I told y’all I was going to be around more on Wednesday. Sloppy and Banjos are off on some sort of ayahuasca driven mission to save Santa from the machine elves as best I can tell. Or maybe it was Ryan Day from OSU fans who don’t know how good they’re got it. Anyhow… the links!
This is the sort of wonderful bill that gets introduced before session and dies in committee. But it would be nice to see HOAs face actual lawsuits.
It’s like a fractal of Britishism. Bond villain’s namesake was Fleming nephew’s school prefect. The toadies of the regime are always the great enemy. Here’s to you, Sir Judge.
Man bites dog. Someone on the center right has good things to say about the Old Gray Lady.
“Sloppy and Banjos are off on some sort of ayahuasca driven mission to save Santa from the machine elves as best I can tell.”
Still surprised how that is mainstream now.
It all went downhill after butt chugging became a Christmas tradition.
Butt eggnog?
How very Hunter Thompson. 😵💫
Sorry for the early OT – but any FL Glibs want to chime in on this:
Democrat Eileen Higgins Wins Miami Mayoral Election
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democrat-eileen-higgins-wins-miami-mayoral-election-1da0741b?st=Jx2q65&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Is this the usual where the entrenched party finally aggravated everyone enough that they wanted to clean house or driven by dislike nationally of Team Red?
there is no OT on a non-regulation links post. There are rules to these things and 3 links is not enough.
Also Brett L is scared to kick your ass in any case.
Brett is the father of Florida Boy. You don’t want to know what Florida Boy can do to people.
Trumps numbers are ticking up, so I doubt it is driven by some national dislike of Team Red. I would put it on Urban vs. Rural politics, with a side dish of off season election, which always favors Team Blue.
Except that Miami had had Team Red mayors for 30 years of off-year elections.
That’s my question Ted for anybody with local knowledge.
“Others who reportedly quivered in John Blofeld’s vicinity were the junior boys at Sunningdale prep school, where he and his contemporary Peter Scaramanga (whose later life more closely resembled that of a Bond baddie) were remembered as notoriously fearsome prefects.
Hearing all about them from his nephew, Nichol Fleming, who was several years below them at Sunningdale, Ian Fleming decided to use their names for two of his arch-villains in the James Bond books.”
Now I’m wondering if any of the punny femme fatales were based on real people.
So British chicks have been easy forever?
“The change as of now is “the victim in the charge had been as young as 14 years old,” which doesn’t feel quite right either, but still. ”
They were all 14 at one time.
But only for one year…
+1 hands up don’t shot
I think Taibbi was as shocked as anyone and he’d probably be shocked at being characterized as center-right.
Correct. I’ve heard him several times refer to himself as “left”.
Federal tax prosecutions fell over 27% due to staffing cuts
Justice Department’s Tax Division dismantled, many prosecutors quit
IRS agents diverted to immigration and crime patrols, impacting tax enforcement
IRS staffing dropped by over 10% in first half of the year
Over 1,000 lawyers left U.S. attorneys’ offices, impacting white collar expertise
https://www.reuters.com/world/tax-prosecutions-plunge-trump-shifts-crime-fighting-efforts-2025-12-10/
My parents’ accountant was certain that Trump was going to do away with the Income Tax next year.
That had been the scuttlebutt in gop circles for a season, but it was laughable then and it’s laughable now. That said, I’m all for Trump proving me wrong.
My parents’ accountant was certain that Trump was going to do away with the Income Tax next year.
I’d get a new CPA.
Get a tax guy that is NOT a CPA.
CPAs work for the government that grants them liscencing not their clients.
Rookie numbers.
The income tax is here to stay.
Even if they got rid of it they would replace it with something worse.
Like a 100% inheritance tax.
A small private jet made an emergency landing on top of a moving car on Interstate 95 in Florida, US
No fatalities. Driver of the car & 2 people on board of the plane were taken to the hospital with minor injuries
But, damn, the driver couldn’t have done anything in that case…
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1998733111119527938
If the car kept right this wouldn’t have been an issue. Typical.
Damn, all that empty space on the side, the center strip, etc and the pilot decides for the roadway? C’mon, man…
You don’t get a whole lot of choices with your engine(s) out. You also can’t see the same stuff from the air that you can from ground level.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/us-news/jaw-dropping-video-captures-plane-crashing-into-car-on-florida-interstate-injuring-driver/
Car was in the pilots blind spot.
No way he saw the car.
https://x.com/mcsquared34/status/1998513448393552322
the left can’t meme.
“Then they provided everyone with a job. I didn’t have any skills other than as an artist, so they made me a ditch-digger, at least that’s why I think I’m lined up at this ditch with my fellow artist comrades.”
There are a few more steps remaining in that progression.
And then they lined everyone up against the wall,
and I did not speak out because I was dead.
How many brain cells did I lose reading that?
Thanks Pie, its not like I had a lot to spare.
“Has anyone actually bothered to look into the “victims” who were paraded around at the Epstein Press Conference?”
https://www.mtracey.net/p/epstein-victims-press-conference
I’m shocked women would lie about rape to get money.
They’ve also managed to not identify any actual perpetrators of the supposed victimizations.
They are all smarter than Christine Blasey-Ford?
That’s not difficult.
If I were a teenaged girl, I doubt I’d recognize any Epstein guests. Hell, I doubt I’d recognize 1% of the guests by sight now. Unless they told me their names I’d have no way to identify them.
This is why whenever I go to potentially-sketchy orgies I always call myself “Andrew Windsor.”
Rule 34 lineup of the perps?
I think Massie gave out a name during a committee hearing with Kash Patel.
For Tracey’s article, I’m not surprised grifters are showing up. There’s money, there’s grifters. This is the only work of Tracey’s I’ve seen, so I’m not going to judge until I know more.
I think, after watching some of Benz’s videos digging into what is available, the women are just surface stuff used to juice deals Epstein was making on behalf of intelligence agencies. I don’t know that he has any articles. I think it is all in videos, and he shows articles that he is referring to.
I think this recent kerfuffle could have been avoided had Trump either a) not promised anything with respect to the Epstein files or b) just released the files as promised instead of flip-flopping.
Who is Benz?
That binder stunt was horseshit.
The only thing that would satisfy the Epstein zealots is proof he worked for Mossad. Which isn’t going to happen.
Who is Benz?
Mike Benz.
I first heard about him when he appeared on Joe Rogan. He had been digging into a bunch of stuff that came out of DOGE and USAID.
He’s got several videos on Epstein, some of which I haven’t watched yet. Here’s one I recently watched where he talks about the real goings on being the deals Epstein was making.
“Maria has recently been all over CNN recounting how she “felt threatened” by Donald Trump, because one time in 1995 he looked at her while she was wearing running shorts. She was 25 years old during this traumatic episode. Farmer also repeated her belief that she had been cursed with “two cancers” because of the wicked experiences she underwent decades ago with Trump, Maxwell, Epstein, or whomever.
Maria Farmer was born November 28, 1969, making her currently 55 years old. She produces artwork focused on “exposing the elites.” Her March 2021 collection was published by David Icke, an apparent colleague of Whitney Webb. Farmer asked Webb during their phone call if she would put her in touch with Icke, and Webb readily agreed. Icke is perhaps best known for his theory that a secret race of reptilian humanoids dominate earthly affairs.”
https://www.mtracey.net/p/the-webb-whitney-weaves
So even Massie can fall for a moral panic.
That is a very useful and relevant article. How does Anne Farmer afford a personal security detail? Disappointed in Massie because of this.
A huge pile of tax free money.
I clicked on one of the author’s links where he was described as being an “Epstein denier”. Apparently this is the label assigned to those who expose any grifing in the distribution of funds from the Epstein Victims Compensation fund. A fund I did not know existed until reading this story.
+$290M from JPMorgan Chase
Michael Tracey and Richard Hanania? 🤢
I am going to say it right now: the Epstein files are the next Russiagate.
And both have more facts backing them up then there are Gryopers. Or whatever the fuck they are supposedly called.
Giuffre was an absolute fraud. Anyone that believed she was a victim is a blind fool.
The others. Shocking.
Where is everyone?
I’m told that this song sucks. Opinions? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJC_cuAL1us
Doesn’t suck, but is just ‘meh’.
Sorry, got distracted reading Epstein stuff.
I’m working. (::raises travel mug of coffee in salute to Rufus::) At the moment, I’m catching my breath in a momentary respite from Hell Month Lite, wondering what burning duck I’m forgetting to stamp out.
Never heard it before – 7/10.
OOOHHH. College Music.
Song is just a little too soft, but not soft enough, if you know what I mean.
I’m sorry I could only find the story in German, but Servator’s masters are worried about »Incel« extremism.
What exactly would young women fear about incel men – save for those of the Muslim persuasion?
