My oldest is apparently not allowed at school today. Only juniors are allowed on campus for ACT testing. This new development is triggering my get off my lawn response. I had to go in on a Saturday morning to another high school across town to take the SAT. These damn kids get to take it at their own school, during the school day—and the part of the student population that already knows they are not college bound doesn’t need to show up?
GET OFF MY LA—wait I can make him pull a few weeds. We got a lot of rain this spring.
¡Enlaces!
This must be the most Mexico headline this year…
…or perhaps this is the most Mexico headline this year.
¿Quien es ello?
Great. Another Mexican boxing champion who’s cardboard cutout will lurk over me in every gas station — wait, he’s a cruiserweight. Never mind.
You probably already saw the Guyanan president smack down some BBC reporter, but in case you haven’t.
This is mostly a pathetic attempt at a hit piece on Milei, but WSJ is an equal opportunity stone thrower.
Havana syndrome: I’d be more receptive to the idea if it wasn’t coming from unrepentant liars.
Off to give the boy some chores. Have a great Tuesday.
“Bands who play the thumping tuba-and-drums songs of northern Mexico on beaches in the resort city of Mazatlan appear to have emerged victorious this week after noise complaints had threatened to silence them.”
Tuba? I would have complained too.
Looks like they have a couple of other horns too.
“Sinaloa, which is home to the drug cartel of the same name, is not exactly known for restraint. An unusually high number of exotic animals like lions and tigers have been seized there, ornate mansion are the norm, and the main tourist attraction in the state capital is a graveyard featuring the lavish tombs of drug traffickers.”
Lions and tigers in the same place sounds like a bad idea. Maybe they can ship them to Colombia to eat the hippos?
And bears? Oh my!
I think you go to the beach for those.
Lions and tigers can be friends. Well, they will bone in captivity. (If you’re a likely maniacal drug lord, I suppose why not?)
A bear will destroy them both 1 on 1. See also: Mongoose v cobra. Popee or his friends got tricked by locals in Southeast Asia in WWII. He drove supply up the Burma Road. The “Twenty-Four Bends” is fun to look at. Don’t give me expensive responsibilities on that bitch.
Sometimes I think I’d like to learn to play tuba. But I don’t have a tuba.
So you can play this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_asNhzXq72w
But I don’t have a tuba
::marching band pedant mode activated::
The Mexicans don’t either.
The question is: If you had one would you use it properly (e.g. following obese people around playing comedic music)?
You know what’s bloodbath? My fucking dog in heat.
My bitch doesn’t do that cause she’s been fixed.
She will be after this one. We wanted to have her go through at least one heat and at or close to one year old before doing it.
We had a long discussion with the vet. Different breeds, different recommendations. With Shelties, the vet recommended not waiting.
Yep, that’s why we did it. Different than the spay as soon as possible when we had our last puppy. Some vets, including the practice we use, are still full tilt on spay immediately.
My pound puppy, that we had years back, went into heat before we had her fixed. On the 2nd day, I let her out to go, and she runs around the house and starts raising hell like the house is on fire and monsters are attacking the kids.
I go to see what the commotion is. The neighbor had just mowed the field adjacent and she’s standing at the corner of the house barking and carrying on, while hiding behind me. I look in the direction she is barking at; there is nothing there. I walk out into the field in that direction and make out a lone paper bag standing by itself.
As I get close enough, I become ensured that the bag is the offender. The neighbor left a little spool of baling wire from putting up the hay in the bag. The closer I got the more crazed the dog got. I stood over the bag and coaxed her into looking.
Once she sniffed and looked in he bag, she pranced off like nothing had ever happened.
I told my wife the dog was just like her; hormones make her crazy.
You must have a comfortable couch.
I like letting the male Dean Beasts marinate in what seems to be a massive dose of testosterone until they are 18 – 24 months. Pitties should have some muscles, dammit! I suspect it makes them even dopier, goofier, and friendlier, too.
The females get the chop ASAP. Ain’t nobody needs that or, Allah forfend, a pregnancy.
And I refuse to call it “fixed”. They weren’t broken before. After, they are chopped, cut, or my new favorite, transitioning.
