Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 75 basis points for third straight month
Interest Rate at Highest Level Since 2008 Financial Crisis
Small business confidence drops most since start of the pandemic
American families may have to spend an additional $11,500 just to get by this year due to inflation
California Looks To Ban Diesel-Powered Trucks To Rectify ‘Decades Of Racist’ Practices
House passes Jan. 6 panel’s bill to reform Electoral Count Act
Biden Begs for Billions in New COVID ‘Emergency’ Funds Despite Declaring Pandemic ‘Over’
Media Will Never Hold Biden Accountable for Death of Cayler Ellingson
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The lockdowns worked out great.
Just think of how much longer people are going to live with no money.
Warning: Value Less than or Equal to Zero.
Do you wish to Proceed (y/N)?
I’m looking for some assets to sell, to make up the 11.5 K shortfall. Then I realize no one has any money to buy anyway.
/Pulls on another pair of wool socks
They achieved their intended (though not stated) goal.
“The proposal would require medium and heavy-duty trucks entering ports and railyards to be fully electric by 2035, according to the report. CARB believes that such freight vehicles should be banned because the diesel emissions that come from such vehicles disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies.”
Looks like 70’s drugs are back!
“In July, California truckers protested a new labor law that classified the state’s 70,000 independent owner-operators as employees of the shipping companies that they work alongside, rather than independent contractors. The bill forces truckers to either become employees beholden to company regulations or pay up to $20,000 out-of-pocket for permits and insurance to handle their own logistics and remain independent.”
70,000 killdozers is the correct moral response here.
Not everyone moved on up to the east side
Basically they’ll use electric trucks to enter the ports and yards and drive it to a distribution hub two miles outside where it will be picked up by a diesel truck.
It’s so fucking stupid and corrupt.
The web of red tape you’d need to penetrate in order to build those distribution hubs will be enormous. Just ship goods to Houston and laugh as CA withers further.
Its a huge opportunity for Oregon and Washington, but I doubt they will take advantage of it
No, they will emulate California like they always do. Closely followed by New York because we get jelly when California out-progs us.
^QFT
NJ says “Hi”.
The Port of Portland has already pretty much killed container cargo traffic. Their last container line left 7 years ago. There’s no other real port other than the pipe dreams and grant applications of coastal cities that imagine they’ll finally be the next terminal hub.
So, what you’re saying is we need to onshore manufacturing to bypass these coastal dullards.
Build a port south of Tijuana, improve the east-west highway along the top of Baja California and cross into the US in Yuma.
That would work, or build a canal to Idaho or Nevada or Arizona.
Hmmm…you think Mexico would go in on a canal up to Yuma?
The West-West Texas Canal. We should build it with nukes.
Somebody already thought of that.
“Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The program was organized in June 1957 as part of the worldwide Atoms for Peace efforts. As part of the program, 31 nuclear warheads were detonated in 27 separate tests.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
It’s where I got the idea. Got to admit, project plowshare is a great name.
“This is not weapons stockpile, is mining nukes!”
Idaho has a port: https://portoflewiston.com/
They should build a streetcar to move freight between the port and the distribution center. Streetcars are magic.
Monorail, Monorail, Monorail!
One of those moving walkways like in airports. Powered by clean, renewable solar!
From now on, we will all travel in tubes!
“Hey, why does this tube say ‘Habitrail’ on it?”
The Roads Must Roll!!
Can’t they simply extend their high speed rail network to the port?
There are already large freight railroad terminals tied to the ports by both UP and BNSF. There are no railroads to add.
diesel emissions that come from such vehicles disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies
It’s so bizarre to me that the position is “we were incredibly racist very recently, but stopped being racist for some reason, and you should continue to support our formerly racist organization and its rules, because racism, even though any other organization with a history of racism must be purged”.
Think of it as an expression of The Faith.
All while America remains the most systemically racist country on earth.
New economic projections released after the two-day meeting show policymakers expect interest rates to hit 4.4% by the end of the year
As deeply as I trust government economists, I’d like a second opinion. How high do y’all think interest rates will go during this downturn?
I’ll take the over. The same economists were “surprised” that the August inflation was 8.3.
My property assessment is 38% higher for next year, I was surprised. Can’t wait to see the proposed tax on my depreciating house.
Cheney, for her part, was decisively defeated in her own primary after becoming a leading anti-Trump Republican. She has since vowed to commit herself to prevent a Trump political comeback.
Gotta stop the voters from selecting a particular candidate, because Democracy. But the Establishment will go even harder against Trump’s replacement.
Gotta stop the voters from selecting a particular candidate, because Democracy.
See Lee Zeldin and New York’s byzantine ballot access rules.
I got an anti-Zeldin flyer in my mailbox. If that’s the worst photo they can get of the guy, he must be the reincarnation of Mr. Rodgers.
It is apparently also the only one they have of him, since the same image is re-used all over this flyer.
The DeSantis screw job is being prepared as we speak.
That’s because Desantis is literally worse than Hitler.
I’ll know that Liz is hard core about stopping Trump when she invites Donald – as an act of bridge repairing – to go hunting with her and her dad.
the average American household may have to spend $11,500 just to maintain the same standard of living as in previous years.
Narrator: you won’t be maintaining the same standard of living as in previous years.
Quit your bitching, bread baked from sawdust tastes just fine if you do it right.
Coming to a city near you!
“made from sheep intestines and calf-skins”
Meh, can’t be much worse than vegamite.
I’m not going to waste sheep intestines on some shitty jelly. I got better uses for them (if you know what I mean), especially now that all there aren’t any fatties in town!
Besides you’ll eventually get those sheep intestines back, but now with extra protein!
cattle are bad for the environment. We won’t get be getting luxury items like sheep intestines.
Which year was this?
1941-1942.
I was there in 1984, they have a mass grave area, for each year. The are far too large… 🙁
They hate you and want you dead.
If I may:
They hate you and are willing to kill you.
joke’s on them
Because you’re already (un)dead?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Kid gets it. Reminds me of a kid in a swim pool that stands still for a couple minutes, then swims away with a smile on his face.
Thanks, Jimbo.
https://twitter.com/AngelicaOung/status/1572904054224990208/photo/1
The remaining nuclear power plants in Germany outproduce all of the wind power. What a colossal failure. This is the fallout of fukushima and the environmental death cult. Summer is over.
If you had 10 times the wind power it would have produced more.
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No, not complementary at all. Dullard.
Was is a cold dunkelflaute?
In local car news, Bucharest City Hall is considering banning vehicles which make more than 95 decibels of noise from city streets between 21:00 and 07:00. I wonder if there will be exemptions because garbage trucks make a lot of noise and usually come early in the morning because t would be pretty complicated during daytime traffic
Revolt in the city of Nowshahr this evening in northern Iran with several police cars set on fire
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1572747774994661378
The Iranians are revolting!
true they stink
+1 cloud of powerful cologne
“Decades of racist and classist practices, including red-lining and siting decisions, have concentrated heavy-duty vehicle and freight activities in these communities, with concomitant disproportionate pollution burdens,” the regulators stated. “CARB has legal and moral obligations to lessen these burdens.”
More obsessed with race than Jefferson Davis.
I’ve noticed an interesting trend as I continue looking for a job (*sigh*, I’ve been seriously looking for 6 months and kinda looking for an additional year before). I’ve been applying to two different kinds of job. Lateral moves that I’m eminently qualified for and stretch jobs that I’m pushing the qualification envelope.
