The NCAAs are here. Tomorrow, anyway. And it’s a good thing, because not much else’s going on. Hey, this guy actually gets it. And we’re getting close to opening day in the major leagues (I don’t count that Tokyo crap). Finally, sports sanity is back. Well, most of the way back. I’m sure everybody in the media are gonna freak out over that, but that’s the kind of detente nations engaged in during the Cold War, and it actually worked. Anyway, that’s it for sports.
Oh, they’re still free to switch to that technology. They’re just having their access to my fucking tax dollars limited.
There is no executive branch anymore, apparently. And no separation of powers either. There is only the blob.
And these people call the Republicans fascists. But this is the good kind of authoritarianism, I suppose.
This may be of use. I will be tracking this closely for personal reasons.
“How you say…cuckold?” Yes, this woman is an idiot, but I still support this side of her.
Shut the fuck up, midget. I have nothing else to add.
Well…yeah. That’s exactly what it is. And I want to start seeing prosecutions soon.
“Unexpectedly long mission” is an interesting way of phrasing it. I could think of a more accurate explanation.
I’ll tell you what’s “very abnormal:” Walking down the street in a dog mask while waving a giant phallus at kids on the sidewalk.
I’ll believe it when I see it. And I’ll be pissed if this gets out in before school choice passes here. And I don’t think I’m alone in that respect.
This is such a great song. One of my favorites from them. As is this one. And now I’m thinking I played it recently like the songs from Monday. Well, enjoy it either way.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
If you can’t afford it without having the government rob your fellow citizens to subsidize it, then maybe the new technology isn’t really necessary.
Yeah.. the article being full to the gills with “I won’t switch unless you pay me to!” makes me think the whole thing is a bit of a fish story. The taxpayer is tired of buying that approach — hook, line and sinker. Time for those distributors to stop blaming OMB for their floundering.
(Plus… I hear they blew a seal at the idea of paying for their own capital upgrades…)
You’re trolling Swissy with all those puns.
Swiss, come get this hothead outta here.
*narrows gaze*
“I’m all in as long as somebody else is paying.”
Technology that Biden-era regs probably require.
Because I am not believing that there is some groundswell of fishermen looking to appease the climate gods out of the goodness of their hearts.
Depends, if they had some other, more well known fishing person they followed tell them that this trick will help them catch fish that are 2-3 inches longer, I can see it.
I don’t want to pay for it. Fin.
Give a man a fish he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he cries for someone else to pay for it.
It’s surprising how many agencies of the executive department are not, in fact, in any way accountable to the elected person in charge of the executive department. If the private sector worked similarly, you could have the entire accounting and finance departments embezzling money, and the CFO wouldn’t be able to fire anyone or even conduct an audit.
Absolutely obligatory
But yeah — there may well just be too many laws, “regulations” or “precedents” to prevent spurious firings that have built up to make it so no one is accountable for anything (if they have the right politics for the “oversight councils”, “labor boards” or apparently judges)… much like I understand union jobs and the NLRB in the private sector.
If that’s the case and the judges actually have a point (yes… we see you Chief Nazgul and the appellate process) then it is yet another reason for Congress to get off its collective behind. Because the “government by technocratic experts” is finally looking much worse than the “government by patronage appointments” we had up to the 1880s.
As I read the Constitution’s grant of executive authority to the President, laws, “regulations” or “precedents” to prevent firings (spurious or otherwise) are simply unconstitutional.
I know Roberts wants a solution to this that goes through the legislature, but, gosh* man, there is a reason (drink) why we elected someone to go around the BS and cut to the chase, financially.
*I am swearing to much on here, and need to rethink some of my word choices.
“Roberts” is a horrible swear word, isn’t it?
It’s the new “Santorum”
Unfortunately, it will never be studied seriously since no money stands to be made curing an old illness with old drugs.
I’m not sure how you can really fix those incentives without either getting rid of IP, in which case you won’t see any drug development, or trying to convince megadonors to do something actually altruistic, as oppose to fluffing themselves with vanity projects to enhance their prestige on the billionaire yacht party circuit.
I don’t think that there will be zero drug development if IP is eliminated.
Nothing is ever actually zero-zero, but good luck developing a drug that takes 10+ years and $1B+ without any financial incentive. It’s hard to keep a molecule a trade secret.
And why exactly does it take 10+ years and $1B+ to develop? Oh, not because of the fundamentals of bio-chemistry, no.
https://liamodell.com/2025/02/20/autism-treatment-leucovorin-folinic-acid-folic-cure-folate-uk-potential-breakthrough-reversal-drug/
Imagine if there was a depression advocacy group complaining about antidepressants.
That’s fair, and of course I favor no government involvement in the regulation of drugs besides, at most, providing information to the public based on voluntary submissions by pharmaceutical makers. But even in an unconstrained market, there’s fairly hefty development costs requiring supercomputers and advanced modeling to flesh out active molecules, then synthesize, test, iterate, etc. All that to put your product out and 2 days later the generic lab has deformulated it and starts cranking it out at production cost rather than production + development.
Some of the people in that, uh, “movement” I guess you could call it, are REALLY invested in the “neurodivergent” label. There’s similar groups for deafness, who reject cochlear implants and other curative therapies for deafness.
I sent the info to my daughter. She is willing to try about anything at this point and will discuss with her doctor the off-label use. She is a strong advocate, so I am hoping this will help. I’ll post an update here at some point.
Also too, there is way to much at stake using autism as a means of getting semi-rich children into the Ivy League.
No way those people will go for a drug that wipes away that loophole.
My oldest grandson is autistic, and I would love to see anything that could help be made available. With the rise of autism in the population I would think making the drug available for off-label use may be profitable in the long run. In the mean time I will send the information to my daughter and see if she can find a way to try this out.
“Yes, this woman is an idiot”
But not so idiotic she would forget the English word for “onion”.
Hint: It’s “onion”.
Cryfruit.
It is not a fruit. It is a bulb in the stalk.
Crybulb, technically.
Good for Pochettino. Also good that it’s on a stream I don’t pay for because I’ll be traveling anyway.
Hmph.
The Spanish commentary (the small bit I do understand) is better than the English anyway.
I honestly don’t give a shit, but it’s ironic that you’d have a billion reddit retards calling this spousal abuse if the sexes were reversed.
In other news, young men aren’t getting married and instead spend all their time on porn and video games. Researchers stumped.
I feel (slightly) bad for the guy, he said something positive and she jumped down his throat. Both terrible people it seems but damn.
Meh, keep in mind he shot somebody in the throat on account of his production company decided to hire some 20 year old diversity candidate as their on-set armorer, and got off scot-free to continue his lifestyle as a celebrity gun control advocate. Couldn’t happen to a nicer prick.
but damn.
