I got no sports besides the NFL going to some silly new kickoff thing. So let’s jump straight into…the links!
Here we go again. I guarantee you the state is going to fuck these people over when they were doing something good for everybody.
Oh, good lord. It would be fine if this was just virtue signaling. But I fear it goes farther than that and this will become the go-to place for people who want to chemically castrate and genitally mutilate children. What a sad thing.
“This is the way.” I think I like this guy a lot better than the people arresting homeowners for trying to remove squatters that are destroying homes.
Well in that case, just let him go. I get that people look for any way to garner sympathy in these situations, but this is just silly.
What an amazing life this guy has lived. Of course it’s all made-up, but still. Simply amazing.
What an amazing life this bird has lived. At least his seems to have been real.
These are serious journalists. She should have had NBC host Jen Psaki and George Stepahnopalous (sp?) on with her to show how much they care about real nonpartisan journalism.
Suck it, tyrants. Of course they’ll come back and try again later. Probably statewide the next time. So stand by.
Here’s some good stuff. That was stuck in my head all day yesterday. Wish it would have been this one. Although they’re both great. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends!
(((They))) are just taking over all media! Oy vey! 😉
Morning, Sloopy! Morning, all!
Oh sure — fix it when you finish the links so I’m not funny anymore… sniff…. (kicks gravel)
(((kicks gravel)))
Anymore?
/ba-dum-bum
Touche.
You’re still funny. And everybody knows my thin skin causes me to fix things once I’ve been called out.
Hmm… now I really, really need to check my home security logs apparently. Of course, you couldn’t have looked too long — you weren’t driven mad.
Yeah, I skimmed the summary someone made here yesterday — realized I didn’t really understand the impact and then further realized I didn’t care since I don’t watch the NFL anyway. So there’s that, I suppose.
I couldn’t make heads or tails of it, and gave up hlafway because it had zero impact on me.
No more onside kicks.
Not quite. From what I was reading, there’s still onside kicks, but (again, from memory)
1) You must be losing
2) It must be the 4th quarter
3) You need to announce it before the attempt
I’m still trying to figure out how it’s going to change the kicker and return market. Now, the best result is to have the ball land on the one and roll/bounce into the end zone, blasting it through the back of the end zone is detrimental. The league also changed the 3rd QB rule (they can now be elevated from the practice squad unlimited times instead of three), which made local news since the Browns went through 5 starting QB’s last season.
The hell? Again — not a huge football fan, but I thought the whole point of an onside kick was to attempt to fake out the other team and recover the ball and continue your drive (i.e. use it as a short pass to make up a down effectively instead of a punt to transfer to the other team). If you have to announce it… that won’t work.
Whatever… I’m probably misremembering anyway. And I shouldn’t care to argue about it… so why am I still typing? Am I going to keep questioning myself? Am I suddenly Judge Nap?
There seemed to have been an upswing in onside kicks in recent years, but you nearly always knew when they were going to happen anyways. It was also pretty clear when they put the ball down horizontally on the tee instead of vertically.
There were still a few instances where a team would do an onside kick to start a half. Since the other team wasn’t expecting it, a lot of them worked.
Yeah this is a dumb rule. It will reduce the crazy collisions because no one will be able to get a 30 yard running start, but it will take out some stratergery.
The NFL could probably use an astrologer in order to make the rule more specific *cough* *cough*.
When the Chargers are in the Seventh Stadium…
Did they rename the Washington Douchebags back to the Redskins to piss of the Karens that demanded the name be changed and make the native Americans that were NOT offended that name was changed, and that they didn’t want that?
Call me when that happens. I might watch foozeball again.
Who sells Redskins merch with a potato instead of the Indian?
Someone must by now.
One of my college classmates suggested that, but instead we ended up being the RedHawks. With another damn bird sideline mascot named…Tom O’Hawk. 😒
“Tom O’Hawk”
You got away with a racism.
A ~Bee take that I read on this couldn’t really come up with any downsides other than “it looks gay”.
OK then.
Guys in tight pants falling on top of each other wasn’t enough.
Take a gander at the Five of Wands
The fact they spend most the time bending over and after plays slapping each other’s butts… Just the straightest sport.
Wait til you find out what the QB is doing when “under center”.
Way to bury the lede. The kickoff thing is not nearly as bad as eliminating tackles. With the elimination of the drop tackle, you can’t hit em high low in the body, the head or now the hip. Hope the teams are practicing shoestring tackles at training camp.
Basically the only way to tackle anymore is to drive through the chest, either from the front or the back. How does that work from the back, you ask? Good question, we’ll find out. When some quarterback is out for the rest of the season because somebody blew his lumbar through his belly button, we’ll see what they do.
I’m seeing the ban of the hip drop tackle as a big boon to running backs and tight ends. If they can get past the defensive line, there aren’t many players who will have the mass and strength needed to take down some of those big guys.
