Place your bets!
The Open is underway. The Blue Jackets make a soplashon day one of free agency. The Blue Jays should be forced to play home games in a more civilized place. Unless The Whole “bodily autonomy” thing is bullshit. And we still don’t know what’s going to happen to Deshaun Watson. And that’s it for sports.
This will certainly be an interesting case. I doubt it stands under the “no duty to assist” rulings in the past. But if it does, then maybe those cowards in Uvalde can have the book thrown at them for the cowardice they showed while those kids were being murdered.
Problematic!!!
Oh, sweet Jesus. When will this kind of insanity end? And how far will the pendulum swing the other way?
I wonder how many celebs will speak up about this? Based on their past, none will have anything to say about the guy…until he makes another movie and they applaud it.
Damn, that’s a lot of money. ::Looks out window at a nice size lot on the lake…looks at mortgage…laughs hysterically:: No wonder they’re flocking to other states.
Silly man
This is gonna be a circus. And I, for one, can’t freaking wait for discovery.
This should have been done a long time ago. But they already accomplished their goal of getting a huge number of people to pump that mrna garbage into their bloodstream, so it’s a bit late for most.
That did’t last long. Also, FTA: Tonal is headed for a period of austerity, hoping to become “a self-sustaining business with an emphasis on profitability,” according to the company statement. Uh, maybe you should have employed that mindset from the start.
This guy is unqualified for the job. He’s not even an EdD!
Getting back to the 80s today. What a fantastically goofy song. And here’s another for you. Enjoy them both, fans of the greatest era in music.
End enjoy this blistering hot Thursday. Stay cool, friends.
whaddup doh’
Q: What goes in 13 twice?
A: Roman Polanksi
*fiercely narrows gaze*
What has to just really irk Assange is that they had to conjure up fake sex crimes in Europe to get him arrested, but Polanski was convicted of real sex crimes and is celebrated for it.
Excellent point.
Assange must be wondering if he will ever be appreciated for what he did, far after the dust has settled.
“a self-sustaining business with an emphasis on profitability,”
That’s so crazy it has to work!
Every startup I ever talked to has had the alternate business model of: “Suck on investor money until we get the attention of someone big enough to buy us for what we innovated in their product space.” So I suppose you can’t fault them too much given that’s how the big tech companies have been doing R&D for the last 20 years. Sigh.
“According to Flores’ profile page on Favor’s website, his favorite tacos are breakfast tacos”
RACIST!!!!
Would! (Flores, but also tacos)
How unique.
My favorite breakfast tacos are from Mi Cocina on Manor Rd. Adobo pork and avocado.
Yesterday I dropped Mr Splosives off at the ophthalmologist for his 1-day cataract surgery follow up, and not wanting to hang around in the waiting room, went back in the car and started randomly exploring the obscure side streets of Pahrump.
Found a lovely little Mexican food joint, got a margarita, and perused the menu.
Menu looks AWESOME. Even has beef tongue tacos. The scents in the air were divine. While I sipped my beverage, a lady came in to get salsa and chips to go, which tells me that place must have remarkable salsa and chips.
I plan to drag hubby there for lunch today.
Nice. I found a place like that *once* while waiting on some service at the Chevy dealership I go to. It was across the street and just up the road, had a great burrito plate (and worth noting, I’m not really big on Mexican food in general, probably because I despise avocados and don’t like sour cream, so have to dodge those).
Unfortunately they apparently went out of business or moved a few years back (dealership bought the building they were in and are using it as an annex, not sure if that was why they’re gone or just opportunistic), so can’t patronize them further.
The fact that you call it a “vaccine” when it isn’t and the track record of the others y’all approved makes this a hilarious statement of idiocy.
👆👆👆
At this point anybody who believes a single word that comes out of the public health industry is a fool.
You’re just saying that because you don’t eat enough carbs.
The balls on that guy. I’ve got two of his bullshitting declarations; these people are just straight up liars.
Anyone else see the Jake Tapper interview of John Bolton? He basically says “1/6 wasn’t a coup. You need a lot more planning and intelligence to pull that off. I would know, I’ve planned coups in other countries.”
Didn’t see it, but yeah — saw the articles on that quote. I think Rand Paul tweeted something along the lines of: “One of the best things I ever did was keeping that jerk from becoming Secretary of State”, and I’d have to agree.
If I weren’t such a big-dumb and knew how to post links I would, but you can probably find it by googling John Bolton coup
Here’s one for you then.
The lazy way is just to copy the web address you want to share, and paste it into the comment. Basic HTML will let you format it all pretty like (unless you mess up, at which point you will be mocked for your lack of sweetness).
We can add that to the list of heroics that includes keeping Garland off the Supreme Court.
The past 2 years has illustrated just how important that was. I know everyone likes to do the ‘both sides’ and ‘useless republicans’ (and there is some truth to both of those). but just image ‘Justice Merrick Garland’. *shudders*
I think the same way. I don’t like the Republicans but I think they are marginally better than the Democrats.
My ex (severe case of TDS) pissed me off yesterday about 1/6. I finally said – you know what Trump does if it is a coup, he sends artillery and infantry to surround Congress, not a bunch of unarmed yay-hoos taking selfies.
if 1/10 of the J6 protestors were armed and planning for violence, there wouldn’t have been a non-MAGA concresscritter left alive.
From the late 1940s to the 1960s, thousands of federal employees were forced to resign or were fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Were there a lot of dudes who imagined they were chicks during the Cold War? Or is the article writer just adding them for the sake of “inclusivity”?
It’s a nervous tic, they can’t leave it out.
Trans erasure was endemic, that’s why you didn’t hear about it. I think maybe 20-30% of the population is trans. Most of these people don’t even know it, we have to get the message out!
0.01% of the population has Gender Dysphoria and need mental help.
0.0000% are Trans.
That’s transphobic and will do nothing to stand in the way of a proselytizing religion backed by money-hungry unethical medical practice.
Facts don’t care about your rambling nonsense.
End Genital Mutilation!
If you really think about what is happening, holy cow is it insane. No matter how glibly I speak some practices are really impossible to defend. Genital mutilation and experimental hormone therapy for teens is one of them.
Question: if somebody was caught trying to saw one of their legs off because they felt like they were really a one-legged man, what would happen to them?
Last year I’d have said they’d get a psych referral.
These days I wouldn’t be surprised if the policy were to help them finish cutting.
End Genital Mutilation!
Have Glibs shaken out the pro-circumcision side?
Question: if somebody was caught trying to saw one of their legs off because they felt like they were really a one-legged man, what would happen to them?
They would get a free parrot?
felt like they were really a one-legged man, what would happen to them?
We’d call him stumpy?
ISTR a doctor deliberately blinding someone who claimed xey were “transabled.”
IIRC, they did it be etching the cornea, so I guess it could be reversible.
“0.0000% are Trans”
You have that backwards, there are more people who are trans than have gender dysphoria.
There are people who claim things that are not true. They are not some other sex than their birth physiology, and I will not humor them.
There are no trans people.
When an archaeologist digs up Elliot Page’s bones a few centuries from now in an unmarked grave, they’ll say “here are the bones of a woman”.
“There are no trans people.”
Based on your own definition?
