Banjos is yet again occupied, so I’m stepping in. We’ve had unremitting snow and sleet, gray skies, and cold temps. Welcome to spring in western NY. On the fun side, I’ve found my dog’s weak spot- he is scared shitless of other dogs. This is amusing as hell, but on the minus side, I was supposed to take him on a canal walk with an intelligent and lovely person of the female persuasion who is bringing her two French bulldogs. He’d better develop some balls before then.
Although the gray weather can lead to seasonal affective disorder, maybe birthdays will perk me up. Today’s include another man-plan guy; the one known for actually being right; a guy who taught the Chinese to drive; a (((guy))) whom I’m predicting is within a light year of being canceled (not joking); a guy who was quite renowned; the creator of a heart-warming family who was an actual asshole; a guy who should have been in 2001; a guy who seems to have been in an inordinate number of my favorite movies; and a guy who was, by and large, a pretty good senator (e.g., his infamous critique of the NSF was milder than mine would be, but scathing enough to enrage all the right people).
Let’s get it on and Link.
I don’t like agreeing with him, but he’s not wrong.
Silicon Valley meets Silicon Valley.
No matter how they’re spinning it, the answer is you and me.
I just can’t imagine why people are leaving California.
Exactly what that old shithead deserves.
Old Guy Music today is a bouncy little ditty much loved by SP. And is a nod toward the aforementioned female-type person.
On cocaine?
Upon further review, it seems Casey Jones was not high on cocaine, but Robert Hunter might have been.
Well, Micheal Caine has been in how many movies?
Michael Caine seems to have a career where every other movie is terrible.
Hums “The Love we found…” (and whoever cut the bookending When Love is Gone is a moron who doesn’t understand drama or character arcs).
Because of him, or despite him?
I think just because he was always willing to take a pay day whether the movie was great or garbage.
Shit, I work to get paid too, so I can empathize. If the payday is right the movie can bomb for all I care.
As he said about Jaws: The Revenge, “I have not seen the movie, but by all accounts it is terrible. I have, however, seen the house it paid for, and that is magnificent.”
See also Gene Hackman.
And the poor mans Gene Hackman, Dabney Coleman.
Not many people know that.
Blame it on Rio was so bad that it was clearly just some pervert producer’s excuse for Demi Moore and that other chick to be nekkid onscreen, which ironically means it was a great cinematic achievement.
That other chick was also 16 at the time and the movie includes her fully nude.
Still not sure how that is legal.
Because it’s art, obviously. Did you think her nudity was for purient purposes??? Sounds like someone here is a filthy pervert who probably ought to be monitored by the state or at least chemically castrated.
She was 17.
Oh, look at Epstein here!
And that changes nothing.
“Well lads, I’d say dozens, right?”
160
The man loves his craft.
One of my all-time favorites.
Fantastic movie.
Wonder when he’s going to denounce it like he did Zulu?
He publicly defended “Zulu” recently. When did he attack it?
Whoops, you’re right, I mis-read it when I scanned it.
*checks prices on Martini-Henry rifles*
Hm. I could almost justify this to myself.
is that a pic of Cocaine Pooch?
Dog looks cool, man
You saying cocaine makes anyone look cool Fourscore? 🙂
COCAININE!
“Silicon Valley meets Silicon Valley.: Google over-hired talent to do ‘fake work’ and stop them working for rivals, claims former PayPal boss, Keith Rabois”
I hope it hits them right where it hurts them the most: their DEI pocket.
“DEI pocket”
Is that another name for boipussy?
It’s what they crave…
It’s like the K-hole.
“No matter how they’re spinning it, the answer is you and me.”
Barney Frank was on the board of director of this shit bank. And we will bail out the bullshit idiots like him encouraged.
And everyone of the SVB leadership related people that sold their stock in the last couple of months need to be put in prison…
I can not argue with that. The timing of their actually filling in a CRO was interesting — January, iirc… and immediately starting top of February they start dumping and running for the lifeboats. Almost surprised there wasn’t a mass retirement so some poor unsuspecting putz would be left holding culpability as it all crashed down.
Yeah, they knew what would happen when the Fed started raising interest rates, and they made sure they got the fuck out with their money.
Depends when the periodic personal stock sale program was instated.
I’m hoping the C-suite winds up in jail too, but executives should be able to sell stock.
Politicians and executives that sell stock right before decisions they made blow up the institutions they are regulating or running should not have the same right as others. While I am fine with people in charge of regulating or running company XYZ selling or buying stocks for other companies they don’t regulate or run, if I am a politician or a exec of company XYZ and making decisions that impact that stock, I should not have the right to sell before or buy stock after I incentivize runs that either crash the stock or disrupt the company.
It really depends on when he started selling and how. If it’s a new filing and sale with little notice, fine. If it was part of periodic sell off starting when the FED started raising rates and this is just the latest then it is something different because plenty of notice would have been available if you were looking.
What is left out is that idiot, Jim Cramer, was on the news a week before SVB imploded telling people to buy tat shit cause he had just sat down with their leadership and confirmed the bank was firing on all cylinders. The execs that were selling shit cause they knew they were about to take it in the ass then went and publicly stated all was kosher too. I get the whole dynamic of affecting people’s perceptions, but this still feels absolutely disgusting on their part.
When I worked at GE that fucking company had a habit of bad mouthing itself through third parties to lower their stock value by claiming some calamity was on the horizon (usually something from government), then gobble up the sales from individual holders hoping to bail a collapse at fire sale rates, before someone cleared the air and the stock flew up again. They did this for at least a decade under Welch, and made a fucking killing buying back their own stock, before Immelt came in and really plowed the company into the ground. I found that whole practice to be despicable.
I am not for more laws in general, but a standard 1 year clawback law for “leadership” sales prior to bankruptcy seems like it could be a good one.
I’m not for more lawsuits. But I wonder if this could be handled as stockholders (especially purchasers who bought the leadership’s stock) suing said leadership personally. Take away any assest shielding they have over that money and let people who were hurt sue. Disclosure of why they were selling in the last year could help. Just thoughts off the top of my sleep deprived head.
