I’m just waiting. Waiting for word from the semi-closed elementary school my son’s Little League plays to determine if the third possible outcome for baseball is in play. You know its either:
- You win
- You lose
- It rains
So until then, I’ll look up a few Mexican links. ETA: its not raining.
Frankly, I wish them luck in their attempt at the Monroe Doctrine:
“The incorporation of Argentina to the BRI is a milestone. Argentina faces a historic opportunity to expand the lines of cooperation and trade with China,” said Vicente Teruggi, director of projects at the Sino-Argentine Observatory, a nonprofit organization in Buenos Aires.
Teruggi said this is not limited “to cooperation, financing and trade, but also enables Argentina to bring its technology, knowledge and value-added products to the entire” network of BRI nations.
Thats….bahahahahahahahahahahaha. Your only useful to them for soybeans, dumbass.
If/when the Dollar collapses, this might be a source of revenue for whatever warlord government emerges.
I have no idea who this person is, I just assumed everyone wanted the photo posted.
No clue who this lady is
The meme is Bitcoin solves everything. Let’s see it fix this.
It sounds like Peruvians are going to impeach their president, probably over that hat.
Venezuela sends army units into Colombia. Number of Twatter hot takes comparing Maduro to Hitler: 0.
Seems fitting given Hawkins just died doing what he loved: apparently every drug he could find.
I appropriated Mexican culture last night by making fajitas. It was my first attempt at doing so. Turned out pretty good. Mission Carb Balance tortillas ftw.
I had ground beef burritos, they were excellent. ?
Me too. They were so-so. Also, I forgot I didn’t have an appropriate cheese.
My fajitas are good, but I can’t figure that one spice I’m missing for the marinade.
Same with the cheese for tacos. It’s not jack and it’s not oaxaca. I’m wondering if it’s asadero. Or maybe jack from a restaurant supplier just tastes different than what I can get at the grocery store. I buy mozzarella and provolone from a local Italian restaurant (old school kind with a deli), and the taste is almost unrecognizable compared the retail brands at the grocery store.
I’m going to go out on a limb, and guess cumin.
That’s what I was gonna say. Damn.
No, I use cumin. I’m thinking it might be sazon. That would explain the reddish orange color at the restaurant that doesn’t quite come from paprika or chili powder.
My understanding is that it doesn’t impart a big flavor, though I’ve never used it.
Probably bay leaf.
orange juice and lime juice?
Isn’t sazon just MSG and annatto?
Yeah, pretty much: the two “types” I have from Goya state ingredients as “MSG, salt, dehydrated garlic, cumin, yellow 5, tri-calcium phosphate, coriander, annatto, red 40” (for the “Con culantro y achiote”) and “MSG, salt, dehydrated garlic, cumin, yellow 5, tri-calcium phosphate, annato, Mexican saffron, turmeric, red 40” (for the “Con azafran”).
The first 6 ingredients are probably 98% of what’s in the packets.
I just used the Old El Paso spice blend and a store brand Mexican cheese blend. ///BasicBitch
Better than the Old Spice El Paso blend.
Look up Alton Brown’s “recipe” for a homemade version of the “Old El Paso” taco blend. Muuuuuch better. (And my goof on A.B.’s version is even better still, IIDSSM.)
Here’s mine:
• 1 sachet of chicken bouillon powder (like the Knorr/OXO stuff, which makes 2/3rd cup of broth)
• 4 tablespoons of commercial chili powder (whichever variety you like)
• 1 tablespoon cumin (smoked/roasted if you wish)
• 1 tablespoon corn starch
• 2 teaspoons Kosher salt (or smoked sea salt such as Maldon)
• 1.5 teaspoons smoked paprika (I use the “hot” smoked paprika, which, if you’re used to actual hot cuisine, isn’t really hot at all)
• 1 teaspoon ground coriander
• 0.5 to 1 teaspoon hot ground pepper (I use Aleppo pepper myself, and have substituted mild Indian chile or Korean chilli powder, all of which were brilliant; I don’t recommend cayenne, as it’s boring [all heat with very little additional flavour])
I tend to load up on the smoked and/or roasted options for the above spices/salts if I can. The above will generously season 2 pounds (approx. 1 kilo) of ground or shredded meat. I always make way more and store the remainder in a big bottle to shake on frying meat for a quick meal.
