Too little too late?
I went to my first MLB game this season last night. Those rule changes really make the game feel rushed. It was not great. Also, the Astros couldn’t hit the ball and lost. But I’d have still felt the same about the pitch clock and everything else even if they’d won. Florida and Seattle got off to good starts in their second round series. The other two start tonight. Can Big Sam save Leeds? They waited long enough to bring him in. Also, Arsenal finally won a match after over a month. And that’s sports.
Glowies. Glowies everywhere!
Yikes. This is bad. Now…what about all the current FBI assets that were there? What did they say and do?
I’m sure this deal will suck. Also, we have an entire section of the US Code dedicated to immigration. That should be enforced rather than ignored. Title 42 is a red herring. It was never even passed by the legislature anyway.
That’s how it works. Abide by House rules and you get to attend sessions. As it stands, this person will now only be able to…do literally everything in the job description except sit in the same room as the other reps while topics are debated.
Untip the scales!
Please, please, please let this be the end of the insanity. I actually have faith in the institution that it will happen.
There won’t be anything left there pretty soon. Which is when the local officials will start blaming the businesses for the consequences of their own actions.
Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat. Heaven forbid they do what they want with their own private property.
I guess this reporter ran out of space in the article. What other explanation could there be for the omission of important facts, like what actions by the crazy person precipitated the shooting? I guess it’s just a coincidence.
It’s about fucking time. Those crooked bastards need to go, because that election was an absolute sham.
Here’s a snappy little tune. Just gets right down to business and never slows down. And here comes the xylophone magic. Not to mention the clarinet. Another fun song. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
I’m gonna first my own post?
Hopefully not.
Too many good articles to chose from, we have to read them all first. It’s because you gave us a great line up. It’s your own fault, you know.
Victim blaming, Glibs style! 😉
Someone has to. Why not you?
If you must, I suppose. Morning, Sloopy.
I was washing my hair.
Relatedly, after days of mentioning that a (otherwise unidentified) gunman with an AR-15 killed a family in Cleveland, NPR finally mentioned that the “alleged” shooter was “undocumented” and had been deported multiple times previously. They mentioned all of this in single line of the piece which had spent much more time lambasting the notorious racist Abbot for calling the victims “illegal immigrants.”
Please, the terminology is Illegal Aliens
I thought it was Xenomorphs of Color this year….
*ahem*
BIPOC MOGAI Peripatetics.
Don’t feed them after midnight.
Here’s the euphemism the WSJ used.
Sheriff Capers said Mr. Oropesa had a Mexican consulate card. Mr. Oropesa’s wife talked to investigators after the shooting, Sheriff Capers said.
They also lightened up all his photos to make him into a “white Hispanic”.
Speaking of crazy person.
I have a feeling we’re about five minutes from Bernie Goetz: Part II.
It’s not surprising given that the crazies on the streets and trains are approaching levels I haven’t seen since the 1990s.
They’ve got a bunch of other witnesses so I question if the guy was choked for 15 minutes as claimed.
There was a babbling crazy sitting on the bench outside the hotel when I checked in yesterday. Hotel staff inside were completely ignoring it. This is in the “conservative” part of the state and outside of the usual downtown haunts.
The untreated MH and druggies have been rising for a while.
it’s the worst it has been in my adult life. I bet it’s quickly becoming comparable to the 1990s. It likely has to get much worse before better. Right now all the political will is putting a thumb on the scale for worse.
There never used to be babbling crazies and people living in the park in my city. The police taped off this japanese garden area presumably because someone started living in it. This is all new and troubling for my small PA city of the third class.
The obvious solution is a ramp up of the homeless industrial complex. Peer counselors and government provided housing will fix it.
San Fransisco is reverting back to a giant wasteland as are a lot of other metro areas. I wonder why?
That article was amazing.
The “community activists” who believe stores exist for locals to steal from, apparently.
Instead of these mindless validations in the press, I would love to see in depth interviews on their logic to arrive at these positions. Someone should book them on Joe Rogan. They don’t need a conservative yelling at them, they need a direction by a good interviewer who can help them to completely lay out their thoughts.
That is what we did with the KKk back in the late 70s and early 80s. Just let them talk. Let them get beyond yelling the slogan and the whole thing turns around.
Related, so not quite violating the off-topic rule (I hope)…
If you want to lose any faith in humanity, follow the twitter link for the video comparison and read the comments. If you want a good day, don’t bother.
Is there such a thing as off-topic with this herd of cats? I think we have multiple experts in every possible topic, and enough creative types running around to see obscure relationships between the most disparate of topics.
The most basic function of government is to protect citizens and their property.
That’s just a theory of govt, not the reality of it.
I visited SF in the early 2000’s. I thought it was shitty then. Opened the men’s room door at fisherman’s wharf to a passed out/deceased junkie lying on the filthy bathroom floor with needle still stuck in arm. Took then 2 year daughter to a park only to find prophylactics-soiled and broken crack pipes in the sand box. The slide had a hole rusted in it. Same park different day a guy was smoking (just a cigarette!) and some other guy walks by and say “no smoking in the park”. The smoker gave him a death stare, then he says “just kidding” then as he gets further away he screams maniacally “no I’m not, THERE’S NO SMOKING IN THE PARK” and just starts running. Neither of these gentlemen seemed to be homeless, these were the normies.
my visits to SF were in 2011, then a few more times from 2015-2019. it just kept getting worse. the ferals are aggressive.
I was working in Silicon Valley in 2017, went up to Frisco a few times. The rot was already sunk in pretty deep.
Plenty of Karens about, though. One time I went walking up in the hills overlooking the city, and it was clean, the day was sunny, just beautiful. I walked up a marked trail way up a hillside. After a while, I walked about fifty-sixty yards off the trail to a big flat rock, lit a good cigar, sat down to enjoy a moment.
An asshole riding up the trail on a bike yelled at me, “there’s no smoking on the trail!”
So, being something of an asshole myself when provoked, I yelled back, “I’m not on the trail!”
He rode on. I finished my cigar and went back to my car. Kind of ruined the moment, just because an anal-retentive dick had to yell something.
