Back to real football now.
Argentina won the World Cup. On penalties, which is exciting but kinda sucks. The Patriots lost a football game by being stupid and are now on the outside looking in on the playoffs. And these baseball free agent signings get more ridiculous by the day. And that’s it for sports.
This could be a game-changer. I’ve seen the ones for tomatoes, but now we’re getting down to the fine motor skills for more tedious and precise work, which will make this tech the standard in the very near future. The implications on immigration, overhead costs, and other areas will be interesting to say the least.
This doesn’t exist.
Many connected Europeans will be nervous after this announcement. Who will head the group that allows them access to underage Africans going forward? Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Solving the big problems. Heaven forbid they’d work on the out-of-control anti-Semitic attacks or the rat problem.
This should be the story of the year. If not the decade. Strangely, the first three sources I get links from made no mention of it whatsoever.
Thanks a lot, global warming. Oh wait, its “climate change” now, which means everything in both directions can be blamed on it.
Pedo-protecting commie scum
I wouldn’t wish poor health on anybody…but I might be willing to make an exception for this clown. He needs to go.
How is this newsworthy? Until recently, under-performers would just be fired. Now it involves pleading and introspection. What happened to the business world?
Why would he return it? It served its purpose. It helped the one-eyed jack(ass) get reelected and that’s all that matters. Seriously though, I don’t even know how one would go about returning a campaign contribution once it’s been spent. Also, this guy has been a massive disappointment on so many fronts, this doesn’t even matter in the grand scheme of things.
Let’s get in the spirit. Such a great holiday jam.And here’s another great track. What a musical genius. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this incredibly chilly Monday, dear friends.
Happy Chanukkah!
Lachiam!
“‘Disgusting!’ Donald Trump Jr. joins hundreds of readers slamming New York Times after their crossword puzzle published on first day of Hanukkah is shaped like a swastika”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11552265/New-York-Times-faces-backlash-crossword-puzzle-published-Hanukkah-shaped-like-swastika.html
I guess there are no editors who took a look at that and said “hey, wait a minute…”
I looked at the pattern and the first thing I saw was a weave pattern. I mean, the so-called ‘swastika’ doesn’t even line up the central arms.
All spirals are racist.
Hurricanes are soft racism
You think it’s coincidence that the hurricane clouds on the “satellite images” are WHITE?
Agreed. Burn them!
Live by denunciations of racism, die by denunciations of racism.
Outrage!
what-the-fuck-ever
Look at this ink blot and tell me what you see.
Someone spilled ink on this ink blot, can I have a clean one?
“The implications on immigration, overhead costs, and other areas will be interesting to say the least.”
They’ll be made in Mexico.
I wonder if ther is any truth to this, or if CNN is just being CNN.
Are you just trolling us? You know, don’t ya?
Or they’re just looking ahead to the Dutch farms being shut down, etc. and got ahead of themselves.
Sri Lanka’s ban on “chemical” fertilizers also gave them some nice data.
Ahead of them selves, or got a “hand” of themselves?
Where are the government experts on this?
Seems like this was a problem 300 years ago with the early settlers until a bold experiment was tried.
And that’s it for sports. – You forgot Nikola Jokic putting an insane stat line of 40 27 10
Also the fact that Warty did not win the Olympia
Scandalous!
Giants beat Washington. Although it looked like pass interference.
I agree with whoever said last night to get rid of the video reviews or whatever they’re called in Americaball.
It gives false confidence and just leads to more sore butts when they inevitably still get calls wrong. Chalking them up to human error and moving on was probably better for the game (or games – same shit happens in Euroball, tennis, you name it).
But hasn’t VAR saved many a ref from being lynched?
I used to feel that way, but I think the way they do it now works well, and with today’s athleticism and speed of the game is definitely a net positive. Yeah, they’re still going to make mistakes, but you see that mostly on penalties, which have always been judgement calls.
It needs to be completed faster if they keep it. The frequent, lengthy VAR interruptions slow down the game.
Advertisers say no
Because it was PI. There was also that ticky-tacky “illegal formation” call the play before. No dog in that fight but that was some bullshit officiating right at the end.
(Still salty about the Raiders “touchdown” to tie up that game; that stupid pitchy-pitchy woo-woo [thanks, SVP] is on the Pats, but the game should have been over by then).
The illegal formation call was legit.
The NBA is boring as shit.
still miles more entertaining than baseball./
Nah.
Let’s make cricket a thing.
‘Cause you never played and didn’t collect bubble gum cards from the pre-TV days
“Strangely, the first three sources I get links from made no mention of it whatsoever.”
Journalists want to be told what to report so they know they are being the good guys.
If you report on this story YOU ARE A BAD GUY.
Because if you report on how bad it was at Twatter before Musk, you will eventually have to ask how much worse it is at places like Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet’s Google & YouTube, and Instagram/Tik-Tok, then go do that research, and that ends ugly.
Too busy screaming about who Elon banned to pay attention to the little stuff.
Also the whole focus has been on the suppression with these twitter files. How about some actual reporting on Hunters laptop? There are legit documented crimes on that thing and nobody cares.
Good morning!
The twitter files keep getting more and more important, but somehow more difficult to parse in a one-line kind of way. It’s strange that this behavior by the feds is just so easily accepted these days when it should be major scandal. *sigh*
I am so pleased that the twitter files story exists at all. But it will take a minor miracle to get actionable results from this knowledge.
I remain hopeful.
“but somehow more difficult to parse in a one-line kind of way”
That’s because it’s the Deep State against Populism, not the approved narrative of Democrats vs. Republicans.
No changes short of Republican control of White House and Congress or the FBI acting against Democrats. Even then it would likely be cosmetic.
Republicans will do nothing about the FBI.
Republicans will do nothing
about the FBI.The GOP’s Crack-Up Is Finally Here
She makes some good points, and starts out strong about economic issues, but then drops this turd “effeminate marijuana lobbyist John Boehner.” I really don’t care about the “effeminate” part but it’s a cheap shot and name-calling only harms the credibility of the writer; something that keeps Kurt Schlichter from being better than he is. Then the GOP obsession with continuing the war on marijuana which seems rooted in the politics of reaction — the Dems are for legalization so the GOP must stand four-square against the demon weed.
“the Dems are for legalization”
The Dems are for more government involvement. Look at the boondoggle in New York.
Yeah, “legalization” is code for “a single set of circumstances regarding the cultivation, sale, transport, and consumption of cannabis which if followed exactly, will result in someone not being prosecuted. Any deviation from said circumstances renders the malefactor subject to PMITA prison.”
Are they restricting the number of licenses so they can limit vendors to family and friends?
@Rat
Correct. All the licenses were spoken for by big donors.
California says “hold my beer.”
Virginia did the same with gambling. No gambling was fine as long as it was legal in West Virginia but not with it legal in Maryland. So legalize but restrict how many casinos are allowed. The fight for the Richmond spot has been the loudest.
Yeah, they are in favor of more tax revenue – that’s it.
And the GOP has always been anti-drug, it’s nothing new.
I find “lobbyist” more distasteful than anything to do with marijuana.
Dems for legalization? Biden/Harris are quite the drug warriors. Biden’s marijuana bit did nothing and was just a bone thrown out.
It was those obstructionist Republicans that blocked him.
It wasn’t that long ago, that the FBI would bust Philly area Democrat politicians.
*wistful sigh*
“No changes short of Republican control of White House and Congress”
Holy shit, LOL.
That’s how we got rid of Obamacare.
Trust us this time!
Oh wait, its “climate change” now, which means everything in both directions can be blamed on it. – your starting to get it. Winter started warm in Romania. Hope it stays that way.
“Coldest weather of the season”
Yeah, uh-huh, we wish, here in MN. You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet
“Oh wait, its “climate change” now, ”
Ice Supremacy
Eh, they work at a glacial pace.
Ice is white, so the math checks out.
-progtard
Beware Black Ice!
I feel like they missed on this a bit since saying “Black Ice” casually can sound like “black guys” but they just stuck to the black/white construct.
Try yelling “Honey, get me some black caulk while you’re out!” out the front door of your house when all your neighbors are out.
“The implications on immigration”
I wonder how much the availability (or not) of these kinds of jobs will matter to the millions of people coming here every year. Many of them are allowed to stay as “refugees” seeking “asylum”. While their request for asylum status is pending, they are not eligible to work legally anyway. I doubt telling the vast majority of people coming here that they are unlikely to get stoop labor jobs will make them change their mind.
Their job is to vote Dem. The rest isn’t even considered.
Simple formula to clear the backlog – Are you from Mexico, Canada, or Cuba? No, you asylum claim is rejected, go apply in a country closer to home. If yes, did you apply before you were picked up for crossing the border illegally? If you did not, that’s a strike against you. Due to lack of ports of entry, Cubans are expected to reach out to the appropriate authorities immediately upon arival.
Also, you’re not eligable for public services or funds until you are paying taxes.
Also, you’re not eligable for public services or funds until you are paying taxes.
Unfortunately, their kids ARE eligible, and no matter if the adults benefit from that as well.
Fine then – shoot to kill. Line the border wall with their remains.
Also, in order to be a citizen you need a minimum of one citizen parent at birth. If you don’t have any, you are a national of your parents’ home countries.
My understanding is that the mothers of anchor babies are eligible for WIC benefits because of said anchor baby.
That is “new American citizen” you Lacsist.
Things other than raspberries are driving immigration.
Heaven forbid they’d work on the out-of-control anti-Semitic attacks or the rat problem.
Anti-Semitic rats are the worst.
Nazi: those are the self-hating kind, right?
Roth added that he was not “particularly comfortable with the Bureau (and by extension the [Intelligence Community]) demanding written answers.”
This suggests Roth was a) not an actual FBI asset and did have a personal limit to how cooperative he wanted to be, or b) just didn’t want it in writing.
My perception is that Twitter management (as well as a lot of Silicon Valley management) was staffed by the young and naïve who didn’t have enough moral spine to tell DC to fuck off.
It takes a particular personality type to face off with the FBI and these guys didn’t have it. I’m not saying that they weren’t already receptive to some of the politics involved, but they certainly weren’t of the old-school Valley types who had strong independent streaks.
It tells me that he knew that what he was doing was wrong. It is kinda like Jeffery Dahmer, and how he had to get drunk before eating peole, It showed that he knew it was wrong. Not wanting an evidence trail is the same thing.
Salesforce, is apparently calling out some employees for their lack of productivity.
Maybe they should stop using Salesforce.
* Wild applause *
Certainly couldn’t hurt.
I’ll give Benioff credit, he’s a hell of a salesman, but his product sucks.
oh yeah? can you make one better?
With a couple billion? Absolutely.
The question is whether I’m enough of a bullshit artist to sell it.
Wouldn’t take that much. I could build something
better for perhaps ten million. Maybe less, depends
on how fast you want it.
You don’t need to be able to make the product to recognize its failings.
sure you do. You cannot criticize anything unless you can replace it with something better.
Go work on your Quordle replacement, Pie. ;P
I think that would be a mental institution for the sobs wasting their time on that…
Well, so much for gymnastic, swimming, and diving judges then.
Sports that have judges (not referees) aren’t really sports.
Boxing isn’t a sport?…huh.
Well, if you just go to KO or submission, it can be. But if you get some muddied ‘points-based’ decision that is debatable, it’s not.
ThunderDOME!
Two men enter, one man leaves!
Now THAT’S a sport….
You must not have been in a lot of scraps as a young man. A fight can be one hundred percent obvious as to who the victor is without a knockout. That’s like calling the outcome of a street brawl into question you limped away from battered and bloodied just because you retained consciousness.
So if someone changes their pronouns, Thunderdome is over?
TH – if it’s obvious, you don’t need judges. And that circumstance in the boxing ring would be represented by a combatant throwing in the towel (submission) rather than be beaten into unconsciousness.
So until a boxing match ends in a knockout or throwing in the towel it isn’t a sport. I don’t even know what to say to that. What would you call what they’re doing in the ring prior to those outcomes, exactly?
Two things:
The winner of a fight is the one who still has a girlfriend after. Easy Peasy.
second:
Women’s Chess Boxing actually entertaining to watch with the commentary.
And here I was hoping to see two women slug each other everytime a piece was taken off the board.
Voting has led to the current political establishment, which is clearly unsustainable.
Instead, we should be led by a dictator who can win a match against his opponent in both chess and boxing at the same time.
Ron Paul famously refused to return money from skinhead groups. His argument was that he would put it to better use.
The key difference being that the money that was given to Paul wasn’t stolen from someone else.
It was not theft it was mistake. Look at SBFs honest face, how could that guy be crooked ?
It also is gonna be a mistake when Sam commits suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head – twice – with his cell mate’s shank…
Seriously though, I don’t even know how one would go about returning a campaign contribution once it’s been spent.
Doesn’t seem that difficult.
Dem’s around here are donating an equal amount to charity. So, win-win.
“Charity”…
i.e. various left wing NGOs.
If I come into some money that was fraudulently taken from someone else, I don’t get to soothe my conscience by giving it away to someone completely unrelated.
That’s how you can tell you aren’t one of the elite.
I assume that’s a rhetorical question.
Peru’s ‘forgotten people’ rage against political elite after Castillo arrest
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-forgotten-people-rage-against-political-elite-after-castillo-arrest-2022-12-18/
This last socialist president was not a true socialist president, The One True Socialist will come just have to keep trying. Also there is plenty of room in the US for Peruvian refugees, I would assume
I was briefly interested but then I forgot about them.
Also there is plenty of room in the US for Peruvian refugees, I would assume
Not in Democrat areas.
Welcome to the club.
These are people that want free shit. Others have that shit. They want government to use its monopoly on force to take that shit and give it to them. It’s always about envy of what others have, whether these others worked to get it legit (which still will be illegit in the mind of marxists) or not. There is a pie, and they want the pie confiscated and redistributed.
BTW, I never see marxist demand the system be changed to guarantee them better education (they always demand worse shit) and opportunities to have jobs and an economy that will give them opportunities to build their own wealth. Note even in the US where the reparations marxists just want piles of money or outright bling. If you want real reparations, end the criminal money allocation to the public schools system, especially in urban areas, and allow parents to send their kids to schools that function (with that money).
The FBI said that its requests to the social media platform were a normal procedure for the agency.
“We do this all the time” defense.
They were, as usual, too busy to ask about the child exploitation material on the site though.
Where do you expect them to get new material for their cp server?
That’s the scary thing Straffinrun: they actually believe claiming that since they had been violating the constitution forever, people should just get used to that shit happening. You can’t make that shit up…
Now we see the real problem. “We do this all the time” just means that you are doing unconstitutional, CCP-level surveillance and control as a matter of course. In a society that really values free speech, this would result in dismantling the Bureau. Here, my expectations are rather lower.
Well it was exposed that the NSA was snooping on us and nothing happened so other agencies got jealous
800-kilo gin ball stolen from Lake Constance
https://switzerlandtimes.ch/local/800-kilo-gin-ball-stolen-from-lake-constance/
The owner assumes that thieves have struck. “They were absolute professionals,” says Cello Fisch, the managing director of Ginial. The recovery of the 230 liters is only possible with very special equipment.
Fisch and his team have been producing Lake Constance Gin for three years. For 100 days they leave the drink on the bottom of the lake. This gives it a very special aroma. Most of the 395 bottles were sold in advance. The self-made duffel bags and labels were also ready. Until a fateful dive last Wednesday.
Just like in whisky or wine seems like marketing nonsense to me
Wut?
The lake smells so bad it soaks into the booze.
Through a sealed container?
That’s why it takes 100 days.
Ever been to lake mead?
Is that the one where the fish started smelling cause some womenz… Never mind…
who made all the mead to fill a lake?
I hear it was Galactus pissing out all that mead he drank that gave the lake he left behind that name..
Is the lake that polluted?
I am sure all Swiss lakes are pristine
They hardly ever catch fire.
I don’t get what the container was made of but assume it completely isolates the liquid from the lake
I assumed it was a wooden barrel so that the chemicals leach through.
The 230 litres of gin were stored in a ball capable of withstanding the pressure of Lake Constance (Bodensee in German). The ball itself weighed 800 kilograms and was also attached to a 500-kilogram concrete slab.
nope no wood container for 230 litres would be 800 kg
Looks like stainless steel. I mean, if you click through and all . . . .
Why would I do that?
I have an alibi.
Also, I probably wouldn’t drink lake gin.
Toilet gin however…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC0V6lf-KVI
A local meadary who is rehabbing a building for a new production facility/tap room someone stole one of their12′ tall, 700lb, 1000 gallon fermenter from the job site. They were thankfully able to recover it.
I don’t want a robot touching my berries.
It’d be cleaner than humans.
That’s because of the last time you saw a robot choke one out.
You must be an anti-robite
Liar!
Little kids with roadside berry stands hardest hit!
Those robot kids are creepy though.
Just wait until you hit that age where you have to get your prostate checked by ProctoBot 5000.
Oh-oh.
UK ‘prepper’ movement growing with more people hoarding supplies at home in case current crises escalate
Online prepping forums and YouTube channels are attracting thousands of new members every week, as people ask for advice about what to buy and how to store it in case of an emergency.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-prepper-movement-growing-with-more-people-hoarding-supplies-at-home-in-case-current-crises-escalate-12770339
what is the point with no guns
The bad guys will have guns… And your shit.
