Daddy needs a new race car.
Akshully, Sloopy and Banjos are making sure they can pay their Social Security taxes for those Glibs on, or close to SS.
Let’s see what might be going on in the world.
Holy crap the news sucks ass today. Whew. We can get through this, Spud.
Millions of years of evolution were dead wrong. Who knew?
You can afford a much better toupee, Gene.
Lights are growin’ dim…
“But there was no funny business. No sir!”
Yeah. Thanks honey. I’m sure Team Red is thrilled. I hope you lose your job.
Here. Have a piece of Ukraine candy.
We made it. That was not easy. Time to phone it in and prep for a glorious September weekend.
Kiss are back in Australia for a final time, just 14 months since the last time they were back in Australia for a final time.
I think I saw KISS in Jacksonville on one of their “Farewell Tours” around 1997. They’ve been threatening to leave our ears unrung for a long time now.
KISS was one of those bands I never got into.
They all seemed to be average musicians and I thought the music was boring.
But they wore outfits with makeup and had explosions, I guess.
I have great respect for how they turned it into a major business. I agree, just not into the music. Hat’s off to the business skills.
Gene is one of the first to admit that they aren’t great musicians.
They seem to be good showmen and Gene is a marketing genius.
And a world class asshole. You forgot that part.
You spelled cunt wrong.
^^^THIS^^^
KISS is just a mishmash of Zeppelin and Sabbath with facepaint and more sexualized lyrics and less argle bargle about Lucifer and bustles in your hedgerow. Their first few albums were pretty solid but they haven’t really been good since the 1970s.
So, Aerosmith with make up?
Maybe with less natural looking make up.
You’re just a day late with that car selection. 🙂
Akshully, Sloopy and Banjos are making sure they can pay their Social Security taxes for those Glibs on, or close to SS.
Thank you for your service!
Oh fuck you, vegans. That borders on animal cruelty to me — cats are carnivores, pure and simple. Do not try to put your namby pamby wussiness on nature (red in tooth and claw).
Funny how these assholes revert from “Nature is wonderful… if it weren’t for man” to “I must control everything!!!”. Almost like losing religion has convinced them that they are God…. almost….
Morning, Spud. Morning all.
We should call things what they are. Too many people walk around on eggshells.
Veganism/Vegetarianism like gender dysphoria —-> psychologically and emotionally unbalanced.
They dont need another carrot to gnaw on, they need a psychiatrist.
I can see that. Most of the people I know that have tried to go vegetarian/vegan really just jump from one sort of dietary extreme to another or just simply follow different fads for a period of time.
Yep. I shoulda included ’empty people’. They have a strong tendency to lean towards cultish behavior. They are empty and desperate to fill the void in themselves. Also, a strong tendency to lean left politically.
I have heard them make the argument that it is unnatural for humans to eat meat….we didn’t evolve to do that. I usually refer them to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folsom_point
I have even heard them try to argue around that.
Even earlier stone tools used by early hominids have been shown to have been augmented to better open marrow bones. We’ve got two million years of hunting in our blood, and a digestive tract that is not optimized for handling a lot of plant matter. (Compare the one-chambered omnivore stomach and comparatively short intestines to say, a ruminant’s multi chambered stomach and significantly longer intestines).
Fire was likely mastered as an aid to procuring and eating meat.
Also no TV yet, so they needed something to sit around and stare at in the evenings.
Another re-run? I hate summer fires!
When “Survivor” was really Survivor.
I like the Folsom point especially because it was found stuck in a buffalo’s rib.
Poor neighbor kid had parents pushing that shit on her. She went from vegetarian, to pescatarian to back to meat in short order when left to her own devices.
My college girlfriend had been raised in a vegetarian household (7sd, not hippy), I think she still is, to a certain extent.
Jebus, ZWAK, get your spelling under control. 7DA. Or SDA.
Too true.
When I adopted my cat (avatar), the shelter made me sign a (n unenforceable) document to the effect that she would be fed a strictly carnivorous diet. Wet food, not kibble. No grain. She is doing fine.
They linked to a bunch of studies showing kibble-fed kitties end up with diabetes and kidney problems. Makes sense for an obligate carnivore.
I do let her eat cheese because…well, try to say no to that face!!
I hope that picture was taken with a fisheye lens or something, because the cat looks kinda wall-eyed in your avatar. I’m not sure where it’s looking.
She is wall-eyed. She was looking at 2 squirrels or something.
When she’s calm she looks far more normal. That pic cracks me up.
Got it.
Maybe you’re feeding her too much fish. At least it’s not flounder, then she’d look like a Picasso.
LOL.
So far her eyes haven’t migrated any further apart…
I thought your cat was from the same planet as HypnoToad.
Perhaps a kibble-only diet or the kibble brand is a problem. The vet appears happy with the kibble-can food mix the cats get.
Ahhhhhh the power of cheese!
I dare. you to sit on my couch and try to eat a grilled cheese sandwich. My dogs will gather around you like buzzards around a dying antelope slowly inching closer every time they think you aren’t looking.
I suspect that the psychiatric profession may be the problem, rather than the solution.
So, the ‘study’ was based on lunatic vegans claiming that their cats were healthier, with no objective measurements of health indicators.
