Good morning one and all to another splendid day!
Federal Reserve March Policy Meeting—Key Takeaways
Three FBI Most Wanted fugitive arrests in two months signal return to ‘premier’ agency: former agent
Obama Judge Who Blocked Trump’s Deportation Flights Tied to Radical Leftist Group
Judge blocks Trump’s executive order banning transgenders from military
Inside A Taxpayer-Funded Think Tank’s Aborted Rebellion Against DOGE
DOGE Going After Welfare Fraud — ‘The Money’s There’
Trump to Sign Order to Eliminate Department of Education
Biden-era censorship initiatives involved 90 agencies, independent report concludes
North Dakota Jury Rules Greenpeace Liable For Hundreds Of Millions In Damages
San Francisco Pride Festival Dropped by Major Corporate Sponsors
Florida Man Challenged ‘Antichrist’ Trump to ‘Fight Me Naked to the Death’
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The FBI has never been, nor will it ever be, a ‘premier’ agency. It was birthed in corruption, grown in incompetence, and will hopefully die in ignominy.
Yes. But it’s nice they are going after child rapists and foreign gangs and not some Boomer who walked into the Capitol and took a selfie.
That was a trifle more forgivable than going after thought crimes for praying near an abortion clinic or daring to object to your school board that boys with sexual assault history were encouraged to shower with your daughters.
So… props, I guess.
To be fair, it’s not impossible that by going after those, they’ll get kompromat on their priority targets.
I guess, Banjos. But I am tempted to see this as pretty much PR, a little brand-fluffing, while it’s still business as usual behind the scenes as America’s de facto secret police.
What I’m saying is, fuck the FBI in the ear with a broken-off pool cue.
Agree about the history of the agency. I’d settle for a merely competent agency that enforces federal laws domestically.
Obligatory, but I’m with you there.
Whoa there big fella – what federal criminal needs to be enforced? Congress ain’t got no general police power.
If they start Hoovering up the right people they just might.
OK Swiss, that’s three strikes, give this guy a narrowed gaze.
Depends on how it’s dressed!
@swiss
I know that look. You are casting about desperately for the nearest bog pit because that kimchi is brewing in your guts.
Doubt me? Check out the dude in the back who is hoofing his ass as fast as he can away from Sir Fermented Garlic Breath.
Swiss, that pic reminds me of
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083131/mediaviewer/rm3906561024/
So, a federal judge then.
Given it is yet another “Their daughter works for Fringe Left Political Group X” type situation… yeah. Presumably all their offspring are shunted off to Ivy League Indoctrination Camps, they all then come out and work at NGO/PAC Slush Funds-R-Us, and you end up with exactly this scenario. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if it were true for at least 75 percent of every federal judge.. .just part and parcel of being “elite” now, after all.
It is spelled S C U M
It is spelled S C U M
SCUM Manifesto. That’s something I haven’t heard mentioned in a long time.
Journalist Laura Loomer
Yeah, there’s a reliable source.
Also, my first thought, but doesn’t mean it isn’t true.
“Moreover, the far-left organization receives 76% of its funding from U.S. government grants. That’s right—American taxpayers are funding organizations that fight for criminal illegal aliens and gang members to remain in the U.S.”
OFFS!
And the connection is “his daughter”. Well, there’s a direct pipeline because we all know how much money children funnel to their wealthy parents!
JI, it would be still a conflict of interest for a judge if he were to rule that the government has to keep paying his daughter’s salary, even if he doesn’t see any of the money. Or if his daughter’s organization was actually a party in a case.
I don’t think either of those is in play here, but them’s the rules.
Hey, just like parents having “skin in the game” by their children serving/being forced to serve in the armed forces.
I suspect “Invite Ron Paul to our meetings” wasn’t one of them somehow…
Morning Banjos! Morning all!
Florida Man Challenged ‘Antichrist’ Trump to ‘Fight Me Naked to the Death’
Now that’s a link! Good Morning, everyone.
At least we know Tonio’s answer to “Are you not entertained?”
There’s an apparent crank who sets up pallets in his front yard with stenciled messages. They used to be “FUCK YOU DIRTY JOE BIDEN” and the like. He’s not a partisan crank though — now they’re anti-Trump and “Rocket Boy.”
This is NOT the guy who flies the Gasden flag.
Let me guess — one of the “Sovereign Citizen” types that is so outrageously stupid about it that their interactions with courts and/or cops gets put on Youtube and gives the entire concept a bad name?
Lunatics drawn to lunatic fringe theory? Whodathunkit!
The real life Randy Marsh
I’m sorry, I thought this was America!
