Unlike Spud, I actually remembered to do Links today.
I’m thinking more and more that I don’t belong at a modern liberal arts institution. The intolerance has been wearing, and clearly they are not interested in academic excellence of the students, but are more concerned with, for lack of a better term, “environment.” Emotional bubble wrap. I think my days here are numbered. Which is a pity since much of the research is superbly interesting and (in the engineering school) I am surrounded by real experts in a field that I’m just starting to understand. Ah well, I can always start up writing Jewsdays again…
Birthdays today abound, including half of the best comics duo ever; a notorious supporter of the mass murdering LBJ (and was nonetheless a great performer); the guy who dreamed up and wrote Psycho; the guy who got James Bond going as a franchise; the ultimate in black hats and beards; one of my absolute favorite actors who set the gold standard in the best epic adventure film ever made; a visitor from the planet Cheron; the apparent founder of Pottery Barn; and the greatest hype artist until Elon Musk.
And where would we be without Links? I will not repeat Spud’s experiment.
Koreans BBQ.
My 401K says, “Ouch.” Please, Mr. President, there’s so much winning, I’m tired of winning.
UAW, of course, loves raising costs to consumers.
I don’t know this guy, but the right people are pissed off.
This can’t possibly encourage abuse. No way. Inconceivable.
The job gets a bit boring from time to time, so…
It’s not often that music makes the Old Guy want to go on a killing spree. It’s VERY rare. But here’s one of those times.
one of my absolute favorite actors who set the gold standard in the best epic adventure film ever made
Happy birthday Roy Scheider!
Happy birithday John Reynolds!
Oddly, I guessed the movie but had zero idea about the actor.
I had no idea the Huston family went back that far in Hollywood.
Son John has something like 9 Oscars and 51 Noms.
And grandkids Danny and Angelica are no slouches either.
Happy Birthday Deuce Bigalow!
And Ted’S Firsts from the top rope.
Happy birthday Peter O’Toole!
“A 2018 constitutional amendment known as Marsy’s Law protects some personal information of crime victims. But the Florida Supreme Court in 2023 ruled that did not include the blanket right to redact their names.
The ruling came after Tallahassee police officers fatally shot people in two separate incidents. Their agency withheld the officers’ names because the officers said they were victims because they were assaulted by the people they shot.”
They shouldn’t protect the names of crime victims either.
“Meanwhile, another bill moving in the House would prohibit officials from including an investigative file in an officer’s personnel file if that investigation didn’t result in any disciplinary action. It has not been heard in the Senate.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Tom Fabricio, R-Miami Lakes, would also require all complaints against a law enforcement officer be signed under oath. And it would require that an officer be told the names of all people making complaints against them.”
Odds that guy has gay police porn on his computer?
Seems like an overreaction to the current ACAB climate that’s been hitting departments hard in recent years.
“They shouldn’t protect the names of crime victims either.”
Rape victims? Minors?
Well, maybe minors, but not adult rape victims. That just leads to anonymous false rape accusations.
If it helps any — all of our days are numbered regardless.
But more seriously — sorry to hear it is wearing on you. Just going off all the stories over the years, I seriously doubt I would have lasted anywhere near as long. Is it too expensive / hazardous to set up a small lab off campus as an independent research project and still be able to consult with the experts on campus? (I just dimly remember little labs and companies dotted around Athens (UGA) and Midtown (Tech) usually of alumni / connected to alumni folks who were doing things to work with campus without the actual oversight and thought that might work for you.
But good morning to you, all… and your grimacing grandson. May your day be merry and bright or somesuch.
half of the best comics duo ever
Happy birthday Robert Woolsey!
I hit play on the music with the volume too high. Now you owe me some new windows and glasses.
You were warned.
The five seconds of that I heard were unfathomably heinous.
Fortunately high freg hearing loss can be a positive.
It’s actually better with the sound turned off.
Thanks, OM
PSA: don’t abuse helium
Y’all are just bitter. The little giggles are adorable and worth the pain of the rest of the song.
The little giggles are adorable
I didn’t know you could hear into the ultrasonic.
Happy birthday Demi Moore?
I need more coffee?
