BREAKING: Body believed to be that of Steven Hoffenberg, who worked with Jeffrey Epstein, found.
CANADA EUTHANIZING SICK AND POOR: The Daily Signal reminds us of the inevitable result of government-run healthcare.
FIRE UP THE WOODCHIPPER: Colorado social worker faces mounting accusations she ‘baselessly’ separated kids from parents. While the press article focuses on the one individual, the real issue is government having this power, and that all those kidnappings just sailed right through whatever review process was in place. And it gets worse – Robin Niceta is accused of making sexual advances towards women she was actively investigating in her role as a social worker for the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services, and trying to separate children from those women’s families if her advances were spurned, according to the lawsuit. Everyone who signed off on any part of this process should be fed-in, feet first.
ANOTHER TRAGIC LEGACY OF COVID LOCKDOWNS AND SCHOOL CLOSURES: Type 2 diabetes diagnoses in youth jumped 77 percent during COVID-19.
STUDENT LOAN DEBT CANCELLATION ROUNDUP: Warty turned me on to the existence of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, who have a wonderful, but grim explainer article. One of the gems of the CRFB article was a link to this Virginia Law Review article about standing to sue over debt cancellation. Finally, a link to the indispensable article on The Chump Effect and why your feelings of anger and betrayal are totes legit.
MIXED FEELINGS: Missouri school district reinstates spanking: ‘We’ve had people actually thank us.’ While appropriate corporal punishment is a legitimate option in some cases, do we really trust government to initiate more force against its subjects?
WHO IS BEHIND THIS? One theory states that the ad may have come from right-leaning Texans eager to keep liberal Californians away from their voting booths. Others thought that the message may have come from Californians in an attempt to slow an “exodus” to Texas.
I’m covering my entire body in aluminum foil.
I am going with the Personal Faraday Cage m’self.
Not colloidal silver?
What, you tried the Amazon Palm and feel dirty now?
Alternate take — Baked potatoes do cook better that way….
Henceforth known as Count Baked Potato?
That is typical before baking.
This is potato on potato crime.
Aluminum’s atomic number is too small to stop the rays. You must use tinfoil. The phrase is “tinfoil hat” for a reason.
That’s just a stock of a lesbian, right?
*photo
That is the booking photo of the social worker, Robin Niceta, from the linked article. She certainly instantiates the stereotype.
She’s definitely never busted a towel rod over her partner’s head.
Maybe not, since her former partner was the chief of police. No, really, it’s in the article.
Also in the article – a picture of said partner, who is even more of a straight-from-central-casting type
Oh, shit. I thought that was the Canadian dude!
“Type 2 diabetes rates doubled among Black youth, nearly doubled among Hispanic youth and decreased among white youth.”
What?
That doesn’t sound right…with the lockdowns, I would have thought all groups would have gone up.
Urban areas shut down. Things pretty much stayed the same in my lily white suburb.
The suburban area I’m in shut down hard. They closed the bathrooms and water fountains in the parks, and along the fitness trails, put up yellow tape to “shut down” the fitness stations. At some of the bathroom locations, they brought in port-a-potties.
Those plastic locks being impervious to COVID…
Our parks were flooded with teenagers hanging out and playing all day. They were having the time of their lives. Most really miss covid.
I live in one of the 5 wealthiest suburbs in America.
Go figure, huh?
Is Beverly Hills considered the suburbs?
maybe
Laptop class can afford low carb diets. Blacks and Hispanic live in food deserts and can only eat cheap bad carbs. Also Racism.
Could also point to shut down of sports leagues, and parks.
“Although girls are typically diagnosed with type 2 diabetes more often than boys, results showed that in the first year of the pandemic 55 percent of new onset cases were among boys. “This was one of the more unusual findings from our study,” noted co-first author Risa Wolf in a release.”
Boys are generally more active than girls?
So can we now say the lockdowns and Fauci are racist?
Has been the whole time.
tRuMp’S fAuLt!
Oh they are working overtime to make sure not only covid deaths but vaccine deaths/injuries are because of OMB
Boy, if there was *one* thing you couldn’t blame the office of management and budget for…
Those new title-case street signs in SF and NY look strange.
However, commentators, Congress, and the Executive should be aware of the strong possibility that the judicial branch will have nothing at all to say about the legality of student debt relief using the HEA, given that it is unlikely any party would have standing to challenge the government’s action if the government makes the decision through an adjudication rather than negotiated rulemaking.
Isn’t investigating/ruling on yourself grand?
