Not this year
What a bunch of fascists. How dare they just go out and play the game without making a political statement. I don’t know what other news there is in the sports world that’s noteworthy. So I’ll just move on.
I’d hope the parents would be more than “frustrated.” These educators don’t give a shit about their kids. And of course the artists they lead the story with is siding with the unions. What a coincidence.
This is insanity. Which is why it will probably happen. Nevermind the fact that California forces them to make special blends. Nevermind that the refining capacity has shrank due to factors outside the control of the companies. And never mind the fact that the majority of money spent at the pump in the state is for taxes rather than the fuel.
He’s right over us (5000 miles away from our border)!
This is an act of war! How dare they fly over (not really even over, but slightly to the side of) a base our government has established in a foreign country with the permission of the country’s government. Here’s how we can keep those airmen and -women safe: bring them back home.
This is going to go really well. I mean…what could possibly go wrong? Oh, it’s also racist and a violation of the equal protection clause and the civil rights act.
LOL, “defies” is doing a lot of work here. Also, the bill is being misidentified (as usual). And I doubt the state is upset that people are meeting and bringing tax dollars in. That was never a complaint they made. They just don’t want teachers preaching about sexuality, any sexuality for that matter, to elementary school kids.
I don’t know if this is true or not. But at this point, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t.
Looks like they found the kid. Which is lucky, since they said he was armed and on the loose but refused to even so much as give a description of him or show his photo on TV. Oh, and why the hell was he still allowed at school? And why did they remove all armed security from schools and brag about it even though it made students less safe? These people have some questions to answer.
The face of evil?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Yeah, it’s all the pillow guy’s fault. And how dare they want to physically count ballots. Especially since the state has mandated, by law, that only three companies machines can do counting…which just sounds bizarre to me. Gee, I wonder of those companies have donated any money to CA politicians with influence over that decision. I guess we’ll never know.
This is a good start. I hope they cut even farther next session.
I always had a soft spot for this crazy bastard. His politics are semi-retarded but he could write and sing a song. And I absolutely love this song. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
😉
“especially in areas of the city that are being crushed by generational poverty and systemic racism”
So tiring.
“The city said it hopes to raise $6 million for the program, having already secured $3 million so far from the William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners.
This funding is enough to help around 250 pregnant mothers.”
Let’s see – $1,000/month x 8 months x 250 women = $2MM. Assuming the “this funding” refers to $3MM already raised, what’s the other $1MM for?
Dude, program administrators gotta eat too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLEe6SRZt6c
THIS.
Must be them Philadelphia Amish.
Regarding the real (as far as I can tell) Philadelphia Amish: next time any of you are there, do yourself a favor and go to Beiler’s Donuts in Reading Terminal Market.
There’s a Beiler’s in Lancaster I’ve driven by, but never stopped at – maybe next time.
#PlacesI’llNeverBe
“All things considered, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.” — allegedly on W.C. Fields’ tombstone
I actually think that pretty often.
Multiple choice?
I’m thinking over the other options
Rumspringa is expensive!
I wonder how much money the city of LA is going to save by not operating their schools for 3 days… LOL!
Are you kidding, the backpay will be at the new inflated level!
Unfortunately, this.
The nose-ring and pronoun-play kind of gives it away.
He was just the mostly grown-up version of the kid in Virginia – that you’re not hearing any more about.
From the innuendo in the article, it does appear at least that he had the courtesy to take himself out before he actually killed someone.
I know us libertarians are supposed to be cold and callous, but yet another Lost Boy.
Behave or get out!. In a year that kid will be a real asset to a productive company. (sarc)
I worked with employees that were lazy, late to work, etc but usually not for very long. The idea of keeping a disruptive kid in school is total nonsense.
It’s tragic. The schools have increasingly expanded their mission from academic into character education to help justify budget increases. When administrators complain I always point out that it’s a legislative issue. They’ve convinced themselves that their hands are tied but the truth is they trade safety and actual education for increased budgets.
The schools have increasingly expanded their mission from academic into character education to help justify budget increases.
To be fair, they’re the primary and almost sole caregiver anymore, and most families don’t have the time or inclination to do supplemental education in the few minutes they spend with their kids each day.
Hard to believe that anyone ever thought that was a good deal.
Many/most people still think it’s a good deal.
It’s difficult for me to put myself in their shoes. Maybe I’m a weirdo, but aside from needing to decompress at the end of a really long day here or there, I actually enjoy and prioritize spending time with my kids. I’m not perfect about it and I need to put my phone down more often, but I have a really hard time empathizing with the mentality where family time is a burden to be minimized in favor of 1000 forms of day/morning/evening/weekend-care.
“Blackhawks won’t wear Pride warmups over security concerns”
So… in the past week China has:
1. Brokered a deal between moral enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran to reestablish diplomatic relations.
2. Begun the process of building a formal alliance with Russia to “do things that can’t have been done for 100 years”.
3. Seen two Central American countries withdraw any recognition of Taiwan in lieu of Mainland China (subtext: realigning away from the US to China).
4. Been revealed to have had a mole in the FBI working as a go-between for broking secret deals with Hunter Biden
And we’re going to whine about rainbow colored hockey jerseys. Weimar America indeed.
I’m not sure that Weimar was as decadent as contemporary America.
When I hear about the color-coded boot girls in DC, we’ll be there.
It was less decadent and smarter too.
Um, take another look. A lot of the, well rather, um peculiar German sexual practices started during the interwar period.
China – the biggest economy in the world – is also signing a whole bunch of agreements with the biggest country in the world this week.
Their concern seems to be any attempt by the American Navy to impose a blockade. So they’ve made all kinds of economic agreements aimed at making them blockade proof. Also will be sharing military technology – things like hypersonic missiles and nuclear subs that would they aren’t very good at right now. They’re announcements are right at the edge of declaring a military alliance aimed directly at the West.
The level of foreign policy failure by this administration is hard to fathom. Future historians will wonder what the hell they were thinking.
