Sloopy did his usual disappearing act. The last time he did this, he came back with the outline of a dick tattooed on his forehead. This time, I’m betting on a blue-and-gold M across his ass given his descent into harder and harder drugs (“Hunter is weaker than I am, so I should be able to take stronger drugs.”).
Speaking of stronger drugs, there’s the usual plethora of historically meaningless birthdays today including a reminder of the way royals should be treated; a guy who helped sustain slavery, but that’s sort of a ginned-up charge; a guy once called “the worst composer in the world”) but is nonetheless one of my favorites; a guy who who got blown down; a guy who lived a Walter Mitty existence; a guy who could see eye to eye with Moshe Dayan; a pioneer of intersectional drag on TV; a guy whose hog-cranking got a wee bit too creative; a woman best known for her fabulous nipples; a guy who, if he’d been born 20 years earlier, for his own benefit would have happily helped the guards get the Jews shoveled expeditiously into the ovens; the greatest marriage counselor in American history; an imported Team Red grifter who at least managed to attract the right enemies; a woman who is real and spectacular, or at least parts of her are; and a woman whose tonsorial style was influenced by Jerome Horwitz.
Let’s move on and Link.
Aboud “is not involved in any activities; he helps his father in construction.” Apparently, there’s an Arabic version of Dindoo.
Congress gets involved in the important work of meddling in Little League football.
In grown-up football news, Edgar Allen Poe smiles from Heaven.
“Well, fuck it, we didn’t need some old Jew around here anyway.”
Someone else wants a taste of that sweet, sweet grift.
When they do their regular beg for money, I have an even better reason to say no. But these are private schools, why is this ANY business of Congress?
If there was ever a cynical libertarian song in the rock genre, this was it. I still have no idea how they could manage to make their performances so fucking energetic. The Old Man’s morning was made by stumbling across this particular performance.
beat
beat
BOOOOOO! 😉
♪♫ Eli’s coming. ♪
I always thought of him as a foreign policy expert, especially on the topic of famines and world hunger.
Truly, a man for all seasons.
I can’t read any of those protest signs. What are they all het up about?
I had no idea Harvard was occupying Palestine.
Colonialism, meaning whiteness and success-driven/meritocratic systems are ebil! That and other people can do no wrong.
“Adumbrated?”
Huh, learned something from Harvard faculty for once in my life.
Indeed. Notice how Dumb is right in the middle?
And…. that’s our problem exactly fucking why?!? Especially since NATO should have been disbanded and not expanded?
PAY FOR YOUR OWN FUCKING MILITARY YOU LAZY BASTARDS! Russia is not an economic superpower — if Europe would stop crippling their energy production, economy and spending all their money on social services I’m pretty sure they could actually field a military again.
Get on it.
Given what we’ve seen in Ukraine, I think Poland would chew up and spit out the Russian army. Europe as a whole is easily capable of keeping itself out of Russian hands. Putin’s fantasy of reassembling the Soviet, or even the Russian, empire is just that – a fantasy.
Or would be, if Europe wasn’t run by mediocrities and grifters.
“Or would be, if Europe wasn’t run by mediocrities and grifters.”
So much this…
Every major problem faced by humanity is one manufactured by the losers that currently have power and the fact that they not only have over inflated opinions of themselves, but that they feel we need to go back to feudalism so their offspring don’t end up homeless from their inbred stupidity.
Don’t forget their entire society rests on Daddy Sugar USA paying for their lifestyles and defense.
Putin’s fantasy of reassembling the Soviet Union is a fantasy.
If you understand Russians, you know that they are all inculcated with this massive fear of Europe (whether the Huns or the frogs under Napoleon) coming in to fuck them over, and their policies have for over 2 centuries been to create enough of a buffer between Russia’s homeland and these invaders, so they can deal with them. Putin is far more likely to want to create an European buffer than to recreate the Russian or soviet empire (although I am sure he would jump at the chance to rule the world) and freaked out when the west told him they were putting an organization that serves no other purpose than to attack his country right on his border.
And let me say the obvious: Putin is evil. But that does not mean there is no evil on our side that caused what we are today.
I thought the Ukraine was created exactly for the purpose – a buffer.
having them join NATO was whose brilliant idea? Zelensky shelling ethnic Russians inside of Ukraine was not a very smart move.
The whole shit-mess is because of one folly after another of the ruling class there and here.
Our biggest problem today is how inept, and more frighteningly how unaware of that ineptitude, our ruling class is today. Every big problem humanity faces these days comes back to these idiots always looking out for their own personal interests first, and for a way to return to a system where they can just keep the masses they have nothing but disdain and contempt for from interfering with their agenda.
Their contempt is joined at the hip with their desire to keep the hoi polo yoked. They seem to be losing sight of the fact that being unproductive themselves they need productive people to steal from. Having lost sight of that they appear to want to kill the goose.
See: Cootiebug lunacy and other malthusian nonsense.
Also, a topic I discussed recently with someone: Could Putin’s policy be motivated by the fact that the KGB infiltration of American institution back in the 1980s is finally bearing fruit, and that the cultural DEI/CRT revolution coming out of American academia, public schools, and now even government, presents an opportunity to go back to the old heady days of international marxist revolution, and he is positioning Russia to yet again be at the forefront (instead of China or even a US or EU led effort).
