Don Brett contemplating expansion into Jalisco.
This Mexico thing going on is kind of distracting me. I am still toiling away in the raclette mines, but I would rather be monitoring the situation there. You will see that my links reflect that distraction.
- See what I mean?
- Don Brett’s late rival.
- Remember this.
- I don’t know if any Swiss are stuck in Mexico…but they are stuck here!
Comments are all yours.
Mexico has all the makings of being a top-ten first world country but they cannot seem to get their sombreros together.
Being our neighbor probably doesn’t help. It’s also full of Mexicans.
What’s weird is the Mexicans I’ve met in the US are no worse than anyone else. Maybe there is something to this magic dirt hypothesis.
We have more Guatemalans than Guatemala.
The U.S. has always been the pressure relief valve for Mexicans that wanted better than what Mexico will give them (economically, etc.). The elite could just let them migrate and repatriate earnings without having to give up their own status/control.
I do have to wonder if we’ve ever really had a fundamentally more honest government than they do.
“Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States”
They used to have a wide gulf between us, but OMB changed all that….
Government can’t make unproductive populations rich but it can damn skippy make a productive population poor. It’s hard to build an economy when the legal system is corrupted.
I don’t know how much it matters now, but I believe a lot of Swiss Mennonites went to Mexico in the late 1800’s.
Neighbors to the the Romney family?
The dude was literally named Nemesis?
Obligatory!
https://youtu.be/6bMM61Y5CEU?si=sKNeBffsV48KXi3B
As expected.
Could be much worse…
I can’t help thinking Catholicism destroyed South America.
Doesn’t seem fair.
Look at all the great things Catholicism did for Ireland.
With no Troubles!
My Venezuelan friends suggests its a temperate climate culture versus a cold weather culture. Spain being a temperate culture.
It’s easier to survive and survive with less coordination in temperate climes is the theory.
England had an unusually high success rate with its colonies. Spain… not so much.
I am pretty sure the inhabitants of Mexico were stone-age collectivists before catholicism arrived. Also, violent and murderous as hell. What we have today is a huge improvement over that.
Suthen nails it. Those collectivist tendencies keep resurfacing which brings down the whole country.
I think it is more the top-down governing system Spain (and Portugal) imposed on the New World colonies than anything else. In New Spain everything had to be approved in Madrid. New Canada, the same. Whereas the North American English colonies received a laissez-faire guiding hand from Britain (if not left completely to their own devices).
I would argue that the top-down approach goes hand in hand with Catholicism, what with their whole church hierarchy and everything. Protestantism is much more bottoms up and fragmented.
In my experience the Catholics are far more bottoms up. Many of the Protestants serve grape juice for communion.
Yep, church hierarchy and social hierarchy – not accommodating to a nascent middle class.
Didn’t seem to have hurt Poland, maybe even helped.
German Catholics say hi.
The School of Salamanca says hi.
Perfect time to open an ice cream place in NYC.
It’s huge in China. I had no idea it came to the US. Nor do I feel the need make a trip for a mass market ice cream.
The world’s biggest fast-food chain lands in the U.S. Here’s how it tastes.
https://archive.fo/3ScIN
One of the things I will give this region credit for is excellent soft-serve. That chain seems doomed.
Dairy flavored guar gum and carrageenan?
I don’t it. That is not “food”, fast or otherwise.
“get” it
I won’t bother addressing your weak personal insults, but these questions were raised during oral arguments.
1. The plaintiffs had explicitly asked to be refunded what they had paid.
2. That topic came up repeatedly from multiple justices during oral arguments.
So what are you even talking about? If your panties get in a bunch everytime someone disagrees with you that you lose the ability to think critically, look inward.
I said I find your arguments tiresome. Not because you disagree, but because of how flimsy and ridiculous many of the opinions you pass off so self-assuredly come across. Pick a topic, any topic you’ve engaged with me on and it’s the same story. I regularly admit I’m just some asshole on the internet, but some of you try to pretend as if you are experts on anything and everything at all times and you don’t seem to even do real research on the topic at hand. You smugly talk down to others for voicing disagreeing opinions, sometimes even going as far as to lecture them on how they should think in general, and then act surprised when you get a rebuke as mild as calling you “tiresome” and then resort to bitchy little remarks attacking me for something I wouldn’t even call a hobby or questioning the supreme logic that it’s better to dodge a moving vehicle coming at you than to fire upon it. Especially when in close quarters.
