Good morning one and all to another thrilling day!
Oversight Project investigation: Biden autopen signature used on ‘every document we could find’
Secret Service shoots man in overnight ‘armed confrontation’ near White House
Mark Carney Will Be Canada’s Next Prime Minister After Winning Liberal Leadership Race
Trump Signals Tariffs May Go Even Higher
Trump Admin Will Explore Ways to Acquire Bitcoin for Strategic Reserve
Trump Vows to ‘Invest Billions’ into Greenland if They Join U.S.
Trump’s enthusiasm for ending Daylight Saving Time wanes
HHS Employees Reportedly Offered $25,000 Buyout To Quit Their Jobs
NIH ‘transgender’ animal testing experiments more extensive than Trump said
As someone who enjoys following polling and statistics and believes accurate polling is detrimental to a healthy democracy, this is fantastic news. As is this.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Accurate polling is detrimental?
I mean, Accura’s are detrimental, but not accurate polling.
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Show some Integra-ty and don’t make bad puns.
Zwak:
Sure some of you Honda Quislings are begging to come to some sort of Accord.
And, once again, the Pope fails his Civics Class.
You all are in your Element, aren’t you?
Yes. Politicians are retarded and easily swayed by bullshit polling.
It is an interesting case / precedent — but I strongly suspect they can first make the argument that he did it “Because his hands shake and he didn’t want people to notice” (like the infamous stutter) and then if need be “Prove that he didn’t have good days and know what he was signing!”
And if all else, the Aloha Spirit that surrounds us can step in to say it doesn’t matter. “Political beings are we… not these crude MAGAts!”
Morning, Banjos — thanks as always for the links. Morning, all.
Happy Monday to all.
“Oversight Project investigation: Biden autopen signature used on ‘every document we could find’”
Biden was braindead when he went in. Obama’s people, with occassional input from Dr. Jill, when they needed to scam and such for Biden’s benefit, ran the co8untry the last 4 years. When Obama was asked what his wish was, and he responded to be the behind the scenes president, he was not kidding. In fact, I bet he already had that planned. And he actually finally got to do the things he really waned to do thinking his legacy would be safe and that fool Biden would be blamed. Where things went wrong was that they never got to close the deal on the bad orange Hitler, and then couldn’t rig that election because none of the efforts to fortify were successful enough to overcome the massive turnout from people that had had enough.
He expressed the wish near the end of his second term, right? I don’t think he had it in the works then, honestly — because Hilldawg was the anointed successor (her turn!) and I don’t think anyone is dumb enough to think you’ll get to use her as a puppet. Working hand-in-glove, sure… but she’d still be calling the shots — or you’d be in an I-40 rice field between Memphis and Little Rock after shooting yourself in the back of the head repeatedly.
I honestly believe Obama’s cabal believed they would have enough dirt of Hillary (the emails and Benghazi were just what the public knew) to control her. And more importantly that she was easy to manipulate otherwise because of her ego and Manchurian nature. I agree things would never have been allowed to get as obviously bad as they did under Biden. Biden was just a blessing because he was completely gone, and the choice was made to put the programs into overdrive to both make up for lost time and to speed the globalist agenda up.
I think anyone trying to blackmail Hillary into doing what they want would be the epitome of the “riding the tiger” saying. They might have thought it… but boy oh boy — that’d be monumentally stupid.
I never said the people Obama surrounded himself with were smart. They are after all liberals. But I think most people do not realize the Obama cabal are gangsters too, and they think they are bigger, and better, gangsters than the Clintons. I am sure they were confident they could control her.
Hell, I wondered who was actually running the Executive branch during Trump’s first term, so Biden being a puppet is hardly a surprise.
Trump was trying to run it, but his deep state cabinet did their best to undermine him and slow walk his agenda. He learned that lesson, and the 2020 election fortification and the 4 years after sure served to give him time to learn what happened and how not to repeat that shit.
Trump didn’t hire well the first time around, and I give him credit, he’s doing much better this time.
He hired horribly. That’s because he thought since he had won, they would treat him legit. This time around he realized that he couldn’t trust any of the insiders.
