It was 96° yesterday with an overnight low of 60°. Its not even April. Don’t worry its still a dry daily 30° temperature swing.
¡Enlaces!
Mexico ranks #10 in the happiest countries on Earth. How do they measure this? I don’t care, this is further proof that tacos make you happy.
If you are being persecuted in your home country…maybe claim asylum?
Well, its a prison, is that not the point of a prison?
More accurate headline: Brazil’s Supreme Court to do whatever they have to do to get rid of Bolsonaro.
Venezuela had a choice in the matter?
Argentine 100-year bonds unexpectedly generate a return. Is this some sort of miracle? This guy working for Millei says, “no (in Spanish)”. This is all according to plan…
Does it feel like a Sabbath type of day? I think so.
I’ll worry more if Pie starts reporting those temps.
Afternoon all.
Well, you really shouldn’t let your blood get that cold, you know?
I would think if you’re fleeing Cuba (or similar) because you’re trans… Rio would be the obvious destination. Certainly would think it’d be easier to get in and blend in….
Maybe they don’t speak Portuguese? But, hey, if Mexico, or anyplace else friendly is glad to take them, then I don’t see a problem. Hooray for WTOP actually linking to the webpage of the org so that people can Donar con Paypal.
I was thinking more “keep your fetish on the down low”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s also a whole heaping helping of “may” and “might” in that headline / article.
They may be consumed by Cthulu on the flight.
They may get a Code Red from SENOR SMITH.
They may sprout wings and fly away.
Brazil, Romania, Germany (most likely)… it seems the globalists have decided to just rip off the mask entirely on “democracy”, doesn’t it?
“Misinformation might lead you to make bad decisions… so we’ll just tell you what your decisions are,
hamsterscitizens!”Just copying the most democratic country in the Middle East, Iran.
What would you do for a
Klondike Barpallet of cash.Sure… they could shoot down the plane… they could fly them right back…
You didn’t ask if they had good choices, MS.
I wonder what screws were applied to get Maduro to take ’em back. He sure as hell didn’t want to.
25% tariff on any country that buys Venezuelan oil, on top of us cutting off purchases.
It didn’t makemthe cut today, but Trump threatened tariffs on their oil exports.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariff-venezuela-oil-gas-tax-9197d606dea29caed6a7a79dd358d26a
And all of this will be quickly forgotten the next time a country needs to insist that fiscal prudence doesn’t work and that debt and inflation are good for their economy.
I would have thought that would be Saturday or Sunday… but you do you.
Humph…. well, I have a meeting in 15 minutes — guess I’ll go prep for that and stop talking to myself.
echo
echo
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Howdy Howdy Howdy Ho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Fq1dAuk7Y
echo
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No, it’s “say echo” in the Echo Room, then you can get the platinum bar.
If I could eat a taco right now, I’d be happy too.
Why yes, it is a good day for Sabbath.
A fine cover.
Sabbath cover…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8qTC47S8Fw
Great. We get to be the world’s piggy bank and the world’s insane asylum.
Do they really think these stories are going to convert anyone? I can’t see the average American thinking we should finance this in our own country, let alone every other country on Earth. And that’s without considering our $36T debt.
In an 80/20 split, the left keeps picking the 20% and doubling down.
I don’t think most people realize that we are $36T in debt. Just today my wife was on a walk with a friend who complained that “Musk is stealing our money!” No, lady. The government is stealing our money. Inflation is stealing our money.
JaimeRobeto:
Most people think we can pay for everything just by taking everything from the billionaires.
Most people are stupid and/or ignorant.
Correct Neph. As I said this morning the are tons of people who still buy into Bernie’s schtick. I asked Grok to add up the combined worth of all the billionaires in the US. It comes to $6.7 Trillion. So 18% of the debt, and that doesn’t even consider that we’re adding $1T to the debt every few months. But the problem isn’t spending.
“Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador’s megaprison may never make it out”
I don’t consider myself a mean person, but I’d rather the experts be afraid for gang members being in prison, than the rest of us being afraid because they’re out.
Sir, there are barbarians who infiltrated the city walls….
A tale as old as time
We slashed wasteful spending that once enriched the few at the expense of the many.
No more Argentine Agency for International Development?
Compelling
Summers, who served as treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, blasted Bessent’s claim that Chinese producers will bear the brunt of new US tariffs on imports from China.
“This position is contradicted by every introductory economic textbook and course of which I am aware,” Summers wrote in a post on X on Sunday. “What is the argument or authority for a claim that seems ludicrous?”
