The Blue Jays evened the World Series and Ohtani looked like he was human for the first time in the postseason. Best of 3 now with a pair of decimated bullpens. Should be interesting. The NHL had the fullest of full slates yesterday and I didn’t get to see any of it. Oh, well. them’s the breaks. On to the links.
This is really cool. Plus no forever chemicals in the bottle, although I’m sure the watermelons will still call him a polluter.
This is gonna be interesting. Yes, it was expected. I want to see how it plays out.
This should not be controversial. The executive branch is run by the people who run the executive branch. They have a right to make sure employees are aligned with their goals and not obstructionists.
Not sure how she can be denied asylum. Not after the way the German government treats supporters of that party and not after the way Antifa goons treat literally anybody of note who’s not a commie.
What a drama queen. And a hypocrite to boot. Let’s see how the troons react to him.
The jokes are gonna write themselves. I hope he actually enjoys his new, and less parasitic, career.
You dummies shouldn’t have given the government this much port to begin with. Sadly, they won’t see it that way.
I hope he invests in helicopters. Lots and lots of helicopters.
This is how it should have been all along. In fact, it should have never been a federal program at all. Or a state program for that matter. But at least this moves things closer to a local level. I wish it was permanent.
Get this in front of a friendly judge right away. And get everybody involved under oath where it matters.
Nerd alert! But in a good way. Trust me on this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
“They said the case should not have been brought, the judge should have recused himself because he had previously made small donations to Democratic causes.”
That would eliminate a large number of judges.
“He has also asked a federal appeals court to transfer his state case to federal court.”
Can they do that?
The judge wanted the spotlight more than he wanted to respect judicial norms for conflicts of interest. It wasn’t just his personal donations either. It was the fact that a direct family member worked for Dem politicians and that the entire family was made up of political activists.
Any judge with an ounce of brains and the slightest respect for the justice system would have recused.
“Any judge with an ounce of brains and the slightest respect for the justice system would have recused.”
Those seem to be in the minority.
Yeah — I just skimmed the article, but I think CBS was putting about the most positive spin they could on the trial judge frankly. “Just a few donations”
If they’re really making the argument presidential immunity applies, I’d throw that out if I were the appellate court — this wasn’t official acts / part of the office after all. Probably just the normal legal “throw everything in even if it is crazy” if so. But what Sloopy reminded us of for the judge, the way the felony counts were spun up and handled, that this typically is a campaign finance misdemeanor at most (if I recall correctly), etc… that should all be in there.
“Those seem to be in the minority.”
And that is a huge problem, in every aspect. We really need an independent judiciary, and we currently do not have one. I am not saying that a judge shouldn’t shouldn’t be able to make donations, I am saying that they really need to be judicious in how they do it, and be aware of the consequences. And this goes for a host of other things; books written, speaking engagements, and so on.
They really need to be at least appearing impartial, and right now, on either side of the aisle, they don’t.
I’m saying they shouldn’t be able to make donations. CPA auditors need to be independent “both in fact AND in appearance.” Be nice if the legal profession took this as seriously as the beancounters.
I’m alright with eliminating a large number of judges.
In minecraft?
Worse, remove them from the bench, and make them impotently scream from the sidelines, powerless and impotent.
Good.
Also, much better looking than Greta.
Don’t try to limbo with that bar, CT… way too low.
Her take may be better, but she’s still a stupid fucking kid who ought not be listened to.
“Shysters Dogs.” Its motto: “the only honest ripoff in DC.”
“I am having a grand old time slinging hot dogs,” Stein said.
A hot dog and a drink runs $10 or $17, with a bag of chips tossed in if you buy two dogs.
At those prices, well… at least he has the “ripoff” part right.
Yeah, this prairie rube’s eyes bugged out when he saw those prices.
Nice mark up. Gotta be a little over costs, in those prices.
Im pretty sure i can get that $17 meal at Sam’s Club for $4.50
Dog and a drink at Costco, still $1.50
The Costco dog and soda is only $1.50 in Korea and Japan as well.
Ooops, I meant to add that every time I visited a Costco overseas it was packed with locals eating the dog and pop.
When I decided to eat mine, I got a lot of sidelong glances from them to see how an authentic American eats the dog. I’m a mustard and onions only guy, no relish at all.
Jimbo ordered the Shi Tzu.
But then you’re eating a shitty Costco dog. Those things do not taste right.
Costco in Korea was *BIG* for expats. Their food court alone. Cheap hot dogs and good & cheap pizza by the slice. We’d go shopping occasionally for cheese and other western fare otherwise unobtainable, but the food court was the destination. Many casual weekend lunches there.
“We’ll be back to the spoils system! Government jobs will be rewards for political backers! (instead of technocratic elite who we can trust to run the country regardless of actual election results… oops… did I say the quiet part out loud again?)”
It’s impossible for a Republican to fill entire departments with political backers. There’s no reason they should have to keep employed people who are diametrically opposed to their policy goals and who sabotage the admin at every possible opportunity.
Trump appears to have learned his lesson from his first administration, when he thought he could work within the corrupt, one-party administrative state who deliberately tanked everything he tried to do.
And it’s probably not hard to build a legit case that “resisters” have lousy performance.
Remember the brave, brave anonymous bureaucrat who wrote the op-ed in Trump’s first term bragging about how they were all resisting from within?
Yeah, you should be able to fire whoever you feel like.
“Under performers”
How is it that incompetence can be a career? I pull the weeds out of my garden and throw them over the fence.
How do you measure incompetence in government work? Hmm?
JI:
I always thought that was what the GS rating system was.
I figured that GS1-5 were juniors who still had a chance of reforming into productive members of society. On the other hand, when I ran into a twat who proudly proclaimed they were a GS15, I knew they were totally incompetent at everything except empire building and kissing ass.