My first reaction was “If you’re going to suicide by cop… why go all that way to DC?” — but I guess if you are going to suicide by cop… might as well up your venue and do the tourist thing… not like you’re going to care about bills afterward.
If I was going to run up a bill before going out, it wouldn’t be in DC.
“Mark Carney Will Be Canada’s Next Prime Minister After Winning Liberal Leadership Race”
So after getting hit in the balls by Castreau, the poutine eating hosers decide to double down on marxist stupid? Love the move…
Somebody from Canada here? I think the public doesn’t get to vote in leadership races.
Not just yet — that was just the Liberal Party internal election (and from what I can tell, he’s PM because until the next Parliamentary elections they’re still in charge). The key will be the next general election that I believe he is supposed to (has to? don’t know… don’t care enough to look it up) call that will likely be end of the month or so. We’ll see if they give their Conservatives a chance (I really like what I’ve seen of their main guy Poulivere? (misspelled probably) — which doubtless means he’ll get an anemic second place because what my preferences are generally the kiss of political death). Then you can say they’ve doubled down on marxist stupid. Just don’t ejaculate prematurely on the subject, Alex.
I was specifically speaking about the Canook libs and their choice. Yeah, I should have known better and expected them to double down on stupid instead of wizening up, but of course the left is a cult.
I remember when they put out feelers for Obama as president. He was an Illinois Senator at the time and the open secret was that Obama was a straight-up Marxist. I thought ‘no fuckin’ way’. Yet here we are. It is easy enough to point a finger at Obama as the biggest piece of shit to ever sit in the Oval Office but the real blame is with the people that chose, backed and installed him. I think he is a creature of the WEF so the list of guilty parties is long.
Wasn’t Obama’s big boost the speech he gave at the 2004 Dem Convention?
He simply looked good compared to Lurch.
When 2008 rolled around, he was a Senator and NOBODY wanted Hillary as pres. To the proggies, voting for a black dude was an acceptable alternative to voting for the First Woman President.
To a lot of non-proggies as well. They saw it as the culmination of MLK’s Dream Speech.
And let’s not forget, that in 2008, the election was Team Blue’s to lose. W lying us into Iraq, failing to catch Osama, and running the economy into the shitter meant that McCain was a sacrificial lamb to whatever Team Blue put up.
I know, it was all so complicated and reasons and so on….except it wasn’t. He was a commie. He never should have been a state senator. He is a commie, that makes it a no-brainer.
What Obama ran on at least is completely moderate compared to the modern day Democrat party, though.
What Obama ran on was pretty moderate compared to how he “governed”.
Doesn’t sound like the Greenland political class is terribly enamored of it — so we’ll see.
“Rubio’s Folly” just doesn’t roll off the tongue the same way…..
Greenland political class
What is the world’s smallest collection of people?
What are the New Guinea hobbits?
I’ll take Poutporri for $600 next.
The political class wants to make money. The Greenland people however are tired of being ignored by Denmark and ready to part ways if they can get a better benefactor. We should look at when the next elections there are happening and how many EU or US NGOs are there to “influence” that.
tomorrow
They have a political class? A few old men sitting around a fire chewing seal fat and weighing the merits of an upcoming wedding?
The left loves unfettered immigration. So let’s just send enough American families up there to colonize the land and vote for protectorate status.
You can’t bitch about people that are “just seeking a better life”.
Trump Signals Tariffs May Go Even Higher
Move fast and break stuff?
All because of a bullshit national security law. Fuck. We deserve what’s coming for never dragging ALL of the politicians out of their holes and stringing them up for this.
Was that intended to be a link?
No, but since you want one.
“We deserve what’s coming for never dragging ALL of the politicians out of their holes and stringing them up for this.”
A truth that applies to nearly all societies throughout history.
I have learned the hard way that you can’t joke with women the way you do with men.
Yup. Living in a house of all girls, it’s nice to get around some guys and shoot the shit every once in a while. It’s nice not to have to worry about feelings so much.
I do think there’s a deeper disdain for humor among the elites because they see such things as beneath them. They’ve so trained themselves into ass-puckering pretention that they can’t enjoy life unless they have a lemon in their mouth.
Well, that was a pretty solid misthread.
