Mostly, things are quiet here in Glibs Gulch, no out-of-the-ordinary craziness. The baby is growing up in the cafe, spring is intermittently descending upon us, the students are the usual pink-haired delicate flowers, Prime and I continue to integrate one another into our respective lives, and the WebDom/10b0t axis is looking miserably tired. Pesach and Easter are almost upon us. Things could be worse.
Birthdays today include a guy who put the twinkle in Twinkletoes; a guy who would have been Heinlein or Asimov if he had lived long enough; Betty Rubble and a million other voices; the stereotype of every pretentious French filmmaker; a psycho who was typecast; a guy who was in two of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen; a third-rate magician who is mysteriously popular; and someone who died too young but was an iconic image.
I guess there is a theme to Links today- demented idiocy.
Because Hamas never faked videos or transported terrorists and weapons in vehicles marked “Ambulance.” I give this 72 hours before it’s debunked and the debunking roundly ignored by NYT.
Speaking of incoherent and inchoate…
Trying very hard to not look at my 401k and IRA.
50/50 on whether this is real or propaganda.
Lawyer-driven spurious correlation. Let’s waste a few million bucks.
Horrifying! Oh wait, it was Federal workers. So… delightful!
The Old Guy has been reliving his crackhead days. So… here we go again. They hit every style, and this one is state of the art pop.
Same here. It was 92 a couple days ago. High today was 62 with thunderstorms.
Happy birthday Finn J. Harrison?
Happy birthday Peter Sellers?
Two-Way Stretch and I’m Alright Jack?
Certainly not Dr. Strangelove or anything subsequent to that.
The Pink Panther Returns and The Pink Panther Strikes Again are my two favorite Sellers movies.
Get a load of this guy
*shrug*
I didn’t get too far into Being There before deciding to do something else.
That was intended for Ted S, but I don’t refresh so goodly.
Happy birthday Che Guevara?
Ernesto died too old.
So not Gilead the pharma company?
“With Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nationalism driving the US political agenda.”
Because Trump is so religious?
Ironically enough, Europe already has much more stringent abortion regulations than all but a dozen or so US states.
Big Church has Trump by the, uh, short hairs.
Would they prefer, I dunno, Islamic nationalism?
Yes, they would.
I did see my first anti gay-marriage group in the wild the other day, on social media. The groups name was We Can Reclaim Marriage or something similar. They posted (paid?) for a post about men in women’s sports, about which I agree with them.
I knew these people would be emboldened by the Trump victory, but I’m nowhere near scared yet.
Trump has been for gay marriage since 1995.
“In states where abortion is illegal unless the life of the woman or other pregnant person is at stake”
OFFS!
I think we should start a company, name it Gilead and make topical medicines.
::nods, smiles, starts to hum::
Bonus Helvetic Narrowed Glances if you are humming Jeremiah was a bullfrog
https://www.gilead.com/
A make up company! One that makes bubblegum flavored lipstick, and sparkly eyeshadow!
Get all the little girls screaming at their mothers “buy me Gilead, or you are the patriarchy trying to slut shame me!”
The issue is never the issue, the issue is the revolution.
Aborted fetuses shouldn’t have to show ID to vote!
This. “Break shit”, basically. The issues are irrelevant.
I’m sure the usual Jew-hate crews will be front and center. Intersectionality is the magic word.
Looking at the pictures of the… Education Workers… seems they are already making it about the All-Thing.
“I am Hugh.”
“You are me?”
“No, I am Hugh.”
“Stop. Saying. That. Make him stop saying that.”
If Trusk ever did succeed in actually cutting that 2 trillion dollars out of the federal budget, it would tank GDP growth probably by double digits. Some recessions are more equal than others.
Yeah I have seen arguments in favor of at the very least presenting an additional GDP stat with FedBucks taken out, because currently it’s hiding a lot of waste and fraud.
But it’s mighty handy for pretending that “fiscal stimulus” has raised GDP and solved a recession so that grandstanding bags of monkey shit on capitol hill can get re-elected.
