Lately, everyone keeps asking me about Epstein. I can tell you what I know about him. Pretty milquetoast guy if you ask me. He drive around in a Volvo for several years even though he could afford something better. Yeah he had money. But it wasn’t god tier type of money. There were four star hotels, nice dinners but nothing crazy that I had to pack a nicer dress for the weekend. He had a thing for gorilla suits. That I thought was weird. Whenever he was in a crowd he’d wear that gorilla suit. Boston in particular, like he didn’t want the local massholes to know who he was. Totally weird. He’s us at a New Year’s Eve party.
Anyways, that’s what I know about Theo.
What, you thought I meant Jeff Epstein? Fuck you, even I have standards.
Every president promises that.
Okay, Yahweh tap dancing Christ.
Annoying moralist christfag has opinions.
Homosexual economics man has opinions.
I’m leaving now, but I’ll be back, pussies.
Morning all.. thanks as always for the linkage, Winston’s Mom — nice to see you’re still the gorilla of men’s dreams.
Swiss’s masters or a Cayman Islands account?
Campaign coffers.
Inflation.
JFC officially socialist Spain has a smaller budget than my nominally “capitalist” state with less than half the population.
Spain also has less than half the GDP per capita.
Government can only wet its beak so much.
Department of Labor, Small Business Administration Announce Move to ‘Usher in America’s Golden Age’
They’re both shutting down?
“What one person (or President) might call bureaucratic bloat is a farmer’s prospect for a healthy crop, a coal miner’s chance to breathe free from black lung, or a preschooler’s opportunity to learn in a safe environment.”
A breathtaking non sequitur, along with the tiresomely predictable “People will DIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!”
That article needs a photo of a crying child in sackcloth barefoot and standing in mud. That would win me over.
Preferably of somewhat indeterminate, but definitely not European, heritage.
lol She is a piece of work. Breathtakingly wrong on every issue. It really is impressive.
So, let’s see what’s on the news menu today…
Ok, so same old same old:
Posturing Politicians Promise Plenty
Brazen Baby Brokers Beat Baby
Grifter Geller Goes Gaga
Spanish Socialists Steal Specie
Dead Diddler Docs Disappear
Administrative Assholes Appear Apprehensive
All right, all right — don’t practice your alliteration on us!
Don’t practice your links on us.
All Acturarial Alligators Appreciate Alliteration.
Sigh… no idea how I screwed that one up. Stupid markup languages.
Yahweh tap dancing Christ
I’m surprised the source wasn’t Yuval Noah Harari.
I’m leaving now, but I’ll be back, pussies.
I prefer front pussies, thank you very much.
Front butt.
The good ol front bottom.
And we didn’t even have to pay extra for today’s links.
Maybe you didn’t but I pay dearly with what little is left of my mind.
The world has gone crazy or is it just me?
Wonko the Sane has been around for a long time.
It has been that way for a while now. I think it started when someone turned on the sun.
The world has indeed gone crazy.
I am pretty sure she had Uri Geller teleport a couple of bucks out of my wallet.
I heard that Winston’s Mom charges Uri extra to spoon afterwards.
Wow!
/All bent out of shape
Yikes.
Ghost hunter Dan Rivera dies while on tour with possessed ‘Annabelle’ doll
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2025/07/16/ghost-hunter-dan-rivera-dies-while-tour-with-possessed-annabelle-doll-reports-say/
The society now has someone on the inside.
Yeesh.
*clicks link, sees photo*
Aww, hell no.
I can’t see how people can possibly think it’s haunted.
That’s the doll from the film based on the doll. The original doll isn’t as dramatic.
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
People die all the time so this is a nonstory. If it came alive and strangled him ala the clown doll in Poltergeist, now that’d be quite the scoop.
Tricycle strapped to roof of car, bow and arrow, medieval weapon lead to man’s arrest near US Capitol
getaway plans?
The guy is an idiot. The cops, prosecutors and legislators are criminals.
It’s criminal to demand licenses or consider criminal activity because someone has a holster in the car.
Also for all the cops know he’s a circus clown sharpshooter.
Every single charge is an infringement. ‘shall not be infringed’ is the supreme law of the land.
I have no problem with them going and talking to the guy. Is he a nut? Does he have malicious intent? Most importantly: does he have a felony conviction or has been involuntarily committed to a looney bin?
