Not a whole lot to say today. Other than for some reason I keep getting messages from recruiters on LinkedIn asking if I am interested in on-site work for positions located in Tucson. Its not the worst place in the world, but I also had a couple interviews where it got to the second/third round and they pulled a bait and switch. Maybe they’re not getting too many takers. I dunno.
Enlaces!
Good news everyone, the cartels are no longer in the “Fintanol” business and want everyone to know they’re not to blame.
¡Viva la libertad carajo!
If God didn’t like you, how would he let you know?
The Mayor is going on vacation.
You know what? I think Africans sending soldiers for peacekeeping in Haiti might actually work.
They seem awful worried Milei has a chance at winning. They had the frist debate yesterday and while English language media claims there wasn’t a clear winner, Spanish Twitter has a different opinion.
My oldest asked who made this song while it was playing in the gym yesterday. I cautioned him to use the umlaut otherwise his google search would be a bunch of car parts.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
To celebrate, Procter & Gamble gave me a coupon for Gain laundry detergent. I can barely contain my excitement.
No, I don’t think so.
I don’t recognize any history month/heritage month/degeneracy celebration month/etc
It’s Halloween Safety Month
Fuck. I am living on a planet drowning in cowardice and idiocy.
Hey, give them credit for naming October as Halloween Safety Month and not November. They probably even know that fire alarm handles make fire alarms go off.
Yeah, we had rules too back in the day. Along the lines of “Don’t bother going to Old Lady Wheaton’s house; she gives out those disgusting popcorn balls.”
Wait I thought it was trans history month?
It’s also Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Heart disease kills more women than breast cancer, but that’s not scary enough to warrant much attention.
Breast cancer also almost (I’m talking ’bout Shaft) exclusively affects women, so you can guilt people with the “you’re sexist if you don’t support my cause” argument.
True! But I think the way a man should counter that is just by saying, “Heart disease kills more women than breast cancer. Why don’t you know that?”
*People with breasts
Breast-having persons?
I’ll have the breasts, please. Mmmm…
At least one group has started Pints for Prostates for the men-folk.
So all together it’s Spic Dick Chick Month?
It’s *narrows gaze* month….always.
I thought that was the Fifth month by the old pre-Julian calendar, Swiss….. you know — Squintus.
Pints for Prostates does events all year long. If you want seasonal, a couple of my local breweries have their Ales for ALS on tap now.
You’d think that prostate health would be a perfect tie-in for a Scotch sponsorship.
“Lagaphroigh. For the times when one finger isn’t enough.”
Actually a surprising number of men suffer from breast cancer also. You just dont hear about it much.
RAMPAGE!
First I am hearing about breast cancer.
As far as I can tell, it causes things to turn pink.
Only a handful — that’s enough.
Area only?
I thought that was called “Barbieism.”
Klaus prefers black.
Around here we call it ‘October’.
Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
But I don’t want to be happy.
It only recognizes the heritage of happy Hispanics.
“The Mayor is going on vacation.”
What a shitshow.
Funny how the MSM is paying attention now.
Fentanyl is bad for business if your cutsomers keep dying from it. The dosage window on that stuff is very narrow between effective and overdose.
“But experts quickly cast doubt on the veracity of the claim, saying that fentanyl — which has caused tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the United States — remains one of the cartel’s biggest money makers.”
“Experts”
What volume of narcotics do these “Experts” move monthly?
If there wasn’t huge money in it they wouldn’t do it.
I’m more inclined to believe the Cartels’ PR people than the Experts.
“But experts quickly cast doubt on the veracity of the claim, saying that fentanyl — which has caused tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the United States — remains one of the cartel’s biggest money makers.”
Legal pharmaceutical companies cannot even make reliable fentanyl pills because the dosages are so tiny.
Woops, wrong quote.
“The indictment unsealed in Manhattan said their goal was to produce huge quantities of fentanyl and sell it at the lowest price. Fentanyl is so cheap to make that the cartel reaps immense profits even wholesaling the drug at 50 cents per pill, prosecutors said. “
Think of it like a government contract.
With Ramaswamy, Desantis and Trump claiming they will wipe the cartels off of the face of the earth if elected, I see this a preliminary defense.
“It wasn’t us! Dont shoot us!”
Best way to get rid of the cartels is legalize the drugs.
Kenya could send their anti-poacher death squads. That might get results.
I misspoke earlier. Firster’s are, of course, united by our genitalia. It takes one massive, yet majestically beautiful awe-inspiring penis to do what I do.
United by the having no genitalia?
He’s saying he wants to unite your genitalia by docking with you.
I read that as: he needs someone with a large penis to penetrate his orifices before he can do his schtick.
NTTAWWT
I read that as he’s part of a human centipede or something. No wonder he always thinks he’s first — it’s an ouroboros….
“That’s not a moon, that’s a space station!”
“That’s not a pillow.”
The Bro composing his Glibs posts.
Did anyone actually click on that?
No. It’s probably fucking Rush
I did.
It’s hilarious!
Don’t be such fucking cowards.
They seem awful worried Milei has a chance at winning.
Does the IMF have a death squad?
Somewhere the CIA is feverishly trying to find a way to get Trump, Milei, Kennedy, and Musk on a plane together.
*Looks at Milei’s rating on chart*
That is a no clear winner? Oh yeah, I forgot. Clinton had a 97% chance of winning against Trump the day before the election.
If you say it, it will be true.
Bait and switch in recruiting has become very common
Excellent
At least you can turn down the job, and maybe get them to pay for your travel to the phony interview. I remember a scam back in the 80s where a competitor would offer your best salesman or engineer a big promotion and raise. Then, after four or six months of pumping him dry for info on you and your customers, would let him go.
Jeezus. That’s brutal.
Damn
Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
This bigotry from the event organizer cannot be allowed to stand.
In the videos linked in the article all the men are Indian. So not only is the organizer sexist, she’s also racist.
WTF is a “self-identifying male”?? FTM? MTF? Non-trans men?
It’s whatever their truth tells them.
As is the rest of that gibberish.
Well in this case self-identifying means someone else identifies you as lying about the non-binary box you checked on the application.
You’ll have to pass it to find out what’s in it?
““And this year, I must admit, I didn’t feel this way.”
Behold what higher ed has done to this country.
I don’t get it, everyone in tech is now a woman or non-binary. This is progress.
Do you identify as a biologist?
My point was more that a “self-identifying” woman now feels unsafe being in a room with highly educated men.
And it’s not a bar, or a locker room. They’re applying for jobs surrounded by hundreds of people in a very well lit room. If a few guys walking around makes you feel unsafe, you need fucking help.
I doubt they feel unsafe, I suspect she’s angry that her exclusionary event got gatecrashed and have been trained to claim feeling unsafe to get her way.
Who the hell expects that from a job fair? That sounds more like a bathrobe or a good armchair or something.
Apparently some women in tech.
WTF is a chief impact officer, anyway?
He’s the guy you send down range to make sure the artillery shells are landing in the right place.
Mayor Adams — whose chief adviser believes the federal government should “close the borders” to address the migrant crisis — is traveling to South and Central America this week to “learn more” about the root causes of the crisis, his office announced Monday.
a) Why can’t the mayor just go to D.C. and get the skinny for Biden’s point-gal on the border crisis? I’m sure Kamala’s staff could free up a few hours of her time for such an important visitor.
ii) We already know the root causes: they’re poor, and good jobs (by illiterate peasant standards) and
free stuffU.S. taxpayer-provided benefits are waiting for them.3) Maybe Hizzoner should listen to his chief advisor and implore Tapioca Joe to beef up border security.
Standard gripe: why do we have a standing army and a cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, if not to repel invaders and secure the homeland against same?
It’s not about keeping out invaders. It’s about silencing the citizenry and pounding them into poverty.
If you want proof of this, just consider how much effort they’re spending on “white supremacist” citizens vs. potential terrorists who are walking right over the border by the thousands.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-orders-all-illegal-immigrants-leave-after-suicide-bombings-2023-10-03/
It can be done.
