Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another wonderous day and the links!
GOP targets 3 vulnerable Democrats in quest to win Senate, House control too early to predict
Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It
Mortgage Rates Soar to Highest Level for the Year
Airbnb bookings dip in Austin, San Francisco prompting ‘doom loop’ fears
Georgia Mayor Held at Gunpoint After Allegedly Breaking Into Home
NYPD exodus continues as cops feel ‘squeezed from every direction’
New York Times columnist slams Biden for not recognizing estranged granddaughter
CNN discourages viewers from watching anti-pedophile movie, Sound of Freedom
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“GOP targets 3 vulnerable Democrats in quest to win Senate, House control too early to predict”
They not only will look for ways to fuck this up, but should they pull it off, will fuck up being in the majority too.
It’s good to see someone really grasp the Republican approach to governance.
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns… But it’s a pretty good guess in this case.
“Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It”
This shit is why nobody should see these people as anything other than a bunch of scumbags with evil agendas. Hottest day ever compared to what? And when? What’s the baseline for this claim? When you get these details you find out it might have been the hottest day evah in their stinky drawers, but nowhere else.
Climate Reanalyzer – the model of other models.
Just before the paywall, the article says the statement relies on “satellite temperature data and computer model guesstimation”.
I suppose they are too polite to use brevity and just say “lies and bullshit”.
Coldest winter on record for,
San Diego? Yes
How dare you!
I brought it with me,
“Tucker Carlson Tells Russell Brand Capitol Police Chief Said January 6 ‘Crowd Was Filled with Federal Agents’”
This reveal will not be allowed to go unchallenged, because the machine has plans. I suspect that they are allowing this now to come out in dribs & drabs, so that people get numbed to it as they have become numbed to abuses of power and corruption at a level nobody would have believed possible or accepted just 10 years ago. The complicit legacy apparatus will also do its best to tell us why we should even bother or care about it now at all, just like that old bag Hillary did. And most people, because they are stupid enough to think that since this criminality is favoring their political side, will just not even bother to realize where things are heading.
It was originally a staged controversy to distract the public while the rigged election was certified.
Since then it has slowly morphed into an intimidation operation to show what happens to anyone who gets in their way.
“It was originally a staged controversy to distract the public while the rigged election was certified.”
It was far more than an op to distract the public: it was an op to give them legitimacy in their claim that anyone that challenged the election they had so blatantly and obviously stolen/rigged was committing sedition and/or an enemy of the state. It was a means to provide their authoritarian criminal response the veneer of legitimacy.
And this capitol shit was not the only op the had running. People forget the pipe bomber which suddenly, like the person that left a bag of cocaine in the WH, is too willey or squirrelly to be found. Because they don’t want to.
Someone linked an article here explaining how the riot allowed Pelosi et al to completely bypass the objections to certification.
It was too neat a legal maneuver and too immediately deployed to not have been planned in advance.
When getting and holding power is the priority, shit like this becomes the norm. And our inept and corrupt unelected bureaucratic machine sees a populist movement, especially one that demands we return to our old meritocratic ways, as anathema to it’s personal existence.
And Pence was in on it too! [Queeg fondling his metal balls]
Well there is some grounds for optimism. After all, “old bag Hillary” did not win in 2016. Apparently enough American voters woke up to her assholery. We can only hope that in 2024 Americans do the same about Dr. Jill’s husband and the rest of the progressive nobility (and that fortification efforts fail in swing states that matter).
Shades of the UN. If convicted, the Marine should get the death penalty and any involved in an attempted coverup should be in the brig for decades.
I’m going to invoke Occum’s Razor and say it was more like “14 year old runaway meets a dopey 19 year old Marine (and probably doesn’t say she’s 14) and he figures he can keep his new girlfriend in the barracks ‘for a little while’”
He’s certainly a dumb fuck if he was that naive.
Lots of 19 year old dudes are that naive.
Hard to think logically when you’re hard.
Iirc from that time, your talking most my waking hours.
I find it difficult to believe that you can keep a sex slave captive at a barracks. I haven’t slept in one since… 1986? But I remember a distinct lack of privacy or hiding places.
Unfortunately, some people are very easy to keep “captive”.
Sounds like an article!
Oh I could totally believe someone thinks “being a freeuse slave for a barracks full of marines” is their fantasy and stupid enough for them to try it out.
Depends on whether you’ve got a strong gang presence in the enlisted ranks.
“Mortgage Rates Soar to Highest Level for the Year”
As if high housing costs were not enough, now they have high mortgages as well to make sure the young that isn’t coming from money already will have a near impossible challenge to overcome. They meant it when they told people they would give us a future where the people would no longer own anything (cause they will own it all), and people would be happy getting whatever the ones that own give them. And don’t forget that saying you are not happy means you are out on the fucking streets or into the pot of soilent green.
Soy Lent,
Just say’n
The only way to correct the housing prices is to correct the interest rate policy. It’s the inevitable outcome of zero interest rates.
Of course, the regulatory environment doesn’t help either.
Supply and demand might have something to say too. Unlimited immigration and unlivable cities are bending those lines.
There isn’t any “correction” to be made in the prices. That’s a logical stolen base, presuming that there is a “correct” price that some elite can discern, and use government force to achieve.
Bad policies drive up the prices, of course. And most policies regarding housing are bad policies, because it is hard to “fix” a free market with socialism.
“high” mortgage rates.
We have normal mortgage rates. We had years of insanely low mortgage rates.
^^^ this
True enough. Though they were somewhat in line with inflation.
Prices are what is crazy right now. The rate of increase is bonkers.
“Airbnb bookings dip in Austin, San Francisco prompting ‘doom loop’ fears”
Ohw..
