They suck
Houston just can’t seem to get to .500. Maybe it’s time to bring out the trash cans. Some high scoring affairs on the ice as the playoffs get rolling. And the NBA is doing their version as well, but I really don’t care. And Real Madrid added to the humbling of Chelsea this year as they advanced to the UCL semifinals. Milan did as well for the first time on forever. The other two quarterfinals wrap up today. And that’s it for sports.
Did they call in the bomb-sniffing dogs? Or did they let the baby-sniffing POTUS handle the situation?
Different somehow
I thought this was about Vindman when I saw the headline. Then I remembered these types of cases are arbitrarily prosecuted based on political affiliation.
What the hell? I’m shocked the death toll is so low.
This politician is hoping they won’t come for him some day. He’s wrong. And the sooner they start treating these mobs like mobs, the sooner this madness will end.
Thank God they’re focusing on the big issues. Calling a team the “Warriors” is a crime against humanity, apparently. See also: Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and all other groups being erased from our nation.
Was it properly approved or not? That’s the question at hand, and the only one that needs to be answered. This will be interesting.
“Court is called to order”
“Get your pies for the great pie fight.” What a silly case. Are the names similar? Yes. Are they the same? No.
What a shitshow. At this rate, one would have to be a fool or a degenerate gambler to book a flight on their airline.
Let’s get mellow today. What a great song. And this will get the toes tapping. It takes a certain mood, but when I’m in it, I could listen to him for an hour straight. Enjoy this little taste.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
whaddup doh’
It’s Wotan’s Day!
Can you define what a Wotan is?
Wotan is a germanic correlate to the Nordic Odin, a warrior god of wisdom.
I thought it was natto misspelled backwards.
Nobody thinks that, not even you.
NATO in French?
I thought that was “checque libre American”.
Nattō
Another one of those famine foods that just won’t go away.
“Starving-neighbor-san, all we have are these half-rotten soybeans.”
“I’ll take it.”
You are a theologist?
Yes
“Rat, when someone asks if you’re a theologist… you say YES!”
Female of the species with a pleasing skin tone due to melanin production after exposure to the sun. Simplified.. “Whoa! Tan!” woman.
The terrifying attack came as droves of young rioters descended on the Windy City, causing widespread mayhem and looting.
Footage from the evening of chaos saw teenagers jumping on and smashing a bus, while others erupted into a mass brawl as Millennium Park became the epicenter of the frenzy.
Give them a whiff of the grape…
Of course if anyone defended themselves against the mob by shooting the fuckers, they are ones who would be thrown in jail. Because the Democrats want to make sure you know that you will not be allowed to defend yourself from their mobs.
They do need their brownshirts out there causing enough chaos that society will call for order… and they’ll be ready to give a full lockdown of order.
They were just practicing for the Dem convention next year…
Hopefully it reaches a crescendo then.
Doubtful. These are left’s blackshirts. Unlikely their handlers will direct them to cause undue trouble during the left’s convention.
It could happen by accident – Frankenstein’s monster and all.
Why are Democrat-run cities such cesspits of poverty and segregation?
Because the poor residents only have one car each for drifting takeovers and one iPhone each to film it. I mean, who WOULDN’T feel like beating up some strangers after suffering under that kind of deprivation.
The lack of big box stores?
There is a Republican somewhere that is to blame!
+1 lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there’s a Don-key to blame
Because somewhere else in the country a Republican has been elected.
Sunuva…
Not to worry, the Democrats will repeat it too.
As long as there is a Republican somewhere, nobody is safe.
“Down on the ground! Down on the ground! Let me see your hands!”
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
STOP RESISTING!!!
Exactly my thoughts.
/s Procedures were followed.
Infiltrating or trying to escape?
Perhaps we’ll find out this afternoon from SugarFree.
The real story of Texiera is that he exfiltrated all of that without being noticed. WTF?
There is a lot of trust in the system. I can imagine the complaints if everyone had to go through an exit inspection.
You’re supposed to pay attention, and notice things out of the ordinary. Someone printing stuff out and concealing it to exit the SCIF ought to stand out a little. That’s a lot more obvious than when he was posting his own summarizations.
Maybe they aren’t in an open office configuration where everything is seen by everybody.
Lot more to it than that. This guy is supposed to be a network jockey, not an analyst/producer/consumer. All of that should have been encrypted at rest and in flight, password protected, access logged and monitored by another team, etc.
Exactly – particularly post Snowden. If the controls are still that weak that’s a much bigger story.
How the fuck are foreign agencies supposed to get their want lists that way??
Creating a hard copy of anything should send up alarms. I know our printers are monitored.
I know vast swathes of ours specifically are not. (Source, my team manages the printer management solution). These include those for the IT folks, because print servers are expensive and nobody expects the IT guys to be the threat they are.
You don’t run classified shops.
From the sounds of things, the so-called classified shops aren’t run any more securely.
Which is ironic after Snowden.
Then again, does govt ever really learn?
No.
By the way, we’re still hiring COBOL programmers.
Do the Warriors from Coney Island have to change their name as well.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YeEbtiruH2Q&pp=ygUZd2FycmlvcnMgY29tZSBvdXQgdG8gcGxheQ%3D%3D
Are the Vikings a sign of white supremacy? Dog gone Scandinavians, anyway, Minnesota is full of them.
Of course. Nazis used Nordic symbols therefore Vikings are Nazis. And Neo-pagans use Nordic symbols therefore Neo-pagans are Neo-Nazis.
Nazi’s ruined the Roman salute too.
I’m also triggered by the Saints. How dare the Chisto-fascists push religion down my throat?
Broncos are probably bad too. I mean horses weren’t native to the continent. Fucking four footed colonizers. They completely changed Native culture (to a far greater degree than any white eye ever did).
Akshually, horses were native to North America until they went extinct there about 10,000 years ago along with other large fauna. Then they were re-introduced by the Spaniards.
