“We suck!”
The Lakers have fired their coach, so now all the players can start their shit-talking. I guess the hockey playoffs are about to get started. I guess I should look to see what’s up with that. The UCL second legs of the quarterfinals start today and we could be shaping up for a hell of an upset. And that, my friends, is all I’ve got for sports today.
Everything about this feels wrong. Did she do something wrong and deserve to be punished? Yes. Does she deserve this? No. And the DA’s words, and why he didn’t excuse himself from any investigation due to his biases, says a lot about how and why the case was handles the way it was. This is not how you “unite” Americans. This is how you further divide them by attributing characteristics to them (like racism and hate) that don’t exist.
Prosecute these guys
Yes, please please please do this again. We need more exposure of the FBI’s entrapment scheme getting out into the public.
Wait, they’re still there? Jesus, get them out of there. And pull everybody in the country out. They’ve turned the largest city in the world into a fucking prison and our government doesn’t say a word? Pathetic.
I would think this is illegal. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” Nevermind, I’m wrong. There’s nothing in there about cracked out hobos not stopping them. But really, there’s a simple solution: arm them and have them defend themselves if physically attacked.
I’m sure this will go over well. And their state courts will figure out a way to find it legal. Shit. This is just going to lead to more refugees fleeing that shithole for Texas, isn’t it?
This should be interesting. Well, if you like freak shows.
But this…there’s nothing wrong with this.
Lol, a “hate crime”. Y’all let bums shit in the street and it’s ok. You don’t even go after people who break into cars and steal shit. It’s so bad people put signs on their car windows saying “there’s nothing inside, go break into a Tesla” because it’s so common. But you’ve got time to investigate this* as a “hate crime”? GTFOH.
*Assuming it’s not as fake as the other majority of hate crimes that turn out to be hoaxes.
Thanks a lot, Putin! Oh wait, that talking point doesn’t make much sense. Well, expect to hear it a lot today as the inflation news comes out.
Going a little further back than normal today. Hope you enjoy it.
Now go have a great day, dear friends.
“Wait, they’re still there? Jesus, get them out of there. And pull everybody in the country out. They’ve turned the largest city in the world into a fucking prison and our government doesn’t say a word? Pathetic.”
Our expert and leadership class is filled with credentialed morons.
We had diplomats in the Soviet Union and Eastern Block countries.
And they knew they were on enemy territory back when….
“I would think this is illegal. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” Nevermind, I’m wrong. There’s nothing in there about cracked out hobos not stopping them. But really, there’s a simple solution: arm them and have them defend themselves if physically attacked.”
You want to arm the people responsible for the term “Going postal” so they can fight off hobos looking for bitches to rob? Damn man, that is some serious 3D chess right there….
It’s California. Almost everyone is crazy. This just speeds things up.
Blue shitholes are all about victimhood, not self-defense. Don’t you even social credit score, bro? And with a 4-day work week they’ll be 20% safer anyway.
Will the crooks in government only tax my business for 4 days out of the week? I bet they want to change that to be able to tax and fine me for 8 days.
Think of the Ring cam videos!
Even Trump didn’t play chess like that!
“Hate crime.” Chances are a random bum needed toilet paper and didn’t care what he used. Can you charge a bum with a hate crime?
Chances are the homeowner or a friend committed this “hate crime” to raise “awareness” or something. Because that’s what the overwhelming majority of these kinds of “crimes” turn out to be.
You’re thinking about it and you’re talking about it.
Awareness raised.
What I am aware of is the need to eliminate hate crime awareness activists.
Too much disorder.
This shit looks very ordered to me… It’s all about the grift.
They create disorder.
RACIALIST!
Not bad, not bad. I still vote for bum shit.
Let’s not discount the “Dude is an asshole and neighborhood kids decide to yank his chain by fucking with his flag” theory.
Also, I can hardly wait for the explainer of why another country’s flag is sacred and it is a crime to desecrate it, but shitting on and burning a US flag is totes patriotic.
Multiculturalism is nothing more than Western self-loathing
Of course the problem is that it wasn’t the shitter’s flag (unless it was a false flag situation).
At least they are admitting that a hate crime can be perpetrated against a white person (or a symbol for predominantly white people).
Oops, all I had to do was look at the post right below (sorry Drake).
Country? Try a rainbow flag, announce it in the local college paper in advance.
/Ups the life insurance on Jimbo
I gave up on neighborhood kids when the current generation failed to egg or water balloon the OWS encampment directly next to a busy road a decade ago.
Not lethal enough.
OWS scared the shit out of the oligarchs. And even though their solutions were generally crap, OWS identified the problems pretty well. There was a massive opportunity for OWS and the Tea Party to join forces and gut DC/Wall Street.
Instead DC and Wall Street joined forces with the media and universities to make sure that both OWS and the Tea Party got derailed. They were massively successful at it too.
Since then, there’s been a concerted effort to keep us divided on cultural issues (woke) while they loot the Treasury.
Identify perhaps, but their solutions were always the same socialist ones that would get at their devil and destroy the rest of us in the process.
*spoiler alert: the elites would be just fine under the new system in their dachas and other trappings they “earned”
It is cool that they’ve finally invented a “hate crime” that has a white guy as the victim. Enjoy while you can.
Ukrainians are an official protected class now, huh? Who knew?