They’re radicalized by the Andrew Tates of the world.
We had 6-7 inches on snow yesterday and into the evening There are several turkeys on the patio, looking in the windows, waiting (and shivering) for me to come out and provide the welfare. They apparently think this is the SNAP office. I’ll have to clean off some snow first, otherwise they’ll have to work to scratch out the snow to find their breakfast.
Too bad you’re not fast enough to kill them and get a free Christmas dinner.
Apparently you have never eaten wild turkey.
I’ve never drunk Wild Turkey either.
Wild turkey dark meat is inedible. The breasts, though, are fine. Brining them (as one should do with regular turkey breasts) improves the experience.
Wild Turkey is delicious, but only the breast is edible. The dark meat is all tendon and ligaments. But I have had dumplings made with dark meat that was pretty good (cooked way down to the point of mush).
The bourbon is a decent middle shelf option.
Smoked wild turkey is amazing.
I’m typing this as I try to chase two turkeys and a duck off my front patio. I just hosed off the patio yesterday and don’t need them loitering at the front door, begging for food.
Three weeks until freezer camp.
So you’re a hoser?
Trade ya for some yipping coyotes.
Yipping coyotes >> yiffing “coyotes.”
Trade ya for some yipping coyotes.
No thanks, we have plenty of those.
yiffing “coyotes.”
That this came to your mind disturbs me a little.
It is good weather for fursuits!
6-7! On topic
Bit of a whiteout going on now. It’s not supposed to drop much snow but the weatherpeople up here are terrible. They claim it’s because it’s just soooo complicated to do weather forecasts in a mountainous region, I think it’s just a culture of medioctrity.
“There was, like, probably $100, maybe $200 billion worth of zombie payments per year,” he said, noting DOGE shut down only a fraction of it.
The SpaceX CEO said cutting off even that much cash came with serious blowback.
“If you stop money going to political corruption, they will lash out big time,” he explained. “They really want the money to keep flowing.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/09/us-news/elon-musk-wouldnt-do-doge-again-doubts-effort-to-chainsaw-government-was-successful/
That’s why Congress won’t do anything.
Congress could do something, if the voters stopped returning the same shitheads to office every election.
Preach it, Juris.
We won’t see meaningful, durable change until the current population of Congress is turfed out and replaced, more or less in its entirety.
I never understood HOA’s.
When we were looking for a house, I told the realtors not to consider any HOA controlled homes.
But since I’ve never lived in an HOA, this is probably a dumb question, but why do they need a law to disband one?
If enough residents are against it can’t they vote to end it?
Or is it like a government where we ain’t voting our way out?
No one voted to establish the HOA, it was a condition on the property purchase. There doesn’t seem to be any way to opt out; so like government that way, huh?
Some areas you don’t have a choice. I would avoid one if possible.
The issue is the agreement. It’s a contract of adhesion and it can be changed to benefit of incumbents. Essentially depending on the agreement you may not be able to readily end it.
Here there was mandatory arbitration – so if the HOA controls the arbitrator you get a “kangaroo court” that will rubber stamp the HOA.
In some areas, they’re mandated by the state, regional, county, or city.
It’s private land.
Ours is posted for no soliciting, which is nice.
It’s not Private if the HOA controls yours.
I was told that the HOA was set up with the county government who would need to agree to disband it. That was in TX. In NY, the HoAs seem much less malignant, mainly contracting out the snowplowing. I guess there’re sufficient layers of government for busybodies to get their kicks that way.
We have a very lightweight HOA. The HOA owns and maintains the community well systems (we are a rural development). The HOA required a certain minimum sq footage for new houses and required all houses to look different (no cookie-cutter homes). The covenant prevents anyone from raising cattle or pigs; you can’t run a puppy mill; you can’t open a commercial business on your property. The only enforcement power is the HOA provides a legal mechanism for all of us to sue anyone for failure to comply.
There is an extremely big burden to make changes (supermajority required). So, no scope creep over time.
My neighborhood supposedly has covenants.
Everyone ignores the majority of them.
They are supposed to have gone away due to lack of enforcement, the number of lots sold in a certain time span, lack of a board ever being established.
We just ignore them and everyone is better off.
If I ever sell I will not give the buyer the tenth generation of photocopy ccrs that can’t be read.
It varies a lot, but there’s a couple of things likely in play:
The HOA governing documents probably don’t have a mechanism to disband.