Assuming that was “I don’t get it” from you, Common Tater: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGWMarTNw28
no ghosting
Mine was already down like 6% YoY anyway — I haven’t looked to see what happened yesterday. Said it before — seen too many wild market reaction, fluctuations… and frankly, the market seemed overinflated due to the monetary policy of the prior admin (pretty sure we were in a recession… yet stocks kept going up up up). A correction doesn’t seem unreasonable to me and this will likely settle out long term.
Which is just damned convenient for my nature of “stay the course, don’t make waves” personality isn’t it? Seeing the world through non-risk-taking goggles am I.
Yep. Holding steady with deposits to savings and brokerage accounts. Hell, I’m more inclined to push some more into the market during a decline like this, since my time horizons are large enough to wait for the bounce back.
My wife laughed, and made bigger deposits into her IRA (index fund). When the herd animals finish their stampede, she is going to be strutting around yelling “Cha-ching!’.
The stock market was way over priced. This correction is not only necessary, but the American economy no longer been seen by the credentialed managerial class as just the stock market, is necessary if we want to not be a third world shithole in the very near future. My biggest fear is that I would retire only to end up with all the stock investments being worth shit in a future when the US defaults on its debt.
My brother used to complain about how much he lost every time the market went down.
I’d ask him “Did you sell?” Answer, “Well, no”.
“Then you didn’t lose a cent”
I am almost crying that I didn’t make the moves to have even more liquid cash lying around to buy more stock right now. It’s bargain shopping time.
The stock market was way over priced
buy more stock right now
How do you square these? I’m pretty liquid and have been considering buying up a fair chunk right now. But I’m also in the camp of the market is way overpriced and needs correction. I guess buy the low and hold for several years and a more normal rate of growth/return makes is a good deal?
The Dow just dumped another 1,100 points so I don’t know if I would buy just yet.
“How do you square these?”
Stocks were priced at 26 times the possible return value compared to the usual 14-16 times. That makes them WAY over prized. But that was done because we had a recession, our government hid it by printing between $2.3 to 2.8 trillion dollars every year in the last 4 years, and it was considered the only serious safe investment for everyone outside of real estate (which they rigged in favor of big corporations like Blackrock).
Now the stocks are losing value as idiots panic because they hate any sort of change. So far the stocks are STILL up by 3+ % for the year. As they drop, a lot of great stocks will become more affordable. You never go broke when you buy good stocks low, and they eventually grow in value. It’s called a profit… So yeah, these thing work together and square quite fine…
And the idea that policy should be crafted with an eye on how it may affect market indices is horseshit.
True. But think about the consequences of AOC and the other nutjobs running Congress after the next election. We all saw what happened when the Dems overstepped what the voters were willing to tolerate. A Dow in the mid to low 30,000s and a recession is not going to sit well for the Republicans in 2026.
Is there a way to get the commie retardation out of schools without rounding them into camps?
Helicopter rides?
This idea is probably the most effective and efficient.
What do you have against summer camps? Kids learn a lot that way.
Points at avatar.
Lamp Posts?
Force students to share grades.
Grade redistribution. It’s only fair that all students receive the average grade.
Don’t they already get a 2 or 3 level bump already for no work? I have college graduates that are real young that still need help wiping their asses at work.
Some local school districts adopted half credit for unfinished work. Eventually graduates will have Baltimore level illiteracy.
I think you meant “above average grades”, ROAT.
After having seen other people’s artificial windows projects (Basically just light fixtures designed to look like windows that are controlled by a Pi or arduino) I was thinking of doing something similar to help my living room whose actual windows are unfortunately situated.
My current mental draft involves a shadowbox frame to whose glass I would apply diffuser film, and inside I would put a panel of sheet aluminum to which would be applied LED strips. The aluminum is there as a heat sink and backing plate. Behind the aluminum I would place a fan and the controlling device. Since I would have to cut a hole in the side of the frame for the cabling anyway, I’d open more for ventillation so that the fan can move the air over the head sink and out of the frame.
Does anyone know how much of a gap I need between the LEDs and the diffusion film to get a relatively even light?
I sometimes debate moving the fan and controller in front of the aluminum, but that would cast a shadow on the diffusion film and cause a similar problem to what it was meant to solve.
