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!
Devon Archer’s testimony shows ‘real quid pro quo’ in Ukraine was Joe Biden
More Hunter Biden business partners to testify in Congress following Devon Archer hearing
Project Veritas releases tape in which Ashley Biden appears to claim ownership of infamous diary
Up to 60% of Americans could own guns, twice estimate
We’re paying billions in taxes for federal offices that are sitting mostly empty
Democrats Fear Black Voters Will Not Show Up for Biden
Trucking Giant Yellow Ends 99-Year Run Amid Standoff With Teamsters, Debt Woes
‘We Are Totally Awash in Pseudoscience’: Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist on Climate Agenda
12th-grade American boys trend conservative
Bud Light distributors no longer expect sales to recover from Dylan Mulvaney disaster
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Devon Archer’s testimony shows ‘real quid pro quo’ in Ukraine was Joe Biden”
Was it irony that they charged Trump with the crimes Biden (and most of the Obama administration sycophants were involved with) actually had been doing during that sham impeachment trial?
More like brazenness.
It is always projection with progressives. Always.
Mornin’ Banjos
Mornin’
Anorexic dies after years of being enabled by 1000s of people.
Yeah, the tragedy is that no one cared enough about her to intervene.
You would have been canceled for pointing out she was self destructive.
I was thinking in terms of real world people, not internet randos.
If you’ve met militant vegans like that, you’d realize they would rather die than be wrong. No intervention would work.
Die calories die!
German for “The calories the!”
But what is it in D&D?
D&D Is dead.
So, like the climate change gang that haven’t thought through the ramifications of shutting down Big Oil.
“No one cares.” Sonny, A Bronx Tale
A guy I grew up with (who ended up in the same world), used to tell us all the time whenever we’d talk about stuff, “It’s all garbage.”
No one cares and it’s all garbage.
If she don’t reach over and unlock the door for you, she’s a selfish broad and you dump her fast.
What’s the travel occasion?
“More Hunter Biden business partners to testify in Congress following Devon Archer hearing”
Merrick Garland has a plan to cock block this shit…
That asshole is so butthurt that he was not put on the SCOTUS during Obama’s reign of terror and government abuses that he is basically committing clear crimes in order to supposedly get revenge on the people he feel kept him from his glory. In the mean time, it becomes obvious to all of us that America again dodged a fucking evil nutbag like it did when Gore or Hillary, as clear examples of the most extreme idiocy and evil looking for the big job, or that asshole Romney or Jeb Bush, whom tried to pretend they were not uniparty asshats, all were sent to the pasture.
I’m beginning to wonder if the agencies have something on Garland. He’s in the process of throwing himself on the flaming shitpile that is the Biden administration.
At some point, rational people cut and run.
“At some point, rational people cut and run.”
You put the distinction (bolded) right there. Garland is not rational: he is out for personal revenge for being kept off the SCOTUS.
At this point I’m assuming anyone still supporting Biden (or any R not actively attacking him) are also pulling a pay for play and/or there are secret compromising naked pics of them.
Well, it’s a certainty that the intelligence agencies have the Epstein Island client lists.
The people that were involved with the criminal shit during the Obama administration, and then doubled down to undermine the Trump presidency, resorting to even more criminal activity to try and take him out, have no other option than to keep at what they are doing. The risk that they could all be facing a uncorrupted entity for their criminal activity and would end up in pound-you-in-the-ass prison, losing all the wealth they looted in the process, is unacceptable to them. And that is why I am sure they will do anything to stop a populist candidate, or worse, a loose canon like Trump. They killed Kennedy for less.
Have you ever heard of Eric Holder or Janet Reno? How about John Ashcroft?
The house wasn’t crumbling around Obama, Bush, or even Clinton, really.
Garland is taking it to a whole new level.
I don’t believe Ashcroft was markedly corrupt so much as just a zealot.
Ashcroft just went after Clinton like any federal prosecutor would go after anybody who got on their radar. Zealotry? Maybe.
I think Garland is just weak. Weak, and was never fit for any office. He has been a patsy for his whole career, and all of Washington knows it. And that is half the reason that they hate and fear Trump; they couldn’t get their guy, who will rubber stamp the left on every single thing the left asks, on SCOTUS.
And the one good thing in his life that Mitchy McC ever did was keep that POS of the court. Whether he did to spite Obama, or because he had a moment of giving a shit about the country, we will likely never know.
