Good morning one and all to another beautiful day and to the morning links!
Speaker Johnson: Senate Border Bill Dead on Arrival
House Republicans plow ahead with Mayorkas impeachment with little room for error
U.K’s King Charles Diagnosed With Cancer
Squad squabbles: How big-name Democratic group could be in big trouble
Biden administration pressured Amazon to censor books that questioned COVID vaccines
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Reelected – Wins 83% of Vote
Illegals accused of beating two NYPD cops and freed without bail arrested in Phoenix bus station
Video Shows All-Female SWAT Team Absolutely Beclowning Themselves At International Competition
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Speaking of impeachable offenses… their multiple (documented) attempts at violating the 1st should have mass impeachments ongoing. That it doesn’t is just another sad commentary on how scroomed (from Armstrong & Getty — “screwed + doomed”) we are.
Morning, Banjos! Morning, all.
It’s only banning books if (R)s do it.
The current DOJ would never do anything about this criminality because they helped the crooks to do this shit…
Hence “impeachments” not “indictments”, but sure. 😉
The Rs are a waste of skin, not even worth the water it takes to keep them alive.
The R’s may be fools, but when the D’s walk in lock step and consider said R’s to be some combination of Hitler’s SS and the Klan, and therefore must be opposed no matter what, impeachments will be few and far between.
Which lockstep? Pelosi could barely control her caucus. The Dems are nearly as fragmented as the Repubs – and unity is best achieved in opposition, not in majority.
Each team is convinced that they are the side of free will and the other side is in complete lockstep.
In truth, both sides tow the lion pretty regularly.
Seriously? Nearly as fragmented? You using a logarithmic scale to make that argument? because the power of team blue is that they ALL vote the same way no matter what disagreements they have, or they lose support and chairs.
Sure the squad said some real dumb shit that pissed Pelosi off back when, but when time came to do the voting she got them to vote the way she wanted practically every time. Pelosi owned every democrat. So does the new Pelosi incarnation. Bowman risked his career by pulling that fire alarm. You think he was not told that was what he was going to do or else?
And the way you bitch about Republicans, often calling the very establishment types RINOs? Extolling the lunatics, and yes, MTG is the AOC of that caucus.
Ah, I see the problem… You confound, by mistake or on purpose, my critique of the old republican guard being just as complicit and criminal as the democrats with them also marching in lockstep? What we have in D.C, is a cabal of crooks & stooges that are bought & paid for by donors, being blackmailed by the intel community on behalf of donors, or both constantly screwing over the people that elected them to do the people’s work. that is not lock step as much as being coerced into doing the dirty work of the machine. That is why I do not want business as usual and hope D.C. gets nuked.
How many times have D’s broken ranks to vote for an R sponsored bill? How many times have they broken ranks when the R’s hold the house or senate? Now, tell me how many times the opposite has happened?
Yes, Nancy could barely control her caucus, but that was when they had the catbird seat. They could afford to let some peel off, as long as things got through. But, look at both ends of Obama care, and who broke ranks. Oh, that’s right, McStain broke on that…
Unity works in opposition, not in governance.
Because once in power, everyone wants their own hands on that power.
Yes, but no. There really are moral and principal differences between the two parties, which lead to different procedural outcomes. As pointed out, The Squad was easily roped back into the fold, while the R equivalent fully broke ranks and has created numerous problems for the Team Red.
Freed without bail was sold as being for non-violent offenses. And then they defined what “non-violent” meant.
Oh, and any attempt at changing the conditions has been shot down every year.
The current DOJ would never do anything about this criminality because they helped the crooks to do this shit…The objective is to wreck the legal system and create chaos so the desperate idiots will allow government to then implement draconian authoritarian measures they will only use against their political enemies. The new marxist cultural revolution happening in the US through the DEI/CRT/Woke shit is intended to cause so much chaos a desperate people will not fight the autocratic takeover that will be presented as the solution.
I remind people that team red will never solve the big problems we face because they are feckless shit. But that all our problems exist because team blue led & ideological government created them and continues to benefits from them causing harm to the people they despise.
They hate us.
The R’s are worthless because almost all of them cede the moral argument to the left. They just argue about details, which means they’ll always lose eventually.
Team blue plays to win. At any cost. They believe any and all evil can and should be done because their end goal is just and noble (that is how evil always operates). Alinsky and Marcuse set out the agenda. Shut down the other side. Do not allow them to use logic or facts by accusing them of coming from a place of evil/negative emotion (fearmongering). Punish them for thoughts you don’t want and do not allow them to protest while your side can say the most evil shit (MAGA is Nazi!) and engages in violence when convenient (Antifa and BLM).
Team red is in a prison fight getting shanked by a gang, and they keep acting as if by playing with Marquis of Queensbury rules, they will not end up losing and being sold to some others for a pack of cigarettes and a candy bar.
“Speaker Johnson: Senate Border Bill Dead on Arrival”
Even the people that put this shit together knew this was going to be the case with this shit that actually legalized and financed the invasion the crooks have been running for 3 years now. At a minimum they hope it gives them plenty of propaganda they can use to pretend team red didn’t want to fix the problem. And if they got it passed, they would have codified an invasion and tied the next president’s hands so they could not stop this campaign of replacing the uppity serfs with a more compliant voter base.
Ya know, this is a substantive difference from the Obama Admin (which you keep saying this is the third edition of). There were a lot of deportations back then.
Back then Obama’s people had to make it look like they were deporting enough people to keep this plan to replace the voter base with a more compliant government dependent class (which would first be used to rig the census into letting dying blue states keep extra seats in the house, but eventually allow them to replace other troublesome minorities and people not willing to be compliant with the globalist cabal’s evil agenda in future elections) from becoming too obvious. Obama 1.0 and 2.0 administrations both still let in plenty of people, but because the plan had a 30 to 50 year window to completion, they could make the argument they were deporting a lot of people too.
Then Trump happened and they saw an existential threat materialize that required them to fast track the evil globalist shit. Obama’s third administration decided the American people whom had become aware their plan was detrimental to them was such an existential threat to their globalist agenda, that they literally opened up the border (to both make up for lost time and to speed up the program) up completely after inviting the world to invade. They had to speed things up because they know the level of cheating to “fortify” another election would be impossible to hide/force upon the people again. And the cherry on top of the whole thing is Obama gets to blame that idiot Biden he hates anyway for what he wanted to do before and gets to do now.
Ya know, I’ve pointed to the Patriotic Liberal substack enough, and those Democrats don’t seem to share your fever dreams.
That’s their and your lack of understanding. Not mine.
Oh, my, let me bow before your super genius!!!
Nice strawman. How about you address the points I made instead of just defending the corruptocracy constantly.
I’ve given you sources that are Democrats, concerned that Trump will win.
You instead only listen to the Democrats in your head.
This is almost like turning back the clock and we’re all at TOS again.
Do you believe that The Liberal Patriot is more representative of D voters/policywriters/elected officials than say, Rachel Maddow? If so, why? If not, why are you criticizing Alex for disregarding your non-representative source?
What does democrats concerned that Trump will win mean other than that this will give them justification and urgency to steal another election? After all, they are doing it to save their democracy from Hitler’s second coming!