All they need is some snazzy and totally false advertisement clips to sucker some new victims, erm tourists, to come navigate those shitholes.
“CNN discourages viewers from watching anti-pedophile movie, Sound of Freedom”
Groomers and their supporters want to keep people from realizing how evil this shit being foisted on us all is. And since most normal people will freak the fuck out when adults start doing shit to kids, they can’t have people seeing that shit is happening to kids and most of the groomer crowd, at a minimum, turns a blind eye to it, if it hey are not actively participating in this shit.
I think in this case it’s a involuntary reflexive action to anything that might be considered “right wing” or Christian in nature.
It’s far more than that. These scumbags know things like this show that they system is broken and run by evil fucks, and they would prefer the average Joe never know until it is too late to reverse them making sex with minors legal and anyone that objects the criminal.
There’s plenty of people who just react and live in perpetual fear that the Moral Majority will rise again and start throwing gays off the rooftops. They’re willfully blind to all of the moral lines that are being crossed and don’t understand that it’s making the reactionary phase inevitable.
That said, CNN has been noted for its pedophile population.
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/former-cnn-producer-pleads-guilty-to-child-sex-charge-in-deal/2934912/
From what I understand this movie had very little to do with gays, if anything, so you have to wonder why the CNN cadre things people will jump from pedophilia straight to gays are bad….
I’ve met several people who think any concerns about immoral sexual behavior is homophobia in disguise and claim that objecting to drag queens showing their junk to kids is going to lead to rollbacks of gay marriage and reimplementation of the old sodomy laws.
One problem with the woke Left is their fundamental inability to draw a line on sexual behavior because they’re afraid they’ll end up on the wrong side from their friends and become a troglodyte just like those backwards Christians.
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-obryant-square-renamed-darcelle-xv-plaza/283-4d180b7b-2f1a-454d-aa25-3783a1f6b316
Renaming from the city’s first mayor to a drag queen. Fitting that it’s on a street renamed from an early local resident and politician to a Califucktard that has zero connection to the city.
Then you have people bold enough to do shit like this. I mean., how fucking far must society have imploded for you to think you can pull shit like this and get away with it? I suspect parents will sooner than later come under assault from the legal system for defending their children from the people letting shit like this happen instead of fucking the people doing this shit up permanently.
Remember when the gay press said “groomer” was an anti-LGBT slur, and Twitter banned the word.
Shit like this sure as fuck makes you have to acknowledge that the massive and rabid response to people pointing out child abuse must be punished from the media might exist because they want more of it.
But Harvey Milk is a hero for some reason that has never been adequately explained to me, having read all the details surrounding his and the mayor’s death that day!
That whole article is so ridiculous and therefore a perfect encapsulation of what I have heard about that city.
Nerfherder is right. I have a lot of friends and family of the left to far-left variety, and they live in constant fear of Ed Meese coming back from the grave. The mere idea of them voting/thinking/acting conserivative means they lost the culture war in their eyes, that gays will be back in the closet, that blacks will be back in chains, and so on. It has no basis in logic, but rather in what they have been spoon fed by years of NPR, PBS and all the other groups living off of boomer money. ‘Cause that is what, deep down, is driving it.
Pretty much so. They cynical explanation is that QAnon, and anything they see as adjacent to them, must be discredited and destroyed at all costs, even if that means turning a blind eye to actual, no-shit trafficking. Hopefully, serving as apologists or denialists will hopefully backfire on them.
The way every MSM outlet turned on a dime with the same “QAnon” lie is breathtaking.
Do they really think we are that stupid? (Don’t answer that.)
They sure as hell think their usual clientele are dumb fucks. Cause they seem to keep upping the level of obvious bullshit without fear they will be called out on it ever.
We aren’t the base they are selling to, and yes, they do think their own people are that stupid. And they aren’t wrong.
Moral panics are never good.
There are ways to avoid them. Trust in the authorities to enforce the laws on the books fairly helps.
In which case, I guess it’s all going to go to hell.
Things are complicated by no-shit scandals like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scandal
And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_child_sex_abuse_ring
There were at least a half dozen other British cities where precisely the same things happened. Mark Steyn was all over this several years ago.
“New York Times columnist slams Biden for not recognizing estranged granddaughter”
So people that are cool with a criminal boss that has all but lost his marbles is running the country into the ground, finally found something they felt was over the line for them?
They must be getting ready to throw this douchebag out. Keep an eye on any ops to torpedo Koh-moh-loh the cackler, and you know they are about to do a switcheroo on us.
They couldn’t possibly criticize him for his actual crimes.
The Times also criticized the decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine.
What was their argument? Just start shooting the nukes already?
Talk about low hanging fruit…
Could just as easily have been “we must defend democracy with every available means”.
Nothing “he”* has done is over the line for them, as they are all things they love.
-Working on destroying fossil fues?
-Working on destroying capitalism?
-Working on destroying republican governance?
All what they what they want.
*as we all know, Biden has jello pudding for brains, and the admin is a Junta at this point.
I’ve been thinking about this lately. The three letter agencies and the press are working overtime to cover for a corrupt, immoral family who are using their illegally gained millions to live a lavish lifestyle of drug and hookers. They are being used to prop up Boss Hogg, and they don’t get any benefit from it. At some point it’s got to get hard to look at yourself in the mirror.
You are way more of an optimist than I.
The three letter agencies get free reign. And that is worth a lot to them.
Oh, they get plenty of benefits from protecting the criminal family in the WH. You don’t really think ole Joe is running anything, now do you? They are calling all the shots. Joe goes along cause they own his ass.
I do believe that’s happening. But that’s only benefitting the higher-ups. The low level people who signed up to catch bad guys are now staking out school board meetings and being directed to ignore obvious corruption. It has to be demoralizing. If there is not a mass exodus like there has been from police departments, I’d expect one soon.
