I’m staying at a ghetto hotel in Baltimore since there really isn’t much else to choose from which allow dogs. And Jews. So things are much more abbreviated than usual because of the, uhhh, rather choppy internet connection available here in this Third World shithole. So my apologies, but the next links will be back to my usual. Promise. And I’ll have stories about my mother’s birthday party. So. Many. Stories.
Somebody has figured out that Zelinskyyy’s grift is a valid path.
Judith Curry is fearless in allowing real dissent on her site. In a just world, someone would that Al Gore’s Nobel away and give it to her.
To be fair, the stuff I use for images is a lot worse than this.
Build the wall! You don’t have to, guys, Team Red is self-destructing right on schedule.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so.
I can’t leave without some Music. I mean, fuuuuck, Ben Webster AND Don Byas.
I get the head with the Jewish nose but what’s with the squid?
Squid ain’t kosher.
Wait, it isn’t a shell fish, but it isn’t a fish either. They don’t have scales, so you can’t tear the skin removing them…
I never thought of this, but my family hasn’t been kosher in around 100 years…
I’m not a scholar on this stuff but that sounds like grasping at straws to me.
The only trope that comes to mind on that one is an old WWII antiNazi (or maybe Japanese, I can’t recall for sure) with a giant octopus sitting on top of the world and squeezing it in his tentacles. Seems to be a kind of generic implication of insidiousness.
Grasping at straws with tentacles!
Monique Junot: I figured if we had nothing to say to each other he would get bored; go away. But instead, he uses it as an excuse to put his testicles all over me.
Lane Myer: Excuse me?
Monique Junot: You know, like an octopus? Testicles?
Lane Myer: Ohhhh. Tentacles. N-T. Tentacles; big Difference.
And Ricky (Dan Schneider) turned out (allegedly) to be a colossal perv. Must have been the tentacles.
“Concerns about his family’s safety have weighed in Thiel’s decision to step back as well, the source who knows him personally told Reuters.”
Democrats are violent. News at 11.
Because that’s the Democrats’ job?
Because they now agree with Democrats on everything else?
The British Left hates Jews? Who woulda thunk!
(This is just a hold over from Benjamin D.)
Self-loathing?
Not this time.
If you had lied about being one of (((them))), it would have been easier to find a hotel that accepted pets.
Now, THAT wouldn’t be kosher!
In the lobby is I think the same guy you and I saw guarding the entrance to the Poe House.
whaddup doh’
Good morning, homey, Old Man, zwak, Spud, rhy, Sean, and Stinky!
Apropos of nothing, last night I discovered the most delicious alliteration ever: Culver’s Cappuccino Cookie Crumble Custard.* 😋🍨
I suppose I should add another alliteration – carbs. 🙄
*frozen custard, that is.
☕😁
I picked up two of these yesterday: https://www.chobani.com/products/limited-batch/Cup/boston-cream-pie/
Zero sugar but Oh My, the corn syrup
The other night at work I saw my profile in a window. I need to low-carb MUCH harder.
/finishes bag of Doritos that are on sale for $3.49 ($2.49 if you have a coupon)
The time for reconsidering the choices in your life is after clipping the Doritos coupon and before heading to the market.
Last time I was in Baltimore (10 years ago) it pretty much looked just like that
My daughter had her Jr Prom last night. Everything went well.
Did she get home at a decent hour?
He said everything went well, so no?
Yes she got home at a decent time.
I guess the question is, “went well for who?”
Kinda like having something that works.
It all depends on how you define “works”.
The JFK assassination worked.
Well it’s obviously because viruses don’t exist.
I’m half convinced that the virus deniers are a disinformation effort by Big Pharma to discredit their critics by association. When in reality, the science of viral epidemiology has been almost uniformly shitty and incentivized to create market opportunities instead of actual solutions. Viruses exist, they just don’t necessarily behave in the way that we think they do. And the health solutions are quite often non-monetizable.
That was a terrific (and depressing) article; I managed to plow through the whole thing despite my short attention span. So much to chew on, tough to pick out one thing, but this stood out:
The world may never yield to the kind of deterministic quantified explanations that many desire.>/em
And herein lies the problem. People (self included, if I’m being honest) want neat, easy solutions to difficult problems and are drawn to those who claim to have such solutions like moths to a flame. Overcoming this is an uphill battle and right now I don’t like the odds.
One of these days I will slay the dragon of unclosed tags by proofreading…
Humans are tribal by nature. Simple answers with team associations are vastly preferred to uncertainty while going it alone.
It’s kept the species alive, but it has also been responsible for a lot of die-offs.
I’ll kindly ask you to not summarize my next article!
And I’ll note that some of the biggest proponents of SCIENCE are also the biggest proponents of tribal affiliation.