And next week China hosts the President of Brazil for a week of talks.
FIFY
Maybe it’s not a failure, and they want to ramp up “defense” spending against the new Eurasian alliance superthreat.
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1638768138723401734
There’s a quote from the Congressmen if you click through about ramping up spending and clearing the backlog.
I don’t underestimate the ability of the sociopaths to turn it into an opportunity, but by any realist interpretation of the events, it’s a colossal string of fuckups that we will pay for dearly. All because we allowed a cabal of Trotskyites to dominate our foreign policy for more than two decades.
It’s also stupidity. They think it’s still 1940 or even 1980, when we had the largest industrial base in the world. And when it was time for war, they could just repurpose factories and shipyards to start churning out tanks, bombers, and cruisers at terrific volumes.
They forget that they helped deindustrialize the country and outsourced all that unseemly manufacturing to China.
what the hell they were thinking.
I assume malice.
Needz moar corruption.
The Chinese economy seems hollow to me.
Very much so.
I heard the Chinese and Russians will be sharing weapons tech to a limited extent as well. So if any US carrier groups start acting up near Taiwan, they will be rapidly converted into artificial reefs by Chinese Kinzhals.
Yep, we’ve pushed the Russians into their welcoming arms.
We can’t have a Global Order without a common enemy.
Not sure about “limited” part.
“Disney last year publicly opposed his law banning classroom instruction on gender and sexuality before the fourth grade, a controversial law critics call ‘Don’t Say Gay’.”
But what if a teacher wants to rape a toddler?
Then they’re protected by the union.
Who cares what critics call it, what is its actual name?
They always define it on the critic’s terms.
Tzivin also sensationally suggested that powerful people might want Luft to “disappear … If this would have happened in Russia, they would have carried out a ‘diplomatic car crash,’ but luckily, he is in a safe location where no one can hurt him.”
Jeffery Epstein was in a safe location, just sayin’.
In Memoriam Jim McDougal
LOL, “defies” is doing a lot of work here.
Okay then, that was always allowed
Impossible! Outrageous!
Yeah, horseshit. You don’t want fair elections, admit it.
Dog bites man. There hasn’t been a competent popular musician that wasn’t politically retarded since at least the 1960s; probably since the beginning of recorded music.
Are we still talking about Mike Lindell? He writes his own commercials, I’m sure, dances to his own music.
FEELIN’ GOOD!
Yeah, no ad-man could write anything as corny as his commercials.
/thinks of bands and songs he likes
/realizes almost none of it would qualify as “popular”
I’ll still stand up for the Interrupters and tentatively Sick of it All.
I meant popular in the “art/popular/traditional” sense. Art music typically isn’t lyrical, so political messaging is difficult to get across, and traditional music is so old by the time it becomes “traditional” that the politics, if present, are no longer relevant. Popular/commercial music? Retards. Retards everywhere. I try to avoid learning anything about the politics of any musician I enjoy (presuming they are merciful enough to leave it out of their music). 999 times out of 1,000 they’re going to be urban NPCs. Some of that’s probably the genres I enjoy to an extent, but there’s some feature of neural anatomy that seems to shut down the critical thinking functions of a brain that has any creative ability.
Sick of it All (especially the song I linked) is pretty clear about their politics in that song. The Interrupters I looked up after hearing the song I linked above, and stumbled across some punk blog warning people not to listen to them. The issue was that the lead singer was a “radical libertarian” and worked on the Ron Paul campaign (she was involved in the Ron Paul Revolution song). I was curious if I was misinterpreting the lyrics (or projecting my own bias on them), and nope. I was right on.
🙄️
Puts me in mind of the Bill Vaughan quotation:
Wow, that’s punk af.
60s Activist to Joan Baez: “When is Bob coming to our sit-in?”
Baez: “Oh, Bob never comes to these things.”
“Hunter Biden used FBI mole named ‘One-Eye’”
So what you’re saying is that Hunter used his one-eyed mole to infiltrate the dark, moist crevices of the FBI and inject information deep inside it?
I sense an exceptional Joemala coming up.
I’ll remember not to eat lunch next Wednesday.
Did the mole ever get any dirt on ’em?
I think he was injecting FBI info into Chinese crevices, to tip them off. Then there’s this:
So Hunter does have relevant energy industry experience!
They not only avoided the stigma of kicking him out of school, but even more importantly, they broke the school-to-prison pipeline!
Raises, promotions and bonuses all around!
The school-to-prison pipeline hasn’t been broken. They’ve just determined that costs can be reduced if you eliminate the transporation part and make schools into prisons from the start.
How dare they fly over (not really even over, but slightly to the side of) a base our government has established in a foreign country without the permission of the country’s government.
Now do flying drones in international airspace.
Is the US flying drones from bases established without permission?
While Chicago will go without Pride warmup jerseys this year, the team has planned a variety of activities in conjunction with Sunday’s game. DJs from the LGBTQIA+ community will play before the game and during an intermission, and the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus also is slated to perform. There are also plans to highlight a couple of area businesses with ties to the LGBTQIA+ community.
The alphabet cult has infiltrated everything.
because of security concerns involving a Russian law that expands restrictions on activities seen as promoting LGBTQIA+ rights in the country.
Odd since this is not in the country.
“Odd since this is not in the country.”
Any reason to dispense with rainbow alphabet shit is a good reason.
Read to me like they have at least one Russian player — this is basically, “We don’t want our friend arrested because we made a pointless political gesture that has nothing to do with why we hired him” (assuming he goes home to Russia in the off-season, granted).
I know everybody has been waiting a long time for the @curaffairs
takedown of STALIN. Well, wait no longer:
https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1638580838337060891
tankies be mad in the replies
“Trotskyist jibber-jabber.”
Lol.
Stalin was socialism’s worst enemy
🙄 Socialism is socialism’s worst enemy.
It’s never been tried.
