A new dimension of sports
More transfer portal madness going on. And a few decent EPL matchups going on while some underdogs did more damage in the German Cup yesterday. And that’s it for sports.
Good stuff here. Hopefully it gets blocked. Then we can hear the hypocritical call for “clean bills rather than poison pills” from the left.
She’s like a bad penny. She just refuses to go away.
Grifting warmonger asshole
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this guy might be a bit off. Don’t ask me why. It’s just a gut feeling I have.
We need better emissions standards. This is just bad for the planet.
This might just be unconstitutional. For several reasons. But who knows what will happen in the Ninth Circuit for years before it winds its way to the SC.
Wait, the EPA (albeit a state one) did something good? Well knock me down with a feather.
Really happening?
High speed rail is actually coming to California? No, for real this time. Because it’s being put together by a private company and not run by the government.
This will be an interesting decision. Not that counselors do much of anything in schools. Anyway, it will be interesting.
We’re gonna rock today. And I can’t think of a much better song to do it with. Well, this one might be. Take your pick. They’re both magical. So enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Morning, Sloopy — with the rockin’ grandma on the front page, for some reason I was expecting this for music….
It wouldn’t have been a bad choice.
Trying to come up with a response to the School Chaplains, I now have a mental image of Imam Mo and his goat arguing with Sister Mary-Frances the ominous penguin.
But it would probably be the youth pastor who lost his last job for too much pot during working hours.
And now it’s “Imam Mo and his Emotional Support Goat”
Clean bills… bills they’ve actually read as opposed to their staffers… bills not written by their lobbyist masters… let’s dream big if we’re dreaming.
Clean bills – composed on the legislative floor in front of the C-SPAN cameras?
Other than Mittens — I’m struggling to understand who she thinks her support base is or would be. The Evil wing of the Uniparty knows she’s outlived her usefulness. The Stupid wing doesn’t care about her either… and anyone outside the parties knows she’s a useless ex-useful idiot.
I say good on her for doing this – let her bleed her donor class dry.
Are you joking? The Left will be trotting her out for a decade and feting her.
‘On Tuesday, Cheney released a new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” which focuses on the fallout of the 2020 race and the events around Jan. 6 — describing Trump as “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.”‘
Oh, so just trying to drum up book sales.
There’s only so many books the Lincoln Project pedos, and pedo enablers, can buy. I don’t see how the market for this book could be very robust.
Public libraries?
Preppers because buying toilet paper in bulk probably gets you on a list these days?
My gf still overstocks on the tp.
Use it as soundproofing for the dungeon.
Some guy named Ray Theon bought 100,000 copies.
I would imagine Mr. Martin Lokheed will be placing a hefty order as well.
She needs to sell all 100 copies she had printed to break even.
“the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.”
That’s just like your opinion, man
/Remembers every president starting with HST
Is that only because her dad never got to sit in the Oval Office?
You must be one of the Feds spying on him for White Supremacy since the 1990s!
Yeah… fruitier than a nutcacke comes to mind.
Loved the AP radio news report “house exploded after man discharged firearm inside” was uttered.
I would hope and assume they’ve done their due diligence and looked at things — but the two questions I have to ask: 1) Is the TSA going to impose security at their terminals enough to make it as painful as the airport? because 2) What’s the far going to be relative to the Southwest style cheap hops I know they do from LAX to Vegas…. They certainly aren’t going to get people from further in the state to drive down to LA, then take a train to Vegas — you’re either just going to avoid LA and do Bakersfield/Barstow over to Vegas in the first place or hop on a plane…
And of course, I’m wondering about the rail availability versus freight and how often things will get tied up. :shrug:
The mandate of only electric trucks in freight terminals will dry up the freight traffic on the rail lines, freeing them up for passenger service!
I understood that they will be building their own rail and it will not be accessible to other trains.
Oh, then they’re never going to get past the endless environmental impact studies.
Indeed. They are suckers for trying.
The article says they’re building it down the median of I-15. No (or more likely minimal) studies needed.
That is prime jack rabbit and bum habitat! We need a 10 year replicable study to determine migratory patterns and how they collude with migrant jackass patterns!
Not after the EIS studies and the concern for desert tortoises and associated flora.
Wait… they’re going to be laying their own rail line? In California?
Environment restricted! Takes permits many! Money….. MORE!
I see the myriad replies about how the state will slow the development down, but I think they’ll be fast to greenlight it. Both for the tax revenue and because it will prove that HSR can work so they can use it to bleed people dry when they want the state to step in and take the concept nationwide.
Hell, they’re probably hoping it will cause people to forget about the Caltrain HSR debacle that they continue to blame on greedy farmers and other wreckers.
I expect it will be more like the NHS and letting babies be treated in other hospitals.
They’d rather the rail line die than be successfully made by someone other than the state.
That would require a big picture/ future-oriented approach that is antithetical to the view of ensconced, territorial, change-averse bureaucrats.
I bet Newsom will fast track it so that he has a shiny success he can point to when he runs for President. He was able to clean up SF for Xi, they can get things done when they have the will.
Nope, the eco-fascists have no regard for state tax revenue or other political viewpoints.
The state will green light it, but every county, along with the Sierra Club, will tie it up in court for a good decade at the minimum.
19 bucks on the discount airlines for a 45 minutes flight is tough to beat. Assuming you aren’t bringing anything bigger than a backpack of course.
Don’t need much more for Vegas, and who wears clothes in SF these days? You just smear shit all over, and you are ready for a night on the town.
