More of this, please!!!
The Players is underway. Ohio State won in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament. Jim Boeheim is retiring (years too late). Lewis Hamilton is already being a bitch this season. And Bayern and Milan have moved on in the UCL. What a fun day for sports. Now on to…the links!
Rather than lash out, why don’t you counter his statements with your own evidence? Oh that’s right. You had complete control of the narrative for two full years. I guess you want us all to believe your selective editing is the correct selective editing. Well, tough shit. Nobody is buying that anymore.
Another WIN!!!
“Hotly contested,” lol. I guess it is. But the people contesting it are greedy unions and rich progressives who want their kids to be shielded in private schools. And there’s a lot of overlap between the two groups. Well…tough shit, assholes.
And we can’t even arrest people who mob an entire store and tear it to pieces. Japan is doing better than us in that respect.
Murder victim
I wonder why this hasn’t been front and center on the nightly news for the last week? I guess because he’s all white, it’s alright.
Good thing he’s a bad shot. Jesus, dude. Get your act together. You’ve got (12 or more) kids to raise pay child support for.
I am absolutely shocked by this. Shocked that there weren’t more people indicted.
This is fucking retarded. Why don’t they force employees who are leaving to work an additional 90 days before letting them out of work? Oh, that’s right…because they don’t give a shit about treating both sides of the equation the same.
This is not the same story I posted yesterday. This chick never won any awards.
Today I’m doing y’all a favor. I’m brightening everyone’s day with one of the greatest bands of all time. You’re welcome. I can’t say enough how much I love those two songs (both versions of the second one are magic, but I went with the shorter one. Here’s the other version so you can enjoy it too.) . I know there’s others who share that sentiment. Enjoy greatness.
And enjoy this beautiful Thursday, dear friends.
Hold on, I got to take a shit.
Gesundheit?
I thought that was for sneezing?
Scheisse…
Sandi, is that you?
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
Word is she took a dump on [insert city here] one time.
Sandi Squats on Staten Island?
You know, rockin’ and rollin’
The essential first step in collapsing the Galactic Government
“Rather than lash out, why don’t you counter his statements with your own evidence? Oh that’s right. You had complete control of the narrative for two full years. I guess you want us all to believe your selective editing is the correct selective editing. Well, tough shit. Nobody is buying that anymore.”
HAH! You can’t counter with evidence a fragile narrative built on manipulated and obfuscated bullshit. All you can do is project and demand people that trade in “Misinformation” be punished & silenced so they won’t expose you for a manipulative lying cunte.
I love how Carlson showing actual video is labeled as “airing false depictions”.
Yeah. It blows my mind.
You are not their target audience. The people in their bubble are dumb or brainwashed enough that they will accept that ludicrous depiction as accurate, all because admitting you were fooled is harder than being fooled over and over again.
It’s easier to fool people than convince them they were fooled.
Because they don’t want to believe they were fooled in the first place.
Are we still talking about covid?
It’s cherry picking on both sides.
I think the root of the problem is that big tech banned “unofficial” videos. We are seeing more surveillance footage now, but there plenty of people recording on cell phones, and even a few with actual cameras.
It’s sufficient for Carlson to show that the government and media have been lying. I don’t have to draw any further conclusions about the nature of the protest.
Tucker is showing them to be dishonest totalitarian sacks of shit. That’s reason enough to want them all gone.
It’s cherry picking on both sides.
So it was half insurrection, half not an insurrection?
Neither show insurrection, or a “sacred” place, etc.
There are clips of people being peaceful, and clips of people being violent.
And we known this from the get go, I don’t get how Tuckers videos are any big deal. Unless I’m alone in remembering the videos of people walking inside the ropes and taking selfies and such from day one.
The revelations (so far) were that Shaman was kind of led to the Senate floor and that Hawley wasn’t the only escapee.
We did. The people that watch ABC news, or worse, MSDNC news have seen nothing but the destructive clips, making it look more like insurrection.
Yep, no big deal, that’s why the administration and others are freaking out over it.
Exactly, I have no idea why anyone is freaking out about it.
People should be freaking out over it. They should have been freaking out the entire time. As with COVID, all the info was available the whole time, but the liars, crooks, and psychopaths pounded away with their propaganda.
“What’s the big deal?” is their line. It shouldn’t be ours.
Legit.
If I did anything with that paragraph, I undersold their greatness. They’re easily one of my three favorite bands of all time. In fact, I’ve got about six hours of driving ahead of me today and I think I’ll spend all of it listening to them.
Now we need a Tony Stark: “Not a bad plan.” meme alternative.
#metoo
Enjoy!
Who are the other two?
The Clash and The Who.
Who’s on third?
I don’t know.
Some of their post JD lyrics are lazy, and Bernard can’t really sing, but yeah, I’ve long been a fan.
I recall the first time I heard Temptation was in this movie.
If he decides to retire when his contract is up at the end of this season, I don’t think many would mind. He’s rather worn out his welcome. I can’t imagine Merc bumping Mick into the number 2 seat, though… though given they’re settling into being a mid-field team, I suppose that fits what we’ve seen of his driving so far… mid-field at best.
Botas has to be just laughing his butt off….
I think he’s become too sure of his abilities. Someone should publicly ask him for his engineering schematics that will help their slow-speed cornering and then ask how they’re going to implement his new aero package. Then we can all watch him call that person a racist.
Personally I’d pay good money to see a special event (I’d put it as a pre-season race) where the current F1 field drives the next year’s F2 cars. Bahrain would be good — they all know it and there are solid passing opportunities (“if there aren’t we can make them… you know…”), more than Barcelona (imho). Level the playing field and have it be an actual driver ability showcase.
Then I think a lot of Lewis’s bravado at being GOAT might just be revealed as the luck of getting a dominating car and maybe, just maybe he’d remember some humility.
We need an IROC series again where they all drive the same cars.
That’d work. I just figured FIA would have an easier time borrowing the F2 cars and all. Plus it would showcase any F2 rule changes before they start up their season. Win win.
Bring some Indy car drivers into the mix, do the same with WRC, and sprinkle in a NASCAR driver or two to round out. And use whatever you want. Hell, have some sports cars as well as open wheel depending on the circuit. It would be loads of fun.
They raced and F1 and an Indy car at COTAS last year. The F1 car crushed it. While Indy has higher top speed, it doesn’t have the anywhere close to the speed in the corners.
This ain’t NASCAR and this ain’t Le Mans. Part of F1 is an engineering battle. Ferrari was let down by a good car with poor reliability last week.
Hamilton is a great driver, but his GOAT status is because Mercedes was untouchable for 8 of the last 9 years.
Look at Russell. He went from being about 18th a couple years back to subbing for Mercedes and would have won a race except for a tire puncture. GOAT my ass.
While Indy has higher top speed, it doesn’t have the anywhere close to the speed in the corners.
Not surprising given the spec nature of IndyCar these days. When you’re running the same fundamental chassis on ovals and road/street courses, compromises have to be made.
It’s too bad the aerokit era didn’t stick. Those cars were ugly as sin, but they were engineering marvels.
Nice move, airing dirty laundry after just the very first race – maybe keep that in-house for a bit. Stay classy, Lewis.
WTF would Hamilton go if not Mercedes? Who’s gonna pay him a pile of cash and bump one of their current drivers?
This is not the same story I posted yesterday. This chick never won any awards.
The government needs to make sure the nerdy kids get their fair share of teacher blowjobs, not just the cool kids. This should be a union responsibility.
“I wonder why this hasn’t been front and center on the nightly news for the last week? I guess because he’s all white, it’s alright.”
I hope all the officers are safe
I guess carriage returns are better than hyphens.
Well it seems clear in this case that one text is the link. You people.
