So this is my last day here before heading to NYC for the weekend with NPR Lady. Our target is a terrific Georgian restaurant in Chelsea- SP and I discovered Georgian food and wine when we first moved here and were blown away by how good they were. And by how often we had to explain that Georgia is a country… A Georgian supra is truly one of the most civilized ways to spend an evening.
Of course, the most civilized way to spend a morning is reading Links, but first we note a few birthdays, including a First Lady who set an example that more of them should follow; a romantic guy who pined for the fjords; another guy who wrote tunes that we all recognize but we have no idea who composed them; Christ, what an asshole; the best midget to ever come out of Pittsburgh; my favorite jazz pianist, whose death would make a great detective story; proof that a Mafia background will keep you out of the White House; everyone’s favorite outlaw; the black face of white supremacy yadda yadda yadda; a guy who knew what I meant; the brother who wasn’t funny; the one who didn’t know economics; a guy with a hole in his hand; and SP’s favorite pitcher.
Onward to Links.
The process is the punishment.
“Injuring public records.” This actually could be a hot little story.
Coming up next: airlifts of cash.
One of the birthday boys today provides Old Guy Music. And in just a few minutes, he runs through every style of jazz ever created.
This is actually amazing. – the jokes write themselves?
Everybody knows Jewish missiles are smoother.
Next step: Armies of Hitlers. – whaddaymean hitler catgirtl sex slaves is the thing these days
Army of Frankensteins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCO1AXOhTtU
Furries hardest hit?
Antifurr will bash the fash!
*Catgirl Hitler incoming*
I’m disappointed that you were talking about Caucasian food and not Regency cuisine.
Georgia is a country – aktchually Sakartvelo is a country
Why are you Aktchuallying me for something Old Man said?
Also, toponyms from one’s own language are acceptable. We can call Colchis Georgia and still have it refer to the same part of the world.
This was an accidental reply. I wanted to answer something here changed my mind and WordPress is stupid
WebDom must have been testing the new predictive mind-reading WordPress module. I told her you people wouldn’t like it, but does she listen to me?
Why would she listen, she already knows what you’re going to say…
Wycome there no sweet tea in that picture?
You mean that’s not the contents of the cup in the lower left?
Pretty sure that’s a bowl, and nowhere nearly big enough to be a proper Georgian tea glass.
And between the dolmades on the upper left and the bao on the lower right I can safely assume Georgia has no cuisine of its own, other than “loaf of bread with egg baked on it.”
Egged bread isn’t particularly unique.
And Cheesy Egged Bread isn’t particularly unique either. Though That may be butter instead of yolk
GRITS MOFO!
Is it typical to serve walnuts at a meal by strewing them along the tabletop? Is there a nutcracker at the placesetting?
Look, whoever laid this placesetting also draped whole vines of tomatos, uncut bell peppers and complete pomegranates around. The walnuts are clearly decorative.
First of all, Iron Chef taught me that chomping into a whole bell pepper is something foodies do. Second of all, I’m totally chewing those fennel fronds as a palate cleanser. Unless they’re dill, in which case ew.
It’s not all foodies, just the Chairman.
–Standard refrain from Food/Cooking network shows
I have eaten a bell pepper like an apple once, but it was during a pepper eating contest. Each tray had a bell, two jalapenos, two cherry, and a habanero in it. The smart people started with the habanero, the dumb people started with the bell pepper.
I put bell pepper on salads, but I cut it up first.
I am more interested in how the pepper eating story ended…
How fiery was the after effect?
According to a documentary I once saw some kids fuck apple pies too… Ask that Jason Briggs guy.
Iron Chef could be fun to watch back in the day, but I gotta say that the chomping-a-bell-pepper thing pissed me off to no end every damn time I saw it. I don’t know why, but it did. And now I’m mad about it again. Thanks.
If you can’t crack walnuts with your bare hands, you’re a pussy.
I crack them by dropping my massive hammer on them… But then I don’t want to eat them..
If I were Supreme Dictator, the only part of the US government I’d keep unscathed is the social media office for National Park Service. – get rid of the parks, keep the social media? I like it
Where the white women at?
In the Caucasus, obviously. Circassian beauty.
I know about them babushkas…
Mikhail Lermontov would advise you that they might be trouble if you get involved with them
The process is the punishment. – hangin’s too good for this guy
“The process is the punishment.”
In a society where you are ruled by criminals, they will bastardize the laws to protect criminality (some day it might be them), but worse, are compelled to make sure they brutally punish anyone that steps up to deal with the chaos and destruction the lawlessness causes (cause again, some day the vigilante might come for them and their crimes).
I think they call this irony.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ai-poses-threat-democratic-order-president-germany
An AI that is not programmed with the need to cull whatever government feels is misinformation will always pose a threat to democracy for the corruptocracies running governments.
The US warned in the talks that it would exact a heavy price from Iran if it enriches to 90%.
Like a red line in the sand which will result in a stern message if you cross.
“Kayfabe.”
Masse called this right: every time you set one of these precedents the democrats will abuse it. They should have censured his lying ass without the $16 million charge.
Funny how the MAGA outrage machine hasn’t been mentioning the $16M fine.
That censure was designed to fail.
I am inclined to agree with you on this shit. Since team blue will weaponize everything and team red is just a bunch of panty waists, we simply live with a system that promotes dysfunctionality and abuse of power for one group without consequences.
All the Supras I’ve seen in the US have been imported from Japan. Honestly I didn’t even know that Toyota had a factory in Georgia.
That was for the European market.
South Africa’s infinite humiliation
https://unherd.com/2023/06/south-africas-infinite-humiliation/
Every African nation where marxism took over is a hell hole.
There is a reason the left wants marxism in the west too: the best way to create equity is to bring misery to all.
Easiest maybe, but certainly not the best.
A root cause is quoted in the article: “I did not join the struggle to die poor,” proclaimed one senior ruling African National Congress (ANC) politician….
Conspiracy theory!!!
Lying to the government is one of the seven deadly sins after all.
If it really was a public school, she’d have been allowed to enroll.
Grand jury indicts Daniel Penny in chokehold death of Jordan Neely
Neely’s death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner.
