Sorry, still a little short on time. Late night last night. But like I said, back to normal next week.
Previews of Links Yet To Come: NPR Lady got to spend time with SugarFree. This was after I sent her the last The Hat and the Hair. Here’s how that dialog went:
“So do you want my actual opinion or should I be polite and keep it to myself?”
“Take it up with SugarFree, you’ll see him this weekend.”
“You think it’s funny. It’s you I’m worried about.”
Hijinx ensued. More stories later.
I just have time for a few birthdays, including a guy who was truly good; a guy who truly loved his Hebes; an inventor of electronic jizz; a guy who was only famous because New York; a guy who wishes you many happy returns; a guy who showed us Cybill Shepard naked; a guy who lent his name to Casio; the only governor who we’ve all seen naked; proof that presentation skills are far more important than actual cooking chops; and the owner of the pussy that can be used to cure 13 year old boys of sex-obsession.
Onward.
I’m shocked that a school founded by one of the dumbest people on the planet is making kids dumb.
In case you thought that Team Red had leanings toward smaller government.
Really, it was the yoga that pissed him off.
Who woulda thought this relationship wasn’t going to last?
Indians have nothing better to do than we do.
Old Guy Music is because I just love these guys.
“NPR Lady got to spend time with SugarFree.”
Do we need to call someone?
No, it’s more about who she is going to call.
Ghost Cat Busters?
😁
“The studio specializes in Bikram yoga where temperatures range from 95 to 104 degrees, hence the name.”
Then they had it coming.
The Nazi punk wrote “Nazi punk fuck off” next to a swastika…?
Is it possible we’re just dealing with someone who might not be bright enough to understand what he was doing?
Isn’t that a song?
I can think of one that seems appropriate, though it was about Blair.
Relevant
Yeah it sounds like the vandal assumed the owner was a Nazi
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-daily-news-hate-crime-arrest-20230729-ackzya7iy5cg7l5hkdfqa4nfla-story.html
If only he was a looter or carjacker, they’d let him go.
dot dot dot
Oh noes! Those nasty hard core hoobits ^W conservatives! How dare they not give the Fed an increase this year! What a nasty “spending cut” to not increase the spending YoY. We hates them, Precious!
Ugh… morning, all. Thanks as ever for the links, OMWC.
“Describing herself as “a pure vegetarian” who doesn’t even eat eggs”
Pssst…milk isn’t a vegetable.
“Some also pointed to the research that most Indians who eat meat follow some sort of dietary laws and traditions. For example, many meat-eating Hindus shun beef while Muslims avoid pork.”
Good thing they did research.
I thought that was self-evident from their love of cricket.
Reminds of kosher people eating off paper plates in restaurants where kosher meals were brought in for them.
Has NPR Lady been introduced to the pleasures of Subaru Horror Theater? I’m sure she’d enjoy it immensely. Since she’s interested in you, she certainly doesn’t drive one herself – she must be a Prius Lady.
100% correct. Prius.
I sent her the SHT about the dog and the baby head. She quite enjoyed it.
I…don’t know whether that’s a good thing or not…
Well, at least she is literate, unlike a lot of NPRs.
But seriously, she sounds a lot like my mom (who was an actual NPR lady), only she would be too old even for OMWC.
Hi guys….
News from the protest front.
The lighthorse nation (https://www.chickasaw.net/our-nation/government/lighthorse-police.aspx) came buy for the forth time yesterday.
It seems many people are upset at my wife’s topless tractoring as a protest of what has happened with the “lot split” that the developer has done.
Now it seems to me that after all the pics and video’s that the police have received an arrest just aint happening.
Meanwhile a county sheriff chastised wife for her way of protesting on FB and sort of threatened to release all the pics and videos he has received.
I have had great interactions with Lighthorse, one officer has trouble from laughing.
Tonight an upside down pineapple flag goes up.
Then probably a star trek mirror universe flag
Then maybe a barbie flag
then maybe a D20 flag.
Our new neighbors need to know who we are.
