Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another brilliant day and the links!
Biden Signs Stopgap Funding Bill Passed by Congress, Averting Government Shutdown
Newsom names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to fill Feinstein’s vacant Senate seat
Biden Admin Quietly Releases Study Showing Green Energy Is Way More Subsidized Than Fossil Fuels
SCOTUS Prepares for New Term With Cases That Will Likely Impact 2024 Elections
Rep. Jamaal Bowman Says He Was Confused By Signs Written At A 3rd Grade Reading Level
Florida Has Seen 850,000 Registered Voters Swing Republican
All the appliances the Biden administration plans to regulate more aggressively
How much money you need to make to be in the top 1% in every U.S. state
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Biden Signs Stopgap Funding Bill Passed by Congress, Averting Government Shutdown”
Give the crew more valuables to lot from the sinking Titanic while the guests are distracted on the deck by stupid games!
“Fuck You Cut Spending”
I have a good visual aid for this:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-post_15.html
The Republican cowards once again prove they have neither the intention or the balls to cut spending. Fuck em.
The punchline isn’t in the headline — whoever this person is (I’d never heard of her before)… she’s been a resident of Maryland for the past 2 years. Talk about making Hillary’s carpetbagging to New York look on the up-and-up….
Morning, Banjos! Morning to the rest of ya reprobates!
Neither had Gavin.
“The idea that a Black woman should be appointed only as a caretaker to simply check a box is insulting to countless Black women across this country who have carried the Democratic Party to victory election after election,” Lee, who is already running for Feinstein’s seat, previously said in a statement.
Sorry, Barb. You don’t check enough diversity boxes.
That entire article was nonsense.
Hey, the Constitution only requires residency for elected senators.
So she won’t be able to run to claim the seat for her own? I got to give Gavin some credit for that.
I don’t think there’s anything stopping her from changing her residence while holding the seat in order to run for it in the general election
I’m sure CA voters – even Democrats – will just love that idea.
CA Voters will check whatever box the DNC tells them to.
Prove me wrong.
unless a yellow dog runs
Correct. They will be told this is to advance their party and they will all stand at attention and sieg fucking heil. a
I think you mean, the DNC will check whatever box it wants to. CA is, after all, where ballot harvesting and junk mail balloting was tested and refined.
Don’t forget Cali’s primary rules. The top two vote getters in the primary run against each other in the general election. I confidently predict the general election will feature two Dems running against each other.
Not a Dem? Fuck you.
Maybe we can update as part of Gavin’s Article V convention.
I hope there is a hot mic that actually captures her asking Gavin “Why did you choose me” and he says “Cause you’re black, nothing more, nothing less”.
I’m sure her appointment was heavily negotiated by the most powerful people in politics for months.
They have all been assigned their scripts now and they will be sticking to them.
Would not make a difference to her senate run or his presidential run.
It’s not like he called her clean and articulate and not like the others.
“Because you’re black and reputedly have a vagina.”
FTFY
The news report I heard also mentioned she’s part of the TTTT+ “community”.
Biden Admin Quietly Releases Study Showing Green Energy Is Way More Subsidized Than Fossil Fuels
Just like car use is subsidized way less than transit.
“Newsom names Laphonza Butler, former Kamala Harris adviser, to fill Feinstein’s vacant Senate seat”
Damn I was rooting for Luquisha from the Wayan’s Brother’s show “In Living Color”…
👍Ayyyyyy! 👍
LOL
Word on the street in the Reddit commie groups is that she does not live in California. Of course, commies get almost everything wrong…
But what did Huggy Bear say?
Nothing, he was snot years ago for snitching.
“SCOTUS Prepares for New Term With Cases That Will Likely Impact 2024 Elections”
By stopping the deep state fortification efforts? Cause that’s the main thing that needs to be done.
Skimming the article – it looks like that’s not even accounting for the Chinese dumping on the solar panel market so they can kill any global competition either.
I won’t expect it to matter, though — the Cult of Gaia only cares about feels, not facts — and they’re easily used to push the neo-feudalism sought by those who have never forgiven the peasants for leaving their estates back in the 1100s and all.
Seeing the pictures of solar/windmill farms is disheartening. Using all of the beautiful natural space, disrupting the harmony of life. I liked it better the old way.
I know, I know, oil wells, etc have the same affect.
One of the many reasons I’m a fan of nuclear. Power density for the win…. waste products are smaller too and easier to contain/revisit.
-1 Sen. Harry Reid
I work for an idealistic nuke fusion R&D company, and I’m the biggest fan of nuke fission plants I know.
MOAR NUKES!!!
Converting the world’s nuclear arsenals into fuel would be a good start.
“Using all of the beautiful natural space, disrupting the harmony of life.”
Yeah but it’s out of sight for most of the Cultists. So, you know, who cares?
Rub the face of a Cultist in lithium mining – they’ll only tolerate it in other countries with populations of poor POC.
Funny how the people who care so much for the environment almost never seem to go outside of the cities.
And aren’t about to give up any comfort/toy that fills their lives with convenience.
If they lived in the countryside, they would be less inclined to view it as this fragile thing that only they can say.
Mrs. Prole is one of those more self-aware “environmentalists” who openly agrees she likes viewing nature from a concrete pad sprayed regularly by a pest control company.
… only they can save …
FN autoincorrect
They want to build a big solar farm south of where I live, and people are fighting it. It’s all farmland there so they’re taking green space and making it ugly. I say if they’re so concerned about carbon, plant a bunch of trees and let the land go back to forest like it used to be.
The study also doesn’t count depreciation, which idiots on the left think is a subsidy only available to big oil and coal companies.
It’s not fair they get tax breaks available to other businesses.
“How much money you need to make to be in the top 1% in every U.S. state”
Damn, didn’t make it… Where do i turn in my monocle?
I don’t make the top 1% in any state…
Guess I’m still poor.
Come on West Virginia, even you aren’t poor enough for me.
People pushing out of NOVA? Or what I think of as “The Reno Effect” (Reno is insane these days… and I’m assuming it is all the money from Sacramento going up to Tahoe spilling over).
Anyway — that article just makes me feel a little better about being lousy with money. I’m nowhere near the 1% (way, way down from the CA line), so can feel a little better that I actually have to care about bills and whatnot unlike the hoi polloi and all.
MARC runs commuter service from eastern WV to DC. I’m sure there are plenty of FedGov living there because the cost of living is lower.
Where are the tables that will show where I fit? Am I in the top 70-80%?
Rejected!
Curious where NYS would rank if you lopped off downstate.
Probably like the difference between NH and VT.
I’m not even close, but I do live in one of the bottom 10, which means rich people don’t like it here or the cost of living is a lot lower.
only another 300 or so odd thousand to go and ill be there. Give inflation another few years and ill be right near the top. woo hoo
“Border Patrol agents processed 200,000 migrants in September with two million crossing border for 2023 fiscal year”
Keep sending all you can to the sanctuary states/cities please.
He must be making it too hard for the crooks to keep looting the valuables on the sinking ship..
Gaetz is simply forcing them to do it in the open, which is pissing them off.
if the House Ethics Committee investigating him finds wrongdoing
Bwahahahaha – that’s the thread your hopes hang from?
The intent seems to be to force McCarthy to obtain Democrat votes in order to retain the speakership.
Which would be hilarious and telling.
Well, they held off doing that in his ascent to the seat; can’t see why they’d break now. It profits them far more to let the Republicans self-destruct.
Possibly, but there’s a certain level of desperation.
Bowman was certainly instructed to screw with the vote. Also the Ukraine cutout deal was slightly panicked.
With the financial situation in Europe deteriorating rapidly and Ukraine’s military shredded, the Davos faction is running out of road.
How much money you need to make to be in the top 1% in every U.S. state
haha stupid poor red states
You know how much less it costs to live in those states compared to the toxic blue states?
But you have to survive on peasant fare and the lack of culture.
Hey, we have culture.
Here’s some culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caQmlEPINj0
actual culture
More culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwnf54pYyQ
We had a race track south of where I am in Lecompte. They held these all of the time. I showed the video to the Mrs.
Mrs. Suthenboy: “Ha ha ha. Y’know Bettie X used to go to those.” (Bettie is the most redneck girl on the planet)
Me: ” Of course she did.”
The comment to make is why there are people in those supposed blue states that care about income inequality making so much fucking money…
I work hard/deserve my money
It’s everyone else whose gains are unfair!
Red states are nice, just don’t make me listen to bluegrass.
Hmm… I don’t see ones in that article that could really impact the election… like “The last minute changes to the state voting laws done outside the process were illegal.” or “Blanket absentee ballot voting without identity verification is fraud just looking to happen, cut it out.” or anything… so I’m going to keep that article in the bucket of “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury — signifying nothing.” (Thanks, O Bard). Alternate shorter version: The circus part of bread and circuses.
And plutocrat-funded drop boxes.
Yeah, weak.
State A can’t sue State B for shitty election procedures because somehow the residents of State A don’t have standing when it comes to the election of the president of the United States. That one was particularly mind bending.
Standing is used to cover for more bullshit law than anything else. I would love to see SCOTUS open that one up.
Well, even when courts rule the government violated election laws, the results were not discarded and nobody was punished.
To be fair — I think that’s the first statement from him that I’d believe.
This sign is so confusing. Now let me go vote on matters of national significance.
I’d also believe he was trying to help Fetterlump get to the voting on the Senate side (yeah, yeah.. I think it was House staff offices… but don’t spoil the joke!).. “Grrrar! Fire alarm BAD!”
The elected officials really are pathetic.
Someone here pointed out that though cream rises to the top, so does scum.
Are you already trash – talking the new California senator? Then again the cream/scum ratio in the U.S. Senate is about 1% cream, 99% scum.
I was going to say that it is more like 2% cream, but then I couldn’t actually identify a second senator I like besides Paul.
Cruz?
That’s likely a statement scripted by his lawyer. “It doesn’t have to be particularly believeable, Jamaal, it just has to something that can’t be disproven in a trial.”
83% of the traffic to my blog in the past 3 months has been from Singapore. How odd. It’s not a VPN hotspot.
You do a lot of caning shows?
Singapore has a higher proportion of English speakers than any other Asian country. That’s probably part of it.
People that do not have money to take trips want to stop others from doing so as well..
Keep boiling that frog, Davos.
Can I sell my quota? Lots of folks don’t want to air travel for whatever reason so they should be able to sell their options.
I’m all for keeping the French grounded.
In their minds you can get anywhere by train anyway.
Of course if ever implemented private flights wouldn’t be effected. Idiots.
This nauseating video from The Atlantic is meant to warn us poors on the dangers of over-tourism.
actual video title: Too Many People Want to Travel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTiRajt-ZnM
Our expert hastens to inform us that fossil fuels are to blame.