Nah, fuck that guy. For many reasons.
Starting to understand why he shoots women.
No, he shot someone in the throat because he broke at least 2 of the Four Fundamental Rules. And that’s even if we give him a pass on “treat all guns as if they are always loaded”.
“…keep in mind he shot somebody in the throat on account of…”
Not checking to see if his gun was loaded, pointing it at a person and pulling the trigger?
He broke every rule in the book and someone lost their life. He should be in prison.
Just like Michael Massee.
the Four Fundamental Rules
Those are for reality-world. Hollywood has different rules.
She does have nice tits though. I wonder where she got them.
They have a reality show to promote. It’s possible that this was a gag to promote it.
Why not both?
Meh. They ought to be prosecuted, but I don’t like the post-9/11 terrorism inflation. I don’t even think that should be a criminal category; maybe a sentencing enhancement for the underlying crime.
It’s being done for political reasons and to force people who oppose them to change their political actions lest they suffer the same fate.
I’m good with calling it terrorism. Because it clearly is that. Now I want the DOJ to connect the dots, if they’re connected, and find out who’s funding all this shit as well as the antifa activities.
I’m OK with you and I calling it that if we feel like. I’m not so keen on the government defining it as such. Democrats won’t be out of power forever, and the next Rittenhouse shouldn’t have to face a terrorism charge in addition to beating a murder rap because the government decides to make words mean precisely what they wish them to mean like Humpty Dumpty.
Ironically, everyone I know who owns a Tesla is a Democrat.
I agree it is terrorism (by the definition of violence to intimidate or coerce a political consequence). I also agree that we don’t need the full Patriot Act crap (another thing for the useless Congress to do — but we really know the GOPe never met a “national security!” bill they didn’t fellate and certainly would never roll back (FISA courts anyone… renewed directly after finding huge problems by the same committees?)
If only people had been telling the power structures that soft pedaling political violence and riots by the “right people” would continue to escalate for at least almost a decade now…. if only….
That was before the party’s foot soldiers were directed to attack Elon’s businesses.
I think Hyak and Sensei are only two non-leftish Tesla owners I know of.
Drake – I thought we were cool…
Zwak – funny enough I was have a discussion with some of the usual morning train commuters. One drive an 6sp Integra S and the other has a current C8 with and 1,000hp C8 ZR1 on order.
As fellow car people they were giving me s— about my choice of rides.
Heh – forgot we had few here.
I think Elon is brilliant. Now that he’s sold his cars to all the rich leftists, he can now sell more to all the well-to-do Republicans.
Be even funnier if they start selling in Russia and China.
The stock is probably a good bargain right now.
I own a Tesla, and if some MF’er messes with it, they will wish I had a gun because it would end them more quickly.
they will wish I had a gun
Paging PutridMeat, PutridMeat to the white courtesy phone!
We have laws for vandalism, arson, and other destruction of property crimes. Let’s not fall into that trap of calling it terrorism, hate crimes, or other bs just because we don’t like why they are doing it.
If it’s organized, we need to use RICO or whatever laws apply to go after the organizers.
Call it whatever you will. The crimes are happening in Deep Blue cities. Good luck getting a jury to convict.
Organized violence for political intimidation is something beyond ordinary vandalism.
At least their actions are motivated by politics. Unlike the South American criminal gangs designated as terrorists.
Well, if they working with Maduro’s government or government-support thugs, as is claimed, it’s not as far a stretch.
That seems more like crooked government taking kickbacks, than crooked government trying to change politics in another country.
Shooting at dealerships, setting fire to chargers is pretty close to terrorism in my book. Keying cars is vandalism. Protesting the dealerships is free speech. The problem in my mind is when last two items are called terrorism.
THEY’RE NOT STRANDED, OK?!
Just a seven month space vacation. Who doesn’t enjoy skeletal degradation and all of the other things that go along with prolonged stays up there?
Boeing: “You fucked up. You trusted us.” sums it up as well.
I’m working on my elevator pitch for a new sitcom – Gilligan’s ISS. The anti-grav effects might run the production budget up a bit, but it’s comedy gold, I tell ya!
“You know that the Trump regime is brutally attacking US democracy.”
No, I didn’t. Tell me more!
“Most of us did not vote for Donald Trump (half of us didn’t even vote in the 2024 election).”
Non-workers of the world unite!
“But he feels he has a mandate to take a wrecking ball to the constitution.”
OK, now you’re just making shit up.
“Likewise, if you are considering coming to the US on a student visa, you might consider the risk at this time. A Columbia University graduate student, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested and detained for no reason other than that he peacefully protested against Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies in Gaza.”
protests we like: peaceful
protests we don’t like: violent
Yes, advocating for genocide is one of the things that the US government tends to frown upon when handing out green cards.
I’ve seen the videos. That was not a peaceful protest.
was it mostly peaceful?
Oh no! Where will the future Sayyid Qutbs go? Tbf, at least he waited to return to Egypt to stir shit.
Most of us did not vote for Donald Trump (half of us didn’t even vote in the 2024 election).
2008 and 2012 had lower turnout than 2024. The US has never had a president elected with the majority of eligible voters.
Trump had a majority of votes before California took a month to find enough votes to knock him back to a plurality.
Although it has led to some interesting album cover art.
Look, the Biden Administration is over now Sloopy — we can move on!
Side note: I used to run into those guys at a coffee shop in Sac, Weatherstone.
Nice. As I understand it, Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett was working at a pizza shop when they started recording together, and went back to it when they stopped touring. Zach Hill seems like kind of a twat to me, but I know nothing about any of those guys personally.
Sac had kind of a low down music scene, and you would run into people from all over. Keven Seconds (7seconds fame) had a coffee shop, True Love Cafe, some of the various Cake guys would be around (my son was best friends with the son of the original bassist for a while) Chino from the Deftones lived not too far from me, and I would see him at the bars from time to time, and so on.
They should open a cafe. Short Order, Long Menu.
LOL no one does apeshit r-tardidity like that person. Commie rags eat that shit up.
I assume the problematic portion is the “requiring (rather than allowing) nonpublic schools to register with the State Board of Education”?
Because the part about if a child in homeschooling either part-time enrolls in a public school or takes place in public school activities they must meet/prove the same immunization, etc. that other students do doesn’t seem outlandish to me. (There’s the factor of mixing with the other kids after all…).
If the “registration” involves hefty fees, reams of paperwork and having to hand-carry the registration down to the basement behind the filing cabinet with the “Beware of the Leopard” sign… yeah, that’s a problem. If it is just “Say you’re a school on this web site”… sorry, I don’t see it as a big deal.
But again — didn’t read the actual bill… relying on the article which is madness in itself, I know….
