Well, we had a little excitement at normally-quiet Glibs Gulch. See that car on fire? That’s WebDom’s car. Or was WebDom’s car. And driven by 10b0t, who lost about an inch of his beard to singeing. He was on his way to my house to drop the car off, with WebDom and The Youngest Glib following in a car behind. 10b0t recounted, “I heard her behind me honking furiously and was trying to figure out why. Then I saw flames coming out from under the hood and thought it might be prudent to pull over and exit the vehicle.” No-one was damaged beyond his beard and dignity, and currently there are negotiations with the insurance company. For the car, not the dignity, the latter of which, though totaled, has zero cash value.
Oh, and lest we forget in all of the excitement, there are birthdays today including a guy allergic to bright sunny weather; a guy who really was a splitter; a guy who knew what to do with communists; a guy who showed that you could be successful just flinging shit around; the weaker half of the Muppets; one more of my fantasies as a youth (god, those lips!); a guy whom Team Red could have actually won with; one of the more horrible people in Team Blue; a decent comic actor AND a psycho murderer; and a woman clearly on the hot-crazy axis.
And crazy might describe the Links.
At least this didn’t happen to me at the crossing this week.
“Complicated.” Jesus fucking christ.
It may be stupid (it is), but states have the right to be stupid.
After this exciting week, The Old Guy is in the mood for Sierra Hull doing her usual light-speed and tuneful playing.
That’s a hot take on this fiery situation.
But really, glad everyone was alright.
^^
Ditto… external combustion engines are not a good thing — glad it wasn’t worse.
+1
Although I’ve been repeatedly told here on EVs catch on fire…
What do you have against steam engines?
But, seriously, glad everyone is OK.
“What do you have against steam engines?”
I dunno, nothing really comes to mind…
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4IrN9MTj5YI/maxresdefault.jpg
Jay Leno would also like a word.
Disinformation. That picture looks sunny and warm. I have it on good tuber authority that the Alfred region of the country is under a continuous cloud of precipitation and arctic conditions. Coupled with said tubers association with fire and the like, I sense a deep conspiracy at work here. I just need a couple more lengths of string to connect it all up.
But glad everyone, with the exception of the vehicle, is A-OK.
What I’m not seeing is a reason for the fire. Who was trying to Kill L0b0t?
“Sometimes cars just catch fire. Natural causes.”
Subaru gone homicidal? 😳 ::looks askance at vehicles in driveway::
Glad everyone’s OK and hope the insurance company is cooperative and reasonable!
Happy birthday Paul Bunyan?
Happy birthday Rafał Gan-Ganowicz?
Happy birthday Max Hardcore?
I was thinking GG Allen.
MTG is certainly a high energy individual.
The only thing surprising in that story is that the “polyamorous sex guru” pictured was interested in her instead of say… Tonio.
And they say the Jews are greedy…
Projection… seems a common pattern, frankly… especially for major sins.
We get excited when we hear “Free Gaza!”
Right up there with “Jesus saves — he has a great interest rate on his accounts!”
Happy Birthday, Pie! This is what… 548? Getting near the big 500 and 5-0!
To be fair, it’s complicated for race grifters to try to spin into a hero’s story.
He held a pistol to a pregnant woman’s belly during a robbery does not equal complicated. The cops botched it with him but he wasn’t a hero, that’s for sure-not even a nice guy.
If they picked sympathetic cases it would be useless for sowing division, which is why you only saw Tamir Rice on TV for about 10 minutes a decade ago and not once since, for example.
Not sure what the cops could have done while he was dying of an overdose – other than not make it look like they had anything to do with it.
Narcan
That whole article made me want to vomit. And I think it’s all bullshit. I have never heard of anyone viewing Floyd as a “mentor” during his life. Being the old black guy who can tell you you’ll get 5-25 if you do that isn’t a mentor, either.
A “friend” who would probably only speak to this delusional white reporter if they threw this into the article as free publicity.
Now, now, I am sure he guided the younglings to the best dealers, and gave sage advice about robberies going more smoothly if you hold the gun to a pregnant woman’s belly
ALLEGEDLY
No mention of the fentanyl in saint Floyd, mentor to troubled youths.
Obviously the store employees were racists and called the police knowing they would rid them of this annoying black man.
You all are playing to type!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
https://archive.fo/7bCBv
Yea, it was Republicans taking to the streets in the name of Saint Floyd.
Clyde McGrady covers race from Washington, D.C.
But not in Southeast DC I bet.
And cities across America are still struggling with depleted forces because who wants to be a cop when you can be railroaded for doing your fucking job.
I’m not reading that steaming pile of shit but I wonder if there is any mention of what became of those fucking commie grifters.
Lmfao. After losing to Trump twice in no small part because the middle class is tired of being lectured about what lazy pieces of shit they are and how much better everyone else in the world is, let’s definitely double down on foreign Ivy League grads being being indispensable to the American economy. I mean, come on, who doesn’t love Ivy League graduates right now?
