I’ve been on a golf trip the last few days and have been out of the loop. Got to play three great rounds and help raise some money for an amazing charity. My dad is the chair, so I’m a bit biased. But I’d probably shamelessly plug them either way since they donate literally 100% of what they bring in to the actual people who need it and nobody else takes a dime. So…good. Anyway, rain was in the cards, but I didn’t see a drop on the courses any of the three days. And now I begin the slow, draining drive back across half the country to my loving wife and kids, who I can’t wait to see.
Well…bye.
Speaking of golf, the Florida Panthers players can get their sticks out. Because their season came to a rapid halt when the Lightning swept them. Colorado is one win away from advancing in the west. And across the pond, the French Open has gotten underway and there’s already been a few upsets on the women’s side. Enjoy that crazy clay court season, folks. And that’s it for sports.
Gee, what a shocker! It’s like the local police saying private security aren’t real security…as they sit blocks away while looting and riots take place.
This new policy sucks.
“Just keep getting them. Eventually they might work.” The logic these people are using is absolutely mind-boggling. But I guess when your entire measurement of success is “it would have been worse if you didn’t do what we kinda made you do”, then you can call anything a success.
I wish they would clone this fucking guy. Because he seems to be the only one using logic in this political witch hunt/circus.
Man, people are weird as shit. But to each their own, I guess.
“We got no idea how it happened!”
Yeah, it’s just an amazing coincidence. And I’m sure the DOJ, FBI, and everybody involved think it’s just about time we all love on from the whole incident. You know, because The Ukraine, and Taiwan, and other things that are so much more important that the security state colluding with a fucking political campaign who used foreign assets to smear an opponent and influence an election for the highest political office in the land. Shit like that is no big deal at all!
Inflation is getting ridiculous. Also, why would you order alaskan king crab legs…in Greece? That’s some rookie shit right there.
Man, this is some seriously fucked up shit. I hope they find the bastard and punish him appriopriately.
And while not nearly as fucked up, this one is definitely weird. Weird. Weird. Weird.
Please let it end. Three generations of imbeciles is enough.
Going further back than normal for today’s music. Hope you enjoy the appetizer. Now here’s the main course. Enjoy them both, dear friends.
And enjoy this magnificent day and hold those close to you a little closer, for we know not when we may lose them.
So source of info lies to FBI, then FBI lies to FBI investigtors.
So we can lock up the FBI for lying to the FBI?
Probably depends on your political donation record.
I deal with the feds from time to time, and the individuals are great guys, all low profile folks doing their jobs. I believe it’s like the armed forces in that some are there doing their patriotic duty, but some are there to power trip and claw their way up the ladders of power.
I won’t tar them with the same brush.
The problem isn’t the rank and file insomuch as it is the weaponization of the leadership cadre by Obama. All these institutions are run by people that were selected for their loyalty to the left’s agenda over the country, the law, or any other such pursuit. The military is in the same boat. The leadership there is also run by idiots that think the biggest threat is global warming and CO2 instead of the CCP or our own government and the corruptocracy doing their shit in places like Ukraine.
^^^
Failing to understand that right there was imo OMB’s biggest flaw – flaw in this case meaning a misunderstanding or paradigm that was fatal to executing the rest of his agenda. He didn’t grok that the honchos in the 3-letter agencies and DOD were loyal first and foremost to the Obama-nation
I think I’ve heard it called “Tom Clancy Syndrome”.
I think you have it partially right.
It’s possible that the bulk of Federal officers/employees/agents/etc. honestly believe they are taking their oaths/commitments to the Constitution seriously. But they have, in their minds, replaced the spirit of the Constitution with the reality of the Federal Government.
As I have argued before, it’s a lot like “safety culture” in industry, or safety regulations imposed by OSHA: The means and methods have displaced the original goal of safety, so that to be safe is to follow the rules; not to continually strive for safe behavior, but to check boxes on paper. If someone gets hurt, but you can show you followed all the rules, your ass is covered. Someone still got hurt, but that’s just too bad. We’ll rewrite the rules after enough people get hurt under them.
I like your point on safety regs. Whenever I train new employees on worker safety/food safety, I try to explain *WHY* we do things the way we do, so people are more likely to not just go through the motions.
The example I give is when I was first hired, they just told me to wash, rinse, then sanitize surfaces and utensils. Well, to save a step, I’d just skip the rinse and go straight to sanitizer spray, since that’s basically a rinse, right? It wasn’t until someone explained to me that soap is a very basic solution and has to be removed with water otherwise the sanitizer, an acidic solution, wouldn’t actually kill much bacteria.
Brawndo – that’s a good observation.
Yep, it’s important for people to understand the *why* of rules and regulations, for a number of reasons–like you said, to make sure they know what the rule is trying to accomplish, and why the procedure has been implemented in the way it has; and also to make sure people don’t lose sight of that goal, and can see when the rules no longer contribute usefully to achieving it.
I will.
Being a willing cog in a sadistic machine should carry moral weight.
^^This. The rank and file are all too willing to “just follow orders”.
The problem is the good cops (to use the metaphor) have no means to remove the bad ones. That is how the system works. All you can do is get rid of the good ones. I don’t think that’s the best solution. What we need is accountability – for all forms of abuse of the power they have. Sure, sure, we can argue to get rid of the FBI – which ain’t gonna happen. The Republicans will fall back in love with them the minute they are in power and the FBI does a thing that makes Republican dicks hard. But getting rid of the FBI would be the same as defunding the police – you won’t get the results you want.
I don’t think that’s the best solution.
Oh really what is then?
BWAHAHAHAHA!
But accountability will? My kneejerk reaction is that you’re on some sort of drugs, but if you have an idea how LEOs in charge will be accountable, I’d love to hear it.
The only form of accountability that actually works is punishment of leadership. Punishing grunts for following along with the organization’s norms and culture is pointless and ineffective. The only thing grunts should get punished for is the action of grunts (themselves or their units).
The first problem that must be tackled is that all of the leadership roles are hollow today. The leadership “class” is just a bunch of empty suits constantly passing through (what are to them) interchangeable roles, where they start each by upending established processes so they can “make their mark”, then downplay the fallout from that for a little while, then shift on to another role, riding the blastwave of their previous failures, until “retirement”. To the extent they ever face any blame for anything, it’s deflected by “it was like that when I got here”, “give it more time”, “it was working well until [somebody else screwed it up]”, etc. The tendency toward only ever inflicting strong punishments upon the low-level fuck-ups only enhances this effect.
The next problem that must be tackled is that there are far too many chiefs relative to the number of Indians. The primary goal of these people, besides inflating their own careers/egos, is the expansion of their kind. Accountability rests on the shoulders of individuals, not committees. People think the solution is to flatten hierarchies, and it is true in many cases that the hierarchies are too large, but the real problem is the lack of a pointy tip at the top. Even though every government agency, for example, has a nominal “head”, that person wields only limited authority at best. Statute, precedent, executive order, convention, and other “laws” all interject themselves much more than necessary to ensure that neither full power nor full accountability rests with that person. And those rules are all committee-made and unaccountable themselves: if the head of an agency were even to point out that such and such a rule is making things worse and not better, to whom does he complain? “Work the chain of command”: OK, his boss didn’t make the rule, his boss’s boss didn’t make the rule, and the President can’t change the rule because “then he would be a dictator”.