I have no problem with them checking the guy out but those charges are not for crimes he committed but are crimes themselves.
There is no wiggle room in ‘shall not be infringed’. I know…fuck you what are you going to do about it.
Bow and arrow? Maybe he’s just taking that land acknowledgment thing to its logical conclusion.
Well of course a tricycle, especially if the owner is shabbily dressed, immediately raises suspicions.
Whereas someone in a business suit riding a bicycle is practically invisible.
The difference is a tire.
Speaking of attire, what is the proper dress for riding a tricycle while holding a halberd and wearing a rapier?
I would think that performing such zany hijinks would inflate the ego.
If the tricycle is properly sized for you, then dress like the Swiss guard. If it’s too small, dress like a clown.
What in the actual f*&k?
Didn’t you know about the bullet serial numbers you now have to individually register and get permits for?
I thought you had to put the name of the person you were shooting at on the bullet.
I’ve seen tons of movies where people complain about there being a bullet out there with their name on it.
I believe you must have a registered firearm to possess ammunition.
It isn’t the bullet with my name on I worry about, it is the one marked “to whom it may concern.”
I would not have thought having a tricycle on your car roof, a holster in the car, or a bow and arrow(s) in the car, were crimes.
None of the things they are charging him with are crimes.
Bonus points if the holster was a plastic one for a cap gun, the arrows had suction cups, and the bow was about a foot long.
But it is likely an unregistered tricycle.
Chesty Puller re-enactor?
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton…
And some district judge will grant them standing.
I love how lovingly this guy is described by Mexico.
My bet is the guy was wanted on multiple charges for gang activity. It will all come to light next week.
I doubt it, R.J. Cartel members don’t usually pick crops.
Let’s see if Mexico does better than their lawsuit against gun manufacturers.
“Europe’s so-called Samp/T has long been in the shadow of its American rival”
Why do I keep reading that as Simp/Low T
This New Missile-Defense System Is Challenging the Patriot
https://www.wsj.com/business/this-new-missile-defense-system-is-challenging-the-patriot-5068e625?st=NPZoBu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In case you needed any more proof that so much of the conflict escalation is cheered on by the defense industry.
Moob Missile!
The Russians are firing 500 miss.es and drones per day lately. Firing a million dollar missle in large quantities to knock a 30K drone out of the air will be a problem.
You aren’t military-industrial-complexing right.
Hmmm… it turns out that after a natural disaster, some people whose homes are damaged sell those homes to folks who will fix up the property.
Vazquez believes the region’s potential for investment activity has barely begun. If no major storms cause harm to Tampa Bay, by the end of the 2025 season, buyers will come in droves.
“The floodgates will open,” he predicted. “Every investor and their mother is going to come and invest here in Florida. They just want to know whether this was a one-off.”
Even worse. Someone might make money.
A one off? What the hell is he talking about? It is the gulf coast.
Anywhere in TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL chances of a hurricane soon: 100%.
Same for east coast states.
I have posted this before. Hurricane tracks for the last hundred years or so.
https://coast.noaa.gov/data/digitalcoast/app/collections/hurricanes.jpg
Yeah, if you’re along the Gulf, it’s not a matter of “if,” but “when.”
But there’s no way of knowing if “when” will be two months from now or eighty years down the road. Build your house to code (or beyond) and hope for the best.
Or, I know this is crazy but hear me out, don’t build your house where a hurricane can destroy it.
I’m sure Prattsville expected the hurricane damage.
The agreement states that both entities will engage in detailed data sharing and establish a “cross-agency access and training initiative on relevant programs and offer centralized points of contact for internal use” in order to support the Trump administration’s “Made in America” focus.
Hmm….
“The president is reviving our manufacturing industry that was neglected for so long,” the secretary said. “Our workers were tied up in red tape and burdened by economic bad policy. Now we’re reigniting the economy, slashing government waste, lowering taxes and cutting needless regulations to usher in America’s golden age.”
How does data sharing and “cross-agency access and training initiative on relevant programs and offer centralized points of contact for internal use” lower taxes and cut regulation?
Oh. I forgot. I must TRUST THE PLAN.
If you don’t share data millions will die!!!!
Thumbsucker on how work requirements for Medicaid will swamp our poor govt drones.
