Good morning one and all to another fantabulous day!
FBI nominee Kash Patel confirmed in narrow Senate vote
Trump pushes for balanced federal budget, a potentially historic feat
Senate Passes Budget Resolution as ‘Plan B’ in Case of House Failure
Commerce secretary shares Trump’s ‘goal’ to abolish the IRS
Trump Admin Reportedly Set To Can Notorious Liberal General
Army Was Sending Junior Pilots Straight from Flight School to Fly Top DC Missions Until 2023
Mexico Proposes Constitutional Reform Following Cartel Terrorism Designation by US
Rand Paul endorses Trump 3 months after Election Day, admits ‘I was wrong’
Yale research validates spike protein persistence from COVID vaccines as injury visibility rises
Florida Sues Target, Claiming DEI Initiatives ‘Misled, Defrauded Investors’
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Wake me when congress gets on board.
Watch out for the otters then (or beavers or whatever they were…).
While I don’t always remember who does the links on which days (thank you all, by the way), I can usually tell which regular it is by the type of featured image chosen.
Banjos and her current kick of nightmare fuel ’20s animation is distinctive, yes.
Is this any better? (Mute the music.) Probably not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HskWL82GeQ
Heh, heh.
“Pussyville”
And for those of us who are lazy readers, she conveniently makes each link extra descriptive.
In RE Mexico – while you’re posturing, could you prove you’re not a failed state and do something about the “silver or lead” problem you’ve got going on? At this rate, the cartel leaders are effectively independant warlords.
The Latin/Catholic cultural heritage – so it goes beyond mere governance. The government is a patronage machine first and foremost. Novak’s The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism is an excellent reference (contrasting North and South American experiences).
That sounds familiar.
They’re finally going after Holder?
Gun crimes, including trafficking, aren’t being committed by foreigners but this is an attempt to twist the narrative knowing a receptive US media will push this out as if Mexico is a victim of our gun rights. And no doubt they’ll find cases of dual citizenship gang members running guns and committing cartel hits. These cases will be shouted from the rooftops as proof that little Timmy is going down to Tijuana and bringing his American cowboy violence to the peaceful natives.
“Dual Citizen” is an oxymoronic status.
Anyone who has not completely recanted their foreign allegiences should be denied citizenship to any soverign nation. You want to be a citizen here, you have to be committed to that decision and ONLY be a citizen of here.
Preach it, UnCiv.
“Wow, Commie President. You make an excellent point that dual Mexican-American citizenship seems to be a problem. Howsabout every dual citizen has three months to pick a team, and if they don’t, their American citizenship is revoked?”
They’re using Indiana play, huh?
But UnCivil…what about the Esperanto speaking citizens of the world?
Suthen, they can go fuck themselves.
Both my kids are dual citizens because my wife was a foreign national at the time of their birth. The naturalization oath does renounce foreign allegiance but that doesn’t mean the old country recognizes the renunciation. My wife’s can “reclaim” her original citizenship by filing a form in the US or by getting a passport in country.
DC should be a no-fly zone. shut down the airports nearby and declare that anything flying within a large radius will be shot down.
I know this will make traffic worse on the beltway, but just lay off more federal workers and make congresscritters sleep in dorms near the capital building. We can convert one of the empty federal offices into a barracks for them.
Go back to part-time Congress (meet twice a year except in special circumstances) and watch DC dry up.
But what about all the drug dealers? Why do you want them to go out of business?
Do you mean Pfizer or Patricio on 3rd Street?
The cynical side of me assumes these measures lock them back in as a one-party state — with the “foreign guns” and “interference” giving good cover for Mrs. Communista.
Yes. No good can come from that. She is using this as an opportunity to be more commie.
Here I figured the reforms would be putting the Cartels in as co-equal branches of the government officially.
Why would the Cartels accept such a demotion?
Here’s hoping… but like UCS above, not holding my breath. DOGE cutting is a good start — but Social Security, Medicare and interest are big enough to not leave much… and Trump is big on defense spending, so not expecting cuts there.
That he then seems to want to do “balanced budget” and more gimmes from the tax code seems incompatible and I don’t trust Congress to do it anyway. But at the least, we have to (if possible… I haven’t tracked where the interest has ballooned to) get back to pre-COVID spending as much as we can. De-normalize that extra 2 to 3 trillion (the article says the deficit is 2.8… so that’s about right.).
They will probably go for the headline that, according to their model, the budget will be balanced in 10 years.
Really makes Coolidge’s actual reduction in federal spending over his full term maybe the most remarkable Presidential accomplishment in the entire history of the country.
I know Hegseth just submitted orders at the Pentagon for all departments to go through their budgets in the mission of cutting 8%.
So Sheinbaum’s plan is leave the cartels alone, make symbolic gestures of defiance toward the gringos, and preen. Sounds about right.
It does sound very traditional, si.
You should have heard the (English language) ads for her on 91X.
Attempting anything substantive against the cartels would likely be suicide.
Of course. She isn’t going to cut off her major donors.
Avoiding the Covid jab ultimately cost me a good job, but it keeps looking like the right decision.
I hope some of the people involved are held criminally and financially responsible.
Unfortunately, we are all going to be “vaccinated”, because they are shoving mRNA into our food, our medications, our favorite sitcoms…
Not if RFK can stop it.