Didn’t the Neely die at the hospital after the fact? Anyway, I said Penny would be Chauvined.
The US justice system is no longer even pretending to want justice unless it is criminal marxist social justice.
The Argentine junta made all sorts of real dumb decisions that led to a war they were doomed to lose, one that would cost all involved dearly, because of shit like this….
There are some people who have been saying for years China’s economy is this screwed I think but were not listened. We shall see I guess who knows wtf is going on there
China’s economy was never even close to as fast growing as the people that do money pretended. They went along and backed the CCP lies without any audits because it benefited them. Now they have realized that house of cards is going to go up in smoke, but they don’t want to lose all the fake money they have in China right now even though that is going to happen regardless of what they do or don’t do. They thought they would prostitute China and make bank, instead the CCP turned them into their bitch gimp and sold their dumb asses out for rough work.
They have 300 million middle class citizens. They have infrastructure. They have education.
As long as the state doesn’t drag on the economy too hard, they have to be on the path to a first world economy on a scale that rivals all of the west.
They also have over 400 million people still living at a 1910 world standard and a population aging problem that makes the one in Japan look like a joke. Those are a few of the number that breaks all the progress they have made for the few.
Remember the beginning of Covid, all the pics of stacks of bodies in China. That was right after they had some unpleasant dissension from their populace. Then Covid hit and we saw stacks of bodies and no more dissension. That’s how China will deal with an aging population that drags on healthcare resources.
The Kung Flu sure as hell looks like it was designed to kill the old, those with health problems that would impose a heavy cost on a socialist medical system, and enemies of that state. Then again, I wouldn’t be surprised most of the people with the Kung Flu as the reason for their deaths in CCP China died from a bullet to the back of the head and organ extraction either.
Hey, they did die WITH covid, it counts.
How Republicans and Big Business Broke Up
https://www.wsj.com/articles/republicans-corporations-donations-pacs-9b5b202b?st=ztqepwwigqogfv1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Percentage of House Republicans who received more than 40% of their campaign contributions from corporate PACs is below 19%. My assumption is this is why the increasing push to play to social conservatives and no real concern about fiscal conservatives.
So expect more laws about right leaning wrongthink to counteract the left leaning wrongthink.
Businesses realized democrats would help them fleece the productive and privatize their profits while socializing their loses with far more gusto than team red, and all you had to do was tell these businesses to promote marxist ideals through DEI & ESG, which they willingly picked up and ran with.
And those scores are an extremely thin proxy for “support democrats”
The last couple of days a chart has been making the rounds showing that Tesla has one of the worst social responsibility scores while the tobacco companies have high scores.
They barely hang a fig leaf
It’s been interesting watching the the Fortune 500/1000 change over the past two decades.
I’ve had a front row seat and realized the ESG push decades ago was precisely the camel’s nose under the tent.
This is Poppy. She’s 19, works in a cafe in Bury St Edmunds and was arrested earlier this morning for peacefully resisting our criminal government’s genocidal plans for new oil and gas.
🛢️ Downing St. is prioritising oil industry profits and North Sea expansion over Poppy’s chance of having a safe, liveable future free of climate collapse.
https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1669295052131123203
she is poppy.
If Poppy owns a cell phone, any kind of tablet or computer, or lives in a home that is heated/cooled, she is herself a criminal then by her own logic, right?
I feel like somebody smarter than me should do the math and show how much energy is used charging smart phones, keeping cell phone grids up, and keeping the Internet going. I wonder how limiting everyone to one hour of phone use a day would compare to switching to electric cars.
The people that want to end the use of fossil fuels tend to be the ones that tell you electricity comes from the wall socket.
I’m confused. Restricting oil and gas would be the genocidal move, what’s her protest?
The same as that tweet going around where some 28 year old female programmer on the west coast told people she didn’t have kids because she was doing her part to combat climate change, she felt the world was over populated, and that she wanted her freedom to travel, and then got really pissed when someone pointed out reason number one (fighting climate change) is completely obliterated by reason number 3 (she likes to travel).
This is not about logic as much as it is about selfish morons looking for excuses not to really have to be adults or embrace responsibility.
She isn’t alone on that. Banning fossil fuels is becoming a mainstream lefty talking point.
She is protesting because it is fashionable and she looks cute doing it.
Poppy dreams of living in rags and scratching in the dirt for roots.
looks good enough for whoring imo.
I retract that watching the clip on my phone… twitter clips don;t work on my work computer
Never stick it in crazy.
It is important what she says about being terrified though- that is what these indoctrinators are doing to kids.
Poppy dreams of making all the other people that don’t outright die liv
inge in rags and scratching in the dirt for roots.“She” has quite a jaw.
Let me guess, she was blocking traffic.
OK Poppy. Give us your phone, all your makeup, your clothing, any plastic containers or tools you have, and we’ll shut off your electricity. Enjoy your petroleum free future. Your real protest has begun.
If I were Supreme Dictator, the only part of the US government I’d keep unscathed is the social media office for National Park Service.
Dept. shouldn’t exist…
On the Schiff censure story – was the language supporting a $16 million fine inserted as a fig leaf poison pill so Republicans could vote it down?
The guy clearly leaked classified information and later lied about having classified information that incriminated Trump. Odd that he is looking at a promotion for it. Odd that people in congress view this as just normal business. Odd that he has suffered no consequences for participating in a coup.
I would assume so. Trump should be able to sue Schiff for defamation. Given the freakishly low bar that has been applied to Trump himself, you would think it would be a slam dunk.
Suck a dick, Massie.
Thank you for removing the part that several of us thought was unwise and/or unconstitutional. Many of us are looking forward to voting for your better version.
You cuntes are determined to continue to lose gracefully.
Has Washington finally broken this man?
He’s been pretty disappointing of late. I don’t think this is the time for 4D chess.
In this case, I think he’s correct. You uncork that genie and the Democrats are going to go hog-wild with it.
That’s as opposed to the budget bill, which he absolutely should have killed.
No. You take the not really win on the budget bill.
Libertopia isn’t going to happen over night. You start with baby steps. Just like the Fabians.
