Good morning one and all to another beautiful day!
Justice Department Considering Ban on Transgendered People Owning Firearms
Bombshell memos: Biden aides believed he should sign pardons by hand, he outsourced approval to VP
‘Not In America’s Best Interest’: Trump Admin Scraps Deportation Protections For Venezuelans
Federal court stops the shutdown of alligator Alcatraz
DOJ Files Lawsuit Against Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu Over Sanctuary City Policies
Kennedy Turns Tables on Democrats in Fiery Hearing on CDC, Vaccines
Private sector added 54,000 jobs in August, below expectations, ADP says
Texas Seeks to Ban Out-of-State Abortion Pills: What to Know
Austin Spends Seven Years Developing $1.1 Million Ugly Logo
Winning Big Looks Like Texas Passing A Bathroom Bill With Zero Corporate Shakedowns
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Austin Spends Seven Years Developing $1.1 Million Ugly Logo
They could have accomplished the same in less time but it would have been harder to hide the grifting.
This shit is always graft. My bet is that if you wanted to look into it you would find the money was “spent” making a relative/friend/campaign donor big bucks for shit work, usually hidden behind some fanfare to distract.
California High-Speed Rail looks in disgust – “such a puny graft”.
^^^He SHOOTS! HE SCORES!!!^^^
Some of the plays know how to play.
CAHSR – we spread it over decades to support your grifting career
There is a site that uses AI to generate logos for free. The ones from there are better than that ugly logo.
This is how to design a logo.
https://trademarks.wsu.edu/logo-history/
the best logo
Minnesoda’s proggies must have pulled a fast one with their state flag change. I’m not sure how they scammed us yet, but after we did our redesign, all these other proggie places jumped on the bandwagon.
Is this Net? If they have to backfill vacancies, net new jobs will be low.
Also, how much job loss from removing grifters from the fed?
🤷♂️
I lost track.
That will be negative 554,000 jobs after next months downward “revision”.
Nah, the headline announcement is always make Dems look good/Repubs look bad. The revision will be upward.
The economy is not as great as Trump is making it out to be. Definitely not as bad as Biden, but our business and personal situation is stable at best. Gas prices are hovering between $3.00 and $3.50. Not awesome.
What I see is an economy that has stabilized after a period of chaos.
Whether things will improve is an open question. My metric of a good economy is one where A: I can afford to live comfortably, and B: I can find products made in this country which I want to buy. These are highly subjective.
I would like $1 gas again, but I haven’t seen that in decades. Inflation may have pushed that off the table.
I would agree with your first statement, that feels right. But a growing economy means my business is growing, and that’s what I’d like.
I don’t think we will see $1 anything again. But gas has been close to $2.50 a few times this year, and I was happy with that.
I remember my Mom being absolutely aghast that gas had gotten “all the way up to $1.32” around the year 2000.
It’s always net.
And it’s always over counted.
Obscene read that it takes 225,000 or so to keep up with population growth.
When illegals are self deporting and the feds are cutting it would naturally be smaller.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Every person has a right to due process. You want to violate a person’s rights? Then give them due process. Blanket bans are illegal.
Due process for taking away a fundamental right requires a LOT of due process, not just an opportunity to be heard. Restrictions on fundamental rights require conviction for a crime, or a civil determination of incompetence. I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again, this is very bad. I don’t care how bizarre, obnoxious, or creepy trans people are, you don’t get to take away fundamental rights en masse.
Its chum for the rabid social warriors that also exists on the Right.
Yes, but it’s dangerous chum.
100% agree
Draft? Draft?
Nah, just involuntary enlistment
Japanese-Americans volunteered to go to years long “summer camps”
You can see right through me.
Yep.
Hopefully this is just a trial balloon. Like “Department of War”. 🙄
Somebody needs to shoot these trial balloons down earlier.
I have been suggesting Department of War for 30+ years.
Its the original name…and I think we were less aggressive under it.
Clearly the answer is to make it the Ministry of Peace.
During the Bush administration it probably should’ve been changed from “Department of Defense” to “Department of Offense”.
Trump is now and has always been an anti-gun New Yorker. Fortunately, he understands that too many of the people who he needs (needed?) to vote for him are pro-gun, which is the only thing that’s prevented him from enacting a complete civilian gun ban.
And too many MAGAs would bobble-head along when he did it.
WTF?
trying again…
That’s a bit ridiculous. Not even outspoken anti-gun Dems have attempted that.
Source? I don’t recall him saying anything like that.
Literally every time some bad guy shoots up something, Trump’s knee-jerk response is to ban guns. He did it twice his first term — the bump stock ban and his “seize now due process later” support of red flag laws.
Since these wouldn’t stop the next shooting, he’d continue to drop additional bans. Considering he has no respect for rights, why wouldn’t he keep banning his way to a complete civilian ban? Can you give me a source that shows he pays anything more than lip service to the concept of rights? Or is his support strictly “people I like deserve rights, people I don’t, don’t.”
It’s irrelevant whether he wants a full ban or not. What’s being ‘considered’ is an evil, unconstitutional infringement in itself, no further slipperiness or slope is required for me to vehemently oppose it. People I don’t like get to own guns, voice their opinions, live, accumulate and dispose of property, and otherwise pursue their happiness.
I was reading the comments over at Breitbart yesterday and the knuckle draggers over there were pleasuring themselves to the thought. It’d be a terrible precedent to set if it stood to court challenge which it most certainly won’t. It’s a straight up retarded idea dreamed up by people that have no respect for individual rights and no grasp of the idea of unintended consequences.
“Considering he has no respect for rights”
*throws ball to baseman*
“Can you give me a source that shows he pays anything more than lip service to the concept of rights?”
No source is possible if anything he says is dismissed as lip service.
@Stinky – you’re assuming they don’t grasp the “unintended” consequences. I assume they are embracing them and using this as a foot in the door. Either way, the ban is a terrible idea.
A more honest person would say “why no, I can’t find any examples of him respecting the rights of his enemies.”
“I was reading the comments over at Breitbart yesterday and the knuckle draggers over there were pleasuring themselves to the thought. It’d be a terrible precedent to set if it stood to court challenge which it most certainly won’t”
Everyone seems to be missing the point here. Either the left caves and they allow the transgenders to lose gun rights, or they fight it, in court, and have the SCOTUS rule FOR gun laws…
If this is really coming from Trump, he wins yet again, by making the left have to fight, yet against, instead of for terrible policy, against their interests and for common sense.
It is brilliant.
“A more honest person”
Fuck off with that nonsense.
No, you.
I just find it fucking hysterical that you really think that what Trump says is at all an indicator of his future behavior but that his actual actions aren’t. Your refusal not only to back down but to accuse me of arguing in bad faith, well it’s of a piece with your Humpty Dumpty complex when it comes to trans.
