Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another wonderous day and the links!
Senate passes bill to raise debt ceiling
Senate Overturns Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Plan, Setting Up Veto
Comer wins: FBI relents, agrees to deliver subpoenaed memo alleging Biden bribery to Capitol
Indiana Attorney General Leads 18-State Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Border Policies
Rand Paul Vows To Hold Back Biden Nominees Until COVID Docs Released
Supreme Court news: Jackson lone dissenter in ruling against Teamsters who damaged cement in strike
J6 Unmasked: Security footage shows Pelosi evacuating Hollywood-style from Capitol as daughter films
Researchers Discover Toxic Sweetener Damages DNA
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you to provide your own music and move along with my day.
That link is literally American Motor Corp tech (like you said).
Wow, yeah, you couldn’t get closer than that.
I thought it was BS in Atlas Shrugged, and BS now too. But if not, that would be awesome.
You couldn’t light a LED with that much less power a phone.
This one frankly annoys me. If the Legislative Branch passes the laws and the Executive is only to faithfully execute them (in the name and all), a clarifying resolution from both houses of Congress stating “No, that is damned well not what we meant for an Executive Agency to do (regulation/action wise) based on the law… knock it the hell off!” should not be allowed to be vetoed. Having the Executive, which is screwing up the interpretation of the law defined by the Legislative be able to override the Legislative and do what they want anyway is nonsensical.
Yes, power of the purse, yes fundamental counter veto, yes 2/3rds veto… but it is still stupid and obviously contrary to how the system should be working. And that Biden is going to veto Congress calling them on an unconstitutional usurpation of the power of the purse just makes it worse.
On the plus side — the boxing gerbils(?) were cute, Banjos… Morning!
I think they’re red squirrels.
This was exactly my thought as well. If the legislative bodies have made their intentions clear, you should not be able to ignore them with executive orders. (or the veto).
If I am reading things right, she tried to argue that the dispute didn’t belong in the courts, when the Teamsters intentionally destroyed product and tried to damage trucks. That’s not a labor dispute tactic, that union thuggery.
Alito (iirc) called her out specifically on it and stated that if the state courts it was going back to used that to try to punt, he fully expected the case to come back to the Nazgul quickly. Pretty clear “don’t try to use this f’d up reasoning, state courts”. I think it was Thomas that was saying the whole precedent she was trying to extend/contort was screwed up anyway and should be “revisited”
Nyope. Anything that could be part of a labor action has to be first approved/disapproved by the NLRB before it can be considered a crime. Beating up
peoplescabs trying to cross picket lines? Not an assault, a “labor action.” Setting the Boss’s car on fire? That’s not arson, it’s a “labor action.”Having bossed Teamsters before, this is exactly correct. Pretty much anyone who works for the NLRB is pro-union, and should be DQ’d on that alone form overseeing union activity, based on the “allowable” actions.
Plus Jackson is pretty much the dumbest SCOTUS in a long time. And that is saying something.
Let them brawl it out with Pinkertons?
Nah, businesses are not allowed to defend themselves and their property from union thuggery.
More right wing extremism from Kagan and Sotomayor
Which shows how off the wall Jackson is, at least on this case…
You’d think the media would be deluging folks with mockery or concern… but I suppose his administration has somehow Forded that stream of reporting by having the right party affiliation.
What you did there, it was seen.
Same. I think that means we’re old. 🙁
I’m just hoping he gets mauled by a bunny.
I’m thinking a chipmunk or squirrel may be better.
Can we nominate Fauci to met the Monty Python bunny while we’re at it? Would also accept one dozen seriously pissed off beagles for karma.
Yup
Where have you gone Chevy Chase, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Too young to play Biden?
Nice.
“Have you fallen twice or more in the past year?”
–A question I get asked when I go in for routine checkups
What am I, the President?
The last time I fell, the steps and sidewalk were covered in glaze ice and I made the mistake of stepping out the door.
I salted as soon as I managed to get back someplace with traction. I’m just glad I didn’t crack my head on the steps when my feet went from under me.
Last time I fell, well, took a long time to get over it and I ain’t never gonna get any better.
*narrows gaze*
And even if they’re actually on to something — skimming it, I’m pretty sure there’s no way it is going to scale. A camping / survival backup for cell-phone level charging at best. (And you know what you’d get if you did scale it up… Thunderstorms. Kind of hard to control, and talk about needing space…)
Ugh… maybe I could remember to close a blockquote tag. Sorry.
Luckily, the EDIT FAIRY appears to be on duty.
Woohoo! Musical anarchy! But as with most days — this has to be my theme music…
Anarchy?
My Pandora has been pushing this on me quite a bit recently, should I be concerned about AI guiding my music selections?
Will it try to kill you if you dont listen?
“You have through this 20 second ad to comply.”
Only in a poorly crafted simulation.
Senate passes bill to raise debt ceiling
It would be nice to be able to take on endless debt without the prospect of ever having to pay it off.
They should just eliminate it as it never serves as a ceiling, just a political cudgel to continue grifting and debasing the currency.
They don’t plan to ever pay it off, they plan on being long dead or an expat before it can no longer be ignored.
The US giverment cannot be run like a household!
/stupid progs.
So if that bribery accusation is coming from the Israeli “arms merchant”, it may not be a very reliable source. Which would be confusing because I thought Wray originally claimed it was a CI of some sort.
You really think they’re going to tell us the unadulterated truth about any of this?
I think anything regarding the Bidens and Hunter in particular is likely to involve adultery, so no.
So, you are saying it is just like every other FBI source?
Comer wins: FBI relents, agrees to deliver subpoenaed memo alleging Biden bribery to Capitol
And nothing else will happen…unless Brandon loses favor with the uniparty.
My thought as well. If Comer doesn’t actually have the memo in his possession, then he hasn’t won anything except a new pinky-swear.
For those of you who were worried that such a smart, brave, stunning BIPOCLGBTQ might be inconvenienced by ultraMAGA Chicagoans:
https://nypost.com/2023/06/02/ex-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-named-menschel-fellow-at-harvard/
Also on the disgraced pol to educrat pipeline:
When your goal is to stir up chaos and pump up crime rates, why limit yourself to just one city?
Harvard, of course…..
It seems to be the landing spot for the worst people in the world when they’re finally run out of their positions of power.
First off good on McCarthy for putting the video into another set of hands. Second, Sund was fired? I thought he retired – that was certainly the previous reporting. If he was fired, good, that’s what should happen to people who perform poorly. If his poor performance was because Pelosi tied his hands, then throw that old bitch under the bus to save your own ass.
If his poor performance was because Pelosi tied his hands, then throw that old bitch under the bus to save your own ass.
I’m guessing he got to keep his pension in exchange for towing the lion.
Or his brain matter
Since I know some of you are just the wurst:
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/31/the-threat-to-german-sausages-is-real-n554708
Thankfully, we have plenty of local providers of German sausages and bier here. Entertainingly, several of the places do mention that they get their pretzels (REALLY?) flown in from Bavaria.
Well, brot have we done for them lately?
I suppose they feel secure in weakening their population now that Poland is in NATO and should be an ally. No chance of drone or air strikes from Polish kielbasas.
To combat “climate change”, when there has been exactly no warming for the past 8 years, despite CO2 levels. Which in scientific terms means their global warming hypothesis has been falsified.
Unfortunately it’s really all about an excuse for power and control, the actual climate is irrelevant.
THE WARMING IS HIDING IN THE OCEANZ AND WILL SUDDENLY GET RELEASED SOME DAY SOME HOW!!!
The public would never know that, especially as every weather event or catastrophe has been blamed on climate change.
There was a “grant” to AP to “improve” coverage of climate change from some wealthy patrons that of course had nothing but the best interests of humanity (and the planet) in their hearts.
Have you noticed that they don’t talk about warming any more, it is now extreme weather events?
We have unofficially moved on to the next stage of the scam.
8 years is nothing on the time scales we’re talking about here. But so is 100.
After everything the Germans have imposed upon themselves in the past couple of years, you’d think they’d just about be at wits’ end. What’s left to take? The government has shut down their nuclear power plants, ruining their reliable, cheap electrical grid. There’s always the prospect of freezing in the winter as the government will control the thermostat, while wheat and egg prices and utility costs for the ovens have driven bread through the roof.
I did nazi that coming.
“The wurst ration has been increased from 12 grams to 10 grams.”
I struggle with believing all of this.
Just putsch those feelings deep down into the pit of your stomach.
*strongly narrows gaze*
both of you.
Be careful, Swiss could decree the “Nacht und Nibble” order.
Nein.
I am a fan of bratwurst, liverwurst, knackwurst and braunschweiger. Thanks, Dad!
Not Weißwurat?
Er, Weißwurst. I’m on my phone, and of course it won’t auto-correct German.
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul vowed Thursday on Fox Business not to let any of President Joe Biden’s nominees through unless documents pertaining COVID-19 are released first.
You should have done this right from the start.
The engineers, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, have developed what they described as a cloud-like “Air-gen” device that can generate power from air humidity.
The study’s senior author, Yao Jun, compares the device to a cloud, which he describes as a “mass of water droplets,” each having an electric charge.
“When conditions are right, the cloud can produce a lightning bolt,” he recently told Just the News.
While no one has yet to figure out how to “reliably capture electricity from lightning,” Yao says, the engineers have designed a “human-built, small-scale cloud that produces electricity for us predictably and continuously” for harvesting.
Why do I smell bullshit?
Boycott Target song
Dr. Frankenstein haz a sad.
Dr. Emmet Brown is 1.21 times sadder.
Indiana Attorney General Leads 18-State Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Border Policies
No standing because Indiana is no where near the border. – scotus
Border states also do not have standing, because they’re withing thew 100-mile constitution free zone.
/looks around at all the flappy headed maple suckers sneaking across the lake
Well, there is a poutine restaurant that is reopening a second location…
Local brewpub makes a not-terrible poutine, though I have criticisms.
I need to get back there and try their brut cider while it still exists. A version of that (made by Argus in Austin) has been my all time favorite cider so far.
Poutine of various types is not uncommon at most of the restaurants here, But here is the place that specializes in it. Still haven’t made it to either location. I am mildly irritated that they renamed the Vladamir Poutine to the Baba Yaga Poutine.
Brewpub in… Malta? And they didn’t go with a name like Get Hoppin?
I was very disappointed there’s no tannery in Corinth.
-1 Montalban
Rand Paul Vows To Hold Back Biden Nominees Until COVID Docs Released
Literal MAGA terrorism.
Cool! I wonder what I will turn into. I recently discovered that sweetener and it became my diet pop go-to.
Twelve’s little conversation with the kid about Spider-Man at the start of The Return of Doctor Mysterio is leaping to mind…. “No, he got special powers.” “What – vomiting, hair loss and death? Fat lot of use.”
I wonder too, since the article was register-walled.
I got in no problem but the answer wasn’t there.
https://archive.fo/KNrpK
BTW, if you encounter pay/register walls you can use archive dot fo to bypass that.
‘Orning ‘ordles — not great, but not terrible. DuoTri was a bit of a jerk with my last word being a rhymer and two letters that could lead it not used anywhere else.. but a guess panning out on the main event (UR) makes up for that.
Daily Duotrigordle #457
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 04:24.51
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 494
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Daily Quordle 494
7️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, June 2
Letters: A C H E I R S
My score: 307 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌼 💐 🌷 🌻 🌺 🏵 🌹 🌸 💮 🌼
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Feh.
Daily Quordle 494
6️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Daily Quordle 494
4️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Daily Quordle 494
7️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
Bah. Humbug.
Daily Quordle 494
9️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
Blossom Puzzle, June 2
Letters: A C H E I R S
My score: 362 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌼 🌷 💮 🌻 🏵 🌺 💐 🌸 🌹 🌼
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
“But instead of modestly standing down, the majority eagerly inserts itself into this conflict, proceeding to opine on the propriety of the union’s strike activity based on the facts alleged in the employer’s state-court complaint,” Jackson added.
Jackson said the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint after the state court ruling, accusing the company of unfair practices and saying the drivers’ actions were “arguably protected.”
Sounds like some commie reasoning.
You forgot the scare quotes around “reasoning”.
“Arguably protected”. Well, SCOTUS is the one to say who wins the argument. Looks like the union lost.
And that doesn’t even rise to the level of Chevron deference to the agency.
Haven’t read the decision, but this sounds like the union’s motion to dismiss was denied, which sends it back down for trial on the allegations in the complaint.
If the behavior is “arguably protected” then make that argument, in court. The SC decision just allowed the court case to go forward, it didn’t decide the case itself.
^^ This
I do not think it’s unfair to label the NYS government as “pro-criminal.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/new-york-dems-want-to-free-son-of-sam-all-serial-killers/
JFC.
OTOH, it seems a necessary step before the voters will come to their fucking senses.
I wonder if any of those prisoners would refuse parole? “No way! Too dangerous out there on the streets of NYC. I’ll take my chances here”
“Too bad. We need the space for insurrectionists. “
I say we allow Legend and Common to swap places with the people they wish to set loose.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has described having to evacuate a riotous Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 as traumatic. But Capitol Police security footage obtained by Just the News shows the long-time Democrat leader exited Hollywood-style from the home of Congress that fateful day with her daughter filming her as security officers tried to guide her through a secret safe passage corridor.
Like the fedsurrection committee, the fedsurrection was made for tv.
I don’t get the term “Hollywood-style” here. I didn’t see any explosions. And if Hollywood has taught me anything, Nancy should have been able to beat up all the J6 protesters with her Kung Fu skillz.
I think it was a reference to all the plastic surgery the “star” of the footage has had.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
Hey Tres. We are getting a new kitty this weekend so there’s that.
In Minneapolis, being a black trans woman is not enough for the True Believers. City Council president loses endorsement to white commie guy!
The white commie does know how to work the woke lingo:
Is Minneapolis a state refuge for the retarded?
Refuge, magnet, it is something for sure
Let it burn.
It used to be such a fun city.
It really makes me angry to see it fail.
Stray from the ever-changing party line, and you too can be the black trans face of white supremacy.
“I will destroy Minneapolis harder and faster!”
I also liked this sidenote:
“You get more of what you reward, less of what you punish” goes for AI too.
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/
I have doubts about this.
#metoo
But it’s amusing.
Incentives matter. There’s a lesson there alright.
*ponders meaning*
https://nypost.com/2023/06/01/trumps-cruel-attack-on-kayleigh-mcenany-is-the-final-straw-in-his-false-loyalty-schtick/
We knew this in 2015. What’s the author’s point?
The first Trump-DeSantis debate will be awesome. Trump will launch a tsunami of personal insults, invective, and general made-up shit. DeSantis has never had to do anything where he wasn’t surrounded by cronies and sycophants, and his responses will be interesting when he can’t just have them shut it down.
Irish People Try NEW American Craft Beers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q17D6q_1heM
The first beer is by Kona Brewing. We went to Hawaii in 2017 and I was drinking Kona because it’s what the tourists are supposed to drink. The thing I found most interesting about it was that it was brewed in Colorado.
Kona is part of AB-InBev, that would be why.
I don’t believe so. Kona was sold off when Craft Brew Alliance was fully acquired by Ab-InBev. The Colorado brewery is because they no longer were brewed in Craft Brew breweries (Redhook/Wilmer) for mainland distribution.
Kona does have a Hawaiian brewery and that’s most likely what DrOtto was drinking from.
Looks like at this point there’s two different Kona breweries. Looks like the Kona Brewery was spun off from CBA to a different LLC a couple years back (I missed that one).
Thanks for the update, as I try to keep track of who owns what.
yea yall don’t care for NBA but I found this funny
https://twitter.com/_JasonLT/status/1664448348357791744
Wasn’t that a South Park episode?
Yes, but this operation is more advanced in that it doesn’t require donor testicles.
AI controlled drone doesn’t like being told what to do.
AI weapons, what’s the worst that could happen? Somebody should make a movie.
Asylum films is probably on it.
Why would they have taught it about how it’s controlled? Especially since this was all in a sim, yes? I mean if it was non-live fire but IRL the drone would have noticed that it did NOT actually kill any of its targets.
I think it’s likely all horseshit. Probably some tabletop exercise and the “AI” decided to go rogue.
The guys programming the decision-making hierarchy built this deliberately to confirm that there were cases that could have this result. It was not unexpected. They’d set up a variety of trials to (try to) show that the inference operations did what they thought they would do.
The pearl-clutching it the comms from leadership is deliberately ignoring this.
Human Centipede?
I’ve already seen that movie.
Seems like the parameters of the test were wrong. The AI was thinking that unless a no command was given, it was okay to kill the SAM sites. It should have been designed to want the yes command. Then the drone would buy the comms officer a beer or something to entice a ‘yes’ order.
So some woman’s been indicted for anti-AAPI hate crimes in NYC. the news articles about it have no pictures of her, but they DO have a snap of Alvin Bragg in all his pudgy righteousness.
Anti-AAPI? American Association of Proctology Interns?
The interns NEVER use enough lube.
We’re not good enough for her.
https://www.taionews.com/2023/06/lizzo-says-shes-starting-to-hate-world.html
“Don’t worry. Fat as you are, I’m sure you won’t be around long.”
Lol – she claims she eats “…super clean and working out.” That is not the body of a gym rat.
Look fat, it might be the calories and not where the food comes from.
Ten pounds of spaghetti a night might be the issue.
I’d have a lot more respect for the fat-positivity folks if they’d just own it. “I’m lazy and I eat a lot of garbage. Fuck you, I do what I like.”
It is literally impossible for someone to choke down enough calories to support that much adipose tissue, if they’re ‘eating clean.’ So why bullshit?
if the wokies did not present her as a standard of beauty and fat acceptance no one would care much
Also if she wasn’t performing in bikinis.
Wait, doesn’t she deliberately parade her bulk around in skimpy outfits to draw attention to her body? But now she’s mad because people have noticed the enormity of her body?
She didn’t want THAT kind of attention!
Just last week she supposedly had to pass by a sign on her way to her show that said something she didn’t like. People need to stop with this offending Lizzo behavior immediately or we will lose her to a farm. Someone please think of the horses on this farm.
She’s so hungry she could eat a… oh, hey! ?
SLD: Drug crimes shouldn’t be a thing:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-identifying-man-to-be-placed-in-womens-prison-receive-nearly-500k-after-settlement
Yeah but that shouldn’t be a thing even more. I guess the ladies some dude raped in a New Jersey women’s prison was not instructive enough.
Regarding the damaged cement SC case, that’s an interesting ruling. The article says they left wet cement to spoil in their trucks. If grocery store employees go on strike, are they on the hook for food going bad on an ice table, or rotisserie chickens going bad under the heat lamp? I’m not familiar with cement or how strikes work in general, but I would think it would be management/ownership that is in charge of safeguarding their property in the case of a strike. The headline makes it look like the Teamsters took sledgehammers to the sidewalk lol
Leaving food to rot destroys inventory (expense). Leaving cement in the truck destroys capital assets.
Both are stealing but different “kinds”. Not sure how much the law cares but it’d seem to matter.
That means it hardened in the trucks and like PT said it would either destroy the equipment or create a very expensive removal. Sounds like they timed the strike to purposely destroy the employer’s trucks.
They have insurance!
-Democrats
Thanks for the info. Wasn’t trying to sound like a concern troll
Indeed. Legit question.
I liked that take. It’s a very, very fine line. If I was to use the grocery store comparison I would say that leaving cement to spoil in trucks is like grocery workers deliberately taking frozen food out of the freezer and leaving it on the floor as they walk out. A deliberate action was taken on the way out, in my explanation which would make them liable. If instead, the grocery workers had just set down their work and walked out, I would not see liability for spoilage. Such a hard call to make, because what if the meat guy had his big restock cart out, restocking the displays when the strike was called? Is leaving that a deliberate action which lead to spoilage? Or just a simple stop work?
My suspicion is the act of loading the trucks with cement knowing a strike was impending and then shutting off the barrel of the trucks is what made it a deliberate act intending to cause the most harm.
