I am a lover of cold weather, but there is an aspect of spring that thrills me. No, not that, that’s a year-round thing for me. Rather, I love the onslaught of new produce, delicate lettuces, ramps, fresh asparagus, morels, carrots. So, of course, after spring began to break and the plants just started peeking out from the soil… three days of snow and hard freezes. Global warming seems to have bypassed Glibs Gulch. Well at least I’ll cook a nice dinner tonight with the last of winter ingredients and Prime will make her way down here to coo over Sweet Baby James. Life could be worse, I suppose, and that’s one reason I’ve assiduously avoided looking at the state of my 401K.
Despite the weather and financial storms, there were birthdays today, including the Man Who Would Be Shakespeare; my greatest musical influence; a pretty decent pianist who took a wrong turn; a very underrated songwriter (For Ladies Only was a masterpiece); the guy who truly was America’s Dad; a talented writer who badly needed an equally talented editor; Flo’s spiritual mother; and someone Team Blue hates almost as much as they hate Trump.
And with that, let’s see what Links brings us, shall we?
NPR is the master of ill-disguised sneering.
CNN is the master of editorializing with Gish Gallops, then calling it news.
The video looks like the opening to Doom.
Sorry for the Twitter link but this is hilarious.
They are not sorry for the Twitter link.
Something fishy is going on here.
The Old Guy loves goofy shit like this, especially when it’s played this well. Nice start for the day.
Happy birthday Adrien Brody?
Happy birthday Nastagio Vespucci?
Happy early birthday Adolf Hitler?
For someone they hate the sure do emulate him an awful lot.
Happy birthday Elon Musk!
Happy birthday, half of the country?
Holly Hunter?
Happy Birthday Volodymyr Zelenskyyy
What surprised the kid in the picture?
Carrots are gay.
They may be gay, but at least they are tops.
Oh no! Anyway…
Imagine moving anything fish related that NOAA is doing to Fish and Wildlife….Fucking bonkers man
Must be a food and medicine smuggling tunnel.
Baby milk.
Should be Facebook, considering their target demo.
Myspace
“Something fishy….”
Well she DOES look like she needs a shower.
the guy who truly was America’s Dad
Art Linkletter?
“The agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public — formerly known as Twitter,”
Please stop.
Notice they didn’t do this with Rachel Levine.
Yeah, a state rep in Maine got her hand slapped for mentioning what one high school athlete was “formerly known as.”
So you are saying Twitter is trans?
“The resolution, which passed 75-70 in a party line vote, censures Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, for her post on Facebook in which she identified a transgender student as having won a girls’ track championship. Libby included photos and referred to the student by first name but did not use a last name.”
Because track meets are held in secret?
Has anyone seen or listened to the recent JRE episode with Douglas Murray and Dave Smith? Reactions?
They’ve made the Java Runtime Environment episodic now? Well, they kept changing it so often already, might as well.
I watched the one with just Dave Smith. I haven’t watched the Dave Smith and Douglas Murray one yet, but I have it queued up.
I haven’t but it sounds like both sides’ supporters are claiming complete domination.
Very much so on X.
Murray is a snide appeal to authority indulging twat and a half. Smith not so much beat him in their debate as Murray acted like an execrable ass and gave it all away.
So what you’re saying is, is the part of The Last American Hero’s comment up above which reads, “it sounds like both sides’ supporters are claiming complete domination.” is correct?
#cnq
“Traces of a sleeping pill shortened the time it took for juvenile salmon to navigate through two hydropower dams along their regular migration route that usually slow up the journey, say scientists.
Levels of clobazam — a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders — also increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild”
Weird. Sounds like correlation but I’m not seeing a causation mechanism. Of course, the scienticians claim this is somehow negative.
You would think if anything sped up the migration it would be meth, but I guess that is concentrated in Florida waters.
“The researchers used innovative slow-release pharmaceutical implants and animal-tracking transmitters to monitor how exposure to clobazam and the opioid painkiller tramadol affected the behavior and migration of juvenile Atlantic salmon in Sweden’s River Dal as they migrated to the Baltic Sea.”
A pharmaceutical implant is way more than a trace.
