That was a hell of a weekend. Both my son and daughter had tournaments for their respective sports. Although none of them were arsed to have them scheduled anywhere within a ten minute drive of my house. So I was stuck driving to the SE Valley and back…constantly.
My daughter’s soccer team held their own in spite of not being all that great. Not all bad though. My son’s team won their bracket. They played a travel club on Saturday morning and I watched my son walk out at the top of the third. That was nerve racking. He did really well, he threw 3 innings only giving up a few hits and only 1 run. Some of the other parents kept asking me “why is he throwing so slow?” I assumed he weighs 60 pounds and they were used to a fast pitch, but he kept mixing it up with a decent enough fastball.
Nope. My wife, a pretty good amateur photographer, found in several photos his grip on the ball suggested he was throwing knuckleballs. He later confirmed exactly that. So the smallest kid on the team went all Tim Wakefield and shut down a travel club.
They played the same team again for the final and won 11-7.
¡Enlaces!
The best part about all of this: the pissing contests are hilarious.
If they’re designated as terrorist groups, that means the ATF can’t sell them guns, right?
Let me tell you something about shitcoins: stop buying shitcoins. I don’t care if the most electrifying man in Latin America backs it.
But what will the world think when we tell them we are no longer interested in bombing ethnic minorities within their own borders because they are conveniently sitting on a projected gas pipeline? Fuck them.
On the lighter side of the news, a kayaker swallowed by a whale describes the experience. Rule 34 inbound.
Its been a long time since I heard this one. Enjoy.
Goddammit, wordpress.
Jim Bouton approves.
🤣
How many Cardinals did Commie Pope appoint?
Are there any sane men in Red left?
What, they aren’t elected? So why should anyone listen to any non-elected minion?
*snort*
Eating up innings with a good knuckleball may be the easiest way to make a living as a professional athlete.
Not being a punter?
Jesus… this.
He better have other pitches to mix in. Back in h.s. we faced a kid who only threw knucklers. Might have well been batting practice when you know it’s coming. I think we scored 14 runs before his coach took pity on him and put in a relief pitcher.
“Good”
Wakefield threw an occasional fastball, but not often. When we was on, it was damn near unhittable.
“When we was on, it was damn near unhittable.”
But, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVlHEkh4Jeg
Yep, Shakey Wakey was feast-or-famine. Loved that guy, a real good egg too.
I have a baseball signed by both Wake and Timlin. Good memories.
She sure seems protective of the cartels…
Seems that way to me too. Anyone not on the take would welcome the help, what with all the beheadings and shootings, right?
Who do you think got here elected?
My understanding is that Mexico has become essentially a narco state. There is too much money in it not to. The problem does not really originate in Mexico….the US and China are to blame.
This. It’s a sad state of affairs for Mexico.
Trump and Musk made Commiepope’s head explode. I say it is time for racial diversity in the Papacy, Make Cardinal Sarah Pope!
I want them to appoint a Catholic.
So not a Jesuit.
How is Robert Sarah not a Catholic? He’s probably the most traditionalist of the collegium
@Jar I stated my criteria, nothing more, nothing less.
I know none of the people in contention.
Ahh, sorry I miss-read
I also could have been less ambiguous in the phrasing.
Well, if he comes from over the sea, he will be the first trans-pope.
And if they wanted to ship him somewhere, he would need transpopetation.
Oh that’s a dude? I didn’t think they were looking to appoint a female just yet.
He is probably too old now, but in addition to be a traditionalist, he is a staunch anti-communist.
The Venezuelan kayaker had been paddling through the Strait of Magellan, off Chile’s Patagonian coast, with his father when he felt something “hit me from behind, closing in on me and sinking me”.
I still think the whole episode was orcastrated as a publicity stunt.
Clearly a trained whale.
The whale was trying to drum up business for his pod cast.
I think he was exaggerating, it probably just got him on the calf.
*narrows gaze*
No, whales have a wide visual field.
I’m of the opinion that they should just camp on the beach and feed whatever cetaceans swim up to them.
That would work out splendidly for all in tents and porpoises.
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum said her government would ask Google to make ‘Mexican America’ pop up on maps of the U.S.
Google response: place thumb on nose, waggle fingers.
She’s really got Trump now. What a master.
Glad she’s solved migrants, cartels, and poverty.
She solved those by surrendering to them. Freed up a lot of her time.
Make the Rio Bravo Grande Again!
Donald must be having a blast making everyone dance to his tune.
PS. I have been lectured my entire life that “America” refers to a continent (or two), not a country. Which is it, the left?