The thing about the spoils system is that you shouldn’t need to replace every single worker, it is just that crap employees and “resisters” should be able to be fired on the spot. The president was elected, and the president needs to be able to fulfill his promises, not spend time fighting his own branch.
“I think she looks trans,” Lemon — who has grandstanded against transphobia in the past — declared on a recent episode of his new “Clip Farmers” podcast, as he and his co-hosts were crassly discussing the appearance of “MAGA ladies.”
“Looks clockable,” the lefty ex-anchor added, referring to a tactless term used to describe a trans person who is not “passing” or is identifiable as their biological gender.”
He’s so dumb he probably thinks she’s Anne Coulter.
He is a disgusting piece of garbage. Why is anyone paying any attention to him?
He currently has 11k people watching a livestream.
There aren’t many watching. I know independent spirts talk guys with better viewership.
11k people watching a livestream
Oh, someone has to tell Gavin Newsom about that. Maybe that will convince him to do blackface?
“A hot dog and a drink runs $10 or $17, with a bag of chips tossed in if you buy two dogs.”
No.
Even the fancy hot dogs at the store are not that much for a pack.
What do the other vendors charge in DC? I can see this as not being that expensive based on the locale. Also, are they good dogs or Corn Kings? He’s not wrong about the correct/incorrect way to top a dog.
Either fries, coleslaw, and BBQ or fries, pulled pork, BBQ sauce, and sauerkraut?
BBQ sauce is just butch ketchup, it is known.
DrOtto:
I would think fish sauce is the butch ketchup.
Mr Ilium – All the fish sauces I’ve seen are very liquid. Were you thinking of Hoisen? Or is there a fish sauce with the viscosity of ketchup?
It isn’t. NYC vendor dogs are pricy, as is everything else in that city.
UCS:
More a culinary tidbit that I heard a while back was that worcester sauce (and eventually ketchup) were born out of British attempts to replicate fish sauce. The fact that there’s banana ketchup that’s popular in the Philippines just makes it even more entertaining to me.
I was aware of that, but “Task Failed Successfully” doesn’t make them relatives. They aren’t even used in similar ways.
Wrapped in bacon, grilled, and served with spicy ketchup?
The real difficulty with bacon dogs is that the dog is pre-cooked so by the time the bacon is ready, the dog is inedible. You have to pick your precook methods (mandril or rubbery) before putting it on the dog for the final cook. It’s just not worth the hassle.
“by the time the bacon is ready, the dog is inedible”
Not if you drop it in a fryer.
That is why you par-cook the bacon so they are done at the same time once you start the dog
Hassle? You make a few slits in the hot dog casing, wrap with bacon, then grill on medium for 10 minutes. It’s not a hassle at all.
Note to self, Sheldon like raw bacon and overcooked dogs.
You dislike runny egg yolks. Your opinion is invalid.
You have that backwards – my opinion is the only valid one.
I don’t understand. The point was supposed to be that it was shit food that was cheap.
If I’m paying $17, there are plenty of places to go in DC and get a legit lunch.
I’m sure the watermelons here in solidarity with the Green coalition in Germany can find a judge to say that the threats to her aren’t substantial — but that every asylum seeker that is expected to vote Left has a solid claim. At this point, they might as well just say it… or say it is due to how they feel about the case given Supreme Court precedent in opinions…
Wow. The Fail is hiring Salon writers now? That phrase is complete bullshit.
But yes. The not-Left isn’t safe in Europe.
It’d be nice if they’d just stop reporting on whatever insanity spews from his fetid maw. He’s nuts, we know it.. move on. (Same applies to Candace Owens at this point, frankly).
That’s a fair comparison. Candace Owens is an absolute loon.
I think she’s right about Brigitte Macron.
Who looks more like a tranny in the latest pic I saw than Megyn Kelly ever did.
My college roommate used to be a guest on Fox from time to time. He said Kelly was so gorgeous in person that she was hard to look at because you didn’t want to take your eyes off her.
Meh. This reply goes up there a ways.
Oh. Works here too. Winning.
I’m still of that mind. She’s stunning, and in her 50s.
This is Don Lemon just trying to provoke and remain somehow relevant, while Megyn Kelly sits atop the independent journalist hill.
I suppose they were looking for safe harbor and to make sure they didn’t end up in the dock.
::sigh::
Now I can’t correct it. I will hold my course steady rather than tack away from the abuse I deserve.
I just figured as an Apple guy, you may have still been upset about the changes Apple made to iPhone ports.
Meh that pissed me off.
Apple should have told the EU to pound sand.
I dunno SDF, if you give them enough port they will pass out and unconscious government might be an improvement.
You are not alone, I assure you.
“Continue to hold out for healthcare for illegals or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive timely WIC and SNAP allotments,” the spokesperson continued, referring to a supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children.
Almost.
1) Continue to round up and kick out illegals
2) Incentivize mothers to trade government benefits for husbands who will provide for their progeny (no, I’m not sure how to do that either).
Compromise – Report to your nearest ICE facility for your free healthcare.
My guess is that if you start cutting off bennies to single moms, they will do a bang up job of running down their baby daddies on their own and demanding money.
The gals who have multiple baby daddies and have problems getting money from them will serve as an example of why you don’t run around popping out babies.
Jimbo, you’re doing stand up now.
In the not too distant past, the ladies got paid for quantity, I’m not sure how it works today. I recall that back in days long ago 16 year old girls with youngsters qualified for apartments, plus monetary benefits, in the Twin Cities.
You dummies shouldn’t have given the government this much port to begin with.
Give them Madeira instead.
Madeira does not work as well with blue cheese
Get some corn that’s been treated with lye.
Braise said corn in a mixture of ruby, tawny, LBV, and vintage ports.
On a cool evening, there’s nothing more comforting than four-port hominy.