So yeah. You’re dishonest. You’re much more interested in not being wrong than actually contributing.
If this is really coming from Trump, he wins yet again, by making the left have to fight, yet against, instead of for terrible policy, against their interests and for common sense.
It is brilliant.
So…
You are literally arguing that this is a good thing, because it is an evil thing. And that will make the Democrats be on the right side of an issue because Trump is on the wrong side of it. You like this because it puts Trump in the wrong and the Democrats in the right, which somehow makes it him scoring off them, I guess because in your mind they actually crave being wrong?
I’ve seen you go to some lengths to twist things so Trump is in the right, but arguing that he is in the right BECAUSE he is in the wrong is a bit much. This is clown world logic.
Trump’s thoughts have absolutely no ideological or religious basis. It’s always whatever strikes his fancy or the opinion of the last guy he talked to.
Go home Not Adahn, you’re drunk.
And you’re dishonest.
But I’m not telling you to leave, because we have a place for dishonest root vegetables here.
Alex, I think you’re giving them way more credit for strategic thought than they’re due. Sometimes stupid ideas are just stupid ideas.
Two thoughts:
This is basically a red flag law without the pro forma ex parte hearing. The courts will have to thread some needles to strike the tranny gun ban down and uphold the red flag gun bans.
It is going to be entertaining as hell watching the Dems TDS reflex collide with their gun ban reflex.
I thinking all this started with a made up graph posted on X.
I think it starts because two church-schools got shot up by transish young people, and that is way too much bait to go unhooked.
Bondi is a gun grabber.
“Multiple sources familiar with the matter…”
Read that earlier, no names given. Then again, there are socons like Matt Walsh who want to ban adults transitioning.
Like Rufo? He’s got the formula backwards though, it is nihilism that has brought forth transgender insanity.
Reads like the right-wing equivalent of a Salon article. No one shot people because they are transgender any more than because they were white. Also confuses transgenderism a leftist political movement with people transitioning.
As disproportionate as the trans representation among mass shooters appears to be, it still represents a minute percentage of them and the idea of suppressing individual rights based on belonging to a group is bullshit.
I could see leftists seizing on the idea to deny, say, self-described libertarians the right based on hatred for government and a supposed propensity for antigovernment violence.
FWIW the idea is to call it a mental illness and use that as the excuse to ban possession. Still shaky but it’s a bit more complex than “people we don’t like”.
“As disproportionate as the trans representation among mass shooters appears to be”
I don’t think there have been any mass shooters who transitioned. Anyway, self-ID is bullshit, but if you go by that and count people who identify as trans, trans people are less likely to commit mass shootings. I looked at a bunch of stats and they are roughly half as likely to commit mass shootings. Again, that’s based on very small numbers and includes things such as “non-binary”.
The Goldwater Rule is an admission that “mental illness” has an almost complete overlap with “people we don’t like.” Just have a court-ordered headshrinker write a diagnosis of “Oppositional Defiance Disorder” down for anyone arrested for contempt of cop and voila!
You seem to be using both a very restrictive definition of trans and a very expansive definition of mass shootings. Even if you limit the trans shooters to this one and Nashville, you’d need 125 mass shootings to make 2 shooters = .8% of the shooters and to get that number you have to include gangbanger shootouts, which are not the same thing at all.
Arrow of causality. People who are psychosocial deviants are both more likely to be mass shooters AND to have a diagnosis of “currenly popular diagnosis.” I’m sure if you went back and time that previous shooters had the then-hip diagnoses. Hell, this is undoubtedly why so many people claim SSRIs are the problem — people with mental problems get handed SSRIs.
“you have to include gangbanger shootouts, which are not the same thing at all”
I didn’t. There are stats that exclude gangbanger shootouts.
Are they mentally ill?
Yes.
Either institutionalize them using the proper method, or charge and convict them with crimes.
If they haven’t committed a crime they have the same rights as everyone else.
And when they finish their sentence they get their second amendment rights back. As should everyone else.
Red flag laws are unconstitutional, taking gun rights because of a misdemeanor is BS, not restoring the right after the completion of a sentence is BS. Orders of protection striping rights is vile.
Red flag laws are unconstitutional, taking gun rights because of a misdemeanor is BS, not restoring the right after the completion of a sentence is BS. Orders of protection striping rights is vile.
Pedant alert: USC reference:
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person, including as a juvenile-
(1) is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
(2) is a fugitive from justice;
(3) is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));
(4) has been adjudicated as a mental defective or has been committed to any mental institution at 16 years of age or older;
(5) who, being an alien-
(A) is illegally or unlawfully in the United States; or
(B) except as provided in subsection (y)(2), has been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa (as that term is defined in section 101(a)(26) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(26)));
(6) who 2 has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;
(7) who, having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced his citizenship;
(8) is subject to a court order that restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of such person or child of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child, except that this paragraph shall only apply to a court order that-
(A) was issued after a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person had the opportunity to participate; and
(B)(i) includes a finding that such person represents a credible threat to the physical safety of such intimate partner or child; or
(ii) by its terms explicitly prohibits the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against such intimate partner or child that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury;
(9) has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence;
(10) intends to sell or otherwise dispose of the firearm or ammunition in furtherance of a felony, a Federal crime of terrorism, or a drug trafficking offense (as such terms are defined in section 932(a)); or
(11) intends to sell or otherwise dispose of the firearm or ammunition to a person described in any of paragraphs (1) through (10).
The part I bolded is from the original GCA text. There are states where misdemeanors can have a potential sentence of up to five years. (9) on misdemeanor domestic violence in the USC was added later.
DEG:
I know in Minnesoda you can pretty much lose your gun rights for life if you have a domestic violence beef on your rap sheet.
My dad said that he had gobs of guys who took a plea to misdemeanor domestic violence charges to avoid a felony only to discover that they would never be able to legally go deer hunting again.
Your Holiness, that’s kinda what I said.
DEG:
I’m a graduate of Memphis State! I got no time for reading AND comprehension.
Austin unveils new logo symbolizing the history of the city from its founding to its peak, and then the long slow slide into hell after it crossed the line into full woke.
Never go full woke!
Why didn’t they go rainbow? They aren’t allies.
I was pleasantly surprised when that wasn’t part of the logo. I think it looks ok.
Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia failed to understand one of America’s basic founding principles and instead likened it to the Iranian regime.
I figured that Kaine was from northern Virginia, and was going to suggest the moniker “NoVa Kaine” for him, since he’s so numbing.
Turns out he’s from Kansas via Harvard Law, and parachuted in as a professor before turning to politics.
Still, rather shocking that he thinks rights are granted by government, considering his former (and current) occupation.
Is it shocking?
Not shocking at all.
Clearly this includes about 80% of today’s Democrats, and who knows how many Republicans.