(And there are other problems that need to be tackled besides…)
Not just government. That describes working in a F500 company. Not surprising, since it’s drawn largely from the same pool.
Indeed. The primary effect of the regulatory apparatus is to make the private sector homologous to the public sector.
Oh they aren’t ever going to volunteer for accountability, but that doesn’t mean that leadership can’t impose it. Is that likely? If I said yes, I would have to be on drugs.
The whole problem of DC is non-accountability. Congress doesn’t take responsibility, they defer to the president – when he’s the same party as the majority; when he isn’t he is the scapegoat. There is zero accountability in the bureaucracy – law enforcement or otherwise; as long as the rules of the system were followed. Break with the system and oh brother will you be held accountable. So no, there is no one around there interested in accountability – which is exactly why you won’t ever get rid of the FBI. Doing so would be an act of holding that entire institution, collectively accountable. So don’t laugh at me for being unrealistic when you are just as far out there.
We live in an age where the people in power find it more important to shape how the public sees things and what they believe is happening rather than dealing with things to make the public see they can do things.
I never ruled out burning it to the ground and salting the Earth where it stood.
I dunno, I don’t think I’m too far out there. Tarring with a broad brush and treating individuals as the pariahs they are is a) something that I can actually do and b) has a non-zero (if small) chance of changing the behavior of said pariah.
Claiming “we” can change “the system” is out there.
The good cops could do the same thing bad cops supposedly do to those that don’t tow the lion: Don’t show up to a call for backup.
They are made “willing” because anyone that dares to go against the machine is destroyed (and not metaphorically, but literally). When you know that speaking out will cost you the ability to feed your family, most people will knuckle under. The fact that the people that punish those that dare to stand up to them with annihilation seem to never get taken to task and punished with that same annihilation they inflict (the fuckers not only get to keep their pensions and jobs, but also get lucrative new ones in the left’s machine), also is a great discouragement. I wonder how many people would really just say, fuck it, and take the plunge with that much on the line.
Hayek has it precisely – it is the system they operate in. The best are indifferent to it, the worst revel in it.
“For evil to triumph, all that must happen is for good men to do nothing.”
And Congress to keep funding the evil organization – because most of them are compromised and rest just lack the courage to defund the enforcement arm of the DNC.
To be effective, good people have to be able to band together. As it stands, the system infiltrates any such group that tries to form. Remember the Oathkeepers? Used to be a loose affiliation of constitutionally minded folks in law enforcement and the military. At some point it got filled with feds and now it’s they’re the fall guys for Jan 6.
are there to power trip and claw their way up the ladders of power
I guess that explains why they’re more interested in headlines and plots than making a difference solving actual crimes.
I know a detective who told me they’ve had cases where they had everything necessary to arrest members of criminal gangs involved in theft and robberies, but needed help from the FBI because they operate across state lines. Even when they do all of the hard work and package it up for the FBI with a bow, they can’t get them to do anything about it.
MATCHA!
err green tea?
You too young to then know what ZAK-ZAK is…
MACHA!
I did actually watch that. Once. At the theater.
Me two…. then I ZAKZAKKED my girlfriend before taking her home.
Sencha-Matcha
I also recommend genmaimatch!
https://itoen.com/products/genmaimatcha
I normally get straight genmaicha.
So McCormick is taking lessons from Democrats and Trump – just because you don’t have the votes doesn’t mean you have to accept it graciously. He’s suing to count mail-in ballots that do not meet PA requirements (signature and date).
On Monday afternoon, McCormick filed a lawsuit to force Pennsylvania election officials to count absentee and mail-in ballots *even* if the outer envelope does not have a date handwritten on it along with a voter’s signature as Pennsylvania’s election code requires.
Sounds like McCormick is in the wrong.
Shame. I wanted Oz to lose. Though I’ve heard McCormick is worse than Oz.
They’re probably equally bad, but I’d prefer McCormick. To me, he’s less sleazy.
Honestly, I’ll be looking 3rd party in the fall – fuck both the Dem and the Repubs; either that or just leave it blank.
Hmm…. sounds like if I still lived in PA I’d be voting LP.
That would be an…inauspicious start…for a legislator if anyone expected them to take election security seriously.
But George P could be the first Hispanic President!
Ay caramba!
“Wilson, 25, was shot and killed in the apartment of a friend on May 11 on Maple Avenue in Austin, Texas, where the rising off-road gravel racing star was visiting for an upcoming race. ”
WTH is “off-road gravel racing”?
A newer type of cycling race.
I knew you’d chime in.
So what’s the possibility of serious road rash in any given race?
Considering they’re trying to go as fast as they can while riding on gravel? A spill would probably be quite painful.
It’s a sub-category of what used to be called mountain biking, but is now called ORB. Generally just a flowy ride on gravel with no major hills or technical obstacles.
Your obstacle would be the gravel. That would provide significant resistance. Not to mention what Neph said above. You fall and it’s guaranteed stitches. Sounds like a festival of suck.
What is it with Armstrongs making a bad name of cycling in Austin?
“Inflation is getting ridiculous. Also, why would you order alaskan king crab legs…in Greece? That’s some rookie shit right there.”
I think there is something more than inflation at work here…. Like rank stupidity…
They should have ordered Ouzo & beer and some guy to plow them in the ….
Can you get Ouzo in the can?
I suppose you can, if you are really careful. I’ve heard that Greeks have some unusual habits.
FOURSCORE!
Did you kiss your mother with that mouth?
j/k I guffawed.
“Man, people are weird as shit. But to each their own, I guess.”
People into prison romances and their fetishes….
“…but with more than 800 Jan. 6 cases so far charged in the D.C. federal courthouse, such overlap is unavoidable.”
CBS News appears to regret that the judge is not of the Roy Bean persuasion.
Could be worse, it could be in San Francisco.
“And I’m sure the DOJ, FBI, and everybody involved think it’s just about time we all love on from the whole incident.”
Kinky.
Hmmm……
What’s the old saw about lesbians shacking up and the average time to the first domestic violence charge?
When I first saw the story I assumed lesbians as well. Turns out they were both dating Strickland. He was leading them both on and they didn’t know about each other till recently. Why she killed the other woman and not the boyfriend is the mystery to me.
Killing the rival is as common or more so than killing the player.
“STOCKHOLM — Sweden is recommending a fifth COVID-19 vaccine dose for people with an increased risk of becoming seriously ill, including pregnant women and anyone aged 65 and over, authorities said Tuesday, adding that the country must “be prepared for an increased spread during the upcoming autumn and winter season.”
Stockholm indeed
[golf claps]
I thought Sweden was ‘do as you please’ country in regards to the covid. Besides women over 65 should not get pregnant. Goodness, who will pay their children’s college loans?
recommending is not mandating.
And only for those who are more susceptible.
Lulz.
5 toxic shots and you get a free sandwich!
