The GOAT is going
Saban is retiring. Can’t say I blame him with the way NIL is creating an entire division of mercenary players. Pete Carroll is stepping down in Seattle. I don’t give a shit about that. Bill Belichick is leaving the Patriots (this one just broke a few minutes ago) and that’s really gonna start the carousel. And across the pond, Liverpool fared better than Chelsea in their first legs of the League Cup semifinals. Second legs are next week. And that’s it for sports.
Holy crap, that’s a freaking huge recall. Imagine the reporting on it had it been Tesla. It wouldn’t be way down the page after “tips for your New Years resolutions” and a couple pieces on Taylor Swift.
LOfuckingL
Something about reaping and sowing. The outrage from team blue here has been noted after the string of contempt cases that were prosecuted when the roles were reversed. Also, I still want to know what crack he likes the most. Guess that reporter will never get an answer.
“Thanks for pointing out the speck in our eye. Now about that beam in yours.” That would be my response if I were them. Or I’d hector them about gun control laws or arrests for unpopular speech. Or maybe I’d just ignore them, the bunch of hypocrites.
Drip. Drip. Drip. Just release everything, for the love of Pete.
Hard times ahead for the Golden State
There wheels are coming off. It’s about freaking time.
This administration hates workers. And apparently hates democracy too.
What an absolute shitshow. Guess they figured they’d make up for the shortfall on volume.
This will certainly be interesting. I wonder who will try to sabotage it first: The federal government through the FAA or “workers rights” groups. Either way, it’s doomed for failure through nefarious means.
Some bands can hang around for decades. They still had some great songs into the 80s. But that early stuff was amazing. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this cold Thursday, dear friends.
Saban is retiring. Can’t say I blame him with the way NIL is creating an entire division of mercenary players. – Michigan ended his career?
You’re welcome.
Maybe Saban couldn’t handle it when they took his crack baby slaves away from him.
I heard him crying about how paying players is destroying the game. Boo hoo. Pay the players.
I thought they were already paid with free room and board and some sort of education and god-like adulation.
I think the NCAA came up with what may be the worst possible system for doing that. There’s no reason the players can’t get paid without setting up an annual auction that moves the top players out of the bowl games/playoffs and around the league. Well, monopolies aren’t known for cultivating top tier leadership, so . . .
Just turn the NCAA into a farm league. Quit pretending that they are there to get an education.
^^ this. Set up club football for the kids who want to play while going to school, like they do for the sports that don’t make the Title IX cut.
Shut down college sports. Ban universities from having any association with athletics.
Or just ban universities.
Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
The If Pigs Could Fly Gazette?
He gets millions of dollars, you get a degree in communications. Seems fair.
You get training and a spotlight that can get you a shot at the pros. You get private tutors and study facilities. You get 4-5 years of free education, housing, and food. You get a pass on grades that the other students don’t get. You get to swim in a sea of college age jersey chasing pussy.
Damn, Nick Saban was undercompensated.
Drip. Drip. Drip. Just release everything, for the love of Pete. – do not forget that just visiting does not imply they did anything wrong
Yup, you need a creepy picture of you in a dress inviting guests to Epstein’s domicile to really make people think you must have been into some twisted shit.
We will not see the full client list.
privacy is important for the rich and famous
Well thank goodness — I think they bled the Power Rangers franchise dry years back.
After Rita Repulsa lost the 2016 election and a putty won the 2020 election, they figured that reality had outstripped any storyline they could come up with.
There wheels are coming off. It’s about freaking time. – it is strange how one year windfall revenue does not always become permanent
What an absolute shitshow. Guess they figured they’d make up for the shortfall on volume. – trains are the civilized man’s mode of transport
When we were in Europe, we found trains between cities to be fairly convenient and comfortable. Mass transit inside a city varied wildly (I’m looking at you, Paris, city of
loveBO and urine).Mass transit inside a large city can not be anything but uncomfortable. there is no solution for a millions densely packed people
I assume you remember a soldier sleeping next to you though.
It’s never too early in the day for a Berlin reference.
Bravo!
It is wintertime in France
If I had an impacted engine, I’d avoid getting the “Fix”, since it sounds like it would gimp the vehicle’s ability to do anything useful just to meet evil, anti-human rules from the EPA.
I remember back around the early 2000’s a coworker with a Vette was into the whole aftermarket reprogramming modules — swapping them back to factory spec before emissions inspections. I have to wonder if that’s still a thing….
There’s still aftermarket ECUs available. The one we have on the FJ has a “off” switch to go back to factory specs. We had the “on” setting programmed to run the supercharger, so we’ve never turned it off because that would make the engine run like garbage.
Oh absolutely. Replacement/retuned modules for engines, transmissions, and suspensions…
Yep. Worth it if you have a newer performance car under warranty.
Until they paint seal your ECU box.
Ron might be impacted. Not sure of his truck year of manufacture. Expect a Stoic article on the recall?
We already did (2017) before this was announced.
Since it is CA led I assume the whole thing is bullshit – when I bought my truck I had to sign that I would never move it into CA.
Boy that is an easy form to sign.
“Never move back to CA? No problem.”
Exactly.
No, the 2001 has no emissions equipment at all.
The ECU update looks like it doesn’t hurt the performancew, but it burns more DEF.
Interesting. Ours burned quite a bit of DEF when hauling the first few years, but the last couple of years it has been more economical on it. Have to see what it does on our Feb trip.
Lol – I just texted the article to 2 customers who run them in fleets and told them to ignore the recall notice when they get it.
It’s like Stellantis never read about the VW “cheating” scandal, which had the same outcome.
There’s no FN way I’d voluntarily bring in a vehicle to have it “neutered” — oops, I mean “fixed” — so it had less power and worse fuel economy, to satisfy some unelected bureaucrats whose end game is to elimate IC engines and thus modern life.
How about when they refuse to issue tabs?
I assume Winston’s Mom could use her contacts to do a deep dive on which crack he prefers.
This administration hates workers. And apparently hates democracy too. – workers don’t always know what is good for them
They already had a vote that went the correct way, there is no need for any more votes.