The problem is the Fabians aren’t so Fabian anymore, and we are racing off the cliff culturally and economically.
If you’re hurtling towards a cliff at 150mph, how effective are baby steps in the opposite direction?
*painful grimace*
It’s Adam Schiff though.
*grimaces painfully again*
Massie has stated he’s still fighting a lawsuit about wearing a mask in Congress. So he’s not a fan of this whole thing.
No. He has pointed out that the “fine” is basically what he is still in litigation vs Pelosi about (she “fined” – dinged Rep’s paychecks – for not masking). He walked the walk and got “fined”. Doing this, he strongly believes is unconstitutional. I understand the urge to beat on bug eyed Schiff because he is a turd….but Massie is being consistent, and wise…next Dem House would “fine” everyone on TEAM RED eleven billionty dollars for RASCISM and WRONGTHINK, etc.
I understand it is too easy to just say TEAM RED IZ WEAK, but this ire is off base, directed at Massie.
Stated much more clearly than I did. Thank you.
Well put- I think it is important he is saying he absolutely would vote to censure Schiff, just without the fine.
“We are restricting freedom for the common good”: Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly says that her government’s hate speech bill is about “restricting freedom,” and censoring views on gender identity if those views create “discomfort.”
https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1669275401397456898
It truly is a competition among European countries about who can outshithole whom. JFC.
At first, they had to sell these laws as somehow expanding freedom by restricting people. Because racism and hate aren’t freedoms or protected. Now they just say outright fuck your freedoms this is about goodthink.
Well first they had to start importing people who have no interest in being Irish. Then they could start haranguing the Irish for being racist against the strangers replacing them and noticing things deteriorating.
This is what the IRA fought for?
It could soon be worse under English rule
“We are restricting freedom for the common good”
Said every tyrant ever.
Insurrection.
BREAKING: we are blockading the 6-lane road where the President’s motorcade is set travel. We are shutting down the street because the League of Conservation Voters is trying to honor Biden for his “climate ambition.”
Somebody beat them on the kidneys with big sticks please. So tired of this.
I am starting to get to the ‘okay with running them over’ side.
Arrest them all and charge them with falsely detaining everybody on the road.
Biden is the most radically anti-science and pro-impoverishment president in history and that’s not good enough for these assholes?
It’s never enough.
Build Back Braindead.
Biden’s brain malfunctions in real time as the audience laughs out loud
Apparently we “cleared all our land”, and “did all the things to make money”. Tbf, the climate change cult is full of such convoluted bullshit that it is confusing.
After they normalize pedophilia, shit like this is next.
Note tat all this nonsense seems to come from the institutions where bad ideas’ consequences never really hurt the morons that have them.
They didn’t mention if the peanut butter was creamy or chunky.
‘shit like this is next.’
That doesn’t even move the needle for me compared to diddling kids, there is no ‘this is next’ to me after that. You are already in hell.
XY#1 just got back from Georgia (that one) and said that supras were indeed fantastic – all the food and all the wine was great, and he’s not really a wine drinker. Brought home some honey (Mrx. Tree is getting into bees now) from a local farm. It tastes almost herbal/floral.
I have always thought that there should be a Georgia to Georgia boat race.
They can alternate directions every year.
Britain’s Cask Ale Is Struggling. Is American-Style Craft Beer to Blame?
https://vinepair.com/articles/cask-ale-american-craft-beer/
No.
Next question.
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
Considering that the only cask ale I’ve seen locally is from American craft brewers, I can feel secure in my answer.
Them furriners took our beer!
It looks like the real answer is the standard “No one wants to drink their father’s beer.”
Cask has nearly died about before and came back. A generation later, same thing is happening.
In my defense, my dad drank PBR Lite at times, as well as the old generic BEER.
I’ve already seen the articles talking about how craft beer is now the uncool uncle/dad thing to drink. Don’t care, still gonna drink it.
PBR made a light beer? Well…watering it down might have actually made it more palatable. haha
I thought it already was. Next, homeopathic lager?
I don’t really think its so much that craft is uncool, as the craft beers of today are different than the craft of 25 years ago. Some good changes, some I don’t care for. But you used to be able to count on a decent brown everywhere. Today, not so much.
I blame Goose Island for changing the name of Hexnut Brown.
I drink that when I go to england because I kind of like it and it is different than what I can get here
Yeah. I asked wtf that pump was sitting by itself at the bar and found it was really good.
Technically a beer engine. I had a local before I moved that had two, and used to do cask nights. They at one point operated a brewery as well (which got ran into the ground due to poor leadership). They’ve been under new management for many years now, and I’m not sure they’re even still using the beer engines.
Still a solid place to grab a pint (or two), and a bite to eat.
Whenever I run into a beer engine, I will usually have one, just to change things up.
I have a slight preference for keg to cask, but I like cask too.
Cask can work, but it’s very dependent on the style of beer in it. Back when they were doing weekly tappings, there were some that really didn’t work with the lower carbonation and warmer temperature. One of those was the Bells Two Hearted.
Yeah, you really have to design for cask. Throwing any random beer on the beer engine doesn’t work.
NERDS!!
PLAY THAT MOTHER FUCKING FIRST MUSIC FRANK
Something unknown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_-pEAXWLg
whaddup doh’
New employer is in Georgia (the state). 1st thing I saw was peaches, then your discourse on (the other, but still) Georgia.
Im taking this as a positive sign.
Finest minds
The Harvard Medical School morgue manager, his wife and several others were indicted Wednesday for trafficking human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary.
A federal grand jury indicted Harvard Medical school Morgue Manager Cedric Lodge, his wife, Denise Lodge, Katrina Maclean, Joshua Taylor and Mathew Lampi on conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods charges.
U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Gerard Karam said that according to the indictments, the network of individuals across the country purchased and sold stolen human remains from Harvard Medical School and a mortuary located in Arkansas. Cedric Lodge stole organs and other parts of cadavers that were donated to be used for research and transported them to his residence In New Hampshire, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
“Some crimes defy understanding,” Karam said in a statement. “The theft and trafficking of human remains strikes at the very essence of what makes us human. It is particularly egregious that so many of the victims here volunteered to allow their remains to be used to educate medical professionals and advance the interests of science and healing.”