I expect the registration will require a certificate of accredditation from a state-designated authority, which requires meeting reams of requirements and paying fees of the hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars to the friends of the governer.
I assume it will require the formation of a new department, the hiring of a slew of bureaucrats to administer it all belonging to the teacher’s union, new slots on the board, consultants etc. It is the dream job really, doing nothing meaningful with a lifetime tenure, benefits etc….
Let me consider this for a billionth of a second: NO.
Some left-leaning politicians have also voiced concerns about HB2827. Illinois state representative La Shawn Ford, a Democrat, told local outlet The Center Square that he’s “not for it.”
“From the constituents that I’ve gotten calls from, I’m understanding why they don’t like it,” Ford is quoted as saying. “The loss of their autonomy, that’s a major concern that they lose the autonomy over their children, which is why they choose homeschooling. They want to have control over their children’s education, including the curriculum, how they teach and the philosophy.”
Huh. From a Democrat? I guess the teachers’ unions are going to target him.
I probably should have posted a link about this:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-blocks-trump-ban-on-transgender-people-serving-in-military
Imagine being a judge retarded enough to rule that the military cannot set physical admission or retention standards.
It’s insanity.
The height-weight standards, physical, and fitness tests are just suggestions now. It really is the “I joined for the benefits not to go to war” military.
They can go back to what they have always done with people they didnt want in the military…make them fail basic.
For those in, no, you get normal medical checkups and if docs say you cannot be deployed, you have 3 months to correct that and then its discharge with other than honorable (dont need to go the dishonorable).
Hegseth has the power here and the courts can whine all they want
Judge rules you can’t fail anyone or involuntary discharge them.
I can absolutely see them do that. Its a major flex of power right now.
Sloop, if that’s the case, I’m enlisting and I’m going to be Navy SEAL!
I’m entitled to a MOH, promotion to O-10, and 100% disability pension.
…gets in line behind Rat…
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Very good, Jimbo, I laughed at the end. The kid (and the dog) will sleep well after that romp.
They will probably both be piled on each other while sleeping too.
I have a great pic of Altar Boy #1 and the old mutt sleeping in a fort they made to hide in. Both of their heads are on the same pillow and they are sleeping the Sleep of the Innocents.
I know it’s my hobbyhorse here and all, but I still for the life of me cannot get my head around gambling, of all fucking things, still standing as the last American taboo.
You can get around it in Texas if you’re just running a small “membership” card room as a “social club.” Except when you can’t, of course.
Gambling is the one vice that I never understood. Even when I’ve won, I’ve never gotten a “rush” from it. Mostly I get mad that I lost and wonder why I even thought I could win.
Interestingly, here in Korea, it is maybe the #1 vice. (Drinking soju might edge it out). My wife has been telling me a bunch of stories during our visits about many people who have been wiped out speculating on various crypto currencies.
According to her, some people got in early and made a bunch of money, so everyone else thought it was the easy way to riches and have lost everything. The casinos here only allow in people with foreign passports. No locals.
I don’t get it, either. Mostly it is just boring.
Like just about anything else that’s supposed to be stimulating, there’s a certain type of person who gets a big rush from it, and 90% of everybody else either doesn’t get it, or takes it in moderation and moves on with their life. I’ve known a few people who are “problem gamblers, and I’ve met several orders of magnitude more people who just want a safe environment to play poker, blackjack, baccarat, and roulette every so often. The only game you’ll ever catch me playing in a casino is poker; the house doesn’t have a stake in it, you’re paying for the roof overhead, the dealer, and nobody getting shot or knifed over a bad hand.
Back in my green suit days I spent a few evenings trying to read people’s faces. Never big money though. I was probably the mark (or just a poor player), they let me win on occasion but not too often.
Hey Pat, totally OT, but you mentioned a lumber yard you wanted to check out. Here is a piece about the lingo you need to get what you actually want, and not frustration
https://www.vanvleetwoodworking.com/blog/2017/3/28/woodworking-tips-lumber-lingo
Danke, bookmarked.
Pat:
Side bets on craps are the only bet in a casino that (usually) has no house edge. Even at the poker tables, the house takes a rake.
True, what I meant is they don’t have any interest in any individual hand since the casino itself isn’t a player. The rake is your fee for them hosting the game (although something more akin to a cover charge would be more reasonable for what you’re getting…)
My wife and I went to a casino one time. We each spent $20, realized it took longer to make that money than to throw it away for nothing, and that was it.
“Even at the poker tables, the house takes a rake.”
This is why you never, never, ever play casino poker. Tournament or friends games only.
I’ve seen some very complicated blackjack strategies that will supposedly give the player a small edge (P.C. 0.01-0.02) if played perfectly over a long period. Doesn’t seem worth the effort to me.
Pat – In Vegas at least, up to four players at any one poker table can be house employees, and two of them can be playing with house money.
Don’t play casino poker.
Pat, possibly also of interest, an explanation of hardwood grades.
Didn’t realize that. Although even then, it’s not quite the same as the craps or blackjack tables; there’s privately-staked guys all over Vegas as well.
Ironically, in all the years I lived in and around Las Vegas, I only sat down at a poker table once – at the South Point way the hell off the strip on the south end of Las Vegas Boulevard. They had a $3/$6 limit and $1/$3 NL table going, each 5 or 6 handed. If anybody there was playing on house money, they were treating it like their rent money on the 30th of the month. The $1/$3 game had to be the one of the slowest tables I’ve ever sat down to. My dad played at Bellagio quite a bit in the mid aughts, when that was where most of the pro-am scene was. He liked their $10/$20 limit game, but they killed it to make room for more NL and spread limit tables since that was the new hotness in those days. After that he’d mostly satellite into their weekly $1,500 buy in tourneys. The poker room there at the time was so busy it would have been a money losing proposition to have staff sitting in.
My buddy actually came and stayed with us for a while and got a cert to become a poker dealer. I have no way of verifying the story, but one of the instructors at the place he studied said none other than Mr. William Gates III, famed for cutting classes at Harvard to play poker, visited the Mirage when he was working there in the ’90s. By his account, the then-world’s-richest-man sat in on a some sub-$10 BB fixed limit game and didn’t tip.
Oh, and @Grummun, bookmarked that link too, thanks.
It leads to other things, duh. I mean, come on.
It is a slippery slope to prostitution!
You allow casinos and pretty soon people will be dancing.
Does Texas have the same problem with gambling that Virginia has? Virginia doesn’t let just anyone open a casino. They restrict the number of casinos per region which results in battles for who gets them.
Texas has no casino gambling of any kind, including Indian casinos; this would require a major revision of state law.
See below. This would be good. And it should happen.
Del Webb inhabitants solve the problem locally. If there’s a demand there will be a supply.