I could move the controller outside the frame and forgo the active cooling for passive vents, but I don’t like that plan. Mostly because I think it would look neater to have a self contained box that just plugs into the wall.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Insults?
Yes, I could buy a light on a timer, but I like making things.
LED’s shouldn’t make much heat.
All electrical components generate heat. Trap rows upon rows of surface mount LEDs in stagnant air inside an enclosed box, and it gets hot. Passive cooling through an aluminum plate and a few holes to let the air circulate might be enough to keep it at room temp. (Though now that I think of it, I will need to put mesh over the vents so that there’s no invitation for bugs to live in there.)
“All electrical components generate heat.”
Sure, but how much?
🤷♂️
The LEDs with datasheets are too expensive and would require me to wire them up.
Besides, if anything is worth engineering, it’s worth overengineering.
Besides, if anything is worth engineering, it’s worth overengineering.
Are you going to supply the LN2 via Dewar or are you going to have a condensation apparatus onsite?
If you bring the temperature too low you risk the integrety of the structure. That’s the wrong coolant for the application.
This video might be helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT0SzKjnlSs
I seriously don’t understand how the car market hasn’t collapsed at this point. When car prices are where housing prices were just 6 years ago… it makes no sense to me that anyone is buying anything. Too bad the regulations and mandatory
surveillancesafety standards must be so expensive no one can jump in with something quality and reasonably priced and eat these bloated zombie union infested corpses’ lunches.I guess the shrinking middle class has been hit hard but remember that the last decade+ of BS has enriched a whole lot of connected people. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Presumably tying in to the “overinflated stock market defying the economy being a recession” thought I had above, yeah.
There are billboards in my area offering refinancing on new AND used auto loans.
I have friends/customers refinancing auto loans. I didn’t know you could even do such a thing until recently.
It’s the safety and emissions regulations making cars heavier and more complicated. Perfectly cromulent vehicles like the VW Beetle or Honda Civic are illegal to make now. It’s not like a Camry or Sentra from the 90’s was a crazy deathtrap.
“It’s the safety and emissions regulations making cars heavier and more complicated”
Regulations, well over regulations, ruin everything. Once government locks you in with regulation, there is neither the need nor the value in innovating and lowering cost. It’s why so many industries have lobbied for government shit to protect them. Our healthcare went drastically up in cost, while the quality dropped, when team Obama told us they would fix it for everyone, for example. Our problem is stupid people believe the solution is to let government regulate these failing things even more.
I know Trump repealed some relatively new standards there, but he needs to go further.
Given my gut would have been to fire everyone with a star at the Pentagon going in this time citing obvious performance issues (Afghanistan, ships colliding/poor training, etc.) I really don’t care exactly who this guy is either.
“Lawmakers say dismissing head of US Cyber Command puts country at risk at a time of ‘unprecedented cyber threats”
Because he is the only one qualified for the job?
Do you really want to reboot the cyber command? Are you sure it will come back up?
Or is there someone there who is hard with drive to succeed?
Trump’s carnal love for tariffs is why I didn’t vote for him in 2016.
He did other stuff, so I *did* vote for him in the next two elections.
Now he’s a lame duck, as they say, so he is going full speed ahead with his populist economic agenda.
The markets are correcting, in order to deal with this new Trumpian pair o’ dimes, and it will correct back, I think, when Trump leaves office.
It isn’t just tariffs; he wants the Fed to keep interest rates low, so, inflation, as well.
Actually the most important thing this does is break the liberal economic order’s machinations and plans to plunder US wealth, wreck it’s middle class, and leave us unable to fight of the takeover from the globalist cabal when they come tell us to join the new feudal system after everything here has burned down.
I just saw something that indicated South Korea wasn’t subject to tariffs. Anyone know anything about that?
I believe it is much deeper than that. He’s trying to remake the American economy into one that produces as well as consumes. Also forcing the world to trade with us fairly or disengage from our markets. Getting rid of both the economic deadweight of corrupt and wasteful government and bad trade relationships.
There will be pain and probably a recession in the process, then (hopefully) a recovery that is real and not just a money pumping high.
