Greetings, all. I’m sure since my links are timely today, that means tomorrow afternoon is in trouble, but that’s a problem for Monday Brett. And I can tell you from experience that dude is a fuckup. I’ve been flying solo with the kids all weekend. My (younger and very attractive) wife’s college crew was in Tampa to see Taylor Swift this week, so she went over to where they were staying this weekend. It was slightly gratifying (or painful) to realize that she has more kids than the other five ladies combined. So yeah, its like Mr. Mom up in here. Food on the floor, toys everywhere, the younger two seem to be having a competition for who can make the nastiest diaper gift. And despite all of that, I’m really glad Mrs. L got a weekend off. It gives me leverage.
For OMWC: The Fiddler on the Roof was a Mossad agent. I assume this article is about his asshole grandkids.
Is your child gifted or just an asshole… I’ll let you know when we figure it out at the L household. I’m leaning towards embracing the power of “and”
I’m really hoping that there’s something cool (other than a fireball) to report about the Starship launch in tomorrow’s afternoon links. I’ve completely blocked my work calendar and will have no problem telling people why. “They’re gonna launch a big motherfuckin’ rocket for the first time!”
Topical… and if only Kris didn’t try to sing what he wrote
So, was Topol one of Epstein’s handlers?
That explains how Agent Zarkov was so easily able to fool Ming’s security services.
Ahhhh ahhhhhh!
Are we there yet?
No, the cliff is still a ways away. We’re speeding up, though. You’ll know when we get there ;-\
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Who better to recruit as a spy than an actor? Now I hope there are more such revelations.
Of course now all actors will be presumed to be spies.
If this led to them being less inclined to publicly express their political opinions, that would be a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Maybe their derpy political opinions are part of the cover?
Harpo Marx was a spy as well. Saw that exhibit at the spy museum. There were quite a few entertainers that were doing light spycraft, like passing messages or dead drops during the cold war.
I guess his handlers figured if he were ever caught, he wouldn’t talk.
“Is your child gifted or just an asshole”
The odds say probably just an asshole and maybe a lazy and oversensitive one at that.
I’m evidence it can be both.
As are many here.
¿Por qué no los todos?
“Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that is wise.”
-Sophocles, Oedipus the King.
Given how many people are assholes and how few people are genuinely gifted, probability says “asshole”.
I manage student applications at the Davidson Institute, where we’ve helped thousands of profoundly gifted children (or kids who score in the 99.9th percentile on IQ tests) reach their highest potential.
You advise them to not go to college?
Emotional depth and sensitivity at a young age
Put a dress on him!
And surgically alter him!
And I thought I had been a pain when I went through a first-name-disliking phase around age 7.
Oh, Grady!
Heh. I didn’t.
The name-change notices in classified ads can be amusing.
That’s funny
At its core, giftedness is a brain-based difference that contributes to our vibrant and intellectually diverse world.
The nail that sticks up must be hammered down.
I was in the gifted program at school. We taught physics experiments to 5th graders. We were tools of the state!
The face only a hooker could love.
*John McEnroe voice* You cannot be serious! That is one adorable doggie!
Looks like a good slurper.
Duggsy?
That article on gifted children sounds like astrology tbh. A bunch of fairly common traits that you can latch onto.
For instance, how many children *don’t* have some form of asynchronous development? I’d bet it’s pretty rare to have an 8th grader that is at 8th grade math, reading, writing, social, and emotional development. But he’s probably just a normie.
Everybody’s the same!
But we’re all unique!
But equity!
In Lake Woebegone, all kids are above average.
One day we look back with fondness, remembering those diaper changing. The teen age years seem to last forever and then finally… when you think those kiddos are grown up the problems seem to be bigger and cost a lot more money.
Then one day the grand kids appear. The diaper situation starts again but Grandma doesn’t seem to mind.
Enjoy those little ones, Brett, the years go quickly
Truth. The last 28 years (my sons age) have flown past.
If you have to go out and tell everybody they’re not worried, they’re worried
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said cooperation between the United States and its allies was not affected by the classified documents leak that detailed information about the war in Ukraine and U.S. intelligence operations.
Blinken said during a press availability from Hanoi, Vietnam, on Saturday that the U.S. has engaged its allies and partners in the aftermath of the leaks to make clear its commitment to “safeguarding intelligence” and “our security partnerships.”