I don’t think anyone is claiming they can change the sexual dimorphism of an adult skeleton, but there is no accounting for crazy people. If you take David Icke’s description, Jews don’t exist either because there are no secret lizard people.
Based on biology. “Trans” is a psychological term. And psychology isn’t science, while biology is.
Just imagine how fun it will be if any of the trans-humanism stuff gets going — printed organs / bodies, memory implants / personality transfers, nanotech body modification… you know one of these idiots will try to finally be a unicorn or something.
“Based on biology. “Trans” is a psychological term. And psychology isn’t science, while biology is.”
So only scientific things exist? Sorry, you’re not making any sense here.
I understand the desire to not call psychology a science. I’m frankly embarrassed at the woke takeover of mental health and the DSM, but that’s only a portion of psychology, which is the endeavor to understand patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
If you were to say that subversion of the scientific process to wokism and politics discredited a field, you’d have nothing left.
I’d say psychology is absolutely a science. However, we are in the infancy of studying it, and we don’t understand shit about it. And the way most are trying to study it is currently unscientific. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a science. Just one we don’t understand well and don’t study well.
Maybe in 500 years we’ll figure out the basics.
No, scientific things aren’t the only things that exist. But there are still some scientific truths that can’t be denied. DNA is one of them. And aside from some outliers (intersex people), we are a sexually binary species. You’re either male or female. That’s it. That’s a scientific fact.
Here are the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability.
Can anybody say psychology meets those requirements?
“No, scientific things aren’t the only things that exist. But there are still some scientific truths that can’t be denied. DNA is one of them. And aside from some outliers (intersex people), we are a sexually binary species. You’re either male or female. That’s it. That’s a scientific fact.”
How do you go from that to “There are no trans people”?
Psychology is working toward those. But it’s certainly not there yet.
How do you go from that to “There are no trans people”?
Because what they think they are doesn’t change what they really are.
You’re born with XX chromosomes, you’re a female.
You’re born with XY chromosomes, you’re a male.
Yes, there are extreme outliers (intersex people and a few other genetic syndromes), but they’re incredibly rare and aren’t considered trans-anything. They’re a genetic anomaly like any other genetic anomaly.
Nope, there will be titanium plates riveted onto all the major bones saying “These are the stunning and brave remains of a man.” Heck. They’ll probably be incased in a bronze statue entitled “stunning and brave” instead of a plebian grave.
“Because what they think they are doesn’t change what they really are.”
Again, no accounting for crazy people, but no sane serious person is claiming that transitioning changes DNA or biological sex.
It’s one reason why “transsexual” was changed to “transgender”.
Regardless, saying they do not exist is just silly. There are people who transition — hormones, surgery, etc. Regardless of your opinion about it, there is a distinction between people have have done that in contrast to those who haven’t, there is a name for that set of people, and it’s not a null set.
Regardless, saying they do not exist is just silly.
They’re people. And they do exist. But they’re either males or females that have chosen to take drugs/have surgery to alter their body.
But they’re still the same male or female they’ve been since they were born.
There are people who transition — hormones, surgery, etc.
Self-mutilation does not change a person’s sex.
Note that mammals have sex. Words have gender. “Transgender” is just more abuse of the English language from progressives that intend to tear down western civilization.
“But they’re still the same male or female they’ve been since they were born.”
Again, no sane serious person is claiming that transitioning changes biological sex.
““Transgender” is just more abuse of the English language from progressives that intend to tear down western civilization.”
No, it isn’t. See above.
No, it isn’t. See above.
I did read the above.
I simply disagree.
Again, no sane serious person is claiming that transitioning changes biological sex.
But sex is real. Gender is a social construct. It’s not tangible. I do not believe one can transition from an intangible and undefinable thing to another. Therefore there’s no such thing as a trans-anything, in my opinion.
That something doesn’t exist because you don’t like what it’s called is a stupid argument.
It’s not because I “don’t like what it’s called”. It doesn’t exist because it only exists in someone’s head. The terminology isn’t clear because gender exists on a constantly-changing “scale” (genetics uses clear terminology). It’s not quantifiable (genes are), cannot be measured through controlled experiments (genes can), is not reproducible (genes are in every human cell), and it cannot be predicted or tested to measure accuracy (genes can).
It’s not science. It’s bunk.
Look, the QUILTBAG are a monolith, they’re all beautiful and unique snowflakes who all think and act the same. Those who don’t think and act the same aren’t true QUILTBAG.
Speaking of adhering to monolithic group identity…
It’s a good thing that Dr. Jill is doing outreach to the LatinX community then…
And then they can’t understand why they defect from the party that loves them.
I guess LBJ’s boast about owning their votes for 100 years might be off.
Al Pacino’s character in Devil’s Advocate: “It was a good run while it lasted”.
And the funny thing is — it wasn’t orientation per se (though there was doubtless some of that). It was part of the Truman admin recognizing that a lot of the flacks coming in during the New Deal and FDR years were ardent commies (because that was hip at the time) and were feeding Stalin info like crazy. Having big secrets like sexual deviancy or orientation that would be a scandal (at the time, not casting judgement here) were prime blackmail material, and hence security risks. And that meant more info to Stalin.
And yes — I know most of y’all know this already, but it triggers my rant reflex when they act like it was really all about He Man Gay Bashers Club Truman admin or something. Cleaning out State at a minimum (the worst infested, iirc) and the rest of FedGov at the time was a legitimate priority given the Cold War and all.
Cleaning out State at a minimum (the worst infested, iirc) and the rest of FedGov at the time was a legitimate priority given the Cold War and all.
Well the same can be said for the current time.
I think it is the opposite.
Boris: Comrade, we have photographic proof that you wear men’s underwear and have only had sex with your own wife. If you don’t become a spy for us, we will publish these photos of you and let the world know you are 100% straight.
Govt Drone: No! Don’t do that, I’ll be shunned and ostracized. I’ll do whatever you want.
Oh, I just meant it was still full of commie shitbags.
We may have to have an article/discussion on FDR’s underestimation of Stalin, Kennan’s long telegram and the death of Trotsky to sort out some facts from the hysteria that surrounded that era.
For example, the “loss of China” blamed on Truman and State. Who in the fuck thinks China was ours to lose. Because that is a real perverse mix of TR’s imperialism and Wilson’s messianic world reformation.
Or that Chiang and the KMT were classical liberals and the Founding Fathers.
Chiang “cash my check”, as American diplomats referred to him was such an epic piece of shit only Mao could make him look good
GOOOOOOD MORNING!
I am so happy to be here to say good morning!
My expectations were low for the Biden economy, but dear lord. The good news is, doom cannot last forever. I want to position myself to take advantage of recovery, even though the doom hasn’t really set it in. The way I see it, the only way to take advantage of doom/recovery cycles is to have a plan before the s really hits the fan. What are your plans, glibs?
Continue investing as I was before, as it’ll hopefully be buying the dip.
Smart man – investing is a long term game, and the goods are cheap in the dips.
That’s always good advice until it isn’t.
If all the markets go to zero, then the fiat wouldn’t be worth much, and I’ve got much bigger problems to worry about.
There are other options. Hold and hope a semblance of stability reasserts itself? Fair enough. We’ll see.
IIRC there is no 10-year period where it hasn’t worked. The typical American problem is next week is long term.