What is a good glibs flag?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094XG6WNH?tag=bravesoftwa04-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1&language=en_US
Great minds…! 😄
:internet high-five:
Do you have a “No Step on Snek” flag? I believe it was revealed that Forged in Fire multi-time champion and judge Ben Abbott has one in his home forge – it showed up at some point during the pandemic when the judges had a competition among themselves from their respective home bases.
https://ultimateflags.com/collections/whiskey-rebellion-flag/
I would think this would be appropriate. Not sure if it is the right size being a “lawn and garden” thing.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClqYSy2WIAEH_42.jpg
Gladsden Flag.
Do Not Tread on Happy Snek?
“Extraordinary photos of July’s extreme weather
It is a summer of extremes. Burning temperatures followed by raging fires. Wild storms and torrential rain. And a run of broken climate records.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-bcea7bff-641f-4cbf-b091-26491409fbdc
Oh, fuck off.
TREMBLE IN FEAR.
Have you noticed the tweets by climate skeptics showing how the measurements have changed? The hysterics are running short of data so they are manufacturing it.
I haven’t noticed anything on Twitter since the lockdown.
While I understand Elon’s concerns about data gathering, having free speech doesn’t work when you keep people from hearing it.
Whiskey Rebellion, of course!
Now about those topless pics…
Hrm. Meant as a reply for robodruid.
She has certainly embraced this protest.
What is worse is that my mom is visiting this week.
She is also at a no-Fu*s mood.
Then this seems appropriate: https://ultimateflags.com/products/we-the-people-are-pissed-flag/
Topless pictures of your mom for OMWC?
/ducking
Nice use of the past tense NYT.
New York City Had a Migrant Crisis. It Hired a Covid Expert to Help.
Paywall
All those unvaxed illegal immigrants, and the US wouldn’t let Novak Djokovic in.
Dumb, poor, brown people can be excused; rich white guy, not so much.
You just have to LOL at the whole thing.
The fake “work papers”, the mafia tactics from the “no-bid contractor”. It’s the New York Way.
It’s perfect. Including the pivot after the COVID graft dried up.
Have you noticed the tweets by climate skeptics showing how the measurements have changed? The hysterics are running short of data so they are manufacturing it. It reads like a joke the rest of us would make about NYC.
Just downloaded the state’s Performance Index Rankings for ’21-’22 by individual school (“building” but includes online schools.) Out of 3322 ranked schools, LeBron’s “I Promise” school is listed as 3287. My high school (Dayton Public, and within whose historical district boundaries I still live) came in at 3262, and my elementary school (also Dayton Public and which was K-8 when I attended – don’t know what grades are there now) was all the way up at 3134. 🙄
In the day of staged everything I’ll be cautious assuming that a guy just happened to be at his local bar and witnessed the lowering of the tap for the final time.
https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1684392385961230337?s=20
Should have added another Yuengling tap. Maybe their Black and Tan?
Bartender lass has a nice rack.
I just drank one of those. Tasty beer.
“Tennessee woman, 33, is charged with filming her own pet DOG performing a sex act on her – after search warrant uncovers a slew of disgusting child pornography”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12352357/Tennessee-woman-33-charged-filming-pet-DOG-performing-sex-act-her.html
She seems nice.
Not the doggy style you were thinking?
It doesn’t say what the sex act was.
I assume it involves peanut butter.
That was my first thought, unfortunately.
Seems apropos.
“Strange” seems insufficient.
I can’t find why she was arrested by Memphis police for digital crimes; all the headlines here are clear that she is from Collierville in the outer county where presumably the deeds occurred
without regard to her case, I will say that suburbanites should be terrified of the county jury pool: the jury of their peers will not be a dozen homeroom moms from some quiet Presbyterian K-6
I always heard stories of people who did this, and pre-internet, assumed it was just urban legend.
“Dana Rivers, 68, who previously went by David Chester Warfield before transitioning to female, brutally shot and stabbed lesbian couple Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright, before turning the gun on their 19-year-old adopted son Benny Diambu-Wright in November 2016.
But a 2021 California law allowing criminals to request their prison based on their gender identity has allowed Rivers to wreak havoc in Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California.
Decades before her horrific crime, Rivers was a renowned transgender activist who made national headlines in 1999 after being fired from her teaching job for transitioning genders, and angering faculty by reportedly discussing ‘sexuality and the importance of gender self-determination’ with students.