I like the Mission Carb Balance tortillas. I’m hesitant about low carb substitutes (magic spoon cereal was a real disappointment), but damn if I can taste the difference between those and regular tortillas.
Ditto. They taste exactly the same.
Same here.
Capers. You’re clearly not capering enough.
Mrs. Whiz and I love those tortillas!
I like to cut them into triangles and fling them into the air fryer to make “tortilla chips” for low carb snackery. Skillet-crisping also works.
Never had them. Gotta try.
Thanks!
I appropriated Savoy culture (debate amongst yourselves if that means Swiss or French) and made my take on tartiflette. It of course lacked reblochon cheese as that isn’t legal to import to the U.S. And I added mushrooms (to please the wife). Weather is still feeling semi Alpine.
I wish them luck in their attempt at the Monroe Doctrine
China is going to denazify Argentina?
What is a BRI, you ask?
I thought it was some new way to see how fat I was, like a “Body Rotundness Index”
BRI: it’s a ratio which goes from zero, meaning “you’re non-existent” to one, meaning “your body circumference exceeds that of the known universe.”
BEAM. Not sure if anyone else responded but, you asked about the matrices for wordle scores. See here: quordle.com/
Yeah, someone did yesterday. Thanks.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that his government would offer to rent out a luxury presidential jet for birthday and wedding parties after failing to find a buyer.
Must be a consequence of soaring aircraft prices.
That reason sounds plane wrong.
That excuse for not being able to sell wouldn’t fly with me.
You gotta give him props for trying to raise
money.
You’re all boeing to get a narrowed gaze from Swissy.
The man was just making a pitch for cash. No need to roll your eyes at it.
He’ll try, but he won’t be able to ground all of us.
Yaw right. I’d like to see him try.
That wasn’t part of his plan, he’s just winging it.
Sounds like the press is making a flap over nothing.
I saw the President of Switerland’s plane once at Dulles. I was surprised to find out that its call sign is Tobler One.
I saw that Lycoming a mile away.
I give you props for your horsepower.
They weren’t sending 10% to the big guy.
Ukraine Sit-Rep – Based on information from the French Ministry of Defense.
Ukrainian army pinned in place. Russia going slow and deciding what pieces to carve off of the Ukraine.
C’mon, man. Everyone knows that Zalinsky has Putin on the ropes.
“(Those smuggled weapons will for years haunt the ‘western’ Europeans as they are certain to proliferate to right-wing extremist groups all over the continent.)”
Decent idea of the military situation and likely outcomes, except that bit. More likely to be used by gangsters (assuming they’re not used against Russia) than anything else. Definitely shoveling down some Russian propaganda a bit too readily.
It looks like the Russians learned from some of our mistakes over the last 2 decades. They are leaving their forces in combat formations out in the field rather than entering most of the cites they don’t intend to keep. And they aren’t doing the stupid “faster is better” thing that we did in Iraq – leaving well armed insurgents behind them as they speed into the capital for the TV cameras.
Narratives are dangerous things. Apparently tools are being stolen in great numbers from job sites in New Zealand. The police said the tools are probably being sold to buy drugs. Radio New Zealand ran with the story with no doubts about its truth.
The issue I have is that this could be completely true or it could, in fact, be Russian propaganda. Honestly, I just don’t know. I have nothing to compare it to or calibrate it against. I know what I’m getting from the corporate media is NATO/Ukrainian propaganda. So, its contradiction with that doesn’t tell me much. I don’t read French, so I don’t know what to make of the source documentation.
It gets to a point I’ve made before. As much as the major corporate media doesn’t want to admit it, the antidote to “misinformation” or “disinformation” is consistently reliable, accurate, information. Why should I dismiss information that may or may not have come from the Russian Ministry of Information as not reliable when I know the major corporate media has been gaslighting me for the last five or six years, telling me things that I can see with my own eyes, hear with my own ears and reason with my own mind simply aren’t true?
This. For the same reasons.
We’ll be lucky to know the ground truth within a generation.
We know that Russia centric narratives about Ukraine are false. All of them. You can gleen facts from the propaganda just like where Russian ships would be in that Ukrainian port. Then use it against the Russians.
Its like the Russian apologists on here. The side they have chosen is clear.
Of course Russia planned their war in Ukraine to go like this. Anyone who cites Russian propaganda as fact is a moron.
Twenty people were killed when gunmen burst into a clandestine rooster fight in western Mexico, prosecutors in the western state of Michoacán said Monday.
I have it on good authority that mass shootings are only carried out by white male wingnuts. Round up all of those in that town, and you’ll have your man.
These are White Hispanics.
I don’t believe it simply because I know that Mexico has the strictest gun control laws in the western hemisphere, so there can’t be any there for people to shoot anybody with.
enables Argentina to bring its technology, knowledge and value-added products to the entire” network of BRI nations.
Does Argentina export value added products?
Yes, soybeans and professional soccer players.
It would not surprise me one bit if China has decided add Argentina to its list of plundered states just to get the soccer players. They, along with the petrostates in the Middle East, have been paying top dollar for talent in recent years.
Baseball is a simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.
Bunch a lollygaggers, Coach!
Are you breathing from the wrong eyelid again?
Rose goes in the front, big guy.
Technically it might not have been an overdose.
10 drugs? We call that an overdose, Keith Richards calls it Tuesday.
*golf clap*
With that mix, it’s surprising he didn’t go out like a Spinal Tap drummer.
As a little green globule on the drum stool?
Did he choke on vomit?
We don’t know who’s vomit it was. You can’t dust for vomit.
Dave Gruel is a convid jab nazi. And Hawkins was supposedly clean and complaining about chest pains. I’ll reserve judgement but that has to be up for consideration.
It starts with vaccines, next thing you know Lil Jimmy is injecting all sorts of drugs.
I’d bet the vax is the only NEW addition to his blood chemistry, too.
Would not be surprised if there’s a lot of history with the recreational stuff.
Don’t know how many of them have known cardiac risks, but the new vax sure does.
Heh.
Size matters
Twenty people were killed when gunmen burst into a clandestine rooster fight in western Mexico, prosecutors in the western state of Michoacán said Monday.
“Gunmen”? But… but… Mexico has strict gun control!!!1111!!111
New laws restrict the right to gather, allow arrests without a warrant and the monitoring of communications.
What could possibly go wrong in El Salvador?
Way to fight that stereotype.
This is how I know that you have no idea what you are protesting.
Orlando billboard encouraging people to ‘Say Gay’ goes up same day bill passes
Forget it Jake, it’s leftist town.
I saw this on discord. I never knew it until now. It’s dated 2018. Nicholas Sarwark had an association with Stratfor
In late 2011, hackers managed to crack into the databases of the global intelligence firm Stratfor and found a large volume of information that connected the firm with military contractors, government agencies, and confidential informants.
In the first months of 2012, these documents were made public by Wikileaks and included millions of emails, which showed Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, and other vital information about their covert operations.
Stratfor has picked up the nickname “Shadow CIA” and had relationships with Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Goldman Sachs and various government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines, and the US Defense Intelligence Agency.
The leaked data has been published on Wikileaks website for years and is known as the Global Intelligence Files. Due to the large volume of data involved in the leak, years later researchers are still pouring through the files in search of clues that give a glimpse into secret government operations, or possible names of informants.
This week, The Free Thought Project received a tip from one of our readers that Nicholas J. Sarwark, the current Chairman of the Libertarian party, was named in the Global Intelligence Files. Sure enough, a quick search of the Wikileaks website shows a number of listings for Sarwark’s name. One listing had an address that is tied to one of his businesses.
Heh. The MC keeps joking he’s a Fed.
“Nicholas Sarwark had an association with Stratfor”
This is not the least bit surprising. I hope many people rub this in that asshat Sarwark’s face (in person or on social media, I don’t care).
The GOP has RINOs. The Democrats might even have DINOs.
Libertarianism has Commies, Anarchists, and LINOs in its ranks. Why couldnt Sarawak be the govts instrument to keep the LP in line?
Needs moar pronoun specificity
The top US general in Europe said Tuesday there “could be” a gap in US intelligence gathering that caused the US to overestimate Russia’s capability and underestimate Ukraine’s defensive abilities before Russia attacked Ukraine.
When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last month, US intelligence assessed that the country-wide assault could lead to Kyiv falling into Russian hands within days. But Russia’s military has been bogged down around the capital as the war has entered its second month, beleaguered by sustainability and logistics problems, along with an unexpected stiff resistance from Ukrainian fighters.
Testifying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday, US European Command chief Gen. Tod Wolters was asked by Sen. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, if there was an intelligence gap that caused the US to overestimate Russia’s strength and underestimate the Ukrainian defenses.
“There could be,” Wolters responded. “As we’ve always done in the past, when this crisis is over with, we will accomplish a comprehensive after-action review in all domains and in all departments and find out where our weak areas were and make sure we can find ways to improve, and this could be one of those areas.”
Just as long as we maintain mine shaft superiority.
Even though Russia is winning, I’m still impressed at Ukrainian resistance.
Why would they want to occupy Kyiv? Urban warfare is a nightmare.
To capture the seat of the government?
I’m sure they’d like to, the fact that they aren’t willing to pay the price (yet?) Does give the Ukrainians some credit. I really thought the Russians would have captured almost all their objectives in two weeks or so and have spent the next two weeks mopping up in the West.
Their stated aims are a negotiated settlement with this government, not regime change. Maybe they are lying about that, but actions don’t seem to indicate it.
That’s my take. They probably want the breakaway regions and the coastal area leading to Crimea along with the stuff about Ukraine not joining nato and being demilitarized.
Their stated aims are a vassal state.
Seems that was ours as well.
Russians tried to capture ukraine and they have failed.
Russian lies to save face on their military blunder will continue to roll in.
Is Nancy Pelosi’s mighty lectern there? Because THAT’s how you control the govt.
So, it really is about how you play the game?
I think resistance is natural when your country is invaded. I don’t understand why anyone expected Russia to take the entire country of Ukraine in 3 days. The battle of France lasted longer than the Russian invasion of Ukraine so far but many believe that the French immediately surrendered. It also took many months for the Germans to take over Ukraine in 1941 and for the Soviets to take it back in 1943-44.
It took Germany 45 days to conquer France, Belgium, Lux, and Netherlands. Thats it.
As for Germany having difficulty in Ukraine in 1941, they were facing about 750,000 russians and their equipments was horrible compared to modern russian vehicles. They also lacked “lorries”.
Ukraine is defensively separated by a huge river, the Dneiper. Its was clearly planned by Ukraine for defense and by Russians for offense. The russians are not winning. The russians might win but they cant win until the ukraine govt surrenders, enough current govt leaders are killed for a russia puppet regime to be legitimate, or russians controls everything in Ukraine worth controlling.
To those who think they know history, was Germany ever winning in Stalingrad? Germans controlled 85% of Stalingrad.
Wut.
“This is all Trumps fault. And anyone who didn’t vote to execute him on the spot. [stamps foot]”
I have no idea what she is trying to communicate there but it’s pretty rich to link Trump, impeachment, and Ukraine given everything we already know about the current administration’s plundering and other shenanigans there.
Trump had information that the Bidens were receiving bribes as de facto leaders of the Democrat Party for future political favors. There is also a blatant oil/gas pipeline racket going on in Europe.
Democrats cant push for climate change nonsense and get caught with their hands in the fossil fuel cookie jar. Evidently Burisma was the key to various corrupt dealings, bribes, and kick backs.
The USA intel services also use companies and fake corruption schemes to draw out foreigners who might be blackmailed/bribed into woking for the USA. Maybe the Bidens are patriots who act corrupt to further the goals of intel services. Hahahahaha.
At my previous job, I had to manage a temp who was incredibly unteachable and who couldn’t do anything without an SOP. I could deal with that (barely) but what I couldn’t stand the most about the guy was that he was too arrogant to understand or acknowledge his ignorance about revenue recognition and how we dealt with shit on the accounting side. And what made it worse was that he really thought he was the shit.
That’s fucking AOC. Someone who is too stupid and emotionally immature to realize that they don’t know everything and always want to prove that she’s the smartest person in the room.
People used to put those idiots in their place. A little reality check for people like AOC is what is needed. Having multiple people she wants to impress tell her that she is a moron would do the trick. It will blow out her self-esteem and she will go back to being a bar tender.
Um…
Seems strange that the US would be importing soy beans from Argentina. International trade and all, I guess.
Maybe due to seasonality?
Nah, they keep. There’s bins full of them all around the US year round.
This shit is so tiresome.
CNN runs 5 min segment celebrating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hairstyle: “Judge Jackson isn’t only changing the image of justice, but the image of beauty.”
Negatively but still a big change
It was tiresome when they did the same with the Wookiee. I guess they really do never change.
If Bush or Trump would have nominated Janice Rogers Brown, the media and the Democratic establishment would have made her life a living hell.
Be thankful for small miracles, I suppose.
Biden is one of the main reasons that Janice Rogers Brown is not on the Supreme Court. He refused her back in the day when I believe it was Bush 1 that wanted to nominate her.
Rich people- we hates ’em
Although the U.S. tax system is designed to be progressive, with the wealthiest citizens paying a greater share of their incomes than everyone else, some economic research has found that the country’s 400 richest families pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. That’s due to four decades of tax cuts for the rich, as well as preferential treatment for capital gains, such as the profits made from sales of stocks and bonds, which are taxed at a lower rate than income.
The new tax would work by targeting “unrealized gains,” or potential profits that exist on paper because the underlying asset has yet to be sold. Under the current tax code, gains are only taxed if they are realized, such as when you sell a stock and record a profit.
“The polling is good for any tax that can be labeled a ‘Billionaire Tax’ — people think, ‘That’s somebody else, and they ought to contribute more’,” said Steve Rosenthal, senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. “And ‘hundred-millionaires’ probably aren’t too sympathetic as a class, either.”
The proposal suggests that the tax code should include unrealized gains when considering average tax rates, said Garrett Watson, senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation. “And that there should be a minimum floor when you look at unrealized gains — and the minimum is 20%.”
What the fuck does that even mean?
If you have money and they don’t like you, they get to take your money.
Means investors take their gains in the shorts. Add inflation, you know, a percent here, a percent there, pretty soon you’re talking some serious percents
I still like my tax proposal. Any elected official is taxed at a rate of 100% for any money they make over their official salary. This is applicable for 5 years after they leave office.
Extend the post-office period proportionately to the number of years in office. If the politician holds elected office for more than 10 years, increase the taxation 2 percentage points per year over 100% of their official salary (as it was when they left office, not adjusted to current values).
This is the same kind of lying and “eat the rich” logic that got us an income tax for everyone, car registration for everyone, etc. It always starts as “screw those evil rich people” and devolves into “my taxes are too high / why can’t I plant a tree in my yard / why can’t I drive my car on even numbered days of the week?”
This is just an example of my comments above. This “story” might get a pass as a (poor) editorial. But, they’re reporting crap like “That’s due to four decades of tax cuts for the rich, as well as preferential treatment for capital gains, such as the profits made from sales of stocks and bonds, which are taxed at a lower rate than income.” Where do they even have support for this claim? They’re peddling obvious nonsense and expecting us to treat anything else as “misinformation”. Well, I know CBS is lying to me here.