I’m looking at you Tyson, you midwit hack.
Damn it, Grosspatzer. I was really hoping I could pretend another conclusion could be stretched over that.
At least the Chobani aren’t quite as bad as 4×20 thinks.
Yet another century, yet another generation of politicians and bureaucrats who don’t understand that markets are fungible.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/europe-buying-record-amounts-refined-russian-fuels-through-india-and-paying-huge-markup
Too bad there aren’t any reserves available in say the US that can be tapped to lower energy prices and put pressure on the Russians to negotiate.
Too bad we regime-changed Ukraine in 2014 and convinced the Ukrainians that we would support them as proxies in our war on Russia.
Sudan’s former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has warned that the conflict in his country could become worse than those in Syria and Libya.
The fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) would be a “nightmare for the world” if it continued, he said.
Victoria Nuland wants fence sitting African nations to stand up to Russia. Sudan abstained from a March 2nd vote condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A little regime change going on here?
But in the US, the CDC is putting the new Covid19 vaccine on their recommended list of childhood vaccinations in spite of very strong evidence that the harms of this vaccine vastly outweigh the benefits in the children and young adults [6].
Senators Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J need to get paid just like Senators Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, General Dynamics, and Boeing.
The party is riding high after key victories in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin over the past six months, signaling a newfound momentum after Trump’s win called into question the party’s standing in the rust belt.
It will help, at least in PA, that the Republicans there would rather a Democrat win than a GOP Outsider win.
Old Guy Music is good.
It will help,
at least in PA,that the Republicans there would rather a Democrat win than a GOP Outsider win.True enough here, I just don’t know where else it isn’t true.
Indeed. Notably, in AZ, the nominal Republican running the election in Maricopa County fortified the shit out of the election, with the Dems winning every statewide race that matters based with narrow margins based solely on Maricopa County mysteriously fucking up ballot printers in Repub areas and doing approximately zero signature verification on an avalanche of harvested ballots.
The Wisconsin “win” is weird to me. They took control of the supreme court, but the Elephants gained a supermajority in congress.
So, a wash. How is that a win?
Because the Dems want to rewrite the maps to give themselves the majority.
The German-born entrepreneur has a fortune estimated at around $4.2 billion after co-founding PayPal (PYPL.O) and Palantir (PLTR.N) and investing early in Facebook (META.O). He has contributed around $50 million to state and federal political candidates and campaigns since 2000, and he was the 10th largest individual donor to either party in the 2022 midterm congressional elections, according to the non-profit OpenSecrets.
Thiel’s decision underlines how the Republican Party’s swing to the right on social issues is alienating some prominent, business-minded donors.
Which obviously means they love what the Democrats are doing.
Republican Party’s swing to the right on social issues
Twenty years ago both parties though that marriage was only between a man and woman, female genital mutilation was universally bad, and that men shouldn’t be able to go into women’s bathrooms. One party changed, and it’s not the Republicans.
Evolved, G, evolved. Not changed.
Dem donors don’t have this problem. They give and give no matter how radical the party gets.
Thiel is in effect aiding the Dems, so pretty soon he will lose the economic war anyway. And by then he might recognize that the culture war matters, too.
“They give and give no matter how radical the party gets.”
I hate the Overton window discussion. ‘Hey, assholes, you have actual fucking Communists in Congress. You know, the scum who killed over 100 million people last century?’
I kinda doubt that this is real news. Peter Theil is smart and tuned-in enough to understand that not focusing on cultural issues means ceding those issues to the democrats, which will have much larger downstream political effects.
It’s a racist conspiracy, I’d say
More murders across America are going unsolved, exacerbating the grief of families already reeling and worsening the largely cracked trust between police and the public, especially communities of color most affected by gun violence.
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While the rate at which murders are solved or “cleared” has been declining for decades, it has now dropped to slightly below 50% in 2020 – a new historic low. And several big cities, including Chicago, have seen the number of murder cases resulting in at least one arrest dip into the low to mid-30% range.
“We saw a sharp drop in the national clearance rate in 2020,” says Prof. Philip Cook, a public policy researcher and professor emeritus at Duke University and the University of Chicago Urban Labs who has been studying clearance rates for decades. “It reached close to 50% at that time nationwide, which was the lowest ever recorded by the FBI. And it hasn’t come up that much since then.”
That makes the U.S. among the worst at solving murders in the industrialized world. Germany, for example, consistently clears well over 90% of its murders.
While reasons behind the drop are multi-faceted, Cook and other experts warn that more people getting away with murder in the the U.S. is driving a kind of doom loop of mutual mistrust: low murder clearance rates impede future investigations which in turn potentially drive up killings in some communities where a lack of arrests undermines deterrence and sends a message that the police will not or cannot protect them.