The prize for being a federal agent is being a federal agent or working yourself up higher office or political future. None of that has changed. If they wanted to fight crime, they’d hire on with a local sheriffs department.
This link is not Banjo’s style, but…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12258007/Woman-extracted-pig-semen-work-looks-sue-employer-developing-wrist-injuries.html
This is why you have workers comp…
I wouldn’t have guessed that work was so … hands on.
Yeah. When I lived worked at/near Texas A&M, I had an acquaintance hat collected semen from bulls and there were no hand jobs involved. Ditto elephants — the collector put on an elbow-length glove, stickes their arm up its ass and punches the bull in the prostate.
the collector put on an elbow-length glove, stickes their arm up its ass and punches the bull in the prostate.
I think I’ve seen a documentary on that.
Check your email, plz. I was slow to respond.
O.O
Totally unrelated to my comment. Honestly.
LOL!
So he’s a cattle pimp. Does he wear a 70s style pimp outfit to work?
She. I imagine it was difficult being her boyfriend.
That really sounds twisted.
“NYPD exodus continues as cops feel ‘squeezed from every direction’”
The end goal is to have desperate people ask for a federal police force…
Cause then they can really get down to stomping their boots on the necks of the serfs.
Critical Drinker gives a whole-heartedly positive review of the Sound of Freedom.
https://youtu.be/R2ov9_pGkyY
“Doom Loop”? Isn’t the term “Death Spiral”?
doom loop is vogue, death spiral is a bush years deprecated term.
Doom Loop is a ride at Disney. Fun!
Death spiral is something with carneys.
DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?
please tell me, I’m having an identity crisis
So he broke into someone’s home then tried to use the power of government as a reason for why he is above the law? Let me guess which way his political leanings go…..
I mean, it’s not a 100% guarantee…but I wouldn’t bet against it.
Also, the article doesn’t list party affiliation, which tends to only go one way.
Unfortunately, this is what a lot of blacks believe the reality and purpose of getting elected is. Whitey has been doing all kinds of crazy shit and getting away with it, it’s our turn now.
yeah, it’s crazy. not just blacks but it seems to run across a big swath of the people who fill public offices. I get the sense that many people do really invert the concept of public servant to mean that the public should serve me. it’s pervasive.
the concept of civic duty died and no one even wrote an obituary.
You are Waffles, a high-carb breakfast item often served with sugars and possibly fried chicken.
Yo, pass that syrup, brah!
RE: Austin’s doom loop:
I was surprised that Columbus us a Torchy’s and a Chuy’s. I was saddened to find that the locals reviewed them as “meh.” (To be fair, the original Chuy’s is meh imo).
There is a Chuy’s right next Palmetto State Armory in Greenville. My Google Maps thinks I eat at Chuy’s fairly often while I’ve actually never been in there.
This is fine.
That’s the FBI guy who’s always logged into monitor your accounts.
I fooled him with tinfoil and tacos.
Bowling Green, KY has a Chuy’s.
I would put it slightly above meh, but not anything I miss.
Regarding restaurants becoming chains:
My favorite story involves a Houston chain (Ninfa’s) expanding to Germany. After getting the local owner/operator set up with the recipes, best practices, etc. the US guy went over to QC things…
…and found they were forming tortillas into squares.
Back in the 90s we really liked the Cheesecake Factory and California Pizza Kitchen in Marina del Rey. After we left LA, they became national chains and the quality took a giant drop – CPK particularly. I wonder if the quality dropped at those locations too.
You can’t stop there – you have to explain the rationale,
Supposedly these were former Ossies who had never seen Mexican food before.
Supposedly these were former Ossies who had never seen
Mexicanfood before.Fixed.
I was expecting something about German effeciency.
ZERE ARE NO CIRCLES! ONLY SQVARES!
He was *that* close to becoming the next shitstain mayor-turned-Senator. He should have just pointed a shotgun at an innocent black man like Fetterman did.
“In a clip from CNN, network host Abby Phillip brought on an author named Mike Rothschild to talk about the new and popular anti-child sex trafficking film, Sound of Freedom. Rothschild charged the film is created out of a “moral panic” and “QAnon concepts.”
So this guy likes to fuck kids?
My bet is that at a minimum he supports the concept of fucking kids.
/Cathy Newman
I had no traffic on my two flights of stairs.
You poor bastard. I only have to go down one, to my basement work station.
/laptop class preen
Basement office, bedroom on 2nd floor. I stopped and ate at the restaurant on the way.
And by “my” you meant “my mom’s” since I’ve been assured that Libertarians all live in Mom’s basement.
How the fuck do you go from “We are egging your house” to “Gotta shoot you dead for catching us egging your house”? I suspect there is a lot more going on here than was revealed so far…
I’m missing some context, I think
Sorry…
Police have not provided further details on the nature of the “lovers quarrel” or why Ms Maughon’s battery charge is considered “family violence.”
That’s how, I’m sure. Sex and probably drugs by the looks of them.
It’s the Kwame Kirkpatrick school of Governance.
Next week I retire and will become a man of leisure. Everyone is telling me I am going to miss working, I don’t believe them.
Congratulations.
Make sure you have something to fill your time, or you will waste away.
I have lots of plans – travel, fishing, golf, home improvements. My employer has asked if I would have any interest in staying on as an hourly 1099 contractor – which I will likely do.
👍
I was going to suggest a gambling habit, like betting on horse races, but your plan seems solid too.
“Sean, Life Coach”
You are correct to not believe them.
Congrats!
That’s great, congrats!
Congrats! Hope to be there in a few months meself. I will not miss working.
