Good morning one and all to another splendid day!
Senate to confirm 48 Trump nominees next week
Biden’s Final Flop: 911,000 Fewer Jobs Than Reported in the Year Through March
Authorities Have Arrested Nearly 2,200 in DC Since Crime Crackdown
FCC’s Brendan Carr Threatens To Pull Licenses From Media Companies If They’re Out Of Line
Supreme Court says it will hear Trump appeal on tariffs in key economic case
Supreme Court Greenlights Trump Admin Withholding Billions In Foreign Aid For Now
Poland Shoots Down Russian Drones That Breached Its Airspace
Texas Governor Abbott, DPS cracking down on commercial driver compliance
Stabbing Suspect Accused of Murder: ‘I Got That White Girl’
Police: Butt-Dialed Voicemail Reveals Plot to Cover Up Texas Flight Attendant’s Suspected Murder
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Poland Shoots Down Russian Drones That Breached Its Airspace”
Uh oh!
You know who else breached Poland’s airspace?
FCC’s Brendan Carr Threatens To Pull Licenses From Media Companies If They’re Out Of Line
I remember when it was the Biden administration trying to censor wrongthink.
The populist right has decided that freedom of speech isn’t THAT important after all.
Wouldn’t this be Freedom of the Press issue instead?
Is it freedom of speech? It’s not like they can broadcast uncensored R-rated movies.
Supporting article.
We really need that Witcher “…. Fuck.” video The Drinker uses as a hot link around here. It is so appropriate for so many things (like that article).
Broadcast stations were never free to do what they wanted. I am short on time, but there was an act passed post WWII that made sure stations only played “pro-American content” and in the Obama years, the act was revised again, to what end I do not know. Most likely sinister ends. It is just as bad an approach as threatening to pull licenses, possibly even worse.
If you want freedom of speech with responsibility, restore the ability to sue newspapers for bullshit stories.
Fondly remembers Seattle Public Access Cable in the late 1990’s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/sub55t/does_anyone_remember_the_mike_hunt_public_access/
Sigh… :headdesk:… Quit being power hungry assholes, you power hungry assholes!
Maybe in a generation or so everything will be websites and we can get rid of the f’ing FCC since they won’t have “public airwaves” as an excuse…. (who am I kidding… if the telephone tax for the Spanish American War can last 100 years… a government agency sure isn’t going to care if it doesn’t actually need to exercise power…)
Look, we did finally get rid of the mohair subsidy program that was necessary to the war effort… the WWI war effort.
Wait, it came from Mo? I thought Curly was the one who’s hair was harvested?
Anyone who isn’t trying to depower the government just wants to use the power for their own ends. This is not a novel revelation.
Why wouldn’t I want the power to punch you in the nose without consequences (at least, while I’m in charge)? You expect me to think about what happens when I’m not in power – why would that ever happen?
“Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Tuesday morning that she has introduced a bill that would restrict federal funding to sanctuary cities and states that do not enforce cash bail.”
While cash bail doesn’t seem fair to people with limited funds, releasing people who commit violent crimes isn’t good either. The root of the problem is that there are two many laws.
Three many even!
No idea how I wrote that.
Bail should be based on risk assessment. Some people should be free without a bond, others on bond, and some should be denied bail.
Maybe I need more coffee but what would you say is the relationship between “too many laws” and “releasing people who commit violent crimes”?
Bail becomes more of a standard, expected, and streamlined process when youve criminalized just about everything. Bail rules are liberalized when you have to bail grandma out for selling raw milk. The violent offenders benefit from those liberalized rules, too. Especially when you sprinkle in some soros cash.
There is a “judicial bottleneck” and limited jail space.
These (too many laws, too many before the bench) are both problems, but a greater one is that half of the country believes in the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy, which leads to anyone deemed the later is given every benefit of the doubt, which leads to cashless bail for someone with 14 violent crimes under their belt, such as the Charlotte murderer.
Agreed, “crime equity” is bullshit.
Not sure I buy “limited jail space” after several decades of the left emptying out jails.
This. It is an ideological failure. We can’t even have an honest discussion of this shit in this country.
Agreed, “crime equity” is bullshit.
Noticing that black males, who make up about 6% of the population, yet account for around 50% of the violent crime and murders, is RACIST!!
Big difference between jail and prison, rhy.
“The FCC has only revoked the broadcast license of a media company once in 1971 after a station in Jackson, Mississippi, defended segregation, according to The WSJ.”
Even expressing bad opinions should be allowed.
Personally, I don’t see how the FCC has any authority over content. At most I can see it being a registrar of broadcast spectrum so that people aren’t stepping all over each other.
Ham, commercial, and civic radio also have a bunch of rules. For example, you can’t speak Spanish on a CB radio.
Yep.
Ideally liscencing should not exist.
The only issue with that is limited bandwidth
“Nobody reacts on the train, reflecting how Americans are used to urban ultraviolence,” journalist Andy Ngo posted on X with the surveillance video showing the murder.
I think it’s less “used to urban ultraviolence” and more “no one is going to take on a violent armed psychopath, lest they join the girl in the morgue” thing.
Or, “If I help, will I get in legal trouble?”
“If I help, will I miss my brother’s wedding?”
“I don’t know the girl, I don’t know the guy who killed her. Maybe it was a drug transaction gone wrong. I wasn’t paying attention.”
For myself, as a conspiracy theorist, I think it possible that the incident was planned as an attempt to foment a race war, and that the people sitting around her were surveillance.
And/or get railroaded by racist politicians and prosecutors.
Winner!
That might explain not trying to stop the attacker, (along with the Daniel Penny effect) but doesn’t really explain why nobody tried to help her while she was bleeding out.
I didn’t see any bleeding out but maybe that was later in the video. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I heard more detail about this on Tim Pool’s show. It was a small knife, he stabber her 3 times quickly. She didn’t even realize she was stabbed. There wasn’t any blood until a few minutes later.
So, your third sentence makes a truth claim that is difficult to back up and the fourth seems to be disproven by the blood on stabber’s outer garments. I am questioning the veracity of the person on the podcast who is providing this informaiton.
There wasn’t any blood until a few minutes later.
The video shows the attacker’s knife literally dripping trails of blood immediately after the attack. There’s no possible way the victim didn’t have any noticeable blood until minutes after. Seconds, maybe, but not minutes.
I’ve known a couple of people who have been stabbed. Apparently it’s pretty common to think that the guy just punched you, right up until you pass out from blood loss…
Years ago I got a pretty deep stab wound to the outer thigh (long story). It did in fact feel like a hard punch, until the bleeding and burning sensation kicked in.
I am willing to believe that a person might not immediately recognize the specific injury they have received particularly if it’s the first time they’ve received one, though I am less willing to believe a persons is unaware that something has gone rather wrong.
But my objection is claiming that a particular dead person had a specific mindset/awareness. Unless of course they actually said, “Oh, I didn’t realize I’ve been stabbed” or equivalent.
