Three weeks of cupcakes and no boogers.
Oh, the Astros finally won a game. Sadly they waited to do it against Boston instead of Seattle. The AL wild card race is gonna be crazy. But not nearly as crazy as the NL chase. That one is off the chain. Michigan thinks they’re being clever here. The NCAA is not gonna let this stand. They already delayed their own 4-game suspension because of a lack of cooperation. And Pulisic scored on his Milan debut and Arsenal stole a game from Crystal Palace with some help from inconsistent officiating. And that’s it for sports.
He’s certainly got experience. He’s run cover for slimy shit in the past. He’s perfect for the job!
“Old enough!”
-FDA
Sweet freaking Jesus. Now they don’t even want to wait for people to be born before pumping them full of chemicals they don’t really need? Well, Pharma profits are down, so this approval makes financial sense. Because I simply don’t see the point.
What a strange way of putting it. Because I don’t see the public’s right to a speedy trial for a defendant anywhere in the constitution. This is especially egregious since there are loads of J6 people still being denied a trial after rotting in jail calls for two years without bail.
What an asshole.
What a stupid, egomaniacal asshole. Peculiar this wasn’t mentioned at all on the first three websites I get links from. Peculiar but unsurprising.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Perhaps the tide is turning. I’m skeptical, but hopeful.
This has “scam” written all over it. I assume we will discover the Teamsters or AFSCME has recently gone into the food distribution business. Or a few close relatives of state officeholders at a minimum.
::points and laughs:: You guys played the protectionist game when it prevented barriers to entry for anybody wanting to do what you did. And now you’re sad when people who don’t like you are effectively turning your policies back on you. Sorry if my sympathy is limited to shrugging my shoulders and going back to my life.
This is ridiculous. Horrible! Unheard-of!!! It should be way, way higher than that. Pump those numbers up, Texas. And make them per mile, not a flat fee.
This is such a bubbly song. So fun and catchy. This one is a little on the deeper end of the scale. And certainly not in a bad way. Well, enjoy them both.
And enjoy this Tuesday, dear friends. I’m about to see rain for the first time in a couple months as I get to Corpus Christi for a couple days. Wish me luck.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Perhaps the tide is turning. I’m skeptical, but hopeful. – it is simple just give the homeless homes. that’s it. problem solved
Now to be clear, because I did no mention explicitly enough, it is good to give the homeless homes I fully support that, just not in my neighborhood or anywhere near me
All government buildings should be havens for the homeless. They are The People’s(tm) property after all.
Works for me.
If you’re saying that government employees should all be homeless…I’m pretty comfortable with that.
I’m assuming you saw the news that CZ released a “carry” version of the S2?
I have. I don’t really know what to think about it. The aluminum frame trims the weight down pretty well, but it still isn’t drop safe with the hammer back, and it still doesn’t have a functional decocker. So not really well-suited as a carry gun, and the full size Shadow 2 is better for gaming. I’m not sure where it fits…
Yeah, the practicalities of it don’t add up to me. I guess maybe a duty gun?
However, it would be really nice if there was a carry gun that had the same grip/sight picture as the gun I’ve put so many rounds through.
If it had a firing pin block and a functional decocker, I might be looking at selling some Staccatos…
You would make a perfect Democrat.
The rate SF is going, they could certainly give them mall shops, office cubes, etc. Looks to be plenty of those available or coming available in the near future. (Note: Not saying this is a good idea… because the odds are then good the building will get burnt down because of improper cooking fires… just that they’ll have those spaces).
because the odds are then good the building will get burnt down because of improper cooking fires… just that they’ll have those spaces
But then the President could come and regale the local citizenry with personal stories of hardship and triumph and lift them out of their doldrums. Well, eventually he could once he finishes whatever vacation he’s on.
I can relate, man… a small kitchen fire once made me think about “What if I lost the ‘Vette? How would I drag race up to Inspiration Point to rumble with Corn Pop?”
Well the ‘Vette is especially at risk, sitting next to all those secret docs that are printed on especially flammable paper.
Didn’t SF recently unveil “shade” at their bus stops? Surely they could extend that and add sleeping shelves to the bus stops. Plus, all those hard-working homeless that just can’t afford to live in the city could kip out at the bus route that takes them to their jobs!
LA, iirc.
You are correct.
“What a strange way of putting it. Because I don’t see the public’s right to a speedy trial for a defendant anywhere in the constitution. This is especially egregious since there are loads of J6 people still being denied a trial after rotting in jail calls for two years without bail. ” – The constitution does not apply to insurrectionists.
Re: baby vaxes — In my experience, newborns are more likely to catch an infection from being in the hospital than anything else. (Which isn’t surprising… isn’t that a big problem for adults as well, especially seniors?) Very unlikely to be an issue at this point in my life for my wife and I (and not my son for several years one would hope) — but if it came up… nope. Nope, nope nope. Risk/reward seems way out of whack for that.
Staff infection, does anyone ever get it outside of a hospital environment?
You get them in gyms and high-contact sports once in a while. But hospitals are by far the worst.
This is such a bubbly song.
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I think this has nothing to do with the EU data rules but one of the specific German things about copyright… which strangely was much worse 7 years ago it seems better now
For some reason, this is about the only one from that band I really like. And likely has more to do with the movie than the band.
With the “Bubbly, fun and catchy” lead in — I was expecting this one. That’s about the epitome of that description as far as I’m concerned. Cotton candy for the brain.
Their catalog definitely has more darkwave than bubble gum pop. But there’s room for variety and they did both quite well, IMO.
The Crow was a solid soundtrack. Never saw the movie though.
Most excellent movie, and a useful example to show the Goth Spectrum (The Crow being on one end, The Matrix on the other).
The sequel had a purer implementation of artistic vision, even if it wasn’t necessarily as good of a movie overall.