Spoiler: it wasn’t a good job.
Nothing is more important than your health.
FBI nominee Kash Oatel confirmed in narrow Senate vote.
You know what they call the medical student who graduated last in his class?
Doctor.
Better than having to call him Master.
Call me Bachelor.
Esquire?
I’d like to see my income taxes go
downto zero, and I’d like to see the American economy set the blender to “puree,” but I’m not sure how tariffs lead to deficit reduction and the economy “exploding higher.”I have no idea of Trump actually believes this stuff, or if he simply knows that it’s political gold.
Low revenue tariffs as a means of financing government doesn’t bother me so much.
This idea that imposing a protective tariff is a magic spell for economic growth is risibly stupid.
Trump won election on the basis of many stupid statements, and some that made sense, and all that pandered to all of his voters some of the time.
The stated intent is to A: encourage onshoring of production, and B: encourage trade partners to lower their tariffs to trigger a reciprocal reduction in ours.
Actually making stuff here, and being better able to sell over there are both positives.
The exact relative weights of the taxation versus those positives is something that requires future data to know for sure, but the status quo wasn’t working.
Spoiler: they don’t.
If Trump has won over Rand Paul (however grudgingly,) including for some of the most controversial cabinet picks, that really says something, I believe.
I’d like to know why. Guess I’ll have to try to do my own research, dammit. ::shakes fist at Fox News::
The labor secretary pick is a Union Stooge who supported a federal version of the commifornian law that forcibly made independant contractors Employees even when it made no sense (the Lyft-killer legislation)
At least those are the first few problems that came to mind.
There are more that I don’t recall, but I don’t want her in the job.
Thank you! One wonders, then, what on Earth Trump was thinking with that pick (giving him the benefit of the not-inconsiderable doubt that he WAS thinking) when he’s seemingly been doing so well with the rest of the Cabinet.
He thinks he’s pandering to union workers when this really only benefits union bosses.
Which is odd because the actual union worker vote is one of the smaller constituencies out there. Particularly non-govt union workers.
Maybe his eyes will open when she gets full support from all Dems.
Maybe its a negotiation chip he can play later. If you don’t support this legislation I’ll dump the labor secretary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgXOTr6avRg (about 2 minutes)
Not sure about either the specs or the eyelashes, either of them.
1. There is no way you lot get a balanced budget
2. There is no way you abolish the IRS.
3. Mexico’s bossgirl president is going to OWN Trump like the bad bitch she is.
Fuck you, cut spending.
Well I keep tried but scotch and escorts are expensive.
What’s the equivalence there? How many minutes does the price of a bottle of Scotch get you?
ISTR someone (probably Maggie McNeill) saying that the cost of a prostitute as a proportion of their clientele’s income was remarkably constant. Something like 1/2 day’s wage = 1 hour or something like that.
I would say both a bottle of good scotch and a quality escort are about 5 hours work for me.
Being European that is 2 days wages for Americans it could be 1/2
Not Adahn:
Check out the Foreign Exchange and Five Star.
Castreau already owned Trump.
How so? Trump threatened tariffs if the Twink didn’t deal with the border, and after a couple of weeks of REEEE!!!, he sent 10,000 troops.
Didn’t you see his message following last night’s game? …
Yeah, Sheinbaum is not going to get her way. And we’re already flying drone missions on the Mexican side of the border with her permission. A lot of the squawking is to insulate herself from being assassinated.
False flag, rival Pali group, or hamas being even more ‘tarded than imaginable?
https://apnews.com/article/israel-bus-explosions-palestinians-gaza-4a13242cfd220ebdbedf1f0f0a389834
Is Pali not a derogatory term? Stop that.
So LL Cool J is not going back to Pali?
I don’t think so.
I just call them Gazans.
“Palistinian” is a political term that is not tied to its historical meaning.
Could also by Trump trying to discourage public transportation, I guess.
Now he’s denying Israel’s congestion pricing plan too??
48 hour rule and all that, but my gut tells me it’s Hamas realizing that Israel is a little pissed off about being given the bodies of children, and trying to go out with a bang.
Supposedly, the body of what was their mother doesn’t match DNA identification.
Supposedly, the body of what was their mother doesn’t match DNA identification.
I think it was Dean who suggested that the
PalestiniansGazansHamas Constituents would not be able to return all the hostages, because they doled them out to various little factions and no longer have any idea where the bodies are.I read in an Israeli paper that the bombs were all set to go off at the same time. Good plan but poor execution since the timers were mistakenly set for 9pm rather than 9am when the busses would be in use.
Military time is the best time, it is known.
opossum recovering after eating chocolate cake
https://www.wmur.com/article/opossum-recovering-after-eating-chocolate-cake/63848313
Big news from Omaha!
Listened to this podcast yesterday on a recommendation. A very academic guy talking about the coming civil war – in Britain. He makes a lot of good points, so maybe it’ll happen. Then I read the comments – yikes – it’s going to be Northern Ireland times a thousand.
https://youtu.be/Gid48FgiHho
for some reason i don’t like that chicks voice
She does ask some excellent questions.
I have friends who are convinced we are all going to die fighting the Russians after Trump peace will allow Russia to invade the rest of Eastern Europe. I don’t even have military training. But apparently surrender is not an option.
