A whimsical little ditty for you.
BREAKING: Bank records show Beau Biden’s widow Hallie received money from Biden associate after Chinese energy deal.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Is it St. Paddy’s Day or St. Patty’s Day?
US ARMY TO TEST NEW RIFLE AND LMG: In addition to the extreme environment testing, the weapons’ ability to handle malfunctions and blank firing will be assessed in what the service is calling Production Qualification Testing, or PQT.
A GLIB GOES TO DEI TRAINING: Via my new blogcrush Handwaving Freakoutery. Which one of You People™ is responsible for this?
MARYLAND EX-GOVERNOR’S AID SKIPS OUT ON COURT DATE: McGrath faces an eight-count federal indictment. Charges include wire fraud, including securing a $233,648 severance payment equal to one year of salary as the head of Maryland Environmental Service. He also faces fraud and embezzlement charges connected to roughly $170,000 in expenses. McGrath has pleaded not guilty. That boy is in a heap of trouble.
DUTCH VOTERS YANK THE RUDDER: The upstart populist pro-farmer party FarmerCitizenMovement (BBB) shook the foundations of politics in the Netherlands overnight, securing a significant victory in Wednesday’s provincial elections on the back of growing resentment against the globalist government of Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his plans to introduce Great Reset-style environmental policies.
NEW NASA MOONSUIT UNVEILED, NOW WITH REAR ENTRY: The worst coverage of this was from MSN. NASA unveiled its new spacesuit set to be worn by Artemis III astronauts to the moon – and it was specifically designed to fit the first woman to walk on the lunar surface. […] Artemis III is the last stage of the moon program, which will see the first woman and person of color walk on the lunar surface. Only 12 people – all of them white men – have set foot on the moon. More serious coverage from the trade press here. And before any of you autists go off about the color, [Axiom] elected to put a customized cover layer, black with blue and orange accents, on the suit for this event “to conceal the suit’s proprietary design,” the company explained. The actual suit will have a white outer layer to reflect sunlight.
WORD FOR THE DAY: I’m a writer of sorts. I’m proud of my vocabulary. But recently Count Potato has been taking me to school about new wonderful and useful words. Back at you, monsieur le comte. Today’s word is bathos, and here is a lovely and humorous example of that in action.
Is it St. Paddy’s Day or St. Patty’s Day?
Settle with a drunken brawl?
Well…yeah.
Oi!
It’s not a brawl, it’s just a friendly argument.
Then why am I wearing Brawling Gloves?
Schedule confusion? Or are you frequently swapping them with your Drinking Gloves?
Those should be duel use gloves.
“Oh no — you want next door! This is abuse.”
Perhaps a donnybrook?
As long as you celebrate like an American.
Oh my God not more white people
Speaking of, I sent you an email with the address.
Cool
You rang?
I spent 3 days i the sun, now I am kinda red and peely. Not white any more. I only have three tall cans left, too. What’s my ranking on the grievance dashboard now?
Plus three for being a red man -2 for running out of talk hands
Tall Cans!🍻
Irish.
Screwing Hunter had its advantages, apparently.
The STI’s weren’t enough?
Are we going to start breaking out the SF “herpes muscle tunnel” or whatnot again?
Though yeah — I’m sure Hunter needs more medical interventions than TOS Kirk at his most parodied.
Those are the disadvantages.
That family has some really close ties I tell ya. Its like a living Pr0nHub search
“The actual suit will have a white outer layer to reflect sunlight.”
So not only the first black woman on the moon, but the first black person to need sunblock.
“The contracts are service agreements, like those NASA uses for space station crew and cargo missions, with the companies retaining ownership of the suits as well as the ability to offer them to other customers.”
I wonder how much they cost?
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
I already knew I can’t afford it.
Reflecting sunlight is white supremacy.
Hey, ramp it up enough and anyone will need it.
Rachael Dolezal needed sunblock
Joseph Murtha, McGrath’s attorney, confirmed the search in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday afternoon, saying agents were likely looking for anything to indicate McGrath’s current whereabouts. An FBI spokesperson told the outlet that agents “conducted court authorized activity at that residence” but declined to elaborate.
Will this help or hurt Hogan if Hogan tries to go on the national stage?
The BoerBurgerBeweging (FarmerCitizenMovement) dominated voting in rural areas of the country largely as a result of anger towards the government’s plans to impose EU-driven regulations on farming, particularly the use of nitrogen fertilisers, which many farmers have warned will put them out of business.
South Africa associations. Cancelled as racist.
“The video stating I’m ‘too intimidating and hot’ — I don’t actually mean that,”
Good, because you’re not that hot.