According to folks in the know, tariffs are going higher and staying there. And it’ll happen fast. All to force the midterms to be a referendum on taxes.
Well it may be a referendum on the economy if the tariffs end up a drag on that.
More like “all to ensure Republicans lose the midterms”
“Trump Admin Will Explore Ways to Acquire Bitcoin for Strategic Reserve”
OFFS. Just toss my money out the window already.
Isn’t that what USAID was made for?
Is Pi safe?
I wasn’t expecting such chaos for another 3 to 4 days.
The ides came early in Romania?
Good. They need to be ahead of schedule to get Europe to leave their politics alone. What a mess. What an obvious fraud from the Eurozone.
This will end badly for the Euroweenies, I hope.
If Pie isn’t safe, I hope he at least is making torches and sharpening pitchforks.
[ blows raspberry at UCS ]
He’s been busy, he sees an opportunity to finally start his own Glibertarians party and run himself.
AIeee! Too many pun possibilities!
Bold move in a country that dragged out a dictator and shot him dead not that long ago.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1898852775326605402
That is an irrational thought.
Chaos erupts in Romania after far-right frontrunner banned from presidential vote
If at first you don’t succeed, ban the opposition.
Funny how the people screaming the loudest that their opposition are Nazis, seem to do the Nazi shit themselves, and do so real hard, huh?
“We have to destroy democracy to save it.”
It’s not Nazi shit to do Nazi shit to keep others from doing Nazi shit. As long as your intentions are pure, you know?
See, also, not tolerating the intolerant.
“he made what many interpreted to be a Nazi salute to his supporters outside”
lol Really?
Just like Elon – two Nazi peas in a pod!
As Elon said, everything is far right these days. Even his pants have a left leg and a far right leg.
Those are American pants. Europeans would call them right and far right legs.
The tranny fetish is a bit puzzling to me until I remember this exchange –
Khrushchev – “We have a country of alcoholics!”
Advisor – “Comrade Khrushchev, it is human nature to turn to the bottle when there is no hope.”
Khrushchev – “Then we must change human nature!”
I think that may be the root of the tranny lunacy. It is creepy as hell no matter how I look at it.
https://waikanaewatch.org/2021/12/15/klaus-schwab-in-drag-and-a-list-of-covid-variants-and-dates-through-to-feb-2023/
This photo was all over the place when it came out paired with interviews with the people that were there that day. Now it is ‘fake’ and I can only find two instances of it…the others I presume were scrubbed.
I do vaguely remember one woman that day was horrified and gathered her small children up and left the beach.
You can still find that photo on one of my movie posts. I forgot which one.
Here’s one that should bring a smile to Alex’s face.
It’s just not the same since they changed the name to Eurovision.
Stop trying to give me a chubby..
That isn’t really hard these days.
Two things piss me off here – obviously the grant itself, but as much is what the AgSec says about sending in tips about this, expecting other people to uncover this malfeasance. Where are your own employees madam Secretary? Why aren’t they telling you about this? If they know and are hiding it from you, fire the m*%^$@#$^#rs!
Are there many HHS grants for studying crop rotation?
None.
But you should see the budget for studying cross-dressing corn.
I could see some value in studying this for intersex folks given that that is an actual medical situation but WTF does it have to do with agriculture I wonder.
I also wonder how they feel being lumped in with “non-binaries”. 🙄🙄
You had to read down to find the Ag connection – hemp, baby!
Hemp? So, what, are they a bunch of pot heads?
Dad just let me know that our cat Suzie died last night. She was only around 15, but she had a history of seizures. She also didn’t handle moving to a new house well, not wanting to come out of one small part of the house.
So for the first time in ages, we’re petless, and at Dad’s age I don’t see us getting another pet. 🙁
Aww sorry
Awwww, I’m sorry. Mr Peabody (I don’t use the honorific) is 14, beagle mutt. He’s still amble but lost most of his sight, hearing n smell off.
He was w me when I had my seizure Feb 7. Never left me. Damn Good Boy. Dad says he’ll be the last because he’s too old to go through it again. Then we’ll be petless for the first time in my lifetime.
Deepest condolences.
Sorry dude.
+1 from here as well.
Sorry to hear that – it always hurts, even when you know it’s coming.
