College basketball’s bigger conferences are getting their tournaments underway. Some dude in an NBA game scored 83 points. The USA lost to Italy in the WBC and are in a small amount of jeopardy to not make the knockouts. And across the pond, it was a wild day in the UCL, with Liverpool losing 1-0 at Galatasaray, Bayern demolishing Atalanta, Barca getting a late penalty to tie Newcastle, and Spurs getting absolutely humiliated to the point that they pulled their keeper 16 minutes into the game after two completely insane mistakes. I doubt today could bring the same level of crazy, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see. And that’s it for sports.
I like this way of thinking. But I wish they’d go farther and apply it to a lot of other areas in the government while they’re at it.
What would civil rights have to do with the probe? Shouldn’t it just have to do with the actions of the parties involved rather than some catch-all law (that the government occasionally uses to prosecute people where they can’t find an actual charge) that really doesn’t apply in this case?
This was bound to happen eventually. It’s what should always happen when you simply change black letter law with the stroke of a (auto)pen. Guess he should have his Dem-majority congress actually pass legislation next time.
The embarrassment is the objective. It’s meant to humiliate every single normie who voted for the guy but is now aghast that he’s doing what he said he would do.
Why wasn’t this all handled in civil court? What a weird situation.
This isn’t suspicious at all. Honestly, the lady is probably just incompetent and on the take from someone else and didn’t have anything to do with what happened.
The exodus continues. I’m sure the government will have all sorts of excuses.
What an amazing headline. Hilariously enough, the guy who wrote it probably thought it made the guy look bad.
ICE, ICE, Baby! Finally, some logic coming from this industry.
I’m not sure about the accuracy of this lede. I don’t think the guy was ever stable.
I’m not going for the low hanging fruit after that last link. I wanted to hear these guys instead. And I’m happy I did. Such fun 80s stuff. Enjoy it.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
Embezzlement is a criminal offense.
Newcastle are in the Champions League?!
What year is this? Have I been asleep.
Well, they had to decommission Oldcastle, it was getting too old.
Yep, and the one surviving Italian team is on their way out.
Oh boo hoo hoo.
Used to be Serie A was a serious contender every year.
They finished 5th last year, which got them the bonus CL spot.
Yeah, what’s a little tripling of the murder rate, taking an exceptionally safe country closer to the norm for those hot-headed, hot-blooded Latins? Racist much there Gruniad?
They should import millions of immigrants because they are “less criminal” than the natives.
Journaiisming!
Back when I was importing wine from these folks, I’d stay in Valparaiso, and everybody who spoke English there would brag how the rest of South America looked at Chile as a prosperous, well-run country.
What a difference a few years worth of governance makes.
(BTW, if you ever see their Sauvignon Blanc, buy a bottle. Nearly as good as Loire at a fraction of the price.)
Mayor Mamdani is off to a terrible start, with even the weather turning against him.
There’s nothing he could do about heavy snowfalls and Arctic cold, but he made a huge unforced error that proved tragically fatal.
I’m not sure if it’s the mayor’s official policy or not, but if NYC’s crazy and/or drug-addled urban outdoorsmen want to brave it during a
climate change eventblizzard, then leave them to their fate, and put the bodies in a Potter’s Field afterward.And waste them? It’s Soylent Green Time.
Free-range bums are actually less healthy than the factory-farmed ones.
Free range bums with fentanyl? no thanks
No they stopped touring together after the bassist from Fentanyl slept with Free Range Bum’s lead singer’s girlfriend.
Interesting that the mayor catches heat for bum deaths but nothing for the much larger number of, say, murder victims under his watch.
Bums have grifter groups making bank off of them. Murder victims, not so much.
“Calling 911: Porsche CEO looks to petrol classics for margin revival”
No, no, no. What you need to do is make your popular 718 derivatives an EV!
Isn’t the derivative of 718 just zero?
You want to play that game? Just for you!
Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/jeffrey-epstein-files-bad-grammar-spelling-trump-ellison-dorsey-gates-thiel-cbfe9fb1?st=jqhNjE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I was commenting on syntax, not spelling or grammar. :-p
Proper spelling and grammar are also for the benefit of aby readers who might not be native English speakers.
And “potatoe” was the fault of the teacher who gave Dan Quayle the misspelled card.
And, of course, I mis-typed “any”….
The union representing federal screeners…
As if that isn’t grounds enough for abolishing TSA.
I liked staying at a hotel near the Yamaha headquarters. They offered Japanese breakfast options.
Nattō?