As true as that stereotype is, you hear the exact same thing from free marketeers whenever markets as they necessarily do and must exist – implemented by human beings with the attendant incentives and motivations – do not perform according to the textbook model. I’m noodling with an article idea on the subject.
Nothing has ever been tried. Same with qualified immunity.
Sure, you’ll never get to a completely free market. But a partially free market > any form of socialism.
It’s a fucking spectrum. Fine. True communism and true libertopia have never been tried. But we did have a 100 year period of countries that tried centrally planned economies and were damn close to using the communist manifesto as an operating manual. Meanwhile, freeish market economies (not Galt’s Gulch) created unseen levels of prosperity and lifted over a billion people out of extreme poverty. And economics aside, nobody is having to build a raft and sail across the ocean under the cover of darkness to get out of the US, or France, or any of the Western “Capitalist” countries.
Given the spectrum, I know which system I’d prefer.
Also, those tankies pointed to Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and China as models when things appeared to go well for them. Then retreated to not real communism when the warts were exposed.
The tankies have the misfortune for the theory to be tested and found wanting; anarchists don’t have that problem.
Libertarians have Somalia.
“Is YOUR refrigerator spying on you? Senate committee approves bill forcing manufacturers to TELL buyers if there are cameras and microphones inside washing machines or fridges
It applies to smart appliances such as televisions, dishwashers, washing machines and refrigerators – but not mobile phones, laptops, or other devices for which the owner reasonably expects to see recording devices.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11892967/Your-refrigerator-spying-Senate-committee-clamps-smart-devices.html
Both “smart” appliances and this law seem unnecessary.
I need a microphone in my washing machine so I can remotely hear when I forget to remove coins.
Don’t you launder your money?!
Only bills. Coins aren’t worth the effort.
Paging Swiss, narrowed gaze needed, stat!
Oh… never mind.
I’ve given up being principled at this point. This is overreach. But I’m not overly perturbed. Most people are fucking retards who don’t realize that every electronic device they buy is spying on them relentlessly. This probably won’t help, but if it clues in even 5% of them they might constitute a sizable enough part of the market for a manufacturer to pay attention to, and then I might be able to buy a toaster or a TV that I don’t have to spend a full day dismantling and sabotaging like I’m a fucking KGB agent visiting Washington in 1955.
I avoid “smart” anything. I understand (I think) the amount of data being collected just from my phone, watch, OnStar, or whatever other connected device I have.
I dont need my refrigerator lecturing me on how much beer Im taking out of it.
Jugsy brought home an Alexa once. It lasted all of 20 minutes until I found some sucker to give it to.
Earth Liberation Studio
@EarthStvdio
We will grow forests in the ashes of capitalism.
https://twitter.com/EarthStvdio/status/1638376455989268481
Having seen how East Germany treated their environment, I have my doubts.
that was not real communism silly
Go see how much pollution the trans-siberian oil pipeline created. It was like an Exxon-Valdez oil spill in the tundra 3x a year for decades.
Ashes of people would work better but I’m sure that’s in their plans too.
“Three people die after using contaminated eyedrops bought at Walmart, CVS and Target: Eight lose vision and four have eyeballs surgically removed due to rare bacterial superbug in solution”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11892027/Three-people-died-using-eyedrops-contaminated-rare-bacterial-superbug.html
Yikes!
This started in January but it’s the first I’ve heard of it, WTF.
I always add bleach to my eyedrops.
Bromine for me. Not as harsh on the cornea.
It’s really frustrating that the one thing that was supposed to be dependable is not
Public employees should not be allowed to strike and there should be severe consequences for doing so. They should be fired and fined.
There shouldn’t even be public employee unions.
Even FDR agreed with that.
We already have a law against it here but they do it anyway, and are invariably awarded for doing so.
“rewarded”, even
Yeap. There are five albums and a couple EPs of good material before they got famous here, too.
California lawmakers to vote on possible gas price penalties
California lawmakers are preparing to vote on whether to allow penalties on oil companies for price gouging
Facilitate an environment that is not conducive to energy production then punish the producers when it necessarily costs more. Commies gonna commie.
Dear Big Oil,
Please stop sending gasoline to California so the residents can be free of price gouging.
Love,
Grumbletarian
When I lived there in the 90s, there were still oil rigs pumping in some of the local parks.
I hope California collapses and serves as an example before my state does the same.
I wish several industries would take this tact. CA ruined oreos for chrissakes.
Related:
MIT Scientists Twist Apart More Than 1,000 Oreos in Search for Perfect Method
Taxes are a form of price gouging, too
“Eight US states are considering forcing phone manufacturers to install filters preventing users from viewing sexually explicit content – which could only be removed by using a passcode.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11893103/Anti-porn-bills-eight-states-force-firms-like-Apple-censor-nude-explicit-content.html
No.
Texas and Florida are on the list. So much for “freedom”.
Socons gonna socon.
Seems like the easy thing would be to stop handing your 8 year old a cell phone, but what do I know.
But then you would be a mean parent.
Those filters will be easily adapted to filter out misinformation and disinformation.
DING! DING! DING!
But that would never happen! It’s just about catching pedophiles! If you’re not a pedophile you have nothing to be afraid of! You’re not a pedophile are you?
That accusation is so versatile… Like if the state wanted to crush someone’s credibility…
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/21/1164360143/rolling-stone-fbi-raid-journalist-james-gordon-meek
So wait…
RS claimed a dude was being hunted by the feds because he was exposing their wrongdoing, but the reporter who wrote the story was a CIA plant saying that the dude was being arrested for cheese pizza in order to make his investigation of the Deep State (which does not exist) less credible?
Is that right?
Even the accusation muddies it all up. Maybe he is a pedo and the case is legit – hard to say right now.
Speaking of that:
VA lowers home loan interest rates for Native American veterans
Hey, I’m a native American vet, born in the USA! Me and Bruce, all the way!
“Non-indigenous Native American” is what I fill in on my census forms.
How many generations does it take to be indigenous?
