Looks right to me.
The top five in the CFP stated the same. In college hoops MSU beat Kentucky and Kansas took down Duke in a pair of early marquee matchups. Buck Showalter won his fourth (with four different teams no less) Manager of the Year award for the Mets while Terry Francona won his third (all for the same team) in the AL for the Indians. And the World Cup is only four days away. And that’s it for a slow sports day.
“He made me do it.”
“These guys did it, but it was someone else’s fault.” I’m sorry, but I don’t buy it. They’re trying to drag NATO into this fucking mess. I just hope we get to celebrate another Christmas before we have to start seeing troop deployment numbers into a war zone. Fortunately, I guess, my son just got sent to Korea for a year.
Uh-huh, sure. Lest we forget the Biden admin has extended the Covid emergency though. So I guess they can have their cake (covid emergency) and eat it to (ignore covid emergency at the border). They just need to shop it to the correct judge.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Not this guy. He’s the best. Why couldn’t it have been Letterman instead?
“”Ooh, ooh. Give me that fish dick!”
I guess this counts as mounting a “robust defense.” And while it is a distasteful line of questions, it does point out how sleazy everybody involved in Hollywood appears to be.
“Bang, zoom, straight to the moon.” Or at least around it. We’re almost back to where we were 50 years ago. What an achievement.
Stay safe, potato people. I assume this one will stay in the news long after the UVA one is ignored. Don’t ask me why. You know the answer.
Oh, boo-hoo. why not just quit? It’s a buyer’s market right now. You don’t need to bitch endlessly. Just pack up and go.
Good. I hope it passes. And I hope it’s very strictly enforced. Because this is fucked up.
This should be the new crypto theme song. It’s pretty apt. And this second one is pure 80s. The video is extra cheesy, even by that decade’s standards. Simply incredibly. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this fantastic, but chilly, Wednesday.
You will get more “emergencies” when emergencies grant extra power.
The Iron Laws strike again.
Letterman is quiet. How about Kimmel?
What ever happened to the Letter Dude. He was such a happy, snarky guy in the early 90’s, then turned into a joyless curmudgeon.
He was no longer allowed to bang the interns?
I’m pulling for LSU over UGA in the SEC championship – imagine the chaos.
Same. But I fear they’ll use it as an excuse to put three SEC teams in.
Does the SEC still schedule powderpuffs for their non-conference games?
Take a look at their slate of opponents this coming week:
https://www.espn.com/college-football/scoreboard/_/group/8
Games against FCS teams should be considered exhibition and not count for FBS play.
It’s bullshit. As is only playing 8 conference games.
I’d like to see the SEC play more conference games as well, but the current strategy is working well for getting into the playoffs so I don’t see more conference games without some external pressure. Some schools have at least one rivalry game out of conference every year (Clemson vs USC, Florida-Florida State, etc) so that reduces the degrees of freedom. There’s still room for one more conference game though, and I’d rather see my gators play another Western division team than a fluffer. Although, we did open with Utah this year, and somehow won.
8 is an even number.
That is all I have to say about that.
9 is the perfect conference size for that reason alone.
The first two are fucking pathetic. A&M is pathetic if the didn’t do a home-and-home and will travel to Massachusetts next November. Playing and non-FBS should be an automatic disqualifier for the playoffs.
UMass is an FBS school, just a bad one. Maybe your remark was meant more generally, and I agree. Some years ago, the NCAA was pretty successful in getting men’s basketball teams to play a more challenging non-conference schedule; maybe whatever they did can be applied to football.
Now in fairness, the Big10 East does get to play Big10 West teams, including in the [snicker, snicker]championship game.
Let them – it will show that the divisional system and championship games are meaningless. I’d love to see them justify that and the Big10 champ with no undefeated (presuming a lot there) TCU or (also presuming) 1 loss Pac12 champ. Put the scam on full display.
It went from “we pick the champion” to “we pick a couple teams to play for the championship” to “we pick a few teams to play for the championship”. It still too subjective. College baseball is much better.
An 8-team playoff would be best. Five P-5 champs and three at-large teams with no AQ for a G-5 champ. And play some playoff games up north for a change.
I’d go with 8. In recent years, the number of schools with 0 or 1 loss, which IMO makes them legit championship candidates, has hovered around 8. To me, the point is to have a playoff where every team with a reasonable claim to being among the best has a shot. The basketball tournament has a lot of clunkers, but I don’t hear anybody saying that a legitimate contender was left out.
16 is the perfect number. 10 conference champs, 6 at large.
First two rounds on campus (or, you know, wherever the stadium is). Semis on New Years Day (not eve). Final ~week later.
I think we saw last year the SEC is miles ahead of everyone else.
My first thought at seeing the image on the front page – How much Cocaine are those people on?
“I assume this one will stay in the news long after the UVA one is ignored. ”
Stabbing not a shooting though.
wE NEeD KnIFe ConTRoL!
Only licensed chefs should be allowed to posses pointy knives.
Yearly retraining required.
But no psych evals – good chefs too likely to fail!
You can substitute a Michelin star for a Psych eval.
Definitely no drug testing…
If your knife fails it’s drug test, does the knife go to prison?
No, it goes into the collection of the inspector.
To possess one with an edge, you have to take an annual training course on knife safety and handling, and get a barber’s permit for sharpness beyond mildly sharp.
I can see a bright future for you, first Albany and then on to DC. We need someone that understands the rules, if it saves just one person…
*Europe nods in agreement*
It is going to fall by the wayside. It runs counter to the “guns ‘r evil!” line the news/left takes, and shows that people are the issue, not inanimate objects.
With US forces in Ukraine Biden has returned to the tradition of presidents and new wars.
The Fight Fire With Fire video is unintentionally hilarious. I had forgotten that one.
“The Democrat, who represents the 103rd District near Dallas, tweeted Monday that Texas representatives have already filed 17 different bills, “including bans on gender-affirming care, college sports participation, LGBT-inclusive education, & one bill criminalizing drag shows.” ”
This is the same as abortion. You have extremists on both sides. Push drag shows on kids, then someone wants to ban them entirely.
Agreed, banning kids is a bit extreme of a reaction.
I don’t know. They are kind of loud. And smelly.
Without evidence, I’m going to guess the actual content of these bills is not what is being described.
Good point.
“don’t say gay”
Don’t say drag.
Yup.
So much this.
Flag on the false equivalency play.
I don’t feel strongly about abortion. My gut reaction would be to settle the cutoff around viability. I do consider late-term abortion advocates to be extremist ghouls. I don’t consider pro-life advocates to be extremist. Their viewpoint and push to ban abortion is a clear and logical pathway of considering human life to begin at conception. I may disagree but it’s hardly an extremist position or reaction.
Here you have one side trying to create the sexualization of very minor children as an accepted societal norm. Yeah no shit there’s go to be a very strong pushback. Banning drag shows isn’t even close to the same level of extreme as the other side. I’ve no problem with adult only drag shows and disagree with banning them. But let’s not equate the two sides. It’s not even the same universe.
It’s still wrong vs. wrong.
It’s wrong vs wrong like homicide vs shoplifting a candy bar….sexual grooming of 6 year old children vs banning adult men from playing dress-up…. both are wrong but even close to equivalent.
I don’t think the pro-life view/reaction is even wrong. I disagree with this position but it seems just as valid a belief as setting human life beginning at viability outside the womb.
You seem to be ignoring the politics here. Wrong is ammunition for the other side.
I would like to see the bill “criminalizing drag shows” but too lazy/occupied to look.
Nevertheless I would bet good money that what it’s actually criminalizing is drag shows in front of small children.
If it’s the one I saw it’s any minor not just small children, and the bill is written so broadly it would ban plays wear mean dress as women as part of the plot, which isn’t all that unusual. You probably couldn’t host a Monty Python viewing.
It’s the problem with trying to codify everything, just have a law that says miners aren’t allowed at sexually explicit shows. Yes, that will put the onus on the State to prove that any particular show is ‘sexually explicit’ but that’s the way it should be.
Sir, is that coal dust around your collar? Get out of this establishment.
/remembers the bar that got in trouble for the picture of miners hanging up… due to “blackface”
Wasn’t miners at drag shows the plot of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?
“Working in a coal mine, going downtown now…”
West Virginia hardest hit.
Leave it to you jerks to focus on the typo and not the brilliant insight of my comment.
lol at all of the above
Assumes facts not in evidence….
So it in fact doesn’t actually criminalize drag shows, it bans minors from attending. Exactly the point rhywun was making, thanks for making that clear.
Your welcome.
Stupid Rs. They’re the same but using the state to enforce morality.
Who cares if some stupid parents want to take their kids to a drag show?
Hey buddy, stop doing that!
You guys were just celebrating when our gas pipeline got blown up, but sure we’ll help you out. Germany is a nation of cucks.
They just need the right leader.
A strong man?
Indeed. One who can tell people about his struggle, perhaps.
Perhaps an aspiring artist with a funny mustache.
The Austrian Painter has arrived.
They are because that’s what we and all of Europe wanted after the first half of the 20th century.
I’m sure Poland will welcome the German military with open arms.
No kidding. Somewhere an old man is digging out his rifle…
Plus, I got 5 bucks the Germans can’t keep planes in the air more than 3 days.
They can run them on jet fuel… Coal? Wood?
Windmills and solar panels to the rescue.
“Solar EuroFighter”
They have a secret plan to make windmill helicopters.
Perpetual motion, FTW!
Steve Jobs unavailable for comment. Remember all the articles describing what a tyrant he was? Yeah, me neither.
Disagreeing with your boss is one thing. Publicly slamming him on social media is something else.
But I really feel for them. Having free lunch taken away has to be a human rights violation.
But has he cut back on the DEI initiatives and training? That would make him literally Trump.
Next thing you know, he’ll be ignoring ESG ‘guidelines’.
We’re doing layoffs here because the global economy is predicted to fall off a cliff in 1H 2023.
I’m sure we will be losing our subsidized lunch perk too. I ain’t gonna lie — I’ll miss it.
Our subsidized cafeteria was eliminated….in 2005.
Ours only came into existence when the split between wrench-turners working onsite and laptoppers WFH happened.
Thanks to the economy tanking, I have a new job. It’s called “Looking for a new job”.
I do recall that he was known for parking in handicap spots.
I had some difficult bosses in the army but I couldn’t quit. It’s actually a good learning experience, file it away and when the time comes you know what not to do.
Wait…when were you in my unit? We went from mediocre to terrible to great in the space of 3 commanders.
Today in ewww grosss
https://twitter.com/PandasAndVidya/status/1592781372065996803
Age restricted.
well you can click view I assume
Not anymore?
Apparently you need to log in.
basically guy used to shower with his GF and peed on her leg during the shower to get back at her for putting menstrual blood in his coffee because she read on the internet that will make his love stronger
I hate both those people.
That’s not even close to repaying her in full.
You know, at the point your relationship disputes
have escalated to chemical warfare, perhaps its
time to reconsider the whole thing.
Carotid or GTFO, amirite?
Yeah… fake story, never happened.
“I guess this counts as mounting a “robust defense.”
Odds are that Newsom was fondling himself while his wife testified about getting sexed up by Weinstein.
Thanks for that image.
Not
No shit – RCD channeling some SF there.
“Ooh, I hope I get a big campaign contribution out of this.”
::whack whack whack::
“Let it be six figures.”
::whack whack whack::
“It was six figures? Sweet!”
::splooge::
What kind of piece of shit judge would allow that grotesque humiliation to go on in their court?
No matter how much or on what I disagreed with the woman I would never engage or allow that to go on.
When Werksman peppered Siebel Newsom with questions concerning details about her prior testimony regarding the alleged rape, she replied: “What you’re doing today is exactly what he did to me.”
I understand her point about not wanting to relive the moment, but this is a reckless abuse of the word “exactly”.
Agreed, and agreed with Suthen above. Where’s the judge? I feel that really crossed the line.
Or maybe he’s thinking, “Huh, that sounds a lot like our first date.”
When Harvey Met Sally (or whatever Newsom’s wife’s name is)
Don’t ask me why. You know the answer.
Because they caught the UVA guy and there won’t be much to report on until the trial?
There’s plenty to report on!
They can interview his elementary school teachers about what a sweetboy his was! There can be a week-by-week recap of his lifetime struggles against racism! And of course there are so many in-depth investigations on how we as a nation have failed him just crying out to be written!
Me talk pretty one day.
Meh, good grammar is underoverrated
Not at all. Grammar makes communication more robust by encoding redundant information. And with that redundant information, it’s possible to make jokes by sending mismatched information. Supposedly this is why even “bad” English is comprehensible while other languages become unintelligible with errors more quickly.
Polish President Andrzej Duda said the missile that fell on the country on Tuesday, killing two people, is likely an “accident” from Ukrainian air defenses, with no indications it was an intentional attack.
Seems most likely. It would also be an accident if it were Russian launched. But I read that it is an anti-air defense missile.
Poland’s foreign ministry said earlier that a “Russian-made missile” hit the border village of Przewodow Tuesday.
Eastern European countries are replete with Russian made weapons.
Germany offers to help Poland patrol airspace after missile incident
Does anyone remember what happened the last time the Luftwaffe operated in Polish airspace?
Besides, last I saw Germany cannot even field enough planes to patrol its own airspace.
Who said anything about planes? We’re using Pegasi!
::Ride of the Valkyrie plays in the background::
It’s over Poland, shouldn’t we go with “Winged Hussars”?
Not very rabid….
*runs from room*
Stop being Hydrophobic!
I was just going to mention that… Good call back.
But can you tell me…. Why do you love Putin? 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5I8GYB79Y
Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under President Joe Biden attempted to pull back the order, but it was held in place by a legal challenge from Republican-led states. That case was rendered moot by Tuesday’s ruling, which takes issue with the original basis for conducting the expulsions.
I take it “being an illegal alien” was not up for consideration.
The pinkos have been saying for decades they intend to import more pinkos for their voting habits.
I swear, the average person has the memory of a goldfish.
It’s racist to quote the left’s own words at them.
Oh, boo-hoo. why not just quit? It’s a buyer’s market right now.
Buyer’s market?
Yeah. Those looking for work (the buyers) are in an enviable position relative to those doing the hiring (the sellers, if you will).
Ehhh, I don’t know about that, especially in tech.
In a labor market, those looking for work are the sellers, their product is their labor and expertise. Those doing the hiring are the buyers.
Sloopy, isn’t that exactly opposite?
I am the seller if I’m an employee.
Sounds like everyone is getting laid off in tech, so maybe not a great time to be in that market.
As an employer, I believe I’m selling a prospective employee an opportunity. They can buy into the opportunity or not.
I guess it depends on perspective.
The buyer is the one who pays the money (salary), the seller receives the money.
Sure, if we’re buying what the administration is selling. Best economy ever. Inflation and declining production are just byproducts of greatness.
Why couldn’t it have been Letterman instead?
Letterman is not a car guy.
But with that beard, he gets anywhere near a campfire and there’s gonna be trouble.
“UnCivilServant on November 16, 2022 at 6:09 am
“save as” locally reduces the amount of data gathering MicroSoft gets to do. Put it on your OneDrive so they can parse it for anything that might be used for their gain.”
I know that’s the reason, I just don’t know why anyone puts up with it. I’m already paying for the product (or my work is anyway…) Why do you have to break your product and scam everyone on top of it?
Because people aren’t going to the alternatives when they do this.
Well, not the big corporate accounts that pay the bills.
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, became visibly appalled when asked to recreate how she faked an orgasm on the stand as she gave evidence during the sexual assault trial of Harvey Weinstein.
As if she doesn’t have practice given she’s with Gavin.
I want to know how witnesses get to refuse to answer questions all on their own without recourse to the judge.
“‘Dad was a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic Donald Trump supporter’: Self-described ‘black supremacist’ attacks her own dad at his FUNERAL – and says he is ‘everything I aspire not to be'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11433395/Self-described-black-supremacist-calls-dad-racist-Trump-supporter-funeral.html
She seems nice.
Sounds like his only real failing was not imparting values in his daughter. But even the best parents can get cursed with hellspawn who decide not to learn.
A “black supremacist” calling someone else a racist? Yeah, that seems about right.
🙄
And it looks like dad was white, so if she were a true supremacist, one drop of evil whitey should disqualify her. Really, can we get the dad back and shove her into the coffin?
By the looks of her(they), the mother wasn’t 100% African blood either.
The new passing?
Looks like Rachel Dolezal.
And the educational system almost certainly encouraged and applauded her behavior in this regard.
Someone should have slapped the taste out of her mouth.
I’ll put it down to shock, that a few brothers/uncles/cousins didn’t physically remove her from the premises when she opened her cakehole.
It remains unclear whether or not the speech actually took place at their father’s funeral
Doesn’t sound like it happen at the funeral, so probably just a girl who hates her father bitching on tic-tok.
Also it’s possible the old coot was a grade a asshole, there are plenty of them out there.
Could be both?
I suspect it’s quite rare for a child to have massive personality flaws and the parents to be perfectly well-adjusted.
Don’t care. Funerals are not the place for recriminations.
I am surrounded by the “they/them” thing at work, and a little outside of work. It usually takes me a moment to pick up on what someone is talking about. “My partner quit their job.” Huh? Oh, I get it. You and your partner are programmable robots playing out the current programmed code.
“Sullivan also wrote that the policy was “arbitrary and capricious” and violated federal law.
The CDC should not have ignored the consequences of sending migrants back to potential harm, Sullivan wrote.
“It is undisputed that the impact on migrants was indeed dire,” he wrote”
Okay, so we just need to put all other pandemic bullshit up in front of this judge and he’ll strike it all down, right? Right?
Why is that of any concern to the US? When did it become our responsibility to deal with the rest of the world’s problems?
We are the Christ of the Nations!
Right there in the Constitution. Just have to read between the lines a little…
https://twitter.com/samthielman/status/1592183413070782464
not to defend the NYT but is doubting puberty blocker a crusade against kids?
I do not understand how in the “pro trans” community it has become so embedded that pre puberty children who biologically are not sexually mature can know for certain they are born the “wrong” one
It’s violence against them to deny the children their every wish even if it harms them.
Don’t you CRT bro?
Hey, they know when they are born. They cry when the doctor misgenders them.
Extreme radicals are trying to gaslight the world onto their side and I guess it’s too much even for the NYT. Expect them to ramp up the crazy. Most of that “community” isn’t even interested in the issue at hand, they just want to cause mayhem.
The NYT article was weak. Puberty blockers are wrong even if someone eventually transitions.
Almost as bad as the crusade against HTML tags. -Edit Faerie
I will never use html tags. NEVER
I posted a screeching Defector article last night responding to the NYT article. Absent in the screech was acknowledging the NYT’s discussion about how Europe is pumping the brakes on “gender affirming care.”
It was a stupid response to a stupid article.
Yep, written by a happy (we’re told) transwoman who did not use puberty blockers.
The trans community is universally personality disorders and mental illness.
You dont understand it and you never will. Neither will any other sane person.
It’s also trendy AF among teenage girls.
What makes me mad is a lot of misinformation was spread that postponing puberty couldn’t possibly have any long term consequences.
I don’t understand how Gay Conversion Therapy for kids is regarded as child abuse by the same crowd promoting puberty blockers and surgery for the mentally ill.
No fan of the GCT, but for goodness sakes there’s no chemicals or knives involved.
Ugh, Kansas. I guess I deserve that for linking to Bruce last night.
“Children are left waiting for 15 HOURS in emergency rooms due to Amoxicillin shortage caused by COVID restrictions – as record number of parents are forced to take time off work to care for sick kids
The FDA initially blamed a surge in demand for the shortage, as the numbers of respiratory syncytial virus cases skyrocket to unseasonably high figures alongside the seasonal surges of strep throat, ear infections and other respiratory illnesses.
Infectious-disease specialists say a number of factors but primarily weakened immune systems from the pandemic are contributing to the recent spike in viral infections.
‘Pandemic babies,’ who were guarded against respiratory pathogens because of measures like social distancing are also now getting sick and the easing of mask mandates in schools makes it easier for viruses to spread, especially among those with weakened immune systems.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11432543/Parents-waiting-15-hours-emergency-rooms-amid-Amoxicillin-shortage.html
No one could have predicted this.
If we just surgically attach the masks, all these problems will go away.
No need for surgery.
*grabs caulk gun*
Around Children!?
*adds Sean to the offender registry*
staples, like putting antlers on mice
The PEN-15?
‘Pandemic babies,’ who were guarded against respiratory pathogens because of measures like social distancing are also now getting sick and the easing of mask mandates in schools makes it easier for viruses to spread, especially among those with weakened immune systems.”
Wrong wrong wrong. They have weaker immune systems because of the lockdowns and social distancing.
And masks.
And mRNA vaccines.
https://www.dailynews.com/2022/10/26/some-health-care-workers-have-low-immune-response-to-covid-vaccine-cedars-sinai-study-finds/
This.
But, the belief in the power of the Democrat scapular is strong!
I’m not sure about this. I think it’s been amply demonstrated over the last 50 years and empirically over the last 2+ years that masks do not prevent viral transmission. So what mechanism allows their use to weaken the immune system (e.g. by ‘protecting’ against everyday exposure to pathogens thus failing to continuously train the immune system in the background) but not prevent viral transmission? I supposed one could plausibly argue that masks are not going to prevent airborne aerosolized viral transmission, but will prevent exposure to, e.g. truly droplet transmitted bacteria and the like. And thus have ones cake and eat it too. Is that the idea/mechanism? I know some of the research on surgical masks in the before time showed no improvement with respect to post-operative infections so I’m not sure that’s on too solid of ground either.
Maybe it has something to do with trapping a bunch of moist bacteria against your face for hours.
That was my thinking, reusing degusting masks each day? Or is that good for immune system?
Now I am confused.
The power of the mask compels you!
The power of the mask compels you!
Why does that weaken the immune system? Might make you get sick more often and more ‘deeply’, but not sure why that would weaken the immune system, though overworking it is probably not ideal, the same as underworking it isn’t. Isolating from other people all the time, sanitizing everything, etc. that will definitely result in an immune system that is severely challenged by even the most mild of exposure. But I’m not seeing a mechanism by which mask wearing in and of itself would do that. Would almost certainly be a correlation as those who would always wear a mask are going to very likely be doing all those other things, staying inside and dropping vitamin D levels (and taking multiple ‘vaccine’ doses) thus wreaking havoc on their immune system, but I don’t see a casual relationship. Not saying there isn’t, it just doesn’t pop out at me.
Isolating from other people all the time, sanitizing everything, etc. that will definitely result in an immune system that is severely challenged by even the most mild of exposure.
And that’s a good description of how a fair number of helicopter parents treated their children. Hence, the children who are now getting RSV were made immunologically naive by the overreaction to the pandemic.
Agreed.
“No one could have predicted this.”
If giving every baby to moloch adds just one year of life to a 90-something, that is something we add a society must do.
That article is incredibly bad reporting.
RSV is a viral illness and cannot be treated by any antibiotic, including amoxicillin, because antibiotics have no effect on viruses. They kill bacterial pathogens. Anybody prescribing amoxicillin to treat RSV is incompetent. They finally get around to admitting this way down in the article, but not in the breathless headlines.
Pediatricians are notorious for seeing ear infections where they don’t actually exist and putting kids on ten day courses of antibiotics for everything, even though it’s pretty clear that’s far longer than is actually needed. Then the kid gets a drug eruption or viral exanthem and now has a penicillin allergy on their chart for life.
The crux of the matter is the line “the demand from parents”. I’m sure the number of arguments I’ve had with parents who demand antibiotics for their kid’s common cold or flu is in the hundreds by now. “Just in case” is not a reason to put a child on a drug that could potentially harm them.
You’re a good doc (?)
So many people don’t realize how damaging antibiotics are to your biome.
I had my appendix out on Halloween, so was prescribed a week of anti-biotics plus what they dripped into me at the hospital.
Not sure why people want to be on them, my digestive system was wrecked until I stopped taking them.
Ain’t that the truth.
The crux of the matter is the line “the demand from parents”. I’m sure the number of arguments I’ve had with parents who demand antibiotics for their kid’s common cold or flu is in the hundreds by now. “Just in case” is not a reason to put a child on a drug that could potentially harm them.
Of course if antibiotics were sold over the counter and didn’t require the service of a modern-day guild to access, you wouldn’t have to have any of those arguments with parents.
