Good morning one and all to another sensational day!
Emotional Joe Biden cries then mangles his words during swansong speech
Democrats’ Woke 2024 Platform Opens by Declaring America Is Built on Stolen Land.
Free Abortions and Vasectomies Sold Out at the DNC
Willie Brown threatens to sue Trump for repeating helicopter accident story
Harris calls for raising corporate tax rates to 28%
Kamala Harris Hires Disgraced Russia Hoaxer Marc Elias for Election Legal Team
Georgia State Election Board adopts rule to ensure number of ballots matches total voters
GM laying off staff in software and services division
Millions of pounds of cheese are stored in underground Missouri ‘caves’
Talk show icon Phil Donahue dead at 88
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with Ayn Rand’s Donahue appearances
A fitting terminal punctuation of his presidency.
He’s always getting wet around her.
By some mercy of the universe, I missed this story the first time around. I’d like to know how you prove one way or t’other whether a private conversation between two people did or did not take place, but then I’m one of those retards who thinks in order to have committed a felony in furtherance of a misdemeanor, you’d have to prove that the misdemeanor took place.
Trump will be found liable and hit with Alex Jones x2 size fines.
The strategic cheese reserve was supposed to stay secret! (though I’ve known about it for years now)
Do we have a cheese gap with China or Russia?
The Red Chinese are non-cheese eaters.
Poor bastards.
Next time you’re up this way, swing by Galway and go to Water Wheel Village. Good cheese, suspiciously reasonable prices.
Which one of us wrote that NYP article on cheese?
So, is it true — or has the truth just gotten in the way of a gouda story?
The NYP didn’t cut the cheese story?
*narrows gaze*
Wasn’t this a Carter thing and the origin of the phrase “government cheese?” Or Am I misremembering something?
I think it was the source of Government Cheese.
Whether it was Carter or not, I don’t know.
https://www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-features/cheese-caves-and-food-surpluses-why-the-u-s-government-currently-stores-1-4-billion-lbs-of-cheese
Swiss’s link has a bonus pic of T-Swizzle
“I love CHEESE, Grommit!”
I feel like I should apologize for Ohio unleashing both Donahue and Springer upon the world. And that’s on top of White Castle, Wendy’s, Arby’s, Gold Star, Skyline, Max and Erma’s, and more upon the rest of you.
For as much shit as Donahue got for his theatrics, I was re-watching his interview with Milton Friedman a few years ago and was utterly taken aback by how civil and substantive it seemed in comparison to the unhinged shit flinging on both liberal and conservative cable news these days. Still can’t say I’ll miss him much, though.
He was civil but an idiot. Imagine having those conversations with Friedman and still thinking the commies were right.
It does take a true idiot to believe the commies are right. Most of them know very well that commies are wrong. The appeal isn’t about what is true or moral. It is about punishing people. Envy and desire to control is the foundation of collectivism. They would rather everyone run off of the cliff than see one person choose wisely by their own judgement.
Herd animals are gonna police the herd, fuck what is right or what works, just do as you are told.
Let me take some of that guilt from you – White Castle was actually started in Witchita, KS, although they no longer have a restaurant there.
OH is redeemed by sending Jim Trafficant to Congress.
Shouldn’t there be accompanying music from Rush’s 2112?
That’s a lot more modest than I’d have expected, and in line with the average effective rate during the 2000s.
It’s a sure fire way to lower prices too!
It’s still 28% too high
So, 20.16%?
Best kind of correct…
I come here for these threads.
Your math humor doesn’t count with me.
You are only trying to divide this community.
She wants to go 3% back toward 35%. Such a bold leader.
Oh I am the worst kind of asshat, 7%*
Why not? And if they get dividends taxed at ordinary income rates, some of the deep pocket Dem contributors will see more than 60 percent of their investment income taxed away. Serves them right!
She also wants a maximum wage blah blah blah.
What she isn’t saying is that her goal is to recreate the Soviet Union.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W2TbUSuhs
Feeling more and more like I dodged a bullet passing on that GM job.
Seconded.
anything that requires an answer in hours should be a no.
Sounds like Nazi totalitarian disenfranchisement of the deceased BIPOC and latinx LGBTQIA++ folkx to me.
DIEPOC, Shitlord!
I identify as multiple voters, bigot.
Millions of pounds of cheese are stored in underground Missouri ‘caves’
DAMMIT!!!! THEY FOUND ME OUT!!!!
Somewhat related to the cheese caves, many years back I was chatting with a rep for Founder’s brewery. They at the time had just recently re-released their Canadian Breakfast Stout, and were talking about the aging process. They’re based in Michigan, and the brewery had acquired a limestone cave several years back for barrel aging beers in.
The rep would not share the location of the cave with our group who were (of course) just naturally curious, and not in any way planning a potential daring raid to rescue this beer from the wilds of Wolverine country.
As a child in the 80’s I remember watching Phil Donahue and thinking this guy is fucking retarded. But I did get a kick out of his debate with Milton Friedman later on in life, which will live in infamy on the internet. Donahue just gets pummeled over and over by a vastly superior intellect, and at some points has this dumb look on his face because he can’t process what is happening. Did he actually think he had the smarts to keep up with Friedman? What a delusional idiot. He would have had a hard time keeping up with me at 13 years old. Almost all of his arguments were just emotional pleas, and Friedman picked them apart like a vulture feasting on the bones of a dead carcass.
Yes, even as young teenager as well that was easy discern. You could tell all he wanted to do was play up the drama.
Is there a video of that available online?
It’s the first result when you search for both their names
God he was a pontificating idiot wasn’t he.
I tried to watch it, but ran out of tolerance.
The predominant female audience in that interview whining that Daddy government should be doing everything and him just shutting those down with class.
I stuck through both interviews. I never saw them and I will admit, I know of Milton Friedman’s positions but hearing him express them is absolutely crack straight into my veins.
Donahue and Friedman reminds me of Biden and Sowell.
Both were too stupid to realize how outclassed they were and came away feeling like they had won a debate.
Either would have a better chance fighting Mike Tyson.
And yet here we are closer to communism since FDR. As I say above, the appeal of that evil ideology has nothing to do with being correct.
“Free Abortions and Vasectomies Sold Out at the DNC”
Not the party of the future, the party of no future.
If they’re free, are they being sold or are they being given away?
The party of death.
Not the party of the future, the party of no future.
They increase their numbers through indoctrination. Both media and education starting from early childhood.
And it has been wildly successful.
Plus unlimited immigration and promises of free shit.
I’m hoping the free vasectomies do not include any numbing.
[This is Your]
The definition of macho: jogging home from your vasectomy
That happened to me a few years ago… Anesthesia sometimes doesn’t take with me, and this was one of them. Found out when the scalpel started its slitting.
Maybe Team Blue can arrange more of this. There’s obviously a market demand for self-sterilization among leftists. Of course, this explains why they have to indoctrinate the children of others so aggressively.
Ya know, there was a time when “Politician fucked another politician, who happened to be married at the time, for career advancement” would have been a career-ender for one if not both politicians.
And here we are, with a respected state power broker and a VP/candidate for President who don’t even bother to make a pro forma denial. If it makes me a prude, so be it, but I think we were better off when we had standards.
Him appointing his mistress to two high-paying state board jobs should have been the biggest scandal, but *crickets*
+1 Golan Cipel
But remember, banging a porn start means you’re too immoral to be President.
I managed to miss that NJ story the first time around, somehow.
Lived in CA during part of Willie Brown’s reign. He was one of those guys who somehow got a pass for openly dating other women while married. A scoundrel I guess? It wasn’t a secret but nobody in the press or politics seemed to make a fuss.
He was much like Billy Bulger who ran Massachusetts for decades in the same way, and got a pass for being corrupt and the brother of a notorious mobster.
I notice a near complete mention of the name ‘Jim Jones’ these days. It should be on every newscast every day.
Apparently he had been separated from his wife for about 10 years when he was dating Kamala, but even if we put that part aside, getting her appointed to cushy government jobs should have been a scandal.
#metoo
I remember when people in general were warning about the hippie-hippie bullshit and how it would affect our culture. I thought they were prudes, but then I also thought my grandfather was clueless about modern life cuz things are different now.
^^^^^^^^^
Come, see the anger and hatred in the system: Donahoe vs. Trump.
He…he hasn’t changed. Huh
Well, he died the other day…
Oh, you meant Trump. No, he hasn’t changed. But Donahoe was still an idiot, so he didn’t either.
The Bacon Apocalypse That Wasn’t
After a California animal-welfare law took effect, feared pork shortages haven’t materialized. But the Golden State is paying higher prices.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bacon-apocalypse-that-wasnt-2e957fda?st=e5jtd8q44tncbq7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Welp, my bacon is still $3.49/lb +/- $.05 because I make my own and have all the spices already. So Cali can suck it and I’d probably be strung up for daring to bypass the State’s attempt to collect their taxes on said bacon.
Store branded bacon is $9.99 for 2.25 lbs around here.
https://www.weismarkets.com/shop/product/weis-quality-sliced-slab-bacon-applewood/132256
Silent prayer could soon become a crime
I wonder how long until silence becomes prima facie evidence of prayer, allowing for summary arrest.
https://www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Help/RCN-advice/refusal-to-treat
Let badthinkers die.
Remember that time when we warned that state run health care would be used as a tool for control? Silly us, that would never happen!
If I visit the UK I guess I must practice glossolalia walking near an abortion clinic.
Lol, clowns.
So, going in line with the US?
“any act within 150 metres of an abortion clinic that might influence a woman’s decision to terminate a pregnancy”
Such as, say, posting a sign that says “Abortions Available Here”?
What about Pro-Abortion signs, like “Cut the little fucker out, this way”?
Pat’s Prenatal Pulverizing Service
No Fetus Can Beat Us!
@Pat
For making me laugh at that I will see you in hell.
I wasn’t praying for an end to abortion. I was praying for an end to government tyranny. I’m guessing the former has better odds.
One of the things I despise about Christianity is the divine imprimatur granted to authority of all kind, and government in particular. Not that Norm Horn and the rest of the midwits at Libertarian Christians haven’t demonstrated a contortionist’s agility in trying to make Romans chapter 13 and 1 Peter chapter 2 mean something – anything – other than what they actually, plainly say. A cynic might point out that since Christianity was conceived in oppression, it’s designed to perpetuate it, for the same reason that civil rights groups usually don’t disband even after obtaining that for which they fought.
I was having an epileptic seizure. Bigot.
Early Christianity was definitely not pro-oppression. At least in the West, it was when Christianity/Catholicism mated up with rulers as a survival tactic that it got its Be Ruled flavor.
Pat: Christianity as it exists today is the result of the council of nicaea. The council’s goal at the behest of Constantine was to consolidate their beliefs and make christianity the state religion. Any state religion is going to preach ‘GOD ORDERS YOU TO OBEY YOUR MASTERS’.
I wouldn’t call it pro-oppression, but pro-oppressed; and in order to be pro-oppressed, there must be an oppressor. Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans during the reign of Nero, long before Christianization. It’s the most pathetic, obsequious, bootlicking take on human authority probably ever committed to page.
Boeing – “We’ll get it right soon. We promise!”
Boeing Finds Cracks in Structure of 777X Test Jets
Plane maker started testing new model in July with plans to begin deliveries in 2025
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/boeing-finds-cracks-in-structure-of-777x-test-jets-8c94087d?st=a1qf8d5jlvv1xok&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“If Donald Trump gets back into the White House, he’s going to fire civil servants, like intelligence officers…and even federal prosecutors…!”
Oh no!
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1825701486795608111
“Carrot Top is looking rough.”
I just have to assume their voters think that’s a bad thing.
They are truly ill.
Doesn’t the incoming president routinely fire all federal d.a.s appointed by the outgoing president (if other party)?
No, they all submit their letters of resignation. The incoming administration has the choice of keeping or accepting the letters.
Except in 2017 when shitbag scum like Preet refused to do it. Fucker needs to be deported.
Remember that story about Brides of the State last week? There’s your proof.
No shit. I am already voting for him, you dont have to convince me.
I love the fact that this guy really drives this all over the country.
The Bravest Driver in New York City Gets Around in a 1925 Rolls-Royce
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/the-bravest-driver-in-new-york-city-gets-around-in-a-1925-rolls-royce-86c9414a?st=qk0umqa9znoa9pd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Love it.
In waiting for for Octapharma Plasma onboarding!
Sincere thanks to Festus and Suthen (always back) and whatshappen recently. Good, necessary slap in the face. All positive and I need em. Far too much depression+ AP was a soul-suck for y’all.
Positive dive into a new career, also w confidence I’m gonna rock the fuck outta it all. Great acclaim, Triumph await!
Piece On the positivity of physical and mental exploration, along w Yankee Ev in King Arthur’s Court fun seems appropriate. I’ll see how scheduling goes and when full submersion takes hold!
Today I pick up my CZ97B and a case of .45 to go with it. I picked up a Browning pump shotgun yesterday that has a remarkably smooth action and a nice tang safety. The same guy then tried to persuade me to buy his gamered-out Remmington for an excellent price, but I are broke now. I guess leaving the milled-out loading port in the white is to show off that it’s been milled out?
Get it jeweled.
😉
He wants $700 for an $1100 gun that been modded with the enlarged loading port, different lifter, extended magazine tube, lightened mag spring and trigger job. Plus all the original parts if you want them.
I’d do it if I had $700 lying around. But I just bought 2500 rounds of 9mm and 700 rounds of 12 ga from him.
Getting the 97B chromed is 150% of the cost of the gun.
Chromed? I guess the gun of a pimp is different than the gun of a square…
My pimp gun base would be this:
https://www.armscor.com/firearms-list/gi-standard-fs-nickel-45acp-8rd
And these:
https://www.amazon.com/Blancas-Jewelry-Grips-Judas-Cachas/dp/B01JNMGKEK/ref=sr_1_174
Plus you can get the small parts gold plated.
Satin nickel is sexy.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/TvIncE-WTxiymn5OGGFf6w.dXbaPPZd-6A3DuMZglEXJo
I like my Tesla, but I’m definitely not a fanboy.
Their UIX is both brilliant and incredibly stupid. The organization and categorization and the options they expose are really well done. OTH, their UI itself is nuts. This is what what they did to my HVAC screen after their latest software update.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/comments/1ewj81f/this_is_the_worst_ui_for_any_customer_facing/
I understand some of those words.
I like that the controls I use often while driving aren’t controlled through a touchscreen, though I rarely mess with the HVAC now that I have a car with a thermostat.
Agreed. Sometimes they got a little too cute for their own good. And the last update pretty much took control of my wipers away.
The voice commands really help, though.
I despise talking to the car.
You can assign the wiper controls to button on the steering wheel. I find it just as easy to hit the single wipe button which brings up the on screen control and adjust from there.
Fuck voice recognition
Fuck touch screens
Driving requires muscle memory
Muscle memory requires physical controls
Any technology that forces the driver to look at a display while driving instead of looking out the window is dangerous.
The “traditional homelands” of the American Indians changed hands between the native tribes over generations of warfare long before the arrival of the first European settlers. Much of the Great Sioux Nation, which warred with the United States through the 19th century, was established on territory the Sioux had stolen from the Crow tribe, for instance.
The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island, modern-day North Carolina, on land where the regional ruler, Powhatan, had exterminated the local tribe. He did so in deference to a prophecy that he would be overthrown by a nation arising from the area and massacred the English colonists after their ships sailed away for the same reason. This set the stage for the Anglo-Powhatan Wars when more Englishmen arrived to establish the Jamestown colony.
I saw Pocahontas as a kid. They loved nature and animals, very peaceful people.
Technically speaking, can any land really be “stolen” when there is no system in place to establish ownership interest, recognize acquisition and transfer, delineate boundaries, etc? As much as we we try to make property rights “natural,” since they underpin the rest of our rights, they’re an entirely artificial construction, and in the absence of the artifice you have exactly the sort of jungle law where one nomadic tribe comes and bludgeons the other upside the head and drives them somewhere else, and they in turn do the same, or find some unoccupied land to squat on.
I think this is where the mixing labor with the land theory becomes so important.
The real question is… How much labor is enough?
Even the mixing of labor is utterly insufficient to establish anything like a natural right to the resultant property. Without a system of arbitration, and recognition of ownership rights, somebody who invested their labor into obtaining better weaponry and stronger men can just come and take it from you without consequence.
Pat, that is still the case for ownership today. There’s just happens to be one biggest bully, but if that ever changes there would be a new guy with the biggest and best army to come and take it.
Also, every natural right can be abridged by bad actors, so I’m not seeing the distinction between land rights and every other right as you’re presenting it.
Well, there’s the rub. There isn’t any difference, and the entire concept of rights as natural is a navel-gazing invention of Enlightenment intellectuals. Theoretically, you don’t necessarily need an entity with a monopoly on legitimate violence to effectuate the panoply of human rights we now recognize, but you do need to have complete social agreement on some fundamental set of rights, and the willingness of the parties to cooperate within those parameters. Which is why libertarianism, or classical liberalism, or whatever one wants to call it, is as much as a Utopian wankfest as Marxism; they both require a fundamental reprogramming of human nature, and only one of them follows the thread to its logical conclusion of how that reprogramming ought to take place.
Pat just summed up the deconstructionist theories of the Frankfurt School (among others) pretty succinctly.
‘the entire concept of rights as natural is a navel-gazing invention of Enlightenment intellectuals.’
Sort of. However if one did want to accomplish the establishment of certain rights, convincing the ruling elite on a certain geographic area of their existence would be a good start to actually getting them enacted.
The problem has arisen that this indoctrination has been perpetually falling to the wayside. To the extent that philosophy can influence public (and especially elite) thinking of isn’t pointless.