Yeah…I am sorry Ted.
I have two dogs 16 and 20 yrs old here clearly on their last legs. I dont look forward to digging more graves.
Sorry to hear that, it’s always tough loosing a pet. Typing this with a 17 year old kitty siting on my lap.
Sorry Ted.
Terrible news. My condolences Ted.
Sorry man, I’m still debating on getting another doggo but not sure if my heart can take another death. I sit with them when they are being put down and that REALLY SUCKS.
After the kerfuffle between the midget of Keeeev and our guys in the Oval Office, JD Vance memes have become a thing.
Since many of you aren’t on Ten (formerly Twitter), here’s a collection.
The last one was re-X’d by the man himself. Gotta love a politician who doesn’t take himself too seriously.
You are missing the subtext!
Do you know who else had a good sense of humor?
(no, not that guy but Goering looked pretty jolly though)
Beat me to it. I have learned the hard way that you can’t joke with women the way you do with men. Women just don’t get that guys giving each other shit is a show of respect, and the bigger the ration of shit, the more respect.
Plus, the left has been on the receiving end of a campaign of meme bombing that would make Curtis LeMay blush, so they naturally think memes=attacks.
Dave Barry had a pretty decent quote (that I am too drunk to enact any labor to track down) that went something like:
And people thought AI would be useless!
Some of them are pretty damn funny.
Is studying gay animals normally that expensive? If there aren’t enough of them, do they put chemicals in their drinking water, or is the process more involved?
Don’t worry, these studies don’t actually need any real animals.
Or any real studies for that matter.
My German Shepherd got hooked on gay porn, and now he’s a French poodle.
A 50-50 issue? DST? His advisors must be lying to him. I mean, who the fuck likes it (or likes the time changes at least)?
The 50-50 part is the split between what time to make permanant. Those who care about which to stop at are not more vocal about standard or savings over the other.
The safe guess is, “Democrats”.
“THE GOVERMENT (PBUI) MADE IT, THAT IS WHY IT IS GREAT!1111111!!111”
The problem is which to make permanent. The “I don’t have children and want to play golf later” side wants permeant daylight savings. The “I have children and it shouldn’t be pitch black at 7am when they stand at a bus stop” side wants to just end the switch. Regardless, let the states figure it out. AZ has been doing fine defying the rest of the country.
I like the extra late later in the day, but I wish they would just pick one and stop the fucking switching.
Fuck those kids! I’m in the “I’m a morning person and Standard Time lets me get some decent fishing in before I have to call into the first pointless meeting of the day” camp.
Given that the breeders are being outnumbered by the nonbreeders these days, I would bet that the kids will lose out.
Precisely. I want more daylight later in the day (so I can play golf…er, shoot, during the week after work.)
Split it down the middle, and tell the rest of the world to suck it, you are on America Time!
Uh, it’s pitch black at 7am under standard time and the kids are out before then anyways because rural routes.
But none of them actually walk to a bus stop in the dark like we did. Or even stand outside. They wait in their parents idling car at the end of the driveway. The bus stops at each driveway no matter how close they are.
-2.3/-3.5 Newfoundland Time Zone
Federal law lets states opt out of daylight time. It does not allow them to adopt permanent daylight time.
I think 70% of Americans want later sunlight, so it would win.
Wife tells me today is officially nap day. Who designates these things? Nevermind, I will gladly celebrate.
As opposed to Nappy Day, which is April 4.
Looking for opinions.
Because of the long processing times and the fact that some counties require you to buy a handgun as part of your pistol permit application (not mine, I could get a permit and never buy a gun), there is an option to purchase a handgun while waiting for the paperwork, have it owned by you but retained at the shop, and do supervised visitation of your gun to train with it as long as the supervisor has certain trainer credentials.
I’m debating whether or not I am so confident that Albany county will follow the law that I can risk dropping a large sum of money on something I can’t actually take home for months, or if I should just wait until after the paperwork is done.
Someone really needs to sue the balls off of NY State and a lot of somebodies need to be in prison for what they are doing.
I, too have bought an engagement ring.
Insanity.
What other political outcome would you bet substantial money on?
🤔
I expected you guys to be more opinionated.
Don’t buy it. Invest in a 3d printer and that will speed up your application.
I already own three 3D printers.
I have to test the most recent one, but the weather is just warming up to the point where I can open the window to ventillate.
Before a standing-room-only crowd, Johnson, a pro-fluoride former dentist, displayed gruesome images of decaying teeth. “People die of dental infections,” he warned. “That’s horrible. We don’t want to see that.”
OMG. If it costs $1bn per life safe it’s worth it, right? Not that I’m suggesting such a cost here or that there isn’t a benefit. Once again life imitates art.
Inside America’s Fluoride Rebellion
Florida is the latest battleground in a series of standoffs over adding the chemical to local water supplies—with Utah set to be the first state to ban it. ‘The cost in terms of human health is far too high to be fooling around.’
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/inside-americas-fluoride-rebellion-ab9aa524?st=yzeCwo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Have they figured out how many people even drink tap water these days? The bottled water industry is huge. And if they’re worried about poor people, a lot of rural areas are on wells.
Plus most people use water filters on refrigerators and the like.
A lot of wells contain large quantities of fluoride, naturally. The well on our house did when I was growing up.
Aside from the positive impact on dental issues it just doesn’t seem like a good idea to guzzle it every time you drink water. Do you really need more than what the toothpaste you brush with provides?
My understanding is the biggest benefit from fluoride is in children while the permanent teeth are developing in the jaw.
The fluoride strengthens the teeth and the benefit remains for life.
like a good idea to guzzle it every time you drink water.
What other treatments – other than mRNA shots – are administered on the regular where you have 0 control of the dose? It is folly to administer a medical intervention in such an uncontrolled fashion, especially one that is manifestly toxic at some dose (still talking about water fluoridation…)
I’ve lived with non-fluoridated water supply the last 20+ years with no issues. Nor do I see any indication that the area is flooded with little children with no teeth or excess cavities at a rate above fluoridated municipalities. It really comes down to sugar (and simple refined carbs) – cut those down and cavities will no longer be a major issue.
This.
…it took some effort but I just found out my water is NOT fluoridated. Huh. I find that kind of surprising.
I just recently had “the conversation” about flouride with my dental hygienist. She was of the opinion that treating water with flouride was ineffective and that topical application was best. I don’t know if that was because patients need to go to the office for topical application, but she seemed sincere in her opposition to water treatment as ineffective.
My guess is that the anti-fluoride people are like the ‘allergic to gluten’ people. They have magical bullshit in their head and no idea what they are talking about. The histrionics are ultimately about ‘look at me!’. So. Fucking. Tiresome.
Fluorine displaces chlorine from tooth enamel making the enamel far less soluble in acids. As far as I know that is the only real effect it has on the human body. I dont know how effective tooth paste is but it should be at least as effective as drinking water. The displacement is not instantaneous, it takes a few mins so dentists applying fluoride treatments is the way to go. The effects are permanent and well worth the effort and risk. Shut up and take your fluoride treatment.
As far as I know that is the only real effect it has on the human body.
You are unaware then of the effect on our precious bodily fluids?
well worth the effort and risk.
I don’t think there is any basis to make that cost-benefit analysis. The benefit is ambiguous at best – I believe there is one very early study used to justify the whole-sale fluoridation of municipal water supplies that was marginally positive and, like most studies, had some methodological flaws. I don’t think the benefit has ever been clearly demonstrated. There are also studies that have signal of harm for mass uncontrolled (you don’t control the dose of the medication when it’s just dumped into the water supply with no knowledge of how much any individual will use) fluoridation. Again, flawed, weak signal, but you certainly cannot say (or at least with any degree of persuasion) that the cost-benefit analysis is clear.
Shut up and take your fluoride treatment.
No.
Somewhat kidding – that one is less of a problem since it’s controlled dose, single application. That said, any putative benefit (and simultaneously putative harm) is supposedly focused on the young. Which I am not. So why bother doing it every six months? Especially if it’s “permanent”…
I think it if is effective, yeah, get it done at the dentist office or let Crest do it.
Don’t throw who knows how much of it into the water supply.