Or they remember what happened to Daniel Penny.
The Whimper of Whipped dogs writ large.
The prosecution of Daniel Penny ensured this.
Video shows people rushing to help once they realize what happened. As someone who’s ridden mass transit with headphones on, it’s possible you might not notice for a bit.
I wonder if white football players are going to start taking a knee during the Black National Anthem and wearing “14” stickers on their helmets for the 14 times the asshole was let free?
People weren’t initially paying attention. There’s surprise that something happened. It’s not immediately clear what happened to her, because her dark shirt appears to be camouflaging the blood. They don’t want to become his next victim. (I don’t know if he was still lurking.) The video I watched only showed a few seconds after the attack, so in that period I can understand how people didn’t immediately leap to her aid, and at least one guy did come to her aid later on.
The video showed other passengers seemingly acting as though nothing unusual happened on the train while the suspect walked around the car after the murder.
Right after being stabbed, she is in the fetal position, but sitting up, with her hands over her mouth. She glances furtively at the woman sitting in the seat across from her.
I heard that a few people tried to help her stop the bleeding, but I haven’t seen any footage of that.
One guy stands, and follows the killer.
We need to speed up our criminal justice system dramatically. That’s easier said than done, because the expansion of criminal laws has our courts badly overtaxed, and we have expanded the concept of a fair trial to include so many procedural guarantees that the actual trial can be pushed back for years, but it being difficult to do doesn’t change the fact that the current situation is broken. Cash bail only becomes a controversial issue when pre-trial detention lasts months or years. If the trial was happening within a week or two of the arrest, pre-trial detention becomes much less of a burden. If the current system actually increased certainty in criminal trials it might be justifiable, but I have seen no evidence that we get the right result more often now than we did a century ago with a much faster system. Get rid of stupid laws to reduce the burden on the courts, increase the number of courts as needed to try the cases that remain, and build enough prisons to house the population that results.
I suspect that after an initial increase in strain, the reduction in repeat offenders from simply not releasing them, will lead to a greatly reduced caseload.
This is an extreme example, but here goes:
After his election in 1932, FDR embarked on a cruise to relax from the strain of campaigning. He stopped to give an impromptu speech in Miami on February 15, 1933, where a mentally disturbed man named Giuseppe Zangara tried to kill him.
Zangara missed the President-elect, but in spraying the crowd with bullets, hit four other people. He confessed, and was sentenced to eighty years in prison for attempted murder later that week.
Nineteen days after the shooting, one of the victims (Chicago mayor Anton Cermak) passed away from either his wounds or 1930s medicine. No matter — Zangara was hauled back into court, pleaded guilty to murder, and was sentenced to death.
Zangara was strapped into Old Sparky and rode the lightning on March 20 — two weeks after Cermak’s demise, having spent ten whole days on Death Row.
The world is breaking under the weight of 1968.
What a world we could have had Shpip, was Zangara disturbed or was he a time traveler?
Time traveler would have killed baby FDR.
Get rid of prisons. They’re too expensive for the results they produce. The criminal justice penalty system should go (least to most) fines, then public flogging, then execution.
I think there is a place for 2, 5, 10, 15 years hard labor as well.
I’m fine with bringing back the historic punishment for felonies. Hint: it made recidivism impossible.
**Braces for a storm of “So you trust the Government to get it right, how stupid!”
No, I don’t, but that’s a constant in all discussions about this and I don’t grant the premise that the irrevocable nature of capital punishment makes uncertainty impermissible. We don’t get certainty. We’re fallible. We have to do the best we can with the abilities available to us and there are irrevocable consequences to ALL our choices, not just the choice to execute a murderer or rapist.
With murder it’s reasonably certain at least someone died. With rape, it could be completely made up.
Only if they find the body.
And then only if there isn’t a sign that maybe the dead guy was the agressor.
And that the whole thing wasn’t accidental.
<<<Jar – I’d go along with the increase in capital punishment, as long as it also attaches to prosecutorial misconduct in a capital case; in other words, cheat your way to a conviction and you get the punishment as well (for both DA and cops involved).
I’d accept, no I’d love, that addendum.
Sure there is video and presumably her blood all over his clothing, but we need to drag this out for as long as possible so some billable hours can be printed.
Yeah — the article I read on one of the TownHall sites this morning mentioned it was during a “massive” (whatever that equates to) Russian to Ukraine drone strike along that border.
So until proven otherwise, the simplest answer of “Someone mucked up the navigation or they got jammed and veered into Polish airspace” seems more likely to me than “Putin has gone bug-fuck nuts and wants to invoke Article V once and for all!”
So I’m not going to get the vapors about this.
You’re no fun.
Yeah, no one is getting vaporized over this.
Yeah, I’m gonna guess they were headed for Ukraine and encroached on Polish airspace en route.
WSJ suggests it was Russia probing.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/poland-shoots-down-drones-deep-inside-nato-members-territory-692452e8?st=HUZuer&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’m sure they have good evidence for that and it’s not just speculation. What would Putin have to gain by provoking direct NATO military involvement in his Ukraine war?
WSJ editorial is all in on bombing Ukraine. However, WSJ separates news and “analysis” far better than the NYT, for example.
Just putting out as another genuine news source with a different POV.
STEVE SMITH UNDERSTAND, HIM ALWAYS PROBING TOO.
You’re not panicking about a Maine/Gulf of Tonkin pretext for invoking Article V?
1) Certainly every state “cracking down” on big rig drivers by checking that they know how to drive seems reasonable… (“Why didn’t you before?” leaps to mind…)
2) Given I’m in a field that abuses immigration law to drive down labor costs — and it sure seems from the reporting this was yet another abuse of immigration law / policies to drive down labor costs (and I’m starting to seriously think that the last 30 years has been the corps / “elites” doing that in every damned industry they can and that might just be part of why the productivity versus compensation curves have sucked for so long), forgive me for prefering we stop this, deport any here illegally or on “asylum” and get the trucking industry back to where an independent owner/operator can make a good living. While we’re at it, stop with the gps-tagging regulations that make it so damned hard for small truckers to track all the logs they have to track, assholes.
But I’m probably just generally bitchy today or something.
Deport them all!
inorite
Why is this so controversial?
Local news remains wall-to-wall pro illegal alien agitprop. This is not normal.
Well, there’s another way
But I’m probably just generally bitchy today or something.
It’s not just today. :-p
/sarcasm
I’ll be here all week. Tip the veal and try the waitress!
Get rid of DEF, DPF while they are at it.
Having know nothing beaurocrats write the hours of service rules should have lead to an armed uprising decades ago.
While we’re at it, let’s shut down every legal avenue used to import cheap labor to undercut the US standard of living.
Immigration shouldn’t be used as a tool for corporations to avoid the labor realities in our society. It shouldn’t be a tool wielded against the citizenry economically, culturally, or otherwise.
