Spring Training is here! Liverpool and ManUre will face off in the FA Cup quarterfinals after both advancing yesterday. And Christian Horner was cleared of all accusations by the outside investigator and will continue as Red Bull’s Team Principal as the season gets underway this weekend. And that’s it for sports.
Remember this the next time you’re told the Democrats are the peace party and the GOP loves war. And then laugh at the team blue asshole that says “but it’s a great deal for American companies since almost all the money will stay here.” Laugh right in their MIC-loving face.
“Trust their word.”
-the media
“Terrorist Organization claims victim status.” There, I fixed the headline for them.
The courts need to get on the ball and rule on this. Because if it’s allowed to stand, we’re in trouble. And also because I could see a bunch of red states doing the same for Biden over the porous border he’s let happen deliberately.
This just gets funnier by the day. Everybody knows the truth. That lawyer tried to evade the truth by playing stupid on the stand. Friday’s hearing should bring more comedy, especially if the judge allows the cell phone data to be entered into evidence and questions asked about it.
None of this should happen in a civilized society. They should be able to drag the squatter out into the street and change the locks. And have him charged with criminal trespass and civilly charged for any damage he may have done.
Bald turd
Look at this grandstanding asshole. Nothing is illegal about this. And if he wants to know why inflation has spiked, he need look no further than the nearest mirror.
Printer goes BRRRRRRRRRRRR! Bunch of assholes.
I took this.
This thing is HUUUUUUGE. And in a year it won’t look like it ever happened. I drove through it yesterday. I’ve never seen anything like it. The earth was black as far as the eyes could see.
Here you go. I don’t play these guys often, but I should. Especially this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends!
“Terrorist Organization claims victim status.” There, I fixed the headline for them. – but they are on the right side of history
But wouldn’t that make them MAGA adjacent? Shouldn’t the be on the left side of
hishertory?The courts need to get on the ball and rule on this. Because if it’s allowed to stand, we’re in trouble. And also because I could see a bunch of red states doing the same for Biden over the porous border he’s let happen deliberately.
I think this will do wonders when it comes to strengthening the US people’s trust in institutions and for a high trust society in general
My take:
Maybe this is what federalism looks like. Maybe having the states pick and choose which candidates will be on their ballots will bring the national divorce closer, and that’s a good thing.
Because as the article on federal spending shows, the national government’s days are numbered.
At least we get a lot of good stuff for all of the spending.
“States” aren’t picking who is on their ballot. One judge is unilaterally trying to call the primary election and disenfranchise the entire populace of Illinois.
That ain’t federalism.
Interesting (technical) point, prole. The judge is exercising state power, though, so in that sense, at least, it is state action. States take action through mechanisms other than legislation. Could just as easily be the SecState doing this. Then it would be one official unilaterally, etc., no? I think that’s also state action. I guess in my book, when somebody on the state payroll exercises powers granted to them by the state, that’s state action.
I understand your point. What I am getting at is the collectivist word “state” obscures what is going on. The focus on individual actors makes it clear that this is one person trying to dictatorially override the constitutional process, without consulting anyone else.
If you use your opponent’s collectivist language, you legitimize collectivist actions in the minds of people trying desperately to avoid cognitive dissonance, or even thinking at all.
States act through people, and only through people, like any organization. Whether those actions are legitimate or not is a separate question.
Now, whether this particular ruling is actually enforced, or allowed going forward, we will see. Although I doubt it. The interesting question it poses is whether states can do this at all and if so, what they need to do to/what the prerequisites are for doing so.
Cook County Circuit Judge Tracie Porter
That’s a DNC/Daley-machine flunkie.
And seeing as how Trump is leading in the polls right now, and especially leading in swing states, it just looks like one judge is trying to subvert the will of the people, and using propaganda to make the decision.
Granted in a state Trump wasn’t going to win anyway.
You don’t know that. Illinois used to be a swing state. It could be again. If there’s only one person on the ballot, you destroy the discovery process that elections provide. If Illinois goes to Biden by 50,000 votes, it changes how the next election is fought. If it goes to Biden by 100%, because no one else is on the ballot …
CA was once famously Republican. That’s ancient history now.
It used to be possible to get a 49 state sweep. Not so much right now.
This just gets funnier by the day. Everybody knows the truth. That lawyer tried to evade the truth by playing stupid on the stand. Friday’s hearing should bring more comedy, especially if the judge allows the cell phone data to be entered into evidence and questions asked about it.
you mean actually haha funny or other sorts of funny?
Don’t understand why the lawyer didn’t invoke the Fifth to avoid perjuring himself.
And that’s the one they called out as libertarian, no less.
I’m sure he’s getting sized for his jacket and planning to attend the cocktail parties as we speak.
Morning, Sloopy! Morning all,
This whole “We kicked him off cause of insurrection”, but we will stay the order is out of fucking hand. SCOTUS indeed needs to rule on this and then admonish the lower courts for this tactic.
