Today’s the day the NCAA releases it’s report on the TTUN multi-year cheating scandal. I have no idea what to expect, although I’m willing to bet Harbaugh and Stalions both get lifetime show-cause penalties. And there will be a very large fine. Other than that, I got no idea what’s coming. Soccer season in England starts today. Let’s see if Liverpool can repeat. And we keep inching closer and closer to meaningful football. I can’t wait. And that’s it for sports.
JBER gonna be a circus. I need to call my son later this morning and get the scoop on what they’re doing on post for this meeting. Either way, I hope they get a deal or at least a dialogue in place so all those conscripts on both sides can stop getting killed.
This is quality work. Not only are you bound to round up a bunch of illegals, you’re gonna make the guy speaking (further) lose his shit. Man, if he’s this fired up about protecting illegals and redistricting his state, I can’t imagine how mad he got when he heard his wife fucked Harvey Weinstein. Twice.
Oh, the numbers are a lot worse than that. I’d be curious to know which agencies aren’t reporting the data, and the political makeup of their city leadership. I suspect there will be a trend.
“We fixed the glitch.” Somewhere there’s a bunch of 125 year olds clutching at a stapler and wondering where their paycheck is. Watch, CNN will find one. Illegals too.
These judges absolutely know what they’re doing. Especially this asshole, since she’s the one who had her ruling overturned in 2017 over the same issue. Perhaps they should start getting looked at for malfeasance, because she absolutely knows her decision was already ruled on and she’s just doing this to punish, temporarily, people she disagrees with in a way that costs them a ton of money to ultimately get the same result as before.
Why weren’t you helping them before? I mean…you’ve been in charge there for the better part of a century and it just keeps getting worse. Why do you give a shit all of a sudden?
The European mind is like that of a child. The second sentence proves that. Ignition temp is around 400 degrees. No idea the weather got that hot in Europe. The last word of that sentence, arsonists, is what the cause is.
Get a load of these stupid nanny fucks. WARNING: Your state government are a bunch of fags, and their shit’s all retarded.
Want to know how a city goes broke? This is how a city goes broke. Especially since they’re all moving south once they retire. They’re following California and Chicago to insolvency at an alarming pace. It’ll be interesting to see how Mamdani treats them: are they rich bloodsuckers who should be taxed to death, or are they selfless public servants who should be a model for how we treat everybody?
“That guy is evil. I’m gonna do the same thing he did.” Seems kinda hypocritical to me, lady.
Sounding the alarm. But no use of horns. Time to get up and moving. That Weill definitely get your day going. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
I can’t imagine how mad he got when he heard his wife fucked Harvey Weinstein. Twice.
So mad he choked on Diddy
Whenever someone in Colorado shops for a gas stove, whether in person or online, they’ll now see a yellow label that warns them about the air quality impacts.
Go the Prop 65 route and slap it on everything.
Colorado is racing California, Chicago, and NYC for who can get the most stupid and destructive marxistwise first.
Wait till you get to the NY pensions story.
That article doesn’t point out how those ludicrous pensions are being funded. My guess is that if thy are lucky those pension funds are just drastically underfunded instead of on the verge of collapse. Collectivist economics is basically massive graft and abuse of the productive.
NY’s pension funds are not in as big trouble as NJ or IL but yes, they will bankrupt the state sooner rather than later.
There were tons of stories a few years ago about teachers in Illinois double dipping and getting massive pensions, then moving out of state so none of that money went into the Illinois economy. I haven’t heard anything else about it in years.
Im surprised newborns arent tattooed upon birth in California with a prop 65 warning
Well, first they have to figure out how to get a label on the tattoo ink and gun.
“Either way, I hope they get a deal or at least a dialogue in place so all those conscripts on both sides can stop getting killed.”
Doesn’t seem anyone but Trump wants that..
That did impress me during the election. He was the only world leader saying “I want people to stop killing each other.”
APPEASEMENT!!!
That’s what I tell Democrat voters who find it unconscionable that anyone would vote for Trump…
“He was the only one who expressed the notion that maybe, just maybe, we should NOT get into wars with undefined or unattainable success measures. I liked the Democrats when I was younger because they were standing up against the Iraq War, but that anti-war section went into hibernation during Obama and never came out again. Show me someone who keeps us out of these entangling foreign interventions and maybe I’ll think about it.”
* I know most of the Dems supported Iraq War II and then flipped and blamed everything on G.W. Bush, but I was about 14 and just saw it as “war bad, Democrats good”.
This week, in a nationwide ruling, Judge Wendy Beetlestone, chief judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, found that the Trump administration’s expansion of religious exemptions from the contraception mandate was “arbitrary and capricious.”
Would chip.
(Just kidding, Preet*)
*mostly
I mean, who would think nuns have a strong religious belief? I mean, everyone knows Whoopi Goldberg was a nun, and she’s not Catholic!
“Yeah!”
-Eric Idle
Beetlestone. Beetlestone. Beetlestone.
Did she get cast back to the hell she came from?
It should surprise no one that the judge is an Obama-appointed twofer.
What none of the articles I looked at mentioned (and I can’t be arsed to read the opinion) is if the ruling was a temporary or a preliminary injunction, or something else.
Either way, the Third Circuit should swat the ruling into orbit. Judge Beetlestone, too, if that can be arranged.
This one from a couple of days ago reads like it is a permanent rollback of 2017 (Trump v1.0) exemption changes, so a reversion to a lengthy “accomodation” process designed to force compliance.
And while I blame the judge a bit — it reads to me like the states are the ones that did a “The Supremes ruled this way… so we’ll change our arguments a little bit and try again!” — like New York and when they lose 2nd Amendment cases, in a world I mysteriously controlled.. that crap would get slapped down so people don’t suffer eternal lawsuits until the state gets its way. (Seriously… there should be a Double Jeopardy equivalent for some of these suits).