BoDs already have personal liability. That’s the reason for D&O insurance.
It’s also completely broken. After Enron and zero accountability by the Board I realized that the only small companies and private companies manage to get any D&O accountability.
Anything Fortune 1000 you and your golfing buddies have no fear of personal liability.
That is why I like my idea, no lawsuits, no legal issues, just a straight one-year lookback/clawback. Even if you are doing everything exactly right, have a scheduled consistent monthly sellback that you have been running for years with no changes at all, you will have to payback any sales within a year of the bankruptcy filing. And of course those that dump in the months before the bankruptcy will totally deserve it.
It wont stop dumping altogether, they will still dump and hope its just a collapse and not a bankruptcy, but hopefully it would prevent the worst abuses.
Speaking of that… Barney Frank blames crypto panic for his bank’s collapse. Elizabeth Warren blames Trump.
In other news, rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain…. Elizabeth Warren blames Trump.
If you want an understanding of what the regime cares about, compare & contrast their response to the Ohio incident – where a bunch of unwashed mostly MAGA blue collar workers were impacted by their bullshit favoritism towards the rail road transportation lobby – and this bank failure – where team blue people that implement all the team blue evil DEI and CRT shit do their things – and realize that: the supposed uniter’s admin is really there to wage war on those that they consider their enemies while stealing from the productive to prop up their failing woke shit.
What does crypto have to do with buying MBS at 1.5%?
Signature was heavy into facilitating crypto exchanges. The accusation is that the Fed targeted them because of that.
It was somewhat “outside of the state”
Powell has a hard-on for stablecoins like Circle and Tether. He sees them as backdoors to inflating the eurodollar money supply that is beyond the Fed’s control. Both SVB and Signature were heavily tied into that market.
I can see why people would think the Fed would go after those banks, they may be correct. And I can see why JPM would assist the Fed in doing so.
He’s got a point, tbh.
“I’ve seen this movie.”
Skanks love them the bad boys (or bad girls too in many cases).
“I just can’t imagine why people are leaving California.”
I read the article and it sounds like the law is an improvement over an earlier worse law.
Ballot proposition attempting to mostly deal with a shit law that they’re now trying to push on the rest of the country at the behest of their union masters, yeah. AB5 was a complete shitshow.
People pass an initiative that politicians/unions don’t like. Court strikes it down, so politician/union approved law stands instead. What’s hard to understand about that?
I like how they legislated from the bench to get around the pesky fucking people not doing wat they are told and letting the elites fuck them in the ass at the elite’s leisure…
Necessary to protect our democracy.
That was the most confusing article ever written.
Yes, it’s an off-white pill.
whaddup doh’
@Ozy (if you’re around)- I’m a cheap mother-f so Ill take the vet discount at every opportunity. Nothing says “thanks for your 5 years of service” like 10% off mulch at Home Depot.
Or cheap draught beer at the VFW. Other than that, I concur with all your points. In particular cops and nurses.
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*throwback to DA 2062 hand receipt
Yep. 5% off ammo at Cabela’s and Palmetto State Armory – which almost covers sales tax – for throwing down the VA card.
I believe that my VN Vet license plates have saved me a couple traffic tickets, who knows?
I don’t like to park in the handicap spaces but…if there isn’t any other spots available…I don’t have a handicapped card and don’t consider myself
to be handicapped. I just walk funny.
Like a clown?
TC – I don’t begrudge anyone else doing it, but something about it doesn’t sit right with me personally. And I mean that sincerely, this really is a “Me” hangup.
My grandfather humped a bazooka into Fortress Europe and I can’t ever recall anyone saying squat to him during my entire lifetime until one newspaper article right before he died.
All of the “bennies” and magnet yellow ribbons feels like Americans trying to make up for what they did to Vietnam Vets.
I don’t know; it drives my wife nuts because she’s like, “It saved us $50 on tickets to XX!!” and I refuse to ask or bring it up. It’s me.
Could also be deep seated insecurity. My life didn’t take me that way (it could have if I wasn’t an idiot in high school and actually looked into things like “Are you too skinny for the Navy before you even think of trying for the Academy, dumbass?”, granted) — and so there’s a big part of me that has no idea how I’d actually handle it and has never had to step up and really defend others (or much of anything).
Deny it all folks want — but I think a man needs to know not just his limitations, but also that he can step up when SHTF. And from outside the military, those who’ve served look to us like those who do know it — even if they haven’t actually seen combat. So I don’t doubt there’s a certain amount of gushing and “We support you!” because that’s as close to standing a watch we’ll ever come… and we damned well know it. (The problem is when it turned into servile fawning, obviously.)
The WWII folks didn’t have that as much, I expect — because most of them were called up to serve in one way or another as well — so they did know where they stood.
Just my impression, anyway. And hopefully having said that, you take this as coming from a good place — sincerely thank you for fighting the fights you do.
I felt that way too for a long time, until my wife twisted my arm one day. There no reason to ascribe guilt to others motivations or feel you don’t measure up (hah, I’m one to talk) if a business voluntarily offers a discount. Use it. Or not and pay more.
Wait til you qualify for senior discounts…
Obviously Mrs F and I look everyday as senior qualified. We never ask for it, if it’s included on the bill I never see it. Here’s the problem, if I’m getting a discount someone is paying for it, that discount has to be made up. Same with the military discounts. I chose to be in the Army, I took my VA Ed benefits, some VA med benefits, I knew about those in advance and knew who was paying for them. They were part of the incentive package.
Home Depot isn’t offering it out of the goodness of their corporate heart. They expect it will increase revenue beyond what the discount provides.
The yellow ribbon thing has been around a long time, just not in convenient car magnet form.
If the discount is presented up front, meaning they openly advertise it, I will utilize it. I will not seek it out.