F’ing ridiculous. Right up there with “You don’t have standing before the election, voter! (beat…. beat… beat…) The election is already over and certified! You don’t have standing to dispute it, voter!”
Again, if this were a sane world — Congress would impeach anyway or just defund the Executive on principle. But I know… not actually having to do anything but campaign and leave all the icky legislating to the faceless rule-making bureaucrats is f’ing Fantasy Island for them…. (There’s that rage again….)
This is one of the problems with Trump’s temper tantrum in Georgia. If Team Red held the Senate, they could at least initiate impeachment proceedings. Now they can only complain from the sidelines.
Pretty sure impeachment has to be filed in the House (as if they’re the grand jury) and only tried in the Senate (the trial jury).
So you can’t blame him for that one. And I still blame the GA Sec of State for it much more than Trump. (Didn’t he agree to stupid “settlements” in various cases that hampered election integrity? Didn’t come down like a ton of rocks on Fulton, which obviously had issues… etc.).
This. Every citizen should automajically have standing to sue over any federal law. The mere idea of standing is such utter and complete bullshit.
Doing illegal stuff via executive action and getting away with it because nobody has standing to challenge it, or just as likely because the horse has left the barn, isn’t corrosive to “Our Democracy”? I must confess that I’m a little confused here.
“It used to be rare to hear about a child with type 2 diabetes, but its prevalence in adolescents has almost doubled in the past 20 years,” said co-author Megan M. Kelsey of the Children’s Hospital Colorado in a statement.
It’s that pesky climate change what done it.
Seriously, wasn’t there just a “study” done that showed kids were way less aerobically fit now than in generations past, and blamed it on climate change? It couldn’t be that kids sit in their rooms all day playing video games or fiddling around on their phones. Nah…
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNRC8jcuSNg
BREAKING: Body believed to be that of Steven Hoffenberg, who worked with Jeffrey Epstein, found.
You’d think they would know enough to set up a dead man’s switch by now.
I have information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary *hrrrrkkk!!*
I said on H&R once that the only reason Snowden’s still alive was because he has to have a dead-man’s switch. I was roundly mocked by someone who didn’t know what dead-man’s switch was.
I bet they were all counting on Ghislane Maxwell’s black book to be that switch.
Thanks for the chump article link – I was just talking to someone about this the other day and couldn’t remember where the article was from. I absolutely feel like a chump for spending tens of thousands of dollars to repay my college loans.
I don’t have a problem with parents spanking their own children – wasn’t my thing, I almost never did it when mine were younger but my wife certainly did – but hell fuck no to schools doing it. I barely trust those people in the first place.
You can also easily find it by doing a web search for “chump effect.” Truly an indispensable article.
Gah! You just gave me a mental image of the fusion of the spanking and the Drag Queen Storytime Hour people…
RJ said it best.
Well…you are a chump. Just not for that reason.
I hope this helps.
All schools or just public? I think in a private school with more trust between the parents and educators it would be less likely to be a problem. Then again, private schools tend to be less unruly anyway.
I wouldn’t send my kids to any school that does it. There’s just something viscerally repugnant to me of someone else hitting my kids.
Understandable. In a high trust environment I feel like I’d probably be OK with it. But then I don’t have kids.
High trust, yes. We spank, but it’s rare and usually one of two situations. Defiance, in which case there are plenty of warnings ahead of time, and safety issues.
If I trusted the school/teachers/admins and they could articulate a policy like I just did, I’d let them spank. Of course, we’re homeschooling (at least, for now), so it’s a moot point at the current time.
I think I spanked my kid once, and it was a defiance issue when he was around four. It quickly took care of that problem.
Wait until you find your kids have grown up and are into BDSM.
So long as they never make me aware of that predilection, no harm done.
To me, anyway.
Which would be worse: your kids walking in on you and your wife having BDSM sex, or you walking in on one of your (adult) kids having BDSM sex? 😉
Hmm… can’t possibly think who around here might be able to answer such questions…. nope, not a clue.
True story:
When I was in 3rd grade, I was scheduled to get swats. They left me unguarded, so I made a break for it. I was eventually apprehended by a posse of school bus drivers. The principal was so angry that he beat me badly enough to do real damage.
*end of my immediate knowledge, begin behind the scenes*
Hospitals and lawyers were involved. As part of the settlement, the school district was not allowed to touch me again. My parents, already bothered by my lack of respect for authority, did not tell me any of this.
I only found out a few years ago when the principal’s obituary ran in the newspaper and my parents went on a rant.
