Good morning one and all to another incredible day! Let’s take on today with a fresh set of links and a can-do attitude.
Senate Kills Mayorkas Impeachment Articles
Attorneys Struggle to Find Jurors Without Opinions on Trump for Hush Money Trial
Hunter Biden Appealing Gun Charge Ruling Citing Defunct ‘Immunity’ Deal
U.S. Tax Refunds Declined 3.3% This Year In Run-up To April 15
Collapsed Bridge in Baltimore Costing the State Nearly $200M a Day in Lost Economic Activity
Elephant Escapes Circus, Takes Stroll Down Busy City Street
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Biden: “It was cannibals! I was there, Fat!”
“It was cannibals! I was there Properly Trimmed and Smoked with a nice Brown Sugar Rub!”
There are fine, young people on both sides of this issue.
Listen bub, cannibals are fine people!
Honestly, that video is just beautiful. The last lingering remnants of the ’80s aesthetic blending into the more relaxed/normie ’90s.
I was just thinking that. Remember listening to them in 1989 when the future was so bright I had to wear shades.
Even Columbo used that song in an episode. Wonderful.
I remember being in college and that song being the first truly noiseless example of recording + audio equipment I’d ever heard. Nakamichi CD player and amp/ B&W speakers.
Their best single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5Se-9XAVE
Fun fact: Brummies say “mom”, not “mum”.
Yaaas. Wow, haven’t heard that in forever.
Shit, I forgot about that song. Great.
No. Only Bill Clinton would get a “brown sugar rub.”
Is there anyone on earth that doesn’t have some opinion of Trump?
The Sentinalese.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they vote for Biden.
Maybe my son? Depends if his stupid Youtube influencers have mentioned him — they’re mainly focused on video games so I think there’s a chance.
If you man “any adult” — probably not.
Killdozer.
The town can’t collect if the town has been flattened.
That’s not even that far from me.
What difference does the guy’s profession make?
Nazareth – the town where they wouldn’t even let Joseph sign up for the Roman census; he had to take his pregnant fiancee all the way to Bethlehem to register. Bet they hassled him for a carpenter’s license too.
”He teamed up with the Institute for Justice, filing a lawsuit on April 9 seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting his borough of Nazareth from enforcing the ordinance “against a traditional, low-cost, and effective form of personal commercial speech.”
“I really can’t think of a good reason why Nazareth has this policy in place,” he said. “I’m not quite sure why they would be so concerned about a car with the sign in the window.””
Yeah, but can *anything* good come out of Nazareth?
Hair of the Dog?
Mandatory.
https://youtu.be/LZeR8OHyDo0
Damn your nimble fingers!
Seems like anyone from Nazareth ends up getting nailed by the govt.
Old news
They’re big supporters of the hotel industry though.
You’re going to make Swiss cross.
He’s going to wait 3 days before he brings it up again.
I’m just here to resurrect a dead thread.
IIRC there used to be a Virginia law (statewide) making it illegal to put a “for sale” sign on your car. I think the law was a result of lobbying efforts by car dealers. The law was eventually overturned, though I can’t remember whether judicially or legislatively.
“Attorneys Struggle to Find Jurors Without Opinions on Trump for Hush Money Trial”
I thought getting a biased jury and judge was the only reason this made up crime was taken to court to begin with?
Some people try harder to keep up appearances.
Besides, the purpose of the trial isn’t to obtain a conviction, it’s to tie up Trump’s schedule and prevent him from campaigning, so a protracted jury selection process aids the end goal.
Biden proved in 2020 that you don’t actually need to campaign to win a national election.
As Stalin pointed out, the votes don’t count worth shit. What counts is whomever gets to count the votes…
Dog who caught the car.
“U.S. Tax Refunds Declined 3.3% This Year In Run-up To April 15”
Wait until they rig the coming election and then pass their crazy idea to tax property and investments, even though you have not sold them yet, every year at 40%…
We will truly then own nothing.
Biden Curiously Claims Uncle Eaten By “Cannibals” In New Guinea – Military Says His WWII Plane Lost At Sea
It’s been tough on Joe ever since Beau died in Iraq.
Killed by a pony soldier.
The bastards whipped him to death while riding on horseback.
That picture of the collapsed bridge….
Scott Cowan, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 333, which operates out of the port, says the partial closure will severely impact his members. “There’s about 2,400 ILA union longshoremen in the Port of Baltimore. And last year alone, we worked over four million man hours in the port,” Cowan said in a recent interview. He added: “So it’s a big impact to the longshoremen and their families and it’s a catastrophic event.”
So, you’re going to back off on the construction work having to strictly follow Union rules, right? I mean, you want a bridge there, right?
How much would it cost to build a new bridge?
In Baltimore or Oklahoma City? Job are jobs.
Wash DC has become the comedy club. Joe wants booking for another 4 years, Trump want to be the MC.
We can see what a wad of cash spent in Oklahoma City could be…
The $1.6 Billion Quest to Build America’s Tallest Skyscraper in…Oklahoma
Move over New York. A developer plans a 1,907-foot tower overlooking sprawl and farmland. There are skeptics—‘I just burst out laughing.’
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/oklahoma-skyscraper-americas-tallest-eaae69d2?st=s4l5ce5ve18axfz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I saw that last post. Nobody would insure that. You are in the dead center of Tornado Alley. And that is an eyesore in Oklahoma City, which is mostly well-aged architecture. From a Libertarian perspective I wouldn’t stop him from building. But I would sue him when chunks of that building crushed my property post-tornado if I lived in Oklahoma City.
So the existing skyscrapers in downtown OKC, at half that projected height, don’t exist?
Those look way, way shorter than that picture. And yes those suck too. They turn into debris storms just like the Fort Worth tornado/hailstorm in the 1990s.
Twenty gazillion dollars.
The ILA would be quite happy with that, as long as they don’t represent any iron workers, etc.
Not sure Yankee or carpetbagger are quite apt, but eh.
“Elephant Escapes Circus, Takes Stroll Down Busy City Street”
Chris Christie is in town?
The elephant didn’t shut down as much traffic.
Heyooooo!
Win!