I’ve ridden this pony up the hill and now riding it down. The scenery may look different but on the average it’s still the same.
As I personally get closer to a final destination I am worrying less and enjoying the ride more.
Step 1 – Collect underpants.
I’m gonna keep doing what I’m doing. I haven’t seen a cycle like this since I got into the business, but my belief is that it won’t impact inventories available for auction. And inflation coupled with reduced production from the OEMs should keep prices relatively strong.
I would think inventories will increase. What happens to prices, hmmm, really depends on the product and market. Not sure what you’re into but I imagine you could be right about prices staying strong. I desperately want real estate and land to take a healthy dive.
Inventories won’t necessarily increase though due to the production cuts the last couple of years.
It’s an interesting dynamic and I can’t really take the lessons from the 08-09 recession as an indicator. During that, OEMs kept production levels high and incentivized fleet replacement through financing incentives. Those aren’t as prevalent today either since they don’t have enough inventory to fill their orders, let alone offer incentives to move excess equipment off dealer lots.
Parts are becoming a serious problem, and if Germany and Italy continue in their current direction, it’s going to get far worse.
I’d be curious as to how much longer until some companies start onshoring their supply chain. I can’t imagine it would be cheap with inflation, cost of living, regulatory state, and capital costs.
The types of components coming out of Europe cannot be quickly moved to other factories. Hydraulics in particular involve a lot of hyper-close tolerance machining and the people who make them have decades of experience that isn’t easily replicated.
Scruffy:
Understood, and I’m not talking about quickly, I figure that there’s some companies that have started working on an X year plan to start migrating capacity back to the states. I’m just curious as to when they’ll figure it’s worth it in the long run.
I’d expect the first company to do so would be Eaton. They’re based out of Ohio, but most of their manufacturing is currently in Italy.
I can only imagine the capital costs involved in that transition though.
Yeah, replacement parts are at a crisis level in the heavy equipment and heavy transportation sectors. And I don’t even see a light at the end of the tunnel.
If only people knew how bad things really are.
Well, just get some 3D printers fired up!
/Clueless
If only Comrade Stalin knew.
Your business is kind of inflation-proof by definition, isn’t it? The goods retain their utility, regardless of the value of the dollar.
Kind of. CARB did a good job of trying to fuck that up by destroying a lot of good older equipment.
And a lot of its utility is reliant on emerging markets keeping demand high. Because it’s relative utility compared to new equipment is severely diminished.
Keep on keeping on, be glad my mortgages are fixed rate and not from the height of the current bubble and if the market crashes, remember that they came back after 09 as well.
Continue hoping the industry I work for doesn’t tank so much I get laid off — probably sell the CA house if I can and get the hell out and live off the proceeds in GA to wait it out, at least there’s a lot more remote work this time so I can hopefully find something in my skill set that doesn’t involve living on the West Coast if the whole industry doesn’t tank.
Worst case, be glad I used to buy mint sets and use the silver for barter. Pick up some more camping type food to have a few months worth in a pinch if I can (stocked up for only a few weeks at the moment).
Maybe better than Sean and the Gnomes plan, but not by much I know. Still… not great with money / investments, so keeping on keeping on is probably my best bet.
On a serious note, the fucked economy has landed multiple new, very qualified employees on our doorstep. I’m offering a decent gig and people are signing on. I’m hoping to expand this business and reap some bonuses.
Nice, sean. Lots of lehigh valley employers crying about “how’re we supposed to compete with the Amazon warehouses?” But you do that by, I dunno, actually competing with the warehouses. Offer something better than 20/hour and having your soul drained through constant performance monitoring I guess.
That said extended unemployment benefits really screwed things up for some employers, glad they’re gone. I’d be leery of hiring anyone who boasted about taking the pay and not actively looking for work.
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I remember an article about this not long back.
As Neph says, buy the dip? I’ve still got stocks and what not incase we are at the bottom of the dip (though that doesn’t seem too, too likely), I’ve also got a decent cash and gold/silver position. Debt and hard assets too. I’m well diversified.
But the agency has also faced criticism for naming its signature project after former NASA Administrator James Webb, who previously had served as undersecretary of state during the Truman administration, when the federal government systematically purged its ranks of LGBTQ employees.
In a statement to NBC News, a NASA spokesperson said Tuesday the agency’s historians have conducted an “exhaustive search through currently accessible archives on James Webb and his career,” which has included speaking with experts who “previously researched this topic extensively.”
“NASA found no evidence at this point that warrants changing the name of the telescope,” the statement said. “They are compiling their information now into an update the agency will share.”
I didn’t realize the alphabet cuntes were outwardly vociferous in the 50s. I also don’t care about the delicate, modern sensibilities of you assholes.
Dude, telescopes are inherently gay. It’s like a big glory hole into space.
It is a giant flying phallic symbol.
And all it does is stare. It never listens.
Ahem, my stars are up HERE!
Fuck that, I’m ogling the Milky Way
Johnson!
I have a solution, take the name of the previous telescope and make it the Webb Hubble telescope.
Are you saying Chelsea is half space alien?
Are you claiming she isn’t?
Hilary would take control of it. She’d flip it around and start using it like a magnifying glass to burn her enemies.
A California appeals court has ordered the unsealing of some documents in the criminal case against renowned director Roman Polanski, who’s been a fugitive since pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl decades ago
That’s a funny way to say “statutory rape”.
It wasn’t statutory rape. Polanski drugged and raped her. If Polanski was just some average guy off the street he still would be in jail.
Well, yeah, but he had her mother’s consent!
That just makes it worse.
Yeah. It’s important to note that he plead guilty to statutory rape simply as part of a plea bargain, even he admitted that he rape-raped her.
The average rental price in Manhattan has topped $5,000 for the first time in Big Apple history, according to a jaw-dropping June market report compiled by Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel.
I could imagine what you even get for that. ///RentIsTooDamnHigh
I can’t imagine why anyone would pay that much.
Damn. Median is about $4,000.
One thing that was missing from the Polanski article was other underaged women have accused him of raping them. And he has been accused of other predatory behavior as well. And many in Hollywood excused his behavior (it wasn’t rape-rape) because he was an “artist” and had the right politics.
The aristocracy can be forgiven indiscretions so long as they don’t challenge the order.
Reading history, I think the one constant seems to be the elite doing whatever they want *as long as they’re suitably discreet about it*. What’s “discreet” varies wildly with the society and the times, but they seem to firmly believe that actually practicing the morality they often preach is for suckers (as is hard work, often enough). Our current crop of morons just have the acceptable value of discreet approaching the functional minimum.
the acceptable value of discreet approaching the functional minimum
No discretion at all – celebrate me or be cast down!
That’s what happened to the Marquis de Sade. He was a shitbag for-real rapist but has been retconned to “tee hee so naughty!”
And I, for one, can’t freaking wait for discovery.
I need more popcorn.
The suit notes the deal includes no contingency requiring Musk to secure financing, and that the billionaire waived the customary right to due diligence, which refers to the type of investigation into business fundamentals that he later pursued regarding fake accounts.
If that’s true then Musk may be in trouble.
Twitter is down for me, maybe a big outage. Things that should not happen for a company hiring so many “engineers”. They both are in trouble.