This has “scam” written all over it. I assume we will discover the Teamsters or AFSCME has recently gone into the food distribution business.
the Teamsters seem like good people, I would not expect anything scammy from them
You just want to keep the people moving your dirt boxes around in the day happy.
Hmmm. From a “punishing people I don’t like” perspective, I’m not sure if dis is da wei.
I would imagine that ICE vehicles rack up vastly more miles than ‘lectric, if for no other reason than the range limitiations on EVs. Plus there’s the whole urban/rural divide where the yokels are driving 10 miles to church (and 15 to WalMart) whereas the stereotypical EVer rarely goes more than ten miles from their apartment.
It’s not about punishing people I disagree with. It’s because people who drive ICE cars pay a tax on every gallon they use, which calculates out to a per mile fee. The same standard should apply, seeing as the people driving both types of vehicles are putting comparable wear on the roads per mile driven.
I’m fine with a per-mile EV fee as long as it isn’t implemented with real-time / GPS tracking. (Reading the odometer during mandatory state inspections or at insurance renewal or something probably). F the state turning everything into a “Peach Pass” style “this road you were on was $0.XX then you turned onto this one that was $0.YY…” and the privacy concerns, etc.
I’m assuming that’s a given position around here… but dammit, some mornings you just have to give out the standard and obligatory rants. At least I’m not Malcolm Tucker giving the Official Glib positions (now there’s a money stream for Capaldi… “Pay me a few quid and I’ll record a ‘Here’s what we believe around here, fuckwit!’ style message for ya!”
I’d implement it with odometer readings at inspection time. No tracking needed.
I assume it’s a sop to Musk for bringing more of the Tesla ops to TX. And I’m fine with tax incentives. But fair is fair.
Hold on there Hoss.
You’d be giving ideas to some states that don’t have yearly inspections now.
Agree that a mileage tax is the way to go. But don’t want to have an inspection either. Went through that shit in Memphis and it sucked balls.
Self report mileage during annual registration. Perhaps with a pic of odometer included.
As computerized as cars are now, it would be easy enough to have a function that returned odometer and vin readings. Then various states could write an app that you could use to send that info to the state
From a technical aspect, it wouldn’t be hard. What makes me hate it is that the govt would immediately expand the scope of what the app would have access to and what you had to send to them.
NO!
Taxes on TIRES are the way to go. People will drive on bald tires but that is on them – states that do inspections can inspect the tires if they want.
Taxing tires also gets the bicycles. Good way for children to learn how the state works.
Looks like Texas is just slapping a $200 fee on every electric vehicle registration. Isn’t that better than odometer readings?
Yes.
But then they do this:
So Texans who buy electric cars get a rebate, while folks who bring their Tesla in from, say, California get a $200/year “vehicle impact fee.”
Not the most elegant solution, but hoisting the folks who like to say “_______ should pay their fair share” on their own petard isn’t going to spill much beer at the VFW.
Is that true though? Going back to the ICE/EV rural/urban thing, I would imagine that roads in cities cost a lot more to maintain/repair than highways, and vastly more than gravel/dirt roads.
You think they repair city roads?
Don’t forget how much of the gas tax goes to bike paths, light rail and other boondoggles.
Muh Roads suffer more wear and tear as EV vehicle usage increases. Those things weigh a lot. Thinking of Dallas or Austin, which have older roads that date back to the 1920s- those will break and require very expensive road rebuilds.
There ain’t a ton of gravel, dirt, or caliche road miles driven. So those are outliers. But based on vehicle weight of EVs to ICE passenger vehicles, I’d say the wear is pretty much comparable.
The physical wear might be the same, but I’m thinking more about the administrative costs of closing a lane/setting up detours downtown.
I always liked The Cure. My hard cue that it was time to change jobs was when this line from Pornography started running through my mind — “One more day like today and I’ll kill you!”
Oh, dear, I’m on another list now. Oh, well.
I always liked The Cure – not a fan of prevention ?
He’d rather have a good pound than a mediocre ounce.
SDF-7 is Winston’s Mom?
Hey, no kink shaming!
Ermmm… Millbrae is not a “San Francisco neighborhood”. It is tony suburb to the south. Probably still full of liberals but not as crazy as the ones in SF itself. So I don’t know if you can draw any wider implications here.
The axis between SF and SJ is even more liberal. That is where all of the Google and Facebook people live.
Yeah but they’re rich liberals. They don’t want homeless anywhere near them.
SF is full of less rich liberals who either welcome the chaos or think it won’t impact them.
I thought Weiss was the new White House Counsel… or on Hunter’s legal team… one of the two.
I thought Siskel was dead. Didn’t he predecease Ebert?
“I’m Siskel and I’m Ebert and you’re getting two thumbs up.” – The Bloodhound Gang.
That song is one of the guiltiest of my guilty pleasures.
Second best music video ever filmed in Paris.
Number one, of course, is Bro’s epistle to Mike S.
I think he’s the special counsel assigned by the DOJ.
:whispers: Don’t explain the joke!
I blame my brain.
a bill that invests $20 million toward ridding the state of “food deserts.”
Ok JB the Hutt, what’s the ROI on that “investment”
Calling government spending “investments” is one of my pet peeves. Too bad the government toadies in the media have all gone all-in on that bullshit.
I thought food deserts were a myth?
There’s some nuance that never gets discussed. There are certainly neighborhoods where the stores do not go out of their way to stock fresh, whole foods.
Can you guess why?
Where I live is officially designated as one. There’s multiple grocery stores and a fucking farmer’s market.
Then why can’t I recall any vegetables next to your steaks?
Because…
Vegetables aren’t food. Vegetables are what food eats.
(I’ll make an exception for vegetables smothered in Hollandaise sauce.)
Humans are obligate omnivores. You need some vegetation, especially fiber.