I know. Crazy shit. But we can’t dismiss that Bezmonov was correct when he told us the KGB’s plan was to topple us from within. And even though the USSR ended up where it belonged – on the ash heap of history – and we made the horrible mistake of selling China’s marxist CCP the rope to hang us with, it seems this evil cult is again setting us up for piles of dead bodies if the global reset types get their way and cull humanity on their way to a new feudal system.
This is what convinces me that old Yuri was actually disinformation personified. Ignore all of our native foibles and blame everything on an external enemy.
External enemy? You miss the part that the enemy was created right in the midst of us and from what used to be us? I get that you may want to downplay the KGB’s role in shit, but they understood human nature and how to appeal to the lowest common denominator like no other entity in human history except for that serpent (and I am sure marxism is his brain child).
No, they didn’t understand human nature. All Marxists despise the concept of human nature, because it isn’t part of the class struggle. New Soviet Man – that’s what they believed they could do. That is not a group of people that understand human nature.
Russian paranoia and expansionism/imperialism have deep historical and cultural roots, no question. It not just protection against Europe, though – otherwise, why invade Georgia? Why the constant dicking around in the ‘stans?
Go really far back and the fear of the hordes from the east. Who’s skulls was Genghis Khan piling up?
Ike had enough trouble handling Monty and Chuck. Imagine trying to command an army comprised of 20 allies.
I was expecting NPR.
I’m still amused that they let me teach at a school that would not have admitted me.
You really expect that idiocy to make sense?
Meh, they let me caddy at a country club me or my parents couldn’t have joined. Face it, you’re “the help”.
Thought of you immediately with this gem!
More Fine GM Engineering
What… you want to take a truck or SUV anywhere but a nice dry clean highway?
And get it covered under FedGov’s mandatory 10 year 100k emissions warranty?
‘Aboud “is not involved in any activities; he helps his father in construction.” Apparently, there’s an Arabic version of Dindoo.
Like… tunnel construction? Water pipe removals and a little light welding work?
Expanding his knowledge of demolitions into a dynamic world of independent contractors and home workshops perhaps?
He has a killer resume.
His partners and associates are really blowing up right now, yeah.
I have no doubt that Israel has probably detained some of the handful of military age males in Gaza who aren’t Hamas or Hamas supporters in some fashion.
The real takeaway from those pictures is, everybody looks quite well-fed. Hard to believe that Hamas isn’t seizing all the aid for itself (duh). And after the Israelis repeatedly warned that all that cement being shipped into Gaza was being used by Hamas, and lo and behold there are well over a hundred miles of cement reinforced tunnels, its hard to believe the “aid” organizations aren’t perfectly aware that they aren’t helping “civilians” in Gaza, but the genocidal nutters in Hamas.
Keffiyeh off/Keffiyeh on.
Hamas is the government, and it doesn’t tolerate activities it disapproves of.
Hamas is an Islamic government, and it doesn’t tolerate activities it disapproves of.
That word you are missing is important to add…
Eh, there are a whole lot of secular governments that do the same thing though. Like Ireland.
I would argue with you abut the claim that Ireland has a secular government. Collectivism, and for sure this globalist feudalist reset shit driving these crooks, is by default a progressivist cult. they are doing all their evil for the benefit of humanity…
No divinity/deity necessary. This is just what humans do for any sense of transcendence. If the progressives were actually driven by their own venal desires, the C.S. Lewis quote wouldn’t ring anywhere near as true.
it’s not about the divinity part as much as the idiotic belief they will create heaven on earth. Instead we always et hell.
Platonic idealism – which was grafted onto Christianity.
The news wants me to believe that Hamas can smuggle thousands of rockets and container ships full of guns into Gaza, but is unable to smuggle in food or medical supplies.
Priorities matter…
Let me guess… “To draw attention to systemic racism” or some stupid shit. Or maybe she just really really wanted them to build a Wendy’s there, Fulton County judge….
Media: We told you it happened, now shut up and move along.
In local news, somebody pops off some rounds with a shotgun outside a Chanukah service, yells “Free Palestine!” Is this bad antisemitism or good antisemitism? Let’s play hide the name of the perp!
Dopey McCollegekid?
The AP version does not dangle the implication that the CNN version does.
The local NPR also didn’t do the above implication. Someone at CNN must be getting feisty.
He’s 28. And look at this amazing insertion by the Times-Union:
“…admitted to using marijuana regularly …”
So, an assassin?
“…events in the Middle East have impacted him…”
Some people did some stuff?
My take: He is a jew-hater and wants to murder all of the jews. Maybe he was raised ‘bloody-shirt’ style, but however he got that way, that is what he is.
““…admitted to using marijuana regularly …”
So, an assassin?”
See, this is the quality of posting you just can’t get at other sites. <3
And the kind of response you cannot find elsewhere.
How many people know what that means?
I understood the exchange.
I guess no one is teaching these new Americans their rights.
Why would you admit to anything with the cops? Jesus.