You’ve transitioned them. Like training!
Adler only had one nut drop. I waited until he was four to have it removed, and talked the surgeon into only removing the retracted one. So he now has one ball, perfectly centered.
Adler has only got one ball.
Göring has two, but they’re quite small….
Have you ever heard a cat in heat? If you have you’d remember.
OMG yes. I had one in constant heat for what seemed like a couple months until I could afford to fix her.
When my son was 3 years old, we had our cat fixed.
A couple weeks later the cat was freaking out and running around all crazy like cats do.
My son said I don’t think she’s fixed, she’s still broken.
Havana Syndrome is nothing but a social contagion/mass hysteria. Funny how this expose came out when there’s another big push for Ukrainian aid is it not?
No. It’s totally a super secret weapon that makes people uncomfortable, the likes of which have never been
seenheard before!+1 Brown Note
+1 Come Sail Away
“I’d be more receptive to the idea if it wasn’t coming from unrepentant liars.”
Journalists quoting anonymous spies is the most reliable source of information.
Well, they are why we know about Putin bribing Trump and Russiagate and the true origins of COVID, after all!
Anonymous sources with vital knowledge of the President’s internal thoughts.
I wasn’t sure if the liars are the DOD, Al Jezeera, or both.
Ohio Valley Glibs stay safe!
Tuned in to Ryan Hall Y’all last night and earlier today and will almost certainly do so again this evening. 😐👍 Thanks again for putting me on to him!
Who the hell is that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ILT1w7mBE&pp=ygUPcnlhbiBoYWxsIHknYWxs
His sister lives right over the river in Kentucky.
Florence Ya’all.
(OBE may get that)
Good to hear
We ain’t there but animals are….😬
“In January, veteran comedian and retired talk show host Jay Leno filed for conservatorship over his wife Mavis’ estate, a decision he deferred out of respect for his longtime bride who is battling dementia.
Fox News Digital obtained new documents filed by Mavis’ court-appointed council, Ronald E. Ostrin, which noted her current condition. Ostrin consulted with her neurologist, Dr. Hart Cohen, who shared that in addition to having advanced dementia, Mavis “sometimes does not know her husband Jay, nor her date of birth.””
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jay-lenos-wife-trouble-recognizing-him-amid-dementia-battle-lawyer-recommends-conservatorship
Sad 🙁
Dementia is the only thing I truly fear about getting older.
It’s not scary if you have family to take care of you.
Losing your mind is a scary prospect, safety net or not.
Yup. I’m 100% hoping my body gives out before my mind.
Yes, it is. I don’t want my family to have to take care of me after I stop being me.
I can understand that. My point is that it’s not a fearful condition.
Just losing my car keys is fearful.
My point is that it’s not a fearful condition.
Going to disagree with you. Losing myself is more terrifying than dying.
No. It is the most horrific thing imaginable.
The people with dementia I have dealt with seem pretty unhappy about, well, every damn thing. And until it’s pretty advanced, you periodically sort of resurface to varying degrees, so you know you’re literally losing yourself.
Hard. Fucking. Pass.
Ummm … how are you planning on “passing” on an incurable degeneration?
I would say if given a choice is what he meant. Recognizing we don’t.
I’ve witness it first hand. It sucks.
What Sensei said. I’m just dumbfounded by the Tater’s blasé attitude about it.
Not speaking for Count Potato, but IIRC, he lives with and takes care of his elderly mother, so he might be talking from experience.
I’m not blase about it. My mom doesn’t seem scared or unhappy. I worry about her way more than she worries about herself.
I’ve read about it. I’ve spoken with numerous doctors and therapists about it. Everyone says the most important thing is support.
So if you are scared about dementia, the best plan, if such a thing can be planned, is to have family to take care of you.
To Tater: It depends. My wife was angry and scared for several years.
“To Tater: It depends. My wife was angry and scared for several years.”
Sorry 🙁
“My mom doesn’t seem scared or unhappy.”
Ah, got it. I think that’s pretty unusual, but couldn’t say for sure. I’m glad to hear it.
My Mom was not happy, the last year before she passed.