Democrat neo-cons want to fund 2 or 3 foreign wars (they slid some money for Taiwan in there too). Republican “conserative” neo-cons refuse to give away $100 billion of our national wealth to these thinly veiled money-laundering schemes unless we can also spend more money elsewhere.
Democracy!
Reminds me of something Churchill (I think) wrote about Britain’s navy. Something along the lines of, the Admiralty wanted 7 new battleships, Parliament only wanted to pay for 5, so they compromised on 10.
In today’s episode of “I am being surveilled at all times”:
I mentioned that IT Lady had me watch 83 with her. At here place, with her streaming service. Last night at my house, youtube wanted to know how much of a cricket fan I was.
I’m confused, why did you let any associating data link your phone to youtube?
Interestingly enough, I never access youtube from my phone.
I assume Alphabet location tracked me and/or turned the microphones on one of the phones I had on me.
Location. My phone (Android-based) served me up baby good ads when I was visiting my new grandson.
If you make the mistake of using a google account on any device, the data gets pooled in your profile. I’ve managed to segregate the work and home viewing data, and made it so hard for the phone to do anything that I’m not convinced it’s associated with either.
I have a gmail account I only use for glibbing. And I did formerly use Chrome.
Could have just been the microphone feeding data to the mothership(s) even when it is supposed to be “off”.
But they’d never do that! They pinkie swear!
Of course that’s where the collection came from.
But your behavior enables it. You need to do your due dilligence to break up the data pool.
As I understand it it’s not even that, if you interact with other people, their data vacuums will attempt to ID you.
Well, Thar’s yer problem.
lol
More seriously, the more you disrupt the ad delivery ecosystem, the less being IDed on someone else’s device will impact you.
Will attempt being the key here. Meta (formerly Facebook) had the beacon scandal break years back when they were building “shadow accounts” for people who had never signed up based on tracking data.
I hope you told youtube that anything longer than an ODI was silly.
I am currently of the opinion that Cricket > Baseball but that could just be the novelty.
I haven’t watched enough to see why people get so upset about LBW. On paper, the rule seems clear enough.
*sadly shakes head*
Exactly, anything other that Test is barely cricket.
Meh. Google routinely tries to push cricket, Indian news, and random news at me (currently it’s on a Miller Lite kick, previously it was on a Starry soft drink kick).
Google really, really, REALLY wants me to buy Bounce dryer sheets for some weird reason…
Serious question – where are you people seeing all this? Nobody pushes anything at me. Should I feel left out?
I see it in the newsfeed (on stock Android, scroll all the way to the left). I think it’s technically called the “Discovery Feed”. Every couple of weeks, Google’s algorithm gets “special” and will push a topic at me. The Miller Lite kick as an example, isn’t news about Miller Lite or MillerCoors, it’s stuff like “The Proper Way to Store Miller Lite” and “The best cocktails to make with Miller Lite” type bullshit.
Oh, I turn that shit off 2 minutes after booting up a new phone.
My main vector has been via YT. The ad to content ratio has gotten so bad that I have started switching to podcasts instead.
On Brave I never see the ads. Maybe they are super targeted at me, but I never see them.
I should switch to watching on Brave instead of the app, it sounds like.
Ah, I don’t do newsfeeds.
And I don’t see ads in youtube. They do push “next” videos at me, which pisses me off and I haven’t figured out how to turn off yet.
Has she recovered from this year’s World Cup final?
Yes. Though she was quite unhappy for a day or two.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a high speed (or even just a reasonable speed) train down the middle of I-25.
On a related note, drove to Colorado Springs last Thursday…why the fuck isn’t there a express land on the south side of Denver like there is on the north side? I knew I was going to hit Denver at rush hour (left FtC metro area at 4 PM) but the express lane allowed me to zoom past it until I hit downtown, then I had to sit thru the traffic like a peasant*.
*I don’t actually pay for the express lane, there were 3 of us in the car, so got to use the HOV option.
express lane…not express land, but that sounds useful too.
Trains have the same biggest shortcoming as planes – they go to a limited number of fixed, useless locations at which I will have to then rent a car.
Depending where you are going…unlike airports, then tend to terminate in useful walkable locations. I bet the train to Vegas makes it convenient to get to walkable money-draining areas of town. At worse, you need an uber.
Vegas will be the first city to have completely motorized sidewalks.
Slidewalks? I suppose Asimov’s Caves of Steel could come out of the “15 minute city” crap too… Guess we’re right on track.
“The
RoadsSidewalks Must Roll!”Too much liability from inebriated “guests”. Hell, some people have issues with the escalators.
/remembers the story from the girlfriend of her mom calling her from a casino to ask the girlfriend where she was
The last few times I was on a train were during my second trip to the UK.
The Amtrak leg went from Rensellear to Penn Station, with a wait for a freight train in Poughkeepsie. To get to JFK I had to take a subway to a random intersection where I caught a shuttle bus. There might have been some rail line that might have made it out to the airport, but my recollection was that there either wasn’t one, or it was such a nonviable route that the shuttle was more workable.
After the flight, I ended up on the Metro from Heathrow to St Pancras to catch the train to Nottingham, which then required a taxi to get to the Hotel. The return trip UK trains were the same, but I had someone pick me up from JFK because I didn’t want to deal with the NYC leg again, let alone at night.
The only reason the train was even partially viable was because there was no way my car was crossing the atlantic for a one-week trip to Nottingham.
*note, this is not counting times like the tourist ride in Duluth, because that looped back to the starting station and the train was the destination.
When I lived in Switzerland, sans car, the trains mostly took you to useful (as a tourist) parts of towns.
