Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another beautiful day and the links!
Feds Declare Regional Emergency For Midwest States After Oil Refinery Has ‘Unanticipated Shutdown’
Penn Wharton says Biden student loan plan could exceed $1 trillion
Russia is flaring $10 million worth of natural gas per day rather than sending it to Germany
Gov. Glenn Youngkin vows to stop ‘ridiculous’ state ban on gas vehicles
San Francisco businesses threaten to stop paying taxes until city officials fix homeless problem
Majority of new federal climate funds in Pennsylvania going to repave parking lots
NBC may stop prime time programming at 10 p.m. due to low ratings
$1.34B Mega Millions lottery winner still hasn’t come forward
Florida woman dances through field sobriety test
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Special master sounds racist.
Extra special racist?
Special masa is what my favorite taqueria uses for their tamales.
Special
master– main?
– controller?
– leader?
– primary?
WHILE THE MASTER WAITS…
Torgo abates?
“Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) responded to the refinery’s shutdown by issuing an executive order that lifts some requirements for fuel transporters and “temporarily suspends certain laws and regulations to accelerate the transition to the fall fuel supply”
Why come all these regulations in the first place?
And while less regulation is better, how does she have the authority to do this? Specifically delegated emergency powers, or because she has a pen and a phone?
This is Governor “COVID powers mean I can tell you not to set up a garden”, so I doubt she thinks anything is beyond her in an “emergency.”
Flying monkeys.
OT – Good morning sir. I’ve got an article that can be published whenever works for you.
I will get it set, soon.
Thank you!
I will get GlibFlick done tonight. I feel tardy.
On this note, I’m wrapping up part two of my FreedomFest report.
When everything is an emergency….
^^^THIS^^^
…the tough get going?
Panicked idiots will let the crooks do whatever they want…
Is there a fix to the homeless problem?
Well, that depends. Are we looking for a humane and ethical fix?
If you kill them, more will replace them.
Renewable resource!
So you are also planning on eating them?
No, that’s gross. Homeless people carry too many diseases and parasites to be food.
I’m sure they could be appropriately, erm, re-processed . . .
Going back to county sanitariums (run well… ha! Yeah, government health care… that’ll end well) would probably cut down a chunk. Besides the probability that they’d be run like crap, the Soviet Sanitarium risk also makes me nervous, especially with the current climate where calling half the country “semi-fascist” and all… small step from there to “They don’t agree with us… they must be crazy/evil!” So good luck with that.
And druggies I expect make up a good chunk of the rest. Honestly don’t know what to do about that, myself — folks have obviously tried “Given them a place to crash and make it as easy as possible for their habit” and things just get trashed / stripped to sell for extra drugs / etc. Chunking them all on an island and letting them fend for themselves seems heartless. Bring back flophouses and decriminalize (yeah, we’ve seen how that goes with MJ.. states will just regulate/tax it so criminals are still profitable) to drive down prices to the point where they could afford it and pay a stipend? Don’t like the idea of paying people to do nothing — but at this point given the camps everywhere on the West Coast at least and barring the island, don’t see much else left.
Dr. Chet would probably have some good comments here.
Look what article is still up on wikipedia.
On the drug front, “decriminalizing” is bullshit. You need to make it legal, across the board. It needs to be handled the same way you handle alcohol: legal in stores, legal distribution, legal processing, legal production. Otherwise, you are just kicking the black market aspects up the chain, with no brakes put on use. It is still going to be moved on the street by narco gangs like the Sinaloa Cartel, Nortenos, and such, but junkies get a free pass. Supply and Demand, how does it work?
Sam Kinison had some good ideas.
Not in the current climate where mental illness is ignored and it’s easier to get paid to wander the streets than to find an honest day’s work and stick with it.
Workhouses and insane asylums.
“$1.34B Mega Millions lottery winner still hasn’t come forward”
Maybe the person died? Or lost in the laundry?
Murdered by someone who now is trying to figure out how to claim the ticket was my first thought. But I watch too much Columbo.
That would only matter if the victim signed it first.
They were prolly trying to get some legal setup to avoid taxes, but the lawyers killed them to steal the tickets so they can claim the money themselves, cause, well lawyers…
There is no such thing as too much Columbo.
I am hoping that the very lucky winner is quietly setting things up to disappear after getting the money. “sorry, i found a better job that requires me to move across the state, been swell working with ya”.
Lemme check my ticket…
Morning, Banjos.
Trying not to rage at my coworkers who have developed a form of pathological incompetence to avoid work. After verbally unable to worm out of it, they’ll deliberately do it so wrongly that it gets other people fed up until it gets done for them.
No, you do not need to add columns to the disk partition tab for CPU and memory, that goes on the other tab of the form! In the space where it says “CPU and Memory”
Ah, I see they have the same work strategy as my son regarding the dishwasher….
Weaponized incompetence.
Trying not to rage at my coworkers who have developed a form of pathological incompetence to avoid work.
What do you expect from government-sector workers?
To be honest, I don’t run into this behaviour very often.
Refineries have been operating at 95% capacity for almost a year now. It’s absolutely unsustainable.
How many years, not counting regulatory abuse, does it take to build out capacity?
It’s about $10B to build a new refinery and ten years to get payback on that capital investment
I assume the regulatory process plus standard delays stretches construction times into two years minimum, maybe three.
Nobody is going to build a refinery in this political environment. Shortages are in our future.
It’s not only inevitable, it’s part of the plan.
Nope. With governors running around saying they are going to be all-renewables in 10-12 years, there is really very little reason to start the process. When the magic future fails to appear on schedule, I guess we can buy gas from Russia. No downside there.
