Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Consumer sentiment falls to new decade-long low as inflation fears soar
White House to Propose ‘Billionaire Minimum Income Tax’
Congressional Democrats’ antitrust legislation could cost U.S. economy $319 billion, study warns
57% of American households paid no income tax last year
Beau Biden Charity Takes in Millions, Spends Fraction on Helping Children
California DOJ doctored evidence against megachurch ‘apostle,’ court filing says
Will Smith Hits Chris Rock During The Oscars
Texas teen gifted new Chevrolet pickup after tornado wrecked his
That’s all I for for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh’
Covfefe Tres!
/Tall Cans
Im on TallCans® #2. They fcked-up and gave me a night off again.
Shame its barely 20º outside.
supposed to be 40’s tomorrow, so maybe get in a round of disc, not so much today,
/22
I’ll take a wild guess and say that the proposed antitrust legislation does nothing to address the absolutely massive accumulation of capital and ownership stakes at the various equity firms like Blackrock and State Street.
Entities helping the great reset are exempt…
“Consumer sentiment falls to new decade-long low as inflation fears soar”
Fears? Inflation is here and hot. There is no worry about it coming.
Yup. Also, I’m seeing signs that the housing market has peaked. I’m not sure if that’s just regional or whether it is national, but last time it peaked around Dec 2006. Roughly one year from peak to recession.
Interest rates are jumping significantly, so buying a house has become even harder to do than when you only fought entities that drastically overbid on property like BlackRock a little while back. so yeah, I suspect the housing market will crater sooner than later, with the usual exceptions in some hot metro areas where idiots are willing to pay too much for crappy property.
hot metro areas where idiots are willing to pay too much for crappy property.
Real estate market is crazy hot here in Northern NJ, lots of New Yorkers with $$$ seem to think this is paradise. I might just make out when it’s time to relocate.
You and me both!
It’s local. Areas that have been hotbeds will continue to do so. Most of the rest of the country will begin to cool, some will go cold very quickly.
But the bottom line is that there is still a shortage of units in a lot of markets, which props up the price and it will take people time to adjust to lower prices if they thing they were sitting on a goldmine just 3 months ago.
Where are all these people coming from? That’s what I don’t understand. The market is hot everywhere, and only in a few places is it even just neutral, not even cold.
I live in a tech hotbed, so in my case, it’s from all over the country and the world.
I finally got lucky on the house thing. Bought Cali house in 2018, hoooooge mortgage. Sold California house in December 2021 at a stupidly inflated amount; Bought new house (fully in cash) in September 2021.
My first house was in Minnesota; purchased in 2006 and was underwater within a couple of months. When we sold in 2018, it was at the original price, yet we’d payed a ton to improve it. Home ownership is not always an investment.
There is no worry about it coming.
Yup. No doubt about whether it will come or not. Now the question is: spit or swallow?
“White House to Propose ‘Billionaire Minimum Income Tax’”
Always peddling envy as the main focus of increasing government’s power of picking winners & losers. How the fuck can’t people see this shit for what it is?
If they paid their fair share, we could get the percent not paying any tax up to 90%!
How many people whipped out their wankers and started beating them furiously at that thought? Especially those identifying as womenx.
As part of the plan, a 20% minimum tax rate would be placed on U.S. households worth more than $100 million, with more than half the revenue coming from households worth more than $1 billion.
It usually takes awhile for a plan like this to creep down the scale.
How does that Heinlein quote about bad luck go again?
Nah. The way inflation is going, we’ll all be billionaires soon.
That’s why they need the tax in now so they can collect on it from everyone later.
+1 “why do I have to pay AMT?”
“Beau Biden Charity Takes in Millions, Spends Fraction on Helping Children”
How does this compare to the Clinton charities in collected money vs. spent money for the supposed purpose they collected the money, and also body count?
I mean, is there some shithole country that would rather face catastrophe again than get help from the Bidens, like the Clintons & Haiti?
“57% of American households paid no income tax last year”
Prolly cause I ended up taking it in the ass this year again from the IRS.
*nods sullenly*
My tax bill could’ve bought me a car.
My federal, state, FICA and Medicare comes to a better car than I currently own.
I’m paying someone else’s fair share, as well
/Unemployed
“California DOJ doctored evidence against megachurch ‘apostle,’ court filing says”
So they do the same as the Fed Gov DOJ, only at a lesser scale? This is a dog bites man story….
Apparently Democrats have never heard of the Alternative Minimum Tax? Which is strange because you would think quite a few of them would be paying it.
It’s not about them paying any taxes, they more often than not are lying about how much they make to avoid paying their fair share, as much as it is about forcing people they want to make lose get fleeced and then decide it is not worth it and quit.
The incentive is to give government the power to pick the winners and losers. In the name of social justice or whatever bullshit racket they are peddling at the time in order to pretend they are doing this evil fucking shit for any other reason other than power.
Sure they have, and they know that eventually this will snare the middle class (or rather, the tax revenue will grow over time according to their projections) and fund their endless pipedreams. This is a wealth tax, or the beginnings of one. Once it’s in place, then the fiddling can begin.
“First they came for the billionaires and I didn’t say anything…”
Fox links hate ad blockers. 🙁
“Naason Joaquin Garcia, referred to as the apostle of Jesus Christ, has been in jail for nearly three years awaiting trial …”
So much for that 6th Amendment. Why not make the process part of the punishment ?
“The brief says State Department of Justice Special Agent Joseph Cedusky utilized only the text portion in which Jane Doe 2 says she was raped and blamed it on Garcia.”
Mike Nifong wishes he’d thought of that.
This guy is getting hosed for behavior that is SOP for Hollywood…
If only he had a rehab retreat and a ficus….
FUCKIN SUGARFREE IS STILL IN MY HEAD!
I think you should take that as a win cause he could be up your… You know, where STEVE SMITH would go….
STEVE SMITH KNOW.
IN BIBLICAL SENSE.
The Beau Biden Foundation website says it believes “child abuse can be prevented through effectively educating adults and children, developing the next generation of child welfare professionals and strengthening child protection laws around the country.”
Sounds legit.
Those professionals are usually referred to by people in the know as “grooming gangs’?
Lenny Bruce was put on trial for the same thing. He was not convicted.
He is not afraid.
Eh, not to worry. There’s no way an income tax could ever grow in scope enough to affect normal people.
the what now?
They were so desperate for something to make that joke of a show relevant again that they staged some conflict is what I heard from my kid that didn’t watch that bullshit either but saw it on the interwebs…
Eh, this doesn’t feel staged. “Hey Will, you know how everyone makes fun of you for your open marriage? Let’s stage an event where you slap Chris Rock over a Jada joke.”
Plus this also ruined everyone’s Ukraine signaling.
Didn’t watch t and don’t really care to bother with that crowd. Was just saying what my kid and his peers are saying..
The only way they would get me to watch this shit was if Ricky Gervais was running the show. That would be worth watching.
Just to be clear, I only saw replay of the slap because I too would not watch the Oscars.
Doing it for ratings would mean they need to wait an entire year for the ratings seed to grow. No one will remember or care to watch next year because of this.
Yes. I could care less about the freakin’ oscars. I worked in the back yard and then hung out with my kid. Anything is better time spent than sitting in front of a TV watching that dreck.
It was unequivocally not staged.
Japanese TV had the full feed (US TV cut away).
Will Smith was unhinged and screaming at Rock… Rock was visibly shaken and looked stunned that producers and security did nothing to stop him and did not move at all to remove him, even as he screamed from his seat after striking Rock.
I posted a short link to the Japanese feed last night, but there is a longer version.
They also cut away repeatedly during Smith’s tearful (and slobbery) acceptance speech in which he claimed to be called by God to protect his people and spread love to everyone.
The press is protecting him hard if your impression from coverage is anything other than “that megalomaniac just lost it on national TV and the Hollywood crowd had no idea what was safe to do in response”, then your coverage was heavily slanted.
Will Smith hits on Chris Rock? At the Oscars?
That’s sick, man. You know, a time and place for everything.
Black on Black crime!
Nothing to see here.
Evidently Chris Rock wont press charges, so there is nothing to see there.
Honestly, I can’t say, of all the things I find repulsive about Hollywood, that Will Smith slapping Chris Rock for insulting his wife exactly stands out. Making snide comments about peoples’ wives probably should carry with it some implicit risk that you’ll get hit in the kisser.
If Rock when into the open marriage with the jokes, sure…but it was a benign joke about her hair. Will just knows he is the only one not getting laid by his wife at this point.
Right, telling the truth was what worried you about Fox News, so you decided the only option left to you was to leave for CNN…
This asshole really thinks people are all fucking idiots that should shut the fuck up and believe whatever lies partisan hack assholes like him feel like telling.
To be fair, journalists are all fucking idiots who should shut up.
Lefty media types are very aware more and more Americans are ignoring what they say.
Ticos have to win by 6 for the US to fuck things up. I expect an 8-1 ginal and a collapse against New Zealand. Surely even the USMNT cant screw up that bad?
At first I though autocorrect or a stroke had affected your post, but after a reading or two I’m going to go with “sportsball.”
Final not ginal, but otherwise, yes. So a bit of both.
They shouldn’t be in that situation to begin with. US soccer needs a top down overhaul.
Who had “above Mexico but under Canada” on anything but geography?
They need more players that identify as something other than human?
US soccer would be king of the world if baseball, football, and basketball didn’t exist.
Same with tennis, where there is a constant refrain that we can’t produce tennis players who can beat the damn Euros.
Duh. Whatever sport our best athletes go into, we will dominate.
We could probably dominate cricket if we could convert a batch of failed minor leaguers.
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You didn’t answer in the form of a grid.
Sure I did, its a 1×7 grid.
Or, since I left out spaces, 1×1.
Fuck Patzer, I thought I did well, nice one.
4 6
3 5
Sean did as well. Got a day off, think I will take a stab at the most recent glibcrostic.
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5 6
That 2 was a WAG with 2/5 showing, then I proceeded to completely fail at the regular Wordle. *facepalm*
867-5309
Hello? Oh it’s you, Nick, yeah., early..
Ugh way too early for that shit.
Try Worldle today.
Fuck no.
They need to avoid words where you can have 4 letters after two turns, but there are nine valid choices to fill in the last letter. Pure luck to actually solve those.
Agreed. I had just what you described; four in the correct places after two, took me all six guesses to get lucky and guess the final letter.
Wordle was asshoe today
Yup.
3 put got the first letter on my second guess.
Yup. FAIL
Yes.
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
5 9
7 8
that 9 was a complete guess at the end and I somehow got it
9️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Meh.
5️⃣9️⃣
2️⃣8️⃣
We are getting closer and closer to Jerry Pournelle’s codominion arent we?
The fall of the Soviet Union was supposed to end that.
This was a comment on the 57% article.
OK, Winston.
I read that as “condominium” – wut?
From wikipedia:
The United States of the CoDominium Era is a welfare state divided into two social classes: Citizens and Taxpayers. “Citizens” are welfare dependents who are required to live in walled sections of cities called “Welfare Islands.” People are given whatever they need, including the drugs like Borloi to keep them pacified. There are no limits to welfare if they want it, except that they must live in a Welfare Island. Although people are free to gain an education and work or become a colonist, many citizens did not, preferring to live their whole lives supported by the government. Generally citizens are uneducated and illiterate. Some BuReLoc involuntary colonists are Citizens. By the late CD era, the Welfare Islands were three generations old. “Taxpayers” are the working, educated, and privileged upper class. They carry identification cards to separate them from Citizens.
“ensure that the very wealthiest Americans pay a tax rate of at least 20 percent on their full income, including unrealized appreciation.”
That should effectively end capitalism in this country. Completely unconstitutional, not that anyone cares.
full income, including unrealized appreciation
People should also pay taxes on the highest paying job they could have instead of the one they have.
Are they going to pay us for unrealized losses?
Yeah, thats what I thought.
That is what I was wondering….
Are they going full fascist? Because this sounds aimed at Elon Musk types. Dude gained a hundred billion as his Tesla stock went from essentially nothing to… A hundred billion. So no way to pay taxes without surrendering ownership of his company.
So, you never get anyone building another big company from scratch.
And what to do about privately held companies? SpaceX is not public. They did a couple of private equity rounds, but what if they didn’t? How do you get a valuation?
There are a couple of AG trying to go after Trump criminally over the value he claimed for real estate on real estate loan applications. Imagine giving them the power to do that over everything you own?
Morning, Banjos.
So much work-related work delayed the welcoming of the Lynx.
Did anyone post over the weekend?
Woman sues IVF clinic for wrongly implanting male – not female – embryo from her wife during IVF: Gave birth to son and likened having male fetus inside her to rape
The state will take kids from parents for letting them free range, but not for this? That boy is going to be messed up if he survives.
If child services came in and took the baby away from them, I don’t think I’d mind.
It is sad that the kid might have a better chance that way.
The worst thing in misandry I’ve read this week was the meme or Twatter that went something like:
“I’m to get and ultrasound to find out if I’m going to have a girl or an abortion.”
Just sick.
So a couple of my fellow lesbians are mad that they didn’t get a kid that could carry on the love of the clam? Just have the boy identify – like I do – as a lesbian because of his love for the clam…
Of course, what if he decides he wants drugs and messican ass sex? These ladies are gonna be confused…
These are the people who are worried about the Handmaid’s Tale coming to fruition.
The human race was better off before medical technology gave these two the ability to reproduce.
They could always reproduce by getting a guy to fuck them.
That won’t be a high quality guy, for sure, and they might have to settle for another male kid that identifies as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body…
And they look exactly like you would expect.
I wouldn’t fuck them with your dick?
That Ali Siddiq/Rogan thing happened last week and now this? Maybe this is a simulation.
The worst part of IVF was driving a pocket full of sperm across Nashville.
TV and movies lied to me, they assured me their would be a wanking room on site.
They were way ahead of the curve with their “Work at home” strategy of jizz collection….
Post vasectomy I made my deposit on-site. It was in a normal bathroom with no material.
Yeah. I learned there was such a thing as bad sex from my experience.
Plus.. they watch you go in, and know when you go out… So you gotta do calculus on what makes you look like a freak. Is 5 minutes terrible? What about 15?
Not fun.
Who came prepared?
The magazines the clinic in Brooklyn provided were not my cuppa tea at all. It was all back issues of Juggs, and Over-40.
Really? A room? I thought the head nurse would deal with it.
What you did there was seen.
Wee, as long as someone gets it handled.
Alright, you’ve milked this one enough. Keep going and you’ll give Swissy a stroke.
On site is *soooooooo* much worse. Trust me. It was heinous.
Three or four nurses stood right outside the door talking the whole time. The door had like an inch and a half gap under it, so it was like they were in the room. And the room was just a normal exam room
Prior to her pregnancy, Heather had suffered trauma from being a victim of sexual assault after she left college, carried out by two men on two separate occasions.
And both these assaults were reported to the authorities, and the perpetrators are in prison, yes? If not, I call bullshit.
She told the Post that she never considered having a baby boy due to the assaults and because of the stigma in today’s society of what it means to be a ‘real man’.
Stigma?
They hate men.
Men are just genetically defective women. Did you know that men only make up 40% of college graduates? And of that 40%, a good percentage of those are transwomen who are pressured into not admitting it.
Klobuchar said last year that the bills are designed to address the U.S. economy’s “massive competition problem.”
Democrats spend years making it harder and more expensive for small businesses to start up, then complain about a lack of market competition.
That’s the racket in a nutshell with these gov types: create a crisis through abuse of power and regulation that is hostile to the productive, then swoop in, after the fact, complaining about the problem your policies created, and demand government be allowed to “fix it” with even more regulation that doubles down on the shit that caused the problem in the first place.
They’re too dull to know what they’re doing.
The people paying them (like Blackrock and State Street ) however, know exactly what they’re doing.
Broken legs, crutches, ingratitude.
Don’t forget forcing a lot of the small business to be closed or have onerous restrictions for the past two years.
massive competition problem
Aka “the government.”
I was watching a movie last night. It was set in late ’30s/WWII England, and at one point they are watching newsreels of the invasion of France. Bombs, fire, destruction, and Hitler. And this is what occurred to me:
This desperate campaign to elevate Putin to Ultimate Evil Bond Villain status has less to do with Putin than it does with Biden. It is all based on the Ministry of Truth’s desperate need to make Biden into an heroic figure. Biden, per se, is hardly an impressive figure. Put him in a life or death struggle with History’s Greatest Monster…
Biden’s a walking disaster. For all the hyperbole about Trump scaring people because he’d bring on the apocalypse, Biden may actually achieve it or at least usher it in.
The apocalypse will still be Trump’s fault.
Yeah, it’s all Trumps fault. Trump embolded Putin when he teamed up with him (in their heads.)
Blaming Biden for the shit going on is unfair. I am certain the senile guy isn’t calling any of the shots right now: the machine is back in charge and desperate to reverse the loses they had from not putting Hillary in after Obama to fast track the reset. The cabal of oligarchs and technocrats that believe they should be in charge is why we are where we are today, and they will really get fucking mad at you for pointing out they shouldn’t be put in charge of a porta-potty based on the way things are going.
I generally agree with you, however Biden’s demented clown show in Europe this past week adds in the random lunatic factor.
Prolly cause the morons pulling his strings think if they can make people think that Biden losing his mind is really about him suddenly developing a Trumpesque persona of shooting from the hip, other authoritarians with bad agendas across the world will worry that they could never know what sort of smackdown will come their way for pissing the world off…
My prediction is it still falls flat as all people see is a demented old guy that is being abused by some evil people by them putting him in front of cameras to act as if he knows what day it is.
The people who put Biden in office were terribly disconnected from reality. By this I mean that the people who allowed him to be nominated as the Democratic candidate had no idea how close to the edge this country is. Either that or they really do know, and are trying to squeeze the last juice out and position themselves to survive the failure.
I’d bet it’s 80/20 those who are clueless and those who know what’s happening, but both groups had only power as motives–only one group understands the party’s going to be over soon.
The people that put Biden in office would have put a fucking turd in office if that was what it took to get rid of the orange guy tat was destroying their carefully laid plans for the new world order (where they would be on top and we would be their serfs in a new hereditary techno-oligarchy). It was all about the immediate, and then the real consequences left them with the whole out of the frying pan into the fire thing. But they don’t care and won’t learn. After all, they will still dine on Wagyu steak, caviar, and lobster, while drinking chugging Champagne, while the rest of us are told to eat bugs and drink each others piss, no matter how bad their stupid shit makes everything.
Biden was a throw away but being too clever for their own selves they kept him hidden and left Trump to self destroy.
Best laid plans often go a stray
The left really believes it’s own bullshit. They think this will all work in the end, and the only thing holding the US back are conservatives. It is a completely childish way of thinking, as no matter which way you slice it, half of the country is more conservative than the other half. The whole thing is a complete reversal of cause and effect.
The voting public wants steady progress, not to fast, and not to slow. If that paradigm gets upset they run. And right now, they are running to the side of slow down. But, when that gets too slow, they will go the other way.
On the more leftward parts of the inner tube, they are clinging to the idea that slow Joe is the bestist, and every thing is going swimmingly.
That literally everything going wrong is due to FOX brain washing.
Zelensky is getting all the credit for being a hero leader. el commandante Biden is a laughing stock and no amount of MSM Narrative is changing that.
Also people think giving weapons to Ukraine is some newly created plan by the USA. America SHOULD and likely does have plans for every country on Earth. Having a background on some nation you need to quickly assist or attack is smart.
It’s just another Mammary Monday
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FAIL
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LOL. Just got a buy recommendation on Halliburton. Figures.
Sounds about right.
Doesn’t anyone find this all a little creepy?
You need to get your mind right son. Conform to the narrative or perish.
Yes, but those tractor/tank memes got me ??
It looks like a photoshop, but yes, there is definitely a propaganda effort going on.
It’s been revealed the HHS spent a cool billion buying ads for vaccine promotion and probably positive news coverage as well. The feds are heavy into laundering propaganda through their media intermediaries these days.
I’ll agree those look a bit hinky, but the phenomenon is real. I’ve seen them here.
And as I mentioned Saturday, the grocery store was doing a “round up for Ukraine?” on your purchases.
Everything’s a virtue signal.
Who is actually getting that money and why should I fill the pockets of some non-profit director to prop up a corrupt regime?
BURN!
Now that’s funny.
US soccer would be king of the world if baseball, football, and basketball didn’t exist.
You forgot tournament bass fishing.
+1 Bill Dance
Bill Dance fishing with Jerry Clower is some of the best TV you will see.
Charles Dance > Bill Dance
UK set for biggest fall in living standards since records began, as inflation eats into GDP growth
Nice to see other western countries as poorly led and managed as ours. It sure looks like China and Russia are winning the economic war over the Ukraine.
We are supposed to simultaneously believe that sanctions don’t deter bad actors and they should still be implemented.
If they don’t deter, then what’s the point other than to punish us and some babushkas?
Inflicting pain but not as a deterrence seems pretty evil, but I’m not as wise as the President.
Because polled americans largely support them.
dumbasses
“The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence.”
–Kamala, 2022-02-20
“Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter.”
–Biden, 2022-03-24
Russia’s certainly feeling the pinch but we’re screwing ourselves in the process over the violation of a nation that’s considered to be the most corrupt in Europe. It’s just so damn stupid.
Now directly trading with India and China in their own currencies. Saudi Arabia and much of the rest of the world ready to join in the dropping of the Petro-Dollar. Whatever pinch the Ruskies might feel, it’s nothing compared to what’s comes for the U.S. and Western Europe.
Then there’s the other issue that China has managed to secure nearly every single lithium resource over the course of the pandemic…all the while encouraging other nations to force themselves to depend upon the resource. End of the day, energy is the most (and perhaps only) important driver of economies, and we just gave it all to Asia.
So a loss of faith in the basic foundations of capital, a devaluation of the dollar through inflation and fed policy, a consolidation of banking systems creating “too big to fail” situations, a bubble in both the housing sector and the stock market, and a critical issue of population replacement have all managed to converge to what is going to be about as perfect a storm of economic shit as history has ever recorded. Every single western nation will be a third world nation within our lifetime, and I honestly can’t see a way to dig out of it.
Fun days ahead.
Hillary sold off most of the uranium sources to Russia.
Bidenomics
Thousands of central and Southern California grocery workers have voted to authorize their union to call a strike against several major supermarket chains as contract negotiations are set to resume this week.
About 47,000 workers at hundreds of Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions voted starting last week and the results were announced Sunday.
The possible walkout would involve grocery clerks, meat cutters, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians represented by seven locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
No justice, no corn flakes.
Target, Walmart, Costco, TJ, Aldi, Sprouts, GroceOut, indies…
It’s hard to totally hate Musk.
Elon Musk, a longtime skeptic of vaccine mandates, says he appears to have COVID-19 ‘again’
If you have no symptoms, why test?
Probably because he interacts with any number of organizations that require the testing.
Exactly. I’m required to do it twice a week for work.
Almost.
Zelensky tries to drag Hungary into his lost cause.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2022/03/listen-viktor-hungary-berated-by-the-deep-state-for-war-hesitancy/
war sanctions that harm those who impose them more than they harm the enemy
Orban’s a lot of things, stupid is not one of them.
I don’t think Dr. Doom, uh Orban, is stupid enough to take the bait. I realize Zelensky is shit talking in the service of his country and it’s kind of his job to use whatever rhetoric might work but fuck that guy.
Fuck Ukraine too. 7th or 8th largest country in Europe and really didn’t give much of a shit about their defense until actually invaded.
History be damned. All these countries currently in NATO were screaming their heads off when Hitler was rampaging thru Europe back in WWII and America was istting on the neutral sidelines.
Zelenskyy is desperate but he also makes a great point. Russia invaded Ukraine for no good reason. Russia has territorial claim to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Moldovia, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Armenia, Georgia, Aziberjian…. They could be next because Putin attacks sphere of influence countries if Putin cannot control those nations.
Ukraine has been concerned about their defense which is how they are defending Ukraine so well against Russians. To be fair, all of Ukraine GDP could have gone to defense and Russia could have taken over Ukraine if Russians had their military in good shape. Plus, wacko Putin probably threatened Ukraine with invasion if they militarized too much to protect FROM RUSSIA. Ukraine has been at war with Russia since 2014. Add in other countries trying to destabilize Ukraine. Ukraine has done well with everything is factored in.
Putin wants secure access to his port, not just a bridge that can be blown up.
Ukraine sqwaking about joining NATO got his hackles up.
Putin is still asshole.
Sounds like someone is Hungary for a major escalation.
Germany says, “hold my beer.”
Displaying ‘Z’ symbol could be criminal act in Germany, ministry says
I wish the Germans would stop being so damn German. It’s getting old.
I’m tired of it.
“The Hun is always either at your throat or your feet.” – Winston [Churchill]
Meanwhile they’re like weeks away from the lights going out.
Dummköpfe
It takes time to shut down nuclear plants. Be patient.
Zorro has a sad.
But ver is Z crime?
Russia’s certainly feeling the pinch but we’re screwing ourselves in the process over the violation of a nation that’s considered to be the most corrupt in Europe.
But Ukraine was a tranquil democratic paradise before Vlad sicced the stormtroopers on them. I read it at CNN.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Here is mine…
Best follow up tweet to that: “Glad Chris Rock didn’t tell a joke about Alec Baldwin’s wife.”
“Will Smith’s marriage is open to EVERYTHING except jokes.”
There you go again, Jimbo, ruining my whole day
Well you set my wife’s expectations of how hard I should be working at extremely high levels, so we are even.
Negotiations with Ralphs, owned by Kroger, and Albertsons, owner of Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions stores, ended without agreement before the latest three-year contracts expired March 6.
The union said the next day that the companies’ wage proposal amounted to a 60-cent increase that was “shockingly low” and well below workers’ cost-of-living needs. Employees were asking for a $5-an-hour raise, among other proposals.
“Both companies have refused to agree to expand safety committees in the stores, and have yet to negotiate meaningful health and welfare benefits,” a United Food and Commercial Workers statement said.
Indentured servitude.
LOL. Piss off.
My place of business is a part of that chain of stores. They have contractors doing some installations in the building overnight, and working from a scissor-lift (aka “elevated work platform) with no fall protection. I was tempted to say “Hey! Have you guys read 29 CFR 1926.501? Cause you’re not tied-off.”
But then I was tired, wanted to go home and drink beer.
I’m certain a committee will fix that.
Besides which, when working from a scissor lift, the only tie off you can do is to the building structure, like girders overhead. You never tie off to the machine.
Tying off to the machine only guarantees that when you fall off the platform that you’ll pull the scissor lift over on you as well. Boom lifts are a different story.
I’ve had this discussion with safety inspectors before when they were complaining that me scissor lifts didn’t have tie off points.
That way when the lift collapses you get to slam into the structure you are tied to and dangle.
That’s gonna be a fun day…
I’m out of the lift business for a reason.
Scissor lifts that have guard rails generally don’t require someone to be tied off unless portions of the guarding are removed. OSHA considers them scaffolding.
Yes. They fall under mobile scaffolds.
There are some extra maintenance and certification requirements though.
We demand BSL-4 for everyone in the store.
The only job I ever had worse than working fast food was working at a unionized grocery store.
What made the job miserable WAS the union. I liked my coworkers and I generally liked most customers.
Hotel union jobs are worse. All your coworkers are lifers so you get stuck with the shittiest hours and if they want to take them from you anyway, you get no say.
Yup. I worked every weekend. Although Sunday 1.5x pay.
OFFS.
Inflicting pain but not as a deterrence seems pretty evil, but I’m not as wise as the President.
Based on what I have been reading (which is far from extensive) I see no quid pro quo; no incentive for Putin to alter his behavior. Biden goes to Poland and talks about closing off the European energy market to Russia, not just as a temporary attempt at gaining leverage to pry him out of Ukraine, but as a permanent change. They keep talking about long term efforts to isolate and economically hamstring Russia regardless of whether they leave Ukraine or not. It’s as if this whole sorry charade was designed specifically to back Putin into a corner and provoke him.
Or to bring Europe completely under America’s thumb and eliminate any leverage Russia has.
Well, we certainly have the financial resources for that. They wont pay us.
Permanently close themselves off to Russian energy and replace it with…? The Germans just shut down all their nuke plants. Solar panels from China? Windmills?
The Russians have some nice new ports on the Black Sea where they can ship their oil off to anywhere in the world – India is happy to buy it and the Ruskies are now accepting payments in rupees. Or they can go the other way and send limitless amounts of oil to China.
The Euros will find themselves importing more oil from the Middle East (the fighting and deployment in Syria was all about pipelines) while paying extra for much longer shipping / supply lines from less stable suppliers.
If Europe could try a little harder to fuck themselves over, I don’t see how other than nukes flying.
Over the weekend I saw this story:
“Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that a remark made by President Joe Biden over the weekend about Vladimir Putin, in which Biden said “for God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” is a “statement that is certainly alarming,” Reuters reports.”
Biden shot off his mouth, and then Paski and a bunch of others had to walk it back on the talk shows. Meanwhile Macron, who is the only one talking to Putin right now, is pissed about the remark because it’s not helping things.
This is how we know hard core progs are in charge. Their strategy is to treat anyone they disagree with as an enemy, and to go after that enemy with insults and accusations. Attack, attack, attack. That might work on Twitter, and it might make a Republican candidate back down. But if you want to get anything done, you have to find common ground with people who are not 100% like you. This is how they treat Republicans and it’s how they’re treating Putin. The very first thing they should have done after the invasion is get Putin on the phone and keep him talking. That’s the only way to deescalate the situation. The only one doing this is Macron. Biden keeps up the rhetoric and the only thing that does is escalate the situation and make things work.
Biden has zero leadership skills. He just goes around lying, throwing shit like a baboon, and blaming everyone else for the mess he’s making. And we have three more years of this clown.
OK, saw this commercial on IMDB TV and thought it had to be fake (especially because of what happens at 0:15). But apparently it’s real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73VMxujSJOk
And naming the company Gen X doesn’t help with the fakeyness.
Finland Impounds 21 Yachts While Investigating Links to Russian Tycoons
Arrest them all and let the courts sort it out. Rule of law be damned…
The People v. 21 fiberglass motor vessels….
The law is what the king says.
I get their intent behind what they’re doing, but say Im some Uzbek on a boat trying to stay out of it. I cant sail anywhere because the world is mad at my country?
To me, that’s like Michigan or Indiana being mad at Ohio and impounding my car cause I drove over there to buy cheap liquor.
Bidenomics, pt 2
U.S. 5-year and 30-year Treasury yields on Monday inverted for the first time since 2006, raising fears of a possible recession.
Earlier on Monday, the yield on the 5-year Treasury note rose to 2.6361%, while the 30-year yield was down less than 1 basis point to 2.6004%.
This is the first time the shorter-dated 5-year Treasury yield has risen above that of the longer-dated 30-year U.S. government bond since 2006 — just a couple of years before the Global Financial Crisis.
However, the main yield spread that traders watch — the spread between the 2-year and the 10-year rate — remained positive for now.
The 2-year yield jumped nearly 12 basis points to 2.309% and the benchmark 10-year was down 1 basis point to 2.46%.
There’s nothing to worry about. Janet Yellin has everything under control.
“Possible recession” LOL
We’re definitely headed for a recession.
I’d like to get Biden a sign for his desk that says “The buck stops over there”.
Minneapolis teachers will show up tomorrow after their strike ends, only to find that they will be worked to death!
Anyone want to explain to me how adding 42 minutes a day helps? Thinking back to my checkered academic career I think we had 7 class periods each day. So adding six minutes a class is going to replace the missed learning?
And of course spring break isn’t canceled.
I had 6 per day. That extra minute will be the difference.
Missed learning, hehehehe. The jokes keep coming.
Give all the people affected by the strike $5@ hour increase. It’s only fair, it’s only right and dog gone it they deserve it.
It wouldn’t be Miami if your Uber driver doesn’t almost rear end someone on the way to the airport
When I was in NYC I ignored the advice to not look out the front windshield of the cab and I don’t know if I have ever been so white knuckled while in the a car.
When I raced (briefly) my lil GSR-600, the “team” which was me, my GF at the time (OG-1X-OG), and her brother was Okada Taxi.
Since she was a chubby redhead, it was also Big Red Riders.
I’ve driven cars, trucks and other things in 7 countries on 3 continents. Ive seen crazy drivers of all shades, all backgrounds, with 0 fucks to give.
Two places I will never operate a car again- Miami, Fl and Montreal, CA.
Lane markings are mere suggestions here
There in DC, the single most annoying driving habit (and there were many to choose from) was the last second unannounced lane shifts when pulling up to a red light. I’ve already set my braking distance to slot in behind the guy in front of me, and then some jagoff swings out right in front of me without bothering to look or signal because his line is one car longer. ??
Here in Vegas we have this weird thing going on and I am blaming people relying on GPS map apps…usually a driver in the left turn lane suddenly cuts across all lanes to make a right instead. Happens all the damn time.
It’s not just there. I blame the “fuck it, it’s all about me” mentality.
Montreal driving is challenging.
Riding New Orleans streetcar, operator was closing up on a car blocking the crossing and honking. Actually said “Ain’t my bus” and she looked like she was going to just barrel it out of the way if she had to.
No problem driving in Miami or Montreal. After 20+ years of driving in Boston, it’s nothing. The only place I hate driving is Manhattan.
Miami is the worst place I have ever driven. TWICE I came across people backing up on a freeway because they missed their exit.
The worst taxi rides I ever took were in Pohang, South Korea. We were stationed there for Team Spirit ’88. We all had Cinderella liberty (had to be back by midnight), so the bar district would empty out at about 11:30. Guys thought it would be fun to have impromptu taxi races. We’d all pile into different taxis, point to the other taxis and tell the driver to get you back to base super fast and if he won, there was an extra $$ tip in it.
Holy shit, they would drive like nuts.
When I was initially going to be sent to Korea as my first assignment, Death Cabs was a safety briefing along with keeping it in your pants.
You’ll have to let me know where you stand on this critical issue.
Blue House Brawl: South Korea Spars Over Where Next President Will Live
It’s not “almost”.
I’ll have to check with my Deary Leader (aka The Wife) to see what we officially think about it.
The Blue House has done pretty well in the past security-wise.
Never doubt the ability of hard-headed Koreans to turn a minor issue into an epic shit storm.
P.S. elitist plane ticket + TSA pre-check = 10 minutes from drop-off to gate.
Right on!
Pre-Check is totes worth it. It is stupid that it is even a thing, but yeah there were many times I walked by hundreds and hundreds of steerage passengers so I could breeze through the Pre-Check line.
Bonus points if you also get pissy when when they do one of their promotional bits where they grab rando passengers and let them go through the Pre-Check line in the hopes that they will upgrade. Irritates the shit out of me when you tell the rube that they don’t have to take their belt and shoes off.
If everyone is pre-checked then no one is pre-checked.
^^^THIS^^^
Pre-Check is simply old normal security. Send your bags through the x-ray machine and walk through the metal detector.
It’s just an excuse for the Feds to run a background check on the normals.
For me it didn’t matter because the Feds already have all my dirt
The Uber driver was going to drop me off at the steerage doors, before I said “you can use the priority lane”. Whew!!!
It wouldn’t be Miami
That’s because at any given moment on I-95:
In the right lane, driving the base CT5 is Mrs. Finkelstein, whose driving experience consists of taking the W train from Astoria into The City for the last 37 years. Her husband Murray bought the car when they retired seven months ago.
Next to her in the 1998 Corolla is Jean, who came over from Cap-Haïtien twelve years ago to visit his cousin for a week and decided to stay and make his fortune. He has neither a license nor insurance.
One lane over is Gustavo, who until two weeks ago was driving a goat cart in his native Guatemala. His ’78 E250 van is filled with six of his buddies on their way to their landscaping job in Kendall.
In the left lane, driving the lifted-and-Carolina-squatted 2020 Silverado, is Tom, a fifth-generation Miamian who’s still wondering what all these goddamn ferriners are doing in his town. He’s on his way home from the night shift as a baggage handler at MIA. His “Jewban” wife will have breakfast ready for him before sending the kids off to school and going to her job as a nurse in Hialeah.
Multiply by eight hundred thousand, and that’s your Miami commute in a nutshell.
Fake news. The W train didn’t exist before 2001.
What in tarnation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5KnR50Ws3M
/people are weird
“I like pick-ups, but they’re just too useful – how can I make it both less useful and more fragile?”
57% of American households paid no income tax last year
I am the 43%.
Beau Biden Charity Takes in Millions, Spends Fraction on Helping Children
Common theme among the parasite class.
You only need half a brain to know that the Beau Biden charity isn’t legit.
Boo!Beau!Bo knows grifting.
The leader of the megachurch La Luz del Mundo was charged in a string of phony sexual assaults by California prosecutors who fabricated victim text conversations and lied to the court about their evidence, defense attorneys claimed in a pretrial brief.
And nothing else happened.
Good morning Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx.
Will Smith is a thin-skinned little bitch.
57% of American households paid no income tax last year
Fuck that noise. Everyone or no one.
The truck was severely damaged, Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet in Fort Worth and the automaker worked together to give him a brand new 2022 Silverado Texas Edition pickup on Saturday.
Excellent. There are good things in the world.
I was at a country music show Saturday night, and the most refreshing part of the show was that there was only one “virtue signal” all night, and it was the dedication of a song to that kid. Evidently it’s still possible to do a 3 hour concert without mentioning Ukraine or first responders. Who knew?
The Commies at PBS still have to protect Democrats and the massive 2020 election fraud schemes by Democrats.
Exhaustive fact check finds little evidence of voter fraud, but 2020’s ‘Big Lie’ lives on
Latest is Milwaukee officials face Zuckerbucks bribery scandal.
Georgia secretary of state is finally investigating ballot canvassers dropping thousands of ballots in drop boxes 12-5am. Ballot canvassing (for non-family members) is illegal in Georgia.
Georgia allowed ballots to be counted where voters voted in the wrong county. This is illegal because residents can only vote in their resident county.
Wisconsin counted hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots where voters falsely claimed disability and inability to vote in person.
Its funny that the MSM and tech companies are purposely pushing their Narrative that there is zero fraud or any scheme by Democrats to steal election 2020. A simple Google search for “_________(enter state name) election 2020 summary of problems” yields no summaries of election problems in the respective states. Searches prioritize MSM and Democrat protection Narratives. No summaries of any kind from the point of view of those challenging election results. Even heritage Foundation is keeping track of actual election and voter fraud criminal cases. Nothing to see there.
Election fraud cases – Heritage Foundation
I would caveat my claim that I was more interested in more recent summaries after 1+ years of evidence has been collected. So I was looking for late 2021 and 2022 summaries. There are some January 2021 summaries but you can tell, those are preliminary election fraud claims which Democrats can brush off as evidence lacking.
Foot pic
https://ibb.co/MZCYrW9
You are a good egg haha
Miami is the filthiest airport I’ve been to in a long time.
Glad you had a nice trip, sorry it has to end!
It’s going to be a fun game on this flight: “Who Is Not Prepared For DC Weather”
Luckily I remembered to pull my down jacket out of my suitcase. And, of course, the foot pic.
So the internet says Will and Jada have an open marriage and Jada’s been taking full advantage, which might put Will on edge and willing to do whatever to rein her in.
The internet also says Jada has alopecia, which … so what? Wigs are the new fashion, yo.
None of which is relevant to the fact that Will is, indeed, unhinged. Normies (aka “the icky people”) know who was in the wrong and will be giggling about this for the next 5 minutes.
I don’t understand the point of that but I’m not a celebrity.
I assume Will could take advantage of it too, though. He is one of the most famous movie stars on planet Earth after all.
I don’t understand the point of that
Gen Xers with one foot in the way things were always done and the other foot in the self-gratification that defined the last 50 years?
I presume it’s 2-fold. a) He’s pissed at her and is taking it out on anybody and 2) a grand gesture to show his devotion to her and iii) to somehow rehab his image as a shrinking violet cuckold.
I don’t know. It made sense when I read it.
I dropped this meme in the dead thread.
Maybe he shouldn’t have cried about it…
Yeah, I think now that I have the details you shared Mojeaux, this was Will trying to impress Jada (and hopefully dissuade here from looking for strange) while also fighting the cuck image. Wondering if Will is feeling guilty about something. Chris Rock was just the prison bitch that got the wrath….
Bet there is a divorce in the future there too. For Will. Chris already had his if I recall.
https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/1508352194046672896?s=20&t=NYEPdzA7HOiJK2Pzo8ZaPA
So….many….jokes. He should have sat there and taken it. Im guessing Chris Rock has been inside his wife.
LOL! It appears Will Smith’s marriage is open to everything except JOKES.
If Will Smith had done that to Dave Chappelle, Chappelle would be into his third uninterrupted hour of Jada jokes.
None of which is relevant to the fact that Will is, indeed, unhinged.
Imagine if Chris Rock had poked fun at Alec Baldwin’s wife. Now that would make for compelling television!
Please make this happen.
Give us the ability to fire Nancy Pelosi, take back the majority, impeach Joe Biden, and I’m going to nominate Donald J. Trump for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives!
That’d be an amusing place for him.
Sell! Sell! Sell!
Jim Cramer declares: “I think the bear market is over”
When has this guy been right about anything?
When he gambled and lost, realizing he had sharted instead of the other?
When he decided that he should earn a living being a talking head instead of a money manager.
I’d like to get Biden a sign for his desk that says “The buck stops over there”.
Or this, maybe
Jabs until you die (or it kills you)
Patrick Christys asks members of the public: Will you be getting a 4th Covid Jab?
“To enable myself to be immune…” *sigh*
Monkey Wrench is a terrific song.
Not sure how the tox screens got done so fast, but the buzz is that Taylor was full to the brim with drugs. Fucking sad.
Actually that is Dave Grohl you hear playing drums on Monkeywrench in the recording.
Hawkins was the band’s second best drummer.
We have these newfangled drug/alcohol tests at work now. They use test strips and test for everything in like 5 minutes, right in the office, from a mere swabbing inside the mouth. It’s like those little water test kits for swimming pools. Pretty amazing. And only catch weed if smoked in the last few hours, not from within the last month like the old lab results. We only test for cause, post-accident.
Yet another reason I’ve no desire to live in Manhattan.
‘High-Rise Hell’: N.Y.C. Skyscraper’s Elevator Breakdowns Strand Tenants
Naturally the finger pointing between ConEd and the building has begun. I’ve been stuck on the damn things in my offices at several employers and when I stayed with family and friends in the city realized just how crappy trying to get an elevator during the “morning rush” is.
I wonder how much of that is just laziness and incompetence. I don’t think keeping elevators running was such a huge problem “back in the day”.
It well and truly depends. Older buildings are a PITA. And this is an older building.
For example, my office is historic. So that means many smaller elevators. We have a third party elevator service on site and it means in any given bank there is just about a 100% chance of a car being out of service. If the car is out of service it is 50/50 that it broke OR they took it out for preventative maintenance.
https://ibb.co/Vqf2C4q
When Japan started providing elevators and escalators in the US they were unbranded unlike the US makers.
Combination of the poor reputation of Japan post war and the desire to make it harder to be sued.
When The Bosslady and I checked into The Savoy in London, I was a little surprised to see that the elevator was made by a company called Schindler, instead of the ubiquitous Otis.
It gave me pause to think that my family was on Schindler’s lift.
Ugh. Going down.
During SuperDuperStorm Sandy, many residents were surprised to learn that the 7th floor is the limit for gravity fed water systems and anything above that requires electrically powered pumps. People on upper floors had to schlepp downstairs every morning to collect water so they could flush their toilets.
There is a really cool youtube video about the people who make the wooden water tanks on top of buildings. It goes into why they are wooden and how they work and are assembled.
Actually said “Ain’t my bus” and she looked like she was going to just barrel it out of the way if she had to.
Words to live by.
Should we know something about Strawberry?
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre tests positive for COVID-19
TW – NPR
“Thanks to being fully vaccinated and boosted, I have only experienced mild symptoms,” she said.
Huh…I’m neither and had, like 99% of people, mild symptoms.
I think she’s cute, seems always cheerful. I wish her well.
So, this take from John Brennan back at the 2020 election was making the rounds on far right sites the last couple of days
https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnBrennan/status/1314587438568833025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
*Imagine prospects for world peace, prosperity, & security if Joe Biden were President of the United States & Alexei Navalny the President of Russia. We’ll soon be halfway there.*
They took it as proof that there was a secret cabal trying to run things and that Joe Biden’s gaffe about regime change in Russia was no gaffe
The left responded with ridicule as psaki and others walked back the Biden statement.
Today?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/27/opinions/biden-putin-democracy-power-obeidallah/index.html
CNN says it was not a gaffe. Says Putin must go.
Also, doubles down on 2016 being stolen by Putin to install Trump, among other nutty things.
And no Twitter ban for disinformation. Or for calls to violence. Or for casting doubt on an election.
The media has been the biggest cheerleaders for us to go to war with Russia.
They benefit in multiple ways.
If it makes you feel any better they’ll be among the first to be converted to radioactive vapor. It’s just astounding how reckless they’re being.
Now they’re playing a very dangerous game.
All we need to do is pass legislation to outlaw Russia forever. We begin bumbling in five minutes.
So a CIA director who plotted to spy on the Republican candidate for president, then participated in a scheme to frame people for crimes they did not commit in order to oust that president, tweets out that world peace will happen if Biden and some Russian dissident are in charge … And “we” are almost halfway there as Biden approaches election.
And nobody thinks anything of it? This was at a time that Russia was completely quiet. Peace was breaking out everywhere. Trump was brokering peace deals between Arab nations and Israel.
But we can have peace if Biden is president and “we” replace Putin???
Wacky times, indeed.
The sentient Easter Island head is a sack of shit it is known.
The question is, is he a sack of shit who is actually involved in CIA plots to overthrow world leaders, even as he works for CNN?
Uffda. I thought for sure that was some stealth Bablyon Bee reporting.
doubles down on 2016 being stolen by Putin to install Trump
I thought questioning the legitimacy of the election was treason or something.
So, not about time?
Russian secret service agents seized millions of dollars of Swiss luxury watches from Audemars Piguet in apparent retaliation against sanctions
Hold my beer and swatch this!
The watchdog timer has been set to envoke the ocular tic of Swiss when he sees what we have been tok-ing about.
I don’t think so. On the face of it, I would say that Swiss will take a hands off approach.
Seems the ball is in his quartz
Hope he doesn’t dial up and band together with some others
I don’t have time for puns today.
It’s About Time
Good choice!
Was expecting…
Good post. Massively underrated band.
Was it posted to tic tok?
I suspect the agents pocketed a watch or two for themselves.
With regard to the “billionaires” tax, the most obscene part of it is this: Dubbed the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” the Biden administration proposal, as highlighted in the document, aims to “ensure that the very wealthiest Americans pay a tax rate of at least 20 percent on their full income, including unrealized appreciation
So, they’re proposing to tax people for money that they haven’t yet made. Based on pricing decided by the government.
Tell you what, I’ll go along with it. As long as the legal authority for deciding valuations rests with me. “Gee, Hunter, those paintings you haven’t been able to sell yet are really nice. I price them at $1 billion each. Have fun paying your taxes.”
And to show how utterly deranged this senile prick is check out this: In September, Biden spoke about “trillionaires” failing to pay taxes although no American citizen was worth that much money, according to Breitbart News.
Trillionaires? I guess Joe really does have an idea of what his inflation is going to do to us.
Seems to me it is basically a maximum wage bill. And as it guts the economy, nobody will be able to invest in anything new again because Uncle Joe took all their money.
I think it goes without saying that this is still far better than putting up with mean tweets.
Oh, Tulsi.
Here we go again… another regime change war. The target? Nuclear-armed Russia.
Biden: “For God’s sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power.”
Regime change is the true intent of Biden Admin’s policies, which will have catastrophic consequences for Americans and world.
Let’s just get it over with. I’m tired of the suspense. Launch the missiles.
Putin said the same thing but in Russian
“Sleepy Joe can not remain in power, he will destroy the economy of America with the unforeseeable consequences of destroying the economies of the world”
And he won’t. We have 4 year terms here.
Maybe Russia should look into putting that back.
“Gee, Hunter, those paintings you haven’t been able to sell yet are really nice. I price them at $1 billion each. Have fun paying your taxes.”
“Let’s see. We estimate the materials cost of this painting you sold for $500,000 to be $43.29. That puts you on the hook for short term capital gains tax on $499,956.71. Please remit.”
Did he hold them over 1 year? If not, that isn’t capital gains, it is plain old income.
I thought FL had dealt with this kind of thing.
Spring break in Florida: a group of about 40 kids mobbed a Walmart and trashed the entire store. Just for fun.
Banjos, I love your optimistic “what a great/beautiful/amazing etc day it always is.”
But the links point to the exact opposite.
Where does your Hope come from? Honestly asking.
Cheers.
I focus on what actually matters in life. It’s hard to be sad when you watch your eight year old play with bubbles with a puppy.
Anyone else notice that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is being listed as KBJ in some articles? Is that because many Americans cannot pronounce Ketanji or some tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Probably the latter. Most people and articles usually reference SCOTUS by their last name anyway.
This doesn’t feel like a real war.
Actor Sean Penn says the Oscars should be boycotted if the ceremony’s planners have decided against having Zelensky on the program.
Penn is an asshole but dude puts his money and boots where it matters, whereas the rest of them sit and make hashtags and sappy videos of moral preening.
Dude does not put his money where his mouth is. His call to “action” is to go out there with a camera to make a documentary to advocate for HIS position that will be released months after this whole thing is over. It’s about him playing real-life super hero with cameras fixed on him. Dude got caught staging situations where he “helped people” with his boat during Katrina.
It won’t influence anyone. It won’t help anyone. Sorry, I guess it will help Penn to satisfy his stupid, sanctimonious, narcissistic ego. So one person.
Violence on stage doesn’t count?
Why would the Oscars put Zelensky on? That makes no sense at all.
Cause they are all delusional assholes that think having the man, the legend, the hero we all need and has no shit neo-nazi, battle-hardened battalions is on the right side of history?
He’s literally an actor, so……
So was Reagan. Was he invited to the Oscars during either of his terms? Or just to NASCAR races?
“Biden will ask Congress for $32 billion to FUND the police to combat surging crime to try and avoid a Republican bloodbath in the midterms”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10659777/Biden-ask-Congress-32B-FUND-police-combat-crime-attempt-avoid-GOP-bloodbath.html
Maybe they could sell their military gear to Ukraine.
Rape in NYC is up 30%?
You can noodle all you want here.
https://compstat.nypdonline.org/
STEVE SMITH NOT GO BIG APPLE. IF DID, UP 130%!
Love is in the air…..
Never let a crisis go to waste, even and especially a manufactured one.
Biden says that the gas crisis is an “opportunity” to “double down on our clean energy goals.”
His goal of getting rid of fossil fuels isn’t hidden so shouldn’t be a surprise when he sits on his thumbs
I hate everyone.
Ok that’s not true. But sometimes it feels true.
Fuck Mondays.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk
Look on the brightside, toots- since Im off tonight today is my Friday.
Since Ill be awake all night anyhow, 2200h+ is my Saturday. i work tomorrow, but since Im off Wednesday thats my Sunday.
Square that.
{{{splosives}}}
Tuesdays are my bugaboo. Mondays usually go swimmingly. But now that I’ve said that…
Obligatory: https://vimeo.com/550058305
I’m going with the blatantly obvious.
“Simplify, then add lightness”
First Lotus SUV Will Be Named Eletre, Debuts March 29
Electric too.
WTF??
Gay.
^
OMG. Make it stop.
None of convid bs was ever evidence-based.
Two months after new Governor Glenn Youngkin ended school mask mandates, cases among kids aged 0-19 in Virginia are down 93%
There is quite literally no evidence or data based argument to support forcibly masking kids in schools
Lotus SUV?
Yes, yes, of course.
Unsurprisingly, the Bee nails it.
Good late morning!
I did some load development for my long-range AR over the weekend. By which I mean, I bought a .223 Rem load development kit from Copper Creek Ammunition and shot it.
I think that a 0.48″ 5-shot group at 100 yards is pretty good, especially with an SD of 8.6. Small victories…
More than pretty good, ES. Excellent.
I used center of newspaper to zero, plus-minus 2 front pages. Deer are pretty big and close.
Remind me to stay on the friends side of your friends/foes list.
That or give him a lot more distance.
In the town square of my childhood home town they were flying the Ukrainian flag, and it was at half mast for Madelaine Albright. Two virtues with one signal. Impressive.
Get it?
Demons are real.
$1000 bump voucher offer on the table…
Take it.
I agree with Tundra; take it.
Canada is locking up political opponents now.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/mpp-randy-hillier-says-he-has-no-idea-why-hes-charged-with-assaulting-a-peace-officer
Wut?
Might have to do with this
I want to know who is submitting these complaints.
For reasons…..
The litany of his offenses are straight out of the communist propaganda playbook. That is terrifying.
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This is the first time I can remember Hollywood elites caring about black on black violence.