And there you have it.
From what I remember, economic textbooks say some is borne by the buyer and some is borne by the seller. So they are both wrong.
To a business, taxes are an expense just like any other and have to be passed on like any other. The costs are borne by the owners, employees, customers or suppliers and the owners obviously won’t take a hit.
Economists study “Tax Incidence”–how much of the burden falls on each of the effected groups. The split varies by industry, with differing competition structures, price elasticities, labor power et c.
I made my usual posting grammatical error, writing “effected” instead of “affected”.
“Relativity? That seems Jewdicrous!”
-League of German Scientists.
What’s Spanish for “He dindu nuffin?”
How were they supposed to know that the exotic kanji characters said “I’m a member of Tren de Aragua” when they got their tattoos?
Are you suggesting the chart translating it at the tattoo parlor might be wrong?
+1 Ariana Grande
No hice nada!
A mi me gusta mucho la Mexicana com lábios carnosos en la pagína inicial.
¿Como se what?
I dig the hot Mexican chick with the pouty lips on the start page, güey.
I know what you said, I’m just messing with you.
Heheh. The beach volleyball and the topless soccer chicks get all the props, but pouty soccer chica is fine as hell.
I thought you were talking about their labias.
Wait, I speak Mexican. A labial Incel pork taco is very tasty, right?
Labial Incel Pork Taco, for the WIN!
Tonio:
I think they headlined Lillith Faire one year.
I thought they only opened.
Heheh. Close.
He likes the girl with the full lips on the first page
Nice try, but I think Zwak got it right.
He can’t be right, everyone knows incels don’t pork.
Provocation
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake.
“We’re going to check out how things are going there,” Vance said in a video shared Tuesday. “Speaking for President Trump, we want to reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland because we think it’s important to protecting the security of the entire world.”
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The office of second lady Usha Vance said Sunday that she would depart Thursday for Greenland and return Saturday. Vance and one of her three children had planned to visit historic sites and learn about Greenland’s culture, but her husband’s participation has reoriented the trip around national security.
The U.S. vice president said he didn’t want to let his wife “have all that fun by herself” and said he plans to visit a Space Force outpost in the northwest coast of Greenland. Vance said that other countries have threatened Greenland as well as the United States and Canada.
Greenland should shoot them down.
I hope he demands some Danegeld.
I remain mystified by the interest in Greenland. Have they ever explained why Trump is interested?
Or is it something to do with the Deep Sevens and we’re not supposed to talk about it?
Shipping lanes, DEW
Minerals
Real estate
The highway to the arctic runs right past Greenland. And if a northern passage opens up, Greenland will be critical.
Concern about a vacuum that could be filled by Russia or China if Greenland is granted independence.
Look at the size of it and imagine that there has been zero extraction of anything out of it. That and it has military strategic importance.
Trump should get Elon to launch a big magnifying glass into space to melt the glaciers to make the minerals more accessible. A big, beautiful magnifying glass.
What Yusef said.
It has enormous strategic and natural resource value.
Well, that’s one way we’d take over Greenland.
He should show up on a Viking longboat.
“The office of second lady”
Nothing left to cut.
I dont see any downside for the Greenlanders.
They’ll have to start building football stadiums.
Ok. That is a good point.
But investors who stuck with the country are having the last laugh. The bonds they were given in the default, plus the fat coupons on the original century bond, are now worth more than the original investment. Not just that: They are worth far more than if the dollars had been invested in “safe” U.S. Treasurys.
Ha-hah!
(yes, I realize it is more likely to have gone sideways)
“Trump signs sweeping action overhauling US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
Trump has focused particularly on mail voting, arguing without evidence that it’s insecure and invites fraud even as he has shifted his position on the issue given its popularity with voters, including Republicans. While fraud occurs, it’s rare, limited in scope and gets prosecuted.”
Yeah-yeah sure-sure. How in the fuck could mail-in voting POSSIBLY be prone to error?! BLASPHEMY!! Fucking fuckers. Fuck ’em.
And they’re all freaked about it. Why? Uh. It ain’t hard to prove this shit. Just show a goddamn ID. Not rocket-brain surgery. Even Euros do it.
(I’d say it’s mostly anti-anything Trump, but the Voting Game has been effectively wielded and must be protected.
Why not both?! (It is both.))
https://apnews.com/article/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022
Just shut down the Post Office. Mostly junk mail and absentee ballots. If people are serious about the government they’ll find a way to vote.
/A Non Voter
“ Just shut down the Post Office.”
I’m on board.
“arguing without evidence that it’s insecure and invites fraud”
I can think of about five ways it’s insecure. It also violates the standards the UN uses when it judges if elections are free and fair. The onus should be on election officials to describe in great detail how they prevent fraud.
It violates the standards the US uses, too.
The arguments against are such transparent bullshit it is amazing the left has got away with it for so long.
“Trumps claims this, Trump claims that, herpity derpity doo”
He should sign an executive order that states something like “The US will follow the same election procedures as our allies.”
The results would be the same but it would be delicious watching the Dems argue how uNfAiR all the elections are in their favorite European countries.
Every leftist goodthinker knows the darkinoids are too dumb to know where the DMV is, bless their hearts.
Hi all!
For the sake of those who missed my comment in yesterday’s Morning links or Sunday’s IFLA, herewith doxxing myself with the link to my GoFundMe. One last pass to make sure it’s seen.
The Thanksgiving through New Year’s battle with atrial fibrillation nearly depleted my (limited) reserves. Now I’m facing hernia surgery and some unexpected, and expensive dental work. Getting old sucks, especially when you’re poor 🙁
Here
Thank you all for this gathering place and being the type of kind people who have been so generous!
Glibs have been good to me and I’d love to contribute. Sadly. I cannot help another at this time.
I’ve got my minor operation on April 23, nothing vital like yours. (My brain keeps making coincidences appear. (I s’pose I’m looking for ’em.))
My thoughts are with you, and I trust your hearty spirit will push you through all burdens.
I understand, Evan, and bear no animus in even the slightest degree. Not everyone is able to donate, not everyone is willing to. That’s fine; I knew it going in, but I’m astounded and humbled by the degree of support I’ve received.
The a fib has been dealt with, there’s just a pile of bills for meds & follow-up testing that was done.
The hernia isn’t life threatening, although the doc & surgeon would both like to see it done before June. As would I, tbh.
The dental work is entirely frustrating in every possible regard.
That’s a long story of ineptitude, broken processes, and a dental practice that is undergoing significant internal change. The upshot is every visit results in changes to the treatment plan and/or some new issue that was somehow overlooked. I’m actively looking for a new practice, but that’s non-trivial, unfortunately.
Thanks for the words of support and encouragement!
Best of luck, Beau!
I was in for a replacement crown yesterday. So not pleasant. 🦷
I get the permanent one in a couple weeks.
Thanks, Sean!
Dentist visits have an unfortunate tendency to be curdled misery in my experience. E.g., my first crown went on a tooth that needed a root canal less than six weeks after installation.
That pretty much encapsulates my experience with dentists and dentistry. Sigh
I had a few bucks I wasn’t using. Best of luck with the expenses.
Dad took me and the three nephews (4, 9, 11) to an indoor swimming pool place. Much fun. I’m thrilled I successfully set myself up as Cool Uncle Ev.
Especially with the youngest, as I’m actually present for his formative years. The other two and I have a special rapport, as well. This is a profoundly good, and continuing, development.
I also should be getting paid on Thurs, my first with Walmart, and first since mid-Dec.
I’m rather fond of these profoundly good developments.
Titty Tuesday comin’ at ya!
https://archive.is/PYYxz
Who has an Apple Watch? What gen? Do you like it? Do you hate it?
I do not.
I’ve been tempted to use this opportunity to trash watches, apple, and smart devices in general, but I lack constructive input at this time.
They seem interesting. I personally prefer a basic watch with day/date. Not everything needs to be a smart thing
I’m thinking of retiring my Seiko 5.
*puts Sean on The List*
I’m firmly embedded in the Apple ecosystem, despite its flaws, but the Apple Watch never interested me much. That’s beginning to change, though, with the various bio-monitoring it now provides. Still a fair ways away from wanting one, but it’s at least caught my attention for health monitoring.
I do miss wearing a watch; glancing at my left wrist is easier & faster than pulling out the iPhone & waking the display.
Casio makes great watches. It will do what an apple watch will, plus it is tough as hell.
It will not be as user friendly with your iphone, but it should be able to sync and show texts and calls.
Solar and reliable as hell
https://www.casio.com/us/watches/types/collections/smartwatches/#1
https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.DW-H5600MB-1A4/
Interesting
Casio has been making top-notch things for at least 40 years. They do not get the attention they deserve.
Cant sleep. I might fall off of the wagon for ten minutes.