Not much happening really. My weekend went from alternating from a t-shirt, to a soft shell, to a hoodie, back to a soft shell, and finally a t-shirt again. In the end they got a hell of a shot from Salt River Fields.
¡Enlaces!
So the big news over the weekend was the governor was accused of taking money from Mexican Drug Cartels. Big news if true. I’m going with if.
¡Yeah Bitches!
No worries. El Presidenté Dude Bro figured out how to deal with them. Who knew it was this easy?
A special link for the Old Man.
AMLO is on a tear! First he is close to a deal with Elon to build Teslas in Nuevo Leon (other side of Texas). Then became a threat to democracy sparking protests after a change in Mexican election laws. Then he pissed off Peru. Except its Peru, who cares?
Hey! Is that Journey?
“Not much happening really. ”
Makes me wonder what they aren’t covering.
Remember that top secret document scandal? Looks like that’s blown over.
They ballooned up a few distractions for the crowds.
Heh.
😀
Are we going to have to reduce Arizona back to Territorial Status along with Commiefornia?
Can we sell NYC back to the Indians?
We never bought it from the Indians. We stole it from the English, who strole it from the Duch, who paid a group of seasonal visitors they mistook as the owners for the area, having to then remove the Indians by force.
I’d rather just either cleanse it with nuclear hellfire, or wall it in.
+1 Snake Plisskin
A wall should have gone up decades ago.
Nah… I can’t possibly imagine Hobbs is corrupt. After all, she recused herself from supervising an election she was running in, ran an open and transparent campaign with frequent and vigorous debates with her opponent and certainly never tried to disbar and financially ruin her opponent for exercising legal challenges or anything.
Pure as the driven snow up by Flagstaff, she is!
Are we going to have to reduce Arizona back to Territorial Status along with Commiefornia?
There is no we here.
Speak for yourself.
Thank you for that!
Yes, I’m sure that was it.
So the big news over the weekend was the governor was accused of taking money from Mexican Drug Cartels. Big news if true. I’m going with if.
Not to be outdone:
https://twitter.com/philthatremains/status/1630671583688753158
Canadian or USD? Whichever, Trudy is cheap.
If you’re the CCP, you couldn’t come up with a better stalking horse than the WEF.
They’re actively destroying Western Civilization and removing your primary competitors from within.
They worked long and hard on WHO and the Pandemic Accord too.
And like the Paris Accords, it sure looks unconstitutional on its face — “legal once signed, doesn’t need Senate approval” my ass.
That’s it? Canada is worth at least $10 million for at least 6 years with an option for an additional 2.
Jesus, that’s a lot of tats. Some of those kids, and I mean kids, are tatted from head to toe.
What else do you do with people that committed to their gangs?
I would prefer not to be in the position to have to decide. It would be a hell of a test of morals.
Imaple them upside down along the roadside as a warning to the Turks?
Is that a Canadian punishment?
You don’t want to know what the feral Canukistanis would have done.
The “nice, polite Canadian” is mostly a myth.
El Presidenté Dude Bro figured out how to deal with them. Who knew it was this easy?
Matbe El Salvador will imprison as many people as we do, some day.
I know we incarcerate a ton, but there are multiple fall felons being spun out left and right to terrorize big cities. So which is it: we incarcerate too much or not enough?
We cast a thin and broad net with many holes.
Incarcerate the violent and thieves, take it easy on the victimless crime bunch. Easy peasy.
Nice avatar, bro.
Watching that video, if you’ve got tats like that, you’re in a gang, amigo.
Almost like its a uniform that determines one is part of some kind of army.
And now for a real Mexican music link.
Maybe Mexican… maybe Peruvian… don’t care.
Did the Mexico election article every describe the changes to the election laws? I tried to find it but eventually gave up.
“Votes for anyone other than AMLO are to be counted as votes for AMLO”?
Money.