As a covenant that runs with the land, you would need the consent of everyone who “benefits” from the covenant (meaning, every HOA member) to disband or even release a single property from the HOA.
This can all be overridden by legislation, of course.
I dont get how you are locked into a contract created between the original sellers and purchasers.
It’s like a damn easement.
“Royal Caribbean cruise staff allegedly stuffed a passenger’s body in a refrigerator and continued the journey after the man died following a marathon drinking session, the family’s attorney said.
Michael Virgil, a 35-year-old father from California, was served 33 drinks at one of the ship’s bars on the day he died in December 2024, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by his fiancée.
He then erupted into a rage when he left the bar extremely intoxicated and couldn’t find his room, allegedly attacking and threatening to kill crew members and passengers….
Crew members tackled Virgil, stood on his body with their full weight, administered an injection of the sedative Haloperidol, and sprayed Virgil with multiple cans of pepper spray, according to the lawsuit.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/10/us-news/body-of-royal-caribbean-cruise-passenger-michael-virgil-was-stuffed-in-fridge-after-being-served-33-drinks-lawyer-says/
Yikes!
The refrigeration at sea is common practice for the deceased. This is the plaintiff attorney being a plaintiff attorney.
The gist of the case is the if the cruise line was negligently serving him and negligently tried to subdue him. For example “multiple cans of pepper spray” may mean two shots from two different crew members.
You need to a complaint very critically as they are intentionally one sided.
to READ a
Yeah. I was going to say. They aren’t going to turn the boat around for one death. And instead of refrigerating the corpse, would they have preferred a burial at sea?
Sounds like doings at a Libertarian Party convention.
They “stuffed a passenger’s body in a refrigerator”.
The reporter or maybe the lawyer is trying to make it sound like they cleared some space in the middle of the roast beef and just threw him in there.
Should they have turned the ship around?
Kind of reminds me of a joke I heard about a plane that made an emergency landing because of a dead passenger and a guy complained, “What’s the emergency, she’s already dead?”
There’s a stoic passenger!
“Is Kylie Jenner the classiest Kardashian? Youngest member of America’s most famous family has forged her own path after learning from her elder sisters’ mistakes”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15366515/Kylie-Jenner-classiest-Kardashian-sisters-mistakes.html
tallest midget
So she dresses like a high-class hooker. Got it.
“Candace Owens sparked fury among Charlie Kirk’s supporters after suggesting that the late conservative commentator was ‘in love’ with another woman before marrying his wife Erika…
Owens said she ‘missed’ Kirk’s bachelor days and recalled how she served as his ‘wing-woman’, mentioning one date in particular she said Kirk was especially smitten by.
She showed a text exchange with Kirk sent as he was preparing to take out the mystery woman, saying it was ‘one of my favorite text messages between me and Charlie when he was getting ready to go on a date’.
‘He didn’t date many people and he was just kind of in love with this girl,’ she added.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15370971/Candace-Owens-Charlie-Kirk-Erika-love-texts-Turning-Point-assassination.html
Did she have a penis, or was she a Mossad agent?
She’s legit nutter butter crazy.
Infringing on Laura Loomer territory?
Look at her views, she’s crazy like a fox. I just hope she gets to enjoy the money before she gets assassinated by the French.
Oh, FFS. So he had another girlfriend before he met his wife? Stop the fucking presses.
Ask an expert
Mounting public attention on the struggle millions of Americans face affording food, housing and other daily necessities has largely centered on what can be done to quash inflation. Yet some economists say the discussion is incomplete without addressing another major reason life has become unaffordable for so many people: their meager paychecks.
“It’s not just about how much things cost. Affordability is truly about, ‘Does an individual have enough money to buy the things they want?’ So it’s not about making things cheaper, but making it so you earn more so that the stuff you need is affordable,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, told CBS News.
Just give everybody a raise. Problem solved!
Does anyone have enough money to buy all they “want?”
a nonpartisan think tank…
There is no such thing.
They are all partisan.
I don’t have enough money to buy a 1973 Charger with a 440, there is an affordability crisis!
You know, I’d really like to own the Browns. I think I could do better than the past 40 years of ownership.
You definitely could not do worse if you tried.
You definitely could not do worse if you tried.
Maybe hiring an English soccer manager to be head coach?
Lots of motorhomes with 440s in them that can be had for cheep.
An affordable solution for your high transportation costs AND the housing problem!
Home is where you park it.
