Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another wonderful day and the links!
Nunes accuses DOJ of seeking blackmail material during Russia probe after bombshell revelation
Kari Lake scores major win as Arizona judge orders trial on election challenge
6 undisputed facts about Arizona election: Election Day issues, ballot counts, legal threats
Supreme Court temporarily pauses lifting Title 42 border restrictions
Court Blocks Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
Judge Approves $10 Million Settlement for Health Care Workers Fired Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Morgan Stanley’s Wilson Says US Profit Drop Could Rival 2008 Era
In-flight disturbances have plummeted since court overturned Biden’s mask mandate
Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape, sexual assault in second trial
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
Court Blocks Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
speed of molasses
Justice delayed is justice denied is now racist and homophobic.
That was the reason I got the shot, j&j one and done. I tried to delay, got Covid in Oct 21 so was exempt for 90 days, but the mandate was still in place once the time was up so I figured it was better than losing my job. Three out of eight of my guys asked for exemptions, two for religious reasons and one for “I am not going to do what the government says because I am a free man” reasons. Not long after it all seems to go away and I feel like a pussy for taking the shot when I wanted to tell them to piss off, but with my career on the line, a house being built, and several people relying on me it was a lot of pressure. What a chump I was.
I lost everything, but Im pureblood,
Good enough
Did you see The Sixth Sense? That’s you.
I quit and found a new job. But it wasn’t an easy decision, and I might regret it later. Having a family to support makes it all pretty tough.
Don’t beat yourself up too much. I would have folded along the way too if my employer didn’t hold out long enough for the large employer mandate to be overturned. And there was nothing noble about it, our plant employees were simply refusing to take the shot even with all of the incentives offered to them. The mandate would have crippled our production.
I didn’t even participate in mask theater. I am not about to get an injection because the employer says so. But luckily that was not in question for me.
I had no work pressure, as we were all wfh at the time – but I was not allowed to see my parents without the shots….so I got them, and have not boosted and won’t. Sometimes you put yourself aside for others, as you did.
Yeah, this is ridiculous.
This is the speed at which places like India move in their administration of justice. The end result is of course the rich and powerful move things to their benefit while the less connected suffer.
I know I keep saying it, but Congress needs to use the power of the purse and put its foot down. It isn’t supposed to be the rubber stamp of the Executive and the IC isn’t supposed to run rampant over the country.
Since they enjoy having their real jobs being schmoozing and fundraising, it isn’t going to happen — but it really needs to. Sigh.
Another bit of brilliant operation of the govt machinery during the Trump admin.
Trump should have fired everyone at the DOJ and just rebuilt the organization from the ground up. Sounds practical and reasonable to me and it totally wouldn’t have been challenged in court.
Just filling a couple of positions at the top isn’t going to change the reality that its workforce was over 90% opposed to him in every way.
In-flight disturbances have plummeted this year since a court overturned President Joe Biden’s mask mandate on the airline industry, according to a new investigation.
That must be why they were pushing that “TSA found more guns in carry on bags” story over the weekend. You need to know how important the TSA is to keeping you safe.
Yeah, sure. The fucking assholes groping older women and children and worrying about the fact I ask them if they know WTF they are doing, sure make me feel safe…
The message from the Cathedral seems to be:
Things only get worse. They never get better. Surrender your freedoms so we can keep you safe.
what have your freedoms ever done for you?
They are actively destroying the economy and creating panic conditions, because idiots will give up their rights for promises pf something that they never will deliver.
Surrender your freedoms
Molon labe
But within the article — about 500 folks and:
Do the words: “A bloody pittance” come to mind?
It’s better than the usual “$10 off your next purchase” you normally get with class action.
Yeah, but it is a fucking travesty… How much did the lawyers take?
It’s not charity. The lawyers need to keep up a lifestyle.
Mendicant Monk is a lifestyle
Sure, I was forced to get injected with an experimental drug that I didn’t need to keep my job, but I was able to parlay that injustice into a 1998 Honda Accord with 176,000 miles… Sweet!
Come on, according to CNBC, you can easily get a car for less then that:
The best bang for your buck: These 10-year-old used cars cost less than $16,000 and could go for another 100,000 miles
That’s bonkers. Used car prices are insane.
They are starting to come down a little bit…at least looking around here the past week.
That’s what I’ve heard, but those prices are still more than what I paid for a1-year old car with 10k miles on it, 10 years ago.
Somehow my car didn’t lose any cash value in 10 years?
The cash lost more value than the car.
Exactly why I specified cash value. 😂
The only reasons I bought new were the minute price difference ($2500?) and the warranty.
Yeah, I don’t see why anyone would buy used right now, unless I’m missing something.
I bought a five-year-old truck last January to avoid all the electronic horseshit that is in the new vehicles.
Good plan, kinnath. I rented a car over the weekend, and all of the “helpful” bleeps and bloops annoyed the shit out of me.
Take the hybrids off the list, and it’s not a bad list, with some caveats (take the 2.5 Fusion, not the 1.6 turbo, also, hybrids are more expensive to repair).
You know it’s BS, they list Honda’s as being reliable after 100K. I worked in an auto electric shop, Jaguars are more reliable at that point.
Disposable cars, nothing more than that.
My Pilot lasted 117k before needing a bunch of stuff so I neglected to put $5k into a $17k car and bought a new Telluride.
QED
~ 112k on the Fit right now – so far, so good, aside from the AC going. We’ll see…
Each worker who was fired
The employer didn’t use “get the jab or you quit”?
I haven’t flown since this whole mess began, but based on the last few years — y’all will forgive me for thinking a large part of this is because the flight attendants (or whatever they want to be called this week) don’t get to be petty dictators about how/if folks are wearing their masks, not as much because the cattle car class stuck in coach is much more relaxed. Next they need to go back to not having “Failing to follow orders of the Sky Waitresses!” as a fracking federal crime or whatever.
Last year I flew to South America. Leaving, they were mask Nazis in the airport and wouldn’t let me on the plane without one. As soon as we got on, flight crew announced this is a US airline and the mask mandate had ended and to respect everyone’s choice. I ripped mine off and proudly looked all of the masked Karens around me in the eye.
^This. Turns out people are a lot less unpleasant when you don’t have a sky nanny nagging you about your chin diaper being pulled down too long between sips of water.
I flew in May of this year and masks were few and far between. That still didn’t do anything for being 6’1″ 225lbs and being stuck between 2 guys bigger than that (one of which was drunk/hungover and gassy). Also, flight delay due to lightning strikes, not missing my connecting flight because the connecting flight was even more delayed due to missing crew resulting in a 3:30am arrival instead of 11:00pm. Flying sucks.
“6 undisputed facts about Arizona election: Election Day issues, ballot counts, legal threats”
Our elite sure as hell have designated AZ the one state where “fortification” efforts are critical and easy…
The last state they need to ensure that there is never another Republican President or Senate. Letting a Republican Governor win would ensure reforms to mess up the fortification.
👆👆👆
Can’t have Arizona going the way of Florida.
I doubt it. The Repubs had two years to fix elections in AZ after it was completely obvious they were broken. And did nothing. At all. The Repubs in AZ are more McCain than Goldwater. And now it is a dead certainty there will be no reforms, and the new SecState will probably push things even further than Hobbs did.
AZ delenda est.
McCains brain tumor was too late to save us.
Plus the optics victory against Kari Lake.
did y’all hear the breaking news?
That we are broke?
I’m not! I still have checks!
The Berlin fish tank again?
Yes! Unbelievable.
Also, did you see the sports game last night? What a finish. Didn’t see that coming.
The grail
A vote at that meeting to issue a report to the wider Congress involving Trump’s tax information could open a new chapter in the saga of Trump’s tax returns, which were a source of great frustration for Democrats during Trump’s presidency after he broke with decades of presidential precedent by not sharing them upon entering office. It could also help to close the book on the matter once and for all.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
broke with decades of presidential precedent by not sharing them upon entering office
Cry more. It’s a political matter not legal.
Reps: Gimme your tax returns!
Trump: Nuh uh! You’ll just leak them!
Reps: No we won’t this is legitimate oversight function!
Trump: Fine.
Reps *leaks taxes*
I’d like to know what the walls are doing.
A new ad for Russian army – it simply offers to exchange a grandson for an already existing Lada.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1605131147691937794
Is that a good deal over there?
Somehow still not worse than current American Army recruiting propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIYGFSONKbk
The enemy cannot match our diversity. They will bend and break under the strain of our inclusion. They fear the wrath of our transgendered otherkins. Our Fragility is our strength.
I mean a catboy brigade would scare the shit outta russia
I made it 57 seconds. That shit is so cringe that The Life of Julia seems staid by comparison.
By the time I clicked it off, I was thinking “Maybe she can get some tips about Patriot missiles from Lisa Olson.”
I noted that she was a Patriot missile operator, purportedly a defensive only system.
It wouldn’t do to try to recruit woke kids with images of knocking down doors in Arab ghettos or droning Yemeni villages.
“It wouldn’t do to try to recruit woke kids with images of knocking down doors in Arab ghettos or droning Yemeni villages.”
Que up the 2023 recruiting video of woke kids knocking down trailer park and log cabin doors and droning white supremacist camps somewhere in flyover country.
I couldn’t even watch it.
I get the Russian recruitment video. Unlike some of the folks in the comments on that tweet.
FFS. No wonder they’re having trouble. Yeah, let’s target a tiny group of potential recruits, who won’t sign up anyway.
“Comments are turned off”
Good move
That’s a shitty ad.
Save your grandpa’s lada, join the army!
I’m thinking of a pimped out Lada with some profile tires, airbags, LED’s underneath, kickin’ stereo, and an “In Loving Memory of Sergei” vinyl sticker on the back.
And a “Support your Local NKVD” licence plale frame.
In Chuvashia, Russia, a gas pipeline exploded.
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1605164398758268928
well we are gonna freeze this winter on the old continent
You say that as if it is not being done to you on purpose by the people in Brussels that sure as hell will not have any problems staying nice and war while they eat caviar, drink champaign, fuck kids, and tell the rest of you to tough it out…
, fuck kids, – that is just a Belgian thing, not an elite thing
*laughs in RP*
” nice and war”
Typo checks out.
“well we are gonna freeze this winter on the old continent”
… And you’ll be happy about it. /EU
Time to upgrade your continent.
Anyone else find it a bit ironic that Republicans are pushing the pandemic as justification for border control.
no.
Nope.
Yes but to be fair, it’s the only thing that worked.
“No bad tactics, only bad targets.”
In 2020, the New York Times reported that Trump paid only $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and that he’d paid “no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years – largely because he reported losing much more money than he made.”
Trump files his return as a Schedule C?
I don’t understand your question in relation to what you quoted.
So no fraud, just not as rich as expected and had some good years and some bad years.
I bet the next scandal is that he doesn’t have a 10 inch cock.
Sounds more like he had good accountants. Worth more than cheap steaks.
It is kind of interesting that the Yoel Roth character, who seemed to be instrumental in banning Trump from Twitter, pushed back against the FBI several times behind the scenes.
Was it pushback or just not wanting everything written down because he wasn’t dumb?
This. Paper trail is guilt trail.
There were a few different instances, not just that one.
It really appears he was worked as a CIA asset.
Or Mossad, with CIA approval. Given his proclivities, he seems a natural target for their type of blackmail.
Today in weird twitter pols
When listening to a true crime podcast, which race do you prefer the murder victims to be?
https://twitter.com/SwordAndScale/status/1604992861337837568
I wasn’t aware indigenous was a race, but would go with that since they don’t get many parts.
Deep state politicians and government bureaucrats… that’s y preference..
Washingtonian
Are people in Seattle that bad?
Yes.
Yes
/high-fives Plinker
Hard Target II: Jet City
It was the most obvious response.
Of course Spokane isn’t doing much better. Traffic, hobos everywhere and the city can’t even clear snow from the streets.
True. Still, except for a few enclaves downtown and on the South Hill, I don’t get the “we’re so progressive we’re totally detached from reality” vibe I get on the other side of Snoqulamie pass.
True, most people I know see the writing on the wall. Unfortunately the proggies in King county and Olympia are feeling their oats of total state government control and are forcing their “values” on all of us.
We’re moving out of the area in the next year for work. We plan on coming back to the inland NW afterward. I told the wife that upon our return we’ll be looking in Idaho, not Washington.
Ferengi?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/anomaly-6-surveil-crypto-users-highest-bidder/283036/
Crypto is not as anonymous as it seemed. *Eyes purchased orphan slaves warily*
That’s why you only buy lead and orphans with metal exchanges…
“To generate the $916 million of losses, Trump used other people’s money without ever repaying his borrowings or reversing his tax deductions, as the law requires. And the IRS apparently never challenged,” Rosenthal wrote online on Monday.
There’s doubt about whether the documents provided to House Democrats go back far enough to be able to give a full picture of Trump’s financial history and corroborate so much bombshell reporting.
“It could be a case of too little too late,” Rosenthal said. “I expect very little, without a fuller probe.”
Political strategists say Democrats should be seizing the opportunity to focus on transparency issues around Trump’s business dealings, especially after one of Trump’s main businesses was convicted of tax fraud earlier in December and as the high-profile Jan. 6 Committee considers its own set of criminal referrals against the former president.
Don’t let him get away, Ahab.
There are so many things he could have done that we don’t have evidence of. That won’t stop us.
Congresscritters are much more experter about taxes than IRS auditors. It is known.
The only way the “walls are closing in” narrative makes any sense here is if the IRS never audited him. Otherwise, how did they never catch him “cheating”?
No, I think what they’re really doing is trying to “shame” him with his legitimate returns.
Funny how he had more success with the IRS before he was President.
No voting irregularities with these tits.
https://archive.ph/nk4iV
Titty Tuesday.
Oh, I think there’s some stuffing going on there.
Is Q Adam Carolla?
There were pictures of his ex-wife and new girlfriend.
The new GF is Q-worthy. Adam clearly has a type.
https://pagesix.com/2022/12/18/adam-carolla-dating-sexy-standup-crystal-denha-after-divorce/
Face diaper. Blech.
Butter faces deserve love too.
Or at least your only fans money.
Good Morning yall, vacation time has been busy, its been great. I miss reading yalls excellent comments. Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah and pleasant festivus to everyone. Ill be aback after New Years when I can sit in my office and get paid to surf before meetings begin
Howdy, Cowpoke
1. Something strange is happening – people are starting to borrow from the Fed!
This only happens in moments of significant liquidity stress – like 2008 or 2020.
But supposedly the market is “awash” with excess liquidity right? So what is going on?
https://twitter.com/LastBearStandng/status/1604916553379708937
does it even matter, what difference at this point etc…
Sam Bankman-Fried has all the money in his mattres…
That or the Ukrainians..
What is going on?
The inevitable.
Lots of pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc
/in before Ted’s.
The most interesting crack head in the world….
Whatever the scale of the disclosures on Trump’s personal tax returns, experts say his case is indicative of a broader set of problems with the U.S. tax system and how its complexities allow it to be exploited in bad faith.
“For our voluntary tax system to remain stable, we count on taxpayers not to play ‘hide-the-ball,’ or as Trump fashions it, to treat taxes as a sport. Trump once said that’s the way he looks at it,” Steve Rosenthal said. “The system will collapse if taxpayers game it and are successful.”
How did we get here? Does anybody know? I guess it just happened organically. One minute you have a beautifully manicured formal English garden, and the next minute it looks like an overgrown impenetrable briar patch.
Whatever the scale of the disclosures on Trump’s personal tax returns, his case is indicative of a broader set of problems with “the ends justify the means” mindset.
And they wonder why people don’t trust giving information to the government.
Our what now?
You will volunteer, or else.
It’s optional. All you have to do to not pay income tax is not have income.
If you don’t want to pay your taxes, you can spend a weekend with the pain monster.
You voluntarily do your taxes. By which we mean you will do our job for free or we’ll bend you over and do it ourselves. /IRS
“experts say”
Time to turn my brain off and stop listening.
“Voluntary tax system.”
The $11,500 toilet with Alexa inside can now be put inside your home
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/19/23510864/kohler-numi-smart-toilet-alexa-ces-2022
Have you ever sat on the toilet, pondering your day, using your phone even though that’s kind of gross to do on the john, avoiding everyone in the house, and thought, “I wish Alexa was in here with me?” That is, what I assume, the designers of the Kohler Numi 2.0 Smart Toilet were thinking when they made this $11,500 toilet that has Alexa inside.
Don’t do it! Amazon will then be blackmailing you by demanding you let Bezo’s abuse you seksually or they will put the videos of you coping a squat and squeezing out a turd on YouTubes!
Or at a minimum give video to police like they do for Ring.
Civilian ROAT, Alexa has detected unusual levels of animal protein in your stool. Please report to eating the bugs reeducation camp or be liquidated.
Smart Pipe Inc.Alexa is a Registered Sex Offender“Open the toilet lid, Alexa.”
“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.”
And when Alexa analyzes your poop for illegal drug use, you can ask for a minty spray as the cops drag you to prison.
Never thought I see the day that a leader of a major party would openly promise censorship, but here we are.
Harris: I ‘Would Require’ Tech to ‘Work with Us’ to Ensure There’s Not ‘Manipulation’ to Upend ‘the Security of our Democracy and our Nation’
“So, what I would say about any social media site is this: I fully expect and would require that leaders in that sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security, concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy, to do everything in their power to ensure that there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked that is done with the intention of upending the security of our democracy and our nation.”
1) Continuing to make Dan Quayle sound like a master off-the-cuff orator.
2) Since when are Vice Presidents in any position to “require” anything from anyone?
She thinks she’ll be president someday.
“The Harris years”
And at least half the country is perfectly fine with this.
What are these “shocking sex acts”??? C’mon, you can’t leave us hanging like that!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20805688/son-in-law-on-sex-sites-daughter-leave-him/
GO BUKAKE!
MiL cosplay, of course.
Anal, it is always anal.
That’s pretty tame, how else are people supposed to remain technical virgins?
“It wasn’t just looking at porn, he has been paying to watch women perform shocking sex acts for him.”
In other words he’s discovered only fans?
I mean, yeah, it’s shocking to waste your money like that, and I suppose it is more intimate than porn, due to the live interaction… You’d think he’d actually been with other women or something the way he reacted.
Get him to stop and go on with your marriage.
Manipulation is only ok if Dems do it.
Harris said, “So, what I would say about any social media site is this: I fully expect and would require that leaders in that sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security, concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy, to do everything in their power to ensure that there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked that is done with the intention of upending the security of our democracy and our nation.”
I’ve grown the loathe the term “democracy”.
Whenever you see “our democracy” just replace with “elections rigged to ensure only Team Blue wins” and you’ll be spot on.
Same with Bipartisanship.. Team blue wins.
As with every other word of import, they’ve co-opted and skin-suited it.
It works well because most normies think the progs are using the old meanings and go right along with their plans.
Democracy was always the absolute worst form of government ever. Every time I hear it used this way, I’m saddened by our education / indoctrination system.
Bidenomics in action!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/im-beating-cost-living-crisis-28610448
NB: GAH!
jeeez that needs two trigger warnings
set to full auto
THAT’S A MAN, BABY!
Brave man
‘GAH!”
what’s with everyone messing up their lips? Yeesh.
“Massive 6.4 earthquake jolts northern California leaving tens of thousands without power, huge cracks in roads and storefront windows smashed: Comes days after 3.6 quake hit San Francisco”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11557769/Massive-6-4-earthquake-rocks-California-epicentre-130miles-north-San-Francisco.html
So no different than before?
6.4 would kill 1000 in Italy. You people are behind
One day. One day.
people are starting to borrow from the Fed!
Banks aren’t peepul!!@!!1
The measures adopted so far by the EU have been insufficient to contain the impact of the gas crisis on firms and households. This column proposes an emergency gas policy package to deal with the crisis that threatens European economies and security of supply. The proposal combines an EU-wide gas price cap with binding gas-saving targets and a continued strong price incentive for users to cut gas consumption.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/european-economists-eu-level-gas-price-cap-and-gas-saving-targets
solid policies for a happier europe. I heard freezing to death leaves one with a smile on one’s face so happy. Who needs an economy anyways. We can import stuff from China.
Thing is I always kept my thermostat to 19 gas crisis degrees in winter cause that is how I like it. On the flipside I live alone in a largish apartment and would not really want to drop it bellow 19.
I keep my house at 61 degrees. Lily thinks it’s still too warm and would rather lay out on the back steps and keep watch for intruders.
does she just bark or go directly for the throat should one come?
If she’s trying to catch it (anything smaller than a turkey), she doesn’t bark. If she’s trying to scare it off, then she barks.
by intruders I assume large men with mischief in mind
She has a rather more expansive definition of intruder.
“19 gas crisis degrees”
*Sensible chuckle*
That is pretty warm tho. Buy a sweater.
Giulia Valletti Borgnini – Pole Vault | 2022 Piacenza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K2fVL9HScw
“Giulia Valletti Borgnini ” Gee – I wonder what country she’s from.
Dishonest, sanctimonious cunte.
Liz Cheney says Trump “is unfit for any office.”
She needs to just bang him and get it over with already.
Think of how much money he could raise for his reelection campaign if he livestreamed it! I sense a SugarFree opportunity…
Count me out
Seconded.
*shudder*
That would require AOC to make it a 3-some.
He could pay people to not watch and make millions.
Things that make your eye twitch…
Emails from vendors that read like this:
Ah, it’s because we don’t use them often enough. Oh well, that won’t be an issue going forward.
There are some really stupid businesses out there.
Was that the last final notice or only the first?
Don’t know. They sent it to my branch office. Don’t care either.
There are plenty of office supply stores.
That reads like a scam where they will take you to a fake page to have you log in, then they will steal the shirt off your back for being that dumb…
It wasn’t. It’s a concept so stupid that only an MBA could have come up with it.
“Fire your low profit customers today!”
A woman has used our address to avoid getting late notices, apparently. I guess she doesn’t realize the bills are attached to her name, not my address.
The proposal combines an EU-wide gas price cap with binding gas-saving targets and a continued strong price incentive for users to cut gas consumption.
Ow, my head.
Do the big brains in Brussels have an answer to question of who is going to produce gas for them for free?
These people think they are divine. If they demand gas prizes stay low, they will magically…
Do they really think there’s no where else for the oil to go?
China may be opening back up now…
*laughter*
/India
Our BS sanctions and price caps only work if other countries play along. If China, India and others want the oil, they’ll worry about the logistics first and the US second.
I LOLed
https://mobile.twitter.com/EquationCubic/status/1605204485692964864/photo/1
That would make me want to actually drink that crap.
It is kind of obvious.
Team Joe are editing photos of Biden, and posting them to make him look younger. Joe is old and frail, this dude is not.
I wish he was just replaced entirely by a crude paste in of Steven Seagal.
Good grief. Are they doing that to fool the public or to fool themselves??
They even smoothed out Dr Jill.
https://twitter.com/TheSarcasticist/status/1604940223514812449?s=20&t=sUFMRKhXQTgd5eOpxgQjgA
His hand tho. Zoom in for laughs.
Even if that’s a grandkid, he should not be alone with her.
Re the Twitter Files: Does anyone here talk to non political normies here and what do they think of this I wonder? For the right and most here this is just confirmation of what was already strongly suspected while the left both denies the seriousness while proclaiming that it’s a good thing.
My normie in-laws (squishy but not lefty) seem to be distracted by the corporate presses “OMG Elon is such an idiot” narrative. They completely miss the rest.
This, sadly.
Well that is unfortunate.
It’s willful ignorance for the most part. Accepting that we live in a banana republic where our rights only exist if and when it’s convenient for the people with power is too upsetting for most people. It would take the dull metallic thud of the cattle car door being latched for them to come to that realization.
Yes
Yesterday my boss’s boss went home early because he was sick. Today my boss is sick. So far both have tested negative for the ‘VID, and so far I feel fine… but prayers, incantations, or appropriate blood sacrifices on my behalf would be gratefully welcomed. 😳
I know I’ve got a goat lying around here somewhere….
Now where did I put that altar?
Ugh that reminds me, at this time last year I was just catching it. (Or something that knocked me out for a few days including Xmas, I didn’t test.)
I hope you dont get sick and use the opportunity to steal their jobs cause they weak
Democracy was always the absolute worst form of government ever. Every time I hear it used this way, I’m saddened by our education / indoctrination system.
let the mob decide.
Yarvin has a habit of using 50 words when 10 would suffice but this is a pretty good article.
https://compactmag.com/article/the-nihilism-of-the-ruling-class
How very Moldbug.
I like this. It’s solely about power. And postmodernism has removed most of the rhetorical arguments against that power.
Their faith is nihilism—and only nihilism can defeat them.
I can agree with the former, but the latter is totally wrong. You don’t beat them at their own game – you change the game to beat them.
I interpret it as meaning that you cannot deal with them, and them in particular, in good faith.
Really good, thanks for the link!
That’s an interesting take. Men of honor will always lose to these fucks, so the solution is to become like them. I actually think that’s true, but isn’t building parallel worlds another?
Still, I like the way he laid it out and it does really hit home how we are constantly misdirected. I liked this:
‘Dear Americans, this is why your vote in the big election doesn’t count. The election isn’t stolen on Election Day, in the voting machines. It is stolen later, in Washington. It isn’t even stolen by any person who you can scream at. Rather, it is stolen by design—and the designers are long since dead.
It works like any con: If you lose, you lose. But if you win, you don’t win. Like a child on a ship, you get to sit in the captain’s chair and spin the captain’s wheel. But you are not steering the vessel.’
Indeed. The biggest lie the American voting public tells itself is that every upcoming election is the most important ever/yet.
Things we learned early in life…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Bt1_WjZR0
Watch at least the first 2:00. Interesting statement at around 1:25
https://rumble.com/v219eoy-ep.-142-florida-vax-grand-jury-trump-indictment-jfk-files-arizona-update-an.html
Last night I watched the “Liberty Ships” episode of War Factories.
Henry Kaiser… holy shit. I can’t believe that guy was so completely off my radar.
I toured the functioning liberty ship at Fisherman’s Wharf. It’s amazing. It sailed to Normandy for the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
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Time: 04:38.23
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Good Morning Banjos!
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Personal best at Quordle!
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If you see something say something.
New Zealand has gone full police state🧐
Anyone with a different POV is an enemy.
New Zealand govt booklets being released telling the public that if they suspect their friends or family are opposing govt policies, incl COVID measures, they should be reported as terrorists
Their Prime Minister looks like the Devil’s slowly eating her soul. Either that or she has worms…very unhealthy and severe looking.
https://twitter.com/BugsyMugsy11/status/1603972963732443138
Pretty standard now. Not like the US is any better here. Though, if we have any Aussie adherents, they’re smart enough not to post.
I thought the NZSIS were the bad guys?
The cargo hauling aircraft with no pilots on board
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63595481
I’m now a big Henry Cavill fan. He’s leaving the Witcher because he’s a giant gamer and refused to let the show-runners make the series woke. He supposedly plays Witcher on the hardest setting.
Hemsworth will have no problem collecting a check while making woke crap.
I need to read the Witcher books while waiting for that Warhammer series.
And Netflix will learn nothing from it.
Yeah, their audience is going to shrink by at least half without Cavil.
Correct. They have your money. Netflix will do what they want with it until people give up on them.
Netflix has $0 of my money.
Good morning, Banjos!
I am shocked that forced masking resulted in crankier passengers. Shocked, I tell you.
I will say that the first flew flights I took after the mandate were amazingly pleasant.
They even smoothed out Dr Jill.
Ewwwwww.
R’s always find a way to fuck themselves over.
To help protect America’s youth from the dangers of pornography, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill on Dec. 13 that would require all pornographic websites to use an age-verification tool to prevent kids under the age of 18 from accessing porn online.
“Every day, we’re learning more about the negative psychological effects pornography has on minors,” said Lee in a statement. “Given the alarming rate of teenage exposure to pornography, I believe the government must act quickly to enact protections that have a real chance of surviving First Amendment scrutiny.”
“We require age verification at brick-and-mortar shops,” he added. “Why shouldn’t we require it online?”
There are seriously more important things than little Johnny seeing tits online. Besides the fact that parents are perfectly capable of censoring what their children see online.
Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act
barf
Free porn sites still open.
Q, they are saying you are outside the mainstream.
I think they just told us what they search for on PornHub.
No, that’s the Boors Against Recorded Fucking bill.
Also, Lee (and Paul) were pretty much silent on the Yemen War defunding amendment. Fucking disappointing to say the least.
that parents are perfectly capable
Parents may be capable, but they don’t want to have to actually be parents – let’s just outsource that to the govt.
“Why shouldn’t we require it online?”
Because of the risk of identity theft, and a ton of other privacy issues.
Also, where are the parents?
It is weird we have age controls for gambling and alcohol sites but not for this. I mean even in a gas station the naughty magazines are wrapped away (for the children?) but type on a keyboard and they can see everything.
If you’re going to succeed in Utah politics, you need to show you are a Mormon first, and a party member second. (See Romney, Mitt) Lee is likely just shoring up his bona-fides here with some theatrical legislation that either won’t go anywhere, or won’t change anything.
Today I haz a sad. 🙁
1) Mark Steyn is in poor health after 2 heart attacks
2) My conference in Vegas today got cancelled at the last minute
3) haven’t seen my BFF in over a year
4) Husband is ill (at least I think so)
5) Still have to deal with car accident fallout
On the amusing side, my 9lb “kitten” hooked a claw into my wrist while falling off the desk and made a deep puncture wound and jagged cut in his wake. Actually had to use the styptic pencil and a bandaid. Little jerk. But cute; that’s how they get away with it.
I do get to see my bestie in about a month, so that’s cool too. Would like to lose some weight before then, but holiday food…
Sorry 🙁
Liz Cheney says Trump “is unfit for any office.”
Liz, on the other hand, is being fitted for a spacious and well lit office on K Street at this very moment.
“Well Liz, I have several spectacular offices in many, many wonderful cities around the country. Amazing offices, really. Some people say they are the best offices—the best— they have ever been in. So true, so true.”
Things I can’t say, but so want to part [Index out of Bounds Error] –
It’s in the damn email chain you’re responding to – there’s no excuse for mixing up what request we’re talking about. And no, no build request I’ve sent in has been missing the network diagram. And no, [Redacted] cannot help me fill in the network flows because A: there is nothing wrong with the request, and B: the request is not related to his work at all. This is not the one for his dev boxes, this is just a request for one database related to [Big Project] not the reverse proxies for [Little Project].
/rant off
Depending how your interviews went, I think you should send that email.
I’m not that confident.
Sounds like you need to send a similar email regardless.
He won’t read it.
He didn’t read the subsequent emails and is asking me to send a statement equivalent to one that has already been sent.
The Rules-Based Order has lost its damned mind.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/12/11/pentagon-gives-tacit-support-for-ukrainian-drone-attacks-deep-inside-russia/
Keep poking the bear.
What are they going to do….attack cities and civilians? Oh, wait…
Meanwhile the Euros are looking for a way out of this mess.
https://www.news18.com/videos/world/poland-blocks-ukraine-aid-after-hungary-clears-the-way-european-union-russia-ukraine-war-6624571.html
I have mad respect for Poland.
Oh! All they are doing is making retaliatory conventional missile strikes on civilian targets? Well, carry on! Collateral damage and all that.
Well, it is a war. I have zero problem with attacks on military targets inside Russia. Retaliatory strikes on civilian targets are little more of a problem, but given the way wars have been fought since WWII, I have hard time saying its out of bounds for the Ukes to do it.
So the Ukrainians are NATO-trained, NATO-armed, NATO-funded, given NATO intelligence, and they’re given the greenlight to attack inside Russia.
At some point, the Russians will respond in kind to NATO and the proxy war will cease to be proxy.
It is funny that when the USSR engaged in similar arming/training of forces the US military and NATO ended up facing back during the Cold War we didn’t nuke their asses or even threaten to do so. Note that the USSR didn’t even go there when we were helping their enemies in Afghanistan and we turned a blind eye to them and the CCP returning the favor after 9-11.But for some reason today a desperate asshat is threatening nuclear war because someone is arming the proxies their at war with.
There are no good guys in this fight. I hope both the Russians and the Ukraine end up losing. NATO may not be the good guys either, and while I would have preferred they had avoided this idiocy, it is on the idiot that sent troops into his neighboring country.
The Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed US defense officials.
Our national security depends on transparency, not unnamed sources.
I need to see their tax returns.
On Sunday, Hikaru Nakamura defeated Magnus Carlsen in the Speed Chess Championship (Format: 90 minutes of 5+1, 60 minutes of 3+1, 30 minutes of 1+1. X+Y means X minutes on clock plus Y seconds added after each move).
