Got a lot going on at work, so I need to just jump right in it.
In headlines from 2020: AMLO is not going to die of COVID. Alternatively, he is certain to die of COVID.
Uh oh. If you are an FFL, you should already know better but I’ll say it anyways. Do NOT work with the Feds.
I am predicting a “summer of roadkill” in southern Mexico.
Well Forbes, I assume its because they are available to work stupid hours, speak English, and cheap.
I notice they did not mention the brand name.
If its anything like the J6 videos, I assume this occurred because it makes the government look bad.
Whoa. They sure as hell know how to party in Haiti.
I like how this weird Mongolian band somehow shows up on the radio.
Slap?
As if they’ll give you a choice.
There’s a video of Trudeau saying people always had a choice to get vaccinated or not. It’s just like that.
Choosing to lose your job and starve is a choice.
Just like choosing to lose your business and face trumped-up criminal charges is also a choice.
“You rely on Al Jazeera for truth and transparency”
No, I don’t.
“Mexico has become a major producer of methamphetamine, and drug smugglers frequently are stopped at the border with liquid meth in their windshield washer fluid or other containers in their cars.”
Also, fried chicken.
Question: Is Al Jazeera less biased than MSNBC?
Is there anything that isn’t?
The HU seem to have deep pockets backing them. Wolf Totem got an elaborate & expensive music video. They’ve done at least one big US tour, with a large team supporting the band.
But they can rock.
Tequila can produce stupidity in the consumer, much like meth.
@TPTB – content inbound.
About tequila or meth?
Methcal
Thorry ’bout your lithp.
t. Mike Tyson
It’s Castilian mezcal.
The worm stands straight up.
Not as often as he used to.
*Winnie Mandela approves*
Apparently my company has been named in an anti-dumping lawsuit of some kind in regards to “boltless steel shelving” even though I don’t deal in the stuff. I just got called by a firm looking to put together a class-action countersuit.
The joys of ownership.
I’m somewhat surprised the market for boltless steel shelving is large enough to justify any business practice that could even be construed as dumping.
When you think about it, it’s a huge market. Just consider all of the distribution space in the country as well as Costcos, Sams Clubs and Amazons, etc…
True, warehousing is one of the few things we can’t outsource, I just wouldn’t have assumed there’s enough upside potential on capturing market share to justify dumping.
FWIW, I think the lawsuit is bullshit. They’ve expanded it to cover multiple countries (India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam) as if all of them were dumping in order to obtain market share.
The reality is obviously that the US producers just can’t (or don’t want to) compete.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12008619/Mother-reveals-feeds-18-month-old-baby-CRICKETS-insists-saved-100s-dollars.html
Obviously so mom can buy designer clothes with the savings.
That kid is soooo fucked.
That kid is soooo fucked.
No, from the look on the kid’s face, it’s the mom who’s going to be f**ked in about ten or fifteen years. I doubt they’ll find enough of the parts to put together for an open casket.
What does Dad say? Surely Dad will be horrified when his friends point out the article in the Mail
“Eat ze bugs” aside, as long as nobody’s forcing you into it, eat all the crickets you want just so long as you respect the right of sane people to stick to vertebrates as their main source of protein.
Lots of good invertebrates from the ocean.
I’m not a big sea food guy, but ocean bugs are definitely superior to land bugs.
Curse your nimble fingers.
It’s from years of getting them out of their shells.
Fish, and plankton, and sea greens and protein from the sea.
+1 Michael York/Jenny Agutter (choose your own adventure)
Works for me!
Vertebrates and select aquatic invertebrates. I’m not giving up shrimp, crab, or clams! I’m sure somebody wants my share of lobster 😉
My steak dinner in Mexico City a couple weeks ago came with a side of crickets. When the waiter asked if I didn’t like them, I told him I was a vegetarian.
Ha! Let’s see if we can get the gringo to eat the bugs!
There were a few other weird things on the menu, like ant larvae. There also were other things that Google Translate didn’t know how to translate, so who knows what they were.