I am pretty sure I would not miss working ever, but I sure as hell would miss that paycheck….
Daily Ray of Sunshine
😃
I got a warm glow watching that POS taken down.
Wait, WHAT? In Californistan? How was the good Sam not taken into custody for wrongthink and assaulting a protected class?
This is going to make a lot of Minnesoda snow birds mad
Logistically, this is untenable, and probably going to fall in court.
So give driver licenses to people who aren’t citizens, then let anyone with a drivers license vote?
“if the driver is in the U.S. illegally.”
Kind of important context to the whole thing and probably means it won’t really be enforced unless part of a wider investigation. Like an accident or crime.
I can’t believe those are the only states that give illegals licenses – not even CA or NY?
whaddup doh’
Cali salutations!
/off to work
“Ex-USA gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar ‘stabbed multiple times in the back and chest by a fellow inmate’ at Florida federal prison”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12282901/Ex-USA-gymnastics-team-doctor-Larry-Nassar-assaulted-prison.html
“Sex offender roams Georgia Walmart snapping ‘upskirt pics of girls aged 11-16’ before cops arrive and arrest him
Moultrie, who lives in Decatur, has been on the Georgia sex offender registry since May 2020. He was charged with sexual battery for the latest alleged incident.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12281565/Convicted-sex-offender-roams-Georgia-Walmart-snapping-pic-womens-skirts-touching-girls-buttocks.html
Was there always this much pedo shit happening or it just wasn’t reported?
Yes and yes.
15 will get you 20 is an old saying.
I’d like to believe that was about horny older teenaged males without modern sexual outlets.
Because porn ain’t a thing?
I think it was just not widely reported. Similar to when gun violence happens. The news now amplifies pedo the same way.
The pedos now have an online community that reinforces the behavior.
Just like everybody else with a weird hobby.
Hard to say. With cops I always say we’re seeing more police misconduct because everyone has a video camera in their pocket but it’s happening less. With pedophilia it was always behind closed doors so I can’t say if it’s increasing, decreasing, or about the same.
I’m sure it was always happening. When they first started putting the registries on the internet, my kids were young, so of course I checked it to see if any were around. What I saw was mind blowing. They are fucking EVERYWHERE.
The problem is the distinction between types of sex offenses. Putting the the drunk guy who took a leak in public on the offender registry doesn’t help anyone and ruins his life.
Oh, I agree. Though if you look at the charges, most are on there for a good reason. For many, it’s hard to understand why they aren’t still in jail.
And it radically decreases the effectiveness of a registry like that.
Which tells you that it doesn’t exist to protect or inform anybody – their claim is a lie.
It exists to be another level of punishment and coercion in the charging process.
Government loves their registries. No Fly, Sex Offender, Red Flag,
“A Tennessee soccer coach was arrested after he left his cellphone behind at a restaurant and workers discovered appalling videos of young boys who were drugged and sexually assaulted, cops said Sunday.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/09/popular-soccer-coach-arrested-after-videos-of-drugged-boys-discovered-on-his-cell-phone-that-he-left-at-restaurant/
I hope this asshole gets his just rewards in prison. Fuck, I simply do not understand people that have this predilection, and even more importantly, how they feel they should act out on this shit with innocent kids.
I could theoretically understand how someone might have a weird desire.
I don’t understand how you then decide to act in that by hurting people, especially kids. Unless you’re evil… And then my sentiments lie in exactly the same direction as yours do.
Yeah, there is also a difference with fucking an apple pie your mom left in the kitchen to cool off and acting out on wanting to have sex with kids, pets, or anyone you need to drug to accomplish said feat.
Larry Nassar…I really don’t like extrajudicial acts like this, but he had it coming.
It is not a two-tiered legal system as this article claims: it is a three-tiered system.
There is the powerful (and above the law people), the serfs, and then there is the third tier: the enemies of the powerful. See the J6 political prisoners.
I’d tend to agree: the people who can get away with anything as long as they toe the political line; the ones the system will screw but it really doesn’t give a damn about them one way or another (most of us actually), and the ones that are actively oppressed.
4: inner party, outer party, proles, enemies
Still better than Bud Light?
No.
Hep C IPA…no thanks
It’s got what plants crave.
PissWater Brew
Showerbrau.
Nice, lol.
There is a Rule 34 opportunity here for OnlyFans girls. “Drink a beer that ‘x’ showered in.” I am probably late to the party, something similar has probably been done. One OnlyFans girl sells her farts.
There was a liquor company that claimed their booze was poured over the breasts of models. It went out of business iirc.
We’ve gone from Grain Belt’s “perfect brewing water” to this.
Wasn’t there a beer back in the day that boasted its brewing water came from pure artesian springs?
I think that was Sureitdoesweiser.
“Olympia, its the water”
I used to drink Oly a long time ago – it was good beer. Then they were bought by I think Heilmann’s. Something changed after the sale, it no longer tasted the same and I quit buying it.
And a lot more.
Isn’t everything made from recycled water? Why specifically call that out?
You mean water? Like, from the toilet? Not Brawndo? The thing plants crave!
If it comes out of your sink, it’s probably recycled water.
My home has a well… All water coming from it is recycled the natural way (and damned so acidic I needed to replace most of my pipes and get a treatment system)….
The repulsion is more concentration based I think. Somebody beats off in the ocean: who cares; someone beats off in the water cooler: I’ll pass.
Not exactly ♪♫ “From the land of sky blue waters”
So when someone says this beer tastes like ass, they’ll really mean it.
“Nikki Hiltz dedicates USATF Championships win to transgender supporters: ‘LGBTQ community needed a win’
The dream season for Nikki Hiltz continued on Saturday when the runner took first place in the women’s 1500-meter race at the 2023 USATF Championships.
