Move over, I am in a hurry!
8 days ago, my Dad had a stroke. At first it looked like all was going to be as well as you could hope for a 95 year old man – but the last couple days have been rough. Today he is supposed to get out of the hospital, and head over to get some rehab at the ol’ retirement community. By the time you read these, I might be roaring down I-90 to the old hometown to help. I will have been in 7 of the last 8 days, and so when the Illinois Tollway Authority shows a surge in revenue, it is because of me.
Here are some links (you will have to provide your own music today).
- Chicago has been lurching toward Ultra-Stupidity for years now. I guess we change it from “Chiraq” to Tehran on the Lake now.
- How about a little piece of good news, for once!
- Bear vs Bears. Or at least their cars.
- You people need to get out there and buy more skis!
Comments are open and all yours.
Sorry about yer dad, Swiss.
OT – were you trying to find an Android Auto dongle that worked with ancient versions of Android?
https://www.androidcentral.com/accessories/carsifi-review
This one seems to have the reverse problem. They haven’t updated it to a version recent enough to be supported on the Play Store.
Interesting. Thank you. I’ll look at that further when I get home.
Shit… best wishes to you and PaterSwiss.
Ditto, prayers for you and Father Switzy.
Hang in there Swissy.
+ 1 from the PR of NJ
That’s hard to deal with, sorry Swiss and hope he recovers.
Swiss I’m so sorry for your father. I hope for the best for him and your whole family.
I think South Dearborn is easier to say.
There are most certainly times when even though I shouldn’t, I think of Islam being a fusion of religion and civil structure and really wonder where all these “moderates” (some of whom I know and who are great people) are going to be if they hit majority. The historical precedents aren’t good.
I suppose we’ll see with the UK before we get to that point (unless PPP really accelerates the inflow). I’d like to think we can assimilate them to at least an acceptance of their fellow countrymen… but again, the history is not good.
In spite of all of the mealy-mouthed rationalizations and wormtounge bullshit just take a step back, take a deep breath and be honest with yourself.
Allowing a huge influx of people whose cultural values contrast markedly with the native culture is stupidity to the point of lunacy.
Dont try to play on my empathy by going on about all of the sad, doe-eyed children. Fuck them.
Sharia Law is based on the combination of the Quran and the Hadith. You can loosely look at the Quran as strategy, and the Hadith as tactics. It is absolutely a civic structure, but adherence is all over the map.
There are places in this country where Sharia courts have been put in place in Muslim communities, and that’s where disputes are handled, not through the US court system.
“8 days ago, my Dad had a stroke. At first it looked like all was going to be as well as you could hope for a 95 year old man – but the last couple days have been rough.”
Sorry 🙁
Although it’s a good sign the hospital is sending him home.
Goddamn that is funny. Poor lady.
I think that’s what people like Dave Smith might be missing. I’ve never heard of a (((group))) chanting “Death to Islam”.
“Palestine activists block Brooklyn Bridge, Golden Gate and roads to Chicago O’Hare airport in coordinated attempt to bring America to its knees”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13311301/golden-gate-bridge-palestine-protest-traffic-blocked.html
Winning hearts and minds.
PR jihad.
Time to start running over protesters.
The most telling thing about those protesters is captured in the interviews where they are asked basic questions about recent events and they all seem to be clueless about what they are protesting.
Leftist astroturf. Just like the organized caravans of invaders no one seems to be interested in discovering and outing the nameless, faceless organizers.
Someone once said that a revolution in America would bring out F35s or some other number. I was told there would be no math.
While it may not be the revolution we want we can see what a couple 100 people can do. Hit and run tactics without weapons can make for a lot of changes.
“The FHP’s Troop F, based in the southwest part of the state, posted a video to Instagram showing the furry suspect who is “wanted” for “attempted burglary of [an] FHP state trooper car.”
F Troop? Clearly he was working for the Seminole.
The Heckawee.
Be well, Swissy, and do what you need to do. Good luck!
I hope everything works out for your father, Swiss.
Sorry about your dad, hope you are both ok.
And sorry about the toll road. I completely stopped using it when I drive to practice. It’s ridiculously expensive these days.
Going back to this morning’s question, when did nine-round revolvers enter the market? The reason I am asking is that According E. Jean Carrol she had one.
“Carroll told the Guardian in 2019 that she had always had a gun but had not kept it loaded until after she accused the former US president of raping her in the 1990s and entered civil litigation with Trump, which prompted her to load the revolver and put it next to her while she slept, out of security fears.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/13/e-jean-carroll-surrenders-gun-police
“The chief of police in Warwick, New York, visited Carroll at her home on Feb. 15 “to discuss some open issues,” the report states, including Carroll’s disclosure of the handgun while she was on the witness stand Jan. 17.
During the second day of the civil trial, Carroll had told the federal court in lower Manhattan that she kept a “high standard revolver, nine chambers” at home with ammunition. “By my bed,” she said.
“I still do not have a license,” Carroll added….
It was unclear why police waited almost a month to inquire in person about the unregistered gun Carroll said she had at her house or whether police are still in possession of it.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/e-jean-carrolls-gun-was-taken-police-trump-trial-testimony-rcna147673
I’m not familiar with NY gun laws. If she bought it after a license was required to buy it, then she also bought it illegally.
But she didn’t use it defend herself against her fantasized rape? Good thing for imaginary Trump.
There is probably some restrictions on
clearly crazy peopledelusional lunatics owning firearms in NYC as well.Why was she not led away in handcuffs?
Because fuck you, that’s why.
Looks like they were around long before that:
Huh, I never heard of that brand.
It’s not really that high of a standard.
I have a Hi-Standard semi auto, bought it about ’51-52. They were $44, as I remember, unless the kid at the gas station had some in stock. They were the equivalent of a Colt Woodsman. Several different models, barrel lengths. Heavy, well made, interchangeable barrels .
If you show up for HH you could probably have the opportunity to shoot one. 22LR.
Thanks, for the invite. Unfortunately, I have too many prior obligations.
I inherited a 9 round .22lr from my Grandad.
It has a really long barrel and looks like this.
I had to get it worked on, but now it is fun to shoot.
Man, make a stock for it and you can reproduce the pistol Colonel Mortimer used in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
She might not have bought it in NYC, but, rather, moved there with it.
And High Standard has made break action 9 shot .22’s since at least the 20s.
Hi Standard has made them forever but Ruger, S&W, and Colt make them now since the early 2010’s?
I never wanted one. They take some getting used to much like the short throw lever on Browning BL-22’s.
As for Carroll anything that comes out of her mouth is likely a whopper. I doubt she even has such a gun.
Where do the D’s find these women? More importantly how is it any sane person gives anything they say any credence? The more absurd the lie the louder they scream it. Hitler would be proud. The D’s have taken The Big Lie to new soaring heights.
Really, who would look at Mien Kampf, Animal farm, 1984, Brave New World, Atlas shrugged, Utopia and all of the other cautionary tales and decide they are instruction manuals? Here is good, here is evil. Here is a bowl of ice cream, here is a bowl of runny shit. Which do you choose? C’mon, really?
“Lifestyle blogger confesses to starving his newborn son to death after trying to prove the child could survive by ‘eating’ SUNLIGHT instead of food or milk”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13309789/Lifestyle-blogger-confesses-starving-newborn-son-death-trying-prove-child-survive-eating-SUNLIGHT-instead-food-milk.html
CWAA
I believe in the death penalty in some circumstances. This meets my criteria.
At least it would prevent him from making another one at some point.
The Iranian attacks on Israel: They claim to have warned the U.S. and specifically targeted bases used to attack their consulate earlier this month. So some restraint – by the Iranians? Some of the missiles definitely got through but no casualties (at least no civilian) so far.
Maybe Israel will be satisfied with their tit-for-tat and not escalate?
Eh…they fired directly at Israel. I highly doubt they’re gonna let that slide.
Persian carpet bombing?
“Hebrew lasers” – MTG
300 drones and missiles aimed at random targets across Israel is tit-for-tat? For their single coordinated strike?
If a killer draws their gun, shoots at your family, and the bullets land on armor… you don’t put your own gun down to de-escalate. You put the wannabe killer down like the rabid animal they are. The Israeli military owes to it their citizens to put Iran down now.
Unfortunately this is the state of “modern” warfare. The “civilized word” expects a measured response, which prolongs any fighting and coincidentally makes some people a lot of money selling weapons.
Someone actually made a comment like that over at Taibbi’s ‘Stack. They were suggesting a 10-to-1 retaliation ratio, something like that.
I replied that in war, you hurt them until they unilaterally stop wanting to hurt you. And to see this at it’s intended resolution, look at Japan and Germany today. Two generations post WWII, and they are both pretty uninterested in stepping up their military actions, even with Russia and China on the rise. IE, we used the exact force on those two countries to end the war.
“…measured response…” = “….fake war…”
“….makes some people a lot of money…” = money laundering
This tactic will not end until the grifters pulling this scam get smacked down HARD.
