Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely day it always is!
CNN legal analyst: There is a ‘realistic chance’ that Hunter Biden could be indicted
Fed Warns Of Housing Bubble As Average Cost Of New Homes Hits Record High
First caravan heads to U.S. border after announcement on end of Title 42
Joe Biden Applauds Transgenderism with Launch of New ‘X’ Gender Marker
Biden admin considers release of 180 million barrels from US oil reserves over 180 days
Newsom mocks other states for banning books—but California has banned them too
LA Times Reporter Says Maxine Waters Issued Warning Ahead of Damaging Article
NYT Painted Matt Gaetz as a Child Sex Trafficker. One Year Later, He Has Not Been Charged
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
whaddup doh’
Sup, wokesters and various sippers and swillers of hipster juice.
Housing prices.
I see, they’re working on maneuvering Gropey Joe out the door.
The big problem is the back up ain’t what it’s supposed to be.
Continuity of incoherence.
Sure seems like the talking points have been issued.
Just more BS from the masters of BS. He knows damn good and well nothing is going to happen to Hunber or the rest of that crime family. Look how long Hillary has been around without even a slap on the wrist and she’s probably done more things to be indicted for than Hunter will ever accomplish in his life.
Didn’t she just get one? It was a wrist slap, but I don’t remember her ever being personally convicted of anything before.
That wasn’t even a conviction. The FEC ruled and levied a fine. This was a purely administrative procedure by an agency; which itself raises questions about limits on government power. Hillary and the DNC could contest that in federal court.
I imagine they’ll quietly pay the fine, unless they know a good judge. Which they might…
Easier to pay the fine and move on; the incident dies down quicker that way.
My hope is that paying the fine sets a precedent which helps Trump’s lawsuit.
My hope is that paying the fine sets a precedent which helps Trump’s lawsuit.
“a good judge” – one that stays bought [channel A. Bierce]
I’m not optimistic that would be beneficial for us anyway.
It sure won’t be beneficial for the dems, they’ll probbly be propping up Biden’s corpse like Weekend at Bernie’s in fear of having to nominate Heels Up Harris. Now that is some scary shit.
Deep state factions using their media contacts to send messages. Some of them are unhappy with the bungling of the Ukraine situation.
Elie Honig, a legal analyst for CNN, said Wednesday that it appears that the federal investigation into Hunter’s overseas business dealings is “gaining steam.”
Have the feds ever gone after the family of a sitting President? Even Billy Carter’s Libya shenanigans escaped serious consequences.
Does the party want to be rid of the president?
Not that I can recall, but there is always a first time. The parasitic deep state needs its host to stay alive, and Biden is increasingly a threat to that. As has been frequently speculated here, and elsewhere, the Dems want to install Kamala at the first moment where she can fill out Bidens term and serve two terms on her own. The interests of those two groups are in alignment.
“The parasitic deep state needs its host to stay alive..”
Your jib and the cut of it I admire.
NY’s AG is going after the Trump kids.
Which fails shpip’s test on two prongs: not the feds, Trump is no longer president so not “currently sitting.”
Well, the effort started while he was in office, and NYAG works/ed closely with Fed SDNY.
The nits; picks them I does.
What do you do with the baby lice once you’ve selected them?
The dead thread is dead!
Long live the thread!
Well, don’t we still have Lou Reed ?
That doggone Putin and his Chinese buddy have caused this unreal housing price increase. Poor ol’ Maxine works diligently to solve it but her constituents are just plain ungrateful.
We need more low cost migrant transgenders to step up and get the job done.
The continued rising costs in the housing market have caused the Federal Reserve to warn of a housing bubble, something not seen since just before the market crash of 2008. Phillips said this means the Federal Reserve sees people overpaying for houses causing a “market exuberance.” The Federal Reserve called the exuberance “unhinged from fundamentals” and “abnormal … for the first time since the boom of the early 2000s.”
I don’t think there are as many flippers and speculators this time. But I could be wrong. I’m sure it depends on the market.
There are some, but a lot of it is what the article stated. People taking advantage of low rates, low inventories and high prices of their current home to get out of liberal hell holes. Guessing I may soon regret my decision to buy earlier this year, but who knows? There are pressures both ways.
CNN legal analyst: There is a ‘realistic chance’ that Hunter Biden could be indicted
And immediately pardoned.
That was my exact thought. Since Hunter’s behavior is finally becoming public knowledge, he needs to be dealt with while his dad still has the power to pardon him.
Housing prices have spiked 25% over the past year, and since 2012, the cost of a new house has doubled, Phillips explained. “Cities with the biggest spikes were Phoenix, Miami, and Tampa, but overall, it was houses in southeastern states that saw the largest spike in 2021,”
People voting with their feet for freedom from meddlesome government. Gonna take a little while for the market to suss things out. In the meantime, there will be a bunch of people underwater a few years from now.
My sister in the Tampa Bay area had a 3,000 SF house built 5 years ago for $250K. They just sold it for $500K. In a week. To people fleeing Virginia. The housing market in that area is crazy right now.
Because Brett is singlehandedly driving up Tampa’s population.
I initially drunkenly read that as “tampon” then remembered that Brett’s wife, like Banjos, is perpetually pregnant.
Likely haven’t bought female “hygiene” products in a decade.
That’s a cheap price for 3k sq ft. Q.Q
My neighborhood in SC was 50% NY/NJ transplants.
Seems odd that the transplants flock to the same neighborhood. Almost sounds as if it was by design.
Time to burn down the neighborhood?
$250K??? That sounds awfully cheap.
When you say Tampa area, do you mean someplace like Plant City or Brooksville?
I just Zillowed my parents old house in Brandon. 2,000SF, over $400K.
This made me curious…Zillow has my house in Fort Myers at $311K for 1350sf. But the pic on the site is five years old (at least); since then we have had the pool completely resurfaced, replaced the AC, and the house is freshly painted.
Riverview, actually. A new development built 5-6 years ago.
Nice location. When I lived in the area (’87), there was almost nothing in Riverview.
We’re thinking of moving to FL in a year or so, hopefully tht bubble will burst before then. Home prices in our college town in Iowa are amazingly stable, no big drops or gains, just steady growth.
When the bubble bursts and SHTF, I just want to capture Boca Grande and rule it as an benevolent despot.
