Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another wonderous day and the links!
Joe Biden Faces Terrible Polling Week
California Faces a $32 Billion Deficit
Here Are 7 Major Cases The Supreme Court Has Yet To Decide This Term
How a Supreme Court case could inject chaos into the 2024 elections
Huge number of border agent candidates failing DHS polygraphs, union suggests it’s intentional
Why are any of these people living long term in hotels on the public’s dime?
Biden administration has canceled $66 billion in student debt
Acetaminophen Overdose Has Become the Leading Cause of Liver Failure in the US
Self-checkout machines now ask for tips
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Is something that’s been going on forever a “crisis”?
“Acetaminophen is often combined with opioid drugs”
They did that on purpose.
To destroy your liver as punishment for using more than the bureaucrats think you should be allowed.
“Furthermore, much is still unknown about how acetaminophen acts in the body to relieve pain. “Nobody really knows exactly how acetaminophen works in the treatment of pain,””
Because it doesn’t?
“In a review of two large clinical trials, researchers found that 4,000 milligrams per day were no better than a placebo for relieving short- or longer-term acute low back pain.”
Tylenol doesn’t do crap for me. At least ibuprofen actually relieves pain.
Paywalled for me. You’re correct about that. Another contributor must be the number of people who think Tylenol PM + an alcoholic drink is a good way to fall asleep each night.
“Paywalled for me.”
Got around it with reader view.
A lady I used to work with was a high functioning alcoholic and that’s what got her: Tylenol at night after drinking to head off a morning headache. About three years of that and she was dead of liver failure at 35.
Yikes!
“Self-checkout machines now ask for tips”
Then you should be allowed to throw water on them.
I’m thinking Lowes might be slower to implement these.
“Oopsie, I accidentally dropped this anvil on the scanner.”
The Lowes near me doesn’t have self check out. Another reason not to bother with that place.
The only place I’ve seen those stupid tip screens are at super small places that only have Square or similar app running on an iPad. The local Caribou finally got a tip screen too. Which I actually like. It used to suck if you stopped by the Bou for some coffee and didn’t have cash for a tip.
It also helps that the person asking for the tip is right there. I don’t know why anyone would have an issue clicking the “None” button if there was no one there helping you.
When will online sites add tip requests?
They already do.
We are working on it…
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My kids still act that way. Thanks for reminding me, Jimbo
Cute. Thanks, Holiness!
Now I’m wondering why they think all polygraph tests have the same/similar questions with which to get responses. Maybe they do, I have no idea, but it would seem that each agency might have differing emphases.
“Do you like gladiator movies?”
Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Um, why are they using pseudo science anyhow? Why don’t they just kill a chicken and read the entrails for each candidate. Just as sound of a technique and you’d have a nice chicken dinner afterwards.
This machine measures indicators of stress. Now relax, your job depends on passing.
The episode of Bullshit that they did on lie detectors should be watched by everyone.
Many episodes of Bullshit should be watched by everyone.
The one on recycling was very good.
Probably USDA regulations.
I’ve got a million-dollar idea!
Phrenology helmets, each carefully calibrated to a particular brain/skull type for a particular application/job candidate! Once I get the first government contracts, I can expand into the criminal justice sector — if the hat don’t fit, you must acquit!
“use of racial preferences in the admissions process is constitutional”
I think it’s wrong, but if they aren’t getting government bennies, it should be allowed as long as they are being honest about it.
“It could also finally put an end to years of legal troubles for Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips.”
CWABOA
Christ What a Bank of America, indeed.
That was my first reading too. Maybe it was “what a big ol’ A-hole”. Or “bunch of artichokes”.
“The plaintiff in Gonzalez v. Google, the family of a 23-year old American student killed in a 2015 ISIS terrorist attack in Paris, argues YouTube aided and abetted in the attack through its targeted recommendations of ISIS videos designed to recruit members.”
So then what’s next, banning books?
That’s not where the money is. How about ISPs, data centers, hardware manufactures, …?
“The plaintiff in Krugman v New York Times, the family of a the Nobel prize winning economist beaten to death by an angry mob, argues The Times aided and abetted in the attack through its repeated publishing of his infuriating and nonsensical writing.”
Doesn’t that apply to approximately two schools?
Since government-backed student loans count, yes, maybe two.
Hillsdale and… some other one.
The one in NC…I want to call it Jim Jones University, but I know that is wrong.
Bob Jones University.
And its Greenville, SC.
So I was close.
What is a Carolina between Glibs?
Maybe Grove City College?
Grove City maybe.
Sure – freedom of association used to be a thing. If a place is privately funded, making it all black, all white, all male, whatever. should be legal. Of course we know which of those wouldn’t be allowed.
Speaking of checkout tipping, I’ve noticed that takeout places all offer you the option of tipping, and they ring a bell when you do. I used to do it but I started thinking that maybe I shouldn’t be paying them as much of a percentage as a waiter would get without having to do the tasks a waiter does. I do realize the restaurants are in between a rock and a hard place with inflation being so evident to their customers. Because I travel a lot I eat out often. I think I’m going to start paying with cash everywhere so they can’t guilt jerk me with their little swiveling screen of begging.
OFFS.
I say No to new forms of tipping where it was not previously customary.
*puts tip jar on corner of desk*
Put one on the girlfriends side of the bed?
Just the tip?
How about they ring a bell if you don’t tip? Guilt shame…
I’m a little more sympathetic to tipping staff when ordering takeout at a sit down restaurant. It’s often either the waitstaff or a bartender that take the order, box the food, and get anything else needed for the takeout. They work for tips and prepping takeout has become a larger proportion of their work since Covid. So I don’t tip 20% because it’s not nearly as much work or time as sitdown service, but I usually throw a couple bucks. Maybe $5 dollars for an especially large order.
But I also rarely eat out (maybe 1x month) and never tip at countertop only places.
This. I’ve been tipping about 10% for take-out service. It also has paid back some … free coffee or drinks while I’m waiting because they know me.
We get food to go A LOT.
We get a lot of take-out, and I usually tip around 10-20%, mostly to make the bill a round number.
And cash, I always try to do cash.
another cover of that song
“Are you now, or have you ever been, an ultra MAGA white supremacist?”
I saw some memes one time when I was browsing the internet. Does that count?
Good, good.
“How are you at following the suggestions of some sketchy rabble-rouser who will disappear right before stuff actually starts to happen??”
No, but I’m willing to learn.
I thought this was remarkable. Fiona Hill is showing her actual allegiances.
https://twitter.com/markfoley10/status/1657818407516114945
She didn’t really express a preference in that clip. You have to infer it from her tone and choice of words, for example referring to the US as a hegemon. And as far as what was stated — the US having less leadership in global institutions, not telling small countries what is in their interests, and having less of a US military presence in Asia — they don’t sound like bad things to me.
It’s the combination of this rhetorical shift with her past positions that’s telling. Hill was all over the Trump/Ukraine phone call fiasco. And she’s been a rabid supporter of what one could call the American hegemon.
It almost seems like it was an intended trap for the USA. To get the country overextended and then turn the tables.
Regardless, I want to see her challenged on reconciling her current position with her previous one. Why the change?
Why bother trying to hide it? They face no consequences no matter what they do.
Is anyone else enraged when you see student loan forgiveness and other bennies go to people who go into the “public sector”?
Why double down on a losing hand? You are already going to lose that money, but now these guys are bureaucrats and fucking up shit? To be followed by 30 years of paying for their pensions.
Used to be that working in the public sector meant lower pay but decent benefits and job security. Now they get all three plus loan forgiveness.
Unsustainable
Yeah. I don’t think many people have figured out that the pubsec employees are no longer working for lower pay.
That’s because the union teaches them all to bitch about pay all the time. You can’t have a personal conversation without it coming up.
https://youtu.be/jXMim-St-BI
https://youtu.be/JGXwpO6Ou-4
Not just public sector but anyone working in a non-profit. And the forgiveness isn’t taxed.
The outrage about the 10k forgiveness was a tempest in a teapot. The real deal is the non-profit/public sector forgiveness after 10 years of minimal payments. It’s a huge payoff to the government foot soldiers. And others who are able to grab some of their tax dollars back while the ship goes down.
So much this.
…hides face…
Um, why are they using pseudo science anyhow? Why don’t they just kill a chicken and read the entrails for each candidate. Just as sound of a technique and you’d have a nice chicken dinner afterwards.
“Bring in the Court Phrenologist to examine the candidate.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_wizard_amendment
He shouldn’t have pulled the amendment.
Minnesoda DFL hits peak diversity as endorsing convention breaks into fights between Pakistani and Somali campaigns for city council seat.
And America’s descent into third world shithole continues apace.
Unchecked migration is a net good.
Was it a melee, or people jumping on stage and pounding tables? One is a felony, the other is a bog-standard protesting tactic.
So you’re saying it was “mostly peaceful”?
That is exactly the joke that is going around here.
Sounds like some punches were thrown.
melee or brouhaha, you decide
donnybrook
There’s video.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1657646596203646976
While I didn’t see any punches thrown, I did see a lot of masks. Jebus these people are stupid.
Please tell me they started snapping each other’s mask straps.
Not seeing any assaults onstage — maybe in the crowd though.
I find it high-larious that the standard disruptive tactic makes the event “unsafe” when used against a DFL.
And the white manbun dude(?) is just the icing on the stereotype cake.
Let them fight.
Meanwhile, in downtown
MogadishuMinneapolis…I watched a video of that, and I think it was the mask wearers fault.
Seriously, why are these retards still masking? Party of Science! my ass.
What about tipping your mom? A Minnesoda mom thinks you should.
Anna Jarvis, the founder of Mothers Day
Wait, what?
Yeah, the summary makes it sound like they were doing it to repay her for starting the holiday. The text makes it sound like they were locking up a troublesome meddler.
Winston’s Mom gets lot of tips.
The infantilization of America continues.
Possibly too early for HE. I carried a Gerber micro or ultralight LST for years until I went back to a larger pocket folder.
https://www.gerbergear.com/en-us/shop/knives/all-knives/ultralight-lst-22-06050
Nice little knife, perfect for slipping inside a pocket.
I used to carry a leatherman original and variations but would end up losing them easily. Now I usually just have actual tools close by and haven’t gone back since.
HE?
Hayekexplosives. She asked about edc blades and multi tools overnight.
Oh, OK, thanks.
This is my daily.
https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details/MBK/Manbug-trade-FRN-Black-/708
I used to have a couple of the cheaper SpyderCos for carrying around at work. Great blade, it seemed like they saved money on a somewhat light and flimsy handle. Sliced through e-tape like a lightsaber and was cheap enough you didn’t mind loaning it to someone or losing it after a few months.
I was initially a little iffy on the light handle, but it’s fiberglass reinforced nylon.
It was a conscious decision for strength versus weight that I came around to appreciating.
Border Crisis
No such
nationcrisis exists and to speak of one istreasonracist.I am in a meeting at work and there was a demo for which some images were used, picture of irises in particular and the guy calls them orchids which I find annoying.
RIP HIS THROAT OUT.
Pictured
“I think all they’ve heard is negative news for three years,” Biden told MSNBC. “Everything is negative. And I’m not being critical of the press, you turn on the television, the only way you’re going to get a hit is if there’s something negative.”
Your entire residency has been negative.
DU rounds are cancer. Literally.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday/1811
Why do they use depleted uranium? There isn’t some alloy that would be much less expensive?
Maybe the brits needed to get rid of some
FYTW
U is super heavy and convenient as leftovers after processing U for fuel in nuke reactors.
It also has some significant ballistic characteristics that make it very effective for penetrating armor. It handles the extreme heat of the the high velocity and has good spalling characteristics if/when it fractures on the target.
But the weight is the most important. Much heavier than lead or tungsten, so a lot more KE gets carried to the target. A tank round that can go thru >700mm of RHA is about as close as we get to irresistible force.
It creates long term health hazards that yield a scorched earth policy. That’s why.
Destinydensity.McFLY!!
Why do they use depleted uranium?
As I recall it. Density is the primary reason. It’s like throwing darts at a piece of paper.
Russia warned Britain not to send DU ammo. It should be a war crime what we did with them in Iraq.
Those people are going to glow brighter than Patriot Front.
Depleted. The negligible radiation is equivalent to sitting in the sun. But the powdered metal is extremely toxic, and when you throw a uranium dart at >2000 m/s at a tank that may have DU armor of it’s own, a lot of powder is created.
Lorie Smith, the plaintiff in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, challenged the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) because she wants to create wedding websites that reflect her belief that marriage is between one man and one woman. But Colorado’s law, which bans companies deemed public accommodations from restricting services based on sexual orientation, would compel her to also create websites for same-sex couples.
Make them bake cakes.
Now, the Court is tasked with answering the question: what constitutes a “true threat?”
Anything that violates the delicate sensibilities of leftists.
Crisis in health care
This May, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed a law that boosts criminal penalties for assaults against hospital workers and allows health care facilities in the state to create independent police forces. The law is a response to that testimony as well as hospital lobbying and data documenting a rise in violence against health care workers. In enacting the law, Georgia joined other states attempting to reverse a rise in violence over the last several years through stiffer criminal penalties and enhanced law enforcement.
Nearly 40 states have laws that establish or increase penalties for assaults on health care workers, according to the American Nurses Association. And lawmakers in 29 states have approved or are working on similar laws, as well as ones that allow for the creation of hospital police forces. Members of those forces can carry firearms and make arrests. In addition, they have higher training requirements than noncertified officers such as security guards, according to the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety.
Groups representing nurses and hospitals argue that such laws address the daily reality of aggressive or agitated patients who sometimes become violent. Still, such interventions are relatively new. Critics worry that establishing hospital police forces will escalate violence in health care settings and could have unintended effects.
“I worry about all the reasons patients have to not trust me and trust the health care system,” said Elinore Kaufman, a trauma surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Health care workers are five times as likely to experience violence as employees in other industries, according to federal data. On May 3, the day after Kemp signed the Safer Hospitals Act into law, a person opened fire in a midtown Atlanta medical office, killing one woman and injuring four others, including workers at the medical practice.
Obviously, the nurses’ union needs SWAT teams. Unprovoked attacks cannot be tolerated.
I am going to slightly disagree with you here. Wife has been a nurse, now is a nursing instructor. She routinely sees drama at hospitals that does or can escalate to actual violence against staff. Hospitals do have security, but some of them are in areas where disadvantaged or drug seeking would apply.
Not enough security or not quick enough.
While “swat” is not what is needed, i guess prosecutions for violence needs to be stronger.
Not sure what the best answer is.
I know that the Metrohealth hospitals here in Cleveland have their own police force.
A lot of the problems are from “frequent flyers” that are known to the hospital. But, the hospitals can’t bar them from the premises due to EMTALA. Allow that, and you’ve taken a chunk out of the problem.
I think she would agree.
She did babies, more than once baby came out wrong “color”
that can cause drama.
I wonder if any of the increase in violence has to do with hospitals and clinics telling people to fuck off and die if they don’t have the clot shot.
I think it has to do with the disintegration of social norms for anyone who isn’t part of the so called “privileged” classes. We are just supposed to let such antisocial behavior slide.
Some Karen freaks out and she gets caught on video and loses her job.
OTH, homeless people can threaten people on subway trains as much as they like.
Increase security to meet needs. Station/contract regular city/county law enforcement that are no beholden to hospital administrators to enforce actual criminal laws.
“boosts criminal penalties for assaults against hospital workers”
Shouldn’t assault just be assault? JFC.
Much better to create hundreds of privileged classes, rather than have to actually enforce the laws equally.
At issue is a controversial concept known as the “independent state legislature theory,” which posits that state legislatures have broad discretion over administering federal elections at the state level, with minimal checks and balances from state courts or even the governor.
I expect state sovereignty to be further eroded.
The plain words of the constitution are “controversial”.
Language is never plain if the meaning of words changes based on whatever we need them to mean
/looks at articles that claim “The 2nd Amendment allows for restrictions on AR-15’s”
“Shall not be infringed” is open to interpretation.
It even says well regulated!
Still, little data exists on whether such forces are effective at preventing hospital violence. Ji Seon Song, a University of California, Irvine law professor who studies policing in health care settings, worries about the “unintended consequences” of legislation that boosts the presence of law enforcement in places where people receive medical care.
“You can see where there might be a lot of problems,” she said, “especially if the patient is African American, undocumented, Latino — something that makes them prone to being criminalized.”
Well, duh.
How many times does this lie need to be debunked…?
Reminiscent of sex being “assigned” at birth. Never mind the underlying facts, its what’s on paper that really real.
Why are any of these people living long term in hotels on the public’s dime?
Who knows. But apparently illegal aliens are more important that veterans.
I need to update my intersectionality scorecard.
As a taxpayer, I’d think that paying a Motel 6 $88/night to house a homeless person is a bargain compared to other homeless “solutions” that have been tried.
Yeah but Motel 6 would rather scoop up the $200 a night for each visitor that Uncle Joe sends their way.
Biden administration has canceled $66 billion in student debt. How to know if you qualify
As productive member of society and net taxpayer, I likely do not qualify.
you would not be productive without ROADS and PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
In October, the EU-funded @ERC_Research gave ten million euros to @jasonhickel et al to study degrowth
https://twitter.com/MaxGhenis/status/1657520044832694273
Ten million to study how to destroy the benefits of modern society. Sounds about right.
Right?
I already know all I need to about degrowth. Anyone from the rust belt can tell you it sucks ass.
<a href="http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/05/innovation-and-change.html"Innovation and Change
Best bit:
Oops.
Innovation and Change
I will once again comment that I’m happy I live in an area with a solid craft brewery that has a mild as part of their year round canned options.
Is it 11% and pale or 3% and dark?
It’s 4.5% and dark.
With the strong German influence here, most of the breweries also do hefeweizens, kolsches, and schwarzbiers.
Up until this week (summer is on the horizon) I have been drinking schwarzbiers mainly. Now, it is time for Mexican lagers and kolshes.
I’m at a loss for words…
The Wildest Fitness Trend is Jumping Like a Bunny
To get fit, many are embracing ‘primal movement,’ and imitating animals such as apes, bears and crabs. It can feel odd to be ‘a grown-up doing Bunny Hops.’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/primal-movement-exercise-gyms-animal-flow-f361e783?st=6cgilica2e3ys49&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
squatting heavy weight is difficult. Bunny hopping is more accessible
MovNat made a whole company from something similar.
https://www.movnat.com/
Oh, they’re serious. I was expecting some furry kink. Am disappointed.
Nothing’s stopping you from getting your furry kink on.
Eh, didn’t you ever do crab walks in gym? They’re interesting movements, though I wouldn’t ever make them the center of my fitness routine, but they will work muscles you didn’t know you had.
Exactly. I’ve taken rigorous fitness classes for decades that incorporate crab walks, bear walks, bunny hops, duck walks, etc. The classes aren’t dressed up with a bunch of bullshit about getting in touch with primal instincts or whatever, though.
Eh, I have drank like a fish before, does that count?
Yes, that’s a really functional exercise. Feel the burn.
I’m not going down that rabbit hole.
on the public’s dime – this saying should be adjusted for inflation. Or is the dime silver?
The dollar was originally defined as 371.25 grains of silver.
At today’s silver prices, 20 grains of silver is a dollar.
Not since the early ’60s.
I was talking about the dime in the idiom, not the one in circulation
Acetaminophen Overdose Has Become the Leading Cause of Liver Failure in the US
Good thing I mostly stay away from pain meds. *cracks beer*
It’s in everything, people take cold meds with acetaminophen and then a couple of Tylenol and overdo it on each and bust the margin of safety. Don’t take it chronically to combat hangovers either, shit’ll kill you.
I earned my hangover, so I suffer through it. If it’s really bad, a Bloody Mary helps.
Idk if it’s placebo effect or not, but CBD seems to help. Also, coffee because caffeine.
A benefit of being a lightweight is I can never drink enough to get a hangover.
You could hear the music on the – oh now you can’t.
America’s love affair between the automobile and AM radio — a century-long romance that provided the soundtrack for lovers’ lanes, kept the lonely company with ballgames and chat shows, sparked family singalongs and defined road trips — is on the verge of collapse, a victim of galloping technological change and swiftly shifting consumer tastes.
The breakup is entirely one-sided, a move by major automakers to eliminate AM radios from new vehicles despite protests from station owners, listeners, first-responders and politicians from both major parties.
Automakers, such as BMW, Volkswagen, Mazda and Tesla, are removing AM radios from new electric vehicles because electric engines can interfere with the sound of AM stations. And Ford, one of the nation’s top-three auto sellers, is taking a bigger step, eliminating AM from all of its vehicles, electric or gas-operated.
I wonder how much will be budgeted to change over the “Traffic Incident” and “Urgent News” AM stations that are operated here on the freeways to be FM stations.
Huh. I thought there was some sort of FCC regulation that you were not allowed to create RF interference?
The UNC discrimination case hits close to home. I have told you about my nephew who has perfect SAT scores, perfect scores on 8 AP exams and a straight A record from kindergarten with the highest GPA at the most prestigious math and science high school in the state. He didn’t get accepted at any of the top schools in the country …. because white male. His classmates who fit “diversity” requirements (who finished well below him in all academic categories, bit are still elite students) not only got accepted, they got scholarship offers to these same schools. He eventually made it to UNC on the wait list.
Even 2 years earlier he would have gotten in to every one of those schools, easily.
It sounds like some weirdo Glenn Beck conspiracy, but they really are trying to eliminate the idea of a meritocracy.
All those Asian moms who kick their kids ass for 17 years to make them the best of the best of the best can get bent. All those Jewish moms who drive their kids to study to become doctors and lawyers can step off. The important thing that society needs is “diversity”, which for some reason means “not you guys either “.
Anticipate serious upheaval if this is challenged. They have spent 50 years pushing toward this goal in academia in the US. The schools are fully invested in this ideology.
Another relative is working toward medical school. She has impressive grades from a top school and did fellowships with the CDC. You would think med school would love her. Good test scores too.
Nope. White chuck. Too many of them.
So she is working at a rural Healthcare clinic for nothing. The word from the med school faculty she knows is that a year of that will guarantee acceptance. They have plenty of white female specialists and OBGYN docs, they need rural family doctors. So she does a year of clerical work in the boonies and she is clean for the gatekeepers. Meanwhile, lesser classmates who are friends that tic the appropriate boxes got accepted without any hoop jumping.
This is so pervasive and the biases are so strong, I expect a huge backlash either way these cases go.
Even 2 years earlier he would have gotten in to every one of those schools, easily.
This shift started happening at least a decade ago. For medical schools, even longer. 15 years ago, a successful white applicant to medical school had to have, on average, an entire point higher GPA than an accepted black applicant.
It’s rapidly accelerating now. In my PhD program, I enjoyed hearing quite frequently about all of my privileges and how women and minorities are oppressed and denied opportunities. The irony that I was the only white male in my accepted class was apparently lost on them. Same with being one of 2 white males, out of about 45 students, across 3 years of accepted students.
This has been going on for a long time. Similar happened to me in 1988. My “diverse” classmate had somewhat lower scores than me but got a full ride at a top school. I got into a different top school but no full ride for me. I chose state school instead.
Big backlash if the Court outlaws anti-white racial discrimination.
No backlash to speak of if they sign off on it.
So I guess we shall see just how cowardly the Roberts court remains.
A mere 5 years away now from O’Conner’s only another 25 years from the last time scotus signed off on racist government policies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger
The only part that was news to me was that white females are being discriminated against now.
Gotta be even more careful choosing a doctor in the future.
It does make me wonder if an “education” at those schools is worth anything. While they are obviously doing their best to screw your nephew because of his race, he might be better off without them.
Was he applying for UNC from in-state or out of state?
In state.
I wrote a longish post about the difference between now and when this started decades ago, but it got eaten.
When I went to grad school in 88 like rywun, my grad program was mostly women and high quality of Asian foreign students. Still, there was a ton of talk about discrimination against women in science.
Over the last 20 years, this has ramped up. Prioritizing minority candidates has given way to deprioritizing top male candidates.
Being really wealthy or really connected is still an advantage, but being upper middle class or “working rich” is now a disadvantage if you are white. So the very best student in the state (by grades and test scores) can’t get in because white privilege. But a kid with good grades from a lesser public school gets in because he has a story (and in the case of UNC there are quotas per individual school).
This is where there is a real building anger. Out west it is Asian families who work hard to be the best and cannot get in to even average state schools. In NY it is Jewish filies that drive their kids to eschew everything except academic achivement. And all over the country it is two income families where both parents have college degrees and maybe professional degrees that want more for their kids. These are the kids who rose to the top academically, and are getting passed over in the name of “diversity”.
The stories of creating a new definition of “social intelligence” to allow for subjective downgrading of Asian applicants is not going to play well once it is fully exposed. And scraping off the top performing kids is not going to play well for our country in the long run.
These kids will still be the elite performers…. studies consistently show that IQ is the best indicator of future income. But this will definitely skew many aspects of society.
Austrian train plays Hitler speech over loudspeaker
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65599302
lol
At least it was on time.
Uh-oh.
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1657860974152503298
OH SHIT…….
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So he is saying everything is about to crash.
‘Why are any of these people living long term in hotels on the public’s dime?’
My reading was that a charity was passing for the veterans’ stays. Why we would pay to house immigrants, I couldn’t begin to explain. Used to be you needed to demonstrate a place and a job before they’d even let you in, which seemed to have worked well in the past.
The fiction is that these millions are “asylum seekers”, who apparently get a pass – and a free ride.
Everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows most these people aren’t real refugees. Even then, I don’t see why we ought to be funding them.
“Ex-CIA chief admitted that the ‘Dirty 51’ letter ‘WAS political’ as agency conspired with Biden campaign to produce it and falsely claim emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian disinformation”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12085077/Ex-CIA-chief-admitted-Dirty-51-letter-political.html
Politics in the CIA?
Surely, you can name one recent example. I can’t think of any.
“White supremacy … is the single most dangerous terrorist threat in our homeland,” Biden said. “And I’m not just saying this because I’m at a Black HBCU. I say this wherever I go.” …
Invoking the battle cry he used to galvanize voters in the 2020 election cycle, he called on his audience to “fight for the soul of the nation.”
“Fearless progress toward justice often means ferocious pushback from the oldest and most sinister of forces,” Biden said. “That’s because hate never goes away. … It only hides under the rocks. And when it’s given oxygen it comes out from under that rock. And that’s why we know this truth as well: silence is complicity. We cannot remain silent.”
Interestingly, leftists/proggies are the most hateful people on the planet.
Biden received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the HBCU.
White privilege?
Did they mention which letters?
“F, Y, and the number 0.”
/Big Bird
So now both idiots have degrees from Howard.
It’s the narrative of the hour. White supremacists are super evil. And anyone who doesn’t agree with them is a white supremacist. Because more people are disagreeing with them, that means there are more white supremacists, and we need to crack down and weaponize the government against this threat.
I hate how they twist words, even more when it actually works.
Well, at least now they are including blacks and hispanics.
I got sucked into the vortex of derp which is SQUEE-melia Hartford youtube car videos. That permagrin is addictive, but the “projects” are bleh. I’d take a video of her “welding” a little more seriously if her “welding gloves” hadn’t obviously just come out of the package (and next time, tell the prop guy to get you a pair that fit).
Anyway, one of her latest escapades involves buying a Factory Five Daytona Coupe. It’s a nice car, and they will undoubtedly throw a ton of money at it and turn it into just another 1,000 horsepower youtube top-fuel-wannabe jerkoff. If somebody wanted to do something cool and different with one of those cars, he’d put a 9,000rpm flat-crank 289 in it, with four side draft Webers on a crossover intake manifold. And then ruthlessly lighten it and tune the suspension and take it to Elkhart Lake.
Why am I telling you this?
*shrugs*
Nice t0ts.
Im late to the party.
whaddup doh’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/radioactive-panic-russians-missiles-hit-ukrainian-ammunition-depot-in-khmelnytsky-causing-massive-explosion-cache-of-british-depleted-uranium-tank-shells-destroyed-gamma-radiation-spikes-in-the-r/
Who could have foreseen this? In reality, the chemical toxins being released are far more dangerous than the radioactivity.
U is a heavy metal with a toxicity profile resembling Pb and Hg. The rads aren’t good but the other should be the larger consideration.
Reminds me of this story – heard about it from an NCO wjo was there at my first unit when I was at Drum in 04.
https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/the-doha-disaster-aka-the-doha-dash/
Yikes.
I was home by the time that happened, but my health was never the same after that war. Between the vaccines, walking through battlefields where DU ammo had been liberally used by tanks and aircraft, and living next t burning oil fields for weeks…
I carried a Gerber micro or ultralight LST for years until I went back to a larger pocket folder.
I have had a Gerber ultralight in my pocket for decades.
I switched over to Leatherman from a pocket knife with the Skeletool. Later I got the Signal which is basically a customizable Skeletool with bigger pliers.
Nice t0ts.
Ja wohl.
Is there a way to fix these 1nternAl Server Err0rs?
Check the thermostat.
Have you tried turning off the internet and turning it back on again? I usually wait 30 seconds before rebooting.
It seems to trigger on some words.
Hate words, the words of hate.
I don’t think any of us knows WTF that is except … keywords? I think? I run a s00per sekrit message board that doesn’t like pharmaceutical names, and I’ve never been able to fix it, but it’s PHP, so I’m sure it doesn’t apply here.
That is very oddly specific.
It is and let me tell you how inconvenient it is for a bunch of medical transcriptionists!
But make sure you sufficiently support Ukrainian “democracy.”
Late last year, my name was added to a blacklist published online by the Ukraine Center for Countering Disinformation. I joined over ninety others deemed to be “speakers who promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda.“
These included Manuel Pineda and Clare Daly, both leftist Members of the European Parliament (MEP); Also counted are people on the right, such as Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, neocon and former IDF officer Edward Luttwak, a slew of rightist MEPs; Ex CIA officer, Ray McGovern; former military and intelligence figures such as Scott Ritter and Douglas McGregor, as well as academics such as John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs. Journalists on the list included Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson and Eva Bartlett, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd, and even actor Steven Seagal.
What was my crime? It said my “pro-Russian narrative” was claiming that “NATO’s proxy war with Russia is taking place in Ukraine”. Of course, a NATO proxy war is exactly what is happening there, as this article will only further confirm.
The fact that Washington has not shut that “kill list” down really pisses me off. DC is at war with domestic dissidents and running it through third parties. It’s traitorous.
Kiev doesn’t do anything without American permission.
They can outsource kill lists, that girl and that journalist they blew up were on it too so it does mean something, just like they outsource domestic surveillance. As long as it’s the enemies of the establishment they don’t care if they’re intimidated and ultimately murdered.
Zelensky regime spokespersons are openly saying they will become international terrorists now.
https://twitter.com/rst_like/status/1657000579481174020
It’s okay when the “good guys” do it.
If you get out of line, this happens.
https://t.me/Cultures_of_Resistance/14744
Daily Quordle 476
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5️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, May 15
Letters: A E I O L S T
My score: 227 points
My longest word: 8 letters
🌸 🌹 🏵 🌼 🌺 💮 🌻 🌷
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 476
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bleh
Daily Quordle 476
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Daily Quordle 476
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m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, May 15
Letters: A E I O L S T
My score: 333 points
My longest word: 12 letters
🌺 🌷 🌸 💐 🏵 🌼 🌻 🌹 💮 🌺 🌷 🌸
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Spoken as someone who played soccer growing up, soccer was gay enough already.
Five Toulouse players have reportedly refused to play against Nantes on Sunday in protest at Ligue 1’s campaign to combat homophobia.
All fixtures in the French top flight this weekend have been dedicated to the league’s initiative against homophobia, with the numbers on the back of players’ shirts in rainbow colours.
However, according to La Depeche du Midi, many members of Toulouse’s squad expressed their disapproval of the campaign to manager Philippe Montanier and revealed they didn’t want to play as a result.
You must support homosexuality and the trans cult, or else.
The Seinfeld put on the ribbon or get your head kicked in has been the status quo for a while now.
Read same story on BBC yesterday. If you far enough in they give you the names of the players and at least one country of origin. Based on that, for 4 of the 5, I’ve got a pretty good idea why they refused, but neither account is willing to touch that aspect.
Ha I didn’t even think of that aspect.
Well, at least the one wrongthinker will get some sort of punishment.
Hell, go into any black or Latin community here in the states and you will find, at best, grudging quiet about LGB issues. Had they just taken the win things would have gotten much better in the long run (basically once this generation or two dies out) and it would be no big deal. But, they had to push, and push, and push, so now these groups are doing their own pushing.
Y’all talking “backlash” for this egregious behavior or that egregious behavior are standing at the wishing well. The WuFlu taught us there will be no backlashes, and that if there were, they’d be put down instantly.
Indeed. That goes for a number of supposed redline issues.
So in sports, the 76ers chocked like they always do, and Embiid blamed his teammates, much leadership.
On to the conference finals. I would say lakers in 6, celtics in 6.
I think lakers match up well vs the nuggets, and unless another one except Jokic goes wild, I see the lakers moving on.
Miami has the tougher player and better coach, but imo does not have the ammo to take out the celtics.
So she is working at a rural Healthcare clinic for nothing. The word from the med school faculty she knows is that a year of that will guarantee acceptance. They have plenty of white female specialists and OBGYN docs, they need rural family doctors. So she does a year of clerical work in the boonies and she is clean for the gatekeepers. Meanwhile, lesser classmates who are friends that tic the appropriate boxes got accepted without any hoop jumping.
Just another example of the extremely thinly veiled religious aspect of all this. Spend a year among the lepers as penitence for your sins. Only then will you be admitted to the Holy Church.
Did they mention which letters?
No, but they come in threes.
Ability to keep the home adequately warm seems to be inversely correlated with temperature in Europe.
Finland and Sweden are coldest in the EU, yet almost everyone has an adequately warm home.
The other way around in much of southern Europe.
https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1658091167148326915
looks like spurious correlation to me. I assume people in colder climates better prepare their house for heating, but it seems more prosperity related
Certainly spurious, if I lived in lower altitude Italy or in Greece I wouldn’t have any insulation at all but during the mild winters it’d get a bit chilly.
Why Are We Stricter With Tattoos Than Transgender Treatment
Many red states, blue states and the District of Columbia have absolute bans on permanent tattoos for children. Some blue states’ laws are among the most stringent. In California and Washington, it’s a crime to tattoo any minor under 18. Likewise in Oregon, and a Portland municipal ordinance sets the limit at 21. It’s 16 in Florida and Kentucky and 14 in Idaho. In Illinois, not only are children under 18 prohibited from getting a tattoo, it’s illegal for tattoo parlors to allow them onto the premises unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-are-we-stricter-with-tattoos-than-transgender-treatment-gender-affirming-ban-d5fbf8e5?st=28wx6v0znrk91aa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yet that hasn’t stopped anyone under 21 from gettting ink or body mutilation in that town. The proof is in any public space. 🤮
Because tattoos don’t have the magical suicide-prevention properties of hormones or body-mods.
Hmmmm. I wonder if getting anti-suicide glyphs tattooed on oneself would be covered under medical insurance.
I have “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me” tattooed on my forearm.
“14 in Idaho”
That seems a bit young.
Well they neglected to also state that between 14-18 one must have parental consent…
In re: pocketknives, I’m a big fan of cheap kits, because they’re fun to make and if I lose/damage one, I can just make another one, hopefully better than the last:
https://texasknife.com/store/blades-blanks-blade-kits/folder-kits
Thanks! Those will ve perfect for my next project
The WuFlu taught us there will be no backlashes, and that if there were, they’d be put down instantly.
Ask that guy on the subway what happens.
TOW. THAT. LION.
Seems legit.
A group called the Patriot Front are currently marching towards U.S. Capitol
Currently approximately 150-200 individuals, identified as the “Patriot Front” and recognized as a right-wing organization, is advancing towards the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., via the National Mall. Numerous Metro DC police officers escorting them as they are working to maintain a separation between this group and any counter-protesters. …
Around 150-200 individuals affiliated with the Patriot Front group are now putting their shields and flags into white U-Haul vans after they Marched around Washington DC for about an hour. they are now making their way back into the metro
Best part is when the cops shielded them as they went into the metro.
Why are the only org like this that isn’t infiltrated with their info splashed all over the interweb? The question answers the question.
Not suspicious at all.
Patriot Front. It’s a put on. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rx6Zgz0TZuA
The Front for Patriotism is where the real action is.
I went to a Full Patriot Frontal meeting and realized it wasn’t for me.
Splitter!
𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯, by Il Sodoma, c. 1525. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Notable for its remarkable pathos and realism, it was allegedly Michelangelo’s favorite piece by a rival artist.
Image
https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1657913092515287041
Does “Il Sodoma” mean what I think it means?
lol
In California news, I have a nephew who lives near LA, and he was recently stabbed in the arm by a homeless woman. The incident took place in the lobby of his work. No security was around. They did call an ambulance for him, and arrested the homeless woman. He’s ok, no major damage. But what a shithole.
“The incident took place in the lobby of his work.”
Sigh…
Glad he’s OK.
Today’s homeless just aren’t the loveable goofs that they used to be.
In the ’90s, my boss was taking me out to lunch for my annual review. He was wearing The Onion’s old t-shirt that said “You’re stupid”. As we walked by a bus stop a homeless lady ran up to us and started screaming “NO YOU ARE STUPID!” over and over again. After a block she gave up and went back to the bus stop.
My boss turned to me and said, “Well we can still get lunch, but that was your review”
Glad your nephew is OK.
Bad kitty knows he bugs the autists:
https://twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1658102564166983684
As usual, great stuff.
Well that was a fun read.
This goes nicely with Cat’s piece
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/top-us-non-profit-hospitals-and-ceos
I thought “post your prices” was cancelled as part of a legal challenge early on.
As always, the place doing it right: https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/
Can’t recall the details, but I seem to recall an article that their model is basically non-replicable on any scale.
And the guy running it is a massive asshole that a lot of people quit and refuse to have anything to do with.
The whole post your prices thing is useless as long as we have third party payers negotiating (or dictating, in the government’s case) the prices they will pay across the board with massive discounts and cost shifts. Plus nobody, but nobody, pays the full cash price anyway.
Around the web, the story is that none of those bank accounts or money transfers means anything, there is no proof Biden himself did anything wrong. Here’s an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv8WOIfym44
My father tried to have me framed for graft once.
Once…
And until Comer et al produce evidence, you’ll keep getting this kind of pushback from columnists like Eugene Robinson: “no evidence to suggest Biden did anything at all to help his son’s overseas business partners…And there is no evidence that one penny of any funds Hunter Biden might have been paid by foreign companies ever reached his father.” He then goes on to whatabout Trump and the Khashoggi murder and Jared Kushner’s investment of $2 billion from the Saudis for his start-up fund.
And our countrymen cannot see the blatant political bias of columnists like Eugene Robinson when he runs opinion pieces with headlines like “Welcome to The Trump Family Swamp”
Of course, out in the real world, there is no difference in the conflict of interests created by payments directly to somebody, and payments made to their family members.
“Well unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” Comer told Bartiromo. “We’re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant, the whistleblower is very credible.”
“Hold on a second, Congressman,” Bartiromo responded. “Did you just say that the informant is now missing?”
“Well we’re hopeful that we can find the informant,” said Comer. “Now remember, these informants are kind of in the spy business, so they don’t make a habit of being seen a lot or being high-profile or anything like that. We have basic information with respect to what the informant has alleged, and it’s very serious.”
Sounding like another ‘we got them this time!”
In California news, I have a nephew who lives near LA, and he was recently stabbed in the arm by a homeless woman. The incident took place in the lobby of his work. No security was around. They did call an ambulance for him, and arrested the homeless woman. He’s ok, no major damage. But what a shithole.
And if he had punched her lights out, he’d be sitting in jail.
Speaking of The Subway Vigilante- isn’t it about time for GoFundMe to shut down his legal defense fund and turn the money over to the City of New York for safekeeping?
It’s not GoFundMe. It’s GiveSendGo.
Yup. NPR mentioned that they he was using an online fundraiser used by other notorious/controversial defendants.
81?
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/martha-stewart-becomes-sports-illustrated-142449590.html
I always admired her after her Federal “camp” stint to become even more wealthy.
He then goes on to whatabout Trump and the Khashoggi murder and Jared Kushner’s investment of $2 billion from the Saudis for his start-up fund.
Don’t forget the hotel. Every penny brought in went straight into Trumpolini’s pocket.
I believe I heard on the news that the extended family of the nutcase who was killed on the NYC subway held a press conference demanding the Marine be found guilty, and working up to filing a civil suit against the Marine and New York City for their failures regarding a guy who just wanted a place to sleep, some food and drink.
And no reporters thought to ask “When did you last talk to your relative? Did you offer him a bedroom in your house? Did you invite him to dinner? What kind of help did you give him?” If so, fuck off leeches. None of this “he was basically a good guy and was turning his life around until he was murdered for riding the subway.”
Why would a reporter do that? These types of things are cash cows for them for the clicks and eyeballs.
They’re just buying some ghetto lottery tickets.
By hook or by crook they will find a way to ruin that guy’s life.
At least sue NYC as well –
https://nypost.com/2023/05/08/jordan-neely-was-on-top-50-list-at-nyc-department-of-homeless-services-because-he-urgently-needed-help/
Since George Floyd was in Minneapolis because his family in Texas would have nothing to do with him and no one ever asked them that question, I’m going to guess that the NY family will not be triggered by such distasteful questions.
At what point do minority families not train one kid to be a violent thug who is lippy to the cops? Tell the other kids to obey the law, get an education, don’t talk back to cops, but Little Bob? Yeah, you train him to have no impulse control and be violent. Then you ship him off to some big Democrat run city and hope for a cop to kill him so you can cash in.
So what we have here is a deranged, woman-hating, Christo-fascist, white-suprema – *looks at picture*
A Texas man who was against his girlfriend having an abortion shot and killed her during an argument in a Dallas parking lot after she returned from receiving the procedure, according to police.
Harold Thompson, 22, is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge without bond.
According to an arrest warrant affidavit, Thompson and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Gabriella Gonzalez, were together on Wednesday when he attempted to put her in a chokehold.
“It is believed that the suspect was the father of the child,” the affidavit said. “The suspect did not want [Gonzalez] to get an abortion.”
This will be swept under the rug.
She killed the baby then he killed her?
Talk about 2 birds, 1 stone.
Hm, I wonder what’s going on in the rest of that pic of the suspect.
The aesthetics of the ’70s were just awful.
https://www.eatliver.com/sweden-in-70s/
Even then, who dressed The Teddy Boys?
Tomas de Torquemada.
My only guess is that they were desperate to remain virgins.
Somebody I knew said that as a kid, he thought the world was an ugly place. But then time passed and he realized, no, it was just the 70’s.
Love the V-shaped crease down the roof of the truck.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/13gwrxo/ouch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
One more that neatly sums Nissan Altima demographics.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/13gwrxo/ouch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Old and busted: Disinformation Governance Board
New hotness: Foreign Malign Influence Center
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board met an ignoble demise last year, when it was disbanded within months, amid public criticism and staff-related scandal.
Despite being derisively referred to as “the Ministry of Truth” – i.e., a US government’s alleged attempt to create an Orwellian-like institution – it was a fairly safe bet that the strong backlash notwithstanding, the initiative would rear its head again at some point. Soon.
Meet the Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC), located at the Office of the Director of US National Intelligence (ODNI). Some sentiment suggest that this might be a Disinformation Governance Board 2 – what with a similar declarative focus on foreign threat, which is then easy to transition, as a smokescreen, to turning the authorities’ sights onto “domestic dissenters.”
The decision in Sackett could roll back the extent of the EPA’s authority to regulate under the Clean Water Act and force the Biden administration to reconsider its expansive new WOTUS definition. The administration’s rule has already been blocked in some states by a federal court pending the Supreme Court’s decision.
I should not get my hopes up.
Supporters of the theory contend that it’s based on a strict interpretation of the Constitution’s elections clause, which says, “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.”
I like how they don’t quote the rest of that clause:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Emphasis mine. In theory, this means Congress could allow for judicial review of redistricting.
Oh, right. Good point.
Speaking truth to power doesn’t pay as well as you might think
Once a digital media darling, Vice Media Group on Monday filed for bankruptcy protection after years of financial troubles.
A consortium of Vice’s lenders which includes Fortress Investment, Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital is looking to acquire the company following the filing.
The digital media trailblazer, once valued at $5.7 billion and known for sites including Vice and Motherboard, had been restructuring and cutting jobs across its global news business over recent months.
The group set to buy the company will provide $225 million in the form of a credit bid for most of Vice Media’s assets, the company announced on Monday, along with significant liabilities.
Vice is one of several digital media and technology firms forced to restructure this year amid a sluggish economy and weak advertising market. Buzzfeed last month shuttered its news division and announced substantial layoffs.
How will the nation carry on?
Wasn’t it Vice that made that documentary (complete with videos) about donkey-fucking in Mexico?
LOL
We’ve been in a recession for the better part of a year.
From https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/are-we-in-a-recession/
How is it we went from a quantifiable method of determining a recession to some mealy mouthed bullshit that means whatever some bureaucrat says it means?
Oh, wait. I know how.
Saw something yesterday that rings pretty true to me (paraphrased): “Any criminal law whose punishment is a fine is directed solely at poor people.”
Working on it.
I’m at once horrified/terrified and unsurprised.
Just like Europe.
According to the NBER’s definition of recession—a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months—we were not in a recession in 2022 and we still aren’t now.
It’s not a recession until we say it is. Currently, it is not politically expedient to say so.
I could easily imagine: “Upon further review, Biden inherited a deep recession from Trump.”
Pretty sure I already saw that somewhere.
I’ve got proggie friends who are saluting Biden because he (i) brought inflation* under control and (ii) is getting unemployment down. Of course, neither of those things were, in any way, attributable to his policies.
*: I fully accept that inflation is much more due to Fed policy and the ridiculous spending of the last 20 years or so. But Biden’s approach to natural gas & fracking haven’t helped. And, to paint him as having nothing to do with inflation is to ignore his entire career.
Some people need to learn the difference between art and craft.
If I can do it, it’s not art.
If only I’d save those “spin art” masterpieces from the county fairs of my childhood, I could have them auctioned at Sotheby’s and retire with a fortune.
Srsly.
You and Jackson Pollock.
I’m now convinced that Jack Teixeira was given a honey pot.
In an apparent escalation of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s public feud with Vladimir Putin over his for-hire army, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group offered to sell out the locations of Russian troops to Ukrainian officials in exchange for their mercy on the battlefield, according to leaked intelligence documents.
The Washington Post reported that US military intelligence documents allegedly shared on a Discord server by Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old airman at a National Guard unit in Massachusetts, included a briefing on a January meeting between Prigozhin and unnamed Ukrainian officials where the Wagner leader made his desperate offer.
https://news.yahoo.com/amid-feud-putin-wagner-mercenary-005855176.html
Yeah.
I’m sure that as a matter of routine, 21 year old guardsmen have ready access to intelligence involving high level foreign officials.
Definitely not all 21 year olds, but he was in an intelligence section where he was involved with preparing briefings. It doesn’t rule out the honeypot theory, in fact it kind of bolsters it, but it wasn’t like he was a meathead trigger puller on the back of a Humvee seeing this stuff.
Unnamed. Yeah right.
“Upon further review, Biden inherited a deep recession from Trump.”
However, Biden and his crack team of economic wizards rescued the economy and orchestrated the biggest and fastest recovery ever, saving the country from economic collapse.
*This is what they actually say.
I guess Miller Lite wants in on the Bud Light action.
I’m tired of this garbage.
How does that sell more beer?
Miller Lite, the beer of choice for average chicks with a chip on their shoulder.
Miller- making your beer paraphernalia more valuable.