“Hang, hang on Sloopy…”
Hey gang! Sloopy had the fish last night. I hope you all had a great weekend.
Let’s see what mayhem we missed out on, shall we?
Oh, boy. He’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
This was only 20 years in the making. Srsly, eventually people realize that the coupon ain’t worth shit for the stuff you want, and everything else is marked up 20%.
I will give DEG the credit for the morning LULZ.
In case you needed a reminder Sudan is a third world shit hole.
So..after much discussion, I think it was decided that there’s an inter-dimensional portal along the road. Aliens from another dimension steal cows, cut off tongues, assholes and junk. It appears they then throw them through the portal, back along the road. We can only surmise it’s some artistic kink, or a love of hot dogs.
All right. All y’all ease into Monday and have a good day.
“,Obviously gods wrath.”
Self inflicted by that dragon, wasn’t it?
Nah — like everything in California, Climate Change. Groupenfuhrer Gavin will accelerate CARB’s mission to put us back before the stone age (no cave fires for you!) to compensate.
“This was only 20 years in the making. Srsly, eventually people realize that the coupon ain’t worth shit for the stuff you want, and everything else is marked up 20%.”
You mean bait & switch tactics are not effective? Then why do these entities keep doing this shit? Including government bureaucracies, politics, education, and pretend news that’s really just programming…
Well, apparently someone did manage to go broke overestimating the collective stupidity of people… so that’s something.
When you can order anything you find at their store cheaper online elsewhere – except for the junk items – I can see how the business model stops working.
“Oh noes! Say it ain’t so!”
Never stops these people that have no decent argument nor the ability to use logic & facts to make whatever case they have of accusing their opponents just to shut them up. There is a reason that the marxist leftists have adopted the belief that words are violence and that bad people shouldn’t be allowed to talk: to be able to silence anyone that would effectively challenge their evil and stupidity.
Jeff Shell is stepping down as CEO of NBCUniversal following a misconduct investigation, which found he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman in the company.
Man, the perks of the job ain’t what they used to be.
He coulda sunk her in a river using an Oldsmobile, but its been done.
Yeah — if you can’t pull out the ole casting couch in Hollywood or Washington, what’s this world coming to?
It isn’t just the CEO’s who will be harmed by this New Puritanism. Think of the young hotties working there. You are basically taking away their dream of bagging a rich C-suite dude who will keep them in the manner that they would like to be accustomed to.
Especially with the decrease in trade conferences and sales meetings. They can’t even be farmed out to other company’s C-suite! The poor lambs….
Kamala Harrises of the world hardest hit?
[sfx: cackling]
After getting a good look at him, I’d love to the see the woman.
Bed Bath & Beyond on Sunday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after it failed in several last-ditch efforts to raise enough money to keep the company alive.
I wonder if they tried eliminating the ‘beyond’ section.
My buddy used to refer to it as Bed, Bath and Beyond Comprehension because of the crap his wife bought there. So you have to keep the ‘Beyond’
Peter Griffith would agree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5rXBq7vyck&pp=ygUeUGV0ZXIgZ3JpZmZpdGggYmVkIGJhdGggYmV5b25k
It may be Monday for you people, but this is my Friday night.
Go square that one.
Ain’t every night a drinking night? That’s how I do my calendar.
We just know you have Rebecca Black on loop, Tres.
According to wiki ( I have no idea of who she is) she’s 1/2 Mexican and part Polack.
God, where do I start with the jokes ?
You managed to dodge this? Wow… I thought it was inflicted upon everyone at one point or another.
U.S. special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital with helicopters on the ground for less than an hour. No shots were fired and no major casualties were reported.
I’m sure the US gov’t 3 letter agencies had nothing to do with this Sudan development.
Are we going to get a third Sudan out of this, I wonder?
How many Sudans do you need before you upgrade to a minivan? I bet they are dreaming of when they used to have a sporty coupe.
If this isn’t handled carefully, the situation will just Escalade.
I was hoping to Dodge all this.
At least there were no American Kia.
They’re always looking to stage a coupe there.
Doh! I spent too much time ramblering on and you beat me too it.
What are you? Some Euro-fag?
*I was going to make the same coupe joke
I drive a Monte Carlo (over 20 years now). So all about the coupe.
Intimidator edition?
Was it dark brown? A coupe de taupe?
They could just declare a new government by Fiat.
“So..after much discussion, I think it was decided that there’s an inter-dimensional portal along the road. Aliens from another dimension steal cows, cut off tongues, assholes and junk. It appears they then throw them through the portal, back along the road. We can only surmise it’s some artistic kink, or a love of hot dogs.”
I know several cow tongue recipes that are absolute culinary delights, but the damned thing is practically never available at the grocery store, so this could just be some people wanting to get what they can’t in a store?
Weird… I think I always see at least one beef tongue in the meat department here. Not one of the things I cook — but you can’t help but notice it.
I need to move to your part of the world…
They have plenty of assholes at the stores around me, but no tongue.