“What I’ve heard so far at least is an appreciation for the steps that we’re taking, and it’s not affected our cooperation,” he said. “I just haven’t seen that. I haven’t heard that.”
Many pieces of information became public after about 100 classified documents were leaked on online platforms in recent months. The documents included information analyzing both sides of the war between Ukraine and Russia and that the U.S. was conducting spying on several countries, including some allies.
Our subjects revere us and have total faith in our leadership.
“safeguarding intelligence”
I.e. “hiding relevant information from American
subjectscitizens.”The core reason to classify a document in the first place is because of it’s impact on national security. So if Blinken really wants to say there was no damage, then he’s saying there was no reason for the classification in the first place.
This
Winken and Nodd say “Hold my Bud Light.”
Brett, you were never IN Aisle 7; honest!
Mornin’, reprobates!
Memories…
nastiest diaper gift</em
That award goes to the elder spawn, who once decided to do his business while taking a bath. Fun times.
And this lyric –
"And I fumbled through the closet through my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt"
Did this way too many times, every now and then if I had some spare change lying around I'd go downstairs to the tavern and buy one of their shirts.
And every now and then I’d close my tags.
The Fiddler on the Roof was a Mossad agent.
You can never trust (((them))).
Is your child gifted or just an asshole
Yes.
Some of the ‘gifted’ attributes also just sound like a bad student.
“My father-in-law, “Marvin,” passed away recently at the age of 78. […]some documents in Hebrew that none of us could read, and 11 separate passports with photos of him looking about 30-to-40, all made out to different names”
Someone never heard of Google translate.
“My children took it badly. They’re generally somewhat anti-Israel in general, and especially since Netanyahu’s re-election, are quite upset with the state. ”
So something that happened 30-40 years ago, and they’re upset because of the current political climate. Have we reached peak retard yet?
Well, Hebrew is a different alphabet, so some excuse there. But the issue with Bibby is the same as with Trump – Israel’s PMC is freaked out that they are not being listened too by a huge part of that country.
One of my favorite descriptors of (((them))) in the Old Testament is of the Israelites as “a stiff-necked people”, like a donkey who refuses to be steered by its owner/carer.
The Old Testament is a cycle of God helps the Israelites out of a pickle, Israelites give genuine thanks to God and return to the fold, Israelites get comfy and cocky and defy or forget God, leading to Israelites getting into a pickle, Israelites appeal to God for help.
Rinse and repeat.
Malicious legislation is malicious and should have consequences: Washington to Ban ALL the Guns
I’m just glad that muskets, sabers and steak knives were never used in warfare, otherwise that “weapons of war” argument might hold weight.
Unfortunately, there will be no consequences.
I liked Yuengling before it was the unwoke option.
Yuengling, The Oldest Brewery In America. Independently Owned and Family Operated since 1829 because we make good beer.
Yuengling black and tan is actually good.
Sometimes I make my own using lager and Guinness.
Revenge of the Christfags
But, while a reevaluation of Hardison may be overdue, Groff also will be heard by a Supreme Court whose current majority is so sympathetic to the interests of the religious right that it often advances those interests to the exclusion of all others.
Just one month after Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation gave Republican appointees a supermajority on the Court, for example, the Supreme Court handed down Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020), which gave individuals who object to a state law on religious grounds unprecedented power to defy that law. The Court did so, moreover, at the height of a deadly pandemic, and the Roman Catholic Diocese case halted attendance limits at places of worship that were intended to slow the spread of Covid-19.
The Court, in other words, deemed the interests of religious conservatives to be of such transcendent importance that they justified abandoning public health measures intended to save human lives.
The stakes in Groff may seem lower at first glance — the case involves a postal worker who didn’t want to work on Sundays because of their religion. But the case could similarly empower conservative religious workers who seek accommodations from their employer that could disrupt that employer’s business or demean the religious worker’s colleagues.
Imagine, for example, a manager who refuses to hire gay people because of his faith, and who demands an accommodation permitting them to discriminate. Or a worker who insists upon preaching their conservative religious views about sexuality or gender roles to their colleagues, even when many of those colleagues feel harassed by this behavior.
Hardison, for all of its flaws, permits employers to forbid this kind of behavior — and even to discipline employees who claim a religious justification for behaving disrespectfully toward their colleagues. But Groff could fundamentally upend this balance of power, giving religious conservative workers the power to demand that their workplace culture be reshaped in their image.
The danger from Groff, in other words, is that the Court will overreach, replacing Hardison’s too-weak protections for religious workers with something that will give far too much power to the religious right.
I wonder if anybody at Vox is aware that those terrifying discriminatory “religious beliefs” are in no way exclusive to white Christians of European descent.
TW: Vox
Vox, the inflight magazine of the children’s crusade.
It has occurred to me that there are enough adults who have never been to church to form a significant population that regards Christians as foreign as space aliens.
They’re prevented from applying the same sentiment to Muslims or Jews (sometimes) by their own bizarre faith.
Possibly a majority in the media and academia.
‘a worker who insists upon preaching their conservative religious views about sexuality or gender roles to their colleagues, even when many of those colleagues feel harassed by this behavior.’
Oh, you mean how I feel about all the shit they try to force on us under the guise of tolerance?
Go fly a kite.
This is what needs to be closely looked at; if the themes aren’t universal, in that bullying is bullying so to speak, than all of the “protections” that have been assumed over the last few decades mean nothing, and are at heart arbitrary.
Perhaps discrimination is a right as a part of freedom of association.
the power to demand that their workplace culture be reshaped in their image.
But enough about the woke Karens.
I can’t wait for the Lesbian Mullahs.
Wait? It’s already a pretty common hairstyle among the lesbians.
attendance limits at places of worship that were intended to slow the spread of Covid-19.
Bullshit. They were designed to keep wrongthinkers from assembling. The game was given away when TEH SCIENCE!® came up with a rationalization for the necessity of the George Floyd protests, while other forms of assembly were still oh so wrong.
The right of fellowship outside the aegis of the state is a fundamental human right, and governments over the course of the coronavirus did everything they could to take that right away from people with the wrong political views.
^^^
Amen.
Every aspect of the Covidiacy response was to take away from right leaning spaces.
So much this.
I’ve long believed part of the reason they went after gyms so severely was because of the stereotype of the gym bro and how, in the culture war, anything perceived to be part of “bro culture” is evil.
“… but that’s a problem for Monday Brett.”
Nice Bojack Horseman reference.
Pass.
It’s what Biofire Technologies, a company based in Broomfield, Colorado, on Thursday said it created, launching the world’s first biometric handgun, The Biofire Smart Gun, according to a company statement. …
The gun uses fingerprints and 3D, infrared facial recognition technology to allow only authorized people to shoot it.
The gun automatically locks when it leaves the authorized person’s hand.
It’s powered by a rechargeable, lithium-ion battery, and uses encryption technology to ensure it can’t be modified into a conventional handgun.
I’ll let cops carry it for a few years and see how it works for them, then I’ll consider it.
“It can’t be modified into a conventional handgun.”
Ten minutes after the first sale…
About as useful as a toilet plunger with AI. Possibly less so.
Less so. Unless your toilet can kill you.
AI Toilet Plunger: “Your cholesterol is dangerously high after consuming steak, lobster and martinis last night. My programming recommends elective suicide to prevent suffering, per Amer/Canadian regulation 666-2A. I have proactively signed the paperwork for you, and will detonate in 3.. 2.. 1..”
Did you see the shit Tres took? Revenge is a bowl best served cold.
No.
Does it take Glock mags?
What could possibly go wrong.
Indeed. Those batteries are known for being able to absorb shocks. You know, like recoil.
Interesting. The West wants China to take a haircut on its loans to third world countries in financial distress, but China is saying “If we have to do it, so do the IMF and World Bank.”
The West is balking at those terms. In my view, it lays bare the purpose of the IMF and World Bank, namely to keep the third world in line and beholden to Western banking/financial interests.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/how-china-is-breaking-the-colonial-effects-of-western-lending.html#more
See also: foreign aid, energy policy, food policy, etc.
A post-Hardison world, in other words, is likely to be messy. And, while some messiness is inevitable whenever the Supreme Court replaces one longstanding legal rule with another one, the fact that the federal courts are so dominated by religious conservatives means that the new regime could be actively hostile to workers whose identities have historically been disparaged by those conservatives.
A world in which lefty proselytizers cannot enforce conformity on their social and intellectual inferiors! What madman would wish to live in such a world as that?
Tell the state to fuck off.
A California church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large, unmasked religious services must pay $1.2 million in fines, a judge has ruled.
Calvary Chapel in San Jose was fined last week for ignoring Santa Clara County’s mask-wearing rules between November 2020 and June 2021.
The church will appeal, attorney Mariah Gondeiro told the San Jose Mercury News.