““Hotly contested,” lol. I guess it is. But the people contesting it are greedy unions and rich progressives who want their kids to be shielded in private schools. And there’s a lot of overlap between the two groups. Well…tough shit, assholes.”
If you need more evidence that these people have an agenda that is anathema to the young (except for their own), the public school debacle is right at the top of the criteria to prove it (and their agenda to sexualize, confuse, and permanently damage the psyche of children is a close second).
It’s not an accident that the public schools system has been coopted by brainwashers & groomers and seems to be geared towards only producing aggrieved, angry, dysfunctional, and marxist idiots with low intellectual capacity/capability.
People fighting back against this evil agenda sure as hell piss of the nomenklatura that sees their own offspring becoming dumber and dumber (because even these private schools indoctrinate too much).
Yes. Private schools can be just as bad.
The big difference in respect to Marxist bullshit is that we parents have direct input to the board where we can (and have at my son’s school) put the kabosh on the stupidity like the Kemdi shit that was en vogue in 2020-2021, whereas government school parents have virtually no input, and being labeled as domestic terrorists if they try.
So… they see him make a movement towards the floorboard (surprised it wasn’t called “furtive”), yell “gun gun gun”, blaze away… then turn off the body cameras and produce still shots later of a gun being there?
Yeah… sorry cops — without unedited bodycam footage showing the sequence including finding the gun… that rather stinks of “drop gun”. Given he was apparently a sovereign citizen who didn’t believe in car registration, that makes it even easier if the gun wasn’t connected to him… “Oh, he didn’t believe in properly registering his firearms! You believe in properly following all our laws, right serf *cough* I mean, citizen?”
If it is indeed a drop gun I agree.
OTH, with an armed “sovereign citizen” resisting arrest I’ll acutally give the cops some leeway.
As usual, however, the cops aren’t cooperating or being fully truthful.
I’m not sure refusing to give a DL should count as resisting. It was a traffic stop, after all. They could have issued a citation to the owner of the vehicle (which was the driver) based off the picture their computer gave them when they ran the plates, and been on their way.
The stop was for invalid plates (so I’m kind of wondering if he just printed his own or something), so they probably didn’t have anything from running them, to be fair.
But yeah — if he was still in the car (not gunning it towards someone) and just not wanting to get out / not wanting to identify, that’s not “resisting” in my book. One of the major disagreements I have with current law… making police have to actually exert themselves to do their job is not “impeding” or “resisting” and most certainly, moving / cringing / trying to instinctually shield yourself from harm while getting tazed or beaten up is not “resisting”. Insert standard rant that I really hate the grifters who hijack any chance of actual police reform. Bleah.
Then run the vin that’s in the windshield or the door jamb and see who turns up as the registered owner. Issue a citation and walk away. Hell, follow him home if you want so you have his address should he not answer the summons.
There’s a dozen ways to handle this that don’t require violence. But violence is their business, so high fives all around to these brave peacekeepers.
Fucking scumbags.
Good point, can’t argue with any of that.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend survived shooting at the rotten cops and even avoided prosecution. This asshole in Utah was going to die in a hail of bullets one way or another.
OBEY or die?
The new professionalism!
How about don’t make it worse? Utah asshole did. Oops.
Whether the stop is legal or not, you would be smart to comply on scene and fight any outcomes in court. There are plenty of cases of false arrest charges that turn into civil suits where the victim prevails. The street is not the place to argue sovereignty (or any matters of law), especially with a state thug with a gun and a high school diploma for legal education. I don’t care for cops, but I also think this dude escalated his situation in a completely avoidable manner.
I can see a drop gun. I can’t see a drop holster.
Being Chicago (like New Orleans or New York), I’m more surprised any corruption was looked into. They must have pissed off the wrong people.
“I am absolutely shocked by this. Shocked that there weren’t more people indicted.”
How bad did the people targeted have to be in this day and age where Soros AGs have made a mockery of the legal system? That or they must have pissed of someone higher on the totem pole that now wants to show their power by getting their pound of flesh. These people always end up eating each other (see any state run by team blue for too long).
Re: CA labor laws… they’re just bound and determined to drive every major company out of this state. Which I wouldn’t mind as much if relocating (even though I work remote) means a pretty big COLA downwards and if they drive enough out, I doubt anyone would buy my house if I had to move. Happy happy joy joy.
well at least you’ll have the weather
Sarcasm?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/california-storm-forecast-atmospheric-rivers.html
Overall the weather in California is good. Yes there are occasional storms, but those are not the norm year round.
Good and fucking boring, you mean.
boring is good when it comes to weather. Mild and boring is best. Who the hell wants exciting weather?
:raises hand: I grew up in the Southeast US. Other than tornadoes from time to time, the weather was varied enough to be interesting and I miss that. A lot.
Don’t mock the rain! I’ll take anything we can get versus the more “normal” years of 1 month of winter and 11 months of boring fucking “clear and sunny” with various degrees of heat. I so miss seasons, afternoon thunderstorms, etc. Sigh.
When did the whole “atmospheric rivers” thing start becoming common? I don’t remember ever hearing it before a couple years ago.
It’s the polar vortex of moisture related scary weather terminology.
So in a couple of years it will be a bomb tsunami?
Bomb Cyclone Derecho Tsunami River Microburst!
Sensei will now let us know that’s the latest hot anime / manga or something.
A “Divine Wind” if you will.
It used to be called the Pineapple Express, but that wasn’t scary enough.
You just need to sell ahead of the curve.
[smiles glibly]
My track record on buying high and selling low will doubtless remain intact.
Yes, its better, but it is still declining. This kind of behavior would essentially be unheard of pre social media. One good thing is shame and family shame still exists.
Funny enough, this was a news story my teacher selected to discuss when it happened in February. I also wound up discussing it with my friends so I now know more about it than I ever wanted.
Re: music… I do find it a little funny, we get New Order, Joy Division, OMD, etc… but unless I’ve missed it — none of the linkers ever throw a PSB song in. There’s a lot of crossover fans between those, so just surprising to me. But thanks for the New Order, always good. Now I’ll stop point replying to the Links. 😉 Morning, all.
Man, I do like PSB. Suburbia is one of my favorite songs of all time. In retrospect, I haven’t played them enough and I will correct that in the near future.
Thanks for the mild rebuke. I earned it.
No rebuke meant, good sir. 😉 Suburbia is up there on my list — but for some crazy reason, this is actually my favorite. This has to be one of the all time winners for “Great song… what the HELL were you thinking with that video?!?”
Damn you. Now I’m down a rabbit hole.
The second version of Temptation is great. For lesser known songs I like Lonesome Tonight.
This old man will watch a bunch of senior citizens play the best they can for one day in May.
https://cruelworldfest.com/ “See them before they die festival 2023”
Billy Idol was pretty great the last I saw him, as was Iggy Pop. I’ve never seen one of my all time favorite bands Love and Rockets, so this is what sold me on the show, as well as Siouxie for Mrs. Time.
Will it be as good as it was 30-40 years ago?? likely not, but it will be quite a bit better than a lot of crap I’ve seen.
The girlfriend and I are contemplating going to catch Iggy Pop while we’re in Vegas. He’ll be playing up at the Palms while Viva is going on.
Wow that looks great. Love & Rockets was my first concert back in high school. I’d like to see them again.
Why don’t they force employees who are leaving to work an additional 90 days before letting them out of work?
The benefit of enlistment was guaranteed work for the duration. The liability was I couldn’t quit until the contract was up.
Dis grumbled employees are not an asset. The severance pay is to get rid of them. They’ve used up their $20 worth of value.
Meanwhile their charters schools operate on a lottery since there’s such a high demand to enroll peoples’ kids. I suspect this law will open the floodgates for more charter schools to open.
