Good morning one and all to another wonderous day! The day in upon on and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
“Missed” Deportation Filings Surge 962% Under Biden
Video Shows Illegal Migrants Overwhelming Texas National Guard, Storming Border Wall
House Oversight Committee Launches Investigation Into Transition Integrity Project
Impeachment probe dramatically pivots to questions of CIA, DOJ coverup in Hunter Biden case
New York attorney general makes first move to seize Trump’s assets
Musk’s Neuralink Shows First Brain-Chip Patient Playing Online Chess
Feds Have Showered Blue State With Tax Dollars To Fix Homelessness. It Keeps Getting Worse.
New York’s Squatters Law Is Pure Insanity
New York City mom, 52 was killed by two squatters who brutally beat her to death
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Thursday? Tell me Banjos — where are we going this time? 😉
Morning in any event!
The sad part is that I really thought it was Thursday. I need to go back to bed.
Thank god it is Friday, though, cause I need the weekend!
Sloopy doubtless approves of this message.
That’s a better song than “The Power of Love”.
Huey Lewis or Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
New York, New York.
A town of such vice, they named it twice
The fuckers in charge of that shithole are so fucking stupid & evil, that they are cutting off their dicks and tits to spite the segment of the American people that doesn’t suffer from the mental disorder they do.
Cloward & Piven in action.
“If I can maaake it there,
They’ll steal my stuuuff that’s there….”
Sad when bureaucrats can’t even do paperwork.
To be honest, we never actually do much of the paperwork. That’s why everything takes so long, it’s mostly procrastination.
Do you think they just forgot? Because considering the people in charge, I am certain this was the plan.
Looks like ivermectin’s back on the menu!
https://twitter.com/MdBreathe/status/1771023714584273015
“A good start…” is all I can think.
Until the people that abused power during the Kung Flu scandemic are held accountable and the system puts in clear guardrails to never let the shit that was done happen again, they will still have won.
The most insane part of the fight against Ivermectin, in 2015, William Campbell and his colleague Satoshi Omura shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work in discovering Ivermectin – a drug developed in the late 1980s.
The effort to fool the public by referring to Ivermectin as horse de-wormer, and sanctioning doctor who prescribed it, is probably the worst instance of medical malpractice by the CDC. That a large percentage of the public still believe the lies about Ivermectin shows how evil the Covid Cabal was.
When Satoshi Omura made a video about it, YouTube took it down.
As a correction, Ivermectin was developed in the 70’s.
I’d be honestly surprised if any of them bother showing up for court. Why would they?
Not unless there was yet another bene-card loaded with $thousands more of my tax dollars involved.
You think the people supporting this invasion have not thought how to make sure the army of invaders don’t show up for these useless court appointments?
If you have squatters and homeless at the same time, you are doing it wrong.
Well, they’re doing their darndest to prevent us from being able to shoot home thieves.
Destroying property rights is the most important step to destroying a path to prosperity.
If you’re allowed to own property, you might want to live in an unapproved fashion! Besides we need to keep that real estate for our hard working public servants.
Our leadership envies the CCP model where they lease out the land for 99 years and hold the right to revoke your right to the land regardless of if you have complied with your side of the agreement or not. We truly have the most inept and evil fuckers you could imagine thinking they are the ones fighting the good fight.
There aren’t enough absent homeowners to fill the needs of the many!
Is it wrong of me to hope that Bernie Sanders comes home to find squatters in each of his mansions?
Imagining there is a reddit “where to squat” that you could list them on.
You get more of what you reward.
for the definition of “fix” that’s basically “make sure it stays in place”, then yeah, what the Feds are doing obviously works just fine
Why the fuck would any entity fix the thing that keeps them employed? Especially a bureaucratic and bloated government entity.
It’s not all bloated govt bureaucracy – sometimes it bloated, corrupt NGOs!
Would you call them a cabal?
Not unless they’re a Registered Cabal with the PTO and IRS, and are up to date with their membership lists, and their membership cards comply with REAL ID standards. Otherwise they aren’t real.
I thought to be authentic they had to be from the Kabul region?
That’s if they want to put “A. O. P” after their name in the EU.
Parasites.
Parasites usually don’t want to just kill off the host like these fuckers do..
I know it isn’t Christian of me — but allowing the National Guard to act like this is the invasion it is leaps to mind. I dare say that would foster some deterrence (and redirect things to other states like CA, no doubt).
Think about this. These people have so little respect for or faith that the US is capable of defending their border, that they think they can basically act like a horde invading and nobody can do anything about it.
We should be shooting to kill, and hunting down anyone already within the borders illegally, along with their facilitators. Attempting to be where you don’t belong should be hazardous to your health. (same goes for the squatters)
Non very Christian of me to agree, but I do. The most basic reason for having an army is to prevent exactly that.
It’s one of the very few specific duties required of the Federal government itself. Listed nearly first. Openly choosing not only not to do it but to actively facilitate the invasion is hard even to put words to. Great big mix of treason, abdication, etc. Nobody likes to hear it, but the war has already started, and only one side is fighting.
Congress will get right on it – see how concerned they are?
https://twitter.com/Faith4Mishel/status/1770897642710544704
This. All of this.
The state militia should be repulsing an invasion with live ammo, if necessary.
Trump and his people’s new label is “insurrectionists”. The invaders are “newcomers”…
Got it..
And I keep getting chastised that this shit isn’t a marxist cultural revolution playing out when the tools are damned clear.
The vast majority of American citizens agree – which is going to make getting the proper results out of the next election a real bother.
I see Animal is prepping to provide a music link now…. or is that Tonio?
Since our cover today is bears….
Keep your furry activities off the clock.
The bear just wanted to do a Bill Engval skit… “Here ur-sine!”