It is true JI, not every democrat is a traitorous marxist piece of shit. That only slows down the party as a whole, which is.
This invasion was deliberate and calculated, motivated by malice. Of that I have no doubt. Christ, they have been saying it openly forever.
I remember them laughing at Reagan when they shitted him into giving asylum to illegals.
Yep. Reagan giving amnesty to so many illegals because of the democrat controlled congress promise they would never demand that again, was one of the worst things from his presidency. He got played, and played hard.
I am not against immigration. In fact I see the INS as a disaster that needs serious fixing so we can keep getting the best of the best to join us and adopt the American dream. However, people that break the law to come here, these days no longer just for work but for free shit paid for by taxes – so one party can then rig the census counts, drive down the pay for low skilled work, and eventually (and they want it sooner than later) get guaranteed votes for a generation or two, of all reasons – is a must stop.
All Alex has is buzzwords.
Coming from you, I am happy with the compliment.
And yet there was a net influx of illegals.
And of course the Obama admin explicitly normalized illegals via DACA.
But hey, if he did one anti-illegal thing, that must mean he was anti-illegal!
Black Jesus’ people built those nice holding pens for those poor migrants that suddenly became evil cages to lock up kids under the Trump administration!
Nope, just pointing one difference.
But hey, let’s just all run that into the ground as the great explanation of everything. We’re good at that.
Obama was just a stepping-stone on the march toward Utopia.
The country had not been buttered up for such massive waves of illegal immigration yet, so it didn’t happen. Same goes for all the other extreme positions that Biden is pretending to favor today – child sex changes, the climate catastrophe, you name it.
Pretending to favor?
Yes. I don’t believe for a second that he actually believes in the tranny stuff, for example – not for any reason other than it advances the Dems’ main cause – chaos – and they can get away with it now.
“Biden administration pressured Amazon to censor books that questioned COVID vaccines”
They hid it behind stopping malinformation (lies they need you to believe for your own good, or something) and hate speech! We can’t allow that!
The phrasing in the article makes me wince:
“ Amazon officials responded quickly when top Biden advisers contacted them about problematic books for sale on the site.”
Problematic?
Things they prefer the normies ever know about…
Problematic to their desire to introduce more control over their citizenry
—“Problematic”—
I hate that word. My ultra-liberal daughter uses that word constantly. I finally figured out (I’m slow in some ways) that it means “Anything I don’t agree with.”
You and me both, brother.
I myself prefer to be problematic.
Piss on them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzlQwj36lDM
Problematic is when the automat starts going sideways, Lucy chocolate factory style.
I’m undecided on a nickname for HRH. KC3? Chucky the third? The Placeholder of Windsor? The last King of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha?
I’m still a Twain fan. King Shoulda-been-a-cat.
Aristocratic douchebag.
Too non-unique.
Chuckles
King Cancer
Mmm… King Crab?
Video Shows All-Female SWAT Team Absolutely Beclowning Themselves At International Competition
I am shocked, SHOCKED! to learn that the girl bosses who are superior to any man that I see in movies and TV don’t translate to real life.
They must not have had a good man-hating women running the operation of creating the fiction they planned to present to the public….
The whole concept of an international competition of SWATness is beclowning in and of itself.
Very true.
I wonder if there’s a “bust in at 3:00 AM and shoot the dog” competition?
The dog show is pretty damn boring, every dog is classed as a Pit Bull.
Relevant
Scheduled right after the accuracy test for flash bangs and cribs, no doubt.
(No, I will not forgive nor forget you over-militaristic asswipes…)
They can also gain points for the interview competition where they lie about what they did.
Based on my training and experience…
And the award for most creative excuse for the bodycam failing goes to…
If it is all women, do they carry the cribs a la Baby Bjorn?
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E23/435617
My favorite is where they compete to see who can toss a flashbang grenade into a crib from furthest away.
That’s what Brutality Matches are for.
“The whole concept of an international competition of SWATness is beclowning in and of itself.”
This X 1000
Celebrating jack-booted thuggery is not compatible with liberty. If SWATs behaved they way they do in the propaganda that is popular entertainment I would have no real objection. They do not. Flash bangs in cribs at wrong house raids is more what we get in reality.
I watched, I critiqued. First of all the cable was too loose and not enough drop. With a lack of training all the girls jumped on at the same time and the sag of the cable held them helpless. They appeared to have enough strength, they held on for a long time.
Training might have solved the last part. I blame whoever stretched the cable plus the instructor. It made the girls look worse and the narrator was not much help.
There are a lot of SWAT problems and the video is another example.
How’d they perform compared to the all presurgery transwoman SWAT team?
Why are they arresting those poor asylum seekers? They’ve been duly processed in NYC which decided they were free to go about their business until their trial date.
Well, I would have said “it’s Arizona, so they were probably getting some Skittles and sweet tea” but times are a changin’
The first reason the “border” bill should be DOA is the foreign military aid. Congress needs to be beaten into submission about using cobbled up poison pills and sweeteners.
At this point this practice is all but mandatory to pass anything from what I understand. The people that decide how to piss away our wealth will not tolerate a system where they could be blocked from doing more of that…
Perfect – if you can’t agree to pass a single, simple bill that solves a problem. Then the problem isn’t bad enough to require a federal solution. Now go jack off on C-SPAN.
Yup — not that I’d trust a Convention, but an amendment that all Congressional bills must be single issue (if that could be phrased such that a government that ignores “shall not be infringed”, of course) would be nice.
Mitch apparently really thinks Ukraine funding is the biggest thing and compromising with the Dems to set them on a path to amnesty is worth it. Which is his prerogative, after all — I just think he’s nuts and hope the House stays firm on their dismissal of his wants too.
I love that the House does have single issue border bills and a single issue Israel funding bill — and the PPP admin only wants this chimera. I expect the campaign ads of “Republicans claim to want border security, but…. ” and “Republicans claim to want to support Israel, but…” to be writing themselves about now.
Stupid people vote on that basis, and shockingly, we end up with stupid govt. Fuck everyone. I’m shitting black pills this morning.
You should probably see a doctor if shitting black pellets continues.
“Mitch apparently really thinks Ukraine funding is the biggest thing and compromising with the Dems to set them on a path to amnesty is worth it.”
Cocaine Mitch cares only about keeping his position of power and his reelection. He is known to have articulated that he preferred to be in the minority so he could use the pretense of fighting the man to campaign and raise money. I am ashamed to admit that secretly I can’t wait for the Angel of Death to reap that fucker and speed his ass to hell already.
How can Kentucky elect both Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell?
The phenom where everyone knows congress is a hot mess, but they think the problem is caused by the people OTHER VOTERS send to congress…
But they are state wide elections. The same people are electing both.
Cocaine Mitch sends a ton of pork back home…
Mitch knows how to win an election. There isn’t much else good to say, but he can do that.
Like Harry Reid, knows whose palms to grease and like Alex said, bring home the bacon.
And Massie in the House. It is a mystery isn’t it?
Massie said, ruefully, that people voted for him because they wanted the craziest mother fucked on the ballot.