That looks more like a setup for the next Arkham Asylum game… lots and lots of mooks ready to riot and roam the halls looking to beat down Batman.
I went down to Salt River Fields for spring training a few years ago. Very nice. My team (Rockies) even won a couple of games. Then the regular season began.
I know how you feel.
A lot of mid to smaller market teams need to have a cohesive plan on how to compete. The Rockies are one of those teams where I cannot determine what the f they are trying to do.
The Rockies’ magic formula is to develop a few superstars and then trade them away for little return, pay way too much for players past their prime, and then complain that pitchers can’t pitch at altitude.
“But only our pitchers! The other team’s do fine. It’s a mystery.”
So which is it: we incarcerate too much or not enough?
I don’t know. I suspect we incarcerate far too many nonviolent people. And we release people we shouldn’t.
I suspect we incarcerate far too many nonviolent people. And we release people we shouldn’t.
Exactly
And we make it virtually impossible to charge and convict government employees who use the power of government to fuck over citizens.
Feature not a bug!
BWAAHAHAHAHAHA
The website is openly leftist, but I think they’re starting to get the message that a reactionary phase is entirely possible.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/591585-blaise-ingoglia-bill-would-cancel-democratic-party/
It’s not like people haven’t been warning about it.
But Southern Strategy!
Comments are funny.
So butthurt, they are.
I mean, have they looked at California?
“”Since 2004, elections within Pima County and Maricopa County have been manipulated through infiltration of the county databases resulting from bribes paid to executives at election service providers including, but not limited to, principals of Runbeck Election Services,” she said. “In addition to impacting local elections, bribes and infiltration were used to affect the outcome of the races during the November 3, 2020 election, including the outcome of the race for Maricopa County Recorder, and the outcome of the November 8, 2022 election (race for Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General).”
Breger continued, saying that the public officials who have received bribes include “multiple state office holders (State House/State Senate), local office holders, county supervisors, judges of the Maricopa County Superior Court, judges of several city courts (including two presiding judges), judge’s assistants, prosecutors within certain cities within Maricopa County, prosecutors for Maricopa County, peripheral legal specialists including attorneys, ‘approved’ mental healthcare providers (court appointed advisors) and related specialists.”
“In the Superior Courts for Maricopa County, Pinal County and Pima County, at least 25 percent of the active judges have accepted bribes in exchange for protecting the racketeering activities,” Breger said.
On page 85 of the report, the list of Arizona officials who allegedly have falsified deeds in the purported money laundering scheme include 40 names, notably including Gov. Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, Sen. Krysten Sinema, Rep. Ruben Gallego, Mesa Mayor John Giles, Arizona Speaker of the House Ben Toma, as well as Maricopa County Supervisors Bill Gates, Thomas Galvin, and Clint Hickman.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/katie-hobbs-accused-of-receiving-sinaloa-cartel-bribes
Reason #2,758 why drugs should be legal.
If it were going to be any of the cartels, it would be Sinaloa. They’re the big dog with the white foot.
Accordingly, it was probably also Sinaloa that the ATF worked with on Fast and Furious.
There’s a lot of sketchy moving parts in that story with Thaler, but I would not be shocked if Arizona officials were being bribed in one way or another.
I would be shocked if an official at that level were operating above-board.
The amount of money moving across the border in Texas and Arizona is effing phenomenal. Mexico was bought and paid for a while ago, the DEA is notoriously corrupt, why wouldn’t the cartels work the states?
So what you’re saying is that Mexicans are taking our jobs?
Fair to say we seem to have some of the best politicians in history (beyond Arizona as well).
They damned well stay bought.
I’m still on Twitter. It’s not bad in small doses. But wow some people can be dense. There was an article about another train derailment, and I responded, “Apparently Trump gutted the regulations that require trains to stay on the tracks.” About 6 people responded with something like “Akshully Trump didn’t deregulate anything.” SMDH
Nuance does not go over well on Twitter. Look at Greenwald having to explain his points and positions that a 4th grader should be able to understand.