—“We kicked him off cause of insurrection”—
Art II, Section 4
The President, Vice-President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment…”
If the Pres & VP are Officers, then this inclusion of Pres & VP would not be necessary. They are not Officers of the United States.
14th “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress or elector for President (etc)…”.
The authors of the amendment were specific in referring to the two elected offices, so did they just forget that there was a President and Vice President. I don’t believe they forgot to include the two most powerful elected offices. The left the Pres & VP out intentionally. Had they intended a blanket ban on elected offices, they may have said “No person shall hold any elected office…” There are very arguable positions that “officers” refers to appointed officials.
Who Are “Officers of the United States”? – Stanford Law Review
stanford.edu
https://review.law.stanford.edu › 70-Stan.-L.-Rev.-443.
—“For decades courts have believed that only officials with “significant authority” are “Officers of the United States” subject to the Constitution’s Article II Appointments Clause requirements”—
The President and Vice are not covered by the 14th Amendment.
Nice pull.
None of this should happen in a civilized society. They should be able to drag the squatter out into the street and change the locks.
none of ye olde tar and featherin the squatters? weak.
I was just thinking about the homeowner doing what he needs to in order to regaining occupancy. What you’re talking about is best done by the whole town coming together and properly ridding themselves of these scumbags.
I’m wondering how incompetent a realtor has to be to not tell their clients to never close on a house where squatters reside.
Wait until illegal immigrants discover squatter’s rights in some states.
I’m thinking of starting a squatter pest removal company. It may involve a boat that makes nightly trips to deep water.
Cartman voice: hippies ma’am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH8IqwrwMOs
I am sure those that are letting them into their homes out of their White Savior complex will figure that out the hard way.
Home much can a government hate it’s citizens?
https://www.newsweek.com/massachusetts-asks-citizens-house-migrants-state-emergency-1819129
I would think a combination of these, stink bombs, and strobe lights would work.
Squatter removal company. Hire very large bouncer types, or former special forces types, etc., and sign them to a one month lease. Renter rights > squatter rights.
You’ll get no argument from me. How in the world we got to a point of legalized and legitimized theft befuddles me.
How in the world we got to a point of legalized and legitimized theft befuddles me.
Democrats. Because owners are “oppressors” and squatters are “victims”.
People in blue cities/states voted for this shit.
I am not entirely opposed to the concept of adverse possession. On the other hand, when it’s renters (especially short term renters) and people who break in and claim possession after a matter of hours, that’s a bridge too far.
One would have to be a fool to ever VRBO their property in one of these states/cities.
Adverse possession requires long term occupation. In Penna. it is 21 years. If real owner doesn’t complain, then the property is yours. I’m involved right now in a project where owner “bought” the undeveloped parcel in 1977, and the “real” owners just got upset about it in 2024.
Feelz. Too many weak minded people fell for sob stories about Snidely Whiplash landlords twirling their mustachios while tossing poor single mothers holding down three jobs onto the street.
Absent from the article is how they were unaware of this guy before completing the purchase. They absolutely should be able to throw his ass out, but was it just the fact that it was near their other son that they overlooked the squatter?
^^ this.
It’s also not clear how much cloud there actually is around the title. Does the “squatter” actually have paperwork from the prior owner giving him the house? Or is he just bullshitting?
Paperwork is only required for law abiding citizens in NY and NJ.
Otherwise “feels” and “said” are perfectly acceptable oral contracts.
legalized and legitimized theft
[Taxes enter the chat.]
This thing is HUUUUUUGE. And in a year it won’t look like it ever happened. I drove through it yesterday. I’ve never seen anything like it. The earth was black as far as the eyes could see.
I mean a pan handle is often close to fire, it is careless if you let it light up.
Swiss is going to come give you a cast iron stare for that one — a real raking over the coals and maybe a grilling as to what you were thinking.
All that aggression simmering just under the surface can’t be healthy for him.
You watch. It will boil over.
Eghh. It’ll probably be just a flash in the pan.
Why is the TX panhandle called that? It looks nothing like one. It should be the TX top hat.
At least OK’s is handle-like, though more of a cleaver than a pan.
Comments like this are why we are considered such a pain in the gas.
Meh, I have emergency funds for this very reason. I was hoping for it.
Your emergency funds are worth less today than they were yesterday because of shit like this.
Agreed.
House and Senate leaders reach deal to avert partial government shutdown ahead of Friday’s deadline
Federal employees are disappointed. Now they have to work.
Hey now! You aren’t wrong except for us out in the field.
I remember a shutdown many years ago. Most of the feds at the train station were talking about their hope it lasted at least a couple weeks so they could take a trip. The feds who were declared essential were less enthusiastic about the shutdown. As a contractor, I was happy to be essential since it meant I still got paid.
The 32 day one led to a point where essential workers worked a day (or week, can’t remember) for free without receiving pay for it while non-essentials got all their pay retroactively in the end. I believe there is a lawsuit out there about that.
I recall hearing complaints but didn’t know it wasn’t resolved. Even we essential contractors received full pay. Some non-essential contractors were able to find alternate work. Others had to use vacation hours.
the definition of work may vary.
