I was going to give a Valentine’s Day exposition, but Prime and I got snowed out instead of spending the weekend together. At least we’ll manage to meet up for lunch just before the massive snowstorms hit later today. Instead, how about a cute baby? Fortunately, he looks nothing like 10b0t.
Birthdays today include the favorite of every science crank; the guy who found the key; a guy who made sure you paid your utilities; some chick who made tokens for the Baltimore subway; Bertie Russell’s pardner; the only one and true Joker; a guy who helped us get rid of the piece of shit Carter (but enabled the piece of shit Reagan); the best territorial attorney general ever; a cartoonist who really ought to be better known; another one who showed us that life really is Hell; and another victim of the Funny Fat Guy Curse.
No curses here, just Links.
Here’s a shock- not one person quoted in this article does actual science.
And one more example of why I refuse to join “professional” “scientific” societies.
Of course, if you’re a Jew, you need to be shut out of science. Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark are smiling up from Hell.
This is hilarious. So is the pants-wetting tone of the article.
Back bencher, or I should say député d’arrière-ban, but still, you never know, maybe the Frogs have had enough.
Watching a midget panic can be entertaining. And the rest of the clowns are pouring out of the car.
Fire everyone except whoever is running the National Park Service Twitter and Instagram accounts.
The Old Guy loves shit like this, the musical equivalent of a Michael Pierce interception.
Mazel tov!
Seconded. What a cute kid.
Happy birthday Ruhollah Khomeini?
Happy birthday Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
Happy birthday Neil Degrasse Tyson!
Happy birthday Michael Mann?
Happy birthday Chris Christie? (or does the humor have to be deliberate?)
Sadly, he still lives.
Beat me to it, Pat.
following the October 7 terror attack on Israel, several academic institutions imposed a boycott on Israeli researchers, leading to her removal from the project.
I started typing out a joke about blaming the victim, but this is so fucking unbelievably stupid, evil, and perfectly in line with the way the left thinks that it broke even my dark humor threshold. Burn it all down, clear it all, and start over fresh. I leave it to the reader to apply that last sentence to Gaza or Academic Institutions as needed. Both have the same issue.
This sort of thing (and the British reaction of locking up their own people for daring to notice that they’re getting shafted by the mass immigration) is why I don’t have high confidence for the French lady, I’m afraid. Europe seems content to slide into a caliphate (well, Western Europe… Poland and Hungary don’t seem willing quite yet). The rapid “Israel didn’t immediately capitulate after being attacked!” response is indicative of their genuflecting to their perceived masters.
Make the Ottoman Empire Great Again?
In the shadowy lands of the dead, Charles reaches for his hammer, Roland sounds his horn, Ogier dons his armor, and Vlad sharpens a pole and orders dinner.
The fact that there is a French political party named “Reconquest” is a hopeful sign.
The article has her guilty by association with Trump, Vance, and Musk – the new bogeymen for Eurotrash.
When you start out the article perfectly, yet accidentally, articulating the problem.
Read: scientists have whored themselves out by producing government propaganda in exchange for sweet taxpayer lucre.
You can’t impugn the priesthood like that!
Yeah, you’re supposed to start a fake 501(c)(3) that receives laundered money through your owner’s favorite executive agency.
For the next two years at least, cute baby pics in weekend links, like doggie vids in IFLA, are de rigueur.
Speaking of French, the link about the Frog back bencher ne work pas.
It was a test. You failed. You’re not actually supposed to read the links.
That explains so much…
Try it now.
Merci beaucoup, Grand-pere! (Insert accent grave)
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And/or short video clips to give us the pure unadulterated joy of infant/toddler laughter.
Conan had it wrong on what is best in life.
Newborns always look so bewildered.
Well, they’re unfamiliar with anything around them and are trying to make heads or tails of it all.
I’m just waiting for the inevitable tattoo.
