Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
Trump obliterates Haley in Michigan Republican presidential primary
Court Blocks 800,000 Non-Citizens From Voting in New York City Municipal Elections
Federal Court Rules Major Biden Spending Bill Was Passed Unconstitutionally
Jack Smith rips comparisons between Trump and Biden classified documents scandals
Hunter Biden deposition: Republicans prepare for biggest impeachment interview yet
Data Distrust Surges as Americans Reject Government Collection Efforts
NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for an end to sanctuary city status
Law school accreditor trying to circumvent SCOTUS with proposed admissions rules: law professors
Special prosecutor urges Illinois Supreme Court to reject Jussie Smollett’s appeal
Kellogg CEO Suggests Eating Cereal for Dinner to Save Money
Google Loses $70 Billion in Market Value After Gemini AI Is Exposed as Woke
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Trump obliterates Haley in Michigan Republican presidential primary – She is just getting her sea legs.
She’s like the black knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Or maybe the almost dead guy about to get tossed on the dead body cart.
I think the bigger MI story is 100,000 votes for “uncommitted” to the Democratic nomination. 13% saying somebody other than Joe – and we don’t even know or care who!
Wasn’t a large chunk of those in Dearborn? Probably more blaming Biden for not bombing Israel yet than any concern over Biden as competent.
As I understand it, that’s Tlaib’s protest vote against not somehow forcing Israel into a crappy ceasefire so Hamas can rearm and come at them again.
I remain skeptical that they won’t show up for the Dems in the general — they sure wouldn’t go OMB and I don’t expect they’ll stay home if they can get some concessions first… just a safe flexing of political muscle at this point.
I agree, safe protest vote but come the big game will gladly throw those principles out and vote blindly.
Yup, NPR had all of these people swearing that it meant they weren’t sure (D) votes “How can I tell them to vote for Biden when he doesn’t care about Palestinians?” When the answer is of course “OMB is Bibi’s puppetmaster! OMB put the embassy on stolen Palestinian land in Jerusalem! OMB got Arab nations to abandon their sacred alliance with the oppressed Palis! Throwing you vote away means the US will join the genocide!”
Given the sort of industry they engage in and the product of their work, I don’t see any benefit to saving the ‘palestinians’ from being hoist by their own petard. Not that the levantine arabs are a separate people.
Nah, that’s explicitly the “Save Hamas” vote.
I didn’t think the uber-moron quotient was that high in MI.
Lots of Arabs in Dearborn.
“Biden LOSES to ‘uncommitted’ in Dearborn in Michigan primary: Alarm bells for the Joe, 81, as more than 100,000 voters protest handling of Gaza”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13135769/joe-biden-loses-michigan-primary-election-uncommitted.html
Which group be most likely to make the effort to cast a protest vote?
Especially since that option was actively campaigned for (there was a nominal challenger on the ballot who did not benefit from supposed “not Biden” sentiment.)
That’s what I get for not paying attention – made a bad assumption, when a worse one was appropriate.
The Dead Vote is scared, scared and confused.
Court Blocks 800,000 Non-Citizens From Voting in New York City Municipal Elections – the picture the article chose to use is racist.
Law school accreditor trying to circumvent SCOTUS with proposed admissions rules: law professors
Racists gonna racist.
Carryover from dedthred: It’s a Brand New Day.
Not it is not. As I said they recycle days, they are not all new. But you all are to young to notice.
The Gregorian calendar has a 28 year cycle.
To be fair, that song is more than ten years old.
Here it is with the visuals: https://youtu.be/S-0bETzLm_A?t=673
Whedon’s best work, imo.
I know Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. Hell that video shows as viewed in my YouTube though that just be years old as I did not see it recently.
/looks for comparable works produced during the last Hollywood strike
But you all are to young to notice.
Letting slip about being centuries old eh?
For the record, my birth certificate has a typo in the Date of Birth field, listing it as 11 October, 1065. I’m 958 years old!
Oh,you’re a baby Necron. Most are millions of years old.
I like that show.
You might try “The Power Inside”, by Intel (if you can find it, anymore). It’s about how barbers are defenders of the planet against weird aliens.
Well, any dolt with half a brain can see that humankind has gone insane.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_H2x7XOkyD_nrjkgBFNJmUDeI3BxK6UC&si=7q9V-UKHAf2ntcjO
A more indy Brand New Day
JI, from the dead thread: I meant that I was sold that bill of goods too. Oh well, it was cheapish and sometimes fun.
All good.
My dad was sold this bill of goods and passed it on down to me. I was born knowing that not only would I be going to BYU, that I would ALSO be paying for it.
Stupid me. I never questioned, never rebelled. I did as I was told. I just didn’t GRADUATE from BYU.
However, it took me 9 years because ADHD and I was working. I graduated with a $5,500 student loan, which was the minimum I could borrow, because I needed to buy books my last semester.
Film classes were the most useful to life afterwards. Not joking.
Going with “I speculated” after confirming the motion sent to him was accurate, in which he obviously read and corrected other portions and not the part where it was alleged their relationship had started early on, put him in a spot where he knows he is going to lose his practice and probably law license all to fall on the sword for two people that see him as nothing but a pawn.
