Good morning one and all to another magical day!
The Paul Festivus Report: A Great Start for DOGE
Biden Commutes Sentences of Nearly All Federal Death Row Inmates
China’s Influence in Panama Under Scrutiny After Trump Issues Warning Over Canal
Trump, Greenland bicker over whether the US can purchase territory from Denmark
Trump vows to stop ‘transgender lunacy’ and recognize only two genders as ‘official policy’
House Ethics Report Accuses Matt Gaetz of Illicit Drug Use, Paying for Sex with 17-Year-Old
Report: New Photos Show Joe Biden Meeting Hunter’s Chinese Business Partners, Introducing Son To Xi
Guatemalan charged with murder for setting woman on fire on NYC subway, entered U.S. illegally
TX AG Paxton sues NCAA for ‘deceptive trade practice’ that makes way for transgender athletes
Nissan, Honda announce plans to consider merger
That’s all I got for today. Here is wishing you and yours a most wonderful Christmas.
Some men just want to watch the
worldgirls burn.Ugh, shut up Curtis.
This is what a sick society looks like, and by American standards few are sicker than everyday NYC.
He’s not wrong.
It’s The Whimper of Whipped Dogs.
It’s a grotesque misreading of the situation.
The fucking cop (cops?) didn’t do shit either.
To be fair, that’s a New York tradition.
Oof. I would have let it go there. #moveon
Damn Catholics…
Meh, we won’t kill you but we won’t let you live [free, ever].
“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted,” the statement continues.
*snip*
After Biden’s commutations, three men remain on death row including the 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Charleston Church shooter Dylann Roof and 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers.
More senile old man, less actual religious convictions.
Biden, yea on the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Guess he must’ve misplaced his conscience then.
I don’t have a problem with this in any way. We often talk about how the Death Penalty is wrong here at Glibs HeadQuarters, and how it is irreversible. Nor do I have a problem with the three left behind, so to speak, as they genuinely deserve death at the hands of society.
Strangely, my liberal wife is angry at him doing this.
Get used to liberals being angry a lot for the next four years. It doesn’t matter why, even.
Zwak, how do you square “the death penalty is wrong” with “well, except for those guys”?
Utilitarianism. If you go back and look at anything I have said about the death penalty, you will find nothing saying it is wrong.
But really, it is a need to set the standards REALLY high for this. I don’t have anything against the death penalty in general, only that it is used too often in iffy circumstances. Societies do need to have an ultimate penalty for crimes so outrageous, but not so often used, nor so often seen in compromised situations.
Got it. The view “the death penalty is wrong” is attributed to Glib HQ, not your own view.
I’m against it morally, but it’s so low on the list of things I give a shit about that I guess I default to a similar view in practice.
Not quite, counselor. Not to quibble too much, but it is discussed here at GlibsHQ, not that it is the default position.
The interesting question is how does “society” accrue the power/authority/moral-status to exact the death penalty – when none of us individually can do so. Oh, we can kill in the moment as self-defense, but not afterwards as retribution.
A society is the amalgamation of individuals, and having a legal system is a part of that. The state does not* just kill random individuals, but does it through force of law. The individual cannot just randomly kill individuals either, but can through force of law, IE self defense.
*in theory. And even when it seems so, they are found not guilty by force of law.
I don’t have a problem with this in any way.
Nor do I have a problem with the three left behind, so to speak, as they genuinely deserve death at the hands of society.
I don’t have anything against the death penalty in general, only that it is used too often in iffy circumstances.
Well this clears nothing up.
That’s the point ZWAK, it is something that none of us could do, legitimately, as individuals, yet it becomes legitimate when we collectively “delegate” doing so to the state. We didn’t delegate anything because we had nothing to delegate.
Granted, we don’t follow the Rousseauvian “General Will” that if society (quite arbitrarily) decides you die, you die – but there is nothing in the individual human (natural right or otherwise) that makes it legitimate for a group of humans to do this.
And given that cops have near immunity for killing someone, I’m not sure I’d argue that randomness isn’t in play either.
“That’s the point ZWAK, it is something that none of us could do, legitimately, as individuals, yet it becomes legitimate when we collectively “delegate” doing so to the state. We didn’t delegate anything because we had nothing to delegate.”
But, as I said, we DO have that ability, just as strongly as the state. We have the ability to kill in self-defense. And, just like the state, we need to prove that it wasn’t cold blooded murder, just as the state does. Both parties need to prove this in front of a jury if so demanded.