The surging runner, who identified as transgender nonbinary in 2021, isn’t just winning for them.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/09/nikki-hiltz-dedicates-usatf-championships-win-to-transgender-supporters/
Non-binary is bullshit. Wikipedia does not mention this person’s sex, or whether she was competing as a boy or a girl.
Doesn’t the nonmention give it away?
^^^THIS^^^
Assume they omit to hide the fact this is shit.
It should be in the article and on Wikipedia.
It also raises the question, if this person is male and “non-binary” and not even claiming to be a woman, why aren’t they competing with men?
He won a women’s race, so . . . .
Nikki is always the worst.
And taken on its own terms, makes no sense next to “transgender”.
It’s almost like buzzword salad or something.
Articles of faith for deep religious mysteries.
Techno-wizardry
A U.S. drone strike killed an Islamic State group leader in Syria hours after the same MQ-9 Reaper drones were harassed by Russian military jets over the western part of the country, according to the Defense Department.
Three Reapers had been flying overhead searching for the militant on Friday, a U.S. defense official said, when they were harassed for about two hours by Russian aircraft. Shortly after that, the drones struck and killed Usamah al-Muhajir, who was riding a motorcycle in the Aleppo region, said the official, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity to describe details of the military operatio
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It was not immediately clear how the U.S. military confirmed that the person killed was al-Muhajir; no other details were provided.
In a statement Sunday, U.S. Central Command said there are no indications any civilians were killed in the strike. The military was assessing reports a civilian may have been injured.
Friday was the third day in a row that U.S. officials complained that Russian fighter jets in the region had conducted unsafe and harassing flights around American drones.
Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, head of U.S. Air Forces Central Command, said in a statement that during the Friday encounter, the Russian planes “flew 18 unprofessional close passes that caused the MQ-9s to react to avoid unsafe situations.”
The first friction occurred Wednesday morning when Russian military aircraft “engaged in unsafe and unprofessional behavior” as three American MQ-9 drones were conducting a mission against IS, the U.S. military said. On Thursday, the U.S. military said Russian fighter aircraft flew “incredibly unsafe and unprofessionally” against both French and U.S. aircraft over Syria.
Take our word for it. He was a very bad man. Now, if we can just manage to get one of those Russian fighters to crash itself…
“They’re being unsafe and unprofessional.”
*fires missile at random schmuck driving a Toyota pickup*
That missile was fired on the order of a General! You can’t get more professional than that!!!!
Not to mention, give that sumbitch a combat medal!
https://media.patriots.win/post/QHKdZF28.jpeg
Not quite Zhukov level but too close for my tastes though:
https://static.miraheze.org/allthetropeswiki/2/27/MarshalGeorgyZhukov_8757.jpg
At least Zhukov deserved all that stuff.
Look death in the eye and laugh on Mammary Monday!
https://archive.is/zH0e5
Is it just me, or are they featuring a lot more plain looking women in these things? I counted only 9 women who, if I passed them on a beach, would have warranted a second glance.
The Air BNB collapse is because the people running most Air BNBs are amateur hoteliers who piss off potential customers with unreasonable demands. We tried to book an Air BNB, and buried in the fine print were a ton of fees doubling the listed price and a $3,000 damage deposit that wasn’t necessarily refundable – for a week’s stay. Every one we tried to book had deal killers like this. So we got a hotel instead.
I thought Cali had laws making AirBNB shit, so hotels could seem more viable?
Yep. Not putting the fees up front (like hotels that don’t put their resort fees up front) is just shady bullshit.
My wife and bil inherited a couple of rental properties and have started dabbling in airbnb. It’s a massive pita from the host side. Get all kinds of scammers, broken shit, drug dealers, people leaving the property trashed, etc.
My brother has an Air BnB house. He had a property manager managing it. She ghosted him. Now he can’t get into the account because she never gave him the password and is unreachable. Now, my brother is lovely and I love him and we get along like gangbusters, but his adulting skills leave much to be desired.
They had a manager for one property and they were flakey but not that flakey. They moved that property to “midterm” rentals and seems to be going pretty well. Attracting mostly traveling nurses/med professionals.
The other property is kind of unique and they’ve been managing it themselves and have to deal w/ all the b.s. We’re in GA, bil is in VA, properties are in LA. Luckily a cousin lives next to the property. The cousin and their mother’s former caretaker help manage the property.
We had the second coldest winter since I moved to Austin this year – got down to at least 13F, perhaps lower. Back in 2020, it got down to around 0 F where I live. Had to replace some alleged Zone 8 plants with something more cold hardy.
Good morning, Banjos!
CNN discourages viewers from watching anti-pedophile movie, Sound of Freedom
And like clockwork, it crushes. I’m gonna try to see it later this week.
Airbnb bookings dip in Austin, San Francisco prompting ‘doom loop’ fears
The market is still weird. I have noticed some pretty significant price drops lately though. Who the fuck knows.
Have a great day, peeps!
The food market too. One of my supermarkets has had 1lb packages of Oscar Meyer bacon – all varieties – on sale for 3.99 for weeks. I still have three in my freezer. Went to my other supermarket yesterday and it was also on sale… for 9.99. Eggs have been swinging wildly up and down, I saw a dozen for under 2.00 the other day. And still 5.00 here and there.
Nothing specifically libertarian about it, but its one of those things that is correct anyway, and following the ideal would lead to a more libertarianish society:
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/7/10/why-private-wealth-should-lead-public-investment
Flower’s perilous journey
Families in Indiana, Mississippi and other states are navigating new laws that imply or sometimes directly accuse them of child abuse for supporting their kids in getting health care. Some trans children and teens say the recent bans on gender-affirming care in Republican-led states send the message that they are unwelcome and cannot be themselves in their home states.