I’m against prescription requirements except for antibiotics because overuse puts everyone at risk because of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
You could make the same argument for mandated vaccines and herd immunity. I don’t buy it for mandated vaccines or for pharmaceutical gatekeepers. There are plenty of countries that have OTC antibiotics, either officially or unofficially. They haven’t seemed to have turned into plague-ridden wastelands.
“You could make the same argument for mandated vaccines and herd immunity.”
For actual vaccines that’s a valid argument.
“There are plenty of countries that have OTC antibiotics, either officially or unofficially. They haven’t seemed to have turned into plague-ridden wastelands.”
I don’t know about that. Regardless, antibiotic resistant bacteria are real.
Yeah, here’s the problem – the parents want the antibiotic for convenience not medical necessity.
So? No one needs a 30 rd mag, right?
Let consumers buy what they wish. We shouldn’t need to justify it with a reason.
I recently spent 3 hours at urgent care waiting to get my drugs for a bout of diverticulitis. Spent 10 minutes talking to the doc. She confirmed that I knew what I was talking about when I said I had it and then wrote the prescription for the antibiotics.
Our wonderful medical system didn’t impress me.
Do countries where they allow antibiotics to be sold over the counter have epidemics of antibiotic resistant germs? Is there really some solid proof that selling them over the counter is harmful?
In my case, I would have gone to the doc the first time to figure out what exactly was causing me so much pain. After he schooled me up and told me what the best medicine was, why can’t I just buy it?
How do you expect medical malpractice attorneys to feed their children if regular people are allowed to self-diagnose and -treat?
And think of the insurance babies!
No, they really don’t. In Mexico, you can get the damn antibiotics out of a vending machine. I’d love that here.
“Do countries where they allow antibiotics to be sold over the counter have epidemics of antibiotic resistant germs?”
I think so. I’m India you can get them whenever you want and I know some antibiotic resistant bacteria have originated there.
I guess I still land on the let people do whatever they want side though.
Well I’m sure that our public health experts have performed some in depth neutral studies to get at the basic facts about this issue.
Surely we can trust them to tell us – without sugar coating it – the best policy when it comes to getting antibiotics to the public.
Unenforceable after Lawrence v. Texas but still on the books so they can make a big show of charging people.
Yea that stood out to me too.
Rayner says it’s time to “drain the swamp.”
Forgetting that unlike Washington DC, Westminster has never been a swamp.
It was once, however, an island in the Thames.
https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1592853443500445696
well if there is no swamp to drain back to blowing things up with gunpowder I suppose
Pop quiz – do you know what a metaphor is?
I just liked the picture of old timey london
While monday they allowed twitter, today the work proxy has gone back to blocking it, so I’ve only got what you quoted to go by.
You shoot the hostage?
Growing wildflowers?
“Werksman also asked Siebel Newsom about dozens of emails she sent to Weinstein after the alleged rape, including emails soliciting support for Gavin Newsom’s mayoral campaign in San Francisco.
The emails, dated between 2006 and 2008, were displayed on a screen for jurors and included Siebel Newsom reaching out to Weinstein for meetings.”
Yeah, a disgusting person. Should have gone to the cops immediately, but that wasn’t the most personally beneficial course of action as her later actions seem to show.
The only thing I’ll say about the Weinstein article is I can understand why a rape victim would fake an orgasm during a rape.
She was just excusing the Patriarchy!
She should have told her rapist that she has needs too and he should make sure she really orgasms. Instead of it being all about him and his needs.
Until women start insisting that rapists consider their feelings, nothing is going to change.
“gender-affirming”
Is the Houston chronicle full of commies? Can we stop using the language of the enemy?
This is gender disrupting abuse.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks, Jimbo. Maybe there are some good teachers.
I think she might have taught Q during his formative years.
In any event, she definitely has a counterweight built in for carrying a kid.
So sweet. Thanks, Holiness!
What should small-c conservatives believe?
Peter Hitchens was right all along: the Tory party needs to die
https://edwest.substack.com/p/what-should-small-c-conservatives
There is a compromise to be had between freedom, solidarity and equality, the three essential goals of society since the French Revolution, but compared to our opponents we place less emphasis on the latter. We believe equality of outcomes to be impossible, due to humans being born with different abilities, and generally favour measuring absolute over relative measures. Equality shouldn’t be some government goal.
The biggest failure of liberalism, as it’s currently understood, is that it often makes people unhappy. It looks down on many forms of moral guidance and so raises the risk of individuals making terrible life choices, because humans are unusually social mammals and very susceptible to messaging and cultural influence. We support people’s right to make life choices they feel best, and which don’t get in the way of others, but we also believe that there are social norms which stand as the default.
etc
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ywrmv0/samurai_helmet_made_by_famous_japanese_metalsmith/
That’s a sweet helmet.
I donno, I think it would make me look a little crabby.
His battle cry is “I’ll give you CRAAAAABS!”
That, or “Under Da Sea”.
Beneath the sea…
https://youtu.be/LM1RbOEOTHI?t=132
The Sea of Love
Best version of Sea of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TPZrXqaW0
Looks like it might pinch.
The name’s Zoidberg. Jiro Fucking Zoidberg!!!
Muh-fascisms.
Italy’s new deputy health minister Marcello Gemmato stated last night that there is no proof that Vaccines against Covid-19 actually worked.
“We do not have the reverse burden of proof.”
Stating the obvious is fascist.
Someone is trying to horn into our business!
About the only thing that would keep this guy from a full Glibs scholarship is his toadying up to The Man and complying with documentation requests. But other than that? Kids working in a slaughterhouse? Hell yeah!
[sheds single, manly tear of joy]
“BOY! Get over here right now and clean up this pool of tears!”
I read part of that Musk-is-a-shitty-boss thing. Imagine my surprise to find there is an “asymmetrical power relationship” between the owner/boss and the employees. Truly eye-opening.
Now do politics and politicians. Do that petulant thin skinned bitch Joe Biden, while you’re at it.
Jonathan Hutchinson was a Victorian era surgeon who had what some called an obsession with the idea that eating rancid fish was the true cause of leprosy. His 1906 book on the subject is now just a mocked Victorian curio, but I will show you how close he was to the truth.
https://twitter.com/crimkadid/status/1592635295786496001
Speaking of old books:
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-malleus-maleficarum
It would seem that witches can steal your penis. After all, many people claim to have had their penis stolen by witches. The fifteenth-century peasants among whom Kramer went witch-hunting claimed this. And modern people claim it even today. Frank Bures’ The Geography Of Madness is a great book about recent penis-stealing-witch-related panics, which happened until the mid-20th century in Asia and still happen in Africa. For some reason, this is a classic concern across cultures and centuries.
Maybe that’s what happened to Harvey Weinstein.
The penis thief witches have moved on to being gender counselors.
Except now they are promising penises and all the magic that penises possess.
That’s as good an explanation as any for their recent proliferation.
All the penis-stealing action moved to Africa
(also, “koro”?! yikes)
This was hilarious:
Wait, so, is the working theory that the “men” missing their penises were actually women or intersex?
Or is it just a complete lie that would be verifiable by simply having the person making the claim drop their drawers for inspection?
I just don’t get the context in which a man would claim his penis had been stolen. What’s the motiviation? What has he to gain?
For some reason I envision them going “I swear, this is the only one I could find, I’ll get my real one back…”
When Abigail accuses you of having had an affair with her, it comes in handy.
“Turned me into a Newt!”
“A Newt?”
“…got better…”
You left out the option of “a witch actually stole his penis”.
Frank Bures’ The Geography Of Madness is a fun book.
Interesting. So TB and Leprosy are caused by same thing, so areas with high TB rates had low leprosy rates and vice versa. Leprosy was high in areas with fish eaters, because it made them healthier and protected against TB.
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Just happy to not crash and burn.
I won’t even post chessle, didn’t even come close to it today.
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LL can suck it.
If anyone gets LL sooner than last, they are a damn, dirty cheater.
If it’s any consolation, I’m pretty sure you’d kick my ass at chess.
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Damn, dirty cheaters, all of you.
Lol. I had one from the HOA sitting on the desk next to my laptop. God works in mysterious ways.
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https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/voters_worry_about_election_cheating_don_t_trust_mail_in_voting
Nothing to see here, all just false consciousness! But, seriously, the left did some major cheating in ’20, didn’t get real pushback, and so they did it again. And more and more people are starting to see the pattern.