Humans are obligate omnivores
I do not believe this is true. Humans and our ancestors are/were opportunistic eaters. We can survive on anything from a vegetarian to fully carnivorous. Personally I think being on the former end is less amenable to thriving compared to the later, but it’s certainly seems possible. But the term ‘obligate’ is incorrect. One can survive, even thrive, with no vegetation or fiber.
Those monoform diets lack essential nutrients
Yes, fiber comes in real handy after you turn 50.
lack essential nutrients
Specify.
you turn 50
This is a common statement, generally associated with helping one take a dump; maybe I’m broken, but at 55+ I just have no issues, even in my extended (1-2 months) pure carnivore phases. Shrug.
So, is it the cravings that make you start eating other food again?
Personally I think being on the former end is less amenable to thriving compared to the later, but it’s certainly seems possible.
Modern monocropping fucked things up for us in the West.
The Masai eat blood, meat and milk. Shockingly healthy. Other tribes are nearly all carbs. Shockingly healthy.
Modern food (sugar/industrial oils, etc) is the problem.
So, is it the cravings that make you start eating other food again?
Honestly, I have no cravings. The only thing I’ll cop to is a weakness to the smell of a fresh croissant! But I’m not really in the camp that thinks that me thinking, man I’d love a croissant right now, means that’s my body telling me I ‘need’ something to say healthy, anymore that wanting a smoke when smelling a cigarette was.
What gets me off carnivore is variety and, more importantly, living with other people and being the primary cook. Makes things easier/more convenient. Note that I don’t think being omnivorous is BAD for you (as long as you stick to minimally processed/fresh stuff – and I think some vegetables are actively harmful), but I object strongly to the use of the term ‘obligate’.
May be more real now since businesses are leaving certain areas due to racism.
All that shop lifting of groceries is just a natural reaction to food deserts. Young entrepreneurs trying o level the playing field, without the help of government. Pritzer doesn’t understand how the free market works. He’s trying to put people out of work.
I’ve seen pictures of Pritzger and his sister(?). They cause food deserts.
There is that, and also lately there are stores closing because the theft is getting out of control.
My guess is that Fatso wants to open some charity outfits, because if there was money to make there would be businesspeople already be making it.
Good morning, Sloop!
I know you aren’t angry, but I am. The Maui situation is stoking my rage. President fuckface just makes it worse. Talk about rubbing our noses in the fact that they hate our guts. It’s obscene.
Just like in utero vaccines. Fuck off, Pfizer.
Thank God for your musical links, though. I can never decide if A Forest or Primary is my favorite. Both are absurdly good!
Good luck in CC and enjoy the rain!
It’ll be fine. Or if not fine, it’ll be better than Laredo was yesterday. I’m still fired up.
::begins rant::
So I was down right on the Rio Grande taking pictures of stuff for an auction. And I go to leave and plug San Antonio into the GPS and take off. I go out of the guy’s yard and it routes me around and there’s a train that just go to the street I was taking to get over to 35. So I pull a uey, go back to the road I was in and go down a few streets. The gates are coming down. So I sit and wait ten minutes. And the train just keeps going. But it’s also slowing down. And then it stops. With maybe 5-6 cars left on it before it gets to my intersection. So I do another uey and head back north to the last intersection I was at. Only…there’s a giant batch plant and there’s a man stopping traffic so about a dozen mixer trucks that had just filled up can pull out. So I wait. And I pull out behind the last mixer and head toward the road I’d started in. And the gates start coming down for the same fucking train which is now backing up. The last mixer makes it as the gates are dropping but I don’t. So I sit for another 20 minutes waiting on that train. And as the gates go up, the gates fifty yards further down the street start coming down for a southbound train. And I’m apoplectic. Fortunately it was just a locomotive moving about 6 cars and didn’t take very long. So I got across and started my way back north.
Fucking Laredo. I hate Laredo.
::ends rant::
Sorry for the typos. I’m using my phone. Plus I’m fired up again.
I figured this story was going to end with “And then the local cops pulled me over and asked me about all the uey’s and if I was trying to evade something!
And I asked if I was being detained and they didn’t take that well… and Border Patrol was called to search my vehicle because we’re all within an International Zone….”
They didn’t know I was doing them. They were all safely on the other side of the tracks going about their daily lives without a care in the world for the poor souls trapped in that sliver of land hemmed in by the railroads.
“…Which led to a shootout, now I have to dispose of a dozen corpses.”
Haha!
I had the same thought!
Sorry, Sloop. Today is gonna be better.
Today I’m driving toward a tropical storm so I can get this trip out of the way this week rather than next (because I have to drive to coastal MS next week and drop off all the furniture we bought for a second home we bought by the beach).
I don’t know if today will be better. But next week certainly will.
Sounds like a new country song.
“I just can’t love you dear — the train you’re running is blockin’ my heart….” ?
Blocking something.
Local NPR this morning: Hochul is celebrating getting permission to turn a disused airfield into an
illegal immigrantasylum seeker camp. And *bragging* about all the state money that she’s going to spend making it nice and comfy.We need to nuke downstate.
Let me get out first?
Plus “$20 million to help asylum seekers find work”.
JFC this is getting ridiculous.
Meanwhile, the people say, “No mas”. But who gives a shit about voters, right?
See Pie’s technocracy link yesterday… they don’t give a shit about voters and they’re done pretending. They’re the Experts(tm) and they’ll damned well tell all us stupid apes what we should be doing, dammit!
And I do like that New York is swinging that way when it was perfectly fine with being a sanctuary and open borders as long as all those other southern icky states were the ones having to deal with it. Hypocrites.
Remember when ending the plague handouts was going to encourage lazy slobs to get back to work?
I wonder what effect flooding the market with tens of thousands of illegal aliens is going to have.
How many of them speak English?
How many that don’t speak English have any useful skills?