And while we’re at it, we should reevaluate the path to citizenship and determine whether the bar needs raised to account for a few decades of malicious immigration policy from the left.
Add on knowingly hiring subs so that there’s arms length deniability about hiring illegals.
The bar needs to be raised to include actual proficiency in English.
CMV enforcement is completely non existent. Swing a few from the overpasses and maybe those illiterates will start to figure out what those squiggles on the signs mean.
Then there’s the Shitintruckistanis by way of BC.
Oh, okay… just a probable crime of passion (kitchen argument between ‘roommates’) and a crappy body disposal.
Seeing the link phrasing — I thought it was a butt dial call revealing that the police were trying to cover up a murder… which would have been extra depressing because now-a-days, I could believe that.
Same initial read too.
A black man did try to help her:
https://substack.com/profile/34979162-atommiller/note/c-154338827?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Thank you for helping restore some of my faith in humanity.
First I am hearing about it. So far I have only heard ‘Not one person tried to help her’ and footage of everyone ignoring her and pretending it wasnt happening.
Well, that’s something.
The woman sitting across from her is a soulless ghoul. For everyone else, I think some grace is warranted. It’s hard to piece it all together when you didn’t have your eyes on the crime as it happened.
Unless you have a gun (and space to maintain distance), tangling with a guy who has a knife and is willing to use it is extraordinarily stupid. Doing a Daniel Penny would likely also get you dead.
Yeah it’s easy to pretend you would be the hero with hindsight. But that’s not how it works in the real world the vast majority of the time.
The sanest course of action is exactly what the video appears to show.
Well, except for the people (maybe just one?) who whipped out their cell phones to make sure to film her bleeding out.
Just from looking at the video, I don’t think it would have mattered if the poor girl had been stabbed while sitting in the surgical theater at the UMD Shock Trauma unit.
But that doesn’t change the fact that statistically, you’ll save way more lives with medical training and equipment, than with a gun.
You! Yes, you! Take a Stop The Bleed course and carry a compact blow-out kit.
Well, at least one decent person in the whole car is better than nothing.
I don’t get all the hate being thrown at the bystanders. Hindsight is 20/20, but who would have seen this coming. The guy was acting “normal,” not yelling or going on about anything, he just stood up and stabbed the victim in the neck. She did not (could not?) scream or make a scene, just curled up into a fetal position, then passed out and died. I’m not sure anyone knew what happened until it was too late, and I believe one guy saw the blood dripping from the attacker and thought he was the one bleeding.
Stab wounds to the neck would be very complicated to treat, even had a competent doctor been on scene and acted quickly. I doubt anyone could have saved this girl unless they were armed and saw the knife come out and shot him dead before he struck. Of course weapons are prohibited on the mass transit system… for safety.
The internet is saying the attacker had been repeatedly referred to Pinnacle Recovery Services, and Judge Teresa Stokes, who released him to this rehab service, is part owner of Pinnacle. Looks like a conflict of interest to me. This, I believe, is where this crime could have been prevented. I don’t know about three strikes laws, but somewhere between two and fourteen seems reasonable.
I heard something similar last night. It was a small knife, and she didn’t seem to realize she’d been stabbed. It took a while before blood appeared. People on a train are usually looking at their phones or out the window, so if there is some kind of scuffle they’d see it out of the corner of their eye and not realize what happened. That seemed like a plausible explanation.
It does bring up the idea that too many people are absorbed into their phones or whatever and aren’t paying attention to what’s going on around them.
I used to live a few blocks up the street from where the incident that precipitated the Three Strikes law happened, when it happened. There was, and apparently still is, a reason that law was pushed into being, and the murder of this woman is a reminder of the logic behind it. If someone cannot go their life without committing three felonies, maybe they shouldn’t be out in society.
I do believe that rehabilitation is a necessary part of the criminal justice system, along with punishment. But at a certain point you just need to move on with someone. Not necessarily executing them, but removing them from the rest of society permanently. And this allows them to be useful in industry, as most people in long prison sentences to like working, and gives them the mental health care they they so desperately need in many cases. And a third benefit is they stand as a reminder to the rest of the country that we do take care of these people, along with the rest of the population.
“A Hawaiian police dog died in a hot car when its handler abandoned her animal partner “for an unacceptable period of time.”
Archer, a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois-German Shepherd mix, died in a police vehicle on last Thursday after his handler Sidra Brown forgot about the drug sniffing pup in the car, the Hawaii Police Department announced in a press release.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-news/hawaiian-police-dog-dies-after-being-left-in-hot-car-by-handler/
Enough with these blatantly incompetent fat mannish lesbians.
No indication of any kind of discipline, much less termination, for the incompetent cop. But of course, “The department is conducting a comprehensive review of its K9 policies and procedures.”
Why do I suspect they already had a policy against killing your dog through neglect?
It’s probably a crime for the public at large. She’ll get a paper in her file and possibly no Canine duty for her. That’s what happened here not too long ago.
But if you shoot a poorly trained police K9 in self-defense, guess what happens?
The idea that police (or any other government employee) can unionize is simply insane.
These people I pay are negotiating with these other people I pay over how much I pay them.
guess what happens?
You get to see your insides come out through a series of .45 caliber entrance wounds and flower petal shaped exit wounds?
Will they at least thake the cost of the dog out of her pay?
NA, that’s what they need to do first. You destroy an expensive piece of equipment while on the job through neglect you bet billed.
Then fired.
“NO”
-Union rep
The Union Rep is sentenced to spending hours locked in the back of a police cruiser in the sun on a hot day.
The idea that police (or any other government employee) can unionize is simply insane.
Tangentally related:
The “Standby to Fly” charity shoot was raising funds for a “PTSD dogs for veterans” charity. Said charity brought the puppies they were training to socialize them with the competitors/donor pool. Talk about genius marketing.
Why are they giving the dogs PTSD?
No mention if the police vehicle was equipped with automatic climate control. Guessing not.
https://ezrideronline.com/products/k9/ez-coolguard-temperature-monitoralert-system/
It should also have had Hot-n-Pops installed on the rear windows.
I mean, there are already solutions for this problem out there.
Why would they need all that? It’s not like it gets warm in Hawaii.
WP to NYT – Hold my beer!
Trump blames Democrats for Charlotte stabbing. Records complicate the story.
The case has sharpened partisan divisions about an intractable root of crime: how to treat the seriously mentally ill who pose risks of violence.
Paywall – https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/10/trump-charlotte-stabbing-politics/
Preventing violent criminals from preying on innocent people only became “partisan” because the radical left chose to make it so.
I will never understand the idea that compassion for the mentally ill requires allowing the criminally insane to repeat offend. The majority of mentally ill people do not commit crimes, but once a person has demonstrated that they are in the minority who are dangerous the kindest thing to do is to humanely put them down like a rabid dog. The alternatives are to allow them to go on harming innocent victims, or to permanently confine them. How is either of those choices compassionate?
“I don’t like hard choices like that, so I’m going to pretend that we can make the world different”
I believe you have found the most succinct, but complete, definition of the left there JI.
Well let’s see, Democrat policies, prosecutors, and judges let this feral piece of shit roam free after 14 arrests, so no, it’s not at all complicated.
There are two separate problems being deliberately conflated here, probably to insure that neither problem ever gets solved.
Problem #1 – How do we treat the seriously mentally ill?
Problem #2 – How do we deal with violent criminal repeat offenders?
Problem #1 – How do we treat the seriously mentally ill? – Institutionalize.
Problem #2 – How do we deal with violent criminal repeat offenders? – Jacketed Hollow Point.
May I suggest the guillotine for instead, WTF?
RC – Why yes, yes you may!
Well, there *is* a bit of overlap between those two populations.
As bad kitty put it the other day (lack of capitalization his):
the surge in US prison populations came when we emptied out and closed the mental hospitals and made forced institutionalization much harder to effect. this put mentally ill people on the streets. then they flooded the prisons.
as a result, the liberal-industrial complex likes to lament the large percentage of americans in prison, but when you combine “in prison” with “in mental institutions” you get about the same numbers all over the developed world. you have 1.5-2 percent of the population that simply cannot peacefully fend for themselves and live near others.
Or, like folks have been saying for decades… asylums for otherwise-harmless severely mentally ill, and the noose for career violent criminals.
I think the only remotely real controversy is where urban gang culture plus the idiocy of youth makes one’s behavior seriously overlap with the violent mentally ill.
What do you do with a 14 year old who was raised in a dumpster fire of a culture and poses a threat of violence to random strangers? He’s not mentally ill per se, but he’s hardly distinguishable from the crazy guy with a shiv two cars down the train.
Who gets caught and eventually released? Who gets put down like a rabid dog?
I don’t think prison should be about rehabilitation primarily, so I think the punishment should be tailored to the crime and should account for likelihood of recidivism, and not much more.
THIS
Pretending otherwise is a big part of where we lost our way. Feel-good rainbows and unicorn farts.
“A sick ex-nursing home janitor massaged and pressed his genitals against the feet of a 69-year-old resident and could now spend the rest of his life behind bars.
A jury of Louisianans found Bobby Mendell Bester, of Slidell, guilty of sexual assault for his sickening actions against a helpless elderly woman in 2018, according to a release from District Attorney J. Collins Sims….
He tickled her feet and pressed them against his genitals during the unwanted foot-groping, according to prosecutors….
Bester faces between 25 and 99 years in prison.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-news/foot-fetishist-sexually-assaulted-69-year-old-nursing-home-resident-by-rubbing-her-feet-with-lotion-faces-99-years-in-jail/
No idea how this took six years.
He used his telepathy to delay things.
“Be seeing you, Mr. Garibaldi!”
Oh, sure – foot groping = 99 years in jail; 14 felony arrests = out on the street.
Our legal system is irreparably broken.
And six years to do so. The point about non speedy trials above.
Not that I want creepy orderlies rubbing their junk on my feet, but how is that worth even 25 years, let alone 99, relative to other crimes?
People get really icked out over sexual things they don’t personally enjoy.
Just spitballing but sexual assault charges (sex organs, gratification elements) and vulnerable person (unable to consent or elderly or caretaker assault on patient) ratcheted up the numbers.
A sick ex-nursing home janitor massaged and pressed his genitals against the feet of a 69-year-old resident and could now spend the rest of his life behind bars.
C’mon! She was 69! Shouldn’t he have also pressed her genitals against his feet too?
Throw the book at her for false advertising!!!
Your Daily Rays of Sunshine are getting kind of strange.
“President Donald Trump suggested pulling NBC News’ broadcast license on Tuesday over the network’s shoddy handling of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct story.
NBC News chairman Andy Lack sent a memo to staff on Monday explaining why his network did not publish Ronan Farrow’s Weinstein expose last fall. Farrow said Lack’s memo was full of “false or misleading statements” and accused NBC News of trying to stop his reporting.
September 04, 2018”
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/04/trump-media-license-nbc-news/
There was also Amy Robach’s reporting that got squashed, then she got fired for having an affair.
Originally because of an aging population, but coming to a high minimum wage jurisdiction near you:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250910_B1/
That thing had better respond to customers in a “slight Indian accent.”
Gotta love relying on navigation apps:
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/trucks-keep-getting-stuck-on-this-road-and-everybody-blames-google-maps-for-no-reason-256784.html
And
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/cars/news/major-traffic-delays-as-stuck-truck-jams-cork-city-streets/ar-AA1LxlRC
There’s a road near me that theoretically will take you from Point A to Point B but which turns to dirt and is blocked by gates on private property. Google Maps used to suggest it as a possible route. The land owners had to put up signs saying “Turn back. Google is wrong.”
‘Out of line’….’aligned with the public interest’….I am not liking the sound of this.
THE GREATER GOOD!
(Shut it!)
““Null and void,” Judge Mary Rosado lawlessly declared of Mayor Adams’ executive order reopening an ICE office on Rikers Island, as she invented an entirely new “legal” standard to reach her desired conclusion.
That is, the problem was an “impermissible appearance of a conflict of interest” because she believes the mayor was simply out to please President Donald Trump.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/manhattan-judges-ruling-against-ice-on-rikers-is-blatantly-lawless/
appearance of a conflict of interest??
If “This is null and void because you like Trump” is allowed to stand, we are truly fucked.
Florida is in the process of ending mandatory inoculations for children. Let’s see what kind of fear-mongering nonsense the local propaganda rag is peddling:
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s pledge last week to scrap every vaccine mandate has been widely criticized by medical societies and health experts who warn it will undo decades of public health policy that marginalized and, in some cases, eradicated once-common childhood scourges.
On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated his support of his surgeon general and pointed to countries, including the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway, that do not mandate shots but still achieve high vaccination levels.
“I think his position is that if you provide information and persuasion, that’s better than coercion,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Plant City on Monday.
And of course the article starts with polio, without mentioning that polio is spread fecally. Whenever someone brings up that disease, I point out that there’s no vaccine for cholera, but cholera is nearly unheard of in the US thanks to modern sanitation. Maybe exchanging the town swimmin’ hole in the lake a hundred yards from where untreated sewage was being pumped in for the city pool with chlorinated water was a good thing.
More importantly, too many people conflate “lack of mandate” with “prohibited.” Parents can still get their kids vaccines for the usual suspects (measles, mumps, diphtheria, etc) without subjecting their progeny to sixty shots, some of dubious efficacy.
In short, I wouldn’t go long on iron lung manufacturers.
But if Big Daddy doesnt tell me do something, I will never do it.
I don’t recall which talking head wrote about the danger of catching a disease when travelling to Florida if the mandates are dropped. I guess they don’t trust the vaccines available in other states.
I have a new co-worker.
His name is Danish Furniturewala.