Where I lived/worked was in the middle of nowhere, so I had to take a bus into the nearest train station. But when I arrived, I flew into Zurich, took a train from the airport to Brugg, and my boss picked me up in his car for the last leg. After that, I learned the bus schedule and used it. I did ride with some friends into Zurich for a movie once (Dances with Wolves, subtitled in French and German, which was fine, except for the parts in Sioux, which were subtitled in French and German).
You can take a train from Montreal to Quebec which leaves you at the Gare du Palais the Old Town in easy walking distance to all the AirBnBs, the Marche du Vieux Port and literally all the touristy things to do there.
You’ll need some other form of transportation if you want to do Quebecoise hipster stuff though.
From what I gathered, it will terminate in a terrible location and either bus, taxi and/or Uber from there. The taxi cartel in Vegas will make sure of it. At one point, their monorail system was supposed to be robust and connect the northwest valley to Downtown/Strip and to the southeast valley. Taxi companies put a stop to that.
When I had a project at Mercury in Fond du Lac Wisconsin, the way to go was to take Amtrak to Milwaukee and rent a car there. Saved you from having to drive through shit Chicago traffic.
The trips back had some pretty legendary drunken sessions. A cooler of beer and a bottle could be carried on the train and no one was driving when you got to downtown.
Hmph. Still getting a bunch of tax dollars.
Yeah, that was my thought. Its like SpaceX…it would be nice if it was totally private, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Another example, theparklands.org. From their FAQ:
Its not perfect, but its mostly good. The $1.5 MM from the city was a transfer of land, getting it off the cities books. The Metro Parks no longer has to take care of that park, and it still remained a park.
Religion in public schools… really? Good luck with that. I give it five seconds for someone to find a friendly judge to ban it.
I’m not sure how they’ll ban it preemptively without that being called a religious test for government work.
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Daily Ray of Sunshine
Anti-Semitism’s evolving definition.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/12/05/rep-thomas-massie-posts-antisemitic-meme-claiming-congress-chooses-zionism-over-american-patriotism/
Massie will be just fine and he’s certainly one of the best Republicans. It’s not antisemitic to oppose foreign aid and to point out hypocrisy with a meme. The right wing really is no better than the left when it comes to bitching and moaning about speech they don’t like, they just want to suppress different things.
Yeah, I suspect he is not actually a member of “the antisemitic far-right” but at the same time he had to have known he would catch shit for this.
He did neatly eviscerate Schumer’s response in X.
Unconstitutional toy law: It’s the new M.O.
1. Pass law that clearly won’t meet any constitutional standard.
2. Wait for the years and years of verdicts and appeals to wind their way through our retarded court system.
3. If they ultimately decide against you slightly modify the law and start all over again.
See also: gun control with an added bonus that it will fuck over people you don’t like and with qualified immunity there’s not a goddamn thing they can do about it.
There need to be more penalties for this crap
How about every time a law gets struck down the legislator who introduced it, the staffers who wrote it, the lobbiests who advocated it, and the activists who pushed it are all thrown in a volcano?
Not going to link to Salon, but here is one of the ledes on the main page.
Sandra Day O’Connor wasn’t that great
DAN CANON
The first woman on the Supreme Court gave the appearance of positive change — but she was a tool of the instutition
Note the spelling error in the sub-lede.
Correct spelling is white supremacy
Hence the lack of TShirts and Action Figures, and movies.
Thot Police: Forbes Has Doxed Beff Jezos
https://www.piratewires.com/p/thot-police-forbes-has-doxed-beff
Doxed and reported. Friday night, Forbes reporter Emily Baker-White doxed the anonymous tech positivity account Beff Jezos (revealed the man’s legal name against his wishes), wildly implied his posts were in some manner adjacent to white supremacy, and proudly shared an interview he granted under extreme emotional duress. After reviewing emails of Emily’s obtained in my capacity as a Real Journalist, I can further report she carried out the dox following conversation with her editors in which it was determined this was in the “public interest.” Her editors’ involvement separately confirms the practice of doxing is an actual policy of the Forbes technology team, which notably includes the highly influential tech journalist Alex Konrad, who contributed to the piece, and has since defended it on X.
In her piece, Emily characterizes Beff as a “provocative” account on Twitter “leading the ‘effective accelerationism’ movement sweeping Silicon Valley,” a joke name obviously chosen in mocking reference to Effective Altruism, the philosophical agent of OpenAI’s recent near death experience. Beff’s desire? Nothing less than “unfettered, technology-crazed capitalism,” whatever that means. His ideas are “extreme,” Emily argues. This is a man who believes growth, technology, and capitalism must come “at the expense of nearly anything else,” by which she means the fantasy list of “social problems” argued by a string of previously unknown “experts” throughout her hit job, but never actually defined.
“At its core,” Emily writes, “effective accelerationism embraces the idea that social problems can be solved purely with advances in technology, rather than by messy human deliberation.”
Your sense that technological progress has increased human abundance, and the city of San Francisco is poorly run? This is a dangerous idea.
To be fair, I am not full on tech will solve everything, human ethics matter.
Speaking of which, I read an interesting piece on how Israel’s reliance on tech, ie the Gaza border wall and Iron Dome, was half of what lead to the Oct. 7th Intifada.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/hard-lessons-from-israels-high-tech
While growth isn’t the end all and be all, it solves a hell of a lot of problems (except jealousy).
That parenthetical needs to be solved internally. And not encouraged.