They aint called useful idiots for nuthin’.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls for an end to sanctuary city status
Being a sanctuary city is cool as long you don’t have to foot the bill.
It has to be snowing in hell right now.
Nah….the whole sanctuary stunt was always a virtue signaling charade. None of the participants every intended nor expected to have to actually do anything.
Back to the ol’ ” If you have to tell people you are smart, you aren’t. If you have to tell people you are funny, you aren’t. If you have to tell people what a good person you are….and so on. These are all self-evident qualities. The instant you hear someone crowing about them you know.”
This was inevitable.See TOK below.
Hey! What happened to other peoples’ money? Our virtues aren’t supposed to cost us!
I didn’t think I would have to pay for it!
They were really just hoping for some cool restaurants.
Such is the nature of virtue signaling.
The Supreme Court ruled against Republican efforts to challenge the proxy voting rule put in place during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in January 2022.
SCOTUS declined to hear the case. That is different than ruling against the appellant.
Kellogg’s has a new flavored cereal: Steak’n’Beans. The mascot is a cowboy in a ten gallon hat.
Now my mind is flashing to all those billboards as you approach Amarillo (free whatever-large-amount steak if you can eat it in X minutes! (with the sides and the trimmings, mind you iirc….)
For Evan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane
Le Pétomane du Moulin Rouge, 1900 (silent film clip)
Why?
What do you want, Smell-O-Vision?
From 1900? Hell no.
I viewed on a computer. I need GameScent.
Just go back to the high tech versions that were included in the old Infocom games.
Huh. I thought that the name was a riff on food poisoning. TIL.
Good Scrabble word, ptomaine.
Damn Normans. Poisoning the language with so much French.
C’est facile, le français.
Enh whatever works I guess – IANAL – but I would think that “harm” is easily proved by illegals voting to force me to bend over and open my wallet for them.
So I guess the laws against voting multiple times also don’t cause cognizable harm, either.
Isn’t just about every one of the traditional election security measures there to prevent diluting the vote of legal voters?
The act of voting is about getting the right results, nothing more, nothing less.
Trying to make Congressional debat s and votes into Teams Meetings. While I can understand the desire to avoid DC, glad it wasn’t allowed.
Not a fan of lawfare…
What made that venue the appropriate one to bring the action? Perhaps knowing you had the right judge to get the ruling you wanted?
Well, the lawsuit was specifically about how one provision of that bill affected some Texas law, so Texas seems like the right venue.
Horse shit. And you don’t really believe that even for one second.
“Although the Court finds that the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act violated the Constitution, Texas does not seek an injunction of—and the Court does not enjoin—the entire Act,” Hendrix wrote in the 120-page opinion. “Rather, the Court enjoins only the application of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act against Texas. The relief granted here is limited to abating the injury that Texas has proven will occur.”
Actually, I do believe it.
If the procedure was truly flawed then the entire act is out. This was lawfare in getting a judge to thread the needle.
Because Texas wanted one clause gone.
If other states hopped on board, they could get the whole thing thrown out.
That is a political question, not a Constitutional one.
Not even that.
This was proxy voting, where you give your vote to someone else.
I personally would make all debates/votes/committee meetings online-only, archived, and searchable. There is literally never a reason that the government should be hidden from the governed.
And make the captiol into a museum.
Those online archives would be minced by theministry of truth on a regular basis.
If the debates were closed door sessions about, say, information that if exposed would get US soldiers killed, then open access to that seems like a bad idea.
Otherwise, yes.
Oddly enough, the underhanded shit that would be embarrassing or expose as criminals the powers that be is also considered “information that if exposed would get US soldiers killed”.
The first SCotUS test of post-WWII national security (classification) was held in favor of secrecy as the govt wanted. When the materials were ultimately declassified, it was clear it was to avoid embarrassment, not preserve lives. That precedent should be thrown out since it was fraudulently arrived at.
The incentive to abuse willy-nilly classification at the whims of the people in charge is so bafflingly obvious. Of course the decisions to allow these things are always made by establishment true-believers who think that “their people” are immune to corruption, no matter how many times history beats them over the head with lessons to the contrary. “Power corrupts” should be taken as a law of nature as absolute as gravity.
The European Union is proposing a controversial piece of legislation that would effectively ban the right-to-repair for vehicles older than 15 years old. The aim according to the European Commission is “to renew the car fleet and encourage Europeans to buy new, environmentally friendly vehicles.” Thus, forcing individuals to buy newer cars, and more often while many other individuals will undoubtedly be priced out of car ownership, which will satisfy what is arguably, the real aim, the planned immobilisation of the people.
https://expose-news.com/2024/02/27/the-european-union-propose-to-ban-repairs-on-cars-over-15-years-old/
Why are there any living members of the European Commission left?
fuck my car is 15. But I drive it less than 3k kilometers per year, the pollution to build a new one is not where near worth it
fuck my car is 15
Sorry, I don’t fuck cars or 15 year olds.
comma comma comma chameleon
What about Japanese cars?