From personal experience, it is better to have it than to be the caretaker. It is miserable for both, but the caretaker doesn’t forget day to day.
Yes and no.
I’ve been dealing with it with my Mom for about 5 years. For me, it sucks, with my primary example being that I’ve had to tell her several dozen times that Dad was dead. And her Mom. But that’s not what you were talking about. She’s mostly fine if I keep her reassured about what’s going on, but gets nervous when she realizes she isn’t sure about where she is, etc. So even having somebody there to take care of things just makes it less scary. Not “not scary”.
It’s not scary if you take yourself out before you forget. The scary part is forgetting.
Yeah, my dad died of Alzheimer’s, devestating watching that. His wife really stepped up and handled a lot of shit for a decade.
I make a point of going to see her every year.
Eric Farnsworth, a former high-ranking State Department diplomat, is exasperated by what he’s seeing.
“A lot of it just seems so unnecessary,” said Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas policy group in Washington. “What’s the point of this?”
Why can’t they just bomb each other like civilized nations?
“Meet the world’s WEALTHIEST women: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott lands the fifth spot in Forbes’ list of richest ladies after giving away more than $17.3 BILLION (but her fortune PALES in comparison to the top spot holder)”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13263575/worlds-richest-women-forbes-releases-billionaires-list.html
Apparently, money can’t buy looks.
Source of wealth
10. Heiress
9. Heiress
8. Widow
7. Half of a ‘Power Couple’
6. Widow
5. Divorcee
4. Heiress
3. Widow
2. Heiress
1. Heiress
🤔
Welp, there’s that glass ceiling we keep hearing about.
“Non-binary person, 33, in Canada wants taxpayers to fund $70k surgery to give them a vagina AND keep their penis”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13264081/non-binary-taxpayers-fund-surgery-vagina-penis-canada.html
No.
Eeeeeewwwww.
Trudeau wants what now?
LOL
🥇
“Chicks with dicks that put mine to shame.”
–Randal Graves
They can go fuck themselves.
Tell that dude to go fuck himself… wait.
Well, when you tell the dude “Go fuck yourself,” at least he’d be able to make the attempt.
They can go fu… er… they can invent a new way to 69.
Anybody say they can go fuck themselves yet?
Good one!
Wish I’d thought of that.
I just read something last week about Havana Syndrome being mass hysteria. I’m more inclined to believe that. These are the same people telling us they have alien corpses in a freezer.
I’m sure they can scare up a couple of dead Mexicans.
Oh… you meant a different kind of alien.
Obligatory.
Okay but the aliens are real.
“Shocking new footage shows FBI raid on Diddy’s LA mansion as heavily-armed agents march his sons through house at gunpoint, pin them against walls and park armored tanks outside”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13264925/new-footage-FBI-raid-Diddy-mansion.html
Thanks, Obama.
Got to get his blackmail videos for their own use.
I thought it was actually Homeland Security, which is weird.
(“Homeland” still squicks me out)
“Ignoramus,” Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, said last week of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“Fascist,” López Obrador shot back.
Decreasing the size and scope of government is the very essence of fascism, it is known.
Looks like López Obrador proved Milei right with one word.
I didn’t pay much attention to news over the weekend. Learned that Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus. What the Fuck? That’s an actual of war against 2 countries they aren’t at war with.
Attacking an embassy is never done, ever, unless someone is actually shooting at you out of the building. We never attacked German or Japanese embassies during WWII.
Did we give up starting WWIII in the Ukraine and moved on to the Middle East?
Not disagreeing on the high-level “attacking an embassy is never done” thing, but I think their “well ackshually” explanation is that it wasn’t the embassy itself, but was a building next door.
I seem to recall us blowing up the Chinese Embassy in Serbia during the Kosovo Distraction.
“Oops”.
For which Bill Clinton profusely apologized, compensated the families, and paid for the damage.
It was the only target that the CIA provided intel for in the 75 day operation. George Tenet later claimed it was a mistaken address on the same street.
The Chinese believed it was deliberate and a couple of European papers had “anonymous sources” claiming the same thing.