Even though I feel like Charlie Brown here, I’m with you. Here’s to the little bit of hope I have remaining that our system can work justly.
Eh, I don’t have that much trouble believing in a decision that explicitly retakes power for politicians.
I saw a Vox article about the potential death of Chevron that was framed as a horrible possibility that judges who are ignorant of the situation would not bow to the credentialed bureaucracy (who obviously have a better understanding of the issues at hand).
This is exactly the left’s fear.
That Congress, who has limited knowledge, will have to make law rather than have unelected, college educated activists claiming expert status because they received a degree in griefer environmental Justice studies at regulatory offices make choices for us.
“Hey, we really really pinky swear we didn’t want to do it, but that lawsuit forced us to…”
Actually that’s even more likely once Chevron is gone.
Exit tax for businesses closing in 3… 2… 1…
Which will, of course, discourage start ups and encourage garage operations.
Baltimore’s problem with empty buildings… Detroit …
Remember all those warnings about food shortages?
Well, now apparently this is a thing
https://twitter.com/LPMisesCaucus/status/1653436643238375424?t=reixZ9wS4EGwx2KmeyZ9OQ&s=19
Bachelor Chow, here we come.
Who’s a good little morlock!?!?
That sets off my bullshit detectors. Comparing “steroids” to “natural estrogens” just screams “how to lie with statistics,” and the line
Indicates that these restaurants are selling 3 steaks or less per month.
Don’t rely on bullshit hysteria and fearmonging if you want me to believe you, Mises.
Also cross-checking indicates that some of those numbers are straight-up lies.
Like, an 8oz serving of beef contains 3ng steroids? AYFKM? Try >150,000ng for the absolute leanest, and add a couple of zeroes for the liver.
I didn’t dive down that side of the rabbit hole. I can’t imagine lab meat ever competing with a cow.
I was looking at the state permanently taking farmland offline as a matter of policy.
Governments are constantly deciding how people should live. Seems like NY banning the icky parts of lifetyle support but using the outputs. Just like they outsourced their fossil fuel extraction and production to other states and will no doubt ban electricity generation in state, relying on other places to provide it to their network.
That makes them totally green, for sure.
They have a target of zero emissions, and they’re meeting that target!
Raises for everyone!
“Indicates that these restaurants are selling 3 steaks or less per month.”
I think you missed the word “tons” after 500.
I did.
*feels shame*
I just assumed you thought everyone ate like Fred Flintstone.
It’s like there is some sort of agenda here.
Does insanity really follow an agenda?
Since Sotomayor (I think it was her) is recusing so Ole Penaltax himself can’t “compromise” to scuttle it… yeah, hopefully. We’ll see if Kavanaugh feels squishy enough to channel his inner Roberts and defer to the Executive and all.
Personally, I would think after being targeted for assassination by the fucking loons on the left and repeatedly threatened I’d be in more of a “cry havoc and let slip the dogs of strict originalism!”… but that’s just me.
Hasn’t Kavanaugh been a vocal opponent of Chevron for some time?
“In a 2017 speech at Notre Dame that honored Justice Scalia, Judge Kavanaugh said: ‘The Chevron doctrine encourages agency aggressiveness on a large scale. Under the guise of ambiguity, agencies can stretch the meaning of statutes enacted by Congress to accommodate their preferred policy outcomes. I saw this firsthand when I worked in the White House, and I see it now as a judge.’
Ben Cardin said this, in a call to keep Kav off SCOTUS
An actual textualist would be amazing.
They should hire me. Being aware of the English language, I can read the constitution, and when I get lost, I can always refer to amendments 9 and 10.
The answer is always going to be “no”.
“No. Not an enumerated power”.
“Nope, gonna need an amendment for that”
Easiest gig ever.
Whoa whoa whoa! Now wait a minute there.
How dare you make it simple? Our genius intellectual class can’t justify their existence if you make it simple!
One would certainly think, yeah.
It seems easy because the headline cases are all ones with straightforward answers.
What you don’t see are the contract law quibbles from disputes between two equally positioned parties that are so out in the weeds that even my eyes glaze over if I’m not focused.
The latter are easy. Just set up a Thunderdome at one end of the reflecting pool. Tear down the Lincoln Memorial or Washington Monument to do so. I don’t care which one goes.
I love this answer.
also, the corporate squabbles might become a lot more straightforward if the regulatory state is rolled back. Federal rules are often the weapon of choice in these disputes.
*gets Federal Register, a jug of kerosene, and a box of matches*
ZOMG Carbon emissions!
Yeah…. we are going to need an environmental impact study on that…..
*lights that section first*
You are gonna need a bigger boat.
Find out if something is constitutional with this one weird trick lawmakers don’t want you to know.
In economic news, the media push to create panic about the banks yesterday was obviously designed to try to get the Fed to hold on rates today or even lower them.
We’ll find out how Powell responds later. I’m hoping it’s a massive 50 basis point middle finger. Crush the ECB. Crush Blackrock. Crush Yellen and the Biden administration. Crush Davos and the WEF. It’s all-out war as far as I’m concerned.
Your Big Lie conspiracy theorizing has been noted and entered into your permanent record citizen. For your own comfort and convenience, please refrain from eating for 24 hours before boarding an airplane or other mass transportation vehicle.
I haven’t been to a game with a pitch clock, but I score Marlins games as a hobby (yes, I am a glutton for punishment). I’ve scored around 20 MLB games this season, and for me as a TV viewer, the clock is mostly unnoticed. I’d prefer that broadcasts not show a clock at all. Those broadcasts that find clever ways of displaying the clock in non-obtrusive ways are better. But overall, I don’t mind the speed of the game, even if the rare violation enforcement itself actually impedes the game more than a pitch a second too late.
I do, however, loathe the new disengagement rules. They’re stupid and unnecessary if speed of the game is the goal.
“I made eye contact”
“He totally didn’t make eye contact”
Riveting
Sounds to me like Sloopy shouldn’t be tired today. Great setup for an extended nap attending a game like that.