The fascist little shithead will likely throw a tantrum and kibosh any such deal that doesn’t include a few more hundreds of millions for his personal stash, but fuck Trump in the ear for offering to engage in a protection racket for access to rare earth minerals. As if purchasing them on the open market would be any more expensive than maintaining yet another client state for the next fucking century.
Dangnabbit… should have read more of the comments. Mine below amount to “What he said!” (again)
As long as the electric scam is going the market for those elements will not be free. I dont think Trump is thinking about our access to them but our enemies access to them.
This. Take this “deal” and shove it up your ass, Donald.
Also, not one fucking American on that soil. Not our problem.
based
how can we still be talking about this a month into the 47th administration? after all:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-describes-how-he-could-solve-russia-ukraine-conflict-24-hours
so surely this was all wrapped up by lunch on his second day in the WH
Ukraine’s natural resources were the half the reason the US apparatchiks put Nuland and the Kagans to work starting the war. Black Rock,Cargill et al
will still get some of their expected payoffs.
The other half was hatred of Russia.
In English, this might read “The Interior Department has a broad mandate, overseeing national parks, tribal affairs, endangered species, as well as energy conservation and energy production on federally owned lands and in federal waters.”
It was a perfect morning even though golf rained out: up before dawn per usual, I slipped onto some government property in the cold, wet dawning, destroyed some non-indigenous species, and then planted two dozen cypress seedlings in a bog before slipping away
I am guessing that as you were getting back into your car to leave said govt property a beaver was throwing the last of the roots of the last of your cypress trees on the ground and wiping his lips.
“We liked getting all this money with no expectation of results!” Alternately, queue Dr. Ray Stantz’s speech.
See, this is the problem. That is a bald faced lie.
How much money is The Atlantic getting from USAID?
I fully expect Elon to just post the “Oh no!…. Anyway…” meme picture if they go ahead.
the guy who found the key
Happy birthday Melanie Safka!
Gah! You beat me to it
Also I was infected with that ear worm the instant I saw the link. Goddammit.
“Fortunately, he looks nothing like 10b0t.”
Ruh-roh. 🤔
It’ll take a couple of months for the beard to come in.
“The sheriff’s office is now reviewing surveillance videos “and using other investigative tools to pursue leads,” the office said in its statement.”
One does wonder what crime was committed by going to municipal offices and asking to look at the books.
It is San Francisco — I’m sure discombobulating a government official is akin to high treason according to local ordinances. Well, if your politics is icky anyway — if you’re “protesting” on the “right side of history” they could have shut the whole city down.
I’d just recommend the sheriffs start their search under the Golden Gate — because these were some well developed trolls.
Ten bucks says it is a false flag.
“DOGE enterprise, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency but is not a formal government department. It was established by a Trump executive order, not by Congress.”
You mean, just like USAID?
Ugh… I’d rather buy Greenland or mine back in the US proper, thanks. Regardless of mineral rights, I think putting troops in that area is as wise as putting them in the Middle East to try to make a tourist resort and casino…. wait… what was that again, Trump? Le sigh
As a nationalist — “More power to them”. Please — get a real EU military again. Defend yourselves (get us out of NATO). If you want to be dumb enough to start a war with Russia, I won’t say “go for it” because it is an unbelievably stupid idea… but it is your business, not ours. Get. Us. Out. Of. That. Stupidity. Already.
Trump is a business opportunist. He sees a chaotic situation and something of value and he floats a trial offer. People used to politics always take this stuff at face value, which is odd if you think about it since Politicians lie professionally, but they are thinking about it in the wrong terms. It’s not a policy proposal, it’s an opening to a negotiation.
Granted — I’m just worried someone will take him up on it and he’ll try to honor the deal instead of losing face backing out of a stupid offer.
Most of them I don’t mind / don’t care… getting (more) troops in global hotspots I just don’t like taking even a chance on. And since my opinion on such matters is sooooo important to Trump, I’m sure he’ll promptly take it into consideration and give it all the weight it merits, I know.