They are hard at work concocting rackets that allow them to effectively loot the valuables, at a record pace, before the coming inevitable collapse…
Morning, Banjos!
The refinery fire sounds actually sounds like an accident (easy enough), unlike the yearly “fires” and “unplanned maintenance” that always happens in California that suspiciously always bump up the gas prices. If only regulators weren’t trying to kill the industry such that it would be worth it to build some extra capacity in the infrastructure (or any at all — what was it, 1970 or so since the last one was built in this country?!?)… if only…..
Re: Pennsylvania and climate funds. They must have been planning to spend it over the winter… being a pretty obvious slush fund.
Re: San Francisco — part of me says “Good! You’re not getting services for the taxes, cut them off until they get their priorities straight!” and the other part says that the City government is so full of ideologues it won’t help. Better to shutter the business and move — maybe when there’s nothing left but bums and junkies the idiots in the city will wake up. Of course, you’d also have to keep the idiots running the city from moving, else it will just metastasize….
Yesterday, I learned Bloomsburg is the only town in PA.
bringing the total cost of student loan forgiveness to more than $1 trillion, economist Junlei Chen wrote in the Budget Model.
That’s almost real money.
The Castro Merchants Association, named after the city’s Castro District, sent a letter to San Francisco city officials saying group members who own businesses in the area plan to stop paying taxes if the city doesn’t do more to address the problems, reported KTVU.
I expect the city will very quickly move…. against the merchants.
When asked if she understood the directions, Harrington said “yes” but also that she thought they were “ridiculous.”
She’s right, but that’s not going to get you any points with the cops.
Something I never understood when I lived in the Central time zone and still don’t understand — how TF do east coasters watch TV so late? I just assumed that their work days started an hour later than we did, but that’s not the case. Maybe the reasons NYers/Bostonians/Philadelphioids are so notoriously assholish is because they’re chronically sleep deprived?
We don’t, or at least I don’t.
So why schedule your prestige shows so that they end at 11:00?
Because that’s when the 11 o’clock news starts.
“It’s ten PM, do you know where your children are?”
Relevant
What do you mean? Of course five hours/four hours/three hours a night is perfectly normal and sustainable. 🤬
Prime time is the same in Pacific as in Eastern. What do they do in Mountain? Pacific is the best time zone for sports fans. Annoyingly Alaska taped delayed games.
How is Pacific the best time zone for sports fans? You’d need to wake up early to tailgate for a 10:00 Pacific start time game, and hope that you can get out of work on time for the Thursday/Monday night games (assuming a standard 17:00 end shift).
I could watch all the Sunday games and still get to bed at a reasonable time. I could watch both an east and west coast baseball game. After I moved to the east coast I stopped watching the night games because they start too late. Weekday west coast games were also too late to watch.
What is this 10am start? We never did that crap until idiot Larry Scott tried to pursue a east coast marketing strategy to audiences that don’t give a fuck about west coast sports.
Well, it’s fairly common for football games to start at 13:00 Eastern, which would translate to 10:00 Pacific.
The early NFL kickoff is at 7am and the second at 10ish. I can watch an early game before heading out to the water for the rest of the day.
When I lived in California, one or two networks had prime-time from 8 to 11 and the others had it from 7 to 10. It was very confusing to me.
ISTR Mountain is also an hour early.
We continue to pay the price for catering to CA.
When I worked on Wall St. you’d also come in early to deal with Europe. Although some of my CA coworkers were started work at 4am.
Inner city inhabitants?
Florida woman dances through field sobriety test
Irish folk dance? Way to prove you are drunk.
Maybe she was trying to subtly offer the cop her lucky charms.
I was charmed. I bet she’s a lot of fun at parties. Still, I think she’s pretty far over the hot/crazy line. Would not attempt a relationship lasting more than 6-8 hours.
6-8 hours? Look who is bragging.
Call a doctor if longer than 4 hours.
Nah, she was asserting her Irish tolerance which means she can drive safely at a higher BAC than normies.
Russians are the functional drunks.
$1.34B Mega Millions lottery winner still hasn’t come forward
Smart move, until the winner can figure out a way to do it anonymously.
I inadvertently kicked over a hornets’ nest on Facebook (I know, I know). There was a public post pointing out that Electric Vehicles still are powered mostly by fossil fuels bus the electric grid.
I simply remarked that I was under no illusions about the energy source for my car, but that I drive an EV, specifically Tesla, for the pure joy, convenience, and safety of it. I even said it should be an individual choice, not a government decree.
That unleashed such vitriol from the ICE car loving crowd that I was truly taken aback by the evil things they wished upon me. I am so spoiled by Glibertarians who respect everyone’s individual choices that I was quite unprepared for the hate.
Also interesting was seeing the stereotypes that people assigned me. They assumed I was a liberal, that I vote democrat, that I’m a vegan, that I believe in global warming, etc.
Despite my insistence that the government shouldn’t interfere with the car market, I was roundly condemned for simply having chosen an EV. Commenters wished all kinds of bad things to happen to me. Many of them were “There should be a law…..” punishing EV drivers. I suppose I should be grateful that my car is bristling with cameras; otherwise it would probably have been keyed 5 times over by now!
People who see politics in 1 dimension, left vs right, are a big part of the problem. Thanks, Glibs, for understanding that human action and motivation are far more complex than that.
I am trying so hard not to pick on you for using facebook.
If I didn’t have friends and relatives scattered across the globe, I wouldn’t.
My mistake was in commenting.
I couldn’t stand seeing my friends being stupid assholes online, so I quit FB rather than quit them.
Good policy.