“Elephant Escapes Circus, Takes Stroll Down Busy City Street”
Just checking out the sights and dong some window shopping…
Were the well endowed gentlemen of that town offended by the elephant checking out their dongs?
Probably forgot to pack his trunk so he was looking for ways to fill it up.
Who exactly does our offsite IT contractor think they’re fooling with names like “John Livingston Anandaraj?”
Happens to me frequently too. I always chuckle speaking with a Hindi accented “Steve”.
Wut you talking about Willis-swami?
Does Anandaraj mean “Seagull”?
I have an RFP going on…2 Ravi’s, 1 each with a potential supplier and 1 Ravi on our team. I have to be very careful when setting up emails.
Just do the needful already for some time.
So, you are getting the Ravi shankdown?
/how’s your pops?
Here’s my wild ass speculation. Biden loses the election and pardons Hunter on his way out.
I like that prediction.
I was thinking he gets re-elected and the Baltimore Bridge is never rebuilt, symbolizing the fate of America.
And Democrats defend the move.
I think most people would be fine with Biden pardoning himself, Hunter, the whistleblower and everyone in his entire administration if it came with the caveat that they would go away and we would never hear from any of them again.
And pigs will fly and the horse will sing.
My bet is that the people that made up all the lies about Trump not wanting to leave after they rigged the 2020 election won’t just slink away in shame when they fail to “fortify” the election. I expect them to tie up the results in court and at a minimum make the country ungovernable. Spoiled evil fucking kids won’t just take their ball and go home if they can’t get their way, they will wreck the field and poison all the other kids on the way out just for spite.
Yes, of course they will. This will succeed in destroying their own blue cities and very little else.
Win/win!
Meh, I am OK with that.
And the Stupid Party voted in blocks against the upset of the rules, tearing down of bulwarks of democracy, yadda yadda yadda.
I’ll believe they mean a damned word of it if they actually said “Fine. If you’re not going to run the Senate as the Constitution requires, we’re going to literally shut down the Senate until you’re voted out.” And filibuster everything. In rotation. There’s 49 of them (though I suspect 46 once you leave out the extreme squishes like Collins and Romney), you could prevent cloture and rotate filibusters infinitely.
Make.
It.
Painful.
Use the little power you have in the chamber so they know they shouldn’t do this crap.
But everyone knows they’ll bluster — and today will be right back to Business As Usual, passing FISA and Ukraine Aid and everything else the Uniparty wants while crying their way over to their fundraising emails. So pathetic.
Future headline: “Senate Changes Rules to Eliminate Filibuster on Party-Line Vote”
Business as usual means running for re-election, that’s the important stuff.
Menendez is a good example. “I didn’t do anything wrong. My wife runs the household. She’s a conscientious shopper, clips coupons, and stuff”
And he will get away with it…
The legal system exists so democrats owned by the corruptocracy can use it to make up shit about their political enemies.
SPECIAL NOTE: R.J. wasn’t kidding last night – we are out of material. Get fingers to keyboard and knock out that post you all have been dying to get in front of Glib eyes…
I’m waiting on materials before I write part 9 of Autodidact Ambitions.
While I think I’ve solved the problems left over from Part 8, I have to prove it. The inverters aren’t arriving until Monday.
I need to makes some time to drink more rye.
Yes indeed. I have a bottle of Bulleit bourbon right now, once it clears out I am getting some rye. I noticed Shiner Bock beer is now offering whiskeys and ryes on site. I may have to go get a few bottles.
I have been on a gin Martini kick when I am at home for a while now… Maybe it is time to try some bourbon again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHKKq7kMF8w
I’ve been tossing around the idea of writing up how the Grumbletarian administration would restructure the way the DOJ operates. IANAL, but still… I should get on that.
I joke but I never kid.
So, something got your goat?
Probably the nanny state.
You folks are on FIRE today! Now go write some snark for a post!
I’ve said it before — I can barely come up with comments I think anyone will want to read (look at the last few days… I’ve just lurked because I honestly didn’t feel like I had anything to say). The concept of an article y’all would have an interest in would be acted on — if I ever felt I had one. Sorry.
This comment is awful!
I’m always surprised by what links/articles I put together get the most comments/activity on them. I’ve got a couple of thoughts kicking around; however, work has been a bitch and a half this week.
I sent one last week to Tonio…
This is a family site Fourscore! They can’t publish 50 Shades of Honey.
HEY NOW!
Bee love is not like a square’s love…
Ouch… that’s got to sting.
When a queen mates, are the drones her brothers or her sons?
Clones from another drone?
Begun, the Clone Wars have.
When 700 years old you reach — grammar, you will need it not!
Serious question. I asked in an email to Tonio, but I’m not sure if he’s seen it yet. When serializing a longer work, would you rather I hit “submit for review” on all 40+ entries around the same time, or chunk it out over several smaller batches to not flood the queue?
I would guess they’re needing whatever they can get as fast as they can, but I’m not actually involved in such things.
I also sent an article idea to Tonio weeks ago, and haven’t heard back. Maybe that’s partially behind having no articles in stock?
Just write it and submit it – unless you’re really out there, TPTB don’t impose very tight editorial control.
I’ve sent a couple stories in, but haven’t heard back.
I know I have a degree from Memphis State, but I graduated from a high school in the Brainpower State, so I thought they were OK.
Old School Memphian, right here.
I submitted a topic for a post, through the submission portal on the landing page. I never got any response. Is there another procedure for submitting ideas?
Leave it on Tonio’s doorstep, light, ring doorbell & run.
(Was an attempt at making a joke at the submission process, not your article, C. I look forward to reading it when it is finally published.)
Yes. Click through the Howdy, Cunctator at the upper right corner. Click Posts > Add New Post on your profile page. Cut and paste your post into the empty new post box, or type it in if you didn’t write it already. Add a title, pics, links, etc. (it’s really pretty easy and intuitive). This ain’t rocket surgery, people.
I believe that only works for those who have already been published and flagged as contributors.
I’m pretty sure that’s what I did for my first post, too, but its been awhile. Perhaps a noob could give it a go?
Not showing for me.
I don’t have RC’s Poster Privilege either
Just submitted something this AM, Swiss.