For parents, guiding their children through the usual difficulties of growing up can be challenging enough. But now they are dealing with the added pressure of finding out-of-state medical care they say allows their children to thrive.
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On June 13, Flower and Jennilyn set off on their trip, unsteady but hopeful. They brought a care plan from Indiana University’s Riley Children’s Hospital, the Hoosier State’s only gender clinic.
At the time, the pair worried whether Chicago providers could meet their request for full-time support or as a backup if Indiana’s ban went on hold. They considered whether they could make the drive every three months, the necessary interval between Flower’s puberty blockers.
The decision for Flower to start puberty blockers two years ago wasn’t one the family took lightly.
Jennilyn recalled asking early on whether her daughter’s gender expression was permanent. She wondered if she had failed as a mom, especially while pregnant — was it an incorrect food? A missed vitamin?
Ultimately she and Kris dismissed those theories, ungrounded in science, and listened to their daughter, who recalled the euphoria of wearing princess dresses at an early age. Flower cherished a Little Red Riding Hood cape and felt certain of her identity from the start.
Bizarre trans propaganda fairy story from the A P.
ungrounded in science
Praise be The Science!
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” – Richard Feynman
I’d never heard that one till yesterday, but I’m going to use it.
Our culture is insane.
I don’t know what else to think anymore.
I’m right there with you. It’s a nightmare.
“Some trans children”
There should not be any.
“the necessary interval between Flower’s puberty blockers”
Puberty blockers are very bad medicine.
“She wondered if she had failed as a mom”
Yes, she failed.
Sorry Flower, your parents should probably be in jail.
See below. Looks like “parent.” The persistent use of “family” in these articles is bothersome, as most times it appears to be a single mother.
Amazing how differently these stories are written from the outrage pieces about FGM of just a few years ago. Silly barbaric Muslim Africans.
Family is mentioned many times. Father is potentially referenced once (possibly), as “Kris.” No quotes for dad, if he is still in the picture.
Family is a social fiction just like gender. /this is what they really believe
This whole thing is the perfect nexus of the current critical theory/deconstructionist movement, and big companies making a fuck ton of money.
“Medical care”
This infuriates me every time I read it. It’s a complete lie. This is 100% elective drugs and surgery that damage a healthy body, and the only justification is “If we don’t give them what they want they’ll become suicidal.”
Let people date, marry, and sleep with whoever they want. Let them wear whatever clothes they want, let them do their hair however they want, let them call themselves whatever they want. None of this requires massive amounts of drugs and surgery.
Petulant children threatening to hold their breath if they didn’t get what they wanted and as a whole, our culture capitulated.
The big lie without which people might come to their senses and call bullshit on this madness.
Correct. I spent tons of time in group therapy with my two older girls. I saw all kinds of destructive behavior like cutting and eating disorders. With good therapy those kids thrived. We didn’t “affirm” them.
I had a crazy girlfriend like this… Threatened to kill herself if I broke up with her. I told her I would get her professional help, but that we were done. Especially when she basically showed me that level of crazy. She moved on to make some other dude miserable.
Don’t stick it in crazy.
Although adults should be allowed to choose drugs and surgery. These are children.
I am fine with adults doing whatever they want to themselves. My one objection would be if I have to foot the bill or even a part of it.
Amen.
You are paying for part of anything medical regardless. Even if your insurance doesn’t cover it, your taxes are paying for the FDA, CDC, local health departments, etc.
Hence my objections…
Curious use of the term “health care.”
cannot be themselves in their home states.
You are free to be exactly as you were born.
Ultimately she and Kris dismissed those theories, ungrounded in science
Science says you should permanently, chemically and physically damage your children I guess.
Science says it’s completely natural to spend your entire life pumping yourself full of drugs to suppress the hormones everyone’s body makes.
Re: “Tennessee’s ban on transgender surgery for kids goes into effect immediately, federal appeals court rules”
It was a split decision – 2 ruling against the injunction, 1 concurring in part, dissenting in part. I was curious about the basis for dissent.
The dissenter felt the plaintiffs would likely succeed on 14th amendment/sex discrimination/equal protection, and the law would be overturned. My first reaction was “WTF? how is this possibly sex discrimination?” His reasoning is that e.g. testosterone replacement treatment is available to those “identified male at birth” but not “identified female at birth” (f-off with this identified as – they ARE male or they ARE female. It actually seems like, in the twisted world of lawyers and judges, that he may be right, and I believe there have already been cases decided based on that fallacious reasoning.
It is a fundamental flaw – the inability in the legal realm to recognize that men and women are different and claim that they must be treated equally under all circumstances no matter the underlying reality. Every one knows that testosterone has fundamentally different biological affects in male vs female biology, but we have pretend that we don’t because of a long history of over interpreting and willful misrepresentation of reality to further political and ideological agendas. This is not what equality before the law (should) means. I looks forward to my hysterectomy and standing to sue the bastards who deny me my equal protection.
That dissent is like saying you can’t outlaw female circumcision because we allow male circumcision, despite them being entirely different things called by the same word.
Why not just call it sex hormone therapy? They may have screwed it up but we’ll see.
In what circumstances would a child be getting hormone therapy?
Maybe cancer or a very strange physical or genetic disorder that caused them to be missing those hormones. Or I guess birth control for girls (sadly, I think). None of those circumstances are substantially similar to this.
Meh, there’s more than one or six reasons a girl could be put on birth control that has nothing to do with actual birth control.
And most of them are bad. Another pharma scam.
I don’t know about you personally, but my daughter has benefited greatly from what she takes.
The “oh it’s big pharma, must be bad” thing irritates me. Having medicine that actually makes your life better is kinda really awesome.
