Backing in is better than being like Italy.
The USMNT is headed to the World Cup (officially). They limped in, which is fine by me. Bruce Arians is out as the Bucs head coach. I’m not so sure I’m in love with this event. Three races in the US a year? And two of them flat street circuits? We’ll have to see how it goes. And that’s it for sports.
I remember when collusion was considered to be bad. A lot worse than $113,000 bad. I also remember when it was a lot higher up the page on CNN than it is now.
Creature opening her maw
This is good. I believe in women and think they should be protected.
This seems like a no-brainer. Why wouldn’t every voter want their citizenship verified?
It’s called “acting”. And it’s boooooooooring.
The cocks won’t get you, but the cartels will.
Cockfighting is dangerous. But so is everything in areas the cartels control. But at least they have gun control so nobody could defend themselves. That could have been unsafe.
It’s a shame they caught this. The low-fat people could use a little extra iron in their diet.
“Shoot first, ask questions later.” I also like the “ghost gun” bullshit.
This makes a lot of sense. Ban water vapor. For the kids! Dumbasses.
I don’t play these guys often enough. And they’re probably one of my three of four favorite bands of all time. And that song is under appreciated. This gets a lot more play. Which I’m ok with because its a masterpiece.
Enjoy them both and enjoy this Thursday, dear friends!
“I remember when collusion was considered to be bad. A lot worse than $113,000 bad. I also remember when it was a lot higher up the page on CNN than it is now.”
They are persecuting her because she is a woman!
Women are only fined 70 cents for every dollar a man is fined.
So does Hillary identify as a woman or an elder power of chaos & evil hiding in a woman’s body?
Sorry, closest we have on the form is “bronykin”
YAST. RIGHT-WING. CONSPIRACY.
YAST QWEEN?
Yeast queen.
I might have dated her…
Was it the infectious smile?
I wish that had been the infection I had to clear out…
Nope. It was on a bet.
Morning.
Because a lot of those voters aren’t eligable to vote?
They are on the right side of history,silly.
Well, right for the Dems.
“This seems like a no-brainer. Why wouldn’t every voter want their citizenship verified?”
You ask the wrong question. Voters that want the whole racket to be legit have no problem with proving they are who they say they are and that they should be there. The people that don’t want the system to have accountability, reliability, and any kind of serious traceability, are the ones that benefit from the loopholes they use to cheat.
Yeah, Democrats vote too.
“It’s called “acting”. And it’s boooooooooring.”
Why is this distraction from the fact society is falling apart still making the rounds? Shit, if you are into fucking stupid assholes hitting people here ya go…
Because people are fickle and easily manipulated.
Same reason why people are tied up in a territorial squabble 4000 miles away, obsessed with who OWNED who in Congress, and sobbing over an early education law in a state they’ve visited all of twice.
whaddup doh’
Inflation?
““Shoot first, ask questions later.” I also like the “ghost gun” bullshit.”
He looked like he needed shooting? Fucking idiots.
Nah — it was spooky action at a distance.
Oh fuck off with that sanctimonious shit. Maybe the cops should attempt to figure out what is going on before they start shooting people.
It would help their case also if it actually was a “burden” but, in a lot of cases, the officer in question seems to have felt no burden at all.
“If there is any doubt, you don’t pull the trigger.”
This isn’t a tough rule to follow.
The threat posed by second-hand vapor cannot be understated.
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Doesn’t anybody work around here??
Well, I’m at work…
Off today. Slept in until 7:30.
I’m an academic so, no.
I am working.
I think.
I’m arguing with other managers over the spec for the requested qualifications for a consultant who’s supposedly going to be on my team. And I’m adding users to an application so old and busted that I’m the only person left in the world who can add users.
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Down to the wire!
Nice. I hate when I waste guesses.
What was your first qword?
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Worldle used me badly today.
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Federal election regulators fined Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee earlier this month for not properly disclosing the money they spent on controversial opposition research that led to the infamous Trump-Russia dossier.
Paying for fake info when you have a ‘D’ next to your name is fine. Asking for presumably real info when you are the former ‘R’ president is like totes treason.
So I suppose that wraps up the entire 2016 coup attempt? Nothing else will happen.
a successful 2020 coup?
Controversial opposition research, completely fictional, cynical, unethical, unlawful, corrupt, power starved bullshit… tomatoes.
French fried pertaters, ummhumm.
Cheeseburger in Purgatory.
Federal election regulators exiled Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and dissolved the Democratic National Committee
Headline if Trump, or any Republicans, were half the “authoritarian” they are made out to be.
OFFS.
At least they got the scare-quotes right.
Nicotine is basically harmless. Everybody involved knows this fact. I can’t even anymore.
In the concentrations exhaled by the bad person instead of absorbed into his bloodstream – yes, I would put good money on it being completely harmless.
Maybe if the bad person was exhaling a carton’s worth at a time I could see a problem.
But of course we all know what this is really about.
You’re probably a caffeine apologist also…
Sweet. That’s the good stuff.
Call me when someone seriously starts talking about thirdhand vape “smoke”. That is when I know that vaping is a Big League Danger.
GHOST GUN!!!!!!
I noticed the man shot by the police had injuries in his abdomen, arm, and leg. Did the cops mag dump the poor guy? Fucking christ
I believe in women and think they should be protected.
Said the extreme, right-wing, nazi white-supreme.
“None of us want to be the person to decide — in a fraction of a second — whether to pull that trigger, but the burden of making that decision falls upon the police officer,” he wrote.
It does’t seem to be much of a burden.
Why wouldn’t every voter want their citizenship verified?
It’s muh-voter suppression against the blacks. Everyone knows they can’t get ID.
I find it very telling that the people crying out about voter suppression never seem to say poor white people also would have problems getting IDs. Apparently the problem only affects minorities. So that means that the people making this claim think that minorities must have some kind of problem whites don’t. If you ask them to explain you almost always find out that black people can only find justice if some urban white liberal woman protects them….