Randy is my favorite character – he is just there to do whatever crazy shit Trey and the other guy thought up this week.
Anyone have the URL for the Go Fund Me to bail Brett L out?
Here you go Ted! 🙂
Puts me in mind of this classic reference.
Im fairly certain that is destruction of Federal property but hey, we can let it slide if we are shuttering the doors.
Wait… doesn’t everyone damage their buildings, plant viruses or steal data and generally sabotage their workplace when there’s a management change they don’t like? (/sarc)
No, just you.
Like a wolverine, I pee on everything on my desk when I leave.
You and I remember Red Dawn very differently, RoaT.
There are a few total shutdown buttons to be used in case of a meteor strike/terrorist attack/etc.
Those of us (ERT members in my case) who know about them refer to them as “I quit” buttons.
That red button my the datacenter door was so tempting, but I never actually pushed it.
Kinda wish I had, they don’t let me in the datacenter anymore anyway.
SDF-7:
Isn’t that the climax of “Office Space”?
Wait, you mean it doesn’t end with the giant space squid tearing off its Lumburgh suit and engaging in a firefight against the protagonists until the whole building burns down?
I was in a small datacenter once where the red button was right next to the light switch just inside the door. I was told that someone once pushed the button while fumbling around trying to turn on the lights, and nobody noticed until about half an hour later when the UPSs started failing.
I was watching Rico Suave’s show last night and they were talking about this. The woman on the show was defending USIP by saying “They are independent! They are experts! I don’t really know what they do, but they say they have programs and policies for peace! How can you be against that?!!?” It was really something.
See my comment yesterday about the term ‘social justice’. How could anyone be against that!?
“Demented and sad, but social.”
I’ll believe it when they don’t just shift the wasteful functions to other agencies.
I’ll allow it if the other agencies are “The states”. They won’t be able to control if CA or NY or whatnot decide to do the same crap with the money they would have sent to DC after all.
From ABC news.
To be fair, Carter carved it out from some multi-functional department in the first place, so I guess we’re reverting to the status quo ante.
Not good enough.
Yep, HEW – the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Gods, can you imagine if that monstrosity as a single department today? It would dwarf the DoD.
“They,” who exactly?
I know there are some statutory requirements for some government agencies, but beyond keeping those active to the least degree possible I don’t see that happening. And as to those statutory requirements, it’s up to the Congress to abolish those.
“They” being officials whose names I do not know because there are millions of them.
So, it looks like I was correct. We are looking at the death of the party of rapists, murderers, arsonists, pedos, trannys, invasion and mengelaesqe child mutilation.
San Francisco democrats are a big part of that. If you harken back to the days when they were Jonesing to get in office it explains a lot.
What you did there… was seen and merits appreciative soft applause.
I am trying to Milk the situation for all the jokes I can.
Swiss won’t miss that you know.
Suthen is feisty this morning.
He must have had a Feinstein of lager before commenting.
That remains to be seen. People have short memories, and many are stupid enough to be swayed by the legacy media. The midterms will tell us a lot.
Many are stupid enough they don’t even need the MSM to mislead them.
That one honestly surprises me.
I don’t know, I guess at least some corporations are a bit better at reading the room.
After the last 20 years of corporate America as moral crusader bringing civility to the benighted flyover country nose-pickers, I didn’t expect any sort of turnaround except maybe in the event of a civil war or something. I know the ideology of the management class hasn’t changed in the last 6 months, and they were fine with hemorrhaging money for their social cause for the prior decade at least. It makes me wonder what they’re up to.
Pat:
I think after seeing Bud Light and Target both step on their dicks, some of the other companies are taking a closer look at how sponsorships may come back to bite them. Keep in mind that a lot of Pride organizations and bars also jumped on boycotting Bud Light, because they didn’t double down on their special edition can.
They may be beginning to realize that jumping into divisive politics and pissing off and alienating half their potential customers isn’t the best marketing strategy. At some point shareholders are going to be fed up with loss of profits.
Sponsorship isn’t increasing sales and we now have an opportunity to back out.
#metoo but it’s a long time coming. Those events were shockingly inappropriate twenty years ago the last time I attended one; I can only imagine how much further it has sunk.
To wit: “gay rights” are long settled. There is pretty much nothing to “agitate” for. Now these parades are just a cesspool of narcissistic one-upmanship.
mission creep to trans, pedo, and zoo “rights”
“You weren’t looking hard enough” shouts everyone else. Like the DEI day one mandate, I don’t seriously think there was an aspect of government that push would have left untouched.