I thought it was a toaster?
Only if the women join a softball league.
“Bitcoin may be called a coin but it’s not money. It’s not a stable store of value,”
Hahaha, like a dollar is a stable store of value. I never understood cryptocurrency. Cigarettes are used as a medium of exchange in some circumstances.
Crypto appeals to geeks like gold appeals to traditionalists – there is no fucking difference between the two as money.
I’ve got a smooth brain when it comes to finance and currencies and stuff, but I mostly agree. The main draw to crypto and gold is resistance to manipulation by an unholy alliance of government and the banks. However, gold has a history of manipulation in a sense when FDR confiscated gold and some law was passed that changed how many dollars could be redeemed for an ounce of gold (or something like that, please correct me if I’m wrong).
Crypto has an advantage in that, the feds can’t kick down your door and steal your gold. Assuming you’re tech savvy enough to hide your crypto holdings. Which I’m not.
The hardcore Bitcoiners are activists who first and foremost want to destroy the Fed. The day-to-day value of BTC is a secondary consideration for them.
The rest of the crypto market is pure speculation.
The Fed and all third party intermediaries.
The whitepaper is only 9 pages long and worth a read for those who don’t get it: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
What’s your opinion on the reverse repo market busting $2T?
It’s obviously a paradigm change (forgive the bizspeak) for the markets, but I’m trying to make sense of what it means long term (or even short term).
Pain.
But could also be interesting to see what happens with stocks that are heavily shorted.
I beg to differ. Gold has use, and thus value, outside its use as money. Jewelry and electronics spring immediately to mind.
What use, and thus value, does cryptocurrency have outside of ‘as money’?
None. And thus there is no real pricing floor on crypto. Nor is there any real pricing floor on non-redeemable fiat currencies.
I think gold’s pricing floor is probably around $300/oz (it was $200 a couple of years ago).
The primary issue with gold is the utility of it for transactions. It is not convenient at all.
Exactly.
And I would dare suggest the true mark of inflation is the ratio of gold’s nominal dollar price to its pricing floor.
Jewelry isn’t a real use value, it is human vanity to decorate. Electronics and fillings for teeth are the real “uses”.
If you insist on raw utilitarian purpose, existance becomes a mean, sad circumstance.
Decoration is a real use, and soothes mental hardship.
Stimulation for the senses is just as vital as the raw nutrients for the body.
When you had a bunch of ugly daughters you needed to marry off, nobles would deck em in jewelry to convince the young suitors to take em off their hands…
I notice there’s a lot of ads pushing art investment funds as a repository of value and inflation hedge lately.
Seems like a good way to get fiscally raped.
StartEngine (equity crowdfunding) started selling shares in various collectibles a while back. So you can hold a piece of a rare bottle of wine, sports memorabilia, or a rare comic.
/looks back to all the 70’s noir books that used art, coins, or stamps as hedges against inflation
“Real use value” or not, unless I am very much mistaken, I suspect gold, silver, and gemstones had a long history as stores of wealth well before their “practical” utility was discovered.
::waggles amethyst/rose gold ring::
Sure, but that gets exactly at my point – there is nothing intrinsic to gold, it is purely a human fetish.
That’s also part of my point. Based on subjective value theory, nothing has intrinsic value. The other part of my point, obscured though it might have been, is that being valued for multiple purpose or in multiple ways is superior to having only 1 value-assigning preference. It increases options, if nothing else.
Based on subjective value theory, nothing has intrinsic value.
Market value is inherently subjective, as it is always and everywhere based on not one, but two, people’s opinion of value at a given point in time. And not just their opinion of one item’s value, but their opinion of the value of both items to be exchanged.
SK – but the standard gold-bug response is “but gold” as though it is divinely ordained.
But the dollar tells you how much it’s worth right there on the dollar. It’s worth one dollar.
/a real conversation I’ve had
Because who doesn’t want to own a dollar permanently instead of the the ultimate good or service you use it to provide?
I used to be able to buy a donut at my work’s bakery for a dollar, but it’s gone up to 1.20 recently. My joke about having to bring dimes to the strip club was not well received.
It’s got what plants crave.
“I like money.”
You like money? I like money too.
GO AWAY! BATING!
Good on your Dad. There are too many “charities” out there that are thinly disguised grifts, and even many of the ones that aren’t intended frauds are effective mostly at burning cash.
““As I got closer, I’m hearing boom, boom, boom, help!” community activist Antione Dobine said. “That’s what made me call the police.”
Dobine, also known as “D-Ice” streamed the discovery on Facebook Live.”
I mean, I can’t be too upset because she saved a woman from torture and possible death but why is your first instinct to pull out your phone and stream the incident? I guess it’s useful for a police investigation but I doubt that’s the intention.
There’s something in this event that raises questions. Food, water? It just sounds a little too kinky. I’m not denying but I do have questions.
Nice tactics if you can get them. And it looks like she’s not a complete moron.
Oh wait, maybe she is. I mean, I get that there would be poetic irony in killing your boyfriend’s lover with a gun your boyfriend bought you, But at least buy an aftermarket barrel.
boygirlfriend.Wait.
*rereads*
So dude buys his girlfriend’s girlfriend a gun. Which the girlfriend’s girlfriend uses to shoot his girlfriend. Is that what’s going on here?
Insufficient data.
I could formulate several plausible scenarios from that information.
I don’t think the two XYs had any relationship.
In other words, the article’s wrong to call it a triangle. It’s a love chevron.
Oops. XX, that is…
Looks like you’re right. I do find it interesting that an Austin story is classified by the SF Chron as “bay area news.”
Central bankers say cryptos aren’t real currencies
Increasingly “real” currency is not real currency either.
Currency is a fiction for the sake of convenience.
Just like Justice and the rule of law, eh?
“Pittsburgh Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins drank heavily, had ketamine in system and went to a club with a ‘cousin or friend’ the night before he was killed by dump truck while walking along Florida highway, autopsy reveals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10846965/Dwayne-Haskins-drank-heavily-ketamine-medical-examiner-finds.html
When in Rome.
Don’t NFL players have a special driver service they can call basically whenever so that they don’t have to ever risk driving drunk/high or in this case, walking alongside a highway?
I have no idea, but I figure they make enough to afford a cab.
Probably, but part of taking a cab is knowing when you need to take a cab. Being out of your gourd can be a limitation on the decision-making process.
You mean like Uber?
Yes they do, and it’s better than Uber. The cars are like Tahoes or Suburbans like our rulers use, and there is a lot of discretion on the part of the drivers.
When in Phucket…
“Utah hunting guide is charged after using oil, grain, PASTRIES and trained dogs to illegally bait bear killed by Donald Trump Jr.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10847521/Utah-hunting-guide-charged-using-oil-grain-PASTRIES-bait-bear-killed-Donald-Trump-Jr.html
What about a picnic basket?
Bears like Krispy Kremes, this is known.
Pastries are bad for bears, it can lead to long term kidney failure and diabetes, so I can understand why they wouldn’t want you to use them to lure it close to you so you can kill it.
OR, go for the long game and stalk the bear for years while feeding it donuts until it collapses. That would save on ammo expenses.
“Why does your bearskin right smell like strawberries?”
*rug, not right
I didn’t know Psaki was into bears.
What the fuck did they charge em with?
The only time I hunted bear we used Sugar Crisp cereal and other presweetened stuff, ’cause my hunting partner’s daughter worked for a cereal company and had lots of rejects/sweepings etc. No bears were harmed in this trial but they seemed to like midnight snacks when we weren’t around.
That is strange. Usually you hunt bear over bait OR you use dogs. Not both.
There is a big controversy in these parts about how bear permits are being divvied up. Hunting bears with dogs is getting to be more popular and thus are getting more permits. The baiters don’t like that. They also feel (I tend to agree) that hunting bears with dogs is less sporting. (The dogs chase the bear up a tree where it sits until the hunter comes along and shoots him).
Sweden is recommending a fifth COVID-19 vaccine dose for people with an increased risk of becoming seriously ill, including pregnant women and anyone aged 65 and over, authorities said Tuesday, adding that the country must “be prepared for an increased spread during the upcoming autumn and winter season.”
We used to just call it “flu season”.
“Gov. Abbott says he will send more than 400 buses of migrants to DC as he laments Biden and Harris have ‘never once’ reached out to him about the crisis – with White House steering clear of border the day Title 42 was supposed to end”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10847267/Abbott-send-400-buses-migrants-DC-Biden-avoids-border-previous-end-date-Title-42.html
This whole thing is just silly. You know, exactly like U.S. immigration policy and practice for as long as anyone can remember.
The Delaware man accused of parading a Confederate flag throughout the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 attack is set to stand trial next month with his son. They will be tried not before a jury of 12 of their peers, but before a judge who will be the sole arbiter of their fate, court records indicate.
The. Horror.
MUH DEMOCRACY
I thought a trial jury was a pretty ironclad constitutional right, only to be waived by the defendant if they preferred a bench trial.
What’s worse – a DC judge or 12 DC residents?
Which is why the defense opted for a bench trial.
“Parents will be able to SUE tech firms for $25,000 if their children become ‘addicted’ to social media under California bill
The bill gives social media companies two paths to escape liability in the courts.
Companies that remove features deemed addictive to children by April 1 would not be responsible for damages.
Also, companies that conduct regular audits of their practices to identify and remove features that could be addictive to children would be immune from lawsuits.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10849087/California-allow-parents-sue-tech-firms-child-addiction-senate-bill.html
Good lord, I thought the Texas bill allowing people to sue tech companies was kind of retarded, but California just went ahead and said “hold my soy latte.”
Well, there is a third option. Block California from your site.
I often wonder why the EU and CA are not simply excluded markets at some point. Not worth the compliance costs.
It’s Cali. It will be applied to conservative social media sites and only slap around Twatter or Facebook if a youth is following the wrong sorts of people.
Saving DEMOCRACY!
Experts and activists say the continued traction of misinformation among candidates and voters (an NPR/Ipsos poll found that 45% of Republicans believe that fraud changed the results of the 2020 election) is putting stress on the nuts and bolts of the election system in Michigan.
It is affecting the historically nonpolitical, hyper-local jobs that are essential to making sure voting runs smoothly and that election outcomes are respected.
Activist Aghogho Edevbie has seen this play out in his advocacy work with the group All Voting Is Local, which pushes for changes like expanded early voting and more ballot drop boxes.
When he started doing election-related advocacy in 2010, he was focused on “little things here and there,” he said. “Now it’s transformed into protecting democracy itself, and that’s a big change.”
On the lookout for crackers suppressing the sacred right to stuff the ballot box.
(an NPR/Ipsos poll found that 45% of Republicans believe that fraud changed the results of the 2020 election)
Now do Democrats and the 2016 election.
THAT’S DIFFERENT!!1!!!!!1!1
Oh, so that’s what they’re calling efforts to increase election fraud now, you know, with measures that the U.S. denounces when foreign governments pull them.
“Experts”
It is crazy that you have to undergo hundreds of hours of instruction just to get a license to braid hair, but you can claim to be an expert on misinformation and white supremacy without a single credit at a community college.
Training and merit are white supremacy, Jimbo. A real expert would know that.
Only and as long as you hold the “right”, meaning left, political philosophy and a penchant for believing the ends justify the means…
sacred right to stuff the ballot box
*sensible chuckle*
See also.
FWIW, I’ve become a big fan of this guy lately.
The disinformation ministry is not gone. it is on hiatus. Specifically so they canget it out of the public’s mind. But the people that created it have no intent of actually ending that effort. They need to control us to keep what they have.
Putting the Ukraine flag before the the U.S. flag in her Twitter virtue-signal list is a nice touch.
FBI agents probing since-debunked claims of a secret back channel between Donald Trump and a Russian bank believed that the allegations had originated with the Department of Justice — when in fact they came from Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann, who had shopped them to the bureau’s then-general counsel days earlier.
Alphabet soup agencies appear to be completely useless.
By design
A system governed by Conquest’s Laws, the Iron Law of Oligarchy, and our own Iron Laws, can produce nothing else.
Still being ignored: why a political campaign would have access, real or constructed, to their opponent’s private internet traffic.
Shhhhh
I remember when the Nixon admin breaking into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office was a big deal. Now, the Nixon admin is holding press conferences and proudly displaying those confidential files and no one asks why they have them.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Amazing story, we need that to start our otherwise boring lives. Thanks, Jimbo.
A bittersweet story. Very cool and inspirational story, but sad she seems to live too far away to be on my hockey team. We’re lacking a cute girl on our team. 🙁
Inflation is getting ridiculous.
Getting? This weekend I went to the store to pick up a few things as I do on non-regular grocery weeks and $100 later…
My mom reminisces about the time she left the grocery store ( sometime in the 1970’s) thinking, “You just can’t get out of this place, anymore, without spending at least five dollars.”
My first thought was “That’s the cover charge”.
Did grocery stores ever have a cover charge?
The ones with the cover charge and bouncers have the sexiest MILFs.
*takes notes*
Tard Tuesday: Shitty Political Cartoons Edition
If your political cartoon is more text than art, just write a fucking article. This is why people say “the left can’t meme”
There are two kinds of left-wing “memes”: those which rely on and assume an esoteric cultural understanding so impenetrable to the normal person that they might as well be Jackson Pollack paintings, and those which try to explain the entire epistemological foundation upon which they are arguing but still fail because the writer can’t extricate himself from his own ass well enough to understand why the simpler form didn’t work.
They can’t “meme” because by and large they don’t need to. A right-wing meme is a piece of subversive samizdat, but if you’re on the left, who control the institutions, you don’t produce samizdat, you produce the dominant overculture that samizdat opposes.
Samizdat- is that some weeb anime word I’m too cool to know the meaning of?
It’s a term from the Soviet era for subversive information/tracts/articles/art that were circulated more or less covertly, usually as a source of information running counter to the official disinformation proffered by the Soviet and other Communist governments in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
I didn’t know this before, but it literally means “self published,” apparently.
I should never have changed my avatar…
Are those deliberately bad?
Tom Tomorrow has been peddling this schtick for decades so you’d think he’d have developed some sort of skill by now which doesn’t involve “banging you over the head with stupidity” but nope.
He specializes in the strawman argument.
Cheebus, he’s still kicking around writing awful comics?
The left can’t meme.
I can.
Tom Tomorrow? That jackass is still around? I remember his crap from the eighties. Sucked then, sucks now.
And elections officials in Ottawa County, where Kelley lives, are preparing for the possibility that people who believe his misinformation will try to get jobs inside the election system.
“I feel like they’re trying to – infiltrate might be a good word,” said Teresa De Graaf, the Clerk of Port Sheldon Township, in Ottawa County.
De Graaf, a Republican, said she had already received poll worker applications from two people she calls “radicals,” who believe the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
“They start spouting their beliefs and how the election was rigged and how they want to be part of the process because of that,” she said, “But you can actually tell that their ultimate goal is maybe to create some chaos and to prove their point.”
She said she didn’t hire those workers.
No Sceptics allowed.
Alphabet soup agencies appear to be completely useless.
Wagons were circled.
Asses were covered.
“Mission Accomplished”
As he faces Tuesday’s attorney general runoff election, George P. Bush is grappling with the legacy of his famous family name.
Misspelled “infamous”.
Good dog.
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/21/1100442691/eva-the-hero-dog-beats-back-a-mountain-lion-that-attacked-her-owner-on-a-hike
Bad owner. Should have been carrying.
Northern Cali – probably federal lands.
Correct. If she carried and used it to defend herself, she’d go to jail. California logic.
Even in CA, I’d bet you could generate such a media backlash using “Mom jailed for saving adorable puppeh!” headlines that charges would be dropped toot sweet.
Speaking of bears, I found this.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1508-Railroad-Ave-Sewickley-PA-15143/11439175_zpid/?mmlb=g,12
Some people like to wake up to bears in the bedroom, I suppose.
dog steps.
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Re; Worldle – yeah fucking right
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26, ugh. I’ve started to use ‘snare’ as a seed word. Not sure what a good second word would be though. ‘Clout’ is okay.
I took a stab at a 2, missed it, and everything went to shit.
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“Just a few years ago, this would have been considered a fringe and extreme view,” Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat, said of the rising tide of candidates questioning elections. “Now it’s been mainstreamed and very much normalized, and that’s a big, big problem.”
“It’s a potential emergency,” Simon added, “particularly going into a presidential election.”
Dems question literally every election that they lose.
The other side is not supposed to use the same tools, indeed they’re not even supposed to be aware that the tools exist.
Well, I had my first rehab today. Today was “simple,” but important: intro to crutches. Crutches are ‘normally’ easy and so was the practice on parallel bars. I used to be a gymnast, no joke! But with this injury it is shockingly difficult. Afterwards I was finally given permission to leave my bed. I thought that rule was stupid, but it isn’t. It sucked, but I get why it was enforced.
I did two laps around my floor of the hospital without aid. Took longer than you’d imagine. But! Baby steps sometimes, or often/always, are the most important. Session #2 is in about 12 hours. No idea what we’ll do. Probably more of the same which is just fine.
Onward. Upward. Always.
Wait, what happened? Why are you back in a hospital?
I’ll copy and paste from before. Typing on my phone sucks:
“Terrible, Terrible. Fuck.
My fucked up life continues to further fucked. In hospit w a fucking broken femur. Some asshole punched me and I fell. It wasn’t a fight. Two guys were spar boxing and I was just watching. Then one of them just clocked me in the jaw.
Nightmarish pain. indescribable. Fuuuuuck this shit.
Gets worse. Fracture is near my titanium hip. There is a small, but reas, possibility that I’ll need a replacement. VERY small chance, but real. Gotta be assessed on Mon.
I hate all of this. I was supposed to play goodbye show on Sat and this was on Fri. This is not the goodbye I wanted, and I’ll have to stay here longer. Can’t travel w my life w a hurt femur.
FUCK”
I see.
I’m glad that you’re able to move around already.
The moving-around ability is a great improvement. I will say, of all the shit I’ve been through, this is hands down, EASILY the worst pain I’ve ever experienced. Like being shot at Antietam. Thankfully it’s resided a bit and I’m on opiates. They help. A lot.
They say the femur is the most painful bone to break. It abso-fucking-lutely is. I have recordings of me in the hospital. I am just shrieking. Yeah. Family ain’t gonna listen to that from the youngest. That’s for me.
The same. Get well and get home soon, E.
Did you get any more titanium?
My current titanium is OK. If I need more to put part of my femur back together will be hopefully sorted soon.
I’m going to start calling you Odysseus from Evansville.
*golf clap*
It’s good you are moving around.
Onward. Upward. Homeward…soon.
The Ottomans are at it again.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he will no longer talk to his Greek counterpart, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, following the Greek leader’s visit to Washington.
Erdogan claimed that Mitsotakis had called on US officials not to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, as well as accusing Athens of harboring followers of his declared nemesis, the US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The Turkish president also called off a planned meeting between the governments of the two neighboring countries.
“This year we were supposed to have a strategic council meeting. There’s no longer anyone called Mitsotakis in my book,” Erdogan told reporters after a cabinet meeting. “I will never accept having such a meeting with him because we walk on the same path as politicians who keep their promises, who have character and who are honorable.”
World War Hummus is nearing.
Asia Minor for the Greeks!
Free Byzantium!
The Queen of hashtag campaigns.
“Whether she’s talking to pop stars, presidents, schoolgirls, scholars — or she’s asking you about your life over a glass of wine in the living room — Oprah has always had that uncanny ability to open us up, to hear beyond our words, and to uncover a higher truth, to be vulnerable with us in a way that allows us to be vulnerable back,” Obama wrote of the former talk show host.
“That’s her secret,” Obama said. “But what I love most about Oprah is that she has never been content to keep it for herself.”
“When Oprah connects with something — a person, a book, a song, an idea — she makes sure to shine her light on it. She validates it. She anoints it,” Obama said.
I guess it will be Obama/Winfrey 2024.
In today’s performative righteousness…
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/24/1100894529/a-burn-proof-edition-of-the-handmaids-tale-goes-up-for-auction
Which was necessary because
Thus it needs to be indestructible. Oh wait.
Look, virtues must be signaled.
Why didn’t they just auction off an NFT of it? Can’t burn that either!!! hurrdurhurr
Circle jerk
As government officials, corporate leaders and other elites at the World Economic Forum grapple with how to confront climate change and its devastating effects, a central question is emerging: to what extent can oil and gas companies be part of a transition to lower-carbon fuels?
In different times the question could have been academic, but today it’s both practical and urgent, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced many countries that depended on Russian oil and gas to make swift changes to energy supplies.
