College basketball’s regular season is winding down. No idea who will make the tourney from the bubble teams, but the Buckeyes continued their streaky play last night with a 2OT win that keeps their chances alive. And I was thinking about doing a bracket challenge this year, so whoever is interested, let me know in the comments and if there’s some desire there for one, I’ll put it together. Across the pond, the round of 16 UCL matches got underway yesterday, and Arsenal put an all-time beat down on Dutch side PSV. Real topped a game Athletico, Villa prevailed, and Dortmund and Lille played to a draw in their first leg. The second half of the matches are today, with Liverpool-PSG headlining the festivities. The Bayern-Leverkusen and Benfica-Barca games should also be interesting. And the Inter-Feyenoord game will also be played. And that’s it for sports.
While finding out if they could have, nobody stopped to wonder if they should have. They could make a nice coat for Mr Burns from them in a future episode though. At least they could if that show tried to do something funny again, which they won’t.
This is really confusing to me. Did they actually write “N-word Bucks” on the bills or did they write the n-word on the bills? Either way, the whole thing sounds kind of retarded.
Ooh, I sense a market opportunity here. Those employees should quit and open up their own studio. They could put out the wokest shit imaginable and rake in the money if their assessment is correct. But I bet they don’t do that.
Why do people lie on anonymous surveys? This really pisses me off.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? Has their irrational hate of one person made them this callous? If so, they need to seek out a new hobby or something.
Oh no!!! Whatever will they do now to monitor shitty air in shitty cities in shitty countries?
L O freaking L. These people are as insane as the people from the last link.
Not to be outdone by the folks in the last two links… I love to see their brains break, but it’s getting sad at this point.
These dumbasses are confusing St Paddy’s Day with Easter. But I’m glad they took time out of their busy pet-stealing and -killing schedule to do something else for a change.
Cue the leftist outrage. Or is that just reserved for federal workers and GOP executives?
Good. Use the proceeds to retire some debt. Also, the use of the phrase “fire sale” has been noted. As if they’re not going to bring fair market value for some reason.
It’s been way too long since I’ve played these guys. Simply amazing. And it gets even better. Wish they had the version with Hooky just casually strumming the bass with better audio quality. If you want to watch that one, here you go. So freaking beautiful. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
They plan to overrun Siberia with wooly mice!
Happy Early Ash Wednesday Morning, Sloopy et alia.
(OT for a second: Ash Wednesday bothers me fundamentally with folks who prominently wear their ashes all day given the very specific Bible verse about “When you fast… don’t put on sackcloth and ashes and stand on the street proclaiming your fasting as the hypocrites do. I tell you, they have received their reward already.” Paraphrased, because I don’t feel like digging up the exact cite… but that’s one of the big verses that really stand in opposition to current church practice for me…)
When I was devout, I saw wearing the ashes as more of a sign of publicly declaring that you were Catholic. I’ll need to ask my still devout friends about the current thoughts and practices.
Ash is not environmentally friendly, now they use a vegan carrot paste.
Speaking of ashes, have they got the Vatican fireplace cleaned up and ready for service yet?
I don’t think that they cremate dead popes.
They don’t use palm fronds from the previous Palm Sunday?
Not to cremate the Pope, Ted…. though I suppose enough would be built up to make a credible bonfire through a typical papal reign.
(Yes, unless they changed things – the ashes on Ash Wednesday are from the palms of the prior Palm Sunday — I assume the metaphor is the dying / consumption in preparation of being reborn via Easter. Since no one could get their hands on a phoenix or anything…)
Frequently palm fronds from Palm Sunday. I always thought it odd they stored them roughly a year.
At least in our house (and I thought in most), you bring them home on Palm Sunday from Mass and then put them behind crucifixes on the wall throughout the year, then bring them back to your parish to be collected before Lent. So a distributed storage system.
That’s not a cremation of Francis; that’s him burning in Hell.
You take the fronds home on Palm Sunday. You make a cross or rose or just stick them on the wall for 11 months. You return them to church a couple weeks before Lent.
And to let Ted Turner know you’re a Jesus freak.