I just had to share that with someone.
Sweedish Diytable must be ecstatic!
Conceived in an Ikea store when his parents couldn’t find the way out?
My first instinct was an Ikea joke. This one will do nicely.
South Asian?
Dah-nish, from someone who sold Furnature but didn’t have a previous family name during the British Raj?
There can’t be too many of those when doing a people search.
No doubt a minor self doxxing. Totally worth it.
He’s no Tigress Sydney Acute McDaniel though…
Man, if that isn’t an example of getting what you vote for good and hard, I don’t know what is.
We are seeing the inverse from the Anti-Alex Jones folks on the socials.
It was a hoax, he was misunderstood, it isnt real, etc etc and all trying to wrap it under “just asking questions bro”
It seems we are really at a breaking point, like the San Andreas fault…just waiting for that slip to happen
What is this in reference to?
Related solely to conspiracy theorists, I’m reading that Greta Thunberg is a Mossad agent.
Greta Thunberg is a Mossad agent
That’s more retarded than she is.
He false flag drone attack was to distract the media during the Qatar attack.
Yes, it does feel like that. I don’t like it one bit.
About what?
“Charlie revealed in his new Netflix documentary that he was so high in the ’90s that he had to put an ice cube inside his rectum to stay awake at work.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15083519/Biggest-revelations-Charlie-Sheens-Netflix-drunk-nosebleed-virginity.html
No idea how that’s supposed to work.
One has to ask…why now? Why all the stories about him suddenly in the pop culture spot light after so many years of most people probably thinking he was dead.
He needs a job?
He’s the subject of a new Netflix show, at least according to the headline.
These stories are part of Netflix’s PR campaign.
the rapper?
He likes white butts, he cannot lie.
You other homos can’t deny.
you need to keep a steel butplug in the freezer
If you see something, say something! OTH, feel free to hit people and push people in front of subway trains.
https://gothamist.com/news/nearly-half-of-nyc-stores-are-violating-ac-laws-study-finds
Solution: get rid of A/C laws.
Exactly. I’m paying for it, I’ll do what I want with it.
Fixed
Install a heater at the door so people won’t feel the cold air when passing by.
Ozone…gtfooh
“safety signs”
Fuck off, commies.
Im surprised there arent mandated signs on how to: walk, breath, eat, sleep
NYC has so much money to throw away that every building is now required to post a letter grade for “energy efficiency”.
Has anyone mentioned the recent strife in Nepal? Apparently the government tried to ban all social media, and the people responded with some proper indignation: politicians pulled out into the street and beaten, government buildings torched, PM forced to resign. This was a few days back, so maybe I missed any discussion.
Don’t mess with the Gurkhas!
Why isn’t this the standard response to givernment actions.
I posted a link yesterday.
Temple ball is a hell of a drug.
It was an initial protest by young students in school uniforms. I believe a bunch were injured and killed by the government and its agents.
After that the real riots began. Included helicopters with fleeing politicians from burning government buildings.
So…just like January 6?
According to the Dems, anyway.
What January 6th should have been… *dreamy sigh*
NPR was just horrified that the person they were interviewing said they wanted to see politicians dead.
Why? I thought that was the baseline state of humanity everywhere,
All sophisticated people respect and admire the ruling caste.
Which is why they so despise Trump and his vulgar supporters.
Re: Nepal,
There is either a very struggling chain or a single restaurant that keeps relocating that serves Nepalese food called “Red Panda.” I drove by three closed stores on my way to Burlington and ate at an open one while I was there. I assume it must be fairly authentic, since I saw a dud in the kitchen taking a goat apart with a cleaver. I got the chili momos which were tasty.
My stripper rooomate gave me a Tibetan cookbook, so I’ve been interested in trying momos for some years now.
Stripper roommate.
You can’t leave us hanging
We now know how we get links by Winston’s Mom. She’s NA’s roomie.
I told that story before: from 2004-2011 lived with a stripper. Initially her drummer boyfriend lived with us (and I managed the band) but she got sick of him leeching and punted him, and hte two of us moved into a house owned by a couple of lesbian Buddhist social workers. She got a degree in Mathematics, remains a dear friend and I’m her son’s godfather.
Did I mention this happened in Austin?
Small world update: Said lesbian Buddhist social workers moved to Troy and started fostering black kids.
Were you one of the characters in Slacker?
NGL, it was a great lifestyle. This was the band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJgSe_snSw&list=OLAK5uy_mhMLDVRA_zMWF9i8HnVwfTneEjk9anXwo
https://radionepal.gov.np/en/
Does seem to be getting updates, surprisingly.
The audio archive at https://radionepalonline.com/en/audio
has the morning news from September 9 as the most recent.
During the unrest in Bangladesh last year, their broadcaster’s site was down for several days.
Today apparently the army was in charge calming things down.
Nepalese Kevin Bacon?
Not just government buildings. Hilton Kathmandu. Rioters did allow guests to leave at least.
I’m sorry for the guy’s family as it says he committed suicide, but do we really need an obit to the historian of the Cuban Sandwich?
Andrew Huse, a historian whose voracious appetite for telling stories about food as an essential ingredient in culture led him on a quest to unravel the disputed origins of the Cuban sandwich, died on Aug. 20 at his home in Tampa, Fla. He was 52.
Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/dining/andrew-huse-dead.html
I may get one for lunch now, however.
I’m going to guess the origin was Cuba!
Supposedly the Cuban community of Florida. Question is which one and where and when.
Yeah, there’s a dispute over whether Miami or Tampa was the first.
Andrew Huse could tell you with confidence that the sandwich started in the Cuban section of Tampa, but Ybor you with so many details that you would eventually tune him out.
I’m kind of heretical about foodie stuff. My interest in food is limited to :
1. Does it taste good
2. How hard is it to make
Gap to demonstrate degree of importance I place on this factor on average, not fully to scale
3. Is it healthy
There are two different sandwiches — late-night Havana bar food, and blue-collar Florida lunch food.
I do enjoy a good Cubano.
I prefer a naughty Cubana myself.
Sadly, they do not sell those at the sandwich shop.
You may be able to rent them WTF.
A naughty Cubana sandwich? Two Cubanas is probably more than I want to deal with at my age, the temper issues probably increase exponentially with two.
Maybe you are going to the wrong sandwich shop.
Cuban Sandwich – me and too Cuban ladies?
If you are unaware, a Cubano (or Cuban Sandwich) is a pressed sandwich with Cuban bread, pork loin, ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard. Some will have salami on them as well (Miami does not have it, Tampa does have it).
They are delicious, and the local place that made my favorite closed recently and became a taquiera instead.
I am aware and had cubanos myself.
two goddamnit
It should also have hot dogs. Salami is a weird variant, I guess.
No Dogs, no cubano.
I’ve sometimes wondered if you are just trolling, now I know.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/sep/09/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-book-in-pictures
Too many redactions. Why did they blur out GWB’s face?
