that. Keith Moon got the stage hand drunk and then upped the amount of explosives.
Please, please, stay stuck in this mode ya tools!
Calling people who don’t vote for you bigots is a bold strategy for winning them over.
Latest Quinnipiac poll:
Democratic Party:
31% – Favorable
57% – Unfavorable (-26)
Yet they still don’t seem to get it.
The libs I have talked to all tell me that the reason is the ability of fascist others (that is lib speak for anyone not a full blooded marxist) to do misinformation and hate speech, which is why plebes now believe things the democrat party doesn’t want them to believe. Note they don’t tell you you believe false things so much as unapproved things..
Did anyone else hear that the military disclosed the name of 2 of the UH-60 helo’s crew, Chief Warrant Office 2 Andrew Eaves, and Ryan O’Hara the crew Chief, but not the trainee’s name? Then the internets gives you shit like this, which I want to stress remains unconfirmed, and you have to fucking wonder in light of so many stories ignored by the legacy media about some militant trans entity that are involved in a bunch of violent crimes.
The tweet you link has a proposed community note linking to a facebook post by the person accused in the tweet saying that s(He) is alive. Now maybe the great conspiracy is sockpuppeting the FB page to hide the truth, but Old Occam advises caution in suggesting that is more likely than the alternative of some jerk on X making something up.
I lean towards the latter. Too soon to start conspiracy theories.
Stacy McCain is doing a good job of following that story, mostly because he just likes putting “Vegan Transgender Death Cult” in his headlines. He’s had a couple of posts – scroll down. It’s wild.
https://theothermccain.com/
Also being overlooked is that one of the vegan transgender death cultists was an H1B immigrant.
“Vegan Transgender Death Cult” should have been the next KMFDM album.
I saw the NYPost story. Just nuts.
The hyperventilating on X is pretty atrocious. People’s minds are broken.
This reminded me of Ozy’s last post regarding the dangers of using night-vision goggles:
https://x.com/gregbagwell/status/1885128250055135356?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA
Seeing as somebody in authority has decided to call early the cause for the terrible air accident in Washington, it might be worth adding some details of what we know and what sort of things the NTSB Investigation team will be looking at.
4/ From the widely shared radio recordings, the Controller asks the Blackhawk if it can see the aircraft on its approach to 33. It then asks it to pass behind the aircraft to ensure lateral separation, as well as the (assumed) vertical separation – neither happens.
5/ What we don’t know is if the Blackhawk crew identified the correct aircraft. For example it may have been looking for aircraft coming up the river for Runway 01, rather than an aircraft crossing from left to right for 33, this could have been exacerbated by the use of NVGs.
6/ NVGs allow crews to see more at Night, but they can be washed out by bright lights, and can also distort the ranges of lit aircraft, making distances hard to judge. This could be a factor in a case of mis-identification – especially if looking in the wrong direction.
Nobody should be flying with NODs in that airspace. Way too much light to make their use effective.
I’m sure not only NTSB will take this apart over the nevt few months, but also the Ft Rucker Safety Nazis will be hand in glove with the investigation.
I don; think I have ever paid to read a substack. You can pay for a subscription, but I always choose “No Thanks” and just bypass to go read. Is there a cutoff point?
I think most sub stackers have at least a few that are free from time to time. Some seem to be free all the time.
I pay for a few – gato malo, Racket, a couple others. I like the model and am willing to throw a few bucks at it.
I think they are generally free, until they get so many voluntary paid subscribers. Then they kick into the subscriber only mode.
But, I subscribe to about a half dozen of them, as it is nothing more than getting a few magazines a month, and I like long form articles.
Depends on the stack. Some of them have free articles and subscriber only articles (gato being one who does that off the top of my head). Others offer subscriptions but provide no benefit beyond knowing you’re supporting someone who you find interesting.
If I have one free dime after moving to this house it is going here, not to a substack. I do appreciate reading substacks but could not spring extra money for them.
Schellenberger gives you teasers to I guess most of his articles, but to read the whole thing you have to pay. My own is free, though I had thoughts of eventually charging – I’m not sure I’m committed enough to provide regular content that would justify someone’s money.