How dare anyone demand Congress do the job the Constitution gives it! Certainly Roberts won’t if he’s in the majority.
‘Orning ‘ordles — an increase from “Boy I suck” to just “Meh”. I’ll take it.
Daily Duotrigordle #427
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:04.71
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Blossom Puzzle, May 3
Letters: E I N P O R T
My score: 344 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game
Bleargh.
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Abide by House rules and you get to attend sessions.
Meh, house rules that allow the majority to remove the opposition just because they don’t like what they said, don’t sound like very good rules to me. what ever happened to ‘the answer to bad speech is more speech.’
A person can say anything they want in public. While in session, members are supposed to adhere to the rules established so order can be maintained.
I had no problem with the US House censured MTG. I have no problem with the MT House doing likewise when somebody broke the rules they agreed to abide by.
I get what you’re saying and I generally agree. But having an “anything goes” (god, I hate that song thanks to Kate Capshaw butchering it in Temple Of Doom and now it’s gonna be stuck in my head) policy during floor debate will only enable those who would use the megaphone to shit down all debate and grind the legislature to a halt.
Go play Fallout 3 and listen to Galaxy News Radio for a while… much better version of Anything Goes to get firmly earwormed into your cranium.
As I say below I’m not advocating ‘anything goes’ just going by what the article said happened.
I get it. But trusting that the media will report accurately is a bold strategy.
Whycome u h8 Democracy?
More seriously though, stop misrepresenting what happened. She, like the “Tennessee Three” was removed for HOW she said things, not WHAT she said.
The linked article didn’t get into it beyond her saying they’d have “blood on their hands”, yes if she was screeching over other people and calling them Mother Fuckers and what not, then I apologize, admittedly I didn’t do any looking into it past reading the linked article.
She organized a protest in the chamber, then held up a microphone to amplify their chants.
She was supported by a cadre of non-members who had to be physically removed. These are fucking Bolshevik-wannabes and knowing that, we should treat them accordingly.
These are fucking Bolshevik-wannabes and knowing that, we should treat them accordingly.
I agree.
::charters helicopter::
That is an expensive solution; I prefer something more cost effective.
Fine.
::goes to United Rentals and reserves four BC2100XLs::
Here’s an axe handle and a 50# bag of lime.
The opposition was being a massive cunte and, by leftist standards, inciting an insurrection.
whaddup doh’
Since this is my “Saturday night”……TALL CANS!
Cheers!
Top Man and Country Club Republican Holman Jenkins, Jr. appears to have ingested a Black Pill this AM.
ObamaCare, Zombie Banks and JPMorgan – The Affordable Care Act depleted the federal government’s capacity for reform.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/obamacare-and-zombie-banks-first-republic-jpmorgan-chase-bank-bailout-fed-deposit-insurance-9bcbb6e2?st=1ipg2uwvwo12t2s&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Were it not for Trump, Powell wouldn’t be there. And Biden absolutely wants Powell gone. Mr. Jenkins is definitely in the “Nobody I know voted for Nixon” cadre.
You mean the competent government that gave us No Child Left Behind? Medicare? SS? the ADA? the War on Terror? the War on Drugs?
And the financial problems we’re seeing now are a direct result of decades of interest policy. Thank you Alan “Randian” Greenspan.
Yeah, was going to say the deregulatory era, such as it was, ended with Clinton promising to make government more efficient at being utterly inefficient and overreaching, followed by compassionate conservatism whitewashing government bureaucracy.
The only real change in this regard that came during the Obama Era was that the Democratic Party aligned itself with the Permanent State to directly wage war on the citizenry in favor of a Soviet style nomenklatura. And the GOPe joined right in.
Now, now, the GOPe didn’t join in immediately; they had to wait until it was sufficiently established that they could then conserve it, as good conservatives do.
The new left aligned with the permanent state as the 60’s kids grew up and realized how much more fun it was to be on the inside. The Democrat party had been aligned with the state for decades at that point.
The other change over the same period is the shift of those in the permanent state (and society at large) as the left marched through the educational system and it became de facto cultural left indoctrination.
They didn’t sell out, they bought it!
This is an amazing read. Not sure how it got published. Get past the opening and dive into the anti-establishment politics.
I have returned from vacation. Now to dig my self out of work e-mails and notices before the next training class.
Did I miss anything important?
Well, SMOD is still just taunting us with the possibility… so no, nothing really important.
Hayek’s divorce was finalized.
What did they say and do?
Things that incited a small riot that has been used as an excuse to jail the political opposition for political reasons.
What the hell is shquee talking about?
MUH FREE SPEECH! I’ll bet shquee is in favor of laws against hate speech though.
Oh, now I understand her first complaint.
She should be thrilled – whore is getting all of the attention she could possibly crave.
I am seriously tempted to register as a Democrat just so I can vote for this guy in the primary.
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1653454289677713428?cxt=HHwWqICwydD6n_ItAAAA
The DNC will rig the primary in favor of Bernie before letting this right wing nutjob win the nomination.
Of course they will. The whole thing is rigged. My only choice is how to send a “F-You” message most clearly.
It is weird because he has been out there in the other direction in the past. I wonder if this is principle or cynical populism?
COVID had an effect on RFK Jr. He’s definitely redpilled even if he still holds some unsupportable stances on things like climate change.
No. His stance on the Second Amendment alone puts him in the “not only no but hell no” file.
With Kennedys the safe bet is always on political cynicism.
I’m confused on this. He is saying a lot of things nobody short of Rand Paul is saying. But I have read a thing or two this week warning he’s still a Democrat, and he’s said some things in the past regarding climate change, etc. that were downright totalitarian. So I guess we’ll see.
He’s spent much of his life wanting authoritarian solutions to what he perceives as problems (mostly in the environmental realm).
I’m reticent to embrace a guy just because his authoritarian tendencies line up with my preferences now.
(see, also, Tulsi).
Arent you in SC? Primaries are open, so you can choose a ballot.
we have an entire section of the US Code dedicated to immigration.
And entire RACIST code.