It’s not exactly no guns in Britain though. Some people have shotguns in the countryside for hunting. That would at least send the roving mob on to the next house.
Rifles, too. https://www.thestalkingdirectory.co.uk/
Yep
‘Orning ‘ordles — didn’t chump… but frankly I stank on ice. Ah well.
Daily Duotrigordle #292
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 05:55.82
https://duotrigordle.com/
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I swear we’ve seen LL recently.
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As bad as rhyming words in quordle.
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Bleh
“Diddy the doting daddy! Sean Combs surprises his twins with matching Range Rovers at LAVISH sweet 16th birthday party… weeks after quietly welcoming SIXTH child”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11552771/Sean-Diddy-Combs-gifts-twins-cars-16th-birthday-weeks-welcoming-seventh-kid.html
Space hookers?
I predict that they will grow up to be completely well-adjusted adults.
like regular people only with diamond teeth
*checks link*
OMG
They apparently decided on TRON instead of being in the Matrix.
Don’t get the whole celebrity mindset that would be cool with your 16 year old daughter(s) not only wearing that, but getting pictures out to national media.
They need to be some brestesess enlargement next year…
While the exact model of the cars was not confirmed, a new 2022 Range Rover ranges in price from $44,700 MSRP to $215,500
his children, from his past relationship with late model Kim Porter,
I had to read that again.
There is no way in hell I would let my 16 year old daughters out of the house dressed like that.
The outfits kind of make sense now that I know their mother was prominent in the fashion industry. Just an avant-garde ‘look at me’ statement, probably made just for them by some weirdo designer, and it’s still a generally flattering outfit. You know someone is really rich and famous when they are unconcerned with looking good.
The “Power RRanger” caption is not bad.
That’s the mage Tier 3 (non-heroic) set.
More Twitter news…..
“Time to pack up your desk Elon! 57.5% of users DO want Musk to step down as head of Twitter in poll that racked up more than 17 million votes in 12 hours”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11553917/Poll-shows-57-5-people-want-Elon-Musk-step-head-Twitter.html
“Now Musk walks back his new policy to suspend Twitter accounts that promote Facebook and Instagram – after founder Jack Dorsey questioned the move: Users will only be shunned if the account’s ‘primary’ purpose is to promote competitors”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11553161/Twitter-bans-promotion-social-media-platforms.html
Musk makes decisions just like our Provost. Ready, fire, aim…the order of the first two is debatable.
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Blood Clotting: FDA
Now the FDA is putting out disinformation?
It’s not disinformation if the FBI/DOJ stooges on the payroll approve it….
It’s CYA not misinformation.
Next year they will be telling us they have been warning about the negative side effects of the clot shots for years.
It is evil that this poor lady is being punished for saying the obvious. I think her lawyer failed to make the case that men can’t be lesbians UNLESS they identify as a lesbian trapped in a man’s body….
“identify as” means “pretends to be”.
That’s correct…
“I identify as innocent. You must respect my identity.”
Prison for expressing disapproved ideas and opinions. The left is salivating all over this.
Welp, that pretty much tanks whatever respect I had for Norway. That rumbling sound you hear is Harald Hardrada turning over in his grave.
Isn’t he under six feet of English soil (or slightler more as he was taller than most men)?
He would be if they buried him. Not sure that happened, since Harald’s army was busy fleeing back to Norway and Godwinson’s army had to pack up in a hurry and march south to meet the Normans.
“Schiff Threatens Social Media Companies: “If You’ll Be Responsible Moderators of Content, We Will Give You Immunity”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/schiff-threatens-social-media-companies-responsible-moderators-content-will-give-immunity-video/
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1604599039839936512
CWAA
I assume the agencies have dirt on Schiff.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/another_pervert_turns_up_in_adam_schiffs_orbit.html
He seems very willing to do their bidding.
“Schiff, while not gay”
He claimed, without proof.
Seriously something looks off about Schiff.
“Schiff on Sunday told social media companies that Congress will take away their Section 230 immunity if they don’t ‘moderate’ content…”
This sounds a lot like the “throw her in the pond” test for witches.
People in Lebanon are robbing banks and staging sit-ins to access their own savings
https://www.wprl.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-12-17/people-in-lebanon-are-robbing-banks-and-staging-sit-ins-to-access-their-own-savings
Lebanon’s banks froze most accounts three years ago amid an economic collapse. This year, faced with increasingly desperate circumstances, more people are resorting to extreme measures to access their savings. Khaled’s protest is one of the milder tactics. Other Lebanese have taken to robbing banks for their own funds, brandishing real or toy guns. Most take only what they are owed, and so far no one has been reported killed in a robbery.
the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Why a handbasket, I don;t know
This is why we need to transition to a cashless economy.
It’s all they could afford.
Luxury! When I was a child Hell came in a shoebox that had been repeatedly ran over with a snowplow.
You had shoeboxes? Talk about luxury! We ate scraps of cardboard and were grateful!
Cardboard? Such luck! My neighbors family subsisted entirely on paper mache made from peat bog and the saliva of a rabid badger!
Papier Mache? At least you got French food! All we had was the occasional found CVS receipt for a family of 14.
Shoobie!
Oddly in central and northern NJ it’s a Benny.
Re: the NY pet ban, the speeches promoting it were given by this persxn who is even more of a hateful, dishonest partisan hack than you might think. Xe’s basically a lesbian James Carville.
Somehow I glossed over that link. I know a bunch of former New Yorkers here in Florida. They are all involved with semi-pro puppy milling. But the dogs aren’t sold in pet stores, instead they do it through word of mouth and social media. They have developed some kind of critter called a “Bully” with a freakishly large and muscular head and neck which makes a pit bull look like Lassie.
California enacted a similar law in 2017, becoming the first state to ban such sales. While that law requires pet stores to work with animal shelters or rescue operations, like New York is doing now, it does not regulate sales by private breeders.
The private breeders I know take pretty good care of their dogs and consider them an investment. They paid thousands of dollars for bullies with unusual patterns in their fur and hope to make that back selling the puppies. However I have also seen people from this community chain their dogs up and neglect them.
“Ninety percent of our business is selling dogs. We’re not going to survive this,” said Ortiz, who considers the ban unfair to stores that work with responsible breeders. “They’re closing the good actors along with the bad actors.”
Somehow the article kept mentioning similar laws being passed in places like Illinois and California without mentioning what effect it had on the businesses, which tells me it probably hurt them. Xe above seems like a malevolent meddlesome busybody.
It will drive the breeders (as you mention) underground, out of state, and any other method that people use to get what they want.
Economics, how does it work?
Humanity was a mistake.
The Germans can’t make a decent armored fighting vehicle any more?
Complex systems tend to fail more often. Keep It Simple Stupid.
It’s Ze Germans. German engineering isn’t known for it’s stupid simplicity.
Sabotage by Addidas!
The German army is unionized. They only work from 9 -5 with 4 hours of breaks in there. They train with broomsticks instead of firearms. And I hear the maintenance problem affects all their services. Their navy ships & subs are practically all out of commission. Their aircraft readiness is less that 30%. Their military is no longer a professional one. It is a make work program.
Da fuq?
Germany’s military union, or Bundeswehrverband (DBwV)….
Go from there…
You can’t run a military as a union shop.
Worked just fine for the mercenaries/pirates.
Just not for their employers.
Not just DE
https://euromil.org/our-members/
“The German army’s 37th Panzergrenadier Brigade had originally earmarked dozens of modern Puma APCs for the force, but during a recent military exercise all 18 Pumas deployed suffered technical failures.”
That’s hilarious. And people were giving Russia shit, just imagine if Germany had to fight someone. Luckily they have almost 2 weeks to get ‘very ready’.
,em> What happened to the business world?
They decided to let the fleas run the circus.
At least Henry is enough of a realist to see the situation for what it is. One becomes wistful for the days when the diplomatic leadership, while still corrupt psychopaths, were at least not total lunatics.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/12/18/henry-kissinger-calls-for-negotiated-peace-in-ukraine-to-avoid-world-war/
Presidents B and Z don’t want it to happen, so it won’t happen.
Will giving up the productive chunk of your country in exchange for a stop to the killing and turning the lights back on get him on the cover of Vogue again? Taking a giant L seems like a huge hit to his celebrity image.
It’s way too great of a money laundering scheme to stop now! Afghanistan was good and all, but Ukraine is PERFECT.
Less need for middlemen! You can just take the money right after the electronic delivery and funnel it to dnc connected criminals like that FTX or Soros cuntes to be repatriated into donkey campaign funds and connected wallets!
“Ukraine has acquired one of the largest and most effective land armies in Europe, equipped by America and its allies. A peace process should link Ukraine to NATO, however expressed. The alternative of neutrality is no longer meaningful, especially after Finland and Sweden joined NATO,” Kissinger said.
I want peace, and also a mutual defense pact ringing Russia all the way around its borders.
I want peace, and also an arrangement guaranteed to destabilize and destroy that peace at some point.
Yeah, and Ukes in NATO is their very clearly expressed Red Line.
The current director of the CIA, William Burns had this to say about it.
One thing transphobes and xenophobes have in common- alongside their Tufton street mailing address- is a cringeworthy desperation to be edgy. To be considered dangerous, rebellious and exciting rather than what they in fact are, which is boring, predictable and conservative.
https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/1604549179203678208
boring, predictable and conservative
I wish interesting times upon the progs.
Given that this is the third time Russia has aggressed against Ukraine in recent years, even if allowing Russia to keep some of what it has seized is acceptable, what guarantees are available (and credible) that Russia won’t go for more?
There are no guarantees in international relations and war.
There are none. I have my doubts as to whether Moscow will be willing to negotiate at this point anyway.
Who will allow or prevent anything Russia wants to do?
Oh yes. It’s people who have questions about trans-mania who are desperately looking for attention.
Gender Goblin?
(Robert Downey Jr. eyeroll here.)
A bevy of busty beauties and beautiful babes with tremendous titties and fabulous fronts on Mammary Monday!
https://archive.ph/NmfKZ
If you are not Leonard Cohen, STOP STINGING FUCKING HALLELUJAH.
Thank you. That is all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec
Boy was that a cringe moment.
To be fair, it’s a bit of a stretch to call what Leonard Cohen did “singing”.
Yes, but all the others are singing. And it somehow isn’t in the same galaxy of quality.
Are you also counting violin covers?
I am thinking she wasn’t playing the S&M verse.
Most modern versions skip this too:
“And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah”
Which is why he always paired a traditionally beautiful voice in the final recording.
If you are not Leonard Cohen,STOP STINGING FUCKING HALLELUJAH by Leonard Cohen.FTFY
kd Lang enters the chat
Meant as a reply to Robert. Oops.
Did you know me before 1983? Because no one who met me after that calls me that.
Dogdammit. Autocorrect.
I don’t care, I answer to it.
I sign my name that way. etc, etc.
High School was the first time there wan’t already a “Rob” in my class, so I switched at that point.
NO. I am perfectly fine with him doing it, I love the song. As he does it.
Of course, he is dead, so I shouldn’t be hearing new versions.
I loathe that song with the white hot loathing of a thousand burning suns.
Well, you are objectively wrong.
I would expect no different response.
Except you’re objectively wrong.
You don’t really care for music, do ya?
Pffffttt. My taste is impeccable. Just ask MikeS.
Rufus Wainwright might be my acceptable person to sing it.
Translation: Help us maintain our bias.
“Being a nonprofit means there is no danger that someone will buy Wikipedia”
Nonprofits get bought all the time in the hospital biz. It’s a definitely a thing.
They clearly got their info on nonprofits from Wikipedia.
*applause*
“implications on immigration”
wOrK aMeRiCaNz WoN’t Do!!!!11!!
Americans will do the work – at higher wages.
Exactly. It’s actually work Americans won’t do at those wages. They’ll do it for a better wage, though.
Also soon not to be available in NY…
The Hottest Holiday Toy of 2022 Is a Baby-Making Guinea Pig
You can still get the Guinea Pig abortion clinic at a state subsidized price.
I thought they paid you as well…
They will pay for the travel cost if one is not available at your local store.
And in the category eewww grosss
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkOpIZ9WQAAFEo8?format=jpg&name=360×360
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkOpIZHWYAEb01d?format=jpg&name=360×360
Showers remove your orgy aura.
That’s how you get to washing your dick in the sink?
So is this a dude or a chick? Either way, this is some sick shit. Must be meth heads fucking…
chick
linked before “pre shower selfie” NSFW
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fima6gmWQAEvQxd?format=jpg&name=900×900
Used to make 2k an hour as an escort, now makes more on onlyfans
Also: did the six guys who fucked her at the orgy have to pay 2k? Cause if so I can understand why her soul (or at least her back account) would feel nourished afterward.
Nope apparently she organizes sex parties for research purposes these days
Well I am a fan of the scientific method, alas I guess we are part of the control group.
Periodic reminder: i sometimes throw weird/experimental sex or sexy events; if you’re interested in attending, application is here:
https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1580774914369257472
I’m going to have to start using that excuse.
Reading her twitter is sort of interesting.
this is why I occasionally do it
this is why I also read her nsfw twitter
https://twitter.com/Aellagirl
Christ, pornstars are cleaner.
Who am I kidding? Would.
Love the honesty.
Also, facials do help with that youthful glow.
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Expected to Consent to Extradition From Bahamas
It was the only way he could be assured access to vegan meals.
Gal Gadot is officially OUT as Wonder Woman and the character’s being recasted and rebooted
https://twitter.com/NicholasPascar5/status/1604635996880003073
I hope they find someone intersectional
I hear Sam Brinton is looking for a new job..
Sam’s “non-binary.” We need a real woman like Laverne Cox (POC points too).
From below that…
This is a guy who knows what his job is.
https://twitter.com/TomCruise/status/1604601673145614337
He’s a nut, no question, but I kinda like him. Weirdly, for a Hollywood personality he is relatively normal and “real”.
It’s hard not to like him.
Yeah. My favorite recent story about him was from Emily Blunt. She was having a difficult cult time wearing the big mecha tech gear from the movie The Edge of Tomorrow and fell into a weeping fit. She said Tom came over to try to comfort her so they could finish the scenes for the day. After a few fruitless minutes Tom finally said “Try not to be such a pussy.” She said she at first shocked he said that, then laughed, got over her crying spell, and finished the scenes.
LOL
And she was smoking hot in that movie.
Huh. This is the new Mission Impossible where Ethan Hunt goes back in time with a Young Fiesty Enby of Color who is better at being a superspy in every way and erases himself from history so it turns out that all the heroic actions in the previous movies were ACTUALLY the actions of FYEoC?
The new “I wonder if that is a woman”?
She was perfect for that role. The second WW movie was bad, but the problem wasn’t her. The whole DC movie thing is a huge mess. How many reboots of Batman do we need?
None, I’m boycotting all future superhero movies. Except Guardians of the Galaxy sequels which I will grudgingly take my son to.
I laughed that they did a Christmas Special. I saw it as a poke in the eye to Star Wars
https://twitter.com/TheBoysTV/status/1604598049799430144
I LOL’d.
Dredd is one of the most underrated movies of all time.
Raising children as a man really brings out your feminine side in your 50s.
Manic Monday: Farewell, I must rejoin my people now.
ROFL
How do you even find out you can do that? Kind of impressed, not gonna lie.
the Stacey Abrams campaign owes more than $1 million in debt to vendors,
Campaign manager Groh-Wargo told Axios that a “cavalcade of negative press and negative polling” made fundraising difficult in the final months.
https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1604821845001347072
Food vendors?
I see what you did there.
Vendors to political campaigns never learn. “Cash and carry.”
$0 to Orthondontists.
Which one of you?
800 kg ‘gin ball’ vanishes from bottom of lake in Switzerland
It was Pie.
SweatingGin?
That gin has the aroma of ass.
ahem
“BREAKING: Antifa-backed trans sex offender at center of WiSpa controversy arrested after months on the run
“Though Darren Merager is legally female through California’s self-ID law, Merager is currently being kept in a male inmate facility in Los Angeles. After 15 months of being a wanted felony fugitive, the registered sex offender was arrested on Dec. 13, 2022,” Ngo wrote.
Charges were filed on Merger, who is a tier-one registered sex offender with multiple felonies, after the incident.
In an interview with Ngo, Merager denied all wrongdoing and claimed that he was the victim of “transphobic sexual harassment,” despite flashing partially erect genitalia to a young girl.
Ngo told Tucker Carlson in September of 2021, “As a gay man, LGBT stories interest me, but as a journalist, the truth matters the most. The truth here is that four women and a minor girl, all people of color, came forward to authorities, despite the pressure that they were facing from the public. The LAPD were completely silent for two months throughout this investigation which seemed like they were trying to make the story go away or was giving some legitimacy that there wasn’t merit to the original claims.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-antifa-back-wispa
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1604643314417815554
Antifa member with multiple felony convictions? *shocked face*
Pretty sure Wikipedia said this never happened.
That was the extent of the police investigation.
WORKING DOGO ARGENTINO VS SHOWLINE – Who is BEST?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7r4sCN6MQ
those look like some mean motherfuckers
I went to a breeder’s facility in Serbia years ago. There were a litter of Dogo pups in his facility at the time.