I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that Musk waived any right to do due diligence.
He may have, based on statements Twitter made to him. But if those statements turn out to be a material misrepresentation, he may have a claim either way.
If he waived due diligence, why didn’t they close the day the board accepted his offer? What have they been doing the past several weeks?
If Musk is smart, he (or an associate/sympathetic business owner) will demand Twitter provide stats showing accurate bot counts that justify the rate they paid to advertise by way of promoted tweets their companies purchased.
If Twitter sells ad space based on interaction levels, and they know those levels are incorrect, that’s a material misrepresentation and is definitely actionable. Hopefully he bought some of that ad space at one point and can bring that up whether in this suit or another suit.
Of course, if he does bring it up and the sale ends up going through, he will end up on the business end of a class action from everybody else who bought space since I can only assume he will also be buying the responsibility for what transpired before he got there.
I think the interesting thing here is that Musk is also *still* one of the largest shareholders of Twitter.
Discovery in this case could be useful for the *next* one – and that may be the one that matters.
“…and the skies turned legal pad yellow, as the suits rained down.”
This should have been done a long time ago.
Even it has less potential for side-effects it is still as pointless as a regular flu shot imho.
The biggest taco authority in these parts is Chron “Tacos y Más” columnist Marco Torres, but Favor Delivery is also jumping on the taco journalism bandwagon by appointing a chief taco officer who will travel Texas in search of the best tortilla-wrapped bites.
Finally we have something to tacobout.
We need an authority to rein in the wild world of tacos. Have you seen what ingredients some places use?
Let ten thousand taco types bloom!
I made pulled pork tacos this past weekend. They were damn tasty!
Let tacos rain from the sky!
Seems this cunte deleted his retardation. But the internet is forever.
Straightforward from here:
1. Biden announces not running again.
2. 2022 focus turns to R extremism, Ds do well in Nov.
3. Inflation subsides, Ukraine defeats Russia, Biden is successful 1-term president.
4. Younger moderate D defeats Trump or Trumpist in ’24.
Trump seriously broke people.
He states that like it is a good thing, when it is quite possible that it would lead to a nuclear war.
Even Kissinger thinks it’s nuts.
He didn’t delete it – Twitter is down since ~8am.
I remember when facebook went down and no one knew how to physically access the server to do a reset so it was down for most of a day. People on twitter gloated. I imagine twitter is having a similar experience today.
How is this ass clown a conservative or Republican?
He’s not. He’s a Trotskyite, just like his father.
Now, to find a young moderate dem who isn’t a blithering idiot. Oh wait, there aren’t any.
The comments in the Twitter thread… ::derp alert::
More proof that Minnesoda is better than SoDak!. Minnesoda may have had a 33% rise in syphilis, but SoDak had a 2183% increase! (NoDak was still at 0% because you can’t get the clap from a sheep)
If NoDak ever gets a case it will be an infinite percent increase.
Since the journalo didn’t put the actual number of cases in Minnesoda, I looked it up. Looks like it jumped from 1,088 to 1,449.
And it was all because of PO’d Nick and his online dating game.
Mother told me, yes, she told me I’d meet girls like you
She also told me, “Stay away, you’ll never know what you’ll catch”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgN_8cxBCWw
All I’m seeingis they have more fun in NoDak
General Custer pulled his troops together just before the attack on the Sioux.
“Men I have good news and bad news. The bad news is we are going to be wiped out to the last man”
“What is the good news sir?”
“We won’t have to march back across North Dakota”
There used to be a billboard just before entering Montana: “Custer was alive when he left North Dakota”
/considers moving to Scotland
It is probably the biggest proof of just how much a square I am that I keep thinking that STDs would be almost completely wiped out (natal transfers would keep some, right?) if people just kept it in their damned pants until they have committed partners for one generation or so.
one generation or so
That would be the first generation to successfully do so in the History of Mankind.
Thanks, Smokey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9_mH82hBdc
You ever hear the one about the difference between Mick Jagger and a Scottish farmer?
but SoDak had a 2183% increase
Sturgis finally pays off.
You absolutely can get Syphilis from a sheep.
You realize we’re all now hearing “Ask me how I know!” in our heads… 😉
“Some men loves the women, and some men loves the boys, but my love is warm and beautiful, and makes a ‘Baah-ing’ noise.”
– Traditional
Sure. Tractor seats too, amirite?
Whatevs, but don’t try to tell me that you can get head from a camel (SFW)
Are you training that pony to please you?
Maria Muldaur implied otherwise.
Three ranchers were talking where fences met on the Montana/SoDak/NoDak border. There was a sheep tangled up in it.
The NoDak said, “I wish I had a wire cutter to free that sheep.”
The SoDak said, “I wish I had my rifle to put that sheep down and end it’s suffering.”
The Montanan said, “I wish you two would leave us alone.”
“‘Abortion storyteller’ sparks fury after claiming termination is an ‘act of self-love’ and says hers was ‘best decision I ever made’ in testimony to the House Oversight Committee on repealing of Roe v Wade”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11012493/Abortion-storyteller-sparks-fury-claiming-termination-act-self-love.html
Why is there a House Oversight Committee?
Also, don’t think something that isn’t a law can be repealed.
I believe the US Army is looking to change its slogan to “Kill with love.”
LOWER SELF-ESTEEM? HOLY FUCKING SHIT, ABORT ‘EM ALL!
Now do suicide rates. rates of alcoholism.
High self-esteem is like a guaranteed right like the right to be free from offense or fear.
Having someone depend on you for literally their life would seemingly give one feelings of worth.
Self Esteem – Offspring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNZnhxWLHo
The American public can trust that this vaccine, like all vaccines that are used in the United States, has undergone the FDA’s rigorous and comprehensive scientific and regulatory review,” said Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s vaccine division.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I definitely want to choke the shit out of this Marks clown.
Come on. This time we mean it. Why don’t you trust us?
I remember when I thought Jenny McCarthy was a nutcase. Seems she was on to something.
She has as much credibility as Peter Marks.
I can’t seem to find the reason why.
In June, Boebert was told by new landlord Milken Enterprises that her lease wasn’t going to be renewed.
Boebert said the letter came as a shock. She soon called the landlord but “there wasn’t really much wiggle room or anywhere to compromise unless we bought the building ourselves.”
The first paragraph alone tells me that the writer has never been to Texas.
I think I’ve seen a documentary about that.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Fools and their money
Bill Gates is moving $20 billion of his wealth into the endowment of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is ramping up its spending in the face of global challenges including the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
The foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropies, plans to increase its payouts by 50% over pre-pandemic levels, from nearly $6 billion to $9 billion each year by 2026. The foundation is primarily focused on charitable giving that’s aimed at improving global health, gender equality and education, among other issues.
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“I will move down and eventually off of the list of the world’s richest people,” Gates wrote in a blog post Wednesday. “I have an obligation to return my resources to society in ways that have the greatest impact for improving lives. I hope others in positions of great wealth and privilege will step up in this moment too.”
You’d do more good dumping that money on a bonfire than giving it to the vast web of non profit mountebanks you currently currently support, you dummy.
Given that Bill and Melinda are splitsville, I wonder to what extent Melinda is still involved in the foundation that bears her name.