The trend I’ve noticed is that I’m getting a much higher number of screeners from the stretch jobs than the lateral jobs. I get that there are a lot more people with similar qualifications to me applying for these lateral jobs, but there are only so many people in my same niche and many of these listings are perfect matches to my experience. Short of copying the exact language from the job posting into my resume, I couldn’t make myself a better fit.
Anyway, I find this curious and it makes me wonder if I’m getting filtered out by some mechanism that isn’t merit based. One or two could be written off as having a different cause. 75%+ makes me think they’re filtering me out using something besides my career experience.
Do you mean you get screened more for the lateral jobs than the stretch ones?
That is also my experience.
Yep. A large majority of the jobs I would call myself well qualified for (I meet every mandatory qualification) or extremely well qualified for (I meet or exceed every mandatory qualification and many of the optional ones) result in automated emails a month later from their HR software.
A larger percentage of jobs where I am either only partially qualified (I flat out don’t have experience in a mandatory area) or I have to stretch and quibble to qualify (7 years experience in IP isn’t the same as 7 years experience as an IP lawyer) result in a screener interview with a HR lackey.
If I were to guess, I would say they are looking to get the lowest cost person in each. If you are “too well” qualified you are less likely to come cheaply.
Wait…when did you take a job in our HR department?!
*So* happy I didn’t have to go thru HR to get my job (back). My old boss called me up and said “wanna job?”
I would guess that your resume fit so well with the lateral move jobs that no call was needed to decide if you are a good match.
The calls for the stretch jobs are probably some HR person trying to decide if it is really worth adding you to the pool of candidates or if you are some crazy maniac.
Even crazy maniacs can get a job. Look at me!
Internal candidate has already been selected. However, the job still must be posted externally.
Perhaps you should try identifying as black and genderfluid.
Honestly, this is a huge possibility.
Include your preferred pronouns in your resume?
At a previous job, a manager friend complained to me that HR had hand picked 8 candidates from the hundreds of resumes and told her she must select her new hire from these 8 candidates. Each one of the eight candidates was a black woman. My friend thought this was coincidence was odd and HR refused to let her even see the other resumes. Perhaps you’re seeing a similar mechanism at work.
I don’t want to know any candidate’s race or sex. I have a rule of automatically rejecting anyone who includes a photo in their resume/cv. It’s a policy any sane HR dept should be following instead of actively discriminating against certain groups.
We “haven’t been hiring” for the last 3 years, yet somehow we hired two people because their resumes came across the department head’s desk and they happened to have female names.
I’m applying to a bunch of tech companies mostly, and the thought has crossed my mind to adopt an “ethnic” nickname or find a way to work LGBT bona dudes (I’m leaving that autocorrect John-o there) onto my resume.
Did I point you towards my company’s open positions? I don’t recall. Lots of open positions, almost all jobs are optional work-from-home (0-5 days a week in the office, your choice).
Hit me up at my handle @ proton if interested.
Email sent. Thank you!
Hey, I sent one too!
People like me have better success if we can end around HR. HR can only prevent me from getting hired, not get me hired.
Do you use recruiters or do you contact people you know in other companies?
When in job hunt mode I first capture low hanging fruit by spamming my resume and talking with all recruiters somewhat cordially. I then make sure I direct connect to a few people who I know, can hire (non-hr, likely to be my potential boss), or are just in a company I am interested in. Shotgun and sniper strats.
I probably have about three years in my current position before I will be in a shoot for the moon style job hunt. I believe I will be immensely valuable at that time.
I think my sign to move on will be when they fill the role I’m currently working in with someone I’ll have to train to be my supervisor. It will tell me that I do not have the confidence of management and will not see advancement where I am.
I use recruiters and my professional network. I haven’t sent a cold resume off to a company in…. shit… I can’t remember how long. That’s how long it’s been.
Beto Trashmonster?
“My friend thought this was coincidence was odd and HR refused to let her even see the other resumes.”
“No, your job is to hire the one I tell you to hire, not tell me who to hire.”
She was shy of conflict. I would take scalps.
Although HR (completely different company) did coincidently enough only provide me something like 8 resumes out of hundreds of candidates at last hiring. One was the perfect candidate who reached out before applying, and I asked to be passed through screening and right to me. So there was no need to have HR send more. But I attribute the 8 resumes in this case to incompetence rather than malice.
Narrator: Guess which path an increasing number of HR departments are following.
“Short of copying the exact language from the job posting into my resume, I couldn’t make myself a better fit.”
You don’t do this? I’ve done this for almost every job and promotion I’ve gotten. Then again, you’re (I think?) a lawyer, and I did retail and now I’m a welder.
I do it in the cover letter sometimes, but not the resume. Maybe I should change tactics.
Rename yourself as “Judy Trshmnstr” and refer to your status as an oppressed person in your cover letter.
Re: Links… just bleah. May need to take a news break soon, especially in this stupid, stupid state. CARB can go suck a tailpipe.
‘Orning ‘Ordles were meh. Not Chumpy and His Amazing Friends, but a couple 50/50s in Quordle got me down. The DuoTri being only +1 is entirely dumb guesses I likely shouldn’t have made in favor of trying to find further letters… but I didn’t see it at the time. Of course, nowhere near the Hype Challenge — but I think this is like talking with a danged Olympic sprinter about his goals at this point.
Daily Duotrigordle #204
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 06:38.88
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 241
3️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
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4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Daily Quordle 241
6️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
Two days in a row, I think something is wrong. Tomorrow I’ll be a 4xchump i can feel it.
Daily Quordle 241
5️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 241
3️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Better, but missed a 50/50
Daily Quordle 241
5️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣
It’s a good day when you hit two 50/50’s on the first try.
Daily Quordle 241
5️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 241
5️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
Struggled a bit, but got there.
Daily Quordle 241
4️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
boring
Daily Quordle 241
4️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com
Naturally, I couldn’t get results like my practice game.
Practice Quordle
4️⃣6️⃣ AORTA – HOTEL
5️⃣1️⃣ PSALM – STONE
quordle.com
Daily Duotrigordle #204
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 03:22.55
This may be unbeatable unless all my seed words happen to be answers someday.
Quordle was kinda meeh.
Daily Quordle 241
4️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
“Black and Latino populations experiencing significantly greater air pollution impacts than white populations,” CARB added. “Communities in and around ports move much of the nation’s freight, and so experience pollution on a national scale in their neighborhoods.”
Forcibly relocate them all to Shasta County.
That is the logic of diversity – they all have an obligation to make those places more diverse whether they want to live there or not.
“Health care settings that advertise surgical and hormonal procedures for gender-confused youth as young as 13 are throwing their offerings down the memory hole, following exposure by critics of such procedures for children.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center took down the pages for its transgender clinic and pediatric counterpart after conservative author Matt Walsh posted videos Tuesday of its officials calling the clinics financially lucrative and warning that resistant VUMC employees would face “consequences” for not participating.”
They wouldn’t try to hide it if they though what they were doing was right.
“A female-to-male phalloplasty “could be up to $100,000,” Taylor said, citing the clinic’s surgeon Julian Winocour, who allegedly claimed phalloplasties alone fully fund some clinics. “And that is, like, a fraction of the surgeries that we’re doing,” which cost even more because “they require a lot of followups.” Winocour’s VUMC email bounced back when asked to confirm this anecdote.”
They shouldn’t be doing those at all.