The only “means to enroll” needed for charter schools, in my experience, is driving the kid to school and picking up. I would think public schools would appreciate charter to some extent, as it lowers their transportation costs dramatically. And in some systems, that is a large cost.
For my daughter, her charter is about a 20 min drive, while the local public elementary school is in our neighborhood, a few blocks away.
In some places it’s illegal for kids to walk to school.
Around here it’s not illegal, but 99% of people are too lazy to walk, despite the public elementary school being in the neighborhood. God forbid little suzie has to put on a rain jacket once in a blue moon. Of course, the drivers are complete lunatics because they need to rush back home for a meeting or something. We get people parking in front of alleys, doing 3 point turns in traffic in an area where you can literally just drive around the block in 30 seconds, people double parking, etc.
The self-absorbed insanities I used to associate with the city are out here in the suburbs in force. More people walking would be a huge benefit to the general sanity of the neighborhood. The people around here drive like we’re in Hyderabad.
When I was in elementary school it was a well anticipated right of passage to walk or ride to school. Kids beyond 3rd or 4th grade who took the bus or parents were pitied and or mocked. The bike area had 100’s of bikes in it each day.
And of course, like Vermont, it was uphill through 150 degrees of heat BOTH WAYS.
I started riding bike to elementary school in 2nd grade. I took the bus to junior high because it was far away and across several large, major intersections. Rode with friends in HS until I got a car.
But this was the 80s. I rode my bike everywhere until I could drive. Several miles in any direction.
At my kid’s elementary school, the kids (even up to 5th graders) are not allowed to leave under their own supervision. Every kid that isn’t getting on a bus has to be released directly to the parent or whatever known caregiver. This directly causes a three block traffic jam right in front of the school (and my house).
We live directly across the residential street from the school. It’s safety madness that has all sorts of 2nd and 3rd order consequences. Absolute insanity, and it isn’t being driven by the parents.
While I’m ranting… Today is probably the 7th snow day this year, and there is two inches, at best, of snow on the ground. They call off the school day the evening before, based on the (always overplayed) forecast.
It’s “gross” that that person will not be honest about the fact that he wants children stuck in shitty schools.
^^^THIS^^^
They wouldn’t be so shitty if they got proper funding!
And the same people making that argument say we need to scrap the US healthcare system because it’s too expensive.
Just a math point: If charter is drawing 90% funding, then every kid who moves to a charter is increasing the per pupil funding of public students.
Lets do an example: a district has 1000 kids, @7413 each, that is $7,413,000 total.
100 move to charter, the math is quite straight forward, but to keep the 90% level, they would have to get 9% of that total, or $667,170 or $6671.70 each. The public school would get the remaining $6,745,830 or $7495.37 each, an increase of 1.1%.
“isnt quite straight forward”
I think the argument would be there are some fixed costs which are the same for 500 or 1000 kids so the more kids the less the fixed costs are per kid. Off course at least part of those fixed costs are pointless administators
That is correct and semi-legitimate.
Colorado does it by separating education costs from infrastructure costs and charter gets, I think, 100% of education funding, but 0% of infrastructure funding. So they have to do fundraising/syphon off of the other, to build buildings and etc.
My daughters school opened their building in 2019, I think. They operated for about 5 years before that in rented facilities while building up the cash to build. My city, controversially, funded some infrastructure for charter schools within the city. My daughters school is in FtC, not where we live, so it didnt apply to them.
blockquote etc “re-segregate” Arkansas schools blockquote etc (happy?)
I thought POC only spaces were all the rage these days, so segregation is good aktchually
There’s a bill going through the Ohio statehouse to expand the current voucher program to more Ohio children that’s being called a “backpack funding” bill. Even though it appears (to me through the brief readings I’ve given the coverage) to still continue to fund the public schools.
The teachers’ union obviously forced them to pull the story. Censorship!! ::shakes fist::
Sorry about that:
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/03/backpack-bill-universal-school-vouchers-could-cost-up-to-11-billion-a-year-according-to-state-estimate.html
That headline sounds disingenuous. such a bill should be revenue neutral, keeping existing funding with the child.
See my comment below, not really, as those currently attending private schools and getting $0 funding would get a backpack too.
Just cut the Department of Education. That should cover the differential.
I am all for ending the DoE, but I want my federal money back, not being sent to Ohio.
There are state departments of education.
It’s like you don’t even government, man.
That is a DoE not the DoE.
Of course it’s not the Department of Energy.
The “problem” with vouchers as opposed to charter schools is that it is a bigger financial hit as private school students and homeschool students will suddenly get their “backpack” of money to use. I personally dont see that as a problem.
The real problem, as I see it, is that, like with university costs, it will push up the cost of private schools. No school will charge less than the backpack amount and “selective” schools may boost their already insane tuition by the amount of the backpack. If you had a $8k voucher, I could see a $25k school jumping over $30k if not all the way to $33k.
Don’t want the poors who could only afford a $17k tuition bill getting in.
Unlike college, they can’t borrow unlimited money. On the other hand, going to college isn’t mandatory. So they are both distorted markets, but not distorted in the same way.
A backpack bill would still fund the public schools if the kids (the parents) chose to go to a public school.
But, like with the Arkansas bill, or the way CO does it, I bet it funds the public schools more per student.
Government schools, not public schools. Tow the lion, people.
Am I British now, did we lose the War of 1812 and I got history wrong?
I can’t even remember what “Public school” means there, but it is weird.
Private.
“At the end of the day, this is only going to be for a few people,” said Jim Ross, a history teacher at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
He said unironically.
BAH GAWD!!!!
This is an absolutely hilarious chart.
https://twitter.com/marwood_lennox/status/1633236049089515522
Hilarious? No.
Intuitive? Yes.
Sure, just your average 25 year old white guy.
What do you think Chris Rock would say about that – you know what would happen if a black man did it. “They bringin’ the whupp-ass”
Of course mere possession of a firearm is not an executable offense.
Nope, nor is resisting arrest. But you play stupid enough, and the cops can be even more stupid.
Agreed. it is one thing if you comply with them and they gun you down. it is another if you act belligerent or stupid, then give them any reason to claim they felt it had escalated to a point where they were in danger.
Also, I can’t remember who said it, but the question was asked how many incidents where the police end up responding with force come from the people they are dealing with being intoxicated (drunk or high)? The stats showed practically every instance had this characteristic in common.
He was just keeping it real.
Nope. Capitalism breeds cunts like Elon Musk.
https://twitter.com/Ian_Parsley/status/1633515413857345538
Three things. The left can’t meme. Elon Musk is not in any shape the main problem with the world. And three that stupid image is like the 23 deodorants thing: dumb as a rock. Also people in Socialist Romania would have stood in line many hours for any of those burgers. Oh and competition is good aktchually
Ian Parsley
@Ian_Parsley
Socialist space musician ☮️ #PeaceNow #GTTO #ItWasAScam #AntiFa #BanHunting #StarmerOut #JustStopOil #GivePeaceAChance
JFC
I’m pretty sure no one’s terribly interested in the Ian Parsley Project.
I read his “your a slave to the corporations” rants. What a maroon.
Half decent cover band
LOL covers all the bases
“Elon Musk is not in any shape the main problem with the world.”
In my opinion one of the top problems with the world are all the entitled jealous/envious people that hate success of others and feel compelled to punish that success to feel better about the fact they are losers.
No wonder they’re fighting to destroy a foundation that includes Thou shalt not covet…. so strongly.
and only now I see those are not burgers but chicken sandwiches. The point stands
CWAA
And yet despite looking similar, every one of those chicken sandwiches taste (and are priced) differently.