Motherfucker, not what autoincorrect inserted.
Can’t really be a motherfucker if there are no mothers fucked.
May be true once, but now he is the incumbent and people vote for the incumbent almost automatically.
They all think its the biggest thing because they are funding a proxy war. The war with Russia the US has always wanted. Chuckie kept saying “we” in reference to the success or failure in Ukraine. “We will lose the war”.
Then vote on it all on it’s own. Surely you can convince both parties and the American people of the need. And if not, STFU Schumer.
In agreement there.
“Singer Toby Keith Dies at 62”
He ain’t as good as he once was…
“El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele Reelected – Wins 83% of Vote”
I am telling you that the globalist movement sees this, and then, instead of saying maybe they are on the wrong track if people really want this and they should reconsider what they are doing, decide to double down on more authoritarian shit and to speed up and strengthen their agenda to kill off more of the people like those that voted for this, because it hurts their agenda to produce anew feudal system where as many of the parasitic members of humanity have been terminated…
Mrs OBE and I for a while were talking about doing a short term rental of our Henderson property for the Super Bowl. We could have made a killing but the amount of regulations that the city put on short term rentals just made us not want to deal with it.
That is precisely why the regulation exists: to help the hotel lobby.
Not just the lobby! The breakfast room, too!
Here (Saratoga Spring) has been about sort term rentals for so long that it’s an entrenched special interest. We’re getting the Belmont this year (and maybe next) and I’m kicking myself for not having a MIL suite built when I had my house built.
Meh, I don’t care that they’re all pro-Hamas – that is to be expected on the left.
I think voters should care more about their corruption and hypocrisy.
But they’re fighting the evil
NazisRepublicans. Anything is fair game if it helps against that level of evil.TL/DR: ABORTION!!!1!11111
—“Squad squabbles”—
Does anybody think that what voters want makes any difference to the vote counters?
I think you have it backwards. Corruption and hypocrisy are expected, being pro-hamas is a bit much.
It’s not USian teachers who like ’em young
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/teacher-locks-boy-11-class-32051446
I would not have predicted those quad tats.
Those are bizarre.
I bet the patch is a tat of Goofy…
Which reminds me that Mickey is divorcing Minney because he told the court she was fucking Goofy.
I am truly wondering if the belief women would be less likely to engage in pedophilia than men is wrong when you see the volume of shit like this. Is it just that men know they will be wrecked if they are caught while women get off easy, or what?
I think it just gets publicized a lot more, so it seems like it is everywhere.
It’s been a joke for a while now.
What is the attraction for her? Is there not some manly stud that strikes her fancy? Are the women in Russia so freaking hot that someone like her can’t attract a man?
I don’t get it.
The twelve-year olds are like, “Sorry, Teacher; your like, a four. The sixth grade teacher outranks you, and she’s thirty-two years old.”
*you’re
I suspect pedos are people who were molested themselves as children. Somehow their first confusing very arousing sexual experiences happened at some vital point in their developmental stage. Their own activities are an attempt to regain that experience?
That is just me talking out of my ass based on how I interpret what I have seen.
Anyone remember my pool table story when I was 14? I think the reason that didn’t fuck me up is because my motives at the time were driven by the peer pressure and expectations of my generation. It meant something different then to ‘be a man’. We sought to live up to different expectations and my knuckle headed brain interpreted that as a victory not victimization.
Like I said, talking out of my ass.
I’ll say there’s a pretty stark line between the pedophiles and the ephebophiles. Hell, you go back 100 years or so and ephebophiles were close to the mainstream.
I am a firm believer in the ‘half plus five (or seven) rule for anyone over 30. So much so that violating it never enters my mind.
In fact, I find violating it very creepy and a super boner-killer.
True Neph. I remember what used to be a common saying: “If she is old enough to go to the store alone, she is old enough to get bread.”
“If there’s grass on the field, play ball.”
“If not, just scrimmage.”
Yep, remember “Sexy and 17” songs like that? It was pretty normal as recent as 50 years ago.
Statistically you are correct, abused kids are much more likely to become abusers themselves. /Guy who went to foster parents class twice
If you would have gotten this older lady pregnant, would that have fucked your life up?
Please tell me she has Goofy with a beard in the middle. Also, what the hell? She’s actually hot.
James Bond movies have taught me that Russian women under 30 are all hot.
And after 50 they are all babushkas?
Da.
That is pretty much how the whole world works. Carbs catch up at a certain point.
The cold probably has something to do with it too.
Better than the rez.
They all go to pot around 30.
Now they won’t have to wait ’til 30, they can start going to pot at 8AM or whenever the store opens
Before or after his son died in Iraq?
“Biden Claims He Met With France’s Mitterrand In 2021. There’s Just One Problem.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claims-he-met-with-frances-mitterrand-in-2021-theres-just-one-problem
Has Snopes fact checked this as “mostly true” and given some convoluted excuse, yet?
I always enjoy those.
Mostly True: He misspoke.
Twice
France, Germany – you know, the thing.
Well for a while there, France was part of Germany. So mostly true.
And before that Germany was part of the Napoleonic Empire, so…
And the usual suspects claim its just a slip of the tongue.
Don’t make fun of his stutter you ableist bigot!
He met Mitterand after Beau died at Normandy.
That thing with shaving the left eyebrow drives me nuts. It is like a world-wide signal that draws douchebags to each other without the need for language.
Well, to be fair, the tear drop tattoo is a little too obvious.
“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2” trailer is out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRlBKYQsjXo
Win – Win – Win. It’s “green”, it’s cheaper and I’m willing to bet more likely to fail after the warranty.
Pay no attention that replacing the thing 6 months after the warranty isn’t so green.
I’m sure there is no way the vacuum will fail at rates that closed cell polyurethane does. And when a whole panel of your refrigerator no longer insulates I’m sure that won’t be a problem.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/recycling-refrigerators-is-tough-new-insulation-technology-could-make-it-easier-38b7c2a4?st=6k3qgwguxueytb8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Just buy a new one every year, it’s the American way.
Congress is almost operating as a bureaucracy and I guess that shouldn’t surprise. It’s all but impossible to hold anyone accountable for what they do. 535 individuals and none of them are to blame, because all of them are.
You think this change in how things are supposed to work was not by design? Abdicating responsibility allows them to go back home and tell the voters they had nothing to do with the shitshow and that the problem is someone else’s doing. The EPA made that ruling, not us/me! The Intel community did that evil shit, not us/me! The [insert unelected bureaucratic entity here] did that to you, not us/me!
It is actually quiet clever.
And people in their districts/states believe them. We get what we deserve – as a nation. There is a reason we have this govt, and it isn’t because of someone else, least of all grand conspiracies of the masters of the universe.
“And people in their districts/states believe them. We get what we deserve – as a nation.”
Touche.
Unless one has two brain cells to rub together and takes the trouble to read the plain language of the constitution.
To those people it doesnt look clever, just incredibly mendacious.
