Good morning one and all the another spectacular day!
Decade after Tea Party movement, conservatives still unable to meaningfully cut debt
Canada, UK, France Threaten ‘Concrete Actions’ Against Israel Over Gaza Offensive
Trump: Russia, Ukraine Will Immediately Begin ‘Negotiations Toward a Ceasefire’
Doctors say Biden likely had cancer in office, scrutiny on mental decline ramps up
Staffers Who Wielded Biden’s Autopen Identified, Subpoenas Incoming
Democrat Congresswoman Charged With Assaulting Law Enforcement In Stunt At ICE Center
WHO on Brink of Collapse, Admits It May Never Recover After Major U.S. Funding Withdrawal
Trump Administration to Pay $5 Million to Settle Ashli Babbitt Wrongful Death Suit
Once Considered Conspiracy Theory, Weather Control Latest MAHA Battleground
‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Says He Has Same Cancer as Biden, Months to Live
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Good. Now start prosecuting them for crimes against humanity.
What… no more hunny in the pot?
PLEASE GOD, let that WHO go dead, and then do the UN.
You got a court of competent jurisdiction there in your pocket UCS?
Hostis Humani Generis may be prosecuted by whatever jurisdiction manges to get them in the dock.
The justice of the most powerful eh?
The way it’s always been.
Well then, let’s not pretend it is crimes against humanity, it is merely what offends us greatly.
Who’s this “Us” Kemosabe?
Me.
Well you invoked the pretense of a court.
Did I ever tell you that I am a Monarchist?
That really is a bright spot in today’s news.
I’m still waiting for the words “…and prosecute the shooter”. Where’s his personal responsibility for this murder?
:pulls the hood off of the Progressive Parrot:
Sovereign Immunity! King’s Man! Rawwwk!
Even by the lax standards of police shootings, this was a bad shoot. The man should not be around firearms, let alone a badge.
(He also left that same firearm in a public bathroom stall before – which is when he should have first been fired)
You would think the officers STANDING BEHIND Babbitt would agree, but apparently that Thin Blue Line isn’t crossed.
And if he had killed one of the officers standing behind Babbitt, people in the crowd would have been charged with the murder.
Lets just say they have a dog in that fight.
He was also involved in a fight off duty.
He got promoted.
I like not this news, bring me different news.
He got a medal too.
I like not this news, bring me different news.
I watch his daily podcast regularly and saw he was struggling with something for the last 18 months. Finding out what it was sucks.
He had been talking about giving someone permission to use his voice to create and AI version of himself, fed by all his books, podcasts, and comics. Now that makes sense.
I wonder if he knew when he did this podcast.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1617605007549034498
Oof… Banjos leading right off with a kick to the balls there. Not that we didn’t know it… but damned depressing breakdown of just how screwed we are.
Obligatory.
I’m predicting a 2.5T shortfall this year.
With few exceptions, the horsepower is far more interested in getting re-elected and fear the wrath of the special interests. When the debt holders decide to cash in their chips the piggy bank will be empty.
I can’t remember ever seeing a $100 bill ’til about 30 years ago, now that’s a tank of gas.
That’s a big tank.
/never owned a pick up truck
Get a dodge challenger 392 that only drinks premium. It’s not a full $100 to fill it, but it can get close.
If my truck gets down to 1/4 tank it is easily over $100.
35 gallon tank and diesel is $3.75.
Get a dodge challenger 392 that only drinks premium. It’s not a full $100 to fill it, but it can get close.
I think the most I’ve paid to fill up my cars that take premium is about $65, though NH average gas price is less than the US average gas price.
The problem is that Republicans conservatives have been few and fake ‘conservatives’ numerous for at least a century.
The Tea Party was infiltrated and defanged within a year of its start.
Tea Party never commanded even a majority of Republicans, let alone the nation.
And yet the Squad and the Congressional Black Caucus regularly extract concessions from Congress despite being in a minority.
Republican, libertarian, and MAGA activists (i.e. not GOP Establishment types) do a shit job of concentrating on Congressional elections.
Contrast with organizations like the NHLA which do a good job influencing NH legislative elections to the point where NH legislators actually listen to them.
Republicans no less than Democrats get elected to Congress for bringing home the bacon. You want to look at the problem in the face – start with your neighbors who keep voting all of these whores back into office.
A priest once told me “Wherever you find whores you find whore mongers”
Guilty as charged
Pimp’n ain’t easy, but it’s necessary…
I misread that at first as a 2.5T snowfall.
only 2.5 tons? Light winter.
There will never be a balanced budget again until they cut “entitlements”.
You know, that stuff that Donald promised not to touch.
Cut voluntarily or run out of credit and default, but cut they will eventually be.
The other thing Republicans have always done – ceding the moral argument without a fight.
“We’ll run out of money when we run out of trees”
Paraphrasing Ron Paul.
Zeros added on cost very little. First they came for the pennies.
Why do I have the feeling that the US was more than just a keystone in all of these international organizations that are having rough times after the US cut funding?
Because we were pretty much their only funding?
The Post WWII order does seem to have actually been “DC will fund everything you want as long as you play ball politically behind the scenes…” doesn’t it?
We funded every single one of these globalist criminal cabals that spent their time & effort fucking normal Americans over. Honestly, I want the UN to be unalived next. I have talked with a lot of Europeans that are mad at Trump and it is always the same shit: their welfare states are at risk if they have to spend on their NATO obligations or have fair trade with the US. Scumbag people.
Too fucking bad.
It’s not my goddamn responsibility to fund German Universal Health Care.
Time to live off your own fucking dime.
Dude, we ARE the O.G.s here – the original globalists. This was all our game, and your biggest bitch is that others have horned in on it.
The British Empire says “what?”
Well, yes. I mean if other nations horn in on your hegemony you aren’t Hegemon.
ZWAK, we’re all pretenders to Rome.
“This was all our game, ”
And I was against it then because we sucked at it. If we were gonna play empire make the others our bitch as it should have been done.
“and your biggest bitch is that others have horned in on it.”
No, my biggest bitch is still the same complaint. If we are gonna play empire then play it to win. And since we will never do that, let’s not.
Interesting Alex, I didn’t know you wanted to be a feudal lord.
I never said I wanted to be a feudal lord. I said if we were going to pretend play tat, then we should do it for real. And since we don’t want to do that, lets not do any of it. There is a distinction there you seem horribly obtuse about.
When you visit other countries there is sometimes this stereotype of “rich Americans”. Totally true in a lot of cases, but that “You’re American, you can afford it” attitude also exists on a larger scale.
But in reality, on both the small and large scale, it’s not that we’re rich, it’s that we’re willing to run up debt.
Since they’ve already cemented their lack of power projection, I just don’t think they have the stones to do much of anything.
That’s what I get for thinking too hard about constructing a sentence.
They will send angry letters, do UN finger pointing, and give Hamas more money?
You think they have nothing to reinforce their opinion?
So the Brits are the lime, that much is clear. What do the frogs and flappyheads bring to the mix?
whaddup doh’
Play is up doh.
France, UK and Canada are about to cement their alliance by pouring out some stuff on Israel.
Frand and the UK should be at war over who sits on the French Throne.
“Sets” on the French Throne, amirite?
… I don’t get it.
“Once considered Conspiracy Theory…”
I expect to see that phrase popping up a lot
Wasn’t it Mr. Dean here that posited a conspiracy theory is just a spoiler for reality?
Said subponeas being issued by the same GOP Congresscritters who could visibly see something wrong for 4 years (or more) yet were unable to get political pressure on the Administration to actually trot him out in an unscripted, normal setting so he could show his competence to the people. (As opposed to the repeated wheeling out of Bernie on the Weekends). Forgive me if I think “And nothing else happened…” is the mantra in DC on these matters…
And don’t give me “But the media ran interference!” The internet / alternate podcasts and whatnot have shown there’s enough of other venues to get your message out and get pressure building even when the traditional lapdogs are trying to suppress the story.
The fact that a lot of the regular people were pointing out that Biden was obviously impaired kind of pokes holes in the “we was there, and he was sharp as a tack!” from the politicians.
Yay, another entirely pointless hearing to distract us all from their inaction on codifying a single dollar of spending cuts, or eliminating even the most useless and weaponized agencies. Three or four cool sound bites from a stern faced Jordan or Kennedy being snide at some stonewalling bureaucrat, no prosecutions, no action, no actual governing.
But the feels!
Hurr, hurr, we owned da libs, hurr.
But think of the killer burns from the hearings that’ll be posted to X and TikTok…and then they’ll do Jack fucking shit.
All the WHOs down in Whoville liked USAID a lot,
But the Grinch who lived in Mar a Lago did not!
The Grinch hated USAID! The whole thieving bunch!
Now you can ask why, but me I’ve a hunch!
It could be, perhaps, their making frogs gay.
It could be the Democrat Pols that they pay.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been his great joy when the WaPo did Bawl.
But whatever the reason, the graft or the tears,
He stopped all the dollars and fed on their fears.
Staring down from his tower with a wide toothy grin
At the wailing below him in their dens of sin,
For he knew every WHO down in Whoville beneath
Was now doomed to wander the world in great grief.
Love it!
We should make it into a classic animated show, and follow that up with a live action remake a few years later.
Also, make up some nonsense words to force rhymes.
Fuck whichever spawn of Seuss decided to start allowing productions in live action. Dr. Seuss made one live action film, it was terrible and I love it.
Make sure to draw his dog Elon as a boerboel
+1 Hans Conried.
Thank you!
Sensei, I read that WSJ piece you put up this AM about the Pacific Southern. Awesome, and I am glad to see that it didn’t get broken up.
Me too! It was nice to read something good in the news.
Opera applause gif please.
Well done, Jarflax. Very nice.
“I’m going to be wearing it as much as I can,” says Nugent, who initially was skeptical of carrying around the 2.7-pound system.
It’s good that this might extend his life, but we can’t engineer the device to weigh less than 2.7lbs? Somehow I think FedGov is responsible for this twist. That seems ridiculous.
The Next Frontier to Treat Cancer: Electricity
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/electric-fields-pulses-cancer-rheumatoid-arthritis-21cb139f?st=MnPKeK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That’s a 1911 with a spa
re mag, Not terrible. and thanks wordpress for that bizarre premature ejacuposting
Would 1911 with a spa be a hot tub time machine?
So, just put it on a gun belt and you won’t notice the wieght?
Does it have the thing that goes up?
Top Man Walter Russell Mead is disappointed in Top Men.
Why Democracy Is in Retreat
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-democracy-is-in-retreat-advocates-invert-its-meaning-to-claim-partisan-losses-as-undemocratic-22ceee2d?st=9UK2bd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
As he finally realizes what the heck happened. And I’ve got news for him, it’s more than past decade.
re: suppressing “undemocratic” candidates in the name of democracy:
That’s a good graf, as are the ones that follow, including the closing:
I can’t argue with that, but that’s what is on offer.
It’s what the masses keep voting for, until they don’t, and then OMG, what is wrong with people!!!
We’re well aware, JI.
I do need to add https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium-ebook/dp/B07J2V3PG4 to my pile (which is getting a bit too big)
Yes we’re aware, and we are so few.
I liked Gurri’s book when I read it, but since, I’ve read stuff that saw this coming much earlier. Nisbet’s Twilight of Authority and honestly, I’m looking for a copy of de Toqueville’s Democracy in America to read.
Project Gutenberg has it for free, Volumes 1 and 2. Here is volume one:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815
Now if you want an vintage paper copy with a leather binding I can’t help you.
Toqueville’s Democracy in America, that is. I am typing too fast.
Yet, oddly, he seems to be blaming the popular masses for those “ war clouds darkening abroad and economic and social changes roiling the waters at home”, and not the elites’ conformity, senility, and mediocrity.
He’s still a Top Man at heart. I’ll take the little bit of self-awareness he shows, even if he’s still confusing cause and effect.
🤣
I went to look for when the next match is and saw the score for the last match. I was dead last. I am going to have to try to keep that spot.
The last place in a competition is still ahead of all those who did not compete.
+1 man in the arena
Then you are in the perfect position.
Shooting is like golf, you are really competing against yourself. Nothing can replace that feeling of accomplishment you get from watching your name climb higher and higher on the list. Stick to it.
I haven’t perfected my safety game yet. The time game comes later.
My new word of the day – senescent!