How many unskilled jobs are even left that people will pay for?
Just send them all back to wherever they came from. If they come back, shoot them.
“…to turn a disused airfield into an ‘asylum seeker’ camp.”
I think those are referred to as concentration camps.
Australia says “G’day! But that’s not the people you build those for, ya know?”
Mmm… that entire island is a concentration camp. Always has been, always will be.
I thought it was the defendant who was entitled to a speedy trial (yeah, right). Let the public’s part in the trial be the election itself because if Trump wins he’s off the hook and if he loses he’s going to die in prison (shouldn’t but will). Talk about democracy, let the people decide.
“Look, we went to a lot of effort to set up this Kangaroo Court before the next election — what right does he have to disrupt it?!?”
It’s just the outlandishness of the claim that gets me all the while it being so obvious what they’re up to. These people really are the worst kind of scum. I never realized it to such a degree but the power of prosecutors to wag their dicks around at will has got to be curtailed.
The guy in the top pic of the EV article is really bearing down on that squeegee.
More fucking downer news. Have to say – I don’t think they could field a credible force at this point without reinstating the draft. And if they do that, I’m not sure a good chunk of the country would go along… that might be a tipping point…
(He says, ignoring the several things he would have expected to be tipping points over the last several years… sigh…)
Who wants to get drafted to go off and kill some Russian who’s never done a damn thing to them so the boys at Boeing can see their stock options pay off?
The reinstate a draft and try to pull one of my kids and I’m going to war, just not over there.
The people who traditionally turn up their noses at the military are the ones pushing it but they won’t go; the ones who traditionally support the military and fight want no part of it-it’d be the end of the country.
I won’t be surprised if they figure out a way to de facto make the draft only apply to white males as some sort of “reparations” for centuries of racism. Or at least apply it to whites at an outsized rate.
^This^
You can be sure the draft lottery would award intersectional points to make sure that the draft is 98% white males. The other 2% would be uppity minorities like a young Clarence Thomas who weren’t going along with The Plan.
The silver lining would be the fragging of the officers and political commissars that would be put in charge of the draftees.
I think it would be far worse than it ever was in Vietnam.
What if they threw a draft and nobody came? I think they’re well aware of that too but they do seem to be filled with a particularly stupid form of hubris.
People apparently forgot that the last draft resulted in widespread violence, bombings, etc. The late 60’s, early 70s were nasty.
That would pale in comparison to what would happen now.
We’ve had 22 plus years of constant war and there are a lot of pissed off vets.
Tundra:
That’s crazy. January 6th was the most dangerous day ever in DC. EVAR!
Reminds me of the Draft Dodger Rag by Phil Ochs
“Ooh, I hate Chou En Lai and I hope he dies
But one thing you gotta see
That someone’s gotta go over there
And that someone isn’t me”
“So I wish you well, sarge, give ’em hell
Kill me a thousand or so
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore
I’ll be the first to go”
https://youtu.be/tFFOUkipI4U
“Son, uh, there ain’t no draft no more.”
Every time you think Joe couldn’t sink lower in terms of finding things to distract from his corruption.
Eh, I’m not buying what this guy is selling. There’s no support for sending our own troops, let alone a draft.
First they start with the All Volunteers, then the reservists, then a few necessaries (Doctors, etc), Now we’re 2 years in and a limited draft, 18-19s, then…
Light at the end of the tunnel
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Too few stories like that, Jimbo
Roshan M Salih
@RmSalih
No Muslim should support the concept of women’s sport played in public. Pretty obvious that it contravenes Islamic principles. Let them play their games behind closed doors but not in public.
Given their precepts, seems logically consistent.
And you should have First Posted this under the next MS article with the slapping GIF. “Your loss, Caliphate!”
This seems like a stupid (and creepy) idea by the Minnesoda DOT.
Just what I wanted more govt intrusion into my life. Go on, rub my nose in the fact that I’m carrying around a privacy destroying device in my pocket.
I fucking hate the stupid alerts we get in romania. Once I got one about a missing child in an area 25 kilometers from me and there was a link with a picture of the child that was broken and did not work.
Why would the gypsies bother kidnapping a child that’s broken and doesn’t work?
oh ha ha
also gypsies send kids to beg and broken ones work better via the pity factor
Keep adding until emergency alerts are as ubiquitous as Prop 65 warnings in California.
Padanian Maoist
@N3weis
My political journey
https://twitter.com/N3weis/status/1693231441688059938
hispanic natbol is a new one for me
American Dem is to the right of center? Maybe this graph was made in 1952 or something… Or center should be “Trotskist” instead of “Apolitical”.
Euroweenies… oy.
ANCOM and libertarian: Join us in consensus or we’ll cave your skull in isn’t libertarian.
What is the ‘bol’? I thought this was going to be some soccer twit.
ISLAMICSOC?
The internet has a lot good and bad but holy crap, but warning people in advance of your craziness is one of the benefits.
bol = bolshevik
Ah duh.
I honestly don’t know the finer distinctions between the various flavors of commie.
The political compass is stupid. 1/5th of the Nolan Chart being libertarian is stupid enough, but 1/2 is insane. And the axis make no sense.
That’s because your purity test only rates the sliver on the edge under your chosen label.
Possibly…but 1/2 of the political framework is not libertarian.
And I am a big tent libertarian, as is obvious by my voting record…I have voted for the LP candidate for Prez since 1996. Badnarik would probably be the only one to pass my purity test.
You’re still looking at it as a label that is the primary definition of an outlook rather than a spectrum of tendency from -1 to 1. Sure, a 0.01 won’t register for the label, but it’s how far down that tendency a person’s outlook is
I just don’t think that makes sense. What is the other dimension measuring?
The Nolan Chart using economic and social control makes much more sense. With libertarian at one extreme of both and authoritarian at other extreme of both.