“Democrats Fear Black Voters Will Not Show Up for Biden”
A large percentage of black men, at this point a record number of them, are already there, and more and more black men are getting red pilled. But the real serious problem for the democrat party is black women – the demographic that lives off free shit or watches the view – which are all about Koh-moh-loh. Democrats will not only shove Joe aside, but they will also get Koh-moh-loh gone, cause she polls even lower and is also dumber than the senile douche in chief. When the dnc pulls the switcheroo and puts Newsome or some other white dude up as the candidate, these black women are gonna rebel.
Game over there. That is why they are so desperate to take Trump out. The level of fortification required to get another win for the deep state is gonna be impossible to hide.
Said it before, but I think they’re gonna try to deal with all of that by offing her and replacing her with Austin.
Austin Powers is a democrat politician?
SecDef – Lloyd Austin. I’m sure we would all greatly prefer Austin Powers.
The problem is, they have no one. Everyone they have allowed to rise in the ranks is unelectable at a national level. Newsome cannot win the Rust belt. They are stuck with an 80 year old dementia case who ran the worst Pay for Play scheme of all the crooks in DC. Seriously, all he used were shell companies, that’s it. He couldn’t set up some bullshit enterprise to run the bribes through?
Foundations are how you launder political money.
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Give the Clintons credit, they always maintained the facade of respectability, as thin as it was. Plausible deniability is all you need when the media has your back.
Having your crackhead son be your bagman wasn’t a good idea either.
If Hunter hadn’t left his laptop at a repair shop all of this would still be a “debunked conspiracy theory”.
“He couldn’t set up some bullshit enterprise to run the bribes through?”
Since the Obama admins criminal tenure had gotten away with crime after crime for all 8 years of their tenure, with the criminal actions escalating continuously in tenor and purpose, and was supposed to be handed off to Hillary to continue that pattern, none of these top crooks felt they needed to jump through so many hoops to protect themselves. Then they failed to fortify the 2016 election and had to go into combat mode to take down the populist that got elected to prevent their criminality from being exposed.
As I have pointed out: they are not defending/protecting Joe Biden as much as they are defending the Obama legacy and the fact he is their progressive movement’s manufactured illusion of the conservative’s movement’s counter part (Reagan). That and the Clinton crime cabal which was the start of this whole thing.
One of the reasons the GOP might be better off having Trump run – even if he loses – is that Trump has pulled a lot of minority voters off the plantation.
He has shown that he has appeal to black men and other minorities. The Dems cannot afford to lose their stanglehold on the black vote.
You’re talking about voters. Voters don’t matter. Ballots matter.
Actually, ballot counters matter… Like voters, ballots are fungible.
“Do they really?”
-Dominion
The Bud light thing continues to amuse me.
Right? It never gets old.
I am sure the DEI and ESG cabals are hard at work trying to shore shit up so they never have to deal with stuff like this again. Note I am not saying they are abandoning their evil. Instead the effort is to make sure they can punish anyone intent on doing what was done to the idiocratic Anheuser-Busch company and stop them from expressing their opinion counter to the ESG/DEI cabal’s wishes for the new world order where the elites have all the advantages and a legal system that allows them to engage in any and all debauchery (fucking kids is a top priority with this crowd), while the survivors of the culling will all be feudal serfs.
Me as well. I’m just a simple beer geek, but I can point out several decision points where if they had done things differently, it would have probably ended the whole thing. Instead, they just continue to make nearly the worst possible decisions each time.
“nstead, they just continue to make nearly the worst possible decisions each time.”
If you understand that their priority is never to make things better – which means they would have to admit being wrong and that people do not like this DEI/ESG shit – but to tell the peons to shut the fuck up and bend the knee, then this idiotic chain of responses from them not only makes perfect sense, but shows you that they see the fight to force the social changes they want even when it means that they destroy wealth in the process.
nearly the worst possible decisions each time
Clearly products of the progressive educational system.
They thought it would be a blip in the news and then just go away. To be fair, stuff like this normally does. Unfortunately, it turns out it was the point where working class men had enough and were ready to push back. There were multiple points where a big, genuine apology would have worked. But they didn’t want the left wing backlash so they didn’t. So now they are forever the tranny beer.
To be fair, it is pretty easy to give up drinking Bud Light, so jumping on the boycott didn’t take much skin in the game.
Which is a good reason to be annoyed with normie conservatives. Many boycotts take so little energy, and yet they still refuse.