My 20 year old F150 will outlast me. Odd that I cause more environmental damage than my ol’ truck and yet…hey, hey, hey, slow down there. I’m not finished here yettttttt…..
That’s fucking insane.
“What are you in for?”
“I changed the battery in my car.”
There is probably a clause that excludes “collector’s cars”. The rich and powerful still need to be able to drive their 70’s sports car around so that the people’s can see how special they are.
The Department of Good Ideas is alive and well.
Just like nuclear energy, if maintaining cars for as long as possibly is not part of the solution than the problem must not be that bad.
Shorter Jack Smith: I am a partisan hack!
“There has never been a case in American history in which a former official has engaged in conduct remotely similar to Trump’s,” he wrote.
Except that time Hillary refused to turn over an email server that had classified documents on it, and then when she did finally turn it over, it had been wiped clean. Remember that?
Technically, was there a “case” for the Hillary server?
Hell, Biden was less justified than Trump – since he was VP and not president. It is the initial act – not the behavior afterwards that matters.
Yep, and he just happened to leave the documents in unsecured locations where his crack addled son who was on the payroll of foreign government-tied companies could get to them.
Jack Smith reply, “Hillary Clinton? Never heard of her. Was she Ms Clinton my 2d grade teacher?”
Ray o’ Sunshine:
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1762496014966206976
Good doggie.
Now that’s a Good Boi!
I hope that’s real.
The guy didn’t look like he had a bite sleeve on from what I could tell.
Why didn’t the girl grab the gun? Or run away?
Frightened little kids don’t necessarily act rationally?
Yeah, are we really going to armchair quarterback a 4-5 year old girl’s reaction to an attempted kidnapping?
God damn right we are!
Looks fake to me, but good doggie anyway.
Yeah if that’s not fake, then I really don’t believe the dog made a tactical decision to play dead. What I think happened is the dog was shot and dropped, then got up when the adrenalin kicked in. Which means it probably didn’t survive.
It is an interesting question – did Brennan do this on his own, or did he get Obama’s blessing? I tend to believe the permanent bureaucracy knows they won’t pay any price, so they’re plenty willing to go with even gossamer cover from above. Certainly Brennan is paying no price now, nor is he likely to even under another Trump admin.
Personally, I’d like to see his head on a pike at the entry to Langley – pour encourager les autres.
The best employees do what the boss wants without being told, especially when it comes to shady stuff like this, and even if he was given explicit instructions good luck proving it.
If Brennan’s balls were in a vice – I think we’d get the truth.
This is just standard Five Eyes stuff with an unusual target. We’ve been bypassing constitutional protections by accepting info from other countries while reciprocating to undermine their own legal protections for many years. It’s a rotten but legally accepted system and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he acted on his own initiative.
Brennan’s fingerprints are still all over shady shit, to this day.
That’s the question, isn’t it? Seymour Hersh told us Brennan was behind the Russiagate operation. As I’ve pointed out before, he was almost certainly behind the supposed DNC hacking operation. He’s up to his neck in it, the only question is whether he was operating on his own, or with unofficial approval of the Administration.
I tend to think he did this on his own, as what example has been made of an unsanctioned operation in the last 30 or 40 years?
Duranty needs company.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/new-york-times-journalist-accused-of-participating-in-oct-7-jihad-attacks-wins-journalism-award/
“Nuclear weapons plant evacuated as Texas wildfire scorches more than 200,000 acres of land with 11 MILLION under ‘red flag warning’ for spontaneous blazes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13134525/Nuclear-weapons-plant-evacuated-Texas-wildfire.html
yikes
“Spontaneous”. I guess the arsonist(s) haven’t been identified yet.
More Climate Change Protesters?
It’s pretty bad here, no need for arsonists. Very windy, and super dry until this morning. Pretty much Amarillo to Dallas was under a fire weather watch and Texas doesn’t do that lightly.
You’re probably right, it’s just that recent years have greatly enhanced my cynicism and suspicion.
—“That’s all I got for today.”—
Thank you Banjos for posting these links, but I don’t know if I could take any more, anyway.
I did not vote! 🇺🇲
“Euphoria star Hunter Schafer among those arrested for protesting outside of Joe Biden’s ‘softball’ sit down with Seth Meyers
The group signaled they were made up of Jewish-Americans, sporting T-shirts that read ‘Not In Our Name’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13134901/Euphoria-star-Hunter-Schaefer-arrested-protest-Joe-Biden-Seth-Meyers.html
But these same people claim criticizing Israel isn’t criticizing Jews?
“I have no problem with Japanese people. Some of my best friends are Japanese. I just don’t think Japan should exist, that’s all.”
I didn’t know you were Chinese…
You wanna see racism, talk to a Chinese person about the Japanese.
/When our company was courting a Chinese company to buy us way back when, the bigwigs took their bigwigs to…a Japanese sushi house in town. I am just a dumb farmboy with no manners, but even I know that was a bad move. They still bought us…
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“One of the plaintiffs’ main contentions was that the new local law “changed the method by which all municipal elective officers are elected by effectively replacing the existing electorate with a differently constituted population,” thereby violating the Municipal Home Rule Law.”