The idiot state Secretary of State is out. I don’t buy that this is merely the result of journalist digging. The hateful dyke Gov got her scalp and will install a loyalist. Meanwhile she’s going for a twofer, reading the political opposition to new tolling (opposition that wasn’t there when she was running the house and they were falling over themselves for new revenue for boondoggles) and taking out ODOT leadership.
I posted this yesterday and it’s too good not to repost.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/indiana-councilman-came-out-native-american-lesbian-pushes-back-critics
Rarely does a troll take it to this level. Kaufman would be proud.
He could bump the troll level up by saying he was born here so he’s a native American on that alone.
Should have said ‘heap big mad’.
Ugh.
The court announced Monday it will revisit that precedent, raising hopes that this enormous federal power might be reined in.
Millions of progressive voices cried out and were suddenly silenced…
Hundreds of elected Republicans will also cry out in terror at their new responsibilities and accountability suddenly placed on them. They’ve been working to avoid those things for decades.
Nordstrom shuts down BOTH stores in crime-ridden San Francisco – as Target locks entire product range behind security glass and Whole Foods store is shuttered
This is the new “white-flight”.
Stossel found another presidential candidate. Check out his latest video. For some reason WordPress is crashing in response to the YouTube link, so you will have to go there on your own initiative.
https://youtu.be/CUfRwYcaL-k
There… naked link worked.
I’d give her my naked link.
And with that, our Family Friendly Rating was in jeopardy.
Between her and Presidente-Dudebro, that part of the world could have some stunning changes.
Testing
MoRe CaSeS.
Disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are probing a new outbreak: the roughly three-dozen coronavirus cases linked to their own annual conference last week.
“CDC is working with the Georgia Department of Health to conduct a rapid epidemiological assessment of confirmed COVID-19 cases that appear to be connected to the 2023 EIS Conference to determine transmission patterns,” CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund said in an email.
Nordlund said the CDC reported the cases to state health officials who have authority over the location where the conference occurred. Attendees said many people at the gathering did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions that the CDC had recommended earlier in the pandemic.
I though we were done with this.
“Attendees said many people at the gathering did not mask, socially distance or take other precautions”
So there was an orgy?
Ventilate and administer remdesivir to all of them ASAP
Bio isolation chambers, six months minimum. Have to be sure.
“Ventilate” is a euphemism, right?
I like “drill and tap” for a euphemism.
BTW, YouTube has suddenly decided that Megyn Kelly is super relevant to me. Not sure what changed, but she has been popping up for the last 48 hours all the time.
I watched a couple of her shorts, which are segments from her show.
She seems pretty good. Much different than what I remember from fox. Has more of an edge. Maybe even meaner.
She is quite a bit older, yet somehow looks younger and more attractive – maybe losing the business suit? She just seems more relaxed, maybe that is it. She used to give me Texas beauty queen vibes, which is a big deduction for me.
Anyway, the clips I saw had her hammering Fox over Tucker and hammering the trans issue (she is not a fan).
My brother sent me a link to one of her segments at the same time I was typing a text about it to him. So I think something happened at Google and they decided to promote her aggressively. Maybe they are hoping she will grab Tucker’s audience and bring 3 million viewers to their platform?
She is quite a bit older, yet somehow looks younger and more attractive – maybe losing the business suit?
She grew her hair back out too which is a better look.
” Also, we have an entire section of the US Code dedicated to immigration. That should be enforced rather than ignored.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLL
Didn’t we play this game in the late 80s?
And again in the 90s?
Zephyr blasted Menahan’s decision, calling it “dangerous and undemocratic.”
Oh, it did, did it?
Kim Iversen talks to Steve Kirsch about COVID-19 shot side effects.
“Is this the Navy’s Dylan Mulvaney moment? Drag performer Harpy Daniels is Navy’s new ‘digital ambassador’ in bid to boost recruitment that’s set to fall short by 8,000”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12039863/U-S-Navy-turning-drag-performer-Harpy-Daniels-digital-ambassador.html
Don’t ask.
https://youtu.be/g2vZonSDUgk
We’re literally living out Paglia’s prophecies on the end of empire and the cultural decadence.
The next phase is going to suck.
All that’s left is the Huns/Vandals outside the city to make their move. Is that China?
It’s not at all insulting that the Navy’s idea of pandering to the gays is promoting a flaming “queer advocate”.
Everybody knows that if you’re gay, you’re a flamer.
It’s Science.
You’re so far down the victim stack these days that you might just as well be another oppressor!
Isn’t this just their “crossing the equator” ritual?
What no Village People tie in?
Brilliant. They’ll have that shortfall covered in no time.
Good morning, Sloop!
Holy wild cards. One game in and my Dallas prediction is already in danger!
Sorry to hear about the baseball. I thought maybe I’d give it another shot with the new rules but apparently they missed again. Oh well.
Fingers crossed that the SC does the right thing. No wonder the bad people have been going so hard at the justices. In reality this hurts them more than torpedoing Roe.
Great songs from a nearly perfect album. I believe this is the song that Tres claimed caused his gender to flip.
Have a fantastic day!
Baseball should have a chess-like clock.
Each side gets 70 minutes total for the first 27 at-bats, and then 2.5 minutes per AB after the first 27.
Pitcher can throw whenever he is ready. clock stops whenever he steps off the rubber.
If the clock runs out, the teams forfeits.
Is this the Navy’s Dylan Mulvaney moment?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12039863/U-S-Navy-turning-drag-performer-Harpy-Daniels-digital-ambassador.html
The Navy will need a lot of these recruits if the Administration goes ahead with their plans to simultaneously lose two wars next year.
Those aren’t the wars they are are preparing for.
Interesting editorial on how the FDA managed to screw up a promising NSAID.
The GI and bleeding effects of COX inhibitors is well known at this point and you would think they could be accounted for. As the article mentions since it is off patent and the damage done it will never be put to the usage it could have if properly studied as there is no economic incentive for the costly studies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-fda-helped-fuel-the-opioid-epidemic-ketorolac-approval-toradol-5159453b?st=vpnx2xv5jcg9i69&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Very interesting, thanks.
No, he’s wrong. They have proven to be disastrous and should stay the fuck away.
We really need to move away from the FDA and toward a more Underwriters Laboratory approach.
In addition to avoiding these problems and getting faster approvals, competing standards might mean we get real clinically relevant data. I don’t just want a yes/no on some new drug… I want accurate comparisons between the prior drugs and the new one.
I want risks and benefits quantified in an understandable manner.
You mean you don’t find the guy speed announcing the risk factors associated with a chemotherapy drug during a TV ad useful?
I remember reading years ago that if Aspirin was developed now, it wouldn’t pass FDA approval. Never dug into it, but it confirmed my biases.
Given the GI bleeding I highly doubt it would ever be OTC at the very least.
Neither would tylenol — hepatoxic, not effective enough.
“What this ruling implies is that the legislature isn’t beholden to the constitution—that there is no right to free speech in the face of a supermajority,” she said in a statement. “I will stand alongside my constituents, my community, and the world as we seek to ensure that our democratic institutions survive these attacks.”
Fuck democracy. Fuck the constituents. It’s all about ME ME ME!
On the disinformation front…
Listening to the radio this morning, I heard a report about Russia-Ukraine.
It was buried in a summary of a lot of international news, but they said that Russia was in trouble because they have suffered 100,000 casualties in the last month, including 20,000 dead. They cited US officials, but quickly pivoted to British and other countries pronouncements of the same facts.
Now, what I learned from the skeptic community was to first evaluate the prior plausibility of the claim. A hundred thousand wounded in a month? 20 thousand dead? That is 1/3 of an entire Vietnam War. A 15 year conflict…. in one month.
Prior plausibility, low.
Next, look at the overall pattern. They made the identical claim repeatedly in the first months of the war. This would mean that they have had over a million casualties and a couple hundred thousand dead. Not that plausible.
Then there is the foreign sources….
Fool me once…
This sounds like the Russia-gate gambit. Leak a story to the press, then cite the press coverage as independent confirmation. We tell them the number, they repeat it… everyone says so…..
Why are we playing at this? I don’t get it. How does claiming that they are killing 20,000 Russians per month help? Is “this won’t take long” that critical to US support?
I was slow to recognize war propaganda for what it is, but I think it isn’t just the years that make it more obvious. I think they really don’t even bother being subtle any more, since we don’t require it.
I’m at the point where I believe anything the corporate press reports on is, at best, factual but not truthful.
When it comes to anything regarding the Russia-Ukraine war (or any other foreign entanglement), I assume the opposite of the narrative being pushed as my starting premise.
I think you misheard, or they said it wrong in that particular report. What they’ve been reporting is that they’ve had that many casualties since December of last year.
It is possible. It was on the radio, after all. They definitely said something about “in the prior month”.
And they definitely said 10,000 dead per month back at the beginning.
Even 20k in 3 months is too big of a number, imho
I’ve heard similar casualty numbers for the Ukrainians this year, mostly (supposedly) around Bakhmut. I found them equally implausible, and have never understood how the Russians can be slaughtering Ukrainians by the thousands there and perpetually on the brink of taking the city, but never actually doing so.
Shocking conclusion: the propaganda comes from both sides.
A hundred thousand wounded in a month? 20 thousand dead? That is 1/3 of an entire Vietnam War. A 15 year conflict…. in one month.
US casualties were a fraction of RVN/VC/NVA casualties.
The purported casualty rate is up around but still below Stalingrad numbers. Is possible, sure. Is it likely given the level of conflict, probably not.
There’s light at end of the tunnel.
The tunnel is very long.
The biggest Russian offensive operations are being carried out by Wagner in Bakmut. There are a total of 6,000 soldiers in Wagner. The entire unit would have to have been killed 3 times over this year for this to be true.
A few days ago the leader of the Wagner Group went ballistic because he claims he wasn’t getting enough artillery ammo / support and as a result they had almost 90 casualties in a single day.
https://www.newsweek.com/yevgeny-prigozhin-wagner-group-pull-out-bakhmut-ukraine-ammunition-shortages-1797532
According to Kirby, this was the lightest casualty day for them this year.
Wagner has far more than 6000 soldiers, they were estimated at 50K+ as of the end of last year. About half of the estimated deaths (10K) are believed to be from Wagner forces.
If you really want to go deep on the why Kirby is lying in this particular case.
https://rumble.com/v2lnewa-kirbys-crazy-russian-casualties-claim.-poland-warned-not-to-enter-conflict.html
I was trying to explain to my mom a couple of weeks back that the news media reports about Ukraine were often obviously nonsensical, and that they amounted to war propaganda of the “Huns spitting Belgian babies on their bayonets” variety. While she accepted that some, perhaps much, of the news was hyperbolic or exaggerated, she nonetheless felt it was helpful and informative.
What instigated that conversation was her peppering me with questions about what was going on in the Ukraine. I kept responding that I didn’t know. This frustrated her intensely since as an ex-military officer she thought I would have some useful insights on the matter. She criticized me for not paying attention to this historical event.
I explained that I was staying out of it because:
a) I don’t like to waste my time on inaccurate articles.
b) I am afraid of having my thinking contaminated by false “facts”.
c) Since I have no control over what happens there, and if a nuclear war happens, given where I live, I am a dead man, any information I get is really superfluous.
d) I find the inflammatory war propaganda emotionally distressing.
What I found very sad was my mother’s position on the issue; despite her willingness to acknowledge that all of these points were very valid, she nevertheless insisted that we had a duty to pay attention to the news so that we wouldn’t be uninformed.
I have a sneaking suspicion that she is afraid of looking uninformed or stupid in front of other people, so consumes this stuff purely to stay in fashion, so to speak. I think her approach is a pretty common one, and explains a significant portion of the people who read newspapers, news websites or watch the televised news networks.
It wasn’t an emotional conversation. It was quite civil and intellectual. It was for me somewhat disheartening because I know that the division the media sows causes her great emotional pain. She is genuinely a patriot. She has a lovely library that she could spend years reading, which I know would give her great pleasure. It saddens me that she is wasting her few remaining years on this earth watching garbage that solely upsets and misleads her.