Boer means farmer
I know.
Which is funny since Hoer means Amsterdam Red Light district….
South Africa associations.
Never read Covenant I take it.
No.
Dutch Reformed Church colonists. Tough, devout, not terribly enlightened.
Same group settled in northwest Iowa. My brother lives there and says the locals have the attitude of “Our ancestors survived the Indians, we survive the weather. We’ve been her well over 100 years. Whatever else comes our way, we can handle it.” Covid didn’t seem to bother them even though they got hit pretty hard.
Besides the obvious “M-16 and ‘Nam” thoughts on environment testing and maintenance… that doesn’t sound like a promising start for an infantry rifle — especially when you’re trying to feminize (in all the ways possible) your troops like mad. (No offense to our mythical members… just thinking of the statistical likelihoods).
new cartridge
– extra supply chain item
– not a NATO standard
– smaller basic load
Tin foil hat:
1) new round will not be released as a civilian version so can claim its not a sporting round
2) ?
3)
profitfirearms banre: 1, you’re not wrong. There is a lower-pressure round for civilians and training.
What problem are they trying to solve with a new rifle, again?
Supposedly the 5.56 was insufficient at the ranges firefights happed at in Afghanistan.
Fixed.
We should have a good American cartridge, like .375 Ruger!
Seems like we already have a perfectly good MBR round in the NATO system: The 7.62x51mm.
Why would you go with the less effective round?
Logistics. The 7.62 round is pretty effective in its own rights, and it’s already in the system. The supply chain is established and the rest of NATO has been using it since the Fifties.
No, I mean less effective than the 5.56mm.
Also, being in the system already isn’t necessarily a benefit, unless you’re okay with being issued ammo that’s been sitting in a warehouse since 1957…
Insufficient kickbacks on current contracts
Fuck all those people. It’ll be me and seven members of the ground crew.
Codename: Snow White?
Thank you for the Handwaving Freakoutery. I read the entire thing before even considering dropping a comment. That’s glorious.
Eight people is insufficient genetic material. The colony would be dead from inbreeding within a handful of generations.
But it would be highly entertained?
Only if you put both the racists on the ship.
They’ll probably die on the space ship, but we still need to try.
Since each man will be required to do prodigious service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics, which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature…
This. The number I see bandied about for minimal genetic diversity is forty, and that’s assuming that the forty are carefully selected.
Eight? They might last four or five generations. Then again, they might not.
How many do they last if the dei group picks the team?
1
0
They’ll starve within a month,
If the DEI group picks the team, the toilet paper stock will probably outlast the colony.
Thanks for that, AutisticRationalistServant
Sorry he couldn’t help the court out at all… but what happened with his aide, anyway?
(You knew you were linking for a bunch of nitpickers!)
It is exhausting that our new state religion asks me to care that the only people to walk on the moon have been white men.
Naturally they were the ones to take the risk, they were the most expendable in the new matrix.
What you want more of the same, or a glorious identitarian FIRST!
Too bad they couldn’t do the really classic color scheme. Only a quarter of a century late, anyway.
Not bad, but I prefer the 2001: A Space Odyssey ones myself:
https://www.google.com/search?q=2001+a+space+odyssey+space+suits&oq=2001+a+space+odyssey+space+suits&aqs=chrome..69i57.8331j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=KOmphMh2tJv8gM
Men in Nehru jackets, and women in silver mini-dresses with purple wigs.
As the representative of all Paddy’s in America, STFU.
And it wasn’t that long ago when we could laugh about this crap.
Tell us again how microaggressions and hypersensitivity has helped anything, assholes. (Not you, Pat — hope that was clear).
Man, I feel sorry for Poor Paddy.
Better off than the poor Irish bricklayer.
I’ve always seen that one named as the Sick Note.
I prefer Mick.
#metoo and agreed
recent… centuries?
A friend of mine showed me his March Madness (TM) bracket today, where he had Virginia going to the Final Four.
Virginia was the first team bounced from the tournament. One of their guards, trapped in the corner on an inbound play, made a desperation heave to midcourt. A Furman forward collected the easy pickoff, passed to an open teammate at the arc, and three points later, UVA’s season was over.
Maybe next year they won’t be so cavalier with the basketball.
Bad bounce, huh?
That is certainly not a feather in their hat.
Oh no you din…
That was Hokie.
So it was Hallie. Just an hour ago I was seeing stories about an undisclosed Biden. That didn’t take long.
No, there’s still an ‘unknown Biden.’ From the article.
I take it back, that whole family has my respect if so many of them have such amazing business skills.