“Traces of Taylor have disappeared so quickly that search results still bring them up. At least three of her employee pages are now off-limits, and her 2018 lecture — posted to the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health’s Facebook page — apparently came down within hours of Walsh posting the videos late afternoon Tuesday. Other links simply redirect.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/profits-ahead-children-medical-center-hides-pediatric-transgender
Walsh will be banned by the major platforms shortly. They really do like protecting kid mutilators, groomers, and fuckers for some reason.
Puberty is a helluva drug. Lots of bizarre emotions, confusion, etc and then all is well. Then the kids want to learn to drive
Probably not much genital amputation going on back in your day unless you stepped on a mine. It’s all the rage now, the big problem being you can’t just cover it up like a regretted tattoo.
I need to keep this one handy
It would have been unheard of. Even a pregnant girl quietly left school and quickly got married.
One day you’re an innocent child, and the next you’re getting a shenis bolted on for 6 figures.
And we think we’ve raised a generation of homicidal maniacs in the past!
If you get a dick sewn on, do you also get a free pistol?
Because I am constantly being told that the only reason dudes get guns is because they are compensating for their weenie’s perceived short comings. I gotta think that a fake dick is more damaging to a “guy”‘s ego than a small dick. So I would expect all of them to get at least a Desert Eagle at a minimum.
It does answer the question of whether they’re cynical sociopaths looking to make a quick buck off the suffering of children.
Cynical sociopath and true believer aren’t mutually exclusive.
“A female-to-male phalloplasty “could be up to $100,000,” Taylor said
That’s a very nice penis.
It’s a fake.
$100k dick need no introduction
Your dick don’t even function
For a hundred grand, that thing had better incorporate the full Doomcock range of genital weaponry…
You could have $25k cash and get the fuck out of here, or we give you this weird faux penis. I wonder how many confused teens would change their minds.
Why, thank you.
Seems like the ones getting it chopped off could be donors to the ones getting it bolted on.
They don’t chop it off – they turn it inside out, IIRC.
Somehow that seems worse.
The bizarre thing is that it seems there more kids than adults are getting bottom surgery. Most transgender are non-op.
Most adult crossdressers, IME, are just casuals doing it for the kinky thrill. They don’t actually think that being the opposite sex will shake them out of their existential misery.
Someone who is just a crossdresser would not get on hormones or get other surgeries.
I saw Traces of Taylor the one time I got dragged to Lilith Fair by my girlfriend.
There is the whole thing about going back in time and and shooting Hitler…
I was thinking, as a thought experiment, what if one would go back in time and shoot Mohamed and a bunch of his flowers early on… How would the world change… there is probably some parallel history novel about that… Would something similar to islam pop up or is this one of those “great men” bits of history where you pop the fucker and islab is no more. How would that affect persia and europe, no islamic conquest… would the world be better, worse, or the same?
If you are a believer I guess Allah would simply choose another vessel. I really don’t know where exactly this “greatness” comes from.
I am not a believer obviously. greatness? you are probably born with it cause it aint maybelline
Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg
The premise was that Rome never collapsed. One of the episodes had Roman agents taking care of a certain Arab troublemaker.
I remember liking that. And eventually it was the Romans who settled America.
He has written a few of my favorites.
Nah. Nobody would buy a ridiculous premise like that.
Ricky Gervais wouldn’t kill Hitler
Hard to say. The Byzantine Empire was weak from its wars with the Sasanian Empire. Possible the Arabs still would have United and taken over or the Rus Vikings would have come South. Most likely Christianity would have continued to spread and be the dominant religion of the world. The age of discovery would have been delayed as there would be no reason to go around Africa of head West to get to India. The world is full of humans it would probably be somewhat the same.
Everyone kills Hitler their first time
Fuck that, I’m killing Rousseau.
Would that be better than Marx or Hegel?
I would go back and kill the people that wrote all those Star Trek time paradox episodes.
Harlan Ellison isn’t that bad.
You’re only saying that because being dead wouldn’t stop him from coming after you.
I think I’m with jwz on this:
I see someone else has posted the classic.
Maybe the reason Hitler had such a hard on for killing (((them))) was because as a kid he was constantly having to avoid (((assassins)))?
Couldn’t even have a goddamned birthday party without some Mossad agent blinking into existence with an uzi.
Since most of that religion was an attempt to create a Judeo Christian religion that wasn’t from that other group they considered icky and appealed to their culture, some other poser would have taken his place.
There is a chance that Mohammed II wouldn’t have been a pederast, so maybe it would have turned out different.
most of that religion was “What is most convenient for Warlord Mo at the moment”
See Harry Turtledove’s Agent of Byzantium.
Agent of Byzantium series by Harry Turtledove.
Series of short stories about the world where Muhammad converts to Christianity and becomes one of the greatest saints.
The Eastern Empire and the Persian Empire don’t fall and form a balance of power.
Strains credulity.
Mo was too evil to be a saint.
tl:dr for some people a big breakfast helps, for others it does not
Menno Henselmans
When you eat your calories does not affect fat loss, but it does affect your appetite, new study finds
There are multiple studies that found consuming most of your calories earlier in the day helps with fat loss for overweight individuals, but diet adherence is always a question in such studies.
A new well-controlled study compared 2 groups of overweight individuals on that differed only in when they consumed their calories, not in what they ate. One group morning-loaded their calories (45% calories at breakfast, 35% lunch and 20% dinner), whereas the other group evening-loaded their calories (20% breakfast, 35% lunch, 45% dinner). All meals were provided to the participants.
After 4 weeks, there were no significant differences between the groups in their energy expenditure or weight loss.
However, the group consuming most calories early in the day experienced less appetite and hunger.
In general, diet adherence seems to be easier for most overweight individuals with a relatively big, satiating breakfast. Research has found these effects in particular in individuals with poor glucose control and susceptibility to impulsive snacking. These individuals have also been found to have a lower thermic effect of food in the morning, but that did not seem to be the case in this new study.
Other people, such as people prone to depressive eating and peak appetite later in the day with little hunger in the morning, have been found to do better with morning intermittent fasting.
*continues frying 4 eggs, gets cheese and ham ready*
My man! *high fives*
*returns high-five, splatters Frank’s RedHot everywhere*
I tried intermittent fasting for a week, got super grouchy, and had a delicious sausage and fried egg breakfast this morning. I may try the intermittent fasting thing again, but for now the low carb diet is plenty enough.
I had some success for a few month with a 14 hour window which I think is enough for any effect beyond calorie restriction / lower body fat. I had a 19:00 -9:00 window
Who the fuck is Cayler Ellingson?
An 18 year old who was run down by a madman in North Dakota. Supposedly political violence. Troubling if I give it too much thought.
An allegedly drunken 40 year old man.
Who stated that he ran over the kid because the kid was a Republican and he thought “extremist” Republicans were going to come after him.
Yeah he can see how much sympathy that gets him anywhere but DU.
I’ve never met an 18 year old right wing extremist. Are the zoomers just built different? Or perhaps this man was crazy and fueled by paranoid propaganda.
Presidential speeches are not paranoid propaganda when delivered by a Democrat President. Get with the pogram.
You misspelled ‘pogrom’.
Go to places like Autozone, or go to the countryside. Every kid there is a do it yourself so-called right-winger. They do not Zoom, few of them work corporate jobs.
Madman posted bail too.
It is bad optics if the lynch mob pulls him out of the jail.
Looks better if the asshole is just found at his home shot to death.
‘Extremist Republicans are coming after me!’ means his lawyer is gonna attempt a self-defense claim.
This is a great example of failing every element of the AOJP test for using deadly force in self defense.
I think that was his statement without a lawyer present. His lawyer is probably going to want to bury that.
Good luck. A self defense claim is pretty much his only option. The usual ‘it-wasn’t-me’ defense isn’t going to go anywhere.
‘it-wasn’t-me’.
Yeah, he’s not a rule-maker.
AOJP?
any other jewish princess
The four essential elements of a deadly threat. Ability, Opportunity, Jeopardy, and Preclusion. If one of these elements does not exist, then you can’t legally use deadly force in response.
A good overview is here: http://useofforce.us/3aojp/
If only there was a link you could follow, or an internet search engine thingy you could use…
Wait…this “link” and “internet search engine” sounds intriguing. Tell me more!
What you did there, was observed.
I wonder if Brooksy follows links from one story to another?
Or does he go back to that search engine thing you talk about every single time and start all over?
https://lmgtfy.app/
Totally NOT Heather Heyer.
“It is a crime eerily similar to the murder of Heather Heyer, the young woman who was murdered by a neo-Nazi in during unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 when he plowed his car into a left-wing march.”
Is it? Because I remember his car was being attacked.
Yeah, I don’t believe he deliberately pursued and ran over her because she was a Democrat.
Didn’t she die of a heart attack, not injuries?
Nuance is not allowed, bro.
But the circumstances are entirely different.
Q-adjacent, but should be relatively safe for work
In July, California truckers protested a new labor law that classified the state’s 70,000 independent owner-operators as employees of the shipping companies that they work alongside, rather than independent contractors. The bill forces truckers to either become employees beholden to company regulations or pay up to $20,000 out-of-pocket for permits and insurance to handle their own logistics and remain independent.
And a chorus of baffled experts will ask, “Why does everything cost so much?”
High prices are caused by racism. The higher the prices the more racist they are. No one can solve this.
PRYSE GOWJING!
American families may have to spend an additional $11,500 just to get by this year due to inflation
Listen, Jack. Inflation is only up an inch.
Interest payments are expected to triple from nearly $400 billion in fiscal year 2022 to a stunning $1.2 trillion in 2032
New York’s gun laws claim another victim
Pay walled.
Can’t do Revolutionary War reenactments any more because they didn’t make an exception for blackpowder firearms in their crazy new gun bans.
Of course, gotta protect everyone from them muskets, which oddly are the only thing the left claims the second amendment protects.
I think they’re on “It only protects government-issued militia muskets, not privately-owned ones” now.
If an actual militia with muskets was arrested, that would be a most awesome test case.
Try this.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering new regulations to ban the sale of all diesel semi-trucks by 2040 to fight climate change and rectify a legacy of racist practices, according to a CARB report released on Aug. 30.
I’m confused. But so is CARB.
Someone told them they are the Civil Air Rights Board.
We dodged a bullet in NH.
During the 2018-2020 legislative term, the Democrats who controlled the legislature introduced a bill to tie NH to CA for emissions standards and apply CARB rules to NH.
Thanks to the Lil Rona Panic, the Legislature went home and stopped considering business. The bill languished. When the Legislature came back, it was past the date for new business. An attempt to override the rules to finish the unfinished business from earlier in the session failed. So the bill died.
I guess the Lil Rona Panic was good for something.
States should outlaw the sale of California-compliant vehicles instead.
“‘You can declassify anything… just by THINKING about it!’ Trump claims he had right to hold classified docs seized by FBI and says agents even took his WILL from Mar-a-Lago: Also threatens to release security footage of raid
Hannity asked him whether the documents seized over the course of three searches – in January, June, and August – were declassified, as Trump has repeatedly claimed, and the former president replied: ‘I did declassify, yes.’
Hannity asked him how they were declassified. ‘There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,’ Trump said. ‘Different people see different things.
‘If you’re the president of the United States you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified. Even by thinking about it – because you are sending it to Mar-a-Lago or wherever you’re sending it.
‘It doesn’t have to be a process, it can be a process but it doesn’t have to be. You’re the president you make that decision. So when you send it, it’s declassified. I declassified everything.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11237521/Donald-Trump-says-FBI-agents-raided-Mar-Lago-took-WILL.html
It does require that the document be marked; all he needed was for someone to put the words on the doc. But Trump is lazy and sloppy and now that will bite him in the ass.
What was his purpose? Seems like gross stupidity. Was he going to reread them? Show them to Melania and laugh?
Admittedly a lot of stuff is overclassified or overcome by events but still…
Trump, purpose – hmm I can’t make those words go together. Yes it was gross stupidity because all that was needed was a flunky to stamp the doc “de-classified” and fill out a couple of blocks in the stamp. I’m sure someone will be shocked that Trump is sloppy, lazy and dumb, it just won’t be me.
It’s hard to believe that the army of people he probably had at his disposal for such things were all equally incompetent.
Oh I can believe that the closer you got to him in his administration, the more you deferred to his whims.
“You’re fired!”
I can.
Read Atlas’s book. It’s clear Kushner, and you don’t get much closer to Trump than that, had his own agenda which didn’t always line up with Trump.
“Toddler dies in hot car after his father is shot dead by thief who then stole the vehicle and abandoned it with the little boy inside: Carjacker is seen at gas station before the killing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11237671/Carjacker-shoots-dead-Houston-father-steals-vehicle-son-INSIDE.html
Damn.
I have no words. Evil exists.
Damn. That guy was 38? How does someone do something so shitty at such an age? I just can’t imagine having such a callous disregard for life.
Also, that happened over by the (really nice) Microcenter. Everything else in that over there is poor and scary. What they were meeting for? My first thought is drugs, but with so many people trading on facebook market now, I have to wonder. Probably drugs, though. Ive heard of people bringing their kids to drug deals to keep from getting killed.
Probably yet another example of the WoD causing more harm than good.
Something that the late Dr. William Aprill used to say was, “Your understanding is not required.”
Take it to heart.
“Ive heard of people bringing their kids to drug deals to keep from getting killed.”
That’s fucked.
They are out there, and you need to be able to deal with them.
Now that I have my own little one to care for, I’m such a softie for these things or even movies/shows with children dying. Absolutely tragic
Isthmian Football League clubs consider earlier kick-offs to cut costs
Why not, not like anyone will be working.
Part of the reason for the traditional time was there would be no televised matches at that time, a break between earlier tv and later tv matches, so it helped the small clubs attendance.
But that has gone away, so there is no longer the Saturday afternoon gap in TV coverage.
Jan. 6 committee members Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., introduced the plan on Monday. Among the recommended changes were a clarification that the vice president’s role in certifying election results is purely “ministerial.” Vice President Mike Pence faced pressure from former President Donald Trump’s supporters to intervene in the certification process. It will also require one-third of House members to back challenges to election results.
Actual history betrays that.
Seems awfully racist (and sexist) to propose a rule to keep the first black woman VP from exercising power.
Somehow, in Biden’s mind, the pandemic is “over,” but it’s still an emergency that requires another $22 billion for federal action. It’s nonsensical, and therefore incredibly on-brand for Biden and his administration.
He wants a big pile of money to “cure” cancer, too.
He’s a delusional idiot who thinks the only reason people die is because the government doesn’t spend enough money to keep them alive.
It’s over for electoral purposes, the Democrats whipped it, and still raging for browbeating and funding purposes and if you aren’t for it you hate grandma, baseball, apple pie, and Chevrolet.
for some reason I cannot post certain posts / links without a server errors and others I can
If you were meant to understand, the Federal Glib Services Agency would have explained it to you in a memo.