How many of the illegal immigrants have Pakistan actually removed from the country?
We’d be better off without the Border Guard. They show up and tear down fences and obstacles. If they didn’t exist, the Texas National Guard and Rangers would close the border tomorrow.
Because Mayor Adams knows the DNC would turn on him in a heartbeat to protect Tapioca Joe on this issue.
Joe Biden reportedly isn’t a big fan of immigration, but his advisers browbeat him into tearing up Trump era policies.
It’s the deep state in charge here and going after Joe on it would be bad politics for any Dem.
Heck, if the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs can tell his Commander in Chief to fuck off, then why can’t the Dem string pullers tell Brandon the same thing?
Why do I get searched at the airport and have to present ID when the terrorists could just cross the southern border no questions asked?
“Tundra on October 3, 2023 at 2:54 pm
Looks like that’s not all he’s gonna Gaetz:
https://twitter.com/manofbert/status/1709292896439120082”
Nothing like a forbidden fruit.
Dat ass looks just my brother’s
“Someone’s been doing their squats.”
BOW CHICKA WOW-WOW CHICKA WOW-WOW
“Chicago braces for restaurant wars: Owners will be BANNED from paying staff with tips as city enforces $15.80-an-hour minimum wage – but it could come with steep menu price hikes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589759/Chicago-minimum-wage-restaurants-tipping-Illinois.html
You think?
We are beyond the point of no return.
No, if this shit happens, you know we’re completely and totally fucked.
I will soon be deprived of my option of not going to Waffle House.
You laugh, but Waffle House has a world class disaster recovery system in place. Behold the Waffle House Index:
FEMA relies on if Waffle Houses are open or closed to determine how bad a disaster was.
I could murder a pecan waffle right now.
So I don’t have to tip if I dine in Chicago?
Eric Adams can visit Michael Yon in the Darien Gap.
https://michaelyon.com/dispatches/the-invasion-continues/
Looks like McCarthy is out.
This will be entertaining
Another week of crazy voting for his replacement, and he probably wins again.
I’m just gonna daydream about a Massie Speakership
Crazier things have happened…but I cant think of one right now.
I can.
House of Cards: Libertarian Edition
Thomas Massie becomes POTUS through a series of other people’s machinations gone awry.
Bad timing. If Gavin waited until the Ds fortified the election of Hillary as the new speaker they could have ditched Kamala from the 2024 ticket.
No? What about a Senator with brain damage and a giant alien creature growing out of his neck hidden under a hoodie?
That whole thing has such a Lovecraftian feel to it. *shivers*
Gaetz mentioned about six congresscritters who could support for Speaker. Massie wasn’t named.
That “bring it on” didn’t end as he hoped.
Yeah, that was a dumb post. But, since I can’t stand the piece of shit, I’m just gonna point and laugh.
(Shameless self-promotion) I have some thoughts. Not meant to be taken too seriously.
Not Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?
Considering Argentina’s current rank in economic freedom, its impossible for Milei to make things worse.
He would have to turn into Hugo Chavez for that to happen.
Buenos tardes!
They seem awful worried Milei has a chance at winning.
CIA assassination incoming?
That is such a great song. Good on you for promoting high culture for your kid!
We don’t talk much, but when we do, it’s between sets.
“X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has signed a special revenue sharing deal with Paris Hilton.
The first-of-its-kind deal is centred around live shopping and other exclusive content, including a custom hashtag for a famous Hilton word.
An agreement has been struck between X and Paris’ media company, 11:11, with the social media platform describing the two-year financial arrangement as ‘attractive’ for both parties.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12588079/Paris-Hilton-signs-special-live-shopping-deal-social-media-platform-X-bid-revive-fortunes.html
#sliving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJtOs3z_0ow
thanks for the RyG
Unless she is producing another sex tape, no one cares.
“Fifty-five Chinese sailors are feared dead after their nuclear submarine apparently got caught in a trap intended to ensnare British sub-surface vessels in the Yellow Sea.