Methinks you underestimate both. I’d go with closer to 100% of the party politics people are unfit for purpose under that standard. (and under most other standards as well)
It’s not shocking
What am I supposed to admit?
I’m pretty sure he meant Koppel.
Which then makes me think about “What’s the frequency Kenneth” and now I’m wondering how many news anchors got their own rock song shout-outs.
A solid 50% of republicans are democrats who run with the R to get elected.
Rights aren’t granted by government, so he is wrong there. Rights aren’t granted by anyone, so he isn’t wrong there.
Rights are a social convention though and codified as part of the foundation of our governance. I neither have nor need rights outside of living amongst other humans.
Virginia’s proximity to the capital results in a lot of carpetbagging.
I never understood how ADP is our sole barometer for jobs added/lossed and drives major economic decisions.
Extrapolating from one company is good enough for everyone else, I mean, we just look at Alphabet to see how the tech industry is doing, right?
It’s all made up shit. All statistics provided by government should now obviously be seen as dubious at best and completely fabricated otherwise. Our expert class was expert at pretending to know shit while their actions wrecked everything.
None of this existed prior to WWII, and all of this was rooted in the war production effort.
What JI is saying is that the Nazi’s won.
ZWAK – much like how we ultimately won in Viet Nam.
“Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that’s who you become most like.” – Nietzsche
You have a weird definition of winning.
What is Viet Nam today UCS? Oh, it’s not a liberal-democratic-capitalist paradise, but then, are we?
The real horror of WWII is how much it transformed this country. It may well have been our Pyrrhic victory.
WWI was for Europe.
JI – Whatever choices Vietnam made after we abandoned the theater (conceding the conflict) cannot be credited to us as a win. Might as well say the Sino-Vietnamese war turned them anti-communist, it happened more recently.
Woodrow Wilson predated WWII by a few years. Being the sole industrialized country not bombed to fuck allowed us several decades of not-collapsing under progressive economics.
A war is won by the long term consequences, not the immediate cessation of hostilities. Germany will never be the belligerent power it once was, just as France won’t ever be a power again – that shit was crushed out of them. It is no longer part of their social make up.
We “won” WWII (at least the Pacific theater, the Russians are who defeated the Nazis in Europe) and what became of us in the long term?
Yup, I was right, you have a weird definition of winning.
I contend Studebaker won WWII for the Russians.
Without lend lease the commies should have lost.
We shouldn’t have given them a single grain of wheat.
Threedoor, you’d be hard pressed to find a man who hated the Bolsheviks more than Winston Churchill, yet he allied with them because he hated Nazism even more. True, without our material support they’d have been further behind, but they killed more Germans than we did by far.
Well, when you roll up Northern and Western Europe in a month and can focus most of your western efforts on bombing England, it frees up troops to push east.
BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) puts out the same and more data much more thoroughly surveyed.
However, it lags ADP’s data by a considerable degree. Wall St will take any leading data that it can so it therefore influences markets. Something that influences markets makes news. Things that make news attract politicians.
Rinse and repeat.
Outsourced to VP? And who did she outsource them to? I think they just left the door open and whoever wandered in and cranked up the autopen. That is how they handled everything else. Dereliction of duty writ large.
You are assuming this was just dereliction of duty. I am gonna bet we eventually find out Obama’s people made massive cash selling pardons and tacking blame for that shit to the brain dead idiot they installed.
Yes, that’s kind of the point of installing a veggie, and why I was so sure they’d ley him serve out the term. Figurehead monarchs are awesome for courtiers.
I am past caring. The open borders people have pushed things way too far. It is clear they despise this country and are trying to destroy it.
Put them all out.
“The open borders people have pushed things way too far.”
The open borders people showed their hand and that they truly believed the only way to capture government and to rig it perpetually in their favor was to create a new majority voter base that had no history of being taken advantage of – for decades at an end – by them when it was time to collect votes, but was then forgotten until the next election.
It’s very obvious that the Dems just want illegal aliens around in order to pump up the number of warm bodies in their districts. Every policy, every belief leads in the same direction – more power for Dems.
This.
I used to wonder if these assholes were all reading from the same book but that isnt it. Reaching the same destination requires the same navigation. The word commie gets thrown around a lot but in fact communism is just an ideology concocted to arrive at that destination. Total power and dominion over mankind. No matter what you call it it ends up looking the same.
USAID was even more of this. Take taxpayer money and funnel it to left-leaning NGO’s to fund the Dems and push unpopular policies. All of it was rigged, and the illusion that anyone other than a small minority of people support this ideology is finally crumbling.
What open borders people? When I think “open borders”, I think Bryan Caplan. I think we aren’t thinking of the same people.
Is there any practical difference?
Stop, I can only get so hard.
“The Texas Women’s Privacy Act restricts bathroom use in government buildings, schools, and universities according to sex assigned at birth, with steep fines up to $125,000 for violations.”
Retarded, but at least limited to government buildings.
We did not need these laws in the past because most people did not think BATSHIT CRAZY is acceptable behavior. Going to the bathroom was a necessary inconvenience, not a vehicle for forcing bullshit down people’s throats or engaging in perversions.
“Going to the bathroom was a necessary inconvenience, not a vehicle for forcing bullshit down people’s throats or engaging in perversions.”
With the exception of a single digit number of assholes, it still is.
Once again, I don’t want some attention-seeking weirdo with a 14-inch beard in a sundress using the men’s room either…
Yeah, what’s retarded is that it came down to the need for a law to keep men out of women’s spaces.
“women’s spaces” is vague. I’m not seeing a need for a law to keep MTF out of the lady’s room. Also, as written, it forces FTM to use women’s bathrooms. Which would normalize people who look and sound like men using the lady’s room, so any man can barge in there claiming they’re trans.
By “need for a law” I mean there used to be an unspoken rule that men stay out of the lady’s room. That includes men in woman-face. Now that unspoken rule is shot to shit and you seem to be implying that women who don’t want to use the bathroom with men should just suck it up. I disagree.
I remember MTF using the lady’s room and no one cared. Then the poitical push and transtrenders made this an issue.
I highly doubt that but if so it could only have been possible if those men were able to “pass”. In other words, the women didn’t care because they didn’t know.
Nowadays we are expected to allow men with beards who throw on some lipstick and call themselves “women” to use the lady’s room. That is not going to fly for much longer.
“Nowadays we are expected to allow men with beards who throw on some lipstick and call themselves “women” to use the lady’s room.”
Agreed that’s bullshit. Those are transtrenders. No trans woman would have a beard.
No True Tranny! At what stage does someone become trans in your view? Hormones? Top surgery? Bottom surgery? You seem to want to dismiss the idea of self identification, which I agree is nonsense, but then to adopt the woke view of trans people as perfectly sane individuals who happen to be born in the wrong body, but I do not see a principled way to define it then. Does it depend on how well they pass?