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1649385536295976960
I definitely made it awkward.
I liked War and Under a Blood Red Sky. Then quickly lost interest.
Oh God, that reminds me of the 2 hour drive each way from Spokane to The Gorge and back in the back of my youth group leader’s ’79 K5 Blazer with no AC, all the windows down, and the entire fucking U2 discography on cassette tape at max volume…
Thanks for the nightmares.
The music aside, it’s actually not an unpleasant drive, and the rock climbing, which was the purpose of the trip, was fun as all hell. I always told myself I should get into rock climbing later in life, back when later in life was the future and not the past.
Is that what happened?
I don’t think they’re bad, just way overrated.
Agreed. They were the Nickelback of the ’80s.
Which is to say, not my taste, but not “bad” in the sense of a total lack of proficiency. Just makes you wonder how something so undistinguished could possibly catch so large an audience.
I’d say they are the Coldplay of the 80s, early 90s.
The first few records were terrific. Then Bono – like Sting and Stipe – crawled up his own ass and the rest is history.
The first few records were
terrificnot terrible. But they were quite a distance away from terrific.I liked their earlier stuff too. Then the did the whole disco thing, and they lost me. That seems to be a trend. A band has some success and a bigger budget, so they spend it all on synthesizers and over production.
One reason a band’s earlier recordings tend to be better than their mid and late career output is because typically they’ve spent quite a while during their peak creative years writing, performing, and working out the material that will become their first couple of albums in obscurity just for the love of it before they are signed to a recording contract. Once they sign on that dotted line, there’s a timeline for churning out those next 2, 3, 4, 5 records and earning back the advances. Trying to do in 6 months what took you 5 years to do the first time around means you either fall back on your old ideas or scramble to come up with some new ones rather than letting them percolate organically. So you stagnate or end up doing disco, or whatever the trending CURRENT_THING in the industry happens to be.
That makes a lot of sense. It also explains why sometimes bands take 10 years between albums.
Can confirm.
Yep, same with authors. You have a story/song rattling around in your head, and then you need to do it again, on cue.
Tundra gets it, with the exception of Achtung Baby. That was a surprisingly good album.
Bah.
They had the sense to realize that their sound was about as U2 as they could make it by Joshua Tree. Then instead of beating a dead horse (looking at you Areosmith and ZZ Top) they tried to do something different. Rattle and Hum didn’t work. Achtung Baby did. And so did Zooropa, though apparently I’m the only one on the planet that thinks so.
The discovery was made at the Pacific coast seaport of Manzanillo, the navy said on Monday. The bottles contained about 8,640kg (19,000 pounds) of methamphetamine.
Florida Man shipped via the Panama Canal?
That’s a lot of housecleaning that could have happened.
So why was Tucker fired?
Five theories from ZeroHedge.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/5-theories-are-swirling-around-internet-about-why-fox-news-fired-tucker-carlson
Gonzola Lira has some good thoughts and a good follow up video on what it means (nobody else will bring up marginalized people like the J6 political prisoners).
https://youtu.be/Admbn2ciKDk
Not a reply – maybe squirrels fired him.
Five theories from ZeroHedge”:
1. Jews
2. Zionists
3. Soros
4. Mossad
5. Israel
lol
2 & 3 probably have some merit. 4, …maybe.
I’ll have to admit that this got a WTF out of me even though I shouldn’t have been surprised.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-vaccines-dont-have-prevent-infection-or-transmission
“the prevention of infection or transmission”
Um, isn’t that pretty much the definition of a vaccine?
Not anymore.
So what’s left of the definition? “A vaccine is any drug or substance that may or may not do anything?”
It only has to make a profit.
Quiet bigot. They identify as a vaccine.
They literally changed it because the COVID vaccine didn’t work. #science
New standard.
A vaccine does not emit radiation.
Unless there is a EUA.