They weren’t entirely wrong on the critique, it’s just that their solution is horrifying. To the likely pleasure of JI, I’d argue that a revolutionary overthrow of the Enlightenment was deeply embedded in the Enlightenment itself.
It’s true, but then that just shows how precarious our present recognition of rights can be in an historical sense. Now the argument may be that the rights themselves are natural, but not the recognition thereof, which I think is just a sort of question begging. In any case, your natural rights don’t really mean anything if they can be abrogated by social consensus.
the entire concept of rights as natural is a navel-gazing invention of Enlightenment intellectuals
Erm, I guess so… I mean, the idea of rights being natural and innate existed before the enlightenment, but was tethered to God. The Enlightenment severed that connection, and the result was a “noble lie” that worked while the society was still mostly in a Christian worldview. Now that we’re not, the lie has started to unravel.
I think we’re about on the same page Pat. Thanks for the discussion.
What we call ‘native Americans’ were no more native than I am. They were not a peaceful people, they were Stone Age savages. They murdered, raped, enslaved and ate each other like mad. Worth noting that every people everywhere on earth did the same thing to o ne degree or another at one time or another. They were people not any different than any other people.
Also should be noted that there is not one square inch of inhabited land on earth that isn’t ‘stolen’ from someone who ‘stole’ it from someone else. All inhabited land has probably been stolen hundreds of times given that humans have been around about 1M years…a quarter of that for Homo sapiens and its various subspecies.
Grievance mongers have a million complaints but they always translate to the same thing: Give me money.
The left continues to LARP their way through a fantasy world.
They spent so much time on Project 2025 and projection about how Trump will end democracy and sic the federal government on his enemies.
Gun sports are srs bzns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ_rcN7Jm1g
Just the match footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY_N37GvziE
Far more fire rings and giggling than is usual at a USPSA match.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is Now the Worst Buyout for Banks Since the Financial Crisis
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-is-now-the-worst-buyout-for-banks-since-the-financial-crisis-3f4272cb?st=30u600o1zeltwpr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
‘The resulting write-downs have hobbled the banks’ loan books and, in one case, was a factor that crimped compensation for a bank’s merger department, according to people involved with the deal.’
The real victims of Musk. Not every executive hit their metrics for their bonuses.
Yeah, he got fucked on that deal, although the rest of us are getting the benefit. No way it was worth 44B or whatever he paid, and the minions have done everything to make it worth less.
Somebody on the Federalist the other day pointed out that it isn’t always about profit. Bezos has lost a shit ton of cash on WaPo, but those losses are a small price to help control The Message. Same goes for some of these other outlets.
These days it isn’t even usually about profit. I’ve often said how baffling it is that the only people who succeed in capitalism are those who wish to see it destroyed. Musk is the only corporate scumfuck thus far to push back from the other direction on a loss-making venture sustained on his private wealth out of a larger principle. And to be fair, he made most of his money as a lefty scumfuck just like the rest of them; they just pushed him too far transing his kid.
Musk tried to walk away from that deal. The courts forced him to go through with it.
From Sensei’s Rolls Royce link:
I park it in a garage in New York with about 40 of my neighbors’ modern cars. I don’t worry about it getting stolen, because nobody knows how to start it and operate it. Starting it is like cracking a safe. It’s a fancy car, but it’s not a glory piece. It’s not an ego thing. It’s about having fun with a fun car and being a good curator.
Excellent. It’s not just a shiny bauble for the Pebble Beach mob.
It’s also not especially rare compared to other classic cars. It makes perfect sense to have it as a driver.
What is that, a Silver Ghost?
Anyway, I used to have a kickstart only street bike. Never worried about that being stolen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Twenty
“As such, we’ve decided to waive our right to arbitration and have the matter proceed in court.”
Since this has had such huge exposure and we look like a raging bully we are going to waive our nonexistent right. That way we can bully somebody else who signed up for Disney streaming services while the press moves on to more shiny things.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/business/disney-arbitration-wrongful-death-lawsuit-intl-hnk/index.html
They likely won’t, since they’re already going to be drowning in costs, as every plaintiff does when suing a scumfuck corporation with an insurance company’s unlimited assets at its disposal, but the plaintiffs should insist on having the issue adjudicated rather than let them withdraw the petition, for the sake of establishing a precedent and further clowning Disney in the court of public opinion.
I guarantee you Disney is heavily self-insured. Those aren’t third party’s assets being pissed away, those are Disney (subsidiary) assets. Almost undoubtedly in an offshore captive, but still a wholly owned subsidiary that rolls up on Disney’s financials.