Schellenberger is a worthless piece of shit that the right loves because religions hate heretics and love converts. Of course he only converted when the team he supported for years turned on him.
He can fuck off and die, or go back to blowing Michael Mann.
Schellenberger teamed with Taibbi on the Twitter Files and other censorship. That counts for something, at least with me.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
How do they get the prescription right?
I have a problem even when I cooperate.
Thanks Jimbo, I’m off to pick up a new pair of glasses today, Hope I smile like that kid.
Huh… somewhat on topic. In football news, a player for the hated Ravens has been accused of sexual misconduct. With that, we just need the Bengals to have a player get accused for the whole AFC North to be tainted. Of course, the Browns had to trade for an offender well past their offensive prime.
That’s why I saw someone post the Browns had traded for Tucker.
I thought the Browns would pick up Cousins. Let the Falcons pay his enormous salary and get a top 12 QB for dirt cheap. It would be a great deal except that you still have to pay Deshaun W.
Only after Kirk joins your team do you realize that his stats are all from garbage time at the end of the game.
They’ll have a shot at Darnold I’m sure.
I don’t know what the cap hit would be for the team that acquires Cousins but it won’t be 0.
https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/cleveland-browns
Pope Jimbo:
Based on what I’ve been reading, the Browns will be paying Watson, but it won’t be counted against the cap as he’s injured, and the Browns paid for some kind of cap insurance. There’s also talk that Watson may not have been following the team doctor’s protocols when he re-injured his Achilles, which may allow the Browns to get out of the contract completely.
JI:
Too soon.
Neph, there are salary cap games to be played but they guaranteed him $230M and have so far only applied $55M to previous salary cap years.
CPA:
(source)
That’s assuming the Browns don’t try to get out of the contract, or don’t attempt to renegotiate again.
Holiness – I don’t think the Vikes are going to pay Darnold what he’s likely to get elsewhere (though that may rule out the Browns). They’d rather gamble on McCarthy before they have to pay him in full.
you realize that his stats are all from garbage time at the end of the game.
The ViQueens failed to pick up on that when they took on Matt Cassell. Their next QB should be Derek Carr.
A representative of the upscale local spa chain Ojas said Tucker was “immediately terminated as a client” in 2014 after “a massage therapist reported an incident that allegedly occurred during a massage therapy session with Justin Tucker.”
This would have been the same time as the Ray Rice story. Justin Tucker being banned from a spa would have surely made some news?
Dude, Jeremy Hill.
Oh c’mon, this is news now because he’s not performing at the same level he did the last few seasons. Cover for dumping him, and poor guy is going to lose his lucrative endorsements (very local joke about him flogging for Royal Farms).
Oh, the accusations are all weak, and from years back. But it puts the Ravens in a bad light, and that’s enough for me.
I’m honest about my biases.
Neph:
Uffda. PR Flack for the Ravens has to be the easiest gig ever.
MSM: Your player ….
Ravens; Was it worse than our dude knocking out his wife in an elevator?
MSM: well no, but….
Ravens: Shaddup!
Y’all got nothing on the Panthers, they win the OG player award hands down. Rae Carruth
<blockquote.There’s also talk that Watson may not have been following the team doctor’s protocols when he re-injured his Achilles, which may allow the Browns to get out of the contract completely.
My boss (from Cleveland) says there are pictures of Watson a couple days after his surgery where he isn’t wearing his walking boot.
Yeah. I’ve heard several reports of that. And the only reason I’ve seen for the Browns to not get out of the contract is that “if they do, it’ll hurt the team’s reputation among other players”. You know what, I’m willing to take that hit, it’s not like having Watson on the roster is going to attract players to the team.
hurt the team’s reputation
Stop it, you’re killing me.
Jarflax:
I’m a season ticket holder, which means that I get surveys from the team asking me my opinion of the stadium, the team, and the benefits of the tickets. This year, one of the questions (paraphrased) was “How good are we at managing your post season ticket access?”