You can put on some ashes, just don’t do it like the hypocrites do.
Yeah — that’s why I clean my forehead once I’m out of Mass, honestly. Only way I can square that circle.
Well since I have to work and they don’t give them out until 7:30pm, they don’t stay on very long.
Paraphrased, because I don’t feel like digging up the exact cite
I mean, it is today’s Gospel.
I think your putting more emphasis on the sackcloth and ashes than the standing on the street, proudly displaying it as some kind of vitruous act rather than the acknowledgment of your sins.
Meh, the article abput Melania is akin to Trump just blurting things out.
Whatever it takes to get the eyes off the prize.
With blackjack! And casting couches! (Oh wait… that’s just like the old one…)
And yeah — I do get the feeling the money folks in Hollywood are reading the room better than the artistes right now and feeling the pendulum swing back for a bit. Time for them to lay low until folks forget enough for them to start pushing again…
Money folk in Hollywood are eyeing Las Vegas to open up stuidos.
Do you want Air America? Because that’s how you get Air America.
Based on the ratings, and the finances, no one wanted Air America.
Granted, it wasn’t peak Mel Gibson, but was it really that bad?
Was it worse than Dumbo Drop?
So no idea who they are or probably even how many.
Why is this news? Would it be news if the likely overwhelming majority of employees penned their own anonymous letter giving thanks for ditching the racist bullshit and eggshells work environment they’ve been subjected to for much of the careers?
“So no idea who they are or probably even how many.”
Or if they even exist.
Casting couch bad, whoring good.
These people make no sense.
What other currency would one use to purchase an N-word pass?
The South African Rand, perhaps?
I have an answer — but someday a current or future employer might scrape this site…. and I really don’t want to be on record with this one.
Speaking of, when a silver Krugerrand gets tarnished, does it do more damage to remove the tarnish each time, or to leave it in place and only remove it when you want to move the silver?
Interesting question. I have a bunch if old US silver dollars, the ones from the late 1800’s all have the faces rubbed down to silhouettes. I do not do major cleaning on those anymore. It does reduce the surface. But it takes 100+ years to be noticeable in most cases.
The plastic sleeve one of my silver krugerrands came is cracked, letting outside air in and a third of the coin turned black in storage, I was debating whether I should act now or if it’d be better to just leave it as is.
I’m old enough to remember an SNL commercial for the NegroRand. Except they didn’t say negro.
Nagger bucks?
Niger bucks.
100% chance the teacher was clumsily attempting to make some woke point.
Perhaps he or she is socially inept to the point of not knowing the repercussions of using the banned word.
N-country N-notes.
https://imgs.search.brave.com/JqHBP9EbMYI37FrkRoLVD15dWMeax5M2KvEtso0ylTE/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly90NC5m/dGNkbi5uZXQvanBn/LzAyLzQxLzg1LzIz/LzM2MF9GXzI0MTg1/MjM3M19HTUdBc0ZD/ck1OZG1LaEZqRklH/MzVnejY0SEp0WkdS/Zy5qcGc
Probably — but the culture of pure selfish narcissism and exalting of vices as if they were virtues doesn’t help.
Yes. We have seen countless examples over the years.
I’ll call a plumber right now!
Pee in the sink. Not every bathroom has a shower.
As long as you’re not peeing into the sink FROM the shower.
Just because *your* dick isn’t long enough to reach from the shower to the sink….
Ted, installing your sink in the shower was not the flex you think it is.
Americans pee for distance. Japanese pee for accuracy.
It is called a toilet, Teds, and you don’t drink out of it.
Do you know why men prefer showers? Because pissing in the bathwater is disgusting.
Someone has never been to a public pool…
Can you believe stories from the NY Post? They are yellow journalism.
I’m impressed she’s finally given up the “SICKNICK WUZ BEATEN TO DEATH WITH A FIRE EXTINGUISHER HURR DURRRRR” narrative after just 4 short years.
Oddly, these same people had no sympathy for police officers murdered by BLM.
“They had life insurance!” probably.
Or the unarmed woman murdered by the Capitol cops.
Make that, both unarmed women murdered by the Capitol cops.
Mashed potatoes is just Irish guacamole.
::mind blown::
Here I would say beer cheese.
Damn it… now I want fried boxty wedges and beer cheese.
*hearty chuckle*
Daily Ray of Sunshine
If that’s what the ladies like…
/Starts working out
I think wimmen have some sort of competition amongst themselves.
The more that they can humiliate their guy in public, the more points they get.
Unfortunately, the guy might resist the wife, but his daughter can wrap him around her finger.
*looks at picture of DrOtto in pedicured and painted toenails* “whatever are you talking about?”
I would enter a bracket challenge if you set one up.
Ditto.
But who’s buying?
Blackrock.
Or, China.
Didn’t Blackrock buy the Panama Canal ports that everyone thinks is a win?
Or are they suddenly no longer the bogeyman?
It was not a win, the situation has not improved. Just nuke the canal zone until the craters form an uncongested waterway across the ithsmus.
UCS is obviously a fan of Project Plowshare.
“Blackrock has a monopoly!”
Depends. If they are in major metropolitan areas they will become apartments quickly.
ISTR someone here posted an article about how it’s non-trivial and expensive to convert office buildings to residential.
Only makes sense if they end up as “luxury” units.
Is there value in the lot locations? They may just tear them down and rebuild rather than renovate if the location is hot enough, I would think. At least the utilities would already be plumbed and the foundations might remain suitable… save a little time and cash that way. (Having never seriously done nor even really considered commercial level real estate… I honestly don’t know what you can get away with if you demolish a building to put up another in the same place with a fundamentally different use case…)
It might be better to strip it down to I-Beams than to demolish and rebuild. I’ve seen that approach used as well.
The more likely result is that if they are class A office space, then tenants that are currently in class B will move to Class A. The Class B glut is easier to convert to living space since the buildings are smaller and wouldn’t result in a series of super expensive, shoe box shaped luxury apartments.
How convenient for New York, where it’s either that or “affordable” units.
I think a ceasefire with Ukraine and Russia brokered by Trump is more likely.
Can Trump Get Pete Rose Into the Hall of Fame?
https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/trump-pete-rose-baseball-hall-of-fame-5041d693?st=F3AMip&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well, he’s been a pawn of the reds going back to the 80’s, so he’ll probably make it happen.
I’m waiting for scientists to create miniature giant space hamsters.
Go for the eyes, Cav! Go for the eyes!!
Butt-kicking, for Goodness!
Yeah, there would seem to be an obvious pet market for wooly mice/rats/guinea pigs/rabbits, etc.
In Mice and Rats, they’re classified under ‘Fancy’
That looks like an Irish gangster mouse.
I forget what that particular fur type is officially called, but it is quite striking.
Al Green in a $5000 suit shaking his gold cane was better than the most wonderful symbolism I could imagine.
The wife thought he looked like a crazy homeless guy. Which is even better.
She’s not wrong — he was kicked out of the House for a bit there.
He looks like the Geico caveman.
I expected the D side to make some noise but getting to watch one their number being booted out on national TV was something. Same with Trump calling Warren Pocahontas…..I chuckled, I couldn’t believe he said that. What is the deal with his ambitions for Greenland? I can’t tell if he is serious or just trolling. Another thing I didn’t expect was him speaking for almost 2 hours, I can only take so much of his manner of speaking. Then I thought about the D’s having to sit there and listen and then I didn’t mind.
Greenland serves two purposes – it helps to futher encircle Canukistan, and it provides a vast strategic snow reserve.
Maybe lots of future minerals too.
Also I’m hearing the next Scramble is going to be for the Arctic. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That was….notable, wasn’t it? It will be completely lost on leftists.
He should have put a little love in his heart.
I was hoping Green would go all Preston Brooks on somebody.
Giggity:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/milei-to-unseal-records-connecting-swiss-banks-to-nazis-escape-efforts
Say no to Angela Rayner’s Islamic blasphemy law
Sharia law within 5 years. We should seriously consider allowing (with some vetting) any remaining Welsh / Scots or actual Brits who want to get out a fast path. They’re not going to do well under the Caliphate.
Islamophobia is the fear of being called racist for prosecuting brown criminals.
Get it over with and enact sharia.
No, get it over with and drag the current political class out of parliment, burn them at the stake and expel the invading islamists.
It is wild watching the UK impose dhimmitude on it’s own people. Incredible.
Anything to make that pesky grooming gang story go away, I guess.
This kind of shit right here is why the founders wrote the constitution and bill of rights.
I’ll take the ‘Merican way of assimilation.
There are now multiple yards around me with inflatables about Ramadan, right next door to houses with giant 15 feet skeletons still standing in them (seriously people, decorate them for the holidays, is it really that hard to put on a big green hat and a fake mug of beer in its hand?). Welcome to middle class, rust belt, suburban culture. We expect you to have strong opinions on strudel shops, pierogi places, fish fries, and something that you’ll be shocked we don’t know (but look forward to learning about).
I hate those stupid skeletons.
No, you don’t need a two story anatomical model in your yard all damn year.
[ sneaks onto UCS’s yard and puts up 15-foot inflatable penis ]
Joke’s on you Ted, I don’t have a yard. My neighbors will not be amused. Hope the dogs like you.
It’s ok UCS, no human has a yard. There probably aren’t a dozen humans with a foot.
Most humans have approximately two feet.
While the mean is less than two, the median and mode will be exactly two.
Allow me to assist our British friends: Islamophobia: (N) an epithet applied to those honestly observing the nature of the Islamic cult and its adherents by those dishonestly pretending not to observe said nature.
Islamophobia is Englands number one problem
Once a government committee has been established it can never be disbanded.
Trump Administration Disbands Two Committees Advising on Economic Stats
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick disbanded one committee, saying its mission ‘has been fulfilled’
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-admin-disbands-two-committees-advising-on-economic-stats-990d0b85?st=3xiAaH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
You see it was bipartisan with famous academics. What’s not to love, cherish and respect?
All the more reason to disband it and bill the former members for the funds wasted on it.
Just collect fewer economic stats, cause it did not help until now
I’m not sure which direction this is going. It might actually be humorous as Moffat has done some comedies I enjoyed. OTH, Doctor Who…
‘Douglas Is Cancelled’ Review: Hugh Bonneville’s Cyber Satire
The actor stars in Steven Moffat’s four-part series on BritBox as a TV host who becomes the subject of scandal when a social-media post alleges he told a sexist joke at a wedding.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/douglas-is-cancelled-review-hugh-bonnevilles-cyber-satire-a589f830?st=tNkg8V&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They’re still letting Moffat make TV shows?
At least it’s not murdering an existing property and just plopping his own brain droppings down.
The British “Coupling” was brilliant. I don’t think the American version made a full season.
Sensei:
Really? I thought Friends was considered a big hit.
If it was Graham Lineham, I’d be watching it already.
‘alleges’
Well, that is good enough for me.
If I’m reading the comment correctly, the allegation is part of the show’s plot and not a real-world event.
That’s the whole point.
Clueless bubbled enveloped on air talent who doesn’t understand the way of the new world has an allegation that he doesn’t even know if he made.
Art imitating life. Clever plot hook, trust us, it was bad what he did
As this articles image file ably demonstrates the memes that will be created from the D’s stupid little sign gimmick will be epic….
OMG lol I had to scrape the image URL from the page’s source code but worth it.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GlPxRtuXoAEn3R8?format=jpg&name=small
Why do people lie on anonymous surveys? This really pisses me off.
I cannot see why anyone would piss in the shower.
“That’s golden, Jerry!”
Someone is using the toilet? It’s like using a stall when all urinals are occupied.
I walked in on a drunk guy pissing in a sink once….the bathroom was empty. Given the strong odor of stale piss that hit me in the face when I entered the sinks must serve urinal duty on a regular basis. Fricking gross…..
Because you’re a musical genius but also a complete asshole?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RghKKZrzT0
Oh no!!! Whatever will they do now to monitor shitty air in shitty cities in shitty countries?
millions will die !
Madeline Grant
Reclaim the ancient calendar and make merry
Dry January? That should be a month for wassailing. The Church still knows best. Lent is for abstinence
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/05/reclaim-the-ancient-calendar-and-make-merry-dry-january/
yeah how about no. I did not give up alcohol for January and I aint for lent. Maybe I should, maybe it would do me good, but… no.
Neither did Jesus, so you’re in good company.
So with the tariffs in place, that means they’ll stop taxing my income right? Right?
Once the entire debt is payed off.
I might have been drunk but I thought I heard Donald say just that last night.
OFFS 😂🤣
Great scoop, Nancy! Imagine the economic decline if they actually put a stop to the racism and sexism!
Reminder that nearly 1 in 5 new cars that you see on the road are purchased through a massively exploding taxpayer-subsidised disability scheme.
We essentially have a giant multi billion foreign car subsidy. I can’t imagine any other country in the world doing this.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1896980496560873488
I don’t do X, and Nitter rarely works anymore due to rate limiting, but if it’s regarding Motability scheme in the UK, that constitutes a huge portion of the leads I send in for our international accounts.
This capitulation reflects the profound hypocrisy in extracting labor from diverse communities, creating content from and for diverse communities, targeting the dollars of diverse communities… while committing to the erasure and exclusion of those very same diverse communities,” the employees, who are anonymous, said in the letter posted on LinkedIn by the New York Times’ Benjamin Mullin.
Goddammit, Hot Lips, resign your goddam commission.
Cry harder, bullies.
First comment nails it.
“All I wanted was some Burger King”
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1j3qefr/dodge_stuck_on_the_median_oc/
I came across this crossover oddity I had been unaware of just recently.
The issue isn’t just that business leaders are carrying out symbolic DEI rollbacks to appease Trump and the MAGA mob. It’s that by feigning submission to Trump and his base, these companies may be helping to legitimize Trump’s dictatorial inclinations. They are reinforcing the illusion of Trump’s power, effectively granting him authority he doesn’t actually have. They are doing the work of manufacturing public consent for the executive overreach Trump dreams of getting away with.
Mental gymnastics should be an olympic sport.
NPR interviewed two former twitter employees to tell us that the reason Elon is obsessed with unproductive employees is because he’s a dumb narcissist.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/05/nx-s1-5312064/elon-musk-to-send-another-email-to-check-for-non-existent-federal-workers
all workers are productive just capitalism is evil
Labor is value tovarisch!
Or, as I saw the other day, “It’s hard for the youth to appreciate capitalism when they have no capital because the government’s got it all tied up in regulations.”
My supervisors track my uptime and production. They must be narcissistic, too.
You should NPR-splain to them that nobody elected them.
I’ll be curious to see how that flies with the proles, I really will. I get that there’s a substantial contingent that hero-worships their politicians. And you’re always going to have empty-headed support for teachers, cops and soldiers. I’m not sure if that esteem extends all the way to the junior diversity officer for the IT department of the Luxembourg branch of Radio Free Europe.
Little did we know when we held the first Big Iftar in Parliament – @SayeedaWarsi
’s idea – nearly a decade ago that we’d be here holding the Big Iftar in Westminster Hall with the Prime Minister. A historic first.
Parliament defending our liberty and freedom🇬🇧
Ramadan Mubarak!
https://x.com/wesstreeting/status/1897018626965954623
well islamisation is going well
“I ate pancakes on Tuesday people, stop being hateful…” is an interesting way to tell people that they will overthrow their God.
“Let’s do the Christmas ham next, guys!”
/Keir
The King can be the titular head of the Mosque of England.
So, if the King converts to Islam, doesn’t that mean Anglicans are Muslim too?
No, it means he’s a traitor and gets the Charles I treatment.
Look at UCS being an optimist for once!
The squish comes through again.
“The court ruled 5-4 with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberal justices.”
Supreme Court rules Trump administration must unfreeze foreign aid payments
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-orders-trump-administration-unfreeze-foreign-assistance/story?id=119473127
That is fucking unbelievable. How the hell is there a constitutional requirement to send money to foreign countries?
Zerohedge reports in a clearer manner…
ABC news wants people to think Trumps whole plan is tanked, it appears not.
Thanks, that actually makes sense, and I think the court got it right if that’s the case.
If it’s already done, basic contract concepts would require paying that bill.
That’s a far cry from “You must pay the grift forever”
Maybe I’ve read enough of these, but I didn’t think ABC was that unclear.
It is an isnt. Headline gives impression that all foreign aid payments will resume and we know people base their deeply held opinions on headlines.
So its more like ‘we actually at times RTFA’ and I will admit, i skimmed ABCs you linked and skipped over then actually pointing out “foreign assistance funds to nonprofit aid groups for work already completed on the government’s behalf.”
My bias and blindspot for an organization that has been shown to lie
We really need a Jacksonian “He’s made decision, now let him enforce it” moment to re-balance the branches of government.
I thought this was for anything prior to Feb 14 or 15th for work accomplished and nothing moving forward..
That would actually make sense, if they fulfilled work under their contract, they get paid for it, but nothing more going forward.
With the number of lawsuits in flight, I’ve lost track of where the various challenges to New Yorks unconstitutional firearms laws are at. I did find one that had recently repetitioned for cert at SCOTUS, but I know it’s not the only one. Does anyone know of somewhere that the myriad suits are being tracked by an interested party?
Maybe try GOA: http://www.gunowners.org
I’ll have to look after I get home. (Darn work proxy 🙁 )
I asked Grok for you: https://x.com/i/grok/share/9IWKeOliMaVVKgoyo257oh6eD
I haven’t found a central site, so I have a browser that has all of the active NJ/NY cases.
This is the appeals court:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66674530/antonyuk-v-hochul/?page=2
and this the supreme court:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24-795.html
Yeah, I found Antonyuk, I was wondering about the rest of them.
I don’t want to forget to say thank you for your recommendations.
Check out The Armed Scholar on YT. He goes through all of these cases just about every day.
His titles are click bait-y, but his content is good.
Unprecedented
The designations are part of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s unprecedented effort to slash the size of the federal workforce and shrink government spending. Selling the designated buildings could save the federal government hundreds of millions of dollars, they claim, while also dramatically reshaping how major Cabinet agencies funded by Congress operate. The Trump administration has also demanded that federal workers report to the office every day.
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Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has listed scores of canceled office leases on DOGE’s official website, raising questions around the country about what will happen to services provided from those offices.
The question people should be asking is what do those people actually do?
Email them and ask them to list five things they do.
That’s fascist!
I dunno but it’s gotta be worth going 35 trillion dollars in debt otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it.
In a statement, the GSA’s Public Buildings Service said the bulk of properties it has classified as unnecessary are office spaces.
“Decades of funding deficiencies have resulted in many of these buildings becoming functionally obsolete and unsuitable for use by our federal workforce,” they wrote.
They said GSA will consider the buildings’ futures “in an orderly fashion to ensure taxpayers no longer pay for empty and underutilized federal office space, or the significant maintenance costs associated with long-term building ownership — potentially saving more than $430 million in annual operating costs.”
The 443 buildings, which are currently owned and maintained by GSA, span almost 80 million rentable square feet, the agency says.
You can’t expect our best and brightest and most noble public servants to toil away in old rundown buildings we haven’t bothered to maintain.
Out of every five government employees, three make more work for the other two.
Prove me wrong.
You can remove government from that and it just holds as a near maxium
It strikes me at all the “cuts” shock is that, besides the grifters, many people actually believe the governments and countries are doing well, that it can go on forever, that waste and debt and deficit do not matter, and to me this means most people have an entirely different thought process than I do.
This is similar with economic crisis etc. I know many people who in good times spend like drunken sailors assuming no crisis will ever come again, even though the past shows different., It is very strange. Like some people live in a perpetual now, no real notion of the past and future. Or maybe I am the weird one cause I just do not understand.
I look at the 25 year old engineers here with their flashy cars (one has a Porsche 911, a Porsche Cayman, a Rivian pickup, AND a Tesla) and wonder what I’m doing wrong.
Then again I am extremely debt-adverse. My only debt is my mortgage.
Guess who is going to be hurt by “means testing” when applying for social security?
Mr Nice, Mr Median, and Mr Mode?
“many people actually believe the governments and countries are doing well, that it can go on forever, that waste and debt and deficit do not matter”
This is the conclusion I’ve come to as well. They think that most of what government does is essential and efficient. And, if the debt does get a little too high, just tax the rich.
Our healthcare and insurance in a nutshell.
Whitten’s father filed an insurance appeal, which Anthem granted. The insurer paid AMR $9,966.60.
Michael Bowman, a spokesperson for Anthem, said AMR had not submitted all the information it required to process the claim, leading to the initial denial. After consulting with AMR, Anthem paid its coverage amount, Bowman said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/02/28/medical-bill-ambulance-health-insurance/
Symbolic protest
Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley walked out of the House chamber during President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday night, issuing a statement shortly after that the move was “in protest.”
Pressley, who was one of dozens of congressmembers who walked out during Trump’s speech, was accompanied by Claire Bergstresser, an Everett resident who was recently fired from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as part of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) mass layoffs of federal workers.
“I attended this joint session tonight to honor my guest Claire, a former HUD employee who was unjustly terminated as part of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s unprecedented and unlawful attacks on our federal workers. Federal workers like her make our communities stronger, and I was proud to uplift their experiences by having Claire as my distinguished guest tonight,” Pressley said in a statement after she walked out of the House chamber.
“However, I could not in good conscience sit through this speech and give an audience to someone who operates with lawless disregard for Congress and the people of this nation. Donald Trump has used his bully pulpit to spread lies, demonize vulnerable communities, and double down on the hurt, hate, and harm in his first 43 days in office.”
That’ll totally put the whammy on the Trump/Musk agenda.
Are they so delusional they think there is some massive groundswell of support out there for federal bureaucrats?!
Appears so. As they keep putting up sob stories about them.
Should we defund academia?
Sabine Hossenfelder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htb_n7ok9AU
this is surprisingly OK, but do not tell OMWC I said that
Similar message from a better source?
Better than my naughty Prussian librarian? Pistols at dawn!
If by “cursed” you mean “bullshit”
The nation of Mexico’s lawsuit against several major US gun manufacturers, known as Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, was cursed long before it reached the Supreme Court.
Tuesday’s oral argument in the case only confirmed that. It appears that at least seven, and possibly as many as all nine, of the justices will reject Mexico’s argument that gun companies are liable for crimes committed with their products across the US-Mexico border.
Mexico sued seven gun companies plus a company that distributes firearms, claiming that these companies knowingly and unlawfully supply guns to drug cartels. According to a federal appeals court, the defendants in this case “produce more than sixty-eight percent of the U.S. guns trafficked into Mexico, which comes out to between 342,000 and 597,000 guns each year.”
At least they’ve got the numbers nailed down.
Sanctions on the attorneys and activist group who filed the suit!
Justice Samuel Alito, at one point, took a completely different approach, claiming that many Americans believe that Mexico is harming Americans — as if that’s somehow relevant to the narrow legal question of whether PLCAA immunizes gun companies from this particular lawsuit.
Not that this particular lawsuit arises from a desire to shift blame for Mexican domestic lawlessness onto American gun manufacturers.
If the issue is, who should be held responsible for the harm done by Mexican criminals, then I think it has some relevance. If Americans should pay Mexico for the harm to Mexicans “attributable” to actions by Americans, why shouldn’t Mexico pay Americans for harm “attributable” to actions by Mexicans?
He’s making a point, here, which is that the harm caused by Mexican criminals is best considered as attributable solely to their actions.
The jig is up
In Austin, Texas, those gathered at the statehouse leaned in to support Ukraine. Pops of yellow — a nod to the colors of Ukraine’s national flag — dotted the crowd as protesters affixed sunflowers to their hair, hats and clothing. The Texas crowd, which numbered in the hundreds, eventually made its way through downtown, chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go.”
Resignation any day now.
They must have gotten a loan against the $2 Billion USAID funds.
lol bullshit