More training is needed.
You mean the ones that consistently demand more police protection in poll after poll? Those “communities of color”?
I can’t find the article, but I recently read that European countries have, proportionally, vastly more folks engaged in law enforcement than the US. Something like seven times as many. I am not pro- nor anti-cop but the statistic was eye-opening.
“Snitches get stiches” sounds more badass in German.
“killings in some communities”
Which communities might those be, I wonder.
Some communities are different than other communities, get the net!
I wonder if many murders aren’t being solved directly by the folks who know who did the murder and simply murder the perps themselves? Decades ago, a Philly cop told me that many unsolved murders in certain communities were known (by the cops) to be vigilante responses: any number of returning Vietnam vets were appalled to see their old ‘hoods being held hostage by gang-bangers, rapists, and other forms of low life.
Researchers say key ways cities can to try to stop the downward spiral is simply investing more in homicide investigations: improving crime labs, training, DNA testing, computer modeling systems.
Spend more. The answer is always spend more.
Slow as molasses
Back in 1923, the Supreme Court had issued 157 rulings by May 1 in a term that started the previous fall.
On the same date a century later, the current justices, facing a firestorm of scrutiny on multiple fronts, have disposed of just 15 cases, fueling speculation about why they are falling behind.
In fact, the court has decided fewer cases at this point of the term — which begins each October and ends in June — than at any time in the last 100 years, according to numbers compiled by Supreme Court stats guru Adam Feldman.
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All of the court’s major cases are yet to be decided, on issues like President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt, affirmative action in college admissions, voting rights and the knotty question of whether owners of creative businesses can refuse to work on same-sex weddings.
You certainly wouldn’t want to frame that as a generalized freedom of association issue, because it’s only about punishing right wing bigots. Left wing bigots are still free to follow their deeply held beliefs.
Anyone know why this is a question WRT same-sex weddings? I’d have thought that it’d have been asked and answered with cross-religious weddings.
Unless:
a) non-Christian weddings don’t require the same folderol or
b) non-Christian weddings have their own parallel wedding industry such that it would never occur to have a devout Christian supply their parties.
I would think that it’s more of a matter of the Christian bakers who object to gay marriage don’t object to non-Christian marriage.
The court faces a challenge to finish in time in part because the justices are often divided and rulings are often held up as a result, according to John Elwood, a lawyer who argues cases before the court.
“The court has a lot of important cases this term that I think will prompt separate writing by the justices, and that slows down the pace of decision,” he said.
If only we had nine progressive justices, the work would flow more smoothly.
The good kind of money in politics
Some of the biggest Democratic donors gathered in Washington on Friday night for a rare opportunity: face time with President Joe Biden.
The event, hosted by the Democratic National Committee, offered the Biden campaign a chance to show the president in action as Democrats eye a long race and court the deep-pocketed donors who’ll be needed to power it.
Meeting with more than 150 donors at the Salamander Hotel, Biden and first lady Jill Biden took pictures and chatted with supporters during a cocktail hour alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Attendees later dined on roasted beetroot salad, prime New York striploin with tiger shrimp and orange mousse cake.
“There was kind of confidence in the air” among the Democrats “that I’m not sure you saw in 2020,” said a source in attendance who described Harris as being in a good mood — there was “a hop in her step.”
Biden, who spent about two hours at the event, thanked his audience for their past contributions and emphasized the stakes for 2024 as he prepares for a potential rematch against former President Donald Trump.
Rattle your little tin cup, Joe. Saving DEMOCRACY! don’t come cheap.
“We carry a heavy responsibility but also we have an extraordinary opportunity, an extraordinary opportunity to build a future we want for our children and our grandchildren — and extraordinary opportunity to meet the commitment I made in 2020. And we will restore the soul of this nation.”
His remarks appeared to resonate with the wealthy crowd, who gave him a standing ovation.
We must crush our political enemies, and grind them into dust beneath our feet. Thousand Year Reich, here we come.
And I thought I slept in late, Spurs down 3 in the opening 15 minutes.
Good morning, Old Man!
Ah, nothing like ghetto hotels. The grime, the crime, the scents!
I never want to stay in one ever again. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
Politics also makes my skin crawl. I was set to go to a campaign event for a LP Mises chick yesterday and just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I think the world has finally burned me out.
In other news, Gaia has decided that we’ve suffered enough. Absolutely perfect weather again today.
Me too. Our company’s travel policy is business class hotels with Hilton and Marriott as preferred chains which appear first in the booking list. Yet time after time, my fellow employees stay in Super 8 or lower.
Supposed to rain starting today again, but dry and nice so far.
Who benefits from a news piece citing anonymous sources saying Republican donors will pull back if they continue pushing cultural issues? Not hard to see that one.