But left and right libertarian are much closer together than this shows. I don’t know exactly what the y axis is measuring on this. I understand what the axes of the Nolan chart measure.
Texas Builds 600 Miles Of Border Wall Using U-Haul Trucks From California
Heh… I laughed.
“PICTURED: Tracy Fiorenza, 41, arrested by secret service after threatening to shoot Donald Trump and son Barron in the face”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12430437/Tracy-Fiorenza-arrest-Donald-trump-Barron-threat.html
Yeah… she seems stable. :eyeroll:
Dude. Everybody know only Biden has access to psychotronic weaponry. Pfftt.
They didn’t toss a flashbang and execute her?
Broken clock?
“On his Truth Social account Monday, Trump mocked Fulton County DA Fani Willis after his bail was set at $200,000, referenced his friendship with Putin and what he’s derided as phony charges he was colluding with Russia.
‘The failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis, insisted on a $200,000 Bond from me,’ he wrote. ‘I assume, therefore, that she thought I was a ‘flight’ risk – I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from again.’
‘Would I be able to take my very ‘understated’ airplane with the gold TRUMP affixed for all to see. Probably not, I’d be much better off flying commercial – I’m sure nobody would recognize me!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12431495/Trump-says-faces-200K-bond-DA-thinks-hed-fly-far-away-maybe-Russia-share-suite-Putin-former-president-plans-turn-Thursday-fourth-indictment.html
LOL
Say what you will about Trump, he can be pretty funny.
referenced his friendship with Putin
Mocked his supposed friendship, you mean.
and what he’s derided as phony charges he was colluding with Russia.
Charges that have been proven false, you mean.
Meet Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, the UK’s deputy chief medical officer during Covid. He just joined Moderna in a senior position. Totally unrelated of course. Unrelated
https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1693557214928110023
I don’t see the issue with hiring highly qualified people, and the best come from government
I mean, if your business model boils down to soliciting graft, you’re gonna want to hire the best grafters…
Oh they have a revolving door system in Europe too?
Top. Men.
Update:
“Travis Ikeguchi, 27, made anti-LGBTQ posts before shooting dead California shop owner Laura Ann Carleton over her Pride flag”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12431015/Suspect-27-shot-killed-mom-nine-outside-California-store-argument-LGBTQ-flag-identified-Travis-Ikeguchi.html
That post that says Florida is a “demonic stronghold of the marine spirit since Florida is surrounded by mostly ocean” just screams “nutter.”
Is this that Asian Hate thing I’m always reading about?
Sorry, got distracted by the article about Heidi Klum’s 19 year old daughter.
Those are some serious genes.
You got me to click.
Small victory over the regulatory state.
PredictIt Triumphs Over Regulatory Arrogance
https://www.wsj.com/articles/predictit-triumphs-over-regulatory-arrogance-political-futures-market-cftc-trading-australia-efe8780d?st=x312ww3q1dnn6of&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Britain is shutting down its last remaining ammonia production plant. For the first time in a century this country will become entirely dependent on nitrogen fertiliser imported from abroad, says Ed Conway in the Times.
https://twitter.com/toadmeister/status/1693895825296871804
permaculture is the future fertilizer is destroying Gaia
Bold strategy Cotton (whispers urgently… oh, no more cotton no more textile mills….).
Um… bold strategy, Pudding — let’s see if it pays off (gets walloped by Harley Quinn’s giant hammer coming in from off-screen… “STAY AWAY FROM MY PUDDIN’!”
Much like the west is shutting down power plants because who needs cheap power.
Now it’s who needs cheap food.
Stupid HR forms.
We need to burn that whole department to the ground along with Legal and all of the “Training” units.
Stop wasting my time!
Those people need jobs too
They can start a business back home turning commies into fertilizer.
The world needs fertilizer, and it would be the first contribution the commies made to agriculture that didn’t starve people.
NOT THE THEATER PROGRAM!!!!
St. Cloud St has always been a second rate party school (with a powerhouse hockey team), so I’m not surprised that their enrollment is down. I bet there are a lot of other smaller colleges/universities around here who are sweating because they are facing the same pressures.
An MRs. in Theater is one of the highest paying degrees!
Promoted algorithm boosted “based” red beard hillbilly song guy was faking his accent and says diversity is our strength.
Oooh, that’s gonna leave a mark
This is confusing. Should Mick Jagger also be taken behind the shed?
Narrator: please ignore all the British rock singers who sing with an American accent.
“BREAKING: Judge rules against Antifa defendants in default, awards Andy Ngo $300,000 in damages over Portland attack
The court ruled in favor of Post Millennial senior editor Andy Ngo on Monday in his civil trial against the remaining three alleged Antifa defendants that had physically attacked him in June 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
Defendants Corbyn “Katherine” Belyea, Madison “Denny” Lee Allen, and Sammich Overkill Schott-Deputy were found liable by Judge Sinaplasai for assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Each defendant has been ordered to pay Ngo $100,000 in damages.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-judge-rules-against-antifa-defendants-in-default-awards-andy-ngo-300000-in-damages-over-portland-attack
Sammich Overkill Schott-Deputy?
Sounds like the kind of name a Hollywood writer came up with for a hacker.
He Shott the sheriff, not the deputy.
Well that’s surprising…also the guy in the middle looks like homeless Dave Smith.
Dave’s new special is out today btw.
Dave’s not here, man.
I’m sure it’ll be overturned on appeal. And good luck getting any money from deadbeats anyway.
Did anyone scroll down and see this Dick Tracy villain?
https://www.portlandoregonmugshots.com/show.php?id=PAqUsRjm5DJuJYy&name=john-hacker
Maybe some sort of red diaper baby. A lot of them have what must be drug-influenced names.
Dude changed his name to Schott -Deputy.