Why ban the hip drop tackle? The runner usually lands on their ass.
I’m sure it won’t be game changing or anything.
It’s just the XFL kickoff.
Links under construction? Why are we having supply chain issues?!
A container ship lost power approaching Sloopy’s keyboard.
(What? Too soon?)
I just figured he was importing links through Baltimore Harbor.
Lol, after Mexi’s opening yesterday, “too soon” is in the rearview mirror.
Ok… so wait… we’re altering the environment and they’re thriving (because of the unnatural / unusual amount of water) — and these yahoos don’t want it to go back for a change?
Much more likely — “If we stretch this out… we can get even MOAR MONEY through ‘Environmental Impact Studies’ and ‘Remediation Plans’!” So what you said… the state and their pet enviro-lawyers fucking over everyone else.
Another day in California, really.
That climate racket is worth trillions. why would they give that up?
They’ll give it up when they’re dead. For us that’s just a question of how long we tolerate it.
It’s almost like the real message is “we hate humans”.
ecosystem in the Salton Sea
A man made ecosystem, not a natural one. The result of a failed levee on the Colorado and then drainage from the farms.
Nature has exploited what man done fucked up.
“…these yahoos don’t want it to go back for a change?”
And the Navajo are claiming the moon I their sacred ground.
These types are just grifters. They dont give a fuck about their stated preferences. Their revealed preference is extortion.
They want money. Destroying the means of prosperity for all is just the cherry on top.
Absolute scum.
Jesus, Sloopy… what is this – CA nutpunch day? You want me to admit this state is fucked up? I know this state is fucked up…
I read earlier that the Key bridge was a primary thoroughfare for transporting hazmat and other like material.
Possible terrorist attack?
Oh, wait…the government said it wasn’t a terrorist attack.
So, definitely a terrorist attack.
But what does the head of the FSB say — as long as we’re only considering every-so-reliable sources?
The whole “hazmat bridge” angle strikes me as a mental red herring. It’s far from the only route for shipping such materials.
That’s kind of what I was thinking. Ships come to mind, as long as they aren’t piloted by morons.
It is the hazmat route because the other two expressways on that side of Baltimore go through tunnels.
The HAZMAT concern is that the route without the bridge is three times as long.
And?
I hear it is only 1.5 times when it gets cold.
😏
Needs a fluffer… Right?
It’s apparently impossible to drive through the city I’ve learned. I mean jokes aside, you can do it.
Can, but you don’t want to.
Hazmat is routed around cities to avoid spills in urban areas.
Figures. More people live in the suburbs around Baltimore than in the city (obviously).
Yeah. It seems to random ass to be any terrorist attack.
Oh, Florida instead of CA! (I think CA has companies starting up to out-squat the squatters instead). Guess their version of “Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up” in these cases is “Shoot, Swamp and Find a Gator” Given what I assume is the proportion of armed citizens PLUS Florida Man/Woman tendencies PLUS the easier cleanup — yeah, I don’t think I’d be trying to squat in Florida… that’s for sure.
They do. I just stumbled across a news story about them a couple weeks back, and dropped a couple links referencing them.
From the comments on that article, apparently the Sheriff has also rolled out a program where people with autistic or elderly/senile family members can get ID stickers for their homes and cars, and they train the street officers that if they see that sticker, there may be people around who aren’t going to be normally responsive to verbal commands. This is a good idea, and indicates a level of care that I’d love to see in other police departments. It appears that Sheriff Johnson isn’t just a cowboy; he seems to have a brain and a soul as well.
I am starting to see those stickers around other areas as well. Sacramento, in fact.
Do the ‘Coexist’ stickers count?
Given how much money he was funneling to the Right People ™, I’m honestly surprised he wasn’t freed on a technicality as soon as they thought no one was looking. Only necessary to pretend to follow the law when too many folks are looking, after all. (sigh)
Freed of his mortal coil?
There’s those CA nutpunches again…
And probably nothing… Look at the prominently ‘Featured’ pic. and the Combustion Pollutants & Indoor Air Quality
They’ve already banned gas furnaces and heaters in new construction. They damned well have gas stoves in their sights — with exceptions for restaurants that serve bread as a stand alone or other cut outs so they and their cronies don’t feel any inconvenience.
“You will never find a greater hive of scum and wretched tyranny than CARB” to paraphrase Kenobi.
Alice Waters hardest hit; croaked a genteel objection?
I apologize for the late delivery. I was in the soundest sleep I’ve enjoyed in some time, so it was worth it. But I still feel bad.
If you needed your sleep, take it good sir… we’ll get by.
Yes, you’ll get by 🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FzFu-ze8pA
***SIGH!!!*** What came to my mind was the opening theme to a short-lived (one whole season!) ’70s sitcom of that title. I can’t find that theme song anywhere on the internet, but I can remember the whole damn thing.
1. I feel old.
2. I could have used those neurons for something useful. 😞
Could be worse — you could be just getting bi.