I’m not sure how ‘profuse’ the apology was, being a minute opening out of a speech on Youth Violence. The compensation came later, and was tied to a trade deal with the Chinese in the following year.
Grumblings in the military at the time was that the Chinese were providing some military support in the form of intel and communications.
Kosovo was one of the reasons I went from tin foil to copper netting in all my hats.
Not sure that hair can be split. If the Russians bombed the annex to our embassy in Germany, it would still be illegal and I think we’d be really upset.
…or seizing our embassy and taking a shitload of our people hostage, eh?
Umm, pretty sure that by just about any definition a state of war has existed between Iran and Israel for decades now, albeit mostly but not entirely through proxies. I don’t know if all the formalities have been observed (I would like to see Netanyahu slap whoever the boss mullah is with a glove, though).
You have got to be kidding me…Iran has been at war with Israel since the Revolution…what do think Hezbollah is? What are they doing right now? Their Houthi proxies flag even concludes with “and death to the Jews.” I also must have missed the big treaty and peace between Israel and Syria.
Considering the excusing of Russia, in trying to conquer their neighbor Ukraine (but don’t touch an embassy!) any “I am shocked” at the Israelis blowing up a bunch of IRGC in town to plan attacks on them makes me smdh in wonder.
Some people seem to be willing to discard the idea of freely navigable shipping lanes just to get a “win” over the Foreign Policy Establishment, so no, they’re not kidding.
Yeah…anything to count coup on some neocon, who gives a shit about billions of our commerce being shot at or sunk?
Adventures in headline writing
“Hard landing” kills skydiver at Florida airport for the second time in less than 2 years
You’d think he would’ve learned his lesson after the first time he was killed.
He’s got the throwing himself at the ground down… too bad the “… and miss” is the hard part.
#fail
There’s such a thing as a soft landing in this situation?
Not without a large government stimulus package being created before he jumped according to Paul Krugman.
So, an actual gold parachute?
My buddy was a skydiver. When I read the caution label on his rig I reconsidered doing so myself. It read, “danger; use of this product may result in death.” No misuse or improper use, just use.
If the aircraft is capable of getting me to the ground safely, I’m going to need serious motivation to leave it.
If you find yourself jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, and relying on some cloth to land safely, you may have made some suboptimal choices.
If you find someone else being tossed out of a helicopter sans the cloth, somebody may have made some optimal choices.
I, too, had to go downtown to the local Catholic high school on a Saturday morning to take the SAT. As my classmates and I stood on the steps outside waiting to be let in, one gal reassured us, “Don’t worry guys! If all else fails, there’s always Ohio State!”
So it was a mass test taking, you confess? Or is that just an assumption on my part?
Puns are for naves and fools.
And nuns are faves at pools!
Somebody should throw some water on you. You’re about to get altered, boy!
Now now, nun of that!
Swiss will be here soon to help us kick the habit.
And when he does, we’ll go out, not with a bang, but a wimple.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
Public high school hosted here (Mentor, it’s a massive high school). And up here, it’s “Kent read? Kent write? Kent State!”
“Don’t worry guys! If all else fails, there’s always Ohio State!”
My dad used to say anybody with an Ohio high school diploma could get in to Ohio State, but that didn’t mean they were guaranteed to not get flunked out in their first semester.
Unless they played football.
I officially start training and work on April 22. This is pretty profoundly good. To be fair, it will be a big departure for me. I have made those and burnt up in the atmosphere before. This is scheduled and regimented. That will be a different gear. Me likey. I’ll still be ‘in’ edu but through a different lens and medium. They are quite serious about me+ not talking about it. They at least say phones are restricted/not allowed in my remote work environment. Ev abides. Certainly, to start. Gotta feel their vibe.
I’m guessing it will begin a system of paid meditation. Hrm.
I also pretty much have now til then off. This week is the school’s spring break and next Monday is off for the eclipse. I’ll probably go back to daycaring for one week. I may go up to Peru, IN for the eclipse. I kinda wanna go up and spend some time there to get away from the city. (And work and family and things-to-do.) Possibly see old folk I knew from work. Would be nice, not needing a job or anything. Hrm.