We had our home tournament this weekend. While we only went 1-3, we had a ton of friends and family and retired sled hockey players come out to see us. I spent time with teammates I haven’t seen in years. After yesterday’s game we went to our favorite Greek place in Chicago. What a nice weekend.
I do have one good story, during a game Saturday there was dirty play on both sides. Lots of penalties. One of our guys got ejected for having 5 penalties and was suspended for a game. In the third period, my coach (who was playing) went to the other bench to try to calm things down. One of their coaches told him to get the fuck out not once but twice, so with 10:00 left my coach called the game and we left the ice. BTW my coach organizes the league so they will be uninvited to future events.
Were they the Charlestown Chiefs?
Any scouts in the stands from the Flyers or other under-performing NHL teams?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks, Jimbo.
are you people posting at the wrong hour again? How difficult can it be to do daylight savings the right weekend?
Ideally, we’ll be rid of this clock changing nonsense.
This. Too bad Trump is pussing out on it.
There’s no room in there for him to focus on both “tariffs” and “clocks”.
Works out good for me. Gets you yokels an hour closer to Real Time*.
*Real Time is wherever I happen to be. I don’t need to figure this timezone shit out. YOU NEED TO ADJUST TO REAL TIME!
UTC for everyone.
No. That’s the worst possible option. Now if you guys all changed to Eastern Time, we’d be on to something
UTC for everyone is the most rational solution. But we have this, well, irrational attachment to the clock showing certain numbers when the sun is at certain positions in the sky.
This doesn’t make happy about the decay of norms in the US, but it hardly surprises me. These firms went scorched earth and expected no consequences. It’s hard form me to feel sympathetic at this point. I’ve rather enjoyed watching them get their comeuppance.
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fear-of-trump-has-elite-law-firms-in-retreat-6f251dec?st=nFk3Uw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of banana republic monkeys. The only reason half of them should be in a courtroom is as a defendant.
I will say one thing for Trump. The worst people all hate him, so he must be doing at least a few things right.
Yet more evidence of crypto-Nazis in the MSM
I actually managed to get ahold of a case of the actual stuff back in the day. Terrible, terrible stuff…tasted like lemon cough syrup.
“…was totally taken wrong…”
No. It wasn’t taken wrong.
Just a stab in the dark here but I am guessing this Reusse fella didnt vote for Trump.
It’s Minnesota. Of *course* they’re fucking Nazis.
The audit report, labeled “final draft,” found that executives, at times aided by the project’s longtime consultants, McKinsey & Co., plugged unrealistically rosy assumptions into Neom’s business plan to justify rising cost estimates. The audit found “evidence of deliberate manipulation” of finances by “certain members of management.”
Unrealistic assumptions in a McKinsey report? No way. Never happens.
What Went Wrong at Saudi Arabia’s Futuristic Metropolis in the Desert
https://www.wsj.com/finance/saudi-arabia-neom-sindalah-15b9f25a?st=839HfG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Taibbi just blew a whistle on McKinsey’s in-house investing office – of course they wouldn’t leverage any of that inside information that McKinsey is privvy to.
Aw, I was looking forward to checking out the mile-long skyscrapers. 🙄
Maybe in between checking out their retirement soccer league where they spray around different billions of dollars.
“Gaza gets most of its electricity from generators and solar panels, the official said. ”
This is as opposed to “the outlet in the wall” where western countries get electricity.
Israel Chokes Electricity Supply to Gaza to Pressure Hamas on Hostages
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-trims-electricity-to-gaza-to-pressure-hamas-on-hostages-95664029?st=Bjny6P&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nooooooo!
People at Reason hardest hit?
Would you like a broom to sweep up those drugs?
hemp broom?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday the Trump administration had finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development, and said he would move the 18% of aid and development programs that survived under the State Department
Wow. So 82% of USAID was considered graft. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-rubio-usaid-foreign-aid-bf442d62af67918a6fc5eee839074601
I’m surprised it was that low.
Who are they protecting in that remaining 18%?!
Overthrowing foreign governments that don’t play ball and demoralizing the noninsane at home is not graft.
But what if “friends” can get rich at the same time accomplish those exact objectives?