So, I’m thinking that given the track record of events that Desantis will win the 2024 election. Since the GOP has been working to “corrupt” the process by getting more of their guys in at Sec of State and other election groups, the Dems won’t be able to dump the required ballots in the middle of the night and will call this out as tampering.
The result is another shitstorm of an election. And of course, the new rules that they just passed will come back to bite the Dems in their asses. Kamala only plays a ministerial role, they can’t get more than 1/3 of the Reps to back their claims.
I’m sure that this will be portrayed by the Dems and the MSM as racist (why else would these rules only apply to the first black VP?) and a threat to democracy. And of course they will be ignored outright.
It’s almost like the Democrats want the title of being the Stupid Party.
Maybe they’ll cancel the election due to a domestic terrorism crisis with bonus legal cred if they can tie it into public health. Mention that and it seems like anything goes.
“Insurrection Pox”
Biden Begs for Billions in New COVID ‘Emergency’ Funds Despite Declaring Pandemic ‘Over’
Winter and therefor flu season is coming. They will inevitably ramp up the covid tyranny again. The only thing to do is refuse to comply.
lets randomly test
lord byron. the last true white boy
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1572803887899320320
Media Will Never Hold Biden Accountable for Death of Cayler Ellingson
Despite the dozens of example of explicit leftwing violence against the right I have been assured that all R voters are domestic terrorists.
Obviously citizens everywhere should be held responsible for any and all actions of their governments.
Ukrainian President Zelensky to UNGA:
‘Russian citizens shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy tourism or shopping in the rest of the world.’
“But should be encouraged through visa restrictions to fight against the aggression of their own State. Punished for abetting the evil.”
Let us know when you stop terrorizing your own citizens, you cunte.
Obviously citizens everywhere should be held responsible for any and all actions of their governments. – just the men in this case
Men capable of bearing arms. Always to blame.
It’s cute when he does it.
Spokesman of the free world
UNGA- BUNGA?
Eventually, there’s gonna be one one Ukrainian left holding a 100$ billion weapon.
I saw a thing this morning that Russian players won’t be allowed to go with their teams to exhibition games in Prague.
So fucking stupid.
Yikes.
I’m guessing my wife did not check the weather report before heading out for a run – absolutely dumping rain right now, along with some impressive lightning.
She’s going to look like a drowned rat when she gets back.
hawt.
50/50 chance it will somehow be my fault :-/
you should always run behind with an umbrella just in case
Rain was caused by Climate Change
Climate Change is caused by the Patriarchy
You are a man
100% your fault
Throw a big bath towel in the dryer. When she comes back from her run/swim, meet her at the door with it.
Smart!
And nothing else?
What are you, a “Cosmopolitan” advice writer?
Doxxed!
who the hell has a drier?
Certainly nobody in Germany now.
I don’t think I know anyone in Romania having one. My friend in dutchland has one and he is happy with it, I was thinking where I would put it…
I keep mine next to the washing machine.
There are stacked units that are pretty compact.
I cannot fit stacked units in my bathroom as I have the heating unit thing.
I can bring my wine cooler from, the pantry to the living room and put the dryer in the pantry
Confirms my assumption that the capes and evening wear are dry-clean only.
I have one across the street. I pay her like ten bucks every couple weeks to do a wash and fold.
I did, in fact, place a big, clean bath towel on the hook next to the door for her. The drier would have been a nice move.
She promptly overlooked it and somehow thought I was suggesting she use the dog towel when I said “There’s a towel hanging up for you right there”.
50/50?! More like 80/20.
Who are you, so wise in the ways of the fairer sex?
I was not directly blamed, but it was clear I somehow had something to do with it.
Wet T-shirt Contest at Slumsy’s place!
In romania people would assume she would catch a cold running around wet. Not as bad as being in a drafty room but close…
Yeah, that floated by just to the north of me a little while ago.
Raining now. Temperatures predicted to drop into the 50s afterwards. Supposedly a chance of snow in the mountains.
It’s supposed to hit us again in a couple hours and then drop into the 60s :). And 50s overnight 😯
49 and gloomy this morning.
High 70s and sunny for the foreseeable future. Awesome sleeping weather.
I send my wife out looking like a drowned rat.
Then again, you always look like a drowned rat, so that’s normal.
I look like a rat spent of all DNA. Different.
Please explain to me how the Japanese language makes no distinction between a “cute” mouse and “scary” rat.
Essentially “nezumi” is a rodent. Without using scientific genus I’m not aware how to make a distinction in Japanese.
They don’t. They just hate all “nezumi” big or small.
Do they have a separate word for squirrels?
栗鼠 りす RISU is squirrel.
KURI is chestnut.
“to” means “and” in English.
So a squirrel and a chestnut is a KURItoRISU.
You slipped on the kanji.
That’s the one from my online dictionary.
It’s not one I have memorized for sure! I’d use katakana.
I take that back. I’ve never seen that before. Everyday learn something new.
It’s one of those “we never use it, but we have it” kanjis.
Migration, not conquest, drove Anglo-Saxon takeover of England
Whole families may have come across the North Sea starting around 450 C.E., ancient DNA reveals
https://www.science.org/content/article/migration-not-conquest-drove-anglo-saxon-takeover-england#.Yywzu_F1Z3Q.twitter
They just needed lebensraum.
Because ruining it with James Franco’s stupid face wasn’t enough.
Somewhere over the rainbow, indeed! Kenya Barris tells me that LGBTQ representation will be featured in his “Wizard of Oz” remake. “The original was an allegory and a reflection of the way the world was at the time with things like the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl,” says Barris, who will write and direct the reimagining for Warner Bros. “Now we’re going to turn a mirror on where we’re at right now and take disparate characters from the LGBTQ community, from different cultural communities and socioeconomic communities, and tell a story that reflects the world. I think this is the best time to do that.”
He understands a “Wizard of Oz” remake comes with tremendous pressure. “I’m nervous,” Barris tells me. “Hopefully, my movie can last as long as the original does.” He adds with a laugh: “Hopefully my movie comes out.”
Which characters will be recast – for no reason at all – as gay?
Oh how little imagination you have. Think The Aristocrats!
I thought the lion was already gay.
The left is determined to destroy everything.
Not like a black / gay remake of the Wizard of Oz has been done before.
Here’s some Chinese diplomats on Tyneside in 1898 for the launch of the cruiser ‘Hai Chi’ – then the largest warship in the Imperial Chinese Navy
https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/1572923129403514880
“…soon to be turned into an attractive reef by the Japanese…”
Rots of Primsoll marks.
Tracing fiber using audio…
https://twitter.com/TomLawrenceTech/status/1572758361774653440
Miss Adriatico_Galà di fine stagione_Collecorvino Tour 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzMN4JKNhs
I know the guy who ran over Heather Heuer was *convicted* of murder, but his vehicle was surrounded and being hit by protesters when he drove off, hitting Heather in the process. I don’t think these two cases are very similar. This one is far worse.
Nu uh! Heather was a valuable goodthinking wobblie protesting trumpenracism!
The vermin that got rightfully euthanized in the recent case shouldn’t even be considered human. He forfeited his right to exist as soon as he registered Republican!
I don’t have time to get into it right now, but the Charlottesville incident videos are super clear about exactly the steps in the panic.
Kremlinology
Desperate for a victory, the Russian leader allied his nuclear threats and call-up of reservists to a plan to annex occupied territory in Ukraine’s east and south.
