Good morning one and all to another incredible day! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
Speaker Johnson Faces Ouster Vote This Week
White House Economic Adviser Jared Bernstein Struggles With Basic Question on Monetary Policy
Democrats Thought Bragg Trial Would Sink Trump’s 2024 Campaign. Polling So Far Suggests Otherwise
Biden’s “Blue Wall” Is Crumbling Under Weight of Trump’s Comeback
Colleges kowtow to protesters but are met with blowback from donors
TikTok’s Parent Company Reportedly Would Rather Shut Down Platform Than Sell to a U.S. Company
Texas Authorities Rescue Over 200 People, 153 Pets, As Residents Brace For More Flooding
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos — thanks for the linking! Morning all!
I doubt he’s worried — the Uniparty majority pretty clearly is cool with him sitting there. He might even pass Biden’s confiscatory budget with his strong “Screw the American taxpayer!” consensus.
I despise Johnson. But I despise Speaker Hakim Jeffries even more. And if the republicans are dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot at this time, we will get that. Kick him out once we have prevented the deep state from fortifying the election and have not successfully assassinated Trump yet.
Therein lies the rub. Johnson will actively fight against any agenda supporting freedom. He will continue to be a traitor to our constitution as those who came before him. Cast him out and lose all hope to finally make progress. Hakim is odious, and he will damage freedom greatly. It must happen for more people to wake up.
Mornin’.
Johnson is the very model of a modern major uniparty politician. The Dems may very well keep him as the Speaker. Which will make him, of course, the de facto Dem Speaker.
And Nothing Else Will Happen.
That alone tells you that it’s a weapon rather than a product.
Mafia style sale?
Just do what the US government says and everything will be fine.
While I would prefer nobody using social media as a weapon, I would be far less willing to tolerate any foreign entity or entities with evil intents less than our own evil entities with evil intents. Just because we can’t ban Facecunte and Google’s evil shit, doesn’t mean we need to stop this Chicomm PsyOps weapon that seems to work real well for the CCP.
So much this. The 170 million Americans using the Tockity Tik are the product. So much for 1984 and being hesitant to be seen by it. We’re doing duck lipped selfies with our asses poked out in lulu lemon pants. Part of me would love to see the ‘average American’ they can derive from our constant wave of look at me.
All of that existed prior to Tik Tok.
Agreed that it existed before, this just appears to be more distilled. I guess that could be my cynicism and age showing though. Seems worse.
I’ve watched Jared Bernstein on TV for several years, he didn’t make sense 10 years ago, I couldn’t understand how he managed to tie his own shoes.
Since I don’t watch or read the news, I fully expected Jared Bernstein to be one of these gormless twenty-something dweebs who’ve had their brains’ sucked out by the Yale Public Policy masters program. Seeing him as a reasonably professional-looking fifty-year-old was jarring.
Ayn Rand predicted this in Atlas Shrugged.
I checked in with a friend in Houston who’s house was devastated by Hurricane Harvey, they’re doing ok. Assume the sloopy/banjos household is likewise fine?
The sun is shining, the birds are chirping
Presumably.
One almost has to wonder if this Greatest Collection of Public Fuckup Incompetency (this guy, KJP, BootieGig, the 5 stars with their brains removed and heads firmly up their asses at the Pentagon, Garland, Mayorkas… the hits keep coming) is the counter-fuck you to the one the voters sent the Imperial District and its ilk. “You think the Elites were lording it over you and didn’t merit it before? Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Hold my chardonnay, Lovey!”
I’ll remind you that Trump kept that crackpot Navarro around his entire administration. WHEA is more like a court jester position – fart for the laughs.
…and his buddy Wilbur Ross.
…and Lighthizer
As with all marxist systems, the loyalty to the cause and the leadership guarantees the experts will always be mediocre at best, and horrible practically all the other times, destroying the top downed planned economy requirements as well.
No, this really is the best they can do. Given the system/incentives in place, of course.
I would’ve written that as “… Under Weight of His Screwing His Voters With The Economy And Fostering An Invasion” — but that’s my own biases seeping through….
Also, Trump ain’t winning Michigan while Big Gretch is in control.