No. Now they have to go to work. There’s a difference.
“Now they have to work.”
Oh, I doubt that.
Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” is my all time favorite pop song, and they didn’t even like it; they wouldn’t play it at live concerts.
I have a playlist that is just covers of that song.
I have a playlist that consists solely of an eleven minute remix of that song.
well there’s no accounting for taste I suppose
So your second playlist is just one song?
Is there such a thing as a list of one item?
/pedant
We are not an airline. One must have at least two planes to form a line. We are an air POINT.
-Carolyn Shappey
Bet a lot of guys wouldn’t mind flying with an air-queue, though. The hiring standards for the air hostesses and all….
An air stack wouldn’t be so good.
As a progammer — even an empty list is still an instantiated object (and a concept… and certainly a corner case you have to account for), so sure — single item lists are completely possible and relevant.
My empty play list is on shuffle repeat.
well depends on the language I assume you can have a object that is not a list until it is made a list.
You ain’t the boss o’ me!
This is the correct answer.
The girlfriend gets upset when she sees bands and they don’t play “that one song” she knows. Usually “that one song” is the one that the band had that got radio play, is tired off, and never wants to play (or in some cases hear) again.
I’m paying you money. Now DANCE for me monkey!
Not that I frequent them — but I’d be careful taking Not Adahn to strip clubs…
I have never been thrown out of a stirp club. A couple of bars, but never a strip club.
I was threatened with expulsion once (Yellow Rose in Austin), but that’s because my date wasn’t wearing panties.
I’ve been trying to prep her to not expect Devo to play Whip It and Madness to not play Our House when we see them in May (although I am personally hoping for One Step Beyond to start off Madness’s set). She’s still salty that she’s never seen Rancid play Time Bomb.
I love Devo. I last saw them about 6 years ago. They did play some hits, plus new stuff like “Don’t shoot.”
Dance Monkey – there is a song in there somewhere
I like U2, but don’t like “With or Without You”.
I like Boston, but Indont like “More than a Feeling”.
My favorite Boston song is “Feeling Satisfied”.
My favorite U2 song is probably “Bad”, but “Beautiful Day” shows strong competition for the #1 spot.
I like Weird Al but don’t care for “Genius in France”….
Wait… what’s the point of this sub-thread again? 😉
“Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me.”
“40,” Gloria, and Red Hill Mining Town. Everything else for me sits well behind those songs.
Those are all good choices. But I have a bias as I literally know nothing from U2 made after The Joshua Tree. Wait, that was their last album, right? They broke up or something and stopped making albums in 1987.
I like Boston, but Indont like “More than a Feeling”.
Not much of a feeling when you hear that old song they used to play?
The show Friends ruined “With or Without You” for me. It’s the episode where Ross and Rachael break up, and they’re staring out the window at the rain, and they play that song. Horrible episode, and now the song is forever associated with that.
Adam Carolla made the point that musicians have it easy – if you’re a comedian and just start telling the same jokes you told years ago, people are pissed. If you’re a musician and you _don’t_ play your old stuff, people are pissed.
—“I have a playlist that is just covers of that song.”—
I have one that is just covers of “Statesboro Blues”
“And also because I could see a bunch of red states doing the same for Biden over the porous border he’s let happen deliberately.”
I don’t think I can. How many times did they not repeal Obamacare?
Some have already floated the notion and SCOTUS basically gave them the green light in their oral arguments.
The political world has become much more petty in the last few years. That’s why I think it’s possible some may move to exclude Biden from the ballots now if the courts let this stand.
The Republicans don’t play hardball like the Dems do. They are still not anywhere near impeaching Biden despite the bogus impeachments of the previous Repub president.
This is why the Dems act as they do, they have no fear of retaliation in kind.
There’s lots of more hard-line republicans in state jobs than federal ones. And most states elect their judges. I don’t think it would be too hard to venue-shop for a hardcore conservative judge who would say “if this is the standard in play elsewhere it shall be applied here as well.” Hell, I bet half the elected jusges in my county would do it.
I’ll believe it when it actually happens.
I won’t hold my breath.
In a game of tit for tat you eventually have to show your tits.
bee the dubs: I have a post dropping today and due to some previous arrangements I will not be able to be in the comments for the first couple of hours. But I will be for the last couple of hours so I will be able to explain to y’all why you are wrong (unless you have the exact same view as me, in which case you are not wrong.)
It better not be about the superiority of the metric system or some other euro-superior retardation.
oh no the the superiority of the metric system is so clear there is no need for posts about it. Also it is clearly better to live in a small central apartment in a walkable city than live in Texas and need to own a car.
I should redo my metric debunker now that I understand formatting better. And I can add the time thingy since Jesse isn’t here to add it 🙁
If the French had switched to Base 12, the metric system would be acceptable.
What’s extra hilarious is that there’s millions of Americans who are dumb enough to agree with this.
“People have to be radically invited into a space to know that they belong there.”