Anything short of going to war with Russia will result in going to war with Russia.
Putin is many things, but he is not an Idiot. He’s seen how badly the miscalculation in Ukraine has gone (stalemate is not the ideal outcome). He’s not going to grab for more of Eastern Europe with a damaged and demoralized army, he’s going to consolidate gains and shore up the home front.
I still expect Ukraine to lose the Russian-majority regions as part of the negotiated pace, as these are largely in Russian hands already.
If I die in the trenches would you even put your mourning gloves on to type the RIP comment in the days links?
If that happens, I will do so for a full article.
But I don’t think you’re going to the front lines.
We will mourn for PieInTheGround.
I would have thought we’d be mourning Minced Pie
Vampires are notoriously hard to slay.
Pie would rule the battlefield. Especially after dark.
The French and Brits are racing to see who gets to take over project Ukraine as we are done with it. Trump doesn’t say anything as they do exactly what he wants.
Once their microscopic armies get to the Ukraine, it might get ugly.
I’m waiting for all the compassionate lefties to step up with personal donations for the cause they believe in so much.
I see this the same way as Putin bringing in the Norks, who got slaughtered.
He’s not going to attack a NATO country. JFC all the “serious” Europeans pushing that idea are delusional.
They aren’t delusional. They know it is BS, but you gotta shake the tree if you want to get the tax cattle to cough up more money and freedoms.
Stop worrying about what the Russians will do to Europe. If they in fact do invade Europe, they might actually save you of the true fate awaiting you all: an Islamic caliphate where all of you are bitched out.
will allow Russia to invade the rest of Eastern Europe
With the Russian army that couldn’t even take Ukraine? What are these people smoking?
Poles.
The first ever strike zone challenge in an MLB game is a successful one
Cody Poteet’s pitch is overturned from a ball to a strike, changing the count from 1-1 to 0-2 against Max Muncy
https://x.com/JomboyMedia/status/1892670837951480086
what is the official glibertarian opinion on …
Baseball sucks.
Slow, stupid, boring game – it is cricket with beer and hot dogs instead of tea and crumpets.
Rounders!
See also netball.
I want computers calling balls and strikes. I’m sick of questionable and moving strike zones.
But you can’t yell, “Yo! Cyclops!” at a computer. 😞
^this
Negatory. The human element is part of the game.
My unofficial, entirely individual position is vehemently against challenging balls and strikes. I consider baseball a leisurely game to watch, punctuated by the periodic moments of high action and excitement. If slowed down further by Blue with his head under a hood watching a replay, the Great American Pastime will become as boring as basketball.
Also, no metal bats at any level, even Little League.
After watching video assist ruin the game of soccer I have to agree with your assessment.
Basketball is a game of attrition that I can’t get into. Yawn, someone scored on the opening possession. Get back to me in the last couple minutes.
I’m perfectly good with banning metal bats at all levels. They’re crutches.
I want a real strike zone first. From the batter’s shoulders to his knees. Not this waist to knees crap they call now.
Program that into your computer, then I might watch.
Baseball with dancing, anyone?
https://youtube.com/shorts/cjnUboJgFnM?si=oPeQAD5XmPRoe1Ap
I knew what that was before I clicked.
That is the gayest shit I have ever seen.
Let’s see your computer “umpire” do that!
Baseball is fun—if you are at the park with friends, doing the whole routine of eating hot dogs and popcorn, singing “Take MenOut to the Ballgame” during the Seventh Inning Stretch, etc.
What do you mean, it’s not really “Take Men Out to the Ballgame”?
So what is the official glibertarian opinion on a burger that is to big to eat with hand and needs a knife and fork? acceptable or too much (I am not talking about a no bud to avoid carbs burger you need to knife and fork, but one with a bun)
How can a burger bee too big to eat by hand? If it lacks the structural integrity to support its own weight then the patty is too thin.
Well, when you get to the diameter of a dinner plate, that leads to a patty that is more of a meatloaf than a burger.
I’m assuming Pie has a comically oversized partody burger.
Well you need to be able to bite it. And usually it is the bun which loses integrity. If you cannot take a bite out of it you use a knife and fork
large burgers are tall not wide so that is why they can be hard to eat
PieInTheSky:
Burgers should be wider, not taller.
/is not a fan of the tall food trend
they should, but often they are not. At least in Europe …
Ah, the comically tall burger.
What I do is smash it down with the heel of my hand and/or remove nonsense bulk (garbage tomato slices, that sort of thing).
Tomatoes in combination with liquid condiments, especially mayo, make a burger too messy and drippy to eat by hand. (Particular pet peeve: tomato skins you can’t bite through, forcing you to pull out the entire slice.)
you need some good Romanian tomatoes…
I would
doeat anything for loveBut I won’t
doeat that.Yeah, all the cooking shows do like foot-high burgers. It’s ridiculous.
“Yeah, all the cooking shows do like foot-high burgers. It’s ridiculous.”
So not a fan of Scooby Doo & Shaggy 3 foot tall sammiches?
rhywun:
I blame people taking pictures of their food/drink and wanting it aesthetically pleasing rather than being able to be consumed. There’s still a trend going on in the cocktail world of going beyond garnishes and rims that make it near impossible to actually enjoy the drink. I’m not talking about the over the top garnishes for giant Bloody Marys and the like, but dipping half of the cocktail glass in melted chocolate, or instead of a rim, putting a sugar/salt/spice mixture down a full side of the glass.