To be fair, a sizeable majority of people shouldn’t be travelling. Think people who take selfies at Yellowstone or Holocaust Museums in Germany.
The Yellowstone Selfies are a self-correcting problem when the Bison gore them.
I saw a group of guys at Yellowstone run towards a bison with cameras in hand. I was sorely tempted to roll down my window and yell a warning at them. Later that day, a bison ran in front of me on a board walk. It was about 20 feet away from me. A few minutes later, I took this shot:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/09/bison-near-hot-spring-yellowstone.html
Forgive my blog-whoring. It’s a convenient way to share images here.
Neat!
DO NOT TAKE SELFIES WITH THE FLUFFY COWS
https://imgflip.com/i/4yjcak
I took a selfie with an elephant one time. My date held the camera.
Had on my safari hat and my grandpa’s old Army jacket as I gave the friendly pachyderm a salute.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2023/09/that-time-i-fed-carrots-to-elephant.html
My nickname at DLI was The Sage of the Mist.
I tried to ride a domestic cow once, back in junior high. I went surprisingly well, in so much as I lived after getting bucked of with in two seconds.
Easy, easy Monday. Barely had to think about this one — though I didn’t go hunting bonus words.
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Apparently they start easy on Monday and get harder each day.
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“Biden Admin Quietly Releases Study Showing Green Energy Is Way More Subsidized Than Fossil Fuels”
It’s the same with all the liberals projects. They pretend that consumer choice is being influenced by government subsidies in the areas they don’t like (cars for example vs. Choo-choos) but their hobby horse is always getting way more money per ride/kilowatt/whatever.
The Ryder Cup was hard to watch knowing that the U.S. didn’t send their best.
I saw an interview with Vice Captain Freddie Couples a few months ago during a major championship and before the LIV / PGA deal. When asked about selecting LIV Players he went on a rant sounding like an asshole who didn’t care if they won the cup. They had Koepka foisted on them because he won the PGA Championship and he played really well. They skipped the 3 American players ahead of Koepka in the standings – including DeChambeau who has been red hot lately.
I watched about an hour of it on Thursday. The American team was lousy so I turned it off
Yes please!!
MICRO BIKINI TRY ON HAUL | GABRIELLA ELLYSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXT7Pgxkv4
So Florida heading for solid Red?
That will be bad – all political monocultures are bad. Given the uniparty, we’re already there.
Would a libertarian monoculture be bad?
Yes, on principle it would be, even if I might find it agreeable personally. This is the problem with ALL politics.
As a Libertarian (large L) I have to agree with JI. Setting aside the simple fact that half the country is more conservative that the other, and will by necessity and choice devolve into a different party, libertarianism is a direction, not a destination. And, thus, would revert to the same even with libertarian leadership.
Based on the documentary series Mad Max, it would be bad for those without a secret stash of fuel, water, and gyrocopters.
Wouldn’t happen. You’d have the True Libertarian Party, the Mises LP, the Prag LP, the LP for Disaffected Republicans, the Koch/Reason LP, the NAP LP, etc. etc.
Imagine everyone in this group living in the same town.
The wife has the news on and as I walked by the dumbshits on air were talking about the contribution to GDP of the Taylor Swift tour – over $5B!!!
My mind just heard “I like money”.
What about hand jobs? You need to like those too to be a good guy.
My neighbor and I keep passing a dollar back and forth. Hopefully that showed up in the latest GDP report.
British politicians are having a public debate on getting themselves into the Ukrainian War Vietnam style – by sending “trainers” first.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uk-aims-offer-military-training-inside-ukraine-minister-says-2023-09-30/
From an article titled: The Ukrainians keep making the same serious tactical mistake
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The Ukrainians’ problems are, I believe, self-inflicted to some extent. Using Soviet era doctrine with Western equipment will simply not work. In the lull of movement that will inevitably be imposed by the arrival on the battlefield of General Winter (as the Russians say) Ukrainian commanders need to review their doctrinal approach. For instance the use of smoke on the battlefield to disguise movements and protect assets is a standard practice for Nato armies. Yet the Ukrainians refuse to use the smoke generation capability available to them. As a result, the minefield clearing and obstacle breaching effort is being hammered by Russian snipers and artillery, targeting the precious, hard-to-replace sappers and engineer equipment whilst hampering the manoeuvre needed to preserve the force and defeat the enemy. The Ukrainians have resorted to working at night, which brings its own hazards.
…
The solution to the manpower problem may inolve some tough decisions. The pre-war Ukrainian professional military has largely gone. Even the reservists, those with some previous military training and experience, have been gravely reduced in number. The war is now being fought by civilian conscripts. The net for more conscripts will have to be thrown wider, to find those who dodged the draft and include those whose medical status previously precluded them – HIV positive citizens for instance.
***
The Ukrainians have fought magnificently. At the outset, I didn’t think they’d last longer than 3 months. Yet they can’t fight forever and certainly not with their current and likely future loss rate.
If they’re seriously considering the conscription of HIV positive people, they might as well start negotiating a ceasefire now.
They won’t negotiate until their leadership has been exterminated.
Eh, I think cutting off their funding would have the same effect. There’s a reason Zelensky keeps coming here to beg.
I would bet that as soon as the money stops flowing, their leadership will be exterminated.
And/or whoever is operating the Joebot lets/tells them.
and if their leadership tries to negotiate, they will be exterminated. Kind of a catch 22 for ole Zelensky and his merry band of thieves.