Why no, raising labor costs across the board most certainly will not have any impact on prices. Unpossible.
Giving people a raise implies they still need to work, slaver! Just give everyone a million dollar a year UBI. Then we make all those millionaires pay their fair share of taxes, and utopia achievement unlocked, baby!
My experience with HOA people boils down to “How do we force those other people pay for the stuff we want?”
And looks. We need to make sure people can’t do things to their homes or property that I don’t like.
Oh look.
Fascists.
Shierholz, who served as chief economist at the Department of Labor under Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017, thinks a better way to make life more affordable is to raise worker wages so their dollars stretch further. She also favors providing government subsidies to help ease the burden of affording essential — and increasingly costly — services such as child care and health care.
Huh.
“How do we force those other people pay for the stuff we want?”
Fuck off, commie.
Meeting with Voca Rehab folk today to go over things. Mostly fairly boilerplate, but this one is legit interesting:
Indianapolis Police Department: “Transcriptionist-Child Abuse/Sex Crimes:
Position responsible for transcribing detective, defendant and/or witness statements taken by law enforcement officers.
*Transcribes recorded statements of detectives, defendants and/or witnesses provided by [LEOs] with attention to detail and accuracy.
*Creates narratives. A narrative is a description of the events as described by the detective and/or witness.
^^ That’s rather interesting. Listen, transcribe, then take the Big Picture and boil it to a lede paragraph for a ‘once-over’ summary, is how I take it. My dude correctly mentioned the work would put many off, which is helpful for me. Also introduction into Indiana work is likely a good idea for a couple reasons. Of trivial importance, my being employed by IN would help Minnesota Munchkin find a foothold here. She’s looking for paralegal again after MN laid off Dodd County Family Services folk, and for all its faults, IN is pretty well run, all things considered. She’s found some cheap work in a old-person home, serving meals and such, but hasn’t started cuz holiday timing. Meh.
Pretty much a useless time to be applying, though the above gig is open for another week. I’ll apply today and I’ve got two more weeks of Walmart before a family trip to Chattanooga and the start of ’26. ‘Twill be interesting time. (Though, when isn’t?)
Onward and up for y’all on *your* merry hump day.
“A DoorDash delivery driver has been accused of dousing a food order in pepper-spray, which caused a customer to choke on her dinner….
As he checked footage from their doorbell camera, he watched in disgust as the purple-haired woman delivering their food appeared to spray something onto the food bag.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15369519/doordash-driver-camera-pepper-spray-indiana-choking.html
Why did they blur out her face?
“All accused are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”
They don’t seem to do that other accused people.
I knew I was correct to check out Indiana! –> “Currently, no charges have been brought but the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office told the outlet that an investigation has been launched.”
Ah, Vanderburgh! Home of Evansville, its county seat. License plate #82, when they stilled alphabetized shit. First casino is Indiana and I graduated from the first, public charter school in the state. Signature School’s still one of the best in the nation, a fucking powerful, nascent fetus into the Lefty Woke-dom universe. I got away with *so* much by being a good student.
Also the third oldest ballfield in the States, with Bosse Field, home of the Racine Belles in League of Their Own, and a short drive to Ellis Park in Henderson, KY. A pretty fantastic place to grow up, for this Evan, in the nice (but not swanky) end of town.
And home of fatty delivery poison-sprayers. (I wonder if she was peeved she didn’t get a pre-delivery tip. Well. That’s a great way to *not* earn it next time.)
And then Wolf’s Barbecue closed.
Pictured here:
https://thepostmillennial.com/blue-haired-doordash-driver-pepper-sprayed-our-arbys-indiana-couple
Because it’s a man?
“Rising temperatures could have a chilling impact on young children”
Harder hit than even women, right? Also how is extreme heat “chilling”?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/12/09/g-s1-101446/climate-change-heat-children-development
I imagine whatever NPR toady chose the headline thought it was a real knee slapper. A 3 out of 10 on my funnybone meter.
Or they might not.
McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-commercial
“Following the outcry, The Sweetshop — the production company hired by TBWA\Neboko to create the ad — released an incredibly defensive statement justifying their work.”
I keep reading the production company name as Sweatshop. Given the industry that’s probably accurate.
That Coca Cola ad sucks.
Just watched it and honestly it isn’t any worse than any other commercial that is out there lately.
The outcry is most likely from “artists” who claim they’re losing work. I have been seeing a lot of that and it’s kind of tiresome.
To be sure, it was crap, but we worked really hard to make it that way.