It’s always good to see a US attorney bellowing his mortified outrage from atop a pile of body parts.
At least they were not selling the cadavers to necrophiliacs?
He was a professor, how do you know he wasn’t the necrophiliac?
Fuck em, then chop em up and sell the parts? A two-fer…
NPR had a story about how Germany is passing/has passed a law banning gas/oil heating in new structures, and also forbidding replacing existing systems with non-electric ones. They interviewed a lifelong Green voter who just couldn’t understand why her party would do something that made her home worth less (since buyers know they’ll be on the hook to refit any place (which is most homes) that is currently heated with Gaia’s blood.)
It’s not coincidental or accidental that the people that are the loudest about these anti human causes always feel others should bare the brunt of the consequences of their insane policy requests….
Just like the Obama care lady that got pissed her employer canceled their health care and she was left paying more for worse care couldn’t figure out why the promises had been broken and she ended up suffering instead of the rich or some other villain class…
One of the complaints the cities have levied against the “terrible overreach of the Republican controlled state house” was that the state has banned localities from prohibiting natural gas hookups for new buildings.
The World Economic Forum Is Coming for Your Cars
https://www.wsj.com/articles/world-economic-forum-paper-reduce-cars-by-2050-davos-private-jets-climate-f0bb64b9?st=6zvzzhfd588iv6q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
We knew this. Freedom of movement is top of the list for things they want to abolish.
Serfs are bound to the land.
I wonder if that Ma Deuce is still available.
“We are restricting freedom for the common good”: Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O’Reilly says that her government’s hate speech bill is about “restricting freedom,” and censoring views on gender identity if those views create “discomfort.”
All the Irishmen worth a damn sailed to America in the early 1800s.
Hey now…
Good morning, Old Man!
If I were Supreme Dictator, the only part of the US government I’d keep unscathed is the social media office for National Park Service.
Same. I believe it’s the only government account I follow. And as a NP aficionado, my biggest anti-government hypocrisy.
#6 is my favorite.
That should help Kackling Kamala.
One of the nation’s most powerful political groups tasked with helping female candidates is readying a massive investment to improve Kamala Harris’ public standing.
EMILY’s List, the political action committee whose aim is to elect female candidates supportive of abortion rights, says it will be spending “tens of millions of dollars” to defend and prop up the vice president during the 2024 election.
Such an investment in support of a sitting vice president is politically unprecedented. And it reflects the lack of broader efforts that have been made to date to help bolster the vice president amid persistently low approval ratings.
“The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility.”
Sponsored by Red Wing Boots.
More miserabilism from the heart of darkness of the miserabilist cult at @guardian
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“Don’t expect to be comfortable, learn to put up with it”.
No.
Generate the energy that allows it.
https://twitter.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1669047454715576320
I need my fucking AC and fuck those who want to take it
WTF is that thing?
Based on the chin, I’m going to assume that she is actually a he.
Perhaps Hannah should have taken all the money that went to their surgical alteration and hormone treatments and contributed it to a cause.
These people exist on the bleeding edge of what technology allows while simultaneously revolting against the thing that made it all possible, cheap energy.
If I were coming up with the stereotypical female Guardian writer in my head, that picture would be it. Then we just need some pencil necked white dude with glasses for the male version.
Indeed.
Idiots
If you have the ability to add a bunch of dead weight “infrastructure” in the form of green energy production in, then no – your current infrastructure which you are cutting back on was not at peak capacity. You are cutting back on the energy that is actually economically sustainable proving the lie here.
The World Economic Forum Is Coming for Your Cars
[insert expostulation of stunned disbelief]
miserabilism
Most excellent.
Someone will have to explain to me why fishing teams need to be sex segregated, but w/e.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12181413/Half-England-ladies-angling-team-quit-trans-woman-selected-join-squad.html
Because the female team does not use worms only artificial lures?
As a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, you might be on to something…
Mmmmmm, peaches. Plump, juicy, sweet peaches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAnQqVJ3XQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiQ_XGuZr0
I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree
Eat A Peach
if they are juicy they are overripe
So wrong!
If the juice doesn’t run down your chin, they are not ripe.
If it does, you’re eating them wrong.
maddie 🌻
@0xmaddie_
>friend says there’s a cool new program
>ask if program halts or doesn’t halt
>he doesn’t understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is halt and what is doesn’t halt
>he laughs and says “it’s a good program”
>run the program
https://twitter.com/0xmaddie_/status/1669076600405499904
this seems to be a joke but I dont get it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
It’s an oblique reference to Turing machines. My CS knowledge is getting a little rusty though.
This is an interesting court case:
Lawsuit Seeking $14,729 Tax Refund Could Lead to Corporate Windfall
It’s almost like the government is a gaping maw of retarded greed.
“The court is scheduled today to consider taking a case that asks whether people and companies must receive, or realize, income before it can be taxed under the Constitution’s 16th Amendment.”
Da fuq? This idiocy that you will tax growth in investments before they are realized is just fucking evil? Will the IRS send me a check when the stock market tanks and my investments go down even though I have not sold them? Cause I am pretty sure they have no intention of doing that last thing. They just want to fleece me as hard as they can.
I think in this case it specifically has to do with income that has not been repatriated.
However, you know full fucking well they would love to tax unrealized gains in general.
Molly McGhee ✨
@mollymcghee
God I am starting to think that being poor is something that happens to you at birth and you can never escape it. I teach at an Ivy, I’m a New York Times Bestselling editor, I have a novel coming out, and I am still so fucking poor it’s embarrassing.
N. Bourbaki, Dr Chad Latino
@d08890
i would like to take you to one of the reservations or to rural honduras or indonesia and show you how those people live, so that you can count your blessings that you are “poor” in the us
also, as many are saying: lol, lmao
https://twitter.com/d08890/status/1669304239418482690
In other words, I’m shutting this down because I look like an asshole.
With takes like this how is she so poor!?
It’s pure resentment and envy. A very nice distillation of the mindset which pervades English departments everywhere.
It’s people like her that try and chisel me down on my hourly rate because the “educated” can’t stand paying the trades more per hour than they earn. Fortunately I’m in a position where I have fired all of those customers as I won’t deal with that shit.