I wouldn’t cry if Em’s home address and the contents of her smartphone got dumped onto the internet. The only way doxxers like this will get their comeuppance is if they receive it back tenfold.
Basic Game Theory; if someone defects from the rules, you make them live up to what they are accusing others of.
I like it.
Who is the thot, or is the guy just using clickbait?
one would assume Emily Baker-White
But given his site wants a 12 dollar a month subscription I would not think they are above clickbait
I did not see any cleavage or yoga pants pics in that article.
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“BREAKING NEWS Norman Lear dies aged 101: Oscar-nominated comedy writer and producer behind ‘All in the Family’ and ‘Sanford and Son’ is credited with revolutionizing American television”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12832551/Norman-Lear-dies-aged-101.html
RIP
101 aint a bad run.
That guy was woke during the 70s before woke was a thing.
It’s crazy how lefty all those shows were – almost jarring when you see them now.
Listening to rock lyrics from the ’70’s is a real buzzkill. What a bunch of fucking commies.
More lefty than TV shows now?
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday ordered the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region.
The announcement came a day a day after Maduro got the victory he sought in a sham referendum on whether to claim sovereignty over the region.
He proposed a special law to prohibit all companies that work under Guyana concessions from any transaction. “They have three months to withdraw” once his proposal is approved, he said.
He ordered to publish and disseminate in schools, high schools and universities of the country the new Map of Venezuela that includes the Guayana Esequiba.
He also said that Venezuela’s electoral system is the fastest and most reliable in the world.
https://twitter.com/yasminalombaert/status/1732319234477228128
can the world spare some weapons for Guyana ?
The same oil company that can’t maintain the existing infrastructure in Venezuela?
They don’t have the expertise to do anything but collect checks.
… returning the results even before “voting” starts and reliably delivering the win to the United Socialist Party.
Well, technically is the best kind of correct.
“Foreign governments are spying on smartphone users through their apps’ push notifications, a Democratic senator warned on Wednesday.
Ron Wyden of Kansas told the Department of Justice that foreign officials are demanding data from Alphabet’s Google and Apple.
Two weeks ago, he called for answers from the White House over a secret surveillance plan known as Hemisphere that tracks trillions of Americans’ phone records each year – even if they are not suspected of a crime.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12832425/Are-governments-SPYING-push-notifications-Democratic-senators-dire-warning-Apple-Google-app-data-used-foreign-surveillance-track-smartphones.html
Ron Wyden moved to Kansas?
The bigger joke is that Kansas would elect a Democrat for Senator.
Nope, not at all. It elected a dem governor and a poor district elected a dem rep (fortunately, she has been less harmful than the AOC pack). Anyway, Kansas has a HUGE rich, blue Johnson County, which is part of very blue KC metro area (possibly two, if you count Wichita).There aren’t enough rural voters to override the two blue hotspots.
Missouri has 3 big blue and one small blue metro areas, and we can still override the blue hotspots.
The last Democrat from Kansas to serve in the U.S. Senate left office in ’39.
The state turned blue. I don’t understand the point.
Kansas hasn’t elected a Democratic Senator in nearly a century. It’s a simple fact. I know about the governors – plural, but for whatever reason that hasn’t turned into a Senate winner.
Hey none of that foreign surveillance. Only we’re allowed to spy on our citizens.
Roger Hallam
@RogerHallamCS21
You either stop eating meat to stop society from collapsing; or you stop eating meat because society has collapsed: either way your days of eating meat are coming to an end.
https://twitter.com/RogerHallamCS21/status/1732293798875791515
porterhouse for me, med rare, thanks
Primal (a small butcher shop chain) is having a NY strip sale — $7/lb off. Of course, that still leaves them at “no fucking way am I paying $21/lb for dinner.”
At my local butcher, NY Strip is never above $16.99/lb, and often less.
I’ve seen it for $6.99 recently.
Wegman’s family pack is still at $10.49/lb for strips.
Hmm…guess I’ll just have resort to eating vegetarians after the collapse.
Long Pork, it’s what’s for dinner.
I think in this case it’s called Skinny Chicken.
Someone needs to glue this asshole to his own floor.
The “gender neutral toys” thing is ridiculous and mildly infuriating.
1) If they have legos, dump trucks, art supplies, basketballs, baseballs & gloves, board games, building blocks,, dinosaur figures, video games, profession dress-up (doctor, fireman, teacher), etc, they already have gender-neutral toys on the shelves.
2) Less traditionally, but pushed for decades, is the idea that all toys are appropriate for all genders: boys can play with Barbie and baby dolls, girls can play with toy soldiers and action figures. They don’t check a kid’s gender before he’s allowed to buy a plush toy or a doll house.
So unless they are asking for a ban on pink packaging, this is a very stupid law, and definitely well outside the government’s duties to dictate.
It’s there to be ambiguous so the enforcers can decide on the spot whether to punish the establishment.
I think you’re on to something.
I see they specifically cite that Lego is trying to be “more inclusive” for girls.
I have an idea, Lego: sell more of the block sets that dont include so much prefabbed stuff that steers the options of a particular Lego set to be only for building a movie prop spaceship or a beauty salon. It’s great to have the sets where the kid has to make up stuff using just the imagination and a set of very basic blocks.
When I was a kid in Romania, legos were whatever we can get and ended up a bunch of nondescript blocks with no real end goal, we built whatever
Ditto. Big bucket with various size and shape blocks. Eventually I got a few kits with an end goal, but their pieces quickly got mixed into the big bucket.
These days it’s hard to find the variety pack. Everything is themed and the kits contain so many custom components that it’s not as easy to reuse as it used to be.
also the basic ones dont hurt when you step on them
Same here.
