Ovechkin is just 13 goals away from the NHL record after a hat trick yesterday. And he’s a Russian, so I wonder if that’s gonna irritate some irrational people. Spring Training games are under way and I couldn’t be happier. And across the pond, Liverpool put the thumbscrews to Man City at the Etihad and surged to an 11 point lead at the top of the table after Arsenal lost Saturday. Arsenal still have a game in hand, but barring a major stumble, Liverpool look poised to win the league now. If they can beat Newcastle in a couple days, anyway. And that’s it for sports.
That’s an interesting descriptor they chose to use. I wonder when they started noting the net worth of candidates for office. Perhaps they’ll start calling Schumer the “multi-millionaire Senate Minority Leader” Or “ultra-wealthy heir and senator Dan Goldman” when he is complaining about something on MSNBC. Nah, more likely this will only one used to describe a republican businessman who got wealthy before entering public life, unlike Schumer.
Well, she finally got her voice. Strange how she raised no objections when this happened. One might suspect her off being a giant fucking hypocrite.
I wonder how this will end up working out for her. Homan seems like a grudge-holding kind of guy, so I suspect we’ll see in short order. At some point, he’s gonna make an example out of these pols and spend a ton of resources targeting illegals in their cities.
This gets better every day. Well, it will when they start spilling the tea.
Don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
Excess? Don’t you mean “extra?” Or does the left think we’re about to/should return to the age of boarding houses?
This will get people screaming for impeachment. QUID PRO QUO!!! QUID PRO QUO!!!! Yeah, whatever.
Why doesn’t the train just hire security? And, you know, just start shooting these people?
I guess they’re pretty clear on their reasoning. Gamergate is truly dead on the distribution end, it seems. Although I have no idea how many people actually buy physical copies of games anymore, so this could just mean nothing.
I wonder of this will get the kind of coverage Alito’s wife got. I suspect the answer will be “no.”
Let’s go mellow this morning. At least for a moment. That didn’t last long. Man, those are great songs. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
“This gets better every day. Well, it will when they start spilling the tea.”
Man, gonna hate not having his podcast every day, but if I hear he is whooping ass and helping RICO edict the bureaucrats and politicians that have screwed over the American people for the last 2 decades (on overdrive), I am for it.
I assume reason will be even more upset about the Bongino appointment as they are the Patel one:
https://x.com/reason/status/1893404396169392480?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
And I’m kind of surprised they haven’t blocked me yet for my reply:
https://x.com/sloopytexas/status/1893861967317676425?s=46&t=A06oloe1Jyy9EG2F8MX6aw
Damn, brah…
Harsh but accurate.
“Durkan ridiculed Homan for a brief stint as a small-town cop at the beginning of his career”
This isn’t the dunk she thinks it is, at least to people who live outside big cities.
I’m seeing similar criticisms of Bongino from the left. “He’s not qualified because he’s not a career agent with 25+ years on the inside.”
Motherfucker, we know that! That’s why we’re happy.
“Captain James T. Kirk, reckless head of the starship Enterprise was criticized heavily by Federation Media today for disrupting the orderly transition of power in the organization of Landru….”
Why wouldn’t you just put another rotten to the core insider in command again sloopy?
It’s almost like the left doesn’t want to have things run effectively for the American people.
The left’s argument is literally if they ain’t one of us, they ain’t qualified. And by one of us they mean a corrupt marxist globalist piece of shit that is beholden to the destruction of the US so they can replace it all with a new global aristocracy to oversee the serfs they let live in the new feudal order..
It’s almost like the left doesn’t want to have things run effectively for the American people.
I suspect their definition of “efficiently” varies from yours and mine. And the words “norms” and “customary” matter more to them than “fight crime and ensure rights for Americans” do.
@Alex
“The left’s argument is literally if they ain’t one of us, they ain’t qualified. ”
I used to be LESS conspiratorial, but I recently had a boss who was left-wing, component, but prone to all their biases… I was also working hand in hand with some NGO’s during that time.
There’s are definitely little cliques that guide shit and try to dictate who is an expert. This is one of the great things about the fall of Chevron deference. We were getting just terrible people on the regulatory side for one of my projects. Allegedly experts who did not have any expertise at all.
Under marxism, expertise is neve as important as loyalty to the cause and the ones in charge.
“,\That’s an interesting descriptor they chose to use. ”
Bernie, whom stopped complaining about millionaires as soon as someone reminded him he was one, is the poster child for this evil bullshit. It is the politics of envy. We used to admire billionaires. Team blue only admires them now if they bend the knee to the criminal globalist cabal and agenda, and finance the debauchery and destruction of the world we wish we had.
Rockefeller and Henry Ford became millionaires by making things affordable for more people.
Rockefeller saved the whales, too.
That reminds me, I did buy the textbook on fats and oils, I need to get back to reading that.
You into lubed blue haired whale sex now UCS?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
@Cav
Yup. Even as a kid I could never understand the whole ‘robber Baron’ / gilded age crap.
