Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a lovely day it always is!
No one seems to have any any idea what’s going on with Durham and his investigation.
I feel like we’re in a cold civil war.
Branch Covidians admit their censorship was political and blames Trump, not their TDS.
They could have prevented the massive rise in violent crime by eliminating their insanely strict gun laws while they were at it. To be fair, with fewer and/or no police, those laws are unenforceable as well.
Usually a remarkably bad idea to spread lies about a famous high-powered attorney.
He should set up an Etsy shop.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Three day weekend coming up 😀
Yes there is. Work tried to schedule stuff to make me responsible for two changes this weekend, but I pawned them off to the overseas change team without a blink of remorse or hesitation. While providing the ticket numbers to the asshoe requestor (they want two offices open Monday, but with changed M-F hours, for Monday only), with the direction to call into the emergency support line if there’s any issues.
IDPA drills on Sunday. Guess I should probably clean the Beretta.
I hope you cleaned it before putting it away too.
No idea. If I think I’m going to be shooting a firearm again in the week, I typically don’t. The lockdown left me with some firearms that got put in the safe and not brought out again for their scheduled use.
Four day weekend actually
Those must be metric days.
That satanist story…YIKES!
That’s gonna give me some nightmares.
One… Two… Jamie’s coming for you…
Three… Four… Won’t help to lock your door…
Five… Six… There’s an inverted crucifix…
Seven… Eight… Better stay up late…
Nine… Ten… Never sleep again…
At least he didn’t make the cellmate his prison bitch…
Rest assured, there’s some crazy woman out there who’s sending him love letters.
But he’s such a dream boat! He recycled his cell mate’s parts to do crafts!
https://youtu.be/gBjfWiXhPa4
Thank you. I needed that laugh.
“He’s mysterious!”
He’s just an excitable boy.
Thanks for the Zevon, love that dude.
Having a bit of an understanding about how things are run in prisons I wonder what the victim in this case was doing time for? I can imagine that the guards paired these two up as a way to punish him for whatever he did that got him put away.
Not that I condone this situation, just that it seems the story is lacking some details. It is difficult to imagine that the guards looked the other way for no reason while this psycho was getting his Dr. Lecter freak on.
“lacking some details”
Yeah, like, unless I missed it, how long did the murder go unnoticed?
Prisons (like every government institution) have very little incentive to seek out the most competent employees and get rid of the bad ones. The result is that prisons function as a jobs program for extremely inept people. I worked with people there who I wouldn’t trust to run the fryer at McDonalds, much less be in charge of other human beings.
Officers are probably required to keep logs of when they did their checks, but they frequently don’t do them and fudge the paperwork. Or they just don’t do the paperwork, and it gets noticed at audit time, but they get told not to do it again. No accountability or preventive measures are ever put in place.
It’s almost impossible to get fired from a prison unless you are banging the inmates and/or smuggling drugs in.
““As a collective, we strongly oppose command-and-control economic policies that attempt to bend the free market to the political will of government officials,” they write. “It is simply antithetical to our nation’s position as a democracy and a capitalist economy for the Executive Branch to bully corporations into curtailing legal activities. The Biden Administration’s top-down tactics of picking economic winners and losers deprives the real determinate group in our society—the people—of essential choice and agency. We refuse to allow the federal government to pick our critical industries as losers, based purely on President Biden’s own radical political preferences and ideologies.””
So fascism, but more stupid.
They just want to be in charge. The people in charge of collectivist entities do real well. The rest not so much. But all these fucking asshats always believe THEY will be the ones in charge…
Democratic fascism – it’s different.
It wasn’t imposed on us. We voted for it.
I didn’t vote for it.
Why do you hate democracy?
“Why do you hate democracy?”
Because it is indistinguishable from mob rule
*pats pistoffnick on head*
You did, you just don’t know it.
Maybe after an audit.
When you signed the Social Contract, you also pre-filled a bunch of ballots for later harvesting.
I wouldn’t have used the word “collective” there.
It would have been a good place to use that fine old phrase “jointly and severally.”
I was thinking the same thing. It really undermines their point.
“They could have prevented the massive rise in violent crime by eliminating their insanely strict gun laws while they were at it. To be fair, with fewer and/or no police, those law are unenforceable as well.”
They also can get rid of a bunch of stupid laws.
They could also let the economy open back up.
And let those capitalist pig-dogs win?
Baseball birthdays: Kirk Gibson, Bill Doran, Jhonny Peralta, Craig Kimbrel, and Duane Ward.
The last leads to my favorite baseball trivia question:
What do Frank Robinson, Pete Richert, Rick Dempsey, Tippy Martinez, Rudy May, Scott McGregor, Dave Pagan, Adrian Devine, Pepe Frias, John Montefusco, Andy McGaffigan, Ted Wilborn, Duane Ward, and John Smoltz have in common?
The answer is not that none have been in your kitchen.
None were first round picks?
I haven’t checked, but that isn’t the specific fact. There are plenty of MLBers who weren’t first round picks that aren’t on that list. This list is the totality for this factoid.
Ward was drafted in the 1st round by ATL in 1982.
Off the top of my head I know that Ward and Smoltz were both traded for Doyle Alexander, I’ve gotta think that means something and isn’t coincidence.
Related: Current Indians reliever Emmanuel Clase is the latest link in the famous Jerry Dybzinksi train started in 1977.
“Usually a remarkably bad idea to spread lies about a famous high-powered attorney.”
Paywalled?
Not for me. I don’t have any paid subscriptions.
“Osuna has been diagnosed with an unspecified schizophrenic, antisocial and borderline personality disorder at the Salinas Valley State Prison’s psychiatric inpatient program.
A judge ruled that his lack of mental stability disqualifies him from standing trial, according to the Times.”
As long as they don’t let him out.
