Cry!
This is pretty retarded. And this is even more retarded. The Panthers are a win away from sweeping their way to a Stanley Cup finals berth. We’ll see tonight if Vegas can follow suit. Newcastle have clinched a UCL berth. I wish they’d have done so this weekend instead of yesterday, as I really want to see Everton go down. And since there’s at least one person constantly bitching about the lack of NBA talk on here (and he ain’t even American!), I’ll note that LeBrick got swept out of the WCFs. And that’s it for sports.
I hope they win. Sure the app is retarded, but a state should not be able to legislate what people use in this manner.
People have a right to be stupid.
Except…they don’t. They’re not banned. They’re just being kept from school libraries because they’re not age-appropriate. People are still free to buy them or visit a public library and check them out.
Well it’s about fucking time. They also need to haul every high-ranking official from the DOJ, FBI, and DC Police in front of the committee and ask them point-blank how many people were there undercover and what their job was that day.
We need more of this. Every sanctuary city and state in America should look like this so El Paso, San Antonio, Laredo, and every other Texas city or town can get back to normal.
Everything is bad according to CA.
Holy shit, we’re back to this insanity? I guess the 70s are back with their retarded ass shit.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Enjoy it, lady. You fucking earned it.
This is the kind of compromise I can support. Now if we can just get rid of the first part of the bill and keep the amendment, I’d be really happy.
Here’s a lovely little tune. They were just fantastic. And here’s (in my opinion) their best track. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Dolphins with lasers!
“Well it’s about fucking time. They also need to haul every high-ranking official from the DOJ, FBI, and DC Police in front of the committee and ask them point-blank how many people were there undercover and what their job was that day.”
The reason that these corruptocracy’s weaponized agencies do these evil and criminal things is because they know that the people in power will turn a blind eye to them lying to lawmakers, repeatedly and brutally about their abuses of power and downright criminal behavior, while the media gives them cover. In short, they will get away with it, so that’s why they do it.
The only thing that could stop them is if the serfs voted in a bunch of people that would hold them accountable. And they’ve got that taken care of too.
The weaponized agencies ARE the people in power. Congress and Executive exist only to fund and “order” the agencies to do what the agencies want to do.
It’s amazing what happens when accountability is removed as a control on human behavior, almost like an iron law or something.
I think it was Tucker who said he’s talked to multiple congress people and they are all aware they are being spied on, and they are all afraid of the FBI, CIA, and Homeland Security. These are people who are supposedly in charge of oversight.
“Holy shit, we’re back to this insanity? I guess the 70s are back with their retarded ass shit.”
You mean the state that dumps close to half of its toxic shit on its neighbors cause it is cheaper, wants to ban bullshit?
Only fascists would ban Mein Kampf from school libraries.
I’m actually a little torn on this in that I actually read the first Covenant trilogy by checking it out of my 7th grade library. In hindsight (and certainly by these standards), it probably shouldn’t have been there.
But some kids read at higher levels and need more challenging works and can handle things — curated by the staff would come to mind if so many weren’t caught on TikTok loudly proclaiming that they love converting “their” children away from their parents and cishet norms and all. I suppose we come back to “their parents can get it for them from the main library / Amazon if they want it”… but I doubt they’d find it. A kid who really loves to read set loose to peruse the shelves is very different from trying to navigate an ecommerce giant’s crappy search engine.
I walked (or rode my bike) to the local library, where they knew my reading level and let me take out books from the adult section as a pre-teen. I wouldn’t expect the grade school library (which was basically items left over from the Scholastic book sales) to have books for adults.
With eBooks and the like, there’s even less of a reason.
Yeah I stopped using the school library around 7th grade.
It’s harder to get more peak stoopid than this “controversy”. The message they’re sending is that anything that touches on a “protected class” must be approved no matter how obviously inappropriate it is for children. Otherwise you are a hater.
I also used the regular library, checking out mostly adult* books. It was easier on both the school librarian, who was a dedicated kids book fan and did have a real grasp on stuff for older kids, and on me as the set of books I could get my hands on was much, much greater.
*no, not those kinds of books, you pervs.
I read practically nothing from school libraries, ever. It was mostly the public library, plus whatever my mother (mainly) was reading. She is an avid reader, mostly of mysteries and the like. As soon as I had a car and a little spending money, it was off to the bookstore.
So, I’m not the least bit torn on keeping pornography and the like out of government school libraries. If you want to read, get your ass in gear and go find it. If the local government school won’t spoon-feed it to you, you’re probably better off.
LOL yeah my mom wouldn’t let me see R rated movies but apparently had no problem with me reading her hand-me-down horror novels.
Same here. A story my mom told me as I got older was that my dad was concerned about what I was reading, and my mom’s reaction was to ask, “So do you want to read everything before him to check it out?” He did not, so I had free reign on what I was reading.
On the other hand, maybe pre-teen me shouldn’t have been reading all of the Stephen King books that were out.
And now Neph refuses to stay in Room 237 of any hotel. 😉
There is a waiting list, but they don’t charge extra for it in Estes Park.
Wife and I were married at the Stanley. Great time. And the best part was that they had the Shining and Dumb and Dumber (some scenes were shot there) playing on closed circuit cable 24×7. Very spooky vibe, but also beautiful
Judy Blooms Wifey. Which was her “not for kids” book, including the masturbating’s motorcyclist.
I have distinct memories of some books from the school library, including Lord Of The Rings and Deathwatch, but even more memories of books from the public library and, later on, bookstores.
The school libraries needn’t cover every possible subject.
I’d wager Deathwatch would be binned by current school librarians.
The raciest thing I recall reading from my middle school library was “The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler”
I read all sorts of stuff from my school library. Classic kiddie lit from Lewis, Alexander and Christopher, as well as the pop sci and pop pseudoscience of the day (‘member when ESP and the Bermuda Triangle were things that respectable people could believe in?)
The sad part is that nobody does this anymore. At the schools in our district, the libraries are called “media centers” and feature a much smaller book collection than we had as kids, and more computers, tablets. And audio devices.
I was a media center aide in junior high, and I have fond memories of eating lunch in the media center while listening to a friend’s (NOT the media center’s) copy of George Carlin’s Toledo Window Box. Good times.
I read Covenant about the same time. Maybe 8th grade, but, yeah, I get your point.
The weaponized agencies ARE the people in power. Congress and Executive exist only to fund and “order” the agencies to do what the agencies want to do.
How this appeared twice, once in entirely the wrong place; I will never know.
See the Bette Davis movie Storm Center, in which she plays a spinster librarian whose book choices cause controversy. The movie takes a hilarious twist and goes off the rails near the end, which makes it worth the watch.
Mornin’, Sloopy… racing ahead of schedule on the links, I see.
Re: TikTok… reasonable enough. Documenting and advertising the psychology, privacy and other issues should be about the only thing. And I don’t have a problem with keeping it off of any government held devices, obviously. (That’s the owner dictating usage of the equipment and all)
No, I think it is about time to shut down the IC entirely and escort them all out the doors as quickly as possible with no chance to destroy evidence. Then find the records with new people brought in and vetted so you can get some actual answers (and then use said evidence to prosecute the weasels). Pigs will be flying when this happens, of course (and not on Lufthansa).
Sanctuary cities, sure… and every gated wine drinking community that “stands with immigrants and believes in no borders”. Make more folks live with the consequences of their decisions more than “I can get a cheap gardener” like that moron in Florida.
It is California after all. If they don’t tax it to death, they just ban it. I’m expecting CARB to trot out personal CO2 breath meters one of these days.
OMD! Nice… though honestly Enola Gay just doesn’t do much for me. I lean towards this or this one assuming we exclude If You Leave for being too obvious.
I like the upbeat stuff, so I’m a bit biased.
“This is the kind of compromise I can support. Now if we can just get rid of the first part of the bill and keep the amendment, I’d be really happy.”
