Good morning one and all to another incredible day! The birds are chirping, the sun is rising, and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
House Passes $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package, Bill That Could Ban TikTok
New crisis unfolds in Africa three years after Biden’s Afghanistan debacle
Ex-Stormy Daniels Lawyer Michael Avenatti Says He is Willing to Testify for Trump
Biden admin finalizes changes to Title IX rule, redefining sex discrimination
Sidney Powell Handed Win After Judges Dismiss Disciplinary Effort by Texas State Bar
Military Could Hit Troops With Court-Martials For Refusing To Use Preferred Pronouns, Experts Say
Some Democrats ditching ‘progressive’ brand
Biden Admin Sues Sheetz Over “Discriminatory” Hiring Practices That Aren’t Remotely Discriminatory
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“House Passes $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package, Bill That Could Ban TikTok”
That TikTok thing…
I am assuming it is a poison pill…
Unless they rewrote it, that bill can be used to ban almost any app or website.
Well, isn’t that the goal?
Yes
Have to stamp out that icky icky
dissensionmisinformation, after all.It is not an accident that “disinformation”, “misinformation”, and “malinformation” are all, and always so, things the corruptocracy does not want the people to know because it would basically produce high odds that the people would seek redress in the form of “watering the tree of liberty” thing…
So that whole “Trump arm wrestling Satan” thing was true? Damn.
I read it, it only applies to apps owned by companies located in one of the “Countries of Particular Concern”, ie., China, Russia, Iran, N Korea, and a few others.
Does that mean it’s OK? Hell, no. It’s the camel’s nose under the tent. They will be using this to try to get the courts to set a precedent for regulation.
Freedom of the Press, we will just decide what press you are are allowed to use.
*assuming the understanding the term ‘press’ is meant to indicate the premier means of disseminating information/speech at the time of the founding and not some protected class of people who write news.
“The Founders could have never imagined an automatic distribution mailing list! Every civilian should have to use a hand driven press with movable block type! Only the
King’s Mengovernment approved internet sources are ‘well regulated’!”You are free to publish any approved message.
You’re assuming too much cleverness. It’ll pass and we’re all screwed.
I don’t mind seeing the conservatives getting it good and hard here. They’re due for a reminder that anything the government does is bad, even if it looks good at first glance.
“Florida Rep to Introduce Bill Prohibiting Foreign Flags on House Floor After Democrats Wave Ukrainian Flag”
This right here should tell you all you need to know about the people supposedly in charge of the country and representing the American people. They have their own agenda and don’t give a shit what the American people want anymore. There is a reason that while over 72% of Americans consistently say they do not want illegal immigration our government just does more of that and thumbs it’s nose at the people: it doesn’t give a fuck what the people want: it is about what the people in power want and the hell with the rest.
I’d like to think that a majority of Americans are not in favor of WWIII either but here we are.
I don’t care what you think about our client state but this game the Dems are playing is absolutely disgusting.
The most crazy talking point I heard from these team blue asshats was that practically all the money will be spent in the US ( on the military industrial complex) anyway, so this is a boon for the current corruptocracy come the election in November, as the infusion of government spending prevents the economic downturn that is inevitable when government’s priority is to regulate the winners and losers, from happening until after. The drastic impact on inflation and the huge tax burden that inflation inflicts on the lower classes that follows is seen as a boon as well.
Need to throw back at them “isn’t that war profiteering”?
I’d go with the more emotional “fucking ghoulish sacrificing Ukrainian young men to feed either your arms dealer masters or your own bloodlust while pretending to be compassionate”, but yours is certainly more compact. 😉
Is your expectation that would dissuade them from doing it? These people care not what level of evil they must stoop to to get and retain power. After all, it is not that they have also convinced themselves any means are justified because the end goal is a good one, but they are realizing they are criminals and in a functioning system the lot of them would me making big rocks smaller, making license plates, and having to fend off overtures from Bubba or Bertha after the lights go out.
Why do you love Putin and hate America? Why do you hate the American patriots in the arms industry? Why do you hate (insert jingoistic bullshit here)?
This. They (sorry Hyp, but I gotta use that term here) don’t feel shame in profiteering, they have been doing that off of the G their whole lives.
They still give a tiny shit. Otherwise I swear they’d be waving NAMBLA flags. Or just outright worshipping Moloch or something.
They wave trans flags. The colors are pink and baby blue.
The Devil hasn’t pulled up to the drive-through Overton window yet.
Thje alphabet divisions are sounding less and less combat capable by the minute. Since they won’t be fit to suppress civil uprising, I can only assume they’re prepping to facilitate foreign invasion.
The goal is to make the military unable to operate at the purpose for which it exists…
Make this happen, please.
/stocks up on popcorn
The Marxist, if anything, are amazingly efficient on destroying institutions.
Maybe not so much efficiency as persistence. This particular push probably took a couple decades but they don’t quit, ever.
The fact that the fundamental premise of their cult is that they have to create a new man, one that has the quality of angels, for their fever dreams to work, and then proceed to destroy everything to get there should make it obvious the only tools in their toolbox are destructive ones…
Eh, the Red Army wasn’t less effective than the Czarist one.
The Red Army only became effective when Zukov got rid of the political commissars.
This should flush out the people who at least have some line they won’t cross so feature not bug?
Of course, well buried in that article is the total contradiction from their EXPERT of the headline.
I assume it is laying the ground work at this point. Media/Government puts these out, sees reaction, decides to move forward, readjust, or let it go dormant until another time. See: gas-stove issue, etc.