I graded it N/A, and took a screenshot to send to my season ticket rep and asked, “Really? This year they want to know that?”
Neph, that sounds about right. Paul Brown’s grave needs to be converted to a generator cause he’s never going to stop spinning watching what the two teams he started do to his legacy. Oh well, at least tOSU plays solid professional football.
If your team is looking for tainted, is Mike Vick still available? Or Colin Kaepernick?
For a brilliant economist, Krugman seems to have no idea how to monetize substack. Every post is free, except for one, and the guy is posting up to 3 times a day.
I guess it’s possible he does have some paying subscribers, but I would think he would have more paywalled posts to indicate that.
a few possibilities
A: he wants to establish a readership base to have a group to entise conversions when he starts paywalling
B: he’s really retired and doing this for fun
C: he’s got no clue how to, and the one paywall was an accident.
“Pay what you can”
D. …to each according to his needs.
By my count 50% of the titles include the word “Trump”. Maybe he’s getting funded by someone else. Propaganda should be free, of course.
TOK:
Is this funny or not?
Funny
Really? I don’t want to feel like I strong-armed you into agreeing with me.
Give the Pope a Hand, he will be here all week!
The critics don’t have a leg to stand on.
Wow, I’m getting called out in the comments? Yes that is funny. I might send that to my teammates.
I thought it was funny, but I always like to crosscheck with the communitex first.
Of all the dumb things we saw in hearings yesterday, Maggie Hassan might have been the dumbest. Saying a lot.
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1885321685160644696
“Settled science” is a misnomer but “the currently accepted mainstream scientific paradigm” just doesn’t have the same pizazz (and that’s a bit of a misnomer to tell the truth).
World’s greatest deliberative body.
Greatest debilitated body.
I dont know what to make of that. Everything you see in politics is theater. Pols think people are idiots (they aren’t completely wrong about that).
How much of the stupidity and outrage is real? Who knows.
Ya know, the whole screeching old lady schtick may not be the best optics here.
But they just keep doing it. Someone created a meme, and every day they add a new row.
They are screeching at the people who should have been the next generation of Democrat leaders, which is weird to watch. Revolutionaries trying to eat their own – but they are just fading into irrelevance.
I don’t know, that Hawaiian lady was back asking if Kash had raped anyone lately.
Why are we funding Czech charities?
https://english.radio.cz/people-need-relatively-well-protected-how-trumps-aid-cuts-affect-czechias-8841473
Because our czechbook isn’t empty?
Do you think it’s even possible to bounce a Czech?
We ran out of Slovaks?
Yeah. This and a million others. And these articles are posted by people who have no idea how little sympathy the victims of tax theft care about their efforts.
We should definitely not be funding Czech charities.
Those shitlords are always saying the Czech is in the male. How dare they assume the gender?
Sometimes the male is in the Czech, if you know what I mean.
I do my best to keep money flowing to Czechia.
They announced a P10F in .45 ACP, which could be an excellent choice for L10 Major.
If they weren’t sending so many euros to Ukraine maybe they could make up make up the difference. In a fungible sense we’re partially funding the CR’s Ukraine war funding too.
If taxpaying American citizens knew how much of the world’s indulgences they are funding and just how entitled both the recipients and pols here feel about it there would be a riot with heads on stakes.
All of it is, in one way or another, a money laundering operation.
*cough* covid lockdowns *cough*
There’d be no riots, it’s amazing what people are willing to tolerate.
Preach on, brother Stinky.
taxpaying American citizens
Hey, it’s not like you’re taking their money at the business end of a gun. This is just the price we pay to be a civilized society.
Stinky got to it before me.
The average person is a sheep. You can kick them. You can extract all their wool so they freeze. You can lead them to slaughter. They’ll just dutifully follow along.
The American sheep has been trained to be particularly compliant and deferential to the “shepherd”. Short of some better shepherds showing up and running off the bad shepherds, we’re just gonna sit here and take the abuse.