This seems to be the plan, though how it will work out remains to be seen.
What we do know is that the US, and much of the western world, has been on a track to insolvency, no matter if we are the reserve currency. And, as they say, what can’t go on, won’t. But, I think back to Liz Truss over in England, who was trying to make some radicle changes to their economy, and she was booted by her own party at the first sign of trouble in the British financial markets.
Kind of clarifies the need for fixed terms and ways to change course half way through. Now, if we hadn’t fucked up the other checks and balances…
[insert Heath Ledger as Joker – do I look like a guy with a plan? clip here.]
The core of Don-Don’s personality is that he likes to make deals and thinks that he is really good at it (and maybe he is.) I don’t think he has any real opinions on whether tariffs are good, bad, or indifferent, but I don’t think that you can question that they make for an opening salvo in future negotiations.
JI. Best I can do.
I don’t think he has any real opinions on whether tariffs are good, bad, or indifferent,
I think it’s a mistake to see this as Trump flying by the seat of his pants.
He’s not. There has been years of prep work leading to this, and I’ve been hearing that this exact thing (broad based permanent tariffs) would happen for months. The timing was in flux and the details of who gets hit hardest was left to statecraft.
Now they measure revenue and adjust rates until they find a level where, between doge cuts and tariff revenues, the personal income tax can go away. They expect it to take a 30-40% spending cut.
If and when personal income tax is abolished, their next target would be getting corporate income tax rates down.
Anyway, that’s just what I’ve been hearing from people more connected than me. They could be wrong about what’s next, but they’ve been spot on so far.
Right. Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it.
Not that I don’t believe you, but I absolutely don’t believe anything coming from ‘connected insiders’. To the point that I’ve got a crisp hundo for the Glibertarians Foundation if the personal income tax is eliminated during Trump’s term.
I’ve certainly heard worse plans. Abolishing the income tax absolves a multitude of sins.
The fatal flaw, of course, is that Congress needs to cut spending by that 30 – 40%. Certainly won’t happen with this Congress, and even if by some miracle we get massive turnover in Congress at the midterms*, at that point Trump is a lame duck and his agenda is pretty irrelevant.
*we won’t
I’ll believe it when I see it – meaning it happens, the tax actually goes away, and the 16th amendment gets repealed.
I thought the best that you could do is fall in love.
Thanks Swiss. There sure is a lot of fantasies being pushed here. Attributing a cunning plan to Trump is the root one.
There is no way to do anything about income tax. He doesn’t possess enough control of the government and never will.
The US economy has never produced more, technically,but the administration believes that trade deficits from the US’s enormous wealth are a problem.
I personally believe this is socialist drivel and that the Republican Party has gone full Bernie Sanders here.
They actually used an argument from left wing economist Robert Reich recently buttressing their argument. I shit you not.
What needs to happen is all this judge lawfare needs to focus on this as this is very clearly beyond the president’s intended power. Then I’ll be happy.
– “Then I’ll be happy.”
Wait. I thought this was Glibertarians.com.
I have no idea what’s down the road but there are many millions of Americans left by the wayside and all they’re getting from that “enormous wealth” is bennies.
That and all the huge associated problems seem to have Donald’s interest.
I mean yeah.
Bernie Sanders and AOC are saying the same thing.
Is the problem really that Americans are getting too much of whatever they want from all over the world?
So as not to go into an argument for how Americans are well off, I’d at least go with:
Maybe the government is spending too much and printing too much money.
Maybe things are way over regulated to an unnecessary degree.
Maybe taxes are too high?
I could go on.
All I am hearing right now is a bunch of screams or WHO MOVED MY CHEESE!!!!!
To the point that I’ve got a crisp hundo for the Glibertarians Foundation if the personal income tax is eliminated during Trump’s term.
Hell, I’ve got double that for the Glibertarians Foundation if the personal income tax is eliminated during Trump’s term. Just case anyone wants to take that bet.