“I’m sure this will go over well. And their state courts will figure out a way to find it legal. Shit. This is just going to lead to more refugees fleeing that shithole for Texas, isn’t it?”
Why come is the statists idea to fix economic problems caused by their ridiculous beliefs to always double down on dumb shit that will make it worse but appeals to the lazy and the inept that have been conditioned to believe they deserve free shit from the productive just for being there?
Work is a hate crime. Why can’t I just get my welfare check, oops I mean, guaranteed income checks/stipends direct deposit, instead of having to put in 32 hours pretending to work?
The people that demanded we stop the belief that there was a stigma to not being able to be self sufficient sure knew what they were doing. makes me wonder how many other things they now tell us we no longer need to be ashamed of we should really be weary to lose our shame about…
It’s by design that we can no longer call them morons without being labeled as disinformers and deniers.
“WILL BITCH AND MOAN FOR FOOD”
You will be made to moan for sure, but they don’t want you to bitch: they want you to squeal like a pig
Yeah, it’s kind of an interesting point that people that PLAN to survive bad times are characterized as crazy.
Summer will last forever, fellow grasshoppers!
(He snarks as he once again makes the mental note that he’s nowhere near any level of preparedness either, really…)
Anyone that makes it look like they don’t believe government will show up immediately to save you from calamity is an evil and stoppid fool!
/morons
Just a note: 32 hours is closer than 40 hours to the 30 hours limit of the Unaffordable Care Act.
So won’t companies just adjust wages down by 20% and then if you work that extra 8 hours of “overtime” you will get right back to what you currently make?
Well yeah, but…
A Freak Show you say?
re: Harris and Caserta, the Whitmer kidnap plotters/stooges/whatever. While the government is allowed to try them again, it’s not a good idea to encourage government to do that. People didn’t pay attention to the FBI shenanigans the first time around, and we’re unlikely for the government to try a new defense, or for the defense to be allowed new areas of questioning.
unlikely for the government to try a new prosecution strategy
…found new witnesses…evidence…
I was under the impression that retrials after a mistrial are generally restricted to using evidence that was presented in the original trial. Any legal Glibs able to comment?
Guess it would depend on the rules of the court doing the retrial as well as any pertinent case law/statute?
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (FRCP), plus local rules for the district in which the trial takes place.
The Daily Mail article oddly omits that the 32 hour week only applies to non-union shops. They did however, enclude these endorsements:
Odd, since those union workers are generally hourly workers. It would seem that fewer hours = less pay. Maybe the idiots are writing into the law something about pay must be maintained at the 40-hour rate, because FYTW.
They will tie this somehow to union wages just like they tied minimum wages to it…
There is a provision that says you must adjust their hourly pay so they make the same as they were making for 40 yours.
Seriously?
Lowering productivity and increasing expenses by fiat. That’s just effing great.
We’re headed straight for rationing.
The marxist ideology says that the only thing of value is labor and all labor is equal and deserving of providing for a living regardless of the value of the labor’s final product. When you believe that you get people agreeing that turd polishers should earn the same as everyone else.
CA exit tax within two years.
misthread – that was supposed to be below Scruffy‘s comment.
Calexit was originally proposed as California secession but this makes a lot more sense.
The rest of the states need to push California off the sleigh and leave it to the wolves it has created.
The problem is that the governors of too many other states look to California as an example of what they can accomplish, not a cautionary tale.
Well, the RATE of pay would be the same for hourly workers (X/hour), so their reduced hours would still result in less pay because they are earning the same rate.
Not according to a different article I read about it. It said thgat total compensation could not be reduced. The bill sponsors said it was a simple matter of just jacking up the hourly rate by 25%. However some business owners were complaining that other benefit costs cot radically bungled by this (vacation rate accrual, 401k/pension contributions etc.)
Again, if you haven’t left California already, it’s way past time.
I read that as you have to keep their rate the same so you cannot reduce the hourly rate so the total annual compensation is the same. So $20/hr today will be $40k/yr but with the new rules the same $20/hr would be $45k/yr after the OT, but the employer is forbidden from reducing the hourly rate to say $17
/hr so your annual compensation stays flat at $40k
that’s insane. It’s possible to get 40 hours of work done in 30 hours, but that usually comes at the expense of other time wasting activities.
Just retuiring employers to pay people a 40-hour rate for 30-hours of the same time-filling activity is beyond stupid.
So the goal is to get every business in the state to raise prices 20-25% in order to keep up with wage inflation, thus increasing their overall profit margin and therefore paying more state taxes, which will stave off the pubsec Union pensions bankrupting the state for a few more years?
I assumed it was to make non-union workers to be artificially expensive to increase the rate of unionization.
Should have read further down before asking this question.
Still what is to stop employers from firing employees making the stupid 40 hr rate and hiring new employees for the 32 hour rate?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m sure that the law also says “No Firesies”. Which will be just great. Because there sure won’t be a lot of lawsuits about wrongful termination.
Next up, union members complaining about the non-union people getting the same benefits without paying union dues.
I’m certain the idea came from the teacher’s union.
They think 4-day work weeks are too long.
They’ve turned the largest city in the world into a fucking prison and our government doesn’t say a word?
How many in our government wish they could do the same? How many opinion writers screamed for a “real lockdown”?
Let’s be real.
I can’t wait for this shit to end. Even if it has to be messy.
Every time I hear about possible “food shortages”, my suspicious mind assumes they want to use rationing as a firm of control.