Speaking of that… Flex Your Rights is shutting down. Locking the site, locking the Youtube channel, and looking to partner with someone to integrate their police complaint system.
The Palestinian face of Jewish supremacy.
The swarthy face of white supremacist antisemitism?
“”However, the system at Harvard along with the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil. Ignoring Jewish suffering is evil. Belittling or denying the Jewish experience, including unspeakable atrocities, is a vast and continuing catastrophe. Denying Israel the self-determination as a Jewish nation accorded unthinkingly to others is endemic, and evil,” wrote Wolpe.”
I’m not sure this guy is a good guy (ADL and such are bastards afterall), but I will give him props for having the balls to resign rather than going along with what he thinks is wrong. I wonder if he also has a problem with whites being universally labelled as ‘oppressors’.
He’s with the ADL. I think that answers your last question.
So a typical both sides deserve it leftist civil war going on. Now I can enjoy it more, sad about the collateral damage though.
Harvard takes in way more money annually from rich middle eastern families than they do from jewish ones. They even outpace the Chinese.
But these are private schools, why is this ANY business of Congress?
Take the king’s shilling…
Frame it as a condition of receiving government financial support (including government subsidized student loans), and it becomes less of a free speech issue in my mind.
I disagree with that framing, but man are these schools embarrassing.
That’s the gov’t argument for seizing medical patents from yesterday’s link (see, I read the links). Why stop weilding your will at patents?
…why is the government funding the creation of private patents anyway?
A patent is already a government giveaway.
“Without free Belarus, there will be constant threat to all our neighbors in the whole region,” she added.”
Somewhat true. But not our problem.
“The United States can play a “crucial role” in Belarusian pro-democracy efforts, Tsikhanouskaya said, but she expressed fear that a new American president could undo diplomatic progress.”
I have no desire to fight Russia over Belarus, please someone shut this lady up before we do something really dumb.
I just was hit by an interesting thought. Supposedly the major crime of the Israeli government is that it enforces a system of apartheid that oppresses Palestinian Arabs.
Yet, if you were to ask Palestinians of the society that they wish to set up, it would be an apartheid society, with the Jews, the the degree that they are allowed to live, totally marginalized and ostracized from their society. This pattern shows up again and again in Arab countries. In fact, the attacks on Jewish students are intended to begin excavating the foundations of that apartheid in american schools.
It appears to me that once again, the forces of darkness are doing the very thing they accuse their enemies of doing.
Seems like the obvious solution would be a well-defined. protected, and respected border between the two apartheid states. Neither side seems interested in that – so I have no interest in the conflict. Just don’t send my money there or the belligerents here.
Neither side? Isn’t that exactly what Israel tried to do with Gaza?
Not really. Somewhat closer to that with the West Bank. The degree of Israeli military control in Gaza was much debated before – but it certainly wasn’t an independent state.
We have a similar degree of military control over Cuba. Is Cuba not an independent state?
Israel also went as far as to let these barbarians elect who would run their state’s government more than a decade ago. These idiots elected Hamas, a terrorist organization with a genocidal military agenda, to run things. Hamas then fucked these idiots over 5 days from Sunday, at every opportunity, stealing all the aid that was sent to them by the usual idiots in charge of the reset to global feudalism.
Acting as if there is a some moral equivalence here does not compute. I can hear the argument that you might want the US to stay out of this shit. I can even accept that you want the US to stop giving them aid (which is practically 100% going to buy US weapons or help Israel produce weapons we might then get from them like Tamir and Iron Dome). But moral equivalence. That should not be done.
Sure – a real independent 2-state solution might be just as bad with a war every 5 or 10 years. But thinking an occupied Gaza will ever be peaceful is as wishful as believing occupied Afghanistan was going to suddenly become peaceful.
Maybe there’s no good solutions, just different bad ones.
What you said there last.. Israel will never get these murderous barbarians to give up on their quest to commit genocide. There is no middle ground or negotiation that ends tat. And the genocidal mob will never agree to let Israel be. The only way this goes away is when one side wipes the other out, and that solution is a real bad one.
Yeah, they can both get bent as far as I’m concerned.
Keep in mind that almost none of these people know what apartheid even means.
Sure they do. It means fascist!
Give that man one internet please.
Probably closer to the truth to call Israel and Palestine ethno-states. Neither will accept migrants outside their own tribe and religion (not that people are flocking to get into Palestine).
Except Israel does just that as Suthen points out. It’s absurd to claim Israel is closed off to anyone but Jews. Seriously?
Israeli’s current problems are due to trying to peacefully coexist with their neighbors. This problem can be solved any time the Israeli military decides to sack up to protect their own citizens (of any religion/culture) over that of cowering to their political class who keep this forever war going to appease the politicians in DC and Europe.
There is no moral equivalency between the two sides, and Israel is the only country in the world that is expected to accept such devastation to their citizens. If the cartels came over the border and slaughtered 1600 American citizens, including children tied to their mother as both were burnt alive, then Mexico would be a smoking crater the next day.
Mathematically it’d be more like 50,000 Americans. On one day. Personal-style, with rapes and murders. Broadcast to the world.