That’s not getting into inedible garnishes.
Good tomatoes are glorious. As are good pears and good avocados.
There was a fine dining place that had a “tomato and avocado salad” back in 2012. Two slices of tomato, a fan of a quarter avocado, a little salt and a little vinegar. $25.
I was so angry eating it because I paid that much for so little and agreed that it was worth it.
Sometimes restaurants are just showing off their produce suppliers.
good tomato varietals are not all that shelf stable and as such hard to find in stores. The ebst are when you grow you own (or anyway your mom does) and you pick them when juuust ripe. Some salt some pepper a little cheese and some warm crusty bread…
One of the things that I miss about living in Austin is most places grew their own tomatoes. One place that I’d go to got fined for using the handicapped rail as a tomato trellis. I thought it was an efficient use of that 6″ wide strip of dirt underneath it.
Get bigger hands
Or at least UCS approved Burger Gloves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvuweztG4Q
The goal of making a burger it to make it delicious. Size is not relevant. Make it a manageable size. If you want more, eat another one. Food should be enjoyable, not a challenge.
+ 1
+2
-1 4×4
I like a quarter pound burger. Large-meat burgers screw up the ratio.
That is called a meatloaf.
Fuck Florida suing Target, they are not a shareholder.
Oh yeah, that was one of the Epoch Times stories I couldn’t be bothered to read because of how bad they are with email addresses.
Yeah, I didn’t read it either, but it appears to be nothing but political grandstanding and I hate that as much from the right as I do from the left.
They hold the stock in pension investments. I agree it’s a reach, but with companies like BlackRock setting these agendas, that shouldn’t be allowed either. To be fair to Target, the Dayton family were always a bunch of leftists and it’s no surprise to me Target leans the way it does. I don’t shop there and don’t invest in it.
A pension fund, which has its own fiduciary obligations, is borderline required to sue companies that are violating their fiduciary obligations to shareholders. If Target is damaging shareholder value by pursuing a political agenda, that’s a fiduciary problem. It puts the pension fund in the position of having to choose between selling the stock (at a damaged value) or suing the board and management. If we say “well, if you don’t like your stock being devalued by the board’s idiotic policies, just sell it”, then you are basically saying people should just take the loss and not bother enforcing their rights against the board.
In other email list news, somehow I get digests from Quora. In the past few days, they’ve started to include Trump Derangement Syndrome questions posted in 2019 or so at the top of the digest.
I am not sure why I did not unsubscribe from Quora digest because most of it is utter garbage. And I think more and more questions are random AI generated and well stupid.
Lomez
@L0m3z
So many people uncomfortable with the idea of finally having political and cultural leverage, the fear that at any moment it will go away.
Like old timers sleeping with cash under their pillow because of PTSD from the Depression.
It’s okay to win. Repeat that 100 times.
Yes, actually, the left lost their collective mind over the last decade (more) and its perfectly okay––your duty, in fact––to remove them from power.
You don’t have to feel bad about this, or worry that it’s “too much or too fast.”
We are not even close to that point.
https://x.com/L0m3z/status/1892718181711806740
I asked myself as a Romanian when I first thought reading about the US left policies this seems ridiculous wtf… I was not really all that connected to politics in my youth and I mostly ignored it but I think when I started reading stuff in Reason was about the time of the Hobby Lobby court case and thought that’s weird why the hell would an employer be required to provide contraception…
With the left it is never about whatever the thing at hand is: it’s about telling you they will have power to do to you whatever the fuck they want, and you better act as if you enjoy it and ask for more, or else.
That Hobby Lobby shit, like everything else, was about making sure you knew saying no to their crazy shit would result in a stomping.
I can relate to this. I still react when I hear friends or family go off the deep end, and I have to keep reminding myself that most issues are polling 75/25, with the Dems always supporting the wrong side. They are going to bitch but right now they don’t have any real power.
“worry that it’s “too much or too fast.”
A careful, measured, incremental approach is a guaranteed loser. See, also, “letting the perfect be the enemy of the good”.
If I had a time machine….
I would go back to 1860 and say -” The agency that will administer this tax will become the most feared and hated agency of this government. It will be the source of endless dread and pressure. The tax code will become an indecipherable encyclopedia that not even this government understands. It will gobble up your hard earned wealth then cast it to the wind to lunacy and nonsense. It will impoverish countless people, imprison us and ruin lives. A president of the country will mock us to our faces that the tax code is not and never was a source of revenue but rather a cudgel to be used as a weapon by this government against the very people that elect and employ them to cow them and control them. This government, using this tax code will become a bottomless pit into which your lives and sweat will be wasted. We will be chained to it as slaves and the people we hire into service will see themselves as our masters. They will despise us, mock us and tell us no other way is possible or imaginable. ”
Would we have the income tax today?
The income tax and the IRS needs to be shot, pissed on, burned and the ashes thrown into the sea. Get rid of it.
Can’t even reach them on the telephone (the what now?), get differing answers…
So you’re saying we should hire more IRS agents, and they’re dangerously understaffed?