You’ve got some grits making corny jokes around here, bub.
I’m amaized at how corny his puns are.
There is polenta to go around, for sure
Shpip sure does grind them out.
He just cobs them together every morning.
“Sydney Sweeney sparks liberal meltdown with shock appearance on Fox’s World Series coverage”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-15236703/Sydney-Sweeney-World-Series-Fox.html
Fake news.
fine you talked me into it I will have sex with Sydney
Take a number, Pie
That intro ad was awesome. This is a vitriolic hate fest by a bunch of people who don’t even watch baseball.
You can only walk 6 kilometers per hour if you want to follow the law in Slovakia.
The Slovak parliament Tuesday afternoon adopted an amendment to the traffic law that sets a maximum permitted speed on sidewalks in urban areas at 6 kph.
The limit applies to pedestrians, cyclists, skaters, and scooter and e-scooter riders — all of who are allowed on sidewalks — and aims to avoid frequent collisions.
“The main goal is to increase safety on sidewalks in light of the increasing number of collisions with scooter riders,” said the author of the amendment, Ľubomír Vážny of the leftist-populist Smer party of Prime Minister Robert Fico, which is part of the ruling coalition.
https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakia-adopts-speed-limit-pedestrians/
They need automated speed cameras.
Slovaks are now slow?
Slow-vacs.
If the Slovak wimmin walk too fast, their fat thighs rub their privates and turn them on.
This is a just a ban on Wet-vacs.
Watch it, D’Wayne.
/The Other Slovak
3.7mph?!
Who walked that slow?
Yeah, no kidding. I saw another weepy sob story for some worker on vacay and had the same thought. “Maybe consider that FedGov has no constitutional role in this business?”
Will anyone take away the obvious lesson?
A very small minority, that will have no influence.
“I’ma tell y’all straight up like this, I just got that text that the link is definitely cut the f–k off for November. Y’all better stay the f–k out of my way in these stores because I’m walking out with carts and I’m not paying for s–t,” one angry SNAP recipient fumed on TikTok…
“I’m gonna be stealing like it ain’t no tomorrow … I’m gonna have one of my cousins with me that’ll punch your ass so hard you’ll think a Jet2Holiday hit your b—h ass if you think ain’t gonna walk out that store,” a reference to a UK-based budget air travel provider…
“What you gonna learn is you don’t play with black people’s food stamps, OK? So get ready, ’cause people are about to just start taking s–t.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/us-news/tiktokkers-boast-theyll-start-stealing-food-if-snap-benefits-dry-up-amid-gov-shutdown/
Don’t think that’s helping.
a reference to a UK-based budget air travel provider…
Just the sort of reference a SNAP recipient would make.
Anybody who really has that attitude is a profoundly greedy, ungrateful POS.
Easy solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKhbaLyIFw
Why are we in a food desert?
Social media… yep, still cancer.
Would it be wrong for me to drive around the local grocery store parking lots on Saturday, blasting this: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=37YDcIQABEs&si=0P1qKGdVJh3R1sni&feature=xapp_share
I was expecting this.
That is referred to as Mothers Day in the ‘hood.
Or this: https://youtu.be/BqaTgDlkgyQ
This also works. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-i8IvYIcg&list=RDLH-i8IvYIcg&start_radio=1&pp=ygUXdGhlIG9mZnNwcmluZyBnZXQgYSBqb2KgBwHSBwkJAwoBhyohjO8%3D
Your food stamps, my choice.
Who knew that relying on government handouts to feed yourself is probably a poor life choice.
Another obvious lesson that nobody will learn.
Cllr George Finch
@_GeorgeFinch
I’m calling on Bridget Phillipson to give local councils like WCC the power to adapt statutory walking distances for Home to School Transport.
Costs have rocketed from £17.9m in 2018 to £50m. We’ve got to make this sustainable while supporting families.
Read my letter in full.
Bridget Phillipson
@bphillipsonMP
So you’re asking for powers to make kids walk five miles to school as we head into winter?
This week we’ve seen a Reform MP make blatantly racist comments, now we’ve got a Reform council taking our children back to the Victorian era.
My response here
https://x.com/bphillipsonMP/status/1983249485254873311
WELL IN MY DAY…
I wonder kind of heavy lifting “blatantly racist” is doing there. 🙄
Anything that keeps children away from schools, can’t be all bad…
Kids can walk. How we made it this far as a species given the last 50 years amazes me.
5 miles for little ones is a bit much, and would take them 2 hours each way. The chaperone needs to get to work.
I walked/biked every day, but it was 1/2 mile to elementary and 1 mile to high school (uphill both ways, in the winter).
“A father-to-be was killed with a single punch in a brawl outside an Arizona bar mere weeks before his baby was due, according to authorities and reports.
Thomas John “TJ” Pizzitola was found lying unconscious on a sidewalk outside of a bar in Scottsdale around 2:15 a.m. on Oct. 11, the Scottsdale Police Department told The Post….
In the melee, 24-year-old Drew Meneses allegedly threw a punch that caused Pizzitola to suffer a fatal brain injury, cops said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/us-news/father-to-be-killed-with-single-punch-in-arizona-bar-fight-just-weeks-before-sons-birth/
Damn.
no one wins a street fight
You can if you’re guile about it.
“This comment intentionally left Blanka.”
I’m probably being an asshole here (surprise!), but what the fuck is this guy doing getting kicked out of a bar at 2am while his wife is about to pop? Not exactly husband of the year material.
Friday night with the boys that went too many shots in?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
An absolutely sublime example of burying the lede from HM BBC here
https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1983277005723640062
My team has already initiated a review of the Biden administration’s reported use of autopen for pardons,” Bondi wrote on X. “@RepJamesComer’s new information is extremely helpful, and his leadership on this issue is invaluable. We’ll continue working with @GOPoversight to deliver accountability for the American people.