Booo!
Did Shpip steal SDF-7’s login?
With squatter tips being shared with illegals, some of them are going to try it at the house on the corner of Fuck Around and Find Out.
They probably already have, you just don’t hear about it.
Wow Bob, your garden is really putting out some great vegetables this year! What did you use for compose?
It’s time to stop it with the word “migrants”. The “well ackshually…” crew can say that at the broadest definition anybody who moves from one place to another is a migrant, but it’s clearly a euphemism meant to obfuscate what’s really going on.
It’s an invading army and should be treated as such. The ones at the border, and the ones already BOTG.
Chuck Schumer was going on about “illegal aliens” back in 2008.
MEMORY-HOLE!!!! MEMORY-HOLE!!!!
+1 superpredator and +1 jungle
But this is part of the whole perversion of the language thing that Brownstone (see my link from last night) and others have been talking about. Because if we’re allowed to call them “illegals” then we can actually have a conversation about that. They don’t want the convo to even occur.
Remember that one of the tenets of that virtue-signalling prog yard sign is “no human being is illegal.”
A conversation might imply that there is an alternative view on something. The elect already know God’s will.
Yes. And to make things worse, the official new term is “newcomers”.
Seriously? Can we at least get a Sam Francisco out of it?
Set up a tent and campsite in their yard and see what happens.
And make sure your campsite has a MAGA flag.
Thanks Banjos, I’m sure Sloop didn’t want to have to talk sports – considering the abysmal display of the US Men’s national team last night, stealing a win against Jamaica. Oh and thanks US Soccer Federation – for not allowing me to watch an English-language broadcast with your chickenshit streaming deal.
Don’t be silly. Everyone knows you’re only ever supposed to watch Soccer in Spanish or Portugese.
He’s just waiting with anticipation to see if Max wins Australia by 30 seconds or a full minute.
Maybe Reyna can finally get some time playing for NF.
He’s getting practice in playing for crappy squads?
…touche.
And Berhalter is a douche. Starting Musah who only sees scraps of playing time instead of Cardoso, who went from starting with his Brazilian club to starting with Real Betis?
It will be interesting to see who he starts against Mexico – Balogun again or Wright. All the talk about playing time and form…
??
Was it not even on a cable channel? New low.
+1 Paramount+
-1 viewership
Where sports that aren’t basketball go to die this month, I guess.
I get a sense the game has peaked in the US. I remember around 2015 it was a cornucopia of matches from around the world; something to watch on cable or even regular TV at almost all times. We will never see so much of the game on non-pay television again.
Way to dredge up interest before 2026. 🙄
A plethora of federal agencies have spent well over $200 million attempting to alleviate homelessness in Washington state over the past 17 years, only for the number of people living on the streets to keep rising.
When you’d rather live in a tent so you can get your next fix (or because the voices in your head tell you that paying rent is for suckers), no amount of money spent on NGO do-gooders and bureaucrats is going to “fix” the problem.
How big of an asylum could be built in Washington for $200M?
Not very, after every takes a cut.
$200M over 17 years isn’t much.
I’d be happy with receiving that. That is how fucked up govt is – we actually accept that kind of waste of money as no big deal.
“If you can’t solve the budget deficit in a single line item, don’t bother.”
The economy option is to wall off DC entirely.
Dome.
Hey if it is good enough for radioactive waste.
Oh – that’s your inner wall lining? I stand corrected. Although dome may be necessary to prevent mutant flying politicians.
Because they’re tired of fucking over the 1st, 2nd, 4th (and 10th by default!) — they decided to give the 8th a moment for a change.
Maybe they’ll seize Trump Tower, quarter the NY National Guard there while they watch the subways, seize any and all firearms he has, order him to no longer post on social media or give public appearances, pay all of his money as a “fine”, testify against himself at gunpoint and bring testimony from secret witnesses in a secret court with no jury just to cover all their bases.
BoR bingo!
Yahtzee !
To be fair, this judgment was the result of exactly two people — the prosecution witness that said “OMB” and the judge who said “I believe everything the witness said and all of OMB’s witnesses are liars.”
So really, that second person is redundant.
Hey, James brought charges for a phantom tort, that’s not nothing!
“In essence, removing the military from civilian control would remove the president as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, and one of the reasons provided for that would be to prevent Trump from using the Insurrection Act to squash a rebellion.”
It’s different when we do it.
So squashing a rebellion is a bad thing now?
I know Democrats want a to follow China’s lead and place the military directly under the DNC instead of the government.
They do seem to have worked very hard on that the last 3 years.
When you do not let the totalitarian mob of criminals in charge steal an election because the guy that was there was unraveling their globalist fever dreams, you are the enemy and insurrectionists. But when they respond to the people overcoming a rigged election and saying the criminality & abuse is not wanted any more, they are patriotic revolutionaries fighting the totalitarians that want to attack their democracy (and by democracy they mean their corrupt institutions, and not the people’s right to elect their leaders and through them dictate policy)…
More like “Have showered cronies with graft opportunites, and it keeps getting better! (for them)” I expect. See the LA million-dollars-per-unit-we-haven’t-even-built-yet “overhead”…. I expect Washington is keeping up just fine on that front.
CA high-speed rail is still spending money!
The mother were a pair of squatters? Is that like three kids in a trenchcoat pretending to be an adult? Is this some sort of limey-English sentence construction?
I can understand that the dog probably wasn’t used to having its owner murdered, and maybe two days is too long to expect it to hold its bladder.
#omgwtfdailymail #isthisievenahumanwritingthis
Expect to see that same bad grammar repeated exactly in another ten newspapers.
The murdered woman (and how do we know this was a real woman without a bonus hole inspection) deserved it for being in that house these poor souls wanted!