I heard some pinko congress critter last night bemoaning Trump’s firing of agents because they are there to help us. They help us fill out our forms and answer questions. She is trying to sell that shit to the very people that cant get a straight answer out of anyone and about an agency that actively avoids any direct contact with the public?
Why, oh why did they lose? Dont worry I was just assured by the crypt keeper (James Carville) that they are going to take back the house and senate in the midterms. It is a certainty he says.
I should have included that in my rant. They will send out swarms of armed agents to harass us.
Lincoln’s original Revenue Act of 1861 and its subsequent spawn (in 1862 and 1864) were allowed to expire in 1873. But I agree it did set a precedent that the government owns money and only lends it out to us to make more for them since they suck so bad at making it themselves.
“Would we have the income tax today?”
The solution to all of this is simple. End mandatory withholding. Make everyone write a check to the IRS on April 15th for their tax obligation. I bet you the whole thing gets torn down in days.
I’d like to think that but really, who doesn’t see the line that states your total tax when they are filling out their forms? If they are not already bothered by the enormity of that figure I don’t see your idea making any difference.
Rhy – There is a big difference between seeing a number representing money you never had, and being told “pay us $X” which you already spent on something else – because you know the average person has no financial discipline and will be hard put to assemble thousands of dollars once a year. “Tax day loans” will become commonplace as a stopgap.
Most people I know bitch and moan about their taxes, but then do squat, rhywun, so yeah, there might be something to your take. However, the majority of these people also tend to piss away every penny they get paid net. Can you imagine what their reaction would be on April 15th when they owe something like $10K to Uncle Sam, and they have $12.44 in their bank account?
Epic.
Milton!
¡Friedman!!
ptui.
The big issue is that most of those people think that the rebate is the government giving them money (which is true in some cases, but not most). I’ve known people who arranged things to get bigger rebates, for the reason, “I’m bad at saving by myself”.
I send YUGE check to the IRS every year because I refuse to let those crooks take my money without paying me interest.
Look at how people think they’re putting one over on the State when they get a bigger tax refund.
Would we have the income tax today?
Of course we would. A constitutional amendment was passed enabling it. It wasn’t the wartime tax that was the problem, it was the entire Progressive Era.
Mrs Fourscore shuts me out of her life at income tax time. She knows from past years not to poke an old geezer that has trouble understanding how to send an email.
Between the IRS instructions and the keyboard there are many opportunities to use the enhanced vocabulary. Close enough is good enough for me. My mood is not improved when I see the outstretched hand, beckoning to me.
Suthen, I have to disagree. The income tax and the IRS should be shot, burned, the ashes pissed on, and then thrown into the sea.
Mammary Monday bringing you the pummelos.
https://archive.is/BPVdn
Monday?
time is relative
Or Q-bot needs an update
also that is too much tits, overall
Tits in the South are relative
In the South, you motorboat your sister?
I find that offensive Ted, nothing closer than “cousin” is acceptable.
TedS:
Where do you think the phrase “Bow-chicka-Bow-wow” came from? All those references to the front of a boat are clearly about motorboating.
lol Jon Stewart is on my teevee mouthing off about how much power the Founding Fathers gave to the President. Funny how he didn’t seem to have anything to say about that before November, 2024. I guess Biden was just so sensible and restrained.
It’s wild how the Left is crying about Musk being a “Shadow President,” when their guy had onset dementia and wasn’t obviously calling the shots for the past 4 years.
He is unelected! You know…like Fauci. DOGE is unconstitutional! You know…like USAID.
or something.
Stewart is such a sniveling lickspittle. Talk about no honor or shame…What are his actual ratings like?
The amazing thing is he is the “moderate” one there. His castmates are frothing lunatics.
The only defense I’ve seen from anyone about that is “It’s different!” Same with the idiots bitching about Trump’s pardons while defending Biden’s.
it is different when the adults are in charge.
The problem is how much power Congress has ceded to the President and how much power has been centralized in DC. I would argue that both of those problems are against the Constitution.
British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak
https://x.com/keyofgeo/status/1892690526631067800
They sound like douchebags.
you sound like a guy without sweeping whiskers and a languid voice.
You mean a twink?
Yeah.
I often thought Madeline Kahn based her character of Miss Lilly from Blazing Saddles on that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uai7M4RpoLU
I might just have to start sending letters by snail mail again just for an excuse to use these stamps.
I’ll trade you for the Kwanzaa stamps they recently sold me?
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I suggest taking a pic of the stamps and attaching it to emails.
https://yle.fi/a/3-7459075
gaaaaay
Uffda. I would have guessed that lesbo themed stamps would have been the really big sellers.
Seems like more than half the population would have been eagerly waiting to lick those stamps.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s a ray of sunshine? It’s misty in here.
Dark ships (oil tankers disabling transceivers) transported 43% of global seaborne crude exports 2017-23.
How Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, and Russia evade sanctions.
We could enforce these sanctions if we really tried.
The main importers of oil from dark ships.
China, South Korea the largest.
https://x.com/whyvert/status/1892654337983135809
Bring back letters of marque.
Define “really tried”.
Hold on there Cochise.
Are you sure those tankers headed to Korea were full of oil? Maybe it was full of cabbage so they could make kimchi?
You don’t transport cabbage in tankers.
Well, not with that attitude you don’t!
Riddle me this Batman…
How does this make any sense?
Minneapolis is going to bring back traffic cameras. The bad news? The cameras are all going into the “bad” parts of town. The good news? Doesn’t seem like there is any penalty.
The map looks like they threw one or two cams in the nicer neighborhoods. The rest are all in the oppressed parts of town.
think of the children.
Telling Minnesodans that they want t track everyone like the CCP does to the Chinese people, might just be a step too far and cause the rabble to rebel against the insanity, your holiness. So they go with this slight of hand.
Tracking the icky people is okay, tho.
What will happen if fines are not paid?
Hahaha, suspend a non existing driver’s license?
Alexander the Great being an absolute maniac:
“For a while – a few minutes at the most and perhaps
less – the king of a vast empire fought alone inside an enemy stronghold.”
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1892650257810354544
In Asia, Alexander the Great’s army found a natural occurrence of naphtha, crude oil, they got a servant to volunteer to be covered in it and lit him on fire to see what happens.
Unsurprisingly he got horribly burned, yet somehow survived.
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1892648045629592032
“Hold my wine goblet…”
Did they use it as lube?
Alex, I expect the naptha in question was a low viscocity liquid similar to kerosene or diesal, rather than what we envision for crude oil. Which would also explain why the guy survived, as it largely drained off before being ignited, leaving less to burn.
I imagine once he started screaming he was extinguished. I think the point was to see if they could turn themselves into flaming warriors without consequences to themselves. Answer was no.
Ok, that makes better sense than my theory tat they were lighting their farts, and then because they had used it as lube, it went south..
So they didn’t cover wood with the oil to see what happens? Or metal? Or if it must be tested on living things, a goat? Nope, let’s just lather Dumbasseus up and see what happens.
LAH, I assume you’ve met undersupervised young men before?
I wonder what the Fed drones who have been canned are thinking.
Do they stare in the distance pondering the fact that the only ones defending them are the ultra-MSM? Do they wonder why none of their neighbors who work in the private sector are defending them?
Or do they know that the marks finally caught onto the scam? And they are going to slink off in shame?
Your last two questions presuppose that the people involved see their employment as fraudulent.
People in general do not see themselves as the bad guy. In this case they are convinced they are selfless public servants and their work is absolutely essential.
“Are we the baddies?”
All the stories I’m reading is how this is devastating, short sighted, petulant, and not going to save any money. Funny how those same people were perfectly alright with me losing my private sector job if I didn’t want to get a questionable shot.
I read those stories as I sip coffee and taste the sweet revenge.
Nobody I know has even the slightest sympathy for government workers.
I remember years ago seeing a synopsis of how many private sector timber workers were put out of work by govt saving the dick-headed woodpecker. I dont recall any govt workers shedding tears for them. What I do remember is that they had trouble hiding their pleasure from it.
How many of those govt workers shedding tears now felt bad about enforcing reams of regulations that put out the private sector?
EPA drone: “That is a navigable waterway/refuge for waterfowl. You cant work here or build anything”
Landowner: “No it’s not. It’s a goddamned water filled rut in an access road and it only has water in it because it just rained.”
EPA drone: “Yeah? Well the water will eventually run off into a navigable waterway so shut this project down.”
Landowner: “It’s frozen. It wont run off anywhere.”
EPA drone: “It will thaw. Shut it down”
Landowner: “I have a million bucks in this. The cement is already mixed and ready to pour. I will lose everything.”
*chuckles* “Sorry ’bout that. Also you owe a million dollar fine and I am declaring this a superfund site so you have to pay to have it restored.”
The reason we are seeing these tears now is because those people thought they would never be held accountable for the things they did. They thought their credibility was infinite. No one would ever dare shut them down.
Somebody’s not getting the message
A top White House official said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s increasingly tough criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy reflects the administration’s growing frustration with what they see as the Ukrainian leader creating roadblocks to finding an endgame to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The comments from White House national security adviser Mike Waltz came a day after Trump described Zelenskyy as a “dictator” and warned that he “better move fast” to negotiate an end to the war or risk not having a nation to lead. Zelenskyy earlier Wednesday had said Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space.”
“His frustration with President Zelenskyy that you heard is multifold,” Waltz said Thursday of Trump. “There needs to be a deep appreciation for what the American people and the American taxpayer, what President Trump did in his first term and what we’ve done since. There’s some of the rhetoric coming out of Kyiv, frankly, and insults to President Trump (that) were unacceptable.”
We can do without you a lot better than you can do without us. Is that really so hard to grasp?
Zelenskyyyyy thought the way to handle Trump was to shit-talk him. Pretty funny.
I think Zelensky has been assured by someone that the money laundering will not be allowed to end. They are mistaken. Anyway, good riddance to that evil little imp when he goes.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/trump-justice-staffer-fired-helping-doge-suddenly-put/
Amazing times. The blob tried to fire a guy for trying to save taxpayer money, now he’s the acting commissioner of the Social Security Agency.
Trump earlier this week suggested Ukraine was to blame for starting the war even though the smaller nation was invaded by Russia in February 2022. Asked whether Trump believed Putin or Zelenskyy was more responsible for the grinding war, Waltz offered a roundabout response.