Why do I expect nothing else will happen?
Probably because everyone knows the optics of rounding up the ex-pardoned prisoners and putting them back in the klink will be a PR disaster.
The media will completely ignore the truly bad people that were let out by Biden’s overwide pardon and instead focus on some guy who was in prison for some trivial thing. Stories and interviews with his family will be shown on TV for months.
Easier to just do nothing. When one of the bad guys who was autopardoned re-offends you can run your own stories about the poor victims.
I don’t think that is were they are going with this. I get the feeling that it is more for all of those who got life time pardons: Faucci, Hunter, et al.
Also, if they do anything again, those auto-penned will not be able to claim immunity but will have the crimes hanging over their heads. Good for plea deals, no?
I think this might be a tough sell. All Biden has to do is say “Oh yeah I told them to do all of that,” and unless you have some serious smoking guns, nothing can be proven.
But I still think they should pursue this.
Pursue it and lock up every mother fucker involved in perpetrating the fraud.
The people let out are free, and that’s final.
Also, put the fucking screws to Fauci on testimony since he can’t go to jail he loses his right to remain silent.
As Trump discovered his first term – no paper trail, no results.
“Israeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.
The strikes, one of the bloodiest attacks in the two-year war, killed at least 35 children and injured 200 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. They took place hours after Donald Trump said nothing would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he had helped broker…
Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the strikes on Tuesday evening after a firefight between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops, and amid growing anger over Hamas turning over body parts of a hostage whose remains Israeli troops had recovered two years before.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/israeli-strikes-in-gaza-overnight-as-ceasefire-looks-increasingly-fragile
The numbers could be bullshit, but still isn’t good.
It’s almost like Hamas never intended to sign an agreement in good faith.
according to Gaza’s civil defence agency
In other words the numbers are bullshit.
“US planes killed Japanese women and children during indiscriminate firebombing of civilian targets.”
-1945 headline
“Fat Man destroys Nagasaki.”
Burgess Everett
@burgessev
News: Some Republicans are rooting for the Supreme Court to block Trump’s emergency tariff power
GOP senator: “We are the ones who dictate tax policy. This is a form of taxation”
Collins: “The constitutional authority is pretty clear in vesting in Congress”
Murkowsi: “The Canada retaliatory tariffs are not appropriate, and he had no basis for advancing those”
Mike Bird
@Birdyword
Nothing says “I’m reasserting the powers of the legislative branch” like a quote you give to a journalist on condition they don’t use your name. You don’t see that kind of stout moral leadership every day.
https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1983269879588532278
They’re not wrong.
Of course, they should have been exercising that power for the past century or so.
Yeah, it’s pretty rich for anyone in Congress complaining about someone else doing their job for them.
You don’t see them authoring legislation to revoke the grant of tariff power given to the president, do you?
Eh, calling a tariff a tax is really stretching it. That is the same as calling a fee a tax, and that is, currently, OK.
As long as they’re effectively the same, which they are, I’m good with it. Trying to split that hair by who pays up front is just a shell game.
My point wasn’t whether they have the same result, but, rather, that there is a legal difference due to the phrasing and the mechanics of it.
Sure, let’s ignore all the history of tariffs and the debates in Congress about them – not to mention the role they played in the build-up to the Civil War.
Sharing this a few days early, so you can run out and pick up the necessary supplies.
Hell, my wife can do that on the kitchen stove
That pumpkin looked like Arthur Brown.
https://youtu.be/-4SnIJJCH8w?si=Bb6SNSgCyiskxgK6
“Kennedy made a point to grouse about how terrible women were for questioning the president’s immeasurable medical wisdom. Pregnant women who disbelieve Trump’s lies, he insisted, suffer from a “pathology” he called “Trump derangment syndrome.” (No such “syndrome” exists, but the social pathology of sexist men calling outspoken women “crazy” has long been well-documented.)
…
The once-innocuous pain medication has become a symbol for misogynists of how women are evil, disobedient harlots. It’s also a personal fixation for a narcissist like Trump, who has clearly not recovered from being told, by women no less, that he is not the smartest man who ever lived. (Unsurprisingly, this is happening at the same time Trump is publicly freaking out over his deep — and justified — fear that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is smarter than he is.)”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/29/texas-sues-tylenol-for-the-dumbest-reason/
No derangement there.
“ Trump is publicly freaking out over his deep — and justified — fear that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is smarter than he is.)”
That is mental illness, right there. 2+2=5 territory.
Do they realize that intelligence isn’t some kind of circle. You can’t become a genius by being ever stupider until you loop around to the top.
They do realize but also recognize their readers have no interest in being smarter than a rock and will believe whatever they say
The projection is strong in this one.
I refuse to accept that idea that Salon isn’t an especially elaborate work of performance art.
If I hadn’t met enough women who think and talk exactly like that, I would be right there with you.
Salon is a caricature of terminally online middle aged women.
In the 90s, Pakistan had 50% higher GDP per capita than India, but now it’s only half as large as India’s
https://x.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1982591263838027832
That graph is useless. In order to draw any conclusions you need other data points – such as the actual numbers.
This should be fun…
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled this year that Wisconsin violated the First Amendment when it said Catholic Charities was too “secular” to get a religious tax exemption. The obvious fix for that discrimination is to . . . grant the tax exemption. Instead, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, is pushing the state to void the exemption for all religious nonprofits.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/wisconsin-vs-catholic-charities-round-ii-ec8a3887?st=jWueDH&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Correct fix – eliminate the tax.
Second best – tax everyone equivalently.
*that includes secular “charities”
But politically activist NGOs should be taxed at 500%.
Know what would be great? A publically available amd searchable database of all such charities receiving that exemption
It’s called Guidestar, it’s been around for 20 years and it includes the 990’s.