This blame Biden is so fucking pointless. The roots of this stretch back – right through Trumpie’s first admin, back to Obama and some even back to Bush. I so fucking hate this stupid, mindless partisan distraction.
That isn’t the point, JI. It is that the Biden Admin explicitly ordered this throughout the government. So it isn’t surprising that they did what they were ordered to do.
Pointing that out isn’t “partisan”, it is that it isn’t surprising and needs to be reversed. Sheesh.
Sort of, kind of, but also not really. It’s incremental, of course. We couldn’t have gotten to the Biden admin having federal agents literally telling Twitter staff which accounts to throttle or ban based on speech they didn’t like without the foundation laid by Bush’s warrantless surveillance and secret national security letters, ostensibly overseen by even-secreter star chamber courts, but nevertheless, the fever pitch the censorship regime reached during Obama’s third term with Biden nominally at the helm was unprecedented.
Biden didn’t order anything but pudding. That’s also the point. The “administration” of his name is an amorphous blob of individuals and we lose sight of that. We won’t ever hold any of them accountable, until some day down the line, long after Biden and Trump are blurry memories, this country explodes into violence to finally hold someone accountable.
In my opinion, that sucks.
I get it — and personally I agree with the jury given how the pattern of whipping up vandalism (at the least)… but the jury was out of a town directly affected by pipeline operations. I strongly suspect an appeal is going to knock that back or eliminate it..
Let’s keep our heads. It’s not like Greenpeace accused the affected townsfolx of being crisis actors or something.
So venue change to San Francisco?
Maybe. I haven’t seen the details on the verdict. I doubt it will be overturned entirely. The crap reporting I have seen doesn’t really say how they got to that amount. Even a pretty barebones damage award is likely to be big dollars, though.
And let me say, fuck Greenpeace in the ear with a broken-off pool cue, as well.
Trump never resists an opportunity to double down on stupid.
https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-and-russia-accuse-each-other-of-violating-partial-truce-73df02cf?st=F2fW7A&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Trump floats plan to protect Ukraine’s besieged power plants through U.S.-ownership
Or, on the other hand, we could absolutely not do that under any fucking circumstances, you dumb fucker. Stay the fuck out. Let the blue helmeted bellends from the UN provide their tried and true security and supervision of Ukraine’s power grid.
Yeah, really not seeing the upside for us.
So you’re saying the blue helmets will make sure the grid is down so they can rape in the dark?
Well… yeah.
STEVE SMITH LIKE. WHERE HIM HELMET?
You don’t say…
It bears repeating…
I’d wish to subscribe to your newsletter, Pat… but I’m already here and all.
Oh, FFS. He was heading in the right direction, and just yanked the car into a ditch.
from the back seat?
He spouts a bunch of half-baked ideas and sees what sticks.
I think sometimes he pops off with some crazy shit to get the other guys to react to that and then he pivots to what he really wants.
Which is more deadly, Indiana guns or drivers?
https://wsbt.com/news/local/shocking-video-car-passes-school-bus-on-passenger-side-with-kids-ready-board-stop-arm-illegal-cars-trucks-traffic-safety-st-joseph-county-indiana
Awfully detailed description given that first sentence.
I like how they know the height of the driver too.
My assumption is the cops have video of her outside the car from somewhere else, but that definitely made me curious.
Way to buck the stereotypes there, lady.
Dope. This kind of shit is always because of dope.
Also, she is as good as caught. Very detailed description and everyone that knows her will instantly recognize her from the story.
If you’re going to commit a traffic violation, you always want to do it in a bright red heat score as well.
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Daily Ray of Sunshine
Poor Asians! They are as bad as the honkeys.
My impression of Minnesota is that they have perhaps the sharpest rural/urban divide in the country.
The jack pine savages are coming to the conclusion that they are hostages to the Urban Machine of the Twin Cities.
If counties are ever allowed to succeed to other states, it will be funny to see Minnesoda shrink to 7 counties, while the Dakota, Iowa and -even- Wisconsin expand.
I saw a news report not long ago that claimed the illegals are stealing all of the copper wire from street signs and lights in St. Paul. Large portions of the city are dark at night.
I was in MN, Shakopee specifically, back in ’70. It was the most perfect picture postcard ‘America’ town I had ever seen. Right out of a Norman Rockwell painting as were the people. I have the notion that has changed a bit.
Suthen:
Let’s not get racist. The copper is being stolen by drug addicts as well as by the illegals.
Just know that it has our local “urban geographer” pretty upset
I would call them sharp, but hey,
*Waves from Illinois
If counties are ever allowed to succeed to other states, it will be funny to see Minnesoda shrink to 7 counties, while the Dakota, Iowa and -even- Wisconsin expand.