She’s doing a job Americans won’t do.
I object to money from my paycheck being used to promote consequence-free fucking between strangers, and it has nothing to do with religion.
When are MY sincerely-held beliefs going to count?
Birth control is like $30-$50 a month. Even the school kids getting raped by their teachers can figure out how to come up with that much.
Someone pointed out that this was Obama sticking it to his opponents. There is no other reason I can think of that fucking birth control needs to be “covered”.
rhywun:
See also the fact the Democrats blocked OTC hormonal birth control for years because that would remove it from being covered by health insurance. The argument was that it would make birth control more expensive.
Good thing SCOTUS left some gaping loopholes in their ruling on nationwide orders from District courts.
If they can just convince the Grifter and all the EU “so eager to go to war with US blood and treasure” folks to face reality and go along, anyway… we’ll see. They’re more dedicated to this fight than I think is reasonable… so I’m not holding my breath.
And OMB’s resource deal makes me more than a little worried he’s lost the “keep us out of it” script, for that matter.
Yes. Reasons why it’s in Alaska – as far from the EU as possible. Also waited until Congress was sent home for a fake recess (no recess appointments) and the National Guard is on the streets of DC. Hopefully the blob is very unhappy with this summit.
If you think Colorado is tackling real issues, check out Ohio
Regardless of the parks already providing such info all on their own.
Doesn’t everyone elect their state representative to run amusement parks? The State knows best, Citizen.
I have a feeling he’s butt hurt because he went to Cedar Point one of the times the new coaster was shut down.
The ticket price should reflect the value of the rides that are closed.
I want fines when their wait estimates are more than 5 minutes off!
Many, many apologies for the early OT, but Intel has just told GM, “hold my beer”.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/us-stake-intel-1ff24500?st=1D5jMA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
GRRRRRRRRRRRR
Fucking forbid we just establish clear requirements for defense material and make market entry easier where we can to foster competition (in this space and defense contractors in general). Does AMD get to whine that they’re not getting Uncle Sugar now? Then nvidia (with all the AI crap)?
Seriously — I worry about semiconductor production both from a “I want us to stay a technological leader as a nation” and “I don’t want anything our military depends on coming out of vulnerable / enemy supply chains”, so I get the probable intent. But propping up a failing leviathan that’s really just been flailing of its own accord isn’t how you do that.
It’s how you end up with what Boeing has become. When your defense sensitive industries start spending more money on lobbying and lawyers than they do on engineers and research it’s probably time to dial down the subsidies.
Believe me… Boeing and Raytheon were very much in my mind when I started that rant. Industry consolidation has brought us only overpriced, overbudget, overtime crap that the Germans would think is overengineered back in the day. I’ve never looked at it — but I’d bet the maintenance costs for current equipment are impressively fat for the contractors as well.
When the world is moving more and more towards swarms of cheap drones no less. Yay.
AMD is fabless. A lot of their production is outside the US.
I’m sure part of the concern is keeping state of the art / current node fabs in the US.
I’m not worried so long as the production is from friendly countries – such as Japan or South Korea, or the Eurofags. The dependence on China is alarming. It doesn’t mean we need to go full Fortress America.
Nothing is off-topic in the links.
Better make sure they’re not going to burn down the building if we take their red Swingline….
They’ve already been burning it down. See: George Floyd protests.
This staggering figure includes about 540,000 assaults and 45,000 sex offenses – crimes that directly victimize children in places that are supposed to be safe havens for learning.
Tell me you didn’t attend an urban public school without telling me you didn’t attend an urban public school. I went to Walnut Hills, which was, and still is, the best public school in Cincinnati, one of the best in the country, and even there, there were constant assaults, thefts, and the occasional SA back in the 80s, and God help you if you wandered off campus. If you were at one of the regular schools you were lucky if you didn’t get shot.
STEVE SMITH SAY 45,000 SEX OFFENSES SOUND LIKE CHALLENGE.
Those are some quality links and commentary, Sloopy!!
Thank you.
I know they’re a lot better than yesterday’s. I felt like I needed to redeem myself.
Oh shit. I have to redeem myself for shitty links?
I’ll be back…
Not yours. They’re always solid. It’s my usual milk run stuff that sucked.
The sexual abuse epidemic in public schools is particularly horrifying. A 2004 Department of Education report estimated that about one in 10 children will experience educator sexual misconduct by the time they graduate from high school. That’s millions of kids subjected to abuse by the very adults entrusted with their care.
Sorry, I smell bullshit — that’s right up there with the “5 out of 4 undergraduate women will be ravished by the time they graduate” stat that campus feminists were peddling back in the Obama years.
I wonder how the left will square that claim (which is most certainly overblown) with their endless support of public sector teachers unions and their claims of “your kids are our kids when they’re with us” mentality.
The teachers and administrators need more training and money to deal with this crisis!
And overtime to boost their retirement pension. Have to close the gap with the FDNY after all.
Totally under staffed.
I thought it was 7 out of 5
I thought it was 7 of 9.
Mmmm 7 of 9
7 of 9.
Mmmm that link
Mmmm 7 of 9
“hard” to comment one handed?
“hard” to comment one handed?
Um, er..I have no idea what you mean!
“feminists were peddling back in the Obama years”
They were peddling it since the 80’s
First, it’s government schools, not public schools.
And, yeah, 1 out of 10 under any rational definition of sexual abuse seems highly unlikely. Although, if you count being made to attend grooming sessions with drag queens or having a nutso queer/ally teacher, maybe.
Because we couldn’t use their status politically, of course!