Yes, I know my Glibs mailbox is overflowing with submissions and author queries. I’ll deal with those tomorrow. Apologies to all affected.
I will work on getting it in finished form and try again.
I see that People Magazine is celebrating its 50 year anniversary. I thought the magazine was older than that.
It’s only as old as Dungeons and Dragons.
Virginia and North Carolina happily taking Maryland’s lunch? I mean — whine whine whine for Maryland and Baltimore and all… but it isn’t like that economic activity is just being lost to everyone.
Why, it’s almost like someone expects Republicans to actually represent their voters. This guy just doesn’t understand what the eGOP really is.
Related to that note and reinforcing that DC is where all the junior high student council was the high light of my life people end up…. The mean girls forced him away from the popular kids table… he’ll get back at them!
Johnson lied to get his position and once he got the speakership did a 180 on just about everything important. The “they told me this and that in a secret meeting and I changed my mind” is such horseshit but it’s par for the course.
My bet was they blackmailed him and he went along with it,,,
Hence Drake’s comment about him looking like a hostage.
I agree that I expect the meeting was of the sort — “Hey, you’re such a backbencher we didn’t think we needed to trot this out — but prior preparation prevents poor performance… so here’s our surveillance of that hotel…. and here’s the discrepancies in your accounts — oh, and we can make stuff up if this doesn’t stick enough. Now, how about you rubber stamp all the stuff we want and play nice?”
I think he just bullshitted his constituents until he gained enough stature to tell them to piss off and used the “secret meeting” as cover. Could be blackmail or whatever but my money’s on he’s a lying sack of shit.
a lying sack of shit
Stinky is someone who really understands the eGOP!
Last time I saw him, he looked like he was being held hostage.
I’d be a touch more sympathetic if he hadn’t called himself a “wartime speaker”.
It’s hell in the trenches of DC!
If only they’d dig in a little deeper.
Like, down to six feet deep? I heard that was the minimum standard for trenches in warfare.
When I watch Mike Johnson, it’s like watching Phil Hartman playing a role as a two faced Congressman.
Long piece on Amazon’s quite detailed competitor operation.
Inside Amazon’s Secret Operation to Gather Intel on Rivals
Staff went undercover on Walmart, eBay and other marketplaces as a third-party seller called ‘Big River.’ The mission: to scoop up information on pricing, logistics and other business practices.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-secret-operation-intel-rivals-eb82ea3c?st=793zp3ztwaldgfz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
all is fair in war and retail
Agreed. That is pretty smart.
It has been decades since I worked retail at this point — but I distinctly remember store security / management keeping an eye out for competitor “secret shoppers” and whatnot back in the day. So the data collection / analysis is doubtless faster, but the concept is nothing new certainly.
Was this to figure out how their racket where 1000 people in India watched what people that went into their store took, and then charged them, all while claiming it was AI, could be fixed?
My favorite Amazon move is their patent to block in store comparison shopping.
The linked story says that the patent will be used to block shoppers in Amazon stores from using wifi to do any comparison shopping. I have heard though that the real use for the patent will be to keep its competitors – like Best Buy – from implementing their own version of blocking in store price lookups.
Competitive research is a real thing. I worked at a company who would have special POTS lines run in (so they wouldn’t be associated with the main company) so they could call competitors to get price quotes on items. They would then track those and use that information to set their own prices. About every 3-6 months they would have to change out the POTS line as someone at one of the competitors would figure it out and block the number.
Extremely typical for retail, in fact, I’d say it’s part of the “culture” of the business. You spy on competitors. It’s what you do.
Uncle eaten by cannibals, eh? Still not as weird as showering with your 12 year old daughter.
Well, he didn’t share the details of how the uncle was killed by the tribe performing the “Death by Bunta” ritual before they then cooked him up and ate him…
And my son Hunter was killed by a tribe in the Amazon with “Death by Snu-Snu!” True story, Jack!
It won’t matter. biden could me chained, naked, to a bed with a single plastic sheet and babbling on about how HE was killed and eaten by cannibals in WWI and your typical Team Blue voter will mail in their ballots for him. They like what those behind biden have been doing for the last four years.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I think in MN school lunches are provided for every child, regardless of ability to pay.
I just can’t remember how the TX system worked, I don’t remember giving my kids money for lunches and surely we would have/could have, 50 years ago.
In any case, the Kid did a good thing and is a Daily Ray of Sunshine.
I was torn. The kid is a ray of sunshine. The parents who can’t scrape up lunch money for their kid are not.
NRLB v. ACLU!
https://mxmnews.com/article/323253b8-2836-454e-b44c-9dcc9fb081e9?aclu-fires-asian-employee-for-causing-racial-harm-with-hr-complaint-absolutely-bonkers
Everyone involved in this story needs to come together for
mediationrusty-knife fights.Hopefully they both lose.
Local school board is rocking the boat!
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. This is the biggest school district in the state.
Will the marxist that run the public school indoctrination racket just give up their marxist indoctrination programs?
After they are voted out they’ll take it to court.
Sabotage it from within too…
OFFS.
It was a “suicide contagion area” when the schools didn’t celebrate gay kids!!!
Thankfully my grandkids graduated from the Anoka district several years ago. They were lucky enough to get enough education to continue on with their lives, before too much wokeness surfaced.
Big if true?
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-797675
I saw ‘jpost’ thought ‘Japan Post’ webt ‘Big in Japan’ and the next thought was “Gojira Sighting?”
Big in Japan….
Perky in Japan
Not enough tentacle monsters…
Big in Japan as well. Great song and intro. Tom Waits return to form from 1999
https://youtu.be/NM60iVDu79Y
Trump would have made a better deal.
I remember when we shut down our military bases in the Philippines – so just where the hell is this “deployment”?
That’s not something we’d hand over to anyone else to play with. Trump opened the door to the possibility, but here’s Biden actually positioning weapons to threaten the Chinese mainland.
Always looking for the next war to lose.
The Philippines have been constantly harassed by the CCP and their agenda to basically restart their own version of colonialism, and suddenly they have decided Uncle Sam is seen as the lesser of two evils.
