It’s here!
The NCAA tournament starts today (technically the “first four” are play-in games). Should be a good one. There’s probably ten or more teams that can win it all this year. Ohtani’s interpreter got fired but I don’t think the story will end any time soon. And Euro qualifying games start back up today during the latest international break. And that’s it for sports.
It never even dawns on these people to look into why we got here. Of course that would cause them to attack the idiotic zoning that killed almost all the affordable housing in their cities and states in the first place. And that’s not politically doable so instead they applaud their great foresight in…starting to go back to the way things were before the politicians in these blue cities and states destroyed affordable housing to begin with.
Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!
Wait, Ukraine aid? I thought this was the best border security bill ever and was about protecting the US. Either way, it’s good to see them finally being honest about the bill’s actual intent.
Newsflash: people don’t want to pay money to be told they’re pieces of shit. Especially when the story is retarded to boot.
14 years? FOURTEEN FUCKING YEARS?!?!?!?! Why didn’t they just take her and her husband out back and put a bullet in their heads? (No, I am not joking.)
“Stop looking at my tits! My lady face is up here”
They never learn from the mistakes of others. At least, it never seems like they do. I guess the ones who do learn don’t make the news because they don’t do stupid shit like this.
Portland is racist. Otherwise, they’d stop all the white hippies smoking weed in public for the same thing. Also, they hate private property rights.
They knew a 6 am raid that started by using a battering ram to ingress would lead to this. They simply don’t give a shit.
You can’t tell me the opposing side of this suit would have been given the same treatment. Because I’ve seen enough to know we have a two-tiered justice system in this country.
Chevron can’t be gutted soon enough. This insanity must stop.
This is for the guy a few stories up. But it should be for all of us. This one needs no pithy introduction. It’s simply amazing. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
Something stinks to high hell
Procedures were followed, that smell is just a natural by product.
If that is the case, procedures must be jettissoned and those who enacted or approved them prosecuted.
You forgot to add that you want a pony as long as you’re wishing… but yes, that’s what should happen.
In our sucky reality, though — accountability seems to be a completely foreign concept.
Oh, fuck off AP.
And agreed Sloopy — re-discovering rooms-to-let (for much more than fifty cents, though…. King of the Road can’t be far behind…). Maybe for the druggie side of homelessness they’ll rediscover flop houses and mental asylums soon and we can get some law and order back to urban areas instead of poop maps.
And 100% completely obligatory.
Speak of ‘homeless’ — I see Sacramento kept counting until they “found” the votes they needed. Funny how that’s only a problem in 2020 in Georgia…
“How to drive productive people out of your state” by Gov Newsom
It’s part of a trilogy.
…And Win the Presidency”
You always leave off the last half of the title.
Two-thirds of a diminishing pool of money? Not a great plan.
Kinda like tying sin-taxes to these programs where the purpose of the sin-tax was to reduce the sin. And the people will continue to fall for it.
It’s shocking how all of these businesses keep popping up right at the line where the sin-taxes end and put up signs saying “No Sin Tax!”
Be careful about where you set up, or you’ll commit a sin tax error.
There is a kernel of truth in what UnCiv says
I think he’s compiled a whole library (that’s he’s shared, natch) of such truisms. Avoiding sin tax errors has helped him with the assembly.
(See?)
I see a pun chain coming and thought about adding to it, but I’m not gonna byte.
Not even a nibble?
Not one bit.
Sloopy is old school — he’ll just peek and poke at it. Ya basic.
I C what you’re doing, ‘k?
Assuming each housing unit is single occupancy, that’s about $600K per person served. What a bargain!
Preferred contractors and the administrators of said programs need to eat too
And prevailing wages add about 30 percent.
Clearly they need to increase the tax to make up for the diminishing revenue.
Maybe they need to import some more millionaires? Now, how to go about doing that?
Redefine millionaire to widen the base.
/looks at the proposed “billionaire” tax that started at $400 million in assets or so
California: Do you own a home?
California: Purge the kulaks.
Oh wait… a proposal that takes a slimmer margin to pass…. and a surprising spurt of retirements before the end of the term that are cutting down on the Speaker’s power (and therefore ability to prevent this from coming to a vote)…. Gee, that wouldn’t be a happy set of coincidences there now would it Intelligence Community and Ukraine war-hawks… now would it? So timely… so convenient….
Not outside of a certain segment of Germany, at any rate.
Sloopy also didn’t read the cuck guide SugarFree put in the afternoon links yesterday.
Huh… speaking of German pieces of shit.
And your answer apparently is: “Because we can’t do anything quickly and efficiently any more.” I assume it is the side effect of “soft times” — everything gets over argued, everything gets litigated (because the big problems are too hard… but we have all these lawyers — so what else would they do but find corner cases to litigate?)… so everything turns into that “5 minute ‘How will you advance team goals!’ meeting that really is a “30 minute status report”” inevitably…. And they’ll need your TPS reports. With covers. In triplicate.
Daily we’re seeing reports of parents/adults causing harm or death to kids. The need for extreme and immediate solutions to these problems is apparent. My old heart cries for those innocent babies, I can not understand how anyone can do that to a child.
1) “If it bleeds it leads” — more likely to be reported, so the frequency may not be all that different. (Sad, but possible)
2) Narcissistic, selfish culture that devalues human life in general — “You’re special…. you’re important… you’re the most important person in the Universe and whatever you want to do is what you should do!” training from a young age these days. Hence easier to lash out at perceived impediments to their wants and desires instead of sacrificing for their children / future generations.
Just at a guess, at any rate.
Narcissistic
Or how most sociopaths will behave in a culture that doesn’t have consequences
Blood has been leading for over a century.
I am frequently appalled at humanity’s capacity for cruelty. It makes me wonder if there is, in fact, any inherent virtue in humans at all, or if we are just somewhat more evolved animals. Speaking as a human, I would like to believe that self-awareness and reason make humans something special. But then I see what humans do to each other, sometimes for no reason at all, and I fear that agency and natural rights and all of that is just an screen we hold up to hide the snarling animal we would otherwise see in the mirror.
Inherent dignity? Yes.
Inherent virtue? Only kinda. We have consciences, but those consciences aren’t usually the strongest voice in our head.
There is an inherent virtue in humans despite what we often see. We are social animals and social animals require a certain amount of virtue, empathy, cooperation etc.
Sadly the laws of evolution only require the minimum amount necessary for a cohesive group.
Suthen, with your comment down below in support of Sloop’s kill-them-and-be-done-with-it, I was gonna reference Grumman there for an answer. You’ve managed to play both sides of the coin – yes, we operate well socially based on trust, and equally, we’re quite easily disposed to violence. Civilization is a thin veneer.
The argument is a bit muddy because ‘we’ are not a homogenous bunch. Each individual is different. Some differences can be accounted for by birth, others by circumstances.
Even the most civil society has sociopaths just as even the most barbaric cultures produce a few good people.
Oh yeah, I was speaking the grand we – the species at large. Wild amounts of differentiation covered.
One real issue I have with Nietzsche is he so slightly touched on cooperation (as a moral value). I suppose you could say that was the German in him.
I have fallen so far down the anti-collectivist rabbit whole I no longer see “human” as a valid moral label.
My dog is a much “better person” than a significant portion of H. sapiens.
Most dog owners already know this. It is why I am very suspicious of people who dont like dogs.
I like dogs but wouldn’t own one that liked me. Wouldn’t be fair to the dog.
I would also like such a “loan”. I’m willing to owe billions I never have to pay back. Since I don’t have to pay it back, charge whatever rate you want.
The first time I saw an ad for American Society of Magical Negroes, I thought I was being pranked. It was a quick teaser. There could have been some bones there, and I like urban fantasy. Then I saw the full trailer, I have no idea who the target audience of this movie is. From the full trailer, the plot is that black people have magical powers; however, if white people get too upset around them, the magic powers go away. So, those who have powers need to make sure white people stay happy. New recruit falls for a girl that his assigned white guy was interested in. Conflict, potential loss of black people magic, and… something?
First time I saw the trailer I thought it was a Key & Peele sketch I hadn’t seen
Same. All my thoughts pointed to this being the absurd high-water mark of woke money wasting. The process behind the approval through marketing and the abysmal theater showings may end up being a textbook case discussed in college level film classes a decade from now.
A decade from now, the film school instructors will be using it as an example of how racist the audience is for not coming to see it.
It’s not like the professors actually need to attract an audience or turn a profit.
Wasn’t there already a movie in the same vein that flopped and that was the excuse? Black woman writer/director…something. She complained that no one wanted to see her shit movie because they hate darkies?
That sounds like too many of the garbage films out there these days, you’re going to have to be more specific.
I think we had a story linked here about her standing on the sidewalk outside a theater trying to drag people in to see the movie and everyone just said ‘no thanks’.
I dont remember other details.
College classes? “It was racism. Racism and disinformation.”
Somewhat related, finally sat down and watched Bodies Bodies Bodies last night. Had some entertaining bits, I saw three different story lines they could have gone with after the first Act, and I think they chose the weakest of the three.
There was one entertaining bit when two survivors are arguing near the end. One is holding a gun and demanding to see the others phone, the one holding the phone prepares to hand it over and throws it. The one holding the gun runs after it, slips and falls, dropping the gun. The two survivors then are fighting on the ground for…
The phone. Not the gun, but the phone.
See, if you were talking about Bodies instead of Bodies Bodies Bodies, there would have been a good reason for that scene.
High water mark? How cute.
Yeah, I didn’t know what to make of it. Other that a likely “stay far away”.
I don’t think they knew who the target audience was, since no one bothered to go and see it apparently.
The black face of white supremacy?
LOL. ASMN has an incredibly low IMBD rating of 2.5. That is phenomenally bad.
It was shot during the pandemic and shelved the last couple of years, from what I heard. So they new it wasn’t good, probably grifted some money from some sap to release it.
♪♫ Springtime for DuBois and… ♫
My only assumption is the C-suite and HR folks are so firmly in their bubble they think everyone thinks like they do — and those who don’t are a small fraction of harmful bigots. So of COURSE they should persecute the bigots and everyone will cheer them on. And reports to the contrary are fake news disinformation from those flyover scum or something.
Mistake?!?!? I for one love that I can head to the woman’s shower’s. And since I identify as a Trans woman who is lesbian, no one can be mad when I pull back the shower curtains and start masturbating my shecock.
so firmly in their bubble they think everyone thinks like they do
[glances left and right, sighs]
Im not in YOUR bubble, you’re in MY bubble buddy
https://giphy.com/gifs/z33A609KIBkQ
Call this place a bubble all you want — but one thing we’re pretty sure of is that not everyone thinks as we do. We can wish they did — but we’re well aware they don’t.
Oh we do plenty of that “no one I know voted for Nixon”.
To be fair, many of the people I know were not old enough to vote when Nixon was on the ballot.
I actively avoid people that vote for Nixon. I know ’em, I just hate them. Also, most of them are dead.
Damn,I voted for Nixon in ’68. Haven’t voted for a winning presidential candidate since.
We know not everybody thinks as we do. Why do you think we bang our heads against the wall every morning when we read (or write) these links?
Also, it would appear that they made their decision because they thought it would either have a positive or neutral impact on their bottom line, since that’s their primary responsibility, and are shocked to see it backfiring so spectacularly? That’s definitely a bubble-mentality.
I don’t think the wokists running these companies think making money is their primary responsibility, though. They certainly don’t act like it.
“Social Responsibility” is very, very large in those groups.
This is the biggest problem with removing the Church and other civic groups such as Rotary from most peoples lives.
Where those removed, or did they die because people lost interest? It’s always convenient to say someone killed them with malicious intent, but is that really the case?
I’ve read several analysis over the years that posited that the death of most of the civil/community organizations was company provided health care. The theory is that in the before times, people would cover some catastrophic health insurance and pay out of pocket. For things that fell in between, they would lean on the mutual aid organizations who would raise funds for members. As health insurance became part of employment compensation, the need for that dwindled which (in addition to them mostly being middle aged white male organizations) helped to cause the decline.