Whom To Leave Behind
All of them. If that’s the last of humanity, then fuck it, we’re done.
Without the lists of skills each of the people have, it’s a moot point. Throw eight grievance studies majors in the US wilderness and I doubt they could survive a week after their supplies run out, let alone on an alien world.
The Asian kid is on board to tell everyone else what to do?
Annyong!
😃
Via my new blogcrush Handwaving Freakoutery.
One of my faves.
But the real answer is that it’s not really about the pragmatic answer, but the politically correct one.
In the comments HWFO acknowledges that there is a case for the gay guy since he is a source of (presumably, since not otherwise specified) genes. HWFO didn’t have to go there, but it was classy of him to do so.
Agreed. He’s a solid dude.
What a pleasure it would be to reduce Tema Okun to a blubbering mass, oh wait, that’s what she is to begin with.
SCAR 2: Electric Boogaloo? Seriously, they’ve been running a “future rifle” program to replace the M16 and M4 since I first took an interest in the subject 20+ years ago.
I think it’s just to spend money. Between .223, .308, .338 Federal, .338 Lapua, and .50 BMG, I think any possible need is covered.
You get promoted by making changes not maintaining what works.
Sununu on Ukraine.
Gov. Chris Sununu says an eventual Ukrainian victory over Russia is in “the United States’ direct national security interest” and America must continue to support the war effort, rejecting the policy stance taken by fellow Republicans Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“This is not a ‘territorial dispute.’ [Ukraine] is a sovereign nation. And the United States has to win there — period. End of story.”
Sununu, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, was asked on WGIR radio Wednesday about DeSantis’ Ukraine policy. DeSantis told Fox News that, “While the U.S. has many vital national interests… becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.”
And how do you plan on achieving that, Governor?
And why exactly is that so important to this country? WHY you fat, stupid, entitled hunk of daddy’s entitlement? Man the fuck up Sununu – where’s your bloodline on the line?
And what a plethora of compelling logical arguments for that “End of story” you’ve provided, Sununu. So convincing. :eyeroll:
Also, when did we declare war on Russia, exactly? Are we no longer even publicly pretending that Z and his government are not our puppets in our vassal state, with the Ukrainian people fighting our proxy war?
What is winning there? What does winning look like?
Zelensky’s feet on Putin’s desk?
Yeah, just like when Yeltsin was our obedient boy.
I liked Boris.
I’m going with maintaining a forever war to steal as much American taxpayer loot as possible.
Forever isn’t going to be a real long time if Russia really gets backed into a corner.
OK, grifter.
The… United States needs to win?
Nice catch.
I guess the mask is off.
Artemis III is the last stage of the moon program, which will see the first woman and person of color walk on the lunar surface. Only 12 people – all of them white men – have set foot on the moon.
I have a sneaking suspicion we’re going to be watching in 4k as somebody intersectional asphyxiates halfway between here and the moon if this is their main focus.
At this point, I would expect them to run into Space-X laying the foundation for the first McDonalds on the Moon before NASA and Boeing get it right.
Elon opens door: “What took you so long?”
“Too hot.”
She’s no Michelle Pfeiffer.
I guess if you’re into skanks, you’d like that chick.
She should just date herself like that one influencer.
She’s not even Michelle Obama.
Ouch.
OMG I saw a commercial for some Hulu special “celebrating” her, with a parade of “celebrities” practically fainting in awe of her presence.
It was the most nauseating thing I’ve seen in a long time.
Politician worship is the exact disease that the best founders of this country were hoping to avoid. She’s not even a politician. She married one who, just like herself is much more a mythology than a real person.
My company just had her speak at some event. The announcement included her pronouns. I probably should start selling my stock.
Another speaker at the same event was Arianna Huffington. The event was apparently meant to coincide with women’s history day month or whatever, so they brought in two women who are known for having famous husbands.
They should throw in a couple of women with penises to really drill the point home.
Well, there was Michelle Obama.
You might want to hold on a few more weeks and see how much you can get for them in the shiny new CBDC units.
Mediocre ink?
Nose ring?
Narcissism?
Pass.
Oh man, that Handwaving Freakoutery blog entry is awesome.
Thanks for the ref, Tonio!
Agreed, and +1 on the thank you.
I have a sneaking suspicion we’re going to be watching in 4k as somebody intersectional asphyxiates halfway between here and the moon if this is their main focus.
What are the odds anybody on the
crewpassenger list could manage any sort of innovative emergency repair?Now picturing Chris Tucker’s character in The Fifth Element as one of NASA’s select.
I’d allow it.
I just giggled at the thought of his voice coming over the speakers at Mission Control.