Need more Hispanics. Plenty of lengua around here now. I used to have to request it specifically as a kid when we raised cows.
back in the day, lengua was cheap meat and like lamb is now, its pricey AF
I remember watching Grandpa Tres parboiling tongue, peeling the skin off, slicing it, and laying layers of it on the blackest, strongest, nastiest rye bread you can imagine.
Then he’d slop on horseradish and mayo, and chase the whole sammich down with a Goebel beer.
Once you get beyond the actual look (its a tongue)- it is one of the tastiest cuts of beef you can find.
The six drag queens of Kevin Bacon.
Kevin Bacon has a message for people who want to ban drag.
No on wants to ban it, just leave the kids out of their overt and hypersexualized minstrel shows.
These people are either idiots, evil, or both. Nobody gives a flying fuck about drag until the people doing it are doing it in front of minors.
It’s their standard MO. Take something outrageous and conflate it with something mainstream.
Reality: The right wants to ban kids attending drag shows.
The Narrative: The right wants to ban all drag shows, and probably ban all theater!
It’s tedious, but unfortunately it keeps working for them because most people are stupid and don’t bother to check into such claims.
Noted public intellectual, Lizzo, has weighed in
“Lizzo filled the stage with drag queens”
Lizzy does a pretty good job filling a stage all by herself. I’m surprised there was room for any drag queens.
Lizzo, has weighed in
Did the
mirrorscale crack?I certainly didn’t have “drag queens” on my “Heroes of the 21st Century” bingo card but here we are.
A trans shoots up a school and now they’re the victims. Fuck that fat ignorant fool. No one gives two shits until you start waving your female penis in front of an eight year old.
Because if there’s anyone who’s shown themselves to be deep thinkers, moral authorities and to have the solutions to the political questions of the day — it is people paid to play pretend and dress up for a living.
Way to ruin a pride parade.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Great way to start the week, Jimbo
When I was that age I wanted a puppy. I didn’t get the puppy or a little brother/sister
Have not been able to take a look at the methodology or the data for this study, but it feels intuitively right based on most libs I know. Amongst lib women mental health problems are massive. It’s the main reason they need big daddy government to feel safer.
Counterpoint: Alex you ignorant slut
My biggest problem with these things is that I do not give a fuck what adults do to themselves or with other consenting adults as long as I do not have to pay for it or the consequences of it. That last part is usually why I object to fucking people doing everything.
You big liar Alex! They hardly ever cut the teens up. And only above the waist. Oh, sure we might pump them full of drugs, but that is totes safe. Goepferd knows because he’s been in this business since 2019!
“And there are no genital surgeries done on children under the age of 18. Less than 1 percent of trans adolescents under age 18 access chest or top surgery,”
Impressive, contradicting yourself in consecutive sentences.
Never mind. Coffee still soaking in.
The people in the picture remind me a lot of the governor.
Good grief what a dumpster fire of lies and misdirection.
I used to think that the country was going to split over abortion but “gender-affirming health care” is giving abortion a good run for its money.
“This communication provided specific experiences of racist behaviors by faculty, staff, and students, and widespread systemic and structural racism within our institution,” the research paper said. “Structural racism is structuring opportunity and assigning value within an institution based on race, unfairly disadvantaging some individuals and groups while advantaging others.”
Sixty years after the implementation and rigorous enforcement of civil rights laws, activists have switched the definition of racism to things like “expected to show up on time for work” and “can write and speak in standard English” and wonder why the rest of society refuse to take academia seriously.
This whole marxist movement’s purpose is a war on success and successful behaviors, because they hate meritocracies. Meritocracies are anathema to socialism.
I don’t even take the beneficiaries of affirmative action seriously,.
There is structural racism. It’s from the fucking left that is trying to enact racist legislation and government policies.
Sorry,
tryingcontinuing.My daughter commented on how racism is pervasive at school. She said there were boys who thought Hitler was funny.
I bit my tongue on that one.
Did you slide your copy of The Producers under the newspaper?
Heil Honey I’m Home:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjwv
Ah yes, that one slipped my mind.
Also, this. Which I thought would be better than it was.
“Structural racism is structuring opportunity and assigning value within an institution based on race, unfairly disadvantaging some individuals and groups while advantaging others.”
So, Affirmative Action.
don’t logicsplain
Nuh uh. “Unfairly.” Wypipo are icky so it’s totes fair to disadvantage them.
Did you ladies already discuss the ham handed desperate effort by 60 minutes to make Epps’ role all look coincidental and inconsequential yet?
This is more of the same shit as the recent revelation that they HAVE to keep the manifest from that crazy girl that wanted to pretend to be duded that shot up the Christian school because it was going to hurt people.
The censoring has begun! Your link has disappeared!
Same link as Rebel’s.
Alex, in a way there may be some value in keeping that manifesto under wraps. Not because it would hurt someone’s tender feelings but because the copycat phenomenon might cause some loon(s) to go try to blow another school away.