*insert Bob Marley joke*
Billy McFarland has officially announced Fyre Festival II, with tickets beginning at $499
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1693808881879703759
one needs admire the moxie
“Double the Desolation – Double the Disappointment!”
There’s a not so fine line between moxie and stupidly begging to be tossed back into prison and that crosses it.
You need to brush up on your Yiddish. Moxie != chutzpah.
Moxie isn’t even Yiddish.
I’m not up on my kashrut. What disqualifies it, the sassafras or the anise?
Dunno, but ‘Moxie’ is (probably) Abenaki.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvc1I6jsPUo
“Shortly after the event began, Library Regional Manager for Yolo County, D. Scott Love, disbanded the event, citing misgendering by Lorey. Lorey, who was introducing the event, had used the term biological male to describe transgender male-to-female athletes, which Love considered to be misgendering.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/citing-misgendering-california-library-ejects-forum-female-sports
That’s not even what “misgendering” means.
The appropriate response is to punch Love in the face, shout “stop lying”, and remove the individual from any position of authority.
Biological sex is a social construct you racist!
Edinburgh Fringe funniest joke: Lorna Rose Treen’s zookeeper pun
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66569215
Yeah that is painfully unfunny…
“Top 10 jokes of the 2023 Fringe
I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah – Lorna Rose Treen
The most British thing I’ve ever heard? A lady who said ‘Well I’m sorry, but I don’t apologise.’ – Liz Guterbock
Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it’s hardly worth it now – Amos Gill
When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it’s called a podcast – Sikisa
I thought I’d start off with a joke about The Titanic – just to break the ice – Masai Graham
How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag – Frank Lavender
My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He’s Costa-phobic – Roger Swift
I entered the ‘How not to surrender’ competition and I won hands down – Bennett Arron
Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch – William Stone
My grandma describes herself as being in her “twilight years” which I love because they’re great films – Daniel Foxx “
So who wins a war between Switzerland and Scotland?
Everyone else.
This is one of the better articles in English I’ve read about this Japanese abomination of the tax system.
Almost nine million taxpayers took part in the system last year, the most since it began a decade-and-a-half ago. Under the rules, the typical taxpayer can redirect roughly 20% of the income-dependent portion of his or her “residence taxes” to other local governments, which can then spend about 30% of that on gifts. In the financial year ended March 2023, donations under the system approached a trillion yen, or almost $7 billion.
You need no connection to the area instead you just select where you want a portion of your taxes to go. In return the municipality sends you 30% of that money back as a “gift”. So the municipalities compete with each other on the gifts. Frequently expensive regional food and the like.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/taxes-japan-thank-you-gifts-dcfec436?st=pgikf3vbbmgvz0y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
WTF
That sounds like some retarded carryover from feudalism.
That sounds very entertaining. Imagine the conversations here if we had that tax system.
Exactly, I’d love to see how regions compete for the handouts.
A man begging for forgiveness inside a Chicago divorce court, 1948.
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1693450347036213299
She doesn’t look inclined to do so
Speaking of the draft, and slavery, I wonder how many of the people currently so bent out of shape about that “slavery taught useful skills” business buy into the narrative about how the army has been a way for black people to learn and grow and assimilate.
the nba draft made a lot of black guys rich
and bankrupt.
neah the bankrupt part was all them
We had two brothers in my platoon in boot camp that came from way back in some Louisiana bayou. The older brother had joined the Army first and when his first hitch was up had talked his brother into signing up for the Marines. Both of them were not only ignorant, but they were dumb as well. To their credit, they were doing about as much as they could with their limited skill set.
They thought boot camp was just fine. Got fancy new clothes, 3 meals a day and a decent place to sleep. Sure the DI’s screamed at them (and thumped them a few times) but it still wasn’t as bad as their shack back in the swamp.
They were a source of amusement and awe to the rest of us. Laughed at their antics all the time and couldn’t believe that there were people living in places that made boot camp look good.
Hey, wait a minute! My brother and I were not from Loosyanna, even if we looked like it.
Bear cubs getting in a hammock is one of the greatest videos of all time.
https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1693827834752680364
Delaying Donald Trump’s federal trial for his efforts to stop the peaceful transfer of power until 2026 would “deny the public its right to a speedy trial,” federal prosecutors for special counsel Jack Smith wrote in a court filing Monday.
The show must go on!
The show must go on – better or worse than fat bottomed girls?
Not even a question.
Show must go on
how do you know all this obscure music
Wow. A great example of how much difference a good vocalist can make.
Are you saying the Leo Sayer original was bad because of the vocals?
Since when has 3 dog night been obscure?
never heard of it until now
Uh . . . . I lived through it.
Yep. That doesn’t explain why Jimmy Greenspoon was wearing the Halloween get up though.
Is that canned laughter at 1:07?!
Has shrinkflation impacted the amount of laughs per can?
Biden takes a break from his vacation to remind suffering Hawaiians about his own tragedy.
Those burnt Hawaiians can use their tragedy to become president in 50 years.
Smith’s team wrote that Trump’s proposal is premised on the notion that lawyers will individually and manually review discovery material, which is not consistent with modern practices.
“Nobody actually looks at that stuff.”
We must convict him to read what’s in it!
“Just take our word for it, he broke the law.”
New Hampshire sheriff accepts paid leave after arrest on theft, perjury charges
https://apnews.com/article/sheriff-mark-brave-theft-perjury-charged-5d069efc05936b2dbbcc43ddf5e24772
wait if guilty does he have to give the psid leave money back?
“Brave, a Democrat elected in 2020 as New Hampshire’s first Black sheriff, was paid a salary of about $72,000 plus $11,000 for overtime in 2022. He has called the allegations politically and racially motivated. Commissioners have denied his claims.” – where does New Hampshire rank on racism?
“The charges allege that Brave used his county credit card to pay for travel to fictitious business meetings with multiple paramours and then lied about it to a grand jury.”