About the only way they could reach the desired conclusion.
Pretty sure a “vegan” cat ain’t the one making the decision in that arrangement.
We all know the joke “An atheist, a cross-fitter, and a vegan walk into a bar. I know this because they told us all within 2 minutes.”
Can you imagine the smug that must drip off a cat “owner” who says “My cat is vegan”?
“We taught a lion to eat tofu!“
Oh, they would never call themselves “owners.” The preferred nomenclature is “pet parent,” or “cat mom” [whorfs up hairball]. Also, their pets are “fur babies.”
I hate that terminology.
When I was setting up my late dog’s vet appointment, they asked his last name.
They already had my information.
WTH?
I said, “He’s a dog, he doesn’t have one.”
They said then we’ll use yours.
You should have taken his Dad’s name and thrown a -son on the end.
Muttson?
Strayson?
Nullson?
Bitchson.
FitzStray
They do that because there are 15 Spot’s, 4 Yodas, and 8 Pikachus in the computer for that office alone.
I understand that, but they already had my information.
Why wouldn’t they just put him under my name, instead of asking what his last name was?
Although I kind of like the Dad’s name-son.
I named the new puppy Max, short for Maximus Decimus Meridius, but realized I chose poorly.
He sleeps on his back like he has no bones, so I should have named him Ivar the Boneless.
I’m pretty sure my cats think they own me.
Well, who buys the food, provides free shelter, heat, water, and affection?
Ownership is the right to the use and disposal of property; cats will use us and dispose of us without a thought.
/leaving aside pesky questions about ‘rights’ and ‘thoughts’
I wonder if those vegan cats are only indoor cats? Because if they get out, they may not be as vegan as the owner thinks.
I hope there is some sort of afterlife where the crazy vegan cat lady can watch as her poor cats finally get to abandon their vegan diet as they eat her body.
LOL.
Dark. Funny, but dark.
👍
That AZ moron debate-fleeing Dem should be thanking her, actually. Now when people think of moron women governors of the Southwest, they’re thinking NM instead.
Her flagrant disregard of the constitution is grounds enough to impeach her and ban her from office. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue; she essentially said that she’s queen of NM and can do what she wants.
After Gene’s COVID comments, I could not give any shits what he has to say about anything.
What did he say?
Lemme guess….the usual cowardice and pleading for everyone to bend their knees?
So he’s an asshole about…. everything, it seems.
“CWAA”
CWAA
Good grief. He bought it hook, line, and sinker. And then resold it.
I am not a Green Bay fan (nor a Jets fan) but I feel extra bad for Aaron Rodgers after his injury because he publicly stood his ground against the COVID vax and refused to comply while the NFL tried to make hundreds of the healthiest young men on the planet take the experimental jab.
I’m hoping for a full recovery for him!
My only pushback is that he tried to weasel his way around it.
Even wishy-washy Kirk Cousins stood up and said publicly that he wasn’t going to get the jab. And you know what? No one really cared.
Of course, not a lot of people cared about Kirk before that, so it wasn’t too surprising.
Wow. So….cowardice.
Never woulda thought of him as such a conformist coward. That is pure herd-animal babble.
Right? Quite the “rock and roll” attitude there. 🙄
And yet KISS Army drones keep shoveling money at this asshole. Dipshits.
KISS was never serious rock and roll, they were a garage band with a gimmick.
Inside every rock-and-roll rebel is a simpering conformist trying to get out.
Dee, “We’re not Gonna Take it” Snider was all in on the jab also.
As were 90% of musicians that publicly had an opinion.
Van Morrison never preened about rebelliousness and when he rebelled against the vaccines et al he was denounced by all those other brave self-annointed rebels.
The difference being that Morrison is an actual iconoclast and not a poser.
It’s pretty simple with these guys like Simmons and Stern.
They’re old, they’ve lived hedonist lives, they don’t have a belief system that provides any comfort to them, they’re terrified of dying.
They’re giant pussies and should be treated as such.
Ah, so he has Howard Stern Syndrome too. SAD!
Yes. It is sad. Before that he did say some good things. When Hollywood was starting to get deep into politics in the late eighties, he did tell all the actors to shut up and sit down. I don’t know what happened to him.
One of these days, all these people who you keep calling out as ‘the enemy’ are going to start acting like it.
How would you infect others if the vax was safe and effective at preventing and preventing the spread of covid?
I don’t worry about my kids getting polio because some family at school didn’t get their kid vaxxed.
Chalf Witz
The NRA finally got around to fighting Grisham. All the good 2A groups filled the same day, or day after. I suppose LaPierre just needs a bit more money for some law clerks or something.
What’s the good gun org? Gun Owners of America?
I’m not a good one to ask (my comment was mostly snark), but yes, Glibs who would know have said GoA in the past.
Although I have heard arguments that GoA is more of a money grab by the founders. But what work they do seems better than the NRA.
And https://saf.org/
FPC.
The writers and the studios are set to get back around the negotiating table.
How hard can it be to program an AI bot to rewrite an old script by changing the genders of the lead characters?