What do you think the US would do?
Blame white supremacy?
“Israeli’s current problems are due to trying to peacefully coexist with their neighbors. ”
^^SO MUCH THIS^^
I remind all that while nobody says this out loud for some reason, Iran told Hamas to do this shit to primarily derail the Arab worlds Abraham accords that were for the first time ever were normalizing relations between the Arab world and Israel. Iran’s leadership understands that alliance is happening because the Arab world knows Iran is the worst actor in that are, and that Iran’s regional ambitions & agenda are a danger to all of them.
I used to think this, but I question that today.
I’d like to think Texans would at least take it into their own hands if the military doesn’t. I’m guessing Texas citizens have greater weaponry than many countries.
Though Uvalde is also making me rethink that.
Non-Jews can visit Israel. Good luck getting citizenship unless you are Jewish (and prove it) or marry a citizen. There are Arabs grandfathered in but no Arab immigration is allowed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_citizenship_law
Except for the whole naturalization thing.
Non-Jewish foreign nationals can visit, marry a citizen, or gain long-term residency. Sounds pretty open to me.
I sure as hell have no desire to live in or visit Israel, but it’s clear non-Jews who do have that desire and aren’t hellbent on ethnic cleansing are welcome to travel there and to live there.
If you don’t find a citizen to marry, you’ll never become a citizen yourself.
I’m not criticizing, I admire their willingness to screen who gets in and has a say.
Muslim theocracies = good.
Any other theocracy = RACIST!
No one seems to be pointing out that in Israel Palestinians have full citizenship, own property, vote, hold office and live or move about anywhere they please.
This is apartheid in what way, exactly?
The “oppressed minority” isn’t free to kill the “colonizers”. That’s the only way their rhetoric makes sense to me, anyway.
“‘Apartheid.’ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
…are doing the very thing they accuse their enemies of doing
Hating something in yourself is painful. Much better to find an external target for that hatred.
I suck at life lately.
I was watching the Steeler debacle last night and completely forgot to do Stoic Friday.
Working on it now.
That game was an excellent birthday present for me.
Yesterday was your birthday? Torah-torah-torah!
Happy Hanukkah as well.
I always celebrate my birthday/Pearl Harbor Day appropriately, by getting bombed.
I guess it is a good thing you moved away from Arizona then.
Well played, sir, well played.
I’m sure it was.
It has been submitted.
Well, sort of.
Someone should do a Jewsday post about how many branches a menorah is supposed to have.
Seven, except in leap years.
Who put 2020’s on the main page then? Unless… that’s a pic from the future!
I thought it was four, one for each week of Advent.
“sweet, sweet grift”
And then she fell out of a seventh floor window.
The End
Actually got stuck less than I have earlier in the week on “easier” ones. C’est la vie.
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How is Mark Steyn a grifter?
Must be how he is using our legal system to extort money out of some midwit college professor.
*taps sarcasmometer, shrugs, moves on*
I’m certainly pleased to see that there are no major issues with our governance that Congress can set its sights upon college football. So, so very relieved.
Columbia: *Punts prof for nookie-for-grades habit*
Oberlin: “Hey, we need a diversity hire, come work for us!”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/06/news/campus-anti-semite-suspended-after-sex-for-grades-claim/
Which lawsuit is going to make Oberlin go the way of St. Rose?
Damn, it was NYU that fired the chem prof for being too tough with grades – which ruined the joke about Columbia being no place for hard graders.
Well, it does sound like he was a hard grader . . . .
I think the question to ask is why you would figure this guy didn’t believe power was to be used towards your own personal benefit considering his world view….
There aren’t that many of (((them))) around Oberlin.
“Professor Mahallati has stated that he believes in the right of all people to exist in peace and endorses a two-state solution that would allow the people of Israel and Palestine to peacefully coexist.”
Did anyone think to ask him if he considers Jews to be human?
‘In addition to Columbia and Oberlin, Mahallati has also taught at Georgetown and Princeton’
These colleges are really despicable, supposedly ‘elite’. What a bunch of trash.
The Patriots got across the goal line 3 times, in one game? Must’ve been pretty pent up.
SecDef – Give us more money for our grift or else we start killing Americans.
See, that’s why we need the classification system – can’t have ordinary people knowing such things.
This is as good a place as any to repost my theory about Austin’s next few steps:
– the Cathedral is going to off Harris (like literally – the TLA’s will false-flag a transparently fake MAGA-type to make a martyr out of her)
– she’ll be replaced in office and the ticket with Austin
– whenever Joe either kicks off or is (more) incapacitated, Austin’s the next POTUS
He’s a 1000% reliable tool. He’s an ex-general, so the idiots with Tom Clancy syndrome (a la Trump) will think he’s OK. Any criticism of him is obvious racism. Etc.
I did find it amusing that Joe mused he wouldn’t be running if Trump wasn’t, and only he can beat Trump. Total faith in Harris, right?
Hey Joe just said there are 50 Democrats he thinks would beat Trump. He just doesn’t want to share the glory. [eye roll emoji]
‘One witness recalled the suspect began to grow irritated after she was having trouble spreading the fuel around the property, according to FOX 5 Atlanta.’
