“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a COVID vaccine mandate for the Los Angeles Unified School District should be upheld even if the shot cannot stop transmission of the virus….
The vaccine merely lessening symptoms — not preventing the spread — was enough for the district to hit everyone with the requirement.
“The LAUSD could have reasonably determined that the vaccines would protect the health of its employees,” the majority wrote.”
“A new ban on the sale and possession of machetes will soon take place in Australia and Allan is ready for it.
Recently, Jacinta set up “Machete drop boxes” for locals to drop their unwanted or unneeded machete swords. Apparently, machetes are a huge danger in Australia these days for some reason.”
There was a street brawl in which a machete was used so therefore ban them all.
Right now, I think it’s just one state.
DEG
on August 3, 2025 at 10:01 am
Right now, I think it’s just one state.
Just the tip.
Suthenboy
on August 3, 2025 at 10:03 am
I never thought of Australia as a tyrannical govt until they showed their stripes with the cootie bug scam.
Machetes are not the problem dummies.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 10:23 am
I had long heard stories about their impressive auto laws. Having to have no rust, matching paint and crushing the cars of people
For driving offenses.
It always seemed impressive to
Me.
ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!
on August 3, 2025 at 11:28 am
I remember there being a glut of lightly used engines due to the laws over there.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 11:49 am
Yeah, engines and transmissions still attached to a hunk of frame. Toyota guys importing diesels for their LandCruisers still is a thing in the US.
“Embattled Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge was being sued by four high-ranking officers claiming she discriminated against white lieutenants while doling out promotions and assignments using a “race-based quota system.”
The lawsuit, filed in May, resurfaced as Theetge faces scrutiny amid her department’s investigation into the high-profile vicious street beatdown of a defenseless white woman in the Ohio city last weekend.
Capt. Robert Wilson and Lieutenants Patrick Caton, Gerald Hodges and Andrew Mitchell claimed in the suit that the police chief bypassed them for positions they deserved — and instead gave minority and female lieutenants preferential treatment, Newsweek reported.”
The Last American Hero
on August 3, 2025 at 10:13 am
Do you honestly think the mayor, the city council, and the majority voters of Cincy didn’t want race based quotas? I think the are all in on the progressive issue of the moment and in recent years that has been DEI as a vital tool for correcting perceived inequities in our society.
I think the trial should continue just so the public is aware but I’m not sure she should lose her job.
R C Dean
on August 3, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Well, not lose her job except for the part where racial quotas are illegal, of course.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 11:18 am
Sounds like my old army unit.
Common Tater
on August 3, 2025 at 10:10 am
“Democratic legislators in Texas could flee the state to prevent the GOP from approving new maps that could expand Republicans’ congressional majority….
But because Democrats are a minority in the state Legislature, they have few options to stop the GOP and face an uphill battle legally and politically.
One very real option would be to seek to deny the quorum necessary to keep the Texas state House and Senate functioning, something Democrats might have the numbers to accomplish….
A quorum break would also be expensive, due to new rules that impose fines for each day a lawmaker has fled, as well as the threat of arrest. Democrats are reportedly fundraising to help pay up if that happens, according to The Texas Tribune.”
Bad law.
The Rs in Oregon siscessfully blocked a Quorum a while back and held off some really bad legislation for a term.
Sadly most of the stuff passed the next session.
creech
on August 3, 2025 at 10:29 am
Guy in church earlier today was lamenting the GOP plan to redistrict Texas and steal five seats from the Dems. I pointed out that, in Cal., the GOP had only 17% of the seats but got about 40% of the vote. “Well, Cal. at least plays fair and has an independent commission do the district drawings.” I guess I could have pointed out Illinois, Nevada, and several other states where Dem. legislatures have drawn the maps to favor their side. I wish folks would stop hand-waving away the crap their Team does. As libertarians, we know and decry this behavior by all the Teams.
Common Tater
on August 3, 2025 at 10:36 am
They need to get rid of all the weird shapes. Make it look like a county map of Iowa.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 10:37 am
The districting needs to be logical, follow county borders as much as possible and when it splits counties it needs to follow geographical divided and major roads if there are no defining geography.
You need to get a job where you will be fired if you show up.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 10:43 am
When I see CA, WA, ID, and OR the less gerrymandering that happens the stronger the R party is.
Shpip
on August 3, 2025 at 10:10 am
Greetings from Aomori, the capital of (you guessed it) Aomori prefecture in the far north of Japan’s largest and most populous island, Honshu.