Is anyone going to jail? It is pretty clear that trillions of $$$ have been misappropriated and stolen by un-elected bureaucrats over the last couple of decades. There probably isn’t enough court rooms, judges, lawyers, and jail cells to try, convict, and hold all these thieves.
I want them to pay it back.
There probably isn’t enough court rooms, judges, lawyers, and jail cells to try, convict, and hold all these thieves.
https://youtu.be/UiFIsdaxqvg?t=15
It will all just be back next year.
One thing I’m curious about:
The big one they like to drop is that we were keeping Africans from dying of AIDs. I never really did believe the data on that, but I suspect they didn’t wind up killing that program anyway. I’d be curious to see if it made it.
Saving the children
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to a law in Colorado that bans “conversion therapy” aimed at young people questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity.
The justices took up an appeal brought by Kaley Chiles, a Christian therapist, who argued that the restriction violates her free speech rights under the Constitution’s First Amendment.
Favored by some religious conservatives, the practice is aimed at encouraging gay or lesbian minors to change their sexual orientations and transgender children to identify as the gender identities assigned to them at birth. More than 20 states have bans on therapy aimed at minors.
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The lawyers argue that the bans have “devastating real world consequences” including on rare cases of “detransitioners” — the small proportion of transgender people who change course and wish to identity as the gender they were assigned at birth.
Limiting counseling options communicates to “countless minors they have no choice but to medically transition,” the lawyers said.
Colorado officials wrote in their brief that the state measure regulates conduct, not speech. If courts were to rule in favor of Chiles, it would “undercut states’ longstanding ability to protect patients and clients from harmful professional conduct,” the officials said.
What a bunch of convoluted nonsense. It’s almost as if the NBC writer wants to guide the reader to the belief those religious fanatics are a menace. After all, encouraging people to believe they have been wrongly born into a particular body has no adverse effects. Surgically “transitioned” or not, fostering a socially crippling delusion sounds like malpractice to me.
Can someone explain to me how conversion therapy includes convincing children that they are the sex they were born with, but not that they are the sex they weren’t born with?
I think that story also intentionally conflates old-fashioned “gay conversion therapy” with questioning the wisdom or practical efficacy of transgenderism.
They’ll have to drag his lifeless body off the stage
At 83 years old, Sanders is not running for president again. But the stooped and silver-haired democratic socialist has emerged as a leader of the resistance to Donald Trump’s second presidency. In tearing into Trump’s seizure of power and warning about the consequences of firing tens of thousands of government workers, Sanders is bucking the wishes of those who want Democrats to focus on the price of eggs or “roll over and play dead.”
For now, at least, Sanders stands alone as the only elected progressive willing to mount a national campaign to harness the fear and anger of the sprawling anti-Trump movement.
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Sanders, who was just elected to his fourth Senate term from Vermont, conceded that this is not the role he expected to play at this stage of his career.
In fact, his team intentionally waited in the early weeks of the Trump presidency to launch what they are now calling his “stop oligarchy tour” to see if a high-profile Democrat would fill the leadership void. Instead, Sanders — who is not a Democrat himself despite allying with Senate Democrats and running twice for the party’s presidential nomination — has people wondering if he’s considering another White House bid.
“This is like presidential campaign rallies, isn’t it? But I’m not running for president, and this is not a campaign,” Sanders told The Associated Press. “You gotta do what you gotta do. The country’s in trouble and I want to play my role.”
He feeds on the adoration of idiots.
When a pol says ” I am not running for president!” they are running for president. I am fairly certain I could get elected before that old commie shitbag could.
It’s wild to watch the guy who honeymooned in the Soviet Union scream about how evil Russia is.
Who votes for that guy?
He’s made because they (nominally) rejected communism.
Russia abandoned the socialist international movement!
He’s just pissed that the Russians in charge over there are no longer the Soviets.
There are still a lot of people who think he’s the bee’s knees. At one time I at least respected him, but this is what I tell those admirers these days:
1. He should have been the candidate in 2016, but the Dems forced him out in favor of Hillary and he said nothing about it.
2. He’s a socialist who owns 3 rather large houses. Hypocrite much?
3. At the Dem convention last year, he made a speech against billionaires. The very next speaker was Pritzker, who bragged about being a billionaire. Again, he said nothing.