Anyone surprised that this shit, is what social justice Karens are all about?
Social justice activism is cover for women with severe mental disorders acting out their evil shit.
Of course, I have no clue who “she” is from that tweet.
The NPR Karen in charge?
The tweet was responding to this…
https://www.gbnews.com/news/us/us-economy-imf-warning-fiscal-practices-global
The IMF is actually issuing warnings about the U.S. fiscal situation.
Are we buying our own bonds now? Last I heard nobody else wants them…
It’s getting a real crumbling empire feel here.
The treasury selling bonds to itself and calling it stimulus is what QE was, no?
Next thing you know Zimbabwe will criticize our inflationary trends.
And I wish I was kidding.
The Trillion Dollar Coin will happen!
Argentina stabilizes and we go down the toilet? What a world!
It’s like being told to sober-up by Hunter Biden.
ALOL and *wild applause*
Sho whut? ‘s good advice.
Catch the Zerohedge debate last night Drake? Cenk was a bellicose gasbag as expected but Dave Smith ate their lunch. It’s worth a watch.
I’ve just about had it with Dave Smith. He’s good on a lot of stuff, but this Gaza stuff has sent him off the edge.
Smith calls it the Gaza War but still thinks that it is immoral for civilians to be getting killed. It is a war, lots of civilians get killed in wars. Always have been, probably always will be.
The other gripe is he is always harping on blowback and how we shouldn’t be surprised if Saudis fly into the Towers or if Russia invades Ukraine because of all the fuckery. Well? I’d say the October attacks were a good amount of fuckery and Hamas/Gaza shouldn’t be surprised at the blowback?
Putin keeps hinting around (or more) about going nuclear because the Ukes are attacking military targets in Mother Russia and have killed a relative handful of civilians there. Following an invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Israelis had nearly 2,000 killed by Gazans who invaded Israel, and were just directly attacked by Iran with hundreds of missiles. Guess who is getting publicly scolded about restraint and proportionality?
For me, the only relevant question is: should the US be involved?
I’m fine with selling weapons to anybody. There shouldn’t be any military aid without a declaration of war and a firm set of reasonable objectives.
We can’t afford endless multiple proxy wars. Even if we had the money and won the wars, it would do nothing to solve our numerous and more pressing domestic problems.
As for the rest of the world, let the chips fall where they may. It’s none of our business.
Agree, except for the selling weapons to anybody part. I wouldn’t sell to, say, Iran or China, probably a longer list.
In the case of China we turned a blind eye to the fact the CCP’s policy was to steal all IP, and especially military IP, from us. All because Wall Street had convinced itself it was the price of changing the CCP and getting access to the largest future market in the world. Here we are now with the CCP’s new and ever growing military squaring up to start it’s own late stage colonialist movement and becoming a threat to all their neighbors and the world in general. And both Wall Street and DC are so bought & paid for by the CCP (an entity that only changed to be even harder totalitarians, to the point it made the people in DC pine for that ability themselves) remain squishy about the fact they have been pimped and are the dupes. Sad.
When Xi dies, which he will, there will be no smooth succession. China’s internal crisis will hammer any ability they might have to influence the rest of the world.
I am not worried about what comes after Xi, since China is – because of a faked hyper economy, the usual corruption, and a demographic time bomb – on the road to a massive implosion. But what Xi will do before he gets a first class ticket to hell, really frightens me. I remind you that they unraveled a lot of what Mao did back when, but the 50-75 million people murdered by him directly or indirectly through his policies, and those that suffered horribly, remained dead and fucked over.
I remind everyone also that it is when dictators feel shit is getting real and they might be hung from lampposts that they get adventurous and start big ugly wars to unite their people in a shared cause. Xi is facing some real ugly and unavoidable shit, and that is when you start making real dumb decisions….
Yes. I agree that we shouldn’t be giving out freebies to anyone. Sell to anyone with cash.
I was just grousing about Dave Smith trying to have it both ways. If blowback is real and to be expected, Hamas shouldn’t be surprised.
Dave’s take is not leave Hamas alone.
Maybe not leave Hamas alone, but he seems to be 100% against Israel invading Gaza. Not sure how you can take care of Gaza without invading Gaza.
At least that is how it seems to be to me.
Open to alternative explanations.
If you nuke it from orbit, you don’t have to invade.
So he’s calling for purging Gaza with nucelar hellfire?
And yet the US tax payer paid for the interception of roughly 1/3rd of Iranian attack interception.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-uk-and-jordan-intercept-many-of-the-iranian-drones-headed-to-israel/
It’s all part of the plan to drain US inventory so when a real war comes our way we can’t fight due to lack of ammunition to send down range… The pols can then use that as the excuse for why they set us up to fail yet again…
We don’t even know what a real war is anymore, since we keep ginning up phoney ones.
Real war is when you kill everyone (yes, even the fucking civilians) and break everything the enemy has until they cry uncle and surrender unconditionally. That’s how we won WWII. We have not fought a real war since then. I disagree with those that claim the reason we no longer fight to win is the fear of nuclear Armageddon, and blame it on the people that want to sanitize war.
This sanitized war shit reminds me of the original Start trek episode when the Enterprise ran into a couple of worlds where they simulated war and then marched people into disintegration chambers, and had been ding so for centuries. If war was brutal and horrible and would cost you everything if you lost, I am pretty sure we would have a lot less of it. But this sanitized war shit has made war too easy to do, and that is why the whole globe keeps dealing with these stupid low intensity conflicts that are never ending.
Since the traditional practice of taking slaves is thankfully no longer acceptable, our choices are to wipe a few countries/people of the map and I bet these low intensity stupid and never ending wars shit goes way.
We don’t even know what a real war is anymore, since we keep ginning up phoney ones.
The war machine is telling the truth about this one though juris!
That’s more of a way to remind us and the French of all people that they have nukes.
I will have to check it out.
Hard to have an opinion on Israel and Gaza since there are so many conflicting stories. Obviously Hamas are assholes. Also seems like Israel has gone very trigger-happy.
How so?
Early on, a Hamas group (cell?) released a bunch of hostages, reportedly gave them white flags and had them walk over to Israeli lines. The IDF gunned them all down… because they thought they were Palestinian civilians? I got reported then quickly hushed up.