—“Even with a bonus hole, you can’t say for certain that she was a woman.”—
A. J. Jackson
Exactly, you are presuming to know, and you are a white male cis-het – so you can’t be trusted.
OK, I am properly chastised…
Who has time or money for editors anymore? All the news is basically a bad 1990s blog post these days.
I’m thinking that bad grammar is going to be how we tell something is real rather than AI-generated. Kinda like in Terminator – if you don’t smell bad, it sets off the dogs and everyone knows you’re a terminator not a person.
Based on a lot of the writing I see that I know comes from actual, humans, I think GOOD grammar will be the tip off to AI.
You forget – if they’re training the AI off the writings of humans rather than feeding in the rules of proper english, it will produce word salad similar to what was used to train ig.
They are training the AI to be woke. By default that means word salads regardless of anything else…
So everyone is going to think I’m AI?
[runs from room sobbing]
I’m guessing ATF will seek forfeiture of all of Malinowski’s assets – looks like it was a pretty nice house.
I bet they won’t tolerate his family squatting in the house.
They can’t seize his house, but they CAN seize the curtilage and then place the house into safekeeping for inventory purposes.
You don’t think they can come up with a civil forfeiture justification?
The FBI didn’t seize those PO Boxes. They seized the frame holding the boxes. The searching/inventorying/misplacing of the boxes contents was purely administrative.
That circumlocution is worthy of the death penalty.
And nothing else happened……..
And the State (and its bootlicking lackeys who think they’ll be in a position to lord it over the proles in the Brave New Order) wants you not only disarmed but prosecuted if you defend yourself.
And is sure to send the police only if you hurt the illegals or the squatters.
Read it somewhere this morning on some article, but “We broke from Britain for way less” seems applicable. I would contend that freedom of thought (conscience / religion, etc.) is the primary fundamental right — the freedom to have your own mind and own opinions. But right behind it, the right of self-defense for your body and possessions is such an obvious law of nature (all creatures defend themselves and do what they need to to survive after all) that attempting to legislate it away seems like complete insanity to me.
Defending yourself is proof of wrongthink – whether with arms or words. You have no defense for that – do you!?!
Police have revealed that the mother found murdered and stuffed into a duffel bag at her New York City apartment were a pair of squatters who beat the woman to death.
Sentences like this are why you don’t let AI write your news articles.
(At least, I hope it was AI. Lord help us if an actual person blurped that out.)
AI has better grammar.
OT – In a discussion of prehistory, mention was made of Hippo bones from individuals which had been hunted by hominids.
I’m marvelling at the idea of taking down a Hippo with only stone tools. I have to imagine they’d invented the spear by then just to manage to inflict deep enough wounds to actually take it down. We have spears from 400k ya, but wood rots too much.
The first thing that leaps to mind is either pissing it off (and hoping like hell you can dodge) ala bullfighting or scaring it (if hippos even “scare”) — either way near a cliff or dug pit. Let gravity kill it for you.
There’s not enough information beyond the butcher marks on the bones. The surmise about spears is something I’d still support because they are simpler than the kind of work they were doing on stone. It is likely these spears would be sharpened sticks, as there are no indications of stone speartips.
Still. You have to be crazy to be hunting Hippo.
Or hungry.
Hungry, hungry for hippo.
That’s what happens when you lose your marbles.
It could be they picked off a hippo that was on the verge of death, or which had already died. Then, the biggest challenge is keeping the scavengers away.
I might agree – but the evidence of surviving descendants being batshit insane in a similar way leads me to believe they were just off their rockers enough to do something like that.
Scaring huge herd animals off a cliff or pissing off the more belligerent large ones into chasing you and then tricking it off cliff, were a standard tactic used by primitive man to hunt big game. No special weapons needed to stand them off.
I don’t have enough information regarding topography at the kill site. Though the habits and habitat of Hippos tends towards living at the lowest point in the local terrain (in the river and foraging out from the banks)
They might have been scavenging already dead animals.
The cut marks indicate primary defleshing with other animals contributing scavenging bite marks. This suggests hunting, as humans are rarely the first scavengers on site.
Well, how many have been found? If it’s just one, then anything could have happened.
I do not have exact numbers.
Million year old remains are thin on the ground as it stands, so the frequency of occurance is unknown.
Yeah, that’s the problem with trying to extrapolate too much from limited data.
There are entire branches of science who make their hay doing exactly that.
Like Researching Spinosaurids
Where was this hippo? Africa or Europe?
A person who depends on particular animals/plants for survival typically know everything they need to know about such things.
Hippos graze out of water at night. Hippos startled out of the water panic charge directly back into the water. So, set a trap. A set spear? A pit?
Hunting hippos probably isn’t that difficult if you know what you are doing. Same goes for all critters.
Forest elephants are hunted by ambush. One spear poke to the guts and then the animal is tracked for as long as it takes until it dies.
Top predators? Sometimes they hunt back. They often, being at the top of the food chain, are repositories of an awful lot of nasty parasites/pathogens so they are typically not hunted, just avoided.
Humans are quite terrifying as predators. Traps are bad enough. But imagine something following you, injuring you and then running away, and no matter how fast you run or how long you run, THEY WILL NOT STOP until you are dead.
Now, these aren’t modern humans UC is talking about, so we can’t say for sure what kind of behaviors they had. But it’s possible some of their hunting techniques were similar.
Fun fact: A group of hippopotami is called a “bloat!” https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20181108-why-a-group-of-hippos-is-called-a-bloat
If OMWC is reading this, I’d like to thank him for his Jewsday Tuesdays. I impressed someone last night when she asked me if I knew what Purim was.
I remembered “Esther ” and “hamantaschen,” which is apparently two things more than the typical goy. She’s gonna bake me some.