I thought he was busy buying all our farms so we’d starve to death and stop bothering him?
The parasites are going to be knifing each other trying to get at that moulah.
I have to admit I didn’t have Bill Gates on my 2022 Soros-ian supervillain bingo card.
Mid 90’s geeks were right.
Is it wrong that I would want him to build beautiful public buildings? e.g. libraries? Miss those days.
He’s giving it to himself. This isn’t charity. It’s tax-avoidance.
Daily Kick to the Gut that is Quordling… (ok, actually today wasn’t bad — I just wanted to contrast the good Pope’s sunshine 😉 ):
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quordle.com
Would have had a 3-4-5-6 but missed a 50/50 on bottom right.
Daily Quordle 171
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Wut.
I’m that good. 🧐
Here’s my actual score:
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That looks like skullduggery.
Either that or incompetence.
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I thought Nazis were the go-to comparison.
“One thing that I’ve really come away with in terms of how Republicans writ large see what’s happening, particularly with yesterday’s hearing, is that what we saw was…evidence that the president called on not only right-wing groups like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, but also really galvanized everyday Americans with language that was false, with propaganda to encourage them to come to Washington, D.C., and fight for a lie. What that is, is radicalization. If this was done in the name of Al-Qaeda or of ISIS, we would have the Republican Party all over this, but what we saw is that exact same thing happening to American citizens that led up to an attempted coup at the Capitol.”
Speaking of propaganda, there was no attempted coup, you dishonest cunte.
Are they slogging through these hearing simply because they talked themselves into a corner?
Have the hearings moved the needle at all? If anything you’d think that the silly claims that Trump was choking out Secret Service agents pushed anybody in the middle in the opposite direction.
One of the TVs at the gym shows some news channel and after one of these hearings you will see all the blowhards yammering (the sound is off) and they always seem so sure the walls are closing in.
They are all busy trying to suck the last molecule of oxygen out of their bubble.
It was 52 deg F when I woke up. Perfect sleeping weather (with enough covers). All the windows in the house were open. And a skunk sprayed somewhere near…
If your dog gets sprayed by a skunk, do you know what to do.
Take it to a groomer and tell them you don’t want it back until it doesn’t smell. Cost doesn’t matter, it’s worth every penny.
I tried that, but the teacher screamed at me to get out of the local elementary school. I must be doing it wrong.
*golf clap*
The Blue Jays should be forced to play home games in a more civilized place.
What are you talking about? The Sky Dome is the friendliest place on Earth.
Maybe you are upset about Toronto because the rich fat cats have buxom blondes while the working man has nothing?
You don’t need to be a rich fat cat to have sex with a buxom blonde in a high rise hotel suite. But it probably doesn’t hurt.
The buxom blonde could always be the rich one, after all…
She was superficial and only interested in the size of the bulge in that old man’s pants?
The bulge in his back pocket where he kept his wallet.
A lot has changed in 32 years. I bet Toronto used to be fun. Now it’s police-state central.
I was listening to a podcast about Billy Martin and one of the side stories was about his protégé Ricky Henderson.
The story was that Ricky never knew the name of anyone he played with. In Toronto he saw John Olerud wearing a hard helmet out in the field. He said “Hey we had a guy on the Mets last year who did the same thing.” At which point Olerud said, “Yeah, that was me Ricky. We were team mates last year”
The other great Ricky Henderson story was that The A’s gave him a $1M bonus for making some performance clause in his contract. After months the check hadn’t been cashed so they called him and it turned out that he had simply framed the check and hung it on the wall of his house.
“British eco-zealots who have slashed tires of at least 40 gas-guzzling SUVs in NYC now attack cars in Chicago, San Francisco and Scranton as they ‘massively expand’ operation after wreaking havoc in UK
Eco-zealots are slashing tires on SUVs across the globe in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Tire Extinguishers movement, which started in the United Kingdom, has spread to the United States and leaders promised to ‘expand massively’ in the coming weeks.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11011931/Eco-zealots-slashed-SUV-tires-NYC-attack-luxury-cars-Chicago-San-Francisco-Scranton.html
British climate change wackos have the best names.
I’ll take — “What’s one big difference between the US and the UK that rhymes with Fecund Pretendment for $400, Alex.”
Of course, other than Chicago (don’t know about Scranton) they of course are trying to stay in the comfortably disarmed sections….
Right. I give it a week before they hit the SUV of some gangbanger who happens to be parked in one of those nice, white neighborhoods and we will see what happens.
Dumbasses.
Fingers crossed.
So they are reducing greenhouse emissions by slashing tires, causing the owners to call out a big diesel truck to tow the car, still find a way to get where they need to go (probably paying for a taxi that still uses gas), and buy another tire long before the tire was due to be replaced?
I’m not sure that lowers greenhouse gasses.
You know what else reduces greenhouse gasses?
Removing tire-slashing greenies from the gene pool.
I’d make sure to light the slashed tire on fire somewhere near these nuts clubhouse.
NYC, SF, fine. But you leave Scranton alone!
Eco-zealots, or tire investors.
Watch for the next picture of people doing this and right behind them will be the CEO of Goodyear cheering them on.
Slashed Tire Fallacy
I’m Irish, so I’d knee-cap the wankers.
They could be beaten or shot in Scranton. It is strange that Scranton was chosen by this grass roots organization. I’m sure some shit head from NYC who reads his greenie propaganda is going to the U of Scranton. I cant imagine a local kid with that level of cluelessness on what could happen to him.
Yesterday the CPI “exceeded expectations”. Today the PPI overachieved.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/wholesale-inflation-surges-11-3-june-accelerating-more-expected
Most of the hourly employees that report to me at work got between 4% and 8% pay adjustments yesterday. Salaried guys like me got zilch.
I got notified that I qualified for a raise this year, which isn’t even close to the inflation rate. So I’m taking a smaller pay cut then I would otherwise…
Same.
All our salaried employees (who aren’t getting laid-off) are getting a 3% bump tomorrow. Our one and only raise this year.
We got the last 2% of the active contract back in april, ending that contract.
The new contract won’t be done being negotiated for 3-4 years.
All of our lower level employees (job levels 1-5) are getting a 5% raise.
We just increased our hourlies’ rates by a total of ~12%, some more, some less, depending on position and performance.
Of course the usual grumblings occurred. All were initially happy until they started telling each other their new rates, then the comparisons began. The people who think they’re the hardest workers (but aren’t) started throwing under the bus their fellows who got bigger raises.
I’ll never understand why they tell each other what they make.
Funny how that is a huge difference between hourly and salaried employees.
A few weeks back everyone got a 2% raise, with the caveat that if the economy keeps going south, it may be counted at year-end raise time. Meaning, it’s possible we could get a 1% raise at the end of the year. I’m not impressed.
Crisis!
“We’re seeing a shortage, or housing underproduction, in all corners of the U.S.,” says Mike Kingsella, the CEO of Up for Growth, which on Thursday released a study about the problem. The nonprofit research group is made up of affordable housing and industry groups.
“America’s fallen 3.8 million homes short of meeting housing needs,” he says. “And that’s both rental housing and ownership.”
Home prices are up more than 30% over the past couple of years, making homeownership unaffordable for millions of Americans. Rents are rising sharply too. The biggest culprit is this historic housing shortage. Strong demand and low supply mean higher prices.
