A masterpiece
The Astros got Verlander back at the trade deadline. And the Mets will pay most of his salary in 2023 and 2024. And then Framer Valdez went out and tossed a 27-batter no-hitter against the Indians last night. The Pac-? is about to finalize a new media deal that will likely lead to the complete unraveling of the conference. And I think that’s about it for sports.
She sounds impartial. I wonder when the left will start demanding she recuse.
This should have happened years ago. Also, the second reason they give has nothing to do with it. It’s all about the debt becoming unsustainable.
Invasion?
I’m shocked! Shocked that this is a complete failure.
This seems legit. The doubling down by officials is the best part of it all.
“Shut up, bigot!” That’s the response she was given. Well, that and “we’ll ruin your life if you do or say anything negative about the dude with a dick and balls we made you change in front of.”
Stupid asshole
I assume she’ll blame whitey. Seriously, could they not have found somebody more qualified than this moron?
But I thought everything was fine. Hey, as long as they’re not coming to Texas, I’m good with it.
Well it ought to be free. Our taxes are paying for it.
This song always felt longer than it actually is. Either way, it doesn’t waste any time rocking. This one takes a little more time to get going. But both of them work beautifully. And yes, I know they’re polarizing and have their detractors, but I still thoroughly enjoy most of their music. Anyway, enjoy them.
And enjoy this sweltering Wednesday, dear friends.
Does NASA even launch anything anymore?
Streaming services.
Oh God. This doesn’t make me a Firster, does it? I like girls.
It didn’t until you said something.
I still like girls.
Apparently NASA did a whoopsie and misaligned Voyager 2 so we can’t get data from it anymore.
But there is an automatic reset in October, so maybe they’ll be able to get it back.
Don’t know if the Voyager 2 team is where they stash the fogies, the incompetents, or the diversity hires or what.
DSN found it and are going to try and correct the antenna prior to Oct.
Jet aircraft and balloons
Maybe sounding rockets
They still control a lot of missions they just hitch a ride on private rockets now when they want anything orbital or higher
That is so sad. I still remember watching the moon landings on TV when I was a kid.
“I wonder when the left will start demanding she recuse.”
Oh, you.
Thanks to everyone who got this thing working.
Bias like that is the entire reason they needed to get Trump in front of a DC court, no matter how badly they had to contort the statutes and reality to make it happen.
She has a known hard on for even the most benign cases born from J6 and has meted out charges at or above prosecution recommendations in majority of the ones she heard.
I am getting the feeling this is their way of finishing off the impeachment they failed to see through to the end.
KIDS IN CAGES!!!!!
Does that issue get your Goat?
Thanks again for the glitch-fix, Staff. Much appreciated (by me, if not the rest of these mannerless louts)
My phrasing always sounded insincere. I figured it was better to stay quiet than sound insulting.
Ditto. I apparently missed it but thanks. Sincerely. Computers suck.
Did someone contact the NSA helpdesk to get the collection proxy fixed?
Nah, the bribe check cleared.
Me too. Busier than shit and dropped in for some distraction, and once again realize how much I like you all.
Seconded.
Good music choice. Not great. Good.
I guess I’m a semi-detractor.
That’s like the time I put half an orchestra together.
No one came because they couldn’t figure out what an Orch was, or what it was doing in conc
Was it like this?
I thought that was when you were a semiconductor?
I’m 59 and I still like disco. There, I said it.
I thought you said you like girls
Damn, not just the top rope but from the top of the cage
Ouch.
I like disco too.
But, um, that might not be helpful. *side eye @Annoyed Nomad*
Would have been great if he’d gone with the real video. Morning, Sloopy. Thanks to all for getting the site working. I’m just trying not to be in a sputtering rage at the world today, frankly… it seems so damned stupid. Honestly — this doesn’t seem so outlandish at this point.
They’ve gone full-on banana republic. This is actually what they second amendment was intended to address.
It will apparently have to get much worse before the Second kicks in. If it ever does to any significant extent.
It will never kick in. Americans have become too neutered to even mount serious protests.
I fear you are correct. I’m too fat and old.
Well, she’s notoriously held J6 defendants without bail, so it wouldn’t be out of character here.
Didn’t she also sentence harsher than the prosecution requested?
Ayup.
That’s what the reporting (gleefully) says.
In some cases, yes.
I wonder if this is the end-game or if they’ll keep the indictments coming until the election. I’m also surprised they didn’t try to charge him with treason or insurrection since those are the only things that can keep him off the ballot.
The day is still young.
In normal times treason would be a charge laughed out of court and insurrection would require an insurrection.
Meanwhile we have abundant evidence of treason by the Biden crime family selling out the country to the CCP.
That was simply a father trying to bond with his son after the loss of another son and brother respectively. Grief takes many forms. The grief took the form of high stakes international quid pro quo and millon dollar shakedowns.
Which is exactly why they’re trying to turn it around onto Trump.
Why yes, yes she did.
This really seems like it should go straight to Supreme Court as he was still president during these charges laid out in the indictment. I would think this would fall under impeachment rules, and SCOTUS would have to determine if a former officer of the US can be impeached as a private citizen.
This is an issue for the Senate.
Allowing flunky US Attorneys to prosecute the chief executive is insanity. You’re handing a massive weapon to lower level bureaucrats.
As I noted above, its finishing the impeachment process they failed to secure.
Wouldn’t Ford pardoning Nixon set the precedent that a former President can be prosecuted for crimes allegedly committed while in office? Or at least it legitimizes the concept of criminal prosecutions for actions committed while in office?
Nixon v. Fitzgerald, the President has absolute immunity (at least for civil damages, but you can bet Trump’s lawyers will be referencing this).
Besides Trump being Trump, I am still trying to figure out how they are leaping to incitement or any of the other charges. As I walked back past our breakroom it appears someone on CNN was saying something like “Trump did nothing for 3 hours and only after he realized his attack on the capitol failed, did he tell people to go home”. Its full propaganda press. He will go to jail, it is quite evident that the machine demands it.
They didn’t leap to incitement, they went with defrauding the U.S. govt.
But the real killer for Beria-esque charging was that Trump somehow interfered with the voting rights of [unspecified] millions.
Not the first time on either one.
The decision illustrates one way that growing political polarization and repeated Washington standoffs over spending and taxes could end up costing U.S. taxpayers.
“If you continue to block increased debt we may downgrade you again.”
Haha. That would be the new DEI response.
“I was conceived via sperm donor and discovered that I have 65 half-siblings after taking a DNA test
Brenna has been unable to meet her biological father as he wants to remain unidentified.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12363979/I-conceived-sperm-donor-discovered-65-half-siblings-taking-DNA-test.html
Maybe he’s just really tired.
He doesn’t want to get stuck for the family reunion catering bill.
Or he doesn’t want to be on the hook for child support should some states opt to go after him.
I’m sure if the government wants to get him, they’ll force the clinic to disclose his name.
My bad for using masculine pronouns — please don’t send me to remedial DEI training.
Certainly he took a load off.
He’ll cum around.
She just has to look for the guy with one big forearm.
Shame the Pac-12 is dying. It didn’t have to be this way. A lot of good teams there that rarely got national TV or big non-conference games.
I’m amazed a conference died without U o Texas killing it.