New Duesenburg video from Jay Leno.
I’m aroused.
That was great. The suggestions of other videos afterwards had this old film about soldering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvl_KYif9zA
That was really good, DEG. Thank you.
I think Duesenbergs might be my favorite cars of all time.
Tell us again how you’re at war with (and supposedly won) Big Pharma, PPP?
I guess giving them money to develop vaccines, allowing them to keep all patents, refusing to allow other companies to produce the vaccines, shielding them from lawsuits, forcing every American to use the vaccines, and thus securing them their highest profits ever counts as “at war” if you’re senile.
That website is funny as hell,
I mean handwaving freakoutery
I guess if you’re into skanks, you’d like that chick.
the hog-ring-through-the-septum is just so freaky hot.
“If you’re looking for a girl who can be led around by the nose…!”
If this morning links title didn’t provide any hint, I’m not going to really be around tomorrow, or the day after. So… I present to you another weekend of Unmoderated Open Drunken* Holiday Zoom.
*Drunken not guaranteed, being drunken is the responsibility of the guest, Zoom will not make you drunken, although the participants may encourage such behavior. If you are drunk for 4 hours or more, that’s a good start for St. Patrick’s Day.
You forgot “do not taunt Happy Fun Ball”
Are you starting this tonight or tomorrow?
(and TYVM)
Oh, hon… that’s not the real reason.
How come every “I’m too beautiful” is around a 5?
Well there’s that but I’m guessing she’s just not pleasant to be around.
With a last name of Schwing, I was you know…hoping for something to make me go “Schwing!” /Garth
Finally, someone noticed.
And we wonder why people get mad about The Bee?
“Unknown Biden”, aka “Unindicted co-conspirator”?
I think you meant “unindictable co-conspirtator”. Since there will never be any political will to hold anyone accountable in that obviously corrupt family.
Legendary Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen was violently attacked outside of his Florida hotel on Monday.
Richard Kimble finally gets his revenge.
Probably thought he was a witness — sounds like a real peach:
Ok… Florida… so a real navel gazer?
Too bad he wasn’t armed.
STEVE SMITH GO WATCH NCAA AT STADIUM!
https://youtu.be/e0mnuHHEsLU
Can Steve go watch Congress instead? About time they got “watched” instead of watching us….
STEVE SMITH PROSTATE A-OK!
There’s so much wrong with that, I don’t even know where to start.
I know… WTF even.
I know I enjoy beef jerky the most when standing in front of a urinal.
That was the part that grossed me out the most.
If figured he deserved whatever he got after that.
Agreed. Who the Hell eats while going to the bathroom? That is a universal wrong.
If that isn’t converted into a GIF file for your next set of links I’m going to be very disappointed.
STEVE SMITH might appreciate this:
Dolphins are so rapey, their sperm can impregnate females of other species — even better than the males of those species can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8wkplOPqcs
Fair’s fair
Canadian-American investor Kevin O’Leary called out the “idiot bank managers” who led Silicon Valley Bank to its demise, further adding that the federal government’s response to the collapse unwisely “nationalized” the banking system.
O’Leary, well-known by his “Mr. Wonderful” nickname coined on “Shark Tank” by fellow investor Barbara Corcoran, told “Hannity” that he however doesn’t like playing politics, especially in terms of finance.
“When you’re in my situation, you don’t care that much about politics, you care about policy,” he said.
While the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) insures up to $250,000 per depositor per financial institution – leaving millions of bank deposits among the upper echelon depositor uninsured – O’Leary said the Biden administration’s response to SVB’s collapse seemed to negate that limit and make the American taxpayer the full and ultimate insurer.
“What we did, in my view, and it’s a personal opinion, over the weekend, was to nationalize the American banking system,” he said.
“We basically told everybody around the world, ‘Regardless of who you are and what bank you’re in, no matter how much you have, we guarantee it. We don’t care who you are or why it’s there. But no matter what happens, it’s guaranteed’.”
We have to keep that money in the system, in order to fight inflation.
Pfft. Policy is politics.
He’s another idiot talking head that makes for good television more than good financial advice. I imagine if you start looking into it, he’s just as much a beneficiary of a corrupt system that privatizes profits and socializes losses as anyone he’s condemning. He’s just a virtue signaler for the “fiscally responsible” boomer-con side.
I saw another clip of that asshole discussing this. He talked about the moral hazard of bailing out full deposits and not 30 seconds later, he was saying that we don’t regional banks any more. We just need 5 or 6 national banks because they’re much more stable. All the while he was conveniently ignoring that the real source of both their stability and size to begin with is their cozy relationship with congresscritters and the people in charge of bottomless money printer.