It’s a tight one between prostitution and gambling I think.
Yeah, there’s a lot more legal gambling than certified orgasm therapists.
Not Adahn:
I’m now trying to block the mental images of state run orgasm therapists that would be referred to as “scratchers”.
I never understood gambling at all least of which an addictive, destructive vice….that is until I married into a family with gamblers.
It is truly something to behold. I think it is worse than any drug addiction.
The Met’s new war on women
Uffda. The Minnesoda House is already tied up equally. The Minnesoda Senate was +1 DFL, but only because they won’t expel the DFL Senator who broke into her mother-in-law’s house (because obviously she hasn’t been convicted yet).
Now a second Minnesoda Senator has been arrested for soliciting a minor.
It will be interesting how the DFL tries to spin it so he stays in place and keeps their majority intact.
16-year-old girl – at least it is not gay
He’s a Democrat. That probably makes it worse.
If he was trying to bang a 16 year-old tranny, he probably would have skated.
Eichorn is a Repub, that’s the problem. DFLers live in the metro area and south. Grand Rapids is almost local.
Forescore: Double-Uffda.
I figured that if the GOP were calling for his head, he must have been a DFL-er. Should have paid more attention to the article I guess.
Maybe he could pull and Omar and say he hit her up after finding out that they were related via 23 and me?
Why does the article call him a Republican?
My girlfriend’s opinion of him (she’s from Grand Rapids): “He’s a twat.”
““When I was in the running for Maria in West Side Story, they kept calling to ask if I was legit. I remember thinking, ‘Do you want me to bring my abuelita in? I will. I’ll bring her into the studio if you want to meet her.’”
Natalie Wood’s parents were from Russia.
“It’s an interesting experience being part of that diaspora in the current climate we live in,” she added. “But I love being Colombian.”
And all the coke keeps me skinny!
https://nypost.com/2025/03/19/entertainment/rachel-zegler-slams-white-executives-who-asked-her-to-prove-her-latin-heritage-for-west-side-story-role/
LOL I knew exactly who that was going to be before the reveal.
well I doubt the executives gave a shit, they just did not want to be hassled.
I think Pie is right; you mess up in your casting and you are in for a world of hurt. Best makes doubly sure that everything is just right, and if that means making someone metaphorically drop trou to be check for accuracy, so be it.
And she would probably be the first one to complain if they cast a white girl.
Who’s dying in a knife fight over her?
Some black girl?
Irving is a dead hole of mismanagement in the middle of the DFW metroplex. This would be welcomed. It would lead the way to kicking out old city council and city management people who have destroyed the place since the 1980s.
Also, it would give me a place to find drink specials and blinky lights, both of which are necessary to my existence.
You had me at drink specials.
Hope the moving process is going well, btw. I’ve been meaning to check my protonmail and keep forgetting.
I will drop you a line. I have more trash right now than I normally have in a year.
All such cases
https://x.com/thechosenberg/status/1902029262049137127
Purity spirals gonna spiral, yo.
This is a good example of, “If everyone you meet is an asshole, the problem is probably with you,”
“Shut up midget”
Knew it was going to be either [1/3′]Reich or Dinklage.
Same here.
[Carlo Rossi voice] It was Reich.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/19/Louisiana-nitrogen-hypoxia-execution/6581742367594/
hIgHlY coNtRoVerSiAl!
Mostly because the anti-death penalty shitheads who have succeeded in making lethal injection drugs unavailable so that they could get a few botched executions in the news to rally support behind eliminating the death penalty entirely can’t use any of their usual tactics to oppose something that’s cheap, humane, and effective, and might actually have to resort honesty in defending their position.
Honestly I would rather just get the firing squad.
Speaking of:
https://apnews.com/article/firing-squad-execution-south-carolina-sigmond-c998f11ecd3fcbf117d55b682ce3604a
And even professional players miss free throws ALL THE TIME! How could the executioners possibly be expected to make a clean kill?
Holy shit it took him two minutes to die after being shot? How bad was this marksmanship?
Oh, fuck you AP. Fuck. You.
See last night’s post for other tales of marksmanship.
I breathe nitrogen without being forced.
For part of my career, I was the Engineer who had the Process Safety training for some areas that used a bunch of nitrogen, so I learned a lot about the hazards and nitrogen hypoxia.
Turns out that there aren’t that many folks who learn much about it, and they fall into just a few groups. One is Engineer-types. Another is medical-types. And another is people who are looking for the “ideal” self-unaliving method…
And some people like counselors (or the medicos) who have been taught to watch out for anybody who knows much about it, because it might be a sign they’re in that third group. So being able to talk about it intelligently will get you some concerned looks.
Ask scuba divers with nitrox certification.
I dont get that. The anti-death penalty position is easy to defend honestly. I suppose it is the ‘activist’ mindset that leads one reflexively to spew bullshit.
It isn’t the position that is the problem, it is the people they want to convince. Emotions over reasons.
JI gets it.
I’m not anti death penalty in principle, although I’m sympathetic to the libertarian arguments against giving the government sufficient power to carry it out. The activists want to rub the public’s nose in some (I guess) gratuitous suffering to make their case. The thing that really pisses me off about their backdoor tactics in pressuring drug companies not to supply lethal injection drugs is that it also made the most common barbiturates used for assisted suicide unavailable in the states where it’s allowed. The necessary prescription of secobarbital went from costing around $100 to around $10,000, before it become unavailable entirely, and just like with the lethal injections, the drug cocktails used to replace it ended up being a lot less effective and a lot less humane.
I would think burning in Hell for eternity would be far more painful for this murderer than anything the state of Louisiana could do to him.
You underestimate the state of Louisiana.
What Common Tater says.
I had to visit Angola a few times in the course of my job. I finally asked to be excused from that duty. Trust me, I have seen a fair amount of hell on earth but Angola and one prison inside New Orleans were worse than anything I had seen before.
Has “real” wokery never been tried?
Wokery was never going to be defeated by the political Right – but high-profile left-wing figures distancing themselves from it could trigger a “respectability cascade”
https://insider.iea.org.uk/p/has-real-wokery-never-been-tried?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=wylle&triedRedirect=true
In January, the socialist Jacobin magazine published an interview with Prof Vivek Chibber, a professor of sociology at New York University, in which he criticised Identity Politics specifically from a socialist perspective. I rarely remember individual articles in Jacobin, because they all follow the same template, and they are all extremely predictable. But this one stood out.
It is not that I had never seen a socialist critique of wokery before. But up until this point, such critiques had always come from stuffy old Stalinists, never from cool and trendy hipster socialists.
The Great Awokening is real, and it takes a lot of effort not to see it. But the woke gaslighting strategy has worked. The woke made it low-status to acknowledge the existence of wokery, and in this way, they preyed on the status-anxiety of The Sensibles, who are terrified of being seen anywhere near a low-status opinion. Under different circumstances, The Sensibles might have positioned themselves somewhere in the middle, which is usually where they are most comfortable. They would have defended wokery as necessary overall, while also critiquing its excesses. Instead, The Sensibles became complicit in the Great Awokening by reserving all their ire for its critics. This is how the far-Left sets the tone.
But now that the criticism comes from the trendy Hipster Left, The Sensibles suddenly know perfectly well what “woke” means, and have no problem acknowledging its existence. They now have permission.
Yeah… Even if true, too late… England still fucked.
Good morning all.
I know that the devil is in the details, I know it is complicated, you have to take this into account, see here is the thing blah blah.
I find it useful to back off sometimes and find an overarching principle.
What we are looking at here is a slave revolt and the slavers are behaving in exactly the way we should expect. They have to be slapped down hard every time they try to put the revolt down. So far we can see success without firing a shot. A bloodless overthrow of slavery is always best, not like last time.
“This is now a country where 28 million private sector workers are expected to support nine million who are economically inactive, six million public sector staff and 13 million state pensioners.”
That is England… I think the ratio in Romania is worse, we have 4.5 million private sector workers for like 18 million people, including children…
How is it the U ES of A
The numbers are all bigger.
Seems like there is no end to numbers.
Subtle reference to Pie there 4×20?
Does European government spending not benefit from the multiplier effect?
the multiplier effect – the fertility rate does not indicate much multiplying
I remember when my dad was incensed that his union AFCME (or something like that) let him down and he had to pay a $5 co-pay!
When I got done laughing my ass off, I told him welcome to the private sector. I had been paying $20 co-pays for a decade. Cry me a river.
When we compared our health plans, he was honestly baffled. He had no idea that us mopes in the private sector had been paying out.
How is it the U ES of A
Sunny, about 52 freedom degrees at 9:00 am.
Thanks for asking.
Europe’s last Latin kingdom
March 18, 2025
Luka Ivan Jukic
Themes: History
From the late Middle Ages, Latin came under sustained siege by the proponents of vernacular languages. And yet, in Hungary the language remained in everyday use well into the 19th-century, an historical anomaly that has special significance in the fragmented ethno-linguistic history of Eastern Europe.
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/europes-last-latin-kingdom/
Latin’s prestige had never been greater than during the Renaissance and never lower than during the Enlightenment. Indeed, it was precisely the Renaissance humanist approach to Latin that by the latter epoch had convinced Europeans it was a useless language. What was the point of rote-learning dead Latin through ancient texts when it was the modern states of France and England that were turning the wheel of history?
As both showed, a fundamental prerequisite of Enlightenment was the embrace of a standardised vernacular as the national language. While Latin was the preserve of a select caste of educated elites, poring over antiquated ancient texts, the vernacular promised the spread of education and knowledge among the broad masses of society.
Her realm on the brink of collapse, Maria Theresa begged the Hungarian nobility for their assistance in an impassioned Latin speech. It was a success. They pledged their undying support with drawn swords and cries of: Vitam et sanguinem pro rege nostro Maria Theresia! –‘Blood and life for our King Maria Theresa.’ The new ‘king’ of Hungary was crowned soon after.
After a largely successful defence of what one historian of the Habsburg Monarchy memorably called a ‘mildly centripetal agglutination of bewilderingly heterogeneous elements’, the rest of her reign would be spent attempting to transform it into a model enlightened state. Latin, it seemed, would have to go. French was deployed in Belgium, Italian in Lombardy, and German in the core imperial territories. But what was to be done with Hungary?
Latin was and had been its official language effectively since its Christianisation. Its fiercely patriotic nobility saw it as nothing less than the country’s mother tongue. Indeed, it was essential to their functioning as a noble estate as it was the language through which they administered their counties. These were akin to their own mini-noble republics, occasionally gathering in a general noble diet at which great nobles were represented in the upper house and counties through representatives in the lower house. The language of all these institutions, of the laws, rights, and privileges that underpinned them, was Latin.
Probably a joy I’ll save for retirement, but I’d kind of like to learn Latin and biblical Greek some day, just to read original source material.
Duo lingo is your friend.
Didn’t know they offered those sorts of languages. I’ll check it out. I was actually thinking of using it to re-learn Spanish, since I can’t remember more than 5 words of it from high school, and it’s handy to know down here in the border states.
I think its possible to hate absolutely everybody in this article.
The $7 Billion Defense Contractor Who Became One of America’s Biggest Alleged Tax Cheats
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/douglas-edelman-alleged-tax-fraud-who-ee65ea61?st=b1sXu7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin float possibility of hockey matchup between NHL and Russian KHL; NHL declines to comment”
Better idea: The Russians have been out of the Paralympics because of Ukraine, and prior to that, the drug scandal. I say we have a sled hockey series, USA vs Russia. Put it on national TV. Every one of you would watch that, right?
Ah, memories of the 1976 Broad Street Bullies vs. Commies. 4-1 Flyers, blood all over ice, Russkies crying in their vodka. Flyer’s owner, Ed Snider (an Ayn Rand enthusiast) gloating.
I would totally watch USA vs Russia sled hockey!
Since I started 10 years ago, the only teams that are even close in skill level are USA and Canada. It’s gotten boring. But when Russia was allowed to play, they were pretty good.
Idiot asks “I am wrong?”
https://slate.com/life/2025/03/parenting-advice-public-restaurants-toddler-behavior.html
Over the next few years, it became clear that I am, indeed, the problem. Everywhere I go, my kids—I now have two, and they’re 2 and 4 years old—seem to be the wildest kids there. At the neighborhood barbecue, my kids dash around a neighbor’s yard, in and out of people’s legs, grabbing food off the table, giggling and trying to get inside to see the owners’ cat. At the grocery store, my son likes to pretend the grocery cart is a train; he stands on low shelves and jumps aboard as I go past. And yes, even at restaurants, I let them get up and roam around a bit. They’ve tried to get into the kitchen only, like, once.
Yes, you are wrong.
The world is not your fucking playground.
Meh…sounds like the kids are being kids. Be modern, drug em up and shove a tablet in their hands..
They are being badly behaved, poorly raised kids. That kind of behavior is controllable, and should be under control. It was managed for quite some time without drugs, so I don’t think the choices here are “barbarism” or “drugs”.
It was a bit of tongue in cheek. Though, im sure that the advice she is getting is drugs and not “you want to go to the car?” Like we used to get
To this day I remember the last tantrum I threw in public as a child. I was 4 years old. At K-Mart. Kept bugging my parents about some Ninja Turtles toy while they were shopping for something else. Dad told me no. I started whining. He told me, keep it up and we’re going home. I start wailing and screaming; the kid’s gambit. Dad was true to his word. Picked me up off the floor, threw me over his shoulder, marched me out the car, and we went home.