Wait… was I not supposed to say that out loud?
Fox news link needs sugar.
Not for me.
Lawsuit should be fun. People just completed building a house that’s about to meet eminent domain.
A $2.4 Billion Bridge Is Coming to Cape Cod. Their Homes Will Be Seized to Build It.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/cape-cod-sagamore-bridge-eminent-domain-3da747b9?st=fJQ24X&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Of course it’s MA. So similar to here in NJ that’s what everybody votes for, right comrade?
Sounds like they got the Bourne ultimatum — and now they’ll find out who really has supremacy.
It’s going to leave quite a legacy, that’s for sure.
I hope the notification was in writing. Otherwise, get out your checkbook.
$2.4B for that tiny bridge? AYFKM?
Anyway I hate to say it but this sort of thing is exactly what eminent domain is supposed to be for, isn’t it? Feel sorry for the victims if you feel you must, and then move on.
Portland OR has wasted nearly $400 million on scrapped planning for a bridge. https://cityobservatory.org/basically_the_same/
That’s good money that could have been spent on bum camps and cleaning up antifa riots.
“Secret Service, FBI and other federal agents arrived at Washington Circle Thursday to clear tents, but retreated when a resident produced a letter from the District stating that the encampment didn’t need to be cleared until Monday.”
So this person has the acumen to do this, but can’t find a place to live?
“Resident”
“According to Greenpeace, investing around £860 million every year in forest management could save around 9.9 million hectares of land. This area is the size of Portugal.”
But if they do that, they couldn’t blame it on climate change.
I have no idea what any of that means. The sentence contains zero information.
That’s about 1.98 billion olympic swimming pools. Hope this helps.
“Studies have compared the pollutants from gas cooking to secondhand smoke”
They concluded they are both bullshit?
“With gas stoves, he notes, the risks are obvious: “You’ve got a methane flame unventilated in the middle of your kitchen—a fossil fuel. Of course, there’s going to be air pollution.”
Oh no! Not a fossil fuel!
Which counts as pollution, the water or the CO2?
The human. Everything else is window dressing.
Now you’re cookin’ with gas.
Hiker dies after rattlesnake bite: What to know about venomous snakes in Tennessee
Don’t pick up venomous snakes is the first thing to know.
And exhibit personal responsibility? Pfft, don’t you American bro?
Eastern diamondbacks (the common rattler in NE Georgia, so I assume TN as well) are quite polite about letting you know when you’re too close and they don’t like it. Just back the hell away, dumbass. If it were a copperhead or if the hiker stumbled and thrust his hand in a lair unexpectedly or something I could see it… but who’s stupid enough to pick up a rattler?
Ok… went and actually read the article… timber rattler probably, not diamondback. Did not realize they were out of the range… good to know. Says timber are actually more docile (maybe ones I’ve thought were diamondbacks were actually timber? Usually met them in the woods growing up… but that’s because roaming the woods was what I did…), so that makes this idiot even more stupid in my book…
Simple rule with snakes: if you don’t know the species, don’t try to pick it up.
In fact, even if you do know the species and know that it’s harmless, admire it from a short distance.
Exception: if it’s a Burmese python and you’re in the ‘Glades, kill it on sight.
He was one with nature. Earth is not a savage place where everything lives at the expense of other living things and thus develop defensive behaviors so it looks like everything wants you dead. If you think that you are a cynical meanie Mother Earth hater. We live in a Disney cartoon where everything except capitalists are in balance with nature. You just want to murder Bambi.
We have eastern diamondbacks down here and I think they go over into E Texas. One of my clear memories from my early childhood is my grandfather getting my brother and I then taking us so we could see a 9 foot eastern diamondback that his drinking buddies had killed. They had it stretched out in the parking lot of the bar/bait shop where he hung out. It had swallowed something and was bigger in circumference than I was. I overheard one of the men joking that it was big enough to swallow me or my brother. I thought they were serious. As they cut it open I was terrified that a small child was going to spill out. It was a dog. It was like a scene from the best movie ever made…when the dog spilled out they all said “Ahhhhhhhh” and laughed. “That is Mrs. so and so widow’s dog. Who is going to tell her?”
I had nightmares about that for years.
I was just talking about snakes with someone yesterday. We used to have diamondbacks all over our neighborhood while it was being built out and I went from afraid to quite good at killing them with a rake and something called “The Garden Mutt” to chop the heads off. I currently have 2 rat snakes in our area that I leave be as they are territorial and keep the rattlers out. Also, they keep the rat population down, obviously. Unless you were a Pentacostal minister, why would you decide to pick up a rattle snake?
Um, it was called Savage Gulf, not Tennessee Petting Zoo.
Governor Hairgel McPrivilege’s tuff-gai act is so loathsomely fake it’s unwatchable. Who votes for that? SMDH.
The same people who had Schiff lie to them for 6 years in Congress and thought… “Yes! I recognize that name — and he has a (D)[umbass] next to him on the ballot! He should be our replacement Senator!”
I seriously don’t agree with them or grok their logic… but there are enough of them. Or on a more generous thought… “I just vote for who my union (teachers or SEIU) tells me to, man!”
“The evidence overwhelmingly indicates that school choice helps children attend safer schools. My peer-reviewed analysis of the literature, published in Educational Review in 2022, found that private and charter schools are consistently safer than traditional public schools. These choice options foster environments with less violence, fewer disruptions, and stronger discipline standards. Competition forces schools to prioritize safety to attract and retain families.”
Which is why all the teachers unions are against them.
No printers or PCs, Starbucks Korea tells customers
“You didn’t say no lathes and machine presses!”
I’m not sure if I can get the Bridgeport through the door.