That brought a laugh.
That’s because the grabbing hands are grabbing all they can.
This is the one of theirs that always seems to stick in my head. Probably says something about me psychologically (and hey — I’ll take that over ‘Little 15’ or ‘A Question of Time’ for saying something about me!)
Mid-’80s DM is such a great era. Don’t wish to litigate favorites (but I always thought Here Is the House was underrated).
Squid alert.
?
“Well, in that case, just let him go.”
Release him into the crowd of the people he bilked.
You really think the uniparty members, but especially the team blue criminals, that profited from using this guy as a middleman to bring back a ton of that money they sent to Ukraine to be loaded into donkey campaign coffers at this point are not thinking they need to kill his ass as soon as possible to prevent him from singing like a canary when he gets told he looks cute by Bubba his cell mate in prison?
No report on the terrorist attack by MAGA White Christian Dominionist Antisemitic Islamaphobes?
It must be nice to have government employees on call to remove shit from your lawn.
They need to use better TP.
I’m surprised they didn’t call it a bioweapon attack like.
Poor Flaco.
LOL.
Look, just because the Browns didn’t sign him he’s still liked here. Besides, he’s got a job with the Colts now.
Charlie Sheen is in the NFL?
Sheen was a pitcher for the Indians.
Flacco was the player I was referencing.
Is this the Flacco that ruined a season by running head first into a wall and hurting himself after a score?
I think Charlie Sheen has shown more reason and mental acuity than that asshat.
Detroit Tiger Blood!
In regards to the first story, I’m actually an employee of the Imperial Irrigation District. Coincidentally my lab was just audited by the Cal EPA (RWQCB) last week. It’s hilarious, the local auditor doesn’t even know the actual requirements California has mandated over the past decade. The dude was interested in things that were totally insignificant and tried a few “gotcha” questions that failed spectacularly. The States own auditors are overwhelmed by the volume of bullshit rules that Sacramento churns out. Since we’re a rural area we don’t exactly get Cal EPA’s best and brightest, thank God.
“We don’t need to know the rules, we’ll cite and fine you just for fun.”
Especially if we get the feels you are an oppressor!
Libertarian bureaucrats, so much like military intelligence.
I am not, nor have I ever claimed to be Libertarian – I just censor a good chunk of my views here because I know they would not get a good reception.
What about Libertarian Military Intelligence? ‘Cause there are a couple of us running around these parts.
I know an FAA inspector like that.
I want to sign a big contract with network then get ‘fired’ without cause after 1 day. Lots of things I could do if NBC just mailed me paychecks regularly.
I wonder if this was the end goal from the start..
She is getting paid after all, right?
*tin foil hat placed onto head* Pay off for advancing the Republican party to the left and not pressing on election shenanigans
Says she had a contract.
Maybe Pie could finally get his millions that way.
Without cause? She was creating a hostile work environment.
I would rather have Mormon lady as a coworker than Jen Psaki .
Fascinating (and sex-linked?) difference in how people approach problems.
A piece of equipment owned by the automated materials handling group shit the bed in my lab overnight. This morning I sent out emails to two people I knew that worked for that group.
The man responded with the number of the AMHS hotline so I could log it as being down (systems approach).
The woman responded with the name of the owner of that particular piece of equipment (people approach).
I of course, contacted both (engineer approach).
You need the paper trail for when the equipment went down, so short-circuiting the process and going to the owner first is the wrong approach. Log the ticket first and give the owner the ticket number.
She can be troubleshooting it while the ticket is being generated. The wafers must flow.
Your process is clearly poor if the time required to generate the ticket would have a noticable impact on the troubleshooting.
Yes, take it from the government man how to make things work faster!
If the “work” you are interested in is fleecing the productive/tax payers, then absolutely. Learn from government.
Minutes count. Well, in my lab they do. The microscopy group measures their TATs in days.
/thinks about calls where they were discussing the amount of lost revenue per minute of phones being down.
They can in my world as well.
The WSJ has been rightly banging on this with series of articles, likely several a month for the past year. I’ll highlight this one as this poor guy is now one year in and a reminder of just how non free Russia is.
Evan Gershkovich’s Year in a Russian Prison
https://www.wsj.com/articles/evan-gershkovich-one-year-in-prison-russia-vladimir-putin-journalism-677f9c50?st=11zatb03xjrm7mn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Who cares? He’s a white cishet male. And also innocent, so you don’t get the sweet signaling points by freeing their criminals for our criminals.
What did Gershkovich do, wander around inside the Kremlin wearing a helmet with horns on it?
After reading the article, I’m of the opinion that some people should be shown the view from a high window. Briefly.
I don’t know. I’ve been following it for the past year and am not convinced Gershkovich is innocent. The Russian government is full of shit. But, I’m not convinced that Western media is any less full of propoganda. The WSJ’s support for Gershkovich doesn’t exactly lay out a convincing case. It seems based on the same logic model that anyone who questions the Covid narrative denies Science.