Yeah… you’d think “Steal from Shakespeare… but set it in modern day and gender swap/race swap/make gnomes out of the characters should be pretty trivial for what I’ve seen from ChatGPT and the like. If that’s all the money men want to churn out (to pump their ESG scores), shouldn’t be too hard.
/waits for the race swapped version of Farnham’s Freehold or Sixth Column
Look for the union label… so you know what to avoid.
what in particular happened in ’89 anyway? I killed fun when I entered college? I don’t remember doing so…..
The 80’s were awesome but I was still having fun into the 90s despite first-wave political correctness with the Clintons.
911 certainly put a damper on fun. Obama killed it.
It may be nostalgia fallacy, but I’ll say the 90’s seem to have been the peak of American civilization and culture in my lifetime.
Missed it by that much.
The 80s, when JI was young and carefree and the cocaine was less adulterated.
So, Kiderated Cocaine?
They only cut it with benign substances, not shit that would kill you.
We were sure Cyanide and Cocaine was the winning combination.
UCS:
Allow the Tiger Lillies to introduce you to the appropriate blend (lyrics NSFW).
So what he says, baby laxative.
Exactly. Class of ’85!!!!!
Class of ’90. I’m with you.
’88 or GTFO
Class of ’89. So, in the words of Nelson Muntz:
HaHa!
Represent!
So The Matrix was right.
“Notably, Mr. Schwerin, who served as then-Vice President Biden’s bookkeeper from 2009 to 2017, explained that he was not aware of any transactions into or out of the then-Vice President’s bank account related to business conducted by any Biden family member,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
What’s he going to do, tell folks “Hell, yeah, Joe’s as crooked as they come! Here’s a list of all the shady shit that I’ve done for the family!”? The guy presumably wants to stay alive and out of prison.
Well, duh. I’m not expecting any of the bribe money to land in Joe’s personal checking account. What a non-denial denial. The whole point of the shell corporations, family member cut-outs, etc. was to make sure that didn’t happen. If anyone thinks Joe didn’t get the benefit of a good chunk of that money, they’re terminally naive.
How much are his real estate holdings worth again? On a public-servant salary?
I can’t tell if they’re turning on him, or the weight of the evidence is finally just too much and the truth is finding daylight as it always does.
The unity is fracturing and people are seeking cover in new factions. It’s not going to be smooth.
Take some pleasure in watching the rats scurrying for cover.
This. The old paradigm, the one we had been living under since ’68, is dying. What replaces it? Nobody knows.
Heheheheheheh
https://studyfinds.org/great-tits-birds-city-color/
Great link title. SFW.
I like all tits, but I do prefer the paler ones. This is good news for me.
Aww. Tits are very cool birds. There is a brotherhood of oddball British gentlemen who build elaborate puzzles in their yards for tits to swoop in and solve in order to get a peanut or other treat.
Such tiny brains but they are very, very clever.
I bet the puzzles are only for the smaller tits.
When a big tit swooped into the yard, I’d be stunned if those oddball British gentlemen didn’t trample each other to just give them the treat. Unless they are real
oddballsgay.Um, hello, they’re British.
Building puzzles for birds sounds like a pretty good hobby.
My old man has been leaving treats for the local crows, to see if he can get them to bring him shiny things to trade. Yeah, I come by the weirdness honestly…
I’ve seen tits in my backyard. They were difficult to identify through internet searches.
So your wife found your internet history? And that is the story you are going with?
So they’re going to retract the study, right? Because it’s bullshit?
Hahahahahaha
“The re-imposition of Ukrainian control over Crimea would not be popular with the pro-Russian population there now,”
But they need to be part of the Ukraine against their will for Democracyᵀᴹ! Then they can enjoy being a vassal state and every abled and disabled bodied man, woman, and child drafted into the army for the ongoing crusade against Russia.
You do recall that Crimea voted to be part of Ukraine and not Russia when the Soviet Union broke up, yes?
I suspect that Crimea is closely divided on the topic. The original vote (the one without Russian soldiers standing next to the ballot boxes) was, I think, 52% in favor of Ukraine. Of course, the question with any vote anywhere is how legitimate the results really are, if one cares about following the will of the people, of course.
Spoiler: Nobody Who Matters cares about the will of the people.
Given the trajectory of the Ukraine versus Russia, I think it goes the other way now if aliens came down and administered the election. The results won’t be universally believed if anyone here on Earth did it.
More importantly, Russia isn’t giving up the Black Sea and their naval bases there, ever. They’ll fight WWIII for it if necessary. Mexico has a better chance of regaining San Diego.
Given our current border policies, that should happen in the next decade.
It’s irrelevant. Sevastopol is Russia’s only year round warm water military port.
Whatever the populace thinks (although I’m inclined to think it’s Russian leaning these days), there’s absolutely no way Moscow will surrender it. The nukes would start flying.
You might as well ask DC to give up Hawaii.
“You might as well ask DC to give up Hawaii.”
Right now, I would bet they would love too.
At least give up the Red Hill fuel farm and Lahaina.
I think the vote in the 90s was something like 56% in most of Crimea and 54% in Sevastopol. But I’ve been wondering what the exact question was. Was it “Do you want to be independent of the Soviet Union?” Or was it “Do you want to be independent of Russia that no longer has the Soviet system?” I think you might have had different results depending on the question.
Crimea was controlled by the Ukrainian Soviet by the will of the Supreme Soviet – isn’t that justification enough? Forget the history of who controlled it, the people who live there, all of that. All that matters is when the USSR broke up, it fell into the Ukrainian pot.
You’re arguing legalities in a situation that is purely about geopolitical strategy and national security.
Besides which, nobody believes the West when it comes to international law anymore. The law is what the “rules-based order” says it is, no more, no less.
Hasn’t that always been the case though?
“International Law” has always been decided by force of arms.
Oh, boy. With Sloopy in Houston, we can only hope that the mailbox is armored.
A well-preserved homestead once belonging to astronaut Neil Armstrong is on the market, and sellers are asking $550,000 for the sizable property.
Nestled in the outskirts of Houston suburb El Lago, the property at 1003 Woodland Dr. is credited with preserving some of its original features with additional updated amenities like an HVAC system, a newly upgraded kitchen with granite countertops, and updated cabinets.
Sitting on a 17,102 square-foot lot, the house itself is 2,883 square feet and has a backyard featuring a brick-lined pool, fire pit, and backyard patio.
People lived in Houston before HVAC?
History says they did…but as a native of the area, even I can’t imagine how or why (and I still play soccer outdoors in the summer…)
El Lago is just about as far from Sloopy as you can get and still be considered in the “Houston area”. Probably safe from him. Not me though! 😀
It can’t take more than a Day to reach the other side of the city.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That is inspiring. No excuses.
I feel the same when I go watch TOK and his team play hockey. They are out there busting their humps, while I sit in the stands and drink beer.
Mere mortals would be overcome with guilt and start working out after seeing them. Luckily I am triple axxed and boosted against guilt. Total immunity.
Sled hockey has changed the way I look at things. We rarely talk about our disabilities, unless we’re razzing each other. When you get on the ice with those higher level players, they’re not just in good shape for a disabled person. They’re in good shape period. And they will smash anyone into the boards without a thought, disabled or not.
One of the top players in the world used to play for us, and his dad is still our equipment manager. He was born without legs (nothing below the hips). In high school he wrestled, and won a lot because people couldn’t figure out how to get hold of him.
My cousin has an MMA school, and one of his guys that he trained had only one leg, and was really successful in MMA fights because 1) guys couldn’t figure out how to get ahold of him (he always fought from his one knee and leg stump, so he was technically “downed” which meant no kicks or knees), and also 2) his upper body was larger and stronger than other fighters in his weight class, because he wasn’t carrying the extra weight of one leg.
Good one, Holiness.
Thank you!
Vegan cats healthier than meat-eating felines, study claims
Sounds like animal abuse.
My dog is a vegan by choice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG2IPRr–nM
Mike Judge’s follow-up to King of the Hill was a short-lived sitcom called The Goode Family.
A running gag on the show was the family dog (named Che, naturally) who was fed vegan kibble. Everyone was mystified that small wildlife and pets were constantly disappearing from the neighborhood.
I’ve never fed my pup vegetarian or enhanced-fiber chow since he’s never shown a lack of ruffage.
That almost qualifies as a dad joke. We need to test it out on a teenage girl. To measure the eye roll and heavy sigh. For Science.
“I’m still waiting on a thank-you note from the New Mexico GOP,” she wrote Thursday on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Way to use my call to action around gun violence as a fundraiser instead of using it as an opportunity for immediate action to save New Mexican lives.”
Go fuck yourself, you tyrannical cunte.
All of my life have I heard about getting guns off of the streets. I rarely hear calls to get criminals off of the streets.
This guy was tough on crime.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/biden-1993-speech-predators/index.html
My handguns were looking at each other suspiciously last night so I put them all in separate rooms to prevent any of that unpredictable gun violence from breaking out.
The S&W .38 was pretty openly taunting the S&W .357 magnum. Lots of potential gun violence there. I showed them both the NM governor’s decree and made them write “I will not commit violence for 30 days” 100 times.
If it can save just one life…
I’d keep my eyes on that pervy little .22 that keeps rifling through your underwear drawer.
One of my most treasured pistols was a gift from an elderly neighbor, who kept it in her ‘unmentionables drawer.’ It’s a perfect condition Camden High Standard Model B with three magazines, so hardly pervy at all…
That’s weird, my Baby Eagle and 1911 seem to get along just fine, but that might be because they are both .45’s.
I do keep the 9mm Baby Eagle and my Granpap’s .22 9- shooter revolver locked up in the closet.
There is something about them I don’t trust.
If you have more rooms than guns, it sounds like you have some remedial gun buying to do…
This is true.
How’s the knee?
A lot better, thanks. I’ve been going to the BJJ fundamentals classes for the last two weeks, and it’s been holding up pretty well. I’m really looking forward to getting back to some rolling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxbivnFlPu0
What about more guns than drawers?
MUST……HAVE…..THAT
*Paws at screen*
How Ukraine Could Take Crimea Back From Russia
Lol…oh, you’re serious. What a maroon.
Well, this will piss a few people off.