After watching them cancel people with opinions and beliefs they disapprove of from the economic and social systems, you should really be weary of giving government power over healthcare and food. Heck, during the Kung Flu they already had race based medical decisions, and we now have countless examples of people that refused to comply with the mandates (not to be confused with 2 guys on a date) to get the clot shots getting medical care denied. Government wants to control these things because if I control your basic necessities and access to them, I control you.
They already have power over healthcare. The medical system was fully captured during COVID.
It’s one of the reasons I dropped traditional insurance and went to cost sharing. I don’t trust the SOBs to not make me take a vaccine in order to keep my insurance plan.
How many in our government
wish they could do the sameare on the CCP payroll?Still waiting to find out who are the anonymous donors paying $500k per Biden painting.
Regarding Shanghai: I have reliable information that some industrial plants in the surrounding area at least out to about 2 -3 hours away will be shut down due to the CCP’s overreaction to COVID.
I feel like it’s clearer than ever that CCP is using COVID to lock down for other than strictly public health/medical reasons. I suspect that they are getting internal intelligence on possible protests/demonstrations/dissent and are using it as an excuse to prevent dissident organizations from meeting and to monitor their communications, which, if they are dumb enough to do via internet channels, are certainly compromised.
Buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpier ride.
I should point out that they don’t expect to be back in production until May at the earliest…
Assume that everything the CCP does is about making sure they minimize any challenge to their rule and its legitimacy, and you will be right 100% of the time. That’s what drives every single CCP decision. Totalitarians have to control the riff-raff so the riff-raff never gets uppity and realize the they are getting nothing but a raw deal, and decide to alter the terms of the deal in a way that would hurt the totalitarians grip on power.
They’re simply doing what all authoritarians do: stomp the boot on the face of people just to let them know who’s boss.
“WHO’S YOUR DADDY???”
That’s what the Covid restrictions and lockdowns were really all about.
Interesting theory, but I can’t imagine this is the best way to do it. I imagine they monitor everything heavily and could really pickup most the dissidents and send them off to Xinjiang.
Howdy everybody! a Question for the gearheads. I went to start my kia yesterday, when I cranked the engine I felt the usual compression, then Bang!
Spin spin spin goes the crank shaft with no compression. all my fuel pump and ignitionrelays are performing so it leaves me with one probability,
a Broken timing belt, BLECH!
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated, Timing belt on a Korean Kar can be a nightmare IME
Covfefe!
Timing belt on any car made in the last decade is a nightmare to get at. Can you do a computer diagnostic check or is this an older vehicle (more than 20 years)?
07 Sedona, but I have no trans to even borrow an OBD right now, maybe tomorrow when I have some cash.
Fortunately my Boss/Pastor is bringing me a nice used Road bike to get to work and back, only a few miles so not too big a deal for now.
Quick Google says negative interference engine, but valves are fairly square.
Since it happened on start up you may be OK, but one more thing to check unfortunately.
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Thank you for the people that posted hints in the previous thread.
No hints, like the chump I evidently am. Not a good start to the day between this and all the crap in the news.
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I didn’t even know the upper right was a word.
Still digging this game, https://www.arkadium.com/games/hurdle/
Little ashamed of this result:
Lewdle ?? 84 2/6
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I don’t usually play this one, but since i whiffed at qourdle, I was looking for a positive outcome.
Gee, and I thought you were looking for a happy ending.
I sees what you did there.
Lewdle ?? 84 5/6
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Fucked today. Top right word is bullshit.
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Yeah, four possible answers to the top right. I knew what it was for my last guess, but I decided to answer bottom left.
ditto
7 5
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They are on to my starting words – completely useless again.
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That top right word…
Double-chumped it today:
8 9
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Mistakes and bad guesses
I actually knew the top right word at try #5 but tried some other words to see if I could get more letters for the other ones before solving it.
Why the fuck are people posting hints?
To make it harder for people who believe them?
The top right word is all vowels.
It’s a strange word.
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Hail Mary on that last one.
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Four effing possibilities on the top left and it took me all four to get it. Of course.
I hate when that happens.
Took l0b0t’s hint.
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I still feel like a beginner, some of you are really good at this.
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Yuck.
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8 guesses and I and 1 letter in the bottom left.
We don’t talk about this….
Daily Quordle 78
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offs I started out so well then couldn’t find the starting consonant on top-left and then screwed up a guess on top-right.
*Hands Gliberina crown back in, wanders off glumly*
Daily Quordle 78
7️⃣?
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Tard Tuesday: I Want To Believe
ROFL. I’ve got this bridge for sale…
DU, yeah, their tongues are permanently stained from Koolaid consumption.
It is by command alone they set their minds in motion. It is by the Juice of Journolist, that the thoughts acquire correctness, the lips acquire stains. It is by command alone they set their minds in motion.
Didn’t know they made brown Kool aid.
The DNC kool-aid fountain.
Gives a different meaning to water sports!
Nope, pretty much the same.
DroolAid, more likely.
Those walls are moving at a glacial pace.
Good music link!
Another Deep Purple track that gets me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wv1ij7KxWc
The seventies were a freer time, less restrictive IYKWIM (see the lady on top of a dude’s shoulders at about 0:45). Come on! Come on!
Random.
Pretty neat! thanks
Welp. After psyching myself up to take my vertical stick welding test last night at class but the shop was out of test plates. Now I have to wait two weeks before next class because of Easter break. It’s like blue balls but for my career
You can do it!