Don’t forget while displaying the most stunning level of overall incompetence across government and private sectors humanity has seen for some time. I think we plebians wouldn’t mind as much if they were the wunderkind they purport to be, goading us to rise to their level. But when Jimmy the Ditch Digger looks like he might have a better overall sense of the world… that’s a hard, hard sell.
Listen sinner, you better repent, or the Lord will strike down on thee with great vengeance!
It isn’t the foreign students who are even being “banned.” It’s a restriction on Harvard’s ability to admit them. They can still come and study at some Ivy League shit hole and build connections with other wealthy elites which is the real reason they come here.
And this isn’t even some new thing. Colleges that admit foreign students are basically in the visa issuance business, and have always had to comply with some pretty strict rules about it.
And this all came about because Harvard was ignoring those rules and refusing to comply when asked. Because they literally think they are above all that.
“It may be stupid”
If Cali wants to make personally owned transportation unaffordable for the masses that’s their business (sort of) but as goes California so goes the rest of the country.
Hmm, South Park episode on the smug ring any bells?
This is one of the few areas where you might be able to make a legitimate case for the interstate commerce clause. While I’d say a ban on the manufacture of ICE vehicles in the state would probably withstand scrutiny, a ban on the mere sale of ICE vehicles manufactured elsewhere might not pass muster.
They wouldn’t ban the sale — they’d just refuse to issue registration and disallow insurance. And probably raise the tax rate of such a sale to 100 percent or something. But you can do it all you want….
True, they could work around that with allowable state regs, but if the article is accurate that they’ve banned the sale of new ICE vehicles, that particular one might not be a winner.
have the right to be stupid
But apparently they don’t. Otherwise, why would California require an exemption issued by the previous administration? Seems they don’t have the right without special permission. Whether whatever waiver is needed from the Feds is legitimate in a purist sense is somewhat irrelevant – when the waivers/rachets only ever go one direction, you are not going to end up with people sticking hard to principles in the long run.
4D Chess argument – Newsome just saw whatever little chance he had of becoming president get flushed down the toilet.
He’s spent the last 6 months trying to rehabilitate his image and move to the middle, and know he’s banning internal combustion engines. Vance would shove that up his ass so hard he’d never walk right again.
That’s gotta burn. It is the job he has been raised to do from birth.
I wonder if “Gaza doctor” is related to “Maryland dad”
Doctor, gun runner, propagandist, human shield. True renaissance man
From the first sentence
– “the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says.”
The Gaza doctor might not be a dad.
I meant in the sense of media framing: “Maryland dad”
“You’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training.”
Prior to the Trump administration under Team Blue federal law enforcement agencies of all kinds never mistakenly arrested anyone.
Out of sight, out of mind is a prime journalistic standard.
It’s the Guardian so I literally don’t believe any of that.
he dreamed of being a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
I dreamed of being a knight and slaying dragons and prior to reading this I thought that was an unrealistic dream, but now I know what a truly unrealistic dream looks like.
When I was in second grade I wanted to be a fighter pilot, a professional football player, and an arena playing guitarist like Jimmy Page and all in quick succession. Childhood pipe dreams have little relevance in this discussion.
Well, to be fair he did spend much of his adult life involved with the court system.
Also to be fair, if there was ever a time when “pipe dream” was an appropriate metaphor…
Written as a school assignment after a Black History Month lesson about Thurgood Marshall (with no mention, of course, of Clarence Thomas.)
Clarence Thomas has as of yet failed to submit any evidence that he voted for Joe Biden in 2020, so it’s still an open question whether he is, in fact, black.
– “California first announced a plan in 2020 to require that by 2035 at least 80 percent of new cars sold be electric and up to 20 percent plug-in hybrid models.”
So, if I’m reading this correctly (I may not be reading this correctly), 1% of new vehicles sold being plug-in hybrid models would be good. But what happens if 21% of new vehicles sold are plug-in hybrid models?
The public utilities shift all the wind generated power to keep the Silicon Valley data farms alive while the rest of the state has to read their Kindle by candle light?
Yeah I will LMFAO when reality hits back. We will finally see if the voters value fart-sniffing more than living in a third-world shithole.
😂 …Voters… 🤣
This state’s power grid is incapable of powering Newsom’s delusion. We are screwed if the feds don’t stop this idiocy.
They pull the plug
How that is ever construed as a valid use of the police power, short of understanding that power in the context of a police state fucking baffles me.
Russian attack in Ukraine kills 12 as Zelensky condemns ‘silence of America’
https://archive.fo/fka7H
Is this what happens when you shut down the Voice of America?
No right to information at public libraries, 5th Circuit rules
Wait a goddamn minute, you’re telling me libraries curate the content? How long has this been happening? I could have sworn I took out The Anarchist’s Cookbook in the 3rd grade.
Don’t you understand? The poors can only borrow books from the library, they can’t ever purchase them outright.
Yeah I was guessing it was grooming and/or tranny stuff.
That’s a safe bet.
“When liberals do it, it’s selection. When conservatives do it, it’s banning.”
Immigration: The left deliberately created this mess thinking it could not be undone. Tough shit, we are going to undo it. It will be painful and there will be incidences like this. That is just the way it is. For every incident like this a former Biden admin official should be imprisoned. Start at the top.
Gaza: I dont care. Stop sending aid.
Floyd was a scumbag career criminal and a dopehead. He killed himself with a drug overdose. The only crime worth noting is Chauvin sitting in prison.
But surely he was thinking of going to college and turning his life around?
Dude, in the second grade he wrote about being a Supreme Court Justice. He was like five years from making it happen.
The cleanest drugs tend to be on campus.
Take a look at Biden’s appointee and get back to me on Floyd’s chances.
Interesting.
On May 7, a Homeland Security lawyer told Harvard the information it provided on visa holders wasn’t enough. The lawyer reiterated four of the original eight categories of information DHS had requested, including any known illegal activity, threats to other students and deprivation of others’ rights by international students. This time, Harvard had a week to respond.
On the deadline day, Harvard sent information on three students under visas who had faced disciplinary action for drinking or other violations.
A week of uneasy silence followed.
Then, Thursday’s missive dropped, telling Harvard that its ability to enroll foreign students had been revoked immediately. “This action should not surprise you and is the unfortunate result of Harvard’s failure to comply with simple reporting requirements,” Noem wrote. Harvard had refused to supply required information and ignored a follow-up request, DHS said.
Long article. It would appear that the Trump WH may have some actual dirt on these students and was waiting for Harvard to fail to disclose this.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-lawsuits-fight-d5f8ec8a?st=huSPR9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
On the one hand, I hate the snooping and privacy violations. On the other, it’s not unreasonable to subject visitors to a heightened level of scrutiny. The problem, of course, is that even if this ostensibly only applies to foreign students, if the infrastructure is there, it can and probably will be used more broadly.
Yeah, those kids are a fucking gold mine. It would not surprise me one bit what colleges are willing to let slide to keep that money rolling in. There is almost certainly much more corruption going on that we don’t even know about yet.
“(god, those lips!)”
Slutty Sunday and their DSL are on topic!
https://archive.is/mlcZe
Admittedly, I’ve never been sucked off by a beach ball, so I’m not necessarily in the best position to make a judgment, but I don’t love the DSL-by-way-of-injection look.
That said, I’d give #5 a pass on the fillers and #23 a pass on the drawn-on eyebrows. #26 will get my house and car in the divorce.
And it will be worth it.
#2 appears to be expressing disdain for some puns
I’m willing to become a cowboy for #25.
An absolutely typical Daily Fail article, but worth reading because of the picture they decided use captioned by this quote:
Turkish officials admit they’ve NO IDEA how British mother’s heart went missing in hospital after she died on holiday fuelling growing suspicions
Glad no one got hurt.
Morning, Glibs.
States do have the right to be stupid, but not the right to be stupid in ways that fuck up interstate commerce. There’s a reason why CA needed a waiver to do all that stupid shit, after all.
The interstate commerce clause is there for a reason. Right from the start states started shenanigans with interstate commerce. The problem of course is that the Feds have used it to stray into intrastate commerce.
Give government power and they will abuse it with the same probability as the sun rising in the morning.
That was a defect (oh, gods no – how could that be???) in the Articles of Confederation.
Harvard: No, it wont. Fuck ’em. Kick them out. Cut off every single federal dollar to the commie indoctrination camps and give the faculty free helicopter rides.
Goddamn I am grouchy this morning.
Greene: Other people’s sex lives dont concern me but how in hell does she keep getting elected?
California: Yes, states have a right to be stupid. This is a can of worms….
Will California ban the import of gasoline cars? Stop people at the border driving ICE cars? Confiscate them? I dont see a way for them to enforce this without straying into some real problems.
The biggest problem – Californians moving to other states and shitting all over them the way they shit on their own state. Build a wall.
It seems to me that the vast majority of the press has become leftist propaganda. Trump taxing the leftist non-profits might put a dent in that.
As for Gaza, again, I dont give a shit. You visit murder, rape and terror on innocent people in the most horrible ways you can imagine then cry foul when they hit back? I remember parades and street celebrations when Jewish babies were stabbed in their cribs. I have seen the way they teach their children to be devoted to murdering Jews in their schools. They are a death cult. If they were exterminated today I would not shed a tear.
Dbleagle summed up their entire culture perfectly yesterday, in a roundabout way. It’s all about propaganda to appeal to anti-Semitic Europe and the world at large. They have no real ability to fight the Israelis, but the Israelis are restrained (yes, they are showing restraint because they could wipe that shit hole off the map). The goal is always to force the international pressure to bring the Israelis to heel. America is the only thorn in their side.
The culture is a lot like the victimhood bullshit that we have here. Their entire economy depends on grifting from international aid. The elites get fat while the poors are starved and distracted by going, “Look, Jew!”
It would be funnier than shit to see CA ban gasoline cars on their state roads and then piss and moan when the feds cut off highway funding.
“I do what I want, you have to pay for it.”
I always wondered why the most vehement commies were the offspring of the rich, raised with a silver spoon in their mouth.
how in hell does she keep getting elected
The question we ask about 433 times every Congressional election cycle.
dignity, the latter of which, though totaled, has zero cash value.
You’ve never heard of “pain and suffering”?
That only applies to people.
This is just pathetic:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/race-obsessed-liberal-star-reporter-accused-of-widespread-sexual-harassment
On multiple fronts, but mostly the immaturity* and the reaction** of these strong independent women.
*I knew sorority girls in college who knew better than to let some guy ply them with drinks until they were falling down drunk and then go home with him.
**No complaints filed, some continued working with him, and one even went back for more.
Pathetic doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Didn’t you know? Woman only have intermittent agency. It just comes and goes. 🙄
(s/b “Women,” of course. Not my fault.)
You laugh, but…
I’m supposed to respect these grown adults and feel bad for them as victims. The whole notion that men are predators for having drunken sex but women are innocent victims is asinine. Force is force. I’m not defending that if used. But you get sloppy drunk with a guy and then claim you couldn’t consent even if you, well, did? I don’t know what to tell you.
The law is supposedly patriarchal, but it treats women like children in so many respects.
Damn you for making me defend this idea! But The law is supposedly patriarchal, but it treats women like children in so many respects. is kind of the textbook definition of patriarchy
So, it is just like a man?
You know who else comes and goes?
And GT‘s comment on agency-when-convenient plays right into this. You need to be looked after.
Only, they still get all the rights and privileges of men? It’s just in a few select, choice areas like the family courts and divorce laws and consent where women get these extra protections?
Regardless, as a male no one has ever made excuses for the dumb shit I did while drunk. Or even bad things that have happened to me. I was just a drunken asshole.
“A third student said he lit a candle and sat next to her on the couch in his office, which made her uncomfortable.”
Straight to jail!
Columbia Journalism Review
So a gossip rag and high publication of the journalistic profession?
I mean, this is the society he wants to build right? Your ridiculous PoMo, woke legal system built around power imbalances and the oppression matrix instead of equal protection and blind justice makes this possible.
4th rule for radicals: make the enemy live up to his own book of rules. Lock him up and throw away the key. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
“Ditch the beef, keep the grill — why Beyond Meat owns Memorial Day 2025 ”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/shopping/beyond-meat-recipes-for-the-ultimate-memorial-day-cookout/
No.
Beyond doesn’t actual specify in which direction it departs from meat.
I am offended by your mediocre response. It is “Fuck No” at least, or more emphatic.
If you’re looking for examples of ultra processed food, Beyond Meat and its ilk will do nicely.
About as subtle as the Little Orphan Annie “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine” secret message in A Christmas Story.
Son of a bitch!
Put it on the 1750W electric grill we talked about Friday!
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5364492/grilling-electric-climate-change-propane
JFC always with the messaging. How do people stand that shit?
I have a tri-tip to grill today
Puritanism is born of sadism. It is not more complicated than that.
Amazingly this advice is not completely terrible.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/my-selfish-girls-worldwide-wish-35257305
I’m wondering how she makes enough money working in a coffee shop, dog walking, and baby-sitting to pay for these long international trips.
Between this guy and the other boyfriend(s) she’s undoubtedly maintaining, it’s surprisingly affordable.
Two word answer: First word a sweet substance. Second word a male parent.
The Honey Father doesn’t last long. Drone bees are only needed once.
I was expecting someone to come up with honey pop here but allusions to Fourscore also work.
Syrup pa?
More or less true, although vacillating on whether you’re going to fuck other guys while gallivanting around the world definitely falls into the “wrong” column. Unless the guy’s a cuck and gets off on that or something, I guess.
I had a buddy break off an engagement last year after a 3 year long relationship that was more toxic than a Superfund site because he finally realized what I’d been telling him since the first couple months of it: You’re fundamentally incompatible, and you’re not capable of conforming to her standard because it just ain’t who you are. There’s 4 billion women in the world. Stop trying to stick the proverbial square peg in a round hole.
“Stop trying to stick the proverbial square peg in a round hole”
He has a square dick?
More like a toblerone.
“polyamorous tantric sex guru”
Is there some certification program to get this title?
I’m sure FedGov will loan you some money for it!
It’s not like they have to judge quilts.
[golf claps]
Gurus are like pornography. I can’t define them, but I know them when I see them?
“Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon, 66, enjoys a dip in the ocean alongside his swimsuit-clad wife Yasmin during luxurious holiday in France”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14744827/Simon-Le-Bon-wife-Yasmin-luxurious-holiday-France.html
*light KK signal*
I’ll save a prayer for him.
“KENNEDY: Now we have proof Candace Owens is the most vile, idiotic, corrosive woman in media… it’s time to expose her dirty secret”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-14744003/candace-owens-proof-vile-KENNEDY.html
Declaring you have proof of something in the headline, then putting the hit piece behind a paywall is shit journalism.
https://archive.fo/bDCdc
How did you get the article in the first place?
Just take the URL and put in the homepage of Archive.xx
Media whore buddies up with scumbag to advance her career. Film at 11. No progressive journalist would ever do that (ignore the fawning Saint Floyd piece above, please).
Also, I’d say Owens has already made it, Harvey.
Also, there’s a fine line between rape and regretting that you fucked a disgusting fat Hollywood mogul to advance your career.
Weinstein will forever have a soft spot in my heart for cucking Newsome.
Or
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/media/text-14744003/candace-owens-proof-vile-KENNEDY.html
Is the Mail the new Grauniad? How many times can they misspell Kanye?
“Nor does Candace appear to put much stock in the stories of many other women who’ve come forward to allege sexual assault, forced oral sex, rape and nearly every other flavor of lechery in the criminal code.”
Neither do I.
“It’s a group that’s been increasingly identified as the ‘woke right,’ because they seem to employ the same hysterical tactics as those on the progressive left.”
There is no there there.
After the pathetic, transparent efforts of Christine Blast Ford I assume ‘Lie’ until I see solid proof.
I watched a hilariously awful movie last night called Stealth. It’s about a trio of best-of-the-best Navy pilots in their super duper fighter planes, and their rebellious sentient AI drone. One of the pilots is, of course, a drop dead beautiful woman who keeps her soft feminine side tightly under control until she can’t.
Stereotypes piled on cliches in utterly predictable shopworn layers. International incidents galore, in service of shadowy capitalist skullduggery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(film)
From the same guy who stared and directed Unforgiven.
Eastwood made some stinkers alright but were I to collect my favorite movies he would have a shelf all his own.
Yup. Far more of his films are good.
He didn’t direct, but I loved his spaghetti westerns.
An appropriate typo for Clint.
They were on TCM Monday night. Caught the last half of GBU and first half of Josey.
“A Washington, D.C. court just handed Mann a bruising legal defeat. After more than a decade of litigation, he has been ordered to pay over $1 million in attorney’s fees to the very people he accused of defamation: National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), and writer Rand Simberg, a former PJM contributor.
Even more humiliating, the court revealed that Mann grossly misrepresented his financial damages. Once celebrated as a martyr for the climate cause, he now stands exposed as a fabricator, not just of projections, but of personal injury.”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/24/when-the-ice-cracks-michael-manns-legal-defeat-and-the-climate-of-accountability-n4940123
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/05/24/mark-steyns-vindication-a-triumph-for-free-speech-and-personal-fortitude-n4940136
Distinction without a difference or you’re just repeating yourself there.
Jesus fuck, that case is JUST NOW wrapping up?
There still could be an appeal?
Mann and sympathetic judges were hoping to drag it out long enough that the opponents would give up or in the case of Mark Steyn, die before they had to go to trial.
The process is the punishment.
Charlize Theron Says She Is ‘Shockingly’ Single and Ready to Date: Somebody Needs to ‘Step Up’
Think about how hot Charlize Theron is. Now think about how fucking crazy she has to be to cross the hot/crazy matrix.
How many African black market adoptee trans kids is she up to?
So much this. She strikes me as batshit crazy.
This. That hot but too crazy to get laid. Wow. She walks in a room and every man either runs out of the door or dives through a window.
The Oscar-winner’s last serious relationship was with Sean Penn. The two began dating in 2013 and announced their engagement a year later. They split in June 2015.
When Sean Penn is sick of your shit…
Brain drain
The “Canada Leads” program, launched in April, hopes to foster the next generation of innovators by bringing early-career biomedical researchers north of the border.
Aix-Marseille University in France started the “Safe Place for Science” program in March — pledging to “welcome” U.S.-based scientists who “may feel threatened or hindered in their research.”
Australia’s “Global Talent Attraction Program,” announced in April, promises competitive salaries and relocation packages.
“In response to what is happening in the U.S.,” said Anna-Maria Arabia, head of the Australian Academy of Sciences, “we see an unparalleled opportunity to attract some of the smartest minds here.”
Since World War II, the U.S. has invested huge amounts of money in scientific research conducted at independent universities and federal agencies. That funding helped the U.S. to become the world’s leading scientific power — and has led to the invention of cell phones and the internet as well as new ways to treat cancer, heart disease and strokes, noted Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science.
The world welcomes the noble refugees of President Cartoon Villain’s War on Science.
Soon we will be nothing but a scientific backwater.
What ever happened to our good friend Smilin’ Joe Fission?
I expect he escaped. He talked about it a lot.
“independent” lol
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, his administration has pointed to what it calls waste and inefficiency in federal science spending and made major cuts to staff levels and grant funding at the National Science Foundation,the National Institutes of Health, NASA and other agencies, as well as slashing research dollars that flow to some private universities.
The White House budget proposal for next year calls to cut the NIH budget by roughly 40% and the National Science Foundation’s by 55%.
It’s a start. Now shine a harsh light on “climate science”.
So based on the way the DOGE thing worked, the NIH will be getting an increase of about 25 percent and the NSF will get a 100 percent increase in the actual Congressional budget.
“The Department of Justice reports that during an online government meeting, Williams used his personal cellphone’s Google Voice app to call his city cellphone, then left the meeting and placed a call to the Los Angeles Public Department, saying he received a call from an unknown man with a threat to bomb Los Angeles City Hall.
“Williams received no such call and had made the bomb threat himself,” wrote the DOJ. “At no time did Williams intend to carry out the threat.”
Williams then texted Bass and other high-ranking officials to share the news.
“Bomb threat: I received phone call on my city cell at 10:48 am this morning. The male caller stated that ‘he was tired of the city support of Israel, and he has decided to place a bomb in City Hall. It might be in the rotunda.’ I immediately contacted the chief of staff of LAPD, they are going to send a number of officers over to do a search of the building and to determine if anyone else received a threat,” texted Williams.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/la-deputy-mayor-pleads-guilty-calling-fake-anti-israel-bomb-threat
CWAA
Exhibit eleventy on LA turning to shit.
But it’s not easy to pick up and move a scientific career — let alone a life.
Marianna Zhang was studying how children develop race and gender stereotypes as a postdoctoral fellow at New York University when her National Science Foundation grant was canceled. She said it felt like “America as a country was no longer interested in studying questions like mine.”
Still, she wasn’t sure of her next move. “It’s no easy solution, just fleeing and escaping to another country,” she said.
There must be dozens of countries engaged in a frantic bidding war to gain access to such an exceptional scholar.
Tell her to send an email to the CCP. I’m sure they are interested.
Is that CCP@CCP.org?
Asking for a friend.
Didnt we recently see an article by a researcher who said “I know my study is completely stupid and useless but it is only for a small amount so I didnt deserve to get cut!”
Yeah. Govt money is poison. Get it out of science and let’s see if there are any actual scientists left.
Fleeing the country? Well….bye.
She said it felt like “America as a country was no longer interested in studying questions like mine.”
She felt rightly. We’re not!
Parody is dead.
Multiverse branching timelines theory and we just drew the one that was written as a parody of all the others.
But it’s not easy to pick up and move a scientific career — let alone a life.
I did that repeatedly. It’s part of the game. We ended up in Glibs Gulch because SP was tired of moving.
One of my favorite Canadians was on fire with his latest post.
Excavator Flow Tube || Hydraulic Fix
Speaking of the GM engine fiasco, I Do Cars did a teardown on one last night. It all looked pretty normal, until he pulled the oil pan. The rods were black from heat. Obviously a crankshaft oiling issue, and not just on one journal or one oil passage.
The big ends were nicely seasoned! It’s what GM calls “done”.
He noted another channel says the crank journals are completely polished at the factory before installation. So parts sent to GM aren’t ready to use.
This subject has come up a few times now but I didnt really pay attention.
Did they mismatch the oil to bearing clearance at the factory causing parts to burn up?
I am not sure what the clearance tolerances are on factory cars are. I did notice some time back that lower viscosity oils were recommended on almost all cars. I assumed that meant some improvement in manufacturing allowing for tighter tolerances at less cost?
Can one of you car guys give it to me in a nutshell?
The recall has to explanations.
1. Debris in manufacture blocking oil passages.
2. Improperly machined crank or rod with clearances that were out of spec for as Brooks states the specified “3-1 Oil” viscosity.
Modern oils are amazing. Honda has been running 0w-20 for 25 years. You enjoy better efficiency and gain power thanks to chemistry, but the motor needs to be designed with clearances that support it.
Two…
Ok. Thank you. Instinct: engine quality dropped without changing oil recommendations.
Was this a deliberate move or are we seeing DEI in action again?
Cost cutting and searching for “free” ways to pick up efficiency for CAFE.
If you’re going to lubricate your motors with Three in One Oil, you’d better get your bearing clearances right.
Defunding the police
The Justice Department has drastically scaled back its support for anti-crime initiatives across the country, leaving law enforcement agencies and private groups scrambling to try to replace the money. The cuts were announced in late April, and the Council on Criminal Justice estimates 373 grants were terminated, totaling about $500 million.
The sweeping nature of the cuts took many public safety groups by surprise.
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Many grant recipients suspect there wasn’t much research behind the cuts.
“They don’t know what they’re doing. They’re just pulling things apart,” says Aqeela Sherrills, co-founder and executive director of the Community Based Public Safety Collective, which provides training and assistance to community violence intervention groups — the “violence interrupter” model that started in the 1990s.
“Many of these organizations are mostly volunteer, like, kind of small mom and pop agencies,” Sherrills says. “But the Biden administration turbocharged community violence intervention as a strategy,” with the 2022 passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which dedicated $250 million over five years to this approach. Now the Trump administration is turning off that tap.
You can’t question the effectiveness of these non profit organizations or their innovative solutions. They need more money, not less.
Violence interrupter model? Why do I suspect that this involves lots of make work jobs for people with degrees in anti whateverism, general increase in crime, and lot’s of tearful ‘expert’ testimony calling for shorter sentences for violent crimes?
So, you have been to Oakland, I see.
I follow the two heads of the FBI on X. Sounds like they’re doing just fine interrupting violence.
This. The latest crime stats show shockingly high decreases in crime. It makes me wonder why no one seems to be saying that all we had to do was stop fomenting crime like the left does. Stopping that added to an earnest effort to stop crime gives the kind of double digit drops we are seeing now.
Is DARE still a thing? Did/Do they get federal money? DARE needs to be nuked from space.I am assuming all of these other ‘intervention’ groups are the same grift.
“A cryptocurrency meme coin giving tribute to the suspected “free Palestine” terrorist, Elias Rodriguez, launched within a few hours of his arrest and being charged with the murder of a couple who worked as staffers at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.
Rodriguez was seen on video being taken into custody by police on Wednesday, where he was yelling “Free Palestine” after he reportedly shot dead Sarah Milgrim, 26, and her boyfriend, Yaron Lischinsky, 28. The couple was set to get engaged next week.
As a twisted tribute to him, traders launched a meme coin with his likeness and name, according to the New York Post. The outlet reported that on Friday that the meme coin was hovering at around $368,000, then dropped to $24,000. As of Friday, around 550 people had bought the meme coin.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-cryptocurrency-celebrates-free-palestine-terrorist-who-assassinated-israeli-embassy-staffers
WTF??
I didnt read the article. From the excerpt who are ‘Traders’? Names?
Apparently that evil piece of shit was part of some commie group. Whatchawanna bet ‘traders’ are associated with them some way or other.
They may not be and just doing a rug pull to make money.
In some cities, self-appointed fiscal watchdogs have complained about a lack of accountability in the way federal grants are spent. In Minneapolis, for instance, attorney Dean Thomson sued the city a couple of years ago to force local violence intervention groups to be more transparent.
“Taxpayers don’t know how their funds are being spent because the city didn’t know how their funds were being spent,” Thomson says. “And who knows whether the funds actually went to violence interruption or not?”
Have faith, brother. These people have nothing but the best intentions.
“In a statement released afterward, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell condemned the concert, not the violence from the Antifa militants, suggesting that the Christian group’s presence was deliberately provocative.
Harrell emphasized his support for the LGBTQ+ community, criticized “anarchists” who “infiltrated the counter-protest,” and called for an after-action report by the police.
“Today’s far-right rally was held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood,” Harrell said.
“When the humanity of trans people and those who have been historically marginalized is questioned, we triumph by demonstrating our values through our words and peaceful protest – we lose our voice when this is disrupted by violence, chaos, and confusion,” Harrell went on.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-mayor-condemns-christian-concert-as-far-right-rally-after-antifa-militants-stage-violent-protest
CWAA
Fuck off with that shit. But it’s not real progressivism until he throws his own cops under the bus.
‘our cities values’
Dont they have a Lenin statue they acquired after the USSR broke up or is that Portland?
Fuck them and fuck their values.
Goddamned commie cockroaches everywhere. Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him.
I think I remember someone here saying that they had lived in Portland and the show ‘Portlandia’ was a poor parody as it did not go far enough.
Am I correct in thinking that the west was invaded by square pegs in the early 20th century and the squarer pegs migrated north giving us the northwest we see today?
We went to our 8th roller derby wedding last night. Very rock and roll, the bride and groom are in bands and of course she skates. The bride wore a black dress with a pinup style veil, colors were black, peach, and teal, there were vinyl records decorating the tables. It was held at a distillery once owned by the Capone gang. Really fun.
They planned the wedding for this weekend because today is Sausage Fest. Hope the rest of you are having fun this weekend too.
Sounds like a badass good time. What distillery? I love visiting Prohibition-era historic sites (I have yet to find out where the illegal distillery was in my small-ish Ohio town).
I was at graduation ceremonies yesterday. On one hand, I get that the parents and most of the kids have a fun time doing it. Then the asshole over-analytical part of my brain says: It’s kind of silly to make a big deal out of high school graduation when it’s compulsory, you pretty much have to TRY to reach the end of senior year without a diploma, and public schools are providing a criminally inadequate excuse for an education. Towards the end of my high school sentence, I got placed in some kind of special class for people who were in danger of not getting a diploma; this counselor-type lady would just harangue us about what is due in our classes and babysit us to make sure we got it completed. At one point, she basically told this other kid to cheat on the finals, saying something like “It’s really important for your future to graduate, and if the person next to you has the answers, I mean… You have to do what you have to do to get that diploma.” Things that kids are taught in K-12: Do what you’re told, the government is your benefactor, and make things look good on paper regardless of what is happening in reality.
… But I just keep those thoughts to myself, accept that other people enjoy doing it, and clap and smile with everyone else.
I’m going out to nail up more vinyl siding for a few hours, then come in to a giant bowl of red sauce with sausage and peppers and some white wine.
Oof.
“Suspected FBI front group, Patriot Front, made headlines again on Saturday afternoon when they appeared at Kansas City, Missouri’s Liberty Memorial Museum.
The FBI declassified two packages of documents, totaling nearly 1,000 pages, on Patriot Front last year. Not surprisingly, almost every page was redacted.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/fbi-recruiting-weekend-patriot-front-fed-group-resurfaces/
This shit is still happening under Trump?
Uh…that is my question too.
Also, does the FBI have a commie front group? That is what they should be focusing on. I wonder how many congresscritters and other govt folks that would net.
When exactly did declassified come to mean almost entirely redacted?
as soon as flatly refusing to release things stops working.
No-one was damaged beyond his beard and dignity,
Good to hear no one is injured. Sorry about the car.
a guy whom Team Red could have actually won with
Are you serious?
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Associated Press initially published this profile of George Floyd on June 10, 2020. The fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder is May 25, 2025.
I wonder how the stupid aged? Diving in…
Can one of you car guys give it to me in a nutshell?
Zero viscosity oil means less parasitic power losses from driving the oil pump and pushing the oil through the motor, leading to miniscule mileage improvements in the lab.
I still haven’t seen a definitive explanation of the specific problem, if there is one. Some people are apparently blaming the surface finish of the crankshaft journals. My personal guess is the bearing clearances are off, for whatever reason. To get away with oil that thin, clearances would have to be extremely accurate. When you’re selling hundreds of thousands (millions?) of motors built by the UAW, there’s bound to be some slipups.
Honda manages, but they don’t have the UAW or GM’s penny pinching mindset.
If I was going to make a stab at what the root cause for this is, I would put it down to simply poor engineering. It isn’t any one thing, but the confluence of many: poor machining, poor prep, bad choice in bearings, poor choice in oil, and so on.
Just a lemon motor, and it probably would have just gotten a poor rep and little else pre internet.
I suspect you are all correct.
DEI – when merit is abandoned as a standard and you end up with zero top quality people…entire teams are composed of mediocre at best…the less than optimal results add up and the result is airplanes falling apart in the sky, cars blowing up and catching fire, astronauts stranded in space, medical tragedies….
Incompetence is more common than excellence even without adding quota based hiring. Add in mandates to use something other than ability as a hiring criteria and you’re doomed.
Correct. That is the point of DEI. First, corrupt institutions then make them completely incompetent.
Remember ‘High Plains Drifter’? The protagonist made the village idiot the mayor as a giant ‘FUCK YOU’ to the townspeople.
Now look at the Obama/Biden appointees and the push for DEI. It is all a deliberate effort to destroy western culture motivated entirely by malice. Nowhere has it done more damage than academia and industry.
“Incompetence is more common than excellence”
I worded my comment the way I did to indicate that in any system it is the odd excellent person that keeps the ship upright in spite of the mediocre and the incompetent. Without that person in the recipe….failure is inevitable. DEI is an effort to eliminate that person.
“I’ve come to the belief that he was chosen,” said Cofield, the teacher. “Only this could have happened to him because of who he was and the amount of love that he had for people, people had for him.”
Wow. Just wow.
Controversial conspiracy congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene cheated on her husband with a polyamorous tantric sex guru, DailyMail.com has learned.
This is an old story. And died out quickly as I recall.
Old Guy Music is good.
Getting ready to head out for the next stage of the around Oahu race. Looks like winds from the east up to 20mph and plenty of sun. Have a great Sunday to all.
If I was going to make a stab at what the root cause for this is, I would put it down to simply poor engineering. It isn’t any one thing, but the confluence of many: poor machining, poor prep, bad choice in bearings, poor choice in oil, and so on.
According to the I Do Cars guy the same motor is in the Corvette and Camaro, but GM specifies 0 w40 instead of 0 w20, and there have been far fewer problems.