Part of the problem goes back to the last housing crash, which happened around 2008. After that, many homebuilders went out of business, and economists say we didn’t build enough for a decade.
I have reached the point where every time I see one of these articles, I assume there is a glut of houses, and this is a directed effort to keep the bubble intact.
They’ve been building multi-family housing like there’s no tomorrow for years.
We’re all going to be living in beehive apartments if DC gets their way.
Maybe if we had a handle on immigration, the demand side of that equation wouldn’t be so high.
Downtown office buildings are sitting pretty empty. The city should buy them and turn it into Section 8 housing. Everyone wins!
Woman, 26, exposes the most shocking things men have said to her when she’s asked them to wear a condom – from ‘just take Plan B’ to ‘I’ll find someone else then’
That’s a lot of quotes for a 26 year old to have collected.
It’s a long and convoluted way of saying “I’m a slut and an attention whore.”
Almost like if we didn’t use infanticide as birth control the prior generations practices of getting to know potential partners over a long period and waiting until marriage start to make a lot more sense, isn’t it? But nah… the current crop knows *SO* much more than the prior 10000 years of human history… (ok, yes they didn’t always live up to it — but there’s a reason that was the preached morality to aspire to outside of the decedent elites as mentioned prior).
If the Court also just happened to kill hookup culture by pushing things back to the States, I’m not going to weep in any way, shape or form.
I guess even then, is it that much of an imposition to wrap it up if you are going to hook-up? Do you want to fuck the random guy who refuses to put a condom on? Fellas, do you really want to fuck the random girl who is cool with you not wearing one?
Questions for Plato.
I keep finding it interesting that the solutions most of these people have to the decision are thinks like: “men, get a vasectomy” “make sure you wear condoms now!” Take your birth control”
Do they not understand that these are the exact things most pro-lifers wanted them to do all along?
Not so much the Catholic ones…
Did not know SDF-7 was really Catholic.
Funnily enough… guess what? 😉
The Borgias were Catholic too. It’s a real big tent.
*looks at picture in article,*
If somehow I got drunk enough to do her, I’d still definitely wear a condom. Fuck I wouldn’t want kids with an idiot like that.
She did a semester abroad in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She made quite the impression on the locals.
Looks like she took a dip in a Minnesoda lake as she headed back home.
No problem, babe. Could you put on this ball gag?
Those all seem like reasonable responses, from someone who is looking to catch STDs from this chick.
She a ho.
“In Los Angeles, for instance, which is the most underproduced metro in the country, it’s lacking 8.4% — nearly 400,000 homes missing across the region,” Kingsella says. In other words, given the population of Los Angeles, there should be that many more units to meet the demand.
It’s not just LA. In hundreds of big cities and small towns, from Boston to Boise, there’s a housing shortage. But Kingsella says this is a solvable problem: “It doesn’t have to be this way, is a key message coming out of this report.”
Perhaps the biggest issue, he says, is that states and towns desperately need to change their zoning rules.
And there it is.
Walkable cities, just like those quaint little towns in the Alps. That’s what we need.
If only we could get rid of all the cars.
I can’t imagine any reason why LA would be short of housing given the ultra-permissive and business-friendly state and local governments out there.
I wonder what else is causing a failure to meet demand… it’s on the tip of my tongue… rhymes with begulation…. Nah, I give up.
NPR, so I’m not going to bother reading the article — but in CA, that’s almost always code for “force everyone to allow apartment towers everywhere and get rid of single family housing”. They keep trying to push that at the state level because the localities are having none of it.
Also at the state level (don’t know how bad it is nationally), worth pointing out that regulating the crap out of things, having multiple layers of bribes ^W permits and mandating all kinds of stuff like solar installations, etc. driving the per-unit price up is almost certainly affecting what’s built to be in the “affordable” ranges, dummies.
Zoning is an abomination and a violation of property rights.
Would the end of zoning mean apartment towers everywhere? No, of course not, but it would mean mixed use. So there may be a four-plex in the middle of a SFH neighborhood.
Or, as I have joked, I oppose zoning because I want a pub on my street. Proponents of zoning support it because they don’t want a pub on their street.
I think my position is the clear libertarian one.
Of course, it might mean apartment towers all over downtown San Francisco. Because the are at least 3 increments of development behind.
The general rule of thumb is the next increment is affordable when the building:land ratio is below 3:1. Parts of SF are approaching 1:3. They really do need to allow someone to buy about entire blocks of Single Family Homes and bulldoze for 9 story condo buildings.
SF should look like Manhattan. Manhattan should look like SF (sci-fi).
/looks at the pub at the corner of my street
Sure, on the corner. But I bet the corner is with a major street, not a corner embedded in the middle of a neighborhood.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.238585,-85.7367641,3a,75y,113.76h,81.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHW87hNBFHiP9OkSq7k8tLA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Although here is an exception, the corner of Caldwell and Swan. The building with Hammerheads with grandfathered into the zoning regs. If you look at Louisville zoning maps, it is a one property exception. Hammerheads is in the basement space now. Its very good. Previously is was a basement bar called The Swan Dive.
The street view with the shirtless guy with the baseball bat? ax? is the perfect representation of that neighborhood.
I was at Hammerheads once and their was a crew in hazmat suits clearing out the house 2 doors down. I think it was a meth lab.
Both Hammerheads and Come Back Inn down the street are excellent restaurants.
In this case, it is. However, my old stomping grounds were in “historic” downtown Willougbhy. Above those bars and shops are all apartments, with houses just off that street.
One of the local musicians has a story about getting a noise complaint from the people who lived above that Irish pub. On a Friday… at ~21:00.
Yeah, the Avenues in my neighborhood are all shops/bars/etc. with apartments above. I do NOT want to live in one of those apartments. The cross-streets are all residential. I am happy enough to live adjacent to a corner Avenue building. I still get the noise but not as bad and the Middle Easterners who have taken over almost every business don’t party all night like the kids that used to patronize them did.
There was a time when the conservation groups in the U.S. were strongly in favor of very low immigration numbers because they didn’t want all our open space turned into apartment buildings.
I mean, look at all the affordable housing in NYC.
“Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that makes farts smell bad, can help prevent heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and dementia”
https://twitter.com/UberFacts/status/1546275830275493890
No wonder all the sewer workers live forever.
So today I learned:
DDG>how many ppm of hydrogen sulfide in a fart
I gotta show that to my wife.
“prevent” heart attacks? It can also cause immediate cardiac failure and respiratory arrest.
That’s playing with fire.
They just moved in a couple of weeks ago. And they are feeling a little apprehensive about being an African American family moving from the city into a tiny rural town that is nearly 90% white, according to census data. There’s a bit of a culture clash too.
“Moving to country Georgia where there’s an ammo shop down the street, it’s like a constant in your face,” Danielle says.
But the couple says the neighbors seem friendly. There are other families with kids. So they’re feeling hopeful.
The Klan will be by soon to burn a cross in your yard, don’t worry.
I look forward to the local machine mocking GOP gubernatorial candidate for his energy plan.
He wants to nuke our outdoors!!!!
Former Minnesoda Viking, Matt Birk?
Yup. He’s super problematic because he is very anti-LGBT. Like he made an ad opposing same sex marriages.