Are we taking him literally, but not seriously, again?
Zelensky is being defunded by the US so he turns to the EU…what an idiot. Doesnt he know who funds European militaries? *facepalm*
They need at least one person to manage relations with the Indian (feather, not dot) Nations, don’t they? Or do you want the poor social media guy to multitask that much?
Eh, give the relations with Indian governments to State.
That’s fair. Good point that it should have been there to begin with. (Honestly, that’s one thing that really, really pisses me off about US history [I probably have ranted on it before] — even as a non “we have original sin! argle bargle!” type — the simple fact is that we recognized at least some of the Indian Nations as legitimate other countries, signed formal treaties with them… then broke them at will. We should still be ostracized and mistrusted as a country for that — why should anyone believe a damned word we say?)
“We should still be ostracized and mistrusted as a country for that”
The list of countries that matter who haven’t done that is probably quite short.
I’m reminded of the old joke about a huge room full of government worker bees (or, in the old sense, drones) at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, with one poor bureaucrat crying at his desk because his Indian died.
I have this stupid idea that the Indian/us distinction should end. Sober up, get off of the res, get an education and assimilate.
Good morning, Powerline anyone?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/02/the-week-in-pictures-xmas-morning-month.php
I liked the Travis Kelce/Andy Reid and the ‘I love you like a brother’ Valentine.
Goddammit you tricked me into clicking onto The Grauniad again.
Love this side link:
“Zelenskyy calls for European army as Germany hits back at US over Vance tirade”
By all means, Deutschland, let that little tyrant drag you into another fucking World War.
I have a German, leftie, friend and we were discussing this the other day. I made a joke about how odd I found the idea of Poland encouraging Germany to march east, and he replied, fully serious, that Poland’s army could crush Germany now. They have effectively no preparedness for war.
The French heave le sigh of relief. They “love Germany so much they wanted there to be two of them forever.”
Leaving the US out of the equation and excepting France and Turkey, Poland probably has the strongest (conventional) military in NATO.
“tirade”
I watched some of the speech. It was not a tirade. Just a very calm, logical take down of the commie censors who run western Europe.
If they have a big problem with it, we really shouldn’t be allies any longer. I mean that seriously. Our troops can come home.
Transcript here. I read it and had a positive impression of it. I particularly liked:
“The mood among scientists is, naturally, grim. “There is so little clarity about what to do,” Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, told me”
To my shame I was a sociology major and, yeah, not science. Correlational studies without tightly defined independent variables and controls for confounders do not science make and I’d be willing to bet that the degree of reproducibility for those studies makes psychology look rock solid in comparison.
“Elizabeth Wrigley-Field”
Seriously?
Her father wanted to name her “Ivy.”
The mood at Wrigley-Field is usually grim.
Imma gonna have to chew on that awhile before I plow ahead and dig into the origin of that surname.
Geez. Maybe I should go back to bed. I did my links rundown, got distracted, fumbled around and lost all of it before I could post. Great.
synopsis:
Science has been poisoned by govt
Never again? Yet here we are. It is like some stomach-turning trip back in time.
Thieves bitch about security system being installed: news at 11 (take note of everyone who is complaining)
I translate the phrase ‘far-right’ to mean ‘stop reading now’.
I have little sympathy for people who take the road to hell for short term benefit.
Which Federal judge is going to step up and shit out an injunction this time?
It’s hard to tell whom the world hates more, Jews or Russians. (Imagine being a Russian Jew!)
I can only make a guess based on the battle of the flags. Uke flags still outnumber Gaza flags among the professional activists around here – you know, those charming people who insist on signaling their purity to the world around them – so it does seem that for the moment the Russia! Russia! Russia! narrative is still in the lead.
You know what happened last time someone kicked all the Jews out of science? Hiroshima and Nagasaki paid for that decision!
Sounds like another lefty stunt, like the “ejaculation ban” in Ohio.
*shudders, faints*
Every dollar invested in research and development has been estimated to return at least $5 on average—billions annually.