Yeah, I’ll rise to the bait.
First, yes, there is AMPLE opportunity to cheat in too many of our political districts. The cities have the oldest and most famous machinery for doing that.
Second, the mix of balloting (mail-in, drop-off and in-person) is problematic.
Third, the courts (*cough* PA SC *cough*) who will sanction bending if not outright breaking of the rules that have been established by legislative process.
Now, with all of those provisos – what is your exact evidence that we don’t just have a bunch of truly stupid voters casting ballots in what our view says is against their own interests? I mean, something like LBJ’s run-off win in the ’48 Senate primary in TX – that’s a great example of a truly fraudulent win in a campaign filled with fraudulent support for both candidates. Now look at PA, where you might want to say that Fetterman’s win is suspect, despite him underperforming relative to Shapiro. Or the AZ races, where it seems all the wins were pretty narrow – which ones are suspect and why not the others?
The one that gets me is how all the “late counting” elections always seem to go to the D’s. It could be confirmation bias, and I’m not seeing the stories where the R’s win elections after ballot counting has gone on for days and extra days.
Iowa Congressional race in ’20?
May not have been trickle of votes, but the recount sliced the lead.
While I appreciate that, that seems like a close race that went on. I was talking more like the Senate and Governor races where the R was up by a sizable amount, only to start watching “found” ballots erode the lead.
Boebert took the lead with the late counting votes. It still hasn’t been declared for her, however.
“here is AMPLE opportunity to cheat in too many of our political districts”
I would also suggest there is, at least, some kind of soft corruption in districts that haven’t changed hands for decades, e.g. Kansas-1. It’s almost always been held by a Republican and by large margins. The only D area is Manhattan. However, 2022 reapportionment moved Lawrence into the district. Does anyone seriously think that the Rs at every level are going to roll over and let the Ds turn this into a competitive district?
Why not both – election cheating and stupid/manipulable voters? If the cheating didn’t work, why would the machine keep doing it? Perhaps cheating alone isn’t enough to effect a desired outcome, but as one element to a strategy, it helps move the needle.
OK, so it can be both. Now tell me how you distinguish. Because one is a legit result, even if regrettable.
Or, to put it another way – yes, you can fix the process so that it is reliable, but you can’t stop stupid from voting.
But that isn’t, and hasn’t ever been a problem. Half the world is below average intelligence and it has nothing to do with cheating. That is just humanity. Stupid people are always going to be with us, but we can take steps to eliminate cheating.
Cursing all problems as some variant of “false consciousness” is a fools game.
Probably not possible to distinguish, but yes, removing the mechanisms that facilitate cheating seems a reasonable goal with no downside. As far as dealing with the stupid… well, I got nothing.
Lazy and stupid go hand in hand, eliminate easier voting keeps out the lazy and thus some stupid, I wouldn’t call it voter suppression but it’s a manipulation at least.
@Hype
“eliminate easier” = “manipulation”
Yeah, just like making sailors go through Hell Week to become SEALs is manipulation.
I’m missing the analogy here.
Physician, heal thyself.
The same way you determine cheating in every other context, from sports to divorce cases.
First, you have to have rules – and you have to enforce them.
To wit – put mechanisms in place to make sure that ONLY one (live) person, living in the requisite district and eligible to vote, is the person who actually fucking voted. Absentee ballots go only to those on active service OR those who can demonstrate some inability to get off of their ass and vote.
People caught breaking those rules go to jail and the ballot doesn’t count.
Ta-DAH!
JI – seriously, why do you think this system is (ahem, intentionally) not this way and instead a giant fuck-show? Let me help you out here – It’s so they can fucking cheat. Because they do and it happens all of the time.
Go look at what happened when Hillary lost to Trump in 2016 and Jill Stein decided to challenge the results. Many districts had >100% of eligible votes – all for Clinton. It was insane – there were articles about it at the time because under the rules those challenges were void under state law because you can’t get >100% of the eligible voters, yet multiple districts thad that happen – in places like Detroit, and Philly, and Baltimore, etc.
So I don’t understand how you continue to insist that there is no proof that there is cheating or that it’s not systemic. Look at all of the consent decrees that Judicial Watch gets whenever it challenges voter rolls in litigation. They’ve got dozens of those cases listed on their site. The government NEVER fixes those rolls and for some bizarre reason is quite happy to have 120+% of possible eligible voters in its district. (Hint, HINT – because it makes it easier to cheat, JI.)
I don’t recall hearing about 100%+ votes; perhaps you have a link or two handy.
Here’s one example. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/records-many-votes-detroits-precincts/95363314/
FTA:
Here’s another with links to additional stories showing similar hanky-panky in Pennsylvania.
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/jill-stein-recount-finds-voter-fraud-hillary-supporters/
In other news, Trump is running for President.
By announcing so soon after an election, he’s lost me.
I do not want a constant electoral season spanning every month of every year.
In fact, push all the primaries to the monday after election day.
I agree. Last time around, he actually had the timing right. I don’t think that is the case now.
I read he’s doing it for two reasons:
1. To quickly quash any serious competition. I.e. DeSantis
2. To strengthen his claim that an indictment is politically motivated.
Last time he won because the competition was weak. I read someone the other day that said it was the deepest bench in Republican history and I just had to laugh. It was a clown show, and the biggest clown ended up winning.
The difference is he was able to target them and pick them off – now the target is squarely on him, and he doesn’t have much to stand on.
I’ll push back on that. As Presidential slates go, it was decent for team red. You had Rand representing the libertarian wing, Rubio the garden variety elephant, Cruz the attack dog, Bush with his gubernatorial resume family name and a swing state, Kasich with a swing state governorship, and a couple of socons in Huckabee and Santorum. You even had Fiona as the outsider/big business run the country like a company.
Except for Rand, I dislike the politics of most of those people. However, it was a cross section of Team Red at that juncture, was light on Neocons compared to 2008 and 2012, and for the most part the candidates were fairly scandal free (grading on a curve here folks).
That may be width (spanning the factions), but I’d argue there was damn little depth (any of them having real quality). And the point of each faction having a candidate meant that no candidate was appealing to multiple factions within the party.
Or to set himself up as a potential kingmaker if he really doesn’t want to do the job himself.
Ride this bully pulpit for awhile, seeing which of the others (DeSantis, etc.) he can bend his way in exchange for a favorable nod one day.
Trump is addicted to the spotlight, he will never step out of it to allow someone else in.
This.
As I said before, see Trump and the USFL. When John Bassett died, there was no one left who would stand up to him.
Trump had credibility in the party because he won. Since he is no longer winning, he no longer has that cred.
Meritocracy!
I love that we’re 80% down in the comments before someone mentioned this. I think a lot of us feel the same way, he did some good things but he is getting very tiring.
time to pass the torch to someone who can get shit done and not be stupid enough to let his subordinates kneecap him
And that is what Desantis needs to say publicly and early.
It will be a kneecapping the way Trump kneecapped Little Marco or Jeb!
That person does not yet exist.
We’re not the only ones. The knives are coming from behind, not just in front.
“The calls are coming from inside the house!”
On the local front…
Official inflation i Romania is 17%. I think real one is rather higher.
I think small coffee shops will struggle this winter which is sad cause I visit a bunch of them…
Other small business as well.
Autumn is finally coming after it was basically summer till November 5
That sounds nice. We also went from 70s to 30s all the sudden. It will limit my outdoor Zooms.
yikes. 17%, annualized I assume?
yes
Ouch.
I’m assuming that is some crazy metric percentage?
Yes. It’s equal to 17% in American percentage points.
Ugh…I can never remember all these conversion factors!
Do we still need managers? Most workers say ‘no’
What we need from our managers has changed. But how we select and train them hasn’t.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90716503/do-we-still-need-managers-most-workers-say-no
I dunno working in a large company management is necessary and good management makes a huge difference
“In a recent survey of 3,000 American workers conducted by GoodHire, 83% of respondents said they could do their job without a manager. That number increases to 89% for finance and insurance professionals, 88% among healthcare workers, and 87% for those in hospitality, science, and technology roles. Beyond that, 84% of respondents said they could do their manager’s job, and 82% said they would consider quitting because of a bad manager.”