[golf clap] for “grandstanding bags of monkey shit on capitol hill”
US GDP is about $30TT. $2TT is just under 7% of that. Theoretically/simplistically, that could look like a 7% contraction in the economy.
Now, the knock-on effects through all markets (especially including the capital markets, w/r/t $2TT in annual debt issuance going away), I have absolutely no clue.
But it’s not going to happen. Congress appears to have decided to just wait out the Trump administration to keep the business-as-usual gravy train rolling.
One of the benefits that may have come out of the Covid Era is that people are not accepting news reports at face value, especially if it is sourced to government provided information.
For certain values of “people.” COVID increased skepticism mostly among those who were already inclined to be skeptical.
I would take your word for it, Pat, buuuuuut….
Up until the 2016 election, while I certainly believed the media had a bias, I didn’t think they outright manufactured stories. 2016 and even much more so after he 2020 Covid bullshit proved to me the media is much worse than I had ever imagined.
The media has run the Lippman conceit to its absurdist conclusion.
The hospital said its investigation was completed in collaboration with government health and safety officials and it considered multiple possible sources. It ruled out disposable masks, the water supply, nearby x-rays, and chemotherapy treatment on the floor below, the hospital said.
It was the masks. They’re trying to hide the data.
I wonder if there was something that all of them consumed from the same batch at the same time provided by their employer that may have had particularly high levels of known oncogenic contaminants? Or it could be a statistical cluster, they do happen. Would have to have all the rates to estimate the probability of such, but it’s more possible than intuition tells you generally.
whaddup doh’
Bea Benaderet’s greatest performance in my opinion.
I miss those cartoons
“If the nine Houthis around you aren’t dead, then it’s you.”
To be a proper decimation the other 9 Houthis have to be the ones killing you.
In answer to your question a couple of days ago: yes, you may copy and paste the article to your friend.
Or, send him the link. That could work, too.
He gets grumpy about links lol
and thank you
A psycho who was typecast: I guessed Sonny Landham.
I’d guess 90% propaganda.
A fencer’s brave protest against men in women’s sports
Look behind you for some drugs.
If it wasn’t on my RSS feed then it never happened.
Know your place, woman.
properly entered
LOL.
More like “the policy exists because we’re scared shitless of leftist rabble”.
Or the organization is run by leftists.
I think it’s great that one person has the integrity to do this. I just wish everyone else at the competition would have done the same thing. Maybe gone out to the local park and held their own competition. The only winning move is not to play.
If you continuously decimate a group, eventually you will kill a majority …
Unless the remainder decamate, of course.
Sales Are Down, Threats Are Up: Starlink Installers Hit by Anti-Musk Backlash
OFFS.
I guess if it wasn’t that lie there would be a different one repeated ad infinitum.
Fine, maybe now he can stop the free service in Ukraine that the same rabble demanded.
It’s best that some Canucks go without internet.
I think Starlink will be just fine, but he truly is sort of annoying lately.
He’s exaggerated a lot on Doge. I find that unnecessary myself. I’m fine just firing government employees with only minor cost savings.
“A transgender athlete took home first place in a varsity high jump competition at an Oregon high school meet Wednesday, roughly two years after finishing last while competing against junior varsity boys, according to a report.
Lia Rose, who reportedly used to compete as Zachary, won the high jump at the Portland Interscholastic League Varsity Relays with a height of 4 feet, 8 inches, beating the second-place finisher by two inches….
A spokesperson from Portland Public Schools was unable to confirm or deny that Lia and Zachary are the same person, citing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act “to protect student privacy.””
https://nypost.com/2025/04/05/us-news/trans-track-athlete-wins-varsity-girls-competition-after-previously-placing-last-against-jv-boys-report/
I’m going to start an NGO that brings Eagles fans to these competitions.
Hisher Dad must be so proud.Ahh, for the days when “Why don’t you just go play with the girls” was an insult and not a valid suggestion.