The thing about having a third party insurance company on the hook is that means they also control the defense (with limited and rare exceptions).
It’s also not possible for the plaintiff to prevent the defendant from withdrawing an argument or a defense.
“Colonel” Bearclaw engages in blatant campaign finance violations, nothing else happens.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/eugene-vindmans-house-campaign-refers-communications-requests-to-liberal-super-pac-raising-legal-concerns/
While that money helped Vindman cruise to victory in a crowded June primary, his background as a national media figure angered many local Democrats, who argued that Vindman “kind of drop[ped] out of the sky” and did not understand the district well enough to represent it. Born in Ukraine and raised in Brooklyn, Vindman moved to Virginia’s seventh district in 2016.
Virginia gets a lot of carpetbaggers being next to DC.
used assault-style weapons on the battlefield
The Army doesn’t have actual assault rifles anymore?
Vindman often refers to himself as a “retired colonel,” but he in fact retired as a lieutenant colonel, as he “had not served the required three years in rank necessary under Army protocols to retain that rank upon retirement.”</em
Sounds familiar.
But of course. He is a “telephone Colonel” just like a certain MSG (ret).
Another shitbag that needs to be deported.
Harris declined a debate session with Trump on 09/04. No reason is given. It must be because she is so far ahead in the polls that she defeats giving Trump credibility.
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Trump will instead have a town hall meeting with Sean Hannity, on that date.
They both agreed to a debate on 09/10.
Trump’s not a great debater, and the rules this time around are designed from the ground up to clamp down on his strengths. The media will hype it up that Harris performed brilliantly and kept her composure, even in the face of the relentless attacks of a racist he-man woman hater, and the ~1% of the voting public that will bother watching the actual debate will have chosen the winner long before they tuned in.
“Biden looked tired, but Trump did nothing but lie.”
Considering the number of views that the Elon/Trump talk got, I don’t think it is gonna be a 1% thing.
It must be because she is so far ahead in the
pollsmedia that they’ll give her a tongue bath and excuse away everything.“Georgia State Election Board adopts rule to ensure number of ballots matches total voters”
How the fuck was this not already a law?
Because – shut up, Bigot.
The article says it is the law. The election board is reminding counties that the law exists and the counties have to obey it.
Well we were keeping track, but then the pipe burst, so we’re not sure what the numbers are.
At 1 am, we got 10,000 Harris votes in a row, but it’s all part of the most secure election ever.
“The election board is reminding counties that the law exists and the counties have to obey it.”
*guffaws, slaps knee*
For you F1 fans
There is something about that guy’s voice or delivery that makes my eyes glaze over almost immediately, and I’m not about to watch that repeatedly until I can untangle it all. It’s all very very complicated. Suffice to say I’d rather watch an SCCA regional Formula Ford race.
In news that entertains me, the re-release of Coraline in the theaters beat Borderlands.
Maybe don’t pick aged out actors next time. While the game may be from 2009, they used actors from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s.
From what I hear, the writing wasn’t that good either.
UCS:
The mediocre story does hold true to the games though.
Kind of a shame. There was a fun, over-the-top movie to be made from Borderlands. Sounds like they thoroughly fucked the dog, though.
If they were cheap and plastic I might temporarily do this as a joke. However, not for real or long term use.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/c8-chevy-corvette-owners-really-love-fake-velocity-stack-engine-covers-apparently
Big wings on HD duallies and lift kits on Honda Civics is based, though.
Gay.
But I’m not a fan of the new ‘Vettes anyway.
The new “vette” is an attractive European sports car. It is not, however, a Corvette.
I’m really torn about them. I’m bald and middle aged so as much as I’d like to own one I can’t play to stereotype.
They are a bit over styled for my taste, but an absolute performance bargain with a naturally aspirated V8. It’s hard not to love that.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/fun-fact-theres-a-fish-on-the-side-of-the-chevy-corvette
It’s hard not to love that.
They’ve long been a performance bargain, but unless you are gonna track it, who gives a fuck. Yeah, it’s cool to scream off from a light, but I’d rather have something older and interesting like that Roller.
“They are a bit over styled for my taste, but an absolute performance bargain”
A good description of most generations of Corvette after the first couple.
I kinda like them. Almost anything is better to see on the road than the current anonymous cars and SUVs, and Jersey-Shore-steroid hulking trucks.
I rented a Charger that had a rear spoiler with an air dam in front and a huge bulge in the hood.
It was a V6.
It reminded me of what a British special forces guy told my buddy when he asked about Bear Grylls:
” ‘e’s a rubber dagger, that one. Looks the shit, but not worth a fuck!”
Looking at the fake velocity stacks, those are worse than that Charger.
Also, that Charger was bright orange.
It was almost embarrassing to drive, because while it had decent get up and go, its looks screamed high performance.
I’m sure people order that appearance package with a V6, but I don’t get it.
There is no V8 any more. For nearly anyone.
Thanks FedGov!
Seriously?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9d7gg2599o
OMG. Make it stop. I can’t take the stupidity anymore.
The terrorists won.
There’s no security screening when entering the subways nor are packages prohibited. I’d say the terrorists didn’t win.
fake velocity stacks.
The real thing
“The unbelievable cruelty of a global monkey torture network that live streamed primates meeting a horrible fate… and the British gran behind it
Monpai was an orphaned baby monkey in Indonesia. LeGresley was a deeply disturbed woman from Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
The 37-year-old had devised the poll as a torture list to be shared with a group of like-minded sadists and animal abusers on an encrypted messaging app.
The plan was that the winning two cruel options would be enacted in real life and turned into horrific 15-minute videos, before being distributed among the members.
‘Red ants in sealed jar with rat,’ was the first suggestion as to how Monpai should be tortured. It was followed by: ‘Force feeding and painful substance (ie chillies, lemon, mustard, vinegar etc) in eyes and face.’ Another read: ‘Cheese-grate ass, apply painful substance to wounds, then tie to ceiling fan.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13758341/monkey-torture-network-British-woman-pleads-guilty-holly-legresley-Adriana-Orme.html
WTF??
Global Monkey Torture really went downhill after their bassist OD’d.
Right, then. Garbage it is!
I think it’s cute that these retards think any of that stuff actually gets recycled.
Relevant
Perfect.
I have been watching this guy lately. I find him entertaining.
They’ve long been a performance bargain, but unless you are gonna track it, who gives a fuck. Yeah, it’s cool to scream off from a light, but I’d rather have something older and interesting like that Roller.
Muh thousand horsepowerz!
There is a guy in the area with a 69 CobraJet. Yes, there are many, many modern cars and trucks that will smoke it off the line, but holy shit is it beautiful. And the sound of the engine is like angels singing.
I got to work the other day and parked my 18yo 350z in an open parking space. I guy parked next to me in a brand new Corvette.
The 350z is fast enough to scare me if I get carried away. I can’t imagine having the performance of the Corvette out on the street and then only use it on the street. Nor can I imagine why anyone would pay 6 figures to get that excess capability.
Sorry for pinging again – submitted my post last night – would be great if I could get an expedited evening post – a little time sensitive.
Thanks!
Not even CNN can swallow it
Make no mistake, some of the biggest food companies are raking in big fat profits. But here’s the kicker: Many reported even bigger profits when inflation was much lower.
Take, for instance, PepsiCo. Last year, the company reported earning a very solid $9.1 billion in profit. That’s $2 billion more than what it made in 2020. But it’s still below the $12.5 billion profits it earned in 2018, when prices were rising at an annual pace below 3%. Similarly, Kroger, one of the nation’s largest supermarket chains, earned a bigger profit in 2018 compared to 2023.
Kraft Heinz, meanwhile, made $10.9 billion in 2017. That’s almost four times as much as it earned last year.
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Before the hate mail piles up, let’s state the obvious: Wall Street’s gonna Wall Street. Companies will find any way and any reason to make more money off of customers. Big business is not your friend.
What we really need to do is get interest rates back down to zero. That’ll show those greedy bastards.
Those raw numbers mean nothing unless they account for inflation. The analyses I’ve seen compare profit margins, and those have gone down.
The absolute value of the profit means nothing. The rate of return on investment/sales/whatever is what matters.
El Gato Malo eviscerates the whole evil food corporation profit thing:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/price-gouging-is-a-nonsense-narrative
I once was lost but now am found
Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will speak at the Democratic National Convention this week, one of several Republican voices meant to highlight the “extremism” of Donald Trump.
“I never thought I’d be speaking at a Democratic convention. But, after seeing firsthand who Donald Trump really is, and the threat he poses to our country, I feel very strongly about speaking out,” Grisham said in an exclusive statement to NBC News.
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She said in her statement to NBC News, “While I don’t agree with Vice President Harris on everything, I am proud to be supporting her because I know she will defend our freedoms and represent our nation with honesty and integrity.”
Other Republicans are expected to share a similar message throughout the convention, including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, who is scheduled to speak Thursday.
“While Donald Trump continues to attack moderates and independents, the Harris-Walz campaign has made clear that there is a place in our coalition for voters who reject the extremism of Donald Trump and want to protect our democracy,” a Harris campaign official said.
Another lost sheep returns to the flock. Praise Jesus.
It’s a big tent, as long as you do not dissent in any way.
Wasn’t she the one who lied about the whole lunging-for-the-steering-wheel thing?
No that was Cassidy Hutchinson. This one is the one who dished out gossip on Melania
Swamp creatures threatened by Trump? I can only get so hard.
Happy Birthday Ron Paul.
Great month for birthdays. Tundra, Mrs. TOK, and one of my kids.
Really? Take that Oscar Mayer!
A Shoe That Goes 65 M.P.H.
Hitting the road for a trip from Maine to Massachusetts in a giant boot on wheels.
https://archive.fo/GRgWP#selection-661.0-665.82
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/style/ll-bean-boots-bootmobile.html
There was one of those in Vegas too but it wasn’t LL Bean, it was a local cobbler.
Awesome. I’ve never knew that existed.
A tiny flicker of sanity?
A Texas jury found the parents of a school shooter not liable for negligence on Monday in a civil trial brought in connection with the 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School.
However, the jury found gunman Dimitrios Pagourtzis liable and awarded the plaintiffs more than $300 million.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis killed eight children and two adults and wounded over a dozen others at the high school near Galveston in May 2018, when he was 17 years old, authorities said.
Survivors and family members of some of those who were gunned down had sued Pagourtzis’ parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, accusing them of failing to properly secure the family’s firearms and failing to act on their son’s declining mental state leading up to the shooting.
“Parents of a depressed child should safely store their guns,” plaintiffs’ attorney Clint McGuire said in opening statements. “If they don’t, and their child commits a school shooting with them, the parents share in the responsibility for those harms and losses.”
Where’s the money? Maybe parents should be obligated to carry liability insurance against their children shooting up the school before they can be enrolled.
And the plaintiffs had to pay for the defendants’ legal bills. Right?
Seriously, doing away with “loser pays” (but only when the plaintiff loses) is one of the biggest distortions in our legal system.
I just talked to one of the old leaders of the local Tea Party c.2009-12. He’s a big shot in the County Trump campaign apparatus now. Anyway, he wanted to know if I’d be interested in a New Tea Party in 2025. It seems he and other Trumpers are pretty convinced Harris will win and they want to start planning opposition now. They aren’t giving up on Trump and will work hard for him, but they see handwriting on the wall.
🙄
Protesting in the streets will accomplish less than nothing. If he wants to form an effective opposition, he needs to study the leftist NGO constellations and replicate them.
Ha. Such a grouping would get shut down on Rico grounds if it was a viable threat.
RICO for thee, but not for mee
Exactly.
RICO or debanked for supporting hate.
He’s probably working for the FBI now and wants to haul in a fresh batch of right wing terrorists.
If Trump loses, the RepE will purge the Trumpers and attempt to go back to business as usual. Your friend is a double delusional idiot.
In case anyone missed my link earlier this morning:
https://whyy.org/articles/matthew-mccaffery-montgomery-county-pennsylvania-upper-merion-republicans-swatting/
The PA GOP has got problems…
And back to this:
Take, for instance, PepsiCo. Last year, the company reported earning a very solid $9.1 billion in profit. That’s $2 billion more than what it made in 2020. But it’s still below the $12.5 billion profits it earned in 2018, when prices were rising at an annual pace below 3%. Similarly, Kroger, one of the nation’s largest supermarket chains, earned a bigger profit in 2018 compared to 2023.
Kraft Heinz, meanwhile, made $10.9 billion in 2017. That’s almost four times as much as it earned last year.
Trump’s economy was a shambles. Nobody could afford to put food on the table.
I distinctly remember 2018/2019. There was new construction going on everywhere.
he wanted to know if I’d be interested in a New Tea Party in 2025.
Just out of morbid curiosity, did he mention any names?
Mittens will be free.
No, he was talking about a county effort getting the old local TP folks together along with some of the newer Trump activists.
Million to one chance!
Sinner said his test results happened because his fitness trainer purchased an over-the-counter spray in Italy that contained Clostebol and gave it to Sinner’s physiotherapist to treat a cut on the physiotherapist’s finger.
The physiotherapist then treated Sinner while not wearing gloves.
https://nypost.com/2024/08/20/sports/jannik-sinner-tests-positive-for-a-steroid-twice-avoids-ban-over-cut-finger-excuse/