And of course we delegated this to the state, as we can remove the states ability at any time, through the legislative process. I know you hate representative democracy, but at least be honest in what it does.
We have the ability to kill in self-defense.
This isn’t self defense we are talking about. We are talking about post-crime retribution, not action at the moment.
It is the exact same monopoly on force that allows any legal dispute with the state to end in loss of life, even something as trivial as selling loosie cigarettes.
The death penalty could easily be thought of as an extension of the privilege – not the right – to vigilantism. Like with many other privileges, as well as actual rights, we delegate it to the state in exchange for certain benefits, because it creates more social stability. When the balance gets out of whack and the benefits of a legal system no longer outweigh the downsides of vigilantism, society slips back into its normal mode of operation until the pendulum swings back.
There are some 10,000 transgender youth ages 6 to 22 with parents active in the military, according to an estimate from the Modern Military Association of America.
That number seems awfully high. Is the Modern Military Association wildly inflating the amount of trans kids for political reasons, or has the social contagion / Munchausen by proxy infected the armed services that badly? Inquiring minds want to know.
And now “youth” includes people up to 22 years old?
We didn’t so much move the goalposts as just expand them.
I thought it was 26.
Imma say the MMAA doesn’t even have 10,000 members.
Thoroughly Modern?
Yeah, Imma guess there is an agenda and the number is bullshit.
Kids questioning why their dad might die needlessly in an overseas was will question anything it seems.
Seward’s Folly 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Once Canada is surrounded they will surrender.
We’ll need to take Saint Pierre and Miquelon first.
Erm…
I was dubious first time around but sure, why not – if Denmark is selling.
Yeah, it’s not like we are broke or anything…
At least we’d get something more tangible than “virtue signaling”.
The Virgin Islands haz a sad.
It’s a good thing those photos didn’t exist until after Hunter received a full and irrevocable pardon for any real or imagined crimes that may or may not have been committed during a decade long period of time where he’s been accused of influence peddling for fun and profit.
fun or profit?
All his profits were plowed into fun.
It’s a good thing those photos didn’t exist until after the ballots were counted in 2020.
That is impossible. Joe never knew anything about Hunter’s business dealings and never met any of the people Hunter dealt with.
“So, taxpayers footed the bill for an attack on free speech,” it noted. “Among the ten ‘riskiest’ outlets identified by GDI are The New York Post, American Spectator, Newsmax, The American Conservative, The Blaze, One America News, The Daily Wire, Reason, RealClearPolitics, and The Federalist.”
Sigh. One day Glibertarians.com will make the big leagues.
I see that the Trumpublicans are conceding the replacement of “sex” with “gender” to the lunatic left, making the “gender wars” victory a partial one. As we have seen, in a culture war, he who wins the language battle holds the strategic ground.
Yeah, that is disappointing. I make it habit to use “sex”.
“Gender” is a linguistics term.
To be fair, Gorsuch eliminated the distinction in law.
Yeah, I thought it was establishing the two as synonyms.
How so?
TL;DR: he more or less decided that “sex” in Title VII means the same thing as “gender,” such that transgender people are entitled to Title VII protections, on account of you can’t discriminate on the basis of gender and sexual preference without implicating sex.
Oh I have it backwards. I am an asshat.
Hmph… also two things that are not at all comparable.
Oh well. I won’t quibble with not firing such people without good cause. But I will draw the line at accuracy in language and at using it restrict other freedoms such as association and not getting the shit beat out of you on the volleyball court.
I believe the theory is that failing to treat a man presenting as a woman the same as you would a woman presenting as a woman is discrimination on the basis of sex. As in, you wouldn’t fire a woman for coming to the office in a dress and pancake makeup who uses the women’s room, so you can’t fire a man for doing the same thing.
It’s probably an excellent example of how something that sounds right logically is complete bullshit in reality.
“I won’t quibble with not firing such people without good cause.”
I will. Employment at will is a boon to the labor market generally, and if you don’t want a utilitarian justification, it is a core expression of the right of free association.
OK but how many ships have already sailed in the past on that issue.
There’s technically correct but sheesh.
Laws against private discrimination are probably the best example of a thing sounding noble and benign but being factually tyrannical and producing awful results.
I’ve lost count of the times that I have told people . . . words have gender; mammals have sexes.
I see this as squeamishness over the word “sex,” and pandering to the worst puritanical and anti-intellectual parts of their base.