A new Texas law aims to crack down on people trying to falsely pass off their pets as service animals. As of Sept. 1, those who falsely represent pets as service animals when they are not specially trained can face fines up to $1,000 and 30 hours of community service. House Bill 4164 defines a service animal as a “canine that is specially trained or equipped to help a person with a disability.”
So I can no longer sue the airlines for not letting me bring my emotional support elephant aboard?
Damn.
Yeah, it’s just my emotional support Kodiak bear. He’s a sweetheart but don’t make any sudden movements. Blind people, fine; others, no.
We said you could bring the Kodak on the flght.
I see an opportunity to offer remote canine training.
Connect to one of my special trainers on zoom and make your dog watch it. Might not actually work and your “service” dog will still roam airports sticking his nose in various crotches, but by golly that dog was specially trained in a very real legal sense.
$250 per dog.
I’m afraid there are likely existing training certification regulations you wouldn’t meet.
I’m ok with it. Real service dogs are unobtrusive and perfectly trained.
Yes. I see a lot of them at my tournaments. But once one of our teammates had a young Rot that he brought to a tournament. He asked the coaches to watch her on the bench during a game. The dog freaked out because she could hear her owner but not see him over the boards. She ended up biting one of the coaches on the calf. That was not a service dog.
That sucks.
We have a team dog, Tanger, who is on the bench for every game in his own team sweater. He’s awesome. He gets an assist credit for every goal we score, so ends up leading the league in points every year. At the end of the game, he comes out for the handshake line. So fun!
“How Ukraine Could Take Crimea Back From Russia”
If it’s not a listsicle where #1 is going back in time to kill Oppenheimer before nukes are developed then I’m not interested.
He also invented the internet.
Biden claims he “taught political theory” at the University of Pennsylvania.
He never taught a single class at UPenn.
He’s a demented serial liar who’s had aneurysms and was none too smart before those-the man’s gonna say stupid shit.
Sean Penn proves once again that he’s “different.”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1702532964637147326
By “different” you mean “touched.”
“Retarded” is the word you’re looking for. Hell of an actor but dumb as a dead possum.
Hell of an actor but dumb as a dead possum.
Might be cause and effect. He’s a great actor because he’s a blank canvas that can take on anything the writers and directors desire.
See, also, De Niro.
The dead possum at least realizes it made one too many stupid mistakes.
“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
BIDEN: “We’ve seen record lows in unemployment, particularly, and I’ve focused on this my whole career, particularly for African-Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans—You know, workers without high school diplomas!”
Good morning, Spud!
The plant-based cult is getting dumber by the day. I don’t give a fuck what you eat, the reasons for it, etc. But don’t force it on kids and pets. It’s wrong and really stupid.
It’s been a hell of a lot longer than 2014. The journalisming around this stupid shit is close to unbearable. I read yesterday that the “experts” expect the fighting to go on for another ten years.
Fuck Russia. Fuck Ukraine. Fuck NATO. Fuck every single neocon and their MIC fluffers.
Hear Hear!
*Bangs old iPad on table.
History started in 2014.
Get your kids out of public schools.
BREAKING: ‘HiTOPS’ Nonprofit Sneaks Sexual and LGBTQ+ Curriculum into Schools, Admits Goal to Strip Parents of Opt-Out Rights
Hannah Wiers, @HiTOPSinc Health Educator: “I think our real goal would be to make sure that that opt out doesn’t exist.”
Starve the beast. Tar and feather the transers, groomers and race indoctrinators.
The next time someone you know says they trust the “experts” or the news, show them this video.
Clowns.
“I’m not saying it’s aliens…”
This is up there with my neighbor who is an engineer for GM putting water in the brake reservoir of his company car last week.
It’s GM. Are you sure that it isn’t a new environmentally friendly brake fluid that saves GM money.
Bonus points if the whole brake system rots out approximately 30 days after warranty expiration.
o.O
If I were working for Davos and wanted to keep capital from fleeing Europe and coming to the US, I might propose something just like this.
https://twitter.com/WR4NYGov/status/1702623211471650957
A dangerously stupid idea that would be expanded on and moved to lower income brackets if they get this foot in the door.
They’re trying to scare foreign capital off. That’s what this is about, saving Europe from complete and total collapse. The only way to do that is to destroy any places for what’s left of European capital to flee to.
It’s not the CCP that’s trying to destroy us, it’s Davos. They need us to fail so they can survive.
As bond yields in Europe come under even more pressure, you’re going to see even more insanity from their representatives in the US (Yellen and the Biden administration in general)
(Yellen and the Biden administration in general)
But not necessarily the neocons, who are their own special brand of crazy traitors.
Why wouldn’t they just skip off to China or India if they’re bailing on Europe and the US is undesirable?
Not as attractive for political reasons and the methods to move capital to those markets aren’t as easy.
It’s much, much easier to convert to dollars than anything else and the USA is still the destination for fiscal stability in a crisis, regardless of our problems.
Besides which, if Europe collapses do you think Europeans would rather emigrate to the US or China?
Also an unconstitutional idea since anything that’s not an income tax must be apportioned.
How quaint.
Yeah, I know, FYTW.
But there might actually be a chance with the current SCOTUS.
To call the idea of taxing unrealized capital gains stupid is not strong enough. It is pure evil. It would destroy the average person’s ability to build wealth over time.