Meh. If someone can’t be held responsible for their actions, they aren’t a person. And dangerous animals can be euthanized.
I’m generally against the insanity defense. This is a new take on it for me though.
This is not actually a defense, yet. This is a pretrial motion to postpone trial until such time as he is deemed fit to stand trial, which may be never. If he ever gets a trial he will doubtlessly mount an insanity defense.
No, the government shouldn’t kill people who they have deemed crazy.
No, the government shouldn’t kill people
who they have deemed crazy.But the “human life is special” ship sailed back in the 1970s.
“No, the government shouldn’t kill people”
Exactly, unless it’s in “self-defense”.
– 1 Ashli Babbitt
I was referring more to things like war…
Cops should be allowed to defend themselves, same as anybody else, and be treated the same as anybody else.
An insurrection is war.
ARMMMD INSIREKSHUN!
How about crazy and kill people?
Democrats and some national security veterans have dismissed Durham’s investigation as tainted by politics.
The Democratic Party is well versed in politically charged “investigations”.
Leave Joe Biden alone!
An image widely shared on Facebook blames President Joe Biden for how much more five commodities cost in April 2021 versus a year earlier.
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The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
Yes, Biden’s time in office has coincided with a rise in commodities prices. It has also coincided with the recovery of consumer demand, a decline in COVID-19 cases and an increase in COVID-19 vaccination rates.
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Economists said that most of the current rise in consumer prices stems from supply chains having to adjust quickly to greater economic activity after increased vaccination has eased the pandemic. Recent price trends for some basic commodities illustrate the ripple effect of the widespread business shutdowns that hit just a little over a year ago, and the resurgence of demand as vaccinations and declining COVID-19 case numbers promise a return to normal business activity.
Trump’s fault. Joe Biden is the smartest bestest President ever, and don’t you pretend he’s not.
He pushed the ship of state out of the ditch through his exemplary grit and determination.
ps- pay no attention to those helicopters dumping money everywhere.
FFS, I saw an article hit my newsfeed about a “top woman” expecting deflation to be coming in the next year.
(I think this was the story that hit my newsfeed, I couldn’t be bothered to actually click through to it.)
Next iteration will be that prices were deflated by the virus and have now returned to normal!
Ehn, they got their dog and pony show. Now the the Big Top comes down and the carnies move along to the next town. The cootchie show always brings out the marks.
“The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.”
OFFS!
Someone else and I (maybe Mo?) were discussing how long that would last on Facebook. Neither of us were willing to test it. Guess we got our answer.
Don’t know if it was me, but I’m not posting political or cultural anything on FB.
My husband already got a talking-to by his HR about contradicting someone’s wokeness (albeit that was a couple of years ago) when the wokester complained to HR about it.
I don’t have any social media accounts under my real name and as an author, I’m keeping in touch with my readers. My politics are in my books and expressly tagged libertarian, so with what I’ve written, the lefties assume I’m woke and the righties think I’m a breath of fresh air. I’d like to keep it that way.
All in all, the peculiar transition to a post-pandemic economy has produced mismatches in supply and demand that are now driving the sharpest inflation. Economists expect these price increases to reverse once supply chains iron out delays and shortages.
Yeah, that’s it.
It’s gonna hit these people like a freight train.
They truly have no fucking clue what’s happening. They are devaluing the fixed obligations by wrecking the currency. Pensioners and those on social security are fucked.
“Model Kara Del Toro looks sensational in a green bandeau dress as she steps out for dinner in Los Angeles”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9628927/Model-Kara-Del-Toro-looks-sensational-green-bandeau-dress-steps-dinner-LA.html
Unfortunately, no ass slapping has been reported.
Why the change? Did Demi issue a restraining order?
What change? That’s one of the models from MS’s ass-slapping gif.
I am sure that just like with the investigation Trump started to seek the origins of the Kung Flu that looked at the biolab in Wuhan, it was ordered canceled by the Biden admin to protect the criminal class running the bureaucracy.
For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, our rating is Half True.
Oh, I get it.
Context matters when you want it to.
Narrative checkers have their standards.
Keep the narrative alive, despite any and all evidence your narrative is full of shit?
You’re hired.
Even context they have to invent.
“EXCLUSIVE: Post-pandemic New York City is laid bare as homelessness, mental illness and crime escalate and rattled locals and tourists alike believe the town ‘has lost its essence’ while city cheerleaders insist ‘the ship has turned'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9621133/New-York-Citys-pandemic-aftermath-laid-bare-homelessness-mental-illness-crime-escalate.html
“NYC’s Billionaire’s Row gets new neighbors: De Blasio plans to build a homeless shelter in elite Manhattan neighborhood near luxury Plaza Hotel is given the green light after court dismisses protest lawsuit by residents and business”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9627427/NYCs-Billionaires-Row-gets-new-neighbors-Homeless-shelter-given-green-light-lawsuit-dismissed.html
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to build it in the suburbs?
He’s trying to drive out anyone with money.
Yeah, he’s deliberately poking the bourgeoisie in the eye.
Housing bums next to them is becoming the standard in all the right-thinking cities now.
CWAA.
What does price matter when you can just seize the land and “raise” as many funds as you need?
+1 Kelo/New London
Did they ever do anything worthwhile with that land ?
No. It sits vacant.
Kelo’s address
Ah, but they established the right for any government to seize any property for any reason! Surely that was worthwhile!
Not for any reason. Only when the government believes someone else can put your property to better use. How can you demand more restraint than that?
’tis so much less blighted now, eh?
Nope, once the sweetheart deal fell though it’s been vacant. Not like CT is a hot market these days.
I would like to thank him for continuing to drive up the value of my house. Now the trick is to sell at the top of this bubble.
Yes, it would be. But they try to put the shelters where the homeless population already is. And many of the homeless won’t go to shelters. There really is no good solution.