Too many of those kinds of incidents like the food kitchen people to dismiss as random mistakes. Trigger-happy is milder than what many respected people are saying.
I think they’ve been the model of restraint, frankly. The population of the US is ~35x the population of Israel. There were, what, ~1200 civilians killed in an orgy of rape and brutality in their own homes, up-close-and-personal? And another like 300-400 kidnapped (raped, etc.)? Do the math and it would be like 42,000 Americans massacred in that way in a day, and 12,000 hauled away as captives.
I think we’d have found somebody to nuke already.
It is NOT a moral failure to decide to not have an opinion on the matter.
Agreed. But the “seems like Israel has gone very trigger-happy” sounds like an opinion. JI and I have our differences, but he’s always worth a listen, and I’m wondering where that view comes from.
I think it has to do with bombing the “embassy.” AFAICR, Israel has always had a policy of killing leaders of orgs that hurt them regardless of international norms, so I wouldn’t see it as them “becoming” trigger-happy.
They’re afraid a Trump administration will cut their slush funds.
Spot the Not: translated scientific names
1. potato buffalo flamingo
2. the creature from the black lagoon
3. giant deformed penis
4. little chief nipple twister
5. itty bitty thing
6. Owen’s ninja turtle
I’m going to purely guess — but “little chief nipple twister” is what I want to be the NOT. Have some respect, frat boy biologists!
The Creature seems a strong contender — but I’ll bet Everything sounds smarter in Latin. comes into play here.
Derp, I predict that you will be a Mr. Bergstrom to some young receptive Lisa Simpson* type.
https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/7F19.html
*before her character went bonkers two decades ago
Thanks. I had to pass on substitute jobs this week because of medical appointments. My return to the classroom is imminent.
My personal favorite is Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla.
Taking a SWAG and picking #3.
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🔥 Solve streak: 35
If you were wondering who was running the country, it looks like O’Keefe found out in another sting operation…..
I was sure it was the Clintons & Obamas, because “My uncle got Bunta-ed to death then eaten by cannibals” guy ain’t doing any kind of running unless it is happening in his pants and running down his legs…
You know what a special adviser is? Some big donor’s unemployable kid they want out of the basement.
Glad he is still out there doing the Lord’s Work. What happened to his old business that the RHINOs and commies took over? Project Veritas?
I think veritas failed for bankruptcy and in late 2023 they suspended all operations. Without him the thing was just another version of NPR.
Bernie Sanders’ shorter work week and other marxist beliefs in practice…
Uh, are you talking about the shit he inherited, or are you saying Ecuador’s answer to President Dude-bro is a closet socialist?
Yes…
Someone’s next girlfriend?
I don’t think I get this one
Weekend at Bernie’s?
Kinky
Last week, Renato Moicano, a professional martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), made a rather unusual announcement after a fight:
‘I love private property, and let me tell you something, if you care about your […] country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian Economic School […]!’
https://capx.co/sif-you-care-about-your-country-read-ludwig-von-mises/
The left sees him as just another deplorable…
If I hadn’t just had my hair cut, I’d be pulling it out trying to find a replacement comforter. The one I’ve had for ages is past the point of being able to be repaired further, so I’m looking for a replacement. I don’t want a duvet because the fuss of a separate cover isn’t worth it.
I don’t have that many criteria – outer texture within a margin of error of common broadcloth (No quilt, microfiber, satin, cable knit, extra fuzzy, etc); Insulation should be some form of fiberfill (wool, cotton, poly, all ok) No Down, feathers, or some other fill that shifts easily; Not made in China (this one is actually the easiest to meet so far); solid dark color.
I’m clearly looking in the wrong place, because those are not that strange in terms of requirements.
Well, where are you looking? What’s your budget?
The Company Store?
I would think –China would be the most difficult.
I’ve been poking about the internet, since I haven’t shopped for this sort of thing in a while. I didn’t want to go to Amazon, but even there I’ve found all of one candidate.
My budget depends on my confidence in the quality of the product and how long I expect it to last. Though I won’t go into the upper three figures sight unseen.
So mid-threes is OK? Sheesh, Mr. Moneypenny.
I don’t really know about chichi home goods, besides Frette and the like.
If I say I am willing to pay for quality or even Made in the USA, I have to be willing to pay for it. I can’t ask for slave labor prices for western made goods.
Though, naturally, I’d prefer less expensive, but if it lasts me as long as the previous one, investing a bit more isn’t going to break me.
I know The Vermont Country Store has chenille bedspreads and flannel Peanuts sheets.
Road trip!
https://www.quiltshopatmillers.com/
You really should let a professional cut your hair the results are usually better
I don’t want a duvet because the fuss of a separate cover isn’t worth it. – i never had something without some sheet covering.
I liked the separate cover, myself, so I could wash it occasionally.
Of course, in Tucson I don’t feel the need for one.
I was hunting for a light weight linen sports jacket (on the inexpensive side as it will be going down into pits). You’d think this would be simple. Local searches turn up nothing, OK, kind of figured that as there’s not much in the way of high fashion here, and the stores that potentially had them also had a higher price that I was expecting. Search online, and Amazon returns a result that fits my need, then I look at the details.
Title “100% Linen Sports Jacket”
Material: “96% Polyester 4% Rayon”
(I did finally find one that matched my need, sleeves are a bit long, but it’ll work).
“Twice as much material per material!”
What’s inexpensive? I have a couple of linen sport coats from Charles Tyrwhitt that are quite nice, in the $300 range.
The sixpence cuff links were a hit back when, if they still have them.
ES: I was in the $100 range. As stated, it’s going to be going into a pit at Punk Rock Bowling (with the Beat and Madness playing, I will be rocking the Rudy look at least one day).
Toxteth: Unfortunately, my french cuff shirts don’t fit at the present, but my bottle opener cuff links always got comments.
That’s what you meant by ‘pit.’ Got it.
Nordstrom Rack is your friend if you are XL and under. You can find great deals there.
I was just going down the opposite road. Looking at my closet and realizing that for the last two years, I haven’t gone in the office and haven’t even worn my biz casual clothes. Started wondering if I should donate or store in those vacuum bags.
Funny thing is that I went from serious biz way past just casual to just jeans, sneakers, and a dress shirt when I go into the office. I have donated most of my clothes, dress shoes, and dress belts because of that.
At my last job all my teammates wore jeans/t-shirts and gave me crap about dressing up. I just feel like my job deserves for me to act/dress like a professional.
My feeling is half the developers feel like t-shirt/jeans is the official code to prove you aren’t a corporate stooge. Dressing down doesn’t prove you have any coding kung-fu. Sort of like having a ponytail doesn’t make you a linux genius.
My other concern is that when I dress down, I tend to dress really down. It was pointed out once that the jeans I was wearing still had blood stains (took another couple washings for them to go away) from a previous deer hunting trip. So biz casual gives me some confidence that I won’t stray beyond the boundaries of decent workplace society.
You sure that wasn’t outer versus lining?
Amazon seems to be crap lately though. Wade carefully.
Nephilium, pictured
Fucking SFed link.
Let’s hope this works
Back when I was thin (and swing dancing was popular) I did have a white suit. I wore it with a black shirt, white tie, and a white fedora.
Hey! I have met Mr Ilium, and he does, in fact, exit.
overstock.com?
Who doesn’t want to listen to a moralizing political harangue at a supposedly nonpolitical celebration?
Some students at the University of Southern California said their sense of pride was dashed this week when the school canceled Muslim student Asna Tabassum’s valedictorian speech out of security concerns.
They said the announcement of Tabassum’s selection as valedictorian this month made them feel seen and heard.
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Those dreams were crushed when USC Provost Andrew Guzman rescinded Tabassum’s invitation to speak at graduation, citing security concerns over tensions related to “the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.”
He said in an announcement Monday that “over the past several days, discussion relating to the selection of our valedictorian has taken on an alarming tenor.”
“The intensity of feelings, fueled by both social media and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, has grown to include many voices outside of USC and has escalated to the point of creating substantial risks relating to security and disruption at commencement,” the announcement read in part.
Once upon a time, there seemed to be a reasonable popular consensus about voluntary time and place restrictions. They used to call it “common courtesy”. Now, since every fucking minute of every fucking day is politics, we get to hear about this bullshit.
Let her hire a hall for her rant.
“made them feel seen and heard”
By Allah, I am sick of this. You have always been both visible and audible. The fact that nobody cares about your psychodrama or stunted, malformed thoughts is a “you” problem, not an “us” problem.
Also of the “breaking barriers” trope. Who exactly is trying to stop women or POCs from doing anything at all these days? What are these barriers, exactly?
I wish I couldn’t see her, but apparently listening to assholes is the cross that we all bear together…
That language is so ubiquitous and revolting. Psychbabble. Just speak clearly FFS.
something something casting the first stone…
Of course, on the other hand:
OK, now I hate all of them…
but wait:
And USC. Fuck USC.
The University of Spoiled Children continues to live up to its’ name…
Tensions at USC reached a boiling point this month after Tabassum was selected as valedictorian, Gonzalez said. Students who disagreed with Tabassum’s support for the Palestinian cause berated her on social media, and her supporters used those same platforms to defend her and denounce the school when her speech was canceled.
“It’s been very jarring,” Gonzalez said. “It feels like the university is just trying to protect its image.”
Tabassum was born in the Southern California community of Chino Hills and majored in biomedical engineering with a minor in resistance to genocide, which included studying how technology, immigration and literacy play roles in the type of medical care people receive, according to a statement USC released when she was named valedictorian.
I’d say worrying about the school’s reputation is pretty much out the window.
It used to be sensible, I hear.
And/or finishing school for debutantes.
I don’t know how they (or anyone) manage going to school in a bad part of town.
Best alumni network in SoCal.
Greek?
Layan, who was born in Syria and moved to the U.S. in the fifth grade, described Tabassum as a mentor and a role model.
“She wears a hijab, and I wear a hijab and am also Muslim,” Layan said. “I feel so connected to her.”
Special Children, indeed.
Hey ditz, which islamic sect are each of you? If there’s even one order of difference, customary law requires you to kill each other.
A lot of them are like violent Sneetches, it is true.
“Late P Brooks wears underwear, and I wear underwear. I feel so connected to him.”
Same level of absurdity.
/citation not desired
“Late P Brooks wears underwear”
I’m always the last to know and the last to care.
…wears combat boots…
CNN headline:
What could happen if prosecutors bring up Trump’s legal past? Former president’s attorney explains
A mistrial?
I watched “The Taking of Pelham 123” last night. Excellent.
The WSJ employees Karl Rove as one of its regular editorialists. His tariffs were the exact moment I quit Team Red and became a libertarian. I remember it specifically.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/09/19/steel-tariffs-appear-to-have-backfired-on-bush/f86f1307-4912-40ea-985d-71d8f423719b/
Today’s WSJ
Steel Tariffs and the Race to Be Protectionist in Chief
Biden sees Trump’s levies on metals imports and raises them to damaging effect.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-race-to-be-protectionist-in-chief-ddc5d394?st=lmbb4lwvgem7wca&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bloomberg headline:
“Republican Chaos Threatens…”
Why does it have to be Republican chaos? It’s not as if the Democrats aren’t a howling mob of incoherent retards, too.
Team blue is indeed a howling mob of incoherent retards with serious mental disorders, but by golly, it’s THEIR team….
Wrapped around the legal axle
Shockingly, on the other end of the harm spectrum in Muldrow was alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh. He also wrote separately, but in his case it was to argue that plaintiffs alleging discrimination shouldn’t be required to show harm at all. He wrote that the mere act of discrimination against Muldrow was enough to sustain her lawsuit, and that she did not have to show that the transfer itself was negative. Kavanaugh argued that any change in employment status explicitly made because of a person’s race or gender is a de facto violation of the law.
When I first read Kavanaugh’s concurrence, I was confused, because… Kavanaugh is right. Since I am skeptical of a world where Kavanaugh is more right about an issue involving sex discrimination than Elena Kagan, I applied one of my lifehacks to deal with conservative ideology: If a Republican says something I agree with, I haven’t thought deeply enough about why I’m wrong.