🤢
miso soup, fish, rice, eggs, vegetables, …
I liked the soup, eggs, and vegetables. My wife and daughter liked the fish and rice for breakfast.
“miso soup” 🤮
I like the components of a Japanese breakfast, but not at 7AM.
What’s wrong with miso soup?
The taste. It makes me want to vomit.
Miso soup was one of my mainstays when backpacking a lot. That for dinner along with hot tea, jerky and gorp during the hiking, and hot coffee for breakfast. This meant almost no clean up with lots of energy.
Nothing I want less in the morning than a Japanese breakfast.
Ted – Yes natto is frequently a part of that.
Yes, I knew that. I eas joking that perhaps RoaT likes nattō for breakfast.
He probably eats durian in public, too.
My wife makes a Japanese breakfast sometimes.
Homemade miso, canned fish, and eggs with rice and nori.
I never would have thought that canned fish could be so good.
The venue at a scientific conference I attended in Japan had a very large breakfast spread of both Japanese and American food. Each item was clearly labeled in English and Japanese. Next to the pancakes, bacon, sausage, etc. was a large bowl of “Salted Fish Guts”. It is apparently a certain type of fish stomach that’s been fermented, and is considered a delicacy, but you would think there’s a better English translation.
Yeah, sounds like salted fish guts to me. I don’t know how you’re supposed to spin that into something appetizing.
Transliterate the Japanese name?
https://www.hemmings.com/auction/1989-toyota-celica-carmichael-ca-286952/sold
$33K?
Jello’s, plus a fairly rare ‘vert.
This got the premium strictly on provenance. High miles and not great physical condition.
“The reality is that Democratic Senators could take turns giving interminable speeches.”
Well we wouldn’t want to have to queue up 40 or so Senators and force them to punch a clock and show up would we? Somehow the rest of America manages to create organizations that can provide 24/7 operations.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/senate-talking-filibuster-republicans-save-act-donald-trump-2cbebdde?st=hKtGwq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh the humanity – making Senators do their jobs!
Trump preparing for his next broken promise. He’s a busy man.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/10/trump-gop-deportations-midterms/
When the Democrats take over, maybe he’ll sign a tax increase and gun control bill before they impeach him.
Martyrdom works. Who knew?
You know, if the House keeps impeaching him and the Senate doesn’t convict – they can’t be passing any other legislation. That might not be such a bad deal.
Can Trump be the first to 10 impeachments?
Yeah and you be certain that Congress will be laser focused on that and nothing else.
If he gets to 10 his next one is free.
“Alina Habba, the former acting New Jersey US attorney and one-time personal lawyer for President Trump, divorced her millionaire husband after nearly six years of marriage and relocated to Palm Beach, The Post confirmed.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/10/us-news/trump-lawyer-ex-nj-us-attorney-alina-habba-ditches-millionaire-hubby-heads-to-palm-beach/
*heads to Palm Beach*
Well this is a bit of history I never knew.
Pound surrendered to U.S. forces outside Genoa in May 1945, was turned over to Amprim, and immediately had two requests: to send a telegram to President Harry Truman, offering to broker a “just peace” between the U.S. and Japan based upon his study of Confucianism; and to make one final radio broadcast, calling for America to be a benevolent victor.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/g-i-g-men-and-safe-passage-personnel-exchange-c1774f0d?st=ufDQE3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Education Week’s annual The State of Teaching report, which was released last week, found nearly half of California teachers surveyed planned to retire or quit in the next 10 years. Nationwide, an estimated 35% of teachers aimed to leave the profession in the next decade, according to the report.
A separate survey published in January by the California Teachers Association found 40% of teachers were considering leaving education within the next few years, with nearly half of those who planned to quit citing financial reasons.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/10/us-news/almost-half-of-california-teachers-may-quit-teaching-soon-surveys-say/
Replace them with ostriches.
3.5% of teachers leaving each year implies an average career of 28 years.
Like cops and firefighters they should be able to fully retire at 20 years – the demands and stresses of the job and all.
The poor dears get no respect despite being in near-total control of the government of every blue state.
I wonder how many of that 35% – 40% are teachers who hate how the profession has gone full retard?
Are there any other “professions” whose members are 90% low-level bureaucrats?
*looks around office*
No. None. I swear.
/IT Bureaucrat
Grok, what percentage of teachers are young women who quit when they start families?
The profession has always had high attrition.
That woman downthread shouting her abortions might have something to say about that.
The wheels wobble like hell on every SA country and are liable, no likely, to fly off at any moment. It has always been that way and always will be..