If you ask them to explain you almost always find out that black people can only find justice if some urban white liberal woman protects them
Everybody is the hero (or victim) in their own story.
Embrace the power of “and”, everybody is both victim and hero of their own story.
If you’re white, you’re offered a wide variety of IDs with whatever name you want on them for free, no waiting. If you’re not white, you have to survive a game of Running Man just to get in line for an ID.
Leading up to the 2018 election in North Dakota, there was a battle over a voter ID law. We were screamed at this law was only passed to stop Native Americans from voting. They sued and lost, and the law was in place for the 2020 election. There was a record high turnout of NA voters.
Last time we had voter ID on the ballot as a referendum it went down in flames.
When it was first put on the ballot it was way up in the polls. Then Big Vote started spending a kajillion $ on ads that said it was totes racist and horrible. I don’t think I saw even one pro-voter ID ad.
My personal theory is that it started so far up in the polls that the pro side never raised any money or got organized.
In the end it lost pretty easily.
Can’t get an ID in time to vote once every 2-4 years, but were simultaneously expected to have photo ID, CDC card, and potentially a “vaccine passport” on hand at all times to do anything else on a daily basis.
And we’ll be expected to have a smart phone or similar to use digital currency.
I’ve been somewhat surprised by the ease with which people have gone from being distrustful of computers and the Internet to being willing to make them the centerpieces of their lives.
Nothing fundamental about the technology has really changed. If anything, the new stuff is more dangerous than the old.
I trust computers less than ever.
But, but, it’s so conveeeeeeenient!
Seriously, I’m probably more guilty of being lazy about it than most, but I’m trying to fix it one site at a time.
Voting and buying a gun should have the same restrictions. If it is too onerous for minorities to get an ID to vote, you are obviously preventing them from buying a weapon to defend themselves.
Cop Stop
Cop: “Voter ID, please”
ME: “Oh, I don’t have one, I don’t vote”
Cop: “Non-Voter ID, please”
Jesus Christ on toast. The last thing that Chris Rock needed to do after being “bitch-slapped” was to start acting like a little bitch. He should have gone full steam ahead with the mockery. I hate everyone involved in this.
Victimhood pays off….
Chris Rock added a second day to his tour here in Cleveland. So apparently it still pays.
I seem to remember John Wayne having to be physically restrained from slapping the stuffing out of that squaw hired by Marlon Brando to refuse his Oscar and bellyache about the red man getting the short end of the stick.
“Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”
Will Smith strikes again!
Andrew Schulz did it.
Chris Rock on Wednesday night told an audience at his sold-out comedy show in Boston that he was ‘still processing’ being slapped on stage by Will Smith at the Oscars, in his first public response to Sunday’s shocking incident.
Grow a pair. My opinion is that it was fake anyway.
https://thehiu.com/the-theory-behind-the-viral-oscars-is-that-pfizer-staged-a-slap-in-the-face-to-promote-the-alopecia-drug/
🙂
I BELIEVE
I don’t believe much of anything, anymore.
Pfizer has a hangover drug that will compete with the natural remedy known as Hair of the Dog?
Pedialyte. Always go with Pedialyte…and a shot of hot sauce.
Pfedialyte?
What Smith supposedly said is a line directly lifted from a scene in the Reacher series.
Moreover, as many have pointed out, defending your wife’s honor when your wife is publicly known to be not honorable is ironic to say the least.
I don’t think it was staged.
For me the most telling part of the video is Will Smith laughing at the joke while his wife was glaring daggers.
I’d bet a lot of money that when the cameras were off, he was told that he better do something or she’d make his life hell.
How bad is she that Smith decided that slapping someone and the shitstorm that would start was preferable to having to listen to his wife complain?
I’d have been “Fuck off Baldy! I’m Will Fucking Smith!” She must own a magic cooze.
She’s already put him through hell (though I’m sure he is guilty of his own sins), if I were him I would’ve been like, pull that divorce trigger baby, it’s all you’ve got left.
OMG, you’re right about that being a line from Reacher! It was in the very first episode.
But Pointer, in an interview with KGO, disputed that claim — saying that Green was backing down as the officer yelled and shot at Green “within less than a second.” He added that he and Green plan to file a suit against the police department.
Trigger-happy pigs are trigger-happy.
They were ahead of their time
So I am a pirate radio DJ out at Burning Man, and one of my favorite show bits is to play some really early piece by a band that doesn’t at all sound like their later (and better known) stuff. The Who in the early days was very pop, but the best is Pink Floyd – only the hardcore Floyd fans know the early stuff, like this.
I love y’all. I learn cool new shit about you folk every day. Regarding the music, Bowie is similar; my favorite is Uncle Arthur.
Christian Slater, is that you?
Is a half naked Samantha Mathis hanging around him?
Eh, this is the best I can do. Wow, that was 6 years ago.
I love that movie.
*yawn* miss me with that ish and when you get serious play Several Species of Small Furry Animals In A Cave Grooving With A Pict
(now ex-) wife sold all my Pink Floyd vinyl in a yard sale.
only the hardcore Floyd fans know the early stuff
Or people who listen to The Underground Garage channel on SXM, that song and other early Floyd stuff is in the rotation, also some “The High Number” songs.
I’ve heard that song before, but I never knew it was by Pink Floyd.
Wait, is that Darby O’gill and the Trans People?
Not all the media are abandoning Our Savior, The Holy Joseph Robinette, Deliverer-from-Covid.
NPR had a bit about what a great job Joe was doing and how we’re super-prepared for the next wave and then mentioned he got his next booster LIVE! On TV!
And then… they said… and I quote…
“Biden didn’t flinch.”
Joe is so TUFF and STRONK he DIDN’T EVEN FLINCH when confronted by the big scary needle! DRUMPH would have been reduced to a sobbing puddle from the pain of vaccination, but once you’ve stood up to a Bad Dude like Corn Pop, a shot just isn’t scary anymore.