If it is so easy doing what those guys do, why didn’t you do it yourself?
I guess everybody is just lining up to hand white guys 6-figures in her world. lol
People born in poverty that lack opportunities (like in corrupt socialist economies) or never learn the crucial lessons of success, will stay trapped in poverty. That’s true. But it is not my fault, so you are not allowed to punish me for that shit.
Translation: There are people richer than me and that’s not fair. *stamps foot*
Von Mises covered this in the Anti-Capitalist Mentality. The intellectual class in general despises the business class for being more financially successful when it is obvious that they should be rewarded for their greater commitment to and achievements of the mind.
‘Achievements…’
Heheheheh, that is hilarious and so typical. “I’m important and work with my superior intellect unlike those inbred truckers. And how dare they be paid more than me for that money work!”
The tweet mocking her library is awesome.
Bestselling *editor*?
Oh wow, I didn’t even catch that. What a twerp.
Don’t cut off your balls, people.
I can’t decide if I’m sympathetic or need to rent a woodchipper.
Oh you definitely need to rent a woodchipper.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-outcomes/
Evil monsters
If you’re going to invent characters, try harder with the names.
We had planned to call the character Dr Mutilator von Killington-MacMurder, Esq.
Woodchipper it is.
Fuck me, how can’t people see how evil this is?
Rage building.
Ding, ding, ding.
Under other circumstances this whole racket would be called “homophobia”.
But convincing children to transition is better than those evil conversion camps!
/if I had to rank them, I’d put convincing them to transition is much more evil than conversion camps
Agreed. Conversion camps aren’t going to work and in some cases qualify as assault.
Transitioning flat out is assault. So is clearly worse.
See, I have met a number of people and seen many more in the media who transition but…were straight? They go from being straight to transitioning to being gay. It makes zero fucking sense with the leftist claptrap about privilege and how no one would choose to be gay given the discrimination (that is, I realize, an out dated 90’s statement that no gay rights activist today would ever even think of uttering).
But if you are guy attracted to women transitioning so you have tits and can wear dresses, you probably most definitely just have a mental disorder.
I guess we’re the new Iran now.
Hard fucking pass.
In the long-run you will come out ahead buying the woodchipper outright.
Good answer, you’ll be needing it in the future. Get one that runs on steam power
Barbarians
For one brief moment, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., must have thought things were going his way. He had managed to hammer out a deal with President Joe Biden that avoided disastrous default on the country’s debt yet won the support of the vast majority of his caucus. And then came last week’s backlash from the right, paralyzing the House floor and leaving McCarthy’s leadership team sniping at one another over who was to blame.
What was striking about the rebellion — which was at least temporarily resolved this week — is how effective it was in blockading GOP priorities, even though less than a dozen members took part. At the start of McCarthy’s speakership, it was clear that the far right would be a threat to his success, but last week’s rebels were only a small part of the 43-member House Freedom Caucus. And this “chaos caucus” has promised that it won’t let up on McCarthy until its demands are met. Just don’t ask exactly what those demands are.
Chaos. Destruction. Oblivion.
AP propaganda machine in full force
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/cases-check-fraud-escalate-dramatically-americans-warned-mail-100030900
Use CBDC instead.
With CBDC only the government can steal your money and ruin it’s value!
Oh, is that is why all of a sudden I have deposit limits on my USAA account and every little check is held for 7 days? You’d think after 20 years of being a customer with no bounced checked or returned deposits, a little trust would be in play.
Statistically speaking, you should have had an issue by now. So we have to assume your issue is forthcoming and have to increase scrutiny.
I had a USAA insurance check held by the USAA bank for a few days, to determine if it as any good.
my position on child gender transitions is clear. children should not receive medical care of any kind. until they reach their majority they are gods alone and it is not for man to say whether they live or die
opponents of minors transitioning note that many treatments have various costs to health and that some fraction of minors who transition subsequently detransition
proponents note that delayed transition and puberty itself inflicts costs, some irreversible, on trans ppl
fortunately cutting edge economic theorists have provided a solution to EXACTLY this sort of problem
the year is 2023. we dont need to use hamfisted policy or trust the judgment of “medical” “professionals” to gatekeep trans treatments from minors
instead, we can simply rely on public prediction markets to make the call
details of implementation:
1. set up prediction markets about transition outcomes for everyone under 18
2. if the prediction market for any given person at any point in time suggests a positive outcome from transitioning they gotta do it
anyway i hope this clarifies everyones thinking on this contentious matter. as usual, politicians and doctors and people who dont put their money where their mouth is are the problem
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1669225133817356289
thread
‘some fraction ‘
3/4 is technically a fraction I guess.
These people exist on the bleeding edge of what technology allows while simultaneously revolting against the thing that made it all possible, cheap energy.
I watched one of those “Men Who Built America” episodes the other night. It was about Henry Ford, but part of it covered Roosevelt and trust busting. At one point, when they are on United States v Standard Oil, they have John D Rockefeller something to the effect of, “Nobody complained when I made kerosene cheap and freely available so people could light their homes.”
The people who want to do away with “carbon pollution” are completely clueless about what they are really asking for.
They’re fucking children reveling in childish things.
He also saved the whales since they were being hunted to extinction for their blubber. Why kill these noble beasts when better stuff is sitting in the ground?
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/jury-pacificorp-punitive-damages-wildfires/283-56eb64e7-be3c-4a03-8817-295b9de28cd2
Fucking jurors should be strung up. The ratchet to make power unreliable for forcing so-called public safety shutdowns continues. Record heat wave at the time and cutting power ever time a leaf twitches is insane. Plus cutting the power puts people even more at risk when internet, tv, and phone all drop.
The real cherry is relying on former Gov Shitstain and her staff for a biased view. Those fucking idiots let fire burn “contained” until it damn near burned down the state capital. But their good advice would have prevented the fire to the north. Fucking fuckers. Not to mention under state law, the state pockets punitive damages checks even when their not the party to the lawsuit.
A jury in Oregon says the electric utility PacifiCorp must pay punitive damages for causing devastating wildfires in 2020 — on top of an earlier verdict already expected to amount to billions of dollars.