There’s an article on Quillette today that illustrates just how the televised media propagandizes, overemphacizes and outright lies in order to seduce our eyeballs – and minds. Filled with solid information and facts. And frightening.
I would agree with this concern 100% if we didn’t have the precedent that every time the horrific killings came from someone they could accuse was right wing, this logic never applied or was pursued. And then the manifesto was immediately put out there to score political points and justify gestapo action by the US intel apparatus against political enemies.
It’s the selectivity that offends. Every other manifesto is released pretty quickly, to varying degrees of coverage. I don’t think withholding this one will make any difference, particularly given the context of the trans radicals calling for violence anyway to fend off the impending genocide of transers. Or something.
Instead, we get wall-to-wall coverage of the killer as victim. I’m sure that will tamp down others considering going on their own shooting spree.
Running interference for regime informants and agent provocateurs.
For millions of consumers of conservative news, Ray Epps is a notorious villain — a provocateur responsible for turning peaceful protests on January 6th into a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol. The irony is that Epps was a passionate supporter of President Trump who went to Washington to protest the 2020 election. But his often contradictory behavior that day spawned a full-fledged conspiracy theory, casting him as a government agent who incited an insurrection. Today, Epps is in hiding, after death threats forced him to sell his home. So who is Ray Epps? Tonight, you’ll hear from the government, and the man himself. …
Bill Whitaker: What do you think when you see this now?
Ray Epps: Brings back some bad memories. It’s hard to see our Capitol under attack.
It’s been more than two years since the storming of the Capitol, but Ray and his wife Robyn told us they relive January 6th every day of their lives.
There is something about being an active participant in inciting a riot, I suppose.
AYFKM? Could he possibly be a bigger piece of shit liar?
How stupid do you have to be to believe a word of that?
The guy caught on camera saying “We need to go INTO THE CAPITOL” says it’s hard to see our Capitol under attack. JFC.
The gaslighting to make this guy look innocent, and more importantly, to undermine the accusation that Epps sure as fuck looked like he was not just an informant, but an agitator, is telling. Other people got in real trouble for doing far less with the crowd that needed desperately to convince people questioning the election they had just stolen, and especially resisting their power grab, was not going to be allowed. But the one guy they have actually instigating violence, on camera, is the one and only guy they immediately decided had done no wrong? Seriously?
“Tonight, you’ll hear from the government”
CBS thinks that will get people to NOT change the channel??
Whew, finally we hear the government’s side.
Name one other person, JUST ONE, who was involved in any way in Jan. 6 and got this treatment.
All the FBI informants and instigators?
‘Orning ‘ordles… crappy start to what’s hopefully not going to be too crappy of a week. Meh.
Daily Duotrigordle #418
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 03:37.86
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Blossom Puzzle, April 24
Letters: A B E S L U V
My score: 314 points
My longest word: 10 letters
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Play Blossom:
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boring
Wow… talk about easiest job ever. Based on the last time, just hide him in the basement, refuse to talk to reporters and rely on the “Blue no matter who” vote combined with some selected reinforcement of the vote and you can claim you ran a successful operation and coast on your book and speech deals. What a racket.
Who will be writing the letter backed by 50 plus high level people from one bureaucratic three letter agency or another this time to help the media make excuses to not cover whatever scandal is going on with that crime family this time?
You mean the letter attesting to his mental competence? Should be a short list but in for a penny…
His announcement is coming via a taped video, heavily redacted.
She would be a figurehead campaign manager just like he’s a figurehead president. She’s is to campaign managers as the Haitian Pixie is to White House press secretaries.
New grips arriving today! Unless UPS and/or USPS fail to live up to their projected schedules. This will allow me to make to make space-filling “content” to keep the lynx from bumping into each other.
Maher’s completely off the reservation now. Over/under on how long they let him keep going?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-arent-black-celebrities-talking-about-bill-maher-asks-why-black-people-are-killing
Welp. He could have wrapped that up with “no, no, don’t get up; I’ll cancel myself”.
Eh, if you watch his whole show he is still firmly planted on the left.
^
Saw bits of his interview with Piers Morgan that support this.
Late response, but Christ was that a terrible episode. Piers Morgan, Katie Porter, and that loser former actor who is anti-crypto.
Why the focus on reading skills? I mean, the standard trope like Maher’s always ignores math skills. Prolly cuz there are so many alleged teachers who think it’s funny that they themselves are so innumerate.
If your average English teacher had to pass a 7th grade algebra test to be allowed to teach English, the union would be bitching up a storm like the average 13-year old’s “Why do I need to learn this?? I’m not going to be using it on the job!”
Look for the union label… so you know what products and services to avoid.
Meet the new road, same as the old road.
Sorry, for this #TooLocal story, but it keeps getting better and better.
The Vison:
Reality:
Don’t worry though. Even with everyone involved in the original design now saying “mea culpa” the new design wasn’t so retrograde as to even think about going back to a normal street. Nope, to make room for fire trucks, they just eliminated even more parking and got rid of 13% of the proposed green space.