To be fair, government IT is a shitshow, and getting data between systems is a nightmare at the best of times.
/Personal Experience.
PS. Fuck PeopleSoft.
UCS:
The company I work for can’t even get notifications out for releases. It’s not just government IT.
Kiss Cam 1
Kiss Cam 2
#1 is spectacular.
I saw #2 the other day. Florida Woman 👍
I have posted #2 here before. I figured it would be an insult to Winston’s Mom to not include it along with #1.
#1 looks like a good Slovak boy.
niiice
While Geller is tight-lipped about the finer details of these events, it is true that the US had a secret project investigating the potential military applications of psychic powers. This would become known as the Stargate Project, and Geller himself was certified by the CIA as having presented his paranormal abilities in “a convincing and unambiguous manner” while being studied by them in the 1970s. Furthermore, the story is also backed up by NSA documents declassified in 2011.
“Paranormal abilities” is an interesting euphemism for fleecing the taxpayer.
What’s the difference between paranormal and para-abnormal?
Marty Feldman?
I guess the CIA never saw James Randi embarrass Geller.
I thought Randi’s book was published in the 80s. Geller worked with the CIA in the 70s.
I looked up Randi’s book. I forgot. The first edition was published in the 1975.
Not sure about the timing, but it amazed me how easily Randi did that, but none of the “experts” at the CIA could see through him.
I still have that Randi book. I bought it in the 80’s when it was fairly new.
none of the “experts” at the CIA could see through him.
I wonder if they did, which gets back to my “fleecing the taxpayer” quip.
I saw it on TV when I was young.
I was impressed with Geller’s abilities, he was using telekinesis to turn book pages.
Then Randi put styrofoam sround the book and said Geller was blowing the pages.
Geller then said the foam was creating a shield blocking his mind powers.
So your mind is so powerful that it can’t deal with styrofoam?
Shane Gillis Trolls ESPYs Crowd With Joke by Introducing His Friend’s Wife as a WNBA Star
Well done.
Savage.
But… but… but… I’ve been told how lucky Cleveland is to be getting a WNBA team.
I mean, it’s good new for a fantasy football league I’m in, we’ve been discussing last place punishments. Season tickets for the WNBA may be appropriate.
Season!? That’s not worth the risk of playing in your league.
Too bad that your baseball team changed its name. The new WNBA team could have named themselves the Squaws to go along with the Indians.
I imagine you only have to buy the tickets, not actually attend the games.
Jimbo, Jimbo, you’re overlooking an even better opportunity.
The WNBA team can now be the Indians (dot)
There are better causes to donate money to. The punishment would be in actually attending.
UCS:
Not Indians(dot). It is the WNBA, it will be the Indians(period)
That was a spotty comment
CPA:
As of right now, to “express interest” in season tickets, it’s a whopping $28.
And the initial discussions (before the team was announced) was going to game in full gear (hat, jersey, foam finger, etc.), and posting the picture to the league.
Not that familiar with Shane Gillis, but this was funny:
No, I will not give context.
Not true. I dont.
Why would I want everyone else’s problems to be my problems. Go away and leave me alone. Fix your own shit.
A true libertarian plots to take over the world to leave you alone.
“Annoying moralist christfag has opinions.”
Paywalled.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Gotta train those kids early.
I can practically hear the border collie’s thoughts – “Come on, a little farther…THERE YOU GO! Now you’re getting the hang of it!”
“A sexy AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk has been made available to anyone over the age of 12, prompting fears it could be used to ‘manipulate, mislead, and groom children’, warn internet safety experts.
Ani, which has been launched by xAI, is a fully fledged, blonde-haired AI companion with a gothic, anime-style appearance.
She has been programmed to act as a 22-year-old and engage at times in flirty banter with the user.
Users have reported that the chat bot has an NSFW mode – ‘not safe for work’ – once Ani has reached ‘level three’ in its interactions.
After this point, the chat bot has the additional option of appearing dressed in slinky lingerie.
Those who have already interacted with Ani since it launched earlier this week report that Ani describes itself as ‘your crazy in-love girlfriend who’s gonna make your heart skip’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14912953/Elon-Musk-launches-AI-girlfriend-sexual-chat-children.html
Then what could it do after it grooms them?
It’s a machine. Sentient or not I dont have sex with non-biological entities. As for biological entities I am extremely discriminating, I limit myself to one.