Iowa taking in parts of Minnesota would not work — we’ve been ridiculing them forever (and vice versa, of course).
Altar Boy #2 confided to me that he has no idea how the white kids from the prairie make it through freshman orientation.
He would short circuit the re-education circles that they tried to put him in with his plea of woe: “I’m a half-breed, no one likes us”.
According to him, the amount of abuse heaped on the poor white kids from out in the jackpines was pretty amazing. Those poor kids who couldn’t even afford a minority to oppress would have to confess to all sorts of innate racism.
When I was in the Marines, I used to tell the Dark Greens that I was so disappointed in them. I was taught in school that they were awesome. Living with them, I learned that they were lazy, dishonest and deceitful. Just like the Light Greens.
“I’m a half-breed, no one likes us”.
I like to occasionally lean into the “gaijin” label with friends who know I’m using it ironically. I find it humorous that “haafu” is still PC, but barely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C4%81fu
I generally avoid using it if possible.
Sensei:
In Hawaii, the label is Hapa. Ever since we learned that word, I’ve teased the Altar Kids with being Hapa.
I’ve also had a great time teasing my Japanese in-laws with the phrase “gaijin, please”. They are pretty hip to English so they pick up on the sarcasm. We all laugh about the silliness of gaijin vs. gaikokujin. I don’t really think, though, that they are picking up why that phrase is so funny to me.
A Hispanic woman at my current company who was hired in the same batch of trainees as me, is trained on fewer account groups than I am, and was posting worse KPIs than I was when we were still under the same supervisor ~6 months ago, just got promoted last week. I was told around a month ago by my supervisor that he has brought me up numerous times in management meetings, but there are presently no positions open. Anecdotes are not evidence, of course, but I wish I had it as good as a lot of the self-loathing wypipo they find for these polls.
Are you going to ask him about that whole “no positions open” thing, when apparently there was, in fact, a position open?
Probably not. It’s not a job I care that much about for one, the decision was likely made over his head for another (our department, while we still do cross-functional stuff with the rest of the company, is a bit siloed off; our primary function is virtual retailing instead of lead generation), and it was obvious from the day I got hired and was introduced to the various management staff that they have certain progressive hiring preferences. My supervisor and the VP of operations are the only men I’ve met in management.
Don’t think of it as discriminatory hiring, but as saving 30% on payroll.
It is always 1955 with these people.
How does anyone work for a shit company like that?
Its like you all have carpet on your heart or something
On the censorship: Post 9-11 I saw congress assembled on the steps of the capitol in front of cameras with their hands on their hearts reciting the pledge of allegiance. I was in a room with a number of family members. I groaned and said out loud “Oh shit. We are so fucked.”
Everyone in the room was puzzled and objected to my remark. They all thought I was crazy. If they could go back to that day for perspective they would probably think I was not crazy enough.
It was worse in NYC, Suthen.
People were all in on the how he government at all levels was reacting to the attack and I thought the exact same.
No kidding. I thought I was cynical about our rulers, but the last few years, and especially the last few months, have shown me I wasn’t nearly cynical enough.
Same. I find that almost every day, I see something that’s far worse than I ever imagined.
Yup, 9-11 gave them the excuse to pass a wish-list of domestic surveillance programs.
Of which Biden was chief architect, IIRC.
Puts me in mind of watching the news with my dad the night GWB announced we were heading back to Iraq. My dad shook his head and went “We’re going to be there for the next 10 years.” I rolled my eyes thinking “It’s no different than the first gulf war.”
We all held hands in a prayer circle at my job on 9-11. The only time that ever happened. Then the boss cracked the whip and said get back to work. LOL.
The only way to make the FBI a premier agency is to eliminate it which won’t be done. If the ability to fuck with people who don’t deserve it, and the only way to do that is to get rid of the agency, it’ll just be turned around as soon as the Dems regain national power. It’s obvious that most of the agents and all of those in charge will go after who they’re told to go after, they do have their paychecks and retirements to worry about after all.
Yeah, the whole “just a few bad apples in DC” thing isn’t cutting it any more, what with 5,000 agents working on tracking down J6ers, and none of them apparently objecting to things like tossing Mar a Lago, arresting people for praying outside abortion clinics, etc.
We are so far from getting rid of the FBI that their massive new Death Star complex hasn’t even been cancelled yet, as far as I know.
I don’t close tags too goodly.
That is a very interesting observation. I had not paid enough attention to that situation to know that.
