Me, if we ever finish this project.
My Swiss Masters issued a dire threat to a couple of contractors…it worked with one of them, and I am still waiting to see if it worked with the second one. I am no less busy, but do see an end in sight, that does not involve my side having to resort to … things.
So here are your links for today.
Music – I have no idea how this song popped into my head, but here it is.
Comments are all yours.
Roomba is bankrupt…end robot slavery!
Clackers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your DRM.
I assumed the music was going to be Crash Test Dummies. The song was already in my head.
“Trump envoy sees progress in peace talks”
Sucker…once he wraps up this failure I’m going to sell him a bridge in Brooklyn I happen to own.
“Zelensky has voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees…”
So NATO protection with none of the responsibilities or commitments.
2% of Ukrainian GDP has got to be about $75 american at this point.
That is almost three giraffes tall!
I figure its more like “you and your defense industries can use our country to play in”
Can the WEF save itself?
Did someone turn off the NGO spigot?
Essayli credited President Trump’s Sept. 22 executive order targeting domestic terror organizations like Antifa with having helped the feds begin the investigation that ultimately foiled the attack.
Why do I suspect the Feds had people inside this group for a long time before that EO?
Why do I suspect this group wouldn’t have existed if it weren’t for all the Feds inside the group?
Now you’re talking crazy.
Self licking ice cream cone.
I mean, that’s the typical case. If not the fact that the group wouldn’t have existed, then most likely feds are the ones who suggested the planned attack and pushed people to go along with it.
That sort of information will come out months from now in court filings. They’ll get some cheap convictions they can use to justify increasing the FBI’s budget to Congress (as if it was ever in doubt).
Because these are lefties and not the typical subjects of FBI coercion and baiting, it will be interesting to see if the media actually follows along once it becomes clear that the feds set people up. The progressives will act is if they just uncovered some nefarious plot to smear antifa types and ignore you when you point out that this SOP for the FBI.
The conclusion was unequivocal: no criminal misconduct was substantiated. There had been irregularities – expenses without clear business justification, blurred lines between personal and professional spending, awkward emails, poor people management – but nothing that crossed into illegality.
For Schwab, the findings were meant as vindication. In the same week, at a tense meeting of the board – which included European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde, BlackRock chief Larry Fink and other influential names – he demanded a financial settlement and a public acknowledgment that the allegations against him and his wife were false.
Not illegal, so everything is honky-dory.
“expenses without clear business justification, blurred lines between personal and professional spending”
I don’t know what country’s laws they are using, but I doubt the IRS would give that a pass.
I dunno, its not hard to blur those lines with the IRS
Hard to blur the lines with companies I’ve worked for. While personal expenses may be authorized it had to be known before the fact.
Top. Men. always get a pass.
Look, it wasn’t illegal. Just gross incompetence.
Now shut-up and sit down while we tell you how to run your countries and the world economy.
I’d like to think that the FBI has returned to investigating domestic terror groups, versus creating them, equipping them, providing them with targeting information, and then wailing for more money after the bombs go off.
But I’m probably fooling myself.
Also – ‘The Order of the Black Lotus?’ We really are being tormented by a plague of theater dorks…
You sure they’re not M:TG players?
Even if they were, that’s no excuse. It’s like a boot-ass Marine E-2 trying to give himself a badass nickname.
(Actual conversation, circa 2010, related by a Marine buddy of mine:)
“What’s up, boot? What do they call you?”
“They call me Warhammer.”
*smirks, muffled laughter* “Okay, yeah, we’re gonna call you Rimjob, because that’s like a thousand times less gay than Warhammer.”
Fumbles. It was always Fumbles.
MTG and Theatre Kid overlap was almost a closed circle Venn diagram when that game came out.
For the past 2 years or so, I’ve just given up on knowing anything “for sure”. In this case, in the recent past we never hear about terrorist plots. So did they not exist, or has the FBI kept them quiet? It’s different that we’re hearing about this one. Who knows.
I mean, they quote the apparent ringleader here admitting that she has a diary of failed planned attacks in the past so best case scenario is it was just a bunch of LAARPers who they stumbled upon and charged.
Most likely scenario is the feds were instigators and provided the resources to make it seem somewhat actionable.
