I have pizza dough in the fridge undergoing autolyse. I have a bottle of red standing up and a bottle of white chilling. Spud, 10b0t, and I have various other distractions as well. Prime declined to come down, saying, “You guys go have your cute little bromance day, I’d just be in the way.” No matter. I cannot, though, help thinking about football and championship games back in the day when it was a far rougher and better sport. Johnny Unitas, who had a crewcut you could set your watch by, never got a roughing-the-passer call, even when his ribcage was staved in and was given last rites- he was back on the field two weeks later. The idea of him flopping was ludicrous. Artie Donovan was gouging out eyeballs with no referee action. Bill Pellington was breaking necks of running backs and receivers, which was allowed under the rules of the day. And there was Alex Hawkins, a delightful kick return specialist and sometimes-running-back, who memorably observed, “I have learned that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that sports builds character.”
That was football.
Today’s birthdays include the other guy; Hillary Clinton’s inspiration; the ultimate swashbuckler; the original banana lady; a guy whom I hope is burning in Hell with napalm; an icon of the pro-choice movement; my #1 candidate for the woodchipper; the creator of some of my favorite TV shows; and everyone’s favorite barfly.
And these are Links.
The headline is misleading. Universities typically take 50% or so of a grant right off the top for overhead. And that’s the target, not the research. Not that we should be funding research with tax money, but still.
When it’s your time, it’s your time.
You need to have better dreams.
“I’m shocked that boosting the crazies has hurt our registration numbers.”
This is the most 2025 story ever.
Seriously, what other music could I choose for today? The Old Man knew it was Sunday when the band started playing (and fans of the movie Diner will remember the wedding song).
Happy birthday Will Ferrell?
Happy birthday Belial?
Happy birthday Norma McCorvey?
everyone’s favorite barfly.
Happy Birthday John Ratzenberger?
George Wendt
Tracking your partner was the next inevitable step.
After that it’s basically human centipede time.
It’s the logical outcome of helicopter parenting.
Helicopter parenting and Tindr.
My daughter was tracking her 2nd husband, he was a building material delivery guy. I told her to stop. They divorced shortly after.
She was so suspicious that if he stopped at a convenience store for a Big Red she demanded to know what was going on.
I suppose it is taking the current youngsters’ mantra of “No one has privacy anyway!” to its logical conclusion. So so glad I’m not dating in today’s world.
They say that? Jeebuz, they’re just as bad as Boomers with binary thinking.
It’s the ‘if you have nothing to hide’ crowd. They allow no space, no personal time…it’s 100% connected. I watched one of my teens go through it and it was awful.
I get my lunch to go and eat while parked at pawn shops, bail bonds, court houses …
Where I am is between me and the NSA.
Old Guy Music should have been this birthday boy.
Carmen’s song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XaxmN1ip5A
It was a commercial at the Saturday Matinee.
For you Carmen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7DUmQmHiXE
Any letter written or from the UN is worth substantially less than the paper on which it is printed.
All the performance of the League of Nations — now with more rape from our “peacekeepers”! Well past time to disband it and most other failed multinational organizations (no I can’t think of one I’d keep… but I’m pretty nationalist these days, so that’s not all that surprising… an actual oceanic shipping organization to keep port processing / shipping lanes good is probably a decent idea — but I’d bet all the one we have are skinsuits.)
ISO. Spin off the Universal Postal Union as an independent organization – they basically harmonize postal mail delivery so that you can ship into another country’s postal system without hiring a private courier while purchasing postage from your domestic postal service. Off the top of my head, that’s all I can think of.
The real issue with all of this grant nonsense is not that there wasn’t good research being funded, but they stretched the definitions of what needed to be funded all out of wack, and at every turn to just get rid of the bad they said “nothing left to cut”, now they people do. not. care. about your little pet project. Yes, a lot of people are going to be hurt by this, but you should have policed yourself, as opposed to being little piggies at the trough.
And fuck Buffy.
No thank you.