“He is doubling down politically because he is losing militarily,” said Michael Clarke, professor of war studies at King’s College London. “Creating more ‘Russian’ territory is an attempt to scare the West because Russian nuclear doctrine has always maintained that nuclear weapons would only be used in defense of Russia directly. He says, ‘This is not a bluff,’ which shows that it is.”
While the country’s military doctrine limits the use of nuclear weapons to direct threats to the existence of the Russian state, observers noted that in his address, Putin used the ill-defined term “territorial integrity” when talking about what conditions would merit a nuclear response.
Seemingly extending the conditions for possible nuclear use in the middle of a war, and just as Russia is planning to absorb four Ukrainian regions, means Putin had “boxed himself in,” analysts said.
“If Ukraine continues to try and liberate its own territories after a referendum has occurred, a sham referendum, does that mean he’s going to attack right away?” said O’Brien, the strategic studies professor. “I think he has sort of boxed himself in with this. It’s certainly aggressive rhetoric, but it’s not necessarily intelligent policy.”
There seems to be a dire shortage of rational actors on the international stage, these days.
There seems to be a dire shortage of rational tags
There seem to be a lot of Western intellectuals weighing in with “He would never do that.” while simultaneously proclaiming he’s incompetent.
The indifference they demonstrate towards the tit-for-tat escalation between nuclear armed powers is disturbing to say the least.
Jordan Peterson had an interesting interview on Sky News this morning. He pointed out that the worse-case failure for Russia would be leaving Ukraine a smoking ruin. Which would still be a win for Russia since Ukraine would be removed from NATO’s pocket. The West is risking nuclear war over a conflict that can’t be won just so that American politicians can loot from the American taxpayers.
Piers Morgan seemed stunned that Peterson didn’t think America would really respond with nuking Russia if Russia used tactical battlefield nukes in Ukraine.
Morgan: “They’d have too!”
Peterson: “Why?”
Morgan: “Well you can’t just let Putin get away with that!”
Peterson: something like “So you’d want to turn the world into smoking ruin just because Russia used battlefield nukes in a war that no other nuclear power is involved in? Why would any rational state actor voluntarily put themselves in a box like that with only failure as possible outcomes?”
Oh, goddammit.
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1572934270699868160
wtf is this shit
licorice sushi
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1572764971305664512
no
Double no.
Good morning, Banjos!
Small business confidence drops most since start of the pandemic
I’m shocked. You’d think, what with the supply chain issues, rising costs and government fuckery, we’d be stoked to go to work every day! We truly are ungrateful peasants.
Ever feel like a chump?
American families may have to spend an additional $11,500 just to get by this year due to inflation
Luckily everything is hunky dory with small business.
California Looks To Ban Diesel-Powered Trucks To Rectify ‘Decades Of Racist’ Practices
Approaching peak retard.
Wow, Banjos. Grim lynx today. But a fantastic song!
Good luck today, peeps!
The FDA’s Baby Formula Whitewash
An agency report blames its failures on—wait for it—lack of money.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fdas-baby-formula-whitewash-report-abbott-laboratories-food-and-drug-administration-robert-califf-congress-11663798024?st=o8pkxrk66yklsic&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They were too busy burying the Pfizer trial data.
Same day’s paper.
CDC Oversells the ‘Bivalent’ Covid Shot
They need moar munny for shovels!
Cry about it.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is upset that he saw a giant “TRUMP WON” sign at the Charles County Fair last week.
Going on to say: “We are a nation of laws. Try to respect a nation of laws.”
Seems that 1A applies as one of those laws.
Piss off you old fuck.
I’d bet good money he’s on the record verbally contesting the 2000 election after the fact.
I wonder what he’d say about the sign at the Grand Lakes Theater in Oakland during Trump’s presidency.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Grand-Lake-Theatre-Trump-national-emergency-13624044.php#taboola-3
“We have 4 actual national emergencies,” reads the marquee, as of Saturday. “Climate change, fake elections, guns and a lying traitorous criminal president.”
I also remember they had signs claiming the elections in Ohio in 2004 were fraudulent.
Sophisticated deviants: Intelligence and radical economic attitudes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289622000800
“Conservative economic attitudes have been theorized as symptoms of low cognitive ability. Studies suggest the opposite, linking more conservative views weakly to higher, not lower, cognitive ability, but with very large between-study variability. ” – theorized by lefties I assume not by reality
“Here, we propose and replicate a new model linking cognitive ability not to liberal or conservative economics, but to economic extremism: How far individuals deviate from prevailing centrist views” – centrists be midwits?
“Summary
The three studies presented here advance what might be termed “cognitive sociology”, showing that cognitive ability accounts for a significant factor in economic ideology: namely extremism, or how far an individual’s views fall from the mainstream or consensus view with extremes of intelligence and groups selected for intelligence tending to contain extremists.”
Putin may also be trying to dissuade Western countries, including the U.S., from supplying Kyiv with more of the weapons it has used to such potent effect on the battlefield, said Keir Giles, a Russia expert and senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, a London think tank.
No kidding.
This morning’s chuckle.
Original Article.
Multiple lulz there.
Thot Thursday, because otherwise your life would be pointless.
https://archive.ph/IE03V
Someone posted this in the overnight thread. I can’t say how full of shit the guest speaker may be, but if half of what he says is true, we’re fucked sideways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI
scary as fuck
eh we had a good run. I mean not me but the world.
Used to wonder why we weren’t meeting up with starfaring civilizations. That question has been answered.
Yep – the Chinese “threat” doesn’t worry me much at all as long as they don’t lash out too much in their decline. The Davos WEF psychos are far more dangerous.
Wait, they’ll drop to 650 million people? In three decades?
Like, so, I’d be interested in seeing his sources.
It seems incredible but that would be what 600 million fewer Chinese? I think its telling that they have been overcounting their population for decades. They may have peaked in 2008-10.
There never seemed to be any shortage of chinese, it would be interesting to see how they derived those figures.
The one child law destroyed them within a generation. They are in decline, and they are dangerous. Also they still have most manufacturing and hence hold everyone by the nuts. And yes, the Davos crowd is, for the moment, more dangerous.
Wouldn’t surprise me. The CCP lies about everything else.
I believe the argument was that there are not enough women of child bearing age to replace the senior citizens that already exist. Thus, China will experience a massive die-off over the next 30 years.
The modern version of the Wizard of Oz should re-cast the wicked witch of the west as the white male pastor of an evangelical megachurch.
Joel Osteen is wicked.
Checks out.
Speaking of the wicked witch , I saw Wicked in London and kind of liked it
GAY
‘This is the new battlefront in the ongoing war against free speech… financial services being withdrawn from people.’
Founder of the Free Speech Union and the Daily Sceptic, Toby Young, speaks to Mark Dolan about payments to his organisations being blocked by Paypal.
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1572315009497038849
It ain’t new.
Using PayPal is a deal with the devil.
Re: Job search stuff
At my previous job, we interviewed a candidate who had the worst resume I have ever seen.
It was clearly designed to get him thru computer filters by making sure it had every possible keyword on it. It worked, I guess, as it got him an interview. After my boss sent me the resume, I asked if this was a practical joke. Because it couldn’t have been real. I filed it away with the intent of keeping it if I ever left that job so I could post anonymous excerpts for your all’s enjoyment. But when I cleaned out my desk, I couldn’t find it.
The purpose of the interview was to expose him so that he could be legitimately rejected. It became pretty obvious during phone interview that he was googling answers.