The debate comes as examples of acutely felt impacts of climate change multiply, including recent heat waves in Southeast Asia to flooding in parts of South America. Meanwhile, the world’s top climate scientists have repeatedly warned that increased investment in fossil fuels are hurting chances to keep warming to limit warming to 1.5 C (2.7 F), and thus avoid even more devastating effects.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry will join climate-related panels at the summit, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg give an address later. Attendees will discuss several other high-priority issues, like the Russia-Ukraine war, the threat of rising hunger worldwide, inequality and persistent health crises. But whether these discussions will yield substantial results remains to be seen.
Slay that pantomime dragon, you noble knights.
the threat of rising hunger worldwide,
inequalityand persistent health crisesThese things are self-inflicted.
Go fuck yourselves.
Foreign nationals protested in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday to demand President Joe Biden end the Title 42 public health authority at the United States-Mexico border, a policy they declared “racist.” …
On Sunday, foreign nationals marched through Tijuana to beg Biden to end Title 42.
“End Title 42 now!” one sign reads while another seemingly states, “Down with Title 42, Down with racists.” One other sign reads, “No more Title 42” and another one states, “Defend asylum.”
“Asylum” would be better held for you in Mexico. Stay there.
“There’s no asylum here, we’ve deinstituionalized our crazies. Go home.”
On Sunday, foreign nationals marched through Tijuana to beg Biden to end Title 42.
“End Title 42 now!” one sign reads while another seemingly states, “Down with Title 42, Down with racists.” One other sign reads, “No more Title 42” and another one states, “Defend asylum.”
They’re awfully eager to submit themselves to racist oppression. Maybe they should stay home.
They’ve certainly learned how to push our buttons. Just call everything “racist” and we will fall on our knees to give you everything you want.
NPR had a story about Nigerian students in Ukraine not being given asylum in Poland, for the totally racist reason that the Nigerians had homes in Nigeria.
The leader of the students protesting this racism declared that the Ukrainians had “white privilege.”
If they’re Christians they might actually have a case for “asylum” and under the original meaning of the word.
I guess the Catholic Church doesn’t get to set Catholic doctrine.
Whoopi: “The archbishop of San Francisco is calling for speaker Nancy Pelosi to be denied receiving Communion because of her pro-choice stance … this is not your job, dude. That is not up to you to make that decision.”
It’s not the Bishop’s job, it’s the Pope’s job. Except when there’s a Pope we don’t like. Then it’s the Bishops’ jobs, but only when they’re subversive.
Just like it’s good to challenge the oppressive Federal juggernaut when it’s in the hands of a President/Party that is Good and not Bad.
s/b “Just like it’s good to challenge the oppressive Federal juggernaut when it’s in the hands of a President/Party that is Bad and not Good.
I’m pretty sure all the automatic excommunication items are still technically in force, even if they’re not enforced on a regular basis.
Can you take communion if you haven’t received penance for venial sins? Not that that’s what’s happening here, just I’m a bit foggy on my RCC doctrine.
You’re supposed to have a clean conscience when you receive the Eucharist. I can’t remember whether a venial sin is supposed to be disqualifying, but if you had knowledge of it after an examination of conscience, you should have confessed it and received absolution. If you didn’t, and received the Eucharist anyway, arguably you have committed another sin and the state of mind required to do that probably implies you need to clear yourself up and confess it.
My Dad (a Lutheran) explained to me that that’s what the group meditation/absolution in a Protestant service is for: to provide a clean conscience directly before taking communion.
It’s mildly ironic that nowadays, when I go to a Catholic Mass, I don’t take Communion because I take it more seriously now that I don’t really consider myself a Catholic than I did when I was a kid. It’s a serious thing, perhaps the most serious thing you can do in the Catholic Church short of taking Holy Orders, and it should be approached with respect by believers, and probably non-believers as well.
Loud-mouthed non-believers have no respect for any beliefs.
Our church (OPC) often uses the phrase “fencing the table” – basically a brief “who can take the Lord’s Supper”, plus the warning from I Cor 11:28-30.
From memory, the venial sin isn’t disqualifying, but is something you should talk to your priest about when you next go to confession.
Venial sin is not disqualifying. That’s part of the distinction. Mortal sin is disqualifying.
“Engineering is a hotbed of terrorism? WTF??”
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1528990544235405312
Looks like the original tweets got deleted.
It was only a matter of time before the postmodernists came for the one discipline that absolutely demands objectivity.
Imagine how good bridge design will be when it is intersectional.
The latest ‘victim’ collapses it in a pile of rubble?
Riffing off of the tweet shown by Jeet Heer…..
Yeah, if you’re an Engineer, YOUR JOB IS TO BE RIGHT. A huge part of my role these days is coaching Engineer-lings. Mostly folks who are 0-3 years out of school, and some interns. And some of them have had the necessary arrogance (OK, better to say assertiveness…) smeared out of them. Many of them don’t know how to play offense, or to build and work from a position of strength. They’re too far over on the side of trying to satisfy everybody around them.
I tell them that consensus and alignment come FROM them being strong and right, not the other way ’round. It’s true and people follow it and LIKE it. Weak wokesters are a disaster for everybody.
???
Hiding behind the group consensus is not a way to escape failure.
Yep. Too many people want to CYA more than they want to get the right answer and stand up for it.
Escaping failure is an essential appeal for those who want to be led. If it’s wrong I can’t be held accountable because I was just following.
Your job is to be right, but also to understand that there may be numerous ways to get to the right answer, and how to recognize and test a right answer versus a wrong answer.
It’s one of the marks of a good engineer to be able to appreciate a correct answer that wasn’t just slavishly arrived at according to some ossified procedure.
But it’s also important to realize that blood has been spilled over the centuries while engineers arrive at good methods for finding correct and useful answers, and to respect those methods.
I have noticed a lot of young engineers trying to do the “consensus” thing, and I try to ask them “what do *you* think is right here?” We cna talk about whether the answer is right or wrong, but that doesn’t depend on the group’s consensus about the correctness. It’s either a right answer, or someone is going to lose money or their life.
And the “binary” in engineering is a strawman. There are always multiple solutions.
Unless of course he’s defending the position of being “wrong.”
My meta-answer is that he wrote it to deny there’s any such things as right and wrong.
One of my other lines of coaching to yoots is “this isn’t a test”. They’re there because they were good at school for 16 years – taking tests and figuring out the one right answer and turning it it and getting an A. A lot of them can’t handle that in what we do, there may be multiple possible solutions and they’re the ones who have to work out the trade-offs. Or there are not any real solutions – much of what we try doesn’t work.
The conscientious ones think they may get fired for not getting it “perfect”, and have to learn that’s not how it works in the real world.
I learned quickly that field data was the most important source of design feedback. And that field data came in multiple phases, from sourcing to assembly to test to deployment to short-term quality to long-term reliability.
Far too many engineers never get past the lab testing or even the computer model and when they do, they go straight to long-term reliability while ignoring the other lifecycle phases.
I used to tell them that they’d learn more from spending a day on the assembly and testing line than they would spending a month in advanced theory classes. And for god’s sake, talk to your suppliers, find out where their yield pain points are, and design around them.
I have a billboard sized poster hanging in my lab that says “One test is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
I have been in this meeting before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg&t=376s
It highlights a different problem, but I think applies here too.
The big problem with weak wokesters is that they need everybody else to be just like them.