I believe Lego’s patent ran out, so they had to pivot to keep generic brands from destroying their market share. Hence, all the specialty kits. Also, it keeps the unimaginative in the game.
I say “unimaginative” without judgment. I use someone else’s cross stitch patterns they thunk up. Most knitters and crocheters use someone else’s patterns. Cosplayers make their own patterns, but based on someone else’s artwork. MOST carpenters, tailors, dressmakers work off someone else’s patterns. MOST people who do crafts don’t do them from scratch, from pictures in their heads. They follow a guide set out by someone who DOES do their own artwork.
They still have basic block sets, and those are the ones most likely to go on sale. We have a bunch at my house and the kids we watch love building random stuff. LEGOs today are mostly what plastic Revel models were back in my day.
I recently learned that even a lot of the “specialty blocks” get reused for future kits. As an example the Orchid kit uses pieces that were used for birds and frogs in earlier kits.
Now I must *have* the Orchid, Wildflowers, and dried Dried Centerpiece sets…
Didn’t you just say you wanted just generic boxes of Lego? 🙂
I have held (as a long standing tradition) an aversion to buying cut flowers for people. I will however, purchase glass, metal, Lego, etc. flowers for people. The girlfriend has received the Wildflower and Orchid kit, and I’ve got a new one for her that will be her’s come Christmas.
The sense I get is that nobody buys the generic buckets anymore. In the local Walmart there are probably 40 kits, each 5 deep. There are maybe 2 buckets of generic Legos stashed in a corner. We have one, but the girls usually play with the kits they have received.
I was deliberately looking for a generic set at Target the other day – nothing doing.
yes, not their place. No, the law is ‘doing something’. The wokesters will be happy, no one else will pay attention.
Then there is what UnCivil says.
I think Newsome is gearing up to make Biden look like a piker.
Given I am watching a presentation I do not fully understand, what is the official glibertarian view on Raman spectroscopy?
It’s good stuff.
I like to add a dash of creole seasoning for a little extra kick.
did you know making microchips has all sorts of difficulties in the manufacturing process? crazy stuff.
Supplies of the Magic Blue Smoke are at an all time low.
That’s why you should inhale deeply when it is released.
Definitely go full anesthetic, and buy a donut cushion for after the procedure.
I’m against it. Microwaves cause cancer. It is known.
Plus, the noodles \are too salty.
Police are investigating after a man was filmed dragging a swan by its neck near Caerphilly Castle.
A witness says a man carrying a bottle of alcohol grabbed the bird and pulled it along a path before onlookers shouted at him to stop.
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1732092563102847036
Swans are notorious assholes. It probably had it coming.
One of the few entities that regularly ROTFLstomp Hatebirds, the Birds that Hate.
Guy’s lucky he didn’t get a beak-hole in his face. Those bastards are meaner than Hate Birds.
I bet the swan had it coming.
“‘Lady Ballers’ Rotten Tomatoes Page Flooded With 5-Star Reviews Amid Backlash From LGBTQ+ Community”
https://decider.com/2023/12/04/lady-ballers-rotten-tomatoes-page-reviews/
Anyone see it yet?
What I have heard is that it is not that edgy or that funny but has its moments and south park did it better. Did not see.
Board Girls was fine, but Mr. Garrison’s Fancy New Vagina is still the GOAT.
The Go God Go episodes of theirs is fantastic too that touch a bit on the craziness.
Upsetting Richard Dawkins alone makes it a great episode.
HE has, she liked it. Drinker said it was OK.
I’ve only seen the trailer, but I did enjoy it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2MzGtmaJ0
Who knows? Maybe the trailer contains the only funny bits.
I will watch the whole thing this weekend.
The Drinker says:
I saw it 20 years ago when it was titled Juwanna Mann. It was bad.
“Her union threatened “safety strikes” in 2020 and successfully lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to make it more difficult to reopen schools in person. The union’s lobbying worked. In at least two instances, the union’s suggestions made it into the CDC guidance nearly verbatim. The CDC wasn’t following the “science.” It was following the “political science.”
Randi Weingarten called the president’s plan to reopen schools “reckless,” “callous” and “cruel.”
Chicago Teachers Union played a founding role in Weingarten’s union, and it is still one of her local affiliates. CTU deleted its post claiming “the push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny,” and one of its board members was caught vacationing in Puerto Rico in person while it was still railing against going back to work in person.
Its fearmongering knew no bounds. CTU shared an interpretive dance video protesting reopening schools in 2021. CTU used COVID-19 as an excuse to strike again in 2022. In places like union-controlled Chicago, two weeks to slow the spread turned into two years to flatten a generation.
Another local affiliate of Weingarten’s AFT, United Teachers Los Angeles, included ridiculous political demands that had nothing to do with safety in its report on reopening schools: Its report on reopening schools called for Medicare for All, wealth taxes and charter-school bans.”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/05/opinion/randi-weingarten-lies-lies-and-lies-again-about-closing-schools-during-covid/
I think they also demanded “defund the police”.
Anyway, public sector unions are cancer, but how to get rid of them?
I think only the heat death of the universe will work.
No more pizza rolls late at night. I dreamt about Israel, Hamas, and rifles. Lots and lots of rifles.
Pizza roll induced hallucinations is no joke.
If they change her work habits they can cost her an armory and a leg.
Black rifles?
Were you listening to Warren Zevin?
That’s why you should avoid the mushroom ones.
My bro gave up
https://twitter.com/frozenaesthetic/status/1732082589857398823
Guy who will be elected President in 2028 cancels tree-lighting ceremony, turns the space where that would have happened over to peaceful totally-not-antisemitic protestors.
Once the governor’s event had been canceled, the Palestinian groups that organized the march obtained a permit to hold a 300-person demonstration near the site of the 67-foot-tall holiday tree
He won’t be President, despite how badly he wants to be.
Assuming the 2024 (or even the 2020) election isn’t our last one, I think he’s got better odds than just about anyone. I still think there is no longer an electoral college path for any Republican (the math hasn’t changed, no matter what those famously accurate early national polls say), and on the Dem shitshow side, I don’t know how they solve their Biden and Harris problem, so its hard to pick between those two and Newsom.
Newsom won’t ever be President, period. Just being a statewide office holder in CA is no guarantee, and the last CA governor elected President was some guy named Reagan.
Back from a nasty sinus infection or something.
Had headaches and coughing, and my face was swollen.
Serious qestion, how do I get water out of my ear?
When I was all clogged up and rinsing my nose, water went into my ear, and I’ve been deaf in my left ear for almost a week now.
Never had a problem getting water out before, tugging, swallowing while laying down, and using a finger to pull a vacuum have been ineffective.
Alcohol works for me. Pouring it directly into the affected ear I mean, though maybe internal administration would work too.
Yeah, we always used rubbing alcohol when I was a kid. Possibly helped prevent infection too.
They used to have a handy bottled product called Swimmer’s Ear that came in an easy squeeze/drop bottle. I think it was basically IPA.
Might have to try that.
IPA and boric acid IIRC.
Swimming in OK lakes did require anti-infection precautions.
At least this was the saline rinse water, and I haven’t had any pain.
I have a bulb “syringe” that can be used to pull a gentle vacuum and get unwanted material out of an ear. It’s better at it than fingers.
, how do I get water out of my ear – when I was a kid I turned my head year down and jumped on one foot whenever I went swimming and felt water in my ear. Sometimes it seemed to work. I doubt it does if the water is one week in and depends how deep I would assume
ear down goddamnit
usually jump on foot on the same side as the ear
My wife had me jumping like an idiot.
She swears it works, but it didn’t for me.
Lift the leg opposite the affected ear and kick the leg in the air while tilting the ear down. Looks stupid as fuck, but it can work.
Spin around really fast.
Like a record?
That’s the song I was hoping for.
Sometimes I’ve had success with ibuprofen. Knock the internal swelling down so the water can move more freely.
That’s also my secret weapon to prevent ear issues while flying.
Ibuprofen is ototoxic, though.
My tinnitus agrees.
What’s that? Speak up so I can hear you!
Don’t know, but I’m sure you can find a way to blame your ear condition on Donald Trump. He seems to be responsible for all misfortunes these days.
I thought Climate Change caused it.
The warrant, or reason for it, go unmentioned in the rest of the article.
Note, this does seem connected to a warrant.
Not opening cases does not mean baseless.
Now we get to say shit with impunity!
Yellow face of white supremacy?
Wow…… I can’t decide if this is just pure incompetence or brazen lying. With the Biden Admin appointees… you really can’t be sure.
Related to Missouri v Biden I would say: Daily Wire and Texas suing State Dept for censorship
“It’s not a civil rights issue if icky far-right MAGA extremist terrorists are peddling misinformation – the First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech, and anything these people say is by definition hate speech”.
/ the translation from Newspeak once this appointee gets briefed on the court case
I agree with the writer of the article:
The article is slightly off – this particular effort may have started under Obama (and carried on through Trump and Biden), but the real genesis is Bush and Patriot Act.
VASARO NYSW SS 2024 – Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjg5cvu6wI
Gibberish jamboree
Claudine Gay of Harvard, Elizabeth Magill of Penn and Sally Kornbluth of MIT spoke before the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce for several hours on Tuesday, condemning the rise in antisemitic incidents and defending their administrations’ responses.
All three — who started their jobs either this year or last — acknowledged and vowed to tackle the parallel surge in Islamophobia and other forms of hate as well.
“Today’s hearing is focused on antisemitism and its direct impact on the Jewish community,” Magill said in her opening remarks. “But history teaches us that where antisemitism goes unchecked, other forms of hate spread and ultimately can threaten democracy.”
The presidents were joined by Pamela Nadell, a professor of history and Jewish studies at American University, who provided context on the history of antisemitism in the U.S. as well as the Biden administration’s efforts to combat it.
College presidents are not chosen for their clear, concise thought or prose.
I tried to read it, but tapped out here:
I guess we will never get away from “Words are violence!”
Lawglibs:
What would be the justification for denying someone the ability to file an amicus curiae brief?
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/national-rifle-association-of-america-v-vullo/
The FYTW Clause?
Not sure, but the date looks like they filed well after everyone else was in, so maybe they missed a deadline.
As far as I know, it’s the opposite. You have to be granted the ability to submit one after petitioning the court and proving why they should listen to you (i.e. You have some practical interest in the outcome of the case)
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/judicial/publications/appellate_issues/2022/fall/changes-to-amicus-rules/
Committee chair Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., described the hearing in her opening remarks as an opportunity for leaders to “answer to and atone for the many specific instances of vitriolic, hate-filled antisemitism on your college campuses that have denied students the safe learning environment they’re due.”
Dead horses were flogged.
I found it hilarious that Hahvahd dropped their “buy your way in” program from $20MM down to a measly $2MM.
Magill said the university is working to implement the three-pronged action plan to combat antisemitism it announced last month, which focuses on safety and security, engagement and education. She said she also created a task force to issue additional recommendations, and a student advisory group to ensure Jewish students can share their experiences.
As a student of constitutional democracy I know that we need both safety and free expression for universities and ultimately democracy to thrive,” she said. “At times these competing principles can be difficult to balance but I am determined to get it right.”
We’re running low on vacuous platitudes. Form another task force.
While they cheer on the ‘River to the Sea!’ crowd.
First paragraph from the Holocaust Museum on Hitler’s rise to power.
“On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by German President Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party. The full name of the Nazi Party was the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Its members were often called Nazis. The Nazis were radically right-wing, antisemitic, anticommunist, and antidemocratic. ”
Get that? They were obviously extraultramegaMAGA extremists in the same way universities are combating antisemitism. Cognitive dissonance, how does it work?
Ya’ know, vampires cant see themselves in mirrors either.
They’re only “difficult to balance” if one doesn’t understand what they mean.
Which, of course, does include her.
“We have been told that no Jew should ever feel unsafe on our campus. We can think of no better way to achieve this than banning Jews from our campus. If they aren’t here at all, they can’t feel unsafe here. This will also free our students from the fear that they might make a Jew feel unsafe and thus allow them the full range of free expression, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, or gender orientation, so this policy also maximizes diversity, equity and inclusion.
So let it be written. So let it be done.”
Group of nuns buys S&W stock, attempts to sue them out of existence. Unknown how this interacts with vow of poverty.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/12/05/exclusive-smith-wesson-ceo-mark-smith-responds-shareholders-suing-company-over-ar-15s/
By throwing theiur money away, they’re ensuring poverty?
I didn’t know nuns were allowed to own stock. This would have been a good question for Eddie. Or google, I guess.
It’s probably owned by the convent.
Monastic institutions tend to acquire a lot of assets. It was a recurring issue in the middle ages.
Sorry, not familiar with either of those orders of nuns. I’ve dealt mainly with Ursuline and Notre Dame nuns.
How many were sold?
How many were used illegally?
Wouldn’t the vast numbers not used in crimes invalidate their lawsuit?
I know it’s anti-gunners we’re talking about, but surely they have to see how ludicrous it is.
Then again with the right judge, they could find a “legal” justification.
Going public is the single worst thing you can do for the long term health of your company. Change my mind.
“intentionally violating federal, state, and local laws through its manufacturing, marketing, and sales of AR-15 style rifles and similar semiautomatic firearms.”
Which laws, exactly?
” illicit manufacturing”
Such as?
“The plaintiffs claim AR-15 rifles are “machineguns,”
They aren’t.
“The plaintiffs acknowledge the lawsuit protection provided to firearm companies via the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). However, they claim Smith & Wesson has foregone such protections”
According to….? The whole suit rests on assuming something objectively false.
I cant help but wonder if GOA or some other pro2A group is behind a lot of this kind of stuff. It is so bad it is not even wrong. It has to be a false flag, right?
How DARE you disagree with NUNS!?!
They’re Catholics, thus misguided.
/Protestant
Tell me who their lawyers are and I”ll tell you who is really running the lawsuit.
Filed in NV state court in Clark County (Las Vegas) by a Reno-based attorney, representing a Michigan-based convent against a Tennessee-based business. What in the absolute fuck? I would also guess that S&W is incorporated in Delaware, and failure of fiduciary duty is a corporate law matter.
Hell, if you were going to throw this kind of Hail Mary, it should’ve been in some New York court, say like Judge Engoron.
So, first motion is for Improper Venue?
Fourth Reich, incoming
“Do you in any way have any plans whatsoever if reelected president to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?” Hannity initially asked.
Trump did not directly answer that question and instead pointed to his own four indictments and dismissed the 91 criminal charges he faces as “made up charges.”
Later, Hannity again pressed Trump, asking, “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?”
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Despite Trump’s answer Tuesday night, his campaign and allies have long plotted to wield executive power in unprecedented ways if he is elected again.
Trump’s plan includes asserting more White House control over the Justice Department, an institution the former president has said he would utilize to seek revenge on his critics, including former allies.
“I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family,” the former president said in June after his arraignment in Florida. “I will totally obliterate the Deep State.”
During a recent interview with Univision, Trump took it a step further.
“If I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them,” he said.
In videos and speeches, he has laid out his plans to gut the current Justice system by firing “radical Marxist prosecutors that are destroying America.”
It’s part of a broader effort that would break down legal restrictions and traditional protections against political interference and give the White House more authority to install ideological allies throughout the federal government.
Get back to me when he promises to dissolve Congress and replace the Supreme Court with a military tribunal.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he stands a good chance of winning. If the election really is clean he would win in a landslide. I think he may win in spite of the left’s cheating.
Yep, we are in for four more years of criminal government agents and foam at the mouth insanity. I better stock up on popcorn.
If the election were held today I agree that Trump would win handily, beyond the margin of fortifications. The mug shot represented an inflection point. He has been steadily gaining traction among black men and Hispanics, and I think the underdog aspect of him fighting the system (along with economic reasons) are helping that tide turn. The big wild card is obviously the court cases. I’m also still not convinced that the Dems don’t pull a Geasy Gav switcheroo at the point or after where Trump secures the nomination. I could see them claiming Joe’s sudden health issue is stopping him from campaigning further and that is why GG had to fill in.
Damn. I guessed NPR before I rolled over the link.
Almost everyday, I get a lesson on how editorial discretion makes it virtually impossible to stem the tide of statist takeover of our lives. Today’s local rag has banner headline about a hearing for a local GOP committeeman charged with writing “murderer” on several lawn campaign signs owned by a Democrat running for re-election as township supervisor. {This happened before the election, and is at least the fourth article on the incident.} The vandal (I guy I knew as one of the more aggressive Tea Party activists back in the day) was angry because the candidate was part of the group that fired a number of maintenance workers who allegedly misused overtime policy when snow plowing the streets. One of the fired guys committed suicide and his wife is suing the township.
Anyway, I expect the vandal will eventually get a heavier penalty than if he had, say, burned down the local Wendy’s.
The same paper buries Biden corruption scandal stories in the back pages (always with Assoc. Press snark about “no evidence”).
And it didn’t deem it worthy to report my township officials just doubled a portion of both the earned income tax and property tax beginning in 2024. Guess you’ll just learn about that when you open your paycheck and property tax bill in January.
Hilarious how the left has turned from “boys can play with Barbies and girls can play with trucks, don’t enforce gender stereotypes,” to “if a boy plays with girl toys or a girl plays with boy toys that means that they were assigned the wrong gender and should transition to a sparkly brand new gender”. The law is ridiculous and will never be enforced. It will get quietly dropped in a couple years when it finally gets through a court challenge.
I came across this article about a tow truck driving who was tragically shot and killed while attempting to repossess a vehicle. What is strange is the photograph that was published showing the deceased’s feet and his unusual footwear. See for yourselves.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/berkeley-woman-fled-st-louis-after-killing-of-tow-truck-driver-on-repo-job-charges/article_10db613c-93a7-11ee-9eb7-d316127e0d04.html
Hmm. Looks like a new commenter. I’m suspicious.
I’m not a new commenter, just an infrequent one.
Hiya! Infrequent though you may be, welcome!
I’m also involved in the process of getting back property possession and that is not the footwear I choose for the job. You’d think he would want something he could haul ass in if needed, very weird.
Some people say it’s better for you to run in bear feet.
Bravo!
So, I’ve been thinking about the whole “antizionism is not antisemitism” thing.
That might be true if you believe that no religion should have their own state. And yes, some people do believe that.
But…
While “Christian Nationalism” is a bogeyman, and since Modi got elected “Hindu Nationalism” has been a scare-phrase on NPR, if you have no problem with Muslim theocracies a la Saudi Arabia and Iran, then yes, antizionism is antisemitism on your part.
I find Islam to be a contender with Communism among destructive ideologies, so I’d prefer no one be stuck under their yoke.
“Now wimmenfolk shouldn’t worry their pretty little heads about this trans thing.”
https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/05/president-of-lgbtq-advocate-group-says-women-should-learn-to-lose-gracefully-to-trans-competitors/
I am no longer using the “identify as” language. Rather, I am using the term “claims to be”. As in, not “The biological male identifies as a woman” but “The biological male claims to be a woman”. It’s accurate, arguably more accurate than “identifies as”. And it foregrounds the absurdity, if no lunacy, of these claims.
The LGB-minus-the-T, the rad fems, and lesbians call them TIMs, trans-identified males. Or just AGP (autogynephile) narcissists.
“Trans-identified male” is nonsense language, as it makes no distinction between people who are trans and those who aren’t claiming they are.
I like “is a pretend woman.”
Male in womanface.
Part of Trump’s plans would reclassify tens of thousands of civil service workers — who typically remain on the job as presidents and their administrations change — as at-will employees, a move that would make it much easier to fire them.
Trump said in a March video that he would sign an executive order doing so, which he said would allow him “to remove rogue bureaucrats.” He vowed to “wield that power very aggressively.”
If Trump is elected next year and pursues the blueprint his campaign and allies are now developing, legal experts say it would lead to years of legal battles and political clashes with Congress over the limits of presidential authority.
It should be harder to fire a federal bureaucrat than to defrock a priest.
Also, that stuff about years of legal wrangling cuts the legs out from under your assertions of unrestrained dictatorial rule.
Tens of thousands, you say? Out of the 2MM non-defense federal employees? Barely a start, but perhaps a camel’s nose, slippery slope if we get really lucky.
“Anti-LGBTQ+ activists claim that trans girls and women have unfair advantages over cisgender females, but scientists and LGBTQ+ advocates say this is not the case.”
https://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender-sports-bans-biden-proposal
SCIENCE!!!!!!
“Some LGBTQ+ activists are already raising concerns about the rule. “Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god damn sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare,” tweeted trans legal scholar Alejandra Caraballo. “He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia.””
CWAA
“…criminal bans on our healthcare…”
I’ll give them “on”. But whatever the hell he/she is referring to, it’s not “criminal”, “bans”, or “healthcare”, and it’s not “our” (yours) until you make or buy it.
How to lie with comparative terms!
Male in womanface.
Female impersonator. It’s all pantomime and vaudeville.
The face of male supremacy, with bad makeup.
Regarding the exploded house:
‘He did not respond to requests to come outside, prompting officers to fire irritants into the residence, police said.’
Wow, these guys straight up blew his house up.
Wasn’t it conclusively established by Janet Reno at Waco that chemical irritants are completely non-flammable and impossible to ignite?
The cannister itself is an ignition source with an open flame.
Biden now openly claims Messiah status. He’s only running to save America from Donald Trump.
Peak journalism
Franklin Pierce’s only living son was cut down in a train accident between his election and inauguration. His wife was inconsolable, and Pierce ended up being a notoriously bad president.
I’m laughing so hard I can barely type.