When your first games of the day are when much of the country are six beers deep and getting ready for their second round of games, it makes it tough. And when your afternoon slot is out of sync with everybody else it makes it even tougher.
The Pac-? will survive in some fashion. It just won’t have any teams of consequence in it once this shakes out.
Yep – although the NCAA could have helped with earlier games and better non-conference match-ups.
The NCAA doesn’t set schedules for football. The individual schools and conferences do. And the Pac-? just wrapped up a Big Ten round of home and home matchups and regularly get decent OOC opponents.
That’s not the problem. The problem is tv money. And all the other conferences best them to the punch in setting up their own networks and signing the lucrative deals with ESPN, Fox, NBC, and CBS.
When I was in college at the university of Arkansas, we just played Texas teams all the time. Joining the SEC was sacrilege for some, but it made for more variety. Maybe the pac? thing will turn out ok.
It’ll turn out ok for their marquee members. Oregon and Washington will probably join the Big Ten. Arizona and ASU will run to the Big 12. And Utah will likely do the same. The rest will be stuck with SDSU, Fresno St, Nevada, and whoever else they can con into joining the conference that will only be marginally better than the MWC was on its own.
I’ll qualify that first part. The fly in the ointment could be the state governments of Oregon and Washington. If they make the Ducks and/or Huskies departure conditional on them taking their little brother schools along for the ride, then the PAC-? might survive because the Big Ten will want nothing to do with that deal.
Boy, that would be stupid of them to do that.
Well, those “little brother schools” as you so blindly put it, are both better schools in every way. Keeping them in the same conference at the two degree mills with football teams would be a way of keeping the states athletic programs in the mannor that the whole thing was designed for.
We wouldn’t want them to go the way of the FOSU.
/person with deep connections to both WSU and OSU.
She sounds impartial.
Apparently she has given jail time even when the gov’t persecutors did not seek it.
“The country is watching to see what the consequences are for something that has not ever happened in the country before,” Chutkan said, adding that the January 6 rioters “soiled and defaced the halls of the Capitol and showed their contempt for the rule of law.”
Unfortunately you and you co-conspirators will never face consequences for your crimes against the American people.
The current regime is shitting all over the rule of law. Long term that’s doing way more damage than some unruly protesters.
Yep. If you’re going to get solitary for years, followed up by a lengthy prison sentence for “trespassing”, why not start aiming to do some real damage?
Ayup.
Barr was signalling that more charges against Trump were needed a few months ago when that hack prosecutor filed charges in Florida with a Judge who wasn’t in on the politics.
Barr is a piece of shit whose only loyalties are to the Blob. I’m sick of his endless pontificating over the rule of law and higher standards.
Yes – he’s every bit as bad as Wrey and Garland, just hid it better. His DOJ just watched the riots without lifting a finger.
Hard to pick Trump’s worst hire, but Barr is up there.
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” over the past two decades
This has been a problem since 1913.
Are the Biden administration’s ‘processing centers’ for migrants in Latin America doing any good?
They were designed to cut border crossings by letting migrants apply for U.S. entry without trekking north. So far they may not have fostered legal travel to the U.S. for anyone.
The only processing that should be done is turning them away.
“Ohio LGBTQ+ youth center funded by taxpayers teaches kids as young as ELEVEN the ‘fundamentals of drag’ in monthly classes run by a drag queen
The Colors+ Youth Center in Fairview Park – about 15 miles west of Cleveland – says in its mission statement that its goals are to use ‘holistic mind and body approach and have a safe space to empower LGBTQ+ youth and allies to grow as individuals and within their community’ and welcomes kids from ages 4 to 17….
DailyMail.com has reached out to Colors+ for comment. The organization has locked its Twitter feed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12363299/Ohio-LGBTQ-youth-center-funded-taxpayers-teaches-kids-young-ELEVEN-fundamentals-drag-monthly-classes-run-drag-queen.html
Where are the parents?
Gleefully getting social credit points amongst their friends.
Probably watching, proudly.
Let’s see if the taxpayers of Ohio will fund a “Fundamentals of Manliness” run by a local survivalist.
Ron Swanson is in Indiana.
Fuck. I know that suburb. It’s a relatively wealthy one, with a highly rated public school district (which makes it attractive to parents with kids).
Am I wrong?
AFAICT, the direct cishet analogue of Drag is Burlesque.
I said as much when the whole kiddie drag craze started.
A lot of drag artists do start out by secretly putting on their mom’s dresses and stuff. I do not see the need to bring it into the classroom any more than any other kink. And yes, I think it is a kink, not a “lifestyle” or “my truth” or some such bullshit.
The analog of drag is blackface. Burlesque is women acting as women.
I was more leaning into the lie that it’s an art that has nothing necessarily to do with sex.
You want a civil war? This is how you get a civil war.
https://archive.li/TOd8h
One way to find out if GenZ is really all in on the Dems then wouldn’t?
Nah, the Dems will have deferments for their favored constituencies.
Bring back college deferments!
College deferments, along with a segregated military. Can’t have the Black Folx subjected to this!
Yeah — that was the other bit that jumped out at me “subjecting all of America’s youth — rich and poor — to the possibility of military service via the draft”.
First off — those of us paying attention middle class and down have always realized that we’re all subject to the possibility. They sure as shit made a big deal about having to register, having to keep registration current, etc. So conceptually, this would do jack over bupkis.
And second — as you note — there hasn’t been a draft yet the elites couldn’t pay their way out of (the Civil War was most blatant about it — pay some other guy to go in your place!). Since human nature hasn’t changed… pull the other one, it has bells on, asswipe!
Yup. Enrolled in college, working for a non-profit/charity, probably add working in an “essential” job like, say, stomping out mis/disinformation, get a deferment. Oh, and if you’re black/POC, well, your people already have contributed just so darn much, you get a deferment, too.
“Strategic advisor for communications “. That explains a lot.
Given Afghanistan and Iraq’s conclusions, the ongoing mess in Syria, etc… that’s um… a rather generous interpretation. Might as well claim they’re a tiger repelling rock.
Not that I want the guy back in office at this point — but I think the Trump admin had the best formula for cutting down terrorism — work towards actual peace in the Middle East and energy independence in the US and the West to cut the sloshing of money funded towards the radicals by our erstwhile “allies”.
Stop dropping bombs on everyone’s neighbors and wedding parties would help as well… oh wait, that’s our wonderfully talented military’s job according to this schmuck.
“our military has crushed international terrorism and prevented another large-scale attack on our homeland for 22 years and running.”
Lol ok. I suppose the Boston Marathon bombing doesn’t count as “large-scale”
Note that no establishment Democrat or Republican accomplished jack or shit towards either of those goals – in fact, they actively worked against them.
It’s gonna have to be someone with the balls to fight back against The Blob before goals like that can be pursued again.
“Slavery good.”
-that asshole
The 13A only bans the bad kinds of slavery.
The military has never been an all conscript force. During every draft period there were volunteers.
And American confidence in its military is at a low.
Couldn’t have anything to do with the woke bullshit that the military is currently engaged in.
Or the forced vaccines
Or dragging parents and then their kids through two meat-grinders…
I have one employee leaving to join the Army. She’s not a star employee.