That was one of the reasons I left too. Also, I realized that I was feeling envious of some old acquaintances because they would post vacation (or drinking in bar) pics and I was stuck at home. This was when I knew these people didn’t have a pot to piss in. Made me realize that the whole point of FB is to con everyone into thinking you are living some Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous life.
Me too.
FB lets you get away with stuff that they would do in person.
There is a lot of post election anger out there.
That’s why I say the reactionary phase of this culture war is going to suck.
People are mindless in general and follow the herd. When the herd gets pissed off and coalesces around a leader that advocates violence, hold on to your shorts.
What if the Leader has a pathological hatred for people who clutch their grundies?
Ouch — my apologies on behalf of the rest of the human race, HS. I might quibble with you on the safety (I would worry about electrical fires / hazmat issues if anything happened or the battery decided it was having a bad day), but especially since you originally chose it for San Diego where it acted almost as a PowerWall adjunct to your solar panels, there’s a lot of logic there.
Facebook certainly reinforces the fundamental Christian tenet that we are all in desperate need of grace. Or Agent K’s view of humanity… take your pick.
There really are multiple levels of safety for EVs.
ICE fires are so common that they don’t get much press. However, they are generally much easier to control and less energetic.
When I refer to safety, I mean the driver assist and such. Also, even though my epilepsy is well controlled by meds and I’m legal to drive, if —heaven forbid— I ever do have a seizure or blackout at the wheel, the car will take me to the shoulder, call Tesla who would then call 911 if didn’t respond.
That’s actually pretty nifty.
How does it know?
It keeps track of torque on the steering wheel. No torque after a certain period of time and it alarms.
For those in the “full” self driving program it also uses an interior camera.
Not to burst your bubble, but my understanding is that the Tesla stops in whatever lane you are in. It doesn’t pull over. Seems like that was some repeated anecdote.
Given that context, your choice makes perfect and complete sense. My apologies for quibbling in ignorance.
‘Thanks, Glibs, for understanding that human action and motivation are far more complex than that.’
Sounds like something a bleeding heart, rat fink commie fuck would say.
*hurls rotten veggies at hk*
Edit: “bus” should read “via”
Stoopid autocorrect.
Of course, none of them mentioned that their IC vehicles use ethanol, subsidized by taxpayers.
/remembers electric street cars in the Twin Cities
I left FB permanently at the end of 2016. I saw people’s brains breaking and it was not a pretty sight.
The rage was starting to build about eight years before that.
If you see me on FB, it’s because my wife put my profile out there. I refuse to use it and do not know the password. I decided I had enough with MySpace!
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.
There is virtually no limit to the applications of that quote. Facebook = “people”. I despise mandates for anything and thoroughly believe that the ill-conceived attempt to force everyone to drive EVs is a disaster in the making, but if someone wants to drive a Tesla (or any other electric car) of their own volition, I have no idea why that should bother me.
LOL. I remember getting flamed because I had the temerity to post a question on usenet about the wiring diagram for a used car stereo. I said that the original diagram had become illegible and could anyone help me.
Phase 1 of the flame wars was people calling me a thief and a horrible person.
Phase2 of the flame war was people pointing out that I said I had bought a used stereo and then they started fighting with the first set of people.
Sigh. For all the good a global communication platform can be, it also can bring out the absolute worst.
I remember my usenet days!
Yes. Reminds me of someone here who called himself the Flame Magnet.
That’s what happened to my stereo!
As a car guy, I don’t understand this attitude one bit. Some electrics offer a distinct performance advantage over gas cars that most “car guys” should be embracing, but aren’t. I haven’t heard or seen this much vitriol since the first Porsche guy bought a Tiptronic over a manual transmission (Sloopy will understand).
Exactly the same.
Mind you the early Porsche non dual clutch autos were not exactly “sporty”.
That said “Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe” doesn’t exactly roll of the tongue.
Tiptronic?
Is that Al Gore’s sexbot?
Derpbook is a sewer.
I use for certain things, but generally, a sewer.
“Marketplace” and comms with my French rellies are about the sum total of my FB usage. I gave up on everything else.
It has nothing to do with how EVs work, but everything to do with what is happening in society.
This. EVs are being used as a tool to punish the deniers. Lots of emotional baggage to go with that.
Pay no attention while we continue to virtue signal.
Upcoming investigation: How an airborne blade exposed broader problems at PGE’s flagship wind farm
It seems to me that these things never break even in terms of cost to manufacture and cost of ownership versus value produced.
One of my favorite articles was about how many blades are disposed in landfills after their useful life is over.
You’d think they could be made into kayaks or some such.
Fiberglass doesn’t suffer reshaping after the resin has cured.
Oooh! Tiny houses for homeless people!
🧐
Your a genius, think how many orphans you could fit in one.
*furiously types up grant applications for feasibility, design, environmental impact, and SG studies*
We recently went to Montana from TX. On the drive back, there was a town that had their name stenciled on a used blade as you drove in to town. So there was one spared from the landfills. You could tell it was used because the fiberglass was fraying on one end. It looked like shit.
Not to mention the “dangerous greenhouse gasses” created in their manufacturing process:
https://rmx.news/article/wind-turbines-emit-highly-dangerous-climate-destroying-gas-with-germany-the-worst-polluter-in-europe/
How ironic…
They must want to emulate PG&E’s business model — spend the maintenance money on bonuses for execs and bribes *cough*… lobbying politicians, then hit up the taxpayers and customers for even more when it falls apart. Probably taught to Harvard MBAs these days.
👆 Exactly what came to my mind.
Extracting “value” now and moving on to your next gig is pretty much de rigueur for an good MBA program.