OK. But fucking with hormones has consequences. Particularly when there are other interventions.
IUDs are bad news. Most bc pills are bad news.
I won’t argue that fucking around with any pharmaceuticals at all has consequences. It’s a risk/benefit analysis that we all do with every drug.
I, personally, think statins are of the devil, because they’re so crazy-making and the other side effects are so numerous. Also, the cholesterol argument is bullshit, as we here know because cholesterol is a natural process that has nothing to do with what you eat. But some people do fine on them (I don’t know if their labs differ any). I wouldn’t take a statin under any circumstances.
I know, my wife works in this field and provides scientifically based, non-drug interventions for a lot of those problems. I think the long term consequences are sub optimal from taking drugs, based on what she’s told me. A lot of doctors don’t seem to realize there are other options or wrongly dismiss them.
Doctors are pharma reps. Fuck them. They are worse than proggies about toeing the party line.
Setting aside any thoughts on big pharma, one of the issues with this, and a big reason for that, is calling itself birth control. They are hormons, nothing more or less, and should simply be refered to as that. My wife has them, even with my vasectomy, for reasons stemming from perimenopause. If someone is using them for reasons other than birth control, don’t call them birth control! ‘Cause they aren’t for that reason at that point.
It isn’t fair that women’s bathrooms have more sit down toilets! All publicly financed stadiums should have the same number of urinals in both bathrooms (or better yet troughs). Equality demands it.
Some guy is already heading for their bunk to make the best of that image you just planted in their head of a bunch of women all doing their work in a trough, your holiness…
NOT IT!
Flower, initially dispirited by the debates at the Indiana Statehouse, brightened after her parents took her to her first Pride march on June 10 in Indianapolis.
She tied a transgender pride flag around her shoulders and covered her pink shirt in every rainbow heart-shaped sticker she could find. She gripped a sign that read: “She belongs.”
Her favorite activities are often less inflected with politics than her status as a soon-to-be teenager. She’s a Girl Scout who enjoys catching Pokemon with her brother. Before the trip, she zipped around an Indianapolis park on a pink scooter, her hair tangled by the wind.
Prior to entering Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, Flower used a women’s bathroom. At a diner in the city, she ordered a mint chocolate chip milkshake and a vegan grilled cheese. Jennilyn created an itinerary to make their experience as joyful and uncomplicated as possible.
Chicago, land of joy and hope. Good luck, kid. You’re going to need it.
Strange propaganda indeed. But I’m most offended by “vegan grilled cheese.” The fuck is that?
Lots and lots of chemicals and processing.
So you are saying it is environmentally friendly.
Not cheese and possibly not even vegan.
“a mint chocolate chip milkshake and a vegan grilled cheese”
So drinks milk, but won’t eat cheese?
My first reaction was “WTF? how is this possibly sex discrimination?”
In the same way radical permanent destruction of physical sexual traits is “gender affirming medical treatment”.
Fictional plumbing to accord with the fictional identity!
Bonus Hole!
Grandpa Joe saved us. And democracy itself is at stake.
But in addition to his accomplishments, Biden should continue sounding the alarm he set off before last year’s midterm elections. The soul of America is still at risk from hatred, racism, violence and totalitarianism. Biden should emphasize he’s eager to lead the fight to restore decency, unity and our commitment to democracy, but he needs an army of voters fighting beside him.
Curious since Joe is a lifetime racist that has supported mass violence of the of government and is has a totalitarian mindset.
He really needs to work harder. Maybe make a few more of those fiery speeches with a red background in which he calls half the country racist criminals. That will restore decency and unity.
Maybe grow a tidy little moustache for the full effect.
But to do all that, wouldn’t Dr. Jill’s husband have to leave the Democrat party?
It turns out that exorcizing former President Trump from government isn’t as easy as removing him from the White House. His influence continues with his three appointees in the Supreme Court and he wields strong control among the Republicans serving in Congress. That will not be corrected without a massive mobilization of voters to return control of Congress to the people.
Anything less than 100% Democratic Party control of the government is undemocratic. It’s in the name.
“We have to nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure”
“return control of Congress to the people.”
They are boldly saying that non-Democrat voters aren’t people. Sounds about like what the Dems were preaching 165 years ago, but even then they only limited it to blacks.
At least it was written by an unbiased reporter:
Partisan hack academic lawyer has book coming out on disinformation while she herself has been spreading disinformation….
Man, being a leftist sure means not having any guilt or remorse. Like al Pacino said while playing Lucifer in that move with Keanu Reeves: “Guilt is a bag of bricks. All ya gotta do is set it down.”
“We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation—the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth—and it comes at us from all sides.”
Correct but not how you mean.
The playbook never changes.
Even if you hate Christianity, losing history is obscene.
They will get their Year Zero and if they are lucky to still be alive, they will wish they were not.
I dunno what the church looked like before, but that is a travesty.
Simple but pretty.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:%C3%89glise_Notre-Dame_(Drosnay)
They had some decent stained glass.
A real shame regardless.
Yeah, to be frank, destroying historical/cultural heritage is one of those things where if a perpetrator were to be extra-judicially, um, “neutralized”, then I’d say they got what was coming to them.
Given how often such destruction is a precursor to the destruction of humans, I would have to agree.
Did they ever pin down why the one in Paris almost burned down?
That got quietly forgotten, it seems to me.
No. Every time someone brought up the possibility of arson, they were censored (surprise!). However, given the number of churches that have burned across Europe, I think it’s pretty safe to assume fuckery.
Also even if you hate Christianity, the people attacking it have religions of their own that they are fiercely devoted to – and they won’t stop with your churches.
There is a subset of churches nobody will dare to burn down.
