Good morning one and all to another wonderous day!
DHS Releases List of ‘Sanctuary’ Jurisdictions That Could Lose Federal Funding
Appeals court reinstates Trump tariffs
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump admin from banning Harvard international students
US IT specialist arrested after attempting to share classified information with foreign government
Federal Bureaucrat Charged For Alleged Massive Food Stamp Fraud Scheme
SEC Dismisses Lawsuit Against Crypto Exchange Binance
New evidence could blow open the Oklahoma City bombing case
Ex-advisor to Nancy Mace said congresswoman asked him to blackmail fiancé she accused of assault
MIT President Shuts Down DEI Office as Trump Admin Investigates Alleged Racial Discrimination
May Ratings Are In! MSNBC and CNN Are About As Popular As the Black Plague
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
“DHS Releases List of ‘Sanctuary’ Jurisdictions That Could Lose Federal Funding”
Why not already lost?
Enh, some judge in Delaware or wherever will just block it anyway.
*lifts nearly empty cofefe*
I would habitually do thought exercises about how someone might misuse the access I had and how they might get caught. Mostly for the entertainment value, as these stayed in my head – especially when I ran through the “How they might get caught” and reckoned that it would basically be a kamikaze situation. You always leave tracks.
Not if you’re aware of security issues such as shared credentials and sa/root accounts that still are active.
You of all people should know that doesn’t erase the tracks that lead back to the real person breadcrumb by breadcrumb.
UCS:
That’s why you don’t do it from your workstation, I’m sure you’ve got at least one idiot who routinely walks away from their station with it unlocked.
Note to self, Use Mr Ilium’s station as he forgets to lock it.
We figured this out decades ago. Have your honeypot dose the coworker’s coffee and while he runs to the bathroom, sneak in through the air vents, lowering yourself down on a pulley system to access their computer.
You remember that ole Twillight Zone episode where the guy working at a bank gets the ability to hear thoughts for a workday, because of a coin flip, and hears his elderly coworker planning a heist? He then discovers the planning was al for fun and what the coworker did every day for decades, but never carried through with? Is that a code you live by?
You don’t?
How else are you going to be sure you’re security is up to snuff?
I pass most of my time thinking about tapping some hot mama’s ass.
It would have been trivially simple for me to embezzle when I was General Counsel, as I was/could be the single point of contact for law firms, and was the single approver for most law firm bills. Even those big enough to need a second signature were rubber stamped. I could easily have submitted myself fake bills from a fake lawyer/firm and had them paid. The “hard” part would be setting up the bank account. I could likely have run this for a few years and skimmed off a few hundred thousand dollars with basically zero chance of getting caught.
RC, lots of people in similar situations.
The ones you hear about getting caught have been doing it so long and so egregiously, they forget that what they’re doing will get them thrown in the hoosegow.
So they get caught or they run for office.
“How can you afford a vacation home in Carmel on ?86K a year?”
The story has me wondering if we still execute traitors.
Looking at the history of executions I am gonna vote no on that. Here we are 30 years later finding out that the Feds executed a man while the FBI has concealed critical evidence in the case.
My rules for committing crimes:
1. The take has to balance the risk, which in practice means it has to be enough that you can live at the highest level of luxury you can imagine desiring, for life, factoring in the difficulties in investing the proceeds, and the likelihood that this new life will be in a non-extradition country.
2. You have to be able to complete the crime, and get the proceeds and yourself to said non-extradition country before the crime is likely to be detected.
3. You have to be able to complete the crime entirely on your own because if you have an accomplice they are either a fed, will sell you out to the feds, or are planning to kill you and take the proceeds.
4. Your victim cannot be able to track you down and kill you, especially in some gruesome mafia vengeance manner
5. You have to be able to live with yourself afterwards.
Number 4 and 5 together are kind of hard to overcome because any victim that you can convince yourself deserved it probably can track you down and feed you to hogs from the toes up.
You need to look at #1. If the risk is very low, you needn’t worry about flight.
The problem with that is twofold. First the temptation problem, an amount large enough to tempt is probably an amount large enough to spark a real investigation. Second the fear problem, I REALLY don’t want to go to prison, so the risk would have to be effectively zero, and there is a significant risk created simply by suddenly having a lot of money you cannot explain.
1. Get elected to Congress.
2. Profit
1. Get elected to Congress.
See Rule 5. 🙂
See Rule 5.
Hmm, is that why they’d rather die in office than retire?
Hmm, that makes sense, at least if you stipulate that congresscritters have vestigial consciences.
It would seem the longer they are in office, the more atrophied they become.
The only thing that makes sense in memory-holing John Doe #2 would be if he were a fed. But if he WERE a fed, he would know too many other feds for his ID to have remained memory-holed for this long.
Occam’s razor tells me he doesn’t exist.
I think there’s a simpler explaination – ego. “We have it all wrapped up, our theory of the crime is rock solid, there was nobody else.”
“What about this video?”
“What video? I mean,… No such Video!”
After all, the people we’re talking about think more of themselves than is justified by reality.
It is entirely possible that there is “a video” but not a video that shows any kind of cooperation.
“Look! Right there! A hand off!”
“The dude is buying a pretzel.”
True – The alluded-to content of the video is just another person in the truck. That could be anything from co-conspirator to unfortuante hitch-hiker.
John Doe #2 is Ray Epps.
That’s some top shelf pot stirring.
Perfect
Nah, JD2 was a hispanic.
According to the Census, 70% of Hispanic people in this country are White.
JD2 was *visibly* hispanic. Were his ethnicity obtained via documentation, he would not be a John Doe.
So, Juan Dos then.
Ray Epps Sr.
I disagree. Lets have a look for ourselves. I disagree because the FBI has a long and storied history of cooking up schemes like that and then arresting some retard or lunatic they roped into it. There was always something about this case niggling the back of my brain.
Wonder if any fed met with an “unfortunate accident” or “suicide” or “botched mugging” soon after?
That theory has been around forever. It may be that the FBI was doing their thing by encouraging a radical to plan out a crime (like kidnapping the Governor of Michigan). Then, while they weren’t really paying attention, the guy actually executed the crime. Woops.
Sounds dumb enough to be entirely possible.
I’ve always wondered how many of these “terrorist attacks” were entrapment schemes where the clowns the feds wound up were lost track of and actually did the crime.