The couple and their son were murdered by Rivers in a hate crime after the transgender activist was banned from attending a women-only lesbian festival in 2016”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12345365/Trans-activist-Dana-Rivers-murdered-lesbian-couple-19-year-old-son-hate-crime-preying-inmates-womens-prison-California.html
Decades before her horrific crime,
“His”, thank you very much.
I’d go with “her” because this isn’t someone just claiming to be trans just to get out going to men’s prison.
“His”. I’m not living a lie.
I’m pretty much done playing that game.
Well, I’m not going to be illiterate just to “own the libs” or whatever you think you’re accomplishing.
I’m with tater. Any adult who does the full surgery gets called by their new gender.
Most MTF don’t get bottom surgery, and “full” FTM is technological impossible. That doesn’t mean they can’t present as feminine or masculine.
I think part of issue that some people want to focus on the troons and transtrenders, and ignore passable trans people. Although, it’s not like they are going to be reported in the news just for being trans.
“angering faculty by reportedly discussing ‘sexuality and the importance of gender self-determination’ with students.”
So, fired for good cause, regardless of the gender nonsense.
Exactly
Shank that SOB
“I’m so proud of what we’ve done,” said Jackson Vincent, a relief staff member, adding: “Unionizing, organizing, has even just made the atmosphere and the way that we support each other — regardless of things that need to change — so much better in the workplace.”
Urban Peak was established in 1988 as an overnight shelter in a church basement and has expanded to include daytime shelter, transitional housing and case management and support services. The organization has about 90 employees and has a budget of about $9 million for fiscal year 2023, according to Urban Peak CEO Christina Carlson. The nonprofit is funded through grants, donations and government support.
The American dream.
“My lip filler was totally botched – and I’ve been left with an ENORMOUS pout that looks like a prolapsed butthole”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12346047/My-lip-filler-totally-botched-Ive-left-ENORMOUS-pout-looks-like-prolapsed-butthole.html
I just like the headline.
“Rapper Young Thug’s Legal Team Requests to Dismiss Goat Sacrificing Ritual Video Evidence in Upcoming Trial”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/rapper-young-thugs-legal-team-requests-dismiss-goat/
Are there charges of animal cruelty? If not, then it has zero relevance.
Quiche Lorraine in a French Michelin Restaurant with Massimo Tringali – Armani*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzUmPmmQjg
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/annual-covid-shots-expected-much-like-flu-shots/
Is that mask bio-engineered to get punched in the face?
Well, I have never gotten a flu shot, but I have punched someone in the face before.
And you thought people weren’t getting enough flu shots pre COVID…
I never did before (because I didn’t see the point), and am firmly in the “Hell no” camp because of “What else might they try to slip in?”.
Same reason I’m hoping my son has nothing else forced on his schedule — I don’t trust the medical establishment anymore, they’ve burned any claim to expertise by touting the obviously fake crap for politics.
Yay.
…obviously fake crap for politics and profit!
I feel the same way. I used to get the flu shot because I thought “couldn’t hurt.”
Now I think it very well COULD cause harm and I don’t trust them to leave out experimental shit like COVID.
Got it – I will ignore them too.
It’s more of a Pavlovian response.
“It’s just this evolving process around how can we really continue to figure out what the needs are and how can we respond to them, because at the end of the day, working with youth who are experiencing homelessness and really trying to change those trajectories and provide that support, we need the best staff who have the most resources and the most time and all of those things that they need to be successful because we all care deeply about working with our youth,” she told The Denver Post.
From Vincent’s perspective, there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed. Vincent started working at Urban Peak as an intern in the fall of 2021 and then as a shelter relief staff member through their time completing a master’s in social work. They hope their organizing efforts will lead to employees with “boots on the ground” and the youth the group serves having more of a say in policy decisions, improve training and support to increase retention and creating better policies around traumatic events.
Urban Peak receives $16.7 million from the City and County of Denver’s Rebuilding for an Inclusive and Sustainable Economy bond funding, and the Department of Housing Stability has several multi-year contracts with Urban Peak, set to expire at the end of the year, that could total up to $3.44 million, according to data provided by the department.
The nonprofit also serves as a subcontractor for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless on two multi-year contracts, also set to expire at the end of this year, totaling up to about $11.78 million.