-10% for the big guy
The machine’s belief that the constitutional guarantees are theirs to enforce as they see fit at least remain consistent:
“A little over a week ago, the same Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government that organized the Twitter Files hearings privately heard testimony from Steve and two other FBI whistleblowers. The Democratic Party response to Steve and his colleagues was eerily similar to tactics pulled out against myself and Mike Shellenberger:”
Anything that hurts the corruptocracy’s ability to target its enemies and to silence dissent is criminal now.
Don’t ask me how… we’ve been blamed — we’re all criminals now
From that article:
Allred might as well have just broken out Jack’s speech about standing on the wall from A Few Good Men seems to have the same perspective on anyone questioning “how they protect them”. Sheesh.
Everybody’s up to their eyeballs in illegal acts. They’re rationalizing their behavior and demonizing anyone who questions it.
Taibbi et al seem to be waiting for the Dems to come to their senses and give up their totalitarian ways. Hopefully he’s now been disabused of that notion, they’ve gone past the point of no return.
Yeah, he’s coming to that [inevitable] conclusion.
“Everybody’s up to their eyeballs in illegal acts. They’re rationalizing their behavior and demonizing anyone who questions it.”
When you are on a holy crusade, one where your end goal is to deliver utopia on earth as the marxist movement promises, all means justify that end goal. You will burn down most of humanity and civilization, because your belief is it is all necessary to get to heaven on earth. To bring utopia the fanatic is willing to create hell on earth. And that’s the only thing the left’s religious fanaticism and socialist shit can and will end up delivering over time…
Interesting (well, to me) that Otto Hahn was just the other day… I once lived on the corner of Paul Ehrlich St. and Otto Hahn St.
Given Biden’s well-known penchant for off-the-cuff lying it’s difficult to discern whether or not this is true. Who’s going to correct him?
Whatever, asshole delivers yougoogly for asshole.
Two peas in a coffin, er, pod.
Is it the confusingly worded court decisions that nobody can make head or tails of?
They aren’t helping.
bringing her two French bulldogs
She couldn’t be any more NPR if she had it blaring out of a boombox slung over her shoulder.
Just wait…that may happen!
So the new reboot of Say Anything is going to be Say Talking Points?
That….works!
Say The Right Thing.
We can combine it with a story of BLM rioting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv_nxRjStO8
Trust me, the punch line on this is funnier than anything you can imagine. If things go further, I’ll spill the deets.
You mean “solar power/hand cranked radio carried in a tote bag.”
Deposit Insurance Encourages Bank Failures Like SVB
I still remain shocked that Roku had almost $500m in one institution.
FFS, I’m a small business and I’ve got more risk management sense that that. My deposits are at least spread over multiple institutions to guarantee FDIC coverage (not that it means much in an actual collapse).
“Dear Depositor, we note your balance was under the insured $250,000. In light of the recent collapse, and the resulting hyperinflation, we do not have any bills/currency under $500,000. Please find a $500,000 bill enclosed. We consider your account cleared. Sincerely, Your Bank.”
Sigh.
When do I get my trillion dollar coin?
Right. You know they’d round down.
How many congressmen do you own?
What risk? Daddy Fed is going to step in an make everyone whole… if there are no consequences, why not do it?
So sick of the “Too Big / Important / Politically Connected to Fail” crap… the underbrush needs to be cleared out for new growth, morons. Incompetence should never be rewarded.
Any more, we aren’t talking underbrush, and the standing timber is dead and rotting.
Privatize profit and socialize risk, what could go wrong?
I’m moving into the camp that there aren’t any lines between these big industries (Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Mil-Industry, etc) and the government. It’s not that the execs are politically connected, it’s that they are part and parcel of the political class. Just other appendages of the political class, like the Democrat party, and like the GOP.
So it’s not a bailout and it’s not privatizing profit. It’s just simply the ruling leadership pillaging the coffers of their serfs. But instead of going door to door with bloodspatters and bags of gold, this pillage is being carried out with sophistication and culture.
Threading fail. Meant as a general thought/reply.
It’s the managerial classes in government and I industries that have merged. The people in charge of the institution don’t have all that much power.
The people in charge are from that same managerial class. Certainly on the business side.
I think you’re largely right about this. I’ve been doing a lot of research on the topic in anticipation of starting to write about it. Right now, I’m in the process of reading “Leviathan and Its Enemies” by Sam Francis. But, I’ve also read “The Betrayal of the American Right” and “The Progressive Era” by Rothbard, as well as “Our Enemy the State” by Albert Jay Nock. I plan on adding some stuff by Hoppe to the list, as well as “The Rise of Victimhood Culture” by Campbell and Manning (I think there’s a larger thesis that explains a lot).
It goes back to the Robber Barons. We think of them as these free market, laissez faire, guys. But, there was a large extent that they wanted cartelization. And our current Progressive Cathedral is mostly the fruition of their ideas.
” Incompetence should never be rewarded.”
Damn, that’s harsh. Nepotism is where it’s at, in business or politics.
My old boss once told me, “If I have to support them, might as well have them on the payroll”
‘Orning ‘Ordles — DuoTri was a screwup (it doesn’t say it, but I would have been 1 over… ). Made up for it a little on the main event, at least getting close to the rest of y’all’s normal instead of skirting the Chumptown suburbs like usual:
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News about something dribbling out of Biden’s ass today.
The Biden-Carter tryst is probably another figment of Joe’s mind. Dreams of yesterday.
“I remember the days with Jimmy, building houses for the poor. Jimmy would ask me if we’d ever get caught up and I would reassure him.”
/In Joe’s fog
“I don’t like agreeing with him, but he’s not wrong.”
Another case of being far better than the alternatives, despite whatever faults he may have, and there are a few.
I have a sneaking suspicion that all the other potential candidates and their “passionate support for defending Ukraine” are going to be in for a rude surprise come primary time.
No, he’s not.
All the news that’s fit to print.
He does kind of look like the stereotypical “slavic mafia thug” in various TV shows and movies.
Isn’t that kind of their version of Working Class Hero garb aka hoodie and jeans?
He needs the Milosovic hair.
All that’s missing is the Adidas tracksuit and a can of beer in his hand.
Don’t forget the squat!
Does he own a low-rider Civic with ground effects and 5 tailpipes?
No, a used Mercedes.
Jolly – Bulikirály (Official Music Video)
OMG that is heinous.
It’s truly neck and neck with its J-Pop remake.
QUEENDOM / チキチキバンバン (MUSIC VIDEO)【TVアニメ「パリピ孔明」OPテーマ
You would think a job requirement for a j-pop dance team would be the ability to fake enthusiasm.
My current favorite stereotypical post-Soviet thug.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emomali_Rahmon
Dude looks like the bastard child of Brezhnev and a Mongolian gangster.
THE EYEBROWS THAT WALKED LIKE A MAN.
President Biden said Monday that former President Carter, who is in hospice care, has asked him to deliver his eulogy when he dies.
Everyone wants a mush mouthed octogenarian to do his eulogy.
“Stand up Jimmy, God love ya!”
Boot renounces his neo-con credentials!
Boot’s trying to rebrand?
The rats are jumping ship. Set fire to the water around it.
Boot can go fuck himself with a rusty railroad spike, he’s an opportunistic war-mongering sack of dog shit and he can go straight to hell, all of that metaphorically of course.
I love his “I lived under communism”; you little shit, your family fled when you were 7 years old. You may know the stories they told, but you yourself don’t know shit.
He certainly didn’t learn much from the stories, other than how to be globalist Trotskyite.
Legit LOL
Following in Naomi Wolf’s footsteps.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/naomi-wolf-apologizes-for-january-6-former-beliefs
I think Wolf actually means it. She’s been pilloried by her former cohorts for a couple of years now and has put significant effort into going after Pfizer.
Boot just sees the writing on the wall.
Wolf’s a crackpot, but now she’s “our” crackpot!
I expected this to be a Babylon Bee headline/article, and then found out this really happened….
Expect “independent fact-checkers” to weigh in with “context” to try to run cover for her.
Some misleading or misunderstanding by the author:
“The IEA report shows that coal accounts for over 42% of all global year 2022 CO2 emissions by far the most of any energy use fuel even though coal use only represents about 27% of total global fuel (160.10 exajoules versus 595.15 exajoules) use.”
The total exojoules includes things like renewables, nuclear and hydro electric which don’t really have ‘fuel use’, so anything that burns (oil, natural gas, etc.) Is going to look ‘bad’ on this metric. It’s fundamentally a misrepresentation.
Anyway, granholm is still an idiot grifter who should be no where near energy policy for the US, and get dumb statements just reinforce that fact. Though…. I agree with her, we should follow china’s example and do absolutely nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
2 dead, 9 injured after truck hits pedestrians in Quebec
The suspect was arrested after he turned himself in. Authorities believe the crash is not a terrorist attack or linked to national security.
He didn’t mention a tropical food and drink stand?
Stating your true intentions.
Some Democratic state lawmakers are looking to impose a plan to tax ammunition as they look for ways to reduce gun violence.
Assemblywoman Pat Fahy (D-Albany), who sponsors the bill in the Assembly, said the tax will depend on the size of the bullet – anywhere from 2 to 5 cents a round.
“So, if you buy 50 rounds, it’ll be just a couple of extra dollars,” said Fahy. “So, it’s not a huge tax, but another disincentive to arming up.”
I could have sworn that there was a SCOTUS decision saying you couldn’t use a tax to infringe on a specified right.
At this point this type of thing is malicious legislation. There should be consequences.
There should be consequences.
What the second amendment was actually intended to address.
What is the point of following Supreme Court precedent. If they just keep passing and enforcing whatever they want, they can just overwhelm the court. And who is going to stop them anyways? Biden? The eGOP congress?
What are you talking about? Poll taxes are tried and true methods
Didn’t Ol’ Pat Moynihan talk about that?
Tax fentanyl, that should work too.
It’s obviously not a disincentive to anybody who wants to use a gun illegally. So the only effect would be that people who own guns for legitimate purposes will be less practiced with them, due to the extra expense.
Good morning, Glibbies. Just wanted to drop by AM links as proof of life. (I made a shout out to overnight folks earlier where I also noted my fantasy of Quid Pro Joe stroking out in the middle of his eulogy).
OM – hope you’re well. The doggo is adorable. I can’t imagine he’ll be afraid of a couple of Frenchies… nothing is afraid of a Frenchie.
I can’t read the NYT article, but the headline tells me all I need to know. Of course Ukraine isn’t a critical security issue – it’s a money-laundering scheme and has been for quite some time now. See, e.g., Biden, H.
Now that Scam Bankrupt Fraud has gone tango uniform, and SVB has, oh, and Signature Bank, too…BOY, IT’S A GOOD THING THE ADULTS ARE BACK IN CHARGE, EH? Try to imagine the headlines if Trump were President.
Alright, back to the salt mines I go. The DoD needs a good kicking right in its FY2023 NDAA so I can get some relief for all of the mil folks who got screwed for refusing to take the
clot shot, I mean the TOTALLY SAFE AND EFFECTIVE VACCINE THAT SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES – (try to say anything else publicly and the Twitter files tell you what happens).This dog was totally cowed by a three legged Chihuahua.
Are you sure your puppers isn’t part French?
HEY NOW
Hey Ozy, you wrote the religious waiver didn’t you?
Thank you so much. (FEDGOV drone). I inserted references to cherries as proof of reading.
My boss was rather supportive and it never became a big issue.
I think the religious waiver was Trashy. but thanks to all of you who supplied ammunition for fighting the good fight.
I wrote a thank you to Trashy as well about a week ago. I cant remember what I used. Definitely a Glib person.
Supposedly an engineer in his 30’s died suddenly overnight after the Vax.
Someone else’s wife just died from covid, gib-bar syndrom and MRSA after surviving breast cancer…. I can’t ask the obvious question. Just terribly horrific and sad.
Trashy helped with the bulk of it with tidbits being added and then tailored. I used it, or a portion of it but our agency was actually dragging their feet on the whole forced vaccination/oath of fealty
I don’t know which one you used, robo, I wrote LOTS of them, but one of our finer Glib lawyers put one up here that was all encompassing.