Don’t sweat vertical burning, don’t think of Your position, think of the welds position and follow what you know, it’s as easy as upside down,
You Got This!
Thanks for the encouragement. I just spent the class filling in angle iron vertical up, and I’m getting better every week. I was just excited to start applying to jobs with certification in hand.
According to a French journalist, Americans are running the war in the Ukraine, We stole the place fair and square in 2014 and aren’t giving it back without a fight.
Nothing’s shocking any more.
TV’s got them images, TV’s got them all and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WZL176LnOY"<nothing's shocking
It’s guaranteed to be contractors working for the CIA or DOD and therefore deniable.
Not only do we not know what our own government is doing in our name (and therefore have no say in it), they’re so incredibly large and unaccountable that we have different factions within the government working independently of and at odds with each other. There’s no controls on them at all.
Supposedly a bunch of western “mercenaries” are trapped in Mariupol and trying to negotiate. If so, we’ll see Russians marching them around for the cameras in a few days.
I suspect that the accusations of chemical weapons in Mariupol are total horseshit. Russia’s got that place sewn up, there is absolutely no reason for them to compromise their efforts by using them.
It has also been demonstrated that staging false flag chemical attacks is one of our specialties (Syria).
Yep – the news this morning had “warnings of possible chemical attacks”. Translated to honest English it means – “stay tuned for a false flag that we’ll use to inch towards nuclear war”.
Especially a chemical weapon attack that does not work.
We staged the Syria one? I don’t remember the details.
I think it turned out to be the local rebels we were supporting that used the stuff. Who knows if that’s true or accurate, it’s been a while.
Most likely.
https://thenewamerican.com/syria-chemical-attack-was-false-flag-wikileaks-drop-suggests/
There were three fake sarin attacks in Syria. The first one was a response to fuckwit Obama’s “red line”. Horton has some good detail in Enough Already.
So while it may not have been us directly, we definitely incentivized the (other) baddies to stage these supposed attacks and turn us against Assad.
Assume everything the government says is horseshit.
Sounds about right, sometimes I hate the US Gov.
Sometimes?
I laffed.
The US is apparently also active in Pakistani politics: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-19844270
“He claimed that his political opponents were colluding with the US to bring about regime change because of his policies on Afghanistan, Russia and China. But he provided no evidence of this and Washington strongly denied any foreign interference.”
A couple of years ago I would have thought it was just playing to his electoral base. Now? Who the hell knows. It’s probably not true, but it’s not impossible either.
I don’t know. After reading Horton, I suspect it is completely true.
inflation 8.5%
“We’re just warming up.”
-Democrats
We can get that to 10% if we have the will!
“Yes we can”!
IIRC we were already at 15+% a few months ago according to the same measures that were used in the 70s/80s.
Nobody need food or energy.
Biden’s America! So much better that Trump’s America, which I remember was just made-up stories about people being racist.
-1 transitory
Hang on to your butts, it’s gonna be a wild ride.
It can be “transitory” like Weimar.
The Government admits to 8.5%.
Posobiec has a nice rundown of the water-carrying going on this morning.
They maintain message discipline beautifully, don’t you think?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Lol.
The doorbell doesn’t make my dogs happy, it sends them into a frenzy!
The ducks quacking is what made me laugh/cry.
My old mutt used to be driven nuts by ducks waddling by the back corner of our fenced yard. It was tempting to let him out one day to let him tear into those fat, pretentious little aldermen as they waddled by.
Our daily walk took us right by the baseball fields at Weaver Lake. Sometimes there were hundreds of Hate Birds in the fields, so I would often turn my sheepdog loose and he would have the best time chasing them all off.
Good times.
Shouldn’t it be “eidermen?”
The President loves you very much
President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce new steps his administration is taking to address rising gasoline prices across the country, including emergency measures to expand biofuel sales, countering rising energy prices amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The President is slated to announce that the Environmental Protection Agency will issue an emergency waiver permitting year-round sales of E15 gasoline, which contains a 15% ethanol blend, on a trip to Menlo, Iowa, where he’ll visit POET Bioprocessing, a biofuels plant that specializes in the creation of bioethanol.
The sale of E15 gasoline is usually prohibited from June to mid-September because of air quality concerns. Under former President Donald Trump, the EPA issued an order allowing permanent year-round sales of the biofuel blend in 2019, but the order was overturned last year by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Biden’s announcement, a senior administration official said, “is distinct from” his predecessor’s efforts to expand ethanol sales in that it’s “based on the current circumstance, which is a fuel supply emergency.”
Per White House estimates, E15 sales could save consumers 10 cents per gallon on average, while reducing reliance on foreign fuels. As part of Tuesday’s announcement, the EPA will also take steps to facilitate the expanded use of the biofuel, including outreach to states and modifications to E15 fuel pump labeling at gas stations across the country.
What a fucking shitshow.
Uncle Joe is gonna drop the price of gas like a rock, from $4.10 all the way down to $4.00! Take that, Putin!
It will be better than saving $0.16 on your July 4th hotdogs!
Nostalgic for 2021. *facepalm*
So.. desperately pandering to the greenies and the Iowa primary set by burning food when prices are shooting up across the board and we’ve screwed up the supply chain, especially in the livestock and good production sides.