Checkbook social justice. Money is the metric. Do they accomplish anything useful or productive? Who gives a shit?
They/them pronouns give away the game.
When the state fails at its basic functions.
Dan Haar: A property owner returns to CT, finds a new $1.5M house on his land. Now police are involved
sounds like the kind of shit that would happen here
Strangely, that’s how my cabin was built. The cabin was built on land thought to be owned by the builder. After it was done he invited his nearest neighbor over who asked, “Very nice but why did you build it on my property?” They settled with the cabin builder buying 4 acres from the owner for $50. I bought the property with run down cabin from the estate of the cabin builder.
As an added twist, this is in Fairfield Township,
Dude, people are too busy saving the world from *insert current thing here* to do their jobs properly.
A libertarian friend explained things to me about 20 years ago.
I assumed that when a state budget shrank you cut off all the fluff and shrink to core services. Instead you close parks, DMV, and any office that folks actually use. You keep open everything else.
That way folks consent to raising more money from their taxes. It generally works well.
Yes. Obama used it to great effect.
They shut down the local roads around here that go through a national park even though they’re regularly used for commuter traffic.
Always protect the grift.
Instead you close parks, DMV, and any office that folks actually use.
“Make it hurt.”
I think it was Walter Williams who did a thought experiment:
Imagine a government agency that only does two things, feed starving children and put up statues of Benedict Arnold. If the state threatens the agency with budget cuts, which service is it going to cut? If you cut funding for statues of Benedict Arnold, people might start to wonder why you were funding those in the first place.
“TRUMP!!!!”
Still, the civil action in federal court lays blame on the defendants, who, the lawsuit says, “knew or should have known” that a fraud was taking place and that the person purporting to be Kenigsberg was not him. “The Defendants committed their improper acts and/or practices intentionally, with a specific intent to injure the Plaintiff and/or with a reckless disregard for the Plaintiff’s rights,” the lawsuit alleges.
I see no “specific intent” to do either thing, or both, from the people who thought they had legally purchased a piece of land upon which to build a house. Not that the original property owner should lose his land, but if his lawyer is citing some specific intent, I don’t see it.
Plaintiff attorney rule of thumb, throw it all against the wall. Whatever sticks…
It’s been awhile, but there is a lot of case law on exactly this kind of thing. I think the way it works is, the real owner never sold it, so it’s still his. All of it, including the house. I’m not sure why he’s going for damages, instead of just having the fraudulent transfer voided.
Sucks to be the developer (assuming they weren’t in on it), but as between them and the real owner, I think the real owner wins. The developer is also a victim of fraud (again assuming they weren’t in on it), and they need to go after whoever defrauded them.
Presumably the developer has title insurance and will sue the title company.
Victim blaming. Bold strategy
Stephen Curry Is On Fire While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbxVfd1bw3s
not one sip of water / milk. impressive
Restaurant can’t find help, automates, and continues to advertise for staff and still gets shit from people.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/struggling-restaurant-owner-hired-robot-help-servers-angry-messages-began
he should pay 50 an hour or something
It would be better to reduce hours or close down. Heaven forbid the owner adapts to an otherwise untenable situation.
Elon VS Zuck! – mark normand
https://youtube.com/shorts/8ir0–BcSrc?feature=share
“Over 900 mice were located at the facility. Court documents identify Wang Zhaolin as the Prestige representative onsite during the investigation. Zhaolin informed the investigators that “these mice were genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.” Court documents describe the conditions under which the mice were housed as “inhumane”…
From May 2 through May 4, the CDC’s Division of Select Agents and Toxins inspected 850 I Street. Court documents confirm the CDC found potentially infectious agents at the location. These included both bacterial and viral agents, including: chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5 and rubella. The CDC also found samples of malaria.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/china-linked-bio-lab-fresno-co-california-had/
https://midvalleytimes.com/article/news/2023/07/25/investigation-on-reedley-building-uncovers-bio-health-hazards/
What could possibly go wrong?
Weird. My first wife was from that area, Dinuba in fact, and we got married in Reedley.
When the state fails at its basic functions.
“We’re gonna need more dynamite.”