I wonder if all the muckety-mucks would have been so free with their “We fucked up” apologies if there were any real repercussions for wasting millions of dollars? Like maybe someone losing their job?
if there were any real repercussions for wasting millions of dollars?
Was the money wasted? I thought the whole point of these construction boondoggles was for local and state politicians to launder money through family, friends, and associates. I’m guessing it was quite successful.
Real repercussions would be getting the axe literally rather than metaphorically.
I didn’t see any space left for the homeless. Needs more bridges.
They wanted an emergency route to have bump outs and chicanes??
I’m guessing it’s an otherwise meaningless designation that gets a higher plow priority and allows immediate towing of parked/blocking cars.
^Pretty much this.
My glong
That is so many levels of wrong packed into one video…..
That guy should patent that shit…
I like it.
As I mentioned before, it’s not everyday you see a gun that is its own 4473 volition.
Other than a ship or shower and a bong, what could I combine to market my product a shlong?
A shaver. Maybe a bald head shaver to enforce the systemic racism.
A private parts shaver and bong!…
Let me start the paperwork on this fucking patent…
Or a Schlock. A shaver and a Glock.
If I was limber enough to take a hit off the bong that was also shaving my privates, I wouldn’t need to get high.
Add it to a razor? $1 Schlong Club?
Here’s another Dragon on fire (not literally): https://youtu.be/N8TOxu4bpA4
Best part is toward the end but other than that it’s just randomly edited pieces of a concert.
Rock in peace, Daryl.
This is what Target in San Francisco looks like
Looks like a racism.
I can imagine the cost hike for these products to help that business pay of for those secure lockers and to have staff on hand that will help get you what you need. How fast before the looters just start shanking the people with the keys so they can have access to the loot?
And just briefly you can see that the adjoining aisle isn’t like this.
They’re only locking up the high ticket stuff like tampons and toothpaste.
WTF is the point?
Just pack it up and leave.
^^ this
Sunk cost fallacy hard at work.
Coming soon to all stores in urban areas: the Soviet-style old Penna. Liquor Control Store system where you told a clerk what you wanted, he went in the back, brought out the wrong thing, then went back again, and eventually you paid for it, and the next thirsty patron got to move to the head of the line.
I used to work with a guy who had been a Target manager, on Mack rd. in South Sacramento, also known as one of the ghetto’s. He did the same thing, to keep shrink down. Worked, but they closed the store anyway. Still too much theft.
Jeff Shell is stepping down as CEO of NBCUniversal following a misconduct investigation, which found he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman in the company.
He married her and raised a family?
He made her make him sammiches and get his beer while he was watching sports….
Also, why was this the Hang on Sloopy reference?
I miss those days of the liberated woman.
I love that video. You should have embedded it, LOL. [WordPress/Editorial joke.]
A PAC backing DeSantis just trolled “trans” “athletes” and I can’t stop laughing.
Brutal humor is the best medicine..
That’s why they want to silence anyone that would dare…
Region/culture war link:
CA’s recommended reading list:
https://www3.cde.ca.gov/reclitlist/search.aspx
No books older than 2016.
You have to live the audacity of the people who choose this shit.
This isn’t the first generation to think its own shit doesn’t stink, but they truly see themselves as more enlightened than everyone in the history of people.
There couldn’t possibly be anything of value written before 7 years ago.
“It was written seven years ago by unwoke fascists in a language no one understands.”
This story has holes.
A video that’s making its way around the web shows police busting into an Arkansas man’s home for piercing his son’s ear.
The video shows five police officers storming a Tontitown, Arkansas man’s home for “illegally” piercing his own son’s ear.
The man arrested in the video was Jeremy Sherland and in the video, Sherland is in disbelief that the police were arresting him for practicing “Body art without a license.”
Sherland’s son could also be heard in the video saying, “I wanted my ears pierced.”
Aside from the asinine enforcement of a bs law*, the press release says something about the father being drunk and using a strangle hold to conduct the piercing. I question the mechanics of that.
*Meanwhile he can fuck up his hormones and mutilate his junk and the gov’t wouldn’t care.
According to this chart the US spends 4 times as much as the CCP does on it’s military. And yet, China is putting out 5 times as many naval and air force platforms for their smaller investment than the US. Are we really pissing away that much money on trannies that join the military to get the expensive medical expenses paid by the tax payers, DEI initiatives, and CRT shit? Damn, that is one hell of a racket.
Yeah, but most of their shit is made in China…
Meh, this is the argument I have with conservative friends and family who complain about “cuts to the military.” I try to explain that it’s not about how much is being spent, but where and what it is being spent on. Like most USG agencies the DoD wastes as much money on useless bureaucrats as any other department or agency. I mean, 26k people work in the Pentagon daily. Think about that, that’s more than live in Hays, KS which is a county seat (to provide a random comparison). Does anyone want to argue that all 26k are vital for national defense?