You’re welcome.
“You get a tax exemption unless you are religious” may not be quite the jurisprudential masterstroke they think it is.
This is probably a few years old, but I hope someone wifes her up post-haste.
A girl after my own heart.
I’m just glad she didn’t come as a gross prophet, Shpip.
Mask alert.
TW:TOS
“Despite its avowed devotion to the Second Amendment, the Trump administration sees nothing wrong with that policy. It wants the Supreme Court to overrule a 2024 decision in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit found “no historical justification for disarming a sober citizen not presently under an impairing influence.”
Trump is taking the same position as Joe Biden, whose administration doggedly defended this gun ban against challenges by marijuana users. Biden even signed legislation that increased the potential penalties for drug users who obtain firearms.
Biden seemed to view that offense as a grave crime that merits stiff punishment. But he made an exception for his son, issuing a hypocritical pardon that shielded Hunter Biden from the penalties faced by defendants who are not lucky enough to have a father in the White House.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/29/trump-an-avowed-second-amendment-champion-defends-a-gun-ban-with-no-historical-justification/
Not sure why Trump is taking this position?
Because he’s still a leftist, just not a crazy one.
Im assuming the government is taking that position because of the bad underlying law.
Fun times when Reason and The Nation collide.
I read this earlier this week.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-courts-gun-drug-case/#
Which would leave any reader to believe that the Trump Administration has no intentions of changing the classification of marijuana.
I imagine that Don-Don doesn’t care much for pot-smoking hippies.
To be fair, neither do I.
Just speaking for myself, pot-smoking hippies are around a 4 out of ten on the EvilSheldon Scale of Sub-Cultural Dislike. Better than juggalos, worse than furries.
ICP used to play a little club two doors down Main street from my nightclub, the Juggalos were generally well behaved and did not smell of patchouli and filth. The hippies who followed a couple of bands that played my club were smug, entitled, and often smelly.
Did you just admit to owning a hippie club?
I did not expect this…
Most juggalos are pot-smoking non-hippies.
Come now, Sheldon, you don’t have to like your customers to take their money.
Mostly rock and metal, but it was Lexington, and running a live music venue means booking anyone who can bring a decent crowd.
worse than furries
Wait a second…
Wait. Are you also in Sugarfreeland?
I ran into ICP at a traffic light in Clarksville TN once.
Kinda weird.
Trump is taking this position
What makes you think Trump is even aware of the position of his DoJ?
The Executive authority is vested in the President – he gets the credit and the blame for what the executive does, even if wholly ignorant of it.
Then the president would have to have full control of who works for him, and we can’t have that, now can we?
Just like DOJ getting a judge to order SAF to turn over membership lists.
Permanent bureaucracy doesn’t give a shit. Also, Bondi is no friend to gun rights.
Take a recent social-media post from Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. If Republicans don’t extend the turbocharged subsidies, she warned, “early retirees like Bill & Shelly will see their health insurance premiums increase nearly 300%—from $442 to $1,700.”
On point. A not insignificant reason I’m still working is healthcare. OTH, I don’t expect FedGov to subsidize my retirement. I do blame them for our dysfunctional healthcare insurance market.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-gops-obamacare-opportunity-c866afa7?st=MLG9U9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Just like SNAP, it has hooked people for life into the system. Why do you hate poor people?
Because they make poor decisions.
Had I vocalized my thoughts, “You fucking idiot!” could have been my catchphrase for years dealing with those people.
From that editorial the couple Klobuchar highlights has $130k of combined retirement income.
In a sane world they should be able to buy appropriately priced insurance outside of employment . The same way you can buy all your other insurance – home, auto, life and the like.
Ah so they were gaming the system and getting the subsidies.
Bill and Shelly are following the rules.
Of course, trying to change rules, whether it’s SNAP, SS, or any other of the “benefits” runs into a wall of vocal voters and the non-profits that seem to spring up.
So why the fuck should I be paying for these two fucksticks health care?
The whole point of the subsidies was to hide the clusterfuck that Obamacare is, on the way to the true end goal of socialism.
Create a ticking timebomb and hope it goes off when the other side is in charge and they can take the blame. It works too – because of the idiots that most voters are.
Yup. The leftist braying is to replace all of it with single payer universal healthcare.
They shout “Medicare for all” but what they really mean is Medicaid (which isn’t nearly as generous).
Not generous on either benefits or payments side. And somehow neither patients nor healthcare workers will get fucked over because the rich will pay for it.
A petition to legally restrict the carrying of catapults in public has reached 10,000 signatures in its first four days.
It follows a spate of attacks across the South East on wildlife, property and people using the weapons.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c797q544vvvo
I had no idea brits call slingshots catapults…
Seige engines get kinda heavy, but that’s no reason to ban them.
Sling shots were a poor kid’s weapon of choice. When cars had inner tubes and kids had scissors the two got married.
Using a shoe tongue, called a pad, a forked stick and a little ingenuity a 10 year old could declare war on birds, street lights
and any tin can found in the alley.
At least that’s what I heard from my older brothers.
Catapults today, trebuchets tomorrow…it’s a slippery slope. Also, the Brits are hopeless fucking pussies.
How about, we take away the slingshots and give the kids suppressed .22LR rifles.
“A veteran women’s hockey player is hanging up her skates after nearly 3 decades, stating that transgender inclusion has been made a priority above safety and fairness…..
This past year, she did not know that she shared a locker room with a biological male. ”
https://thepostmillennial.com/minnesota-womens-hockey-player-quits-after-men-allowed-to-compete-in-league
That’s some passing privilege.
She better watch her back lest noted supporter of women AOC starts screaming at her for not wanting men in the women’s locker room.
WHAM is the best backronym I’ve heard all month…
“I am having a grand old time slinging hot dogs,” Stein said.
