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 amazingly day and the links!
Speaker McCarthy Announces Biden Impeachment Inquiry
House GOP Biden Impeachment Inquiry Denounced by Democrats as ‘Absurd’
White House: Over $100 Billion Spent on Ukraine War
Whistleblower: CIA Officials Were Paid to Change View COVID Originated in Wuhan Lab
Ex-FBI Agent Who Allegedly Tried to Shut Down Hunter Biden Probe Meets With Congress
Owen Shroyer Sentenced to 60 Days Over Claims He “Helped Create Jan 6th” on His Program
Enrique Tarrio: Feds Tried to ‘Coerce Me’ into Implicating Donald Trump
‘I Put Some Lube On’: John Kennedy Reads Aloud From Pornographic Kids Books At Senate Hearing
Am I the only person who attributes these to living in the Age of Incompetence?
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Fortunately the FDA didn’t ban pseudoephedrine or make it prescription only.
You know what they won’t ban?
“I hope that people realize that we are more than a COVID company now,” Moderna Chief Financial Officer Jamey Mock told MarketWatch. The company is looking to launch up to 15 drugs by 2028, he said, which are expected to generate an additional $10 billion to $15 billion in annual revenue about five years after launch.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/moderna-aims-to-prove-its-more-than-a-covid-company-8681c064
You know what they won’t ban?
Ineffective vaccines?
Poison?
+1 DDT
Poison?
Thank goodness… I figured you were linking Poison and was going to reply with the esteemed Mr. Cooper.
Poison.
Poison
Damn your nimble fingers!
One shot of poison
There are 15 more plagues lined up? Yikes.
We expect a huge market for toe nail fungus vaccines and their associated annual boosters.
IKR, God only needed 10 plagues to get the Egyptians to heel.
https://twitter.com/Inversionism/status/1701742413318926578
One of the most amazing turn-arounds was the Left hating on Big Pharma and their obscene profits. And now the Left just loves them some Big Pharma.
As soon as it became the liberal college educated elite versus the rural rubes, it was a foregone conclusion.
More amazing than:
“I’m not taking a Trump vax”
to, “Take the shot or lose your job!”?
I don’t think there are any real principles they follow, so cognitive dissonance doesn’t affect them.
They only care about goals not principles.
For most of them, it’s not even goals.
They’re more concerned about being associated with the unclean. So concerned that they’re willing to ignore obvious safety signals and compromise their own health as well as the health of their children in order to avoid that designation.
Oh that’s another good one. It literally happened within days.
It is one of the most obvious examples of Orwellian doublethink in real life. They have always been allied with Eurasia.
My mom was really concerned about the “Trump Vaccine”.
Being that she was over 70, morbidly obese and had recently finished chemo, I thought maybe she should get it, but she was adamantly against it.
After the election, she was calling all over trying to get the vax as soon as possible and then refused to come see us because my wife isn’t vaxxed.
Did she think Trump was making it in the Whitehouse?
I can’t see any logic there, but she doesn’t see any inconsistency, so I don’t know.
Semi related: My wife got the Flu shot yesterday. She doesn’t feel good and is sleeping today.
But remember, the flu shot doesn’t give you flu. But it might give you the symptoms of the flu. I don’t know about you, but the symptoms are what I’m trying to avoid. I don’t care if I don’t have the flu, if I feel like I do.
In the Marines we had to get the flu shot every year.
I would get the flu every 2 or 3 years, plus I felt like crap the day after the shot.
Haven’t had the flu shot since I retired, and in 7 years, I’ve had the flu once and COVID? 2 or 3 times.
? is because I never got tested, but it was more of a cough with a fever than the flu.
I have 6 people in my house. If I buy enough Psuedophdrine to treat us all when we need it, Last year we went through a run of colds in our house. My pharmacist (who I know personally), told me she couldn’t sell me anymore as I’d reached the CVS max levels. I had send my wife in for it. I also had to ask my brother to buy some. It was fucking ridiculous.
Every school library should add Hustler to the periodicals section.
But that promotes Hetero intercourse!
Can’t have that any of that shit going on.
Hey you two, none of that on school grounds. I apologize. You’re not cishetero. Continue as you were.
You’ve never seen one I guess.
Digital porn had come into being already, so investing time, money, and effort to get my hands on physical media wasn’t cost-effective.
We’re the same age, and sadly alive before internet porn.
Anyway, my point was Hustler would have you believing every woman is bi.
Are you sure? About the age parity, I mean.
37% sure.
They are after 2 margaritas.
UnCiv was just a late bloomer.
Could be. I happen to know that the ex-wife of the editor of “Hustler” was known to wear a t-shirt that said “A Woman needs a Man like a fish needs a Bicycle.” Yet, she did enjoy men.
Kids today have it so easy. In my day we had to search through paper bins to try to find discarded Playboys. In the snow.
I was out riding my bike one day in my teens when I came across a discarded yet pristine copy of the Madonna issue of Penthouse, sitting right there in the middle of the street.
I thought I was on Candid Camera.
I used to have a copy of the Katarina Witt Playboy.. December 1998 I think it was? I no longer have it. Supposedly, it was the second issue of Playboy to sell out. The first was the very first issue of Playboy.
“Inquiry”
Fuck you, get on with it.
Start ordering commemorative pens you spineless fucker.
re: explodey factories (put yer curmudgeon hat on)…
I’ve been in manufacturing and the associated engineering for 30 years now, including process safety. Still am. This is what you get with the big mish-mash of oldsters going away, companies being too lean to bring in new blood to learn anything about their foundational operations, outsourcing core knowledge to contractors to be cheap, not rewarding skills in legacy systems because all your attention is on the shiny new data systems, schools that have become pumps instead of filters to suck up that sweet student-loan money for unqualified students, etc.
Lots of “normal” industries have always had underlying processes that needed care so that really bad things didn’t happen. The margin’s gone, and it’s going to get worse.
Hear hear!
*Bangs burning chicken drumstick on table
You’re doing barbecue wrong.
Color his poultry blackened….
I don’t think I can add much to that.
It’s the same issues in knowledge based industry too.