It’s literally the mentality of the mafia.
Mobster: We’re here for our 30%. The boss needs it right now.
Shop owner: I have nothing to give you. The business has been losing money for years. I need every penny to reinvest just to stay open.
Mobster: I ain’t here for 30% of what you did make, I’m here for 30% of what ever I think you coulda made. Cough it up or something bad is going to happen to your little shop ‘ere.
Just keep ignoring the double taxation when corporations pay taxes, then dividends and capital gains are taxed.
Latest I can find is 2015: https://files.taxfoundation.org/20190312104822/PaF-Chart-8-2.png
Total for top quintile is 26.7%. For top 1% it was 33.3% (not shown on that graph, but other place within same page).
If they truly cared about the poor, progressives would be pushing hard to eliminate excise taxes, as they are the most regressive tax.
If they actually solved the problems of the poor, how would they be able to indefinitely hold them hostage as a voting block by falsely promising to solve their problems?
Eliminate the excise tax and the bottom quintile is net negative. EITC and refundable tax credits are larger than the other taxes combined.
Do they have data on the absolute value of receipts/refunds for those same groups?
Imagine having to pay taxes on the value of your 401(k) on any arbitrary day of the year. And if the value goes down the next day, oh well, you already paid those taxes. Sucks to be you.
They’ll just take that pesky 401(k) off of your hands and convert it to a federal retirement account – problem solved!
That’s their plan. When the Social Security ponzi scheme turns to shit, they’ll say that it isn’t fair to have private retirement accounts and will eventually seize them.
401k accounts won’t be the only thing. The way they see it, everything is already theirs to redistribute. You don’t even know you’re borrowing it, but you will when the jackboots come knocking.
but you will when the jackboots come knocking
I’ve begun improving security on the homestead, and one of the early additions was replacing the regular storm door with a steel security door. As I looked into different approaches, I was surprised (though I shouldn’t have been) to read it is illegal to armor your house with the intention of hindering entry by
the jackbootslaw enforcement. Can’t remember if it was state specific or federal.Those lazy fucks still had to get that written in some regulation or law even with bearcats in every city.
Got a link for the “illegal to armor you house” thing? I ain’t finding anything and it sounds just a bit paranoid.
Didn’t at all say it was “illegal to armor your house”. I said I read it was additional charges to do so with the intent of hindering law enforcement from entry. I imagine this was primarily aimed at drug dealers trying to buy time during raids.
Sorry for the short hand, I understood what you were saying, closest I found was that it’s not illegal but may be used against you if ‘the man’ finds you doing ‘illegal’ stuff in your home, that is, it’s not something you will be charged with just they may try and use it as evidence that you were up to no good.
https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/2014/title-21/section-21-540c
Gotcha. Here’s a link for Oklahoma. Felony crime and 5 years incarceration.
That one is in connection to having drugs in the home, but it’s what I could find in a quick search. Tangentially, it also looks like most states have additional charges for committing crimes while wearing body armor.
Tangentially, it also looks like most states have additional charges for committing crimes while wearing body armor
John’s getting a stiffy.
Fair enough, that is indeed some bullshit.
There is nothing illegal about making your home/property more secure. You can build bunkers and even a castle if you want (see local NIMBY laws for building codes) in the freest of states like Georgia.
Govt thugs tend to grab people away from their homes or bash a garage door to get access to unlocked interior garage door. Make your home unpredictable to govt thugs.
People always laugh when I tell them why I have popup bollards at my property gate. To slow down any govt thugs, so I can get to my APC.
I think the first step will be to mandate a certain percentage of 401(k)/IRA holdings to be in government bonds… for “stability”.
I think it’ll be shortly after the student loans get forgiven. “You need to pay it forward (regardless of whether you personally had loans forgiven)”
Oh, it won’t just be your 401(k). It’ll be your kid’s college fund. Your house. Your small business.