From personal knowledge, I’ve known a couple of people who have joined the Eagles/Masons/etc., but many more that joined church based organizations instead.
So appropriate on so many levels:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mlCiDEXuxxA
We are “tiny bubbles.”
[golf claps]
Hey! Who let all these assholes into my bubble?
JI sees it.
The theorizing here about Democrats doesn’t match up all that well with what I read from [some] Democrats. And we certainly don’t have a contingent of Democrats to share their own insights.
—“Our gender identity non-discrimination policy states that members and guests may use the facilities that best align with the sincere, self-reported gender identity”—
The best part is that people can change they gender identity at will. I have a (young) family member who is “non-binary”. This family member is young enough to not have any experience being binary. Some days this family member “feels” female, and some days “feels” male. Again, not old enough to have any experience either way, but is sure they are non-binary. It breaks my heart that this family members parents are encouraging this insanity. It don’t know where all of this ends.
Unfortunately — my gut is with the Vorlon.
It don’t know where all of this ends.
Sterilization and lifelong crippling depression, if not intervened against early enough.
People have to go to therapy because mommy and daddy spanked them. What happens when these kids grow up and have to process through the fact that mommy and daddy dressed them up in dresses and makeup and gave them hormone blockers that messed up their body?
Dq fuq? How weak do you have to be that corporal punishment is traumatic to the point of therapy. (Yes, I draw a distinction between corporal punishment and child abuse. It is possible to go too far, but there is an appropriate range)
I’d introduce you to gentle parenting, but it’s just a rebranding of positive parenting and the Dr Spock stuff that is taken to the next level. Heck, as I do research on dog training (Great Pyr pup coming in 5 weeks), I’m disappointed in how many trainers refuse to include negative consequences in their obedience training. I don’t want to abuse them, but correction of unwanted behavior is necessary for both dogs and kids.
related. I hate the modern concept that prison is about rehabilitation. I don’t mind that being there for those who seek it. But prison is punishment. Pretending otherwise is just that, pretending.
GK Chesterton
looms largeagrees.Moral posturing is not a new thing.
Or InstaTherapy, where your shitty behavior is not your fault and is actually justified because…trauma (which is just anything in your life that even mildly annoys you).
Don’t worry. Most won’t make it to therapy. They know a substantial portion of therapists are too on board for that. Also, I would guess that a large majority will self medicate with hard drugs and die or other self destructive behaviors.
I have purchased one of your American rye whiskies at great discount. I assume you people will tell me it’s shit, but you don;t get that many in Romania. Catoctin Creek Distiller’s Edition Rye 46%
Never seen it before.
*shrug*
Headquarters Purcellville, Virginia , United States wherever that may be
In Virgina
“On the other side of that big body of water to your West there’s this whole continent called ‘North America’… you might have heard of it…”
sounds like a shithole
Purcellville used to be a hick town, now it’s way upscale country.
way upscale country – looking at a map seems suspiciously close to Washington DC which you people have few good things to say about. The again American distances may be misleading.
It didn’t used to be so close.
the tumor is spreading? is it benign or malignant?
the tumor is spreading?
Yes. I have some comments here from 4 or 5 years ago to that point.
is it benign or malignant?
I don’t think you need my help answering that question. Let’s just say that Loudoun County VA has been known in recent years for being the epicenter of the trans bathroom BS.
oh ha ha
Less than an hour from me. I’ve only ever had their Roundstone Rye, but I thought it was pretty good.
the cask proof seems to be the same Roundstone Rye but at higher abv
the also have Catoctin Creek Cask Proof Rye, 58% but at 80$ after discount it seems pricey, the one I bought was only 45$ after discount
The Catoctin Creek Distilling Company (/kəˈtɒktən/ kə-TOK-tən), which operates under the trade name of Catoctin Creek, is the first legal distillery in Loudoun County, Virginia since prohibition.[1] The distillery is a certified organic and kosher[2] microdistillery in Purcellville, Virginia that produces brandy, rye whiskey,[3] and gin from local fruit, organic grain and Virginia wine.[4]
No idea how a bottle of this ended up in Romania
Probably the same way all those “Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champions” tshirts ended up in The Sudan and Niger.
Enjoy your swill.
You have diplomats in DC don’t you? No doubt they were served some and decided to see that it got imported.
Next time im back in that area, I’ll have to try it out. One of my neighbors used to work at KO distillery, just down the road from there. Their gin was amazing!
That was above my $40 cutoff for a review bottle.
Only a small percentage of the human population is productive. The biggest part of politics, after enslavement, is deciding how to pass out the proceeds of the productive to the unproductive.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/icHlMUuE5lM
Why we got here? Envy, that’s how.
Stop giving aid to our enemies. Full stop.
Racism was mostly dead by the mid-’90s. The foam-at-the-mouth naked racism now, thanks to the left, would make Bull Connor blush. What evil people.
Looks like we should be rounding up some wokesters on this side of the pond as well.
The NW coast…yeah, they are commies. Is it Portland or Seattle that has the statue of Lenin? On a related note, when is Mt. Ranier due to blow?
There seems to be an awful lot of heavy handed bullshit with Fed law enforcement these days. I guess the same is true in all banana republics.
Again, banana republic and all that. No surprise.
More banana republic….making superior products unaffordable or illegal is not a boost for anything.
EV’s dont work. They didn’t work before, they dont work now and they are never going to work. An EV system will collapse as sure as the sun will rise.
The only exception will be if someone discovers the magical power to alter the laws of the universe.
Yeeeeeah….I am gonna go with Sloopy on this one. Shoot the woman and be done with it. Then gather up all of the academics and pols that poisoned so many children’s minds into becoming woke monsters and shoot them too.
I’d quibble with that — I think the majority is “just productive enough” to keep away starvation. If all needs were met? Yeah — they’d almost certainly go couch potato for a while (then dabble at hobbies).
A small percentage is “super-productive” (all the entrepreneurs, etc)… the hyper-ultra-mega-productive (like Elon) who think everyone should work 120 hours a week because its fun! are fortunately a very, very small percentage….