I think I’ve answered all that many times in the past, so let’s just agree a trans woman wouldn’t have a beard, OK?
I know he is trolling but c’mon…we dont need the cutsie names. Alligator Alcatraz? Panhandle Pokie?
A new one is opening over your way as part of Angola prison.
I’m wondering what they’ll nickname it. My entries:
Bayou Brig
Swamp Stockade
Humid Hoosegow
Cajun Calaboose
Boudreaux’s Big House
Not Belle Reve?
These are not supervillains.
How about “Angola, just like the country!”?
As part of my job I had to go to a lot of prisons. There were two that were so godawful depressing and dark that I had to ask not to be sent back to. Angola and the parish prison in Algiers. You cant imagine how nightmarish they are. Nothing in the movies comes close.
From what I’ve seen it’s so bad that I’d rather have to live in Angola than live in Angola.
Actively subverting the enforcement of law is a crime if I do it.
You are an evil cis white male. They are dong it cause they are noble marxists and mean well! See why it is a crime when YOU do it???? HUH???
WTF is up with the rash of shit-tier graphic designers and marketers having power?
Unofficial social point system in full effect?
I’m thinking “nepobabies with useless degrees,” but I could be completely wrong.
I suspect that ‘management’ fired all the old white dudes with actual talent (and who thus commanded larger salaries,) and replaced them with talentless woke types who work for table scraps…
College.
The hearing was a circus and the dems came off looking like the clowns they are.
These things tend to always be politicians hoping to create a news clip or viral post to collect donations, but this thing was so much desperate shit, that I think the only people that got viral election material are the people that cheered the RFK jr. appointment after the Kung Flu debacle.
It’s that way with both parties, but the Dems seem particularly odious. But as Alex said, they can count on the “news” to selective edit clips to make the Dems look like brave crusaders standing up to the insane Trump admin that will drag us back to the dark ages.
Creepy Tim says you are the property of government. Now try to imagine a Clinton/Kaine administration.
Kane you say?
I’m afraid Kane lives no longer.
I already experienced a Kaine administration as governor.
But really, what has changed since 2017? Well, everything. For starters, public opinion on transgender issues. In 2017, a Pew Research Center poll found that 54 percent of Americans say a person’s gender is determined by their sex assigned at birth. In 2022, that number flew up to 60 percent. From 2016 to 2021, Americans’ support for bathroom and locker room bills increased by 12 percent, up to 47 percent in favor of the restrictions, according to a Public Religion Research Institute survey.
The Ts affixed themselves to the LGBs (with many of the latter objecting) and proceeded to overplay their hand.
Funny how things went from “Please don’t beat us up” and “Let us get married” to “Use my pronouns or lose your job” and “You have to sign a statement saying that you’re mentally ill if you don’t want to share the women’s locker room with us.”
“The Ts affixed themselves to the LGBs (with many of the latter objecting) and proceeded to overplay their hand.”
LGBT has been a thing for decades. Around 2014, it was the leftist G orgs that pushed for trans kids after they ran out of issues.
When you live by the oppression rule, you can’t ever actually win, you’ve got to find another oppression victim to fight for.
Yes, the (literal) Marxists who got the ball rolling (there’s a long Rufo chin-scratcher out there somewhere covering all the sordid details) deliberately attached themselves to LGB because they knew it would play on sentiments of acceptance.
Yes, almost all the pro-LGBT (HRC, GLAAD, GLSEN, Stonewall, etc.) groups were very lefty long before the trans thing.
The ratchet only moves one direction.
Once you accept the premise that there can or should be such a thing as a protected class you invite infinite expansion. Any civil rights law that goes beyond repealing laws that explicitly disfavor a group or groups, explicitly disfavors all the groups not listed in its protections.
All this judges back and forth is getting tiring.
Logo not pictured. Why does a city need a logo?
To make the mayor feel special.
*sigh*
That’s nothing compared to the Cleveland People’s Flag.
It’s not even a proper shape.
Jesus, that’s even uglier than the Browns’ uniforms. What the hell Cleveland?
Stinky:
Hey now!
Brown and Orange are perfect colors for fall.
Austin is a feeling, an idea. Each person’ has their own logo. That’s why it’s so unique.
If you’re not from Austin you won’t understand. I don’t have time to explain it to you.
[golf claps]
It’s not a logo, it’s a “brand.” So that escaped tax cattle can be more easily reclaimed.
“Paxton also referenced several recent allegations of men slipping pregnant women abortion pills after they refused to take them voluntarily. In one case, a woman alleged she had been given mifepristone dissolved in her hot chocolate, after being invited over for a “trust building night.””
Narrator: Trust was not built that night.
Wait, wait, wait. Isn’t this all being plotted by the males who want women in the red hats and capes? The baby farmers? This is fucking up the narrative!
Eh, for me “trust” means “predictability,” so that’s definitely providing a data point with which to build a model of the guy’s behavior.
That article about denying the transgendered firearms, did anyone notice that not a single person, outside Charlie Kirk, was quoted? That no one put their names to this? I know it is Breitbart, but, come on! This is as bad as any other birdcage liner article. “Sources familiar with the mater”, really?
It was noted and seen…more a repudiation to the actual idea, be it from sources in the government or a hopeful pundit
The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again
Thierry Breton
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/eu-donald-trump-tariffs-us-europe-tech
Fresh threats of sanctions have just emerged from across the Atlantic, targeting Europe and any official who dares to enforce the Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU’s flagship law regulating tech platforms and digital operations. These sanctions come with new trade barriers and unprecedented export restrictions.
An ever-widening gulf of misunderstanding is opening up between Europe and the United States on digital regulation. A gulf that the major tech platforms – American, in this case – are exploiting to the hilt. And that is deeply regrettable. Because regulating the information space is not optional: it is a sine qua non for turning the narrow mercantile logic of a few into a genuine contribution towards human progress and the common good.
ahhh censorship for the Common Goo [TM]
There is a Romanian phrase for old Thierry you guys wouldn’t get it but Sa-ți crească coaie-n talpă
French neo-aristrocrats: L’etat, c’est moi.
It’s odd how often the ‘common good’ turns out to mean “obey your betters you filthy proles”
“How can this be for the greater good?”
“It’s all for the greater good.”
“THE GREATER GOOD!”
“Shut it!”
Just watched this again last weekend when my wife said she had never seen it.
I thought she had watched it with me before, but she was adamant she had never seen it.
I hadn’t seen it in awhile, so I didn’t mind seeing it again.
Halfway through, she says, “Oh yeah, I have seen this before.”
*Narrator*
This is not the first time this has happened and I’ll bet it won’t be the last.
She probably talked through it the last time so missed alot.