He should set up outside the food bank where that big line is.
“In a recent interview on the Mostly Economics podcast, Wilson promoted a proposal she calls “News Notes”: a taxpayer-funded voucher program that would give every Seattle resident $100 to donate to local media outlets, to save failing outlets from the free market. To pay for it, she floated new property taxes, a capital gains tax, or a digital ad tax.
But the outlets she specifically named as beneficiaries, The Urbanist, Publicola, and South Seattle Emerald, are the same ones that routinely promote her political agenda. Many of them have endorsed her. Some have even paid her.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattles-socialist-mayoral-candidate-wants-leftist-media-outlets-to-be-state-funded
WCPGW?
“These media outlets will die without public subsidy!”
“Let them die.”
“But they support ME!”
WDATAM?
What could possibly go wrong?
Wait…a tax that will give that tax to citizens who then are compelled to send that tax in as a ‘donation’?
Lol, that had to have been a ChatGPT prompt on how to sound like an idiot
It’s like in the corporate world when we’re told that we get $x to “donate” to a cause of our choice, from a curated list of far left organizations. Yeah, the Institute for Justice is political, but the Clinton Foundation is neutral.
Seriously. Stop trying to make me complicit in your perfidy.
Neph, the army did that when I was in.
Told them no.
In hindsite I’m not surprised I never got to go to the board.
LOL perfect.
Communists are always and everywhere exactly the same.
I don’t know if that kind of behavior would have been tolerated in the USSR.
Sure, you can donate to Pravda or Russia Today, comrade. You have all the choices.
Coming in January to NYC!
JOHANNESBURG—What does it look like when a city stops trying? Visit Johannesburg, where instead of providing basic public services, the government just warns residents not to expect them.
Signs tell you what crime you’re most likely to fall victim to at highway exits and intersections; beware “Hi-Jacking Hot Spot” or “Smash and Grab Hot Spot.” Homeless people routinely direct traffic when the stoplights don’t work. Minibus taxis that ferry workers around the city often drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid rush hour traffic.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/johannesburg-south-africa-g20-summit-525c8ca5?st=MVrYur&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yikes!
During the anti-apartheid days half of the blacks in SA were screaming “No! No! You dont know what you are doing!”
Those blacks were wrong. They knew exactly what they were doing.
““All this anti-woke stuff is anti-black. Period. Full stop,” he said. “All the CRT, ESG, DEI stuff? That’s all this is. It’s this great purge, and it’s happening in real time, and I’m sitting here and I feel like, you know, luckily, I’m governor, but like, we’re not doing enough. We’re not callin’ this out, we’re not drawing a line here. And again, it’s not about Democrats or Republicans, it’s about who we are. Right and goddamn wrong. Daylight and darkness.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/gavin-newsom-tells-former-nba-stars-anti-woke-is-just-anti-black
CWAA
Anti-racist is anti-black. Got it, commie gibberish.
He said before jetting off to another fancy French restaurant.
Im surprised he didnt have Church’s Chicken or some shot to solidify his gansta upbringing
That was also the same interview he claimed to have been born a poor black child
Why aren’t the two black guys interviewing him insulted by his pandering? I’d be pissed if I was talking to Gavin and he tried to tell me he spent his life eating lutefisk and hotdish.
Holy shit.
That is… completely made-up. This guy should be hiding under a rock in shame, not contemplating a run for president.
Are you implying the guy who started a winery at 25 years old didn’t grow up as poor as he claimed?
My dad spent many years in the winery business and joked that the way to make a small fortune on a winery was to start with a large one.
On the bright side, the guy is so in love with the sound of his own voice and the retarded things that come out of his piehole that he provides an endless source of material that any opponent can easily use against him.
So with his newly free time, the side project he started before the shutdown turned into a seven-days-a-week gig. It’s a simple menu: a “correct hot dog” or a “hot dog with the wrong toppings.”
“I’m trying to incentivize people to do what I think a correct hot dog is, which is mustard and sauerkraut,” Stein said.
Spicy brown mustard or GTFO.
Leave it to a bureaucrat to shame folks in how they construct and eat their hot dogs
Looks upthread at UCS…
It’s the Chicago way.
Jar, I don’t shame people for their culinary choices because I’m a bureaucrat.
I shame people because I’m right. I’d do it even if I had a different job.
I don’t like ballpark mustard either.
Stadium mustard or ball park mustard?
EvilSheldon Gs the FO…
Wrong, wrong, wrong , wrong.
Stein needs to be re-educated.
Kraut goes with some other sausages, but not dogs.
Rotten cabbage goes in the garbage. Cheese, chili and fresh chopped sweet onion are the only proper hot dogs.
Good thing Kraut is only fermented.
How could you make a Reuben without sauerkraut? And if you’re not making Reubens on the regular, how do you persist in this cruel world?
I don’t think Suthen has ever made one.
Poor bastard.
I’m starting to forgive you for your awful hot dog preferences…
My god.
Something I dont agree with Surhen on.
What is become of this world?!
JFC, those kinds of people just cant help themselves, can they? Let me tell you what a correct hot dog is: I pay you and you put what I fucking tell you to put on it. You say “Yes Sir” and do it. I say “Thank you Sir”, then I pay you. That is a correct hot dog.
*For those of you shocked by the price…last I heard the city license to operate those carts was around 100K per year.
I read that as a bit of humor. Essentially a way to attract some business. He’s willing to make it how the customer wants.
Here in NYC there are some carts that you get it exactly as I prepare it. If you don’t want it don’t buy it. (They are rare – but exist.)
I am on a hair trigger this morning having to deal with govt types and all.
Two immigrants come ashore in NYC.
They immediately hit the first hot dog stand they see. They’ve heard about hot dogs in their home country and they can hardly wait to try this all-American food.