Dude. You gotta be more subtle than that.
Needs more crying.
https://blog.gaijinpot.com/ryutaro-nonomura-the-japanese-crying-politicianjapanese-crying-politician/
“as I get to Corpus Christi for a couple days”
We spent spring break in Port Aransas. Hopefully they’re ok. They tend to get beat up by storms a lot.
Looks like a whole lot of rain, but nothing else. Wind speed might top 30 MPH.
The “legalization” of pot has been a clown show, as is evidenced by the Humbolt County initiative. Limiting pot farms to a quarter acre…. Genius!!! Wanna keep the illegal drug trade in business? Keep doing dumb stuff like this. The fact that you even have to buy a per-plant license is stupid. Pot is insanely easy to grow. It should be dirt cheap. It will grow on the most marginal land, making it a perfect cash crop that can be grown just about anywhere. Total legalization would mean pot would have to compete only on quality to get prices significantly north of “free”.
This is one of the more transparent examples of the government being a formalized version of organized crime.
Local news has been banging on the marijuana crisis that Michigan is going through. The “crisis”? Too much supply, and it’s hurting the growers and dispensaries who have to cut prices down to move product. Now it’s all about how if we pass recreational marijuana here in Ohio, what will happen to the medical marijuana program?
The Cure is always a good musical choice. My new favorite song of theirs is this, which is a old B-side on their Join the Dots: B-sides and Rarities album.
Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters
https://www.businessinsider.in/retail/news/parmigiano-reggiano-makers-are-putting-edible-microchips-the-size-of-a-grain-of-sand-into-their-90-pound-cheese-wheels-to-combat-counterfeiters/articleshow/102815729.cms
*tinfoil hat becomes erect, sensing the conspiracy possibilities…
Interesting. I saw something on this the other day, there’s as much counterfeit product being sold as the real thing. Which makes me wonder if there’s actually that much of a difference.
It only counts as a difference if it comes from the Difference region of France
Seriously, why bother to stop at that point?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/15xjoqm/oc_this_is_my_local_hotshot/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
I see the media bloody-shirt beatification of their new quiltbag martyr is in full swing.
Fly the flag, haters.
Like “Hands up, don’t shoot!” the narrative has been set and they’re going to run with it.
And with both principals dead, there’s no way they’re going to get Smolletted on this.
The Maui fire disaster is indeed infuriating, but not surprising. You’d think Joe’s handlers would’ve kept him on a tighter leash, but maybe they can’t at this point. Of course, Joe could stand up there and make ten minutes of wisecracks about the fire and it wouldn’t really matter in the end. What are the people there gonna do, vote Republican?
I would say, who are the ballots going to be counted for, a Republican?
I charge married men $30K to be their ‘surrogate wife’ — I do what wives won’t
https://nypost.com/2023/08/21/married-men-pay-me-30k-to-be-their-surrogate-wife
I m not married so I don’t know what wives won’t do …
Surrogate wife…whore…whatever…
I understand that (((they))) no longer give blow jobs.
Butt stuff?
$30k for how long?
it is all virtual so it dont matter… just an only fans thot. I just liked the wives won’t do part… which is apparently watch football
Guy spots his stolen bike, and decides to take it back. Guy in possession of bike clobbers him with tow chain, wife gets hit in head. Guy takes bike home. Police show up later and take bike away, give it back to alleged thief.
https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/denver/couple-says-they-were-attacked-while-trying-to-get-stolen-bike-back-in-washington-park-neighborhood
“Police took Green’s bike back to the theft suspect because Green didn’t have documentation or a serial number to prove it was his, he said.”
How do we know it actually was his and he wasn’t just stealing someone else’s similar bike?
well if you can’t prove ownership…
That’s a perfect summation of the times we live in.
Green’s wife called 911 during the attack, but police did not arrive in time to see the assault. They responded to Green’s home, which is a few blocks away, about 20 minutes afterward, he said.
Just wow.
“Green didn’t have documentation or a serial number to prove it was his”
Do bikes even have serial numbers?
They generally do, but most people don’t document them.
Where would I even look?
Mine was on the underside of the frame.
There’s a couple places it may be, and if you’ve added on any components, those may have their own serial numbers.
Yes they do. That story reminds me of one of my best friends getting arrested in Chico, CA back in the day. He was walking home from a formal Christmas party dressed in a shirt and tie when he walked by some house with dudes who started ripping him on his outfit. He told them to fuck off and they ganged up on him and beat him up pretty badly. He got home and got more pissed about it, grabbed a baseball bat and hopped in his truck to go back and confront them. By the time he got there cops were on scene cause a neighbor had called about some dude getting beat up. They arrested my buddy on a DUI charge.
Happened to me once. A guy was riding my bike on Mass Ave just half an hour after I noticed that it was stolen. I grabbed the bike. He gave up after I showed that I could unlock the bike lock. No violence was involved.
“He gave up after I showed that I could unlock the bike lock.”
Apparently, he could, too.
Actually, he couldn’t. My bike was locked to a plank in a fence. The thief removed the plank and “liberated” my bike but the lock was still hanging on the bike frame.
Never let a storm go to waste
As disasters mount, lawmakers and climate groups are increasing pressure on President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency. Biden is traveling to Maui today, where the deadliest wildfire in 100 years of U.S. history has ravaged the historic Hawaiian island.
Make it rain money.
He gave it all to Ukraine. And he gave so much that no matter what he gives to Hawaii, it will look bad in comparison to the grift in Ukraine. And reporters will call that out.
The Church of Gaia would group-orgasm if Joe stood in the middle of Lahaina and signed the paperwork making that happen.
There must be some reason They haven’t declared one already. Why are they delaying yet another titanic power grab?
“where the deadliest wildfire in 100 years of U.S. history has ravaged the historic Hawaiian island”
If this is because of climate change, what caused the one 100 years ago?