The highlight of the summer up here is the annual Nebuta Festival (I can’t be sure, but I think that all of Japan’s 47 prefectures have a summer fest). Parades happen each day, featuring floats that in their own way rival anything you’d see from Macy’s on Thanksgiving or the Tournament of Roses.
I found a place between the staging area and the beginning of the parade route, and lucked into a few nice photos of some of the floats as they approached. Also got a decent shot of the harbor at sunset.
Aomori is the Michigan of Japan in that it’s the apple capital of the country. I’ll be wandering about town tomorrow trying all the hard ciders that I can. If I can find someone who’s not only fermented the stuff, but also distilled it, I’ll have another souvenir.
If I can’t find any distilled cider, then I have a business plan. Build a small distillery nearby, and ship the finished product to the states. I’ll call it Japplejack.
Common Tater
on August 3, 2025 at 10:13 am
I’ve heard people go to Aomori to look at plants. Just like Japanese tourists go Vermont.
The Last American Hero
on August 3, 2025 at 10:20 am
I learned everything I need to know about Japanese parades from the James May show.
The local dialect there is basically incomprehensible to most of the rest of Japan. The national news will put subtitles on the screen if a local is speaking it. However, anybody educated and younger will speak perfectly fine standard Japanese as well. As a result the dialect is slowly going dying.
When you said you visited Aomori I thought you meant Dean Marten’s grave site.
Was I wrong or what?
Common Tater
on August 3, 2025 at 10:25 am
“The Daily Wire reviewed records that show a Sydney B. Sweeney is a registered Republican in Florida. The middle name of Sweeney, the actress, is reportedly Bernice.”
“Additionally, the date of registration is June 2024, the same time it was reported that the actress Sweeney purchased a 13.5 million dollar home in Summerland Key, Florida. The registration reviewed by The Daily Wire named Summerland Key as the city.”
Trying to cancel Sydney Sweeney is virtuous. Trying to cancel Stephen Colbert is wicked.
Common Tater
on August 3, 2025 at 10:31 am
This paywall situation is out of hand. No one is going to subscribe to 23 different outlets. Also, people on the left won’t subscribe to right-leaning outlets, and vice versa. So everyone stays in a bubble.
Advertisements were the main source of revenue for treeware. It would have worked online, except they added all this tracking bullshit and animation, leading everyone to get adblockers.
Ads are a catch-22. They only work if people see them. The most powerful ways to get people to see them are annoying. People put more effort into avoiding annoying ads.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 10:41 am
See Liberty Mutual.
I would not buy their insurance if they were the last insurer on the planet.
Fragmentation of the masses (as facilitated by technology that treeware couldn’t support) isn’t all bad. I’d sure as hell prefer paying subscription for content that is reliable than for being eyeballs that advertising can be beamed into.
Shpip
on August 3, 2025 at 10:42 am
It would have worked online
Maybe for “national” papers like the NYT and WaPo, or the three-letter TV media.
Local fishwrappers were cut off at the knees by Craigslist.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 10:45 am
I hope there is a resurgence of Craigslist.
FB Marketplace has sadly supplanted CL
ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!
on August 3, 2025 at 11:31 am
CL is better for specific searches but market place is better for just scrolling.
The Late P Brooks
on August 3, 2025 at 10:35 am
I learned everything I need to know about Japanese parades from the James May show.
Hearing about Schumer on the tv and how he may or may not have immunity for…whatever.
Not having term limits means we have created a possible life-long career path wherein one has direct or indirect access to huge amounts of money, the ability to seize property (eminent domain and income tax) aaaaand immunity from prosecution for many crimes.
Who thought this is a good idea?
Another random thought: Looking at some history this weekend and it occurs to me that America is unique in that it is the only country that did not develop, at least to some extent, a ruling class that gained dominance by the sword. That affects culture deeply in lots of subtle ways. It is why we think they are nuts for bending the knee so readily and why they think we are nuts for our populace being armed.
Term limits are always about not letting other voters keep their shithead in office, while I get to keep the ones I have (and like).
Suthenboy
on August 3, 2025 at 11:22 am
They are all shitheads and short of hereditary titles and rule by fiat you couldn’t make a more perfect storm.
In other words, America is the worst country, except for all the others.
The Late P Brooks
on August 3, 2025 at 10:49 am
I hope there is a resurgence of Craigslist.
FB Marketplace has sadly supplanted CL
True. Marketplace is so locked down you can’t even get enough of a look to see if it’s worth the aggravation of signing up for FB.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 11:22 am
FB makes you do a government ID verification now to get an account.