I can’t recall who it was, but that one I can’t take credit for.
Glad to hear it worked out for you.
My inbox is filling up with people (civilians, not mil) who were not so lucky and got canned or had other fuckery done to them.
I’ve been so focused on mil folks that I hadn’t really looked at some of the other federal workers. It’s amazing how badly our government treated its own citizens who had the temerity to make their own medical decisions.
We are not to make any decisions that run against the interests of the state, it’s that simple. Even if the state hasn’t yet decided, if we decide wrong, then by god it isn’t the state that is ever wrong.
First off – happy to see you here Oz. I always enjoy reading your stuff.
Secondly – this is just me venting/griping re: the subject matter. For the record, the Georgia Army National Guard evidently just ignored the hell out of any kind of religious accomodation requests. XY#1 took ’21 off of college because of Covid-foolishness, and did Basic, Advanced, Ranger, and Airborne. All while successfully avoiding the shot and even being warned off of them. Back to regular Guard stuff and they told him he had to. He wrote up a religious accomodation thing (don’t remember which, and amended one that our denomination had been using), and brought it to the next drill where they’d been warned. The org pulled them aside, collected the paperwork, and then gave a peremptory “yeah, no, we’re not doing these”.
Try to imagine the headlines if Trump were President.
Since the headlines are basically “Trump’s fault”, probably not much different.
I’m a sarcastic asshole, but seriously, thank you for all the work you’re doing. I’m not involved with the military at all, but your work has been useful for people in other industries too.
“The DoorDash investor added Google had intentionally hired engineers and tech talent to stop them from being snapped up by competitors.”
I could see this being the case. I’m very curious how h1b works on relation to all these layoffs. Seems like the spirit of the law would require you to fire all your h1b staff before your natives. Not sure what the actual letter of the law says.
I don’t know whether you should be more ashamed of the Starbucks in the console or that steering wheel cover.
WebDom’s car.
I forgot to ask — what is the fun product you’re now selling?
Yes, but when she’s doing provisioning runs to Elmira or Rochester, she’s limited in what she can buy.
Fun products: full line of CBD, THC-0, and THC-8 edibles, cartridges, prerolls, and vape pens.
‘she’s limited in what she can buy.’
I think you’re supposed to by Timmy ho’s then.
“Prison official says ‘wrong kind of women’ are being hired to patrol inmates, leading to affairs”
Maybe only men should guard men and women should guard women. Sounds crazy, I know.
What the hell is a woman? Maybe the rising biologist can help.
Prison not rising damned autocorrect
They’re doing a lousy job of hiding the conspiracy.
These are the same lefties who scream about getting money out of politics.
No, not anymore. They’ve all gone dead silent about that shit.
And about threats to muh democracy!
“President Joe Biden will announce a sweeping executive order increasing the number of background checks on gun buyers and cracking down on firearms dealers during a visit to the site of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on Tuesday.
Biden wants to move the U.S. ‘as close to universal background checks as possible’ without having to go through Congress when he lays out the plan in the city where 11 people were shot and killed on January 21.
Gunman Huu Can Tran, 72, opened fire inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio as thousands took to the streets to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
The president will also take steps to make sure firearms dealers who’ve had their licenses revoked can’t carry on selling guns, and ask the Federal Trade Commission to issue a report on how gun manufacturers market to children.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11858161/Biden-expand-background-checks-gun-executive-order.html
CWAA
We already have universal background checks.
It’s what takes up that extra thirty minutes every time I buy a firearm.
Is there a Joe Camel firearm equivalent?
“Sweeping”, like what you do with those drugs between your heels.
issue a report on how gun manufacturers market to children
“They don’t.” – ///EndReport
And why would they? Children can’t purchase firearms.
Can they dig up the corpses for him to stand on?
CWAA indeed.
He can sign executive orders like this all day, but he can’t sign executive orders to restore those railroad and banking regulations that Trump took away by executive order. Go piss up a rope, Biden.
Well he can also scream it was Trump who took away the regulation except it passed with a fairly sized bipartisan group of folks.
I just told GT that our Local News™ keeps mentioning the roadways hazards due to snow, but they don’t say a word about all the ice.
Big Salt is in their pockets?
They’re just waiting for their preferred problem solver to report in.
“check out the hook while my DJ revolves it”
It just never gets old.
That’s because it’s black ice.
Good morning, Old Man!
Your pup is so dang cute. Are you taking him to any training classes? It’s a low key way to get them accustomed and comfortable with other doggies.
So Trump and HeavyD are right and the rest of the GOP field is full of retards. Between these fuckwits and Cotton talking about troops in Mexico, I’m beginning to think these guys don’t give a fuck about the country.
‘I’m beginning to think these guys don’t give a fuck about the country.’
Only *beginning”?
All interventionists are wrong 90+% of the time.
Hopefully it’s the Last Gasp of the Neocon Retards but doubtful-there’s just too much money in the arms grift.
If NATO collapses, the neocons might go with it. Might. We’ll see if they’re able to rebrand to “OMGCHINA.”
As it stands, Moscow has given up on negotiations and the only question is how far they’re going to march the army across Ukraine.
They’d manage a pivot I think to China, or Iran, or any number of other places they can manage to demonize in the eyes of the American public. When it comes to war, and a lot of other things for that matter, half of the public is divorced from reality and a fairly good part of the remainder makes a living exploiting that fact which is not good for a sober foreign policy.
Ukraine you say?
Not sure I’d go to FDR as a source of geopolitical wisdom…
He said/did a number of things that are inconvenient to modern progressives – so I find him a useful reference at times. It’s almost a throw-off line in the article, as the primary point is taking to task Lawrence Kolb and the sudden transformation of American policy on Ukraine.
“Diplo is ‘sure’ he’s ‘gotten a blow job from a guy,’ clarifies he’s ‘not not gay’”
https://pagesix.com/2023/03/14/diplo-has-gotten-blow-job-from-guy-is-not-not-gay/
Good for him whoever he is.