Speaking of cartel controlled commies – Arizona Governor just vetoed HB2703, a bill to make election results faster & safer.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1891954912700838094
Utterly predictable. And the McCainite Repubs in the AZ legislature couldn’t send this to a Repub governor when they had one. No, election reform had the Trumpist stink on it then, so they wouldn’t touch it.
We get it, you’re a Democrat. You don’t give a shit about accuracy.
She vetoes pretty much everything
Trump bans science
“Any delay or anything that inhibits our research is devastating to the parents.”
From cancer researchers to those working in maternal health, Huganir’s predicament is familiar to many scientists across the country right now. Less than a month into his administration, President Donald Trump has embarked on a cost cutting program that threatens to reshape the infrastructure that has made the U.S. the envy of the world in medical innovation. His administration has frozen federal grants, ordered sweeping layoffs across federal agencies, cut funding for biomedical research and issued executive orders that threaten to shutter government programs focused on gender or diversity.
The NIH policy is only one piece of a dramatic overhaul of the federal agencies that has included aggressive and at-times untargeted cuts to scientific research. A judge halted the National Institutes of Health policy a little more than a week ago, at least temporarily, after 22 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit. Still, it has left some scientists, like Huganir, in fear they may have to slow or abandon research projects, potentially walking back years of progress and preventing new scientific breakthroughs. NIH did not respond to a request for comment after a request from NBC News on Friday.
If government doesn’t pay for it, it doesn’t exist.
Every government worker and program is essential.
Sung to the tune of Every Sperm is Sacred, Every Sperm is Good!
“If government doesn’t pay for it, it doesn’t exist.”
TOS had that in spades when it came to ObamaCare repeal, in ages past. It wasn’t “repeal and piss on the ashes”. It was “reform” it (which in govspeak means, add another layer of bureaucracy, just what healthcare needs).
“News” 😂🤣
Also “Science”😂🤣
“There’s a battle ahead to protect not just the funding, but the social contract that the federal government and institutions have had to enable the scientific research enterprise in America in the last 80 years,” said Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the Science family of scientific journals.
“You owe me a living!”
Kiss my ass, Thorp.
But if we dont have scientists making Science!
How do we appease the Science God?
“social contract” is straight up commie bullshit.
I’ve been mulling that in the back of my head, and I’m not sure it’s commie bullshit, but a commie bullshit term for “customs I prefer”. I mean, it could be argued that the social contract says things like “don’t shit in public”, “pay your own way”, and “judge people by the content of their character”, but I doubt the person complaining about his grift getting cut off would agree on those statements.
In practice the term is almost always used by people who assert that random third parties have a duty to fund whatever the speaker asserts to be necessary.
It always seems to only go one way. I pay for them to do questionable research.
Plus, I don’t remember signing any contract.
Thorp can screw off. Quality of scientific research and actual original research papers on new subjects has gone down as government funding went up. Science has become the new government cheese.
Also I refuse to take anyone named Holden Thorp seriously.
Sounds like the stage name of some specializing in period drama.
Or somebody with a top hat and pencil mustache who is going to fleece granny of the family farm.
Or somebody in a period drama with a top hat and pencil mustache who is going to fleece granny of the family farm.
Private funding of science influences the results. Public funding is pure.
Sounds like the name of a disaffected youth who skips school and freaks out when they visit a prostie.
What a phony.
“the social contract that the federal government and institutions”
That’s good spin for “a protection racket with a side of kickbacks”.
Anyone who uses the term ‘social contract’ outside of pointing out what bullshit it is deserves a big Fuck You.
I am shocked. It was totally unpredictable that the people grifting taxpayer bux would scream and cry when those bux got cut off. Who could have seen that coming? Pay no attention to their tears and proclamations of doom, keep swinging the axe.
Judge denies Democrat-led effort to block DOGE access, citing lack of proven harm
A bottle of Prosecco was just opened here at Castello di Ursi.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan declined to grant the plaintiffs’ request to issue a temporary restraining order
/falls off chair
That’s… surprising.
Speaker Johnson today said DOGE is doing him a favor. Congress is supposed to provide oversight of these agencies, but they’ve been stonewalled (as we’ve seen in those useless hearings). He’s wanted this information for years. I hadn’t thought of it that way.
Yes, the Congressional Repubs have been “stonewalled”.
“We’d like you to answer some questions.”
“I’ll pass, thanks for the invite.”
“Okey-dokey, then. Have a nice day.”
Maybe “picket fenced” is a better term.
Whatever Johnson. You keep funding them so….fuck you.
Where is my goddamned Obamacare repeal?
“U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan”
Interesting. One of the swampiest anti-Trump judges you will find, a driving force behind the J6 persecutions. I’m sure the plaintiffs thought they had won the lottery when she got the case. I wonder what happened.