I dunno. I know enough tax paying Americans who would be all “well, these poor folks live in poverty, and we don’t do enough for them,
and it is our Christian duty to sacrifice for them, and the millionaires and billionaires are paying less in taxes than the guy who mows my lawn or picks up our trash.”
“In the snap, Winters was wearing a black top with a white collared shirt layered underneath, as well a short, white leather skirt with a chevron print on it.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14343221/controversial-white-house-correspondent-natalie-winter-inappropriate-outfits.html
Looks fine to me, except for the running shoes.
Chevron print? *faints*
It’s a subtle commentary on Supreme Court jurisprudence.
White shoes? After Labor day? I think not!
When does the labor day rule reset?
Memorial Day.
I would have guessed Easter.
Print? Well that must be the correct term, since the Daily Mail knows fashion.
Not a big fan of the oversized cuffs and collar, but I don’t think they’re inappropriate.
She’s a hottie. And she’s smart. So there.
*sigh*
She’s 23 and now she is at the top of the journalo pole.
When I was briefly a J-school major, it was so easy to see who was going to be a TV journalo and who was going to be an ink stained wretch.
The problem with all the hotties who were going to be TV anchors is that they were so dumb it was offputting.
Where’s the rest of the skirt?
On her OnlyFans account?
What a prude.
I have to double check my forms to make sure I’m not missing any. I have my permit class and fingerprinting scheduled. I’ve sorted out my photograph woes. Just need to collect paperwork from my references, get my main forms notarized after the fingerprinter info is on, and schedule an interview.
NA – When’s the next winter steel? I can’t check practiscore from my work computer. (hoplophobic web filters 🙁 )
2/16.
Thank you, sir.
SMOD?
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/200-foot-wide-asteroid-has-a-1-in-83-chance-of-hitting-the-earth-in-2032/
This is a job for the U.S. SPACE FORCE!!! ::cue Space Force hat::
I can’t recall the term for the typical “the probability will increase until it is zero” with asteroid impact calculations.
“The case of the radical ‘Zizian’ vegan trans cult and the shooting death of a Border Patrol agent”
https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/us-news/killing-of-border-patrol-agent-appears-linked-to-zizian-radical-leftist-trans-cult/
Vegan Trans Cult sounds like an industrial band from the 90’s.
Bay area cult murders people, news at… 1960 onward.
Even Charlie would’ve looked down on those freaks (yeah, yeah he was in LA but still).
“Michelle Jacqueline Zajko is a person of interest in the deaths of her parents Rita and Richard Zajko.”
Looks like the same asshole who made that “trans maxing” video.
Oddly, I don’t think she’s trans.
None of them look transitioned.
If they wanted the FBI to do something about them, they should have found/photoshopped one of them giving a nazi salute and call them a white-supremacist cult.
Law of averages
With 8 kids, you figure one of them would have gotten a decent athletic gene. (Unless he beat it out of them)
Friday Funbags!
https://archive.is/6mZ76
I have to get a mobile notary out here to my house. One outfit wants $70 for one simple document (I have two). I mean, I KNOW it’s about the traveling but GEEZ.
Maybe his car runs on butter.
Well, he can get fucking Country Crock!
Not sure about his car, but his profits are based on margarines. Slim margarines!
Country Crock? Now you’re just being unnecessarily cruel.
Local bank? Mine gives free notary services for most documents.
My guess is the documents are being signed by her mom, who isn’t the most mobile, thus the moble notary instead.
UCS is correct. Mom is not mobile. Thus, the notary must be.
Attorney says my DPOA and advance directive documents are old and the DPOA left out a crucial thing I need now (but didn’t then), so we are refreshing.
OnlyFans girl: At least she died doing what she loved but can’t a pornstar’s premature accidental death just be looked as a way of staving off suicide? The percentage of those people who end up doing themselves in is unreal.
Are we certain it was an accident?
I can see you’ve never tried to balance on a balcony rail while being nailed by two guys.
Get Riggs and Murtaugh on the case.
Stinky:
If only there had been some sort of rod or pole for her to hold onto!