—“I think the majority is “just productive enough” to keep away starvation. If all needs were met? Yeah — they’d almost certainly go couch potato for a while (then dabble at hobbies).”—
It appears that my blackout curtains are not working.
Fuckin’ tree rats ate one part of my comment. What the hell?
ISIS bride: shoot her. Shoot all of the academics and pols that have turned so many children into woke monsters.
Listening to the Duran guys yesterday speculating that many in the administration don’t really want the big aid package passed.
If it doesn’t pass, and the Ukrainian army collapses, they can blame Republicans.
If they do pass the aid package and Ukraine collapses anyway – which is likely since things like artillery shells and anti-aircraft missiles simply don’t exist in adequate quantities at any price – then Biden gets blamed for throwing good money after bad on this boondoggle.
They’ll still blame the GOP for holding the “aid” up for so long that they caused the collapse. And it will be impossible to prove otherwise.
Democrats always blame Republicans. Hell, look at our most of our cities – run by Democrats for generations and do they take ANY blame for the conditions there?
And republicans blame democrats for inflation when the majority of them voted for all the retarded print-and-spend bullshit.
Two sides. One coin. (Except for a few like Massie.)
Re: Music selection
Thanks Sloopy. Joe Strummer was a musical genius. Next to The Clash, another of my favorite groups is The Mescaleros, also featuring Joe Strummer. He also made/produced a few songs as a non-member of Big Audio Dynamite.
“Why didn’t they just take her and her husband out back and put a bullet in their heads? (No, I am not joking.)”
Yup. Some things people do, they should just be killed for having done it. Chaining up a five year old slave girl in the sun just to watch her die of thirst sounds like one of those things.
bullet in their heads seems a bit fast, maybe some slower way is better
Stake them out in the sun and leave them?
On an ant hill.
I think the preferred method is to stake them out just before dusk and cut a slit in their abdominal wall, tug out one loop of small intestine….
I get the temptation: “you did some horrible thing, something equally horrible must be done to you.”
Better for our psychological wellbeing to just do something quick and effective, and save your emotional energy for the deserving.
This is where Nietzsche would tell you you are wrong. Or as he would put it – slave morality promises justice in the afterlife not in the here and now.
My only issue is 14 years-life in prison would suffice.
If they’re going to die in prison anyway, why not just cut to the chase?
Because there is a possibility for remorse and redemption of their soul.
I, for one, am reluctant to introduce the state of one’s soul into the criminal courts. Thataway lies heresy, burning at the stake, etc. If the Almighty thinks you were deprived of an opportunity to redeem your soul, well, He can take that into account in the afterlife.
Having them die in precisely the same way as they slave girl seems appropriate.
As much as the vindictive side of me agrees. I am better than them, so While I may agree that they should be executed. I would still treat them with dignity and compassion until the end, despite the fact that they don’t deserve it. Maybe that’s just the Christian in me.
I’m with you and not for religious reasons. I don’t want a vindictive government.
I was thinking more along the lines of letting the relatives of the deceased get to decide whether to execute such a punishment — and if they so decide, carrying it our personally.
A lot of laws would go off the books if the authors of the law had to personally lock the convicted into cages and whatnot. Handing punishment off to anonymous strangers in a distant place causes a certain callousness in lawmaking. Similar to people saying stuff online they would never say to one’s face.
I saw on the interwebz a foreigner confused about the translation of a Romanian idiom which got me thinking.
I think between languages there may be idioms where the idiom is basically the same in both and the translation makes sense and means the same thing.
Other idioms the translation – words wise – can mean something, but might not have the same significance as an idiom.
Others may make no sense translated. And finally other make no sense in the original language either. I wonder if there is any point in a word by word translation or, like poetry, they should be translated in order to make some sense.
The person in question was wondering about Romanian idioms that mean something is very far away. Two of them they sort of understood. La mama dracu (at the devil’s mother’s place) si la dracu’n praznic (where the devil holds a feast).
What confused him is a modern and more vulgar one “in pula cu satelitul” This is not really easy to translate because pula (dick, cock etc) is a standard swear word that is basically inserted into anything and everything without an idea of making sense. Probably like the word fuck in English.
a direct translation would be “near a cock with a satellite”, satellites being in orbit aka far. So I was wondering would a translations like “where the fucking satellites are” make more sense in English?
Yes, “Where the fucking satellites are!” would indicate very far away. BFE or BFA (Butt/Bum Fuck Egypt/Anywhere) is a term for the middle of nowhere,
I have been to the OG BFE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt,_Wharton_County,_Texas
Although, there are two others (only linking one because of the link restrictions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt,_Leon_County,_Texas
Here’s the third:
http://www.countygenweb.com/txmontgomery/town_egypt.htm
Clears throat.
I ha mostly hear of Buttfuck Arkansas in the past, not Egypt.
Arkansas is too big and with too much buttfucking for the idiom to make sense in English, unless it has a secondary meaning as a coastal shibboleth.
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/butt-f-idaho/101371
al sorts of options
That’s a bit more evidence for the Coastal Shibboleth theory.
My french teacher had a book that had idioms that were translated from different languages to english directly, along with a brief explanation of what the idiom was trying to express in the native language. It was pretty amusing.
Ah, the Vernal Equinox. My second most hated day of the year
that was yesterday
It’s too cold to be officially spring.
Okay, I’ll bite. Why the hate on Vernors Equal Nog? And what’s your first most hated day of the year?
I thought Vernors made ginger ale
It was meant to be marketed as a sugar-free non-alcoholic holiday beverage. It… didn’t do well in the focus groups.
It’s the start of the long, hot, hateful slog through summer.
Only day I hate more is April 1.
“Hey you know that software program we foisted upon you 4 years ago? Here is the mandatory 8 hour training for it” /FAA
We have a browser version for our laptops and a app version for our mobile device..that operate in completely different ways.
Sounds like Navy deploying navigation systems.
Russian peasants listening to radio in 1928
https://twitter.com/hellothisisivan/status/1770738561941225689
They don’t look too happy about the disembodied voice box do they?