To quote the Drinker… “Nah… it’ll be fine”
Wait. Won’t the court just step in again to correct this egregious overstep of executive authority?
Plus it’s less energy dense.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/food-fight-heats-up-for-ethanol-11649702881?st=vmuafzc2nkdknaa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They’re saying it could amount to up to 10 cents a gallon but that seems optimistic.
Too optimistic from the Biden administration? I’m shocked…
The savings is negated by the reduced energy content of the ethanol.
I’m a bit surprised, however, that the Biden admin would switch to a more polluting fuel for such marginal gains. They are desperate.
So how about the actual mileage you get out of it?
What a shit show.
Ethanol is for human consumption, not vehicular.
We need to stop burning our food.
ha
If you are a gearhead you can run more power with it because it runs cooler with less knock. Particularly in boosted applications.
But the efficiency goes down even more here, but that isn’t the point.
For regular usage Ethanol shouldn’t be in your fuel. What I can’t stand is the corrosive effects on the fuel system from its absorption of water.
Ethanol contains about one-third less energy than gasoline. So, vehicles will typically go 3% to 4% fewer miles per gallon on E10 and 4% to 5% fewer on E15 than on 100% gasoline.
Great way to then claim gas isn’t as energy efficient after you make it so….
ok so does it overall not save money? has someone done the cost benefit?
No. Take out the subsidies and it costs more per gallon. Not to mention the increased build and maintenance costs to the engines.
was gonna ask that question next. does it increase wear and tear? i guess so.
Ethanol is hydrophilic and will absorb water from exposure to humidity. That water corrodes the fuel systems of vehicles but it also causes the gasoline to spoil more quickly.
Additionally, ethanol is incompatible with older gaskets and fuel lines. All engines had to be redesigned so that they didn’t start springing leaks as the ethanol dissolved their seals. And that dissolved material invariably makes its way into the rest of the fuel system and gums it up.
Even now, almost all small engines are only rated at 10% ethanol. As you increase the ethanol percentage beyond that, it starts to deteriorate the gaskets.
Aren’t the subsidies offset by the royalty payments? Sure, the subsidies go to one entity and the royalties go to another, but I’m not seeing where the costs are reduced to any consumer.
Once the engines deteriorate, we can get those clunkers off the road and everyone into an electric car. The future is now!
Yes, the politicians in Iowa. The same place with the early primaries so Team Red and Team Blue are always on board.
The cost / benefit has always been obvious. Like many political decisions that wasn’t part of the calculus.
Depending on the analysis and degree of agricultural subsidies included the costs only get worse.
ok so does it overall not save money?
Pay 3% less, use 5% more? Doesn’t sound like it to me.
My wife’s Focus is flex fuel.
When gas was at +$4 last time and gasohol was $2.50, it still wasn’t worth burning. You barely saved anything (31 mpg to 22 mpg) and had to refill the tank every time you got in it.
“The President believes that the actions of a dictator half a world away should not impact what families pay at the pump here at home,” the White House said in a fact sheet announcing the action that was shared with CNN. “Today’s actions also reinforce the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of achieving real energy independence and commitment to a long-term strategy to spur smart development and adoption of sustainable, homegrown fuels.”
If only the world ran on gobbledygook.
How does he feel about the actions of a dictator right here in the good old USA? Should that have an impact?
Yep. The benevolent dictator should always have his subjects’ welfare in mind.
For a number of reasons.
FDR for a fifth term!
Demonstrably false; supporting facts for this claim not in evidence.
You know that when they have to add “real” to the beginning of a concept, it’s absolutely the opposite.
Are you saying that my REAL id is not actually more secure? That it is just a ploy by the Feds to mine state databases?
Why do you think I didn’t do that shit?
I get funny looks and questions at the ticket counter when I present my passport as ID. My PA DL isn’t Real ID compliant and I’d be darned if I was going to pay them for another ID before my DL expires. You’d think they’d have more experience with that by now…
“Because that’s OUR job to royally fuck it up!”
Good morning, Sloop!
Hockey playoffs start in May, so you have some time.
I dig Deep Purple. Another favorite.
How’s Fleury working out?
Tough start the other day against the Kings, but rallied for a nice win. Overall I would say he’s been a brilliant addition.
One of our suppliers is named Soulbrain I wonder how their Instrumentality Project is proceeding.
“Please comply with COVID restrictions. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open the window or sing,”
If our ruling class wasn’t so old and decrepit, they’d die from hemorrhaging erections.
I cannot control my soul’s desire for freedom.
When tyrants tremble in their fear
And hear their death knell ringing,
When friends rejoice both far and near,
How can I keep from singing?
(she sang… hopefully…)
One Meal Policy.
The Revenge of SCIENCE!
Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigole said mask precautions begin Monday, but in order to provide a one-week education period for businesses, masks will be required in all indoor public spaces as of Monday, April 18.
“If we fail to act now, knowing that every previous wave of infections has been followed by a wave of hospitalizations, and then a wave of deaths, it will be too late for many of our residents,” said Bettigole, noting about 750 Philadelphia residents died in the wintertime omicron outbreak. “This is our chance to get ahead of the pandemic, to put our masks on until we have more information about the severity of this new variant.”
Starting April 18, masks will be required in all indoor public spaces, including schools and child care settings, businesses, restaurants, and government buildings.
It’s already too late. Start digging the mass graves.
