Yeah, that is how today is going…
It appears our security software was updated over the weekend. None of us can log in without this krep going on. I am about to ask STEVE SMITH if he can visit the helpdesk. By visit, mean…
But, I suppose this is better than being in Spain or Portugal. At least I can do most of my work.
Some of that “work” was these here links.
- A Florida boat…
- But seriously, this ramming crap has to stop.
- I was surprised to read that IBM still makes things. I thought they were just consultants now!
- Swiss version of California High Speed rail?
Music – a cinematic masterpiece’s theme.
Comments are open and yours.
Was expecting Jaws, but this was even masterpiecier.
I haven’t broken down and actually watched it (figure I know enough by osmosis)… but if that’s the version in the film, I think they hired the one guy with a synthesizer from the Peter Davison / Colin Baker era of Doctor Who. Sounds like incidental music from that era.
I don’t know why — but that thumbnail art made my brain expect this a lot more.
lol It does sound like that.
Truly, a work for the ages.
Good to see you have the power to work and aren’t suffering much resistance. That would be re-volting.
Reads like moving at a high rate of knots… one wonders if it was one of those cigarette boats (have they renamed those yet?) or what… Also have to wonder if they were BWI or something… one hell of a f’up either way.
Missed it by that much…
“A Florida boat…”
That has BWI written all over it.
“Ach, ja!” says your friendly WEF minion…. “Ve vill get ze private cars off ze road… and automate the rest for the
dirty schwine*cough* normal everyday use… You vill own nothing and be moved vere you need to be, ja?”I jest (a bit)… but I don’t see an easy way to make this difficult (outside of things like parades where you can have barriers) without taking away freedom of movement. Getting either mental help or stopping painting the other side as criminal assholes would hopefully help… (he says right after painting one side as…. yeah, yeah…)
Tunneling under the Alps (I assume from a quick skim they’d need new tunnels for these “underground roads / cable cars / whatever we decide this week”) seems…. daunting. Doable, yes… but not sure of the economic feasibility. I trust the Swiss more to actually do it if the government wants it done than the SacTown Mafia… but even so, I don’t think you mischaracterized this at all.
NARRATOR: It was alcohol. The perp’s name and photo will soon be splashed all over the local news.
STEVE SMITH, PROMINENT CASCADIA LAWYER STANDING BY TO HELP OUT WITH PROBING. MAY GO FIND FLORIDA BOATER ANYWAY, REPORTS SHOW IT HAVE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR LEGAL AFFAIRS… AND BY AFFAIRS, MEAN…
I imagine the boat that hit them has a scratch or two in the gel coat that is unlikely to “buff right out”.
According to the local mullet wrapper, it was this type of boat (not necessarily the specific model).
Owner will not be portrayed sympathetically in the media follow-up. That type of vessel screams “entitled douchenozzle.”
Growing up at the NJ seashore we referred to those as “Guido Boats”.
I thought a mullet wrapper was a backward baseball cap.
Guido Boats
In my LI hometown, it’s a Guinea Cruiser
My favorite headline for the Florida boat crash story:
1 Dead in Mass Casualty Event After Boat Crashes into Clearwater Ferry in Florida
House Democrat unveils articles of impeachment against Trump.
The first of many.
lol Sure why not.
Do they even need an excuse anymore? Or is just being a poopy-head an impeachable offense now?
Even if they regain the House in the 2026 midterms — Schumer set the clear precedent for the Senate with the ones for Biden. Just table them, don’t even hold a trial.
You like apples, Democrats?
These Dems are the same as all the riffraff who attract so much attention stamping their feet everywhere: one marvels at the fact that they have nothing actually productive to do.
And…the Democrat shadow government making-up charges against Musk – of course CNBC all too happy to report this morning on Squawk. After reading the so-called offenses as facts, Eamon Javers finally stated minutes later that these were things Musk “could do” and noted he wasn’t saying he “did do”…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/elon-musk-doge-trump-legal-liabilities-senate-democrats.html?&qsearchterm=blumenthal
Sometimes you have to take the high road. This guy took the Lo route.
Really, the only surprising thing about this incident is that the suspect is a garden-variety nutjob and not an adherent of the Religion of Peace.
This. No evil villain to point to except a poor guy with a broken brain. Sadly there is nothing that can be done about that.
Some people just Flip out.
That and crazy pinoy, not crazy pinay.
Swissland has a robust train system already, and surely connecting all the cities shown. Use that instead…?
Where is the graft in that?
I won’t bother to find and link, but a while ago I read a “think piece” (CNN, probably) about all the reasons you can’t replace the income tax with tariffs and balance the budget, and what a dumb idea it is.
Nowhere did they address spending.
Not
one
word.
Look, not laudering the nation’s wealth through DC fatcats is just un-American.
How many times have the evil fucks admitted that the income tax is not about revenue, that they dont need it? They have confessed over and over that it is only a weapon they use against the American people.
Get. Rid. Of. It.
They lied their way into having us grant them that power, they have abused it terrribly and now it should be taken away from them. It is that simple.
But, but, but, muh refund!
Spain and Portugal achieved Net Zero today.
https://x.com/michelleweekley/status/1916847883090854219
You get what you paid for…
France definitely still has generating capacity (lots of nuclear). They need to cut the Iberian Peninsula out of the grid and get their power back. Hopefully the EU hasn’t made that illegal or some bullcrap. They seem to be the only sane energy policy left in Western Europe.
This is almost certainly horseshit anyway. Maybe it worked for a millisecond or something.
But the truth remains that you need the entire existing system of “non-renewals” available for all the other milliseconds.
The Poughkeepsie-based company said Monday its investment in the United States will help fuel the economy and accelerate the country’s role as a global computing leader.
I thought IBM was based in Armonk?
I thought they were based in Bengaluru nowadays.
IBM is still in business?
The Zardoz remix is cool, but I prefer the original Klingon:
Beethoven – Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 – II, Allegretto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHREyE5GzQ
My favorite sci-fi theme:
Mars Attacks Theme – Danny Elfman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nii8r_EqeA
Give me Babylon 5: Season 3. “It failed”.
Yes, it did.
Mother pus bucket…. I would have sworn I linked that properly. Again.. Stupid bloody HTML annoying ass crap on a cracker….
Nice. Also nice to see the ungainly “the name of the place” go away.
Mine is Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds:
https://youtu.be/PjX8lAuRFbc?si=2fx1NQwUU4AwogKx
You know what happens when you turn traction control off and lift off the throttle mid corner of a car with a rear engine?
You get the obligatory influencer Instagram video.
Showboating Porsche 911 GT3 RS Driver Puts It in a Tree at Like 30 MPH
https://www.thedrive.com/news/showboating-porsche-911-gt3-rs-driver-puts-it-in-a-tree-at-like-30-mph
I drove an 83 911SC without any of those electronic guard rails. You have to think about what the hell you are doing. The car will give you some subtle hints when it’s considering breaking loose – ignore them at your peril.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Maine didn’t learn from Massachusetts’ mistake
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) may have made an enemy of President Donald Trump, but her push to hike cigarette taxes by 50 percent is making her plenty of friends next door in New Hampshire.
Despite falling revenues and the end of the COVID-related federal cash crunch, Mills has proposed an approximately $11.6 billion biennial budget that increases spending by more than $1 billion. She’s currently $450 million short on the revenue side, so she’s proposed a series of tax and fee hikes, including raising taxes on both tobacco and non-tobacco nicotine products.
It’s Mills’ plan to increase cigarette taxes from $2 to $3 a pack —and bump up taxes on non-tobacco nicotine products by a corresponding amount —that’s making Mainers mad and Granite Staters glad.
Most of Maine’s population lives in the southern part of the state, and many do their shopping across the state line in Portsmouth, Dover, and Rochester. If the state tax on a carton of smokes goes from $20 to $30, experts like Michael LaFaive of the Michigan-based Mackinac Center predict more Mainers will make the drive — and bring their shopping dollars with them.
When going back to school in Maine there was always an obligatory stop at the NH liquor store.
“That’s not how any of this is supposed to work!”
Mills has the IQ of a door stop. That is about average for a Pol so….
Poor guy is going to have to gravel for forgiveness.
Boo.
The Goddess GF is going to make him take her out for dinner in recompense. Just no Gorgonzola.
But yeah — he must have been stoned to put his relationships on the rocks like that.
I marble at your commitment to the pun.
You know what happens when you turn traction control off and lift off the throttle mid corner of a car with a rear engine?
Don’t lift
Woops.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/f-18-falls-overboard-us-aircraft-carrier-red-sea-2025-04-28/
Hope they got the insurance.
I guess the buck didn’t quite stop there….
If it was John McCain they would have given him a promotion.
Bitter clinger
In a recent interview with Automotive News, Toyoda doubled down on his skepticism of battery-electric vehicles. However, when acknowledging that some Toyota engineers want an EV sports car, he said that the idea doesn’t exactly align with his values.
“There will always be people inside Toyota passionate about developing electric sports cars,” Toyoda told AutoNews. “But for me, as the master driver, my definition of a sports car is something with the smell of gasoline and a noisy engine.”
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In response to a question asking him if in his capacity as Toyota’s “Master Driver,” would he ever race an EV in a competitve race, the man known to enthusiasts simply as Morizo expressed that he wouldn’t want to race an EV because the kind of races he likes to do (endurance races) would be less about driving skill and more about the cars’ technical limitations.
“No! It’s not exciting,” he said. “Because you won’t be able to go around the circuit for more than an hour. The kind of races I enter are mostly endurance races, so with the current BEVs, it’s not going to be a race of the cars. It’s a race of charging time or battery exchange or something. The next master driver will have to take on that challenge. That’s their job.”
He wouldn’t have crashed that Porsche.
Just bring back a fun affordable Celica already. Honda has a hybrid Prelude inbound.
Generic Links, as in Generic Cheese? Can I have Squeezy Cheese??
Cheese in a boat? It’s really good.
My God… where has that been my whole life.
There’s a good Georgia restaurant near here. Some great unique stuff
Khachapuri (Georgian Cheese Bread).
There you go. Easy recipe. In a pinch, I’ve used store bought pizza dough, or the very unhealthy Pillsbury pizza bread in a can.
I’ve adapted it to my tastes, adding sauteed veggies i.e. mushrooms or onions or bell peppers or leeks or potatoes or a combination, whatever I’m in the mood for. Can I eat it every day? I could, but that wouldn’t be Glibfit®.
OMWC and I went to a Georgian place in NYC a couple of years ago. That was the first thing we ordered. Georgian cuisine is known in Glibs Gulch.
Not cheese.
Welfare cheese. I ate this crap as a kid.
Government Cheese: The Band
That’s not cheese.
I hear people will race down a hill for double gloucester.
The local grocers around here are selling Double Gloucester for $18 lb. A Grocery Outlet store nearby is selling blocks of it for $4 for 6oz. I bought a lot of it.
They roll an 8-pound wheel.
Just bring back a fun affordable Celica already.
I have to say, the hotrod Yaris looks pretty cool. The WRC car is really impressive.I wouldn’t actually buy one, but as an alternative to the rest of the crap out there…
Isn’t that supposed to be the GT86?
Err GR.
+1 on the music choice.
HAIL ZARDOZ.
GR Yaris review
Democrat shadow government making-up charges against Musk – of course CNBC all too happy to report this morning on Squawk. After reading the so-called offenses as facts, Eamon Javers finally stated minutes later that these were things Musk “could do” and noted he wasn’t saying he “did do”…
Sounds like somebody in the control room got a phone call.
So, if the USAID money got cut off, who is paying these people? where is the money coming from?
People are funny. I was reading comments on the NYPost.
Someone had the name “Jusse Smollets Sandwich”.
Malicious innuendo
Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have been given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America’s nuclear weapons, two independent sources tell NPR.
Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to the sources who also have access to the networks. Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information.
They described the access as a “toehold” that would allow DOGE staffers to request information classified at the secret level. “They’re getting a little further in, it’s something to make note of,” they concluded. “It could lead to something bigger.”
OMG DOGE amateur hackers are making off with our most secretest nuclear secrets!
Once you have a network login, everything is just there for the taking. It is known.
For several decades, the nuclear launch code was 00000000.
They finally changed it in the 1980s.
Now it’s 00000001
Hey! Don’t go distributing nuclear secrets!
I would have tried Password123.
He’s going to discover how many nuclear scientists it takes to screw a taxpayer.
As opposed to this freak? https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/non-binary-biden-nuclear-official-sam-brinton-fired-after-multiple-luggage-theft-charges-reports/
The left is Machiavellian as hell. They never, ever argue in good faith about anything.
There it is.