Happy Russian peasants? Those were a thing?
1928….consider what they must be hearing.
Officer feared for his life, procedures were followed, and everyone made it home safe at the end of the day except for the poor guy who got popped in the dome. Judge or review board or whatever will say job well done.
6 am.
Broke the door down.
I wonder if we will see body cam video. This was either an official no-knock or a de facto no-knock (light tap on the door, mumbled announcement). What were they after, anyway? I haven’t seen what investigation was so critical they had to put on their jackboots to search a middle-aged taxpayer’s house.
And for a guy who walked very predictably every normal day into a plain office where he could have been served/arrested/etc.
And the warrant’s still secret?
Yeah, BS. They wanted to put on a show.
They don the jackboots because they like to, not because it is necessary. The whole Waco fiasco was to justify the expenditures on tacti-cool. This is just a mini version.
And we’re giving these bennies to “asylum seekers”. That’s a nice touch.
Sacramento has to keep the illegals flooding in to offset the outflow and keep their political power at the federal level, after all.
“Asylum seekers” should be chained up on the border wall as a warning, and anyone trying to take them down shot and left to rot where they fall.
A bit harsh…maybe we can just send them back?
I’m looking for solutions to make them stop coming.
One round of warning saves a million more.
Fill up a bunch of C-130s and send them back home. After about 2 weeks, watch the inflow slow to a trickle when it becomes obvious the game is over.
Only if they’re dropped out the back sans parachutes.
That requires three things:
(1) We know where they came from. The illegals claiming asylum have been trained to drop their IDs before coming in.
(2) Their home country agrees to take them back.
(3) The expenditure of money.
Better to just stop them at the border. When Trump did that, many fewer made the attempt.
They came from the border. Put ’em back over the border.
Yeah, that is my thought.
Turn them around. Point them and vehicle if one back at the direction they came from. Repeat as necessary.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/us-news/tiktokker-tells-illegal-immigrants-how-to-invade-american-homes/
Now they are being taught about squatters’ rights, so that will save some money on housing.
I have to say that makes UCS’s solution appealing… at least in regards to said TikTokker…. CWAA.
Hope he made sure to tell them to only invade unoccupied homes – it’s going to get real messy otherwise.
There’s a guy for that.
Latin American countries are actually very lenient on squatters – a remnant of throwing off their colonial past, I suspect. It’s a known risk of buying real estate in a lot of counties. So it’s quite plausible that this is one of those delightful multi-cultural values that we are importing. And of course, facilitating in some jurisdictions. So, yeah, I would expect that squatting is one of the crime problems that we are going to see more of, in that purely additive way that all crimes committed by illegals are in addition to the crime we would have with a closed border.
Yeah, if this is how their enablers are going to break the expectation of “property rights” in the US, we’re pretty much done. Stick a fork in us.
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“Portland’s odor code dictates that within certain zones, “continuous, frequent, or repetitive odors may not be produced. The odor threshold is the point at which an odor may just be detected.”
Odds are it was a vegan “several doors down” who could smell them grilling meat. Note that any detectable odor that is repetitive counts. So no restaurants are safe. Even mowing your lawn once a week produces a repetitive (pleasant IMO) odor that would apparently trigger the ordinance.
There was a similar squabble among some homeowners in a suburb here over a pizza oven, which eventually went to court.
This is one of those things that I’m so happy to not have to deal with anymore.
There are rare smells (fire) and sounds (roosters, kids, guns, trucks) from the neighbors, but they’re far enough away to not be anything more than light background noise. Likewise, my girls can be as loud as they want and the neighbors aren’t bothered.
I have few neighbors but a couple of them target practice a lot. When I don’t hear any shooting I worry about them. Dogs bark, that’s their nature. I am a little distressed to hear them when I’m in my deer stand but the deer have gotten accustomed to the barking, if it doesn’t worry the deer, it doesn’t worry me.
My wife grew up in congested areas, with the accompanying smells, traffic and noise. She quickly adapted to a quiet life where any odors are coming from her own cooking.
Don’t forget the hatred people have developed for smoking. I’ve heard people at my previous job complain about smelling smoke after walking by the only smoking area, which was moved as far away as possible. But people like to use the picnic table that the was put in the smoking area (there are others),
Smoking has become a moral offence, not just a health offence. In much the same way that spanking your kids in public is morally wrong, no matter the justification, so too smoking.
FTFY
How you get around that pesky right of facing your accuser.
Do you think this could have contributed to her difficulty with finding DRIVE and REVERSE on the Tesla screen?
Angela Chao Was Well Over Alcohol Limit at Time of Fatal Texas Accident
Obligatory Family Guy
Wow. She was freakin’ hammered. That’s about a whole bottle of wine over two hours.
Nope! It wuz Elon Musk’s racism what killed her!
This could be a problem.
The Nightmare Start to Shohei Ohtani’s Dodgers Career
translator ? just learn english damn immigrants
Hey, it’s not a problem for Hunter Biden!
I read your comment and went back to my sports segment and realized it had autocorrected Ohtani to Octane. I just corrected it.
Does that make Apple racist?
Nah — it is just trying to rev you up.
The EPA expects that under the new rules, EVs could account for up to 56% of new passenger vehicles sold for model years 2030 through 2032, meeting a goal that President Biden set in 2021.
Typical government math, based on static assumptions about consumer behavior. Meanwhile, “America’s fleet” of vehicles will keep getting older. Until the next cash for clunkers, anyway.
Another good reason to vote for the orange guy.
But, but, but, in this here bubble I am assured that Democrats are a smooth-running evil machine that can’t be defeated.
It’s not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.
Intentional shifting of constituency, IMO. Not saying that they’re happy about driving away their former constituency, but they know full well that losing 15 percentage points of blacks and hispanics is well worth it if they can get 8 points in increased turnout in the single female demographic.
Link to claims of “smooth running?”
Or are you claiming that Democrat machine is not evil?
Smooth-running? No. In a functional society, their shenanigans in the 2020 election would have led to severe consequences (none of which, of course, were delivered). It’s crystal clear, after all, that there were, in fact, shenanigans.
It’s not that they’re really good at, well, anything. It’s that they have captured enough of the machinery of society that they don’t have to be good at it to get away with it.
Smooth running in that they completely got away with it. Nothing stopping them from doing the same thing over and over – thus, they can’t ever lose.
CA waves hello.
Right – there are equal numbers of progressive/D and conservative/R voters in CA. How many years did the Dems control Texas? A long, long time as I recall.
Anyone making the argument that current trends will go on forever is committing a logical fallacy.
Have the Democrats, in the last few election cycles, gotten away with lots of electoral cheating? Sure. Have they gotten away with everything they tried? The 9-0 SCOTUS slapdown of taking the opposition leadet off the ballots says no.
But, incentives matter. Any such cheating that goes unpunished will continue until the cheating gets too costly.
If, for example, the Venezuelans fleeing that clusterfuck by crossing the border started voting like Cubans in Florida, the Dems would rapidly try to change their losing policy of importing Venezuelans.
The 2022 elections called to remind you of the red wave that never happened.
Biden wins convincingly this time, carrying all but one swing state.
The ballot harvest will be a bumper crop this year.
There is a question of how many times the abortion card can be played. I don’t think it is infinite.
It might not be infinite, but it’s certainly not out of gas yet.
I have otherwise very conservative/libertarian women friends who are voting straight ticket Dem this time around, because a small cohort of Republicans is threatening to fuck with their birth control availability.
Shame on the Republicans for letting the zealots control the message.
The question is: is the abortion card stronger than the racism card? ‘Cause they have been successfully playing that one a long time.
We’ll have those
n*****sb****es voting dem for 200 years.LBJ’s 100 years is 60 years in.
The other amusing thing is how pro-abortion people always talk about men being opposed to abortion. They just completely make pro-life women invisible. Funny that.
Trump could overcome a lot of opposition if he would just talk and behave like a normal educated person (which of course he can’t). His word salads and unfinished and garbled sentences make him sound like many of the Dem politicians or that slimy used car salesman that tried to sell you that used Yugo. Most people know someone, not a national figure – head of the local rotary club, or their doctor, or their pastor – who speaks more eloquently and persuasively than Trump.
Trump could overcome a lot of opposition if he would just talk and behave like a normal educated person
Yep, and Biden could overcome a lot of opposition if he espoused free market ideals and equality under the law.
For both of them, a substantial portion of the base would desert if they did that.
One of the big aspects of Trump’s ascendancy is his speaking style. He doesn’t sound polished, he doesn’t sound like an ivy leaguer, he sounds like that guy you meet at the bar who has had one too many beers and gets “opinionated”. There are a heckuva lot of people who find comfort in that style, especially in comparison to Bush 1, Dole, Bush 2, McCain, and Romney.
Hell, if Biden had just stuck with being a 90’s Democrat – he would have been fairly centrist.
His support is so shallow he would lose votes if he talked like a normal guy (no, doesn’t have to sound like a Yalie)? I know lots of “independents” who would consider him if he didn’t sound like the guy in the bar who has had two or three beers.
His support is so shallow he would lose votes if he talked like a normal guy (no, doesn’t have to sound like a Yalie)?
It seems a touch hypocritical to insult the base when you’re accusing the malleable middle of the same exact behavior in reverse.
There’s no denying it, a substantial portion of the electorate votes based on objectively worthless things like charisma and demeanor. Heck, we have all sorts of rationalizations for it that we use ourselves (“at least he pisses off the left”, “at least she’s getting some traction with her anti-war stance”).
RICO – Puerto Rican not the same?
AOC takes heat over ‘RICO is not a crime’ comment in Biden impeachment probe hearing
‘Member when Ken White used to make fun of RICO prosecution threats?
‘Member when Ken White had integrity?
Considering he had been a US Attorney, I’m thinking that was just a phase he went through.
RICO is not a crime.
Skateboarding is not a crime.
Therefore, skateboarding is RICO.
Rico is the name of a character in Mojeaux’s upcoming book about the new criminal element in Kansas City
Rico is in my doodles somewhere.
I don’t remember ever hearing AOC’s voice before. Gah!!! I’m having flashbacks to junior high Mean Girls. 😖
Yes, a category. Of crimes. It provides both enhanced penalties (and this is the part the House’s Wise Latinx overlooked): separate causes of action, including both criminal and civil.
“This is one of the biggest pieces of climate regulation in history,” Chris Harto, senior policy analyst for transportation and energy at Consumer Reports, said on a call with reporters.
“It’s going to have opponents,” Harto added, because the money consumers will save is “coming out of the pockets of the oil industry.”
What a maroon.
What the fuck is he talking about?
What money?
The benefits of leftist policies, like the apocalypse, are always just around the next bend.
Why not do both?
/s Joe Biden the the US Congress
Russian Threat Forces Europe to Choose: Bolster Defense or Protect Social Spending
Euros: sacrifice ANY social spending for defense? Isn’t that what we have you Americans for?
I should add, the Euro farm subsidies make ours look like chump change. When farmers over there used to protest it was about that, not the climate regs.
Wasn’t it yesterday where some twit was bragging about how nobody else could spend as much as the UK at their tax rate?
Why buy the cow when the milk is free.
Education polarization of the electorate is just getting worse and Democrats are on the wrong end of the stick
“A man would have to have a mighty fine education to believe such nonsense.”
Why not do both?
/s Joe Biden the the US Congress
We can have guns AND butter. It worked for LBJ.
Barely caused any inflation
The movie American Society for Magical Negros sounds like a viable but tricky subversive comedy story premise to pull off, where they failed hard right out of the gate with the name. And with the notion that ALL white people were the problem.
The flip side of successful movies like Get Out, where the premise Certain White People Behaving Badly was well executed.
Who could’ve guessed that a movie that only appealed to Elijah Muhammed followers would fail at the box office?
Oh David Alan Grier, what hath become of ye?
Except i read it also failed miserably as a comedy. just badly done.
That EPA article is an excellent illustration of that “education polarization” idea. Nobody but a highly educated moron can seriously believe there is the slightest possibility of meeting our energy and transport needs without fossil fuels.