More likely his two moms.
“Alabama school lunch lady, 41, ‘took boy home and had sex with him'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14572937/Alabama-school-lunch-lady-41-took-boy-home-sex-him.html
Not even a teacher?
I guess she’s now a … bagged lunch lady.
He knew how to order from the secret menu.
continuing snake tales …
My wife found a young copperhead inside the school she works in. She caught it and released it into the woods at the back. She believes it got in through a door that was left open.
Should it end up being published, I have a pending article you might enjoy.
Snake at work is a call to animal control and a day off from me.
Sure it was a copperhead? A snake inside a building usually means you have mice and the most likely snake will be a rat snake. Next: King snake.
I have had rat snakes, king snakes and garter snakes get in my. house. Each time it was because of mice….though I am not sure why the garter snake came in.
Mice always come from the grocery store…usually in a bag of dog food.
The description matched a copperhead. They are in the area. They’ve been in our yard, a neighbor’s garage, and bit a woman at a restaurant in the county.
“Michigan school district asks parents to stop smoking marijuana in school parking lot during drop-off, pick-up”
https://thepostmillennial.com/michigan-school-district-asks-parents-to-stop-smoking-marijuana-in-school-parking-lot-during-drop-off-pick-up
What’s with that picture?
420 BLAZE IT FAGGOT
“The governor also signed a bill that she claims will reduce gun violence further by requiring debit and credit card providers to code transactions at gun stores and other retail establishments that sell firearms and ammunition. She said the new rule will help regulators flag unusual activity at gun stores.
“We know if someone is stockpiling ammo, that is not a good sign,” Hochul said.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/hochul-signs-gun-control-measures-law
CWAC
The governor also signed a bill that she claims, without evidence, will reduce gun violence further by requiring debit and credit card providers to code transactions at gun stores and other retail establishments that sell firearms and ammunition. She said, without evidence, the new rule will help regulators flag unusual activity at gun stores.
“We know if someone is stockpiling ammo, that is not a good sign,” Hochul said, without evidence.
FIFT
If I were planning on buying large quantities of ammo I’d pay cash.
Until that’s illegal. I expect that soon too in NY and NJ.
Back to a barter economy! How many Tide Pods for a box of 9mm?
…because after all, Tide Pods ARE for…laundering.
Is there any totalitarian bullshit that the blues aren’t head over heels in love with?
“New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a far left socialist and he wants the Big Apple to have government owned grocery stores.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/what-could-go-wrong-socialist-nyc-mayoral-candidate/
CWAA
Complete with bullshit survey purporting to cheer the communism!
MoveOn, another advocacy group involved in the movement, told the outlet that the protests will mark the “largest single day of action” since Trump’s second term began.
They’ve got him now.
Anyone protesting yet? Or is it too early for paid protests today?
I was completely unaware of this site that mocks the inanity of password requirements a captchas.
The Password Game
The beautiful thing is this guy who scams scammers worked with the website author to use it in his scammer honeypot.
Scammers vs Impossible Password Game
I tried a randomly generated 24 character string from my password manager. Passed all the tests except Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25.
After you do that it will ask you to repeatedly modify it.
The problem with those protest numbers are that there’s a large overlap in the members of those organizations, so they are probably counting the same participants 4 or 5 times.
The Rent-a-Mob crowd reminds me of the opening scene in this cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgkSyjmn19Q
Silicone Saturday T&A!
https://archive.is/KWYDG
I may not have been the target audience for most of these, but 11, 39, and 54 receive high marks.
It never is
President Donald Trump may hope his tariffs jump-start a renaissance in manufacturing in the United States, but the reality is not so simple, according to experts.
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A lot needs to happen before manufacturing can really ramp back up again in the U.S., experts said.
“The United States is not ready to reshore. We don’t have the infrastructure, we don’t have enough workers, and also, we need to examine how many Americans are willing to work in the factory,” Tang said. “If you rush it, it could be rather risky and dangerous.”