The perpetual school bond measure model, hmm?
*cry/laugh emoji*
I’m gonna have fun suggesting to Starbucks-addicted Mrs. Prole that she boycott SB to show solidarity with the union.
Well they’ve got years worth of paystubs that show dues for the union being extracted. That’s something isn’t it?
Can’t union people bump somebody? I forget how that works but sounds like fun.
Ex-squeeze me? I baking powder?
Juneteenth, anyone?
Fucking Kwanzaa?!?!?I heartily endorse them telling the State Department (or whomever) to just shut the everloving fuck up and mind their own business.
There’s nothing fake about the Bosnian Serb holiday.
I thought the most interesting thing in that article was that they still use phones with corded handsets there. I can’t remember the last time I used one. The last one I saw was in the pathology lab at my hospital. Trust me, you did not want to touch that phone without gloves and a mask.
Technically corded handset phones are more secure than cell or cordless phones. But I doubt there’s attacks at the individual desk phone level there.
Except aren’t the exchanges all VOIP anyway? So unless you have an entirely in-building hard line, you’re probably vulnerable at the junctions.
Nope, SS7 I’m pretty sure. VOIP interacts with that. VOIP itself is too inefficient to do the heavy lifting.
Nearly all trunks are VOIP in the current day. The day of hard lines to buildings is coming to an end anyway. I was speaking to the point that both cordless and cell handsets are transmitting, and the signals can be intercepted. There’s no difference in vulnerabilities upstream from the desk phone regardless of how the call leaves the building (assuming no end to end encryption, at which point it’s more than standard phones anyway).
I thought the most interesting thing about that pic was the choice of finger to scratch his head. Or was he just commenting on the journalo taking the pic?
Just like California (no wonder Hair Gel thinks he can run for Pres), hates the workers — loves roping them into unions for those sweet, sweet “donations” (kick backs).
I vote FAA.
We made Juneteenth a holiday, and we’re bitching about other countries’ holidays?
It was an actual TX holiday. All y’all have no business appropriating it. I had never heard of it till June 19, 1995 when I moved here.
It’s nice that Federal workers in DE and KY get the day off.
This was my thought too.
How about Kwanza? Is that an official govt. approved Holiday?
Behind the Turmoil in Ecuador
https://compactmag.com/article/behind-the-turmoil-in-ecuador
A peaceful country not long ago, Ecuador has taken a turn for the worse in recent years, with homicides surging to 26 per 100,000 last year, up from around 7 per 100,000 in 2020. Since the end of the pandemic, the country has fallen victim to a broader restructuring in the international drug trade. The collapse in the price of coca—the raw crop used to make cocaine—in neighboring Colombia has seemingly made exporting cocaine out of Ecuador more attractive. At the same time, the growing popularity in the United States of synthetic drugs like fentanyl has stoked competition among traffickers for routes to more lucrative cocaine markets across the Pacific.
Noboa’s aggressive actions have raised hopes that his government will undertake a systematic crackdown against organized crime in the style of his Salvadoran counterpart, Nayib Bukele. The reality is that Ecuador likely doesn’t have the manpower, resources, or knowhow to replicate Bukele’s success. Throughout Latin America, political leaders have imposed states of emergency time and again to rein in criminal violence, to little avail—El Salvador being the notable exception. Indeed, Noboa’s immediate predecessor, Guillermo Lasso, also instituted multiple 60-day states of exception during his term, including in August 2023, following the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
How Parenting Became a Lifestyle
https://compactmag.com/article/how-parenting-became-a-lifestyle
Since the 1960s, parenting has exploded as a field of study, as a glance at the relevant section of any bookstore will reveal. It isn’t just of concern to child psychologists and educational theorists, but to parents themselves, for whom experts and theories have increasingly replaced the once-close network of family and community support. Today’s parents aren’t merely tasked with feeding their children and imparting basic manners; instead, they must navigate and select from a bewildering array of styles, including “free-range,” “authoritative,” “tiger,” “peaceful,” “respectful,” and “gentle” parenting. For each of these styles, books, websites, and online influencers offer detailed guidance on any conceivable situation a parent might face.
A host of factors, including smaller family sizes, the void left by eroding religious and cultural norms, the decline of multigenerational households, and an increase in leisure time have contributed to this diversification. Parents who might have once turned to their own parents and other older relatives for guidance now rely on theories that often draw from far-removed anthropological observations, scientific studies, and psychological theories.
It only became a bewildering lifestyle for lefty parents.
Missing here is therapy culture where everything is traced back to upbringing and pathologies, driving a wedge between these parents and their parents, thus pushing them to feel-good books to teach them parenting rather than their icky family.
*pathologized
I knew better than to not double check that word, but I hit post anyway.
I raised my kids the opposite way my dad raised me. They seemed to turn out OK.
And you certainly are Glib Normal.
They had a Republican debate last night and didn’t invite Vivek. The party thinks Haley or DeSantis will magically become palatable once Trump is removed.
If a “debate” happens and nobody watches, did it actually happen?
Heh. So true.
Imagine Trump and Biden both out of the running…
Oh, wait — Christie dropped out yesterday.
It’s the deflation of the idiots that I would like.
That is so insulting to Vivek. Makes me like Vivek even more that he got cold-shouldered. He’s pissing off the right people. Didn’t he say Ronna McDaniel should have been fired years ago? He’s the first guy to have to stones to speak that truth. That’s probably why he isn’t there.
He pisses off more than the right people. He even manages to piss me off.
He certainly says the right things. I would vote for him. *puts in earbuds and ques up ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’*
I thought that too at first, then he proved his political credentials by going really stupid.
How so?
Using the U.S. military in Mexico against the drug cartels.
Compulsory national service to vote.
Absolute ban on abortion.
I guess you just always get the bad with the good (and he’s said a number of things I am totally good with).
1. Absolute no. Agreed. Crazy talk.
2. Interesting idea. I’d debate that. I think many people here feel there should be some limitation put on voting, given the current state of affairs.