Well it is supposed to be a scare article from a “conservative” site, but it really is just the same shitty journalism as the proggies do.
No argument from me on that. I just spent 30 minutes digging for the damn bill numbers that just passed Congress and no journalist ever puts them in their pieces.
When did they pull back on gas stoves? Because they sure as shit are working on that same law in my corner of the country as well as the land of Newsome, where only the French Laundry will be allowed to cook on them.
Unlikely to pass. If passed – probably would fall to a First Amendment challenge, I expect. But doubtless good for campaign fundraising.
Granted — I’d like to crate up the Dems (most of the Imperial District, honestly) and go let them form a Lafayette Brigade in Kiev…. but that isn’t happening, and they can express their stupidity however they want. I’d say never interrupt an enemy when making a mistake as well… but honestly at this point — those who have a problem with it are unlikely to ever vote Dem and those who do vote Dem apparently don’t care as long as Israel is kept down and they get whatever graft and grift they expected. Yay.
“Lying shitweasel will say anything he thinks might get him ahead” is how I would have written that headline. Leave his stupid ass out of things.
Morning, Banjos! Morning, all!
He’s a lying shitweasel but I would suspect that he has the inner knowledge of how it all went down. My guess is his testimony is “it was a typical NDA”
He may have inner knowledge — I don’t trust him to tell the truth regardless. He’ll say whatever he thinks gets him the best advantage in the moment and flip as soon as that changes.
Agreed
You need a lying shitweasel to fight a lying shitweasel? Avinetti vs Cohen!
Are you trying to create a lying shitweasel singularity? Because that’s how you create a lying shitweasel singularity… 😉
If DC doesn’t have a critical mass of lying shitweasels, then there’s no way a courtroom, even in NYC, could.
Dueling shitweasels at dawn!
I don’t see how Avenatti can help anyone but himself. The one thing you can count on is he’s a serial liar. Probably be a good gig to take a field trip back to the courtroom though. Prison probably gets old quick.
Yeah, he seems like the kind of guy who’d testify to almost anything for or against anybody for a boon.
“New crisis unfolds in Africa three years after Biden’s Afghanistan debacle”
I am surprised it took this long for this too to unravel.
In the Jimmy Carter years the military was turned into a giant shitshow. Biden is that and on steroids. And it is being done to help the people that own the American left – the CCP – with their end goals of ushering in a new colonialist era with the people of the world they do not kill to save Gaia basically living in a new feudal system.
+1 belt and road
What vital American interest was served by establishing a military base in Africa in a country with all the stability of a merged AOC & MTG?
Gaetz isn’t complaining about THAT. No he’s being a little shitweasel partisan dick-waver.
“We’ve got to fight them over there!” most likely. Good way to be in perpetual low-level war in every corner of the globe. The equivalent of mandatory vax purchases for Raytheon and friends. Makes us look big in the Davos cocktail parties. Win-Win for the Imperial District, I suppose.
Nope, Gaetz is just Biden bashing.
Air Base 201 construction started at the tail end of the Obama Admin and proceeded to completion during the Trump Admin.
No need for troops or a base. Michelle Obama brought back the girls with a Twitter hashtag. No guns needed.
His campaign stop flopped, so Biden’s punishing Sheetz?
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/president-joe-biden-stops-at-sheetz-pittsburgh/
More often than not, the left hand of our government knows not what the right hand is doing.
I used to believe that too Ownbestenemy. Then I started realizing that it happens with both such a high frequency and always produces the same chaos and disruption that favors the agenda of the people behind the new identity cultural revolution, that I no longer can just accept it is the result of ineptitude alone.
The deep state grinds slowly. Look at the shit that either started or continued during the Trump admin.
It’s the main reason they do not want that guy back: he would now know better than to allow them to do this shit if he wants to prevent the American people that are not playing Ostrich decide the government bureaucracy is their true enemy.
As much as I would like that to be true — I think if they do think that, they’re overestimating him.
At this point, all I personally think we can hope for from an OMB administration is that the White House won’t be pushing the crap. The agencies under them will still be trying, and the WH will be preoccupied with whack-a-mole trying to keep them from undercutting the actual administration policies, constant injunctions from judges at the district level mandating nation-wide policy (again) and whatever impeachment investigations the Dems will spin up.
Of course, I also think that given the current lack of performance – the Stupid Party may well lost the House again at least and certainly blow any chances of a wave in the Senate. And if they do by some miracle have one of the Houses… they damned well won’t act like it.
So gridlock at best — rule by whatever Assistant Sub-Director Of ShitWeasels and District Court Judge Buttinsky more likely.
he would now know better
Objection – this is a totally unwarranted assumption about Trump.
There you go with brevity again. What’s an overly verbose soul to do in the morning?
It isn’t weather he knows better or not, it is more can he turn the ship around.
We cannot read his, or anyone for that matters, mind, and so we can only see what final shape things take.
This is absolutely the case here — the Campaign Stop Braintrust probably has zero overlap with the Corporate Punishment Selection Committee.
If the CSB had any influence on the CPSC, they would not have been able to act this quickly.
I still haven’t heard why the Sheetz stop was bad for Biden.
It wasn’t so much that it hurt him, but it showed that he doesn’t actually have any supporters among the general populace. His appearance is met with a ‘Meh’ from the people – bad omen for someone running in an honest election.
Not that we have honest elections.
Every time this guy comes out he makes sure that people paying attention are left with no doubt that he is a fucking idiot.
Uncle Bosie was not available for comment..
It isn’t like they weren’t obvious about it — and it isn’t like anyone thinks it actually stopped.
One of the many many reasons the Commerce Clause should be rolled back to pre-New Deal (maybe pre-Wilson? I know he tried to get a lot of shit through… don’t remember if we had Court precedent in that area… I think he was too busy with Justice “Fire in a Theater” pressing speech and anti-draft rallies) and banking, telecom and other aspects need to have a whopping machete to their regulation levels so new players can actually enter the market instead of propping up the “Too Big To Fail” assholes.
Congress continues to ignore Executive branch writing new law as they see fit, goes back to fundraising and cocktail parties. News at 11.
Gee… wonder why recruitment and retention are down….
‘Complete mystery, General sir!’
Experts eh? Just like with climate.
Complete mystery, General
sirxir!If someone insists I provide pronouns I’m going say “Ze/Zim” and see if anyone gets it.
It might, at this point, be best to use “General Xi.”
General Tso was too chicken to comment.
They’re just going to blanket the corporate space with these lawsuits. It is a well fitted policy to their needs until and unless the public cottons on to their misdeeds — then they’ll have made their bed and must lie in it.
“Didn’t Earn It” is a key platform of the people trying to finish the work Obama promised when he mentioned he was going to “Fundamentally change” America. I never understood how so many people heard that asshole utter those evil words and thought “he is going to make things better”. Me, I have never, ever felt I needed to change anything I liked, let alone loved. That need was restricted to thinks I didn’t like, and then, “fundamentally” only for things I absolutely abhorred and hated. The guy literally told us all he hated the country and was going to wreck what made it special, and idiots cheered that shit on.
Half the country loves “fundamental change”. I don’t get it either, but it’s true.
+1 hope
Dangnabbit… try to start a perfectly good pun/joke thread and you two have to have serious discussion! Harumph!
Here, I’ll help you hold a pillow over them.
You were always quite the comforter.
That’s one heck of a blanket statement…
I don’t give a sheet if you believe me or not Alex!
Can’t help that my nature is to always piss into the cornflakes….
Might be a good time to short Sheetz stock.
If it’s any comforter to you, I see what you’re doing in this case.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“Deservin’s got nothin’ to do with it”
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Ukrainian flag waving on the the floor of Congress and they give $billions to foreigners.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-slammed-for-waving-ukrainian-flag-in-chamber-of-us-house-disgusting
Ukraine will still collapse before November but now half the Republicans will own it too.
Two corrections:
1. That money, all but a small percentage obviously slated to be laundered into campaign coffers directly, is going to the US military industrial complex as a way to help prop up the disastrous economic situation that can’t end in anything other than a massive depressive event, government meddling to pick winners & losers, has made inevitable.
2. The people peddling this never cared how many Ukrainians, and for that matter Americans, had their lives ruined or ended up dead from the get go, because this thing was always about the cabal’s agenda to keep the people from finding out the sellout to the CCP has left America an economically doomed wasteland.
Yeah, I’m not seeing the Ukes making it through the spring offensive this year. Looks like it will take a year longer than I thought it would. The Poles and the Russians sharing a border seems like it’s unlikely to turn out well.
Not “half.” We know damn well the Democrats will blame the defeat of Ukraine on all the Republicans for holding up aid until it was “too late to stop the Russian offensive.”
Did you know that 1 out of 3 Minnesoda politicians doesn’t know where their next meal is coming from? Isn’t it worth a measely $500M to make sure that these selfless public servants have a top notch cafeteria?
Gimme free shit!
All they need to do is go west on University Av (take the tram) and have a choice between Asian, Middle Eastern, Soul and any other variety of food. OTOH they would actually have to see/meet some of their constituents.
No! Not that. Anything but that.
Speaking of which.. Was forced to chat with a bunch of progressive ladies about a bunch of shit they ludicrously believe in this weekend when they found out I was not one of the beta boys they are used to and they came over to attack me. Let’s say I have never felt that much mental disorder in one place. But I think I scored huge when they told me they had no problem with men pretending to be women wrecking women sports, and I replied that we finally had something we could agree on. When prompted, I told them that was because I believed that it took men to show women how to be better women and that it finally disproved all the old idiot shit prominently featured in some commercials from back when where they had a slew of women singing “I can do anything you do better”. Let’s just say it was not well received and they stopped talking to me finally.
Why were you on the set of The View?
Legit chuckle to that one. Nicely played.
If Alex was ever on The View and didn’t tell us in advance, that would be a sin.
They will never let me close to those heifers for that very reason…
You could have short cycled the process by saying “Muslims are right about women”.
Yeah, but it takes time to get them to commit to the bit.
I was looking for them to bring me to the topic of Islam so I could tell them “I think in the end Islam will save civilization from the woke and stupid shit because they know a woman’s place”, but the one about men with severe mental disorders demanding society pretend their fever dreams that they are women, came up first…
Situation/context, out of curiosity?
A breakfast event for the town food bank drive. The amount of people needing help has skyrocketed.
Lahaina wildfire survivors are homeless and living in beach encampments eight months after Hawaii’s deadliest blaze ripped through the Maui town and displaced thousand
The rich are getting their wish – property owners are giving up and leaving.
You can’t just issue rebuilding permits willy-nilly! You need to establish the DEI, Environmental Sustainability, Indigenous Displacement Justice, and Non-Human Community Input subcommittees to the Master Planning committee and get all the members suitably vetted and adequately funded before you can even begin setting the criteria for the evaluations to the RFPs that’ll be submitted to the trade unions!