I personally dont get it. What is the point? Assuming he got hired, is he thinking he could figure out the job (he couldnt) or is it just to cash a paycheck until fired?
I’m guessing it’s get any foot in the door and see how long you can stay on the payroll. If not, it’s another job contact for unemployment.
“lets see…onboarding, training, etc…I can milk this for 3 months before getting shitcanned!”
That was my daughter’s ex-husband. His job life was anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months. He never lasted long enough at a job to get a vacation. He was clearly a Kreuger-Dunning, my daughter bought into his BS until she didn’t, took her a long time.
I paid for the wedding, gladly paid for the divorce
Did you (or HR) have to confirm he was interviewed to his state DOL? Maybe having interviews was a requirement for continued unemployment benefits?
Counting on being unfireable because of demographics?
The indifference they demonstrate towards the tit-for-tat escalation between nuclear armed powers is disturbing to say the least.
It’s just a game.
Another round of “Let’s play global thermonuclear war,” only not a computer simulation, this time.
Little Bob two years ago:
Bob’s mind is still his smallest attribute.
Someday, even you, blind chicken that you are, might stumble upon a kernel of truth.
Today is not that day.
Bob’s intellect is only matched by his stature.
“The Fed assumes inflation is being driven by wage increases.”
Pretty sure they do it assume that at all. Because low rates don’t drive wages higher, and high rates don’t drive them lower.
You know what’s a real driver of inflation? Monopolistic corporations jacking up prices to maximize profits.
Give that man a Nobel Prize.
Why did these corporations wait for this exact moment to jack prices? Do they consider the war a distraction? there have been other wars without this. If they can just jack prices why don’t they do it more often?
No, no, no. Corporations maximizing profits is an entirely new phenomenon. Greed didn’t exist before the year 2021. It is known.
They were waiting for small businesses to do the same thing.
At least you didn’t have to listen to your drunk father in law singing karaoke for two hours tonight.
I wish. He’s been gone since 2003.
Still too soon?
In regards to the Fed and interest rates, nobody seems to be paying attention to this tidbit from Powell’s speech yesterday. Paraphrased:
That means their target is above the rate of inflation, which is currently at 8.3%.
Additionally, paraphrased:
Powell is looking more and more like Volcker with each passing month.
He’s painted into a corner. What else can he do?
What’s funny is that people think what he’s saying means anything.
Monetary theory has been blown to hell. All of the talk is just rote incantations.
As much as I hate the Fed, Powell actually seems to get it. As I understand it, there was some backroom opposition to his renomination as Fed chair from those who would benefit from continued bailouts and printing.
The monetary system is fucked all to hell right now, but the dollar is still the best looking turd in the punchbowl. Powell seems to want to keep it that way.
The euro, on the other hand, is headed for oblivion, and the Fed is helping them along.
The dollar will be the last to fall and also the most spectacular.
CPRM: This morning I watched the video you posted last night. It was good!
Japan is building a futuristic smart city. AI, self-driving cars, robotics, solar power
https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1572651348965076993
better than the saudi one still pass
If anyone can pull something like that off, it’d be these people. I was on the crowded train this morning and watching how they interact with people. It’s like everyone else is a dude you’ve seen on your street many times, but you’ve never talked to.
The proposal would require medium and heavy-duty trucks entering ports and railyards to be fully electric by 2035, according to the report. CARB believes that such freight vehicles should be banned because the diesel emissions that come from such vehicles disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies.
Go fuck yourselves.
Cheney, for her part, was decisively defeated in her own primary after becoming a leading anti-Trump Republican. She has since vowed to commit herself to prevent a Trump political comeback.
Cheney can go fuck herself too.
Gonna be hilarious when she announces her presidential run, then she’ll find out how much she’s really loved by her new friends.
Even the Establishment will shank her.
Surprising revelation
The activist group at the center of a class-action lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials for migrant flights to Martha’s Vineyard has received nearly $1.4 million from George Soros’ Open Society network.
Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit immigrant advocacy group, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Alianza Americas, according to a press release Tuesday that described the latter group as “a network of migrant-led organizations supporting immigrants across the United States.”
Alianza Americas has received a total of $1,383,947 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2016 and 2020, OSF’s records show.
The grants came from three of his nonprofits: Open Society Institute, Open Society Policy Center and Foundation to Promote Open Society.
I am completely flabbergasted by this revelation.
Our general prosperity at work.
I’m surprised no one on the right has found a way to go after that guy.
The “respectable right” i.e. the majority of the GOP seems to be all for his shenanigans.
Even the prosecutors who won’t prosecute?
Hard to tell since those areas are all one-party jurisdictions so the GOP might talk a good talk there but they can’t do anything.
Jugendstil shoe store Salamander from 1911 in Berlin, Germany by architect and designer August Endell (1871-1925).
Neat-O.
And they pissed that and everything else away 3 years later. Then 25 years after that they pissed away everything once again. Now they’re pissing everything away, maybe forever.
I pull up that site every day. So much beauty just completely pissed away by two WWs, communism, and general retardation.
Still, I find the fact that people made such cool things pretty inspiring.
“Good morning!” she trilled.
Beautiful fall day just cool enough to have my feet on (MukLuks), craft projects ahoy, plenty of hot-spicy tuna salad, and yet more episodes of Hoarders to watch. Also, looking forward to a trip to Ikea tomorrow.
I am boring. Please let me regale you with the joys of being boring!
Boring is underrated. Life is getting a little too exciting for my liking.
inorite?
Interesting times…
Celtics’ Ime Udoka allegedly had relationship with female staff member, faces season-long suspension: report
Udoka and Nia Long have been together since 2010, but not married
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/celtics-ime-udoka-allegedly-relationship-female-staff-member-faces-season-long-suspension-report
One year is a bit long. Why is Nia Long relevant?
It lets you judge whether or not cheating on her is ok.
well it is. I mean if Emily Ratajkowski’s husband cheated on her… No matter how hot a chick is some guy is tired of banging her the saying goes.
also I will leave this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYYX13uB4E
Someone cheated on Elizabeth Hurley, Halle Berry, etc.
I think we can all agree that Hugh Grant is a crazy SOB with peculiar tastes.
Prediction: Trump will not be running for President in 2024. He may declare a candidacy sometime after November, but he will be out before the first primary if he does so. It’s not going to be a serious run. There are main three reasons that he won’t. He has over a 100 million in his Super PAC that he will lose control of if he makes a run. He is currently getting his legal bills (I don’t think that includes the latest NY bullshit one over property valuations) paid for by the RNC which would end if he became a declared official candidate. Thirdly, he knows that he could very probably lose, possibly even losing by not getting the Team Red nomination as his favorability numbers are sinking while a certain Florida Man’s are rising. I realize that this may be partly wishful thinking on my part as I really, really want him to not run again, but if I had to lay down money on it, I’d put the chances at 60/40 currently of him not actually following through with a serious run.
Bullshit … well, yes and no.
In the 80s, he was doing this shit, which was one reason I didn’t vote for him. Fluffing his books and stiffing small contractors when he went bankrupt. However, the banks are equally at fault. On the news last night (may or may not be true/presented correctly), they said he declared Mar-a-Lago at $750 million, when it’s more like $75 million. Now, I’m just a WAHM over here in Flyover, but even I can call shenanigans on a $750 million valuation for that property. So … where was the bank loaning him money on the basis of his valuations? Huh? They just … take his word for it? No. They’re in cahoots.