Is she a star lesbian?
Not that I’m aware of.
Ben Shapiro on the globalist censorship front. Nothing we don’t already know in the broad strokes… but some of the finer details might be interesting, so figured I’d toss it out here. I know I can’t square the circle between free association / free trade and not allowing multinationals to collude to control governments — but the nationalist in me that wants options / laboratories of democracy at the global level sure as hell wants to.
A new contender has officially entered the streaming wars: NASA. On Thursday, the space agency announced that in the coming months it will launch its first on-demand streaming service through the NASA app. Dubbed NASA+, the service will showcase live coverage of future launches, documentaries, and a handful of new original series. But most importantly, it will be ad-free and accessible to everyone without a subscription.
A streaming service that is out of this world.
“Pac-?”
Have they gone full trans, or just questioning their identity?
Those dots are turning the frogs gay!
I just don’t know how many members to count anymore.
Merger of Pac-remnants and Mountain-West?
How many teams are in the Big 10?
Branding is more important than mathematical accuracy.
https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2014/04/jim_delany_no_matter_how_many.html
You mean the B1G?
Two.
It is PAC-8. Everything else is just an abomination of ohio state university proprotions.
/Born in a Pac-8 town, mother and grandfather born in Pacific Athleic Conference town.
S&P did this roughly 10 years ago. It’s been fun reading the spin from the lefty economists.
Fitch Slapped
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fitch-downgrades-u-s-credit-rating-56c73b89?st=0qrsum2uerucitq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That’s just Scranton Joe.
Biden tells a rambling story about wearing nuts and bolts as cufflinks to a school dance in ninth grade
I swear he watches “Old Time Movie Hour” and confuses that with his own memories.
I didn’t realize ninth grade had been invented then.
Western civilization appear to be on a dead-end road.
https://twitter.com/TFL1728/status/1686714972762521600
I wanted an Orgasmatron, but I’m getting suicide pods.
It’s not worth dying over.
When the Orgasmatron does come out, it will look just like the suicide pod….
Why settle for petite mort?
Heh… well done.
Lastday, Capricorn 29’s. Year of the City: 2274. Carousel begins
Fish, and plankton. And sea greens, and protein from the sea. It’s all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day.
Sometimes, Matt Groening is prescient.
Or David Mirkin.
Does it liquify the person and turn them into Soylent Green?
Ok, groomer.
A federal judge in Montana has temporarily blocked a new law that protects children from drag queen performances, ruling that it could ‘disproportionately’ harm the LGBT and Pride community.
U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris – appointed by President Obama in 2013 – suspended the law because, he argued, the 15,000 expected attendees of Montana Pride “cannot avoid chilled speech or exposure to potential civil or criminal liability.”
The law would “disproportionately harm not only drag performers, but any person who falls outside traditional gender and identity norms,” added Morris on Friday. Montana Pride attendees are once again able to hold events in public in front of children, as a result of the decision.
So, the argument is that LGBTQWERTY are somehow harmed by not being able to shake their asses in front of children?
What a sick culture we have become.
Any bars and/or strip clubs which have to enforce age minimums should sue citing this as precedent.
If there’s alcohol involved, the 21st amendment gives wide regulatory authority over the states.
As we always said, beer and titties beats juice and snatch.
The second type should sue. No alchohol involved.
It was stupidly written – they should have just banned any sexualized performance – they could have included burlesque, drag, etc.
It’s the problem with most Montana Republicans, they are social conservatives first and foremost – fiscal, meh, not so much.
Who thought this was a good idea?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-boycott-uk-coffee-giant-celebrates-women-having-breasts-removed
I’d ask what bodily mutilation has to do with coffee but it wouldn’t matter.
Just because a lot of folks don’t take cream in their coffee…..
I hope this is their Bud Light moment.
Isn’t it marketing 101 that tits sell product? Are any of these places hiring marketing execs? I’d like to throw my hat into the ring.
In regard to the Northwestern thing…why would a hazing incident trigger an investigation into the entire athletic department? Stupid question.
If you can’t signal your virtue, what’s the point in having it to begin with?
I’m even more amazed that Bruce Arena has been suspended from coaching for “insensitive and inappropriate remarks”.
Lorenzo Warby has 3 full chapters on the femininization of society.
The University of Texas System health plan said it isn’t seeing any of the expected reduction in costs for other health conditions that weight loss could avert. “These savings are not being realized due to the excessive cost the drug manufacturer charges for the weight-loss medication,” the benefits newsletter said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/employers-cut-off-access-to-weight-loss-drugs-for-workers-cb277a44?st=pwrk6p9xquxpim3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They have to save money. Have you seen the price of puberty blockers?
“I know they’re polarizing”
Really? There is a legitimate complaint that they are overplayed, and that they stole music, but its crazy to say they arent talented.
This pretty much covers it. They are damn good at what they did, so much so that I cannot listen anymore, as I got burned out by a friend in High School.
For our Based Buc-ee:
Buc-ee’s coming to Virginia
A bit far but reasonable for vacation trips.
There is a Bucees under construction just south of Fort Collins.
Meh. It can be a handy place, like a WalMart. But it looks like a WalMart inside too. Not relaxing to me on a long trip.
Another option in my area would be fine. Just like the six options I have for groceries.
Do you not have Sheetz or Wawa around you?
Both within 3 miles. There’s also a Royal Farms nearby that I haven’t checked out.
RF has really good fried chicken. Equivalent to Wawa sammichs.
I like sandwiches from Publix.
It would definitely be that.
Eh, I don’t go to convenience stores to relax.
I understand that’s where you can hear the best up and coming Russian metal though.
I’m a fan, but it will be a while before we get one this far north.
Most of NRO isn’t a Trump fan but they’re calling out the indictment for what it is: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/this-trump-indictment-shouldnt-stand/
That’ll stop ’em….
WSJ also recognizes this just destroys the US faster. It will also fall on deaf ears.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-indictment-2020-election-jack-smith-january-6-fraud-e0068c4f?st=vg12wm4qhbb4jne&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Meanwhile my FB feed is full of people that I like saying shit that makes my blood run cold.
Unrelated, we just had another 1,000 rounds of 5.56 delivered.
🙂
Color me shocked.
As summer wildfires push the likes of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to claim the “era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived,” reports suggest the vast majority of blazes in Italy, at least, are actually down to arsonists.
The National Confederation of Direct Farmers, Coldiretti, estimates arson is responsible for up to 60 percent of the blazes in the Mediterranean country. Roberto Occhiuto, the regional president for the southerly Calabria region, believes arsonists are behind an even higher 80 percent of the blazes, at least in his jurisdiction.
“Last year in Calabria we caught 22 arsonists and this year, too, we are finding several,” he told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Let us today commemorate (and celebrate) the demise of a corrupt President and the ascendancy of his VP – the very Glib definition of what we want in a President.
Small-town tyranny in Anaheim, through the plight of one wee gas station
Who knew cities also had corruption?
“Eugenia Cooney’s ‘thin’ figure sparks worry amid eating disorder: ‘Knocking on death’s door’”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/eugenia-cooneys-thin-figure-sparks-worry-amid-eating-disorder/
big yikes
Uh, Halloween ain’t for three months. Put the skeletons back on the attic until at least mid-October.