I went to Disney World for my 50th birthday. Apparently that was a missed opportunity.
This is the first time obesity has overtaken undernourishment as the leading form of malnutrition among children aged five to 19, according to the report released on Wednesday.
Unpossible. I was breathlessly informed that destruction of USAID would lead to worldwide faminines.
https://www.dw.com/en/obesity-surpasses-undernourishment-among-children-unicef/a-73941877
I think the current argument is that the obese are also undernourished cause they have lots of bad food and not enough good food.
Yup hence the “malnutrition”. It would seem there is less graft available by education as opposed to outright food subsidy.
When do we move to disnutrition?
This is around the world. I did not expect that.
Norman Borlaug has saved more lives than all the NGOs put together.
^^^This. When I am God-Emperor, I will commission a colossus of Borlaug on the DC Mall.
You will never have my Title.
Without USAID they are stuck eating at fast food chains instead of Michelin star restaurants.
Romania: Is This Europe’s Last Wild Frontier? | Overland Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTOkTUfBc_8
probably not…
This looks great.
“Unearthed emails show left-wing group quietly writing policies for progressive DAs: ‘No billing, no publicity’”
These people are just evil. And when you call them out on it, they lie their asses off. Does the right do insidious stuff like this?
Not as competently.
the left can’t meme
https://x.com/tnega74/status/1965733282768957465
Where did they end up building the capitalism gulags?
I’m half tempted to dig in and see where they’re pulling that number from. But then I realize that it’s going to be even dumber than I expect.
iirc that number comes from e.g. people world wide who would have not died if they had better healthcare, and that is the fault of capitalism.
I’m sure it’s some tangential “access to health care” bullshit or something. They are conflating mass executions, mass incarceration, and forced famines with their vague ideas. So no, they can’t meme.
Poor North Korea is just overwhelmed with people trying to emigrate for access to their superior healthcare.
Yes, dumber than expected.
So they pulled it directly from their ass.
So like when they claim oil receives trillions in subsidies by calculating the value of lives that would be saved if the government banned oil.
Yeah, when your meme (or satire) has not even a kernel of truth to it, you’re not doing it right.
See also: the current of South Park.
current “season” – gah
Diplomacy
African Union joins Caribbean nations in demanding colonial reparations from Britain
https://harici.com.tr/en/african-union-joins-caribbean-nations-in-demanding-colonial-reparations-from-britain/
well Britain has all that cash lying around why not.
If the Brits had any balls, they would immediately cease all foreign aid to the demanding nations.
Poor me
Former Vice President Kamala Harris opened up about former President Joe Biden’s decision to seek re-election in her forthcoming campaign memoir, writing that deferring to the Bidens to make the decision on their own was “recklessness.”
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris said.
“Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she continued. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
The comments in Harris’ upcoming book “107 Days” mark her harshest criticism of the Bidens’ circle yet, laying bare divisions in the White House and grappling with the former president’s decision to seek a second term despite widespread concerns over his age.
“During all those months of growing panic, should I have told Joe to consider not running?” she wrote. “Perhaps.”
As if they’d all been hypnotized. The poor poor dear.
“I was just a poor, black woman. What could I do?”
That’s a big reason the party is in trouble. They are all plugged into groupthink and there are no real leaders.
“Joe Biden was a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction, able to discharge the duties of president,” Harris wrote. “On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best.”
So why was it reckless for him to run? Why didn’t she do more to support him if he was so great?
She’s under the deeply flawed misunderstanding that if she would’ve had more time with the American public, we would’ve grown to like her more than Trump.
She lost on messaging not policy.
Reviewing Nature’s Reviews, Part II
They Told us We Should Not Try to Replicate Moss-Racusin et al (2012)
https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/reviewing-natures-reviews-part-ii
Our reversal of the famous and massively influential Moss-Racusin et al. (2012) study (hence “M-R”) finding biases in academic science hiring favoring men is now in press. My first essay on this includes a link to M-R and to both our full report and supplementary materials. Using methods nearly identical to those they used in that study of 127 faculty, we conducted 3 studies, with over 1100 faculty, and found biases against men, not women.
In this essay, I review the other reviewers’ criticisms, which were not that the study could not be replicated, but that it should not be replicated.
In my view, the Moss-Racusin et al. paper was significant because of its valuable contribution and also because it appeared in PNAS, was edited by Shirley Tilghman, and undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of social and natural scientists. The proposed replication of this study would also need to replicate these features
SCIENCE
Harris also laid out several instances where she argued Biden’s circle undermined her efforts or did not sufficiently support her.
She pointed to “constant attention” to her vice presidency from journalists and criticized what she said was the White House’s reluctance to counter negative coverage.
“And when the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president’s inner circle seemed fine with it,” she wrote. “Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more.”
Everybody was jealous of her superior abilities.
“Negative coverage”? From the Dem-op media? Do they actually believe their own bullshit?
I am thrilled to share that the core of my PhD dissertation has been published in the Journal of Comparative Economics. 🎉 The paper addresses a fundamental question in economic policy: Is free trade good for growth? The answer is not always
Using data from 161 countries between 1960 and 2019, I examine how tariff reductions relate to growth. The evidence shows that manufacturer economies tend to grow faster after liberalization, while nonmanufacturers tend to experience slower growth, lower income per capita.
The policy implications are important. Rising protectionism in manufacturer economies appears harmful, while new calls for liberalization in nonmanufacturer economies may also be damaging. Trade policy is not a one size fits all tool. Outcomes depend on where countries start.
https://x.com/mathoyos/status/1963422210246475918
Sounds like a commie rag.
don’t be so reflexively anti economics.
I’m pro-national self-sufficiency. Minimize dependency on foreigners, who are all potential enemies and whose self interest is always in opposition to yours.
“It’s just that some of us are given a safe, well-regulated, consistent, tested supply of those drugs…and others are not.
What we are facing is not a drug or overdose crisis, but a crisis of drug safety exacerbated by the prohibitionary mindset we apply mostly to the poor.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/drug-overdose-crisis-dulf-vancouver
Stopped clock at the Guardian?
I had to tap out at the first sentence referencing Charlottesville.
needed to start with acknowledgements
Harris also criticized the White House for not defending her in other ways, writing that Biden’s team “rarely pushed back with my actual résumé” when conservative media attacked her “on everything from my laugh, to my tone of voice, to whom I’d dated in my 20s, or claimed I was a ‘DEI hire.'”
Harris claimed she “often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me.”
But she’s not bitter. In fact she’s prepared to get out there and ask people for money to fund her triumphant return to public service.
And why couldn’t Harris push back on those items?
Because she was a DIE hire?
No one in the Biden White House took the time to read the evil conservative articles to her, or to explain what the big words the commentators on TV used meant, so how was she supposed to know what to respond to?
The black Sarah Palin. Neither one vetted properly by the presidential candidate. But Harris was certainly more of a pander to certain voting demographics.