I’m glad he’s doing what he loves and all — but it is a bummer that his schedule keeps him too busy for those. I enjoyed them as well (though I must confess, I wouldn’t be able to come up with random factoids on demand to impress a lady…)
See the movie “Esther and the King” with a young Joan Collins.
“Your Honor, those documents were accidentally destroyed. One of those office mix-ups, heh, heh.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2024/03/21/nashville-school-shooting-federal-judge-orders-release-transgender-shooters-journals/
The originals and all copies physical or electronic. It was a series of accidents.
“The manifesto self-identified as a pile of ash. We helped it transition.”
*applause*
We have a government where incompetence is regularly and conveniently used as a defense to avoid people being able to conclude and accuse it of being a criminal entity. And they do it without any fear of loss of credibility or prestige.
Ahh the old Branch Davidian Doors treatment, an oldie but a goodie.
Can’t release it, it’s a matter of national security and part of an ongoing investigation.
Like this, right?
“An addendum to the package sets apart $400,000 of this to be given to Briarpatch Youth Services, an organization whose mission is to “strengthen the lives of youth and families” in Dane County, Wisconsin.
A program of Briarpatch is the Teens Like Us Program (TLU) program, an LGBTQ organization that you do not need parental permission to join and is a place where youth ages 13-18 can “come out.”
TLU from Briarpatch still requires masks to be worn in person, according to its website, for youth group events. The website states about chest binders, “Need gender affirming clothing (binders, gaffs, etc.) but you can’t afford them or you aren’t ‘out’? We can help! Email us at TLU@briarpatch.org to learn more!”
https://thepostmillennial.com/1-2-trillion-congressional-spending-bill-funds-lgbtq-group-pushing-chest-binders-packers-fake-breasts-on-teens
$400K is peanuts, but this shit needs to stop.
Don’t throw those kids into that briar patch!
Reminded me of this:
Joad Cressbeckler Denies He Incited Mob To Drag Congressman Through Briar Patch
Woops, about the email link.
That’s part of it — I think the bigger DC nutpunch is that this is one of those “released at 2am — you must vote at 10am, no amendments, no debate… only 1000 pages!” horseshit deals.
It is well past time for the non “leadership” supposed representatives to find their respective reproductive organs and refuse to vote for this shit pushed out by the staffers of the in-clique so they actually know what they’re putting their name to.
OMG – this person wants us to be responsible for what we vote on! /434 Congress-critters
‘only’ 400k. But that’s just one org. In one county. These groups are all over and all getting federal funding.
True.
an LGBTQ organization that you do not need parental permission to join and is a place where youth ages 13-18 can “come out.”
Tell me you’re a groomer without saying you’re a groomer.
You don’t want me to tell you about The Trevor Project.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
i know nothing about US college basketball but apparently Samford was robbed. At first I though it was Stanford misspelled bun no, apparently there is a Samford which is confusing.
Just go ahead and try to figure out which CSU or OSU someone is talking about without context.
Clearly, if these organizations do not differentiate themselves, they are all the same organization and it doesn’t make a difference.
That is why it is tOSU.
Which applies to all of the OSU branches.
Even in Oklahoma and Oregon?
Which OSU? Stillwater, Tulsa, OKC, Health Sciences, OSUIT?
I contend that they are all the same.
Only one of them has a chapter of Farm House at it, so no.
Local Walmart once had Cowboys merch mixed in with the usual Beaver stuff. OSU is OSU. Same color scheme and all.
I think there was a game where MSU played MSU saw it on the oldtakesexposed twitter
Here’s Today’s Sports Twitter Frequently Used Joke of The Day
https://twitter.com/OldTakesExposed/status/1770851789534855345
On the team name side there are a lot of duplicates in college sports, so you could have the Arizona Wildcats playing the Kentucky Wildcats. Years ago the Canadian Football League had the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
We have the Rough Riders as a minor league baseball team here in North Texas It’s based on Teddy Roosevelt.
I don’t know who the Canadian Rough Rider is, but he better have one of those mountie hats.
We also have a particularly nonsensical one called UGA.
It’s the University (sic) of Georgia.
The A doesn’t actually stand for anything – it’s just part of the abbreviation of Georgia. One could make a case for it standing for Athens, since that’s the town where it’s located, in the same abbreviatory spirit of UCLA or UNLV, but nope, that ain’t it.
Still, it’s better than SUNY or CUNY.
We have the same with UVA instead of UV or UVC.
So, growing up, all the freeway signs around me would show 90 East as going to “Erie Pa”. As a kid, I always thought that was a full city name of a city in Ohio (it’s not as if we don’t have some strange ones). Because, if it was a city in Pennsylvania, it should be labeled as “Erie, Pa” or “Erie PA”. The girlfriend didn’t believe me about this, until I showed her the signs.
They have (in the past 10-15 years) started updating the signs to say “Erie PA”, so I feel mildly vindicated about it.
Look, just because Erie’s Pa died doesn’t mean you should rub it in.
Ah, the old state abbreviations. Switching form Calif to CA was an improvement except when a coworker had an issue with his clearance because he was born in Ontario CA.
“PA was actually Penna, back in my day”, said the commentator with a onion on his belt and a closed fist threatening the clouds above.
Like when MSU defeated MSU. What a clash that was.
But I thought it was MSU that won.
Wait until the University of Miami plays Miami University.
Miami U was founded first!!
And it’s in Ohio, dammit! (popular spring break t-shirt)
Ex-wife and a whole lot of my money went there.
Im sure I still have boxes of all the stupid shit she bought from the bookstore.
But is it “Redskins” merch??? ::ponders “RedHawks,” spits::
It is. I may even have a Miami Redskins t-shirt in about your size.
/considers business opportunity
Samford is the university where Red Fox’s character ran a NYC junk yard with his son Lamont.
tried the catoctin creek rye and it is not bad. In your face sloopy
Rye is remarkable in how easy it is to make a good product.
overall i think i prefer it to bourbon, more spicy less sweet
Harder on the mash and ferment side, especially at the 95% grist bill, there’s a reason most rye is 51%.
Based on trying some expensive ryes my in-laws offered, speaking only for myself I consider “rye that’s a good product” to be an oxymoron.
Based Fetterman: https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1770935607369355338
I want to know if that’s him or his staff.
Still good, however.
Menéndez got expelled just like Santos, right?
Let’s be fair. Team Red slow walked that one as long as possible.
They likely would have done the same with Menendez, but they knew the election was coming up.
???
They could have just not voted to boot Santos, unless Menendez was expelled first.
Team Red slow walking. Sure. Santos was expelled less than a year into his first two-year term. The election that Menendez faces is the exact same election Santos would have faced.
One of my techs is taking forklift training today. I forwarded him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYOkZz6Dck and now he’s laughing way too loudly.
I don’t even have to hover to know what video that is.
Yup.
But I clicked anyhow just to confirm. Its an industry classic,
I drove forklifts for 50 years at various jobs and never even took a class, let alone had a license. I guess all of my co-workers are dead now.
So they went to that place in heaven where everyone fork lifts it around?
Well if not — give it another 50 years and I’m pretty sure that’ll cover it!
Some places I worked had ZERO forklift training, just get on and drive. One place, the forklift brakes didn’t work, so to stop, you you had to throw the lever to reverse (if you were going forward) and hope you didn’t shift too late. I’ve seen propane fuel tanks fall off due to not being properly secured, forklifts hit roll-up doors that weren’t open far enough, operators lose loads that weren’t properly stacked (all of the things you see in forklift fail videos). Unfortunately, the worst forklift accident that I saw was an operator with his leg dangling outside the driver area as he turned a corner too close. He hit the end of a piece of 20″ pipe and severed his left leg just below the knee.
Yikes!
Speaking of forklift drivers, my kid has been on morning shift for the last 4 weeks and seems to love it (apparently, this is not normal) . She’s learning new things and hopefully this will help set her up for full time.
Not the way I would do it, but you have to admire her gumption.
She was 23 and had just graduated from the Culinary Institute of America’s Singapore campus. The job she had landed was at Zen, one of just three of the city-state’s three-star Michelin restaurants.
Despite her early success, Lim realized that it wasn’t for her. Less than two years after starting, she quit. She decided to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and run her own food stall.
Owning your own business can have it’s own appeal. Especially if you are real good at what you do.
“The two suspects were spotted driving off in Vitels Lexus SUV around the time they believe she died and even caught on surveillance footage which has not yet been released to the public.”
Now, why wouldn’t you release the footage(English is dumb sometimes)of the perpetrators who appear to still be on the run…
The term for a video of certain duration being called ‘footage’ derived from the use of film stock as the only medium for storage of video for decades prior to the introduction of digital media, the first of which was video tape – which also had a form factor where a measure of length was appropriate. Disk and card based digital storage is relatively recent enough and footage ingrained enough in the language that it’s just a word that is used.
I guess I’m just dumb then.
Though I think that’s still a silly word.
“Maryland’s Democrat Senate frontrunner Rep. David Trone uttered a racial slur during a House meeting, but claimed he was just trying to say ‘bugaboo’.
Trone, 68, was talking about Democrat tax policies with Shalanda Young, who is director of the Office of Budget and Management, when he used the offensive term.
The congressman said to Young, who is a black woman: ‘So this Republican ji***** that it’s the tax rate that’s stopping business investment, it’s just completely faulty by people who have never run a business.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13226301/Maryland-Senate-David-Trone-Racial-Slur.html
“bugaboo” makes way more sense in that sentence.
“Bugaboo” makes perfect sense in that sentence. I really couldn’t tell from the article (surprise) whether what he actually said was the alleged slur (like, was it recorded?), or if he said “bugaboo” and she misheard and he being a good Proggie went into supplication mode. Either way, he’s a Proggie, so nice to see him hoist by his own petard.
My bet is that he used the worst of the two slurs. My most blatant and egregious real incidents of racism always happened with some hardcore proggie asshat that in a moment of weakness showed their true colors. Especially in blue urban areas.
Well “bugaboo” isn’t even a slur, not by a mile, if that’s what you’re meaning. Either way, I agree completely that all the most blatant racism I’ve ever seen was from the Proggies. I was just ranting on the poor writing of the article, because I ALSO would have completely believed that he said “bugaboo” and she hadn’t a clue what it meant and transmogrified it in her own head.
I’m sure “bugaboo” is also a racial slur. Oddly enough, only Mary Poppins and not the Wizard of Oz got reprimanded for “hottentot.” It’s unusual for the naggers to be so niggardly with their criticism.
Trone is a centimillionaire and a member of Congress. I won’t be pickaninny fights with him.
He was taking the word back?
Citation.
Heh… the side bar led me to this forgotten-by-me gem. Ah the days when Smith was actually funny…
That brotha from anotha motha called them honkeys out!
Now he makes Yoga Hosers…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAy6-uCb1o
Oof.
Yoga Hosers was terrible. I can at least be entertained by Tusk.
“nein, nein, nein, nein! So much nein its almost ten.”
OK, thats funny.
Agreed. I can’t see how the other word fits. Or why anyone cares.
Well, perhaps he meant bugaboo but was looking at a black person and his mental wires crossed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Trone
Is this a bugaboo?