So obliterate Foggy Bottom, then? I could live with this.
NATO keeps telling them to fight “combined arms” offensives. As if they still had an air force, or sustained artillery support, or an answer to the Russian drones. A few minutes after any of their big assaults step off, the “combined” part of it has failed and it’s Pickett’s charge.
The limey fuckers are trying to get an Article V invocation.
They certainly aren’t going to fight a war with Russia, it would be us.
Fighting two world wars for them was enough.
The Crimean War was a long time ago, back when Britain was a world-power. But that war was deeply unpopular in Britain as the leaders tried to explain why tens of thousands of young English were dying in a place most people couldn’t find on a map in order to prop up the Ottoman Empire.
Rinse and repeat every generation. South Africa, then France, then France again, then Korea, etc. etc.
Germany should declare Article V. They are the one who had their pipeline attacked. Although it would be a little awkward for NATO to have to declare war on itself.
Go for it, Britain. The whole country is an emasculated wasteland. Should be interesting.
band or album name?
Russia responds.
Fuckwits abound.
Obligatory
I haven’t had a fucking day off work for the past 15 days.only 2 days off in the past 30 days.
And of course I’m going back in today. The old guys (the chief technology officer/founder, my bestie, and I) are pulling all the weight. None of the young guys come in to learn from us, with one exception. We three have lifetimes of knowledge and experience, but nowhere into which we can transfer it before we die.
Such a waste.
But hey, at least I’m having fun working alongside my guy.
Drill weekends meant I worked 12 days straight once each month. It was the worst when I drilled in the same office I worked in during the week.
Your first sentence reminds me of Dorothy Parker 😉
Le sigh: Dorothy Parker
ALOL.
She’s one of my faves. “What fresh hell is this?” is perhaps my most oft repeated Dorothy Parker quip.
Alongside, under, over whatever works for you.
*Muttley snicker*
When we were wrapping up at the lab yesterday I declared to him that he had no choice but to wine and dine me and then get me off one way or another. Felt a little guilty about it since I used to be his boss.
His response: “Yes ma’am” with a cheeky grin.
I shall put a positive note in his performance appraisal. Ahem.
Don’t your co-workers notice the shit-eating grin when you show up Mondays after a weekend with your former subordinate?
They’re a bunch of power engineers. I assume they’re on the level of IT guys when it comes to noticing human cues.
Sounds like a man who really puts himself into his work.
Time and time again.
👌❤️😘🥰
And out of his work. And then in his work. And then out.
Wait I thought BIG OIL was getting tons of money from the government. Was someone lying to me?
13% of a fuckton of money is still a ton of money.
They are getting tons of money, but solar is getting even more tons.
Lol, the new California senator is also a lesbian who’s worked for the SEIU.
Perfect
And founded some girlboss outfit. You can’t make it up.
I love how Feinstein wasn’t even cold yet and he pounced on that.
It’s not like they didn’t know they were going to need to appoint someone. My guess is this was settled months ago.
👆
Yup, and down to which combination of diversity boxes needed to be checked.
I know…I guess if it were me Id wait to at least put her in the ground first.
With a stake in the corpse, just to be sure.
And yet, they waited until the last minute to clean up socials.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/gavin-newsoms-senate-pick-laphonza-butler-scrubs-twitter/
The fact that he couldn’t find a suitable BLACK LESBIAN in California tells me that she must have uncommonly awful politics and her biography certainly hints at that.
At least he didn’t elevate Biden’s Press Secretary. Shudder.
That one would probably do less damage. I mean, she’s not very bright.
Where’s Franklin Sherman, when you need him?
https://youtu.be/Nxb1kEL4vPY?si=YY-AVdhLzzlUKAsO&t=78
Sitting in the hospital lobby and there’s a huge sign that says
“No Physical Assault”
Damn, and I had aspirations for the day.
So… Psychic Assault is Okay?
Yup.
Watch out for Illithids
Ask the receptionist for a pen and a post-it and apply a “You’re not my supervisor!” note to it.
I printed out a copy of my autobiography and gave it to my VA alcohol abuse counselor 3 weeks ago. I haven’t been able to reach him by phone since then. Now I’m wondering if I freaked him out. He’s a good guy. He was an Army psychologist in Kuwait for a while. Today is my 5th day in a row with no alcohol. I feel OK. It’s by best streak since December.
The Classic Lamborghini He Waited 44 Years For
I thought it was gonna be something cringy, like a Countach.
That’s a beauty. Surprised it hasn’t appreciated, like the Muras have.
*Miuras
I like the first gen Countach.
You can’t see out of it and it was lower than later models, but it looks good with a clean lines.
Later generations into the 80s added the wing and all the scoops and whatnot.
Agreed, I’m thinking of the later models.
You can draw a line from the Miuras to that 1st gen design:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cf/f4/61/cff461cbdb34682298096b51c0dc979c.jpg
You can see the 80s creeping in here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Countach#/media/File:1981_Lamborghini_Countach_LP400S_series_2_rear.jpg
Body molding, vented engine cover, bigger wheels.
“This car was getting between 9 and 12 miles a gallon, and we had huge plastic jugs of gas so we could be assured of getting home.”
Boy that was everyone in Texas who went hunting. My dad bought this used 1976 Cadillac Eldorado. Every gauge was broken. No working fuel gauge, the speedometer didn’t work well either. So it was a crap shoot on gas. It had first gen catalytic converter technology that could set grass on fire, so we would park and walk the last eight miles or so to dove hunt. and the thing was one year old. I remember the vinyl roof started rusting out before 1979. Very Texan to hunt dove in a Cadillac though.