No, no, it will only EVER apply to the rich [muwhahahahaha]…
About sums it up.
Surely nobody is taking this seriously? Are we that far down the drain already?
Reaching out to TPTB, I have a scheduling issue:
Somehow, I accidentally published The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. This is a mistake. It was not done, just some random notes. Please help and take it back to draft. I have money,
I believe it should be fixed now.
Thank you. You are a scholar and a gentleman.
I hope you enjoy your government cheese.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will explore the possibility of a city-owned grocery store, an idea long supported by activists to provide relief for neighborhoods without good shopping options but that could run into stiff economic headwinds.
Johnson announced a partnership with the Economic Security Project to explore the possibility of a city-owned grocery store. The first step will be to perform a feasibility study, though the city did not provide a timeline.
“All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options. We know access to grocery stores is already a challenge for many residents, especially on the South and West sides,” Johnson said in a statement. “A better, stronger, safer future is one where our youth and our communities have access to the tools and resources they need to thrive. My administration is committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities.”
I swear I’ve seen this movie before.
All the shelves will be bare within a week.
You assume they would ever get stocked in the first place.
Exactly. Think of a Soviet grocery. The shelves were bare the moment they opened.
But the apparatchiks are well supplied!
Gee, I wonder why the South and West sides are food deserts but not heroin deserts.
Also, how many deaths from starvation have there been on the South and West sides? The answer is ZERO.
They’re absolutely not murderous psychopaths drunk on power. They’re just caring mothers.
https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1702162806252970343
Tucker’s interview with Javier Milei is on X/Twitter now. I watched it, dude is a straight up libertarian. If, and I know this is a very big “if”, Argentina actually embraces his ideas, I have no doubt that it will lead to a remarkable turnaround for the country.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1702442099814342725
I watched that last night. Loved it. He’s a good showman, but also very smart and he knows what he’s talking about. It would be amazing if he wins, but he’s got 100 years of socialist indoctrination to overcome if he does.
It’s gotta be really bad there for that guy to stand a chance?!
I mean it’s getting bad here and we’re looking at the possibility of fucking Biden getting re-elected.
Kind of what I was thinking: Now we know how bad it has to get before a real libertarian has a chance at high office.
Ideas shape culture. Economies grow from culture. Government grows from culture. Argentina will always have enormous potential.
Hey, that was good. Gracias and good luck to the guy.
Excellent, thanks. Legit LOL at the story of the ugly building at 9 Julio St. and the removal of the statue there. Statue of a man with palm pointing backwards, as if to accept a bribe, added by the original builder as a protest against the number of bribes required to complete the project. Priceless.
The writers and the studios are set to get back around the negotiating table.
Oh. Moving on.
In an effort to shed light on the health implications of vegan diets for cats, Prof. Knight and his team analyzed survey data from 1,369 cat owners. These owners were asked about the health and diet of one cat in their household, which had been fed either a vegan or meat-based diet for at least a year.
Ah. Self-reported. I thought I smelled bullshit.
Oh, oh. The Dakotas are cooperating! And they are hampering the Green $$$ of Minnesoda.
Aren’t those Indians in NoDak worried about storing carbon underground near their holy places? They went ape shit about an oil pipeline, so I expect that they will do the same about this carbon pipeline. Otherwise it would mean that they might not be protesting based on principles.
Say what now?
Sounds like the best grift ever. We should get in on it if we ever expect to retire.
I have a crazy idea. Let’s get rid of the ethanol mandates and subsidies.
So stupid. Just pump it into greenhouses and make excellent tomatoes and stuff. What a boon for production!
I’d like to see the math on just planting a shit ton of trees to soak up the CO2.
My bet is that it does nothing, because claiming CO2 is the problem is a red herring. After all, if these people really felt there was a crisis, the solutions would be engineering ones. Not the usual marxisst freedom robbing wealth redistribution shit that turns the common man into plant food or serfs for the survivors.
I read somewhere a long time ago that trees basically don’t do anything for CO2. They create about as much as they absorb. It’s algae that does all the real work. But I’ve never looked it up to verify.
Carbon dioxide pipeline? Now there’s a 🤡🌎 idea if I ever heard one.
The local tribe in Nevada (that you’ve never heard of, People of Red Mountain) oppose lithium mining. So even the POC are trying to foist it off on other POCs in other countries.
Why a pipeline? Have ethanol plants pump it into the ground right at the plant site.
Did they switch Fetterman’s on us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fMpds24Ak
Some of his tattoos seem to be missing in recent appearances.
Here’s a question I could probably find the answer to online, but figured I’d make you lot enact my labor – how strictly does the military enforce rules about drinking by under-21s on deployment? How much does it vary between places like at sea or in countries where that’s legal?
Depends, the higher ups would absolutely slam anyone caught underage drinking.
For the Sgt’s and Cpl’s, while they didn’t encourage it, as long as the kids weren’t doing anything stupid, they would look t6he other way.
Staff NCO’s were more of a mixed bag, some would care and others, like me could not care less about it.
Thank you.
Next thing you know they’ll want to stop high school kids from doing drugs/booze/sex, etc and make them go to school and learn something.