IMHO, this is one area where libertarians could probably get traction with both conservatives and liberals. Instead of starting with the big stuff, try making arguments about how much budget money goes to functionaries. Hell, I had an academic acquaintance of mine agreeing that the DoE doesn’t actually educate anyone.
IOW: yeah, maybe they spend money on the DEI/CRT stuff, but that’s just a smaller part of a much bigger number of non-productive employees.
Not that long ago, the US military bureaucracy was derided as completely corrupt and ineffectual.
Then 9-11 happened…
*scratches chin*
hmmmmmmm
Saw a comment the other day that Harvard, I think it was, has more administrators than professors and students.
Wow!
I know about 10 years ago the University of California system hit the 1:1 faculty:administrator ratio.
Most jobs in our modern society are “do nothing” jobs these days. You want to build something? The cost today is orders of what it used to be back when because of all the things you have to do that have nothing to do with the actual construction.
That. The core mission of the DOD is graft. Decisions are primarily made regarding how to keep the contractor gravy-train alive. Tiffany systems with glass jaws that never really field.
Looking just at the PLAN, yes, it’s “made in China”, but quantity has a quality all its own.
True, but the useless bureaucrats are attracted to that DEI/CRT stuff like flies to shit. It’s a great source of make-work for their useless jobs.
Spending more than any other country and getting less—in every endeavor—is America’s superpower now.
1. Chinese military equipment costs are probably less inflated
2. It’s probably punishable by death in China to be a war profiteer
3. All the development costs for their weapons platforms have already been paid by US taxpayers
2A) yet still goes on
Im sure the wage and benefit package is comparable.
Just as aircraft carriers in WWII made the battleships of WWI obsolete, I’m wondering if hypersonic missiles like the Kinzhals will do the same for aircraft carriers and other high value military units. That would wipe away a considerable portion of America’s offensive military strength very early into a war with a conventional power.
I believe China has their own version. For all the recent bluster about American naval intervention in the Taiwan Strait, how long would those ships actually stay afloat once these new missiles start flying?
There are two types of ships, submarines and targets.
You have that confused, submarines are targets.
True story: I’ve only ever gone to one high school reunion, my tenth. There I bumped into an old friend of mine from school, with whom I’d lost touch; turns out he had gone to Annapolis and was flying sub-hunter helos for the Navy. Being that I was in Uncle Sugar’s green suit myself at the time, I was curious, and asked him if he had ever tracked a Soviet boat.
He told me (going from memory of a conversation that happened thirty-three years ago) “I’ve tracked Soviet boats and our boats, in exercises. Our subs, they have to turn on a transponder so we can track them. Otherwise we’d never find them. But the Russians, their boats sound like a bucket of bolts down under the water.”
So I thought about that for a moment, and asked him, “Yeah, but wouldn’t it be a typically Russian thing to do, a great maskirovka, to put in each sub a spindle spinning a big steel drum full of scrap metal – and then when the war starts, they turn them all off and disappear?”
He didn’t look comfortable at the prospect.
Did you ever get confirmation of whether or not the Soviet Subs were intentionally audible or just suffering from communist construction?
Not that I’m aware of. I haven’t talked to that guy since, though. I suspect the “communist construction” answer is the correct one, though, based on other Soviet-bloc hardware I’ve seen.
Communist construction. They were barely getting in the quieting game right before the USSR imploded. The 3rd gen nuclear powered Victors & Sierras were a lot quieter, but not even close to our LAs. Their boomers are still quite noisy today. Their diesel boats are quieter while on battery, and those can be a problem working in littorals.
China has the same issue with their subs. They are working hard to incorporate all the US IP they have stolen to catch up, but they are shoddy at it still. Same with their homegrown aircraft engines. The very complex stuff can’t be made on the cheap.
From my limited experience working with the Russians in the 90s, it’s unlikely they could make anything run smoothly.
Also shallow magazines and no ability to reload key systems underway…
The Kinzhal is not hypersonic. At mach 5 it is supersonic. China’s DF-26 is a ballistic missile and thus hypersonic.
And hypersonic missiles can be countered by hypersonic interceptors or high energy weapons (like lasers) as long as you can detect them in time to engage. The US has the best detection capability out there today but lags in real serious layered defense for this capability yet. yes the SM-6 has the ability to work but the cost is phenomenal and no platform can have enough of them to really counter swarm tactics.
And contrary to the believe that subs can’t also be targeted, advances in underwater detection UUVs and swarms of armed UUVs will soon make subs just as vulnerable.
While stealth capabilities are a game changer, the game today is to create weapons that can outrange your enemies defenses, and then to swarm them and take them out.
From what I’m seeing, the Kinzhal is at least Mach 10.
The air launched version, if fired from a supersonic platform (like the MIG-31), and at short range engagement envelopes from high altitude, can potentially dive and hit Mach 10.
I see the left’s new term du jour is “incitement”.
Don’t you dare fight back. Only we are allowed to rule through the mob.
It’s like they are saying that disagreement is incitement. IOW you cannot disagree or you are bad. But remember that R’s/MAGA/Conservatives are the fascists.
This is just more control of the language. And it’s working for them. Disagreement is incitement, and incitement means someone is convincing people to commit violence, and violence isn’t acceptable so we need to come down with the full force of the law. You don’t want violence do you?
“You don’t want violence do you?”
Hmm . . . .
From lower down, The Bee kills it Fetterman Filibusters Senate For Seven Hours While Attempting To Say ‘Hello’
Stupid idiot #1 send email to distribution list of off topic issue. Stupid idiot #2 replies that this doesn’t look like it pertains to them so please remove them from the email. Stupid idiots #3-20 reply all to same distrib list also requesting to be removed. If I generated the pink slips in HR…
I love those chain “Please do not reply all to this reply all” emails. They are so much freaking fun.
I’m on a couple of listservs where the same thing happens. I really don’t get it – in every e-mail program I’ve ever used, it’s far more work to Reply All than just to reply to sender.
In Outlook, the buttons are right next to each other – same number of clicks to reply-all, and most of the time here, the conversation does pertain to most of the recipients, so it’s a habit to just keep doing it.
I will give DEG the credit for the morning LULZ.
🙂
Jeff Shell is stepping down as CEO of NBCUniversal following a misconduct investigation, which found he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman in the company.
So he broke the two rules?
The company’s 360 namesake stores and 120 Buybuy Baby locations will remain open for the time being as it begins to close the business and liquidate assets.
Cheap bed stuffs?
Epoch (paywalled) has an interview with a former FBI agent turned whistleblower who resigned over Jan 6 investigations and arrests. Accompanying photos and book cover show him in full camouflage uniform and weapon as part of a regional FBI swat team. Lack of self awareness of being in a paramilitary organization not an investigatory law enforcement one is staggering.
Just taking that song in… wow. I’ve heard my share of acapella groups and it still amazes me how just a few voices harmonizing can sound so good.
There’s this talk of some type of second renaissance where people have enough of digital mass produced crap and get back to organic music, art, etc. I’d love that.
I loved the album “The Persuasions sing Frank Zappa”. Some really good singing
Do they sing the guitar solos too?
Saw a documentary about The Ms & Ps in which someone claimed that when recording the vocals in studio they’d sometimes hear a fifth “voice” – a high harmonic. They called it “Harvey.” 🙂🎙️🎶
https://youtu.be/qgDKtLPp46s
A short Polish-Soviet War documentary.
Does “inappropriate relationship” mean he kept her locked up in his dungeon?
I guess women are too feebleminded to be allowed to enter into consensual relationships. Poor stupid helpless delusional creatures, they are.
Fucking one of your subordinates has been frowned upon for as long as I have been working in for Big Corp.
When you are at the top of the heap, everyone is a subordinate and thus off limits.
Yeah, but what if they really, really, wanted it? Like Monica…..
Women are fully capable adults who should be running the planet, and yet they are not capable of consenting to fuck their boss.
Those are the rules.
Except Kamala…
Pretty much the best explanation I have seen of the issue, Kinnath.
It isn’t so much that women are incapable, it is really about some people, male or female, who cannot have a discrete relationship, and it fucks up a lot of things when it ends.
This is really more about being an adult in the workplace, and keeping non-work shit out of it.
It fucks up a lot of things while it’s going on too.
One of the reasons that the C-Suite likes consultants is because those gals are not off limits. And big consulting firms are well aware of this and tend to staff their pitch teams with a lot of very attractive young ladies.
When I was working at Best Buy for Accenture, AT&T came in and got a big contract to set up an ecommerce site to sell CD’s online. AT&T was going to get something like $0.25/CD sold. Lots of consternation because we were already there and had a lot of deep contacts inside BBY. How could we not get that sweetheart contract?
Then the AT&T consultants came in to “gather requirements” and everything became clear. Uffda, it was like 5 super models had shown up. (There was also one geeky guy who did the mockups of the new site). Everyone in our general vicinity must have lost at least a couple weeks of productivity as we all focused on wrangling an invite to one of the meetings with these gals.
Also amusing was the huff our AC gals were in. They were used to being the belles of the ball (and they were very shiny) and this group of outside gals put them to shame.
Yeah, pretty sells. I used to do third party logistics for a pharma distribution company, and I would occasionally run into a sales rep in the halls. DAAAAANG…
Yeah, a buddy of mine was a sales manager for a pharma company. He recruited former models – male and female – whenever possible.
If you’re gonna work with them every day, hire the one with the big tits.
/Retail Manager
Tits and teeth positions.
“Minnesota cop Kim Potter is quietly released from prison at 4am after serving 16 months for shooting dead Daunte Wright when she mistook her gun for a Taser”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12007331/Ex-cop-Kim-Potter-released-prison.html
Shhhhhhh…
Seems appropriate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM8h22DeTbA
The before and after pics suggest she has paid her debt to society.