Love that Lambo.
“I drove the car home. Within a day, the clutch had gone out.”
Yep.
One of my neighbors bought a bright red Ferrari. I watched him trying to back it into his one car garage bay, presumably for the first time, for several minutes before walking off because I didn’t have all day to see it thru.
but what about the climate.
His dad must have been one hell of a successful GC.
That struck me as well. A lambo and two jags. Dude was rolling large.
Even if Dude won the megamillions I wouldn’t want one of those cars. I don’t like clutter and those cars definitely count.
Hormones for gender transitions are perfectly fine, however.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/seals-other-navy-special-warfare-troops-be-randomly-tested-performance-enhancing-drugs
Navy SEALs and Green Berets have never been on the winning side of a war. Marine Raiders and Army Rangers haven’t been on the winning side of a war since 1945. The whole concept of spec ops is misguided, much like the service academies.
No amount of special training will toughen someone more than spending a lifetime in a place like Somalia or Afghanistan.
Officers from the service academies are no better than the ones from ROTC or OCS. The only difference is that almost all the generals and admirals come from the service academies.
Yeah, but they’re real popular with the intelligence agencies and an executive branch that likes to play fast and loose with acts of war.
Not to mention a DOD obsessed with special projects
Why? It’s not like we want to ensure a fair competition against other forces.
drugs are bad mkay
Eh, the Russians have done a pretty good job of handicapping themselves.
https://youtu.be/4vCDjoocq44?si=1kltCKh0PmK4kSAU&t=80
These people are not a threat to the US or any country with a professional military.
The Russians are not a threat; the Chinese however are.
Yes, but the way to counter that threat is to build more oil refineries, not warships. Also, not sending any more money to their virus labs.
Cheap oil = world peace
Good morning, Banjos!
That song is so delightfully cynical. A perfect choice to start the week!
Boxes were checked
Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign — the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization — called her appointment “a landmark moment in the fight for social, racial and economic justice.”
“As the first Black lesbian to represent California in the United States Senate, Laphonza brings a compelling voice for abortion rights, the labor movement and civil rights into Congress. Her leadership is a testament to the legacy of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s strong record of pro-LGBTQ+ support,” Robinson said.
Butler’s professional career has been rooted in California, where she led SEIU Local 2015, the largest union in the state. She has also been a longtime ally of Vice President Kamala Harris, a member of the University of California Board of Regents and the director of public policy and campaigns in North America for Airbnb.
Butler currently lives in Maryland, but, the governor’s office said, she owns a home in California and will switch her voter registration.
How convenient. We may be certain she will do her best to represent the best interests of all the people of California.
“As the first Black lesbian to represent California in the United States Senate, Laphonza brings a compelling voice for abortion rights”
Someone needs a refresher on the birds and the bees.
If men don’t get a say in abortions then how do lesbians get one?
STEVE SMITH GIVE LESBIANS VOICE
How to says that the Dems push abortions on black people without saying that the Dems push abortions on black people.
If this situation involved the Republicans, all that ink spilled listing her “ties” to California would be spent hand-wringing about carpetbagging and eligibility. Fuck you NBC.
So you’re saying they routinely block open a fire door?
I am sure there are thousands of photos of that door not blocked right? RIGHT?
Facial recognition is racist.
It wouldn’t surprise me.
A scream was heard across the land….
****** Hey Gilbroni mods, insert an image of that lady in the raincoat crying out to the sky after the Trump 2016 win please *******
Target hardest hit.
well I assume it is mostly liberal arts chicks who cannot pay so there is a 3 step plan
Lose weight
Remove body hair
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That reminds me – that raincoat pic is one of several popular ones that are immortalized in memes picking on the Proggies. I always wonder “where are they now”? Meaning that life moves on, you know, so what goes on with somebody who ends up being one of those?
Not interested in doxxing them, but always curious about stuff like that.
A bunch of the people in old school memes (Disaster Girl, Good Guy Steve, etc.) made money selling NFT’s.
The left is not gonna stop until all college education is “free” because those votes are too precious to lose. There are already several questionably legal “programs” in place and you can be sure there are another half dozen they know won’t pass muster but they’re saving them for a more favorable SCOTUS.
Is Britain getting a bad deal? @Ben_A_Hopkinson
and I looked at 242 infrastructure projects across 14 different countries.
Our conclusion? It costs more to build new tram systems, railways, and roads in Britain than almost anywhere else in the world. 🧵
What about underground rail?
At a cost of £676m per mile, British projects are:
– 2 times more expensive than projects in Italy or France
– 3 times more expensive than German projects
– 6 (!) times more expensive than Spain
Only the US and Canada build more expensively.
https://twitter.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1694990904182886615
Damn US is expensive… I assume because you only build in New York…
There’s a common view that the problem with development – roads, reservoirs, houses – is one of dispersed benefits vs concentrated costs. Locals lose out but incomers (and the nation) benefit.
https://twitter.com/bswud/status/1708780862991462456
Boston waves hi
(At least the end result really was transformative, in a good way)
0-2 with links today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
We don’t build anything in New York.
In fact, I doubt we build anything, anywhere.
US has some infrastructure. Romania literally does not build everything, but spends loads to not do it
What we have was all built in the beforetimes.
It is rotting out now.