Daniel Clarke-Pounder may go to pound me in the ass prison for firebombing Tesla charging stations.
https://x.com/joeroganhq/status/1902455456771219559
The guy on his shirt must be pretty disappointed in him.
Good!
I am so tired of these hippies getting off light for coordinated acts of terrorism. Do BLM next. Felony conviction so they can’t ever vote again either.
This.
I am pissed off about a lot of things but I dont hurt people or destroy people’s property. These leftist thugs have been openly using violence against our culture and our country for as long as I have been alive and somehow they usually get a pass. WTF?
Charleston County? Maybe a 50/50 shot a jury will convict of anything serious.
Thirty year anniversary of the Tokyo subway sarin attack by Aum Shinrikyo.
Pours one out for no more public trash cans across Tokyo. Although no issues with coin lockers everywhere!
They’ll track you down to your Suica card!
Japan and Korea mystify me.
Everywhere is so clean. Never see any litter. Yet, the amount of public trash cans is miniscule. WTF?
I don’t want to come home to wife and in-laws with my pockets full of empty beer cans! Where can I toss them?
* Korea has an exemption for tossing trash out along rivers. No idea what that is. You can walk down any street and Korea and you won’t see a scrap of trash, but if you walk along some river there is enough trash tossed along the banks to make any Appalachian redneck envious.
“WTF?”
It is because Japan and Korea are full of Japanese and Koreans.
No shit? Fuck, I’m old.
That’s what I thought when I saw it on the news this morning.
Happened when I was a kid. It appears I am no longer a kid…
Tesla finally has found a defect it can’t fix with a software update.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
I saw a headline somewhere something about parts of that body are glued on? Do I have that right?
That’s very common across all brands. Modern automotive adhesives are stronger than the metal they bond.
It’s typical Tesla. It’s a new vehicle, they are pushing the envelope, and they are ramping production. You never want to own the first production batch of any Tesla product.
Yes. A lot of the car is glued together. In the Cyvertruck the battery serves as a major part of the frame and body pan as well. Innovative but hard to service, like an Apple device.
I am once again reminded of my moral quandry over Right to Repair laws.
You never want to own the first production batch of any
Teslaproduct.FTFY
Say what you will about the DeLorean, but at least the ugly-ass stainless panels stayed bolted on.
The most fantastical part of Back to the Future was a DeLorean able to get up to 88 miles per hour.
Heh. Hill Valley was pretty flat.
NYT is all in fear!
Trump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.
They seemed shocked that both the right and those of us here in the Glib category are unwilling to defend them.
Paywalled:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/trumps-battles-with-colleges-could-change-american-culture-for-a-generation.html
I like how the long march through the institutions was just the benevolent invisible hand guiding us surely and inevitably to paradise, but losing their federal paypig is “Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will.”
If you’re that concerned about it, maybe tap into your endowments for something other than wining and dining your benefactors and giving away tuition to BIPOC students with room temperature IQs and a 600 SAT score to assuage your class and race guilt.
Harvard just announced they weren’t going to charge tuition for any student with a family income of $200k or less. They may actually be smart enough to see the Trump admin going after endowments.
Deferred compensation plans skyrocket.
But….but….I dont know anyone that voted for Nixon!
“This is the Antarctica research crew trapped in icy hell with co-worker who ‘snapped and started attacking them’
Nine members of an Antarctic expedition are locked up together at a research station 2,000 miles from civilization.
And one of them is a madman — accused of violently beating, threatening and sexually harassing at least two of his teammates.
The Post can reveal that the South African crew of three women and six men includes a glamorous doctor with her own skincare line and a deputy team leader who helped produce a short horror film during a previous stay at the station — along with engineers and a meteorologist.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/19/world-news/antarctica-research-crew-trapped-in-icy-hell-with-co-worker-who-snapped-and-started-attacking-them/
Better than a shape-shifting alien.
Conk him over the head and tie him to a bed until they can get a flight in.
I thought a flame thrower was appropriate in that situation.
Sounds like some serious sciencing 🙄️
Meh, Amazon has a great documentary on living in Antarctica during the winter months – when something like 80 percent of the inhabitants leave.
They did a film festival with go-pros /cell phones to kill time and keep up morale.
Antarctica, A Year On Ice
Herzog made one too.
“The DNC’s favorite TikTokker Harry Sisson is accused of lying to women to get them to send nudes”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/19/us-news/harry-sisson-scandal-democratic-tiktok-accused-of-seedy-behavior/
Trying to prove he isn’t gay?
Guys lying on the internet to get gullible women to send them snatch pics? What’s the world coming to?
Lefty male feminist turns out to be sleazy horndog. Footage at 11.
This. No matter how many times these dudes get caught the girls never learn.
Not long ago someone here posted one of those ‘dear diary’ type letters from a woman complaining that she cant find a pinko boyfriend that is not a waste of skin and the only real men she can find are icky conservatives.
I am reminded of teenage girls tendency to fall in love with gay twinks. I never really understood that. Women have terrible judgement?
*looks around at all of the other men, looks in mirror*
It is clear that women’s terrible judgement has been programmed into them by evolution. Otherwise our species would go extinct.
Suthen, I recall a study from the 1990s which found that women on hormonal birth control were attracted to more effiminate males, but when taken off the hormonal birth control, were instead drawn to the traditionally masculine appearances. This may have some correlation to your second observation.
I have a difficult time believing he was that successful enticing the ladies.
For Shpip. I joined the March Madness bracket challenge. I’m entered as Rick.
RandomSprint🧭
@RandomSprint
Lately we’ve been doing a lot of riddles.
Tonight, I asked my 4 yo son, “It takes 15 minutes to boil one egg. How long does it take to boil 3 eggs?”
He talked out 45 minutes, but then I told him the answer was 15 minutes because you could cook three eggs at once.
“My turn. Dad, how many tigers have you seen in your life?”
“I’m not sure. Maybe four or five.”
“Nice.”
We took a happy beat.
“What’s your riddle?”
He stopped to think.
“Dad, I don’t really know what a riddle is.”
https://x.com/RandomSprint/status/1902571186732601496
No need to time egg boiling you have a thing you put in the water and it gets colored to show soft medium hard etc
I have no idea what you’re refencing. You need to bring the water to a boil and boil for a minimum of ten minutes. More if you like green fringing on the yolks.
Instapots are great for boiled eggs. Put them in, set it and forget it.
The Last American Hero:
And pressure cooking eggs makes them easier to peel too.
THE YOLK NEEDS TO BE SOFT !!!!!!!
I’ve never tried using the instapot. It seems like overkill given the number of eggs I typically cook at any time.
If the yolk is not solid, you haven’t cooked it long enough.
More if you like green fringing on the yolks.
Every day can be Saint Patrick’s or Doctor Seuss’s.
I thought “set it and forget it” was the Ronco oven.
Kenji did food science on boiled eggs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0Elaa6gxY
For me: Boil the water first, gently lower the eggs in the boiling water, set timer for 11 minutes, cool eggs, peel eggs.
Worth mentioning….the fresher the eggs are the easier they peel. Make a note.
I’ve found the opposite, that older eggs peel easier.
Perhaps it’s psychological and there’s no difference.
That’s awesome.
How long does it take to boil three tigers, though?
Nine women can grow a baby in a month?
I find it interesting that the WP and Team Blue’s elite think the American public thinks the US providing internet service in China is a good thing.
Trump ends program millions in China use for internet, worrying Congress
The demise of the Open Technology Fund could put millions at risk of being targeted by authoritarian governments for their internet activity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/20/trump-ends-internet-access-china-iran-otf/
I’m extremely sympathetic to the plight of Chinese dissidents, so much so that I’d probably donate to an organization that allowed them to bypass the Great Firewall all on my own, without the government stealing my money and choosing for me.
They also think having trannys play in women’s sports and mutilating children are good ideas and that we think they are just fan-fuckin-tastic.
Today, in crazy juries
Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access had accused Netherlands-based Greenpeace International, Greenpeace USA and funding arm Greenpeace Fund Inc. of defamation, trespass, nuisance, civil conspiracy and other acts. Greenpeace USA was found liable for all counts, while the others were found liable for some. The damages owed will be spread out in different amounts over the three entities.
Greenpeace said earlier that a large award to the pipeline company would threaten to bankrupt the organization. Following the nine-person jury’s verdict, Greenpeace’s senior legal adviser said the group’s work “is never going to stop.”
“That’s the really important message today, and we’re just walking out and we’re going to get together and figure out what our next steps are,” Deepa Padmanabha told reporters outside the courthouse.
But what about their Constitutional right to act without consequences?
*Yes, I saw the link
Surely they can find a judge somewhere to issue an injunction.
Staying on our Japanese and Asian theme. It appears the LAT is in trouble for not being woke. Now I’m hungry for lunch.
LA Times forced to delete ‘offensive’ video from Dodgers’ Tokyo game following fierce backlash
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-14517727/Los-Angeles-Times-Dodgers-Tokyo-video-offensive-backlash-Japan.html
I have to admit I’ve been acclimated enough to Asian culture that I do cringe when I see bad chopstick behavior. However, I don’t hold against somebody who doesn’t know what’s rude and what isn’t.
NEVER APOLOGIZE
I guess the humorless scolds are still ascendant in LA.
The clueless American trope is only OK when it’s played for drama, not comedy.
*stabs chopsticks into bowl of rice*
*lights tips of chopsticks on fire to hammer point home that it’s intentional*
*uses a fork, because chopsticks for rice is silly*
Don’t eat that.
It’s all carbs.
Civilized people use forks, spoons and knives.
“Civilized” is a euphemism for “Degenerate”
I just snagged a stock I have been watching, on a significant dip. It can go back up now.
I don’t think Ubisoft is going to come back.
Tesla?
Gamestop?
myth: vegetables are good for you
reality: eating vegetables is a ritual adopted by the most neurotic people alive to “cure” symptoms of their neuroticism
in a sense i guess it probably works for them!
https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1902472947702301105
I find food weirdness and other forms of magical thinking a bit tiresome.
Long eyelashes make women look healthier, more attractive and more sexually available – but only up to a certain maximum length.
The aim of the current study was to explore the association between perceptions of health and attractiveness as functions of eyelash length, considering previous findings that attractiveness might reflect an individual’s health status. To explore these questions, participants evaluated the perceived health, attractiveness, and sexual receptivity of female faces from Indian, Asian, Black, and White groups, featuring a range of eyelash lengths from none to half the eye’s width.
https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/1902402856918897019
Is this from the DOGE files?
That was my first question also. How much of that study was done on public money…wait, never mind. I know the answer.
Few things look worse on a woman than fake eyelashes. Make the most of what you’ve got. Whatever it is, somebody’s into it.
What about Amy Winehouse / oeil de biche eyeliner? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bd/01/d7/bd01d769beda24c0731af8d1b1823dd2.jpg
Men usually have prettier lashes anyway. Look at the VP.
Men are hairier. Eyelashes are hair.
Learned a new word. That’s not my favorite look, but doesn’t put me off either. Can look good on the right person.
I’ve been hearing that ever since Megan in kindergarten made every girl in the glass come look at how long my eyelashes were, right up to my last girlfriend; and inclusive of my optometrist.
*Now envisions Pat as having to trim his eyelashes to avoid hitting the windscreen of his car while driving.*
Another doe eye: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1d/51/ff/1d51ff0c3fe93913ce8472985b08c502.jpg
It could be worse: you could have eyebrows bushier than Leonid Brezhnev’s.
I have very limited experience with them, but I found them heavy, itchy, and fiddly. Paint is easier.
The aim of the current study was to explore the association between perceptions of health and attractiveness as functions of eyelash length
That should be worth half a billion NIH dollars.
Trump to Sign Order to Eliminate Department of Education
It doesn’t eliminate it. If you want to eliminate it, you need Massie’s legislation which is sitting in committee.
Ivey said: “While there is a federal ban on these gun conversion devices, we needed a way to empower our own law enforcement here in Alabama to get these illegal and extremely dangerous Glock switches off our streets.
OK, how is AL precluded from enforcing this and it needs it’s own law. I’m confused.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/alabama-glock-switch-ban
Celtics Find New Owner in Record Breaking $6.1 Billion Sale
The Boston Celtics have been sold to a new ownership group for a lot of money.
https://www.si.com/nba/celtics/news/celtics-find-new-owner-in-record-breaking-6-1-billion-sale
6 billion too many if you ask me
Could have bought the actual Celtic isles for not too much more.
There is no waste or fraud in government programs
A jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts Wednesday for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed children in need.
Aimee Bock — founder of Feeding our Future, the group at the heart of the plot — was one of 70 defendants charged in the overall case, which prosecutors said was the nation’s single largest fraud scheme against COVID-19 relief programs.
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The jury also convicted a co-defendant, Salim Ahmed Said, owner of the now-defunct Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis.
Bock, 44, and Said, 36, were charged with multiple counts involving conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery. Said was also charged with money laundering. Bock allegedly pocketed nearly $2 million, while Said was accused of taking around $5 million. They both maintained their innocence and testified at trial.
It was all just a misunderstanding.
If the government hadn’t been there to shovel a quarter billion dollars into fraudulent hunger relief, those kids would have died from having no hunger relief at all! Cost of civilization…
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
I thought the whole point of the cootie bug scam was for fraud and theft? Did I miss something?