“It’s time to really double down on non-alcohol and take a stand that is aligned with where science and where we think attitudes among health and wellness consumers is shifting,” Thrive CEO Nick Green told CNBC. “Alcohol is not the future.”
OTH Mary J and Mary J based products…?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/10/online-grocer-thrive-market-goes-dry-non-alcoholic-products.html
All of the hemp derived THC products are now under a clock before they become illegal again, unless there’s another farm bill (unlikely) or states decide to explicitly allow it. The craft breweries that moved into that market place are unhappy.
I just think it’s hysterical that all the “health focused” people demonize alcohol and tobacco, but Mary J is A-OK!
It’s a multi-billion dollar business. It will come back before time expires. Mostly likely under the same three-tier control model applied to booze.
The pockets of the right people will get lined with cash.
I have never ordered booze online – is it even legal in NY? I dunno.
And there you are. Big nothingburger but let’s give them some free advertising.
Alcohol CAN be shipped to NY. I have an article coming up involving same.
I have bought wine from dealers in NY for delivery to Iowa. I expect they exist because they can ship to customers in NY.
There’s different restrictions state by state as to who can receive what (quite a few small distilleries/wineries have run into large legal issues by shipping to states they weren’t allowed to). Usually instate deliveries are the easiest, with things getting more cumbersome and confusing from there. That’s just for direct sales, not for the Doordash/drizzly/UberEats delivery from the local liquor store.
Nice. I remember the State stole a carton of cigarettes from me a couple decades ago. I just assumed the same would apply to other BAD items.
As Neph says, the restrictions vary by state. There are also places that ignore them, sometimes running into trouble.
I’ve had spirits shipped to me in NH without a problem despite some people claiming it can’t be done. I think if the shipper registers with the NHLC and pays taxes, it becomes legal to do so. Many shippers won’t do that, but some will. And there are those that don’t care.
And by shipper I don’t mean UPS or FedEx, I mean the company selling and packaging up the booze for shipment to NH.
Drinking a beer with no alcohol is like dating a woman with no vagina.
Worse, a woman with no vagina can still do other things, but a beer with no alcohol is useless.
ron73440:
A NA beer can put out a small fire, or work as a water substitute. You can also try to use it to play pranks on police officers while driving on the freeway, but I really don’t recommend that.
Feared for his life
The volunteer spoke with NPR on condition of anonymity because they said they feared for their safety, as well as the safety of others in their volunteer community, because of possible retaliation for having worked with the Lakanwals and other Afghan refugees.
This is so infuriating. Retaliation? How? Is somebody going to murder him in his bed? Why?
Forget it, it’s NPR-town.
On dissolving HOAs: Uh….there is no such thing as a contract that one cannot exit from. What the hell are they talking about?
I believe the legal reasoning is that the contract is attached to the property, not to the person. You can leave the contract whenever you want, but the property is still controlled by it.
I have a hard time wrapping my head around a justification for most covenants (I think that’s the right term for it) attached to deeds. Either you sell it and give up your rights, or you lease it and keep some control.
In PA you can go to court to remove covenants. One instance I’m familiar with is the sale of a centuries old farm that had a family and neighbors burial plot. The family sold with a covenant that access to the burial plot be permitted forever. A century later, a residential developer went to court and had that covenant scrapped. Now the burial ground (with maybe a hundred bodies) lies under someone’s driveway and nothing can be done about it.
There are some covenants on my deed.
There is a provision in the covenants in the deed that if a majority of property owners on the road agree to continue the covenants after 50 years, the covenants stay in place. Otherwise, they expire. The developer that built the properties on the road put the covenants in the deed. The properties will be 50 years old in the 2030s, so if I’m still here, we’ll see what happens.
Have you read a vacation time share agreement?
(Mostly kidding…)
As if timeshares weren’t bad enough, the “assistance” companies to get out of them…
Thrive CEO Nick Green told CNBC. “Alcohol is not the future.”
Who goes to a health food store to buy beer? Could there be a pricing factor? Are those people not buying alcohol from ANYBODY, or just not from Thrive?
My understanding is that the yoots are on average drinking less alcohol.
They’re getting high?
I doubt “the youth” are going straight-edge in any great numbers.
rhywun:
You’d be surprised. It appears the yutes are the straightedge generation.
/starts wondering if there’s a Gen X joke there somewhere.
The youth are too fucked up on 6 different prescription meds to need anything else.