“Assume a spherical Twit….”
So you’re starting with the “Healthy at Any Size” crowd?
there’s a lot of static here to the contrary, but I insist that one gets the twitter and facebook one deserves….zero problems here
I don’t deserve to be punished with social media.
Oh look, none 🙂
It’s hard to believe that there isn’t cartel money sloshing around the political system at various levels. It certainly would explain Biden’s border policies. Doesn’t necessarily mean that Hobbs is in on it, but it wouldn’t shock me either.
I’m not sure why the cartels would buy some of those offices. Elections? The Governor? Maybe the AG, definitely local prosecutors and judges.
Dish Satellite has been DOA since Thursday.
On February 23, we experienced a cybersecurity incident that has affected some of our internal communications, customer call centers, and internet sites.
They finally had to confess. It’s still down.
Shit… call centers down since Thursday?
I’d guess a ransomware attack that managed to spread and shut down several servers, bonus points if it infected the backups for the past month or two as well.
I wonder if this goes even farther than Dish.
I use Boost Mobile, which is owned by Dish as my cell provider (its cheap)
The service itself is fine, but their mobile app has been dead for a few days now
“BREAKING NEWS: Train carrying more than 30,000 gallons of propane fuel derails in Florida – Hazmat crews rush to the scene after six cars overturn”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11804491/Train-carrying-30-000-gallons-propane-fuel-derails-Florida.html
Are we going to get these stories ever day now?
Until you agree that fossil fuels are evil and cargos should be hauled by chain gangs of wrongthinkers.
Apparently Trump gutted the regulations that require trains to stay on the tracks.
Akshually…
This guy gets it. 🙂
Certainly we’ve lost the ability to maintain quality propane and propane accessory infrastructure.
Hank Hill wept.
All is not lost!
https://deadline.com/2023/01/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-original-cast-returning-1235245072/
Curious how the original cast will return.
With pockets stuffed with Hulu cash?
😬
I love Mike Judge, and KotH is my favorite work of his, but I am nervous.
https://www.bts.gov/content/class-i-railroad-system-mileage-and-ton-miles-freight-1960-1965-1970-2015
three times the freight on half the rail: 600% density of 1960
Please tell me they aren’’ planning another “controlled burn”.
Financial Armageddon
But while those decisions did change the who, in terms of who runs these agencies, they did not take away the agencies’ powers. Now comes a lower court decision that essentially invalidates the whole mission of the CFPB.
The CFPB has been something of a bête noire for some conservatives. It was established by Congress in 2010 after the financial crash; its purpose was to protect consumers from what were seen as predatory practices by financial institutions. The particular rule in this case involves some of the practices of payday lenders.
The CFPB was the brainchild of then White House aide, and now U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. She issued a statement Monday noting that lower courts have previously and repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of the CFPB.
“If the Supreme Court follows more than a century of law and historical precedent,” she said, “it will strike down the Fifth Circuit’s decision before it throws our financial market and economy into chaos.”
“What do you mean, we can’t just do as we please?”If lefty federal bureaucrats can’t arbitrarily set policy, the world will end.
I don’t think the CFPB being vaporized would throw any markets into chaos, Liz. Probably the worst risk is that everyone in the financial industry wakes up too hung over to work the next day.
“A New York teacher is being sued for allegedly manipulating a fifth-grade girl into changing gender without her parents’ consent.
The nine-year-old child, who was taught by Debra Rosenquist at Terryville Road Elementary School in Long Island, identifies as a girl but was being called a boy’s name and given male pronouns in class.
The damning lawsuit claims that Rosenquist started calling the fifth-grader ‘Leo’ and using he/him pronouns in class in October 2021 – unbeknownst to the girl’s parents.
It was only months later in January 2022 – when the girl was caught drawing a picture of a suicidal girl with the words ‘I wanna kill myself’ – that her parents were informed that she was being called male pronouns in school.
Rosenquist also allegedly read from LGBT books that were not on the school district’s curriculum, and told her students to ‘try being gay’ even if they were not.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11804089/New-York-teacher-manipulated-fifth-grade-student-changing-gender-without-parents-consent.html
Lamp posts and woodchippers.
I concur. My only question is- in what order? Or perhaps lamp posts for some, and the ones being marched to the chippers can view their comrades?
Or do I have it backwards?
Alternative set-up – one is fed to a wood chipper in front of one at the lamppost. The wood chipper is set up to spray on the one at the lamppost, before the coup de grace.
Do you have a newsletter?
Hang them from a lamppost then have a running woodchipper on the ground right underneath, awaiting its dinner.
There aren’t enough of them.
Totally not a groomer.
“If I don’t get what I want I am going to kill myself” is somehow a new phenomenon.
I don’t think that is what is being implied here…
At all.
Oh, okay, look at you two actually reading the article.
But I see now, I misread that part completely.
Examples need to be made.
“Canadian parents in school district where trans teacher with giant Z-cup breasts teaches launch legal fund to sue school for letting her wear ‘fetish-gear'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11803341/Kayla-Lemieux-Parents-launch-legal-fund-sue-school-fetish-gear.html
TMITE
This ends with the teacher identifying as disabled from back pain.
And in a sane world this would be the end of it. But it won’t be.
Just wait until they find out who founded Volkswagen
Henry Ford? Wait….Walt Disney ?
The Walt Disney ‘charges’ are so fucking flimsy.
Eleven customers where the service tech didn’t actually look at the sticker they placed on the window… did they fill to the correct level or put the drain plug on correctly??
Hey those drain plugs don’t get tightened to 140 foot pounds on their own!
Ugh… nothing I hate more than fighting the drain plug on the next oil change after letting a “professional” shop do it because I’m doing a bunch of other maintenance at the time, yeah. Some days I feel like I need a damned breaker bar.
Ugh, yes. I had the shop do it last time because they were replacing the oil pan seal.
Started doing top extraction on my wife’s VW. Happy so far with it.
Memphis Looks to Limit Police Traffic Enforcement After Tyre Nichols’ Death
OK driving erratically or recklessly it is! Way to avoid fixing the issue of accountability.
I get where you’re coming from, but realistically, those listed items shouldn’t even be a reason for a citation, much less a stop.
It took Sam DuBose murdered by Ray Tensing here in Cincinnati to get Ohio to drop the front license plate requirement.
I mean….egg, omlette….
Memphis’s proposed ordinance would reclassify six traffic violations as “secondary,” meaning they can’t be used by police as a justification to initiate a stop but could still be grounds for a citation. Among these infractions are expired vehicle registration, missing emission inspection documentation and having one broken brake light.
I think I saw something which said he was pulled over by an unmarked car and claimed he did not know/believe they were legit. Is this policy being initiated for all cops, or just unmarked cars?
From the article they also said marked cars will do traffic enforcement.
That said I’d still expect an unmarked car to be able to pull over a drunk or somebody driving recklessly.
Unmarked cars should have no authority to pull anyone over.
If you’re not in ‘uniform’, you are just another car.
Unmarked cars and undercover cops are both direct results of laws against “vice”. Nuke ’em from orbit.
And just another citizen. Cops out of uniform are like spies – it’s a gross breach of civil conduct. Now, I’m not saying we hang undercover cops, just require them to wear clearly visible uniforms.
And not the polos and whatnot that I have seen some local po-po wearing, with a little logo on them. Ya wanna play soldier? Ya get to wear a uniform at all times when on duty. And no uniform = not a cop, no powers or immunities as such.
Marked cars or “marked” cars with those barely visible low contrast livery?
At a minimum, police vehicles should have distinctive retro reflective livery with full barricade striping on the rear. Officers exposed to vehicle traffic should be wearing ANSI Level 3 compliant clothing.