Old Man – I listen to Dave Collum occasionally. He’s another upstate NY professor who seems to have just distanced himself from the academic bs.
https://x.com/DavidBCollum
https://rumble.com/v6r98ki-howard-lutnick-sovereign-wealth-fund-rfk-tariffs-1929-dave-collum-and-jim-k.html
Yeah I live in that town and it’s refreshing to see the occasional example in the news of a professor breaking the mold. The Law School has one or two notables as well. Fortunately the madness is a bit more subdued than at the likes of Columbia or Harvard.
Yes – he talks about how it is a different type of professor and different kinds of students who decide to go to Cornell rather than Columbia or Harvard. Also not Soros rent-a-mobs nearby when the urge to protest something stupid strikes.
It helps that the media have little interest in the place.
E.g. we had a sad little pro-Hamas camp that folded after a few days because nobody was paying attention to them.
Greetings from somewhere over the Gulf of America.
Saw something a bit unusual on my way out of town, figured I’d share it with you.
I saw that movie Ghostship… stay away from that thing and the Eye-talian lady performer!
San Diego?
Please go to “Not Not Tacos” and report back.
Been there. It’s part of a little food court of Sam the Cooking Guy restaurants. I sampled several of them. Not Not Tacos was pretty good. Definitely could be a visit if you’re in the Little Italy area of San Diego for a couple of days, although honestly wasn’t worth going out of your way.
I was right in that spot a year or two ago on a hockey trip.
No comments on THE WORLD’S CUTEST BABY???
He’s . . . breathtaking.
LOL
Baby? I thought those were self-portraits?
(kid is darn cute, and makes me want to call my son and tell him and the girl to GET ON IT!)
You got a bad case of grandpa-itis.
I misread that at first as “grandpa-tits”.
He’s not a Schumer.
¿Porque no los dos?
With 2 prizewinners in the great grandpa cart I admit your runner-up is a beauty but I think you are not a disinterested judge, like me.
No comments on THE WORLD’S CUTEST BABY???
I thought the hormonal changes that prevent strangling the thing in the crib were supposed to happen in the mother.
I did say good morning to him. Yes, he’s adorable as always. Consider us jealous of your cuddle and play time.
We won’t kink shame you for thinking OMWC is adorable.
Don’t listen to the haters. I’m sure he’ll be a handsome young man one day.
Now, my baby is much cuter of course…
You’re a funny guy, Lack…
“I’m thinking more and more that I don’t belong at a modern liberal arts institution.”
Gosh, really?
“Egg-white facials are a controversial, viral skin trend, bird flu be damned — but experts have a big warning about it”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/lifestyle/skincare-addicts-are-splurging-on-egg-whites-to-slather-on-their-faces/
And Twitch streamers playing in bikinis are about video games.
” facials are a controversial, viral skin trend”
Must be videos of this somewhere,
With the best kind of skin cream, right?
Every lady (and those also so inclined otherwise) should get their minimum daily requirement!
” experts caution against applying these to your visage due to possible allergic reactions, salmonella exposure, and skin irritation.”
I am not sure about salmonella, but are allergic reactions and skin irritation not possible with “regular” make-up.
Cunctator:
Yes, yes they are. There are brands that offer hypoallegenic and/or vegan offerings specifically for those who have more sensitive skin.
—“There are brands that offer hypoallegenic and/or vegan offerings specifically for those who have more sensitive skin.”—
Yes, I knew this. My point was the salmonella “threat”. I don’t know how much of a threat salmonella is (but I suppose it is not too great, if any threat at all), but the allergy reaction and skin irritation are possible with regular cosmetics. People who suffer from those conditions can just use another product. That is no reason to be concerned about the use of egg whites.
Egg white? That is what they are calling it now?
Babylon Bee posted a parody article a year or so ago about painting potatoes for easter eggs. Life follows parody.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I must have missed who, what the donation was about
Anyway, if the bride is happy, I’m happy
“… our son, Tristan”
Heart donor recipient from their deceased son.
Stupid, dusty office.
Hope this isn’t swiping anyone’s Idiots in Cars cred
The Brake Pedal is the second from the right.
I would have thought they’d have covered that before leaving the parking lot for the road.
(I’m assuming they’re doing driving instruction, as I don’t have audio on. I’m actually surprised a twitter link worked from work)
Ok, I get it. Who doesn’t want to leave a mark on a BMW? But that doesn’t mean you actually just pile into them like that.