The remaining hardcore MAGA guys have to be the biggest chumps in the world. Trump literally did nothing for them and left office without lifting a finger to help his followers locked in a gulag.
Meanwhile Biden is showering his followers with gifts like tuition forgiveness.
Even showering with his daughter.
Buffalo Guy hardest hit.
He kept Hillary from becoming President.
And the whole Supreme Court thingee.
It was worth it for that alone.
Showing the world how deeply the left hates.
While I’ve no doubt that families and physicians do pressure people into assisted suicide in some instances, the Signal being anti-assisted suicide, I’m skeptical that the stories they’ve reported are necessarily reflective of a norm. I know the Canucks are quite a bit more civil-minded than we Yanks, but the physicians and hospitals get paid regardless of whether a patient lives or dies, whether from natural or artificial causes. I wonder how many are really *that* motivated to save the Canadian health system money. Perhaps the causation runs the other direction: patients in the Canadian health care system are so frustrated and fed up with the quality of care that they’d rather make a peaceful exit than continue dealing with shitty treatment.
A little bit of both maybe. If Canadian care is not as good as it sounds, you can improve wait times and patient satisfaction by offing some of those clogging up the system.
“This shows that debt cancellation disproportionately benefits white, wealthier households because those are the people most likely to owe and be paying down their debt.”
Party of the working class.
The good white people though.
She’s definitely never busted a towel rod over her partner’s head.
That’s not where I thought you were going with that.
Google to run ads educating users about fake news
My propaganda is bigger than yours!
How MiniPax of them.
Perfect
What are the fake news about Ukrainian refugees? Some of them are happy to live in Central and Western Europe as long as they can and get paid to do so? Some of them are not from the areas close to the frontline? Many of them don’t want to get “vaccinated”?
It’s amazing how so-called “fake news” always seems to align with what the governing classes don’t like.
Every war has been won by the good guys. We know because they told us so.
“Two people pleaded guilty on Thursday to a scheme to sell a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley to conservative campaign group Project Veritas just before the 2020 election.
Aimee Harris, 40, and Robert Kurlander, 58, admitted in New York federal court that they took part in a conspiracy to transport stolen materials – including the diary – from Florida, where Biden had been living, to New York.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11146513/Two-people-plead-GUILTY-federal-charges-stealing-diary-Joe-Bidens-daughter-Ashley.html
I wonder how often the feds pursue charges of petty theft across state lines.
It’s their favorite thing, second only to noose investigations.
Democracy was on the line!
Or pursue people leaking material to the press.
Besides Scooter Libby.
Oh, so the diary is now officially legitimate. Does that mean we now will have the media asking Oatmeal Brain why he was showering with his preteen daughter?
Apparently Ben Shapiro, arguably the least-threatening adult man on the planet, showed up for a short time at some podcaster convention, which led to predictably hysterical wailing and…..well, the response was pretty much what you would expect:
They should have just issued him a guest pass
I’d be embarrassed to claim there was some kind of harm done by his presence. That’s seriously weak.
But maybe that’s just my toxic masculinity talking.
The research was founded on a developing area of study called “prebunking”, which investigates how disinformation can be debunked by showing people how it works – before they are exposed to it.
Goebbels did it.
Has this one been covered yet?
Police responded to a false 911 call at the home of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene early Thursday morning, the second “swatting” call targeting the Republican congresswoman in two days, authorities confirmed.
Two officers showed up to Greene’s home in Rome, Georgia, after receiving a call at 2:53 a.m. ET Thursday about “a male possibly shooting his family members and then himself,” according to a report from the Rome Police Department.
The suspect, who called through an internet chat that appeared to be a suicide crisis line, falsely told police responders that a man “came out as trans-gender and claimed they shot the family” at Greene’s address, the report said.
“If anyone tried to stop me from shooting myself, I will shoot them,” said the caller, who gave officers the name Wayne Greene and warned that “they would be waiting for us,” according to the police report.
Subtle.
There probably needs to be a bit more security on these.
Is it really “swatting” if two officers showed up? At least they sent a minimum number of people to check it out.
Try getting a cop to respond within the same business day if you report, say, a stolen vehicle or burglary. But they can chase down randos from a suicide hotline live chat?
Jim Crow goes woke
Unpossible!
What if a resident wants to gay-marry a yt in the common area?
Along those lines, dunno if I shared this long read about another crooked lady baselessly separating kids from a parent.
TW: It’s long. Basically, a judge says a kid is lying about abuse from a parent and hands the kid over to his lady who forces the kid to be with the accused parent and prevents the other parent from any contact. It’s sick and twisted.