Maybe this one though…
There probably was — but if there was ever an epitome of “If you don’t want to spend government money on it, you don’t want it to happen!” it is scientific research. As though all of human history didn’t happen — and only the Manhattan Project model is good for Science! ™ going forward.
Get the private sector back to doing research for their own purposes again.
That’s a perfect example of presenting a false choice. We are seeing and will continue to see this over the coming weeks and months.
I would accept as an alternative when some Dem judge inevitably shoots this down, the immediate release of line-by-line explanation of every tax dollar granted.
Wait, wut?
Oh… different Buffy.
I guess cures, early diagnosis, and treatments for cancer, lupus and diabetes aren’t things you consider important.
Did you read my first sentence? Did you follow through and read the second?
Ticketslave also needs to be packed onto a rocket ship and launched into the sun. If you can’t figure out how to set up digital queuing in 2025, switch your business model back to selling tickets from box offices or end yourself.
It’s the Guardian so of course the real bullshit is buried at the bottom of the article:
Do better, authoritarians.
Oasis should just auction off pairs of tickets to the highest bidders. People will bid what they’re willing to pay, and revealed preferences stop the scalpers’ so-called price gouging.
“Competition and Markets Authority”
Orwell wept.
Who else is going to enforce the Anti Dog-eat-dog Rule?
I hope during his The Big Game™ interview, Trump floats a new name for his Gaza development:
Mar a Rio
“The Golden Calf”?
“PowerBaal Casino”?
Well, if it was left to Hamas they would call it Dead Jew Good Luck casino and resort.
But Sirocco Winds Desert Resort is good for me.
He should call it The Haboob. The biggest Haboob. The best Haboob.
Followed by the same “two-state” nonsense that the UN has been pushing for decades, has been offered multiple times before, and has led to nothing but death & destruction.
CWAA
To be fair, she’s probably a little on edge that DOGE might cut off the federal spigot for a few days until a federal judge in a friendly jurisdiction decides it’s illegal and can’t be implemented until the case is heard by SCOTUS in 11-12 years.
Well judges are now dictating what agency Secretsries are allowed to do or not do. So ya.
Who knew supreme executive power derives not from a mandate from the masses — but from some farcical judicial ceremony.
To be fair, the president’s party, which is ostensibly in control of both houses of congress, could address these issues legislatively so that there is no potential separation of power complaints, although the laws would be challenged just as surely as the executive orders.
Except half of them are swamp creatures that would rather side with the Dems.
Yes, the presidents party could do that, but it wouldn’t answer the fundamental question: what, exactly, are the executive branch powers, and why does another branch get a say in them? So, in reality, this needs to happen. Trump should say “stay in your lane, lest I weigh in on what you do.”
I can see it as a legitimate area of legal challenge, in the sense that if the executive is overstepping delineated authority or circumventing explicit appropriations made by congress, there has to be some recourse, but the venue shopping national injunction game also needs to be addressed. There’s probably not really a good balance to be had there, honestly. Neuter the courts and you’ll over-empower the executive. Neuter the executive and the judiciary has an effective policy veto.
executive is overstepping
Exactly this: it’s not one clean bucket. There are definitely clear executive prerogatives of the elections-have-consequences sort when the president has his say and works his will directly, but there are also structured obligations that will take time to outsmart and properly remove. It is worth pointing out when Mr Trump is mailing it in on the latter: pull-my-finger/deez-nuts progressive stupidity that makes hillbillies cum in their pants because they love the overreaching executive*.
* except when the other guy is in office….because this is all about principle and consistency, of course
“circumventing explicit appropriations made by congress”
There is a real tangle there. Authorization to spend X on Y is permission to spend X on Y, not a requirement to do so.
Even if Congress uses “Thou Shalt” language, that opens up another can of works. What if the Y is a concrete goal that is accomplished without spending all of X (I know, purely hypothetical)? What if the Y is a vague goal? Can the President just deem it accomplished, since it was vague and all, and stop spending the money? If he does, do/should the courts really have the authority to overrule him?
Is Congress really going to pass laws that say “Thou Shalt Spend X, no matter what”?