Maybe she got mugged?
“If they’re designated as terrorist groups, that means the ATF can’t sell them guns, right?”
I thought it meant USAID paid for their guns.
I really missed the joke on that one. It means now the CIA and or DOD will pay for their guns, depending on which side the cartel wants dead.
I’m with you. I don’t get the obsession among certain quarters. It all seems scammy to me.
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” “A fool and his money are soon parted.” “Never give a sucker an even break.” Shall I go on? 🙂
I was hoping after the NFT fad fizzled out that the shitcoins would be next. That does not appear to be the case.
Find a guy who is good at math, spend a few bucks on promotion, do your coin drop, stash the money offshore, salve your conscience with high priced hookers and hookers of Napoleon brandy.
You forgot the cocaine and blackjack, Jar.
I don’t like being wired, and I am too fond of gambling to let myself play blackjack. I sate my gambling urge by taking a little surplus to needs income and using it to speculate in the market. If my speculation loses, no harm done, it was budgeted to be lost. If it succeeds I stick most of the gain in something long term and speculate with the remainder.
I have never been a big gambler, but I spent a bit of time hanging out in bars where it was big. I did end up playing Chinese craps enough to pay for an engine rebuild on a motorcycle once, but politely turned down my chance at playing “after hours” at said establishment.
Or somebody with a top hat and pencil mustache who is going to fleece granny of the family farm.
“Holden Thorp” sounds like the wimpy dweeb who polishes the brass for the marching band.
Sound like a Wodehouse character, probably addicted to Swedish exercises and British Fascism.
Article is cock-blocked. I don’t know what to think.
Don’t worry, its exactly what you think.
Today, when a scientist at Johns Hopkins University receives an NIH grant for a project — say, $1 million a year — the university receives an additional 55%, or $550,000, to cover overhead costs. The rate is negotiated between NIH and Johns Hopkins, and it’s based on an accounting of the university’s research expenses.
“This is a huge cut. Johns Hopkins Medical School would lose $200 million a year,” Huganir said. “It’s not a viable enterprise to do science.”
Not the way you do it, anyway. What a shame.
I’m sure those “overhead costs” are thoroughly accounted for. 🙄
So, really, the research grant itself isn’t cut under the new overhead cap. Just the rake-off for the University itself.
Let me tell you something about shitcoins: stop buying shitcoins.
When I see stories about stuff like that I hear Lone Watie saying, “You drink it.”
“So the smallest kid on the team went all Tim Wakefield and shut down a travel club.”
Short Fry here vehemently approves. (The knuckleball is ‘dead,’ but its very concept is IMO the most fascinating, with regards to physics and human reaction, interaction in all sports.) My favorite baseball moment, and one of the ‘best’ in my life, was the bottom of the 6th inning in Little League. All-Star game. (Last inning, if no extras.) We’re up 6-5. Bases loaded. No outs. Coach put me in cuz he knew I could at least throw strikes. I struck out the next three batters to finish the game, with no runner even dreaming of advance. I think I was 10. That was special.
The knuckleball is ‘dead,’ but its very concept is IMO the most fascinating, with regards to physics and human reaction, interaction in all sports.
It really is. When it was more common, managers would take out some of their everyday players for backups because of how much it messes up the hitter’s timing when the knuckleballer is pulled.
I have a watch on to monitor my pulse and blood pressure. (I don’t really give a shit about the latter.) My BPM was 144 earlier today. 119 at last check. It is safe, and technically accurate! (our favorite kind), to say I’m distressed. I *do* have an doc appointment tomorrow. Shit’s kinda been odd since Feb 7 seizure. I’m wondering how to reference Trump 2.0 to the rest of the family, fascinating subjects to observe in times of ‘strife.’ (They’re upset they lost. They don’t have any political principles outside of Trump Bad. Sad!)
Um. How concerned should I be? I suppose ‘quite,’ but I’ll see the doc tomorrow and show what’s up. I don’t feel ‘at risk’ of another seizure (I hardly KNOW her!), but distressed, I am.
You will be OK. Lots of things cause it, dehydration, allergic reactions or in your case, a seizure. You will get some help and be fine. I was like that for a while after a bad bout with mononucleosis.
Are you worried about your BP? I’m currently taking 3 meds to manage mine, one of which is to also counter my elevated heart rate. Took my old doctor and I about 6 weeks to get just the right combination. Without meds, my bottom number is higher than most people’s top number, and I’m in the “seek medical attention immediately” zone of the BP chart. If I’m still alive, I think you’ll be ok.