Nah, I was kickin’ up the numbers juuuust a bit. Without my top-tier swill-fence, our team looks casual.
Apparently getting your dopamine hit by getting tatted counts as “straigh:tedge”.
Organic, sustainable beer?
The Big “O”—Defining Organic Beer
It’s just sitting there in a bank account. We just need to come up with a legal fiction…
Using Russian Assets to Help Ukraine Is Looking Like Europe’s Least-Bad Option
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/using-russian-assets-to-help-ukraine-is-looking-like-europes-least-bad-option-f25c6df8?st=zk2C8z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The catch is – Belgium has treaties on place with Russia on Euroclear assets.
As soon as the conflict ends, Belgium will lose in court and owe Russia the entire sum. That would crush the Belgian economy and is why they won’t allow it with guarantees from the EU.
If the EU backstops the Belgians, the amount to be repaid would require them to float bonds and directly tax EU citizens to repay (which is one of their goals).
It is an insane plan to centralize EU power.
Yup. Belgium has been quite clear that it won’t do it without EU guarantees.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said that U.S. officials believe Lakanwal was “radicalized” while living in the United States, but the volunteer said they saw no signs of radicalization. Noem offered no evidence that Lakanwal was radicalized.
Did he mean-tweet ICE before he drove all the way across the country and shot those National Guard members?
Checkmate.
This is almost as dumb as when they were saying Trump supporters are violent because the kid who shot Trump was a Republican.
Eh. In this specific case it might be less “radicalized” and more “schizophrenia kicked in.”
Or maybe, just maybe, he was “radicalized” before he got here.
WE did such a bang-up job vetting the Afghanis we let into the country, there is no way that this could happen.
Vetting afghans is easy.
Do you believe in the Koran?
Yes.
You can’t come in. You are going to go jihad.
“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz appeared in Seattle as the featured guest at a fundraising luncheon for Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, pledging to bring more Somali immigrants to his state, even as he faces intensifying scrutiny and backlash at home over a major welfare fraud case. “Instead of demonizing our Somali community, we’re going to do more to welcome more in,” Walz said to applause. “Instead of cutting programs, we’re going to enhance them.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/tim-walz-vows-to-bring-more-somalians-to-minnesota-give-more-government-hand-outs-amid-massive-fraud-revelations
CWAA
*TDS brain*: Trump told everyone not to drink their own urine. Whelp, I guess I’m going to have to start drinking my own urine.
That 2nd or 3rd vacation home isn’t going to pay for itself.
The beaches of Mogadishu are nice this time of year.
If you got rid of all the Somalians, it could probably be a nice place to vacation.
“A 60-year-old man who is a registered sex offender as well as a career criminal has been charged with biting a Honolulu, Hawaii police officer. The arrest came just days after he was released after a different run-in with the law concerning meth use.
Tommy J. Chiles, 60, has been convicted 78 different times on criminal charges. He has been arrested over 300 times, and his recent arrest for biting the police officer put him in the slammer with a bail set at $25,000.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/sex-offender-with-300-arrests-charged-with-biting-police-officer-in-hawaii
WTF??
That is someone who is an expert at their job.
Rheeeeeeee!!!! in Persian and Egyptian.
I am with Rhywun on this one. I hope it is the gayest gay game that ever gayed.
Unfortunately it will only be in the stands, likely mixed in with the black-bloc/Antifa crowd as usual.
It would be amazing if they could get the players into rainbow outfits like MLS does every year.
Will there be a Sloth or Gluttony match also?
That would also be great. Insanely obese people cheering with rolling tummy braces like Judge Dredd fatties.
This isn’t Stellantis levels of infotainment pop ups here. SiriusXM usually runs free promotion at year end. In this case it’s notifying you it’s available. That said they should probably do it during startup and not in the middle of a drive.
OTH, this guy had “no choice” but to click the button here and now.
I have got this Sirius XM ad a few times over the last couple of years. This last time was the final straw as I almost wrecked because of it. My entire infotainment screen changed which caused me to take my eyes off the road and since I was going 55 mph in winter I swerved a bit and slid and almost went off into a ditch. Something that would not have happened had this ad not popped up.
It’s what makes a Subaru driver a Subaru driver apparently.
https://www.theautopian.com/subaru-is-getting-in-on-the-annoying-in-car-pop-up-advertisement-game-too/
Need a lawyer to start a class action. Pop-ups should only be allowed if the transmission is in Park. It’s a clear and foreseeable hazard to pop up ads during driving. It’s gross negligence to leave them enabled.