I am not afraid of dogs at all, but those pups had a hell of a prey drive and pack instinct. I would be highly uncomfortable with more than one full-grown Dogo around me or my family.
KITTENISH Bikini Show 2022 / 4K / ft Cindy Prado, Alexa Collins, Steph Rayner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFr3Y6X7WLI
A Christmas story.
yall cant tell me this isnt a david lynch film
https://twitter.com/BIBLEGIRL222/status/1604238246174609408
I dont get it
Pretty sure Lynch never cast anyone who looked like that.
“They’re both so bible coded”
????
I hate myself for watching the whole thing.
same this is why I linked it so others would be ion the same position
Two girls, one cocktail.
“Twitter bans the account of the #Antifa cell @COSAntiFascists in Colorado Springs, an account led by left-wing journalist @HeidiBeedle. The account has used Twitter to arrange assaults including breaking people’s teeth & getting their home addresses.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1604660343984119808
“Breaking: The #Antifa member who ran the violent Twitter account of the Colorado Springs cell of Antifa @COSAntiFascists /@COSAntiFa is trans furry activist/Colorado Times reporter @HeidiBeedle, formerly known as Sean Beedle. Beedle was or is a teacher”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1604500861765292033
“TY .@MrAndyNgo & .@elonmusk for this! This Heidi Beedle has been writing ‘hit’ pieces on parents & concerned community members these past few weeks here’s one written where Heidi goes to great length to ‘out’ people & concerned parents”
https://twitter.com/COpolitic/status/1604674186550530048
“A New Conservative Group Uses Anti-LGBTQ Sentiment to Attack Colorado Public Schools
by
Heidi Beedle”
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2022/12/a-new-conservative-group-uses-anti-lgbtq-sentiment-to-attack-colorado-public-schools/50763/
OK, groomer.
“Antifa member who ran violent Colorado Twitter account revealed to be ‘furry’ journalist
“I think a big part of me gravitating toward antifa was a substitute for the rush and excitement of being in the army. Pretty much everything we did was influenced by small-unit tactics and ranger handbook stuff.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-member-who-ran-the-violent-twitter-account-of-the-colorado-springs-cell-of-antifa-is-a-trans-furry
So, one of those weird dog guys who recently retired?
“And those Ranger beads…”
“In one instance, a parent complained to the school about a comparison Beedle made between former president Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. In another, the teacher shared a book with graphic sex scenes with a minor student.”
Classic commie tactic, according to this guy.
Around 38% of the world’s total landmass is used for agriculture – yet hunger is worsening, and food security is in crisis, threatened by pressures including climate change, conflict and global recessions.
I’m sure governments of the world, such as that of the Dutch, have nothing to do with this.
Sri Lanka, call your office!
I find this Twitter thing very interesting. A lot of things we already knew, but at least now we have the receipts. But the direct, unapologetic link between the FBI and Twitter was surprising to me.
Musk is getting a lot of crap from people, but I’ll give him some slack because he’s trying to figure this all out as he goes.
‘yet hunger is worsening,’
He claimed, without evidence.
Look my 6 year old kids skipped breakfast cause they were late and happened to be the day at school they social engineered a survey to ask them if they ever miss a meal. See! Worsening!
“Sure I miss a meal from time to time, but then I find another and shoot that one instead. The tag doesn’t get used up on a missed shot.”
Indeed. Hunger is worsening yet the world just topped eight billion people last month. Funny how that works.
He has a plan
The Biden administration’s latest plan to fight the homelessness crisis, released Monday morning, calls for more action to keep people from losing their housing in the first place.
“We’ve gotten very, very good at providing supportive housing for people,” says Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which developed the plan. “We’ve not done a great job as a nation of turning off the faucet.”
The new plan includes a range of ways to boost the supply of affordable housing, as well as increase the number of emergency shelters and support programs. But its biggest change is a call for the “systematic prevention of homelessness,” focusing on those who are struggling to keep them from losing their housing. It sets an ambitious goal to reduce the number of unsheltered people 25% by 2025, and calls on states and local governments to use it as a model.
After a steady rise since 2016, the number of people experiencing homelessness has stabilized, according to data also released Monday. There were 582,462 on a single night in January this year, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. That’s only slightly more than the previous full count, in 2020, before the pandemic disrupted the process.
Over the course of this year, more than a million individuals and families were without housing at some point, and they were disproportionately people of color, a disparity the plan aims to address.
We’ll get the Housing Fairy to take care of this problem.
I would like to see the evidence of this very specific and not estimate…
“There were 582,462 on a single night in January”
“Heaven forbid they’d work on the out-of-control anti-Semitic attacks or the rat problem.”
TBF, that’s the purpose of having a city government. Anyway, even here in deep red Florida, the county banned sales of rabbits. People are crazy about animals.
“Temperatures in the deep south – as far down as Florida and Georgia – could get as low as the 20s ”
If I get a white Christmas I would just explode. I doubt it will really get that cold here though.
You might see frost and if so some tropicals used in landscaping will look bad for a few months.
Last time it snowed in your part of the state was January 1977. Freezing weather happens occasionally, though.
I think I was here for some sub freezing temps early this year, maybe one day. I really enjoyed it.
Forecast I’m looking at has us in the 40s-50s.
I keep hearing “extreme cold” but keep seeing “low of 21, high of 28” on Christmas. That’s brisk but hardly extreme.
New York on Thursday became the latest state to ban the sale of cats, dogs and rabbits in pet stores in an attempt to target commercial breeding operations decried by critics as “puppy mills.”
I’m missing something here. How can you not sell pets at a pet store?
You can still sell fish, reptiles, and small rodents that are not bunnies.
Actually, you’re going out of business, because most of the product moved is cats and dogs.
Double-edged sword here. On one hand, trying to stem the overpopulation of dags/cats and puppy mills. On the other, why is this the States’ concern?
I think they just hold adoption parties now then try to sell you their shit once you’re in the store.