I often disagree with Swiss, but I can’t help but notice that he had a similar reaction as I did to the whole question of whether firing on a moving vehicle that posed a threat was really some smooth brain response in all circumstances.
Regardless, turning that conversation into some bitchy little remark on me firing on innocent civilians is pretty laughable in all honesty.
Who are you talking at?
See, this is a lie. You literally claimed that your special knowledge and expertise at being trained to shoot at cars of people made you an expert and everyone else should shut up and worship your greatness.
Building on that, you claim to have special, somehow better sources of information than everyone else, because you watched some youtube video or some X post by sumdood who claims also to have special expertise. The issue is you have demonstrated no ability to discern between reality and bullshit, nor judge information quality. You take it as granted that if it’s mainstream is must be — not just bullshit, but somehow more bullshit than your alternative sources. You’re not alone in this here. What you ARE uniquely bad at is taking this completely unverified and unverifiable information and using it to build into a moral panic which you then rage about. Now venting online can provide us all with quality entertainment, but then you have to go off and claim that people who don’t share your outrage are your moral and/or intellectual inferiors which is a degree of arrogance that you can’t back up. This is also why you feel the need to drag arguments across multiple posts instead of just letting the shit drop.
I’m not just some random idiot on the internet. But my expertise is limited. I’m never going to contradict you about Pokemon because I literally know nothing about them except that Pikachu, Squirtle, Bulbasaur, Mew and Mewtoo are names of some of them, and that Pickachu is a lighting type mouse. I think Squirtle is a water-type but would not bet money on that. I might argue with you about competition rulesets in general, since I do have some expertise there. And yeah, when you come in all hot and heavy with pseudoscience that I do know something about, then I’m going to talk down to you because you deserve it. Not because you’re wrong, but because you’re so arrogant, self-righteous dishonest and judgmental while being wrong.
And because you can’t put past disagreements in the past like a non-child.
You go and attack me on a personal level for disagreeing with you, then call me a child. And then proceed to completely bastardize the entire concept of reality with your descriptions of anything I said. This isn’t even hyperbole you are engaging it. It’s shit-throwing-howler-monkey behavior now.
But I think you are especially mad because you waded into the conversation on the court ruling and made several statements that you could have determined the accuracy of yourself with a quick Google search and you didn’t, but you were so sure you had a point anyway. That would probably be why you didn’t feel the need to even check yourself to see if you were making a valid point or not.
The court often doesn’t address questions that aren’t posed to them!
But that question was central to the entire case from the start and brought up during oral arguments and even in the dissent by Kavanaugh and…
Yea, you just didn’t do research and you flew off the handle because I (rightly) called you tiresome to argue with. It’s not the disagreements that bother me, it’s the tone and tenor. The always I’m-so-sure-of-myself-even-when-out-of-my-depth aspect of your responses that becomes tiresome. Then you double down and engage in ever more childish bullshit.
You are literally spouting off on my perception of reality and ability to discern correct or true information on something you didn’t even bother to research in the slightest before commenting. So go self-reflect in the corner or something? I don’t know what to tell ya.
If you could argue the merits of the point you were trying to make on the tariff case, you’d be doing that. If you could even get specific on any of the past disagreements you had with me (I could probably do that better than you could), again I’d probably be a bit more interested. But instead it’s, as stated, feces throwing nonsense. But yes I like Pokemon. Now, the comeback to this is pretty easy and apparent when you are casting stones over something I have interest in, but I won’t bother going there.
Are you guys arguing about tariff refunds or shooting AWFLs in cars?
Is Pichachu a mouse based cartoon or a rabbit based cartoon?
Would Bulbasaur have shot the AWFL for a tariff rebate?
Is Astrology a first?