I might be less sympathetic if the guy she shot hadn’t been such an absolute asshole. He had already shot one other person and had robbed some women at gunpoint. I don’t care what his shitty parents have to say about her release.
Looking for a better way
Chilean President Gabriel Boric’s plan to nationalize his country’s immense lithium industry is putting the spotlight on an emerging crop of filtration technologies aimed at revolutionizing how the metal is produced for the electric vehicle industry.
In a national prime time address, Boric said last Thursday a new state-owned company would work to slash the environmental impacts of lithium production by shifting away from evaporation ponds, traditionally used to remove the metal from brine, in favor of direct lithium extraction (DLE).
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“Now that regulatory bodies are forcing the issue, it’s only going to speed up the innovation and commercialization,” said Teague Egan, CEO of privately held EnergyX, which is building a DLE test facility in northern Chile and has a development project with GM.
The goal for Boric and the DLE industry is to extract lithium from brine and reinject what is left back underground, in a closed loop process that does not affect water tables.
Everybody knows government regulation is the best way to drive technological innovation.
“Hunter Biden may be living at the White House to evade legal papers from his baby mama
Lawyers for former stripper Lunden Roberts asked an Arkansas court Friday to jail the first son for failing to fork over his financial records as required in her lawsuit over support payments for their 4-year-old unacknowledged daughter, Navy.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/23/hunter-biden-may-be-living-at-the-white-house-to-evade-legal-papers-from-his-baby-mama/
Rename it the White Trailer.
Crime family is gonna crime family, yo…
I am sure their are plenty of other democrats that look at this sorta shit with envy.
Double wide on Pennsylvania av?
Palatial 3X wide, next to the First Meth Lab.
Lake Resources is working with Bill Gates-backed Lilac Solutions Inc to deploy Lilac’s DLE technology in Argentina. Lilac also plans to install a DLE test facility in Chile in coming weeks, said CEO Dave Snydacker.
“DLE is a great way for Chile to expand production in an environmentally friendly and scalable way,” said Snydacker.
Several prominent short sellers in recent years have alleged that DLE technologies from Lilac and Standard Lithium Ltd (SLI.V) do not work, charges the companies have strongly denied.
Wish harder.
I have yet to see a single one of these wildly touted and positively presented green energy initiatives ever result in anything but absolute disaster and then going away. This will be more of the same.
WCC update. Round 10 yesterday and Round 11 today were both draws.
Nepo is playing safe, protecting his one game lead and trading down.
3 games to go, Ding has 12 and 14 with the white pieces and is going to have to create some unbalanced positions.
Sudan may be shithole, but it’s our shithole.
What could go wrong?
Also, it looks like Susan Rice got bounced.
Admit it, you would love it if she put her resume in for a job you had posted.
Call her in, give some of those really stupid HR questions, and tell her to her face she isn’t qualified.
I’d be happier if I thought that her firing meant she’d be shunned and not be employed at some “think tank” or lobbying firm for an insane amount of money.
She’ll also be a frequent guest on the various news channels.
Africa just told DC to shove it. This is Washington trying to reassert control.
Once again, DC doesn’t really care about Sudan. It’s just another pawn.
https://twitter.com/vrosen11/status/1650296029798096898
DC only cares about what is trending on Twitter.
In other lithium news
Lake Resources is working with Bill Gates-backed Lilac Solutions Inc to deploy Lilac’s DLE technology in Argentina. Lilac also plans to install a DLE test facility in Chile in coming weeks, said CEO Dave Snydacker.
“DLE is a great way for Chile to expand production in an environmentally friendly and scalable way,” said Snydacker.
Several prominent short sellers in recent years have alleged that DLE technologies from Lilac and Standard Lithium Ltd (SLI.V) do not work, charges the companies have strongly denied.
The “Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act,” introduced in the US House of Representatives in late March, sets federal safety standards for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used to power electric scooters and e-bikes and sets guidelines to protect consumers against the risk of fires caused by such batteries, according to the bill.
“Without federal legislation, and so many of these batteries come from across state lines or made overseas or made in China, we will not have a complete and strong solution,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
Fellow New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand agreed, saying, “We cannot allow for faulty or improperly manufactured batteries to keep causing these dangerous, deadly fires.”
Blame the batteries, not the people using the wrong chargers.
“Your daily reminder that when they accuse us of “banning books” they’re referring to pornographic books which are offered to kids in schools across the country.
For some reason CBS didn’t provide examples with pictures… 🤔
So here’s a glimpse”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1650204495467429889
The constant lying here, about these books, drag queens, trans kids, “don’t say gay”, etc. in some way shows they know they must be wrong.
They don’t know/think they’re wrong but they do know that normies would shit gold bricks if they say that stuff.
https://notthebee.com/article/so-i-read-one-of-those-racist-fascist-book-burning-anti-crt-public-school-laws-sweeping-the-nation-and
One of the reasons that the C-Suite likes consultants is because those gals are not off limits. And big consulting firms are well aware of this and tend to staff their pitch teams with a lot of very attractive young ladies.