Most people do leave a job because of their boss rather than the work. However, I think the respondants overlook the key things managers are supposed to do that help their people. Hiring, firing, training, mediating issues, assigning workload to avoid overburdening one employee or letting thers slack, making sure tasks do not get overlooked because people assume someone else is on them, providing feedback to avoid firing someone, recommending career development goals, etc.
Admittedly a lot of what we end up doing is paperwork, and there are a lot of times where the manager:worker ratio is too high, but too many workers per manager is chaos that quickly devolves into “a place I wouldn’t want to work” as well.
Well said.
The workers in many companies have no clue what else happens outside of their little job description.
that being said, lower bureaucracy and fewer pointless middle managers would be good
No need for managers. Everyone just do what you want.
“Go away! Batin’!”
Well, there’s your chain of command manager, and modern bureaucracies now overlay no end of other paper-pushers that can stick their nose in. HR, DEI, “Quality”, etc.
Of course, whether what they do is what the company needs them to do at any given point is a different issue.
One of the things that gets missed a lot is that HR, DEI, etc. are all, at some basic level, about compliance. Whether it is internal rules (ie organization imposed) or external (ie governmental), nothing that those groups do is unsanctioned by the C-suite.
I say, without reading the article:
Good managers are better than no managers which are better than bad managers.
“Those higher in cognitive ability have a higher incidence of realism and pessimism in their expectations and a lower incidence of unrealistic optimism.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1592498668975726592
People artificially inflated the moral value of personality traits they had been led to believe they possessed.
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1592754401806286849
I must be brilliant then.
I wonder how the freedom fighters who hate Musk for his arbitrary kkkapitalist bossiness would react if he made all employees join a cult and wear talismans of their faithfulness each day, and partake of a sacramental drug or be fired.
They wouldn’t like that one bit, I reckon.
Hold on a second. What are all the other Brave Freedom Fighters doing?
If they are all in the same cult and wearing the same talismans, of course they are going to be down with The Struggle.
wear talismans of their faithfulness each day
Like say… a face diaper?
Toms on Toast by Harvey
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1592603618603327488
I don’t much care for the spanish tomato bread, the british version looks awful
When someone says “Tomato Bread” I envision something where you’ve added finely chopped sun-dried tomatos to the dough early on (along with herbs) so the flavor soaks out into the material and you bake it in like that.
I’m also going to guess I’m not envisioning the same dish.
Not it is more like a bruschetta with toasted bread with tomato and olive oil and salt on top
the British version linked above is some shitty looking bread with tomatoes straight from a can dumped on top
Well it is British.
Brits can do food well. This is not one of those instances. (That bread, ugh.)
I think I like my version better. It would probably make an awesome grilled cheese sandwich.
Ooo! That’s a good idea. Grill a cheese sandwich and add that.
I’m going to have to find my loaf pan now, aren’t I?
find my loaf pan
I’ve been away for just a few weeks, and you guys have come up with a bunch of strange new euphemisms.
No, it’s your mind making up stuff about innocent comments.
The little bakery we use has a bread much like you describe, UnCiv. It is quite good.
Beware the unclean.
NBC suggests parents shouldn’t interact with “unvaccinated individuals” to protect their kids
there should be a way to know them. I guess all the vaccinated should get a tattoo on their forehead
That’s the best advice I’ve ever heard
/Unvaccinated and proud
Good gravy, I need to avoid morning links or sumpin because I just don’t adore having my day trashed by how much the US sucks.
It’s Wednesday, you really want to roll into SF cold?
I guess this is where I admit SF is a bit too much for me. Clearly, I am a coward.
Strong survival instincts?
Clearly, I am a
cowardperson of taste and refinement.And yet, still better than almost everywhere else.
It used to really burn me up, but somehow I’ve managed to disconnect.
Stop thinking about the place as one big country but as a group of associated states. Unless your state or little corner of that state sucks, you’re good.
HAHAHA! Now that’s funnier than anything Leno ever said. And you didn’t repeat it three times to milk some laughs out of it.
Well, he’s quite a bit less insufferable than John Oliver, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, etc.
Yes. Low bar. Conan was better, Kilbourne, Early Letterman, Ferguson, Carson…
Conan’s predictable politics are turning up on his podcast. So much for these olde days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkSZGXmuvIo
oops, better link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS39vMhag-A
Leno was always the safe choice. I can see why he was chosen to follow Carson.
Finale Miss Principessa d’Europa 2022 in Costume 2Bekini – Fase1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fIA-m0EJms
This soccer blog I follow (yes, over on SB Nation, I get it) posted a hand wringing opinion piece on how they will reluctantly watch and follow the world cup. It was then mentioned that they will be less relaxed on the sharing of pirated stream links.
I called out the lack of principles on this and was told piracy is an arguably more ethical way to consume this broadcast. No further explanation.
hand wringing
Cool it with the antisemitism, bub.
“Truly an honor to introduce and welcome former President @BillClinton
and former Prime Minister Tony Blair to @CryptoBahamas to cap off an incredible Day 3.
6:04 PM · Apr 28, 2022”
https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/1519799699607281664
There are fewer assholes in a hotdog.
It’s a big club, and you’re not in it.
But you know what? Do you really want to be in it?
The next presidential election season is going to be fun.
“No, it’s absolutely wrong. In fact, the people who made that point most emphatically were his defenders in the Senate during the second impeachment trial, who said that the proper way to deal with a former president who has engaged in criminality is to prosecute him rather than impeach anymore he has already left office. Of course, that contradicted more than two centuries of understanding that a public official does not have to still be in office in order to be impeached, tried and convicted. But any event, everybody agreed that he could be tried. I mean, under our Constitution, we don’t have an office of former president of the United States. A former president of the United States is just a citizen, and the highest office in our land is that of citizen, not president and not former president. So you don’t have a right to commit murder as a president or embezzlement or bribery or seditious conspiracy or attacks on federal proceedings or what have you. He can still be tried. I think the Department of Justice has been clear about that. All that matters is the facts of the case and the law. There is a slight exception to that that they don’t bring cases against candidates several weeks or maybe a month before an election. But other than that, you know, running for office is not something that will immunize you against prosecution.”
Offered without a single example of such, of course.
A public official is not a public official when out of office.
The most 5D move he could make would be for him to run, take all this heat, then drop out of the race late. Basically run interference for the actual nominee.
No, that would just continue to taint the Republican label. Oz was much different than Mastriano but got tarred with the same “far right extremist” brush.
How did the “insurrectionists can’t hold office” thing work out?
I see 14th Amendment is trending. Ban the insurrectionists!
that’s funnier than anything Leno ever said.
Yeah, I cannot remember ever actually laughing at Leno’s “jokes”.
I had the same reaction to Stewart and Colbert. They just fall completely flat for me.
At least Leno tried to be accessible to a larger audience. Those two just play to their compatriots.
Leno was kind of a white bread comedian, which is why they picked him to replace Carson.
Again, compared to the new ones, yes, he’s better. But compared to his contemporaries? He’s bottom of the pile.
I might watch Fallon again if he’d lay off one-sided politics and make Timberlake his permanent co-host. On NBC, though, the former is never going to happen.
Early Letterman was the best. Ferguson was always a favorite for me.
Mahalo for your comments on my nuke article. Since I may, or may not be, a chemical and nuclear wpns targeting grad, trained on employing a SADM, a former WWIII mission to potentially use same, and have other related experience I kept the level of description fairly simple to avoid any potential issues with spillage.
The credits photo is of the Tzae Bomda’s (50 MT) fireball. That fireball is over 5 miles in diameter. The TB was the largest open air fusion weapon tested.
Hey, just want to say I did like the article.
That was a damn good article that spawned good discussion.
Thanks!
I realize this is a pointless suggestion, but how the fuck can we be a week out from the election with races still undecided? Any ballot not in the official chain of custody by local poll closing time should be burned unopened.
Suppressionist!!!
Yeah ok, election denier.
The TB was the largest open air fusion weapon tested.
We should set one of those off over a “solar farm” to see how much energy can be captured for the grid.
You just solved the energy deficit and the nuclear weapons crisis in one fell swoop.
I, for one, look forward to our next politics-as-holy-war election cycle.
Let the flaying of heretics commence!
Question: is the basic Eagle Rare bourbon any good?