Those of you looking at retiring to SA countries keep that in mind. What you see today is a very temporary arrangement.
That used to be a difference between North and South America. Used to
Says the country that has elected Johnson, Wilson and Mamdani as big city mayors.
“Elected”
True but still better here than anywhere else.
“America is the worst country, except for all of the others.” – Clemens, 150 years ago
Hell, this country elected a Wilson and a Johnson as President. Nix them (plus a couple of Roosevelts) and the U.S.
mightwould be better off today.Hell, this country elected a Wilson and a Johnson as President. Nix them (plus a couple of Roosevelts) and the U.S. might would be better off today.
Hell, the entire world would be better off today.
Boric was a bigger disappointment to the left in Chile than to the right. He didn’t usher in any significant changes. I imagine Kast will be the same thing, in reverse.
Let’s see if these two get the Smith-Carlos treatment: https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/c9wn01jd12wo
That’ll show Vlad!
Countries with a history of war crimes and crimes against humanity shouldn’t be allowed to compete …
Refusing to stand on the podium at the Paralympics?
Shit JI, I am still trying to drink coffee here
I think JI may have won the internets for today.
OFFS.
All I know is those Russian coats are glorious.
Germany should have gone with Hugo Boss.
I always enjoyed silly national team competitions but even I am getting sick of the political bullshit.
End them.
Why exactly do we want Republicans in charge?
I know, I know – to keep the Democrats from doing the exact same thing but even worse.
We are so fucked.
I don’t want anyone in charge. Tear down all the power structures that allow the uniparty to exist. Selecting between the lesser of two evils is shitty.
I got nuthin’.
It’s twue
Would that be the same mechanism that allowed the Democrats to use through President Obama’s Affordable Care Act without requiring any Republican votes?
ThAT WaS DiFfReNT!11!!!!
TPTB: Glibflicks for tomorrow was just submitted.
Hate birds (the birds that hate) are at it again:
Students at Florida A&M University aren’t just worried about keeping their grades up this semester, but also have to watch their backs for a particularly aggressive goose.
Given that this took place at FAMU, I would’ve expected a cormorant*
(*Suthen and a few other old guys from Dixie will get the reference)
I do not like the cobra chicken.
Why do people panic and run from geese? What psychology is at play? You are four times their size and much stronger. kick the honker, break a few of it’s hollow bones and it’ll learn not to mess with you.
I had a goose try to chase me a couple of weeks ago in our parking lot. I stopped walking, turned, and looked at him while refusing to move and he decided “maybe not” and just walked away.
Sounds like the best outcome for both of you.
Says a guy who clearly hasn’t been attacked by a bird before.
A wingtip in the nutsack will change your tune.
I’m sorry that happened to you RJ – be more aggressive next time.
MW – you attack first, don’t let the honkers take the initiative.
On a college campus is the issue. Outdoors near a pond, I will mess that bird up. On a college campus some animal loving asshole will film you engaging in self-defense and turn you in.
…🤔
I don’t tend to be on college campuses, just have to deal with Canukistani migrant honkers.
Canukistani migrant honkers
Despite the thread, my mind really wanted to read that as “hookers”.
If the honkers are really big, I generally let them have their way in things.
Just sayin’
Yeah, it’s Q who lets honkers take the initiative.
A wingtip in the nutsack will change your tune.
Same tune, just a couple octaves higher.
“On the same day the Supreme Court enjoined California’s law protecting trans kids from oppressive parents, Texas’ Republican attorney general — and a GOP candidate for Senate — Ken Paxton, insisted parents have no right to provide evidence-based mental health care for a child experiencing gender dysphoria. This came after Texas, against the advice of the medical establishment, banned doctors from prescribing physical interventions like puberty blockers for trans kids. Now Paxton has denied the rights of parents to get mental health help if the therapist follows standard psychological guidelines — which advise supporting trans youth care — in treating trans patients….
Even parents who don’t have a trans child should be concerned. Republicans are using the confusion around trans issues to build up case law that regards only right-wing, authoritarian parenting styles as legitimate. Children have no rights under this model. Parents who believe that children should be raised in open, accepting, inclusive homes would face serious restrictions on their ability to support their kids in their individuality, whether it’s in the books they want to read or their gender expression.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/11/republicans-dont-care-about-parents-rights/
Not allowing schools to secretly transition kids prevents them from reading at home.
Sometimes, an article is so tendentious that you don’t even know where to start. The unexamined assumptions are so tightly interlocked that there’s just no place to start to pry them apart.