How many Pollacks does it take to – oh, never mind.
Poland will take steps to cut Russian oil imports by the end of 2022, the prime minister said Wednesday, as Germany triggered an early warning level for natural gas supplies and called on consumers to save energy amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Poland has already largely reduced its dependence on Russian oil, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
Morawiecki told a news conference that Poland was launching the most radical plan among European nations to wean off Russian energy sources.
Poland said Tuesday it was banning imports of Russian coal. Morawiecki said he expects gas imports will be cut in May.
Huh… if I were Poland I’d be going nuclear — and just by happenstance with enrichment friendly designs….
I guess they won’t be needing to screw in any lightbulbs.
The Who’s greatest album is “Live at Leeds”!
Fuck you, tinkerbelle. Its Who’s Next.
Well, they’re all good.
And Daltry’s best single is from McVicar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U66KlqJPGo
That’s an odd way to spell Quadrophenia.
You work in board-feet and can’t buy lumber. Eat your pickle’s and be quiet.
Mexican Cockfight Massacre is the name of my fictional Brian Jonestown Massacre tribute band and mariachi mashup.
Show me your butthole.
Ok
That’s like basic training all over again!
I may have related this before, but the other night at work a contractor (we’re having HVAC work done) walked past when I was on a step-ladder. His trucker hat was backwards, when I glanced over I could read it. “Show Me Your Butthole”.
I haven’t stopped laughing.
Coddled bastards.
In boot camp, the shitters all faced each other. That setup in Scruffy’s pic allows you to stare off into space and pretend you aren’t shitting in public.
that setup is to discourage people asking for blumpkins…
Nothing says togetherness like taking a dump together,
That should become the new MAGA hat. I’m not kidding.
I asked the guy “does that really say “show me your butthole?””
He said , “yessir it does. Its my second- I had to buy this one cause I left the other in a bar”
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Lolz
RE: Formula 1 — on one level, if I’m still stuck in California, Vegas is at least a race I can consider going to without as much hassle, so that’s nice. Of course, being Vegas — I fully expect it to be priced into the stratosphere since all the celebs will likely want to go to that one too.
I really don’t care much for Austin (that first chicane really wants to be Silverstone, but the cadence just sucks) as a track. Agreed that two additional street circuits (and the Vegas layout looks pretty boring at first glance — one hairpin, but the rest seems pretty tame) seems like a waste given the variety of tracks in the States (or hell, build a *good* one with fun curves, a good long straight and some elevation changes… now my brain is wanting to see something like Spa, only in the Appalachians…..
Be pretty pitiful if we have 3 races and Mexico is still a better layout.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The electric car companies are getting them early.
That was pleasant! Now to retreat to my lair to think of the offspring that might have been… Left turn at Albuquerque. Never wanted kids until I did. Too fucking late now.
The poll found 41 percent of Americans say the Biden administration’s economic policies are to blame for the rise in gas prices.
According to the survey, 24 percent say sanctions against Russia caused the increase in fuel prices, 24 percent believe oil companies are to blame and 5 percent say the increase is due to the rise in demand after coronavirus restrictions were eased.
The price of gas has skyrocketed in recent months, with the average price at the U.S. pump reaching over $4 per gallon.
The Biden administration and Democrats have sought to place the blame on corporations they say are charging more at the pump despite a decrease in the price of oil per barrel.
Five per cent of Americans are buying the Message. Only 95% to convince.
Also, this is the bestest strongest economic boom in history.
I thought they were blaming Russia? They need to get blame-shifting story straight. Or do too many Americans own calendars that spread disinformation?
Look when you are flailing in the water, you will grasp at any flotsam from the sinking ship you can get your hands on. You ain’t got time to get your story straight.
That’s quite a collection of ?? links.
Unicorn farts it is.
Senate Democrats who are part of the chamber’s Climate Change Task Force are calling for a multistep strategy to achieve energy independence by transitioning to renewable energy over the next 500 days.
At a meeting of the task force Tuesday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) outlined a series of reforms that he said would achieve the goal without increased reliance on fossil fuels.
The group has called for lawmakers to permanently codify President Biden’s ban on Russian oil imports through the Severing Putin’s Immense Gains from Oil Transfers Act, which Markey introduced at the beginning of the month.
It also is pushing for passage of another Markey-sponsored bill, the Strategic Reserve, Appliance, Vehicle and Energy Efficiency for Consumers Act, which is co-sponsored by task force member Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). The bill would offer short-term consumer relief by releasing the equivalent of 500 days of Russian oil imports from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and authorize the president to set emergency energy efficiency targets.
SPIGOT Act
Let’s add an Iron Law that bills with catchy acronyms are always shitty.
His trucker hat was backwards, when I glanced over I could read it. “Show Me Your Butthole”.
I haven’t stopped laughing.
I don’t get it.
White trash humor. Im sure you take tiffin promptly at 3 pm too.
Tres is transforming into the Joker.
Trust me.
You DO NOT want to know how he got those scars.
True story- when Jugsy and I 1st got together, her boxer The Dozer had some “dominance issues” with me. Nothing harmful- was just being an asshole. One night, while exuberantly “playing” on the floor (I was liquor drunk) he gouged my forearms up pretty well. I do carry those scars. When Jugsy said “Jesus Tres- leave him alone! Your arms are a mess!” I said, Im hungry and I want a cheese steak!
So with the contract in place that “Ill buy you fly” she drove me and I walked-in to collect our take out food, arms still a mess. Dude behind the counter said “YO! Are you OK? What happened?” I told him “see the woman out in my truck? Dont fuck with her- she just threw me through a coffee table.”
He said, “Word?” and took my money.
Over the years, a series of investigations and lawsuits have discredited many of Steele’s central allegations about collusion and exposed the unreliability of Steele’s sourcing.
That’s a roundabout way to say “complete and utter bullshit”.
A DNC spokesman told CNN Wednesday that it has “settled aging and silly” FEC complaints about 2016.
And when, pray tell, was this fine imposed?
That’s some mighty fine journalisming, CNN.
I’m not hoping for anyone. I never have. I just want everyone to go the fuck home and stop bothering each other. This is getting out of control and the neo-libs are urging it on.
Totally legit, not a diversionary tactic
The Biden administration is marking the International Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday with a series of measures in support of transgender Americans as they face efforts to curb their rights across the country.
The administration will announce a slew of actions aimed at supporting the mental health of transgender children, removing barriers to entry for government services for trans Americans and improving data representation for transgender people, a White House official told CNN.
“Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know, and our Nation and the world are stronger, more vibrant, and more prosperous because of them. To transgender Americans of all ages, I want you to know that you are so brave. You belong. I have your back,” Biden said in a presidential proclamation Wednesday evening.
HEY LOOK OVER THERE!
These wedge issues are getting weirder.
Double-headed dildo weird?
Can’t believe after all Joe’s recent blunders, they’d let him a dress the nation on National Tranny Day.
He was trying to bolt on some other domestic issues, but they wouldn’t let him tuck them in.
Thanks for the image of Joe Biden in a dress. Now I have to go remove that picture from my brain with a wire brush…
It should have been on April 1st.
Id like the author to show me where transgendered people have less rights now.
Unless it’s some dude in a dress wanting to hang out in the girl’s bathroom.
I heard they also give the men and lesbians a hard time for not wanting to date them….
I guessing this doesn’t mean what it says.
I wonder WTF does that even mean.
It’s almost like this is a pile virtue-signaling claptrap.
as they face efforts to curb their rights across the country
Assertion lacking evidence.
Transgender people are some of the bravest Americans I know, and our Nation and the world are stronger, more vibrant, and more prosperous because of them. To transgender Americans of all ages, I want you to know that you are so brave.
Again assertion without evidence.
A couple of days ago I was actually driving around and was listening to the radio. The sportz talk station had on two local pols who were pushing their bill to legalize sport betting in Minnesoda.
Uffda, it made me want to drive into oncoming traffic. They kept harping on the fact that current sports betting was “a black market” and their bill would bring it into the light where it could be regulated. Who wouldn’t want that?
A secondary point was that they would use the revenue from all that regulated market activity for wonderful things. Some would help treat the problem gamblers. But most of it would be for Youth Sports!
I had a fantasy that someone would show up and make the case that “black market” betting was a better deal than being regulated. Besides we have a $9B surplus right now. The last thing the state needs is more money.
Should definitely be legal, but with no strings attached.
Taking away the possibility of getting your legs broken if you can’t cover your bet takes all of the fun out of it.
I dunno. If the gov’t is involved they can take away your driver’s license, home, savings, garnish wages….Ill take a couple fractures.
Uh oh, the educrats aren’t going to like that.
I though sin taxes always went to “schools”.
they would use the revenue from all that regulated market activity
IOW, skim the pot so the payouts to bettors are lower. Yay, freedom!
Man, fuck Chris Rock. Fuck Will Smith and his wife. Fuck the Oscars. In fact, fuck all of Hollywood and everyone in it (except Bruce Willis, that guy’s alright).
I thought Keanu was actually a decent sort from all I’ve read.
And I thought part of Will Smith’s problem was too many folks saying “Fuck his wife” and all…
I’m sure there are a few good ones. Eastwood’s still alive after all.
Why are we mad at Chris Rock? I missed it.
For tearing up over something like that and for playing it to the hilt for something that was obviously contrived, in my view anyway (it’s one of the links at the top).
Yeah. Who’s the cuck now Sir Christopher? Fuck that shit! Pabst blue ribbon!
It wasn’t contrived. He’s not that good an actor.
Contrived? Are the Oscars already working on the script for the Smith v. Rock steel cage death match next year?
International Transgender Day of Visibility aims to celebrate the achievements of transgender rights activists and to increase awareness of ongoing challenges transgender and gender-nonconforming people face.
Unintentionally honest?
“You people would be nothing without us.”
Celebration parallax: they get to talk about their “accomplishments” while you have to pretend they haven’t accomplished anything and if you try to stop them from going further you just want to kill all the people they “represent”.
“Accomplishments” I get to shame my parents and culture whilst riding on the high road for a little while. Flairs were only fashionable for a very short time, believe me, I know. Why the fuck do you wonder that cut-off shorts became popular? Imbeciles.
In the name of “anti-bullying” we have elevated the sickest, most depraved bullies of all.
Scott Horton on Kennedy.
Is he still insisting there’s no way Russia invades Ukraine?
I now know one judge I’ll be voting for. This guy seems to be doing his job.
FUCKER WON’T LET US RUN ROUGHSHOD ON THE ACCUSED!!!!! Can you even believe that this guy insists on us having to prove that the accused is guilty? I mean if he wasn’t guilty, why is he on trial?
“He’s making us actually work for a living. This was supposed to be an easy job for people of marginally higher-than-average intelligence.”
Being a sociopath who doesn’t care about what happens to other people, just how it can affect your career is a far more important trait for a prosecutor than intelligence.
It doesn’t detract from your point, but I think true sociopaths are pretty rare. Most are just narcissists. They know, on some level, the consequences of what they do, but those consequences are too abstract and detached from them, whereas the incentive structure that directly affects them is concrete and imminent.
There are actual, no-shit sociopaths, and then there are people who have been trained to ignore their conscience, to manipulate people, and to value themselves only. These groups may be distinguishable, but they operate very similarly. If anything, the sociopath is usually socially hampered because it’s hard for them to “act the part” without coming off as fake.
Yes. The true sociopath is the “red pill” to the common narcissists “blue pill”. The former is far more self-aware, and thus also far less able to blend in.
Anyone freed from the consequences that should come with their misbehavior is all but guaranteed to turn into something that looks exactly like a sociopath. This is cops with qualified [*cough* unlimited *cough*] immunity. It is virtually all people with political ambitions (where the worst consequence is losing an election rather than being shot through the head). Catholic priests might be another example.
Catholic priests might be another example.
The schadenfreude of seeing the Church laid low has worn off for me and turned to sadness instead. An institution that survived over 1500 years of vast changes in European history, and even managed to stay fairly strong after two major splinter events (not that they’re blameless in either case), only to be slowly but surely rotted from the inside and attacked by ghouls from the outside.
The Church has lost the mandate of heaven, to borrow from Eastern mythology, and it’s to some extent their own doing, but it’s still disheartening. Plus, when you add up the sins the Church has been accused of from without, you get a list of crimes that are very commonplace elsewhere too. It seems laughable that pedophilia was their particular crime in the U.S. when every other major religion, especially the secular religion, is suffused with pedophiles too.
Our lawyers don’t believe they get fair trials in front of Judge Koch
And here I thought it was the accused, not the state, that was supposed to get a fair trial.
Good morning, Sloop!
Excellent musical choices! They are one of my favorites as well. I still trot out Quadrophenia a lot.
Thanks!
Taibbi with another killer…
How’d that work out for Rumsfeld?
The problem with trying to pull an FDR is that FDR was more powerful than any man in the West today and also managed to cover his tracks much better (not having the Internet around helped).
Biden probably wants do to this, but I don’t think his underlings do, and they actually run the show.
Didn’t FDR give half of Europe to commies? Pretty sure he sucked ass.
Ah, but had he lived, he would’ve ruled the half he didn’t hand over.
Possibly the worst President ever, and certainly the most overrated. He’s the closest this country has ever come to a dictator for life.
Abraham Lincoln adjusts his tie uneasily
How’d that work out for Rumsfeld?
For Don himself? No fucking problem. For the rest of America and the world?
That’s my point I made just above about freedom from consequences. Who the fuck cares about consequences when you never have to face them?
The Biden Admin is prepared to fight this unwinnable war to the last drop of Ukrainian blood. Considering our lack of truly vital national interests there what we’re doing is unconscionable.
OK, bonus quote:
Gods I love that last sentence.
The Exile, Taibbi’s newspaper from his Moscow days, was some brilliant stuff. I’m always happy to read his work, even when I don’t agree with him.
How completely douchey.
Hey, how else can they virtue signal their credentialing?
To mark the day, the White House has a series of events planned, including a visit from “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, the quiz show’s first transgender winner, who will discuss transgender visibility in a conversation with second gentleman Doug Emhoff.
The second gentleman will also host a conversation with transgender youth and advocates from throughout the country alongside Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will travel to Orlando, Florida, to discuss the state’s controversial legislation that opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law with LGBTQ students.
The Department of Health and Human Services will also fly a transgender pride flag to mark the day — the first time in history a federal agency will do so.
The grownups are back in charge.
Strange how they’re putting their foot down on a law disallowing the teaching of sexuality to kindergarten up to 3rd grade kids. It’s almost like the QAnon pedophile cabal conspiracy peddlers were correct.
So far, the only thing “QAnon pedophile cabal conspiracy peddlers” have gotten wrong is that Trump or Durham or somebody “good” exists in government who’s going to bring the “bad” guys to justice.
I believe they were also wrong about the pizza parlor.
Yeah, I’m going more on “gist” than “details” here.
Do they really think this will bring them electoral success? Or are they just that confident in their ability to cheat?
The Lies That Started 11 Wars
From Horton (of course)
The Biden Admin is prepared to fight this unwinnable war to the last drop of Ukrainian blood. Considering our lack of truly vital national interests there what we’re doing is unconscionable.
Putin robbed us of our First Woman President.
MAKE HIM PAY.
Another story that gives me hope.
Back when housing discrimination was real, there was a neighborhood between Minneapolis and St. Paul named Rondo. This neighborhood was cut in half when they built Interstate 94 connecting the two downtowns. Ever since the ’60s this has been held up as a blatant act of racism and there have been efforts to rebuild the old neighborhood somehow.
This article covers a few of the crazy ideas: Building a land bridge over 8+ lanes of a freeway, or just removing the freeway altogether. The reason the story gives me hope is that most of the residents in the area are against the stupid ideas. In fact most of them want the freeway widened so that they can get to/from their house to work more easily.
One of the worries that the residents have is gentrification. If you spend all this money, rents will rise and they will get pushed out. They miss the obvious, if we are going to truly rebuild the Rondo neighborhood, we will need to bring back redlining and racial covenants to make sure that Rondo is the only place black people can live.
They’re doing the same thing in Portland for the same reasons. What’s really funny is the “historically Black” neighborhood is a post WWII artifact. My wife grew up in the area before it became a black neighborhood (really a ghetto for a long time).
The new ghetto won’t be like the old ghetto – it will be more expensive.
At least Elvis is dead.
At least they’re talking to the impacted people now, unlike in the old days.
A lot of silly, destructive shit was done in the mid-twentieth century in the name of “urban renewal”. But most of it can’t be “solved” with the same tools that were used back then. It’s almost like top-down planning by “experts” stinks.
There are leftover exits on Albany area highways because protests over neighborhood demolition eventually shut down further expansion and one major planned highway was never even started.
You could pull up plans from the ’50s and ’60s for almost any mid- to large-size American city and count the number expressways that never got built. I’ve seen the plans for Rochester and Buffalo.
And that’s not counting the numerous neighborhoods that were torn down and replaced with “public housing” that’s now falling apart.
*sigh* as bad as the US is, I think I’m still better off here that in Oz. Things I learned on Australian news today:
Rising prices are caused by inflation (next thing you’ll be telling me that lower temperatures are caused by colder weather)
To relieve inflationary pressures, the government needs to increase wages and salaries
President Zelensky of Ukraine is a “lion of democracy”
All of the Five Eyes nations suck ass, it’s just that the lower four on the list don’t get much say in anything.
Lions are not known for their respect of the plebs.
The lion of the Senate was known to drown them.
That sounds exactly the same as U.S. “news” though.
Except in the US there are *some* dissenting voices. + guns
I saw a headline today about another potential stimulus program here in the US to help “combat inflation”. Because running the money printer more and sending money out to people will obviously reduce prices.
Obviously AOC is not the economic genius in DC.
the only
Sky News OZ is refreshing from what i’ve seen.
Yeah, I need to listen more to them than the “independent” government broadcasters.
San Jose police Chief Anthony Mata, at a news conference Tuesday, alleged that the victim was repeatedly asked to drop the gun before he shot. (Mata did not identify Green or anyone else involved in the dispute during the conference.)
But Pointer, in an interview with KGO, disputed that claim — saying that Green was backing down as the officer yelled and shot at Green “within less than a second.” He added that he and Green plan to file a suit against the police department.
Body cameras should sort this out. There is body camera footage, right? Right?
+ 1 mysterious malfunction
To relieve inflationary pressures, the government needs to increase wages and salaries
Guaranteed automatic annual cost of living increases are what we need. That will kill inflation dead.
At some point, this gerontocratic economic system is going to collapse harder than it has in anyone’s living memory, but the people who constructed it will largely be too dead to care.
Pretty sure I saw “Too Dead To Care” open for Anal Cunt back in the 90s.
Plus, they can blame: Trump, Bush, Reagan, and “the rich.”
A nice wage/price spiral is exactly what we need.
Ugh. Inbox is filled with emails celebrating the return of an employee who was laid off and was rehired because the systems they handle fell apart. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills
1) I can understand coming back, especially if it’s better than other options, but you’ve got to know it’s probably only temporary. Someone put a target on your back once.
2) your management chain either doesn’t know what you do or doesn’t care when they laid you off in the first place
3) someone is eating shit because that layoff was reversed. And someone else in your management chain is probably being tasked to figure out why only one person is so critical and fix it. What if there was a car accident or they decided to quit on their own?
Rehire may have negotiated a sweet payout for the known temporary shitshow, and is probably aggressively job searching – assuming rehire is smart. If rehire is dumb as a post but lucked into last man standing on supporting the key system, all bets are off.
The rehire is a lawyer move to allow the employee to file an ever bigger lawsuit later claiming when they came back they were harassed/discriminated against…
We have one of those people that comes to work whenever they want to, never does any work, and in general is toxic to be around that the company pays every 2 weeks and never does anything against because they fear a multi million dollar lawsuit if they do anything….
I envy the asshat.
Rehire may have negotiated a sweet payout for the known temporary shitshow, and is probably aggressively job searching
+40% salary plus a full year’s salary in signing bonus
“I’m sorry, HR won’t let us. And you’ll need to set up a payment plan to repay the separation payments.”
I don’t want to live in interesting times anymore. Can someone give me some boring peace and prosperity?
Move to rural Japan maybe?
+1 inaka life
Peace is bad for the public sector and its courtiers, and general prosperity is bad for the people who run the show.
Best we can do is gaslight you into believing war is peace and immiseration is prosperity.
If that’s the best you can do, into the woodchipper with your worthless ass.
Yeah, this is the hard truth behind the “never let a crisis go to waste” BS. Forget that specific situation. The reality is that the overwhelming number of people that run for high public office WANT a crisis. Because, when they take care of it, it will demonstrate their “greatness” to lesser human beings. My favorite example of this is the NZ PM. She’d accomplished nothing before going into public office and very little after. No, she didn’t “create” covid, but the virus gave her the opportunity to “make a difference.” It is simply not possible for most of the people who go into public office to say, “perhaps we should wait and see before we do something drastic.”
There are, of course, exception. As Hyperbole often pointed out, Ron Paul’s greatest service was his consistent “no” votes.
But, we get the leaders we want. Can you imagine anyone running for executive office in the US on a platform of “I promise to do nothing, veto bills, and spend no money”?
Can you imagine anyone running for executive office in the US on a platform of “I promise to do nothing, veto bills, and spend no money”?
Those people are too busy living life to bother with politics.
Alex Jones might be on the hook for millions for calling the Parkland “parents” “crisis actors” but the term is I think quite applicable here. Jacinda Ardern is a “crisis actor”; it’s her job to do what other people tell her to and to claim credit. The most visible opportunities for these theatrics are, of course, crises. The fact that these crises are largely media-manufactured or at least media-exacerbated* is irrelevant, or even advantageous. No crisis? Make one up! Indeed, the Trump presidency is basically one attempt to create a crisis after another, until they got one that stuck (COVID). Note that Trump himself wasn’t seeking crisis; he was a piss-poor crisis actor.
This is one of many reasons why “democracy” is a bad idea, especially degenerate democracy like “universal suffrage”.
* = I’m not so far down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole that I think earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes etc. are hoaxes, but the media response to them is very much down to choice and is not an exogenous property of natural disasters
I’m out, dear ones. Still have two months of work left and steak awaits! I lurve you fine people!
Have a wonderful day good sir.
I don’t want to live in interesting times anymore. Can someone give me some boring peace and prosperity?
You just want to keep us all in chains.
FWEEDUM!
*cackles*
Here’s more on the story Sean reported on Tuesday about school board members being removed. A woman named Beth Ann Rosica circulated a petition to remove five West Chester Area School Board members because they “acted unconstitutionally in mandating the wearing of masks” by students. A little known law in Penna. allows 10 or more residents to petition the courts to remove school board members! Rosica was the Libertarian Party candidate for mayor of West Chester, the county seat, in November 2021 and received 17% of the vote in a three way race (won by the Democrat). When her petition was filed, the school board had so many days to answer the complaint. On Tuesday, a judge ruled that the school board had failed to respond in a timely fashion under the State’s Rules of Civil Procedure and ordered the five board members removed and replaced by the remaining board members (nine member board). Naturally, the school board’s attorney is appealing, arguing that the judge didn’t get the timing correct and that the board still has time to respond before triggering an automatic removal. Because Rosica is representing herself before the court, I think we can all figure out what will ultimately happen.
PA Supreme Court decides the law doesn’t mean what was writtten because FYTW. [They really have that down better than the SCotUS.]
Ah, yes. “The emergency powers law is unconstitutional but also the governor can still exercise the powers the unconstitutional law gave him.”
Black Rain Frogs sound like squeaky toys and look like angry avocados
Looks more sad than angry.
Yep. Sad frogs.
Are they turning gay?
Adorable. What do they do? Bite? Secrete deadly poison?
From the camouflage, I’d wager there’s a good chance they’re nontoxic. But frogs tend to be in the secrete poison family of defenses.
https://www.oneearth.org/species-of-the-week-black-rain-frog/
Snout Vent Length is my new porn name.
To continue the discussion over banning ‘Z’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/samsung-changes-name-smartphones-after-ukraine-called-letter-z-be-criminalized
That is stupid as hell, but since everyone is banning ‘Z’ is Zelensky going to change his last name? He can have my fake last name of ‘Jacksoffabitch.’
JFC the world is doomed to stupid itself to death.
Who would have thought Mike Judge was the prophet we should fear?
Even he has to be thinking – I didn’t expect to see this in my lifetime.
Today, in tokenism
Republican Sen. Susan Collins will support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court, delivering President Joe Biden a bipartisan vote for his first high court nominee.
The Maine senator is the first — and could be the only — Republican to back Jackson’s confirmation. She was widely viewed as the most likely GOP vote for Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the high court, and Biden had lobbied Collins for her support, calling the senator to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy at least three times.
Look everybody- bipartisan consensus!
I don’t think “working hand in hand with Joe Biden” is a good thing to put on your resume.
Collins is also not a biologist.
Why would anyone set up a teams meeting?
Good lord, this is a clunky piece of software.
That’s all we use. Took a while to get used to it. It is annoying.
I like it better than the alternatives I’ve used. *shrug*
They’re all pretty clunky, TBH.
The annoying part at my company is that we use Teams VoIP and conferencing, but none of the other features. Of course, IT didn’t bother to shut off the other functions, so I have people trying to chat with me or have conversations in long passed meetings while I’m over on Slack conducting my business.
We use Teams for everything.
Hell, our timesheets *spit* just moved there this week. (And it’s broken AF but that’s not Teams fault.)
that’s not Teams fault
It’s hard to believe anything is not Teams’s fault.
Teams just hosts the app somebody developed in I think it’s called “Power Apps”.
Here’s Webex. Enjoy.
I’m accustomed to Webex. It’s still my preferred option of all the shitty options.
A guy I used to drink with was WEBEX salesman. Complete POS.
I think we’re one of the larger Webex clients – our complaints seem to result in software updates with some regularity. That, or everyone has the same complaints.
I’ve used worse software.
Keep in mind that WebEx is owned by Cisco at this point, so if you’re a big Cisco client, you’re also a big WebEx client.
True, we are a good-sized Cisco shop; one of the c-suite guys was a former Cisco muckety-muck, which is largely how we ended up with Webex to begin with.
Biggest shortcoming/complaint is the lack of a good shared whiteboard – not sure anyone gets that right.
I think they’re all designed around being presentation tools rather than collaboration tools.
In a presentation, only the presenter needs the whiteboard.
I think the issue is largely that the experience of using a physical whiteboad just doesn’t translate well to using a mouse. Unless everyone has a tablet & stylus of some sort, I just don’t think it can approach the same experience.
We have email (of course,) an Internet-based phone system with an in-house messaging function, and Teams… but we still use Zoom for meetings. There is such a thing as too many ways to communicate.
That is us too here in the FAA. Zoom, Teams, WebEx, Adobe Connect and a couple others I can’t remember are all utilized randomly.
Don’t you love when you send a message with one application and get the response in a different one?
The real fun came when Office365 started to append Teams meetings onto any meeting invite. Even those that included information for a different meeting system.
That’s got to be something your email admins configured. It never did that to us.
Wouldn’t surprise me. Took me a couple of meetings to figure out how to turn it off.
For quick one on ones it has been fantastically easy but once a third person or more join yet it becomes clunky.
We have nineteen people on this meeting and a bunch who haven’t shown up.
That’s about ten people too many. I would even say fifteen.
Any meeting with more than four or five people is a complete waste of time if you’re trying to accomplish anything useful.
Because it’s superior to Zoom in every way.
I hate video conferencing in general
I prefer it to going in to the office. High praise, I know.
We don’t do video except in rare “town hall” type events.
Thank GOD.
Yeah, this is the hard truth behind the “never let a crisis go to waste” BS. Forget that specific situation. The reality is that the overwhelming number of people that run for high public office WANT a crisis. Because, when they take care of it, it will demonstrate their “greatness” to lesser human beings.
*jumps from whorehouse roof onto hobbyhorse*
They desperately need to be measured by the dragons they have slain. The bigger, more horrifically terrifying the better. Every scraped knee and stubbed toe, every crack in the sidewalk, every pissant banana republican jefe is an existential threat to DEMOCRACY!
Otherwise, they’re just clerks.
“You’re a grocery clerk sent to collect an overdue bill.”
Moms demand action for ghost sense in America.
Maxine gets it right
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-rep-waters-tells-homeless-go-home
This is special.
Looks kind of unpopular.
They need a ‘day of visibility’ when it’s been shoved down the cultural throats of America?
Good grief. Now what the fuck is “gender-expansive”? These people are amazing.
The two hens were back at in the breakfast area again. And what a shock, they’re state employees. Todays drama was whining over some email confrontation where the other party wouldn’t respond to attempts to get drawn even further into whatever it was.
Being on the road a bit, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. There are far too many state employees, there is way too much out of town/overnight travel for state employees, and there is zero gps monitoring of the state fleet. I’m pretty sure I could terminate 3/4 of the motorized public employees with that last one. Well if anyone from the agency directors down to the supervisors actually cared.
You could get rid of the vast majority of us and it would be an improvement. There would need to be an audit of prisoners to avoid realasing the murderers and thieves before turning over the facilities to someone else to run. A lot of the rest could just shut down today.
Almost all state/federal employment is a form of welfare. This is only slightly less true in the private sector. There’s some variance from office to office and place to place (public sector) or industry to industry and company to company (private sector) but by and large our economy is fake. Master-level Keynesian wizardry to produce nothing en masse but primarily instead to keep the vastly overproduced professional-managerial class from getting riled up.
by and large our economy is fake.
I agree that our managerial/professional class is bloated like a tick that tapped a vein. Like the old saw about how a town too small for one lawyer is always big enough for two, the managerial/professional class mainly makes work for each other.
I see a massive parallel between the PMC today and the skilled labor working class of Detroit automakers’ heyday. They have a very strong class consciousness, though it is more “revealed preference” than outright “stated preference”, and they seek everywhere they are put to promote that class interest, at the expense of all other factors. From “good schools” to “property values” to “sushi and avocado toast” to “#BlackLivesMatter” to “oversight and compliance” to “rule-abiding” etc. they always and everywhere put themselves first and have the numbers and cultural power to extort the rest of the country into grudging obedience and servitude.
And I say this as a(n obviously disillusioned/maladapted) member of that class. But the end result will be the same: just as international competition tore the bottom out from under the well-paid autoworker’s carefully union-negotiated “lifetime” employment and benefits, so too will “economic and social factors” eventually destroy the accumulated power of the PMC. But I don’t know when or how it will happen, and the “elites” still find them useful. That they have proven to be more programmable than physical laborers helps, of course.
I believe this is an emergant adaptation.
Humans have an inbuilt need to work. People who don’t work end up self-destructing (or destructive to others). So as fewer and fewer people are needed to actually support the needs of all of society, we have invented new artificial work to keep the excess people sane. This has happened all on its own without the planners intruding. These escess workers are at leasure, pretending to do important work to avoid the mental cataclysm humans run into from being useless.
These escess workers are at leasure, pretending to do important work to avoid the mental cataclysm humans run into from being useless.
True, but unfortunately another phenomenon is emerging: unlike say peasants toiling away in subsistence farms or manorial acres, these people are given infinitesimal slivers of power over others, and they exercise that power at best negligently and at worse maliciously. As they and others begin to realize (mostly subconsciously) their own uselessness, an existential angst arises and a defensive reaction occurs.
Somehow this has not yet led to an even bigger world war than the first two, but hey we’re getting somewhat close again.
Master-level Keynesian wizardry to produce nothing en masse but primarily instead to keep the vastly overproduced professional-managerial class from getting riled up.
I’m going to throw out a request for an article expanding on this, especially with a focus on the private sector. I recall something similar in 1984, where the government expended labor to build floating fortresses that were continuously destroyed as a way to use up the citizen’s labor without actually producing anything.
Hmm, I’ll try to live up to that request.
There are a lot of parallels to 1984. The PMC is the Outer Party to a tee. The academic-cultural-political establishment is the Inner Party. But the true decision-makers, the people whose combined front appears as “Big Brother”, are another group yet still. And like 1984, identifying them is very difficult. It’s possible they don’t even truly exist. And in that case, we’re crossing over from dystopian literature to Lovecraftian horror.
Looks like Putin pulled the trigger on requiring ruble payment for gas:
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/putin-signs-decree-ordering-gas-exports-be-halted-if-buyers-dont-pay-rubles
A very interesting move, no doubt…
And it sounds like the Krauts are onboard with having Euros converted to Rubles at an agreed-on rate for fuel payments. Goodbye petro-dollar.
Yep
And Putin just recapitalized Russia’s banks.
Truly a foreign policy victory for the US State Department.
I’m sure there are a bunch of geniuses sitting around, scratching their asses saying “can they really do that?”.
India too
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/india-mulls-russian-offer-swift-alternative-ruble-payments-lavrov-visits
We have seriously shot ourselves in the foot on this one if we don’t have something else up our sleeve.
I’m afraid of what that something else might be.
Ask a conspiracy theorist; whatever they say, odds are better than even it will be proven true in less than a year.
A rabbit?
We are going to gain some minor provinces into the fold but lose the bigger powers.
Not really a net win.
President Harris, waxing eloquent. Installment #87,964
Poetic
She’s her own speech writer. She should run for Congress.
Oh come on…it has to be performative. How can any person who voted for either of these honestly think this is good and normal?
Demoralizing the enemy can be an effective strategy. Demoralizing your own supporters when the enemy is not really a threat anymore is also an effective strategy.
Shorter Harris:
Arrangements have been made to launder money through Jamaica for our friends and supporters.
My third grade granddaughter is more articulate than Harris. Look, lot’s of women (and men) in all political parties and in business have slept their way up the ladder.
But Murphy’s Law catches up to those who are incompetent, except in the case of Harris. Sad to say, but if she were a white woman, she’d be an assistant public defender or inferior court paper shuffler in some basement office in Sacramento.
Who the fuck cares about consequences when you never have to face them?
Why bother quibbling about who might be a “real” sociopath when there are millions of people (in the government, and out) whose basic operating principal is, “Well, who’s going to stop me?”
A common-grade narcissist can simply be retuned towards a different end. It’s a question of external locus of control rather than personality traits.
This lady is inclusive.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/103/057/141/original/677628dff1b44ba7.jpeg
I wonder if she knows what any of those mean.
It’s good to be included in that list.
I’m covered by at least part of that list.
The New 7(+) Dirty Words, or: George Carlin was behind the times
Heh.
+1 May Margaret Catherine Dineen
Note to self: If I go to Michoacan for my neighbor’s wedding next year, avoid the cockfights.
Owwwwwww……
Customer just got his hand caught between two concrete slabs and crushed it. Completely.
Owwwwwww……..
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