OK you heathen, it’s time for some Holy Week Links. They might not be quite the holy you are thinking of…
- Holy leftist criminal court system!
- Holy lack of details! I think that lack tells us a fair amount about the suspect.
- Holy rambling old fart.
- Holy slowly joining the modern world.
Music – I couldn’t decide, so you get both this and that.
Comments are all yours.
What about the other?
10 hours. It still shocks me how horrific the torture was at Guantanamo.
I prefer the other ones.
I do not prefer the other two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZ1Tm8T-QI
Thanks for not being selfish and hording that link, TOK… never heard them before — seems like a band I’d enjoy.
I expect you know what music link I think you should post in the Friday links.
I would have linked to this.
From Swiss — I’m expecting holy cheese, natch.
Doh! Why did I think I was the only one clever enough to try to bait Swiss with this pun?!
Holy Cheesus! You have been down too long in the midnight sun!
Migros needs a licence for the trial operation. Among other things, it wants to make structural changes to the existing shop and adjust the opening hours or temporarily switch to vending machine operation. The legal requirements for this vary from canton to canton and municipality to municipality.
Why not… get rid of the legal requirements?
If they don’t, they will be an illegal Migros.
Migros, please.
Jaime wins. Rounding ovation.
Will courts order Trump to invade El Salvador to get the guy back?
Defense Contractors getting their amicus briefs together….
Didn’t the Nazgul send it back to District with an explicit “You can’t dictate foreign policy, that’s Executive only” edict? If the judge defies both the President and the Nazgul — he might as well find some way to flip off Congress (rule that they have to fund said invasion?) and go for the trifecta.
I know I’m biased against cities — but lady, move if you at all can. As far away as possible, but certainly to a jurisdiction that doesn’t coddle homeless stalkers at least. Bonus points if you can find somewhere that hasn’t gone insane on self defense (while I hope the pitties are sweet to you but fierce in your defense… Smith and Wesson seems better in the long run).
Geez what a nut punch… stupid political philosophy that requires the populace to be both cowed of breaking laws and also scared and looking for protection from the thugs that are allowed to flaunt the same laws. Stop the universe, I want to move to a sane reality.
NYC is reliving the 1970s. Best part is all the liberals seem to think the solution is to “prog harder”.
“The landlord came and said, ‘Someone’s in your apartment.’ I said, ‘No one’s there. Only you’ve got the key and I’ve got the key.’ He said, ‘No, somebody’s there.’
So how’s he getting in? Over and over?
As budget bill remains stalled in Congress, DC starts planning for major cuts
2024 …
Oh the huge manatee!
Well, they’d try for 2019 levels, but I’m told that there would be bodies stacked up like cordwood if that happened.
I was certain that the perp would be one of those physignomy-is-destiny “From the river to the sea” types, considering he set fire to the house of a Jewish politician on Passover.
I’m not sure if I was wrong or not.
He may just be Hinkley level nuts based on that article. I suppose we’ll see.
Maybe after Puerto Rico sepratists bomb Congress or something folks might stop advocating for someone to rid them of their particular meddling priests and lower the tone of the national conversation.
The Fox article is behind a paywall. Here is the Dauphin County DA’s announcement of the charges which includes a mugshot.
He’s just an unhinged leftist. Has to be the most disappointing thing ever to the news types who were sure he was a Maga clansman.
I hope you meant Klansman, as in KKK (eeewww). A Clansman is a man who is a member of one’s own clan (Scottish patrilineal genetic affiliation group). The appropriation of those words by the KKK is hurtful and annoying to my people.
Coachella socialism! Trust fund babies screaming about the evils of capitalism. So stunning and brave!
From the comments of the article:
California highly conservative? And even if it were — Coachella and “arts festivals” in general not being pretty liberal?
I think the hard drugs aren’t limited to the festival for that commenter….
“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!”
Well, I have been told Democrats are center-right.
Didn’t Trump just sort of steal Bernie’s economic platform?
This is part of Bernie’s new image, like when he railed against billionaires right before Pritzker got on stage to brag about being a billionaire.
Pretty sure that having Bernie fucking Sanders talk at your concert destroys any idea of being punk or even punk adjacent.
Was Coachella ever even trying to be punk? I always associated that festival with pop and pseudo-indie rock.
At least Burning Man goes to the desert not a place surrounded by golf courses.
Also it’s $1500 for two people to attend a concert run by a right wing evangelical millionaire with a headliner draped in a Palestinian flag who was popular my first year of college 30 years ago.
Rock is altogether dead.
EvilSheldon:
I always thought Coachella was more hippie/indie/trendy music. Never really had a desire to go. I was just leaning into the punk thing based on the Green Day statements about Coachella.
“…armed herself with two pitbulls…”
I dont think she gets it. The purpose of gun laws is to make people helpless. If that burglar gets so much as a broken fingernail while breaking into her house she will be the one prosecuted. I wonder who she voted for….
