It was so nice of WebDom to do Links for me last weekend so that I could show NPR Lady support taking her Project camping. The Project (her short bus but very sweet neighbor whom everyone takes turns assisting) aside, camping in the Catskills is a lot of fun, if a bit moist. And I apparently didn’t infuriate either of them so I need to work harder at this. The Monster came with us and mostly behaved himself, but… we did a side trip to Bethel Woods, site of the Woodstock museum. There was also a concert going on that day, and judging from the predominance of Daisy Dukes and cowboy boots, it was apparently a country show. I pretended not to notice. The Project has an obsession with hippies, so it was difficult to get her back out of the museum. In any case, The Monster had his first encounter with a horse. He went nuts, thinking that, “That’s the biggest goddamn dog I’ve ever seen!” He barked furiously and nearly snapped his leash. And I would have been tempted to let him try to play except the horse was topped by an armed cop, and we know what their favorite shooting target is. Ah well, missed opportunities.
Birthdays today include the French Kamala Harris; the George Soros of his day; a guy who succeeded by taking a flyer; a disgusting piece de merde; Baltimore’s second best poet; a guy whom you can blame for Gene Roddenberry’s horrible shows; a guy whom you can blame for perverting Philo Farnsworth’s invention; the author of Tennis Without Balls; a man to beware; a guy who fucked Kellyanne Conway AND Margaret Carlson; the guy who put Peyronie’s Disease on the map; and a guy who fucked Wil Wheaton.
And with that, we introduce the Links.
“I didn’t inhale.” h/t NPR Lady
Soooooo much drama. And why progressivism has fucked over people’s brains.
Team Red death wish. Get used to saying “President Harris.”
“It’s just a late-term abortion.”
So I’ll finally be able to see Michael Malice’s account.
Why did this make me laugh my ass off? Excuse me, I have to order some belt onions from Amazon.
OK, Old Guy Music isn’t a song today, it’s a whole show. But holy shit, what a great and unlikely trio.
Can that dog still see?
Paywall, paywall….
Nice Columbian Era reference there, OMWC. Glad the camping went well… I’d try not to visibly notice the Daisy Dukes as well (well, assuming they were in the “Folks you would want to see in Daisy Dukes” category — not like nudist beaches and all.
“X (or Twitter) CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Friday saying that users will no longer be able to block other users on the social media platform.
“Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature,’ except for DMs,” he tweeted. “It makes no sense.””
With Twitter on lockdown logging out to read someone who has you blocked doesn’t work. One reason why it’s been a “slow news day” for the past month.
I’ll take “Things I Never, Ever Wanted Anywhere Near My Brain for $500, Alex.”
Why would anyone fuck Wil Wheaton?
He’s such an asshole they can’t resist?
I could rant in many different ways about this… but everyone knows the drill. So just “Sigh”.
In a just world, almost all of the political class would have been fired already. And then the technocrats they were listening to.
I’m going to go have another cup of creamer ^W coffee and try not to think about this shit over the weekend.
I don’t think Trump can lose the primary or win the general.
At this point, I would have to say you look to be right. DeSantis isn’t gaining the traction I would have hoped [of course, maybe when actual votes come in?]. And there’s zero sign the TDS has abated or that the election issues are addressed — so I frankly doubt any Stupid Party candidate is winning in those states… well, maybe GA if the GOPe finds them palatable enough (hence, DeSantis.. I thought Kemp and crew thought he was okay. AZ, WI, MI… no f’ing way… they’ve made sure to lock those up tight now.)
IMHO the only way Harris becomes president is if Biden doesn’t complete his term.
And those odds are what?
Take something great, add people and…presto! You get a steaming pile of shit.
I am not paying for every site i want to see. I am not giving anyone my personal info. I am not spending 15 mins clicking off of pop-up ads or recentering a site that jumps around constantly.
The internet is becoming unreadable.
It’s almost like we should read books for our news at this point. By the time it goes to print, most of the BS has been filtered out.
Most of it.
…except for that apparently AI book on the Maui fires that was available on Amazon while the fires were still burning…
If Kamalamadingdong was going to be pres, they would have pulled Biden already. That dog don’t hunt.