In your head, messing with your thermostat
Deadly heatwaves are baking the US. Scientists just reported that July will be the hottest month on record. And now, after years of skepticism and denial in the GOP ranks, a small number of Republicans are urging their party to get proactive on the climate crisis.
But the GOP is stuck in a climate bind – and likely will be for the next four years, in large part because they’re still living in the shadow of former president and 2024 Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
Even as more Republican politicians are joining the consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans, Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric has driven the party to the right on climate and extreme weather. Trump has called the extremely settled science of climate change a “hoax” and more recently suggested that the impacts of it “may affect us in 300 years.”
Scientists this week reported that this summer’s unrelenting heat wave would have been “virtually impossible” were it not for the planet-warming pollution from burning fossil fuels. They also confirmed that July will go down as the hottest month on record – and almost certainly that the planet’s temperature is hotter now than it has been in around 120,000 years.
Yet for being one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century, climate is rarely mentioned on the 2024 campaign trail.
“As Donald Trump is the near presumptive nominee of our party in 2024, it’s going to be very hard for a party to adopt a climate-sensitive policy,” Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, told CNN. “But Donald Trump’s not going to be around forever.”
History’s greatest monster.
They lie with such consistency by contorting and massaging the statistics that I don’t even bother to try to understand how any more. I assume they’re lying and go on with my life.
urging their party to get
proactive on the climate crisisin on the griftare joining the consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans
Science is done by consensus. It is known.
the extremely settled science
Lie harder. Lie extreme.
summer’s unrelenting heat wave
Relents when summer is over.
and almost certainly that the planet’s temperature is hotter now than it has been in around 120,000 years.
That’s the thing about measuring temperature at airports and comparing that to temps derived from isotopes in ice core samples.
“extremely settled science”
Fuck. Off.
I don’t think Mittens Romney is history’s *greatest* monster….
Nooga, please.
The Chattanooga Lookouts, the minor league affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, has pulled a new tee shirt off the racks after fans and social media users said the graphic on the shirt was racist.
The Lookouts, a AA minor league squad, tried to take the shortened version of their hometown name – “Nooga” – and combine that with a pair of eyes for “Lookouts” in place of the “O’s” in Nooga.
Despite the obvious spelling difference, social media users concluded that the play on words too closely resembled the n-word.
I don’t see the problem.
People don’t like niggardly banning things no matter how tangential to racial slurs.
Such niggling.
I would wear that shirt while ordering a Negroni.
Let’s just cancel the letter “n” from the alphabet, then no one can misinterpret something as being the “N word.”
Some of the 12 Appropriations subcommittee chairs — the so-called cardinals — told reporters that they are struggling to see where those additional cuts could come from, as September’s shutdown deadline looms.
“Struggling”? It should be easy.
Everyone’s budget takes a 10% hit, next year another 10%. If the manager can’t figure it out he/she gets fired and the next person, then the next. After several managers have come and gone someone will start making decisions.
Call it inflation, same problem we live all live with now.
You don’t even have to actually cut year to year spending. Just stop the growth.
The Dead South is good.
I think I discovered them thanks to Suthenboy posting them here.
The Lookouts, a AA minor league squad, tried to take the shortened version of their hometown name – “Nooga” – and combine that with a pair of eyes for “Lookouts” in place of the “O’s” in Nooga.
Should have made the Os into baseballs.
And told the concern trolls to fuck off.
A pair of balls was definitely needed there.
Early on in their history (about 20-some years ago,) the Dayton Dragons, one of the Reds’ single-A teams, sold some of the other Reds-affiliated minor league teams’ gear in their shop. The Lookouts’ cap, with just the eyes logo, was great looking. TT still regrets not having acquired one, though he now has a cap with just the Dragon’s eyes on the crown.
“This fall’s class of eighth graders at the I Promise School hasn’t had a single student pass the state’s math test since the group was in the third grade.”
Pffft. We don’t teach math; how were their scores in wokery?
“the owner of the pussy that can be used to cure 13 year old boys of sex-obsession”
I’m not longer horny, but I suddenly want a pastrami sandwich.
Their wokery is wonkey, honkey!
If they get what they really want we will be using candles.
Starting next week, Americans will only be able to purchase LED lights from retailers across the nation as an official ban on incandescent lightbulbs will go into effect.