He said he expects some companies to return as a result of Trump’s tariffs but that there are still a lot of barriers for many. Executives are under pressure to show short-term results in quarterly earnings, he said, and managing an American workforce can be complicated.
“There’s so many regulations, so many laws, and also the cost is quite high, so the incentive for them to come back is not high,” Tang said.
Abolishing the Dept of Education is as good a place as any to start.
It’s also hard to build a factory when it takes millions of dollars and years of environmental justice litigation to get the first shovel in the ground.
How about a trade and offshore the experts (in bullshit)?
Planting peppers and tomatoes this morning.
The news? Apparently we are still drowning in commie clap-trap, transparent psy-ops and barbarism. Ok then. I will cook breakfast for my wife.
I doubt this moves you at all, Suthen, but I aspire to your level of nonchalance.
If we don’t lose any sprouts, I should have 25 pepper plants this season.
🌶️🥵
I started pepper seeds a few days ago. Tomatoes and cabbages next week.
3 showings on the cabin today, hopefully the sale will cover the market downside for me.
My wife found a young copperhead inside the school she works in. She caught it and released it into the woods at the back. She believes it got in through a door that was left open.
Sounds like domestic terrorism. Was it coiled up like a hangman’s noose?
Copperheads supported slavery! a copperhead noose is double racist
And who were Copperheads? DEMOCRATS!
I like your wife. She didn’t kill it immediately. I find that unnecessary.
Powerline funnies.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/the-week-in-pictures-tax-the-penguins-edition.php
Sensei, if you’re still about, guess which idiot bought a limited edition Seiko from a manga/anime he’s never read/watched for no other reason than the color scheme?
I do love me some green and orange though…
No idea what anime it is from, but I like it!
The numerals are Chinese and also commonly used in Japan the same way we use Roman numerals here.
Naruto/Boruto, apparently. They did one for each of what I presume to be the main characters. This one is the Rock Lee model. I’ve had it bookmarked for about a year and a half, but couldn’t justify the price. eBay gave me a $50 off coupon an a purchase of $125 or more to welcome me back as a seller after I recently listed one of my old laptops, so I rationalized myself into it.
Ten minutes into lunch, five hours of my shift scratched off. Other news: “President Donald Trump is expected to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.
The visit, first reported by Axios, comes as the US slapped 17% tariffs on Israel. CNN has reported that Trump is actively negotiating with Israel — among other countries — on a bespoke trade deal, according to a senior adviser.”
This is what makes the most sense to be, re: tariffs. Shock n awe ’em off the bat so they see the effects. Then, negotiation becomes much easier, w the US holding the far better hand/ econ.
Powerful cudgel to wield, and to this layman, it seems effective at swiftly brokering deals to resolve the issue. The speed of it continues the Trump 2 opening months.
Everybody knows Jews love to haggle, amirite?
For all the bellyaching, the reaction is telling. Just about the entire rest of the civilized world has tariffs at a similar rate to the ones Trump has added, but no one was talking about the end of the neoliberal world order for the last 30 years.
That said, tariffs are always bad economic policy. Whether Trump is able to leverage them into some brilliant trade deal remains to be seen.
Like his great deal with Mexico and Canada that he has entirely forgotten?
There also needs to be a significant investment in training America’s workforce, Moser said.
Trump’s tariff program “will fail unless the nation commits to a vastly increased recruiting and training program for skilled manufacturing workers and engineers,” he said. “We need to go from ‘College for all’ to ‘A great career for all.’”
What if we took a big pile of tariff money and shoveled it at our underfunded school system?
It could work.
Apropos of nothing, I just discovered there was a spin-off from the Bosch detective show on Prime. Three episodes in, it’s no dumber than Reacher.
Originally it was going to focus on his daughter, which didn’t sound that interesting (her hotness aside). But then I saw Welliver is in this? Let us know how it goes.
“the Bosch detective show”
Mike Air Hammer?
Bosch: Legacy.
Current season is the third and final. We’ve enjoyed all of them but YMMV.
I thought that was about a dishwasher.
That said, tariffs are always bad economic policy. Whether Trump is able to leverage them into some brilliant trade deal remains to be seen.
True. The best example is the US, where there are no state to state tariffs and commerce moves freely. But there are plenty of non cash costs of doing business. There is a reason Volkswagen and Hyundai didn’t build factories in New York.
If I were Trump, I would focus on all those things first and foremost.
My wife is swinging by the Boston protest, since she was down there for an appointment anyway. “I assume you don’t want to come”. She knows me well.
As you’d expect, the list of sponsors is a giant list if commies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14li-zLQXoKFzkBMV4OqrnewXTc8kExequ0zzKg6kIhc/edit?tab=t.0 as are the speakers.
Hilariously, my wife was somewhat nervous “hopefully I won’t get arrested” – uh, for what? You’ll be with a bunch of other people who agree with each other, listening to the mayor, various Democratic politicians, and union ticks bloviate. It’s not exactly Tiananmen Square out there.
Which war? Choose carefully, this could be a trick question…
Noted that as well and thought “Pali simps? Or Slava Ukraini?”
It’ll be one of the two; my money’s on the former.
As long as she doesn’t start setting shit on fire, or trying to jack up cops (and leaves the instant anyone does), she shouldn’t need to worry about getting arrested.
Greek chorus
Former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday each delivered remarks on the state of the country under President Donald Trump’s second term and criticized the administration’s recent actions.
Obama, who preceded Trump’s first term, sharply criticized Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal government, crackdown on immigration and dissent, and intimidate news outlets and the legal establishment.
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Obama had previously warned of the dangers facing the country if Trump were reelected, while campaigning for Harris during the final stretch of the 2024 presidential race. “Just because (Trump) acts goofy,” the former president said at the time, “doesn’t mean his presidency wouldn’t be dangerous.”
In separate remarks, Harris on Thursday said Trump’s moves since he returned to office were largely predictable.
“There were many things we knew would happen,” Harris said in a video of her remarks at the Leading Women Defined Summit. “I’m not here to say I told you so,” she added before laughing.
Oh, shame and infamy. You had your chance, America, and you blew it. Think how much better the world would be right now if you had done the right thing and voted for business as usual Democrat-ocracy.
‘
I guess fundamentally transforming the United States of America has lost its cachet.
That was different because shut up!
I really think they’re blowing this here.
They have such a great opportunity with Trump’s (imo excessive) tariffs and they’re talking about saving government bullshit.
Such inherent statists.
“Leading Women Defined Summit”
Are they going to define woman now?
NYT headline:
“Judge Permanently Bars NIH From Limiting Medical Research Funding”
Okay. How does that work? Is he appointing himself permanent supreme leader of the NIH? Will he personally oversee and approve all financial transactions and research projects?
“I am Cornholio!”
Hello from rainy SW MO, where, according to my weather app, we have seen upwards of 7.5″ of rain in the last 36 hours. Add that to the 2 or 3 we had on Tues-Thur, and the fact that we probably have another 2 or 3 coming today. Oh, and there’s rain in the forecast for tomorrow followed by a hard freeze.
The animals have started pairing up and looking for a boat. Places that I’d never expect to flood are flooding, and the sump pump is running constantly. Thankfully I live on top of a hill on the top of a plateau, so actual flooding isn’t a threat, but I can’t say the same for the town. I’ve seen some pretty wild amounts of water flowing through people’s front yards.
I’ve been there. I have two sump pumps.
Good luck!
Yow, that’s some serious ran.
I have an old saying:
Rich people live on top of the hill
Poor people live in the flood plain
I’ve seen some pretty wild amounts of water flowing through people’s front yards.
Yikes.
Speaking of the weather, weren’t there big storms in south Texas? Did Sloopy and Banjos catch any of that?