But, ’24 is going to suck no matter which way we go. Trump is polling above Biden, Dingdong polls lower than a dachshund’s ding dong, and the Dems want to go to war with the armed half of the country. No, it is going to be Trump v Biden and a run to see who gets to give themselves immunity.
The uncharitable part of my mind sometimes thinks “They’re pushing 80… not to wish them ill — but maybe they’ll suffer something beyond Fetterlump that would knock them both out of the race?”
The rest of my mind replies “First, look at who else would step up… and realize that the field is what it is because of how fucked up the country is and removing them as the faces wouldn’t change that.”
Hence: “Sigh”
Ack! Pbbbbt! is also an acceptable response.
Nothing involving or invoking Bloom County is ever acceptable.
Vivek’s moment will either rocket in the polls or implode on the first debate. Out of all those on stage, he is the better. DeSantis is there for the campaign goodies it seems.
However, Trump commands the orbit of the field for better or worse and I am going to guess him sitting with Tucker on same night as debates will draw more eyeballs and spill more ink.
Ultimately I would love to see a Vivek versus Newsome debate.
The warmongers hate Ramaswamy. He won’ t get the nom.
The UniParty GOPers hate Trump. They will use the indictments to keep him off the ballot.
Doesn’t really matter. [Insert dream ticket here] could run, and the Dems would win. Fortification FTW, yo.
And that doesn’t really matter that much, either. We are ruled by the agencies, not Congress or the President.
Agreed
“The UniParty GOPers hate Trump. They will use the indictments to keep him off the ballot.”
Doubt.
I stand with the tatertot.
Ramaswamy is pro-war.
Yeah that is his area that is terrible. Didn’t he say send SF and kill Mexicans?
Hmm. I thought I heard him say something about staying out of Taiwan and Ukraine. I’ll admit, I’m not paying terribly close attention.
Fortification can only go so far. The Dems have to at least present the illusion that they have won by actual voters, and if they pass that over for the majority of people, all hell will break loose. With Trump in ’20, there was the issue that he was not a very popular president at the time, but at this point, neither is Pudin’ head. The number of people who think they cheated in ’20 keeps growing, and it isn’t something they can hide forever. Too much of a ground swell and they whole thing collapses under them, and they look to the normies just a tyrranical as we see them.
And that can’t happen. They have to preseve the illusion of democracy.
“They have to preseve the illusion of democracy.”
Do they? The COVID regime was instituted without much at all in the way of votes by legislatures (with the exception of Congress vomiting money all over the country to underwrite it).
Seeing what passes for work at the CDC, they would have us still under lock and key, wearing masks to bed. But, as soon as the pushback moved from “the far-right” to normies, they folded like a cheap suit. Bottom line is that not enough people died from that BS to keep the emergancy powers going.
They can only push so far and stay within the realm of legitimate.
It looks like things are unraveling fast for SloJoe. Not sure if this presages removal or just forces him out of the race.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1692670159998054555
CBS even called him former president Biden
That’s a blooper right up there with “Hoobert Heever.”
Trying the old modified limited hangout. How’d that work for the last guy?
OFFS Biden is not running in 2024.
I appreciate that CNN can squeeze out a nugget of truth for the first time in a decade but come on.
Just prepping for his withdrawal after the convention.
There will have to be iron-clad proof that $X million was deposited to and is sitting in Dr. Jill’s husband’s bank account, for which he did not declare or pay income taxes on (Capone style) for him to be removed by impeachment. Anything less and the media and lefty ball lickers (but I repeat myself) will
claim it is a right-wing disinformation attempt to bring down the greatest president since FDR.
You can do it! We believe in you! 😃
…and good morning, Tater, SDF, Suthen, and Zwak!
GM 🙂 Is your cat, laptop, lap situation situated?
The cats aren’t allowed outside, so my lap is unoccupied here at Tranquility Base. The laptop is on a little “desk” rather like a tray one would use to serve someone breakfast in bed, next to the pile with library (dead tree) book, planner with next year’s calendar pages ready to be inserted, Nook, and phone. On the absolutely-legally-acquired milk crate next to the futon chaise is my mug of iced mocha latte.
It’s sunny and cool but tolerable out here. Life is good.
Heh about the milk crate. That usually is a quarterly surprise at House OBE
“Honey, is that another milk crate?”
Morning, GT. Thanks.