Insiders say its future may depend on the success of next year’s meeting.
Gosh, I wonder how they define “success”.
More funding. This ice cream cone isn’t gonna lick itself.
Uh huh…just like the Jan 6 bomber?
Or, a mediocre crime thriller novelist’s dream.
Sounds like any FBI series on TV.
/thinks back to Venture Bros’ Wide Whale mocking the Monarch about his mask
Hello, fellow gun store enthusiast. Please direct me to the black powder bomb making supplies.
You can mail order gunpowder, even in California. Why risk making it yourself?
So you can have artisanal gunpowder for your etsy friendly locally sourced, fully sustainable, carbon neutral pipe bombs.
To make it harder to trace?
Using a credit card at the local Spirit Halloween and Pipe Bombs might leave a trail.
This. Although buying your (explicitly monitored) black powder components using a ‘burner’ (*prolonged laughter*) Amazon account kinda defeats the porpoise.
These idiots, having been indoctrinated that all things Black are superior, probably think black powder is more powerful than gunpowder.
This. Although buying your (explicitly monitored) black powder components using a ‘burner’ (*prolonged laughter*) Amazon account kinda defeats the porpoise.
Should you sign up for Prime on your burner Amazon account?
Asking for a friend.
“The Davos set in decline: can the World Economic Forum save itself?”
Can someone convince them the world is now beyond repair, and it’s time to seal themselves in their bunkers?
The [World Economic Forum]’s survival now depends on whether it can reinvent itself – structurally, culturally and politically – for a world that no longer believes in elite consensus, Malleret and others say.
How do you do, fellow populists?
Have the world ever believed in elite consensus? Lived in it, tolerated or suffered under it…but believed in?
Cast your mind back to 1933…
Then 1964…
It only started breaking down recently.
The brain trust, all reading Mussolinis book.
The “credible, imminent terrorist threat” to five unidentified companies’ logistics centers in Southern California came from radical members of an offshoot of the left-wing Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), FBI Director Kash Patel and other law enforcement officials revealed Monday.
The splinter group called themselves the Order of the Black Lotus and passed along an “eight-page, handwritten document titled ‘OPERATION MIDNIGHT SUN’”
Makes the Symbionese Liberation Army look like a Girl Scout troop.
I long for the days when these hippie-dippy types would live out in the sticks somewhere, bothering nobody until it was time to chow down on the barbituate-laden applesauce.
Cleveland Metroparks, a system of nature preserves across the Cleveland area, posted wildlife camera footage to social media showing the fisher recorded on Metroparks land in Cuyahoga County earlier this year.
Thing was just out looking for a beer. They’ll drink ales and lagers, but this time of year they really prefer stoats.
Booooo. Boo. Boo.
They’re not even the same genus.
Tis the saison for a good stoat. When it gets warmer, they can get a little skunky. Need to ferret out something like a biter or a weassbeir.
well, that left a sour taste in my mouth.
I see that Shpip and Swissy are going to be at lagerheads again about punning in the comments.
I know an E7 who would have tried to chew your ass for that uniform.
That was de rigeur, in RC East, in Fall 2004.
This guy was an ass.
No doubt still is.
The WEF’s founding premise that dialogue among elites can bridge divides feels increasingly out of step, especially as its language around “resetting” capitalism and shaping global futures has fuelled baseless claims by conspiracy theorists that it orchestrates crises to expand top-down control over ordinary people.
Pay no attention to their stated goals.
They definitely want to expand top-down control. The crises just kind of happen as a result.
Completely unforeseeable.
Yeah. What that tells me is that Mercedes Ruehl (author) is a moron.
The actress?
Wow. Music is a blast from the past.
German cyborg cockroaches!
@ about the 8-minute mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvr9TIrVf4
If only Kafka were still alive to see it. And this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQ2bj6oM8c
CNN headline about Aussie shooting bystander puts heroic in scare quotes.
Allegedly heroic? Heroic solely in the fever dreams of white power fantasists?
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt in this case and assume that they are quoting what someone said.
Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction.
Since one gram can kill 500 people. Then yes it is.
I thought it was 10 femtograms can kill 10 petapeople?