Playwright @JeremyOHarris
explains ‘Black Out’ nights of the West End run of ‘Slave Play’ – inviting only people who identify as Black or Brown to buy tickets for select performances.
https://twitter.com/BBCWorldatOne/status/1762476910058098814
I can identify as black and brown for an evening if needed but that sounds like a shit play
I can’t wait for the Masterpiece Theater version of it, if only so we get “Master does Slave, blacks only.”
“New Mexico teacher brought in swords to class and allowed students to DUEL with them resulting in 16-year-old girl suffering ‘deep laceration’ from katana”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13139153/katana-swords-school-mitchell-albuquerque.html
I hate when this happens.
Yeah — he should have had her duel Sonya instead.
was the girl topless? Because that would have been the historical way
https://www.miniaturesandhistory.com/a-topless-duel.html
It was a chemistry teacher, not math — so no… no bisection and therefore it doesn’t sound like she wasn’t topless.
This should not have been happening in Chemistry class. PE or metal shop, sure, but not chem.
It was a bonding exercise.
A valent effort, but you got no reaction.
Another episode in “what the fuck were you thinking?”
Wait. Perhaps the students were just embracing their genuine cultural identity. Don’t you remember how knife fights between Black girls was just part of their culture?
If they had used a real weapon, such as an epee, that wouldn’t have happened. She would have only gotten a bonus hole.
What a shit show.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/02/26/brussels-police-farmers-protests-manure-green-deal-eu/
is the soylent green company still around? we should buy shares.
Stalin’s Greatest Supporter
@StalinBaased
Assuming you became the leader of Israel, would you:
A: Make Israel Socialist and stop being a cartoon villain
B: Give Palestine self autonomy, however socialism is not guaranteed or likely
https://twitter.com/StalinBaased/status/1763104660066304094
Asking the serious questions the mainstream does not dare
C. Task Mossad with silently taking out all the idiot commies on the internet?
How about we skip A and B and go stright to C.
Gaza had self autonomy, and look how they used it.
Turns out it was a blast.
That was the reasoning of the Colorado dissent, all Democrats, btw.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13132673/kentucky-prison-sex-abuse-inmates-drugs.html
Yeah, I can see why some of those guards needed to resort to prisoners.
Big bodacious tits on Thot Thursday.
https://archive.is/HErGm
Can I put in a request for ink-free redheads?
Sure fill a form in triplicate and we will get back to you.
Orgies for equity!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/inside-middle-class-sex-parties-32212098
“It’s unlikely I’ll get married and have kids with someone I meet at a KK party but I feel empowered by the KK members about sex and having fun… and I’m embracing it.”
That somehow seems sad.
Missing a letter, or is there something our KK needs to tell us?
Transparent Nude Dress [4k] with Bailey Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2piR4LKuAI
I like the warning at the beginning about this being a professional review and not meant for sexual gratification
Yoga Flow — Middle Splits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlkRZYN2tlg
this I assume is also not mean for sexual gratification
“Behold my requiem for the one-handed backhand: threatened but not quite extinct, clinging to relevance like the used bookstore, the standard transmission, and the overly-nostalgic newspaper sports columnist. ”
I admit I had to click after mention of the manual transmission. However, I was always a two handed backhand guy even when it was very rare for men.
The Death of Tennis’s One-Handed Backhand May Be Premature
https://www.wsj.com/sports/tennis/one-handed-backhand-federer-wawrinka-billie-jean-king-6a85e47c?st=oinpw82d16zupzm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ve always used a 2H backhand. I can get so much more spin on the ball that way. 1H is for stabbing at a ball that I’m in poor position to get.
The East Asian Package
Failures of the cultural explanation, and learning to embrace Kendism
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-east-asian-package
If you look at almost any kind of cross-national data, you notice that East Asians are fundamentally different from other peoples. So much so that we might talk about an “East Asian package,” a series of traits shared by South Korea, Japan, China, and the Chinese-descended nations and territories of Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and Taiwan.
Low levels of crime Extremely low rates of illegitimacy. High levels of academic achievement, particularly in math and science. High levels of economic growth in recent decades. Extremely low fertility. High life expectancy.
What’s really amazing about all of this is that these countries are extremely different by most conventional measures of how we understand and classify nations. China is an authoritarian state and about at the middle of the pack when it comes to income and its urbanization rate, while South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan are all developed and urbanized democracies in good standing. As mentioned before, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau are basically just cities, though we have numbers for them and can study those places in the cross-national context.
Moreover, you find the East Asian package outside of East Asia, among people of East Asian descent. In the US, Asians famously get higher test scores than whites, and are so successful that the affirmative action debate centers around whether schools can keep trying to stop them from becoming too large a portion of the student body. This is similar to the politics of many Southeast Asian countries, where Chinese success is a constant source of tension with lower-performing natives. In the UK, Chinese students have the highest test scores of any ethnic group. The Japanese are considered a “model minority” in Brazil. One could go on.