That he didn’t make eye contact?
Insert obligatory “Why do these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?” reference.
Fun coincidence: one of the aforementioned French bulldogs is named Diplo.
And the other is Matthew (but she just calls him Matt for short.,..)
*narrows gaze*
You would’ve preferred Macy?
Dockus.
CEO Greg Becker Was There for SVB’s Quick Rise and Even Quicker Fall
Once again: OMWC handling more pussy than a no-kill shelter.
https://archive.ph/HOcaG
Titty Tuesday.
Reminds me of a Mustang version of the MG GT.
Is It a Mustang? A Station Wagon? It’s Both.
Neat!
I love wagons. Or “shooting brakes” as the weirdos in England call them.
Long roofline FTW!
“Prison official says ‘wrong kind of women’ are being hired to patrol inmates, leading to affairs”
Hot ones or slutty ones?
They should only hire lesbians for the male prisons, and straight women for the female prisons?
Powerful: Military To Allow Troops To Replace Camo With Colors Of Their Gender Identity Flag
“Tator-tot” identity actually sounds pretty cool.
Well they won’t have to wear those stupid reflective belts anymore!
https://twitter.com/taxthispodcast/status/1633283145721151493
Technically is the best kind of correct?
Filters set to stun. (compare neck/chest complexion to face)
Daily Ray of Sunshine
GSP! Good dog.
Awww. Thanks, Holiness.
Well ain’t that just cute.
Very 50s looking kid, like Henry Huggins and Ribsy.
He’s got a knife on his belt!!!1!1!!eleventy!
(I’m sure that’ll give someone the vapors)
It did.
Remarks by the President at Signing of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
That’s brilliantly brutal.
Obama-Biden administration.
I’m yet to understand how anybody ever thought that legislation written and sponsored by two of the most corrupt assholes in Congress was ever going to be anything other than a disaster.
Technically not Wall Street???
This article lacks context.
The Justice Department in a new filing put forward its most direct response yet to footage aired last week by Fox News host Tucker Carlson that sought to downplay the actions of the self-described “QAnon Shaman,” who was convicted and sentenced to prison for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6.
In a response to a filing from a defendant charged with seditious conspiracy alongside other members of the Proud Boys currently on trial — who has sought to have his case dismissed in part over the newly-aired footage — prosecutors argued the roughly four minutes aired by Carlson of Jacob Chansley’s movements “lacks the context” of what Chansley actually did during the roughly hour-long period he was inside the building.
They revealed the video aired by Carlson was captured on internal CCTV cameras “only from approximately 2:56 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.,” after Chansley had already breached a police line with the mob and “faced off with members of the U.S. Capitol Police for more than thirty minutes in front of the Senate Chamber doors while elected officials, including the Vice President of the United States, were fleeing from the chamber.”
Obviously we need to see more footage, to get the context, right?
Yep. I wish it would all be released so a crowd could review it. Otherwise i think he is playing with his narrative too.
Even worse is McCarthy saying he will release it slowly, very slowly; but only to news agencies. It just gives an appearance of more bullshit. McCarthy thought he was going Musk’s route on this.
It just makes him look like a fool. Set up a site, release it all. Surely that was discussed. I’d love to know the reason it was done this way. Maybe to follow the Musk model? I don’t know.
My best guess? He hopes for “positive” news headlines through 2023 up until primaries and thinking he is playing the opposite game as the J6 committee who dragged the hearings to just after the mid-terms.
Context would have been established in open court but uh…you neglected to provide this or hid it or pretended it never existed. I would assume J6 lawyers had a request for any and all video of the day.
Request denied, due to NATIONAL SECURITY!!!!!
One judge actually denied the request because the accused couldn’t prove that there was exculpatory evidence in footage they had never been allowed to review.
That’s a judge fit for Kafka’s The Trial.
“Ignore your lying eyes!!!”
String it out, get a bullshit denial, and spring the footage that shows the denial to be bullshit…and the big brains at the JD are falling for it?
We really need a more intelligent class of “Betters.”
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What are the odds are the Justice Department didn’t even bother to review all the video for context prior to cherry-picking it. Why would they? They owned it, nobody was ever going to see it. They took out what they needed and ignored the rest.
What are the odds that the Justice Department relied on Congress to provide the relevant information?
“So, in your defense, you’re lazy AND stupid?”
I would like that Mustang a lot more if it just had a squared off back end.
Appears like it uses the original coupe glass and c-pillars in some form.
Like the Pontiac Aztec.
Hopefully it’s the Last Gasp of the Neocon Retards but doubtful-there’s just too much money in the arms grift.
Speaking of which, I saw an interesting thing yesterday about how our old fashioned military procurement is going to be updated, to better reflect the simple truth that we will never not be at war.
Ok here me out……..
In some ways, that might be “good”?
Our acquisition process is so screwed up, we might be more focused on “good enough” rather than tanks built out of $100 bricks.
?
Do we even have the manufacturing capacity anymore for a forever war economy?
They might very well test the theory that you can browbeat your citizenry for having patriotic sentiments, call them domestic terrorist and overall shit on them only to go to real war and demand their patriotism to step in.
I don’t know if it’s factual, but I recently heard that China currently has double the military manufacturing capacity that America had during WWII.
Drone swarms are an interesting, but I’ve wondering if hypersonic missiles will largely neutralize the effectiveness of aircraft carriers and other expensive assets. Russia and China have begun cranking these out in 24/7 plant production.
No.
It will take years just to replace all the stuff we’ve given to Ukraine.
Where there is absolutely no end game.
There is always nuclear war……
Now just wait one minute…
https://www.wired.com/story/you-might-survive-a-nuclear-blast-if-you-have-the-right-shelter/
I laughed because a lot of these articles sprung up that ‘it won’t be as bad as you think’
was that a humorous chuckle or the sound of a madman?
And if real war comes, we’re basically fucked.
We no longer have the manufacturing capability for that.
All your banks belong to us.