In my fantasy world the citizens of the respective warring states would drag their own leaders out into the street and string them up.
Sounds like the Iranians didn’t actually kill anyone – unlike the Israeli strike. Once the real killing starts it might not stop for a long time.
I kind of feel like shrugging off their ineffective attack is the power move here. Stay focused on the shooting war you’ve already got going on next door.
Why did Israel attack the Iranian consulate? That’s practically never done by normal countries. Israel knew that Iran would have to retaliate.
Also
I’m guessing that Israel attacked the Iranian consulate because there were a bunch of high-value military targets sheltering there.
There’s some value in respecting long-lasting traditions.
There’s also some value in ignoring them.
We’ve been in more than our share of proxy wars. Never said “hey a Russian guy we really hate is in their Mexican Consulate, let’s blow it up with an airstrike!”
Because, that would be a violation of all kinds or international law, probably the UN Charter, and an act of war against both Russia and Mexico. It would be crazy.
It would also wreck all the Cold War spy novels – where they have to poison or stab the guy at the local whorehouse instead.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade
“President Bill Clinton apologized for the bombing, stating it was an accident”
Seeing as to how Iran was founded, they can fuck right off with that sanctity of embassies bullshit.
I know, I know. Israel is the most moral and righteous country ever. Israel can do no wrong. Anybody who questions it is an Anti-Semite and Hamas supporter.
I find it fascinating that you think everyone else has a hard-on for Israel, while you, who were raised by the people who literally invented the word progrom, is totally neutral.
Especially when my comment was about Iran.
But you let your freak-flag fly.
I cannot understand why you and many right-wing Americans are so fanatical in their attachment to and identification with Israel. Say anything negative about America and it’s fine but criticize Israel and it’s as if somebody called your mother a whore. At the very least it’s creepy. I don’t think you are even Jewish. (Sorry, if I’m wrong about it). Israel is another deeply flawed country, like all of them. Also, not my country, not my people. I don’t feel this level of identification neither with America nor with Russia. I have as much guilt for what people in the country that I left almost a quarter century ago did more than a century ago as I have white liberal guilt. Precisely zero.
All countries are assholes.
Every time you consider writing something this stupid, about any country, consider that fucking yourself would be a much better, and less embarrassing idea.
You’re incapable of staying civil when fanatical Israel supporters are even mildly mocked.
I am giving a liar* the degree of civility to which he is entitled.
*in the sense of being a fundamentally dishonest person, not in the sense of a specific set of words that requires a particular interpretation.
Not disagreeing. And as soon as a President was elected who took that shit seriously, our hostages were on the way home.
And as soon as a President was elected who
took that shit seriouslysold arms to the Iranians.Well, sure, later on. We had a new proxy war somewhere to keep going.
Nicaragua? They all blend together after a while.
+ Charlie Wilson
Well, the Russians left and we found a 20 year money pit in their stead.
They blewed up the Iranian general who masterminded October 7th with Hamas. And if anyone noticed, the buildings right next to the consulate were untouched.
There is no quibbling over the rules, traditions, etc.
All of that shit went out of the window on Oct. 7
If you rape and machine gun 16 yo girls at a peace concert all bets are off. It’s called war, not tiddily winks.
The history didn’t start on October 7. Israel has been engaged in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1948.
Sure taking a long time to do it.
History didn’t start in 1948 either.
This is a couple thousand years old now.
Anyone who thinks this started in 1948 is straight up ignorant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY
Why didn’t they start with the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that live in Israel? Assad killed about 200,000 Palestinians when he drove them out of Syria. I would say that exceeds Israels body count, yet the world yawned.
I am very reluctant to engage in much debate on this subject because as you pointed out it is difficult for people to remain civil.
I am aware of the history and admit Israel is, like all human institutions, flawed.
My position is no matter what comes out of debate the proxies, and thus their masters in Iran, cannot be dealt with as if they are reasonable. They have stepped too far over the line this time.
It is time to squash the cockroach, bleach the kitchen and get on with cooking.
Soundtrack for the debate
They sure missed the ones who serve in the Knesset.
No, the local Arab tribes have been selling land, and then trying to kill the people they sold too for over 100 years at this point, and that is just the time my family has been involved there.
Israel, like every other country, is asshoe. But it is the one place in that whole section of the world were women aren’t required to take the vail in one way or another, and, being a dude who is attracted to women, I think that is kinda cool. But, for the dudes who aren’t attracted to women, it is also the one place in the whole section of the world were dudes who like to look at other dudes aren’t thrown off of rooftops.
And I think that is kinda cool.
Update:
“Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed sobs as she is sentenced to 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13311473/rust-alec-baldwin-halyna-hutchins-guilty-manslaughter-jail-hannah-gutierrez-reed.html
yeah…that’s a bit of a travesty there.
I assume the travesty you’re referring to is that they weren’t able to charge her with the additional and far more serious offense of wasting the time and sullying the good name of Alec Baldwin. Truly tragic.
Over / under on whether Baldwin gets a more severe sentence for actually killing someone.
Or any jail time whatsoever.
acquitted
She got the max for being a whiny, and entitled.
Prayers to you, Swissy.
“A major Chinese pharma firm is stealing Americans’ genetic information to build a massive worldwide database, lawmakers say.
WuXi AppTec, which has bases in Massachusetts, Delaware, and California devises molecules and tests them in the lab and in animals that US pharmaceutical companies base their medications on, some of which help treat cancer and cystic fibrosis among other serious health issues.
But the company, which has close ties with the Chinese Communist Party, has been found to have gleaned a mountain of Americans’ genetic information via hacks and corporate mergers.
Last month, a congressional committee passed a bill to pressure health firms to decouple themselves from the company.
Ongoing investigations have shown that private genetic sequences via blood samples, DNA data, and individuals’ medical histories have landed in Chinese companies’ hands due to hacks and corporate mergers.
Sensitive data is believed to be gathered in China to develop medicines for its military, posing what lawmakers have called a major national security risk funded by US taxpayers.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13310881/chinese-pharmacy-firm-wuxi-bgi-cancer-drug-genetic-information-stolen.html
It has a really long barrel and looks like this.
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A friend had something a lot like that. He called it his Buntline Special.
I got the box for it somewhere that has the original price and date of sale, around $50 in 1963 if I remember correctly.
Yes. That is the name of the gun The Colonel used. Found a link:
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/For_a_Few_Dollars_More
—“He called it his Buntline Special”—
Didn’t Tex Watson of Manson family fame also have a Buntline Special?
I am very sorry about your father Swiss. I hope he recovers well.
Today, in ass backward economics-
I can’t find it again, but the google nooz puked up a Canadian editorial about gig workers and productivity. Did you know that many uber drivers and food delivery people wait around doing nothing, and not getting paid to do it? His solution was to make them all full time employees, and pay them handsomely for sitting around doing nothing, because that will increase productivity.
Apparently, uber and doordash drivers can magically manufacture customers for their services, just like workers in a steel mill can crank out rolls of thin gauge sheet metal.
Music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcbtTY6H0KI
Found it
But the wages are low and unpredictable — and for much of their day, platform workers literally get paid nothing. Because the platforms treat workers as so-called ‘contractors’, not waged employees, they evade normal responsibilities: like minimum wage, workers’ compensation, EI, and CPP.
Workers are directed and paid by the platforms. They do not control prices. They don’t know in advance what they will be paid. They cover their own costs (including car, gas, data, and insurance). Most relevant for Canada’s productivity, they aren’t paid while waiting for their next job, or travelling to pick up a meal or a passenger.
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Since waiting is seemingly ‘free’, the platforms have no incentive to reduce it. In fact, they prefer an excess of available workers, since it speeds response times for customers. And their algorithmic pricing strategies push down pay even further if drivers are desperate enough to work for less.
Apart from being unfair, this creates a horrible disincentive for productivity growth. These workers literally do nothing for half their time. If the almost one million platform workers in Canada actually worked all their days, rather than just half of them, national productivity would improve noticeably.
And if pigs had wings, they’d be eagles.
Used to be known as sweatshops.
‘These workers literally do nothing for half their time.’
How is that any different from any other workers?
A powerful way to promote productivity, therefore, is to raise the price of labour — starting by paying platform workers at least minimum wage for the time they sit idly waiting for another order. Their employers will quickly find more efficient ways to match labour with customer demand. That will free hundreds of thousands of people to do something more productive.
As we all know, the surest way to increase sales is to raise prices.
As for those hundreds of thousands of people freed from the drudgery of waiting around for a call which might not even come, they can go to work in a hat factory.
Third party liability is a growth industry.
Best wishes and good luck, Swiss.
How about a picture of Papa Swiss with a narrowed gaze? I bet it would be epic.
Upon reflection, that’s too intrusive.
I still think it would be epic.
Sad to hear about your Dad, Swissy.
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So sorry Swiss. That’s a lot of stress.