Ain’t it curious that we have an education system where the people running that enterprise and the leadership of our national corruptocracy tells us parents should have no rights or input in what that system is doing to their kids, and the existing system literally makes it nearly impossible for parents to actually have rights? And as soon as people decide they want to stop the abuse, the parents become domestic terrorists for not wanting their kids to be turned into losers and idiots?
LeBrick got swept out of the WCFs – by a fat European guy
Fat? We aren’t talking John “Hot Plate” Williams or Oliver Miller here.
Jokic has fat soul. He was a fat kid and a chubby at time athlete. He might get fat again, unless he cares to much about his horses
If you lined up the rosters of the Nuggets and the Lakers and asked a random person off the street, “which of these guys is currently one of the 2 best players in the NBA?”. How many random persons would pick Jokic?
all those who know ball would.
So 1 out of 1,000 or so.
Pie is just like Tyrone Shoelaces
Shows the power of star-fucking in action.
OMD
Huh… the (opening? thumbnail?) graphic derailed my mental train from OMD over to Cause & Effect.
Having watched it… not bad, a little repetitive on the beat — and if I want videos about greed, lust and other deadly sins… well — there’s this one classic out there… But thanks, ROAT — I should really dig up some later OMD and try it.
I’ll just repost what I said about the Uber diversity firing yesterday:
Reading that Uber article, it’s just painful. No one asks what the fuck any of that crap has to do with producing a ride share and food delivery app. All the people mentioned are females with bullshit job titles. Odds are not one of them or the complainer has ever produced anything of actual value for the company.
God knows how much dead weight still exists in the tech companies even after the layoffs that hit recently.
My guess is 60%. Possibly higher. Every tech company is management heavy and developer-light. Time for all those wastrels to go.
It’s really like silicon valley has turned into a make-work program for the children of the elite.
The fruits of an easy money policy, which is now over.
It will take years for the dust to settle, but there’s going to be much wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth as people have to find more productive endeavors.
Flush with cash a lot of these companies basically stood up massive bureaucracies that did nothing but eat up money and produce shit. This is a serious problem for most of corporate America these days and doubly so in the various government bureaucracies. We live in the age where people that add no value form a laptop class and get paid more that the people that actually do work of value (like the people in the trades).
More than an easy money policy — look at Twitter… lots of federal cash flowing their way when they were partners with the IC. I fully expect similar setups for all the NSA server farms (colocation isn’t just for private data, after all). Lots and lots of low key slush funding there washing through the tech sector since 9/11. Funny how it became so much more government friendly over that period… so funny, that….
It is everywhere. Not just Silicon Valley. The laptop class is a reality in every state.
Some of us do real work. Well, productive work.
As a technical and development guy, I am always baffled by the fact that there looks like/feels is one managerial type for each person doing work at my employer. So much dead weight.
My company does an excellent job at pruning out managers during layoff times.
My experience with government IT is there are at least 7 people responsible for managing and setting priorities for the one coder/DBA who does all the actual work on a system change.
4 out of 5 times, they guy who actually does the work, ends up being a contractor.
I didn’t realize laptop class was a pejorative.
I have a laptop and I do work from home as a software developer.
I thought people were just angry that this class was pushing for lockdowns and bullshit that didn’t harm during covid .
did harm
As a developer, you’re actually producing something.
True, although I currently develop casino gambling games.
I do produce things but some would argue they are of negative value.
Yes – it is make work just to keep the woke mob at bay. Also a big virtue signal to woke investors.
‘Hey, look at us. We pay a VP $200k for this bullshit.”
See, I see it as more than just about the wokeness. That is definitely the culture, but that is true of all elite institutions.
What I see here is something more…ridiculous. It’s probably always existed. These connected kids of privilege who all attend the same ivy league schools hire and set up bureaucracies in these new industries and hire from those same institutions. They talk about diversity, but if we were to look at their socioeconomic backgrounds and the schools they went to along with what they believe (the wokeness), they’d be just about identical.
It’s a club, and you and me aint invited.
There’s a real cool club on the other side of town
Where the real cool kids go to sit around
And talk bad about the other kids
Yeah, it’s a real cool club, and you’re not part of it
Great, now you got me on a screeching weasel kick. Gonna have My Right on loop….maybe Nicaragua too.
Back when punk was actually anti-authority.
Also an excuse to get a minority hire at a high level without giving her (usually) responsibility for anything important to the business.
See Anheuser-Busch for a recent exception to your “(usually)”. Oops.
Yeah, somebody slipped her reins.
Woke investors = public employee pension funds. Basically the very definition of fascism.
Pension managers that know what they are doing should be selling/taking profits on these companies and buying bonds like they were supposed to do before Greenspan/Bernanke/Yellen went full commie.
Based on my experience working for the subsidiary of a fortune 5 company, I would ay about 30% of staff, but representing 60% of salary.
I think it is too late to get rid of the useless baggage. Too many were created by useless universities
So what you’re saying is, we’re gonna need a bigger helicopter?
This is the tech industry in a nutshell, and the laptop class in general. A good 50% of what anyone who isn’t directly involved in the core business of the company does is bullshit. Either it’s compliance with gov’t “mandates” or compliance with whatever is fashionable with the laptop class and its shibboleths. It is bullshit all the way down, and, weirdly, our economy is based on this. That is how much money is sloshing around from the remains of capitalism, enough to welfare half the country at 75K/year.
They’ve been trotting out how “diversity is our strength / how we’ll compete” (even though the entire industry is doing the same thing… so how exactly is that going to give an edge?) for well over a decade now and never actually defended any of it. I don’t believe that competent people won’t have ideas regardless of their melanin content or bedroom shenanigans. Maybe I’d grant physical disabilities giving different priorities — but then you’ve got to look at the percentages and return on investment if you pursue a tiny piece of the market and all.
But actually defending their position with arguments isn’t needed, isn’t allowed and is the surest way to get on the next “workforce reduction” list if you ask them to (since they are HR and all), so they get to keep trotting it out.
Manhattan Contrarian had a couple articles a while back shedding some light on big law’s “diverse” hiring practices from the inside. It’s every bit as ridiculous as you could imagine.
We just had a small, 3% RIF. It was heavy on Directors, Senior Directors and a couple VPs.
They previously announced that we are going to be tightening up the management levels – apparently they weren’t kidding.
We just had a 15% RIF
squirrels!
In that RIF, total management reduced by ZERO.
And they wonder why their stock is lower than 5 years ago.
That makes me think about how the Army isn’t meeting recruiting goals; if the actual end-strength of the Army ends up reduced, will they cut some of the excess in the GO ranks?
Bwahahahaha – I crack myself up sometimes.
Well, that would hurt end strength even more. What we need is more flag officer billets so we can continue to retain people.
/sarc
But probably pretty close to the truth.
The Army is a gov’t job. There is no force reduction in that field.
Well, until some other army comes along…
Shit is getting real.
I really do think that the conservative reps who aren’t go-along-to-get-along types i.e. MTG and the other new kids, are starting to scare/redirect a lot of people in charge.
That’s what I was thinking. Everybody who organized that, wanted to participate in it, or complained about how it didn’t match their expectations somehow could be fired today, and the company would only be better for it.
In re TikTok – Maybe a state ban isn’t the best answer, but getting a grassroots compaign of sabotage and assassination to destroy the infrastructure and kill off the foreign agents behind the psychological warfare weapon is a lot of work.
And on the second night, the Nerfherder he did battle with the wily Raccoon, destroyer of birdhouses and birdfeeders. Armed with only a wire cage and a can of sardines, the Nerfherder emerged victorious and the BabyBirdEater, he did die at the end of the Holy Ruger Revolver upon the count of three.
A happy ending?
What will you do with the corpse?
Hat
Codpiece
😂
Ballsy
Davy Cockett.
Pack it in, folks — Toxteth wins the Internets today.
Sporran.
Keeps the kilt from flying up in the breeze and exposing one’s haggis. (Can’t remember who said that but I know it was recent.)
He covered Shoot but already blew Shut Up… so Shovel does look iffy.
Eh, they’re not protected.
California bias — I don’t think I can even shoot pigeons with a pellet gun without getting in trouble around here.
ELIYDGC. Everything’s legal if you don’t get caught.
Virginia has a continuous open trapping season for raccoons in several counties, including mine.
Additionally, you can use almost any caliber you desire to deal with them.
Legally we weren’t allowed to kill the skunks under our shed. The animal control lady did if for us a couple of times when we trapped them, but then she told us she couldn’t do it anymore. She could only take them if they were dead already, and it was illegal to kill them. So we trapped them, drowned them in the cage, and took their bodies to an open field. The next day they were devoured.
Sometimes it’s handy owning a bunch of these.
https://www.takeuchi-us.com/compact-excavators/tb230-compact-excavator/
A woman I dated (OG-2X-OG) worked for a paving company, She was told that a cadaver dog could (allegedly) smell a corpse buried as much as 20′ down. Then commented that their excavators could do 30′.
heh
Jeebus. How big are the raccoons where you live?
It’s more about the speed and efficiency.
Better living through technology, I say.
Prepping for the Raccoon Genocide.
This is a fine thing.
And we shall call him
DragonRacoon Slayer…Coonslayer. First of his name!
Congrats!
Swiss Re joins other major re/insurers in leaving Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
Always fun when Team Blue gets tripped up on anti-trust.
https://www.reinsurancene.ws/swiss-re-joins-other-major-re-insurers-in-leaving-net-zero-insurance-alliance/
Delightful. Just a start, but delightful.
Swissy will be pining for the fjords over the death of this stupid idea.
Kuiper talked about a trip to the museum with colleague Dallas Braden but seemingly mispronounced the word “Negro,” making it sound instead like a slur.
Naggers? But I seriously find this language policing completely stupid and destructive. Everyone is too goddamned sensitive for their own good.
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Monday that an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will again be welcome at the team’s annual Pride Night, nearly a week after the team rescinded its original invitation.
No matter how you pander to the Alphabet/Gender Cult you will never dodge criticism. In fact, you may incur it from your actual fan base that actually cares about the sport.
I had a story hit my news feed over the weekend about this:
The Dodgers booted the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Then came a big-league backlash
From the article:
It’s some bullshit when your entire schtick is mocking Catholics to say that you reject the narrative that it’s offensive to them. And why do I doubt the people complaining about the Sisters being dis-invited ever go to a game, or even watch on television?
How dare Catholics take offense at our performance that mocks them!
Didn’t you hear? The Dodgers backtracked, and the gay strippers (or whatever they are) have been invited again.
I thought the Dodgers had a big Latino following. I can’t imagine have guys dressed as nuns twerking on the pitcher’s mound is going to be popular with that demographic.
Pretty sure they are just tolerated.
One would hope a few players of faith would sue their ownership over a hostile work environment.
Now do “mock Islam” night and see what happens.
They should invite the Orange Order too.
Oh, I would bet a few of them watch and enjoy the game, but they are far, far outnumbered by those who watch, enjoy, and practice Catholicism. I.E. the Latino Dodgers fan base, of which there are both more than a few of, and also more than a few of who are, let us say, recent imports to the area.
Nigra? as LBJ used to say.
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Monday that an LGBTQIA+ group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will again be welcome at the team’s annual Pride Night, nearly a week after the team rescinded its original invitation.
As Mark Hemingway tweets, “You will have your faith profaned and mocked in front of thousands and you’ll be called a bigot if you object.“
Kuiper did say the word that shall not be spoken, but I’m pretty sure it was just a brain fart. I’m guessing that we was worried that he’d get into trouble for calling it the Negro Leagues and then totally flubbed it. He apologized and should have been allowed to return to work. It’s gotta hurt to be fired by the A’s these days.
I know, right, You make it to the pinnacle of the MLB, and then fall for such a facile reason.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are big Dodgers fans apparently.
Good Morning Britain criticised for inviting two cis-gendered people to debate trans jokes
https://metro.co.uk/2023/05/22/good-morning-britain-criticised-over-choice-of-guests-for-trans-debate-18824393/
Monty Python star John Cleese is working on a stage adaptation of the comedy troupe’s 1979 film which parodies Jesus Christ and the New Testament, but he claimed one joke in particular has caused some issues with the cast.
In the movie, a character called Stan says he wants to be a woman named Loretta and ‘have babies’, but Cleese’s character Reg describes it as ‘impossible’.
During a performance of his one-man show, Cleese said some actors at a readthrough raised concerns it could ‘offend people’ if it was left in for the stage show, saying: ‘We love the script, but you can’t do that stuff about Loretta nowadays.’
You can’t joke about mental patients in a world-wide asylum, it seems.
‘impossible’ in scary quotes proves these people are not serious.
Of course they can’t tolerate the joke that most accurately predicted the insane results of a postmodernist society.
That’s the part that has to burn their asses the most – this was predicted and laughed at.
I’m glad he’s still around* but he sounds like a rather difficult person, and one who has been a LibDem for three decades.
*Saw him a dozen years ago on his divorce tour; wish I had bought the T-shirt that read “I saw John Cleese while he was alive”.
Anecdotally, Ive been told that Jeremy Clarkson is a colossal douche, too.
Must be difficult to be a J.C.
“I am not Jesus / Though I have the same initials 🎵” –Jarvis Cocker
Sure the app is retarded, but a state should not be able to legislate what people use in this manner.
Subversive influence from a foreign, moderately hostile government is a problem though.
that would not work if the western culture was not on the downfall part
What is worst about TikTok isn’t the foreign basis, it is that it is a social cancer.
Then publicize what they’re doing and the dangers of the app for individuals. And also ban it from use for any government-owned device. But anything beyond that is a 1A violation.
I have had to think about this one a lot. For work devices, absolutely 100% ban it. For personal devices, why not treat it like cigarettes and start a social campaign against it? I’d like to see something like that, sponsored privately, that goes against all of social media. I’d rather see those commercials all day than medical device commercials.
Why do that and not exercise stupidity to gin up the base?
As I write, an ad appeared to dissuade girls from using social media because it increases bulimia. Creepy
Daily Quordle 484
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Blossom Puzzle, May 23
Letters: E N O R S U V
My score: 383 points
My longest word: 13 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Oh right… ‘orning ‘ordles… fetching them to paste in the scores — well, that may well be why I was trying to forget them today.
Daily Duotrigordle #447
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:14.01
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Blossom Puzzle, May 23
Letters: E N O R S U V
My score: 366 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Interesting that NBC has downgraded the “Deadly Insurrection!!” to the January 6 Riot in their description.
most women are unable to accomplish appearing on the cover of fashion magazines because they are racist, fatphobic, misogynistic institutions that exist to promote a homogenised patriarchal femininity so why the fuck do GC feminists ca-oh wait it’s because they aren’t feminists
https://twitter.com/lacanian_bimbo/status/1660783592480419840
What a peach.
This sort of crap is why even with RTD coming back — I’m sticking with “We lost track of the Doctor after Capaldi” head canon. When it seems like the political message is prioritized way above making an entertaining or interesting show… I’m just going to pass.
Honestly, I can’t tell if that word salad is intended seriously or mockingly.
Your patriarchal privilege wont allow you to translate it.
Parody account? “Pasteurized”??
Homogenized would perhaps be a better choice, but I can see her not wanting to use that.
Yeah — wouldn’t want to be called a homogenizationaphobe.
I like the series of controversies around the various right-podcasters who stole the “when I tell my woke friends they look like Lizzo or Dylan Mulveny…. “.
The left ties themselves into knots three ways from Sunday saying it is misogynistic and that everyone thinks they are beautiful and brave and that only a transpose or a fat phone would say different and it is terribly misogynistic to tell a woman she looks like …. well, you get the idea.
It is like Spock or Kirk overloading the computer by giving it a logical contradiction to mull over.
Yeah, you could never philosophically reform that level of crazy.
Its 2023. Why are they using a grainy, shitty, pic that looks like it was taken with a 1970s instamatic ?
It’s less obvious to everything is grainy and blurry rather than using a skin-smoothing filter on the model. Also, gives a papparazzi look since they often photographed from a distance and use fast (grainy) film.
The U.S. Department of Education has found that a suburban Atlanta school district’s decision to remove some books from its libraries may have created a hostile environment that violated federal laws against race and sex discrimination.
That is one hell of a position to take regarding removing pornographic materials from grade schools.
So, if I’m following:
Having pornography in an adults-only work environment is sexual harassment and discrimination.
Not having pornography in schools is sexual harassment and discrimination.
Now you’re getting it!
It isn’t PORNO, it is a life affirming celebration of the change that is in all of us!
Are they also arguing that internet access in schools should be unrestricted?
I think one thing is being overlooked here.
Yes they are pornographic materials. And the Democrat party doesn’t mind Republicans calling them that because it reinforces the idea that Republicans are prudes.
…
Another important factor is these books are deeply anti-intellectual gibberish with no value whatsoever.
Each school has to set a curriculum and has space for about 10,000 to 12,000 books in its school library. At some level, what books schools have for kids always has to be decided .
If you were to pop open — say — “Gender Queer Theory” you’d see that it’s nonsense written by someone with about a 65 iq. Every thing in it is obviously wrong and it has no value at all besides brainwashing idiots.
Why not also point that school has a job not to put things in its libraries that are not i idiotic drivel?
Look at the pickle here – flaunting his intellectual privilege!
The only way Newcastle would have qualified over the weekend was for Liverpool to lose. sloopy proves my point that Liverpool has been more interested in Everton getting relegated than making the Champions League.
How do you figure? They only needed one point from their two remaining matches to lock it down and have a goal difference that’s 7 better than Liverpool. There was only a slim mathematical possibility they’d have not qualified even if they lost yesterday and this coming Sunday.
I misread “this weekend” as the one that just ended, instead of on Monday. As in, “I wish they had clinched over the weekend instead of on Monday, so they would have had nothing to play for vs Leicester”.
Based on the way Liverpool has played vs bottom teams, I stand behind the rest of my statement.
Liverpool fans only had a glimmer of hope with how poorly they played against the bottom of the table. Of course they’re more focused on Everton maybe going down. It’s the nature of a heated rivalry.
It’s the same reason App State beating TTUN gave me so much joy.
Nah, that gave everyone joy (except Michigan fans). You don’t get to claim anything special for that one.
And I interpret it differently:
They qualify for Champions League easily if they play well against bottom of the table. Therefore, the only rationale is that they were intentional throwing games in an attempt to get Everton relegated, because they care more about that than playing in the Champions League.
QED
…why did Liverpool beat Leeds 6-1 a month ago?
Leeds is really that bad.
If your theories are true, Liverpool would have just played for a 2-1 win so Leeds doesn’t end up with a worse goal differential than Everton.
They didn’t know Everton were going to beat Brighton by 4.
…then why did Liverpool beat LC one week ago?
They lost to Leeds and Forest in October. They lost to Wolves and drew Palace in Feb (when both were still clearly in the relegation picture). They lost to Bournemouth in March. They may be the game that saved them. Then after that, they went on a winning streak. The conspiracy theory was already fully in place, the Leeds and Leicester wins were clearly to throw any investigators off their trail.
They also drew with Palace in August. So they were planning ahead.
Those chemicals, which are already banned in the European Union, have been linked to cancer, reproductive issues, and developmental issues in children, Gabriel says.
But mRNA jabs for everyone!
Local news just had a fawning piece about the new mRNA flu shots, and how they may no longer require yearly updates.
/looks at the people trying to get ‘vid boosters every three months
Jinx!
I really should refresh sooner.
Even in the 20-teens I was dismayed at how many people just follow doctors’ orders. “Doc prescribed me this statin, so I must need it.” I don’t fault a patient for not knowing about Number Needed to Treat, but doctors, yes.
Soon to be available in influenza-flavor !
“Linked to”. In other words, no proof of causation. But BAN ALL THE THINGS anyway.
Politics is stupid.
https://twitter.com/browardschools/status/1660782154794582017?t=Xz0YcsDfiXPkyh2pSa20YQ&s=19
From my county school system, some staff member didn’t know what was happening but her wokeness and DNC indoctrination gave her absolute confidence to film a video and post to TikTok. She claims that Florida is mass banning books. Understandable, since she has been repeatedly told that by DNC operatives.
Meanwhile, the school system takes older books out of circulation every year. So does our local library system. My personal library can attest to this, because they sell the library quality books cheap. Sometimes they give them away.
Bonus points scored in the replies to the statement from the county school system (a 100% left-democrat operation) denying what they said or demanding additional proof.
Useful idiots, indeed.
I buy used books from the library. I got a Ron Paul book, a book on sod houses of the 1800’s, a book on machining practices, etc… All for pennies on the dollar.
a book on sod houses – a man with the future of housing i mind
Cricket habitat and a roof over your head!
Narrative > Facts
The model for a perfect politician is Ron Burgundy. An idiot incapable of introspection or shame who will read the teleprompter with complete conviction no matter how ridiculous.
But enough about President Biden….
He would be perfect if he didn’t sometimes go off-script and say crazy shit, or invite little girls into his office (like he did a couple weeks ago).
Wait, what?
https://summit.news/2023/04/28/little-girl-refuses-joe-bidens-invitation-to-see-inside-the-white-house/
There’s a better one I can’t find now where he actually brings a girl into the White House but her little cock-blocking brother tags along.
Is that the one where PPP was peering around the corner and waving her over? The little girl had to walk way around a hedgerow but you’re right, some little boy tagged along with her.
Lemme guess: Trump’s Diet Coke button was rewired to lock the exits?
TikToker who entered stranger’s home defends videos amid calls for his arrest
Exclusive: ‘I’m a Black male doing these things and that’s why there’s such an uproar on the internet’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tiktok-prankster-mizzy-stranger-home-video-b2343872.html
A TikTok user who went viral when he entered a stranger’s house uninvited has defended his videos after they were described as “abhorrent” and “criminal” by politicians.
Bacari Ogarro, known as Mizzy on social media, posted the video of himself entering the London home as a “prank” two weeks ago. It was met with shock and anger, with many online calling for him to be arrested.
The self-described content creator – who was previously arrested over clips that appeared to show him harassing Jewish people – has said the negative reaction to his videos is partly down to him being Black.
Is it cos I is black? /Ali G
Trust me mate, break into my house and you’ll be dead before I know you’re black.
…entering the London home…
Ah, that explains why he wasn’t shot or had the crap kicked out of him.
It was also in a posh area. Try that in a working class neighborhood and see what you get.
Yup. Go ahead and enter a old black guy’s house in a poorer neighborhood and see what happens.
I noticed that as well – looked like a sweet place. Not the sort of place to have big, fuck-off shiny knives readily at hand. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile.
“Guns for show… knives for a pro.”
…but is mostly down to him being an asshole idiot who is really lucky he doesn’t get stabbed (being Britain) or beaten down.
Melanin doesn’t matter when you’re doing home invasions, dumbass.
Please take your show international. I want to see the Florida episode.
has said the negative reaction to his videos is partly down to him being Black
Because it is perfectly acceptable for white people to enter residences uninvited…
It is acceptable, unless they’re wearing blackface.
Repeatedly arrested, but not convicted or jailed or fined, apparently.
Do you want to ind Mizzy face down in a gutter? Because that’s how Mizzy winds up face down in a gutter.
“Karen” is a pejorative often used to refer to white women who feel the need to police people of color and/or demand special treatment in everyday encounters.
Actually it describes busy-body bitches that need to mind their own business and stop trying to control others. But, of course, poc’s hardest hit…
To be fair I think the term started in black communities then it was appropriated by general culture
As usual, whitey steals all the Black culture.
Karening has nothing to do with melanin. If anything, many Karens also being AWFLs, the POCs are more likely to get a pass.
We can go with Karine then.
Toss up between that one and this one for me.
whaddup doh’
Final week of school for Tres Version 2.0. Now to figure out how to keep the kid occupied for the next 3 months.
“That salt ain’t gonna mine itself, boy!”
He needs a job.
Tell me this isn’t peak stupid.
tl;dr – The markets are refusing to panic about the debt ceiling! Sure asshole, because they know it is all posturing.
How committed is Yellen to destroying the economy to get her way?
She’s currently selling two year Treasuries and buying ten year Treasuries in order to push the yield curve into an inversion and create a recession indicator. She and her compatriots like Lael Brainard are straight up communists who want to destroy the Fed and fully nationalize banking.
This is where I part ways with most libertarians who want to destroy the Fed at this juncture. The Fed, or more specifically Powell, the NY Fed, and players like Dimon, are pretty much all that stands between us and the WEF crowd that wants to completely destroy our way of life right now.
The yield curve is already inverted. Yellen is buying the treasuries to help out west coast banks who would otherwise have to sell them at a lower price to the market. Those banks can buy two-years and push those yields lower (enough to be lower than the 10-year remains to be seen) but then Powell can just counter by reducing (or eliminating) the interest the Fed is currently paying on excess reserves.
The shitty banks are going to get exposed one way or another.
Curious as to why FNC is committing suicide.
According to a company handbook dated January 2021, Fox News allows its employees to use restrooms that correspond to their “gender identity” rather than their biological sex. Additionally, employees are allowed to dress in accordance with their preferred gender and must be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns while at work. The handbook, which was leaked to The Daily Signal, also outlines various policies, including assistance in creating a “Workplace Transition Plan,” to support employees during their gender transition in the workplace.
These policies are just the latest in a string of revelations about the company that has alienated its core audience. Conservative critics have previously expressed concerns regarding Fox Digital’s usage of trans-activist language, such as “gender-affirming care,” in its online articles. They have also criticized the consistent use of female pronouns for individuals like Dylan Mulvaney and Lia Thomas, who are biological males who identify as transgender.
The winning model was babes and at least pretending to be anti-left/establishment. It really isn’t that difficult.
I would guess Murdoch is trying to make it look sellable to a sucker like Disney or Viacom. The future is streaming and cable networks are a relic. There is no interest in paying for CNN+ nor Fox Nation so they would have to be streaming and selling ads as their revenue – no carriage fees. I’m not even sure the local TV stations have much value anymore.
At the gym last night saw that Fox is now offering Fox Nation free for a year to Veterans. I wonder if they purged it of all Tucker stuff – making the offer not worth the time to sign up?
Interesting and provocative study finds that growth mindset was not associated with better school grades, including over time as coursework became more challenging. In some cases adopting a growth mindset even harmed student’s educational attainment. Taken with prior studies finding that growth mindset– the belief that you can increase intelligence with the right mindset– is actually not correlated with IQ whatsoever, the authors conclude: “Students are taught a belief which is predicted to be false.”
https://twitter.com/sbkaufman/status/1660318929166946306
Because resigning yourself to stupidity is a much more successful approach?
I don’t think that is the conclusion…
Regardless, if you do possess the cognitive ability but not the correct mindset for application, you’re not going to succeed.
You need both.
yes, but can this mindset be taught properly in schools?
Normally we have just plain old house crickets but this year its the much meatier field crickets. I should capture them and sell them to the local school district.
From Juris’ link:
No one wants to see markets panic, needlessly shrinking the 401(k) plans, nest eggs and college savings plans of millions of Americans. Unfortunately, there is a growing sense that a bit of market mayhem might be necessary.
“A selloff in stock and bond markets may be what’s required to get donors and voters to pound on lawmakers’ doors to stop the drama and increase the limit,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told CNN on Monday.
A growing sense, indeed.
If government spending falls by a penny, millions will die!
Tell me you are trying to collapse the economy without saying you are trying to collapse the economy.
Panic damn you! PANIC!!!
“Shocking footage shows Chicago police station lobby filled with MATTRESSES and migrants…”
I love how they all-capped “mattresses” in a fit of manufactured outrage.
But the true gem of that is that it shows the Chicago PD exactly what the mayor thinks about them. I don’t see them opening up city hall, or the school board offices to house these people. And what about private orgs? It seems the Obama Library would have some large, open spaces that could be pressed into service in a conspicuous display of progressive caring and acceptance of the consequence of their own policies.
Must be the DailyMail with that headline capitalizing scheme.
I think that’s been house style with British tabloids for decades.
“I’m not smart enough to know what I SHOULD BE PISSED OFF AT!!”
It’s interesting how little they think of their readers (maybe rightfully but still).
Well, God help me, but I find myself often reading the Wail and NYP in the last few years, despite the editorializing.
Ha, good point. And from what I’ve heard the new one is even more “progressive” than Beetlejuice.
He already has the CME talking about fleeing the city.
https://wgnradio.com/the-business-of-food-with-steve-alexander/will-the-cme-group-leave-chicago/
The gravest crime you can commit in front of a cop is to do his job for him when he’s too yellow to do his duty.
https://twitter.com/nlewi285/status/1660991224788971523
Good thing that van going in the opposite direction was paying attention. Cops nearly shoved him in front of a moving vehicle.
“Get outta the fookin’ street, mate!”
But they do need to do something about these disruptive “protests”.
State sanctioned road blockage. Nice. I don’t know any other interpretation for the cops protecting them like that.
Today’s idiots in cars. I’m assuming drunk, but it IS PA so anything is possible.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/13pewas/i_dont_understand_how_these_people_dont_crash/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
The finish at the traffic light was perfect.
*checks*
Not me.
I think I’ve driven thru there – and seen worse.
I guess I have lived in too many places where u-turns are mandatory, I didnt see a problem with that. The rest, however.
The proverbial turd is about to intersect with the rotational device.
https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/manufacturing-pmi
print moare money?
They absolutely want to, but the Fed is telling them to go pound sand.
*hands Pie Nobel Prize in economics*
Looks like the FBI wants to distract from the whistleblowers and back up the whole “white supremacy is the biggest threat to the country” theme: https://twitchy.com/aaronw-313234/2023/05/23/people-are-already-calling-this-alleged-u-haul-attack-near-the-white-house-a-false-flag/
It is very hard to say what is a false flag and what not…
People are already calling this alleged U-Haul attack near the White House a false flag
Because that is the only reasonable explanation. Read about this on the while on porcelain throne this morning. None of it makes sense. It’s kinda like that Dodge pickup with swastikas etched into the upholstery from a couple years back.
on the while on
*while on the…
JFC. I feel like Fetterman.
Perhaps if they hadn’t laid the Nazi flag out for everyone to see.
We need a better class of agitprop writers.
China has pumped out more pollution in 8 years than the UK has in 220 Years.
Abm November 8, 2022
The 80bnt CO2 emissions between 2013 and 2020 are higher than the 78bn British CO2 emissions over 220 years
Figures show that China has released more carbon dioxide in the last eight years than the UK since the Industrial Revolution began.
The UK’s carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere between 1750 and 2020 were 78 billion tonnes, compared to China’s 80 billion tonnes.
https://www.share-talk.com/china-has-pumped-out-more-pollution-in-8-years-than-the-uk-has-in-220-years/
And warming supposedly started in the 18th century, right? And has stalled somewhat the last decade?
Hmmm
China is playing the world like a fiddle. I’m certain they are behind a lot of the green energy push. The western countries destroy their own economies and cripple their own energy production, and China keeps building coal plants and building up their industrial capacity. Winning a war without firing a shot.
I remain unconvinced that China is going to win anything. Their centrally planned economy is most likely a house of cards (being centrally planned and all). They have a demographic time bomb ticking.
And they are likely going to learn the lesson that every other wannabe empire has learned – that imperial possessions rarely have a positive ROI in the long run. How they are going to leverage trillions in money-losing investments in corrupt, backward countries into global dominance is a mystery to me.
Very true. But this will take another 40 years or more, in the mean while the US will be led down the primrose path by communists to take their place.
There is a reason Xi has accelerated his plans to take Taiwan and to call in the debt incurred by all the suckers that thought borrowing from the CCP was better than the other crooks in that business. The CCP knows they have several unsolvable problems on their hands, and they are desperate to get the most beneficial outcome to themselves before they run out of time. Their population is aging rapidly, and the one child policy really demographically doomed them to hell. This is going to play out in the next decade and cripple their social systems (and I wouldn’t be surprised the Kung Flu was intended to help lower the number of older people they would have to provide services to). Their economy is all smoke & mirrors, and their ability to have everyone else pretend that was not so in return for money is evaporating. And their major source of actual growth, manufacturing, is moving to cheaper and less corrupt places. This is drastically impacting the CCP’s promise to its people of an ever expanding economy that would allow them to always look at a better future (a key condition of why the CCP stays in power).
The problem is that most of the rest of the world is facing some, if not all, of the same problems the CCP’s China is, and I can see the CCP deciding it is worth the risk of even a major war to make sure China comes out at the top of the turmoil coming everyone’s way.
I guess it’s more of the way they do things. Promote restrictions, watch as the West complies, and then ignore anything that puts them at a disadvantage. Kind of like copyright infringement and slavery. They just do whatever the fuck they want, and nobody calls them out on it.
It’s mostly Europe, or more specifically, Davos/WEF.
The old colonial interests are at the end of their financial rope and are desperate to keep commodity prices down, lest their model of debt slavery for the third world comes completely undone.
Their only hope of survival rests on three things: the demise of the United States’ system as an alternative to the neofeudal slavery they so desperately want, the prevention of an ascendant Russia and/or China, and completely screwed up commodity markets that prevent the third world from rising out of poverty.
The Biden administration is working for Davos by creating as much havoc in the US as possible. It’s the Soros Way. And the US neocons are useful idiots. They’re completely ignoring the banking/financial risks in the rabid pursuit of a global peace under the benevolent watch of DC.
Russia is so preposterous as a bogeyman. The Russian economy (pre-war) was on par with Spain and Italy – individually, not combined. Who’s quaking in their boots about those economic powerhouses?
China is done, that’s why the sabers are being rattled so loudly about Taiwan.
We’re going to have global chaos, not domination.
Technically, more than the prevention of a dominant Russia or China, it’s the prevention of a commodity/asset-backed currency alternative to the fictions we have now. It’s time for the old European banks to finally die and take all of their shitty and vile ideas with them.
Personally, I don’t think Davos can win in the long run. It’s the question of how much chaos they can create in the near term that bothers me. Russia and China are civilizations, they aren’t going anywhere.
True, they aren’t going anywhere – which is why using them as props for aggression/domination is a joke. They aren’t going away and they aren’t going to take over. They are just there.
I’m tiring of the Davos/WEF as demon (per Hoffer’s point about needing such for a mass movement). Name one of them that isn’t decrepit. Like the Russian and Chinese leadership – this is more gerontocracy. Combined with our own – it’s like gerontautocracy. That’s almost Germanic!
Davos is a useful stand-in for the old European banking interests, but the monied elite is what they really are.
The fascists didn’t really go anywhere, they just rebranded. Nor were they ever limited to Germany. Hitler just got too uppity for the rest of the European powers.
We’re the fascists now, just without funny salutes or snappy uniforms.
Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
It’s almost like the west exported most of its dirty manufacturing to China or something.
Of course, none of this is going to help the popularity of Congress.
The debt ceiling is a manufactured crisis that officials could have dealt with months ago. However, they decided instead to wait until the last minute to solve it — but perhaps not until it shrinks the nest eggs of real people first.
It could have been dealt with by not putting us on a path to infinite government spending. But that would be crazy.
So they’re taking the limit as we approach infinity? Damned political calculus!
Figures show that China has released more carbon dioxide in the last eight years than the UK since the Industrial Revolution began.
Completely accurate and verifiable figures, according t my model.
I double checked the maths otherwise I would not be posting
You do not go from primarily a third world agrarian society to a manufacturing one in 30 years, with over a half a billion of the supposed billion plus population participating, without generating massive power and resources requirements. and those requirements will massively pollute. Whether it be real toxic side products from industry in a country with near zero environmental or human protection laws or the creation of that mythical warming gas CO2.
Yeah, calling something that’s necessary for life to exist on the planet a pollutant seems on thin ice, intellectually.. I think it was someone here who posted an article about how late 19th century CO2 levels were getting so low, plants were going to start dying. That is until humans came to save the day!
H2O is a much better greenhouse gas, and also a much larger component of the atmosphere. I’m still waiting for them to classify water vapor as a pollutant.
Clouds are the big factor not accounted for in all climate models, and that right there is the intellectual fraud at the heart of the whole enterprise.
The real factor is how much solar energy the oceans can suck up. Modeling that, especially because of the complexity and variability in ocean currents and thermocline factors, is practically impossible because we don’t even understand and accurately measure a fraction of that.
I loved the bit about how the oceans have been hiding the warming (that’s not in the surface and atmospheric measurements), but eventually they’ll release all of that heat.
uh huh
they just KNOW that will happen, because their priest told them so….
Lego released an epic Pac Man set. A video was done for the release too.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/pac-man-arcade-10323
If they could have had a real video game, that really would’ve been impressive.
No doubt somebody will remove the mechanical screen and put in a 10″ screen with a raspberry pi. By somebody I mean me, when I have the spare cash.
Sometimes it’s like you open my Pandora app and go straight to my favorites. OMD was one of the first bands I really liked in high school, and I’m still a fan today.
Something not invented til 1902 is now a human right?
What rights will future folks invent, of which we today are entirely deprived?
https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1660818314820743168
LA Ladies, if you’re taking the bus, don’t leave home without a goddamn umbrella and a flashlight, because the incompetent morons the voters in LA elect spent buttloads on a “shade” and “light” thing that provides neither.
https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/1660845329447628802
But I am sure the designers got payed good money regardless
I thought it was going to be a tweet about people on buses jacking off and spraying the ladies.
Is this some kind of practical joke?
*tap tap tap*
Looks like it comes courtesy of some “gender equity” racket. Good grief.
White supremacist
The driver of a truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night has been identified as a 19-year-old from Missouri who was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill or harm a president, vice president or family member, officials said.
The driver was Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, U.S. Park Police said Tuesday morning.
Kandula was further charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and trespassing.
Authorities said the preliminary investigation indicates Kandula “intentionally crashed” into the bollards outside Lafayette Park. A Nazi flag was seized by authorities at the scene of the incident.
No one was injured.
A law enforcement official told NBC News that the suspect made threatening statements about the White House at the scene but was quickly detained. The truck was found to contain no weapons or explosives, the official said, without providing further details about the incident.
Asked for their reaction, the official said: “I don’t think there’s any place for a Nazi flag or the statements that he made.”
The most grievous threat to the White House since the War of 1812.
including threatening to kill or harm a president, vice president or family member
While he was how many blocks from the White House?
The truck was found to contain no weapons or explosives
Uh huh…so about the above…?
Sai Varshith Kandula
That’s a white-supremacist/neo-nazi name if I ever heard one.
Racist/culturalist to think it probably — but with that name, “I was reclaiming the symbol from my heritage!” might be a defense.
Wasn’t there a poster on TOS who used the handle ‘White Indian’?
I don’t think that counts as “white”.
Close enough for government work.
Yes. White Indian was one of the most memorable characters. Him and Agile Cyborg.
AKA Mary Stack. Mentally deranged troll of epic stature.
Is he the one who wanted turn everybody back into primitive hunter/gatherers?
Free to gambol!
Well that’s it, the white supremacist threat has gone too far. Time to crack down. Expect a knock at your door if you’ve been voting the wrong way.
They’ve got him now.
Conway said, “His insane narcissism, and his belief that he controls everything, that Article II allowed him to do whatever he wants, and it is his generals across the river at the Pentagon, these were his documents. I mean, this narcissism alone was sufficient for him to want to keep these documents. And then, of course, to show them off to people.”
He continued, “The obstruction charges are so strong. I mean, Ty Cobb, White House counsel who handled, in the Trump administration, handled the Mueller investigation, went on national television the other day and said, Trump’s going to go to jail for this. And he should, and he will. Because the obstruction case is just so strong as illustrated by the fact that they have all these lawyers’ notes and all these lawyers testified.”
It’s like any attempt to defend oneself is now “obstruction.”
Stop resisting!
Here’s the thing here and it’s salient: George Conway is a retard, a partisan, and a habitual liar, in my opinion of course.
Anybody who believes a word that comes out of the agencies or their lackeys at this point is a damned fool.
It’s not like the FBI or DOJ would do anything to obstruct justice for years.
Oh wait is this a new one?
*checks BINGO card
Who knows.
They will get him in jail one way or another, because that has been the plan all along.
His insane narcissism, and his belief that he controls everything
…but enough about Joe Biden.
There will be no legal recourse for election shenanigans.
A Maricopa County judge has affirmed — again — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ win in November and rejected Republican Kari Lake’s claims that improper signature verification and misconduct affected the outcome.
The ruling comes after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson heard three days of testimony and argument in his Mesa courtroom May 17-19. That proceeding, an unusual second trial in Lake’s legal challenge to her November loss to Hobbs, was limited to a single claim about signature verification.
Lake’s legal team argued it could prove signatures were examined in a matter of seconds, so short a timeframe it did not count as verification under state law. Thompson, in a Monday night ruling, disagreed.
Set an impossible standard of evidence and ignore the relevant facts, including that thousands of ballots were approved when the signatures clearly did not match. Elections are fake, your vote does not matter.
The only dangerous additive Skittles has is sugar. 🤪
And its a bad one.
We’ll show that tar baby who’s boss
In April, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin heard from defense leaders from allied countries during a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group who were looking for U.S. permission to train the Ukrainians on F-16s, according to a Defense Department official who was not authorized to comment publicly. Austin raised the matter during the NSC policy discussions and there was agreement that it was time to start training.
Austin also raised the issue with Biden before the G7 summit with a recommendation “to proceed with approving allies” to train the Ukrainians and transfer the aircraft, the department official said. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also was a strong advocate for pushing forward with the plan during the U.S. policy talks and conveying to Biden increasing European urgency on the issue, officials said.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan traveled to London on May 8 for talks with British, French and German allies on Ukraine, and F-16s were high on the agenda. They got into the nitty gritty on how to go about provide training and which countries might be willing to transfer jets to Ukraine. It was agreed that the focus would be on training first, according to one of the officials.
Sullivan, before leaving London, spoke by phone with his counterparts from the Netherlands and Poland, both countries that have F-16s and “would be essential to any efforts to provide Ukraine jets for any future use.” Denmark also could potentially provide the jets, the official added.
Biden and Sullivan discussed how the upcoming G7 summit in Hiroshima could provide a good opportunity for him to make the case to key allies on the administration’s shifting stance on fighter jets.
What’s the worst that could happen? It’s not like the Ukrainians will be flying sorties into Russian airspace.
Not behind the fighter jet
All the nations who contribute F-16s will have to replace them with nice shiny F-35s, God bless ‘em. The F-16s on the other hand will all be twisted scrap in a couple of months.
Not only is it a waste for US taxpayers, it is a pointless initiative. They will only get destroyed if they even get off the ground once there. Ukraine does no have the support infrastructure and supplies to operate them. Never mind that it is a completely different system than the MiG’s and Su’s that they are familiar with.
All the nations who contribute F-16s will have to replace them with nice shiny F-35s
And F-35s are dogshit dogfighters.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s a good thing, but I do suspect that’s part of the thinking behind it. Clearing out the old stock necessitates replacement with new, the Ukrainian pilots who’ll die be damned.
Set an impossible standard of evidence and ignore the relevant facts, including that thousands of ballots were approved when the signatures clearly did not match. Elections are fake, your vote does not matter.
The best way to promote confidence in elections is to refuse to listen to allow them to be questioned.
Just like the way to restore trust in the mainstream media is to censor the alternatives.
Who at the ATF should I report first? Or at the FBI?
We look to those who live in communities we protect to provide us with information about gun violence or other violent criminal behavior. Go to http://atf.gov/atf-tips for more information and to download the Reportit® app. #ATFTips
The dream of flying.
Wild
I believe I can flyyyyyy
Nope.
That’s not flying, that’s just falling with style.
Wing suits do generate lift.
There’s something to be said about knowing what’s eventually going to kill you I guess.
Hope they all checked their parachutes. It’d suck for them, if they pulled the ripcord and only their kids’ homework came out
Mellencamp wrote Jack and Diane ca 1980 about a pair of high school sweethearts he knew in ’74-76. Diane was 16 when she got knocked up, which means the kid would be 46 or so by now.
It’s easily possible that Jack & Diane are great grandparents by now.
https://twitter.com/Spivonomist/status/1660752713632628742
When I was a kid my best friend’s grandparents were named Jack and Diane. We always thought that was cool.
Jack and Diane died in a meth lab explosion in 1995.
“I’m not a gunologist.”
Biden Administration ATF Director cannot define an ‘assault weapon’
@RepEllzey: “In 15 seconds, could you define an ‘assault weapon?'”
ATF DIRECTOR: “I’m not a firearms expert.”
He’s more of an alcohol and tobacco kind of guy. Roy is the firearms expert, he’s on vacation this week.
That makes him perfectly qualified to define assault weapon. Any firearms expert would dismiss it as political bullshit.
Follow up question then, what is tobacco?
And if vaping is a tobacco-product why aren’t you regulating it!
I will bet money that Vox, Slate or the like is going to retweet thins:
https://twitter.com/pagesix1536/status/1661007990600925187/photo/1
I’d put money on it.
Nobody will take the underside of that bet.
I would retweet David Harsanyi’s that said he was probably just there to help Rashida Tlaib move offices.
LOL
I’ll be holding my breath.
“But in a Sept. 14 disclosure form Eisen filled out to accompany her testimony, she claimed she was representing just herself as a barista. Lying to Congress, including on a disclosure form, is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, though such cases are rarely prosecuted.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/starbucks-union-organizer-kept-her-affiliation-from-congress/
Good news everyone! LIGO can detect alien spaceships!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFLcmsjOBg
Unfortunately because of its size and power it would be limited to roughly moon-sized spaceships accelerating to 0.5C in about 0.3s, but future models will be able to see smaller and less powerful ones.
Give us 100 BILLION dollars and we will make it detect actual spaceships!
Eh, there’s already a much biggerer gravitational wave observatory underway. It’ll be orbiting in the Lagrange point behind the Earth.
Layers upon layers of bullshit
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/german-investigators-find-nord-stream-evidence-points-ukraine
Ukraine is going to be the fall guy for an obvious US operation.
At least now we know how Germany is going to sell the betrayal to their people, and it indicates that Ukraine is about to get the rug pulled. They’re idiots for trusting the West.
“Rather, BKA investigators are now focusing on a yacht that sailed from the German port of Rostock weeks before the explosions. That 15-meter yacht — the Andromeda — was hired from a Polish company, and docked at a tiny Danish island near the blast site. Most strikingly, investigators found traces of “military-grade and underwater-deployable” explosives on the vessel. ”
Perfect vessel for such work. OTH, Hersh’s explanation defies reality and current geopolitics.
My understanding is that Sig was able to duplicate and has a recall on early models for discharging if DROPPED at exactly the right angle, I’m sure a few here know more.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/dozens-of-cops-claim-sig-sauer-handgun-fires-on-its-own-without-even-being-touched/
This looks to be a follow on money grab by people not exactly known for safe handling.
Yeah, this is about the money. I had the recall to fix the potential issue and it was more than 5 years ago.
Misfire in holster could be a holster issue.
I love the internet.
“leaked text messages between the male Indian suspect and unidentified female FBI agent”
Nice.
Endless series of hobgoblins
Over the past several years, American political leaders have rightly focused on augmenting national power. Faced with China’s geopolitical challenge, Washington has boosted its defense budget, stimulated domestic innovation, built new international partnerships, and moved to protect its technological lead. These steps have won broad support in both parties and across very different presidential administrations, and for good reason: A more powerful United States, working ever more closely with likeminded partners, is best placed to engage in long-term competition with Beijing.
In this context, the possibility of a default on U.S. debt — which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns could occur as soon as June 1 — seems utterly mystifying. Defaulting on the nation’s debt threatens catastrophic economic consequences and would seriously harm national security. It’s hard to think of a single American action that would more effectively reduce its global standing, influence and power — and boost those of its chief competitor.
The economic consequences of a default are real and well-rehearsed. An inability to pay federal bills would roil financial markets and likely tip the United States into recession. It would increase interest rates and borrowing costs. It would harm American credibility, encourage diversification away from U.S. bonds, and threaten the dollar’s role as the world’s preeminent reserve currency. Military strength and geopolitical influence rise and fall with a country’s economic power, and a debt default would strike a major blow against them all.
We’ll die if the debt limit isn’t raised.
Force the default to force cuts in spending. It’s the only way.
“Prepare for a disease even deadlier than Covid, WHO chief warns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12114155/Prepare-disease-deadlier-Covid-chief-warns.html
No.
It’s called Bureaucratic Fever, and it’s 99% fatal to societies.
The planet should be ready for a disease even deadlier than Covid, the head of the World Health Organisation warned yesterday.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the World Health Assembly forum that the threat of another public health crisis could not be kicked ‘down the road’.
He also claimed that, despite the darkest days of the pandemic being consigned to history, a doomsday Covid variant with the power to send the world back to square one could still spawn.
I take that to mean you guys are about to release something new.
Someone needs to convince me that COVID was deadlier then the annual flu.
JPMorgan analysts led by Jared Dinges say they now expect earnings before interest and tax in the U.S. to slide 26% this year, on a 12% drop in volume and a 10% decline in sales. They note that the latest NielsenIQ data, covering the week to May 6, showed Bud Light sales down 23.6% on a 27.7% drop in volume.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-is-a-subset-of-american-consumers-who-will-not-drink-a-bud-light-for-the-foreseeable-future-anheuser-busch-inbevs-u-s-profits-may-tumble-jpmorgan-says-cd5a7df4
*insert Nelson Muntz HAHA gif here*
An impressive amount of destruction caused by the decisions of just a couple of people.
Yup. And by hanging out the influencer to dry for doing exactly what they asked they justifiably upset people on the other side.
AB runs its marketing out of NYC which is a bit odd. I get why, And I also get why keeping marketing in St Louis may not be ideal either. I’m not sure what I do, but I do know that I wouldn’t give my brand managers as much autonomy as they had prior to this debacle.
“A subset of customers”
Technically, 98% is a subset.
“EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Neely’s uncle who called for no plea deal for Daniel Penny over subway chokehold death is ARRESTED in NYC after being caught with knife and several stolen credit cards”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12115667/Jordan-Neelys-uncle-called-no-plea-deal-Daniel-Penny-ARRESTED.html
What a great family.
The same asshole who was banging on about “how the system failed Jordan” – why didn’t you take in your nephew?
He’d have to steal even more to feed another mouth?
Most strikingly, investigators found traces of “military-grade and underwater-deployable” explosives on the vessel. ”
How serendipitous.
Handy ,that.
Undeniable proof it was the Ukraine and not the US.
Good shoot, Scruff
Congrats, Rhywun
Good news here too. Chimney repair guys showed up 6 weeks early and are out with the heat and mosquitoes. They’ll be finished today, now to motivate the roofer.
Two guys and they get a tip to make a bartender happy some place. No dancing girls in or around Podunkville.
I love it when a plan comes together.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12115667/Jordan-Neelys-uncle-called-no-plea-deal-Daniel-Penny-ARRESTED.html
Hmmmm.
Missed it by that much!
*kicks pebble*
So this guy is giving press conferences while he has warrants out on him? And just strolls away. Ya gotta wonder if the cops who arrested him are going to get an ass-chewing. Shitting on the Narrative is not tolerated, after all.
Seriously? I know know I shouldn’t be surprised.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nebraska-trans-abortion-bill-christy-armendariz-b2343548.html
My normal life is too stressful, I vacation in terrorist states.
I’ve decided my next vacay will be in Eritrea.
OFFS!
Such doubts are naturally catnip to China, America’s chief competitor. Beijing portrays the West as in terminal decline, led by an increasingly divided United States unable to deliver the world — or even its own people — the unity and effectiveness they desire. America continues to coast, Chinese leaders suggest, on the privileges it accrued during a unipolar moment, including dollar dominance, the ability to impose sanctions, disproportionate influence in international institutions, and untrammeled military power. This dynamic, they say, is an artifact of yesterday’s world, and no longer reflective of a rising China and dysfunctional America. It reflects, instead, the antiquated disarray of Western democracies, in contrast to efficient and effective autocracy. A debt default would provide enormous ammunition to those pushing the narrative of American decline.
Conquered by the Yellow Peril. Hide the wimmenfolk.
NATO Says F-16 Training For Ukrainians Does Not Make It A Party To The Conflict
Legit LOL
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-f-16-training-nato-stoltenberg/32424235.html
I guess funneling money and weapons into Ukraine as a proxy war against Russia makes NATO not a party to the conflict either.
She’s running!
“But his age is an issue, and people have every right to consider it,” Clinton added. “But, you know, he has this great saying – and I think he’s right – don’t judge him for running against the Almighty but against the alternative. I am of the camp that I think he’s determined to run; he has a good record that, three years ago, people would not have predicted would have gotten done.”
Says someone of advanced age that seemed to have several medical issues while campaigning in 2016.
She’s running!
More like waddling.
I honestly didn’t think she’d make it this long.
AB runs its marketing out of NYC which is a bit odd. I get why, And I also get why keeping marketing in St Louis may not be ideal either. I’m not sure what I do, but I do know that I wouldn’t give my brand managers as much autonomy as they had prior to this debacle.
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume the young woman formerly responsible for marketing Bud Light, who created this mess, doesn’t even drink the stuff.
Harvard grad working in NYC? No way…
0% chance.
You know she’s a wine drinker. And almost certainly the kind of wine drinker who just can’t help but show off what an expert they are and how many awesome wines they’ve tasted that you will never get a chance to.