I agree with “better uninformed than misinformed”.
I find it amazing that nobody questions these reports. It is like I say with the kids – I don’t know what the real story is, but I know that ain’t it.
And there are weird tidbits buried in these stories. We are in Sudan because we have bioweapons labs there? Wait, what? And nobody in the white house press room thinks this is a priority?
Leah Williamson: Why are so many women footballers suffering ACL injuries?
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64032536
i blame racism
Safe bet.
Weak hammies and quads.
Do you even lift, ho?
Women are far more prone to ACL injuries in general, particularly during puberty.
That would explain why my sister blew out both of hers in high school.
must… not.. take… bait…
This article is transphobic.
A lot of the stuff they are claiming sounds insane. They say these professional women’s football players only have access to the gym once a week.
I just don’t believe that. The fat moms in our PTA have access to LA fitness 7 days a week.
I used to hang with the athletes at UNC back in the 80s. The women’s soccer team were workout demons. They hit the weights all the time. Heck, the cheerleaders hit the weights.
Not buying the shoe angle either. If that was it the. 14 year old boys would track with women’s soccer players.
They really sound like they are just making stuff up because they are not allowed to say “women’s bodies are different”
Women’s bodies are different, but hamstring strength helps prevent injury. Workout demons hitting the weights almost never means heavy squats and deadlifts. Usually some stupid useless “functional training.”
Women’s joints are more flexible, and hence less stable, by nature. Helps with childbearing.
This is what I always heard. Plus, their geometry is different. Wider hips means the pressures on the knee are slightly different. (Also harms vertical jumping ability- this one is colloquially confirmed by personal observations that guys with narrow hips have much bigger vertical than guys with wide hips, who generally cannot jump over a pencil).
Who do you think you are? A biologist?
Why yes. Yes I am.
As someone with hyper-flexibility, I can say the joints are less stable. The girlfriend has finally stopped freaking out every time I twist/roll my ankle.
Ventilate and administer remdesivir to all of them ASAP
Leeches.
Ventilating them seems a little extreme. No need to go full North Korean on them.
TopStreetFights
@TSFights
On Some Tekken Sht 💀
https://twitter.com/TSFights/status/1653489538390544404
It’s not at all insulting that the Navy’s idea of pandering to the gays is promoting a flaming “queer advocate”.
They couldn’t very well just focus on recruitment based on competence and skill.
SFGate and the SF Chronicle have always been pretty left leaning, but over the past decade as they have lost all their boomer reporters they have gone full millennial commie. They regularly omit details of stories that contradict The Narrative. I saw three different articles they wrote in the last few days about that security guard shooting and not one mentioned that the shoplifter had pulled a knife out after being confronted for stealing. Kind of a critical detail that should be included in a news story. Also they didn’t mention that the shoplifter was transgender. Last week there was a wrong way driver on a local freeway that killed a woman and badly injured her teenage son. In two articles about it they did not mention that the perp was a transgender dude, even though in both articles it was noted that after he murdered the woman he exited his vehicle, removed all his clothes and tried to enter several stopped cars on the freeway.
Mexican dirt-bag in custody!
I’d be okay with tossing him in a commercial washer and dryer.
Instead TX taxpayers will be providing him room and board for life at the very least. No idea on TX and the death penalty and how long the process normally takes.
It’s relatively quick. Texas is not shy about actually executing people.
A shame he didn’t resist arrest, though.
Shocking video shows NYC subway passenger putting unhinged man in deadly chokehold
https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/shocking-video-shows-vagrant-being-choked-to-death-on-nyc-subway/
killing the guy seems a bit much
That is a pretty horrific story…. I can’t figure out how they could be on a subway train for 15 minutes and no cops come. Aren’t there cops at every stop?
Donut break.
The cops don’t give a fuck, and there’s nothing to force them to give a fuck. They’ve long since figured out that ‘officer safety’ is best served by avoiding anything with the slightest hint of danger.
Choking people out can be hazardous. That kind of strangle cuts off blood to the brain, and holding it for too long can absolutely kill. But legally, I don’t know if a rear naked choke qualifies as deadly force. Deadly force, by definition, has to be likely to cause death or serious injury.
Passenger was released without charges.
“White guy killed a black guy on the subway” would normally get prosecutors stroking themselves in anticipation of they press coverage they’ll get but “released without charges” makes me think there’s more to this story.
I’d still get the fuck out of NY.
For now…wait until the rage machine ramps up and NY DA feels obligated to arrest
I wonder if enough people in NYC are sick to death of subway nutters that there isn’t that much of an outcry.
We can hope there is a bit of sunshine through the population that has had enough
So what is interesting here is how Fox is using the NY Times to vilify Carlson.
So there was ONE recipient of this text message? And we aren’t bothering to name that person?
Yeah… they really have been going full tilt on the smear campaign.
Kelly has been hammering it.
https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1653138958090477568?t=yl0d4INJr_pQp5HkRxGUcg&s=19
I wonder if this is a distraction to move away from the Dominion stuff? Maybe blame Tucker (who was the only one against it on air).
Or maybe it is a pressure tactic to get out of paying out his contract. I heard some big numbers are owed.
Either get him to settle, or provoke him into saying something they can use to terminate the contract.
Megyn Kelly says he probably has a non-disparagememt clause in his contract… she did.
I heard someone suggest they wanted to maintain his contract to keep him off air there or anywhere else until after 2024 elections.
Not sure what’s in his contact, but the last thing they want is Tucker on the loose to say and do as he pleases. They’ll gladly keep paying the $20 mill a year to prevent that.
👆👆👆
Fox News is trying to destroy Tucker
Except the only thing I have seen in the leaks makes him more endearing.
Thar was a direct quote from the first tweet I saw this morning. I was gonna link it, but when I went back I couldn’t find it.
So far I have not seen anything that I would consider bad…. but they are relying on the framing effect. “Look at this shocking, racist and misogynistic message!!!” (Link to message that is neither shocking, nor racist, nor misogynistic)
I am surprised they aren’t just using the “he said racist things” and then claim too racist to print.
Yep, you read the whole thing he wrote and you can see why they are afraid of him. You have to carefully edit the message for it to sustain the narrative you want.
So the MAGAts antifaed a blackshirt?
Yes, the horror, the HORROR!
Advice from the sidelines
Sheila Bair, who guided the FDIC through the Great Recession, worries the Federal Reserve is making today’s banking crisis worse.
The Fed’s war on inflation has piled pressure on the banking system, contributing to the significant stress on the banking system. Even though First Republic this week became the third bank failure in the past seven weeks, the Fed is widely expected to deliver yet another interest rate hike on Wednesday.
“I would say hit pause,” Bair told CNN in a phone interview on Monday. “Hitting pause doesn’t mean you’re giving up the fight. It just means you’re taking a breather and assessing what you’ve accomplished so far.”
Bair, a Republican who led the FDIC from 2006 to 2011, warned it’s impossible to turn inflation around overnight – and attempting to do so will backfire.
“I know any central banker always wants to prove their inflation-fighting chops. I know they want to look tough, but at some point, they look weak,” Bair said. “I know Jerome Powell is tough on inflation. He can hit pause and still be tough on inflation.”
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Bair said trying to fix inflation overnight will create “significant ripples, increasing the risk of recession and the amount of stress in the banking system.”
All the little people will just have to accept that they will be poorer.
And, of course, the absolute last thing we want to do is ask ourselves where that inflation came from. Unexpectedly.
The only unexpected part was how long it took to arrive.
The recent string of bank failures has raised concern about the health of the economy and the banking system. However, Bair expressed confidence the industry will get through the storm.
“It sounds scary but in the context of the entire banking system, it’s not huge. Overall, the vast majority of banks are fine and this is something our system can handle,” Bair said.
The former FDIC chief said a “handful” of banks did not manage the spike in interest rates well. “There may be a few more,” she said.
In the long run, we’re all dead. Meanwhile, there’s welfare for rich people.
fucked up foods
@fuckedupfoods
guacamoreos
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1653591170155442177
leftover chinese waffle
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods
would
Well now I am scared to actually click that link….it screams SF, especially on a Wednesday…
No worries. Strictly gastronomical.
Ive seen worse from Waffle House. And likely drunkenly ate it.
My daughter bought one of those little $5 waffle irons. Started by making fried egg. Works.
Graduated to waffling pretty much anything. Hash browns / tater tots are good.
I cannot imagine that leftover beef broccoli and rice would work.
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
Salad by Keith
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1653417724645703686
None of that butter is melting, so I think those potatos are cold. The deconstructed salad just looks sad, and those eggs should have been deviled rather than just dusted with paprika. And I think there’s a gallstone that intruded into the center of the plate. I’m not sure on that last point, it might be an avocado pit.
Great response in the replies:
Nothing says “my wife has just run off with my best friend” quite as well as Keith’s salad.
“Story in 3 parts.
NPR tech reporter writes story critical of Musk/Twitter and claims they are blocking the link to his story. Usual suspects make claim go viral. Turns out he just posted a bad link.”
https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1653576538674044929
CWABOA
Twitter blinks.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/twitter-restores-api-access-after-mtas-withdrawal-over-estimated-50k-charges-for-weather-transit-alerts/
I don’t care one way or the other, but it appears that Twitter realized the information value was high and the increased user engagement worth it.
It is a nice gesture on Twitter’s part – otherwise I’m paying for it.
The Supreme Court made a tragic mistake almost 40 years ago.
In the 1984 case of Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, it ruled federal judges must defer to a regulatory agency’s interpretations of federal laws, so long as Congress has not addressed the issue in question and the agency’s view can be construed as “reasonable.”
Tragic mistake is an understatement.
“BREAKING: LGBT activists have occupied another state capitol, this time in Texas, to protest a bill to ban pediatric gender mutilations
Here’s one of the transurrectionists being arrested”
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1653508553892610052
If ten years ago you told me this would be happening now, I would have thought you were nuts.
Seems a lack of nuts is the problem.
I’m sure that almost every one of those protestors that had nuts still has them.
Its Jan 6th all over again, only in May!
Tee Hee.
HRC demands that AB InBev say more nice things about Dylan Mulvaney, or they’ll take the “double” off of their “doubleplussgood goodthinker” rating.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3978773-exclusive-anheuser-busch-faces-call-to-reaffirm-support-for-trans-community-after-mulvaney-pushback/
I fully encourage this behavior by HRC. Let them push it too far and break their stranglehold on corporate boardrooms.
Transheuser Busch today, Transheuser Busch tomorrow, Transheuser Busch forever!
Everytime I see that acronym I wonder what the fuck Clinton has to do with the Bud Lite disaster.
Oh damn, I thought it was Hillary.
The Human Rights Campaign was started in 1980 by a bunch of gay men. Now that gay marriage is legal, they are pushing trans stuff.
Advocacy groups have to advocate for something, even after their goal is achieved. Just like Farrakhan, Sharpton, Jackson, and the grievance industry.
It’s their masturbation.
If they want to continue their transition to an unpalatable company.
G_d bless “sell by” dates. My Kroger had whole briskets in the bunker, and today was their day.
$0.99/lb.
GT? I may need to borrow some of your freezer space.
Krogers in Heath had some minor disaster, a day later the Krogers 15 mins away had pork shoulder 1.29/lb. On an unrelated note, smoked pork for lunch.
wow
But we’re saving those cases of Thin Mints for the post-apocalyptic dystopia! They’re bound to be the most valuable medium of exchange!
There’s a thin mint stockpile to be
lootedacquired?I can neither confirm nor deny that.
I can. In the deep freeze at the Jolly Scholar brewery. At least in the before times.
The brewery is on a college campus, and is tied into the meal plan. So you can do a swipe for meals, one of the options for the meal swipes is a milkshake and burger. Of the flavors of milkshakes, at least three used to be Girl Scout cookie flavored. The daughter of one of the owners/brewers bought cases and cases of cookies so they could offer the milkshakes year round.
Is this college in Ohio? I have a sudden urge to go back to school.
Oh, I can sit and destroy ThinMints by the box. Just give me a jug of whole milk.
Hoarders!
Anyone who has reached for a carton of eggs, filled up their tank with gas, or tried to buy pretty much anything has felt the sting of that inflation over the past few years. While many of the problems that helped trigger the upward spiral have abated, prices are still high and getting higher. The data is increasingly pointing to one culprit: corporate profit hoarding. And given the relative impunity big business enjoys, there may not be much relief for Americans’ wallets anytime soon.
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If inflation is the Scooby-Doo villain running amok, the “monster” underneath the mask is companies realizing that they can get away with charging more and more. The idea that companies are taking advantage of disruptions to push price increases on consumers has many names — greedflation, excuseflation, price gouging, corporate profiteering — but the gist is the same. Large corporations use the guise of disruptions to raise prices beyond what their costs would suggest is necessary or what economic theory would suggest is prudent, squeezing higher profits out of cash-strapped customers.
Supply-chain issues and other disruptions made sense as drivers of higher prices, Chris Becker, a senior economist and the associate director of policy and research at the Groundwork Collaborative, told me. But the degree to which companies pushed higher prices in an effort to not only pass on cost increases but also increase their profits and margins made it clear that corporations were just trying to “use this environment” to pad their bottom lines.
Prices should be set by socialist academic economists at the Ministry of Plenty.
Fiduciary duty is just a fig leaf for capitalist greed and rapacity.
I keep hearing there isn’t real inflation.
We haven’t tried real inflation yet.
Was “Business Insider” always copying Jacobin’s schtick or were they ever respectable…?
The Human Rights Campaign is calling on Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Bud Light, to publicly reaffirm its support for the transgender community following weeks of right-wing pushback over the brewing company’s recent partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
In a letter sent this week to Anheuser-Busch’s head of human resources, Jay Brown, a senior vice president at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, slammed the company’s response to the controversy as insufficient and cowardly.
Cut it the fuck out.
Left out of this report about the letter – the implicit assertion that the non-cowardly response that would earn praise instead of activist action would be a sizeable donation to several trans related charities.
Bottom surgeries for everyone!
Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary
Now that is science.
None of which has anything to do with why a human adult male in a dress is a woman.
Science geeks lie differently that normal people.
But a lie is still a lie.
Interesting, the author wrote this in 2012: Get Over It: Men and Women Are from the Same Planet
Are men and women a binary? Questions for
PlatoAgustin Fuentes.Scientific American was great once. Now it’s just political horseshit.
“But even so”
And there it is. You can now disregard the previous sentences. Not at all clear what other species behavior patterns have to do with people.
In my unthreaded comment I believe it is this:
Other animals evolved to behave differently on a physiological level but we can force that evolution if you just sit down and shut up.
From the Elections Commission article:
“The measures call for the “abolition” of election administrators in counties with populations larger than 1,000,000—a metric that only applies to Harris County, which Republican state lawmakers have taken a keen interest in in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections.”
Uh, no? Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, and Bexar counties have over a million,
I don’t know what is happening in Texas. But I do know that after DeSantis replaced the elections supervisor here in Broward County, our election results were magically tallied on time with the rest of the state for the first time in 20 years.
Coincidentally, the statewide races also magically shifted toward the Republicans.
How this applies to large metropolitan areas in swing states that routinely post their results long after the rest of the state is beyond me.
Other animals evolved to behave differently on a physiological level but we can force that evolution if you just sit down and shut up.
https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1653569474786672642
WTF?
Look it was the worst attack in the history of the world you bigoted mf’er
Barnett raped all of democracy you could say.
Scroll down to the vid of the woman asking about her car. It simply beggars belief. And I don’t think it’s a setup or a fake.
I saw that.
“Will I get my car back so I can go to school tomorrow?”
“You are going to jail tomorrow, you killed 2 people.”
“So, can I get my car and go to school on Thursday then?”
I thought it had to be fake, but then it showed a mugshot and her conviction, so it seems real.
Justice!
“This not only lends credence to hate-filled rhetoric, it exposes Anheuser-Busch to long-term business impacts with employees and customers increasingly looking for steadfast commitment to LGBTQ+ corporate citizenships,” Brown wrote.
Dozens of them. I wonder how much those steadfast defenders of the rights of female impersonators spend on A-B products in any given month.
I think Scruffy already covered some of this, but the whole article is really interesting:
Blackrock’s Balance Sheet May Be Sicker Than You Think
Shit is getting real.
Oh it absolutely is as sick as a terminal bone cancer patient. And they’re ramming it into pensions as well as trying to get themselves on the SIFI list for a bailout.
Larry Fink is a piece of shit for the ages.
The BS of SIFI traces straight back to Long Term Capital Management, and the Clinton administration.
It’s a financial.
If there is a run on it and people withdraw assets it’s done. However many multiples of tangible net worth it has won’t mean squat if there is a run on it.
It’s “capital” is it’s people and intellectual talent.
Just need to write rules limiting the window, amount, and pre approval of redemptions. That will fix any run.
Who knows who this guy is?
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/1653756111357345794?t=eswTvEfQe8zBpuIFmg6Nsw&s=19
He just showed up in my Twitter feed coincident with Tucker getting canceled.
He is uniquely full of crap.
He could easily be one of the partisan trolls on Reason.com
There is a heavy DNC propagandist operation on Twitter I think.
Yes. Lots of paid shills.
I’ve heard of him but don’t remember where.
Tim Pool had him and his brother on.
Left out of this report about the letter – the implicit assertion that the non-cowardly response that would earn praise instead of activist action would be a sizeable donation to several trans related charities.
Protection money, in the time honored tradition.
Place your bets!
https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2023/05/forecasters-2023-will-be-very-active-hurricane-season/385916/
They have predicted 22 of the last 3 very active hurricane seasons.
Someone needs to take a civics course. Democracy = Majoritarianism. If 2/3 of the voting body say no, then the answer is no.