Come Tuesday, while it won’t be illegal to own incandescent light bulbs, it will be illegal for stores to sell them and companies to manufacture them.
The federal government’s warnings started in January and have been getting progressively more aggressive as they want to make sure Americans don’t go back in time. The government announced a ban on the manufacturing and selling of incandescent bulbs, saying it will help Americans save money and help the environment.
Everyone will have to purchase LED or compact fluorescent light bulbs instead.
Making candles harms the environment too much. Darkness it is.
“last 25 times longer than incandescent”
Bullshit.
““These updated regulations are not an attempt to ban or take away appliances like gas stoves, light bulbs, or dishwashers,” Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said.”
Also, bullshit.
Since she said it out loud, you know it’s a lie.
“Everyone will have to purchase LED or compact fluorescent light bulbs instead.”
“Halogen bulbs and compact fluorescent lights will also be banned”
https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/tech/energy-department-light-bulb-ban/
“Starting in July, DOE will make manufacturing or selling most incandescent light bulbs illegal.”
So no one actually voted for this.
I dislike CFLs, but don’t mind LEDs.
Platinum, dirty or bleached we all love ’em on Slutty Sunday.
https://archive.is/BmkUg
#1 is fantastic.
#2 is GlibFit.
This has to be making Democrats salivate.
Wait, “sexually transmitted debt?” WTF?
Alimony?
But the biggest and most enduring difference between the two parties is that Republicans want fossil fuels – which are fueling climate change with their heat-trapping pollution – to be in the energy mix for years to come.
Democrats, meanwhile, have passed legislation to dramatically speed up the clean energy transition and prioritize the development of wind, solar and electrical transmission to get renewables sending electricity into homes faster.
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Democrats want to pass more climate legislation if they take back a full majority in Congress. He later told CNN the GOP is “way behind” on climate and there’s been “too little” progress on the party’s stances.
“I think we’d get a lot more done with a Democratic House, a Democratic president and continuing to have a Democratic Senate,” Schumer told CNN. “Unfortunately, if you look at some of the Republican House and Senate Super PACs, huge amounts of money come from gas, oil and coal.”
By all means. Let’s stop passing these frivolous half measures and focus on completely destroying the economy. We can do it, America.
fossil fuels – which are fueling climate
Assumes facts not in evidence.
In about 2 years NY is going to show us how well renewables work during summer and winter. I hope it serves as a lesson to the rest of the country.
Family should arrive here in ~40 or so. Including 8 and 10 y.o. nephews. No SiL w the youngest who just turned 3.
I cleaned up quite well. But it’s a funny place I live in. Very much Evan’s Standard of Living Housing. Students, young no kids like me, old folk. Not rich people. Happy to leave each other alone.
Well. I’m oddly so nervous about this. And bro is I can tell not pleased with me, nor should/would he be, given what he predicted and what’s occurred. To the detriment of myself/him/family/others. Meh. Did my best. Hopefully this goes as easily as possible. I think I’m going to be driving a 15′ foot U-Haul. I have to pick it up. I have never done either.
To be fair, I highly doubt they’ll even ask me to try and drive it. Hrm. Ok, Ev. Settle down a skotch.
Just breathe. This is your family. You got this.
It’s time to ban the opposition.
A lot of Americans are up for grabs. I wouldn’t dismiss it as just something only people on the right or watching Fox News latch on to. We are in a battle for hearts and minds and there [are] people [who] are on the fence.
You got to have leaders and messages and messengers and programs to get to those people that bring them over into community organizing and into non-profit organizations and away from the Patriot Front and Oathkeepers.
I think the parallels of 9/11 are important. We talked about this before. After 9/11, the laws didn’t work. They made massive changes to respond to a new threat. I think we have to face the fact that many structures, laws and policies may not work. After 9/11 we created the Department of Homeland Security, there was the PATRIOT Act. There was massive change in our entire society to face the number one threat, or at least what was communicated as the number one threat.
We need the same kind of tectonic shift.
Patriot Front is a psy-op and Oathkeepers is already treated like a terrorist org by the regime simply for believing in traditional American values.