Stupid is as stupid does…
With a comment like that, I was expecting a story more like this
That’s just your typical modern love triangle story, man…
I like how she just screams instead of hitting the brake.
What do you mean the car doesn’t stop when you take your foot off the gas?
Maybe she’s used to driving a Tesla?
That’s… quite plausible, Lack.
From the cybercommand article:
Yeah, Milley was the model major-general loyally serving Trump in his first term.
“This is your performance review – you failed, get lost”
Milley needs to be making big rocks into small rocks at Leavenworth.
Yes… “Do you know who I am?” is the proper response when getting fired.
Yes, the wife and I were talking about those emergency pleas people make when the decision for downsizing or what not hits them, and just how bad it looks to everyone.
‘I don’t know this guy, but the right people are pissed off.’
Exactly, must be a good move.
So he’s a super lefty and was probably leaking info, etc. to god knows who.
At any rate, the head guy doesn’t actually do anything so the whining about ‘making us unsafe’ is such baloney. It isn’t like this guy is personally fighting the hackers form China or something. Probably selling them our secrets like all Democrats.
“An investigation by a private parents’ rights group find that 32 K-12 schools in Rhode Island instruct staff not to disclose a student’s “gender identity” to parents, which is in line with the state’s directives that additionally say children can decide whether their parents know how they identify and what pronouns they use.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/32-rhode-island-k-12s-hide-students-gender-identity-parents#article
The mayor of Rhode Island should do something.
They get away with this shit because, as they like to say, “it affects so few kids”.
They get to signal and bask in the approval of the left. The ruined lives… who cares?
Russell Brand gets some lawfare.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/uk-police-charge-comedian-russell-131443954.html
“The alleged offenses took place between 1999 and 2005.”
Two decades later, obviously no physical evidence, so of course he’ll be convicted.
He will. He should never go back to Britain for any reason.
1. Obviously political
2. This is why statutes of limitation exist.
And the trifecta:
3. ‘The accusers have not been identified.’
“He recently said he had moved to the United States.
Police said Brand is due to appear in a London court on May 2.”
If I were him, I wouldn’t show, but then, I’m guessing we have an extradition treaty for cases like this…
Well the good news is that if they can go that far back to nail him, they can also go back to go after the rape gang too. Right?
If he had converted to Islam instead of Catholicism, he’d have no worries.
Time for him to go full Justin Trudeau and beat the charges.
If he had converted to Islam instead of Catholicism this wouldn’t have been a crime in the first place.
“The accusers have not been identified.”
Example why they shouldn’t protect the names of crime victims.
The UK “justice” system has been trashed. I have zero confidence he’ll get any type of fair treatment.
Here’s a little reverse lawfare: Some Dem congresswoman accused Matt Taibbi of sex crimes during a hearing. Which was protected speech. Then she was dumb enough to repeat the accusations on social media. And… lawsuit. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/matt-taibbi-files-10-million-libel-lawsuit-against-democratic-congresswoman/
She seems like an idiot and I hope Taibbi wins. I remember George Carlin in one of his stand ups joked that everyone complains about politicians and how horrible they are, but we willingly elect them because this is who we believe are the best out of us.
She’ll probably claim she got Brand and Taibbi confused.
He wrote a small article about it and his grasp of the rules is what makes it so good:
“There is not much a person like me can say to a member of Congress hiding behind the protections of the Speech and Debate clause of the Constitution.
One can however respond to a member arrogant enough to repeat those claims on social media. I’ve now done so, in the form of a $10 million libel lawsuit filed today in a New Jersey federal court:”
‘in a New Jersey federal court’
Why New Jersey? I hope he shopped for the most favorable court room up front.
What if she says she twitted it from her sacred Congressional Dek?
By the way, I have been telling you all these years that NoDaks are real jerks. Don’t I get some hat tip for that Minot Mayor story?
The mayor will show you a tip.
I tip my fez to you for that and all you do, Pope.
You are not winning that fight until Ilhan is no longer in Congress.
That brother fucker….
“On Saturday, police arrested a Portland man after he allegedly pointed a laser inside a Tesla dealership during a protest, injuring the eyes of one of the employees.