Probably said or meant bugaboo. Might have said the other by accident. But what’s really stupid is that he thinks the tax rates don’t impact investments.
Ouch….
Yep
🤦🏼♀️
They want things to come apart at the seams.
They wanted to start a discussion thread or a TikTok stitch.
Or they were just trying to needle you…
I’m not going to knit a flag here, but you don’t really want to bring female pigs into that opposition.
I suppose I shouldn’t knitpic.
Now you’re asking to get the hook.
Ack! Pppppbt!
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DEI should be renamed to DIE, because unless it is stopped, it will cause massive deaths..
When they first rolled it out it was always ‘diversity, inclusion and equity’ and I will never stop calling it DIE. They weren’t really that careful about their desire for whites to die off so they could take over.
My preference is “IED”.
Nice. Although in my experience it is far from “improvised”.
Paging CPRM – Matt Taibbi has a contest for you!
OMG – I’m watching the Kirn/Taibbi takedown of this.
So we went from “They don’t exist and it is a conspiracy fever dream of the usual insurrectionist crowd” straight to “They actually do exist, but they are awesome because they are OUR bad guys!”, and the NYT feels this was definitely a win for them, right?
Seriously, the amount of things these people have told us are conspiracy theories for years about, attacking and destroying the reputation of the people flagging the evil shit, that we now know are the truth, should make every moron out there still cheering on the cabal of idiots behind this stuff’s heads explode.
Just like exposing children to pedos and trannys to normalize that behavior, that video was just a “meet your friendly not-at-all-power-hungry bureaucrat”.
They’re just like you!
Those boots won’t lick themselves.
🎶My boots were made for licking
And that’s just what you’ll do
One of these days my boots are gonna
Stomp all over you
If I had the talent, I’d be making Dr. Strangeprog, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Miltitary-Industrial-Complex!
The Kirn/Taibbi bit compared the “blowing up asteroids” with the opening to Starship Troopers. It doesn’t compare well.
I had to tap-out at the EPA woman. I wonder if NYT took the time to interview Pete Strzok, Lisa Page, or Lois Lerner and ask them about the function of government agencies.
She’s really out there digging up those lead pipes!
Kirn and Taibbi talk about that exactly.
Our overlords and Praetorian Guardsmen are so dreamy.
I guess Im hungry cause UCS’s hippo comment made me think about it, and I looked. Cited from Reddit:
“This is from mentalfloss.com 19 Feb 2014 · Hippopotamus In the words of author and hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick, “It is my personal opinion that hippo meat is one of the finest of game foods … The taste is mild, less than lamb and more than beef, slightly more marbled than usual venison. It tastes exactly like, well, hippo.”
Hungry…hippos…marbling..?
🧐
There was a Beverly Hillbillies episode where Ellie brought home a baby hippo. Granny planned to make the world’s biggest hams – I got really hungry and wanted some hippo ham.
It almost was a thing:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-us-almost-became-a-nation-of-hippo-ranchers-180982244/#:~:text=On%20March%2024%2C%201910%2C%20Broussard,the%20hyacinths%20smothering%20their%20waterways.
Is that cover image one of the bears from Disney World? I’ve been there so many times I know all the songs.
https://twitter.com/VeteranIrish/status/1770551572470096289?s=20
I have become too cynical to believe that is real. Would have been a great submission to Reader’s Digest a few decades back.
If it is real, I have to say it sure as hell is some seriously humorous thing.
FYI,
Vernor Vinge has left the Slow Zone and entered the Beyond today. I really likes his big works like Fire Upon Deep and his lesser know ones like Rainbow Sky.
He should claim “too much Parmesan cheese snorting” as his defense….
I saw something a few days ago, a story about Democrats wanting Sotomayor to resign before the election. I couldn’t bring myself to read it, at the time. But this morning, I figured it out. They want her to retire so President Jungle Fever can appoint another powerful angry black woman to the Supreme Court- Letitia James.
Not that skanky yankee bitch! /Fani Willis
I guess Biden could get anyone through the Senate right now. Just another consequence of losing GOP senators in Georgia.
Tailor Who Made Suits For Sinatra, Trump and Obama Was Among the Last of His Kind
George Zimmer ?
Yup….
As a luxury watch guy (mostly from afar) I find this kind of interest and deep knowledge fun and fascinating. It’s why I’d be very careful purchasing a second hand Rolex as it is the most counterfeited brand.
You Spent $6,000 on a Secondhand Chanel Bag. Now Find Out if It Is Real.
The quality of high quality fakes on luxury goods is amazing.
IF you can’t tell, does it really matter?
That’s a concern with many luxury goods.
Hence the intentional scarce supply, price inelasticity and demand regardless of the economy.
I have no desire for fake Chinese Rolex. They have completely duplicated the case, band and dial to a degree that nobody but a fanatic can tell the difference. You can shove a $25 Chinese mechanical movement of the proper amount of BPS (beats per second) in it and nobody will ever know until you take it apart. Still no interest in owning one other than the novelty.
A fate worse than death
The former president must post the bond for the full amount he owes on Monday, or James can seize any of Trump’s bank accounts or properties, in any state, including Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago, among many others. His lawyers, who have appealed the judgment, said in a court filing Monday that he has been unable to secure a bond to meet it.
Trump is liable for $454 million, most of the fraud judgment, but the amount he owes has been increasing by more than $111,000 a day because of added interest.
These people revel in the idea of putting the upstart in his place. An article I read the other day says he doesn’t own much of anything outright, if you can believe that.
There are billionaires, and there are billionaires. Elon Musk, Steve Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, those guys have stock to sell or pledge. Trump’s wealth is tied up in highly illiquid partnerships.
“In any state” only if she gets a court in that state to issue an order that is valid in that state. FL, for example, would be interesting. This makes it sound like she can take Mar a Lago, since (she claims) it’s worth less than what he owes.
It would be funny if she tried and and got fined $500 Million herself.
This, and the squatter story were the last straw. I had a vacation trip all planned out to the Finger Lakes region of NY.
Now I’m going to cancel it all. I’ll send e-mails to all the hotels and attractions I would have visited telling them why
I won’t be spending my $$$ in New York State. I realize they all may disagree with the lawfare in NY, but the only way this pinko crap will end is if NY voters throw the bums out. Business owners need to speak up, let their employees know how these turds are costing them jobs, and how NY is becoming the leading laughing-stock in the country.
The people of the Finger Lakes do tend to vote against the downstate nonsense, but there are few of them.
I agree with this sentiment.
*points to avatar*
Pity. The Finger Lakes region is really nice. I totally understand why people live there.
Am I the only person in the US that has a take or leave it opinion of ranch dressing?
How Much More Ranch Can America Take? Hidden Valley Seeks Total Domination
Now I’m waiting for Clorox Ranch.
It’s so white it glows under UV light!
Great on a farmhouse salad. Decent on wings. Take it or leave it on anything else. Putting any powdered substance on popcorn is a sin.
Mayo and sour cream occupy the top slots in my “I’m a grown man and I don’t have to try that crap any more” list, so Ranch, being suspiciously close, has never actually crossed my lips as far as I know.
My question is “what is being hidden in Hidden Valley?” You know who else liked to keep things hidden?
Jasper’s?
Car salesmen ?
salami owners?
Bush’s beans?
The correct answer is David Copperfield.
I’ve had people attempt to revoke my Texan card because for the most part, I hate it. It’s good on wings or mixed with a hot sauce (one that mostly masks the ranch flavor), but that’s about it.
“Candace Owens leaves The Daily Wire after clashing with boss Ben Shapiro over Israel Hamas war”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13227809/Candace-Owens-leaves-Daily-Wire-clashing-boss-Ben-Shapiro-Israel-Hamas-war.html
Am I the only one who finds them both obnoxious, even when they’re right?
Not at all.
Nope.
+3
They are completely obnoxious.
Ben Shapiro’s only asset is that sister of his.
Polls
Meanwhile, 45 percent of voters said the country would be better off if Republicans win control of the Senate in November. Thirty-five percent said the country would be worse off and 20 percent said there would be no difference.
One in five people thinks we’re fucked, no matter what.
So 80% of voters are dumb?
“Donald Trump is Crushing Joe Biden in Michigan”
First he promises a bloodbath, next he’s trying to injure a sitting president. We need to keep this violent extremist out of office, whatever it takes.
“With broader demographic trends of working-class whites shifting toward the Republican Party, Democrats need to make up for these losses with more mobilization of urban and young voters in places like Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Ann Arbor. Right now, Biden is struggling to do exactly that.”
Is somebody’s tea kettle boiling?
Being the EV guy I’ve always thought that local urban/suburban delivery makes them a compelling solution. Run around all day and charge up when you return to base. Lower running and maintenance costs. But not at twice the price of an ICE Ford Transit.
Rivian’s Delivery Van: Not Just for Bezos Anymore
That makes sense, but somehow using EV busses has been a complete failure.
Public entity and all the lunacy associated with that.
Some thoughts off the top of my head. More miles per day, conditioning the space for the riders, being sold the bill of goods on cold weather range loss.
Something that is supposed to run in all weather with a high uptime and a large number of daily miles is going to absolutely wreck the batteries.
EV is good for light urban/suburban commuting. Hybrid is superior for anything more than that, and pure ICE is better for harsher environments and tougher tasks.
This was another Trump failure – dropping all charges against Assange*. Now Biden’s admin wants to quietly resolve the case with misdemeanor charges – for violating a law that Assange was never subject to (since he wasn’t in the U.S. at the time of the alleged crime).
*AFAICT Assange is an asshole, but being an asshole is not a criminal offense.
for clarity – that should read NOT dropping.
Trump was advised by the deep state not to do so back when he still didn’t know how these fucks were sabotaging him in every which way they could. He has recently said he would pardon the guy now that he knows better.
But Don was supposedly against all of the deep state apparatchiks – why did he listen to them on that?
Don didn’t understand the expanse of and who made up the deep state then. Now we all do.
It does take several episodes to figure out what is going on in The Expanse
He listened to people that told him to not do what he wanted to do. They convinced him he was wrong. Worse they did so when he was right.
That’s the problem with thrusting the wrong people and not realizing how deep the rot goes. Now he has that knowledge and a healthy dose of contempt and a desire to stomp these people out.
Sure, just like he was going to drain the swamp in ’16.
Get used to the idea – they know how to play him. He’s just not smart or tough enough.
So then, who is? I am all ears…
No President is going to do it all on his own. We have to elect a Congress that would support it. Now do you realize how FUCKING TINY a bubble we here live in?
Being the EV guy I’ve always thought that local urban/suburban delivery makes them a compelling solution.
I agree. “Electrification” of local delivery fleets makes sense (all things being equal or nearly so). It would be an excellent way to gather real world data, as well.
“A woman who was banned from a Planet Fitness gym after photographing a transgender customer shaving in the women’s locker room claims the gym has since assigned a staffer to accompany the person in the ladies-only area — and is telling other women to back off, The Post has learned.
Patricia Silva — whose membership was revoked hours after she posted a photo of the unidentified gym-goer to Facebook on March 11 — told The Post on Thursday that Planet Fitness “has assigned an employee to accompany him when he uses the women’s locker room”.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/22/business/planet-fitness-assigns-staffer-to-assist-transgender-client-in-womens-locker-room/
I’m impressed that Planet Fitness can become more retarded than they already are. A masculine-presenting male is not trans.
Stock started to drop already, it will plummet shortly.
Yup….
For a gym that markets itself as a safe place for females, they sure are quick to go completely off message.
So 80% of voters are dumb?
It’s a lowball estimate.
I have no desire for fake Chinese Rolex. They have completely duplicated the case, band and dial to a degree that nobody but a fanatic can tell the difference. You can shove a $25 Chinese mechanical movement of the proper amount of BPS (beats per second) in it and nobody will ever know until you take it apart. Still no interest in owning one other than the novelty.
What if you’re just looking for a rugged, dependable, accurate watch? Isn’t that what Rolex was originally about? I have no idea whether the Chinesium movements are any of those things.
Given my most common refrain at the failure of such devises is “Cheap Chinese Crap!” I doubt that the $25 movement has any of the quality elements you want in a timepiece.
Not only that, you make yourself a target in bad parts of town. I’ll keep my Jack Mason. Stylish enough and nobody will try to rip it off.
That’s Citizen and Seiko for me. Their mechanicals are fine, but if you want a “tool” why net get the quartz?
I have a solar Citizen Eco Drive with perpetual calendar that is over 20 years old going strong.
Well, I watched the “jigaboo” clip. What struck me is that he seems to believe that a company’s profits and losses are unaffected by the taxes it pays, and that the taxes a company pays don’t affect its investments at all.
Oh, and he absolutely, without question, said “jigaboo”.
I think it is a requirement to go to congress that you are an economically illiterate fuck…
Well many are attorneys…
Sorry RC.
RC, watching so we don’t have to.
So yeah, a case of crossed wires. The input channel to his brain seeing a black person corrupted the output channel trying to say “bugaboo”. Ha.
His true inner self came out…
That aid they sent to the blood thirsty Jew haters..
Hunting Mexicans for sport
An Arizona rancher goes on trial Friday in the fatal shooting of a migrant on his property near Mexico as the national debate over border security heats up ahead of this year’s presidential election.
George Alan Kelly, 75, has been charged with second-degree murder in the killing of a man he encountered on his property outside Nogales, Arizona. The trial in Santa Cruz County Superior Court is expected to last up to a month.
Kelly had earlier rejected a plea deal that would have reduced the charge to one count of negligent homicide if he pleaded guilty.
He was arrested and charged last year in the Jan. 30, 2023, shooting of 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea of adjacent Nogales, Mexico, just south of the border.
Kelly shot at a group of unarmed migrants who were walking through his nearly 170-acre (69-hectare) cattle ranch in the Kino Springs area, and Cuen-Buitimea was among them, authorities said.
More stupid reckless bullshit, but those people could have refrained from trespassing.
If I break into a steel mill and get crushed by a load of scrap iron, am I not responsible for my actions?
Justifiable Homicide. Not Guilty.
If they were not advancing on him – just walking across, or worse, AWAY – then it was a bad shoot.
We will know more later. Discount anything you see in the press until the case notes are available. Sensationalism will abound on both sides.
I think you may have nailed it though, I think they were just walking and he shot at them. Not walking towards him. Still trespassing.
Apparently there’s going to be a four day even called “Palestine is Everywhere” in NYC next week.
I’m sure Rhywun is disappointed he’s going to miss it.
So it looks like the October surprise is to take away Trumps money, then claim because he needs cash, he is now a national security threat since Putin can buy him. and this will come from the ;people that foisted a brain dead douchebag that is bought & paid for by the CCP and so badly compromised he is keeping us involved in an European war that has no benefit to the US despite all the lies to the contrary.
Apparently the shutdown-preventing deal was:
Dems get to spend more money. Repubs get to claim kulturkampf wins.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-20/speaker-touts-gop-wins-on-migrant-detention-in-funding-deal
“Video Shows Illegal Migrants Overwhelming Texas National Guard, Storming Border Wall”
I heard a snippet about this during the radio news roundup this morning. It said the perps were all turned over to border patrol for “processing.” AKA, given a plastic folder full of documents and turned loose into the interior of the U.S. via bus. This country is determined to reward negative behavior on a whole bunch of fronts.
Here’s where they are headed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs_CSXQ9qaQ
This, and the squatter story were the last straw. I had a vacation trip all planned out to the Finger Lakes region of NY.
Now I’m going to cancel it all. I’ll send e-mails to all the hotels and attractions I would have visited telling them why
Send a copy to the governor’s office (easy for me to say), and be sure to point out that for every person who speaks up there are 999 who simply say, “Fuck that place” under their breath and alter their behavior accordingly.
Even after generations? I think we might have a lot of land claims going back to the ‘First Nations’ if that is the case.
That land was stolen fair and square.
Manhattan was bought, all nice and legal.
Manhattan was bought from swindlers who didn’t even live there. The actual residents were quite put off by the Dutch claims.
Some things never change.
If the actual individuals who were kicked off the land show up to ask for it back, we can talk.
Their descendants, on the other hand, are settled elsewhere.
Sternly worded admonishment
Mexico is warning a federal US court that if its judges permit a controversial Texas immigration law to take effect, the two nations would experience “substantial tension” that would have far-reaching consequences for US-Mexico relations.
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Thursday with the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, lawyers for Mexico said relations with the US would be strained.
“Enforcement of SB 4 would inappropriately burden the uniform and predictable sovereign-to-sovereign relations between Mexico and the United States, by criminalizing the unauthorized entry of noncitizens into Texas from outside the county and creating diverging removal requirements between and among individual states and the national government,” they wrote in the brief.
If US – Mexico relations aren’t already strained, they goddam well ought to be. They should get busy controlling their own borders, instead of actively providing a conduit for people seeking unauthorized entry to America.