NYC recently completed a 1.5 mile connection between the Long Island Rail Road and Grand Central Terminal and it only cost 20 billion dollars IIRC.
I remember watching some of it being dug when I lived in Queens in the late 90s.
And naturally the LIRR didn’t have enough equipment to run to both Penn and Grand Central.
That too was completely unforeseeable.
Oh yeah, I remember that shit show, if only from the news.
I could never get past the incredible waste.
At least the 3 whole stations we got on the Second Avenue Subway after 80 years of work and who knows how many billions of dollars accomplished something useful to a lot of people.
This thing… it saves a couple thousand people 10 or 15 minutes a day.
We build billable hours, as far as I can tell when it comes to public works projects.
City Journal did a piece on this a while back. Basically a combo of union contracts, environmental studies, and corrupt deals between bidding companies and governments.
Yeah, the US public sector is way more corrupt than all those other countries now. Thank a Democrat.
Let me guess: “DO NOT OPEN. ALARM WILL SOUND.”
Butler, however, won’t have any constraints on her plans and will be free to run for the seat if she chooses. A spokesperson for EMILY’s List didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
You don’t say.
Please don’t hate me because of Taylor Swift.
My sleep saga goes back to Saturday morning, when I took my ADHD med that I hadn’t had for 2 weeks, plus my usual caffeine. Stayed up till 5 a.m. Sunday morning because I couldn’t sleep, barely got 4 hours of bad sleep (worse than none). So I didn’t take either ADHD med OR caffeine and dealt with a crushing headache and the church nods (you know, you’re sitting in church and suddenly your chin’s on your chest and you’re softly snoring—no?). Took some aspirin (which I am definitely not supposed to be taking because ulcer) to deal with the caffeine withdrawal headache). Went to bed at halftime (because that was how little I cared at that point) and slept almost 12 hours.
Taylor Swift is to blame for everything
It gave her an existential crisis a while back…
Socialist Appeal (IMT)
Yesterday comrades attended the Tories Out demo in Manchester. We discussed first that in order to rid society of the Tories murderous rule forever, we must fight for revolution!
https://twitter.com/socialist_app/status/1708801771840192676
Look at these fellows, miners construction workers, the backbone of the economy
Is there an Indian chief too?
Fuck off, commies.
Polish people are the most pro-capitalism out of every country in the entire world.
https://twitter.com/derJamesJackson/status/1708777582500393366
Poland, US, ROK, Japan, Nigeria, Czechia? Not a bad group really.
-1 Nigerian prince
Nigerian princes who adore you?
Dammit, Teds’! Damn you and your earworm.
I feel like I should be watching a montage.
That’s what I said now…
Hard to believe the US is still up there.
Think about how shitty the rest of the world must be.
Moj-
I think you’re right about Taylor Swift. It’s just a giant cross marketing scam.
Travis Kelce has always dated black women. This is such a divergence for him, it’s totally sus. He’s also cleaned up his speech (as in, he doesn’t speak in so much black slang and accent). I don’t think any of that is or can be spontaneous for this girl. Also, she can buy and sellhim six times over and I don’t think a dude like him would otherwise put up with it. So he’s whoring for Pfizer, and he’s whoring with Taylor Swift for some unknown reason.
However, I find it hilarious that NYC and LA have discovered this magical place in between called “Kansas City.”
Last year’s Super Bowl teams – Chiefs and Eagles – both found out Sunday that other teams are gunning for them this year and they better step up their game a bit.
I figured that the Chiefs were turning into The Team That Must Be Hated™ (a la Patriots) and would reach that status this year. But the Chiefs have always had their blatant weaknesses (and their players are young), so I’m not surprised.
One of our strengths is that Mahomes isn’t totally stuck up like Tom Brady.
I saw a teeet where someone said, “If I were a defender, I’d be all over Kelce.” Because that’s NEVER been tried. 🙄
Not everything is a giant conspiracy. Despite what she says in interviews, she loves the male gaze and attention from men (an athlete no less). It’s annoying and insufferable, will probably end poorly, but I doubt she’s trying to be more famous.
I can’t begin to guess the reasons, but I’m not buying it.
Also- It was good to see the Jets make a game out of it last night.
Sounds like a Glib…
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231001-bodybuilding-fast-cars-and-misogyny-slovakia-s-populist-robert-fico-returns-to-power
Also described as a left wing populist, so maybe not so Glib?
He’s a commie, but that article was trying to make me like him.
No comment on the Putin stuff but he comes off as kind of an asshole, to be honest.
He is an asshole, but the article has a lot of assertions about misinformation and Putin lovin’ without evidence.
It wouldn’t shock me if he and/or people close to him have ties to the Italian mafia as the article states, but at least in my time there, all politicians had links to mafia of some kind, usually local, Albanian, Russian, or Ukrainian.
Because who the hell needs to see if there is anything in the cooler. What’s more important is that it’s all gone thanks to theft.
Walgreens Test of Ad-Enabled Cooler Doors Ends Up in Court
It would appear they wised up.
Highest praise from a grateful world
This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work on mRNA vaccines, a crucial tool in curtailing the spread of Covid-19.
The Nobel Prize committee announced the prestigious honor, seen as the pinnacle of scientific achievement, in Sweden on Monday.
It praised the scientists’ “groundbreaking findings,” which the committee said “fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.”
Karikó and Weissman published their results in a 2005 paper that received little attention at the time, it said, but later laid the foundation for critically important developments that served humanity during the coronavirus pandemic.
