Nothing much in sports. Not even soccer news. So I’m jumping right in to…the links!
I absolutely love this headline. It’s like saying “Crystal meth: safe, fun party drug but sometimes deadly and life-destroying. The AP might be better than CNN at spinning headlines.
Victims? That’s an interesting word. Especially when they trot out the family members of a dude who later had a stroke and wasn’t hurt at all. No, the real victims are the people still awaiting trial or who spent ages in jail on charges that were unconstitutional to begin with. Interview those poor souls.
We’e not the only ones celebrating today. There will be a lot of celebrating in Britain. And if this guy wins, there will be much rending of garments by establishment politicians and celebrities. So I hope he wins. Because those people are worth irritating.
What a bizarre stroke of luck. I hope they manage to find this kid. (Oops, I lost my head and posted the wrong story.
Here’s the one I meant to link there. I have no clever quip for it.
These prosecutors are failing us all. I don’t know how else to put it. And they simply don’t care, because they know their electorate and know they will face no real repurcussions.
I still don’t understand the crime here. Unless they’re leaving something out of the affidavit, this makes no sense.
These guys were underrated. At least in my book. And I just love this song. Although I don’t want it to happen today.
Anyway, enjoy this Independence Day, dear friends. Smoke some meats, shoot off some fireworks, and drink some beer and be happy we’re still the best country in the world.
Comedy gold!
I’m betting the AP could do something like that for all of the Glibs. Let’s give it a try:
“Shpip: Often friendly and clean-cut but sometimes curmudgeonly and
slightlydrunk”I’m still amazed at what they think is a defense for Biden:
“He takes several weeks to recover from a trip to Europe.”
“A cold pretty much knocks him flat mentally.”
“Sure, sometimes he’d confused and forgetful. But not always!”
Those are supposed to make me think he’s just the man for the job?
Same guy who wrote about the “Peaceful but Fiery” BLM protests?
I still don’t understand the crime here. Unless they’re living something out of the affidavit, this makes no sense.
Sloopy must be using speech-to-text.
Fireworks are dangerous and should be banned
Narrow gaze from Indiana. That’s our chief export. Also guns,
I’m trying my best.
No mention of the two actual murder victims I am aware of. Stay classy, CBS.
mobile internet in scotland dont work too good.
But how’s the haggis?
Rather meh.
Not as good as Romanian haggis?
The Scots are thrifty with bandwidth.
What kid would that be? Both principals in this story are men well into late middle age.
Of course, if you happened to link the wrong story, your link text has a nice pun.
::sigh::
I’m having a rough morning, I guess.
It’s somewhat fixed.
Was he singin’, “I ain’t got no body” ?
By Labour. Farage will do better than anyone expects but I thought Labour was running away with it.
Labour will win.
That was a given. The question has always been how bad the Tories were going to get roflstomped, not if. The only interesting bits are if the amusingly globalist Scotish Nationalist Party have any seats left and how many Farage and Reform manage.
I would laugh my motherfuckin’ ass off if Labour had to work with Reform to form a government.
Not anymore it isn’t.
I am expecting countries like NZ to post warnings about safety here much like we do all the time for other countries.
“Hide your sheep.”
“make sure to help them over fences”
👍🏻
I was obsessed with that song in 1983. Still one of my favorite bands.
Why did they change their name to U2 and go more mainstream?
The better to fit their heads up their own asses?
A man has been jailed for brandishing a replica of a sword from the Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda on the streets of a Warwickshire market town, which he said was a “fidget toy” to keep his hands busy.
Anthony Bray, 48, of Nuneaton, was sentenced to four months in prison after being found in possession of a bladed article in public.
The article in question was a replica of the “master sword” from The Legend of Zelda series which had a total blade length of 6in, Warwickshire police said.
https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/03/man-jailed-for-carrying-replica-sword-from-legend-of-zelda-video-game-in-public
Too be fair 6 in is huge. Massive.
England is now a safe place.
Neck tats. Showing a history of bad decisions.
Britain is a nation of emasculated cuckolds.
Too be fair 6 in is huge. Massive.
That’s what I keep telling her.
unrelated: had a dream last night that you were in. Hope you enjoyed the bottle Spud and I opened for you.
How ca you dream of someone if you dont know what they look like?
Dis U?
All Glibs look like Comic Store Guy.
That’s hurtful and untrue, Old Man.
I do not have facial hair.
4 months in jail for having a toy sword in public. 4. Fucking. Months.
Six inches isn’t a sword, anyway. It’s a knife.
Was the blade even metal? Looks like plastic in the pics.
The sheep were terrified just the same, and that is the offence.
It’s July 4th with Ford’s 32nd recall of the year.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/ford-recalls-s550-mustang-over-improperly-calibrated-steering-torque-sensor-236426.html
It’s pure coincidence Alan Mulally was he CEO of both Ford and Boeing and has fucked quality at both by planting this shit decades ago, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Mulally
These guys all come in with the same “new” ideas. Cut costs by sending jobs away and going with lowest bid supplier w/o any concerns for quality. They then keep 75% of the savings as CEO pay and return 25% of the savings to the shareholders. Then they wonder why customers defect on their next purchase after getting a shitty product.
Don’t forget focus on widget metrics that really don’t matter because they have no clue about the business they’re [temporarily] in.
Oh boy.
The dude arrested for trying to withdraw one cent…I can legit see it. He looks like a homeless dude well-passed losing quite a bit of his wig, and the exchange:
“A man, later identified as Michael Fleming, walked into the bank and filled out a withdrawal slip for 1 cent and handed it to a bank teller, the affidavit said. The bank teller reportedly told Fleming he couldn’t withdraw a penny.
“So you want me to say the other word?”‘
I certainly can imagine that being a weak attempt at robbery, while still managing to leave the Quiet part…mostly unsaid.
Would be clearer if the article stated if he had an account at the bank or not.
Judging by the picture, it’s most likely his bank is his left shoe.
The one, true song that should be played today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_tyWt_9Bfs
And you should be ashamed for not playing this, Sloopy!
Not this?
That would have been an appropriate choice.
Of course, the second song should be this, in light of the specific link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOz2PVCdKf0
Or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm0CYwO-bEY
An American tune by an American composer about America and its variations.
Written when he was 16. Smdh Stick around for the pedal solo — he described playing it as ‘almost as much fun as playing baseball.’
Again, an appropriate choice.
My long time Independence Day favorite. I all its 1971 glory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOUxNAexRzs
Good morning! I hate the government
Don’t worry it hates you too!
😂😂
The wolf doesn’t hate the sheep.
Is putting 1 cent on a withdrawal form the new way bank robbers are telling workers that they’re being robbed?
Unless the guy didn’t have an account there or didn’t put his account info on the form, I have no idea why the teller would say “you can’t withdraw 1 cent”. Though the fact he apparently said “am I going to have to say the other word?” (Presumably that word is “robbery”) makes me think he had criminal intent.
It’s like the .97 at Costco.
Our town parade is at 8:30 this morning to “beat the heat”. Wife is dragging me to it. You can’t see me, but I’m blinking “SOS” in Morse code with my eyes.
We’ve got scattered showers today, and then possible thunderstorms on Saturday (I have to work Friday). I was hoping to get up to the mountains sometime over the weekend. 🙁
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 07/04:
*19/19 words (+6 bonus words)
📖 In the top 1% by bonus words
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“Norway’s culture minister flashes her breasts after being awarded Oslo Pride’s ‘Gay Mother 2024’ award”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13599715/Very-cultured-Norways-culture-minister-flashes-breasts-awarded-Oslo-Prides-Gay-Mother-2024-award.html
No.
Why did I look?
Ugh. Same here.
Because it said Norway.
Why did I look?
You heard “nordic breasts” and thought “Swedish bikini” instead of “geriatric reindeer herder”?
I don’t even have the excuse of having had Irish coffee this morning…..
Not Q-approved.
It’s never the ones you want to see.
*Tres Cool has entered the chat*
I could work with that. But she’s ghey.
Happy “three thousand tyrants a mile away” day.
Can’t wait to see how the White House makes this all about trans rights.
Ooo! Good call. You know it’s coming.
With trans that will be the only thing coming.
According to my TERF Twitter feed, the trans with new gear/tackle aren’t coming at all.
Party of hysterical, histrionic foot-stompers
If those on the left wing of the Democratic Party hope to exercise power and bend the national party to their will, they might try to stifle any self-righteousness and learn different lessons from Representative Jamaal Bowman’s defeat.
TW: The Atlantic, with archived link
““These are deeply personal decisions and we believe these surgeries should be limited to adults,” a White House spokesperson said over email. “We continue to support gender-affirming care for minors, which represents a continuum of care, and respect the role of parents, families, and doctors in these decisions.” ”
https://19thnews.org/2024/07/white-house-statement-gender-affirming-surgery-minors/
Does this person have a name?
“According to the New York Times, the announcement came following an article that reported staff in the office of Assistant Secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, Rachel Levine, had urged the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to remove age minimum guidelines for surgeries.
The proposed guidelines had suggested age minimums of 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. However, the final guidelines released in 2022 had all age-based recommendations removed.
“Adm. Levine shared her view with her staff that publishing the proposed lower ages for gender transition surgeries was not supported by science or research, and could lead to an onslaught of attacks on the transgender community,” an HHS spokesman said on Friday.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/biden-admin-says-it-opposes-child-sex-change-surgeries
CWAA
This administration is an absolute freak show. How did we come to this?
Putting mentally ill people in positions of power?
“Does this person have a name?”
Yes, yes they do. Josef Mengele.
Don’t believe any of that.
They are 100% behind all “care” as they define it and hiding it from parents too.
A double dose of curvy babes on this THICC Independence Day Thursday!
https://archive.is/3nYpK
https://archive.is/tFWl9
A yard sign for Swiss this week.
“Mixed weight relationship”? That’s a new one.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/were-mixed-weight-relationship-trolls-33157870
For Halloween will they go as Princess Leia and Jabba?
There. Had to say it.
“ ‘Zelda’ Master Sword Gets Man 4 Months Prison Time, But There’s More To The Story”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2024/07/03/zelda-master-sword-gets-man-4-months-prison-time-but-theres-more-to-the-story/
Thank god we’re no longer the English. Also, Erik Kain (the article’s author) is a pussy.
“What’s missing from every report about this I could find, and what is so crucial to understanding this story, however is that Anthony Bray is a repeat offender with a long rap sheet and numerous prison sentences, several of which were for burglary including serial burglary. In 2011, Bray was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison after getting “three strikes” for burgling residences. But his run-ins with the law go back to 1989 and he was in court numerous times throughout the 90s as well.”
I called it up above. Neck tats.
I don’t see how any of that justifies a 4 month jail sentence for carrying toy plastic sword.
In the photographs looks like it’s at least metal.
The real issue is that the blade is maybe seven inches
You know, if he had also carried an ocirina of time, he could have gotten out of this jam.
*Golf clap
We love our plant-based burgers. We just want them converted into beef first.
Damn right
Also, if I’m-a eat the bugs, I want them run through a chicken, then I’ll eat the chicken.
Once again, proof of sloop’s outstanding taste in music. Love that second song too.
And that has raised questions about whether he’s up for a campaign that’s only going to get nastier and whether he can effectively govern for another four years if he wins.
As far as I can tell, the nastiness is coming mostly from Team Biden.
“… whether he can effectively govern for another four years…”
He has never governed, he just does what people tell him to do. So how would his ability to govern matter?
I am absolutely astonished that Trump and his campaign are playing this smart and keeping their yappers shut.
He’s sharing his plans for a military dictatorship on Truth Social according to the video clips the wife had on.
It’s pure coincidence Alan Mulally was he CEO of both Ford and Boeing
I’m much too lazy to look it up- did he work for Jack Welch, too?
He was a Boeing lifer before Ford.
Speaking of false consciousness set to music…
Focus, people!
The latest struggles in the West Wing mean that the focus is still on Biden’s disintegrating campaign rather than the grave threat to democracy and America’s political freedoms that the president warns is posed by Trump.
Keep your eye on the ball, America. Look at the big picture. It’s Joe or Beelzebub. You don’t want Beelzebub, do you?
My husband got old. Now I’m cuckolding him.
As my 78-year-old husband’s libido declined and then vanished with antidepressants and age, I spent five years alternating between anger and grief before asking him to open our marriage. We’d both been nonmonogamous back in the 1970s and we knew the risks: Most open relationships don’t survive, and neither did ours back then. But I assured him that I was not looking for a new partner, and that I was primarily seeking physical relief. I promised discretion and that I wouldn’t bring anyone home or stay out all night. Our life together would be unaltered. I would keep a firewall between my extramarital encounters and him. He could ask any questions he wanted and I would answer honestly, although I knew he was more likely to opt for “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
He agreed only because the logic of my request was unassailable.
Twenty paragraphs of post hoc rationalization by a woman who’s old enough to know better.
“physical relief”
That’s a really strange way to rationalize fucking other dudes. She makes it sound like taking a Tylenol.
“He agreed only because the logic of my request was unassailable.”
I suspect it was more just to get her to shut the fuck up about how much she wants to fuck other dudes.
I heard sex does help with headaches.
Huh I wonder why he was on antidepressants.
Twenty paragraphs humble bragging about how she’s 73 and banging dudes in their 30s and 40s.
Sure, Jan.
Not looking, but I’m assuming she does not resemble 70ish Raquel Welch.
No pics but I’m sure you’re correct.
Did she mention how much she was paying or their culture?
He agreed only because the logic of my request was unassailable.
And then he quietly revised his will.
Assault on civil society
The department’s elimination is one of many goals contained in the extensive conservative playbook that will inform a second Trump term. Project 2025 calls for privatizing education and driving out any programs related to LGBTQ+ youth or diversity.
“This playbook actually goes into detail that we’ve never seen before,” said Weadé James, senior director for K-12 policy at the Center for American Progress. It would have profound implications on civil rights, school funding and students’ progress – not to mention on the fate of public schools, she said.
“The striking part about all of this, too, is the Department of Education is actually the smallest of any cabinet-level agency. There are only a little over 4,000 employees within the department,” James said. “So we need to be talking about investing in the department, expanding the capacity of the department to do the work that it is designed to do.”
Cutting government is worse than the holocaust.
“We have stakeholders!”
“It would have profound implications on civil rights, school funding and students’ progress – not to mention on the fate of public schools, she said.”
Look, I already support abolishing the Department. You don’t have to sell me on it.
I see very little mentioned about teaching children to read, write, do math or think critically. What they do mention is lefty brainwashing.
I’ve started to see a lot of shrieking about Project 2025. I’m guessing it will be the newest media freakout.
Trump has made it a regular part of his rallies to harp on diversity and LGBTQ+ issues in schools, too.
At the faith conference, he vowed to sign an executive order on day one that would cut federal funding for “any school pushing critical race theory, transgender, insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on to the lives of our children”.
There is no such thing as critical race theory, but defunding it would be a crime against humanity.
Not funding our speech is hate!
Sloopy did extra work, and didn’t notice I had a couple of fill in posts. NEPH’S got pushed back to Noon.
Thank you for working on the 4th.
Yes sir! i second that. Thank you very much for the break. I am still in Florida, will be very preoccupied tonight.
And just like that, Neph’s article is gone.
*high-fives the other cool kids who commented*
Typical bicyclist.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1d6m3qq/bull_attacks_bicyclist/
I’m certain I’ve seen that clip before.
Brazen bull battle beats biker badly
I have no idea why the bull ‘attacked’ a critter that quickly approached directly at the bull from behind and startled it. It’s a mystery.
Ahem. https://www.glibertarians.com/2023/05/confessions-of-a-middle-age-man-in-lycra-2023-rock-cobbler/
Honest? Honest as the day is long
Imagine that Congress passes a statute authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to require permits whenever material alterations are made to a “major stationary source” of air pollution (or new ones are created). So far, so good. Now imagine that a power plant near your home has three smokestacks. Does that count as one “major stationary source” or three? And what makes a stationary source “major”? Beyond these substantive questions is a procedural one: Who should resolve these matters? Unelected federal judges, who may have no particular expertise in environmental law, or the federal agency staffed with scientific and policy experts who do?
Accept my premise unconditionally, or you will be arguing in bad faith.
Heads I win, tails you lose.
Expertise – priestly knowledge.
Thats actually very simple for a power plant. You can have 1 boiler with 3 stacks. The boiler where coal is burned is the emissions unit (EU) and the stacks are all labeled as emissions points (EP) in their air permit. The reason being that each stack letting gases into the air could have a different type of pollution control device.
Fr. Cool!
The animating principle behind Chevron is that, given the range and depth of federal regulations, Congress can’t be expected to define every aspect of every agency’s power with surgical specificity. And it made more sense to let the agencies — to whom Congress delegated the relevant power in the first place — provide any final missing details. As the court explained, “Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government.”
Roving bands of vigilante judges will terrorize the countryside, lynching bureaucrats and burning their offices.
Government, just the bureaucrats with no accountability that we hire together!
Point out the part in the constitution where it says that the legislative can delegate law-making power to the executive, please.
“NECESSARY AND PROPER”!
sin,
leftist dullards
Tom Woods had an update the other day referring to some status (I recognized the name but now don’t remember who it was), who said the saddest thing about the end of Chevron was all his friends who had spent their careers learning how to work Chevron cases who would now be out of work.
The second fiction — that the power the court took away from agencies will be given back to Congress — is even easier to dispel. It’s hardly a secret that the current Congress is beset with dysfunction and gridlock, and has been for some time. Thus, the idea that Congress would be able to clarify, on a regular basis, any ambiguities in statutes delegating power to executive branch agencies is a farce. The current Congress probably couldn’t agree to clarify that today is Wednesday.
Contemporary congressional dysfunction aside, it just isn’t realistic to expect Congress to legislate with micro-specificity across every single inch of regulatory real estate.
Congress is broken and ineffectual, but that’s no reason to think they shouldn’t be trying to regulate every single aspect of our lives. They just need the help and guidance of all-knowing selfless government employees.
“Congress wont do their jobs” is not a compelling argument.
But what about “democracy?”
I forgot to mention…Louisiana’s constitutional carry law takes effect today.
It wont make any difference in my jurisdiction…everyone is carrying already.
The reality, then, is that the only transfer of power the Supreme Court accomplished by overruling Chevron is a transfer of power to the courts. After all, it is now going to be up to judges to decide what each and every statute agencies enforce means.
For a law school professor, this guy has a pretty low opinion of the people he trains.
Silly me, I was under the impression that one of the reasons the courts existed was to check the power of the other two branches.
Or you know, Congress could pass legislation with explicit wording instead of enabling acts for agencies to publish whatever regulations they feel like.
USC is about 43 print volumes and CFR is around 200. Both could use a chainsaw.
“…use a chainsaw.”
I was thinking a match.
I protest, not that anybody is likely to see it in this dying thread.
The illustration for this post should feature a red blooded Amurrican pistol, like a 1911 or a single action army Colt, not a Glock.
Not dead. There’s no midday or evening posts today. A.M. and P.M. links time slots only.
It appears Swissie has scheduled a post from Neph at 11:59 a.m. CDT.
Late drop in? There was an editors note in yesterdays evening post.
Please see Swissie’s comment upthread – I think he wasn’t expecting Sloopy to do AM Lynx.
*flips keyboard*
Just saw it scrolling upwards. How can I live with this level of unpredictability?
Ride the roller coaster, baby.
Glocks are made in Smyrna, GA.
It might have been made in a basement from a 80% lower. That’s a very American thing.
Tell me again about Japanese life expectancy compared to others.
Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body
That main page pic is triggering. A .45ACP handgun and its Austrian? This is some world class trolling, Incan Sloopy.
Tom Woods had an update the other day referring to some status (I recognized the name but now don’t remember who it was), who said the saddest thing about the end of Chevron was all his friends who had spent their careers learning how to work Chevron cases who would now be out of work.
I believe it has been pretty well established that the EPA colludes with outside environmental activist groups who sue the government with the express intent of
clarifyingexpanding federal regulations. I’m sure this holds true for all the other regulatory bodies.WRT AP spinning stories, this seemed relevant:
Meth Actually Not That Bad For You, Report Doctors Dismantling Stereo
This should be the accompanying illustration.
Even in storage, the pistol had a complicated history. When planning began to open Ford’s Theatre as a museum in 1931, Ulysses S. Grant III – a descendent of the leader of the Union armies during the Civil War – requested that the pistol be displayed. The Adjutant General of the U.S. Army refused, saying that its display “would have more of an appeal for the morbid or weak-minded than for the students of history.” After a decade of examining the issue, the War Department turned the pistol over to the National Park Service. It has been on public display since 1942.
Sic semper tyrranis, motherfucker.
How many lists are we up to now?
Happy 4th everyone! It’s lightly raining but hopefully it will clear up enough for a pool day. Last weekend a nearby neighborhood had their fireworks, and last night our neighbors put on a great show. This is my favorite holiday.