Though my expectation prior to COVID is that a vaccine would prevent infection and transmission, it makes more sense that the vaccine is measured by preventing the bad stuff associated with the disease. A vaccine isn’t going to prevent a virus from entering your body, so you will get infected. It’s just that your immune system is in a position to quickly react to it. And if you have infection, it seems likely that you can transmit it. I don’t remember vaccines ever being marketed as preventing transmission, except under the guise of herd immunity, but herd immunity was demonized as part of the reaction to COVID.
Take your shot, sheep.
Herd immunity.
They leaned heavily into the Polio vaccine and how it prevented infection to sell the Vid shot if I remember correctly
FWIW, cancer.gov defines infection as “The invasion and growth of germs in the body. The germs may be bacteria, viruses, yeast, fungi, or other microorganisms.” There are probably few if any vaccines that prevent the invasion of germs. It’s the growth that’s the issue. Since vaccines (and previous infections) should give T-Cell immunity, there will be a short period of time where the germs are multiplying before the immune system gets control of things. The key is eliminate the germs before they get to a level that causes problems. Antibodies can react faster than T-cells, which I guess is why there has been an emphasis on antibody levels, but unless you are going to keep shooting people up with boosters, antibodies are the wrong measurement, IMHO. I’m not an immunologist, but I have to assume there is a reason that antibody levels decline over time after an infection, and that there’s a cost to maintaining high antibody levels.
That said, there were a lot of people pushing the line about “You won’t get infected. You won’t spread the virus.” That probably always misinformation and known to be false by Fauci, et al, but apparently it was acceptable misinformation.
“‘She has blood on her hands’: Aunt of 6-month-old killed by two teens driving a stolen car after controversial State’s Attorney only charges them with misdemeanors
The suspects, aged 14 and 17, each face a single count of criminal trespassing, but police said charges could be upgraded pending further investigation into the wreck….
The tragedy was just the latest example of criminal chaos which has consumed Chicago in recent years under the watch of Foxx, whose office has dismissed thousands of violent felony cases since she was sworn in in 2016 and re-elected in 2020.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12012601/Chicagos-Kim-Foxx-slammed-victims-family-teens-accused-deadly-crash-misdemeanors.html
Dick Wolf tried to make Law & Order: Chicago, but each episode was only five minutes long.
We need more burning tyres in this country.
More Tucker theories.
The Duran guys think they powers that be really don’t want To ert Kennedy to have any platform.
https://youtu.be/s7Kna7Y12aE
Jimmy Dore thinks it’s because he went after the pharmas and the war state hard.
https://youtu.be/jjw9m1cG5S8
They are all probably right.
One word, Blackrock
Money talks, bullshit walks. Blackrock had to make it worth it to Fox to can him.
So the question is “What does Blackrock want?”
The answer is “A lot of things, but primarily they want a bailout and they need political support to do so.”
I’ve heard that Blackrock has big stakes in both Dominion and Fox. I think the whole lawsuit settlement thing is bullshit and we’ll here about it being reduced to nothing after the news dies down.
BlackRock is so large it will own everything. Same as Fidelity, same as Vanguard.
My gut is telling me this is a coordinated censorship move, whether a direct threat or using not-so-subtle pressure. Getting all the rabble rousers like Tucker and Bongino off major media makes it way easier to marginalize them. And then eventually shut down the smaller media companies where they land, under the guise of “dangerous misinformation”.
True Believer Tard Tuesday: I Got Nuthin’
I’ll never forget when Antifa liberated the Trump pink triangle concentration camps on January 7th, 2021.
“Rape kit ordered hours after Stephen Smith was found dead has STILL not been tested by South Carolina law enforcement despite new murder investigation – after mom claimed he was in a relationship with surviving Murdaugh son”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12012285/Rape-kit-ordered-hours-Stephen-Smith-dead-not-tested.html
IT NOT ME. STEVE AM PITCHER NOT CATCHER.
What did five fingers say to dat ass?
Giggity!
I notice they did not mention the brand name.
So let me see if I have this straight:
Speed used to be cheap and readily available (80s)
CRACKDOWN!
People start making their own.
BAN SUDAFED!