Shouldn’t we affirming her self-identified body perception with a gastric bypass? Isn’t that how we are supposed to address dysmorphia now?
Man. Mental illness is not a good thing at all.
I wrongly assumed she was some spawn of George, and thus her claim to fame.
Fuck all of the talk about the tyranny of our govt; you want a true sign of how corrupt society has become? This person is an influencer? I have a friend who several years back quipped that “social media is to society what tobacco smoke is to lungs”.
Influencer – Noun – A narcissist on Social Media who pretends to be important but who has no influence.
And yet here is the NYP reporting on her.
No influence? Dylan Mulvaney managed to destroy Bud Light.
“Ramaswamy argued that the real reason riots took place at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was “systematic, pervasive censorship” throughout America.
“That was after a year where we had told people across this nation that you had to stay locked down in your house and your basement and shut up, sit down, do as you’re told,” Ramaswamy explained. “If you question that, you’re racist, you’re anti-science, your social media accounts were silenced. You had to stay home and locked down unless you were part of BLM or Antifa in which case it was perfectly fine to roam the streets of this country and burn it many of them.”
“That was the double standard that then applied and said that if you sent the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, you were again a racist and had your internet accounts shut down,” he continued, “You were then told you had an election where you could express yourself to put the right person in charge of fixing these problems. And instead, your accounts were suppressed if you sent a mere message, saying that the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post was real. You had your accounts locked. Even the New York Post had its own account locked. And if you repeatedly then tell people they cannot speak that is when they scream. If you repeatedly tell people they cannot scream. That is when they tear things down. And I think we’re making a grave mistake in this country by trying to pin the blame for that at the feet of one man.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-vivek-ramaswamy-blasts-bidens-corrupt-feds-over-trump-indictment-says-true-cause-of-j6-was-pervasive-censorship
For every good lucid statement he makes, he ends up making one equally unhinged one (i.e. sending US troops in to Mexico to fight the cartels).
Yeah if he hones in his ideals, could be a force to reckon with and probably ride the center while leeching off the center-left/right fence sitters.
He does have some wacky ideas, and he won’t win. But I am grateful there are people like him, and Kennedy, who have a decent sized audience and are saying the things none of the establishment candidates are saying.
Of course he’s right. But it doesn’t matter, nothing will happen.
I tend to think he has a point.
Likely also why there are a lot of people like myself who saw things on election night (The Great Fulton County Water Pipe Break, etc.) that don’t jibe — and no amount of Establishment screeching that there Was No Election Fraud, Goddamit! (witness the WSJ and NRO articles cited here for their constant fucking harping of that… “Trump’s reprehensible behavior post-election” etc… without any citations or description whatsover… Ex ecclesia cathedrali Trump est reprehensibilis) — all the time in 2020 of “mostly peaceful riots”, all the crap in 2021 of the “safe and effective” shots… they’ve so burned their credibility, I don’t care what the hell they have to say on the topic anymore or how I supposedly didn’t see what I saw.
And that’s presumably a problem (for me and for the country if there’s a lot like me) — because I’m rejecting new data based on the source… but c’est la fucking vie at this point. The “gatekeepers of information” made this Procrustean Bed — the country is just going to have to lie in it for a while.
I’ve been saying this all along. There was a ton of questionable looking stuff, anyone with half a brain could see that. All they had to do was say that it’s important for people to have faith in elections, and pass a few laws to make things more transparent and auditable. That would have simmered things down. But instead, you even raise the subject and you’re a white supremacist insurrectionist.
Now we have both sides saying that under no circumstances will they accept the other side winning in 2024. This is going to be total chaos.
And that is the point. The people who are funding this insanity want chaos.
I figured he knew too much about Big Mike’s big D.
A female staff member of Barack Obama had been with chef Tafari Campbell when he tragically drowned while paddle-boarding in a pond beside the former president’s estate in Martha’s Vineyard, DailyMail.com has learned.
The woman, who was on a separate paddle-board, had tried in vain to reach Campbell after he had fallen off but was ultimately forced to return to shore to summon help.
It was a Secret Service agent who then phoned emergency services from the Obama compound in Edgartown to report the incident, sources told DailyMail.com.
On shore, the witness spoke with investigators and was lucid and clear, exhibiting no signs of intoxication, according to insiders.
Nothing left to cut.
The entire psy-ops division at Ft Bragg needs to nuked from orbit. It’s been weaponized against the American people.
*note to Ft Braggs psy-ops division: I do not in fact possess orbital nukes*
Mr. Lizard, a nation casts its hopeful gaze to you.
The derp must flow!
And bonus derp.
would not have experienced two 100-year storms in a 10-year interval
That’s not what the storm rating means. It is merely a measure of intensity for a location.
IOW you can get a brief 100yr intensity downpour localized in a thunderstorm cell. And it can happen multiple times in a week/month/year/whatever in the same location.
Fun for hours.
Idiot reporter: you mean they don’t happen once every hundred years?
I guess I have to throw out my calendar now.
I hope the Mets strike a deal with Verlander to pay him an inflated rate over the next 25 years rather than give him their full share of the 2023 and 2024 salaries on time. That would be the cherry on top of that story.
Are the current owners collecting insane returns from a pyramid scam?
Madoff is why the Mets made the deal with Bonilla. 8% return was low compared to what they were getting from Madoff, so why not?
I grew up hearing Led Zeppelin every night at 9 on the local hard rock station “Get the Led out!!” I also heard tons of deeper cuts from the usual suspects in HS. I got quite sick of hearing the same songs over and over again, but they are still well done. Yesterday I came across this new article about Jimmy Page and the process of creating the band. It’s a semi long read, but very informative.
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jimmy-page-yardbirds-led-zeppelin
I bet Plant regretted singing the Immigrant Song in a key he couldn’t hit even a few years later.
Here’s the masculine version of the song.
https://youtu.be/vfqUhd6aVWM
Geddy Lee commented that if he knew he would be singing those songs 40 years later, he would have sung them one octave lower.
Heard Edwin McCain jokingly saying the same thing when I saw him in concert.
Michigan doesn’t want to be left out of the political persecution fun.
Former republican attorney general candidate Matt DePerno and ex-state Rep. Daire Rendon are facing criminal charges for their alleged role in a scheme to access voting machines following the 2020 presidential elections, according to case details provided by the Oakland County Circuit.
DePerno – spelled erroneously online as “Matthew DeParno” – is facing four charges: two counts of undue possession of a voting machine, one count of conspiracy for undue possession of a voting machine and conspiracy for unauthorized access.
Rendon is also facing two charges: Conspiracy for undue possession of a voting machine and false pretenses.
That Scanlan swimmer, almost makes me almost not detest the guy in the dressing room. She waited long enough to complain.
Almost.
Commies gonna commie.
In a letter Monday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Senate coalition — joined also by Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. — argued fossil fuel companies have conducted a “longstanding and carefully coordinated campaign” to mislead Americans about the risks posed by global warming and “discredit climate science” in pursuit of profits. If the DOJ were to pursue such a case again the fossil fuel industry, it would mark the first time the federal government got involved in climate nuisance litigation.
