Tonight is the night. The Super Awesome USA Mens Hockey Team takes on the Syrup-suckers for the 4 Nations thingy. Glad it’s in Boston. Those Massholes know how to really class an event up. In CFP news, The Big Two (may as well call them that at this point) think playoff seeding needs to change. And across the pond, Liverpool played to a draw at Villa and dropped a couple more points to chasing Arsenal. Man City got their pants pulled down and exited the UCL. PSG, PSV, and Dortmund also advanced. The Round of 16 will be set tomorrow, I believe. Right, now on to the links.
A blow is struck in the war against commuters. This will be interesting as it gets to the courts. The federal government has a legitimate right to control interstate commerce, which this is, in part. But state and local officials should be able to do what they want with their own roads. However, the state in this case specifically sought out permission from the feds, so they gave the feds the right to say yes or no, and there was never federal legislation for this program. Like I said, it will be interesting.
And in other good news… I only hope this is just the beginning.
Let’s see how this gets reacted to. Especially since the left has always maintained that this doesn’t, and has never, happened.
I’m sure this will get waved away by the left. Disgusting cowards. That’s all I have to say about it.
He might pull through after all. OK.
This whole piece reads like a comedy bit. It’s CNN, so that shouldn’t be surprising.
Is there such a thing as a legal prison strike? Just curious.
Looks like the birthright citizenship EO case is gonna get to the Supreme Court. Which is where it belongs. The other cases are pure bullshit where judges are overstepping their authority and will likely continue getting struck down. But that might take some time.
They better just be trolling. Because this would be stupid as shit.
This sounds like crazy talk. Or maybe I’ve been taught wrong all along. Either way, in my house, we say drip.
Love those horns. I know a few off you will as well. And this video is a bit weird. Ahh, I miss the 80s. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this frigid Thursday, dear friends.
That’s a pretty tenuous case in the Wickard v. Filburn mold. I have no affection for NYC, but I can’t see any way this isn’t federal overreach.
Are they federally funded ROADZ? I honestly don’t know.
What, in effect, is NOT federally funded anymore? All our taxes get laundered through them it seems.
The Commerce Clause should have been more carefully drafted. The power to regulate commerce with foreign states and the Indian tribes, which were effectively foreign states makes sense, as does the Federal government being able to resolve trade disputes between the States, but the latter should have been limited to the power to resolve disputes between the States as they arise, not a blanket regulatory power.
The Progressives would’ve found some other excuse for the vast expansion of federal power.
Interstates, yes. Also, roads like US Hwy 1.
They’re roads that run between states. They’re part of the interstate highway system, in some cases. They’re used to move goods between states. If a farmer consuming his own wheat falls under “interstate commerce,” the use of federal highways to go between states certainly does.
The congestion pricing applies to roads within Manhattan. This is as ridiculous as declaring a stream running through a field in Wisconsin to be a territorial water of the United States because it ultimately feeds into a tributary that ends up in Lake Michigan.
I agree, but I reject the legitimacy of Wickard as well.
I’ll also note that the state of NY sought permission from the Feds to implement the program in the first place. So at some point in time, they also believed the fedgov had some form of jurisdiction over the matter. Right up until that same fedgov decided it in a way the state of NY didn’t agree with.
What Sloopy said. NY sought permission, setting up a great governmental trolling opportunity.
The congestion pricing applies to roads within Manhattan.
They’re for any cars entering Manhattan below 60th Street. Everybody entering Manhattan. That applies to the tunnels that are part of the interstate system.
By this logic, a state could set up toll booths on interstate on/off-ramps and say they’re not technically part of the interstate, even though it’s illegal to enter or exit the interstate by any other means than an offramp/onramp.
It applies on roads entering Manhattan, but some of those roads also cross state lines. And there is no telling how much federal money has gone into those roads.
If this becomes a vehicle (snerk) for courts ruling that the feds can’t attach requirements to their funding, that’s probably a win, on net. If this results in Manhattanites suffering under yet another tax imposed by the lefty wanna-be totalitarians they keep electing, I’m not going to lose any sleep.
Really it’s more of a tax on businesses and working class guys from NJ. Hence the reason Team Blue Murphy disliked it so much. Still I don’t have anything in this fight so I don’t care one way or another. I’ve actually noticed the reduction in traffic so personally it’s been upside.
I do get the logic, and I understand that interconnected local roads and interstate highways have already created a nexus whereby the feds not only provide the vast majority of funding for what should be state and local roads and highways, but also get to force compliance with all kinds of federal mandates. But I’ve always thought that was bullshit, and I’d be pitching a bitch if this was happening in, say, Dallas, so in the interest of consistency, I’d take the state’s side here. There’s also an element of schadenfreude to it. I like seeing Manhattanites get what they voted for, good and hard.
If I was still in the area, I would agree. I didn’t drive there so what do I care.
The real issue is the attempt to hide the waste at the MTA. I would like Kathy to explain why it costs 10x as much to build a subway line in NYC as anywhere else first.
PS. the class war nonsense the Post et al. keep droning on about is irrelevant. There are just as many wealthy drivers and poor subway riders as vice versa.
NYC can wall itself off and require a fee to enter? Maybe even passports and visas?
…I’m ok wth this.
What Sloopy says. One of the basic premises of our constitution is that the concentrating of power leads to the ‘me today, you tomorrow’ problem. The morons who push for concentrating power always forget half of that problem.
I would also point out that non-federal roads are built with fed money. State highway my ass…the feds gave a shit ton of money to build the state road that starts at the end of my driveway.
I believe it has to do with tolling of Interstates ending in lower Manhattan (I-78 and I-495). Did NY pull tolls on the interstates or just on the exits (entrances) to local streets? Could a state toll the exits to interstates but allow entering and through traffic to flow free?
I’m not sure it has anything to do with interstate roads but TBH I haven’t seen a real explanation. All roads in and out from NJ are already tolled.