Music made forget that I’m not fourteen and the world is my oyster for a moment. Thanks, Banjos! The rest of the links can go die in a fire…
15 State Treasurers Warn They Will Pull Assets From Banks That Obstruct the Fossil Fuel Industry
Insurrection!
Send troops to arrest them!
Now threaten banks that cooperate in any manner with Operation Chokepoint
Now that the coronavirus origin lab-leak theory is gaining credibility, members of the “follow the science” crowd are finally admitting they chose not to cover – or in some cases actively “debunked” – the theory because former President Donald Trump pushed it.
This was always stupid and politically partisan from the same idiots that acted like Trump said the drink bleach. The guy was literally referencing things he heard from doctors and intelligence personnel around him.
To* drink.
Now do the Hydroxycloroquine bans. How many people did they kill with that bit of “science”?
That was unreal. Once the protocol was established, it should have been used widely.
Everything was politically motivated masks, social distancing and shutting everything down. It did nothing but give the left something to virtue signal with.
Next iteration will be that prices were deflated by the virus and have now returned to normal!
Trump’s economy was worse than the Great depression!
“Matt Gaetz has told his supporters that they have an ‘obligation’ to use their Second Amendment rights against Silicon Valley firms, in retaliation for their blocking of conservatives like Donald Trump.
The Florida congressman was in Georgia on Thursday night, speaking alongside Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents the district. The pair of controversy-courting Republicans are currently in the midst of an ‘America First’ tour to drum up support for their campaigns.
Greene entertained her constituents in Dalton, 100 miles north of Atlanta, with her impressions of Mexican cartel members, who she said were delighted by the surge in migrant arrivals under President Joe Biden.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9628207/Matt-Gaetz-tells-supporters-obligation-use-Second-Amendment-against-Silicon-Valley.html
If he actually said that – that is fucking stupid beyond belief.
Yeah. I’m going to need to see video on that one.
But if true, he’s a fucktard.
Yep, it’s true. He’s a fucktard.
Yes. He fucks ‘Tards.
Wait a minute, I thought he was fucking tarts.
Get the fuck off my side, Matt…
Yeah, with friends like that, we don’t need enemies, and for fuck’s sake, we already have the left for that.
A party composed of silly people who lack the discipline or ability to enact laws is far preferable to a party of competent politicians who know how to enact all sorts of new laws.
Ideally Congress would be a govt run reality show where we watched The Squad, Gaetz and MTG fight about who didn’t clean up all the carbon left in the sink last night. Lots and lots of screeching, and threats to pass legislation, but no bill would ever be entered into the hopper.
As usual, the full story is a bit different.
https://www.newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-didnt-say-use-second-amendment-against-silicon-valley-shoot-1595706
Of course they did.
Motherfuckers.
And fuck me for believing it for a minute.
I wouldn’t be shocked if it was a journo who did it.
I’m definitely interested in the source and how long it takes for those who publicized it to retract and apologize.
U.S cities reverse ‘defunding’ police department amid rising crime
It is almost like police have a role in a civilized society, but should be held accountable for their actions just like everyone else.
and are
but should beheld accountable for their actions just like everyone else in government.FTFY (and why our system is broken)
Look, dude, officers cannot go home safely at night, which is all that matters, if they can’t gun down everyone who pulls a cell phone out of their pocket. That shit looked like a gun! Also, puppies can look like dangerous man eaters and they could have rabies or anything, so gunning those down on sight is also a necessity for officer safety, which is all that matters.
“Avril Lavigne sparks boob job rumors as she shows off VERY busty look while going braless in white crop top”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9627461/Avril-Lavigne-flashes-abs-goes-braless-white-crop-coffee-date-pal.html
It’s still a bit chilly in California.
*hovers over link, tempted by boobs and repulsed by that shitty site*
Shush you! The Tater is going into adventure mode here by posting a link that is not of that Demi Rose chick, or whatever her name is.
The one with the ass that’s so enormous it generates its own gravitational field?
Has she done anything since those first two songs when she was a teeny bopper?
How does she earn money now?
I can’t even think of how tiresome it must be to live as a celebrity.
I assume it’s exactly like the first episode of Jean Claude Van Johnson.
Bless her heart.
She is right but not how she means. The Party needs fewer Cheneys and Romneys, and more Pauls and Massies.
Paul and Massie are dangerous right wing extremists.
That Eddie Munster, he’s the future, he just said so.
Morning, Banjos!
I hope you and all the rest of the gang have a fantastic weekend!
NPR is dumb
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1398140755797975040
“Well ackshually…..”
NPR has gone the route of Vox.
I wish the Republicans had the balls to defund that garbage.
Their job is to always guard the right flank.
That’s not dumb. It’s completely nonsensical.
Hey, they’re trying to compete with NYT and the Atlantic. You have to go way past dumb for that.
Goddammit! Do you people realize how hard it is to live by the nostrum, “Don’t be mean.”?
“It’s not mean if it’s true.”
I’ve been on a quest for the last while. I’m trying so very hard to be a kinder, gentler version of myself but instead I seem to be Yosemite Sam when the door closes.
Who doesn’t like Yosemite Sam?
Bugs Bunny? His associates and neighbors? Guys like me?
That’s damn near perfect! Don’t dance to their tune. Thanks Swizzy!
Do you at least have the hat?
Yes.
/looks at work project with a manager who’s remaining willfully ignorant of the system she’s asking for changes to
I need to discover the source of this deep seated anger. After all, the crux, of the biscuit, is the apostrophe!
“Don’t be unreasonable” will probably serve you better long term. Sometimes, you have to be mean.
Dragging over from the last thread re: naming Hayek’s cat – I’ll gently remind everyone it doesn’t matter all that much what the given name is:
https://xkcd.com/1535/
^yes
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sax6J8n1AiE
I sure wasn’t expecting light T.S. Eliot when I first watched that.