Would I be more indigenous if my ancestors hadn’t
kept records?
Not more than 10,000 years.
Old and busted: Equality
New hotness: Equity
Armed Russian jets have flown over a U.S. base in Syria nearly every day in March, U.S. commander says
And?
give them the finger? Top Gun style?
Now bear with me because this is a crazy idea. Perhaps our troops shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Whoa – who let this lunatic in here?
But they have an important mission to… uh… steal oil?
More than 100 people gather outside West Oxfordshire District Council to campaign against a proposed solar farm that would cover 1,400 hectares of land across three sites in Oxfordshire.
https://twitter.com/ITVCharlotte/status/1638544643661897728
West Oxfordshire District Council should pass a law requiring the sun to shine at night, thereby doubling the usefulness of the system.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Nice!
I liked how both sides were going crazy. Thanks, Holiness!
Worst team my kids ever played on was a 5th grade hoops team that Altar Boy #1 was on. Kids and coach were fine. The parents were the worse.
One game an opposing kid caught the ball, got flustered and turned around and heaved in a 3 with a swish. I clapped and shouted encouragement. The other parents from the team got mad at me. “That kid isn’t on our team!”
I politely told them to go fuck themselves. I was happy when any kid at that level had some success. I stopped even sitting anywhere near the other parents shortly after that.
I’m here with rain clouds.
And that’s the best they could come up with? We need a better class of disinformationists.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/22/seymour-hersh-cia-planted-nord-stream-cover-up-story-in-the-media/
Wow.
You’d think this whole thing would merit further atten— OMG someone’s not wearing their Pride jerseys!!!1!
You would think that the CIA and German intelligence with all their talent and resources could confect a better story than “It wuz five Ukrainians in a rented motorboat wut blew up the pipelines”.
Look when one of the Ukranians was later heard saying, Meni podobayetʹsya, koly skladayetʹsya plan, it may have been possible.
Epstein się nie zabił
US officials are now claiming the Nord Stream bombings might have been carried out by a “pro-Ukrainian group.” The Die Zeit report claimed German investigators believe it was carried out by six people using a yacht rented in Poland that was owned by two Ukrainians. Other Western media outlets published similar articles reinforcing the cover story in the following days.
Because co-ordinated attacks at the bottom of the ocean just screams a couple of guys in a rented yacht.
At this point, I don’t even think they really want to fool anybody. They just want a talking point so that, when somebody notes they engaged in terrorism, they can say someone other than them did it. I’m almost surprised they didn’t say it was January 6 protestors.
Slap a MAGA sticker on that yacht and be done with it.
a “pro-Ukrainian group.”
I.e. the U.S. government.
I love the alternative story. Gilligan, the Skipper, and some Ukrainian civilians rented a yacht and dove 300 feet with hundreds of lbs of high explosives. They blew up the pipeline then returned the yacht all messed up and left their passports onboard.
Yup.
I mentioned a while ago that 50ft sailboat is just such an ideal platform for just such an operation.
Ok, this makes my next comment look kind of stupid. I’ve been on a 47 foot sailboat, and I could indeed rig up a system to lower a few hundred pounds with a main rigging point on the mast and using the boom to redirect the load outward. And maybe it has some thrusters to keep it roughly over the same section of bottom.
No boom that I know is designed to take a significant load in the directly down direction.
I agree a few hundred pounds at best.
Definitely not. Attaching the load to the boom would bend it downward. But putting a rigging point high on the mast and then deflecting it outward with the boom would be fine. The forces would only push the boom back into the mast, which a metal pole would easily resist. Once the load was over the side you could even take the boom out of the system and have the rope deflect over the hull of the boat.
I thought it was thousands of pounds of explosives. Either way, I’d love to know how they claim to have moved it from the surface to the 4 locations on the bottom in a controlled manner.
and left their passports onboard
But we still don’t really know who they are and we still can’t find them.
Dude, they exist as soldiers of fortune in the LA underground after being convicted of crimes they didn’t commit.
Faceman conned the yacht from the Poles, BA took the helm, Howlin Mad Murdock sang a nonsensical ditty while wiring up the explosives, and Hannibal smoked a cigar.
Daily Quordle 423
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Blossom Puzzle, March 23
Letters: E G H T O S U
My score: 319 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
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Blech.
Daily Duotrigordle #386
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:27.72
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Blossom Puzzle, March 23
Letters: E G H T O S U
My score: 339 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Hunter Biden had an FBI mole named “One-Eye” who tipped off his Chinese business partners that they were under investigation, according to an Israeli energy expert arrested in Cyprus last month on gunrunning charges.
*sensible chuckle*
I don’t know if this is true or not. But at this point, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t.
On a scale of 1 to Alex Jones, I’m at Dale Gribble.
lulz
He calls it “One-eye”?
“Looks like he’s taking Mr One-Eye to the optometrist”
Relativity Space
@relativityspace
Today’s launch proved Relativity’s 3D-printed rocket technologies that will enable our next vehicle, Terran R. We successfully made it through Max-Q, the highest stress state on our printed structures. This is the biggest proof point for our novel additive manufacturing approach. Today is a huge win, with many historic firsts. We also progressed through Main Engine Cutoff and Stage Separation. We will assess flight data and provide public updates over the coming days.
https://twitter.com/relativityspace/status/1638753739128315906
Pretty launch and cool they are developing it.
They reinforce the plastic with ground-up books?
Yes, but if they use political advocacy literature, it’s called agitprop.
[golf claps]
Stage 2 fucked up, however…
When I’m feeling particularly angry about US regulators ignoring laws and making demands on US companies I’m reminded that we aren’t alone.
It Wasn’t Just Credit Suisse. Switzerland Itself Needed Rescuing.
DON’T LOOK AT ME!
The bill highlights the challenges of balancing the competing pressures of protecting consumers at the pump while at the same time pushing policies to end the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. California’s climate strategy — which includes banning the sale of most new gas-powered cars by 2035 — would reduce demand for gasoline by 94% by 2045.