‘In February 2016, another consultant, Dr Ravi Jayaram, says he saw Letby standing and watching when a baby – known as Baby K – seemed to have stopped breathing.
Dr Brearey contacted Alison Kelly and the hospital’s medical director Ian Harvey to request an urgent meeting. In early March, he also wrote to Eirian Powell: “We still need to talk about Lucy”.’
We don’t talk about Lucy!
‘Three months went by, and another two babies almost died, before – in May that year – Dr Brearey got the meeting with senior managers he had been asking for. “There could be no doubt about my concerns at that meeting,” he says.
But others at the meeting appeared to be in denial. Dr Brearey said Mr Harvey and Ms Kelly listened passively as he explained his concerns about Letby. But she was allowed to continue working.
By early June, yet another baby had collapsed. Then, towards the end of the month, two of three premature triplets died unexpectedly within 24 hours of each other. Letby was on shift for both deaths.’
We don’t worry about Lucy!
‘Dr Brearey says the CEO told them he had spent a lot of time with Letby and her father and had apologised to them, saying Letby had done nothing wrong. Mr Chambers denies saying Letby had done nothing wrong. He said he was paraphrasing her father.
According to the doctor’s account, the CEO also insisted the consultants apologise to Letby and warned them that a line had been drawn and there would be “consequences” if they crossed it.’
We don’t question Lucy!
‘Letby would ultimately be charged with seven murders and 15 attempted murders between June 2015 and June 2016. She was found guilty of all seven murders and seven attempted murders.’
We don’t…whoopsie!
It’s nice that you and the dog are supervising the wimmenz. You never know when they might need your guidance.
I rule with a firm hand. Strict but fair.
“Democratic Rep. G. Roni Green, who serves a part of Philadelphia County, says that she will “soon” introduce legislation requiring businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work hours from 40 hours per week to 32 hours per week without reducing employee pay.”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/pennsylvania-rep-g-roni-green-to-introduce-4-day-workweek-bill-with-no-pay-reduction/
What could possibly go wrong?
Why not 24 hours? It’s like slavery all over again.
It isn’t LIKE anything. It is slavery.
“,,,legislation requiring businesses with more than 500 employees to reduce their work hours from 40 hours per week to 32 hours per week without reducing employee pay.”
Govt officials who dont produce anything at all, many of which have never held a job in their lives and can barely figure out which shoe to put on which foot, commanding business owners who, when and how much. Remember…foreseeable consequences are not unintended. These people are laying awake all night every night dreaming of ways to help recreate the USSR here in the US. In the end it will be chains for us or bullets for them.
Yes, why should a business with only 499 employees be allowed to crack the whip and abuse their enslaved property?
“Democratic Rep. G. Roni Green perplexed when companies with over 500 employees layoff workers, move out the area or fold up shop. Vows to raise taxes on large business owners to cover tax shortfall.”
Shops that shut down will be commanded to reopen on the owner’s dime. Remember that slimy piece of shit O’bumbles? Businesses’ responsibility is to provide employment.
“According to the study by research nonprofit 4 Day Week Global, 41 companies tested the four-day week model in the United States and Canada, and employees reported that they experienced less stress and burnout after six months of that shortened schedule.”
So there’s some kind of “research nonprofit” devoted solely to this issue? Who is funding them?
I’m sure employees did prefer it. It’s just a shame so many businesses can’t just shut their doors 3 days a week, I suppose. And nobody can afford to pay 20% more than the going rate for staff, at least not for long.
But other than that, sure, great idea.
If everyone goes part time, no more benefit packages, paid holidays, or paid vacation time. Brilliant!
Except for the unions, I’m sure… so that will force more people to join / form unions. Not at all an unintended consequence from a Dem, I’m sure…..
Studies show that employees are happier having 7 days per week off and their pay rates doubled.
Who knew?
On whose authority can they do this?
(I know, I know… the FYTW clause… but seriously, why does the state think it has the power to override contracts, use of personal property, etc. here? Insanity)
Was about to say the same thing. It’s retarded and therefore will probably be enacted
Those involved will have to start working/producing 25% harder/faster. No breaks/no brakes.
In reality a lot of jobs probably waste 20% of their time anyway. I know I did, back in the day. I was just practicing for retirement
Somehow I expect if I put “Practice work behaviors for retirement” on my Individual Development Plan it won’t go over well with my management chain… 😉
Thanks for idea for my exit interview! “Moving to NKY to begin preparation of retirement”
“In reality a lot of jobs probably waste 20% of their time anyway.”
Absolutely. And that won’t change with a shorter workweek.
By my calculations, it will go up to 25%.
Speaking of shitholes….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12417411/Portlands-sanctioned-homeless-park-just-NINE-residents-despite-having-room-55-month-opened-shocking-images-drug-addled-people-taking-sidewalks.html
Junkies don’t like rules, man… film at 11.
The lovely JW couple next door went to some sort of Sasquatch-related festival in southern OH sometime in the last couple of weeks. Now they have one of those STEVE SMITH silhouette cutouts leaning against the side of their freshly-painted yard barn. I wonder if it’s destined for display in the back or the front yard.
I knew they were good people.
STEVE SMITH HAVE NO PROBLEM USING FRONT OR BACK YARD.. AND BY USING, MEAN….
“Gun dealers have lost their licenses this year at an unprecedented rate, with critics accusing Joe Biden of undermining the Second Amendment by stealth.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has revoked the licenses of 122 gun dealers in the fiscal year that began in October.
The previous fiscal year the figure was 90, and in 2021 it was only 27.
Since records of revocations began in 2013, the ATF never revoked more than 81 dealers’ licenses, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12423119/ATF-gun-licenses-reduce-joe-biden-second-amendment.html
I doubt Joe has any idea.
Nothing like a little weaponization of government against your political enemies, after all. Tis what this Administration should be known for in the history books (of course, said books will likely be cheerleading the idea… unless they’re written on tree bark after this shit collapses civilization).
Burn this sucker to the ground…
“CNN commentator Van Jones has been pushed out of his own non-profit after a bust up in the senior ranks.
Jones was praised as an extraordinary leader and handed $100 million by Jeff Bezos for his philanthropic endeavors in 2021, but now faces the humiliation of being turned out of his own organization.
The liberal left the board of Dream.org after a blowout with senior leadership, the Daily Beast reported.
The fallout stemmed from disagreements over the non-profits direction, multiple sources with ties to the organization told the outlet. Jones was forced out rather than leaving voluntarily the sources claimed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12423189/CNNs-Van-Jones-forced-woke-criminal-justice-non-profit-spectacular-fallout-bosses-two-years-Jeff-Bezos-gave-100M-pump-charity.html
It was a whitelash.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/state-representative-from-berks-pushing-bill-that-would-allow-non-citizens-to-teach-in-public/article_dc6329e4-3e33-11ee-9dbe-a730382a47ad.html
I think we should all renounce our citizenship. Seems like the smart play these days.
I imagine it will be done for us.
Freedom’s just another word…
I have no issues with it because citizens are just as terrible at teaching. All thanks to teachers not imparting wisdom but pushing propaganda. So what would be the difference?
“Bill 1067 — already passed by the state House — would allow immigrant teachers with certificates and experience to teach in Pennsylvania public schools if they have a valid immigrant visa, a work visa, or a valid employment authorization document that allows them to work in the United States.”
That sounds OK to me. No idea why it would be illegal in the first place.
“Needless to say”.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1692783421418795421
Such a shame that the GOP turned an imam, of all people, against homosexuality.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1692781433914364398
I always thought it was rich to hear muslims rail against homosexuality .
*Because westerners have so little contact with the east they tend to paint all muslims with a broad brush. That is a mistake. The Islamic world includes a huge number of different cultures.
Needless to say, CWAC. “Oh, you don’t know the latest made up terms but are trying to be supportive? REEEEE! AWAY, HERETIC!”
I’d say this person can be whatever sexuality they want… because they’re frankly ineffable.
A Brosexual? Is this some weird kind of firsting fetish or something?
She could have saved herself a lot of words by saying “Hi! I am nuttier than a squirrel turd!”
This sex nonsense is getting very tiresome. I dont care about other people’s sex lives. It is none of my business and the less I know about it, the happier I am.
Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.
The hospital also delayed calling the police despite months of warnings that the nurse may have been killing babies.
The unit’s lead consultant Dr Stephen Brearey first raised concerns about Letby in October 2015.
No action was taken and she went on to attack five more babies, killing two.
Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others in a neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66120934
today in NHS is the envy of the world
Crazy. Somebody should have put that story in the links.
shit i somehow missed that link
Didn’t a retired head of the NHS admit that the NHS deliberately kills somewhere in the ballpark of half of a million people per year?
I figured Letby would get a medal.
“After this, the appendectomy requirement was set. But other nations did not follow suit, and in April 1961, physician Leonid Rogozov, stationed at Novolazarevskaya on mainland Antarctica, was not so lucky with the whole rescue thing.
He diagnosed himself with appendicitis on April 29. Other stations were within help distance, but none had an airplane, and on April 30, as he began to recognize the signs of peritonitis, a blizzard raged outside.
Because Rogozov was the only medical personnel at the station at the time, he had no choice but to perform his own appendectomy. With the help of two assistants, local anesthetic, and a mirror, he got to work. The first incision was made at 22:15, Moscow time….”
https://www.sciencealert.com/some-doctors-get-their-appendix-removed-before-going-to-antarctica-heres-why
First day of school at Arizona State. This is what I found. Communism
https://twitter.com/morgonnm/status/1692258907916497175
hows the female talent at Arizona State?
https://buckeyeplanet.com/forum/threads/arizona-state-sun-devils-official-thread.601616/post-3410774
They rate well, but YMMV of couse
I hear they’re a lot fun. Notorious party college.
Only been through campus once or twice, but yeah, the scenery was nice. It’s Phoenix, so you can expect, err, lightweight clothing for most of the year. Which is nice.
ASU is the feeder school for the US porn industry.
It is all about positioning.
And flexibility
And a lack of a gag reflex
I used to think it was just hyperbole when people claimed that leftist philosophy is a symptom of mental illness. I no longer think that.
I thought the commies always say socialism and communism are different? Why is a socialist group promoting communism if they’re not the same?
Aren’t they both the same redistribution system.? Government controls and distributes?
Only two systems, capitalism and socialism, the difference is the distribution system. That’s why one works, one doesn’t.
All the so called improvised systems are socialism, just varying degrees.
Probably not great if that is a photo of one of them.
Some days I feel like this too…
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/kenneth-henderson-jones-ax-attack-denver-international-airport-parking-lot-arm-united-airlines-pilot/
Defendant : ‘ Your honor, I have to sit there twice a day for no reason at all waiting for that thing. I finally cracked ”
Hizzoner: ‘ I have to park in the courthouse parking lot for my job. How do you think I feel? *hesitation*….Aw, fuck it. Bailiff, give the ax back to the man.”
I’m impressed he apparently had a full-sized ax in his car.
I used to keep a very old ax handle in the back of my AMC Spirit to prop up the hatchback that wouldn’t stay up on its own. Didn’t keep the head with it – it was rusted out and being used as a bookend.
Payblocked.
I got the first two paragraphs but not very much drama.
Here.
It’s breathtakingly retarded.
HA! That is the town my mother grew up in, right next to Berkeley. Prog central, and as it isn’t Berkeley, they all try even harder to out prog everyone.
Most people on the internet are enamored by the sound of their own voice. How much do I have to read before they get to the fucking point?
Dont get me started on Yoooootube videos…..
*sigh*
I got about 10% in and gave up. Waiting for it to go somewhere. I sense that there is whole pile of stupidity coming, but NYT style guidelines prevent getting to the fucking point in less than 1,000 words.
Kids taught to obsess about race, are now obsessed about race. Film at 11:00.
There is a common misconception, endlessly repeated today, that the communist fellow-travelers of the 1930s were naive well-intentioned people. That they were duped by the Soviets and fooled by Potemkin tours. If only they had been more careful! A leeetle more skeptical!
https://twitter.com/gtredoux/status/1692230760026046479
Beatrice Webb’s private diaries, now published, show that the Webbs were both well-aware of the grim reality. She wondered why her in-law Malcolm Muggeridge had been so dense as to actually write about what he saw in the USSR. What did he expect as a reward?
In general the idea that the facts about the Gulag and the human carnage in the USSR were not known to the Western left is categorically false. In 1930 the Labour government actively worked to suppress information they were given, from myriad sources, including UK diplomats.
Evil or crazy? I think they are fellow travelers.
Who cares about going back in time and killing Hitler. I would snuff Marx.