I’ve watched too many detective shows. That sounds like murder to me. I’ll bet they find something interesting in the autopsy.
Pope Jimbo:
If only she had some sort of cushioning on her chest. Something not real. Fake if you will. That could withstand the impact.
TOK:
I’ll bet they find something interesting in the autopsy.
Is autopsy the cook kid word for pussy now?
You can only push a gal so far!
No more of that petite morte.
Hilarious thread on the DNC. Tw: Weigel
https://x.com/daveweigel/status/1885119420726456335
I expect Weathervane Dave to lurch back to the Repub Right.
What is an electoral loser? Unwinding the programs or having them in place?
random thoughts
It’s odd that the same people who rioted over George Floyd’s murder are indifferent or supportive of that CEO’s murder, and vice versa.
There’s something in computer science called the busy beaver number. It’s sort of like the opposite of the halting problem. The upshot is that it can be used to indirectly solve all kinds of hard math problems.
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For example, a 27-state Turing machine could check Goldbach’s conjecture for each number and halt on a counterexample: if this machine had not halted after running for S(27) steps, then it must run forever, resolving the conjecture.[5] Many other problems, including the Riemann hypothesis (744 states) and the consistency of ZF set theory (745 states[7][8]), can be expressed in a similar form, where at most a countably infinite number of cases need to be checked.[5]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
Big Troubles in St. Floydland!
Local BIPOC shitlords do not want to turn the intersection where George died into a totes pedestrian mall. Probably because it
iswas a fairly blue collar neighborhood where people drove to a store to pick shit up. Turn it into a pedestrian mall (aka homeless encampment)? No one will ever come down to buy anything again.Who would want icky commerce befouling a holy shrine?
random thoughts
This better be good.
It’s odd that the same people who rioted over George Floyd’s murder are indifferent or supportive of that CEO’s murder, and vice versa.
Welcome to last November, kid.
There’s something in computer science called the busy beaver number. It’s sort of like the opposite of the halting problem. The upshot is that it can be used to indirectly solve all kinds of hard math problems.
Calculating a return on investment or depreciation on real estate isn’t that hard. Everything else is for sexually repressed college boys.
For example, a 27-state Turing machine could check Goldbach’s conjecture for each number and halt on a counterexample: if this machine had not halted after running for S(27) steps, then it must run forever, resolving the conjecture.[5] Many other problems, including the Riemann hypothesis (744 states) and the consistency of ZF set theory (745 states[7][8]), can be expressed in a similar form, where at most a countably infinite number of cases need to be checked.[5]
You kiss your momma with that mouth?
The people who rioted over George Floyd’s death get free healthcare. They wouldn’t have any reason to care.
It’s the lower/middle class who are getting squeezed who would care. “Luigi” is a Robinhood-ish meme.
“George Floyd’s murder”
I’m not convinced he was murdered.
“During her district swearing-in ceremony for the 119th Congress on Tuesday, Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed that “evil” is in the Oval Office and suggested that President Donald Trump’s supporters are white supremacists.
“Y’all, it’s getting real. It’s been eight days. Eight days, y’all, eight,” Crockett said. “And we were only in for three of them. It’s been eight days. And honestly, I don’t know how else to describe this, other than evil. It’s evil that is literally sitting in the highest seat in the world.”
She continued, “Let me make sure y’all got the facts, most extreme crimes that take place in this country are committed by white supremacists. 80 percent of extreme crimes are committed by white supremacists in this country. Do you know who went up there on January 6? White supremacists. This ain’t me just telling you, you can Google this if you don’t believe me, but it was the Oath Keepers. It was the Neo Nazis. It was the Proud Boys. They are all white supremacists.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/rep-jasmine-crockett-claims-80-percent-of-extreme-crimes-are-committed-by-white-supremacists
On the upside, she learned to pull numbers out of her ass on her first day in office.
80 percent of Xtreme crimes are committed by white supremacists
Malcom X has a sad.
“Extreme crimes”
Hey, I thought More than Words sucked too but let’s not get carried away with the rhetoric.