Mexican cartels step in to help.
Progress?
Back when I was still entertaining the notion of becoming an economist, I wanted to do my dissertation on black and grey markets. Of course, you end up with 300 pages of wankery to basically say “life finds a way.”
Plus the calculus that would be required.
Quantitive Econ took off when I was an undergrad. I hated it.
Of course. At least 1/3 of those 300 pages of wankery would be econometric models built on unicorn farts, given the difficulty in collecting data in black and grey markets. Which is part of the reason why I decided not to become an economist.
What I find somewhat interesting is that back in the 80’s coke was $100 a gram, heroin was $10 a bag, and exotic was $35 an eighth. It’s 2023, and coke is $100 a gram, heroin is $10 a bag, and exotic is $35 an eighth.
But pot is thru the roof.
Only because of taxes. Black/grey market top shelf weed is still around $35 an eighth. It’s just that no one sells cheap schwag anymore. It’s all exotic by 80’s standards.
Fuck. I can go to legal recreational states near me and get an ounce for under $100.
Yes, if you buy quantity it’s even less. The point is that recreational drug prices haven’t gone up with inflation.
Just like stereo systems.
Er, I mean “stereo” systems.
The drug cartels should unionize for better wages.
You win the war on drugs by spending the most money on police training and equipment.
He with the biggest budget wins the war.
Las glutas mas finas.
Verdad.
Nothing some rent control, government mandates on businesses, subsidies and transfer payments can’t fix!
Report finds 50% of New York City working-age households don’t earn enough to meet basic needs
Needs more solar power and less fertilizer.
Colorado rescue discovers rare male calico ‘unicorn’ kitten
Awfully presumptuous of them to call him a male without even asking him how he identifies.
Administer the puberty blockers stat!
It’s ok to hate all involved here, right?
https://www.nj.com/essex/2023/04/united-flight-returns-to-newark-3-hours-into-10-hour-trip-due-to-unruly-passenger.html
A United flight that took off from Newark airport early Sunday turned around and returned to New Jersey three hours into the trip to Israel due to a disruptive passenger.
While waiting to use a bathroom, the man sat in a seat reserved for flight attendants and refused to move when asked by a crew member, according to YNetNews.com. He then argued with flight attendants.
The man was escorted off the plane when it arrived back in Newark, the news outlet said.
“United flight 90 traveling from Newark to Tel Aviv returned to Newark shortly after takeoff due to a disruptive passenger,” United Airlines said in a statement. “Law enforcement met the aircraft and removed the passenger. A new flight was scheduled to depart Sunday evening.”
While waiting to use a bathroom, the man sat in a seat reserved for flight attendants and refused to move when asked by a crew member, according to YNetNews.com. He then argued with flight attendants.
Those poor petty authoritarians. They can’t bully the passengers about masks anymore, so they’re reduced to this.
Kind of my take as well. Yeah, you shouldn’t sit where you’re not supposed to. On the other hand, is it worth turning a fucking plane around 3 hours into a 10 hour flight to make sure somebody doesn’t sit in your special crew seat for a few minutes while they wait to use the shitter?
Yeah, I’d need to know more before assuming the flight attendants were assholes or that they were wrong in turning around. What exactly did the guy do? Was he just unpleasant? Or did he start flailing his arms around and shouting at them? He refused a request from an attendant, which is a bad idea to begin with, but for all we know he could have been aggressive or threatening, in which case I can’t really see the problem on the airline’s part.
I’m wondering if there’s some batch of stupid federal regulations involved that remove discretion on the part of the flight crew.
There may be, but in the turning around of the plane, as I understand it that’s in the captain’s wheel-house. If the man in the pilot’s chair wants someone off his plane, that someone is getting off the plane. There may be regs or even airline policies around that, but honestly I can’t be arsed to look into it. My main point is that there’s just not enough information here to go blaming the flight crew for anything. We don’t even know how big of an asshole the ‘disruptive passenger’ was being.
Yeah. Not even an indication of how much Philadelphia sports gear he was wearing.