It’s almost like people have individual preferences, even when many different things can look deceptively similar. Id bet someone more imaginative than I am could come up with a chart of useless griefer studies degrees.
Sloopy,
Love the New Order. I never listened to that version of Temptation before or if I had I was not aware.
They still had it in them to make a great pop song in the new millennium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVMyXDsadLQ
I love the video with the Killers performing it.
Truth.
Are they actually making money now that they are not funding Factory records? They are a great example of how to be a successful band with longevity.
Can’t stop grinning. Rajiv’s and asshole. About time things caught up to him.
you are envious of your betters.
That’s a really short list which contains none of the people invovled.
Won’t let me read since I have an ad blocker.
Acting head of Budget for NY is out of her job, Deputy Head of ITS is on a leave of absence during the investigation into procurement “irregularities” and the head of ITS retired the day after.
It’s government in NY. Crooks all the way down.
So where are My kickbacks?
Are you one of the “Made Guidos”?
“All the way down” is an inclusive declaration, not limited to the connected set.
Anyone you’ve worked with?
Yes and no.
Aside from his monthly all-hands “meetings” where no one else is allowed to actually say anything, I’ve only had to directly deal with Rajiv once, but there are only a few managers between myself and him. I’ve met Tony (outgoing head of my agency) a few times at project meetings. Never met the woman from Budget.
The governor of NY is never corrupt. They have a special anti-corruption barrier that shields them from the actions of their direct reports, best friends, family members, sexual partners, etc.
In my experience when you think nobody could be worse 50% of the time you acutally do get a replacement that is worse.
50/50 is still good odds.
From the Battle of Britain, tracer ammunition is seen hitting a German Heinkel He 111 from an RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mark I. 🇬🇧
Taken on the 25th September 1940, this dogfight was in response to a large German Luftwaffe formation attacking a Bristol Aeroplane Company factory.
https://twitter.com/AndreasKoureas_/status/1633472200698109954
Nice weather here for the next couple of weeks. Which sucks because the apricots will bloom and if there is another early April frost, again a bad apricot year, fourth in a row this would be
What do vampires do with apricots?
Lure the young village virgins with their sweet nectar into their dark embrace, presumably.
I thought vampires had a twist on sangria where they liked to put apricots in their Mary’s blood.
sweet nectar – no apricots are best when only half ripe and as such slightly more sour than sweet. Also the texture should be crunchy not soft and juicy. If you bite in a fruit and you get any juice on your chin, it is too ripe. You people.
So there are no good peaches in Romania. Good to know.
I have become a fan of Palisade peaches. Still not as good as random roadside GA peaches, but pretty darn good.
So there are no good peaches in Romania – there are if you have a tree and pick them at the right time. The ones in the market are usually too ripe.
roadside GA peaches
This right here. Had to drive to Georgia for a funeral a year or two back, and picked up a case of peaches on the way home. Never had such good peaches. Almost worth killing off someone else to go back.
You can Peach Truck, bro!
You liked their peaches; did you want to shake their tree?
“This is not the same story I posted yesterday. This chick never won any awards.”
Also black female teacher with girls. It’s usually a white female teacher with boys.
Score one for the DEI training!
Honestly, we just need glory holes in schools. Pedos/teachers can bid for time slots on the other side, It makes money, hormones are settled, trauma fails to ensue. Win-win-win!
Thinking outside the educational morass box?
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Time: 04:13.17
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Pints Drank
@PintsDrank
Pint of Mythos, Halkidiki
What are we saying about the glass?
https://twitter.com/PintsDrank/status/1633557029062074369
I had mythos last year on the beach in Greece. Mythos ice, which is lower alcohol I think like 3.5-4 %. Tasted mostly like water but it was 39C and I had 7 of the things so it is good it was lower alcohol.
Romanians drink their beer above body temperature? I can understand you guys preferring blood-wanrm, but that’s just weird.
the weather was 39C smartass
I am familiar with the Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin weather scales. Never heard of the Smartass scale though. Is that a Al Gore invention?
Let the jokes begin!
Is this in the same vein as Harry Reid’s “workout accident” from back when? Who gave Cocaine Mitch the workover?
So Cocaine Mitch is now Acid Mitch?
In largely unreported news, the war machine lumbers on.
I listened to some of Mike McCaul’s speechifying yesterday on this. He appears to be the new, improved GOP warmonger. He was spouting lie upon lie as justification for why we need to keep a troop presence in Syria.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/08/house-votes-down-resolution-to-withdraw-troops-from-syria/
It’s all about the oil, isn’t it?
It’s a confluence of things, but that’s one of them
But as usual, the stated reason of fighting ISIS is total bullshit.
Fun with pronouns from 1975
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fqt4ReKWcAI5Sen?format=png&name=small
Funny how much shit people made fun off to rankle the people warning about the slippery slope have come to pass, huh?
Shit, these days our leaders think such works of dystopian fictions as 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, and Fahrenheit 451 are “How to” manuals…
Since we have more than a few BaT fans here – WSJ has piece on the history of the place.
How One Guy’s Car Blog Became a $1 Billion Marketplace
Excellent piece. Thank you!
Fiscal responsibility
President Biden will unveil his budget on Thursday, a proposal that the White House says would reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over 10 years.
Since Congress controls the purse strings — and Republicans control the House of Representatives — the plan is more of a political exercise than a practical roadmap for spending. Rather, it’s an opening volley in a high stakes political fight over government funding and the debt ceiling, and is something that Biden can point to during what’s expected to be a second run for the White House in 2024.
Biden is set to formally release the plan in a speech in Philadelphia, going to a politically critical state to draw attention to something that is often little more than a document dump.
“We see this as a values statement,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday. “And so he wanted to make sure that it was fiscally responsible.”
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There are a range of tax increases on the wealthy in the budget. White House said the plan would cut tax breaks for oil and gas companies and for real estate investors, and end tax breaks used by the wealthy, including the carried interest tax break. There are some other proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy as well.
Finally, Bill Gates and Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett will be allowed to pay their fair share.
I can hardly wait.
The plan is to basically strangle geese so as to increase golden egg production.
Appropriate if not obligatory.
FYCS
31-year-old Connecticut lunch lady arrested after having sex with 14-year-old boy and sending him nudes 👀
https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1633557223916929032
I think this is a different one than the others
Well, hello lunch lady…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-nj5ZoZwg
New Fairfield….
Yeah, that fits.
It’s one thing to play games with video surveillance footage for propaganda purposes. But DC and Federal prosecutors are also doing it in legal proceedings. They refused to share the videos with J6 prisoners and lawyers even though the prosecution could see them and defense requested them.
Breaking faith that way during Discovery used to result in dismissals and serious consequences for lawyers, even disbarment. Back when we had a real legal system.
There’s no coming back from this. Half the country or more doesn’t believe a word they say.
In response, they will create crisis upon crisis in order to get people to willingly submit to their “protection.”
It will get worse and worse until it falls apart, however long that takes. They just don’t know how to quit.
Yup. That’s what gets me — every. fucking. single. one. of the J6 trials where this evidence was denied to the defense should be thrown out and the prosecutors disciplined.
And I’m equally likely to hitch a ride on Elon’s Starship for a Mars settlement at this point. Infuriating.
No kidding. To me, that is such a fundamental due process violation that it is proof positive that the corrupted institutions definitely include the courts. One judge denied access to the footage because the accused couldn’t prove that footage they had never seen would be exculpatory.
Also another reason why they were held without bail.
For 2 years. In prison.
And beaten and abused. And in solitary.