“We love expensive energy and don’t want to allow the proper forest management that helps mitigate forest fires.”
Exactly who do they think will pay thew fines. It is so funny.
Is it insane if it’s intentional? I’d go with evil instead.
I’m thinking much harder these days about installing a wood furnace and solar panels to reduce my reliance on the grid.
Depending on where we land, I’ve been pondering the same thing.
Same here. I have the space for a windmill too, so I’ve been thinking about that more and more. The initial cost is so high, though. If the Church of Gaia actually cared about reducing lowering carbon emissions, they’d be giving direct cash help to homeowners to install these things instead of the myriad of scams they have going on.
The goal is not to curtail carbon dioxide, but to curtail people.
I’d look carefully at the windmill. A friend of mine out here told me theirs doesn’t generate enough to make the expense and effort close to worth it. And they are in the mountains with wind every damn day.
A good article:
https://www.solacity.com/small-wind-turbine-truth/
That looks like a great article. Thanks! I’ll add it to my research list.
It’s a regulated utility. The costs will get spread to rate payers sooner or later.
After delivering 72 spacecraft to orbit, Falcon 9 returns to Earth and completes SpaceX’s 200th landing of an orbital class rocket
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1668418954170347521
Unlike the more enlightened European Space Agency, Musk is not thinking about the jobs lost by making rockets reusable.
I’ll take shit that should have happened 40 years ago for $200, Alex.
They’re close to doing one every 4 days this year, with a 100% success rate.
The bills themselves are relatively inconsequential, since they won’t pass the Democratic-led Senate or get Biden’s signature. But the rebels’ votes were meant to vent their anger that McCarthy had dared to compromise on the House’s original debt ceiling plan and its massive spending cuts.
Massive spending cuts. Bless your heart.
“An NYC driver with 160 traffic violations delivered an emotionless apology as he was sentenced for a crash that killed a three-month-old baby girl and injured her mother.
Tyrik Mott, 30, told Brooklyn Supreme Court that he ‘really didn’t mean it’ after being jailed for nine years for killing little Apolline Mong Guillemin in September 2021.
He admitted manslaughter, attempted robbery, reckless driving and other charges, accepting a plea deal that cut down a potential 15-year jail term.
He told the court on Wednesday: ‘I’m just sorry for everything I did. I’m sorry for all the hurt I caused. I really didn’t mean it,’ reports NYPost.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12196317/NYC-driver-delivers-apology-sentenced-crash-killed-three-month-old-baby.html
160??
Probably way more common than most would believe.
why are you surprised? that is just like 30 a year
Just another day in NYC.
Things would have gone much better for him if he had just gotten someone to choke him on the subway.
“The deadly crash took place September 11 2021, when Mott was driving away from police after failing to stop at a red light, going down the wrong way on Gates Avenue and crashing into a car.
The collision sent both cars on the sidewalk where Julien Mong and Marion Guillemin were pushing their daughter’s stroller, slamming into them.
After the crash, Mott tried to steal a 2020 Hyundai from a 41-year-old man in a bid to get away, prosecutors told his arraignment hearing at the time.
Mott had been arrested three times before, and had his license suspended. ”
Okay, so why not Felony Murder? Fuck the judges and prosecutors. There was no need for a plea deal when you have the guy dead to rights.
Death penalty imo.
Good morning from Kisii Kenya.
What is it like to live here without fossil fuels?
Some refer to it as ‘Sustainable’, I agree, only if its definition changes to ‘break your back if you want to eat even though you’ll be poor forever’
I am weeding our maize.
https://twitter.com/JusperMachogu/status/1642391693075836928
For poppy and Molly McGhee
Obama should do something nice for Kenya with all his many millions.
Maybe build some fucking wells and get these people clean water.
He has a tough row to hoe
Why isn’t this guy (and his village) at least using plows?
That is like 17th century tech at best. Not sure when exactly the chinese had developed the most recent iteration.
Otherwise, he seems spot on with fossil fuel use.
Subsaharan agriculture has traditionally been done by individuals with hoes manually turning the soil. The crops they grow are also not typically planted in plowed rows.
That’s not to say there isn’t vast room for improvement in subsaharan agriculture, but there’s no incentive to do it.
And for the record, plows are mesolithic to neolithic tech. Most of the new iterations were to adapt to soil types and new crops.
‘And for the record, plows are mesolithic to neolithic tech.’
But my understanding is that there have been significant increases in their effectiveness with time, with manual versions improving up until the advent of mechanized farming. The guy already has cattle, and is using new-world crops like corn… just get some plows bro.
There have been increases in their effectiveness since the advent of mechanized farming too.
That is why I specified ‘manual verisons’, unless you’re saying those have improved as well.
Well he’s hoeing (cultivating – week control), not plowing.
For small-scale farms without equipment or chemical options, hand-hoeing’s pretty much it for accuracy/thoroughness.
Fair enough, I am not an agriculturalist to this level, just thought you could still plow between the rows for weed control- perhaps as you say he’s just getting between the plants. Seems like there’s got to be a better option.
Nice preview of our future as dirt-farming peasants on the manors owned by the elites.
The elites won’t own the farms, they will lease them (for free) from the government to avoid the punishing property taxes.
The final debt deal included a set of caps on military and domestic spending that are pegged to the current fiscal year. The chaos caucus — which includes Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Chip Roy of Texas in its ranks — insists that those caps be treated as a ceiling with room for further cuts, rather than as a target to be met. That’s not at all how Democrats see the deal, and it would surely prompt a clash down the road that could make the appropriations process much, much more difficult.
That’s not a ceiling, it’s a floor.
“Cartoon Network show ‘We Baby Bears’ – aimed at children over the age of six – introduces two non binary characters who use they/them pronouns in new episode”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12196039/Cartoon-Network-Baby-Bears-introduces-two-non-binary-characters-use-pronouns.html
No.
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Blossom Puzzle, June 15
Letters: A B E R K O Y
My score: 263 points
My longest word: 9 letters
💐 🌹 🌼 🌻 🏵 🌷 🌺 💮 🌸
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
I’m thinking much harder these days about installing a wood furnace and solar panels to reduce my reliance on the grid.