And somehow, I suspect the Messers. Gates, Fink, Soros, or Zuckerberg will somehow find convenient workarounds that for some arcane reason absolve them of their tax burden. You won’t be able to take advantage of those absolutions. You don’t have the resources. Or the pull. And when they tax you on those things to the point you can’t afford them anymore, well, Messers. Gates, Fink, Soros, or Zuckerberg will take it off your hands. For the right price, of course.
They already out-and-out said it – you’ll own nothing and be happy.
“Pay up.” ?
I’m willing to bet these fuckwads will write the law such that the same unrealized gain is taxed year after year. After all, why only tax it once?
Of course they will. They will then lament the run of bad luck as the economy sputters along for decades.
The Biden administration is projecting that the tax would raise $361 billion over 10 years.
Those out-year estimates are going to need to be recalculated after Biden and Co get done blowing a gaping hole below the water line in the financial markets.
They spend that kind of money in a fucking month. At least in the 90’s and early 200’s, we pretended to give a shit about fiscal solvency but now, it’s a race to the bottom. It’s like someone who has a high limit credit card trying to buy as much crap as possible until American Express shuts their shit down.
In a month? Try 2 days if you break it down as an annual cost. Based on the 2021 budget they spend $18 billion/day. I wouldn’t be surprised if the net income from this is closer to zero when the hit to the stock market is accounted for.
Back in 2011 it was $10 Billion per day.
Iowahawk wrote a column about it.
Bill Whittle made a great video version of Iowahawk’s article for one of his Afterburner segments.
Correction, it was a Firewall segment, “Eat the Rich”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ
As if they care.
They will plunder enough to remain comfortable for the rest of their lives, and the rest of us get to eat dog food.
Heck, inflation ought to at least triple that estimate.
Masshole.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/03/a-federal-mask-mandate-for-planes-other-public-transit-expires-april-18-but-sen-ed-markey-wants-the-cdc-tsa-to-extend-it.html
Why the 18th? Why not the 17th? Why not the 16th? Why not the 15th? Why not the 14th? Why not the 12th?
Why not now?
Tax day…only thing I can think of
*shrug*
I will never fly or take the train (i.e. commute) again under those circumstances.
I will not be treated like a second-class citizen.
I kind of like the mandate now. When I’m inside the airport terminal, I’m the only one without a mask. The same when I’m on board. If I fly in coach, I don’t even try to drink or eat anything, I just sit there without a mask and nothing happens to me.
Mr. Biden’s budget blueprint projects new revenue from sources such as the wealth tax would lead to lower federal deficits, more money for police, and greater funding for education, public health and housing.
Delusional doesn’t even come close to describing that claim.
It’s cynical, not delusional. They don’t actually believe a word of it.
^^^^^This^^^^^^
Never forget this.
Thanks, MS!
That plane looks pretty sweet!
Excellent discussion between Dave Smith and Colonel Macgregor.
Nice. I was waiting for that to get posted.
Caught it earlier today, it was pretty good. Surprised he got up to 0-6
He was probably on track to join the big boy club.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRealPro7/status/1508681631334346761
Oh, I like this conspiracy theory. ?
Makes more sense than anything else I’ve read about it.
That would make more sense than them authorizing a fifth dose of the vaccines. Which they did.
Will the tagline be “Bye, Alopecia”?
I have the most terrible pleasure of reprimanding an employee for being late cause his dad who is sick has medical appointments that run long.
I’m a lenient person but it’s so frequent. Either take leave, seek FMLA or switch shifts with a peer.
You’re allowed to reprimand government-sector workers?
Paper trail has to start somewhere. Granted it’s a loooooooong paper trail before anything happens. This is more a ‘help me help you’ situation
Before I started working at State Dept, there was a woman who LITERALLY SHIT HERSELF every day at her desk. Cleaning crew refused to go anywhere near there. This according to colleagues who had witnessed the whole ordeal.
Guess how long it took to get rid of her?
Sounds like management was unwilling to do its job if she was constantly creating a health hazard for her fellow employees.
