The Swiss are always watching.
Im Westen, nichts neues. I will once more beat the drum for submissions – we might make this week, then pffft. Unless you want ALL CRYPTID POSTS ALL THE TIME, please put fingers to keyboard and knock something out. Oh, and I managed to donate a few dollars to the site. Yea me.
There, begging aside, its time for some links.
- Oops. Guess his money was enough to shield him…up to now, perhaps.
- I wonder if the Turks have had enough?
- These are the same people that survived the Blitz?
- There is no news from Switzerland.
Music is your own, comments are yours.
By cryptid posts mean …
You will get a cryptid’s post?
…but… but… I LIKE cryptid posts.
Somebody hates hats.
There is no news from Switzerland.
Not even about their loss to Scotland in the World Curling Championship?
How does Switzerland have a curling team? Don’t you need a level surface to play it?
The surface of lakes are flat.
Not just a curling team, but also a WOMANS curling team! It is important distinctions like that to show us who the sport was originated for, and here it is clearly the men who play.
Kind of the opposite of hocky, where there is Hocky, and Men’s Hocky!
I played hockey in high school. I also played hooky.
Fairly impressive, the shit I was able to get away with there.
That’s when you know they’re up to something.
People are whining wanting to cancel shooting practice tonight just because its 40 and drizzling. Wusses. Admittedly, the targets get hard to paste after a while…
I had to do rifle qualification during a snow storm. Targets were difficult to see and I had to keep clearing snow off my front sight. No go shoot.
Banning in winter actually does get cold. BRM was fun trying to mold frozen sandbags.
#Panicans
Have you tried those DAA waterproof USPSA targets?
I have not.
I hear good things, but I haven’t shot on them yet. I’ll be shooting a section match (Delmarva) on them towards the end of the month.
Have you tried using a G-string with your pasties?
No, but I have tried a beer and a shot.
Titties-and-beer beats snatch-and-juice!
“Titties-and-beer beats snatch-and-juice!”
Citation needed.
local news
WTF?
Who would give a 3rd grader a P320?
Someone who wants the child to hate guns.
I will admit, the ones SIG made for the honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were pretty.
I had a bit of a rant about what I disliked about the model, almost entirely about ergonomics.
I was waiting for that one.
The handgun discharged itself.
What do you all think of this company that brings back extinct animals? They have 3 live dire wolves now, they are working on a mammoth and are talking about others such as a dodo bird. As cool as it looks at first, I am reminded scientists can’t even keep a virus contained in a lab.
https://time.com/7274542/colossal-dire-wolf/
Do you want
Reaversvelociraptors? Because this is how we get velociraptors.or giant ants
I’ve seen this film.
“Please don’t murder me!”
THEM NOT REALLY DIRE WOLFSES. THEM NEW WOLFSES, MAKE LOOK LIKE WHAT THEMS THINK DIRE WOLF WAS.
Next we will get giant beavers running around, and it will be the ’70s all over!
Beaver music.
Seems awesome to me.
We keep dangerous animals contained in zoos across America.
I do think a mammoth would be cool.
Band of Beavers
GlibFlick submitted for the week, at least.
Huzzah!
As I am back, I should probably whip something up and submit it.
But until then, this season is the most worthless relegation race in Premier history (I am guessing). The title race is just as boring.
But like last year, here is how things line up, with 7 matches to go (8 for Newcastle and Crystal Palace):
Mathematically safe (42+ pts): Liverpool, Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Manchester City*, Aston Villa, Fulham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Brentford.
Realistically safe (32-41 pts): Manchester United, Tottenham, Everton, West Ham United, Wolverhampton.
Safe for now(27-31 pts): none
Danger Zone(26 pts): none
Toast:(11-25 pts): Ipswich Town, Leicester City.
Relegated (10- pts): Southampton.
The * is the only thing interesting, if Manchester City actually gets a penalty proportional to what was given to Everton and Nottingham Forest last year, they will be a smoking crater and one of Ipswich or Leicester will survive. But despite rumors, nothing keeps getting announced, and assuming an appeal cannot be dealt with in time, nothing is gonna happen this year. Assuming it even does.
Man Shitty brings in way too many Petrobucks to be in danger of anything.
My three top teams all in the top 5 is a remarkable achievement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bacon and Swiss would be a great name for a food column…
There is no news from Switzerland.
The gnomes are plotting.
There’s been a lot of debate and discussion about tariffs.
Here’s an ~2:30vid from Thomas Sowell. Interesting take, I thought.
So short-term policy with limited aims like leveling the playing field: not necessarily a bad thing; a long-term strategy no bueno though. If there’s one thing the Trump team really fucked up on this other than not being way more targeted with the tariffs it was not communicating what the ultimate goals are.
Well, if they had said these were short term only, that would give anyone they are negotiating with no reason to capitulate.
It might be that he thinks his negotiating position will be stronger if the other parties think he’s crazy enough to stick with the tariffs. And he might just be crazy enough.
A simple statement that we’ll drop the tariffs if you do would motivate cooperation rather than intransigence when it comes to negotiations with other countries and people here who’d be able to see an achievable goal wouldn’t be losing their damn minds quite so much.
Except many of the people Trump is levying them against have few to no tariffs against the United States.