You’d think social scientists, if they were serious people, would treat this as one of the most important things they could be studying. We all want a longer life expectancy and less crime, and reducing illegitimacy and getting test scores up are forever goals of public policy. We have a major region of the world that is filled with extreme outliers on all of these measures. If there was a country with nearly no cancer, wouldn’t medical researchers want to know why that was? Why is it so uninteresting that an entire region of the globe seems almost completely free of the social pathologies that afflict much of the rest of the world?
Wow. We’ve discovered the Eastern equivalent to Judeo Christian society. Drumroll…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism
But the point the article is trying to make is that they are not that similar culturally. confuicianism does not apply uniformly to all.
Since when do we read the article?
I’d still argue that Confucianism has a strong historical influence across the East even if uneven.
This assumes that Asians who emigrate to the West are representative of east population as a whole, and not more-capable outliers.
“east Asian”
We are skimming one end of the bell curve.
But the asian countries themselves have the low crime etc not the ones who come. Korea Japan etc
Then again some European countries would be low crime higher educational attainment without immigration from the third world. Estonia for example is basically as high as the asian countries in educational attainment.
When I see a headline about the “East Asian Package”, I’m not expecting discussion of social trends and character traits.
were you expecting something very small indeed?
Extremely low rates of illegitimacy are easy to achieve with abortion and acceptance of infanticide.
“New York AG Letitia James Files Lawsuit Against Worlds Largest Beef Producer for ‘Misleading Public’ About its Impact on Climate”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/new-york-ag-letitia-james-files-massive-lawsuit/
I have this crazy cakes idea. How about go after violent criminals?
She promised lawfare and you are going to get it.
“Worlds Largest Beef Producer discontinues doing business in New York.”
The steaks are high with climate change.
But are they burned to a crisp?
Don’t worry, she will grind this out.
Voters should chuck her out of office.
Now she feels invincible. She will single handedly slay all those dragons.
Of all the things the Left has taken, the way I view the world is the worst.
I saw a website had changed its logo to have zig-zag bands of pastel colors and the first thing to come to mind was “what proggy nonsense has tainted this place?”
It was an easter egg. Even a few years ago, I would have seen the easter egg first.
Overregulation of nuclear power and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Which makes the Congressional support for easing regulations on new Nuclear Plants a truly massive win for humanity.
https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1763035976224379170
It would have been better if they had done this 30+ years ago when I was trying to work in that field.
The massive win doesn’t happen when one house passes a bill, or even when the law is signed (if ever). It only happens when the regulations and the agency are, what’s the term? Oh yeah – fundamentally transformed.
Politico Pro? Ha.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4495980-house-approves-bipartisan-bill-aimed-at-bolstering-nuclear-energy/
Of course.
the greatest reddit story of all time
https://twitter.com/GoodReddit/status/1762807507456508328
Nu ai ceva mai bun de făcut decât să ne plictisești?
Nu, am terminat acum vreo ora o chestie mai mare și mi-e lene sa mă apuc de altceva cand mai am sub o ora pana cand se termina ziua de lucru.
Encore une fois!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvuweztG4Q
OK it appears the Willy Wonka Experience actually was a meth lab (evidently these are the actual organizers 😆)
https://x.com/SianThymes/status/1763000986627363271
Glasgow Wonka Experience Tourguide Doesn’t Give a F***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6T_iW97do
Daily Ray:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/1762446172151545942
Thanks, interesting, sunshiny, slightly erotic.
That’s great.
Sort of reminds me of that Chet Faker video
There is more eroticism in that little clip than in all of Q’s plastic fantastic combined.
Self-immolation car show with communist #china characteristics.
https://twitter.com/GundamNorthrop/status/1762937301771141449
“FDA threatens endangered species with shoddy abortion-drug reviews: Lance Armstrong investigator
Feds ignored Endangered Species Act “consultation” obligations since mifepristone’s approval in 2000, didn’t consider chemical abortion drug’s possible effect in waterways, brief says. Judge cited environmental rulings to halt use.
The Food and Drug Administration may be creating another odd couple in a case at the Supreme Court: environmental and pro-life activists.
The agency flouted the Endangered Species Act to approve the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, used in conjunction with misoprostol, and progressively make it more widely available over several years, Students for Life of America argued in a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday.
The FDA neglected a required interagency “consultation” with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service starting with approval in 2000 and four alterations of the “risk evaluation and mitigation strategies” for mifepristone going back to 2016, the brief says.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/abortion/fda-threatens-endangered-species-shoddy-abortion-drug-reviews-lance
This is just as silly as that student group suing over climate change.
goose/gander
In a world without political bundling, I don’t think that would be an odd couple.
Unexpected one today… had to resort to hints eventually… though I should have seen them.
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Migrant charged with murdering Laken Riley likely panicked when she fought back: profiler
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1762862018275553289
She was asking for it.
Just lay back and think diversity is our strength.
So if she had just checked her privilege, not only would she believe, she might have had a little fun?
Well, she was wearing
a skirtyoga pants. I mean, that makes it ok.The movie reboot we didn’t know we needed.
The Naked Gun is getting a remake starring Liam Neeson.