*guffaws, taps out*
Carry the one… The maths checks
It makes you realize how stupid those Ivy League MBAs are. They could be generating 500% profits by just emailing the researchers who received government grants and offering to buy out the lost funding, but they would rather scratch out a 10% margin killing Americans with lead poisoned cosmetics from China. Thank Christ for our selfless public servants.
Roast goose of the day
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nGDgm3LVeomWdM7E7
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ztWgbYAb6j6iH6116
And mama Pie’s dark chocolate walnut and boozy sour cherries cake. I should not be eating this i need to lose fat
That looks delicious.
Please feel free to pack up the rest and send it to me! 😋
Ineed this in my life.
Do you have th recipe? Are you willing to share?
😀
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4M4eZ8eDs6wC79vVA
I can try to translate it…
🤔
I probably should have realized that.
It’s your “perfect” AI test. See how well it does with OCR and language translation.
Let me know how the pot roast recipe it outputted turns out.
Goddammit Pie.
*digs around in kitchen for dark chocolate, I know it is here somewhere*
I can’t read the handwriting.
Chef’s kiss.
So what is everyone drinking
https://www.vivino.com/IT/it/ricasoli-castello-di-brolio-gran-selezione-chianti-classico/w/4875863?srsltid=AfmBOop_FpFrYLUC2GEPBQjUcZHesul3hN8TMsPaUL9-YvCm78QsttS2
Quite nice
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81zq97B-DbL.jpg
I’m working on finishing a bottle of Sevilla Orange Tanqueray, which is barely tolerable even buried in tonic. It’s like mixing regular Tanq with orange Dimetapp.
I don’t think I’ve ever picked up that one, your review scares me off, but I know I’ll likely get it at some point. I’m partial to their rangpur lime expression (and loved the Malacca when it was available).
I love citrus with gin, and I generally have good experiences with Tanq, so I went in with high hopes, but the orange is just too sweet and a little artificial tasting. Definitely a disappointment, although I may have oversold how bad it is. As orange-infused liquors go, the Grey Goose L’Orange vodka is better (although the La Poire is the best of their flavored offerings by far). And if you like lime, as I do, both Deep Eddy and 360 Vodka have excellent lime-flavored options.
Pat:
I generally avoid vodkas (I keep a bottle of Tito’s on hand for cocktails), but I do have an appreciation of the Deep Eddy
flavored vodkasgins. Their ruby red grapefruit is phenomenal, as long as you remember to shake it before pouring (the grapefruit oil will float if you let it sit for a while).I’m headed off to a brewery shortly to have a nice lunch and ale with Prime, but this is what Spud and I were drinking last night.
Iced tea now, but hit up a brewery last night to get the girlfriend her Valentine’s day charcuterie pretzel (pictured in the Friday links last week). Started with their kolsch (which was quite good), and then tried their special release which was a fudge, coffee, strawberry stout. I would have probably left the coffee out myself, but it was quite good.
My latest purchase. I’ll get an appropriate hunk of cow or lamb to pair it with soon.
A sequel to ‘THE GOONIES’ is moving forward at Warner Bros after 40 years.
Potsy Ponciroli has been attached to write the script.
https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1890451787443851266
Dear Warner Brothers,
Please catch fire and die.
Regards, etc.
Bugs and Daffy hardest hit.
We are almost having winter. A couple of -12 C nights and a smattering of snow but not enought to get the shovel
Your best shot with Silicone Saturday is a pity fuck.
https://archive.is/H6KkB
It doesn’t matter what color the cat is as long as it catches mice.
Also, some of those gals wouldn’t have a shot with me either (and I’m sure they’d be just devastated). Sometimes the furniture arranges itself.
Did Vance angrily slam his fist on the podium like you-know-who during his populist “tirade”?
Echoes of the past
JD Vance met Friday with the leader of the far-right German political party being boosted by Elon Musk, according to a person familiar with the meeting granted anonymity to discuss the vice president’s schedule.