He reviews his games here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaEmwFgK_cA&t=447s
At about the 12 minute mark, his comment is “Apparently, I am just a bad chess player.”
Umm…yeah.
This was the 6th year for this tournament. Carlsen one the first and Nakamura has won the last 5. Carlsen is the best player in the world and maybe the GOAT, but Nakamura is slightly better at speed chess.
What about boxing?
The big chess boxing event was about a week ago.
To help protect America’s youth from the dangers of pornography, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bill on Dec. 13 that would require all pornographic websites to use an age-verification tool to prevent kids under the age of 18 from accessing porn online.
What we need is a digital national ID based on your social security number and your phone number.
The Reps are just straight up dumbasses. Eat a dick you Puritan fuck.
I suppose it depends on the meaning of the phrase ‘Puritan fuck’. The implication of the term is that simply questioning whether easy access to all manner of weird ass porn is a good thing for a developing humans makes you some how un-cool. Libertine vs libertarian if you will.
If one takes it’s meaning to be that the state has no business bringing its guns and threats of violence into the question, I think we’re on solid ground and in agreement.
Voicing a position that it is legitimately within the states authority to require this sort of thing deserves being called out.
Voicing a position that exposing young kids to all manner of porn might not be a great idea for their healthy development does not deserve the derision that often gets heaped on such a concern.
It’s the moralizing and the either ignorance or willful ignorance of the fact that a digital ID requirement for accessing a whole category of websites won’t be expanded upon and all shielded in the “it’s for the children” nonsense. If they get the camel’s nose under the tent on this one it will not be a good thing.
But I also get where you’re coming from and kids shouldn’t be exposed to that stuff. Let the parents handle it.
I agree about the digital ID requirement being expanded, camels nose, etc. Those are all legitimate (IMO) concerns and I don’t support this bill or any like it.
What I object to is when we (the generic libertarian we that is) feel the need to throw in ‘moralizing’ as if that’s a bad thing and expressing concern about a 10 year old male seeing a woman choked out while her asshole is prolapsed makes one a Puritan or a prude, not sophisticated like those of us who embrace our sexuality. It’s the equivalent of the “it’s for the children – and you don’t hate children do you?” trope.
I guess we know what’s in your browser history now.
Eeew!
Don’t be silly, he’s the Cameraman.
It was purely research!
Plus, with Pat’s help, my browser history is clear.
he’s the Cameraman.
It’s the smell that gets you.
Show me some ankle, Goody.
What we need is a digital national ID based on your
social security number and your phone number.DNA sequence.“DNA is Transphobic!” – Prog
-18F air temp. -44F windchill. Days like this I think about moving one or two states farther south.
South South Dakota?
At least.
Can you keep smoking ribs at that temp? Or does all outdoor activities cease?
I tried grilling a steak (Aldi had nice ribeye roasts on sale for $8 per lb.!) and several bratwurst this past weekend. My propane tank froze up and wouldn’t allow full gas flow.
I finished cooking it in cast iron with butter and olive oil, some smashed garlic, and fresh thyme. It was really tasty.
Yes, propane definitely stops flowing well once you get close to 0. I would think the amount of charcoal to slow cook or smoke would be really high too. You’d have to overcome a huge temperature difference to maintain heat. It would be depressing.
I have a Traeger. I did some steaks the other night, they were warmer than the grill at the start. But the grill got up to T just fine. It was about 20F at the time, quite different from -20F.
I know most instructions say to warm up the grill before putting the meat on, but I do reverse sear, so like the steaks to smoke on the top shelf while the grill is heating up anyway.
Yeah, come to think of it, it was below zero the other day when I did my 3-2-1 ribs and everything went well. Dropped from around 0 to -8 by the time I was done. Had it in the icehouse to keep the wind off it. And the thermal cover must help a lot, too.
Try a bigger propane tank. You may still have issues with the regulator freezing up though.
I always wanted to try wrapping it like a pipe. Maybe add in a battery powered thermal heater strip.
You can put heat to the regulator to prevent freeze up, just be careful as consumer grade propane regulators aren’t always that tolerant.
The simplest solution for the tank is just to get a bigger one. The bigger the tank, the greater the available propane flow without icing up (scaled to outside temperatures of course).
They make little propane tank blankets for ice fishing. That’ll help some.
I’m going to smoke some burgers tomorrow. The smoker is still in the ice house. I may hook up the ice house heater to give it a little help. The smoker also has a thermal blanket on it, so I don’t think I’ll burn through too may extra pellets. We’ll see.
We are having the same in CO in the next two days, so, a few states south might not even help (and yes, that is also one step west).
Two days.
Then low 50s on Christmas. Not comparable.
He didnt say how long his was going to last.
Plus, I figure if you choose to live in ND, you are used to it.
We’re supposed to eek past 0 on Sunday. Up to +19F on Tuesday. Yes, we’re used to it, but that doesn’t mean it feel like anything other than brutally cold.
Also, it’s something to bitch about.
Well, it’s only 19F here, so you’ll have to move farther south to get any relief.
+19F is almost 40 degrees warmer. That’s quite a lot of relief.
It’s 50 here, come on down!
It was 19F in SC yesterday morning, Christmas Eve is supposed to be 16F. I thought I had left this stuff behind.
The lowest it got while I was in SC was 28. I think we dropped below freezing 4 nights across 2 winters. Of course, I was pretty much right on the coast, the further you go inland, the colder it got. The western part I am sure had plenty of freezing days.
Winter appears to be a real thing here in the Upstate. Not like what the maniacs get in the upper midwest, but cold and damp.
-26 here at the moment, weather app says “feels like” -39. No wind to speak of, so not sure what that means.