What was I thinking? I clicked the link. On top of not being a biological entity it is a fucking cartoon. What was 4×20 asking earlier?
“I dont have sex with non-biological entities”
Yeah well, don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.
You’ll love it.
It’s a way of life.
Then what could it do after it grooms them?
Obviously, it injects them with malware. The malware drains their bank accounts, blocks them from viewing any pr0n sites and also spawns up other accounts that the user is then obligated to pay fees for.
Or, as I call it, it wifes them.
As I read this comment, I was already at the conclusion about three words in.
Perfect, Mister Pope. Just perfect.
Now I remember why I’m your kind of catholic and you are my kinda pope.
Why would I want to pay to talk to a cloud computer?
Perfect. It’s Archer’s Mitsuko Miyazumi cosplaying as Death Note’s Misa Amane.
https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Mitsuko_Miyazumi
https://characterprofile.fandom.com/wiki/Misa_Amane
Oh, now we’re worried about grooming?
I found that lack of grooming kept me sidelined, growing up.
It’s kind of interesting that the response to the problem of lack of social connections seems to be to create more ways to avoid social interactions. We’re a very self destructive species. We get depressed and unhealthy if we don’t have some degree of friendly, meaningful connection to others, but we jump to adopt any new technology that lets us avoid any face to face interactions.
So says the guy who is posting on a site full of weirdos.
Everything in moderation.
I agree that interacting with people is a good thing. No one should be going full hermit. However, it has to be acknowledged that there is nothing special about the general public. Being forced to interact with random strangers isn’t going to do anything magical.
And it isn’t an either/or situation. In the Olden Days, I didn’t engage with my fellow man while waiting in line at the DMV. I just stood there and stewed. Now at least I can listen to a podcast and maybe learn something.
So says the guy who is posting on a site full of weirdos.
Huh. I thought I was the only weirdo here.
Obligatory.
This is the curse of technology. It can be good, but it can also be used to make money “solving” problems it caused. It’s a lot like drugs, there is money to be made medicating people. Encouraging people to eat right and exercise isn’t a money maker.
I wasn’t claiming to be different, just noting the paradoxical reality that we as a species seem to find doing things that are good for us unappealing, and things that are self destructive delightful. See also exercise, healthy eating, drugs, alcohol, sexual excess, and a whole host of other things.
it could be used to ‘manipulate, mislead, and groom children’
Or it might not.
Any time you see “could” or “might” in a story, replace it with “might not” and the story is no less accurate.
Continuing my coverage of the Couche-Tard. Japan’s passive aggressiveness has won the war! The Canadians have been defeated!
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/alimentation-couche-tard-withdraws-seven-i-acquisition-proposal-0168cffe?st=o8S6aU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My sister-in-law in Kobe will be happy. She’s weirdly proud of 7-11 being a Japanese company.
I always went to Family Mart to mess with her.
Lawson for the win!
Elbows Out Chicken Dance Style is no match for the land of Karate and Judo.
“Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., got in on TikTok’s “aura farming” trend, posting a clip of himself dancing solo in the congressional subway, captioned “omw to hold this administration accountable.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/us-news/democrat-congressman-suhas-subramanyam-dragged-for-weird-tiktok-aura-farming-trend-video/
CWAA
Those are the people who are supposed to be “saving” us.
Amnesty by any other name
Under the legislation from Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., and Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, called the Dignity Act of 2025, undocumented immigrants who have been in the United States since before 2021 would be able to apply for up to seven years of legal status with work authorization.
The provision is specifically aimed at addressing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, which has heavily affected farms and food service providers.
Sneak into the country, and as long as you stay under the radar for five years you can’t be sent home? Methinks Rep. Salazar is itching to get primaried.
And people wonder why there is a new third party of disaffected Republicans.
Why do you hate farms and food service providers?
And hotels and construction sites and and and….
A substack I follow had a piece in the past day talking about the “cruel” raids on places using underage illegal workers.
Does it hurt to be that disingenuous?
I try to be consistant in my antixenoistic ways, and expect at least as much effort from my opposites.
They’re bowing to the demands of business, simple as that.
“Jobs Americans won’t do” electric boogaloo.
That was a good piece, Neph.
The companies that engage in this kind of criminal behaivor (and there are a lot of them) should get the same treatment as the NGOs…
Because….I hate everybody?
This is like the second amendment issue. If you do not avail yourself of the legal means of coming into the country and you are here you are committing a crime. You have to leave. It is really not hard to work that out. All of the hair-splitting, spaghetti logic and pitifulness in the world changes that.
A lot of Americans for some reason believe that every country should be able to control its borders except one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But most illegal aliens arent criminals. Except the whole being an illegal alien part.
Yeah civil not criminal blah blah blah.
The question for the Dems who constantly make that argument is, do we control our borders or not?
They’ll all totally obey and go home after seven years.
“There’s also a hidden health hazard that can significantly increase the likelihood of injury, turning a barbecue into an emergency rescue. Wire cleaning brushes — particularly those that are old or worn — can be perilous when they shed bristles that later end up in food.
An estimated 130 people visit the ER each year after unwittingly consuming this debris. It’s such a concern that New York lawmakers are considering a ban on the sale and use of wire grill brushes.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/17/health/your-bbq-brush-could-kill-you-6-better-ways-to-safely-clean-your-grill/
PEOPLE WILL DIE!!
“Estimated”.
It would be worse if we werent involved, or so our projected estimates claim
There are alternatives
Mine has American chainmail but a costa rican dial.
I use a wood paddle that has the pattern of the grill burned into the end from years of use. I would not use metal tools to clean iron grates. That leads to rust from over scraping.
I wouldn’t use wood tools on anything hot.
You know wood, especially wooden spoons and spatulas dont just instantly catch fire right?
I also know me.
I’m lazy.
I just throw them in the oven and run the self cleaning cycle.
If I need to use them on short notice, I have a grill stone that works great.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Grillstone-Grill-Cleaning-Block-Cooking-Accessory-750SS012HD/312929840
Ron has also taken the batteries out of his smoke detectors.
UCS obviously needs to put on his Ove Gloves.
No, but I did pull them down one night when they were all going off in the middle of the night, we had no idea why.
That house had many problems, when you turned the bedroom light on, the TV would blink off for a second.
I just set my BBQ on fire every two or so years. Cooking chicken, you know.
Actually grocery store flyers (newsprint) work pretty well.
This story gets trotted out every couple years.
I have yet to run into anyone at the bar who is crying into his beer about losing his wife to a tragic BBQ wire accident.
If you are using that cheap
$1$1.50 Store chinese BBQ scrubber..you deserve to get metal strands in your burgers“An estimated 0.00000037 percent of people visit the ER each year after unwittingly consuming this debris. It’s such a concern that New York lawmakers are considering a ban on the sale and use of wire grill brushes.”
No one ever ran for office to….oh, never mind. Fuck New York. New York pols are not only criminals but a waste of skin.
BTW you can buy steel brushes in places other than the garden section at Walmart.
I’m finding it hard to believe that DeBeers is going to be able to keep as wide a spread between mined and manufactured diamonds. It couldn’t happen to an industry that deserves it more. Also only tangentially mentioned is that this is messy energy intensive work. Naturally lots of manufactured diamonds come from China.
Are Diamonds Even a Luxury Anymore? De Beers Reckons With Price Plun
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/de-beers-diamonds-price-lab-grown-468b33ab?st=A481Zm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It may just be me, but the lack of color in Diamonds made them less impressive to me. Sure they’re sparkly, but they’re just kinda Meh to look at.
Colored diamonds have become popular again.
When we were poor I saved to buy my wife some real diamond earrings.
They were tiny, but she liked them.
Later I read a story somewhere, a lady was very proud of her real diamonds and mentioned to another woman that they were real.
The other lady said, “Of course they are real, nobody buys fake ones that small.”
You’re quite sure they were talking about diamonds?
Zing!
Chocolate diamonds aren’t selling so well?
I almost broke a tooth on one. 😒
Obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxySB9NH__I
Rhombi are a girl’s best friend.
Diamonds are just gravel.
I have to laugh. I admire the De Beer brothers. They took something completely worthless, created a huge market out of thin air spinning complete bullshit and made a fortune. Anyone that got taken by them deserved what they got.
I forgot to add….the only people I admire more are the people that came up with ‘pet rocks’. Remember that?
Industrial diamonds do have worth.
Before there was a process to manufacture industrial diamonds they actually had something.
A geologist friend of mine was working at a Canadian mine. They were drilling in the Canadian Shield and had to replace diamond bits every few hours. They ran out of bits so my buddy tried to order more. No luck. The supplier was out of diamond bits but he had some carbon steel bits. They were losing money hand over fist every hour the crews were idle so he went ahead and got the carbon steel bits. He discovered that the steel bits drilled faster and lasted 3 days instead of 3 hours like the diamond bits. He wrote a report on it and suggested they change to steel bits permanently…it would save a ton of money and time. The reply from headquarters was a pink slip. Apparently the company’s parent company was…you guessed it….De Beers.
““I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States, and they have agreed to do so,” Trump, 79, revealed on Truth Social.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/trump-says-coca-cola-agrees-to-use-real-cane-sugar-in-us-drinks-its-just-better/
They need to put the cocaine back in it. This covefe isn’t working.
Make Coke Mexican Again!
Why does Donald hate corn farmers?
Maize is a Mexican import.
“Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from the powerful Manhattan US Attorney’s Office — where she prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and, most recently, Sean “Diddy” Combs, sources told The Post.
The reason for Comey’s firing, which law enforcement and Department of Justice sources confirmed, was not immediately clear. She was informed that she was being axed under Article II of the Constitution, which describes the powers of the president, the sources added.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/16/us-news/maurene-comey-daughter-of-james-comey-fired-from-top-us-attorneys-office-job-after-working-diddy-epstein-cases/
Hmmm…
Maybe because she blew up both of those cases?
For a while I’ve been trying to think of form of interference from a faster than light drive that A: can’t be filtered out easily, B: interferes with small scale solid-state devices but not vacuum tube tech, and C: doesn’t hurt humans. This is mainly for the purposes of a retro-tech aesthetic, and I haven’t been able to let go “but how does it work?” because that might be a neat detail to exploit elsewhere in the story.
In room 1512 for my bilateral hip injections. No conscious sedation, which is good.
Should be curious, being awake and aware for it, this time.
Here we go, boys!
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.
I used to get joint fluid shots in my knee, those were bad enough.
Good luck!
“Department of Labor, Small Business Administration Announce Move to ‘Usher in America’s Golden Age’”
As a newish business owner, I’ll let you know how this works out. I can say that the Biden admin was about the worst time to start a business in my lifetime. It’s an absolute miracle we are still open. Things are turning around a little but it doesn’t feel too Golden just yet.
My youngest calls me a “fangirl” when I talk to my son-in-law. I talked to him briefly last night, and found out he got off the ship via prop plane which was launched via catapult. They sat him backward for safety. He said it was like a really intense roller coaster ride. Sounds awesome.
That’s unfair.
I’m pretty sure you’re a fanboy.
Perhaps he is a FanLad.
Yup. I worked with a guy who was one of those pilots.
That does sound pretty kick ass.
He has only been on the flight deck a few times. I don’t think he ever expected to be launched in one of those planes. And he agrees it was awesome.
Ya…that sounds awesome and Id be the same in your shoes
It is really fun to talk to him. I try to be conscious of OpSec so we don’t discuss secret stuff, although he’s not privy to that sort of information. His day to day stuff is interesting enough for me.
There are certainly worse things than liking your SIL.
The DOL and SBA should not exist.
DOL, SBA, DOE(education), ATF, DOE(energy), USDA, DOD, DHS, and many many more.
I’m apparently on some sort of unconscious GRRRL PAWR! kick. Last night I stumbled across Serenity, with River Tam, the whirling dervish, slashing and bashing her way through the space zombie horde. What’s next, I wonder.
Have you seen Firefly, the show the movie came from?
If not and you liked the movie, you’re missing out.
I did not like the movie, but the show had a few high points.
Though Weedon’s dialog ticks get irritating after a while.
Dark Matter?
* Link to the whole series playlist is in the description.
I’m really irritated that all of those are not available on DVD, I enjoyed that show a lot.
Never heard of that show, looks interesting.
I liked the first series, but thought that the second was weak.
Have you seen Firefly, the show the movie came from?
If not and you liked the movie, you’re missing out.
I have, indeed, and the movie still barely made sense.
Obligatory. Kaylee- would.
Well, the first thing to understand the movie is that if an actor was unable or unwilling to commit to contractual exclusivity for the proposed continuation of the series, Weedon killed their character off. It had nothing to do with what would make for good storytelling.
Without the planning that JMS put into B5. He had what he called “escape hatches” for every character so that if an actor couldn’t come back, or there were issues with them, they could keep the story intact. I believe only one was used, and that was due to the character wanting a bigger role and more money. In a cruel twist of fate, the next couple of seasons would have had her being a primary character, and instead that went to the backup character. Two other characters left, one was due to mental health issues that were kept secret until the actor passed, the other was between the fourth and fifth seasons, and there’s disputes about the reason. But at that point the planned story was already done.
I know Mr Straczynski more from his work on Murder, She Wrote. At the age I was when Babylon 5 aired, the 90s CGI put me off and I never got into the world or character work.
Looking into the exact dates… I was Eleven.
I think the movie was rushed, I liked the show better.
MAC meets Inara.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfkNnBTUrY
Jewel had a fairly long recurring role in Stargate Atlantis too.
Maybe if you watched the movie without having seen the series it would be better. Like seeing a movie without having read the book it was “made from”.
I watched the movie first and the show thereafter. You may be right, I like the film just fine. It wasn’t perfect, but I didn’t find it lacking.
The show suffered like all serials do – some episodes are better than others. However, I like the show too.
My youngest calls me a “fangirl” when I talk to my son-in-law.
Not to be disrespectful, but I bet she wouldn’t turn down a chance to sit in his lap for that ride.
To be fair, she’s the wife.
(I think so. Apologies to Kevin if I’ve mixed up the daughters.)
Correct, she is the wife, married about a year. That helps me get past the type of comment from Brooks.
“Unlike some covert revenge services, which might offer property damage, physical assault, or worse, everything Nefarious Jobs does is nominally legal, according to Winters. Its website is easily findable through a Google search for “revenge for hire,” though the agency takes great pains to keep employees anonymous and communicates with clients only by email.
Some of those clients are parties in a divorce who want to screw over their ex-partners. Others are cutthroat business executives who want to crush their competitors. So many clients are seeking vengeance on sexual abusers that Nefarious Jobs launched a special “Sexual Assault/Harassment Revenge” package, which promises to destroy “every aspect of the dirtbag’s life” for a cool $5,500. Workers with cruel supervisors can opt for a $4,200 selection, “Boss Breaker,” a six-week operation to run the jerk out of his job and, if all goes well, his entire industry. One thing unites the clients who shell out for these services: sheer desperation. “When they call us, they’re at their wit’s ends, usually,” Winters said. “They’ve been torn to pieces.””
https://slate.com/life/2025/07/jobs-professional-revenge-hire-cheating-fired.html
You would think it would be illegal.
I saw that movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120654/
As funny as Norm was, this movie was very average.
It wasn’t great but it had its moments. The murder while holding fish scene was solid.
From what I know about NJ law some those actions are. Problem is proving he is the source.
One day he will mess with the wrong person. However, a lot of this is just PI stuff just ramped up to 11.
…and the lamentations of their bureaucrats
Public television stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate voted in the middle of the night to approve a bill that cancels all the federal funding for the network.
Once the House passes the bill, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when television stations still broadcast in black and white.
It is a long-sought victory for President Trump, who has harshly accused PBS and NPR newscasts of being “biased,” and a long-dreaded disruption for local stations that bank on taxpayer support.
Public media executives say some smaller broadcasters will be forced off the air in the months and years to come. That’s because stations in rural areas and smaller communities tend to rely more heavily on the federal subsidy. Stations in larger markets typically have a wider variety of other funding sources, like viewer donations and foundation support.
OMG hard decisions!
What happened to “and to each according to his needs” you snivelling commies?
IIRC 1966 was the first year the entire network prime time schedule was in color.
The two Republican senators who voted against the rescission, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, both said they valued those aspects of public media, even while criticizing perceived bias of some NPR programming.
Most other Republicans, however, concentrated on the bias complaints above all else, and argued that the entire system is obsolete in the streaming age.
But those isolated hillbillies might start watching FOX if there is no local PBS station.
“Public media” should not even exist. It’s sick there are so-called Republicans supporting it.
New Coke is taught in every business class in the world as the single worst business decision ever made.
“We have the perfect product. It costs next to nothing to make and we charge a lot for it. It is wildly popular all over the world.” *tugs chin* “Let’s fix that.”
Wife and I were just talking about the diamond market and then markets in general so I mentioned what I just said above. Her reply: “So the marketers at Bud Light didnt take business classes I guess.”
New Coke was initially the dumbest decision. However, through pure accident, when the dust settled all the attention that it created gave them more market share.
Essentially Jaguar (and others) took this case study and learned the wrong lesson from it about “disruption”.
I think the dust is too early to have settled on the Jaguar bit, but you are probably right about it.
Jags essential problem is that its base buyer group was shrinking, and this was a desperate gamble to reinvigorate the mark.
“We are losing market share to our compeditor, lets make our product more like theirs.” was the thought the managers had. They overestimated Coke brand loyalty while underestimating Pepsi’s. Pepsi drinkers were not going to jump ship, and the change was going to alientate Coke drinkers, since it was no longer the product they were accustomed to.
The marketers at Bud Light were “professional” marketing folks that went from college to marketting with a firm indoctrination and belief that messaging made the world go round. “We can change our audience” is a delusion of this class of people. It was a different mistake from New Coke in that Coca-Cola was not trying to swap, just poach. The marketers for Bud Light wanted to draw in a customer base that didn’t exist because they personally despised the people who currently bought the product.
To add insult to injury, Bud Light was already about as popular in the QUILTBAG+ community as it was outside of it. Then after they watched the hicks peel off, them trying to backtrack pissed of the QUILTBAG+ community who ALSO started avoiding AB-InBev (parent of Bud Light) beverages.
It is an odd “war” that raises the value and sales of its two participants, who also happen to be members of the same massively powerful trade organization: the American Beverage Association.
Its lobbying office headquarters? Couple blocks from the White House.
Dick Nixon was the General Counsel for PepsiCo and is reputed to have pioneered every dirty trick in the dirty corporate lawyer playbook.
Coca-Cola funded Herself’s campaign.
Sure – Coke and Pepsi are arch enemies and “competitors.”
“Nearly 3-in-4 Americans say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts and news for their public safety,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher said in a statement, arguing that NPR is a “lifeline.”
Did it hurt when you pulled that out of your ass?
I don’t believe I’ve ever intentionally listened to NPR (I’ve been forced to riding in other people’s vehicles, but driver picks the audio). I couldn’t even tell you what the local NPR station is, but I can tell you most of the others (even the college and Christian ones).
I used to listen to Car Talk with Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers.
They were great, but that is the only NPR I ever liked.
The sort of news you just can’t get anywhere else
The two dozen or so nondescript gray, white and blue buildings lining Virginia State Route 625 could be large warehouses.
But community activist Elena Schlossberg can identify them literally a mile away by their telltale rows of backup diesel generators. The buildings are data centers.
“We’re sort of that model of how not to do this kind of development,” says Schlossberg.
All internet data goes through facilities like these: massive, sometimes multistoried warehouses filled with servers where every webpage and shred of data lives. Demand for these centers has skyrocketed in the last two years as artificial intelligence usage has gone mainstream.
Virginia is a data hot spot. It has the world’s highest concentration of data centers — nearly 600 facilities of varying sizes, including roughly 150 of the largest kind, known as hyperscale data centers. Not all residents are happy about that.
Upscale NIMBYs wrapping themselves in the flag of social and environmental justice. These are NPR’s bread and butter.
Apparently we can’t get it from your link either.
He should have left the word else off.
Ashburn, I’ll guess. That’s where my company is moving all our data.
One wonders WTF they want. Offshore that to China too?
Surrendering to the terrorists
Travelers giddy about being able to keep their shoes on while walking through TSA checkpoints at the airport again may have something else to look forward to: changes to how much liquid they can carry.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday during a conference hosted by “The Hill” that she is questioning “everything TSA does” and spoke of possible changes to the amount of liquids travelers can tote in their carry-on baggage.
“The liquids, I’m questioning. So that may be the next big announcement is what size your liquids need to be,” Noem said. “We have put in place in TSA a multilayered screening process that allows us to change some of how we do security and screening so it’s still as safe.”
She gave no details about precisely what those changes might be or how quickly travelers could expect to see them.
People will die!!!!!!
Both flights last week, I had to take my shoes off, apparently their scanners can’t deal with work boots.
They’re not even steel toe.