No Republican is, especially since the so-called party in that state is convinced that punching yourself in the dick repeatedly is the best way to win a state wide election.
But if Biden has to spend time and resources shoring up areas that should be gimmes, then perhaps it opens up a gap somewhere else….
Oh, who am I kidding. Biden beats the Orange man by even bigger margins in 2024, post fortification.
Kids to cogs:
21st century, white-collar factory work is predictably interesting. Grading state edu tests remotely, this project is out of Missouri. Serendipitously, I make almost the same as when I worked in Korea, making 2.3 million won/month. (Roughly $2k/mo with apartment, taxes, healthcare included.) My office in my Harry Potter life is the closet in the bedroom. Chill and entertaining.
I wish everyone cheer and goodwill in all errands and exploits.
Glad you’re getting a glimpse into the lives of us average folk.
*Smirk descends* I’m quite average. *Kicks pebble*
Wait. Well I like to think I am. It’s truth/reality that I’m not in many ways. (Lucky, cursed, traveled, half-empty.) I don’t even think about half-full/empty. Meaningless ‘indicator.’ There is *a* glass and it has x amount of liquid in it. That’s it. The % isn’t the end-all-be-all. The type of fluid is FAR more important than the amount.
Speaker Johnson Faces Ouster Vote This Week
Somebody somewhere said Johnson looks like a lesbian. I can’t unsee it now and that picture is the worst yet.
He’s a majority Republican, only unpopular with non-Republicans and Republican backbench bitches. What does anyone really expect?
The people in power showed him whaht would happen to his loved ones if he didn’t play ball..
Why do you expect Republicans to act like something they aren’t?
He really looks like a woman dressed as a man.
Nope, he was just lying about his intent the whole time, then cemented his position, then stabbed his constituents in the back.
So you are saying his constituents are going to turn him out in Nov.? How much money you willing to put up on that?
I’m not saying that at all. It’s incredible what loser conservatives are willing to put up with because of the lesser of two evils mentality.
Then he didn’t actually stab his constituents at all. It’s just the fury of people who have no stake in the party. Sometimes we behave a little too much like progressives.
If he misrepresented himself to get votes, which it appears to me he did, he stabbed them in the back. Just because they’ll probably vote for him again doesn’t mean that’s not the case.
Oh, so people don’t mind being stabbed in the back and continue to support someone who does that to them? What should we call those people?
GOP voters.
The good, common folk of the land? You know, GOP voters.
Or, perhaps those voters are getting what THEY voted for, and not what WE want. Is that concept really so difficult?
And understandably so — Free Speech / protest is one thing — but making it so the university can’t function is another. Suspend, Expel and/or Trespass the toddlers (oh… and fire if they’re faculty/staff) so those who actually want to attend classes can do so. I believe Florida, Texas and Georgia were in the news last week doing such things, in fact.
How are they still happening? All of the college students I know had finals last week and are on their way home. The university near us (Furman) had their graduation on Saturday.
“How are they still happening?”
Because the college administrations and the propagandists masquerading as liberal arts teachers want it…..
This is what they have been programming their lemmings to do: destroy western culture and especially the US.
Also because the remainders are paid to provoke. They are not students. Arrest them and hold without bail.
Have you not seen that the Soros DAs are already just letting those Antifa scum not at the schools but there to create chaos, walk?
The fight now is between those that want to destroy anything and everything on the left, and those that use them for political gain.
Big College classes are still going here. Commencement is around Memorial Day.
UCLA’s finals aren’t for another month.
I’d also add trespassing charges for those who aren’t students/staff at the colleges who are protesting/camping.
That seems off to me. Since when are college campuses restricted to students or staff?
Either the camping is an offense by itself or not – punish them for that.
I honestly don’t know how “officially private, but in practice open to the public” property works legally-wise. Probably the word “curtilage” is involved.
I have never been on a campus where the university/college doesn’t tell non students they reserve the rights to kick said non-students off their property at will and for no particular reason…
I went to the local “Big State School,” and never quite did figure out if there was some sort of deal in place between campus PD and the town PD.
Perhaps they do but it’s not like there is a sign on the border stating so. And I don’t look it up before I travel through.