For those in know, help me out here. I thought our forces (that shouldn’t be…) in Okinawa weren’t subject to local law, but instead US court marital.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/japan/okinawa-airman-sexual-assault/
I believe the SOFA splits jurisdiction. Service members are under US jurisdiction while acting in an official capacity or if the victim is an American.
Thanks!
And, of course, the US can still try them under the UCMJ even if Japan has jurisdiction.
“Trump was also mentioned in another of the book’s entries, which was apparently submitted by Joel Pashcow, a businessman and Mar-a-Lago member. The Journal reported that he “made a crude joke about a woman whom Epstein and Trump each courted in the 1990s, according to court testimony and people familiar with the matter.”
Pashcow’s letter was accompanied by “a photo of a posterboard-sized check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a caption said: ‘Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells “fully depreciated” [woman’s name] to Donald Trump for $22,500.’ The woman’s name is redacted in the image.””
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/09/trump-gets-hit-with-a-birthday-card-boomerang/
Who knows?
Why are we just learning now that Trump is a scumbag toward women? The damned media has been covering up his conduct for so long they must be actual arms of the RNC!
lol We’ve got him now! The walls are closing in!
India now substantially below replacement, with a TFR of 1.9 in 2023
Delhi is 1.2! Tamil Nadu 1.3. India is set for substantial population drop in these areas absent internal migration
https://x.com/arpitrage/status/1965142755409285416
Declining birthrates are something I have called a problem before, so I am not innocent of this, but I think people are too quick to assume that current situations are irreversible long term trends.
In Europe given our governments I would say pretty irreversible for the natives at least in the medium term. In the long term depends if any are left.
Revolutions always seem impossible until suddenly they seem inevitable. Maybe I am too optimistic, but I think at some point the EU parliament and bureaucracy, and various national governments may find themselves dangling from lampposts. Or maybe not, and the Caliphate wins.
I think people are too quick to assume that current situations are irreversible long term trends.
This is a pretty universal fallacy. On the birth rate one, there are certainly reasons to think that we’re not going back to the norm of most people pairing up in their early 20s and having 5-8 kids. However, that doesn’t mean we’re going to be hanging out below replacement forever.
I also don’t get the panic. We drop below replacement for long enough that population starts to decline, and then what? Aside from the infinite demand growth consumer based economics and government programs hitting uncharted waters, I’m not sure what consequences they’re expecting to see.
Trashy, I think the argument is there won’t be enough people or money to take care of a larger aging population.
themselves dangling from lampposts
The only question is who put them up there – their own citizens, or the Caliphate.
There won’t be.
Better plan to take care of yourself.
I’m not sure what consequences they’re expecting to see.
Not enough cannon fodder!!! /neo-cons and the MIC
Just like Hitler
Pritzker alleges that Trump wants to set a pattern of military intervention before the 2026 Congressional elections.
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The governor asserts that Trump’s real goal is to “normalize” the use of the military in civilian areas, and create a pretext to use it to sway the 2026 election, which will determine control of Congress.
The administration has highlighted last weekend’s crime in Chicago, when at least five people were killed in separate incidents.
He’ll send his goons out to break windows and start riots, and then send in the tanks.
“I believe it’s about your values and not about how much money you have,” said Pritzker, who comes from one of the nation’s wealthiest families. “I think it’s clear that I’ve been fighting for the working class in this state. I have stood up for labor rights. I helped to pass an amendment to our Constitution that protects workers rights. I have made sure that we raise the minimum wage.”
I have maids. I have gardeners. Dozens of them.
I wonder how many people he has put out of work with all that “helping the working class”. 🙄
In Europe given our governments I would say pretty irreversible for the natives at least in the medium term. In the long term depends if any are left.
Atonement for sins of the past.
Romania being punished for the sins of colonialism seems a tad unjust
Well, they were a Roman colony.
“YouTube TV is threatening to kick Univision off its base subscription package in the next few weeks, raising concerns among top executives at America’s leading Hispanic television network that they are being punished for hosting President Donald Trump and other Republicans for high-profile interviews during the 2024 election, according to an internal memo obtained by Just the News….
“We have concerns that Google’s proposal will limit access of the Hispanic community to diverse voices. As you know, Univision is proud of its award-winning news division and its commitment to being open to all political voices,” the memo stated. “That approach was criticized by some on the left particularly in connection with the emergence of Hispanic voters as a swing vote that shifted to the right in 2024 – a major factor in President Trump’s win and Republican control of Congress.””
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/reprisal-univision-fearful-it-will-be-kicked-youtube-tv-2024-trump-interview
Univision is hardly Blaze TV.
Today, I return the rental and take home the ’17 Kia Sportage as my daily driver. Our long-known mechanic, the anti-Kia one, gave it a look and was impressed. One-owner and at 80k miles, it’s still gonna be $15k, all said. We looked for cars under $10k, and they simply don’t exist ’round here w/o $150k+ miles.
(Ignorant bastards cheered Obama’s “Fuck Poor People” Cash For Clunkers scheme, blissfully unaware how it (purposefully) made private transportation more difficult and expensive for ‘everyday folk’ to attain. I’m ignorant about much, but not that shit.)
Should be a playful day. I get to learn all its quirks and fix it up for Me. The roll-down seats –> Nap Zone may be quirky, cuz I think the seats fold *down* rather than *back.* Honestly? Likely makes the back more of a Couch Zone, but I’ve napped on couches.
I plan on picking up a couple dozen donuts for work tomorrow, sorta my Peace Offering of thanks for them helping me out on Monday after my SOS-call. I first told Crush and another gal that I was feeling Off, and for them to be aware. My epileptic spiral, no seizure, happened on the aisles maybe an hour later. (Would make peace offerings to each in Couch Zone. (Won’t, but would be nice. (Wouldn’t it?)))
There’s something ‘fundamental’ about getting a new steed, isn’t there? I hope all prosper, today. Get over (your) Hump Day and frolic. Possibly by humping. Or whatever it is… *jazz finger dance* that you do.
“One-owner and at 80k miles, it’s still gonna be $15k, all said.”
Used car prices are insane.
This is what we found trying to get a car for my oldest. Really nothing under $10k. It worked out ok though, Lord knows what trouble she’d get into if she had her own car.
I bought two cars in the last year under 10k.
2017 Versa 9k including tax and license
2013 Versa 6k including tax and license.
Of course those were base models that sold for 13k new (2017 versa) and 12k new (2013 versa).
Used car pricing exploded which compounded on top of the explosion in new car pricing.
Theatrics
President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an effort to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital.
His motorcade drove the short distance to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab on 15th Street, NW, in D.C., following weeks of the president boasting about mobilizing federal authorities and the military that he says have made Washington “a safe zone.”
I bet nobody stole his purse.
It’s not like anyone’s taken any pot shots at him or anything.