I just read about this. Congress is more like an organized crime ring with a few people at the top running everything. They draft the bills in secret, set a short deadline, and don’t allow enough time for anyone to read the bills. Then they strong arm everyone for their votes. One tactic is to name the bill the opposite of what the bill actually does, then run a PR campaign against anyone opposing. For example, trying to make Republicans look like they oppose closing the border even though their bill does nothing of the sort.
The country is run by a bunch of corrupt, evil fucks.
An organized crime ring is like Congress
An “Inflation Reduction Act” that prints money.
So, for JI in particular, but any others are free to chime in:
It seems to me that the only immigration reform or policies that the (D)s have supported within the past 50 years have been:
-Bring in more immigrants
-Get these immigrants more benefits faster.
Any kind of “compromise” bills have always included those two elements. Am I wrong?
Where have the Republicans staked out a better position?
My real problem with the Dems isn’t bringing in more – it is that they have killed assimilation. Printing ballots in other than English, when speaking at least rudimentary English is a requirement of the citizenship process? Honest to god, an immigrant that goes through the process understands the Constitution and culture better than a fucking native born Democrat.
“Where have the Republicans staked out a better position?”
Republicans won’t solve our problems. Unfortunately the alternative, democrats, are the source of all government related problems.
Honestly? I don’t know as far as actual legislation — any I’ve read has been in the bipartisan form. I will say that candidates and individual R office holders claim to be in favor of “secure the border first” where “secure the border” means “catch and deport illegals.” I am unaware of any D equivalent doing the same.
Yeah, funny how the Repubs don’t have anything other than something they know won’t really work. You see, there are plenty of interests in this country served by having cheap labor continuously flowing into the country.
These days most of those interests that want that cheap labor seem to have realigned with team blue. There was a time team blue was against this because it hurt the minority low skilled workers and unions. these days team blue sees these people as scum even though they still control the union bosses and the minorities through fear (it’s racist white supremacy all the way down!).
You know how “replacement theory” is always getting pooh-poohed by the Progs.
Well, for black America, it already happened.
All while they were to a large degree dutifully (see LBJ) supporting the ones doing it to them
Yep. The Dems have already shown they see black people as a pain in the ass because they actually want something back.
“…they have killed assimilation. ”
Thus my constant bitching about this problem having nothing to do with race, but with culture.
Bring in oodles of people of an incompatible culture then fail to assimilate them and you get balkanization and serious problems for the host culture.
Well said man…
Cultural revolution always relies on destroying the existing culture/society to usher in marxist utopia. The reason many people confound the issue is that the American cultural revolution couldn’t use class (people are not locked in the economic class they are born in unless they make that choice unlike so many other places on this planet) so the marxists created DEI/CRT which are based on using race to divide people, set them against each other, and destroy the culture/society.
Multiculturalism being a good thing is an evil and deceptive lie when that agenda pushes the destruction of the most important thing about being a citizen of the country: a common culture regardless of your background/race that strengthens us all.
There was that one guy who had an idea.
I believe you left out amnesty for current illegals.
Also, getting them the “jobs that Americans won’t do” more quickly.
I’d classify that under “give them benefits.”
Fair enough. I consider it something different, which does more to tear down the rule of law (which is a joke at this point anyway).
Giving benefits is part of the plan, but they don’t have to do much of that. Just tell them Republicans want to deport them, and you get a voter for life. My mom and dad have voted Dem for decades because they’re convinced Republicans will take away their social security.
Well, don’t they know working off the books is against the law?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Rs: “So, what is this border deal you are offering?”
Ds: “It’s pretty simple really. We get everything we want and you get fucked. More importantly the citizenry gets railed up the ass, and good.”
The Ds impeach trump in five minutes, even after he is out of office on the flimsiest of false pretenses. Rs attempt what may turn out to be a fake impeachment effort but they make up for it by dragging it out forever. If they were secretly batting for the other team what would they do differently?
Cancer huh? Couldn’t happen to a nicer moron.
Is anyone surprised that ‘the squad’ turns out to be traitorous grifters?
I see the vaccine thing like I see the electric car thing and global warming. It is a transparent scam that anyone who knows anything about earth sciences, immunology or physics can see through with little effort. Next time they go to school they should stop sitting int he back of the class eating their own boogers and pay attention.
It is easy to cheer for liberty and against tyranny but most of those people dont live in El Salvador. The crime there since forever has been so bad it entered into the surreal. I am tempted to blame the US govt. The whole ‘death squad’ thing, roaming around at night and killing commies was fostered by the CIA. Of course the crime problem goes back further than that. The other country I have seen like that is Chile. When the Spanish got there they picked the most savage, brutal tribe in the place to be in charge of their colony….cannibals. I have a suspicion El Salvador is a parallel case.
I will look it up.
What to do about DAs like Bragg? The solution of course is not pleasant for anyone.
The goal of DEI is imcompetence. If you cant Cloward/Piven things then simply replace competence with incompetence. Mission accomplished.
“Once y ou have filled their soft heads with mush you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them forever. No matter how much authentic information they have they cannot draw a sensible conclusion. Take them to Siberia and show them the death camps. They still will not believe it.”
“Once they are demoralized they cannot draw sensible conclusions. If they cannot do that they cannot see problems. If they cannot see problems they cannot solve them. If they cannot solve problems they cannot defend themselves, their families or their country. ”
– Yuri Bezmenov
RIP Mr. Keith.
Mother Nature is one mean-ass bitch.
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“Rs: “So, what is this border deal you are offering?”
Ds: “It’s pretty simple really. We get everything we want and you get fucked. More importantly the citizenry gets railed up the ass, and good.””
That’s what team blue and their conies call “Bipartisanship”….
Prof Kingsfield has a sad.
How to Buy a Week in Paradise for $1
Inflation is creating a glut of timeshare properties literally being given away, but caveat emptor
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/how-to-buy-a-week-in-paradise-for-1-d141ebee?st=yb5z2y7h16i2q20&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Dammit. That means those stupid get out of timeshare ads won’t be going away.
To me ‘timeshare’ means ‘Fuck no, not under any circumstances.’
Re: Woke Kindergarten.
Once again, I restate my position that I was wrong 30 years ago, and The Fountainhead is actually more important than Atlas Shrugged.
I didn’t get it at the time, AS was clearly the more precient novel. And I was totally fucking wrong.
I still like AS better.
I like them both. I say I like Fountainhead a little better because it doesn’t have a 60 pages sermon at the end.
The speech is a good bit before the end.
I like them both, I like AS better. I just didnt get the point of The Fountainhead 30 years ago. Its really only in the last 5-10 years that it has struck me.
Rest of the country: Teachers molest boys
Sunny Minnesoda: Hockey mom molest boys
That’s some hot dish there for you, your holiness…
Yeah I saw that one. We had a hockey mom that…always thought she had a thing for young boys.
She was “motivating them” by giving them some sweet older woman lov’n?
She was our team mom and had some serious MILF vibes and of course, American Pie just had come out
So she did it to prevent them from embarrassing themselves getting caught fucking an apple pie? Noble…
Hey, if rich dudes can bang teenage athletes two at a time, wimmenfolk should be able to too!
Giving another meaning to slip one past the goalie.
Right in the 5 hole!
With a poke check
Sending two minors to the box.