“His goal here is to bring this war to an end, period,” Waltz said of Trump. “And there has been ongoing fighting on both sides. It is World War I-style trench warfare.”
“What difference, at this point, does it make?” would have been the statesmanlike reply.
“A woman battling mortuusequusphobia — also known as a crippling fear of ketchup — is speaking out about her struggle, calling her tomato trouble no laughing matter.
Comparing a confrontation with the so-called creepy condiment to “being held at gunpoint,” Leigh Woodman said she’s not only had to steer clear for as long as she can remember — the Briton also been forced to endure joking from people who don’t take her suffering seriously.”
https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/lifestyle/fear-of-ketchup-or-mortuusequusphobia-is-real-sufferers-say/
Stop making up words.
Boom.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1mWDyVL7Vs
Hey hey hey now wait a minute. English is a crude language, to be sure, but one of its beauties is its utter expandability, where nonsense words either fall into disuse (e.g., “mortuusequusphobia”) or are so awesome they become the default and even go global (e.g., “okay”).
Now, I am not a hoarder by nature, except of ethereal things like data and language. It’s okay for us to KEEP the word, but let’s just tuck it out of sight over there.
What is it called when you have a crippling fear of life because there are so many stupid people in charge of things?
I think it’s called “grow a pair, Alex”?
:-p
Libertarianism?
Apparently she doesn’t have a crippling fear tiresome narcissism.
End result of the idea that anxiety should be treated by coddling the sufferer rather than helping them become able to face their fear.
Essential
On Thursday morning, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stopped by LA’s Union Station to give a news conference on California’s high-speed rail project. Duffy tore into the project, arguing that it was wasteful and unaccountable, and he announced an upcoming “compliance review” for the $4 billion in federal funds dedicated to the rail system.
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But the most striking part of the conference may have been the LA crowd’s vocal protests. Beneath the sound of Duffy’s voice, video of the conference sounds like a hostile sports match, with near-constant waves of boos and chants.
“Build the rail! Build the rail!” protesters chanted at one point; at another, “We pay taxes, we want trains!” One protestor held up a cardboard sign: “Don’t delay our trains.”
Duffy, for his part, took a moment to acknowledge the protestors in the crowd. “These protestors should all be at the steps of Gavin Newsom’s mansion,” he said. “They should all talk to him about what happened here.”
Build it yourselves, you bums.
Hardly. The left is stuffed with professional activists who have nothing better to do than show up at events like this in order to make their influence seem larger than it really is.
This. They are astroturf. Ignore them.
Yes. An actual DOJ investigation I can support.
DOJ Investigates Medicare Billing Practices at UnitedHealth
Civil probe of diagnoses that triggered extra payments to the company’s Medicare Advantage plans adds to scrutiny of the healthcare giant
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/unitedhealth-medicare-doj-diagnosis-investigation-66b9f1db?st=8vH1Uo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It was perfectly obvious UnitedHealth was gaming the system.
There are people not gaming the health care system?
In a statement shared with KTLA-TV on Wednesday, California’s High-Speed Rail Authority anticipated, and refuted, Duffy’s criticisms.
“Of approximately $13 billion spent on the project, $10.5 billion have been funded exclusively by the State of California (not hundreds of billions) and those expenditures have created over $22 billion in economic impact,” the statement reads. “Every dollar of the project is accounted for and has been thoroughly reviewed by the independent Office of the Inspector General [whose] sole focus is improving oversight and accountability of the California high-speed rail project.”
This make-work project in the middle of nowhere is essential to the health and well being of our core constituency. How dare you call it nonessential?
Something something protect our phony baloney jobs.
😂🤣
those expenditures have created over $22 billion in economic impact
Turning taxpayer dollars into your personal graft is not a multiplier.
So, I have a question. I’m re-paginating Dunham because I realized that a lot of the italics I had vanished, so I have to compare it to the original. Also, I have corrections to be done. Also, KDP allows more pages now so it doesn’t have to be cramped.
My dilemma:
In those days, an aristocrat and maybe “middle-class” being able to speak more than one language was de rigueur. Sailors also. My characters do speak a little French in the book. Current style dictates that foreign words in an English-language book be italicized, but … I have run into some conflicting opinions, specifically where the characters are expected to be able to speak in other languages. The thinking is the words should not be italicized because it’s normal for them and the reader is expected to either know it or think about it or get it in context.
Anyway, I just ran a global to swap out <em>oui</em> for oui and now I see my program doesn’t allow for whole word search (Sigil, in case you thought it was Word), so I have to go back and re-do all that stuff. I’m trying to decide whether to make all my foreign words italics or not.
I’m confused by a lack of full word search in the software, seems like a gross oversight.
How much non-english is used at once? I recently ran into a story, ostensibly in english, where there was a scene equivalent to several paragraphs of dialog in raw French, and the purported clue to the mystery was in the gendered forms of the french words, but as somewho who knows no french, it was gibberish (and I solved it using other information).
I don’t expect your conversations to have substantial foreign language blocks, but that is always my first fear.
Sigil, which is an epub compiler. I haven’t googled extensively, but a cursory search leads me to believe this is true.
Anyway.
No, it’s not full paragraphs. I think the longest sentence I have is “S’il vous plaît en français.”