Carrying over from this morning’s thread on pro-Hamas student shenanigans… the a few swarthy campus radicals at the local commuter school are undergoing a weight-loss scheme.
The students are demanding the university divest from companies they believe are enabling the Israel-Hamas conflict.
At a USF Board of Trustees meeting last week, the administration told students they do not directly invest in companies, and state law prohibits the school from making investment decisions based on politics.
“We do not select individual stocks for companies or investment. Instead, the university contracts with fund managers to invest in a variety of asset classes, which include companies in most major industries,” said a member of the board.
I wonder if they’ll go full Bobby Sands while ordering the trustees to stop doing something that they already don’t do?
Ah the little commies are getting a true experience of communism. Hang in there comrades!
On the subject of aggressive get-out-the-vote.
somehow chopped the quote…
And if someone finds a few thousand GOP votes they forgot in the trunk of their car during the second or third recount, I’m sure Democrats will not be perturbed at all, right
Just replay their own line – every vote must be counted.
Dubious origin
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential election, then secured the bond through Knight Specialty Insurance Company, which is owned by the privately held Hankey Group. Hankey heads both organizations.
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Writing on X, formerly Twitter, legal analyst Lisa Rubin scrutinized Hankey and Axos. She said the business owner was known as the “king of subprime car loans.”
Because poor people should not have cars, or access to loans.
That’s absolutely shocking. Nobody could have predicted they’d find dirt on whoever helped Trump secure bond.
Did you know that those poor people are most likely UNDERWATER on their car loans!
/has recently seen a spate of stories hitting that talking point
That makes the “shrinkflation ” gibberish seem positively Nobel-worthy.
So he got a loan from the Christmas Poo?
It’s probably a hell of a good deal for Hankey. I think Trump is good for the bonded amount, so his risk is quite low, and the fees for a bond like that are going to be, well, not small.
Florida Man isn’t safe in his own home.
Piece of 5,800lb battery pallet tossed from NASA’s ISS crashes through Florida home – and nearly kills homeowner’s son
He thought it was just the flora, fauna, Florida Man, snowbirds, and the weather that was trying to kill him. He was wrong.
Japan getting revenge.
Through the use of left-wing voter registration groups bankrolled by wealthy Democrat donors and highly sophisticated ballot chasing operations, Democrats have crafted a state-of-the-art machine designed to accrue their candidates an advantage over Republicans ahead of Election Day.
It was so much easier when you could just park a beer wagon in front of the polling place.
The bank has also been criticized for charging high interest rates. In 2021, Senator Elizabeth Warren called out the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Axos’ federal regulator, for not taking enforcement action against Axos over a loan with a 92 percent interest rate.
OMG! The annualized rates on extremely short term unsecured loans are shocking.
Can just imagine Fauxcahontas on the war path against old time loan sharks.
What a maroon
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a new rule on Tuesday requiring two-person crews on railroads in a move to bolster safety as rail regulation has come into the spotlight after the East Palestine, Ohio, derailment last year.
“This is a good day for the safety of rail workers, rail passengers and every American who lives near a rail line all across this country because America’s rails are safer today than they were yesterday,” Buttigieg said at a news conference on Tuesday.
That Ohio derailment would never have happened if there had been a second guy napping in the driver’s compartment.
I seem to remember three people napping on the East Palestine train…
The amount of Bullshit Work ‘created’ through Edu, safety+DIE/DEI/IED esp, is predictably shocking. The amount of hoops is fairly sensational for them.
Boo.
A not-shitty article on it from TOS.
https://reason.com/2024/04/02/no-bidens-new-rail-crew-mandate-doesnt-make-common-sense/
The transportation secretary said people have been urging the department to address crew size for over a decade. And he added that the bridge collapse in Baltimore last week reminded Americans of “what is at stake in the safety of our transportation systems.” Buttigieg said that the rule was a priority for President Biden and will address the patchwork of differing requirements across states.
If A then hippopotamus.
The transportation secretary said union leeches have been urging the department to address crew size for over a decade.
Our ranks, and therefore the stacks of money we donate to you, are declining so you have to mandate that we need to have more people on board playing Candy Crush while the largely automated train drives itself.