Nobody said the war on objective reality was gonna be easy.
Most new gas-powered cars? I take it the state’s purchases are exempt?
Yes. I hope your house is less than a mile from the fire station.
California’s Shasta County — now controlled by a conservative supermajority on the Board of Supervisors — is still gripped by 2020 presidential election conspiracy theories. Nearly two months after the board terminated its contract with Dominion Voting Systems, county leaders have yet to determine a replacement, setting the stage for a possibly contentious meeting next week.
The. Horror.
How hard is it to have the local Kinkos print out a few thousand ballots?
Billy Binion
@billybinion
This should be a scandal. Biden is arguing in court that anyone who uses weed should face prison time for…owning a gun. It’s the same tough on crime nonsense he promised to abandon. And it’s totally flying under the media’s radar.
https://twitter.com/billybinion/status/1638715930078240770
And it’s totally flying under the media’s radar.
Cute.
Look when you point the radar just at one object, things may slip by.
What do you know about radar?
He’s heard of it, I think…
One ping. One ping only.
(not radar, I know, whatever man…)
I hate it. Pot smokers are the least likely drug users to commit acts of violence, among other things.
I was going to shoot up the school
Then I got high
Is it the lying on the bkg check form technicality they’re twisting people up with?
Kinda falls in line with Barry wanting to prevent social security recipients from having guns.
It was a subset of recipients – still bullshit, but don’t make it sound like it was all.
Disability ones?
Slippery slopes are slippery, though.
Editor in chief of @SciAm
The best I can hope for is that the malevolently moronic among us kill themselves faster than they can destroy civilization.
Their replacement rate is enough to cover deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Helmuth
A propagandist for the technocratic regime. Please vaccinate more, bitch.
“Science” and “journalism” do not belong in the same paragraph.
repetition makes misinformation feel more true.
Which is why the MSM all read the same script.
I’d encourage her to get even more if I was on Twitter. Good for her.
Scientific American jumped the shark about ten years ago when they decided that the only story they needed to report on was climate change. And, I’m not arguing for or against the majority view, just that a publication dedicated to science might like to report on more than one thing.
They might occasionally apply scientific method to a question.
until something else kills me
Well, the jab erases your immune system so…
When you lost Schmoobs…
REPORTER: “Do you have confidence in Alvin Bragg?”
SEN. SCHUMER: “It’s premature to comment on what’s happening, and we’ll have to wait and see what he does.”
you’ve*
Exactly.
BUT THEY HAD HIM THIS TIME!
Trump is doing plenty to sabotage his chances without them.
Unfortunately so is DeSantis.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-changes-tune-ukraine-calls-putin-war-criminal-rcna76260
“Clarified” and folded like a wuss.
Seems the MIC donor class expressed their feelings to him.
I think neocon-friendly is who DeSantis always was and always will be. His pandering, at which he has Da Vinci levels of talent, accidentally got in the way of it here. He might govern in a socially conservative or even mildly pro-freedom way as a distraction, but won’t end the FBI or CIA or close foreign military bases and the game will continue for another administration.
His response to Carlson’s question the other day had me about to whip it out and pleasure myself in public. What a disappointment, I wasn’t that familiar but he does look like the worst kind of pandered now (not all bad though if he knows which side his bread’s buttered on and acts on it but not good here).
Nobody is going to do any of those things.
No one would do any of those things. Fretting about something that no one will do is fruitless.
We could elect Ron Paul tomorrow, and when his term was up, he would not have eliminated a single one of those things. He may have wanted to, or tried, but in the end they’ll still be right there.
“Any questions?”
So according to that Israeli, he had an interview with DOJ in 2019. Trump’s DOJ, Trump’s AG. And that was well before there was any talk of Joe running in ’20.
Pour vous:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/auditing-bidens-victory/
I know of the irregularities that the PA SC approved.
What most people don’t seem to know is that Trump’s campaign actually initiated the litigation that culminated in that disgrace.
Balanced by the equally blatant – and extensive – hatred of Trump. No one hated Biden then, or even probably now, with the same passion. Funny how the fucking right just can’t see that.
Covid Shots: Two if by Land, None if by Sea
DeSantis might be the greatest panderer who ever lived.
Wait, we’re still doing that dumb shit?
The Senate won’t act on Massie’s abolition of the shot requirement for entry.
Would I be right in assuming the order is an emergency order, but they won’t get rid of it even though the emergency is over?
https://i.imgflip.com/7fkv9c.jpg
Still, at one point during the price spike last year the average price of a gallon of gasoline in California was more than $2.60 higher than the national average — a difference regulators say is too large to be explained by taxes, fees and regulations.
In response, Newsom asked lawmakers to limit how much money oil companies could make from selling gasoline in the state, with hefty fines imposed on anyone who went over that threshold. The idea was to incentivize companies to keep the price of oil within a certain range and prevent price spikes like last year.
But that idea went nowhere in the state Legislature as lawmakers feared that whatever limit they chose would cause chaos in the market, causing refiners to make less gasoline that would in turn increase prices at the pump.
And rationing. Don’t forget the rationing.
“a difference regulators say is too large to be explained by taxes, fees and regulations”
Well, if the regulators say regulations aren’t causing high prices, that’s good enough for me.
limit how much money oil companies could make
Tyrannical cunte is as tyrannical cunte does.
Failed replication: Exposure to women’s scents collected within the putative fertile window failed to turn men on and to stir up their hormones
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1638592003280707603
That is literally the opposite of what is true.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said the Biden administration was “hellbent” on politicizing the military and slammed the under secretaries for the Navy, Air Force and Army for defending an “obsession with this equity agenda.”
“The offspring of identity politics, which is incredibly divisive, has now made its way through DEI trainings in these branches,” Schmitt said. “It is naive to believe this is not divisive among recruits or people in the military.”