I think I’ve seen such signs by fences and gates, but there’s also a vast difference between walking across a campus, and actively blocking people from getting through and bringing camping equipment.
There is a difference between public property and public right of way.
I suspect the university grants a license, revocable at will, to the public to come on its property.
Really, its no different than any place of business. No signage or forms needed.
“All Visitors Report to the Security Desk for Passes”
Your proposal is…. acceptable.
Sigh… That was meant as a reply to
Some day I’ll check what I put in before hitting Post. Dummy.
Good morning everyone!
related to the protestors link, NR assures me that Hizzoner is a big meanie-pants liar and the protests are totally organic, student-lead, organized, funded and run! And it’s not just NPR who says so, they brought an AP reporter on the air to confirm this!
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/06/1249296727/woman-denies-being-an-outside-agitator-in-columbia-university-protests
Also, if your husband gets deported and you decide to stay in the country, what does that say about the relevance of your marriage?
“4-Minute Listen”
Pass.
Half the people they arrested are not students or staff – are they claiming that is false?
Is NPR lying to us???
NPR and AP talked to (certain selected) students! The (certain selected) students say they are totally in charge!
And when Adams says “outside agitators,” he MUST be talking about whatser-IslamicBrotherhoodFace, and SHE was only there a day so obviously that must mean he’s lying!
No more transcripts?
Somebody should tell NPR they are discriminating against the audio-impaired.
Attaboy Jared.
Stupid people. Everywhere.
MUPPET!
Don’t you work?
I work alright.
Oh so that’s a real quote.
Makes perfect sense to Biden!
TL;DR — “The government not only still has checks… they print the checkbook!”
This is why inflation is a mystery to these idiots. Let me guess, this guy studied under Krugnuts?
For the anime fans
I don’t subscribe anymore, but Criterion had a few Japanese films from the silent era.
Pretty fun stuff.
Anyone surprised to find out, like these idiots at Politico do, that the whole college pro terrorist LARPing is paid for by the usual astro-turfers?
This was supposed to give team blue their new “Summer of love” in this election year to wear people down, and it has backfired miserably for them. Team blue needs this to help fortify the election, but they can’t make it work. But there will be more of this, because they need chaos to fortify.
I will enjoy watching them being eaten by their own creation. Unfortunately that will just mean more Republicans elected – and nothing else happening.
We need a nuclear was to clean things up…
At this point the US government is nothing more than a crime syndicate or conglomeration of crime syndicates. We are just as bad as the rest of the world.
Fucking humans I tell ya!
I mean, you want the same thing as the WEF – massive depopulation, so you can enjoy what you want to enjoy.
I thought after I paid my dues, if I just stayed out of it, they would leave me alone. They are basically making it obvious I will be rewarded with hell on earth for that stupid assumption. At this point it feels like my choices is backing razed earth results or joining the cult, and that last one ain’t happening.
The conflict of visions is an ongoing battle.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
More trouble for Biden.
My ex’s frat. Good for them.
“Boy Pi Phis.” But good for them.
Yeah, I teased him about that. Good secret-keeper though (in the benign sense).
That is/was my frat! Of course the last letter they sent me, they asked that I not publicly associate with them.
I was a pretty bad brother. I didn’t pay my dues very often, I never did any of the goofy philanthropy stuff. I just liked the guys in that frat and liked drinking beer with them. I was good at that.
Why do you think they are so desperate to buy support from liberal art women bamboozled to pay a fortune to be given no real employment skills but to be turned into marxist agitators with college loan forgiveness (notice they NEVER say we should scrap that failing system and replace it with something that prevents these kids from being screwed)? They are losing young men in particular, and that bodes real bad for people that want to make the country a one party state.
I’m not saying I want it to happen — but when your policies consistently piss off the large part (not a majority, but a large part) of the population that is armed AND young men, especially those used to working on infrastructure / getting things done… it really, really doesn’t bode well for you when and if you hit a tipping point.
The armory and the potential infantry together right there — adding in all the folks who actually keep the power, water and sewage working… yeah, that’s a great plan there.