And no fucking motorcycle cops.
Erik Estrada hardest hit.
He wouldn’t be if he was in a patrol car.
Yup. If you can’t tell its a cop car by looking in your rear view (and no, flashing lights don’t count), you don’t have to treat it as a cop car. Drive on, citizen!
Hmmm. Legal advice from a lawyer…
Unlike others here I like the headlights. It’s useless for towing any kind of distance and too expensive for regular work, but I’d cheerfully take one.
Rivian R1T Recovers 38,000 LBS Semi!
…and then had to charge 5 minutes later
Says it makes 835 hp fully decked-out which is impressive.
Suspension is air ride and it has an insane amount of travel.
Impressive
We’ve got a couple around here. I don’t mind them. I think the headlights are smart, distinctive marketing.
I’m guessing neither one will see a load of cinder blocks, gravel or landscape cuttings.
I like their look, too.
a racially insensitive message that was printed on a service reminder card for customers
Don’t niggle over a few bucks. Change your oil!
Tip your technician, don’t be niggardly!
That said I’d still expect an unmarked car to be able to pull over a drunk or somebody driving recklessly.
Yes, depending on the circumstances, but unmarked cops trolling for burnt out license plate lights to do DUI or drug checks is pernicious.
Question is this Alfa’s name better or worse than Chevy’s Nova?
Alfa Romeo Tonale
if you park it under a tree and it gets damp will it turn black?
Well, as long as it isn’t a (spits) Honda.
I finally had to look at pictures. Rivians’ headlights aren’t that much dumber looking than a lot of other new cars on the road.
I’d rather drive this.
I did some digging, and it’s difficult to nail down numbers, but there are some interesting charts here:
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie
I don’t know what to think. Cities are shitholes and getting worse.
Nobody predicted this
Nobody expects the Spanish Incarceration.
I read that as “Spanish ice cream.”
Given what the rest of Spanish cuisine is like, I get its awesome.
Get, bet, whatever.
Lazlo (my husband) won a $100 to my/our fave restaurant, which is a Spanish tapas bar. Had dinner there with OMWC and SP once, and with OMWC and Libertesian once.
We have a small chain of Mexican ice cream shops in Lexington. Panchitos.
It’s delicious.
That’s a whole lot of people in local jails awaiting trial. So much for speedy trials. That’s where I have some agreement with the people pushing for cashless bail.
The only thing speedy these days is a plea-bargain.
I would bet dollars to donuts that most of the non-drug offenses have drugs as a second order effect; someone shot over a drug deal, stealing for drugs, and so on. Ending the war on drugs ® would end a lot of this shit. And by legalize, I do not mean what we currently have, make it legal all the way down. I should be able to buy a sixer of beer and a five pack of heroin syrettes at the corner store.
We’re all gonna die.
https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1630680842493124609
CWAA
Shut up, Rattrap.
I think a related problem to this is a little bit “boy who cried wolf.” There’s a non-zero possibility that at some point in the future there will be a significant pandemic. The public health lobby/infrastructure/groups has so destroyed it’s reputation that a lot of people are going to die because they don’t trust them any more and will ignore the advice.
Assuming there actually is a pandemic (that wasn’t created in a lab by them) of that magnitude, what reason do I have to think that any of these people have actually helpful advice to give? The last go around their suggestions were 1) cloth masks with holes that are 500x larger than the virus itself and 2) an experimental gene therapy being passed off as a “vaccine” that appears to be almost completely ineffective towards it’s intended goal and was almost certainly pushed entirely as a giveaway to big pharma. That was after big pharma was already a beneficiary of a fiscal policy that created $10 trillion out of thin air to hide the economic devastation of forcing everyone to sit at home for a disease that killed significantly less than 1% of the people that caught it.
Ignoring their advice is the only wisdom we have left.