It’s raining here. Thank God.
No kids in baseball anymore (also thank God)
But your bullet points made me think of this.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/03/nj-town-sues-woman-82-for-voluminous-and-burdensome-public-records-requests.html
Not guilty. Now hand her a stack of cash.
Just make sure that cash come directly out of the pocket of the government stooges who sued her, otherwise every sucker in NJ is paying for it and nobody learns a damn thing, or S.O.B.
That is right up the alley for the Institute for Justice. They’d crush the town on that one.
Trashy, I didn’t an address to send my lid to. Did you get my email? My email has the word “beer” and a number.
https://mobile.twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1508922238954708993?cxt=HHwWgoCp6YOy4vApAAAA
BREAKING: PA court ordered five members of @WestChesterASD board be removed from their positions immediately for continuing to force kids to wear masks even though the mandate was lifted. Incredible ???
Haha.
Excellent.
Best news all week.
*insert Smith/Rock meme here*
That’s fantastic. As Instapundit says, “More, please!”
I just made a cheeseburger in the sous vide. A stunning success. 120F for about a hour, then a minute on each side in the cast iron skillet on high flame resulted in a crisp sear with a soft pinkish interior. Will try again.
Dang. Never even thought of that!
Well done, young man!
Huh, didn’t think ground meat would work that well sous vide (can’t say why I thought that).
On the list of things to try.
I’m assuming you used a Ziploc bag and not a vacuum sealer, correct? I assume the vacuum sealer would compress it too much.
I’m not sure. If you make the burgers robust enough, I think it would be fine.
Also, additional fat in the cast-iron or just the burgers themselves?
I always put a tiny bit of butter in the skillet right before adding the meat.
These euphemisms.
The butter wouldn’t melt, so I put it in the pie
I would suggest using a zip-lok bag and the water displacement method. I used the Food Saver and while the burger was delicious, it was ugly and slightly misshapen from being vacuum sealed. The displacement method is likely gentler.
oh wow, I haven’t thought to try a burger using sous vide. I need to as soon as I can
” high flame resulted in a crisp sear with a soft pinkish interior.”
Heard that. Next morning in the toilet after a night of eating hot sauce.
Their stated aims are a vassal state.
I think “sphere of influence” is the preferred term.
Deny the Hunter laptop exists and/or claim it is just Russian misinformation. – check!
Destroy the guy’s life who discovered the laptop – check!
Bury the story – check!
Encourage Ukraine and Russia to war – check!
Laptop exists! – check!
Laptop is lost – check!
But everything is on the up and up in the United States.
You left off “Profit!”
Huh, Emmitt Till was born 40 years ago eh?
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1508903628530196480
A man that is all there.
And now the world thinks that “lynching” was legal up until today. ?
To be fair, it’s only been 31 years since the attempted high-tech lynching of Clarence Thomas.
You’re assuming he’s using base 10. What if he’s using base 20? He’s just on a higher plane than we are, man. We should be grateful.
I don’t remember everybody’s scores from the morning thread, so:
63
57
Bullshit! I wanna see the colored boxes.
They’re called boxes of color these days, gramps!
Wonder if there are any indigenous boxes though
No, only invasive ones.
Probably, but I didn’t want to start any squaw-bbles.
How ab-original. Be Brave.
Nice!
I’m on day three. I failed the first one and nailed the next two.
I hate whoever started this.
Sean, It’s all Sean’s fault.
Yup. Fucking management.
You can stop anytime you want. ;-)
You obviously don’t know me. 😉
Then don’t play this one…
https://gordle.herokuapp.com/
You awful man.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I guess if one was a Play-by-Play it would be easy…way too many names out there
7️⃣?
?9️⃣
Welp, first time playing this and I hate it already. Back to Souls games where I can throw a controller out the window.
Don’t throw the controller, that only makes it more difficult.
But Wrodle on the other hand….
#Worldle #67 1/6 (100%)
??????
Makes no sense. I’ll go back to ignoring this nonsense.
It gets better.