Road diet!
Rabbit hole led me to this.
Bollocks to these bollards!
Nevermind the Bollards.
Good Lord. Only city government could be that retarded.
I’d laugh and say “Limey serfs! Just pull them out with a truck!”, but we’d do no better here.
WTF
No lie – LMAO.
“Kylen Suttner, 21, was doing chest presses at the gym when she was approached by a woman who questioned her athletic attire, allegedly telling the young mom her light blue crop top wasn’t “respectful,” and “no one wants to look at your boobs hanging out.””
https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/i-was-body-shamed-for-letting-my-boobs-hang-out-at-the-gym/
Seems there is one of these stories almost every week.
🙄️
So much so that she could barely even take 45 Instatokbook pics for the article 🙄️
Haha! Yes. Bless her.
Maybe they mistook her duck lips for boobs.
Suede? Really?
oblig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqovGKdgAXY
Normally I would disagree with the busybody, but thots are absolutely destroying the fun.
The shame was unbearable, so she had to flaunt her boobs some more.
“No one wants to look….”. Obviously doesn’t know the Glibertariat.
I for one do not…oh Q postings
That’s not even very revealing.
I wonder, though, if she doesn’t have some kind of neurological problem that makes it hard for her not to have her hand up by her face.
Photography trick to give good lines.
“An NYPD cop accused of paying a Twitter user for kiddy porn also engaged in video sex chats with young girls and had over 400 photos of child sexual abuse stored on a laptop found in his home, federal prosecutors alleged at the start of his trial Tuesday.
Timothy Martinez,43, was after “explicit images of underage girls and children” — and compiled a horrifying collection on the computer seized during a 2019 raid, prosecutor William Campos said during his opening statement in Brooklyn federal court.
“Martinez engaged in live video sex chats with underage girls and had them display their bodies — including their breasts and vaginas — and masturbate,” Campos told jurors.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/nypd-cop-had-video-sex-chats-with-young-girls-and-child-porn-on-laptop-prosecutors-say-in-federal-court/
New York’s finest.
Dude has clown feet and jug ears. He missed his calling as a perverted circus performer.
Did he, though?
Summons Kinko the Clown:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNV4FMpGh8
Quoting oneself is the height of douchebaggery, but it’s not like I have a reputation worth preserving, so I’ll do it anyway:
I’m not saying phenotypes are destiny, I’m just saying that every person you see getting busted for child porn looks exactly like what you’d imagine a person who gets busted for child porn would look like.
Blood lust
A U.S. prosecutor on Monday said leaders of the Proud Boys were “thirsting for violence and organizing for action” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, as the criminal trial of five members of the far-right group neared its conclusion.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Conor Mulroe told a jury in a closing argument that the Proud Boys viewed themselves as a “fighting force” for Republican then-President Donald Trump and were “ready to commit violence on his behalf” in order to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
“For these defendants, politics was no longer something for the debating floor or the voting booth,” Mulroe said. “To them, politics meant actual physical combat.”
Former Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and four co-defendants – Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola – are charged with seditious conspiracy and other felonies for what prosecutors described as a plot to use violence to disrupt the transfer of presidential power.
Thousands of people died that day, and those monsters must be held accountable.
What’s that? Well, they could have.
But the guy who is on tape agitating for people to storm the barricades and enter the capitol and texted his buddy that he “orchestrated it” is a goddamn American hero and any suggestion otherwise is a malicious conspiracy theory…
So, how many Proud Boys actually mixed it up with the Capitol cops?
Weren’t most of them Feds or at least informants at that point?
An attorney for Nordean said prosecutors did not produce evidence of a violent plot to attack the Capitol but rather relied on chaotic video footage and inflammatory social media posts.
“The government’s entire case is built on this kind of misdirection and innuendo,” attorney Nick Smith said. Closing arguments were due to continue on Tuesday.
Well, what did you expect? You were supposed to take the plea deal.
Oh, wait-
Five people died and more than 140 police officers were injured.
Well, there you are. Genocide.
That’s Saturday afternoon in Chicago.
Amazing what you can get politicians to say when it’s anonymous.
https://parson.law.ucla.edu/pdf/parson-3e-pre-meeting-interviews-synthesis-report.pdf
– Thomas Sowell
Project Veritas latest
Project Veritas released a third video in its series exposing pro-transgender medical workers today — with this report revealing how the transgender “health” industry functions and profits off underage patients on a long-term basis.
Dr. John Steever, who was featured in an earlier Veritas report, is seen talking about how young individuals are subjected to prolonged gender transitions.
“In the beginning, it’s a lot of doctor visits. But, you know, after a while, you space it out. It’s like, every six to twelve months? Which yeah, is being a patient. But that doesn’t seem so bad,” he said.
Dr. Matthew Warnken, a pharmacist in Austin, Texas, echoed what Dr. Steever said.
“For a female going to male, if they would continue — you’d have to continuously take testosterone pretty — well, for the rest of their life,” he said.
“An 18-year-old boy died when doctors tried to create a vagina for him using part of his colon.
His colon was used because puberty blockers stopped growth of his genitals, which meant there wasn’t enough tissue to do the penile inversion surgery.”
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1650679308921208832
We need more burning tyres in this country.
Colombian Neckties
JHTFC
I can’t even.
Same thing happened with Jazz Jennings and he/she had to have multiple followup surgeries. It’s been speculated by bigots and transphobes that may be why he/she is on a cocktail of antidepressants and gained 200 pounds, but that is, of course, a damnable lie and conspiracy theory.
Puberty blockers are straight up retarded. It’s bad medicine even if a doctor is 100% sure that someone is going to transition after puberty.
Look at this bigot. Nature has flaws and humans in their greatest level of hubris will correct it
“What kind of person would deny them such life-saving care?”
Sad. I can’t even think of a smartass comment for this one.
At least they were 18? Yeah I got nothing
How none of these clowns have had a bullet put in their head is a mystery to me.
“Want to know why my local State Rep @JudyForAZ voted against the #FreeTheTamales Bill #HB2509?
It’s because Judy believes that “there should absolutely be a cap on how much people can make”
Honestly, WTF?
#LD2 deserves leadership that cares about their community and doesn’t try to put caps on how much struggling families can earn. Not whatever this is.”
https://twitter.com/AriBradshawAZ/status/1650956751095869440
The party of the working class.
Fire Judy. Fucking bitch commie.
Dunno what her district looks like, but she’s a Dem. In a safe district, there’s no firing her.
We need signs like this in cities.
They already know,
Training all day. Decent training but could have been a 30 minute briefing.
Also son and Mrs OBE off to look at a used car. Older owner only, 80k milles, 2008. Not bad. Given post was deleted I am guessing he is buying it. Chevy Cobalt
I remember buying my ’06 Hyundai in 2013. Older couple with all their maintenance records. Had about 72k at the time. I remember thinking $5,500 was extortionate and cursing Cash for Clunkers. Prices are so fucking insane now that it’s probably still worth what I paid for it 10 years and 16k miles later.
Think only asking 3k. I told son, stop waiting for texts back, call and go now.
A Cobalt should be a decent starter car. Assuming older owner took care of it, it’s probably got another 50K miles before serious problems start showing up. Not a panty-dropper by any means, but for your very own first car? It’ll do.
I have a 08 Cobalt SS with 125K and it runs like new. I drive the living hell out of it.
the SS has a Saab derived motor and transmission though, so might be different.
Rust can be a problem in salt areas, though.
Here we go.
The FAA let SpaceX launch Starship without the usual pad protections
Onerous regulations incoming!
You successfully did what we and the Russians couldn’t do….so stop.
And now SpaceX will fix the pad at its own expense. I saw something about a massive water-cooled steel plate? Whatev. Not my business, not the fed’s business.
It was in production, but wasn’t done before this launch. It will be installed during the repair.
Just saw a an for Ron Desantis for President paid for by Never Back Down.