I had only one account from 2008 or so and they now have an AI running the show which kicked me off the platform for being “not authentic.”
I have bought and sold probably close to $50k worth of stuff through marketplace and found customers through my business page.
No more.
Common Tater
on August 3, 2025 at 10:50 am
“On Saturday, the L.A. teachers union and allies held a rally demanding that LAUSD more aggressively protect immigrant familes
They proposed a series of measures to protect families and students, including establishing anti-immigration agent perimeters around schools
School district officials said they are united with the union in their desire to protect immigrant families”
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called President Donald Trump’s accusation without providing evidence that the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official manipulated jobs report numbers “a preposterous charge” on Sunday.
Speaking with “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos, Summers said that one official would not be able to change the numbers.
“These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There’s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number,” Summers said.
He added, “The numbers are in line with what we’re seeing from all kinds of private sector sources. This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. It — firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers. It goes with launching assaults on universities. It goes with launching assaults on law firms that defend clients that the elected boss finds uncongenial. This is really scary stuff.”
Anything I don’t agree with is authoritarianism. Disagreeing with the egghead consensus is authoritarianism.
Suthenboy
on August 3, 2025 at 11:17 am
I heard this same squawking when Comey got fired. Trump knew about his shenanigans then and no doubt it will come out later that this shitbird was up to the same political nonsense.
Anyway, get rid of the Fed. ‘Independent’ government agencies are outside the checks and balances, i.e. illegal.
Akira
on August 3, 2025 at 11:44 am
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called President Donald Trump’s accusation without providing evidence that the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official manipulated jobs report numbers “a preposterous charge” on Sunday.
Ah, there’s that wonderful phrase again. The one that only appears when Trump says something.
The Late P Brooks
on August 3, 2025 at 11:05 am
Stephanopoulos asked Summers, “I guess this firing of the BLS commissioner goes in the category of shocking but not surprising?”
“This is way beyond anything Richard Nixon ever did,” Summers said of Trump’s firing McEntarfer. “I’m surprised that other officials have not responded by resigning themselves, as took place when Richard Nixon fired people lawlessly.”
21st century Washington bureaucrats falling on their swords as a matter of principle? Now that’s preposterous.
Fourscore
on August 3, 2025 at 11:17 am
I didn’t like the message so I fired the messenger.
When my kids got bad grades in school I blamed the teachers.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 11:23 am
Blaming government employees isn’t wrong.
Suthenboy
on August 3, 2025 at 11:46 am
I have known five young ladies who were bright, excellent with children and solid teachers. They got their degrees, were handed jobs right out of school then walked out of the schools in tears in their first year never to look back.
The best thing that could happen to our schools is for someone to take the teacher’s unions out behind the barn, beat it in the head with a shovel, shoot it, piss on it, set it on fire and then throw the ashes in the sea.
They are straight up communists whose goal is to demoralize children
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 11:53 am
Suthen, I’m shy only my student teaching from being elementary Ed.
The average time someone is a teacher is five years.
My Jr High math teacher became an RN, she was sick of the politics and were in Idaho, a RTW state.
My sister became a teacher and loved the union until even they wouldn’t defend her actions and Oregon of all states fired her.
The good ones don’t stay in that environment.
Suthenboy
on August 3, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Exactly my point.
The system is poison.
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 11:25 am
Raven Nation.
Is that a reference to some sportsball team?
I’m 99.9% clueless when it comes to sportsball.
Raven Nation
on August 3, 2025 at 11:41 am
Sorry, which reference?
Threedoor
on August 3, 2025 at 11:53 am
Your handle.
slumbrew
on August 3, 2025 at 11:59 am
It’d be an antipodean sportsball reference, so an extra degree of difficulty.
That’s cute.
About an 11 hour drive, even though we’re both in Idaho.
I wonder if I would fit in one, I’ve long wondered about the little British cars. My uncle bought a hardtop Triumph sometime back, he’s 6’7”. I didn’t think to get in it (try to) last time i was at his place.
slumbrew
on August 3, 2025 at 11:51 am
Astros having a melt-down inning vs the Sox – errors galore. Moar!
Wait! Tonio just said there wouldn’t be an open post – nothing until IFLA!
Anarchy!
Well, this will probably get my credentials revoked.
Just blame Mercury Gatorade.
Dolphin’s running back?
The Dolphins make Me cry.
It took me 25+ years to realize he was referencing the football team.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WQqRDrCo
Reposting:
“The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a COVID vaccine mandate for the Los Angeles Unified School District should be upheld even if the shot cannot stop transmission of the virus….