According to a secret UK report the seamen died following a catastrophic failure of the submarine’s oxygen systems which poisoned the crew….
Officially, China has denied the incident took place. It also appears Beijing refused to request international assistance for its stricken submarine.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589429/chinese-sailors-trap-yellow-sea.html
At least they mined their own business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHGFkhxInM
This thread is gonna blow up.
Well it was a titanic event.
I have a sinking feeling it could attract a Swiss intervention.
They need to take a deep dive into the cause of this.
U-boat it will!
Seamen trapped in a giant condom.
It’s always a tragedy when seamen dies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
Torpedoed their whole trip
Taiwan denied it. The expert also claims the Chinese don’t have the tech for emergency CO2 scrubbers which I also doubt.
It’s soda lime and I’m shocked they had less than 6 hours, but who knows…
It’s China, the specs probaby said to have it, but they installed something else they had on hand to save a few cents that didn’t do the job at all.
China can make things to exacting standards when they want to.
But I get the point. At this point I’d think the QC there is better than Russia.
They can, but most often they don’t. It’s cheaper to paint the hill green when the environmental inspector comes along, and put fake drain grates in the ground instead of doing what they say they’re doing. I can’t imagine the shipyards are working to a higher standard than the businesses fishing oil out of the sewers to reuse in cooking.
*narrows gaze*
The screen doors weren’t helpful.
That was quick.
https://babylonbee.com/news/panicked-mccarthy-looks-for-a-fire-alarm
“Long Island cheerleader, 16, sues Smithtown West High School for $6 MILLION after she was bullied by classmates who filmed themselves pulling her hair, punching her and calling her ‘horse girl’ after her emotional support mare was killed in front of her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589247/long-island-cheerleader-sues-school-bullied-horse-girl.html
The media trots out one of these stories every week. Unfortunately, it will keep cropping up as long as it’s the people who pay property taxes who get roped into ponying up the cash.
I read like they killed the horse too. Thanks DailyFail
Her parents were so desperate that they put their house up for sale and bought her a horse as an emotional support animal last year, but the mare was tragically killed in front of the girl four months later by a veterinarian, the lawsuit claims.
Mrs. TOK just got home from a day of jury duty. I’m dying to find out if it was anything like Matlock.
BTW Here is NJ rates…
Petit jurors are paid $5 dollars for each day of service. If a petit juror serves more than three days, the pay rate will increase to $40 per day beginning on the fourth day. Grand jurors are paid $5 dollars for each day of service.
They just doubled pay to $80 a day and that’s more than she usually makes, so she’s fine with that.
I think I got $7 per day in KY. But discounted jury duty parking was $5 per day.
Last time I actually got to serve, work paid me anyway – so I just took the gas remuneration. And parked in the non-pay area and walked to the courthouse (it was like a mile or so, but let me look around the city a bit… I despise cities so never had been near the downtown there before).
I was self-employeed, so continued to pay myself.
Matlock pulled a lot of shenanigans that would have gotten him disbarred in real life, and would never have been admitted at trial.
You can’t have surprise evidence or surprise witnesses.
The defense has far more leeway than the prosecution. But yeah, no surprise witnesses or surprise tangible evidence.
Y’all have never sat through a trial, have you?
Prosecution produces surprise evidence and witnesses and discovery is a joke. Complain about it and the judge will usually tell you to go fuck yourself.
I’ve sat through more than I should.
Your prosecutor there is angling for an overturn on appeal.
Sounds like she’s enjoying this. Of course she can’t give me details, but she’s already noticing things about evidence and passing questions to the judge.
“A Swiss couple was killed during an Italian supercar tour when their Ferrari struck a Lamborghini and then crashed into a camper van — sending the camper flying into the air, police said.”
https://nypost.com/2023/10/03/shocking-moment-ferrari-slams-into-lamborghini-and-sends-camper-flying-killing-two/
They should watch where they were going.
I have a pretty good idea.
I don’t understand the appeal of those “tours.” There is a local company that rents exotics and has tours through the canyons. Pretty scenery and all that, but you can’t go very fast simply because of terrain and traffic. Personally, a fun old convertible, motorcycle or topless off-roader would be a much more pleasant experience.
Bingo!
topless off-roader would be a much more pleasant experience.
Depends on her breasts.
There’s no shortage of douchebags in that video.
Hmm… Ferraris’, Swiss, Lamborghini… Yeah, that checks out.
Hah! Sayonara McCarthy, you fucking douchebag. He can cry himself to sleep on Frank Luntz’s shoulder later.
His parachute has already been gilded.
“Its not the worst place in the world”
Well, not since the heat broke *checks watch* this morning. And it’s generally cooler than Yuma.
And Phoenix.
I’m an AZ native, that’s not a selling point.
Well, I just spent an hour up in the crawlspace, adding in a new light to the front of the house. Not too much fun when you are wearing a leg brace, but wiring is easy, so I got that going for me.
Hot and itchy?
How he likes his women.
Hot, yes. Itchy, no. It isn’t a part that is insulated. On an old house like mine, that has a deep overhanging pouch, that area, at least my houses’ is sealed. So, a couple years ago when I rewired the place, I cut a door in the closet of one of the bedrooms that abuts this space, and ran a bunch of wiring in there. But you have to go through a 4×2 trap door, and then in between studs to get to this little triangular area. I had run some plywood as a place to crawl on in the area, but it stops right at the junction box I was at, so no room to work on the other side, and nothing to lean against to give traction. It ends up being a twist around job, half on your knees and elbows, where you try not to fall through the porch ceiling.
Matt better up his security.
McCarthy is out, if nobody else posted it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12590129/Kevin-McCarthy-House-Speaker-Matt-Gaetz-Ousted.html
GTFO, RINO.
I have no belief that we’ll get anything better, or that much better could be achieved in the current climate.
A government shut down, just like the debt ceiling bullshit, will always be blamed on the GOP. The GOP will inevitably cave to reopen. McCarthy just saved a little time.
You may be right. I will still take this. All congressional business stops until a new speaker is found. I am hoping for this taking several months. I will settle for fisticuffs on the congressional floor.
The Bro is right. No one wants a shut down, it is always going to be blamed on the R’s, and after a period, it gets lifted, all the money goes right back to being spent.
The only thing that changes is the right loses political capital.
Yeah, good damn riddance although he might just get right back in. They were bellyaching over this at an Ace of Spades HQ (a conservative somewhat populist site if you aren’t familiar) but, you know, screw ‘em.
This one’s for Swiss
https://twitter.com/stevebugge/status/1709340248616886618
He’s gonna mesa you up for that one.
tl;dr FtM with XXX congenital anomaly who was given large amounts of testosterone without taking into account its interaction with the XXX was arrested for a bucket load of child molestation charges.
Eh…it sounds like a nice excuse, but there are a shit ton of fucked up people transitioning. People who are very confused about their sexuality and identity and who may have already had an attraction to children before any testosterone was put into them.
Saw a meme earlier (or screenshot from Twitter) where some trannie was whining that the Florida death penalty bill for child predators would be used to kill trans people. There was some self-awareness there in the lack of self-awareness. Not all trans people are pedophiles, but there are not shortage of pedophiles hiding among the quiltbag community at this stage.
There are, of course, plenty of pedophiles hiding among teachers, priests, scout leaders etc.
The picture I’m referring to.
Pedophiles see an opening in the quiltbag stuff. They are going to jump through it. There is a victimhood mentality among the “minor-attracted” crowd that allows them to fit right in naturally with just a little cover.
Any job that works predominantly with children attracts pedo’s. This is why, at least when I was a scout, we were always told “never do one on one time with any adult.” A good leader will always make sure the most privacy he got with a kid was in a corner of a room with other kids. And this is a huge part of the issue with all the “don’t tell your parents we are teaching you this” bullshit. It is red flags all the way down with this, and the fact that teachers and priests don’t seem to see this anymore is either a big mistake, or someone wanting some special time with the kids.
As far as trannies go, women’s prisons have been getting inundated with former sex offenders who are now MTF, by declaration only, and they are taking advantage of new rules put in place that makes this super easy. And this is having the utterly predictable results: pregnancies, rapes, etc. Of course, the quiltbag community sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil.
It’s a chicken or the egg thing with Mo’s article. Pedophile first hiding under the cover of trans, or the testosterone increased the libido. I don’t know if you can really prove one or another, but it’s not a good excuse for abusing children.
Pedophiles probably don’t “choose” to be attracted to children anymore than the average guy chooses to be attracted to whatever they are into. But you always have a choice what actions you engage in. Every sexual urge can be suppressed.
Also, nothing about this case screams person who just lost control over their impulses. The actions seem deliberate, methodical, calculating and took place over years.
There is no good excuse for abusing children, but, yeah. I do think when you have a desire like that, you will give yourself every out, much like a drug addict will.
I don’t think there are a lot of podophiles out there who keep their hands to themselves or who aren’t finding other immoral/illegal ways to indulge for just that reason. There’s probably a rare one like Mo mentions, and I would have sympathy for that person.
I don’t think we’ll ever have an answer to that question.
I’m a relative prude when it comes to people acting out there sexual urges. There’s what people do with other consenting adults. I’m fine with that, but loyalty is big to me. I don’t even have sympathy for closeted gays who leave their families (at least when we are talking about when the children are still under 18). People who cheat. People who walk away from marriage in general. I don’t have sympathy.
I have heard an interview with a “pedophile” who had never touched a child because he knew that was wrong. So he was celibate.
Anyway, he said that when he was 8 or whatever, he had a crush on a girl his age. As he grew through puberty, though, he didn’t let go of that crush, so his sexual preferences never matured past his 8yo self.
His lost Lenore.
Yeah, kinda, I guess. She grows past his 8yo maturity and “dies” and he’s always longing for 8yo Lenore.
There are a lot of pedophiles who hide behind a flimsy veneer of intellectualism, as well.
RLM reviewed Pee Wee’s Big Adventure recently, and they never mentioned Reuben’s child pornography charges. Guy had, by his own admittance, pictures of teenage boys masturbating and pretended it was all purely a collector thing.
From Wikipedia on the subject of Reubens:
Yea, sounds like kiddie porn to me. Is it necessarily something he should be charged with, if no one was harmed in the creation of it? No.
But I’m reminded of how the left used Milo Yianapolis’s statement about older gay men having relations with teens as being common (and saying he was a teen in such a situation – a technical victim here) to destroy him. The point above isn’t political, but certain excuses fly for some people that don’t for others. Some gays are worth protecting and some aren’t.
Sounds like the plot of “Lolita.”
That too.
I didn’t get a chance to chime in in Whiz’s account of almost meeting Trump in his thread so I will do it here.
Back in September of 2016, my huge company put on a big trade show in Chicago. We had partners and employees show up from all over the world. After the first day all the visitors went out drinking all over the city. Since we worked there, our office just went home because we were wiped out from hosting the show.
The next day four guys came in and said they had stopped by the Trump Tower and went to the roof bar for a drink. They ran into Trump and Guiliani there. They all said Trump was as nice a guy as you could ask for. He gave them some crap about being such a sausage fest and why didn’t they pick up some women.
Trump took selfies with all of them and then took off. One of the guys we knew was from Mexico and wondered what his family would say about him being buddies with Trump.
Also in 2008 and 2012 I was working at a place where I had to get on a road that ran by the MSP airport. Once you had committed to taking that road, you were stuck once they shut down all the roads around the airport if some VIP landed to do some fundraising.
Amazing how many people warranted that level of “protection”. I was regularly trapped in traffic waiting for someone like Dr. Jill Biden to fly in for an afternoon fundraiser.
The vote sees outsider Javier Milei in the driving seat. He’s pledged some market-friendly plans including sharp spending cuts and dollarizing the economy, but remains an unknown and volatile entity. He also wants to shut down the central bank.
SHUT IT DOWN!
Yes.