Word of the day:
Boomerdämmerung, or twilight of the Baby Boomers.
So, re: KC3, is he still all-in on homeopathy, or is he getting for-profit allopathic medical treatment? And did he “jump the queue” with NHS?
He’s being treated at the same swanky private hospital Kate was, near Harley Street (Pill Hill if it were hilly).
https://www.stateofunion.org/2024/02/05/democrat-controlled-oregon-supreme-court-blocks-10-pro-life-senators-from-running-for-re-election/
OTOH, it’s clearly a political dirty trick,
OTOH, not my state, not my monkeys.
OTGH, since it necessarily only applies to incumbents, I’m not too broken up by the injustice.
OTFH, allowing a political party to dismiss opposition party members is straight up justification for lamppost decorations.
OTNH, I’d kinda like to see this implemented in the US House/Senate what with their absentee rate. Though obviously this “excused absenses bullshit” would have to go.
“OTGH, since it necessarily only applies to incumbents, I’m not too broken up by the injustice.”
Texas considered that against the fleeing Democrats as well, I think. It never came to anything. It is crappy to just walk out to prevent a quorum, so I understand the anger. Show up and vote.
I can imagine the cries of outrage from TMITE if Texas barred the walkout from running for office.
Crickets in OR, OTOH.
Walkout legislators from running for reelection …
In the before Democrat control, they (including current senior members of the state D party) walked out to prevent Republicans majorities from passing legislation.
As I recall this was a state-wide referendum, not a partisan majority play.
Embrace the power of AND. “Statewide” in OR means partisan progs in Portland ram partisan shite past most of the rest of the state.
From what I remember it passed easily, though.
The last time I read an article on this, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled they were doing “what the people wanted” not what the clear text of the constitutional amendment actually says. So, still a partisan play.
Yes.
And the Rino party is happy to purge out a dozen people who are somewhat principled.
Did the referendum have a definition of excused and unexcused absences?
Get rid of the proxy bullshit. Either you are physically present or it doesn’t count.
Abolish Capitol buildings. Make legislative work online, archived, searchable.
Abolish computers for any work communications.
Everything face to face! Left hands tied together, right hands hold the knife!
You know how I know that the Rona is completely played out?
Because Michael Osterholm has been reduced to yelling about the danger of chronic wasting disease in deer jumping to humans.
The various prion diseases are scary but people shouldn’t piss their pants over it. If you shoot a deer that’s shaky and/or appears uncoordinated and drunk just leave it to rot.
How tf do prions evolve? Unless science has uncovered significant new insights, prions are mis-folded proteins. They have no genes. No alleles. Thus, no change in allele frequency over time, the textbook definition of biological evolution.
I am not aware of any replicated research tying misfolding of proteins to specific genes.
Prions don’t evolve.
It’s plausible that genes could develop that make more or more easily misfoldable proteins though.
I cannot wait for the influx of “OMGOMGOMG you guize! Nikke Haley Won Nevada! She has a chance!”
You know the race is over when RCP isn’t showing vote totals for your primary. Suck it Nevada, everyone already knows.
That’s impressive.
Idiot in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ak0kjk/oc_idiot_in_a_walmart_parking_lot/
Love to know the age of the driver. Otherwise – phone.
Seems to me that the 83% reelection vote for the El Salvador president is just low enough to be believeable, considering the changes he made.
Anyone think it is evidence of a rigged election?
Wasn’t that on the order of Biden’s margin in SC?
With 4% of the electorate engaged
Substantially down from the ’20 primary.
We know the DNC kept any real competitors off the D primary ballot.
Do you think the 83% vote in El Salvador is real?
Not in the general it wasn’t.
I was speaking to the recent primary.
I think every election is rigged. What is interesting is to watch the size of the victory parties. That tells you a lot. Is the whole country celebrating, or just a room full of people in suits?
I do not know but have not seen any… If there was credible evidence it would have been in man y articles on e.g. BBC
I watched a surprisingly good caper movie last night. Michael Caine and a virtually unrecognizable Demi Moore. Maybe she had some facial work undone, if that’s possible; still has a fantastic body (fully clothed the whole time, unfortunately).
That is a fun one.
“Singer Toby Keith Dies at 62”
RIP. I was fortunate enough to see him at our local fairgrounds just a mile away from my house. But halfway through the show a downpour began and he just said “Goodnight” and left. You don’t have time for a long goodbye when you’re surrounded by electrical equipment in a monsoon.
Mrs. TOK has seen him multiple times. Great musician and seemed like a good guy.
The weirdest aspect of Basic Training for me was them playing Curtesy of The Red White and Blue (Angry American) in church showing us bombing the crap out of the ME.
Lucky. We still got Lee Greenwood.
I liked 90’s long hair Toby. RIP.
https://youtu.be/0GamEBPbHac
Also RIP, The Valeyard.
I had a client who’s daughter was in one of Toby Keith’s videos. It was a concert video and she was in a few shots. Complete smoke show of a gal.
When my client was telling us about it, he said that she and her girlfriend had gotten an “upgrade” to their seating as they walked through the gate. An entire section was pretty much filled with cute girls.
Is there no end to the perfidy of the Oil Industry? Well them and Capitalism.
Weep for the poor NoDak renters who were displaced by the oil boom!
I can’t find it now, but my favorite story was after the boom was pretty much over and the local paper ran a sob story about how developers had spent lots of money to build housing for oil workers, but then the boom was over and everyone moved away leaving the developers screwed.
So what is the solution? Ban oil?
I think they want to “ban” about 4 or 5 billion humans, but can’t just say that out loud…
UK Lager boom in the 1970s.
https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2024/02/lager-boom.html
but was any of it any good?
Founded 1971
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Real_Ale
Yep, not a coincident that they were at the same time.
Idiot in parking lot: I marvel at how fast some people drive in parking lots.
Speaking of parking lots. Every time I go to the Asian grocery, there’s always something. Crazy parking or just plain bad driving. Every time. But then I remember where I am and that stereotypes exist for a reason.
Based on my experience riding a bike, the most dangerous drivers are Asian ladies in minivans in a parking lot.
I had to take Mrs. Holiness’ swagger wagon for some reason a while back. As I navigated out of our neighborhood, I saw a neighbor who saw our minivan and instantly bailed up into someone’s yard.
I stopped, laughing, and asked him if her driving was really that bad. He shrugged and said better safe than sorry.
The other driving story I have about her driving is when she screamed up to a stop sign near our house and then slammed on the brakes when she got within 10 feet of the sign. I casually said, “Yeah, I’m surprised too that it hadn’t changed from red by the time you got there.” Things were quiet around the Vatican that week as I got the silent treatment.
Not surprised at the damage. If you hit something tougher than daisies, the plastic facing buckles.
I can’t find it now, but my favorite story was after the boom was pretty much over and the local paper ran a sob story about how developers had spent lots of money to build housing for oil workers, but then the boom was over and everyone moved away leaving the developers screwed.
That reminds me of driving past Parachute, Colorado in the ’70s. When jimmy Carter’s shale oil dream nosed over there were a lot of abandoned and partially completed houses there.
There might be a reason those “man camps” were filled with RVs and trailers.
Family friends live out in Newtown, ND. They moved there for Carter’s boom in the ’70s and never moved back. With the most recent boom, they were laughing and predicting exactly what happened.
Lots of people move in, rigs get set up and roads upgraded. Then price of oil falls and the boom is over. All the infrastructure is built and the wild catters move on. Life goes back to normal for everyone.
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
https://thecritic.co.uk/harry-potter-and-the-bourgeois-bohemian-dream/
Recently I found myself trying to describe the appeal of the Harry Potter books to a friend who’d never read them, and I came to realise that, at over a quarter of a century since The Philosopher’s Stone was published, the series can now be used to illuminate the dreams, obsessions and resentments of the class of people who took over the reins of first culture and then politics in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in Britain and the Western world more widely. The fact of the rise of this class to prominence is a commonplace and there are many terms in circulation for them that capture various overlapping elements: liberal elite, new elite, graduate class, meritocrats, champagne socialists, or even for the specific British generation that J. K. Rowling belongs to, Britpoppers.
Never read the books. Forced to watch the movies by the Mrs.
I found nothing whatsoever original or imaginative about it. No original characters or plot lines. Every scene as predictable as the sunrise.
Yet it has a whole generation in thrall to it. What does that say?
the whole generation needs to get off your lawn?
*Golf clap
Movies were meh to me. The books had a lot of really good writing in them, targeted well to the audience, and maturing with it. So it worked.
That was the key, she wrote to an advancing age with each book. If you were outside the target age range, they don’t play as well.
The Potterverse is Narnia for an urban generation.
Without the Christian allegory.
I read and liked the books. I am also a millennial who would have been a middle schooler when they were getting really big. Hit the right spot I guess.
As an adult? Sure you can pick apart all of the plot holes which happen a lot in fantasy writings.
The books had some very anti-government messaging. Or, at least, the reader learned about the danger of giving government too much power. Also, even the “good” people in government were incompetent and corrupt.
The best fantasy treatment of an anarchy-capitalist society is by Lloyd Alexander, in “Taran Wanderer”.
Do one of our CPAs here want to help me out?
Why is he showing gross income net of Uber fees as his own gross income? It likely brings him up a tax bracket. Wouldn’t the 1099 just show the net paid to the driver?
The other expenses make sense to me.
https://www.businessinsider.com/driving-for-uber-lyft-how-make-money-car-expenses-gas-2024-2
Your tax bracket is based on taxable income, not gross income.
Danka!
I think Kevin Phillips is over-rated. His big insight in ’69 that the people being marooned by the Democratic Party would find a home in the Republican. I guess the natural thing to believe was that they would all come-to-new-Jesus in the old party? Anyway, pretty good read on our prospects for a new civil war.
Interesting read. Thanks for sharing that.
The notion of a “coming” new Civil War is foolishness. The war has already started.
At present, only one side is fighting – an invading army and violence ignored, sponsored, and facilitated by the “Justice” system. The other side is not, for a combination of reasons. Some of this is their wish that it weren’t true. Some is their self-image as “law and order” people. And a whole lot is that that “Justice” system is fully in the power of the enemy and will only be used to destroy them and their families.
War may be chaotic, but chaos isn’t war. You’re describing chaos.
It’s not a war until you have two governments fighting each other. It’s a civil war when both are from the same country, rather than one from a foreign country.
We’re not even close to a civil war, yet.
Stunning disbelief
In a D.C. courtroom, a trial is wrapping up this week with big stakes for climate science. One of the world’s most prominent climate scientists is suing a right wing author and a policy analyst for defamation.
The case comes at a time when attacks on scientists are proliferating, says Peter Hotez, professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology at Baylor College of Medicine. Even as misinformation about scientists and their work keeps growing, Hotez says scientists haven’t yet found a good way to respond.
“The reason we’re sort of fumbling at this is it’s unprecedented. And there is no roadmap,” he says.
The climate scientist at the center of this trial is Michael Mann. The Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at University of Pennsylvania gained prominence for helping make one of the most accessible, consequential graphs in the history of climate science.
First published in the late 1990s, the graph shows thousands of years of relatively stable global temperatures. Then, when humans start burning lots of coal and oil, it shows a spike upward. Mann’s graph looks like a hockey stick lying on its side, with the blade sticking straight up.
The so-called “hockey stick graph” was successful in helping the public understand the urgency of global warming, and that made it a target, says Kert Davies, director of special investigations at the Center for Climate Integrity, a climate accountability nonprofit. “Because it became such a powerful image, it was under attack from the beginning,” he says.
Who doesn’t believe in science? Who doesn’t think that graph is 100% accurate? Anyone who questions science is a dangerous ignoramus.
Nobody should believe in “science”. Science is as corruptible as any other process/system. what people should believe in is the scientific process. It was created to try and hold back human biases. These days that process has been hijacked and smothered by the people that want you to believe in science, unfortunately, and they did it so the biggest buyer of “science” – government grants – would keep flowing….
If climate science was driven more by science than politics, Mann and his ilk would have been discredited long ago.
They were discredited. Repeatedly. But the usual criminals that have benefit from this racket have gone real hard into preventing most people that could be persuaded of that reality from seeing the reasoning/facts/logic/found abuses of the process that resulted in that discrediting. The same people that dismissively tell you you should never believe anything paid for by the fossil fuel interests and their allies, will freak the fuck out when you point out that the incentive to get or continue getting government grants – which is money orders of magnitude higher than what fossil fuel can do – would impact that segment of scientific consensus pushers even worse.
Should also point out that Mann is the one who sued Steyn. If there was any “attacking” then Mann was the instigator.
I’ve been reading some notes on it (can’t remember where exactly) and the commentator keeps talking about how audacious Mann’s claims were. For example, he initially claimed that he lost a $9M grant. Then later refused to provide any list of actual losses. After the court said “Really? If there are no losses, you have no case” he revised his initial list of losses but the $9M grant turned into a measly $100K grant.
From what I’ve skimmed Mann has been taking a beating in court. That may be confirmation bias, but I sure hope he gets pantsed.
The other funny thing is that Mann’s defense against the ClimateGate email scandal is that he was investigated by Penn State and found completely innocent. Of course the investigation was run by the same guy who investigated Sandusky and Paterno and found nothing wrong there either.
What replication crisis?
Bra-fucking-vo!
The case comes at a time when attacks on scientists are proliferating, says Peter Hotez
Of all the people to quote.
Getting a sense of the Russian soul
Looking into Russian genetics and history (not through Putin’s eyes)
Razib Khan
https://www.razibkhan.com/p/getting-a-sense-of-the-russian-soul
Mann isn’t the only climate scientist facing attacks, says Lauren Kurtz, executive director of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
“We help more scientists every year than the year before,” Kurtz says, “We actually broke a record in 2023. We helped over 50 researchers.”
The science might not be settled, you say?
Mann initiated this attack – the legal one that is.
And he did it in Washington D.C. for a very specific reason…
(the court is loaded with marxists that will protect this evil agenda).
Two years ago, here at The American Conservative, this author wrote, “The United States has all the preconditions for a civil war today except one: the willingness to actually fight for the sake of disunity.” I still think that’s true, and I sure hope it is.
And as I have said, people still have too much to lose. But that could change. Just ask some of those insurrectionists who have been hunted down and crushed under the heel of the Biden/Garland
JusticeVengeance Department.Maybe I’m mistaken, but I’m pretty sure that if I pulled a machete on someone, I’d be in prison. I certainly don’t think I’d immediately get hired for a teaching job.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/04/metro/nutty-nyc-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-who-held-machete-to-post-reporters-neck-fired-from-cooper-union-over-anti-israel-rants/
Welcome to downstate.
She seems nice…
Hotez worries about the ramifications for the future of science and medicine. He says: “Young people, looking at future careers, looking at how scientists are attacked are going to say, ‘Well, why do I want to go into this profession?'”
“What is it you do here, exactly?”
Hotez is a goddamned sack of shit-not an attack, just an objective fact
Rosie Beacon
@BeaconRosie
I wish I could express how allergic I am to politicians who never stop talking about the nanny state. Immediate sign that they are driven primarily by ideology rather than evidence.
James Price
@jamespriceglos
The leftist mindset…
To which I reply: Evidence of what? Liberty isn’t just “ideology” it’s something sacred and important in its own right. My right to eat, drink, love, live, work in ways I want are of fundamental importance to me & there isn’t any “evidence” from some ‘public health’ official that can just invalidate that.
https://twitter.com/jamespriceglos/status/1754842853870579791
That NPR article gives not the slightest nod to the possibility of any doubt whatsoever about the quality or accuracy of Mann’s work. Those two lunatics are just throwing mud at him for no reason. Nothing about what has been presented in court. That’s how you journalism.
Swear to tell the narrative, only the narrative and nothing but the narrative.
NPR – Narrative Propaganda Radio.
The axeman may not be needed. Charles has cancer, supposedly caught early enough, but Harry is suddenly flying back to see the old man. Maybe…
Serious question: has anybody clarified what KIND of cancer? Not especially interested in Chucky, but ticked off by the crappy incomplete reporting…
It’s simultaneously “we caught it early” and “the idiot son is suddenly coming back to see him”. While not clarifying anything.
Prostate is what I have seen…
The article I read said it was unrelated. The prostate was benign.
Testicular? Bladder? Rectal? Apparently not prostate.
All I’ve heard is “not prostate cancer,” though it was discovered during treatment of a benign enlarged prostate.
TBF, the American media are more interested in that guy’s wife, followed distantly by him and then the King.
The Communist ☭
@revcommunists
We are launching a Revolutionary Communist Party – a party that can represent the revolutionary aspirations of workers and youth in Britain. The ruling class and their state are fighting back, as we would expect. To fight back, we need a fighting fund!
https://twitter.com/revcommunists/status/1754558003955503267
To be fair, the UK only has 12 or so communist parties it does need another one
My flavor of communism makes me the one that decides who dies and who doesn’t..
That party already has rallies in Berkeley.
Splitters!
en months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls:
This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader
, @LukeFarritor
, and @JuliSchillij
, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!!
These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life’s pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who “have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular.”
This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll.
https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1754519304471814555
Does the scroll say “Eat at Romulus'”?
We are launching a Revolutionary Communist Party – a party that can represent the revolutionary aspirations of workers and youth in Britain. The ruling class and their state are fighting back, as we would expect. To fight back, we need a fighting fund!
They need corporate sponsorship. Maybe Disney could throw some cash their way if they wear Mickey ears next time they glue themselves to a drawbridge.
The US, France, Russia and now Britain. Everyone has carrier problems
This is why you don’t just have one
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/05/hms-queen-elizabeth-royal-navy-carrier-shaft-usn-ford-cdg/
On Friday night, a pre-sailing inspection on HMS Queen Elizabeth revealed corrosion on a shaft coupling. Pending the fine detail, we know she will now not be sailing to Nato exercise Steadfast Defender. Instead, she will be heading to Rosyth for a docking period to repair the defect.
This is why you don’t just have one
Tom Sharpe
5 February 2024 • 5:59pm
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On Friday night, a pre-sailing inspection on HMS Queen Elizabeth revealed corrosion on a shaft coupling. Pending the fine detail, we know she will now not be sailing to Nato exercise Steadfast Defender. Instead, she will be heading to Rosyth for a docking period to repair the defect.
The first and most obvious point is this is why two carriers were built. If this had happened to the French carrier Charles de Gaulle for example, France would now be without carrier strike options for the duration of the repair. Twice now redundancy has proved its worth.
he general metric for warships is that you need (just over) three to guarantee one on task. Clearly we couldn’t afford that and there are many who don’t think we could, or should, afford any. Those inside the services or Ministry of Defence who despised the carriers through their design and build phase, and there were many, often lobbied to reduce the class down to one ship. That this was resisted at each stage has proven to be a good example of strategic decision making.
Right now, getting HMS Prince of Wales to a position where she can take on QEs programme is not like flicking a switch. She is in a maintenance period that needs to be accelerated. She will then need to be trained, assured, and provided with the equipment, ammunition and people that she didn’t need as the lower readiness carrier. This transition has already started but think weeks not days. The Navy will be pushing hard to make this as fast as possible.
And all new ships are thus afflicted, particularly if there is a gap between when they are built and when the relevant shipyard last built a ship of this type.
Even the Type 23 frigate, now the workhorse of the fleet, had early issues. They spent the first five years of their life without a working command system and the Merlin helicopter didn’t fit in the hangar in the first of class. Meme generators and bloggers had they existed back then would have had a field day.
HMS Queen Elizabeth pushed the boundaries in many respects, both in terms of size and construction techniques – problems are inevitable.
And this is not just a UK problem. Every navy I ever worked with had ships that had issues. Even Newport News Shipbuilding, the yard that built the Nimitz class carriers – without doubt some of the best ships ever built – had a lot of problems with the first-of-class USS Ford that followed the Nimitzes.
The French carrier Charles de Gaulle has also been plagued by problems over the years, including vibration on their propellor shafts.
The Russian carrier, Kuznetsov, has often had issues too and she is typically accompanied by a powerful ocean-going tug in case of trouble.
At least they are not accusing a carrier Pidgeon of being a Chinese spy and holding it in custody?
On the modern battlefield carriers will make fine artificial reefs unless their nuclear reactors are compromised. They still work great for projecting power against third-rate militaries and irregulars though.
I thought Charles had the corrosion on a shaft coupling.
No, pretty sure it’s cancer.
How to Fight 7 Swordsmen at Once – Donald McBane’s 18th Century Pub Brawl Survival Tactics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6TXmN0eUSk
Weapon with a 30 bullet clip?
you Americans and your guns. No class. The sword is the gentleman’s weapon.
That may explain the paucity of gentlemen these days.
Relevant comic!
https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2024/02/05/dwarven-technology-comic/
Can’t believe it wasn’t this
I am more a fan of the Barret 50 cal…
That’s not how this works
The House will vote on a standalone bill to provide aid to Israel as hard-right Republicans attempt to thwart a Senate bipartisan border bill that seeks to impose tougher immigration and asylum laws and includes foreign aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
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The Biden administration issued a formal veto threat Monday to the standalone Israel aid bill, saying it “strongly opposes” the measure after having worked with a bipartisan group of senators for months to come to an agreement on legislation that aims to secure the border and provide aid to Ukraine and Israel.