It’s good, but for that price range, I’d look at 4 Roses single barrel or Elijah Craig.
thanks I got a bottle of green spot instead. The Eagle Rare was 40 US at discount I got the irish for 37 at discount
I may sound like “a coke costs a nickel” people, but I used to buy Elijah Craigh 18-year for $35. It was my go to “pricier” bourbon. Before the market went insane and the 18-year became unaffordable.
a public official does not have to still be in office in order to be impeached, tried and convicted.
That’s weird. I thought “impeachment” was the specific process by which a sitting elected official may be removed from office in order to be subject to prosecution.
My bad.
Your problem is that you think impeachment must be for criminal offenses.
That and your refusal to thread comments thing.
I kinda like his refusal to thread.
Brooks and his amazing, technicolor, dream threading!
Wait….which one is a Gilmore?
Answering in the wrong thread.
When questioned why she would continue to correspond with the man who she claimed brutally raped her, an emotional Siebel Newsom said, “I was just hustling.”
“You were just hustling to the man who raped you?” Werksman asked.
The money shot from lawyer there. I guess the old scumbag still has enough dough left to afford this shark. That testimony was the opposite of damning. Repeatedly emailing your alleged rapist up years later asking for various favors and advice doesn’t lead her story much credence.
She is awful and may well have accomplished the opposite of what she intended.
Your handle reminds me of a friend’s stage name in case he ever does porn, Beef Swellington.
Heheh, I like your friend’s style. That is how it is pronounced. I just randomly picked it when the old place started to require registration. It’s my favorite sounding funny name that I encountered in Brazil. That country has lots of hilarious and fucked up names. I once met two brothers and they introduced themselves to me thus in Portuguese, “I’m Michael Jackson and this is my brother Michael Jeckson.” Wait a second, isn’t that the same name? “No, I’m Jackson with an A and he is Jeckson with an E.”
lol I used to watch a lot of Brazilian soccer before it was removed to pay streams so I know all about this phenomenon.
Cleiberson. Davison. Edinilson. Edinaldo. Edilaine. Edinalva (all pronounced “Edgy” at the front). My buddy there met a woman whose parents named her after a large ship that they saw entering the Santos harbor. Usnavy.
I thought her testimony was quite helpful to the defense, based on what’s reported. Overall, it made it case (maybe enough for reasonable doubt) that this wasn’t rape, it was a very distasteful business transaction.
Repeatedly emailing your alleged rapist up years later asking for various favors and advice doesn’t lead her story much credence.
Yep.
“I was just hustling.”
Hmm.
And when that didn’t pan out, you married a wealthy politician.
Still hustling.
Seems legit.
The race for the Hillsborough County House District 16 seat in Manchester, saw Democrat Maxine Mosley defeat her Republican opponent Larry Gagne by a single vote.
Mosley won the seat with 1,799 votes to Gagne’s 1,798. Before the recount, Gagne led Mosley by 23 votes.
Adam Sexton, the political director for Manchester news outlet WMUR, gave updates on the ongoing recounts on his Twitter feed.
“Shocker in Manchester’s Ward 6 New Hampshire House of Representative race – after she congratulated Gagne, there was still counting left and it turns out Maxine Mosley won by a single vote. A flip for the Democrats,” he wrote in a tweet on Monday.
Nathaniel Rakich, a senior election analyst at election tracker Five Thirty-Eight, also commented on the shocking turnaround.
“Wow! Democrats erased a 23-vote deficit in a recount to win this NH House seat by ONE vote,” he tweeted. “They need to do the same in 3 more seats to win a majority.”
Republicans have already won the house, but I guess if you can recount them all….
I believe this is state legislature.
Makes you wonder how they counted the first time.
If the recount flips the result, shouldn’t there be a third recount? Makes sense to me. haha.
Best count out of 7?
That’s the way it works for pathology tests. If the first result isn’t confirmed by the second, you run it a third time and go with that.
When you do cash recap in a dept. store it is the same thing. If it matches the first time, deposit. If it misses, double check with a second set of eyes.
Thats EPA testing, only average the results of 3 tests.
40 CFR, Part 60, Appendix A, 60.1
Manchester uses counting machines. Most ballots go through the machines. Any ballots with write-ins are hand-counted. The two results are reconciled/totalled up after the polls close.
I think recounts in NH are always hand-counted.
Sorry… reconciled/totalled up after all counting is done.
Does food timing matter for weight loss?
Eric Trexler breaks down a recent study on the associations between the timing of eating and weight loss in calorically restricted healthy adults.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/research-spotlight-food-timing/
The key variable of interest (time of 50% of calories) was a statistically significant predictor of weight change and calorie restriction, which suggested that late-shifted eating patterns were associated with slightly less weight loss and slightly less energy restriction.
However, this variable only explained about 2% of the variance in each outcome.
Some might find that this strategy offers the appetite-attenuating benefits of time-restricted feeding, with some very modest benefits coming from alignment between nutrient intake and cardiadian clocks. For others, the juice won’t be worth the squeeze, or it might not suit their preferences, and that’s totally fine. This strategy is a viable option, but it’s not going to have a huge impact.
When she was schilling for her first documentary years ago I remember reading some quote by her about how she considered herself oppressed. She grew up in one of the toniest Marin county towns and her parents own a sprawling ranch in Montana (where she brought her kids during the pandemic to escape California’s restrictions). She is the very definition of privileged. But I guess even she had to hustle a bit in Hollywood to get her films made and promoted.
So any time she was not spoon-fed, she was oppressed? Sounds about right.
Your problem is that you think impeachment must be for criminal offenses.
No, it’s that I think impeachment is specifically and solely (other than assassination) the process by which sitting officials are removed from office.
Its also how you disqualify them from holding further office. Removal was off the table, but disqualification was the goal.
We decree that your candidate is not acceptable – I’m sure both parties can get behind that.
Let them impeach again during the lame duck session. They aren’t getting a conviction.
The grift must continue.
The White House is requesting nearly $40 billion in new funding from Congress to support Ukraine and an additional $10 billion for pandemic relief.
The figure includes $21.7 billion for defense purposes like equipment and military support, $14.5 billion in direct funding for the country’s government and humanitarian aid, $626 million in energy assistance and $900 million for health care.
“Since the beginning of Putin’s war, the United States has rallied the world to support Ukraine,” Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young wrote in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi requesting the funds. “Together, with strong, bipartisan support in Congress, we have provided significant assistance that has been critical to Ukraine’s success on the battlefield — and we cannot let that support run dry.”
If we’re committing more funds to this conflict than Russia spends in an entire year on their military, when does it become Biden’s war?
This means that the US will have spent 1/3 of Russia’s military budget this year just on Ukraine grift.
10% for the big guy.
Russia’s annual military budget is less than $100B, I think it was between $60B and $70B last year.
Another $40B from the US would push us to about $95B committed to this conflict.
So I alluded earlier to our version of not in their own interest. Here’s another.
The conflation of ‘their interests’ and ‘their best interests’ was rather artfully done.
I lost money in my 401k because of Brandon.
when does it become Biden’s war?
Putin (and Trump) made him do it!
World Reputation Rankings 2022
The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2022 are based on the world’s largest invitation-only opinion survey of senior, published academics. It asks scholars to name no more than 15 universities that they believe are the best for research and teaching in their field.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2022/reputation-ranking
3 Stanford University
Should be kicked out for the whole FTX crap
Having lived in proximity to Harvard for decades now, I don’t find their students especially impressive compared to the school’s reputation; they don’t stand out compared to the BU, BC, NU, etc students, clothing aside.
MIT, on the other hand…
which are easier to beat up?
I considered going to MIT for doctoral work after finishing up my masters. I decided that spending the next few years getting educationally abused wasn’t in my future.
They may have followed the woke politics stuff, but they are still exceedingly rigorous on the technical side. CalTech is the same.
MIT kids make some pretty awesome BattleBots.
Come to think of it, we should use more BattleBots in the military…
second question: are there more or fewer hot chicks at Harvard than the average university?
More crazy ones, that’s for certain
Fewer, I think. But I haven’t been in awhile, so . . . .
A bit hotter than Boston-area schools – but “slovenly” is the default mode for most students here.
You wanna head South for hot college chicks.
Unless you like surfer girls.
The south has nothing on that.
