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 awesome day and the links!
House GOP passes Israel aid bill offset by IRS funding cuts
Schumer vows to kill House-passed standalone bill providing $14 billion to Israel
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven criminal fraud counts
Trump files emergency request asking appeals court to suspend gag or
Judge Overturns Primary Election, Calling Evidence of Fraud ‘Shocking’
Salon Magazine: MAGA Republicans, Christian Nationalism ‘Bigger Threat to America than Hamas’
Massie upholding his principles
‘Vast Majority’ of Big Ten Coaches Want Michigan Punished ‘Right Now’ Over Sign-Stealing Controversy
‘Historic Transition’ to EVs Hits a Roadblock: Buyers Don’t Seem to Want Them
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
I propose IRS funding cuts offset by ATF funding cuts.
I propose a pretty massive DoD and IC funding cut, followed by a CFPB funding cut, followed by DoE (both of ’em)… and we’ll see where the deficit is at after that.
(As long as we’re obviously fantasizing here….)
Only if we offset those with a DoJ funding cut and an EPA disbandment.
” followed by DoE (both of ’em)…”
followed by elimination of DoE (both of them)
Although both produce a lot of gas…
Democrats were complaining that cutting the IRS budget would increase the deficit. Republicans should have used that argument to push more offsets.
But, but, but that might cut spending that Republicans like!
That’s okay, the goal wasn’t for the buyers to own any, the goal was to remove the mobility entirely.
Bingo!
I’d say we’re looking at Castro-era Cube with the ’57 Chevys kept on the road equivalents… but they’ll be damned sure to drive the fuel market out of business and crush any used cars they can get their hands on in the name of the Angry Earth Goddess so they can get down to EV caravans for themselves and their friends and 15-minute open air prisons for the rest of us.
UCS gets it.
Individual autonomy is the target.
I haven’t kept up…is it true that the IRS wants some kind of notification/reporting on all transactions over 600 bucks?
Yes, yes they do. Because all the millionaires they’re going after do large amounts of sales through Etsy, eBay, and contracts. But they delayed it, so don’t worry about it.
The reality is that the IRS will use the new army they of crooks to target the people least likely to afford council and accountants to fight them. Especially if what they do is hit you for an extra amount that is less than $1K each year. It simply would not be worth it to hire council and accountants, and people will be forced to just pay the shit. Rich people will not worry too much about the IRS actually ever being able to get them (unless they send armed people to just shoot them) because they can affords to fight them.
Absolutely correct. That is what happened last time there was a big push for more revenue under Clinton. At the time I barely made $40K. I was targeted and had to go to the IRS office to explain my expenses. Fuck them.
Morning, Banjos!
And this should help push back against the whole “all mail in voting, all the time” crap they normalized during the pandemic as it is just too obviously too easy for this sort of fraud.
Of course, we know it won’t — because the lazy weasels like making it simple and if they get to rub everyone’s nose in it, that’s the cherry on the cocaine on the hooker’s ass.
Maybe the old saying should be “Evil triumphs when good people have no idea just what the hell they can do to fix things”, I suppose… the drain circling continues, I’ll go off and do the best I can this Friday like all other days. I’m sure the rest of ya reprobates will as well — good morning.
What we can do is start stringing up election officials from lampposts and the judges who refused to hear the challenges for Bullshit reasons go right next to them.
Yeah, this judge should be hung as well. One thing you do not get from the article is that the politician for whom this person was caught stuffing the ballots is allowed to run without consequences. While I can see some idiot think up a deep op to have someone caught tied to a politician they are running again, it will create a whole market for people that will now make sure that shit will not happen to their politician. The whole racket might turn into a shooting event, and that is going to make for some fun times!
If you penalized the candidate, why you’d have to get rid of voting boxes and go back to in-person and request for absentee voting. That’s just crazy talk!
One day voting, on a national holiday, in person (with exceptions only for oversees military and those with a clear medical exception, with that vote being witnessed), with a picture ID, and then ink on your finger to make sure you only vote once. Then allow people to verify their vote in the database tracking/counting the votes. No more cheating.
Which is why it won’t happen.
It’s just one isolated incident, it doesn’t prove anything!
I’m sure it didn’t happen in an election where a lot of people believed one candidate was Hitler and would destroy democracy.
I said it last night and I’ll say it again – Bankman-Fried did not kill himself.
Funny (in the morbid way), he’s one I would actually believe would off himself if he went to serious prison.
Yeah, he does strike me as kinda squishy.
But my statement remains facually true.
Your statement is absolutely true… They will kill him to make sure he doesn’t talk, because a week in prison being everyone’s bitch will make this fool sing like a canary..
Hey, can the vegans here tell me if a vegan like Sam getting fed cock meat sammichs at both ends violates any vegan premises?
Democrat Mayors… governors of all the states being overwhelmed… if there was ever a time for states to clearly lay out that the Fed has violated the contract by refusing to deal with foreign invasion and actively working to prevent the states from doing the same, this is it. And if one side voids the contract the other side should walk away — which they could if the breaking side didn’t have the standing army and all, I suppose. Funny that (thanks, Abe…).
Funny that (thanks, Abe…).
I think he means the “walk away” part. Not the standing army part.
Ahh. Well then, what did the Articles of Confederation have to say on that subject? Since that was our original constitution.
Doesn’t matter. Within a few years of the Articles, the people who wrote it realized it wasn’t workable and a new Constitution was written and ratified. There’s no point arguing to a dead document even its creators threw away.
Fair, but the convention did convene to address defects and no one seems to have taken the perpetuity clause as so wrong it needed fixing.
I suspect SDF was talking about Lincoln’s decision to unilaterally revoke the right to secede talked about in the Declaration of Indepedence, leading to the current tyranny.
Damn you, Swiss Servitor, and your quick brevity! 😉
The DoI for the govt as instituted under the AoC, right?
The DoI lays out the right to secede. Any later implementation of government that tries to nullify that principle is subject to the same treatment the British got in the 1700s.
The current iteration of the federal government makes King George III a piker, tyranny-wise.
Especially since it was Parlement, not George, who imposed most of the ills.
Jefferson knew that would weaken the argument against tyranny.
A Parlement or other legislature can be as tyrannical as any autocrat.
Then secede. Let me know how that works out for ya.
Or better yet, pass a constitutional amendment outlining the process or clarifying what would need to happen for a peaceful secession.
What’s actually funny is that I was thinking more of the nationalization of control of the state militias, transforming the previously relatively minor standing army into the Federal control of force we have today. Which naturally spun out of revoking the right of secession, granted.. but JI was right. (And I may well be misremembering that too… so I can just be wrong all around… I’m good at that at least apparently…)
It is another of those points where Hamilton said one thing and did another (directly against what he had previously argued). I keep thinking Burr may have been the more principled or at least less scheming.
Burr tried to start a civil war so he could be President, in the dictator for life sense. Don’t praise that asshole.
The Burr conspiracy? Really? He was acquitted, and there is some degree of evidence that the case was a forerunner of our modern political trials.
I’m sure next week Salon will run a “American politics more divided than ever, can’t imagine why!” article.
Red meat to their base, got to keep things whipped up since I assume they survive on subscriptions and we’re coming to primary season… but yay… more demonization of people with differences in viewpoint!
In their defense, I’m not too worried about Hamas attacking me here, but I am worried about progressives taking away my rights. So I could say that I see progressives as a bigger threat to America than Hamas.
Yeah, Hamas is basically 0 threat to America, so there’s lots of mundane shit I’d rank above it as a threat.
Well right this moment that’s true. Just wait a year or two till the government moves about 2 million of them over here as “refugees” in the next phase of the invasion.
There are plenty of other Iranian backed terrorists here already. This move is not necessary for shit to get ugly when the shit gets ugly.
If you live in an urban area, find a way to arm yourself.
MAGA republicans and Christian Nationalists are also 0 threat to “America.”
Hamas already has a number of confirmed kills on Americans, however.
I’d be willing to believe that the number of Americans killed in the Name of our Lord and Savior Donald J. Christ might be non-zero, but I’d be surprised if it were higher.
Translated: Salon Magazine: Remnant America ‘Bigger Threat to Ruling Class than Hamas’
Viewed that way, they’re not wrong.
^This. It’s a dead-on correct statement and why the FBI is sending agents to arrest and intimidate angry parents at local school board meetings. There shouldn’t be any doubt what the media and government consider to be America.
Stealing out money and oppressing us with it is what they do.
It is what every government has done, since time immemorial.
And yet we humans can’t give it up. We are a curious species.
It is an outgrowth of tribalism.
Heh… I really like that video. Dangnabbit… first your hubby got me to listen to a bunch of Survivor yesterday, now you’re going to make me break down and go buy a Squirrel Nut Zippers album like I should have years ago. Thanks, Banjos! ;P 😉
Just in case you weren’t aware Squirrel Nut Zippers is doing a tour this winter.
Neat.
It’s nice to see Schumer has become a budget-conscious conserva—
LOL almost got it out.
Old R trick. Write something the base wants but they know won’t pass, whine and blame D’s.
“Oh darn, we tried but whatcha gonna do?”
Where is my goddamned Obamacare repeal, motherfuckers?
You can also switch D and R there.
This.
It’s in the queue right behind actually delivering smaller govt.
“Where is my goddamned Obamacare repeal, motherfuckers?”
This year my employer told me that in order for that racket to have enough money, my healthcare costs are going up by 7%. And that is not bad since after going up 3% 2 years ago, they gave us a break last year.. Math illiterate fools will not catch that the free year ended up costing more than if they had just done a 3% hike the year that was free.
Fuck government healthcare…
It’s also campaign bait – look who voted against aid to Israel.
I bet he’d oppose it even if it didn’t include a deep-state budget cut. Don’t want to set any precedent for a clean funding bill for anything,
‘Historic Transition’ to EVs Hits a Roadblock: Buyers Don’t Seem to Want Them
If only the automakers had some way to collect and analyze data on what vehicles their customers were ordering they could better plan production levels. Eh, probably just a pipe dream. I can’t really imagine there’s that kind of computing power available for mom and pop shops like Ford and GM.
Computing?
No, the Union contract requires all data processing be done by hand by UAW-represented workers who get six hours of breaks and a ninety minute lunch in an eight hour day.
And don’t even bring up what finding a bug means in that process. (Really old school!)
“It’s literally a bug.” /grace hopper
There is not going to be a better Daily Ray of Sunshine than this.
Enjoy the sunshine because I see the cloud of another even bigger bailout on the horizon.
Boy that is going to be a fight. I agree that it is coming. I say NO.
I keep finding that “No” doesn’t work. 🙁
It won’t be a fight, it will happen just like last time.
I read an article recently about dealers having to slash prices on EVs and I thought, maybe if they are 60% off MSRP I can pick up a bargain. Then there were some examples of the price cuts and it was going from like $130,000 to $123,000. I don’t recall the exact numbers but I remember thinking that’s no where near enough discount for me to think bargain.
They’re waiting for the government to take them off their hands at full retail.
But think! If you buy 10 of them, you’ll save $70,000. You can’t afford NOT to!
I wouldn’t mind having one to drive the 50 miles to practice twice a week. But those discounts aren’t even close to being enough.
It would be cool to have a gas-free commuter vehicle, except for the “nagging feeling it might spontaneously catch fire and burn your house down” thing.
I park mine in the driveway.
I’m kind of the same way. If I never did anything but commute the 25 miles to and from work, an EV would be at least a possibility. Not really a good one, because my condo complex doesn’t have any electric chargers and hopefully never will, but it would at least be worth considering.
Since I drive a 100-mile round trip out into the hilljacks twice a week, an electric would be stupid. Being forced to use an electric vehicle would mean giving up some of the stuff I enjoy doing, which is of course the point.
*kicks pebble and mutters about being underappreciated*
Huh?
Rhywin’s words hurt
There is not going to be a better Daily Ray of Sunshine than this
Let me help prove you right your holiness…
Not a better daily ray of sunshine…
I know that name and face but I cant remember what he did….
It is stunning to me how so many lying fucktards can spew absolute shit like that and get away with it.
Practically every poor soul that I know bought an EV did so because they wanted to virtue signal, or worse, because they believe the lies about how electric was cheaper than gas. Granted, the machine did a real good job of confusing people, like they do with the whole solar panel racket up here that won’t stand a chance of producing the power they claim it will unless you live nearer to the equator and can get enough sun to actually make a difference, but the information was out there that EVs would limit travel and not be cheap at all.
I know many that no longer virtue signal, they realized they were had, but will still try to defend and or convince others to go do the stupid they did. As the old saying goes, I guess misery likes company.
Note that a lot of people are now realizing their EVs are nearly uninsurable, and it will be totaled even if all the event did was jostle the batter carriage. I expect insurance companies to outright charge massively ridiculous amounts or stop insuring these EVs in less than a decade.
I expect insurance companies, under pressure from the government if need be, to raise everybody’s rates to cover their losses on EVs.
Practically all of them already have been doing this. The problem is people are catching on, and sooner than later someone will come along that says they do not insure EVs and will end up far more competitive than they are. While I expect government to pass laws trying to ban that, I can’t see them clearing the legal hurdle.
As somebody that actually looks at this data… Also recall that insurance is 50 state regulated.
Look to CA the EV utopia that it is to see what’s happening to insurance. Also the vast majority of this is driven by Tesla and it’s vehicle construction and cost practices.
I’ve known a couple of road warrior types who crunched the numbers, using the mileage reimbursement rates from the IRS, and found that either an EV or a hybrid would be the most cost effective vehicles for them. As they were generally in the more rural areas of OH/MI, they went hybrid. There were a couple who went with propane powered trucks as well. There was much jokes at their expense from the good ole’ boys at the locations they were going to, but the road warriors had the numbers to back it up.
Didn’t stop the teasing though.
EV’s (BEV) and Hybrids (HEV) are a great addition to the automotive landscape. They address several niches that affect certain consumers and they do it well. Hybrid’s are proven and have high reliability. Plug in HEV are the best of both worlds for those who commute a short distance daily, but want security and flexibility. BEV’s have a less clear value proposition for the daily driver. If you commute a short distance but have a long travel time, they are ideal as you are mostly not moving or moving slowly. They are also good choices for cities like LA, Houston, Atlanta, and Philly with lots of sprawl and suburbs. They are not great outside of commuting or short distance travel, due to time to charge and lack of a consistently available charging infrastructure.
The cost for BEV are a premium and do not save the earth compared to ICEs. They should be a choice available but not forced upon us by tax incentives, decreasing fleet CO2 emission requirements, etc.
Freedom of Choice!
As the owner of a Hybrid Electric, I have to disagree with your assessment. It’s the worst of both worlds. Lugging around two undersized motors and a heavy battery pack means it doesn’t do anything particularly well, and the fuel efficiency is not any better than an economical gas engine. The weight is a terror on the tires and the mechanical brakes rot out from underuse (so that the regenerative system can charge the battery). The things I like are in spite of the power train.
Toyota says “hold my beer”.
Toyota’s hybrid system will give you a good sized mileage boost on urban driving. If you do mostly highway or rural driving driving not so much.
No idea about Ford’s system. If it’s like every other part of my recent Ford experience it was outsourced and cost cut so as to be a POS.
UN,
I agree that a HEV makes little sense if you do all of your mileage on the highway. In city or suburban driving with lots of stop and go driving it save gas. Tire wear and brake use are certainly issues depending on your driving style.
Pure EVs and weight are certainly an issue. Mild HEV are a good gas saver and weigh little.
Remember when biodiesel was a thing? In the late ’00s I worked for a company that delivered cooking oil to restaurants and took the used oil away. We had to put locks on the used tank because people were actually stealing from them.
My company would either sell the used cooking oil for biodiesel themselves, or if that price was too low sold it to poultry farmers who would mix it into the feed they gave to the birds.
Hrmm… eating the oil your family was fried in sounds awfully close to cannibalism.
Homeopathic cannibalism?
Just wait until you find out what “feathermeal” is.
The actual fried chicken?
Note that a lot of people are now realizing their EVs are nearly uninsurable, and it will be totaled even if all the event did was jostle the batter carriage. I expect insurance companies to outright charge massively ridiculous amounts or stop insuring these EVs in less than a decade.
Based on the actual insurance statistics I’ve seen on them their accident rate is lower and the bodily injury is lower. All of the asinine safety sensors on them are now mandated on ICE vehicles with the same physical damage coverage issues.
Hate on them for valid reasons of which there are plenty. Subsidies, range, actual environmental costs to manufacture, environmental and societal costs for generation and charging of their electricity. Don’t sound like a gun grabber asking why people need a scary black rifle for hunting.
The risk of fire while charging if the battery carriage is jostled in any way is near 90%. If it happens inside the house the insurance company is also paying for that to be replaced. The insurance companies will total any EV, even in the smallest of fender benders, because of that risk profile. Injuries or damage has nothing to do with the decision to total the EV.
I write AI for a large property insurance company these days, and they have all basically agreed on this premise and action. It is part of the AI neural network override of data these days.
Decompose the rates by the underlying components of the a personal auto policy
APD, BI, PD, Liability 1st and 3rd party, etc.
Liability is the biggest component of the premium. The focus is normally on APD (auto physical damage) when folks want to bash EVs. Regular old ICE vehicles burn down homes with attached garages. As far as I’ve read the frequency on that is lower than ICE vehicles.
All I know is that they had us write an override in our actuarial AI to basically total the things.
I would probably have done the same. The vast majority of the EV market is Tesla. Tesla has a non-repairable pack. OTH, Ford and I think Kia actually lets you service the pack.
Right now the EV market is really skewed by Tesla specific design and construction.
Regular old ICE vehicles burn down homes with attached garages.
A little over a decade ago, our Camry erupted in flames while the wife was driving on the interstate. She pulled over and it exploded soon after (well kind of…much smaller than expected from movies). Caught fire again after it was loaded on the flatbed.
This happened as soon as she got through the Hampton Roads bridge tunnel during rush hour. They shut down both westbound lanes and backed traffic up for miles.
Please say she ran in slow motion into the nearby field, diving just as the gas tank went up.
What happened to my close quote HTML!
What does Jet-Assisted Take-Off have to do with automobiles or analytics?
When you’re really late for work…..
We have an uphill onramp to I-95. Strapping jets on trucks would help reduce the traffic.
Even phrased the way JATO does, it’s perfectly clear that this isn’t about a transition to ICE vehicles. It’s about not giving people what they want because Our Betters say so.
Reality schmreality, I guess.
Trump files emergency request asking appeals court to suspend gag or
Gag or what? Don’t leave me in suspense here!
Someone beat me to the punch….
I guess his request was denied then.
Never change, Salon. Let’s see who’s left the biggest piles of bodies.
I hope this guy is wrong, but we are following the same path.
When you go praising early Progressives, you aren’t doing your cause any favors. They were not admirable people.
Never challenged? Oh, wiki, whitewashing that Progressives of the South were the cornerstone of Jim Crow?
Progressive spearheads state government education empire-building?
You don’t say.
I’m not reading a Salon article, but just reacting to your pull-quote (history-geek hat on): After the War, there was a massive and deliberate reconciliation effort to make one nation of the North and South. Military parks like Gettysburg and Chickamauga as a pair. Monuments, reunions, names of bases and ships. And it worked. And it was just in literally the last generation that the villainization of all things Southern began. It’s deliberate de-reconciliation; it’s a war on red America by attacking our grandfathers. Removing Confederate names, etc. is exactly of a piece with everything else they are doing – all trannies all the time, woke-ifying the military, destroying the currency. If you don’t understand that at this point – if you think destroying statues and renaming bases is anything other than evil, then frankly there is no hope for you to ever get it.
Heck, I remember the rebellious youth of the 60s appropriating Southern Culture (i.e. rebel symbols) as fighting the man. It isn’t the turn against the original thing that shocks me near as much as that.
My quote isn’t from Salon, it’s in reaction to the Salon article in the links.
Well, you know how much Democrats hate it when people switch parties, and it’s just in the last generation that the south flipped republican.
It’s worth pointing out that no other country anywhere has ever had a civil conflict so completely reconciled as was in the American Civil War. Generally after a civil war, you get years or decades of low-intensity conflict with occasional flashes of actual warfare.
The progressive foot soldiers are taking a giant shit on this singular event, and will hold full responsibility for the bloodshed that will inevitably ensue, all because they’re crybabies who can’t handle anything that makes them the slightest bit uncomfortable.
Kim Harbaugh
Top notch editing, Breitbart.
The sign stealing thing seems a little overwrought. It’s not like baseball where no one can see the catchers sign without a camera in center field. Anyone in the stands can see what’s happening on the sidelines. If someone from Michigan saw a YouTube video of Penn State’s sideline, is that stealing?
And of course the other coaches would want Michigan punished so that they can get some competitive advantage.
It’s not as if the other Big14 schools are paragons of virtue.
They should make him guest coach at Rutgers for a season as punishment.
It’s like complaining that someone hacked into your account when your password is “password”
Massie’s principles are all very nice, but unilateral disarmament, and pretending that if Repubs play nice so will the Dems, is a fool’s game.
His is the flavor of First Amendment absolutism that goes beyond “you should be free to say what you want” to “you should never suffer any consequences for what comes out of your piehole.” Besides, censuring Tlaib is just more speech. Its not like she’d get thrown in jail, fined, or kicked out of Congress if she’s censured. I thought the First Amendment was all about responding to speech you don’t like with more speech.
Someone needs to be pushing the Overton Window back in the direction of sanity.
Agreed. The question is, does unilateral disarmament and naive belief in the good faith of leftists accomplish that?
“Now, the other reason that I voted against this resolution, the language was modelled after a resolution that I voted against two years ago that calls the January 6th protesters insurrectionists. It’s wrong to call the January 6th protesters insurrectionists and I think it’s wrong to call the people that were with Rashida Tlaib insurrectionists.”
I think this was probably a bigger reason.
If they had kept it to “Stop being such an anti-semite and terror apologist”…maybe he could have been talked around.
Leftists disrupt Congress for a few hours, and get a Strongly Worded Memo (but not too strongly worded!).
Normies disrupt Congress for a few hours, and get the gulag.
What was done to the normies was wrong, but you won’t stop it with Strongly Worded Memos (but not too strongly worded!). Political, like physical, self-defense requires action that in other circumstances would be wrong. The key there being “in other circumstances”.
A bully punches you in the nose and takes your lunch money. Is he going to stop because you said “Hey, man. Not cool”? Or because you bloodied his nose right back? Because the normies are going to keep getting the gulag unless the leftists start getting it, too. Then, just maybe, nobody gets the gulag.
What? You expect the uniparty to cut part of itself off to appease the normies?
The problem is the portion of the population that votes in the Tlaibs and MTGs. They vastly outnumber the Massie voters.
Drove Vivian the RV to the dealership for service. First time in a year! It wasn’t too bad…the dog behaved well in his car seat. Tomorrow (if all goes well with the service) we’re off to NC.
Have a great trip. May all your dishes stay in place.
These euphemisms are getting too esoteric for me.
Have a great trip. May all your black water stay in the tank. Unless you like to drain it while going down the highway of course.
+1 Dave Matthews Band
Can I claim Ukraine and Israel as dependents when I go to file my tax return?
No. They’re older than 26.
Elderly dependents are a thing. Claim it that way.
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I am stuck. Sheesh… check me for a Fetterlump… I did talk gud!
On a four- or five-star day I’m not hesitating to reach for hints at the first opportunity. Being stuck for very long is not fun for me.
Yeah.. eventually had to say “Have to get on with things”
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“Buyers Don’t Seem to Want Them”
How about if we make every other option prohibitively expensive? Bet you’ll want them then, huh wise guy?
A few more UAW strikes that each hike the cost of a new combustion engine car by $1-2K every time, and sooner than later them EVs will be worth gold, baby!
They also just have a few automakers to violently overthrow along the way.
I..uh…what?
Bonus hole is at least funny. I wonder how post modern day pillow talk will be. “Hey baby can’t wait to get in your crevasse!”
“The Mossy Cave of Aphrodite”
Was there not some case where a gynecologist was sued for refusing to give an undercarriage inspection to a dude in a dress that still had his male parts?
There’s a show on Amazon called Upload, set about 30-40 years in the future. In one of the early episodes it shows a couple hooking up through an app. When they meet in person, they each ask if the other brought protection, they both say they did, at which point they turn on a little button camera and have the other person say, “I consent to the sexual encounter that we are about to have.”
You mean “3 or 4 years in the future”, right?
Future? [blinks uncomprehendly]
Because the words “listen bitch, you turn on that app and click that button or things are going to get real ugly” won’t be uttered in the future.
My MIL refers to it as a “crotch” which is the most unappealing word possible.
Well old people tend to get crotchedy
Is that the smell or the look?
Yes
Depends
Crevasse, Grass or Gas no one rides for free!
Positively Shakespearean.
Get your T out of my LG volume MCMLXIX
“Sapphire cavern of Venus”
Shakira deep inside the sparkling shaft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7ssrLSheg4
Shaka when the walls fell.
Sokath, his eyes opened,
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Wait, that was at night… were was the promised sunshine?
Just setting rhywun up so you can get even with him for his hurtful claim, your holiness.
Now you’ll tell me I need a dog to keep tabs on me. I wonder if Lassie is available?
If only those kids had their cell phones…
There is no cheating in US elections says the people that rigged the 2020 election and spent years telling everyone the elections their side had not won were all stolen. Then you get the racket linked above about the People’s Republic of Connecticut rigging of primaries by ballot stuffing to which the legal response is to have a judge call for a new election where the politician whose people were stuffing ballots just gets to run while the People’s general assembly looks at passing a law making it illegal to have video surveillance of ballot dropoff areas.
Massholes say HOLD MY BEER, BABY!
https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1720241560586011133
Has anybody said just what that 14 billion dollars is going to be spent on when Israel gets it? Will it be earmarked for nonlethal tactics and materials? I see in the headlines we are “warning” them about civilian casualties.
It’s for shut up and quit asking awkward questions peasant.
CNN – “Blinken meets Netanyahu as Gaza crisis worsens”
By “worsens” they mean Israel responds. They are nothing but predictable.
Sounds like so far the crisis is worsening for Hamas.
Speaking of AI, did the Glibronati already discuss Biden’s new AI executive order? My take was that they realized a fact checking AI that was not controlled like they control Google searches and Wikipedia facts – with harsh leftist favoring bullshit – would be catastrophic to democrats and the lies they have to keep telling people. This EO is basically to preempt that from ever happening by giving the state the ability to control what the AI is allowed to say while fact checking.
I think it has much more to do with two things:
1) Ensure their Chinese masters keep their lead in AI.
2) Try to circumvent the “red lining” style policies that AI (being just overblown web search and pattern matching still) will be recommending because AI doesn’t give a shit about human politics unless told to. They’re basically mandating “tell it to or else” so they can keep their “institutional racism!” grift going.
That seems to be our consensus. They’re getting ahead of the technology this time by starting to regulate it early. And by regulate, they plan on using it to make themselves more powerful and protect themselves from it being used against them.
14 billion dollars ought to buy a lot of concertina wire.
I’m giggling because my pretentious Congressional Rep has been outed as a hypocritical piece of shit. Why is it funny? Because he got away with that shit for years, but as soon as he started calling for Biden to not run and even said he’d run against him these accusations come out.
Truly The Machine has blackmail on everyone in DC.
We need more video evidence showing they are doing what they are saying when they do shit like this.
Is that one of those “pee tapes” I keep hearing about?
I have been disappointed that I never gotten to see the one I am told they are sure is out there about some Russian hookers peeing on some orange dude in bed.
Telling the future is hard
There’s just one caveat: these maps are historical guidebooks, not forecasts, for how the season’s snow could play out. An actual snowfall forecast would account for a variety of atmospheric and climatological factors, not just El Niño.
We can’t predict el nino with any certainty, but that won’t stop us from upending the world economy chasing global warming ghosts.
The future may be hard to foretell in some cases, in others, it is pretty easy.
I thought these were requirements to advance to second grade. I’m sure it’s all on my permanent record.
They haven’t been required in any state for decades. Oregon is just done playing charades.
Oh and about the forecast, never mind last year. Particularly as relates to California, although Pennsylvania was forecast for average and we had one of the least snowy winters on record.
Those pesky rubes are ruining school boards!
Call me when you have judges that see clear election cheating and say “Lets just do it over”, obviously without any changes to stop the shit other than a movement to ban video surveillance, like they do in the People’s Republic of CT, brah…
Crazy monsters!
The core curricula of white male supremacy.
Lets check the scoreboard on that one:
All students Math Reading
’22-’23 45% 50%
Maybe if those numbers were in the high 90% I’d have some thoughts we could explore this other bullshit, but until then, yeah, dump that and put effort in creating educated humans.
Apolitical means run by the teachers’ union, and we all know they aren’t political at all.
“School boards have become a kind of flashpoint for the culture wars and pawns in a kind of broader political game,” said Julie Marsh, a University of Southern California professor of education who studies school board races.
“It’s happening all over the country,” she added, “where conservative groups and individuals are sort of funding candidates, endorsing candidates under a kind of umbrella of parent rights.”
No one knows why. It’s inexplicable. All of a sudden these so-called conservatives have swarmed out of the woodwork, intent on destroying our perfect education system.
Columbia has doubled down.
Columbia University’s president has praised the “persistence” of students accused of antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
In an email to the community Wednesday, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik and Barnard College President Laura Rosenbury announced they are establishing a “Doxing Resource Group” composed of key offices across both campuses to “serve as a centralized point of contact for issues related to doxing, harassment, and online security.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia-university-president-praises-persistence-students-accused-antisemitism
What is blaringly obvious is that people that demanded safe spaces and other such woke remedies for other slights they told us should or are not protected by the first amendment now suddenly discovered it when they need it to hide the collectivists colonialist woke shit’s antisemitism….
We have never been at war with Russia
Russia on Friday dismissed new U.S. sanctions over the war in Ukraine, saying that the United States would never defeat Moscow, while the boss of Russia’s fastest growing natural gas company quipped the sanctions were a badge of success.
The United States on Thursday targeted Russia’s future energy capabilities, sanctions evasion and a suicide drone that has been a menace to Ukrainian troops and equipment, among others, in sanctions on hundreds of people and entities.
“This is a continuation of the policy of inflicting as they call it – a strategic defeat on us,” Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, told Russian state television when asked about the new sanctions.
“They will have to wait in vain forever before that happens.”
Western leaders and Ukraine have repeatedly said they seek to defeat Russia on the battlefield, though some Western leaders have denied what President Vladimir Putin says is a Western plot to carve up Russia and steal its natural resources.
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The West has frozen hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian money, but Putin has joked that the sanctions have not stopped the import of Western goods such as luxury Mercedes to Russia and that Moscow will work to undermine the sanctions by buying what it wants on global markets.
Maybe Putin understands markets better than Team Bidenomics.
A rock understands economics better than Team Bidenomics.
Yo, yo! To all of y’all. Me/my parents have my youngest nephew, 3, today and that’s gonna start soon. He is def Minii-Me, just as I’m my Father’s Son, as opposed to my bro.
*Perches fingers in thought* This is outstanding for me.
@AlexinCT: You write AI stuff, yeah? I’m getting some job offers involving that. I know nothing and am curious to know more. Got a good link for me to read up on it? I ran a print newspaper for almost a year and have done lots of SEO stuff in the past. Could be up my alley.
Kick ass today, all.
Evan, you can do very decent learning by joining up at Udemy and taking some of the data science and Ai classes there. Make sure you start with the generic to grasp the concepts, then proceed as you go forward. Also pick a language to stick with. And don’t worry. When you get to the point that you realize a lot of this shit is all guesswork, you have become an expert.
Team Pussygrabber strikes again
A defense lawyer took a pointed verbal swipe at the law clerk in the Trump civil fraud trial Thursday, prompting anger from the judge, who accused the lawyer of misogyny and threatened to gag him and his colleagues.
The temper-flaring, accusations, and judicial threats were sparked in the Manhattan courtroom by a wisecrack comment from the Trump lawyer Christopher Kise, who was raising a routine objection during late-afternoon testimony by Eric Trump.
Maybe you should ask your law clerk first, Kise said, his voice sarcastic as he addressed the judge in the non-jury trial, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron.
Engoron has twice fined Donald Trump for similarly attacking the law clerk, Allison Greenfield, an attorney who sits 3 feet to the right of the judge, who confers with him frequently via notes and has become a stalking horse for the defense.
Hearing her referenced with derision yet again, the typically affable judge hit the figurative roof as Eric Trump watched, blank-faced, from the witness stand.
“All joking aside, do not refer to my staff again,” the judge said angrily.
“The person sitting alongside of me is my principal law clerk,” he said, adding that she was there to confer with him on legal issues that arose at trial.
“Sometimes I think there may be a bit of misogyny,” the judge told Kise. “If you keep referring to my principal law clerk, I will consider expanding the gag order to include you and your attorneys.”
I thought the judge was supposed to be a noncombatant observer. I guess that all goes out the window when democracy and the rule of law are on the line.
“I thought the judge was supposed to be a noncombatant observer.”
You owe me a new keyboard and monitor…
I should know better than to read stuff while drinking though…
The judge in this trial is not fit for the bench. He is most definately acting on biases, and needs to be disbarred.
+1 Al Pacino rant “you’re out of order”
Engoron has twice fined Donald Trump for similarly attacking the law clerk
Attacked!
Hearing her referenced with derision yet again, the typically affable judge hit the figurative roof
Typical media hack tactic here. It’s obvious that the derision is targeted at the judge, not the clerk.
A valid point made as well to my untrained self. If I were trying to defend my client and not only am I up against the State but also the clerk who is passing notes continuously to the judge, yeah I am going to call that out. Not much of an open court if you have a law clerk giving off the appearance of how you should judge.
Gag orders on a political candidate in the midst of a run for office. Gag orders on defense attorneys in the midst of a trial. Sham charges, Sham court proceedings, sham trials both criminal and civil. Every single person involved in this should be in prison.
I could spend all day detailing how far out of their lane this government has gone. The Kangaroo courts Trump is being subjected to is only the tiniest tip of a very large berg.
This criminal gang masquerading as a government is going to have to go.
When you send ladies to do a man’s job……
Ladies misplace their bags all the time. Blame the men on the EVA team.
The judge in the case says he has the absolute right to receive prompts and info from his clerk, presumably because it is impossible to keep track of everything, even as Eric Trump is on the witness stand being asked why he doesn’t know every ten year old detail about the financial operations of his father’s business.
Bitch is pissed she got cut when doing stupid shit
Attaching razor blades is equally stupid shit.
Anomalous malfunction
Mikhail Sheinkman, a columnist for state-run news agency Sputnik, mocked the age of the missile, although noted it is “significantly younger than Joe Biden.”
“By military-technical standards, if an ICBM is already over 50, then this is also too old,” Sheinkman wrote, and referring to the language used by the U.S. Air Force, added, “The main anomaly still lives in the White House.”
Don’t worry. Joe will conjure a few trillion dollars out of his magic hat to revamp our ICBM arsenal. Boeing is already drawing up the plans for their new production facility.
There is NJ level corruption and there is Hudson County level corruption.
New Jersey county executive candidate tested at twice the legal limit in 2019 DUI arrest
Republicans weaponize is a cooler term than pounce.