If banks are eating their lunch on interest rates and T-Bonds, what is keeping countries that have billions in treasuries from taking a bath?
I think what we’re witnessing is a liquidity battle between the Fed and the ECB (and their Davos handlers).
The knives are out and it’s last man standing.
Speaking of California Bailouts on the horizon… no way Sacramento lets it slip that SF has driven everyone away or its precious choo choos are unaffordable….
Remote work kills commuter public transit.
Remote work also kills cities that were reliant on office workers.
/reads another story about how Cleveland is suffering due to lower tax revenues because of remote workers
Appears like it uses the original coupe glass and c-pillars in some form.
I suspect there were structural considerations (and practical ease of fabrication) which led them to do it that way. I t would be interesting to crawl around under it.
Our acquisition process is so screwed up, we might be more focused on “good enough” rather than tanks built out of $100 bricks.
This particular article was more focused on long term contracts for consumables, like missiles and rockets and ammo. We’ll always need ten billion rounds of 9mm NATO per year.
US DOD believes that there is nothing wrong with their acquisition system……
Everyone gets paid, enough people get promoted – yeah, everything works just great! What could you possibly think is wrong?
The Fed and the Treasury are going to have a Hell of a job getting unstuck from the tar baby, this time around.
LOL!
I just heard some geezer claim the bank leadership actually invested in those government securities not just because they wanted to help the Obama 3rd term government and its global reset DEI/CRT efforts, but because they actually believed said government spokespeople when they told everyone that inflation was transitory…
That’s what diversity hires tat care more about bullshit and lack understanding of real world economics buys you…
When their defense is “We are a bunch of well meaning dumb fucks, not crooks”, you know they are both.
The CEO, quoted in the WSJ article linked by Sensei was no DEI hire. You remind me of wife a little bit – we just found out about thousands of dollars of termite damage and she still goes on about the bathroom sink drainpipe that the building inspector also missed (and her brother and I fixed with a $2 part).
You talking about the Lehman hire? Cause that asshat had failure written all over himself and I would be surprised to find out he was not a big leftwing donor.
The one who testified to Congress about reducing oversight on banks like SVB because it wasn’t a systemic risk.
issue a report on how gun manufacturers market to children
What about all those teevee cop shows glorifying and romanticizing guns? When will he have those yanked off the air?
On the vet discount discussion.
The one that really makes me uncomfortable is when people just assume and give away stuff for free because I bank with USAA. “Oh you are/were military, this is on us”. I would rather that $4.00 specialty tea for my wife go to the single mother behind me trying to get a special treat for her kid.
I was reading something about SVB yesterday, and how much they focused on VC tech businesses, and it really reminded me of the old Vegas high roller VIP casino-within-a-casino model. Taking on the biggest riskiest bets is a great model, until it isn’t. At least the casinos had all the mugs on the ground floor to pay the light bill.
That was really the only aspect of Silicon Valley that the show didn’t really show.
https://twitter.com/AFKA_PBR/status/1633306506878767104
I got 25, but I don’t have much of a sweet tooth.
Someone’s gone and misclassified a lot of thouse as ‘southern’ foods.
I mean, I got 17 and I’m definately a Yankee.
A fair amount of those are Cajun as well. Cajun is a different culture. Cultural Appropriation I say!
15, but many of them are disgusting… Switch it to things your actually like and I think I’m down to 5 or so.
21. Fried Bologna is also a Midwest staple.
23, and I see a few Midwest items in there too.
Same here on both counts. Chicken and dumplings as strictly southern?
19 — though I hate sweet tea and while I’ve tried boiled peanuts, I despise them. (My wife kindly enough tries to eat them when I’m not around).
I am, after all a transplanted Yankee unlike my true Southern belle of a wife, so not that surprising, I guess.
But a lot of those — who doesn’t like them? Red Beans & Rice? Jambalaya? Deviled Eggs? Fried Bologna (really? No one in the Upper Midwest did that? I don’t buy it….)
30…but I eat anything.
Coca Cola cake is the highest and best use of Coca Cola.
Only if you don’t have bacardi and lime.
(It’s one of the things on that list I never ate.)
How is rum in Dr. Pepper or Mt. Dew?
Never tried it in Dr. Pepper. I don’t think I’ve ever even tried Dr. Pepper.
It’s ok in Mt.Dew if you want to mix alcohol with caffeine.
Well, there’s caffeine in Coke. It just tastes nasty.
Delish! Can’t speak to Mtn. Dew.
Kosher Coke season is upon us. 😋
CP, how have you never had Dr. P?
I don’t have much of a sweet tooth.
“Kosher Coke season is upon us.”
That’s the most authentic kind.
Contains Cocaine?
A Cuba Libre was my go to drink when I was underage and trying to get served in a bar. Sophisticated enough to look like you know what you are doing, simple enough to be palatable to a kid.
I figured the highest use of Coca Cola would be to extract cocaine from old bottles.
33
There’s not much I won’t eat.
22, but not southern. Chicken and dumplings should be clarified to be that disgusting chicken pasta not delicious boiled biscuits in cream sauce. And butter beans are just Lima beans.
They are bigger and not green.
I’m around 28, give or take.
9. Probably why I’m still thin.
Headline: “Biden to issue executive order to crack down on law breaking gun sellers”
He’s going to tell Merrick Garland to do his job?
DoJ stormtroopers crash through doors of ATF HQ.
https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson/status/1635482715473715201
Huh, this idiot is still around.
Well, that dumpster fire of a thread certainly reinforces Twitter as a Junior High School cafeteria writ large….
Well, that dumpster fire of a thread certainly reinforces
Twitterlife as a Junior High School cafeteria writ large…Tell me you haven’t seen Pi (on this day of all days!) without telling me you haven’t seen Pi.
Happy Pie Day!!
Still commanding respect while doing pinup calendars?
Demanding. Gd autocorrect again.
HEY LOOK OVER THERE!