“It should appear clear to all — regardless of religious affiliation — that wearing a mask while worshiping one’s god and communing with other congregants is a simple, unobtrusive, giving way to protect others while still exercising your right to religious freedom,” Superior Court Judge Evette D. Pennypacker wrote in the April 7 ruling imposing the fines.
Nice opinion. Now fuck off.
County Counsel James Williams said the ruling showed the court “once again saw through Calvary’s unsupported claims and found them meritless.”
“The county’s response to the pandemic, including the health officer’s public health orders and enforcement against entities that refused to follow the law, saved thousands of lives and resulted in one of the lowest death rates of any community in the United States,” Williams said.
What law? Also, assumes facts not in evidence.
Should we put the lotion on our skin too? That’s unobtrusive and simple.
Make everyone wear a placard proclaiming fealty to the Borg. It is the only way.
Way bigger balls than my cuck archbishop.
My church caved immediately. Never set foot there again.
“As Walmart shuts down four stores in crime-ridden Dem-led Chicago, DailyMail.com lists all the big box shops – from Macy’s to Target – which have closed due to millions in losses from rampant theft”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11965589/The-stores-closed-doors-rampant-theft.html
Maybe big retailers might star pushing for better prosecutors.
“‘Up to five dead’ and more than 20 people are injured in a shooting at a Sweet 16 party in small Alabama town of 3,000 people – after fight broke out inside small dance studio”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11978385/Police-confirm-fatalities-20-people-injured-shooting-Sweet-16-party.html
Maybe they are concerned because of what the government did to his father and uncle.
The Kennedys have been through a lot. They don’t want to go through this.
No name has appeared on more ballots or lawn signs. Even across branches of the family that have grown distant and divided since the first generation rose to power in the 1960s, they celebrate each cousin’s achievement – whether that’s a seat in the House or a new children’s book or an expansion of the Special Olympics.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign challenging President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination – set to be announced Wednesday in Boston – is too much for a family that defined the modern Democratic Party. They’re frustrated, sad and completely opposed.
They say they love him. They use words like “heartbroken” and “tragic.”
They’re unprincipled parasites like most of his family. They would rather continue the grift in obscurity.
“It should appear clear to all — regardless of religious affiliation — that wearing a mask while worshiping one’s god and communing with other congregants is a simple, unobtrusive, giving way to protect others while still exercising your right to religious freedom,” Superior Court Judge Evette D. Pennypacker wrote in the April 7 ruling imposing the fines.
With all due respect, your honor, go fuck yourself.
I hope they refuse the fine. Make a fucking spectacle of this. Show people what the State really is about.
“The county’s response to the pandemic, including the health officer’s public health orders and enforcement against entities that refused to follow the law, saved thousands of lives and resulted in one of the lowest death rates of any community in the United States,” Williams said.
He claimed, without evidence.
Damn you.
I was about to quote that with “let me see the math, and check your work”.
“‘SNL’ news comedian calls for trans rights for kids
Molly Kearney — the skit show’s first non-binary cast member — dropped into the guest seat via a harness to slam politicians trying to eliminate healthcare for transgender youth….
“Restricting Health Care for Kids. For some reason, there’s something about the word ‘trans’ that makes people forget the word ‘kids.’ If you don’t care about trans kids’ lives, it means you don’t care about fricking kids’ lives,” Kearney said to a round of applause.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/16/snl-actor-molly-kearney-calls-for-trans-rights-for-kids/
CWAA
Fuck her. The only fat, white, broad, I want to see on SNL is Aidy Bryant.
Which is likely way I cant tell you the last time I deliberately watched SNL.
“If you really cared about kids, you would let them permanent fuck their prepubescent bodies up, regret their choice, and commit suicide.”
sin,
Dipshits
If you keep trying to turn gay kids “trans”, it means you don’t care about fricking gay kids’ lives.
Look at you, applying logic and facts. That isn’t how it is done now!
Make everyone wear a placard proclaiming fealty to the Borg. It is the only way.
RESISTANCE IS FATAL
last time I deliberately watched SNL.
It has been decades, for me.
Occasionally the Sat Night 90s-00s reruns can be amusing. Occasionally.
“Washington Passes Bill Allowing Children to Legally Be Taken From Parents if Parents Don’t Consent to Gender Transition
Senate Bill 5599, sponsored by Sen. Marko Liias, will allow certified shelters to contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families instead of parents, for children seeking reproductive health services or gender-affirming care….