Astrology is much more serious minded than Pokemon. It is known.
But regardless, this started over the tariff case where Not Adahn felt really compelled to defend the Supremes. Not because I questioned the overall decision or we even disagreed on that, but because he apparently found it ignorant of me to suggest that it was bullshit for them to dodge the question of refunds. And then bullshit ensued.
I made it (mildly) personal by saying I don’t engage much with him because I find him tiresome to talk to, and he flew off the handle.
RC Dean is presumably a lawyer as he says. He said he tended to agree with me on the question of whether refunds should have been addressed. There’s my appeal to the authority of another Glib on his area of relative expertise.
Mouse obviously.
https://purenintendo.com/the-true-meaning-of-pikachu/
Chuu is the onomatopoeia for a mouse sound in Japanese. I never bothered thinking about the “pika” part.
Meh, I was trying to be funny. I’m only gently twitting you for Pokemon and NA for the Astrology thing. I watch anime and tend to enjoy the shojo stuff more than other categories, play video games, and make puns; there’s way to much glass in my house for ballistic geology.
Oruchuban ebichu
https://youtu.be/Zzt1W1gCwaY?si=8sZaf5rZq8DqKl2Y
He’s an electric rat.
I think.
I get what you were doing and I’m fine with it. I have never and never will go after anyone for whatever hobby they have here or in real life because I couldn’t care less. I know a few other people on here have some at least mild interest in Pokemon, anyway. I didn’t attack Adahn for the astrology bullshit, though it was definitely the low hanging fruit when he randomly brings up the fact that I made like two comments on Pokemon to try and degrade me because he blatantly lost an argument.
“Mouse obviously”
The Pika is a mountain-dwelling wild rodent in Asia and North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pika
So Pikachu might well be based on that genus.
However Pikas do not occur in Japan.
Coverup
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon permanently barred the Justice Department from releasing special counsel Jack Smith’s final report describing President Donald Trump’s stockpiling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago and allegations that he obstructed government efforts to reclaim them.
Cannon lit into Smith for a “brazen stratagem”: compiling the detailed report even after she ruled in July 2024 his appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional and dismissed the case against Trump and two co-defendants. The Justice Department had appealed Cannon’s decision but dropped the case altogether after Trump’s election.
“Special Counsel Smith and his team went ahead for months, undeterred, preparing [the classified documents report] using discovery collected in connection with this proceeding and expending government funds in the process,” Cannon wrote in a 15-page ruling issued Monday. “To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal Order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it.”
The Trump-appointed judge said releasing the report now would “contravene basic notions of fairness and justice” and amount to a “manifest injustice” because the case never reached a jury. It could also risk revealing information protected by attorney-client privilege and grand jury secrecy, she said.
How will America know the President is a fink?
That is not criminal? How can that not be criminal?
Did he know the Clintons too?
“The only passenger in the car when an American citizen was shot and killed by a federal officer in South Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting. However, the passenger, Joshua Orta, died in an unrelated car crash over the weekend.”
Paywall.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/ice-shooting-texas-witness-dead.html
Or he could just fall out the window from the fifth floor.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/circle-k-worker-sued-buying-212000259.htm/
A Circle K store manager in Scottsdale, Arizona, is being sued over a $12.8 million lottery ticket he allegedly bought from his own store — after confirming it was a winner.
A few things are strange there.
How did Circle K corporate find out about the ticket being “purchased” by the manager and then proceed to get custody of it and hold it at their corporate office in the first place? I mean, I’m assuming a jealous co-worker reported it, but how did they get the manager to stupidly hand it over to them?
I find everything about the lotto to be repugnant. The state generating money from poor suckers desperate to get a break in life, almost all of whom will get nothing, and then all the stupid rules and how often it leads people to situations like this or where people get charged for fraud and scams. Like gambling is illegal and immoral, unless it’s a state-run lotto, right?
Circle K is a giant corporation. The idea that they get to retain possession of a ticket that someone left behind or was printed in error and claim the money as their own if fucking stupid. Should just be a rule that if you are a business selling the tickets, you don’t get to claim the prize in the first place. Only individual peons buying their own shit should be able to claim it if anyone is going to get that money.