“the national security state’s counterterrorism apparatus, which was once pointed abroad ostensibly to fight Islamic fundamentalist terror post-9/11, slowly turned inward (as these things always are) to target domestic political opponents of the regime”
If only someone could have foreseen this happening?
You don’t even have to actually cut year to year spending. Just stop the growth.
You want to drown the baby in the washtub!
https://archive.is/6HmDp/f9e0653cc314db54259eeb7a71864e80dd20a7a7.jpg
One way or another, you *always* pay for it.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/23245940/wife-paid-intimacy-used-sex-worker/
Reminds me of the joke about the newlyweds who decided to save money for a house down payment by putting $10 in a jar every time they made love. After a year or so, hubby decides to count the money in the jar.
“Hey, there’s some twenties and even a few fifties in this jar. I don’t remember putting that much in.”
“Well, dear, not every man is as cheap as you.”
Everyone will have to purchase LED or compact fluorescent light bulbs instead.
Finally. We’re saved!
I thought incandescent bulbs were banned under Bush?
I seem to remember Trump reversing something.
That, of course, cannot stand.
Correct.
Bush started it. Trump reversed it. Biden undid what Trump did.
I got some at estate sales in the recent past. Nice to have in winter.
At my former workplace, they switched from the long fluorescent tubes to LED tubes.
All the beautiful potted plants, some of which were fairly elaborate and reached across several cubicles. started dying. LEDs don’t have the right spectrum of light unless you purchase special expensive ones.
“Regrettably, the issue of climate change is currently being held hostage to the culture wars in America,” Edward Maibach, a professor of climate communication at George Mason University and a co-founder of a nationwide climate polling project conducted with Yale University, told CNN in an email. “Donald Trump’s climate denial stance will have a chilling effect on the climate positions of his rivals on the right — even those who know better.”
It’s not a culture war, it’s a holy war, led by death cult religious fanatics desperate to appease their angry god.
People won’t just swallow our bullshit hook, line and sinker! IT’S NOT FAIR!
1. No one is pushing transgender on your kids.
2. There are only a few fringe types pushing transgender on your kids.
3. Yes, the Boy Scouts are sponsoring a transgender booth.
4. You transphobes have started a culture war.
😂🤣
Orwell nods sagely.
That’s the whole enchilada right there.
His entire career is predicated on selling DOOM
“a professor of climate communication”
Nice work if you can get it?
Being in the grips of a continuing hot summer you cant have my fucking AC culture war or not
Biden undid what Trump did.
ERASE HIM.
Bad day at Oshkosh. Isn’t there somebody here who’s an EAA guy?
Uh oh… what happened?
B’gosh.
How it begins
Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday.
Mateusz Morawiecki said at a news conference that the mercenaries had moved close to the Suwalki Gap, a strategic stretch of Polish territory situated between Belarus and Kaliningrad, a Russian territory separated from the mainland.
Poland is a member of both the European Union and NATO, and it has worried about its security with Russian ally Belarus and Ukraine on its eastern border.
They all want to invade Poland.
For the pierogi.
If the crack Polish army can’t handle 100 neo-nazi mercs, then NATO is in real trouble. How many F-16s will Dr. Jill’s husband be sending them?
Last year the Glibs separatists at SP Fest joined us on Zoom. Just saying.
What makes one a “Glib separatist”?
Looks like the Raid did the trick.
👍🏼 Hope you made it through the battle relatively unscathed. (Did you say they got you on the ear?)
Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor’s unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
Sounds like a self-correcting problem.
WTF is happening in Anchorage that they have a homeless problem?
WTF is happening that a married couple can’t afford $800 a month rent?
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it’s “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Maybe those hotshots from Denver can help.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
Bums seem to thrive in San Diego.
I blame immigrants driving up housing costs
The cost of living started my shoplifting’: Why stealing goods is on the rise
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66049150
Ash is now employed, earning just over £1,000 a month, which is about a third less than the London Living Wage, a calculation of what we need to earn to afford essentials.
“If I was earning enough I’d probably stop [stealing]. At the moment I have to choose between paying for food or being able to go out to see my friends. I shouldn’t have to make that choice.”
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Lola, a 23-year-old student at Oxford University, may not be the type of person who springs to mind when someone thinks of a shoplifter.