Enrique Tarrio has to be the darkest white supremacist I’ve ever heard of. That boy wouldn’t be welcome in the Klan you know.
It didn’t stop Larry Elder.
Matt Bracken on why there is a busy helicopter base right next to a busy airport in the middle of DC. Sounds like this accident was just waiting to happen.
https://x.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/1885336072210833850
An aspect I haven’t seen brought up yet is the level of complexity added by noise abatement requirements. That’s one major reason why so much of the traffic is being routed over the river.
I’ve flown in and out of Reagan several times – I don’t think I’ve ever been on a plane that used that runway. The usual approach is from upstream Potomac and less frequently from downstream.
I saw that the helicopter came from well up river, I don’t think it paused at that base. When I saw the standard place to cross under the landing traffic it should have been at least 1/2 mile further south. They left the east coast of the river and turned in far too soon.
I have landed on that runway (back before 9/11).. This is a fairly standard pattern where they are interleaving departures on 1 and landings on 33 to keep the tempo up.
Part of my current hypothesis (ignoring the helicopter elevation issue) is that the pilot saw the stack lined up headed into runway (1, I think it is?) and felt comfortably East of it, while the liner had swooped to the East out of that line to get into 33. Basically had built a mental model that had all the incoming liners on that same, likely super-visible track. Then add background lighting, night-vision, etc.
“In recent years,” the Times realized with growing horror, “the Supreme Court’s majority — led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who worked in the White House Counsel’s Office under the Reagan administration — has pushed that idea” of broad executive powers in employment.
Reagan called his constitutional interpretation “unitary executive theory.” It is an uncomplicated view of constitutional separation of powers, holding that the president must exclusively control his own executive branch. Any laws passed by Congress (under Article II) purporting to make Article I executive branch officials independent from the president’s sole control must therefore be unconstitutional.
The President is in charge of administering the laws passed by Congress?
The Chief Executive is in charge of the executive branch? What kind of crazy theory is that?!
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
He is in charge of executing the laws, that is not the same thing as administering them. There are problematic aspects of current presidential power because Congress has abdicated large portions of the legislative power to the agencies, but the President’s power as Chief of the Executive branch was always intended to be coextensive with the executive power. Congressional oversight of that power is limited to the Senate’s role in advising and consenting to appointments and trying impeachments, and the House’s role of initiating impeachments. I don’t see an originalist argument giving Congress the right to legislate away the presidential power to hire and fire anymore than one could expand the President’s veto power to changing the content of laws. The veto and the impeachment/approval powers are rough equivalents giving the branches limited oversight toward each other.
Ironic isn’t it – the Executive charged with making regulations because Congress couldn’t be specific enough in the legislation, but at the same time, the Executive branch employees can’t be touched by Executive authority – because Congress said so!
Ironic indeed. The power to make laws for the entire society taken from the representative body and given to the “sovereign,” while the leadership role is taken from the individual charged with leadership and given to the debating society. It’s almost like the goal was control without accountability.
I love how its implied that this was some novel interpretation by Reagan and not standard operating procedure for the first 190 years of the country.
“Proponents of HB5164 claim the new law will make certain individuals, including victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse and, bizarrely, transgenders, feel safer. However, also openly admitted by supporters is how this could help illegal aliens amid ongoing enforcement and deportation efforts by ICE. Illinois legislators have also prevented Chicago Police from working with the Federal government to remove illegals involved in drug crimes, gang-related crimes, prostitution, human trafficking, or child sex crimes.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/illinois-democrats-allow-illegals-change-their-names-evade/
What could possibly go wrong?
Seems like that’d be so counterproductive with their traditional Chicago constituents…I bet Leroy Washington won’t get cut a break like that.
Illinois legislators have also prevented Chicago Police from working with the Federal government to remove illegals involved in drug crimes, gang-related crimes, prostitution, human trafficking, or child sex crimes.
I honestly fail to understand their motivation here. Are they just insane? Or do they somehow profit from this? And if so, how?
I don’t see any profit angle, so insanity it is!
They’re hiding the illegals from the ICE Nazis. They’re the good guys.
As insane as that is, just letting anyone from anywhere fly to Chicago and change their name sounds crazier.
Even crazier, we let people fly back out of Chicago.
Sounds like a good place for a wall.
And we put Snake Plissken in charge of ICE.
ICE and other federal agents need to raid the data centers and offices of every state issuing non-citizen driver licenses and IDs and seize those records. Thanks for putting together the deportation lists, idiots.
My boss was trying to increase his VA disability rating.
He got rejected, but in the report, it says he is an obese white man.
He is black and fairly healthy.
This is upsetting to him and he is offended. There are people here telling him that he should sue because he is offended.
I told him that being offended by a paperwork screw up was not a good choice, but I am in the minority here.
I am offended that the VA is that incompetent.
Did you ask him why he didn’t vote for Biden?
I was expecting a bad pun.
Sorry, I am no Shpip.
At least they got his gender right.
Maybe Ron got it wrong and that’s where the the real offense is.
Speaking of propaganda
But how well do most Americans understand this group that has been in the news so much — who they are, where they work and what they do? Here are six things to know about this vast pool of workers:
NPR pulls out all the stops. These selfless devoted servants of the public re everywhere. They re your friends, your neighbors, the people you see keeping the local artisanal doughnut cafe afloat.
They keep the wolves at bay. Don’t let President Cartoon Villain force them into a life of poverty and despair.
1. They live off your tax dollars
2. They give themselves raises
3. They unionized, so you can’t fire them.
4. Maybe 20% of them do anything at all
5. The things they do are not things you want them to do
6. They think somehow their whining about potential job loss is going to sway people in the private sector to have sympathy.
At this point NPR needs to go. Why would keep funding an openly hostile “news” network with out tax dollars?
They are trying:
There’s ONLY about a half million in DC, but that’s only 20%, the rest are all over the country.
Doesn’t sound like a winning argument to me.
60k people to administer social security!?
It depends on how many federal employees leave and which agencies and positions see the most departures.
But regardless, “programs that provide retirement, health and income support — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid — need to be administered,” Bivens says.
“Claims have to be filed and examined, and problems need [to be] addressed,” he says. “Payments to farmers need [to be] processed and administered,” and “key public goods like pandemic monitoring and response” need to take place.
More esoteric government responsibilities, such as economic data collection and analysis, are also vital, he adds.
Stier offers up a few examples of what could go wrong. The administration says it wants a 10% cut, he says, but “what happens if that is 50% of the food safety inspectors or 50% of the air traffic controllers or 50% at the FBI?”
Madness! Suicide!
Nothing left to cut!
My God, Oscar could go back to selling poisonous weiners.
The Dems really think they are going to win with even more of the same.
https://x.com/ericswalwell/status/1885241098177577107
Oh please, please, please…
Soyboy Stalin’s rise to power begins.
ROFLMAO
“David Hogg”
Stop trying to sell me a pig in a poke you amoral sack of shit douchebag.
The new face at a Nuremburg rally?
His middle name is Camera.
His friends call him Camera Hogg.
https://i.redd.it/d5s58zpydbge1.jpeg
Fun fun fun ’til daddy takes the T-Bird away
President Donald Trump’s abrupt freeze of U.S. foreign aid is sending shockwaves through Eastern Europe, leaving pro-democracy groups, independent media, civil society initiatives and local governments scrambling to make ends meet in a region often defined by rivalries between East and West.
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Eastern Europe has been a longtime geopolitical battleground where Western foreign policy interests often collide with those of Moscow or Beijing.
Many fear the cessation of U.S. funds could expose Washington’s allies — and create a vacuum that its foes could gladly seek to fill.
“In Moldova’s case, foreign donor support is vital to balancing the media landscape,” says Oxana Greadcenco, the director of independent media platform Moldova.org. “Many television networks and media institutions are funded by Russia so there needs to be a counterbalance … This is an unprecedented situation, but we are trying not to panic.”
So what you’re saying is all our previous spending has produced no tangible long term results?