You just perfectly described the situation our power plant has been facing for the past 7 years. The old timers have all retired and the new generation isn’t inclined to do what’s necessary to keep these plants operating. The brain drain is staggering. Fast forward another 7 years and this is going to be untenable. But that’s OK because everything will be electric by then and these fossil burning dinosaurs will all be decommissioned, right? We’re fucked.
Can’t agree more. We’re a nation that is in the process of forgetting fundamentals. We’re an aging society as well. An aging society that is not preparing the younger generation to manage a modern industrial economy. With an education system geared towards getting kids into college regardless of what the economy needs. We also have University education departments filled with bad ideas on how to teach students. And ends up not teaching kids an anything except how to complain about being oppressed by some personal characteristics.
I’ve just spent the last 3 weeks trying to teach my son a few country ways. It’s tough when his computer is playing reruns of last Saturday’s
UTexas game and he’s immersed in Austininfo. I had to keep him out of the garden because of the generational disconnect.
Exactly. Age of Incompetence.
In the IT world, one thing I’m noticing making a disturbing comeback is the over reliance on individual sources of knowledge instead of documentation. Where there is documentation, it’s usually out of date and missing key items. When following up on that, people are generally getting told stuff like “reach out to %x%, he’s our guy for that”. FFS people, you should not have a single point of failure like that.
I try to make it a point to leave detailed, comprehensive notes in tickets I work so that when the proverbial bus hits me, someone else can step in and be up to speed quickly.
It’s bus factor 0 in some cases.
I only leave detailed notes so the poor sap who works on it next can understand the what and the why. That poor sap is usually me. My experience tells me anyone other than me not only won’t read the notes but is more likely to delete them “to reduce clutter”.
Oh, I leave the detailed notes for myself as well. But I’ve worked with too many people who don’t note the tickets, only work through fucking Teams (which has no good searching), and then are conveniently out of the office for nearly every ticket update call.
E-mail isn’t perfect, but at least it’s more easily searchable than Teams (especially when you’ve been added to ~70 different Teams channels).
Welcome to the work from home world, people. In my industry, people learned from the apprenticeship model – you did entry level tasks but sat with and around more experienced hands. Even if you weren’t doing their work, you were absorbing information about how those above you worked, what they worked on, etc.
Now we do our little assigned tasks, have one day in the office, and the occasional teams meeting with cameras off. Fine for experienced hands like myself and much of my team. Not good for the newer and lower level employees.
The one thing that comforts me about the incompocalypse is that the survivors should’ve have a better chance of picking up the pieces…
Fixed that for them.
Doesn’t Biden want to send them money to help them “investigate” corruption?
I remember reading a headline that we had passed that number at least 2-3 months ago. Then again, the pentagon has never exactly been a paragon of accurate accounting.
“We did say ‘over’.”
I remember the last time the DOD failed an audit and couldn’t locate about $2T in assets.
The tinfoil hatted parts of me thinks “That’s the black ops programs they don’t want to admit to, even to supposed congressional oversight”.
I thought those funds went to the Department of Education where no one would think to look.
I’m reading a book of the early CIA days in Southeast Asia. Money was not a problem, politicians are the same everywhere.
Seems everyone has a price, regardless of their ethnicity.
Yeah, a lot of numbers get thrown around.
I think it’s because we’re not only paying for weapons, we’re paying for pensions, humanitarian aid, and who the hell knows what else too.
pensions… humanitarian aid… caches of swiss gold francs (for the vampires to come loot!)…. coke and hookers for when Hunter comes to visit….
Re: The CIA bribery COVID origins article:
1) Be nice if anyone mentioned who these “monetary incentives” were from there, journalists…. Seems like an interesting question. Pfizer directly? Soros? Gates? The Fed? Could be any of them…
2) OT a little early, sorry — but from the sidebar there: CA looks to be sneakily trying to roll back the blatantly unconstitutional medical misinformation law presumably because they don’t want the court precedents set so they can try again at some point. One of the many scenarios when the court should look into it anyway and where the “If an official puts in place an unconstitutional law/order there should be personal consequences” once again leaps to mind.
California is playing the New York game.
I’d say hopefully this will be regarded as stupid as past attacks on the first amendment like the moronic “fire in a theater” excuse to clamp down on draft protests…. but people still think that’s actually a valid argument today, so fuck the 1st amendment apparently. Sigh.
Rule 34 invocation means somehow, somewhere — someone is getting off to an audio file of Senator Kennedy reading that. Yay.
Dude…
LOL
Look, so long as they keep to themselves about it, and don’t tray to parade their choices in public, that’s fine.
So, don’t tell me what you’re getting up to listening to that.
The GOP should just read from school porn at every hearing going forward.
The left hates it when people do that. That has, IIRC, been the reason several people have been forcibly removed from school board meetings — for reading aloud from books available in the school libraries. I remember when the left was the party who was all for openness and transparency.
Yup. This needs to be hyped until people finally get it. Make the left defend it at every turn.
They have a huge advantage in that they can lie their asses off and get away with it. They have most people fooled who don’t closely follow politics. But they can’t easily wave this off if you’re reading straight from the books.
Straight. hehe. I see what you did there.
That’s from the IRS training manual, right?
They don’t lube.
The IRS would never use lube.
Larry Craig?
Ew.
*guilty look*
You’re doing it wrong. Insist that we celebrate your kink.
Ready for some tinfoil hat shit?
The mainstream GOP hates Trump and his voters every bit as much as team blue does. They are collaborating with team D on this impeachment in order to facilitate Biden “stepping aside for the good of the nation” before election season so that Newsom or whatever other shithead they’ve selected can ride in on his white charger, obtain the party’s nomination, win the fortified election, and maintain continuity of the agenda for another 8 years. Conveniently gets rid of two liabilities in Biden and Harris, the GOP get framed as partisan bullies who forced a poor feeble old man out of office with their terrible witch hunt, and the boat sails on unrocked for longer than McCarthy and McConnell’s respective careers.
Meh. I already have a copy of Mitten’s speech:
“I was in favor of this investigation. I thought these were serious allegations that needed to be investigated seriously. Unfortunately the house has demonstrated a complete unwillingness to resist being the radical right’s disinformation organ. All of the wasted tax dollars have resulted in no evidence of wrongdoing by the President, but just further inflamed the divisions between Americans today that cynical demagogues are using for their own personal gain. It is time to end this rabid partisanship and come together as one country and work for the good of the people.”
Fuck man… at least make his aides do some damned work!
This is not tinfoil hat. This is all but known.
Problem being, they don’t have a replacement for Biden. There are very few Democrats left who have appeal outside of deep blue states.
Shit, the few that do can’t win a national nomination in the modern bat shit crazy woke Democrat Party.
All you need to know about the modern Democrat Party is that they’re pulling out all the stops to prevent the one guy who could definitely win the general election from winning their primary.
Here is a tinfoil hat thought. The deep state needs Biden to win, because he is a reliable puppet. Only a few more years are needed before the US is turned over to WEF as part of world government. Then they could care less if Biden is alive.
I think Polis would do okay, except he would have to veer (further) left to get the nomination, which would defeat the whole point of having Polis in office.
Is he the best D governor right now? Not sure, but he is insanely better than Newsom.
who have appeal
As if they need that at this point.
Biden is the most appealing.
There’s a strange denial of this. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always found him creepy and retarded, but to the average voter he came across as folksy and relatable until recently when the dementia became beyond noticeable and alarming. Sadly, as of right now he is still the best Democrats have against Trump (the best amongst those capable of winning the nomination).
But in about a year, his brain will be even mushier, the economy will be even shittier, and the bribery scheme will be fully exposed. If they had any fucking sense, they’d allow a Manchin, Sinema, or Kennedy to take the nomination. But knowing them, they’ll either ride or die with Biden or replace him with a shitshow like Newsome.
fortification > appeal
Fortification only works when the margins are close. They would have to be insanely shameless and so over the top that even the most moderate of moderates would be shocked.
Only if they’re allowed into court. People waive off the obvious big blue city corruption with nary a thought and for the flimsiest of lies.
And? Who cares if the normies are shocked for a news cycle, as long as they hold onto power, right?
The courts will reject challenges, the media will parrot the leftist line, and Nothing Else Will Happen.
Who would be the shocked “normies”? My inlaws want Dems to win, and don’t particularly care what measures get that result. It’s literally “only bad if the Elephants do it”, since otherwise Democracy Dies TM.
I keep hearing this, but I don’t understand why the margins matter.
Several of watched live on election night, where in VA, the ballot count went down for Trump by about 100k. The counters just blatantly disappeared 100k votes on live tv in front of a nation without any uproar.
That’s banana republic fraud we’d expect in 3rd world countries. I think it’s only due to to normalcy bias that the implications of that aren’t staggering to Americans. Where we don’t want to believe the shit they pull in a place like Caracas could happen here. But they have and legitimate elections are a thing of the past. Voting makes no more difference on the outcome than throwing a handful of sand in the ocean. And there will be no uproar no matter how large the margin of fraud.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court determined the state violated election laws regarding ballot harvesting, drop boxes, and voter identification. The number of illegally cast ballots was much larger than Biden’s margin of victory.
…and nothing else happened.
Go count the number of Electoral votes in solid Blue states. No matter how many people you flip to Team Red, the ruling party only has to fortify a handful of key states to win the Presidency and Senate.
And now the leftists control that court.
Has anything changed? Were any election results changed? Are the same people still in charge of elections? Without those kinds of consequences, I expect the same kind of shenanigans again. All upside (we win), no downside (And Nothing Else Happened ™).
‘Voting makes no more difference on the outcome than throwing a handful of sand in the ocean. ‘
You just destroyed the whole marine ecosystem. /every regulatory agency in America
fortification, how does that work?
another amazingly day
At least it is overcast right now.
I’m hoping the rain starts soon. That will be nice.
Speaker McCarthy Announces Biden Impeachment Inquiry
*yawn*
In Naples, a typical rental cost $2,833 in July, according to Zillow data. The average Social Security payment for retired workers and their dependents that month was $1,791, according to federal data.
1. What a stupid analysis
2. Maybe don’t live in Naples, FL on low fixed income?
The whole article is rage inducing.
Why More Baby Boomers Are Sliding Into Homelessness
The aging of America means more old people on fixed incomes are overwhelmed by the high cost of housing and other financial shocks; ‘not seen since the Great Depression’
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/why-more-baby-boomers-are-homeless-2d2b913b?st=3fj4a2327colvcm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“affluent Florida enclave”
“little savings and was living month-to-month on Social Security”
“High housing costs—a major factor in all homelessness”
Minor and you know it.
Yeah, I’m tapping out of the bullshit.
You can cherry pick stories all damn day. Drugs are the major reason for homelessness, 99% of the time.
I wouldn’t go 99%, but I have read that something like 75% of homeless are drug addicts. The real hardcases are folks you don’t see because they’re in shelters not shooting up.
There are so few hard cases. I go to shelters. I help hard cases, from writing resumes, getting clothes and teaching job skills. It’s been a year since i did so. But I can tell you, there are very few of those. The vast majority struggle with drug addiction and mental issues which make them unemployable.
Interesting. I will defer to your first-hand experience.
The young people are the most in need. Somehow, you have twenty somethings with zero life experience. They get cast out of their parent’s house, and have no idea how to actually get and keep a job. They don’t know what to say in an interview, they don’t know how to keep a job once they get one. It is amazing.
You’re a good dude RJ.
That is crazy but I believe it.
(A lot of) The kids are not alright.
You’re a good dude RJ.
Seconded.
We are raising some pretty fucked up kids.
Good for you!
To be fair, it does massively fucking suck for old people and people on low/fixed incomes when gentrification, inflation, and housing costs make it untenable for them to continue living in the places they’ve called home for many years. In some cases, they weren’t living in what would have been considered affluent areas 10 or 20 years ago, and “well, go move to rural Nebraska” presents its own set of complications, especially if they rely on their local network for things like assistance with medical care, transportation, etc. If only somebody had told us 40 years ago that Social Security’s ponzi scheme was overdue to collapse under the weight of an aging population, below-replacement-level reproduction, and a piss poor savings rate eaten away by inflation…
I drove through rural Nebraska. We stopped off at Cane’s to eat. They looked at us as if we were from OMWC’s basement. I would have to pick another spot.
