Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
FAA system failure causes widespread flight cancelations
Fresh cyclone to hit California after historic storms kill at least 17
Pentagon Officially Overturns Military Vaccine Mandate
Biological males blocked from competing in women’s school sports in West Virginia: federal court
House Creates Church-Style Panel on ‘Weaponization of the Federal Government’
House Republican files articles of impeachment against DHS Sec. Mayorkas
Bed Bath & Beyond lays off more employees as it struggles to survive
Massive Government Spending Will Exacerbate 2023 Economic Downturn: Analyst
IRS sent out 12 million refunds after making corrections to 2020 taxes
Biden admin moves to ban gas stoves in war against fossil fuels
Andrew Tate to remain in Romanian jail after losing appeal
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The front page image looks Lovecraftian, the way it’s cropped.
It’s an armadillo gunslinger.
Yup, but took me a bit.
Yeehaw
Armadillos really ought to consider abdominal carry
Thanks for the links, tho!
Some good news in there, for a change. Hopefully Ozy is getting some kudos.
You tell them, and tell them…
The right to keep and bear armadillos shall not be infringed.
Armedadillo
OBE better step it up and fix that shit.
Pretty sure it’s his fault to begin with
So the question is whether the pullback of the vaccine mandate is an attempt to remove standing from all the lawsuits.
The damage is already done.
Didn’t the NDAA require rescinding the mandate which the DOD reluctantly complied?
Yes, and I recall Ozy said it didn’t fix all of the issues and the lawsuits were still going forward. The implementing memo seems to address discipline but there’s enough qualifiers on it that I’m not sure something isn’t getting left out.
Is there anyone in Congress who should be on an intelligence committee?
We can rule out the low hanging fruit like people sleeping with spies.
…..and threatening to use nuclear weaponry on their constituents.
No he threatened other congressmens constituents
Guess whether I have pants on and what kind of day it is.
‘No’ and ‘baitin day?
Good luck with your fishing? Whatcha using? Minnows, shiners, leeches, worms?
You’re not my supervisor!
For you, it’s Last Day.
Pro-life pregnancy center hires private investigators to look into attack, blasts FBI: ‘Where’s the manhunt?’
No need for a manhunt when they probably already know the perpetrators.
At least Ohio has declared natural gas as green energy. So we aren’t using fossil fuels to power our stoves, furnace, and hot water heaters, but clean green energy.
Yeah, but childhood asthma!
hot plates are safer than gas
That’s infuriating.
Meh, would’ve rather seen Massie than Jordan in charge.
Agreed, but it’s still a massive upgrade.
AIEEEE!
SidebarsidebarSIDEBAR!
Slimming!
Meh, use a phone, run out of screen space. What did you expect?
Relax…I fixed it.
Well no wonder NYC is complaining about the impact of being a sanctuary city. Only the luckiest of immigrants should be enjoying that!
Why not $800 or $900. It’s not like anyone’s keeping track.
They should get tickets to Broadway shows while they’re at it… I hear Broadway is hurting, might as well have the rest of the state / country subsidize them while they’re at it. (Hell, that’s probably somewhere in the screw-you-omnibus already…)
Now I am picturing a bunch of Guatemalans’ who came up here to work, being told “you job is to sit here and watch a revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. AND LIKE IT!”
Hopefully someone will file a FOIA request to get that info. Then we can enjoy the FYTW comedy of “it will take us years to compile that data and we’ll charge you $100 per page.”
‘Orning ‘ordles — decent for me, low bar for the rest of you snazzy wordsmiths to clear.
Daily Duotrigordle #315
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 06:40.22
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Huzzah.
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Line.
For years, every time I went into a Bed Bath and Beyond, I’d ask myself, “How are these people still in business?” Kohl’s is another one.
Cheap money, I guess.
I wonder how many stores like this are going to dry up and blow away.
Fuck Kohl’s.
I stopped going there when they were selling BLM stuff.
Got the cutest ever sofa blanket there; the pattern is dogs in Halloween costumes. Don’t go often enough to have noticed BLM merch.
I don’t know if they quietly stopped or what. I just know I stopped giving them money.
I think BB&B lives almost entirely off of shower registries: wedding showers, engagement parties, baby showers etc. That, and I guess rich older people that dont know how to use the internet to get the same thing for half the price.
Heh. Used to love that place before I figured out Amazon.
Kohls is a convenient spot for Amazon returns though.
Our local Kohls is no longer listed as an Amazon return location.
Sad!
That’s about the only reason I’ve gone into one in the past several years.
I meant BB&B. Never been to a Kohl’s. I guess there is one a long drive away but the UPS store is like a ten-minute walk so I will do that for returns (I have a couple right now as a matter of fact).
There are a lot of stores where I marvel at the fact there is an entire building filled with things I have no interest in buying. To each their own. I can’t believe Kohl’s is still alive while Shopko is a corpse.
There are stores that sell nothing but bobbleheads. How can they afford rent and employees?
The FAA on Wednesday morning delays the departure of all domestic flights until 9 a.m. as a result of a system failure.
The computer problem was first reported at about 6 a.m. ET.
Is this one of those cyber-hacks that
Dr. EvilKlaus Schwab was talking about?Too bad for Schwabby that he didn’t realize that Scorpion would just download an uncorrupted version of the ATC software from a plane with a cat5 cable.
I still can’t believe CBS canceled Scorpion!
Well, he never did catch Spider-Man, and he eventually went rogue and became a villain. And it wasn’t CBS, it was JJJ.
What’s CBS?
It’s what old people watch after they come home from shopping at Kohl’s and Bed Bath and Beyond.
“ALL US flights are grounded until at least 9am EST after FAA system FAILS: White House says ‘no evidence of cyberattack’ behind computer failure that has left thousands stranded in airports”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11622941/Hundreds-flights-grounded-leaving-passengers-stranded-FAA-systems-outage.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11623251/FAA-outage-LIVE-flights-canceled-NOTAM-failure.html
Funny, I would’ve thought the White House would want to blame evil white redneck cyber terrorists. Because the alternative is, this is just our standard govt screw-up.
I would be willing to wager that it’s a self-inflicted outage. But that would require them to own up to that.
I’m Buttigug will get right on it.
A major cyclone is set to hit the US state of California with up to seven inches (18 centimeters) of rain on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said, after tens of thousands of people were placed under evacuation orders due to a barrage of storms that killed at least 17 people.
It’s going to rain.Significant rain.Atmospheric river.Bomb cyclone.Surfs up on the LA River.
Pertinent.
The Los Angeles basin is a flood plain. Before channelization the rivers would overflow their banks flooding wide areas.
I was expecting Snake.
They had bomb cyclone jealousy? [Since that’s what the local weatherfolk call a winter Nor’easter]
A major cyclone is set to hit the US state of California with up to seven inches (18 centimeters) of rain on Wednesday,
Two things: one, no one needs 7 inches, 5 is plenty. Two, I find the centimeters strange, here rain is given in millimeters not centimeters.
Probably because 7 inches of rain is a massive amount, so they switched over the CM. Millimeters would probably suffice in most normal rainfall totals.
At least southern California is safe.
I knew that was coming
Biological males blocked from competing in women’s school sports in West Virginia: federal court
Either ban trannies from women’s sports or ban women’s sports.
I favor completely open competitions.
Same, we’re all equal, right?
Let’s play that out to the 9’s.
Dana White had nothing to apologize for, that was just self defense.
A federal judge in West Virginia has upheld a state law preventing male athletes who identify as female from participating in female school sports.
JuDiCiAl AcTiViSm! – the left
I suspect that the woke 4th Circuit will overturn that.
“The fact is, however, that a transgender girl is biologically male and, barring medical intervention, would undergo male puberty like other biological males. And biological males generally outperform females athletically. The state is permitted to legislate sports rules on this basis because sex, and the physical characteristics that flow from it, are substantially related to athletic performance and fairness in sports,” Goodwin ruled.
You mean, the reason we have sex segregated sports in the first place is the reason why we should keep sports segregated based on sex.
Or, you know, just hear me out here…
IT’S NOT THE FED’S BUSINESS
Next up, declare your weight class.
FAT-PHOBIC!
HeaLTHy aT aNy SiZe!
Future ‘competition’
Rolling for Prizes. It’s no longer necessary to imagine a spherical contestant.
House Creates Church-Style Panel on ‘Weaponization of the Federal Government’
Republicans are always threatening the selfless civil servants in the government.
Pray we don’t alter it further.
Helping
Ukrainian troops are set to begin training on the Patriot missile system in the United States as soon as next week, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday.
The training program will take place at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, where the US conducts its own training on operating and maintaining the advanced air defense system. Fort Sill is one of the Army’s four basic training locations and home to the service’s field artillery school, which has been training service members for more than a century.
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During the war the US has trained Ukrainian troops in Europe, but the decision to conduct patriot training on American soil could increase tensions with Moscow further as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has constantly warned western nations against further involvement in the war.
The training process and eventual deployment of the defensive weapons system, which had long been requested by Kyiv, will take months and won’t impact the course of the war in the short-term though once it’s completed it should provide better protection against Russian missile attacks that have devastated the country’s infrastructure.
On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters that 90 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers would be arriving in Oklahoma for the Patriot training as soon as next week. He was unable to give an exact time frame for how long the training would take – typically it takes up to a year for US soldiers to be trained on it – saying only that it would last “several months.”
I guess we’ve settled in for the long haul.
How common is familiarity the english language in Ukraine? On the other hand, we don’t demand a high level of proficiency of our own soldiers.
s/b familiarity with
Blog commenters not too proficient either.
*memories of a Puerto Rican sgt talking in heavily accented English about going through airborne school without understanding what was being said*
How long before the Ukrainians are shooting down Russian planes in Russia with these missiles. Wasn’t the Patriot a anti Aircraft missile battery, but with enough range and accuracy to take down ballistic missiles like Skuds? These are long range missiles that were intended to shoot down high altitude fighters and bombers.
It had a range of 70 km (43 mi), and a speed in excess of Mach 2
Slightly related, but I seem to remember that in the wake of the Boston marathon bombing, it was revealed that Russian intelligence had warned US agencies about the Tsarnaev brothers because they were Chechen extremists. Obviously the feds did nothing about it, but that seems like a real bro thing to do. Meanwhile, America is still pretending we’re in the Cold War.
They helped with the terrorism bullshit a lot despite Iraq.
I think it was a real bro thing to do to tell us not to go sticking our dick into Iraq. Or Libya. Or Syria, frankly.
Russia effectively torpedoed the US efforts in Syria for yet another “color revolution” or “Arab Spring” or whatever the CIA was calling them at that point.
I think that was what tipped the scales in favor of helping/staging a coup in Ukraine. The neocons were pissed that the Russians had started cock-blocking them. The Russians appear to have adopted that stance after Clinton flat-out lied to Medvedev about our intentions for Libya. it was just going to be a no-fly zone, and then we basically blew up the country and threw it into years of civil war.
Well, we are now….
Daily Ray of Sunshine
She must like dogs
Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, said in a statement Tuesday that the decision to train Ukrainian servicemen on the system in the US is a confirmation of Washington’s “de facto involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.”
But we have a gentlemen’s agreement, right? Only the dogs in the pit are allowed to get hurt.
Bed Bath & Beyond lays off more employees as it struggles to survive
Pretty soon they will have to close the beyond section.
The Viking woman who sailed to America and walked to Rome
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/gudrid-far-traveled-viking-woman/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
But did she rape and pillage with the boys?
SNU SNU
That would make her the first colonizer. Proof positive that women are to blame for the rape of the new world.
Hold on a minute Cochise!
Are we forgetting the real greatest female explorer? Especially galling considering that they are trying to dump her for a fucking colonizer!
Reminds me of an episode of Two and a Half Men, when Jake’s dad is reviewing a poor history test:
“Sacajawea is NOT a “bag of Jawea””
So Gudrid is Norse for Mary Sue.
Mary Suedottir.
A viking named Sue?
Too bad Johnny cash isn’t with us anymore.
🎵 Rapin’ Rapin’ with the Boys! 🎵
Massive Government Spending Will Exacerbate 2023 Economic Downturn
Duh.
Biden admin moves to ban gas stoves in war against fossil fuels
They want you destitute and starving.
Or, this is the distraction and they’re doing something they really don’t want us paying attention to.
[I’d like to think that’s really just paranoid, but I’m not sure it is.]
You’re not paranoid.
Why not both?
Pro-life pregnancy center hires private investigators to look into attack, blasts FBI: ‘Where’s the manhunt?’
You have the “wrong” politics.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmHr1V9WYAcyoVV?format=jpg&name=small
POCs can only learn from POCs.
The Environment Agency — Britain’s version of the EPA — funded research that concluded that white, male narrators on nature programs could make minorities feel excluded.
“The tendency for environmental documentaries to be voiced by white, male voices was given as an example of how the environment and the sector can feel inaccessible to people from ethnic minorities,” The Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES) claimed in a Feb. 2022 study.
The study focused on “ethnic minority environmental professionals” in a “challenging environment.”
For our next study, we will crawl even further up our own buttholes.
So, if you are “excluded” by voices other than your own race and sex, then having POCs as “voices” excludes a far greater portion of the population. So logically shouldn’t we want to exclude as few people as possible, and emphasize white voices, to actually be inclusive?
RACIST!
All of these narrators are off screen and speak in Received English. So, in other words, there is no way to tell what skin color they are.
JHTFC
Andrew Tate to remain in Romanian jail after losing appeal – Based on the local press, I am not sure what the case is against him. All that was released was a few lines of alleged discussion between him and some chick. His lawyers say they did not receive full access to the prosecution evidence yet and that the accusers are already opt of the country. I tend to think that Tate definitely did something illegal – I mean he would not have been in Romania otherwise, but what and how bad and what evidence is a mystery.
Damn, Banjos. Great job on the links.
But it makes it painfully clear that we’re living in clown world.
Bloody Mary, anyone?!?
Two. Keep ’em coming.
+1 Zing Zang
Bloody Mary Sue, it looks like.
France’s health system under pressure of increasing demands
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64216269
After years of Covid, and with inflation biting, many say chronic staff shortages and increasing demands are making their work impossible and threatening the French health system.
Some hospitals are reporting up to 90% of their staff on “sick leave protest” at the conditions.
And France’s second-largest health union has called an “unlimited walkout” this week, following a fortnight of strikes by French GPs.
The causes of France’s healthcare crisis are complex, but the long-term pressure of an aging population alongside a shortage of medical staff was brought starkly into focus by the Covid pandemic.
Most people including in Romania do not realize how collapsed western Europe systems would be right now without the massive influx of eastern doctors and nurses who worked for less money and longer hours. They all say why isn’t the Romanian government making a good healthcare system like France. Although where the resources for that would come i don’t know. Off course the local system would be better without corruption, but that is like saying if disease did not exist.
Julia Venturini, eight years into her medical degree, joined a rally of GPs in Paris last week. – seems long, here a medical degree is 6 years
Maybe she’s a bad student?
A French labor protest? Unheard of!
The reasons for the “crisis” aren’t complex, in fact they are really simple; trying to more with less. There is a reason health care is so expensive in the US, even with all the gov’t BS. And when you start stripping away all the doctors in nurses from emerging nations, which is what most western nations due, it is still freakin’ pricy and you are fucking over the rest of the world.
She persists.
Abrams, who lost the gubernatorial race to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp twice, said she was planning on launching another bid.
“So what’s next, are you gonna run again?” Barrymore asked. “Are you going? Do we get to look forward to this and galvanize again?”
“I will likely run again,” Abrams said.
“Yes!” Barrymore gushed as the audience cheered.
Third time’s the charm, right?
As long as the grift is still working, may as well keep it going.
Georgia doesn’t have term limits?
Harold Stassen and Pat Paulson hit hardest.
Another one
Shortly after an article this week quoted a member of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission saying the agency was considering a ban on gas stoves, GOP lawmakers seized on the remarks by arguing President Joe Biden and government bureaucrats were reaching into America’s kitchens and trying to dictate meal prep.
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But it turns out much of the rhetoric may have been overheated.
Using our own words against us is not fair. We won’t be sending stormtroopers into your neighborhood to confiscate your stove. Not yet, anyway.
This story is radioactive.
A major counter-terrorism investigation has been launched after several kilograms of uranium was seized at Heathrow airport.
The deadly nuclear material – which could potentially be used in a ‘dirty bomb’ – arrived on a flight from Oman, in the Middle East, on December 29.
The shipment was addressed to an Iranian-linked firm in the UK, it is understood.
Sources said the uranium was ‘not weapons-grade’ – and so could not be used to manufacture a thermo-nuclear weapon.
So dangerous it wasn’t even shipped as a hazardous material?
Really, the Omani’s should have slapped an ORMD sticker on the side of the box. I mean, what were they thinking?
Love the way they try to minimize a shipment of several kilos of uranium to England for what is very likely an Islamist terror attack. I posit that the term uranium refers to uranium refined to some level, and not uranium ore, which makes it quite suitable for a very large dirty bomb.
Islamic terrorism is out of fashion, even with the neocons, I guess. A dirty bomb was like the ultimate threat we were all warned about.
Unless they try to tie it back to the Russians somehow. I mean, would you put that past our leadership?
And there was one, if not two terror attacks just recently. So, these chumps are starting up again.
The Chicago cop who was attacked by an ax-wielding man – never saw a follow-up on that. But if the perp was named Muhammed, it wouldn’t really surprise me based on what we see of him in the video. The one in NYC.
The rest of you posers better recognize! Minneapolis once again leads the way
That’s right Autistic AND Trans! What more could a voter ask for?
I think you will have to agree that the taxpayers are getting their money’s worth:
Pope J, you night like to check out this home page. Scroll down to the “viral” category. It might make your self-chosen job ‘easier
Not easy to be a First, you say…?
“Its first Native American director, Peggy Flanagan, is now Minnesota’s lieutenant governor.”
Irish are native to America?
A lot of us are. I mean the famine was before the civil war.
+ Irish Brigades
But when do we get our first Asian Pacific/Bulgarian mongoloid director?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
“Its first Native American director, Peggy Flanagan, is now Minnesota’s lieutenant governor.”
We welcome Big Chief Paddy O’Furniture!
She doesn’t look quite as lily white as Fauxcahontas, but you’d never look at her and even wonder if she had appreciable Native American ancestry. Unlike my CNO, who has Native American ancestry and absolutely looks the part.
So, I have to wonder if she’s another scammer.
We had someone in our dog group out in San Diego who had no known NA ancestry, but she looked like she did. She moved to somewhere in New England, coincidentally near a tribal casino and everyone there asked her about the tribe. Even she admitted she looked like she belonged. Go figure.
A guy I knew in Dallas adopted a couple of, I think, Laotian kids (it’s been awhile). To look at them, you’d think “pure-blood Apache, not a drop of anything else.” So it happens, but I’m still suspicious of anyone promoting their supposed NA ancestry who looks white as can be.
Nope. She’s legit Ojibwe. Member of White Earth tribe (where I grew up). Her father was Indian and he left her to be raised by her mother in a suburb (same suburb as Frankin and Friedman). So she never grew up on the res. She’s a classic person who has legit dna to claim she’s Indian, but no cultural claim. (Although, I’m sure she’d claim she’s as red as anyone).
She’s always been a classic proggie and her ancestry has helped her climb the greasy pole of politics.
It’s 2023 Neil. Even Fauci doesn’t argue this anymore.
I suppose by killing the recipient, you prevent future transmission by that person.
Well, we took cues from the ChiComs early on, why not from the Norks now?
I feel excluded from anything he has to say, because he is a different race than me.
To be fair, I don’t think anyone can actually articulate what the vaccine is supposedly supposed to do at this stage. I don’t know what the current talking point is besides that you should take it.
It’s supposed to be a sacrament to the faithful, and provide a steady flow of money to the pharmaceutical companies from the federal government.
I know this is anecdotal, but I know plenty of people who are done with the vax because it didn’t prevent them from getting sick, and it didn’t prevent them from getting really sick. One of my friends is all boosted, but has had COVID three times and all three times it was terrible. He’s done with the vax. At this point, they can’t keep up with the variants. I can’t think of a good argument for it either.
PROFIT damn you, PROFIT!
This is incorrect. Please repeat after me: “I have tested positive for covid-19. I am grateful that I have been vaccinated and double-boosted as I know that otherwise I would have been much sicker.”
Alternative take: at some point, the uniparty is going to shift, and publicly announce that “Trump’s vaccine is worthless and yet another fraud perpetrated by the ex-president. We are currently considering indicting him for fraud and manslaughter.”
Alternative take requires too many of them to admit they were wrong, and a party to it all. Alternate timeline, maybe.
I remember when the usual suspects wouldn’t take the vaccine because it was Trump’s poison.
I remember when those usual suspects then switched on a dime to “vax up bigots or else!”.
Shorter Neil: TRUST THE SYSTEM
Why wouldn’t he say that? The system made him, a blithering idiot, into a famous man.
Apparently Apple+ is making a play for The Expanse. I guess I need to get the series on physical media.
Oh good, before you wrote that, I was wondering how they were going to convert that for the stage.
Well, they used roller skates to simulate trains, so maybe trampolines for the zero-acceleration scenes?
If I had to see this
https://twitter.com/tribe_zero/status/1612170271233810432
Uh.
I think that society requires that I not notice that this is a severely mentally ill person. Skip the whole trans thing entirely. Just… wow.
Are we really doing a professional job in the mental health industry if this is where life altering surgery lands? Because I would think there might be a few indications that something more is going on here.
Autistic people can do many things, but we can’t do many things. I can do 10 things, but only two of them today. The other eight I have to outsource, because I run out of processing power, because I get tired, because I need a lot of recovery. That’s hard to assess.
I am not qualified for this job, nor can I perform the duties required.
I hereby submit my resignation</strike Thanks, suckers!Pretend I closed that strike tag.
Are you telling UCS what to do?
Albania was the ONLY European country without a university pre-1944.
In 1957 the University of Tirana is officially established. Free higher education for all who desire.
https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1612965353117880320
Albania wasn’t all that independant prior to the 20th century, and isn’t that big. Plus 20th century academia is cancerous.
I hear the University of Tijuana has excellent schools of dance and animal husbandry.
Don’t forget their Alternative Theology programs.
What is the reason for this discrimination?
https://twitter.com/KarenAwards/status/1613107555668221953
This has got to be the single biggest meltdown I’ve ever seen over someone fishing
https://twitter.com/KarenAwards/status/1612863735940407298
fake?
An array is a matrix?
Someone smarter than me care to explain where she is going with that?
Well, if it isn’t fake, the complaining woman sounds incredibly like she stepped right out of a Monty Python sketch.
Hah! I was about to post the same comment.
There definitely was something with a “there’s a penguin on the telly” vibe to it going on there.
Burma!
Don’t tell her that fish eat other fish.
People need to be punched in the face more often.
Mike Tyson agrees
He’s going for ears now. You probably didn’t hear.
Is that a pepperpot from Monty Python?!
ah dammit you guys already said that
A sad story of a Karen getting their own way
https://twitter.com/KarenAwards/status/1612782606856359936
What is the official Glibertarian view on unwanted balls in your garden?
That is stunning.
I didn’t know that was an option.
We didn’t buy a beautiful house on a golf fairway precisely because of all the people in your back yard. It was just lovely, but when you were swimming there would be a parade of drunk sales executives who were former athletes walking by, perhaps coming into the yard looking for balls… blech
So we didn’t buy it.
How was I to know I could have bought it and had them bam golf?
Here it is the locals who bought a house next to the airport demanding more money to add noise proofing to their house. Every 10 years or so, they go back and demand more.
If I were on the board that had to respond to them, I’d hand them a cheap pair of earplugs. We’re done here.
/waits for the 3M level lawsuit
/plants suitcase bomb under plaintiffs bench
I believe there are two different rules in play here. If the ball drops in your yard out of the sky, then clearly it is a gift from the gods and shall be honored. However, if the ball simply rolls into your yard, you may claim property rights to it and insist on payment for returning it to the cricket players.
Her Wicked Garden?
Someone said I just had to watch the Golden Globes opening.
Apparently they hired a world renowned comedian. Kerrod Carmichael. I never heard of him.
For you uncultured masses who didn’t know there was another award show …. https://youtu.be/P9OwwVAaWFU
Two observations…. the laughter. I get that it is an uncomfortable setting, watching someone totally bomb. But come on, have a little pride. What are they laughing at.
Second… how does this cut for him? I would initially think it makes him unhireable. But…. antiracism might mean that this makes him a heroic figure.
So does he get work in the future?
I honestly had no idea the golden globes happened till this morning when I randomly saw a news item. Does anyone care for these things anymore? Besides the actors
NBC’s video of its supposed highlight has 50lk views about 12 hours later.
No. No one cares.
the video above is blocked to me
The girlfriend watched the whole damn award ceremony last night. Thankfully, she was kind enough to watch it downstairs. I still heard cheers and yelling at the screen.
I commented on that last night/early morning. People were actually trying to spin it as the guy was bold and brave. Showed Ricky Gervais how it was really done. They don’t seem to get that the idea of comedy is to be…comedic first just to start with.
Not only wasn’t he funny, but he didn’t say anything that would actually bother anyone in that crowd. None of those people see themselves as the problem. It’s all those other people in Hollywood. His message was tired and trite. He took zero risk here and he’ll be lauded and praised and fellated by the people who he is supposedly trying to criticize. Gervais legitimately made them uncomfortable by telling them the things they don’t want to hear and by speaking for the audience that had already stopped watching this bullshit.
Regardless, the entire notion that the Hollywood foreign press is racist because it lacks black people is so fucking stupid that it doesn’t even deserve to be commented on. But here I am talking about the Golden Globes in the first place so who I am to talk.
Yeah, that made me laugh. The German press should send black people. The reps from Sweden should be black. The Chinese press should be black….
I suppose the real problem is that there isn’t a large Hollywood press contingent from Africa.
About as large as the Hollywood contingent in Africa.
I tried to get box office numbers to go with that.
Box office MOJO will tell you the US total, worldwide totals, china…. but nothing specific to Africa.
Just a quick Google search says the film industry in Africa generates $5 billion or so annually. Don’t know how much of that is from Hollywood and I don’t care to.
The Hollywood foreign press is European and Asian. There are less than ten million black people in Europe. Even the “diverse” countries are like 90% white in general. It’s probably absurd to have 6 black reporters part of the group now based on demographics.
But it’s not really any more absurd than turning on the BBC and how much “diversity” you see on there.
I wonder how many black people in England aren’t actors.
Tokens must be OFFERED!
@RCD
I ran into one who worked at a Tesco. I’d been lost for two hours and decided to buy an atlas. She mumbled her question about whether I also wanted any petrol and mistook my “What?” (I couldn’t hear you) as a “What?” (I don’t know what Petrol means).
In fact it was This Tesco. I remember how straightforward the route to the hotel from there was once I had a map in front of me, so backtracking from the hotel to the gas station was just as easy.
(And the google street view still looks just the same as when I was there. I could point to where I parked the rental Skoda)
Utterly boring…
They just meant you should look over the next Q links.
Nice to hear about the military getting rid of the mandate. Not sure if Ozy is lurking today, but thank you for all your work with that.
No news on DOD civilian employees yet.
https://twitter.com/tribe_zero/status/1605720718464917506
??????
I’ll allow it.
David Cronenberg’s Galaxy of Flesh (1985)
https://twitter.com/keithscho/status/1612835517376364544
Pie’s obviously trying to warm us up for Sugarfree later today.
It was released under the title “Tusken Raiders Made From Hot Dogs”
Swimming slow butterfly by @maria.krivileva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgebT-qVvhI
“IT’S HAPPENED.
Oklahoma has introduced a bill that is effectively a de facto ban on ALL gender affirming care in the state. It bans all state and federal funding for any provider that performs gender affirming care is effectively a ban on all care.”
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1613012718931546113
“Update after a more thorough search query and parsing of the data.
75 anti-LGBTQ bills”
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1612938785251000320
This is the reaction to going after kids.
I could have SWORN that there were private, cash-only clinics in OK.
Paying your own way is oppression.
I have to wonder how many parents would sign on for hormone treatments and surgery for their little snookums if they had to pay full freight out of their own pocket. I believe the OK Commissioner of Insurance could also ban commercial insurers from paying for those “treatments”, as well.
That would be bad. If they can do it for things we don’t like, they can do it for things we do like.
I assume they already have the authority. It’s a question of how they use it. The insurance market is in no way a free market as things are. Without a structural reform that strips that power, I’m not sure using it for “stuff we like” is a bad thing. The power can already be abused, and are we really making that abuse more likely if we use the power for stuff we like?
We must destroy power or be destroyed by it.
Yeah, NY banned the NRA’s CCW insurance product, then used that as an excuse to disband them. The case is still pending.
Ultimately, sex change is some form of cosmetic surgery. People don’t need it to live, only because they think it will make them feel better than themselves. If they say they need it to feel okay with themselves, I think the same argument can be made by some women about boob surgeries, and by some men about dick lengthening. If they want to bring in the high rate of suicides among the trans, the stats show it doesn’t go down after successful sex changes. Unless I’m going out with her, I don’t want to pay for some woman’s boob job. I wouldn’t expect anyone to help foot the bill for a dick enlargening.
The general public shouldn’t have to pay more because of this. I think we all know that would wind up being the “consumer” in the end. I think the standard should be “is this coverage necessary for life? Is it needed for the person to function?
It’s more than purely cosmetic surgery. It permanently changes basic bodily functions and messes up your hormones. Unlike, say, a nose job.
This was the entire point.
Keep pushing more and more extreme stuff until you get an extreme reaction.
The playbook is becoming really obvious to me now. I never saw it when I was a teenager or in my 20s.
But as I got older, seeing things come around multiple times it became more obvious.
And finally, the mask is off.
Clearly they have become much more transparent and obvious in their game, but the public apathy tells me that some of the obviousness is that I am getting older and other people who are younger really can’t see it.
This should get a lot of play. They got exactly what they were hoping for. Let’s see if the media can make a national narrative out of it.
This is the start of the reaction to going after kids.
The backlash is going to go a lot further.
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I don’t see the Boats on that list.
Seems like a glaring omission.
Didn’t the UK also put a stop to hormones and surgery madness?
When you’ve lost the UK….
It’s complicated. So not entirely.
Good morning, Banjos!
So, a cyber attack then?
The same h4xx0rz that planted Trump’s classified documents in Biden’s office, no doubt.
Winner take all politics
Good morning, Chicago.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police.
Pritzker signed the bill just hours after House Democrats led final passage of the measure on a 68-41 vote, and a day after Senate Democrats approved it 34-20. Pritzker and legislators acted amid warnings from most Republicans and gun-rights advocates that the new law was unconstitutional and would face a legal challenge.
Compromise? Negotiation? Fuck those downstate chumps. Democracy means ramming our agenda right up their asses.
I would think any firearm is military style
Muskets were never used in warfare. It is known.
Seems to me that doing this immediately after a supreme court decision comes down that directly prohibits it should have tangible consequences for the legislators and governor that passed it.
How does it affect Smith & Wesson and other manufacturers still making “military style” firearms for civilians? They must have plans to move manufacturing and even the headquarters to a free state If required.
Finally, Chicago achieves utopia. I can’t wait to watch those murder numbers fall to zero.
The lido. Many summers ago.
https://twitter.com/YesterdaysBrit1/status/1613178749373104131
Fake news!
Where are all the fat people?
At the snack bar.
There Muslim terrorist? Oh…snack bar
Sorry Teds’
What the fuck did you do to the system?
You worked all weekend just to crash it?
Nearly all we have in terms of systems and services have multiple redundancy…so this one, which is maintained more “centerally” is a big blindspot as a single source failure for the entire nation.
That is insane.
Truly.
And inexcusable. Let me guess: no one gets fired.
I am looking through the logs and it is….interesting. All our equipment is accountable, we have QA/QC and this…this seems like little oversight.
I am sure thr FAA will sweep that under the rug.
It sucks cause my side of the house never makes the news, good or bad and we like that. This changes that
I don’t think Andrew Tate has lost his appeal, but that’s just me.
well there needs to be a trial first, and after the appeal
I now see the word appeal in the news item but I think is wrong… The lawyer contested the 30 day arrest warrant and a court rejected that but it was not an appeal per se.
>———- Joke ————>
Pie
I always found him kind of revolting myself.
https://twitter.com/Semiogogue/status/1612921966180040704
truly a dilemma for the times.
Also why the fuck does dilemma hat two m in it? makes no fucking sense.
Ask the Greeks. But two m’s makes sense in English too. Otherwise it would be pronounced diLEEMa which ain’t right.
The NOTAM system isn’t in our responsibility. Our ‘enterprise’ folks, or rather glorified IT handle that.
It going down causing a ground stop is…suspicious. Meaning a couple bodies on OT making calls and AT extra hands issuing the NOTAM would have kept planes flying
It going down causing a ground stop is…suspicious. Meaning a couple bodies on OT making calls and AT extra hands issuing the NOTAM would have kept planes flying
Proof we need to quadruple the FAA’s budget.
Oh…it was the whole system….that…okay a ground stop was probably warranted.
https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/klxwh-w-costa-navarino/overview/
Ok, groomer.
So what’s the end game here for the left? Assuming they are pushing more extreme positions in order to get an extreme reaction, do they really think they have a realistic chance of leveraging the pro-tranny, pro-pedophilia, pro-fringe freakshow ideology and supporters into a permanent power base? Do they think they can win a political (or real) street brawl with that?
I think there’s overlap, not necessarily the same. The tranny/fringe is a sop to the extremists, permanent revolution/keeping things perpetually changing, and a fuck you to normies. The pedo seems to be cover for elitist debauchery.
If we were to ascribe any rational motives to it, the only one that makes any real sense is demoralization and the destruction of Western culture.
They are breeding a generation of really fucked up little people. Most of the left are just useful idiots going all-in on protecting the newest victim group. The powers that be who go along with this shit? Yea, I don’t see the motive. It aint about acceptance and love of humanity, though.
“Smash the system”
Straight from the playbook.
The actual details don’t matter so much.
WTF?
Maybe I am confused but what is the issue?
Yeah, “no screaming babies allowed” is a normal thing I thought.
Referring to 13 year olds as adults. In the current climate where pedophilia is being normalized, if not promoted.
It could be a moral panic/paranoid overreaction, but since we’ve gone from “keep your mitts off kids” to “arrest parents who object to their kids stuffing dollar bills in drag queen’s thongs at school” in the space of a couple of years, I’m going with “not an overreaction”.
I’m going to agree that I don’t think that was the intent, and with you reading it the way you do. That’s where we stand as a society these days.
“Young adults”
Yeah, you’re reading too much into it.
Adults. 13 year olds. Maybe I am over-reading it. But a few years ago I wouldn’t have thought we’d have drag shows for elementary schools, either.
12 and up, eh? How high exactly does the “and up” part go?
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1610755499481534465
Don’t date strippers.
Cunte.
LOL
Even after that video, I doubt she’ll have any trouble getting dates.
every minute a simp is born
— P.T. Barnum
I mean I would tap that but no relationship.
You ain’t the boss of me!
“Where are all the good men?”
Dating strippers
Sad!
You have a very different definition of ‘good’.
Speerise Bodysuits Try-On Haul and Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl1izs0SF1I
thicc?
Oh…it was the whole system….that…okay a ground stop was probably warranted.
Plugs were pulled.
W Costa Navarino marks the debut of the W Hotels brand in Greece. The new Escape, exclusively for adults and young adults over 12 years old
I read that as “free of small noisy running children” as opposed to “Pedo Paradise”.
The choice of “young adults” over “children” seemed out of place. I wouldn’t describe 12 year olds as young adults. But I guess the book industry has used YA for that age grouping for years.
Forget it Jake, it’s Greece.
Then why not say “children over 12 years old”?
A year or two ago, I wouldn’t have looked twice, but the combo of (a) large (and presumptively woke) corporation and (b) normalizing pedophilia being the Current Thing, well, 2 + 2 generally equals 4. These days, it seems that thin edge generally has a wedge behind it, waiting to be pounded in.
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Young adults over 12 aren’t footing the hotel bill.
If I had to guess it was to imply that the 12 year olds were supposed to act like adults rather than
hellionschildren.I still think there is a bit of moral panic about the groomer stuff… I would not interpret that text test way but as no small children. There are already adult only hotels and this may be of extension of that concept using young adult.
The young ladies will be OK, but it’s Greece, so the lads had better keep their wits about them.
Disco Stu was talkin’ to you!
Scott Horton’s twitter got suspended.
Lame, Elon.
I am not sure he supervises every single ban
Billy Goat VS Small Child!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eZCSfzIxwg
helmet or no that can;t be good
Whoa, whoa there with the crazy talk!
OMG my ribs hurt from LOLing so hard
trillion dollars’ worth of aid for reconstruction – seems a bit rich like 25k per capita and the existing infrastructure was not top shelf anyways
One day, Ukraine can aspire to be as virtuous a democracy as the good’ol USofA.
You know how I know “foreign aid” is the most corrupt sector of the USG?
https://www.usaid.gov/anti-corruption
No different from all the anti-gays being gay AF.
Our broad stance covers the globe?
Nice.
‘massive infusion of funds could refuel the corruption that has long pervaded the Ukrainian government, economy and daily life, in which case reconstruction will suffer.’
Why are they trying to make it sound like massive fraud isn’t already happening.
Also, let them rebuild themselves. We could use that trillion ourselves…
Ukraine will need up to a trillion dollars’ worth of aid for reconstruction.
I doubt that.
The West should furnish the bulk of this
Why?
ensure that aid is well used
Lol…
Amended for accuracy.
We’re going to pay for the reconstruction of the what will be before too long newest Russian oblast? Now that’s a waste of money.
A new front in the war
The 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his Virginia teacher Friday with a gun he took from home is unlikely to be charged, but his parents could be criminally culpable depending on if they properly secured the weapon, experts said.
The student’s mother legally purchased the gun used in the shooting, according to Newport News police, but officials haven’t specified how the boy got a hold of it or if it was safely secured.
Virginia, unlike Massachusetts and Oregon, doesn’t have a law that specifies how to secure guns in a home, said Allison Anderman, senior counsel and director of local policy at Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Obviously the only way to securely store your guns is off-site, at the police station, where you will be required to show all permits and licenses and provide a legitimate reason, verified by secondary sources, prior to obtaining timr-limited and supervised access.
Is it possible to consider it properly secured if a 6 year old got it?
First off, experts said – is American for some morons. Second, they obviously did not. Third, paint my ass green if this kid actually had a home with both parents.
what shade of green? do you provide the paint or do we need to bring it?
You needed to ask?
I remember the days when many parents kept firearms out in the open on a gun rack and by God if a kids touched one without permission they’d get beaten within an inch of their lives…what I’m trying to say here is beat your child more often.
Oh yes. Oh YES, boy howdy do I remember.
We never touched without permission but I do remember the threat of a beating if we did.
You don’t childproof guns. You gunproof children.
You don’t childproof guns. You gunproof children.
Word.
I didn’t have to get beaten within an inch of my life – but I certainly believed that was possible.
High school in the late 70s I’d still see farm kids park their trucks in the school lot with a hunting rifle or shotgun in the rack. Nobody cared.
Provided a supervisor is available of course. What with police budget cuts and all, there really is a shortage of supervisory-qualified officers these days.
“unlike Massachusetts and Oregon”
What is the purpose of this clause?
In case you wanted to know where the most virtuous people live.
Both have laws requiring locked up storage so they’re inaccessible to defend yourself against a criminal.
doesn’t have a law that specifies how to secure guns in a home
Because such laws are unenforceable, tyrannical, unconstitutional horseshit.
Asking the tough questions on gewnder…
stupid wordpress
https://twitter.com/BadDataTakes/status/1612992483713056771
As with the story yesterday about the soldier who worked as a bouncer in a bar bringing “underage” girls to parties, I naively assumed they were 18-19, not 14.
Silly old me.
Lori Lightfoot
@LoriLightfoot
When it comes to addressing crime in our city, I’ve got a plan — and it’s working. I won’t quit until we’re the safest big city in America.
https://twitter.com/LoriLightfoot/status/1612857470178705409
What is the over/under on how long that will be?
I mean unless the plan is nuke it from orbit, that may work
You could always redefine “Safest” Or pay the criminals to commit crimes in other cities.
I’m in favor of that plan.
Pretty good perpetual employment plan!
Nope, still not the safest city! Ya’ll wanna make sure that paycheck clears now?
‘I won’t quit until we’re the safest big city in America’
Even teachers don’t have this level of job security.
I’ve got a plan — and it’s working.
By creating more crime?
Once the murder rate is above the birth rate, it’s just a matter of time.
Is it possible to consider it properly secured if a 6 year old got it?
To be honest, I’d say it depends; lying in plain sight on the kitchen table? No.
In a closet or drawer where the kid is reasonably expected to be nosing around is a different matter.
Unless locked, I do not think there is a closet or drawer where a 6 year old is not expected to be nosing around. Kids nose around anywhere they can. So if it was in an unlocked drawer / room, or the key was somewhere a 6 year old can find, it is unsecured.
Strongly agreed.
I think the fact the kid had it and the parents presumably didn’t know is de facto proof of unacceptable storage.
My grandfather kept his guns in a rack in the basement.
We knew the penalty for touching them without permission. They were secure as hell.
Exactly, and your not touching then was proof of that.
Loaded weapon . . . .
On your person or in a quick access safe.
The parent in this case is an idiot.
Whether or not she is criminally liable for the shooting is an entirely different issue.
Honestly, I’m going with the mother bought it for whatever guy with a felony rap sheet was living there with her.
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I keep mine laying on the end table or nightstand.
Have for many years.
If I had a young kid over, I would put them away, but I never worried about my kids getting them.
Mornin’
The Department of Defense (DOD) officially scrapped the requirement that all members of the armed forces be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Good.
Other outspoken proponents of the subcommittee include House Intel Committee chair Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Freedom Caucus member Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), another key player in last week’s speaker negotiations.
Turner said Tuesday as a preview of the subcommittee’s work, “Sadly, we already have very troubling evidence to begin our investigation to ensure that our intelligence community and law enforcement agencies are not violating Americans’ constitutional rights.”
Turner, being on the Intel Committee, is certainly vetted and approved by the intelligence community, which says he will shank any attempt to actually expose wrongdoing by government agencies.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy confirmed Monday night that Democratic California Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell will be removed from the House Intelligence Committee and the House will vote on the removal of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
🙂
I still cannot believe that this country watched a member of the intelligence committee get caught having a long-term sexual affair with an employee who was also a foreign spy….. and we left him on the committee. And nobody said boo.
Holy crap. This is some politburo level crap.
Are you kidding me? The politburo would’ve liquidated his ass and erased his name from history. There were some things they did right.
And he has been re-elected.
Democracy at work.
Which really makes me question “election integrity”
You have a lobotomized senator, a guy banging an employee (should end the career) and she is a spy… it doesn’t seem possible that these people are attracting real voters in large numbers
Don’t you ever have a conversation with the average American voter? This shit shouldn’t surprise you in the least.
One of my hockey teammates is a Team Blue guy from Chicago. He’d vote for a runny turd if it had a (D) next to its name. This is what you get when you gerrymander “safe” districts.
a runny turd if it had a (D)
And tell you how bad Republicans are on top of that.
You’re forgetting that a Republican would be worse!
..reasonably NOT expected…
Alright…this failure in the NAS (national airway system) has lit the fire I needed to do my FAA – Air Traffic series.
COBOL on mainframes?
They modernized. It has a FORTRAN interface now. It can even move data using fixed field text files for true connectivity.
FORTRAN 77 right? Not that fancy FORTRAN 90 because that would be a bridge too far.
We wouldn’t want to use untested technology in our most secure systems.
That was a case study in failed IT projects when I was in grad school, in 1987. I shit you not.
Get your shocked faces ready.
Fucker should have still been in prison for – yes – armed robbery.
My money’s on a hung grand jury or whatever the terminology is. Doubtful they’ll get a trial for this in Texas but stranger things have happened.
If anything other than no bill comes of this, it is tar and pitchfork time.
From what I understand he moved the weapon away after he shot him and then put a couple in the guy’s head. If that’s really the case it might happen but I’d certainly let him walk.
One allegedly, not a couple. Let’s not go all J6 here.
Well then. I guess I should have read the whole thing. The clip on the news didn’t show that part.
Ok, carry on then.
What in the world would lead a prosecutor to bring this case to a grand jury?
https://ballotpedia.org/Kim_Ogg
Even the DA says it was legit.
Just once, I would love to see a family member come out and say: “He was a piece of shit criminal who was never going to stop. Good shoot.”
That would look bad for the inevitable lawsuit.
Like that guy in Minnesota who the cop shot when he was going for the knife at the house of the woman who claimed he had raped her a few weeks prior. She suddenly changed her story, told everyone what a great guy he was and got back with him, if I’m not mistaken.
I think that was Kenosha WI and precipitated the Rittenhouse mess.
Wasn’t that Jacob Blake in Kenosha? He’s just lucky Rittenhouse wasn’t in the area.
Just maybe criminals don’t arise in such families.
who was killed in Houston restaurant by vigilante
Vigilante?
British newspaper, they get arrested if they throw fists to get 40 year old Pakistanis to stop raping their kids.
Wouldn’t a vigilante be if he had gone to the robber’s house and then shot him?
When being a victim confers sainthood, there are going to be a lot of sinners.
Yeah, that bugged me too.
Why are hero and protected everyone in quotes?
It’s still true, even if in this case he brought a fake gun.
I don’t understand why you people need stoves at all. Your BugPaste™ and SoyPaste™ packets will be microwave safe, and studies show they can be consumed at room temperature when your electricity is off.
It’s a Jeep thing.
And now idiots out of cars
He’s actually pretty damn lucky.
Holy crap. He is lucky his arm or head didn’t end up under there. Restraining belts when rock crawling!
+1 Jeremy Renner
As it started I was thinking, “you should probably wear a seatbelt if you have the doors off like that”
His wardrobe malfunction makes it even better.
“Man found dead with pants off, under Jeep”
Welcome to the game of liquor licenses in NJ.
That’s mean – eliminating that sweet, sweet graft for future generations of officeholders.
This. I did like the BYOB many restaurants allowed when they couldn’t afford the playoffs.
“Now let’s up DUI enforcement!”
Sterling vs. L8 Lee-Enfield 7.62 conversions.
In his State of the State address on Tuesday afternoon, Murphy proposed the state “gradually relax” a population cap on liquor licenses — local governments are only allowed to issue one license per 3,000 residents – until it’s eventually eliminated completely, according to a copy of his prepared remarks. Eventually, the restriction would be eliminated in its entirety, Murphy planned to say.
This was a recurring theme in Montana. Somebody would suggest raising the cap on licenses, and the tavern owners’ association would spring into action to defend mom and pop from having the artificially inflated value of their license stolen from them, and the political contributions would roll in from every angle.
Something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done.
Bill from Virginia state senator would strengthen rules for storing firearms
“Strengthen.”