Election Rigging
I took a class in college called “A History of Organized Crime in America.” One of the takeaways was “where there’s money, there’s crime.” And here we are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7fsxnzZF9w
Death of free thought
If the government can single out an academic department at a college or university because of what it teaches or how it teaches, there would be nothing left of academic freedom. We have seen hints of this kind of attack on higher education in this country before, especially during the Red Scare of the early 1950s. But according to Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors, the Trump administration’s latest demands on Columbia are “an escalation of a kind that is unheard of. Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”
Declining to fund programs you do not agree with is not censorship. Tell Trump tp keep his filthy grant money, and you may teach as you wish.
Cool link, bro!
To be fair, if your college is not named “Hillsdale”, it is receiving FedBucks and is therefore subject to any whims of whoever is in charge. Maybe y’all should have thought of that before crawling into bed with them.
I was just going to write that Hillsdale refuses to take federal money because they don’t want any interference from the federales. Columbia and all the other Ivies have endowment funds that equals the GDP of some of the poorest countries, so they can live without government’s (taxpayer’s) money. They intuitively know that if the government weren’t subsidizing their shit, they would be forced get rid of the many useless programs and departments that keeps their soldiers employed and fed.
Ed:
I’m sure they could keep their useless programs and departments for a while if they really wanted to, but they would need to pay for it out of their own pocket.
So a woman who told society she wanted to be treated like a man gets treated like a man and she’s upset.
This dude wants to protect stupid people from themselves.
Even a planaria learns to turn away from pain. Insulating idiots from consequences does nobody any favors.
Colleges and universities have little time to get their bearings, but passivity is the wrong path. They need to organize in defense of Columbia now. This defense should comprise more than just statements. College presidents should go to Columbia’s campus and be seen with its president, lobby on its behalf with lawmakers, mobilize their alums, and, where possible, offer financial support.
Those austere impoverished scholars at Columbia barely have two nickels to rub together. Please give generously.
OH NOES!! They might have to dip into their $14 billion endowment!!
“College presidents should go to Columbia’s campus and be seen with its president”
LOL the smart ones don’t want any part of that crazy.
Enabling anti-Semitic rioting and intimidation is not “academic freedom”.
I know that Sloop talked about doing a Glibs NCAA tourney bracket, but I never found the link for one, so I just re-upped the yahoo.com bracket contest from last year.
https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/mens-basketball-bracket/group/112841/invitation?key=5faa8019baf1d5d6
Password: Glibertarians
Jump on it — games begin in forty minutes.
Did they get these “records” from the aliens who built the pyramids?
Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at an 800,000-year high, a report Wednesday said.
In its annual State of the Climate report, the World Meteorological Organization laid bare all the markings of an increasingly warming world with oceans at record high temperatures, sea levels rising and glaciers retreating at record speed.
“Our planet is issuing more distress signals,” said António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General. He noted that the report says the international goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.8 Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times is still possible. “Leaders must step up to make it happen — seizing the benefits of cheap, clean renewables for their people and economies,” he said.
I’m sure this is all totally legitimate science, and all variables have been accounted for.
The climate is actually getting milder, not hotter. We are having milder winters in addition to summers with fewer extreme high temperatures and heatwaves.
I’ve always found the whole climate change thing suspect, but it really confirmed it for me when Bill Gates was being interviewed and the interviewer asked if he would be willing to lower his carbon footprint and his answers was basically no because he’s too rich and important. The climate change prophets and followers want us, the unwashed hoards to accept a lower standard of living so they can appease their consciences and have more control over our lives.
To be fair, I think Gates said he bought carbon offsets, which were probably sold by a company he owns, so he “did something”.
Wow. So now they are flat out lying instead of just torturing the data.
UnCivil: The fresher eggs comment I made was from a cooking tip Julia Childs gave. I tried it and found it to be true. Maybe I found it to be true because I wanted it to be true – an excuse for when I tear up eggs. It’s the egg, not me!
The report’s warnings come as the United States President Donald Trump has issued a series of rollbacks on climate commitments and cast doubt on climate science. The U.S. is the world’s second biggest polluter currently and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases historically. It’s left some worried that other countries will also have less ambitious targets as a result.
“The science is indisputable. Attempts to hide climate science from the public will not stop us from feeling the dire impacts of climate change,” said Brenda Ekwurzel of the U.S.-based not-for-profit, Union of Concerned Scientists.
He is a one man global menace.
The US could cut emissions to nearly zero and it wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference.
I see there is some kind of kerfuffle about Tim Walz being masculine? Sure he is in a very Richard Simmons way.
He wears Carhartt, you know!
He’s a regular guy!
He can change an air filter on an old car. I am in awe of his manly skills.