Shapiro: false flag. You heard it here first.
I heard some of the Sanders speech. Boiler plate commie claptrap. All platitudes, vagaries and nebulous bullshit. I read the communist manifesto so I will give my in-depth, lengthy and thoughtful analysis: A list of the reasons all of your shit belongs to me. Would someone drive a stake through that old commie shitbird’s heart already? Hint: you have to do it in the daylight after you have discovered his secret lair.
False flag? You do see who they arrested, yes? Asshat firebug burns house…so out of character.
I can just take so many poop swastikas and Smalletts before I have to conclude that the lunatic asshats are them.
I’ll give them props for standing up. I’ve been amazed how many other Ivies with endowments larger than some countries have actually caved.
Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html
OTH, I’ll enjoy when they get their funding cut. However, I’m sure an Hawaiian judge will say it has to continue for a while.
Too Local News: Libertarians win something!
The Fourth Annual Libertarians vs. Republicans Charity Hockey Game was Saturday, and it turned out to be a high-scoring, fast-paced spectacle. The Libertarian team had 49 shots on goal with the Republicans making 43. In the end, those extra shots made the difference as the Libertrains skated away with a 7 – 5 victory.
I’m assuming all 12 were own goals based on historical precedent
The game against the Glibertarian team is next weekend in Minnesota.
Will you really be in Sunny Minnesoda soon?
Need to start clearing my calendar if so. (anyone know where guy can get rotten tomatoes asap?)
Ouch.
I ordered an authetic case for my Pentium 4 motherboard. I got one new in box (new old stock) of the options that could be shipped with the motherboard I’d gotten secondhand.
This case is spectacular. It is almost everything I would want in a workstation case. It has enough drilled and tapped holes for multiple standard motherboard formats (with ample provided standoffs), it came with a 1k Watt power supply (yay), whose cables are woven through the frame already (boo!), and enough connectors for a slew of drives for which it has tooless bays for housing, two 5.5inch external facing bays, one 3.5 inch external bay (I’d have preferred 2, but oh well) The interior is roomy as all, and if you have the right motherboard, a heat duct for cooling the processor (I do not have one of the right layout to use it) Multiple built-in fans, and at least seven bays for expansion cards that could be full-length.
I was momentarily tempted to move my main desktop into this thing, then I came back to my senses.
Does it sound like a jet aircraft?
That was my problem with that era’s commercial PC stuff. I remember ripping a power supply apart to wire in a different fan with a temperature controller.
I haven’t plugged it in yet – I have to crack open the power supply to check for bad caps. These cases were made from 2004-2014, so it could have plague era caps, or it could be post-plague
Also make sure the line filter caps aren’t the exploding RIFA kind.
I have to figure out the best way to open it up. I’d prefer not to unweave the power harness from the back channels of the case, since I’d have to redor it all again.
I love workstation class full ATX cases… at least until I have to move one somewhere.
And you’re thiiis close to triggering my standard rant about consumer PC hardware trending towards less and less PCIe lanes so you can’t run much of anything beyond a couple m.2s and a graphics card. When you look back at PCIe 2.0 era with 5 or 6 slots in full ATX, it is just maddening. No flexibility — but you get to pay almost a grand for a board! Progress!
Most of that is because Intel and AMD specifically neuter their support chipsets into multiple classes purely for marketing segmentation.
OTH, I’ve stopped buying into the hype and now buy the lower spec boards because I don’t need the connectivity. Put that cash towards the CPU/GPU and/or storage.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/IWCcOFFbRdKBwzWqaj4dLQ.7jxHeCgsqB-0P7DMn6Nw52
I’ve got a glorious full size tower I’m trying to re-home…
No shipping.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/PqUGmeFXSba-4IAa2ir7tg.hQiVhUlswQpwUYN4iFKMB0
Why two power switches on the front
Well, three would be excessive
Well…actually there are three. 🤣 If you look closer. I think the toggles were for lights inside.
I’m disappointed that our own Pope Jimbo’s extended Asia tour wasn’t a success.
Japan sees record drop in population
https://www.dw.com/en/japan-sees-record-drop-in-population/a-72239612
A lot of other factors come into play.
Their stupid socialized medicine does a good job giving all the Japanese girls glasses which puts a damper on my game. Likewise, those Japanese girls are not drinking enough sake to get into the proper mood for a holy intervention.
Finally, any offspring that might arise from my tour of Japan would be pretty spectacular given a certain procedure Mrs. Holiness insisted on me getting after Altar Kid #3.
Also, both my nieces have 3 kids each, so they are doing their dirty best to help out.
Wait nine months.
Me for the next 8 months
Waiting for leftist heads to explode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/president-el-salvador-wont-return-deported-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna201136
“I collect violent gang members, I’m not letting a rare one go.”
Oddly enough — the “mint in sealed box” ones are worth even less.
How long do you think that “box” will remain “sealed”?
He went in as a tight end.
Came out as a wide receiver.
I see the “mistakenly” deported in every article. It took me a while to figure out this wasn’t just some random innocent guy caught up in the deportation. The government is claiming he’s a fairly nasty gang-banger who’s being kicked out regardless, and they just went through the wrong channel.
CNN in one story referred to him as “Maryland man”.
From what I have read, him being a part of the MS-13 gang makes it extra dangerous for him to be deported. I guess because there are other gangs in El Salvador that might kill him because of his gang affiliation.
Reminds me of the ’90s when our new vibrant Somali neighbors discovered that they couldn’t be deported because there was no functioning govt to turn them over to. Go figure, the Somalis learned that they could get away with almost any non-violent crime. No one wanted to lock them up because it cost too much and you couldn’t deport them.
I love the President’s explanation:
“It would be illegal for me to send a terrorist to the US.”
Also, isn’t he an illegal? How can he re-enter the US in any event?
Not a lot of details. I wonder if it will continue being permitted for structural use. Should make F1 interesting too if the ban is broadly applied…
Racy Interiors Could Look Less Racy as the EU Aims to Ban Carbon Fiber
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64476965/europe-carbon-fiber-ban/
I know F1 is getting hit with all the climate stuff… but the elites love hobnobbing at F1 events and being seen. I can not imagine they wouldn’t get a special carve out somehow.
Swwet fucking Enkidu, carbon fiber? Hazardous? What fucking planet are these people from?
Can be. The dust from sawing, drilling, or sanding is nasty to your lungs. And the shards when it does break are not fun to pluck out.
Well, I have seen warnings in several of the cycling magazines about Chinese carbon fiber knock offs.
Sure, by that standard carbon fiber is hazardous…as about any other construction material. That is, it’s hazardous absent some trivial, inexpensive, and well-understood safety precautions. We’re talking the same precautions as working with fiberglass here, it’s not exactly handling Cobalt-60…
So, they are just banning anything with carbon in the name? I can’t decide whether I want us to just completely withdraw from all alliances with the Europe or bite the bullet and liberate them. Withdrawing is probably more moral, but hanging every EU employee from their own individual newly installed gas lamp would win on satisfaction
Now I have a vision of Swiss cruising around Chicago in an Eldorado convertible with that music on blast.
I’d rather see Ozy playing the LL Cool J track right before court appearances.
Well, the girls would turn the color
Of the avocado when he would drive
Down their street in his El Dorado
Not sure who has seen this yet, and I know you all love the vidja:
https://rumble.com/v6rx99p-dni-tulsi-gabbard-confirms-voting-machines-have-been-hacked-to-manipulate-a.html
Briefly clicked on that and head’s up: she’s not wearing a bikini
Or spandex, not working out, and not shooting anything either. Sad.
That headline is misleading, she is saying there are confirmed vulnerabilities and not there is proof they were hacked. Which I think is the smart way to go.
Oh, I know it is click bait, but it tells me they are actively looking into election integrity issues.
I got an earful from a proggie relative this weekend about how the SAVE act is going to prevent women from voting because they changed their names.
She was adamant that she couldn’t use a wedding certificate to prove that her birth certificate was valid because of the name change. Also, she wasn’t going to get a passport just to vote.
I tried to gently suggest that her claims sounded pretty extreme and I’d bet that it wouldn’t be that hard to register to vote.
She wasn’t having it. Her Facebook buddies and her knew what’s what.
Re the guy who keeps breaking in to that lady’s apartment, I don’t have a big problem with no bail in theory, but if you keep getting arrested, especially for the same crime, maybe some bail is warranted.
Racy Interiors Could Look Less Racy as the EU Aims to Ban Carbon Fiber
Carbon fiber is the gold leaf of the 21st century.
Well, with the cheap decorative stuff the poor quality epoxy usually does turn “gold colored”.
According to the amendment, the EU believes that carbon-fiber filaments that become airborne would be harmful if they come into contact with human skin.
Can confirm.
Bring back hand-beaten and riveted aluminium race cars.
Can we have knock on wheels too?
I wanna use my mallet
I’m pretty sure those are also harmful when they become airborne and come in contact with human skin. I seem to recall a thing at Le Mans a while back…
Thats why we cant have nice things!
85 dead? Oops
Epic rant by Tom Luoguno on the trade war.
https://rumble.com/v6s0iqp-europe-attacks-the-united-states-the-war-in-the-money-markets-tom-luongo-an.html
Harry reviews the Aston Martin Vanquish. Take away the carbon and there wouldn’t be much left.
Another triumph of automotive software design. Also, twin turbo V12 tuned to pull like a tractor.
Yeah I saw that. I have no desire to watch modern supercar videos anymore. Rolling computers.
Essentially everything is tire traction limited. And emissions and noise regs mandate a turbo with a ruler flat torque curve on an automatic of some variety transmission.
Birmingham bin strike to continue as deal rejected
If the EU is banning carbon fiber, will they ban wind generators? I think the blades are carbon.
Fiberglass. Even worse.
STEVE SMITH HAPPY. HIM LIKE HOLEY WEEK.
EVERY WEEK HOLEY
STEVE SMITH RISE EVERY DAY! NOT ONLY 3RD DAY!
I bet STEVE SMITH is disappointed when the campers leave Saturday evening to get home to prepare for Easter. Without them around he is stuck with PALM SUNDAY.
STEVE SMITH finds Howie Steinbaum out camping. STEVE SMITH won’t passover opportunity to educate him on the ways of the woods.
By “educate” mean rape. It was a Good Friday for STEVE SMITH.
My weekend began (!) at 2pm and hangin’ and playing soccer with my 4yo nephew was first on the docket. He’s comically cute, just an overload. He’s much more vocal, expressive than his older brothers. His vocabulary and even sentence structure is remarkable. This ongoing development greatly pleases me.
I like when he adds little touches of me into his repertoire. Today, for instance, after I congratulated him, he adopted the phrase as his own anthem: “Atta boy!”He kept chanting it over and over. I strongly encourage this behavior. ‘My’ precocious Mini-Me is something else. *gushes ‘n beams*
This may be the last year for it, so may want to see if the small one is interested in Free Comic Book Day. My nephews (even this year) have continued wanting to go since I started taking them.
Oh no! Anyway…
The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid in the current fiscal year, an attempt to employ a little-used legislative tactic for reducing spending already approved by Congress.
The proposal — known as a rescission package — would codify cuts identified by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. That effort, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has targeted government spending seen as being at odds with the president’s agenda.
People will die!
Which judge will rule Congress can’t alter funding levels?
Every time this fails and NPR prevails (which is my entire life), they then go on a little smug rant about how they didn’t really need public funds anyway and are mostly privately funded.
Nobody listens to NPR because we all died from the end of Net Neutrality.
We had all already starved to death in a Malthusian wasteland before net neutrality, hell before the net. Just ask Ehrlich.
Daredevil fish
Atlantic salmon exposed to anti-anxiety medication during their migration were more successful in reaching their destination than drug-free fish, researchers reported Thursday in Science. That success may stem from increased boldness, the researchers found, a trait that could ultimately harm the fish in the long-run.
“On the face of it, it sounds like giving drugs to fish is beneficial,” said Jack Brand, a biologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. “But any departure from natural behaviour is likely to have potential broad and negative consequences for the population.”
There is absolutely nothing some expert won’t spin up as bad news. You just have to stick a microphone in front of him.
Swimming to your death could cause anxiety.
I think the drugs are falling out of their asses, too.
Over the past decade or so, lab experiments have shown that naturally occurring concentrations of such drugs can alter fish behavior. In the lab, drugged fish are often more antisocial, less fearful and more prone to taking risks and finding themselves in risky situations.
Before you know it, they’re hanging around the dock, trying to get fishermen to buy beer for them.
🐠🍺😂
Kanye Likes Fishsticks
The story behind it.
But studying what these drugs do to fish out in the wild has been a lot harder, said Brand. “Obviously we can’t dump a bunch of pharmaceuticals into the river.”
Instead, he and his colleagues essentially dumped pharmaceuticals into fish just before they were set to migrate from the River Dal in Sweden to the Baltic Sea. The team implanted slow-release drugs in 279 hatchery-raised, juvenile Atlantic salmon. The implants released controlled amounts of two drugs, in varying combinations: clobazam, a benzodiazepine often used to treat anxiety, and tramadol, a pain medication.
SCIENCE!
“hatchery-raised”
Well, there’s a hell of a variable in a study on fish behavior.
Figures Swissy would really be into some cheesy Holy week crap.
Minnesoda is facing a $6B deficit in upcoming budgets. Yet, doctors, nurses and pharmacists want a new program to help them with their own mental well being.
The new ask is for another $250K. Because, there is no way any professional group consisting of highly paid medical workers would ever be able to come up with $300K of their own money.
A point in favor of the Subaru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBibFdMIRU
I don’t think that clip will get much traction around here.
Not a hill to die on.
They just don’t undersand.
It’s an uphill battle with you people.
So my MT company’s contract is probably going to end in June because the clinic we work for is going to some sooper dooper pooper scooper AI type system. The doctors who want to retain human transcriptionists can, but they have to pay out of pocket for it.
Just got an email in my MT account saying if we get calls from providers about our pay, how long it takes to do the work, etc etc etc, to keep mum and forward the requests to the transcription manager. LOL