Wait….today isn’t a holiday?
Well, it is for me. I always take the day off, the Monday after the Superb Owl. But the Links don’t get days off!
So let us get to them.
- Shitbirds sent flying.
- Paging PieInTheSky, Pie to the red courtesy phone, please.
- Good – opportunities abound.
- Swiss reject economic suicide.
I’ve got nothing else – so music, comments and such are all yours.
“Romania’s… threat from hard-right opposition.”
Hard-right = not approved by EU globalists.
Europe has no right wing, only center-left and far left. It’ll be decades of pushing the overton window before rightists appear again.
The German “far-right” the learned the Vance Glance. Pray for the poor reporters.
https://x.com/SeibtNaomi/status/1889048941192208633
“Trump’s government efficiency drive turns attention to defense spending”
They sure have been kicking a lot of hornet’s nests.
Will the Ds try to stop DOGE from looking for waste in the DOD?
Guaranteed. There’s a reason they’ve been all for war with Russia.
“the youth section of the Green Party”
*shudder*
Head for ze hills
Aren’t those the lowlands in France, Germany, and Italy?
Just hunt the young greens for sport.
Just don’t lead them as much?
It’s a little bit early to be hunting for greens. Plus we’re about to be hit with 3-6″ of snow in the Philly area.
Oh, you didn’t mention it’s not SPRING greens.
Well, around here right now if someone wanted to hunt greens it’s a target-rich environment. And that’s not even counting the Irish . . .
Citizens on Sunday overwhelmingly said no to an ambitious proposal by the Young Greens to bring the country’s economy into line with “planetary boundaries”.
Will need to find a friendly court to force the people to utopia.
Winter is coming. School has been canceled tomorrow, and possibly for the rest of the week. There goes my quiet work environment.
Since Treasury is currently enjoined from any activity, just fix the glitch, Office Space-style, for the USAID
leechesemployees. Then the problem will fix itself.Exactly. If Treasury can’t do anything… no payments! Not to USAID and not to Federal Judges.
Go home. You’re fired. You will be trespassed if you return.
The judge can go fuck himself.
Roberts is no friend of Trump, but he needs to stomp this hard or else Trump goes Andrew Jackson and just ignores the courts.
Trump can just issue pardons to everyone. Maybe he can be the first President to issue future pardons.
“I pardon Big Balls for any crimes between 2021 and 2025”
Pope Jimbo:
Didn’t Hunter Biden’s pardon go into the future a day or so?
First you wish really really hard…
The peasants will figure out how to deal with no food or heating. That’s not our problem.
Reduce per capita, or reduce capita?
I’m really really struggling to see why CO2 is a pollutant. It’s tree food and people also keep screaming about deforestation. It’s SUPPOSED to be here.
Don’t waste the effort. The whole thing is a cult of death, grifter scam.
Reality is rapidly fighting back so hopefully we won’t have to deal with the lunacy much longer.
The last time I engaged one of these nuts, he kept screaming at me, “DO YOU WANT TO BREATHE COAL??!!”
It’s pointless other than as a source of amusement.
As RC Dean mentioned a day or so ago, all Trump has to do is put himself on the right side of some 80 / 20 issues and let his opposition beclown itself.
Same sentiment from the All In Pod.
https://x.com/theallinpod/status/1889012797419528305
I wonder if my newly founded NGO, the Stinky Wizzleteats Institute of International Affairs, Sound Economic Policy, and Hopefully Slavic Women Importation can get some of those unfrozen federal funds. Throw some my way judge who apparently controls the executive branch too, I’ll play ball.
It’s all right there in the Constitution – Congrats and send pictures of the babes.
I could be convinced to donate some of the $2.3 million salary I’d get from The Other Kevin’s Agency for Transgender Sled Hockey Player Outreach to the local Democrat candidate for dog catcher.
I look forward to grants for the Jaime Roberto Home for Wayward Girls.
Those girls, all aged 18-21 of course, need a helping hand JR.
What is the path forward here?
Does the Trump administration ignore the judge and continue to fire people and freeze spending?
Or does the Trump administration seek an expedited appeal up the ladder?