Get a steam powered generator which burns old tires.
Ray of Sunshine
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-milk-of-judicial-kindness-georgia-lactation-occupational-licensing-4af9c62c?st=71g0gs2u1l6ng4m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That the breast you can do?
I feel like you milked that.
He gives you the milk of human kindness and you say that?
He’s trying to milk that link for all it’s worth.
Milk of judicious consciousness? Is this some euphemism for cock milk?
Milk has been used like, five times now. I think it is time to use a different word for the express purpose of this pun chain.
Yeah, that’s been skimmed for all it’s worth.
Man, Mary is going to be disappointed!
*Golf Clap
Pun standards do seem to have sagged.
The milkman of human kindness…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mMUJFAd4rQ
Gym moving day #2. Most of the rubber mats, rigs, and deadlift platforms have been moved and will be installed today. We’re not moving the weights and things just yet because we need to get our insurance straightened out. I say “we” but I’ve been at work and I’m not a big help moving things. But Mrs. TOK and a crew are making good progress.
I’m documenting all this for a future article, BTW.
Woohoo!
I can’t wait to see it finished. And get my merch!
If you don’t mind me text spamming you I’ll keep sending update photos.
Bring em on!
More subway vigilantism
The ex-con who was stabbed to death on the subway in Brooklyn after allegedly punching a woman in the face was “acting obnoxious” and bizarrely yelled he “was going to erase someone” before the fatal altercation, a witness told The Post.
Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, was killed after he started arguing with another rider, 20-year-old Jordan Williams, and his girlfriend on a northbound J train on Tuesday night, police and sources said.
Before the confrontation with Williams, Ouedraogo and his pal started “acting obnoxious” after they boarded the train at either the Fulton or Chambers Street station, according to a witness, who identified himself only as Eric.
“He was getting in the face of somebody on the other end of the train. At one point he took his shirt off and I heard him say he was going to erase someone” Eric, 28, said of Ouedraogo.
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[et cetera]
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After about three or four more verbal exchanges, Eric said Ouedraogo then “cracked him [Williams] in the face.”
Sources have said Ouedraogo also slugged Williams’ girlfriend.
Williams and Ouedraogo started wrestling on the ground as straphangers fled to neighboring cars, including Eric, who described the next car over as “packed like a sardine can.”
Still watching the fight from the other car, Eric said he “didn’t see him [Williams] pull out a knife but it looked like he punched him [Ourdraogo] in the chest,” Eric said.
He said Ourdraogo “walked through the car doors into the car where everyone was and I backed up and he had a hole in the center of his chest and it was pumping blood and he had a glossed over look in his eyes.”
Ourdraogo stumbled out of the train and collapsed at the Marcy Avenue stop in Williamsburg, he said.
Another victim of homelessness?
That article took longer to get to the race card than I expected.
All I needed to see was a picture of the suspect to know how it will end (not with a murder indictment).
Didn’t seem very devictorious.
De-victor, kind of like deactivate.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Sounds like he got what he deserved.
“I want to buy all the knives”
“There’s twenty-three of them, how are you going to carry that many?”
“I’ll figure it out“
In her right hand, she has a Fistfull of Daggers. In her belt, A Few Daggers More.
That’s a man, in the traditional men’s garb of the caucuses.
Williams, of Hollis, Queens, was charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon on Wednesday morning, authorities said.
You’d be a fool not to carry a weapon of some sort.
And the criminalization of self defense continues.
As they said about Rittenhouse during the riots, just take your ass kicking and don’t fight back, you will probably live.
Surprising absolutely no one
Four of the nation’s biggest environmental advocacy groups officially endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign Wednesday night, an early declaration of support that also served as a show of appreciation for having passed the most significant climate legislation in history last year.
Biden trekked across town from the White House to receive the endorsement in person, speaking at the League of Conservation Voters’ annual fundraising dinner in a concert venue along Washington’s southeastern waterfront.
I wonder if he made them wear masks.
Obama should do something nice for Kenya with all his many millions.
Maybe build some fucking wells and get these people clean water.
Abortion clinics.
Passports
I wonder if Disney ever considered the novel concept of writing a script and sticking to it during filming. And any cost cutting moves in general. They may be doing better if every movie didn’t cost a few hundred million to make before marketing and didn’t need to make $800-1billion to be successful.
But I didn’t go to an Ivy league school and don’t get paid 7-8 figures to make decisions like this.
*Lloyd Kaufman nods in agreement
The changes Disney needs to make are pretty obvious. But we live in a world where to big business, ESG scores are more important than making money. All they’d have to do is a) Emphasize value and quality at the parks. Stop squeezing the customer for every last dime, lower prices where possible, and make it a top-notch experience again. b) Scrap all the sequels and franchise garbage. Emphasize original stories that are well written and aren’t just trying to check boxes on an ESG checklist.
Even in the franchises and sequels, stop trying to introduce unpopular characters and force them to become popular (looking at you Ironheart).
There are dozens of better female characters they haven’t even introduced yet in the MCU (such as Storm, Black Cat, White Tiger, Misty Knight, and Squirrel Girl off the top of my head).
“Many of you have been with me throughout my career and I can’t tell you how much it means to have your support again,” Biden said, taking the stage after the endorsement was announced. “Together we’ve made a lot of progress, but we’ve got to finish the job.”
We must hold the economy’s head underwater until it completely ceases to struggle to survive.
Some journalisming from straight news outlet Associated Press:
“In affirmative action and student loan cases, some see backlash to racial progress in education”
https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/backlash-to-racial-progress-in-education/507-a712a7a1-a58d-45e7-964b-48b53c845ccb
““These are policy tools that have an explicit aim around reducing the power of white supremacy,” Baker said. The two court challenges, she said, can be seen “as linked backlash to two attempts towards racial justice.””
““This is white supremacy at work,” Green said. “This is a long tactic of conservative, white supremacist-leaning groups to use education and limit Black people’s access to education, as a way to further control and oppress us.””
Student loan money well spent.
That looks delicious. Wonder what’s in the pot in the center.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_cuisine
I’ve had satsivi (sp?) like a walnut curry- very good.