3. I am… undecided Personally I would never do it. I think floating an abortion ban is why his numbers are so low however.
Bad, but maybe less bad than it seems at first blush. 🎵To the shores of Tripoli🎵
Thought provoking, but ultimately not something I’d sign on to.
Good.
Seems like a mixed bag to me.
Using the U.S. military in Mexico against the drug cartels.
Compulsory national service to vote.
Absolute ban on abortion.
Take the good with the bad. I agree that these are bad things, but he is better than anyone else running, other than Trump. And your Democratic Party alternative is a shell being controlled by commu-fascists. Take your pick.
1. Agree with Trashy. At least fighting cartels is a domestic issue.
2. His citizen vs. civilian distinction is interesting, and national service does not mean military service. Ideally he would say no one should vote because it’s stupid, but then I don’t know how he wins the presidency.
3. I’m not sure what you mean by absolute ban on abortion because he doesn’t support a Federal ban and thinks the appropriate state target should be 6 weeks.
He said he supports 6 week state bans, like the Florida law.
He doesn’t think the FDA has the authority to require states to allow abortion pills.
He said he doesn’t think the federal government has the authority for a national ban, but that he’s open minded to being convinced otherwise by a constitutional scholar.
Since Trump is still the likely nominee despite all the lawfare, these debates are de facto VP choice showcases.
I could see Trump picking Vivek for Veep because the establishment GOP tried to shut him out at the debates for saying inconvenient stuff.
I’m looking at the Arkansas Governor as his choice. Almost all the right DEIs plus from a flyover state.
I think there is a very non-zero chance the Repub establishment keeps him off the ballot, probably using the indictments as an excuse.
It will destroy the party, of course, but they seem fairly indifferent to that. And if so, well, no great loss.
All this is really making me want to reconsider my stance of not voting.
/s
Doubtful. Trump is the establishment candidate. They will likely let him run despite all legal troubles and lose handily to Biden.
I know Vivek is polling behind Haley and DeSantis, but I’m curious how much he would be polling at if Trump doesn’t/can’t run.
I think Juris hit the nail on the head above. If Vivek really pushed an abortion ban, that would sink him to single digits.
I thought he was at 6 percent or something.
He’s already in the single digits as I think most people have picked up on the fact that he’s a Trump guy and not actually running.
I think the two just decided themselves, as they are the only two viable primary candidates still in the race who are willing to debate.
Socialism Pictures
@PicturesSoc
Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 1989
https://twitter.com/PicturesSoc/status/1744771500689756262
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https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cm50kjrxn73o
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THICC Thursday strikes back!
https://archive.is/7TlvK
A tragic story. He poured his heart and sole into this.
https://twitter.com/BDSixsmith/status/1744656939986964678
That is beneath you, Pie.
Are you calling him a heel for bringing us that story?
Tragic that he cannot toe the line when it comes to society’s feelings on fetishes.
Dammit
Don’t worry, I’ve been recommenting above a lot today. Some days it just ain’t your day.
He’s expected to toe the lion.
Walk the straight and narrow.
I wanna get to the bottom of this
Sounds like that fetish will be his Achilles heel.
Being so straight laced stinks.
THAT’S MY (toe) JAM!
Did someone say Toe Jam! (May not be SFW)
Trump mole in Biden administration causing all sorts of problems with the Post Office.
All you have to do to succeed in Joe World is promise to buy some EV’s.
Look we need to keep the semiconductor business profitable so more electric is good.
“I promise to buy electric vehicles to curry favor with Biden — starting sometime after the election to replace Biden. Trust me!”
What is “mental deindustrialization”? An atrophying of the capacity to produce new ideas and narratives, which has left Europe totally dependent on American intellectual and cultural imports.
https://twitter.com/g_shullenberger/status/1745079332492455940
nonsense all the good stuff comes from Europe
Is it that — or is it over-regulation pushing out innovation (which the US is trying hard to replicate, mind you)?
Europe is leading the world in AI regulation. The worlds only needs follow
La Merveille Lingerie Fashion Show 2024 | Miami Art Basel Week 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFnKTETniA
And enjoy this cold Thursday, dear friends.
The weather is the good part of my day considering I got a plan review comment letter that is making my blood boil.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Engine maker Cummins to repair 600,000 Ram trucks in $2 billion emissions cheating scandal
So they are getting the Volkswagen treatment. Fuck the gov’t.
$33B in various fines and costs for VW.
It will be interesting to see if Cummins gets fucked this hard.
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Nice. I resorted to hints after staring at the main one for 30 minutes on the last 8 or 9 words.
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On the RAM Truck emissions scandal, I am puzzled by the headline about the engine maker repairing the trucks.
My understanding from reading the article is that the trucks aren’t broken. They don’t appear to need repair. What’s seems to be happening is that the engine maker is being compelled to reduce the power output of the engines.
Did I read it right?
The engine maker is being compelled to * offer * to reduce the power and fuel economy of vehicles owned by private companies, to “save the environment”.
I suspect few will accept that offer.
The outrage from team blue here has been noted after the string of contempt cases that were prosecuted when the roles were reversed.
If leftists didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all. R’s should just cite that cancerous cunte Raskins. I hate that lying cunte with a passion.
The U.S. issued a warning on Tuesday that the celebration of a self-proclaimed national holiday by Bosnian Serbs violates Bosnia’s constitution.
“Oh, that’s nice. Now fuck off.” – Bosnians
Especially since the US gov’t violates the Constitution that created it on a regular basis.
So fuck off. – RS
There’s not a single thing in a single place that we can keep our damn nose out of is there?
No, real slavery and genocide are fine as long as China does it.
It’s part of their culture!
Google co-founder Sergey Brin vacationed on Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedophile island” with his ex-wife, according to another round of court documents unsealed Monday.
Yeah but Trump flew on Epstein’s plane from NYC to Palm Beach and back.
And had sex with Epstein’s girls.