Which is actually preferable?
“The judge has stayed this order. We will appeal his ruling. In the meantime, I am issuing this slightly different order, which has not been stayed and goes into effect immediately.”
^^^This.
Or: The judge has made his decision; now let him enforce it.
whack a mole . . . .
The biden method
We’ll see, of course. But given the competence with which this administration is operating, I expect they foresaw this and have a contigency plan other than “wait a few years and see if we win on appeal”.
If he decides to tell the court to stuff it, I think he could say that the “Take Care” clause of the Constitution prohibits him from making payments without first assuring himself that they are, in fact, in compliance with the law, including the appropriations authorizing such payments. Consequentially, he is bound by the Constitution to continue with the ongoing review of payments and payment systems, and making payments that cannot be confirmed as in compliance with the law would be unconstitutional and thus prohibited.
Like I said – the Supreme have an interest in stopping this nonsense.
Thanks RC.
I’ve been trying to figure out how this plays out.
They seem incredibly well prepared.
The question is, what will the Supes see as nonsense? Trump’s program, or the courts stopping it? There’s likely three guaranteed anti-Trump votes, and enough squish in probably three others, maybe more, to make it far from a lay-down win.
Either way, though, let’s get ‘er done. If the Executive is indeed, going to be put in receivership and operated under court supervision, let’s find out sooner rather than later.
Another tactic Trump could take would be to start requesting that the court now supervising federal payments review and approve them, as Trump cannot do so as required by the Constitution. Let’s make it obvious how absurd this is. Start submitting line items, with a request that the court rule that, say, funding for transgender farmers in Mongolia, via grants to American NGOs, does in fact carry out the underlying appropriation to USAID. It that millions of dollars of subscriptions to a website must be continued.
Etc. ad infinitum. There’s hundreds of thousands, if not more, such line items that you could request court approval for.
If the Supremes say that the Chief Executive is not in charge of the Executive Branch, they’ll have to explain exactly who is.
Curb stomp the judiciary and woodchipper the residue.
Gals for Stinky to import.
https://archive.is/71dmp
Mammary Monday.
Cheekbones not high enough to make the cut and they don’t look bitchy enough in an Ice Queen sort of way for the most part but I think we might be able to get them a visa if they need one.
Will there be an opportunity for “Glibs Family members” to cut the line and get first dibs?
I didn’t think I could hate the NFL any more than I already did. But then I watched the super bowl.
Show me on the doll where the Super Bowl touched you…
While it’s nice to have the oldest back, and she is helping when asked, we had to have a talk with her today about how she uses her free time. All she does is… sit. Sit and watch TV, sit and play games on her phone, sit and watch TikTok. All. Day. So far she’s gotten one interview, at Walmart, and they said they’ let her know this week. I hope to hell she gets a job soon.
I threw my daughter out of the house, on a Dec 23rd, many years ago. Won’t go to school and had quit her job. There were a lot of tears. She moved in with her cousin, that lasted a month. She got the message and settled down, even though that took some time.
Now she’s nearing 60, with two divorces, grown up kids (that are doing well) and working hard.
We told our kids if they were going to school (and hopefully working part time), they could live at home for free. If they worked, they could live at home and pay rent and utilities for as long as they needed. They both started working at 15-1/2. XX just finally got full time and is looking for places. XY moved out almost a year ago. Both independent AF. Bro1’s kids OTOH … 🙄
That said, TOK, maybe she needs to have some decompression/adjustment time? She just got out of a cult. My mind would be a jumble of barbed wire after that.
It does seem like this time she’s a little more receptive. But I feel like I’m seeing a microcosm of a large part of the country, who has no initiative and would rather spend all their time vegging out with their phone.
Yes, I could see how one might not be able to tell lack of initiative from decompression.
She is still confused and still not sure she did the right thing. She was living in absolute squalor. It was like an episode of Cops. Now she has her own space, clean clothes, a haircut, and lots of support.
That is so sad. The longer my mom is away from her sisters, the more she downplays how mean they were to her.
That cult filled some need of hers and it would be good for her to figure that out.
Well, on the other other hand, I did have a mindless data entry temp job at a very low point in my life that helped me work my way back out of my hole. I was in a typing pool and we could wear headphones and listen to music. It was soothing work.
I just ran across an article on a Minnesoda proggie site that reminded me that we have banned gay conversion therapy in Minnesoda.
Square that with the circle of trans kids getting surgeries and puberty blockers.
I think that gay conversion therapy is bullshit, but why it is made illegal and transing kids isn’t is beyond me.
This is exactly why the T activists latched onto L and G, despite the phenomena being completely unrelated.
Clueless lefty heteros like Walz don’t know any better so of course G and L and T et al. are all completely interchangeable, think alike, etc. (Just like members of the racial pigeonholes they like so much.)
Walz is hetero? You sure?
lol I was expecting push back on that claim
Just because someone is a perpetual bottom sub, doesn’t make them gay…
You sound a little defensive, there, Evil.
Detroit Lakes finest and kids will be fed in MN
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/sen-nicole-mitchell-faces-added-charge-for-alleged-burglary/89-ba6c2065-c700-469c-a858-4281a048d257
No conversion therapy so we’ve got that going
The DFL is so wonderful. Standing up for the principle that someone is innocent until proved guilty.
Especially if that accused person happens to be person who gives them a one vote edge in the Minnesoda Senate.
I think that gay conversion therapy is bullshit
Ditto, but still, this is an egregious 1A violation.
I’m surprised someone hasn’t put in a lawsuit claiming that convincing someone they are ‘trans’ is conversion therapy in of itself.
OH NO!
Anyway…
Incentives! How do they work?
Quite well apparently.
Fabulous!?!
We need a mini-DOGE here in Minneapolis. The head of the civilian review board for Minneapolis resigns because City Council members were harassing her about contracts
Hell, it’s about time:
https://popular.info/p/the-nsas-big-delete
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A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.
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Do we know what those banned words are?
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits?
Thank you. That was good for a much needed laugh today.
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This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
Anti-Racism
Racism
Allyship
Bias
DEI
Diversity
Diverse
Confirmation Bias
Equity
Equitableness
Feminism
Gender
Gender Identity
Inclusion
Inclusive
All-Inclusive
Inclusivity
Injustice
Intersectionality
Prejudice
Privilege
Racial Identity
Sexuality
Stereotypes
Pronouns
Transgender
Equality
The memo acknowledges that the list includes many terms that are used by the NSA in contexts that have nothing to do with DEI. For example, the term “privilege” is used by the NSA in the context of “privilege escalation.” In the intelligence world, privilege escalation refers to “techniques that adversaries use to gain higher-level permissions on a system or network.”
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Huh, they even took down the kids’ page: https://www.nsa.gov/kids/
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Press Release | Nov. 1, 2005
They’re Short, They’re Smart, They’re Stylish… The CryptoKids Arrive at NSA.GOV!
Today, the National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) announced its new and improved Internet Kids Page. With a new set of hip characters, leading-edge software technology, and interactive games, puzzles, animation, and sound; this site is sure to inspire future generations of codemakers and codebreakers. The CryptoKids includes:
Crypto Cat: Information Assurance – The purr-fect little feline, she loves to create secret messages to purr-plex her friends…
Decipher Dog: Signals Intelligence – The ultimate codebreaker, he looks for the hidden message behind the words, symbols, and sounds…
Sergeant Sam (eagle): CSS – A natural born leader with an eye for excellence, he guides the kids through cryptologic fun…
Slate (rabbit): Mathematics – This MC (Math Caper) is no square, juggling numbers in the air, no doubt he’s one cool hare…
Rosetta Stone (fox): Language – A free spirit with a fox-cination with language and culture, she learns something new every day…
T.Top (turtle): Computer Science – He won’t challenge you to a foot race, but he’s lightning fast in the science of computers…
Joules (squirrel): Engineering – A burst of energy, she’s quite the innovator and loves to shock her friends with new ideas…
The CryptoKids make researching America’s cryptologic heritage and learning about NSA/CSS fun. They provide students with activities and games ranging from simple coloring pages to complex codemaking and codebreaking exercises. They provide information on the Agency’s educational programs and future employment opportunities. And they provide teachers and parents with resources for taking the study of language, mathematics, and science from boring schoolwork to just plain cool work
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Damn. I was hoping that this was the list: https://word-lists.com/word-lists/the-1000-most-common-words-in-english/
No Poochie?
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E14/856471
creech on February 10, 2025 at 9:32 am
Back in the day,
in Chem class, we’d dip a penny in a beaker of sulphuric acid until it was dime sized, then use in a vending machine to buy a snack.you could get something out of a vending machine for a dime.The 100 won coin from Korea works well as a quarter ($0.07) in most US vending machines (I’ve been told).
You can bring a bunch back and enjoy the casino slots for a lot less
Is it gambling if you know you’re going to lose, like paying your taxes?
Show me on the doll where the Super Bowl touched you…
*points to doll’s nose*
It stank. Front to back, top to bottom. As for the game itself… “on any Sunday” applies; any team can have an off day, and the Chefs certainly did. The “spectacle” on the other hand…
I did not watch the halftime show. I can’t remember the last time I did. As for the commercials, it was a giant muddle of “WTF did I just watch?” suck.
Ron Paul auditing the Fed should worry us all. That will mean hell has frozen over, and we should also watch the skies for swine.
Free pork is cool, but were there any Old Sayings relating likelihoods and eggs?
And a Vikings Super Bowl win?
Ole and Sven die in a snowmobiling accident, drunker than skunks, And go to Hell. The Devil observes that they are really enjoying themselves. He says to them ‘Doesn’t the heat and smoke bother you?’ Ole replies, ‘Vell, ya know, ve’re from nordern Minnesooota, da land of snow an ice, an ve’re yust happy fer a chance ta varm up a little bit, ya know.’
The devil decides that these two aren’t miserable enough and turns up the heat even more. When he returns to the room of the two from Minnesota , the devil finds them in light jackets and hats, grilling Walleye and drinking beer. The devil is astonished and exclaims, ‘Everyone down here is in misery, and you two seem to be enjoying yourselves?’ Sven replies, ‘Vell, ya know, ve don’t git too much varm veather up dere at da Falls, so ve’ve yust got ta haff a fish fry vhen da veather’s dis nice.’
The devil is absolutely furious. He can hardly see straight. Finally he comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in Hell. The next morning, the temperature is 60 below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere, and people are shivering so bad that they are unable to wail, moan or gnash their teeth. The devil smiles and heads for the room with Ole and Sven. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, bomber hats, and mittens. They are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men. The devil is dumbfounded, ‘I don’t understand, when I turn up the heat you’re happy. Now its freezing cold and you’re still happy. What is wrong with you two?’ They both look at the devil in surprise and say, ‘Vell, don’t ya know, if hell iss froze over, dat must mean da Vikings von da Super Bowl.
I cant decide which Trump action is the best but having RP audit the fed is pretty hard to beat. Ok, impossible to beat…maybe tie…but never beat.
Ron is going to be 90 in August. Wonder if he is up to it? Federal Judge Doofutz will be injunctioning the audit for the next decade.
I’m with ya Suthen. Proud to say the first time I could vote, in ’08, I voted for him. Obviously, I was surrounded by kids overwhelmed with the sheer dreaminess of Obama, and was (slightly) harangued for not voting for Him. The opening salvos from Trump 2.0 are fucking breathtaking, in all the right ways.
For the first time in my life, I’m legitimately excited by the president’s actions. I eagerly await each development. Watching the reaction of the losers is perhaps equally rewarding. They still don’t get it. Their confusion is a delight to behold.
[[[Bikman]]] on Peterson. Should be good, hopefully Peterson will let him talk and they won’t go off into the weeds of the interpretation of Biblical scripture. NTAWWT.
Bikman almost always has something interesting to say about metabolic health.
Another article for Pie. I hope it’s true.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/02/10/now-that-theres-no-from-usaid-romania-may-get-the-guy-they-voted-for-the-first-time-n3799693
I also take the Monday after the Superbowl off. Usually to mourn my losing bet.