Under Secretary of the Navy Erik Raven responded at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on recruitment challenges, saying that diverse teams were essential for “warfighting capability.” Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Kristyn Jones said diversity and equity also improves retention rates.
From the article:
The fact the Illinois National Guard has Polish-speaking personnel who can actually be in Ukraine helping train Ukrainians because we have those language abilities is good,” she said. “It in fact helps with our readiness.
Yeah, “readiness”. Of course, five minutes later, if you suggested that we might have U.S. troops already in the theater, she’d accuse you of talking Russian propaganda.
An illuminating confession, no?
My thoughts exactly.
Of course, a white guy who speaks a foreign language (especially one spoken by other white people) counts not at all toward diversity.
So, to no one’s surprise, her example of diversity improving capability is complete bullshit.
Ahem, “guy”, how do you know they isn’t a xir?
That’s like saying a French person can help in the barrio.
Musou Black is the world’s acrylic blackest paint, absorbing > 99.2% of visible light. This video shows the result of half an apple and an entire room painted with it
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1638853239880785922
Mr. Desatio? How about this color for your hyperlimo?
Mr. Desatio is stone dead. Cannot answer
Just for the year.
/crashes into sun
I like it. Something a person can apply with regular equipment. You can get a model paint-sized bottle (100 ml) for about $26 on Amazon right now. Ventablack is freakishly darker but is super expensive and requires special equipment.
Tig bitties and at fasses on THICC Thursday.
https://archive.ph/juGDL
This photo is an example of how optical illusions mess with your mind.
First you see a rock floating in the air and then…
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1638591187329196033
Just read your insurance article. It looks like a lot of us were interested in Romanian car crashes.
What kind of vehicle?
I have an old Opel Astra which probably means nothing to Americans
They were rebadged as Saturns here, I believe.
I doubt you had the 1.6L 115 hp engine
You are correct. It was a 1.8L 138 hp. Only available in 2008.
Actually looks like a decent, if poky, little car.
We love all forms of cars here.
Good morning, Sloop!
What a bunch of fascists.
You spelled “pussies” wrong. Instead of saying “our players aren’t comfortable with your fucking ridiculous psy-op, so we aren’t wearing them.” they went with Putin bad.
Gay.
And you were right. I was feeling great until the lynx! Regardless, have a great day, y’all!
Freezing Cold Takes Retweeted
Keith Olbermann
@KeithOlbermann
Norman, you do realize Ohtani has a .100 average and a 27.00 ERA to this point, right? He’s the perfect “two way player” – he can’t hit and he can’t pitch. The “two way player” is a unicorn.
6:58 PM · Mar 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/975416143644102657
FFS, tankies and now Olbermann? What did we do to deserve that?
He’s decided to make a bid to be relevant again, and so decided to trash the WBC as “meaningless.”
I mean, the WBC only had at least the 3 most watched baseball games in history (and perhaps more than 3). Totally meaningless.
Now that Patrick Kane is gone, it looks like Toews will retire, and they on-purpose tanking is in progress, I guess that’s the only kind of Blackhawks news I’ll be seeing until draft time. Sigh.
For the record, the only pride thing we ever had on my Blackhawks team was that one guy used to use rainbow tape on his sticks.
They were already tanking, no?
For sure. I was just saying that “Blackhawks on win streak” wasn’t going to be a headline. But speaking of which, they traded for a lot of draft picks last year, and those picks are doing really well on their college teams. So in a season or two it will be at least fun to watch a bunch of talented rookies.
The Wild actually have been on a little bit of a tear. Kaprizov got hurt so I figured they were fucked, but a bunch of the young guys and new guys stepped up. Gustafson, the starting goalie, was a throw-in on another trade and he’s lights-out.
Doesn’t matter, though. The fucking Bruins are ascendent.
As a New England fan, I can assure you most of us assume the Bruins will flame out.
Doom always approaches.
New world order
Before Xi and Putin met in what will has all the hallmarks of a historic meeting, the two leaders published manifestos in their respective state newspapers, outlining their vision for the world that directly challenges the Western-rules-based democratic order. Throughout the summit-level meeting, both authoritarians signaled their strong anti-U.S. and anti-West sentiment and intention to oppose America’s leadership at every turn.
Xi, in a signed article with the headline “Forging Ahead to Open a New Chapter of China-Russia Friendship, Cooperation and Common Development,” praised Moscow and Beijing’s role in fostering a “new model of major-country relations” based on “mutual trust.” The article also ran Monday in Russia’s National Gazette.
In what appears to be a direct message to the West, Xi reminded readers that China and Russia are permanent members of the U.N. Security Council who pursue “comprehensive strategic partner of coordination” and “uphold an independent foreign policy.”
“rules-based order”
Or… you know… ham fisted imperious idiots strutting and preening on the “world stage” . Team Biden dissipates our claim to authority every day.
~wakes up~
~squints at headlines~
What? The SMOD has failed us again.
Hey…..how YOU doin’
Hey I’m WALKIN over here!!
I mean, I’m doin good. How YOU doin?
“Best meme of 2023”
Dunno about best, but that’s pretty damn good.
eh there probably were better
Nice.
It is a bit much, isn’t it? The Blackhawks jersey thing drives it home.
It’s hockey, people.
But what about Brenda in legal? Her blue haired snowflake child is non-binary and she doesn’t feel safe at her cushy sports law job unless those ugly brutes that unfortunately pay her paycheck bend the knee to her waifish progeny.
This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics. Do you regard this picture with respect or disgust?
https://twitter.com/smylkshmn/status/1638609735011254273
I have no idea what I’m looking at. What does that mean?
normie
“The left can’t meme.”
not a lefty meme though
I know that. Scruffy asked what it meant, and I said, “The left can’t meme.”
Made badly by a rightie who also can’t meme.
Maybe it’s a lefty pretending to be a righty making a bad “the left can’t meme” meme proving that the right can’t meme.
The word count indicates it’s made by a leftie.