Uffda. I’m tired of all this tit-for-tat bullshit. It is stupid. And it is extra dumb having to listen to Team Red cheerleaders pontificate about how it is absolutely necessary to do it because Team Blue did it.
Why not focus on updating rules to try to make things better?
Pass rules against gerrymandering
Pass a rule stating that the Supreme Court has 9 seats. (If the Dems fight, let Trump start packing the court himself).
Pass rules on paper ballots, ID requirements and no mail in voting
I’m sure there are tons of other areas that you could try to remove this bullshit from. But who am I kidding? No way power hungry assholes are going to give up levers of power. Why get into politics if not to lord your power over others.
Why get into politics if not to lord your power over others.
Was there ever any other reason? And we wonder why we have sociopaths in office?
The best thing about tit-for-tat bullshit is it prevents “bipartisanship.”
He added that he wouldn’t have stood out “in the middle of the street” as recently as a couple of months ago. The suggestion was farcical, however, and didn’t actually reflect whether crime levels had changed in Washington, since the president is always surrounded by heavy security wherever he goes.
After entering the restaurant, video on social media showed him shaking hands with some diners inside. But he also stared for an extended period at a small group of protesters who held up miniature Gaza flags and chanted: “Free D.C.! Free Palestine! Trump is the Hitler of our time!”
What a pathetic cut rate Hitler. Any Hitler worth his salt would have had those protestors dragged into the street to be beaten bloody and summarily executed.
“…a small group of protesters who held up miniature Gaza flags…”
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always The Revolution.
Also, these dummies need to find something that rhymes with “Palestine”.
They’re not even trying to hide the fact anymore that the pro-Hamas protesters are the same commie ratfuckers you see at every other protest.
Wait, they were every trying to hide it?
No way power hungry assholes are going to give up levers of power. Why get into politics if not to lord your power over others.
Nobody ever ran for office so he could leave me the fuck alone.
They have. And they get less than 1 percent of the vote.
Speaking of partisan bullshit. King Walz has proclaimed that the SCIENCE no longer be followed. At least, I think the CDC is still the holder of all things SCIENCE, right?
Now we are basically a sanctuary state for Trans, Abortions, Illegals and Vax shots. I’m so proud.
I wonder if this new lax approach to what pharmacists can give people will apply to stuff like ivermectin and hydrocloroquine?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That follows Trump posting over the weekend a parody image from “Apocalypse Now” featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the lakefront and skyline of Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city.
“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning,'” Trump wrote on his social media site. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
In the post, Trump offered no details beyond the label “Chipocalypse Now,” a play on the title of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War film, in which a character says, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
You know who liked the music from that scene in Apocalypse Now? That’s right; Hitler.
I can’t believe they didn’t mention that.
I had a great conversation with a friend yesterday, about my daughter but it applies to some discussions we’ve had here. She had a cousin who lived with grandma in Michigan. The cousin had tons of mental health issue: bipolar, schizophrenic, etc. After all the psych testing, the cousin checked off enough boxes that they asked grandma if she wanted to become the cousin’s guardian. Grandma said No, so she became a ward of the state and was put in a group home. They gave her a safe environment, made sure she took her meds, etc. She is allowed to leave the home for holidays, and can have a part time job. I’m not sure what they do in Indiana, but that would be a great solution for my oldest. And it seems like a good starting point for all the mentally ill homeless people we have out there.
Spot the problem
That dude should never be allowed to so much as touch another gun again.
It is going to be hard for him to pass his genes to any offspring if he keeps shooting his dates.
I’d allow him to touch the one he’s using, when he retrieves it out of his arse.
Speaking of inchoate rage in the Eurotrash heap
Protesters set fires as they blocked highways and gas stations across France early Wednesday as part of a new nationwide movement. Authorities deployed 80,000 police, who made hundreds of arrests and fired tear gas to disperse crowds.
The “Block Everything” movement was born online over the summer in far-right circles, but spread on social media and was co-opted by left-wing, antifascist and anarchist groups. It now includes France’s far-left parties and the country’s powerful labor unions.
Their joint day of unrest adds to the country’s political turmoil, after the collapse of centrist President Emmanuel Macron’s government earlier this week in a similar backlash over proposed budget cuts and broader anger at the political class.
Everything and everybody.
Fuck you cut spending???
Can’t tell. Looks more like socialists rioting over lack of free stuff to me.
It’s France, how dare you take anything away from me!
Public anger in France grew when then-Prime Minister Francois Bayrou announced his plan to cut the budget by over $50 billion. He proposed striking two national holidays from the calendar, freezing pensions for 2026 and cutting billions in health spending.
The two extremes of the political spectrum joined forces in the National Assembly on Monday, causing the collapse of the French government in a no confidence vote fueled by opposition to the budget cuts.
But although Bayrou might be gone, the deep mistrust over his proposed austerity plan and the government as a whole remains.
Austerity? They’re broke.
It’s like there is a competition to be the Argentina of Europe.
When time allows, I would like to write an article for Glibs on the cultural rot in the black community. It’s not an easy subject to discuss in general because you have one group of people who will lose their shit if you even touch upon how the culture in the black community isn’t conducive towards success and another group of people who will try to use the discussion to justify their collectivist racist beliefs.
We do need an honest and nuanced discussion about how black culture has led to the inner cities becoming a criminally infested hellhole and the overall effect on how we as black people interact with the rest of society. And also see how the Left and the government has incentivized bad behavior.
Please do!
I look forward to reading that Ed.
I would love that. There is a big black population at my daughter’s school and she brings this up a lot. A good article would be great.
Example of people losing their shit when the topic is discussed:
https://thelibertydaily.com/how-dare-you-ex-democrat-lawmaker-loses-it/
You can start with Thomas Sowell’s work.
Definitely.
I suppose he could, but I’m more interested in his personal perspective.
Please do.
I grew up white in a majority black community, and have a lot of negative memories about the attitudes, actions, and behaviors of those I saw around me. My main experience with the government disincentives was in seeing a lot of programs I was too white to take advantage of that were more or less ignored by those who qualified because they were related to educational opportunities.
When we were looking for homes in Cleveland Heights, we saw a really nice one that was north of Mayfield Road. The area was nice, but for me it was too close to East Cleveland and also the schools weren’t that great. The way I judged the school’s perfromance were their test scores and also but unfortunately the percentage of black students. As a black man, I hated doing that and felt immense shame but going to an all black high school during the 2000’s, I wouldn’t subject both daughters to that bullshit. We decided to pass on the house and instead moved to an area in Cleveland Heights where the school was much better (and one that my wife attended) and close to my Mother in Law.
Even amongst the wokest of black people, you couldn’t pay them a million dollars to live in the hood. Deep inside they know why but their ideology dictates that they never address the issue no acknowledge it.
That dude should never be allowed to so much as touch another gun again.
He’s just like a trick shot in a wild west show.
When time allows, I would like to write an article for Glibs on the cultural rot in the black community.
It might have to be a multi-part project. I’d like to read it.