“They just have ADHD”
Kids will be kids, but I’ve noticed that a lot of parents outright refuse to teach their kids how to behave themselves in public and expect others to put up with their shitty behavior. My kids who are 5 and 3 respectively aren’t perfect but they have some grasp that being a hellion in public isn’t okay and will get them in trouble. I’m a lot gentler with my children than my parents where with me and my siblings but at the same time, I have some expectations.
Probably not coincidentally, you see the same shit with people’s dogs as well. My neighbor back in NV had this utterly braindead dog that would just ceaselessly bark at absolutely nothing every time she put it outside until she let it back in the house. And every goddamn time, she’d walk out on her porch and say, in a tone barely over a normal speaking voice, “No no, David,” and walk back in, with the dog not even sparing her a glance. If you can’t even swat your dog with a rolled up newspaper when it’s barking at the clouds, you probably aren’t setting any boundaries with your kids either.
For the love of god, your damn kids in line.
“Why reward Donald Trump’s America with your tourist dollars?”
We all must suffer so that Trump doesn’t get any good press. This guy needs to move to a deep cave and never come out.
Hey if your spouse isnt beating you, you have to do it yourself if you want those charges to stick
If 49.7% of the votes went for the guy you hate, you must also hate and punish the 50.3% who didn’t for him as well as those who didn’t vote for anybody.
Genius.
Now let’s apply that reasoning to all people of Jewish extraction. Like himself.
This is really leftism in a nutshell isn’t it? Along the same vein as “I don’t care if my standard of living suffers, as long as billionaires are punished.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c
That’s what Thatcher basically said during her last PM Questions as Prime Minister. When they talk about the wealth gap, they aren’t talking about raising the standard of living among the poor, what they really are going on about is keeping the poor in their place while looting the wealthy.
As much as it pains me to say it as a nominal practitioner of the religion, Western society owes that ethos nearly entirely to Christianity. From Christ with the wealthy young ruler, to the parable of the rich fool, to Paul the Aposle, to Augustine of Hippo, Basil the Great, and John Chrysostom, you can’t swing a dead cat in Christian theology without an admonition to dispossess the rich of their accumulated goods for distribution among the poor in the interest of diminishing the standard of the rich and elevating that of the poor to a mediocre middle. The only modern novelty since the de-Christianization of the post-Enlightenment west is using guns instead of guilt to obtain buy-in.
Many grant recipients were scrambling to cover basic operating costs without the grant money — and were on the verge of furloughing staff and potentially closing their businesses — due to the freezing and termination of funds.
In her opinion, Chutkan found that they were awarded the grants “pursuant to a statute authorized by Congress,” and that the EPA did not give the plaintiffs “an opportunity to object and provide information challenging the action when it unilaterally terminated their grants.”
As we all know, the government exists to employ people and/or give them money.
“the EPA did not give the plaintiffs “an opportunity to object and provide information challenging the action when it unilaterally terminated their grants.”
And that opportunity to object and challenge the termination is in a statute, right?
So grants don’t represent contracts that obligate parties to do something if the other party does something, and can be torn up at any time by one party regardless of the contract language?
To the extent a grant is a contract, when and how it can be terminated would be in the four corners of the grant itself. If it is silent, under ordinary contract law it is terminable by either party at will.
Fair point, though. I revise and extend my remarks to “ And that opportunity to object and challenge the termination is in a statute or the grant itself, right?”
CBS News obtained documents earlier Tuesday that show the Trump administration plans to eliminate the EPA’s Office of Research and Development, the agency’s primary research body. Such a move would result in the loss of about 1,000 positions.
Oh, horror.
Now I see the objection to Musk is not only “he wasn’t elected” but “not confirmed by the Senate.” Well, Trump needs to lean on his confirmed cabinet heads to issue the firings, reductions in staff, redundancies, etc. that – so far – have been blocked by a-hole judges.
Trump did lean into the cabinet a couple weeks ago about that and was a bit of a leash tug on Musk.
I glanced at those JFK files a little last night. This was handled way better than the Epstein files. They just put everything on the National Archives web site and sent out the link.
None of the documents were redacted. Sounds like there aren’t any smoking guns, but what I saw had a ton of stuff about the CIA and Cuba. If anything it’s an interesting look into how the CIA operated, and how things were going internationally in the 1960’s. There’s probably a lot of useful things like that.
I saw there was something about the CIA arranging “female companionship” for a Middle East King during his visit to the US.
Awesome. I read one that had quotes from a Cuban diplomat, who immediately thought the CIA was involved, and was worried they were headed for WW3.
I don’t think anyone expects a time card listing O/T for the guy shooting Kennedy. But this type of information about what our government is up to is worthwhile.
I’m still going with the theory that the mob wound Oswald up to kill Kennedy. And in the assassination attempt a secret service agent accidentally shot Kennedy
My laziness just triumphed over my curiosity, unfortunately.
Yes, I own a Tesla. I owned another one before that, and I’m paying off the one my ex-husband drives as part of the divorce settlement (a whole other story 🙄).
I never used to turn on “Sentry” mode when parked at home (since it does use some battery) but since it’s out in the apartment parking lot, I have it on nowadays.
I happen to be shopping for cheaper car insurance at the moment. Living north of Seattle, I doubt the recent spate of vandalism and arson is going to help.
I wondered why all the cameras, then I rode in a Tesla recently and saw that the display screen shows all the traffic and objects around the car. Cool.
The current starting goalie for USA Sled Hockey had his medals stolen from his Tesla. They got videos of the thief from the car’s cameras. Within a week someone had dropped off the medals at a police station.
Good luck with insurance. My kid, being young, at first had to get some sketchy insurance that covered younger drivers. Now they go through the Navy. (Once again, I am forced to admit them getting married at 19 was actually a good financial decision).
I just got diagnosed with diverticulitis after feeling like I’d been gut shot Sunday-Monday.
I’m on a clear liquid diet until the flare up subsides, then I can phase in eggs and rice.
This is an excellent time to rebaseline some stuff in my life so I’m also quitting drinking and am going to commit to daily walks even though it’s still 35 F most mornings here.
I’d like to get another 25 years out of this old husk.
There is some diet where you start with the basics and gradually add different things to see how your body reacts. The idea being there are certain foods that cause a lot of our health problems, and those differ per person.
It’s an elimination diet. The one I’m familiar with is a low-carb one. You start with plain ground beef and start adding back.
35F isn’t cold.
I took a walk this past winter where the water in my water bottle started freezing.