The communist movement in the US was mostly driven by midwestern farmers. Looking at the times they lived in it is easy to see how ignorant people could be sucked in by. the ideas of the left. That doesn’t make it less evil. The two things people hate the most are truth and responsibility so leftism has a rich environment to take root in.
I didn’t create this world. Nobody asked me. So, we are stuck with this one, one wherein every living thing lives at the expense of other living things. It seems some people are built to ever strive for primitivism.
““About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
― Calvin Coolidge
The Grange
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/grange-movement-1875
God morning, Old Man.
That doggo is so damn cute.
Yes, and so ill-mannered. We locked him out of the bedroom last night because he kept jumping onto the bed at the worst moments. He then proceeded to leave two shitpiles in the hallway.
Bedroom activity and shit. Is he part German Sheppard?
Shepherd…. Wtf iOS
My stupid phone autocorrected “dock” to “dick” the other day. I nearly texted: “The shipment should hit your dick tomorrow.”
LOL
Half.
Heh. All male doggies do that. I wonder why.
As my grandaddy said of dogs: ” If they cant eat it or fuck it they will piss on it” or in this case shit on it.
Their territorial signature, boy cats, including the big cats , do the same.
They all are. That is how they disarm us. We feed them, doctor them, raise their children for them. We provide couches and beds for them. We scratch their backs. They are the world’s most successful parasite.
Better than a gas station?
Who sells the most sushi in America? Kroger.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/how-kroger-became-the-biggest-sushi-seller-in-america-d6ad149?st=bv0iext71mhfry2&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
All the supermarkets here sell sushi. Employee sushi chefs and order their own sushi-grade fish.
Same here.
Does someone making sushi at a supermarket qualify as chef?
Every time I think of the term ‘Gas station sushi’ I chuckle. Seriously, who would be stupid enough to eat that? For that matter, who would be stupid enough to eat sushi?
“if a bit moist”
hawt
https://archive.is/fLlsa
Silicone Saturday is on topic!
“Around 3,000 mink reportedly escaped from the Olsen Fur Farm in western Wisconsin after a suspect allegedly trespassed and cut a hole in the farm’s chain-link fence between 11:00 p.m. Aug. 11 and 3:45 a.m. the next morning, the outlet noted.
The Animal Liberation Front, described by the FBI as “an extremist animal rights movement,” claimed responsibility for the raid in an anonymous online post.”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/19/suspects-raid-wisconsin-olsen-fur-farm-unleash-3000-mink-community/
CWABOA
ALF again? I hear they like cats…
Yo, Lucky, my man!
They’ve done this shit before. Those mink wan’t last a week.
Dumb fucks.
But alas, not dumb enough to glue themselves to pavement.
I was raised with the idea that if you kill it, you eat it.
I dont much approve of raising animals strictly for their hides.
If the environuts have their way, it will be a requirement for survival in the future.
I don’t either, but they don’t need my approval.
Nevada not wanting to be left out of stupid
https://www.8newsnow.com/weather/clark-county-officials-prepare-for-100-year-event-as-hilary-approaches/
We get violent thunderstorms of 70-80mph winds on the regular and this is flipping people out. Fucking lame
Deaths Caused By Hurricane Hilary To Be Labeled Suicides
http://assets.climatecentral.org/images/made/8-1-12_IOTD_HistoricalHurricaneTracksToolNOAA_720_395_s_c1_c_c.jpg
The vast majority of the human race are fucking cowards, easily frightened and very dangerous. See: Cootie bug panic. Global warming panic. The list goes on.
“If you can scare people they will do anything. you tell them to do.” – Adolf Eichmann
Aw phhhhhttt. I have lost count of how many times I. have lived through the end of the world.
This is what I was thinking yesterday. The Republicans have their “debate”. The only person (assuming he is even allowed to participate) who doesn’t come off as a complete gibbering retard is Burgum, but nobody ever hears about it, because everybody (republicans, Democrats, media, et al) is terrified of him.
Plucky feisty factgatherer
And if the Record doesn’t pay attention, nobody will. The weekly newspaper is the sole publication covering Marion, a city of about 2,000 in south-central Kansas.
It’s this type of reporting that’s drawn the ire of local officials — including the city’s police chief, whom the paper was investigating before he raided their newsroom.