Phrenology is considered very silly nowadays. But it was a big step forward from thinking the cortex was primarily for cooling the blood. They were among the first to say the cortex was used for thinking, and moreover, possessed functional specialisation. A good start, gold star!
https://twitter.com/ArthurCDent/status/1633595105780338689
The Brits have been screwing the data so hard that now the clotshots reduce your chance of dying from anything by 50%
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/take-the-jab-and-live-forever
This was surgically removed from brain of a one year old. Source: @GreenJournal 🧵
https://twitter.com/OGdukeneurosurg/status/1632543129537576961
trigger warning I thing…
Poor Kuato…
Mr. Beast is trending again, what awful thing did he do this time?
Truly the worst.
How dare he engage in fashion colonialism!
/rhee-sistance
Your take is refreshingly new.
Srnsei- thanks for the BaT article. It wasn’t even paywalled. I remember when BaT was people posting interesting craigslist ads for “some assembly required” project cars.
At least it’s on our own border and the cartels don’t have nukes (probably)…
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/08/sen-lindsey-graham-says-he-will-introduce-legislation-for-military-intervention-in-mexico/
If we play our cards right, maybe we can trade wars in Ukraine, Iran, and Taiwan for one in Mexico.
Can we just give closeted Jimmy Carter a rifle and a bus ticket to Tijuana?
We might (might!) be able to win vs Mexico.
Define “win”. Because Lindsey won’t. But he has finally found a border on the map that protecting is in our national interest.
Goddammit… we’re 10 years off the anniversary to do this right. Any of the Pershing family still in the Army these days? Can one of the cartel bosses start calling himself “Pancho”?
Why he was called Black Jack.
“a system-changing universal school voucher program, which critics warn could decimate the public school system”
Feature, not bug. And its not a public school system, its a government school system.
Love to teach kids PolSci by mapping Hiter on a compass with Gandhi/Mandela/the Dalai Lama.
Obama in both elections, more authoritarian than an actual dictator, Castro.
Also the “Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush” dot is just incredible.
https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1633575185302401026
Somebody drank the Kool-Aid.
Bernie Sanders is the most centrist!
Obama is to the right of Hitler?
Trump is more authoritarian than Stalin?!? Ron Paul is just barely Libertarian? Methinks there’s a good bit of “Anyone to the right of Mao is a centrist at best” here….
“We agree with the chief of the Capitol Police and the wide range of bipartisan lawmakers who have condemned this false depiction of the unprecedented, violent attack on our Constitution and the rule of law – which cost police officers their lives,” Bates said. “We also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: That Tucker Carlson is not credible.”
You are a liar and you can shut up, go away, and feel lucky that you will never get what you actually deserve for your heinous lies.
Does the British burning everything (except the Marine Barracks) to the ground in 1812 not count when it comes to “unprecedented”?
Terrorist nation.
Hey, they left the post office standing as well.
There was only one war, and it was WW II. Everything must be viewed through this perspective.
/Boomer
Daily Ray of Sunshine
*Hat tip to Fourscore who is getting soft in his dotage.
Moar background on the Ray
Very nice!
Cops release footage of five Utah cops yelling ‘gun, gun, gun, gun’ before firing hail of bullets into all sides of BMW killing 25-year-old Utah law student during fatal traffic stop
It’s Coming Right For Us!
No argument here. I fell in love with New Order the first time I heard them, and I still feel the same today. I saw them live in 1989, and I’d still like to see them and Peter Hook’s band.
I listened to them without much thought in the 80s. Now they are still on my playlist and I appreciate them more – and not just for the nostalgia.
The squids are out in force today.
How dare the gubbment start a database and mandate that providers of a good and service submit who their customers were! You know that the gubbment will use it to persecute the law abiding citizens who use that service!
To be fair, I am betting that a good chunk of the gun nuts are for collecting abortion data. You’d think that the gun nuts and the abortion nuts would come together and demand that the gubment just stop.
‘parental notice requirement for minors.’
Just notice, not even consent…
Wow, the spin on that CNN article about Tucker Carlson is enough to make me dizzy. He must have hit a little too close to the truth for the establishment to be freaking out this bad.
The acid test for me is the Hawley Kerfuffle.
The J6 showed a clip that made him look like he was slipping away like a weasel. Tucker shows a longer clip and it shows him being a second behind a large mob of Senators leaving the building.
Anyone who wants me to believe Tucker is the one selectively editing clips, needs to explain that one. My lyin’ eyes sure make it seem like it was the J6 committee who was playing with the footage in the video bay.
And if Tucker is skewing clips, show us.
SHUT UP AND BELIEVE OUR NARRATIVE!!!
Good morning, Sloop!
Man, that second version of Temptation is money. What a great band!
I love where I live.
One of the local VFW’s is having a pistol and purse bingo night. 10 of each for the night. One or the other for the game’s winner.
I can’t imagine what kind of purse would be worth the same as a decent pistol.
I was reading it as there were only ten prizes, with a pistol in every purse.
I’d vote for a candidate running on that platform.
Coach brand bags? One thing you can say about pistols – you don’t get knock-offs of the premium brands!
::snorts disdainfully:: What they cost =/= what they’re worth. I care not a whit about “designer” handbags.
Dreadful capitalism!
Coach has moved way down in actual quality and design since they started chasing popular fashion. I remember when their bags were truly beautiful with top quality (USA made) leather and subdued logo to the point of missing.
You do get a great deal of clones and copycat pistols. Some are as good/better than the originals, while others stink.
Waitaminit… this is a Glocc-19!
Do you not Fendi?
Never heard of them. Would not pay a tenth of those prices for a handbag.
My sister-in-law has been known to barge into the kitchen to talk the chefs into giving her salmon sushi before it even hits the conveyor belt. She was getting mad that some people up conveyor from us were grabbing all the salmon sushi before it could make it to us.
So she used her Korean privilege to be pushy and brash and get her salmon. The other Japanese were mad, but they were Japanese and didn’t dare raise a ruckus or be impolite.
You should take taken the seat at the start of the conveyor if you were so picky.
We wanted to, but there were already people there. Greedy people who were swiping all the salmon like a bear in a river.
And you didn’t deal with them rather than hassling the poor cooks?
Actually I just hate the conveyor belt setup as a concept.
Are you suggesting that we break the non aggression principle by “dealing” with the people who beat us to the restaurant?
Seems like changing the rules a bit is a better solution.
You already admitted to agressing against the innocent staff.
Conveyor-belt sushi places sound stupid.
I went to one in Tokyo; it was fun and convenient with my near-total lack of Japanese.
I liked the simplicity of it. The price for the item was based on the color of the dish it came on. Once you were ready to check out they just counted the dishes in each color and multiplied by price of the dish.
It’s a novelty. Ours has robots deliver the drinks and dispenses little toys when you hit 15 plates. My 5 year old goes nuts for it.
Our local conveyor sushi place has the ability to special order anything on the menu and have it delivered direct via another conveyor. Solves the problem without having to get out of my seat. 👍
I’m not a sushi person, but my understanding is that you can order directly from the kitchen too in many places.
i.e. it goes on a special plate / line just for that table with a number on it.
They can be fun. One of my most memorable sushi bar visits was to one of those, only it wasn’t a conveyor belt, it was a little water channel that the sushi plates floated down in boats. I thought it was a great chance to try some things I wouldn’t order. It’s how I learned that sea urchin is probably the most vile thing on a sushi menu, for example.
I don’t like all sushi including uni.
Uni is very polarizing even among sushi lovers. People either love or hate it.
I see your sea urchin and raise you conch. Here, eat this old eraser sitting on a bed of rice.
Republicans have said they will work to extract spending cuts from the White House as a condition for raising the debt limit. They say spending is out of control.
Those crazy Republicans!
I caught a bit of the news last night as I was waiting for the weather guy to come on. I can’t remember the quote exactly, but somebody was whining about Carlson being allowed to directly contradict the official police version of events, which apparently is nothing short of treason. What the fuck has happened to this country?