Exhibit A. – Just In Time Inventory
Exhibit B. – Retailers selling and leasing back real estate
Exhibit C. – Boeing factoring its receivables
Exhibit D…
Boeing factored its receivables? Any idea what kind of haircut they took on it?
I’ve known some guys who factored. All of them were desperate and in a cash pinch. One went to prison for falsifying his invoices and bringing down an entire bank. After he got out, he went back into the same contracting business and wanted me to issue him credit. He got pissed off when I told him I knew the president of the bank he wrecked and it wasn’t going to happen. He was going on and on about how nobody treated him with respect.
“Dude, you’ve earned the disrespect.”
My response was more along the lines of “Are you fucking kidding me?”
One of my competitors who dealt with him had to write off $100k when his business imploded (i.e. the bank figured out what he had done).
I take it that sort of risk isn’t covered by normal insurance.
Factoring your receivables is one way of insuring it. Last I checked it will cost you about 5%, and in a risky credit environment it can go up to 15%.
“I take it that sort of risk isn’t covered by normal insurance”
Insurance only covers riot damage. It is known.
SEC Asks Boeing, Coca-Cola to Disclose More About Popular Financing Tool
Sorry I misremembered – it’s supplier based.
Ah yeah. I had some banks trying to sell me on that bs.
It would be a nice way of running up a big inventory, blowing it out at a loss, and running with the cash before the banks caught up though.
Exhibit B.. “but there’s different treatments for ownership and leasing!”
It’s Oregon. What happens in CA will happen here in a decade. Sadly.
Measure 114… 🤬
Trying to figure out which straw is enough. I do like our yard. Spent much of the weekend out in it.
“ Majority of new federal climate funds in Pennsylvania going to repave parking lots”
Oh good grief. Not even Al Gore believes we can or should intervene in Earth’s climate cycles. The only people who truly believe are naive college students and soccer moms.
It’s always been about money and power.
Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
And then they’ll plant one of those temperature-gathering stations in the middle of all of the asphalt.
“Hillary Clinton posts dance floor pic in support of Finnish PM Sanna Marin”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/hillary-clinton-tells-finnish-pm-sanna-marin-keep-dancing/
No.
It is our destiny to be ruled by megalomaniac sloppy drunk females.
My hot take:
Heads of state are NOT “only human.” Just like Pete Buttigeg should not have taken paternity leave. If you want a job that important, you damn well better be willing to make it your first and ONLY priority. If family, balance, personal satisfaction etc. are that important to you, take a job with fewer responsibilities.
OTOH, it’s not like Finland is that important or complicated enough of a country that it couldn’t be governed by a part-time drunk. Texas manages it just fine.
Strongly agreed.
Sanna Marin’s no Maggie Thatcher, that’s for damn sure. If she was, Finland would probably have Russia as a vassal state by now.
(And Putin’s nickname would be “pool boy.”)
Also, why does anyone outside of Finland give a shit?
As a card-carrying Glib, you should know better than to ask a question like that — snark is its own reward!
They’re about to be in NATO, so their dumb decisions will probably affect us.
I would only care if she or her government were restricting people while she were doing it. Other than that…have at it. Heads of State hold parties all the time just of different caliber
Bunga-Bunga!
“What a croc Girl spotted walking ’emotional support’ alligator on leash in Philadelphia park
The alligator, named Wally, was wearing a collar that also labeled it an emotional support pet. His owner, Joie Henney, is a reptile lover who has multiple gators. It was not clear who was walking Wally on Friday. “I went through a real hard depression and he brought me out of it,” Henney once said in an interview about Wally. “My doctor wanted to give me anti-depression medicine and I refused to take it,” the man said. Instead, he chose to spend time with the gator.”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/28/video-shows-young-girl-walk-alligator-on-leash-in-philadelphia-park/
How much emotional support does one get from a cold unfeeling reptile?
Depends on how frequently you can feed your enemies to it.
How much emotional support does one get from a cold unfeeling reptile?
I dunno… ask my wife.
I was going to say ask Bill Clinton
Damn your nimble fingers, Your Holiness.
*Golf claps* all around, gentlemen . . . something something jib, something something like, et cetera.
I think it’s less about the animal being affectionate towards you, and more about having someone to interact with and take care of.
Reptiles can absolutely be affectionate, though. My bearded dragon would cuddle with me (usually clawing the hell out of my neck and shoulder) when I had her out of her vivarium.
We used to have an iguana who was very personable. Also big. One time he had a stuffy nose so we had to wrangle him into a long narrow box and take him to the vet.
In a couple of years, the gator is going to be walking her, if not worse.
The thing that worries me a little is that keeping an alligator is a ridiculous amount of work. Anytime I hear about someone with ‘several’ gators, I tend to suspect hoarding…
Ask Bill Clinton.
The British Navy’s new aircraft carrier appears to be as reliable as a British car.
The ridiculousness of building more aircraft carriers aside, one wonders what they think they’re going to do with a ship that can’t go to sea.
Kickbacks, dear Scruffy, Kickbacks.
Static display
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory#In_dry_dock
The HMS Victory actually Did something before it became a museum ship.
Fake news. We know it has to be electrical.
Did you hear about when Lucas tried to make a vacuum cleaner?
It was the only product they made that didn’t suck.
Why do the British drink warm beer?
Thanks, I hadn’t heard this one before.
I was only retelling someone else’s joke.
I should probably disclaim that I have no association nor familiarty with Lucas Electronics beyond their general reputation.
ship’s song
I remember when Britain and France considering sharing aircraft carriers.