I would start with the assumption that there is such a thing as a “trans kid” and work from there.
“Pray the gay away” is wicked, but “Trans the gay away” is virtuous.
Agreed.
Loved “evidence-based mental health care ” too.
The evidential bases for most mental health treatments are something that most mental health professionals desperately try to ignore – the exceptions being certain drugs, and prefrontal lobotomies.
If you pray the gay away the subject can later decide they are still gay and have a sex life. If you trans it away the results are more lasting.
It makes me wonder what Paxton actually said.
I have a strong suspicion that “supporting trans youth care” means the kinds of physical interventions the “need” for which is rapidly being debunked everywhere except radical orgs and is not a “standard psychological guideline” at all.
Define “standard” – and are those the guidelines that were put out by any of the organizations that have been skin-suited by the far left?
Oh, it’s Amanduh. Why am I wasting my time on that trash.
I’m convinced she has to be one of the craziest people in America. At least once a week we’re graced with one of her passages, and each is as dumb as the last. She’s tapped into a never ending supply of tard.
Is she really that crazy, or is she just making money by writing what she knows the retards want hear?
Retarded like a fox?
ZWAK, the disabled ginger has entered the chat…
She has to be that crazy, you can’t pretend that long without the mask slipping at least once.
It’s good to be back where I have internet!
When clearing out my Dad’s liquor cabinet, I discovered something to bring if I’m ever invited back to the Gulch.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cabinetfind.jpg
We were a proper country once. Note the intact tax stamps. There was an unopened bottle of Crown who’s tax stamp indicated it was sealed in 1967. My parents were not drinkers, and pity that whiskey doesn’t improve in the bottle.
I inherited the family silver, and since my siblings didn’t want it, I also acquired the everyday stainless — “Astro” by Stanley Roberts, my absolute favorite of all time ever. Not the prettiest, but the construction is amazeballs. It’s forged and hardened. It’s older than me, and the only notable wear of a half-century of dishwasher exposure is that the high-polished regions have taken on the matte finish of the handles.
Planning on throwing a couple of Molotov cocktails at the next Glibs gathering?
One of the bottles is not sealed properly as the differing levels indicate. I would assume that the less full bottle is the culprit, though it is possible that 100% EtOH being hygroscopic would increase in volume as it pulled moisture from the outside atmosphere. I would also assume that at some point it would evaporate faster than it would dehydrate the air, but how fast would that happen, and when did the seal fail?
Based on the levels, I would go with the higher fill one being closer to the original fill level, and the lower one evaporating. Just based on the tendency of industrial bottle filling to not stop before the bottle narrows in most cases.
This is entirely a gut reaction, but raising the level that much through a pinhole leak just doesn’t seem plausible. Evaporating that much through a pinhole leak over decades does.
Does booze improve in the bottle? I thought it improved in the cask, and once bottled was pretty much what it’s going to be.
From the google, sealed whiskey will last 10+ years if stored properly (cool, dark, upright). I had some Blanton’s off the top shelf (last shot) at our local steakhouse that was stale. Probably been there for four or five years, since they were asking $12 a shot.
They gave me a break on it.
“Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses”
https://x.com/HansMahncke/status/2031006012233121829
More or less egregious than CNN?
I think CNN was worse.
Both are trash. Impossible to say one is worse than the other.
Ah, but the NYT was able to keep the focus on the far right wing protest!
It’s a mystery why normies hate the media.
The only mystery is why we haven’t burned down the entire media establishment.
Microreview of the Toyota RAV4: Eminently practical. Excellent gas mileage. Accelerates like a geriatric cow. I drove the last 19 hours non-stop and the seat did not bother my tendency towards sciatica.
We’ll be needing a replacement car sooner rather than later – the RAV4 does indeed look nice but I want a little more oomph.
I was wary of the stats on plug-in hybrids but I really should have bid on this: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2020-volvo-v60-9
Honda CRV hybrid is supposed to be zippy and less drone than the Toyota.
While the acceleration is enough to make me not buy one, it did not have problems maintaining efficiency at high speeds. I was fortunate enough to find aggressive drivers to bird-dog off of and if the onboard metrology was correct it could maintain 30mpg even at 90mph.
I have the CR-V hybrid; it doesn’t get quite the mileage of the RAV, but can be quite spirited (not exactly fast) in Sport Mode.
“My daughter has had a difficult few months in school. By some administrative fluke, she ended up in a class where she was the only girl—it was just Layla, surrounded by a dozen or so 15-year-old boys. She could have found it tolerable, I think, if not for the rape jokes.