The first one unwraps his hot dog, takes a long look and then asks his buddy, “What part of the dog did you get?”
Well, if NY has soup Nazis, I’m not surprised they have Kraut Nazis.
I thought the Kraut Nazis went to Argentina.
Hot dogs suck, no matter what you put on them.
What you really want is some natto. Preferably with strands as long as your hand…
[insert Trump “wrong” gif here]
This is the correct answer.
Once I was visiting my father in law, he was eating some stringy thing.
I kept thinking his feet were really ripe that day.
Then I discovered it was the natto he was eating creating the smell.
Never have been able to try it since then.
I guess it’s what you grow up with because I love blue cheese and put it on salad in lieu of salad dressing.
I make the same comparisons to strong cheese and natto.
I love blue cheese as well. Interestingly, my Japanese teacher likes both strong cheeses and natto.
*shakes head* I thought I knew you…
Even as a child, I did not like hot dogs.
However, sausage is not a hot dog and I love many varieties of that.
But hot dogs are a sausage. From Frankfurt (or Vienna) in fact.
Since I live in Vienna, this makes perfect sense!
They’re not the same thing:
Hot dogs,even the high end ones, don’t taste the same as a good sausage.
Now you insist they compete with Good sausage?
Where’s the next goal post move?
A bad sausage is better than a good hot dog.
“The Senate on Tuesday voted 52-48 to nuke President Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazil.
House Speaker Mike Johnson will not hold a vote on the measure, so the Senate’s vote was a waste of time.
President Trump would never sign the measure into law anyway.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/just-senate-votes-52-48-nuke-trumps-tariffs/
They have nothing better to do?
NBC News reached out to all 50 states and Washington, D.C., to ask for potential contingency plans. Many states are pointing residents to local food banks, with some encouraging people to buy shelf-stable food to prepare.
Ice cream is a human right.
I got my ice cream from Leopold’s in Savannah last night. Paid for my own and enjoyed it, even if it was pricey.
Newscasts seem to be flooded lately with stories of laid off or unpaid government workers who don’t have cash and thus can’t buy food or gas or pay any bills because they’ve never heard of credit cards.
They know about them, but they are maxed out. They learned finances from their employer.
They’ve already maxed out all their credit cards.
She now claims her support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made her a target in Germany. The activist hopes to take advantage of Donald Trump’s new asylum laws which give preference to white Europeans and South Africans.
He’s flooding the country with white people.
Younger Americans less concerned about political violence and free speech threats: AP-NORC poll
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…cuz the former’s been normalized (for one side!) and they’ve never known the latter. My Harry Potter-gen proudly became those afraid of ‘Voldemort’ syllables. Working glorified afterschool daycare for a spell, I learned “balls” was not to be said, even if obviously talking about basketballs. “Dumb” is also never to be said, one my bro has chided Dad for, as well as “crippled.”
I defended one ~10yo who got in trouble for “making fun” of a basketball. It had an oblong bump to it and the kid jokingly called it “pregnant.” It was legit clever and well-delivered. Apparently, that wasn’t allowed, I s’pose cuz being with child is inherently bad cuz it physically alters the shape of the mother, or maybe cuz having kids further enslaves women to the patriarchy. Or something.
The ‘irreligious’ certainly love *their* clergy. They’ve got such nice hair and flair to match!
That is an alternate way of noting that political violence and free speech threats come mostly from the left.
Don’t forget that “sucks” was a bad word.
Heck, I about got my mouth washed out with soap by a neighbor for saying “ain’t”.
Does anybody want to pay $20k to be for what in the old days we would call an alpha tester?
Neo’s creator, 1X Technologies, is making the Rosie-the-Robot dream: some of the first humanoid housekeepers. Starting Tuesday, you can apply to its early adopter program and preorder one for $20,000, with delivery expected in 2026. The company will also offer a $499 monthly rental plan with a six-month minimum commitment.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-thats-coming-to-live-with-you-its-still-part-human-68515d44?st=ZEo1rE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nope nope nope.
How many times will the company rep log in and just see nothing but a crotch?
Depends on the attractiveness of the customer – If ugly, customer is banned after the first time. If attractive, as often as possible.
Is that hot dog vendor related to Katharine Hepburn?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHRPcBDSJi1/
Good morning Glibs, hope you are all doing well and you have a great day.
My, you’re cheery – did you get dosed up on some medical grade drugs?
It was that blow to the head that made TOK all optimistic.
Between him and Fetterman, maybe there is a case to be made for inflicting brain damage on everyone.
I’m feeling good this morning, and I had a good workout. But my symptoms get worse as the day goes on, so I don’t expect to be too cheery at PM Lynx time. I’m seeing my GP later, and we’ll see if I get referred to a specialist.
I really wish the current group of younger people understood how awful the draft was.
During the Vietnam War Beallsville, a village in southeastern Ohio not far from West Virginia, had a population of 452. It received brief national attention for a reason no town wants: More of its sons, per capita, were killed in Vietnam than from any other community in the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-more-football-fridays-in-beallsville-ohio-b7518090?st=ZovgVT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When you have a smaller smaple size, you get skewed results.
So confused. First off I have no idea what a maller maple is. And what is kewed?
I thought I finally understood your speech impediment, but now I’m lost again.
They think we’re gonna whip Putin with drones and guided missiles.
If the neo-cons get there way and we start a jungle war in Venezuela as well as a hot land war with Russia and/or Iran – they will find out.
I’ve figured it out Fourscore! You have no secrets from me now.
I finally know what all those popping sounds are at the Honey Harvest
My uncle once showed me how that works.
After writing that down, I realize that could be taken very much the wrong way.
Your uncle? Not your pop-pop?
And in local news…
https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/10/attorney-who-told-black-civil-rights-leader-you-only-count-as-three-fifths-wont-face-ethics-charge.html
OTH, filing absolutely frivolous lawsuits warrants absolutely no ethics investigation.