I have an appointment for a physical in a couple of weeks. If they try to make me wear a mask I’m leaving. Even if I have to pay for the missed appointment. I’m not going to play along anymore.
CMS sez “buh bye”
(Good luck!)
I am mistaken. I thought CMS had issued a mask rule. No, just the vaccination for healthcare workers.
Mask use is way down in Florida, and I haven’t run into any requirements to wear them lately (including my doctor’s office). Even the employees have stopped wearing them at most places, and stores have taken down those plastic shields at the registers and counters.
Today, in attention-whoring
Charlee Disney, one of the heirs of The Walt Disney Co., came out publicly as transgender and condemned anti-LGBTQ bills in a recent interview.
Disney, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, announced that their family would match up to $250,000 in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group, during the organization’s annual gala in Los Angeles last month.
Roy P. Disney, Disney’s father and the grandson of the company’s co-founder, upped that amount to $500,000 last week.
“Equality matters deeply to us,” Roy P. Disney said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles Times, “especially because our child, Charlee, is transgender and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.”
That’s nice.
I think all of these people live in a media bubble because none of their “arguments” have anything to do whatsoever with the law.
When the law gets in the way of what the big government types want, then the law is a problem. That’s why the US Constitution is considered an evil document, out together by slave owners, and something they need to get rid off, these days.
I’m just talking about the new Florida law which states that instruction on sexuality or gender identity is not allowed for 5 through 8 year olds.
There’s nothing remotely discriminatory about it.
And contrary to the talking point, you could even mention that your significant other it the same gender (all why the fuck would you?)
As I pointed out yesterday: When we were kids and some adult told us they wanted to do something really fun/cool but I/we had to promise not to tell other adults or my/our parents, I/we knew I/we was/were about to be abused and was dealing with a creep. Today the bad guys are the people that immediately realize the problem is with the people doing this again telling the kids to not tell their parents..
Think about that..
yes. be deeply suspicious of any law that allows teaching them something without having to tell their parents.
+1 creepy Diffrnt Strokes episode
I like the move to calling groomers disneys so they can’t be blocked for anti-groomer comments on social media.
Woke asshole left about 5 letters off that acronym. Cue the Twitter mob in 5.4.3.2
Keep digging that hole deeper, Disney.
$750K? That is all?
That is tip jar change for heirs to the Disney fortune. They need to pay MOAR before I am impressed.
That paltry amount just tells me that they don’t really care about the millions and millions of trans kids that are living in a nightmare world. Like a Handmxxn’s Tale.
Stories like this make me feel bad for parents, who’ll probably wind up with less control over the indoctrination of their kids, but not for the GOP, anymore. Sorry, but even as Disney continually spits in their faces, the Republicans bend over backwards to do favors for them. The truth is, if Disney wants to pick a side, then Republicans should start acting like they’re on the other side. And that doesn’t mean some sort of abandonment of free market principles. Try this out:
1. All non-contractual tax breaks granted specifically to the Walt Disney Company are rescinded.
2. The duration of all copyrights is reduced to it’s original level of 14 years. Renewals will take an act of Congress.
Disney has gotten a lot out of being a crony capitalist. Why the Republicans want to sacrifice principle to support someone who hates them is beyond me.
Even if they didn’t do this, that should be the case.
Well, yes. They should. That’s sort of my point. These are reasonable and appropriate policies. And they’re consistent with individual liberty. Why they should refrain from them to protect a company that is specifically making itself their enemy makes no sense.
3. Revoke their special government entity status at the local level. Disney would then fall under the jurisdiction of two different counties with all the bureaucratic bullshit that follows.
On one hand, they never should’ve had those special
privileges in the first place.
On the other hand, though, I’m not a fan of dangling advantages and then revoking them when their leaders speak their minds on political issues.
I don’t agree with them but I also hate this political punishment bullshit for them speaking their minds.
If they repeal those now, it will look exactly like Republicans are just punishing them for having the wrong opinion on an issue. Which is exactly how the Democrat party works too. It doesn’t sit well with me.
No special privileges or punishments. Period. It’s a fantastic opportunity to start divorcing these companies from the government even if its not necessarily for all the right reasons.
I’m not concerned with how it looks. The Left certainly doesn’t concern itself with the perception of its conduct on the Right, or even the Center anymore.
^This. No special treatment for anyone. Unless the average citizen of Florida can petition to have their property or business separated from the local county as it’s own quasi-governing force, then Disney shouldn’t either.
It shouldn’t matter how it looks. Not wanting to look like political punishment is exactly why every politician and their family skates prison for breaking the law that us regular peons get put in rape boxes for.
-1 private police forces with full police powers
That goes for FPS as well.
I get your point. It occurred to me, as well. The thing is, these advantages are things they should never really have been given. This isn’t saying “Do what we want or we’ll violate your rights.”. At worst, it’s “Do what we want or we’ll stop violating others’ rights on your behalf.” Well, not violating others’ rights on their behalf is a good thing.
And the truth is, maybe, just maybe, Republicans letting it be known that they’re willing to f**k businesses that take sides against them isn’t a purely bad thing. Like you suggested, the Dems have been playing this game for a while. Only more ruthlessly. They’re the ones telling businesses that they have to pick a (their) side. Republicans responding with, “We’ll do whatever you want no matter what” sets the obvious incentive structure for businesses to side with the Democrats.
Right thing, wrong reason. Its the best we can hope for these days.
It has long been known that the King can revoke any deal, any privilege, any benefit, at his discretion.
FIFY
Well, to sacrifice principles, they’d have to have some.
Oh, they’re plenty happy to sacrifice your principles.
While they’re at it, cancel the permanent “temporary” flight restrictions over Disney World and Disneyland that are not for safety at all, but just to prevent Disney guests from being advertised to by anyone else while on the property.
came out publicly as transgender…who uses gender-neutral pronouns
*head explodes*
Hey KK:
My friend didn’t have a link for safe towing of cars behind RVs, but I found these:
https://www.thervgeeks.com/towing-a-car-behind-an-rv/ https://www.thervgeeks.com/the-best-vehicle-to-tow-behind-your-rv-to-maximize-exploration/
https://www.thervgeeks.com/the-best-vehicle-to-tow-behind-your-rv-to-maximize-exploration/
https://rvshare.com/blog/rv-towing-guide/
https://www.rvlifemag.com/towing-a-car-safely/
https://rvblogger.com/blog/cars-flat-towed-behind-an-rv/
https://www.rvingtrends.com/best-cars-to-tow-behind-an-rv/
Not a ton of specific information except in that second and last two links.
Oops too many links. Was a set of links about towing cars with RVs. Forgot about the link limit.
The new J6 event?
if this becomes the news cycle, assume it is a team blue big lie to help fortify the election. If it disappears form the news cycle, assume it was team blue people being asshats.
Yeah no. This one looks pretty lame. Unless they try to go with right wing terrorists.
Doesn’t appear to be right wing terrorists…
https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/nypd-investigating-possible-explosion-in-brooklyn-subway-station/
“She said she saw the man — who was described as a 5-foot-5 black man, around 170 pounds wearing an orange vest and gas mask — drop “some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top.”
Orange man bad?
Maybe he’s a black white man, like Clarence Thomas.
That was the blackface of white supremacy J6 terrorists…
You know they need right wing terrorists to do the gun control thing. It’s sensible cause right wing or something
Lovely. I would be passing through there every day if I listened to my HR department and commuted.
Malice just tweeted that it was his stop as well.
I’m glad you ignored HR.
Malice lives in Sunset Park?!
It’s not my stop, but it’s on the way. My stop is 4 stops south.
Not anymore. He moved to Austin.
Another day that ends in Y in NYC.
Coworker going to the office noted some guy beaten, bloody and likely robbed on his way to our office this morning. This was on Park Ave in Manhattan.
I lived there in the 2000s and there was basically no crime.
Just got an amber alert to stay out of the area. I hope that fruitcake doesn’t find his way down here.
Well, they got their hand slapped in the Michigan thing. And they already have Brandon front-and center on the news cycles pushing new gun control. So arranging this gets them distraction from the one and impetus/urgency for the other.
The day after Biden’s gun-grab executive orders?
Yes, the timing is noted.
It would help their cause if this was a ghost gun and not the corporeal variety.
The Institute for Justice continues to do God’s work.
When Civil Immunity Becomes Impunity
Judge made immunity wouldn’t be as much of a problem under the Wood Chipper Doctrine.
Titty Tuesday doing its part to contribute to inflation.
https://archive.ph/vfqVE
Rekieta!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdq4aPt1kcw
It’s live. I’ll wait until it’s archived and I can freely move about in the multihour record.
Hey I have a comment stuck in moderation with some links on RV towing of cars
https://www.thervgeeks.com/towing-a-car-behind-an-rv/
https://www.thervgeeks.com/the-best-vehicle-to-tow-behind-your-rv-to-maximize-exploration/
https://www.thervgeeks.com/the-best-vehicle-to-tow-behind-your-rv-to-maximize-exploration/
https://rvshare.com/blog/rv-towing-guide/
https://www.rvlifemag.com/towing-a-car-safely/
https://rvblogger.com/blog/cars-flat-towed-behind-an-rv/
https://www.rvingtrends.com/best-cars-to-tow-behind-an-rv/
The second and last two links seem to have the most actual information.
My friend says the car’s operator’s manual is supposed to be the definitive source for info on towing a particular car.
About that inflation…
Sadly, most of your fellow tax cattle will still parrot the administration’s Spinnin’
They’re about 3 press conferences away from announcing Five Year Plans.
If we were using the same formulas of the 80s, which themselves had been changed to make inflation less onerously obvious than hat was used earlier, people would be fucking livid at our political class and the massive fuck you they have given us.
I have a new sideline I’m working on, I plan on opening a shop within 2 weeks.
a video example
https://youtu.be/2IT5H2xpDm0
Let me know if it’s worth an article,
Cheers!
You’re making ASMR videos? I would watch that.
you sure you clicked on the right link?
I did, it’s just very satisfying to watch LOL
Your burl was very moist, Yusef. ;^)
Literal LOL from here. It’s not like they are related.
Democrats Search for Midterm Vote Strategy as Biden Poll Numbers Lag
I heard some democrat lament yesterday that our democracy was under assault because the inept rulership class could no longer just control the narrative the serfs were sold, because alternative outlets defied that effort, and these serfs now see that the machine no longer does anything to even pretend to try to fix things and only want to control perception.
These people all need to be Pol-Potted.
“Hey baby, I won’t hit you again, I promise. Come back to me for November. I love you.”
I love you…. Beatch
The problem is that is the GOP’s argument too.
We’ll stop inflation by giving people more money to cover the inflation!
This literally seems to be the plan.
And I thought Ohio linking the state minimum wage to inflation was peak stupidity.
I don’t see any plan at all…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03JXTuFGYWE
“making clear they will work to bring prices down”
So there’s nothing they can do now, but after November they’ll start working on it.
Just not on, you know, infrastructure.
Weird. I mean, Biden has done all of this, and yet we somehow find ourselves with high inflation, high energy prices, a border crisis, supply chain problems, and shortages. It’s inconceivable!
(BTW, that graphic was created by lefties to show how awesome Biden is.)
Gilmored the link
It’s a subtle way of showing that Biden didn’t do anything.
Oops. Here it is: “What has Biden done?”
“New year-round special enrollment period for low income enrollees”
I was wondering why the Medicare commercials are back and more numerous and annoying than ever.
Asshole.
It’s amazing anyone thinks that’s a list of accomplishments vs. an indictment of the administration.
“FUCK YOU AND YOUR NEW WORLD ORDER!
LOL!
If only that had happened.
Did that really happen? I bet it is a spoof but that is hilarious.
“Moderate”
Someone said it more succinctly than I: “Forward Deterrence”
It’s what got us into this mess.
Yeah? Hey shit for brains, that’s what every tinpot has been thinking since Kadaffi got sodomized with a bayonet.
USAF’s finest right there.
It worked for North Korea and Pakistan!
Even if it had been possible before for the US to engage Russia militarily without it going nuclear, Biden fucked that up royally with his little speech in Poland by not ruling out first-strikes. That makes it almost guaranteed that escalation would occur as you’re now in a guessing game of who would go for the button first.
Kinzinger is a corrupt and compromised fuckwit that shouldn’t be anywhere near military policy.
That’s Lt Col Kinzinger!
You mean nothing will change?
Anyway, big difference acting against a country with a nuke or two, vs. the Russians, who have almost half of the nukes in the world (we have the other almost-half).
Pat Buchanan’s take is that a nuclear deterrent exists, in that Russia can do whatever it wants and other countries like the US won’t get directly involved because they don’t want to risk a nuclear war.
Economics and subsidies and ethanol and unintended consequences:
Let’s say you are a farmer and could grow either corn or barley. Barley, it turns out, has two major price points. If you have really nice barley, it is purchased for malting and making beer (and whiskey) and is expensive. If your barley is mediocre, it is used for feed and is cheap. Corn, on the other hand, is generally priced somewhere in between them.
If you are in an area where barley is harder to grow, like Iowa, you choose corn. However, in an area like North Dakota, you have a choice to make. Do you gamble? And guess what the corn subsidy does? It makes that break even point favor corn. Which means, to still get farmers to try to grow barley, quality barley prices have to go up, which makes beer more expensive.
So, an outsider, or a politician, would think that ethanol subsidies and suchlike would just affect corn. But they are wrong.
As great as Adam Smith, or Hayek, or Mises, or Friedman are, the best economic piece ever written is probably Bastiat’s That Which is Seen and That Which is Not seen.
+1 Solar/Wind Subsidy
My newsfeed has had a couple articles talking about spiking barley prices due to a bad harvest, and the Ukraine/Russia conflict (both were large exporters of barley). Again driving malt prices up.
And good harvests, where everyone has high quality barley, lowers the price for it, once again favoring corn.
Barley growers are in a precarious spot, but the corn subsidies just screw them over.
Or, I guess, screw over the barley consumers.
https://news.yahoo.com/yorks-lieutenant-governor-indicted-federal-142139714.html
Wang. Heh heh heh.
Who is ona wang?
Half-sister to Anna Prayer.
On a Wang? Even better.
In case you thought that bitch went away.
I just think it’s humorous that the fucking thing is now more a symbol of litigious money-making than “girl power”.
I always hated that sculpture. The original bull statue was intended to at least symbolize the energy and vibrancy of markets. What the hell is this piece of crap supposed to represent? Snot-nosed authoritarianism standing in the way of that energy and vibrancy? I’m a guy, but if I were a woman, somehow, I don’t think that that is exactly the sort of symbolism I’d want associated with women in the market.
It’s empty “girl power!” posturing. Reality would result in her being trampled. A perfect symbol for our age.
Wasn’t it originally an advertisement for a hedge fund or some such?
Yes, and they wanted to make a “statement” about girls in the boardroom.
Proto-wokesters, as it were.
How it got to its original and current locations – both public land, by the way – is a mystery to me, given that the city doesn’t own it.
My former employer, State Street.
(the worst place I have ever worked)
Yeah, but girl power to do what? Stand there with a petulant expression casting judgement on the markets? That doesn’t strike me as a good look. If I were a woman, it’d strike me even less so. Don’t get me wrong, if they did a girl as a happy cowgirl riding the bull, I’d have no objection. No reason women can’t be allowed to participate. But, if your “participation” consists of standing in the way and demanding the bull conform to your judgements, frankly I’m rooting for the trampling.
Its a statue of a larval Karen. Prescient, no?
Eww, larval Karen is an almost Eldritch level visual.
Shocked face
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/04/12/border-patrol-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-haitian-incident/
LOL! “WINE FOREVER”
As an expert in marijuana intoxication symptoms, Johnny Depp is muggled as a jazzbo right now.
Higher than bird pussy ?