So you’re telling me everyone got richer, they donated tons of money and built beautiful buildings that have lasted 100+ years (nicer than anything we make now…) and they’re somehow the bad guys? Come again.
“But they worked their workers hard and cracked down on unions!”
You mean you’re *not* into lubed blue haired whale sex, Alex? :-p
I admit I had sex with a land whale, on a dare, back in my younger years, just so I could become an authority on espousing the difference between having sex on a water bed and having sex with a water bed, but nah, I am not into that shit, Ted.
Alex, I think that question tells us more about you than maybe we wanted to know.
TMI, right?
Sometimes you can’t help but notice that the current political structure both rewards and fosters the Seven Deadlies. Depressing.
Seems destined to happen once people eschew religion.
the current
political structurecultureFTFY
people eschew religion
There has to be something else that humanity can attach itself to, since religion is pretty fungible.
Government promising heaven on earth and the righting of all wrongs. Just as fungible.
‘There has to be something else that humanity can attach itself to, since religion is pretty fungible.’
I think the past examples of societies treating religion as though it could be easily replaced should disabuse you of that notion
We’re just now entering the era where people in the US are more irreligious than not. It’s going to cause a lot of strain on society, particularly from the lack of new births. I don’t think it has worked in any other society, so I’m going the trend reverses here.
You’re missing my point – the human need for religion… ANY religion. I agree that changing religions in a culture leads to cultural failure (e.g. Rome). The issue is that religion is a fiction – that’s why humanity has so many of them. It is the function of that fiction in culture that puzzles me – since it really has nothing to do with any transcendent deity. Just the idea of one.
Too many things are predicated on the base assumptions inherent in whatever religion is dominating a society.
When that common understanding goes away, it is that much harder for everyone to work together, everything needs to adjust, and find a new way of being.
It just isn’t possible to find a new solution on the kind of timescale that matters for a society.
juris imprudent:
I think the draw for religions is that in all of them, the evil get punished and the good get rewarded (with different definitions of evil and good between the religions). There are times that I wish I was a believer so that I could believe that the evil would get punished.
By this logic, space was a fiction until we sent rockets outside our own atmosphere.
The moon was a fiction until Armstrong set foot on it.
It just isn’t possible to find a new solution on the kind of timescale that matters for a society.
Again, that’s transition, not the central function of religion. Replacement is very problematic, the issue I can’t figure out is why we humans insist on the damn thing in the first place.
the evil get punished and the good get rewarded
Demonstrably not true, at least in this life. Which IMO makes it doubly worthless.
space was a fiction
Aether theory? The difference of course is that we discard useless/disproven theories. I have no problem with that.
juris imprudent:
That’s the point, we see evil people get away with things every day without being punished, religion includes the promise that they will be punished still (hellfire, eternal damnation, reincarnation as a lower creature, etc.).
JI,
“the issue I can’t figure out is why we humans insist on the damn thing in the first place.
“the evil get punished and the good get rewarded
Demonstrably not true, at least in this life. Which IMO makes it doubly worthless.”
Only if you don’t believe in an afterlife. I think you see (at least one) use of religion, if you just invert your comments here.
It isn’t possible for society to punish every wicked person, and if we try it becomes hell on earth. At the same time people have very strong feelings about fairness, etc.
Religion is one way to mitigate this problem. God will sort it out later, so just focus on being good in this life.
You might also consider that you’re a weirdo if you don’t think religion is needed, since 90% of people who have ever lived probably believed in some sort of religious/spiritual life.
I’d much prefer we figure out how to have a just society while we are alive.
As for death, that’s the core bit – the wish to live forever (in at least some form). I’ll believe in an afterlife when you can explain where my soul was before I was born (points to the LDS, they at least have a story on this).
Oh yes, I fully recognize how odd I am.
Since “we” cannot agree on the definition of “a just society,” that’s an impossibility which is why social engineering is just authoritarianism from the beginning.
That sounds a bit Hobbesian NA – we need a sovereign to rule over us? Or as Islamic Sharia would have it – God’s law as decided by the priestly caste. At least the Roman civil law tradition takes it out of the realm of revelation.
I admit – this works with most people. I just consider that a defect in our design/evolution (however you choose to see that).
I don’t know how you go from “your base assumption is completely false” to “therefore we need a tyrant. ”
You’re going to need to flesh out that argument for me.
Well, you asserted that we can’t agree on a just society – doesn’t that imply it must be imposed upon us, and then we’ll be ‘happy’?
I’m thinking less of engineering and more of why we aren’t evolving – why we are stuck in this particular rut. We see the futility and yet we keep repeating the pattern.
To the same extent that saying “we can’t invent a perpetual motion machine” implies that “a perpetual motion machine must be imposed upon us and then we’ll be happy.” Which is to say, not at all.
If something is impossible it cannot be achieved, neither by engineering, nor evolution, nor random mutation. People are, get this, not the same. And there is sufficient variation among individuals that while small scale things which might meet some particular definition of “society,” larger scale constructions are doomed to always be “unjust.”
juris:
I would say that you would need a voluntarism based society, with people joining groups, organizations, burbclaves, etc. that match with their morality and preferences. The big issue (for me) is people wanting to force others to accept their moral and legal codes without any way to break off.