There’s a chance with abundant nuclear… but that’s very, very unlikely. And you still have the grid expansion / transmission issues (less if you can go with those small self-contained thorium ones that were being pitched a couple of years back that were about the size of a shipping container iirc).
But I get and generally agree with your point.
My son is a real climate change believer – but he’s totally on board with nuclear. I always tell him I’m not the issue (being a climate skeptic), his fellow but anti-nuke people are the issue.
Margot Robbie is set to produce a movie on ‘THE SIMS’ video game
‘LOKI’ writer Kate Herron is attached to write/direct
https://twitter.com/screentime/status/1770593993681776853
Can’t blame her… if Barbie worked, try for the girl gamer market.
Going to be a dark, dark ending if they go with the “Bored now — drop them all in the pool with no ladders” scenario, though.
Going after the ‘Girl Gamer’ market is every bit as dumb as going after the ‘Libertarian’ market, and for exactly the same reasons.
the hot thot pretending to be a gamer on twitch for moneys… now that is a serious demographic
I thought Sims / casual (all the damned match-3’s) gaming was actually a pretty big market and dominated by the female players. So I think it is a bit better than “Ron Paul — THE MOVIE!”
Is it because most girl gamers are actually misfit misanthropic loner men with bizarre political views? Who knew?
Ray of Doom?
/Checks gun safe
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, which has spent millions on ads against the EPA rules and other policies, also criticized the EPA for not considering the environmental impact of manufacturing a giant battery or charging an EV. A large body of research has found that even with those impacts factored in, EVs are still vastly better for the planet than comparable fossil fuel vehicles. It’s true, however, that larger, less efficient EVs have a bigger environmental footprint than smaller ones.
According to our model, we’re right and you’re wrong.
Nyaah nyaah nyaah.
The only way you can get to EVs having a smaller impact is with, well, assumptions about CO2 leading to the extinction of life as we know it.
The Germans are already on the next phase of bans claiming that EV’s are an environmental catastrophe and protesting the local Tesla factory.
well they want to cut some trees. Fewer than they cut for windmill but Musk must have a sinister reason to cut trees beyond building a warehouse.
The protestor they interviewed called out the minerals used in the production, not the trees.
Governance by heckler’s veto. That’s gotta work well, right?
HOLY SHlT. Google just quietly changed its search results for “bloodbath definition”
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1770772378106147278
hmmm
Not so subtle edit to contextual use of the term ‘bloodbath’ there Google.
Just checked it myself and, yes, the colloquial meaning as relates to financial stuff has been removed. I wonder, oh do I wonder, why they did that…
Let’s play devils advocate.
Google refines its definition based on user clicks. The search pulls multiple sources like online dictionaries. The one more users chose ranks higher.
So people used Google to make a point and its algorithm adjusted accordingly. If this was Wiki, I’d put my tinfoil hat on however.
devils advocate seems like an idiom that would work in most languages
Well its pulling from two separate dictionaries it seems. So could be that or they set controls to provide the preferred narrative.
Classical liberalism is a luxury belief.
The average person is not a truth-seeker but rather simply seeking a justification to hurt others and take their stuff.
Given a free market for ideas, most people will voluntarily select an ideology that justifies looting and murdering.
https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman/status/1770802694795456654
It strikes me as “people are bad because I say they’re bad” logic.
Do the people voting for this stuff consider it looting and stealing? No? Then we have a different problem than “people are so evil, theyre just looking for a justification to hurt others.”
I mean many people don’t consider stealing and murdering, because they benefit and they can rationalize it away.
Progjection – it’s what he would choose, and it does reflect his belief in taking.
Anyone else suspicious of this Tony Bobulinski dude? Every time I see him on the TV, he is touting what a super patriot he is. Joined the Navy, all his relatives were in the service, yadda, yadda.
If he loves the country so much why was he doing business with the Bidens and China? It seems to me that in about 10 minutes of being pitched about their supposed company that Bobulinski said he was running for the Bidens, it would be pretty clear that it was all just a sham for selling influence.
something something last refuge of scoundrels.
I could take him a lot more seriously if his appearance wasn’t so Farleyesque. Buy a suit that isn’t a half size too small for the love of God.
Isn’t the tight small suit the fashion look right now? All the local newsguys sport that look where the top button is closed and the jacket gaps open below, revealing about 12″ of tie.
Which looks even more ridiculous on a skinny guy (one of our local TV weather guys) than on a Chris Farley.
revealing about 12″ of tie
Phrasing?
No one sells the cleansing implement of the Roman: the strigil.
Romans applied oil to their skin to collect dirt and sweat, then used a strigil, a curved tool, to scrape off the mixture, effectively cleaning and stimulating their skin.
This practice is, afaik, totally lost. Here’s an updated product design I’d like to see manufactured.
https://twitter.com/thom_ivy_1/status/1770478140365676915
Start by collecting Nation of origin crime statistics like Denmark.
https://twitter.com/mrpeabody/status/1770743556807725498
HA the irish commit more crime than the Romanians. Damn irish
It’s not like the Irish have a reputation for non-criminality. We had to invent the words “hooligan” and “paddy wagon” to effectively communicate about the Hibernians.
A drunken brawl is not a crime in Ireland, it is a Friday night tradition.
Speaking of movies… last night I watched The Talk of the Town. Something from a far off America where Hollywood could create entertaining and amusing stories about grown up ideas. In the middle of a global war, no less. Now we get cardboard cutouts of comic book superheroes.
youtube channel that’s like that bridge that shears off all the trucks but for a turn that everyone crashes at. there’s so many many and the camera only went up recently
https://www.youtube.com/@TheOGTurn/shorts
My wristwatch is all fucky…the second hand is only moving every 2 seconds and the time is wrong. It’s a Citizen Eco Drive, so it’s not the battery. And it’s radio controlled, so it’s supposed to stay set to the time zone. WTF
It’s a Citizen Eco Drive – get a Rolex. It still won’t take time but it will signal your high social status.
Strange, maybe you’ve entered a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.
Gee, I thought that was called “Biden’s Brain?”
That would be the Outer Limits.
Age of Aquarius
Two second interval is power save mode.
It doesn’t have enough power to use the radio on the GPS. If it’s solar put in the sun. Otherwise it’s not charging properly for whatever reason.
Yeah I have it in direct sunlight right now. We’ll see how it goes
I was about to answer the same. That is in the owner’s manual, it does that when it is running out of power. If putting it in the sun doesn’t solve the issue, you will have to replace the charging capacitor. I think better watch shops can do that now, solar watches have been around for at least 8 years.
Does anyone else think it’s interesting that the obesity epidemic and college graduation epidemic since ~1950 are the same picture? Not saying one is causal of the other obviously, just interesting that people look for a chemical answer to one but not the other
https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1770688771224121575
Hmm. So the subsidized habituation to partying with beer and pizza is to blame? Interesting.
Yet all the organized sports activity kids have today doesn’t take the pounds off like it did back in my day when there were few organized activities and we just ran wild in the neighborhood.
Wait – you mean Dean Wormer was right?!?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Another 78,000 Americans are getting their federal student loans canceled through a program that helps teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public servants, the Biden administration announced Thursday.
The Education Department is canceling the borrowers’ loans because they reached 10 years of payments while working in public service, making them eligible for relief under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
“These public service workers have dedicated their careers to serving their communities, but because of past administrative failures, never got the relief they were entitled to under the law,” President Joe Biden said in a statement.
Congress created the program in 2007, but rigid rules and missteps by student loan servicers left many borrowers unable to get the cancellation they were promised. The Biden administration loosened some of the rules and retroactively gave many borrowers credit toward their 10 years of payments.
It’s just a bunch of squiggles on paper. Those people are noble public servants, not icky moneygrubbing private sector stooges.
PSLF has been around for a long time. It’s a stupid program, but it’s not a new one.
Just think how many more votes can be bought through forgiveness of mortgage and auto loans? There is no immediate end to the number of Americans who can be fed at the government trough.
I know plenty of firefighters and not many of them have college degrees.
PSLF has been around for a long time. It’s a stupid program, but it’s not a new one.
“The Biden administration loosened some of the rules and retroactively gave many borrowers credit toward their 10 years of payments.”
That’s how you keep the Supreme Court from poking their noses where they don’t belong.
IMO, those rules did need to be fixed, as many people were getting screwed by arcana. Nothing worse than slaving away at a low paying job for a decade just to find out that your employer screwed up on some technicality and you’re stuck with the $100k debt you thought you were going to have forgiven.
SLDs about the program being immoral and unconstitutional apply, though.
Yet all the organized sports activity kids have today doesn’t take the pounds off like it did back in my day when there were few organized activities and we just ran wild in the neighborhood.
You burn a lot more calories riding your bike all over the neighborhood trying to scrounge up enough people for a “touch” football game in somebody’s back yard than you do riding in Mom’s Escalade to the municipal soccer complex for a league game.
Two groups. One is playing all the sports. The other is disproportionately obese.
I don’t see many fat kids at rec soccer, but I see a classically literal ton of them at McDonald’s.
The latest round of forgiveness will cancel about $5.8 billion in federal student loans.
Starting next week, those receiving the forgiveness will get an email from Biden congratulating them on their relief. A message from the Democratic president, who’s running for reelection, will also be sent to 380,000 borrowers who are within two years of forgiveness under the program.
“I hope you continue the important work of serving your community,” the message says, “and if you do, in less than two years you could get your remaining student loans forgiven through Public Service Loan Forgiveness.”
“Don’t forget to vote for me in November.”
“Screw the Supreme Court, I do what I want!”
Gangsta Biden. After he ceases his presidency can we sue him for all the money back he unconstitutionally spent? If he can do it to Trump…
I was listening to the Hardcore History about the fall of Rome and one of the things that drove politicians back then was the fact that once they were out of office they could be sued into penury. So they began doing just about anything to stay in power.
Seems like we just crossed that Rubicon with Trump. I don’t think it is improbable that the same dynamic will take hold here. How long before a president decides that some emergency requires him to not leave after two terms?
He can defy the Supreme Court to forgive student loans, but when it comes time to do anything about the border, his hands are tied, he’s helpless, only congress can do anything.
You can say that again!
I hate to be preachy, but it drives me nuts when single women deliberately have a kid. Kids need two parents. I’d say that a man and women are the best combo (the cuddling with Mom and roughhousing with Dad), but I’m open to gay couples having kids.
But having kid who won’t have a father around to teach him stuff makes me nuts. I’m not saying we should pass any laws, but I think more social shunning might be in order here.
She has to be doing this on purpose, right?
Babies are important. Pay for the white stuff lady!
That’s not how you get babies.
She could be incredibly flexible you know.
sperm donation is as fascinating as it is seedy
SWISS!!!
Cum on, don’t be a jerk
The gooning was yesterday.
You missed
She was just spraying puns all over the place?
pun-kakke?
I remember when pregnant girls dropped out of school before they began to show. Usually/often married the father. Some marriages lasted, some didn’t. Girls were embarrassed/shamed at their “mistake”. Boys/men were chided for being so stupid.
Social shunning/peer pressure
/Waits for a Friday update on the Marina/Trey escapade
Had one of those marriages on my high school class. Still married at the 60th reunion.
+1 Murphy Brown.
America, in a nutshell
Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted ‘yes’ on the measure.
“It’s only logical, you know, we have to do something,” she said.
The Do-Something-ism consensus will save us.
Hmm, that didn’t work – well obviously we need to double down!
Let’s keep on doing what didn’t work before. Give them a decent place to live where they can take pride in themselves. And a place where they can get free drugs, clean needles and a warm place to shit.
It’s good to get insight into the oppression hierarchy.
In Chicago, Immigrant > LGBTQ
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/03/18/transgender-migrant-shot-little-village-cartel-venezuelan-released
I don’t why people don’t look at things like this and think “You know, trying to get and stay on top of an ever-shifting hierarchy kinda sucks. Maybe we should just do away with the ever-shifting hierarchy”.