The Biden administration announced a proposal Tuesday to reduce harmful chemicals in drinking water, the first time the federal government has suggested setting such a standard for the so-called forever chemicals.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal would limit per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, by establishing legally enforceable levels for six manufactured chemicals that are known to contaminate drinking water and pose significant health risks, including cancer, even at low levels.
The proposal would set maximum contaminant levels permitted in drinking water for several synthetic chemicals that are slow to break down. If it is implemented, the regulation would require public water systems to monitor the chemicals and alert the public if the chemicals rise above established thresholds.
Better and better, every day, in every way…
DoJ stormtroopers crash through doors of ATF HQ.
Sweet.
Have you talked to the title insurance company about your undisclosed damage? Even if they can’t provide a direct remedy, they might have helpful advice (like atty recommendations). Also, if you financed the deal, what about the bank?
Had not though about title company, and yes, holding the mortgage company in reserve – I just want to make sure my equity is taken into account before theirs.
https://twitter.com/damintoell/status/1634777235109363715
So guess it’s a official, being a groomer is better than not being a Democrat.
Maybe that’s because so many of the most active/vocal groomers are democrats?
Scrolling down, Massie’s take on the bank kerfuffle seems on point:
“A group of wealthy speculators got upset that their money ended up locked into a 10 year obligation at less than 2% return,
so they convinced government it was in everyone’s best interest to help them out of their jam at the expense of everyone else.”
In a 2020 study, scientists at the Environmental Working Group, an environmental advocacy group, estimated that over 200 million residents in the U.S. could have PFAS in their drinking water at a concentration of 1 part per trillion or higher.
This clearly calls for immediate action!
“In a preview clip for an upcoming interview on the Daily Show, US President Joe Biden appeared to suggest that federal legislation was needed to prohibit states from restricting the medical transitioning of minors.
“What’s going on in Florida … is close to sinful.”
https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1635326853555830786
It’s like there is a ventriloquist’s hand up his ass.
It’s like there is a ventriloquist’s hand up his ass.
Goddammit it is NOT Wednesday.
Go for it, Joe.
Let’s get this issue settled once and for all.
As his mother would say. I’m sure Joe Biden’s mom would be horrified that a state is preventing sex change operations on minors.
I’m pretty much on the pro-choice side of abortion. I have qualms about it, and they increase the longer the pregnancy goes on.
However, I can’t get why anyone would hate on birthing centers run by pro-life people. How can you be upset that someone decided not to have an abortion? That is just sick.
This is another of those issues where almost everyone would change their minds if you flipped the original question: A law pulling funding for anyone who told pregnant women about the availability of abortion.
It’s because they are pro-abortion not pro-choice.
This. I would go so far as “anti-human”.
Me too. Pure evil.
They convinced me to drop any pretense of pro choice.
At some point, the activists did indeed go from pro-choice to pro-abortion.* They went from “safe, legal and rare” to “celebrate your abortion”.
Most of the rubes are pro-choice. Maybe. They didn’t exactly kick up a fuss when the gears shifted to “celebrate your abortion”. It’s just all “Team”, all day. Partisanship makes everyone stupid.
*Or maybe they just dropped the mask.
They hate them because it’s a contrary argument. They will not tolerate dissidents.
Because they are stepping on someone’s money dick.
Yeah, it’s sick. Just proves that it’s not really about choice and helping pregnant women for some people, it’s about preserving their eugenics program.
I don’t know what kind of eugenics you think they are engaging in. Looks more like pure nihilism to me. Check that, nihilism married to narcissism.
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PP was fairly explicitly a eugenics organization at its outset. And looking at how they run the organization, concentrating on minorities, it’s hard to say they aren’t still eugenics-adjacent, at a minimum.
Nature finds a way?
In Florida’s Everglades, few species are more closely tied to the habitat’s health than an endangered bird, the snail kite. The Everglade snail kite is a raptor, similar to a hawk, that eats just one thing: snails.
Over the last century, as much of the Everglades was drained, the bird’s population declined precipitously. But the kite has bounced back recently thanks to an exotic snail. It’s a rare case of an invasive species having a positive impact.
Robert Fletcher, a University of Florida professor who directs a snail kite monitoring program, says the invasive species was first spotted in 2004. Within a few years, it had expanded through much of the Everglades. “And it was around that time,” he says, “that we started to see snail kite number increase.”
Not so rare as the wannabe zookeepers would like you to think, I suspect.
No species ever dealt with changing environmental conditions prior to the Industrial Revolution. It was just as Adam and Eve found it.
“In this short thread, Matt manages to misstate my constitutional argument and falsely claim that I haven’t “had the courage” to state my position on the relevant subject. I’ve written quite a few words on the topic, Matt. Google is your friend.”
https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1635126495952912384
tworetardsfighting.jpg
Matt Walsh > David French and it’s not even close.
Walsh is undereducated and French is overeducated.
So you have over-simplified to the point of being stupid, or over-complicated to the point of being stupid.
Community college dropout (?) > JD from Harvard.
I forget who coined “severely educated”, but it’s appropos.
I hate them both, and everyone, absolutely everyone that commented on that thread.
Few people pay closer attention to the snail kite than Tyler Beck. He manages Florida’s the endangered bird’s population for Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. On the western edge of Lake Okeechobee, Tyler Beck uses an airboat to motor through marshes looking for kites. He sees one hovering over a clump of trees and cuts the boat’s engine. “Hear that call?” he asks. “That’s only when they’re irritated.”
Like when some asshole is chasing them around the swamp in his goddam noisy airboat?
He manages Florida’s the endangered bird’s population…
Nothing left to cut.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/u-s-banking-industry-ratings/2023/03/14/id/1112165/
Buckle up!
Arent the ratings services supposed to be ahead of the curve?
Shouldn’t they have been downgrading months ago, based on their analysis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwdo17GT6sg
Language is not safe for most works.
But University of Florida scientist Robert Fletcher is concerned about the potential impact the species will have on the Everglades over the long-term. He says, “What we should be thinking about is how do we restore native snails to get those benefits rather than relying on this non-native species that can have detrimental impacts on the ecosystem.”
Will SCIENCE! triumph?