Marxist derivatives, and most of the collectivist spinoffs, always fail because they depend on centralized, top down, planning by people that can’t plan their way out of a paper bag because the criteria used to put them there guarantees these people didn’t earn that job through any sort of merit (unless being evil is a form of merit).
Well that’s why they’ve been balls-to-the-wall importing a whole new army for themselves in the last few years.
There is no more destructive force in the world than a critical mass of alienated, angry young men.
I listen to Scott Adams a few times a week. He called this months ago. Young men (especially white ones) are being told over and over they are the cause of all the problems in the world. Eventually they were going to get sick of it.
This shit, is why these scumbags keep claiming crime is down when everyone else has a different experience. If you don’t prosecute crime, and even more importantly, if you don’t report it accurately or at all, you can tell that lie and fool a lot of idiots.
FBI stats don’t include NYC or LA either, IIRC. Something about changed methodology and a lot of cities never caught up.
The whole spiel about lower crime seems to be a ruse. One might wonder if it’s on purpose.
it’s simple: if you can’t find government stats on shit, the government can claim whatever the fuck it wants. And fake stats, like they do for monthly economic stuff, comes back to bite you…
Yep. Just another case of “Who you gonna believe, our bullshit statistics or your lyin’ eyes?”
Lol.
“We don’t talk to him. Leave us alone. He is out of our lives for so many years,” a woman who answered the phone at his sister’s home said Friday.
Is it OK to call people like this moron the black sheep of the family still? Or is that raciss?
It’s white sheep. White is bad now. Gotta keep up.
Not a great time to be a Minneapolis resident.
We mismanaged, but you will pay for it…
Muh Democracy!
To be fair, they are doing better than the school district.
Maybe you shouldn’t give raises to workers who have seen their customer base shrink by at least 15% if you want to keep control of your budget? Especially when you were already staring at a $110M deficit.
There is a lot of amusing double-talk about how when they said the union contracts wouldn’t increase the deficit (before getting called out for the lie) they didn’t really mean the union contracts wouldn’t increase the deficit.
Something in that article keeps barfing up Internal Server Error when I try to quote them.
In a nutshell, after the school district caved to the union and gave the teachers 5% raises, the administration claimed that the contracts would not add to the deficit.
They were recently called out and asked to show their work. Now they are backpedaling and admitting that teacher pay raises will obviously add to the deficit, but when they gave their previous answer, the numbers weren’t solid so it wasn’t a lie.
Raise prices on the light rail. Why do I have to help the city people figure stuff out?
Electronic pull-tabs.
Paid for the football stadium, after all.
Two reactions:
“Gosh… who could have possibly seen this coming…..”
and
“Fuck you. Cut spending.”
Sorry you can’t leech money from the commuting suburbs for your art museum and discussion salons of how terrible the rest of the country anymore there, urban dwellers. And that you’re finding the bill too high to just pay it yourself. Time to cut the fluff and concentrate on only the core services. Given downtown Minneapolis, I’d concentrate on policing to get a stable environment people might actually want to put businesses in and come shop to restart some tax base… but we know damned well that’s not going to happen.
Meh, cities stuck with tons of non-taxable property and services that are used by the entire region is a real problem.
User fees should take care of it.
Here we created The Metropolitan Council. Members are appointed and they have the ability to levy taxes for the seven counties in the metro area.
This has led them to be the Bad Cop who takes on the Big Projects (light rail) that squanders billions of dollars. Local pols can claim that they didn’t want those taxes but what can you do?
Just like the US congress has done with the various unelected and unaccountable government bureaucracies and 3 letter agencies……
Anyone still oblivious to the pattern is the problem.
Nuke it all from orbit!
If the city can’t rein in spending
Oh, so they do understand that is an option. As opposed to increased spending being an immutable property.
State and federal bailouts are needed along with regional tax authority. It’s time suburbs paid their fair share for all that cities have to offer their residents.
Time for another Color Revolution in Georgia (the country)? Maybe a new war with Russia?
These people are being paid to protest a foreign agent bill that would force NGO’s and politicians to reveal foreign money sources. Seems like a crazy thing to protest, unless the protestors were paid by NGOs. The U.S. and most other countries have similar laws.
Hey if Fulton keeps being so obviously corrupt, the state might have some words for the Atlanta area too… 😉
Just because we have a law to stop others doing it to us does not mean it is okay for other countries to have the same law that would prevent our entirely benevolent intervention in their internal politics.
Is there a floor for reporting like the US has for individual contributions? I hear you can change the results of an election with just $100k.
Every damn one of those orgs is a CIA carveout aimed at destabilizing small nations from what I’ve seen.
Do we have any Glibs left in Pittsburgh? I’ll be there in early June. Possibly with the gf.
Area 8 or Western PA Sectional?
A8.
Tom Castro’s on his own super squad. No idea if that was at his request or the other competitors’.
The real super squad also has a couple of drama llamas in addition to the shooters. I wonder how that is going to run.
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Instead of making fun of a clueless young lady who scraped the shit out of her car at the bank, local urban progressive calls for more bollards at bus shelters to protect the saintly mass transit riders from the evil SUV drivers.
One of the possible policy solutions is to outlaw lady drivers.
The Tik Tok video I’d love to see is the one where her boyfriend/husband/father sees what she has done to that SUV. The rage must be off the charts.
“When it first started scraping, why did you keep going forward?”
Well, at least she is kinda cute (with tick-tock filters, at least).
Pretty eyes.
“Look what the bank did . . . ?” *facepalm*
I was going to leave a message defending bollards…
About Dan Marshall
Pronouns: he/him
But I don’t think I will now.
The other day, my wife had some girlie mag quiz and asked me “If you were single, what would make you instantly reject any computer date?”
“Pronouns in the bio.”
Being paired with Werner Brandes.
My voice is my passport. Verify me.
+1 C-tech Harmony
*Setec Astronomy
It’s only invisible if you don’t pay attention to the camera in your fairly new SUV.
The commies are right, we should go back to 30 foot long station wagons with heavy chrome bumpers and no cameras. That way the young lady would never know if she hit anything and we would be spared these videos.
I’d bet that north of 80% of people with she/her listed as their pronouns have dicks.
Not to mention they are either cuntes or dicks as well…
Eh, go on Linkedin. All the corporate womenz are doing it.
Bill working its way through the CA leg.
https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/news/2024-04-23/portantino-handgun-registration-bill-passes-senate-public-safety-committee
Must register each gun you own, and pay an annual fee. I think this needs to be expanded to other rights. Want to run a media business in CA? Register and pay a fee for each journalist you employ, each printing press, each camera, etc. Want to open a church? Yup. Register/conform/pay. Politician? Annual fee FOR LIFE, subject to summary execution if you fall behind on payments. Maybe implant a bomb in their cranium or something to make the process more automated and efficient.
Voting isn’t a Constitutional right, but obviously we need pre-registration testing and a poll tax.
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^this guy gets it.
1. Pass on-its-face unconstitutional bill which carries the force of law until it’s overturned.
2. Go through the legal process and appeals process and the appeals to the appeals process that takes fucking forever.
3. Whoops we lost but no meaningful consequences for drafting and passing a blatantly bogus law.
4. Rinse and repeat with a new unconstitutional law.
Don’t forget that before the law is ruled unconstitutional, you will have collected a lot of gun registration data.
You can bet that that data will not be destroyed even after the law is struck down.
3.a – Don’t destroy all the registrations that you received
Missed it by THAT much.
2A use unlimited taxpayer dollars to defend blatantly unconstitutional law
They need the list of gun owners and fire arms…
How else will their confiscation phase have reliable margins of error?
You’ve never been out of college: you don’t know what it’s like out there. I’ve worked in the private sector… they expect results.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/the-surprise-is-not-that-boeing-lost-commercial-crew-but-that-it-finished-at-all/
But for the Top Men at Ars government command and control is the usual go to solution.
these princely figures in the human spaceflight community
Yes, they actually even see it, but refuse to consider what it means.
“President Trump to Address Libertarian Party Concerns at National Convention May 25th”
https://www.lp.org/president-trump-to-address-libertarian-party-concerns-at-national-convention-may-25th/
drugs/ass?
Plenty of time to back out-I’ll be pleasantly surprised if he actually shows.
I’m more libertarian than Joe Biden is a low bar to clear.
And I’m not sure he can even clear it.
Eh Bidens went red/black. Surely Trump is more likely to wear gold instead of red.
I doubt he will show. Some portion of the LP audience will boo the crap out of him, and that’s what the media will cover, not the two or three issues on which he agrees with libertarians. So, do Trump’s advisors see the booing, etc. as favorable or unfavorable to Trump’s campaign? Whose votes will be changed by Trump spending a couple hours at an LP event instead of, say, laying a wreath at Arlington or savaging illegal immigrant policy before a crowd of his most rabid supporters?
Days late and credits short, but the best Star Wars link.
That link does not contain the words “Go for Papa Palpatine”, therefore, not the best.
I saved that full episode video for later use. Technically it isn’t late because today is Revenge of the Sixth, according to Amazon. We celebrate the Dark Side.
So those cringy politicians pandering should have done their posts today?
@Alex, you asked the other day about my issue, which is my ulcers are coming back. My new second job is compounding sucralfate tablets into a suspension 4 times a day.
Sorry 🙁
Thanks. it’s just one of those things you learn to live with. Maybe if I do my sucralfate well, I’ll be able to eat red meat again.
Ugh…
Damn Mojeaux.
Hope that you can get this under control without too much hassle. This does not sound easy to solve or deal with at all.
Stay strong.
Here’s a question
If all bans were rescinded, which AC coolant would be king in terms of efficacy, efficiency, ease of manufacture (both the coolant and the hardware) and total cost of ownership for the unit?
Liberal tears?
I’d think they’d be a bit corrosive, or at least cause unnecessary buildup inside the mechanism.
I’d bet R12.
I believe ammonia is more efficient, but I don’t really want that leaking in my car or house.
Ammonia isn’t banned. It’s used in large commercial freezers.
Knowing nothing, I’ll guess “freon”, since it was banned.
I guess my follow up would have to be “which Freon?”
May need to wait for Yusef to make an appearance.
This is outstanding
Driving 4 Answers Tesla/EV “review” with additional random commentary. Extremely entertaining and educational.
WATCH IT.
As petrol head that owns and a enjoys an electric car…
I am loving this critique of the UI
True to form of your typical current owner. Also true to Tesla form. They released the thing with half baked software so it has open differentials and no lockers. It may have been fixed in the past month or so via OTA software updates.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/nantucket-newspaper-trolls-tesla-cybertruck-as-it-wreaks-havoc-on-tony-island/
That has to be the ugliest mass produced vehicle in a very long time. Like somebody took a Pontiac Aztek and purposely made it uglier.
Old design engineers from Kenosha?
In the line for Free Comic Book Day Saturday, there was one parked in view of the line. A small child in front of us didn’t believe it was a real car, and thought someone was playing a prank on her.
Sorry, the simulation’s rendering engine bugged out on the LoD model load for that type of vehicle.
Looks like a bad piece of origami.
“Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules – and it causes horrific symptoms and kills group of hamsters”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13377471/Hamsters-infected-virus-Ebola.html
No.
Update:
“Hims CEO walks back his support of college campus protesters after widespread boycott that tanked shares by 10%”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13387101/HIMS-CEO-walks-support-college-campus-protesters-widespread-boycott-tanked-shares-10.html
But not really.
“identifies as Palestinian-American”
I keep seeing that unusual verbiage.
Is he or isn’t he?
Well, if you’re gonna be technical about it…
I’m going to identify as Jeff Bezos.
tanked shares by 10%
Company was decimated.
So nine of every ten dollars of market cap beat up the other?
PLEASE, OH PLEASE! let this happen..
Hell, didn’t half of Hollywood promise to leave the country the first time around? No such luck.
They’ve been doing that since GWB, and like that “libertarian moment” we keep hearing about, we are always disappointed.
I want binding contracts or shut up.
“Bloodthirsty Putin ‘cut out a deer’s still-warm heart and gave it to Silvio Berlusconi to eat making the ex Italian PM vomit during Russian hunting trip’, former senator reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13386953/putin-berlusconi-cut-deer-heart-hunting-trip-vomit.html
Baller.
Sounds like an intimidation tactic.
I’m assuming he suggested raw.
But if it were so that it could be brought back to camp and cooked, that’s different.
Raw wild animal is a bad idea. I imagine it was cooked.
Also – completely normal.
The story is written to breathlessly imply that he meant “raw”. Ol’ Vlad may have even joked with him about it. Which is also totally normal. But I’m like 99% sure he meant to trim it and grill it, not make Bambi sashimi.
There’s no Russian tradition of taking a bite out of the heart of your prey?
Maybe there is – dunno. But one thing can tell you is that if one tries this with a fresh, warm deer heart, it doesn’t work as easily as one imagines, and you just get messy and look silly. So I bet it’s never really caught on.
I thought that was a sort of rite of passage for hunters. Not my thing but doing it or suggesting it doesn’t make you a bloodthirsty maniac. God, the British are such pussies.
I guess that dog-killing governor was stealing too much limelight.
Kristi Noem is the Michael Vick of Sarah Palins.
The D4A thing is worth watching, for the part where he is “refueling”.
They released the thing with half baked software so it has open differentials and no lockers.
For some reason I assumed they have motors at all four corners. The ultimate in traction control.
I think it is three motor in top trim. Two in the back.
But the traction control is software is only on road half baked at best.
I actually managed to take advantage of a weather window and did some mowing Saturday. Unfortunately, I forgot about my mowing-the-lawn gloves, and the handlebar vibrated a big patch of skin off the palm of my left hand.
And people laugh at me for being prepared.
Hope the hand heals well.
I’m laughing at both of you.
Gloves give extra hand strength because I’m not worried about splinters and blisters.
Are you worried about that when driving or mowing?
Security blanket concerns
Columbia will replace its universitywide commencement ceremony on May 15 with “smaller-scale, school-based celebrations,” university officials announced Monday, after weeks of pro-Palestinian and counterprotests on campus.
The Ivy League school said the decision was made after discussions with student leaders. Security concerns were a main reason behind the decision, a university official told NBC News.
And the fleas seize control of the circus.
They need to go to remote ceremonies. Thousands of people on a web call.
“Could everyone please mute their microphone? Thank you!”
If Columbia had an engineering school they’d be heaving a sigh of relief.
I got a link to this in an email today, and I wonder what the rest of you think. Summary:
“The theory was that American producers, after a bitter price war from 2014-2016, got tired of competing on price with the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or the OPEC oil cartel, and at some point from 2017-2021, decided to join the cartel and cut supply to the market. This action had the affect of raising oil prices, costing oil consumers something on the order of $200 billion a year.”
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused
I never heard of this person so I don’t know about their credibility. On one hand, it’s not surprising that any big entity (corporations, government, NGO’s, cartels) is corrupt. But it does run some cover for Biden, because it’s blaming this for 27% of inflation, which is a bit too convenient.
Maybe we should add another Iron Law, something about “When in doubt assume everyone involved is an asshole.”
It’s completely possible that that the executives of several different US companies decided to join a clearly illegal price fixing scheme with OPEC and their totally reliable/discreet/non-CIA controlled or openly hostile to US members.
What else is there for them to do? Yes, OPEC is a cartel with price fixing. Absolutely. You have that on one side, and on the other side, a hostile American president (starting with Obama, really) and congress who wants your company to die. The only way forward to survive is join the cartel and at least make some profit and expand your market. I like how it says “at some point decided to join the cartel.” Can the author not pin it down? Or would doing so clearly indicate when the decision was made (during the Biden years).
Sort of a reverse angle on the plot at the heart of Three Days of the Condor?
Cutting off fracking and drilling in Alaska had nothing to do with it….
I think it was just after Election Day 2020 that I paid $2.10/gallon. When I was out and about on Friday, everything was in the $3.65 range.
$5 at my house.
Great Iron Law, a truism.
I don’t think it was a conspiracy though. Just Trump’s trade representatives and economic advisors stupidity
Pro-Palestinian protests sprouted on campus April 17 when students pitched about 50 tents while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza and insisting the university divest from companies that they say could be profiting from the war.
Why don’t those students “divest” from Columbia and drop out or transfer in protest?
Oh, wait, that would require agency on their part, instead of merely demanding that the universe conform to their idiosyncratic delusions.
Quandary
Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that likely violates the Voting Rights Act.
In response to the judge’s ruling, the state’s Republican legislature had created a second majority-African American district in the state’s six district congressional plan. But now, a different federal court has said that adding the second majority-Black district is unconstitutional.
The new ruling, issued Tuesday by two judges appointed by former President Donald Trump, leaves the state without a congressional map six months before the election and has fueled complaints of political gamesmanship from critics on the left who fret that the clash could provide another opening for opponents of the nation’s premier civil rights law to attack one of its remaining pillars.
Why is a voting district explicitly created to lock in a black representative any less racist or contrary to the letter and spirit of the law than one designed to lock in a white representative?
The first judge ruling the original map illegal wasn’t gamesmanship at all, nosirree. Only when Republican judges do it….
The real issue is that the new districts don’t change the number of Democrat wins.
MUH BUTT HURTZ!!!
Now, that said, the district boundaries are a joke – but this is what the law demands!
Although Black residents make up roughly a third of Louisiana’s population, the state has just one Black lawmaker – who is also the lone Democrat – in its six-member US House delegation.
Muh plantation!
Off by 1. Only racism can explain.
MUH BUTT HURTZ!!!
Somebody finally grew enough of a backbone to turn the grievance-mongers’ tactics around and use that rhetoric against them.
Apparently the only way to fight racial discrimination by the government.
“Meet Elizabeth Pipko, the MAGA-loving bikini model who’s the GOP’s sexiest new spokeswoman”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/06/us-news/meet-elizabeth-pipko-the-maga-loving-bikini-model-who-is-gops-sexiest-new-spokeswoman/
Rising polls.
Whas she born a chick? Something about her looks… transformed.
I’m not seeing anything to suggest she is trans.
A silicone sister with the manager mister?
I think the lmakeup choices, and maybe some photo filters, push her towards the uncanny valley.
She looks better in the pic near the bottom.
Agreed. Some questionable eyebrow work was done too.
Meaningless localized weather anomaly
A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record for the season on Sunday in the Sierra Nevada.
The wet weather system had mostly moved out of the state by Sunday morning, but officials warned that roads would remain slick after around two feet (60 centimeters) of snow fell in some areas of the Sierra.
“Did anyone have the snowiest day of the 2023/2024 season being in May on their winter bingo card?” the University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab asked on the social platform X.
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Treacherous driving conditions on Saturday forced the closure of several highways near Lake Tahoe, including Interstate 80 over the Donner Summit.
Flood advisories were issued for parts of the Bay Area, where up to an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain fell while temperatures dipped into the low 40s (around 5 degrees Celsius), the National Weather Service said. Wind gusts reaching 40 mph (64 kph) were reported Saturday near San Francisco.
It was rain/snow mix here yesterday. It’s about 38 degrees right now. But don’t worry, the earth will be burnt to a cinder before you can say, “Subsidy”.
…asked on the social platform X.
Wha?
“The anti-Israel protesters who stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall were urged by a radical activist group to rekindle the bloody Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020, a new report says.
Furiously pumping the bellows is New York City nonprofit The People’s Forum (TPF), an anti-Israel organization with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party and backed by American businessman Neville Roy Singham, a self-described socialist known for financially supporting left-wing causes through Goldman Sachs’ charity arm.
At a Monday night meeting in Manhattan hosted by TPF — hours before the infamous building takeover — around 100 mask-wearing activists were worked into a lather by the organization’s executive director, Manolo De Los Santos, who called for a “final blow to destroy Israel” in a viral video earlier this year.”
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/us-news/radical-anti-israel-nonprofit-urged-rampaging-columbia-occupiers-to-recreate-blm-summer-of-2020-riots/
Aren’t there anti-KKK laws against masked protestors?
Manolo De Los Santos – he’s a black hispanic, so he’s okay.
Any organization calling itself “The People’s [fill in the blank]” has nothing to do with the people.