Exactly what They wanted to happen.
The performative “outrage” is going to have the desired effect.
Desperate people, feeling they have no future or opportunity, are easier to coopt. To make the masses accept their new marxist oligarchy of technocrats and bureaucrats calling the shots for the serfs, they must destroy society.
https://babylonbee.com/news/Media-warns-that-anyone-watching-unedited-jan-6-footage-could-arrive-at-unapproved-conclusion
At publishing time, Democrats released findings from the intelligence community stating the Jan 6 tapes were unapproved Russian disinformation.
Bee needs to stay in its lane… they’re supposed to be parody, not hard news.
What the fuck has happened to this country?
The moral foundation was eroded away in the name of 100 different causes, and now we’re watching as the building sways and collapses piece by piece in a light breeze.
^^^
Very well put.
I feel bad for the gay and lesbian Glibsters. The track record of historic “FIRST GAY XXX” has not been good. Pete has been really bad at his job and locally our FIRST GAY SHERIFF hasn’t covered himself with glory. (He’s been voted out already, but the stories keep coming out about how bad he was).
The good new? I guess that since Hutchinson crashed his sheriff department car while driving over 100mph drunk, they stopped adding “first gay sheriff in Minnesoda” to every story about him.
I assume Glibs try to get hired based on merit not their identity.
Me too. That is why it sucks when everyone makes a stink about FIRST GAY EVER and then that person turns out to be a train wreck (which isn’t dealt with for weeks and weeks). It makes everyone question whether the G-Glib will actually show up or will be on paternity leave for months.
I always laugh out loud when I hear “First openly gay [person in a particular public office] since it means that there were closeted gays in the position before and you therefore get to guess which one(s) they are implying.
While tossing and turning in bed last night, I figured out what happened to that Nordstream pipeline. It was a couple of Ukrainian guys, on their buddy Ivan’s boat. They dropped anchor near the sign that said “Danger: Pipeline Below”, and threw some grenades overboard. Because the pipeline was far underwater, they didn’t count to 3 first.
Isn’t that the official cover story from Germany?
Watched the Capitol police interview on Tucker from Tuesday, where requests for permission to evacuate Congress was ignored. I wonder if the real intention was to have some throw away members or senators martyred by the (glowie instigated) crowd.
They wanted a Reichstag fire so they could pass an enabling act.
I thought it was just part of an effort to make the whole thing as chaotic as possible for propaganda purposes. Right then, there was still a real chance that the election “results” would be disputed.
The requests for backup being shut down? All because of optics? No, they got exactly the spectacle they wanted.
Between our pledges to give abortions to anyone and our new pledge to chop bits off of kids Minnesoda is going to be quite the tourist destination.
Sorry, one more quote. This must have taken the entire staff at MPR to come up with. It truly is a paragon of doublespeak
“reversible”?
I want to know (OK, maybe I don’t) what the difference between the “transgender” and “gender-diverse” Minnesodans is.
Doesn’t gender diverse move from identifying as one gender to another to another i.e. genderfuck, genderqueer, etc?
Transgender is when you change a hamburger hotdish into a tuna hotdish.
Gender-diverse is just bullshit.
“Reversible”
Yeah, yeah…completely reversible. It’s like taking aspirin.
The Gov needs to leave the Metro area but again, he wouldn’t go to a combat zone with his troops, so why would he take a chance in the woods?
I’m hoping Jimbo wins the Fishing Opener Lottery and gets to take the Gov fishing at his really secret lake.
Quack quack quack
I am the State
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that California will not renew its multimillion dollar contract with Walgreens after the company said it would not dispense medication abortion in multiple states where abortion is legal.
The California Department of General Services issued a formal notice “withdrawing a planned renewal of that agreement set to take effect on May 1, 2023” and “will explore other options for furnishing the same services,” according to a statement from Newsom’s office.
“Under this contract, Walgreens has received about $54 million from the State,” the statement said.
“California will not stand by as corporations cave to extremists and cut off critical access to reproductive care and freedom,” Newsom said. “California is on track to be the fourth largest economy in the world and we will leverage our market power to defend the right to choose.”
He should extradite the CEO and put him on trial for heresy.
““Under this contract, Walgreens has received about $54 million from the State,” the statement said.”
This is a problem.
I did not see what the contract was actually for. If it’s Medicaid contract, then they just fucked a bunch of Californians who are going to have to start using a different pharmacy which is almost certainly less convenient.
Yes. It’s for Medi-Cal.
Very predictable consequences for the win!
Yeah, that would be a problem.
Even San Fran is reconsidering its bans as spiteful.
“California won’t be doing business with @walgreens — or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives at risk. We’re done,” he tweeted at the time.
There is no healthcare but abortion pills.
and Newsom is its prophet?
Cowers = threatened with criminal prosecution by the Attorneys General of those states
How is this in anyway legal? Don’t they have laws governing contracting?
“Julia Fox’s ‘mad scientist’ brother and father are arrested after cops find ghost guns, bomb-making materials, chloroform, heroin and thousands of dollars of high-end wine in 6am raid at their Manhattan apartment”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11839999/Julia-Foxs-father-brother-arrested-6am-cop-raid.html
Baller.
So what was the crime? Just sounds like a good time.
The NYPD has a Ghost Gun Team?
I hope the other cops play the Ghostbusters theme song whenever they roll up.
Also – Julia Fox? Am I supposed to recognize that name?
She was in Uncut Gems (which is a great movie), dated Kanye West, and walks around in weird skimpy outfits.
“Tech author tells how supermarket worker gave him dirty look when he refused to TIP up to 30% on store’s iPad screen as Americans complain of being guilt-tripped into paying-up”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11838553/Tech-author-tells-supermarket-worker-gave-dirty-look-refused-TIP-30.html
Who the hell tips at the supermarket?
If they don’t pay me for doing the checkout and bagging for them at those stupid self-serve stations, I’m certainly not going to tip the cashier. Besides, I wouldn’t trust the machine to actually give it to the cashier. Probably goes straight to tha corporate bonuses.
Hating on self-serve stations is bizarre to me.
Agreed. Self-serve is superior. Scan and go is even better.
It is slower and less convenient.
It’s gotten worse here since the bag ban/payoff to stores. Plastic bags aren’t readily open next to the scanner, it’s a stack of paper bags you have to pull off and open yourself while the scanner times out.
Then there’s the checkout question about how many bags I wish to purchase.
That’s a moot point at my local store – there’s not enough room in the ‘bagging area’ for more than one bag.
And they still haven’t fixed the problem with the workflow where you can’t scan more than one item every ten minutes (exaggerated value, not literal). By the time the machine allows me to get through three items, a real cashier would have scanned the whole cart.
Hmmm. I rarely have those problems. At Kroger, you don’t have to leave the bags in the bagging area you can just put them in your cart before finishing up.
The machines around here will absolutely not let you continue scanning if the scale shows a drop in weight and demand you return the product to the bagging area.
None of that is an issue in my local stores anymore. The table scanners can keep up with me, and often I just pull the scanning gun and hit everything in the cart without even getting it out. Then I shove the stuff into reusables in the trunk (or, most of the time, pack it in without a bag since we have a fridge and freezer in the garage)
Have they brought you in and accused you of stealing yet? Cause I hear this happens to many people.
I have no desire to ever have some asshat accuse me of stealing cause actually accusing the people that steal might be problematic or something, so I avoid any self anything except for self…. Never mind that last thing.
Nah, I’m too white for that. Plenty of black and brown people around here to hassle that way.
/unfortunately, probably more true than I’d like to admit
Yes, and small cars are inconvenient for off roading, camping, moving to a new house, and hauling furniture or a soccer team full of kids.