I haven’t seen puppies or kittens sold in a pet store around here in decades. But yes, they do have adoption events. It’s probably better for business, it takes work to keep those animals alive and healthy, and I doubt they made too much money on them.
At one point we looked into doing fostering for rescues and it was a net loss in the end monetarily.
Our first dog was one we “met” at a Pet Smart adoption event.
President Biden has also called for more federal funding for affordable housing, but Olivet of the Interagency Council on Homelessness says states and localities have to step up. In November’s elections, voters in a number of places across the country did approve more funding to build or subsidize affordable housing.
Separately, the Biden administration also says it will work with a number of places nationwide to help reduce their number of unsheltered people. There’s no extra money, but federal staff will join with local officials, using their expertise to help navigate the 19 different U.S. agencies that can provide support.
The specific places have not yet been named, but officials say the program will launch next year.
A couple more layers of bureaucrats should really streamline the whole process.
We need a few more agencies to help people navigate the existing 19 agencies.
I bet the Salvation Army could do twice as much good with half as much money!
Oh come now, you can do better than that.
The cupboards are bare with Ukrainian pride
” It helped the one-eyed jack(ass) get reelected and that’s all that matters.”
Wow, a while $2,900. Not that Crenshaw isn’t a jackass, so I’m not surprised he got some FTX cash, but how about we report on all the money Democrats got?
Cause that would require going after their heroes.
Chan was not satisfied with Twitter’s indication that it “had not observed much recent activity from official propaganda actors on your platform,” the emails show.
The biggest propaganda organization on the planet is the US government.
Looks like the timeline of the Twitter Files is working backwards so if Twitter was initially uncomfortable with the FBI, what changed to spur the weekly meetings and cozy relationship?
They offered to bring in donuts?
More like the FBI offered to turn a blind eye towards the Twitter employees supporting the groomer and pedo agendas…
I find this Twitter thing very interesting. A lot of things we already knew, but at least now we have the receipts. But the direct, unapologetic link between the FBI and Twitter was surprising to me.
The ongoing process of reinventing the FBI as an internal apparatus dedicated to pursuing political dissidents is coming into the open. They aren’t very interested in investigating actual crimes against people and property anymore, but if they perceive you as a threat to the government your goose is cooked. And very few people seem to care.
Go hang a noose somewhere and see what happens.
In a democracy the people are the government so you deserve what you get.
Traitor.
I agree. They had something like 80 agents just watching Twitter and asking for people to be banned. Unreal.
Isn’t that what J. Edgar Hoover used it for?
They are wholly unneeded and should be disbanded.
Should I stay or should I go?
Twitter’s new owner and CEO, Elon Musk, posted an informal poll of the social media platform’s users Sunday asking if he should step down as head of the company.
At 6:20 a.m. ET on Monday, the poll ended with a majority of respondents (57.5%) calling for the billionaire to leave his post. More than 17 million users had voted by the time the poll closed.
——-
Twitter polls are straw polls, meaning they are informal and not comparable to professional public opinion research. Malicious bots or inauthentic accounts may also be able to register a response to a Twitter poll.
He should charge eight bucks per vote.
I would pay to vote “stay.”
US could face coldest Christmas in YEARS as temperatures drop ‘much below normal’ and arctic air mass blitzes southern states: Freezing onslaught will bring major snowstorms and holiday travel chaos for millions
A forecast a couple days ago went from the prospect of snow to rain Friday with temps plunging from the fifties to the teens overnight. Kinda disappointing but I suppose it could change since it’s still a week out.
An honest mistake, for sure.
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia estimates that the employment data was vastly overstated in 2022.
10k jobs added instead of 1.1 million reported from March to June of 2022.👀🚨
The elections are over, so this can now be corrected.
Overstated or flat out lied about. That isn’t a rounding error or even a carry the one error.
The poor you will always have among you. (Matthew 26:11)
This should not be a surprise to anyone. There are more contributors to poverty and starvation than mere bad luck.
Who stole that gin?
Mojo Nixon
Christmas music
https://notthebee.com/article/last-night-was-the-beginning-of-hanukkah-and-the-new-york-times-accidentally-printed-a-crossword-that-looks-exactly-like-a-swastika
I guess if you squint and tear up in both eyes it resembles one…
Ah see it was mentioned above…carry on.
Short, diagonal lines hardest hit.
🙄
Is that a threat?
REP. SCHIFF: “We’ve got a big problem right now with social media companies and their failure to moderate content and the explosion of hate on Twitter, the banning of journalists on Twitter. […] If you’ll be responsible moderators of content, we will give you immunity.”
Immunity from the House minority?
Yes. It is a non-veiled threat.
By Thursday night, temperatures will plunge as low as 13 degrees in Jackson, Mississippi; and around 5 degrees in Nashville, Tennessee, the National Weather Service predicts.
Going-out-on-a-limb Prediction: The usual suspects will blame any problems on Republicans.
Low around 50 in NYC. Prog harder, flyovers.
It’s all of that concrete.
Good thing the U.S. energy industry has been throttled. Next month’s energy bill should be exciting.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/jan-6-committee-public-meeting/index.html
The end plot was more predictable than that of a porno.
Trump sitting down with a dejected look on his face as the jail door slides shut in the foreground?
I just love getting invites to meetings without getting told what the meeting is supposed to be about.
My best guess? Wasting your time…
“Engineering consultation form submission”
Yup, you’re right.
See also: daily meeting with the project manager rehashing the muddled notes she took two weeks ago.
“That’s done already.”
“That’s done already.”
“That’s done already.”
And why is it in the janitorial closet?
After seeing this, I started to wonder if all those stories about the pyramids being built by aliens were not true. After all, those hieroglyphics are just emojis.
Trump sitting down with a dejected look on his face as the jail door slides shut in the foreground?
*metallic clang reverberates as lights dim*
Executive Producer
DICK WOLF
Nice…
My first thought too.