After consultation with my family and prayer, I found the problem with Kavanaugh’s opinion—on Twitter. Mark Joseph Stern pointed out that Kavanaugh’s framing could be used by conservatives to further attack diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Essentially, by eliminating the harm standard, Kavanaugh opens the door to people (white people) who say that DEI programs create a “hostile” workplace, even though no bad thing actually happens to them when they have to sit through a training session and look at a PowerPoint presentation. Stern noted that Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch seemed particularly motivated in this ulterior goal when the Muldrow case was argued in front of the court, back in December.
The world is a treacherous slippery confusing place.
Elie Mystal. Proof that the Devil exists and you can still contract with him.
Strange bargain that Mystal made – trading his soul for stupidity.
He got two free Harvard degrees, sinecures at prestigious publications, and all the ding-dongs he wants.
prestigious publications
Nation – prestigious? I don’t know what drugs you are doing, but I recommend stopping, immediately.
The retardation level has nothing to do with their prestige. Yes, The Nation and The Atlantic are (for people who matter) prestigious. A fuckton more prestigious than say Time, Reasonor The Utne Reader.
I am going to call this shit a PsyOps. It’s an election year, and this allows them to pretend they are a no shit business as well as that they are not in bed with team blue and working hard to rig the 2024 election (which this was for as well since it hurts team blue when these blue haired freaks display the team blue’s antisemitic sentiments out in the open).
*giggles*
You didn’t quote the best part.
I have the right to disrupt your business and suffer no retaliation.
I am glad they finally took a hand to their unruly employees, that company was being run by activism. Google needs to do more to unwind itself from politics.
On the other hand, you are probably right. Once in bed with the Man, always in bed with the Man.
I’m pretty sure that’s white supremacy.
I figure it’s a case of “We don’t disagree with them but – you inconvenienced me in MY Office“
Yep. Fuck with the peons and drones, that’s fine. They were taking over C-level offices, I’m pretty sure I would expect to be given a stern talking to by my boss if I even walked into a C-level office to bring up something idiotic.
Not sure if it’s a PsyOp or not, but I am sure that Google leadership (wokesters themselves) was making sure to send the message to their yoots that “Look, we’re perfectly happy with y’all dicking around with everybody else. But you can’t be dumb enough to do it to US, or we’ll crush you.”
Just imagine a world in which white men have the same privileges and protections under the law as women of color. What a dystopian nightmare that would be.
I do not want a world where anyone has different privileges or protections other than because they are hyper competent at what they do, constantly successful to the point their work is valued, and in general are not just grifters. Meritocracies matter.
What planet did this wonderful culture exist on? Not one with humans certainly.
Maybe I am a lucky bastard, but the trajectory of my life has always been to go the way of picking highly challenging things to do, and I have managed to do so despite all the bullshit.
Not fair
China said it “firmly opposes” the U.S. investigation into its maritime, logistics and shipbuilding industries, calling the move a “mistake on top of a mistake.”
In an official statement late Wednesday, China’s ministry of commerce said the U.S. provides hundreds of billions of dollars in “discriminatory” subsidies to its domestic industries, “yet accuses China of adopting so-called ‘non-market practices.’”
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The investigation comes as five national labor unions launched a petition on March 12 requesting the U.S. to probe the policies and practices of China’s maritime, logistics, and shipbuilding sectors.
Looking out for the working man.
President Joe Biden has also called on the USTR to triple tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum imports , in a bid to protect American industries.
“Chinese policies and subsidies for their domestic steel and aluminum industries means high-quality U.S. products are undercut by artificially low-priced Chinese alternatives produced with higher emissions,” the White House said in a statement.
In an address to union workers in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Biden accused China of “cheating” in its steel trade practices.
“They’re not competing. They’re cheating,” he said, adding that “we’ve seen the damage here in America.”
We need a good trade war.
Hey, those Union votes aren’t going to secure themselves!
Whistleblower, or MAGA-Cali prosecutor?
https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/17/prosecutor-california-da-dropped-bombshell-election-data-case-because-it-might-help-trump/
Shows you that despite all the talk, apparently some people are above the law, right?
Evil people..
That’s a very strange contract clause. And a PII breach is governed under federal law, not just California (Gascon’s jurisdiction).
NPR Journalisming Excellence!
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245290751/botched-exections-black-race-death-penalty
Note that the written part is NOT what was put on the air. If you’re willing to listen to it the absurdity is more obvious.
1. An anti-capital punishment non-profit did a “study” which “proves” that black people’s executions are botched more often than white murderers’.
Did NPR query or otherwise examine the quality or veracity of this study? Of course not! They believe in Science!
So what did they do? They asked EXPERTS about this new scientific discovery! In an effort to show how great and wonderful they are, NPR interviewed TWO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES of EXPERTS!
2. NPR interviewed EXPER academics who researched RACISM! These Experts agreed that this is scientific proof of racism!
3. They interviewed people who had been at multiple executions! 75% of them said they didn’t see any racism. These outliers were ignored. Instead they found and put on the air a Spiritual Adviser that had multiple clients executed and he confirmed what the racism researchers said about the non-profit’s study, that executions are totally racist!
This tripe is directed at liberal Karens.
Speaking of which, has anyone here seen the movie American Fiction? I think it is a great movie, and not just for the plot and acting, but in that it showcase the liberal bullshit mindset. Don’t want to give any spoilers, but highly recommend it.
I’ve had it on my radar to watch when it hits streaming, because it looks amazingly awesome (or you know… the complete opposite of the Society of Magical Negroes movie). The Blackening is another one that I want to catch when I can find it on a streaming service I’ve already got.
I watched Bodies Bodies Bodies which was a comedy horror focusing on the younger generations, nearly all are completely unlikable, so you don’t mind as they all die.
Reading thru the methodology of the study:
1) They characterized 73 executions as botched, out of 1,400+. Aka 5%. Aka a tiny sample to be drawing conclusions, since that meant just 20 black convicts to draw state level statistics about allegedly botched executions.