All Democrats voted, yes.
All Republicans voted, no.”
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-washington-passes-bill-allowing-children-to-legally-be-taken-from-parents-if-parents-dont-consent-to-gender-transition-mace/
That this is a left vs. right thing is disturbing.
And give them to whom? Do I want to know?
https://www.eonline.com/news/998753/abuse-lies-and-unspeakable-tragedy-the-horrifying-true-story-of-broken-harts
An inclusive household, I’m assuming…
Between this and the semiautomatic ban I’m surprised there aren’t more calls in eastern WA to join the greater Idaho movement. I guess we’ve been sufficiently colonized by the Seattle area to not move the needle.
With every prog retard hipster in the country emigrating to Boise I’m guessing Idaho won’t be safe much longer anyway.
I’m pretty sure CDA is pretty heavily colonized too. I told someone from Idaho that they were next and they wouldn’t believe me. Still, I occasionally look for property in the Silver Valley.
I moved here just in time to help vote Tom Foley out of office. WA certainly has devolved since then.
Ditto in Baja Oregon, although rino Hatfield & Packwood were perfect examples of the now gone Republican establishment.
Gun nuts in the mist
Patrice Johnson, one of the few Black people I spotted checking out the rifles and bins of bullets in the exhibit hall of the NRA convention, told me she carries a gun for self-defense. As founder of a motorcycle club, she has seen an uptick in men in cars and on motorcycles trying to assault female riders, sometimes by attempting to run them off the road.
L A Times reporter on safari to NRA convention in Indianapolis. Blah blah blah boilerplate lefty bafflement, whycome so many peoples want guns? For all their blather about democracy, these people do not shirk their moral duty to advocate the elimination of some people’s freedoms, no matter how popular they might be.
As for this particular claim- “One of the few black people”: I went to the Indianapolis gun show at the fair grounds a few years ago, and I’d say at least half of the people there that day were black. Allowing for the distinction between that and an NRA convention, I’m still willing to call bullshit.
Also sounds like bullshit: “As founder of a motorcycle club, she has seen an uptick in men in cars and on motorcycles trying to assault female riders, sometimes by attempting to run them off the road.”
“Stay in your lane, Black people.”
“UN report calls for decriminalization of all sexual activity, including between adults and children”
https://unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2023/march/20230308_new-legal-principles-decriminalization
https://www.liveaction.org/news/un-report-calls-sexual-activity-decriminalized/
“The International Planned Parenthood Federation aims to normalize “commercial sex work” to children ages 10 and under.
This is “age-appropriate” to IPPF’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
When you support Planned Parenthood, this is included.”
https://ippf.org/resource/deliverenable-toolkit-scaling-comprehensive-sexuality-education-cse
https://twitter.com/kellyske/status/1647317132764659713
Do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it’s funny.
Airline internet is slow, but hey internet in the sky? Cool
There is nothing wrong with mayonnaise on scrambled AIGS.
Change my mind.
I would, but its very dark in there, some cobwebs, the usual….
Hard boiled OK, but scrambled?
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it; well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you men”
🤢🤮
Not far off hollandais – eggs sauce on eggs
Outrage!
Judiciary ethics experts told Insider the bombshell ProPublica report left them “shocked” and “disturbed.” But don’t expect the SCOTUS lifetime appointee to face any real repercussions as a result of his growing list of ethics concerns, at least, not in this political climate, they said.
The outlet on Thursday reported that Thomas sold a Savannah, Georgia property to Crow, a longtime friend and powerful right-wing donor, for $133,363 in 2014, marking the first known, but never disclosed, instance of direct cash flow between the two.
“The idea that someone is shoveling money to a Supreme Court justice with no disclosure is highly disturbing,” Clare Pastore, a professor of the practice of law at USC Gould School of Law and an expert in legal ethics, told Insider.
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Four ethics law experts told ProPublica that Thomas likely violated a federal disclosure law enacted in the wake of Watergate, sparking renewed calls for his resignation, with some Democratic lawmakers raising the topic of impeachment.
But legal experts told Insider that talk of Thomas’ removal is essentially a nonstarter.
“That will not happen,” Pastore said plainly.
Will no one rid us of this Uncle Tom?
What was the market value of the home at the time? Cheapest home on Zillow around Savannah right now is $339k. If this were some secret way of paying off a judge, you’d think the sale would have been for well more than market value.
Let’s see the full list of all financial transactions and social interactions for every Justice. I got $20 that says some deplorable bought Kav a beer.
It is a very longstanding practice for the Justices to do sinecures of some kind or another, often overseas, during their offseason. RBG’s famous remarks about the Constitution being a load of crap were made in South Africa, if memory serves.
A very good read about our current situation. If you don’t understand what is happening, you are powerless to solve the problem.
https://mcrawford.substack.com/p/the-reality-crisis
World Chess Championship update:
Nepo won match 5 yesterday, Ding won this morning. 2 wins each. Only 2 draws from 6 matches. This is a brawl.
Below are two GMs trying to figure out what Ding is doing. The analysis board shows he has the win, but they struggling to find it. Anish Giri is ranked #6 in the world, btw.
https://www.youtube.com/live/YQ24pBnehak?feature=share&t=15723
Giri saying he isnt very good at checkmates is funny. One, he is #6 in the world so it is objectively not true. Two, it plays into his reputation as “Drawnish” Giri.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/04/15/the-babylon-bee-sues-to-block-california-from-forcing-it-to-be-unfunny-n1687559
I just read the bill and wondering how Cali would even enforce such measures. It claims that companies will have to report to Cali even if they aren’t based in Cali but have users that live there.
I wonder whose munificence pro publica might find if they put Kagan under their microscope.
“When I’m in a restaurant… conservatives stare uncontrollably with jealousy at how liberals can turn simply eating and drinking into something so seductive & breathtaking.”
https://twitter.com/AngelaBelcamino/status/1646552568435277824
These people have no personality of their own.
Ummm…what?
She looks like a slob, making the food unappetizing.
Suuure
Also in Hollywood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnon_Milchan
I didn’t realize Amanda Coetzer married an Israeli spy.
Pam Shriver was briefly a Bond Girl, having been married to George Lazenby.
The impeachment dead-end and lack of additional discipline measures mean Thomas could theoretically continue to take undisclosed sums of money from whomever he wants with few real-life consequences.
But Lemieux said he thinks the controversies plaguing the court’s level of public trust, which has been at an all-time low in recent months even before this bout of Thomas-focused crises, will ultimately lead to internal policing and behavioral changes within the top court.
While lower courts are bound by a code of ethics, the Supreme Court has no such regulatory device, nor does it have any superior courts to oversee it. But Pastore predicted this could be the impetus toward the court eventually adopting such a code or even subjecting itself to the existing code of ethics that applies to other judges.
“I think it’s quite likely we get some movement in one of those ways,” she told Insider. “That would be a good step in the right direction.
What we really need is a means for the Supreme Court to expel wrongthinkers. What could possibly go wrong?
Exactly how many cases involving Thomas’ rich friend has Thomas heard and not recused himself on?
Zero.
Also not reported, any of the other justices. Bullshit they’re all squeaky clean and in compliance with imaginary rules not just the actual ones.
When the floods come, try not to refer to them as Biblical
Spring has offered California a welcome reprieve from the record rains and historic snowfall that hammered the state in recent weeks, but a new danger wrought by the warming weather looms large. The state’s enormous snowpack will soon begin to melt – and communities are bracing for waters to rise yet again. Trillions of gallons of water packed within the record level of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada range are expected to rush into rivers and reservoirs as the weather heats up, heightening flood risks in areas already saturated by the state’s extremely wet winter.
The snowpack, which stands at 233% of the 1 April average, contains enough water to fill downstream reservoirs “multiple times over”, said climate scientist Daniel Swain in an online briefing this week. “That’s a big deal,” he added.
Conditions could be perilous even without a big heatwave or late-season warm rain, Swain said. The combination of spring’s warmer weather and sunny skies could be enough for a rapid runoff.
It’s a challenge facing many states across the west, which have all had to grapple with an extreme shift in conditions after years of devastating drought. The climate crisis, which intensifies extremes, is expected to fuel broad swings into the future.
Yes, yes, of course. The weather gods are angry because you won’t give up your gas guzzling private cars. Next time, take the train.
These events have never happened before!
OMG, there’s a drought. It’s the end of the world!
OMG, the drought is broken. It’s the end of the world!
Good morning, Brett!
Thanks for the pinch-hit.
I’m leaning towards embracing the power of “and”
This has been my experience.
I like that song a lot, but yes, Kris should write and play guitar only.
Sunday, Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.ph/7jF5o