Back in 2004, the Record exposed Marion’s city administrator, who is now its mayor, for allowing the city to use a reservoir contaminated with blue-green algae for drinking water, despite a ban on the water due to toxicity concerns.
And last year, the Record reported on irregularities in the location of a housing development project supported by the city. Meyer said officials summoned him to a meeting, during which he demanded answers to outstanding concerns about where the houses were being built on agricultural land.
Their response? “You shouldn’t ask those questions,” according to Meyer.
“We’re controversial in the community,” Meyer said.
The Record was thrown into the national spotlight last week after Marion police raided its newsroom and his mother’s home, seizing computers, cell phones and other reporting materials. The raid prompted national outcry over violations of federal law and First Amendment protections. All the seized material will now be returned, according to the county attorney.
If only that guy would ask the NPR reporter, “So what do you do?”
It’s nice of NPR to take time out from their busy schedule of pimping Bidenomics and rah-rah-ing the war in Ukraine and generally telling us Joe Biden’s asshole tastes like strawberry ice cream to cover an actual journalist.
*I presume a casual dive would reveal a bunch of lefty bias and anti-capitalist moaning and groaning in that paper’s archives.
There is a good reason that the first amendment is first, and the second amendment close behind it. The reasoning behind them is why authoritarians hate them so much.
“Dont be evil”…..Uh huh, if you have to tell people that you have/have not some self-evident characteristic the truth is always of opposite of what they are claiming.
How novel, a small town paper exposing official corruption. My local paper thrives on printing press releases from the local politicians, including photos of them grinning with the recipients of whatever grift they’ve extorted from the taxpayers.
Don’tBe Evilhttps://dainikbidyaloy.com/2023/08/14/google-announces-worldwide-ban-on-independent-media-from-search-results/
Remember the “It’s a private company!” nonsense?
Are you listening, National Propaganda Radio?
Meyer’s father had worked at the Record since the 1940s; his mother, since the 1960s. It was part of their family history and the fabric of their community.
So when the paper’s ownership was up in the air, the Meyer family decided to buy it.
“We just couldn’t see it falling into the hands of a chain, because we have a very strong belief that local news organizations work when they are run for and by local people,” Meyer said.
Now featuring working link, maybe.
The Record’s role in the community has put a spotlight on the function of newspapers as local watchdogs. An informed public is at the heart of a strong democracy, but with the disappearance of local news organizations, many small towns have lost the ability to get information about local governance.
Also- people in Kansas read local papers because their internet access is bad. They’re out there on the prairie, cut off from civilization. Joe Biden wants them all to have free high speed broadband, did you know that? Joe Biden wants you yo have the right kind of news, so you’ll know who to vote for. Joe Biden is our President. He is a good man, an honest man, who has devoted his entire life to the service of this nation. His asshole tastes just like strawberry ice cream.
*Grumble*
Three failed pieces that printed paritally. It’s got to be something I’ve overlooking. Maybe I need to up the exposure time per slice (thus massively increasing print times)
Maybe something to do with making larger pieces than your original (and successful) test piece?
It’s the small pieces that are failing. The big ones are doing just fine.
Well, phooey! I’m sorry you’re having such trouble. 😞
Welcome to the magical world of inexpensive 3D printing.
You have initial success, start failing regularly, gain knowledge and finally increase your success rate to better than when you started.
It did take me several weeks and lots of wasted plastic.
Small papers, in Kansas and across the county, offer transparency on day-to-day local government affairs, Abernathy added — including city budgets, which the Record is hoping to cover once the turmoil inflicted by the raid dies down.
Meanwhile, national press organizations like NPR look at the national budget as a bottomless goody bag. Their main concern is the possibility of an interruption in service.
I like to guess the birthday links before clicking them. Four right, not bad.
John McAfee was yesterday.
Midnight is here for cinderella.
Carlsen defeated Abasov in the 1st match of the semifinal round. On move 40, down 2 pawns, Abasov had two ways to check Carlsen’s King. One was a dead draw according to stockfish, the other evaluated down 3.2. not that playing Magnus down 2 pawns in a theoretically drawn endgame is any fun. But he isnt going to throw away an advantage like that. Abasov resigned on move 43. Abasov will have the white pieces tomorrow, but he has to win, and beating Carlsen when all he needs is a draw is not an easy task.
