The field is set. And I think the committee gave the SEC just a little more credit than they deserved. But we’ll see how deep they are once the game start. Kinda shocked Auburn got the overall #1 seed after losing 3 of their final 4 games. But injuries at Duke probably impacted their decision. Across the pond, Liverpool laid its second egg in a row. I hope they’re not cracking. They could use the international break after their recent glut of fixtures. And that’s it for sports.
It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. Also, if it ain’t in writing, it doesn’t exist. So they technically didn’t violate a damn thing.
Good. Because this has nothing to do with the First Amendment. These people are involved in physical damage to property and violating the rights of others, for starters. Send them back.
Con-spir-a-cy. It’s a legal term. Look it up.
I’m not so sure he’s right here. But the ensuing legal wrangling will be interesting. The probe needs to happen whether the pardons are valid or not, by the way.
Wait a minute. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. We’re deploying our navy to protect our own border? That’s almost unheard of for the last few decades. So I’m sure a lot of lefties will be complaining about it.
Well………….bye! His “warning” is especially hilarious seeing as he burned through billions and didn’t deliver shit.
I do think they have a point here. If Musk wants to be treated seriously, he really should stay off of twitter a bit and quietly do his job. His number of tweets has gotten somewhat absurd.
I hope he tells them to fuck off. People have a right to privacy and the frenchies should accept that he’s not responsible for the actions of others.
What a piece of shit. I’m a libertarian, but it’s time to tighten up the regs on who we let barrel down the highways with 90,000 lbs of metal under their control.
This is an interesting level of pettiness. I understand it, but wish he’d focus on other pressing issues.
I may have played this recently. If so, I don’t apologize. This too. Oh well, it’s worth it if I did. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday holiday, dear friends.
Did you not get a chance to watch F1 yet, Sloopy? Because that was certainly not a boring Grand Prix… won’t comment on it to spare you spoilers if you haven’t…
Good morning all!
Dammit, I forgot to mention the crazy race. I guess I screwed that up. And yes, I stayed up to watch it live. It was worth it.
I feel for Piastri — just bad luck (and all the good luck went to Norris for being just that little different angle and able to keep it on track) the shower hit when it did. And all the rookies who I don’t think really did anything wrong or even were “inexperienced”… it was just a really tough track in that state on the painted lines.
And Ferrari continue to be stupid on their calls, imho. Which seems to be their mantra the last 10 seasons whenever they have any chance of competing… maybe they’ll wake up this time.
If Max had pitted a lap earlier, I think he’d have won the race. But all in all, I think he deserved to come in second. I do wish it had been Lando that spun instead of Piastri. I’d have enjoyed seeing the crowd reaction to an Aussie winning the race.
It’s Paddy Day and no coverage of Gaelic Football?
Did County Gaza win the All-Ireland? I missed it.
Hurling is not just for tonight!
Meh, this is league season; the real competition doesn’t get going until April.
That’s it for sports?
The Tournament Players Championship went into a playoff that will start this morning.
I’ll report on it tomorrow when there’s a winner.
Golf is an athletic activity, not a sport. Sports have defense.
Yup that was a great race and start to the 25 F1 season. Looks like we may get a three way run for the drivers championship with Lando, Oscar and Max. Nice to see the Hamilton Ferrari experiment start off with no podium. I hope Hamilton doesn’t win a single race this year. After that bs with Nelson Piquet I really root against him. Awesome to see Albon get a Williams P4. Hope that Sainz pulls through for them in the next races.
I have hated Hamilton since his whining during Covid, and doubled down on my hate when he started parroting BLM nonsense and giving interviews crying about how oppressed he had been. My dream this year is for Williams to up their game and Sainz to place ahead of Hamilton.
Yup, he is a whiny little bitch. Hearing an ultra rich, ultra famous ejit complain about their treatment is always highly annoying to hear. He was a great driver, i think he has lost a lot of that. It was unsurprising but lame for F1 to bow down to his way overblown sensitivity to Piquet’s comments that were at most too familiar and not deferential enough for him.
Yeah — I would think in each case in question you’d have to prove either the aides used the autopen without Biden’s knowledge (i.e. explicitly that he wasn’t told) or that he was mentally incapable. In the latter case — I think you’d have one hard row to hoe without the 25th being invoked. In the former, I doubt anyone kept specific records of “Don’t tell anyone — just sign it!”
So while I agree in spirit that most of “Biden’s” actions were probably done without stirring the tapioca, I don’t think they’ll be able to prove it and I suspect this will just fizzle out. If they can prove at least one though — they need to come down HARD on the ones who used Presidential authority illegally so no one thinks it is a good idea in the future hopefully. (Ha! Who am I kidding… “free power” without the nasty electorate being able to do anything about it? If the circumstances happen again… they’ll certainly try..)
I think the end result will be that the pardons stand. He could have simply said to any federal official that he was pardoning someone and they’d be pardoned, according to the constitution. The paperwork is little more than a written acknowledgment. Any regs on how a pardon must be written that limit the pardon power are probably unconstitutional if one reads Article II, Sec 2, Clause 1 plainly. They could just say they transcribed his words and used the autopen signature to memorialize it for the archives.
The other EOs, where there’s not a clearly delegated power giving him the blanket authority to issue them, might be a bit more problematic for the former admin.
They’ll probably stand, but let that fucking weasel Fauci squirm a little. It’s the least we can do.
How about a lot? Get some hungry beagles involved.
Can’t they declare the pardon invalid, toss him in fuckmeintheass prison, and then let him out in a week or two after the judge puts a stay on it?
Discovery may be the point of this. Let’s see what, if any, records there are supporting the claim that Biden actually directed that the EOs and pardons (and, hell, bills that “he signed”) be autopenned.
The idea that all this can be done if anyone at all sticks a document in the autopen and hits the button strikes me as unsound. How much and what kind of evidence of actual Presidential intent should be required, I couldn’t say, but “Zero” strikes me as the wrong answer.
The bills “signed” into law by autopen would still be valid, since they weren’t vetoed. After 10 days on his desk they become law even without a signature.
After 10 days on his desk they become law even without a signature.
I thought it was just the opposite – pocket veto is no presidential action on a bill results in an effective veto?
Pocket Veto is only when Congress is no longer in session.
Pocket Veto is only when Congress is no longer in session.
Guess I should “do my own research” before going off of vaguely recalled procedural rules. In the U.S., no signature within 10 days means bill becomes law. Unless Congress is not in session, then it means bill is vetoed. Very weird dichotomy.
There are a number of things he could do. Pumping the brakes on Twitter, and on public comments in general, but also the whole cartoon villain ethos, with the t-shirts and black MAGA hat, etc. It’s no more endearing on him that Z’s bullshit outfit. You wanna give a press conference from the Oval Office? Wear a fucking suit.
Wear a fucking suit.
Yeah. Casual dress is for the Senate.
I honestly wonder if he’s the big obvious flashy target to keep the media and the Jackasses focused while his team does the real work as quietly as possible.
Or he’s just gotten addicted to controversy. There’s more than a little Troll Administration between the two of them.
I don’t know, is Musk really the problem? Or is it Doge highlighting all of the waste in government and then everyone going along to pass a spending bill that cuts nothing?
It’s the latter. But Musk’s public actions are taking the spotlight off of the waste they’re gutting. Every report of cuts is prefaced with a feature about what he’s said on Twitter or somewhere else about something other than the cuts.
He needs to tone it way down and let the work speak for itself. And I agree with SDF-7 that Musk has become addicted to controversy.
There are many problems with differing levels of severity.
Musk is a small, minor one.
Musk is flawed. This does not distinguish him from any human being living, dead, or yet to be born. He has done, and is still doing, more than his share to improve things. That is not a claim that can be made of the overwhelming majority of human beings.
Maybe he doesn’t want to be taken seriously though. He’s obviously playing a bit of a villian role and he’s enjoying it but he’ll move onto the next thing before too long.
I agree with all of this.
I suspect that Musk suffers from poorly managed manic depression. I’ve heard rumors from TwiX and SpaceX employees that Musk sometimes spends entire days just laying on the floor of his office with the lights out. Combine that with some of his public behavior, and I don’t think this jack-leg diagnosis is really much of a stretch.
Obviously this doesn’t prevent him from being a smart businessman, but he should probably talk to someone about this shit. Bipolar disorder isn’t something that gets better on its own.
Something something fine line between genius and insanity. Definitely a genius and certainly not batshit insane but he has tendencies and behaviors that point to something going on.
Genius and being not altogether balanced do seem to correlate. It seems you don’t get Howard Hughes the aviation pioneer without Howard Hughes the piss collecting shut in.
Classic FUD from The Atlantic.
“Their unease”. Uh huh, sure.
I’m wondering just what we’re protecting against though — not a lot of call for a guided missile destroyer against smuggler boats or whatnot (well, you can — but seems like a waste to use a multi-million dollar cruise missle if you need to shoot one).
Honestly, I think we need something better than USCG cutters but lower tech (revive the Fletcher class plans?) to just be cheaper gunboats if we need to patrol the Gulf Coast area. There should be more than enough airfields in the area for backup if they need to.
Do they have a stash of the Apocalypse Now boats somewhere? Seems like those would do the trick and, yeah, they could call in air assets if they ran into anything too hairy.
Sometimes a projection of force is enough to make people think twice before they use the waterways to do their thing.
Besides, it gets those sailors back home more often to be with their families instead of stuck in the Middle East.
The gulf coast is lined with air assets. Eglin AFB and Pensacola NAS for starters.
If we’re being honest, we probably don’t *need* any boat protection of on the gulf coast.
We still have a ton of OHP FFGs in mothballs. I wonder how much it would cost to refit them for costal interdiction?
Surely it would be a better option than the debacle that is the Littoral Combat Ships.
I honestly thought that was going to be about Zelensky.
Like OMWC birthdays — I suspect we can come up with several candidates….
Good – kill the fucking thing and salt the earth. I am tired of subsidizing rural folk – if you’re internet sucks, tough shit.
Ours is great thanks to Elon’s Starlink.
Mine also is great, thanks to fiber optic, the local co-op phone company and subscribers like me.
“It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.”
They chose a good ruling to ignore and it’ll be quickly run up to the Supreme Court. It’s an almost perfect setup because no one in this country wants a bunch of tatted up murderous motherfuckers who shouldn’t be here in the first place back except for that sack-of-shit judge apparently.
It’s an almost perfect setup because no one in this country wants a bunch of tatted up murderous motherfuckers who shouldn’t be here in the first place back except for that sack-of-shit judge apparently.
This former Biden official apparently does as well. https://x.com/jonfavs/status/1901444339160797694?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
You want to give them asylum so bad, then host them in your own home, asshole.
There’s always one I suppose but the 80/20 comment he was reaponding to is spot on. The average undocumented Hispanic don’t want those types around either but it’s easy to make consequence free pronouncements when you live in a nice neighborhood.
…does sound like the kind of bullshit a former Biden official might spin.
Anyway, the Dems are energetically cheering on the likes of
SyrianPalestinianAlgerian terrorist sympathizers so it’s not a stretch to watch them give the same appreciation to Venezuelan gangbangers.Venezuela’s economy just came undone, guys. Just bad luck, I guess.
Oh c’mon, you know better than that – it was American sanctions that killed Venezuela.
I’m sure they didn’t help but that perception is a good reason for not using sanctions on an economic system that will crumble to dust under its own weight anyway.
I’ve said it many times before so y’all know that’s how I feel about pretty much all the non-EU / non-China tech companies and the EU / China attempts to force them to “local compliance”. The internet most certainly should not result in a race down to most restrictive laws — and some good and hearty “You can fuck right off” needs to be the response to keep that from happening, especially from US companies (I know this isn’t… just expressing the principle).
Hell, with Britain, one of our issues in 1776 was the employment of general warrants. Why the hell would we change our stance now?
Sounds like their commitment to privacy isn’t all that strong anyway.
But you have to admit that the left’s sudden concern for fReE sPeEcH is touching.
The left musing about free speech after a decade of vehemently punishing speech and never seeing a censorship law they didn’t like makes me want to kick a nun in the taint.
The left isn’t really defending free speech, just speech they like. Nothing has changed with them at all.
ACLU formed by commie lawyers to protect commie speech here in the US. Once they were convinced that they had a lock on speech and started shutting up their competition they renounced the first amendment.
Now they are crowing about free speech again, of course. Rings pretty hollow to me.
For those interested:
St Patrick’s real name was Sucat. And Patrick isn’t even an Irish name; it’s garbled Latin for patrician (nobleman).
Well no wonder he was so tough!
And he wasn’t born in Ireland.
His real name is Clarence
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/j0XVYBm0XuI
It’s all lies from the patrickarchy.
It’s an Irish name now. Every name, in every culture, starts somewhere.
Here’s the thing: Article II, Sec 2 doesn’t say the pardons need to be signed a specific way. It doesn’t even say they have to be signed. A president can say to a staffer, as a witness, “I pardon this person for crimes they have or may have committed between these dates” and it would be legitimate. The piece of paper is little more than a written record of the action.
I’d reckon the Biden officials will make that their argument. And it will be defended by everybody in the media (rightfully) who (wrongfully) claimed Trump hadn’t declassified the docs he was charged with withholding when he said he announced their declassification prior to removing them.
Sloopy, I think the real question is, did Biden ever say to pardon these people? If he did, then the autopen is valid. I think they are using the autopen issue to raise this question.
Which presents the next question: what is acceptable/sufficient evidence of his intent? Is one person saying “Yeah, he told me to pardon so-and-so” enough, with no corroboration? That might well be inadmissible hearsay, after all.
An autopen signed document shows nothing more than somebody put the document in the autopen and hits the “Go” button. A hand-signed document at least shows that the signer saw the document and presumably understood it before affirming it.
Pádraig, pronounced Porrig. (Strange language. For anyone who ever complained about the silent vowels and terminal Ts in French…)
I choose to believe that many languages spitefully Romanize themselves as a bit of rebellion against their Anglophone conquerors.
Pádraig {Pawdrig} Harrington waves hello
You can blame whoever decided that an alphabet designed for classical Latin needed to be used for Germanic and Celtic languages.
28th Annual Highway Report
Our friends behind TOS have released their annual highway report. Virginia would do better if you people would stop clogging I-95. Also, Maryland sucks.
If they were truly libertarian, they’d have a highly-weighted category where states get a ton of points for privatizing roads and cessation of public funding of any highway.
Alas, they’re giving credit to these places for how much taxpayer money gets used to improve government-owned infrastructure.
They think NY state highways suck, they should look at local streets. And despair.
In case you didn’t hate the globalists enough.
“WEF Demands Global Ban on Homegrown Food to Meet ‘Net Zero’”
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-demands-global-ban-home-grown-food-meet-net-zero/
Most of the world demands that the WEF talk a long walk off a short pier.
“Ve must not allow the peasants to not be dependent on our largesse. Zat vay we can not cull the herd when we deem the time is right!”
And yes — “Fuck right off.” is the first reaction. The second is “Did these assholes just all decide to do their post-grad at Blofield’s World Domination Trade School or something?”
Third thought is “First against the wall….”
Maybe this is an opportunity to get a challenge to Wickard.
How….Mao of them. Unspoken goal: complete control over the food supply then starve most humans to death.
I knew they would get around to attacking people’s tomato gardens sooner or later. This is the organization that wants to put chips in everyone’s heads to monitor their thoughts, right. Would someone drop those fuckers down a well already please. Or maybe wait until they all meet at Davos again and set off a couple of neutron bombs.
is that a reliable site?
It does seem ridiculous.
And yet not so ridiculous as to be unbelievable.
“This research, conducted by WEF-funded scientists at the University of Michigan, was published in the journal Nature Cities.”
I wonder how much of that came from USAID.
Fucking Wolverines. Can we just ship Ann Arbor to Europe or China?
😂🤣
Sure, why not. The technology doesn’t exist to go “net zero” in five years but let’s keep pretending otherwise and ban… *checks notes*… backyard tomatoes?
I think “demands” is doing a lot of work there, unless you think you should just blindly “follow the science”, which that crowd does.
A waggle o’ the shillelagh to you all!
I choose to believe that the (Italian owned) company that runs my workplace cafeteria has been deliberately trolling the Irish with their St. Pat’s menus. Today’s horror: “Spudsly O’Pizza
Pie.” Rye crust, thousand island dressing, corned beef, sauerkraut, tater tots, cheddar cheese.
Relevant to the lynx: It would be fascinating if we lived in an alternate universe where FJB went on the record as not being cognizant of some of the documents that were autopenned. I wonder how difficult it would be to provoke his desire for revenge to get him to that point.
Barf.
But then I’m not fond of thousand island or most rye breads (I actually like rye in concept… I despise caraway seeds — and just about everyone laces perfectly fine rye with the damned things from what I can tell… when I’ve found and eaten some without the seeds, I’m fine with it).
And of course Obligatory.
They’re not just dying everything green?
Ooh, fatal green food!
They do have green bagels. Then again, so does the Irish-owned diner I go to. Breakfast sandwiches on a bagel made with actual corned beef is a delight.
Try some green eggs and ham.
The ould country Irish wouldn’t recognize corned beef, as Italians wouldn’t recognize spaghetti with meatballs.
Today’s horror
Dammit, it isn’t Wednesday – you can’t spring something like that on us on a Monday.
I’m actually offended. I’ll be making a chicken alfredo tonight with angel hair pasta in protest.
I dont remember who it was now but some Biden official has admitted that Joe was surprised at some of ‘his’ policies and did not remember making them.
Hey NA, you working the Area 8 again this year?
Alas, no. It’s the weekend adjacent to A7 and That’s too much exhaustion/spend/PTO for me to handle.
My only majors are A7, the nats in Marengo (CO?) and the one at SUPS (race gun?). That’s all I’m planning. I’ve got two other cash-burners (a memorial and my niece’s wedding) this year.
“A waggle o’ the shillelagh to you all!“
None of that, now. This is a family-friendly site.
I thought there was at least one interview where Biden was asked about something he supposedly signed (a pardon, maybe?) and he had no recollection of it at all.
Fraking finally someone swung at that!
I’mma put some MERCURY RETROGRADE in next week’s IFLA to punish y’all for your lack of commenting.
Someone may have alluded to that up-thread NA
A present for Muzzled Woodchipper.
ELKA SYNTHEX – A 1980’s Legend Gets Fixed!
https://youtu.be/EaWjzvzZ6WY?si=8_wjuevai18G9nCq
The best part was JMJ’s Oxygene at the end. It’s been a long time since I heard that although I have it on CD.
The DVD Oxygene Live in Your Living Room is pretty sweet. The ‘added sections’ are not interesting, but the piece itself is well done. The bonus walkthrough discussing the various instruments went straight into my veins 😉
Is that what that is? Added to the list. I don’t have anything by him, which seems like an oversight.
Yup. Fun seeing all the tons of analog circuits on 1980s synths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Jarre
“Romania Bars Another Nationalist From Presidential Race For Opposing EU, NATO Membership”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/romania-bars-another-nationalist-presidential-race-opposing-eu-nato-membership
Yeesh, Romania is screwed.
Diana Sosoaca was banned in October before the whole election scandal, so obviously she would be banned now.
Romania has been screwed for some time now, nothing new here.
Come to the USA…we have whiskey!
Someone here would sponsor you, I bet.
(Not kidding!)
Tres Cool hardest hit
Great White made it to Macedonia
Well they have been ahummin and astrummin all over God’s world.
It’s one way to put an end to this madness.
The framing in the article is, of course, ridiculous. “documents matching their gender herpity derpity doo” and such.
If we’re going to have government IDs, then they probably should be reporting objective data on a person.
I travel that stretch of I35 where that accident occurred and I can tell you that with the construction (they’re adding HOV lanes) that the roads are too narrow, they were in poor repair before construction began and poorly marked on that particular stretch. A frequent feature of road construction in TX is that lane closures frequently tell you “left lane closed” only to find out they really mean “right lane” but nobody putting up the signs speaks enough English to know better, so I won’t be shocked when that becomes a factor in that accident (I believe it was 17 cars). My wife won’t drive that section regardless of how far she has to go out of her way.
You have, and never apologize.
I remember because that one always takes me immediately back to a very specific time and place.
“The program, created in the 2021 infrastructure law program, became a source of partisan fighting last year on the campaign trail as Republicans attacked the Biden administration for its slow pace. No internet expansion projects have begun using BEAD money, although some states were close at the beginning of this year.”
So in four years, with a budget of billions of dollars, they haven’t hooked up a single person to broadband? On what basis should he not be fired?
Hooking homes up to broadband is far less important than conducting crucial studies about the impact hooking homes up to broadband will have on various racial, gender, and sexual minorities. You’d understand that if your cisheteronormative consciousness was expanded properly!
Give him more money and time …
1) this timeline is normal for broadband funding
2) the last tranche was still under way (RDOF)
3) it’s a shift from the FCC to Commerce Dept
Is Mahmoud Khalil accused of vandalizing anything? And if so, is that enough to get a green card revoked? This seems like a really bad precedent to set imo
No, he led “negotiations” with school officials after they took over several buildings and blocked Jewish students from attending class. What got him was that he distributed pro Hamas leaflets and signs that supported that terrorist organization. If you look up the green card criteria they can revoke it at any time for any reason, he was here as a guest and overstayed his welcome.
I think he was a lot more than some random guy who volunteered to “negotiate” (read, be the spokesman) for the group that committed crimes on campus. He was one of their organizers.
distributed pro Hamas leaflets
Call me a free speech extremist, but that’s no excuse for govt intervention. Look, if you really want the guy, investigate his marriage (which led to him getting a green card) – was that a sham?
Any reason? Damn, I’ll encourage my sister in law to get her citizenship then. My brother and her don’t like Trump and I’d hate to see her deported because they aren’t bootlickers.
I am going to tentatively agree JI.
I am not good on the war on terror, patriot act etc.
He did plenty to get his ass sent home but that is the one they went for?
Me too, but not if you’re a guest in my home.
There is that too Rhy. I expect my guests to be respectful and toss them out if they are not. My wife however…she can say and do as she pleases.
In any case this is not a speech issue. It is a conduct issue.
He was part of the group that took over buildings and prohibited Jewish students from exercise their rights. He was their spokesman and negotiator. He took part in the criminal conspiracy to both illegally occupy and damage buildings and to deprive Jewish students of their rights. I think deportation is in order since all of those actions violate his green card status, and discretion to make that determination is at the hands of the SOS and President.
I agree JI that free speech should be for all, including guests. My stance does not prohibit me from booting said guest out on his/her/their ass if I don’t like what they state or if they smell like farts and hamster bedding.
part of the group
Uh-huh, and what others in that group have been identified and charged?
No, and most of the mafia dons don’t carry out their own hits.
I first read that as ‘media dons’ and it made sense to me.
I don’t understand the debate on this one. The deportation has nothing to do with free speech. It’s a clear violation of a requirement for a green card. Green card holders may not support, including endorsing, terrorist organizations.
He’s not being jailed for endorsing a terrorist organization. That would be a violation of free speech. He’s being deported because he violated the requirements for having a green card. Unless if someone is arguing that the requirements for a green card are unconstitutional, these separate issues are being conflated.
terrorist organizations
As designated by unaccountable bureaucrats between State and the IC?
Stupid question, but who hands out the green card – State?
☘️ This is the cutest recentish comedy ever.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2319283/
The autopen debacle. Yes get rid of it, just like getting rid of proxy voting. Sign the shit yourself or be there to cast your vote.
Wet signatures only in my opinion when we are talking about things that affect 330+ million people or basically the rest of the world.
Doesnt Trump sign all of his live on camera?
Looks like it. And he makes a show of giving away the pens. I would be shocked if he ever used that auto pen thing.
I do love me some OMD. We’re having a 35 year high school reunion in October. The 10 year one was lame, but a girl from the “alternative” crowd I hung out with is planning this one. Yesterday she sent me the official playlist and asked for my input. It’s been fun.
I got to see them when they came through Dallas years ago. It was great.
So Orchestral Manoeuvres in Dallas?
Back in the day the hot show was OMD with Depeche Mode. I wasn’t old enough to go at the time. 🙁
The 10 year ones are pretty much looking successful and hanging out with your old crowd. As time goes by and 35 is coming up it’ll be about being with all the class, including those you didn’t know very well. Some won’t come, for various reasons, but those that do show up will have a good time without so much booze.
Past that there will be dropouts as the calendar is relentless.
This year, my 70th, will be about 10-12, (from a 100), maybe and few out of towners. I think we’re batting about .200 now. and those that live very far will need someone to bring them. Still, it’s great to see the faces again. I’ll be the contact person, the girls will choose the restaurant, have lunch, an hour or two of BS and go home. No booze, no butts.
Honey Harvest is sort of the meet up for the annual reunions for the locals.
I’m not travelling across county to hang out with people I haven’t talked to since graduation. Maybe if it were local.
Our 10 year was at a country club, $75 a person. This time we’re getting a room at a brew pub.
I actually have no desire to see anyone from high school. I wasn’t particularly close with any of them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Several years ago I went to my 25th. It was kind of satisfying seeing how the popular crowd turned into a bunch of fat schlubs with less hair than me. And that was just the women.
They should run track sprinklers at every F1 race.
Heheh. It does lead to some great races. I was stoked when I turned on the teevee and saw rain in Melbourne. And two Williams starting in the top 10 was very nice, hope that trend continues.
No sports!? Cubs open against Dodgers in Tokyo tomorrow!!
We’re gonna be pretty good, with the chance of great if players have solid campaigns.
As always, my favorite MLB lines of Positivity Distraction Dust await my salutary snortations. 162 games. Bliss.
When will the Giants and Tigers play in the US? I would like to see some Japanese baseball.
Throwing the babies out with the bathwater
President Trump’s decision to shut down the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Radio y Televisión Martí in Cuba, and other U.S. government-funded media entities overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, was sudden, harmful, and deeply unfair. It places journalists in foreign language services, who have devoted years of their lives to their jobs and have done nothing wrong, in an impossible position.
To be sure, these agencies have suffered from terrible management decisions in recent years. But to break things by stopping all programming does not make these agencies better. Rather, it weakens their usefulness to U.S. national security.
Members of Congress from both parties must pressure the White House to allow these broadcasters to resume their work as soon as possible, even while supporting the administration’s efforts to restructure, downsize, and reform the agency’s bloated and dysfunctional bureaucracy.
That’s quite a compelling case.
Just have a Ministry of External Propaganda alongside a Ministry of Internal Propaganda.
The good journalists don’t need saving, they can handle the change. The strap hangers are most worried.
/See school teachers and their union lady for details
“t places journalists in foreign language services, who have devoted years of their lives to their jobs and have done nothing wrong, in an impossible position.”
What has that got to do with anything?
Also on the Biden pardons….all the screeching ‘Not my President!’, ‘not a legitimate president!’ crap from proggies during Trump 1 was, as always, projection. Biden was president the same way I was president.
They are sympathetic?
As opposed to all the blue collar people building a pipeline that Team Biden shut down on day 1?
Perhaps these journalists could also learn to code.
Or learn to lay pipe?
Just because something is a relic of the Cold War doesn’t mean it’s obsolete? It still employs people!!!
I can only imagine what kinds of propaganda they were broadcasting. The evils of transphobia and such, no doubt.
Modern Voice of America: White pipple in America is the source of all of the world’s evils!
Corned beef brisket was in the sous vide @ 140 degF for 24 hours (should have been 48, I didn’t read the recipe far enough in advance), then smoked for 2 hours, then finished in the oven.
We’ll see how it turned out tonight. Reuben sandwiches!
I bought a 23 foot long, 12,500 lb. capacity aluminum trailer yesterday for only $2800. It came with a 12,000 lb. winch! I will be able to haul shit (telephone pole, sheet metal roofing and siding, old tractors, old cars, etc.) now.
How about a load of firewood? Nice and dry.
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with something that’s actually Irish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUz4iYwCqxI
Funny old Irish man hates St Patrick’s Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3DO3rbrWmk
Thanks!
That’s the quality police work I expect.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/17/us-news/gene-hackman-wife-betsy-arakawas-doctor-claims-she-called-him-after-police-say-she-died/
Flipping the switch on far-UVC
We’ve known about far-UVC’s promise for a decade. Why isn’t it everywhere?
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/flipping-the-switch-on-far-uvc
Your immune system needs constant challenges to remain strong. This movement to sanitize everything will kill us.
I find this to be the most compelling argument against housecleaning. Thus, my immune system is strong like ox.
I’ve told people I’m a big believer in keeping my immune system tuned up. Mainly with poor personal hygiene.
classic George Carlin on germs and immunity
Canada’s recent population boom has not come with productivity gains
https://x.com/daniel_foch/status/1901468437450486147
productivity is capitalist obsession for increasing exploitation. No good comes of it.
I’d like to see productivity broken out by demographic, also change in size of demographic over, say, last 10 years.
They aren’t letting in doctors and engineers?
Didn’t some euroweenie country, maybe more than one, put out a study that found immigration was a net drag on the economy? I was shocked they would admit that.
Suthen those Eu countries are very segregationist; they don’t integrate foreigners into the country/culture/economy.
immigration was a net drag on the economy – not all immigration. Immigration from Europe and the US and Japan was a net positive. Immigration from Africa/middle east/most of Asia was a negative.
Refugees aren’t necessarily intended to be permanent residents, though. The status is supposed to last until the conditions that made them refugees abate, when they are supposed to go home again.
Also, the refugees/immigrants must want to assimilate, to shed their old culture and adopt a new one (to some degree, at least). As we have seen, many in the recent wave apparently have no such desire.
Climate justice
As a crucial climate lawsuit heads to trial in Germany next week, experts say the case brought by Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya against German energy giant RWE could set a significant precedent in the fight to hold major polluters accountable for climate change.
Lliuya’s lawsuit against RWE argues that the company’s historical greenhouse gas emissions have fueled global warming, accelerating glacial melt above his hometown of Huaraz, Peru. As a result, Lake Palcacocha has swelled to dangerous levels, threatening the community with the risk of catastrophic flooding.
“This is one of the first cases of its kind — a case brought by someone directly affected by climate change against a major greenhouse gas emitter — that has made it all the way to trial,” said Noah Walker-Crawford, a research fellow at the London School of Economics and an adviser to the non-profit Germanwatch, which has been advising Lliuya.
More preposterous hogwash.
Where did they find this “farmer”? Are the climate ambulance chasers running “Have YOU been injured by global warming?” ads on late night teevee in the Andes? “Call now. We can help.”
We laugh but this ridiculous shit will probably succeed.
The left will have their Dark Ages back By Any Means Necessary (to use the name of one of their favorite terrorist groups).
Why do they never go to China and sue?
What, and pay for the bullet they’d get for losing?
It is a mystery.
greenhouse gas emissions have fueled global warming
Go ahead, prove it. Prove it’s not just another natural cycle like the Roman and Medieval warm periods. Address the failures of all the climate models and all the failed warming predictions based on the CO2 premise.
For those that generously responded to my inquiry about Ethernet switches yesterday: I’m looking at a Cisco 3650-24PD-L. I settled on the 3650 since that model has still been manufactured relatively recently (of the models I found on eBay, the 3650s are the only ones that haven’t gone end-of-support).
Looks good! Use a fair number of the older 3750’s at work and never had to replace one personally. My spares are still in the box.
French MEP says US should give back Statue of Liberty
Raphaël Glucksmann, a center-left member of the European Parliament, has strongly criticized President Donald Trump’s radical change of US policy on the war in Ukraine.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2025/03/16/french-mep-says-us-should-give-back-statue-of-liberty_6739217_5.html
give it a good scrub before returning it.
Trump breaks people. Why does everyone respond to him with such stupidity?
it is a real talent.
They can have it back when they pay reparations for the tens of thousands of Americans who died in two wars to keep France from becoming a vassal state of Germany.
Come and take it back white flag boys.
Maybe he wants to melt it into bullets to hand over to Ukraine.
Sebastien Duyck, a senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law, says the reason why the case is so significant is not the decision itself or the amount of damages sought, but the precedent it would set.
“If we could use tort law to say that any fossil fuel corporation that has contributed significantly to climate change can be held liable for climate-related costs in proportion to their emissions, it could open the door for many similar cases worldwide,” he said.
The case could be “a game changer,” according to Murray Worthy, from Zero Carbon Analytics, a research group on climate change.
“This case is absolutely crucial,” Worthy said. “While this is just one case focused on this one place in Peru, the wider implications are huge. The costs and damages from climate change could run to tens of trillions of dollars a year, and if fossil fuel companies at large are found to be responsible for those and need to pay those costs, it would completely change the finances and outlook for the entire fossil fuel industry.”
We’ll bleed them dry. Nobody cares what happens after that.
You heard the man. Lootin’s got no end.
BTW, shouldn’t they be sueing the consumers of that power?
Now we know why they sued in Germany and not here – no one is going to shoot those looters over there.
Market discovers that people prefer concierge ERs not filled with bums, Feds pass law capping prices, concierge ERs go out of business, law is amended to allow apparatchiks to tie reimbursement to calculated “value provided”: markets are reinvented with additional deadweight cost
https://x.com/ElonBachman/status/1901619078566978002
I think there was a tv show once about concierge medicine.
Dr. Vegas, with Rob Lowe and Joe Pantaleano. Canceled after like half a season. It was actually pretty good.
I was thinking about Royal Pains
You’ll live to see manmade horrors beyond your comprehension.
https://x.com/LibertarianG0th/status/1900758774467498210
beeple
@beeple
FREE LUNCH
https://x.com/beeple/status/1901483410243109112
They still can’t do hands or feet
Leadership
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) narrowly leads in a poll of Democrats on which political leader “best reflects” the “core values” of the party.
In a CNN survey released Sunday, Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are asked to name one person, when “thinking about Democratic leaders today,” who “best reflects the core values of the Democratic Party.”
All sizzle, no steak. I can see that.
Lord Miles Official
@real_lord_miles
The craziest thing I saw in Zimbabwe was the goblins in small villages.
The locals were being terrorized by “goblins” with women and men alike claiming to be raped by goblins.
People who worked in shops and schools also claimed that the stuff being stolen was by “goblins”
I found out what was really happening.
Their culture was so retarded that they used the made up “goblins” as a scapegoat for everything
If underpaid by work, instead of protesting or unionizing for higher wages, locals would loot their workplace and blame goblins until they were paid more.
If a woman wanted to escape shame for being raped or willingly cheating on her partner, she claimed she was raped by goblins.
Everyone had a situation where they needed to blame something on goblins so everyone just goes along with believing in goblins.
It was the most bizarre phenomenon I had experienced.
https://x.com/real_lord_miles/status/1900980960587395224
I asked my father once why no one is able to do anything in Africa (He worked there for 35 years). He said “You have to see it to understand it.”
We have a friend, a black guy, whose brother works in Uganda. His comment about Africa was, “Those Africans are crazy.”
The end is nigh
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Sunday did not address directly whether she would support Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in a hypothetical primary challenge against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in 2028, saying instead there might not even be elections at the time.
“That’s four years from now,” Crockett told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” when asked whether she would support such a primary challenge.
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“We don’t even know what elections will look like in four years, if we will have elections,” she added.
Crockett — who, along with Ocasio-Cortez, has emerged as a young star in the Democratic Party in recent years — said there might be an appetite for fresher candidates when the 2028 election comes along.
“I definitely think that younger, fresher leadership may be something that many of us — not just depending on what part of the spectrum you’re on — but many Americans may be looking for it, especially in the state of New York,” she added.
Politics as salvationism. But how can we elect our perfect savior if the Philistines have torn down the sacred temple?
St. Patrick’s real name was actually Maewyn Succat
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/st-patrick-real-name-maewyn-succat
I like to think the name was pronounced “suck it”.