“I only steal things I need but I can’t afford. Like instant coffee. How’s it £7?” she says.
Lola is living off a £12,000 student loan while she completes her Masters. She doesn’t get any help from her parents. After paying rent, she says she struggles to afford basic items so has turned to shoplifting.
“I’m a student and I can barely afford to eat. It should be everyone’s right to afford a shop a week.”
When asked why she doesn’t buy cheaper products she said she prefers the taste. Because she used to be able to afford it, she’s gotten used to it.
…
They never say what employement these people have and what they are doing ro improve their situation… 1000 pounds per month seems less than min wage for a full time 40 hours a week job.
“At the moment I have to choose between paying for food or being able to go out to see my friends.”
“When asked why she doesn’t buy cheaper products she said she prefers the taste.”
*world’s smallest violin*
Oshkosh
Four people were killed and two others injured in separate aircraft incidents on Saturday in Oshkosh, Wis., according to officials.
The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office announced it received several calls Saturday morning about an airplane that had crashed into the lake. After deploying rescue and dive teams and other first responders, the two occupants of the T-6 Texas plane were found dead.
The police department added that it was working closely with the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) in the state, the National Transportation Safety Board, and the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate the crash.
In a separate event that occurred around noon central time, a Rotorway 162F helicopter and ELA Eclipse 10 gyrocopter collided near Wittman Regional Airport, officials said.
Aircraft operations at Wittman were halted while the accident was initially investigated, but the afternoon air show began at approximately 2:45 p.m., after a short delay, the Associated Press reported.
The aircraft belonged to individuals attending the EAA’s annual fly-in convention, but they were not involved in the air show, a statement from the organization said.
Ban private aviation.
Was there a pilot who is a chicken named Chuck?
“Energy industry fears Biden to declare climate emergency, seize powers like COVID pandemic
President Joe Biden appears to be facing increasing demands to declare a climate emergency, like the one declared for the COVID-19 pandemic that had a devastating impact on the country, warns a top advocate for the U.S. oil and gas industry.
“They’re leaning to that direction,” U.S. Oil and Gas Association President Tim Stewart recently told Just the News. “If you grant the president’s emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it’s just like COVID.”
Stewart also said such a declaration would give the president “vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure.”
He said infrastructure would include water and electricity, and that Biden also could freeze assets under such a declaration….
Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer recently introduced legislation to require Biden to make such a declaration that also was co-sponsored by 62 congressional Democrats.
More recently, the Guardian newspaper published an op-ed reading, “Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/ent-energy-expert-warns-what-could-happen-if-biden-declares-climate
Declare everything an emergency and make yourself dictator.
“Climate” pretty much does cover everything.
Hunger Games, here we come.
How Lake Balaton Is Becoming A Playground For The Rich
https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-balaton-playground-rich/32526286.html
Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer recently introduced legislation to require Biden to make such a declaration that also was co-sponsored by 62 congressional Democrats.
More recently, the Guardian newspaper published an op-ed reading, “Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now.”
Save us, Joe. You’re our only hope.
Today, in top-notch parenting:
“A 16-month-old boy was fatally shot by his 5-year-old brother in Lafayette, Indiana. The older brother was high on cocaine at the time of the shooting. The parents have been charged with neglect.
Deonta Jermaine Johnson, 27, and Shatia Tiara Welch, 24, were charged with neglect and arrested on Monday in LaPorte and the shooting occurred in March, the Lafayette Journal & Courier reports.
Isiah Johnson’s death occurred on March 28 at the Romney Meadows apartments in Lafayette. Isiah had marijuana in his blood and the 5-year-old was high on cocaine.
Deonta Johnson was asleep during the shooting and Welch wasn’t present. In the apartment, 93 fentanyl pills, marijuana, and other drug materials were found, prosecutors have reported.
Welch owns a gun but told the police that she had usually kept it in a safe under lock and key. Johnson also faces charges of obstruction of justice for hiding the marijuana that was present in the apartment before police arrived on the scene.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/5-year-old-indiana-boy-was-high-on-cocaine-when-he-fatally-shot-baby-brother-parents-charged-with-neglect
Gun control needed.
Well, it IS Indiana, where apparently guns are sentient.
Don’t believe any of this man’s stories!
…Or Spud’s!