When I come to the common phrases (French/Spanish)) I translate in my head and read them in English. Fortunately I don’t see much German/Russian/etc.
End result of the idea that anxiety should be treated by coddling the sufferer rather than helping them become able to face their fear.
You’re afraid of ketchup? Drink this bloody mary and STFU
Remember when we tried to cure crazy people instead of participating in their crazy?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-constitutional-cleanup-government-overhaul-agencies-law-f0fea6c4?st=nGmgxp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
FTFY
Remarkable…and long overdue.
Kimberly Strassel is both plugged into DC and a good writer. I thought that was a succinct way to put that issue.
That said she’s not a libertarian, but still worth reading.
Germany was a pioneer in cutting CO2 emissions. It enacted its first ambitious renewable energy law a quarter of a century ago and aims to become greenhouse-gas-neutral by 2045, earlier than most other nations.
Less known is how little success it has had. While emissions were down 60% in 2023 from their 1990 level, according to the government, a sharp drop that year was because of the recession. Today, Germany’s CO2 emissions per capita are above the global and the European Union average, higher than the U.K.’s and France’s and just below China’s, according to Our World in Data. Meanwhile, German households paid the highest electricity prices in the EU in the first half of 2024, according to official EU statistics.
Why Germany’s Confidence Is Shattered and Its Economy Is Kaput
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/why-germanys-confidence-is-shattered-and-its-economy-is-kaput-d1d95890?st=83tcpA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Discusses other factors that also contributed to its current struggles, but I’d argue a good chunk of the issues are because of energy.
That was the point.
Former communist Angela Merkel destroyed her country in multiple ways. I hope she is proud of herself.
Former?
lol Yeah I hesitated there
But I decided there was a difference between card-carrying and not card-carrying.
“We can do it!” Ms. Merkel famously declared in 2015. Apparently “we” don’t want to anymore. Voters are weighing the fiscal costs of welfare benefits and the like for migrants—and the cost to public safety amid a string of possible terror attacks and other high-profile crimes allegedly perpetrated by migrants.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/dark-clouds-over-the-german-election-policy-politics-48f97a56?st=1d5Hcd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That Coming Civil War podcast I linked above has to apply to most of western Europe. All the elements are in place for a peasant revolt as their standard of living plummets and they are replaced with invaders.
Yeah with all the “respectable” parties indistinguishable from each other, nothing will change (except for the worse) unless the voters stop voting for them.
Reducing emissions the greenie way is inversely proportional to economic success. Amazing how people just miss that every time.
Since the formation of the EU Europe’s GDP has been reduced to half of what it was. Yes, the global warming scam is responsible for most of that.
Surely there are other examples of cultural suicide on par with the insanity Europe has been up to but off of the top of my head I cant think of any.
As I mentioned a day or two ago we are different in so many ways. We seem to be the only country that puts the brakes on. Everyone else gets on the road to disaster and follows it to the end.
Since the formation of the EU Europe’s GDP has been reduced to half of what it was
Got proof of that?
Well at least no evil nukular energy like the frenchies.
Then again french gdp per capita is lower than 2008. Just like England and Spain
And now they are talking about conscription, massive military spending, and war.
Meanwhile, German households paid the highest electricity prices in the EU in the first half of 2024, according to official EU statistics.
Capitalist price gougers are to blame. And possibly physics.
Cleetus on Dale Jr’s show
It’s long (1:40) but pretty good. It’s worth it just for the story about the first Freedom 500, and how the county (I think) tried to shut it down because of the plague hysteria.
I have a friend who works with Dale Jr. The guy’s is in a metal band, and looks like a hipster, but he grew up around racing and he’s been working on TV shows and podcasts with Dale Jr for years.
Then again french gdp per capita is lower than 2008. Just like England and Spain
There is a simple and obvious way to fix that problem.
Adjust the denominator by way of Ukraine?
It’s a Jeep thing you wouldn’t understand.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1iu90gl/oc_the_classic_maneuver_of_turning_left_from_the/
He had his turn signal on.
That’s how you headline.
“Hooters Goes Tits-Up As Bankruptcy May Come Within Months”
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/hooters-goes-tits-bankruptcy-may-come-within-months
Q will help the unemployed
Interesting new line from Journolist 2.0
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has slashed hundreds of jobs paid for by fees from banks, medical device companies and other forms of funding rather than taxpayer dollars, raising the question of whether the cuts will render hoped for savings.
Yes. FedGov requires these institutions to finance their own regulatory and approval organizations. Neatly demonstrating regulatory capture and increased cost for businesses that aren’t part of the game.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-is-firing-federal-workers-who-are-not-funded-by-taxpayers-2025-02-21/
Stop making up
wordspsychoses.Lucy and her sidewalk stand.
The key to keeping the skies safe at the FAA is… the attorneys!
Trump and Elon’s ‘Pointless Bloodbath’ at the FAA Is Even Worse Than You Think
The Trump administration fired several FAA lawyers tasked with helping keep reckless and drunk pilots out of the skies — and officials are baffled
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-elon-musk-faa-air-planes-pointless-bloodbath-1235274324/
They really haven’t figured out a good way to respond to DOGE’s shock and awe.
The more they cry, the harder I laugh.