And finally, what if the President says “I’m not refusing to spend the money, I’m just pausing it while we conduct an audit”?* Do/should the courts have the authority to order him to spend the money without auditing the spending?
*Remember, revenues delayed are revenues denied, after all.
Counterpoint: Staying carefully within the lines when your side is in power, but allowing the other side to ignore the lines when they are in power may sound principled, but it is effectively giving away the contest. If the contest in question was just a game and the consequences of defeat were personal consequences, then I agree wholeheartedly. Stand on principle, take the loss, and be the better man. But the contest in this case is between dismantling or preserving decades worth of systematically created corruption designed for the benefit of those who have converted the Republic into an Oligarchy. Libertarians are utopians, we hold tight to our principles and always expect to lose, but lose while feeling pure. The way this situation will play out will shape the nation for a generation, and unless someone is willing to tarnish their purity to fight back we will end up right back on the path we’ve been following into hell. When you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss also stares into you. You become more like what you fight the longer you fight it. If Trump turns the Imperial Presidency against the groups that created it and clears out some of the muck, he will absolutely be coloring outside the lines, but the lines aren’t safeguards of liberty any longer if the side promoting liberty honors them, while others ignores them with impunity; they are bulwarks of tyranny.
“ Counterpoint: Staying carefully within the lines when your side is in power, but allowing the other side to ignore the lines when they are in power may sound principled, but it is effectively giving away the contest.”
Nobody ever won a war by unilaterally disarming.
“If Trump turns the Imperial Presidency against the groups that created it and clears out some of the muck, he will absolutely be coloring outside the lines”
One can also ask if they are really lines any more if everybody doesn’t respect them. You can’t really complain about somebody exercising the powers of an Imperial Presidency when you made the Presidency imperial. Of course, the real problem here isn’t that the Presidency is too powerful, its that the agencies who are now only nominally part of the executive branch subject to the President are insisting they are a fourth branch of government. Answerable to, who exactly?
God willing, they are answerable to Big Balls!
This is an easy argument. “Fuck you, cut spending” is libertarian. “Taxation is theft” is libertarian. Shrinking the government as much as possible is libertarian. The government growing itself into an unmanageable unelected corruption machine funded by my stolen money is not libertarian. Therefore, we are currently winning and anyone who is going “b-b-but it’s being achieved by weaponizing the unconstitutional power-gobbling that already has been occurring for decades” is a cosmotarian who wants a cocktail party invite. Problem solved. Once we are operating on a budget surplus instead of a deficit and the government is a shell of its former self, if they do not proceed to return this country to its constitutionally established parameters, then we can start complaining. For now, this is the biggest libertarian win of all time and I am here for it.
For some reason when I hovered, I saw this guy instead and thought “Hillary wants to build a ludicrous aircraft carrier now?”
Happy Birthday Winston’s Mom!
If you have access to the NSA GPS data that keeps track of me even my GPS is ostensibly disabled on my phone with no Google services and all geolocation options toggled off, there’s nothing I can really do about it, but otherwise I can’t share what I don’t have, and wouldn’t if I could. Learn to be as mistrustful as I am and the relationship will be just as good.
I guess I’m just old school (as with so many things). If you’re in a relationship, you should have given your trust already (barring examples of how your partner breaks that trust… and no, I don’t mean fantasies you’ve concocted because you’re a loon). If you can’t trust your partner — the relationship is dead already.
Agreed. Although I don’t think I’m actually capable of trusting anyone universally. That used to keep me fairly isolated from people and out of romantic relationships in general, but my approach nowadays is to hope for the best, assume the worst, and if someone’s a piece of shit, let it be on their head/conscience.
“there’s nothing I can really do about it”
Other than, you know, not hauling your phone everywhere you go.
or modern car
I actually did go without a cell phone from ~2008 to ~2014. Unfortunately, my iRiver H120 died many moons ago, so my phone is now my in-car music distribution device. I may eventually break down and buy a phone with hardware switches for GPS and cellular, but the only ones on the market now have other features I dislike, like no 3.5 mm jack, or software I don’t want.