My suspicion is that it has to do with some sort of “environmental review” hooey.
But… the important thing to note is that this has nothing to do with “congestion”.
The whole point of this farce is to extract more money for the grotesquely mismanaged subways and busses. It is meant paper over the unbelievable waste and fraud going on there, but it barely even covers the money lost to fare beating every year.
Same garbage here. MWAA tolls drivers on the Dulles Toll Road, which was state built, to pay for the extension of Metrorail to the airport.
Under Wickard literally everything a person does falls under federal control. Now add the AGW scam and the Green New Deal and they can literally regulate your breathing. You could be taxed on every breath you take. If you think ‘That is too ridiculous, they would never do that’ just think back to the last time you thought that.
Wickard has to be overturned. The Income tax ended. We need to turn our culture around where things like that are considered eternal and infinite. We need to start thinking of the individual as the ultimate authority over themselves.
We need to start thinking of the individual as the ultimate authority over themselves.
The problem with that is so many Americans don’t want to be responsible for themselves. They are happy to believe the delusion that govt can and will do that.
The problem with that is so many
Americanshumans don’t want to be responsible for themselves.The scary thing is we as a nation are extreme outliers in terms of how many people here do want to be responsible for ourselves, and as you say it’s a tiny minority here; how much worse it must be in places that didn’t have our history.
The other scary part is how much the state is now capable of meddling. It used to be that some monarch 1000 miles away would send a half-interested governor to skim a bit off the top of the populace and out down any rebellion. As long as you weren’t overtly antisocial, you weren’t going to be targeted by the state. These days, everything you do is regulated, taxes, socially engineered or otherwise meddled in. We live in the panopticon.
Bleeping autocorrect….
There used to be a comedian in SF who said the city should have a cover charge and a two drink minimum. Too bad NYC only half-assed it.
Good start, but they hired 87,000 of them during the Biden admin. So in context, they furloughed ~7% *just of the number of new IRS agents hired in the last couple of years*.
So… you’re saying their dangerously understaffed due to an out of control Musk?
If federal employment ceases to be a lifelong sinecure that keeps freshly minted midwit undergraduates comfortably in the upper middle class until their death, then our cherished democratic institutions may not be able to offer us the level of expert proficiency and timely service we’ve come to expect from organizations like the IRS.
I think there is a lot more coming. That is just what he could do with a targeted EO.
I hallucinated this morning that Musk explained that the ultimate goal is to end the IRS and make revenue collecting external. As in: end the income tax and shit-can the IRS.
But then that was just a hallucination, right?
I’ll believe it after the agencies are dead, the constitution amended, and the corrupt officials imprisoned or executed.
Fantastic band that I’ve had the privilege of seeing live multiple times.
When my grandma was a snowbird, my dad and one of his brothers would make sure her condo was all set for winter before (and honestly, after) she left. One of the things that was done was to turn on the faucet to a slow drip. But looking at the article, I can see how it may be different based on different water systems.
Huh. I would say “TIL,” had I any faith that the information presented was accurate.
The issue isn’t pressure, IMO. It’s pipes freezing and bursting inside the house or at its entry point. I’d assume most homeowners are more concerned with that than taking a shower with plenty of pressure during a freeze.
The wild thing is that people running their faucets to prevent pipes from freezing is unheard of here.
They install the water lines deep enough in the ground and bring them into homes through the basement. It makes sense, but wasn’t eat I was expecting when I moved here.
I did have to clear snow from my furnace’s air intake since that ripped a safety sensor.
They install the water lines deep enough in the ground and bring them into homes through the basement.
It’s really wild the differences in acceptable building practices in areas that routinely freeze vs. not. Like how deep does a foundation footer have to be? If it never freezes, the answer is “zero”. In my part of Ohio, it’s 30″.
Texas earth is made almost entirely of clay that breathes significantly from hot to cold. Everything going from ground to foundation will break. Not can, will. Insurance companies stopped covering slab leaks because all older houses got them. As such, building practices changed. Some builders can do much better, but I do not support mandatory practices of major pipe line insulation. Here you pay for it if you want it and a home builder offers it.
The legitimate concern is there won’t be pressure for fire services.
Re: building standards and clay:
I have lived in houses from the same era (1950s)/style (ranch)/soil geology (heavy red clay) in OKC, Norman, and Bryan TX. The OKC house had obviously higher-quality brick used (so it might have been better-built overall), but both the Norman and Bryan houses had unglazed brick.
The OK houses had only minor evidence of settling. The Bryan house looked like it was built by MC Esher.
MC Escher opened for Benny Bennasi once
I’ve been hearing this recommendation all my life (much of it in upstate NY) and I have never done it or heard of anyone who did it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My current lease says to do it if I’m going to be away for a long period of time but FFS I don’t even have to turn on the heat most of the time and it doesn’t drop below 68 inside.
I think it’s one of those old wive’s tales TBH.
Rhy – we had to do it in the house I grew up in in Syracuse. The prbolem was the kitchen sick was in an area that was added to the house later (well before we got it) where there was a clearly broken up section of original foundation leading to a semi-crawlspace under the sink. Pipes there would freeze is the water was allowed to sit. I recall helping replace a burst pipe under there as a kid. (holding the light, handing off tools, typical kid assistant tasks)
Yeah I was being tongue in cheek. Now that I think about it it would not surprise me if we did it in some of sketchier houses we lived in in Rochester. (We moved around a lot.)
“Ohhhh, ffffffudge”?
Isn’t Syracuse the snowiest place in the lower 48?
Yes, Toxteth insofar as cities and agregate snowfall, it is. Though a few others fight it for that crown.
I think north of Syracuse gets more but there aren’t any major cities up there.
Lake effect is nuts… I live in the Syracuse “region” but we don’t get a lot of snow at all.