More seriously, I hope your diverticulitis clears up and that you don’t suffer a seizure walking in the middle of nowhere.
As a former Minnesota resident, I realize that 35F isn’t cold.
It’s a matter of what I’m used to, and I’m not used to walking in drizzling rain at 35F. But I will make myself do it!
Perhaps just a nip of brandy to warm you up for the walk?
In all seriousness though, commiserations, and hopefully a swift recovery.
Plug pulled: Federal funding halt leaves Virginia’s EV future in limbo
Don’t lump hybrids in. Plug-in hybrids don’t need and traditional hybrids can’t use electric charging stations.
Why should taxpayers subsidize charging stations? Let those who deem it important pay for it.
If there are so many ev owners, then no subsidy is needed. Some enterprising person will start building charging stations.
Why is free marketing so fucking hard to understand?
Look, the free market isn’t going to build those stations. Only the government can do that.
/Government that had funds allocated but built zero charging stations
Does no one remember how the government had to subsidize filling stations when automobiles first came into use?
Oh, wait….
Our local Walmart here in
West BumblefuckSweetwater, TX has an EV charging station. There’s no way in hell that wasn’t government subsidized. Although I do see people using it from time to time. It’s literally right next to I-20 though, so that’s probably something to do with it.Sorry to go wildly off-topic, but needs must…
I recall that a number of you have issues with GoFundMe and have suggested alternatives. Sadly, I did not save or bookmark any of that information.
I need to set up a GoFundMe and/or alternative to raise some funding for surgery. The precise target amount is still a bit fuzzy, but potentially as much as $2500. I’m hoping to see that number firmed up at a lower value; we’ll see how it works out. I have some confidence it will, but it’s still an open question.
This community has been outstandingly generous with support in years gone by; I’m hoping that spirit remains.
Details as things firm up, but getting a good ‘fund me’ site is one of the next steps.
Thank you for any pointers!
GiveSendGo is an alternate I believe that was touted a bit back.
Thanks OBE, I’ll check into them.
GiveSendGo got hacked during the Canadian Trucker Protest. From what I remember of the hack analysis, their security was garbage.
According to Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-like website that’s sharing the leaked information with journalists and researchers, the huge cache contains over 5GB of data that includes the source code for GiveSendGo’s website, data on all the campaigns it’s run, limited credit card data, and unredacted images of identity-verification documents sent to GiveSendGo by those running crowdfunding campaigns.
That said, I doubt they retained the same security practices thereafter, and there’s probably not a hysterical gang of SV lefties targeting it at the moment.
@NA – I did answer your question from the overnight thread, but the Links had started at the time, so I’ll just repost it
You should buy one of these: https://atlasgunworks.com/product/athena-order-now-pistol-1
Then you’ll never have to be limited by your equipment.
While gun sites are blocked by the office proxy, there is a little mousover preview via wordpress with the resolution of a postage stamp, so I couldn’t see much but I did see a $6k price tag.
Outside of my health, my house, my car, or my computer, I don’t see myself just dropping $6k on anything in the near future. (In the far future, who knows what inflation might bring)
2011s are NOT on the “less maintenance” side of the spectrum.
Internal extractors are silly.
I actually made your question the theme for Sunday’s IFLA.
I ignored that because no pistol requires a significant amount of maintenance. Seriously, all I do to keep my Atlases running is keep them lubed, swap out the recoil springs at ~5k intervals, and keep the magazines clean. Oh, and a detail clean and inspection once per season. Same thing I do with my CZs and Glocks.
Blocking funds dispersed by Congress doesn’t save taxpayer money
By the time the government is done suing itself, it costs more. Just pay the ransom. What’s another trillion, give or take?
Hello, fellow Glibs. About a year ago, I posted that I was trying to learn German and had been assigned a German test with a 30 day time limit that I wasn’t prepared for. I asked for advice. A few, including Derpotologist, gave me some helpful advice and well-wishes. I did not pass that test, but I am happy to say I passed a MORE DIFFICULT test a few weeks ago. WOO
🥳
Congratulations.
Thanks! Or danke, whatevs!
Congrats! What was your learning method?
I was helped by having taken German in high school and undergrad about 25 years ago. But I completely neglected the language in the interim, and am sure that even back then I wasn’t as able as I am now. So, with a background in it (so that some of the unfamiliar would at least trigger some memories):
I used Duolingo to get comfortable with it again. The app gets a lot of bad press, and it’s not adequate on its own, but it does provide a motivation to do something every day.
Where Duolingo fails completely is in grammar. I had no idea, whatsoever, why sometimes an adjective would end in -en instead of -e, or why sometimes some nouns had -n on the end for no apparent reason. I understood, both from having taken some German before, AND from having taken Latin in high school, that declination and conjugation exist, and I even thought I knew some of the rules, but other things were apparently breaking those rules. So I got some books on grammar. Some of the most helpful:
Basic German: a Grammar and Workbook
Intermediate German: a Grammar and Workbook
German: an Essential Grammar
The books are pretty dry, although they try not to be, but I LIKE dry, so they helped. I now understood WHY I was getting things wrong, and instead of just memorizing that “well, apparently in this sentence, that’s what this looks like” I could figure it out myself.
One huge problem at this point was vocabulary. It became obvious that I would just need to know a lot more words. Anki was helpful for this purpose. It is basically a flashcard app, and some people have made German language decks. There’s a deck using all the B1-level words (roughly, early intermediate) on the Goethe Institut test. That’s about 4000 cards, for the record. There was also one with business German terms which I found very helpful for my intended use.
At some point I started reading. There are great level-based resources for reading. One helpful one had adapted newspaper articles into level-appropriate German. I found that, although I didn’t even understand everything, I understood so much I could actually…read it. I’ve heard the advice elsewhere, and it seemed to work in my case, that trying to read things just slightly above your current level may surprise you – you know more than you think, or can infer to fill in gaps. I also relied heavily on Reclam Verlag editions of books in German – I got a Kindle version of Animal Farm (Farm der Tiere, as they name it), and because that book isn’t very tough in its vocabulary or syntax, AND I’ve read it in English a handful of times (starting in 7th grade), I could understand quite well. And then fill in gaps – e.g., maybe I’m unsure what a word means, but since only a few English words make sense in this context, I can probably figure things out. And one amazing aspect of the Kindle was I could just highlight a word with my fingertip and the Kindle has a built-in German dictionary.
I intended to subscribe to German-language newspapers but found that to be expensive. Helpfully, several newspapers offer a daily “newsletter” of their most-read articles, and I get those sent to my email daily. And I’m learning that they really, really like sports in Valais and Vorarlberg.