Fellow iRiver appreciator
“Nagpal broke up with a boyfriend three months ago because he didn’t want to share his location.”
Her name should have been a warning.
“digital natives”
And… I’m out.
But I do agree with her assertion that “not caring to know your partner’s every move is the ultimate sign of trust”.
“Heaven Hamlin feels the same way. Her baby’s father didn’t. “He felt it was too much in his business,” says Hamlin, a 23-year-old home health aide in Staten Island, N.Y.
She says disputes over location-sharing factored into their breakup a year ago, after five years together. “I feel it’s healthy to share your location with your partner,” Hamlin says. “If you don’t want me to know what you’re doing, why are we together?”
Mommy, why did you and daddy not stay together?
Do we have to do a land acknowledgement to them?
“This website was originally hosted by Geocities beloved children, whom were slaughtered in the early 2000’s by Facebook and it’s walled garden FarmTowners after withstanding repeated assaults by MySpace THOTs.”
It’s a cliched term, but does have some value in terms of cultural differentiation. People who were inculcated with the modern digital panopticon really do have vastly different expectations concerning privacy. I know I’m way more privacy conscious than even most boomers, but the sub-30s I’m friends with are just a different breed entirely. Drives me insane.
I expect zero privacy and I’m too lazy to give a shit. But that doesn’t mean I approve of it like some of these idiots.
That’s pretty much the key distinction. Begrudging acceptance vs enthusiastic support; or at best, nonchalance.
As Musk’s guys follow the money, it’s only a matter of time before some lead right back to personal accounts.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-congressmans-charity-more-30-million-cayman-islands-funds
Yeah — though I expect a lot more try to keep up pretenses and it will go to relatives with comfy jobs that just happen to pay grossly over market at “Foundations” (or even Second Foundations when they need a Mule….)
They will need two mules, for sister Sarah at least.
Quit muling around, you two!
Meh, they have a non-profit front group that parks its assets in funds located in the Caymans, which isn’t an unreasonable strategy even for a legit charity. Slimy, but I can’t really hate the player instead of the game.
Article is old but this is the definition of “red flag”:
Did we talk about this bullshit already here and I just forgot/missed it? The Brit government really, really need to be told to fuck all the way off on so many levels.
If you’re missing some drugs, check around your ass.
I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU, DAD!
It was mentioned overnight but it does deserve more attention.
And by the way, I expect the U.S. is already doing the same thing. See my opinion above – there is NO privacy. At all. Anywhere.
You can either rearrange your life around that, or somehow live with it.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Not until the second tee, maybe 8:30, then its Tall Cans and Fireball shots!
Cheers!
“She seems nice.”
What’s that whore doing in public with her face and hair uncovered?
/Islamist OFF
Apropos of nothing, a microcosm of government efficiency.
Link don’t work for me…so mission accomplished?
WOMM, but I’d rather take credit for clever irony.
Somebody mix up the zip code numbers?
It was an Amazon order; everything else arrived in 2 days. I ordered something else from the same seller on the 2nd, which is arriving tomorrow. Ours is not to reason why…
Link worked for me. That’s what happens when you order something the government doesn’t like. It will vanish soon. Hopefully it had insurance.
I used to order cigarettes from Switzerland until the government literally stole my package. It is amusing watching them “care” but only when they get their cut.
How big is the parcel? Or, is it a letter?
It looks to me like the parcel got stuck at the bottom of a cart, or something, and was found a week later.
It’s just an 8×10 print for my book shelf. Although, per R.J., perhaps the subject matter was disfavored.
I figured the same thing the first time it spent a week at the same origin facility, then was cautiously optimistic when it spent a week in transit to the next facility, only to arrive back at the origin facility again.
To be fair, SP (and now WebDom) have my tracking on at all times. Not because of mistrust, but because she always worried about me and needed reassurances that I was OK.
I would think that the overwhelming evidence points to you being “Not Ok;” you are one of TPTB here after all.
Understandable, for a guy given to driving around in a windowless van with “Free Candy” painted on the side.
I dunno, there are some pieces of information that can turn into felonies if you fail to report them.
Mythimom has location for me, Mythelina, and Mythidad for the same reason, to make sure we’re not dead when we go somewhere 😅 She’s the only one. Mythelina and her husband don’t track each other, none of the rest of us track each other, and we sure has hell don’t share coordinates with non-relatives. No non-relatives have ever even asked, though. Even though there were older millennials cited in the article, this feels like some zoomer shit.
https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2025/02/i-only-killed-one-person-14-year-old-susquehanna-twp-boy-tells-dad-in-prison-phone-call.html
“Can’t I just take a mulligan?”
You fuck one sheep…
Will the killer ever understand what he did?
Electric Chair. We’ll only give you one jolt.
We don’t have any of the tracking-each-other stuff on any of our devices. I think it engenders distrust. The way Mrs. Tree puts it to our kids (now 16-24) was “nobody was tracking us when we were teenagers, and we sure wouldn’t have liked, so we’re not going to track y’all”. Most of our friends do the Life360 (or whatever it is) tracking, but it just seems ridiculous to me.
nobody was tracking us
of course, so the question: how did genX become such putrid parents when they certainly weren’t raised that way?
A guy at work is always bragging about tracking his daughter at college and teaching his son basics (like decorum and formal sartorial necessities) at 17….a good five years after such training should have been complete. It’s literally retarded….and retarding. I interview guys in their 30s who want a real job and don’t carry themselves like anyone with a grasp of the world…..whothefuck would buy a million buck’s worth of equipment from such clowns?
It’s not the full answer, but I associate it with the “curating” thing of the last 20-30 years. Parents script the childhoods so their spawn can flow directly into their same middle-class lifestyle instead of having to make it on their own. Also “safetyism”. Also the end of the high-trust society. Etc.
When I was in high school my parents would occasionally call to tell me not to wake them up when I got home or to grab something from the store on my way back, but I habitually left my phone sitting on my desk anyway. They were never concerned that me and my basement dwelling dweeb clique were getting into trouble, but I heard more than once “Why the hell am I paying to have you on my cell plan when you never even take your damn phone with you!”
I am 99% sure I said that same phrase to my daughter recently.
If you want researchers to actually focus on research, and not be business managers who have to rent facilities, contract custodial staff, contract network and phone services, etc., then it makes sense for those researchers to work in a common space, a University or a Research Institute, and for them to just pay a lump sum to cover all the infrastructure costs.
Now, how that lump sum is calculated is certainly up for debate. 50% off the top of all grants may be excessive, or even calculating as a fraction of grants rather than based on, say, how many square feet of space a Lab occupies, or how many staff the Lab employs, etc. That said, if you’re looking to curb waste in research funding, look first at what grants are being funded, particularly at what grantees have produced with previous funds. Ooh and repeal the law that allows researchers and Institutes to profit by commercializing research that was publicly funded.
Of course, the purpose of research universities is to provide research facilities. I see no reason not to have them absorb some of the cost of those facilities. Once you get into passing through overhead (which is what we have now), you have opened the door to bloat and abuse. I have no problem with a hard cap, and if the universities aren’t willing to suck up some of the cost, they can commercialize the research (I have no problem with a revenue sharing deal under the grants that are funding the research). This would also incentivize them to do research that has some potential value.
I feel pretty strongly that if you suckle at the public teat, the results of your research are in the public domain. And I would prefer researchers think about expanding knowledge and finding truth* rather than identifying commercial opportunities. If you want to cash in, get private funding and work out your profit sharing with those funders**. The one place I see a role for government funding is in lines that are way out in left field, with almost zero apparent commercial application: what if there is actually an important relationship between these two things that orthodox thinking says are completely disjoint? Or not, learning that a hypothesis is wrong is still learning, but that research can still be rigorous, well conducted, well documented.
*I know, this is a hard ask given human nature and the egos involved.
**This presupposes that we can break the near-monopoly of the NIH and NSF on all research funding.
If it is a State school, they should absolutely consider any research done by publicly funded monies public domain. Private schools, with public monies should be a profit sharing system, while private school with private money should be what ever arrangment the two entities agree on.
That said, any public funding should be open book as to transparency. If the gov’t wants to keep it hush-hush it needs to handle it in house, via direct gov’t research and not use a pass through.
There was a news item bouncing around the past day or so about a “Nazi” demonstration on an overpass in Cinci. All dressed alike, weird red-on-black swastika flags, etc., allegedly interrupted by some local black group. From the images and write-ups I’m seeing on Xwitter, it’s hard to believe it’s anything other than a skit put on by the alleged “heroes”. I say that because, well, it looks like one. Uniforms and flags that look like cartoon versions of Nazis, but no actual identification (as far as I’ve seen) of who the villains really are. It just looks like a new flavor of that thing where a bunch of glowies show up in khakis and hats or whatever in big rented buses and then disappear with no tracking or interest of the media.
Anyway, do any of y’all have a read on what the Cinci thing really was?
Didn’t even hear about it. Probably worse than the throng of people shutting down major highways though waving Mexican flags.
Real NeoNazi demonstrations are 6-8 cretins with a flag or two, more tattoos than teeth plus IQ points combined, and all the organization and direction you’d expect from methheads on disability. Organized, uniformed Nazis scream false flag to me.
If you watch the Big Game for the commercials, remember that these guys used to be the 400-pound gorilla in the beer cooler.
I think I’d rather see the tranny.
🤣😂
A strongly worded letter, do read,
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-most-dramatic-narrative-shift-in-modern-history/
Finished reading These Happy Golden Years to the seven year old last night.
A story that I had completely forgotten was the cyclone, near the very end. Almanzo and Laura are on a buggy ride, when they see a storm moving, and decide to head back. They make it back to Laura’s house and the storm turns past them, so they avoid it.
Almanzo and Laura’s dad go out to see in anyone needs help, and when they get back home, they tell the story of a farmer who had just finished harvesting his wheat, when the cyclone hit. His two young sons had been riding mules while they were helping with the harvest and were caught. The elder son showed up shortly after, naked, and talked about being lifted in the air, and moved around in a big circle, and shouting to his brother to hang on to the mule. This som was completely unharmed. The younger brother, and the two mules, were found a few days later, dead, with all their bones broken.
Another family got into the cellar, and their house was taken away by the cyclone. A while later, they saw something weird, high in the sky, and as they watched it approach, they determined it was their front door. It floated gently to the ground in front of them. It didn’t have a scratch on it. The dad was excited that he wasn’t going to have to pay for a new door, at least.
Always look on the bright side…
I love that book, but my favorite was always Little Town on the Prairie.
Just curious – assuming you read the previous volume in the series, Little Town on the Prairie, before this one, did your edition include a scene in which several of the men in town (including Charles “Pa” Ingalls) perform a minstrel song in blackface? I’m suspicious that this scene has been purged in recent printings.
Also, if you go on to The First Four Years, bear in mind that the manuscript was found after Laura’s (and, I believe, Rose’s) death. When I first read it as a kid, I found the tone quite different from the previous books, and it was a little jarring. I think, among other differences, Almanzo was referred to as “Manly.” Unless this book, too, has been revised in subsequent printings, you may notice a distinct difference.
There’s a disclaimer in The First Four Years about the tone being darker.
Hi ! Haven’t been here for a long time! Been quite busy with that Trudeau fucker.
Hope you guys are enjoying the kerkufull Trump is causing, I sure love it! All the annoying people are loosing their minds here in the 51st State.
Anyhow I just came by to say thank you to the people that said “no one ever said “I regret learning how to weld””. Learning it now, amazing skill.
Anyways, enjoy the sportsball where Taylor Swift’s boytoy wins.
Homestead people!
And wish us Cannuks luck so we don’t end up with Carney for too long!