Whitey Bulger’s old trick. He kept winning the lottery at stores he owned until the state pulled his license to sell lotto.
I assume he either paid off or killed the original winners.
In 1836, soldiers under the command of Mexican President General Antonio López de Santa Anna began their assault on the Alamo Mission near present-day San Antonio, Texas. Eleven days later, the Alamo’s small group of Texian (Texan) defenders were defeated by the 1500-plus Mexican Army.
Fun fact: in honor of their most famous landmark, restaurants around downtown San Antonio will give you a free scoop of ice cream with your dessert if you ask for said dessert to be “Alamo’d.”
-.-
I kinda want to try that now. Except it might prompt the same response as going into a bar in rural Georgia and loudly opining that, “…General Sherman had the right idea, he just didn’t go far enough.”
Make it an Irish pub and follow up with a rousing chorus of Croppies lie down!
Did I ever tell you about my school tour through Ireland, where one of my less intelligent classmates tried ordering a Black and Tan at a pub in Derry?
Was that a big hit with the locals?
That’s going to lead to Troubles!
EvilSheldon:
One time I was at a local Irish pub, bartender was from Ireland, and some frat boy types (late 90s/early 00s) came in and ordered an Irish Car Bomb. The bartender, without breaking stride, replied, “We don’t serve those here.”
The guy says, “Do you not know how to make them? They’re…”
“It’s a bullshit drink,” the bartender interrupted. “What can I get you?”
Guy sticks to his order, “Two Irish Car Bombs then.”
Bartender turns back, makes the drinks, and goes to the guys, “Right. That’s $55. Two pints, six shots.”
“Judge Cannon’s decision to permanently block the release of this extraordinarily significant report is impossible to square with the First Amendment and the common law,” said Scott Wilkens, senior counsel at the Knight Institute. “There is no legitimate basis for its continued suppression.”
We must convict him in the court of popular opinion with these unproven allegations.
A coworker is supposed to be going to Mexico next week on vacation.
She is somewhat concerned about whether that is going to happen or not.
US Men’s Hockey really should go after Olbermann here
I have no idea what provoked that comment. I’m assuming something pro-Trump was said or maybe even just that they weren’t affirmatively anti-Trump enough for that scumbag. And he is making that a patriotic thing as well as somehow about feelings towards women or not supporting women.
Olbermann himself has had that misogynistic label thrown his way a few times and even had to apologize for statements he was forced to admit or describe as sexist. So glass houses and all?
He’s a batshit little leftist toad, an alcoholic who strangely still lived with his mother last I heard, and he’s so deeply ingrained in the media bubble and his own pomposity that he thinks his words carry weight of any kind. He’s become an old media lolcow.
I don’t know if Olbermann is misogynist. He just seems to be an asshole to everyone.
If he were talking about the Flyers I’d be right there with him…
The BBC discovers “fake but accurate”.
Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g8r23yv71o
Perhaps a purple haired lass can help explain.
fucking paywalls.
Not just paywalled.
In the case of the BBC, chartered by the Crown.
The answer is “because white supremacy”, right?
I dont think urban decay in England is a stretch. My guess is a combination of AI, real decay and the state media lying…so who knows? It is a tiny-ass place, anyone can take a day trip and see for themselves.
The Europoors think it’s big.
They could if they could afford the ‘congestion fee’ to actually drive into the city, and were willing to risk getting hacked to pieces by savage with a machete for entering the wrong enclave.
I’m glad I went there in 04, I had a very good time, but at this point I’ll never be back.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u8VL-GRukgk
This is the infamous “roadmen” in parliament video mentioned. The water slide one literally has a polar bear in it. So yea, I’m sure there may be a dopey boomer or two who don’t know these are fake, but I think most people can discern that they are.
And they aren’t particularly offensive to me. If anything I’d guess that the AI is actually glossing up the idea of “roadmen” quite a bit. They sound more intelligent and British than they are in reality. Small sample size, but these aren’t videos filled with ridiculous racial tropes or anything.