I am reliably assured by homeopaths that the greater the dilution the more effective the dose. So clearly medicines diluted in the body, pissed out and then repeatedly diluted as it passes through sewer to river to ocean become super drugs.
https://www.sbnation.com/2025/4/12/24406776/sb-nation-mlb-daily-trivia-in-5
I got it with guess #3 today. Should be an easy one for OMWC
#2. For the first one, I had guessed Boog Powell.
Cute pic of the kid, BTW.
Hard to get a bad pic of him. He’s a cute kid. 10b0t should demand a paternity test.
TW Pro Publica
Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos
I love how PP says manufacturers support the regs. Of course they do. They are a barrier to entry and they spent lots of money complying.
So wait, is the DOE staffed by indispensable subject matter experts who could never be found for any price in the private sector like we’ve been hearing, or do they have to contract all the intellectual labor out to the midwit MBAs at corporate consulting firms? Because it can’t really be both.
“Appliance manufacturers seem almost as concerned. “This is not a positive development,” said Josh Greene, vice president for government affairs at A.O. Smith, the largest manufacturer of water heaters in the U.S. Terminating the Guidehouse contract, he said, would create “a wild Wild West” where “upstart manufacturers” are free to import poor-quality products because “they know there’s no one to enforce the rules. That’s not good for American manufacturing and it’s not good for consumers.”
They have a vice president for government affairs?
Just about every Fortune 500 company has such a VP.
Normally an ex regulator. Part of the revolving door.
Wouldn’t the high tariffs keep these shoddy products to a minimum?
I just want a dishwasher that has a heated dry cycle. The mechanical timer in my current one is on its last legs. But at least it dries the dishes.
I bought a Bosch dishwasher about a year ago with that feature.
So, of course, after spring began to break and the plants just started peeking out from the soil… three days of snow and hard freezes.
It’s snowing here. Enough to accumulate.
There are a lot of misconceptions about couples therapy, experts say. One of the biggest is that it will serve as a sort of courtroom in which one partner will be declared guilty, and the other innocent.
“Everybody comes to couples therapy assuming that their perspective is going to be vindicated by the therapist, and that the other person is going to see the error of their ways,” says Siblo.
By “everybody” he means the wife/girlfriend.
Old Guy Music is good.
Too Local News: NH budget drama
If anyone was happy with the biennial budget passed by the GOP-controlled House Thursday, it didn’t show.
While the $16.3 billion budget passed along mostly partisan lines, nearly everyone lost something in the process — a process that included quite a bit of chaos and, at times, took GOP leadership to the brink of failure.
During a grueling day-long session, tempers flared, House leaders floundered, and Nazi Germany was evoked. The House was able to pass HB1 despite 15 defections from Republicans unhappy the budget didn’t cut more spending.
But it was HB2 that brought the real drama.
Just before 6 p.m., and after eight hours of budget talks, frustrated lawmakers voted 198-167 to table HB 2 – the trailer dealing with “fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.”
Democrats denounced the spending plan, offering what they called their own “Better Budget” instead. It used increased taxes on gaming revenues and cuts to the Education Freedom Accounts program to maintain spending. It also retained DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies as part of what state Rep. Karen Ebel (D-New London) called a “more compassionate budget.”
Raise taxes, defund school choice, keep racism alive in businesses. Pure leftist horseshit.
I can’t even summarize this NYT spin. Yes, there was fraud, we made sure to keep a record of it, but Musk is wrong there is no fraud.
https://archive.fo/m6Rxb
“It’s not that the federal government missed this fraud, she said, but that the states need continued investment to fight it.”
I think I can summarize:
Elon Bad!!!
Used to be Elon Bald but he got a transplant
Notice how they go from a positive assertion at the subheader, to weasel-word speculation. NYT article is complete MDS bullshit.
Winter In April – stop rubbing it in
The Suspenders Jazz Trio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHLU46x2ujI
i dont know why utube recommended this to me but I feel this site is to blame.
Re: that first Twitter link, I just assume KTLA has hired Rex Kramer to run their social media.
Fun trivia: his brother was my business partner for many years.
(In other KFM trivia, the woman in the courtroom drama was the daughter of my school nurse, a friend of my parents; she had her first major success in “Oh, Calcutta!”)
I enjoyed Tom Clancy’s stuff up to Sum of All Fears which was so unsatisfying a read I’ve never picked up another of his books.
I stopped reading when I realized he had started applying a formula to write his books.
I’ve only read Red Storm Rising and Hunt for Red October.
Both of those were pretty good.
I thought “The Cardinal of the Kremlin” was OK.
Those were all early stuff. It’s later Clancy stuff where he stuck to a formula. And yes, there are roots of the formula in the earlier works.
Clancy is an example of an author who fell in love with his character and gradually converted them into a Mary Sue.
Those two were solid. I tapped out once Jack Ryan started climbing ever higher in the Fed gov.
“His” nonfiction was primarily the product of the various “coauthors” and not Clancy so their quality is all over the place.
Rainbow Six was too long, but I enjoyed the ending a great deal.
I wonder what he’d think of Ubisoft turning his IP into a competitive shooter with paraplegic tranny characters.
“I have never played it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.”
You have to love the UN. (((They))) have really, really smart bombs.
UN finds 36 Israeli strikes on Gaza killed only women and children
I thought for a second there before I hovered over the link that it might be the Bee.
36 bombs that each killed only one person does seem plausible.
So does a UN report that is entirely made up to support an agenda.
Smart and misogynistic.
Forging a Knife & Survival Camping Alone in the Wilderness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHt1IEgEISo
for this one I blame UCS
TL;DW, Why are you blaming me?
So what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine.com/product/argiolas-senes-cannonau-di-sardegna-riserva-2016/713786
Wine last night was a Malbec, drink so far today is coffee.
tea – sencha genmaicha
Coffee at the moment, but since we’re having pizza tonight and Prime prefers red wine, I am predicting Cabernet Franc from the Seneca Lake region- either Ria’s 2023 or a Forge 2021.
Chateau le Sinque
CNN is so overwrought they can’t help but insert as much ‘terror’ as possible per word.
“The (NOAA) cuts would devastate weather and climate research as weather is becoming more erratic, extreme and costly. It would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate weather and climate data and expert analysis. It could also halt research on deadly weather, including severe storms and tornadoes.”
Fret more. It really helps your cause. And from me? Go fuck yourself. Christ, they’re constantly overwhelmed. Pro tip? Stop being a fucking pussy. About *everything.*
Fear mongering is the number one business of the MSM. They have zero ability to influence on any other basis.
“If it bleeds, it leads.”
From MSM’s rush to fulfill it’s inner ‘purpose,’ and perhaps with direct prodding from DC, The Media will ‘make’ the blood from their flood of purple prose.
It’s so fucking tedious, and yet it’s bought, hook, line, sinker by 80% of the pop, of which *maybe* 50% vaguely ‘follow’ the daily news.
It works. Dammit.
I loved the Fearmonger shop on Prairie Home Companion.
Also, “free” is doing a lot of work there. It’s not free, we are forced to pay for it.
Dangerous curves ahead on Silicone Saturday!
https://archive.is/kxVyE
Too much suspected AI.
18 could get me in all kinds of trouble. 26 is clearly a seasoned outdoorswoman ready for an extended excursion into nature. 36 has a bubbly… personality.
While the phrase “climate change” refers to the manmade influence on the global climate system via planet-warming fossil fuel pollution, “climate” in NOAA parlance is simply the weather that has been observed over time.
Words mean precisely what we want them to mean.
Yes. Before the industrial revolution, the climate never changed.
“Nazi Raccoons” would be a good band name.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/nazi-racoons-run-riot-german-35042969
They can’t stop racoons but they are going to be the bulwark preventing Putin from rolling across Europe.
Hey. They are American raccoons. They come into your town, and help you party down.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6P3kVJ9U0
Steel jingoism
Two huge blast furnaces are used to produce the steel, which has fewer imperfections than the recycled steel made elsewhere in the country.
Were the plant to cease producing virgin steel, then the UK would become the only member of the G7 group of leading economies without the ability to make it – a prospect the government views as a risk to the country’s long-term economic security.
The company was founded in 2016 when Tata Steel sold its loss-making long products division in Scunthorpe to private investment firm Greybull Capital for a token £1.
The new owners renamed the business British Steel.
Following a period of financial instability, British Steel was taken over by the government’s insolvency service in 2019 and then acquired by Chinese steel-making firm Jingye the following year.
The company says the plant continues to lose £700,000 a day despite £1.2bn of investment. It has begun a 45-day consultation on job cuts.
Jingye says the blast furnaces are no longer sustainable, blaming “highly challenging” market conditions, tariffs and costs associated with transitioning to lower-carbon production techniques.
Calling it British Steel was a stroke of genius.
Some American industrialist should hurry up and trademark U.S. Steel.
US Steel is still around and there were recent arguments over whether to allow a Japanese company to buy it.
That’s the joke
“The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) has opened an investigation into Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) over donations to her campaign that were made through ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising platform that has recently come under scrutiny for suspicious donation activity….
“Rep. Crockett, through her principal campaign committee Respondent Jasmine for US, has received thousands of other donations through ActBlue totaling over $870,000,” the FEC complaint stated. “It is unclear how many of these are similarly fraudulent transactions, made in the name of unsuspecting innocent people who did not actually provide the funds.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/rep-jasmine-crockett-under-fec-investigation-over-actblue-campaign-donations
I’m sure this is racist somehow.
UK steel production has been falling for several decades and the financial pressures facing the industry were heightened in March when the US imposed a 25% tariff on any steel it imports.
Global over-production of steel has created “a glut of steel on the international market”, according to a UK government briefing on the industry, which has pushed prices down. British manufacturers also face higher costs, particularly on electricity, than elsewhere.
Once the government nationalizes British Steel the Steel Fairy will wave her magic wand and they will flood the market with low cost high quality steel.
Barring regulatory insanity in the US, I don’t see how it could possibly be cost effective for us to import steel from the UK. The tariffs shouldn’t matter.
Barring regulatory insanity in the US
I mean…. it is the US.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/the-week-in-pictures-direwolf-of-wall-street-edition.php
“I literally have sex with people on camera and most people view that as cheating[…]A lot of guys I’ve dated believe that I’m in love with the men I film with. I also feel like my partners always compare themselves to the person I’m shooting with, and then they judge me for enjoying it[…]Annie clarified that sex on camera is vastly different from sex within a relationship, but when people fail to understand this distinction, it can cause significant issues.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/woman-two-vaginas-says-jealous-34972179
This is some weird combination of self-awareness and delusion in that she recognizes guys have a problem with her job for a reason while simultaneously expecting them to view her job as if she worked at Target.
NB: your “two vaginas” have absolutely nothing to do with why you can’t find a guy, it’s all because you get railed for cash.
“It was just sex. He meant nothing.”
Let’s see how she feels about it the other way around.
Upper and lower or left and right?
She should hook up with that Redditor with two dicks.
Set aside one of them for business and the other for personal use. Problem solved.
*newsletter subscribed*
Love this one
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2025/04/GoPW0RjWYAAGC0b.jpeg
Error 1011 never fails to amuse.
The link works for me. I checked after I posted.
A roundabout with “you are here”.
Four exits: Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World
That makes me want to laugh and cry at the same time.
OMG so retarded
Kennedy announced in March that 10,000 HHS workers would be laid off as part of Trump’s cost-cutting crusade, including 3,500 employees at the FDA. Days later, Kennedy admitted that 20 percent of those fired would need to be rehired, though he claimed that “was always the plan.”
Isn’t that a textbook tactic? Fire everybody and then hire back the people who actually do the work?
Yes. Consultant 101. Press doesn’t care.
The band breaks up, then quietly reforms with all the members except the asshole drummer.
Yes, right down to the 20%. Pareto FTW.
“During President Obama’s first four years, according to a Harvard Law Review count, only 12 nationwide injunctions were handed down; during President Biden’s, 14. But in Trump’s first administration, there were 64, and in Trump 2.0, as of March 27, there were 17, with more on their way….
According to a Harvard Law Review study, of the 64 nationwide injunctions issued by district judges during Trump’s first term, 59 were granted by judges appointed by Democratic presidents. Of the 14 such injunctions issued during the Biden administration, all were granted by judges appointed by Republican presidents. In Trump’s current term, Georgetown Law professor Steve Vladeck found that “the vast majority of rulings against Trump. . . have come from judges appointed by Democratic presidents.”
Nationwide injunctions not only create the appearance of a partisan judiciary, which is bad enough. They harness the reality of our partisan judiciary, allowing “Democratic judges” to stop Republican measures even as “Republican judges” stop Democratic measures.””
Making matters still worse is the asymmetry between losing and winning a nationwide injunction. The administration could in theory win 10 times, but as long as one plaintiff wins before one of the hundreds of district judges sitting anywhere in the country, the executive order is universally blocked and the president’s agenda comes to a halt.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-legal-trick-being-used-to-trip
IANAL, but that’s a stupid way to run a country.
Imagine how glorious our country would be if Congress worked this way.
Once again, the libertarian state rep from Galt’s Gulch refused to let the omnibus out of committee….
Notice how they don’t talk about ending the omnibus bill thing anymore?
It went from a one-time thing to a temporary thing to “we just put anything we can think of into this one bill and dare anyone to say anything”.
Ending it might get 5 votes between the house and senate.
Look at this guy not cherishing our cherished (D)emocratic institutions.
My summary of the news: Trump: “You have to stop stealing money.”
Leftist shitbags: “Nooooooooo! You cant make us!”
“If she did in fact take up residency in her Virginia property, then she legally abandoned her position as New York Attorney General. This means she was ineligible to prosecute Trump at the time.
If she did not take up residency, as she claimed in her POA, then a case can be made that she committed fraud to gain more favorable real estate loan rates — the very crime she hung on Trump. “This would be particularly problematic for someone who has prosecuted others for similar misrepresentations in property matters,” Antar notes drily.”
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2025/04/11/if-this-is-what-it-looks-like-nyag-letitia-james-is-in-a-world-of-trouble-n4938806
CWAC
Someone should file the indictment. I’d love to see what her response is.
Probably denials and going on the offensive, trying to indict whoever is prosecuting.
delicious
I doubt anything will come of it though.
New York won’t pursue it. Virginia probably won’t. But I can see this Justice Dept going after this one.
Trump has broken the paradigm
“If Treasurys are not a safe-haven asset, that has major implications for balance sheets across the board — businesses, nonprofits, pensions, households,” said Ernie Tedeschi, a former top economist in the Biden administration who’s now the director of economics at Yale University’s Budget Lab. “So much of world finance is predicated on U.S. Treasurys being safe.”
He called recent bond market trends “the most concerning piece of data since the tariffs began.”
“It’s showing a deterioration in confidence in the U.S.’s place in the world,” he said.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has pushed back against such concerns, telling Fox Business on Wednesday, “There is nothing systemic about this. I think that it is an uncomfortable but normal deleveraging that’s going on in the bond market.”
Now traders will have to re-examine their preconceptions. That sounds like work.
There are several other possible explanations. One has to do with the way hedge funds bet on bond markets. Another could be that investors are anticipating a run-up in inflation and demanding higher interest rates now so they don’t lose money in the future.
Maybe the “bond market” doesn’t believe Congress is serious about doing anything about the debt.
The bond market is seldom that rational
Baker added that “there’s a whole lot of other stuff in the world beyond stocks and bonds” to consider investing in, such as real estate, infrastructure and private equity. But he cautioned that it’s usually a good idea to consult a qualified adviser first, partly to avoid making important money moves out of fear.
You could open a restaurant in a cozy little college town, and just sit back and watch the money roll in.
You’re going to need a bigger boat if you go trolling like that.
“consult a qualified adviser ”
Sure, a Pelosi or any other politician who manages to grow a mid-manager level salary into three huge homes, a seven figure portfolio, and non-show consulting gigs.
To be fair, Nancy is from a major Mafia family, so there was plenty of money already.
One of the best hit pieces you will ever see just popped up in my feed. Characterizes the cleanest form of fossil fuel electricity generation as if it were a dioxin dump. Also attempts to imply that Musk is responsible for pollution that predates his birth.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-memphis-illegal-generators
Really amazing stuff. One wonders how this was funded.
“Southern Environmental Law Center”
Spin off grift?
“”Nobody else should be burying their families because these rogue, rich, white, racist people continue to build projects that are suffocating us,” KeShaun Pearson, a local resident and director of the Memphis Community Against Pollution told The Guardian. “This is all preventable.””
More like tiring.
I couldn’t tell if that was just a paid provocateur, or an attempted extortion for a donation
I think between those two, and just being a genuine imbecile, that pretty much exhausts the options.