Their defense was that they left the barrels turning, which is some seriously weak sauce.
Once the water hits the mix, you’re on a clock to get that product out of the truck. It cannot slosh around indefinitely.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
In their defense, they’re members of a union, so you can’t be sure they know much.
Brawndo raises an interesting question about where to draw the line. Assuming the allegations are accurate, this was pretty clearly done to maximize damage to company property. Anyone who has any experience with unions will know that it was certainly done intentionally and maliciously. That seems a clear case for liability.
Would mere “negligence” also support liability? In the ordinary world, sure, of course. In fact, out in the ordinary world, failing to coordinate a work stoppage with ownership to minimize damage could well result in liability. Contractors do owe each other a (heavily hedged) duty to act in good faith, after all. If I’m planning to stop working under a regular contract of some kind, where the other party hasn’t breached the contract, I can absolutely expect to be hit for a claim for damages. Why would unions be any different?
Why would unions be any different?
They are the Favored Ones, peasant. Know your place, peasant.
Contract had expired. Employer was aware and proceeded as normal rather than having a contract extension in place first.
Trucks were fine as the company dumped the cement, which is where the potential damages come from.
The formal contract may have expired, but there is oodles of contract law about implied contracts that I think would apply here. If the workers kept showing up, the company would still have to pay them even though there was no formal contract. They weren’t just volunteering their time, after all, so some kind of contract was still in effect. I bet the shop stewards were still doing union shit, the union dues were still being withheld, and so forth. It’s pretty routine for contracts to have been deemed extended past a formal expiration date if both parties act as if the contract were still in effect.
There is a reason wildcat strikes are verboten. It is all kabuki theater, but it also keeps shit like this from happening.
What is a wildcat strike?
When the cougars decide to withhold their, err, services?
The Senate late Thursday passed a House-approved bill to raise the debt ceiling and cap government spending for two years, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk .
He is expected to sign it Friday and address the nation at 7 p.m. ET, just three days before the U.S. risked its first-ever sovereign debt default.
*raises another glass of Victory Gin*
this is not bad
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29780/86502/
Lizzo said she is close to “quitting” music because of the abuse she receives about her weight.
Oddly enough, I stumbled across an old ’50s rock and roll movie last night which featured Chubby Checker.
I estimated “Chubby” Checker to be about .28 Lizzos.
These days he’d be about “Average” Checker.
<emThe vote was the final chapter in a remarkable day of deal-making and rapid-fire voting in the Senate, a body that typically requires days, not hours, to deliberate over and amend House bills.
The whole house of cards was about to fall down.
Wow, Rand Paul and Elizabeth Warren voted the same. What are the odds of that?
“Top US Air Force official says he ‘mis-spoke’ when he said AI-controlled military drone went rogue and ‘KILLED’ its human operator in simulated test: ‘We’ve never run that experiment'”
Hamilton said in a statement to the conference organizers that he ‘mis-spoke’ during the presentation and that the ‘rogue AI drone simulation’ was a hypothetical ‘thought experiment’ from outside the military.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12151635/AI-controlled-military-drone-KILLS-human-operator-simulated-test.html
And then the drugs fell out of the AI’s ass.
After the AI shot itself in the balls?
This is new info.
Woo hoo! BS detector adequately calibrated!
“LTG Brewster confirmed that was zero danger from any actual AI program,”
3 star denial? Someone just saw his career termination light turn red.
Good morning!
I’ll leave you to provide your own music and move along with my day.
My morning music.
“Cleveland police chief sounds the alarm after nearly THIRTY children are reported missing in two weeks as he says ‘we don’t know whether they’re being trafficked, involved in gang activity or drugs'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12150015/Police-chief-sounds-alarm-nearly-THIRTY-Cleveland-children-reported-missing-two-weeks.html
WTF, Cleveland?
First I’m hearing about it.
That’s exactly what you would say!
Look, do you want cheap artisanal orphans or not?
LOL
We demand the right to act without consequences
The Supreme Court dealt a serious blow on Thursday to a core protection of workers, the right to strike. The court held that unions can be sued for the “foreseeable” damages their strikes cause employers — a sweeping threat to the federally protected right, because virtually all strikes (and employer lockouts) pose a “foreseeable” danger of harm. That’s why they are an effective and essential tool for labor.
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Now that the court has opened the door to holding unions liable for the economic consequences of their strikes, the question will be where the line will be drawn. Unfortunately, the justices give no answer to that question — and that uncertainty in itself will chill unions from exercising their federally protected right to strike.
What’s a little spoilt concrete and damaged trucks when economic justice s on the line?
Ask the Florida East Coast Railroad!
Interesting discussion up thread about this, but even though work stoppages are foreseeable and predictable, they aren’t inevitable as far as I know. When contract negotiations break off, that’s when the work stoppages/strike starts.
A few years ago, I worked for a grocery store and one of the competitors in the area was unionized. They went on strike right before Easter and all of those hams weren’t sold (and as a result their customers came to us and we ran out of hams way before we were expected to). It’s an effective strategy to threaten a strike when the company is entering an expected profitable time, but there is a difference between deliberate damage and missing out on expected sales. Not that I expect the courts to understand that distinction.
“‘Little Mermaid’ slammed by black activist for ‘erasing’ slavery: ‘Dangerous’
“A world in which the very idea of race for the main characters seems to be subverted, consciously ignored and at the same time Black beauty is celebrated, needs to be applauded,” Ryder wrote in a blog post.
He continued, “While the importance of casting the Little Mermaid as a Black woman has been commented on in numerous articles the casting of the other roles is also worth a mention … At the same time the Little Mermaid’s father is White while her Mermaid sisters are of various different races and ethnicities. Race as a social construct, as we know it, clearly does not exist underwater.”
However, in the blog, titled “Disney’s the Little Mermaid, Caribbean Slavery, and Telling the Truth to Children,” Ryder points out that the movie appears to take place in the Caribbean in the 18th century during a time of African chattel slavery — yet the islanders depicted in the film seem to live in a world free of this inhumanity.
“In this setting, I do not think we do our children any favors by pretending that slavery didn’t exist,” he wrote. “For me Disney’s preference to try and wish the inconvenient truth away says more about the adult creatives than it does about children’s ability to work through it.””
https://nypost.com/2023/06/02/little-mermaid-slammed-by-activist-for-erasing-slavery/
OFFS!!
Ten bucks says that person did not complain at all about the whitewashed (lol) depiction of historical chattel slavery in The Woman King.
I went through my entire schooling up through university and beyond without really knowing much about slavery. Aside from some mentions of slaves in the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman worlds, slavery is presented as something that was wholly revived from those civilizations to something white Europeans practiced against Africans from the late 1500’s up until the Civil War. Almost zero mention is made of the far greater both in numbers and time length of the Arab slave trade. Absolutely zero mention is made of the Barbary Coast era slaving of Europeans by North Africans that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries and stole up to 1 million from Ireland, Spain and coastal Europe and sold them in markets in North Africa and beyond. Absolutely zero mention is made that 90% of the Atlantic slave trade was between the Caribbean, Brazil and West African tribes by slavers from predominantly three European states. Absolutely zero mention made that slavery existed not just as a de facto occurrence (and still does) but as a de jure institution in parts of the African and Arab world until the 1950’s to 80’s due to outside pressure. All of this is done purposefully to take away any context to that horrible human practice that has been going on for as long as recorded history across most, if not all, human societies.
I was taught most of the latter facts at my lefty college.
King Triton = Thomas Jefferson.
There is no satisfying these maroons. When will anyone learn?
The central issue in the Glacier case was whether the National Labor Relations Act, which protects the right of employees to strike, precludes a state court from imposing liability on a union for the economic consequences of a strike.
The court’s new approach is inconsistent with the approach taken for more than half a century. In 1959, in San Diego Building Trades Council vs. Garmon, the Supreme Court ruled that state court proceedings should be paused to allow the National Labor Relations Board to determine whether the union’s conduct was, or was arguably, protected or prohibited by the National Labor Relations Act.
Courts should defer to the famously impartial and evenhanded NLRB.
All hail the Administrative State!
Odd, it looks like a bunch of big accounts either deleted all their tweets, there is technical problem, or someone at Twitter is fucking around.
I am beginning to suspect some clandestine sabotage. Elon is weeding out people here and there that opposed him yet stayed on. And finding malicious hidden code from years ago that “no one knew about.” This may be the last ditch effort to harm the company prior to the last bits of garbage being thrown out.
While you are here, next week’s movie is “Cocaine Shark.” It’s brand-spankin’ new so finding a download copy could take a bit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc0mGM8B8oA
OK, thanks. Cocaine Bear was kind of disappointing.
HAHAHA
And this won’t be?
In all seriousness, my scan through showed some gore and middle of the road CGI, indicating it should be an entertaining ride. Here’s hoping the actors aren’t made of wood. That might be the only thing that spoils it. This is one of the films that I posted blind, meaning I have not watched it end to end.
I started last night’s movie earlier. I had to turn the subtitles on. So, I will pick it up after work sometime next week.
Sounds straightforward
According to the text of the bill available on the state government website, the California legislation would require online platforms with at least 50 million monthly active U.S. users, a billion worldwide active users or U.S. net annual sales or market cap over $550 billion to pay a “usage fee” to eligible digital journalism providers who want it. Payments would be calculated based on the amount of each outlet’s news products the platform displayed or linked to. The parties would use an arbitration process to come up with the percentage of the platform’s advertising revenue that would make up the usage fee.
That’ll show those parasites at facebook.
It’s pretty black letter law that you can’t impose special taxes on newspapers. I don’t know why that wouldn’t also apply to online “press” outlets.
What’s with the Malice interviews lately? This week is Roseanne and I only made it about 15 minutes. Any of y’all make it through the whole thing?
Hmm, I thought the Roseanne interview was fine. She’s old, talks slow and rambly, but it was entertaining enough while I mowed.
Plus the week before was Dave Smith smacking down Kisin.
I haven’t seen it yet.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/outrageous-childrens-choir-stopped-mid-performance-while-singing/
Commie rat fuckers.
This can’t be real. Protest. You mean insurrection. I can’t even guess at what reading the US constitution especially the granted powers section would be. Outright treason probably.
Well, at least they didn’t shoot the kids.
I really like the one where he read the Constitution after ending all the fighting in the future revolution.
William! Shatner!
Defund the Capitol Police.
“You’ve seen “What Is A Woman?”
Now watch our explosive, controversial documentary… “What Is A Man?”
Full movie now on Twitter:”
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1664639390470090754
LOLOLOLOL
Oh my, that’s a home run!
I’m only 2:28 into it — does the marketing department credits take up the rest of it?
Yep!
“This is a major problem. I will be actively lobbying to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent.
Shame on those who advocate this! It is utterly contemptible.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664442091798159361
Glad somebody is finally doing a study on this. We need stats, fast on how many kids are unhappy post surgical intervention. Gotta save kids from terrible mistakes. Seems like only statistics may stop it.
I hope not because useful statistics seem impossible.
“🌈Twitter Trans Month of Rage is underway. Twitter saboteurs seem to be playing games with view counts, even those of Democrats like RFK. h/t @SharylAttkisson”
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1664655115909734400
All commies can do is gum up gears and force unpopular legislation. This is getting old.
This was stimulated by the release of What Is A Woman (see below) on Twitter, which his staff immediately squashed. For most of the evening you couldn’t like, share, reTweet, anything. He caught a lot of heat, and promised to fix it this morning. It seems like it may be fixed. I was able to like it an hour ago or so.
It ended up pulling Musk into a full right wing position.
He seems to have the same problem many of us libertarians have suffered since Trump came along. The left keeps going so far over the line, you feel compelled to push back. This exact phenomenon lead me to write “stop making me defend Trump!” About a hundred times, until I just quit putting that part in.
That is where Elon seems to be. He got pilloried for trying to keep his factory in Allemeda open (he had procedures in place that he said showed that they had less transmission in his factory than in the general public) and ever since, he keeps getting pushed farther and farther away from his leftist political home.
Here is the update from that story:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-meet-new-twitter-same-old-twitter
He also fired the person in charge of the DeSantis campaign launch event. I have no doubt that was also deliberate. The mice run deep.
That is pretty amazing.
I wonder how you miss the memo.
Musk will absolutely tolerate a multimillion dollar mistake, or someone jumping the chain of command to fix a perceived safety issue. But he does not suffer fools for even a moment.
Daily Wire has released “What is a Woman” on Twitter. While Musk was away, the mice locked it down. He got that changed over night.
So I watched it. As political documentaries go, it is pretty decent.
The clips that have been shared pretty much represent the entire setup, which is probably 4/5 of the movie. What hasn’t been shared is the ending, which is a call to action.
I haven’t really seen anyone talking about this. He doesn’t just hold up a mirror to show their muddled thinking on gender, bit He concludes with a call to stand up to the push to transition kids.
I suppose this is the thing that has the left calling it “hate speech”.
It feels like a bit of a moment, the posting of this screed on Twitter. It isn’t monetized there.. but it can now be shared. I don’t know if they are throttling the reach to random people, but the ability of a right wing screed to go viral has been severely limited for the last decade, so it subjectively feels like it means something if this thing gets seen by millions after initially being suppressed as “hate speech”.
Fahrenheit 9/11 did like $6 million at the box office. That would be maybe a half million people paying to see it. Probably 10x that many have seen “what is a woman” on daily Wire. It would be cool if that number doubled on Twitter.
I saw “What is a Woman” when it first came out. I liked the bit where Walsh is talking with the Masai about woke shit. I also liked the academic tying himself in knots to avoid defining a woman.
That was the real strength. Playing the straight man and just letting the people speak for themselves. The tribesmen really put a button on it. They found the entire topic absurd.
I also enjoyed how quickly the “experts” got offended by simple, direct questions. They have themselves so tied in knots with their language constructs that they don’t ever confront what anything means.
I walked the same path with a friend of the wife who has a PhD in “studies” and works for NGOs. She is the most racist person I know, but she doesn’t realize it at all. Playing “what does X really mean” with her has produced some golden moments. And just like these folks, instead of stopping to confront the contradictions and holes in her philosophy, she turns to rage.
I remember when the Red Pill came out. I convinced the girlfriend to give it a shot, and she was shocked by what the documentary showed.
“Just the facts” isn’t allowed anymore. It is weird. That was a theme of the documentary as well.
I have run into that on the book banning debate. Many people are all worked up because they believe Hitler… no, Super-Hitler is banning all books about history and being gay.
They cannot be convinced that there were actual books that incited this reaction. When I describe the books, every person I have argued with says I am lying. So then I pull up the pictures and show them. Almost always they pivot to a defensiveness that doesn’t allow that any such books were ever in any elementary school library.
Booming
The May jobs report released Friday showed the US economy remains strong with more than 300,000 jobs created last month, while the unemployment rate rose to 3.7%.
The US economy added 339,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. This marks the 14th-straight month that job creation came in above what Wall Street economists had expected and the largest monthly increase since January.
Friday’s report comes less than two weeks before the Federal Reserve’s next policy meeting, with investors still expecting the central bank will pause its rate hiking campaign despite the labor market’s surprising resilience. Data from the CME Group on Friday showed there remains a 70% chance the Fed leaves rate unchanged in a range of 5%-5.25%.
The Biden Recovery rages on.
Meanwhile, my benchmark for inflation – a 2 liter of Diet Mountain Dew – was going for over $5.50 this week at Publix. Walmart is a bargain at $2.58.
Pre-pandemic my benchmark price was $1.25. I would not pay over that price. This was a big deal, because that price had been set at $1.00 since 1983. 2 liter soda prices have been remarkably stable for 30 years. The “sale” price has always been a buck, even as the list price has fluctuated up over $2.00
Until now. Now, finding it for less than $2.50 is rare.
And yet they insist that inflation is in the 6% range.
They are nuts.
The last time we had this discussion, I lamented that Ribeye had gone to nearly $15 per pound. It is almost $19. In this calendar year. That is 25%….. so annualized it would be much more…. but at least we know that it is more than 6% for the year.
Toilet paper has gone from $9 for the giant block from Costco to over $30 since the pandemic. You can’t get to 300% over a couple of years at 8% annual inflation.
Wegman’s strips are $11.69/lb locally.
Those enormous porterhouses I had over the weekend were on sale at $9.99/lb.
Wow. I need to shop there…..
Looks like the closest one is a 13 hour drive.
Hmmm…. prolly not gonna save enough to make it worth the drive.
The porterhouses were at the Fresh Market and on sale for the week. The sale does happen fairly frequently though.
This has been stable ~ $15/lb for the last several years (started buying them during the pandemic), FWIW:
https://shop.wegmans.com/product/45623/wegmans-choice-rib-eye-steak-family-pack
Near me, Walmart has the most consistent price and selection. Currently $18.
Beef Prime Ribeye Steak, 0.5 – 1.9 lb https://www.walmart.com/ip/586334160
Publix is more. Usually better. Whole foods? No clue. Can’t afford that place.
Aldi is the only place I buy steaks these days. You can get sirloin under $10 sometimes, but it usually isn’t the best cut.
Ribeye is about $15, not always available, and often inferior cuts.
Apparently we need Wegmans.
My daughter is a steak fiend. She bought 3 “shoulder steaks” for herself this week. I have never seen this cut. Had a nice look in the package… a little lean. And had I tough ligament right down the middle.
She cooked them up rare in some garlic butter and they came out pretty great. She is quite the chef, and earns her own money to fund her hobby, so daddy is proud.
Then mom wanted a taste and asked her to cook a piece medium for her. Sigh… (Yes, it was shoe leather at medium)
While searching for Gemini featured Illos, I found this that shows how little things have really changed in the past 20 years:
https://www.salon.com/2003/05/30/coors/
By industry, the largest increases in Friday’s data were seen in business and services which added 64,000 jobs.
In Government, 56,000 jobs were added last month. Health care also drove labor gains with 52,000 job additions in May. Leisure and hospitality added 48,000 jobs, with 33,000 of those roles coming in the food services and drinking places category.
Construction added 25,000 jobs in May, a 7,000 role increase from its 12-month average.
In a statement, President Biden said, “Today is a good day for the American economy and American workers.”
In Government, 56,000 jobs were added last month. Good union jobs for life.
I don’t think you can have a country if half or more of the workforce works in government or for government contractors.
Certainly not a free country, anyway. (Google says we are currently around 15% direct government employees. Couldn’t find a number that includes contractors. I don’t think that includes the military either.)
It’s complete bullshit regardless.
And yesterday there were revised numbers from BLS – all way down.
Well, if the heretofore unbroken pattern of labor statistics under Biden continues, we will see a revision in a few months that reduces those numbers by 50 – 90%.
Speaking of prices, gas is up about fifty cents in the past month or so; almost back to 4 bucks.
I bought some roast beef at the deli counter the other day. I don’t buy it often, so I don’t have a handle on price fluctuations. it wasn’t cheap. However, it was fucking horrible. I made a sammich with it and it was barely edible. What’s left is going in the trash.
We’re round $5.00/gallon in Tucson. I’ve broken out my supply of “I Did That!” Biden stickers* again.
*The good vinyl ones that come off pretty easy. I got no beef with the employees who have to deal with them.
Those stickers must work.
I saw a great deal of rage directed at them on Reddit recently.
I go there for space news, and because of that, I get anything about Elon Musk pushed at me. They have entire groups devoted to trashing Musk (did you know he is a Nazi?) And the other politics bleeds in with it. Those stickers have a special place for the rage of these people.
They actually project a sense of worship onto Biden. Twitter was flooded with people attacking anyone even mentioning Biden tripping. Scarborough had a tweet praising Biden for a bunch of stupid stuff that he didn’t do and isn’t great, but he mentioned that Biden stumbled … so the brigades were out to scream at him for daring to suggest that anything less than intentional sabotage had occurred.
Those stickers should be Joe pointing out of the gas pump, captioned ‘YOU did this!’