Yeah, I zoned out before I could finish reading it, let alone make sense of it.
it does not put lefties in a good light and makes some fun of typical right memes with a lefty soyjack with lots of text and a laconic response from a chad
Science Banana
@literalbanana
this study is absolute art I’m in awe
https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1638387396009140224
Children who are obsessed with dinosaurs have higher intelligence, study claims
Such intense interest has been shown to have a number of benefits in children
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/children-obsessed-dinosaurs-language-skills-15992615
who pays for this shit
*raises hand*
Probably a government grant, so yes.
The Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post COVID-19 Unvaccinated Patients-A Large Population-Based Study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/
We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection.
Now do post-vax children.
So, I guess any increase in heart disease can’t be blamed on COVID itself, then.
THE BARBELL AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Good article.
“I will begin with the author’s sturdiest critique: that RWBB culture “confuses muscular definition with fitness.” ”
In general muscular definition is a good proxy for fitness, outside steroid mass monsters who may need less mass.
” Modern life doesn’t necessitate serious fitness, which means disciplined training verges on uselessness. “It is extraordinarily rare that I encounter a necessary physical task that I am unable to achieve,” he writes. “In other words, I don’t really have a use for more muscle.””
For long term health ya you do, dumbass.
“Ellwanger proceeds to suggest training is motivated by selfishness: “it ultimately serves only the self, since others reap no benefit from someone else’s great strength.” ”
Ehm if you are fitter, stronger, healthier your family reap benefits
Google Adam Ellwanger and try not to laugh.
looks soyjack-ish
Nonsense. It also benefits your sexual partner.
Lifting is great, and the guy whinging about “Right Wing Body Building” (which I didn’t know was a thing until today) sounds like a pussy, but it’s easy to over-romanticize some mythical past where men were men and everybody was a well-rounded fighter and mastodon hunter. At least as far back as the ancient Greeks there were fat fucks who spent all day indulging in gratuitous opulence, and workaday drones who did a menial, repetitive task until it got too dark to work and went home to drink primitive beer and wine. Whatever we were “born for,” we’re pretty adaptable, especially to leisure. I’m not an advocate for neglecting one’s fitness, but at the same time, not striving to reach peak physicality when just functional physicality is sufficient isn’t much of a sin.
a lesson from history
https://twitter.com/doublemeasure/status/1637507767698178055
Where are the screams of false consciousness?
They don’t know what is in their best interest. The government should force them to unionize.
It would be awesome if they voted to create their own union. But of course govt won’t allow competition with the Teamsters.
I’m the sole member of my union.
Bikini Show – Miss Città Murata – Padova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zNWrB1NTc4
I mean, why bother, we’ll pick up the slack.
am pretty sure Romania hits 2% most years, not that it means much. Not in 2022 I think but 2021, 2020 and it seems 2023 it is planned to go to 2.5%
This is how you know the talk of Putin’s plans of European conquest are BS. If Germany, or Denmark, or Finland were worried, they’d be spending a lot more than 2 percent.
Finland is not nato
Wait, is Romania in NATO?
Honest? Honest as the day is long
Federal prosecutors disclosed Wednesday that a witness expected to testify for the defense at the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four associates was secretly acting as a government informant for nearly two years after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a defense lawyer said in a court filing.
Carmen Hernandez, a lawyer for former Proud Boys chapter leader Zachary Rehl, asked a judge to schedule an immediate emergency hearing and suspend the trial “until these issues have been considered and resolved.” Lawyers for the other four defendants joined in Hernandez’s request.
Hernandez said in court papers that the defense team was told by prosecutors on Wednesday afternoon that the witness they were planning to call to the stand on Thursday had been a government informant.
The judge ordered prosecutors to file a response to the defense filing by Thursday afternoon and scheduled a hearing for the same day, putting testimony in the case on hold until Friday. The U.S. attorney’s office did not immediately comment on the filing.
In her court filing, Hernandez said the unnamed informant participated in “prayer meetings” with relatives of at least one of the Proud Boys on trial and had discussions with family members about replacing one of the defense lawyers on the case. The informant also has been in contact with at least one of the defense lawyers and at least one of the five defendants, Hernandez wrote.
Just take the traitors out and shoot them, and give the informer a medal.
A bunch of Proud Boys and Oathkeepers have gotten 3-5 year prison sentences in that fucking clown show. I get a half dozen headlines or so trickling in every few weeks as they get sentenced (the convictions are a foregone conclusion for the ones that don’t plea).
The sedition charges are as much bullshit now as they were in the 18th century. Goddamn disgrace.
2 girls 1 boat
https://youtube.com/shorts/j4h9LG9sgdI
3 drinks 1 cup.
Zee search for zee meesing guns, lost tragically een a boating accident, continues. Zees brave maidens conteenue the search for zee lost property.
go on…
In an investigation into a complex VAT fraud on imported fuels, led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Bologna (Italy), the Parma Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) executed today, 23 March 2023, a freezing order of assets of up to €149 million.
The freezing order was issued by the Parma preliminary investigation judge, at the request of the EPPO, against five individuals and two companies involved in fuel trading.
The judicial decree to seize cash, bank accounts and real estate was executed in Parma, Potenza and Salerno.
During the searches, the Guardia di Finanza discovered millions of euros in cash hidden under the floor in the premises of one of the companies investigated, using ‘cash dogs’ – canine units specialised in searching for currency.
https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/news/italy-eppo-seize-eu149-million-investigation-vat-fraud-fuels
GSD puppy has cultivated either a bladder infection or some flavor of UTI. necessitating that she goes out ever 10 minutes in an attempt to piss. Trying to get a fresh sample while sneaking up on her was comedic at best.
One more trip to the vet….
Sorry, Tres. Little fuckers can be spendy.
Worth it, though.
A sign of the end times.
Don’t miss the planet parade taking place at the end of March.
Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Mars are set to align in an arc formation on the nights of March 25 through 30, alongside the Moon.