2) They characterized as botched, if, for example, the person being given a LETHAL injection had an allergic reaction, groaned or said they were in pain, or it took more than one attempt to insert the IV tube. Which might not be the biggest concern of people being executed.
3) They didn’t mention that IV drug users, especially heroin addicts, of which there may have been some on death row, are notoriously hard to find a good vein left on their body. They didn’t attempt to determine if there was a racial disparity in IV drug abusers among the 73 convinces.
4) They said the biggest cause of botched was age. Not race. But then they highlighted alleged racism.
5) A highlighted example of a “botched” execution was someone who had so many failed IV injections that they called off the execution, and the guy died several months later of complications of a terminal condition.
Who said you could do that?
Nestled along the Arroyo Seco next to the 110 Freeway near Highland Park sits a community of homes, but it’s not what you’d expect.
The homes, which are mostly makeshift structures made out of different materials like tents and tarps, were created by homeless people.
“It’s good because nobody bothers us,” said Cesar, who lives in one of the makeshift homes. “That’s why we’re here.”
One man created an entire house along the parkway with its own front door and electricity.
We said we were looking for innovative solutions, but that’s not what we meant.
*blink*
*blink*
Here, let me help you – no self-created solution is a real solution. It didn’t involve a gaggle of bureaucrats and other parasites on the public teat.
And I’m sure he pays his electricity bill every month, on time.
Did NPR query or otherwise examine the quality or veracity of this study? Of course not! They believe in Science!
Listen up, dummy. You don’t go wasting a lot of time and energy verifying an expert’s claim that the sun rises in the east. There are things everybody just KNOWS.
They know he has been “spoken to”, but have no idea if he is still teaching. Right.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/columbia-university-accused-of-gross-negligence-in-response-to-antisemitism-on-campus/
Once you get into business of censoring only certain kinds of speech don’t be surprised when it blows up in your face. But reeducating people about proper pronoun usage has unintended consequence now, doesn’t it?
Narrator: He is still being allowed to teach courses.
I’m curious – where were all the Jewish students and non-Jewish allies talking about how Massad’s comments make them feel ‘unsafe?’
I don’t know about you, but I’d suspect that someone who describes the organized mass rape and murder of my coreligionists as, “Awesome,” probably does not have my best interests at heart…
Performative politics
There was Donald Trump, the former president, back in his element and enjoying himself in a crowd, posing for photographs, overstating his standing in the polls and suggesting that he is serious — truly — about winning an impossibly Democratic state.
Maybe it was calculated. The setting, a bodega where a man was fatally stabbed in 2022, certainly was. And maybe Trump’s freewheeling performance was, too.
But not far from where he rode down the escalator on his way to the White House in 2015, Trump’s appearance on Tuesday was a reminder of Trump’s ability not only to manufacture a sideshow, but to turn it into the main act — more Trump the thirsty tabloid character than Trump the former president or Trump the accused.
One thing we know for certain; Trump’s sideshow theatrics are completely contrived and fake, unlike Joe Biden’s “defender of the
workingunion man” performances.Hunh. The guy who has to show up in a NYC courtroom every day is campaigning in one of the few states near the courtroom he is tethered to by lawfare, looking to generate soundbites and photo ops to de facto campaign nationwide?
And this is reprehensible … how?
Terrible decision though. The Biden plan of hiding is the best one.
“ he is serious — truly — about winning an impossibly Democratic state.”
Oh, that state will change hands in the next decade. I think the frustration levels are getting pretty high. Besides, to your point he’s not campaigning for NY, he’s campaigning in general.
Remember when Newsom went to Florida?
https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/awkward-gavin-newsom-video-goes-viral-after-florida-visit/
Outside the bodega, Trump called his trial “rigged” and said of the judge overseeing his case, “There’s never been a judge so conflicted as this.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that Justice Juan Merchan has conflicts of interest, and Trump’s lawyers have unsuccessfully asked the judge to step down from the case. Last year, a New York judicial ethics panel rejected Trump’s allegations that Merchan is biased, concluding “the judge’s impartiality cannot reasonably be questioned.”
There’s reason to think Trump may be having some success in this line of critique. Earlier this week, an AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found 44 percent of Americans are “not very” or “not at all” confident that prosecutors in New York are treating Trump fairly, and another 22 percent who are only “somewhat confident” they are.
He claims, without evidence, that the courts are biased against him. But the rubes just lap it up.
I find it rather interesting that nowhere in the article do they feel compelled to describe the “heavy subject matter”. It’s a lovers’ suicide. I pointed it out before, but YouTube’s algorithm in the US will filter out this song if you just search for the group’s videos. You have to search for it by name. OTH, the Japanese version of YouTube will bring it right up. Funny that…
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/04/17/music/yoasobi-coachella-white-house/
Supporters whistled and cheered, breaking into chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump,” and “U.S.A., U.S.A.” Trump, who was neither dozing off nor muttering, told people in the crowd to “have a good time.”
The visit, said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist based in New York, was a signature example of Trump using “national television coverage as an advertising tool without having to pay for the gross rating points.”
“He’s very smart,” Sheinkopf said. “Anybody who understates his capacity to use PR as opposed to normative political techniques is wrong. He’s very good at it, and what it does … it wipes away the things that people are trying to do to undercut his capacities.”
It’s hard to paint Trump as overburdened by the legal system, or absent from the campaign trail, or asleep in a courtroom, he said, when he is on a street in New York “smiling his ass off.”
The crafty bastard. How dare he present himself as human and possibly even likeable?
Millennials and math.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/04/17/millennials-want-early-retirement/73324912007/
millennials believe they will need $1.65 million to retire comfortably
Uh huh…
Yeah, that seems low. $66k a year (living on 4%) in 2049 is probably poverty level.
That too, but these supposedly innumerate millennials are able to calculate their retirement savings needs to two decimal places. Right.
That leaves a retirement “gap” of more than $1.5 million.
Speaking of financial illiteracy…. what does $62k look like after 25 years of compounding interest? Still a shortfall, but even assuming they put not another penny in, they have half a million at age 60 if the market averages 8%
https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/financial-goals?s=y&sl=3Ryt0506fw3BZw6F8i5snT
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