Related? Today’s WSJ.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/my-cafe-dumped-me-for-doing-work-there-4a715f55?st=GhwaST&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
/rolls in a 25″ CRT monitor
Attach it to a Cray
In the 80s you knew it was going to be a good day when the teacher rolled that into the class.
I’ve seen an entire gaming setup in the local one.
Probably the same cities who aren’t reporting accurate (or any) data in general. You can guess which ones.
Democrats have made it very clear that they believe isn’t that their policies suck and are evil, but that those refusing to accept the holy cause of blue politics are countermanding their brainwashing efforts of the dumb masses into ignoring the reality of what blue rule has inflicted on them. Disinformation, misinformation, and hate speech are really just things the left wants to make sure you can’t say about their stupidity.
“The European mind is like that of a child. ”
Their problem is that despite all the marxist indoctrination, the vast destruction, mediocrity, and stupidity that created for them, these fools still live on the successes of their past. The world revolved around them before they got destroyed by socialism. They colonized and civilized the world. Western culture brought modernity. And the current Euros, shadows of their former selves, miss that power now that they are holier than thou scumbag marxist douchebags. How dare people they look down on be better than them in every sense of the word, and more importantly, ignore their whiney bullshit!
The homeless community. Let that sink in.
JFC I hate the media/Dem industrial complex.
I’ll believe it’s a community when I see the first fawning food article about homeless haute cuisine.
/waits for someone to link to one
They are openly stating that camping on the sidewalk and shitting in the streets is a valid way of life. It’s mind-boggling.
All cultures are equally good!
Why do you question the hoboculture?
Hobophobe!
https://www.spendwithpennies.com/hobo-dinner-packs-hamburger-potato/
Shouldn’t that be “the community experiencing unhousedness”?
You can’t possibly hate them enough. I am sometimes tempted to wish the 1st Amendment was phrased:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech
, orexcept that of the press who shall be flogged to death for any insertion of extraneous adjectives tending to influence the reader to adopt a particular viewpoint, the Press shall consist of any person earning more than 30% of the average annual salary in their State of residence from duties including reporting on facts, or any graduate of a school of journalism ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.And isn’t “twenty and done” pretty much the standard everywhere? Pubsec leeches are a disease on the entire nation’s finances.
Losers who work in the icky private sector doing actual productive work get to retire at 67, if they save their pennies, having worked 40-50 years. Important, valuable people who work for Government telling losers what to do, and punishing them for disobedience, get to retire with a 6 figure pension, plus anything they managed to save from their extortions along the way after 20 years. What’s hard to understand?
Don’t forget the healthcare! Part of the reason there is no way I’m going to be able to retire any earlier than 62. And that’s a stretch goal at best.
Move to Canada, they will help you ‘retire’ at any age you choose.
“We’re trading job security for lower pay!”
Was that ever true? It sure as hell is not today.
It’s true if you compare their earnings to the jobs they arrogantly think are equivalent, CEOs and such. If you compare their earnings to the jobs they’d actually be able to do in the private sector they make multiples of the private worker’s earnings. I admit I may be being unfair to the crack whores and McDonalds cashiers by assuming a public school teacher could do their jobs.
World’s first humanoid robot games begin in China
When will the Olympics add sorting and cleaning?
Let’s not kid ourselves, we all know this is heading right toward humanoid robot gladiators.
Wasn’t that an episode of The Twilight Zone?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obYuPJH2oTE&pp=0gcJCf8Ao7VqN5tD
“sorting medicine”
Now there’s an exciting spectator sport.
I will worry when they start giving these things condoms for the games like they do the human athletes..
“Republicans in Ohio proposed a bill that would create an online registry for employers to report no-show applicants who miss scheduled job interviews….
Still, Rep. Brian Lorenz, who co-sponsored the bill, insists that his proposal will help protect employers — and weed out those taking advantage of state unemployment services.
“If you’re collecting unemployment, you should be actively looking for work. Period. HB 395 isn’t controversial—it’s common sense. Wasting employers’ time and taxpayer dollars helps no one. Time to bring accountability back to the system,” Lorenz wrote on X.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/14/us-news/ohio-to-consider-bill-that-would-create-state-registry-of-people-who-skip-job-interviews/
Never bring a beer to a job interview. Bring two beers, to offer one. It’s a nice gesture, that shows you are willing to share and get along with people.
It’s good to read things like this to remind myself that I should be less stingy with my hatred. It’s not fair to the fine Republican lawmakers out there for me to give it all to the Democrats, and I need to learn to hate more widely, improving gradually until I reach a state of perfect universal blind hatred for all!
“Would you like to meet my friend Keith Hernandez?”
“This is your daughter? She is breathtaking.”
When o was looking for a guy I spent a ton of time on job sites attempting to deal with people not looking for a job but simply complying with unemployment by filling out job applications they had no intention to ever communicate back with once it was sent off.
One guy showed up in person.
Opened the door of his pickup. Put his cigarette out in my driveway and popped open a Monster.
Great first impression.
You say you haven’t worked for four months and keep spending on the stimulants you can’t afford?
“Crazy homeowner torturing neighbors with train horns heard for miles away: ‘I’m going to keep on blowing’ ”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/crazy-homeowner-torturing-neighbors-with-train-horns-heard-for-miles-away/
This guy sucks.
“Neighbors believe he has only recently started having mental health problems, as he had previously lived in the neighborhood without issue for 20 years.”
Sad.
Sounds more like he blows.
I’m not sure why that isn’t a public nuisance that can be shut down.
Yes, yes, by the government. The alternative would be the neighbors shutting it down, and that would probably involve Molotov cocktails and a body count.
The cops claim they can’t do anything unless they happen to be there to witness it themselves.
You know, just like with murders and robberies and any other crime.
This was reported by a whistleblower.
A while back someone was driving around Fredericksburg in a truck equipped with a train horn.
Just put a pillow over your ears and go back to bed. Property rights are inviolable.
/Ancap that doesn’t understand that government is BOTH necessary and evil.
““We started a musical style, we started a revolution, we changed the guitar world and how it’s played, and we changed the world. The bands I played in have influenced the world. I love you all for it. Thank you for everything.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/entertainment/megadeth-announces-retirement-with-2026-farewell-tour-final-album/
I’ve spent some time with Dave Mustaine. He’s that humble in person.
It’s hard to be humble when you are #1.
No it isn’t.
Ok, Sensei, please don’t start firsting! We are all full up on firsters.
Next he will award himself the Medal of Freedom as well as the Nobel Prize.
Because he loves himself just that much.
That dude could have been president.
What do you mean he couldn’t be president of the United States of America? It’s still We the People, right?
First rock show was Megadeath.
“BERLIN (AP) — Police say two people have been injured following a shooting near a mosque in Sweden.
Local media say at least one person has been taken to the hospital after being shot as they were leaving Friday prayers.
The perpetrator has yet to be apprehended, and it’s unclear if they were targeting the mosque or specific individuals.”
Hrm. Oh, how I wonder who the perp may be.
“Donald Trump branded Senator Elizabeth Warren a ‘nut job’ while demanding she take a drug test during an Oval Office appearance…
‘She’s a nut job. I watched her the other night. She’s all hopped up endorsing a communist in New York City, and she was all excited and jumping up and down,’ Trump said.
‘She’s got to take a drug test. She really, though, she’s got to take a drug test. There’s no way somebody can act that way and be normal.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15002315/Donald-Trump-nut-job-senator-drug-test.html
She was just trying to make it rain.
Thanks for the image of Elizabeth Warren trying to make it rain at the strip club.
I cant see how anyone could vote against Trump as the most entertaining president….hell, world leader….in history.
And now he’s going to have the Dems pointlessly blowing their stack for yet another news cycle.
Genius.
You may or may no longer be a millionaire!
I always assumed they just bought an annuity. It would appear not!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-disabled-veteran-was-getting-publishers-clearing-house-prize-money-then-the-company-went-bust-3806b8e5?st=EzDHvE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
If I were to win any big amount and had a choice of a lump sum or payments, this type of thing would definitely affect my decision.
Always take the lump sum. The entity that is paying you takes the lump sum and invests it. They then pay you a portion of the payout on the investments. If y ou take the lump sum and invest it yourself you will get all of the payout forever.
It doesnt take a genius to figure that out.
You get 50% of the jackpot, but as you said, with that kind of money it would be easy to invest in something low risk that pays more than you could spend for the rest of your life.
Oh no!
Tax free VA payouts, probably both lied about having PTSD.
Get a job.
Lights the Neph signal!
When was the last time anybody had a Carlsberg? I’d forgotten it existed.
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/carlsberg-lifts-lower-end-of-guidance-range-71d14fcd?st=emnqSJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe in Denmark?
Carlsberg never had a big footprint here. For shite Euro lager, we had Heineken and Amstel. Harp, Bass, Newcastle, and Guinness were also common. A couple of strange places would have Grolsch as a standard.
Man, I remember the old Liverpool jerseys with the Carlsberg logo on them from the 90s. They were so freaking gaudy after Adidas started doing them.
Shit, I might still have one in my closet.
Update: holy crap, I do have one! Fortunately it was after Reebok took over their kits.
Jeez, that thing is 25 years old. Maybe I ought to wear it today as the season kicks off.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/07/25/johnson-heading-to-survival-summit-00476663
“As Democrats attempt to govern from the ground up while federal support gets pulled from under them, mayors are leaning on each other more than ever — swapping best practices, policy ideas and, even, survival tactics operating in a Trump world.”
It’s the lack of accountability that really grinds my gear. Their corrupt policies, lack of fiscal restraint, and lax crime laws has caused the cities to decline and their refusal to admit that and blame the Republicans is wild and psychotic. Johnson reminds me of this guy I serve on the board with at church. Arrogant, egotistical, petty, and wildly incompetent while being unable to take any sort of accountability for their shitty actions.
What? There’s all sorts of accountability:
Cleveland City Councilmember Joe Jones facing censure after alleged threat against council employee
CENSURE! The horror! The threat?
I’m pretty fucking sure if I said anything like that in my professional life, I would be talking to HR pretty quickly.
There are only a few of ways to get walked out the door with no recourse — sexual harassment and workplace violence top the list.
“sexual harassment”
That’s racist against ugly people.
HR? You would be talking to the cops.
The whole point is for you and your buddies to get rich while throwing just enough crumbs at the rabble to keep you in power.
Everything else they blather on about above is fantasy.
“A Multnomah County judge ruled on Thursday that the Portland Police Bureau does not have to enforce the city’s noise ordinances on protesters involved in the 24-hour Antifa occupation outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland.
Judge Ellen Rosenbaum’s ruling stems from a writ of mandamus, filed on July 8 by a black disabled woman living in low-income housing across the street from the ICE office, which asked the Court to compel the city to enforce its noise ordinances on protesters who have been using bullhorns and a makeshift long-range acoustic devices (LRAD) to harass ICE agents and residents on a nightly basis since the unlawful occupation began on June 7, more than two months ago.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/BREAKING-Judge-Says-Portland-Police-Dont-Have-to-Enforce-Noise-Rules-at-24-Hour-Antifa-ICE-Protest
“A violent Portland trans Antifa member has been sentenced to only 24 hours of community service and probation after assaulting a woman…
At trial, jurors saw video evidence showing Araujo, dressed in black tactical gear, rushing at al-Mosa and spraying her with pepper spray after she set her copy of the Quran on fire in a bowl. Araujo identifies as “Latinx” and Muslim, and his social media posts show explicit support for Hamas and Hezbollah.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-antifa-member-isabel-araujo-sentenced-to-one-day-of-community-service-threatens-journalist-outside-courthouse
Would anyone like to invest in my new business in Portland, Tater’s Woodchipper and Waffle?
Judges really do need to be reminded somehow that they are not in fact dictators, and that the law and constitution does not really say whatever they want it to say.
It seems it is time for a 24-hour protest where the judge lives, works, eats, …
The noise ordinance has to be enforced at the judge’s residence
Get those fire sirens that guy in CA was blowing.
As bad as many cities and towns are these days, you could not pay me enough to live in that one. It has been the national antifa playground going on a couple decades at least.
Someone should send in some no shit fascists to gun them down. So what were you assholes protesting against?
The left, as does all collectivist authoritarian systems, see the legal system just as another weapon to be used against their enemies. The rules only exist to hamper and punish their enemies. Never them. When they break the rules, it is for a great cause (they are protecting muh democracy!!), but nobody else – meaning their enemies, and any allies they no longer need – is above the law.
The only consolation is that the smug fucking ground troops and agitators that helped fuck over the people always are the ones being lined up at the walls to be shot in purging waves 3 to n.
Science
Hydrogen peroxide rocket dragster, from a time when “Who said you could do that?” wasn’t the national anthem.
This guy, Brian Lohnes, does really good stuff.
By the way, the show Dangerous History hosted by the Fonz is quite entertaining. It’s done in a “history’s mysteries/mysteries at the museum style” with a focus on batshit crazy stuff people have done over the years. People who wrestle bears, children who danced on the wings of biplanes with no tether, heroine marketed as a nonaddictive substitute for morphine. Brilliant.
“On Wednesday, Shane Daley, 40, of Galway, New York was taken into custody and charged with cyberstalking after federal prosecutors said that he was been sending threatening voicemails and harassing a member of Thompson’s family. After the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, the calls allegedly from Daley were placed between December 4 and 7 last year, per the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.
“Daley placed multiple calls to a work phone line used by a member of Thompson’s family. In a series of voicemail messages, Daley used threatening and harassing language that focused on, among other things, Thompson’s killing, expressed satisfaction over the fact and manner of his death, and stated that the victim and Thompson’s children deserved to meet the same violent end,” the office said in a press release.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-york-man-charged-with-cyberstalking-family-of-murdered-unitedhealthcare-ceo
JFC
That’s pretty terrible. Like what would convince a person that this is an appropriate action to take even against someone you don’t like?
It’s insane. How could this guy’s kids be responsible for whatever United Healthcare might have done?
Unfortunately it ain’t surprising. I’ve run across a bunch of pro Luigi nuts on Reddit. They exist in an alternate universe. A very shitty and fucked up alternate universe.
Years of Democrats encouraging such behavior?
KSuellington:
I’ve heard a couple of people praise “St. Luigi” at shows. Thankfully there has not yet been a large positive response at any of them.
Decades of leftist propaganda?
It’s starting to pay dividends for them.
Neph: I wonder how many even get the reference or just think some looney Mario Bros. fans have somehow shown up? One of these communities uses a votive candle (like the Mueller and Fauchi ones, remember those) of the bastard.
KSuellington:
I’d guess at least 40% of the crowd recognized the reference (small shows, in a proggy area, for a left leaning band).
Here in Ohio, we don’t have to go back far to remember the ‘vid years. The bitch Amy Acton is running for governor on the D ticket in the upcoming election:
“That’s pretty terrible. Like what would convince a person that this is an appropriate action to take even against someone you don’t like?”
You are a fugly incel commie loser and think this will get the land whales with colored hair and cow rings in their noses to notice you and then give you some of that mythical poong tang you see in all the porn you watch?
I’m once again reminded of David Thompson’s blog post The Blurting where he remarks on how the left consistently think pushing these views on polite society in places that are generally expected to be apolitical — and not to expect any pushback — is totally normal.
WordPress apparently doesn’t like the hyphen in the link.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2019/09/the-blurting.html
::spits::
Out of morbid curiosity, I went to Reddit and read about this guy and the comments are as horrible and ghoulish as I predicted. Their comments are also the reason why I’m an unrepentant supporter of private gun ownership because these ghouls would mob up and murder anyone they view in their twisted minds as evil.
Absolutely. I go to Reddit mostly for the dirt bike/dualsport community posts and those pro-Luigi posts started popping up. Had to mute that stuff as I don’t need to see it. The left really attracts some stable and mentally healthy people. Hoffer called it perfectly many decades ago.
The Reddit administration actively promotes this shit, along with blatant antisemitism and pro-Palestinian scumbaggery.
Huh. Everyone I’ve met from Galway so far has been on the lower end of “NY terrible.”
And for the GayGlibs, Thompson has this fun piece on hiking while queer that I think is a good way to explain what “queer” means to the people who use it to describe themselves: https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2022/03/walking-while-outdoors-a-new-frontier-for-fearless-homosexuals.html
Dayum, every single activity really does have to be a big “identity” thing. What’s next? How to pump gas while transgender?
My brother is active in some bicycling groups in NYC. Some LGBTQ%AI+XYZ^2 members decided to organize a “trans only” ride that conflicted with another event that the whole group had planned, and some people suggested moving the trans ride to another day. They flipped the fuck out and accused everyone of bigotry. It got so nasty that the other non-histrionic members split off and formed their own group to get away from the drama.
If you just want your alternative lifestyle to be accepted, that’s not the fucking way to achieve that. And there may have been some trans people who thought it was entirely reasonable to not give a big FU to the already-scheduled event, but oh well.
| I can’t imagine how mad he got when he heard his wife fucked Harvey Weinstein. Twice.
Did she fuck him twice? Where did you get that info? Never heard that part of the story, but it is interesting that he was never convicted of assaulting her, the only one he was charged with that didn’t result in a conviction.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/15/harvey-weinstein-trial-judge-drops-four-charges
“In a pointed moment, Werksman asked Siebel Newsom to clarify the nature of sexual “noises” she made during the alleged assault, which she said were intended to get Weinstein to end the attack.”
That was the first encounter. She went back a second time.
“Weinstein’s defense attorneys spent hours going through nearly 70 emails Siebel Newsom exchanged with Weinstein in the months and years after the alleged attack. “
Most of the press coverage I had read made it seem like she emailed him once after. That jury didn’t convict him on that count for good reason it looks.
You just can’t stay here
Activists and experts on homelessness generally agree that roughly 800-900 people sleep on Washington’s streets on any given night in the summer. Many of them, like Beatty, say they don’t have safe, affordable options as camps like this one are uprooted.
As Jessy Wall packed his belongings into plastic garbage bags, he told NPR he doesn’t feel comfortable in D.C.’s shelters. “No, I don’t want to be there. Shelters are not the best option because they cram people in there and you don’t always sure of who is who,” Wall said.
Dana White is with a group called Miriam’s Kitchen that works to end chronic homelessness in Washington. He said Trump’s purge of people without housing doesn’t address the underlying lack of affordable housing.
“We’re simply moving the problem around, we’re not really providing a solution to folks homelessness,” White said. “D.C. shelter capacity is often very limited. Ultimately these people often have no permanent, stable place to go.”
These re obviously not people who are seriously looking for a permanent stable place.
If a private landowner offered to let them set up shop on an acre or two, the city/county/whoever would come down on them like a ton of bricks for a million sanitation , health code and zoning violations, but hobo jungles in public parks are okay.
It’s sounds he’s leaving money on the table — Ultimate Bumfighting Championship.
Heh. Also if the homeless advocates agree there are 900 people on the street, there is more like 2,000+.
“you don’t always sure of who is who”
As opposed to people in an outdoor camp, who are somehow vetted.
“Fellow camping enthusiasts.”
Look, what if you find out the bum in the cot next to you voted for Trump? That guy is dangerous! Much safer to sleep in a park with the reliable D methheads.
Horror camping.
lol Everyone here calls the local bum camp The Jungle. It must make the progs seethe.
Christian Watkins, a Methodist minister from a local church, held a sign that quoted Scripture from the Bible. “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but to lose his soul,” Watkins said, reading aloud. “The soul of America is lost because of the fact this is allowed to happen.”
Because what is allowed to happen? Letting people live in open squalor like some sort of primitive nomadic beggars?
As ever, the left does not give the slightest shit about “the homeless”. They are just a tool for increasing their power.
Considerations over what is best for them does not enter their mind.
The left only cares about these people they virtue signal about when it affects them. When some homeless squatters move into their walled communities or some illegals land in Martha’s Vineyard, we have seen they quickly find ways to move them out..
I’ve actually seen a couple homeless people in my small-ish town (27K population).
One of them does leave a pile of trash behind every time he sits on a bench to smoke a joint.
I thought this was an interesting read. Some think AI is has reached a plateau and in its current form, is not going to take over the word.
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1956315520535568720
It may be plateauing a bit with current computing power and programming. This smells a lot like “40 meg hard drive? Why the hell would you ever need that much storage?” kind of thing.
As someone that writes this stuff for a living, I have been telling people that AI will be great as a backup for experts or at doing seriously complex, calculation intensive, rudimentary tasks, but always with supervision and with someone that can verify the work. But General AI is not a thing we would know how to make happen in the foreseeable future. Currently AI faces huge problem in that the material used to teach it, and the way that material is learned, matter. Especially in a world where political correctness and fake shit serving a political agenda but masquerading as facts or science (like climate change or the whole Kung Flu debacle) is both rampant and pervasive. Couple that with woke idiots doing the AI teaching, and you get a faulty system. Think HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey”, going evil because his information, programming, and orders all conflicted and a machine that requires functioning logic just breaks down.
I worry about the fact governments can’t survive if anyone creates an AI that actually sticks to facts, the scientific process, logic, and doesn’t care about being PC, and that thus, their priority will be to fuck it al up, always. Eventually computing power will give us HAL 9000, and that will be a problem if it decides the problem is the fucking stupid commie humans, and it strikes back.
That’s a lot of what the article is saying, so thanks for the expert confirmation. The idea was that throwing enough processing power and money at it will keep giving us exponential capabilities and eventually GAI. But for now the exponential growth is no longer happening and there isn’t a path to GAI.
From my experience, there are some really good uses for the current version of AI, but that’s in niche technical fields.
When did Twitter remove the character cap?
One of the best things it had going for it.
“Loudoun County Public Schools is endangering its federal funding by spurning an Education Department order for the second time in four months, this time the July 25 demand to rescind its affirmation of gender identity over sex pertaining to “intimate facilities” and sports and define “male” and “female” by biology in Title IX-related practices.
The Tuesday night school board meeting, which wrapped up overnight, drew a “huge turnout,” according to a local reporter. “The only trans policy you don’t promote is transparency,” one parent testified among the dozens who lined up for public comment, WJLA.com reported.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/americas-richest-county-fights-trump-protect-boys-girls-restrooms-caves
LOL
“In a pointed moment, Werksman asked Siebel Newsom to clarify the nature of sexual “noises” she made during the alleged assault, which she said were intended to get Weinstein to end the attack.”
“Faster! Faster!”
Vile divisiveness
“From the White House, the president sees a lawless wasteland. We beg to differ,” the group said in a joint statement. “We see fellow human beings—neighbors, workers, friends and family—each made in the image of God.”
The statement’s signatories include the top leaders of regional religious groups, representing scores of Jewish, Episcopalian, Methodist, Lutheran and Presbyterian congregations in the District. One signatory is Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, who challenged President Trump from the pulpit during a prayer service in January.
The D.C. religious leaders acknowledged the seriousness of crime in the city but rejected what they called “fear-based governance.” They argued that true public safety comes not from what they call “political theater” or military presence, but through long-term collaboration among government, civic and private sectors.
The Trump Administration’s move comes as violent crime in the district is at a 30-year low, according to statistics from the U.S. Justice Department.
And then they all urged their parishioners to adopt a homeless family and take them into their homes and treat them as family.
But enough about the Capitol (and let’s not even talk about the Wilson building…)
SPLITTERS!
The big Episcopalian church I drive by on the way home from work had a sign yesterday – “See Jesus in the faces of the unhoused”.
If there’s a more banal bunch of basic white Proggies in the area, I haven’t found it…
EvilSheldon:
You don’t have Unitarians out there?
Not on my usual route home. I’ll keep an eye out.
[ crucifies the homeless ]
“…as violent crime in the district is at a 30-year low…”
You keep saying that. I encourage you to continue doing so.
The city’s religious leaders also criticized Congress’ refusal to release more than $1 billion in funds for programs aimed at addressing the root causes of crime, including addiction recovery services, mental health treatment, youth outreach and affordable housing.
Won’t you give generously?
Where is that mopey twat who does the stray dog commercials?
I searched for the words “subway” and “sandwich” in the comments for the last 3 articles and got 0 results.
Disappointed is an understatement 😞
We did make lots of sandwich puns when it was mentioned.
Disappointment is already implied in any statement involving a Subway sandwich.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1956346546620080564
Not cool.
This is definitely a place where I’d want to go on vacation.
I wonder a bit about how the cruise industry might be taking Vegas’ business. At least the one we did last year, an ice bucket of beers by the pool was included in the (very reasonable) liquor package…
Depends on the hotels. In my times in Vegas, there were minibar fridges (with sensors all around them), and usually the small fridge/freezer combo (and a microwave). In some of the locations, you have to request (and pay a small fee – $20/night was common) for a mini fridge in your room (if they didn’t run out – PRO TIP: if Viva is in town, they will run out, and they’ll run out of coat hangers).
They’ve killed their golden goose. The scam used to just be the gambling. Now they scam you every single chance they get.
You can’t just come in and start changing the way we do things
Gallagher also said that the department’s actions went beyond preventing discrimination — it curtailed free speech. One of the Plaintiffs, the American Federation of Teachers, argued that their members fear that they must “self-censor their speech” during their instruction because of the memos.
“The government did not merely remind educators that discrimination is illegal: it initiated a sea change in how the Department of Education regulates educational practices and classroom conduct, causing millions of educators to reasonably fear that their lawful, and even beneficial, speech might cause them or their schools to be punished,” she wrote. “The law does not countenance the government’s hasty and summary treatment of these significant issues.”
Lawful and beneficial speech promoting discrimination based on race and “gender”?
Sort of like how I, or anyone else, can be demoted or fired from a job if their boss doesn’t like what they’re saying on company time?
We need to line up every teacher in the United States and beat the crap out of them one at a time, just to get their minds right…
Try being non-far-left around these people and see how far you get.
I know a number of teachers who fear punishment for speaking out…. against their Union. Several were basically shunned by fellow teachers for not being progressive. How about you just beat the crap out of the Union leaders?
One of the nice things about getting to my age- I don’t have to interact with teachers ever again.
Then he smashed a watermelon with a gavel?
Who’s got your back now, sonny?
An emerging rift between Melania Trump and Hunter Biden escalated Thursday when the son of former President Joe Biden issued an expletive-laden response to the first lady’s demand that he apologize for an allegation he made about her alleged prior ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Last month, during an interview with YouTube host Andrew Callaghan, Hunter Biden said it was Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019, who initially introduced Melania Trump to her future husband, President Donald Trump — an assertion that Alejandro Brito, an attorney for Melania Trump, called untrue and “extremely salacious” in a letter to Hunter Biden last week.
Brito’s letter to Hunter Biden, a copy of which was reviewed by ABC News, threatened a billion-dollar lawsuit if he failed to retract the claim, which Brito said caused Melania Trump “overwhelming financial and reputational harm.”
On Thursday, Hunter Biden reappeared on Callaghan’s YouTube program, where he was offered an opportunity to apologize to Melania Trump.
“F— that, that’s not going to happen,” he shot back.
I don’t think daddy’s pardon covers this sort of idiocy.
“the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019,”
Every time his name is mentioned they feel the need to remind us that he committed suicide, he totally really did there was nothing shady about it it was definitely was su;icide and anyone who says otherwise is a conspiracy theorist who hates Hillary and Bill because they definitely had nothing to do with that guy and them going to his island over and over and palling around with other pedophiles is just a salacious lie. He definitely committed suicide so stop making jokes about him having something on Hillary and bill.
Every time they do that I am more convinced he was murdered.
going to his island over and over and palling around with other pedophiles is just a salacious lie
Addendum: Unless it’s Donald Trump, then it’s totally 100% verifiably true.
I was in camp ‘he killed himself’ initially. And then they pushed it and pushed it. By pushing it they pushed me as well, I’m 80:20 he was snuffed now.