I spent the first week of January in the parish of Weston Longville, Norfolk, in the company of the Revd James Woodforde. The year is 1776, or 1784, or 1801. No matter. The year is not important, because each year unfolds just as the last one did. The hearth in Woodforde’s study will still be “smoaking”, despite his endless attempts to have it fixed. The servants will still be “pert and saucy”, the winter cold the worst there has ever been, and the summer drought intolerable. The hospitality will remain excellent: rabbit in onion sauce, boiled mutton, neck of pork with apple sauce, roast beef, apricot dumplings, plum pudding, and tartlets. At Christmas there will be mince pies in the parlour, and hulver (holly) branches at the windows. Port wine, rum, and home-brewed beer flow freely all the year round.
James Woodforde began his diary on 24 July 1759, the day that he was made a scholar of New College, Oxford. He kept it up until 17 October 1802. He was 19 when he started and 63 when he finally put down his pen. He filled more than 60 volumes with terse observations about his life and the small world around him. You can read selections from these volumes today in various editions, all published under the title The Diary of a Country Parson. Woodforde thought his diary “trifling”. We should be thankful for such trifles today. The Rector of Weston recorded the sights, sounds, tastes, hopes, fears, and irritations of a sunken England.
https://unherd.com/2024/01/confessions-of-a-country-parson/
Pert and saucy – pics or it didn’t happeneth.
I hope Trump says his chosen VP will be Bill Clinton, and that Bill stands up there with him and confirms it. Just for the reactions.
I hope he finds some random albino African American male and offers him a Dollar to be VP. (Adding Jamie Lee Curtis as his wife would be a nice touch.)
Talcum X?
Lonnie Lincoln?
California faces $37Billion budget crisis as Gavin Newsom proposes slashing climate change programs, housing and clean energy spending for state
You also need to do something about that underbrush that keeps causing worse than necessary wildfires.
Cake for me, Cake is good!
Local Minnesodan writes op/ed touting the virtues of working from home. It is all about how wfh is revitalizing local neighborhoods. I wonder what he will think when downtown Minneapolis collapses and the city loses the bulk of its tax revenue along with it?
But what of people who live in neighborhoods with shitty cafes like Starbucks?
…and maybe get a tax deduction for a home office…
More auto pollution ’cause you couldn’t shop on your way home…No Friday after work drinks with the new girl hire.
Lots of future divorces in the WFH crowd
I don’t want to interact with my neighbors.
Well, If I can freely bludgeon the assholes who keep throwing trash and leaving dog shit on my property, that’s an interaction that I’d be invested in.
I’m cordial with two of my neighbors. We’re not friends, but we’ll chat and offer help to each other if there’s something going on. One neighbor (who somehow knew my name) just sold their house, and the other house has had a rotating group of tenants who never acknowledge me.
I’m alright with this.
“That’s life?” I mean — I have no attachment to cities or downtowns. If people break into smaller communities via WfH — I honeslty don’t give a shit if all the cities dry up and fade away. If there aren’t enough people to support them, they damned well should.
All those perks listed make me think you aren’t actually *working*
^^This.
Reads like pimping for 15 minute neighborhoods, or whatever they are calling them.
Honestly, that 58% who have to go their workplace sounds low to me, but whatever. When downtowns collapse, so will the jobs downtown that a lot of them go to. Presumably those jobs will get backfilled outside the urban core.
This administration hates workers. And apparently hates democracy too.
When the Brandon regime and its handlers praise “democracy” they really mean fascism. Because they are actual fascists.
The National Labor Relations Board sided with the union representing baristas at a Starbucks in the Mall of America in Bloomington, blocking some workers’ petition to hold an election to oust the union. The action comes as labor regulators review allegations of unfair labor practices by the Seattle coffee giant.
Speaking of federal departments that have no constitutional justification for existing…
Screw you white eyes!
Not mentioned is that after that summer of 1862, the Sioux went on a rampage and killed over 500 settlers.
Um, they were deterring colonizers from their land.
Well shit like that is why we can’t have nice state flags.
We had a woman from Manchester attend our last two practices. One of our teammates was razzing her about which team she liked. And we had a nice discussion about Manchester bands.
The wife and I met a fellow from Manchester and I asked him “red or blue”. The wife was puzzled but he was delighted.
What an absolute shitshow.
Los
AngelesAgony.A tradesman who sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl while carrying out work at her family’s home has been jailed.
Ako Hussain Pur, 32, had been hired to carry out building work at the home in Sheffield, prosecutors said.
On Friday, at Sheffield Crown Court, Pur, of no fixed address, was sentenced to seven years in prison.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-67938910
7 years seems a bit low
When the moral compass for your worldview married a seven year old this isn’t surprising.
Google tells me in 2023 I walked 3405 kilometers and drove 3,890.
I did not drive that much in my car so I assume it involves times when I was not driving.
Trains and busses and cabs probably count, as does running or biking faster than 30 mph
Do you live in a 15 minute city?
This is why I have no, zip, zero, nada, Google apps of any kind on my electronics, except for Google Earth on my desktop.
Eh, I have Waze on my phone.
Google calendar and maps for me (phone). I live and die by my calendar, and I couldn’t find a better one that wasn’t google.
This is also a big reason why I am in the Apple ecosystem. It’s the only way to keep Google garbage off your devices. Apple certainly has its flaws, but Google is the debbil.
I cannot stand the Apple ecosystem and I don’t fine them any less evil than Google. I want at least a semblance of power over my devices and what I can do under the hood. Apple’s a status symbol and locks you out of the back end.
WHY DOES GOOGLE KNOW THIS MUCH ABOUT YOU?
There is so much wrong with this letter that I don’t even know where to start.
Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison just called for a COMPLETE BAN on 5.56mm ammunition sales to civilians.
The letter says this will be done by forcing future government contracts with the Lake City ammunition plant to include a provision specifying that any ammunition they manufacture can NOT be sold to civilians.
That prick is bad for Minnisnowda
Isn’t there some way to reload from home, like with the right equipment, reloading dies, primers, powder? Asking for a friend.
Point 223 or something?
Well, that’s easily avoided by Lake City/Remington. Don’t contract with the state of Minnesota. The federal contract they care about is beyond Minnesota’s reach. I can’t imagine the Minnesota government sales are bigger than their total civilian sales.
Not to quibble, but Brother Keith’s signature isn’t on that letter.
I think Minnesoda is enough of a gun nut state that a stance like that is far more likely to cost him his office than anything else he has done.
And if you want to know how complete the Team Blue takeover of AZ is, our AG signed the letter. And just wait until all the illegals vote in November.
The letter at least goes after the federal contract that matters. I wonder what SCOTUS would say if refusing to sell commonly used ammo and firearms to American citizens is a condition of selling to the government.
If that’s the condition, couldn’t you just incorporate a separate company who buys wholesale from your manufacturer and sells to the government?
That would be an excellent way to get a tour of some our finest correctional facilities. The feds may be stupid, but they’re not that stupid.
Citation needed.
It’s exactly the sort of workaround they seem to delight in.
The regs I am familiar with, including federal contracting regs, are quite clear that you can’t do something through a subsidiary that you are prohibited from doing directly. They generally include not only wholly-owned subsidiaries, but controlled affiliates (with a rather broad definition of “control”).
It falls under “What TEAM are you associated with” as to whether it’s legal.
Note also that the letter uses 5.56 and ARs as examples, but actually calls for a ban on selling anything sold to the military to civilians. That would include handguns and handgun ammo, as well. Not to mention misc. other calibers in use by the military, including .308.
I’ve not seen this mentioned here.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has proposed a new law that would exonerate victims of the Post Office scandal, in which hundreds of employees were wrongfully accused after faulty software showed discrepancies in the company’s finances. The new legislation has not yet been published and voting timelines are unclear, but Sunak says former Post Office workers who were part of the group litigation in 2019 would be eligible for an upfront payment of £75,000 ($95,000).
“This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history. People who worked hard to serve their communities had their lives and their reputations destroyed through absolutely no fault of their own. The victims must get justice and compensation,” said Sunak.
https://time.com/6552764/uk-post-office-scandal-police-investigate-potential-fraud/
Naturally, the woman who oversaw a good portion of this got a huge wad of cash and was recently recognized as Commander of the British Empire.
Not all heroes wear capes.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/guinness-mad-bloke-downs-81-31856404
Heh. If he had boasted on X he would have gotten more kudos than trolls. And possibly a community note indicating it was not a world record.
I don’t know about drinking 81, but about 10 years ago, we had a one-day Sam’s Club card, and I bought 2 36 packs of Guiness cans at a really good price.
I was planning on not buying beer for a little bit.
Man, I drank all those jokers in 2 weekends.
I can’t imagine doing that. After 3 or 4 Guinness, I feel like I’m about to pop.
The thing is, Guinness is not really a heavy beer. Maybe not quite a session beer, but not that far off.
Draft and can is 3.2%, which falls under the common US definition of session beer (and most other ones as well).
Her success insulates her from the slur used for mixed-race people in Japan—“hafu,” derived from the English “half.” The more sensitive among the Japanese prefer the word “daburu”—or double—as an alternative (and affirmative) racial label.
I won’t use “hafu”, but I don’t believe it’s reached the level of a slur – it’s still widely used as a short hand way to say someone is of mixed race. I’ve never heard “daburu” used either in the news or by my friends.
‘Naomi Osaka’ Review: Rallying to Defeat Off-Court Demons
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/naomi-osaka-review-rallying-to-defeat-off-court-demons-e4321383?st=58zeny543te240m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Is ‘mulatto’ a slur? I haven’t kept up with the word police.
Depends – how drunk are you when you try to say it?
I have been told it is.
By whom?
I’ve been told a lot of inoccuous things are somehow offensive. I stopped taking other peoples’ words for such things.
By a mixed race person. Since it is a subgroup they are a member of, I’ll take them at their word.
Is the person heroic?
I was going to ask about ‘hapa’ in Hawaiian, but looks like that is problematic now too.
After our first visit to Hawaii, I started calling the Altar Boys “hapa-heathens”. They thought it was pretty funny.
Legit LOL.
Where’s haole?
In Aleppo?
I’m not sure what the fascination is with girl athletes with mental problems. It’s not even a little bit interesting to me and really leaves a negative impression of that girl in my mind. Like all your competitors don’t have to grit through their difficulties and deal with self-doubt? The difference is they don’t run to the press every time they have a sad.
Many stunning, such brave.
And “daburu” is affirmative, according to who?
We know some other mixed race couples who think they are so cool because they refer to their kids as “dualies” meaning they have more than one culture.
Their kids seem OK, although the parents can be a bit tedious to talk to.
Their math is wrong.
I hope the kids put them in the worst, most neglectful nursing home not run by the NHS or Canadians.
I’ve seen her around YT and she’s definitely hot, but she always has this vacant look on her face. Is she purposely trying to look like a sex doll?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/racy-models-ai-can-make-31796227
Further, I will never understand people who simp these “influencers” but I’m sure she’ll have people lining up around the block to buy her AI.
It’s sad for the simps who give those fine ladies tens of thousands of dollars-their money and their choice but still sad. They’d be so much better just going to Pornhub and spanking it into a sock.
Sad is the right word. It’s one thing to gratify one’s self to images and videos and the like, but there’s something particularly depressing about paying for some superficially personal attention from a WFH hooker.
“WFH hooker”
LOL!!!! Consider that stolen.
I hope this is not the future of automobiles.
Honda is launching a new series of EVs called the “0 Series” with two concepts: a van-like vehicle called the Space-Hub and a sleeker but still funky family car called the Saloon. “Saloon” may be European for sedan but instead of a traditional three-box car, Honda’s Saloon is a big, wedge-shaped thing. Debuting at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show, don’t think it’s just another one of those concepts that’ll never see a real street because Honda has confirmed that the Saloon will become a production model in North America in 2026.
The electric VW microbus looked really cool. Perfect mom car for around town.
https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/id-buzz-microbus
If I buy a VW bus, I want something lightweight, not three tons of hazardous waste.
You won’t be taking it on many long camping trips.
It’s got the aerodynamics of a brick with VWs inefficient (compared to others) EV drivetrain.
Except, you know….its electric.
Good to see you back from your vacation
Sayonara, fatso
Christie wasn’t kind in his assessment of his opponents.
“Anyone who is unwilling to say (Trump) is unfit to be president of the United States,” Christie said, “is unfit themselves to be president of the United States.”
Christie’s departure comes on the heels of a new batch of disappointing poll numbers, especially in New Hampshire, where he hoped a less conservative electorate would coalesce around his sharp opposition to Trump, whom he described as “devoid of character.”
But, as he told supporters in New Hampshire, the initial plan had not come together.
“It is clear to me tonight that there isn’t a path for me to win the nomination, which is why I’m suspending my campaign tonight for President of the United States,” he said at the Windham town hall, just 13 days before the first-in-the-nation primary. He called it the “right thing for me to do” and promised that he would never “enable Donald Trump to become, to ever be president of the United States again.”
Fuck off, you pompous blowhard.
He knows a thing or two about being unfit.*
*I feel comfortable taking cheap shots at his weight because he’s such an asshole
Yesterday’s pun chain on him was the stuff of legend.
He’s turning his back on Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Da7PQE8O8
Chris Christy is a fat man with a fat chance in the election, folks. His initials are CC but I call him Double-D Christy. Them bags are big, believe me.
Crisco Christy they call him. He eats the stuff with a spoon.
he would never “enable Donald Trump to become, to ever be president of the United States again.”
Is that a threat?
Follow the money.
https://www.city-journal.org/multimedia/texas-childrens-hospital-whistleblower-comes-forward
I’m convinced that the medicalization of this accounts for the inexplicable mainstreaming of something that was a vanishingly tiny fringe up until a few years ago. Not only are the surgeries huge moneymakers, you are getting somebody on a pharmacy’s worth of meds for life. Can you say CHA-CHING?
It’s the perfect nexus of politics, social justice insanity, and money.
Record low temperatures are coming. Shut down all the power stations.
I got extra propane to make BBQ and stay warm in case we have a Snowpocalypse 2024. Texas winterized a fair amount since last time, but declined to reopen shuttered coal power plants. Clearly death awaits in the cold.
I’m sure the windmills will suffice.
All praise the magic windmills!
Who’s saying she’s either one?
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/09/no-taylor-swift-is-not-a-lesbian-or-a-nazi/
Her biggest crimes are being annoying, incredibly self-absorbed and the human manifestation of a non-fat pumpkin spice latte.
They are using her as a dnc get out the vote weapon, with her millions of followers. Someone found out and now they are discrediting those folks as kooks and conspiracy theorists.
She’s just modern day Madonna or Janet Jackson with a penchant for vanilla music and a talent for self-promotion.
Now if she was a Nazi lesbian, that might be newsworthy.
She would be a lot more interesting, that’s for sure.
Look, the girl is not stupid. She’s bigger than Madonna and Janet and Beyonce and possibly Michael Jackson. She didn’t get there by accident and she didn’t let music execs continue to exploit her once she got a little cash under her belt and she does actually write most of her own music*, and others’.
I wish I could parlay my art into a fortune.
This whole gay and Nazi thing is just pure emerald green envy.
*I know one song.
One example of her cunning is the Travis Kelce thing. Notice how it became such a big thing after she just happened to be seen in the suite one game. Almost immediately, there were ads and promos with her music and wouldn’t you know, she just happened to have a movie coming out a couple weeks later. Shock of shocks!
Either she is very shrewd or she has hooked up with somebody very shrewd, because her business decisions are on point and her marketing is very nuanced.
Yes. I still think that’s a PR stunt, possibly one partnered by the NFL. Girls who didn’t know what a first down was now know what a flea flicker is.
Wow. I knew Madonna’s and Michael Jackson’s music while living in the Soviet Union. I still haven’t heard a single song by Taylor Swift. Though, I know who her boyfriend is.
That’s a function of age and disinterest and living with teenage/early 20s nostalgia. I guarantee there are a lot of people in Russia know who Taylor Swift is and can sing all her songs without backing tracks.
I was talking about this with somebody and we were determined to always keep up with new music so we wouldn’t be like our parents. You can guess what happened. We’re still living on our Madonna and Janet nostalgia and spitting, “Kids these days!”
The only thing smaller than my knowledge of who this girl is is my concern.
Panic, panic, panic! We can’t let the plebs know what’s really happening.
In a world increasingly fraught with risks, leading near-term concerns are shifting to the dangers of technology and related problems like the spread of disinformation, and away from economic worries, according to an annual survey of policymakers, industry leaders and experts on risk conducted by the World Economic Forum.
The survey of more than 1,400 experts and leaders, released on Wednesday ahead of the WEF annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, next week, points to a moderately risky global environment through 2026 that deteriorates significantly over the coming decade.
Half of the 10 top global risks foreseen through 2034—including the top four—are related to climate change and environmental degradation.
https://www.wsj.com/world/misinformation-seen-as-top-global-risk-in-year-of-pivotal-elections-4a247074?st=3u0pgfwah9thvai&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Sounds like things will generally be A-OK if “misinformation”, climate/environment crack are in the top 10.
policymakers, industry leaders and experts
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The math goes like this:
Tired superhero story lines + $25 movie ticket + Preachy wokitude > 2.5 hours fantasizing about making passionate, tender love to Brie Larson’s anus
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/01/10/marvel-went-woke-now-its-going-broke/
Therefore, no go movie.
I thought Poland was becoming more based. I guess I missed something.
Former Polish Home Affairs Minister Mariusz Kamiński and deputy Maciej Wąsik were arrested by police on Tuesday, apparently part of a push to tie up loose ends by the newly installed globalist-centrist Donald Tusk government. The pair were taken by officers at the Presidential Palace after President Andrej Duda himself had left the building to attend a meeting.
Duda has expressed his outrage at the “brutal” arrest of politicians at the official building, saying “I won’t rest until Minister Mariusz Kamiński and his colleagues are free people again, as they should be, until they are released from prison”. The President says the arrests were illegal.
Globalist fascism persists.
“Donald Tusk” is no name for a Polish politician. He’s clearly ineligable and should be shot.
Well he is getting long in the tooth.
I’m a little surprised the Poles elected him. They went from a government that was somewhat Euro-skeptical to one led by a guy who had a history of hating national sovereignty.
I doubt the validity of any election these days.
^
Isn’t that guy like WEF tool from Central Casting?
Yeah, I’m not buying that election at all.
He was president of the EU during Brexit and was, umm, not supportive.
He’s got a variable moral compass as well.
They hate you and want you dead.
Matthews added, “I think voters have to take their hand in this election and don’t wait for the government to do it. You know this election is going to be close, it’s going to be very close in places like Pennsylvania. and you’ll have rural people out there voting their craziness about the cult. So you better be there to match them. and you’ve got to be there to vote against that. I’m telling you, this is really important that you vote for your rights.”
Maybe it’s time to cut the cities off.
Build walls around all the fucking cities.
I hope that we install surveillance cameras first.
I really, really want to see the hipsters trying to figure out how cannibalism works. They are so far removed from reality, that I’m not sure they would even know what parts of long pig were the best parts.
Some of us are salvageable.
Eggs, omelets, you know the drill.
Show your Glib ID at the gate and give the secret handshake. We will let you pass.
That is some hard core stupid.
They are victims of their own brainwashing. I see it as mental illness. People are seeing tangible harm from high prices and illegals taking over their communities. But they are supposed to ignore the pain and keep sacrificing because the spirit of Hitler is in Donald Trump and he’s going to end democracy.
/Checks Lake City inventory…
“this is really important that you vote for your rights”
Apparently, this consists mostly of the right to tell those knuckle-dragging hicks to get in line, or get in the cattle cars.
As predicted it’s going to be abortion abortion abortion.
And racist lies.
CWAPOS
I’m telling you, this is really important that you vote for your rights.
What would those “rights” be? Be specific.
Speaking to a soft-spoken, marble-mouthed person with a poor quality phone is TORTURE.
C’mon, man. We are saving – uh – you know the thing.
Fani Willis’s lead prosecutor invoiced the Biden White House for prosecuting Donald Trump, LOL!
Peak clown world corruption.
The answer to you final question is “yes.”
On November 18, 2022, Joe Biden’s White House held an 8-hour meeting with Nathan Wade, Fani Willis’s lead prosecutor investigating Donald Trump.
On the very same day, Joe Biden’s Attorney General appointed Jack Smith as the Special Counsel investigating Donald Trump.
Why did Fani Willis’s lead prosecutor bill taxpayers $2,000 to talk to Joe Biden’s White House about prosecuting Biden’s leading political opponent?
Why did Biden’s DOJ appoint Jack Smith on the very same day that they met with Fani Willis’s lead prosecutor?
Is the Biden White House coordinating the prosecution of Donald Trump?
It’s clear, it’s right out in the open, but the DOJ isn’t going to do anything about any of this.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
“Is the Biden White House coordinating the prosecution of Donald Trump?”
Is the Pope Catholic? OK, maybe that’s not such a good one. Does the water ripple when a duck farts?
So EV rentals outside warm locations with drivers who are unfamiliar with their limitations is apparently problematic.
Car rental firm Hertz to sell 20,000 EVs for gas-powered vehicles
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hertz-sell-about-20000-evs-us-fleet-2024-01-11/
EV’s just aren’t working out as advertised. Which would normally be fine, they would make improvements and the next generation would be better. Unfortunately we have a market distorted by subsidies and mandates.
For a business trip, I would consider it (IIF the hotel had a compatible charger), although I wonder about returning it not fully charged. Do they rape you for the charge like they do if the tanks not full?
For vacations, the girlfriend and I either drive, or use cabs/rideshare/walk.
Why doesn’t somebody do something?
After a long journey by bus from Texas, the commuter train ride into Chicago is probably the shortest trip for arriving migrants.
With temperatures plunging, so are their fortunes as they arrive only wearing t-shirts and blankets in a city struggling to keep up.
Nearly 15,000 migrants are in Chicago shelters, according to data from the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, while another 550 are currently waiting for beds.
With no place to go, some are sleeping in tents, city buses and even at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Give them all a smartphone and a government credit card.
Force Chicagoans to house them. There must be some tax cattle that have extra rooms.
Germany is way ahead of you.
Musk warned of exactly that when NY took a school for migrant housing.
Good. I hope they freeze. I have zero respect or sympathy for anyone involved in this invasion. That includes the criminals enabling it and the invaders themselves.
I dont want to hear any crap about ‘seeking a better life’ or ‘escaping oppression. Fuck all of that.
Word.
Preach it, brother. The US does not exist for the benefit of billions of South American, African and (as soon as they figure out the scam) Asian peasants. The US exists for the benefit of US citizens, period, full stop.
Suck it up Chicago, you’ll just have to suffer so the Dems can turn these people into voters and they can hold on to power forever. And when that finally happens, your vote won’t count and nobody will give a shit about you.
In NYC they’re living out of cars that seemingly appeared out of nowhere after getting kicked out of Hotel Come ‘n’ Get It.
Now if she was a Nazi lesbian, that might be newsworthy.
In micro-lederhosen and thigh high boots?
Legit LOL!
https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/news/orthodox-jewish-students-used-migrant-labor-for-secret-tunnel/
That story just gets better and better.
I can’t wait for a Saturday morning (((perspective))) if it comes.
I know, right?
Rental firm Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ.O) said on Thursday it would sell about 20,000 electric vehicles from its U.S. fleet due to higher expenses related to collision and damage, and will opt for gas-powered vehicles.
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“Expenses related to collision and damage, primarily associated with EVs, remained high in the quarter…,” Hertz said in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
Any fender bender is a total, due to potential hidden battery pack damage.
No thanks.
If you rent an electric car, do you have to return it charged? I’m wondering how that works rather than stopping at a gas station on the way to the airport.
https://www.hertz.com/us/en/blog/electric-vehicles/do-i-need-to-return-an-ev-rental-car-with-a-full-charge
For the love of all that is holy, DON’T buy a car from Hertz! They’ll lose the record of the sale and report the vehicle stolen!
But he said he wants to be a dictator and go after his political opponents!
Baier asked Trump about the time the former president plans to spend on “retribution and looking backwards” during a second term.
“How much of the second term of a Donald Trump presidency … would be about retribution and looking backwards and grievances and how much would be looking forward?” Baier asked.
“Well, first of all, a lot of people would say that’s not so bad,” Trump responded. “Look, what they did: Russia, Russia, Russia hoax; the FBI/Twitter hoax; the 51 intelligence agents hoax – all of these different hoaxes that they did. You know, a lot of people would say that’s probably quite normal.”
“I’m not going to have time for retribution,” Trump continued. “We’re going to make this country so successful again, I’m not going to have time for retribution. And remember this: our ultimate retribution is success.”
“I’m not going to have time for retribution,” Trump continued
And with that goes the one measly reason to vote for the guy. Trump 2024 – The Revenge Tour is the only point of him running.
Whatever stops him from running is actually a net loss, but am I wrong for hoping he can’t run?
I think the country would be much better off if both Trump and Biden passed peacefully in their sleep before the election.
In the short term, yes. However, Trump and Biden are scapegoats for serious cultural tensions that won’t resolve themselves just because two people disappear. It’s just kicks the inevitable conflict down the road.
It certainly won’t change how people vote for Congress and the Senate. As trashy says – this isn’t going to be resolved so easily.
Can they both die in the same bed for ultimate entertainment?
The man’s incapable of learning from his mistakes. This is a good indicator that he’ll try to accommodate and win over those assholes if elected.
Yup. The agencies will just cook up another pandemic, and the Germaphobe-in-Chief will fall right in line with the public health Nazis again.
WDATPDIM is, unfortunately, a proven strategy.
Shorter Baier: “You aren’t going to hit us back, are you?”
Either she is very shrewd or she has hooked up with somebody very shrewd, because her business decisions are on point and her marketing is very nuanced.
I am happily willing to give her credit for creating herself as a business empire all on her own.
Who would you rather have your daughter idolize, Taylor Swift or Elizabeth Holmes?
And there is the problem right there – idolization. Fuck all idols, but the human ones most of all.
The need for humans and idolization goes back millennia. See: golden calf, King David. The Israelites were warned not to have a king, but nothing could overcome their need for a figurehead to follow.
MOST people want someone to follow. They want boundaries and they can’t have too many choices.
You needn’t remind me of why I don’t like most of humanity.
Hilary Clinton and Michelle Obama.
Well, marrying a sleazy grifter is one strategy, I suppose.
If you rent an electric car, do you have to return it charged?
Excellent question.
Teixiera is living the full Fukuyama-level-hubris experience.
“Hillary has a 97% chance of winning against Trump tomorrow”
They have fucked themselves and us so badly. It is sinking in that in a fair, straight up race Trump is gonna mop the floor with their asses.
🤣
Which is why it’s going to be anything but a fair race.
Dude got clobbered by an invalid. Will next time as well.
Well, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. I believe that if the 2020 election had been run according to valid laws and only legal ballots were counted (once each), Trump would have won.
That’s because Biden is not leftist enough for them, believe it or not.
Recent events in Israel have made that crystal clear.
And that’s why the polls aren’t meaningful at this point. They’ll all come home to Biden when there’s no other choice to mad at him.
Biden is not leftist enough
And Trump is??? The point he’s making is that the cohort isn’t as lefty as the activists and pundits want it to be.
Eh, the fear is probably that they won’t turn out. They likely will, just to vote for abortions.
Your tax dollars at work.
UNDERCOVER FBI AGENTS HELPED AUTISTIC TEEN PLAN TRIP TO JOIN ISIS
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/10/fbi-sting-isis-autistic-teen/
Two years of work and one autistic teen.
At the time of the arrest, a relative later said in court, Mashkoor was reading “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” a book written for elementary school children.
Arrested just after his 18th birthday. As someone whose son is also a high functioning autistic this whole story just infuriates me.
FTA
they were sending undercover agents to befriend him online starting when he was 16 years old,” said Joshua Herman, a defense attorney representing Mashkoor. “Almost all of the conduct he is alleged to have committed took place when he was a juvenile.”
The agents who participated should serve his prison time.
The agents who participated should be hung upside down by their big toes and beaten like a pinata by the boy’s family.
And remember this: our ultimate retribution is success.
I like the sound of that.
Unfortunately, every success will be characterized by the “expert class” and their media steno pool as another tragic undermining of the foundation of democracy.
And there is the problem right there – idolization. Fuck all idols, but the human ones most of all.
If not idolize, then emulate.
“So, the key to success is to go from one spectacularly failed relationship to another, and make sure everyone knows about it? I can do that.”
https://ibb.co/ZM17zKf
“So, the key to success is to go from one spectacularly failed relationship to another, and make sure everyone knows about it? I can do that.”
As long as people will willingly pay to hear you whine about it, sure.
Alright, given Trump’s no retribution stuff above I’m calling it: His VP pick will be Nikki Haley and I hope I’m wrong, and I very well may be, but that ain’t good.
Recap: she wants no-strings hookups, he obliges and everyone has fun. In a twist no one could ever have seen coming, she decides that she wants a relationship and gets pissed that he was only interested in no-strings hookups. Shame on him for listening to what she wanted.
Oh and he’s a sleazebag with a girlfriend.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/25306820/happy-relationship-found-out-sexy-bit-on-the-side/
I hate everyone in the story.
You could’ve kept all of that to yourself you know.
When I checked the weather earlier, there was a big blizzard warning notice. It is currently sunny and calm. Here’s hoping the weatherbot was wrong, and I’m not just being lulled into a false sense of security.
I hate everyone in the story.
Why bother?