I honestly don’t know enough about BP to ‘care.’ Here are my last few. Thoughts?
157/96 at 144BPM
136/82 at 130
148/78 at 126
I’m 5’7″ and weigh 135. The pulse is by far the most concerning. Just feels like I’ve been sprinting for six hours, really closer to four days. I’m displeased.
Yes. You need some light blood pressUre meds to loosen up and lower the blood pressure. Would probably help the heart rate too.
Higher HR will elevate your BP. I think the HR is the more important issue.
IANAD: but those are some pretty high numbers systolic numbers. Although, as TOK notes, better to have a doctor who knows you make a diagnosis.
Yeah, those numbers are higher than my routine measurements and I always get an earful from the nurse about them.
Yeah, those BP numbers are pretty high.
My very-proactive doctor put me on meds for far lower numbers. Those are solidly in the hypertension range.
Why are you so tachycardic? Your heart rate is what’s driving your BP here. Do you have anxiety issues?
So, back on house sitting duty (heh, he said duty, heh, heh.) and I have done all of the deferred maintenance I can with out going and buying a new chopsaw (front steps are so sub-code, but I don’t own the place) and now it is day drinking time, along with metal from when I was in junior high. So, Priest, Dio era Sabbath, Motorhead, Randi Rhoades era Ozzy, good Metallica. Add a couple hazy IPA’s and shit posting, and I am a happy man.
I love my wife, but a man has needs.
I’ve been at an air B&B for two months now while the new house is built. The only tools I have are the little emergency repair kit. I have so far restrained myself from doing excessive repairs on this shipwreck, although every broken object Insee weighs heavily on me.
Tonight I am having a bourbon double and watching B movies for potential posts. I need some good music! Post a link or two for a night-homeless Glib?
Home repair music for RJ
I posted over the weekend about the 40th anniversary of The Breakfast Club release. Turns out, another film made its debut on that same day.
True story: a friend of mine told me “I played that video for my son to get him pumped up before his first high school wrestling match. He got pinned in twenty seconds.”
“Can’t hold your mud.”
I don’t even have to click, Shpip.
I clicked.
Right movie, wrong song.
I assumed https://youtu.be/6XdFExsqoC4?feature=shared
I tried the “It’s what *happens* in those six minutes” speech on my wedding night.
Wife’s response: “You think you’ll last six minutes?”
I mean, removing the wardrobe and the pre-activity stretching (h/t Goggins) will suck up a good 3 minutes. I could go the distance.
Well, it looks like, due to MME ZWAK’s hyperactive boss, that I will be staying an extra day here in purgatory. At least the bar is open tomorrow.
As per request, tunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qanF-91aJo&list=PLGBuKfnErZlB_sMBWnETWGs3B9Rj2GdGz
And on a funny/weird note, I have become fascinated with reaction videos. I think I have seen 30 people react to The Thing over the last couple days.
My friend pointed me at some reaction vids to Airplane!, particularly the coffee scene with the kids.
Those are pretty great.
Oh, God. 🙄
Wow, I haven’t heard that song in decades.
Papers, please
Employees at a Market Basket in Manchester got an unexpected surprise on Saturday when they discovered a hissing hitchhiker nestled among their shipment of bananas, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division.
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The unwelcome traveler was an approximately 1.5-foot-long snake, a mildly venomous species native to Ecuador, according to NH Fish and Game Law Enforcement Division.
Cheney describes the uncommon encounter as similar to “opening a Christmas present.”
“I’ve never seen an Ornate cat-eyed snake before in 25 years,” Cheney said. “Everybody’s kind of interested if you’re into reptiles because you’ve never seen one, you don’t get the opportunity to unless you go down to South America.”
Cardiac stress test on the hoof.
Cool find!
Knuckleballs??
Right on.
How did the catcher do?
“The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.”
-Bob Uecker
I was good at it. I broke my first bone, left thumb, catching Joey Elliot in another All-Star game. He was Purdue’s QB and played Canadian Football. He’s a scout now for the Indianapolis Colts.
Broke it during their first at-bat. I still finished the inning, and only when I showed Dad the damage, seeing the $$, *HE* pulled me from the game. I’m rather proud of that. (It wasn’t ‘smart,’ but certainly *bold.* I have that tendency. Pussin’ out ain’t a thing I do.)
He was in on it
I like that Wakefield essentially had his own catcher, Doug Mirabelli (“Dougie’s going deep tonight!”).
Tek wanted no part of that chaos.
Reference:
https://quinnmedia.blogspot.com/2006/07/day-in-life-of-doug-mirabelli.html
How concerned should I be?
Stay away from the bananas.
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