The vaccine merely lessening symptoms — not preventing the spread — was enough for the district to hit everyone with the requirement.
“The LAUSD could have reasonably determined that the vaccines would protect the health of its employees,” the majority wrote.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/notoriously-liberal-circuit-court-rules-la-covid-vax/
OFFS!
IANAL (giggity) but it reads like that a defensible ruling under Jacobson; it needs to go to the Supremes so they can kill Jacobson
I’m amazed covid jabs are still a thing.
Kill it. Kill it with fire.
Reposting:
🎶Sunday, Slutty Sunday🎶
https://archive.is/cZYCE
“A new ban on the sale and possession of machetes will soon take place in Australia and Allan is ready for it.
Recently, Jacinta set up “Machete drop boxes” for locals to drop their unwanted or unneeded machete swords. Apparently, machetes are a huge danger in Australia these days for some reason.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/cant-make-this-up-aussie-premier-jacinta-allan/
WTF??
Crocodile Dundee hardest hit…
There was a street brawl in which a machete was used so therefore ban them all.
Right now, I think it’s just one state.
Right now, I think it’s just one state.
Just the tip.
I never thought of Australia as a tyrannical govt until they showed their stripes with the cootie bug scam.
Machetes are not the problem dummies.
I had long heard stories about their impressive auto laws. Having to have no rust, matching paint and crushing the cars of people
For driving offenses.
It always seemed impressive to
Me.
I remember there being a glut of lightly used engines due to the laws over there.
Yeah, engines and transmissions still attached to a hunk of frame. Toyota guys importing diesels for their LandCruisers still is a thing in the US.
This guy is an idiot.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/uk-man-goes-holiday-taliban-35653191
Sounds like he’s OK.
I don’t see what could go wrong.
“Having visited 25 countries in total”
So road the train through Europe?
And 107 F.
The Brit’s are soft.
“Embattled Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge was being sued by four high-ranking officers claiming she discriminated against white lieutenants while doling out promotions and assignments using a “race-based quota system.”
The lawsuit, filed in May, resurfaced as Theetge faces scrutiny amid her department’s investigation into the high-profile vicious street beatdown of a defenseless white woman in the Ohio city last weekend.
Capt. Robert Wilson and Lieutenants Patrick Caton, Gerald Hodges and Andrew Mitchell claimed in the suit that the police chief bypassed them for positions they deserved — and instead gave minority and female lieutenants preferential treatment, Newsweek reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/us-news/cincinnati-police-chief-under-scrutiny-for-mass-brawl-was-accused-by-cops-of-anti-white-discrimination-using-race-based-quota-system-suit/
CWAC
Do you honestly think the mayor, the city council, and the majority voters of Cincy didn’t want race based quotas? I think the are all in on the progressive issue of the moment and in recent years that has been DEI as a vital tool for correcting perceived inequities in our society.
I think the trial should continue just so the public is aware but I’m not sure she should lose her job.
Well, not lose her job except for the part where racial quotas are illegal, of course.
Sounds like my old army unit.
“Democratic legislators in Texas could flee the state to prevent the GOP from approving new maps that could expand Republicans’ congressional majority….
But because Democrats are a minority in the state Legislature, they have few options to stop the GOP and face an uphill battle legally and politically.
One very real option would be to seek to deny the quorum necessary to keep the Texas state House and Senate functioning, something Democrats might have the numbers to accomplish….
A quorum break would also be expensive, due to new rules that impose fines for each day a lawmaker has fled, as well as the threat of arrest. Democrats are reportedly fundraising to help pay up if that happens, according to The Texas Tribune.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5433040-texas-democrats-fight-gop-maps/
CWABOA
Bad law.
The Rs in Oregon siscessfully blocked a Quorum a while back and held off some really bad legislation for a term.
Sadly most of the stuff passed the next session.
Guy in church earlier today was lamenting the GOP plan to redistrict Texas and steal five seats from the Dems. I pointed out that, in Cal., the GOP had only 17% of the seats but got about 40% of the vote. “Well, Cal. at least plays fair and has an independent commission do the district drawings.” I guess I could have pointed out Illinois, Nevada, and several other states where Dem. legislatures have drawn the maps to favor their side. I wish folks would stop hand-waving away the crap their Team does. As libertarians, we know and decry this behavior by all the Teams.
They need to get rid of all the weird shapes. Make it look like a county map of Iowa.
The districting needs to be logical, follow county borders as much as possible and when it splits counties it needs to follow geographical divided and major roads if there are no defining geography.
Gerrymandering is one of the oldest and truest of American political traditions. Why do you hate America?
“Why do you hate America?”
Have you even met America?
Which assholes in particular? The ones trying to stop an illegitimate redistricting or the ones pursuing it?
Every job I had I’d get fired if I didn’t show up.
You need to get a job where you will be fired if you show up.
When I see CA, WA, ID, and OR the less gerrymandering that happens the stronger the R party is.
Greetings from Aomori, the capital of (you guessed it) Aomori prefecture in the far north of Japan’s largest and most populous island, Honshu.
The highlight of the summer up here is the annual Nebuta Festival (I can’t be sure, but I think that all of Japan’s 47 prefectures have a summer fest). Parades happen each day, featuring floats that in their own way rival anything you’d see from Macy’s on Thanksgiving or the Tournament of Roses.
I found a place between the staging area and the beginning of the parade route, and lucked into a few nice photos of some of the floats as they approached. Also got a decent shot of the harbor at sunset.
Aomori is the Michigan of Japan in that it’s the apple capital of the country. I’ll be wandering about town tomorrow trying all the hard ciders that I can. If I can find someone who’s not only fermented the stuff, but also distilled it, I’ll have another souvenir.
If I can’t find any distilled cider, then I have a business plan. Build a small distillery nearby, and ship the finished product to the states. I’ll call it Japplejack.
I’ve heard people go to Aomori to look at plants. Just like Japanese tourists go Vermont.
I learned everything I need to know about Japanese parades from the James May show.
https://youtu.be/IHJlTEFomGo?si=rGJJBSGVpD3-B8jQ
I’m very jealous!
The local dialect there is basically incomprehensible to most of the rest of Japan. The national news will put subtitles on the screen if a local is speaking it. However, anybody educated and younger will speak perfectly fine standard Japanese as well. As a result the dialect is slowly going dying.
Tsugaru dialect
When you said you visited Aomori I thought you meant Dean Marten’s grave site.
Was I wrong or what?
“The Daily Wire reviewed records that show a Sydney B. Sweeney is a registered Republican in Florida. The middle name of Sweeney, the actress, is reportedly Bernice.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-melt-down-after-report-that-sydney-sweeney-is-registered-republican
The B is for Boobs.
“Additionally, the date of registration is June 2024, the same time it was reported that the actress Sweeney purchased a 13.5 million dollar home in Summerland Key, Florida. The registration reviewed by The Daily Wire named Summerland Key as the city.”
Trying to cancel Sydney Sweeney is virtuous. Trying to cancel Stephen Colbert is wicked.
This paywall situation is out of hand. No one is going to subscribe to 23 different outlets. Also, people on the left won’t subscribe to right-leaning outlets, and vice versa. So everyone stays in a bubble.
Advertisements were the main source of revenue for treeware. It would have worked online, except they added all this tracking bullshit and animation, leading everyone to get adblockers.
Ads are a catch-22. They only work if people see them. The most powerful ways to get people to see them are annoying. People put more effort into avoiding annoying ads.
See Liberty Mutual.
I would not buy their insurance if they were the last insurer on the planet.
Fragmentation of the masses (as facilitated by technology that treeware couldn’t support) isn’t all bad. I’d sure as hell prefer paying subscription for content that is reliable than for being eyeballs that advertising can be beamed into.
Maybe for “national” papers like the NYT and WaPo, or the three-letter TV media.
Local fishwrappers were cut off at the knees by Craigslist.
I hope there is a resurgence of Craigslist.
FB Marketplace has sadly supplanted CL
CL is better for specific searches but market place is better for just scrolling.
I learned everything I need to know about Japanese parades from the James May show.
James May being an insufferable twat
I only made it a few minutes in. Fuck that poncey git.
I’ve never watched a full episode of anything with him in it other than the Lego House bit. That was cool except for him.
James May is my hero
Now Junior, behave yourself
Hearing about Schumer on the tv and how he may or may not have immunity for…whatever.
Not having term limits means we have created a possible life-long career path wherein one has direct or indirect access to huge amounts of money, the ability to seize property (eminent domain and income tax) aaaaand immunity from prosecution for many crimes.
Who thought this is a good idea?
Another random thought: Looking at some history this weekend and it occurs to me that America is unique in that it is the only country that did not develop, at least to some extent, a ruling class that gained dominance by the sword. That affects culture deeply in lots of subtle ways. It is why we think they are nuts for bending the knee so readily and why they think we are nuts for our populace being armed.
Term limits are always about not letting other voters keep their shithead in office, while I get to keep the ones I have (and like).
They are all shitheads and short of hereditary titles and rule by fiat you couldn’t make a more perfect storm.
In other words, America is the worst country, except for all the others.
I hope there is a resurgence of Craigslist.
FB Marketplace has sadly supplanted CL
True. Marketplace is so locked down you can’t even get enough of a look to see if it’s worth the aggravation of signing up for FB.
FB makes you do a government ID verification now to get an account.
I had only one account from 2008 or so and they now have an AI running the show which kicked me off the platform for being “not authentic.”
I have bought and sold probably close to $50k worth of stuff through marketplace and found customers through my business page.
No more.
“On Saturday, the L.A. teachers union and allies held a rally demanding that LAUSD more aggressively protect immigrant familes
They proposed a series of measures to protect families and students, including establishing anti-immigration agent perimeters around schools
School district officials said they are united with the union in their desire to protect immigrant families”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-02/marchers-teachers-union-demand-lausd-provide-more-protection-for-immigrants
I remember when they demanded Defund The Police to re-open schools post covid.
Preposterous
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called President Donald Trump’s accusation without providing evidence that the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official manipulated jobs report numbers “a preposterous charge” on Sunday.
Speaking with “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos, Summers said that one official would not be able to change the numbers.
“These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There’s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number,” Summers said.
He added, “The numbers are in line with what we’re seeing from all kinds of private sector sources. This is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. It — firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers. It goes with launching assaults on universities. It goes with launching assaults on law firms that defend clients that the elected boss finds uncongenial. This is really scary stuff.”
Anything I don’t agree with is authoritarianism. Disagreeing with the egghead consensus is authoritarianism.
I heard this same squawking when Comey got fired. Trump knew about his shenanigans then and no doubt it will come out later that this shitbird was up to the same political nonsense.
Anyway, get rid of the Fed. ‘Independent’ government agencies are outside the checks and balances, i.e. illegal.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called President Donald Trump’s accusation without providing evidence that the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official manipulated jobs report numbers “a preposterous charge” on Sunday.
Ah, there’s that wonderful phrase again. The one that only appears when Trump says something.
Stephanopoulos asked Summers, “I guess this firing of the BLS commissioner goes in the category of shocking but not surprising?”
“This is way beyond anything Richard Nixon ever did,” Summers said of Trump’s firing McEntarfer. “I’m surprised that other officials have not responded by resigning themselves, as took place when Richard Nixon fired people lawlessly.”
21st century Washington bureaucrats falling on their swords as a matter of principle? Now that’s preposterous.
I didn’t like the message so I fired the messenger.
When my kids got bad grades in school I blamed the teachers.
Blaming government employees isn’t wrong.
I have known five young ladies who were bright, excellent with children and solid teachers. They got their degrees, were handed jobs right out of school then walked out of the schools in tears in their first year never to look back.
The best thing that could happen to our schools is for someone to take the teacher’s unions out behind the barn, beat it in the head with a shovel, shoot it, piss on it, set it on fire and then throw the ashes in the sea.
They are straight up communists whose goal is to demoralize children
Suthen, I’m shy only my student teaching from being elementary Ed.
The average time someone is a teacher is five years.
My Jr High math teacher became an RN, she was sick of the politics and were in Idaho, a RTW state.
My sister became a teacher and loved the union until even they wouldn’t defend her actions and Oregon of all states fired her.
The good ones don’t stay in that environment.
Exactly my point.
The system is poison.
Raven Nation.
Is that a reference to some sportsball team?
I’m 99.9% clueless when it comes to sportsball.
Sorry, which reference?
Your handle.
It’d be an antipodean sportsball reference, so an extra degree of difficulty.
From this:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0579759/
Huh, I’ve no memory of this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Wave_(TV_series)
It was on SciFi in the early 2000s. It was decent without being fantastic.
Probably most notorious for introducing Traci Lords to the cast for the third and final season.
I’ve not heard of it.
Looks like it was fairly well liked.
Speaking of Craigslist
That’s cute.
About an 11 hour drive, even though we’re both in Idaho.
I wonder if I would fit in one, I’ve long wondered about the little British cars. My uncle bought a hardtop Triumph sometime back, he’s 6’7”. I didn’t think to get in it (try to) last time i was at his place.
Astros having a melt-down inning vs the Sox – errors galore. Moar!