MONTAG!
Monday is the day I drag through the pending posts, see if we have enough material to keep this site lurching along for another week/month, then fight spelling errors, grammatical oopsies and the like. And nuke the sidebar. Always nuke the sidebar. Feel free to bang something out on the ol’ keyboard and send ‘er in! I’ll get to it, and mash it in sometime.
But you came here to comment, post your own links and generally carry on. Thus, I will get the formalities out of the way.
Bonus link: Illinois sucks.
Comments belong to you, music too.
The start was on a three-metre ramp, followed by a descent down Olten’s Mühlegasse. Accident insurance is compulsory, as is a helmet. There were repeated crashes during the race. However, there have never been any serious injuries, said Aspinall. Just grazes and bruises.
Sad.
We must burn the books, Montag.
I remember a Montag from TOS.
Bradbury was ahead of his time, although I’m sure his target wasn’t The Left as it existed then (more likely holy rollers). The books were being destroyed because they might give offence to this that or the other demographic.
Communists were banning books back then.
And I think it was Budd Schulberg (Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront) who said that Hollywood’s Communists were all for free speech — as long as you said things they agreed with.
You be Ilin'(ois)!
And that sounds even dumber than it did in my head.
How do I nuke the sidebar? Sorry to make work for you
If you don’t see it, you can’t…might just be a full editor control.
Yeah, mine ends at tags
Same. We cannot help Swiss.
As a show of solidarity, I will go buy a block of Swiss cheese.
I won’t buy cheese, I’ll just sit here and Watch.
AYFKM? $2.5BB to renovate the Fed’s central offices? That would be outrageous for a brand new building, but a renovation? And according to Powell, they aren’t really even doing that much, so what are you complaining?
Cant keep the con up if you screw your marks
That’s more than the projected cost to move Browns Stadium.
1) It was 2021 — Congress was throwing trillions of dollars around, so what’s $2.5 billion between friends?
b) Powell is never going to say that they’re going for gold-plated fixtures everywhere. To do so would be an admission of gilt.
I don’t think they were going for gold-plated furniture, rather gold-plated bank accounts.
Illinois gas tax increase, new minimum wage and more: New Illinois laws in effect July 1
New laws in the DMV
You can take the GED in Spanish in Maryland. It’s not like English proficiency is needed for a diploma there.
Is proficiency in anything required? Some states hand out diplomas to illiterate students.
Attendance is the only metric that matters, since it’s the only thing that affects compensation.
The participants in the World Championships were mainly from Switzerland. “But we invented the race, so we might as well call it the World Championships,” Lee Aspinall, inventor and co-organiser of the event, told Keystone-SDA.
Calling it the “World Championships” at something Americans apparently aren’t best at? I don’t think they’re going to take that sitting down.
Americans would crush the competition. If there’s one thing we excel at, it’s sitting down.
Swiss REAL ID is coming
The US is falling behind. Get working on REAL ID 2.
Does the universe explode if you make Real ID in Unreal Engine?
It’s only money. It’s not like we can ever run out.
Ok, I have always opposed the open plan office concept, but I guess if you make it open enough it comes back around to working.
I didn’t see it mentioned today, so join me in wishing happy birthday to two of the most prominent philosophers of our time.
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” — Thomas Sowell
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” — ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson
Thanks for posting about Sowell’s birthday.
Where are the American anti-graft protests…?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/migrant-kids-trafficked-to-pedophiles-under-biden-are-being-rescued-by-ice-border-czar-tom-homan-tells-pod-force-one/
So my question about all these children here illegally is, why aren’t they being deported?
Oh, and this WordPress thing where I have to log back in every 15 minutes is getting annoying.
I’d imagine they’d have to find a guardian to deport them and it’d create horrible headlines to just send them back home.
Been at the hospital for 6 hours this morning. Little hiccup in the discharge and now waiting for doggie bag of meds.
Bush, Obama and a tearful Bono fault Trump’s gutting of USAID on agency’s last day
Hasn’t someone stepped up to fund such necessary work?
Poor Dems need to find another money laundering operation. I’m sure several thousand will step up to fill the void.
Why don’t they organize another concert? They can call it USAID-AID, or maybe Hands Across the Taxpayer’s Wallet.
Bono
The foreign citizen worth over $700 million crying over the end of U.S. taxpayer dollars being showered on pet projects and outright graft can fuck right off.
It’s very highly likely that Bono’s foundations and charities have received money from USAID, though it too was likely laundered through 3 or 4 other NGO/non-profits before it ever got to his people. There’s a decent chance he was a beneficiary of that laundering.
Nice puff piece, Associated Press. You left out the part about USAID toppling foreign governments and such.
What are a few coups and color revolution among friends?
Causation, straight up
John Roman, who directs the Center on Public Safety & Justice at NORC, a research group at the University of Chicago, said they wanted to figure out why crime rose and then fell in recent years.
“The only thing that happened in America during this period that is of that same scale is the pandemic. And what the pandemic really did was it changed how you spend your day, what you do.”
All of a sudden, there were a lot of young people — who are more likely to commit crimes than older people — at home, with little to do. And, Roman says, a vital support system was ripped away: public services. Between March and May of 2020, the country’s local government workforce shrank by nearly 10%.
“They’re the biggest employer of teachers. They employ coaches and counselors and aides and all the people that young people connect with,” Roman says. “They employ physical health, mental health, behavioral health providers, and they fund all the local programming in the area. They fund your community center.”
Government growth reduces crime. Joe Biden did it.
Asher and other crime analysts have zeroed in on what they say is a primary driver of the rise and subsequent decline: the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just in from Pfizer: Studies show that our COVID vaccine cures murder!
I didn’t need a study to tell you this.
Hasn’t someone stepped up to fund such necessary work?
Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett has a few billion dollars under the couch cushions. Maybe he can help.
Orange Man Bad is going to put us in another Great Depression
US stocks climbed to fresh records on Monday amid signs of progress in trade talks, ending one of the most volatile first halves of a year in recent memory.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose over 0.6%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) moved up about 0.5%, with both indices notching new record highs as the benchmark index closed above 6,200 for the first time. Big Tech giants Nvidia (NVDA) and Meta (META) hit their own fresh records.
If you see a leftist in the street, beat him. He’ll know why.
Alligator Alcatraz is open for business tomorrow.
🐊🕋
Oops
I will be severely disappointed if it doesn’t have an alligator-filled moat.
Surrounded by the Everglades doesn’t suffice?
Related
“We are still in Biden’s economy!”
~proggie froggies
Thomas Sowell’s random thougts:
https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/9780817947521_441.pdf
Hard to pick a favorite…
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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lol tru
What are young men afraid of?
A civil lawsuit accusing BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff of rape has been dismissed, according to court records.
The parties jointly agreed to dismiss with prejudice, ending the case which was filed last month. None of the parties was immediately available for comment.
Retzlaff now plans to transfer from BYU as he faces a possible seven-game suspension for violating the school’s honor code by admitting to premarital sex during the legal proceedings, sources told ESPN. He has begun informing staff and teammates of his intention to leave, sources said.
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The woman alleged Retzlaff raped, strangled and bit her in November 2023. In a response to that lawsuit filed Friday, a lawyer representing Retzlaff denied those allegations but said Retzlaff had consensual sex with the woman.
The response indicated Retzlaff and the woman traded lighthearted text messages for months after the encounter and characterized the lawsuit as an extortion attempt based on the idea that Retzlaff developed into an NFL prospect roughly a year later.
The lawsuit described the encounter much differently.
Somewhere along the way, he allegedly fixed her cable.
Breaking
Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to all counts in the killings of four University of Idaho students, sparing him from the death penalty, according to a letter sent to victims’ family members.
Kohberger — who was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in connection with the 2022 killings of roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin — will be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences on the murder counts and the maximum penalty of 10 years on the burglary count, according to the plea agreement.
He will waive all right to appeal, the agreement said.
Was there ever a motive? At one point it sounded like he did it just to prove he could do it and get away with it.
No such luck, I guess.
amusing:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-perfect-storm-as-israel-s-war-on-iran-pushes-the-taliban-towards-total-collapse/ar-AA1HHnQa
See, an influx of migrants will cause instability and possible collapse. Just in Afghanistan and absolutely nowhere else.
Well, there’s another site I won’t visit again….
Banned for a week because of “violent language against women”, and using “targeted aggression”. They admonish me to “reassess [my] intentionality and thoughtfulness”, and tell me my “choice of words is harmful.”
“I’d kick a nun to get black faceplates for [some Eurorack modules].”
That’s what I wrote.
They can eat a massive fucking box of dicks. Homey don’t play the shame game.
Big nun, swinging their ban hammer.
You don’t mess with the penguins.
I guess I’m just not capable of understanding the thought process behind “criminalizing” speech, particularly speech that is so obviously a joke to anyone not looking to be offended by seemingly quite literally everything. It just seems too absurd that someone could interpret that statement as “targeted aggression.” These people are walking parodies of human beings. They’re bodies that walk and talk but have no capacity for human interaction.
Nuns with Euroracks are swingin’
I think I see the problem.
You mean their ban ruler, right?
What’s so wrong with Eurorack modules?
Was it “Nuns.com”?
Unfortunately Woodchipper kicked a Sister of Battle. RIP
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At age 5, we’d learn Oscar has an IQ of 125, 18 points higher than mine, placing him in the top 5% of his peers. But at 3, when he refused to take the test seriously, the psychologist deemed him cognitively delayed and recommended ABA, an approach critics say can be traumatic for kids with anxiety or PDA.
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I’m not sure it can be accurately measured at ages that young.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/my-son-was-expelled-from-preschool-at-age-4-i-learned-that-being-a-good-mom-isn-t-about-having-a-good-kid/ar-AA1HHhOl
How did Oscar do on the math part of the test?
Reading articles by mid-wits, which is being generous to her, rots your brain.
Half-wits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTDsJd1l7Aw
Who knows, maybe Oscar is even smarter than a 5th grader:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNlkAF-Z3kk
Or even the average bear…
They admonish me to “reassess [my] intentionality and thoughtfulness”, and tell me my “choice of words is harmful.”
That’s retarded.
It’s like they were dropped on their heads as kids.