Jenny Aggutter. She ruined me for all future women when I watched “Walkabout” at age 8.
Dishonest cunte is dishonest and a cunte.
“Well, they’ve elevated what they think is in their best political interests over what is clearly in the best interest of the country, which is to determine the truth of those events and the cause of those events. But they are too eager to protect Donald Trump and the evidence of his attempted political coup against the government and against the election and too eager to protect the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers in their insurrection against America. Then they’re too eager, I think, to protect the rioters themselves, who were seduced by Donald Trump’s invitation to come to Washington, from the truth because those people will defect very quickly once we simply proclaim the truth, which is that the big lie is a lie, that Donald Trump did not win the election. These are people who were brought to Washington under the premise that the election was being stolen and they were going to go and stop the steal. So it’s hard to blame them in a weird way. We need to get the truth out to those people, and Donald Trump should be an absolute pariah in America, as well as everybody who has been enabling his anti-social and anti-democratic conduct.”
He added, “It certainly will happen again. I mean, January 6 wasn’t the first outbreak of this. Remember, there was a plot to kidnap and assassinate Michigan Governor Whitmer and a siege of the Michigan State Capitol, which Donald Trump had been encouraging, and other high-level Republicans had been encouraging. There were the MAGA marches on Washington, which ended up in violence. So, you know, part of what we showed at the impeachment trial, which ended up with a 57-43 vote to convict, was that January 6 was the culmination of a series of events. If we don’t intervene to stop it now, this will become the norm. Political violence will be validated and normalized. That’s what Donald Trump wants. I mean, he’s someone who always likes to encourage chaos and violence wherever he goes, and then he wraps his political plans inside of it. I mean, remember, there was a coup that was built into all of the riots and the violence in the insurrection.”
1) You mean “anti-Democratic conduct”.
2) Wasn’t that by leftist/Antifa types?
3 & 4) BLM/Antifa could not be reached for comment.
5) You mean that thing that never happened? Words have meaning, you cunte.
All this unity and healing is exhausting.
Dude… BLM and Antifa are just ideas man. You can’t arrest an idea.
Make Trump a pariah, and all the people who voted for him will just fall in line and admit how great Biden is.
^ THIS IS WHAT THEY REALLY BELIEVE!
Don’t forget that they also believe that if some people refuse to accept their pariah campaign and their bullshit, those people must be destroyed, not just as an example to the others, but because it allows them to then claim victory. See every fucking collectivist system playing out in 20th century for reference…
Who is willing to risk being called a deplorable?
“The Considerable, If Circumstantial, Evidence of a Wuhan Lab Leak
It was never a far-fetched conspiracy theory. Here is everything we know.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/the-considerable-if-circumstantial-evidence-of-a-wuhan-lab-leak/
That is considerable evidence.
Nuh uh, I just checked Facebook and they fact checked and said that’s FALSE.
I still can’t get past this: How many labs in the world do research on coronaviruses? And a particularly virulent one just HAPPENED to come out of a city where there was one of those labs. Such a coincidence.
2020 was just one big coincidence.
Cheney has at least four primary opponents so far – though she has outraised them all to this point.
Who is giving Liz Chaney money?
You are.
I just left it on the dresser. If she took it, you know what that makes her.
Not an economist?
Democrats and never-Trumpers. Let them spend. It will take more than money to overcome the -36 favorable rating she has with Wyoming Republicans.
Ilhan Omar was outraised among local residents by her primary challenger, but in total she crushed him in fundraising because of all the outside money pouring into the race.
I’m sure it is similar in Cheney’s case. Those ranchers in Wyoming are backing her opponents, but Lincoln Project money is all going to Cheney.
“Who is giving Liz Chaney money?”
Just throw a dart at a map of NOVA and there’s a 95% chance you’ll hit a target.
Dishonest cunte is dishonest and a cunte.
“There are dozens more of these I can tell you about, and you’ve probably never heard of any of them because America doesn’t do history. We do bedtime stories. That’s why we don’t understand the way we are, the gun violence unique in the western world, the racial mistrust, the poverty that breaks down along racial lines. The persistence of violent white nationalism that today threatens our national security. These things have deep, ugly roots inextricably tied to slavery and its aftermath. We’d be better off just unearthing it and airing it out if we really want repair.”
There is a lot to unpack here so I am going to let you guys do it.
“The persistence of violent white nationalism that today threatens our national security.”
It’s hard to describe how pissed off this particular line of bullshit makes me.
There is a lot to unpack here so I am going to let you guys do it.
I don’t have the time to give a thought to that mendacious shiteater.
Replace the word “slavery” with “progressivism” and you might just be on to something approaching truth.
Yeah, sorry, I need to go wash my hair.
Joy Reid is the epitome of the “Ugly American”, inside and out.
Wait. The NYT is claiming that they spiked the Lab Leak theory because Trump and Pompeo wouldn’t show them any evidence to back up their claims?
This is the same outfit that repeated as absolute fact claims made by Clapper and Schiff that they had seen evidence of Russian Collusion?
I didn’t watch the CNN clip, but I’m sure their hard hitting journalo laughed right in the face of the NYT’s flack when they said that. RIght?
Trump isn’t a reliable source! Not like that “official” that told us about how the insurrekshunists murdered that cop!
Or that deputy assistant chief of staff errand boy.
This is nothing but more lies to do damage control…
They are basically trying to make the problem Trump and not them and the left, where the fact that they were at war with America because it dared to pass on the establishment candidate in 2016, made them completely give up on facts, reasoning, and sanity. They called it a bunk theory because they needed to blame Trump so they could “fortify” the 2020 election.
They’re openly admitting that they failed to perform their supposed function as journalists because they didn’t like the President.
They’re nothing more than a shitrag staffed by useful idiots and CIA plants. At least Pravda was open about it.
Look, if St. Fauci can admit to repeatedly lying to the public and still be the most Trusted Man In America, why should a lowly journalo have to worry about their professional career being affected by the admission that they didn’t do their job?
You have a point.
Saving the world
em> Some of the world’s largest corporate emitters have suffered a series of landmark boardroom and courtroom defeats, reflecting the waning patience of investors pushing for much faster action to tackle the climate emergency.
In just a few hours on Wednesday, shareholders at U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil supported a tiny activist hedge fund in overhauling the company’s board, investors in U.S. energy firm Chevron defied management on a pivotal climate vote and a Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to take much more aggressive action to drive down its carbon emissions.
The confluence of events shows the growing pressure on international oil and gas companies to set short-, medium- and long-term targets that are consistent with the Paris Agreement — the climate accord widely recognized as critically important to avoid an irreversible climate crisis.
At present, none of the world’s largest oil and gas companies has disclosed how they will achieve the target of becoming a net-zero enterprise by 2050, more than five years after the Paris Agreement was ratified by nearly 200 countries.
No kidding. Maybe because it’s an absurd delusion to think “net-zero” is achievable or desirable.
“the climate accord widely recognized as critically important to avoid an irreversible climate crisis”
horseshit
If the climate crisis becomes irreversible, will these nimrods finally shut up about it?
the climate accord
widelyrecognized as critically important toavoid an irreversible climate crisistransfer wealth from Western nations to the coffers of connected elites.”How many of those supportive shareholders are government entities?
Maybe because it’s an absurd delusion to think “net-zero” is achievable or desirable.
Word. And my personal opinion is that is would be harmful to the environment. Plants need CO2. It’s not like they are the bottom and foundation of the food chain or anything.
Uffda. Everyone knows that there is only one way to combat violence and that is with Govt $$$ for training community safety specialists!
Look at who is behind it. How can it fail?
Noprofits! SEIU! Sure, you might wonder about the Northside Residents Redevelopment Council but I assure you they are doing good work.
I bet a cop never sent someone on a vacation.
Why do I get the feeling that “the nature of that work” includes Caribbean vacations for union honchos?
You wouldn’t want them to be agitated would you?
This’ll be a thing until an intervention goes south and some of these safety specialists get ended and that’ll be that. Not that looking for alternatives to the fuzz is a bad thing but an unfortunate end to this program is inevitable.
community safety specialists
Isn’t that ostensibly the police?
Community Dog-Shooting Specialists.
Now, we’re talking about the police.
Friday Funny, anyone?
https://ibb.co/PjK5zKC
You are a gem, Straff!
Now that’s how you play that game…
Re: the Dershowitz story, doesn’t he have to prove actual malice since he’s a public figure? That’s a tough leap.
You should be sweating bullets about this story and you probably are.
“actual malice” just means willfully lied or acted with reckless disregard to the truth. Being the Paper of Record makes it a lot easier to show that they knew or should have known what was true or not.
That Alberto Vargas cover for today’s song is fantastic.
The cover art was better than the music. Still brings me back to a specific time and place, though.
+1 Kelo/New London
Did they ever do anything worthwhile with that land ?
They cleared a bunch of unsightly middle class American homes off it. That’s a win.
Liz Cheney Says Her Re-Election Bid Will Be ‘Referendum On The Future Of The Republican Party’
I hope she’s right. I just suspect when she loses, it’ll all be about her failings as a candidate. The GOP Establishment really isn’t much different from the Democrats that way.
In a way she’s sort of right but only if she wins which she won’t.
No, that’s precisely my problem with this sort of thing. If she wins, it’s a mandate. If she loses, meh it was just her. At no point does anyone say that her neo-con BS is past its sell-by date.
If she were to win it would show an embrace of neoconism but to lose doesn’t mean it’s not there, sure. For most of the people wanting to get rid of her it’s her feud with Trump and her inability to shut up more than anything else.
https://twitter.com/Mar__G_3/status/1398078708318154755
Total clown world.
Once again, who you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?
From the Politifact “debunking” that was linked in the tweet:
I would normally agree with the idea that President’s are given too much credit for their ability to affect the economy, but in this case ….
Well, what did Joe do immediately after being sworn in? Sign an EO banning a pipeline. Sign other EO’s curtailing fracking in Pennsylvania. Maybe in this case you can give him credit for affecting the economy through his actions.
Unless the great minds at Politifact can offer up some other factor that suddenly tightened up the supply of gas starting in Jan.
It’s certainly within the president’s power to put the economy into the ditch, or at least point it there, and Biden’s so far done a fine job of doing just that.
The “economy” will do it’s magic if left alone. The only thing a president can do is leave it alone or not (to any varying degree.)
Blaming Biden for the inflation “seems an exaggeration at best,” said Jeffrey Miron, a senior lecturer at Harvard University and director of economics studies at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Once again Cato, proving that the libertarian establishment is about as useful as ejection seats on a helicopter.
Arm the stewardesses
Incidents of unruly behavior from airplane passengers has risen to an unprecedented level this year, union leader Sara Nelson told CNBC on Friday, the start of the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
“This is an environment that we just haven’t seen before, and we can’t wait for it to be over,” the president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said on “Squawk Box.”
The behavior has become “complete nuts,” added Nelson, whose union represents around 50,000 cabin crew members across more than a dozen carriers. “It’s a constant combative attitude. … It’s got to stop.”
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The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it has received around 2,500 reports of unruly passenger behavior since Jan. 1, roughly three-quarters of which involve failure to adhere to the federal face mask mandate that has been instituted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
That’s more than 20 times higher than what’s normally recorded in an entire year, Nelson told CNBC. She noted the role masks are playing in the surge and expressed disappointment that health protocols on planes are seen as “a political issue.”
The federal mask requirement is on the books until Sept. 14, and the FAA intends to keep its zero-tolerance policy for passenger disturbances in place as long as the mandate applies.
Put the passengers in restraints. Put hoods on them.
I’ve been in jail before. Getting on an airliner is just like going to prison without the mandatory shower and complementary shoes.
… and more confined. How about the food?
The food in the half-way house was pretty good and there was a lot of it. They worked us like slaves, though. Toting bags of flour for a bakery, bales of hay at someone’s connected farm. It was better then sitting around all day starting to read “Atlas Shrugged”. It wasn’t hard time, I only did a few days total. We smoked joints on the balcony and the guy that ran the half-way was an ex boss of mine. Small fucking world.
It changed my life, that one time I started to read Atlas Shrugged. It even had impact the second and third time I started to read it. I imagine it might have hit me even harder if I had ever finished it. But, alas, I’ve never been to prison.
I have “tired eyes”. I need to read something to shut my brain off. To reiterate, I never did hard time, just enough.
No worries. I never really did much wrong, but still probably managed to do more time than you did. Just not in prison.
What, you don’t go in the shower with Rachel when you fly?
https://youtu.be/9P9LUqDnlBM
I’ll grant that most of the unruly behavior is because those wonderful Americans were exercising their doG given rights to express themselves and their displeasure at stupid DC rules.
I would also suggest that a non-significant amount of the increase is also because the flight attendants were actually given some power and they decided they weren’t going to take any sass at all from the customers.
Before all this nonsense, my guess is that any stew who got her inner Karen on and tried to boss around the paying customers would be sidelined pretty quickly (union or not) because everyone realized that those unwashed masses – as unpleasant as they are – are the ones paying their salaries.
At some point, you have to take some of the responsibility for the asshole behavior that you’re enforcing.
“Ever since we started mindlessly fucking with the passengers, they seem to get mad a lot more”
One place I did contract for last year sent my schedule for the upcoming year. They didn’t even check with me to see if those dates were open. I look at the schedule and 90% of the days are already booked by me for some place else. What kind of a lunatic just unilaterally makes a schedule for someone else without consulting them first?
My ex wife?
Your avatar is dealing with it.
^^^THIS^^^
And Unreconstructed’s ex-wife must have known mine back in the days I had to still deal with her….
You are a Glib. A weirdo who doesn’t have a problem telling people no.
In my experience there is an astonishing number of people who have a hard time saying no to any direct request. A lot of other people take advantage of that. In your case, the person is hoping that you will roll over and do their bidding. Being a bit of a sociopath myself, I might try it just to see if it works. What am I out if you push back?
In either case, I’m gonna have to tell someone “no” and it’s going to be the one that did that without talking to me first. Pretty easy call, too be honest.
Will you not call up Mr. 2nd Place and explain that most of the dates he wanted to hire you for have already been booked….. but if he really wanted you and was willing to raise the compensation rates something might be worked out?
Nope. I made the promise to the first guy by signing all the paperwork.
Honorable too!
In my experience there is an astonishing number of people who have a hard time saying no to any direct request.
*flashes back to last night’s 7pm work call with 20 hours notice, when we already had plans for guests to come over*
How likely is it that this stupid idea will be used to inform people that the dnc operatives with bylines psyoping idiots to help the marxists will get this label? They should put this label on Snopes and other lefttard “fact checkers” first. Instead I bet you will get the label on people that call out these fucking propaganda entities, and especially the ones calling out facecunte as a shitshow.
Speaking of fact checkers… Check out how the fact checkers decided they needed some fact checked on a satire article about genderless Lego blocks….
Considering Facebook’s insistence that the lab leak theory was just disinformation and “tinfoil hat conspiracy theory stuff”, while providing no questioning of the Russian collusion myth, wouldn’t Facebook itself rightly get this designation?
I won’t trust anyone that doesn’t have that shame badge. Thanks for being my filter, Facebook.
A Facebook rating of “Partially False” roughly translates to “The Holy Gospel” as far as I’m concerned.
You are right…..
https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/2021/05/26/migrant-communities-distrust-oregons-drinking-water-report-finds/7455732002/
Monkeys and typewriters could put out better work than this hack. Bullshit assumptions, a fraudulent AstroTurf effort, an ethnic studies professor posing as a water expert, and magical
negroesforeigners. Boiling water to sanitize water is a cultural practice, for example. Buried in the claptrap is thisAnd here we have the real goal, shut down private wells and push everyone onto municipal water supplies. Stop people from living outside of cities and definitely stop them from irrigating lawns or landscaping. Part of their recommendations are not just to expand the bureaucracy for wells but also for septic tanks (which are already regulated and taxed/fees at a ridiculous rate). I’m thinking the Saudis have the right idea by chopping off the hand of thieves so the rest of society can identify them at a glance.
It’s been exactly 5 years since Harambe’s death and instead of bringing his killer to justice, we put Chauvin in jail.
There’s a joke in there somewhere about dicks out at half straff…
Dicks out for Chauvin?
Nah.
Now THIS is how you marxist right…
She out Marxisted Bernie. She has more Dachas.
“ said she is leaving to focus on a book and TV deal.”
And there you go…
I’m sure she is getting a generous severance package.
She is following in the shoes of Michael Moore. A guy that became a multi millionaire peddling marxist propaganda flics to morons at high prices.
Her next business venture is Asian Lives Matter?
They love you LONG TIME!
Will now be on all the prog talk and late night shows; Michelle and Oprah will tout her as political candidate material – maybe on a ticket with Stacey after Kamala’s triumphal presidency.
As she was watching the cities burn last year, she was rubbing her hands together and thinking, ” This is great! After all this bullshit, I’ll probably be able to retire at 37!”
The People should be grateful for all the good works
What will those new “net-zero carbon” board members say if Exxon management announces their intention to go all in on developing molten salt reactors?
They will freak out… The agenda isn’t about carbon neutrality as much as it is killing off half of humanity and making those survivors that are not part of the elite class live in the stone age,
So Zardoz was more prophetic than Atlas Shrugged?
Here’s one of the things that bothers me. Let’s say the climate warriors win and get control of XOM. And the company stops making money. By any rational assessment, their BS is responsible for the decision. But, it’s only the shareholders who suffer.
*headdesk*
I thought my team was starved of instutional knowledge. I just had a guy from another team who is their only person responsible for the web and app servers admit to not knowing the difference between the two…
I am trying very hard not to make any sort of remark. I’m just going to pretend I didn’t hear that. It’s only his whole job.
The app servers come out before the main course, and the web servers are wearing little spider costumes?
I did get a chuckle out of your comment.
But it’s such a basic thing that we have it as a gimme question on the interviews. Anyone who couldn’t at least give a passable statement on what they’re for would have their resume circular filed.
With single page apps the line between app servers and web servers gets blurred a bit. Maybe that is the confusion in your coworker?
We’re only supporting PeopleSoft.
My condolences.
As long as they work who cares?
We’re trying to help them install something that goes on the webservers and gets loaded into the database. Knowing the internals of the webserver kinda helps.
oh they can just wing it
You should go Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men on them.
“ Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01442-9?fbclid=IwAR1UKRa8FNtgSbmq-PA9p5TmBWYVOxiFukH7Se8RGmX9NtYbmZxyy7A4dS8
It’s from the rabidly right wing Nature but it’s good news nevertheless.
I got a call in late April last year, 2 weeks after donating blood and at the height of the beginning Kung Flu panic, telling me they wanted me to donate as soon as possible because of the anti-bodies. That’s how I found out that the annoying cough I had had for a few days in February (starting after my kid whom never gets sick spend a day in bed with a fever and feeling like crap) was actually the pangolin disease. They are STILL calling me to donate, because they are detecting the anti-bodies or immunity of some kind.
People who recovered from SARS-1 are still immune 17 years later.
There’s no reason to believe that won’t be true for SARS-2.
By then, they’ll release SARS-3: The Final Showdown.
Which celebrity will apologize in mandarin to the Chinese CCP lashback when something related to it angers them?
Rand Paul (in one of his excellent smackdowns of the Covid religion) referenced a survivor of the 1917 flu pandemic who still had immunity in her late 90s.
I am glad fourth grade biology is back in style
Careful, because that assertion has not yet been proven accurate considering we still have people getting pissed when you explain XX and XY to them…
I dunno. We might yet just go the way of the British.
The British dropped a whole section of their biology curriculum explaining how blood type is determined by genetics when some medical association pointed out that for vast swaths of the countryside as much as 10% of children born in some areas could not be the children of the purported fathers based simply on blood types.
When a scientific fact has the potential to uncover an uncomfortable fact there is strong motivation to keep the science clouded to the average person.
“ Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime”
You mean, just like every other viral immunity?
They’ve been tracking SARS-1 immunity in people who recovered from it, and guess what? Its going great, 8 or 10 years later.
We already knew this. We already knew social distancing was stupid. We already knew masks were basically useless. We already knew economic hardship and social isolation were terrible for people’s health.
Yet we threw all that knowledge away. Either because (a) it was politically useful or (b) because the people who threw it away had some reason to believe SARS-2 was a weaponized virus and potentially (far) worse than the usual kind. Like, if it had been developed in a lab run by the PLA.
What changed in most of Europe back around the 2013s that could have resulted in the following problem for Swedenthat none of them can put their finger on, huh?
T… Trump?
I am sure they would blame him, but this was a year or so after they decided to kill some guy to prevent him from selling his oil to China and pissing off the other Euros which then resulted in some serious instability and a whole lot of people of some particular ideological determination, anti-ethical to modernity, looking for free shit elsewhere….
ABBA retired?
They apparently have a problem with people tossing grenades too.
What changed in most of Europe back around the 2013 – they legalized guns duh
Re the Dershowitz defamation lawsuit, could CNN Zmount a “Bless Her Heart” lawsuit: “They didn’t commit defamation because they were too stupid to understand what was said, and thought their statements were accurate.”
I would have though in the era of the internet LOL JK is enough defense for any court
I just found out this is the last day I’ll have to take all my co-workers’ temperatures and ask the magic COVID questions at the start of each workday. I think I’m actually going to miss running around saying good morning to everyone. ☹️
I may see if I can get permission to go around asking random questions every morning. Any suggestions for my “polls”?
“Are you now, or have you ever been a member of Q-anon ( whatever that is)?”
Something something Gladiator movies.
Ginger or Mary Ann?
What would be the male equivalent? Mostly chicks here (and straight, AFAIK) and one of the few guys is gay.
Potsie or Ralph?
Redhead and brunette. Checks out.
Joey, Ross or Chandler?
Lenny or Squiggy?
Hmmm… Tom Cruise or Keanu Reeves?
Of course there is the simple reversal: Skipper or Gilligan?
Only one correct answer: the Professor! ::hot for the smart boys!!!::
Chris Pratt or Ryan Reynolds? (I know MY answer!)
NO LITTLE GOOSE? The other Ryan haz a sad.
Andy or Barney?
Don’t try to get permission. Just do it.
Pineapple on pizza?
Skyline or Gold Star?
Browns or Bengals?
Browns or Bengals?
No trick questions.
https://twitter.com/jvharris_1965/status/1397952224962105350
LOLOL
Excellent. I hope he runs with it for a while.
“I just need a little something to deal with the pressure”
Only when I feel a little low though
That rubber must be hitting the road…
He is just running some PSiops on his wife.
That explanation runs flat.
I bet Swiss gets tired of these puns.
*narrows gaze*
His tire pressure is a little high.
Is it a regular habit? I’ve cut back over the years, though I still have one in the garage.
I actually made one out of that back in the day.
Good morning! Friday brain teaser: one is real ink, the other is all digital, which is which?
https://twitter.com/RobotKersey/status/1398266478491754497
I looked for Elvis’ face on a tortilla and couldn’t find it…
They’re both forgeries?
Who cares?
Here’s one of the things that bothers me. Let’s say the climate warriors win and get control of XOM. And the company stops making money. By any rational assessment, their BS is responsible for the decision. But, it’s only the shareholders who suffer.
My faint hope: it’s not just widows and orphans whose money is in Exxon. We need to see some serious pushback. The insurance companies aren’t going to like watching their holdings decline in value because of “shareholder activism” on the part of a tiny group of morons.
As far as I am concerned, the SEC should be pursuing criminal penalties against people who invest in companies for the explicit purpose of gaining internal leverage to destroy them. I don’t care if it’s eco-dopes trying to turn Exxon into a landscaping company or whatever the hell it is they want, or Moms Demand Action buying Ruger shares so they can introduce a motion to end production of firearms.
I wish you were right about the institutional investors. But, my impression is that a lot of them feel like, as long as they’ve got their ESG score (latest flavor of the month), they’re just fine. And, sadly, that’s probably not wrong in describing a good swath of portfolio managers.
In a world awash in cash, everybody’s returns suck. And incompetence doesn’t seem to pay the price.
Good morning, this is why you get a prenup
https://twitter.com/OpticDecay/status/1397925539327795221
Fuck that shit….
Why is she posting that for free? I’m sure that there are enough people around the world who would pay for content such as that.
This is a fun read
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2021/05/27/australian-tv-show-host-wrecks-greta-thunberg-other-climate-activists-in-classic-must-watch-segment-n387564
FATALITY
What jumps out at you in this pic could be a good test of individual psychology
https://twitter.com/Strife212/status/1398197084659015681
or in this
https://twitter.com/CosDestiny/status/1398120685298388993
Toilet sundae chick was much hotter?
See I noticed the vodka before I noticed the gun. that generated my question.
Satisfying ending
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1398008050544529415
The HOA will just recoup the costs by fucking over the members…
The assholes can be assholes because they can always pass the cost of their assholery to the very people they fuck over by their assholery.. See government & taxes.
I’ve heard enough HOA semi-nightmares to never want to go larger than the 2-unit condo I’m in now.
Really, I have the best deal – HOA fee is by square foot, so the other unit pays twice what I do, but either unit can veto. So I have equal power but half the costs.
In practice, my neighbor is a nice lady who’s likely on the spectrum who runs a lab at one of the biotechs – she’s happy for me to take point and decide what we need to spend money on (e.g., the foundation repointing we just had done, the roof a couple years back, etc).
Unexpected
A nasty surprise awaits the 34 million drivers expected to hit US roads this Memorial Day weekend — the highest gas prices in seven years.
And that could be the least of the problems for the those taking to the highways for summer vacations. The gas shortages experienced earlier this month when a key pipeline shut down could once again be on the horizon, according to experts.
This time, the squeeze could be triggered by the lack of tank truck drivers to deliver the fuel, and a repeat of panic buying by travelers topping off their tanks.
“I think we have to worry about prices, supply and crowd behavior,” said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis for the Oil Price Information Service, which tracks gas prices for AAA.
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The supply shortage might initially hit only a few small, independent stations. But the worry is that even a handful of stations running dry could spark panic buying, particularly in beach communities and other vacation hot spots.
After all, nervous drivers topping off their tanks was just as significant a cause of the recent shortage as was the Colonial shutdown, Kloza said. And fresh memories of that shortage only make that kind of panic buying more likely, he added.
“I think the propensity for panic among the population is much, much higher than it has been,” Kloza said.
Mission Accomplished!
TMITE
Oh stop complaining about gas. In Romania gas is 5.6 lei per liter or 21.168 per gallon.
The average wage in Romania is about 3400 lei per month after tax.
It means an average after tax monthly wage buys 160 gallons of gas.
I am sure US still does a lot better than that
Yeah, but there is no where to drive to in Romania. By the time you get up to 60mph, you are at a border and have to do a 3 point turn.
Feature… Not a bug…
Corporate virtue signal on full blast.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/05/07/skittles-pride-month-lgbt-rainbow-glaad/
Also in Russia and the middle east?
It’s shitty candy in any case.
If you eat it, you tend to get shot by a white hispanic.
Checks out.
M&Ms man?
In college I was the only one in my friend group who preferred the chocolate m&ms to the peanut ones, though I did like sweet taste back than a lot more than I do now
Of the low-tier candies, Peanut M&M’s are the best of an overall crappy lot.
Signing off for now, Friends. Wish I felt better about everything. Have a good one if you can manage it!
Later, Festus. Friday is good. I promise.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Kerfluffle88/status/1397967286372159495
https://twitter.com/CasuallyGreg/status/1397944384532983813
Fun.
Who wants a ride on the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat?
USS Constitution Opens Lottery For Chance To Ride Ship On July 4
They take it out once a year on the 4th to turn it around.
I would if they brought it down to the Chesapeake. I don’t want to go to Boston.
OT: Went to Kroger for groceries today, and I’d estimate that the percentage of customers and staff wearing masks is down to about 10%. But one woman walked by with a mask printed with the words “I’m vaccinated”. The CDC has said that vaxxed people no longer have to wear masks. Given that we were lambasted for being “unscientific” when we questioned the CDC, isn’t this woman now the unscientific one?
This COVID hysteria has truly tapped into the human need for religion. A great enemy that must be defeated, a human priesthood who literally creates the truth by speaking, conspicuous public displays of piety, and the need to participate in damning the apostates and heretics.