4. Tulsi Gabbard gave up her place as second in charge of the DNC to support him in 2016. She gave up her whole Dem career path because she believe in him. It was clear she had the votes, and the ass still couldn’t be bothered to give her a vote.
Basically he pretends to be an outsider speaking truth to power but bends the knee to the Dem establishment the whole time. What a weak, unprincipled, dishonest POS.
Well, he’s a cookie-cutter commie.
If I know nothing else about Vermont (I dont) Bernie Sanders is all I need to know.
Sanders delivered the same fiery populist message over the weekend that he has for decades, seizing on the nation’s economic inequality to call for free health care, free public higher education and stronger social safety net programs. Sanders was especially focused on the team of billionaires Trump has appointed to serve as leaders in his administration, including Musk and a half dozen others.
“They want to dismantle the federal government and cut programs that working people desperately need,” Sanders warned.
“Yes, the oligarchs are enormously powerful. They have endless amounts of money. They control our economy. They own much of the media, and they have enormous influence over our political system,” he continued. “But from the bottom of my heart, I believe that if we stand together, we can beat them.”
The programs working people desperately need? What about the poor and the homeless?
Who votes for that guy?
Vermont hippies.
X is down, it’s been having problems all morning. Last year I’d suspect the Biden admin, this year I’m suspecting the “resist” movement is pulling some crap. Some of them are now burning down Tesla dealerships. It will be interesting to see who they blame it on.
Tax refund season means people get divorced, because they have money to pay a retainer. Or people who are already in divorces have to bicker about how to file their taxes, and who gets the refund.
If I had a nickel for every time I answer a question about filing taxes, I could take the glibertariat to lunch at a fine restaurant.
In other news, Lord H is expanding his empire of antiques, oddities, vinyl and collectibles and we will have a third location starting April 1st.
Does that mean your hourly rate is too low?
Good question ~ I am due for a raise !
Congrats to Lord H!
I could never have done family law. I had the impression it meant spending all day with people at their worst and most petty. Hard pass.
The reasons I continue: Sometimes there are clients who really appreciate you. Second, I can nerd out in small, but special ways. I have become a research nerd for that reason. Third, the right attorney can make a difference if a client is willing to listen: how to turn a dumpster fire into a small space heater.
Pam Johnson’s family did everything by the book. They paid nearly $50,000 for a grazing permit that was supposed to last 99 years. They followed government orders, sold their cattle, and gave up their livelihood—all in the name of protecting the endangered desert tortoise. But now, bulldozers are tearing through that same land to make way for homes, hotels, and retail stores. The so-called “protected habitat” was apparently only off-limits to ranchers, not developers with deep pockets.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/government-took-ranchers-land-for-conservation-now-bulldozing-it-for-new-housing/
Don’t you know that cows hunt tortoises, but bulldozers and cars avoid them?
This should be a capital offense.
Life imprisonment for the office receptionist, death penalty for everyone else, at every level, including the bulldozer rental place.
No fire water, but at least they weren’t given inflected blankets.
Two Millennial congresswomen have become unlikely allies on legislation to cap credit card interest rates at 10% — a policy that President Trump previously pitched on the 2024 campaign trail.
Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), 35, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 35, who usually find themselves on opposite sides of issues, unveiled legislation Friday to immediately stop credit card interest rates from jumping above 10%
https://nypost.com/2025/03/09/us-news/aoc-teams-up-with-florida-republican-rep-anna-paulina-luna-for-bill-capping-credit-card-interest-at-10/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost
This will have no repercussions on the financial system if it passes.
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced cap legislation last month. Ocasio-Cortez has been involved with similar legislation in the past, including a 2019 bill to cap interest rates at 15%.
“Credit cards with high interest rates regularly trap working people in endless cycles of debt,” she argued. “At a time when families are struggling to make ends meet, we cannot allow big banks to shake down our communities for profit.”
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Nobody needs 23% interest rate.
BIPARTISAN!!
Getting it from both sides at the same time.
Wait, nobody told me populism had a downside!
(1) Cap credit card interest at 10%.
(2) Many, many people can no longer get credit cards.
(3) “Credit cards are a human right!”