27-year-old Davis Nafshun has been charged with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, two counts of attempting to commit a felony, and misdemeanor charges of menacing and reckless endangerment.
Nafshun was released on his own recognizance the same day he was arrested. The Post Millennial’s senior editor Andy Ngo discovered that Nafshun works at the taxpayer-funded homeless support nonprofit, Do Good Multnomah. ”
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-man-who-allegedly-injured-tesla-workers-eyes-with-green-laser-during-protest-released-without-bail
CWAA
More violence from the left
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-pro-life-activist-savannah-craven-beaten-and-bloodied-by-abortion-supporter-during-nyc-street-interview
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-antifa-attacks-tpusa-tabling-event-featuring-brandon-tatum-at-uc-davis-gear-stolen-and-students-assaulted
Summer of Love incoming.
I don’t know. That was back when people were on covid lockdown, and couldn’t go out and do anything, except BLM protests, because science.
Now now, left wing violence is akshually free speech, bigot. Right wing speech is akshually violence.
Looks like a dollar tree Edward Cullen.
Bicycle Rights!
Damn it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI
That’s some kinda link there, Zwak
Lookit those nimble fingers of yours!
If any of our beneficent overlords pop in here, I submitted a post/article with a shit load of media attachments. If it needs to be trimmed, feel free to cut as you see fit.
Message passed along.
What a hill to die on
Republicans had barred proxy voting once they took control of the House from Democrats in 2023, and then Speaker McCarthy made a public priority of re-opening the House chamber. The new resolution, which includes specific procedures on how the new parent would deliver voting instructions, would mean a change in their House rules.
The resolution from the mothers allows proxy voting for lawmakers who have given birth or pregnant lawmakers who are unable to travel safely or have a serious medical condition. It also applies to lawmakers whose spouses are pregnant or giving birth.
Under the resolution, qualifying lawmakers may designate a proxy to cast a vote for them for up to 12 weeks.
Luna, who is among the House’s more conservative lawmakers, made headlines for her steadfast support of Trump. But she resigned this week from the archconservative House Freedom Caucus, saying she could no longer be part of the group if members “broker backroom deals” against its values.
As usual, I haven’t been paying attention to this nonsense. They should at least include a provision for senility, Alzheimers or other mental incapacity, in order to be fair.
The words ‘archconservative’ (bonus points for new word) and Freedom included in the same sentence.
Wheeee…..word games are fun.
Also, proxy voting? No.
But if it’s proxy voting, then everyone can just give their proxy to their party leader! Think of how much more efficient things would be with only two people to negotiate!
What is every bipartisan proposal?
What’s amazing is they literally spent a week just arguing about this.
Could’ve been codifying some of the spending cuts using the budget resolution process (they did a tiny bit so far).
If you can’t do your fucking job, resign. You don’t have a right to an elected or appointed position. Especially for a known condition such as cancer treatment or pregnancy.
It’s already more than halfway to hereditary possession of offices.
Congress should be WFH. Turn the Capitol into a museum. If a state wants to give their congresscritters spiffy residences, they can go ahead and bill their own taxpayers for it.
Fuck that noise. Are you trying to encourage more government?
Congress should be working, and living, in 4-to-a-room barracks in Anacostia somewhere. When they’re found to be shirking their jobs, they should be publicly beaten by the Congressional Slavemaster.
I wish to subscribe to your congressional record.
Wait, you want to use the whip to spur more lawmaking and I’m the one in favor of more government?
My proposal has congresscritters watching tiktok all day and snacking while lobbyists rack up vastly more flight miles.
Really, I just want to see more Congressmen being publicly beaten.
And now a word from Kindly Old Grandpa Buffet
In his 2017 letter to shareholders, Buffett wrote: “There is simply no telling how far stocks can fall in a short period.” But should a major decline occur, he continued, “heed these lines” from Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem “If,” circa 1895.
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs … If you can wait and not be tired by waiting … If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim … If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you … Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”
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Of course, investors often don’t know if things are going to go from bad to worse until they do.
“No one can tell you when these will happen,” Buffett wrote in 2017. “The light can at any time go from green to red without pausing at yellow.”
But whether a decline is modest and short-lived or seemingly long and painful, the message to individual investors is the same: Stick to your long-term plans and continue investing.
Buffett writes that he views downturns as “extraordinary opportunities.” Why? Because, historically, it’s never been all that long before the market resumes its upward trajectory.
How can I profit from this?
OFFS just calm down and hold on to your stock.
The whole attitude recalls another quote of Buffett’s, about taking advantage of bargain-priced investments, this time from his 2009 shareholder letter: “Big opportunities come infrequently. When it’s raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.”
Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.
I’ll put some liquid in again when Dow hits 35,000. Don’t get suckered by a dead cat bounce in the meantime. Of course, don’t listen to me: I still have a bank stock that has never come near to what its price was in 2008.
Didn’t Buffett move to a cash heavy position over the past 9 months? He made it clear that there was going to be stock volatility and he wanted out.
Before my doctors appointment today I had to get a blood draw. He wanted to take it from my neck.
Do not see Dr. Acula!
who would want your bum blood?
Tue. The last mosquito that bit me is still in rehab.
*True
Dr. Acula, seriously?
*sigh*
Meant as a reply to Tres Cool.
Mr. Alucard is right out too.
Dracularm?
Listen to the fiscal conservatives
The numbers, which come as Republicans try to agree on a fiscal plan that will allow them to tee up sweeping tax legislation, come with some caveats.
The projections, requested by Democrats, cover an 11-year period running through 2035, while the previous estimate was over a decade, which makes the costs higher. And Democrats asked the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation to make various assumptions about how Republicans would structure some business tax breaks.
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“The Republican handouts to billionaires and corporations will come at a staggering cost,” top Democrats on the House and Senate tax and budget committees said in a joint statement on Thursday.
“What Republicans are trying to jam through Congress right now is a level of economic recklessness we’ve never seen before.”
Unprecedented recklessness. How very droll.
What they should be doing is increase spending, especially future ballooning obligations, without funding.
And Democrats asked the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation to make various assumptions about how Republicans would structure some business tax breaks.
GIGO
Senate Republicans have penciled in $5.3 trillion for tax cuts, with a nominal amount of spending reductions. They say they’ll make major cuts later.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
“I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”
We’ll have to put that hamburger in escrow and charge a 300% interest on late payment, only releasing the hamburger once all fees have been paid by you.
To get past the house’s invariable filibuster, they’re gonna have to include congresspeople getting to work from home.
what is 5 trillion between friends?
ladyblue
@MariaMu24417972
Un momento de gloria
https://x.com/MariaMu24417972/status/1907063225100746994
thicc?
Her or him?
whatever floats your boat
Tansu Yegen
@TansuYegen
I may never have watched anything more exciting in my life…
https://x.com/TansuYegen/status/1907460722394648885
Apparently we get served a lot of the same shit on TwiX.
well it is inevitable… shit that generally goes viral one way or the other ends up in many places
Mom, they’re doing the meme again! 🤨
https://x.com/MichaelFKane/status/1907788941052289246
Assigned at birth
A female fencer was disqualified from a competition for refusing to compete against a transgender opponent, USA Fencing said in a statement to ABC News on Thursday.
The incident occurred last month at a USA Fencing-sanctioned regional tournament where fencer Stephanie Turner decided to remove her mask and take a knee instead of competing against Redmond Sullivan, a transgender woman.
Following the act of protest, the referee of the University of Maryland match — which was not an NCAA tournament — issued a black card to Turner, removing her from the competition.
USA Fencing’s current transgender and non-binary athlete policy was enacted in 2023 and allows athletes to participate in sanctioned events “in a manner consistent with their gender identity/ expression, regardless of the gender associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.”
Invincible shield of delusion.
“We understand that the conversation on equity and inclusion pertaining to transgender participation in sport is evolving,” USA Fencing said in a statement, adding that the organization “will always err on the side of inclusion, and we’re committed to amending the policy as more relevant evidence-based research emerges, or as policy changes take effect in the wider Olympic & Paralympic movement.”
It’s hard to believe they could be more irrelevant, but they’re working on it.
There was some reason women were given a separate category. If only we could figure out why.