CNN should be getting their medal for fiction soon.
I never could have foreseen issues with leased solar, maintenance and the home sales. Completely unforeseeable. Also the reason I’d never take such an encumbrance on a property I purchased. I’m perfectly OK with buying something with solar, but not it’s purchased with the house.
Rooftop Solar Power Has a Dark Side
Those lease setups were always a financial disaster.
Yeah — I went ahead and did rooftop solar (when 10 out of 12 months of the year are boring and sunny, it seemed logical… plus offsetting the PG&E rape eventually works out in the math), but I made damned sure I was buying the system myself so it will be sold with the house when that day comes.
We had to stage an intervention with my MIL who got a hard-sell from one of those solar companies. She’s going to move sooner rather than later and rooftop solar in Connecticut isn’t exactly going to have a short ROI.
Yes, Steve. That’s the problem.
Retard.
How the Fed Made a Worrisome Economic Signal Go Away
A distortion in economic data that had caused concern has been wiped away
https://archive.ph/deWx1#selection-4285.0-4289.73
So it was worrisome when real, or inflation-adjusted, GDI contracted in the fourth quarter of last year, and again in the first quarter this year, even as GDP grew. In late August, the Commerce Department reported that GDI started growing again in the second quarter, but at a paltry, 0.5% annual rate, while GDP rose 2.1%.
But Thursday’s revised data showed that GDI contracted a bit less in the fourth quarter, while in the first quarter it actually grew. Second-quarter GDI growth was revised up a bit, too, to 0.7%.
One reason that GDI had been performing worse than GDP was losses that the Fed has been experiencing, due to the combination of its big holdings of Treasurys and mortgages and the sharp increase in rates.
“The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times,” the committee added in a statement.
If only we had a vaccine to defend us from fearmongering “health” bureaucracies.
#DEEUROIZATION instead of #DEDOLLARIZATION?
The #euro’s share in SWIFT global payments has dropped to 23% from 38% at the start of the year. Are #Russia’s SPFS and #China’s CIPS eating up the euro? By the way, #China’s share in SWIFT payments reached an all-time high of 3.47% in August!
https://twitter.com/RonStoeferle/status/1708828503259349179
This is the actual story. And LaGarde is defending the German Bund today but she’s having to sacrifice the Euro to do it.
It should become obvious who the corporate media is working for when nobody is talking about the collapse of the Euro and European banks, but they’re constantly talking about US financial weakness.
And ZeroHedge is playing the part of the useful idiots in this regard.
Tay-Tay is destroying currency markets too?
If there’s a crab season in Alaska this year, I’ll probably go up to be a deck hand. While I’m up there, I can visit my brother and his sons.
Computer, give appropriate imagery and music for this scene.
find some real work instead of going on a cruise
According to SF, crab season is right after Thanksgiving.
🤮
Lots of potential for Glib posts in that.
This is how you deal with wild hogs. Can anyone think of a better solution?
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1708484601801523586
That is most certainly fun. I think covering a gallon of Tannerite with feed and shooting it from a great distance when they gather is more effective. Not as much fun though.
Less likely to spill your beer though.
The better solution is doing the same from a helicopter.
Not everything is a giant conspiracy. Despite what she says in interviews, she loves the male gaze and attention from men (an athlete no less). It’s annoying and insufferable, will probably end poorly, but I doubt she’s trying to be more famous.
I’m not trying to be unduly contentious, but I’m pretty sure a lot of football players have had dalliances with famous women. When Aaron Rodgers was allegedly hooked up with Danica Patrick they somehow managed to not turn it into a full on three ring media circus.
Danica Patrick is not anywhere close to Taylor Swift famous.
Who?
Michael Lewis is a great storyteller.
But he delivers narratives rather than true understanding.
FTX was a money losing business.
That led to fraud.
FTX was getting arbed by their own clients.
An exchange can withstand *any* run on the bank because deposits are never rehypothecated.
https://twitter.com/ramahluwalia/status/1708638529285165158
Warning: BMW Wireless Charging May Break iPhone 15’s Apple Pay Chip
TLDR – it appears that something with some specific BMW wireless chargers breaks the security around the NFC payment system in the new phones. Don’t know if it is hardware or software, but a user imitated clean OS install won’t cure the issue.
The charging cord plugged in to the former cigarette lighter socket in my car does not damage any chips on my phone.
Wife’s in recovery. Surgeon said everything went well.
Officially married to a cyborg now.
Hip or knee? What’d she have done? I missed it.
Hip
Surgeon said it was completely shot, which I knew, but the wife has been avoiding the surgery.
Excellent news!
Let your robosexual flag fly
Outstanding! Just got home myself, minus one kidney stone. Doc said it was an “unusual shape” – rectangle, which would explain why it got stuck and blocked everything.
My wife is well on the way to cyborg transition – one hip done, next one in Nov. Knees to follow at some point.
Cabal of evil
Chief executives of some of the world’s largest energy companies on Monday sought to defend themselves from criticism, saying it is not possible to keep everyone happy amid the planned energy transition.
Speaking at the ADIPEC oil and gas conference, which opened in Abu Dhabi on Monday, executives representing energy majors in the U.S., Europe and Asia sought to strike a positive tone on the current state of play for the fossil fuel industry.
It comes shortly after climate protesters took to the streets in hundreds of cities across the globe to demand that world leaders phase out the burning of fossil fuels, the chief driver of the climate crisis.