Even the one “apology” ad they did just showed that they thought their consumers were morons who couldn’t figure out how to work a screen door, get out of the rain, use sunscreen, and the like.
“‘We Are Totally Awash in Pseudoscience’: Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist on Climate Agenda”
Calling the climate change movement a pseudo science movement is insulting to less cultish and stupid pseudo science based things. AGW is a new religious movement with its own end of times Armageddon-like warning to the faithful, whom are told salvation is to accept feudalism and murder of over 80% of mankind in order to appease Gaia.
It’s telling that all of the failed “end of the world” predictions never count against the faith of the believers.
This behavior is a clear sign to those that so easily dismiss the failures, that they are in a cult…
Funny. I just wrote a quick article on that.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
They are very closely related to their undomesticated mountain loving kin folk, much like some people.
Thanks, Jimbo, for a little lift so early in the morning
I knew an old goat like you would like that. Have a great day Fourscore!
Your daily reminder that the NYT is staffed by amoral cuntes.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1686135940215926784
What else would you expect from the deniers of the Holodomor?
They want a modern hunger plague.
Good Morning guys.
Just as a unpdate….
It seems that people have been sending a certain sheriff copies of pics and videos of wife’s topless protesting to his phone. No idea if its his work or personal phone.
Which said sheriff threatened to share on FB (comment made on FB)
Talked to Internal Affairs yesterday.
We asked for a written apology on FB from sheriff, retraining, and a statement from sheriffs office that they are against “revenge porn” That and the sheriff that made the comment be retrained and relocated away from area.
Only one person made a reaction to this sheriff’s comment, a victim’s rights advocate of the DA.
They are both friends of devloper.
He has a point.
https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1686140936185675776
Not a reply, obviously
Lira is out of Ukrainian jail? That’s great news.
He’s been posting videos on youtube as he makes his way to the border.
He’s married to a Ukrainian woman and an American citizen, but none of that matters because he says things that are true.
Wild story. Prisoners being used to torture other prisoners is a golden Soviet oldie.
I hope he makes it.
Let me check…Yep, I still hate people.
These people have to be acting this obtuse on purpose.
They can’t really be this stupid, can they?
Perfect. Keep the pressure on.
This really is quite remarkable. SBF figures he’s untouchable, so why the fuck not?
https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1686142731792293888
He is a democrat money launderer. Of course he is untouchable and this whole thing is nothing but a damage control charade because someone was not prevented from filing the charges in the first place.
Fire, we need a cleansing fire.
The entirety of the administrative state has turned into a warfare cult. They’re at war with the world and with the American people.
And nothing will happen.
In your face, peasants! What are you gonna do about it?
You think so? After years of this shit what finally gave it away?
“the study’s conclusion that nearly a third of those polled might be lying when they deny having a firearm…”
Random pollster / possible Fed: Do you own any guns?
Me: Nope.
I’m surprised anyone says “yes”.
No one admits it. But the pollsters probably count as a “yes” all the people who point a gun at them and tell them to get off their property.
When you have lots of firearms it is kind of counter productive to say you don’t own ay.
Depends who is asking.
Do you own any guns – man’s life on earth is short so they are only rented for a few decades
My family / bloodline owns guns. I have a shotgun that was a gift to my grandfather from his grandfather while growing up on a farm during the Depression.
Could this be a vast new untapped source of govt grants?
Maybe there is money in researching the homeless, not just in trying to house them? At the very least, you can stop the barbaric practice of closing tent encampments!
No government entity created to solve a problem ever will do so. The people getting a paycheck would never do something as counter productive as solve the problem and suddenly find themselves unemployed.
We do need some professors of homelessness communication.
Can’t you prove that this is damaging health?
Psst, that’s not the biggest concern. But if you want to fool some rubes, build a model!
You know where they can get access to support? Homeless shelters. But they don’t like to go there because shelters have rules.
At some point people just need to be held responsible for their own choices.
Almost all of their reasons for being homeless are also related to the Drug War.
Also, city regs that don’t allow for cold water flop houses don’t help either.
““Participants are telling us how sweeps disrupt their access to naloxone (a drug to reverse an overdose), their access to their sort of social support network, so people around them who could help them out if they overdose; their access to trusted sources of drugs that they know are safe,” Smith said.”
All of the shelters around here are zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol.
Which is my point. They choose drugs over access to “support” and shelter. So be it. It’s not up to society to enable them and shield them from the consequences of their choices.
“One ‘proof’ coming up!”
SCIENCE!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
I feel as bad for him as I do the Titanic submersible folks.
this is reported a lot less than “epic” videos of success are shown on the yutubz…
It seemed like a good idea at the time…
A Clothing Brand’s Email Claimed to Be From a Neighbor Watching Recipients
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-clothing-brands-email-claimed-to-be-from-a-neighbor-watching-recipients-in-their-underwear-some-customers-arent-happy-8e629ba6?st=itnljhmtw4f2tty&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I like to go commando, so they would be reporting that they had seen an elephant trunk…
Nah, that’s creepy.
US limits visa waiver for Hungarians
The unprecedented move comes in response to security concerns, Washington says.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-america-visa-waiver-program-esta-visa-waiver-hungary-tourism-viktor-orban
Now we Romanians keep hoping to get in, but the Hungarians being kicked out is better than nothing I guess. As a local saying goes, “may the neighbors goat die as well”
Stop fucking them goats when it is extremely hot and fewer goats will die?
That’s retribution for opposing Sweden’s accession to NATO.
To be fair, any Romanian can bet a visa waiver no questions asked. They just have to pick them up at high noon.
For some reason no one has taken them up on the offer.
Finally a light rail pays off! Ok, it is really just an old monorail car, but still.
Helluva deer stand! I’m envious.
Now watch the zoning people come after the perp!
Looks like something out of a seventies science fiction comedy.
Why didnt the President share the cure for cancer that he created with PeeWee Herman? That monster.
Devon Archer’s testimony shows ‘real quid pro quo’ in Ukraine was Joe Biden
This has been known since the “You’re not getting the billion dollars unless the prosecutor is fired…well, son of a bitch” video from a decade or so ago. He bragged about it.
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed to The Post Millennial that “we have more business partners coming in. So this is not the only one, there’s more to come.”
I assume none of them are suicidal.
South Africa’s Julius Malema celebrates 10 years of the EFF
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66322447
“Despite his dismal performance in school and divisive nature, the firebrand leader of South Africa’s second-largest opposition party, Julius Malema, has become a symbol of success for his legion of supporters.
This is largely because he has built from scratch his own political party, the left-wing Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which has become a political force that cannot be ignored 10 years after he founded it.
At the same time, Mr Malema has graduated from university with a BA in communication and African languages, and an honours degree in philosophy.
The 42-year-old is currently registered for a master’s degree at the highly respected Witwatersrand University.
Few thought he would achieve this – after all, he was the subject of ridicule when his final-year school results were leaked in 2008, showing that he barely scraped through with a below average pass.
An outspoken and controversial politician accused of promoting hate speech, he faced insults about his poor mathematics and woodwork results but said he did not let those define him because he “had no aspirations of being a carpenter but wanted to be an activist and politician”. ”
Sounds like South Africa’s recent success is only the beginning, more is on the way
REQUEST FOR HELP (EASY)
Can somebody give me a steve smith link? I need a pic for a custom flag.
Space smith would be nice as well.
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Wife has gone crazy
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USSR Pictures
@PicturesUssr
Summer in Moscow, 1980 (photo by Raymond Depardon)
https://twitter.com/PicturesUssr/status/1686285888870129664
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Posters of Stalin, Lenin, Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek above the Imperial Hotel in Shenyang. The text reads: “Friendship club of the Soviet Union and China”, China, 1946
https://twitter.com/PicturesUssr/status/1686338233641443328
alas that friendship was ever threatened by revisionism, though who were the real revisionists no one knows, though tankies still debate this on the twitts
We have always been at war with East Asia.
Watch women’s soccer or this dog dies!
Does she not know that if women’s soccer starts getting paid big $$$ the entire team will soon be second tier “trans” guys?
Women soccer players have consistently faced significant pay disparities compared to their male counterparts.
Not if you compare it to percent of revenue generated. And also they should stop losing to 15-year-old boys teams.
Purple hair dye doesn’t grow on trees you know.
I tried to look up places for us to watch the game and sadly, I didn’t find much – and I can’t shake the stark difference and treatment of men’s and women’s sports. During the Men’s World Cup, the excitement was palpable. Bars and restaurant were promoting it, and every stadium held an event for it.
What are time zones?
Idiot discovers men’s sports are much more popular than women’s sports. News at 11:00.
Every stadium? I’m pretty sure there was no such event at any of the stadiums here in Cleveland.
Last men’s WC was in Qatar, where it was so fucking hot even in December that they started the games at 10 pm (a nice 3 pm watch time for us ESTers). I don’t remember any stadium watch parties, but sure, bars probably had events because it wasn’t 3 in the morning.
*Eh, I guess the first two US Women’s games may have been 9 pm for my time zone. I tried watching the US-Netherlands game, but it wasn’t even as good as watching MLS (MLS is terrible).
I feel as bad for him as I do the Titanic submersible folks.
And the guy who wrecked his Ferrari at cars and coffee.
Blame the breed, not the owner: the truth about American Bully XLs
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/blame-the-breed-not-the-owner-the-truth-about-american-bully-xls/
“This spike in dog-bites-man violence has led to a 50 per cent increase in hospital admissions for dog bites over ten years, the biggest rise being among children under the age of four. Overall the number of fatalities has gone from an average of 3.3 in the 2000s to 10 last year, while dog attacks have risen recently from 16,000 in 2018 to 22,000 in 2022, and hospitalisations have almost doubled from 4,699 in 2007 to 8,819 in 2021/22.
The underlying story behind this escalation of violence is that much of it is the work of just one breed: the American Bully. And as we enter the summer holidays, the peak period for dog attacks, it’s worth pondering why the experts in the dog world are in such denial about the issue.”
Pit bull arguments are always very rational and not at all emotional.
I always start with the well-documented observation that a great many dogs who are not pit bulls at all, are called pit bulls if they bite someone. Call it the canine version of the COVID death count.
Women soccer players have consistently faced significant pay disparities compared to their male counterparts
Employers exist for the sole purpose of handing out paychecks, which are completely independent of any larger value proposition.
Still with that again?
Women need to drop the woke-equity act over stupid things, kick some trannies in the balls, seize control of their families and protect their incalculable role in our civilization.
There I said it.
I’m pro-woman.
This shit isn’t.
They’re squabbling over money but meanwhile, they say nothing about Heather Swanson invading their sports stealing spots from girls and hanging out in the same locker rooms like creeps.
Up here, pride month was in June and that asshole Justin is STILL peddling this LBsuckmyballs agenda as parades are ongoing.
Sure. Not an agenda. Nope. Whatever you say, Mutumbo.
The author of the soccer article’s bio:
You would think that a gal who is so into female empowerment wouldn’t be squandering money on “girl-identifying” K-12 youth and you know just give it to girls?
She is into grifting. That’s what all these social justice or equity movements are about. Inept and stupid people get to make bank from leeching off entities like government, academic, or DEI/ESG friendly private sector idiots, which collect tax payer or customer money and piss it away.
My father used to think male athletes were overpaid and should make a lot less, just like women.
Well, FYI. Ole Rufus is heading to ROUTE 66 from Illi-noise down to San Diego. Which is Spanish for a whale’s vagina.
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drive as fast as the car goes and stop for nothing !
Call me when you get here
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Did you get any of my emails? Or were they junked?
Daily Quordle 554
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Blossom Puzzle, August 1
Letters: A D E R G P S
My score: 320 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
I know where I’ll be stopping for my morning cuppa tomorrow morning.☕
Everyone shouting #BoycottCostaCoffee because it “promotes the mutilation of teenage girls” have completely missed the point.
Top surgery is a completely routine and normal procedure that helps reduce gender dysphoria in trans men – a debilitating mental health issue that sadly takes so many lives every year.
Top surgery doesn’t harm people – it saves lives.
Good on @CostaCoffee
for being on the right side of history.
https://twitter.com/HelenWebberley/status/1686087509858467840
Among such boycotts what is missed is costa coffee tastes like shit and you should not drink it irrespective of politics.
Also the word coffee does not need to f and two e ffs. cofe is enough.
I assume Costa is a brand, and not a reference to Costa Rican beans?
yes it is a chain of starbucks-ish coffee
is the road bad or is it that brits can’t drive?
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1685709203007045632
Yes.
Probably bad drivers rubbernecking at the news camera.
Those spacemen are shaking in their gravity boots
President Joe Biden has decided to keep U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado, overturning a last-ditch decision by the Trump administration to move it to Alabama. The choice ended months of thorny deliberations, but an Alabama lawmaker vowed to fight on.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Monday that Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command, Gen. James Dickinson, who argued that moving his headquarters now would jeopardize military readiness. Dickinson’s view, however, was in contrast to Air Force leadership, who studied the issue at length and determined that relocating to Huntsville, Alabama, was the right move.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of Biden’s rationale for the decision.
In announcing the plans, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said the decision was based on an “objective and deliberate process informed by data and analysis.” He said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin supported the president’s decision.
If Trump wanted it, it had to be a bad idea.
Up to 60% of Americans could own guns, twice estimate
“Americans clearly want gun control. The second amendment is outdated and should be repealed. Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ’em all in.“
My father used to think male athletes were overpaid and should make a lot less, just like women.
Back in Ye Olden Tymes professional football players had to have a job in the off season to make ends meet.Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.
Baseball players too.
The top stars, at least in baseball, could go on tours playing against local teams in the off season, so didnt need real jobs.
Second tier players generally got manual labor jobs. After all, they were only going to be working for 4-5 months, so it had to be something that didnt require year-round employment.
The greats like Rube Waddell wrestled gators and were professional hunters.
I would watch Rappinoe wrestle a gator on TV. Won’t say who I’d be rooting for.
“he reportedly spent his entire first signing bonus on a drinking binge”
“When the National League (NL) contracted to eight teams for the 1900 season, Louisville ownership bought the Pittsburgh franchise and the Louisville franchise was terminated. Louisville’s top players, including Waddell, Honus Wagner, and Fred Clarke, were transferred to Pittsburgh.”
IIRC, this is how Pittsburgh got the “Pirates” nickname, for stealing all the best players from Louisville.
I wonder what she was “wrestling ” as the women’s team looked tired and couldn’t score in the Portugal game. Shouldn’t soccer just have sudden death until one team wins?
Biden’s decision enraged Alabama lawmakers and is sure to fuel accusations that abortion politics played a role in the choice. The location debate has become entangled in the ongoing battle between Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Defense Department over the move to provide travel for troops seeking reproductive health care. Tuberville opposed the policy is blocking hundreds of military promotions in protest.
The U.S. officials said the abortion issue had no effect at all on Biden’s decision. And they said the president fully expected there would be different views on the matter within the Defense Department.
Pure coincidence.
A leftist columnist yesterday opined that Tuberville was an ass for holding up the defense appropriation bill and hurting our soldiers over something as inconsequential as abortion travel. Well, if that part of the bill is “inconsequential” why don’t the Democrats just agree to remove it from the bill?
We’re paying billions in taxes for federal offices that are sitting mostly empty
Nothing left to cut.
We’re paying billions in taxes for federal offices that are sitting mostly empty
Turn them into refugee camps.
Shelters for illegal aliens.
Democrats fear black voters will not show up for President Joe Biden in the presidential election next year should he be the nominee, according to reports.
“You ain’t black!” – Slowmo Joe
12th-grade American boys trend conservative
The rise of MAGA fascism.
Now it makes sense that they want to castrate so many of them.
And yet, Old Milwaukee didnt win.
A vegan raw food influencer who lived on an ‘extreme’ diet of exotic fruit has reportedly died from starvation and exhaustion.
Vegans always look unhealthy.
Because humans need a certain amount of animal protein to be healthy. Humans did not evolve as herbivores.
Obligate Omnivores.
‘The Few, the Proud’ Aren’t So Few: Marines Recruiting Surges While Other Services Struggle
How surprising that the least woke and still most traditional force is the only one not struggling to recruit. But I’m sure leadership has a plan to “fix” that problem.
They already made Marin Combat Training co-ed. It is your initial training right after boot camp.
My son said all of the humps(hikes) and the physical training was too easy for the majority of guys and many females were struggling.
Now boot camp has become co-ed.
I’ll let you guess if this will result in a harder or softer Marine Corps.
Here comes the fun. I’m calling a manager to let him know that I promoted his sales guy to VP and now he’s reporting to the former employee.
Of course the manager should have retired already, but he’s obstinate.
And I’m adjusting commission structures after twenty years. It’s way overdue.
I love these calls. Not.
Hopefully he treated people well on the way up so he’s treated well on the way down.
If he quits it will hurt in the short run, but it will solve a problem for me.
But he won’t quit, even though he’s going out for knee replacement in a month and he’s in his seventies.
You’d think he conducted government business on a non-government, non-secured server located in the bathroom of his house in Chappaqua or something.
“What I find most horrifying is Donald Trump is the leading Republican candidate for president. It is clear that anybody who did this could not have achieved any type of security clearance, but he has the potential to be back in the White House and the Oval Office with access to the most sensitive secrets and the most sensitive national security information that our country has.”
Or stored hordes of documents in his garage.
Filthy pouncers
With pageantry that included balloons, a banner and an outdoor signing ceremony, Texas A&M University celebrated a diverse new chapter in its history with its June hiring of Kathleen McElroy.
McElroy, a Black journalist whose background included decades at the New York Times and a reputation for promoting diversity in the workplace, was a major get for the university with the largest student body in the country. She was headed to her alma mater with a mission to revive its journalism program — and it was all the sweeter for A&M because she had been lured away from its rival, the University of Texas at Austin.
But the celebration didn’t last long. Just days later, McElroy’s tenure offer unraveled after the university buckled under backlash from Texas Scorecard, a conservative website, and an unspecified group of individuals close to the university who opposed her previous diversity initiatives. A new state law will limit that and the discussion of race and inclusion on college campuses next year.
The Republican-backed law, which takes effect in January, prohibits employees at Texas higher education institutions from promoting diversity, equity or inclusion. Institutions that violate the law face financial penalties.
While the law is supposed to exempt academics and admissions, many are concerned it could be broadly applied — chilling free speech in the classroom.
They point to McElroy’s unceremonious departure to show it’s already happening.
“We were supposed to maintain our academic freedom around these issues but the McElroy situation shows that in fact those are not safe either,” said Karma Chavez, a professor and department chair of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at UT-Austin.
Maybe you shouldn’t hire somebody who explicitly believes in the righteous power of political propaganda to run your journalism department.
Should towns live forever?
Sometimes a place should be allowed to decline
https://thecritic.co.uk/should-towns-live-forever/
Communities being allowed to completely disappear, for one reason or another, has long been a commonplace in Britain, with at least 3,000 abandoned villages identified nationwide. Even into the 19th century, deserted or near-deserted villages were a far from unusual sight in Cornwall, as the mining industry declined. Something like a quarter of a million men left Cornwall between 1860 and 1900, seeking opportunities elsewhere in the UK (notably in the emerging Northumbrian coalfields) and around the world.
Something has clearly changed, culturally or politically. It would not have occurred to Gladstone, say, that the government should set up a Cornish Tin Communities Sustainability Fund, when the economic viability of villages centred on a dying industry had collapsed. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves, on the other hand, has announced that a Labour government would implement a rescue package for hard-pressed British seaside towns, consisting of tax breaks, stricter regulation of sewage and new publicity campaigns.
“I’m not arguing here for a ruthless social Darwinism. It is true that economic success is not the only kind of success, and that settled ways of life in particular places have their own value and significance. The ability to pay your own way is not the only test of value. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the generosity of our redistributive system is dependent on the dynamism of businesses and places that actually make money and add value. Not everyone can or needs to be a net contributor to the public finances, but there are limits — especially at a time when Britain is losing economic ground.”
Myself I rather no one mooch on my tax moneys, but that is all a fantasy
Ghost towns exist for a reason.
Spirits need homes too!
Just days after the signing ceremony at Texas A&M, McElroy was informed of internal pushback on her hiring, according to the Texas Tribune. Opponents who remain unidentified took issue with her experience with the Times and her work on race and diversity.
The Klan blackballed her for being black. It had nothing to do with statements she has made on the record about what she wants “journalism” to be and do.
The Taliban have burned musical instruments in Afghanistan, claiming music “causes moral corruption”.
Thousands of dollars worth of musical equipment went up in smoke on a bonfire on Saturday in western Herat province.
Since taking power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed numerous restrictions, including on playing music in public.
Ahmad Sarmast, Afghanistan National Institute of Music founder, likened their actions to “cultural genocide and musical vandalism”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66357611
what is the carbon footprint of such a thing?
It’s in Asia, so it doesn’t count.
Heh.
Let them debate so I can see who I MIGHT consider for Vice President!
Should have been:
“We were supposed to maintain our academic freedom around these issues but the McElroy situation shows that in fact those are not safe either,” said Karma Chavez, a professor and department chair of Mexican American and Latino/a Studies at UT-Austin.
Maybe you shouldn’t hire somebody who explicitly believes in the righteous power of political propaganda to run your journalism department.
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