I suppose he could be trying to win other concessions, but I am suspicious of all this.
Florida needs to get its shit together. If I wanted cold and drizzling I’d have stayed the fuck home.
If I ever go on a murder spree it will be because of a computer and a printer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonomania
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Early ballooning was met with mixed responses. Crowds of hundreds or thousands of enthusiastic onlookers would turn out for a balloon launch, even threatening to riot if the launch was delayed. Some, however, were not quite as impressed, as shown by the events of August 27, 1783, when professor Jacques Alexandre César Charles, who had been commissioned to build a rival balloon to the Montgolfier’s version using hydrogen, launched his balloon from the Champ de Mars before a large crowd including American scientist Benjamin Franklin. The balloon travelled for “forty-five minutes and fifteen miles to the village of Genoesse, where it was attacked by frightened peasants on landing.”[4]
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There used to be a yearly balloon launch from the fairgrounds down the street. One day the wind was just right and they all landed right in my neighborhood. That was fun.
When I saw ballooning, I figured this would be a budget deficit thread.
I fell out of a ballon. On purpose.
Does this make sense? Gutfeld on Fox says the market is 80 percent owned by 10 percent of the public, and these folks are buying during the plunge.
Correct. These actions have made companies like Blockrock much more powerful.
On the other hand, most middle class Americans own stocks and care about the stock market.
If the big guys are taking care of themselves we coat tails will be OK (I hope)
Re: Extinct Animal Resurrection
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna56380614
57 pound, 13 foot long viper from 4 million years ago Greece. I say bring the fuckers back and let’s turn some loose in the Everglades just for kicks. Maybe they could help control the anacondas and Burmese pythons.
Yes. What could go wrong?
Gain of function.
News like this I could do without
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/ryan-mcmaken/federal-spending-in-2025-is-on-track-to-be-the-highest-ever/
We will address the spending next time around. We promise.
“largely reflects Biden-era spending”
OK then
They still decided with control of all branches of government to literally do nothing about it.
Next time it comes up the line will be “Pass it or we’ll lose the house/senate/whatever in the midterms but if you vote for us and we do retain them man are we gonna cut.” It’s all shellgame bullshit.
Seeing everyone here reacting to the idea of tariffs being reset to a more free trade system tells me everything about why the R’s in congress never quit spending.
There is no tariff plan to reset America to a more free trade system, sadly.
I do wish that were true.
market is 80 percent owned by 10 percent of the public
I doubt it. But it’s a nice “muh oligarchy!” talking point.
I also wonder if it’s counting companies that manage people’s portfolios as an entity?
No idea.
When retirement accounts and whatnot are figured into the mix I seriously doubt it. For people that buy individual stocks, maybe.
What I was thinking
This is roughly correct and widely cited. For a real shock look at the age breakdown.
There is a lot of money in funds which are directed by a relatively small group of people.
Apparently the national park employees are upset they can’t act like spiteful little bitches. https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/interior-secretary-national-parks-order-20259116.php
“Who will call the locksmith when the bathroom gets locked shut?”
It will be like a modern day Donner Party.
Adios
Microsoft terminated the employment of two software engineers who protested at company events Friday over the Israeli military’s use of the company’s artificial intelligence products, according to documents viewed by CNBC.
Ibtihal Aboussad, a software engineer in the company’s AI division who is based in Canada, was fired Monday over “just cause, wilful misconduct, disobedience or wilful neglect of duty,” according to one of the documents.
Another Microsoft software engineer, Vaniya Agrawal, had said she would resign from the company on April 11. But Microsoft terminated her role Monday, according to an internal message viewed by CNBC. The company wrote that it “has decided to make your resignation immediately effective today.”
Both employees chose Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event to publicly voice their criticism.
They’ll be happier somewhere else.
I watched Trump and Netanyahu talk to the press live from the Oval Office. Trump’s fucking good. Like his ability to sign EOs while chit-chatting and throwing in germane banter with the press, people aren’t used to a Prez who isn’t playing a political character. Trump’s playing the same him he’s been playing for over 40 years. If not real? Damn commitment to the craft. See also: Home Alone 2.
*’good’ in that he isn’t scripted and speaks off the cuff. it resonates with non Team folk. It’s kinda astonishing. Truly, something, someone, deeply anti-DC. Obviously, that’s where the Washington rile largely comes from. (‘HOW DARE he take away our bit?! He’s being ‘Him?!’ None of us are ‘us!’ What gives?!?!’)
Sincerely impressed was I, and not so much about the actual *content.* (Talks coming up with Iran, saying they cannot ‘become’ nuclear, and discussion about Israeli /US plans for Gaza.) His consistently true-to-character nature and speech, coupled with *NOT* being a (modern) Democrat, is near-impossible to fake as an actor. It’s IMO easier to teach drama to an actor than comedy. The latter has to be natural, especially considering timing and tone. It’s easy to convey anger or sadness, but you can’t force a chuckle.
–> In the same vein, Ya can’t ‘teach’ politicians to be ‘open’ or ‘blunt.’ Simply seeing a non-walking corpse in the White House has to have even the truest of truest dyed-in-Blue making contrasts with the not-there-ness of Biden. Must be rattling, but that’s why they’ve invested in their faith, to stave off shock.