They aren’t saying your pipes won’t burst. They are saying they
diverted pump station budget to their own pocketscarefully calculated the number of pumping stations based on normal demand, and that if everyone runs a trickle to save their pipes the system will be overtaxed, so it’s your patriotic duty to have burst pipes.Those are quite literally textbook biology-based definitions of those terms. So “critics” are smoothbrain retarded fucking clowns whose views regarding science should be accorded all of the respect and dignity of a phrenologist.
If you’ll notice, their “experts” are all handpicked activists.
I would fucking love science too if science mean every whim I had was dictated by the laws of nature and thus must be fulfilled regardless of the cost to others.
More’s the pity.
I’m sure he put the people he needs in place to continue his legacy.
Speaking of ’80s music videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOv3rHHJbfQ
It almost makes we weep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5Se-9XAVE
That one always gave me Police vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jLBgr8tks8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71YvHBkNWco
I could do this all day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFiLuXI6_AI
But I mustn’t.
I ♥️ old INXS – their first few albums that nobody heard of are amazing.
Oh heck, don’t cost nothin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR794BfVwzw
I knew I was going to fall in love with Mrs. Time when she told me one of her favorite albums was Listen Like Thieves. Even more impressive was the fact that she was only 6 when it came out.
For Missus TL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2RmMa6ASu0
You weep, I weep… we all weep.
Thanks!
I see our media is still going along with what Hamas tells them.
Just gotta wash away that they kidnapped and terrorized two very young children.
When the best you can say about Hamas is, “They returned the bodies”…
Hamas is very lucky that I’m not the one deciding what Israel’s next move should be.
You and me both. From the River to the Sea with a different focus.
Jarflax:
Rory Breaker gives a version of my thoughts.
Kidnapped, terrorized, then murdered. Don’t forget that last bit.
If the Palestinians were at all seeking peace and justice, they’d be frog-marching the perpetrators of Oct 7 to Israeli forces instead of celebrating them literally every day since the attack.
That’s what I mean. Our media won’t connect those dots. Regardless if an Israeli missile strike was the ultimate demise (I doubt that narrative), Hamas killed them the minute they decided children would be good hostages.
Then to hold onto the bodies for so long…fuckers.
The perpetrators were the elected “goverment” there. And received overwhelming support for their actions.
On it’s face, yes. However, if the courts decide that the executive must spend every penny allocated by congress, which is a fight that’s going to be shaping up, it would be a hilariously epic troll to say “Well, we only ended up needing 80% of this allocation, but the money was spent.”
It’ll get more fun when they decide to spend the money they’re forced to spend on McDonald’s and Diet Coke.
I get the political usefulness of sending a check, but it would of course be better to pay down the debt. Which also counts as spending the money, if they have to comply with some jumped-up trial court dictator’s decrees.
The upcoming pissing match over the expiration of the current CR will be epic. I don’t see Congress doing their job and getting real appropriations bills and budgets lined up. I don’t think the “ermagerd, shutdown” hysterics are going to work this time around, either.
A shutdown where everything remains the same will prove Trump’s point on non-essential employees.
Also, put out an EO that states all expected employees will be under the microscope to continue delivering services.
ATC is notorious during shutdowns to do sickouts, slow air traffic down, etc.
My fantasy is Trump dead pan responding to an order to disburse the funds “We have no current need for the funds, accordingly as the funds must be spent for the assigned purpose, we have invested the funds in the most secure place possible for future needs. We have bought US debt instruments.” The doctrine of merger should handle the rest.
“I get the political usefulness of sending a check, but it would of course be better to pay down the debt.”
Yes. And Trump is very much a populist.
Looking forward to the delicious leftist whining about “vote-buying,” and the virtue-signalling declarations about how they’d have rather bureaucrats and programs stay funded. I’m going to get up in the face of anyone who says that and demand that they either give the money back to the government, or donate it directly to a fired bureaucrat or to a defunded NGO. I plan to ask them to post receipts.
Didn’t someone “respectable” claim that the reason OMB beat FJB was the lack of checks with dramatic signatures going ot?
Ugh but no reason to panic yet.
I’ll start to panic if they lose this weekend to Man City.
They’ve lost the ability to defend high balls into the box and Salah is the only man that can put the ball on goal.
Yeah if Mo leaves they’re fucked. It seems like he’s been threatening it for years?
Arsenal are missing Havertz, Saka, and Jesus.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Brody Roybal, who’s on the Paralympic sled team and has 3 gold medals, was a wrestler when he was a kid. He was born without legs. He won a lot because he had great upper body strength, and nobody could figure out how to handle him.
I’m sure it also helps make weight.
It’s unreal. The left must going apoplectic.
Sounds like it even covers the NGO’s that are paying the moving costs. Wow.
Crazy that the federal government paying people to break federal law wasn’t already illegal.
Laws are for chumps.
It’s Dole v. South Dakota with an extra infusion of pure lawlessness.
I remember being a starving student working as a temp at IBM in Memphis and having to go to the huge processing center they had there to replace some piece of equipment.
First off, the place was Enormous. One of the biggest buildings I have been in (mostly because it was all one story). One of the older techs heard I was heading out to replace a monitor and he told me to bring my cart. I was, “dude, it is just a monitor”. I was glad I took his advice, it seemed like we walked miles.
I took a lot of other calls out there and I was always amazed/pissed off. First off, calls spiked around noon on a Friday. Go figure. “Can’t work boss, computer is broke”. Since IBM had a huge contract we never pointed out that in 99% of the cases some cord was unplugged. We just swapped out equipment. Secondly, the person whose PC broke was never there and never responded to multiple calls to come verify that the new equipment worked. Lastly, this was back in the ’90s when every other office we went into had a business formal dress code but the IRS employees were always wearing sweats or other completely homeless ensemble.
It always ground me that I had to wear a tie because of IBM policy despite the fact that I was making $10.20/hr (I wasn’t complaining that was some serious money for a punk student), but those bastards coasting on my tax money were the biggest slobs ever.