Vance was in Munich for a security conference, where earlier in the day he had blasted Europe over immigration and censorship of free speech that he suggested targeted right-leaning people and political parties.
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It was not immediately clear what Vance and Weidel discussed. A spokesperson for Vance declined to comment on what Vance discussed with any of the leaders.
Appeasement!
Duh.
Perhaps they discussed the immigrant who mowed down a bunch of people in *checks notes* Munich. But I can’t imagine why that might come up.
“You are only allowed to say what we want you to say.” And they see no problem with this. They can’t see why people are upset being put in a cage for not following this directive.
We talk a lot about the futility of trying to bring democracy and liberty to countries that don’t want it (eg: Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.); I’m beginning to think that the EU should be added to that category.
900 years of aristocracy and serfdom is a serious legacy.
To be fair, Germany has never had anything approaching “free speech” especially after WWII and likely at the insistence of the Allies because Nazis.
a) you are perfectly free to do whatever I agree with
b) our rule of law conforms to the limits of our constitution in all ways except for those in which it doesn’t
works for Americans, Ruskies, Maoists, Republicans….it’s a dessert topping and a floor wax!
See….that’s not free speech. It is the exact opposite of free speech. It is called censorship.
What does it mean when a person does something outright but uses language to pretend they are not doing that thing?
Well… this sucks.
For the last thirty-two years, I’ve been receiving a Valentine’s Day card from a secret admirer. Some years it even came with a “care package” of cookies or chocolates.
So every day this week I’ve been heading to my mailbox with a skip in my step, only to find zip, nada, nothing.
What a disappointing year so far. First my grandmother dies, now this.
It has been a pretty disappointing day these last few years,
I feel ya
🤨
But you have free dog kisses, don’t you? I’d take a slurp from a bull terrier any day.
I listened to Vance’s speech yesterday. It was no tirade; it was a highly reasoned and logical takedown of (Western) Europe’s decent into Orwellian misery. He cited numerous undeniable examples of domestic abuses coupled with the not-so-subtle undertone that NATO has outlived its usefulness. Of course the corrupt Euro-politburo is upset, abusers and addicts tend to get upset when you drag their problems out into the daylight and expose them.
At this point, I don’t really give a fuck if Europe self-destructs entirely, just keep the US out of it. Russia was never going to invade beyond Ukraine no matter how much bed wetting there was from the “foreign policy establishment” (read: fixers for the military-industrial-NGO money laundering operation) and the only reason they invaded Ukraine in the first place was because the retarded Eurotrash leadership insisted on continuing talks about bringing Ukraine into NATO in spite of Putin’s repeated statements that it was a red line.
None of that justifies Russia’s behavior, but frankly IMO at this point, the EU is a bigger threat to US interests than Russia is.
But then what foreign countries could we visit on vacation? Aus, Canada, Mex, Africa, China, California, New York are already off limits.
Global devastation
In particular, NOAA staffers are concerned about how President Trump’s executive orders, including one targeting climate change programs, could affect the agency’s research and operations. Agency officials have received a list, which NPR has viewed, of terms that could run afoul of the orders in the grants and programs they manage; the list includes terms like “climate change,” “pollution” and “natural resources,” as well as many terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion. NPR obtained the list from an official at NOAA who agreed to talk on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
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The “Project 2025” plan, a 900-plus page blueprint for governing produced by conservative groups led by the Heritage Foundation, called NOAA “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry.” It suggested breaking the agency up, slashing its budget and privatizing much of its weather forecasting work.
Trump – who often distanced himself from the Project 2025 plan during the campaign — has placed some of the project’s authors into prominent staff roles in his administration and issued a bevy of executive actions that closely mirror its recommendations.
He’s going to round up all the climate scientists and boil them in oil.
Relevant to discussions about NATO:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nato-war-with-russia/
“The truth is that NATO now exists to confront the threats created by its continuing existence.”