Ironic to bring up perpetual motion when the persistent need to believe in God(s) is being questioned. One can never exist and the other can’t seem to be purged.
No society is ever going to perfectly fit all people – yet, how fucking many humans operate under that delusion? That’s what is wrong with us as a species.
Neph – exactly. The problem with the nation-state (and this isn’t a permanent part of the human condition) is the lie about sovereignty, and that it is a one-way ratchet.
“Laughable that someone who spent their career policing a town smaller than a Fenway Park crowd thinks they can lecture Boston on public safety,” Durkan’s post read.
It’s part and parcel of the Left to minimize / denigrate anyone’s accomplishments prior to him entering the public sector. See Trump as “television game show host” vs “billionaire real estate developer.”
Went to Smith, has worked in politics for the 10 years since then.
Those are the sort of credentials one needs to ensure public safety in a medium-to-small sized city!
The way the article reads — yes, boarding houses might be what they want.
Of course, what they might also want is forced confiscation of private property to divvy up as they see fit…. but that would take democratic socialism or some such. California just wants to tear down your homes and build
hamster tunnelshigh occupancy housing closer to mass transit, so that’s probably coloring my interpretation.Morning, Sloopy — morning all.
‘there are nearly 32 million excess bedrooms in people’s homes. ‘
Sure, that’s less than I would have thought. Hell, I’ve maintained two spare rooms for the past 10 years, of course, now they’re home offices.
“I’ve had a good number of people reach out, but they haven’t seemed to be good fits.”
This is the hard part, since anyone looking for a room to rent is usually some kind of transient or whatever.
Add in how some places make it nearly impossible to evict.
I have a couple of those “excess bedrooms” in South Carolina. It has never crossed my mind to rent one to a complete stranger.
Weird that they write that article about South Carolina. There are apartment buildings shooting up like weeds in the cities and townhouse developments in the suburbs. Charleston, Columbia, and Greenville are all expanding housing capacity quickly (maybe too fast).
A British pundit also publicly spoke about people ‘excess bedrooms’. The idea apparently being ‘since you’ve got spare space, we’re going to provide you with a tenant for it, and you’d better like it’.
No doubt in Britain that means an immigrant, possibly an entire immigrant family.
You gave me an idea. Done rent housing, rent the spare bedrooms out as office space. They are in during worm hours and gone most weekends. Provide solid internet and allow use of kitchen as a break room.
Fake news. The handmaids got their assignments over a month ago. There are no where near that many spare rooms.
I’m also willing to bet that there’s quite a few of those “extra bedrooms” that are offices, play areas, workout rooms and the like.
My wife and I live in the same 3/2 we bought 27 years ago. One Massa, er, “main” bedroom, one guest bedroom mostly inhabited by a semi-irascible cat, and one home office.
According to the study, we have an excess bedroom. I’m not buying into the study’s methodology.
I don’t care about any methodology. It’s my house.
Or, and here’s a crazy idea that’s never been tried before, share a house with a friend.
I want to but my wife’s not to hot on that idea.
“Don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel.”
Gotta love the piling on, and nobody deserves the ridicule more than that insane bitch, but has anyone wondered what finally compelled that clown show at MSNBC to remove this moron? Did they do so to replace her? I mean they are giving ginger commie bitch more time now that they have more time, so it is not about the fact they are waking up to being rediculous.
has anyone wondered what finally compelled that clown show at MSNBC to remove this moron?
If I had to wager a guess, I’d say it has something to do with the litany of libel lawsuits they’ve been settling lately. They see that they’re no longer able to say what they want with impunity and are doing a cost/benefit analysis of what these people bring to the table in ad money relative to what they’re paying out to doctors they defame by calling them “uterus collectors” and guys who go into Afghanistan to help people escape for a fee.
Lying isn’t as cheap as it used to be and they are perhaps trying to get away from the costs associated with it.
The cynical side of me has to wonder a little if it has to do with BLM’s political cred decreasing over the last year. Don’t have to overtly pander as hard to that section of the left wing.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that the USAID/NGO funding getting cut will have an impact on donations and ad buys.
I saw something posted the other day, “Looks like we have had UBI for a while now, but only for progressives”.
Respectfully disagree. It’s simply because it didn’t work this time. If Trump had lost they’d all have gotten big contract extensions. They’re going to try a new tactic for next election and they need new people to do it.
Yeah, that was my double take TAFKaL: they are replacing the old faces with knew ones, but the message will remain the same. But then they upped the time for ginger marxist Barbie, and there is no bigger poster child for the failure of the last 4 years than her except for KJP.
Maybe some of the old cadre will be let go later, and they are just starting with the worst of the worst first, but there is no way I see that clownhouse getting credibility back from people not currently watching that mountain of shit.