The Kremlin claims he is suspected of spying, but his real offense is honest reporting. If he does go to trial, any charges and evidence will be wholly invented.
I’ve heard from independent news sources that neutral with a slight bias towards Ukraine that Gershokovich had been investigating Russian military strength and readiness at the time he was arrested. If true, I’d consider that a justifiable arrest when Russia is essentially at war with the US. It would be nice to see the WSJ and other Western sources more directly speak to this accusation instead of a blanket denial.
My issue is the Jan 6 type imprisonment.
No disagreement there.
My issue also, but with the Jan 6 imprisonment in the USA. When that’s stopped, I’ll worry about Russia.
Do you actually think he should be shot for that? I mean, that is the traditional punishment for spies during wartime, after all.
Don’t they at least need to show he was acting for a hostile government agency or military?
I don’t know… I haven’t thought much about the appropriate punishment.
My point is just that he may indeed actually be guilty of spying. That doesn’t mean Russia’s government doesn’t do evil things. It just means ours is does pretty nasty shit too and that our media is just as full of propaganda as the Kremlin’s. So I take everything like this with a grain of salt.
Take Brittany Grimer, who’s mentioned in the article. I’ve never seen any indication anywhere that she was framed or that the drugs were planted on her. She would have gone to prison in many parts of the US for the same crime and faced life sentences in other countries. From the libertarian view, any punishment is too harsh for drug possession. But it’s bit hypocritical for the Drug Warrior WSJ to say a word about Russia’s treatment of Brittany Grimer. Tying that into their position on Gershkovich just deepens the feeling that they’re full of shit.
Russia is Asshoe, and if you are playing in their playground you need to be very aware of their rules. Just like if you were a legit reporter who snuck into North Korea and got caught, you get to deal with the fact that they are a paranoid group who will think you are a spy.
Was he or wasn’t he a spy? Does it matter? Russia isn’t the west with many of the traditions of free speech or free press, and you loose sight of that at your peril.
the west with many of the traditions of free speech or free press
Assange and Snowden ask who exactly are you talking about?
Yeah, thought about that. But they don’t take away the tradition, indeed, showing how much they engender wailing and gnashing, they prove that there is still an expectation of it, false though it may be.
White privilege for sure
“Spoiled brat” privilege at least.
Yeah, assholes — you know the needs and the proper politics for all the “marginalized people of the world”. Bitch, sit down — you don’t even know the needs of the workers at your local McDonald’s or the landscaping crew tending to your father’s $5 million estate. So stop regurgitating what your PoliSci 101 professor fed you, learn something about the world and then get back to us.
Tsk.
LBJ should never have given TN the internet.
Is it just nostalgia for ‘60s anti-war “sit-ins” that leads universities to tolerate this? At least suspend them for the rest of the semester (which is effectively a pretty hefty fine, since they’ll have to pay for another one to get their degrees). I have a strong feeling these low-T soyboys and danger hair girls don’t actually have the courage of their convictions, and a little pour encourager les autres would go a long way.
Both Gov. Reagan and Mario Savio aren’t here anymore.
The fact that the kids were all wearing masks shows that they don’t have the courage of their convictions. Of course the admin is at least tacitly supporting them, as they absolutely have the same positions, and love the kids for it.
At least suspend them for the rest of the semester (which is effectively a pretty hefty fine, since they’ll have to pay for another one to get their degrees).
Investigate all of them, expel them on irrelevant and nitpicky grounds, charge them with crimes under sarbanes oxley.
And hence will do nothing to stop the creeping unsustainable growth in transfer payments that will end in fiscal chaos.
Biden’s Free Lunch for Rich Kids
The USDA prepares to feed more schoolchildren year-round, even if their parents make six figures.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-free-lunch-for-rich-kids-taxpayers-foot-bill-usda-welfare-for-wealthy-ddbfebb1?st=3xo5jcztyi72jnk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Its to reinforce that it isn’t the parents who take care of their children and its Daddy Gov.
I’ve also heard “Pay for all kids so the poor kids don’t feel stigmatized.”
Then “rich” kids will bring their own lunches.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/mediaviewer/rm1004706561
I can only imagine how terrible school breakfasts must be. Back in the day our school cafeteria could barely make pizza palatable.
Yeesh, why’d I read lunch as breakfast? I need to eat something I guess.
Was that supposed to be pizza?
I think so. It was rectangular though, maybe it was very thin lasagna.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Rather not-terrible. A GOP governor who acts like he respects the 2A?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginias-glenn-youngkin-vetoes-dozens-of-gun-control-bills-emerges-as-brick-wall-against-democrats
Just delaying the inevitable?
Yep. NoVA will fortify better next time.
Probably, but better than nothing…
A city has declared itself as a trans sanctuary? Pullleeeeeeeeaze. Get back to me when you are a state trans sanctuary!
In case you wondered how it is working out
I think the fact that they are asking for an exemption proves that they do in fact believe that trans people exist. Unless they are also asking for exemptions to not have to hire morlocks, warlocks, witches and other imaginary creatures.
I’m nutty enough to think that religious exemptions shouldn’t exist. If I, as a non-believer, can’t get exemptions, why should people who believe in something else? My opinion strongly relies on a government that left people alone, so I understand why the religious people what exemptions.
My biggest hope is to watch the first trans person demand to become an imam at a local Somali mosque. I’m sure Ilhan Omar will be there supporting Xim.
I struggle with how religious exemptions aren’t an establishment of religion, myself.
That is a good way to put it.
No you don’t.
1. I know you learned the definition of “establishment of religion” and religious exemptions don’t fit under that definition.
2. The power to tax/regulate is the power to destroy. Heck, you can’t (or at least couldn’t) tax newsprint and printer’s ink without running afoul of 1A.
There’s a much longer post to be written on this, but a couple of points:
(1) If we go by the plain text of the Constitution and what is arguably original intent, then a great deal of the current jurisprudence around establishment of (a state religion) is insupportable, and this is probably not an establishment of religion under that narrow approach. Although saying that members of certain religions are exempt from laws that apply to everyone else is certainly getting close to even that line.
(2) But that’s not the jurisprudence we have. Essentially, the current rules are that the government may not favor one religion over another, and may not favor religion over other belief systems (although this part is often overlooked/applied inconsistently). And there’s no question that saying members of certain religions are exempt from laws that apply to everyone else is way over that line.
What we have is pretty incoherent, really, as the scope of government is so far beyond what the Founders intended that the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause are in irremediable conflict.
I don’t think the founders imagined laws where religious exceptions would apply. That it would illegal for business to hire only white protestant men, that it would be illegal to own a species of cactus, etc.
What we have is pretty incoherent, really, as the scope of government is so far beyond what the Founders intended
Quoted for emphasis.
Very question was posed on my declaration of not getting the FedGov mandated vaccine — their answer “Shut up”
When they come to Podunkville they’ll need to bring their own chain saw.
I thought one of the rules of medicine was “Do no harm”.
“We’ve come a long way, Baby”
Ah, the nonmalfeasance ethical standard which now comes in a distant second to the “Whatever makes me the most money” ethical standard.
Nothing much to say. Simple enough today, my usual lack of Bonus Words that will be shown up by Sean et alia…
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OT, but it has been half an hour.
I enjoy watching Jeopardy, and right now they are doing another Tournament. Last night, Ken was talking to an 11 game winner about how he spent some of his winnings. The contestant said (not sure of exact quote) that he had bought an electric car, “Now I can feel superior and save money on gas”. He gave no indication that he was joking. Asshat.
You’d first have to have cognition to have dissonance therein?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcBc2XV1ijY
I too enjoy Jeopardy on the regular. Some of the boring stories contestants tell about themselves crack me up.
Time for SQUARE THAT CIRCLE!!!! Tell me how you can reconcile these two ideas:
A: Drag Story Time and trans madness in the schools is GOOD
B: Parents making money off their kids is bad because it is grooming
That is why you can’t just wrap those pigeons in duct tape before fucking them (to keep them from exploding). You have to wear a rubber too. What disturbing times we live in.
Which lib was it that told us how you fuck chickens by sticking their neck into a desk drawer – tightly – then slamming the drawer shut right when you are about to come to Jeebus to get the chicken in death throes back on the old website?
Or was it Dumphy? I don’t recall.
Sounds like a real cock blocker, whomever it was.
I’m calling a fowl on that!
SIV? I know he had a reputation for chickenfucking, but that might have been a joke.
Obligatory
Captive-raised animals usually do not thrive in the wild. I’m amazed that Flaco survived as long as he did.
I also had figured that anyone who cared enough to vandalize a zoo to set the animals free would know this. I also truly believe that Kermit and Miss Piggy will get married one day…
Have you figured out why Kermit’s fingers smell like bacon yet?
My real question is if his cloaca smells like bacon…
It is Miss Piggy, not Miss Peggy.
So this?
Maybe we can bury Flaco next to this guy? Seems like they are kindred spirits.
Have not I a Pen? Have not I — a Phone?
50 years ago today the Fourscores tied a know so tight it still holds things together.
Happy 50th anniversary!
Congrats! Great milestone to achieve — hope y’all have a wonderful day celebrating it however you see fit.
Happy Golden Anniversary! 😃🥳🎊🎈🎉💃
Now its just cheaper to keep her.
Congrats!
Happy remembrance of knotting day!
Congrats!
Happy Golden Anniversary 🙂
My dad, the probation officer, said at his 50th anniversary party “If I had killed her, I’d be out now” which made a lot of the other leo types there laugh. The wimmen folk even laughed. But Dad had to buy extra-nice anniversary gifts for the next few years.
Oops, forgot to add Congrats Fourscore!
🎆🎆🎇🎇🎇🎇🎆🎆
I hope to last as long in my knot.
Hats off good sir!
Congratulations! Here’s to fifty more!
A sequel to 50 Shades of Gray?
The celebration for today will be cleaning the snow from the driveway. Presently we’re snow bound.
We were a little older than most when we got married, nearly twoscore. It was my second rodeo and I brought along 2 kids so not a Romeo/Juliet sort of thing. The honeymoon was going from the JP’s office to home and be there when the kids came from school.
Tomorrow we’ll head to our fave VN restaurant to celebrate, assuming I can get the truck through the snow.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
And they said it wouldn’t last!
Congrats to you and Mrs. Fourscore!
“‘Sam felt deeply for every living being, farm animals included – so much so that he adhered to a vegan diet and convinced several others in our living group to become vegan, too. ”
Oh fuck that guy. Give him life.
Hitler was also a vegan….
I wonder if he too was a preachy asshole about that.
? Sadly, my Eva Braun contact died about 25 years ago.
This is my favorite comment of the morning.
“Natural gas bans have rankled many in the restaurant industry due to a widely held preference for gas flames for cooking.”
CA residents trying to “Take the Pipe” hardest hit, shares of low quality toasters and space heaters soar.
The fact that it’s (usually) less expensive to cook/heat with gas just shows how unfair it is! I’m wondering how long until the anti-natgas people start going after propane.
Propane Propane !!!!
https://youtu.be/ldoT2mHubGE
Buying gas in cylinders/bottles is gaming the system. People who do that should be in prison.
Cheaper in all 50 states:
https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/natural-gas-heat-vs-electrical-heat/
Much.
I thought so, but figured a hedge would be in order. I’m sure there’s some outlier use case where electric heating is cheaper than natgas.
I would like to see the tortured statistics they used to demonstrate that Natgas causes premature deaths and health problems. The smoke and particles from food being cooked are orders of magnitude more “dangerous” than the gas being used to cook. This is regardless of the heating method.
Idiocy!
Saw on bread there’s now a Prop 65 notice.
“This is the way.”
Nice Mandolorian reference.
When you refuse to understand and accept the consequences of choices in the real world, or better known as unintended, yet guaranteed, consequences…
My bet is they blame capitalism! not their stupidity.
“A row has erupted after a girl’s football team consisting of five transgender players won the pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup tournament in Sydney, Australia.
Flying Bats FC won every game they played over the course of the four-week competition, winning the grand final 4-0 at Macquarie Park on Sunday to take home the $1000 jackpot.
There were huge winning margins in some games, with one trans player scoring six goals in a 10-0 victory.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13244359/Transgender-row-erupts-womens-football-tournament.html
So fucking ridiculous, the team logo even has a trans flag.
Good. We need more of this. A lot more. Make them deal with the consequences of their decisions and purge this crap out of the system quickly so we don’t have a whole generation of girls who know nothing else.
I figured Australia would have a crop of drunken football hooligans who’d thrash these guys if they tried something like this. Is the whole world hopelessly pussified now?
After covid, I’d say Australia is hopelessly pussified.
Do bats not follow a binary?
Bats tend to be more analog bludgeons.
We mentioned the grifters in the environmental world (bending left of course), but there are other grifters that need to be purged as well.
Where do you think the careerists that have to be political get their marching orders from? Promotion to flag rank is about which politicians you let fuck the military and yourself up the ass.
Always so? Yesterday, I was researching a local officer in the Volunteers during Civil War who offered a Phila. Inquirer reporter a bribe of $100 if he could get his buddy, President Lincoln, to have him appointed as a Captain in the Regular Army. [lots of pension implications]. Didn’t work out but, eventually, said officer won MOH and acquitted himself well; ended up many years later retiring as a Brig. Gen. in the Regular Army.
Yeah, you don’t quite get the civil-military relationship there. Rarely do you have the civil side stepping down hard on the military, they dance rather carefully in that partnership.
This specific problem is about FDD and it’s insane groupthink – just as bad as NRDC (or any of those watermelon groups).
Every branch needs to be a separate service! And the. A super service to organize and run all of the newly created services.
One pentagon to rule them all, one pentagon to bind them?
“Nickelodeon was ‘infiltrated’ by PREDATORS, records reveal. Channel employed FIVE convicted child molesters and two other accused pedophiles to work on set of kids shows
In an interview with the New York Times in 2021, Schneider denied he was motivated by a foot fetish, describing his shows’ comedy as ‘totally innocent’ adding that kids find feet ‘goofy and funny’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13223263/Nickelodeon-employed-convicted-pedophiles-child-molesters.html
“I only snort cocaine because I like the way it smells.”
Infiltrated?
Yeah, my bet is that it was by design in Hollywood.
Wasn’t this a not so open secret in the 90s? Just like the mickey mouse club before it.
I thought the John K story was widely known.
I saw the clip of the potato and water scene with Ariana Grande…ya shit was priming for sex.
Of course pedophiles are going to go where the kids are so no surprise there. A bunch of above average looking kids along with parents desperate to have the next child star feeding their bank account must have been an irresistible smorgasbord to these people.
Sports- I watched/listened to George Russell’s in car crash video. It was jarring. “RED FLAG! RED FLAG! I’m in the middle of the track!” I won’t even say he was terrified, but he was jarringly emotional. Most of those guys are preternaturally calm, no matter what. A twenty G barrel roll, and they come on the radio barely breathing hard to tell the pits what happened. It just seemed weird to me. I wonder if the other drivers will heckle him.
And, of course, everybody blamed Alonso because Russell drove off the track. Phantom jet wash.
“America’s cyber force generation system is clearly broken. Fixing it demands nothing less than the establishment of an independent cyber service,” a report published Monday by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies states.
Is this our modern day Billy Mitchell?
We certainly don’t want Polish cavalry against Nazi panzers.
Cyber Maginot Line!!!!
And speaking of things only I care about-
Last Sunday, IndyCar held an event at a private race track which is part of a rich people motorsports country club and playground in Thermal, California. It was a gimmicky thing, but I’d say no worse than watching the Nashville street circuit. Because of the format, it turned into a “strategy race”. It didn’t matter, though; Palou just drove away.
Anyway, I read a Racer Magazine piece about it Monday, and then I did something I ordinarily never do; I read the comments. Chock full of “Blah blah blah rich people suck!”
So incredibly tedious, and it’s impossible to get away from it.
I haven’t been paying too much attention this year. Was this a one-off thing to hit the minimum number of races for the TV agreement? Palou is a generational talent. That kid is really good.
Just like the mickey mouse club before it.
I wanted to fuck those girls on the Mickey Mouse Club, and I was only about seven years old.
From the Sam Bankman Fried article:
“Statements tell a story of a neurodivergent, vegan man who cares for animals”
Great. He can participate in the dog training program while he’s in prison for 50 years.
“…cares for animals… but not the people he bilked out of $millions.”
Joe Biden, he’s done it all.
(TW: TikTok)
“Statements tell a story of a neurodivergent, vegan man who cares for animals”
Put him in charge of the prison farm petting zoo.
Also- are there law firms specializing in the “neurodivergence defense”? Asking for a friend.
It’s a heavy petting zoo.
I’m tired of “a little quirky” being thrown into the autism/neurodivergent pool.
If everyone is an autist, no one is an autist.
[Watching autists slide down the victim stack.]
I wonder how many people make the claim so they can pull an “I’m not rude, I’m ‘neurodivergant’?”
Software developers have been playing that card for… forever!
Tolerated because of their output. Yeah, he’s not so social, but he codes like a demon.
You should hear him play second fiddle.
What playing the ute has to do with this, I have no idea.
Flautists play the flute, so I figure autists must play the ute.
I thought autists were artists with auteurial ambitions
I thought it was pedos that played the ute?
Shut up, Nazi
We’re all on a spectrum.
Lists, spectrum. It’s all the same thing.
Was this a one-off thing to hit the minimum number of races for the TV agreement?
I do not know. I think they are just flailing around in a desperate attempt to stay in business. The format wasn’t bad, really. They ran heat races in which the top six advanced, so just like a midget race, the real racing is in the middle of the pack, for that last transfer spot. In the “main” they had a break for fuel but not tires, so some guys (most notably Herta) loafed around at the back in the first part to save their tires, and then tried to take advantage in the second half. I think Herta made it up to about fourth, but nobody was going to get anywhere near Palou.
And, of course, my take on IndyCar: the cars are too big, too heavy, too safe (there, I said it), and have too much aero grip. There was a clip of Pato O’Ward in a McLaren F1 car from about the late sixties, at some wingding in Monterrey. He said it was fun, but it didn’t have much grip. Good. I’d like to see that field of ballerinas in cars like that. Make racing great again.
As for “hybridization”, why bother?
the cars are too big, too heavy, too safe (there, I said it), and have too much aero grip
Yup. I’ll also add my hobby horse. They’re too spec.
IMO, in the short term they should cut down to 4 races. Long oval, short oval, road, street. Memorial day, labor day, independence day, veterans day.
Kill the series, provide regulations that focus on smaller cars, smaller harder tires, and smaller engines. Provide huge prize money for each of the four races and an enormous jackpot for sweeping ovals, sweeping twisties, or sweeping all four.
Just go to full on slot cars.
Not Monterrey, Sonoma, not that it matters.
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-old-do-i-look
Yes, lick it up, taste that defeat.
If I only look twenty years older than I am, I’ll take it.
If I really wanted to look younger I would shave. But I do have to admit, in my local area, there are people younger than me that I thought were at least my age if not older. Kinda shocking.
The only way to check out young looking is to check out early. If looks are the primary concern one should follow the James Dean method.
There are women in their 50’s that look great.
ok, so also have exceptional genes.
Also, don’t fuck around with bad makeup and aesthetic choices.
Botox and plastic surgery do not improve most people’s looks. Neither does the artificial look.
Or make better health decisions.
Not necessarily that, even. If you live a healthy life (physically, mentally, perhaps spiritually) you will be attractive for a lot longer.
As for the woman in the first video, I would have guessed mid-thirties or maybe pushing forty.
Drive a Porsche?
Sloopy hardest hit. (Shpip hit a wall.)
I refer to it as the Faron Young method: Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
What is the correct answer, because she looks at least 40.
Late 30s. Which is why the whole thing is so sad. The internet ages you, and the idiotic things you do to “stop” the aging also age you.
Yep, and it’s all so pointless. You don’t get to be 25 forever. People, and especially women, need to find self-worth in something other than youthful beauty.
But women can have it all, can’t they?
😁😂🤣
These days, even a penis.
I guess they forgot about r/RoastMe
Lorenzo Warby at it again (had a bit of a break)…
“Your Honor, my client is neurodivergent.”
“Yeah, we kinda suspected that, after he killed all those people so he could steal their shoes.”
“Well, counselor, are you arguing that he is incapable of being responsible for his actions? If so, then I can make him a ward of the state for life. What I can’t do is rule that he lacks capacity, and then just cut him loose, especially given his obvious propensity for criminal activity.”
Cavalry coming
Obama has made clear to associates in recent months that he believes Biden’s intensifying re-match with Donald Trump in November will be incredibly close, and that the 2024 election marks an “all-hands-on-deck” moment, people familiar with his thinking told CNN. To that end, his return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week was largely a working visit.
Biden and Obama, along with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, participated in an organizing call in the White House residence heralding the 14th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. “We have the chance to do even more, but that only happens if we send Joe and Kamala back to the White House in November,” Obama said in the video. “So, we’ve got to keep working.”
The campaign also recorded other content featuring the two presidents, sources said, that they plan to roll out in the coming weeks.
If Trump wins, the seas will rise and swallow Martha’s vineyard.
““We have the chance to do even more, …”
Please don’t.
Barking seals do not think.
“Biden’s intensifying re-match with Donald Trump in November will be incredibly close”
Translated: We’re going to have to be careful not to manufacture too many ballots.
Obama’s biggest embrace of Biden’s reelection effort comes Thursday at a star-studded Manhattan fundraiser featuring Biden, Obama and former President Bill Clinton. The three presidents will sit for a rare conversation, moderated by Stephen Colbert.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
A 4 way circle jerk with one of the least comedic comedians in the business…can’t wait.
A moderated conversation? WTF
That should bring the working class back into the fold.
“No one can speak to disillusioned Democrats better than President Obama,” a senior strategist who has worked closely with Obama and Biden told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity to be candid about the campaign. “But there are limits to what Obama can do. The burden to win this race is still on President Biden.”
Obama did such a fantastic job of bringing the country together the nation rose up and elected Trump rather than consent to suffer through another four years of Democrat-ocracy.
Let’s just overlook that, shall we?
“No one can speak to disillusioned Democrats better than President Obama,”
Well, there’s an indictment of the current Democrat leadership. Obama had the laptoppers in the palm of his hand, but they aren’t the disillusioned Democrats. Those are more your working class, blue collar, small business types. And he never really connected with them.
A moderated conversation? WTF
Moderated, orchestrated… same difference.
No Joe, you don’t talk, we’re trying to help you after all.
“Private school students get fake ADHD diagnoses for 200-point boost to SAT, ACT after tests brought back by Ivy League
Teenagers are getting bogus ADHD diagnoses to score extra time in standardized testing exams — and numbers are surging after the tests were reintroduced by elite Ivy League colleges.
Parents are taking their children to doctors and psychologists for letters saying they have the condition or other mental disabilities, then getting as much as 50% more time to take the tests.
It can mean a 200-point boost to an SAT score, one expert said.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/27/us-news/private-school-students-get-fake-adhd-diagnoses-boost-sat/
Attending the sold-out, high-dollar event Thursday night will be numerous celebrities and artists like Queen Latifah, Lizzo, Cynthia Erivo, Mindy Kaling, Ben Platt and Lea Michele, according to the campaign. The evening will be overseen by high-profile producers Jordan Roth and Alex Timbers, and tickets will range from $225 to $500,000.
Capitalizing the rare joint appearance of Biden and two of his predecessors, the campaign is offering some of the high-dollar guests the opportunity to get their photographs taken with all three presidents by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz.
Bless their hearts.
You really couldn’t make it sound any worse.
I’d like to see the menu first.
Yes you could. I’ll be in town when they shut down traffic to and run security.
Leibovitz is a talented portrait photographer, but I don’t think that talent really matters when churning through an assembly line of photos.