Tax day Zoom anyone?
I may show….
Tax day. Talk about insult to injury….Income tax is pure extortion. The insult is the sense of entitlement the thieves have, not only them, but even the victims look at other people are offended that Joe Blow may not be getting robbed enough.
The whole thing is disgusting to me
I think I’ll pop in ~8:30 ET
Civil War – Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing
Sorry about your Dad, Swiss.
85 year-old Tres Sr is still going through 2 packs of cigs a day. Im always expecting a similar call.
‘How about a little piece of good news, for once!’
Did they also decide the replace it in the original style, or are they doing some sort of new architectural style they were threatening us with?
‘France has just called for bids for the creation of modern stained glass for Notre-Dame, with deliveries expected in 2026.’
Oh no.
Saw something about wood structure while skimming the link.
Wood.
I think that is the one thing I might update.
Yup.
Function follows form
Nike’s new outfit design for the US women’s Olympic team has been widely criticized on social media by athletes and fans alike, with one former US athlete describing it as a “costume born of patriarchal forces.”
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“Professional athletes should be able to compete without dedicating brain space to constant pube vigilance or the mental gymnastics of having every vulnerable piece of your body on display,” former US track and field athlete Lauren Fleshman wrote in an Instagram post.
“Women’s kits should be in service to performance, mentally and physically. If this outfit was truly beneficial to physical performance, men would wear it.
“This is not an elite athletic kit for track and field. This is a costume born of patriarchal forces that are no longer welcome or needed to get eyes on women’s sports.”
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“Working directly with athletes throughout every stage of the design process, Nike designed garments to ensure fit across a range of body types and style preferences, and infused real-time feedback throughout the entire product development cycle,” John Hoke, Nike Chief Innovation Officer, said in the release.
Nike must think tiktok bimbos are athletes.
*I thought Olympians were amateurs
Filling in for Pie, I see.
I’m ready for 24/7 beach volleyball
Pole vaulter Katie moon discusses the outfits.
I’d like to see her present more evidence before I can form an opinion
Sidelinked – Nike replacing Adidas on German jerseys after seven decades. They’re blaming Ye or whatever the fuck that idiot is calling himself now.
Traurig!
I don’t know how the women can be expected to tuck their nuts in those things.
Jeebus these people never shut the fuck up, do they?
Camel toe is the only reason I watch the olympics. My God, have you looked at the female pole vaulters lately?
Too bad all the “female” Olympians will have dicks.
I don’t understand why these women think their opinions matter. They won’t be on the team
Stockholm syndrome is a hell of a drug.
My God, have you looked at the female pole vaulters lately?
I’ll be in my bunk doing research
Not that I’ve been posting or commenting as much lately, but last week was especially bad since we had to go out of town. To make it worse, this is what we had to look at every morning:
https://imgur.com/a/E80spiM
That would keep me from posting too. Very distracting.
Controversial
The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the high court’s ruling, while all the court’s conservatives except Chief Justice John Roberts wrote or joined opinions explaining their views.
The law, which Republican Gov. Brad Little signed in April 2023, sought to ban medical professionals from providing gender affirming care, including transition surgeries, puberty blockers or hormone therapy for those under 18. Doctors could face up to 10 years in prison for providing such services under the law. The high court’s ruling, while not a final one on the legality of bans on gender-affirming treatment, could reverberate among the legal challenges in other states that have passed similar bans.
Do no harm? That’s crazy talk.
Explain to me how mutilating a teenager’s genitals because they’re a little sexually confused while going through puberty is harm.
And the evidence against all of this is rapidly accumulating, to the point where even European countries are reacting to it.
Meanwhile the Dems won’t listen to any of that because their purpose, other than “smash the system”, is contrarianism.
Judging by today’s protests the DNC convention is gonna be lit.
“How were we to know that a DNC convention in Chicago would have problems?”
Round 10 of Candidates is done for the day. Tomorrow is an off day.
The last 3 rounds since my last update has been crazy, Nakamura went win/loss/win, for example.
Standings:
Nepomniachtchi and Gukesh 6 pts
Caruana, Nakamura, and Praggnanandhaa 5.5 pts
Vidit 5 pts
Firouzja 3.5 pts
Abasov 3 pts
4 rounds to go and still 6 in it.
Nepo is now at 38 consecutive rounds leading the candidates.
8 days ago, my Dad had a stroke.
Best wishes
Sorry to hear of your Dad’s troubles, Swissy. Best wishes indeed.
Really sorry to hear about your father Swiss