Definitely. The public health bureaucracy may have actually committed suicide this time. There is also more scrutiny of vaccines in general. I’ve talked to several people with small kids who are ignoring the “schedule” and doing their own thing.
I definitely will pay closer attention and do a risk analysis of each. Fortunately local schools are sane, for now.
Pfizer and Moderna can help!
👆👆
Well, just stop fucking chickens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCuVr7LoRbw
Starting tomorrow, you bet!
I’m not.
Reality is asserting itself.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/vanguard-ceo-abandons-esg-investing-alliance-not-game-politics
Please. Vanguard was all in until they realized the trade group they were a member of went one step too far.
Now they get to play the “moderate” card while still having ESG requirements.
Interesting. Do you have a reference?
It’s my business so nothing I can immediately recall, more like paragraphs here and there in trade rags over the past three years.
I thought Vanguard was supposed to be about low cost index funds. Screening for ESG would seem to go against that.
It’s done under the guise of corporate governance.
ESG isn’t black or white. For some fund companies Boeing given its defense work would be excluded. For others it’s ok because of its significant other than military products.
The group Vanguard was a member of wanted to codify all this explicitly. So if xx% of Boeing makes killing things it falls on an ESG red list.
If all the major fund companies play with the same requirements Vanguard plays by the same rules and its expense advantage remains unchanged. It’s a win.
OTH, Vanguard plays heavily in the pension and 401(k) space in icky red states. It read the writing on the wall and here we are.
To TPTB: I just dropped in an eight-part series. Have fun!
You must not have low-flow toilets up there.
We smuggle in the good toilets from Canada.
Ferguson? That’s a man’s toilet.
I remember that episode.
Ah, but those are metric, so you would need a ten part series!
You really do make me look bad. I’m having a difficult time getting words on the page.
You can lead a word to paper, but you can’t make it ink?
I can start but can’t get over the finish line. I’m grateful for those who can provide content.
They make pills for that.
Sometimes I just want to sleep.
I don’t know how I do it myself. It’s a species of madness; a compulsion. I can’t not write.
That said, you’d be amazed at how many pieces I start and discard in horror.
*Recalls ill-fated Three Stooges piece
*shudders
I have stacks of incomplete pieces because I won’t throw away even a scrap of an idea. I’ve also mined those stacks for ideas that compliment whatever is moving forward.
Oh shoot. My snippets file is almost always about 75% total word count of the book I deleted them from. I’ve had to delete some real gems.
I’ve also cannibalized older books I finished so much I can’t rehab them without looking like I phoned it in.
Hmmm, a Frankenstein piece?
.
My daughter bought me a Storyworth subscription. I was good for a while but at Week 9 I find myself two weeks behind.
“We presume Diego had an accident,” Millatruz said, “and we’re investigating if there was a vehicle involved.”
Did he have information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?
This woman too.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/27/nyc-woman-38-found-dead-in-closet-with-bag-over-her-head/
Where is Pol Pot?
Speaking of winning stuff, my husband got a UPS notification that he’s got a 73-lb shipment coming Thursday from a prize company. He has no idea what he won.
I think you need to do an article on how he wins all the prizes that he does.
He would have to do it. I have voluntold him for the project.
73 pounds of ping-pong balls?
I’m hoping for eggs.
It’s a Paul Bunyan Leg Lamp. Duh.
What’s the Sconnie word for Fragile?
Broken.
I sure wasn’t expecting this: “San Francisco debates reparations for Blacks: Is $5 million each enough?”
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/san-francisco-debates-reparations-for-blacks-is-17807864.php
The number is just right for anyone who was provably a slave paid for by their erstwile owners.
I want them to do this so bad.
Please please please do it, please
Let it burn.
But then all of the refugees fleeing the chaos move to my town.
Some, I assume, are good people.
The number of bankruptcies occurring 2-3 years after reparations are paid are going to be epic.
Also, what comes after these so-called reparations? Do they stop claiming racism is the cause of everything bad?