They also weren’t designed for those things.
Doesn’t stop the stores from failing to staff a regular register at the times I’m doing my grocery shopping. Feeding that crap through an inconveniencer machine just reminds me how bad technology has made things.
Will you be complaining about this in 5 years?
Unless they fix it.
I’m with UnCiv on this. I’ll only do self-checkout if I have a handful of things. It blows my mind that people with multiple large carts at CostCo do the self-checkout.
Of course, if you have any booze at CostCo or a grocery store, you have to go to a cashier anyway, so . . . .
This says something about you.
That I would rather not deal with machines.
I resume you make tiny little mini-painting movements when attempting to move and scan things. That’s the only way I can see it being slower, unless you have coked-up or multiarmed mutant cashiers.
LOL
Aside from the cashiers being able to simply grab the next item off the conveyor and shove it into the bagging area, the machine-enforced delay between scan events is much much lower on a real register, being somewhere between 10 and 30 seconds on the self-service abominations.
yeah, gtfo.
I went to a self-serve beer place. It was really cool, but no way am I gonna tip.
My finger would’ve hovered over 30% and then would’ve moved to 0.
I used to earn good money running bags out to peoples cars for them.
At our local Italian market, there’s a young man who helps bag groceries who has one arm amputated right below the elbow. He does a fantastic job.
Dumbass should be on disability like the guy with the sore thumb or the toe that hurts sometimes.
Cleary not an ex-cop or ex-fireman.
He’s hispanic.
It’s probably an unpopular opinion, but I hate when I get stuck with the guy who’s blind doing the bagging. He’s completely unable to put together a packing plan since he can’t tell what’s coming or what most of what he’s got is. I always have to reorganize the bags to avoid destroying my stuff.
And blowjobs from lonely housewives, too.
I remember Ukrop’s. They bagged, carried, and loaded your groceries (not optional). They refused tips. Publix offers which my wife likes when it just her and the kids.
A local chain (Heinen’s) has had a curbside service for as long as I can remember. You’d check out, drop off your cart, get a number and hang it from the window of your car and pull around. They did that as they didn’t allow their carts to leave the store (to prevent theft, and to avoid needing to wrangle carts). They had multiple no tips allowed signs (which were sometimes ignored by customers).
One of the signs of the staffing and inflation is that they (in the past year or two) have started to allow their carts to leave the store.
When I did that job, accepting tips was expressly forbidden.
That store can fuck right off.
Same. You could be fired for taking tips.
It was also unionized. Funniest bit was in grad school for my MBA when my local union president came into to talk to the class and explain how the benefits to a union partnership.
When he took questioned I identified myself as a member and asked how a bunch of rules were helpful to either customers or the store. His reaction and spin was priceless. OTH, it wasn’t the first time he’d been caught out like this and he didn’t miss a beat replying.
My son was bag boy at Piggly Wiggly in Madison, WI. After 60 days he was required to be a union member. He asked the store manage what were the benefits? Store manager pointed out that he couldn’t be “bumped”.
My son said, “I’m the bag boy, what are the chances someone will bump me?” only not in quite so civil a tone. He took off his apron and walked. He was about 20-21.
The FBI is breathtakingly corrupt.
Important to stay off their radar. If you get designated a non-person it’s all over.
Not to defend the FBI (at all) — but the linked statement that “she compiled an Excel spreadsheet of Lync messages — and some rows in the Excel were hidden, so she deleted Lync messages!” doesn’t make sense.
It sounds more like someone left a filter on the Excel file. I mean — if you’re going to delete messages, why wouldn’t you delete the rows in the Excel spreadsheet you’re compiling in the first place? Doesn’t pass the smell test to me.
But hey — if she’s provably lying, throw the book at her and toss the case.
That’s where I stand too.
OTH, anybody that has dealt with legal / regulatory knows that you strip out all unnecessary data.
Further, if it was me, and I was asked for a “list” of message I would have put into a PDF. Last thing I’d want to do is make it easier to analyze while still complying fully.
“It sounds more like someone left a filter on the Excel file”
No, you have to actually go into the menu and select “hide cells” so someone made a choice.
I don’t expect FBI agents to be Excel experts. You or I would filter.
This person may have just sorted by name and hid the rows above and below her name.
I’m in no way an Excel expert (I’m a Creative Director) but it’s intuitive enough to figure out.
I’m too well versed in it, unfortunately. I avoided VisiCalc, but not DOS Lotus 1-2-3.
OTH, I barely ever have to use PowerPoint!
I see the argument of delete vs. hide but then remind yourself we are not dealing with Mensa members in a lot of these cases.
Given that they also discussed allegedly private attorney-defendant conversations, I’m not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt.
Also, post-facto editing of their written accounts of witness interviews to conceal who was involved.
I think a judge can hold them in contempt just for bringing perjured testimony into his court. Criminal contempt would require a trial, I think.
I’m picturing a turtle on its back unable to right itself.
Breaking News
@BreakingNews
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized after falling at a private dinner.
Hoping for the best for Mitch. He needs to take a permanent Sabbatical and stay home and play with his grandkids, go fishing, etc. Falls are no fun, he’s 81 and did enough damage, let someone else have an opportunity to screw things up.
/Fall Guy
The biggest problem with getting rid of the turtle is that he’s from KY. it gives the impression to Kentuckians that KY has done form of real say in national politics, and so well never vote him out.
That and the Dems insist on putting batshit crazy wokeophiles on the ticket who KY in no way wants. You know, kind of like the Dems are trying to ensure he keeps his job as controlled opposition.
‘Destinie Hillsman’
Weird. these teacher predator stories ALWAYS have a picture of the accused. Wonder why not in this case.
Totally not racist.
Taibbi to testify in Congress on Twitter files.
I just watched a bit of that livestream. There’s a Democratic congresswoman stating that the Saudis finance Twitter, and she’ll prove Musk is not the victim, the fired execs from Twitter are because they’re being harassed. My blood pressure can’t take these people.
Sloopy also buried the lede on the Big 10 b-ball tourney. Not only is it underway, but the Golden Rodents of The U of M won!
GT defeated FSU in 1st round of ACC!
The lost to Pitt in round 2.
Totally ignored the WBC too. Again.
😕
Doktor Grandma speaks
Jill Biden on Wednesday praised a group of women from around the world, including those who have been protesting against Iran’s leaders, for showing courage while fighting for their rights and called on men to “be partners” with women and support them in their cause.
“As much as we need women who are willing to speak up, we need more men who are willing to listen and act,” the first lady said.
“We need more men to hold each other accountable when their sisters are being hurt or left behind,” she said at a White House ceremony for the 2023 recipients of the International Women of Courage Awards. “We need more men who nurture families, who feed and teach and mentor, who build safer communities. We need more men who know that caring, collaboration and kindness are signs of strength, not weakness.
“Men, we need you to support the women who are fighting for their rights and to lift up those who have been silenced,” she continued. “Be partners, be partners with women. Become the ‘men of courage’ we need. Only then will we be able to build a world where men and women are equal and all people are free.”
Define “woman” for us.
Argentinian trannies, apparently.
She gave some medal to a transwoman on International Woman’s Day. Of course.
At the ceremony, held on International Women’s Day, Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented awards to 11 recipients from Afghanistan, Argentina, Central African Republic, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Poland and Ukraine.
Shameless
I’m trying. But you keep insisting that men can swing their dicks around women’s locker room and erase women from sports.
Uffda. The Minneapolis school district is not covering itself in glory. They are getting held up by some ransomware assholes.
This is the same group that nearly lost $500K to someone who called in and asked for payments to be sent to a different bank account
a pistol in every purse.