At least some good came of the shitty gas can design.
I lived in Houston and had stockpiled gas cans for hurricanes before they got terrible. I’m so glad I still have most of them.
Look – we’ve created jobs and new industries!
EZ-POUR Replacement Spout – Water Jug Or Gas Can Spout – Update Your Old Can
Pay no mind to Bastiat and his gibberish.
I have this on all of my diesel and gas cans.
The ones they come with have become unusable.
It was for sure no Sherman gas tank.
Those no spill spouts are infuckingfuriating. How am I supposed to hold a five gallon can while passing my saving throw for pressing a button that requires at least 17 strength and not drench whatever I’m pouring gas in?
We could never get ours to work. I just take the entire spout off when pouring gas.
Stop trying to kill Gaia with your fossil fuels.
Why would I do that? She has been trying to kill me everyday since I got here. Fuck her.
I was holding off posting this so as not to step on the links, but now I just can’t let such a monumentous milestone go unacknowledged.
In the 96-year history of Times’s “Person of the Year” award, they have never given it to someone in the arts. Not the The Beatles, not Dylan, not Warhol, not Mailer.
But finally, an artist worthy of such an honor has emerged. Suck it Gaga!
Wasn’t Hitler a frustrated artist?
What about all of the con-artists that have been honored?
I am shocked that Time did not recognize Hamas or some other evil shit as person of the year.
I once got into a discussion with a group of guys and one said he wouldn’t do Swift. Now I can get wanting a bit more meat on her bones, and she is probably plain jane w/o makeup and stylists, but she isn’t disgusting by any measure.
It’s the don’t stick it in crazy thing, I am sure…
Unless I got an ironclad legal agreement that would transfer all her wealth to me if she broke the agreement, I wouldn’t do it either. I can see that crazy bitch boiling bunnies or trying to chop off my tool for boinking and running.
All the drama and other nonsense is probably a fake per$ona Taylor made for a payout (and it works).
Never got the impression she was all that crazy. At least no more than a typical female.
Seems pretty shrewd to me.
You can be BOTH shrewd and insane…
She’ll just write a mean song about you. Nice way to be remembered.
She is a pretty young woman, my type in a big way. However, I dont know her from Adam’s cat. I have no idea if I would or not.
The Time Magazine Desperately Struggling to Stay Relevant Edition should sell well.
Every time I come across one in a waiting room, I’m surprised they still publish.
What a fucking useless article. The headline promise big and fails to deliver.
The OpenAI Board Member Who Clashed With Sam Altman Shares Her Side
Like, no shit. Thank goodness the counsel was on the ball here. And on the 8th paragraph after all the BS:
And there you have. Now we know what happend.
Looks like a petty power struggle to me. He wanted Toner gone, tried to orchestrate that with other board members, but they sided with Toner instead, and fired him. So it wasn’t done out of concern for the company, just their own positions.
I’d love to know what great moral conundrum she was facing that suggested she needed to blow up a multibillion dollar company over “feels”.
Hence the warning from counsel. Having written D&O insurance in a past life Enron made me realize that personal liability for boards only applies to the little people.
My understanding is that Altman wanted to go full steam ahead with developing the AI as quickly as possible and worry about any problems and fixes later (ie, the software company model), and the board wanted to move more slowly and carefully.
Ackchually, the fiduciary duty thing isn’t (supposed to be) determined based on what happens next, but whether the decision was reasonable at the time. If the collapse of the company was reasonably foreseeable if they fired Altman, then yeah, fiduciary problem.
Another complication: who did the board owe a fiduciary duty to? Very few nonprofits have shareholders, some have members, and many don’t even have members. I don’t know how they were set up, so it’s hard to say.
Winner. And I’m not attacking counsel, I’m attacking Toner. She’s deflecting by using counsel’s advice.
I wonder how this is going to play for Team Blue’s affluent liberal working mothers.
Cost of Hiring Au Pairs Could Double Under Biden Administration Proposal
Are you kidding? With the number of illegals, it’s a buyer’s market.
My second hand experience is families try to hire from Europe and if possible related ethnicity or strong English skills.
So one Italian family I know hired from Italy and another from Sweden.
Uneducated Spanish speakers of questionable dialects don’t have the proper cachet in affluent liberal circles.
Yep – that there is exploitation. And you only accept that for outside the house – gardener, pool boy, etc.
Some countries have more entertaining safety standards:
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1732721309358973222
‘Right now, host families are required to provide au pairs lodging, food and a weekly stipend, currently set at a minimum of $195.75 a week for up to 45 hours of work. Au pairs and families alike agree that the minimum stipend is too low, and the State Department has been considering ways to update it since the Obama administration.’
Uh, if the family thinks it is too small they can always give more.
Also, for that price I think I need to hire one.
And make them do unsafe activities?
Shame, shame, shame…
“Apples.”
Tomb Raider is usually very good about encouraging me to follow my dreams.
She balked on this one.
How does she feel about you swimming competitively?
A family member has reciprocated by sending me ashers.com candy for Christmas.