“ID checks for whipped cream are rolling out at stores in New York as more retailers begin to enforce a year-old state law banning the sale of whipped cream canisters to anyone under 21.
The law passed last year amid concern that teenagers are increasingly getting high by inhaling the nitrous oxide used as a propellant in the canisters”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/29/new-york-stores-begin-enforcing-21-and-older-whipped-cream-purchases/
OFFS!!
I can’t help but imagine a hilarious version of The Wire focusing on the illicit whipped cream trade.
It would probably be better than the travesty that was season 5
Some day I will relate the tale of my 18-year-old self working for a summer at Dairy Queen, where they order whipped cream by the case.
You were high as fuck on NOX?
Let’s just say that the canister seals were easy to remove and replace, and if you do it right, you can drain off the propellant while the can is still full.
Of course, it pretty much ruins the whipped cream. For some reason, our store got a lot of defective cans of whipped cream that summer.
In high school I worked at a 31 Flavors and the canned whipped cream was frozen until needed for use. We had an employee who would drain the frozen cans. After he was discovered high in the freezer he was fired.
oblig: https://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxk2ioFy8p1qlaoozo2_500.gif
Well, guess I need to change one of my Afternoon Links….grrrr.
Are they repaving the parking lots with white asphalt to reflect heat?
You’ve got a million $ grift with this, either on the study or production side.
If you find a partner and play it right, you can file an environmental impact suit against yourself and make the gravy train run for years.
That wouldn’t be the worst idea (assuming it was economically feasible). I hate how hot asphalt gets.
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Me neither.
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Not sure I’ve used it in a sentence — but read more than enough Chronicles of Thomas Covenant to see it written many many times.
The warmup round didn’t go nearly as well — almost chumped (duotrichump?) there.
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Guesses: 37/37
Time: 08:39.58
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Got that one in four. Actually use the word a lot, complaining about soil types.
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ICE fires are so common that they don’t get much press. However, they are generally much easier to control and less energetic.
I have seen a couple of articles suggesting the procedure for EV fires is to stay upwind and watch them burn, while trying to keep the fire from spreading.
If nothing near it is going to burn that would seem to make the most sense.
To be fair, that’s the procedure I was taught in dealing with any vehicle fire. I was also trained that you can’t speed to a vehicle fire unless it’s been reported that there’s someone trapped in it — since the vehicle is considered a total loss getting there faster won’t reduce any damage.
My ~10 year-old Toyota Camry went up in flames on the interstate while my wife was driving. She saw the smoke, pulled over, got out, and watched the whole thing go up. For those in the Tidewater area, this occurred maybe a mile after getting through the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel at rush hour… the cops shut the tunnel down for at least 2 hours. I can’t even guess at the backup the fire caused. Maybe 15 miles.
After they thought the fire was safely out and loaded it on a flatbed, the car reignited. The driver was pissed and started cussing out my wife like she had anything to do with putting the fire out or loading it on the flatbed. What a weird event.
As a tool, electric vehicle technology has a place. Electric forklifts have been around for a long time, because they don’t pump exhaust fumes into enclosed spaces.
I know you won’t believe this, but NPR had a particularly mendacious “gun violence” story this morning. I’ll list the main points, with what was unspoken/intended inference in parentheses.
-The victims of “gun violence” are overwhelmingly minority (which means “gun violence is racist, and since only white can be racist, wypipo are responsible for “gun violence”).
-“Reckless shootings” [new panicky buzzword!] are way up. More bullets are being fired at each victim than in the past (therefore we need to reduce the amount of bullets available through magazine limits and ammo purchase caps etc.)
-Most guns used in “gun violence” are stolen from lawful gun owners (therefore to reduce shootings, we need to take guns away from legal gun owners so they can’t be stolen and used in crimes.)
Your average NPR journalist would panic at the mere sight of a gun in a display case.
You have too much faith in them. Did you already forget the news story of the kid who took bites out of a Pop Tart until it was “gun shaped”?
That was a school official who first flipped out.
I chose stick for my exemplar because they grow naturally to that shape and there’s no human agency in that part, and photograph to demonstrate that their fear isn’t even connected to an object in their actual presence.
I’d love to see NPR’s evidence that ‘More bullets are being fired at each victim than in the past.’
Or is it possible that someone at NPR just discovered r/IdiotsWithGuns?
“Sources tell NPR…”
I believe it, our criminals need to take target practice.
King County.
https://kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/prosecutor/documents/2022/Shots_Fired_Q2_2022_Report.ashx?la=en
So the per-incident average is 4.2 rounds fired? Where’s my fainting couch?
Might have been the same interview, but I recently heard someone on NPR, in a desperate attempt to rope in suicides into the gun violence count, refer to suicide as “committing the act of murder on yourself”.
Just like NPR was counting the death of the people that crashed in the helicopter as deaths caused by Charlottesville.
Having said that, I do think it’s legitimate to count the suicides after Jan 6 as indicative of something wrong by the Capitol Police. My reasoning is that there were several thousand protestors there, who killed exactly nobody. And there were a few hundred CapPo there, at least five of whom decided that the solution to a problem was a bullet. This is pretty damn good evidence that the two populations were entirely different in their views on the use of lethal force.
“Artemis 1 moon launch is DELAYED: NASA engineers discover leaks and CRACK in $22.2BN rocket at Kennedy Space Center and ‘pause’ 8.33am lift-off”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11156333/Watch-Artemis-launch-live-NASA-blasts-Space-Launch-moon.html
$22,200,000,000 can buy a lot of crack.
*Hunter nods approvingly.*
SLS – the gift that keeps on giving!
Working as designed.
Our current state of politics has me believing that there was no leak, but rather a quiet weekend where they don’t need to draw the attention of the people away so they delay until Joe does something stupid during the week.
“‘If Trump is indicted, there’ll be riots’: GOP Senator Lindsey Graham threatens unrest if ex-president is prosecuted and says there is ‘double standard’ over the FBI Mar-a-Lago raid and Hunter Biden laptop scandal”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11155707/GOP-Senator-Lindsey-Graham-warns-riots-Trump-prosecuted-mishandling-classified-documents.html
Republican riots?
We’ll clean up when we’re done.
Pay for stuff taken from businesses?
What new spore of madness is this?
Next you’ll tell me there won’t be broken windows and injured bystanders
Counter protesters have that covered.
It will be interesting to see what neighborhoods get torched in a MAGA riot.
My guess is that the riots will be concentrated on govt buildings and the MSM will portray that as so much worse than torching private businesses or minority neighborhoods.
It will be an excuse to arrest those who aren’t already and still rotting in jail from Jan 6.
Funny how it’s forever labeled the Jan 6 riots, and not the Stop the Steal rally.
Rino glowie riots promised by one of the deep state’s bootlickers? Well I never.
Election deniers
Many of the election deniers running for secretary of state this year have spent their time talking about something they can’t do: “decertifying” the 2020 results.
The bigger question — amid concerns about whether they would fairly administer the 2024 presidential election — is exactly what powers they would have if they win in November.
Atop the list of the most disruptive things they could do is refusing to certify accurate election results — a nearly unprecedented step that would set off litigation in state and federal court. That has already played out on a smaller scale this year, when a small county in New Mexico refused to certify election results over unfounded fears about election machines, until a state court ordered them to certify.
But secretaries of states’ roles in elections stretch far beyond approving vote tallies and certifying results. Many of the candidates want to dramatically change the rules for future elections, too.
The Donald Trump-aligned Republican nominees in a number of presidential battleground states have advocated for sweeping changes to election law, with a particular focus on targeting absentee and mail voting in their states — keying off one of Trump’s obsessions.
Next thing you know, they’ll say something really crazy like only citizens should vote.
Or that the US should follow the same practices that the US advocates when judging the fairness of foreign elections. Nah, that’s crazy talk.
Is anyone actually saying “If elected, I will refuse to certify accurate results”?
I am somewhat impressed by the local elections office here in FL.
They had to recount a referendum and got the exact same count both times, as God intended. That plus ID checks and signature verification to vote makes me a lot more confident. Other states could learn.
So racism.
Yes, the black lady that checked my ID looked pretty oppressed.
Actually she was very nice… But that’s not the popular rhetoric.
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One common thread binding the candidates, none of whom responded to requests for comment from POLITICO about their policy platforms, is that they want to roll back access to mail voting, which once enjoyed broad bipartisan support but has come under intense attack from Republicans led by Trump. One of the stated goals of the coalition is to “eliminate mail-in ballots” while keeping “traditional absentee ballots,” presumably for people who have a specific excuse not to vote in person on Election Day.
If voting is such a sacred duty, why can’t you be bothered to drag your ass down to the school and fill out a ballot?
Because the polling locations are the Ukranian-american center or the firehouse.
Pull the other one.
Yes, when people thought invalids and deployed soldiers were the ones who would be doing it.
Rolling us back to the dark days of three years ago my God I can’t even.
Remember how racist the old days were? When Obama won?
Racism was in such short supply the race grifters had almost been forced to get real jobs.
They’ve fixed that now.
Thank this asshole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Keisling
It takes awhile to get your legal and financial team in place for a billion dollars.
But perhaps the most radical proposal from some of the candidates would be to completely scrap their states’ voter rolls, requiring people to re-register. Both Marchant and Mastriano have floated similar ideas.
“One of the things that I’m going to look at, and I don’t know if we can do this yet, but it’s something I’ll most certainly consider is wipe out the voter rolls completely and then have everybody re-register,” Marchant said on a local radio show last year, in remarks recently unearthed by the liberal watchdog Media Matters.
Nazism times a billion trillion!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Student Debt Forgiveness Is Biden’s Bluto Moment
I thought that was Senator Blutarsky
The stupidity of the move depends on if debt forgiveness is actually about buying votes for the midterms versus looting the corpse of dying empire to reward supporters. I’m inclined towards the latter take.
The WSJ editorial board is still playing by the Marquis of Queensberry rules. Their op ed on the Mar-a-Lago affidavit was essentially there’s nothing there and wrong to issue, but Trump made the Dems do it because of his boorish behavior. Unreal.
That is their MO. They yearn for yesteryear.
However, some of their editorials have definitely said that opening this investigation into Trump sets a very bad precedent.
It is the same nostalgia that Dems had in ’68. The world changed at that moment, and a lot of old Labor didn’t realize it.
A little from Column A, a little from Column B.
They are absolutely desperate to keep the House and Senate in November and they will do *anything* to make it happen.
The way to deal with this shit is to point out that the people claiming they are gonna give away this cash know it will be blocked because the president doesn’t have the authority to do any of it. Only congress can. and more importantly, if they somehow find a way to piss away the money without fixing the fact that the problem is the system and we let them do it, we are idiots.
20 million young folks are thinking all of their student debt is going to be eradicated. That’s a shit ton of potential votes for the Dems in November. I don’t believe the Red Wave is going to crest as high in the House as many of us hope, and I think the Dems will actually expand their Senate seats and really give Kommiela nothing to do. Once the votes are counted, it doesn’t matter if the courts slap down the Biden ExOrder. Then there will be 20 million young folks pissed at the GOP in 2024.