“Gross negligence” has a legal definition. Like knowingly handing a loaded weapon to six year old.
I think a negligence claim is valid, but I don’t think it rises to that level.
Ok
So statistically, a one percent accident rate applied to a million cars means dead bodies in at least a few cases.
The only question is whether this a is a 1% problem; a 0.1% problem; a 0.01% problems; etc.
Next step, you won’t be able to put your car into drive until you sit thru the ads.
Cars shouldn’t serve ads.
I remember when there was radio, and people paid to put ads on that. Then you could hear one Billy Joel song, with five ads on both sides.
People got tired of it and switched to streaming services. What will the alternative be for this I wonder?
The return of the iPod RJ.
Mine never left.
Spurned
“Trump’s worldview is clear” in the new U.S. national security document, Ian Bremmer, founder and president of Eurasia Group, commented Tuesday:
“A strong united Europe is a threat, not an asset. The Kremlin calls the document “aligned” with Russian interests. That should make every NATO capital sit up straight,” he said in comments on social media platform X.
Bremmer said the transatlantic relationship had been the world’s strongest up to this point, but that had changed under the Trump administration.
The EU has been a rock steady generous and unflinching ally. Trump’s love should be unconditional.
The whole point of the EU was to counter the US, while pretending to still be frenz so we could continue to throw billions of dollars at them.
A strong united Europe, eh? Well, at most, they’re united (for definitions of united that don’t include the genpop).
“President Donald Trump’s decision to approve the export of advanced computer chips to China comes the same day his Justice Department warned the illegal export of the same chips “threatens our Nation’s security.”
The new export allowances for advanced NVIDIA H200 processors have raised concerns and criticism from both Congress and China experts who see a contradiction in policy.
On one side, people say exporting these chips, which are more advanced than anything China can currently produce, will endanger U.S. security, undermine competitiveness, and present an opportunity for Beijing to steal the technology. Contrasting those views, President Trump said, “I have informed President Xi, of China, that the United States will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China, and other Countries, under conditions that allow for continued strong National Security.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/trump-approves-export-advanced-chips-china-doj-says-would-be-national-security
“advanced NVIDIA H200 processors”
Yeah, that’s like 2 generations old at this point. Advanced is a stretch.
Speaking of blown up motors
This popped up a day or two ago. Nothing the people here don’t already know, but maybe it gets to a wider audience.
He makes an interesting point at the end: without EV credits, the manufacturers will have to go even harder on mileage-chasing and attempts to reduce parasitic drag.
No, not Dave’s Auto Center! The dope smoking glasses, shorts, and button down shirt uniform annoys the hell out of me.
How much does the small EV fleet even pull down the overall mileage numbers?
Didn’t the recent tossing of the Biden-era mileage requirements pretty much put this to bed?
I was going 55 mph in winter I swerved a bit and slid and almost went off into a ditch. Something that would not have happened had this ad not popped up.
It interrupted his distraction streamer?
According to Reddit user bajungadustin, the pop-up advertisement shown above appeared on the infotainment screen of their 2024 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness while they were driving, leading them to become distracted.
But he was somehow able to whip out his phone and capture an image. Okay, sure.
Ok…on the HOAs again. and the contracts you can’t escape…attatching to the property….the first thing that hit me are cops stealing property by charging property with a crime and not the owner.
That is some bullshit right there.
Camel’s nose and all that….I have also heard of people owning property then being pressured to enter into an HOA formed after their property was purchased.
“Pressured” how? Horse head in the bed? Or the neighbors just wore them down?
I don’t remember…perhaps sued? I think the people forming the HOA were claiming that unless everyone was on board the HOA would be pointless? Kinda like communism. The purpose of the HOA is to preserve property value…right? If one person is allowed to put a junk car on blocks in the yard then….some shit like that.
in Stellantis vehicles, you have to actually call its customer service department, which seems incredibly anti-consumer. This should be a one-touch solution. Instead, Stellantis makes you jump through hoops. And that’s not cool. I hope it’s a different story with Subaru.
They should have an ad-free subscription.
I used to have ad-free subscriptions. Then they became “reduced” ad subscriptions.
The enshittification of everything rolls on.
Didn’t the recent tossing of the Biden-era mileage requirements pretty much put this to bed?
I think the numbers just recede from “absurdly unattainable” to “utterly unrealistic”.