Acktschually, the Equus scotti that was native to the Americas was not the same horse as the Equus ferus caballus introduced by the Europeans.
Ackshually, the horses re-introduced to North America by Europeans were descendants of the horses that migrated to the rest of the world from North America, following human selective breeding.
I’m going to call bullshit, simply because of your source.
A horse is a horse.
Of course.
Not to mention the Padres.
We’ll scrub all memory of the previous inhabitants of this land yet.
Can a team call themselves The Skraelings?
I was amused at how empty the “city that never sleeps’ was in that movie.
Would YOU be out and about in a place infested with baseball mimes and killer Lizzies?
Thanks for tor the music, Sloopy, something old guys can understand, now I need to wash my car.
For some reason I now envision it still being wintery and the hose just applying a nice sheen of ice to the vehicle.
Also Operator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcFd18ZZsOs
Also operator https://youtu.be/zX8RHeSuZZc&t=133s
My first “real” job.
😃👍👍🎶
Eat a Carls Jr. burger while doing it and post picks for Mojeaux, HS and KK. Turnabout is fair play, after all.
Don’t forget all the other gliberinas.
And YOU get a Fourscore and YOU get a Fourscore and YOU get a Fourscore…
A tiny intruder infiltrated White House grounds Tuesday, prompting a swift response from the US Secret Service.
Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the Secret Service, said a toddler crawled through the fence on the north side of the White House, setting off security alerts.
Their first thought was to throw him in solitary for the next eighteen months before putting him on trial for “parading,” but then they discovered that he voted straight (D) the last three elections and let him off with a warning.
Do the pigeons not shit on everyone equally?
They ate biased to bald men.
Are. ARE! Aaaaahhhhh!
That’s some quality redundant fall over capability there. I wonder what kind of service level agreements they had with that vendor. Failure there can be quite pricey for the vendor.
Got any murder weapons you need to dispose of? ‘Tish has you covered:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/james-new-york-gun-buybackjames-new-york-gun-buyback
Wait, a homemade ghost gun is $25 or $500? Asking for a friend. And how shitty of a replica counts? Checking Wal-Mart’s toy section for arbitrage opportunities.
What about ghost html tags?
*EDIT FAIRY HELPS*
<ghost>TAGZ</ghost>
👻
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ImCq5c90hLg&pp=ygUTZ2hvc3QgdG9tIG1hY2RvbmFsZA%3D%3D
So if I buy a box of “replica” water pistols at $5 each wholesale…
I’m thinking a case of poptarts and talking a bite out of each one.
What qualifies as a “non-working” gun? I can crank those out inexpensively depending on the definition.
One that’s on welfare?
You are a glib, I am sure you can crank out a lot of “things”.
SLD: Not a buyback, since they didn’t sell us the gun.
And after a background check I found the government to have a history of violence and mental instability. A danger to all around it. Do not sell to.
Ghost guns net $500 each?
3D printer go “Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…”
I have a crappy unreliable bersa 9mm I bought for less than 300 bucks a few years back. I’d ditch it for 500 bucks. Easy money.
by “a few years back” I think it was well over a decade since it was fired.
That’s the question at hand, and the only one that needs to be answered
The only question that needs answered is why the Federal Gov’t has any say in what free people can put into their bodies.
I’d add State Gov’t to that question.
Certainly.
Legal to acquire, comes with charges of murder when taken as intended?
Sounds about right.
Why is prepared food so expensive in NYC? Why are small restaurants struggling so much in NYC? Why is there such little utilization of such a wonderful environmental benefit?
New York Bill Would Mandate Reusable Food Takeout Boxes. The Logistics Could Be Messy.
Today.
Consumers would be asked to later return their reusable food containers, knives, forks and chopsticks either through delivery or logistics partners who come to pick them up or in person via receptacles at participating restaurants.
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Laughing so hard I screwed up the tags.
*EDIT FAIRY HELPS*
BLESS YOU, EDIT FAIRY!
Just get to the slidewalks and the yeast vat cafeterias already, NYC. You know you want to.
“Soylent Green is people!!”
OFFS!
Your usual comment did not disappoint.
Meanwhile, here in Oregon, we are not allowed single use plastic bags, but reusable bags are tote’s fine. So now I get a reusable bag, at .05 per, as a replacement, and we do the same things with them: trash liners, pick up dog shit.
Can I get a box for left overs?
Did you bring a reusable container? There’s a charge if you didn’t.
Yes, I am going to leave Peter Lugar’s with Tupperware, and, of course, bring it back in the AM.
OFFS.
Jesse (who is not forgotten) could confirm, but I believe that this is typical in Korea, where the food delivery guy comes back after a few hours to pick up your dishes.
Japanese ramen places too.
Please tell me they deliver the noodles separately form the rest of the soup.
Because all that extra travel and cleaning is totally going to save the earth. 🙄
On the plus side, this will certainly put hundreds of mom ‘n’ pops out of business so there’s that. All the freshly unemployed people can finally learn to code.
I thought great takeout was one of the few actual benefits of living in NY? Now they want to ruin that, too?
They can’t let CA Dems have all the fun!
Well technically it still is independent for the next month or so.
Credit Suisse Failed to Probe Nazi Past, Senate Committee Says
Only took 80 years or so for the US of A to finally nail this one down.
OFFS
I was a bit concerned that this link would be in bad taste, even for a Wednesday.
Embracing that, you’ve got to recognize their sincerity, togetherness, and engineering competence so often lacking in the crazy set:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/couple-behead-themselves-with-homemade-guillotine-in-india/
They successfully set it up so their heads rolled directly into the sacrificial fire.
Not cool. Never leave a scene like that for the kids.
Too bad those torsos weren’t in a topless bar.
They were just necking before they went out.