Back in the 80s and 90s it depends on chain-of-command. Off-duty only obviously.
In the 80s, 18-year-olds could generally buy and drink beer on federally owned bases unless the commanding general prohibited it.
Still could in the early 2000’s, don’t know if it’s still true.
This story is ~2017ish timeframe. When did the policy change?
Way before then.
When I originally enlisted in 1989, 18 year olds could drink on base.
When I came back in in 1999, it was 21 and up.
At NAS Memphis in ’86-’88 it was a mixed bag. When I first got there, the base E-club was open for anyone 19 or above (I think that was TN law then). Then when TN raised the age limit to 21 (thanks Liz Dole the proto-Karen), they stuck with 19 for a while. Then new base CO and he raised it to 21.
The E-club security was pretty silly though. You could go in if you were underage, but couldn’t get served. If you were of age, you would get your hand stamped with some sort of ink that showed up under a black light. The mark was just the letter E. Since it was a training base, the E was the exact same one you had in the little stencil kit that you had just gotten in boot camp.
So even if you were under age, you could pull out a high lighter and use it to ink up your stencil and stamp yourself. The waitresses didn’t really care how good it was. As long as something showed up they were happy.
The main thing, though was that you didn’t do anything stupid.
A good explanation of the UAW strike. I’m sympathetic with them this time. Obama pushed the last deal to bail out the auto industry, and got the union to give up raises based on inflation. And then comes Biden. High inflation and a push for EV’s that will cost a lot of jobs. If Trump is smart, he’ll play this right and solidify the working class vote.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/14/uaw-to-strike-all-big-three-automakers-at-the-same-time-for-first-time-in-history/
It is not an accident that the people peddling socialism have socialized private and public economic losses while privatizing the profits for their buddies that send them campaign cash.
Sure. Let’s push the average new car price up to $60k.
https://www.moneygeek.com/insurance/auto/average-price-of-a-new-car/
Now suddenly those expensive EVs look like a good deal with all them government subsidies, right?
Nope. Still don’t.
When they’re asking for a 46% raise combined with 20% less productivity with a 32-hour work week, I’m not at all sympathetic.
Ouch. Ok, I’m changing my opinion from sympathy to them getting what they deserve for blindly supporting one party while the union leadership and politicians get rich.
I’ll be on their side when they vote to abolish the union. Until then, no sympathy.
Did you read the word salad where the UAW president talked about “the Democratic majorities’ support for job killing free trade”?
JFC these people leading the strike are full on commues.
The Great Miscommunicator wants to tax unrealized gains, and has increased his proposed tax rate from 20% to 25%
Bless his heart.
It’s astonishing to me to see so many “elite thinkers” who have no understanding at all of how the economy works.
This shit is absolutely evil. Nothing will turn everyone but the people at the top into serfs faster than this idiocy. The goal is to destroy the middle class and have the elite put us in pods, feed us bugs, deny us freedoms, and punish us if we tell them we are not happy about them fucking us over.
See my comments above. The immediate goal is to save the ECB and Davos from financial destruction.
The other stuff, well, that’s just a bonus.
And absolutely no thought as to whether the constitution actually allows it.
The what?
Some archaic document proposing to define and limit the power of government written by slaveowners a couple hundred years ago. It’s largely irrelevant these days.
tax unrealized gains
This is more absurd and tyrannical than property taxes.
Of course you won’t be allowed to deduct unrealized losses.
In PA you can’t even deduct realized losses.
I’d like to see the math on just planting a shit ton of trees to soak up the CO2.
Kudzu. Then we can bale it and ship it to the moon.
There’s a reason that area is the Great Plains, not the Great Forest.
A good explanation of the UAW strike. I’m sympathetic with them this time.
I have zero sympathy for the UAW. This in no way prevents me from thinking the people running the Big 3 are a bunch of short sighted moneygrubbing simpletons who deserve to be publicly flogged and pelted with dung.
After the big bailout, weren’t they supposed to have a UAW leader on the Board of Directors? GM did until Joe Ashton got in trouble.
https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2019/12/former-vp-ashton-pleads-guilty-to-uaw-gm-corruption/
Philadelphia teacher’s suspicious suicide crime scene was cleaned up before police arrived with search warrant
Unbelievable. I wonder which politician got away with murder. Or connected donor.
I can’t believe these poor parents are still fighting those assholes.
Yeah, I remember reading about that case, it had to be her fiancée who did it.
This is quite a metaphor.
I don’t see why she would be portrayed on a horse.
Unbelievable. I wonder which politician got away with murder. Or connected donor.
She didn’t have an ex-boyfriend who happened to be a cop, did she?
We can’t be bothered with trivial shit like this when there are political show trials on the line
Investigators said that on Tuesday at around 10:50 p.m., someone called to report a body inside the trunk of a silver Jaguar outside of Jeju, a Korean spa and sauna.
At the time, investigators couldn’t tell the victim’s gender because of decomposition.
Johnson learned Thursday that four people have been arrested and charged with felony murder, imprisonment, tampering with evidence and concealing a death. They are identified as Joonhyun Lee, Joonho Lee, Hyunji Lee and Gawon Lee. A 15-year-old juvenile who has not been identified was also arrested on murder charges and is in custody at a metro Atlanta hospital.
A sixth person, 26-year-old Eric Hyun, was taken a hospital for unrelated injuries before the woman’s body was found. It’s unclear how Hyan and the teenager were injured.
Police say Hyun asked a family member to retrieve something from his car. When they did, they found the body in the trunk.
During a news conference on Thursday afternoon, police revealed the woman, who is believed to be in her 20s or early-to-mid 30s, was lured over from South Korea over the summer to join a “religious organization,” called “Soldiers for Christ.”
The victim was then locked in a basement and tortured. The medical examiner says malnourishment was a contributing factor in her death. When she was found, her body weighed approximately 70 pounds.
Moby Trump remains at large.
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1702472782385140042
The Governor decided that nobody can take pictures or report on things in Maui.
Are we still ignoring the dead kids?
Not even supposed to talk about them now.
If it were my kid there would be no talking.
This is sick and evil. And no accident.
“What dead kids?”
– MSM
I just learned what the Hawaiian flag looks like.
I didn’t know why the virtue signaler down the road from me had a British looking flag hanging out by his mailbox.
This guy used to have a “In this house we believe” flag, then a BLM, then a Ukraine, now Hawaiian.
He might have had others, I don’t go that way very often.
Same guy that was wearing a mask to mow his grass.
I should become freinds with him.
EXCLUSIVE: Married South Dakota governor Kristi Noem and Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski have been having a years-long clandestine affair
Gee. What a shock.
Meh.
“But a DailyMail.com investigation has uncovered extensive evidence of the couple’s romantic relationship: Dozens of trips that mixed business with pleasure, flights on donors’ private planes, and stays at luxury resorts where their intimacy was observed and noted.”
For you.
If somebody proposed pumping CO2 into all government office buildings, I’d vote for it.
Yes. I would also.
Apple wants to kill Gaia.
Apple says in this video “our aim is to permanently remove all carbon from the atmosphere”
That would quite literally destroy the planet.
Bad news for carbon-based lifeforms.
“Why would you take food away from the trees? Do you hate them?”
You’re richer than god. Fix your own community.
Earlier this month, the former talk show host and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson faced backlash after asking fans to donate money to help those affected by the Maui wildfires — despite having a combined net worth of more than $2.8 billion.
During an interview on “CBS Mornings,” Oprah, 69, opened up about the matter while speaking with best friend Gayle King. “I was so excited about it, and then I got up the next morning, and I saw all of this vitriol, and I was, like, ‘Whoa, what happened here?’” she said on Tuesday. “It made me sad that we are at this state in our country.”
I can’t decide if the country got meaner and stupider or we were always this mean and stupid and it’s just a function of social media making it easier to see.
I’ve gotten meaner, cuz I’m increasingly encountering really stupid people.
*shrug*
I remember when Oprah’s cameraman asked her about normal gifts after one of her “What to buy a loved one for Christmas” shows.
She dismissively waved her hand and said it was all very affordable because some of it was only a couple hundred dollars.
Fun site for all things mechanical.
Kewl. Thx
I just wasted way too much time scrolling down, that was cool.
Science denier!
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is advising people under the age of 65 against getting the new Covid-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, contradicting federal health officials’ guidance.
DeSantis, a 2024 Republican presidential contender, said he won’t allow federal officials who green-lit the new boosters to “use healthy Floridians as guinea pigs for new booster shots that have not been proven to be safe or effective.”
The Florida governor’s comments are the latest escalation of his efforts to place his Covid-19 management at the forefront of his campaign. DeSantis in recent weeks has sharply criticized former President Donald Trump’s handling of the early months of the pandemic, arguing that Trump ceded control to Anthony Fauci, the long-time top federal infectious disease expert.
But you’ll die without it. Look at all the corpses everywhere.
How soviet.
“I want to express my sincere gratitude to NASCAR for reinstating me. Over the past several weeks, I have dedicated myself to personal growth and reflection, and I believe I have become a better person because of it,” Gragson said. “I couldn’t have done it without the support of my family and the NASCAR industry.
“I am now more focused and committed than ever to representing my future team in the best way possible. I’m eager to get back behind the wheel and compete at the highest level, giving it my all on and off the track. Thank you to everyone who have been a part of this journey, and I can’t wait to make the most of this second chance.”
I can’t even remember what he did or said to be suspended.
“Liked” a meme of St. Fentanyl Floyd.
And the reinstated him?
Can’t believe they didn’t send him to Siberia.
And the reinstated him?
After re-education.
He hit the like button on something on social media that was probably true about George Floyd.
Amid an uptick in coronavirus cases and an increase in hospitalizations late this summer, GOP presidential contenders have increasingly touted their opposition to new public safety efforts – seizing at times on limited, local mask mandates to warn against broader restrictions.
Yes, admitting (based on the evidence) that the vast majority of previous “public health” measures were ineffectual at best means they hate science.
want to express my sincere gratitude to NASCAR for reinstating me.
“I’ll be good this time, Massa.”
DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo discussed the state’s guidance for the new boosters in an online roundtable Wednesday. Their guidance directly contradicts the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation that everyone over the age of 6 months get one of the new boosters.
The more the better.