To be fair, Muppets are an uncommon sight.
Indeed. Beat me to it.
You are a fine bottle of wine?
“well, go move to rural Nebraska” presents its own set of complications”
Sure, but how many of these retirees are native to Naples? They’re literally cherry picking one of the most expensive Florida locales, you can still find places in Florida (including Naples) for under $1700/mo. Their ‘typical rental’ is at least 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. Why does an old couple need multiple bedrooms?
You know how to hedge against rent increases? Buy a home, and if you can’t, have children and raise them right…
My Great grandma lived in a single bedroom apartment in the ghetto, not a fancy seaside condo in Florida and others can do it too. Oh, and she took pride in it and took care of the weeds, etc. around the house and even in the street(with us great grandkids getting dragooned into it whenever we visited). 90 years old and still helping the community look good, sure she complained about the way the neighborhood was going, but I don’t remember her complaining that she couldn’t afford to go retire to Florida. /rant off
Because having separate bedrooms kept them married?
Beat me to it. Yeah, I’d be a dead man if we didn’t have separate bedrooms.
Wow. Sorry to hear that. Unless that was hyperbole.
I sleep like a stone (except for the thrashing, sweating, farting, snoring/CPAP noise, or so I’m told). Mrs. Dean is a very light sleeper. I’m not saying I’d necessarily* be in a hole in the desert, but I doubt our marriage would be as good as it is.
*I mean, its not a 100% certainty
I have never seen so many Bentleys on the road as when I’ve visited Naples.
It has not been an inexpensive area for a long time.
Yes, getting priced out of an area sucks but the good news is you don’t even have to leave the state to find someplace much cheaper.
House GOP Biden Impeachment Inquiry Denounced by Democrats as ‘Absurd’
Just a little ironic, don’t ya think?
Like a free ride when you’ve already paid.
White House: Over $100 Billion Spent on Ukraine War
“Best money we’ve ever spent.” – some warmongering cunte from SC
By that I mean Little Lying Lindsay, the warmongering twink from South Carolina. I’d call him Gay Graham because he’s happiest at a truck stop bathroom, folks. Everybody knows. I’m surprised he didn’t get a bad case of Pride Pox. I call it Pride Pox because all the pride people got it. Speaking of pocs, I’m the best for the POCs, the P.O.C’s. They love me, truthfully, folks. And I love them. Two of my favorite people are POCs. The Hodge Twins, really great guys, magnificent people. The best P.O.C’s. I call them 2-POC…
This needs to be run through one of those Trump AI voice generators.
I intended for it to be read in Trump’s voice.
Meh. I already have a copy of Mitten’s speech:
“I was in favor of this investigation. I thought these were serious allegations that needed to be investigated seriously. Unfortunately the house has demonstrated a complete unwillingness to resist being the radical right’s disinformation organ. All of the wasted tax dollars have resulted in no evidence of wrongdoing by the President, but just further inflamed the divisions between Americans today that cynical demagogues are using for their own personal gain. It is time to end this rabid partisanship and come together as one country and work for the good of the people.”
I can hear it now.
So how many times did the democrats cote to impeach Trump?
Be afraid, be very afraid…
What the party needs is a prominent politician with nothing to lose, somebody willing to set bridges aflame, a candidate with a hunger for revenge, a Democrat with no reason to ignore the elephant in the room. What the party needs is… sigh… Andrew Cuomo. Run, Andy, run.
Churchill: Who will tell Joe it’s time to go?
https://www.timesunion.com/churchill/article/churchill-tell-joe-time-go-18359356.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-spotlight
I needed a good laugh.
Andrew “Send COVID cases into the nursing homes to kill off the elderly!” Cuomo?
Seriously?
Don’t underestimate the legion of Cuomosexuals out there.
Cuomo?
Jesus, they are desperate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L6KGuTr9TI
Oh, Andy. Is there anything good inside of you?
That paragraph sounds like he’s describing Kennedy. Who by the way has great poll numbers.
The guy so well-liked and non-corrupt he couldn’t even manage to stay on as governor of NY.
Having spotted Animal’s article on the protugal wine flood, I have to give him a swiss stare for all the pun-nishment and a protest at not even a hint of a research credit for all the examples used in the article having previously been mentioned here.
(-.-)
He’s just protecting his sources.
Owen Shroyer Sentenced to 60 Days Over Claims He “Helped Create Jan 6th” on His Program
1A is deader than Brandon at a press conference.
Yeah, a prison sentence for pointing out inconvenient things about The One True Narrative, aka “misinformation”.
Hope he appeals that all the way up to SCOTUS.
It’s fucking NUTS what’s happening to Torrio and Shroyer.
So Toyota has gone all in on hybrids and really fought against EVs. So what does Ford do?
Ford Hires New CMO Away From Toyota as It Pivots Toward Electric Vehicles
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-hires-new-cmo-away-from-toyota-as-it-pivots-toward-electric-vehicles-9777b0db?st=9gybtqvoninrli4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Didn’t Toyota say they weren’t gonna go EV?
It’s a poorly phrased headline, it’s Ford that’s doubling down on stupid.
Well, shit, that’s a stupid move.
Ford sucks at electrical systems, on both my Focus and C-Max, the mechanical components were solid, and all my problems were electrical (mostly the stereo system, really). They really shouldn’t move towards something that is definately not their core competency.
The article underscores why I sold my remaining Ford stock earlier this year. Could a more successful company have chosen to forsake it’s customers want/needs worse than Ford has in the last several years? Oh yeah, I forgot about Disney.
Thier customer isn’t you or I, it’s the government. As long as they stay on the government’s good side, they will get bail outs, handouts, and everything in between.
Toyota is smartly offering conventional, hybrid, plug in hybrid, and full ev. That way when the shit hits the fan, they just drop the EV and plug ins and keep selling cars. Ford has mortgaged its whole future on EV’s.