The problem with that theory is that those areas are locked down in Blue. It isn’t kids in Kansas farms who are agitating for this, it is the kids in Brooklyn (like my son) and we already know how that is voting.
But, as always, I could be wrong. My general feeling is that Red will take the house by a squeaker, and Blue expands in the senate (mostly due to who is up for a vote this year.)
Yup, every tradesman, farmer, store clerk will be happy with TEAM BLUE!
Seeing your student loan reduced by $10K is far more conducive to getting out to vote than hearing that you, Plumber Bob, are going to have to pay $2.00 more in taxes because the nerd who left town to go to Columbia can’t find the gonads to pay off his student loan.
Is it really, though? You’re talking about people who can’t be arsed to take responsibility for their own debts. Mustering the motivation to vote is a stretch.
The bribe is already out there….the anger at (more than just $2) is going to linger…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-warren-confronted-angry-father-student-loan-handouts-screwed
Speaking of car fires…
I remember seeing a bunch of Lincolns (early days of fuel injection- late ’80s, ’90s Continentals, maybe) with massive fire damage to the engine compartment and front bodywork. The sort of damage I speculated would be caused by a cracked fuel rail spraying atomized gasoline all over the hot motor.
Odd because I’m assuming most of the fuel system would have been the same 302 small block used in the Mustang.
However – Ford – so I wouldn’t put it past them to have cheaped out on one piece unique to the Lincoln.
Ford used a plastic intake on those. Everything bolted onto the plastic intake. Technically those intakes could last a long time. But if anything went wrong, that intake got a crack….
Watched a HMMWV engine catch fire while it was doing about 45 on a convoy from Fairbanks to Anchorage in January. Nothing like being stuck in the middle of nowhere Alaska waiting for a tow.
My Renault Fuego burned up because of a leaky fuel system shortly after I sold the thing back in the ‘80s. Never ever buy a French car (unless it’s an Alliance, that thing actually wasn’t that bad).
So you are saying it was correctly named?
Which is why it’s hilarious that FCA decided that what they really needed to do to be competitive in the market was merging with PSA. Nothing restores the luster of the faded Chrysler mark like merging with Peugeot and Citroen!
I’ve wanted an Alliance GTA for a while now. Apparently they were really competitive in their class in the SCCA.
Ford products (of which Lincoln belongs) have had issues with faulty brake switches forever up until the early 2000s when they finally phased out that design. They are pressure actuated and were mounted on the master, er, ahem primary cylinder. Brake fluid would leach through the body of the switch to the electrical connection. Brake fluid is conductive and flammable so most Ford fires I’ve seen seem to originate from the left rear of the engine compartment.
Rumor mill is saying that the Feds are trying to deport Gavin McInnes back to Canada. Bold move if true – he has a Green Card, an American wife and kids, has paid $millions in taxes in this country, and we have an open border.
His defamation lawsuit against the SPL has been stalled for years because reasons, so this is how they respond.
Strange that there’s been no word from his lawyer or anything.
Also, McInnes isn’t far right. Kind of a traditionalist maybe but far right? No.
Was he really arrested on livestream, or was that a stunt?
“Joseph R. Biden”
Wait a minute, it’s “Robinette”? Get the fuck outta here…
Are you sure it isn’t “Raclette”? After what he seems to have for brains?
YOU LEAVE RACLETTE ALONE!
Don’t get so cheesed off.
Gouda dea!
And it’s Jr so he’s not the first.
I hadn’t heard about that refinery fire. My brother used to work there, and I have friends who still work there.
Also, my parents grew up there, and you could see the stack with a flame at the top from my grandma’s house.
Is anyone actually saying “If elected, I will refuse to certify accurate results”?
I think it’s more on the order of “I will decline to assume any random ballot of unknown origin is legitimate.”
Radical.
Since no one is actually quoted, I assume it utter bullshit.
Not a bad troll:
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/08/29/awkward-leftists-same-people-calling-the-right-fascists-cheer-hoot-and-holler-listening-to-a-bunch-of-hitler-quotes-without-knowing-it-watch/
Election deniers running state offices could also look to overhaul staff in state elections departments, even in positions where staffers are civil servants with broader protections from being fired from their jobs. Experienced election officials predicted that staff would look to leave the office rather than work for someone who did not believe in free elections, in addition to staffers being pressured to leave or just moved to somewhere else in the government.
So fucking tedious.
I remember when Fed gov was unable to hire because orange man bad. Oh wait…
Though, it seems like Biden has named to do what omb couldn’t, looking at military and the fact that an opening I know if hasn’t been filled 8 months later…
Crazy talk
Despite their long-standing cursory acknowledgments of “the student debt crisis,” our institutions of higher learning have still chosen to raise tuition every year. Colleges and universities know perfectly well that federal loan programs run by the Department of Education will prevent increased costs from deterring student enrollment.
What’s more, colleges and universities have all but guaranteed themselves a ceaseless flow of “consumers,” having successfully convinced the public that, in the 21st century, one simply cannot survive, let alone thrive without a diploma. They selectively prop up their most successful alumni, rather than show the full picture. And that full picture reveals that many, if not most, graduates earn no more than an American with a trade degree working a blue-collar job.
Because university endowments continue to balloon into the hundreds of millions and sometimes even billions, it is wholly reasonable to ask, why is tuition still increasing? Answer: The number of administrators, as opposed to tenure-track professors, is increasing exponentially, with many senior-level university bureaucrats raking in salaries of upwards of $300,000. In some cases, they’re collecting seven figures annually.