It’s in “fucking cold” territory. That’s all. But it’s to be expected.
There should be only One Dakota.
If anyone thought the GOP would seek to tame the Biden administration’s warmongering…
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/12/19/house-republicans-to-pressure-biden-on-china-with-new-panel/
Pretty sure nobody here thought that.
[Team America Matt Damon voice] LIZ CHENEY [/TAMDv]
Left-wing attorney Marc Elias, however, noted that the judge dismissed eight of Lake’s ten claims and limited the remaining two allegations to “intentional misconduct,” meaning she must prove that printer malfunctions were intentional and affected the outcome of the contest. She must also demonstrate the faults in the ballot chain of custody were intentional and also impacted the final result.
If she has to prove intent… that’s going to be a problem.
A U.S. appeals court on Monday said the White House could not require federal contractors to ensure that their workers are vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of government contracts.
Good.
And that’s not how the law is written. Intent is not a requirement.
Any bureaucratic function would require showing willful intent, not simple incompetence – to protect the bureaucrats.
Hillary Clinton disagrees.
I installed Pi-hole on the home network last night. I’m unreasonably proud for having really just followed basic instructions. Created a new VM on the home VM server, installed Alma Linux (my day job is all RedHat so I’m more comfortable there than Debian), ran Pi-hole installation script, updated DHCP server config to point DNS to new VM, and bango: this morning’s Quordle and Waffle were blessedly ad-free.
Yet to be seen: if my wife will find something to be “broken” in her online experience.
“I’m not getting the ads I like anymore”
😛
My wife complains every time she hits a ‘sponsored’ link and it doesn’t work. I may whitelist her phone.
“I installed Pi-hole on the home network last night”
These euphemisms are getting too technical.
-18F air temp. -44F windchill. Days like this I think about moving one or two states farther south.
Last couple of days were sunny and calm, mid-20s. I can live with that.
Yeah, where I live which is several states south of Mike S., windchills will be -45 Wednesday.
Calm being the key.
Collective guilt is the best kind of guilt
The House Jan. 6 committee held its final public meeting on Monday, capping off months of investigative work and public presentations on the makings of the 2021 insurrection. Reflecting back on the past year and a half, the committee did one thing superbly well: It was successful in its comprehensive demonstration of former President Donald Trump’s intentions and culpability for the insurrection.
The committee made a compelling case that Trump was not a deluded actor who haphazardly encouraged an unpredictable mob to march up to the U.S. Capitol, where things got out of hand. Instead, the evidence shows he deliberately spread disinformation and summoned an armed and partially organized militia to try to seize control of the government. The case was made so thoroughly that the committee’s four criminal referrals against Trump only seem prudent.
But the committee’s success in nailing Trump’s role was also accompanied by a failure, or at least a missed opportunity.
The House committee was right to focus on Trump’s role as the kingpin on Jan. 6, and was also right to make criminal referrals against a handful of his top henchmen, like his final chief of staff Mark Meadows and his lawyer John Eastman. But Trump and a few of his most loyal friends weren’t the only people trying to ensure he stayed in power. Much of the GOP was cheering Trump and his movement on — and actively participated in trying to help him pull off a coup.
The laser focus on Trump obscured the complicity of the GOP party establishment in the event. That in turn will narrow the public’s historical understanding of the radical nature of today’s Republican Party as a whole. It could also weaken the kind of vigilance needed to guard against other right-wing authoritarian politicians in the future.
Armed? Oh, that’s right; 97.2% of the J6 charges involved weapons violations. Every emergency room in a fifty mile radius was stacked full of dead and dying policemen.
Obviously the only reasonable remedy to this political crisis is to outlaw the Republican party and arrest all members. Otherwise the nation will slide into authoritarianism and decay.
Not one word of that is true. It is amazing.
They don’t even try to hide the fact that they are Democrat propagandists.
But over the longer run, it would be tragic if this results in the GOP getting off more lightly in our analyses of this historical moment. Guarding against future authoritarian politicians on the right requires understanding that Trump wasn’t at odds with his party — he was working in concert with it. On the right there’s a systemic receptivity to authoritarianism, and it won’t end with Trump.
Right wing authoritarianism can only be stopped by left wing authoritarianism.
Lock them up.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/dec/20/trump-tax-returns-vote-house-jan-6-us-politics-live
House panel prepares to share Trump tax secrets
If Monday was a day of reckoning for Donald Trump in Congress, Tuesday is likely to be another when a House committee meets this afternoon to vote on whether to release six years of his tax returns to the public.
A Supreme Court ruling last month cleared the treasury department to hand the documents to the ways and means committee, ending a three-year fight by the former president to shield many of his closest financial secrets.
More horseshit from the lame ducks.
So the House has the authority to look at individual tax returns in order to maintain oversight over the tax system. Thus, they can look at the former president’s tax returns against his will. And somehow, this authority allows the house to release these private tax records to the public, because . . . . . FTYW.
Pretty sure that is illegal but yeah, FYTW.
illegal
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Pretty sure that is illegal but yeah, FYTW.
If the
PresidentCongress does it, it’s not illegal.Kid: Santa, what’s the story of your reindeer names?
Santa: Why I name them after memories, like Prancer frolicking through the snow!
Kid: What about Donner?
Santa gets an ominous look on his face and says. “The year was 1847, snowfall had trapped us in the Sierra Nevada…”
LOL!
Kid: What about Blitzen?
Santa: Well, it was 1939, we were running late over Poland…
Bad riddle on the board at my daughter’s music school:
Which of Santa’s reindeer is best at football?
Elway?
He’s a horse-faced drunk, not a reindeer-faced drunk.