That’s right, in the year 2026—in a progressive Brooklyn high school—my daughter had to listen to her classmates ‘joking’ about rape. These are boys she thought were her peers and friends, some of whom she’s known since pre-school. And though the school ended up handling it well, I watched Layla’s light dim a little every time she came home from that class. For her, it was a regular reminder that the world sees her as less human, less worthy of dignity. Just less.”
https://jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-coming-for-our-daughters
doubt
So a crazy lady that sees male oppression everywhere has a daughter that hears rape jokes everywhere?
What are the odds?
Also, what a cute name for her Substack.
How does she have a daughter? Or is that just a figment of her imagination?
Guessing it was a result of her multi-million dollar wedding.
So she missed a chance to have an abortion? How could she?!?!
Rape, JI.
Good grief, how do you land on that garbage?!
The document is part of a broad, well-funded campaign to reassert misogynist control by targeting women while they’re young and pliable—and chip away at one of Democrats’ most supportive demographics in the process.
“You know, miss, you could rack up $300K in college loans for a Communications degree and spend the rest of your life trying to pay it off, or you could meet a bright young shave-tail, marry him, have his kids and raise them… or something in between. Do the math, and consider your life choices.”
Many misogyny, such oppression.
Maybe you should consider not abusing your daughter by forcing her to attend a ‘progressive’ public school…
I’m not gonna say this is why there are few female libertarians, but…
I thought “higher IQ, on average, but crazier, on average” wasn’t particularly new nor controversial?
I thought greater standard deviation, hence more geniuses and retards.
Thank you, Teds’, that’s the stat I was thinking of.
::ignores topic of comment thread:: Hey, slummy – As far as I know, I didn’t change anything on my phone browsing, but today with Monocle on, I’m suddenly getting that thing where all comments keep showing up as new. Android/Mull browser (mobile version of LibreWolf, I believe)/”Monocle Eyepiece 4.6.1″ with no updates available. I’m inclined to blame WordPress.
Ted S. has it correct. It makes evolutionary sense because women are the reproductive bottleneck so it is advantageous for there to be less variability and more ‘average’ among them.
Heya GT –
You’re sort of stuck in the middle, I think – I re-implemented unread comment highlighting when the site broke but the site is now correctly marking them as new again; I suspect that’s conflicting with the client side code you’ve got there.
I re-organized things into a stable ‘master’ and ‘development’ branches, so as a (hopefully) one-time bit of pain, I’d suggest switching to the ‘master’ branch:
https://gitlab.com/glibertarians/forumProject/-/raw/master/monocle.user.js
That’s v4.9.8 (and the version will show under the Settings button).
Future updates _should_ show up automatically (after I test things out in the development branch and promote them).
Let me know if you have issues; I might be able to force a switch by updating that Eyepiece_v4.6 branch you’re pointing to and changing the @updateURL / @downloadURL in the script.
Slumbrew – I thank you for all of your work. Don’t know if I have said that lately.
Thank you – it’s fun.
A big thank you to my company for the GitHub Co-pilot subscription 🙂
I don’t really know Javascript but I _do_ know programming in general and know _what_ I want to do, just not the proper syntax. LLMs shine in that circumstance.
And, of course, much credit to Trashy for doing all of the initial work – I’m just playing maintenance man.
😃👍
Thanks, slummy! For whatever reason, the version I had wouldn’t update to this one, but now it seems to be working fine.
I’d have replied sooner, but my virtual keyboard momentarily disappeared! 😕
Has there ever been one meta-analysis (i.e. study of studies) that yielded any kind of real insight?
So we’ve got questionable amounts of cash, from a linked story – it appears a family on the side, an interesting in gentlemen’s “clubs” and a plane ticket to Germany.
No children however!
https://nypost.com/2026/03/10/us-news/san-diego-bishop-who-frequented-brothels-pleads-not-guilty/
Jesus ministered to prostitutes, didn’t he?
He considered hookers as needy.
Have you ever met one who wasn’t? Or am I conflating ‘needy’ with ‘wanty’?
Thanks for the superb music links. That was one of my top 5 favorite bands in high school. And I still enjoy them.
Hope everyone is ok after last night’s crazy weather. We had a string of tornadoes about 10-15 miles south of my house. Just a thunderstorm here. It’s weird watching storm chasers driving down streets you know. There is a lot of damage and a few deaths.
I’m fine.
Tornadoes are scary.
My wife and I helped with some of the cleanup after Joplin MO got devastated in 2011, it was unreal.
Yikes! