The downside of my little excursion to drink multiple top shelf brown spirits is the effect it had on my non-acclimated body. At least that’s what I’m blaming. Prime came through unscathed, slept solidly, no doubt due to her Irish genetics. I had massive digestive distress, intense heartburn, and general queasiness. I’m sticking to wine. And I stayed in bed most of yesterday so perhaps I’m behind a bit on the news, for which I beg forgiveness.
There’s a set of birthdays today, including a guy who had the single best line on religion ever; a woman who had interesting ideas about conservation; a guy who argued that freedom is slavery; a guy who was the equal of Welles in pioneering of cinematic methods and styles; a guy whose career consisted of killing British and then whining, “Who, me? A Nazi?”; a guy who was always glad to say hello; a guy who did a wonderful bit part in a John Waters film; and the guy who first drew me in to bluegrass and Americana.
And with that… Links. Fresh and hot. Their aroma is making me queasy…
Are the Brits finally starting to get a glimmer of understanding?
Great, just as I’m getting ready to go there. My timing is impeccable.
I still maintain that the OMWC Plan would be superior.
He seems stunning and brave. Nice grift you got there.
“I love him so much, I did a scene with him once.”
Let me guess- she had evidence that would lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.
It’s a dessert topping AND a floor wax! The thing not mentioned here is the intrinsic costs involved in making practical size structures.
The spirit of Harry Anslinger lives.
You can’t fault her for lack of ambition, as the Abbott and Costello tour continues.
Cute is one of my favorite standards and usually a vehicle for the drummer to solo. The Old Guy Bonus today is two versions, the first of which lets Frank Wess show off on flute, the second being one more argument that, within their style and genre, Louis Bellson was every bit as good as Buddy Rich. Count Basie and Oscar Peterson have diametrically opposite styles, which makes this an even more fun juxtaposition.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Ha! GAYYYY
Happy birthday Mark Twain?
Happy birthday Gerard Damiano?
Deep.
Happy birthday Edward VIII?
“Decades later, Costa co-founded the Troublemakers in 2023 to organize against the use of fossil fuel before the group set its sights on Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency operations.”
Does she need to wear a neck brace?
Yup… that was fairly spot on (almost surprisingly for a Brit, but it read like he actually talked to people here and listened..).
I would quibble with Wilson not wanting us in until the submarine warfare (he did… he just lied as all good Progressives do until after the election) and that FDR and Washington were focused on Japan until Hitler was dumb enough to declare war (agree with the dumb… but FDR was focused on Germany from ’39 on, just knew he couldn’t sell it).
And still think rather than “we’d still be stuck in the trenches” for WW1 the Euros would have eventually come to a ceasefire and peace after the Russian Empire collapsed that would have been better all around (no vindictive Versailles, no hyper-inflation, decreased chance of Hitler coming to power). But all minor quibbles.
Morning, Old Man… sorry you’re under the weather — hope you return to form. Morning everyone else (4×20, Sean, GT, Evan and Tres in particular from the overnight thread).
Bruh, Wilsonianism is over a fucking century old, and I’d hardly call squabbles like the Spanish-American war pictures of American “isolationism.”
“In Britain 100 miles is a long way… in America 100 years is a long time” I suspect would be his response. 😉
Wouldn’t be wrong per se, but in a country that’s only 238 years old with a century and a quarter long history of international meddling, it’s a reach to all isolationism the default policy.
Wilson won reelection by promising to stay out of WWI. After that war, there was a strong return to isolationist sentiment.
FDR had to set the conditions for Pearl Harbor before we’d get into WWII. Still debatable what we would have done if Germany had not declared war.
At what point did not sticking our dick into a regional conflict half a world away and trying to not start new wars in the Middle East become “isolationist”?
Romania… Turkey… Brazil… probably Germany soon… does seem to be the hot political trend to just accuse your opponents of corruption and lock them up again, doesn’t it? Too bad they’re also against dairies… we need more whipped cream on these banana republic splits….
I’ve been told by some of my dearest friends that I look like an Arab terrorist, and even I wouldn’t go there. As a Jew, you’re nuts.
Yeah, but I’m being paid well to do it, and it’s a short hop over to Georgia which is where I really want to go.
Wait… I thought you hated Atlanta! (/sarc)
Right after 9/11 my father and his 100% Norwegian buddy were going to Panama to fish. Sven (not his real name) distanced himself from Dad because he was convinced my swarthy father was going to get pulled aside for the Deep Dive terrorist interrogation.
Turned out that Dad waltzed through and the PC TSA pulled out his buddy for enhanced interrogation.
Great family story. The guy who was darker than Indians (feathers) gets through clean, but the guy who was blond, blue eyed and in his 50’s was pulled into the back room and strip searched. Both of them being probation officers knew that it was 100% a numbers game. Can’t pull over all the darkies. Gotta get some white folx in the box too.
I thought Ms. Thunberg would be too old for you now…. oh… the other plan… okay.
“The thing not mentioned here is the intrinsic costs involved in making practical size structures.”
No idea. Archive is blocking me.
Certainly I expect she calls upon Him often while performing. She may not really mean it, as I understand things… but she’ll still call out to Him.
I don’t think she does much performing. Just yet another story pushed by OnlyFan’s publicists. “I made enough money in one month to buy a house!” “I’m sleeping with 100 men in 45 minutes!” etc.
For example:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14515905/onlyfans-dentist-kelly-lamoreaux-denver.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14510095/Where-Demi-Rose-Social-media-sensation-29-seen-Instagram-JULY-deleted-following.html
I saw one of those meme-y church signs years ago that said “Spending Sunday on your back shouting ‘Oh God’ doesn’t count as prayer.”
Coming from the folx who’ve spent the last 15 years doxxing random small business owners and suing bakers into bankruptcy for wrongthink, let me see if I can find my tiny fucking violin for you.
Hey, can I borrow that violin?
“Kathy Griffin begs public for help to identify ‘creeper’ who is ‘harassing’ her about Trump — as fans fear for her safety ”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/22/entertainment/kathy-griffin-begs-public-for-help-to-identify-creeper-who-is-harassing-her-about-donald-trump-as-fans-fear-for-her-safety/
If any of these people were truly threatened, wouldn’t they call the cops?
Fans? All 3 of them?
“The voices in my head count!!”
Somehow I doubt the veracity of her claims, too.
The pronouns are dubious as well.
I don’t suppose there has been any arson, vandalism or property destruction at these “protests” in Seattle?
The claims none.
LOL.
ugh “article”
Istanbul was Constantinople.
Been a long time gone.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
It’s a mighty long word.
It is a little funny… my natural introverted instincts would make me perfectly happy living in one of those underground / basement style homes or a classic castle style “thick brick/stone walls” layout. We have blinds on almost every window here in the CA house to try to keep solar heating down.
But the houses I buy still have a crap ton of windows (because you can’t find much else and I’ve never had the money laying around or time to buy a lot and custom design/build.
And one of my bigger problems as a computer guy privately and professionally is actually getting rid of waste heat in the summer… so “having too many windows” doesn’t always play into my power bills per se…
Since one of the things I have to do when I get back to the GA house is change out the windows in the sun room — cheap energy efficient panes would be nice. Not holding my breath since this stuff never seems to manifest to scale (as OMWC alluded to in the summary).
Ramble ramble ramble….
As it happens, I have breakfast daily with the guy who invented the chemical strengthening method, so have gotten a reasonable grasp of the process and pitfalls. And in the Small World Department, the house that Spud bought here in Glibs Gulch was formerly that guy’s place.
I was going to joke and say what do you know!
Also the sealing around windows is critical. Still I’m astounded how much you can flex glass now.
Well, which is it then?
I’m not sure I’d bank on Sanders still being alive in 2028… but y’all do y’all, Jackass wing.
Nothing says “fighting oligarchy” like demanding the HHS secretary pledge his fealty to big pharma as a prerequisite.
“Who says organization, says oligarchy.” — Robert Michels
When I want to fight the oligarchy, I fall in line behind a guy who became a millionaire working for the government.
If the Oligarchs are named Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg, or especially Soros, they have zero problems with Oligarchy.
You get one oligarch wanders off the plantation and it’s time to release the hounds.
I wonder if people with anxiety or other conditions for which the study didn’t control, that make heart attacks more likely, are also more likely to use weed to cope with the condition.
Also, why are all of the data expressed in percentage terms with no absolute reference? What was the overall incidence of heart attack? A 1 in 600 probability becoming a 1 in 100 probability might not actually be all that scary from an overall risk calculation.
Did they control for participants’ proximity to Waffle House?
🤣😂
Even if the risk is actually significant, so what? An activity having an adverse effect on a person is relevant to the decision by the person involved to engage in it or not. It is not a justification for legal intervention, and we really need to eliminate the idea that the law exists to impose ‘wisdom’ on the masses.
100% agreed, but even as a strictly advisory study, you’d like to at least see rigorous analysis and controls (which, in all fairness, there may actually be in the full study; I just read the midwit take by the journalist who skimmed the executive summary).
–“young people who consume marijuana are six times more likely to experience a heart attack than their counterparts”–
My concern is for the people over 70 who smoke weed. How do their stats look? Asking for a friend.
Good thing I’m over 50 duuuuude…
*sound of deep inhalation
I don’t know of any young potheads who’ve had heart attacks, just like I don’t know of any young healthy people who died from covid.
How scientists misled the world about Covid’s origins
I love Matt Ridley.
– “New windows can insulate better than most walls, and some can even survive being hit with a two-by-four shot from a cannon”
Finally. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve come home to find the neighborhood kids have been firing their 2×4 cannons at my windows again.
What is the maximum banana by banana size window to maintain canon fired 2×4 resistance?
Sigh. Heat rises.
Super insulated windows are a scam. If you want to save money, spread more insulation in your attic.
* I was made aware of this scam by a buddy who works for one of the manufacturers of the super insulated windows.
Most of my windows are new or newer. There is more cold air around the frame even with insulation than from the window itself.
In hot climates self polarization or active shading would be more effective.
Commercial construction. Towers that are essentially floor to ceiling glass.
But I imagine the cost will be crazy for such a use.
Which one of you has this as your fetish?
I’ll betcha that’s comfortable in desert heat.
Just finished doing my taxes. The “Paid family leave” here in NYS, which is separate from income tax, was, rounding aside, exactly 10% of how much I paid in state income tax.
I remember when it was instituted they claimed it would be a dollar a week. Fucking bastards.
When the modern income tax was established via the 16th, the top rate was 7% and applied to incomes over $500,000, which is ~$15.3M in today’s dollars.
“The president wrote on Truth Social that he wants the approximately 56,000 people who live in Greenland to determine what they want.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14481677/trump-shock-update-greenland-plan-military-force.html
Couldn’t he just bribe them? Offer them a million each, that’s only $56B.
Can’t, USAID is shut down.
For goodness’ sakes, the population is 56,000. Just have 40,000 MAGA loyalists migrate up there. They will get free hotel, free food, and free healthcare, education and cell phones or else Denmark will be called racist. Oh, and checking for voter ID is racist too.
Then they can vote on separation…
The reason Denmark is Denmark though is that they really don’t allow people to do that.
“The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, has reached out directly to President Donald J. Trump with a historic proposal: help defeat a brutal rebel force terrorizing his nation, and in return, America will gain direct access to one of the world’s richest untapped troves of critical minerals—worth an estimated $24 trillion.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/desperate-peace-congos-president-offers-trump-control-24/
I’m no geologist, but $24T sounds like a lot of fucking minerals.
Presuming the increase in supply does not diminish the price, of course.
Also, fuck you, deal with your own bullshit and we’ll buy your minerals when you have a functional country capable of facilitating commerce.
Co and Ta is mined there and well as a lot of other critical minerals to future growth.
Plus Coltan is the coolest name in the mineral world.
I’m sure this deal would be void once a new asshole takes power at some point.
When the oh so enlightened west decided that colonialism was evil and must be eliminated it was clear to even the staunchest anti-colonialists that Congo was going to be a problem. The only part of the ‘country’ that had a chance at retaining any semblance of civilization was Katanga, but the decision was made that Congo without Katanga would be so awful the Katangese had to be kept in by force. Unsurprisingly Katanga was unable to prevent the rest from slipping into complete tribal savagery and genocidal wars, while the rest was more than adequate to bring Katanga down to the common level.
I did not realize how enormous the Congo is – about the size of the US east of the Mississippi.
And if there’s one place that makes sticking your dick into the Middle East look smart, it’s sticking your dick into Africa.
Now hold on just a minute. I saw one documentary that clearly showed how the best thing to do if your country has a shit ton of unobtainium was to just leave it in the ground, and another very popular documentary that said if you close your borders and mine it you will have wealth, prospertity and technology unsurpassed in human history.
Why would you let the fucking colonizers in?
“NYC teen raped more than 30 times by female shrink known as ‘Big Foot’ at juvie jail: lawsuit”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/22/us-news/nyc-teen-raped-by-female-shrink-known-as-big-foot-at-juvie-jail-lawsuit/
STEVE SMITH FOREST LAWYER NOT SHRINK
Has anyone seen Big Mike lately?
She just came out with a new podcast. It hasn’t done so well.
An a new haircut inspired by Ruby Rhod from the 5th Element.
Goony-goo-goo!
Nice Aunt Bunny reference!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
How sweet
“Second Lady Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President JD Vance, will be traveling to Greenland to attend the traditional Avannaata Qimussersua dog sled race, according to a report from Greenlandic outlet Sermitsiaq.
The visit from Vance comes after President Donald Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, visited Nuuk, Greenland in January along with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The outlet reported that the US has been wanting to support the traditional dog sled race, but the visit is on private and not official terms, according to the outlet.
The dog sled race has gotten some financial assistance from the US from the United States consulate in Nuuk as well, the outlet reported.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/usha-vance-to-travel-to-greenland-to-attend-traditional-dogsled-race-report
Sounds like she’s trying to curry favor.
Spicy take: DOGE ought to take a look at whether the US consulate in Nuuk needs to be providing financial support for a dog sled race. Or for that matter, whether the US needs a consulate in Nuuk.
Aren’t you being a bit Bombay-astic with these claims?
I’m sure Tater is sari.
Sari about that.
See here! Naan of that now!
Dalit down with these puns before Swiss has to come in here.
We could always tell Swiss to Goa way.
She really is a Dahl.
A whole article on a dog-sled race with nary a single picture of a god. Sad.
And what Pat said. What, do we also provide unemployment insurance in GREENLAND?!?!
s/god/dog. Whatever.
To be fair, there wasn’t a picture of a god, either.
As far as we know, anyway.
“There are of course differences between the cases, but they cut against Khalil, who is not a citizen, whereas the nasty Nazis were. Khalil has a visa and green card, but they may have been obtained fraudulently. If Khalil had answered the visa application question on whether he intends to provide “support to terrorist organizations” in the affirmative, his applications would have been denied. If he answered it falsely, as he presumably did, he would have obtained his documents by fraud. In that case it should be revoked and he should be deported.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/alan-dershowitz-mahmoud-khalil-deserves
I don’t see how he provided support to terrorist organizations, as I don’t think verbal support counts.
I don’t know all of the particulars, but from what I’ve read he was some sort of organizer for a group that provides money to Hamas. It all may come down to what the definition of “is” is, in terms of how many degrees of separation are necessary from dollar to pocket before one is providing “material” support.
Yeah, my impression is he wasn’t just waving a sign, but was a leader/organizer of protests that went way beyond First Amendment expression.
Plenty of protests get out of hand. That doesn’t mean every non-citizen who supported BLM should get kicked out the country.
Agreed. I need more details on this. My assumption is that the case is quite strong in order to make him an example.
There is kind of a totality of the circs thing, which I don’t pretend to have a complete handle on. I don’t think the protests in question were a one-off, but more of a campaign to drive Jews off campus by, as the saying goes, any means necessary. I think there are links to Hamas as well. If both of those are reasonably grounded in fact, then I have no problem with booting his ass.
The 1A doesn’t immunize you from any and all consequences. Plenty of crimes (fraud, conspiracy, to name two) have speech as an inherent component. You don’t get to say “My promotion for a perpetual motion machine was just words, its protected under the 1A” or “When we organized this bank robbery, we were just talking, which is protected under the 1A”.
How many protests and for how long?
Mind you I’m on the side of leaning towards the free speech argument but, speech is how one says things that aren’t protected.
Personally I think he’s guilty of terroristic threats, but he has the presumption of innocence and should be out on bail pending a trial.
“The 1A doesn’t immunize you from any and all consequences.”
True, but I don’t know if he actually incited violence. So far it sounds more like this bullshit:
https://wikimore.private.coffee/wiki/en/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism
Particularly in the case of a visa/green card, which is bestowed conditionally. It’s akin to, say, losing your license to practice law because of a “good moral character and fitness” requirement. Your right to be a sleazebag may, indeed, be constitutionally protected, but your law license came with conditions that were understood when you applied.
Pretty sure SCOTUS ruled a long time ago that permanent residents have the same BOR protections as citizens. So anyone with a green card doesn’t have any greater restrictions on speech.
That doesn’t mean every non-citizen who supported BLM should get kicked out the country.
This is one of the places I part ways with libertarianism. I think “non-citizen” completely changes the calculus on issues like this. Visitors to the club and applicants to join the club don’t necessarily get the same benefits as members of the club. We can’t kick our fellow members out for supporting evil movements, but we can certainly reject an applicant who does, or remove a visitor. So in short, yes, every non-citizen who supported BLM, or Hamas, or socialism, or nazism, or pedophilia should be kicked out.
Pretty sure SCOTUS ruled a long time ago that permanent residents have the same BOR protections as citizens. So anyone with a green card doesn’t have any greater restrictions on speech.
They did, Bridges v. Wixon, 326 U.S. 135 (1945). Fortunately they have the power to overturn bad rulings.
“Supporting the democratic form of government” is one of the listed conditions for maintaining legal permanent residency, and there appear to be a bunch of other stipulations as well in the law. That’s a pretty nebulous condition to apply, and probably amounts to “We can fuck around with you for pretty much any reason we feel like,” which, while it may not be fair or right, is just the nature of the game. I don’t know enough about that particular aspect of immigration law or this guy’s exact case to say how it applies, but tbh, I just can’t muster much giveafuck for some CAIR shithead getting disinvited from the party after shitting in the punch bowl.
“So in short, yes, every non-citizen who supported BLM, or Hamas, or socialism, or nazism, or pedophilia should be kicked out.”
Then someone else could say every non-citizen who does not support BLM, or Hamas, or socialism, or pedophilia should be kicked out. Just like Lauren Southern got kicked out of England for saying it’s OK to be white. Or the next leftist administration here could boot Jordan Peterson, or anyone else they don’t like.
Deporting people for breaking the law is one thing, deporting people for not supporting the right opinions is another thing entirely.
““Supporting the democratic form of government” is one of the listed conditions for maintaining legal permanent residency, and there appear to be a bunch of other stipulations as well in the law. That’s a pretty nebulous condition to apply”
It is, since the last President declared Trump an existential threat to democracy.
All the attention being heaped on this prince is a distraction; like I said before there are hundreds of others waiting to take his place, many of them citizens. Throwing this guy out doesn’t solve anything.
This one is an interesting one to me.
We don’t yet know what argument the Trump administration is going to be making and they’re actually somewhat keeping this close to the vest.
It will be something more than “we don’t like his speech”, but I’m not sure I know much about immigration law and what you can get away with.
Historically, the biggest reason that energy-efficient technologies get adopted is that building codes require them, says Schleicher. Without explicit regulations that enforce minimum standards, builders often seek deals on materials so that they can maximize profits, and businesses and individuals who rent out properties often have little incentive to reduce tenants’ month-to-month energy bills.
Read Next:
Affordable Housing is in Stubbornly Short Supply.
Why won’t greedy developers build more housing that loses money? I don’t get it?
You see the problem is the men.
American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage
I read part of that yesterday. They were talking with their (WSJ’s) demographic, college-educated women with professional jobs. No mention of hypergamy that I saw in a partial scan, or whether their expectations are perhaps a trifle unreasonable (the Three 6s, say).
Too bad it’s paywalled. I’m curious about “their expectations.”
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-54840971?st=iUmEAR&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Shouldn’t be.
Opens in Firefox but not LibreWolf. I blame Pat.
In my defense, it could be worse: you could have my custom user.js.
privacy.resistFingerprinting is most likely the culprit. WSJ appears to do a canvas print and some form of DDoS screening when you visit. Doesn’t work for me either in my main browser or ungoogled-chromium with CanvasBlocker – I have to use Badwolf.
Tradition is the solution to problems we forgot we had.
Were the men surveyed also college-educated, so that we’re comparing similar cohorts? Was there any notable difference between college-educated and non-college-educated women?
In any case, allow me to be a sexist prick and say that men generally are better at self-sorting in a hierarchical fashion. Their expectations are therefore probably more realistic. No 300 pound fat guy goes to the bar and thinks he’s going to pick up the chicks that the 6’3″ roidhead is hitting on. 200 pound chicks, meanwhile, know they can bed the roidhead if he’s sufficiently horny and strikes out with the dime. For reasons of evolutionary biology and culture, men also have less incentive to be concerned about the status of a potential mate, where a man’s status is a prime indicator of fitness for a woman. The pill has only been around for half a century and our monkey brains still think we need to be concerned about keeping our offspring same from mammoths and bandits.
Related – women won’t marry down (and rarely date down). So if these educated professional women go to the company Christmas party and meet their male co-workers’ girlfriend who is the greeter at Applebee’s no problem. They would not date the male greeter at Red Robin, and would only fuck him if they were really drunk an lonely.
Yeah, that’s a good example of what I meant. And it makes sense in broad strokes. Dude’s monkey brain knows that the Applebee’s greeter can copulate and spit out kids just as well as an attorney or physician. Dudette’s monkey brain knows that the Red Robin greeter will never have the same command of resources as an attorney or physician.
single best line on religion ever
Relevant.
Also relevant in one small bit. Cracks me up every time.
“Some of the most effective, strategic and response leadership happening in this moment is coming from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and she’s doing it better than many Democrats that we see nationally,” said Abbas Alawieh, a senior progressive strategist. “She is reminding the party what real leadership that is responsive to the energy of movements actually looks like.”
She knows which parade to jump in front of.
Progressives say that unlike others in the party, these figures are connecting with the outrage that voters inside and even outside of the Democratic coalition are feeling in the administration.
“She and folks like Bernie and folks like Sen. Murphy are articulating the righteous outrage that countless Americans are feeling right now and it’s not like AOC or Bernie has some unique source of power,” said Sawyer Hackett, a progressive Democratic strategist.
Progressive liberals are terrified by change.
Progressive liberals are terrified by change.
Progressive liberals are terrified by change they do not drive and control. Change that does not allow them to force their countrymen to conform to their ideals, reality based or not, torment their enemies and hear the lamentations of xer they/thems.
“I love him so much, I did a scene with him once.”
https://laboroflust.home.blog/2019/01/16/divine-interventions/
NSFW.
Christian tradition has it that Jesus saw every sin committed by human beings during the crucifixion, meaning he saw somebody 10 inches deep on a crucifix dildo and still chose to sacrifice himself for their redemption. Absolute legend.
Mormon tradition has it that this (plus experiencing people’s joys, pains, sorrows, accomplishments, illnesses, motivations, etc.) happened in Gethsemane, the crucifixion was to wash away those sins, and the resurrection to “conquer” all that suffering (although “conquer” is never explained well or with any precision) or make those sins disappear as if they never existed at all. Hence, sweating blood.
I personally believe that if he did take upon him all the sins and sorrows of the world in Gethsemane, as I believe, the crucifixion was likely partly to put him out of his misery.
Technically yes, it’s the same in Christianity (at least for the sins; not sure about joys and accomplishments), but I took a shortcut for the sake of meme brevity. The exact nature of Christ’s conquering of death and sin, not being fully explicated in the text, is a point of fierce division in Christian soteriology, both between and within protestant and Catholic traditions, with penal substitution, ransom theory, fishhook theory, and various other proposed means of atonement.
I look at it like this:
If Christ is our judge at the Judgment Seat, he can only apply perfect justice and mercy if he knows all the things that drove us to do what we did. Motivation is an important determiner in meting out justice/mercy (even though man dies it imperfectly, of course).
For instance, Catholics believe that suicides go to hell (or some such) (forgive the shorthand), but some people suffer so much they feel they have no choice. Thus, if Christ suffered with that person, he can then understand why that person felt driven to suicide and mete out the appropriate consequence.
There may be a slightly different understanding of the function of grace in Mormonism, just as there is between protestant, Catholic and orthodox Christianity. Protestants, drawing from Paul, are grace maximalists. God the father serves as the judge; Christ the son as the mediator; the holy spirit as helper. In that construction, our balance of accounts with the judge is made perfect by the intercession of the mediator based solely on the faith we place in him and not by any work we have done, or ever could do. Catholics and orthodox, drawing from James, are grace minimalists and performance maximalists. God the father still serves as judge, Christ the son as mediator, but the intercession of the mediator is conditioned upon performance sufficient to demonstrate the sincerity of the faith. In a grace-maximalist environment, it’s not necessarily crucial for Christ to be able to identify with motive; he intercedes regardless.
Use this to drive the demons out of crazy chicks.
Boring is going to build the next generation fighter plane? They can’t even build a giant flying limousine.
Boeing, not Boring.
Boring would probably do a better job.
So I find my mom made an end run around me with Susie and our lawyer and didn’t tell me. I guess she’s gonna let Susie walk all over her again, so it’s out of my hands now.
Technically her choice, I guess, but it’s incredibly frustrating watching the oldsters do idiotic shit that you can’t fix short of a POA.
Yeah, but POA is only good in this case if she is incapacitated mentally or physically.
Well, shit.
Her choice. The hard part will come if she doesn’t have enough to pay for out-of-pocket care. I have a bad feeling at that point everyone will look to you to come up with the money. The Cunty Aunts certainly aren’t going to pony up. It’s gonna be hard to tell your mother “Sorry, you fucked up, but it was your choice. Live with it.”
today I learned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekt%C5%8Dn
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The term is chiefly notable for New Testament commentators’ discussion of the employment of Jesus and his father Joseph, both described as tektōn in the New Testament. This is translated as “carpenter” in English-language Bibles.
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Turns out that carpenter might be a mistranslation, all the more so since wood construction was rare in that time and place.
On the other hand, the Aramaic term translated as tekton is naggara, which is pretty close to najaar, the modern Arabic word for carpenter.
So architecht is garbled Greek for “king of the craftsmen” or some such (archon + tekton).
Yep, Christian historians have been battling each other on that point for a hot minute, both in an academic and ecclesiastical context.
Tangentially relatedly, I have been very happy with, and would feel comfortable recommending, Tekton ratchets.
Naggara, please.
We’re experts! How dare you question us?
Editor’s note: This op-ed was written by a group of current and former employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who have asked to remain anonymous due to concerns about retaliation.
The Trump administration is making accusations of fraud, waste, and abuse associated with federal environmental justice programs under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as justification for firing federal workers and defunding critical environmental programs. But the real waste, fraud, and abuse would be to strip away these funds from the American people.
As current and former employees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who developed and implemented the agency’s environmental justice funding and grant programs, we want to offer our first-hand insights about the efficiency and importance of this work. This is not about defending our paychecks. This is about protecting the health of our communities.
IRA funding is often described as a “once-in-a-generation investment,” putting billions of dollars toward improving the lives of American families in red, blue, and purple states. Working with communities, we’ve been placing these resources directly into their hands, supporting people to better protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land where we live, learn, work, play, and grow — including key protections from natural disasters.
As civil servants, we took an oath to protect and invest in the American public. We are committed to providing effective programs and being responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars, and there are many policies in place to ensure our accountability. But despite our careful planning and oversight, the new administration is halting programs Americans depend on for their health and wellbeing.
We know what you need. Don’t ask questions.
“environmental justice”
And as experts go, you can’t get more credible than an anonymous expert.
But the real waste, fraud, and abuse would be to strip away these funds from the American people.
Where do I get my share of those funds?
These experts will hand it out to those that need it. Scientifically. Don’t you trust The Science, bro?
These are the same people that wonder why Trump won.
I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
Ramsey, a conservative radio pundit and personal finance expert who focuses on encouraging people to live a debt-free life, posted without comment an exasperated GIF of himself on the social platform X.
In the snippet, which is taken from Ramsey’s popular show, the money wiz shakes his head and buries it in his hands.
He linked it to a post touting the DoorDash-Klarna partnership on Thursday as offering customers an opportunity to “choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments or deferred options aligned with payday schedules.”
This is where living the cash free life takes you. Do I have enough money for lunch? Who cares?
from the marriage article above:
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Her last long-term relationship ended two years ago over conflicting views of their shared future. “He wanted the white picket fence and me at home with the kids,” Jones said. This despite the fact that her salary was nearly 50% higher than his.
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Rachael Gosetti, a 33-year-old real-estate agent in Savannah, Ga., said she broke up with her boyfriend, with whom she shares a 5-year-old son, over a year ago because she was tired of doing most of the child care, cooking and scheduling while also earning almost double her boyfriend’s salary.
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Jones, who identifies as politically moderate, thinks couples with kids should split household and child care responsibilities equally. She was surprised by just how few of the men she has encountered in D.C. share this view. Either they held traditional ideas about marriage or “were extremely crunchy liberal and wanted to live in a van and drive across the country.”
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The husband store joke comes to my mind.
My online dating suggestions have been about 80% single moms for past few years. Also lots of women who don’t live in the US. So the pickings can be pretty slim for men too.
I’m wary of marriage but would still like to give parenthood a try. There was a homeless schizophrenic who managed to father 40 children through a combination of lying and donating sperm. Crazy like a fox, that guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOsQD9KVxM4
Turns out a lot of women are dumb.
In other news, I’ve been taking St John’s Wort, and it’s been helping my mood in sleep cycle.
The deferred payment plan, which will roll out fully in the coming weeks, was touted by both companies as providing an alternative for people struggling to afford everyday necessities.
That certainly makes sense.
I have an idea….
Let’s put people who can’t afford lunch into debt!