So big nothing burger to me from the BBC. A new sidequest on the overall media fact checking/combat disinformation from Russian-controlled-bigots plotline.
The parliament one is mildly humorous, but even then it’s not something I’m particularly enjoying or going to search out more of. Maybe just more of a British stereotype and appeal to Brits in general with their odd sense of humor. I’ve never liked Monty Python either.
“Bloody rampage “deadly violence”. Has anyone been hurt or killed? Because news reports I’m seeing, other than sensationalizing outlets like NYP, is just burning vehicles and certain businesses as a show of force.
https://simpleflying.com/stranded-overnight-lufthansa-passengers-deplane-a320neo-munich-airport/
German efficiency is no match for unions!
Obligatory.
https://youtu.be/USfKJYZcUmI?si=ZrGz-VrG25DCmeUg
Short hop for such a big plane.
Unions, or they have to close at midnight due to “noise pollution”? The article states the latter.
EPL Relegation update, round 27 (28 for Arsenal and Wolves):
Safe: Arsenal
Reasonably Safe: Manchester City, Aston Villa, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool
Safe for Now: Brentford, Bournemouth, Everton, Fulham, Newcastle United, Sunderland, Crystal Palace, Brighton
Danger Zone: Leeds United, Tottenham, Nottingham Forest, West Ham
Toast: Burnley, Wolves
Relegated: none
Changes from round 26: Arsenal is now mathematically safe. I had Burnley in Danger Zone but that was a math error, they were still Toast last time too. I think a couple teams moved up from “Safe for now” to “Reasonably safe”. Right now, the 3rd spot comes down to: Can West Ham catch Forest? Will Leeds or Spurs fall completely apart?
The funniest timeline would be Tottenham getting relegated AND winning the Champions League. They would get to play Champions League from the Championship next year!
Leaving aside refunds, CBP has still been collecting the overturned tariff.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-customs-agency-stop-collecting-tariffs-deemed-illegal-by-supreme-court-2026-02-23/
This does not surprise me. I was involved in a State Constitutional challenge to a local ordinance imposing fines and registration requirements with fees for burglar alarms, and the City took almost a year to comply with the final State Supreme Court order striking down parts of their schema.
Funny how different it is when an individual or business asks for that kind of time to comply to a court.
People have been giving Gavin a lot of shit after some recent comments.
Gavin Newsom Wows Black Audience By Putting Some Hot Sauce In His Purple Drank
https://babylonbee.com/news/gavin-newsom-wows-black-audience-by-putting-some-hot-sauce-in-his-purple-drank
UK urban decline?
It only took them thirty years to clear away the rubble from WWII.
Apparently El Mencho was just another San Francisco kid struggling to get by. Just like Gavin.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/el-mencho-california-drug-dealer-cartel-kingpin-21887470.php
Regrets
The U.S. women’s hockey team said it is declining President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his State of the Union address, a day after the president jokingly told the U.S. men’s hockey team that he would be impeached if he didn’t also invite the women’s team.
“We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal–winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement,” a USA Hockey spokesperson said. “Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate.”
“They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment,” the spokesperson added.
Maybe that’s what the shit flinging howler monkey Olberman was referring to.
Pies link in yr olde English language.
My wife is reading 1300s with a fake Scottish accent and it makes way more sense hearing it than reading it.
That and she’s done three years of phonics with the boy.
Trump invited the men’s team to the State of the Union in a call Sunday night after their overtime victory. It is unclear if the men’s team will attend the speech.
If they know what’s good for them…
Maybe Sean can add some perspective? Quakertown police chief has the AWFLS demanding his dismissal. Local TV has been running a video of him choke holding a female student ICE protestor. Yoots may have gotten out of hand and attacked the cops first?
More manufactured outrage.
I thought they readily accepted.
Speaking of fringely related to the tariffs- Iris Cantor passed away. That would the widow Howard Luttnick, onetime Hilary Clinton cheerleader, stole Cantor Fitzgerald from. Among her board service after being too incompetent to control CF was NC Museum of Art, one of my favorite museums. RIP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Cantor