Jupiter may sink into the sunset and get lost in sunlight after the 28th, though, so aim to see this relatively rare cosmic event by then.
If you want to spot all five planets in one night, timing, dark skies, and a clear view of the horizon are key.
Didn’t the badly-dressed rat tell us about this?
I am opposed to the death penalty, but I could make an exception here
The former warden of a federal women’s prison in California so plagued by sexual abuse it was known as the “rape club” was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in prison for sexually abusing incarcerated women and forcing them to pose naked and for lying to the FBI as part of a cover-up.
In announcing the 70-month sentence of Ray J. Garcia, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers castigated the former warden of Federal Correctional Institution Dublin for what she called “ludicrous” lying on the witness stand and for perpetuating the prison’s culture of sexual abuse.
“You entered a cesspool and did nothing about it. You just went along for the ride and enjoyed the cesspool yourself,” Rogers said. “You should have done something about it.”
Garcia’s sentencing came three months after a federal jury in Oakland found him guilty of three counts of sex with an incarcerated person, four counts of abusive sexual contact and one count of lying to the FBI. Prosecutors had asked for a 15-year sentence. Garcia’s sister asked that he be placed on electronic monitoring.
Under color of law should be the ultimate enhancement of charges.
Under color of law should be the ultimate enhancement of charges.
I’ve always felt that way. Unfortunately, in practice, it’s often a mitigating factor.
Unfortunately, in practice,
it’s often a mitigating factor.it’s often immunity from consequences.Yes, that’s another problem. All the more reason “under color of the law” should be a major enhancement. The crimes have to be pretty egregious just to get them to the level of a criminal offense.
70 months?
right? Had to do some mental math.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why it would be less than the 15 years requested by the prosecution.
During Garcia’s trial, James Reilly, his lawyer, argued that there was no surveillance video capturing any alleged sex acts, and pointed out that the accusers are convicted felons. He said Garcia took the photographs the FBI found because he wanted to document that the women were breaching prison policy by standing around naked.
That’s… bold.
“Garcia took the photographs the FBI found because he wanted to document that the women were breaching prison policy by standing around naked.”
So he immediately put the pictures in the women’s confidential official files and punished them, right? Right?
The chicken shortage is much worse than I anticipated. No egg laying pullets available the rest of 2023 at any of the major hatcheries. Tractor Supply will not be receiving any more for the year. My wife went to Rural King yesterday and was told they’d be getting one last shipment in tomorrow morning and that would be it. She got there today at 9:30 and saw 18 tubs filled with chicks. Also a sign that they couldn’t be sold until 10:30am (needed to acclimate).
She wanted to leave and come back tomorrow. I told her to wait, find an employee to let them know she’s here, and then stand first in what will soon be a line. By 10:30, there were 15 people in line behind her. She got her pick of Rhode Island Reds and left. I’m sure they were sold out halfway through the line.
Not good a sign at all.
What is going on? Are they just fucking around down at the chicken ranch?
Presumably they’re NOT fucking around.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Hatcheries know in advance how many chicks they’ll have available every week through the end of each year. All of them have already sold out of pullets. I think it’s a reaction to the egg spike prices. And just general sense among people that something is wrong. I placed an order last year for an April 2023 shipment of chicks, turkeys, and geese that seems like it will be honored.
It’s reminiscent of the ammo shortages. I remember placing an order for a case of 5.56 that took about 10 months to fill and ship. At least ammo seems to have settled down a bit now.
Forget the chickens and start breeding crickets, it’s the future.
Minne Cricket Wings!
The hot new bar food that originated here. Cricket legs covered in ketchup (but not too much)
Mother clucker!
I was at our local Tractor Supply the other day and went to look at the chicks and saw the lights were on but no one was home. I thought that was odd, but didn’t think to ask. I wasn’t going to buy; I just think it’s fun to watch them for a minute or so when I’m there.
“Rural King” sounds like some redneck rapper.
ESG
Across the U.S., people protested outside major banks on Tuesday, calling on financial institutions to shift investments away from fossil fuel companies. In Boston, more than 200 people marched from a Chase Bank to a Bank of America branch. A man there used a solar-powered chain saw to cut through giant credit cards from Chase and Bank of America.
One hundred protests took place across the country, from Juneau, Alaska, to Washington, D.C., to urge banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi to stop funding fossil fuel projects, which significantly contribute to human-caused climate change. Third Act, a climate activism group largely made up of retirees, organized the nationwide events ahead of annual meetings where investors can propose changes to corporate policies.
San Francisco climate activists chained themselves together outside a Wells Fargo branch in the rain.
In Washington, D.C., protesters sat in rocking chairs outside banks while the crowd cheered on people who cut up their credit cards in protest.
Innocuous, reasonable financial analysis. It’s all about the ROI.
Wow, more than 200 people! lmao
Stole my comment.
Boston has what like 0.7 million people living there, not even counting suburbs?
OH noes, 0.03% of the populace protested!
Looking at the picture, it’s largely a bunch of retirees with nothing better to do with their day.
Wow, you weren’t kidding.
From the suggested links at the bottom:
‘3 reasons why California’s drought isn’t really over, despite all the rain’
Not gonna click, but there aint nothin’ that could make these people satisfied.
Couln’t they have joined forces with a bunch of wise-beyond-their-years schoolchildren who are totally not looking for a skip day or extra credit?
Do better and gin up those numbers, America.
The dude with the solar powered chainsaw is gonna get eaten the first night of the zombie apocalypse.
You had me going until I realize ‘night’.
“We keep hearing reports in the news every day about how our window for preventing catastrophic damage keeps closing and that really this decade is critical for us to take action,” McCabe said.
Stop watching the news.
We’ve been hearing it for so long that we should assume the window has closed by now, and just get on with it.
I wonder how many of the ESG fanatics know how heavily invested their idol Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett is invested in Occidental Petroleum.
Had solar panels put on my roof- it took their crew like 2.5 hours to set everything up.
We have solar panels on the Mondor. They make us go.