Over the past few years, in particular, millions of dollars have been steered toward DEI administrative departments, whose singular task seems to be convincing students that everyone and everything is bigoted. Not surprisingly, then, these departments have been controversial. They have, for example, been accused of fomenting cancel culture and purveying anti-Semitism.
It used to be that professors ran universities. Now “university administrator” is a career path all on its own. And make no mistake, these bureaucrats are political actors. They are zealously driven to convert their institutions from forums for contemplating the best of what has been thought and said over millennia into training grounds for advancing partisan agendas—and for targeting students and professors who dissent from the reigning liberal orthodoxy.
Sure, hon. Now tell us about the free and open interplay of ideas. It’s so quaint.
into training grounds for advancing partisan agendas—and for targeting students and professors who dissent from the reigning liberal orthodoxy
Yep. Despite being fully remote, I got caught in a booster requirement crossfire because the course was miscoded as partially in-person. I had to go to a Dean to get the issue acknowledged and be granted a pass. The Dean told the program administrator to fix the error (just recoding the course correctly), and she basically said “fuck you, I won’t comply, the filthy unvaxxed deserve to be punished.” Dean told me oh well, not my department and not my problem.
I eventually got it fixed by begging several other people who went around the admin to correct it. She hasn’t forgotten and continues to harass me as much as her power allows. Fortunately, that’s very minimal now that the vaccine issue has been decided in my favor.
Do you really think it was ‘accidentally’ coded that way? Based on your experience I wouldn’t put it past them.
‘reigning liberal orthodoxy’
How repressive does it have to get before we start calling it something other than liberal?
Even before current year, there were schools offering online programs that still demanded proof of vaccinations, either because policy or because state law.
I hope some day that, diploma in hand, you are able to offer the program administrator a few thoughts on your way out the door.
F… The Penn State Univ. recently raised tuition another 5%. I guess it is to cover the $75 million they will pay mediocre coach James Franklin for his ten year contract. Like The OSU and not a few other schools, these minor league football teams feel they need to attach themselves to a university in order to gain status.
The schools operate these teams and athletic departments because administrators think that it drives admissions or alumni donations. Football teams are not free agents affiliating with whoever will pay them. Individuals yes, orgs no.
The football team used to pay for the whole athletic department.
I don’t know if that is still true.
With the B1G Network ravenous for programming, things like Volleyball are a bit more self sustaining.
The football program paying for the whole athletic department was true fora long time after Penn State joined the Big Ten.
Maybe things have changed, but it wasn’t joining the Big Ten that changed it.
Pretty sure all the unsupervised shower time might have changed things.
More seriously, outside the top 1% of programs, most football teams are meet negatives for colleges.
So not really any better off if they opted out. If somehow there was a significant movement (back) to blue collar work, there would be a likely wage decrease or more likely, increasing restriction to reduce new entrants.
I have been saying for years that the explosion of administrators is one of the major drivers of college tuition increases. The other is increased regulation, which also exacerbates the administrator increase.
Also, McInnes isn’t far right. Kind of a traditionalist maybe but far right? No.
Anybody who doesn’t despise traditional western culture and want to eradicate every trace of it is far right.
Russia has to burn it off if they don’t sell it. They’re topped off on storage and they do not have the tech to reopen capped wells. Closing the well would be a permanent reduction in production that they’re not willing to take (yet).
Meanwhile in Germany – solar systems are being shutdown because their transmission infrastructure is so screwed up (build for average not peak load?).
Nobody has ever mentioned anything about storage shortages or grid capacity, ever.
Morons
Code enforcement on stilts
Two high-rise apartment towers in India were leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition on Sunday after the country’s top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said. They became India’s tallest structures to be razed to the ground.
More than 1,500 families vacated their apartments in the area more than seven hours before the nearly 100-meter- (328 feet) tall towers crumbled inward by the impact of the implosion. The 32-story and 29-story towers, which were being constructed by a private builder in Noida city on the outskirts of New Delhi, were yet to be occupied
A bureaucrat scorned…
violating building norms
Norms? They used non-standard doors? No bathroom access without going through a bedroom?
BREAKING: Beto O’Rourke pauses gubernatorial campaign after contracting bacterial infection
Almost certainly Monkeypox.
Oh no, now his chance of winning is going to go to zero percent from zero percent.
“Vote for me because I slightly resemble Bobby Kennedy!”
Hiding your candidate worked for Biden.
That would be hilarious.
The thought of Beto with anorectal lesions does make me giggle a little.
To be fair, I thought Chasen was the bottom.
It’s Beto, not beta
I guess we know what he was up to during “paternity leave”.
I think you’ve got your goofy dweeb rich kid Democrats confused. This is the slightly taller version.
Oh, bugger.
Not that Swiss needs any help, but I’m gonna squint suspiciously on this one…
I had the same problem. Thanks for clearing it up.
Was this him?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/doctors-diagnose-man-with-with-monkeypox-hiv-and-covid-19-in-a-day/ar-AA11abKE
Monkeypox is viral, not bacterial.
I have heard, but do not know, that the monkeypox vaccine has not had any formal studies done vis a vis monkeypox. Supposedly, it was a smallpox vaccine and proven safe as such, and was off-labelled (and apparently effective).
Tony Heller’s latest video on climate change (5:41).
So this appears to be happening in Baghdad…
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-us-embassy-in-baghdad-evacuated
Insurrectionists.
Trump’s fault.
Nope – no MAGA hats, so “mostly peaceful.”
*Scottish accent* “Nah, it’ll be fine…”
Beat me to it.
CAN YOU PEOPLE STOP PREMPTING MUH LINKS!
Well…
In order to do that we’d need to know beforehand what you’d planned on linking.