Stand-alone bills are un-American.
Tougher immigration and asylum laws my ass. Jesus tapdancing Christ the spin.
Israel has a better gdp-to-debt ratio than the U.S. But the only thing Congress can agree on is borrow-printing $billions to fund their war.
Why should the Senate be crafting bills concerning spending? Have they forgotten that the House controls the purse strings?
Now this is comedy!
“Instead of working in good faith to address the most pressing national security challenges, this bill is another cynical political maneuver,” the Office of Management and Budget said in a statement of administration policy.
I know you are, but what am I?
Montclair Brewery serves up Whitney Hefeweizen to honor Houston
https://njbiz.com/montclair-brewery-serves-up-whitney-hefeweizen-to-honor-houston/
Does it include coke or not?
Hefeweizen – meh
coke – usually sprite for radler
Whitney OD’d.
on sprite? weird.
Obviously not, just notes of chocolate with a plasticky crack finish.
Well, that is a possible off flavor.
Complicating matters further for Johnson, the legislation faces opposition from the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which criticized its lack of provisions to offset the spending with cuts elsewhere.
“The most principled action taken to date by Speaker Johnson was the decision to pass a standalone, fully paid-for Israel funding bill in November, demonstrating our commitment to supporting our most important ally in a fiscally responsible manner,” the House Freedom Caucus said in a statement. “It is extremely disappointing that the Speaker is now surrendering to perceived pressure to move an even larger but now unpaid for Israel aid package — reversing course on his stance to require new supplemental spending to be offset.”
“Conservatives should not be forced to choose between borrowing money to support our special friend Israel or honoring our commitment to end unpaid supplemental spending that exacerbate our nation’s unsustainable fiscal crisis and further risks our ability to respond to future crises,” they added.
Look, I want to get clean. I really do. But right now I gotta have a fix. I’ll quit tomorrow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/health/article-13049845/store-warm-food-fridge-safe-australia-fried-rice-syndrome.html
Most punchable face?
Take health advice from that person at your peril.
I scrolled down, saw that face, and emitted an audible screech. Human cartoon character!
Fuck the sissyness of all this “if food has been exposed to air for more than 10 minutes, just throw it out because it is contaminated!”
My wife will have some sort of Korean soup on the stove for a week. She will add things each day. Her take is that she boils it before eating, so no big deal. She also grew up with no refrigerator until she was in high school so she doesn’t have the insane fright of spoiled food.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 02/06:
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Testicular? Bladder? Rectal? Apparently not prostate.
He’s a king, so… asshole cancer.
“OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney drunkenly propositioned a teenager near her parents’ Texas home three months after killing her boyfriend in Miami, according to a newly-released police report – and threatened to burn his house down when he rejected her.
Clenney, 27, is accused of fatally stabbing her cryptocurrency trader boyfriend Christian Obumseli in April 2022 at their luxury Miami apartment. She was arrested in August 2022 in Hawaii, and is awaiting trial: she admits killing him, but says it was in self-defense.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13049091/courtney-clenney-fans-propositioned-teenager-austin-texas-murder.html
She seems nice.
Would not give her my real name.
It’s the sudden stop at the end what hurts
A 73-year-old Arizona man died Wednesday while skydiving with his friends after his parachute failed to fully deploy, local authorities said.
Terry Gardner, of Casa Grande, was on his third jump of the day with three friends and fellow skydivers around 12 p.m. local time when the incident happened, the Eloy Police Department said in a statement.
He and his group had planned a formation jump from an altitude of 14,000 feet but were unable to complete that formation (though police don’t believe this contributed to Gardner’s accident).
While other sky divers were able to land safely and without incident, when Gardner’s parachute deployed, “unexpected complications arose” that resulted in a “hard landing without a fully deployed parachute,” police said.
Doing what he loved?
He should have gone with motorcycle jousting, as a hobby.
I do miss the smell of Jet A in the morning…
RIP (cord)
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https://www.sci.news/biology/four-new-deep-sea-octopus-species-pacific-ocean-12652.html
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A pair of climate scientists are proposing a sixth category for hurricanes as climate change increasingly intensifies storms, according to a new research study.
In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the two scientists argued the “open-ended” Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale is becoming increasingly “inadequate” as the globe continues to warm.
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Under the proposal, a Category 6 designation would apply to storms with winds that exceed 192 mph.
Storms with winds of 157 mph or higher are currently ranked Category 5, an open-ended approach that fails to adequately warn people of the dangers of higher wind speeds, the study contended.
Yeah, because 150mph winds are no big deal. People don’t even bother to bring the lawn furniture in.
“climate change increasingly intensifies storms”
Bullshit.
“More than 60 current and former NYCHA workers have been busted in a bribe-and-extortion scheme that authorities say involves the largest number of federal bribery charges in a single day in Department of Justice history.
The suspects — accused of accepting cash payments from contractors in exchange for lucrative New York City Housing Authority contracts — were hauled off in handcuffs in a widespread raid Tuesday morning, according to the Southern District of New York.”
https://nypost.com/2024/02/06/metro/dozens-of-city-housing-employees-arrested-sources/
Wow. Can you imagine all the corrupt hacks that didn’t get caught?!
“Argentinian President Javier Milei landed on Tuesday in Israel, where he announced that he would be moving Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem.
Milei, who made Israel the destination of his first bilateral visit since he assumed the presidency in December, had pledged to make the move during his election campaign.
There have been no practical steps taken around the move, and there is no Argentinian ambassador in Israel.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-bilateral-visit-argentinas-milei-says-he-will-move-embassy-to-jerusalem/
Sounds like he needs to appoint an ambassador to go with the new embassy.
“A McDonald’s franchisee has agreed to pay $4.4 million to settle a lawsuit from a teenage girl who said she was sexually assaulted in the Pennsylvania-based restaurant’s bathroom by her manager, a registered sex offender.
The unidentified girl was 14 years old at the time of the 2021 attack, which happened just four months after she was hired at the McDonald’s location in Bethel Park.
In January 2021, Walter A. Garner, now 44 — a lifetime registered sex offender in Pennsylvania who had already served prison time for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2003 — became the victim’s manager.
According to the lawsuit, which was earlier reported on by local news site TribLIVE, Garner began sexually harassing the girl almost immediately after becoming her boss, using sexual innuendos, including telling her that he wanted her “to be his happy meal.””
https://nypost.com/2024/02/06/business/mcdonalds-franchisee-to-pay-4-4m-to-teen-girl-who-was-sexually-assaulted-in-restaurant-bathroom/
At least she wasn’t raped by five guys.
Boooo
In January 2021, Walter A. Garner, now 44 — a lifetime registered sex offender in Pennsylvania who had already served prison time for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2003 — became the victim’s manager.
Am I really against capital punishment?
I’m not. Not sure I’d support it for a single conviction for child molestation, though.