No, she just has movie amnesia.
31 years married and it still boggles my mind she can’t remember movies she has watched.
Could be worse, her best friend still watches Passengers every week because “It’s such a great movie”.
I could not disagree more.
My wife misses a lot of details because she asks questions throughout. Sometimes she is asking about parts she missed because she wasn’t paying attention. More often she is asking about things that will be answered later in the film. And then there are the questions she asks when the film is over about what happens after the film.
My wife does that all the time.
She’ll ask me, “Why did he do that?”
I always just say that I am watching the same movie you are.
At what point do you firewall off the EU portion of the internet?
Whenever the Eurocrats figure out how to make themselves money off of us paying for it.
We cannot allow that. We must take up Memes and wage total trollwar against the wokescolds! No Pie left behind!
It’s what should be done.
Take the financial hit and don’t comply.
Or include a VPN with any software you sell there.
Is that Romanian for “he had finally learned to love Big Brother”?
Nope. It means “may you grow testicles on the soles of your feet” so that every time you take a step you feel the pain of a kick in the balls.
I have to admit, the USA isn’t really handling it when it comes to insults…
The Bee in excellent form!
Calvinist NFL Preview: Each Team Shall Win The Games They Were Predestined To Win
unfucked link https://babylonbee.com/news/calvinist-nfl-preview-each-team-shall-win-the-games-they-were-predestined-to-win
This explains why the Cardinals never win it all.
“A quad of boneheaded hikers had to be rescued by forest rangers after they suffered such a “debilitating psychedelic mushroom high” that they got lost in New York’s Catskill Mountains last Friday.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/us-news/4-hikers-rescued-after-suffering-debilitating-psychedelic-mushroom-high-in-catskills/
Take my shrooms, please!
“A Minnesota father has been freed from a life sentence for murder after a star witness who helped put him behind bars nearly three decades ago grew “soul sick” with guilt and confessed to the killing.
Bryan Hooper Sr. walked out of the Stillwater Correctional Facility and into the arms of his children on Thursday after he was wrongly imprisoned for 27 years for the 1998 murder of 77-year-old Ann Prazniak, the Great North Innocence Project announced.
The Hennepin County District Court exonerated Hooper Sr. over Prazniak’s murder when it received a handwritten confession from Chalaka Young — the key witness who had testified against him — who admitted to killing the woman.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/us-news/wrongfully-convicted-minnesota-dad-bryan-hooper-sr-is-freed-from-jail-after-27-years-as-star-witness-confesses-to-murder/
Oh Lord. The guy’s whole life was stolen away.
Bitch set him up.
Lazy prosecutors, pussy pass or WDATPDIM?
Boom! Chalaka. Boom!
Also The Bee today.
“Justice Department Considering Ban on Transgendered People Owning Firearms”
I really, really, really don’t like this. If the Trumpsters can’t see how this would be used against people the next time a Donk is in power their collective IQ doesn’t even reach room temperature.
I hate it too.
Interesting point: Last time I filled out the form to buy a gun there was a question about that, something about gender identity. I asked the salesman about it. He said if you answered that you felt you had a different gender identity you’d be disqualified from the sale. This was during the Biden times. Anyone else see that?
I have heard others that recently had to renew ask about it, yes.
I do not recall seeing that box on any of the forms I filed this year which involved a carry permit, two firearms, and two ammo checks (I hate New York).
But, I don’t remember the minutiae of most of those checkbox questions. At most that one would have prompted an eye roll.
Unfortunately, most of my gun purchases have been form free.
The most recent 4473s I filled out DID have a third box at gender (don’t remember if it was “other,” “nonbinary” or what.) AFIAK, it was put there under during the Biden admin, but as a DEI thing, not a disqualifier.
There is a separate question about being diagnosed with a mental illness (can’t remember if it was on the 4473 or the NYS form).
I thought the mental illness item was for involuntary commitment. A yes on that will get you denied.
Again, the left would have to take a case to the SCOTUS to fight AGAINST gun control. And yes, they would win that case, but at what cost? That would basically cause them to short circuit. It is going to break them regardless.
And here we see one of the short-sighted people who think this will “own” the libs and therefore must be a good idea.
Own the libs by making them be in the right… Haha we showed them, we… did something so awful they look reasonable and sane.
This would require progressives to feel shame or accept the idea of hypocrisy. News flash – they don’t.
Why would they feel shame on this? They’d be in the right for once!
They’ll fight to expand the ban, throwing trans people under the bus, but they won’t care about that if they can create a system where someone’s 2A rights can be denied at the whim of some unelected official.
This, exactly.
This 4D chess works both ways.
While you may feel you have the Left boxed in, you realize that you have also boxed yourself in too?
Next time a D is in the Oval Office, he can ban some entire group and point out that Trump/GOP supported such bans in the past. What happens then? You admit that you were just a bunch of hypocritical lying jerks? Or that you do want to ban entire groups, just not your group?
The only good thing about OMB was having him in a perpetual knife fight with the ruling caste. If he’s getting bored with that he could actually be a disaster.
Read the comments at Breitbart on this. The commenters are 10:1 at least stupider than shit.
A group of non-airbrushed ladies for Friday Funbags.
https://archive.is/88xtr
This is the earliest known photograph of men drinking beer, Edinburgh 1844
The photograph, taken in the 1840s, is titled Edinburgh Ale and was captured by pioneering photographers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, who operated a studio in Edinburgh. On the left is James Ballantine, a stained-glass artist best known for designing the windows of the House of Lords. In the center sits Dr. George Bell, co-founder of Edinburgh’s ragged schools, who also campaigned for the demolition of unsanitary slums and the construction of improved housing during the 19th century. On the right is David Octavius Hill himself. The three men are pictured sharing a bottle of Younger’s Edinburgh Ale, a nod to the many breweries that once thrived in Edinburgh’s Old Town.
https://x.com/PintsBeauty/status/1963863827071812066
thems be some gay looking beer glasses.
Looks like a footed pilsner glass to me. They’re not uncommon at the better bars around here. As I was saying the other day, there’s not exactly a standards group giving strict definitions to types of glassware.
this is how you drink pilsner
https://www.prazdroj.cz/cospospohzeg/uploads/2021/08/Asset__1-1080×1080.png
I don’t get X from this computer, but I really like footed pilsners. To drink out of. Cleaning and storing is a completely diferent matter.
try this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0ELvkTWQAAbz9B?format=jpg&name=medium
PieInTheSky:
Gods no. That is used for more malt forward beers, such as nut browns, bitters, or [British] pale ales. In fact, I’m pretty sure one of my footed pilsner glasses is a branded Urquell one.
I can see those, and I’ve seen that shape before in period films. I would NOT call that a footed pilsner, but I am not a glassware taxonomist. To me a plisner isn’t that conical. That’s more like a really acute martini or a super deep pony.