BC, Yukon Territories, Alberta, and maybe Manitoba, Nunavut, and Saskatchewan can join us. Ontario, PEI, the Newfies, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have to complete an extensive trial to prove they’ve shed their lefty ways. Quebec is right the hell out! I wish you all well!
Hey Bros, nice to see ya!
Nice to hear from you! Good luck with the welding.
I can’t disagree with this.
I get mad about the CTEs because while people do deserve more protection, you are renting your body out for the sole purpose of getting the shit beat out of you and the possibility of a career-ending injury and you are paid accordingly.
I’m trying to change something on one of my mom’s accounts, but it’s got 2FA and I’m trying to get her to give me the code, but it’s Sunday and I shouldn’t be doing these things on Sunday, so she won’t.
Plus, the Sabbath is Saturday, not Sunday.
The Legendary Boiled and Roasted Meat Trolley in the Oldest Michelin Restaurant in Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rBtujgJTx4
Yesterday at my mom’s I had a strange german red wine that was not bad. nothing spectacular but quite decent
and a strange blend. Zweigelt Cabernet Franc Blaufrankish Cabertin and Malbec
Cabertin is weird because it seems a cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and a hybrid and I assume a non Germany country would not put a hybrid cross in a wine
beryll albrecht schwegler 2019
What’s German for “leftovers?”
das Resseesten
Rooting for the Eagles, but being a Philly fan who knows his teams nearly always manage to fall short in the favor of the SportsGods, I think it will be Chiefs 31, Eagles 21.
Porterhouses were $7.99/lb this weekend. I have four to grill post ice storm today.
The coup progresses
One by one, Republicans have acquiesced to Trump’s picks, even those whose personal history, lack of experience and unorthodox views would have once made them hardly imaginable for a Cabinet.
It’s a striking demonstration of how GOP lawmakers are standing by as Trump, in a show of force, disrupts the federal government and installs loyalists to lead key departments. Republican leaders in the Senate, eager to show Trump their worth, have chalked up confirmations at a rapid clip.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, just a month into the role, has lined up a vote on Gabbard as the first order of business, followed by Kennedy later in the week. Already on the job is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who faced allegations over drinking and aggressive behavior toward women. And Republicans appear ready to soon install Kash Patel as FBI director.
They have acquiesced to Trump’s completely idiosyncratic and personal vision of government. He is destroying America right before our eyes and we are powerless to stop him. Soon there will be nothing left but subjugation to god-emperor Trumposaurus Rex.
“ lack of experience”
Yeah, they’ve all just been hanging out by the pool their whole lives, waiting for Trump to call. Of course, people who have been persecuted by the government should never have a role in reforming it.
I find it weird to say that an elected President getting his appointees confirmed by people elected to, in part, do that is “disrupting the federal government” in what we are invited to believe is a bad way.
“lack of experience and unorthodox views”
Yes, they have no experience parasitically feeding off the slowly dying body of the Republic; no experience forcing us into compliance with globalist policies that sneer at our values and use the wealth those values produced to snuff out decency and productivity around the globe. Their views don’t comply with the orthodoxy that white men are uniquely evil, that women are virtuous precisely to the extent that they tear down the society that protects them, that people of color are genetically destined to support leftist ideas which have locked them in poverty and misery. That’s why we want them.
golly, what a bargain
That looks almost exactly like my 2006 Hyundai Azera.
54,000 miles, “powered by a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter W12 that drives all four wheels”, cranking out 550 HP, for $12,500?
Not including the cost/difficulty of maintenance*, that is actually a whole lot of car for the money, especially these days. Cost/difficulty of maintenance, though . . . .
*I’d almost certainly have to take it Phoenix to get it worked on.
That looks almost exactly like my 2006 Hyundai Azera.
Overall cost of ownership is slightly higher on the Bentley.
I was more remarking on the fact that you can’t tell a genuine überluxury brand from a cheap-ish Korean car that’s its version of “luxury.” I guess aerodynamics makes beggars of us all.
Maybe not from a distance, but bet as soon as you sit down and close the door, you can tell.
WANT
My favorite feature is the exhaust stacks at what appears to be face level.