Star power
When Stacey Abrams acknowledged defeat to Republican Brian Kemp in her 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia, she refused to call it a “concession.” Four years later, the man she once described as an “architect of voter suppression” is the incumbent — and the state she came so close to leading has enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive voting laws.
Abrams is running unopposed in Tuesday’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, which means her general election campaign really began in December 2021, when she announced plans to run against Kemp, who’s facing a Donald Trump-backed primary threat. But Abrams’ status has changed since her name was last on the ballot.
An underdog with little following outside of Georgia four years ago, the former state House minority leader is now one of the most popular Democrats in the country — a political star some in the party wanted to run for president and a key figure in helping turn the state blue for Joe Biden in 2020 and electing Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock, who is on the ballot again this year, and Jon Ossoff in subsequent runoffs.
SRSLY?
I want to be Governor of this shithole…
Stacey Abrams says Georgia ‘the worst state in the country to live,’ despite owning multiple houses there
Tucker had fun the other day looking at this interesting campaign strategy of insulting the voters.
You stupid hick bigots need me.
Our Sacred Democracy is just a proxy war between neighbors. The people who vote for her know she’s not talking about themselves. Fortunately, the other half are becoming more aware that they are the target of what she’s saying.
She is almost comically awful and therefore a shoo-in.
Sorry, Georgia.
And least attractive. Ugly is a demeaning word but honestly…
she refused to call it a “concession.”
So Stacy Abrams is the black face of white-supremacy.
enacted some of the nation’s most restrictive voting laws.
Any attempt at election integrity is “voting restriction”…But it should be restricted further. Citizens only, election day is election day, get your ass to the ballot box, strict documentation and custody tracking of absentee, ID to prove you are you and only vote once and only in your precinct, etc. It really isn’t difficult.
some in the party wanted to run for president
President of Earth, according to Star Trek.
electing Democratic Sens. Raphael Warnock, who is on the ballot again this year, and Jon Ossoff in subsequent runoffs.
Only via ballot mules.
SRSLY?
This. is. C.N.N.
Two years of covid and fuckers still can’t cover their cake holes when coughing up a lung.
Where is the OUTRAGE?
It’s been nine days since 13 people were gunned down—10 of them fatally—at the Buffalo supermarket Tops in the heart of a Black community. The white male terrorist behind it, Payton Gendron, published a manifesto online outlining his hatred of Black people and every step of his plan to kill them just days before the massacre.
He drove over 100 miles to shoot up the grocery store Black residents fought to have for decades; those same people were executed in it for simply existing. Yet there have been no public cries of outrage from white America, no condemnation for a truly inhumane and monstrous act.
Read more
Nope.
You know, you could read the rest of the manifesto which would add some rather illuminating insights into the shooter’s state of mind and political proclivities. But that wouldn’t be as useful to the Left.
Good luck finding it
The part about him being a self-described racist, left- authoritarian is inconvenient to the narrative.
Needs more red SUV.
Do you want solutions, or do you want performative emotional displays?
On second thought, don’t answer that.
“Where is the public outrage?”
Oh go fuck yourself.
Guess who refuses to be out-sleazed?
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-andrew-cuomo-buffalo-true-bethel-baptist-church-20220522-eidzrferkzh5xddtv7et4wxyqe-story.html
I bet that’s the first time in his life he has been in Buffalo.
I can’t seem to remember his outrage when a man, from a elevated position, rained down bullets on a killing field in Vegas…wrong types of people as victims I suppose?
Let alone on a Brooklyn subway.
Yet there have been no public cries of outrage from white America
There haven’t? I swear I have heard nonstop outrage from the very pinnacle of white America – the leftist media/government/academic complex.
JFC
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/05/23/lloyd-austin-says-ukraine-to-get-harpoon-anti-ship-missiles-from-denmark/
I wonder if there’s any irony in the fact that the naval scenarios in “Red Storm Rising” were gamed by Clancy using the old simulator “Harpoon.”
announced today that it will provide a harpoon launcher
Maybe its because I read too many legal documents, where not capitalizing “harpoon” means it is not “Harpoon”, a defined term. So Denmark wants to send some whale hunting equipment to Ukraine? Umm, okay?
They’re going to go after Stacey Abrams? They are, after all, white.
I have a mental image of Saint Peter and his helpers fastidiously cleaning and lubricating the release mechanism on the trapdoor to Hell in anticipation of Nancy Pelosi’s arrival before him at the Pearly Gates.
Waste of time. She doesn’t have a soul.
Of the six Jan. 6 cases to be tried and completed so far, only two were bench trials. McFadden was the judge randomly assigned to both of those cases and unlike the juries in the remaining four, the judge acquitted one defendant on all counts and another defendant on one of the two counts against him.
So, there’s a chance of an acquittal here?
“It’s all about ethics,” Bush told a gathering of Republican women this month in Argyle, a town in the rapidly growing, largely Republican suburbs of Fort Worth. “When people say the last thing we need is another Bush, my response is, this is precisely the time that we need a Bush.”
So therefore, we don’t need another Bush.
“It’s all about ethics,”
Ethics like lying your way into a war?
Ethics is when you do what the media tells you to do most of the time, so that you can get away with the couple of times you don’t.
Hey! CO and murderer holed up in Evansville! I resemble that!
“When people say the last thing we need is another Bush, my response is, this is precisely the time that we need a Bush.”
Put down those razors, ladies.
To MikeS and db: I apologize for being a grumpy, judgmental cunte in last night’s post.
No worries.
I had to go back and see what you were talking about…
Shit TH, I was only joking with my “demeaning” crack. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, and all that. It’s all good in the hood, buddy.
“grumpy, judgmental cunte”
Jeopardy style: What are the three characteristics of a libertarian?
I’ll take “Jap Anus Relations” for $200
That describes Hyperbole and Western in a mash up
So many nails, so little time
A new billionaire was created on average about every 30 hours during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report by Oxfam, the global charity focused on eliminating poverty.
Now, 573 more people around the world can claim billionaire status compared to 2020 when the pandemic began, for a current total of 2,668 billionaires.
What’s more, their wealth has soared 42%, or $3.78 trillion, during the Covid-19 pandemic, for a current total of $12.7 trillion.
Yet 263 million people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty this year, signaling deepening wealth inequality exacerbated by the pandemic.
The widening divide between the haves and have-nots highlights the need for more taxes on the wealthiest, according to Oxfam.
“We really need for Congress to step in and for the administration to step in and tax the most wealthy in our society so that we can really start to invest in public services and in working people,” said Irit Tamir, director of the private sector department at Oxfam America.
There is no human problem which cannot be solved by redistributionist thievery.
o that we can really start to invest in public services and in working people
They keep using that word…
Give money, get votes — that’s what it means, right?
They always act like it happened in a vacuum and is not the logical outcome of their monetary and regulatory policies.
Of course the obvious and most effective solution, severing the relationships between big business and politicians, is never proposed.
So much fail.