“Pro democracy groups”
Like the ones that annulled the election in Romania?
Color revolutions aren’t free.
Nuland has the sadz.
any fear the cessation of U.S. funds could expose Washington’s allies — and create a vacuum that its foes could gladly seek to fill.
You mean the “allies” that take our billions and rely on our military then oppose our interests at every opportunity?
Fuck ’em.
Wait… so China and Russia will be spending trillions in foreign aid instead of the US? And this is bad?
Spending was the desired result.
They told us Trump was a Russian asset but we didn’t listen. 😟
The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, informed her that grants officially ended on Jan. 24 and they aren’t allowed to spend any remaining funds in their accounts. This week, Greadcenco promoted their online Patreon campaign, which garnered 135 new backers in two days, which should cover salaries for the platform’s 16-strong staff through March, she said.
“We did not expect it to impact Moldova so severely, as we thought there would only be a partial cut in funds,” she told The Associated Press. “Being aware of how much Moldova depends on U.S. funds, not just NGOs and the press but also local municipalities, many public institutions … this is a shock for everyone.”
These “nations” are completely dependent on charity to survive?
Not quite true, Moldova also depends on selling teenage girls to the EU.
16-strong staff
The fate of an entire nation depends on them!
Moldova depends on U.S. funds, not just NGOs and the press….
The press?
Soyboy Stalin’s rise to power begins.
With that “salute”? The hyperventilating anti-Nazi outrage must be off the charts.
Fist is righteous, open palm is horrendous.
And making an open circle with you thumb and fingers is too accurate.
Trouble in Airstrip One:
https://x.com/TFL1728/status/1885360958450602027
This new angle is…damning.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/31/video-new-angle-shows-how-midair-washington-plane-helicopter-crash-unfolded/
Assuming the helo pilot wasn’t suicidal, he must’ve been blinded.
Moldova will hold a pivotal parliamentary election this fall which comes after the pro-Western government accused Russia of meddling in two key votes last year — including backing a vast vote-buying scheme in the country of about 2.5 million people.
“Without resources, we cannot deploy long-term observers, conduct election-day monitoring, or track foreign interference effectively,” Manole said. “A change to an anti-Western government could affect Moldova’s European path and … significantly destabilize the whole of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region.”
“We remain hopeful that the U.S. government’s evaluation process will allow programs like ours to resume,” he said, adding that his NGO is already seeking alternative funding, mainly from European donors.
I read this as “Russia has a vastly more effective vote buying scheme than we do. Send more money.”
Speaking of Substacks, here’s America This Week (with Kirn and Taibbi). If you don’t subscribe, you can watch the first 30 minutes free. This week, Walter is talking about his experience at the Kennedy confirmation hearings. We all know it’s performance, but to hear it from someone in the room is interesting.
https://www.racket.news/p/america-this-week-jan-31-2025-the
“When the history of 21st-century gender mania is written, it should include this signal entry: In 2020, a website called GoFundMe, usually a place to find disaster-relief appeals and charities for starving children, contained more than 30,000 urgent appeals from young women seeking to remove their perfectly healthy breasts.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/abigail-shrier-how-the-gender-fever-broke-trump-executive-order
Long article, but worth reading.
Again, Obama.
There is no end to the evil that POS left us.
Westley: There’s a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
I sent a message to Trump’s Facebook about my NSA grievances and got an immediate response. Probably the automatic one they give to all messages, but it’s a faint ray of hope in my dreary world.
Regarding Animal’s prehistoric tale, less than 1% of species last longer than 15 million years, and for mammals, it’s close to 1 million years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt4uIFjVFS0
So the Weavercoons either evolved into their modern-day dumb cousins or became the ancestors of a now extinct genus of Homo. That second one is a stretch since the story takes place 40 million years ago and the first primates came on the scene 55 million years ago. Regardless, I expect the finale to include some predestination paradox whereby the actions of the protagonist and the Weavercoons lead to the inevitable rise of humanity.
“…modern day dumb cousins…”
You have never had a pet raccoon, have you. You haven’t, I can tell.