Ouch.
It’s the definition of a self-licking ice cream cone at this point.
NPR spoke with several NOAA employees who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation at work. They said they are concerned that the Trump administration will impede the agency’s scientific work as part of the push to cut government costs by Elon Musk’s team within the Trump administration known as the Department of Government Efficiency. Some staffers are watching to see if NOAA continues to issue, for example, its closely watched reports on weather and climate, which often influence economic activity across the globe.
“The mood’s lower than I’ve ever seen it,” a NOAA contractor tells NPR. “There’s a lot of fear in the office.”
Good.
“scientific”
😂🤣
That is a curious way to spell “religious”.
“‘Reconquest is the only party in France that defends this mix: pro-tech, pro-business, but also the defence of national identity,’ Knafo told Reuters in an interview.”
She’s practically foaming at the mouth! If she’s allowed to take power it’ll be like the Holocaust to the 9/11th power!
“In a world where catastrophic climate change impacts and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense, I can think of nothing worse than turning this scientific powerhouse into a skeletal operation,” Juan Declet-Barreto, senior social scientist for climate vulnerability at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement. “If President Trump moves forward with demolishing NOAA, he will jeopardize most people’s access to life-saving information, while only the rich might be able to afford private data sources.”
Wheeee!
senior social scientist for climate vulnerability at the Union of Concerned Scientists
“Oh, a bullshit artist.”
*sigh*
The lies don’t become true just by repeating them ad nauseum, Mr. senior social scientist for climate vulnerability at the Union of Concerned Scientists. 🙄
Which is sad as NOAA has done good work/science. But they got caught up in the CAGW garbage.
Follow the money.
“Every single day I’m in pain, every time I have sex I’m in pain[…]I’m in the worst job possible, but it’s something I love to do. I have sex in my personal life anyway, so if I’m having it there, why not do it for work as well if it’s going to pay me regardless.”
ummmm wut
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/im-uks-top-adult-star-34669903
She’s either lying or is just a complete idiot.
To be fair, once you’ve settled on that method of earning a living, it’s a bit tricky to burnish your resume and go looking for a 9 to 5.
NYT Headline
My mom. I swear.
Mom 5:55 a.m.: [insert non-emergency rando text]
me, unable to fall back to sleep, but trying valiantly
Mom 7:12 a.m.: [requests something from her room]
Me: Sure.
Her: Why are you up so early?
Me: My phone dinged at 5:55 a.m. and I couldn’t get back to sleep.
Her: Turn your phone off at night.
Me: The only people who can ding my phone at night are Husband, XX, XY, and you.
Her: Well, who dinged you?
🤦♀️
Yanno what’s rich, tho? Susie and Millie were ALSO on my DND exceptions list, but they screwed that pooch. As I told my mom, “They have no idea how much we took care of them too all these years, and NO idea how much slack we’ve cut them through this ordeal.”
Well, who dinged you?
Hopefully twas the Husband. Or are we not doing phrasing anymore?
GAY
https://archive.is/ZJEnO
Hitchhiker : Don’t be so suburban. It’s the new millennium. Gay, straight… it’s all the same now. There are no more lines
And Reddit shoots itself in the foot.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/reddit-plans-to-lock-some-content-behind-a-paywall-this-year-ceo-says/
Reddit is overpriced at Free.
Given their userbase, I’m surprised they haven’t gone with the cyberbegging model like Wikipedia.
Special counsel Jack Smith discloses ‘gift’ of $140,000 in free legal services
So some DC white shoe firm told him what to shred and document? Normally wouldn’t you just do this on the down low? And now he is going to pay taxes on this to boot as well as the appropriateness of the “gift”? I’m at a loss.
So this movie made its nationwide premiere forty years ago today. As a certified neo maxi-zoomdweebie, I can still quote it chapter and verse.
You couldn’t make this today, since it’d just be ninety minutes’ worth of kids fiddling with their phones.