That reminds me of some old movie I saw. A man and woman are getting ready to go someplace, and she sticks a full size revolver in her little purse and lays it on the table. As they head for the door, the guy picks up the purse and casually hands it to her. I kept waiting for him to ask, “What have you got in there, a brick?”
Off of the brief Philip Roth discussion last night, I found this gem:
Progress on the novel was slow because Roth was suffering from writer’s block relating to his ex-wife, Margaret Martinson, and the unpleasant prospect that any royalties generated by the novel would have to be split equally with her. In May 1968, Martinson was killed in a car crash in Central Park. Roth’s writer’s block lifted and, following Martinson’s funeral, he traveled to the Yaddo literary retreat to complete the manuscript.[8]
Hmmm… how convenient.
That’s pretty cold, but blind-hatred of ex spouses isn’t that uncommon.
There’s not enough information to determine if she was Clintoned.
She was an anti-muse?
It sounds like money was his muse.
In May 1968, Martinson was killed in a car crash in Central Park. Roth’s writer’s block lifted and, following Martinson’s funeral, he traveled to the Yaddo literary retreat to complete the manuscript.[8]
I’d watch that movie.
It’s comical how many acclaimed writers are complete assholes.
Men who support biological female athletes are assholes.
Yeah, it’s really too much.
At my most charitable, I feel sorry for the people who have gender dysphoria. It is a mental illness though, and while they are free to pursue whatever treatment they think will help them cope, and they shouldn’t be run out of town by pitchfork wielding mobs, they do NOT have a RIGHT to play sports in another gender category, not to have access to women-only spaces.
Do battered women’s shelters have to accept transwomen? I’ve volunteered at those shelters, and they used to be very rigorous in their screening process. Nowadays…?
‘Do battered women’s shelters have to accept transwomen? ‘
I believe they do in some states.
I’ve read that some shelters do have to take in trannies.
I dont know why but New Order makes me think of James.
I saw NO with PIL and The Sugarcubes. NO sounded good but was boring AF. PIL blew the quasi-roof (outdoor show) off the place.
Plus De La Soul.
John Lydon reaching through the fly of his big charteuse suit to wiggle his dong.
🎶go crawl back in your dustbin🎶
The government is like your ex wife, it wants half.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Biden calls to double capital gains tax from 20% to 40%.
No.
It’d be a damn fine way to kill investment, that’s for sure.
If you were in charge of the CCP, that would be on your wish list.
If you live in California you are getting exactly what the voters of California have demanded.
He wants cap gains to be HIGHER than regular rates? WTF? That is beyond stupid.
He doesn’t want anything. The progressives/communists in charge hate those who succeed outside of the collective.
So tax capital gains the same as top earner income? That will get killed quick if the financial guru’s in congress have anything to say about it. They need to keep the taxes low on their insider trading.
You think they pay taxes?
Set corporate tax to zero and tax capital gains as income.
Yep, that should be the idea.
I am also fine, as a way to prevent whining about delaying taxes to require companies to pay at least 20% of profits as dividends in the fiscal year following the gains.
At that point there is no tax difference between dividends and cap gains other than the time control, and my proposal “forces” the owners of profitable companies to pay at least some taxes every year.
There are some advantages to dividends too. It makes Enron-type scandals harder. If you can’t pay dividends you have serious cash flow problems.
Stupid wordpress, it ate my standard libertarian disclaimer tags.
International Women Of Courage Award goes to a biological male
Proving, yet again, that men really are better at everything, up to and including being women.
I’m surprised it wasn’t awarded to Caligula’s horse.
That fuckstick Blinken is handing it out.
How apropos.
He’s like the poster boy for Low-T.
“banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth and several more have taken up bills that would do the same or ban the care for transgender people of any age”
These idiots can’t tell the difference between having a drinking age and prohibition?
Try “banned irreversible hormone treatments and genital mutilation surgery for minors” and see how it scans.
Adults? Go nuts. Or nutless, your call. Minors? Not a single medical treatment should be legal.
That was my point. Some people are over-reacting to (or using) the kids thing to ban it for adults.
“Nobody is buying that anymore.”
Au contraire. Lots of people still buy it and will continue to do so.
Never let a photo op go to waste
The railroad industry says this is the safest period in the history of train transportation.
Overall accidents have fallen by 44% since 2000, and accidents caused by track and equipment problems also are trending downward, according to the American Association of Railroads, which represents the major freight railroads, Amtrak and other rail lines.
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Still, advocates for rail safety and railroad workers unions say that the number of accidents remains too high, and that companies aren’t doing enough to prioritize safety on the tracks.
Jeremy Ferguson with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, criticized railroads for abandoning well-established safety practices in favor of policies that save money, such as increasing train lengths and introducing automation while reducing crew sizes.
Jonathon Long, general chairman of the American Rail System Federation, said in a March letter to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine that automated track inspections should be added to current safety rules — not replace them — and accused Norfolk Southern of putting profits over safety prior to the East Palestine derailment.
“[Norfolk Southern] and other railroads alike must be stopped from continuing their cost-cutting business model and start focusing on how they can improve their performance to be as safe as possible,” Long wrote.
Last month, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized railroads for their “vigorous resistance” to additional safety measures in the past, and said they must change following the East Palestine crash.
The most important thing is to do what we have been pushing for all along, regardless of whether it would have made any difference.
“International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers”
That sounds like being a part of the International Association of Steak Knives, Golf, Maritime and Hospitality Workers.
“It doesn’t matter what pattern of spots our Dues Cattle have, just so long as they keep paying”
IASMARTW? They need to modify the name. Drop “Workers” and add a M word after “Association”.
PTC for the win
/s FedGov
https://railroads.dot.gov/research-development/program-areas/train-control/ptc/positive-train-control-ptc
I still get VRE alerts when the system fails preventing trains from moving.
With the recent spate of “airliner near collision” stories, I am wondering what the rate and the trend is for those, also. Mrs. Dean asked the other day after one of those ran “What are they trying to distract us from?”
Good. Question.
At my most charitable, I feel sorry for the people who have gender dysphoria. It is a mental illness though, and while they are free to pursue whatever treatment they think will help them cope, and they shouldn’t be run out of town by pitchfork wielding mobs, they do NOT have a RIGHT to play sports in another gender category, not to have access to women-only spaces.
I don’t get it (no surprise, there) either. The part about hating yourself so much that physical mutilation seems like a solution, in particular.
At our company meeting yesterday there was a lot of bloviating about Women’s Day and that we should be allies to women. The whole thing bothered me. If I were a woman I’d find it condescending. A couple months ago I got laid off. Pretty quickly I got two offers from within the company. I took one offer and passed the lead on the other offer to a woman in my group who also had been laid off. She eventually got a job it that group. I didn’t help her out because I’m an ally or because she’s a woman. I did it because she’s damn good at her job, probably better than me. But this whole allyship thing makes it seem like I did it because she’s a woman. It’s demeaning.
there was a lot of bloviating about Women’s Day and that we should be allies to women
Women however are not in any way expected to be allies to men.
You don’t punch down or reach up.
I agree. It’s gotten to where there is a celebration or month for everything. When everything is celebrated, nothing is celebrated.
On the other hand, I would love a fat bearded libertarian nerds month.
Happy national meatball day!
New animal restrictions in Loudoun
How easy is it to keep alligators up there?
Loudon Co is The Swamp, right?
You know what I haven’t heard a peep about?
Biden’s classified document problem. Just, “poof”, gone.
Dude, Tucker Carlson is endangering national security! Who cares about some moldy out-of-date documents!?!
Perhaps you answered your own question from above.
In fairness, you aren’t hearing much about it with Trump either. The smear was done, there won’t be any prosecution.
It didn’t work.
https://twitter.com/missviaborsi/status/1631352072200155144
*snicker*