“President Donald Trump demanded MSNBC pay restitution for ‘damaging’ the nation and branded host Joy Reid a ‘mentally obnoxious racist’ after learning her show had been canceled. ”
I can see the Donald is exercising a lot more self control this time around.
He didn’t even use the R-word. That’s probably the nicest thing someone could say about her. Amazing that blatant racists can get away with so much in big left-wing areas.
MSNBC does need to make amends to America, but it’s simply not the government’s place to demand it.
Because the California government will prosecute them as hard as it can, I expect. The better question in my mind is “How much is it going to take to make the West Coast ports untenable?” Between the theft, the constant messing with the trucking and rail industries, etc…. they’re doing their level best to diminish human activity off the coasts.
Since the trains are moving between CA & AZ, wouldn’t it be a federal matter?
Have the federal marshals deputize railroad security and, yes, start shooting train robbers.
Bring back US Marshals based out of Tombstone.
Part of the problem is the disparity in criminal statutes. In CA, train robbery is a crime with penalties ranging from 16 months to 3 years. The federal statute allows for a penalty of 20 years.
So this is going to take federal action if people are gonna see the law as anything but a joke. Especially since CA is notoriously lenient for first- and second-time lawbreakers.
Unfortunately we no longer have Gene Wilder or Richard Pryor available to foil crime on trains.
What are the technical aspects of disconnecting California from the rest of the electricity grid?
It can probably be done from a few control panels in adjacent states. You have to be careful and coordinate a simulteneous shutdown so that the automated systems don’t overload alternative pathways to the grid while you’re shutting down the connections. Once the cables are dead, you can physically cut them.
An excess room tax will solve the housing shortage.
We should go back to taxing indoor staircases.
and windows
The Harry Potter Act of 2026 will cover both bases, cavalier!
The Roosevelt Hotel, which has been open for nearly two years as a main intake center for migrants, is set to close in the coming months, according to Mayor Eric Adams.
Left unanswered: how long will it take to fix up after years of abuse by third world peasants, how much will it cost, and who is footing the bill? Or will it merely fall to the wrecking ball? Also, why did said peasants need to stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan — some of the most expensive real estate on earth? Are the peasants dispersing to the slaughterhouses and landscape firms throughout the country, or will they continue to roam the neighborhood, driving away the tourist trade? Or (better yet), do the forces of Homan descend on the region, put all the
illegalsasylum seekers on a plane, and send ’em south?Ideally, the migrants formed a cult and committed mas suicide to join the comet-riding Heaven’s Gate folks in space.
I couldn’t answer, but well-written.
Questions nobody in charge is going to ask, or answer.
(Meant @ Shpip)
” Also, why did said peasants need to stay at a hotel in midtown Manhattan — some of the most expensive real estate on earth? ”
Everything they do shows contempt and malice towards the country and our culture. That is the heart of critical theory – to shit on everything. Remember Kamalamadingdong’s unburdened speech? These are black pajama year zero people. Make no mistake, they were navigating straight towards an American cultural revolution/killing fields territory.
/not hyperbole
What is crazy is that is one of Gretzky’s easier records to break.
The assists and points records will never be broken. Those numbers are just insane.
Mario Lemieux would have been the only person I think could have encroached…but cancer. Fuck cancer.
What’s curious to me is that among the top 25 career points scorers, only Ovetchkin and Brett Hull at #25 have more goals than assists.
Statistical anomaly, the way those two played their positions, or what — someone who knows the game far better than I do will have to chime in.
If I had to wager a guess, I’d say it’s a result of two assists being given for most goals. So the opportunities for an assist, especially for a forward, are nearly double that for goals.
More than one assist and nearly two points per game is difficult to beat.
I would have thought 90’s Salane and Kariya would have had a shot, since they were the only 2 on that team that could score goals.
Good morning!
For UnCiv, re: SIG 1911’s
I’ve never shot one, but one of or shooters is a SIG fanboi and has a couple including the Max Michel signature edition.
One big thing about them is that they’re not actually the same size/shape of a real 1911, so they won’t fit in 1911 holsters. Most of the gaming gear companies have separate options for “1911” and “SIG 1911”
Speaking of that company, I need to decide on something to buy since Area 7 is there this year and I’ll be getting that discount again. I don’t really have a need for anything at the moment, and maybe would get a 1911 to serve as a single stack gun. I have no desire to get anything for Prod/CO/LO/Limited.
Understood. Thank you. I’ve got time to weigh my options. The one In the shop case still has my eye, and I might go back and see if I can try it out (spoiler, I know it’s possible)
For saturday, have you thought of any place you’d prefer to meet up?
The only places I’m aware of nearer to Troy that’re good are Dinosaur and Maharaja so I’ll defer to your greater expertise.
I’ve never been to Maharaja, so for the sake of variety I vote for there.
Not in the parking lot of a sketchy Stewart’s?
For lunch? No thank you, Stewart’s is more of an ice cream place.
What is that, like ten people?
😂🤣
It’s right there on page 1,653 of Project 2025:
“Sell Yosemite to Elon for his waste dumping enterprise.”
Have then seen how people treat these protected lands?
The busy national parks are terribly for the environment within 1 mile of the major roads, and at the biggest attractions. It would be laughable to call them nature.
Get 5 miles away from the road and things start looking normal again.
They let go of 11 out of ~ 1,400 Yosemite employees, IIRC.
Truly, the fall of the republic.
One of the had the ONLY key to the bathrooms! The disaster!!
Did they lose the institutional knowledge of how to open the gates?
That seems like too many employees, even with how busy Yosemite is.
I wonder what the number of staff was 5 years ago. I bet it’s still lower than what they have now after this massacre.
My mistake, there were 1,151 employees – almost 1% were cut! Total massacre!
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/writhing-in-agony-and-despair-as
R C Dean: it’s actually a bit lower than 5 years ago:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200222193106/https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/management/statistics.htm
1,278 winter employees then.
Burgum should just fire them all, take a handful of employees from another park and send them to Yosemite to run it temporarily, and ignore the imminent screeching about free speech from the left. Cite a deliberate violation of the flag code as the reason it simply say political statements on the government dime will not be tolerated, as it’s not the inclusive way parks should operate and might make some guests feel intimidated if they have different political beliefs from the people making the political statement who are there to make the park open for all.
Oh, and be sure to give every new employee a copy of the master key to all the bathrooms. Because that’s a lot more logical than having one fucking employee in a park the size of Rhode Island capable of getting someone out of a locked shitter.
/patiently waits for the reports of park employees spying on people in the bathroom
I think the whole thing is horseshit theater. Do the bathrooms even have locks on them? The state run public restrooms I am used to are large rooms full of stalls and the entrance doors are swing doors with no locks. How many people actually got let go?
– yes, fed employees making political statements on public land should be grounds for firing.
– Where did the flag come from? Who paid for it? This is like the pallets of bricks that showed up pre-riot during the summer of whatever…someone bought that, there is a paper trail. No one ever seems interested in looking into it. WHO PAID FOR IT?
They have locks. Remember that during COVID, the parks were closed and bathrooms were locked.
BTW, even though I expect Brussels to look for an excuse to reverse the result, it looks like the left was beaten up bad in the German elections from yesterday. Note they had single day voting, with paper ballots (no voting machines allowed), and IDs, heavily restricted mail in voting, and they had a result in less than 24 hrs. That’s how you do legit elections. We might want to make that change here so we can have auditable and legit elections going forward that do not require a massive turnout by the people to overcome the cheating like we had in 2024 (after which they then counted for months to steal seats in congress instead).
Victor Davis Hanson in a nutshell just now – Trump has a tough row to hoe. It’s harder to fix things than to break them.
I blame the Republicans for us being where we are today.
Absolutely Suthen. As I remind people, the first political cabal that had to be broken for us to make our way forward was the republican party. There are still some bad elements left there that still need to be sent to pasture.
Half the party is mad they can’t just lose gracefully and enjoy a little payola. They had a lot of good decades operating that way.
Over the weekend I was having a few drinks (because of course I was) with a friend, and I think we’ve stumbled on a new business opportunity — a hunting dog rental service.
Hunting dogs are a PITA to raise, train, and maintain. Here we’d do the work for the customer. All he’d have to do is request the specific type (pheasant, quail, waterfowl, etc) and we’d supply the puppers, complete with food and radio collars. Then the client returns them when his hunt is over.
We’re calling it WE LEASE THE HOUNDS!
Still haven’t fleshed out the details, so we could probably use a few pointers.
Aren’t hunting dogs trained to work with their owner? Seems difficult to get them to work with any random stranger. I can’t help but wonder if you’re barking up the wrong tree.
If they could get this to the field in might work, but I think it will be stuck in the lab.
With a lot of work they might be able to shepherd it to success.
Your dogged determination to wring puns out of any subject is impressive.
He always gives us excellent puns we can sink our teeth into.
That would work pretty well for dogs used to tree animals, if that’s still a thing, but might be tricky for dogs that need commands to carry out their task, like most dogs used to hunt waterfowl.
“so we could probably use a few pointers.”
*Groan*
I know, right? Weimar a good dog story with some cheap wordplay?
I would think Angela Basset would be one of your first customers.
Your puns grow tiresome, Shpip. You should setter down and shut up.
So your saying he should paws his punning?
Ya’ll will appreciate this:
I live next to a small park which has a side-by-side garbage can & recycling can – I just watched a city employee take the recycling can out and dump it into the garbage can, which he then dumped in the garbage truck.
I am Slumbrew’s complete lack of surprise.
Yup — especially when China stopped taking the stuff, that’s what I expect is happening somewhere down the line across the country to every recycling bin.
I expect it is, but cardboard is bulky, so I put it to the curb on ‘recycling’ days so I don’t run out of room in the trash.
AFAIK, aluminum and copper are worth recycling. Everything else is just garbage.
Yes. Metals. Metals require a shit ton of energy to reduce. Everything else takes less energy to make from scratch.
*another clue that the watermelons are running a scam
single stream, um, recycling …
What SDF-7 said
I didn’t see that Dan Bongino thing coming. I like him.
It might have been noticed around here yesterday, but in case it wasn’t: eighty years ago this happened.
Due to our currently tight budget, we’ve dropped cable and we watch a lot of free channels on Roku. There are usually some WW II in Color episodes on. I can’t imagine what those battles must have been like.
Every once in a while, I need a perspective check, and a reminder of how poor European countries are.
It’s totally wild that per capita income in DC is double that of New York.
The article I linked was dealing with GDP numbers.
I made the mistake of looking at a few of them comments. Wow, they were not happy to be exposed to statistics.
New York pays tribute to DC.
Well, half of New York is upstate and poor.
DC is top-heavy with grifters.
except for Luxembourg and Ireland
Interesting exceptions. Particularly Ireland – the long time poor man of Europe.
They mention that in the article – Ireland is due to US companies having their international arm domiciled there & various tax maneuvers.
Norway was totally forgotten, Iceland will expect a big GDP jump when a boatload of Glibs go on a spending spree
Ah, so purely paper GDP, no actual wealth/income.
I learned this about 2 decades ago. Of course, then there was a bit more of a gap between Mississippi and Germany, also the UK has really fallen off in that time frame.
You cant believe any of those numbers. In Europe the red tape and corruption has driven a lot of the economy underground. In some countries the black market is the large majority of the economy so we have no idea what the numbers are.
https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1893720366205288797
I see people are calling for the Department of Government Efficiency to be renamed the Federal Agency for Financial Oversight.
Thoughts?
😂 I’m in.
That would be the cherry on top……!
It’ll be the first agency to be eliminated after the Ds win the election. Replaced by Double USAID.
So USAIDS?
Full-blown USAIDS
Obligatory
I was thinking Family Guy, JI, but I’ll take it. Totally forgot about that.
“The gays and the straights and the whites and the spades!!”
Works for me. Also, it needs to have a sunset date. Like all institutions it will eventually be skin suited by grifters and become a source of the problems it is intended to fix.
Did you know you can’t withdraw the principal of an annuitized IRA? You all probably did. I did not. If you all know a way to do this, please let me know.
I’m very pleased with Past Me who scanned all Mom’s estate documents as soon as she got her hands on them and stashed them away with well-done file names. Now, my husband grumbles about how deep my file trees go (8 folders deep is my deepest one), but there’s a method in my madness.
What? I just draw out what I have to, to ensure to avoid the penalty. The withdrawn amount is taxable so it doesn’t matter how much is withdrawn.
Yes, so does my mother. Once a year, she gets about $1500 in December (maybe also April, I can’t remember), but she apparently can’t just close the contract and withdraw the principal.
That’s kind of the nature of an annuity – you don’t have a balance per se, but a future income stream.
It is going to depend on the annuity contract. It may be completely impossible, or simply a matter of a penalty. Broadly speaking with an annuity you give up some or all of the ownership of the principle in exchange for a higher yield during your lifetime, or sometimes just a defined period of time.
I told my mom it’d be worth the penalty, but she says it canNOT be withdrawn AT ALL since it has been annuitized. Google tells me this is true.
An annuity is a contract, the terms vary. The standard used to be that you got a defined return for life, and the insurer kept the principle when you died, but that was so one sided that companies started offering better deals. It’s not an early withdrawal penalty from the IRS, it is a contractual penalty (or possibly just impossible as I said) but you’ll need to read or have someone read the annuity agreement to know the terms. Your mom may well be right, but I’d still check the documents.
Thank you!
Pretty sure you can’t withdraw the principal of a Qualified Longevity Annuity Contract.
That is a type of annuity, there are others, some of which do have a surrender value, or a chart of surrender values depending on timing.
Dan Bongino’s teaser for today’s show is “Cutesy Time is Over” lol
“MSNBC bosses are struggling to get hold of Joy Reid to ask her if she’ll do a final show after being axed by the liberal network.”
I’d be more concerned she might climb the Empire State Building.
I heard Joy is in my state, “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” and looking to hookup with that guy Tyree smith that was just (or will be soon) released from custody after the authorities decided Tyree, whom had brutally killed someone and then eaten some of their brains and par of an eye, made him just crazy, not a criminal.
Surprising how so many of these news networks axed talent and shuttered departments after the USAID money was put on hold…
So the people who fired her are trying to see if she’ll do a final show?
Why wouldn’t they just tell her just before her previous show?
She has one show left to air. I think she did know she was going to be let go before it was filmed. I look forward to the highlights.
Her show wasn’t live?
Now you are going to make me look it up.
No indication the show was live.
a final show
Maybe the Howard Beale show precedent?
Here a rerun they could play of Joy Reid mocking people fired for defying vax mandates.
https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1894047299069743473
““Whether you are grocery shopping, standing in line at the school cafeteria, or picking up food from a food bank, you should be able to do so without fear of discrimination,” said Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean in a May 5 statement announcing the USDA’s effort.”
Is this something that actually happens? I seriously doubt the checkout person at a cafeteria or grocery store could care less if someone is LGBT.
“And that’s the problem, bigot! You should! And you should praise them for being so brave and stunning!”
/progic
90% chance this all involves misgendering and not using preferred pronouns.
“It’s ma’am!”
Celebrate Diversity! That’s an order!
You doubt that happens? It happens all of the time. Every time these people go out they are beaten and pelted with dung the same way that 5 out of 3 women are raped twice a day.
These people are so fucking tiresome.
Why doesn’t Lowe’s offer a tranny discount?
Does Lowe’s even sell trannies? I thought they were more home improvement, not automotive.
I watched Reacher S3 (the three episodes currently available). So far it’s better than S2.
S2 was… shite. Glad to hear they’ve turned it around, given how strong S1 was.
Yeah, so far they’re avoiding the “we blow up homes in Queens, nobody notices”… mostly. It will be interesting to see if the half-assed body disposal choices come back to bite them. That was one of the few good things about The Blacklist.
S2’s use of Toronto for all US cities was annoying.
“That doesn’t look like Boston”
“That doesn’t look like NYC”
“That doesn’t look like DC”
I know they were trying to save money but it really bumped me.
slumbrew:
On the flip side, it’s entertaining to me to see Cleveland held up as NYC, DC, or Germany.
“We need a generic city to film in.”
“What’s more generic than Cleveland?”
Despite all of the hysterical screeching from the grifters getting their water cut off it would appear the important things are still being funded.I was particularly concerned about this one: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-announcements/usda-approves-emergency-funding-protect-us-livestock-animals-new-world
We are safe. Safish anyway.
I am actually surprised neither Obama nor Biden cut that program. I am guessing it is because the morons are unaware of it.
So, are all Germans going to be walking around their streets with a towel? I ask because of this. My towel is bigger than yours!!
I saw that. Funny how the “attacker” is shielding her face instead of lunging forward and just stabbing the guy. That would be over in about 2 seconds.
I’m sure I saw Jason Bourne use a towel against someone with a knife, but it looked nothing like that.
Works better if you wrap a rock or a roll of quarters in the middle.
lulz
I keep my towel disguised. Pretty clever, no?
https://gunstuff.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/52371.png
It is amazing the pure horseshit you can get people to swallow.
A gun can be the answer to a knife attack, but it’s not always. If you try to draw a gun against a determined attacker with a knife who’s already that close to you, you’re probably getting cut up for bait. You need to create and maintain distance for long enough to deploy a longer-ranged weapon, or else get in close and control the attacker’s weapon arm for long enough to get a close-ranged weapon into play. The first option is much better than the second one.
Not gonna lie, knives can be a real problem. Certainly flailing at the attacker with a towel isn’t a solution.
It worked for Jason Bourne.
https://youtu.be/uLt7lXDCHQ0?t=146
Ok there it is. Thanks.
Typical loser-grade “self-defense” training.
TIL I have a co-worker named Swastika.
I know it’s origin but at some point you mebbe should hold off on naming your kids that for a few decades.
(We’ve got a Stalin, too)
Well, they were going to name the kid Adolf.
I see a lot of people naming their kids some stupid name….to draw attention to themselves? I also see a plague of people with stupid tattoos like that Ella Emhoff creature…just meaningless doodles randomly here and there.
It seems self-worth has been a casualty in the left’s war on culture. Of course it is, that is a key part of their war on individualism.
I know someone named Rommel.
Oh, that’s just a damn shame.
Interesting. They view the Dem Party as an investment, as in, something they expect a financial return from?
Canada goes full retard and sends the Ukraine $5 Billion in frozen Russian funds.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-will-send-5b-in-aid-to-ukraine-using-funds-from-seized-russian-assets-trudeau
‘Sends’ is a funny way to spell ‘Launders’.
Wait a second….
They would lead me to believe that Ukraine is in peril, about to be subsumed by the Ruskies annd their mighty aent any second, yet they have world leaders there at a conference? The media would have us believe that Ukraine is a modern Czechoslovakia after Hitler invaded.
If Trudeau and a bunch of euros can give a fucking speech in Kiev, it can’t possibly be that goddamn dangerous or imperiled.
It shouldn’t be dangerous to poke the Bear; Canada only shares a long and disputed maritime border with Russia in the Artic. Not like Trudeau can see Russia from his house or anything. I guess it helps to have a powerful Big Brother standing by to jump in the fight, even though you boo his national anthem.
“yet they have world leaders there at a conference?”
Putin’s chance to do some really funny.
Civil forfeiture of badpeople’s badmoney and the repurposing of badmoney into goodmoney is a well-established function of government.
No foreign entities will ever put large deposits in a Canadian bank again.
This flu is going to be the death of me.
Fucking lawfare- how does it work?
A trial is set to begin Monday in North Dakota for a lawsuit that could force the environmental group Greenpeace USA to shut down.
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The pipeline company’s lawsuit claims Greenpeace and others engaged in an “unlawful and violent scheme to cause financial harm to Energy Transfer, physical harm to its employees and infrastructure, and to disrupt and prevent Energy Transfer’s construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.”
Greenpeace counters that the lawsuit is designed to silence free speech, but vows to continue in its campaign against fossil fuels and their climate-warming pollution.
It’s all about free speech, it is. I would love to see them hung with their own rope.
*disclosure; I own ET stock
That should be a doozy. Absolutely the lawsuit is spot on. It isn’t free speech if you are threatening people and damaging property.
That should be a doozy. Absolutely the lawsuit is spot on. It isn’t free speech if you are threatening people and damaging property.
How does Energy Transfer have standing?
/sarcasm
Greenpeace argues that Energy Transfer is being disingenuous about the purpose of the lawsuit, which the company denies.
“This case is simple. Big Oil wants to silence its critics,” says Sushma Raman, interim executive director of Greenpeace USA. Raman claims Energy Transfer is “abusing the legal system to silence critics” by filing a “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation” (SLAPP) case.
Such cases are usually designed to cost opponents money and force them to spend time defending against the case, according to the Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute.
“My instinct here is that this is a SLAPP suit,” Galperin, the Pace law professor, says, because the $300 million in damages Energy Transfer is seeking is a lot of money for Greenpeace but not as significant to Energy Transfer. The company generated more than $82 billion in revenue last year.
“I tend to think that their real concern isn’t the financial loss,” Galperin says. “Their real concern is the persistence of the protest – the way it is capable of turning public opinion.”
I believe it is the openly avowed goal of Greenpeace to prevent the extraction and use of fossil fuels, and to put companies like Energy Transfer out of business. But that’s okay, because they are the good guys.
So the rule now is rich people/companies can’t sue poor(er) ones; “the $300 million in damages Energy Transfer is seeking is a lot of money for Greenpeace but not as significant to Energy Transfer”?
They are pieces of shit who should be sent to Siberia to live out their days without fossil fuels.
Be the change you want to see, and all that.
So the Yosemite employees have the institutional knowledge to get a flag, get to the top of El Capitan in the dead of winter, and hang it upside down, but they can’t figure out how to open a locked door. Makes sense.
I still haven’t seen an answer to my questions?
Did they only have one copy of the keys? If so, did the former locksmith keep them? I doubt the answer to both those questions is “yes”, which means everyone making a stink (heh) about the locked bathrooms should be fired.
And how often do they really need a locksmith? And for the sake of argument, let’s assume they need an actual locksmith for some reason, there are locksmiths in the towns just outside the park gates. It might take an hour for them to get to the scene of the crime, but it is a viable option. Also, in an emergency, they could take the door off the hinges.
Don’t think it was Yosemite employees, but some bullshit group pretending that if we cut 1% of Park Rangers the entire system will crumble.
After re-reading the article, I think you are right.
While a loss could bankrupt Greenpeace USA, the group says the message that fossil fuels are heating the climate and hurting people will continue.
“You can’t sue a movement,” Raman says.
They can always just declare bankruptcy and form a new government-funded nonprofit.
I think those days are coming to an end.
Make the UN great again
The United States has proposed a simple, historic resolution in the United Nations that we urge all member states to support in order to chart a path to peace. This resolution is consistent with President Trump’s view that the UN must return to its founding purpose, as enshrined in the UN Charter, to maintain international peace and security, including through the peaceful settlement of disputes. If the United Nations is truly committed to its original purpose, we must acknowledge that while challenges may arise, the goal of lasting peace remains achievable. Through support of this resolution, we affirm that this conflict is awful, that the UN can help end it, and that peace is possible.
We strongly believe that this is the moment to commit to ending the war. This is our opportunity to build real momentum toward peace. We urge all UN member states to join the United States in this solemn pursuit.
And then they all shared a hearty laugh.
Youth movement
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sparred with Hillary Clinton on Musk’s social media site X over the Trump administration’s actions and the plan to have DOGE help upgrade aviation safety.
“They have no relevant experience,” Clinton said in response to Duffy’s post about getting help from Musk’s team. “Most of them aren’t old enough to rent a car.”
Duffy responded sharply, saying, “We’re moving on without you because the American people want us to make America’s transportation system great again. And yes, we’re bringing the 22-year-olds with us.”
Republicans’ elevation of Musk’s engineers is a reflection of how they were able to chip away at the younger demographic in last year’s election.
They need to wait their turn.
Hilary is an aviation expert, just like a pork futures expert.
Trump’s campaign was especially effective in outreach to young men such as Dwyer who were concerned about the economy and were feeling disaffected by the political gains of women and so-called “culture wars,” said Melissa Deckman, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute and author of the book “The Politics of Gen Z.”
By looking to alternative media such as right-wing podcasts and social media sites that give a platform to far-right views, the Trump campaign met young men where they are. Deckman said that the celebration of DOGE on social media and podcasts builds on this strategy by repeating the message that young men are being prioritized.
Party of right wing misogyny, duh.