The government usually reacts fast and furiously to these plots, so I don’t think that is possible.
I think we would be substantially better off if the legal definition of entrapment were expanded to eliminate the idea of propensity to commit the crime. The current definition is an almost impossible bar to raising entrapment as a defense. If we broadened it it would get rid of this vile nonsense.
“Appeals court reinstates Trump tariffs”
The greatest threat to the globalist marxist cabal’s agenda is a change to the current economic and trade model where the US is plundered to force the American people to accept the one world government they want because the alternative, a broken and bankrupt country, has left us with bending the knee as the most viable solution to that dilemma. This tariff change threatens that entire agenda because it purports to correct the imbalance that is necessary to destroying the US. People should be frightened that our own American globalists are fine with that agenda even if it makes them lackeys of Beijing as things are going.
That’s all true.
But I’m not convinced the answer is an executive with the power to institute whatever tariffs he pleases under any pretense he thinks he can shoehorn them through the courts.
Tariffs are a negotiation tool in this case. And they are the only weapon that works when others have already imposed decades of tariffs on your trade to them bleeding you dry. I know in a fantasy world we would have no tariffs at all as the best case scenario, but we are not living in Fantasy Land or Disney World.
All roads lead back to Congress, which is unfortunately, inevitably, systemically, structurally broken. With the twin dynamics of “loot the Treasury to buy votes” and “sell favors for personal enrichment” in place, there ain’t no fixing it. And with a broken Congress, there is no fixing the government as a whole.
Sorry for the black pill, but there it is.
I’m completely black pilled when it comes to government, but I do think it is good to keep at least some semblance of perspective before we sink into despair. We’re looking at movement away from what was probably the greatest degree of personal liberty ever to exist in human society, which produced the greatest degree of prosperity ever to exist in human society, and we talk about it as though we’re on the train to the gulags. The system is corrupted, it probably cannot be fixed and that means that things will get worse in serious ways. So anger and fear are warranted, but by historical standards our lives would still inspire envy.
our lives would still inspire envy.
That is the damnedest thing isn’t it – as much as we carp, we still have it better than anywhere else.
May I offer you more tinfoil?
Only if it’s made by the globalist cabal of unelected and unaccountable corruptocrats.
What Teddy said.
Tinfoil? Pshaw!
A majority of people are forcibly exposed to them and a quarter of people die from it?
They sure as fuck end up brain dead from exposure.
Proof of right-wing media bias/control!!! /progtards
It warms my heart to see the quality of individual we elect to Congress.
I think your problem is that you still think electing people to congress will fix it. That clearly seems to not be happening. The entire system is designed to not care about either what is good for the people or, especially, what they want, as much as what seems to serve the most corrupt entities you can imagine.
By all means use my wryly amused comment as a springboard to launch into another iteration of your angry rant. It doesn’t fit my comment, and it certainly doesn’t reflect what I said or think, but any launch pad works. Politics is inherently attractive to those seeking corruption, and success in politics is generally predicated upon unprincipled behavior. That is inevitable.
I have no belief that electing people to Congress can or will fix anything. The type of person who might fix things is vanishingly unlikely to seek office, and demonstrably is doomed to a life as an impotent gadfly if they do seek it and somehow manage to get elected.
Politics will always be politics, and the people attracted to it will never be admirable. Unfortunately there isn’t much alternative.
See also Binance CEO’s pardon and now dismissal of the case against the company.
Everybody wants you when you’re Binance.
The alternative to politics is to give up the on the various facades of ‘democracy’, ‘elections’, ‘due process’, and understand that all of that nonsense is nothing but insurance against violent revolution, and that all governments are bureaucratic oligarchies under the window dressing.
The problem ES is that govt is still necessary, just as much as it is evil. If anarchy worked, we’d have real examples of it, and it would last. That this is about as common as successful communism should tell everyone, even the zealot, that reality has a different opinion. And the fact that zealots will persist is part of the reason we non-zealots need some way to keep them in line, hence govt.
The alternative to politics is to give up the on the various facades of ‘democracy’, ‘elections’, ‘due process’, and understand that all of that nonsense is nothing but insurance against violent revolution, and that all governments are bureaucratic oligarchies under the window dressing.
Quibble, politics are inevitable, all that changes in different forms of government are the targets of politician’s lies. Courtiers lie to the King and court. Aspirants to the Nomenklatura lie to the existing Nomenklatura. etc.
“By all means use my wryly amused comment as a springboard to launch into another iteration of your angry rant. ”
I guess I should have come back and asked you about some other people elected to congress in the past. It’s not like some real dirtbags and evil fucks had not already been there. Not defending the current crop of idiots, just pointing out that congress is the idiot club and there are bigger problems than pining for better quality people.
What in my comment makes you think I don’t agree with that? I was saying exactly that. I am not disagreeing with you. I am expressing my annoyance at what seemed an entirely unjustified hostile and patronizing tone that you seem to adopt reflexively. Not every interaction is actually you angrily arguing with a staunch Marxist dedicated to creating True Communism. In fact pretty much no one here is within miles of that position.
JI: You are absolutely correct. the people that want the job are the worst qualified. The answer is plain and everyone knows it. I have heard numerous people all of my life suggesting mandatory civil service in one form or other. We had the draft. Israel has everyone do two years of military or civil service. What I haven’t heard about is mandatory office holding.
I would also like to point out that in the early days of the country congresscrittering was not a full time job. It was service in one’s spare time but their personal business went along as usual.
Perhaps we should not have ballots. Everyone throws a name in a hat and whoever wins serves whether they want to or not. Also, term limits.
JI – I’m not making a defense of anarchism here, I’m making an attack on the concept of democracy – it’s a con job to keep the marks from revolting.
“In fact pretty much no one here is within miles of that position.”
My point was that people still seem to think we can fix congress by electing better people. The people that would actually do the job don’t want it.
“Government” may be necessary. Continent/world-wide government is not. Nor is a total state.
I understand that was your point. You seem to be struggling to understand that the implication that you were arguing against exists only in your head, and that therefore telling me what my problem is, is annoying.
the concept of democracy
Republican democracy? Or democracy-democracy? Not that it greatly matters, we’re getting govt one way or another. The problem is asking people what they want from that – because most people are idiots. Where I disagree with Lippman is that their consent matters. None of us ever consented to this govt.
Continent/world-wide government is absolutely necessary for those employed by continent/world-wide government. What the hell else are they gonna do?
Nor is a total state.
If that’s what the majority wants, that’s what the majority gets. And they deserve it, good and hard. Either way, us in the minority, we’re screwed.
C’mon, you know that’s untrue. Even if we were to disregard the way states get actually formed is by one side having more people willing to kill for their idea than the other (see: Afghanistan) even today minorities willing to stick together can effectively disregard the official state. It used to be called “Irish Democracy” but today it seems to be mostly Muslim enclaves practicing it.
I live adjacent to the Amish, I get it. We also aren’t quite the total state… yet. But like Alex I can see which way the water is flowing.
“But like Alex I can see which way the water is flowing.”
So JI, that makes me curious. Why do you believe things are heading that way? You think that we are just cursed with that nature or is it something else? Because that is what is driving my resistance.
Absolutely human nature. Heinlein’s “this is called bad luck” sums it up perfectly.
Anatomically modern humans existed some 100k years ago, but civilization didn’t emerge until much later, and I must assume, it came in kicking and screaming against the prevailing circumstances. It flourished, grew and decayed then disappeared – one after another. That ain’t no conspiracy, or if it is because of God, he’s the ultimate cosmic Joker.
“Absolutely human nature. Heinlein’s “this is called bad luck” sums it up perfectly.”
So extinction level stupidity FTW?
Damn, that is so hard to swallow.
Why hard to swallow? The US as founded is probably the closest any group has ever come to the sort of society Glibs would choose, and it ran into human nature almost immediately. The Articles lasted a bit over a decade, The Constitution was a move toward centralized authority, there was push back, culminating in the Civil War, but even the pushback was more focused on maintaining slavery and regional disagreements about tax policy than a real desire for decentralization. Then the progressives shifted their goals from the laudable one of abolition to an ever increasing drive to use the central authority to perfect mankind in their desired mold. Marxism is just one more tribe of the broad swath of humanity who believe that everything will be perfect if only other people can be made to act as they ‘should.’
I just found this, though I’ve read around the edges of “the gossip trap” for a while.
I don’t think it’s his heart what’s warmed when he thinks of Congresswoman Mace. [sfx: rimshot]
I have to concur.
**Shudder**
She’d have to be substantially hotter to overcome her personality, and her crazy is off the charts.
Agree with Jarflax on this one. That’s one thin layer of makeup covering disaster.
“She’d have to be substantially hotter to overcome her personality, and her crazy is off the charts.”
So you looking to marry?
I’m looking for a peaceful life. She’s peak bunny boiler.
“I’m looking for a peaceful life. She’s peak bunny boiler.”
I like living a little more dangerous.
living a little more dangerous
Fucking with a live grenade?
Bunny boiler? No problem. If I get a shot at Mace I am gonna tell her my name is….uh….AlexinCT! Yeah, that’s the ticket!
“Fucking with a live grenade?”
Hey, I have always liked some crazy in life.
I haven’t seen much about this case other than a few short news reports. It is my understanding that Rep. Mace has only made these accusations from the well of the house. If so, she can’t be sued for libel as the speech is protected. I am not sure if she has made the accusations publicly.
So she is smarter than Rep. Kamlager-Dove* is what you are saying?
* https://dockets.justia.com/docket/new-jersey/njdce/2:2025cv02275/565250
Elections select for the electable. That’s their only relevant quality. Are you suggesting that our current crops isn’t the most electable people that money could buy?
It is clearly a “quantity”, not so much as quality.
*issue*
“Federal Bureaucrat Charged For Alleged Massive Food Stamp Fraud Scheme”
the claim people go into government to help others, by now should be completely debunked. You go into government, because like in the quote that you rob banks because the money is there, the money to steal – easily – is in government.
The sad thing is that for every one person we catch there are several thousands still getting away with it.
Anything that exposes theft, fraud, waste, and abuse is a good thing. Anything that reduces confidence in government is a good thing.
The sad thing is that for every one person we catch there are several thousands still getting away with it.
True, but this can also be turned to our advantage. Before this, ppl could fool themselves into thinking that government abuse was limited to people pilfering office supplies and paper products. This is the opening wedge.
“Anything that reduces confidence in government is a good thing.”
I think the root of all our problems today is the fact so many have come to believe government exists to solve their problems. Reality is that governments always, if left unchecked and punished, exist to serve the bureaucracy and personal agendas. No government entity has ever fixed a problem it was created for. It has always invented more of the problem. These government people tend to be life losers and want job security and free shit far beyond their value (see Marx/Engels and their crowd of losers), and care not a bit about solving problems.
Govt replaces god for a lot of people, because someone-somewhere must be responsible for taking care of us.
I consider it my job to take care of myself. The entity that makes that the hardest for me is government.
Yeah, Alex, that’s the standard here. We aren’t the standard out there.
bubble, bubble, toil and trouble…
Now why do you want to piss on my leg and tell me it is warm rain, JI?
Look I think this is a great little bubble we have here, and I get that we aren’t the normies in the greater population of this country (let alone the fucking world). What I don’t understand is why you, like a zealot, can’t deal with that.
Cause I see where we are heading for, and it looks fugly as shit. I would prefer my kid, and my future grand kids, not have to live in a world that fucking dysfunctional and on the brink of nightmarish disaster. And this comes from a guy that loves living dangerously.
You’re preaching to the choir here my friend.
“MIT President Shuts Down DEI Office as Trump Admin Investigates Alleged Racial Discrimination”
I would love to believe MIT is going back to its roots – doing real science using the scientific process – and hopefully to the detriment of the globalist cabal’s climate change agenda. But then I am reminded it is in Massachusetts, and immediately feel that we need to keep a closer eye on this promise.
I think hitting schools in the pocketbook is the right approach. If it survives leftist judges.
Just telling them to knock it off clearly isn’t going to work.
New evidence could blow open the Oklahoma City bombing case
Openness and transparency always good, assuming that what we get is actually true.
I wonder if we’ll get anything on the Las Vegas shooting from Director Patel.
The what now?
Director Patel. He’s supposedly the guy appointed to clean up the FBI, but I think he’s going native.
OK UCS, what exactly did you expect from Patel by THIS POINT IN TIME?
If there had been a mass shooting in Las Vegas I’m sure you would have heard of it.
@JI – More. I expected more.
How many months do you plan to give?
Don’t just be a whining bitch, what did you EXPECT by this point – specifically.
Furloughs, Reduction in Force and prosecutions of the most blatant criminality.
Now, answer the question, and stop being belligerant.
He’s dispersing the HQ staff to the field offices. You work in the FUCKING GOVT yourself – you expect that overnight?
Furloughs? For whom?
RIF? We’re probably getting that from the HQ people that won’t accept relocation.
Prosecution? That’s a question for the AG, not the FBI director.
I’ll give the guy many more months, even Trump’s full term if necessary, and judge him then, not now.
I know exactly how fast people can be shifted into a rubber room and locked away from where they can do damage. Call it a Furlough in office, mandate it’s done in office and permit them no external communications devices. Self-RIF begins in a week.
You can shut down a government office real fast. I’ve seen it done.
Well, Patel announced they had found cartons of hidden evidence in the Epstein case, but it couldn’t be released immediately because reasons, then announced they had looked at it and, well, nothing to see here, move along, citizen.
So, yeah, Patel is not exactly on my good list any more.
Sure and Epstein’s “list” was on Bondi’s desk. Still there I guess.
Or they were just playing the fools along who think there is something there, and turns out there isn’t. Such a disappointment. This is right along with the Vegas shooting – we can’t be satisfied without a story that fits our needs.
I would be satisfied with an unredacted release of what they have. The fact that they refuse to do that is why I am suspicious and disappointed.
UCS: I’d think those are people the union *wants* to be rid of.
Tonio what if there are no answers beyond what we know now? What if it just was a horrible random thing? What then?
At this point I don’t believe a thing the FBI has said in decades.
They colluded with Dems in a coup attempt, FFS.
Since it’s Vegas we’re talking about…2:1 says that the Vegas mass murder was covered up because the shooter hated Republicans and attacked a country music concert because there would be a lot of Republicans there. Nothing more.
The problem is when you ask questions that have no answers, all you are really doing is setting up for what you imagine. Then when no answer comes, you provide one yourself, as ES does here.
So rhy, if the FBI told you a new story about Vegas – why would you believe it?
“if the FBI told you a new story about Vegas – why would you believe it?”
Concur.
Sadly, we have reached a point that things are so batshit crazy, that no amount of evidence will be sufficient to change people’s core convictions and conspiracy theories. And it is all because the real evil shit going on so far outclasses the worst ever imagined scenarios of evil shit.
It would have to come with real evidence. Not just their say-so and a bunch of completely redacted documents.
So yes, the likelihood of me believing anything they say is still very low.
It would have to come with real evidence.
As if that couldn’t be faked, particularly with all of the time they’ve had.
This is my point. When they’ve blown their credibility completely, you can’t ever expect to believe them again. That said, we aren’t going to go without unless Congress repeals every law that underpins the federal police power (that the Constitution never granted to Congress). Good fucking luck.
*Happily cruising along reading about some cool modular synths, listening to some cool shit, and BAM!!! Smacked in the face by stupidity writ large….
“Bad ties” = was at a music festival that received money from the Russian state.
The comments are even dumber. I just….
Fuck.
Do they use organic cruelty free capacitors in their construction?
That was my response in the thread. It appears to have been deleted, but it was along the lines of, “And what about the modules made by the most politically pure manufacturer in the world being filled with parts made by Chinese child/slave labor?”
That’s different. Only tenuous ties to Russia or Israel, no matter how flimsy, may apply.
The entire idea is a mockery. Using the absolute weakest, and likely bullshit, ties between entities in order to perform your daily 2 minute hate is fucking retarded. Nothing can survive that level of scrutiny. Everything is tied to something dirty if you dig deep enough.
If anyone knows of a passive component manufacturer not connected to Red China, or the Congo, I’d love to know.
passive component manufacturer?
“We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.”
I’ll stick with the blood cobalt and slave silicon, thanks.
Michael Kehoe, who allegedly oversaw the network, worked with co-conspiritors Mohamad Nawafleh, Omar Alrawashdeh, Gamal Obaid and Emad Alrawashdeh
Immigrants doing the jobs that Americans don’t want to do, but it’s nice to see a native running the whole thing (assuming he’s not a Paddy straight off the boat)
Their cousins in Minnesota showed them the ropes.
msnbc and cnn, who is propping that up? They are propaganda outfits….I assumed their cheddar came from USAID. Has it actually been shut down? If it has then someone is funding the bullshitters so who? It is gonna be some NGO laundering taxpayer money. Which one and who?
This is another one of those easily discoverable inconvenient facts that no one seems curious about.
Speaking of which, open all of the files and evidence on the OKC bombing. All of it.
As I recall another one of those interesting details that got memory holed was a justice department official admitting that Bill Clinton personally signed off on the Waco assault, as did Janet Reno. Reno went to Clinton, told him the situation and he OK’d the tactics they used. All of that “We didnt know until after the fact” was a lie. Then there was Ruby Ridge. The FBI was up to their neck in that as well. One would be tempted to think the greatest danger of terrorism in the US is the FBI.
Has it actually been shut down?
No, the grift is just going to get spread around a little differently. Remember yesterday’s discussion about Congress implementing ~$9B of DOGE cuts? Even if all of that came from USAID, there’d still be $30B+ to squander.
OKC is a rough one for me. It’s incredibly difficult to justify murder, even if I were to agree 100% with the motivations behind it. I want to see the evidence they have. But it doesn’t matter how bad it might look for the USG in regards to Waco or RR, which were both clearly massive FBI fuckups; blowing up a building can’t be the response.
As P.J. O’rourke put it “IRS, 3 am”
*Andrew Stack agrees from the other side.*
Look, just because the FBI seeded these operations and help them grow and pusbed the plots, doesn’t make them responsible. See also, the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot.
who is propping that up?
Big pharma?
I’m all in favor of releasing whatever they got, but the linked article is filled with more “might” and “could” than any right thinking person should be comfortable with.
From the Gang Wars mpovie thread talking about the sex hookup/home invasion:
Being and old and married man, what is a “luxury dating app”?
A way for grifters to find marks.
I’ll be in Cleveland tomorrow afternoon to get a car.
If you and any other area Glibs would be interested in a 2 or 3 ‘o’clock lunch email me at ronhatsu at yahoo dot com.
What is a “luxury dating app”?
Tinder Premium. You get a blew check-mark, and possibly get to live out a rape fantasy?
I’m not sure whether to envy Mark from Bohemia or be afraid for him.
Some mighty fine police work though.
Not sure if sarcasm.
Detectives doing their job, resulting in apprehension along with evidence.
*points to avatar*
Okay. I thought so, but given this audience, I had doubts.
And agreed, this is the sort of thing I expect them to do.
“Mace accused her ex-fiancé and three other men in February of physical abuse and recording sex acts with her”
In a row?
““She programs her own bots. She sets up Twitter burner accounts. This is the kind of thing she does. She sits all night on the couch and programs bots, because she’s very, very computer-savvy. She controls her own voter database, she programs a lot of her own website, she programs Facebook bots and Instagram bots and Twitter bots. It’s what she does for fun,” Donehue said.”
WTF?
The kind of thing that normal, well adjusted people do for fun.
At this point the former story sounds more like real people than the claim she is the bot-master.
That it’s four different guys makes me think the problem isn’t them.
Daily Ray of Nightmare Fuel
Ugh, too meta….
Try this: https://radiologykey.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/A330004_1_En_9_Fig4_HTML.gif
And this: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fuv8zs5rcmvr91.jpg
What is that?
Fetal MRI. Some of the other images out there are more terrifying.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fuv8zs5rcmvr91.jpg
The mistake of referring back to the post and calling it “Daily Nightmare Fuel” was actually pretty funny.
Would have worked better on the Wednesday noon post.
Electric razor? I can’t tell…
PSA – if you want to try anal stimulation, Amazon has a whole category of safe and healthy toys at a variety of price ranges, delivered to your doorstep in plain packaging, overnight if you have Prime…
overnight if you have Prime…
Who’s got that much time? We’re in a hurry here!
I must be old or this is more predominate on the crazy coast.
‘Welcome In.’ The Two-Word Greeting That’s Taking Over and Driving Shoppers Nuts.
https://www.wsj.com/business/welcome-in-the-two-word-greeting-thats-taking-over-and-driving-shoppers-nuts-8443421f?st=wTrrUm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Wait, since when do retail employees greet random customers?
They do at Walmart.
I’m no WalMart regular, just a few times a year. The ‘Greeters’ don’t greet me. I prefer it that way.
I don’t get it… I’ve heard “welcome in” all my life. It was never popular, but proprietors would say it and I hardly even noticed. Why is it a big deal now?
Clicks. Must get clicks!
I’ve never heard it and it would definitely give me pause.
So maybe it’s regional?
Has to be regional or fake. I’ve never heard it either.
I’ve never heard it.
The places I am a regular, its usually some variation of “We’re keeping an eye on you” or “We have cameras everywhere”.
Why is this a story?
I am more irritated by all the cutesy uses of nouns as verbs I hear in commercials..
Cascade: “Dare to dish differently.”
Google: “Switch to a new way to laptop.”
Hyundai: “A car for however you family”
Adulting, another stupid word.
One 20 something girl couldn’t remember the safe combination and said, “my brain is not braining”.
If you’ll excuse me, I seem to have dropped my onion from my belt.
Yep, I find that annoying, too. Anybody who uses “adulting” unironically should be flogged with last night’s spaghetti.
Read more books, people! It expands your vocabulary so you don’t sound like a 5 year old.
Ha, that is English.
Don’t like it, move.
Ask your wife how she feel about “baito keigo”!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baito_keigo
As you know Japanese has s**t ton of honorific forms and special words. It confuses even native speakers. As a result in service industries, especially lower end retail and dining, there are shorthand forms that are now commonly used. It drives purists nuts.
Idiocracy is real. It is no longer a comedy.
Ask your wife how she feel about “baito keigo”!
I asked her, and she said “do whatever you want to me, but no butt stuff, no handcuffs, and I’m going to sleep at 10:00 sharp.”
Baito Miyo.
January 25, 1993
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
Ted – you know who else used “baito”?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
Borrowed from German Arbeit (“work, job”).
One 20 something girl
Depends on cuteness level as to whether that is forgivable or not.
I asked her, …
Har!
Do you want Pie wandering around a Walmart? This is how you get Pie wandering around a Walmart.
I would love to see his reaction to seeing the inside of a walmart in person.
“”Simply Report is a brand-new, first of its kind, AI-powered multichannel platform that really lets everyday Americans report suspected human trafficking,” Brittany Dunn, co-founder of the Safe House Project, said Wednesday on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “They can do it anonymously and in real time.”
…
“You don’t have to be an expert to recognize trafficking,” Dunn said. “You just need to trust your instincts. If something feels off, it probably is. Trafficking situations often present maybe as a person who seems fearful or anxious or unable to speak freely. It might be someone who avoids eye contact or shows signs of abuse. We also see it with individuals who don’t know where they are or can’t provide personally identifiable information.””
https://justthenews.com/events/nonprofit-group-launches-app-allows-americans-report-incidents-human-trafficking
What could possibly go wrong?
Now, with more anonymity!
[ reports every federal district court judge ]
Wait. Both are terrible. Full stop. But how is it that MSNBC has HIGHER ratings than CNN? I mean, they’re both awful, but the network of Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow has better rating than CNN?
Jesus Christ, CNN must be just….
The airports have changed the channel?
I suspect that MSNBC has cornered the delusional radical market.
CNN is just kind of boring in comparison.
This seems plausible. That CNN formerly hosted semi-reasonable people, many of whom have stopped watched CNN. Meanwhile MSNBC represents the fringe left and so gets the overwhelming majority of that demographic.
I suspect that MSNBC has cornered the delusional radical market.
*eyes MIL*
I suspect you are correct.
MSNBC has fully embraced their role as the mouthpiece of the woke. CNN pretends to be centrist, albeit a hard leftist vision of centrism. That means that to the right and actual center CNN looks hard left, but to the actual hard left CNN looks center right, and leaves them without a core audience.
If you look at the target demographics number, CNN actually surpasses MSNBC.
MSNBC is cornering the “old whack-a-doodle” market.
“As Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) wryly observed earlier this year, “Sounds to me like we need to get some new conspiracy theories, because all the old ones turned out to be true.””
LOL
Yup..
““This one was a very interesting one,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says. “It was a male undercover journalist who somehow was able to seduce, or otherwise convince, David Hogg.””
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/david-hogg-reveals-biden-secret-master-to-project-veritas
David Hogg pees sitting down.
I thought that is how you showed your allegiance with the woke crowd?
Seems everyone is grumpy this morning, not just me.
Well, I am off to do the thing I hate most…leaving the house. Shit. I hate going to town.
Yeah, I had three hours of sleep, so I’m not my most chipper.
Sorry about that.
At least when you get back from town you’ll appreciate home more.
[ tries to imagine a chipper UCS ]
:-p
Ted, I am a night Owl who has been stuck getting up predawn to avoid a worse commute for 17 years.
I am much cheerier later in the day and when I’ve gotten sleep.
I’m fucking downright angry. I don’t sleep good as it is. I got about 3 hours before a tornado alarm at 7 fucking 30 in the morning woke me up for the day.
Fun times are coming!
Ben & Jerry’s Calls Gaza Conflict a Genocide, Putting Unilever in a Tough Spot
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/ben-jerry-israel-gaza-genocide-eeb21acc?st=6gxntw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Since I’m at work I can’t suggest some limited time flavors of ice cream. I’ll leave that to those that can.
Unilever: “Layoffs begin this week.”
I am fairly certain Unilever warned them already. Unilever owns it, they should just strip their names off.
I assume it makes Unilever money, lest they would have already canned it. But this is a good time to remind people like the B&J fuckwits just what property rights means.
And a good reminder to me not to buy that product.
“Fun-employ-Mint” available only of Free Ice Cream day.
For those who have access and haven’t tried it Stewart’s “Campfire Smores” is excellent. The base literally tastes of roasted marshmallow. I assume it’s vanilla, caramel flavoring and a tich of liquid smoke. Unless you can get sugar burned to the point it also gives you the smoke flavor.
And they sell actual half-gallons.
You can. One of the local breweries (now defunct) did a holiday churro brown ale where the head brewer caramelized brown sugar over the burner to add some smoke and caramel notes. They’ve still got the restaurants, I should see if they’d be willing the share the recipe at this point…
Oh, and I think you may either be appalled or intrigued by the cocktail in the afternoon links.
Really, they need to launch a new range of Juden-Freeze flavors.
Belsen Berry Blast and Auschwitz Orange coming soon to a University near Jews!
“Arkansas kindergarten graduation devolves into wild brawl between parents as children scream ‘stop!’”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/30/us-news/arkansas-kindergarten-graduation-devolves-into-brawl-as-children-scream-for-parents-to-stop/
CWABOA
Am I a bad person for assuming the demographic of the fighters?
No.
My assumption was incorrect when I watched the video however.
**Sheepishly joins Ted in the bad person penalty box**
Were you wrong with your assumption?
I wasn’t
Arkansas? I assumed pillbillies or methnecks.
West Memphis
I had the same assumption, Mr Ilium, because when I was in Arkansas, that was the part of the state I saw.
Texarkana was the first time I tool one look at a hotel and went “Fuck this, I’ll drive four more hours and pay $90 to Not stay here” That kinda cemented my view of the state.
People were dissed, weaves were pulled.
Here’s what I’ll say….
Mine just graduated from local ritzy private school. Shit is older than the flagship state university, and costs about as much (though they have an outstanding financial aid program). As my mom would have put it, it’s the school where the kids of all the local Doctors, Lawyers, and Indian Chiefs go.
Even there the stereotype holds true.
The other day I wrote some small screed about culture in the Glib comments, and your statement holds true. The prime example is that my town is pretty diverse, and we also pay a crapton towards the schools in the form of property taxes. The demographics of local high school where we live and where my wife went to during the early 2000’s were 70 percent Black and 20 percent of Asians and Whites. Guess who were in most of the honors and AP classes when my wife went there? Some of the Black students but it was mostly White and Asian students in those classes.
The school district thought that they were practicing some form of racism but in reality, black culture (with some exceptions of course) doesn’t really focus on performing well in academics and achievement because that is seen as acting white. But oddly enough I see that going on in the so-called red neck community so it’s not color, it’s more about class than anything else.
it’s more about class than anything else
+1 Thomas Sowell
^^^^WHAT HE SAID^^^^
The crab bucket effect is common in any group that is demoralized. Achievement by one individual is seen as a rebuke to the rest and inspires resentment and resistance. The great society programs are designed to demoralize people. They changed poverty from a lack of money into a culture of dependence. The lack of money was less harmful.
But oddly enough I see that going on in the so-called red neck community so it’s not color, it’s more about class than anything else.
As Sowell points out in Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the southern black culture and the white redneck culture are two branches off the same Scots-Irish tree.
Some of his descriptions of northern black “racism” against southern blacks during the great migration still stick with me almost a decade later.
trshmnstr:
When I was a teenager and working in fast food, one of my coworkers was a lovely young black Jamaican girl. This happened to be around the time of the push from black to African-American. She had some very, very, strong opinions about it, and would routinely correct anyone who called her African-American.
Mr. Ilium – How many other jobs did she have?
Kindergarten graduation ceremonies are ridiculous unless you don’t expect the children to get through elementary/middle school/junior high or wherever the next transition point is in the school system. 🙄
Agreed. It’s as if you’re admitting “Yeah, they’re a bunch of useless gonna be drop outs.”
Participation trophy and the self esteem bullshit that has created a public so fragile that they think words hurt more than a kick to the face.
Agreed.
It’s the “inclusiveness” crusade. Gotta make everyone feel included. God forbid you allow HS students to graduate without telling kindergartners how special and important they are to have played with toys and perhaps learned to write their name over the course of a year.
Same with 8th grade “graduation.” At my kids’ school they call it a “moving up” ceremony, which is still weird, but there is at least the awareness that finishing the 8th grade isn’t really an accomplishment. It was more a transition ceremony between the middle and upper schools, and not some “you’ve accomplished something wonderful” sort of thing.
Participation trophy and the self esteem bullshit that has created a public so fragile that….
People haven’t fully reckoned with how much damage this has caused. Arrested development has become the norm, and while it’s bad enough of an issue in these relatively quiet times, a downturn will expose the depth of the rot.
When we finished 5th grade, we had an end of the year picnic at the park and both of the fifth-grade teachers, our parents, and soon to be junior high teachers (whose classrooms where on the 2nd floor) joined us. That was it. This was in 1996 though, so times have definitely changed.
At least they have a “zero tolerance” policy for this type of thing.
https://people.com/sydney-sweeney-and-dr-squatch-release-soap-made-from-her-bathwater-11744522
“Sydney Sweeney has partnered with Dr. Squatch to create a limited-edition soap called “Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss,” made from her actual bathwater. Only 5,000 bars will be available for sale starting June 6, 2025, and the product has received mixed reactions from fans.”
GQ interview: https://archive.is/Q7xYo
At least it’s not just her bathwater like Belle Daphine.
A thought I had in the shower this morning:
Government has displaced religion by being more competitively successful in the free market of ideas, by providing a superior product (the distribution, arbitration and enforcement of moral philosophy) at a lower price.
Like it or not, natural selection rules all.
Government has replaced religion by peddling the lie that it can deliver heaven on earth. Something the people behind religion never would have claimed because it was outright bullshit. It is not accidental that marxism appeals to the many. Sadly they believe the promise government is making them is that it will raise them up t the level of the rich. What they always get is a race to the bottom for anyone other than the tipity-top. People seem unable to grasp that government creates a class of people that feels compelled and obligated to never be part of the serf class. Cause they know what they opine of the serf class and what they have done, have done, and want to do to the serf class. Think of how a bull services a cow.
Ummm… quite a few sects do sell that.
Did Xenu make you say that? 🙂
From what I understand, the religious sects that say heaven will come to earth, believe that happens after some apocalyptic even that wipes out everyone but them.
I don’t see a whole lot of difference between promising heaven on earth and promising heaven in heaven. It’s just different wasy of never having to make good on your promises.
I’d dispute the lower price point, taxes are higher than the tithe. I would say with more convenience and less effort.
Butters showed us the way.
Not sure where the lower price comes in.
Spectacular! I’m trying to figure out what the hell the poster could have done differently and coming up blank He or she stopped as soon as the idiot came into view.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1ky0j1y/oc_masshole_drivers_at_its_finest/
Idiots out of cars get hit by their own car.
The end of civilization will come at the hand of women.. Stupid women.
“Hundreds of women in the US are suing pharmaceutical giant Pfizer over claims its popular birth-control injection left them with ‘life-altering’ brain tumors.
Each year, around 2 million women are prescribed the contraceptive shot, called Depo-Provera, which many are drawn to for its convenience.
It is injected into the arm or buttocks only once every three months, delivering a synthetic hormone that prevents pregnancies and removes the need for daily pills or invasive treatments.
But research suggests the shot comes with a more than 500-percent increased risk of developing brain tumors that can lead to frightening blindness, seizures and memory loss, even years after users stop taking the medication.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14178505/pfizer-birth-control-brain-tumor.html
yikes!
Huh. One of the biggest shows I ever worked, was Lisa Loeb doing a college tour to promote Depo-Provera. Or something like that.
Medical advice from someone who wears fake eyeglasses?
Did she tell nine stories?
500% of how big of a number?
They didn’t get liability immunity for it? Tsk tsk.
“And Just Like That fans stunned by Miranda’s lesbian sex scene with virgin nun played by Rosie O’Donnell”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tv/article-14763335/And-Just-Like-fans-stunned-Miranda-lesbian-sex-scene-Rosie-ODonnell.html
No.
If ratings have not yet hit rock bottom, they will.
Rosie O’Donnel/Roseanne Barr political hatefuck slashfic.
Damn NA that’s worse than anything Lovecraft could dream up.
[ SugarFree has entered the chat ]
SF can just pull up one of his old Huma/Hillary interactions and do a find and replace.
Skin will crawl, gorges will rise, and boners will happen, because rule 34 is true.
Good lord.
The New York Times makes you solve a puzzle, then still won’t show you the article.
“On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known….
As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.
Mr. Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.
It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and garbling his answers in a staged interview…..”
https://archive.is/stjdJ
Long hit piece that adds up to nothing.
If Musk doesn’t suffer from ADHD and likely bipolar disorder, I’ll eat my favorite hat. With that in mind, his taking a bunch of pills isn’t even all that abnormal.
Now do Hunter Biden.
JFC what a pile of nothing.
The puzzle is “Why the hell am I trying to read the New York Times?”
I like puzzles, and am generally good at them, but this one has me stumped.
Some puzzles have no solution.
Heroic
An employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency is accused of attempting to share classified material with a foreign government out of frustration with President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said Thursday.
Nathan Villas Laatsch, who worked in IT for the military intelligence service, offered to share classified material with an unspecified “friendly foreign government,” according to court documents and an announcement by the DOJ.
“The recent actions of the current administration are extremely disturbing to me,” he said in the email, according to an FBI affidavit filed with the court. “I do not agree or align with the values of this administration and intend to act to support the values that the United States at one time stood for.”
He did it for Biden.
During my brief flirtation with government service, I seem to to recall that I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It didn’t say a single fucking word about agreeing with the administration…
I imagine his reply would be that he is defending the Constitution….against Trump.
Wonder if that friendly foreign government is the one with the capital in Jerusalem?
This asshat is a hardcore leftist from what his profile. That sort hates that country you allude to because it is not a loser. I am gonna bet it is the UK, Canada, or some other Euro trash.
There are a few things that make me think Israel is an unlikely culprit (for once) – namely, an obvious TDS-infected lefty asking for citizenship in a genocidal apartheid religious ethno-state.
It’s probably Canada.
Unlikely, given Trump’s shift in their favor. I’m guessing the Brits.
Of. Course.
The first thing they teach you in spy school is, “Go after the opposition CI people.” This has been true since Ames at least.
“Police say White may have encountered the suspects while they were attempting to steal his vehicle, a Kia Soul. Officers responding to the scene noted that the car’s window had been shattered and there were signs of a struggle inside, including what appeared to be blood from a cut.
Detective Jason Jones, the lead investigator in the case, said the suspects had used a black Kia Soul that had been reported stolen from Kyle, Texas. That vehicle was later found abandoned in South Austin on March 10. Jones said investigators reviewed surveillance video and discovered the suspects had arrived at the scene in a different stolen vehicle—a silver Kia Soul.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/4th-austin-area-teen-arrested-in-killing-of-infowars-employee-jamie-white
????
“Kia Souls are a common target of vehicle theft because the lower trim levels sold in the U.S. don’t have an immobilizer and are very easy to start without a key.”
Were the culprits all hamsters?
Left out
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) has filed a federal lawsuit against the White House over a lack of American Sign Language interpreters at media briefings.
The NAD says the White House abruptly stopped providing ASL interpreters during press briefings and other public events when President Trump returned to office for a second term.
The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, asks the court to require ASL interpreters be present at these events and that video of them be available for viewers.
If you’re not suing Trump, you’re nobody.
Closed captioning, of course, was lost in the great Net Neutrality massacre.
Closed captioning isn’t a sinecure for sign language specialists.
Do we need them now that there is captioning?
One could just as easily argue that translation must be provided in hundreds of different languages.
Not to give them ideas.
I haven’t been a fan of Binance since she was in Destiny’s Child.
If you haven’t watched the movie “Bowanga Bowanga” you’ve missed out on a an important piece of cinema history.
“The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that a Christian-owned Korean female-only nude spa must permit trans-identifying males into the facility, upholding a 2023 Seattle lower court decision.
Olympus Spa, with two locations in Washington state, was found to have discriminated against a trans-identifying male with fully intact male genitalia after it prohibited him from using the women’s facility that requires patrons to be nude, a policy that has been in place since its inception. The three-judge panel ruled against the spa 2-1.
In 2020, the state’s Human Rights Commission (WSHRC) filed a complaint after Haven Wilvich was denied entry to the spa, citing violations of the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD) that prohibits discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation. The spa then sued the WSHRC on First Amendment violations, arguing that the state’s policy violated its constitutional rights to freedom of religion, speech, and right of association, according to the suit….
Judge McKewon compared the spa’s discrimination in previous arguments to racism during the civil rights era, stating that the spa prohibiting trans-identifying males from the facility would be akin to white people banning black people from establishments. She stated, “It’s not really ‘biological women are welcome.’ It means non-biological women are not welcome.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/korean-christian-womens-only-nude-spa-must-allow-non-biological-women-to-bathe-naked-with-girls-as-young-as-13-federal-court
Haven Wilvich claims he is “non-binary”. So he’s not even trans, much less a ‘non-biological women’, and should be shot from the roof.
Also, their spa, their rules. They should be able to prohibit non-Koreans if they want.
This stuff won’t stop until somebody castrates these men.
From all evidence available, that hasn’t stopped em either.
The ninth circus is at it again.
They are going to eff around and crate a huge backlash against the trans community that won’t be peaceful.
Have started wondering if this might not be by design. I mean, if you really really wanted to make everyone hate your ass, what would these losers do differently?
Conquest and generating backlash are indistinguishable goals to me. The only difference is in the final result.
Sadly, these people aren’t even trans. The HRC was a gay organization that moved onto pushing trans stuff after same sex marriage was legalized.
Yeah, I would like to think there would be even more backlash against the “non-binary” nonsense but I suspect that the vast majority of people have no idea what that is even supposed to mean – they just think it’s another “sexuality” that must be protected.
That’s not at all insulting, or a steaming pile of horseshit.
Fondle my balls, bigot.
So, Bongino setting up another big nothing? The classic tactic here is a Friday afternoon news dump, even better if preceding a 3 day weekend. That’s if you want it ignored. I guess if something real drops on Monday, we might have a story.
“A former Texas student has been accused of fabricating a mass shooting during a speech advocating for stricter gun control measures at the Kentucky State Capitol earlier this year. Calvin Polacheck delivered a harrowing account of surviving a 2017 active shooter situation at Dallas High School that killed his brother, best friend, and nine others; however, authorities said it never happened and shamed Polacheck for his false claims.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/gun-control-activist-fabricates-story-of-surviving-dallas-high-school-shooting-that-never-happened
CWAA
He should blame AI for creating that speech.
How low do you have to be to want David Hogg’s life?
I don’t care for David Hogg one little bit, but I don’t really want him dead, either.
The horror of ethnic nationalism!!!
Now do Gaza.
The Huffington Post still exists? I remember when they moved everything about Trump from politics to the entertainment section because there was no way he could win the nomination.
Sure, Jan. 🙄
“Remigration is an immigration policy embraced by extremists that calls for the removal of all migrants—including ‘non-assimilated’ citizens—with the goal of creating white ethnostates in Western countries,”
Abe Lincoln never dreamed he’d be referred to as an “extremist”.
Never enough
Indeed, the Seven County case itself is a poster child for just how burdensome NEPA can be. The Surface Transportation Board produced an environmental impact statement that is more than 3,600 pages, and it goes into great detail about the rail line’s potential impact on topics ranging from water quality to vulnerable species, such as the greater sage-grouse.
Nevertheless, a federal appeals court blocked the project because it determined that this 3,600-page report did not adequately discuss the environmental impacts of making it easier to extract oil from the Uinta Basin. The appeals court reasoned that the agency needed to consider not just the direct environmental impacts of the rail line itself but also the impact of increased drilling and oil refining after the project is complete.
That railroad might kill a butterfly whose flapping wings are essential to the survival of the planet.
“And we hate that.”
Both Kavanaugh and the separate opinion by Sotomayor also point to the fact that “the Board here possesses no regulatory authority over those separate projects.” That is, while the transportation board is tasked with approving rail lines, other agencies are in charge of regulating projects, such as oil wells or refineries.
As Sotomayor writes, an agency is not required to consider environmental harms that it has “no authority to prevent.”
But these horrific crimes against the planet must be stopped, by hook or by crook.
At least even the dumb ones on the bench saw through this bullshittery.
8-0 is a resounding defeat. Of course the watermelons will cry about how Kentanji Brown Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor are all in the pocket of big oil, or some other stupidity, but this is a good decision.
“Comedy legends Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence’s kids have tied the knot.
The “Beverly Hills Cop” big shot dropped the family news while stopping by “The Jennifer Hudson Show” on Thursday, where he announced that his son Eric Murphy and Lawrence’s daughter Jasmin Page Lawrence are now man and wife.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eddie-murphy-martin-lawrence-children-married_n_68389a3be4b06202aa91839b
Surely the hook is that both kids are trans.
I wonder if Will Smith’s kid will slap them?