“The actions of ExxonMobil, Shell, and potentially other fossil fuel companies represent a clear violation of federal racketeering laws, truth in advertising laws, consumer protection laws, and potentially other laws, and the Department must act swiftly to hold them accountable for their unlawful actions,” the four senators wrote to Garland on Monday.
“The fossil fuel industry has had scientific evidence about the dangers of climate change and the role that burning fossil fuels play in increasing global temperatures for more than 50 years,” the lawmakers continued. “Despite these companies’ knowledge about climate change and the role their industry was playing in driving carbon emissions, they chose to participate in a decades-long, carefully coordinated campaign of misinformation to obfuscate climate science and convince the public that fossil fuels are not the primary driver of climate change.”
I’m pretty sure they have only ever mined, refined and sold fuel to people that want and need it. And I’m pretty sure all climate predictions related to the climate commie agenda have been wrong.
This nation of laws thing is inconvenient, let’s just be a nation ruled by the whims of cuntes and assholes! s/ Lizzie, Ed and Jeff
Looks like Gonzalo got picked up again.
https://twitter.com/MarkSleboda1/status/1686619514211868672
Fuck. They are going to kill him (an American citizen) for having wrong opinions and our government isn’t going lift a finger. Victoria Neuland will laugh and joke about it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lost-learning-remote-pandemic-workplace-skills-new-employees-51351b33?st=w7cqi3vf3kiw6bo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m sure he’s good on mandated DEI courses in school, however. Glib engineers – help me out here. It’s the WSJ and they don’t write this particularly well. The young grad isn’t being asked to machine the part – just design one that can be made on a lathe. Is it really that tough for a youngster to understand the difference between what a lathe can make compared to a 5 axis CNC machine?
A lot of engineers graduate with zero practical knowledge but plenty of theory.
It takes a lot of effort to get them trained up.
You fixed ovens, right?
HP 5245L Nixie Counter – Part 3: 500 MHz Plugin Repair (HP 5253A and HP 5253B)
https://youtu.be/01GzduUaLOE
HP – how much you have fallen.
I don’t know where he’s going to get his nixie tubes now since most of them came from Russia.
HP used to be a serious company with serious products. It’s a shell of its former self.
They made the best calculators.
I’ve probably told this story before…
My brother was a machinist before he retired. One day a bright young engineer, fresh out of college, gave a spec to a machinist (not my brother) and said machinist told the young engineer that it wasn’t going to work. The engineer huffed about how he had a college degree and the machinist did not – so by god, make it to my spec.
The next day the machinist walked into the engineer’s office and dumped a bag of metal chips on his desk. The engineer starts to say something and the machinist cuts him off: that’s what you get when the inside diameter is greater than the outside diameter.
A beautiful theoretical design…. crushed by an unwelcome fact.
Good friend of mine who used to be an EE (microwave as well) explained how critical it was for him to work with his machinists for what was possible with his designs.
👆👆
Junior RF/MW engineers almost never understand the limitations of the manufacturing, machining, assembly, and test processes. I took a fair amount of joy in redlining their designs and sending them back to their cubicles crying.
“No, you can’t have your document package back yet. I’m not done tearing it to shreds.”
Indeed. Mechanical engineers, without a lot of year under their belts, a crap at doing anything other than figuring out tonnage for a single family home AC.
Process this for a second. Raytheon CEO says he can’t get his supply chain out of China.
https://twitter.com/thouse_opinions/status/1683408517833834496
I can hear Lindsey Graham’s head bursting from here.
End all Raytheon contracts for their unreliability due to entanglement with a strategic adversary.
His head? Or his wallet?
$500B in trade out of our economy of $26T – too big? You can do it of course, but it would mean sacrificing some profit and executive compensation.
It just demonstrates the goals of the MIC. It has nothing to do with the security of the USA.
This is surprising somehow?
Not surprising to anyone playing attention. Surprising to hear the CEO of Raytheon have to admit it.
Consider the coalition satisfied with the status quo – the MIC/capitalists, the Greens (who are the biggest racists in this country – they don’t care about environmental damage in countries run by POC, just as long as they get their toys and don’t have to see it), the finance sector and of course the political establishment.
The greens don’t care about the effect of their policies on POC’s in this country. Witness all the good ship building jobs, auto plants, etc. moved overseas that are great jobs for working up the economic ladder.
Ehh..he didn’t said he can’t , he said it was impractical. He also said he has strategic second sources to de-risk their supply chain.
“This wasn’t Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” Chutkan said before sentencing two friends who came to the Capitol. “They came to Washington knowing full well the events of January 6,” adding that “their actions were an assault on the American people.”
She added: “This was a violent attempted overthrow of the government … and it almost succeeded.”
What a maroon.
“This was a violent attempted overthrow of the government … and it almost succeeded.”
It was not and did not, you dishonest cunte.
Not stupid, just evil. She is an example of the type who self-righteously sent people to gulags and concentration camps.
…for their own good!
What a boss
Let kids be kids dammit!
Poor kid. He just forgot the radioactive part.
Does he not understand that with great power comes great responsibility?
Good thing it’s Bolivia. If it had been here, his parents would have already sued Stan Lee’s estate, Sam Raimi, Sony Pictures, Disney, Toby McGuire, and that animated black kid.
Lol, read this comment on another site (from a tranny):
With a quick follow-up:
To answer the question…it could have realistically have been a love story. I would hate to see life through a political lens.
The apparent target audience is only in love with itself.
I always hear these folks in the tones of Dennis the Constitutional Peasant — “See, that’s what I’m on about! The personal must be political… we live in a patriarchal, cis-hetero capitalist society! If there’s ever going to be any progress…” “Dennis, there’s some lovely filth down ‘ere!”
So tiring.
It could have been an interesting take on childhood aspirations and the like, leaning into something like the Lego movie.
“what else could the film have realistically have been”
Literally unthinkable to these fanatics that a kidks movie could just be fun and entertaining.
It could have been the Mario movie. There was no deep story line, just Bowser trying to bang Princess Peach and Mario saving the mushroom kingdom.
too much one of the cool kids
That’s code for narcissist, isn’t it?
some genuine trans affirmation during the “this is what a woman is” speech
🙄
Did Matt Walsh finally get his answer?
“How do I do that?” asked the young man.
So Devengenzo, an engineer who has built technology for NASA and Google, and who charges consulting clients a minimum of $300 an hour, spent the next three hours teaching Lathework 101. “You learn by doing,” he said. “These kids in school during the pandemic, all they’ve done is work on computers.”
The only way that makes sense to me is if the guy actually told the kid to go whip up a piece on the lathe. A “prototype” if you will.
“They’re not looking to be productive,” Davis said. “If they’re not told what to do, if someone isn’t managing every second and keeping them busy, their inclination is not to self identify what they can do—it’s to do nothing.”
I don’t think this is an especially new phenomenon. I can certainly believe it’s getting worse. Especially the phone part.
Good morning, Sloop!
Nice to have the site back – thanks to WebDom and the rest of you.
No, you’re not. Get help. Or at least go away.
If Neil deGrasse Tyson says you are a woman if you feel like it, that is settled science, are you anti science?
Yes.
You misspelled “tarred and feathered.”
Young man arrested for sharing the Bible on a public sidewalk
Blatant violation of the 1st amendment of The Constitution. Every one of those cops should be fired and sued.
More.
“The police, per orders from city leaders, arrested several young people. Three were arrested earlier in the day while inside the park praying and talking to attendees, and then released with warnings,” said Storms, who serves as minister of evangelism at Mercy Seat Christian Church. “It was open to the public, thus the public’s right to free speech carries with them. One was arrested later in the day for preaching on the public sidewalk outside the venue and is being charged with unlawful use of sound amplification and resisting arrest.” …
Storms added that there were several dozen police officers assembled to protect the drag queen event, during which performers dressed in lingerie were seen “dancing and gyrating in front of little children, who were invited to give them one dollar bills.” Wisconsin law forbids individuals from causing a minor to view or listen to “sexually explicit conduct.”
The police, per orders from city leaders, arrested several young people.
You know what other government enforcement arm was “just following orders”?
I seem to recall that police in this country are supposed to arrest people for violating the law, not because some shitbird leader said to do it. But hey, I don’t have a badge, so what so I know.
Silly Americans. Not one of those officers thought to think…this just may go against my oath*
*Which we all know is bullshit because of the amount of wagon circling cities have done with their shittiest officers makes the oath just something to check off and not mean anything.
Jacobin
@jacobin
We need a plan for public funding of the media that can revive the ability to do more in-depth investigative reporting, hold power to account, and prioritize local journalism. Socialists have solutions.
Feel free to donate to the media outlet of your choice.
Yes, government funding of media will absolutely lead to more in-depth, investigative reporting of government.
FFS, these people are weapons-grade stupid.
Pravda means TRUTH! They can’t publish lies!
Typically one is not supposed to attribute malice where stupidity would suffice. Lately I am reversing that.
public funding of the media…hold power to account
Who wants to tell them?
Socialists have solutions.
And usually they are final.
Let’s examine the history of France after the Jacobins – how did that work out exactly?
if we base it on the quality of wine and cheese, pretty good
Nothing should be based on Wine and Cheese. Both are gross.
Beer and cheese pair better.
In local news the government does not plan to fix prices, but to fix… gah what is the english term… how much a store can add to the price they buy a good at… mark-up? I dunno…
Anyway this totally negates supply and demand. unlike basic bitch price fixing.
Mark up would be correct. I know here in Ohio, there’s a minimum mark up that’s required for each step of the beer distribution system (33% IIRC). So brewery sells to a distributor at price X, distributor has to sell it to the retailer at 1.33*X, and the retailer’s minimum price they can sell it for (outside of clearance/past date/etc.) is 1.33*(1.33*X). So if X is $6/a six pack, it would be $7.98 for distributor to retailer, and $10.61 at retail. The breweries that do sell to the general public generally match the retail price (and take the extra profit instead of selling it for less and undercutting the retail market).
While that may be the minimum, my understanding the standard is 1.33 then 1.5.
So $6 from brewery to distributor, $8 to retailer, and $12 to customer.
Some retailers may be slightly more of less than 1.5.
Right. That’s just the minimum. However, it’s a pretty common advertising tactic around here for retailers to advertise beer “At State Minimum Pricing!” The other common advertising thing in areas on county boundary lines is either “No Sin Tax!” or “We pay your sin tax!”
In 2011, the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s stripped the U.S. of its prize AAA rating after a prolonged fight over the government’s borrowing limit.
I remember that. I remember the US government all of sudden being interested in S&P over S&P’s involvement in mortgage-backed securities after the ratings cut. I’d say that kept the other ratings agencies from lowering the US government’s rating.
On Tuesday morning, Northwestern announced that they will have former Loretta Lynch from the law firm of Paul, Weis, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison lead a review of the “processes and accountability mechanisms” in place to prevent misconduct in athletic programs.
I’m certain this review will be above the board and honest.
There are more people moving to Sacramento from the Bay Area than anywhere else in the country, according to Redfin data.
A former coworker did this before it was cool. He, his parents, and I think his grandparents all grew up in the Bay Area. Most or all of them were Republicans. He and his wife wanted to stay, but they had trouble finding a house big enough for their family. So they went to the Sacramento area. They never looked back and were very happy after the move.
“I remember that. I remember the US government all of sudden being interested in S&P over S&P’s involvement in mortgage-backed securities after the ratings cut. I’d say that kept the other ratings agencies from lowering the US government’s rating.”
Your timing is off. S&P got caught with its hand in the cookie jar on the mortgage backs first. It downgraded the US sovereign (from memory) roughly 18 to 24 months later.
Huh. I remember news about mortgage backed securities before the downgrade, but I thought the government didn’t bother looking into S&P about mortgage backed securities until after the downgrade?
I worked at S&P during the US downgrade.
However, the investigation was before I worked there. I dealt with all the insanity from the MBS settlements as part of my day to day work.
Part of the reason I hated that job, but I learned a ton how the ratings sausage gets made.
Got it, thanks!
I’d read that article.
In some respects the US downgrade came as result of S&P having to publish detailed rating criteria and publicly demonstrate how it follows those criteria. This came into place after the MBS debacle.
It had to publish its sovereign criteria and when the US could be justifiably demonstrated that it was failing to meet those criteria it had little choice but to downgrade. So, as usual, FedGove shot itself in the foot.
My parents and grandparents are mostly from the Bay Area, and I loved living in Sac much more than the Bay.
(I was born in east Washington, the only one outside the bay in generations.)
Also in local news, the government is planning across the board tax increases to solve the deficit. People will bitch and moan and then vote for the same fuckers. And not a penny of the graft is being cut. Especially not the pensions of special government workers who retire at 45. God fucking damn it.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That is one chill cat.
I was expecting sheets of puppy blood to start flying around.
You’re late today but you get a second chance because of the subject matter. Cat sort of reminds me of a girl I knew in high school
Gypsies, tramps and cats
Thanks, Jimbo, for a late but good start on my day.
Lizzo accused of sexual harassment and fat-shaming Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66379169
Romanian Army in Budapest (footage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zfc1dkPobE
should’ve burned the place when we could, so American rockstars would not longer come here and say good evening Budapest
Two villagers drinking at the Bidford Mop annual fair in the village of Bidford-on-Avon in the English county of Warwickshire, circa 1900.
https://twitter.com/mongsley/status/1686644743726350336
“The purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the government function by which those results are collected, counted and certified,” the indictment from special counsel Jack Smith’s office says.
The indictment marks a historic moment for a nation less than 250 years old — the first time a former president has faced criminal charges for trying to overturn the bedrock of democracy, a free and fair election. While Trump’s failure to reverse his defeat was a credit to the guardrails of that democracy, the ability to prosecute him may renew the stress test on the constitutional design.
The allegation that Trump used “dishonesty, fraud, and deceit” to subvert the 2020 election with “pervasive and destabilizing lies about election fraud” comes after a sprawling investigation that included testimony from dozens of White House aides and advisors ranging in seniority up to former Vice President Mike Pence.
I suppose it depends on your definition of free and fair
Hm…posted too soon somehow.
Anyway…
If only we had free and fair elections. The gov’t response to citizens/candidates questioning the results of an election just proves that we do not.
LK-99 update: Two additional DFT theoretical studies with similar positive results, one from the Vienna University of Technology, the other from a joint effort of UC Boulder, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and King’s College.
Three claims of replication by Chinese labs, with video showing levitation. However, in one case they said they said they measured resistance and found high resistivity in the sample.
so if you were a betting men what would you bet on?
*man unless you are a they
Black. Always bet on black.
I lean slightly towards it being real, but it’s close enough to 50/50 that I’d put money on whichever had the better payout.
Let racism ring
The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District said in a statement that its diversity, equity and inclusion committee would be eliminated, as would any job duties connected to it. Also axed were initiatives left over from when the district was controlled by Disney supporters, which awarded contracts based on goals of achieving racial or gender parity.
Glenton Gilzean, the district’s new administrator who is African American and a former head of the Central Florida Urban League, called such initiatives “illegal and simply un-American.” Gilzean has been a fellow or member at two conservative institutions, the James Madison Institute and the American Enterprise Institute Leadership Network, as well as a DeSantis appointee to the Florida Commission on Ethics.
“Our district will no longer participate in any attempt to divide us by race or advance the notion that we are not created equal,” Gilzean said in a statement. “As the former head of the Central Florida Urban League, a civil rights organization, I can say definitively that our community thrives only when we work together despite our differences.”
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DeSantis also has championed Florida’s so-called “Stop WOKE” law, which bars businesses, colleges and K-12 schools from giving training on certain racial concepts, such as the theory that people of a particular race are inherently racist, privileged or oppressed. A federal judge last November blocked the law’s enforcement in colleges, universities and businesses, calling it “positively dystopian.”
Send in the National Guard, before it’s too late.
This is literally worse than slavery
Is it OK to criticise a chef who posted a picture of all-male and all-white staff online?
He is facing backlash for having no women or people of colour on his team.
He’s blamed the UK staff shortage.
Is that fair?
https://twitter.com/JeremyVineOn5/status/1686630887255867392
off course. women should do all the cooking.
He should lean into it and change the name to Adolph’s
JFC the Anglosphere is broken beyond repair.
Is it OK to show pictures of elementary school teachers with no men?
Pie on point, as always.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
@MayorofLondon
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22h
Evidence shows children excluded from school are at higher risk of being affected by violence.
I’m pleased to announce @LDN_VRU has brought in educational expert Maureen McKenna—responsible for a 90% fall in Glasgow school exclusions—to help support its work on Inclusion.
Ed West
@edwest
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6h
This is such a terrible idea and it’s going to make life miserable for so many teenagers
Loads of kids hate school and one of the prime reasons is bullying and cruelty by a small minority who absolutely should be excluded
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1686652482909302784
tough one. on the one hand no child left behind. On the other bullies suck.
My first though was that this is political jargon for banning homeschooling. But I also assume homeschooling is already illegal in the UK.
I was scratching my head (who is excluded from school?!) but I guess what they mean is expelled students.
It looks like someone *dons sunglasses* delivered a slice of justice.
A pizza deliveryman fought back against a pair of would-be carjackers in the parking lot of a Chestnut Hill neighborhood apartment complex overnight, shooting one of them, Philadelphia police said. …
“One of them forced the 21-year-old deliveryman into the back seat and one of the perpetrators got into the backseat with him,” Small said. “The other perpetrator got into the front seat. And they started asking him for money.” …
The deliveryman was able to get out of the vehicle and confront one of the robbers, firing two shots, Small said. The would-be robber was struck once in the backside.
Police found one of the would-be robbers about 300 feet away and got him to the hospital where he was in stable condition while in surgery, police said. The man was being held as a prisoner and charges were expected.
Philly speak for no charges.
Whale ho!
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said former President Trump’s indictment over his efforts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election represents a “tremendous vindication” and praised Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith for bringing forth the charges he did.
“I view this as tremendous vindication of the rule of law and American democracy,” Raskin said Tuesday on MSNBC. “And I am especially impressed by Jack Smith and the prosecutors bringing forth the charge about conspiracy to deprive Americans of their rights, specifically the right to vote.”
An indictment was unveiled Tuesday that charged Trump — who is seeking another term in the White House in 2024 — with four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
“What really was Jan. 6 about, and everything that led up to it? It was an attempt to usurp from the people our right to choose our own leaders, our own president through the electoral college system such as it is,” Raskin said, commenting on the charge of conspiracy against rights.
”They’re very grave and serious charges, of course, but extremely well anchored in the facts of the case,” he added.
They’ve got Moby Trump now.
“I view this as tremendous vindication of the rule of law and American democracy,”
I view it as political persecution because someone disagreed with the result of an election.
to deprive Americans of their rights, specifically the right to vote.
Who was deprived of this?
”They’re very grave and serious charges, of course, but extremely well anchored in the facts of the case,” he added.
I hope the cancer kills you, you dishonest cunte.
Who was deprived of this?
Yeah the first three charges were tenuous enough, that one is 100% BULLSHIT.
This is where the Georgia case will fill in that gap along with the ‘fake’ electors case. Even though they are BS, it will bolster this case.
Votes were cast, and they were counted. Show me how anyone was DEPRIVED of that.
Oh I agree. Just looking at the road map they are laying down.
Juris, simple question for you, since people view you as the top defender of the election’s integrity around here fair or not.
Do you really think that if these people could have cheated in 2020, that they wouldn’t have done so?
You’re right Jamie
H.R.7468: Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act of 2020
H.R.4464: Ranked Choice Voting Act
H.R.569: Handgun Permit to Purchase Act
H.R.3285: Handgun Purchaser Licensing Act
Speaking of bullying
https://twitter.com/NoContextHumans/status/1686705827774619648
Kid is way too old to be wearing floaties. Come on people, pass on those important life skills at younger ages. And good on grandpa…buck up kid, life will hit you sooner or later.
Bad gut microbiome = Autism.
Glibs hardest hit.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-research-validates-autisms-link-gut
“A surge makes no sense,” the journalist replied. “It’s 10 a.m. on a sunny weekday, and it’s not like the president’s in town.”
Uber CEO stunned by $52 fare charged for 3-mile ride in NYC: ‘Wow!’
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-stunned-by-52-fare-charged-for-3-mile-ride-in-nyc/
Hey, it’s not my responsibility to understand our product.
This beer is made from recycled shower water
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/01/world/beer-from-recycled-shower-water-epic-cleantec-scn-spc
But why? Is it Belle Delphine’s shower water?
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Trojan horse!
A Super Pac affiliated with Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat, owes half its cash to a longtime Republican mega-donor and Trump backer, according to campaign finance reports filed on Monday.
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Mellon, 81, is the grandson of Andrew Mellon, a former US treasury secretary who made his fortune in banking. The Texas Tribune reported that Mellon, a top donor to Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, supported controversial immigration laws and was responsible for 98% of the contributions to the Texas governor Greg Abbott’s fund to build a border wall. Mellon, who twice gave $10m to the Trump-aligned America First Action Super Pac in 2020, also used racist stereotypes to describe Black people in an autobiography he self-published in 2015.
REPUDIATED.
But the Lincoln Project was 100% legit.
“Lizzo Accused of Weight Shaming and Forcing Dancers to Eat Bananas from Sex Workers’ Vaginas in Bombshell Lawsuit
The plaintiffs’ dance cast captain, defendant Ms. Quigley, is accused of frequently discussing her sexual fantasies and masturbation habits in lurid detail with the cast. The lawsuit goes further to claim that she would publicly practice her oral sex skills on bananas during breaks.
According to the lawsuit, Lizzo has consistently pressured her employees to partake in sexually explicit activities. This includes an incident at Bananenbar in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where Lizzo is accused of coercing her employees to engage with nude performers.
Lizzo also encouraged her employees to catch sex toys ejected from the performers’ vaginas and bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas. The complaint mentions that Ms. Davis repeatedly expressed her discomfort, but her objections were allegedly ignored.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/lizzo-accused-weight-shaming-forcing-dancers-eat-bananas/
bananas
I’m reminded of the Far Side cartoon with two apes and the one saying “you know Sid, it’s not profound, but I sure do love bananas”.
Kennedy’s campaign attracted a considerable amount of support from Republican donors in the weeks since he announced his run in April. A political watchdog found that Kennedy has a “long history” of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia.
Nazis of a feather stick together.
A political
watchattackdogTrust
The pandemic was a chance for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to do what it does best.
Instead, that public health crisis left the CDC marred by political interference and criticism of confusing messaging — and the agency lost trust among Americans.
Trust is clearly one issue on the mind of the agency’s new director, Dr. Mandy Cohen. She mentioned the word more than 50 times at a commencement speech she delivered earlier this year.
“Trust is a critical foundation for a healthy society,” she said. “Trust in institutions, such as government, or media, or business, has been eroding in recent years. This lack of trust has led to polarization, to division.”
Cohen is an internist who led the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services during the pandemic, and as of last month she is director of the CDC.
Why do I assume this person really means “obedience” when she says “trust”?
So to build trust we will recommend doctors to continue jabbing you with the very vaccine we lost trust on. Or as Brooks says, “obedience”
They’ve heard of that word, trust, but they don’t really understand it.
This lack of
trusthonesty by government, by media, and by business has led to polarization, to division.Fixed
2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse review
I don’t like the dash, but I think otherwise this car has potential.
My favorite automotive YouTube channel’s review.
https://youtu.be/0m-ZUC4fd_w
You aren’t going to get away from the tech. Ford workshopped the hell out the product and has leaned in. My opinion is that Ford feels the only way they can keep younger drivers engaged is through the tech. It’s not an unreasonable decision to come to, despite those of us that hate the unnecessary tech in the car.
For example, the handbrake is a big chonky lever, but it is electronic. I don’t know if it allows various levels of engagement or is binary. I assume it allows various levels of actuation because the Dark Horse and those models that include will allow you to modulate just the rear brakes with it.
Queued for later viewing.
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Well, it was an honor to serve North Carolina through the COVID crisis. And I think that we were able to be successful in our response effort because we put trust at the center and we worked on being transparent.
We worked on making sure that we delivered for the people of North Carolina and that we built relationships. We built them with historically underserved communities. We built them with our hospital system, so that we executed as a team and did our work as a team.
And importantly, we worked across the aisle. And this is where Congress and others are important partners in all of this. This is a team sport to protect folks’ health. I think that’s why North Carolina was successful. And I’m definitely going to bring those lessons learned here to the CDC.
Is there a cure for vacuous platitudes?
Here is her ‘honor’ as she speaks with peers in various states about what to ‘allow’ us
https://youtu.be/oZAJI2TFs04?t=66
I’m trying and failing to find the video of her scrambling to put a mask on when she realizes the cameras are actually on her.
She was giving a briefing during the Lil Rona Panic. One camera catches the off-stage area. You see Mandy Cohen walk into the off-stage area without a mask. She is alone. She looks around, and sees that one camera on her. She scrambles to put a mask on.
Not the one you were thinking…maybe…. but here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRl0pry-0Ks
That might be it actually. I might have remembered wrong what happened.
Two years into the pandemic, there was a survey in which a quarter of the respondents said that they trusted the CDC “not very much” or “not at all.” How do you plan to try to rebuild trust with people in the U.S.?
Well, I think there’s really three important steps. First is making sure that we are being transparent. We’re having clear communications that are simple and accurate, that folks can understand, that they know that there are common sense solutions for them to protect their health.
“Common sense solutions” you say? What the fuck does that have to do with the CDC?
I think the CDC is quite transparent – nothing they do is ever wrong and even if it is, no one is to blame.
We have good intentions so it doesn’t matter if we are wrong or lie.
Those platitudes show that they are still operating under the “we are smarter than the rubes” mentality that cost them their credibility in the first place.
Most people don’t understand science all that well. Virology and epidemiology are way beyond their reach, so they don’t know if you are lying or telling the truth when you talk about restriction maps of viral strains.
But they understand what a mask is. And when they came out and said “you don’t need a mask” when they wanted to avoid a run on masks so that hospitals and EMTs could have enough for their critical staff…. and then said cloth masks don’t do anything, you need an N95 mask to be effective….. and then the exact same people turned around and said “everyone has to wear a cloth mask or we will all die”…. and then “maybe wear 2 masks”….
Well, they didn’t know what the truth was…. but only a complete idiot didn’t understand they were being lied to. Even among the partisan faithful who worshiped at the altar of Cuomo and Fauci, deep down they knew they were being lied to.
Glenn Greenwald is sounding the alarm. From the far left, he is calling out the US as a banana republic. He says this obsession with prosecuting Trump is not just extremely dubious, it is extremely dangerous.
And he should know. His husband faced political persecution in Brazil, and he draws direct parallels with the corrupt politics of Brazil to what is happening here.
I don’t think he’s even “far left” anymore.
The actual far left are in full support of the junta in charge here.
I always used to look a Nazi Germany and wonder how a modern Western civilized society to descend into that.
I don’t wonder anymore.
Two retard enter, no retard leave
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) fired back at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after the 2024 presidential candidate attacked a state law Pitzker signed letting non-U.S. citizens apply to be police officers.
“This man isn’t smart enough to be president,” Pritzker said of DeSantis on Monday, writing a post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
Give them each a purse with a brick in it, and lock them in a dark room.
NBC news was in full celebration mode about Trump’s new indictments. They were super-excited that the judge has the reputation for convicting Jan 6 defendants and giving them extremely long prison sentences. They also were touting the fact that the co-defendants included Trump’s attorneys.
I don’t think a biased judge and the fact that they raided Trumps attorneys and are probably currently spying on Trump’s attorneys are the unalloyed positive that the propagandists at NBC seem to think they are.
They are confident that this shit will never be turned against them.
It won’t. The Repubs are miquetoasts.
Pivot to West Africa ACTIVATE!
I think I’ve sen this movie.
Forgive them, Father, for they are retarded.
Tweet is gone…
Gee, wonder why…
Works for me.
*shrugs*
The French were always the Euros most angry about giving up their empire and the most resentful of America’s rise.
Well… I’d say the Brits wouldn’t be heartbroken if we collapsed and they were able to control the remnants.
Well, they didn’t know what the truth was…. but only a complete idiot didn’t understand they were being lied to. Even among the partisan faithful who worshiped at the altar of Cuomo and Fauci, deep down they knew they were being lied to.
I was told repeatedly that the mask was really a badge of faith and team identity, worn to make other people feel better.