Orthodox synogogs?
Naked cocks!
Bald chickens linked to human hair loss – News at 11.
Oh the jokes write themselves…
Featherless bipeds?
Usually shaved cock looks bigger not smaller.
Chess Update: Croatia Rapid & Blitz
Its a 10 person tournament, first 3 days was a round robin of Rapid matches worth 2 points each.
Last 2 days were a double round robin of Blitz matches worth 1 pt each.
After 3 days, Magnus Carlsen was in 3rd with 11 points, behind 2 players at 12.
Then on Saturday, first day of Blitz, he went absolute ham, scoring an insane 9 pts from 9 matches. He beat the entire field in one day.
By mid-day Sunday he had clinched first. He only scored 6 on Sunday.
Magnus had been struggling recently, especially in longer time controls, but when he is in gear, he can still absolutely nuke the field. 7 of his 9 opponents have classical ratings over 2700, so this was a strong field.
Hah! In no surprise at all the Do You Know Who the Fuck I Am dude is a BLM supporting self described socialist.
The more they virtue signal, the more likely they are absolute scumbags…
‘self described socialist.’
That definitely checks out.
“nice Dacha, I think I’ll take it”
That is some mighty fine bullshit
Drink desalinated water with zero additives. Then all other water will taste like balls.
Gotta lot of iron, makes you strong like a lion…
I won’t water down my opinion. Sounds like the same bs as wine snobs.
Yeah, his theory doesn’t hold water.
Mmmmm, a hint of leather and spice. Finishes with a hint of raisins and tobacco.
There is an EPA test for odor in water.
In it, you are supposed to dilute the water to be tested with Distilled Water. To me, the DI water also had an odor.
There was also a taste test for water.
Distilled water smells/tastes like whatever container it was stored in. If it’s smelly plastic that’ll be it.
One of their better episodes…where it all came from a hose.
Nugget
Some polls suggest Rutte’s party remains in the lead and that he might secure a new term by stitching together a different coalition. But Rutte also oversaw the worst Senate election result of his premiership this year as the Farmer-Citizen Movement, or BBB, became the biggest party in the Dutch upper house after opposing a government push to halve nitrogen emissions.
Rutte may turn to the right wing for coalition partners more in sync with his new stance on migration. Environmental policies, including the nitrogen crisis, will also be important topics for any deal.
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Although Rutte may be betting on a hard migration stance going into the next election, other challenges abound. The government has been dealing with issues including a lack of affordable housing and deterioration in health care and education amid a chronic labor shortage. Rutte also faces the fury of Dutch farmers over the government’s goal of halving nitrogen output by 2030. Thousands of farmers are likely to be forced out of business, and they’ve formed a movement that’s pushed the BBB to the forefront of Dutch politics.
Tucked away in a story about how “immigration” caused the collapse of the Dutch government, we find these references to right wing farmers whining about nitrogen targets. Stupid hicks, what do they know?
I thought about that when the story came out. First story I saw said nothing about the farmers and indicated that even more far left was going to take over. That seemed very unlikely.
“The Gold Standard Is Back: BRICS To Intro Gold-Backed Reserve Currency”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gold-standard-back-brics-intro-gold-backed-reserve-currency
Interesting.
Yep. How do I trade my dollars for BRICS?
The literal plot to ‘the mandibles’… Hopefully that is where the similarities stop.
One of the scariest books I’ve ever read.
A little too plausible, though the consequences were a bit extreme as well.
I’ve thought about getting some gold back bills with gold thread. I cannot afford even one Krugerrand.
As the world’s foremost water sommelier, Riese makes a living out of tasting water from around the world with the passion of a wine expert luxuriating in a glass of top-shelf Pinot noir.
Those guys brewing with recovered grey water should bring him in to give it the two thumbs up.
I’mma get moving on the day. I have 4% of my medical coding course left to finish and I’d like to get that done in the next couple of months. This shit is hard, yo.
An inspiration to us all
Rapinoe’s embrace of commotion has defined her career. She’s one of the most talked-about American athletes of our time, a 5-ft. 7-in. whirling dervish of resistance who, depending on whom you ask, is either an unapologetic symbol of on-field excellence and off-field progress or a disrespectful heel. (Or, if misogyny or homophobia is your bag, worse.) More than a decade ago, she came out as gay, giving many other female sports figures permission to be more open about their sexuality. She has since worked tirelessly as an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community—she’s the brightest athletic star currently leading a fight against the proliferation of U.S. state laws that ban transgender youth from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity. Rapinoe has also knelt in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick and led a protracted but ultimately successful battle against her own soccer federation to ensure equal pay for female players. After Donald Trump criticized her during the 2019 World Cup, she scored against France and struck a now iconic pose that reminded the then President, and her vociferous critics, that she’s going absolutely nowhere.
Last year, Joe Biden awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. She’s the first soccer player so recognized.
She deserves a statue on the Washington Mall.
Outside of a Subway commercial I never hear of this person.
‘Last year, Joe Biden awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor’
Derp. What for? Being loud and proud?
For being a leftist.
Urban African-American communities have become food deserts where you cannot find healthy food.
The market suggests that this is bullshit, Bobby. But whatever. Carry on.
Let’s also just blame racism, cause grocery stores don’t like to make money.
They hate minorities more than they like making money. Even if they’re owned by minorities, because capitalism.
You’ve always been welcome to direct the Kennedy fortune to create a chain of wholesome food grocery stores in whatever neighborhood you want. Heck, sell the compound at Hyannisport for $30 or $40 million and open a string of stores in the food deserts of Boston, Providence and New York City.
If black folks would buy healthy food it’d be sold in those neighborhoods but no one’s going to offer that which won’t be purchased.