BTW, if you remember the movie, you’re older than Vernon.
I think it got Criterion treatment, no?
So, now that OMWC is a grandparent, does this mean he has to use Werther’s as his candy?
Good morning Glibs.
Happy Saturday. I’m due for some relaxation. Planning a day of board games, food, and libations. Snow and sleet be dammed.
Good morning, ‘loosey! Sounds like a great day! I’m with you on the relaxation – just one more of my big annual gotta-do’s to finish at work, and we haven’t yet been sent the info to get it done. I’m ready for this three-day weekend! (DOGE isn’t going to start cutting Federal holidays, are they?)
Hi GT. I forgot about having Monday off. It’s a new holiday for this year.
The weather man guessed right for a change. Our forecast winter storm actually showed up and dropped 6-8″ of snow Thu night, and a couple more last night.
The title makes the post.
The Nissan is easily startled, but friendly if approached carefully
That’s impressive. I didn’t even know you could do that in a FWD car.
The drugs or alcohol likely help!
I’m guessing that this may have been too local, but I’m mildly surprised that Swiss didn’t have an erection lasting more than four hours (or at least a grunt of satisfaction) after the news dropped.
TL:DR – Guy who was speaker of the Illinois House for 36 years convicted on bribery and corruption charges.
The investigation and prosecution was handled by the Biden DOJ, so I’m wagering that the Big Guy didn’t get his ten percent.
I don’t bother to read stories about Illinois officials going to prison. They aren’t news anymore than dog bites man stories are news. Now, if you show me a high Illinois official who doesn’t get sent to prison, that would be news.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Is an Illinois politician getting convicted of corruption really news, though?
Beat ya to it
This business about exacting tribute from the Ukrainians for protecting them from Russia is actually a breath of fresh air, as far as I’m concerned. Let’s just be honest, instead of spouting a bunch of patently nonsensical mumbo jumbo about “democracy” and “freedom”.
I’m just gonna leave this here
Facebook Alert!
Hi Mike
Gutted
Many staffers that go through the program serve on the frontlines of public health responses before later rising through the ranks of the CDC. Another health official observed to the news outlet that many of the fired staffers were early career professionals who had been trained by the agency.
“Now their dream is canceled,” the unidentified official said.
Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday. In an interview with Fox News after he was sworn in, Kennedy pledged that employees who work in service of public health had “nothing to worry about” under his tenure fronting America’s health policy.
“If you’ve been involved in good science, you’ve got nothing to worry about,” Kennedy said. “If you care about public health, you’ve got nothing to worry about.”
Their dream? They dream of a career in government health bureaucracy which will allow them to impose quarantine at gunpoint no matter the cost? Fuck their dreams, and fuck them.
Off topic, and far from impressive by any real standards but I have just hit a beginning milestone in my old man tries to get in shape project. sets of 5, 6 and 6 at @225 deadlift. First time I have hit multiple plates on anything.
It fascinates me how many stories treat laid off government flunkies as members of a sacred clergy driven from their pulpits and altars by a ravening mob of heathen savages.
Yeah, I don’t think they’re going to get much sympathy for their “OMG, now I have to find a job like a, a, peasant of some kind!” routine.
Just a pedantry note: there is no such country called “Europe” any more than there is a country called “Asia.”
It’s a name – a linguistic convention – that we use for a broad swath of dirt that has a bunch of nation states in it, with a vast array of heterogeneous peoples. There is something called “the European Union” – an economic coalition that allows a whole lot of grifting bureaucrats to cosplay as modern aristocracy while siphoning off the wealth of their members’ working class.
With commies, it’s always the same thing: some form of sophistry for manipulation of people’s emotions and perceptions.
Always.
We should start calling it Christendom again.
With commies, it’s always the same thing: some form of sophistry for manipulation of people’s emotions and perceptions.
That Atlantic article about the cancellation of science is a perfect example. Sweeping generalities about the glorious intent and potential benefit, while completely ignoring reality.