New data from the Census Department released last week reveal that the average cost of a new home hit a record high in February at $511,000. Now, the Federal Reserve is warning about a housing bubble.
What’s old is new.
Why is the Census Department tracking home prices instead of climate change?
Why is the Census Department tracking anything other than the actual census?
The census lady who kept showing up on my doorstep to insist I fill out the long form couldn’t answer that question.
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Hyperbole, BEAM, both good suggestions last night. Thanks.
Glad to help.
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Joe Biden Applauds Transgenderism with Launch of New ‘X’ Gender Marker
All of our problems are solved.
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are lifesaving medical treatments,” Schneider told reporters. “These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
1) Not happening.
2) Trans-youth should not be a thing.
3) Since when does the left care about children?
I really feel like there’s a joke for Gen-X just waiting there to be written up by someone with more caffeine in their system then me.
Poor Gen-Z. The Russians ruined it for them.
I know! Their letter was banned.
And just like that, Sesame Street went back into the red, losing 5% of their potential sponsorships.
Beatnik owls and itinerant alphabet based folk hardest hit.
Men-X
Ex-Men
ManniX
Crime-fighter by day, non-binary icon by night.
“3) Since when does the left care about children?”
The instant they became politically useful.
“The schools are underfunded.”
One of the articles I read on the issue yesterday referenced a 4 year old transgender. What are the odds the mom was a single mother who didn’t want a boy for a child? I’m guessing pretty high. But I’m the monster for thinking mom should leave junior’s junk intact till he’s old enough to make that decision. This is a movement only Zardoz could get behind.
That is pure evil.
Thanks for giving us a bunch of unsolvable (by government) problems, Banjos, to start the morning. Ordinarily on a day such as April 1 we’d sit back and laugh at the made up jokes. Unfortunately this time it ain’t a joke.
I want to be a judge on the day of reckoning.
A caravan of hundreds of migrants is leaving Tapachula Mexico today. The first stop will be Mexico City with the final destination being the U.S.-Mexico border. This is a direct result of the Biden administration’s decision to end Title 42. The date of the policy’s termination is tentatively set for May 23.
If only there was a way to stop that which we know is coming.
https://tenor.com/view/austin-powers-steamroller-imminent-run-over-take-your-time-gif-13595515
New data from the Census Department released last week reveal that the average cost of a new home hit a record high in February at $511,000. Now, the Federal Reserve is warning about a housing bubble.
No shit. My niece and her husband just bought a new construction house in a local development area. The price of the house was literally $50k less three months ago.
*bides time*
Same here. Fortunately my rent is manageable at least for now.
I’m waiting for the landlord to get back to me with extension terms. I’m hearing that a lot of local rentals are around $4k/month now. We’re at $2k/month.
*smiles contentedly for buying in an area that hadn’t seen a run up – yet.*
I closed March 4. We signed our contact last April. Appraisal was $94k above our contract price.
On Thursday, President Biden is slated to deliver remarks regarding “his administration’s actions to reduce the impact of Putin’s price hike on energy prices and lower gas prices at the pump for American families.”
A windfall profits tax ought to do the trick.
President Biden is considering releasing one million barrels of oil per day from US reserves over 180 days, which would be the largest such move in American history. The US uses about 18-20 million barrels per day.
I’m getting the impression that the US gov’t is not on team America.
The 180 million total barrels that would be withdrawn over the next six months are equivalent to what Americans consume in 9 or 10 days. The reserve currently holds 568.3 million barrels.
“We are going to end oil.”
Is there really any difference between Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters? At the very least, they’re visually similar.
Sharpton was more fun when he was fat?
BITCH SET ME UP!
Wait- that was Marion Barry.
People seem to forget Rev. Jackson’s “love child” he paid for out of the Rainbow Coalition’s funds.
Today is the last day to get can lids in the mail. If you need an extra day, I may, in my beneficence, take a small indulgence in exchange for your out of compliance submission.
In seriousness, get your lids in the mail today or let me know that you’re going to have one that’s coming in hot. Construction starts on the mechanical horror next week.
Will there be Tinker Toys involved?
Do Tinker Toys even exist anymore?
They’ve been rebranded Twinker Toys, and no longer have rod pieces, only ones with holes.
Do they come in both rainbow colored and sparkly?
So close. Now with no wood. 🙁
https://www.amazon.com/stores/TINKERTOY%C2%AE/page/22EF38E0-7CD0-4BF2-A679-7ABF152F96D6
That makes me sad.
A wee bit, yup.
I would have guessed they’d have gone to plastic. I’d also be willing to bet that they’ve got LEDs and Bluetooth enabled somehow.
*Googles*
Looks like Lincoln Logs are still legit.
Used to be a niche store that sold all those….wonder if they are still around
Schylling has picked up the torch.
Excellent!
Sounds like they have some qc issues. 🙁
STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. One of those things is not like the other one. The term STEM was developed to denote a rigorous technical curriculum, and then the progs smuggled arts (etc) back in. Always changing the meaning of things.
Yeah. I’ve noticed that “A” sneaking into STEM lately. The people yelling “Follow the Science™” the loudest constantly try to water it down.
Go one level deeper, Mike. They mostly don’t understand science, and if they do it scares them and needs to be politically controlled. They FLS because government scientists say the things the left likes; they see science as justification for their right-thinkfulness. The notion of a cold and uncaring methodology for determining objective truth is either incomprehensible, or terrifying.
I refuse to acknowledge the A. Get that outta here.
In my head I change to ‘E’ to Ed and hope no one is looking
Another take is that they added the “A” back in because they were never meeting their goal of having enough wimmenz in those fields. If they add arts in, the numbers may be more achievable and they can claim how they increased the numbers dramtically!!!
What about erector sets ?
I found the tiny nuts and washers kind of frustrating to tighten and keep tight. K’nex was solid for building stuff you imagine.
My grandparents still had my father’s and uncle’s sets (which of course they used to entertain me when I visited). The older one came in a steel box, but however many years later the younger son’s came in a plastic box.
Also: isn’t “tinker” racist?
I dropped mine in the mail Wednesday.
Thanks for your good work, Trashy. Herding cats has never been easy.
Mine is on its way if it’s not already there yet.
Trashy, did you get mine?
I think so. I’ll run through the stack tomorrow and email everybody with confirmation.
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Mine arrived yesterday. God knows what else was in it. I saw my daughter got into the party favor shelf.
Mine is in the mail. All of my creative attempts failed miserably. So It’s real generic.
I dropped mine off Tuesday.
*looks around in disbelief*
I turned something in early? WTF?
In my defense, I thought you needed it in your hot grubby hands by 4/1. Otherwise I would have waited until today to mail it.
I wonder if the local news will run a story on all the Procrastinator Glibs turning in their can lids at the last moment. Like the story they do every year on April 15th.
They asked if I needed insurance…I LOLed
Ours mailed out last week; hopefully you have it by now, mail delays from the Great Land notwithstanding.
I had to open a can of home canned beans to get mine, I was out or new and the one’s that were rusting outside just weren’t ready yet. So if you sniff mine, you may get a whiff of BLC’s 2019 Pole beans! (I grow bush and pole . . . hehe . . . Bush are better, but that way I get two harvests and increase my numbers).
“They’re really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are lifesaving medical treatments,” Schneider told reporters. “These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”
Hysterical self-mutilation not same as life-saving treatment.
Maxine Waters tells homeless people to go home. Classic!
Truly the gift that keeps on giving. And telling the reporter to not write about the incident is bonus.
Posted without comment:
BURBANK,CA (AP) – In a move that has shaken Wall Street, the Walt Disney Company (NYSE – DIS – 135.69) has stated their intent to shutter all of their Florida operations in response to the state’s Parental Rights in Education Act, derided by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Disney CEO Bob Chapek revealed that the company has quietly bought 60 square miles in an unincorporated area northwest of Northfield, Massachusetts near the state’s border with Vermont.
“Massachusetts is consistently rated among the top-5 gay-friendly states, as is Vermont.” the statement read in part. “With LGBTQQIA++ issues at the forefront of the majority of our employees’ minds, the move will come as a welcome relief.”
Construction on the new parks is set to begin immediately, and will be completed in summer 2024. “We’ll move operations to the new park as soon as each one comes online,” explained Disney spokesman Artie LeFou, “With the exception of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, which will be shut down entirely. It turns out that cheetahs and hippos aren’t built for New England winters.”
April Fools?
Absolutely.
I’d wager.
Careful, Disney
“The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!”
R.Burns
April Fool’s? The Bee? Or does Disney really not understand who their customers are?
It’s hard to tell anymore.
At some point, the woke signaling ceased to be a diversion for some of these companies and became their rationale for existing.
That’s the problem with putting the cult in business culture.
It’s kind of weird that they have that in the first place.
Threading fail. Reply to Rat on a Train.
I recall Anaheim having less expansive pro-Disney laws. The one I recall is height restrictions on building near Disneyland.
I saw a proposal to repeal Disney World’s self-governance.
Ok, groomer.
But, seriously, they are going to close Disney World? Really? Because they support sexualizing children? Is that the hill you wish to die on?
Go for it.
LOL good one
Yes, this was my attempt at an April Fool’s hoax story. I didn’t really think it would dupe anyone here, it was more for y’all’s amusement.
New Transportation Security Administration scanners that are gender-neutral are also planned as part of the administration-wide embrace of transgenderism and LGBTQI+ issues and people.
Que?
Meaning they are modified so they won’t scan genital areas? It’s really the only thing I can think of.
Or April Fool’s.
We wouldn’t want the scanners to misgender anyone.
Think of the poor TSA goons. They see a hot gal in line and they all crowd the back room to watch her go through the scanner and then they are subjected to having to look at her dick? That isn’t right.
So next time I have to get the grope because I refuse the scanner, can I tell them I identify as a woman and make a female TSA goonette feel me up?
Thanks, I hate it.
That is an ugly pistol.
Dafuq is up with the thread protector? And why is there a gap between the grip and the frame?
European SIGs tended to have very clean, almost Braun-like lines.
SIGARMS ruined everything with that awful ducktail.
“Migrants there have complained for weeks, some for months, that conditions are not good there and the Mexican government is not providing the help they need.”
Offs, the leeches. Why are you owed anything?
They are owed a swift boot back to their homeland and a permanant ban from ever immigrating.
Letting them off easy, huh?
Well, the other idea I’d had was to use them to populate Tzompantli along the border wall. Celebrate diversity by sacrificing the migrants to the Aztec gods and show off their skulls as markers of devotion.
But that violated the separation of church and state.
Here’s an idea: Joe can decree an end to gendered bathrooms in buildings owned or controlled by the federal government. You can swing your dick around in the airport ladies’ room all you want, as long as you’re wearing a mask.
“LA Times Reporter Says Maxine Waters Issued Warning Ahead of Damaging Article”
And yet they will still vote for her.
Who else would they vote for?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That one really hurt, Jimbo. Those ladies are kicking my butt. Now my bucket list got longer, thanks to you. (For nothing)
She even managed to take a spill with less damage than you!
I expect this to light a fire under you Fourscore. Next HH you better be totes ripped. In fact you should spend the entire HH wandering around without a shirt on and all oiled up.
No, honey’d up!
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
Illustrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyaHMr0Fw2Q
That’s wonderful!
My sister in the Tampa Bay area had a 3,000 SF house built 5 years ago for $250K. They just sold it for $500K. In a week. To people fleeing Virginia. The housing market in that area is crazy right now.
Now what will they do? Buy a boat and sail it to Belize?
Move to Virginia.
JK, prices are stupid here too. *looks at New Yorkers trolling the neighborhood*
Work continues on the Amazon building. I just want the market to stay hot for a little longer.
prices are stupid here too
*looks at this years tax assessment*
Yup.
Moving further south to a smaller house (kids moved out) where the housing market is not as crazy.
Probably just wait 6 months and buy then. Though, there’s no way to say when things will break. Way back in September I hoped the market would crash or at least stabilize in January or February. Instead it just went up another 20%.
Havana?
Since we’re past the thirty minute mark, I’m going to shout out to all the Glibs authors. I was up early and did some solid writing before link time. Hope you all manage to write something today. And as Animal says — keep reading.
HEY!
You ain’t the boss of me. And reading?!!?! Do you know how triggering that is to a Memphis State grad? I’m not even sure if I can find my box of crayons, much less if they are sharp and you are just ordering me to crack a book?
I sent in an article earlier this week. I’d guess editors can see all the pending articles without being told to look, but I’ll mention it anyway.
Thanks.
Can, but sometimes don’t. So far this week I’ve edited IFLA, GlibFit, Corrector Novus Occidentis, RC’s forthcoming article (Thanks!), Glibflick, and done my links. Also, scheduling, corresponding with writers, contributing links to the links pool, etc. I’m retired and have the luxury of spending a lot of time doing site work, unlike most of the other editors who have jobs and/or families. And, as noted above, I have my own writing, as well as trying to have some semblance of a life outside of this place.
Geeze. Tonio, if there’s anything I can do to help, let me know.
I’ve got one in queue, and the follow-up underway.
Thanks.
I am in the process of completing “Blood on the Bricks”, and am nearly at the end of part three. (It looks to be a four part story) In theory, if I could get words to start moving on that yarn, “Slaves of Baranga” is also very close to completion. But it’s been this close to completion for some time now.
Thanks, everyone. This was, for once, NOT rattling you people for submissions. My muse finally winked at me, and I worked on my own stuff for a bit. I was celebrating that and encouraging my fellow writers.
Yessir. Last week I found and underground magazine which contained some poetry (Vogon grade) that I wrote over 35 years ago. I shall inflict it on you soon to make some articles. Sadly my movie post last night fared poorly. Nobody likes Mexican wrestlers. Buncha raycists! Now you have to deal with my awful poetry!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih-3vK2qLls
As soon as I no longer feel like a pimple on Satan’s asshole during a bout of severe diarrhea, I’ll get on it.
Pwnd.
Video reportedly of Ukrainian attack helicopters striking oil facility in Belgorod, across the border inside Russia …
Russian sources confirm the air strike:
See! Ukraine is the aggressor!!!1111!!!!
“NYT Painted Matt Gaetz as a Child Sex Trafficker. One Year Later, He Has Not Been Charged”
17 is also, perfectly legal in many states. Even if it were true it’s be more ‘creepy’ than criminal to me. Though I think it’s 18 in Florida (?).
Welp, my electronics repair guy claims there’s nothing wrong with my EtherCat coupler. Fortunately, He’s sending me a tech to help with troubleshooting today. My boss is having to give status updates to ops twice a day, so he’s very interested in my making progress.
*flips switch from ‘broken’ to ‘working’*
Try it now.
/how people think troubleshooting works.
A story about ‘Magic’
Yes, I’ve seen that story before.
I expected to read about the magic smoke in electronics.
Nah, it is controlled by the suck_factor variable.
You software guys are all the same.
Critical-need circuit.
Have you tried turning it off and on?
Because why have either code or hardware that has uptime measured in more than hours?
We have solaris boxes (and their resident applications) whose uptime is measured in years.
I remember when the only time the uptime on my router reset is when the power failed. This was in the early days of home broadband and pre WiFi.
Now the first thing your broadband provider says to do is reset the router.
ISPs provide cheap routers. I opted for a direct ethernet connection to their ONT.
Same.
My WiFi is also mesh with ethernet backhaul.
Hoo boy, someone serious must be taking an interest — they didn’t send me a tech, they sent a TEAM of techs.
The part I thought was broken is actually ok, it just wasn’t getting enough power. The team of actual electronics professionals declared they’ve found the root cause of the power issue.
I will be sending them all the max appreciation award I can get authorized. Waiting weeks for a replacement part only to find it wasn’t actually bad is not a career enhancing move when all you’ve got going for you is “smartest guy in the room.”
You can still be the smartest guy in the room and miss something. Especially when that something is outside your core competencies.
So what was the root cause?
One of these relays.
Anticlimactic.
Yes, yes, let’s continue to alienate every major country on the planet by threatening them with sanctions. That’s going to work out great for the American people.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/03/31/us-warns-india-against-significant-increase-in-russian-oil-imports/
But whatever you do, don’t try to negotiate a peace.
This is going to go down as the biggest self-own in macro-economic history.
It wasn’t hard to destroy Libya when Khaddafi tried to make an alternative to the Petro-dollar. Not so easy when it’s first world nuclear armed powers.
Look, the faster they can kill the dollar as the reserve currency and collapse the economy, the faster they can get to the Great Reset.
I really don’t see how they actually benefit in that situation. Their intention was to bring the world under globalist management. They’re achieving the exact opposite.
They’ll be trying their damnedest to get digital currencies in the West, but they’ve got a fight against nationalist impulses. And when food gets expensive, the French style of revolution tends to happen, particularly when there’s no overarching unifying culture that convinces people to sacrifice for the greater good.
I think (hope) they’ve fucked themselves.
I think they are fucked in the long run, but in the short run there will be interesting times. Interesting times are always bad.
They wanted a globalist agenda with half the world excluded. That is the logic of the inclusive leftists. Failure was inevitable.
Related…
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2022/03/31/stakeholder_capitalism_neither_capitalism_nor_for_stakeholders_824608.html
This
And because of this, the only way for these entities to survive in the long run is to cheat and steal (with the assistance of the central banks).
Yup, just a way to disguise their preferred policy outcomes, but in private businesses instead of at the level of government.
Stake holder capitalism.
Something, something, designed by a committee
Its like you’re reading ahead to my post on Monday.
Which I won’t be around for – I’ve got an all day meeting that day.
Seems to me it was not long ago that we were on excellent terms with India. I wonder what changed.
This is definitely one of those things that wouldn’t be happening under the Trumpster. He and Modi got along well and the Indian people liked him too.
It’s just stupid flailing around in a vain attempt to “win” in a situation where they cannot.
Unless they’re going to go to war with Russia (God, I hope not), the outcome of this is already determined.
Trump and modi were bros. Now trump is gone so…
If they think Republicans are racist bible thumpers they don’t want to even hear what the BJP says about other groups in India.
India is a traditional ally of Russia and they have been for a while. Our big dick swinging bullying as a first resort diplomacy has got to stop.
It won’t stop with the current inhabitants of the State Department. They simply do not know how else to operate. They’ve been doing it this way for over two decades now.
They’ve been doing it this way for over
twofive decades now.State became disconnected from advancing American interests a looong time ago. At some point, they lost sight of the fact that process has to have an outcome or its pointless. State, as with many bureaucracies, began to see the diplomatic process – endless meetings, committees, white papers, non-binding horseshit, etc. – as the end in itself. That sucked them away from America and into the endless global churn of diplo-grifting.
They should all be fired.
If you want to see scary look in the mirror.
Schneider, a man who is living as a woman, took the crown for the highest earning female Jeopardy! contestant in December before losing his 40-game streak in January 2022.
Standing in the briefing room, Schneider specifically condemned recent legislation passed in Republican state legislatures to protect female sports in schools and prevent teachers from pushing transgender agenda in the classroom.
“They’re really scary,” Schneider said about the Republican bills, apparently like Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation, singed into law this week by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Too bad these brave tranx people can’t send their kids to a school of their own choosing. If they had a voucher they could send their kids to schools that taught 2nd graders the right way to wear a strap on.
The Man is making them go to schools that don’t support their values!
Too bad the obvious follow-up question wasn’t asked: “Specifically, what exactly is scary about legislation that prohibits discussing sexuality with 3rd graders and younger kids, or to stop biological males from unfairly competing against biological women?”
It is funny that Schneider competed in a game that is a level playing field, but since it wasn’t good enough that they did well against other competitors, they are known for having the best “woman’s” performance.
They’re scared that their goal of the normalization of sexual thought and action in childhood will go unrealized. Yes, they want to sexualize your kids or at least get their hooks into them at a very impressionable age.
So evil he is, his signature is burned indelibly into the desk through the baby-skin parchment of the bill.
Speaking of kids’ toys…
I wonder if you can even get these anymore. All those teensy weensy nuts and bolts…
I spent untold hours building things with mine.
Did you ever see a complete set?
I too spent untold hours playing with them. But everyone who owned one had some partial set that they kept in an old random box. Just parts that had survived several owners.
Go nuclear or GTFO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laboratory
That actually sounds amazing. Kind of want one.
I had these as a kid.
https://hackaday.com/2017/09/15/retrotectactular-capsela-is-dead-long-live-capsela/
Me, too. Loved it until I got into Legos. My adult kids still have all my lego sets. Twould be cool to play Legos with grandkids some day.
Growing up, we had a big cardboard box of mixed “normal” lego blocks. I have no idea what happened to that box. It was gone by the time my parents sold that house. In my teens, I got some Lego “technical” sets. Those I still have. I’ve got to pick a grandniece to pass those on to.
Versatile, with very high replay (and resell) value; LEGO is the best.
https://www.brothers-brick.com/
My parents went the cheap route and got me Brix Blox.
https://www.retrothing.com/2008/07/brix-blox—leg.html
Capsela was awesome!
I spent untold hours building things with mine.
I didn’t, but I still had some pretty impressive erections as a teen.
It’s plastic now. And Mecanno offers it. So it at least exists. And in the ultimate irony, the cases say “STEAM” toy instead of “STEM” toy.
Look, the faster they can kill the dollar as the reserve currency and collapse the economy, the faster they can get to the Great Reset.
“Ten Euros for a gallon of milk?!”
How many zeroes did they hack off the euro face value? That fake money isn’t worth the plastic its printed on.
If you think milk is too expensive here are some tips:
* Buy a farm and some cattle and make your own milk
* Drink water from a mud puddle instead
* Take the bus*
* I realize that this has nothing to do with milk, but every proggie adds this to their list. I assume they just want us losers off the streets so they can make better time in their Prius.
Buy a farm and some cattle and make your own milk
Blue Hair: I just can’t understand why my cow only gives me small spurts of milk and gets really agitated about it!
Farmer: Yeah, that’s a bull and he’s not giving you milk.
Blue Hair: Ahem! she identifies as a cow, and she’s giving me milk the best she can!
Farmer: Stop putting makeup and a wig on your bull.
Bull 1: Man you are so lucky to have that old Blue Hair give you a HJ every day
Bull 2: You’d think so, but she insists on getting a gallon every day, and I’m chafed as hell
https://www.drnaylor.com/product/udder-balm/
“he’s not giving you milk”
Fun fact: Latinas do call that leche, Spanish for milk.
(My wife’s a Venezolana.)
Did you ever see a complete set?
The very first time the box was opened, maybe.
How about the game Mousetrap?
Has anyone ever seen a game with all the pieces? Or actually played the game according to the rules?
I had it with all the pieces, and tried playing it according to the rules once.
Monopoly with house rules.
Just like any box of sockets in my garage.
Has all but the one
7/16 is my one that is always….not there.
I have a socket set I bought in 1978 — still using it, still complete.
That’s impressive. I’ve had to replace a 9/16″ and a 10mm in my decades-old set.
It used to be on Black Friday, Sears would have Craftsman socket sets for stupidly cheap. I have like four spare sets still in their packaging just in case.
Conservatives do not shut the fuck up about 1984, at least recently. Have they been known to ban the book in the past? To Kill a Mockingbird too?
I assume the book that Gavin is holding is a book that conservatives want to ban in schools.
“Conservatives do not shut the fuck up about 1984, at least recently. Have they been known to ban the book in the past?”
Just lately, when they realized the left was using it as a how-to manual.
Maybe we should just focus on teaching eight year old children how to read and write and add and subtract.
If they don’t know how to read and write they won’t be able to function on Twitter like a solid citizen. They will be doomed to TikTok.
I wish I was joking when I suggested that they are intentionally nuking the social and economic status of the country.
Joe Biden is trying to have his cake and eat it too as he shuts down exploration and production of oil and gas on onshore federal lands while acknowledging the importance of fossil fuels in the U.S. energy landscape.
The Oil Price dot com website reported on the Biden Administration shutting down lease sales for offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico as prices for the fossil fuels soar. The reported was based on a Bloomberg analysis of the president’s budget plan for fiscal year 2023:
It’s absolutely intentional: nobody’s this incompetent.
From the musical link:
I can tell you from experience that taking off your pants during the slow dance does NOT work out how you planned it.
That’s why you need to have breakaway pants.
I can tell you from experience that taking off your pants during the slow dance does NOT work out how you planned it.
You trip and fall down?
Would still do less damage than Slow Joe if put in charge of US foreign policy.
Drunken Scots – https://youtu.be/OXMyRzsZCpA?t=808
On brand.
Don’t make me spit my coffee out. That’s ridiculous.
Its entirely possible. If the People Who Matter decide they need Joe gone, this is a lever to accomplish that.
Their real problem is they fucked up and put Kamala next in line.
I wonder if she’ll be even more pliable than Joe, or if she’ll get all full of herself and insist she’s actually in charge.
If she gets uppity she better have an armed division behind her, because the Deep State is playing for keeps.
I wonder if they ditch her first.
If she resigns, isn’t it up to Sunset to name the replacement?
Plausible. Do all her gaffes get coverage on CNN et. al., or only Fox? If CNN is helping show how ignorant she is, then I’d say she’s on the way out.
My question still is, how do they ditch her? I can’t imagine any Dems will vote to actually remove her from office, much less impeach her. So she has to resign. What can they offer her/threaten her with to make her resign?
There could be false flag psyops thing where a deranged right-winger is put into play.
There you go. That is definitely the most plausible scenario for removing her from office. All kinds of other side benefits, too.
If I was in her Secret Service detail, I’d be very nervous.
“Sorry the protection detail got drunk with some Venezuelan hookers again. Shame the crazy got through”?
And then the crazy hangs himself pre-trial.
The fuck-up wasn’t putting someone who won’t follow orders in the White House. She is nothing if not a party apparatchik.
The President’s role is to be a good PR figurehead, a flack, for the deep state. The fuck-up was putting someone in the line of succession who is awful at that.
Oooh, and the team is busting up.
Bye, Strawberry!
LOL
It may have been Joe’s smartest move – really, you really want to replace me with her?
I’m skeptical of polls so I’m not Russian to conclusions.
President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating in Russia has soared since he launched his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24—to 83% from 71% last month—according to independent Russian pollster Levada Center.
I don’t really doubt that. Russia’s nationalist tendencies are well-known.
Note that he was already at 70%, allegedly. Can you imagine what a US president would have to do to get numbers like that?
A state controlled media might help.
Be half black and tell you that you can keep your doctor?
I don’t think Obama ever got that high, perhaps excepting immediately after his first election.
He was below 50% at the end I know, but there was a wave of optimism that first year he was elected. Cause we had solved racism.
69% (drink!) his inaugural week. Low of 38% on a few different occasions. (Gallup)
I foolishly allowed work to interfere with Glibs earlier this week and missed out on PO’d Nick’s great North Shore article. The only nit I have to pick is that he buried the lede when it came to Two Harbors.
How do you not mention the whacky mayor and his plan for a $400M underwater hotel?
Since when did “X” have anything to do with “transgender”?
“X” means “non-binary”. “Transgender” means “pretend male” or “pretend female”.
I know the “non-binary” types have latched onto the transgenders who have latched on to the gays but it doesn’t make any sense to lump them all together in any way other than “look at me!”
Forget it, rhywun, it’s proggietown.
X means female. Y means male. It’s SCIENCE!
Everyone has an X chromosome! Except for those mutant drummers born with the YYZ haplotype.
It’s all intended as a distraction from the economic issues.
Even the IMF is starting to worry.
https://archive.ph/YPu30#selection-1539.5-1539.18
Maybe the entire scheme makes no sense because the premise is false.
in California, the first reparations panel in the nation has spent two years trying to decide which African-Americans are eligible for reparations.
According to the Associated Press, the state’s panel on reparations, which was first created following a law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) in 2020, has been plagued with internal divisions over how many black Americans should receive financial compensation for alleged “racism.”
Since it was first fomed in June, some of the panel’s nine members have argued that only direct descendants of actual slaves prior to the Civil War should receive handouts, while others call for a more liberal distribution of funds to every black American. The warring factions led to the panel delaying its originally-planned vote last month.
Despite having existed for two years, the panel has no concrete plan yet for what their reparations would look like. Supporters say that compensation would account for various historical instances of discrimination such as slavery, segregation, and alleged racism in incarceration rates. Some of the proposals for compensation include free college, grants to churches and community organizations, and financial handouts in buying homes and starting up businesses.
Only persons who were themselves slaves are due anything – and that must be paid only by their owner(s)
Bigottttttttt
Why, thank you.
I recall reading part of the dispute is worry that there is only so much Danegeld they can plunder. Each gets more if some are sacrificed.
I guess the trillions of dollars we’ve already thrown at the “Great Society” didn’t work.
It worked for the same type of people now demanding more.
Nobody saw this coming. Nobody.
Seems to be a lot of that going around lately.
Ah, ya’ll are missing the real reason – if the commission makes a decision and pays out the money, they are all out of a job. Keep debating boys.
They could always be in perpetual charge of administering the funds a la the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
In that vein, do future descendants of slaves also get reparations? After all, if several generations of not being a slave is enough to rate getting reparations, surely the next few generations also deserve it.
And how do they define a descendant? I imagine that there are people out there who are 1/16 black who are descendant from a slave.
Boys?
Sure, why not?
The German economy ministry is considering expropriation of Gazprom (GAZP.MM) and Rosneft (ROSN.MM) units in the country amid concerns about security of energy supply, business daily Handelsblatt reported on Thursday, citing government sources.
The discussions between top ministry officials and Chancellor Olaf Scholz aim to prevent massive power cuts if either of these companies, which are systemically important for Germany, gets into difficulties, the newspaper reported.
Both companies are irreplaceable on the German energy market with Gazprom Germania operating large gas storage facilities and Rosneft Deutschland being a key player in the petrol, diesel and kerosene refinery markets, Handelsblatt reported.
At the same time, the companies risk a “technical bankruptcy” as banks and business partners have been distancing themselves from companies with Russian owners since Western sanctions against Russia came into force, Handelsblatt said.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, the pipline could be turned off, rendering the storage units of limited value as they’ll soon be depleted.
Just everything. For starters, if I were Russia, I’d let it be known that any attempt to do so would result in an instantaneous shutdown of all energy supplies.
I wonder if it would been better to start this mess last Fall, and let the Euroweenies have a nice cold Winter.
An offensive in the Ukraine during winter is a bad idea even for the cold natured Russians.
True, but they should have reached at least a stalemate by the dead of Winter and had a truce so maybe there could be some negotiation time. Let Europe sit by and pray.
Do they even need to state that because that’s what would immediately happen.
Who knows? The US and EU have been blundering their way through this like Russia won’t call their bluffs when that is obviously not true.
Germany has also decided to expropriate all the gas still in Russia to ensure Germany’s energy security. They will be sending agents to take control of the gas on the 22nd of June.
I didn’t realize that was an option.
Admittedly, I know very little about anti-tank mines, but it would seem to suggest that those aren’t really mines.
Anti-tank mines are fused to require the amount of pressure a heavy armored vehicle exerts to trigger them. Humans just sliding them around atop pavement isn’t going to set them off. That’s why traditionally minefields were of mixed types, so the anti-personnel mines would deter this sort of low-effort clearance.
Then why would you deploy them like that unless you were going to attack the formation when it stopped to move them?
Only had one type? Poor training? Haste?
All I know is that they had the correct size and form factor to be AT mines.
Maybe they planned to but unassed for some reason.
Or we missed the part of the video where a guy kicks the anti-personnel mine.
All are training dummy mines except one
Mines aren’t really a major casualty producer. Their purpose is to slow down and inconvenience the attacker (sometimes as part of an ambush.)
They can of course, be set off by a human, if they try hard enough:
claymore, claymore, claymore!
I recall reading part of the dispute is worry that there is only so much Danegeld they can plunder. Each gets more if some are sacrificed.
By the time we devised an equitable distribution formula, the reparations fund had all been spent on our salaries, and consultants’ fees. You get a letter of apology.
I’m at the point of being sick & tired of being sick & tired.
Hey! I already used that line.
Dear leader is not getting the credit he deserves.
In just the past month, liberal media networks such as MSNBC and CNN, as well as newspapers like Forbes and The Washington Post, expressed concern that President Biden was not seeing a bump in his poll numbers or receiving credit for his response to Ukraine and his impact on the “roaring” U.S. economy.
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, on multiple occasions, attempted to paint Biden’s handling of the economy in a positive light despite record inflation, sky-high gas prices and poor poll numbers for the president.
During a March 1 segment on MSNBC, Todd pointed to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll which indicated 51% of registered voters believed the U.S. economy was in a recession or a depression. He also made note of a Washington Post/ABC News poll in which 75% of polled adults viewed the economy as not so good or poor.
Todd immediately defended Biden, claiming that Americans’ views of the Biden economy “do not reflect the job gains or GDP growth” that have been touted by the administration. Moments later, Todd claimed it has “never been easier to get a job.”
Times have never been better. Thanks, Joe Biden. Praised be his name.
If he got the credit he deserved, DC would have been burned down and the administration in hiding.
This reflects more on them than on Biden. All that effort on propaganda isn’t working. They might realize they’re becoming less and less relevant.
In 2020, Democrats reduced employment by X. In 2021, employment increased by < X. Praise to Joe Biden.
In 2020, Democrats increased spending by X. In 2021, the government reduced spending by < X. Praise to Joe Biden.
Real GDP growth must be negative by now, no? It does seem relatively easy to get a job though.
The economy for the government and Wall Street is booming. Mainstreet? Not so much. Having to dump an extra $300+/month into food, gas, etc will have those people answering the way they did.
Local news just printed a story about a woman who had the dream of opening a restaurant. She started everything four years ago, with the target of opening in mid-2020. Now, they’re saying she’s in danger of losing everything since she hasn’t been able to open yet.
I’m at the point of being sick & tired of being sick & tired.
Don’t forget “Thinking more and more about less and less.”
Lots of military jet action over my house this morning
Were you able to determine their gender?
What is she, a biologist?
Mostly long and cylindrical so likely female?
How would you know? Are you an aerospace engineer?
These jokes are too fun but make me cry cause we have fallen so far in so little time.
And more
Like leaving or patrolling?
Can’t tell…I live west of Andrews AFB, but usually the flight paths take them north or south. And I can’t remember which radar app/website shows military. Flightradar24 doesn’t show very many military tracks.
Floundering
Macellum, led by veteran retail-industry investor Jonathan Duskin, amplified its pressure on Kohl’s in February, following months-long criticisms of the big-box retailer for not performing as well as it could in 2021. It nominated 10 directors, including Duskin himself. That came after the activist called for Kohl’s to consider selling itself.
Kohl’s has since started working with bankers and other financial advisors to consider bids for its business. It has already rejected one offer from Starboard-backed Acacia Research, at $64 per share, calling it too low.
Earlier this month, it confirmed receipt of multiple preliminary buyout offers. One of those bidders is Saks Fifth Avenue owner HBC, a source familiar with the transaction previously told CNBC. HBC declined to comment.
Every time I have been in a Kohl’s store in the past five years or more (a handful of times), I ask myself, “How is it that these guys are still in business?”
I can’t figure out what they offer that would make me want or need to shop with them.
I wondered the same about JCPenney. Then they went bankrupt. (Though still open for now, it seems.)
They’re all falling like dominos. Which I find interesting because the various deliverers are IMHO clearly having difficulty keeping up with Amazon.
Where do people obtain anything when all the shops are gone and you have a 50/50 chance of a delivery being “lost”?
They buy from the people who “find” missing amazon packages.
For higher end luxury items that are both “sold” and the clients want to touch and examine I can see the need for brick and mortar.
I live ~10 minutes from a local Amazon distribution warehouse, and ~30 from one of the huge fulfillment centers (not sure if I’m labeling those correctly). Most orders are filled the next day. This is in a small town southeast of Nashville, TN.
Funny enough this is today from the WSJ.
JCPenney’s CEO Is Done Chasing New Customers. ‘We Are Loving Those Who Love Us.’
It’s sad in there. I walked through one a year or so ago and it was just walls of crappy clothes, outdated fashions. Massive amounts of it. Awful place.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehIMaR9ea-A
JCPenney had a good thing going, and they blew it.
Where else am I going to get my slacks?
Right here!
Fabulous album.
Wow!
Thanks for that memory trigger, Tundra!
I spent my summers about an hour north of Brainerd
Toolmaster of Brainerd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KICM5usWOng
Great song!
I saw them a million years ago and it remains one of the best shows I’ve seen.
The only couple of times I’ve been in a Kohl’s recently was to drop off an Amazon return.
Ha! That was my last trip too.
My wife may be personally keeping Kohl’s afloat.
This reflects more on them than on Biden. All that effort on propaganda isn’t working. They might realize they’re becoming less and less relevant.
It’s more likely than not just wishful thinking on my part, but maybe, just maybe, a lot of people have put Big Media on “mute” after the last two years of incessant lies and fearmongering.
Wait until you can’t turn the wallscreen off.
When all those ‘connected homes’ have their daily chime and automatic tuning to the day’s
newspropagandaTouch your toes, Montag!
Good morning, Banjos!
What’s shakin’ peeps?
It’s where you rattle the marshmellow until the sugar falls off.
I can’t figure out what they offer that would make me want or need to shop with them.
A long time ago, they had good prices on Levis. I’d go there to get my 501s.
Me too! Another 501 aficionado I see.
Interesting interview with a CATO fellow who is in Europe working to get supplies into fellow libertarians in Ukraine. He touches on a number of interesting points. Only runs about 20 minutes. Disregard the title; he does use that phrase during the interview but that’s not the subject matter: https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-daily-podcast/naked-collectivism-animates-putins-war-ukraine
Because the fuckton they’ve spent to date on COVID just wasn’t enough.
Covid News: Senators Near Agreement to Slim Emergency Aid Package
Heaven knows what necessary shit was in the $5bn they’ve cut. But I’m sure it was highly necessary.
Didn’t I read that they hadn’t spent the previous money yet?
That’s why they need more money.
If only he’d worn a mask and been vaccinated and boosted.
NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Tests Positive For COVID
We will continue this as long as we get billions and we can control the populace.
Bad Zoom! Stop that! Just because someone decides to share something is no reason to go fullscreen. You only go fullscreen when I tell you to!
I’ve never had Teams do that.
Hah. You think you actually control your own software?
I’m more liable to kick the rented horse than my own.
World’s only flying Me-163 (reconfigured as a towed glider–no rocket engine anymore)
No spoilers make for a really sketchy long landing
When all those ‘connected homes’ have their daily chime and automatic tuning to the day’s news propaganda
If only I could get my hands on that fucking rat bastard Goldstein…
OMG – consequences, finally.
Thanks for some good news!
And it’s the Ninth, no less. Very nice.
State court of appeals, not federal court of appeals.
Ah, yes. RIF
Because it is normal offer you marital status to children.
Narcissistic Florida 1st grade teacher has breakdown over the thought of not being able to talk about her marriage
Also, still currently allowed and has nothing to do with the bill.
The bill prohibits *instruction* related to gender identity and sexuality. A man could still say he loves a man.
I don’t remember any of my teachers talking about their personal lives at all. Not the straight ones nor the gay ones.
Ditto. Maybe casually mentioning a significant other.
Which would be fine anyway.
My entire 4th grade class was invited to our teacher’s wedding. Other than that I can’t remember a thing.
This.
And I don’t remember asking.
Cry harder, bullies.
Jinx! But yes, I couldn’t even tell you if any of my teachers were married.
A caveat… my math teacher invited some of us (the “math team”?) over for supper one night and that’s when our suspicion was confirmed that her and the Earth Science teacher were shacking up.
It was known that my 12th grade English teacher was a lesbian. Her partner would even show up at extracurricular activities sometimes. If you didn’t know, she could have just been a friend.
The teacher never mentioned it. It wasn’t a secret but why bring it up?
“I must discuss my sexuality with 4 year olds!” – groomers
When you can’t biologically reproduce but you want progeny…
How else will they make the next generation of transgenders?
They certainly don’t want to have kids-yuck!
I don’t remember hearing about or caring about my teachers’ personal lives in grade school. I always assumed it was a professional thing, like not giving away their home address and that sort of thing.
It is, but these people are anything but professional.
The only thing I knew about a teacher’s personal life is that my HS Calculus teacher’s brother-in-law was once married to Jaclyn Smith. Someone joked that Thanksgiving dinner was “Beauty and the Beast”.
Her husband also had a horse that ran on Derby Day. Not in the Derby, but any other race on Derby Day is still a big deal. She could have retired whenever, she was obviously not working for the money. She was also a very good teacher.
Via some wiki links, the husband of Jaclyn Smith was Roger Davis. He had two brothers, Edwin and Brent, I have no idea which was my teacher’s husband. Their father was very wealthy. Like I said, I knew she had money and was teaching because it is what she enjoyed doing.
More links, she died last year:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/louisville/name/alice-davis-obituary?id=7638503
Damn you internet for providing information!
I recall hearing nothing, seeing nothing, and caring not at all about my teacher’s personal lives. As far as I knew in grade school, they never left the building.
What, you weren’t hot for teacher?
This actually makes a lot of sense when you realize that these teachers don’t see 6 year-olds as their subordinates, they see them as their peers.
I’m busy!
Baitin’?
I’m afraid to click.
Its just an otter (no, not that kind of otter) playing with some stones (no, not that kind of stones).
I’m not sure what goes through your head where the content of the video is not the first thing that comes to mind.
Cuteness
Clown world.
.@SecretaryLevine worries about how “mean-spirited comments affect other transgender individuals who are more vulnerable than I am” and thinks we need to support the most vulnerable in the community.
I’m trying to think of something good for a symbolic tribute. Not a symbol of submission, but the opposite. “We’ve got an old treaty obligation to send tribute, but we don’t think you could beat us now, you’re just not worth the trouble of fighting.”
Pre-owned ones furniture?
Or is that too insulting.
Maybe some pretty, but low cost baubles.
Pre-owned Ikea furniture*
Looks like I pre-owned myself there.
There’s no Ikea in the setting. It’s more likely to be baubles than anything outright insulting.
Perhaps the traditional tribute was solid gold, and they start sending some chintzy gold-plated thing?
I was wondering how recently the Talent-Talent homonym emerged. I wonder if I could make their compliance a form of wordplay
At least the 14th-15th centuries from the looks of it, possibly older.
And from the looks of it, the homonym worked its way into a lot of languages with the same pair of meanings. The talents changed from coin to displays of skill 😛
I seem to recall an annual ceremony at the Virginia capitol where ye olde treaty(?) obligation of one of the Indian tribes was fulfilled.
The Indians would dump a dead deer on the steps of the capitol building.
Totally unrelated – the Virginia capitol building gets my vote for the best in the country. Not that big, but designed by Jefferson and just really nice.
The NY capitol is a gaudy monstrosity, appropriately enough.
That went through several architects and redesigns.
Nebraska is my favorite just for being art-deco.
If at some point the VA legislature stopped prepping and eating the deer, I would be pissed. Does the speaker get an annual deerskin jacket?
Wisconsin may be my second favorite – very federal and impressive.
Texas is also nice, but (appropriately) it borders on gaudy – they seemed to think they needed to use as many different kinds of stone as they could possibly fit.
Disclaimer – I have probably been to maybe a dozen state capitol buildings.