What makes them unusually good is that the chocolate is thick enough and strong enough to contribute to the taste, and not just a moisture barrier.
I’m probably headed there this weekend to buy some xmas gifts.
🙂
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/07/love-tickets-robot-pony-drones-policy-proposals-lesser-known-2024-democratic-candidates/
The jackass with a boot on his head is running as a Democrat now.
Is the rent no longer too damn high?
Laugh all you want, he would make a better VP than Harris and a better POTUS than Biden.
York University psych prof Melody Wiseheart (neé Nicholas Cepeda) enjoys swimming competitively. Against 13 year old girls.
https://health.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=571564
https://mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/takes-balls-meet-50-year-old-trans-dude-swimming-teen-girls-competitions
Does heshe hang out in the locker rooms and shower off with the other competitors after the meet? It’s a pervert’s paradise.
But apparently doesn’t enjoy getting facial hair removed.
Stimulus
President Biden on Friday is announcing $8.2 billion in new funding for 10 passenger rail projects nationwide, representing the largest federal investment in passenger rail transportation since Amtrak was created in 1971.
Mr. Biden’s trip to Nevada was originally planned to highlight the $3 billion federal investment in the high-speed rail line from Las Vegas to the greater Los Angeles area. But after the mass shooting Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, that resulted in the deaths of three people, his stop there will take a more somber note.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president will address the shooting in a speech to Las Vegas union members Friday, but it’s not clear whether the president will visit the campus, which is just a few miles away.
The $3 billion in new federal funding for the Las Vegas-Los Angeles rail line is about a third of the total projected cost of the new Brightline West train line, which is projected to be finished before the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters the rail line is expected to carry 11 million passengers at its peak, and the total trip will take about two hours — which is about half the time it takes to drive.
Drag queen fairy stories.
An “investment” needs to have a non-zero chance of a positive return.
There should be a word for when the government directs private business activity.
Um, didn’t we just discuss the LA/LV high-speed rail and it being privately funded?
Privately developed, but it is partly sucking off the govt. teat.
Their Florida line was all private, iirc.
Other passenger rail projects that will receive funding include a Los Angeles-San Francisco train that will reach 220 miles per hour, a rail expansion between Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, and other upgrades in Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana and other states.
*outright prolonged laughter*
Average Construction Costs Per Mile (USD)
Percent Tunneled Non-U.S. U.S. Difference (U.S. Premium)
0-20% $81M $118M 46%
20-80% $286M $323M 13%
80-100% $346M $1.2B ($511M excl. NYC) 247% (48% excl. NYC)
US rail projects take longer, cost more than those in Europe
He’s got people he needs to pay off.
They don’t actually make financial sense anywhere. Even in population dense Asia their use is now declining on a yearly basis and the financial argument is questionable.
The green argument is also completely nonsense and has been debunked a lot.
Montana?
I wonder who is bringing home that bacon.
Remember folks, its the US that puts up barriers to immigration and naturalization.
This makes Japan seem positively comparable to the US in welcoming immigrants.
In One of the Least Diverse Nations, an American Outsider Shakes Up Politics
Hunter has been indicted with tax evasion. Somebody went through the paperwork and created a Best Of list.
https://twitter.com/willscharf/status/1733006483363639798
Don’t do twitter, so can’t see the list.
I will have to enjoy whatever my imagination says that list might include.
Lots of spending on “adult entertainment” including claiming flying in a stripper and paying another one $1500 “for artwork”. Making excuses for not paying alimony because he has to pay his taxes, then not paying his taxes. Spending money on anything else but taxes. Spending $180k for adult entertainment and half as much on rehab.
A world where you can’t write off high dollar hookers is a world I don’t want to live in.
C’mon now, $1000/night is pretty low-end these days. And that would bel less than three year’s worth.
Look, it is performance art: She pretends to enjoy it, and that’s not cheap!
It’s probably the easiest thing for the government to get people on. Not that he hasn’t committed lots of other crimes Im sure.
He can join Al Capone in the list of terrible people that were brought down for tax evasion.
And yet, somehow, they’ve been unable to come to this point with Hunter until now.
Obviously corruption is a large part of it, but I also assume the government is super slow and incompetent.
I disagree that this is just slowness. If all remained the same and Joe was working, they would never give up. The plan has changed. They now want Sleepy Joe out and this is how they are going to make it happen.
I think you’re right. This is from that special counsel. Feels like they’re throwing Biden to the wolves.
For those that aren’t connected or wealthy, the usual solution for the state is to charge (and if lucky) imprison first and let the “process” sort itself out.
they’ve been
unableunwilling to come to this point with Hunter until now.That’s amazing.
The theory is now Cracky’s Dad’ll say “gee, I’d love to testify, but I’ve got these charges see?”
Followed by “Congressional Republicans are tampering with the justice system” and “case dismissed!! with prejudice”.
“Hunter Biden spent a staggering $872K on prostitutes, porn and sex club memberships and took $1.6 M from ATMs: First son’s wild spending is laid out in tax evasion case that could land him 17 YEARS in jail and is a disaster for dad Joe’s campaign”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12840203/How-son-spent-200-000-prostitutes-118-000-adult-entertainment-500-mortgage-payments-spending-revealed-amid-new-tax-evasion-charges.html
And nothing else happened.