The case was being investigated as an accidental death and the victims’ bodies were sent to a coroner’s office to undergo autopsies.
It is on the cutting edge of what is acceptable.
🎵 🎵 …on a guillotine built for two 🎵🎵
“You go first”
“No, you go first, ladies and all”
This is what happens when you don’t allow proggies to teach sex ed in schools!
Accidents like this will happen when uneducated rubes try to figure out how to “give head” on their own.
‘Orning ‘ordles — half good (and fortunately the main event). Not stellar, of course… but I’ll definitely take it.
Daily Duotrigordle #413
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 04:19.88
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 450
3️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Daily Quordle 450
5️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
Daily Quordle 450
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, April 19
Letters: A G I R N T V
My score: 273 points
My longest word: 11 letters
🌻 🌺 🌷 🌸 💐 💮 🌹 🌼 🏵 🌻 🌺
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
tarring
tang
training
granting
virgat
e(no E, darn)nitrating
Okay, what was the 11 letter word?
aggravating
Given how often I use that word, I’m kinda embarassed that it didn’t occur to me.
Also “gravitating.”
And even better: antigravitating
::floats up out of chair::
Daily Quordle 450
6️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
If the toddler gets too far into the enclosure do the SS deploy Harambe protocol? You know, in case the Big Guy moves in for a sniff?
It’s at least twenty Our Fathers for that one, sorry.
Dicks out for Harambe?
Ixnay on the oomergray.
I don’t know about that. It wondered whether it was a case of his olfactory senses becoming dominant once his other senses declined, like he primarily investigates the world around him via smell and touch.
Does he sniff and grope boys, or just girls? Because I don’t recall seeing him sniff and grope boys, although he will sniff women. It drums awfully selective to be “Well, he’s going blind and deaf, so . . . .”
The squirrels seem a bit snippy this morning.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good show, Jimbo, now stop horsing around and go draft something, pull your own own weight, pony up.
Wonderful.
Thanks, Holiness!
Or did they let the baby-sniffing POTUS handle the situation?
Kid escaped from the WH dungeon.
I thought this was about Vindman when I saw the headline.
That’s Lt. Col. Vindman to you, pleb.
The hearing will determine whether he should remain in federal custody.
Clearly he is dangerous for revealing to the American public that the government is malicious and lying to them.
Well, if Vindman had been at one of the military academies’, it would be pleb, properly.
At this rate, one would have to be a fool or a degenerate gambler to book a flight on their airline.
Lovely.
*crosses fingers that the flights we’ve had booked for months will actually go*
Public school teams in New York will soon be barred from calling themselves names like the Warriors, Chiefs, Redmen or Braves following a Tuesday ruling by Albany education honchos.
You bigots are determined to remove native Americans from public view it seems.
“It’s the right thing to do. Our desire is to elevate people, not diminish them. We want to elevate all people,” Regent Kathleen Cashin told The Post over the phone.
Elevate them by erasing them from society…
Trying to get people riled up about Native American sports nicknames is a fool’s errand. Folks just aren’t Inuit, and the school boards are having Nunavut.
*narrows gaze*
Squinto?
That seems pretty premature. He should Sioux you for violation of his 1A rights.
The local weatherman always reports the temperatures in Nunavut, undoubtedly to make us feel better.
Don’t get your Hopis up.
I wonder what happens when a school refuses to comply. An Aztechnical foul?
Since the article doesn’t tell me, I guess i’ll have to Comanche.
I would think that paying homage to their warrior culture by naming your teams after them would be elevating, after all.
The Indian Wars ran some three hundred years, naming sports teams for the defeated foe was a sign of respect.
What about all the other warrior cultures? Why do warriors have to be feather indians?
When everyone is elevated no one is elevated.
They will all be replaced with Spartans, Vandals, Celts…
Fightin’ Irish!
You callin’ us belligerent?
Just quiet down and have some whiskey.
Quiet down, Irish, whiskey? Oh fine, maybe the next morning.
Fighting Whites: Every thangs gonna be all white.
Just in case you weren’t aware…
I did quote their slogan.
Thanks for reminding of a cringe song on the worst album by one of my favorite musicians.
Please rename them the Gamblers. Do it.
The Eastside High Fighting Pit Bosses!
Lovers, Subordinates, Greenmen, Cowards, …
I don’t care much about baseball, but if the Atlanta Braves ever get wokified into de-Indianizing themselves, I’d suggest they harken back to one of the historical Negro League names.
I don’t own any Braves gear, but would wear an Atlanta Black Crackers shirt all day every day.
I’m a Yankees fan, but I would definitely get one of those shirts.
Here you go:
https://www.mlbshop.com/atlanta-black-crackers/t-shirts/t-19874437+d-3450996871+z-8-161410449
Crack like the sound a baseball bat makes?
Cracker like me.
That’s only if you hit bone. Most of the time it’s a wet thunk.
Straight answer: One of the white teams (days of segregation) was the Atlanta Crackers. So this sorta riffed off that.
And evidently today there’s some kind of notion that the term “Cracker” is supposed to be derogatory. Speaking as one, it just ain’t so. And here in the early baseball days are a few examples that everybody was perfectly fine with it – no pearl-clutching freakoutery at the term.
Los Angeles Bridegrooms?
When the Indians were looking for different names, the old Spider and Buckeye team names were hoped for. Instead we wound up with the Guardians.
Cleveland Naps or GTFO.
When did Warrior start referring exclusively to Native Americans?
At this rate, one would have to be a fool or a degenerate gambler to book a flight on their airline.
They have a lot of issues to air out before things can take off.
Turbulent times indeed.
They’ll have a hard time landing more customers.
Turbine or not turbine, that is the question.
Is it Tur-BIN or Tur-BINE ?
And have you checked those pfetzer valves? And these days, its all ball bearings.
turbine
A tur-bin is a misspelled form of heargear.