I should point out that I’m talking about undergrads – apologies to those post-baccalaureate Crimson Glibs.
Again, going way back, but the grad schools weren’t exactly an untapped reservoir of hot chicks. Out of 250+ females in my class, I would say a handful were attractive enough for a second look. Maybe one or two might have qualified as “hot”, but aspiring lawyers don’t really exude sex appeal. More neurosis, ego, and ambition.
I was modifying my “not that impressive” comment, not the hotness one. The Harvard grad students all seem quite sharp.
Law school is crazy – I can’t think of another field where people go deep into debt, nearly kill themselves getting through, graduate and promptly never practice any sort of law.
“Turns out that Ally McBeal wasn’t all that realistic”
For what it’s worth, I once beat a Harvard graduate at a game of Trivial Pursuit.
Brutal, the Trivium was supposed to be the cornerstorne of a liberal education.
Just in the description of the survey I’m seeing methological errors that render their results meaningless. “This is a list of the opinions of academians we picked about other academians.” Yeah, not worth a whole lot there.
It is interesting how a bunch of Chinese unis showed up suddenly at the top. I assume many more Chinese were published in the last few years and asked this year
In recent decades, a body of Nobel-winning economic research has proven that investors rarely act in their own best interest when it comes to investing on their own.
Wut? They intentionally lose money?
Lots of people make the decision to sell low and buy high. “The market is tanking! I should get out of it!”, sell near the bottom. “Wow! The market is booming, I need to get back in!”, and buy near the top.
Oh yeah, that’s going to work (at keeping people coming back for more ‘services’, at least until they die).
+1 Needle Park
I can see the point with things like methadone clinics and the like. But then I also have a strong dislike for the government push to put everyone in 12 step programs.
Mitch Hedberg was “managing” his addiction.
Paging Sugarfree. Mistah Sugarfree to the lobby, please.
Naomi Biden, the eldest granddaughter of President Biden, is about to join a rare club: people who tie the knot at perhaps the most exclusive address in the nation.
Naomi Biden, 28, is the daughter of Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle. She and fiancé Peter Neal, 25, announced their engagement in September of last year.
“Peter and I are endlessly grateful to my Nana and Pop for the opportunity to celebrate our wedding at the White House,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “We can’t wait to make our commitment to one another official and for what lies ahead.”
Details of the wedding have been kept under wraps, but the White House has said the festivities will be paid for by the Biden family, as is customary for private events held by first families at the residence.
I hope they invited Zelensky.
How do you think they’re financing it?
Im sure the DNC has some change to spare.
“paid for by the Biden family”
…with laundered tax dollars.
Biden will probably invoke primae noctis.
Most exclusive? Hardly. Literally millions of feet have tromped into that place.
n recent decades, a body of Nobel-winning economic research has proven that investors rarely act in their own best interest when it comes to investing on their own.
Oh, wait. Now I get it. It’s because they don’t
bet it all on redturn their retirement pile over to ESG funds.I stopped reading at Nobel economists.
I don’t know how they know what someone’s best interest is. People’s utility functions are different. ESG funds might be in someone’s best interest.
“I’m cash poor, but smug rich!”
Wait, what are you talking about?
We decided?! My best interest?!
How do you know what my best interest is?
How can you say what my best interest is?
Today, in douchebag pols
https://twitter.com/ScVanValkenburg/status/1592516734132817922
State Senate candidate uses video of the arrest of a father whose daughter was sexually assaulted in a Loudoun County public school in a campaign ad and mocks his plight.
“If you want phony culture wars, I’m not your guy,” is dubbed over the segment
Sounds like he is a supporter of real culture wars. You know, like the one over allowing teenage males to assault students without consequence.
You know, if douchebag is the new standard, my advice to the GOP would be to make it sexual. Hire a camera-guy to do a Michael Moore style guerilla interview with the guy. Ask him if he’s posting this because he needs trans guys raping girls to get aroused. Ask him whether its the trans thing that turns him on or the rape thing.
Dems spend decades fighting a culture and now that the tide is turning the culture war is “phony”.
Subverting isn’t the same as open warfare.
That stupid name alone is disqualifying. JFC. Schuyler VanValkenburg?
Who won the Triggering Sounds Draft
https://mobile.twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1592902966230790148
dentist drill should be higher, knife on plate lower
On the topic of Universities and hot chicks, if one choose a US university to bang a random chick, say take the entire female student body and one was chosen by a hypothetical perfect random generator, which university would one get the best chance of nailing a hottie?
Heh, I’m gonna guess an SEC school or BYU
Definitely BYU. University of Southern California – Provo Campus
BYU- I said nail not marry
Jack Mormons are real.
Kind of like raucous Catholic high school girls.
None of them ever wanted to date me though…
FSU? USC?
Most of the original SEC schools, maybe USC.
Pre covid: https://archive.totalfratmove.com/the-2016-ranking-of-the-top-10-universities-with-the-hottest-girls/2/
ASU
Good choice.
From my biased experience watching various sporting events and judging the student population on the fans. Arizona, Arizona State, Bama, and FSU tend to have the hottest. Baylor, Kansas, and Duke full of ugly.
Learnt her lesson, she has
“This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family,” she said. “I do not plan to be involved in politics.”
The MSM won’t have Ivanka to kick around.
I’m going back to a proposal I have made in the past.
Elections would be much more meaningful (and entertaining) if the losers were to be put to the sword as part of the inauguration ceremony.
And their primary campaign staff.
I will resubmit my view that the issue is resolved after elections by imposing a Lottery on sitting members of the house and senate where you chances of winning the lottery go up the more terms you serve.
Since some people couldn’t/wouldn’t follow a link to a youtube video last time.
What sort of philistine doesn’t understand a reference to “The Lottery”?
It’s not like you gotta slog through it, like Moby Dick.
Well, I was never forced to read it before the Public Schools drive me away from books written by other people.
I only recently learned of the cannibalism in the Moby Dick story.
Honestly, I like the Yosemite Sam cartoon version of “Dopey Dick” more entertaining then anything Melville put to foolscap.
I read Moby Dick of my own free will a couple decades back.
It’s a slog – any modern editor would have binned entire chapters (looking at you, “The Whiteness Of The Whale”).
There were hard-partying hotties aplenty at the University of Colorado, back in the day. I haven’t set foot in Boulder since the early ’80s, so the girls there now would be the granddaughters of the ones I ogled.
They are still struggling. You owe them reparations for having to still labor under the Legacy Of Ogling (LOO).
That’s the best thing about college girls – you keep getting older, they keep staying the same age.
+3 allright
Cute, but icky. Lots of ink and their voices are like nails on a chalkboard.
That’s all college aged women now.
*shakes cane*
Looking through various headlines this morning, , I’m just gonna come right out and say it: venue shopping makes a mockery of the notion of “equal treatment under the law”.
I’d love to see the Weinstein trial moved to Dog Dick, Mississippi and its pool of jurors who never heard of him.
When Werksman peppered Siebel Newsom with questions concerning details about her prior testimony regarding the alleged rape, she replied: “What you’re doing today is exactly what he did to me.”
It’s not.
Go to hell for denying her “lived experience’. She was the ficus, after all.
So NOW you’re testifying that the only thing my client did to you was ask you questions?
Trump’s announcement to run again is either defensive move to keep the DOJ off his ass, or a deliberate attempt to divide and fracture the GOP. I imagine his ego (the Hair) tells him they can’t live without him.
Ill be anxious to see what the turnout for his r̶e̶i̶c̶h̶s̶p̶a̶r̶t̶e̶i̶t̶a̶g̶ ̶ “rallys” is compared to 6 years ago.
I kinda hope his tax information finally leaks out and everyone learns what a phony he is.
If it would have hurt him, it would already have leaked.
As I recall, it was leaked, there was a big media to-do (Maddow) about “We have his tax records!”
And nothing else happened.
I am fairly certain this did leak at some point, it showed he loses a crap ton of money. Given his addiction to risk that is not surprising. I seem to recall a newspaper report questioning his fitness for office based on perceived poor business acumen, as seen in his tax returns.
I remember this but may be unlikely to produce said article.
Tres, they all want cake. They will be there…
Florida Man Makes Announcement
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1592849350220128256
The murders in Moscow are about 55 miles north of me. And no I didn’t do it.