I’ll bet you I could create a “stable” banking behemoth at an incredible rate myself if you just give me infinity dollars at zero interest and you promise to replace anything I loose through risky investments and dumb virtue signaling policy that is anathema to an actual functioning business.
Powell backstopped the regional banks.
That is why they’re pissed. They wanted more centralization. They want full nationalization of the currency under the Treasury.
This is a battle between the ragged remnants of capitalism and full blown communism.
Rocket Lab scheduled another Wallops launch for today
Unfortunately the launch is before sunset so it probably won’t be visible from home.
Dutch rudder? I may have seen what you did there….
Do you see any similarities in today’s America?
Yes. Yes I do.
What, someone like this asshole maybe? Nah… I’m sure he’d never happily march his family wrong thinkers off to the camps or anything… really… honest and for true!
In Malice’s new book he talked about when the Stasi files were opened and people got to find out who ratted them out.
There is zero doubt in my mind that I have family members who would turn me in for my hatred of the state, or guns, or simply to improve their status.
Recommendation to anyone who hasn’t seen the film “The Lives of Others”. It’s in German so you have to read it, but it is absolutely worth your time and you should go out of your way to find a way to watch it. Easily one of the best rebuttals to totalitarianism ever put to film. The opening of the Stasi files features prominently in the beautiful, white-pill of an ending.
Thank you. I’ll check it out.
Yes… check it out.
Thirded.
Immediate family, I doubt. Extended family, I’d be in the gulag with my dad.
My wife grew up in a communist country. Our kids roll their eyes when she talks about what it was like, like she’s lying or exaggerating, or it couldn’t possibly happen here. Our son is such a blabbermouth and so brainwashed by his schools, we have no doubt he’d get us arrested for things we say.
Hoffer looms large.
There is zero doubt in my mind that I have family members who would turn me in for my hatred of the state, or guns, or simply to improve their status.
It’s for your own good, comrade.
Today, on Are You As Smart As an Ivy League Economist?
Chicago Booth professor Douglas Diamond won last year’s Nobel Prize in economics for his research on bank runs. In a recent interview with ProMarket’s partner podcast, Capitalisn’t, Diamond laid out a clear case for why he believes the Fed is responsible for SVB’s collapse.
According to Diamond, the Fed had signaled to the public for some time that it would keep interest rates low for the foreseeable future. Indeed, in March 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Fed not only slashed rates but also made emergency funding available to keep the economy afloat. Last October, Diamond indicated in an interview with Fortune that “high deficits and zero rates ensure that inflation will eventually go up.”
“You fucked up. You trusted us.”
What do you mean the free lunch doesn’t last forever?
Thirteen months in state prison seems a bit much.
“Judge Michele Lawson”
Unless alcohol or drugs had anything to do with his behavior, those restrictions and testing are bullshit. So is home monitoring if he pays for it. Either his conviction warrants jail or home detention or it doesn’t, regardless of his desire to pay. And it should be borne by the government. Joking about the commies charging for bullets, I don’t recall any dissendents remarking on being billed for house arrest.
He was ordered to get a domestic abuse evaluation and follow the recommendations, abstain from alcohol and illegal drugs, submit to random testing, and follow any orders for protection.
Sounds legit.
Now two teams I picked for the Final Four are out. Good thing I didn’t put any money down.
“President Joe Biden picked them to win the NCAA Tournament.
And they are now going home after their first game.
No. 15 seed Princeton shocked No. 2 seed Arizona in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Sacramento, 59-55.”
Ha. He’s no Barack Obama.
Not just Santa Clara but the CDC…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc-bought-phone-data-monitor-americans-compliance-lockdowns-contracts-show
Seems all legit
There is no logical end to the data that the social manipulators crave.
They believe that with just enough data and power they can model and mold the populace into compliance for their own good. It never occurs to them to just leave you the fuck alone.
Wheres the fun in that?
+1 justification for long form census form
During the strick lockdown phases you had to be dumb to carry your gps tracker with you.
Definitely not fraudulent…
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/ftx-transferred-2-2-billion-sam-bankman-fried-new-management
THICC Thursday’s bracket is busted.
https://archive.ph/Z8HIh
I personally think he’s a cis white guy who figured out how to game the woke system.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1636353368644886528
Fucking Pips Bunce?
No thanks, I’ll pass.
You never know what you’ll get down there unless you try.
In no way would that be distracting at work. Asshat. I should decide to wake up and be a furry sometimes.
Either way it is funny.
Stunning and brave.
Still relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgzTDyjNRRs