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 fantastic day and the links!
Trump raises more than $20 million in August
McConnell Freezes Again, Struggles to Speak
Youngkin not willing to kill his political career in a futile attempt to take out Trump
Parental Rights Win as Mom Settles With School District That ‘Transitioned’ Daughter Without Consent
Biden administration proposes extending overtime pay to millions more workers
Hiring Slowed in the Private Sector in August, ADP Says
US Economic Growth at 2.1 Percent in 2nd Quarter Because of Lower Business Spending
Judge Holds Giuliani Liable in Georgia Election Workers’ Defamation Case and Orders Him to Pay Fees
Hurricane Idalia makes landfall over Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 3
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Are there people who don’t enjoy smoking crack? I thought that was one of the allures.
Yeah, I would think that “enjoys smoking crack and having sex” is one of the most non-revelatory revelations ever.
The issue would be that the CIA used it as leverage over him.
And based on Barry’s actions in office, I’d say that it worked quite well for them.
No need for coercion. They are fellow travelers.
The very idea of an “Altered State of Mind” is horrifying to me.
I don’t even get drunk.
Same… just no interest so can’t really say I don’t “enjoy it” because I’d never do it in the first place.
Do you not enjoy dreaming?
The only dreams I recall are those that managed to disturb my sleep, so from my available data, I can’t say I do.
Sleep itself is something I’ve had an antagonistic relationship with.
To me they’re all of a kind – dreaming, roller coasters, sailing, being drunk and/or high, convertibles. I would imagine that skydiving would fit that but I don’t know.
Recommended.
Oh, and whatever the hell kind of heightened state of awareness I shift into during practical shooting.
[pushes Not Adahn out of helicopter]
Oh, not that kind of skydiving?
Depends, do I have a parachute?
I am not now nor have ever been a communist.
I used to have a recurring nightmare, when I was a child, that a tiger was chasing me and I just couldn’t find places to run and hide anymore. The tiger never caught me. Those continued into my late 20s, but morphed into a gaggle of large men chasing me. One night, apparently I was tired of it. In my dream, I turned around, put my hand out, and said STOP. They stopped. They were very confused. No more recurring dream.
I also used to have a recurring dream where I would dive into gross water, like sewage, industrial waste, that sort of thing. I wasn’t afraid. I can dive and swim. I was just completely grossed out and kept trying to swim to shore, but never got there.
Lastly, another recurring nightmare was where I was safe in my house and the world was filling up with oil and it kept creeping up my house until it was almost covering the windows. Then I would wake up.
These days my nightmares/bad dreams are more realistic, which is even scarier. My husband very often has dreams that he’s working at a convenience store (managing) and something went very wrong. He was a convenience store manager most of his career before we got married and he got a knee injury from constantly having to kneel to do something.
Never remember my dreams, barring the “I’m in a bathroom… oh crap, wake up you need to pee!” ones.
Oh man. If you have never experienced a lucid dream, you are hugely missing out.
Knowing it is a dream and being able to alter/affect its course and then being able to recall it is fucking amazing.
Sometimes a falling dream wakes me up, but other times it just makes the dream turn lucid… Now I’m like Arthur Dent, flying because I fell and missed the ground.
The moment I realize it’s a dream, I am awake and looking for the clock to see what time it is.
So you’ve never been Out All Night or know if you’re a Happy Drunk?
It’s what tends to come with it that turns people off but it’s just turbocharged cocaine when it all comes down to it so I’d imagine it’s fun, it’s just that it occasionally leads to allowing oneself to get his dick sucked by a chubby drug supplier in the backseat of a limo.
Err, I don’t think its the supplier who is sucking dick in these scenarios.
I saw an old vid where the tubby fellow (I think it was him, maybe it was someone else) was saying he performed oral sex on Obama while Obama was smoking crack. If that really happened the opposite happening isn’t too much of a stretch of the imagination.
dick sucked by a chubby drug supplier in the backseat of a limo
Oddly specific.
But classy!
It’s so enjoyable, some crack enthusiasts will do it for days on end.
Everyone does know that regular cocaine use makes it very difficult to sustain an erection, right?
This has been a public service announcement.
Just give him more drugs
Biden is bogarting all the good stuff.
That’s what happens when your Senator is programmed in Fortran ’77.
Are these adults who signed a contract? Was there coercion? No? Then fuck off already, FedGov. Stop trying to be everyone’s parents, you overreaching assholes.
In the Biden economy, the first thing a lot of businesses have looked to cut is payroll. They start cutting payroll with overtime freezes.
Alls this is going to do is kill more salaried positions across the economy which are salaried for a reason to begin with. Employees take them for a reason.
It is this kinda bullshit that killed whatever was left of the economy when Obama came into office. Specifically, when Stephen Chu, god curse him, said he wanted gas prices to triple. That scared all kinds of business, sent shock waves that got a lot of people layed off, all of which put the shakey Bush economy deep in the ditch. The housing crisis of ’07 was starting to clear up, what with all the restructuring, but when that scare hit in ’09, it killed.
I would imagine there is an article out there about a heroic brave teacher in fear for her life after being persecuted by a fascist pro-slavery school board. If there’s not, there will be shortly.
I noticed that the school board simply allowed the kid to go to class.
No announced punishments of the idiot administrators. So no kudos for the school board. They were just trying to weasel out of bad PR.
They undermined that stunning and brave educator’s authority! How can she possibly be expected to teach in such a hostile work environment?
I’m sure there will be a gofundme set up – without any worry about being shutdown – for this educator if anything happens to her job.
Probably a given that all sorts of fundraising is being done in her name by various teacher’s unions.
The Sinfest artist is quick.
https://sinfest.xyz/btphp/comics/2023-08-31.jpg
Wait, did Sinfest come back from being woke garbage?
Yes, somewhere towards the end of the Trump admin I think.
They came out and said the issue was really over some gun patches on the backpack, and that they let him back after those were taken off. But it’s clearly the flag patch that is referenced in the video, so take that with a grain of salt.
TIL this is settled law.
Not that it matters in 2023.
Bong Hits 4 Jesus!
Democracy is like a child. It needs to be protected from itself lest it destroy itself by drinking bleach because it’s blue.
Oh, so you watched the video of these Irish assholes too….
JFC, what a bunch of vile, arrogant cuntes.
I’m upset by their “flesh” colored mics. What happens if a Black Irish guy wanted to talk?!
Like flesh colored band-aids all over again!!!
More Irish assholes.
https://twitter.com/balancealways/status/1696762254060929298
From the most traditional country in Western Europe to a woke and twisted shithole inside of a single generation. It’s just sad really.
The EU and the Irish political class are one and the same at this point. Something like 75% of the population is against this speach bill, but the gov. is pushing forward on it. Abortion was legalized mainly due to the forcing votes on it repeatedly until the voters just gave up and only the pro-choice side showed up. By the way, those constant elections are actually illegal under Irish law, but the EU don’t give a fuck about that.
Seems like only a few of the eastern countries like Poland and Hungary are exhibiting any pushback against the EU being a woke leftist tyrant (who could have predicted that?!).
It’s Ireland. It’s assholes all the way down.
I believe you mean “feckin’ eejits.”
eejits that don’t drink per se
Play that funky First white boy…play that funky First right now…
Feature request (right after getting the damned Server Errors to go away). Return to numbered comments so we can point out just how far from First the Bro typically is. Bonus points if someone keeps a spreadsheet of “Average post distance from First” so we can see how poor the trend really is.
That would be the kind of dedicated, disciplined spite that is the indicator of a successful person. Me likey.
IIRC skimming yesterday — it was a little more odd than that. The judge did a summary judgement because apparently Giuliani has been dicking around in discovery and not complying. (I have no idea if part of the non-compliance is because they’re asking for shit that doesn’t exist and asserting it does, mind you).
I think the Guiliani claim is the FBI stole my homework.
The claim is the FBI took what they are requesting so he can’t provide them. Either way, summary judgements like this are nuts. Before the Alex Jones precedent, it was only used in situations where someone went AWOL and they needed a judgment to confiscate their estate.
It’s a great way to hammer political dissidents though:
1.Law enforcement confiscates records/devices/etc.
2. Refuse to return these items or lose them or “accidentally” erase them.
3. Find for the plaintiff on summary judgement because you can’t produce documentation.
What a racket.
It’s well documented that the FBI took literally every electronic device he owned. For the Judge to demand that stuff from him is just pure fuckery. She knows he can’t produce it.
It appears we’ve gone full Stalinist. I guess Merrick Garland is playing the part of Beria.
Yeah — and this annoys me as such. I don’t want tit-for-tat bullshit. I do want people prosecuted where they broke the law, I don’t want witch hunts, “find the crime when you tell me the person” or “prosecutorial discretion means I only enforce what I feel like” bullshit.
Not that I’m likely to get it… but that’s what I want. Ack pbbbt!
The only way to win is not play the game, but you have to go full MAD to get there.
It’s too late now. I don’t see how you put that genie back in the bottle.
Here’s the real concern. The Deep State knows what they would do if put in the same situation, they’re expecting it regardless of whatever Trump or anybody else says. So they’re going to act accordingly.
Nobody ever won a fight by unilaterally disarming.
The left won’t stop political prosecutions until they feel the pain themselves. Right now, it’s all upside, no downside for them.
That is game theory. If one side defects from the rules, as the D’s are doing right now, the other side, in order to correct that defection, has to go full attack and do the same to the other side to show what happens when you violate the rules.
Then again, in your little fantasy world, Trumps political opponents are all breaking the laws, so it works both ways.
Rome comes to mind so much because that’s exactly how their Republic collapsed. When one side abandons the rules, everyone has to eventually. That’s how you eventually get legions crossing the Rubicon.
The judge involved is a caricature of leftist judges. She even went to Bryn Mawr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Howell
Stay safe, FL Glibs. Build a wall of gators if you have to.
Well… I have to say that’s an application of AI I hadn’t considered but is one hell of a rabbithole.
On demand — have your favorite fictional character perform your favorite song… the possibilities abound. Thanks, Banjos… mornin’.
I will admit, one thing I miss in the modern music scene is the themed compilation albums. I used to love the strange shit I would find on random ska/punk cover album compilations.
Cds and albums were so great for that. I once found a CD called “Elvis’ Greatest Shit” that showed him in the coffin and had a medley of his worst movie show tunes. That will never happen with digital.
Yep. I also learned about far too many bans from Hellcat and Fat Wreck Chords compilation albums (sticker price $5, with a tag saying if they’re charging more than this, steal this album). 13-15 songs each from a different band. Moon Ska went with the big two disc compilations Skaramageddon which went for $15.
I miss those days.
That’s great but didn’t a judge in VA (?) just rule the exact opposite? This battle ain’t close to over folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmENMZFUU_0
^best ’70s soft rock song.
Doesn’t a settlement mean it didn’t progress all the way through the courts? If that’s the case this specific case might be closed but the matter in general is still wide open.
If it’s Blair v. Appomattox County School Board et al, that was only filed last week.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Brother Keith drops the hammer on more Somali entrepreneurs!
I think you mean to say that they may just skip the middleman and go straight to the source.
I guess the new doublespeak term is “extracted”. But that might only be for private companies.
Commies are so fucking tedious.
Good morning, Banjos!
Man, Tucker threw some bombs yesterday. I wonder how long it will be before the IC goes after him.
No step on snek.
Going back to Cracky, briefly: my favorite “ship of Theseus” paradox is from John Dies at the End’s introduction:
Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.
He had been a big, twitchy guy with veiny skin stretched over swollen biceps, a tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. Teeth filed into razor-sharp fangs-you know the type. And you’re chopping off his head because, even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face.
On the follow-through of the last swing, though, the handle of the ax snaps in a spray of splinters. You now have a broken ax. So, after a long night of looking for a place to dump the man and his head, you take a trip into town with your ax. You go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the broken handle as barbecue sauce. You walk out with a brand-new handle for your ax.
The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your garage until the spring when, on one rainy morning, you find in your kitchen a creature that appears to be a foot-long slug with a bulging egg sac on its tail. Its jaws bite one of your forks in half with what seems like very little effort. You grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however, the ax strikes a metal leg of the overturned kitchen table and chips out a notch right in the middle of the blade.
Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. They sell you a brand-new head for your ax. As soon as you get home, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded earlier. He’s also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line, and it’s wearing that unique expression of “you’re the man who killed me last winter” resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.
You brandish your ax. The guy takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, “That’s the same ax that beheaded me!”
IS HE RIGHT?
My solution to this problem has always been the same response to “you can’t step into the same river twice.”
Some things are defined by their material/composition. Some things are defined by form, regardless of material/composition. Playing silly word games by refusing to define terms is not profound philosophy.
You can if you can freeze time outside of your subjective experience. Where’s Sean and his TARDIS, anyway?
If time is frozen, can you step into the river, or would you be standing on it?
If you can push through the air, you should be able to push through other fluids. Though what sort of vacuum trail you leave in your wake is up for debate.
Gravity is probably not going to pull you down either.
But isn’t the word game to highlight that very distinction, and even pose the question of which kind of definition ought to apply to a given object?
I have G. Washington’s hatchet, ‘course I had to replace the handle twice and the head once but other than that…
Heh heh.
This is the best thing I have seen on the concept of the Ship of Thesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW15VnkEmQ0&t=605s
He is rebuilding a 120YO wooden sail boat, and that necessetates replacing almost all of the wood. Is it the same boat?
Well, somebody paid $1.9 million for this burned out shell of a Ferrari. By the time it’s restored, very little of the original vehicle will be left… and yet it will sell for several million more than the buyer paid for it. So at least psychologically speaking, I think we can say that many would consider it to be the same boat.
I think they should just do McConnell’s over the air updates while he sleeps. The WiFi isn’t reliable enough to do them while he’s working.
I can’t remember — which politician is a construct operated by rats?
Like OMWC’s birthday clues that are along the lines of “Biggest sack of shit in congress”. It’s hard to tell sometimes.
Youngkin not willing to kill his political career in a futile attempt to take out Trump
Good.
Tucker Carlson: Corrupt Intel Agencies And The D.C. Uniparty Are Ushering In The Real ‘End Of Democracy’
But they have assured me that Trump and republican voters questioning elections is destroying democracy.
You’re a parent with kids in elementary school.
What do you do when you get this letter?
https://twitter.com/ChanLPfa/status/1696959195029876743
Home school.
Being Quebec — you probably can’t. I’d say Catholic school… but given Quebec and Pope Francis… that probably is the Catholic school.
And you definitely can’t say anything about it… because Canada — they’ll lock you up.
So… “sneak into Mexico to cross the border and fight to keep the First Amendment unlike the rest of the Western World that has given up on it entirely”, I suppose.
And obligatory rant… “Mx” sounds like she’s a blender. “I also respond to ‘whip’ and ‘puree’…”
On of the things that makes me sad in Quebec is the desecrated/defaced Catholic churches. Even when they’re repurposed of secular uses (one is a massive used bookstore) the vandalism reminds me of hate.
I don’t think this is a viable option for most people, unless they live in one of those states where they can spend their education dollars where they want.
That’s easy.
Write back with a list of nearby mental health professionals.
Love this bit. You’re already demanding the rest of us to use a made-up term of address, why not go whole hog and demand the made-up pronoun too?
“Sir or Madam” covers this nicely.
First thing you ought to do is punch yourself in the head for having them in a government school in the first place.
Then pull them out and homeschool.
Look at Mr. Moneybags over there.
If you give a shit, you will find a way.
“What if I don’t think the teacher deserves an honorific title?”
“Mx is pronounced “Mix”
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
I pronounce it “mux”.
En Francais, s’il vous plait!
I’m sorry, I don’t speak foreign.
En Espanol, bueno?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
Then to home schooling.
You guys really do have vaults full of gold coins, don’t ya?
They’re really going to call some interracial kid “Mix” huh?
“In what’s been called a landmark victory for parental rights, a California school district has settled for $100,000 with a mother who said her daughter was “socially transitioned” to a boy without parental knowledge or consent.”
And the perps will be publicly hanged, right? Right?!
“Today, the Biden-Harris administration is proposing a rule that would help restore workers’ economic security by giving millions more salaried workers the right to overtime protections if they earn less than $55,000 a year,” said acting Labor Secretary Julie Hu.
Because businesses exist to write checks for employees.
“Workers deserve to continue to share in the economic prosperity of Bidenomics.”
If only that existed.
Oh, I firmly believe certain workers are sharing in the prosperity of Bidenomics… DC swamp creatures… preferred cronies.. probably DIE grifters….
I know it’s wrong of me, and I might even feel a tiny twinge of guilt, but it doesn’t make me cry to see Ghouliani getting some of his own tough guy prosecutor tactics back.
There’s a difference between tough guy prosecutor and a Kafka trap.
This.
https://www.youtube.com/@MattsOffRoadRecovery/videos
I saw this channel, and I can’t stop watching these videos. Some truly amazing stuff.
Excellent. Thanks!
Now do a mashup and have AI Hank Hill do the narration.
You might like HeavyD as well:
https://www.youtube.com/@HeavyDSparks/videos
Brought up on Scott Adams the other day: We have an open border, and people from all over the world are coming in. So why aren’t we seeing a lot of terrorism? Do people not hate the USA any more? Are they not reporting it? Was terrorism just made up?
It’s now just hate crimes all the way down.
The FBI is too busy grooming retarded white boys these days.
Bankrupting cities seems pretty terror-y, doesn’t it?
There are plenty of sites you can visit if you want news of the robberies, rapes, and general mayhem this is causing. Calling it more than “a few bad apples” gets you labelled a racist.
Hands were waved
It’s also hard to talk about such things without making blanket statements. McConnell and President Joe Biden, 80, are contemporaries, in almost every sense of the word. Biden is running for re-election, despite having weathered a string of questions and commentary — mostly from Republicans, but also from some Democrats — about whether he’s still fit to serve. He has had a few spills and stumbled over words, but we’ve seen nothing from him comparable to what we’ve seen from McConnell.
S. Jay Olshansky, a professor of public health of the University of Illinois at Chicago, has pushed back against the idea of any sort of age limit for holding office. A person’s chronological age “is not a good barometer of biological age,” he told NPR this month. “You can get people into their 80s and 90s that can operate at levels that are 10, 20, 30 years younger than their chronological age. And the reverse is also true.” He said some people — like Biden and former President Donald Trump — are what are called “superagers,” or “individuals that make it out past the age of 80 that are functioning at a cognitive level that is often decades younger than their chronological age.”
Joe Biden is a virile, active and aware man. An inspiration to us all. Not like that doddering old geezer McConnell.
OMG 😂🤣
Never change, MSNBC.
BongoBucks
https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1697001862690484431
Most unintentionally hilarious reply.
https://twitter.com/lyle_stevick/status/1697084033749094733
Some people just don’t get it.
You’re supposed to use your get-out-of-Dodge money… amateurs.
We have an open border, and people from all over the world are coming in. So why aren’t we seeing a lot of terrorism? Do people not hate the USA any more?
Those migrants counterbalance the seething anti-American hatred of white white heterosexual American men.
Test-test
I tried to comment yesterday to share my joy of Cracky and his Ship of Theseus reference, but was blocked by the mighty Server Squirrels.
Hope everyone is well.
It turns out suing the government in multiple federal courts is more than a full-time gig; I had forgotten that part from the last time.
Good to see you back! Unfortunately you might be busy in the future if this talk of bringing back masks and other mandates goes anywhere.
Indeed. Work is always good. Better than no work. Glad to see you!
Glad that one made it through, always nice to see you Ozy. Keep fighting the good fight.
As long as you aren’t doing it pro bono!
Or even worse – Sonny Bono.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2C9sjzTktM
Howdy, Ozy!
Always nice to have you back. Thanks for doing the Lord’s work!
Give ’em hell
welcome back
Dude, we need to make time out to see OBE when he next comes through here for his preparation-for-moving trip to Kentucky.
If you’re claiming less than 24 billable hours a day, you’re doing it wrong.
Fewer.
Not according to the last corporate business writing class I took. The instructor said there was no longer a distinction between fewer and less – it’s less.
Same for between and among between and among – I forget which is now correct.
I told her she was full of it.
Between is for 2. “Between my husband and his friend…”
Among is for 3 or more. “Among my husband and his friends…”
🤮
“A man in Nebraska was pulled over for driving down a highway in a compact car with a massive Watusi bull sitting in the passenger seat.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/nebraska-man-pulled-over-for-driving-with-bull-riding-shotgun/
OK, but why?
Serious reaction: “Compact car”? That’s a fucking Crown Victoria, dumbasses… what — you wanted him in a limo? Made it sound like a Mini Cooper or something.
Less serious — same county that was the basis for Flashdance. You can’t do the Watusi there.
No arrests? No one shot? Reasonable cop?
You’ve got to be bullshipping me.
Heh. Imagine pulling a gun and yelling at a guy with a 1,000 pound bull in the passenger seat.
He was trying to avoid charges.
Heyoooo!
I think the offense is a car with no side doors. If the bull wasn’t doing anything, just leave the man alone.
I don’t know. It’s kind of like watching someone walk down the street waving a loaded gun around while not intending to harm anyone.
My bulls are dog tame yet still incredibly dangerous because of their size and power. I’ve seen ours effortlessly pick up and toss a 700 lb hay bale way up into the air using just his horns. Instant death if your head is near one when they bring those horns up even just being friendly to look around. That bull could get out of the car anytime it wants and then there’s no stopping it. The guy shouldn’t be arrested, but it’s crazy negligent.
Relatedly, I drove a couple hours with 2 calves that were just days old in the back of the SUV. Middle of winter so we couldn’t use our open-air animal trailer. Would never do that again and took days to clean the shit out of the car.
Regarding your last statement, absolutely. It’s so nasty. Barns and trailers exist for a reason. Maybe he was also ticketed for having a dangerous animal in city limits. Either way I would not want to be the cop that pulled him over and had to talk in a calm, low voice.
Our Charolais bull was the sweetest thing despite being 2,200 lbs and ripped with muscles. Until breeding season came, then he became a dick, literally.
Looks like the bull was shitting all over the back of the vehicle, so… littering?
It turns out suing the government in multiple federal courts is more than a full-time gig; I had forgotten that part from the last time.
You’re a hero, Ozy.
Judge Holds Giuliani Liable in Georgia Election Workers’ Defamation Case and Orders Him to Pay Fees
Apparently he was expected to hand over something that was in possession of the FBI. It’s the Alex Jones treatment all the way down.
It’s almost as if they want people to focus on the age issue
David Axelrod says he isn’t convinced voters will care about this.
“You don’t measure presidents by their ability to navigate steps,” said Axelrod, who was Obama’s chief strategist. “You elect presidents based on their ability to navigate problems.”
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“It’s not a secret that the questions that people have mostly go to age, so anything that underscores that point is problematical,” Axelrod said. “On the other hand, it would be more problematical if he were, you know, injured on the steps of his plane.”
Keep people talking about his age, and not the obvious substantive destruction resulting from his policies.
“You don’t measure presidents by their ability to navigate steps,”
Now do ramps and water bottles.
Not to be outdone by the other blues, Colorado speeds toward destruction.
So, legal weed, huh? Yay, no more black market, right
Except that there are huge cartel issues here and now we’re gonna fill the streets with junkies.
I fucking hate commies, but man are they effective.
The San Fran model.
Hurricane Idalia makes landfall over Florida’s Big Bend as a Category 3
It seems that hurricane forecasting has gotten fairly accurate as the strength and location was predicted a couple to a few days ago.
Priorities.
In the midst of the Biden administration’s disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials were working to get the Secretary of Defense to sign a major climate change initiative, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire.
In the two weeks between the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, and the final U.S. military flight out of Afghanistan on August 30, Pentagon officials were scrambling with the White House to finalize the Department of Defense Climate Adaptation Plan, a document that declares climate change a major national security risk.
The emails indicate frustration from climate change-focused Pentagon officials at the difficulty of getting the plan signed — but that ultimately their determination to focus on climate change even during the Afghanistan withdrawal paid off. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin signed the climate initiative on September 1, just six days after 13 Americans were killed by a Taliban suicide bomber.
“a document that declares climate change a major national security risk”
OFFS!!
When Biden is asked about his age, he often says, ‘Watch me.'” Last week, while he was on vacation, he twice went to pilates and spin classes at a fitness studio called Pelodog. And then he boarded Air Force One to return to Washington, using the short stairs.
More hardhitting journalism from NPR.
“The short stairs”
Like the short bus?
SEA SMITH has gone over to the Ruskies?
Who wants to tell him that that wasn’t a tentacle?
Organism 46-B should be a Glib handle.
Well, back to work. Been snarking too long.
Obligatory (Hope that works)
Kind of wondering just how this is supposed to be a threat to a sub or a carrier, of course… unless Putin’s really worried about Seal Teams when he goes swimming or something.
testicle? ST, big difference.
“Sorry about your mom, Ricky.”
Caveat emptor — unless we want to buy your vote….
So, what’s with TXitter?
On my iPad I’m now getting a screen that wants me to sign in or or create an account. There doesn’t seem t be a way past it. On my phone I get the linked tweet (xeet?) no sign in screen. ‘Sup Elon?
It’s been fucked for a while now.
Keeping the pressure on
Donald Trump inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion in one year, lawyers for the New York attorney general’s office alleged as part of their civil fraud lawsuit against the former president, his adult sons and the Trump Organization.
Over a 10-year period, the attorney general’s office said that when it corrects the Trump financial statements for alleged misvaluations it “reduces Mr. Trump’s net worth by between 17-39% in each year, or between $812 million to $2.2 billion, depending on the year.” The $2.2 billion disparity came in 2014, the state said.
The new allegations were made in a partial summary judgment motion made public Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat.
“Based on the undisputed evidence, no trial is required for the court to determine that defendants presented grossly and materially inflated asset values in the (statements of financial condition) and then used those SFCs repeatedly in business transactions to defraud banks and insurers,” the attorney general’s office wrote. “Notwithstanding defendants’ horde of 13 experts, at the end of the day, this is a documents case, and the documents leave no shred of doubt that Mr. Trump’s SFCs do not even remotely reflect the ‘estimated current value’ of his assets as they would trade between well-informed market participants.”
In a newly released deposition from the case, Trump testified that he had “very little, if any” involvement in putting the financial statements together.
Trump’s lawyers responded with a court filing arguing that the case should be dismissed, asserting that the Trump Organization’s financial statements were not misleading.
If only they could throw him in jail just for the crime of being Donald Trump…
The corrupt system forces your hand.
“You said in 2016, you know, ‘lock her up.’ And then when you became president, you said, ‘We don’t do that in America.’ That’s just not the right thing to do. That’s what they’re doing. Do you regret not locking her up? And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?” Beck asked Trump.
“Well, I’ll give you an example. Uh, the answer is you have no choice because they’re doing it to us,” Trump replied, making clear he would.
“I always had such great respect for the office of the president and the presidency and but the office of the president. And I never hit Biden as hard as I could have. And then I heard he was trying to indict me and it was him that was doing it,”
OK, one more this for Mexican Sharpshooter.
Looks at this:
https://ultrarightbeer.com/
Is that for when you’re dieting in Tokyo but still want a biru?
Keith Olbermann is still an asshole.
https://thepostmillennial.com/keith-olbermann-blasted-after-claiming-riley-gaines-sucked-at-swimming
So, Keith, why aren’t you on television anymore?
“The [statements of financial condition] at issue were simply not misleading. Therefore, the Defendants are entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law,” Trump’s attorneys wrote. “The undisputed record further establishes his companies timely paid hundreds of millions of dollars in interest to their lenders and never defaulted on a loan or even been late on a loan payment during the entire 15+ year time period the NYAG has sought to scrutinize in this action.”
Trump lawyers argued that there was no intent to defraud lenders or insurers and the statements contained caveats explaining that they were unaudited and departed from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
To buttress their argument, Trump’s lawyers point to deposition testimony from Rosemary Vrablic, the former head of private wealth management at Deutsche Bank, which has loaned the Trump Organization hundreds of millions of dollars over the years. In the deposition Vrablic testified “to the best of her knowledge” Trump didn’t submit materially misleading statements to the lender. The bank made over $75 million in interest on the loans, according to Trump’s filing. Another lender, Ladder Capital, made $40 million in interest, the filing said.
David Miller, a former executive at Erie Insurance, testified that insurer Zurich “didn’t rely on asset valuations at all,” according to the Trump filing.
Obviously, James and her handlers think Trump should have been charged higher interest rates, and merely seek to get the banks what they are properly due.
Sounds like the banks were happy with their due diligence. Are vindictive hard left Democrat attorneys going to start questioning every bank loan made to some political opponent? Sooner or later, people are going to start “cleaning up Dodge.”
In addition to the speed hump* in front of our house, we now also have a STEVE SMITH crossing: https://imgur.com/a/jDHJuh8
*which always sounds to me like the next logical step after Speed Dating
AND BY SPEED HUMP MEAN…
The $250 million lawsuit is set to go to trial in October, kicking off what will be several months of civil and criminal trials for the former president. Trump will not be required to attend the fraud trial, which could last as long as six weeks, because it is a civil case but he could testify in his defense.
The financial stakes are high for him and his family. James is seeking $250 million and to permanently bar Trump and his sons from serving as an officer or director of any business registered in New York state and block them from engaging in any new real estate transactions for five years.
The lawsuit alleges Trump, his adult sons and the Trump Organization enriched themselves by inflating the value of numerous properties, including Trump’s triplex apartment at Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago and numerous golf courses.
Society must be protected.
FYI tomorrow night’s zoom will feature a segment called “KK Drunkenly Assembles Furniture”
Bad Putin!
On Wednesday, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, stood alongside her counterparts from Japan, South Korea and Britain to condemn Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for going to a recent military parade in North Korea, also known as the DPRK.
“The United States is now able to share that Shoigu’s visit was more than just a photo op,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Russia used this visit to the DPRK to try to convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia.”
The Russians are trying to resupply? Stop the fucking presses.
I can’t help wondering about quality control in North Korea.
They just need a few Six Sigma black belts and that’ll fix all of their quality control issues.
Six Sigma? DPRK has ITF Black Belts!
She added: “This is not the first time Russia has moved to violate [U.N.] Security Council resolutions to pursue its illegal war against Ukraine. There is now incontrovertible evidence that Russia has procured drones from Iran in violation of another resolution.”
According to the U.S. intelligence, the potential agreement would allow North Korea to ship “significant quantities and multiple types” of weapons to Russia for deployment in Ukraine.
The U.S. representative to the U.N. called Shoigu’s visit “shameful.” She said there had been more follow-up talks and an exchange of letters between the leaders of the Russia and North Korea.
Stand back, everyone. Let the grownups handle it.
How freaking bad is the Russian military industrial complex if it needs North Korea to help make its weapons?
Maybe a North Korean ship will mysteriously sink en route to the Black Sea. What are they going to do, declare war on us?
Bitch about traffic? Ha! I work from home! Commute is great! Christmas party though, that kinda sucks.
“A Portland transgender social media activist with a violent criminal history has been charged for allegedly smashing up a teen girl’s car and defecating inside. The suspect allegedly told police the teen was “transphobic.”
On Aug. 27, a 17-year-old girl was confronted by a stranger after parking in the Hollywood neighborhood for a shopping trip. She walked away and upon returning to her vehicle later, found every window and light was smashed out, the interior smeared all over with feces and urine.
“She was in tears,” Lisa Thomasson, the girl’s mother, told The Post Millennial. The 2005 Ford Escape was totaled, deemed a “biohazard” and hauled off to a tow yard. “I just thought what could have happened to my child if that person took the frustration out on her,” Thomasson said, fighting back tears. The 45-year-old school staffer grew up in northeast Portland and is shocked at the deterioration in the city’s public safety…
Vivian Ginger-Rain Shemansky, 44, was located by the Portland Police nearby and was arrested. The teen identified Shemansky as the stranger who confronted her earlier. The victim’s mother tells TPM that the suspect told responding police her daughter was “transphobic,” though police say this wasn’t documented in the police report.
Shemansky, previously known as Eric Neil Bowen, was charged with felony first-degree criminal mischief, felony unauthorized use of a vehicle, second-degree criminal mischief and second-degree disorderly conduct. Shemansky was booked into the central police precinct before being released on the same day on a “monitored pretrial release.” A spokesperson from the Portland Police told TPM Shemansky had two arrest warrants for prior criminal incidents when she was apprehended.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-portland-trans-activist-allegedly-destroyed-and-defecated-inside-teen-girls-car-over-transphobia-claim
Neutron bomb Portland.
Shemansky
really?
Shim for short.
Looks like a monster that teen girls should be afraid of.
I remember a bully in high school came out to find his car seats smeared with dog shit. Pretty much cured his bullying. Good thing surveillance cameras weren’t a factor back then.
Predatory purchasing
“Flannery Associates is using secrecy, bully and mobster tactics to force generational farm families to sell,” Garamendi said during an informational committee hearing on Tuesday that addressed the company’s actions.
“My god, it was horrifying. They offered us more than we ever imagined anyone would pay!”
For Mojeaux.
First trip on way to KY is the week of the 16th. Not sure our travel stops yet
September or October?
September
Excellent. I expect my son home some time around that week, so it might be tricky.
“BREAKING: O’Keefe Media Group: Police Bodycam Footage Shows NJ School Board Officals Calling Police on Citizens Who Look “Trumpish” (VIDEO)
O’Keefe Media Group on Wednesday released 20 minutes of police bodycam footage showing New Jersey school board officials calling the police on citizens they don’t recognize who look “Trumpish.”
“The police colluded with school officials to scan license plates of school board meeting attendees who looked different,” James O’Keefe said.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/breaking-okeefe-media-group-police-bodycam-footage-shows/
WTF does that even mean?
Normal people with full-time jobs?
Normal hair colors and lack of excessive jewelry in unusual holes?
BaCk the bLuE!!! Hurr durr
The Flannery Associates project illustrates just how weak current tools are for dealing with a project of this size. Secrecy further hampers state regulators unaware of a buyer’s intent for the land, Cabaldon said.
OH
MY
GOD!