Also, (can’t find a link) but some TN IRS employees were busted for looking up celebrity tax returns for fun while I was in Memphis. The miscreants actually did a bit of time for it, but their union fought – and won – for their reinstatement after they were released. They didn’t have the same access levels as before, but they got to build on their retirement years.
The Secretary of Transportation in an internal townhall called out, not by name, but by attire, how modern day air traffic controllers dress for work. “Shorts and flip-flops” he was being kind.
The biggest rift in our Marine ATC squadron wasn’t between white and black, but between techs and controllers.
ATC were weird dudes. When working, they were able to concentrate to and unbelievable levels and keep shit in their memories up to date.
In real life they were unbelievable flakes. Fucking doing dumb shit all the time.
Techs were poor man’s version of engineers. Pretty grounded and methodical in everything. Perplexed by things that didn’t follow the rules/processes.
Still the same…
Despite being a WFH laptop class pajama boy, I wear a collared button up shirt, but it’s paired with athletic shorts or lounge pants, depending on the season. Every couple weeks I have a meeting with my supervisor, and more rarely we’ll have meetings with upper management. I’ve never seen anyone else in the company up to the president of operations wearing anything more formal than a polo.
I probably did a little jig when we finally ditched ties at work. My fat neck does not like that shit.
In the ’90s I started working for Andersen Consulting. We were business casual before anyone had a name for it. Dress shirt and Dockers.
It was interesting because even though were were technically white collar workers, when we’d go out for lunch we’d get treated like scrubs because all the other workers were full business formal at the time. Waitresses would see us in our grungy clothes and ignore us while doting on the guys in suits.
Our brothers – Arthur Andersen (the accountants) – had a separate office that was 100% business formal all the time. I had to do some training in their office once and went to lunch with my suit coat left behind on my chair. When I got back, I was chastised for leaving without the jacket by some middle manager (not even an Associate Partner!).
rhywun:
When I was a repairman for IBM we were required to wear the white shirt and a tie, but jackets were optional. Since we were constantly fucking around in dirty closets and handling old equipment we all had some of the nastiest ties you could imagine.
It became a point of pride. I bought 12 dies for $3 at a flea market and their atrociousness made me a minor legend with the other repairmen.
I felt bad for my IT brethren who did support rather than development like me.
Always crawling around under desks in a shirt and tie – blargh.
I never did understand how people could write code for systems they didn’t know inside out.
Then again, I’m a bare metal up kinda developer.
The opposite was Target’s HQ in the late ’00s.
I had clients with business there and they’d drag me to meetings. I never complained because while we were cooling our heels in the main lobby, we’d get to watch all the young ladies who worked at Target flounce on by. I don’t know what drove it, but street walkers would have been considered to be dressed too conservatively.
The Good Times finally came to an end when someone at Target decided that it had to end. They went to a policy where it was business formal or red shirt/khaki pants for everyone.
A lot of fun was had in the IT world of Mpls. Those of us who hadn’t gone to work for Target IT got to tease those who had about the new edict.
Pope Jimbo:
Going to a Catholic high school, ties were required for all but dress down days (which still required a button up shirt). There were two types of students, the ones who would get the fancy Italian silk ties, and us normal kids who would get the ugliest terrible ties imaginable. Then there were the students who were much better at being subversive, wearing the ties with prints of famous art masterpieces on them… because boobs.
Define “inside out”.
My company would not be very happy with my productivity if I had to code everything in Assembly. 😱
I like the idea of school uniforms. Kids should wear what they are told and none of this messing around with “interesting” ties, either. You’re there to be lectured at, not preen for each other.
Of course, I would have hated that as a kid.
These developers didn’t understand basic networking, nor would they pass a quiz for 5th graders on the intenrals of a computer.
rhywun:
Ostensibly it was to prevent class differences between the students and to keep the girls modestly dressed. Obviously, the students picked up on other class differences (such as brands of shoes, pants, and watches), and the Catholic school girl look of short skirt (our school went with a slate gray), white (usually sheer) blouses, and thigh high stockings is not what is generally considered modest.
Pants?
One hypothesis regarding Dress codes is that it focuses the rebellious instincts of the students on something harmless in finding ways to subvert the rules on appearance.
Maybe those things are not relevant to their job or their interests. There is way too much to learn to try to know every little thing.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pQyqmL8nQNA/maxresdefault.jpg ?
LIEZ!
Lies and heresy!
He might pull through after all
You miss one Honey Harvest and ….
An Iranian Drone Lands in Queens
Ukrainian forces downed the deadly Shahed 136, which is headed for display in Washington.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/an-iranian-drone-lands-in-queens-irgc-military-war-russia-ukraine-new-york-f078b1a6?st=71RwQ1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Any airplane Glibs recognize the motor? I’ll crack up if it is a Rotax. That would just prove how ineffective sanctions are.
Those Big Two commissioners are doing everything they can do destroy the relevance of their conferences, and conference championships most of all.
Is there such a thing as a legal prison strike?
Should be between the letters and the knees just like everywhere else. Given, though, how MLB has let umps get away with having their own “personal” strike zones I doubt that any sane prosecutor would dare charge them.
Do you have an opinion about DEI within the US armed services as a similar tax?
Xi Is Trying to Secure the Devotion of China’s Military
Chinese leader deploys soldiers on a campaign of films, quizzes and political study
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-military-xi-jinping-speeches-16ac3256?st=WkExZd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Of course all cultures aren’t equal
She should confront that MP and demand an answer to “is Sharia superior or inferior to British civil law”?
Zarah sounds unbritish, she should be removed.
“Why are you named after a raisin?”
This is a hopeful sign that the counter-retardation has a chance.
Yeah but she is a case of “beware of what you wish for”. She was more moderate than some others and did crack down when things started to get ugly.
I fear that her replacement, whoever that turns out to be, might be worse. Or not.
Meanwhile, in flyover country:
11 indicted on felony charges involving $400K vandalism at Case Western
Yeah, nothing like that here.
