This is the way.
As I make my journey halfway across this great nation of ours, I have come to the realization that Texas is paradise. Well, at least relative to Louisiana and Mississippi. Their inexplicably low 65 MPH speed limit on four lane, divided rural highways (not interstates) and their absolutely insane placement of a local cop after every hill or around every curve makes them both awful. Get with the program, you guys. If you want to be a part of the Great Texas Empire when the SHTF, you need to put an end to that retardation. Get those speed limits up to 75 -80 and have one cop every couple hundred miles. Otherwise, you’re out. On the flip side, I don’t think I dropped below 90 once I hit the Bama state line until I got to the outskirts of Birmingham. It helped immensely that I was effectively in a DRS train of sports cars for the most part. And boy, was it ever enjoyable. Anyway, that’s the end of my diatribe. Time to move on.
Facts
The Celtics thumped the Heat to even the NBA’s ECF. The Lightning sapped the Panthers will to play and moved to a 2-0 series lead. The Blues leveled their series with Colorado in the west. And across the pond, Everton managed a comeback win that will see them stay in the PL for another season. But they’re still an embarrassment to that city and their crosstown rivals laugh at them as they deserve. And that’s it for sports.
Hey, this is actually a pretty good idea. Especially for those of us with kids who sit the damn things down and forget where they put them…just before they proceed to drink less than half a bottle and then leave that somewhere on a table to go flat.
“Why you poisoning me, bitch?”
I knew this was coming. But it’s still enraging. There’s absolutely no benefit whatsoever to kids. And the downsides are massive. Sure, you have a few outliers it may help. But this approval will lead to mandates. And those mandates will lead to mass “immunization”. And that will lead to a fucking gazillion kids with side effects and diminished immune systems. And that will lead to a really shitty future.
So y’all are still running with this story, huh? You do know people aren’t that stupid, don’t you? Oh wait, they are that stupid. So I guess they’ll continue voting in the real culprits and blaming the same bogeyman. I’ll also note that to almost seems as if there’s a vested interest in keeping this war going as long as possible in order to tighten that grip on power. But I’m sure that’s just a hell of a coincidence.
Yeah, we definitely should have shut down those lease auctions. We don’t need any new oil capacity. Nosiree. Seriously, do the imbeciles running our government not realize this is a lot more likely to fuel a civil war than it is a “green economy”?
This story is stupid. It doesn’t even have a photo of the subordinate so I can make an assessment whether or not the guy deserved a penalty or a promotion. Do better, NY Post.
A “woman”.
Just hook it to my veins!!! We need as much more of this as can be printed. Perhaps that would end the madness quicker. Also, the tranny isn’t even making an effort to look like a chick. I bet he hasn’t even cut his balls off yet.
I can assure you that absolutely nothing will happen. Wait, let me clarify: nothing will happen to the cop. The taxpayers, on the other hand, will fork over millions.
That’s some fine engineering work there, boys. Well fucking done.
Leave it to the government to not be able to count. I see they’re blaming the state officials who, last I checked, had nothing at all to do with the exclusively federal matter. Big shock there.
No it’s not Zeppelin, but it’s still a good song. So that’s how it went for one guy. And here’s how it went for another. You decide if either or both are up to snuff.
Now get out there and have a great day and an even better weekend, my friends.
San Francisco, eh? I guess it will be the leaning tower of sleaz-a
not pissa?
Even better!
I’d expect the pissa to be in Bahstan.
The millennial tower.
Should immigrant population count toward a state’s census for representational purposes?
Legal immigrants should, in my opinion. They should enjoy all rights and privileges as citizens, with the exception of voting. Therefore they should count.
How does that attitude help the totalitarian left take control of things?
I am glad for your reply. I was getting a little freaked out; I thought maybe I had slipped into a SugarFree Creepypasta.
The black, viscous ooze slowly dripping from the bathroom ceiling didn’t help.
I agree; but there should be firm safeguards against non-citizens’ voting.
Everyone that wants to vote should be allowed to vote! Including the illegal and dead…..
/team blue
Everyone that wants to vote Democrat should be allowed to vote!
Don’t get carried away there bub.
Naturally, if you oppose the Democratic party you oppose democracy, and only those who support democracy should vote in a democracy. Therefore, ergo, thus logically only Democrats should be allowed to vote QED.
I mean, I do oppose democracy…
Maybe the girlie-man skateboarder will meet a hyena.
I was disappointed to find out what “motorboarding” meant. I thought it was a modern update of keelhauling.
Nope.
“. Billy Crosby, a logistics officer with the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed in Jordan, spent 30 days in the brig for “placing his face between [the junior solider’s] breasts and moving his face from side to side,” in May 2021, according to court documents.”
The subordinate identifies as female (pronouns: sue/thejerk)
Suing someone for financial damage for using the wrong pronouns….. The new American dreams.
“So y’all are still running with this story, huh? You do know people aren’t that stupid, don’t you? Oh wait, they are that stupid.”
They are hoping the people that hear the bullshit are that stupid to believe them…
Early links? What is going on around here?
Sloop is testing your time checking skillz.
“Yeah, we definitely should have shut down those lease auctions. We don’t need any new oil capacity. Nosiree. Seriously, do the imbeciles running our government not realize this is a lot more likely to fuel a civil war than it is a “green economy”?”
As I commented on another one of the government lies linx, they know exactly what they are doing, they simply hope people are stupid enough to buy whatever lie they tell them to mask the corrupt and evil shit they do…
If you want to worry about Russia’s influence on America, stop pretending they are dangerous for spending $100K on some social media adds, and focus on the tens of millions they spend helping the green movement destroy our economy and ability to be energy independant.
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We’re working on this but it may be awhile. And by awhile mean….
And by awhile mean….
Rape?
We demand numbers!
And thank you!
3.
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(i+1).
Next thing you know you’ll be telling Pie to be rational.
*narrows gaze*
So I take it you’re keeping a log?
How do you diffentiate that? or is it a question of integrating?
The next thing you’ll be demanding a proof.
*continues narrowing gaze*
I wonder if the gaze asymptotically narrows.
I suppose you imagine that you’re being clever.
It’s not just mobile devices. Recent articles don’t appear on the front page until logged in.
^^THIS.
(Using Brave browser on Windows 10, BTW…).
Also not Zeppelin, but so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj5nH0O8lmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOUYry_5Nw
1. Digging the early lynx.
2. LA is notorious for targeting drivers with out of state plates.
3. The cops in AL are vastly more concerned about keeping traffic moving than any other I’ve encountered.
I wonder who gets to keep the ticket money in LA versus AL
If an out-of-towner is arrested during Mardi Gras, a common tactic is to set a rather high bail with a court date scheduled many months away. The City of New Orleans would very much prefer to keep the forfeited bail money and not have to pay for a trial.
There’s several suburbs like that in the Cleveland area. One would target out of county plates (unless you drove through frequently enough your car was recognized). That city had a police station that was larger then their library.
County licenses plates are an abomination. One of the few things wrong with Idaho. Liquor and Califucktards are another.
Our ballot initiative process is pretty terrible as well.
I’m not sure anything should happen to that cop – the kid was in a stolen vehicle and may have been a suspect in a car-jacking.
Leave it to the government to not be able to count. I see they’re blaming the state officials who, last I checked, had nothing at all to do with the exclusively federal matter. Big shock there.
Oh, they can can count. They undercounted a bunch of Red states and overcounted several Blue states, and it will not be corrected and has already been used for apportionment for representative and electoral college purposes. Odd how these “mistakes” always favor one party.
The Left has made it perfectly clear that the ends justify the means. Anybody who leaves the gloves on at this point is just asking for an ass beating.
“The Left has made it perfectly clear that the ends justify the means.”
Heads they win, tails you lose…
Morning, Sloopy — I think you just won the “My Life is So Much Cooler Than Yours” award, at least for the month.
Trying to drive 90 through backwoods Mississippi and ‘Bama seems like a good way to feed the local speed traps. Of which I would expect plenty from the county cops. Sounds like y’all have a real Bandit methodology going on (as in the original movie where Bandit was the distraction for the semi), so more power to you. If you’re going into North Georgia back roads — just watch out for deer, especially in the morning. 😉
Biggest thing I remember about ‘Bama driving in recent days is that from Talladega to the GA state line, I-20 is in perpetual “construction zones” that they speed trap like hawks. Not enough revenue from the NASCAR fans or something.
“This way they can’t mobilize or have gas for their Molotovs! Win win!” (Alternately — queue up Tonio’s war on Freedom of Movement article)
I was really hoping the downsides of the “vax” would be so obvious that they’d give up on further approvals and just call it the Flu Shot equivalent that it is, defaulting back to “It is out there, take it if you think you should”. I still hold that having that be part of my son’s mandatory school shots is one of my lines for moving states — I just hope there’s somewhere to move *to* these days.
Re: The SF Leaning Tower — I’d be really really nervous if I were in a building (or owned one) near that thing. It really screams that it is going to burn down, fall over and then sink into the swamp ^W bay. Sure as heck wouldn’t rent any space in it — but then again, I wouldn’t be in SF for work or life anyway.
Amateur hour
I can hear the lawyers salivating from across the country.
I know Tim skates, but I am a little lost on this explanation.
boobs?
*googles*
Never mind.
I think it’s based on women in general having larger thighs, hips, and butts than men. But that’s the general population; skating selects for thin body types. So you’re going to have that busty but otherwise skinny woman who torpedoes TP’s statement.
Wow. Way to be racist against fat girl skaters.
You mean roller derby womyn?
I’m thinking too that women perhaps could balance on a skateboard better, but then leaving the board to perform tricks would not suit them. Tony Hawk is like 6’3″, so my first thought that skaters are short and skinny also seems to be wrong.
I would have thought lower center of gravity would be more stable and hence advantageous. Unless skating is about using and controlling that instability, and then the more inherently unstable the more possibilities. Perhaps our resident skater (Blackjack?) can explain.
The attacks keep coming. Yesterday, it was the removal of Tesla’s ESG designation which restricts their access to the biggest capital sources in the country (Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, etc…)
Today it’s: https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-sexual-assault-spacex-flight-attendant-massage
The fact that they are so terrified of the Twitter platform allowing free speech certainly is telling.
^^^THIS^^^
It is much harder for them to pretend to do things democratically when people will know what they really are dong and then will say they don’t want that shit…
Programming the lemmings is a key part of controlling the serfs. The people in charge definitely do not want to have their power to control diluted or undermined.
Turns out “Twitter is a private company” was a total lie
Always was.
The timing of all this is transparent as fuck.
SpaceX flight attndants?
Like these?
Those are some serious soyboy smiles.
I’m very tempted to compare their video using trained dogs with the one using trained Japanese schoolgirls.
gonna need a link for that 2nd one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU
Huh. I was expecting this.
That’s fake freefall tho.
Freefall animal abuse
What did they think they could discover with that?
If cats land on their feet in low or non gravity? Maybe they found some aggressive alien species that is feline coming our way?
Kzin
I was thinking of the flight attendants in the fifth element
I would have expected you to link this.
That settles it, let’s get rid of free speech because of this.
Free speech = physical assault.
If you ever needed proof that the U.S. is not a plutocracy, just watch as the world’s richest man cannot actually buy his way into power.
Musk seems to have made all the right enemies.
He said, “Elongate”.
C’mon, Panthers. Do the needful.
All part of the plan.
Those are very sensitive statements for Pyke to be making, if he’s at all concerned about his PE license. Direct accusation (at least publicly) of incompetence by one PE about another is generally frowned upon by the professional ethics standards.
Oh, just push the building over. It’s San Fransisco, no one will notice a little more trash on the streets.
Or lash it to the next building over – Idiocracy style.
Idiocracy certainly seems to be arriving much sooner than predicted.
It didn’t take 400 years, just 2 generations..
The movie didn’t account for the public school system.
It also got the origin of the problem wrong. The movie’s premise was that the problem was going to be the dumb people overbreeding the smart ones, but now we know the real problem isn’t that, but the supposedly smart people being anything but smart, efficient, effective, or capable in any way anymore.
They’re simultaneously using both 1984 and Idiocracy as guides.
Feels to me that they had to turn 1984 into a “How to” manual because they got fooled into thinking the problem would be the people they looked down on in the movie and real life outpacing their offspring…
Hamburger also contested NBC’s reporting that the building is currently at a 28-inch tilt. “Presently, the building tilts about 25-1/2 inches to the west and 8-1/2 inches to the north, as measured at the roof,” Hamburger said via email.
Let’s see… 25.5 squared plus 8.5 squared… Take the square root… And I guess the hamburger is technically correct. It’s only 26.9 inches of tilt. I guess 1.1 inches is very important to him/they/it.
yep, that was my thought too, but I was too lazy to do the calculation.
That’s what she said!
Even in an email? Also do you think this affects the fitness of the building in the event of an earthquake?
65 MPH speed limit on four lane, divided rural highways – hewre the limit on all highways is 130 KPH and it is to damn low
Then again my friend in dutchland complains about the low speed limits there. They are higher at night so when he goes on vacation to Spain he leaves at 5AM, so he can get to belgium by 6 AM when the speed limits drop.
My friend in dutchland also tells me that when dutch leave the country driving they are considered as a menace as there are some rules that are different from other countries and they are not aware and drive like in dutchland
Huh. Usually here the overnight speed is lower because you can’t see as far. And wildlife don’t give a shit about rules of the road.
my friend in deutschland on the other hand floors it usually.
130 KPH
Translate this number from gibberish to English, please.
And here I though Americans could do simple calculations
We non-binary users aren’t accustomed to mentally dividing by 16.
See above; we can, but we’re too lazy to do so.
We’re not the ones using some retarded johnny-come-lately units of measure. You’re not gonna enact our labor, metric-boy.
https://www.glibertarians.com/2017/09/why-i-hate-the-metric-system-and-you-should-too-an-uninformed-rant-based-on-no-research-whatsoever/
Whoopsie.
https://www.glibertarians2017.link/2017/09/22/why-i-hate-the-metric-system-and-you-should-too-an-uninformed-rant-based-on-no-research-whatsoever/
I blame the metric system.
Excellent rant. Fuck the metric system. I missed that the first time around. I love how the Youtuber Lindybeige (a British chauvinist) pronounces met-reh with a dismissive over the top French accent.
Also, I had this heated argument with a Russian woman (who afterward looked very pleased at my stalwart defense and said “that was fun” – Russians aren’t pussies). Inch tape measures are better for carpentry than decimalized units. What’s the midpoint of a board that’s 24 and 3/8″ wide? 12 and 3/16″, and there’s a mark on the tape for that. What’s the midpoint of a board that’s 35.7cm? Fuck if I know, and there isn’t a tick for it because it’s half of an odd number.
Lindybeige had an excellent video on why the pre-decimalization currency system was better.
Yes leeches are the best remedy for all disease
Must be why we have so many in the CDC and the NIH.
Don’t forget the ones in government.
Kilometers are not units of freedom. They only count as three fifths of a mile.
*rim shot*
There’s absolutely no benefit whatsoever to kids. And the downsides are massive.
Bill Gates did say we have to vaccinate in order to solve the population “problem”.
I read that as no benefit to have kids…
I’m certainly not having children any time soon with all the nonsense going on in the world, which is unfortunate because I’d like to some day.
Been there, thought that. I sorta got over it when I realized that it’s okay to raise “sheltered” kids. They don’t have to be plugged into every mass media fad to have a good childhood. We probably won’t be hanging around families who give their kids iPhone at 10. Our kids already interact with and have formed friendships with kids who are much older and younger than them. As they get older, they’ll be given the skills and opportunities to interact with adults in a professional environment and they will be encouraged to work or be entrepreneurial as early as possible.
They may inherit a shit culture in the middle of a civilization ending collapse, but they will be equipped with the tools and skills required to make good lives for themselves in spite of the dysfunction swirling around them.
And getting kicked off social media if you suggest that kids having heart attacks on soccer fields is a recent phenomenon.
Edoardo Ronzoni inspects a construction site near Milan that he shut down in March as costs for materials skyrocketed. He can’t complete a half-built roundabout at an intersection known for fender-benders because asphalt, cast-iron pipes and concrete are too expensive — prices exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Uh huh…
I can certainly believe that steel prices in Europe are rising at least partially because Ukraine’s foundries are off-line.
That said, most of the explosion in pricing for steel predates the war.
Just a guess, but it probably takes a fair amount of energy to transport iron and nickel to the plant, heat up and process the raw materials into steel, and then transport it off to a buyer.
Hence why the Russian natural gas import bans are a non-starter. At least for anyone who’s not insane.
If they didn’t need the natural gas for competing needs – like generating electricity – they would be needing a lot less of that Russian stuff. I have very little sympathy for idiots that destroy their own energy generation and independence, to appease green movements financed by the scum of the earth of all things, making themselves dependent on others with hostile intentions. When you bend over and open your cheeks don’t be surprised if it is seen as an invitation to… You get my concept.
I know two different companies that were planning large expansions since last year. One is a distillery, the other a meadery. Both have had prices jump over 100% from their initial estimates to the past month. Which has put a crimp in their plans.
Visited a meadery for the first time a few weeks ago. Very enjoyable stuff but also very expensive.
Convince the bees to make more honey then!
A couple years back, one of the local meaderies (Crafted), started a subscription service. I bought it for the girlfriend one Christmas, and we’ve kept it up since. Every quarter we get six bottles of mead (4 session and 2 still at the level we’re at). She enjoys their dessert and sweeter meads, while I prefer the still ones.
California drivers are grappling with the most expensive gas in the nation, shelling out an average $6.06 per gallon as of Thursday. That could soon be the fate of drivers in the rest of the nation, according to a JPMorgan analyst, who predicts the national average per gallon price could reach $6.20 this summer.
More for me since my car uses premium. Let’s go, Brandon.
I called over $6 and under $7 about six months ago. I might actually have gotten a prediction right for once.
Let’s see how that affects elections.
Suppresses turnout? Which would mean Republicans are to blame!
That figured into my latest car decision. I passes on a Challenger with the big block that used premium only.
I have a 2015 Civic SI, bought new, that has been paid off for awhile now. It takes premium but still gets good mileage (30+). So the cost of gas will suck but I probably have it better than many people.
Don’t forget that you can reduce the amount you pay for gas by filling up more frequently!
2011 Mini Cooper, also paid off for quite a while now. In the shop now for some needed maintenance, and also requires premium. But thankfully it gets good gas mileage.
2016 C-Max drinks shitty, low-octane E10 gas, gets 38 mpg most days.
Not paid off until the end of this year 🙁
We went with a plug in hybrid last summer because we could see the gas price issues potentially getting worse with Brandon in office.
Now I just need to convince my wife that the gas prices are dire enough that we need to stop driving to places that are beyond the EV range of the van.
How will you get to the shooting range though?
If things keep going the way they’re going, I fear the shooting ranges will come to us this summer.
People (everyone) need to take a break and settle down/back off. The world is getting too stressed.
It’s 2.5 miles from my house.
Can’t throw a rock without bouncing off the front door of a range here.
I wish. Here in VA I can here them testing ordnance on the potomac river almost every day, but at least an hour away from any decent small arms ranges.
I set up a shooting range at my pond. It’s quiet and private. Rifles, shotguns, handguns. Am sitting on some tannerite for post-Halloween pumpkins.
A teammate and I came to the realization that they’re making it more expensive for disabled people to participate in sports. Someone needs to put that out there.
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One of my seed words provided one letter on one word. That’s pretty bad.
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holy cow, that’s good.
That’s freaky.
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New problem at San Francisco’s still-sinking Millennium Tower means it may be forever tilting
The Leaning Tower of ‘Frisco?
Maybe someone should come up with a solution that involves all the discarded needles and human excrement to prop it up?
The U.S. census estimates it missed more than a half-million Texans during 2020 count
Convenient.
Immigrants, people living in poverty and non-English speakers were among the most likely to be missed, yet the crucial count received lackluster promotion by Texas state government.
Non-citizens don’t count, so…
lackluster promotion by Texas state government
… who runs the U.S. Census again?
…MasterBlaster?
Meanwhile in downtown
KharkivPalo Alto…A girl was recording video of herself playing a game of tag when a gun battle broke out in East Palo Alto Jack Farrell Park. Children ran for their lives as 33 shots were fired. 4 adults were shot.
That’s just you being racist for bringing that up..
EPA has been a well known shithole as long as I can remember.
Seems legit.
Democratic Senators have introduced new gun control legislation that would, among other things, institute a federal license requirement to buy a gun.
Democratic New Jersey Senators Bod Menendez and Cory Booker, and Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the “Federal Firearm Licensing Act” Thursday. The bill would institute a requirement for gun purchasers to obtain a firearms license through the Department of Justice before buying or receiving a gun. …
The bill then outlines the procedure for establishing the license under the Department of Justice, directing the attorney general to establish a system for issuing them. In order to be eligible to obtain the license itself, a prospective licensee must first complete a firearms safety course, which includes “a written test, to demonstrate knowledge of applicable firearms laws; and hands-on testing, including firing testing, to demonstrate safe use and sufficient accuracy of a firearm.” After that, the licensee must pass a federal background check and a criminal history; submit proof of identification; fingerprints; and information about the firearm the licensee intends to buy or obtain, including “make, model, and serial number, and the identity of the firearm seller or transferor.”
I fail to understand what is unclear about “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Under the law, the attorney general would have to approve or deny applications within 30 days, and notify state and local officials of every application. If approved, licenses would be made available at a “designated local office.” Each individual license would be valid to buy one firearm, to be purchased within 30 days of issuance. The licenses would expire five years after the issuance date. The law would also allow the attorney general to deny or revoke the license of anyone he deems “poses a significant danger of bodily injury to self or others by possessing, purchasing, or receiving a firearm.” The bill also includes a provision in which the law would not apply in states that have licensing processes “with substantially similar requirements.”
In addition, the bill makes it illegal to transfer a gun to any person without first being transferred to a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer. It also makes it illegal to sell or transfer a gun to an unlicensed person.
So many process crimes, so little time.
All under Commerce? What morons.
FOS
There really needs to be a constitutional amendment to provide penalties at the organizational and/or personal level for knowingly introducing obviously unconstitutional legislation or executive orders. And make it apply to the states as well. This “Keep throwing obvious crap at the wall and hope we can court shop” or “Infringe on people like crazy and withdraw it if it makes it to the Supremes” (looking at you, New York) is just ridiculous and needs to be clamped down hard. Personal liability is the only thing I can think of that would be a deterrent… it takes too long to wend its way through the courts otherwise.
(Of course, then we’ll just have all the real crap bills queued up for the Feinstein level nonagenarian Senator of the Times to “sponsor” so the real culprits can hide behind their skirts, because that’s what weasels do.)
In order to be eligible to obtain a firearm, you must first demonstrate proficiency with a firearm. That’s not a catch-22 at all.
From memory, showing aptitude and ability with distilling equipment is a requirement for obtaining a distillery license.
Even though that bill is dead on arrival, DICK Blumenthal should fuck off and stick to falsifying his service record.
I had that asshole campaign at my gym back when he ran for the first time (I think he might have also used that gym and figured people would be for him since everyone was polite). He came to me while I was on the treadmill with a bunch of people following him. I told him to go fuck himself for being a lying scumbag and that I hope the people that actually died being in Vietnam would be there to greet him before he got his ass kicked downstairs. The gym owner asked me to not do that again cause he didn’t need the visibility even though he agreed.
For extra fun, if distilling alcohol for motor fuel, one is required to denature it the moment it leaves the still. However, one is still required to post a surety bond (cash only) to BATFE in the amount the alcohol would have been taxed if it WERE beverage alcohol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Distinguished_Public_Service_Award#/media/File:Navy_Distinguished_Public_Service_Medal_Awardee_Richard_Blumenthal.jpg
Only constitutional rights emanating from penumbras like abortion are absolute. Actual enumerated rights like the second amendment are subject to any all restrictions the government seeks to impose.
“When I am weaker than you, I insist that my rights are protected by the Constitution, because that is according to your principles. When I am stronger than you, I deny your rights that are protected by the Constitution, because that is according to my principles”
(with apologies to Frank Herbert)
I’m sure criminals and crazy people will be lining up to register. ?
““a written test, to demonstrate knowledge of applicable firearms laws; and hands-on testing, including firing testing, to demonstrate safe use and sufficient accuracy of a firearm.” ”
I doubt the senators could pass that test.
I’d do a comparison to a federal voter registration and licensing, but those fucks would relish the ability to disenfranchise whatever segments they wish.
Worth a read: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/michael-hudson-americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies.html
Written just prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Europeans tend to look down and be envious of Americans. Especially the ones that had a large amount of their populations migrate here and do better. They can’t stand the fact that in some of these countries with 2 millennia plus of history that a young upstart nation ran circles around them when they still believe they are superior to them.
Europe has essentially been America’s backyard since WWI. The evolution of U.S. policy from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan has been the shifting of effort and resources away from defending the Americas from European colonialism to instead colonizing the collapsing empires of Europe. As much as Europeans love to tout their peaceful happy social democracies which are so much more advanced than the leftist version of dystopian perpetually 1890s America, all of their ideas for the past seventy or more years have originated in U.S. (and to a lesser extent, British) high society. They’ve been experimental subjects, not sovereign peoples.
(lest Europeans find this framing distasteful or offensive: America’s own population has also been subject to the same kinds of experimentation, but since America wasn’t devastated by two world wars, they didn’t have the same opportunity to bake it into our constitutions or legislation as much, and so instead pursued it through somewhat less formal/overt means)
But Germany has no other way of heating many of its houses and office buildings (or supplying its fertilizer companies) than with Russian gas. – by choice mostly
The problem is to create a suitably offensive incident and depict Russia as the aggressor. – poor innocent Russia
U.S. political agencies backed the bloody Maidan massacre that ushered in what are now eight years of civil war – yes and Russia strongly backed the other side which was twice as corrupt. But that does not matter does it.
How does one quantify corruption so clearly?
It is obviously a hyperbole to use exact numbers. But if you live through it it, you know.
This perception seems to invert across the Dnieper.
Across the Dnieper they did not get both sides
I have seen zero evidence whatsoever that any significant number of people (enough to affect the mainstream discourse or political actions) in the West, from Seattle to Warsaw, is even remotely interested never mind aware of the “other side”.
Warsaw is pretty aware of the other side I would think. That is why they fucking hate the fuckers
Yes, I’m sure the Poles daily read both sides’ propaganda and come to a totally neutral, well informed conclusion about things.
Or maybe they’re Poles living in Poland who have very good reason to despise Russia and oppose its interests. Good for them.
I, on the other hand, am not Polish. I do not live in Poland. I do not owe the Poles or their interests any more allegiance than Russia’s. My country, however, is behaving like it matters very much.
You can off course study the issue, no need to live through it… But it is quite a difference between East and West in the way of corruption. It counts.
One could posit that any measure of corruption is just a measure of how effectively consent has been manufactured. No doubt there are category differences between say, the government of Norway and the government of India, but “corruption” is a metric largely built around “us good, them bad”. Which is worse, having to bribe your way to get something done (them) or being forbidden by practically unbribeable officials from getting something done (us)? Similarly, which also is worse, thousands dying in inter-ethnic conflict (them) or thousands dying of drug overdoses (us)? At the very least, there are value judgments embedded in these decisions.
but “corruption” is a metric largely built around “us good, them bad”. – uhm no…
Which is worse, having to bribe your way to get something done (them) or being forbidden by practically unbribeable officials from getting something done (us) – depends what you mean by getting something done. Something done may be starting a business, or it may be stealing your neighbors property. Or selling counterfeit disinfectant to the children’s hospital. bribing your way and actually doing something is one part. Most likely you would be forbidden from doing business of any sort because the guy who controls things does not want competition. For better or worse, you can earn a decent living in the EU if you work at it. Not so much in most of 90s Romania. Or in the Russian sphere of influence now.
thousands dying in inter-ethnic conflict (them) or thousands dying of drug overdoses (us)? – worse is both, plus a whole bunch of other things.
Which is worse, having to bribe your way to get something done (them) or being forbidden by practically unbribeable officials from getting something done (us)?
It’s pretty obvious in practice that the first is worst. Just look at US vs. Mexico, for example.
No one can dispute that the US/UK/EU is better off materially than most of the rest of the World. The few exceptions are widely known: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and a handful of others. Even China does not look so good when you take its numbers and turn them into “per capita” instead of gross. But material interest is not the only thing people care about. And increasingly the “good life” the EU etc. are able to offer is coming at a visibly non-material cost. Prioritizing material well-being is itself a value judgment.
There are lots of cases of medical malpractice, nosocomial infection, and other iatrogenic problems in the US, and yet the country’s healthcare expenditures are the highest in the world. How much of that money is actually necessary to buy competence? If the amount is “not that much”, and comparing to some other places, that seems to be the case, then what exactly is the rest of that money chasing if not a different kind of “corruption”? Yes, ceteris paribus, getting high-grade medical supplies that aren’t tainted is far preferable to the opposite. It’s kind of hard to dispute that. But paying $10k for something that’s no better than what costs $100 elsewhere speaks to a deeper problem than economics alone can explain. Does this make the US more or less corrupt than a place which spends only $10 but has a higher chance of getting tainted supplies?
The deal the EU offers is likewise appealing to many but not all. I can completely understand why Poles and Romanians, for example, don’t want Russia’s influence to get any closer. That doesn’t mean everybody feels the same way. And saying the difference is down to “corruption” seems to be eliding the other factors involved.
But material interest is not the only thing people care about. – most people do. The russian oligarchs certainly lived the good life. And most people want better material conditions.
Prioritizing material well-being is itself a value judgment. – yes which most people make
And increasingly the “good life” the EU etc. are able to offer is coming at a visibly non-material cost. – trust me third world poverty has its own non material costs.
It’s pretty obvious in practice that the first is worst. Just look at US vs. Mexico, for example.
I’m not sure this comparison works out so favorably to the US anymore. Mexico’s political system has been stable for a while, many parts of Mexico have seen broad increases in standard of living, and while the cartels pushing back the Mexican police and armed forces in certain places pose a more serious risk to the government’s sovereignty than any the US has seen in a long time, the US has simultaneously abandoned serious policing of several of its major cities. The latter is, of course, much more by choice than the former, but reversing that choice will not come easily. We’re also sitting on the precipice of yet another global financial meltdown, which we’ll have caused again.
Well, try to start a business in Mexico, and get back to me.
most people do. The russian oligarchs certainly lived the good life. And most people want better material conditions.
I never said anything contradictory to any of this. Most is not all, and what appears to be beneficial to you is not what appears to be beneficial to everyone. If everything was so obvious and so objective the war never would have happened in the first place, nor the Maidan coups, nor the stupid “no nukes” deal the US pushed on Ukraine, nor the disintegration of the Soviet Union, etc.
Well, try to start a business in Mexico, and get back to me.
Try to hire a fifth employee in the US and see what happens here too. Or get entrapped by an EEO sting. Or get sued by an ex-employee for “sexual harassment” or “racial discrimination”. Most skirt by, and maybe that’s what’s meant by trying to measure all this, but getting randomly fucked is not to my mind so much better than getting predictably fucked.
Mexico is somewhat worse, yes. The US has no excuse for its own ways of being terrible just because other places are even more terrible.
then what exactly is the rest of that money chasing if not a different kind of “corruption” – I certainly did not say it is not corruption. But it is a different type of corruption to the one where your child dies in the hospital due to the fact that the medical equipment is counterfeit crap due to bribes, at a rate much higher than it happens in the US
But paying $10k for something that’s no better than what costs $100 elsewhere speaks to a deeper problem than economics alone can explain. – yes but you are not dead.
Does this make the US more or less corrupt than a place which spends only $10 but has a higher chance of getting tainted supplies – if you care about not dying, yes
The deal the EU offers is likewise appealing to many but not all. I can completely understand why Poles and Romanians, for example, don’t want Russia’s influence to get any closer. That doesn’t mean everybody feels the same way – yes there are plenty of people who are scum, I am well aware
yes there are plenty of people who are scum, I am well aware
There’s a reason the US should not get involved in other people’s conflicts.
Fuck Teddy Roosevelt, fuck his big stick, and fuck Wilson and FDR too.
if you care about not dying, yes
The existence of medical tourism at the very least proves that there exist those for whom the lower cost outweighs the higher risk.
As I said in other places, it is one thing to say “US should not get involved” and another to make apologia for Russia and their model of corruption and influence
I am not required to adhere to yours or anyone else’s definition of neutral just because I don’t want my country involved. The sitting President is directly involved in a “not that corrupt” corruption scheme which is part of a nexus of causal factors that led to this war. And much of the money that has been appropriated for this conflict by my country will be used to affect both domestic and international politics. Pretending not to see any of this, or thinking that because Russian “oligarchs” are wealthy therefore I should default to siding with the forces of “liberal democracy” instead, is not in any way in my own interest.
“But Germany has no other way of heating many of its houses and office buildings (or supplying its fertilizer companies) than with Russian gas. – by choice mostly”
Q.E.D.
They did this to themselves. And I remember some annoying twatter orange guy telling them not to listen to some underage angry creature from Scandinavia screaming “How dare you!” and shut down their nukes, because it would cause them more pains becoming dependent on the country they felt was the most dangerous one in Europe.
The one thing from this war that might end up being beneficial, is that all the asshats that sold out to the green movement’s idiocy will be forced to accept the reality of that idocy.
Well, we’re all forced to accept the reality of that idiocy, but only some of us posess the insight to understand that it *is* idiocy, and its effects.
Oh, I do not expect the idiots to admit they were wrong at all. In fact, I am willing to bet money they will go back to peddling the same failed bullshit as soon as they think they can get away with it again. That green racket is too lucrative to give up on.
Nobody is claiming that the European energy policies are not idiotic. The German Greens may be the dumbest people on the planet.
The point being that US motivations here are not concerned with what’s in the best interest of Europe. The premise of the article is that this is about keeping Europe inside the US sphere of influence and if Europeans suffer for it immensely, it doesn’t matter to the United States.
As far as making the moral decision of who should prevail based on relative levels of corruption, it’s irrelevant. I remain primarily concerned with the corrupting influence my own country exerts and the corrupting influence on my government from being involved in the clusterfuck that is Ukraine. I don’t want my government involved in a Ukrainian civil war and supporting entities who have genocidal tendencies.
The point being that US motivations here are not concerned with what’s in the best interest of Europe – Europe’s politicians are not concerned with what’s in the best interest of Europe. so here they and the americans are alike.
keeping Europe inside the US sphere of influence and if Europeans suffer for it immensely – this is not remotely why the Euros suffer. Certainly as a Romanian being in the US sphere is vastly preferable than the Russian one. I would prefer that no one had a sphere and countries would be left alone, but that is not an option.
I don’t want my government involved in a Ukrainian civil war and supporting entities who have genocidal tendencies. – that is a valid point without making it seem Russia is not at fault for the Ukraine situation.
Careful Pie, you might end up with dioxin in your soup…
I find it hilarious how ineffective dioxin is. Some ruskie read an EPA report about it’s lethality and tried to use it.
At least the Bulgarians use actual deadly-to-humans ricin.
Not to mention the norks and their needles.
Or maybe it was intentionally non lethal.
Corruption pre-hostilities and post-western coups.
Who benefits from these actions the US took?
The team blue crime cartel?
One of the greatest tragedies in the world, IMO, is that the United States kept looking back at Europe and getting drawn into its conflicts, rather than truly embracing the New World. Imagine if all the efforts spent on trying to fix Europe had been instead invested in developing a strong network of truly free trade and limited government across North and South America. Rather than viewing everything south of the Rio Grande (metaphorically) as potential invaders, we could have been one incredibly stable and powerful nation or alliance, blessed with abundant natural resources, vibrant cultures, and the liberty to make the most of both.
Well we had to make the world safe for democracy!
But Europe is so cultured!
I stumbled across this video of a walkthrough the Azov Military Headquarters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSKqqw511do&ab_channel=JohnMarkDougan
You can make up your own mind as to whether it’s staged or real. It’s nothing groundbreaking but just paints a different picture of Azov than what the MSM is showing.
If real, I’ve been underestimating the extent of the Nazi ethos in Azov. They make the Ayran Brotherhood look like girl scouts. Putin using the term “denazification” wouldn’t be hyperbolic in the least.
There is some video of American sniper rounds and US military training manuals, but US taxpayers have been funding Azov for years so that shouldn’t be surprising.
It’s a very weird thing. So they are committed Nazis – okay whatever. I assume that means they shouldn’t like Jews, globalists, and the woke world in general. But they are fighting to the death for a Jewish clown being run woke globalists against a somewhat nationalist Russian army.
Sure sounds like the KKK teaming up with BLM.
Putin using the term “denazification” wouldn’t be hyperbolic in the least. – is Azov was a significant part of Ukraine maybe. As is… Also Putin does not believe the slightest in denazification. It is just propaganda. There are plenty of actual neonazis in Russian and they tend to support Putin
Also Putin does not believe the slightest in denazification. It is just propaganda.
*Looks like at an Azov headquarters that resembles a Third Reich building*
*Reads Pie saying it’s just propaganda*
I don’t how Putin feels about nazism. But if this video is true, it’s absurd to call it denazifying the Azov as propaganda. The Azov is not a significant part of Ukraine, but had significant operations terrorizing the Donbas region and this what the denazification statement referred too. It’s like if the US had been paying a cartel for years to terrorize a province of Mexico. Absolutely insane.
had significant operations terrorizing the Donbas region and this what the denazification statement referred too. – then what was the Russian army doing near Kiev?
And it is propaganda if it is just a pretext and nothing else.
It’s like if the US had been paying a cartel for years to terrorize a province of Mexico – well indirectly…
Well, Donbas isn’t part of Russia, so whatever Azov has been up to is an internal Ukrainian matter. Invading other countries over their internal matters seems like a good way to get more invasions and wards.
I’ll repeat my other reply:
I’m not saying it does. Just providing some alternative sources to the MSM.
If Mexico announced they would be entering into a military alliance with 30 other countries against the United States and that China would then deploy nukes along the Texas border, do you think the US would be justified in invading Mexico to prevent them from joining an alliance against the US that would place Chinese nukes on the Texas border?
I’ve used the “imagine Mexico joining the Warsaw PACT in 1985” with people in private conversations. Those old enough to remember the 80s and the Cold War get a far-away look in their eyes.
What if the US wanted to annex Cancun for access to the ports?
Still doesn’t justify an invasion.
Maybe not, but the Russians do have historical reasons to be leery of Nazi militarism on their western borders.
And the idea that anyone in the US government (except the small minority of relative peaceniks like Massie or Gabbard) has a leg to stand on when criticizing unjust invasions is ludicrous.
Russians do have historical reasons to be leery of Nazi militarism on their western borders. – oh horseshit. the azov were zero real threat to Russia
Saddam Hussein also posed no threat to the U.S., and yet…
I am unsure what point you are trying to make here. Are you justifying the invasion of Ukraine based on the idea that Irak was justified?
It doesn’t matter what the other side thinks of your motives, it only matters if they can stop you. What “justifies” a war is winning: did you achieve your objectives and were they worth achieving? St. Augustine had his own thoughts but the winner still gets to write the history books.
I believe it is being used as a justification to take the pro-Russian regions of Ukraine and create a land connection to Crimea.
Assuming that’s true, how would you know they would stay zero threat to Russia? There was presumably a point in the past at which the German Nazis could have been seen as zero real threat to Russia. And the Azov Nazis have actively engaged in killing thousands of Russian speaking people already.
I’m not saying it does. Just providing some alternative sources to the MSM.
If Mexico announced they would be entering into a military alliance with 30 other countries against the United States and that China would then deploy nukes along the Texas border, do you think the US would be justified in invading Mexico to prevent them from joining an alliance against the US that would place Chinese nukes on the Texas border?
do you think the US would be justified in invading Mexico to prevent them from joining an alliance against the US that would place Chinese nukes on the Texas border – no
That’s fair and consistent.
I disagree and wonder how many Americans who are against Russia’s actions would be in favor of invading Mexico in the above scenario.
Almost all of them. I bet if DC wanted to do so, it could drum up support for an invasion of Mexico even under our current state of things.
My view is you should have taken all of it in the 19th century. All the way to the Panama canal. The after you built the thing there would be no need to build a wall. Also I cannot understand how you let Canada be a thing.
You do have a point about Canada.
To some extent, we tried to take Central America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster)
The Costa Ricans I worked with made certain to educate me about our little foray into their country.
” who organized several private military expeditions ”
Our?
My understanding is that Walker had the tacit approval of Franklin Pierce and the support of several Southern states at the time even though he operated as a private army.
That is, until he pissed off Vanderbilt who turned the Pierce administration against him.
This guy is a LARPers LARPer.
I’m safe enough. Take care of America till I get back.
What a clown. Resulted in some funny memes though.
https://twitter.com/Garibaldi2022/status/1518228272525590528
We had a guy like that at our base in AF – every time the rockets came in, he was running to the TOC with his camera…”I know crater analysis!”
Colorado ski area bathroom stall, circa 1971:
Here I sit, buns a-flexin’
givin’ birth to another Texan
This is a few days old, but US takes control of Afghan embassy, consulates in NY, CA
I wonder what group of armed men the State Dept used to enforce this. At this stage of the empire’s collapse they might have their own swat team by now. This action comes across as the pathetic, weak tantrum of a losing party.
It’s kind of like those maps of Ukraine that still show Crimea as part of the country. At some point you have to be an adult and recognize the reality of who controls the territory. We don’t print maps showing north Georgia as the Cherokee Nation anymore.
And you thought pineapple on pizza was bad.
Have you never experienced the ambrosia that is Pineapple Upside-Down Cake?
With your club having been stolen by the UK government, I would imagine a lot of players want to jump that ship right about now.
Yeah, I loved that bit about the govt being concerned about the legality of the sale, after the extra-legal seizure of the club to begin with.
Rebooting has worked pretty well for Rangers, so whats the worst that could happen?
They become successful again?
Ummm…3rd isn’t successful?
Ugh, are they? Blech.
Paying zero attention.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
* Special one. Today is 30 years together for my wife and I.
So, she never got around to trading up?
Congratulations.
Nope. I guess even after she earned that green card the hard way, she was too tired to go find someone better.
I am sure you had something to do with that.. Congaratz.
Congrats to Mrs Jimbo, you should take her to a wilderness cabin and and see if she can find what she’s looking for, ticks included, no extra charge.
. . . she earned that green card the hard way . . .
BOW-CHICKA-WOW-WOW CHICKA-CHICKA-WOW-WOW
Congratulations!
I thought the pope only had mistresses… But cheers to going against doctrine for so long
She’s obviously a saint. ?
Mazel tov!
Excellent – mine in on Monday.
Should we both get “I Survived…” T-Shirts?
When my parents had their 30th, my dad – the ex-PO – said, “Shit, even without good behavior, I’d be getting out of prison if I had just killed her”. He thought it was pretty funny, she didn’t.
おめでとう!
私たちの結婚記念日は土曜日です。
Nice! Go make it a dirty thirty, tiger!
Attaboy!
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congrats. Hope you get some time off for
goodbad behavior.So, is everyone else getting here thru the backdoor also?
Or is the front page working for some of you?
works for me
I still have Thursday afternoon link as last post on main page. I even shift reloaded multiple times.
The main landing page does not appear to be updating unless you log in. It is being worked on.
No back door for me.
phrasing
I hear ya, but I am with em..
Works fine for me.
Are we not doing phrasing?
STEVE SMITH GET THRU BACKDOOR, FRONTDOOR, UPSTAIRS WINDOW!
Word to yo motha!
STEVE SMITH MAKE NEW NEW HOLES IF HE GETS BORED OF THOSE.
Jimbo’s anniversary is up one thread ^
Where’s HM when you need him.
Democratic New Jersey Senators Bod Menendez and Cory Booker, and Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the “Federal Firearm Licensing Act” Thursday. The bill would institute a requirement for gun purchasers to obtain a firearms license through the Department of Justice before buying or receiving a gun. …
Reciprocity! That’s what people want, right?
Coming soon – “Free Speech licenses.”
I just want to thank you all for being such a constant source of entertainment, education, and sanity. I was thinking about how I happened upon TOS 15 years ago and so many of you are still commenting today. It’s a comforting thing in a chaotic world. Thank you glibs.
Trying to explain to the girlfriend how long I’ve been talking with you lot in comments on websites made me realize how long I’ve “known” some of you. So far none of those that she’s met has scared (or scarred) her too badly.
**challenge accepted**
Then the wife and I have failed
Yup. I heard about TOS listening to a Penn Jillette FM radio episode years ago (had to be in the mid ’00s).
Coming here? Tundra blabbed and told me about the Glibbening, so you have him to thank for that.
I was a long time subscriber to the paper TOS but as the slide began I was leaving it anyway. Saw the beginning talk, saw the fruition and lurked for a long time before getting my feet wet. It’s been a great ride, met a few, now look forward to meeting many more in Sep. Cabin is open and empty for those looking for a quiet repose.
No muskets, bows/arrows or javelins for you.*
There are two intersecting crises facing our nation right now – military-style weapons and domestic terrorism.
We can no longer look away. We are directly addressing the deadly threat that this is.
*Because, historically, those are all military weapons**.
**Every weapon is.
“Pay attention to these made-up crises, not the actual crises that you are actually experiencing in your life right now.”
*puts on tinfoil hat*
Am I crazy to think that there is a possibility that the FBI had this guy in their back pocket (there were plenty of signs and threats before he acted) and “motivated” him to go off when needed? The timing seems a little convenient, and of course they couldn’t use the NYC subway shooting, because wrong narrative and all. Maybe I’m just too suspicious/cynical, but “wacky conspiracy theories” seem to keep being revealed as the truth.
*removes tinfoil hat*
Well, the two guys with pickup trucks that threatened to bomb something in DC that were obviously glowies (the latter having swastikas etched into his upholstery because that makes sense…) didn’t work. So they needed something with a little more zaz (and blood…).
I have no doubt this guy was on their radar.
And the FBI is clearly on the side that wants to end our little experiment.
So… no, not a crazy idea at all.
Youtube has been bombarding me with gun grabber commercials. In one of them some Sandyhook parent was going on and on about how there is no need for these weapons in a civilized society. The guy was stumbling through his lines (he was worse than Brandon reading off the teleprompter) but he kept hitting the word civilized.
I wanted to yell at him, “you know why we have a civilized society, because we have the means to protect ourselves from the barbarians and tyrants”.
* Anyone know if it costs the gun grabbers more if you watch the entire commercial?
Ah Sloop, once again you’ve managed to find a song I used to love but had been memory holed. Thanks and have a great day.
For sloopy, a post on an Everton board last night:
28 years ago, approximately this week, Everton was on the verge of relegation and down 2-0 at halftime to Wimbledon (who, coincidentally, played their home games in Crystal Palace’s stadium). They scored 3 in the second half to survive. It was the first Everton game I ever saw, and the crowd being packed and loud and supporting a bad team at the end of a bad season made me a fan. It is pretty much the opposite of bandwagoning.
Yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PgnIh7oooE
Ah, the London music scene in the ’70s, how I miss it so.
Did they open for the Sex Pistols?
Can I interest you in a seat cheering on the Browns?
No thank you, Everton, Cincinnati Reds, and Georgia Tech Football/Basketball are more than enough misery.
I like my teams to have at least a chance.
However, this is why American sports need relegation/promotion.
I could see Cleveland celebrating the Browns not getting sent down about like that.
Then again, seeing Cleveland get knocked around in the Big10 would be amusing itself.
Hell, we celebrated our 0-16 season with a parade. The theme was “It can’t possibly get worse”.
I think you would have a better chance of getting relegation/promotion to happen in baseball then football, considering the colleges are the minor leagues for the NFL.
Yep. But that would require freeing the minor leagues, which short of a court order….
Basketball, for cost reasons, would be doable. Lower level basketball leagues would be cheap and easy to run.
But we can’t even get MLS/USL to get relegation/promotion in soccer.
I said when it started, I wouldn’t follow MLS until relegation was part of it.
And from the archives, someone wrote an article on that: https://www.glibertarians2019.link/2019/12/12/relegation-promotion-in-baseball/
My favorite, at the parade, was the woman holding the sign that read “They Tried”.
*Because, historically, those are all military weapons**.
No shit, Shirley.
See, also: rocks, sticks and thumbs
Disband the FBI…
One might think that any overtly political action by the FBI would result in calls for its immediate dissolution by the offended political party.
But that would be sane.
The Hatch Act is used only to go after unpopular and/or disposable people. When almost the entirety of an agency (and certainly all of those in “leadership positions”) feels the same way, the Hatch Act might as well be the “Go For It, Champ” Act.
You wouldn’t want to be rude to someone you might run into at a cocktail party!
After the last six years or so, Republicans should want the FBI scattered to the four winds, their headquarters razed and the ground salted so nothing ever grows there again. And, to be fair, a surprising number of them are starting to wake up to it. But, we all know what’s going to happen when the GOP gets enough power to actually do anything about it, we’ll all be treated to “Those are just the actions of a few Washington DC bureaucrats and don’t reflect at all on the brave men and women selflessly serving to protect the American people…blah…blah…blah”.
And, at some point, if they’re not willing to do anything to put a stop to it, maybe they deserve it.
“After the last six years or so, Republicans should want the FBI scattered to the four winds, their headquarters razed and the ground salted so nothing ever grows there again.”
How many of them do nothing because the FBI has some guy that likes to wear dresses that has movie clips of these republicans with a goat or donkey?
The ghost of J. Edgar masturbates furiously.
Sadly, that isn’t even necessary. For a lot of people on the right, the magic words “law enforcement”, like the magic word “Russia” strangely negate their ability for critical thinking or even their own interest.
Unexpectedly
China is quietly ramping up purchases of oil from Russia at bargain prices, according to shipping data and oil traders who spoke to Reuters, filling the vacuum left by Western buyers backing away from business with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine in February.
The move by the world’s biggest oil importer comes a month after it initially cut back on Russian supplies, for fear of appearing to openly support Moscow and potentially expose its state oil giants to sanctions.
China’s seaborne Russian oil imports will jump to a near-record 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd) in May, up from 750,000 bpd in the first quarter and 800,000 bpd in 2021, according to an estimate by Vortexa Analytics.
Will Joe jawbone the Chinese into submission?
He’s the smartest and most qualified the Dems have to offer. We’re in good hands.
I can’t imagine why.
China’s been getting away with a hell of lot worse than that for decades and nobody gives shit.
#LazyPost.
With a twist ending!
A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Mercedes-Benz confirmed on Thursday that it recently sold the world’s most expensive car. A very rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe that had been kept in the German automaker’s collection was sold to a private owner for €135 million, the equivalent of $142 million. That price makes it the most expensive car known to ever have been sold, according to Hagerty, a company that tracks collector car values.
Money from the sale will be used to establish the Mercedes-Benz Fund, a global scholarship fund, Mercedes said in an announcement.
The previous record sale price for a car was reportedly $70 million paid in 2018 for a 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO.
The Mercedes that was sold was one of only two 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe prototypes. The 67-year-old cars were named for Mercedes’ chief engineer at the time, Rudolf Uhlenhaut, and are claimed to have a top speed of 186 mph It was sold at a closed invitation-only auction at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart on May 5. The auction was held in cooperation with auto auction company RM Sotheby’s.
Better than sitting on a pile of cash.
More pictures here.
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/05/20/1955-mercedes-benz-300-slr-uhlenhaut-coupe-143-million-record-most-expensive/#slide-2400504
You can’t drive something like that though . Think of the safety. You could die.
And yet we still sell motorcycles.
Current developed country motor vehicle regs have 100s of pounds of steel for safety, design constraints on heights, pedestrian safety requirements and airbags aplenty among many other things.
And yet we still sell motorcycles. – well you shouldn’t
Exactly. Bicycles or public transportation only.
also roller skates but not those inline ones
Free yourself from the cage, Pie.
There is no better feeling than a lovely lady leaning forward against your back, her arms wrapped arm your torso, both of you leaning synchronized through the curves, 600cc’s of power between your legs. Rear brake, front brake, hit the apex, release both brakes, roll the power on, setup for the next curve…
It’s sex on two wheels.
Is it hot in here?
From Mercedes-Benz’s official site:
I think if you decarbonize a person, they die.
You know who else rode around in a Mercedes?
Mussolini.
Pebbles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXZAm2NlMEE
My favorite Robert Plant song:
Robert Plant – Big Log
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSsol3Zd7k
He also did some nice work with Allison Krauss:
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Searching For My Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZGX1_AnMA
I haven’t thought of solo Robert Plant in years.
Robert Plant – ‘Ship of Fools’ – Official Music Video [HD REMASTERED]
My cassette copy of Now and Zen was launched from a car window somewhere in the vicinity of Enterprise, AL.
My roommate borrowed it for a trip home and it was sitting on the dash, when he went around a corner too fast with the windows down.
I have the CD from when it was released.
My roommate bought me the CD as replacement for losing the cassette.
How do you people find all this obscure music
♛Jolly-Bulikirály /Ciki Ciki Bam Bam Official Music Video 2013
That one’s not obscure. Was all over the radio when it came out.
My favorite solo Plant song
Experts Confirm Likelihood Of Surviving Apocalypse Directly Proportional To How Many Items You’ve Purchased From Conservative Podcasts
heh.
That’s what I love about the Bee. They don’t mind taking a swipe at their own people.
The Humpty Dumpty Investment Index
Tesla Inc.’s removal this week from an industry benchmark index is raising new questions about what ESG actually means to investors.
The strategy, widely seen as favoring industries ostensibly interested in sustainability (of the environmental, social and governance sort), started about two decades ago as a way to protect investors from risks tied to things like global warming, labor violations and discrimination. Since then, it’s morphed into a $35 trillion industry that’s allowed millions of investors to feel as though they’re “doing good.” And now people are confused about what ESG is really supposed to achieve.
“The market continues to conflate ESG with sustainability, and you’re certainly seeing that play out here,” said Rob Du Boff, senior ESG analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “Our ETF team likes to note Tesla is the ultimate Rorschach test for ESG investors.”
While many would agree few automakers have done more than Elon Musk’s company in the global shift away from fossil fuels, Tesla’s management and workplace issues have been at times problematic. So much so that S&P Dow Jones Indices, while acknowledging Tesla’s environmental prowess, nevertheless decided to remove the electric vehicle maker from the S&P 500 ESG Index over safety and labor issues.
“How can a company whose self-declared mission is to ‘accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy’ not make the cut in an ESG index?” wrote Margaret Dorn, senior director and head of ESG indexes for S&P Dow Jones in North America, in a blog post. Answering her own question, she said “there are many reasons,” including that Tesla “has fallen behind its peers when examined through a wider ESG lens.”
It means exactly what we say it means, at the time we say it.
My investment adviser asked me about my ESG concerns. I said avoiding anything to do with ESG was fine and to concentrate solely on return on investment.
My sole concern is making a profit. If a company issues a press release about how they’re “investing” in a bunch of ESG score-optimizing woo-woo, they’re out of consideration.
Similarly, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which is the largest/most prominent health insurance org in our area, constantly is advertising how much money they give to local charities and social causes. Excuse me, but I’d prefer to know that they’re spending their money on, say, medical research and treatment, rather than dumping it into BS non-profits in the area.
It seems to me like they’re losing track of the singe reason they’re supposed to exist, much like corporations that put their investors’ profits second behind social issues.
15byears since the start of the last recession. People have simply forgotten what it feels like to be in lean times. This is why I’m suspicious that the impending downturn may be a big one. Lots of misallocation to correct.
Are you sure you can’t use an Inverse ESG rule for investment? Avoid the top ESG companies and focus on the evil companies?
My gut tells me that any company that has the time and resources to invest in ESG compliance is a company that has too much deadwood being employed.
You used to be able to do so, but the larger players have gamed the system.
So, for example, Boeing and Airbus have gamed ESG rating requirements from many rating groups to qualify.
ESG is a way for the big finance players to enforce compliance and to eliminate threats to their system.
Since your ESG rating is directly tied to your ability to raise money from the big equity firms, they can use it to lock you out of the biggest sources of capital around.
Yes. It’s a way to make sure you’re in the club and you play by their rules. Companies with great ESG ratings include Nike (who uses slave labor in China) and weapons manufacturers.
That’s not true! I’ve been assured this by a letter to the editor to the WSJ
‘ESG’ Is About Information, Not Imposition
Shorter ESG: SOUTH AFRICAN WHITE MAN BAD!!!111!!!!!
has fallen behind its peers when examined through a
wider ESGleftist lensThis. It’s just a sign of another domain having been skin-suited by the left.
Dorn focused on social and governance factors at the company, which had a negative impact on its overall ESG score. She singled out two events centered around allegations of racial discrimination and poor working conditions at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, as well as its handling of a U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation after multiple deaths and injuries were linked to its “autopilot” function.
Academics like Todd Cort of Yale University agree with Dorn. The S&P methodology focuses on corporate performance, and Tesla’s “management systems and controls are still pretty undeveloped” relative to industry leaders, he said.
You can’t run a business without relying on systems of governance developed by academic researchers. That’s just crazy. People will think you only care about money Selling products and services for a profit makes you a robber baron.
They don’t have a HR manual that dwarfs the Encyclopedia Britannica. How can they do anything correctly?
If you tell me that you let managers make their own decisions on how to treat their underlings and that those decisions might be influenced by the performance of the underlings I’m gonna need a fainting couch.
Whoa there, you’re beginning to sound like a sort of freedom apologist. Next thing is you will be letting them work from home without someone looking over their shoulder to see if they punched in on time.
My investment adviser asked me about my ESG concerns. I said avoiding anything to do with ESG was fine and to concentrate solely on return on investment.
“I’m focused on guns, oil and tobacco. Does that count?”
Unfortunately, VICEX hasn’t been doing well recently.
Bad luck
I disagree. I think the destruction is deliberate, to allow them to usher in the glorious globalist reset over the ashes and wreckage of Western civilization.
At the top, yes. But the useful idiots have bought into our Green Future.
I like that the 1st or 2nd reply is exactly what I was goint to post here. Mr. Heinlein rarely got it wrong.
That Heinlein quote is one of my favorites.
As was mentioned on a Tom Woods episode this week, the Left is really good at taking moderate not-particularly-principled conservatives and turning them into rabid reactionaries. There is going to be a price to pay for their attempts to silence and/or destroy all cultural opposition.
*understated monotone*
Woot.
*/understated monotone*
We finally fixed the damn application.
::breaks into happy dance::
Since your ESG rating is directly tied to your ability to raise money from the big equity firms, they can use it to lock you out of the biggest sources of capital around.,/em>
It seems as if that would create an opportunity for some truly adventurous venture capital.
Following Dory | Resort 2022 | Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfMCiwgX3dY
Friday Funbags bringing massive mammary mounds of pure pleasure.
https://thechive.com/2022/05/19/her-top-is-at-least-one-size-too-small-aka-the-perfect-size-37-photos/
Archive having emotional problems.
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Whiz – I hope you know I’ve been teasing you about “DUMPY LOINS” because I love the word combos you came up with. CARET or CARES is a great starter and then I go from there based on what pops.
No problem. Actually, mine have not done so well the last 10 days or so. If Quordle doesn’t use plural words, I need to adjust for that and see what pops out. Or if I can lay my hands on the allowed Quordle list, that would make it even better.
Journalism lives
A recent study has audited Joe Biden’s Twitter followers to determine whether or not they are in fact real followers. The results have left the world stunned as everyone discovered half of his followers are somehow real people.
“11 million of Biden’s followers are real? That seems high,” said Mike Vanders, a social media analyst. “The American people can’t even follow what he has to say, much less follow him on Twitter.”
According to sources, most experts had estimated that maybe a dozen or so of the President’s followers were real and that the remaining 22 million were all fake accounts designed to make Biden look good.
Define “real”.
Probably a lot of them follow the account because it’s part of their jobs, and a lot just to be informed of what he’s saying. “followers” don’t necessarily equal “fans.” People who generally disagree with him and need to know about his public statements have to follow regardless of their opinion of him, his job performance, or his policy proposals.
Related to the ESG discussion:
Mayonnaise With a Mission: Do Consumers Want Household Products to Serve a Social Cause?
Unilever tests the proposition with a push to bring purpose to its 400 brands. So far, investors aren’t encouraged.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/unilever-purpose-marketing-social-cause-11653050052
Good thing we’re a Duke’s household.
As I have stated before, this isn’t about the consumer. It’s about pleasing the major equity firms and retaining access to their capital.
If they start serving a social purpose, people will buy less of their goods, thereby cutting down on food waste. And profits.
What is their Raisin d’etre?
Uhhhh, et tu, Hellmann’s?
I guess I need to start making my own from scratch.
It’ll be artisanal! ?
On the one hand, I can pay a company that hates me for mass produced, adulterated products. On the other hand, I can do the inconvenient thing and make my own fresh, high quality product and keep the money I would’ve otherwise given to said hateful company.
Convenience is the enemy. Learn new skill, devote some time to DIYing this stuff. We can’t opt out of government, but we can opt out of these shit corporations.
relevant https://www.allrecipes.com/article/making-mayonnaise/
But how can I make it artisanal, and then rake in all that sweet, sweet lucre?
A few billion here, a few billion there…
The US Department of Energy is announcing a massive investment in direct air carbon removal projects, in hopes of kickstarting an industry that energy experts say is critical to getting the country’s planet-warming emissions under control.
Direct air carbon removal projects are like giant vacuum cleaners that suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air and lock it away. They use chemicals to remove the gas from the air and store it in rocks deep underground or put it to use in materials like concrete.
Nature can do this on its own — forests, bogs and oceans all suck carbon out of the atmosphere — but not nearly fast enough to keep pace with human fossil fuel emissions. Experts tell CNN these giant, carbon-removing machines are the next frontier to bring CO2 levels down.
The Department of Energy on Thursday is releasing a notice of intent for developers for four direct air capture hubs — each capable of removing over a million tons of CO2 per year — using $3.5 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law. Removing 1 million tons of CO2 per year is equivalent to taking around 200,000 gas-powered cars off the road.
We should be spending at least that much to investigate ghosts and other supernatural apparitions.
You know… SCIENCE!
Let’s jump-start a new ice age!
Shouldn’t the US Forestry Service be doing this?
This is going to be a massive jobs boondoggle and will keep many chemical engineers employed for as long as the government can keep dumping money on this particular fire.
That is the correct assessment of this project. The only thing it will ever hoover up is dollars.
Pish tosh. There will be successful demos widely reported in the media!
By the way, did you hear about the major milestone achieved in fusion power production?
This?
Sadly, scihub doesn’t have it yet.
Burying plastics in landfills also “stores carbon away” for long periods of time. Yet this is deemed “harmful” and legislation seeks to ban it.
Also there is a plastic-eating enzyme (or something) now. So the plastic pollution problem is solved. Someone needs to tell the green weenies.
Ask them what the products of reaction of the biodegradation of plastics (or any organic matter).
Direct air carbon removal projects are like giant vacuum cleaners that suck planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the air and lock it away.
Sure. Remove the fundamental building block of life (which is already at historically low levels) from the atmosphere. What could go wrong?
“People thought I was lying when I said how high I keep the thermostat in my apt”
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1527407364889931777
Maybe David Icke was right?
Meanwhile I get love letters from the power company telling me to turn my thermostat “down” to 68.
It was never set that high to begin with!
Lizard person confirmed.
Second!
Lizard status confirmed.
This might be the worst thing she has ever done.
At this point through my work I have been in the houses and apartments of north of 30k people. There is an unusually strong correlation between how much I see wasted energy (lights left on, heat on super high with windows or doors open) and how many environmental messages I can note around the home.
“Nobody gave a shit when I told them I’m an idiot, so here’s proof.”
Shouldn’t she be out doxing someone?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday signed off on booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.
Barf.
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