Who TF pays for porn?
I guess when the free stuff doesn’t do it for you?
How the hell do you take $1.6 mm from ATM’s? There is a $300 limit. Do you start every day by visiting the ATM?
I’m assuming that someone with a huge account, and who is the son of someone who can toss a bank into bureaucratic or regulatory hell, could get approval for much higher daily withdrawal limits.
Looks like many banks have a $1000 limit, and some way more than that.
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/atm-withdrawal-limits
I have a $1,000 daily limit on my Paypal card.
Like all of us, you ain’t special enough Mojeuax like the elite are…
Different limits for debit cards tied to a checking account and for credit cards.
Not in Biden’s ‘Merica!
On a more serious note, the limits are up to like $500/transaction $1,000/day or the like. I routinely can take out more than $300 at a time at the ATM. Hell, several of the ATM’s near me have started dispensing $50’s and $100’s.
I’d need to see the stripper in question before I could declare that illegitimate.
Exactly how is purchasing artwork, a deductible expense? Art materials to be made into artwork – maybe.
Paralysis
America’s paralyzing political estrangement may soon change the world for the worse.
Nearly two years into the war in Ukraine, a US lifeline of arms and ammunition is for the first time in real danger of collapsing, 12 months after President Volodymyr Zelensky was hailed as a hero during a Christmas visit to Washington. The assumption lying behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bid to wipe Ukraine off the map – that the US will lose interest in the war – is therefore close to being validated. This could set off serious consequences that would shake the foundation of US global leadership, alienate allies and embolden America’s sworn enemies.
In the GOP-controlled House, hardline Republicans dedicated to ex-President Donald Trump’s “America First” philosophy want to cut Ukraine loose and leave it to its fate. A wider group of Republicans in both chambers of Congress, meanwhile, are using President Joe Biden’s new $60 billion aid request to try to force huge concessions on immigration policy.
This is the latest occasion when conservative lawmakers, who lack mandates to enact their goals, are holding America’s national security priorities and global reputation hostage to their domestic political aims.
That’s how democracy works. Don’t you cherish democracy?
One of the more remarkable developments in recent years is the leftist media are all warmongers now. Funny, that.
Given it is the health of the state, it’s more curious that they weren’t always warmongers.
I think they always were – just not so open about it.
“Wipe Ukraine off the map” is apparently code for “force a peace treaty where the current deadlocked battle lines become the status quo, and people quit dying over an irrational hope that this will somehow change.”
“The assumption lying behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bid to wipe Ukraine off the map – that the US will lose interest in the war – is therefore close to being validated.”
I’d like for the citizenry to take a principled stance against foreign entanglements, but “we got bored” will do in a pinch.
who lack mandates to enact their goals,
Really? Last time I checked, polls showed that a strong majority of Americans oppose additional military funding for Ukraine, and an almost overwhelming majority feel that the government is doing a terrible job at the border.
who lack mandates to enact their goals
They didn’t win in 100% blue precincts – therefore – no mandate.
“CDC sounds alarm over superbugs in Ukraine that are resistant to ‘last-ditch’ antibiotics and are beginning to spread across war-torn country’s borders”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12839243/CDC-superbugs-Ukraine-resistant-antibiotics.html
No.
I see Wikipedia is still running ads begging for donations with the sales pitch that they’re still not for sale.
Aka, “please send us money you can scarce afford so we can postpone selling to a hundred billionaire who believes in the wrong kind of free speech and won’t beg for money, he’ll just get rid of the 90% of the staff who are deadwood.”
I have to admit your vision that Elon buys that shitshow and cleans it up, and that t would drive the leftards and the globalist cabal into an even deeper pit of insanity, gives me a chubby.
More 1970s Barley Wine fun. Today: sugar!
https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2023/12/barley-wine-sugars-1970-1982.html
But the situation has ramifications that go beyond a single nation’s existence.
If the United States allows a country to be crushed in an illegal invasion, it will raise grave questions about the credibility of defense and strategic agreements that underpin the entire Western world. Such an outcome would increase the possibility that Putin would not stop at Ukraine and could eye other states once in the orbit of the former Soviet Union like Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia. Since this trio is in NATO, a Russian incursion would pitch the US into a direct war with nuclear-armed Russia and risk World War III.
Maybe the world would benefit from a reassessment of America’s ability to be Global Policenanny. We certainly would.
I thought the phrase “illegal invasion” was racist now?
It’s only “legal” when the good guys do it,
Neveryoumind Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, Astan, Syria, and what I’m sure is a shit ton of others that escape me right now.
Or at least a recognition that people who we don’t have a defense treaty with have no reasonable expectation we should throw money at them.
That’s hilarious. We literally armed Azerbaijan to ethnically cleanse Armenians not even two years ago.
I’m sure that was for ‘national security’ reasons. Can’t let those shifty Armenians get the upper hand, or else they’d attack (NATO member!) Turkey next. Before you knew it body hair and cologne would be marching into Paris. Okay, not that big of a difference from normal, but still.
that underpin the entire Western world
Is Germany throwing covetous glances at the Alsace again?