Some asshole professor – which is a major cause of this shit – got in the news a lot for his support of the terrorists.
Other than that there a was a sad little tent city that was here and gone a couple days later.
Oh and some Asian kid who sent some threats but it turned out he was more mentally ill than anything else.
Asian kid who sent some threats
Sadly, could end up like Virginia Tech.
Oh goody.
This bill establishes the crime of possessing digital instructions that may be used to program a three-dimensional printer to manufacture or produce a firearm, firearm receiver, magazine, or firearm component. Under the bill, a person who is not licensed or registered to manufacture firearms and knowingly possesses firearm digital instructions is guilty of a crime of the third degree. A third degree crime is punishable by three to five years imprisonment, a fine of up to $15,000, or both.
https://newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/assembly-panel-to-consider-new-firearm-restrictions/
Didn’t they already try that shit with The Anarchist Cookbook 50 years ago?
Why stop at digital instructions – surely the knowledge itself must be banned, even if say in book form.
Supposedly there is a fully printable revolver design out there.
I would not trust anything that came off my 3D printers with the pressure.
I assume that prints on one of those funky metal powder printers. Still I am with you, would not trust it with the pressure and heat.
Why won’t King Walz save us from unlicensed massages?
Yeah, I’m sure that Rachel is only worried about the poor citizens of Minnesoda and not at all trying to collect dues and training fees.
My favorite part of the story is that they lead off with a story about a woman* who was inappropriately touched during a massage. Later in the story, though, they have another story about a shady massage parlor where the guy was licensed and also groped a gal. Too bad it was a journalo writing the story and not someone with enough common sense to ask why the licensing process didn’t stop the groping. After all gun free zones have completely stopped shootings so why didn’t it work in this case?
You’d think that the Vikings would be going after Tucker and Watson then, wouldn’t you?
Does that story have a happy ending?
No, but it did tug at your heartstrings.
It ends with you feeling cocksure, S̶natch.
“A former NICU nurse at a Virginia hospital who has been accused of abusing seven premature babies was released from custody last week.
Erin Strotman, 26, was arrested in January after authorities reviewed a surveillance video that allegedly showed her breaking the thigh bone of a five-month-old boy in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond.
Strotman, who got her nursing degree in 2019, worked in the hospital’s NICU where four babies were injured in the summer of 2023.
Even after the hospital put cameras in place to monitor employees, three more babies had ‘unexplainable fractures’ in late November and December of 2024.
Strotman now faces two felony counts of malicious wounding and child abuse in connection to the abuse of one baby, though authorities are still investigating the other six instances of harm she is suspected in.
Initially, Strotman was being held without bond, so the judge’s sudden U-turn decision to allow her out of jail on a $25,000 bond upset the families of newborns who came out of the hospital with broken bones.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14416083/judge-shock-decision-NICU-nurse-erin-strotman.html
CWAC, otoh, she hasn’t been convicted of anything.
Good grief – bullshit on multiple levels.
They’re like fairies, if you don’t believe in them, they stop existing.
The verbal sleight of hand to go from “You are not a woman/man. That is a delusion” to “You do not exist,” is a perfect example of what the left does with basically everything. Thank God, this particular example seems so obviously false that it woke up enough people to allow some push back.
I don’t deny that you claim it; I say that your claim is arrant bullshit.
And the deliberate conflation of what someone “identifies as” 🙄 with actual physical conditions… it’s all such calculated gaslighting bullshit.
When a court knocks down a Trump immigration order, Trump should then dump those illegals into the jurisdiction of said court. That might cut down on some of the fuckery.
Not just the jurisdiction – on the property of the judge in question, and don’t let the illegals leave until they can be deported.
“The former presidential candidate has repeatedly claimed Wi-Fi causes cancer and wireless radiation has the potential to affect the blood-brain barrier and damage brain cells.
RFK Jr has also said cellphones are behind the rise in glioblastomas and Wi-Fi causes toxins from the body to enter and damage the brain.
He said: ‘Wi-Fi radiation does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer. The cancer’s not the worst thing. Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood brain barrier and so all these toxics that are in your body can now go into your brain.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14413663/RFK-Jr-radical-plan-cancer-linked-products-used-Americans.html
Who knows?
Never mind all of the RF the universe dumps on this planet.
Or all of the double blind tests that had “RF Sensitive” people in a room and say if a device was on or not were no better than random chance?
“RF sensitive” means “Tinitus”
I still contend that the brain worm starved to death.
RFK is a nut. In a sane world I would have been hostile to his nomination/confirmation. But we live in Clown World, and in Clown World sometimes you want the crazy clown to break something desperately in need of breaking.
+1
Yep, he’s the crackpot we need right now.
When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/null-last-name-computer-scientists-forms-f0a43b08?st=EipSTW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
At the risk of doxing myself, my last name is “; drop table”.
Hi Bobby.
Bobby!
We fixed that vulnerability. The code drops special characters now, Kevin Drop Table.
My favorite old skool trick if someone left their terminal unguarded was to run ‘touch *’ in their home directory.
Amazing how many people will run ‘rm -rf *’ without thinking things through.
I am always stunned at how many systems are still vulnerable to simple sql injection.
As you didn’t excape the * in the touch command, you just updated the modify times on all the files instead of creating the file called *
The NSA used old terminal programs. My favorite trick to play on unlocked computers was setting the foreground and background to the same color.
Better a Null than nullo (Warning! Don’t read)
Oh god, I think I remember what that is.
Yes. Don’t read.
A couple of jobs back there was a woman with the last name of Tester (first initial was a T as well). Every review of accounts we had to explain yet again that was her real name and it was not a test account that could be disabled.
I ran into many problems with government data and business rules for “unknown”. Often they wouldn’t allow a null value so people came up with conventions for what to enter. The worst were dates. You wouldn’t believe how many people are born on the 11th of November. For names I recall FNU, MNU, NMN, and LNU.
the 11th of november 1911 or 1111?
So many times I’ve had to explain to supervisors and managers that if they try to mandate a field that doesn’t have any real workflow bearing, people will put in garbage information. It’s usually when some bright new manager decides that they want to force their call center agents to put a disposition/note/status on every contact they handle. Whichever is the first in the drop down will be the vast majority of entries.
@UCS, date not known = “11111111”, month and day not known “YYYY1111”, day not known “YYYYMM11”, …
They had date fields enforced as date types with no nulls allowed.
I can’t even.
That is ridiculous. If your code is treating the string “Null” as a null value… I don’t know what to tell you except hire somebody who has experience from the last forty years or so.
All their best were already coding for us here.
The backend system can distinguish between NULL and “NULL” but whoever designed the interface requires an entry for each field. To support unknown you enter “NULL” which is converted to NULL.
That’s my guess.
That crash in Toronto? Saved by superheroes in real life!
Funny the video I saw was after the plane was done crashing and the flight attendants were simply letting them get out of the door. Shoot, they didn’t even say “buh-bye” to them.
They were saved because the plane did not have a lot of fuel left, and it was all in the wings which were torn off and left behind.
Waitress in the Sky (2008 Remaster) – The Replacements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHkgsYLs0DQ
Don’t you know that when I die,
They’re gonna set me up with the waitress in the sky
Colorado passing legislation that will be overturned.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/02/20/semiautomatic-firearm-ban-heads-to-colorado-gov-s-desk/
“the ban would also prohibit “gas-operated semiautomatic handguns that have a detachable ammunition magazine.”
AR pistols obviously, Desert Eagles, Smith & Wesson M&P 5.7 probably, I’m sure there are others.
MP7s, Aliens…
When did they move on from .mp3?
1975.
Interestingly enough, AI told me that the “P in “P38” stands for
What does the P in P38 stand for?
AI Overview
The “P” in P-38 can refer to the number of punctures required to open a C-ration can, or the P-38 fighter plane.
“The Bryan house looked like it was built by MC Esher.”
By far my favorite artist. Went to his gallery/ museum in The Hague, a nicer and less touristy Amsterdam.
On bright side, Dad’s having his knee replacement now, and I have 3 interviews tomorrow and another on Sat. Aldi Kroger and Walmart. Anything works, frankly. I *did* get turned down by another doggy daycare place. Bastards. One way or another, full time soon, me reckon. I ran the Peru Tribune for 10mo, the only longer term US gig I’ve had since coming back in ’22. Establishing contacts and history is a priority, but also being busy and having some, any $ coming in.
Sucks for Dad, for a bit, but at least all that bone pain will be immediately gone. Odd I came to the titanium rodeo 50yrs before Dad. Fuck it being 4 degrees non-metric outside. Onward, folk!
The first time I tried to hang a picture I realized that the ceiling and floor were not parallel (nor planar) and that neither were at right angles to the doors or windows.
😱
My OCPD is twinging just at that descriptor
All sorts of problems with that house. Still, it was 3/2 on a fenced 1/2 acre and $400/month. I dealt with the angularity and the barbie-pink master bath.
Dad and I moved into a house built in 1948.
I’ve joked here before that KK the plane-spotter would love this place because every square foot is a different geometric plane.
I guess the strange thing is that the OKC and Norman houses were just as old, but they were still plumb, square and level.
My place is ~80 years old. Doorways are pretty square, but the floors are wavy in places. It’s pier and beam, so I could get it releveled at some point, but there’s higher priorities.
I think Pat is saying he needs a new roof.
The roof’s actually not bad, surprisingly. Couple shingles blew off during our last windy season, but I can DIY that. The siding is a disaster though. I’d like to either get that redone or stucco over the existing, depending on cost and complexity. Leveling would be good to do after that, but if I’m going to spend that kind of money I’ll probably install a 2 zone mini-split, because I’m more annoyed by my window units than the floors.
Ugh I found out the hard way in my previous residence when I went for one of those glass chair mat thingies.
If your floor isn’t perfectly flat you’re going to be spending a lot of time plugging the gaps and the thing still bounces up and down when you step on it.
I donated the fucking thing when I moved rather than deal with that anymore.
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E08/671353
I would think leveling would be the first thing you’d do, before you addressed anything else. Otherwise the leveling process is likely to fuck up whatever else you did first.
I’ve had both knees replaced. Best money I’ve ever spent! I should have done it sooner.
Now I need to get my should replaced.
/
Million dollar$10,000 manshould should be shoulder
What about the high knee?
“What about the high knee?”
We talkin’ ’bout my hips, replaced ’12 and ’14 at age 25 and 27? Or are we going back to Catholic schoolgirl thigh-high socks? Cuz…I gotta thing for the latter. The former are over a decade old. I prefer ’em younger. Phrasing well, this didn’t go.
My right knee has been operated on 3 times for torn meniscus of which little is left. Plus it’s arthritic, so it’s only a matter of time before knee replacement is needed. For the past 2 years I’ve been getting by on cortisone shots and gel injections. Doc said eventually these “bandaids” are not going to provide relief.
“A California fire captain was killed inside her San Diego-area home Monday night after she was repeatedly stabbed in a possible domestic violence attack, according to authorities.
Firefighter Rebecca Marodi, 49, was found with multiple wounds after San Diego County Sheriff’s Office personnel reached her Ramona home around 9 p.m., the agency said in a news release.”
https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/us-news/california-fire-captain-rebecca-marodi-stabbed-to-death-inside-home-in-possible-domestic-violence-attack/
Is being a fat mannish lesbian a requirement to be a fire captain in California?
Yes
“They’d be mowing, they’d be doing wood, gardening … you know, the usual stuff,” Monika Evans said. “Never saw any problems.”
Why do I suspect that this fire captain had no interest in “doing wood”?
I once lived in a big house with a lesbian couple, among others. There were thumping sounds coming from their bedroom several times. One was sweet, the other had no redeeming qualities.
“Colorado Democrats halt bill to help detransitioners amid global gender care pullback
The Colorado General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee late Tuesday considered legislation, introduced last week, to allow patients who underwent “youth gender transition procedures” – puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries to remove healthy genitals and breasts – before age 26 to sue their providers for damages up to age 38.”
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/eugenicists-colo-democrats-halt-bill-help-detransitioners-amid-global
They need a law in order to sue?
I had to think about that. The transitioners probably had to sign massive disclaimer forms that prevented any lawsuits.
Another tragic tale
Copeland was shocked. His performance appraisal stated that he was “fully successful” in performing the critical functions of his job as a training specialist at the National Detector Dog Training Center in Newnan, Ga.
Moreover, while he’d been at the USDA less than a year, he’d spent his career working with dogs. Copeland had recently retired from two decades of service in the Air Force, most of that time in canine units, running kennels and training dogs to sniff out narcotics and explosives, among other tasks.
In Georgia, his job was to train dogs and their handlers to find agricultural products that aren’t supposed to come into the U.S., a critical layer of protection for the U.S. food system.
“I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years to continue service to the federal government, doing what I was trained to do by them,” he says. “I kind of feel like I was just thrown out like a piece of trash.”
Maybe he can get a job in California.
Before this guy, it was the wild west, where fruits and vegetables just flew willy-nilly into the country.
Love the dishonesty here:
“while he’d been at the USDA less than a year”
“Copeland had recently retired from two decades of service in the Air Force”
“I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years to continue service to the federal government”
So service in the military entitles you to a high paid government job for the rest of your life, I guess.
Of it wasn’t for him, all our bananas would be full of snakes and tarantulas.
I had a conversation with Mrs. TOK yesterday about the layoffs. She said while she likes the idea, it does seem like a lot and it’s kind of shocking. I told her she shouldn’t feel bad. For example, at HHS they fired a lot of people, but they are still well above 2019 staffing levels.
THIS
I don’t think most people are aware of the insane hiring spree that the left went on in recent years.
“it does seem like a lot”
On a percentage basis, its barely detectable (so far).
You know how many people in government have ‘excellent’ performance ratings? All of em. I was chastised in the Air Force when I gave less than stellar reviews and it was the same here in FedGov land
We only have two performance ratings – Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory. You can challenge an Unsatisfactory review rating, so the manager needs to document it.
True we are pass/fail. Guess how many fails I have seen in 20 years
I worked in a joint office. Airman said it was a career ender to get anything but top marks. Soldiers were happy to get nothing worse than mid marks.
Already, the Alden Law Group and Democracy Forward, a nonprofit organization that’s a frequent foil of the Trump administration, have filed a classwide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, asking it to intervene in the mass firings of probationary employees.
Attorneys elsewhere say the workers may have other pathways to contest their dismissals, based on the language in the termination letters.
Already, the Alden Law Group and Democracy Forward, a nonprofit organization that’s a frequent foil of the Trump administration, have filed a classwide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, asking it to intervene in the mass firings of probationary employees.
Attorneys elsewhere say the workers may have other pathways to contest their dismissals, based on the language in the termination letters.
A Constitutional right to lifetime employment? I missed that one.
The wind shifts
While Trump didn’t share specific details, the payout threatens to re-heat the US economy at a time when inflation has remained stubbornly above the Federal Reserve’s ideal target of 2% – it rose to 3% in January, the highest level since June 2024.
This wouldn’t be the first time that Americans received payments directly from the federal government. During the pandemic, more than 476 million payments totaling $814 billion went out to households.
During Trump’s first presidential term, qualifying Americans received $1,200 in March 2020 and $600 in December 2020. When former President Joe Biden assumed office in March 2021, another round of relief checks totaling $1,400 was sent out.
Just over one year after the final payments were sent, consumer prices in the US hit a 41-year high.
While multiple factors have led to America’s recent bout of inflation — including supply chain disruptions, pandemic-induced demand shifts and Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine — some economists blamed substantial government spending for overheating the economy.
Suddenly, they get religion about helicopter money. It all depends on whose helicopter it gets dumped out of, I guess.
Let’s see if I’ve been paying attention: This is not inflation. The money has already been created, it’s just a question of who spends it. The argument is that if an NGO or a federal employee gets the money and they spend it, that’s fine, but if Joe Drop Table from Ohio spends it, that will cause inflation? Makes no sense.
If the argument is that nobody should spend that money, it should be used to pay off the debt, then I’m on board. But it is CNN, so…
Lefty economists have unironically argued for years that there is a larger multiplier effect on government spending, because boneheaded consumers just use the stimulus to pay down their debt instead of consoooooooooming.
boneheaded consumers just use the stimulus to pay down their debt
Those idiots. They want financial security at a time when we need numbers to go up on a spreadsheet! Rubes!
“some economists blamed substantial government spending for overheating the economy”
Who the fuck are these other economists?
What are we supposed to do without federally supported “archeologists”?
From 17 to 7 left standing: Trump cuts gut Florida archaeologists, Parks Service staff
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2025/02/20/president-trump-cuts-hit-florida-based-federal-archaeology-team/78984856007/
“Most came to Florida from other states to start their careers and have been together for less than a year.”
12 months ago, there was zero archaeology done in Florida.
It really has been humorous to see just how out of touch the Twitterati media class has become. There’s a reason why it’s historically been firemen first as a PR strategy rather than “Look upon the devastation and weep! A tiny fraction of the 87,000 new IRS agents we hired last year to audit you for not reporting that $500 you made last year with your Etsy store will now have to stand in bread lines, and Florida is down to its last 7 archaeologists!” As if anyone besides those 17 people even knew the Florida Parks Service was even employing archaeologists.
Pat:
But who will dig to the depths of Florida to find something beneath the water table if the government doesn’t do it?
You think that’s bad? Kauai is about to disappear. https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-kauai-wildlife-refuges-trump-20174133.php
Mississippi living up to its reputation.
MS judge orders Clarksdale newspaper to remove editorial critical of public officials
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2025/02/19/city-officials-sue-clarksdale-ms-newspaper-over-editorial/79226725007/
Ain’t no use for no NYT v. Sullivan in this good state!
“A Portland Antifa activist with a history of violence has been sentenced to jail and probation over a brutal assault he committed outside the Clackamas County Courthouse in August, leaving a male victim bloodied and brain injured. John Colin Hacker, 41 (b. 2/18/84), of Portland, pleaded guilty to charges on Wednesday. He attacked a man in a fit of rage after his comrade Alissa Azar, a violent ringleader of Portland Antifa, was convicted of felony charges following a five-day jury trial in Oregon City last summer.
Hacker, who has a history of violence, pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor assault. He has been sentenced to five days in jail and 24 months of supervised probation. The defendant has also been ordered to complete an intensive anger management course, pay a $300 fine, and have no contact with the victim, according to a plea agreement obtained by The Post Millennial.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/guilty-portland-antifas-john-hacker-sentenced-to-jail-over-brutal-assault-outside-oregon-courthouse
Five days? And wtf happened to his face?
“BREAKING: Oregon Tesla dealership shot up, suspect at large
This is the same dealership that was set on fire last month.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-oregon-tesla-dealership-shot-up-suspect-at-large
WTF, Oregon?
What the fuck? Portland is Jealous of Seattle because they dont have their own statue of Lenin. Need I say more?
They are evil retards.
Good news, everyone!
Amazon is set to take creative control over the lucrative James Bond movie franchise from the Broccoli family, the company announced Thursday.
The James Bond films have long been produced by Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, who inherited the control from their father Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. Wilson and Broccoli will now give creative control to MGM Studios, which Amazon acquired for $8.45 billion in 2021.
Amazon gained distribution rights to the Bond franchise after the MGM acquisition, but not creative control.
As part of the deal, Amazon’s MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli formed a new joint venture to house the Bond intellectual property rights, and they will remain co-owners of the franchise.
It’ll be great.
Amazon management needs to stup pissing away money on shttifying once-beloved franchises.
Bond as a Black Lesbian? Or is that strictly Disney’s shtik?
It’s MGM. James Bond, The Musical!
A black, translesbian Bond takes down Trump.
They can cast that chick that’s played the Wicked Witch of the West and Jesus.
Imagine if Disney acquired creative rights.
Kiss. Of. Death.
They should just stop making James Bond movies entirely.
They need to end the series. I love the Bond series, but I’m scared that they’ll mess up what made the series awesome: Cool cars, gadgets, and of course the women.
“They” did. “They decided the franchise wasn’t worth anything and so sold the rights to Amazon.
Good point.
Was Disney not available to ruin the franchise?
“refresh”
“Barbara and I agree, it is time for our trusted partner, Amazon MGM Studios, to lead James Bond into the future,” Wilson said.
In a nod to the deal, Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos wrote in a post on X, “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?”
I can’t wait to find out. Maybe the black chick from Wicked with the ring in her nose.
*I have probably not watched a Bond movie made more recently than 2005. I started watching a recent one a while back, and the first five minutes were so ridiculously stupid I turned it off.
The last one I watched was Skyfall and it was okay but shit man, my favorite ones were Goldeneye, Live and Let Die, and The Living Daylights.
Goldeneye annoyed me with that “Inveeeencible!” shtick.
The one where Bond became a ninja and had eye slanting surgery was awesome.
Ah yes, You Only Live Once. I was watching that a couple of years ago and was like….holy shit that wouldn’t roll today.
Volcano lair! Retracting roof! Gyrocopters!
The James Bond character was very much a product of a time and conditions that no longer exist, have not existed for a long time. Retire the character.
There are shit-tons of fantastic writing out there. Try working with some of that stuff.
*Unsolicited advice to the entertainment industry
“14-Year-Old Kentucky Boy Shoots and Kills Two Home Invaders With His Father’s Handgun
A 14-year-old boy from Kentucky shot and killed two men who entered his home with the intent to steal his firearms.
The teen, who has not been named because he is a minor, has already been released after it was confirmed that he acted in self-defense.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/14-year-old-kentucky-boy-shoots-kills-two/
Headline at CNN a moment ago….. Trump approval rating higher than it’s every been! Hahaha….. So sad, too bad.
“The New York Times reported on Wednesday that scientists from Yale University have linked the COVID-19 shot to rare and alarming syndrome referred to as “post-vaccination syndrome.” This condition was previously unknown to almost the entire country.
The syndrome can cause severe symptoms including brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus, and exercise intolerance. Moreover, sufferers have experienced distinct biological changes in their bodies, including differences in immune cells and coronavirus proteins, years after taking the shot.
In addition, scientists also discovered the vaccine can re-awaken a dormant virus in the body called Epstein-Barr. This virus can cause symptoms such as an enlarged spleen, swollen liver, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, and a rash.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/yale-scientists-link-covid-shot-rare-alarming-syndrome/
I’m reminded of the Far Side “Laboratory Peer Pressure”.
It doesn’t sound like all of the side effects are negative however.
“ The Gateway Pundit also reported back in January about an absolutely shocking biological change to a 19-year-old woman’s body after getting ‘vaccinated’ for COVID.
She experienced rapid breast enlargement just one week after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in September 2022. Then, her condition worsened following the second dose, with her breast size increasing dramatically from a B cup to a triple G over six months.”
There is such a thing as too large. Sounds like this is an example of that.
Headline at CNN a moment ago….. Trump approval rating higher than it’s every been
…despite the concerted efforts of the legitimate media to portray him as a depraved heartless monster who has tied Our Democracy to the railroad tracks. Even now, the Superchief locomotive, with Elon Musk at the throttle, is rocketing toward her.
Toot! Toot! Peanut butter!