You won’t have remembered the original context of my test last year, but it was ALL reading. So I’m deficient in listening, speaking, and writing. If I have to improve in those areas, I’d probably get a tutor online, which is a bit expensive but seemingly not difficult. Since reading was the entire test, though, I hammered reading, and it worked.
Watched a lot of scheisse videos?
I would agree about DuoLingo. It’s great for vocabulary and hitting it as much you want every day. it does not do a good job (well, any job) of explaining sentence construction. Sometimes you put the “el” or “la” before the noun, sometimes not. Why? Nobody knows, apparently. That kind of thing. There’s two kinds of past tense (I know they have technical names, but I don’t recall). When do you use each? Etc.
I think I’ve mentioned before how when I started Russian my freshman year of college back in 1990, one of the books we had to buy was called “English Grammar for Students of Russian”. There were similar books for other languages, too. I don’t remember how much I used the actual book, but the idea of being able to connect grammar concepts across languages was a big help. I knew declension and cases from German, for example.
Learning German helped me understand English grammar.
Wir gratulieren Dir!
Danke sehr!
Congratulations!
Thanks!
I have an idea. EV charging stations with an attached massage parlor. Get a recharge and a discharge at the same time.
Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com
Is he still here? I thought he might have fled to Canada with nothing but the clothes on his back, to beg refuge from Trump’s totalitarianism. After all he’s liable to be rounded up and put to work in a mine at any moment.
Wait, you mine for lies and retardation?
A couple dozen USAID employees sued Musk and DOGE, saying they didn’t have the authority to shut down the agency as Musk is not an appointed agency head
What an absurd claim. He is acting on behalf of the President, just like every other employee of the executive branch.
ToughSF
@ToughSf
The Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System (MALS) that lets ships ride on a low-friction ‘air carpet’:
https://youtu.be/1RZ0UOIITMk
It was already demonstrated to reduce fuel consumption by 13% in its first trials.
https://x.com/ToughSf/status/1902344306456674596
Air Lubrication – so just blow don’t spit?
Anime Aesthetics
@anime_twits
Did you know In Akira (1988) animators invented 50 new, completely unique colors specifically for the film.
https://x.com/anime_twits/status/1901898905157304472
there aren’t 50 colors in total, let alone new ones in an anime… there’s like 12 tops
Millions of brave warriorpersons spurned and ground underfoot
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington found Trump’s January 27 order, one of several issued by the Republican president targeting legal rights for transgender Americans, likely violated the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on sex discrimination.
“The cruel irony is that thousands of transgender service members have sacrificed — some risking their lives — to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the military ban seeks to deny them,” Reyes said.
Reyes was appointed by President Joe Biden, Trump’s Democratic predecessor.
Jennifer Levi, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, praised the court for acting “decisively and swiftly.”
“This ruling pulls no punches. The court methodically documented the concrete harms this ban inflicts on brave transgender service members who ask nothing more than to serve their country with honor,” Levi said in a statement.
The bravest of the brave, who wish only to lay down their lives in defense of freedom.
There really is an easy way around this (which they might already be doing, I don’t trust the media): Transgender troops are fine as long as they don’t require any ongoing medical treatment. Diabetics on insulin aren’t allowed, right?
The constitution has a prohibition on sex discrimination? Where?
The judiciary is really Hell-bent on destroying their credibility rendering themselves irrelevant by trying to claim ultimate authority over everything, everywhere, even though they have none in actuality and have no way to enforce it except through acquiescence, which relies on everyone accepting their legitimacy.
Dudes Posting Their W’s
@DudespostingWs
My man does a perfect Trout catch-and-cook out in the cold wilderness
https://x.com/DudespostingWs/status/1902160089076666774
that is one tiny trout
That’s what she said!
The judge repeatedly pressed them to justify their stance with evidence, and at times expressed open outrage at the order’s language denigrating the character of transgender people.
The military has about 1.3 million active-duty personnel, Department of Defense data shows. While transgender rights advocates say there are as many as 15,000 transgender service members, officials say the number is in the low thousands.
I think they misspelled “dozens”.
I’m no great fan of the military, but I can’t help thinking the Pentagon should be the point of origin for recruitment and personnel policy, and not some civilian judge.
Back in my service days mental health was a disqualifying factor as well as any chronic condition requiring treatment or medication.
Where in the constitution does a judge have authority to decide how the military should be run?
This insanely ridiculous overreach is going to end badly for the judicial branch.
If Roberts really was concerned about the legitimacy and integrity of the judiciary, he would be looking to slap this shit down ASAP.
Missing South African girl was wanted for her ‘eyes and skin’
A young South African girl who disappeared last year aged six was allegedly sought by a traditional healer for her eyes and fair complexion, a court has heard.
This is among the allegations that have emerged at the ongoing trial of Joshlin Smith’s mother, Kelly Smith, who has been accused of orchestrating her kidnapping.
Ms Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn have pleaded not guilty to charges of human trafficking and kidnapping.
Joshlin’s disappearance in February 2024 from outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, sent shockwaves across South Africa and, despite a highly publicised search for her, she is yet to be found.
Ms Smith initially said that Joshlin, who has a fair complexion and blue-green eyes, had gone missing after she had left her in Mr Appollis’s care.
Prosecutors later accused her of having “sold, delivered or exchanged” the six-year-old and lied about her disappearance.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39v27p0mwyo
this is more than average fucked up if true
Dime novel villainy
“Each of us all across this great land has a stake in maintaining and improving environmental quality, clean air and clean water, the wise use of our land, the protection of wildlife and natural beauty, parks for all to enjoy,” Nixon said not long after EPA’s launch. “These are part of the birthright of every American. To guarantee that birthright, we must act and act decisively. It is literally now or never.”
For 55 years, the agency has tried to ensure that the most dangerous pollutants, many of which come from energy, chemical and industrial plants, were monitored and regulated to reduce human health problems and preserve a cleaner environment. But last week, current EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who was born a decade after its creation, unveiled the most dramatic changes in EPA’s history–ones that arguably abandon the “protection” part of its name.
Among other things, he wants to roll back or review stricter pollution rules for power plants, oil and gas production, as well as guidelines for wastewater, mercury and toxic air pollutants from dirty coal plants. Critically, he also seeks to abandon the 2009 Endangerment Finding, the basis under which EPA regulates harmful greenhouse gases that are helping overheat the planet and warping weather patterns.
Before you know it the air will be foul and impenetrable with smog and lethal toxins. The rivers will be choked with dead and dying wildlife and the ground will be nothing but ash and filth.
You left out the “on fire” part of the rivers.
The environmental policy pivot by the Trump administration also has massive implications for the country’s ability to compete in the fast-growing global market for clean energy. China dominates in the production of solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and electric cars.
They make all that stuff using the energy from coal fired power plants, but let’s not dwell on that.