Caruana-Pragg are still playing, but its a rook and pawns endgame. It will be a draw unless someone blunders.
Blackface impostors
According to results from a HIT Tracking Focus Group study, eight men of color who voted for Biden in 2020 expressed disappointment with “Bidenomics” — with some saying they preferred the economy under former President Donald Trump.
They’re going to have to surrender their race cards.
Eight!? Abandon hope now, Dems.
“When I get through with them those niggers will be voting democrat for 100 years.” – Lyndon Johnson
I never understood the black support for the party of slavery.
“I Report for The Free Press. And I Can’t Post My Stories on Facebook.
Canada’s Online News Act was meant to force social media companies to pay for news content. What it’s actually done is hurt democracy.
After trying to post the link, I received a message from Facebook informing me: “In response to Canadian government legislation, news content can’t be shared.”
I was surprised, but then I remembered: in June, Canada had adopted Bill C-18, the Online News Act. The law forces social media companies to pay online media companies to link to their content. The government portrayed it as a matter of “fair compensation,” a way of ensuring that media companies were paid for the news they reported. But really it was an effort to prop up legacy media dinosaurs, like Bell Media and Postmedia, that had failed to adapt to the new digital landscape…”
https://www.thefp.com/p/canada-online-news-act-hurts-democracy
The true culprits go free
Maui faces devastating economic costs beyond its intolerable human loss and suffering from recent wildfires. Scorched homes and businesses reduced to rubble won’t be rebuilt quickly; cleaning up their remnants, some of them toxic, won’t be cheap. Rebuilding costs have been estimated at $5.5 billion.
Who will pay for this? Most of us will, to varying degrees, but some of those most responsible — the fossil fuel companies that play a key role in such climate-related disasters — won’t.
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Insurance companies will cover much of the property damage. They’ll probably hike rates across the state, too, passing on the costs to ordinary Hawaiians. Some may even stop selling homeowner coverage in Hawaii, as State Farm and others have done in wildfire-prone California, exposing residents to even greater costs.
Hawaiian Electric already faces legal action over the possibility that the utility‘s equipment started the fires. If California residents’ experience attempting to extract compensation from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is any guide, the results will be mixed.
The fossil fuel companies, however, won’t be paying a cent. That’s despite the fact that their products created the climate conditions that made such fires more likely and more catastrophic. Less rain, higher temperatures and other factors related to climate change have made Hawaii, like California, more vulnerable to wildfires.
As Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway have shown, major oil, gas and coal companies foresaw the catastrophic climatic consequences of fossil fuel use. But instead of leading an energy transition, they opted to sow public doubt about the link between fossil fuels and global warming and continued to invest in new mines and oilfields.
If only there were some way to find out how much they owe, and make them pay.
“…factors related to climate change…”
Such as the slow ending of the latest ice age?
How much they owe? That is easy…more. Always more.
Every time a flea farts people line up to the horizon with their hands out.
When are they going to gibbet the guy that denied the firefighters access to more water?
Would it cause the the price of gas to go up? Then the government needs to take over all the oil companies to keep the price down.
According to 28 Nobel laureate economists and 15 former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisors, it makes good economic sense to charge fossil fuel companies for the real costs of their products through a carbon tax. That cost would include much of the billions of dollars of damage to Maui.
Of course, raising fuel prices could make life harder for Americans who already struggle to fill their gas tanks. But there’s an excellent economic solution to that too. The group Citizens Climate Lobby has proposed to return carbon pricing revenue through regular dividends to all U.S. households. This model would reduce emissions, create jobs and stimulate innovation without burdening low- and middle-income families.
Which is it? An “insurance” fund to cover weather related costs, or a slush fund for vote buying?
A huge fucking grift
As long as we keep investing in, subsidizing and cleaning up after the fossil fuel companies, they’ll keep happily passing on these exorbitant costs to us. Isn’t it time to send this bill to the right address?
Caroline Levine is a professor of the humanities at Cornell University, where she teaches in the Environment and Sustainability program, and the author of “The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis.”
What a bunch of infantile snivelling. Once again we are confronted with the left’s obdurate refusal to acknowledge the other side of the ledger. Those rotten bastards at Big Petrochemical exist solely for the purpose of draining our wallets and destroying the planet. They provide nothing but pain and misery.