I hate the fucker because he forced Randy Moss out from the Vikings. He made it known that he didn’t want to play on the same team as Moss and the Brain Trust decided that an average center was way more important that the GOAT receiver.
Good thing Moss wasn’t a GOAT, made the decision easier.
That NPR thing is a treasure trove of derp:
There is some debate about just how bad the shortage is in terms of the number of homes the U.S. needs. Mark Zandi, the chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, estimates the shortfall is closer to 1.6 million homes. He was not a part of this study.
“It’s very difficult to know precisely what the shortage is,” Zandi says. “But the bottom line is, no matter what the estimate is, it’s a lot of homes that we’re undersupplied.” And he adds there’s no doubt that many more homes need to be built to ensure that housing becomes more affordable, whether it’s rental housing or homeownership.
Mark Zandi, super-genius. Pay no attention to the cost side of the ledger. We’ll make it up on volume.
Homes became way more affordable in 2008 but no one seemed to think that was a good thing.
Idk. I thought it was awesome. I hope it happens again. I have a fairly large pile of money I’d like to trade for a house but I refuse to spend 750k on a 50 year old shitbox
Homes became way more affordable in 2008 but no one seemed to think that was a good thing.
Hush, you!
Sure did. I am glad I bought in that dip.
“Official oppression”? WTF is that?
From the Polanski article:
Wait he was convicted of raping a 13 year old and he’s upset because it was going to be an entire 90 days?
Please tell me that my Memphis State reading skillz have failed me. And to flee because of that massive sentence? WTF?
I had always assumed he fled because he was looking at years and years in the pen.
Nope. He was getting a slap on the wrist and he bailed.
Of course, he might have been facing a return to a roommate situation that he most assuredly deserved.
Being a five foot nothing convicted kidbanger in a state prison is certainly hard time and risky but, yeah, his sentence was extremely light.
Good morning, Sloop!
What the fuck are “digital weights”? I’m shocked that the company is floundering.
I used to hate the Smiths. I’ve evolved. So thanks for the tunes!
Filling in for Neph here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gIQos8yR17E
By the way Sloop, can’t believe you skipped over this bit of sports news. It’s a good trade.
“Ray Epps has suffered enormously in the past 10 months as right-wing media figures and Republican politicians have baselessly described him as a covert government agent who helped to instigate the attack on the Capitol last year.”
https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/1547235348396244993
It’s on video.
NYT? Now do “baselessly described him as a pawn of Russia” or “baselessly claimed corruption with Ukraine”… heck, even “baselessly dismissed as unfounded a story about a laptop left for service and not picked up”… we’ll wait.
You will believe what we tell you, not what you think for yourself!
Jan 6 participants continue to languish in jail or are being arrested, yet he walks around a free man with zero apparent FBI interest. Pull the other one.
You see, he was left alone by the FBI because he was so forthcoming, you know, just like Buffalo Hat guy… oh wait….
Jan 6 participants continue to
languishsuffer in jail. FTFYFor some reason, until the horrible event in Uvalde, the Jan 6 protest results depressed me more than all the other crap. And there is mountain of crap. I guess the complete loss of a viable justice system and the cheering it on completely black pills me.
We are into the daily triple digit temps here in southwest Nevada. And of course the AC decided to give out.
Well, one of them did anyway. The house can be roughly divided into 2 wings: the master suite, which includes a rather large bedroom/sitting room, master bath, and walk-in closet; and the rest of the house which includes kitchen, 3 parlors (for lack of a better term), an office, guest bathroom, and guest bedroom.
There are two separate air conditioning systems, one for the master suite, one for the rest. And naturally during the heat wave, the big one for most of the house gave up the ghost.
So I’m pretty much living in the master suite for now, but “a guy” is coming out in a couple of hours to tell us how badly we are screwed. I guess HVAC is a pretty steady gig out here in the Mojave.
HVAC in Vegas is huge and a coveted class we can get in the FAA that can transfer to the private sector. Sorry to hear it shit the bed. Ours did that a couple years back, also at the peak of summer.
I recall vaguely that I decided “sure, why not?” On the home warranty when we closed on the house, so we might get some relief (financially) that way.
We shall see…I hear that those home warranties are largely scams.
I had good luck with the one I had for my old house. I got a new A-Coil and a new Range for $100 each. I think the annual fee was about $450-$600 dollars then. I have not had one in awhile so I don’t know how expensive they are.
Welp just tendered my resignation from the manager’s spot. It’s a small pay cut (~5% of base pay) but opens up more opportunities if I want to move because I can keep my skills sharp as a technician and still exercise my managerial skills as an informal leader and other opportunities.
I have just had a trashy week on misthreading!
It happens.
Our home-warranty/service-contract has been a god-send, completely worth it.
Mine too. Very happy with it.
We just sold my mil’s place. Some issue with the furnace came up during the inspection. First guy out $15k replacement, second guy $3k repair.
I prefer the honest ones.
Sounds about right. Fan motor went in one of our office air exchangers. The HVAC repair company wanted $1800 to fix it. I bought a replacement motor online for $300 and was done in an hour.
I don’t mind paying for expertise, but I don’t like getting fucked over either.
Recently applied for a job. As part of the process I was required to fill out a ‘Diversity Survey’ filled with all sorts of disgusting proggy claptrap. My down the line “I prefer not the answer” probably disqualified me.
Private sector or another govt gig?
At the moment it’s still NY state. But it’s a step towards figuring out how to apply for a real job. (it’s been forever, so I keep second guessing myself)
After 20 years of govt work I would never attempt re-entry to the private sector (though from what I hear is getting as bad as any govt bureaucracy). I’m all but retired right now.
I’m only 14 years in.
Yeah, 20 years as a contractor with govt clients. Wasn’t ever my plan, and I could’ve gone civil service way back, which probably would’ve been the smart move.
It is getting as bad, but there is no retirement check to look forward to. With the cancer of ESG spreading throughout corporate America, we are essentially the government’s lackeys. All the BS, none of the benefits.
“Man Arrested in Alleged Slaying of Fisherman Out of Fear of Being Eaten by Bigfoot:
Larry Doil Sanders, 53, allegedly confessed to killing a noodling partner because of trepidation of Sasquatch, per an arrest affidavit
“LARRY claimed that while at the river, he discovered JIMMY intended to feed him to sasquatch/bigfoot,” the affidavit said. “LARRY indicated JIMMY attempted to get away from him so that the sasquatch could eat LARRY. LARRY would not let JIMMY get away. LARRY punched JIMMY and struck JIMMY with a stick. LARRY and JIMMY fought for an extended amount of time on the ground. LARRY confirmed he killed JIMMY by choking him to death near the river.””
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/man-arrested-in-alleged-slaying-of-fisherman-out-of-fear-of-being-eaten-by-bigfoot-authorities/2937443/
Kramer can finally rest easy because JIMMY can’t get even with him anymore.
The truth of STEVE SMITH must not be revealed to the masses…
“noodling partner” huh?
He was catfished.
Noodling was a pretty common practice in NE Iowa when I was a kid. Some guys caught a lot of catfish that way in the backwaters of the upper Mississippi.
I knew of two guys who used to go noodling for snapping turtles. I should write up the story of Lefty and Three-Finger Pete sometime.