The original film, released in 1988, became a sold hit for the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, who previously had a smash hit with the spoof Airplane! The Naked Gun was their take on classic cop movies, with Leslie Nielson in the role of bumbling cop Lt. Frank Drebin.
I hope it’ll be Neeson doing a hilarious spoof of all of his badass scenery-chewing characters. I fear it’ll be as bad as the gender-swapped Ghostbusters.
I heard Alec Baldwin is cast as the killer.
They are really shooting for the moon with him.
Likelyhood of a “nice beaver” line? Nil
Isn’t neeson 100 years old?
So was Leslie Nielson.
Wait — they can only cast actors whose initials are L.N.?
I’ve never thought of him as having comedy chops. Has he done comedies?
Taken was a farce series wasn’t it?
Voice work in the Lego Movie and the lead in Darkman (depending on if B super hero movies can count as comedy).
He had a great bit part in Derry Girls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwwFTvzRyug
That’s exactly what my dad said when Police Squad first aired.
ISTR Nielson always played serious roles until Airplane!, which was part of the joke.
I’ve heard it said many times that the reason that Leslie Nielsen was such a great straight man in farces is he had absolutely no sense of humor. He didn’t understand what the jokes were in Airplane and the like.
For the second time on Twitter, Peter Hook liked one of my replies. Before you know it he and I will be hanging out backstage.
Isn’t he famously difficult?
I’ve only read the book he wrote. I should probably read what other people think of him. But if he is difficult, those two likes are even more impressive.
“George Psalmanazar (1679 – 1763) was “a Frenchman who claimed to be the first native of Formosa (today Taiwan) to visit Europe”. He explained away his white skin by saying that Taiwanese people lived underground. Psalmanazar invented an incredibly elaborate fake Taiwanese language, mythology, and custom, and was briefly an 18th-century-England viral sensation. Eventually some people who had actually been to Taiwan called his bluff, he confessed, and he settled down as a writer and theologian, befriending Samuel Johnson and other British intellectuals.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Psalmanazar
So I guess it’s nothing new.
GOP House candidate JR Majewski says he’s not dropping out of the race in OH-9 after calling Special Olympics athletes “fucking retarded.”
https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1762875248452542551
Well, there’s a good chance that’s who they’re getting with.
Obligatory.
Your daily reminder to keep your pimp hand strong.
Today I learned a new word
resile \rih-ZYLE\ verb. : recoil, retract; especially : to return to a prior position.
I learn a new word almost every day. I just don’t remember them.
https://twitter.com/DrunkRepub/status/1762902705943585036
Mrs. TOK just came back from the grocery store. $250, and the only meat was two packages of bacon. I should have sent her with that chart.
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I can’t even go anymore. I tend to look in the meat aisle a lot. Prices are so high I’m at stress level 10 by the time I’m done.
Yeah. Beef prices in particular are just ridiculous.
I had occasion to peruse some upscale steak house menus yesterday. Frigging $60-70 for various kinds of beef! Unless one is on expense account, a pol being courted by a lobbyist, a Trump lawyer, or one of the 1%, who is paying these prices for 14 oz. of something that probably won’t be prepared properly in any case?
They wanted us to consume less, especially meat, and by gum they succeeded.
Wegman’s is still $11.49/lb for a family pack of strips. I just took a quick run to pick some up.
It’s funny that this is the same guy who wrote about the emerging Democratic majority, aka the infamous replacement theory. Like Fukuyama, he’s had to live down his hubris, and actually done so a little better than Francis.
Against Democrats’ “What, Me Worry?” Approach to Losing Working Class Voters
This thing is HUUUUUUGE. And in a year it won’t look like it ever happened. I drove through it yesterday. I’ve never seen anything like it. The earth was black as far as the eyes could see.
In a year it will probably be lush and green. That’s how it works, despite what the shrieking wannabe zookeepers think.
Grassland can recover very quickly indeed. When I had a fire take out a chunk of some property in NM, it was probably more like two years before it recovered. The slow recovery/persistent visible damage is when you have trees (which I also had, including some kinda rare old growth piñons, which can get quite a bit bigger than you think).
Experts said Mount Saint Helens would be a wasteland for decades.
The world needs a remake of Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Directed by Martin Scorcese.
“probably lush and green” as in- how lush and green does that part of Texas get? When I went through Yellowstone a year after the big fire, it was beautiful. Aside from a few standing burnt trees, a lot of it looked like a golf course, huge grassy meadows fertilized with crunchy carbon and newly exposed to the sun.
View from a Panhandle town:
http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc40639.php
It’s kind of semi-arid; it greens up with spring rains mainly.
None of these views are correct.
*mutters something about blind men and elephants*
| None of this should happen in a civilized society. They should be able to drag the squatter out into the street and change the locks. And have him charged with criminal trespass and civilly charged for any damage he may have done.