Oh-oh
Don’t worry I’ll forget it by the end of the day!
When the big-brains talk about “living forever”, the phrase they use that I quite like is negligible senescence. You don’t want to end up like poor Tithonus.
Meh… close enough.
EvilSheldon:
I watched the videos and I approve of the blending of the shooting positions.
Your problem sounds like a disconnector issue. Things I have learned after replacing it twice:
The magazine brake might need to be forced out. The hammer spring plunger CANNOT come out until after the magazine brake does.
My attempt to drop in the CGW “drop in” disco was a failure. The fitting needed radically shortened its lifespan.
My factory pre-B disco that I got from Ben Stoeger’s shop DID in fact drop in fine. Haven’t had enough rounds since then to tell what it’s lifespan will be, but it includes twice as much wear surface as the GGW one, so hopefully 20k plus. I also picked up a couple factory post-B discos from Eric Grauffel’s store but haven’t needed them yet. The parts shipped from France got here faster than Ben’s.
““He’s backed by big money,” McGowan said, pointing to photos Doricko posted to X with Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’s wife, and with former President Bill Clinton.
Sanchez heads the Bezos Earth Fund, a philanthropic effort which her husband Jeff Bezos injected with a $10 billion funding grant, the largest of its nature in history.”
Yowza. Although I don’t think they are married yet.
It takes effort to be this much of an a s s when there are so few other cars on the road.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1kqu6mi/is_this_a_3_point_turn_oc/
You don’t have to mince your words here the way you do on the socials.
We do when everything on my work PC is monitored. What gets sent receives far more scrutiny than is received.
I wonder if any intoxicants are involved there.
That was speculated in the comments.
Oh, Florida Woman
Leah Melisa Gibson, 49, was arrested yesterday after allegedly chasing a neighbor into her apartment and hitting her with a vacuum cleaner as she ran.
I’ve read about a lot of criminals being busted, but this is the first time one was dust busted.
That sucks!
What a vacuous comment!
Want.
https://x.com/motikolorado/status/1924429338708980034
Needs longer belts.
That’s some gat-ling.
My nephew is 6. He has a great Nerf collection, and has something like that. It is pretty fun.
“French pizza chef confesses to killing reclusive man, then chopping and cooking his body in pot of vegetables
To cover up the incident, the pizza chef reportedly said, he dismembered the victim’s body, burned his head, hands and feet, and left pieces scattered throughout the area and inside Meichler’s own van — with which the pair absconded, according to trial testimony.
Schneider also said he tried cooking parts of Meichler’s body in a pot of vegetables in line with a religious ritual he learned about in Nepal and to cover the smell, the outlet reported.
Another man on trial, a 25-year-old gravedigger allegedly roped in as an accomplice, said Schneider ordered him to cook the meat until it “falls off the bone” and to tell anyone who asked questions that it was “food for the dog,””
https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/world-news/french-chef-confesses-to-killing-recluse-man-then-chopping-and-cooking-his-body-in-pot-of-vegetables/
Sounds like having the gravedigger bury the body would have been way less complicated.
Once a chef has committed to a dish, getting him to change his mind is an easy way to end up in the next one.
So, you’re saying he was pot committed?
You’ve been watching Wildcard Kitchen?
You’ve been watching Wildcard Kitchen?
The wife and I have – we’re enjoying it. Some of the wildcards are hilariously brutal (“No salt”).
Is that a real show JI? I might get back to watching TeeVee if there is something where chefs fight each other and the loser ends in the pot. Just don’t make it fake like survivor, where they totally lied about the fact only one person should have been alive and cooking long pig jerky the next morning.
Real, but not that cool, sadly
That’s no shit. When my wife comes in the kitchen and starts telling me how to…whatever….I dont say anything. I just walk out. she knows what that means. When she leaves the kitchen I will go back and finish.
“Too many cooks in the kitchen” did not become a common saying for no reason.
Whycome pizza chef making soup?
He’s French.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicatessen_(1991_film)
RJ, this and City of Lost Children are both on Tubi right now, Hint, Hint!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
A while back I learned my sister has pancreatic cancer. My family is cursed. I’ve lost my dad and both brothers to cancer, and I am on number 4. Mom was the odd one that stroked out.
Have plans to take a motorcycle trip the 1600 miles to see her this July, and she insists I stick to my plans. She plans to fight it with all she has, goes in today to get a port, chemo starts tomorrow.
This stinks.
I’m so sorry to read that.
I’d be hard pressed to do 1,600 miles on any bike. What are you going to ride?
My 2014 Suzuki V-Strom 650. That’s one way, 3200 miles round trip. I planned 3 day up, 4 days back, and maybe 3 or 4 days in Montana.
I had an SV650. I liked the motor.
All of the adventure bikes are too tall for my short legs.
I’ve always liked those.
Sorry to hear that Necron.
What’s your route?
Route is DFW area to Santa Fe, NM on day 1, Santa Fe to Vernal, UT via the Million Dollar Highway on Day 2. Day 3 has me going through Pocatello, Idaho Falls, North Fork, and Hamilton to Missoula.
I may backtrack or go via Yellowstone, Tetons, and Cheyenne on the way back, I’ll call that shot when I get there.
Sorry 🙁
Sorry.
🙁
Sorry to hear the news. Mama Tres was afflicted with that. Best wishes for your sister.
So sorry to hear.
Sorry, hope you have a good drive and visit in July.
Sorry.
The trip to see her is a good idea. I hope you get to see her.
Sorry to hear this, Necron. But, it does sound like a great ride on a great bike.
“Hernandez is an outspoken transgender athlete competing in girls track and field.
Hernandez did a recent interview with Capital and Main speaking about the backlash faced at track and field events.
“All I thought was, ‘I don’t think you understand that this puts your idiotic claims to trash. She can’t be beat because she’s biologically male.’ Now you have no proof that I can’t be beat,” Hernandez said in the interview.”
https://www.si.com/high-school/california/transgender-athlete-wins-cif-track-and-field-titles-in-girls-high-school-events-01jvmqrckp7b
CWAA
“High school female track star poses on first-place podium after finishing second to trans athlete: ‘Real champ!’”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/20/us-news/california-track-star-reese-hogan-poses-as-winner-after-placing-second-to-trans-athlete-ab-hernandez-praised-by-riley-gaines/
“Hernandez defeated Hogan in the triple jump, beating her by over four feet.”
It’s so weird that all the controversy over trans athletes is males transitioning to females and then dominating. How come we don’t see any examples of females to males doing the same? Totally unexpected.
It’s gonna get ugly with the One Party state totally against the girls who want to compete fairly.
I think that did happen in Texas, where they make the athletes compete based on their birth sex – they had an F->M wrestler who was competing in the girls division and was totally dominating because she was amped up on testosterone injections.
So who here thinks there will be peace in Ukraine any time soon? I am sure Putin wants and end to that war, but he can’t where things stand now. If he goes back and tells his oligarchs that all they got was 50km deeper on the terrain they already had at the cost of 1 million casualties (dead and injured), they are going to want his head on a plater. He is gonna need more. But there is no way the west can give him more to satisfy Putin’s need to sell this to his people so he can stay in charge. Zelensky knows this is a thing Putin needs, and so now, he is playing like he wants peace as is. His hope is that Putin gets axed for this.
My take is that barring something drastic changing, we are stuck with this conflict just grinding on.
If I were an oligarch, I’d worry about being too close to windows.
I’m not sure the oligarchs care about the casualties. But the money they spent for no gain might bother them.
The casualties also carry a cost on both society and whatever medical system the Russians have now, but yes, the complaint/conundrum will be the cost paid netted zero new lucre. And that is unacceptable. I think unless Trump gets some financial concessions to soften the landing, this gets ugly.
And yes UCS, some of the oligarchs might end up flying out of windows in high buildings, but Putin can’t do that to all of them.
I think the best possible outcome at this point is a Korea-style frozen conflict.
“Mann testified she later continued a consensual relationship with Weinstein”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/us-news/weinstein-accuser-tearfully-recalls-nyc-hotel-room-rape-and-the-disgusting-discovery-she-made-after-the-alleged-attack-it-basically-meant-dead-penis/
OFFS!
“Basically Dead Penis”
Band? Or Album?
High school nickname.
If you go into Hollywood, or even any part of that leftist drama club shit, you should not be surprised you are going to be making a deal with the devil. The term “casting couch” has been around since I wad a kid in the early 70s. For a reason. And now we act as if this is insane. I remember when people smoked and drank at work (and I think we should bring back drinking at work just to spice things up) and now people act as if that all was crazy hell. I guess the end result here is that we should ban culture.
What is that stuff he was injecting? Yes, I know I can google it too, but I don’t want several months of ads for dead penis dick shots coming at me.
Caverject, brought to you by Pfizer.
It’s for dead peni or made of dead peni? Or both perhaps.
It’s a synthetic form of prostaglandin. It’s not made from dead anything.
Dead Peni, or Rudimentary Peni?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsuOeFiKoXo
Detachable peni
Wow, they really decided to go for the worst name possible for their dick injection.
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/20:
*25/25 words (+11 bonus words)
📖 In the top 1% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 05/20:
*37/37 words (+14 bonus words)
📖 In the top 6% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 925
Speaking of the WHO
Fiscal Conservativism is dead. It’s been on life support since the Bush Administration but with MAGA and the GOPe walking hand and hand, it’s about to be taken behind the shed and shot directly in the face. JI is right that it would be easy to blame the politicians but it’s the people who send them to DC in hopes of getting sweet bennies. The sooner we come to this reality, the easier it will be for us to accept the inevitable and the upcoming financial catastrophe that we will witness in the near future.
It makes me sad because while not perfect this is a great country with great people and to think that we might not be in the best financial shape because of our lack of belief in economic and personal liberty makes me kind of depressed. Enough with the black pill, imma go and have some coffee.
Elections select for the electable. Buying votes is the best way of making yourself electable. Incentives matter.
I’m happy to blame the politicians for not being better, but ultimately, we elected them, and it is our collective stupidity that enables their gross stupidity.
I think the problem isn’t the politicians we elect as much as the fact that congress as a whole has completely abdicated its responsibilities because then they have less to worry about from their constituents. Just voting for “the right people” at this time will not fix that. We may need tar & feathering at this point, if not something more drastic, because there is no fixing this through voting.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”
Alexander Fraser Tytler
The voters done discovered a while back
“Led by a Socialist government and devoted to ‘Net-Zero’ climate fantasies, Spain has of late become increasingly unstable country when it comes to its unreliable infrastructure.
Not even a month ago, the country was plunged into darkness by a massive blackout, and today (20) a widespread internet and phone outage caused alarm in the population.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/again-spain-hit-widespread-phone-internet-outages-less/
They need to start asking questions.
So it had nothing to do with “net zero” fantasies but let’s tie that in anyway.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cleveland-heights-mayor-faces-resignation-calls-over-claims-of-antisemitic-remarks-by-his-wife/ar-AA1F7fJ3?ocid=BingNewsVerp
What the mayor then heard was nearly a dozen people call for his resignation, saying the comments attributed to his wife, Natalie McDaniel, were a stain on the city’s embrace of diversity and its official motto, “All are Welcome.”
Backstory: The mayor’s wife is this crazy progressive nutcase who has apparently made city hall an unbearable place to work and the reason why our city manager resigned only after 2-3 months on the job.
The near east side runs over with entertainment this week.
I also do enjoy watching various progressives get blindsided by the Cleveland Jewish community protesting them.
One of my neighbors went to city hall to take care of some business and he overheard her in the parking lot loudly using some obscenities. It’s kind of been an open secret around town that she is a certifiable nutcase who would usher in some version of Mao’s Five-Year Plan in Heights if she could do so.
“Adding to the controversy, a federal civil rights complaint has been filed by a former city employee, who highlighted specific derogatory remarks allegedly made by the mayor’s wife towards Orthodox Jewish community members.”
I just looked at a bunch of articles. Not one of them stated what these allegedly antisemitic remarks were.
The local rag may be ad-ridden cancer that leans left, but they’ll usually say the nasty parts:
Well, that does sound bad.
RE: First link, the Tea Party was never about conservatives, hence the problem.
A carpenter can never run out of inches
Economists have criticized politicians’ plans to reduce America’s national debt as too little, too late. But analysts are warning that the issue is now coming home to roost, with the once unshakeable confidence in the United States’ fiscal future beginning to erode.
America’s national debt, which currently stands at more than $36.2 trillion, is increasingly rising on economists’ agendas. Their fear is that as the nation’s debt burden increases, alongside the interest payments to service the debt, the economy will not grow fast enough to sustain the spending.
Such fears were reflected in a Moody’s downgrade of U.S. credit last week from Aaa to Aa1. Moody’s justified: “While we recognize the US’ significant economic and financial strengths, we believe these no longer fully counterbalance the decline in fiscal metrics.”
What a bunch of worry warts. We can just pull what we need from the magic hat.
Don’t worry. AOC will fix this in 2029.
“Don’t be fooled by big ol’socialist titties. They’re meant to hypnotize, then enslave your ass.” – Probably/Probably not Thomas Sowell.
Her morality is repugnant and if she even gets a small modicum of power, she’ll destroy us all but man, I would motorboat dem tiddies.
That sounds more like Glenn Lowery.
This is something that economists and analysts are just now discovering?
He’s dead?
Jim Morrison’s stolen grave bust found after 37 years
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/style/jim-morrison-grave-bust-found-intl-scli
I think he is living as a janitor in upstate New York somewhere.
Not a joke!
People are strange.
Well, they found it, so I guess that’s The End.
These capuchins are abducting babies from howler monkeys—for fun?
Young males are trouble.
Jungle fever?
In the event of U.S. debt buyers losing confidence in the country’s ability to repay, America does have a card it can play in the form of the Fed.
The central bank could employ quantitative easing, a move that would likely raise eyebrows, to lower longer-term interest rates and make it easier for the government to continue borrowing.
Where have you gone, Ben Bernanke?
If at first you do not create hyperinflation, try, try again!
Everybody is a millionaire.
Meanwhile in Japan…
“Despite the breathtaking spike, the 40-year yield is still a hair below the rate of Japan’s overall inflation rate, and thereby a hair negative in real terms…”
https://wolfstreet.com/2025/05/20/japans-30-year-and-40-year-bonds-crater-yields-spike-huge-mess-coming-home-to-roost-yen-carry-trade-at-risk/
The only consistently funny SNL bit of the last few years:
Weekend Update joke swap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uC5tBGlNg
They are funny, but the real question is: How the Hell did that white boy land that?
Call back to a comment I made yesterday, and a statistical argument.
Lets say that in a certain community, the all-cause mortality rate is 985 (all numbers after are per 100k per year). And death from a certain disease is 3. The disease is treatable, but only if detected early, and there is no test.
A test is developed and everyone starts testing for the disease. It reduces the death rate from the disease to 1. 67% of cases are cured! A huge success! The all-cause mortality rate is now 986.
Was the test successful?
Example #2, same as above, but the new all-cause mortality rate is 985. Does that change the answer?
“It reduces the death rate from the disease to 1. 67% of cases are cured!”
Typo? Are you 98.33% survival or the reverse on a population of 3?
It all seems like everything is well within statistical noise without knowing more.
Potentially successful (albeit nearly meaningless), depends on false positive rate and risk associated with treatment.
Example 1 – I don’t know. Given that there is no information on all cause mortality, test false positives, test false negatives, and risk of treatment, there is not enough information to determine the effectiveness of the treatment.
Example 2 – Again, lots of details missing (and not knowing the statistical significance), but given that all-cause mortality did not change, it is likely that the test is not successful (or not statistically significant at the very least), since to 0th order, while you’ve save 2 people that would have died from the disease, you’ve killed 2, presumably by treating false positives and/or a relatively high risk from the treatment.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I think pretty much. The numbers are made up, but IIRC, example 1 is colon cancer and example 2 is breast cancer.
Now things change if you have a reason to suspect a problem…then the tests become hella-useful.
This came about because I made a comment about PSA tests yesterday morning and Hobbit responded that it saved his life. Which I totally agree with. But the statistics are still questionable.
Of course, do whatever you want, testing wise. I just think looking at the statistics is important.
Sorry, I see for the first example that the all cause mortality went up. So that would argue (again, modulo statistical significance) that the testing is actually harmful in example 1, same as in example 2, but just a it worse since you’ve actually increased all cause.
How did you control for other variables regarding causes of mortality?
I waved it away with an “en ceteris paribus”. In the real studies, they did hard math. And still have big error bars, probably.
Of course, do whatever you want, testing wise. I just think looking at the statistics is important.
Certainly. To maybe trivialize it a bit, if you hit a hard 13 against the dealer 6, get an 8 for 21 and the dealer ends up a 19, you’ve won at that individual level. But at the population level, if everyone does that, the casino just gets more rich more quickly.
So in some way, it’s population level vs. individual, seen vs. unseen, realized vs unrealized. You won’t convince someone that is saved by the test that the testing regime is a mistake, even if it actually leads to worse outcomes at the population level – and of course worse outcomes at the population level means that there were a significant number of individuals directly harmed by the testing regime. Seen vs unseen.
PutridMeat,
Absolutely. I have argued that Bastiat’s “That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen” is the most important economic book ever. At least for laymen.
Wheeler-Dealer-in-Chief strikes again
Norwegian energy company Equinor will resume construction on its offshore wind farm in New York, after the Trump administration lifted its order to halt work on the project.
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Burgum said he was encouraged by Hochul’s “willingness to move forward on critical pipeline capacity.”
“Americans who live in New York and New England would see significant economic benefits and lower utility costs from increased access to reliable, affordable, clean American natural gas,” the Interior secretary said in a post on social media platform X.
Hochul did not mention natural gas in her statement, though she “reaffirmed that New York will work with the Administration and private entities on new energy projects that meet the legal requirements” under state law. New York has a history of opposing new natural gas pipelines.
Sometimes you have to shoot a hostage or two.
Couldn’t we just you know, eliminate the Gove and Legislature, throw out the garbage added to the books in New York since 1903 and reduce the state to territorial status?
I mean I’d need a new job, but on the plus side there would be real jobs moving in.
Carve off NYC into an independent city-state, and a lot of the problems go away.
But I really want to clean up the books. Line item repeal of bad law is slow.
This probably should happen with most big cities, at least the ones that comprise over half the state population.
lol I wonder how expensive that electricity is going to have to be in order to just break even.
Cuz the last I heard, all the unicorn fart companies pulled out because the economics don’t work.
Stand by for an important press release
The current bill text would grind our economy to a halt by stealing 830,000 jobs by 2030, costing America more than $1 trillion in GDP by 2034, and increasing power prices 50% by 2035 according to new Energy Innovation analysis of energy-related provisions of the 2025 House Reconciliation bill.
By killing off existing clean energy tax incentives, Congress would kneecap our ability to build new power generation fast enough to meet soaring energy demand. Electricity demand is forecast to increase up to 15.8% in the next four years, with 128 gigawatts of new load expected on the grid as the AI race heats up. But the Reconciliation bill text would force expected clean energy capacity additions to fall dramatically – 114 GW by 2030 and 302 GW by 2035 – right when we need it most.
Warning signs are flashing for our economy: Inflation is rising and 82% of Americans are already worried about a potential recession. Clean energy is what’s available right now, and it cuts costs for families and businesses. But this bill would destabilize our economic competitiveness and set us back years against China and other economies to meet rising global demand for energy technologies.
America’s economy and families simply can’t afford this bill.
We have to protect our phony baloney jobs!
Now I know WTH an “attenuator” is.
https://www.jalopnik.com/1864632/penske-racing-caught-cheating-causes-doubts-over-2024-indy-500-win/
Best part is a race winning seam sealed version is currently in the IMS museum.
Best part is a race winning seam sealed version is currently in the IMS museum.
The best/richest teams have always gone to huge lengths to clean up air flow over the bodywork in order to reduce drag.
There is a lot of talk about the added weight of the hybrid system. In the good old days, teams were permitted to build their own suspensions and play (within limits) with wheelbase changes. I am absolutely certain there would be an epidemic of swept back suspensions to move that added mass forward.
Now everything comes from the Dallara parts catalog. The real crime is tampering with the Dallara factory parts.
Hence the reason I actually watch more NASCAR than most any other series. Not that I watch lots of racing.
My personal favorite:
https://www.jalopnik.com/how-the-best-racing-cheat-of-all-time-worked-1792828060/