This Georgian restaurant?
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/thumbnail_image001_GAB.jpg?resize=730%2C548
Title company received my condo papers and all appear to be in order. One more day, and I will no longer own a condo!
The market is only going up up up
Congrats!
Sweet, sweet freedom!
🙂
Go you!
YAY KK, NON-MAN!!!
Congrats! I bet you’ll be glad to have this behind you.
Woot!
Bringing back slavery
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill aimed at dismantling diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, offices and programs in higher education, after months of debate on the Senate and House floors.
“With this bold, forward-thinking legislation to eliminate DEI programs, Texas is leading the nation, and ensuring our campuses return to focusing on the strength of diversity and promoting a merit-based approach where individuals are judged on their qualifications, skills, and contributions,” Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, said in a statement. Creighton introduced the bill to the Senate early March.
White supremacy and segregation are the obvious end goal.
This is fantastic news.
“Michigan city with all-Muslim council bans Pride flags on public property at bizarre council meeting in which LGBTQ couple kiss in front of shocked religious groups”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12196225/Michigan-city-Muslim-government-bans-Pride-flags-public-property-council-meeting.html
The physical conflict is almost here. That quote about the rainbow flag representing all people is F-ing bullshit.
This story might have room to hate everyone involved.
I am cool with that. Not angry.
We will not allow any flags that only represent one group of people. Well, except for our group.
yeah, kind of an egregious carve-out.
Texas did a thing where all the flags of nations that flew over Texas were displayed. Eventually it turned into an amusement park concept. It is not that unusual, as long as the immigrant or other flags are flown under the state and US flag. The important thing is that the flag is an actual country, not a political or social flag.
Immigrant country flags are not acceptable to me on public property.
Go there and fly your flags. Here is not there.
Though I can allow an exception for “sister city” displays like I have seen in various cities.
“Six Flags Over a Hot Flat Region” ( © Dave Barry)
wut
Otherwise it is probably the wisest solution. Stop pushing political bullshit already.
“The meeting was so well attended people were listening from the hallways as council members said the Pride flag clashed with the beliefs of some members of their faith. ”
Muslims dont like the gays? Ya dont say.
Id like these people to take their pride to Dearborn, MI and do their prideful stuff in front of a Halal market just so they can see the tolerance of Islam.
Heh
Pride Month Shocker: Bert & Ernie Come Out As Straight
I know it is the Bee, but these people really exist. Maybe puppets don’t fuck, you sick bastards.
Remember when the socons were all upset over Teletubbies?
Does the notion of kids shows inserting gay propaganda really come off as that crazy now?
Turns out the slopes really are slippery. Jesus.
That sounds racist.
I had no idea there was a gay connection until I bought my niece a giant Tinki Winki. It was like 4 ft tall, and I put it in the passenger seat of my truck. On my way home, Tinky beside me, I pulled through the rather redneck drive-thru that I daily offered my custom. A young lady working there started giggling, pointed, and yelled TINKY!
From that day forward, Id pull in. Dip in mouth, Ram2500 4WD diesel, perhaps even some Dwight Yokam playing. As soon as I was spotted someone would get on the PA to announce, “TINKYS HERE!”
R O F L
That is because Teletubbies are truly of the devil. I mean, have you SEEN those things?
Sound warning
And Tickle me Elmo surely wasn’t grooming children to be touched by strangers.
Really not sure how long they can keep it up before they become a straight news site…pun totally not intended
Like 1984, not intended as an instruction manual.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1669105442193125379
Classy.
Luddites
House lawmakers passed the second bill in as many days Wednesday to fend off federal action on gas stoves — moving legislation aimed at stopping the Energy Department from finalizing a proposed efficiency regulation for the appliances.
The Biden administration has repeatedly disavowed any ban on gas stoves. But the bipartisan bill — alongside legislation passed Tuesday to preemptively prohibit the Consumer Product Safety Commission from using federal funds to ban gas stoves — represents Republican efforts to combat what they call overreach by the Biden administration and its efforts to push efficiency measures as part of a larger anti-fossil fuel agenda.
“It’s all part of this government-control agenda that we’re seeing from this administration,” Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Tuesday. “The Biden administration — it seems like every single department. It’s CFPB here, it’s the Department of Energy over there, it’s EPA in another place, trying to tell people what they can and can’t do with their lives.”
But Democrats who oppose the bill say Republicans are misleading Americans on what the proposed rule would do. Instead, they said the “commonsense” proposal — which would only apply to new gas stoves sold three years after the rule is finalized — would lower energy bills, improve Americans’ health and cut pollution.
Why do Republicans hate SCIENCE!?
‘improve Americans’ health’
Because they will hate cooking? gas stoves>>>>electric, unless you go induction(which is super expensive).
Subsaharan agriculture has traditionally been done by individuals with hoes manually turning the soil. The crops they grow are also not typically planted in plowed rows.
That’s not to say there isn’t vast room for improvement in subsaharan agriculture, but there’s no incentive to do it.
Why plant more than you can eat? That’s just wasteful.
First, you need seed for the next planting.
Second, you need to hedge against future bad harvests.
Third, you need something to pay off the marauding bands of violent people collecting “Taxes”, “Tributes”, or “Tithes”
You left out the Jizya, unless that was covered under tithe.
It’s a tax, and it breaks the alliteration.
I feel like Jizya falls under tribute- something you pay to avoid being enslaved or attacked.
“YouTube has age-restricted my video containing Pride parade footage.
If it’s not appropriate for minors to watch on Youtube, how is it appropriate for them to go to the actual events???”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1669176967428550656
It’s because YouTube is lying.
Perfect.
“There’s simply no reason for this proposed rule to be controversial,” Energy and Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said Tuesday. “No one is saying you can’t keep your gas stove. No one is saying you don’t have a choice. No one is saying you have to move to electric stoves. This is all misinformation.”
Ban gas lighting.
😏
Second Lawsuit Filed in US Against Medical Transition of Minors
Both of these involve Kaiser. Isn’t that a California-based healthcare group?
Kaiser tried to make inroads here. Did not work.
They did not establish a Permanente presence?