This is how I’ve always used it because I was embarrassed to say “sex.” I don’t know why. But yes, I started using gender for sex (M, F) when I was a tween.
I have to laugh at the huffing and puffing about the Panama Canal. It isn’t even a national security issue anymore.
No idea about that.
My sense is that eventually the canal and/or the country will be controlled by either China or the U.S. Take your pick.
China or U.S. – which country can realistically and immediately project force on that territory?
I don’t know what action the U.S. currently has going on down there but obviously China is catching up.
The whole Belt ‘n’ Road thing is about replacing U.S. influence around the world. I have a sense the whole is going tits-up but we won’t get a better idea of that until Xi kicks it.
Given our masterful assault on the Rio Hato airfield to blow up Noriega’s plane during our last excursion to Panama, I don’t think China could do all that much worse.
I have seen no reason to establish a high opinion of Chinese military competence, particularly since their last large action occurred in an adjacent country and was an ignominious defeat.
So has the sanctuary city of NYC honored the detainer and handed the illegal who burned a woman to death over to the feds?
And, say, why don’t we know the name of the cop who walked right past her while she was on fire, anyway?
“Officer safety”.
Officer Friendly?
His commendation is still being printed?
It was clearly a Fire Department issue, so not his job.
This.
Joe even labeled much of it on “day one” as the imperative of every agency to focus on “equity” as their top priority. I bet there is a least a trillion dollars being flushed down that toilet.
And let’s not forget the “whole of government” war on fossil fuels.
So much to unfuck, so little time.
“War is the health of the state”
Dragons need slaying.” If it ain’t one thing it’s another” Rosanna Rosanna Dana
Oh, so we’re seizing now, not pouncing?
Yeah, there is a reason Biden is limping out of office, and it wasn’t Trump that done it.
Wide World of Wrassling
lol FFS
I found 🎶this🎶 a couple years ago.
“Remember when we made love to this hymn?”
/Homer
rhy, it’s a little late, but since you seem to be getting into the holiday spirit, I thought you’d be thrilled to know that you can get a Snoop on the Stoop.
Gahhh make it stop with that annoying person everywhere all the time.
Did he marry a fucking Kardashian or something??
…and, if you want someone to keep him company, Martha on the Mantel.
I finally got my Saab back.
They replaced the ignition cluster, but now my primary key doesn’t work.
The spare does, but I am nervous to only have the one key.
Apparently it is difficult to find someone that makes Saab keys.
It’s just an ongoing Saab story with this car, isn’t it?
Lately yes.
In 8 years and 120,000 miles since I’ve owned it, I have replaced the front struts and axles, put a junkyard turbo on it, rear brake pads and rotors, a new crank position sensor, and a new valve cover gasket.
This was the first real expensive repair, new clutch for $2,600 which somehow led to the ignition and key not talking.
Now it has 226,000 miles and still runs like a champ.
Ignore the peeling paint and missing front grill.
There was a reason they were no longer made.
Cool as they were.
Starting to sound Iike the Saab of Theseus.
I think I have around $9,000 in the car including the purchase price.
Not bad for 8 years, hope to get a few more.
Still beats a car payment.
Aktually, it is the ship of Theseus, and the SAAB of Phaedra.
Zwak’s pedant game is on point this morning.
It sounds like your primary key became corrupted somehow. What’s the year/make/model? I have a large internet seller (to the trade only) 2 exits up from me that sells aftermarket and factory keys. They can also cut by photo for the metal portion. If they have one, I can probably get it for you. Only thing I couldn’t do is program it.
2005 9-3 Aero.
The programming is the difficult part.
I’ll ask on the Saab forums and see what my options are.
Only having one key makes me nervous.
“This item is currently out of stock.”
Bring on the black market
the tax take at a 70-year high
Higher than the 98% top tax rate from 1974-80?
tax take is not top tax rate
The takings will continue until morale improves?
“Turkish barbers” seems oddly specific.
walk through any english city and there are tons of them. Some have to be fronts for money laundering cause they do not seem full of customers.
Münür Önkan controls Britain.
Hajji Baba himself!
Turkish Prison?
Ah. The NYC equivalent is “telephone repair shop”.
Ron, I wasn’t sure if you were going to post that, or This.
Is that Turkish for Sweeney Todd?
That word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it does.
We laugh at how gender has been abused, but conservative as a political label is even less meaningful.
Conservative is the official name of the party not the ideology. It is like the old romania joke about the priest naming chickens “cabbage” and during lent telling his superiors he is not breaking lent, he only cooks cabbage
Sure just like in prison when you’re the husband and your wife tells you to suck her dick.
The Chump Effect is coming to the scepter’d isle.
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. — Biggie Smalls, I think
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-14214813/towns-turkish-barbers-britain-high-street-salons-area-ranks.html
Lies and damn lies but not really statistics.
A new way of counting, where you actually count them…
Well, before they were only counted as 6/10 of a migrant.
R C Dean:
Damn inflation coming for everything.
🙂
So 2 halves of a slave.
When I typed that, I was thinking “that doesn’t sound right”, which of course triggered the “Submit Comment” reflex. OTOH, 3/5th is the same as 6/10th, so I’m still technically correct, which as we all know . . . .
It’s the 9/15ths compromise.
30-50ths or fight!
The good news is that the illegal immigrant population is still the same estimated 11 million that it’s been since 2006.
But don’t you dare ethnically profile even though 30-50% of the Hispanic population in this country is illegals.
That’s the real fear if there was effective deportation and barrier to entry. That the much vaunted Latino takeover won’t be happening as rapidly as the elites hope for.
The Latinos are abandoning the Democratic plantation, consequently I won’t be surprised to see diminished resistance to getting those illegals out of the country.
“Admitted for humanitarian reasons” sounds like it refers to all those gang-bangers Joe let in from Venezuela et al.
Some classic Gruniad.
Pearl clutching about the deep influence of Curtis Yarvin on Trump’s cadre.
Ugh it’s too early in the morning to deal with their lunacy. I just can’t do it.
I’m trying to make up my mind between committing to a 3-4 foot tall plant in the corner which might yield culinary peppers, or constricting its potential growth and getting a purely decorative plant.
Ask yourself, “WWSD?” (“What Would Sean Do?”)
He’d be growing something significantly hotter.
I’m only planting Bells.
Ooh! BELL peppers! Then definitely go for the pepper-bearing option!
I think I’m going to compromise and use a 3 gallon pot instead of the maximal 5 gallon. It’s not quite ornamental, and the peppers won’t be as big as they might otherwise be, but five feet of plant plus pot is too big for the space, so I can’t risk a full size plant.
👍🔔🌶️
Sean would shoot it with one of his guns, since it’s not steak.
Pictured: UnCiv and his new plant:
https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/12/1017051-little-shop-of-horrors-1986.jpg?w=700
🌶
Where are his gardening gloves?
UnCiv is taller than that.
my friend in dutchland who is facing potential 50% tax on some income was very mad when some tax adviser told him something along the lines why are you upset you still get to keep half which is a lot of money
Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don’t take it all
Time for a new tax advisor.
Seriously. That is the wrong mindset for that profession.
apparently most tax advisors in the Netherlands do not really want to help minimize the tax cause it is too much trouble and they might have difficulty renewing their state license if they help to many peple, easier to just tell you to smile while you get screwed; they do charge you 10k for the service
In that case, there’s no reason to pay the tax advisers anything. They’re not providing a service.
well this is the first time he needed to and had to learn this…
also hope springs eternal
today in weird youtube recommends
DUA LIPA & SABATON – Be The One (Hellfighters) | MASHUP VIDEO by HPG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W1MA4yEOug
Pulchritudinous pleasure mounds on Christmas Eve Titty Tuesday.
https://archive.is/1YRGo
“the job might seem easier for men than it is for women, Valentine is eager to dismiss that myth”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/im-male-adult-star–34190306
Who would ever have thought that?
Who doesn’t share their porn efforts with friends?
“My job is very hard!”
“I have to stand at attention every day! It is just like being in the Army!”
Tales from the “so you decided to be a divorce / custody attorney” career information pamphlet. Dude comes in yesterday. Age 30. The opposing side is 38 and has three prior kids. Online research being what it is, I stalk all her cases to see what’s up. He tells me “yah, she came over with the kid (age 7 months!) a few weeks ago, at 2am, then calls the cops on me.” I’m like dude, she is setting you up completely.” To his credit, he handles the cops well, lets them in the house to get away from her rant (during which time she steals the shovel off his porch), and everyone leaves.
That sounds like a story from hell, and would probably give me nightmares.
Some men never learn.
“Sex-crazed woman killed kittens with her bare feet for horrific dark web videos
May is 55 and has been crushing since she was a little girl, and does it for her own satisfaction and pleasure,’ the site said.
‘She crushes barefoot because that’s what she enjoys, as it brings her extreme satisfaction even to the point of orgasm without being touched. She’s one in a million.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14223175/sex-crazed-woman-killed-kittens-bare-feet-dark-web-videos.html
WTF, Canada?
Alright fine, I have no principles and I am 100% in favor of using the death penalty on this woman.
I wouldn’t go as far as the death penalty. But a lobotomy should solve the problem.
Cover her with tuna and let fully-clawed cats have at her.
I didn’t see that coming. 🙄
Wood chipper.
“Gay couple who showed off picture-perfect family gets 100 years in prison for horrific rape of adopted sons
The boys — two brothers who are now 12 and 10 years-old — were adopted from a Christian special-needs agency by the Zulocks…
And they allegedly used social media to pimp the boys out to at least two men in a depraved local pedophile sex ring.
The couple was arrested in 2022 after an alleged member of the ring was caught downloading child porn, and he told the investigators how the Zulocks were making porn with young boys living in their house.”
https://nypost.com/2024/12/23/us-news/georgia-couple-convicted-for-sickening-sexual-abuse-of-adopted-sons-get-100-years-in-jail-a-house-of-horrors/
People using their kids as props is never a good sign.
Again, death penalty. Thanks Tater. (not)
And admittedly, even though I don’t think we have a strong social ethic to support the death penalty, that isn’t to say that there aren’t people who thoroughly deserve death.
I don’t have a problem with the death penalty, I just don’t trust the state to get it right.
Ok, so how can we take the state out of death penalty decision-making?
I don’t know how you can separate the state from the death penalty (since it is by definition the state executing someone). So I don’t know how you can be OK with the death penalty, but not the state imposing it.
What if only one person (in whom I place a lot of trust) gets that decision?
Also wood chipper.
I wonder how deep you have to dig to find that report in the NYT.
The NYT probably won’t cover the story.
Too local.
“A federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump blocked the Biden administration’s reinterpretation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in a lawsuit by a Texas doctor who claims the regulation muzzles her from reporting suspected child abuse and constitutes an end-run around Texas abortion restrictions…
The HIPAA rulemaking changed the law’s definitions of “person” to exclude human beings before birth, “reproductive health care” to “broadly” apply to the reproductive system, and “public health” to exclude use and disclosure of personal health information for investigations or proceedings related to reproductive healthcare.
Carmen Purl and her Dr. Purl’s Fast Care Walk In Clinic sued this fall for alleged Administration Procedure Act violations, claiming the regulation “arguably” requires her to violate Texas by not reporting suspected child abuse related to coerced abortion, sexually transmitted diseases and medicalized gender transitions.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/judge-blocks-biden-rule-allegedly-muzzles-doctors-reporting-suspected
Sounds way overly complicated.
“The HIPAA rulemaking changed the law’s definitions of “person” to exclude human beings before birth, “reproductive health care” to “broadly” apply to the reproductive system, and “public health” to exclude use and disclosure of personal health information for investigations or proceedings related to reproductive healthcare.”
Totally not lawmaking at all. Just dedicated civil servants carrying out the clear intent of Congress.
Some politically-motivated medical decisions are more equal than others.
Related – attempting to use HIPAA like national security classification.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/layered-prisons-dr-eithan-haim-and
Because I said so!
Everyone knows that electric vehicles are supposed to be better for the planet than gas cars. That’s the driving reason behind a global effort to transition toward batteries.
But what about the harms caused by mining for battery minerals? And coal-fired power plants for the electricity to charge the cars? And battery waste? Is it really true that EVs are better?
The answer is yes. But Americans are growing less convinced.
The net benefits of EVs have been frequently fact-checked, including by NPR. “No technology is perfect, but the electric vehicles are going to offer a significant benefit as compared to the internal combustion engine vehicles,” Jessika Trancik, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told NPR this spring.
It’s important to ask these questions about EVs’ hidden costs, Trancik says. But they have been answered “exhaustively” — her word — and a widerange of organizations have confirmed that EVs still beat gas.
A widespread range of leftist ecofanatic NGOs have massaged the data into mush and declared victory.
Fortunately, public interest science has an unimpeachable record of honest and accurate “research”.
“The net benefits of EVs have been frequently fact-checked, including by NPR.”
Well, if NPR says EV’s are humanity’s gift to Gaia, who am I to argue?
The priests have spoken.
Everyone knows that electric vehicles are supposed to be better for the planet than gas cars
They mean “asserted without evidence”.
And this has been exhaustively proven.
Ooooh, fact check. Checkmate, troglodytes.
Meanwhile, EVs have gotten caught up in the culture wars, where complexity and nuance go to die. EVs are associated with coastal, urban progressive elites. Plans to phase out gas cars in California and other regions have sparked fierce and sometimes misleading resistance from the fossil fuel industry.
Memes that exaggerate or distort the real harms of EVs — or that simply fail to compare them with the damage caused by gas cars — frequently circulate online.
Right wing meme-sters ruin everything. They prey on the ignorance and gullibility of their audience, unlike, say, NPR.
That is some serious (and very unintentional) irony.
Well, off to find my wife a replacement for her Corolla since some woman decided to take it out.
My wife doesn’t want to spend more than $8,000 because in her head it is still 2010 and a cheap car that’s reliable without too many miles shouldn’t be hard to find.
Looking at a 2013 Mazda 6i Touring, a 2004 Camry Solera, and a 2009 Infinity G37 to start.
Good Times.
I like the 6. Comfortable and drives nice.
I’ve had the 2017 Versa for approaching a month now.
I am very happy with it. It 31 mpg on the first tank. It’s quick and nimble — handles and corners very nicely in urban settings. Rock solid on the freeway at 80 mph. Plenty of acceleration to get on the freeway without problems.
I have driven it in light snow a couple of times. It performs quite nicely.
It is small. But is is not uncomfortably for two overweight people to sit in the front seats.
I paid $8500 for the vehicle with 82,000 miles on it.
This is a manual. The automatic transmissions are far, far more common. Doesn’t seem to have much effect on the car price for the used cars, even though it reduces MSRP by a grand or so.
As I was just thinking about it, I put a cheapo tonneau cover on the Frontier, rock solid at 80 on the freeway.
Very happy, as I paid less that $150.
I have seen the Infinity G35/G37 in the wild a few times. I have never driven one. I love my 2006 Nissan 350Z. I have had zero maintenance issue with my Z for the 19 years that I have had it.
The G35/G37 is shares the same basic platform as the 350Z/370Z. So, extrapolate as you wish.
What was lost, in this game of telephone, was the narrow focus of the original data.
The researcher behind the original study, Nick Molden, explains that he looked at tire and brake emissions — particulate matter, tiny particles that wear off tires and brake pads — and did not consider other emissions, including greenhouse gas emissions, at all.
Put differently: The idea that his work shows EVs are worse for the environment would make sense only if you ignore the existence of climate change.
You can’t ignore our giant global warming fudge factor. That’s what makes all our claims look all sciencey and realistic.
JFC.
Their readership needs some serious deprogramming.
The night auditor at the hotel is wearing doll clothing. I thought they were just a strange guest when I saw her in the lobby last night.
I shudder to ask “why”.
Funny, when I had that job I had to wear a uniform. You know, like normal hotels.
That’s completely out the window*. I’m happy when they’re wearing a polo or dress shirt. Athletic clothing, t shirts are not uncommon. While strange, she was better dressed than that. Weird neo-Victorian flared doll clothing, not sexytime skimpy outfit either.
* I stay at mid level limited service properties.
Sounds like the Gothic Lolita look. That was popularized in Japan about 20 years ago and has made it everywhere.
https://lolitafashion.fandom.com/wiki/Gothic_Lolita
Proving once again that you can put damn near anything on a Japanese girl and it looks good.
The night auditor at the hotel is wearing doll clothing.
Santa’s elf doll? Raggedy Anne? Slutty accountant Barbie?
Single most qualified person
Nippon Steel’s $15 billion bid for U.S. Steel has been referred to U.S. President Joe Biden, a White House spokesman said, giving the president 15 days to decide on a tie up he has previously said he opposes.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews foreign investments in the U.S. for national security risks, referred the deal to Biden after it was unable to reach a consensus, the companies and two sources said.
Joe knows trade.
Dr. Jill will flip a coin.
Dr. Jill will make sure the check cleared.
The U.S. is the only developed nation where domestic steel demand is increasing, with the highest steel prices globally due to production capacity falling short of domestic needs, SBI Securities analyst Ryunosuke Shibata said.
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CFIUS said on Monday that allowing Nippon Steel to take over U.S. Steel could result in lower domestic steel production representing “a national security risk”, according to the Washington Post, which first reported the referral to Biden.
That makes sense.
It’s not like companies respond to “demand” or anything. That would be crazy.