Ooh, NY mayor went there!!
Right-wing conspiracy theorist!
The left’s prosecution of an all out war on America continues unabated. Americans mostly pretend it is not happening.
Kudos to prolefeed’s article last night. Good work Sir, and relevant to every link today. Shall we call that a ‘first’, whatever that is worth?
“Canadian Liberals Propose Bill Outlining LIFE IN PRISON For “Online Hate Speech” Convictions
A new bill introduced by Canada’s Liberal government yesterday will make it possible to receive life in prison for posting “online hate.” While the legislation purports to strengthen protection of minors from sexual abuse, critics are slamming the bill as an attack on free speech.
The Online Harm Act would amend Canada’s Criminal Code by increasing the maximum punishment for “advocating genocide” from five years to life in prison. It also adds an “offence motivated by hatred” with potential for life imprisonment. The proposed act defines hatred broadly as “the emotion that involves detestation or vilification and that is stronger than disdain or dislike.””
https://www.thepublica.com/canadian-liberals-table-bill-detailing-life-in-prison-for-online-hate-speech-convictions/
WTF, Canada?
Unless of course the speech is “From the river to the sea”. Because that’s somehow different genocide.
They’re this close to sentencing people to life in prison for committing a crime that is defined on the fly by whoever is in charge. Damn.
“Hi, welcome to Canada, the friendliest nation on Earth! Now, be careful what you say, certain things can get you put in jail for life. Also, have you considered euthanasia? We have a variety of methods to choose from.”
SAVE money?!?!?! Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!
Cereal is sooo overpriced.
Right? And nothing new. It’s been expensive AF all my life.
I love that he thinks that if people are eating cereal for dinner to save money they’re going to go with the Kelloggs branded cereal instead of the generic store brands.
^^^ This. When it was us and the kids, it was either bulk from WinCo or generics. Us alone, sure we get what we want. But it aint cheap by any standards unless you’re on WIC or welfare.
How about bulk oats?
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche…
I eat bulk oats, Mrs OBE cannot be bothered with making oats unless they are quick microwave ones.
I like Cream of Wheat, but the scale does not.
If you really are dirt poor: oats, beans, and rice as we discussed yesterday. Learn to love canned sardines and splurge occasionally on canned salmon.
Personally, I was a bit shocked to see how much dry red beans have gone up in price since the last time I bought them.
One thing my dad says is that if you really wanted to end hunger in the US, you provide free beans and rice to people. It’ll keep you alive, but you’re going to get tired of eating it every meal.
I’ll allow some salt, pepper, and garlic powder.
Thank you, Dave Ramsey!
The 16 oz. Goya sardines doubled in price.
Great value sardines only.
At UnCivilServant from the dead thread – nails that fall off grow back. Depending on the injury level, it might take several tries before it grows back normally.
Yes. I have broken my foot a couple times. The nail will come off when it is ready and start growing back. Don’t force it. Keeping it from going ingrown is an issue for a month or so while it grows back in, then everything is normal.
It tooks years for my big toe.
I got a big toe where the nail has fallen off several times. Got ingrown and whatnot. Hopefully this time it’ll grow normally.
What’s the opposite of ingrown?
This one was outgrown and janky, which is what made it susceptable to reinjury. Though the previous times it did detatch, the top of the toe left behind was less level. It looks like it’s taken the keratinous mass that was interfering with previous regrow attempts with it this time.
Unfortunately, I just discovered that the way I taped the bandage is uncomfortable, as the deadening agent in the neosporin has worn off. I’m in the office to boot, so I can’t change the bandage without first walking to my car and driving home.
It did take about 6 months for most of the nails to fall off. Probably a close to a year overall to get to normalcy sounds right. It’s definitely a life adjustment, not a short time period.
It’s amazing what a toenail surgeon can do. I’m looking at 4 toes, nail less, thinking about getting some more taken off. The doc told me they’ll grow back and ingrown again, unless, unless we permanently kill the nail growth.
Took a couple months to totally heal up but well worth it. If you are bothered by in-growns they will never get better.
Well, third time’s the charm I guess. (this would be the third time the nail came off that toe due to injury)
🤬
When bandaging this morning, I dosed my toe in Neosporin to reduce the chances of something getting infected. I forgot that the variety I have has painkillers in it. these have worn off.
Now my foot hurts.
Of course we make howitzers out of titanium. Is there anything the US military can’t make more complicated, expensive and difficult to field repair?
Ukraine Plunders Howitzer Graveyard to Keep Big Guns Firing
https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-plunders-howitzer-graveyard-to-keep-big-guns-firing-94967fee?st=619pe551efsojpx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Good morning, curmudgeons!!
As many of you know, I adopted a “difficult to home” cat last year. She’s 12 years old now, still a bit cantankerous at times, but generally a fat and happy purr ball.
I post pics of her and her antics on my company’s Slack channel dedicated to pets.
My young colleague from India, a great gal, is adopting a 13 year old cat (same shelter) later today!! She’s over the moon. I’m happy to have been a positive influence for adopting “reject” cats.
do you have a blender?
“An HIV+ trans-identified male in Canada who claims he breastfeeds his child has sparked outrage after sharing photos of himself at a lactation clinic with the baby. Margaret (Margie) Fancypants, formerly known as Murray Pearson, began identifying as a woman in December of 2022 and has been dosing himself with progesterone rectally.”
https://www.thepublica.com/hiv-transgender-man-boasts-of-breastfeeding-infant-sparks-outrage-on-social-media/
No.
Not clicking.
You made the right choice.
Fucking gross…dude oughtta be in prison.
Or an insane asylum.
Fancypants? All of North American will soon just be completely an open-air insane asylum.
Also, if you are changing your name, why go with Margaret and not Margie, as indicated as to what you really want to be called?
Let’s keep celebrating and encouraging mental illness.
What could go wrong?
This is relevant, and a great summary of the Anabaptist craze. How history repeats, only writ larger and larger…
https://fortuneandfreedom.com/the-city/how-does-a-mania-like-climate-change-actually-end-though/
Interesting article, thanks.
This book about the anabaptists is a great read:
https://www.amazon.com/Tailor-King-Anabaptist-Kingdom-Munster/dp/0312205155
So… Mr. Fancy Pants?
The terminology always confuses me. Is a trans-identified male actually a female or this a non-woke article?
Murray Pearson, began identifying as a woman
Transman/male means that the person “has become a” man/male and the person writing is a good person
“trans-identified” male means the person is a born male who self identifies otherwise, and the writer is a hateful TERF.
Color me hateful TERF.
““trans-identified male” is nonsense language because self-ID is nonsense. It’s also terf/socon virtue signaling.
Be afraid
Bump stocks use the recoil energy of a trigger pull to enable the user to fire up to hundreds of rounds with what the federal government calls “a single motion.”
That’s a big magazine. Do they make belt fed ARs?
The ideal ruling would be “The government has no authority to regulate machine guns, so it doesn’t matter if a bumpb stock is one or not.”
“Please point out the bump stock exception contained within the second amendment.”
Be afraid – of bullets? neah
Absolutely! In fact, making an AR belt-fed means it doesn’t have a detachable magazine, so it’s not an assault rifle in all 50 states!
“a single motion.”
Just like jerking your dick.
“Employees at a Kentucky Dairy Queen were forced to eat ice cream that had been tainted with cleaning solution, sending some of them to the emergency room.
A manager at a Campton, Ky. location of the chain called all employees to a mandatory staff meeting Friday night where they forced the staffers to down the chemically contaminated soft serve “whether or not they liked” it, according to the parent of one of the young staffers.”
https://nypost.com/2024/02/28/us-news/kentucky-dairy-queen-manager-forced-employees-to-eat-cleaning-solution-tainted-ice-cream-report/
But, why?
That’ll learn ’em.
Exactly. Not necessarily the wrong thing to communicate, but not right way to communicate it.
Plus the hysteria. Did the manager simply make them taste it or were they forced to consume more than a taste.
I could only guess thinking “this is what you have been serving customers”…stupid, but what I would assume.
I remember that time my boss made me drink a liter of nitric acid because I’d stored it in the wrong cabinet. I’ll never do that again.
True story:
When I was in an environmental testing lab, I had a coworker ask me the proper way to preserve a well water sample for metals analysis. Instead of asking him “why should I tell you this?” I just told him. (nitric acid until pH < some number I forget).
This workplace gave us aquafina since the plumbing was suspect. He took an aquafina bottle, grabbed a sample of his well water, preserved it and left it on my desk unlabeled.
Nitric acid is tingly and vaguely citrus tasting.
ah the good old fashioned management that made America great. Damn snowflakes cant even handle their chemical contaminants.
“It’s a significant public safety issue,” said Eric Tirschwell, a lawyer with the legal arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates for gun restrictions. “We saw what happened in Las Vegas. Bump stocks hold the capacity to multiply mass shootings in a way that should really scare all of us.”
Yes, yes, of course. More dead babies than you can count.
We all know the answer is libertarians.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-mired-in-controversy-over-ai-chatbot-push-46023dd3?st=itby3u59yhfh6vy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
well stalin broke a few million eggs here and there, but the rampant libertarianism of today is single-handedly killing Gaia the whole world. The goddamn maniacs !
Not to defend that AI monstrosity, but you can get it to do that with anything.
Misgendering vs the nuclear holocaust was my favorite.
dying in a nuclear explosion takes minutes. misgendering hurts forever
Larry Larry he’s our man
The 118th Congress has struggled, as evidence by the number of bills that it passed in 2023. The Republican Party disfunction in the House and its inability to move past the toxic environment encouraged by former President Trump may be the root cause of such a performance.
Someone like Larry Hogan (even though he would be elected to serve in the Senate, not the House) brings sensible thinking to Washington and Congress. If he sticks to his principles and ideals, he can be an effective bridge between the parties, and demonstrate the power of service that should be emblematic of our elected officials.
If he abandons such principles, he will be a one-term Senator and his positive influence will be short-lived. This provides ample motivation for him to remain true to his words and values.
The people of Maryland are fortunate to have had Hogan serve as their governor for eight years. They will be even more fortunate to have him serve as their senator, should he win.
Is this a paid political advertisement?
“as evidence by the number of bills that it passed in 2023.”
That is not a performance metric.
This
A literal RINO.
If he can”t control his own weight how will he control my money?
Three things we each are responsible for, our time, our money, our weight.
Larry fails.
How the fuck does that work?
He was also fined nearly $355 million in the New York fraud trial. Engoron ordered that interest be applied retrospectively on that sum. According to a statement by New York Attorney General Letitia James, that will bring the total Trump will have to pay to about $450 million.
That comes to a combined lawsuit total of $548.3, which exceeds the value of his $426 million liquid assets by $112.3 million.
Presumably, the illiterate retard who wrote that meant “retroactively”. I can see interest accruing from the date of the judgement, but how do you calculate, much less justify, a retroactive interest charge?
And, of course, the article is about how Trump can’t do anything without the approval of a court appointed overseer.
Judges are all powerful.
“I am the great and mighty Engoron”!
At any rate, even though Britain has not built a major reservoir since 1991, and even though the Planning Act 2008 gives national government the power to define something as a ‘nationally significant infrastructure project’, it’s done no such thing, and one can’t help suspect that fierce local opposition is why. The local Lib Dem MP Layla Moran opposes the project. So does Oxfordshire County Council, whose climate change spokesperson, the Green Pete Sudbury, has said, ‘The water industry has utterly failed to convince people in Oxfordshire’. Because the people of Oxfordshire are unconvinced, the rest of us may run out of water.
https://capx.co/nimby-watch-abingdons-aquatic-nimbys/
they should do a business trip to California to learn good water management
“climate change spokesperson”
Consider the amount of water wasted keeping people like this alive. That is likely the root of Britain’s water problem.
People that diss today’s BER airport clearly don’t remember when Tempelhof airport was just a shed manned by a chap in a heavy overcoat who literally had to catch the planes when they landed.
https://twitter.com/slowberlin/status/1762400098955272545
You know who else had to catch a plane in Berlin?
Mohammed Safady and Jamal Al-Gashey?
Libertarians advocate independent self ownership. That is a vastly more terrifying crime than slavery to the state.
Indeed – those libertarians would make people take care of themselves and others should they choose; the state promises to treat us all equally (which turns out to be equally miserable, but dammit – it’s equal).
My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share
https://twitter.com/Jefferies_/status/1762227703946608992
It’s never too late to start something new.
My grandmother starting running at age 70.
Now she’s 78 and we have no idea where the hell she is.
Wokka wokka!
Thank you
Nice. As geology goes Scotland is probably one of the most interesting spots on the planet. So many slices of time exposed in such a small place.
The Revolutionary Communists of America are forming a party! After the launch rally, we hit the street in downtown Brooklyn to say it loud & clear: the communists are here! #Communism
https://twitter.com/usimt/status/1762122124733391304
Interesting that the Nazis wear masks and the commies don’t.
Have you heard about our complementary helicopter rides?
This is all I see: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51x4anXfXCL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_ML2_.jpg
Fuckin’ Tankies. The feeblest psychological and intellectual among us.
Best book I was ever assigned.
The masses don’t just fall for one kind of bullshit, they fall for any kind.
Were they laughed and jeered at? I do wonder what the official reaction would be if a group of “Revolutionary Capitalists” were to try such a march in Havana or Beijing?
Carbon farming is a great example of the kind of perverse ideas born in those liminal spaces where ideology, class and economic interests meet — and there are few better examples of such a space than the Brussels bubble.
All over Europe, farmers, especially smallholders, are revolting against the growing economic and bureaucratic burdens associated with the European Union’s climate agenda. On Monday, they set siege to Brussels institutions once again. But the worst may be yet to come. As one of the largest contributors to greenhouse-gas emissions, agriculture has naturally ended up in the crosshairs of net-zero advocates, especially within the European Union. The problem is that, with current technologies, one can only go so far in slashing emissions in the agricultural sector. So it’s hardly surprising that policymakers, in their drive toward carbon neutrality, have turned to a drastic alternative: reducing agricultural (particularly livestock) production altogether and transforming ever-growing swaths of farmland into so-called carbon sinks.
A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases— namely soil, plants, and the ocean. Insofar as agricultural climate policies are concerned, carbon sinks are related to the concept of carbon farming. The term refers to a wide variety of farming methods aimed at “trapping” carbon in the soil. In policymaking terms, the emphasis is primarily on the conversion of cropland and pastures into permanent grassland or forestry, in exchange for which farmers earn “carbon credits” they may sell on carbon markets.
https://twitter.com/battleforeurope/status/1762842556520382680
I wonder how many eurocrats know how it is to farm
How are there any Eurocrats left alive?
well people are sheep or morons. Often both.
Net zero emissions = economic inertia = death.
Carbon sink = crops, especially timber
“…absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases— namely soil, plants, and the ocean. ” This fantasy is beyond laughable as those are the greatest producers of so-called green house gases. They exceed human activity exponentially.
I remember one volcano in the Caribbean and another in Iceland some decades ago that, when roughly measured, each emitted more CO2, water vapor and methane than all of humanity throughout our entire history. The earth burps once and suddenly it is clear that we dont even register on the scale.
Texas is preparing land for a giant carbon sink
Actually all I said was “pull my finger” and next minute somebody was talking about a carbon sink.
True, but greenies will tell you that the small additional CO2 emitted by humans is the “tipping point” for catastrophic climate change and while we can’t stop volcanos we can stop spewing filthy pollutants into the air even if it means we have to lower our standard of living.
WE ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!
Last I checked (years ago), anthropogenic CO2 emissions accounted for 4% of total annual CO2 emissions. Natural emissions tended to vary by 4% year over year, on average.
The model required for our rounding error amount of CO2 to have a runaway impact on the climate requires an amount of fragility that simply couldn’t exist. The first volcano to let off would turn us into Venus.
There are other ecological damages that we’re doing that should be addressed (chem ag dumping ungodly amounts of salts into the ground and thus into the waterways, topsoil erosion, habitat loss for keystone species, etc), but CO2 ain’t one of them.
They’re all Bono now
The laptop classes are convinced that they are saving the world – one Zoom meeting at a time.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/27/theyre-all-bono-now/
American parents are far more concerned about their children’s careers than whether they marry or have children. That’s according to a new Pew Research Centre survey published in January. It shows that just one-fifth of parents consider it ‘extremely’ important for their children to marry or have kids, while nearly half say that these things are ‘not at all’ important. By contrast, 88 per cent of parents consider it vital that their children become ‘financially independent’ and ‘have jobs or careers they enjoy’.
LinkedIn is full of people boasting of the seemingly virtuous nature of their professional activity. Hedge-fund staffers talk about ‘fostering change’ and ‘empowerment’. Accountants claim to be ‘solving the problems of tomorrow’. And HR apparatchiks quote Gandhi by encouraging us to ‘be the change you want to see in the world’.
We are witnessing the Bono-fication of the professional managerial class. It seems that every investment banker, every corporate lawyer, every project manager is now simultaneously an advocate of good causes. But is the ostentatious do-gooding of a celebrity like U2’s lead singer really something to aspire to?
Predictably, this incessant moral posturing has led to no noticeable improvements in the wider world. Structural inequality persists throughout society, while geopolitical instability continues to rise. That’s hardly a surprise. This pseudo-activism is not saving the world. It’s a way to justify middle-class professionals’ wealth and status.
Builders, street cleaners and tradesmen seem to harbour no such Bono-fied illusions about their jobs. They understand that the purpose of, say, a builder is to build a house or an office, not to change the world. Unlike the professional middle class, they feel no need to justify their work in moral, do-gooding terms. Most importantly perhaps, they have their jobs in perspective. And as a result, they are free to focus on richer sources of purpose beyond work, from their family to the life of their wider community. Work becomes a means to a much better end.
“just one-fifth of parents consider it ‘extremely’ important for their children to marry or have kids, ”
Not surprising, really. Every comedy show ever always got a laugh out of parents asking “when are you going to make us grandparents?” Mock something long enough and it becomes something to stop doing.
“When are you going to stop making us grandparents”
/Fourscore
They’re all Bono now
Why couldn’t it be Sonny?
I’d post a witty response, but I’d be out over my skis.
Wow! That really treed me.
You know you want to share it.
It’s going to get worse. I got the annual magazine my kid’s former elementary school puts out and every single class level now has some sort of ” save the world” nonsense in its curriculum.
The problem is that, with current technologies, one can only go so far in slashing emissions in the agricultural sector.
Obviously, the solution is to go back to plowing with oxen and horses.
In policymaking terms, the emphasis is primarily on the conversion of cropland and pastures into permanent grassland or forestry, in exchange for which farmers earn “carbon credits” they may sell on carbon markets.
Get back to me when they figure out how beneficial it would be to start bombing cities. We can start with Brussels.
Wait, aren’t bombs now considered major contributors to global warming? Or something.
Ah…ok, I forgot. That only applies to Jewish bombs. Silly me.
No, bombs are now considered major contributors to economic growth as long as the money taken from U.S. taxpayers is spent in the U.S. (at least according to the Biden administration and other warmongers.)
Here’s a window that’s not broken yet.
Terrible news
A powerful storm expected to hit California starting Thursday could bring the strongest blizzard of the winter for the Sierra Nevada, potentially dumping 5 to 12 feet of snow at elevations 5,000 feet above sea level.
“Even by Sierra standards, this is shaping up to be a highly impactful, major winter storm,” the National Weather Service office in Reno said. “If these snow totals hold, this will easily be the biggest storm of the season.”
That includes the possibility of 1 to 3 feet of snow for communities along Highway 395 in Mono County, with Mammoth Lakes and June Lakes potentially getting nearly 4 feet of snow. There’s a strong chance of 4 feet of snow along the Sierra crest around the Tahoe Basin, and more than 3 feet in places like South Lake Tahoe, Incline Village and Tahoe City, forecasters said.
Winds on the ridge tops of California’s mightiest mountain range “could easily exceed 120 mph,” and “could lead to blizzard conditions with near-zero visibility at times.”
Global warming will kill us all.
The good news is that puts off the start of the next drought for a year.
Anybody heard of this series?
3 Body Problem is based on a series of beloved science-fiction books by Chinese engineer–turned-author Liu Cixin. They were translated to English starting in 2014 and quickly became a phenomenon among fans of the genre who were drawn to the story about a slow-moving alien invasion of Earth.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/game-of-thrones-true-blood-creators-3-body-problem-netflix-d0aa9420?st=73x9sb7yove98lu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I seem to recall the books have some following here, though I haven’t read them.
Yes. I watched the first few episodes. I don’t know that they’d be easy to follow if you hadn’t read the books.
I spent 90 minutes in my car at a complete standstill on the interstate this morning. I suppose it would be uncharitable of me to hope that whoever caused the accident that shut down the highway is dead. 😒
We had a similar delay on I-95 in South Carolina, and the wife was expressing similar sentiments. I just commented that someone was having a worse day than us.
If it took 90 minutes, I’m guessing there was at least one fatality. No idea if it was the person who caused it.
That’s how I feel when stuck in traffic too. “There better be a damn good reason!”
State sponsored piracy
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday offered her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction.
“It is necessary and urgent for our coalition to find a way to unlock the value of these immobilized assets to support Ukraine’s continued resistance and long-term reconstruction,” Yellen said in remarks in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting this week.
“I believe there is a strong international law, economic, and moral case for moving forward. This would be a decisive response to Russia’s unprecedented threat to global stability,” she said.
The United States and its allies froze hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian foreign holdings in retaliation for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Those billions have been sitting untapped as the war grinds on, now in its third year, while officials from multiple countries have debated the legality of sending the money to Ukraine. More than two-thirds of Russia’s immobilized central bank funds are located in the EU.
Using the assets to help Ukraine “would make clear that Russia cannot win by prolonging the war and would incentivize it to come to the table to negotiate a just peace with Ukraine,” Yellen said.
Truth, justice and the American Way.
The idea of using Russia’s frozen assets has gained traction lately as continued allied funding for Ukraine becomes more uncertain and the U.S. Congress is in a stalemate over providing more support. But there are tradeoffs since the weaponization of global finance could harm the U.S. dollar’s standing as the world’s dominant currency.
Yellen said Tuesday that it is “extremely unlikely” that tapping the frozen funds would harm the dollar’s standing in the global economy “especially given the uniqueness of the situation where Russia is brazenly violating international norms. Realistically there are not alternatives to the dollar, euro and yen,” Yellen said.
“Because I said so.”
Go home, Janet.Bake cookies for the grandkids, or something. Take up BASE jumping.
You know who else seized valuables from a group despised by the broader community and distributed the gain to their friends?
Robin Hood?
“In a recorded call to a trans activist organization, Trans Youth Equality Foundation (TYEF), the director of the organization offered to send Libs of TikTok, who was posing as a 13-year-old girl, chest binders without parental permission.
The call with TYEF Director Susan Maasch was posted by Libs of TikTok on X.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/libs-of-tiktok-exposes-trans-activist-group-giving-breast-binders-to-13-year-old-girl-without-parental-consent
Bad, but not as bad those handing out testosterone illegally.
During a recent interview with CNBC, Kellogg’s CEO Gary Pilnick suggested Americans could save money by eating cereal for dinner.
That certainly goes against the grain.
It’s a flaky idea.
Need to separate the wheat from the chaff!
Yeah, really corny
Must be a slow news day for them to write that sort of puff piece.
Oh great, more corny jokes.
You people can’t take anything cereal-ously.
Jerry Seinfeld hardest pleased. But then again, no one needs 23 kinds of cereal. Eat your gruel and be happy.
I watched this last night.
Amazing
Camera drone chasing Verstappen. The aero wizards were probably really interested in the spray pattern from the wet track. Video link is in the article.
That was so cool. Thanks for posting.
None of you are ready for the grandeur of the SugarFree post at 1100…
Also, authors, I have been setting the latest submissions in the calendar….we’ll get to you, I promise!
Anything not in Draft from me is ready. There should be a dozen of those. (I realize I have over forty in draft. Those are being worked on)
Speaking of, I should mention that the “AI Underlords” article that is scheduled is only part 1 of six. Part 2 is the “Variational Autoencoder” article, and the other four are properly numbered.
None of you are ready for the grandeur of the SugarFree post at 1100…
Threat or promise?
Coming soon to the US of A!
The controversy erupted this week after a state-run newspaper published a report late Sunday saying that Ma Yijiayi, a construction contractor, spent years waging legal battles to press claims against officials in Shuicheng, a district of Guizhou province, only for local authorities to take her and her lawyers into custody late last year for allegedly disrupting public order.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/detention-of-chinese-businesswoman-owed-money-by-the-state-sparks-nationwide-outcry-b12d6da6?st=ryvi5b3vzkow7te&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink