Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another lovely day and the links!
US Could Default on Debt as Early as Summer, New Study Estimates
The U.S. Economy Grew at a Slower Pace Than Previously Thought in the Fourth Quarter
US housing market sees $2.3T drop in value, biggest since 2008
Two more Republicans say DoD leaked their files to Dem oppo-research group
US military spent $1.6 million to shoot down three harmless UFOs
The New York Times Finally Admits Masks Don’t Do A Thing
Couple takes case all the way to U.S. Supreme Court to challenge IRS tax on unrealized gains
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Teensy holster really sells it.
I just wish hovering over it would give the uncropped image.
You tell them, and tell them about the Featured Image autocrop.
Richard is off tearing his hair out every time he sees one of those images.
I have the real thing (a taxidermied squirrel with gun, holster, and cowboy hat) stranded in my office in Mercury NV. Need to get a coworker to ship it to me.
“The Defense Department spent at least $1.6 million to shoot down three unidentified objects that the Biden administration now says may have been recreational balloons.
Air Force jets used four $400,000 AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles to down the objects over Alaska, Canada’s Yukon territory and Lake Huron on Feb. 10, 11, and 12, respectively.”
So one missed?
They used heat-seeking missiles on a weak heat target.
Yup. Keep in mind, those hobbyist balloons can be pretty small.
I get why they use a missile on the big ChiCom balloon. But why not use guns on the little ones? Apparently, using a missile to shoot down a balloon once creates “That’s the way we’ve always done it” in the Air Force.
I have doubts that the pilots can hit a hobby balloon with a cannon. They’d probably empty the plane, then reload, empty again and keep wasting ammo.
I support using a giant pin. Just lean out the cockpit and pop it.
Shades of George Kennedy in Airport ’79.
make it rain
Throw nickels at it?
You’re not very popular at the local strip club, are you?
Make it hail!
US Could Default on Debt as Early as Summer, New Study Estimates
So you are saying we are going to be in a shooting war with Russia as early as summer.
Republicans will raise the debt ceiling in exchange for a war with Russia, which may or may not surprise us all.
Republicans will raise the debt ceiling in exchange for empty promises.
Wimpy gets another free hamburger.
“Give me another credit card today, and I promise to stop drunkshopping at 2 am. I’m super serious this time!”
I like the surprise I get in the mail a week later. Oh, I thought I dreamt I bought that!
It marks the biggest drop in percentage terms since the 2008 financial crisis, when home values plunged by 5.8% from June to December.
Trump’s fault because deregulation or something.
The New York Times Finally Admits Masks Don’t Do A Thing
After the trans-letter fiasco, this just cements the NYT as a right-wing publication in the left’s minds.
Speaking of mask studies…
There was less “wastewater in COVID”? How much wastewater can COVID hold, anyway?
OK, typo, it happens to everyone. Just what does correcting for vax rates contribute to a study on mask effectiveness? How do you correct for a vaccine that doesn’t reduce COVID infections, anyway?
And how exactly was the background care rate used to adjust the numbers. Isn’t COVID in wastewater supposed to be a measure of the overall COVID rate?
As far as I can tell, the masking observations were also done after school and outside.
The New York Times Finally Admits Masks Don’t Do A Thing
They demonstrate subservience and willingness to unthinkingly follow instructions. That’s something.
If you ask my friends in the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, especially my friend (an excellent lip reader) who owns a retail store selling vintage sports fan apparel, the masks definitely did a thing–a terrible thing from which the deaf/HoH community has yet to recover.
That doesn’t even scratch the surface of what was done to an entire generation of children who have no idea how to read facial expressions either.
From the unrealized gains story:
Wow.. so taxing non-existant income as income and ex post facto law! Why not just require them to board troops and go for the trifecta there, Congress?
It bothers me to no end that the greatest legal minds of the last several generations are mainly occupied in ways of defending violations of the clear letter of the law that a 19th century rail splitter or steamboat sailor would recognize. Weasels.
The government wants your money. The role of lawyers and judges is rationalizing the taking.
They don’t want your money, they want your subservience.
Taxes just show who is in charge.
*points at the entire field of bioethics*
taxing unrealized gains + retroactive = FYTW
*yawn*
Is it nuclear winter yet?
Here’s a best-case scenario for avoiding it. My expectations have taken serious nose-dive.
https://twitter.com/FischerKing64/status/1628952605358718976
Nukes asshole, nukes…WTF’s up with that thread?
Taco Bell? Lorcha? Indian food stall?
Chipotlaway to the rescue.
““But, wait, hold on. What about N-95 masks, as opposed to lower-quality surgical or cloth masks? ‘Makes no difference — none of it,’ said Jefferson.””
I have trouble believing N95 masks don’t do anything. But they need to be fitted uncomfortably tight.
Anyway, I want studies showing the lockdowns didn’t work. That’s more important than masks.
N95 is primarily for protection against inhaled industrial contaminants like dust. They were never designed or intended for viral control.
They were part of the infectious disease BSI on the ambulance, and used in the hospital.
That may be so, but the demonstrated value of them has been lacking.
I would be inclined to suspect that they inhibit source transmission somewhat, but do little to prevent recipient infection. It’s the same principle used in airborne dust control. The more you collect at the point source, the easier it is to deal with. Once it’s in the air, there’s pretty much no escaping exposure.
So? Not gonna get into the “why medical folks wear masks” thing, but their inclusion there in meaningless.
Sorry – I don’t mean to sound disrespectful. They’re there for totally different reasons.
Surgical masks are to protect the pt not the surgeon, but on an ambulance BSI is to protect the responders.
Exactly. And even for dust control they minimize dust inhalation, they don’t prevent it. And they are shit for viruses. For real protection you need an air purifying respirator with the appropriate cartridges.
*readies 6′ distancing stick*
If lockdowns did work – proof of their value. If lockdowns didn’t work – proof they were too lenient.
But they need to be fitted uncomfortably tight.
And worn without taking a sip of water, and changed often…
True.
…and more expensive. I was having trouble thinking of that last one.
If you want to be able to drink you need to wear a military-grade protective mask … or this.
Does that thing include a magic barrier that prevents viral transmission while the trap door is open?
I’m sure that would command a hefty price here on NYC’s Upper East Side where I am hanging out before Mrs. Patzer’s surgery (at 3PM, will transport her to hospital at 12:30). It’s about 50/50 masking hereabouts, true believers I guess. We’re staying at the Helmsley up the block from the hospital; lots of medical personnel appear to be staying here as well, and most of them are not masked; I wonder what the true believers make of that.
N95 is for (generally speaking) incoming dusts, of a certain size, IF they’re fitted properly and used right.
We have to know/use them for work.
The notion that they (or any masks) ever did anything was sheer lunacy. Always. And anybody who knew anything about masks knew that from the start.
“Talismask” is right.
Yep, correctly fitted, no stubble, and changed out appropriately. Without those even if they do work they don’t work.
*compares death-rates between pro-lockdown states and somewhat less pro-lockdown states*
Lockdowns didn’t work.
Right, but I want them to admit it.
Eventually you right-wing bigots will learn that hate-speech is not free-speech.
NYT’s @MaraGay: Social media companies are “disseminating information, some of it factual, some of it dangerous, some of it hate speech … I don’t think we can allow it to go on”
Journalists advocating for censorship.
They wish to be the gate-keepers for approved “information”.
some of it factual
At this point, they’re not even bothering to call it “disinformation”.
Delicious, salty tears.
Angela Davis’ ancestors arrived in America on the Mayflower.
“I object!”
On what grounds?
“This is devastating to my race-baiting!”
She’s a vile human being who would happily put wrongthinkers in gulags. She can’t die soon enough.
Hell, she told Solzhenitsyn that Soviet dissidents deserve what they get and should remain in the Gulag.
What is silly is that if she was a quick thinker she could have turned it to her advantage, but she allowed her emotions and raw hatred to blind her.
Yep and to deny that your family is who they are. I am a son of the mayflower and glad her family also took the trip. See it isn’t hard to do. But steeped so far into her race hating ways she just crumbled.
Didn’t read the article, but is it only genetic links? If so, she could have easily turned it to her advantage: “Obviously one of my slave holder ancestors raped my other ancestors, showing that my whole existence is just due to white supremacy, rape, and slavery. Now give me money.”
Buzzfeed is on the case to prove masks work: That Viral Op-Ed About Masks Is Based On Flawed Research, Frustrated Experts Say
Or how to ruin your own argument.
The experts are frustrated!
Weep for their vexation!
Much of the left will never, ever let this go.
It’s a variation of do-something-ism.
So… Buzzfeed…
How ’bout them Russian piss hookers?
It’s like using an umbrella when it’s raining; it won’t stop you from getting wet, but it will prevent you from getting soaked.
And mine doesn’t work unless you use yours.
I flew out of the brand new Terminal A in Newark airport on Monday. It smelled terrible. They must have installed some kind of air scrubber. The smell was a mix of manure, bleach, and chlorine. My wife was feeling faint in the security line. Once we were through and waiting to board, some teenagers walked past us and we hear one of them say “I don’t know why I feel dizzy right now”.
We actually envied the few lunatics still wearing masks and will bring some if we have to travel there again.
Their eagerness to use the same shitty analogies from three years ago – “It’s like layering swiss cheese!” “It’s like an umbrella!” – regardless of what the actual data says is highly illuminating.
The wearing pants and pissing analogy was the GOAT of bad analogies.
They don’t unzip or do they drop trou at the urinal? There was a guy at the NSA that did that.
The problem with that argument is that, even assuming masks worked, you still have the collective action problem. Namely, not everyone is as freaked out about covid as you are, and they will mask correspondingly. If they don’t give a shit, they will wear a mask, when forced too, loosely and let it dangle, slide down, get dirty, etc.
I enjoyed the fact that some of the most flagrant mask protestors I dealt with (as in, they wore it under the chin or nose, or just had a flap of cloth hanging in front of their nose/mouth but nothing you could really consider a mask) were doctors.
Heh….I went chinstrap with the mandated mask until I bought a mesh mask.
Don’t overlook this little gem, “Without public health protections like masks, vulnerable people can’t access essential services like healthcare and public transport safely, and are excluded from public life.”
So everybody has the right to impose on your life based on their fears. You have the duty to alter your life based on the demands of people you don’t know but they have no responsibility to take ownership of managing their risks.
My response, “Fuck off. I ain’t wearing a mask.” Or based on what happen to me at a MLB game. I am eating these peanuts and not moving my seat. If your precious has that severe of a nut allergy then YOU move or let the kid die.
“Vanity Fair Published Fashion Feature On Sam Brinton, Showcased Allegedly Stolen Dress”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/vanity-fair-published-fashion-feature-on-sam-brinton-showcased-allegedly-stolen-dress
LOLOL
Further proof that we are definitely living in Weimar America.
That is so fantastic.
I think we are up to three custom dresses and a necklace that he stole from that designer. He must have thought he hit the mother lode when he cracked upon her suitcase. Sadly, this happened at Reagan National, and there is no way a NoVA prosecutor indicts him for it.
Imminent domained.
“Over the last few months, roughly two dozen whale corpses have washed up on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. The unexplained increase in fatalities is happening as the state of New Jersey is constructing a massive offshore wind farm, which some conservationists claim is affecting whale navigation.
Federal scientists insist that no evidence has directly linked the construction to the spike in beached whales, but some local lawmakers, environmentalist groups, and conservative commentators have insisted the wind turbines are the obvious culprit and are demanding action.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/wind-farm-blamed-for-surge-in-dead-whales-on-u-s-atlantic-coast
Nothing some dynamite can’t solve.
Precautionary Principle for thee but not for me!
Federal scientists insist that no evidence has directly linked the construction to the spike in beached whales
They’re lying: Evidence says offshore wind development is killing lots of whales
Direct evidence. If you have 8k HD video of that wind turbine pulling out an assault weapon and massacring those whales, let’s see it. Until then, believe experts!
Environmentalists are not conservationists in any way, shape, or form, as has been evidenced by their actual concern for any environmental disaster that did not suit their preferred politics.
But enough about all those heavy metals getting dumped into the river by Obama’s EPA.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gold-king-mine-spill-colorado-rivers-epa-claims/
Whale oil was once used to light lamps. Might come in handy in the not-too-distant future.
Green energy!
Sperm oil, a special kind of oil obtained from the head cavities of sperm whales, differs chemically from ordinary whale oil: it is composed mostly of liquid wax. Its properties and applications differ from those of regular whale oil, and it was sold for a higher price.
Male privilege?
Heheheh. “Sperm oil.” Heheheh…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDqsgbtpDLk
🐳 ⛽️ 🥩 🎣 *
*dumb old joke
Those whales will be fondly remembered for giving their lives
to keep the grift goingfor Gaia.“Environmentalists” have been silent on the dead whales, the largest man-made release of carbon in history due to the Nordstream bombing, and the poison fire in Ohio. None of them have said a thing about for-real disasters, they just keep telling me not to put gas in my car and not to use plastic grocery bags.
Q for the G
kremlinNPRologists:So yesterday the NPR newsreader uses their “this is a super important story!” voice about a trial I’d never heard of about sumdude that allegedly killed his wife and kid. This morning, another story, again with heavy breathing by the broadcastmonkey.
Dafuq is this? Is this guy friends with someone with an (R) after his name or what? He wasn’t specifically listed as being a “republican-somethingorother,” so I don’t know NPR’s interest here. Is it just a story that was trending on TikTok so NPR jumped on the pander to Millenials/Zoomers/the future of our country bandwagon?
Well yeah, it’s better to talk about that than the pedophile rape ring that the two gay guys were operating using their own foster kids.
Yesterday Fox News devoted tons of coverage to this trial, and I have no idea why.
1. They’re reverting to type – it’s a great old-fashioned “if it bleeds it leads” story, where literally every single aspect of all of their lives are turning out to be crooked and salacious.
2. What else are they going to do? Maybe notice the war the US government is actively waging against us? Nope.
Re: 1,
There are numerous horrific crimes daily. Why this one? And why start covering it in (apparently) the middle of a trial?
The “cast of characters”, mainly. With long backstories, several other potentially unsolved crimes, coverups, mysteries, etc. A far more complex/intertwined story than most.
This isn’t new. My wife has been following this case for nearly two years. It happened right before we left South Carolina.
Alex Murdaugh? It became a thing because there was a Netflix series about him, and truthfully it’s a pretty fascinating story if you’re into true crime. Combines old-timey Southern machine politics and corruption with major crimes up to, and including, murder.
Ah, pop culture. That makes sense.
Yep. Dateline did multiple episodes about him, and then Netflix blew it up into a huge deal.
Yeah, it’s basically one of those convoluted true crime TV series, but in real life.
Oops, I meant convoluted fictional crime TV series, but in real life.
Check out the Wikipedia page for “Murdaugh family”, and you’ll see why people are so fascinated with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdaugh_family
I just figured leftie idiots mistook them for Murdochs and that’s why they piss themselves in fascination.
Both parties have consistently stated that they will not consider changes to Social Security or Medicare in resolving the impasse.
They’re not really serious, are they?
Wealth transfer is the primary mission of the government.
Those two things are, simultaneously, the third rail and hang mans noose of US politics.
Whosoever touches them is DED as a politics. We might need to to some cutting, but it ain’t gonna happen on the front end.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
“$113 BILLION on a war with no end in sight: DailyMail.com breaks down Biden’s enormous military package for Ukraine on the first anniversary of Putin’s invasion, the Republican audits, and what the taxpayers think”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11785537/The-Biden-administrations-113-billion-aid-Ukraine-spent.html
So how to get rid of the MIC?
Short of a civil war?
Send about 4,000 balloons a day over the Pentagon. They will run out of ammo in a month. Then a change in management.*
*Attention glowies – that was an attempt at satire, not a legitimate plot to overthrow our rulers.
I think that if they keep sending my tax money there, I should get a free Malyuk.
If you think Ukraine is expensive just wait for China to try something in that region… this will look like peanuts
Petey seems out of his element here.
After almost three weeks Pete Buttigieg has finally arrived on the ground in East Palestine
Of course this is not usually what he is doing while dressed as a construction worker.
It’s fun to stay at the YMCA!
You can see the stress. He’s probably freaking out about exposure to hazardous chemicals.
Chemicals? He’s freaking out about exposure to deplorables!
South Bend is pretty deplorable.
I know he got out.
In the ground? He had evidence on the Clintons?
Oh – on the ground. Never mind.
Hey cut him some slack, he rode his bike from DC to Ohio. Of course it took awhile.
He looks like a damn nerd.
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Oh right… ‘ordles reporting. Got distracted with work stuff.
Nothing great anyway…
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He learned from you, Mom!
I wanted to see some Can-Can but nooooo, just some pole dancing guy.
Thanks but where was the other part of the rainbow?
“A sixth-grade teacher in Florida is being slammed after he posted a video showing white students bowing down to black students during a Black History Month skit.
Parents and families of children at Howard Middle School in Orlando are now voicing their outrage over the teacher using the students as ‘political props.’
In the controversial video posted to TikTok, Ethan Hooper’s students fan and feed three black classmates before bowing down to them in the skit.
The video is embossed with the words ‘P.O.V. A Florida classroom’ and ‘Black History Month, the shortest month of the year.’
Local outlets have reported that Hooper, 29, has since been placed on leave by administrators and is likely to be ‘terminated.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11786709/Orlando-teacher-slammed-posting-video-showing-white-students-bowing-black-students.html
CWAA
“We wuz Kangs.”
When I was a kid education was fairly shit in Romania but there was practically zero politics.
If the teacher is cool with Bobby Knight, then I’m cool with him.
On the other hand, if he doesn’t think Bobby Knight joking around with a bullwhip is funny, then he’s a hypocrite.
Has anyone seen Hunter lately?
Parts of West Virginia and Maryland were blanketed with a mysterious fine white dust late Thursday evening and into early Friday morning.
The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia appeared to be hit the hardest, but there were also photos and videos being posted from as far as Winchester, Virginia, and Hagerstown, Maryland. …
A Facebook page that tracks emergencies in the Panhandle, Eastern Panhandle Working Fires, was early to post about the dust.
“Call 911!! Per The WV Dept of Environmental Protection, they have requested that anybody experiencing these issues call 911 immediately and have their local fire department respond. They also advise to shut doors and windows and avoid outdoors at this time as a common sense approach until it can be identified,” a post on the page read.
Hunter misplaces laptops, not cocaine-too important.
It’s a publicity stunt for a recent film. The locals better keep their powder dry, these things have been known to get out of hand.
Hey, inflation still a thing….
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/key-fed-inflation-measure-rose-0point6percent-in-january-more-than-expected.html
‘But when speaking of the Moores’ investment, he was unequivocal, saying, “Here it really is just a pure legal question. It’s undisputed that there really was no realization,” meaning the Moores never profited from or controlled the profits of the investment they made, even though the value had gone up.
This is something even the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with in its ruling.
Despite that, the Ninth Circuit ruled that the Moores owed the tax anyway.’
JFC. So can I expect to have to pay some sort of unrealized earnings tax on work I haven’t done yet the next time I invest in a paint sprayer? wouldn’t shock me in the future.
The IRS: Creating tax cheats out of thin air one person at a time.
The IRS: Creating
tax cheatsinsurrectionists out of thin air one person at a time.A man can dream…
POC’s hardest hit because asphalt is muh-racisms.
VP HARRIS: “Think about the climate issue in the context of what we need to do to deal with, for example, extreme heat and what that means in urban communities where there’s only asphalt that just actually exacerbates the heat effect, and where there are no trees…”
That’s not what she said.
That’s the best part of that clip. How they insert the right word in the captions despite the fact that she clearly says “exasperates”.
How long until Joe Biden’s audio is turned off and they simply substitute in captions that are what his handlers wanted him to say?
As advanced as deepfakes have become, they’ll probably just create synthetic Biden clips, like in Equilibrium.
Last night’s Glibflick had a funny mis-use of a word. The older black dude councilman-type tells Abar “His impotence will get him in trouble” when they guy really meant “impertinence.”
Get ’em out of the cities and back
on the plantation, erin the country.Good morning, Banjos!
Not the best financial news today. I’m still convinced a big part of the war push is the realization that the music is gonna stop soon.
The tax story is interesting. I liked this:
FYTW at its finest!
I hope y’all have a great Friday!
Taxing 401K’s to “fund the war”
I would say that would be the final straw but the last three years disabused me of that notion.
I caught the tail end of an interview this morning, maybe on Brian Kilmeade’s show. Whoever he was interviewing was demanding that Biden come up with a strategy to defeat Russia and denounced those “neo-isolationist, pre-Pearl Harbor” Republicans.
Kilmeade is Hannity-lite and total midwit.
Hannity-lite….oof. Hard to think of a more vicious insult.
Well Hannity is pretty heavy.
Friday Funbags bringing you firecrotch girls with no souls.
https://archive.is/AB8PV
I detect a few dye job redheads in that gallery.
Why Japanese Calligraphy Ink Is So Expensive | So Expensive | Insider Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSuFSYY-X9w
I don’t understand why the soot does not collect itself like in Spirited Away, but I did not know this.
Such a kind, conscientious partner considerate enough to make sure she doesn’t get knocked up.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/21493125/wife-serial-cheat-taking-pill-for-new-lover/
The perfect wife.
fuck her up the ass a couple of times and divorce.
Not everyone likes roleplaying in the bedroom.
The old Government Bureaucrat and Taxpayer scenario isn’t even the most popular one. Maybe start with Sailor and Bar Wench?
| Price of average London pint predicted to reach £9.99 by 2025
More below:
https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1628402535517106176
how much is an average pint in New York? Los Angeles? Rural Ohio?
Too much.
Were you a beer drinker what is the price of beer in the bar that is physically closest to your house? Then again I doubt you know as you never go there. Hmmmm… what is the average price of a shot of vodka from your freezer?
Well, I bought those bottles a while back, so it’s probably cheaper than if I had to refill.
Domestic beer $3 to $4 at the bars. Maybe less during happy hour.
Fancy craft beers $6 and up. I have a bottle of vodka I bought 4 years ago that’s half full, so hard to answer that one. Bought a 750ml bottle of brandy last month for $22.
Closest bar is a craft brewer – beers are $6-$7.50.
Around here it depends on the beer. Coors Light = $4 ish, some crappy yuppie microbrew = $8-10.
yuppie microbrew tends to be more drinkable the coors
No clue what an average pint is. I would say a pint of good microbrew goes for around $6 – 7 in Tucson, though.
Suburban Ohio, but pints can be as low as $2 (BMC pints during events) or as high as $12 (high ABV craft beers/sours). I’d say a rough average for general craft handles would be $6-$7.
Local taphouse goes anywhere from $5-10. All CO brews, though.
ATTN: Tres.
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the standard romanian saying is “not with a stolen dick “
If this was school I would go
https://twitter.com/ProductOfLabor/status/1628768726655938560
I have 3 comments:
1. the left can’t meme
2. this is already school in some places
3. Actual Marxists are not woke.
Classical Marxists, no. The wokists are current-gen neo (crypto?) Marxists. They have figured out that they will never tear down American society based on class conflict, and moved on to the race (and now sex) as the wedges to create conflict and destroy the culture/society.
It is always highly amusing when actual doctrinaire Marxists fight with the identitarians.
The actual Marxists are cucks. See Bernie Sanders.
A growing achievement gap between Asian American students and their white classmates is due largely to greater work effort and cultural attitudes, not innate cognitive ability, researchers say.
In a study published Monday in the journal PNAS, two sociology professors found that Asian Americans enter school with no clear academic edge over whites, but that an advantage grows over time.
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-why-do-asian-american-students-perform-better-than-whites-20140505-story.html
Um, no shit?
Not surprising really and that performance gap seems to hold true for others. Very broadly speaking in our society one will tend to see Asians>whites>Hispanics>blacks as far as academics are stressed and this closely maps measured performance. There may be some innate cross group IQ differences (may not be too) but the societal factors almost certainly play a much more important role.
I think we also have a skew where the Asian-Americans skim off more of the top of the bell curve from the vast reservoirs of people in Asia. A lot of the Asian imeciles are still in asia, so the numbers in the US are higher than the average from a population with more of it’s bottom performers.
This is especially true for the recent Indian immigrants. Many went to some of the top schools in the world and came from very rich families. There is a heavy value placed on family and education, but we are also getting literally the best and brightest to come work in STEM fields.
Yep. There are a lot of Indians in the KC area going to the local medical schools. A friend of mine once remarked on it and said something to the effect of how much more intelligent Indians are than Americans. When I pointed out they only send over their smartest people from their upper caste system and your average Indian was no smarter or dumber than anyone else her friend who was listening in on the conversation accused me of being racist, because of course.
Your friend likely isn’t Indian then, I suspect, because it was an Indian immigrant who explained this to me when I jokingly said that every Indian I’ve ever met was rich and successful.
See, things like this will make me think less of Indians, if the ones I’m dealing with on a regular basis are the best…
(Mostly H1B instead of immigrants).
Be glad you are dealing with the H1Bs and not the Mumbai Helpdesk I got escalations from at Xerox.
I swear, they found the dumbest bastards on the subcontinent who could claim to speak English.
They also find the ones who, though they may in fact speak English reasonably well, have accents that are so strong that they are practically unintelligible on the phone.
Be glad you are dealing with the H1Bs and not the Mumbai Helpdesk I got escalations from at Xerox.
As several posters have pointed out, they *ARE* sending their best, the others are still back home for a reason. Management typically doesn’t get this, they see the skill level of the people here and figure that outsourcing to overseas shops is a cost-effective way to increase productivity. LOL.
Yep. This plus the “Tiger Mom” thing.
I interview a lot of Engineering students for internships and new-hire positions. Some of them are quite open, even at that age and point in life, in telling me that they got into Engineering because their parents told them they had to. And their only discernable skill, history, or interest is scoring high on tests. And they largely don’t get that that’s a problem. It’s not restricted to Asians, of course, except maybe a little bit the (cultural?) willingness to say it out loud to me.
So yeah – getting the top cut from a very large population, and then pushing them really hard? That is indeed a way to nail the academic success thing.
It is pretty standard that parental involvement is the single biggest factor in academic achievement.
Its part of the reason that even in places with a lottery, that it is hard to find a large effect from charter schools. Because even the losers of the lottery have involved parents, at least involved enough to enter the lottery.
Are we talking fancy Asians, jungle Asians, or subcontinental Asians?
+100,000 tiger moms
Would a strong family structure and heavy emphasis on the importance of education be considered an academic advantage?
Yes. And yes.
Yes. Clearly an unfair advantage, and such students need to be removed from such an environment as quickly as possible for the sake of equity./NEA
Private and charter schools are removing them as fast as possible.
From the strong family structures with the heavy emphasis on the importance of education?? 😳
Heh, no.
Removing them from the public school system, so the NEA doesn’t have to deal with them.
Isn’t divorce easier than murder?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/swinging-pastor-shot-dead-wifes-29077853
Jus sayin’.
She got off on having one of her BBCs kill for her.
Hats off to good parents who would do anything for their kids
LOL!
https://twitter.com/theblackspiderm/status/1628837236031557633
Mind if this lurker vents for a little bit?
A few weeks ago I had a heart attack. Almost died. As I was going losing consciousness, I realized two things. The first was that that my assumption over he past decade, that I was no longer afraid of death, turned out not to be as true as I hoped. Last thought was a hallucination of my partner, my son and my daughter standing over me with tears as my red bloody heart started dragging me down into darkness. Painful and terrible, I wanted to live for them. I couldn’t bear for my last view to be of them being sad and suffering. I came to the realization that I needed to continue. It was a new start.
I never figured on living past fifty. Now I was thinking of ten years in the future. Twenty years. Perhaps I would see my grandson grow up after all. Desiring more time seemed alien to me. There was a part of me that was looking forward to my discharge papers from this damned hell hole of an asylum. After my latest near death experience, it was going to be no more of that kind of stinkin’ thinkin’. Not for this guy.
Now that I’m able to sit upright for more than an hour, I’m tackling the reality of living….and finding myself not approving of the cost involved.
As I was recovering in the hospital, I told myself that I would give up some of the more stubborn aspects of my personality. Reluctance over following doctor’s advice? No more. I changed my diet, quit smoking and drinking. My reluctance over telling other people how I feel? No more. If someone asks I’ll tell them. I accepted that I would have to watch as my son shovels the driveway instead of me. I would be open to asking for help….and that included asking for help from the state.
After leaving the distilling industry, I’ve been driving uber for a living. The past year was hell, as expenses tripled, and fares paid to me were cut in half. One of the factors of my heart attack was the stress from trying to keep my head above water and accepting that I would have to go back to some wage slave type position. At my age, probably flipping burgers is a long shot, but what the hell. Point is, I was in the worst shape financially as almost any other point in my life since my twenties. I had a plan though. One month of hard work and I could clear the deck of outstanding bills.
Timing is everything in this world. Point is, and the point of writing this rant, is that I accepted that I would turn to the state for help. It was a hard decision, but my new view is that if I was to recover and be a better lover, father and grandfather, I would have to give up some things, including pride. So here I go. Into the belly of the beast. It’s NYS. We have millions of freeloaders on the rolls, I would reluctantly join in.
Turns out as a white, heterosexual, self employed male there isn’t much available for assistance. I assumed there would be some kind of temporary disability assistance. I assumed that after paying a quarter of my salary for nearly four decades to the state, there would be something in the coffers for me. Something like unemployment. Some program that could help me out. Instead, best case, if I spend the next few weeks waiting in lines, filling out paperwork, getting letters from doctors and the help of a good attorney, I *might* be eligible for 75 dollars a week for bills, and some assistance with electrical bills if the bill was in my name (it isn’t). Oh, and let’s not forget about food stamps. I’m eligible for a whopping 37 dollars a week in food. I can but a thing of eggs!
The fuck?! Seriously? The government that spent trillions of my dollars to bomb people in other lands that I don’t give a fuck about doesn’t have dick for the sick? During the pandemic, where I was driving around people all day who were collecting 600 bucks a week for not working, I didn’t work the system. I could have claimed a PPP loan. I used to teach in an inner city school where not a damn parent actually worked, but had plenty of cash from Uncle Sugar.
Now, I did get Medicaid. That was another surprise. I don’t think I’ve had an insurance plan like this, ever. Seriously. It’s better than any gold plan I ever had. Here’s an example. Right now I have a life vest. If my heart goes out of whack it’ll deliver an electrical shock to bring me back. Neat. Thing is, it costs 4k a month. Any commercial plan, and it would be at least 500 bucks a month out of pocket after deductible. Medicaid? It’s all paid for. I shudder to think of the cost to the tax payer.
Look at me. I’m actually acting like I’m surprised the world isn’t fair.
So now I’m in a situation where recovery simply isn’t something I can afford. I was supposed to take it easy for the next few months. I can’t even wash dishes without breaking out into a sweat and having to sit back down. How the fuck am I going to find a job when I can’t even stand up?
It sucks. My partner tells me that it’s going to be fine, that we’ll manage, but she’s the one working double shifts just so we can meet bills while I sit on my ass. She’s the greatest person I ever knew. It’s not right to put her through this. We were barely able to afford food before my heart attack. I have to make her life that much more sucky? That doesn’t sit right.
Sorry to dump this verbal crap on folks here. Just had to get it off my chest. Next time this happens I think I’m going to lock the door to keep the paramedics away.
I wish I had comforting words. I suck at that kind of thing. All I can say is that I’m sorry you’re going through this and I hope like hell that you catch some breaks.
I’m glad you made it. Sounds like it was quite the deal.
If you are open to taking advice and asking for help, create a GoFundMe. I’d be happy to help you out. Glib scholarship. I’m investing in you raising the grandkid right.
^^^ very much this ^^^
I know that’s not why you posted, but we’ve got a community here (even if it’s filled with a bunch of mutants, plus me). And I’m always happy to help out others in my community.
That aside, I’m sorry to hear about your troubles. Even if it’s not surprising that the state is useless, it still sucks that you get bupkis for all they’ve extracted from you over the years.
^ Same here. Glibs have helped out each other before, and many would be happy to help now if you need it.
Agreed. Listen to Jimbo.
Thanks, man. I mean it.
It’s not a terrible notion. I should. It’s just that bit of me that just feels wrong about asking for help. Spent half a century avoiding that sort of thing, you know? Tough to change habits. I just might take that advice.
Look, libertarianism is about voluntary giving and voluntary altruism. Libertarianism has never had “be stingy” as a tenet. If we want to give, but don’t know who needs it, how is that helpful?
I always said if I won fuck-you money in the lottery I would want to help people who fall through the cracks of charity, government, invisibility, and pride. But how do you find those people? You can’t.
So here you are, and you need help, and we want to give some to someone who needs it desperately. So there you are. Go set one up and see what happens. Ask for enough to get you through a few months. It’ll happen.
Ouch. Hang in there, your partner sounds like a treasure. Right now I am taking care of someone with serious issues, hoping those issues will be resolved in time for her to take care of me when that (inevitably) becomes necessary. This is what we signed up for; it seems like a burden but actually is… something else. Some call it love.
Best wishes.
Has your wife had surgery yet? I haven’t been around that much lately.
Thanks. Surgery is at 3PM today, I am taking deep breaths.
Prayers sent for Mrs. G.
Best wishes.
You’re absolutely correct. Still, I’ve always been a hell of a lot more comfortable taking care of my partner. I find the reverse not to be nearly as enjoyable.
I’ll be sure to pray to whatever mad gods that run our cosmos that your wife’s surgery goes well!
Thanks. And I think the generosity of the gliberati may surprise you.
Damn dude, glad you’re still with us.
#metoo
glad you made it…
“Reluctance over following doctor’s advice” – unfortunately I do no believe doctors have any idea what they are talking about
Aw gbob, I’m so sorry brother. I have no words for how fucked up that is. I hope you realize how much your partner and your kids love you. Let them help and get yourself back to fighting form. I’m glad for this place and I hope we can provide some bit of comfort.
Sorry to hear it man.
Love your partner. While you sit on your ass, do tongue exercises.
That was what I was doing when I had my heart attack! (If my gal hadn’t called for an ambulance, I might have gone out with a legend of dying doing what he loved!)
Okay, I larfed.
Glad you are on the mend.
And yes – it is one thing to philosophically accept death. It is another thing when death comes knocking.
The problem is the human body. That dumb animal part of the brain just wants to live, no matter what. An hour before the heart attack, if an angel of the lord came down and told me that I had 24 hours to live, I would have broken out the good scotch and had a party. When the time came, it turned out to be a bunch of pain, fear and panic. Nary a drop of god damned dignity.
My mom’s neighbor hurt his back and went on disability. Then he went back to working in roofing for cash and still collected that government check. The system is worse than terrible.
I’m sorry to hear about your troubles. You do have a good partner, listen to her. And you might want to look into work you can do from home. I’ve been disabled my whole life, never able to do a physical job, but I’ve been able to support myself and my family. You got this.
I feel your financial pain, brodude. Create a GoFundMe. Lay it all out there, expenses and income, whatnot, and let us fill in some blanks for you.
Dump/vent away. Many of us have done it here, some have done it with individual Glibs through email/texts/phone. Sometimes having the ear of people who understand but aren’t in your immediate circle of “in-person” friends is exactly what you need.
Maybe consider joining us on the Friday night Zoom? you can opt not to share video if you like.
And yes, a GoFundMe is appropriate and not unprecedented here.
Count me in. It’s what GFM was created for.
You know what, I just may do that. I’m sure the past few weeks of not having outside human contact hasn’t been the best thing for my mood.
Are these any help?
Benefit finder: https://www.benefits.gov/categories
https://www.fcc.gov/acp
gbob, I’m happy you survived the heart attack.
I think you will pull through. You have a good partner. You sound like an entrepreneurial type.
Best wishes. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help.
As shitty as it can be sometimes, life is worth hanging on to. You’re surrounded by more people that care about you than you realize- even us here on the interwebz, despite being the surly bunch that we are. “True wisdom is forged in the hearth of adversity”. How can you pass along what assholes the world is filled with to your progeny if you’re not around?
My son asked me “Dad- how did you learn to work on cars?” My reply: “I was broke, couldn’t afford a mechanic, and still had to get to work.”
“I was broke, couldn’t afford a mechanic, and still had to get to work.”
#metoo
I discovered I hated working on cars, so once I got a job where I had money to pay someone else to do it, I paid someone else to do it.
Ill still do basic stuff. If its a POS that Im working on for fun that I can turn wrenches when I feel like it, I enjoy it.
But the days of “I have to change this clutch today*” are behind me.
*today to 20-something Tres with a wife, mortgage, utilities, usually meant Sunday afternoon
Sorry 🙁
On the upside you lived.
Anyone who thinks we don’t have socialized medicine is full of shit. And I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing. What you’re experiencing sounds like hell. I appreciate you sharing this. It’s so easy to get caught up in the drama and rage of the day and forget about compassion. Take care of yourself as best you can.
Uffda. DFL’s plan for fixing the problems in child care (which were caused by govt meddling) MOAR SUBSIDIES
This all started with Gov Mumbles who did his best to force child care providers to join a union (as payoff to the unions who supported him). He didn’t get all the way there, but he did add a ton of new regulations. Then King Walz closed everything down and fucked them.
The current subsidy plan has also been abused by fraudulent child care providers. So instead of cleaning up fraud, we are going to throw more money into the hole.
Good grief, Walz is STILL the governor?
I still crack up at the Minnesotan term DFL for democrat party (for the uninitiated, it stands for Democrat-Farmer-Labor, about as close as you can get to socialist without saying socialist), because a husband/wife computer coding team I knew peppered code that they were developing with the comment “DFL” meaning “Drunk–Fix Later”. Apropos for the political party as well.
We’ll need a program to insure that everyone gets to eat 3 good meals a day, even if they have no kids (especially if they have no kids). Maybe a Meal Program, I’d bet there are experienced people that could run such a program, if they only had ome cash.
Eating turnips could help ease vegetable shortage, suggests Therese Coffey
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64745258
but i don’t lie turnips (never had but I can assume )
Probably the Irish in my blood but I love some mashed turnips.
like goddamnit
Everything is better with cheese.
Turnips are pretty good actually.
I’d rather eat bugs.
The greens are good though with pepper sauce and a hunk of fatback but I don’t think that’s what she means.
How have you not had turnips? I thought Comblocers ate the shit out of easy-to-grow/hard for the collective farms to kill crops.
Turnips are not a thing here. And I was a kid in commietimes and do not remember eating turnips. Never saw any in the market. the probably are somewhere but I never notices.
fucked up looking food
@fuckedupfoods
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1629116744228020225
It’s a troll composition.
In the more stuff section:
Genius! I’d have never thought of that.
“Nobody goes there any more…”
If you’ve never seen it, check out the Gallery of Regrettable Food
^^^So much this^^^
This is an interesting sub:
https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/a-new-and-improved-iron-curtain?sd=pf
Pie, any opinions?
I live in Romania, a country where, according to the last census in 2022, about 84% of people were practicing Christians, overwhelmingly within the strict and ritual-heavy Orthodox rite – horseshit. maybe they say orthodox on the census. they certainly dont go to church or keep lent
A middle-aged male colleague got breast implants, wears a wig, and wants to be referred to as “Angela.” – lol. never heard of this happening round here
The dark side to all this is that the English language, through the internet, is the vector for every new high-status belief from abroad, from the positive to the benign and the highly malign – yes. I have seen people doubtful of the mighty vax being called trumpists in Romania
In reality, the city is a different country, much more Westernized, and the trend is towards more urbanization – yes
The reality is that the villages, outside of the suburbs, are, more often than not, alcoholism-plagued wastelands for the people with no other options – yes
And they do, either to the city or abroad. Romania has lost over 1 million people compared to the last census in 2011 – probably a lot more but the politician like inflating population numbers
with 1.5 elderly dependent people for every economically active person. – yup
The tax rate is around 50%, – 42% on the average salary, not counting 19& VAT and other taxes on property gas alcohol etc
The solution is clear and has been outlined and played out by our mothership, the EU – bringing in immigration from Africa and Asia. – more and more Nepalis seem to come
The internet – the US-centric, English-language global internet – is the world young people live in. The smarter and more sophisticated, the deeper they get enmeshed in whatever is coming down the pike this month – in my case it is you fuckers
Solution to what? In what scenario does creating third world ghettos in cities improve them?
not all immigrants are that bad. Nepalis are ok. I don’t want mainly muslims myself
still no Asian escorts yet 🙁
They just squeak when you bang ’em. Makes me think of a dog’s toy and throws me off my game.
Not to mention you’re ready for another one half an hour later.
I’ll stick with my “rubenesque” ladies.
Not to mention you’re ready for another one half an hour later.
I’d gladly sign up for that at my age.
We live in Glorious Times for “chemical enhancement”. Look at some of Q’s tips & tricks.
Even Babe Ruth hit with a corked bat.
I used to work with a Nepali immigrant and got to know a few members of the area’s Nepali expat community.
Good people all of them.
I agree – a century ago the U.S. managed immigration much better. At least the male in the family was expected to have a sponsor and a job almost immediately. The unemployed, unhealthy, and criminal went right back on the next boat back to where they came from. Assimilation was required – even the ethnic neighborhoods in places like Boston and New York were temporary stops for many immigrants during the assimilation process. Welfare and other state benefits for immigrants didn’t exist.
Now it’s the opposite. Assimilation is considered racist and immigrants are immediately given welfare benefits. The vast waves coming in without any assimilation are going to result in tribalism and racism.
Improve them how, and for who?
If the desired end goal is a neo-feudal society, then creating third world ghettos in cities is just the ticket. Just ask CA. If that is what’s desired, then the ghettos are a step along that road and an improvement.
Our rulers seem hellbent on this end goal, as a means to cement their position without that annoying middle class constantly causing trouble for them.
And along the way, another Amnesty and hopefully *poof* millions more Dem voters.
I wonder if the DNC had ever considered the plan could backfire? I know Im dreaming, since you’re bringing over people with little motivation and handing them free shit. But what if…..what if…..they turned republican at the polls ?
Not really a “plan”. Just a general hatred of white normies and a desire for a more malleable class of peasant.
I’m pretty sure that the people here for free shit are going to vote for the party of free shit.
That’s the point of my thought-experiment (hallucination).
What if they didnt ?
I believe fortifications have been made to the point they are not worried about this.
You know the problems Chile has had the last few years? You can say it is all commie agitators, but there was a growing middle class that had rising expectations and the fucking Latin traditional autocratic class weren’t giving any ground. The difference is our neo-aristocrats aren’t part of our social tradition – which makes them far more annoying, and disposable.
“Rep. Gaetz Bill Would Pull US Troops Out Of “Obama’s War In Syria””
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rep-gaetz-bill-would-pull-us-troops-out-obamas-war-syria
Another TRAITOR! They’re everywhere. To be fair, elTrumpo deserves his fair share of blame for that ongoing fiasco too.
The Defense Department spent at least $1.6 million to shoot down three unidentified objects that the Biden administration now says may have been recreational balloons.
That’s not even real money.
Recreational Balloons?
I don’t see TheyFit or MyOne there.
On BBC bias and the anti-capitalist zeitgeist
https://iea.org.uk/on-bbc-bias-and-the-anti-capitalist-zeitgeist/
the BBC recently published an article on what they call “digital exclusion”, describing the plight of families without regular internet access. While almost certainly unintentional, the article, and the responses to it, are a good illustration of how BBC bias works, and how our anti-capitalist zeitgeist perpetuates itself.
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It is an example of how luxury goods can turn into essential goods over time
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So I agree that in 2023, internet access constitutes a necessity, and involuntary lack of it constitutes a form of poverty, even if it would have been ludicrous to suggest the same in 1998.
And yet, rather than focusing entirely on the negatives – would it really have hurt the BBC to also include a paragraph acknowledging the phenomenal and rapid progress that has been made in the field of information and communication technology? Is it not amazing that we now think of something as a “basic essential” which my 18-year-old self didn’t even know existed? That over the course of my adult life, we have gone from “The inter-what?” to “How can we increase internet coverage from 95% to 100%?”.
No. Even one person being denied access to what they want is a complete failure of the system of capitalism.
Some call me…He Who Firsts…
And most people don’t call you at all.
Most call you He Who Speaks From Head Up Own Ass.
Isn’t divorce easier than murder?
Not nearly as satisfying.
Seems like more lawyers and paperwork.
Regardless of how most, if not all, of us feel about the death penalty, lefty journalists breathlessly reporting the last words of a convicted double murderer ripping Ron DeSantis is hilarious.
“Oh man, we totally burned DeathSantis by telling people that a murderer thinks he’s horrible!”
Yeah, it’s really, really stupid. The right people hating someone has to count for something.
It just makes me laugh – who, exactly, do they think this is going to persuade? If you’re not already opposed to DeSantis, why would you give a shit about this scumbag’s statement?
Tucker: This is crazy
It’s a deliberate “fuck you” to the average American taxpayer.
Tucker is deluding himself if he thinks America could modernize anything here stateside with a mere $100 billion. That would barely pay for the environmental impact assessments.
Powerful old empires also do insane self-destructive stuff towards the end.
In way too local news, the first Ohio brewery to get acquired by one of the big guys has closed, with the brand staying alive as three IPA’s (only one of which was a regular item from before the acquisition). The owners also owned the home brew supply shop I generally went to.
Following on this, another local brewery is spotting the laid off employees a beer and a lunch, and A-B has announced layoffs at quite a few other acquired craft breweries (paywalled).
Do you think it’s related to the no drinking fad?
Small businesses are often bought up and dismantled by larger firms. Sum of the assets may have been more than the future profitability.
No drinking fad? What fresh hell is this??
Normal fitness world stuff. Just seeing a lot more lately.
The prohibitionists are doing another push to talk about how alcohol is unsafe at any amount. There were near identical articles posted across several exercise/fitness/outdoorsy magazines and websites.
Weed is cool ,though!
*eye roll*
The coverage of the demon weed entertains and confuses me. I’ve seen articles decrying the glut of weed in some recreational states, as the collapsing prices are hurting dispensaries (and the states tax revenue). I’ve also seen articles about the dangerous effects of children becoming “ill” after eating edibles their parents left out. I may be incorrect, but I believe that due to a loophole in the laws right now, it’s legal here in Ohio for 18+ to buy hemp derived THC, but not tobacco.
It’s bizarre. But stoned kids are manageable kids
If being 100% healhy means denying myself every pleasure this rather depressing world has to offer, bring on the early grave.
My aunt had a stroke and has given up salt forever. My mom’s like, “I’d rather die than give up salt.” Of course, my mom’s counting the minutes until she’s released from this mortal coil, so it could be wishful thinking.