“Justice Department Considering Ban on Transgendered People Owning Firearms”
I called it last week, this time it felt different. They were going to do something. Unfortunately this is something.
Chile’s Unhappy Success
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/chile-is-successful-so-why-are-citizens-unhappy-by-andres-velasco-2025-07
Let’s play a political parlor game. First question: Which developing country has, since 1990, consolidated a thriving liberal democracy, with free elections and a free press; almost trebled its real income per capita; sharply reduced its Gini coefficient (a measure of income inequality); and climbed up the ranks of the United Nations Human Development Index, so that it is now classified as enjoying Very High Human Development?
Second question: Which developing country had massive protests and riots in 2019; suffers from very low reported trust in institutions; has just elected a member of the Communist Party as the standard-bearer of the ruling center-left coalition; and, if polls are right, is likely to choose a far-right Trump wannabe in the presidential election later this year? If your answer to both questions was Chile, you win. The country is successful, yet its citizens are unhappy. Its democracy is the envy of Latin America, yet Chileans do not seem particularly proud of it. The country’s volatile mixture of flourishing and fury holds lessons that apply far beyond Chile’s neighborhood.
The center-left primary held on June 29 illustrates what is at stake. The early favorite was Carolina Tohá, an accomplished social democrat who has been a congresswoman, mayor of Santiago, Chile’s capital, and, most recently, Interior Minister in President Gabriel Boric’s government. In the end, the voters were unimpressed. Instead, they voted overwhelmingly for Jeannette Jara, a charismatic Communist former labor minister. It is not an exaggeration to call Chile’s Communist Party Stalinist. Yet 60% of primary voters preferred its candidate.
The classic meme with I do not want a solution I want socialism
Really shoots to hell the concept of the rational, enlightened voter.
I do kinda question that point about the Gini coefficient. One of the complaints I’ve read about in Chile is that middle class aspirations are quashed by the old elite who want to maintain the existing social hierarchy. Maybe the poorest have been raised, but there seems to be some impediments to rise above the middle class.
I am suspicious of that.
Knowing nothing about that aside from what I read there my impression is that the culture is one of dogs and haystacks. Not impossible but I suspect there is more to it than that.
Name any Latin American country not hobbled by Spanish and Catholic hierarchy – that pattern isn’t easily broken.
Belize
Although I guess it technically isn’t Latin lol
There is massive voter fraud in Latin America. Smartmatics, who if I recall, had some leftist group write software for Olivetti gambling machines, and Dominion who were this small Canadian company that bought Venezuelan source code to run on machines made in China.
Whether that is true elsewhere in Latin America, that isn’t the problem in Chile.
https://www.smartmatic.com/us/media/smartmatics-i-voting-and-e-voting-empower-citizens-in-chile
CT, Chile has swung left and right now several times, with or without Smartmatic. Boric won, then couldn’t get the Constitution he wanted. Stupid conspiratorial thinking not necessary.
Don’t assume these factors are mutually exclusive.
Farouk I, former King of Egypt, in exile on the island of Capri, 1953.
https://x.com/menavisualss/status/1962920578731426018
Why did they ditch the title Pharoh?
Because they’re Arabs, and Pharoh would be cultural appropriation.
I have read two different definition for “King.” One is “the dude that rules everyone.” The other was “in a feudal system, the person who has no liege.” The latter one makes “every man shall be a king” and other such expressions much more sensible.
My brain immediately went to the various kings who did pay homage to another leige at various points (post-conquest England to France, Bohemia to the HRE, etc)
That’s why the Assyrian king called himself the “King of Kings”.
Ed West
@edwest
Anarcho-tyranny is when people are sent to prison for making jokes in a WhatsApp group while others escape jail altogether after putting a complete stranger in intensive care in an unprovoked attack
https://x.com/edwest/status/1963925053906559460
Forget Venezuela and Haiti… I think we should consider giving “temporary” protected status to Brits. They are probably in more danger in their own country.
Brits and Boers. Don’t forget the Boers.
I thought the Trump admin already gave asylum to some Boers?
Our libertarian president!
The Environmental Protection Agency this summer proposed quotas for renewable fuel that will have to be blended into the U.S. gasoline and diesel supply during the next two years. As usual, the agency’s quotas for corn ethanol exceed what can safely be blended into the fuel supply without damaging engines and transportation infrastructure.
That means refiners will have to buy credits from biofuel producers and blenders to comply with the mandates. Presidents of both parties have lacked the political courage to ease the costly ethanol mandate. Hell hath no fury like the ethanol lobby scorned. But now the Trump EPA is also raising quotas for advanced biofuels and biomass diesel made from soybean oil.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-epa-ethanol-mandate-farmers-tariffs-soybean-oil-biofuels-d8bf1684?st=QgdeTS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Fer Fuck’s sake, burn Iowa to the ground if needs be, but stop this stupidity!
Hell hath no fury like the ethanol lobby scorned.
Do we have to nuke Iowa to shut this shit down?
Please turn your attention to Archer Daniel Midland and leave the state of Iowa out of this.
kinnath – who do we talk to? The senior leadership there seems to continually be under indictment?
Internal transactions at food giant ADM spark a sprawling criminal probe
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/internal-transactions-food-giant-adm-spark-sprawling-criminal-probe-2024-12-02/
I was suggesting that I would be OK with nuking ADM.
Their HQ is in Chicago, IL. Swiss might not be happy with that.
Nuking Chicago is overkill isn’t it? Considering how bent on self destruction Chicagoans are.
What could possibly go wrong?
All that feed should be going to raise cattle.
Apparently Thursday Nite Football requires Peacock. No thanks.
That was only for yesterday’s game (edited to add – Which I watched on NBC OTA), which, despite being played on a Thursday, was branded as Sunday Night Football. The rest of the Thursday night games are on Amazon Prime instead.
Yeah I figured last night was going to the only Thursday game I will see.
Tonight’s game is streaming-only, IIRC.
Ted S.:
Yes, it’s on Youtube exclusively. But it’s free to everyone. My guess is that this is free to load test as they’ve been pushing Sunday Ticket on Youtube TV hard recently. Sort of like Netflix doing the Paul/Tyson fight before hosting the NFL games they hosted.
Well at least you got two games for one last night. The first half teams swapped jerseys with their scrubs who came out for the second half?
Hell hath no fury like the ethanol lobby scorned.
It’s too bad that superannuated homunculus Grassley isn’t the Iowegian retiring from the Senate.
But West Coast refiners have long-term contracts with foreign suppliers and can’t easily switch to U.S. soybean oil, which also can’t be easily transported from the Midwest.
Soybean oil powered tanker trucks, duh.
(Soybean) oil pipelines?
One bad policy turn begets another.
Make sure you’ve got a good grip on that tar baby. Don’t let him get away.
That was only for yesterday’s game, which, despite being played on a Thursday, was branded as Sunday Night Football.
Huh. thx. Does that mean Sunday games are on Peacock now? I have no idea what the price elasticity of demand for football is among the rabble, but I won’t pay. It’s just color and motion.
Sunday night games will be on Peacock or (potentially) OTA on your local NBC affiliate.
Until that changes for some one off game for raisins.
Unless it changed from previous years I thought Sunday was always on NBC.
But yeah, I won’t pay extra under any circumstance.
The ethanol, now soybean, mandate is not about the environment or fuel. It is about fascist welfare…i.e. looting the treasury. We reallyreallyreally need to get rid of that shit.
Tough to do when the typical howling is “it’s our turn”.
Art is dead.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/wuthering-heights-discomforting-sex-scenes-35855693
If your only play is transgression (as it is for most progs), then you don’t really have anywhere to go after Piss Christ.
NB: Not that Wuthering Heights is necessarily anything to write home about anyway…
The semaphore version is better.
Better response: your girlfriend is a selfish whore and you’re a pathetic weakling if you don’t dump her immediately.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/my-girl-enjoyed-tantric-sex-35736847
Please turn your attention to Archer Daniel Midland and leave the state of Iowa out of this.
ADM and Cargill (and the Farm Bureau) would be helpless without their legislative helpers.
^^^ THIS
All the corporate whining in the world means nothing without politicians willing to do their bidding (and who in turn continue to get votes from their constituents [in full Homer Stokes voice]).
Google says less than 5% of Iowans are farmers. That’s not enough to drive most elections to a forgone conclusion (although it really helps Senators).
The money in ethanol is in processing and distribution. Farm equipment is also big business. Fertilizer would also be a major business associated with growing corn.
I did a quick check to see who contributes to Sen Grassley’s campaign. The data is clearly obscured . . . 2M from Large Individual Contributions and 1 M from PACs.
I would imagine ag businesses are the big contributors.
Granted, American farmers are only a fraction of as influential as the French. Nothing infuriated me more than the bellowing of Imperial valley farmers over water, and their claims of “feeding America” when they were growing cotton and alfalfa.
I’m confused. If it’s an EV plant how can it be an ICE raid?
South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6xe5d6103o
WSJ – noted that SK is not happy as it appears some of their nationals there working at the plant didn’t have all their paperwork in order and ICE took them in custody as well as grabbing all the Spanish speakers.
*sensible chuckle*
Car Wars expansion pack! EV v ICE!
(((Jarflax – Faster, but more explody!
Starmer cannot have armoured electric Range Rover ‘because of bomb risk’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/01/jaguar-land-rover-electric-armoured-cars-safety-levels
Were they on a hybrid work schedule?
They should ban BTS first.
If you’re not a citizen, you need to keep your paperwork in order. This is only a matter of national origin in so far as it’s “USA or Non-USA?”
Michael Bloomberg suggested negro men be prohibited from owning firearms (under a certain age, like ~40). That was just as brazenly stupid as saying “trans ppl” (however defined) should lose their 2nd Amendment rights.
It will be entertaining to watch the ACLU dancing around on that hot stove.
“”There is a solution, however, that wouldn’t require any further encroachment on law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights. In fact, the answer lies in the very paperwork and background checks that leftists often claim aren’t enough of an obstacle to guns.
Curbing the alarming rise of shootings committed by people pretending to be the opposite sex starts with treating transgenderism as a serious mental health issue.
Page two of the 4473 transaction record required for any gun purchase from a federally-licensed firearms dealer includes a series of yes or no questions designed to determine someone’s eligibility to purchase and own firearms. Question 21 subhead g specifically asks a potential buyer whether they have “ever been adjudicated as a mental defective OR have you ever been committed to a mental institution?”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/28/we-dont-need-gun-control-we-need-to-classify-gender-dysphoria-as-a-mental-illness-again/
Which wouldn’t exclude trans people, even if you classified gender dysphoria as a mental illness.
Newp. Not unless people were being involuntarily committed for either gender dysphoria (either the real thing, or the secret desire to dress up in a french maid’s outfit and get gangbanged by the Philadelphia 76’ers.)
Being adjudicated as a mental defective…I’d be really interested to know how often that actually happens…
It happens — someone too cray cray to stand trial.
My that’s an interesting and quite well defined kink…
Laying in wait for the next Dem administration is a body of psychology literature that deems conservatism to be a mental illness.
Haven’t there already been “studies” to that effect? Then they’ll tell us to “trust the science” again.
“A young British woman has been jailed for life in Dubai, her family revealed tonight.
Mia O’Brien, 23, from Huyton, Liverpool, ‘made a very stupid mistake’, according to her mother, who has launched a heartfelt plea on a fundraising site for help with travel and legal fees.
‘Mia has been given a life sentence over in Dubai and she is now in central prison,’ her mother Danielle McKenna, 46, wrote in the post…
It’s not known what crime Ms McKenna has been convicted of, but life sentences in the Emirates can be given in cases of drug trafficking, depending on the circumstances and the amount of drugs.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15068685/British-woman-jailed-life-Dubai-stupid-mistake.html
That’s some journalism.
The crime she was convicted of is pretty darn important in this case.
So is her name.
You mean the mother wasn’t also convicted?
Yacht girls gonna yacht girl…
In the pictures they chose for the article, she looks like she’s made out of plastic.
Show me the tatts. She has to have some.
Fourscore:
Yup. Can’t have just one tatt either. Once you start, you keep getting more. It creeps up on you ink by ink.
Yes, traveling to Dubai is a very serious mistake – one I would never, ever commit.
Ditto.
“Grotesque model reveals what influencers could look like in 2050 thanks to hours hunched over their smartphones – including patchy skin, bald spots, and a pointed ‘witch chin'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15060803/Grotesque-model-influencers-look-like-2050.html
LOLOL
Just come to my house and take a picture of my oldest hunched over a phone at the kitchen table. Spoiler alert: That model is way too thin.
Is that Pearl Davis?
Just had an odd idea for a sportsball event.
Four teams from whatever league show up. The players from those teams are shuffled around via sortition, with the coaches each drawing the player for the first position from a hat. Then those players drawing the next, and so on until you have four randomized teams made up of the players who arrived.
Two games are played, single elimination with the coaches and players on the losing teams sitting out the second round. Before the third and final game, the two teams are re-randomized with the same method as the original sortition and the last game played.
Not sure if anyone else would find it interesting.
If your randomizing players and staff between rounds, what’s the point? What’s being tested?
I stand that for something to be a sport, there needs to be an objective item being measured. This means nothing that’s judged by a panel is a sport. Figure skating is not a sport, if it is, then Chopped (and most cooking shows) is a sport.
Just trying to make it more challenging by shuffling who you’re working with.
UCS:
You basically made an all star/pro bowl style game. And those are with the best players from the leagues, and are generally ignored by most of the fans. Teams need some time to gel and figure out their group strengths and weaknesses.
Nonsense – My format includes the mediocre and bad players too.
Eh, not all competitions are sports.
Is t that what some frisbee football people do now?
Being adjudicated as a mental defective…I’d be really interested to know how often that actually happens…
There was a flurry of interest in barring veterans who have been administratively judged not competent to manage their own finances (however that works) from gun ownership.
Also, senior citizens.
Well, SOME senior citizens don’t need guns.
Yeah; you just send your murderbees after people.
I didn’t hear the local faux-conservative radio talk guy’s position this morning, but he was replaying all sorts of listener comments and they all hate the idea of banning trans from owning guns.
I may actually have to listen to faux-conservative guy’s initial thoughts. He regularly eats Trump’s shit sandwiches and proclaims them to be delicious so I wouldn’t be surprised to hear he thought that Trump’s proposal is great.
Too many boboes out there on the Right claiming that Trump is playing 4D chess on this one. “He doesn’t mean it! He is just trolling the Left to get them to support gun rights!”
Has Trump himself even said anything?
The VA is still doing that crap.
I know a guy who had a negligent discharge, didn’t hurt anyone (don’t carry a pistol in your pocket without a holster!) and got DQd by the VA.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The natives are getting restless
GOP senators have stopped short of calling on Kennedy to resign and haven’t yet said they regret voting for him in February, but they want him to back off efforts to change vaccine policy recommendations without sound scientific backing as the administration faces a growing public backlash.
Way to put your thumb on the scale, Hill contributor. Is that even true? The egghead establishment is freaking out and kicking and screaming like a bunch of two year olds, but do “the public” really care that much?
There is a backlash from the people you would expect a backlash from! How dare you discount them as representing EVERYONE.
Bernie Sanders scored an own-goal by saying everyone in congress receives lots of money from pharma companies.
Supposedly Kennedy is the most popular cabinet member. The way to frame this is exactly as he’s doing: Over the past few decades, we’ve had at least a 10x increase in the number of vaccinations, but also major increases in autism, obesity, chronic diseases, and mental health problems in kids. All he’s doing is questioning if there is a connection, and even if there isn’t, are all those vaccines making anything at all better (other than profits for a few companies)?
Bear pr0n for Tonio. SFW NSFL(NSF Lunch)
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who attended the hearing, said Kennedy’s policy changes have made it tougher for people to get vaccines.
He read aloud a social media post by conservative commentator Erick Erickson, who said his wife, who was diagnosed with cancer, couldn’t get a vaccine at CVS.
“I would say, effectively, we’re denying people vaccines,” Cassidy bluntly told Kennedy.
Was she prohibited from getting it, or prohibited from getting it for free?
If you won’t pay for this, I can’t get it!!!
Was she unable to get one at the office of her primary care physician? “Unavailable at the location I find most convenient” does not equal “unavailable.”
“Did this event even happen?” I think should also be asked.
Politicians are notorious liars.
“Couldn’t get a vaccine at CVS” is a hell of a lot different from “Couldn’t get a vaccine anywhere.”
Yeah, calling bullshit on that tale.
Cassidy then grilled the Cabinet official over his past statements and actions as the former lead attorney for Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit group that questions the safety of vaccines.
He drew Kennedy into a contradiction by asking him whether he agreed Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed, the government-backed initiative that developed the COVID-19 vaccine during Trump’s first term.
When Kennedy replied, “Absolutely,” the senator pounced.
“But you just told Sen. [Michael] Bennet that the Covid vaccine killed more people than Covid,” Cassidy pointed out.
Ooh, just like Perry Mason.
The Nobel Prize in Biowarfare?
That’s it, they got him. Time to resign.
Hey Yusef! I just saw your pun request. I already mailed you one pin so I’ll mail you another.
Please tell me that these pins have a stealth feature where they will randomly play audio clips of Shpip reading his favorite puns.
I figure you can pay for all your costs simply by making Swill pay a monthly fee to disable this feature.
Everyone is dogpiling Kaine (as they should), but where is the outrage at Pritzker claiming ownership of everyone in Ill Noise?
He’s used “my people” several times. Recently in regards to the Natl Guard. Look, he can have Swissy but he’s gonna have to pay us first. He can’t just claim him.
Illegal aliens are not Illinoisans.
Try again, bully.
If King Walz said “my people” it would piss me off – as a legal citizen – because I don’t belong to any person.
Maybe it is my white privilege showing. If I was black, I’d be used to various people speaking for me (like Al Sharpton).
“As lead attorney for the Children’s Health Defense, you engaged in multiple lawsuits attempting to restrict access to the COVID vaccine. Again, it surprises me that you think so highly of Operation Warp Speed when, as an attorney, you attempted to restrict access,” Cassidy said.
And my reflexive reaction is to assume that lying shitbag Cassidy is portraying an attempt to get rid of coercive mandates as “taking away people’s right to treatment”.
The cartoon is funny enough; the alt-text is Shpip-level.
*GROAN*
Love the prominent link to his “climate” cartoon. He can fuck right off with that hoax.
Everyone has a religion wether they admit it or not.
Stuff nobody cares about but me:
Colton Herta is leaving Andretti for F1; first, a season of F2 to gain Superlicense points, learn the tracks, and get the general (political) lay of the land. Then, a shot at a seat at Cadillac F1. Herta is pretty old (mid twenties) but obviously talented. I don’t care what anybody says, simulator time cannot really prepare you for a real car on rubber tires on a real track.
Will Power is leaving Penske for the newly vacant Andretti seat.
No word yet on who will take Power’s ride at Penske.
Laying in wait for the next Dem administration is a body of psychology literature that deems conservatism to be a mental illness.
Wanting to own a gun is incontrovertible proof of mental illness. QED.
Happy Birthday, Mr Tater
“Japanese man becomes oldest person to reach Mount Fuji summit at 102
Kokichi Akuzawa climbed with 70-year-old daughter to break record for oldest person to make ascent – a second time
The trip was not Akuzawa’s first record-breaking ascent of Mount Fuji. He was 96 the first time he became the oldest person to scale the mountain. In the six years since, he has overcome heart issues, shingles and stitches from a climbing fall.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/05/japanese-man-becomes-oldest-person-to-reach-summit-of-mount-fuji-at-102
Wow
If he held the previous record, he didn’t “become” the oldest to reach the peak with this climb, he just updated the age to beat.
Meh.
I’m sure Fourscore can still shingle his roof too. Let’s see this Japanese guy put on a Honey Harvest.
Kookaburra call