I think the correct comment is
“ZARDOZ IS PLEASED WITH THIS UPCOMING HARVEST”
About that; I’m interested in ZARDOZ’s take on the impending global grain shortage.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS INQUIRING CHOSEN ONE. AS LONG AS THERE IS ENOUGH FOR THE ETERNALS IN THE VORTEX, ZARDOZ IS PLEASED WITH IT. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
What could possibly go wrong?
Nobody is there to record the inevitable outcome?
Natural selection works…
Do you want solutions, or do you want performative emotional displays?
You slay me.
Inflation may be a lot lower than anyone thinks — even the Fed
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-may-be-a-lot-lower-than-anyone-thinks-even-the-fed-11653382237?siteid=yhoof2
Watch propagandists propagandize and try to gaslight us into thinking that their policies work and things aren’t as bad as they are.
https://twitter.com/RAllenGilliam/status/1529080161513127939
First, why was the OP shocked? Didn’t everyone already know that?
The reply is a perfect example of economics. People have different value judgements, which is why central planning cannot work.
What if you use a car carrying ferry?
Riders especially know it, more than anybody. They accept the risk.
Central planning works great when everyone who objects to the Central Plan is in a gulag or a mass grave.
“Right now, the average billionaire — there are about 790 of them or so in America — has a federal tax rate of 8%,” Biden tweeted on Sunday.
“No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a teacher, a firefighter, an electrician or a police officer,” he said
Why don’t you fall down a flight of stairs, Joe?
Then….lower the firefighter taxes?
Proof that Minitru hasn’t gone anywhere.
Care to show your work Joe?
Billionaire is a measure of wealth, the tax is an income tax.
While there is some correlation, not entirely.
I believe originally a millionaire was someone who had a million a year in income. This is back when a lot income came from illiquid assets like land, and even investments (which back in the day were much less liquid than they are now, because the capital markets were simply not as developed).
Back when it was used that way, it was a very exclusive club indeed.
a federal tax rate of 8%
All federal taxes combined? 8% of what?
George Carlin – Germs, Immune System
Our overlords & elites bragging about how they spy on us… for our own good of course…
“the development of an “individual carbon footprint tracker” to
monitorcontrol what you buy, what you eat, and where/how you travel.”Sorry, Mr. President of Alibaba Group, (most of) the rest of the world doesn’t want your China-tested and -approved totalitarianism. Now go eat a bag of dicks.
I said this yesterday, but if they are really serious about lowering the carbon footprint they can probably make an immediate 30% reduction by all of them drinking a cup of Flavor Aid and taking their lavish, publicly-funded lifestyles with them.
Inflation may be a lot lower than anyone thinks — even the Fed
“Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit outta muh hat!”
“That trick never works!”
One of the absolutely dumbest lines from the Davos crypto article:
“We don’t want to see it as a means of payment,” Suthiwartnarueput said, adding that cryptos are more of an investment than a medium of exchange.
That’s exactly wrong. As an investment, crypto is purely speculative. Some position in crypto doesn’t create value – the only rationale for a bitcoin position is the hope that someone else will pay you more than you paid for that position (stocks or bonds differ, for example, in that they generate a realized or unrealized cash flow, regardless of whether you sell them). People have an expectation that they will gain popularity as a means of payment more reliable that government fiat currency.
I didn’t participate in last night’s thread, but will now:
TV shows – Joss Whedon has mentioned that despite his personal beliefs and intents, all his heroes end up being libertarians.
Music – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LySTISqaH9o
Likewise. I’ll go for graphic novels: Cerebus the Aardvark, both the High Society and Church and State story arcs.
Interesting. Maybe Rand had more of a point than I credited her with…
Tucker: This should make you nervous
“…religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists…even libertarians.”
Brennan really is an evil fucker.
Always has been a commie ratfucker.
WTF?
Former Sen. David Perdue closed his campaign for governor of Georgia on Monday with a racist jab at the Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams and a tele-rally with former President Donald Trump.
Perdue, who is white, said at a campaign stop in Dunwoody, Georgia, that Abrams, who is Black, was “demeaning her own race” with comments she made an an earlier event.
“When she told Black farmers, ‘You don’t need to be on the farm,’ and she told Black workers in hospitality and all this, ‘You don’t need to be’ — she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that,” Perdue said.
“I am really over this. She should never be considered for material for governor of any state, much less our state — where she hates to live.”
How about a little more context?
Haha, just kidding. I’ll take your word for it.
Racist? Racist as the day is long.
Yeah, what were the reporters thinking? You’re supposed to write “David Perdue closed his campaign for governor of Georgia on Monday with what some say was a racist jab at the Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams”. How unprofessional.
where she hates to live
Repeating Abram’s own words to point out her awfulness is muh-racisms.
*hovers*
Ah, Businessinsider. Checks out.
Business Insider is where journalists who know nothing about business go to write articles about business.
What a strange question/argument…
.@DanaBashCNN: “Arkansas already struggles to support vulnerable children. Nearly 1 in 4 children in Arkansas lives in poverty….Do you really think that your state is prepared to protect and care for even more children if abortion does become illegal there?”
poor kids are gross.
Fuck it, let’s just kill them.
Abortion is an act of love.
“Poor kids are just as bright as white kids.” – Former VP Joe Biden
Sure, Jan.
Nearly 1 in 4 children in Arkansas lives in poverty
When your definition of poverty is “the bottom income quartile” . . . .
Hey, let’s pull up the abortion rate vs. income stats and see if the underlying assumption here checks out.
[Narrator: It does not]
All children are poor. They’re not allowed to form contracts.
When someone says they’re against “child poverty” what they mean is they’re against poor people having kids.
I shared a moment with the murdered cyclist a couple months ago. By that I mean she blew by me at a much higher speed than I was going at a gravel race near Mt. Shasta. The whole thing is kind of shocking. On the other hand, I’m not surprised that there’s some fooling around going on at the races.
Alec Baldwin, workplace safety expert.
///NotTheBee
People never cease to amaze me.
Good morning, Sloop!
It’s fun being a carpetbagger fan. I watched the first two periods and went to bed. No real investment, but the Avs sure are a great team!
I haven’t read through the comments yet, so I assume there is some hate over your musical choices – but not from me.
Have a great day, y’all!
If only saying it would make it so.
in Washington debate, inflation is “crushing” families
in real life, pandemic relief has eased the pain
Moody’s economist: “excess saving cushioned the impact, even for lower-income households
“households are for the most part in a good financial place”
“Good” = “right where we want them”
excess saving cushioned the impact, even for lower-income households
Even if that’s true, its time-limited. What happens when the savings/time runs out?
RS inspired me to go check on what’s new at the Bee.
Nice. Also,
Fauci Recommends Stopping Spread Of Monkeypox By Covering Eyes, Ears, Mouth
‘It’s Time To Talk About The Stolen Election,’ Says Wild-Eyed Bill Maher Surrounded By Crates Of Ammo And Emergency Food
And in other Bee blisterings…
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there was another big school shooting. The grouping of so many of these has me wanting to don some tin foil. Regardless this one was an elementary and it sounds pretty bad. Best wishes to the parents, friends and families of everyone affected.
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-b4e4648ed0ae454897d540e787d092b2