Thank you for this. I tried to comment earlier but I got a server error.
Judges appointed to juvenile and domestic relations courts are the worst of the worst. Parents who get screwed by these judges understandably fear to contest BS orders like this for fear of further retribution. You average Karen believe that these courts are infallible and mete justice, for the children, and all.
I thought that was traffic court.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094DWXZCH
“Richard A. Gardner, M.D., a child psychiatrist, was the creator and main proponent of a theory called Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). He promulgated the idea in the late 1980s and early 1990s…
Gardner was sympathetic towards child sex abusers, saying “there’s a little bit of pedophilia in all of us,” claiming that children sometimes seduce adults and excusing pedophilia by saying it was normal in many cultures.”
Everyone who did not go to college should get $10,000 for a woodchipper.
ANOTHER TRAGIC LEGACY OF COVID LOCKDOWNS AND SCHOOL CLOSURES: Type 2 diabetes diagnoses in youth jumped 77 percent during COVID-19.
Every obese child is an abuse victim.
I don’t get the whole not enforcing dietary discipline on children & animals. They’re not going to starve themselves – they’ll eventually eat what you give them.
My erstwhile dog was always more fit than me because it wasn’t that fucking hard not to give him treats all the time. I wish I could say the same for myself.
Ministry of Plenty raises the chip ration
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order on implementation of the $52.7 billion semiconductor chips manufacturing subsidy and research law, the White House said.
Earlier this month, Biden signed the bill to boost efforts to make the United States more competitive with China’s science and technology efforts. By subsidizing U.S. chip manufacturing and expanding research funding, the law aims to alleviate a persistent shortage that has affected everything from cars and weapons to washing machines and video games.
The “Chips and Science” law also includes an investment tax credit for chip plants estimated to be worth $24 billion.
The White House said the Commerce Department launched CHIPS.gov. The department will make funding awards for chips production.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the department has been preparing for months for the program.
So shall it be told. So shall it be done.
I’m in the wrong line of business.
Local news is warning us that Biden will be in the Columbus area 9/9 to celebrate this law at the new Intel plant.
Fuck, just nationalize the industry and let the feds run it directly. What could go wrong? They’re Top. Men.
Biden’s order sets six primary priorities to guide implementation and establishes a 16-member interagency CHIPS implementation council to be co-chaired by National Economic Director Brian Deese, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and Acting Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Alondra Nelson. The council will include the secretaries of Defense, State, Commerce, Treasury, Labor and Energy.
Failure is not an option.
You know — you could just invite the couple of extra people to the Cabinet meetings (like he has those….). Be simpler.
And now I’m thinking of the government variant of the old software canard: “Every problem can be addressed by adding another layer of indirection (virtualization)”.
In this case, “Every problem can be addressed by another special committee.”
Do any of these people have any experience or knowledge in setting up a semiconductor chip factory? How about a lemonade stand?
Thanks, Tonio.
Icing down the nuts now. Sorry to drop the HillKill story last thread. I should have figured it would make the lynx!
Speaking of the loan forgiveness, Diversity Hire Karin came out of hibernation for the first time in 2 weeks.
And promptly shit the bed,
I hated Strawberry, but at least she was good at her job. Trump’s minx is still my favorite, though.
Karine Abdul Jabbar Jean Pierre? She doesn’t work enough on defense.
Hey, tell your old man to…
Aw heck.
The hell I don’t! LISTEN, KID! I’ve been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I’m out there busting my buns every night! Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!
I’ve been hearing that crap ever since I left Haiti. Tell your old man to drag Doocey up and down the press room for 48 minutes!
The hell I don’t!
Gesundheit.
You’ve got icing on your nuts?
Slurp slurp slurp
Count Bill Gates among the many admirers of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the 81-year-old immunologist who plans to leave the U.S. federal government at the end of the year.
Gates, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder and health care philanthropist, took to Twitter on Tuesday to shower Fauci’s longtime tenure as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the White House’s chief medical advisor with praise.
“Tony, you were an amazing public servant long before COVID-19 struck — and now you are a hero to millions of people, including me,” Gates wrote.
Him heap good medicine man.
Long before Covid-19 struck. I know I posted the below before but people should know he never learned anything in 30 years.
Anthony Fauci, you are a murderer and should not be the guest of honor at any
event that reflects on the past decade of the AIDS crisis. Your refusal to
hear the screams of AIDS activists early in the crisis resulted in the deaths
of thousands of Queers. Your present inaction is causing today’s increase in
HIV infection outside of the Queer community. We are outraged that Project
Inform, an organization that supposedly works on behalf of the infected
community, would insult us by bringing you to our city. You can’t hide the
fact that you are nothing but a despicable Reagan-era holdover and drug
company mouthpiece.
With 270,000 dead from AIDS and millions more infected with HIV, you should
not be honored at a dinner. You should be put before a firing squad.
You’re just missing why neo-Malthusians like Gates think he’s a hero…
I’ve heard things like this about Fauci and AIDS but when I googled the subject it looked like most gay organizations stand solidly behind him. Maybe its a phenomena like the Constitution Center’s “Freedom Medal” being given to the most unworthy recipients?
Every “gay organization” was skinsuited by the left decades ago – I wouldn’t put stock in anything any of them have to say.¸
“health care philanthropist”
OFFS.
Tony Fauci is a cunt. And so is Bill Gates.
Both men have also repeatedly fought against conspiracy theories blaming them for various issues related to the pandemic, often revolving around Covid vaccines.
″[I]t’s disappointing that that kind of titillating, oversimplistic explanation is easier to click on than, you know, the truth about what a great job the world has done to get these vaccines going,” Gates told the Washington Post last year.
Fauci, who has advised seven U.S. presidents beginning with Ronald Reagan, became a particular target for some far-right politicians after he regularly corrected false coronavirus claims from former President Donald Trump. Some of those lawmakers have promised to investigate Fauci’s handling of the pandemic if Republicans win control of Congress in November.
Heroes, victimized by simpletons.
the truth about what a great job the world has done to get these vaccines going
Another week with deaths far above normal in Europe
I think the sun is sufficiently behind the tress for me to enjoy my patio.
Heading out tomorrow afternoon for my first road trip. Two and 1/2 hours to Plum Branch SC for 2 nights.
Good luck on your shakedown cruise.
Thanks doc!
*treezzzzzz
Drive safe!
Danke!
If you feel the need to make a short day trip while down there (I assume you’re visiting your dad, maybe drag him along) the Robert Toombs House isn’t that far away.
A rather obscure historical figure now, but an interesting fellow.
My dad is coming with me, so I’ll get to test the guest quarters. I’ll check out that dude!
So, will we go to war before or after midterms?
Joe’s handlers are still running the models.
Que?
Whatever it is…please be after…
But first they have to work out a justification again for mass mail-in voting.
They’ve got it. Ohio has launched a Monkeypox dashboard, just like they had with the ‘vid.
Yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, Paul Lynde…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebBh2pjpIXc
Holy shit! That was hilarious! Thanks for sharing it.
Aw. Fuck Hollywood.
A Scottish mountain biker dropped dead of a heart attack after winning the national championship race last weekend. Earlier in the year, the European road race champion had a heart attack after a race but survived. Another former pro I know of has been sidelined with a pulmonary embolism, aka blood clots in the lungs. I wonder what’s going on. To be fair, pro cyclists have been known to use substances that are bad for their hearts, and COVID can cause these problems too, but it seems to me that the “experts” ought to take a look at the vaccines too.
Yeah, I’m conflicted. Endurance athletes dropping dead is nothing new. Seems like every marathon has at least one.
That said, there is a weird increase in deaths of those like 18-49. There is something weird happening.
Your daily dose of Sanford and son:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kLHLUDs36p0
“Who you calling old?”
Yeah, we’ve lost a lot. Thanks, Sean.
Honest? Honest as the day is long.
Headline: California votes to ban new gas car sales by 2035
Story: California air regulators voted Thursday to approve stringent rules that would ban the sale of new gasoline cars by 2035 and set interim targets to phase the cars out.
Serious journalisming for serious people.
This
is
CNN.
Wolves vote too.
I don’t see how a step like this can be taken without the Legislature passing a law. But maybe I just don’t understand Our Democracy.
Hopefully there will be a referendum on this, but I’m not confident that my fellow voters in CA would overturn it.
Probably in 2035
I wouldn’t care if it was only in CA, but this is gonna spread to some degree.
“This is monumental,” California Air Resources Board member Daniel Sperling told CNN. “This is the most important thing that CARB has done in the last 30 years. It’s important not just for California, but it’s important for the country and the world.”
I bet you could see god’s eternal light shining in his eyes when he said that.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/08/nj-jurors-will-no-longer-be-required-to-wear-masks-as-judiciary-lifts-rules.html
And there was much rejoicing…
https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1562931875064254464?cxt=HHwWgMC41c6Q07ArAAAA
Holy shit. That was quite the confession.
Wow.
amusing ride?