Or was it 1/10th of a blue whales worth can kill 12.3 full grown giraffes?
How many football fields is that?
Fentonium69 does have a half life greater than any twinkie known to man!
The FBI tells porkie-pies.
*starts chanting* US money out of Ukraine.!
That’s not very catchy.
That furry thing looked just like Anthony Weasel.
Let’s hope the WEF implodes spectacularly.
I’d be happy if it exploded spectacularly.
Anyone see this?
Gordilocks has an article,
https://www.piratewires.com/p/im-an-american-trucker-illegal-migrants
Nice. Thanks for the link.
I thought our Gord was a Canadian?
Or am I confusing him with someone else.
He is in the US. Has been in CA and the Southern Hemisphere.
Kick them all out.
Strip all federal transportation dollars from states that issue drivers licenses to illegals.
Eliminate chain migration.
Eliminate the CDL, let the market sort it out.
Gord is wrong.
The Biden admin did not lower the bar to get a CDL. They made it harder and a whole lot more expensive.
You must go to a school now to get one or to get a new endorsement where as before you could get a learners permit and drive with another CDL driver, take your written test and then take a check ride.
Now you have to go to a school. And they are not cheap.
The schools are a hustle. swift likes them. The unions like them. Why? Because trucking companies and unions own the schools. Resident aliens from India and Russia own schools. They get rural development grants paid for by you and I and import their relatives and rubber stamp them. Guys like me needing another CDL driver that’s a citizen and has real skills that are not trucking are screwed. By design.
Gord is concerned about wages and keeping the market manipulated by locking people out of jobs. That’s not liberty at all.
He’s not interested in the first principles that are being violated.
Those first principles are simple: the illegals should not be here, the CDL should never have been created, the federal Department of Transportation should not exist, federal gas taxes should not exist, drivers licenses of any sort should not be granted to illegals, the market fixes these staffing problems if it’s allowed to. Gord wants the government to restrict his competition for his own benefit.
Tetris, played with a ton of drones:
https://x.com/redbullgaming/status/2000077256954409229
Lowest number of new laws in a decade?
Pennsylvania has the largest full-time legislative body in the country, with 253 lawmakers in the state House and Senate. They receive salaries with annual cost-of-living adjustments, reimbursements for travel to Harrisburg and generous pensions, all funded by taxpayers.
Despite being full-time, lawmakers have passed only 65 bills this year — an all-time low for at least the past decade. There are no more session days scheduled for the state Senate from now until the end of the year, while the House has two more voting days scheduled. Both chambers could still schedule days if needed.
Good improvement. Now aim for no bills passed.
Blows my mind that journalists think you judge a regulatory body by volume of bills passed.
Disagree.
I want a million bills passed, under the condition that all of them are repealing former legislation.
Gridlocked. House Dems have narrow majority. Senate GOP has majority, Gov. Shapiro is Dem. and will coast to victory next year. Now that Philly suburbs are mostly Blue, House won’t be turning Red any time soon.
Paying them to do less seems like a win.
They should be repealing a few hundred a year.
TFW you drive 3 hours to take your XY to dinner for his 20th bday. I no longer have any teenagers, but I lost my last tax deduction 2 years ago, so now it’s all gravy.
Someone should explain to the postal workers who their boss is. They seem to think that they can not cooperate with ICE like their state counterparts.
If I was Trump, I’d make these postal workers wash the ICE vans at the end of their shift just to make the point that they are Fed workers.
Or just fucking fire them.
How would I ever get all those weekly adverts then?
UCS and the other Glib 3D printers need to get cracking to bring social justice to Minnesoda!
I can’t even sensibly pull a quote for you from this story. Basically a nerd is 3D printing whistles to be used to alert people that ICE is coming.
It is impossible to parody these guys.
Hmmm….
Looks like the white nerds are 3D printing whistles while the poors are simply banging pots and pans to keep ICE agents awake at night.
If I was an ICE agent, I’d make sure to do a sweep through those protesters and lock up anyone who didn’t have a US passport. Let them go the next day, but the protests would end soon.
In a sane world, the police would do their job of enforcing harassment and noise level statutes, but like so many other places the local authority will make sure to selectively enforce local laws.