Racism
“increasing pressure on President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency.”
And . . . There it is.
Yep. Hey, remember all that nasty shit they did during COVID? They want to use the same methods they did for that for this “climate emergency.” Just like Klaus Schwab’s daughter talked about as part of the “Great Reset.” They saw how quickly things could change during the COVID “emergency”, and realized that’s the ticket to overcoming resistance. They just have to convince everybody that climate change is a real emergency. And lo and behold, suddenly every single natural disaster or even everyday weather issues are being reported on as a climate change emergency.
Seriously, why bother to stop at that point?
The guy was obviously in a hurry. Maybe his wife was having a baby.
So the RV park owners put in a few new sites over the summer. Except the sewer connections are all uphill from the site pads. Oops. 😄😬
well I heard that shit rolls up hill or something to that effect
The first rule of plumbing is shit flows downhill.
The second is: Payday is Friday.
The third is: Don’t chew your fingernails.
Not presidential hopeful… hmm….
He’s teeing up a run in 2028 to be first Jewish president.
Daily Quordle 575
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Blossom Puzzle, August 22
Letters: E O R L S T U
My score: 307 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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Play Blossom:
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Daily Quordle 575
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not so good for me
#waffle578 2/5
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Score sucks, but the streak continues.
“It’s not clear why Caleb, who still lives with his parents, sister, and brother, was not medically insured.”
Because other people are supposed to pay.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12426045/Influencer-Caleb-Coffee-12-million-followers-begs-cash-pay-hospital-bills-plunged-80feet-Hawaii-cliff-lava-rocks-family-ads-Kelloggs-Nintendo.html
Jason Coffee, who has proudly monetized his children and turned them into a brand, boasts 765,000 followers on Instagram.
Big Brother has nothing on people who want their lives to be a real Truman Show I guess.
*scrolls down, barfs*
Server error got me again. Another CNN article about the mystifying housing shortage in Hawaii. Of course their examples are are “service workers” who lost their below market (presumably subsidized) but still astronomically expensive apartments in the fire. Maui was Paradise, and should be rebuilt just as it was.
Boo hoo hoo. Woe is me. Where will I live now?
Try someplace not a commie shithole, maybe.
An island in the middle of nowhere with relatively modern services and they expect it to magically come out of a wall, housing and land out of thin air, and goods just appear and be a Utopian paradise.
To be fair, every so often Hawaii belches up some new land. It’ll be an igneous wasteland initially, but it’s new land.
Do they have to issue one of the land grab apologies when the new volcanic cone finally breaks the surface: “We acknowledge that this land was stolen from the mermen”
The dude giving the sob story on NPR was living in his late parent’s house that had been built in the 1970s, paid off and bequesthed to him. Admittedly, I’m wondering exactly how “working class” he could be and afford the taxes on a (now assessed at) $800k home.
I want to know who their counsel is.
“Starting in August you will need to start paying the amount that is owed on your account that she took,” the first letter read. “I understand this is difficult times and this was not your fault but this is the way Corporate and our lawyers want to handle this [sic].”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/landlord-tennessee-says-victims-repay-allegedly-stolen-rent-checks-tenants-hear-promising-news
“What has happened to Maui is that because of climate change we have become a drier climate,” said Stan Franco, a board member of Stand Up Maui, a housing advocacy group. “We have had fires before. Grass fires. But not fires damaging buildings and taking lives.”
“The affordable housing picture was pretty grim on Maui even before the fire,” he said. The disaster “adds more pain for our people as far as housing is concerned.”
In Maui County, more than half of renters are considered rent burdened and pay over 30% of their income toward rent, a standard affordability threshold, according to a housing report released last month from University of Hawaii’s Economic Research Organization. The report found Maui County had the highest share in the state of those who are severely cost burdened, or pay over half their income toward rent.
Pay no attention to the market distortions behind that curtain.
“we have become a drier climate” Liar. Rain totals in 2022 were at their lowest, but year after year you have plenty of rain.
Drugs/Ass Dept?: A Gen Zer in her first internship can’t ‘fathom’ having to work for the rest of her life.!
The best part of the story is that the author of the story 100% agrees with the youngster and throws in all sorts of editorial comments about how working in the US sucks.
As I told a kid who worked for me and complained that “it wasn’t fun here”…
If it was fun here, I could charge you to come in. The very reason we pay you is because it isn’t fun.
But living in the US is pretty fucking cool.
Weird how that works
I’m confused.
There’s a reason they call it “Work”
Hawaii’s high land and construction costs and lengthy approval process make it hard to build affordable housing there, said Peter Niess, owner of Maui Architectural Group.
Many homes destroyed in the Lahaina fire were older homes that had been remodeled and expanded over many years to accommodate multi-family living due to high housing costs, according to Niess.
“Even if they build back the allowable portion of their property, it will displace people in the long term,” he said. “There was more than one kitchen, more than one family living there.”
They’re going to need a lot more building inspectors and code enforcers.
I don’t see how Hawaii can possibly begin to rebuild without a total climate conscious rewrite of their land use and building codes. They need to put together a study group ASAP.
Can’t issue the permits until you’ve got a Master Rebuilding Plan to check them against.
We’ll need at least three land use plan proposals along with cost estimates and impact plans before we can craft a Master Rebuilding Plan.
Land use plans can only be issued by certified contractors. Therefore we will need a contract certification agency with budget.
And the money shot:
“We were a part of a workforce housing project that burned down,” said Niess. “It is such a long process to get through the entitlement procedures with the county and the state.”
And while rebuilding is an opportunity to keep climate concerns in mind, that usually increases costs.
“You can’t have a more solid bulletproof, code-compliant home and a more affordable home at the same time,” said Niess. “Not unless someone subsidizes that substantially.”
*rattles tin cup*