If the warmongers really cared about our “place in the world” they might consider not hollowing out our economy with their idiotic green energy fantasies.
Bare bones
The Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services Committees released the 3,000-page text of the Fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, late on Wednesday. This year’s bill, an annual measure that sets policy for the Department of Defense, authorizes a record $886 billion in spending, a 3% increase over last year.
Finally, they are buckling down and doing the People’s Business.
Sayonara!
‘One down’: UPenn reportedly asking President Liz Magill to step down Friday over outrage at antisemitism testimony
Doesn’t mean a thing of course. It’s a proverbial drop in the bucket for higher ed’s extensive problems.
Defending students who yelled at a federal judge that they hoped his daughters were raped doesn’t get you fired on a college campus. Allowing students to openly question American foreign policy gets you fired.
I’m sure goes back to a tenured sinecure either at UP or some other university.
Otherwise I’m sure at least a dozen virtue signaling non-profits will hire her.
She shouldn’t have been fired for sure. She made a nuanced point but in the end she caved which still wasn’t enough to save her.
She absolutely should be shit canned.
Her job is precisely to deal with this shit. Keep the donors happy, the school’s reputation intact, and rule the crazies. She failed on all counts.
Tom Woods has a new book Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania.
I haven’t started it yet, but for bonus materials there is an e-book: Collateral Damage, that tells stories from various people.
Not too far in yet, but it is rage-inducing.
I’m not sure I have it in me to read page after page of “My life savings was wiped out and I lost my business,” “I stood outside and looked through a window as my father died in hospice,” etc.
I had to take a break after the 5th one.
That’s not even some of the worst ones.
I feel well (enough) informed on the topic not to actively seek out more information on their malfeasance. I’m sure it is a good book, and I’ve heard from others it is good.
If only we could get it into the hands of everyday people. *shrug*
Just saw some stats that the average earnings to price for home buyers fluctuates between 6-10!
I thought I really reached when we got a home that cost ~3x our household income instead of the 2x I was more comfortable with. Deez white niggas be crazy, yo.
Our current appraised value is less that 2x our combined income. We are truly slackers.
I’m stretching it at 3.25, but my wife fell in love with the house.
I couldn’t imagine 6-10.
TPTB:
Stoic Friday is ready to publish.
I will try to meet deadlines better in the future.
Between Brett’s Florida adventures and Sloopy’s benders I’m sure they’re used to it.
Nice job knocking it out in <1hour. I can never write that fast.
Remain Stoic about any typos!
Dear Santa
I am shooting that fat cunte with a white beard and a red dress if he tries to touch my guns…
Gun controllers have the same logic as Santa Claus, so for them it makes sense.
Color me skeptical that a child actually wrote this.
I see someone went and created a precocious kid font.
At least it’s an admission of living in fantasyland. Except for “Aloha Cindy” in the replies who, according to her bio, “can’t sleep have a democracy to save.” She says, “I’m crying..cause this could solve so much. Thanks for sharing”
‘Syracuse Law Lecturer; ’01 Pulitzer; 4 bestsellers; 57 yrs investigative reporting; http://DCReport.org co-founder; Dad of 8; aka Mr. Jennifer Leonard 41 yrs.’
‘Mr. Jennifer Leonard’? Gay.
Also, if he’s in the ‘cuse maybe OMWC will run into him.
‘Dad of 8’
And those kids are so dumb they don’t realize people can kill without using a gun? sad.
Global Policenanny, mobilize
The United States announced joint military flight drills in Guyana on Thursday as tensions over a contested oil-rich region with neighbor Venezuela prompted the U.N. Security Council to call an urgent meeting.
A border feud has been spiraling over the Essequibo region, which has been administered and controlled by Guyana for more than a century, although Venezuela also claims the disputed area. Venezuela recently conducted a referendum, which it claims citizens supported, that aims to give Venezuela authority over the Essequibo region. Guyanese officials said in response that the country is preparing to defend itself and its borders in case of an invasion.
The spat is drawing in the international community, with the U.S. announcement of military exercises the latest sign that Washington is alarmed at the threat from the authoritarian leftist Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro.
“In collaboration with the Guyana Defense Force, the U.S. Southern Command will conduct flight operations within Guyana on December 7,” the U.S. Embassy in Guyana said in a statement.
I thought Joe kissed and made up with Maduro.
The long-running dispute over the Essequibo —which comprises some two-thirds of Guyanese territory— has intensified since ExxonMobil discovered oil there in 2015.
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Caracas called a referendum after Guyana started auctioning off oil blocks in Essequibo in August.
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On Tuesday, Maduro proposed a bill to create a Venezuelan province in Essequibo and ordered the state oil company to start issuing licenses for extracting crude in the region.
Emboldened the referendum result, the president also gave an ultimatum to oil companies working under concessions issued by Guyana to halt operations within three months.
See: snatch, land.
‘also gave an ultimatum to oil companies working under concessions issued by Guyana to halt operations within three months.’
The Venezuelans are even dumber than I thought- wait until the infrastructure goes in, then steal it, not before!