Real big in OK too. Its fun to watch.
It’s 2022. Steve notwithstanding, this notion of adults who believe in bigfoot is silly.
All serious cryptozoologists agree that the bigfoot population was exterminated in the Mt. St Helens eruptions in ’80.
“. The Blue Jays should be forced to play home games in a more civilized place. ”
Not a big sports or especially baseball guy, but how can a team be allowed to keep the other team’s players off of the field? For whatever reason? It is bullcrap- they should be disqualified from playoffs.
As far as I am concerned, all competitions are void until the world pulls its head out of its ass. The plague craziness, the banning of Russians, the dude-looks-like-a-lady’s… the whole lot is making a mockery of competitive sports.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547426024316616705
AOC stumbles over the truth?
She really is a naïve nitwit.
For a half second I thought she was being politically savvy and distancing herself from the J6 Committee.
They weren’t “supporting insurrectionists” you stupid git – they were waving in mostly-peaceful protestors.
What happens when AOC starts talking about Ray Epps…
My head will explode?
She better be careful or she’ll wake up with a horse head in her bed.
She’s too dumb to understand what that means. She’d probably think it was due to climate change.
Wait. She wakes up with a horse head in her bed every morning. It’s on her shoulders….
Please. I’m pretty sure my horse is smarter than she is.
How can I get in touch with that Tonal user?
“Another poll showing Democrats ahead. Why? Because Democrats put people over politics and are focused on lowering costs, good-paying jobs and safe communities.
MAGA Republicans are focused on prosecuting the doctor who gave abortion care to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio.”
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1547385329773989888
CWAA
Was that a poll he removed from his arse?
Because you need fake polls before fake elections. Otherwise the whole thing looks fake.
Fake primary elections for the people count fake votes help too.
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/how-did-a-zuckerberg-charity-stooge?utm_medium=email
From the comments:
“If people see Republicans vote against things that help children after they are born, this lead will get even bigger.”
Things like shutting down crisis pregnancy centers. Oh wait, that was Elizabeth Warren.
Who ran this poll? Maybe it was from 4 years ago.
wasn’t he involved in illegal gun sales?
Nah, that was a state Assembly member, not Congress critter. Or were you making a “they all look alike” joke?
LOL sure, Jan.
Welp just tendered my resignation from the manager’s spot. It’s a small pay cut (~5% of base pay) but opens up more opportunities if I want to move because I can keep my skills sharp as a technician and still exercise my managerial skills as an informal leader and other opportunities.
My boss was falling all over herself. “Is it because I haven’t made you permanent?” Maybe. “Too much workload?” No cause my permanent position is way more work.
Why are so many managers surprised when people make career moves that aren’t “wait for manager to decide to move them”?
That is very evident in the public sector. People park themselves and wait for others to move them all the time. There are some that seek out to enhance their skills, but its rare from what I have seen.
Lock up yer plants!
Someone should record that video with their cell phone and post it to YouTube.
Ensure alternation between portrait and landscape.
Tomatoes are ripening.
We have lots of flowering and some fruits but nothing close to ripe yet. Will be harvesting first round of jalapenos soon though.
Gf’s been harvesting some of her cherry & blackcherry tomatoes.
blackcherry tomatoes?
Heads to DDG
Also heads to DDG…oh my!
They look cool. Will have to grow some next year.
The one plant is 8+ ft tall and tied off to the porch gutter.
And frequently demands to be fed.
Maybe just clearing the space for the unhoused
They thought they were kidnapping President Biden?
WHYCOME STEVE SMITH GET BLAME?
Price controls will fix our problems
“We’re seeing negative spillover effects from [the Russia-Ukraine] war in every corner of the world, particularly with respect to higher energy prices, and rising food insecurity,” Yellen said.
She said the U.S. will continue conversations with other countries to see “what we can do together to help others around the world impacted by Russia’s war.” It includes addressing food insecurity, and the design and implementation of a price cap on Russian oil, she added.
“A price cap on Russian oil is one of our most powerful tools to address the pain that Americans and families across the world are feeling at the gas pump and the grocery store right now. A limit on the price of Russian oil will deny Putin revenue his war machine needs.”
As Washington bans Russian oil and European countries look to cut Russian oil use, prices of oil have surged. Crude oil prices rose above $120 a barrel in March after the Russia-Ukraine war started.
Economists have warned that further bans could propel prices to as high as $175 a barrel.
How does she propose to make that work? Our bully pulpit has degenerated into bullshit artistry.
And on that note of stupidity, I’m tapping out for a bit.
The price cap for Russian oil should be negative. Force the Russians to pay us to take their oil. Set it right and we can pay off our debt. Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Biden’s brain trust will truly save us.
It has to be intentional.
She can’t be that stupid, can she?
Yellen said she is hopeful the price cap will be attractive to many Russian oil importing companies as it will mitigate the high costs of import due to insurance and financial bans on Russian oil deliveries.
Sure, why not?
Next up, Canadian lumber prices. We’ll fix our housing shortage.
the price cap will be attractive to many Russian oil importing companies
I’m sure it will be, until they find out the Russians won’t sell at that price.
^^This
How are we going to enforce what the Russians will sell their oil at?
blackcherry tomatoes?
Sounds like James Brown’s backup singers.
James Brown? They don’t stay blackcherry for long.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/electric-cars-now-targeted-overloading-electric-grids-energy-crisis/
That sounds convenient. 🙄
Wait til FedGov converts its fleet to electric…which they are doing so.
I am looking forward to BEV tactical vehicles.
What is the time frame to spin up a nuke plant?
http://www.euanmearns.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/constructiontime.png
heh heh heh. Pre- or post- TMI?
It was kind of a rhetorical question, as getting one built in the US is impossible. But the graph I posted shows the worldwide mean at 7.5 years.
So if we had the clearance, we would need to start NOW!!! to prevent any serious issues.
And would need some gas plants in the meantime, as they only take about 2 years.
So what you’re saying is we need to start building, and snipe the regularots as they start snooping?
It’s almost like smart people have been saying this for years.
A little preview – this is a screaming deal on a first-rate AR upper:
https://www.brownells.com/rifle-parts/receiver-parts/receivers/upper-receivers/le6960-ccu-upper-receiver-5-56-m-lok-black-sku160000445-120469-221172.aspx
Editors: I submitted a new work of fiction for your consideration…
They’re not members of the J6 committee.
Uh-oh, is Dick Slashballs making his triumphant return?
*crosses fingers* an adventure of Dick Slashballs?
I’m still working on him, but just keep getting it wrong. Someday…
There’s yet another Gun Rights lawsuit against New York, this time targetting the “Assault Weapons” ban. How many are we up to?
NYSPRA against the new Post-Bruen licensing regime.
A Downstater against the NYC licensing regime for longarms.
Paladino against… something.
FPC against the Assault Weapons Ban.
I can’t help but think I’m missing one…
Once you can maybe spin it…but twice?
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1547606015968829440
Just watching him, it’s obvious he’s got some for of dementia. It’s not even the handshake, pay attention to the way he moves after there’s no one there. he leaves the hand out, and moves in a fog, having to be directed all the way to a chair not ten feet away.
They can spin it again and they will spin it again. You just gotta believe.