They have great credentials, right?
When I started at Andersen Consulting (aka Accenture) all the guys had STEM degrees. The women were 50/50. The women who didn’t have STEM degrees were very, very attractive. Most of them were fairly bright too. The non-STEM gals were always in roles heavy on client engagement.
Complainers don’t get that attractive people are good at that stuff because they grow up that way – people like engaging with attractive people. The rest of us troglodytes, not so much – so we gravitate towards things like STEM.
Good morning, you people.
Whadda mean ‘you people’?
Glibs does not disappoint.
Speech to text snafu. She was trying to say good morning to Riven in Montana. Ewe People – the latest woke speak for Montanans – got mangled.
I thought it was “Eww, People.”
*waves*
How do Yellen and the Treasury plan to get around Powell and the Fed?
This is how.
https://twitter.com/RadarHits/status/1650447545305296899
Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.
Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)
I always enjoy when the NYT changes its headlines. Google News usually retains the original.
Original with slight modification:
How Democrats Learned to Embrace
Bidenthe Suck in 2024Current (paywall):
How Democrats Learned to Cast Aside Reservations and Embrace Biden 2024
You know Hillary will make a play. No way she doesn’t.
There is no way she will run.
Paradise
Colorado lost more than 6,000 jobs in the private sector last month, the most in more than two years.
The largest declines occurred in professional and business services, trade, transportation and utilities, and financial activities, according to the most recent data from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Meanwhile, the government added 1,500 jobs.
Still, the unemployment rate ticked slightly lower to 2.8 percent. The conflicting signals are making it difficult to assess where Colorado’s job market truly stands, said state economist Ryan Gedney. It’s not clear what drove the drop in non-farm payrolls in March, he said, adding it seems odd to see such a large loss.
Building a strong, stable economy.
“They Live” card game under development. Clearly this is designed to distract us from high inflation.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1708218446/they-live-the-card-game-save-the-city-enslave-the-city
So you ARE going to have to wear the glasses to play.
I didn’t see them! “Hoffman lenses” may just be asking you to turn over your character card. Seems like a clear miss on the fun factor.
Only after you and the other players wrassle for five minutes.
Legit LOL – Paywall
A Chinese Ambassador’s Comments on Ex-Soviet States Draw Ire
They really couldn’t mean what they said! Putin has the right to reconstitute the USSR and f these free republics? And does this also mean all members of the Warsaw pact are also game?
Heh.
Canceled for telling the truth?
Hmmm. My workplace has banned ChatGPT.
They should. I recommended mine do for sure and they did….
Hey, ChatGPT! – Can you design me a big and little multicore CPU?
I have a coworker who has drunk the entire picture of AI Kool-aid. He’s convinced it is the future and we should be integrating it into our products. A lot of the muckety-mucks are digging what he’s saying.
Me? I have been through the IoT mania, the Big Data mania, and other fun stuff. I have tried gently telling him that ChatGPT might make a few simple things easier, it might be prudent on waiting a bit.
Always a negative Nellie just because you’ve seen it before…
What?
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson leaves Fox News as they ‘agree to part ways’
I wonder where he’s headed
I heard Bongino left as well?
Wow.
+1
Fox continues to show their true colors. I’m surprised Tucker lasted as long as he did.
Holy shit.
Fox is being assimilated by the borg. They need to cast off the clinkers that can’t adapt.
If that’s the case, then Gutfeld must be sweating today.
They need to get that 780 million back somehow.
Guessing was part of the settlement deal…can your top performers.
LOL Fox News is done. They don’t stand by their reporting or their talent – who the fuck is gonna work there?
“You pay me, I’ll say it” types.
Juan & Geraldo.
Indeed. The January 6 videos being killed after one show was probably the last straw for Carlson.
That was truly interesting. Shut him right the heck up.
Blaze Media? Wherever he goes he takes a big audience share with him.
He only pulls in 3 million viewers…..
Dammit! I liked listening to his show on the SiriusXM app the day after each episode aired. Don’t tell me I have to sign up for a damn Twitter account to follow him now!! 😠
Also, it looks like Susan Rice got bounced.
That’s not how NBC tells it
White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said Rice, who served as national security adviser during the Obama administration, has been critical to driving Biden’s agenda and has taken the Domestic Policy Council “to new heights.”
Everyone will miss her very very much.
*Sound of Fang Fang completing job application
I had to check my vacuum to make sure it was still off.
As has been discussed it appears Journolist 2.0 has gone all in on paranoid homeowners shooting people.
Florida man fires into Instacart driver’s car after it mistakenly turned onto his property
Maybe bouncing Carlson was part of the settlement.
Wherever he ends up he will discuss it. That could be part of it.
Also Don Lemon out at CNN, same day. Seems odd timing.