To be fair, Legal ‘ethics’ have more to do with duty to the client, not lying to the court, shit like that.
The single worst thing you can do is mingle client money with your money. Distant second is screwing your client (literally). Very distant third is screwing your client (figuratively).
“I’m representing my wife in her divorce case.”
Trashy – the trust account thing blows my mind.
That is like the one thing that you can not do if you’d like to remain a guild member.
Everything else is situational.
JFC how can you grow up in America and not know that you can’t say shit like that in public?
Rhy – You Can say stuff like that in public, it’s your right.
It will give people a particular impression of your character, though.
Well sure. I left off the implied “without losing your job”, “without getting your ass kicked”, and similar.
Occassionally getting your ass kicked for your own stupidity is good for people.
How it starts
Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway escaped captivity Tuesday after the truck carrying them overturned, according to law enforcement.
All but one of the escaped monkeys were killed, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said in a post on Facebook, warning that the monkeys were “aggressive.” It was not clear how many monkeys were originally in the truck.
The truck was carrying Rhesus monkeys, which typically weigh around 16 pounds (7.7 kilograms) and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet.
They were being housed at the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely provides primates to scientific research organizations, according to the university. In a statement, Tulane University said the monkeys do not belong to the university, and they were not being transported by the university.
Experimental supermonkeys “accidentally” released.
We should maybe not make any big plans for about 4 weeks from now
Does anybody want to guess why FedGov had to convict here and not NYC? I’m at a loss…
https://nypost.com/2025/10/28/us-news/self-professed-jew-hater-learns-fate-for-slew-of-assaults-at-nyc-israel-gaza-protests-im-sorry-guys/
Don’t get my hopes up. For a moment I thought they’d convicted the mayoral candidate.
First Iowa totally humiliates the Golden Rodents and keeps Floyd of Rosedale for the 4,000th year in a row.
Now, we are getting humiliated in the Illegal Immigrant Bureaucrat in Education Dept too.
She isn’t even a superintendent, just a school board member, she isn’t running around with guns and all her lies are really pathetic.
To be entirely fair, it is possible she is actually a legal, naturalized citizen and she is just pretending that she is an illegal to garner victim points.
This gal is done with periods!
All women should just drop out of any league or tourney that allows men to compete against them.
We? Our?
The impact of the federal government shutdown on the air traffic control system in the United States could linger on well beyond the reopening of the government.
From safety redundancies and modernization efforts to training future controllers and keeping the best staff, much of the work of the Federal Aviation Administration could see long term harms from the shutdown, experts say.
“There’s no question that the shutdown will only set us backwards,” said Erik Hansen, senior vice president and head of government relations for the US Travel Association. “The real risk is that it will do irreparable harm to our efforts to hire more air traffic controllers and to modernize air traffic control.”
More nonprofit communitarian activism is not what we need.
So…
Things still going on while we are “shutdown”
Modernization and projects – ongoing
Saftey redundancies – ongoing
Controller training – ongoing until I believe mid November (tech training is suspended)
So…they got all those points wrong.
It’s a company truck – who cares what I do with it. It’s not really my responsibility…
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1oioefl/smart_driver_races_a_traffic_light_with_a_200/
Choices are hard
It’s something that Daniels, whose union represents nearly 20,000 controllers and other aviation workers, said should never happen.
“(Controllers) should never work a side job,” Daniels said. “They should never get off a night shift and then go wait tables and then go move the commerce and people through this airspace.”
That “pressure is real,” controller Joe Segretto, who handles flights approaching and departing New York, said Tuesday at a news conference at LaGuardia airport.
“Somebody came to me and said… ‘I need your advice. What am I to do? Do I put gas in my car? Do I put food on the table We don’t have money for daycare. What do I do?’ I didn’t have the answers,” Segretto said.
“Almost every controller… can’t make it without two paychecks,” Duffy said, noting the situation will only get worse.
None of these people have ever had to deal with tradeoffs before?
Almost every controller….
Ask yourself as you look over these wages and then ask…what are you spending all that money on.
https://www.fedsdatacenter.com/federal-pay-rates/index.php?y=2024&n=&l=&a=DEPARTMENT+OF+TRANSPORTATION&o=AIR+TRAFFIC+CONTROL
I’m in the wrong profession.
SEGRETTO, JOSEPH ROCCO LH AT $213,204.00
Im not sure if that DB is basepay or if it includes OT…trust me, except for some controllers in podunk airports, they are nearly all making well into 6 figures
A tradeoff would imply a decision being made. They only know how to rubber-stamp.
This whole manufactured panic over air traffic control is really annoying. It’s not as if those planes just randomly pop up on the radar from all points of the compass. There is a formalized and (reasonably) well understood process and procedure. It’s not like a drunken rowdy Fourth of July weekend on some pleasure boaters’ lake.
80% of that is true.
And- speaking of which, I would think the professional pilots would push back on the idea that they’re completely irresponsible and helpless without ATC guidance.
None of the tariff votes roll back either the BBB or Trump EO on de minimis. Fuck over small consumers and increase the permanent state with mother May I? for everything. Every package has been filed with customs and every food stuff, including your grandma’s cookies, has to be preapproved for import by the FDA. Trump, friend of free markets. Or more like that pimple headed dipshit Stephen Miller, that hates libertarianism.
But now, some long-sought after trainees are leaving to pursue careers with more financial stability.
“If you’re an air traffic controller today and you’ve gone through the financial hardship of a shutdown, you’re going to be looking for potentially new career paths or other opportunities,” Hansen said.
They should all go be stockbrokers, or fishing boat captains.
Stockfish brokers.
80% of that is true.
I’m not saying we could do without ATC, but it’s not like they are reinventing the wheel every time a blip shows up on the radar.