I thought heargear was a Walker or a Peltor.
I thought this was head gear
Just no flight issues next week.
/looks over at Southwest tickets
Where you off to, Neph?
Vegas baby! Vegas!
Ah, I forgot it was that time of year! Have fun!
Thanks! it’s strangely late this year, not falling on Easter weekend and well after my birthday. Rooms for next year go on sale Monday, and even though we’ll probably be shifting over to Punk Rock Bowling next year (the band list is much better), the girlfriend has already asked me to get up at 0400 on Monday to reserve potential rooms for next year.
Or next month. /looks over at other Southwest tickets
“Federal authorities charged four Americans on Tuesday with roles in a malign campaign pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda in Florida and Missouri…
…Russia’s foreign intelligence service allegedly weaponized our First Amendment rights — freedoms Russia denies its own citizens…”
https://archive.is/ZYbN5
Charged with stating the wrong opinions. And the last statement needs a lot of citations. Putin takes a ton of criticism in Russia although much of it is for being too nice to the West. Either way, it’s really time Americans stopped bragging about all the rights we used to have.
Is the problem that Putin isn’t Marxist enough?
I think it has very little to do with Russia or China. The neo-cons are absolutely frantic to maintain (revert to really) the American empire of 30 years ago. The empire built on manufacturing, economic, and military power. Anyone threatening the dollar (like Gaddafi and now BRICS) gets attacked. Unfortunately, our manufacturing and economic power isn’t what it used to be, and our military advantage is shrinking fast.
Countries doing things in their own best interests suddenly find themselves getting lectured, sanctioned, and threatened by our crazy overlords.
Of course they downplay that these are all members (and the founder of) Uhuru Movement, aka African People’s Socialist Party!
Fake News. We all know Rooshia is giving money to re[publiocans and the NRA.
Awww, I remember Black Hammer and their glorious mountaintop farming whiteless utopia.
Now do the National Endowment for Democracy.
We’re going to prove that we’re more free by arresting people for saying stuff we don’t like?
weaponized our First Amendment rights
JFC…
“will not hesitate to expose and prosecute those who sow discord and corrupt U.S. elections in service of hostile foreign interests, regardless of whether the culprits are U.S. citizens or foreign individuals abroad.”
Apparently there is no 1A.
The three Russians and four Americans are charged with conspiring to have U.S. citizens act as illegal, unregistered agents of the Russian government.
For voicing opinions?
Democrats hate women.
“The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 734,” the White House said in a statement. “For students nationwide, participating in sports and being part of a team is an important part of growing up, staying engaged in school, and learning leadership and life skills. H.R. 734 would deny access to sports for many families by establishing an absolute ban on transgender students—even those as young as elementary schoolers—playing on a team consistent with their gender identity.”
“Schools, coaches, and athletic associations around the country are already working with families to develop participation rules that are fair and that take into account particular sports, grade levels, and levels of competition. As a national ban that does not account for competitiveness or grade level, H.R. 734 targets people for who they are and therefore is discriminatory,” it said.
I will not validate the delusions of the insane. They should play sports in accordance with their actual sex. Or play in a rec./co-ed league. This stuff is not difficult.
This stuff is not difficult.
STOP RESISTING!
Citation needed.
“At this rate, one would have to be a fool or a degenerate gambler to book a flight on their airline.”
After the last fuckup, they had a big sale on flights. My coach took advantage and saved a bundle on about 20 flights to Denver. As long as those fuckups are still a few months apart it might be worth the risk.
I really liked flying Southwest back when I had to travel for business a lot.
I think the seating makes sense and is more efficient than other airlines. I also loved that they sent me drink coupons several times a month. (Another thing I love is they don’t do those stupid carts which is also nice)
I still like their customer service and their seating system. Many of us had crutches or wheelchairs and there was no problem. In contrast, I’ve been on United flights where they put me in the very last row.
The free checked bags are of great benefit when flying with guns. And yeah, Southwest has customer service miles better than most domestic carriers…
Alaska Airlines doesn’t charge for checking a weapons case and does not count it as bag. Also their agents are completely chill when you check your weapon.
Yeah, and Alaska Airlines allows you to check up to 50 pounds of ammunition, versus the industry standard of 11 pounds.
Sadly, they’re also quite a bit more expensive and they only connect DC to Salt Lake City through Seattle, which adds quite a bit to the travel time.
Party of hate, fear and envy
“Yesterday, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, went to Wall Street,” Biden said in remarks from the Rose Garden. “He did not tell the wealthy or the powerful on Wall Street that it was finally time for them to start paying their fair share in taxes. That didn’t come up, other than saying they’re going renew the $2 trillion tax cut.”
“Instead, he proposed huge cuts to important programs that millions of Americans count on. He threatened to become the first Speaker to default on our national debt, which took over 230 years to accumulate,” Biden continued. “He’s threatened to be the first one to default on the debt, which would throw us into a gigantic recession and beyond unless he gets what he wants in the budget. Folks, you’ve got to ask yourselves, what are MAGA Republicans in Congress doing?”
The comments are the latest in an ongoing back-and-forth between the White House and McCarthy over the debt ceiling, which Congress must raise in the coming months or risk an economically damaging federal default.
That Wall Street bogeyman never gets old.
“which took over 230 years to accumulate”
Not really.
Technically it’s actually about 185 years. But no, it didn’t steadily accumulate over those years. There was a jump for WW2, and then it was stable until, oh, let’s say 1971.
And it tripled over just the last 20 years.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
““Instead, he proposed huge cuts to important programs that millions of Americans c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶ ̶o̶n̶ depend on due to years of government entitlements…..”
I guess, technically, two years is “years”. A lot of the proposed cuts are just rolling back to pre-plague levels of graft, waste, and fraud.
Hey, a lot of people depend on that graft, waste, and fraud to maintain the lifestyle to which they are accustomed.
So, it’s alimony?
Tell me again which party gets the lion’s share of donations from Wall Street?
he proposed huge cuts
Probably not, even though whole federal departments need to be eliminated.
DoJ, DoE, DoE, EPA, BLM, FDA, CDC, HHS, DHS, ATF, CIA, NSA, FCC, a bunch more but I have to get back to work,
DMV
Might as well clean out state departments while we’re at it.
Without tax-funded jobs, how are politicians supposed to reward their supporters?
“Tiny troubles: Toddler infiltrates White House grounds”
Someone needs to photoshop that pic with the face of Elián González.
With that in mind, just like having CNN handily around the corner when Trump gets his doors kicked in by DoJ, I wonder who happened to be on-hand when they took this photo.
The WH press pool came along for the break-in ?
The family invited him in.
The kid’s relatives knew the raid was coming after the administration ignored its own “feet wet / feet dry” policy and decided to appease Castro instead. The famous photo of the raid might have cost Al Gore the presidency.
RE: NY stripping Native American mascots.
So I’m guessing the Salamanca Warriors are gone. I guess it’s racist for the descendants of the Seneca tribe to use their forefathers as a mascot. Stripping away native identities continues apace.
When they first passed a similar law in Minnesoda, the natives of Mahnomen (on the White Earth res) had to get a waiver to keep calling themselves the Indians. I see since then that they have “learned” and are now the Thunderbirds.*
* Isn’t Thunderbird just as associated with Natives as Warriors?
Only if you have real memories. The politicos probably think they have a sponsorship deal with Ford.
I have never once personally interacted with a Native American who objected to the term ‘Indian’. From my time spent around tribes in Montana I’d never once heard them refer to themselves as anything but that. Funny how it takes a white (or lame ass ‘of descent’) progressive to descend from on high in academia an make sure the deplorables (of all stripes) use the correct language.
Doesn’t matter cuz those white liberals managed to rope in a couple Indian-adjacent organizations who I am sure are totally not left-wing agitprop fronts to play along.
That and that sweet, sweet pork the tribal organizations get to “improve their communities”
A real Indian is the guy who I first heard call AIM Assholes in Moccasins.
Agree that Indian was never anything that caused an friction for anyone.
Oh, there are plenty of native activists/grifters that have latched on.
Whats the word? Thunderbird!
Whats the jive? Bird is alive!
Whats the price? Dollar twice!
Who drinks it most? Colored folks!
I have no idea why Pie didn’t tell us he’s visiting, but so far it hasn’t been good.
Probation for $7k worth of Scotch – Pie made a good deal.
Im no jernalist, but is it relevant to the story to point out that the officer was pregnant? Is the author sure the officer is female?
Um, it’s birthing persons now, Mr Fast Fingers. Dudes can be pregnant too.
Fuck off. Ive been up all night and Im hungry. Now I want a gyro.
I had one of those for lunch yesterday – it was good.
I was thinking of having one for lunch today, but the weather might not cooperate.
Yeah, thought that was kind of weird.
Why is the pregnancy status of the arresting officer relevant to the story?
Maybe the reporter was calling it in. When dictated that line, he inhaled and the person transcribing took it as “pregnant pause”?
And maybe knocked-up broads are his/her thing.
Been there (only once thankfully)…..loses its lustre pretty quickly. Same with lactation- I still have PTSD
“TURN IT OFF! I JUST WASHED THE DUVET! JESUS….GET A TOWEL! CHRIST- GRAB MY T-SHIRT!”
I don’t recall ever being in a liquor store where something like that would have been out on the shelf, rather than locked up.
Why is it relevant that the police officer was pregnant?
Can you say equity? How do we know it was a woman? Maybe like Hunter’s laptop. Could be but maybe not. We don’t have enough facts and I’m not a biologist
First question: why would anyone steal a bottle of urine?
Second question: who would price a bottle of urine at $7500?
“German magazine Die Aktuelle is slammed for promoting an ‘exclusive interview’ with Michael Schumacher on their front cover… only to reveal inside they’d used AI to create the stricken F1 legend’s quotes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-11989707/German-magazine-slammed-promoting-exclusive-interview-Michael-Schumacher.html
Wait until they start generating fake video.
They just cobbled something together, after all.
But we need to prioritize CO2 emissions above all
About 1 in 4 people in the United States – more than 119 million residents – live with air pollution that can hurt their health and shorten their lives, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. People of color are disproportionately affected, as are residents of Western cities.
Since President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1970, emissions of outdoor air pollutants have fallen 78%, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. But Wednesday’s 2023 State of the Air report, which focuses on ozone and particle pollution, shows that millions put their health on the line every time they step outside.
To capture pollution levels at the county level, researchers analyzed data collected by the EPA’s Air Quality System, a repository of ambient air quality data from more than 10,000 monitors. They characterized the hourly average ozone concentration and the 24-hour average particle pollution concentration for 2019-21 at each monitoring site and factored in year-round pollution information from the EPA.
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Los Angeles is still the city with the worst ozone pollution, according to the report, as it has been for all but one of the years included in the report.
California has some of the more progressive environmental legislation in the country, but the climate crisis has not been kind to the state, said Tarik Benmarhnia, an air pollution and wildfire researcher at the University of California, San Diego, who did not work on the new report.
“All these cities like Bakersfield and Visalia are in a valley near the forests that are seeing big fires. There’s also intense agricultural and industrial work there, so they unfortunately have all the worst conditions for air pollution,” Benmarhnia said.
The American Lung Association wants to declare its relevance. There is a bunch of random crap packed in that article, but it sounds like we need to ban wildfires. Also ozone.
Can we just ban California and be done with it?
Who was the commie troll over at TOS who used to drone on and on about Calexit like it was some kind of P0WN!!!?
Hear hear!
*bangs cane on desk
California has some of the more progressive environmental legislation in the country… and yet,
Los Angeles is still the city with the worst ozone pollution, according to the report, as it has been for all but one of the years included in the report.
Thereby demonstrating that anything man does at this point is basically peanuts compared to natural processes.
This shit is just setting up excuses for CARB to further tyrannically run the state as the Commissars.
Bakersfield and Visalia have bad air because of the nearby forests and because the mountains trap the air. The obvious solutions is to mow down the mountains to improve air flow. It will also remove the trees, so no more forest fires. Two birds, one stone.
Just like Sylvester and Tweety but Minnesoda style!
Not everyone experiences pollution the same way in the US. Regardless of the region, communities of color bear the brunt of the problem.
Specifically, although people of color make up 41% of the overall US population, they are 54% of the nearly 120 million people living in counties with at least one failing grade for unhealthy air. And in the counties with the worst air quality, 72% of the 18 million residents are people of color, the report said.
Other research has also shown this trend. On maps that lay out areas with high levels of air pollution and where communities were redlined – areas where Black people were forced to live – they line up perfectly, Pruitt said.
“Then, the other aspect is, when you have a community of color that is a voluntary community, people aren’t forced to live there, those are communities that tend to have less of a voice, so decision makers place polluting sources in those communities because there’s not as much howling by people with power when they do. So those communities get the highways; they get the landfills; they get the fence lines,” she said.
Not all black people can live on Martha’s Vineyard.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/politics/us-warns-russia-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant/index.html
“US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant”
What the hell? Please tell me that we installed some great nuclear energy technology there, not weapons production. The vague letter sure leaves that in doubt.
I guess we need to ban both voluntary and involuntary communities then.
areas where Black people were forced to live
Wait, what?! Has the government been rounding them up at gunpoint and physically confining them to these places?
“forced to live”
Platitude like it’s 1955!
Looking at black neighborhoods now and black neighborhoods then, even with the no-shit racism, they were better off in 1955. That’s what you get from seventy years of government “help”.
Government policy has created a culture of dependence in these neighborhoods that makes it difficult to break out and achieve something better.
So, as I read this, she is saying that the NIMBYs in white communities are pushing these facilities into POC neighborhoods. What’s the likelihood that she hasn’t been a full supporter of those NIMBYs?
It’s likely, though, that she’s a BANANA.
Shh, nobody tell her that the same neighborhoods were full of poor Italians, Irish, and Jews before they all moved out.
What’s a BANANA?
/asking for a friend
build absolutely nothing anywhere something something.
… near anything.
Ah, a self-loathing leftist
Near anyone, is the version I heard.
Asian version of Oreo; Yellow on the outside, white inside.
“Gen Z women are identifying as bisexual in unprecedented numbers — but are they just following a trend?
A new analysis of Census Bureau data reveals that between 19% and 22% of women aged 18 to 25 identify as bi.
That makes them the main driver of the shocking statistic from Gallup polling last year that 19.7% of Gen Z is LGBT.”
https://nypost.com/2023/04/18/gen-z-women-identify-as-bisexual-in-unprecedented-numbers/
Someone can’t math very well.
shocking statistic
Meh. Entirely foreseeable on multiple levels.
Something, something incentives
It’s a head-scratcher.
Yep. I noticed this a few years ago where, in my son’s small private school, an overly large % of the girls said they were lesbian. A couple claimed to be non-binary (as they dutifully wore the girliest of dresses with all of the usual trappings).
I told him that’s bullshit. In 15 years, all but perhaps 1 or 2 will be married to a man, have kids, and live the same lives as their rich parents.
I want proof – two of these 18-25 year olds, and must be hot – showing me how bi they really are.
Proof, you want proof?
Oldsters might even remember the term “lesbian chic.”
LUG.
I am just glad I am not dating anymore.
Hey, I dated Annie Moore in college.
Doesn’t work so well typed out, or at all really.
Well, I wouldn’t date just any Moor either. Only the good looking ones
Social contagion somehow ceased to exist in the last few years.
Society has become so sick that it’s hard to spot the individual contagions.
And yet, unicorns remain exceedingly rare.
bi or pan?
Bi, you just need to figure out if it is sexual, or polar.
“That’s Not OK!”
DOJ indicts Chinese for doing what US Govt does!
All the defendants are believed to reside in the PRC, and they remain at large.
So this is a paper tiger?
Unnamed and uncharged. No doubt because the telecom is in bed, like they all are, with the US government.
Between this and the RUSHUN SHILLS IN FLORIDA, I’m beginning to think that DC is losing it.
Misdirection
Two separate recent shootings of people who wound up at the wrong address have reignited concerns about the expanded self-defense laws known as Stand Your Ground. First, there was Ralph Yarl, the 16-year-old in Kansas City who was shot and wounded Thursday after he rang the wrong doorbell of the wrong house to pick up his younger siblings. Then on Saturday night, 20-year-old Kaylin Gillis was killed in upstate New York when a homeowner opened fire on a car of friends who had turned into the wrong driveway. NPR’s Becky Sullivan is here with us now to talk about Stand Your Ground laws. Hi, Becky.
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CHANG: OK. So tell us more about what Stand Your Ground specifically is.
SULLIVAN: Yeah. You know, so it’s a change to the traditional idea of self-defense law. So normally, traditionally, self-defense says it’s not a crime to use deadly force when you had no other option. Like, there was an imminent danger of threat to you or somebody else, and there was no way to retreat or deescalate the situation. There has long been a traditional exception to that called the Castle Doctrine, which says that you don’t have to retreat if you’re in your own home. But starting in the mid-2000s, some Republican-led, gun-friendly legislatures began to expand that idea of no duty to retreat to anywhere in public.
Neither of these cases has fuck all to do with stand your ground, but don’t let that keep you from making a bogus argument, NPR.
New York law is very much anti-stand your ground. They have done as much to criminalize defensive use of force as they can manage
The BBC did their normal shit on this, with their notification headline, declaring that Yarl was shot “because he went to the wrong house.” You’d think the BBC might have, you know, some command of the English language.
I also see the Wikipedia page is calling Yarl African American. His parents emigrated from Liberia: is the phrase African American reserved for the descendants of slaves or does it include all black Americans? I’m not sure on the terminology.
It’s sure not used that way now but by my understanding that is how the term originated.
I’m not sure on Liberia history, but I believe the country was founded/established by American slaves who returned to Africa.
It includes anyone black. There was an infamous interview a journalist had with a black British Olympic athlete where the journalist kept referring to the guy as an African-American, even after being corrected by him.
What about Musk? Is he African American or just African?
South African, Euro-African?
Nazi-American.
So gun rights advocates – you know, basically, they argued that if you’re in imminent danger – if you’re in the middle of a physical altercation – that it’s unreasonable or even dangerous to force somebody to pause and sort through all the legal questions in their head before they engage in self-defense. So what Stand Your Ground does is basically, as long as you’re lawfully present, wherever you are, you no longer have a duty to retreat. So long as you’re in danger of physical harm or you feel like you are, if – even if you could safely walk away, in those states, you still have the right to stand your ground.
Gun rights advocates never pass up an opportunity to put somebody down like a dog for no reason.
A part of the problem here, is that there are quite a few hilljack gun owners out there who legitimately think that the above is what ‘Stand Your Ground’ means (the media is, of course, complicit in this misinformation.)
No matter where you are, you must still be in reasonable fear for your life before you start blasting.
Sometimes congresscritters are entertaining.
https://twitter.com/BlaineCincycath/status/1648681759901360135
Best looking turd in the punchbowl
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4594826-ford-just-took-the-pole-position-in-the-ev-race-rating-upgrade
Justice
The Los Angeles school district and the teachers union have reached a tentative agreement that provides a 21% wage increase over about three years, raising the average teacher salary to $106,000 while averting the potential of a second strike this school year.
If approved by members of United Teachers Los Angeles, the salary for teachers would range from about $69,000 to $122,000. Teachers who take on extra work responsibilities could earn more, a boost aimed at addressing the high stress and high cost of living that many teachers say they are struggling with, especially since the pandemic.
Hard-to-staff positions such as nurses would see additional salary hikes.
“This agreement with UTLA is a necessary step not only to make Los Angeles Unified the district of choice for families but also the district of choice for teachers and employees,” Supt. Alberto Carvalho said.
Union leaders characterized the negotiations as a successful battle to win concessions to benefit members and the community on such issues as smaller classes, working to expand the number of housing units for low-income families, special programs for Black students and curriculum on climate change.
Results are irrelevant. It’s all about the spending .
um… wut
Are they giving teachers shovels and buzz-saws now?
They just vomit out random poll-tested buzz phrases.
Good morning, Sloopy and The Gang!
I was surprised to see the Avs drop one at home. I’ll reiterate that NHL playoffs are second only to World Juniors in the awesomeness tournament rankings.
I still fly SW quite often. No matter who you fly it’s become fuck up roulette. Thank God spring is here so at least one variable/convenient excuse is off the table.
Interesting song choices today. I remember playing the first one in school band in 6th or 7th grade. It’s a good one.
The Rangers were on fire last night. I hope they can keep it up.
“No matter who you fly it’s become fuck up roulette.”
Yep, my wife stopped using SW on her trips here, but the alternative has been just as bad – including being stranded in Eagle one evening and having to drive to Denver that night in order to get a morning flight out the next day.
Are they giving teachers shovels and buzz-saws now?
When the lefty planners and advocates say “affordable housing” they’re talking about houses for teachers and firemen, not those losers who work at Walmart and the 7-11.
I have a business trip next week. I am driving and not flying. Fuck airlines.
I don’t have any business driving and I’m certainly not going to fly.
The apple trees in the garden have tiny green buds, still a long way from opening but at least they survived winter.
The BBC demonstrating its usual mastery of all things firearm related.
Kaylin Gillis: Driveway shooting suspect shows no remorse – police
The headline says the killer shows no remorse, but buried down lower in the story:
What exactly does he have to do to show remorse?
At the risk of victim blaming….
It doesn’t sound like the world is going to lose out the next Einstein here. White chick. Florida college. Marine biology.
Seinfeld’s Greatest Scene: “The Marine Biologist” Monologue
A deer slug?
Yup. Welcome to NJ. We can only hunt deer with buck shot or rifled slug.
I think we’re not allowed to use buck shot on deer in NY.
Minimum of 12 gauge on buck shot or 20 gauge for slug only.
(Or it was years ago when I still hunted.)
Same in southern WI. I actually agree with that rule in farm country. Slugs hit the ground after a few hundred yards. Rifle bullets go much further. And people shoot like shit. Not only that, where I hunted, you were going to have most shots at 100 yards or less anyway. I don’t recall ever passing up a shot because the deer was out of range.
I don’t have a real issue with it either.
However, in gun control crazed NJ there is always an issue when paid hunters come to clean out deer in populated areas. First off, all the hippies scream about the killing and ignore the damage and motor vehicle havoc and deaths. Not to mention all the half starved deer. Second, the professional hunters use rifles and all kinds of bureaucratic hoops must be secured before they can take the deer with a rifle. This also scares the hippies because scary men with scary guns are going to be in urban areas.
Will the parents of Kaylin Gillis be suing whatever navigation app she was using?
How much liquidity do they have?
“Never, ever sue poor people” — Steve Dallas.
https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1986/06/22
“Man, those Samoans are a surly bunch”
Angry, even.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgT0070BHbU
More detail. Still not a “good look” for the accused. Paywall NYT
New Details Emerge in Deadly Upstate Shooting of Woman in Wrong Driveway
https://archive.fo/y5RQb
No, not a good look at all.
But the media are already prepping the battlespace and trying to paint the guy as a villain.
Oh no, not that. Although he should have put up a damn gate.
“TN Rep. Justin Jones brought a prop child’s coffin to the House”
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1648359497159589889
Serious people running the government.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/germany-closes-its-last-nuclear-power-plants-electricity-bills-spike-45
Unforeseen consequences – and how to quickly deindustrialize a country.
Nothing unforeseen about it
something something your electric bill will necessarily skyrocket
Wicked With, pt 2
As is typical for CEOs, Owen’s pay package includes incentive-based compensation. For the fiscal year ending in May 2022, she made $3.9 million on top of her fixed salary of $1.1 million.
It’s unclear whether she’ll receive a bonus for this filing year. In the video, she encourages her employees to “lead by example.”
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“It’s the perfect storm of a few different developments that the pandemic has brought to bear,” says Dave Kamper, a senior policy coordinator with the Economic Policy Institute. “One is that inequality is even more obvious than it’s ever been. The CEO pay gap is higher now than it’s ever been.”
Kamper says the latest data (from 2021) shows that CEOs were paid 399 times more than a typical worker in their firm. Couple that with overall job growth in a post-pandemic economy, and workers are feeling more emboldened to stand up to leadership, Kamper says.
“CEOs are just not having the same conversation that their workers are,” he explained. “I think you’ve got a lot of companies that are hoping this storm of workers actually having a voice will pass.”
The question to watch, he says, is whether the surge of worker power will last long enough to convince CEOs to change their tune.
Female CEO makes what only a few years ago would have been plain vanilla “motivational” comments. Frenzied internet lynch mob gathers torches, pitchforks and rope.
Something tells me she doesn’t make 400 times what her employees make; not even the janitors.
Mean versus median.
I expect better from a Fortune 500 CEO. I’d be annoyed if my CEO made such comments, but not to the point of leaking a Zoom.
My company is so large that I can’t swing earnings in any meaningful way. So punishing or rewarding me based on net income isn’t meaningful. As a result bonus determination is made on a blended scorecard for exactly that reason.
We hear a lot about Means and Medians, I want to have more debate regarding the Mode.
this storm of workers actually having a voice
“I quit” has always been an option. Bitching on Slack never fixes anything.
Something tells me she doesn’t make 400 times what her employees make; not even the janitors.
Simple math can tell these idiots that, were it not white supremacy. $5M / 399 = $12,531.32
Now do what NFL quarterbacks make vs. their fans, or music superstars vs. the kids who buy the albums.
Never mind “climate change deniers” – it’s trade-off deniers we should worry about
https://iea.org.uk/never-mind-climate-change-deniers-its-trade-off-deniers-we-should-worry-about/
If you believe that we should cut emissions further and faster, you have to honest with people, and tell them about that cost. You cannot pretend that we live in a world without trade-offs, where you can slash carbon emissions without anyone noticing.
But this is precisely what anti-capitalist eco-movements do. The Swedish branch of Extinction Rebellion recently summed up that mindset when they posted:
“Our planet isn’t dying because regular people won’t go vegan or only take cold showers. It’s dying because a handful of corporations and billionaires profit from pumping astronomical amounts of pollution into the air and water.”
In other words: don’t worry, Joe Bloggs, nobody wants to make you poorer. Climate change has nothing to do with you anyway. It’s all just about a handful of corporations and billionaires. There are no trade-offs. There are just a few bad people who need to be taken out, and the climate will be saved at no cost to anyone else.
FTFY
Long, for Twitter, but good video here:
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1648462770936115202
Not only Dems being huge hypocrites, but voting machines connected to the internet.
Thread.
Dems are huge hypocrites?!!?!?? Shocked, I am.
They said the 20-year-old was an artist and a “Disney fanatic” who was looking forward to starting college in Florida so she could become a marine biologist.
What are the odds her dream job was being in the porpoise show at Sea World?
I bet that job is pretty awesomeZ
My task for today was to clear out the dead stuff from the garden since it’s spring. Woke up to a couple of inches of snow. Stop it with the EVs already.
Wow. Just wow…
On Wednesday, the German government voted to ban most oil and gas heating boilers in new and old buildings from 2024.Under the rule, all new heating systems should run on 65% renewable energy, with exemptions for homeowners aged over 80 and for households with the lowest incomes.
If you believe that we should cut emissions further and faster, you have to honest with people, and tell them about that cost.
Don’t be ridiculous. That’s not how the game works.
Who cares when there are fat-cats who aren’t paying their fair share yet.
Yeah, I’ll believe the green kids are serious when they refuse to go on spring breaks, end taking semesters abroad, stop driving cars, and go to bed as soon as it gets dark.
Well, they aren’t driving cars nearly as much. Something like 40% of 18 year olds don’t have a license.
“Our planet isn’t dying because regular people won’t go vegan or only take cold showers. It’s dying because a handful of corporations and billionaires profit from pumping astronomical amounts of pollution into the air and water.”
Corporations exist for the sole purpose of polluting the planet. That’s just what they do.
That stuff they make while polluting? You’ll never notice when it’s gone.
A part of the problem here, is that there are quite a few hilljack gun owners out there who legitimately think that the above is what ‘Stand Your Ground’ means (the media is, of course, complicit in this misinformation.)
I’d say that’s more of a bastard reimagining of the castle doctrine, but no, you may not shoot trespassers at will.
Arte they in the same place as us, where the aging rulers are all about to shit the bed and hand over to a much more right-wing crowd? That would explain the crazy moves. Those are moves of panic to keep an agenda alive after they are all kicked out of office.
R.J., whaat country do you live in that the gerontocracy is about to be replaced by right-wingers?
Anyone to the right of Stalin.