Oh man do I have some squatter stories. If you learn a few tricks and have zero shame you can really abuse the system and cause some serious pain for the owners. I once translated the sign off for a unit from a Guatemalan woman squatter who was getting 25k to hand over the keys from the people that bought the place. I imagine there was a tremendous fiesta in her honor that week when the money transfer from SF happened that week. One of the craziest was what I called the Santa Thong Building in which the whole 4 units all got taken over by squatters and multiple evictions had to happen before a final distribution of a 22k check to Mr Santa Thong and a bunch of druggie commie fucks. Some were using climbing gear to access the third story veranda to gain access to the top unit after we secured the front door. Over 20 thousand pounds of detritus was taken out of that unit.
Wait – who’s paying these squatters to leave? SF or the rightful owners?
Uncivilized behavior deserves uncivilized response – fuck the joke of local and state govt there.
The rightful owners. Due to the colossal failure of government, it’s the “smart” move.
At some point, the smart move will be to burn it down for the insurance check. Easily blamed on the squatters, too.
Keep paying the danegeld and then act surprised when more squatters move in.
Yes, as RC said, it’s the owners paying to get them out. My parents just paid a deadbeat fuck 10 grand to vacate a unit last month. He wasnt a squatter per se, just a tenant that was actually a roommate that moved in with some woman. Within 3 days she couldn’t stand him and moved out leaving him for my parents to deal with. 3 years of that fuck causing issues and being late with the rent every damn month. In a sense they were lucky, with what could have happened. I have seen every horror story you could imagine.
My mom used to own a house on the farm that she would rent out, my brother and his wife live there now.
One of the worst summers of my life was when my step-dad and I tore out the drywall because the after we got them evicted, we found out the renters were pissing in the corners.
Dog shit in all the rooms except the living room, coffee cans of pee under the beds (apparently the corner was too far at night).
Doing that more than once sounds like a nightmare.
Damn, that sucks that was your brother that did that. Every family has one. Luckily I am not the person who does the clean up job, I am just the one who gets to gain access and secure it and has first sights and smells. I have seen what you described in various forms more times than I can count. One a couple weeks ago where the “tenant” stopped paying rent at the start of the Vid hysteria and kept it up for almost 4 years of stalling tactics. As owners were out of state and CDC Vid bullshit kept it dragging on that long. Scumbag did a quarter million damage to the property. That included many dogs freely pissing and shitting in the entire bottom portion of the home.
My brother didn’t do that, they live there now.
This happened when I was16 and that brother was 2 at that time.
Oh sorry, read that wrong.
It is amazing to me how some people can live in such utter squalor. Like having a messy house I can understand, but to take it to that level is something else. Hoarding is its own thing, and I know there are mental issues at play, but hoarding doesn’t always mean pure filth.
I can’t even imagine that mentality. (Shortcut: I can a little. “You left it alone.”)
There are a certain percentage of humans that are always looking to steal, in whatever ways they can. Then there is a percentage that can be induced to do so under certain circumstances, especially if it becomes normalized or they see no chance of getting caught. Then there is the percentage of people (like you, like me) that even if we walked into a store where there was suddenly no cashiers or store employees present would leave money next to the register before walking out the door with merchandise.
I’m so dumb I even tell the cashier when I receive too much change.
10 out of 9 times, the change is short. I remember a certain convenience store, owned by a certain nationality, where every time over several years I would get shorted a nickel or dime and be told “so sorry, don’t understand American money.”
Sounds like SF needs drug and vice cops who take bribes. That’s how you attract businesses that can solve these problem.
Hun, I get PTSD just reading your stories.
One of the craziest was what I called the Santa Thong Building in which the whole 4 units all got taken over by squatters and multiple evictions had to happen before a final distribution of a 22k check to Mr Santa Thong and a bunch of druggie commie fucks. Some were using climbing gear to access the third story veranda to gain access to the top unit after we secured the front door. Over 20 thousand pounds of detritus was taken out of that unit.
Sounds like a job for [insert ethnicity of choice] lightning.
Expectations were managed
Inflation rose in line with expectations in January, according to an important gauge the Federal Reserve uses as it deliberates cutting interest rates.
The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy costs increased 0.4% for the month and 2.8% from a year ago, as expected according to the Dow Jones consensus estimates. The monthly gain was just 0.1% in December and 2.9% from the year prior.
Headline PCE, including the volatile food and energy categories, increased 0.3% monthly and 2.4% on a 12-month basis, compared with respective estimates for 0.3% and 2.4%, according to the numbers released Thursday by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis. The respective December numbers were 0.1% and 2.6%.
Everything is fine, and don’t ask about that big bump under the rug.
They are cooking the numbers to a crisp to get rates reduced.
0.4 per month X 12 months = 4.8%
0.3 per month X 12 months = 3.6%
I’m sure there some seasonality to it, but that is not a range of annual inflation that is healthy. Nobody is getting a consistent 4-5% COLA at their job to cover this.
They can pick and choose stats that make the economy look good. But to me (and most of the country) the two most important ones are price increases and wage increases. Those are nowhere close to each other.
Speaking of beef (and the price thereof), there were a few articles not long ago about how inventory on the hoof is lower than it has been in decades. I wonder why that would be. High prices would encourage more production, wouldn’t they, Shirley? Unless there is some other factor at work, like perverse government incentives.
Higher prices also gets consumers to switch to less expensive alternatives. Is pork and chicken production up?
I wonder. I know prices on chicken breasts are really high too.
I’ve been seeing $1.99/lb on sale, which happens almost every other week. Which was the sale price 5 years ago.
Whole chickens are up though.
I’m buying 10 lb bags of chicken legs and thighs for about 50 cents a pound after you drain off the liquid.
Leap Year Software Glitch Closes Fuel Pumps Across New Zealand
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-28/leap-year-software-glitch-closes-fuel-pumps-across-new-zealand-on-february-29
January’s consumer price index data raised fears of persistently high inflation, though many economists saw the rise as impacted by seasonal factors and shelter increases unlikely to persist.
While the CPI is used as an input to the PCE, Fed officials focus more on the latter as it adjusts for substitutions consumers make for goods and services as prices fall. Where the CPI is viewed as a simpler price measure, the PCE is viewed as more representative of what people are actually buying.
Transitory and insignificant.
“Democrat DA in charge of Laken Riley murder is booted from case over fury at her ‘failure to land a SINGLE guilty verdict since taking office in 2020′”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13141077/Democrat-DA-Laken-Riley-murder.html
No mention of Soros.
Why would they mention Soros?
I’ve heard that to think Soros has anything to do with all of the horrible DA’s is an antisemitic right-wing conspiracy.
Specialty of the house is the sausage sammich
Billionaire Greg Flynn, who made his fortune running one of the world’s largest restaurant franchise operations, is getting a new boost from sourdough loaves and brioche buns.
That’s because a California law that’s about to raise the state minimum wage at fast-food spots to $20 an hour from $16 offers an unusual exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a standalone item.
Governor Gavin Newsom pushed for that break, according to people familiar with the matter. Among the main beneficiaries is Flynn, a longtime Newsom donor whose California holdings include two dozen Panera Bread locations.
The specificity of the exemption has puzzled observers for months, especially after the governor told reporters last year that it came about as “part of the sausage-making” of politics. In response to detailed questions, Newsom’s office said the wage law was the “result of countless hours of negotiations with dozens of stakeholders over two years” — and will make a real difference for hundreds of thousands of Californians.
Flynn, who has been involved in business dealings with Newsom in addition to contributing to the governor’s political campaigns, said in a brief conversation that he didn’t play a role in crafting the bread exemption. He didn’t respond to requests for comment about his connections to Newsom.
That Newsom guy knows how to lead. He’s the President America needs.
I wonder if Subway will start selling it?
That would be awesome if Mickey D’s and Taco Bell got in on the act as a middle finger to Greasy Gav and started selling McBread and Pan de Bell to get around the law. I was against the next recall happening for His Greasiness, because I doubt it will succeed, but I changed my mind. Make the Dems spend a shitload of cash in an election year to defend him again, so they don’t have it for other races that will be close.
Pillsbury could make bank teaming up with big chains.
“Ronald McDonald and Poppin’ Fresh – together again for the first time!”
If they do, all we will here is how they are exploiting the “loophole” and how unfair it is.
For some reason, I keep hearing Dennis from Monty Python:
DENNIS: Oh, king, eh, very nice. An’ how’d you get that, eh? By exploitin’ the workers — by ‘angin’ on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an’ social differences in our society! If there’s ever going to be any progress–
They put an “as of this date” provision in the law that has already passed.
Scumbag did a quarter million damage to the property. That included many dogs freely pissing and shitting in the entire bottom portion of the home.
Aaaand in that Mercury news story about Newsom, there is a link to another story about California making it illegal for landlords to ban pets.
Yup, insanity. It’s already de facto illegal to ban pets as all they need to do is hide it for the first few weeks and then pay 50 bucks to a “doctor” online to write them a prescription for a medical exemption for a service animal. I go into apartment buildings all the time where there are dogs barking all day long at every person who walks up the stairs or down the hallways. I can imagine how fun that would be to live next door to that day in and out.
Ventilate them
Older U.S. adults should roll up their sleeves for another COVID-19 shot, even if they got a booster in the fall, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Americans 65 and older should get another dose of the updated vaccine that became available in September — if at least four months has passed since their last shot. In making the recommendation, the agency endorsed guidance proposed by an expert advisory panel earlier in the day.
“Most COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations last year were among people 65 years and older. An additional vaccine dose can provide added protection … for those at highest risk,” CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen said in a statement.
Safe and effective, all the way down.
4 months.
4 MONTHS.
ROFLMAO.
The advisory panel’s decision came after a lengthy discussion about whether to say older people “may” get the shots or if they “should” do so. That reflects a debate among experts about how necessary another booster is and whether yet another recommendation would add to the public’s growing vaccine fatigue.
Not mentioned: how many advocated for “must”.
I don’t play these guys often, but I should.
And after they begged you over and over not to forget about them..