Enrique Tarrio: Feds Tried to ‘Coerce Me’ into Implicating Donald Trump
Dude is trying to get himself Epsteined.
Dude has 22 years in prison – and nothing to lose at this point.
“Our thoughts are with our colleagues. We do not have a confirmed cause at this time.”
Sabotage.
Are there really this many hippies?
Birkenstock Files for IPO
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/birkenstock-files-for-ipo-c70e7479?st=ee7pa769ijap9e9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I always assumed at this point this one in somebody’s portfolio of shoe brands.
The number of shaggy-legged liberal female liberals has skyrocketed the past five years. It has surpassed the total number of hippies on the earth.
better than the unliberal female liberals
I read that as “urinal for female liberals” . . . have “women” with a penis started demanding urinals in the female bathrooms yet?
Can we get more classically liberal limber females?
whaddup doh’
Hey from Cali where we havent gotten anything done all week.
Maybe today we’ll get something started.
Sorry I missed you in Dallas. It got super busy here.
Apparently Kaepernick is reaching out to the Jets now that Rodgers is out.
The question is “Is Jets management really that stupid?”
Just No. That was all over fantasy twitter since about 3 seconds after Rodgers launched his achilles into the stratosphere. It’s stupid. No one that has been out of the NFL for 6-7 years is ever playing again with a meaningful role.
I could take a crack at it. How’s the pay?
I know, right? I’ll miss the whole season for half of what they’re paying Rodgers to miss the whole season.
I heard some of the media talking heads say the Jets should try to call Brady out of retirement.
Tim Tebow is available.
I’ll bet Ryan Leaf comes cheap these days.
Back in the days of yore when I used to hang out in these parts, I seem to remember someone here who spoke of possibly emigrating to Uruguay, anyone remember who that was/is?
I was investigating the suitability of Uruguayan plains for nerf herding.
Sounds too much la Uru-gay I would not risk it.
Could have been me. We haven’t been serious about researching/prepping to exfiltrate, but I think I’m back to Panama as option # 1. Uruguay being right next to an unstable Argentina with a history of military adventurism, and the apparently constant wind, moved it back a notch, but really all I do at this point is keep an eye on Panama news (I should find a source for Uruguay) and occasionally look at at real estate.
Is Panama preferrable to Costa Rica?
Also: Panama
Both Panama and Costa Rica have their issues, petty crime being at the top.
There have been reports from Panama lately f the government letting underage assailants of expats off the hook for violent crime. That was one of my concerns when looking there.
Well, there’s Panama City, and then there’s the rest of the country. Boquete is where we would be most likely to move. Boquete is relatively well off with a good sized expat population; I haven’t picked up much about crime there, but I’m also not able to read the local news (yet).
Boquete is where I was reading about problems. If the reports were true, then the new highway from David up to Boquete has allowed young gang members to zip up there ,terrorize some expats in their homes, and then zip right back to David.
The rub is that the law doesn’t seem interested in prosecuting teenagers.
It’s been a while since I read about it, but that was the gist of it.
buy bitcoin and give El Salvador a few more years
We had a contractor doing some work for us who said he spent the late winter (Feb/March) building a house on an island on of Panama. He said it was the worst build ever, mostly quality and availability of materials. I didn’t ask if that was a vacation house or a bolthole.
1. Let’s see how long it takes the spineless squishes to drop the ball.
2. Absurd…as opposed to the double secret probation the Dems put Trump into….
3. 100B for Ukraine and how much for Maui?
4. “The job of govt is to invent an endless parade of hobgoblins with which to frighten the public with, all of them imaginary.” – Mencken
5. Dont worry, The guy will be under oath so we will finally get to the bottom of this.
6. Banana republics must have boogey men to slay. They always find them whether they are there or not.
7. Same as #6
8. I get what Kennedy is up to. He may be exposing the creepy pedos to the public but the left won’t be swayed. They created this push for demoralization.
I was a bit skeptical in the beginning when people were saying that they have no limits and next will try to normalize pedophelia. I figured there was a chance they would try but never dreamt they would be as successful as they have been.
9. Mysterious. The blazes are mysterious. How long before people get that malthusianism is behind much of what is going on today? Of course it is just another tool in the drive for more power. The population has to be a more manageable size before it can truly be ruled.
10. I see that the newest vaccine for cooties is approved by the FDA and will be rolled out in a few days. If there is anyone that you can trust with such matters it is the FDA. I get the notion that they are probably right about snot meds but y ou cant shit on your credibility and then begin pontificating and expect to be taken seriously.
Thank you Banjos, nice tune.
Anyone post this one here? I dont remember if they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAThXFOy2c
Maui?
That whole thing got dropped out of the news real fast once all the stories of local government incompetence/ evil began coming out.
The Feds gave the survivors $700 so they should be good. We’ve given the Ukraine the equivalent of almost $2,800 per capital if the population is still 36 million.
Take about a half mil off for the “freshly dead” category.
Take about 9 mil off for the “fled the country” category.
The new India
‘Bharat’ is an invented country, one which ignores history and excludes non-Hindus
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-new-india/
We are witnessing, in real-time, the birth of a brand-new India. Centralised, globally assertive, focused on its Hindi-speaking Hindu majority – this is Modi’s India. It roots itself in semi-mythical accounts of Ancient India and minimises the role of outside influences on the country’s development. It’s not just the British who are in the firing line – BJP legislators have called for the destruction of the iconic Taj Mahal, on the grounds that it was built by the Muslim Mughals.
Burn it all it was of the wrong religion!
Outside influences? Ancient India was a net exporter of Ideas – Zero, Arablic Numerals, Bhuddism, Writing (Not an exclusive point of origin, but the scripts for several Asian languages owe their existance to Sandskrit text)
“ignores history and excludes non-Hindus”
Let’s not forget that history includes an invasion by Muslims who committed a holocaust against the Hindus, killing millions and setting off centuries of war before the Hindus regained control, albeit with a residue of Muslims left behind.
So it’s understandable that there are Hindus who aren’t too keen on non-Hindus. Kinda like how its understandable that there are Ukrainians not too keen on ethnic Russians following the Holodomor and Stalin’s subsequent relocation of Russians to Ukraine, since there was all that empty land after he killed off so many Ukes. All ancient history, sure, but the grudges are real after somebody makes a serious attempt to replace your people with theirs.
I’m surprised India has been relatively stable for as long as it has done recently.
there are non hindus that have nothing to do with the muslims.
2.3% of India is Christian. Which is actually higher than the Sikh percentage.
I thought non hindu non muslims was higher… hmmm
I see the Ukrainian regime is good about making up history and polluting the minds of Americans who know nothing about the region.
I was reading about the Holodomor and the Russian resettlement before the Soviet Union fell. Then, at least, I don’t think it was Ukrainian propaganda. I don’t know that the Soviets starved millions of Ukrainians in order to move Russians in, although that kind of, let’s say, ethnic realignment was not completely foreign to them, but I’m pretty sure that both (a) the Holodomor happened and millions of Ukes died and (b) a whole bunch of Russians moved in shortly after.
Of course, all history comes with a viewpoint and often an agenda. I’m happy to look at a credible alternate view if you could hit me with a link or recommendation.
It’s too simplistic to claim that there’s a clear divide between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians.
For many centuries until 1991, Russia and Ukraine were the same country. When in the second half of the eighteenth century the Russian Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire and annexed Novorossiya (the area now known as southern Ukraine and Crimea) that land was not populated by Ukrainians or proto-Ukrainians. It had to be populated by the people from the Russian Empire, mostly ethnic Russians, also Jews, sure, Ukrainians too. The Eastern Ukraine (Donbass) experienced a period of industrialization and rapid development (with signification migration of people from the rest of the Russian Empire looking for jobs) at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century when various Western companies built coal mines and other industry in the area.
Ethnic Russians lived in large numbers in Ukraine for centuries. It’s not simply a result of relocation of Russians to Ukraine after the Holodomor. The number of Ukrainians (outside of the Western Ukraine) who are not partially Russian themselves and don’t have ethnically Russian family numbers is not that high. There’s no clear distinction unlike in Alsace between French and Germans or in America between the colonists and the Indians.
I don’t have much time to discuss the Holodomor but I’ve never seen any evidence that it was directed against specifically Ukrainians — rather than prosperous peasants who didn’t want to join collective farms. Most of the fertile soil in the Soviet Union happened to be in Ukraine, that’s where the main brunt of the anti-kulak policies took place. That’s where prosperous peasants happened to live.
I appreciate the context. That’s not too different than what I thought. Although I doubt the Ukes who died in the Holodomor (and their survivors) cared that the Soviets were starving non-Ukes to death also.
I had a suspicion that that is what was behind this. You know, because Modi.
“Am I the only person who attributes these to living in the Age of Incompetence?”
Maybe. But remember when there was an Islamic terrorist around every corner? We’re still going through security theater at airports because of that. And yet, we have an open border where 10,000 terrorists could have slipped in undetected. Are we to believe foreign terrorism is no longer a threat? Does everyone love us now?
But remember when there was an Islamic terrorist around every corner – they are still there. lurking.
We’re still going through security theater at airports because of that – accept the TSA as your lords and saviors
I demand a better class of lord and savior.
GWOT is over. Foreign terrorism no longer exists and wasn’t that big a deal anyway. White Christian nationalists are the biggest threat to our DEMOCRACY!!!!!
“The greatest terrorist threat to the homeland is white-supremacy.” – Brandon
I’d guess more people hate us than ever.
Why there isn’t more terrorism kind of baffles me.
That’s really what I was getting at. If we were to believe everything they told us from the War on Terror, terrorists should be constantly sneaking in and blowing things up. So maybe they really are monitoring who comes over the border (not likely). Or another possibility is the WoT was all bullshit and 9/11 was a huge fluke that only happened because it was like the Whitmer kidnapping plot.
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What should we do with buildings whose origins, architectural and otherwise, are inextricable from imperial or colonial violence?
https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1701657657621238001
Burn it all and salt the ground. It was of the wrong religion. Things that are pre-woke are haram. Take a page from ISIS in Syria.
Art Nouveau is colonialist imperialism now?
Fuckit. Western Civilization is done. I just hope the fall is gradual enough that I don’t see the end.
You should take care of them and burn the detractors at the stake like the commies they are.
Inane title taken to task in the comments.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/16gx3dw/friends_neighborhood_by_3_schools_and_a_mosque_oc/
Possibly the vomit was the first clue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoDriving/comments/16gobu6/this_took_some_skill_guy_looks_drunk/
Did you know that MSM is now a fiduciary?
In a statement, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said the Fox breached its fiduciary duties by disregarding legal risks.
https://apnews.com/article/fox-election-lawsuit-new-york-oregon-c77a0630afca5de243a96265c5815b33
This is a new angle on lawfare.
Give the Dems credit, they’re fucking relentless.
Now do COVID.
What do you mean?
At the time, everything they said about COVID was SCIENCEtifically verified.
Case dismissed.
BBC axes Roisin Murphy songs, interviews and concert highlights from music programme with no explanation – after singer sparked trans row with puberty blocker comments
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12510045/BBC-axe-Roisin-Murphy-following-puberty-blockers-trans-comment.html
Burn it all it was of the wrong religion!
Gary Lineker, on the other hand….
A new study presented data on mental rotation ability and digit ratios among cis, trans, and nonbinary people.
It also had data on sexual orientation change with hormonal transition.
First, check out mental rotation differences:
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1701829793413579226
I don’t even know what that is after I read about it. What is a good score and bad score?
A good score is not really relevant, these tests are to test differences mental abilities, and mental rotation is one of the most significant differences between males and females.
Convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante captured in Pennsylvania nearly 2 weeks after prison escape
https://www.foxnews.com/us/convicted-killer-danelo-cavalcante-captured-pennsylvania-nearly-2-weeks-prison-escape
Video shows him wearing an Eagles shirt. No surprise…
I am curious in case of these prison breaks… what do the prisoners expect will happen? How often are they not caught? Do they have a reasonable chance of getting away or they just want a bit of fun before going back inside?
He could have ran to the border and hid in Central America. Maybe not smart enough to do that? Or he was still trying to get contacts and make that happen.
If only he’d have gotten to Chicago. Lay low ’til the week end and mix right in with the locals. Home free.
They usually form an vocal group, get a hit song, and eventually are reunited with their families after a series of harrowing yet goofy adventures, at least based on a George Clooney documentary I saw.
“My hair!”
I love that movie.
There’s already jokes circulating that the Eagles could use him as a “running back.”
Not exactly what he said but he is still lying.
Fauci now admits the vaccine causes myocarditis.
Something that would have gotten you banned on twitter if you said it a year ago…
He said there is a small risk of myocarditis in young men, but the risk from the fake vax is less than the risk of convid induced myocarditis. I’m going to go out on a limb and state that convid induced myocarditis in young men is bullshit.
The Pfizer trial data showed a higher heart-related death rate in the vaxed arm compared to the unvaxed arm.
Of course that wasn’t reported in any media source. I had to dig through the data to find it.
When the boosters were up for approval, the FDA showed data that the vax was more dangerous to men under 45 (I think) than COVID. Even with the inflated COVID infection/death numbers.
Of course, they approved the booster without restrictions anyway. But this whole “we didn’t know” routine is complete bullshit.
The simple reason that Europeans don’t use air conditioning a lot and Americans do:
80% of the European population lives in the red band and 80% of the U.S. population lives in the blue band:
https://twitter.com/runarorama/status/1701789158992142631
I don’t think that is how climate works… you can have the same latitude and very different climate.
That’s horseshit. I’ve been in England in the summer. It sucks.
The real reason is that when America was building out central air conditioning, Europe was just trying to recover from WW2. Nevermind the median income differences and cost of energy.
Hell, I’ve been in Finland in the summer. It was freaking miserable.
Of course, they did put me on the side of the hotel that got sun 23 hours of the day.
I’ve been in England in the summer . It was nice.
To be fair, I was in Aylesbury.
Because it gets hot here and we don’t do afternoon siestas like a bunch of lazy Spaniards.
ok so i spent a few days thinking about the 2nd law of thermodynamics and i’m pretty it’s just not true (i dont know any physics)
https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/1701441107736101200
Reason #13,564,927,882 why people hate cops.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/seattle-cop-laughed-joked-about-woman-killed-by-cop-car/
Wasn’t dunphy in the Seattle area?
Auderer said that Solan had lamented the death and that his own comments were intended to mimic how the city’s attorneys might try to minimize liability for it.
Naturally the first thing you do after you hit and kill a pedestrian is make poignant social commentary about the limited liability of city and its police.
In recording, a Seattle police officer joked after woman’s death. He says remarks were misunderstood
https://apnews.com/article/seattle-police-guild-bodyworn-audio-auderer-kandula-8bc7e1ca3c10f00e28a2cccced9f217c
Am I the only person who attributes these to living in the Age of Incompetence?
It’s more comforting to think that, but between all the arson-driven wildfires and this shit, I’m starting to wonder.
I’ll leave you with a song…
Thank you! I’ll see your Shady Grove and raise you a Shady Lane.
Shady Lane, circa 1954
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpR6R3a1D4
Muh guardrails!
A who’s who of tech tycoons will privately huddle with senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a marathon brainstorming session about how lawmakers can regulate artificial intelligence.
The daylong, high-profile gathering, featuring Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sam Altman and other tech figures, has its share of skeptics in both parties. Some senators lamented that the so-called AI Insight Forum is closed to the public and the media. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said it would allow tech billionaires to lobby senators behind closed doors about one of the most critical issues facing the country and economy.
“AI is going to be the most transformative thing affecting us in the next decades. It’s going to affect every aspect of life. It has tremendous potential to do some really good things: cure cancer, make our food supply better, deal with our national security, help our education. It has tremendous potential to do bad things: allow continuation of bias, throw many people out of work and even let some of our adversaries get ahead of us,” Schumer said in an interview Tuesday.
“When it’s something this difficult and this pervasive and this changing — it’s changing rapidly — the average instinct of Congress is ‘Let’s ignore it; let someone else do it,’” he continued. “There is no one else to do it. We can’t be like ostriches and put our heads in the sand, because if government doesn’t involve itself in putting in some real guardrails, this thing could run amok.”
Congress will do the right thing.
And by “regulate”, they mean “use to censor people on social media.”
Or outright strangle. No good will come of this.
You know what’s a damn fine nasal decongestant? Adderall and other amphetamines. Get on it FDA…
There’s a shortage of that, thanks FDA!
Auderer said that Solan had lamented the death and that his own comments were intended to mimic how the city’s attorneys might try to minimize liability for it.
The “write a check” part was pretty accurate.
Yes, but if he kept his mouth closed it might have been much smaller.
Based on that he has actually done the family a favor.
In addition to Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates and Altman, the CEOs of Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia and Palantir will be on hand at Wednesday’s forum, along with the heads of labor, human rights and entertainment groups. They include Elizabeth Shuler, the president of the AFL-CIO; Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers; Charles Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association; Janet Murguía, the president of UnidosUS; and Maya Wiley, the president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights.
They mean business.
My Dude and I have been married 21 years today.
Congrats!
🎉
Awesome, congratulations! We have #25 coming up in February.
Congratulations, hope you have fun together to celebrate.
Happy Anniversary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMzeGZhxWk
Wonderful! Congrats!
Unlike you, your marriage can have a drink
Congratulations! Here’s to 21 more!
Mazel tov!
Going to go get BBQ and see a movie. In between time, we have to pick up a prize he won.
🙂
21 and more, Moj. Don’t turn out like this guy. Many congrats!
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=i+turned+21+in+prison+song&atb=v198-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DloT_pYzi3Vw
🙂
Congrats 🙂
Congrats, your marriage can now drink.
She should do one with Katie Hill
The Democratic candidate in a competitive Virginia House district denounced reports that she and her husband had performed sexual acts on a pornographic livestreaming website, describing the sharing of those videos as “the worst gutter politics.”
The existence of the sexually explicit videos, first reported by The Washington Post on Monday, has injected a highly sensitive issue into one of the most competitive races in this fall’s battle for control of the Virginia General Assembly.
The real offense was the heteronormative behavior.
I would not care if most policy positions were good really…
You have to pay extra if you want her in specific positions.
“Gutter politics” = “showings clips of stuff you chose to put on the internet and are acting weirdly surprised your opponents found”
“she and her husband had performed sexual acts on a pornographic livestreaming website, describing the sharing of those videos as “the worst gutter politics.”
So she is repenting sharing her private moments with strangers? Oh wait, that is not what she meant, is it?
Gibson, a 40-year-old mother of two young children, and her husband, a lawyer, reportedly streamed sex acts in exchange for “tips” on a livestreaming pornographic website. Those videos were recorded and then archived on another site. The Post reported it had been alerted to the videos’ existence by a Republican operative. CNN has not independently verified the content of the videos.
>/em>
Does “tips” mean coaching?
‘just the tip’
Joe is just another poor schmuck that the Republicans are bullying I guess.
“There’s no evidence of treason, bribery or high crimes and misdemeanors. There’s no evidence of any crime at all by Joe Biden. So all of this is clearly being driven by Donald Trump who wants to establish this counterfeit moral equivalency between the two of them just so he can say he’s running against another impeached president. So it’s really silly.”
FAKE SCANDAL!!!
I foresee a future of Ukrainian Neo-Nazi-Nutjobs dispersed across the globe.
https://twitter.com/ducaena/status/1701741396363792650
Thanks again, CIA, you stupid fucks.
That’s some creep/weird/evil shit.
It’s cartoonish, even.
…is it a man?
Meanwhile, in Portland.
Truly the classiest city in America.
Looks like a lovely place to visit.
Is that crazy for that area?
Or is it just Wednesday?
“Fuckin’ hit him, bro.”
LOL?
Blech.
I liked the cuddles at the end. That is a fight you lose even if you win.
So the great Penna. manhunt is successfully concluded with no shots being fired and a K9 putting the bite on the fugitive’s arm. Naturally, at the press conference, Gov. Shapiro had to lead it off (jump in front of the parade – after all, he has presidential ambitions for 2028 and beyond) and slobber all over law enforcement. Aside from referring to the criminal fugitive as a “suspect” several times instead of a convicted murdering illegal immigrant prison escapee, Shapiro went out of his way to tell us that this was government at its best, protecting the public and securing justice. Only one reporter asked a question that pushed back on that narrative (and he is a reporter whom I know has ties to the local Libertarian Party): why was security inadequate at the county prison specially after another prisoner had escaped using the same tactic a few months ago? Rather than acknowledge failure by the county government to do its job of keeping the public safe from convicted criminals, the Governor lamely said he had confidence the County Chair and the D.A. (both Democrats) would rectify any shortcomings in the prison protocols and security. Estimates are that the cost of the 2 week manhunt were in the range of $15 million. Seems like a real nice job of “protecting the public.”
*waves tiny PA flag and a sparkler*
*gets in line behind Sean and plays the PSU fight song on kazoo*
Today, in ginned up racialist outrage
For more than 230 years, a small community of Gullah-Geechee people have called Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia home. Hogg Hammock, the area on the island where these descendants of enslaved people live, is a 427-acre coastal community of 40 residents and has been designated as a historic site since 1996. That means that the construction of houses more than 1,400 sq ft and any road paving or demolition of property are strictly prohibited to preserve the island community.
On Tuesday, McIntosh county commissioners, who preside over Sapelo, voted to remove zoning restrictions in Hogg Hammock. Gullah-Geechee residents fear that wealthy transplants who want to develop larger homes and who could force a rise of property taxes there will displace them and upend their livelihoods.
The county, which is 65% white, has voted to remove official language that acknowledges Hogg Hammock as an area with “unique needs in regard to its historic resources”. It will also strike language that states it should prevent “land value increases which could force removal of the indigenous population”.
The vote represents the latest dispute between county officials and the small historic Black community. Back in 2012, Hogg Hammock residents protested against the county’s raising of property taxes – which the county then rolled back. And in 2015, the community sued the county in federal court alleging that it had racially discriminated against residents by failing to provide them with adequate services. The island’s residents had paid county taxes for schools, police and fire departments, and trash collection services – none of which extended to Sapelo Island. The county settled the lawsuit last year, agreeing to give emergency and road services and freeze property taxes for some residents.
They should get Disney to come in and run it as a theme park.
Of course they go for the racial angle instead of just admitting the government was stealing from them and not even pretending to provide the “services”.
That is also true. Per post below, I agree it is a valid point to complain about taxation without service.
There is a real complaint there:
“The island’s residents had paid county taxes for schools, police and fire departments, and trash collection services – none of which extended to Sapelo Island.”
If you are paying for things and get no benefit, why pay? That is fairly legit.
Last Thursday, dozens of residents gave hours of testimony to the county’s zoning board arguing against the proposed changes, warning that the county had hastily made changes without community consideration. Reginald Hall, a landowner whose family had roots in Hogg Hummock, told the Associated Press the county’s approval would amount to “the erasure of a historical culture that’s still intact after 230 years”.
Muh shantytown!
It’s never a bad time to accuse your political opponents of violent extremism
With 14 months to go until the 2024 presidential election, his remarks included a political message.
Biden decried what he called a “rising tide of hatred, extremism and political violence” in the United States. There is growing evidence that the country is grappling with the biggest and most sustained increase in political violence since the 1970s.
“We must not succumb to the poisonous politics of difference and division. We must never allow ourselves to be pulled apart by petty manufactured grievances,” said Biden, recalling his friendship with John McCain, the late Vietnam war hero and Republican senator.
McCain, he said, put duty to country “above party, above politics, above his own person. This day reminds us, we must not lose that sense of national unity.”
It is your duty as citizens to unquestioningly obey me.
Antifa is just an idea.