And the left went full OMB Trump psychosis (never mentioning any of this) and make me defend the guy, which, let me tell you, is a bitter pill to swallow.
https://wahm.ro/ exists strangely enough. that is all.
So much this. I knew many vendors he stiffed in Atlantic City.
Back when I was vocally opposing Trump, which left me in a bed with a whole lot of people I didn’t want to be in bed with, my favorite saying was, “Remember. If a man will cheat WITH you, he will cheat ON you.” I will admit I expected him to do a bunch of shit his supporters didn’t want him to, and in the end was largely banal, but evangelicals took it to mean his many affairs and brushed them off, and wouldn’t listen when I talked about his financial dealings.
But also back in the 80s he tried to run or talked about running for president several times, but he was unserious at that time. It’s something he’s always wanted.
He wasn’t that serious about running in ’16. That’s part of what inflamed the TDS – he isn’t treating this the way we think it should be treated.
Well, I didn’t THINK he was, which was why I just ignored it until I couldn’t.
Also, his attitude about Kelo was vulgar.
Mo, this investigation by the NY AG has been going on for years, and this is what they finally come up with?! To my eyes it is way more of a bullshit charge than the 1/6 hysteria. If she were to have try and nail him for some of the stiffing of contractors that would have been at least something. My dad knows an Irish contractor that got stiffed by Trump, I have no doubt there were many who were. But who exactly is the victim here, the banks? I don’t see them complaining and as far as I know he hasn’t defaulted on any of these loans. If the banks want to bring a suit against him for that, let them, but as you said they won’t because they are just as much guilty. As this is coming from an AG that explicitly said she was going to go after Trump and his family for anything she could, I find it remarkably weak.
Well, that’s why I said “yes and no,” because the banks are/were complicit. He was the original “too big to fail” because they had to loan him more money to try to save themselves.
Maybe, he doesn’t want to be a two time loser and he can still play kingmaker which should ease his ego. If a Rep gets elected he’ll be partially legally shielded for four years or longer and would be pardoned if his legal situation really went in the ditch. The money doesn’t hurt either and if I was him I’d just look at not running as freeing up free time to hang around the mansion and bang Melania. DeSantis has better political instincts, less baggage, and he might actually be a better troll which is surprising but there you go.
Trump will not be President again. If he does somehow run and get the Elephant nomination, he will lose to whatever shitbag the Donks put forth. I think deep down he knows that he will not win again, and if it is one thing he hates more than losing the spotlight it is losing itself.
Complete opposite. The decent pollsters are showing Trump is destroying the entire Dem field. Seriously. Biden polls the best against him and is still getting his clock cleaned. If Trump runs, he will be the nominee and barring Dems finding a dark horse (Obama type) candidate, he will be president again.
I am boring. Please let me regale you with the joys of being boring!
Boring is underrated.
Boring meaning “never wanted to look a fool”? Not me.
I realize that this may be partly wishful thinking on my part as I really, really want him to not run again, but if I had to lay down money on it, I’d put the chances at 60/40 currently of him not actually following through with a serious run.
I would like to think the people around him (Bannon, too, maybe) are urging him to not run, for any number of sensible reasons.
I’m not terribly optimistic.
The prospect of two more years of the outrage machine in full tilt Bad Orange Man is BAD mode fills me with dread.
He lost much of his support.
“Leading Science Journal Will Now Reject Inconvenient Scientific Truths
Nature demands that only science compatible with an ideologically fashionable worldview be published.
What is arguably the world’s most influential scientific journal is strangling academic freedom and science itself with the hands of far-left ideology.
“Although academic freedom is fundamental, it is not unbounded,” a recent volume of Nature Human Behavior reads. “For example, research may — inadvertently — stigmatize individuals or human groups.” And in a Nature news feature last week, the author worried that “a new ultraconservative supermajority on the United States’ top court is undermining science’s role in informing public policy. . . . Scholars fear the results could be disastrous for public health, justice and democracy itself.””
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/09/leading-science-journal-will-now-reject-inconvenient-scientific-truths/
Paywalled, but you get the gist of it.
“Nature’s editors have now made “woke” identity politics an essential element of editorial policy, explicitly stating that they will reject, retract, and repudiate any research that “promotes privileged, exclusionary perspectives.””
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1572797609546493954
Good. Make it explicit instead of trying to hide it.
It gives alternatives an opportunity.
2+2=climate change
The subjectivity of the standard is off the charts.
They’re speculating that publication of research may have disparate impacts in advance of it actually doing so.
It’s a huge opening for activists to come after researchers and crush them. Nature has just condemned itself to the ashbin of history.
If the research is sound I don’t care if it has disparate impacts and, yes, they’ve screwed themselves.
ultraconservative supermajority on the United States’ top court
What?
but you get the gist of it.
Rule by wokesperts.
The actual Nature editorial is worth reading. It’s nuts.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01443-2
“Socially relevant groupings” would include political parties, no?
Nature returning to a state of nature and abandoning reason and science. Sort of makes sense.
NYT is shocked that yet another Trump investigation and/or lawsuit fails to dissuade supporters.
Trump Support Remains Unmoved by Investigations, Poll Finds
the Fed wants positive real interest rates across the entire yield curve
Janet Yellin haz a big sad.
Ask Ian: Why Does the AR15 Have a Buffer Thingie? – as an european very technical gun terms confuse me…
“A couple months back, I went to a queer dance party with someone I’d met online. We’d had a nice time chatting over sodas at the city’s catholic themed bar before we headed to a warehouse full of slippery, glittering gays, adorned in fishnet and sequin, leather and lace. I hadn’t been to a rave in years, partly due to the pandemic and partly due to I’m old now. And I felt old as I looked around the party, realizing there were no longer any familiar faces smiling back. Multiple waves of young people had turned 19 since the plague had descended upon us, and they were here at this party, drinking and dancing and blushing and flirting but mostly looking down at their shoes…
After awhile, they wanted to move closer to the stage and I followed. Before we could make it to the front, though, they explained how the dance floor closest to the DJ was for black and indigenous femmes only. Everyone else was to dance behind them in the following order: black and indigenous then other people of colour then mixed race people then whites, and femmes then androgynous people then mascs. Since my new friend was mixed and I was white, I would have to dance behind them, but they pointed to a stranger and told me I could dance in front of him.”
https://kier.substack.com/p/015
Haaaaaaahahahaahahahahahahaaahhaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaahaha
Tell me, how is it we managed to recreate Jim Crow inside a 10 year span? Amazing.
Jim Crow hell – the whole Hindu caste system isn’t this fucking rigid.
*sigh*
Kink used to be a lot more fun…
The Progressive Stack strikes again.
Feebs purge an Oak Keep infiltrator!
https://nypost.com/2022/09/21/fbi-hero-paying-the-price-for-exposing-unjust-persecution-of-conservative-americans/
Our boys in blue parked on the train track. What could go wrong?
CSP: Platteville PD vehicle with female suspect inside hit by train
Our boys in blue parked on the train track. What could go wrong?
The officer was not injured.
Phew!
“BREAKING: We have just been BANNED from @Venmo and @PayPal (within minutes of each other) for “violating” their user agreements.
We are an organization that consists entirely of gay people whose only mission is to safeguard children from abuse.
Woke homophobia is real, folks.”
https://twitter.com/againstgrmrs/status/1572115130242179073
Yup.
When companies collude to shape their markets in any other context, the antitrust lawyers get really antsy. For some reason, they’re not worried about the feds coming down on them for this type of thing. I wonder why… 🤔🙄