Big Oil has been accused of dialing back its climate pledges in recent months following record annual profits that were described by human rights group Amnesty International as “patently unjustifiable” and “an unmitigated disaster.”
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As had been widely expected, a major U.N. report published last month confirmed that the world is currently not on track to meet the long-term goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, a landmark accord that aims to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
The world has warmed by around 1.1 degrees Celsius after over a century of burning fossil fuels as well as unequal and unsustainable energy and land use. Indeed, it is this temperature increase that is fueling a series of extreme weather events around the world.
Show your work, MSNBC Business Channel.
Wow, yeah – that last graf has a whole lotta assertions.
All of which are horse shit.
That’s my only solace in all of this.
It’s all complete fantasy. And I probably won’t live to see the worst damage, the rooting for grubs and such. I hope.
Fuck off, commies.
Big Government amd Small Oil.
Against my better judgment, I watched TMNT Mutant Mayhem with the family this weekend. It has high critic and audience scores for Rotten Tomatoes, so I figured maybe there was a good movie there after all.
It was not really that woke, but it was terrible. Not funny, the art is trying too hard, and the story is a mess. It was truly a shitty movie.
I would be more surprised if it were good.
By default these days it’s safe to assume whatever’s in the theaters isn’t.
It’s tricky when the critics and audience agree. 50/50 at that point.
Otherwise when the critics and audience disagree it’s usually the audience that is correct. Dave Chappelle and Hannah Gadsby specials being the obvious example of this.
This is a good rule of thumb. If you want crappy movies, I can help you out. You don’t have to spend a dime.
Also- just because
Taylor Swift showed up at those games in full realdoll regalia. That creepy dried-blood lipstick and short shorts and the rest of the “Look-at-MEEEE!” rig.
Not exactly the presentation of somebody who got invited to come hang out and watch her friend doing what he does. She could have shown up in a pair of levis and a sweater with her hair in a ponytail, but she dressed for the stage show.
It’s just part and parcel of the degradation of the world in general.
She could have shown up in a pair of levis and a sweater with her hair in a ponytail, but she dressed for the stage show.
Lol. Ok we get it, you don’t like her. Kids these days and all that.
But last night she DID wear a black sweater, wore jeans (shorts, but very reasonable length), and had her hair down. Only the grumpiest of old men would find a reason to hate on her for what she was wearing.
What’s the standard WAG uniform?
Team gear?
One of the Packers’ safeties is married to Simone Biles. I don’t pay that close attention to shots of her in the stands during the games, but it not hard to dind pictures of her in Packers gear.
Paper bag over head, extra large jersey, black sweat pants.
Per The Sun, giant fake tits and way too much makeup.
As far as Biden’s regulations of home appliances goes, remember this was one of the reasons Britain left the EU. $50 teapots were unacceptable. The same shit is being repeated here. Thankfully there is a great secondhand market to get parts and equipment, unlike Europe. Average dullards who don;t repair their stuff will suffer.
Patrick Pouyanne, CEO of French oil giant TotalEnergies, said the oil and gas industry possesses all the tools necessary to be a “major participant” in the energy transition.
“After three or four years, I understood that maybe I was naïve, we will not please the activists. We will never make enough to please the ones which are against oil and gas, but my mission is not to please them,” Pouyanne said.
“Our mission is to deliver to the society the energy we need today and tomorrow and for that I feel comfortable,” he added.
By George, I think he’s got it.
Speaking in January, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned fossil fuel giants for ignoring their own climate science, accusing the oil and gas industry of seeking to expand production despite knowing “full well” that their business model is incompatible with human survival.
Scientists have repeatedly warned that time is rapidly running out to stave off the worst of what the climate crisis has in store.
Okay, Chicken Little.
Scientists have repeatedly warned that time is rapidly running out to stave off the worst of what the climate crisis has in store.
Scientists have repeatedly claimed that cold fusion is just a few years down the road. Scientists have repeatedly claimed that a low-fat diet is healthy. 1970’s climate Scientists repeatedly claimed that a new ice age was right around the corner.
Think I’ll just enjoy my covfefe and smoke, despite repeated claims that they will kill me. If they don’t, something else will.
“Scientists have repeatedly warned that time is rapidly running out to stave off the worst of what the climate crisis has in store.”
Yes they have. Incessantly for the last 100 years. Time is rapidly running out and it always will be. What do we have to do to get these grifters to shut the fuck up?
Out of the top ten states, there are only two I would even consider living in: Florida and New Hampshire.
How much drugs do you need to have fall out of your ass to in the top 1%?
Good thing I’m not a corporate lawyer. If this shit applied to a client of mine based in the US — my billable hour would be for simply typing up a letter bearing: “Trudeau: Fuck You.” which while satisfying, is probably not terribly productive.
The Canadian government, armed with one of the world’s most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all “online streaming services that offer podcasts” must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls:
That does it. 54-40 or fight!
All?
Those not based in Canadia? What about podcasters? What if I had a podcast aimed at not Canadians? Would I fall afoul of Canadian law?
Much like the GDPR, they will pull the “if you want to do business in Canada, you must comply with this rule”.
All the orphan monocle factories and I doubt there is even one 1% among the Glibs. Probably a few 5% ($290k/yr) and more than a few 10% ($190k/yr). Time to cut those orphan rations by 1/2, raise prices, and hope lightning “strikes” our competitors if we want to achieve plutocracy levels.
Yeah, I feel bad. Not even close to 1% levels.