The local brewery had already acquired a reputation of throwing out new beers instead of honing in on a beer before releasing it, and doing only one batch of lots of beers. They also lost a lot of local craft drinkers when they sold to A-B (we’ve got lots of other locally owned options). I think part of it is that we’re in for another craft collapse where the marginal breweries that overextended and thought sales would always be trending upward are going to collapse. There’s lots of reasons for it, I think these are probably the biggest:
1) Societal trends – Craft beer is now the middle aged white man thing, it’s not cool or trendy anymore. The youths prefer their hard seltzers, and flavored malt beverages.
2) COVID – The shutdown of bars put a big hurt on breweries that didn’t have any distribution plans and relied on taproom sales and keg sales to local bars. While those have recovered some, both are still down since 2019.
3) Economy – Material costs are going up, which requires either less profits, or raising prices. With prices generally up across the board, it makes the craft beer an easy thing to leave on the shelf. It’s also harder to get workers in an industry that generally had below average pay rates. Stainless steel prices have shot up enough that expanding a brewery to add a new tank or two is a much larger investment then it used to be.
4) Outstanding loans – If the interest rates keep going up, there’s quite a few breweries that have a nice chunk of outstanding debt that will start getting squeezed.
I watched an episode of The Men Who Built America last night.The one about Carnegie, and steel, it was. It didn’t take long to remember why I hated it when it came out. For one thing, there is a tremendous amount of needlessly repetitive narrative. The thing could have been half as long, with a bit of editing. I must say, the guest commentary from “modern day” titans of industry like Mark Cuban, Donnie Deutsch and Carly Fiorina showed just how serious the writers and producers were. Il Trumpolini showed up, too.
John D Rockefeller was the evilest human to stride the planet (at least until Henry Ford arrived, I suspect). That Frick character gets an honorable mention, since he singlehandedly caused the Johnstown Flood and slaughtered the would be unionists at the Homestead steel plant.
The monsters of industry left a legacy of pure evil and capitalist thievery. America is a blight and a pestilence.
The Discovery Networks do that thing where they come back from commercial break and recap what’s happened, thus needlessly lengthening the show.
Denver leads the nation in car theft per capita. A twelve-year-old and his buddies jacked a car. The owner tracked the car with a tracking device, engaged in a shootout with them, and the driver died. Now the family wants charges brought against the car owner.
https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/family-of-12-year-old-auto-theft-suspect-call-for-charges-against-vehicle-owner-who-killed-him
“”Even though they were joy riding, it was never that serious for somebody to have to lose their life or for [the car owner] to track down the car the way he did,” said Alicia Henderson, Elias’ sister.”
Problem is, the local police aren’t really going after carjackers much anymore. I do feel bad for the family. Losing a young boy is terrible, but maybe take the loss quietly.
Maybe your worthless little brother shouldn’t have valued that man’s car more than his own life. 🤷♂️
*woman, now that I actually read the article.
Also, a shootout implies that the kids were armed, so, yeah, fuck them.
God I can’t fucking read. Never mind. Thought the name of the DA spokesman was the name of the owner.
I should just shut up for a while now.
Friday is comment amnesty day.
Good shoot.
When the owner approached the car, he was “involved in an exchange of gunfire” with those inside the vehicle, according to Denver police.
Passive voice is passive.
And apparently the kid was armed, and I’m guessing shot first.
“”Elias was a ball of energy. He was my birthday twin,” his stepmother, Turquisha Armstrong, said. “Twelve-years-old, had a great smile, great at math. He was a sixth grader doing eighth grade math. He was very intelligent.””
Wait….he was 12 in 6th grade? Now I have a late birthday, but I was 13 as a freshman.
And the article says Turquisha is his step-mom. Ill lay $5 daddy is in the pen.
12 isn’t unusual for 6th grade. You had to be 11 on the first day of class. Some people turned 12 before the end of the school year.
I know it became trendy for parents to hold kids back a year from starting kindergarten because it supposedly gave them a higher chance of excelling in school. Several of my kids’ classmates are a year older than them for this reason. Pretty sure that’s not the case here, though.
I too was a freshman at 13, although I turned 14 midway through the year.
My friend did that. Her son had some mild learning disability so she had him in some light tutoring the year before he went to kindergarten. He’s older than my daughter and was a year behind her.
If you are a freshman at 13, you would be a senior at 16. That is young. My school district required a minimum age of grade + 5 on the first day of school. That required freshmen to be 14.
And the powers have no fucks to give about property crime. Cops can’t be bothered and prosecutors and judges launch these useless bags of flesh back into the world to do it again.
It’s reasonable to expect more of this.
Just take the L.
Hoping for the ghetto lottery, I think.
It’s like they are actively trying to foment racial animosity.
There is an interesting fight brewing in Congress after various cities indicated that they may not only pay reparations but use federal pandemic funds for such payments. There has been a long call for federal reparations with various Democratic bills introduced in Congress. BET founder Robert Johnson has called for $14 trillion in federal reparations. However, cities like Providence, Rhode Island are not waiting. They insist that federal reparations funds are already effectively approved as part of their pandemic relief.
Because they are.
Sorry. We sent it all to Ukraine.
I want reparations for what was done to us under the pandemic. Not money for people who never were slaves. People lost jobs and careers over that pandemic shit. I lost one friend due to the vax. Many people are dying now from that goddamn shot. That’s a real wrong.
My father got clots from the shot. I don’t know how close to dying he was, but it scared the piss outta me.
Stop with the white privilege and fork over your wallet.
I guess one window is as a good as another to toss money out of.
I’m going to have to give the nurse practitioner a raft of grief when I go in to my GP’s office for a routine “Well Chick Check” this afternoon. The office called me a while ago to relay a question from said NP, wondering if I’m having some kind of problem, since apparently it’s odd that I’d be coming in for such an exam after my alleged “hysterectomy.”
Ummm….no. I think I would have remembered that. 🙄 (Fortunately, the gal who called checked my chart after my understandable “WTF???” and found no such erroneous entry, so I have no idea where the NP got that idea.)
What, you didn’t notice?
If it’s not still in there, I don’t want to know how they got it out.
Condolences on still having a uterus.
I had my studying day all planned out and then I found out I didn’t format my last exam correctly and to re-do it and now I’m in a tizzy of WHAT DO I DO?!?!? It is an existential crisis of massive proportions.
“Twelve-years-old, had a great smile, great at math. He was a sixth grader doing eighth grade math. He was very intelligent.””
If he’s so fucking smart tell me again why is he dead?
Some people use their intelligence for criminal purposes.
Notnso much why is he dead, why did he decide to steal cars? Because that is the opposite of intelligent.
How many times does 9 go into 12?
What you did there. I saw it.
*golf clap
Yikes.
What’s the remainder?