I just did a test for a job to train AI to sound human. It’s through an agency and says temporary, but they’re citing salary per annum, so I’m not sure about temporary. I will very much mind getting up at 730 a.m.and having a regular 8-5 day (and then 8-11 if I keep my MT gig, which I might), but I would feel better having too much to do than too little AND most of what I make can just go into savings.
Roger for me and test grading. It’s 8:30-4. They’re careful to say, two 15 PAID breaks and one 30 UNPAID lunch. And they (say they) are very serious about no distractions, phones or other interruptions.
If it’s regular work, then it’s what I’m paid for and am game. I will also follow their rubric to the best of my abilities.
I say quit the MT and join Zoom forever!!
I haven’t worked an 8-5 job in almost 21 years. I’m not sure I can handle that.
I wouldn’t worry. Most people with 8 – 5 jobs don’t actually work from 8 – 5 anyway.
No idea if this is true, but it would make one go hmmmmm…
People respond to incentives, Part 4,012,024
Huh. “…an untaxed lump-sum payment of one years’ salary to government employees with a “neurological injury,” eh?
Definition of terms needed. And natch, the list of ‘neurological injuries’ only ratchets up. The dreaded Human Condition aside, who *doesn’t* have one already? So far, you’d have to be a ‘female’ (as however defined, so already a problem); aged 26 to…let’s say 60; certainly all-White; straight AND cis; I assume Christian or ‘athiest’; ANYTHING ‘conservative’; um. I’m sure a few/many more we can still decry!
Beyond tedious. The parasite’s spread is hopefully starting to eat itself. I certainly enjoy little nibbles I see.
There is indeed such a bill
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1828
I am pissed. I haven’t posted a comment all day. I started out early and probably would have had not only a first or near first but very clever, topical one at that.
After taking time to carefully. compose it the FUCKING SQUIRRELS ATE IT. I tried re-composing but to no avail.
So, rather than contribute my wit and insight here today I wasted time doing work around the house.
I am sorry from afar. Luckily, the squirrels have never come for me.
That’s a sure way to summon them.
So you have a happy wife and a displeased commentariat. I’d say you won.
Cool….leave town and now don’t know if house will be hit by tornado. Fuckity fuck. Guess cousin will check in a couple hours but dogs and cats are there….
Worse, a tornado deposits squatters in your house.
Neighbors seem like the type that would ‘take care of it
something, something, “shut up”
Seems storm passed area so will have to get report from family.
I’m watching your weather. Unless high winds are likely to do damage, I think you’re ok.
Thanks buddy. Seems good. I was watching traffic cams
If something happens, Im about an 45 minutes to an hour north. Happy to help.
(GT is too- Ill drag her along with me)
“You probably already saw the Guyanan president smack down some BBC reporter”
That was great. He pretty much nailed the entire history of the carbon emissions bullshit as it applies to the developing world via the West. I took a bunch of international law classes my 3L year because the professor was pretty cool (and the underlying history was interesting to me as a history nerd) but the most important thing I learned about every single climate “agreement” was that every single developed nation signatory was pledging to cut back their emissions at the expense of developing nations.
“I didn’t think I’d have to pay for it”
All I heard from BBC stiff was “we will fight tooth and nail to keep this impoverished nation as poor as we possibly can by denying them the ability to make money”
They are scared of a developed Africa.
😬
(you’re not wrong about them being scared of Africa, though)
Glass ceiling? All they need is a well placed glass door to succeed .
Former JP Morgan analyst, 36, is awarded $35m almost 10 years after glass door at NYC skyscraper shattered on her, leaving her brain-damaged and unable to work or keep a boyfriend
So after RTF, nothing to do with JPM initially.
She may or may not have received a head injury. After the injury she was canned for performance as is common for IB analysts.
You have to love plaintiff attorneys. No actual proof of anything, just a good story and here we are.
Delta 757 squawking emergency diverting to Kansas City
So what happened with last night’s emergency?
They were met by cops in an isolated area and towed. No idea what happened after that and what the problem was
Ive been watching Cincinnati, Dayton weather. And this Ryan Hall guy for the past 2 hours.
Jesus, Im old.