At this point I’m surprised (and maybe they have and I just missed it) that they haven’t “re-assessed” the properties given the investment / luxury market, hugely inflated the “value” and property taxed away the peasants with the results.
Can’t have the unwashed on our island paradise, after all! (Well, the cleaning staff can be there — we’ll set up a ferry that eats 50% of their wages to keep them in the company town while they commute from the Big Island… but remember, we hate the robber baron era!)
They should go to Mexico and cross back into the US…
Particularly like this tid-bit from the Ukraine graft
It was billed as a loan but hey! We can cancel that debt and you know backchannels to Ukraine are telling them, don’t worry, we will cancel that debt.
I like the “anticipated to be incurred”. We are cancelling all outstanding debt since we anticipate loaning you even more.
It’s not a debt if there were no plans to pay for it anyway.
I thought the plan was always to leave the common chums with the bill?
Not like there will be a Ukraine to pay it back anyway.
I lose confidence in the quality of coworkers every time a reply-all storm hits.
Please take me off this mailing list.
STOP REPLYING TO ALL! /hits reply to all.
Hehe, we had some guy that finally got put on probation because he was accused of always hitting the “Reply All” button to ask people to take him off the conversation and causing serious loads, whenever one of those emails went out. He argued he was innocent, but then again, they had warned him to never do that again not once, not twice but at least 4 or 5 times, and he always was the first to go there…
I am a fan of his…
Last week I had a coworker hit “Reply All” to ask a question that had been answered quite obviously in my original all-staff email. 🤦🏼♀️
I hit the regular “Reply” to point out the already-provided answer to her.
You are way too kind….
The storm is still raging. I finally received my first non-storm email of the day.
I just delete all without reading any of it.
I am at peace.
This is a thing that just drives me nuts – the insistence that there is a cabal aligned against us and our holy goodness.
The West is very fucking loosely speaking taking just the U.S., Britain and Germany as three points therein; yet the three opponents are tied together as though they had anything cohesive other than opposition to our [American elite] will. I’m sure the mullahs of Iran are tight with Xi – given Xi’s treatment of Muslims, let alone Putin’s treatment of Muslims (which Xi might agree with).
What drives me nuts is your insistence this is an inadequate/insufficient reason for short-term cooperation. Well that and your extremely particular definition of leftist that excludes literally everything in the world today.
I said they have ONE reason – opposition to the assholes in our govt. There just isn’t much else that seems to unite them. If we had one fucking functional brain in DC, that brain would hark back to divide and conquer.
Our opponents in BRICS, the ‘Global South’ or whatever have a couple of unifying ideas.
1. The want nothing to do with the woke shit that has infected the West and being peddled hard everywhere in the world. They would like their different societies respected and left alone.
2. They want to make money not just print it
3. They do not want their own countries or their neighbors to get CIA color-revolutioned and / or turned into NATO outposts
More than enough to hold them together until our empire collapses.
They also won’t play the stooges in our climate game.
Oh yeah – kind of under #2, but they refuse to sacrifice their economies on that altar.
Have you seen Brazil and all the rainforest crap that comes outa that joint?
We got nothin’ on the B in BRICKS.
Isn’t that enough? Look at the Axis powers, and our own alliance with the Soviets in WW2.
The Nazis would NEVER ally with the Japanese! They HATE nonwhites!
(Repeat with Sunni/Shia, Persian/Arabs, various Palestinian splinter groups, etc. ad infinitum.)
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I didn’t know that the House of Representatives can introduce language into a bill that requires the Senate to vote in a certain fashion. Learn something new every day. How can 4 separate bills be rolled up into one and forced upon the Senate as an all or nothing package?
I believe the House is sending it as a single bill. The Senate can do with it as they please including breaking it up into separate bills.
Gotcha. I guess I never read the bottom of bills and apparently they put language in there telling Senate to fast-track (and do so on a lot of bills after some research). I just see that as ‘wrong-lane’ buddy type of legislating.
It’s political maneuvering. If the bills were sent up separately, the Senate could pass some and reject others. Any Senate changes to the unified bill will require House approval.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/pennsylvania-women-defends-herself-kills-intruder-during-early-morning-break-in/
So will they charge her anyway for not letting the crook do his thing?
I mean, “Brent Farmer” doesn’t sound like a “Didn’t earn It” champion, so that might be her saving grace, but the machine must not like the idea of the citizens taking the responsibilities the machine has given up on into their own hands…
Beaver County is about as far from Philly as you can get in PA, so no.
I suppose you could be in Erie… but close enough.
Beaver County is full of gun nuts. It’s surprising that a Democrat (Bible) won the DA job in the last election, to be honest, but I’m glad to see he seems to understand where he is. This area has an odd history of voting heavily “Red” in national and state wide elections, but “Blue” in local elections. It has a lot to do with the area’s industrial heritage and union base.
This, from a Democrat in gun country, PA:
How about a small nippy dog?
They’re better as alarms. Big dogs seem to be 50/50 on whether they’ll do anything about an intruder. I think you must have to train them to be vicious.
Ask Hayeksplosives her opinion on that.
Those local Dems are a little smarter than the state/national brand?
Making the plan public….
And how many people will pretend this is not real scary warning, because, well, social justice!
“Mein Kampf? Pay it no mind, it is just the ranting of some disgruntled Army vet who can’t get a job as a house painter.”
Is it some dopey college student or a terrorist pretending to be one…?
Is there really that much of a difference?
Every institution out there is captured by the evil leftists and their civilization destroying agendas..
Wikipedia went into the toilet a long time ago.
Wikipedia was run by the same woman who runs NPR…
Crisis
A growing number of leaders and organizations have called on Columbia University and its president to protect students amid reports of antisemitic and offensive statements and actions on and near its campus, which has been the site this week of a pro-Palestinian encampment and protest.
The protest and encampment on campus has drawn attention to the right of free speech and the rights of students to feel safe from violence, with a campus rabbi recommending Jewish students return home for their own safety.
Early Monday, Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik said classes would be held virtually Monday, and said school leaders would be coming together to discuss a way to bring an end to “this crisis.”
In a statement to the university community, Shafik said she was “saddened” by the events on campus, and denounced antisemitic language, and intimidating and harassing behavior.
Get back to me when they’re fighting hand to hand with axes and machetes.
Arrest the protestors who are breaking laws. Suspend or dismiss protestors who are breaking laws or university rules.
There’s your way to bring an end to this crisis. Not seeing the need for a big meeting to discuss.
Yeah, not hard.
It just shows that the administrations at the targeted institutions are terrified of their own students and the thugs among them who are pretending to be students.
There’s your way to bring an end to this crisis. Not seeing the need for a big meeting to discuss.
Whoa, whoa, WHOA! You mean someone in a position of authority actually exercise that authority? No, no, NO. We’re going to need to spread it around so that an entire bureaucracy is to blame, which means none of them individually are responsible.
Also, deport any foreign nationals, student or otherwise, who are suspended.
I got a req approved to replace some night-shift lab techs that got sick of being night shift lab techs. If anyone knows of good candidates (non-tard, non-liar required, non-helpless preferred) let me know.
That sounds pretty discriminatory
Well, that rules me out.
I would have thought the “night shift” would have ruled you out.
Don’t know, never tried.
It really does suck. Good OT pay though.
Where is Pie to give us some candidates when you need some nocturnal types…
Rules me out, yikes. Too old for that shit again.
Night shift has one advantage – the bosses aren’t around.
Which is where the non-helpless is important. The big downside to that is that it’s hard to make a good impression on the managers when it comes time for promotion.
Don’t worry, scro, there are plenty of tards out there living kick-ass lives…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY7K8PEk91A
What geographical area are you in?
My son got 95% through a bio-chem degree but quit. He already had a degree in mathematics and economics. Decided to peruse programming and taught himself a bunch of stuff and is currently WFH as a contract employee.
Directly north of Albany New York.
I don’t recommend the state, it’s full of awful people, many worse than me.
New York and California are the two places he did not want to relocate to.
Smart. Should add NJ there too.
That’s a given.
The people here are fairly awful. The natural landscape is fantastic though.
It helps if you ignore the awful people. It’s not hard.
It is when they keep banning or trying to ban everything.
I want my plastic bags back, my gas engine, ny gas stove, and my guns, dammit!
Meh, all states are converging in that direction anyway.
That’s not the view I get from over here. New York and California are deranged outliers.
A protest encampment has cropped up at the New School in Manhattan in solidarity with pro-Palestinian voices at Columbia. The institution on Sunday called the encampment “unauthorized,” but said it was planning on meeting with students to “resolve the situation.”
Following a week of protests at Yale, some of its students established a 24-tent encampment in New Haven, Connecticut, in solidarity with Columbia’s protesters over the weekend.
Where does this bizarre fascination with tent cities come from?
Camping is fun!
Many of them probably aspire to a life of urban camping so yeah.
Camping in the city is fun. You can go get coffee, still have a cell phone signal, go poop someplace clean and air conditioned. You can also sprint home in teb min
I hate this comment system sometimes.
See if they are still there in November. Spring camping is more agreeable.
Ceska Zbrojovka must be coming out with a Gen 2 P10. Classicfirearms.com was selling P-10Fs for $349. I resisted long enough for them to sell out.
In other news… I watched “Death Proof” last night.
If I didn’t want to break Quentin Tarantino’s kneecaps with a waffle faced framing hammer before, I do now. Holy shit, what a stupid movie. I kept watching, all the way to the end, foolishly waiting for something besides lame cliches and self-indulgent wanking. Women in their 20s(?) acting and talking like teenage boys. Ooh, so edgy. Fuck that retard and anybody who facilitates his cinematic atrocities.
He has some good ones and some self-indulgent tripe just like most of the greats.
Tarantino admits that Death Proof is his worst movie. Keep in mind that it was released as only a half finished film, mixed in with fake trailers, noise, and Planet Terror. They later finished it up and released it as a stand alone after lots of requests by the fans.
Yeah, I thought it was supposed to be bad?
It’s supposed to be grindhouse exploitation bad, but it’s still entertaining. I like Planet Terror better, even though Rodriguez doesn’t know how to finish a movie.
The first release of the Death Proof / Planet Terror combo was quite entertaining. The trailers for Machete were particularly fun. The resulting movie series is mixed bag of an experience.
The subsequently released Death Proof movie and Planet Terror movie were a let down.
Tarantino’s greatest sin (and I know, it’s a long list) is his casting himself in all of his movies, like he’s fucking Hitchcock or something,
Agreed, dude is a terrible actor. Just awful.
You didn’t like his performance in this scene? It was erm… something something….
When I first watched it, I didn’t know what Tarantino looked like, so when that part of the movie came up I’m thinking “Who the hell is this guy, and how did he get cast for this role? He’s so bad he’s almost ruining a great movie!”
non-helpless preferred
You slay me.
We do have a meritocratic promotion and retention system in place, so there’s that.
Literally everyone in this org higher than a tech was a tech at some point and got promoted up. Except for one engineer.
That’s the way to do it. One of my employers used to be the same way until an activist investor put some sleazy business types in charge. Then they set the company up to be sold. They still have lost the “engineers in the driver’s seat” quality, sadly.
Seen it happen too. Does provide plenty of popcorn opportunities.
NA‘s workplace dragged before EEOC commissars in 3, 2, 1…
Nah, we have made sufficient donations to “charities” that we could stay open during the coofpocolypse. We have a full time “Government Relations” department staffed by people who wear suits and ties (which our C-suite and legal departments do not).
“Director of the EEOC Philadelphia District Office, Jamie R. Williamson highlighted that April is “Second Chance Month,” and noted that the “EEOC is dedicated to making sure that individuals with criminal records are not unlawfully excluded from employment opportunities because of race.””
No, they are being excluded from employment because of their criminal records.
Seems to me that JR Williamson thinks that all visible minorities are criminals.
Does that fall within the soft bigotry of low expectations, or is that something a little harder?
I suspect the this individual is an outright racist.
This is all so stupid, I mean I won’t hire a convicted thief to be a cashier but to dig ditches sure…it all depends on the job and the conviction but throwing it out as an object of consideration is a recipe for disaster.
You never hear anyone bringing up “disparate impact” to imply that the NFL or NBA are discriminating against white or female athletes … funny how there everyone is OK with a meritocracy.
“So, you were convicted for attacking your former supervisor after he declined your time off request made at the last minute.”
“Yeah, I was done wrong.”
“We’ll let you know…”
A more interesting question — would you hire someone to dig ditches who had previously used a shovel to murder someone?
What was the motive?
Murderers would be out for most jobs I’m afraid. No one wants to deal with someone who might ice you for putting a letter in their file or some other petty crap.
Just because someone killed once doesn’t mean petty crap will set them off. Not everyone is their significant other having an affair with the neighbor, or said neighbor.
I’ve mentioned this story before but we fired a lab tech officially for lying on his resume, rather than the underlying murders.
The red flag was him leaving an MD off his resume. He falsified testing results (directly relevant to the job) resulting in four of his patients dying. HR’s BI either did not uncover this, or did not prevent his hiring or this information in getting to the hiring committee. His coworkers snooped on him.
How many hits did it take? What’s his shovel game like? Did he use said shovel to bury the body after? Just how much does this guy like to shovel? Was it a spade or flat shovel?
Well here’s the problem with our border and the Ukraine – our members of Congress are confused.
Democrat Gerry Connolly: ‘Ukrainian-Russian Border Is Our Border’
They gave some kind of stupid reason, the border between the freedom loving peoples and totalitarian shitholes so it’s our metaphorical border. I’m just not sure what side they’re talking up anymore though.
Z-man is showing his Democratic cred – banning opposition parties, curtailing free speech, and sucking up plenty of graft.
The amount of people who have no idea that the Z-man did all that stuns me.
Don’t forget he also shut down the Russian Orthodox Church too.
Don’t worry, our ‘loan’ expressly prohibits monies going to the Neo-Nazi battalion and doesn’t have any auditing provisions so we are cool.
Was thinking the same thing about the reprimanded Israeli unit yesterday, Israel could use the funds to print them all bonus checks (minus the kick-backs to our pols) and we’d never know.
That and they can use our money to pay for unit X and move X’s money over for Azov and they’d likely be living up to the agreement. It’s all a sham and they’re well aware.
I almost can’t even anymore.
Criminalizing homelessness
The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.
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But hundreds of advocacy groups argue that allowing cities to punish people who need a place to sleep will criminalize homelessness and ultimately make the crisis worse as the cost of housing increases.
People who advocate homelessness should be shot. I like how they blithely skip over the “where, specifically, are those people sleeping” part of the question.
The homeless sleeping outside should be relocated to the front lawn of the judge that signed off the ban.
So did when you “spoke up” did you do so in a professional email or did you request a meeting with appropriate people? Or did you plop yourself on the floor in the big boss’s office and refuse to leave? The article and you didn’t say.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/company-bosses-draw-a-red-line-on-office-activists-bd11b7aa?st=pn9rnug2g3ma53t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So did when you “spoke up” did you do so in a professional email or did you request a meeting with appropriate people?
He was fired for his BELIEFS. Nobody should be fired for what they believe. And they certainly should never be forced to accept the consequences of their actions.
INSTANTLY!
“Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi, 21, says she is now homeless and starving after being suspended from college over anti-Israel protests at Columbia University which saw her zip-tied for seven hours”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/isra-hirsi-ilhan-omar-columbia-arrests-barnard-suspension-palestine
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13334881/Rep-Ilhan-Omars-daughter-Isra-Hirsi-homeless-anti-Israel.html
Cry me a river.
If your momma won’t feed you/let you live with her, at least one of you two must be a particularly evil cunt.
It’s not like she’s running low on campaign bux to funnel to people.
A 21 year old woman upset that she is being forced to be thin? That’s a new one.
Oh, she can go home, all right. There are multiple flights from LaGuardia to Minneapolis daily. She can register now for classes at Mohamed Farrah Aidid Community College or wherever in time for summer.
She probably could go crash with a brother husband like mom.
NY banned cash bail for “non-violent” criminals.
Punch someone? Non-violent.
Do a drive-by? Nono-violent.
Kill a baby? Non-violent.
Assemble a gun? VIOLENT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pCV0qCfw3s
He’s facing more time for building a gun than he is if he had stolen it and used it to murder someone.
Grrrrrr
Was the issue that the gun was a machine gun?
Worse… a ghooooooost gun!
Machine guns would be federal charges, these are state.
“Watching American representatives pass out & wave Ukrainian flags in the United States House of Representatives chamber infuriated me,” Cammack wrote in a post on X. “As we speak, my team is drafting legislation that will prohibit the display of foreign nations’ flags on the House floor.”
C’mon, Kat… it’s not like the Democrats are going to wave tiny American flags in the House. That would infuriate a large portion of their base.
Still, when I heard of my congresscritter’s proposed action, this came to mind.
Final Candidates update, but it shouldnt be.
In the Nakamura-Gukesh match, Nakamura tried to force some sharp positions, but Gukesh professionally snuffed out the game, made it a boring slog that ended eventually in a draw. With that, Gukesh guaranteed himself, at worst, to be playing the winner of the Caruana-Nepo match in tiebreaker playoff today.
Caruana had the match in hand, and in time pressure, played the wrong check, which blundered it from a dominant position to a dead draw. Nepo held the draw, eliminating both of them. Nepo has now played in 3 candidates tournies without losing a match. Not enough wins to hang with Gukesh though.
Gukesh is the winner and will play Ding Liren later this year for the World Championship. Gukesh is not the youngest player in the history of the Candidates, but he is the youngest to win it. And if he defeats Ding, he will be the youngest world champion by about 5 years.
He is 17, although he looks about 30 with his beard.
https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-109495961,imgsize-108580,width-400,resizemode-4/109495961.jpg
Seriously, does he look 17?
A more interesting question — would you hire someone to dig ditches who had previously used a shovel to murder someone?
Am I likely to find myself digging alongside him?
“Thank you for your interest in the Product Designer position at Macheteco Inc. I see here that you have previous experience in Rwanda…”
Good morning all!
How’s that Dylan Mulvaney song going? Has it hit platinum yet?
Mulvaney needs to rap battle Ben Shapiro.
Tarantino admits that Death Proof is his worst movie.
They all suck, with the possible exception of Reservoir Dogs”.
They are fun, silly, self-consciously artsy movies. Like Guy Ritche or Robert Rodriguez flicks.
Right. You have to understand that tarantino grew up immersed in kitschy exploitation films, and uses that framework to tell his stories.
He really should have improved his technique beyond that. Or is he going for a Roger Corman award for schlock?
IMO they are all good, except possibly Death Proof, which I haven’t watched.
True Romance is my favorite, but Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill are both perfectly fine works. I think Tarantino films run into the same problem as King’s books. No one is allowed to edit them down anymore and they drag on too long (to my tastes).
I love me some kung-fu movies, and I found Kill Bill to be nearly unwatchable.
Too self-consciencely cliched for my tastes and not his best.
Reservoir Dogs for me. Pulp Fiction tolerable. Can do without any of the rest.
Looking at that WSJ article, I can’t help noticing those superior souls taking a principled courageous stand against genocide and totalitarianism seem to all be hiding their faces. You’re a regular Patrick Henry, aren’t you, you chickenshit cocksucker?
Though he knew of a few co-workers who had quit because of their opposition to the $1.2 billion Israeli contract that Google shares with Amazon, called Project Nimbus, he said he opted to stay so he could protest the contract from within.
Or, you know, google is the only place dumb enough to hire him.
They had to retain him so Meta couldn’t hire him.
Perfectly lampooned in HBO’s Silicon Valley.
Study says that climate change hates the gays….
Honestly, what can’t that raciss, homophobic, sexist, and downright evil thing not do?
“Same-sex couples disproportionately live in coastal regions and cities, which are more vulnerable to such disasters. They’re also more likely “to live in areas with poor infrastructure, worse-built environments.”
Washington DC, which rates high for “climate risks” such as heat waves, floods, and “dangerously strong winds,” has the greatest proportion of gay couples in the U.S.
San Francisco ranks second, and also faces a high climate change risk. According to KQED report, the city’s Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District flooded 22 years ago, “swamping” the entire area. The closest supermarket, Rainbow Grocery, also got flooded.”
OFFS!
That is literally the stupidest thing I will read today.
I hope.
EPL relegation update, with 4/5 matches to go (7 if you are Chelsea).
Mathematically Safe (38+ pts): Top 13
Reasonably Safe (34-37): Crystal Palace (36/5 matches), Brentford(34/4)
Safe for Now (32-33): None
Danger Zone, currently safe (26-31): Everton (30/5), Nottingham Forest (26/4)
Danger Zone, currently to be relegated (19-25): Luton Town (25/4), Burnley (23/4)
Toast (11-18): Sheffield United (16/5)
Relegated (10-): None
Not much change. Reasonably Safe, Safe for Now, and Toast are about to go away as categories, so I split Danger Zone in half, those who survive if season ended today, and those who would go down. Added pts in each range, pts for each team and games left for each team.
Midweek games of note on Wednesday:
Liverpool @ Everton
Sheffield United @ Manchester United
Newcastle United @ Crystal Palace
That gets all the relegation zone teams with 5 games left back to 4 with the rest of the field. Palace can get mathematically safe with a win.
Worried about Forest but yeah, lots of suck at the bottom still.
Forest should be worried, but not sure Luton has another pt in them. Burnley is making a run to make it scarier.
Without point deductions, Everton would be mathematically safe and Forest would have some breathing room. And of course, those rules are magically going to go away before they get around to the Chelsea and Man City cases.
Chelsea too? Perfect. Always hated them.
For some reason, I thought you were a Chelsea fan. Who am I confusing you with?
Hillary?
Liverpool and Forest are the two I support. Am also supportive of Newcastle.
Forest play Burnley and Sheffield still, so they are in control.
🙂
FA Cup recap: Coventry were hosed on a bad offsides call
Coventry needed to make their PKs.
No idea if it’s true, but there are claims that the “embassy” bombing in Syria was suspiciously successful.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/bloomberg-reveals-that-the-entire-irgc-command-wing-in-syria-was-assassinated-798031#google_vignette
Co-workers with “divergent” political views never made me feel unsafe. Superior and disdainful, but not unsafe.
They are fun, silly, self-consciously artsy movies. Like Guy Ritche or Robert Rodriguez flicks.
I’m pretty sure Guy Ritchie never made a movie intended specifically as a giant “fuck you” insult to his audience’s intelligence. Taratino has made a career out of it.
Four Rooms is so awful it’s good.
Bizarre conspiracy theories
Even before Trump’s daily outside-the-courtroom rants to the camera, Americans were polarized over his situation. The idea that he’s a victim of political persecution enjoys far greater acceptance outside elite political and media circles on the coasts and in the cities – even if it is not supported by the facts. In nine years on the political stage, Trump has tapped into and worsened widespread mistrust of the country’s institutions among many voters, so it’s less of a leap for him to portray this case as corrupt.
How do we squelch this inexplicable deterioration of trust in our most sacred institutions? Obviously, those who spread such insidious unsubstantiated allegations must be rooted out and punished. January 6 was merely the tip of the iceberg of insurrectionist treason.
“Same-sex couples disproportionately live in coastal regions and cities, which are more vulnerable to such disasters. They’re also more likely “to live in areas with poor infrastructure, worse-built environments.”
Washington DC, which rates high for “climate risks” such as heat waves, floods, and “dangerously strong winds,” has the greatest proportion of gay couples in the U.S.
Homos are stupid. Gotcha.
What conclusion should I be making when we keep finding out things like this involving people that peddle some real head scratching things that make you wonder if the end goal was/is decriminalization of sex with minors?
It would not surprise me to find that people who like abusing power continue that principle in their sex lives.
I’m 50/50 on these stories. It wouldn’t take much for a three-letter to plant evidence on a laptop, and I’m sure they’ve done it plenty of times. But this person seems to have been out of the public eye for a while, so probably true?
Since it’s Earth Week(tm) the cafeteria had “meatless monday”. The special — chickpea burger with celeriac bacon.
🤢🤮
I will admit that there was a fancy bar in MTL that had “carrot bacon” that was crunchy, salty, smoky and savory.
So an assburger?
It’s called “autism spectrum” these days.
“My ex shaved his head and pretended to have cancer — to cheat with another woman
Australian porn star Hayley Davies claimed her ex pretended to have cancer so he could cheat on her — and even shaved his head to enhance the deception.
“My ex lied about having cancer so he could have a whole other girlfriend and multiple side girlfriends,” she recounted during a recent episode of the adult entertainment interview podcast “Holly Randal Unfiltered,” hosted by US-based erotic photographer and director Randal…
As it turned out, the huckster was using the disease as a ruse so he could “see his other girlfriend,” who reportedly had been none the wiser about his fabricated condition.
“She had no idea he had ‘cancer,’” Davies said. “They had been together longer, and she was actually the main one – the one that had met the family and all that.””
https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/lifestyle/my-ex-shaved-his-head-and-pretended-to-have-cancer-to-cheat-with-another-woman/
Sounds like they were both cheating.
While most of the pretrial focus has been on a possible conviction, an acquittal of the presumptive GOP nominee could also have unpredictable political consequences in a race that a new CNN Poll of Polls on Sunday showed as a virtual dead heat between the previous president and the current one. But Noem rehearsed a political argument that Trump and his associates will be seeking to land as the trial goes ahead. “I’m walking around this state and talking to people, talking to people across the country, they don’t even know which trial this is,” Noem said. “What they really care about is that they’re trying to figure out how to pay their gas bills. They’re trying to figure out how to pay their electricity and put food on the table for their kids.”
The South Dakota governor’s downplaying of the allegations against Trump also ignores the extraordinary historic reality of an ex-president facing multiple criminal trials. But the deeply consequential political and personal stakes for the former president will become even clearer when the first trial begins for real on Monday.
This trial is The Most Important Thing Ever. Nothing else matters. Nothing, I tell you.
“Outrage as trans middle school athlete wins girls’ shot put event by more than 3 feet
Becky Pepper-Jackson, 13, took first place at the Harrison County Championships track meet last Thursday with a 32-foot throw, records show.
The eighth-grader, who takes puberty blocking medication and estrogen hormone therapy, has identified as a girl since elementary school.
The ruling Tuesday from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams, which was signed into law by Republican Gov. Jim Justice in 2021.
The court ruled the law couldn’t lawfully be applied to the eighth grader.”
https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/trans-middle-school-athlete-wins-girls-shot-put-event-by-more-than-3ft/
Another big bowl of wrong.
Judge Toby Heytens wrote that offering her a “choice” between not participating in sports and participating only on boys teams “is no real choice at all.”
A great legal mind.
Let me guess, Toby got bullied by Jocks in middle school.
Also the idiotic choice to transition at 13.
The idea that this is even a legal question, really shows how our brains have degenerated over the years…
has identified as a girl since elementary school.
It’s a “girl” who wants to be a shot putter.
Cut it the fuck out.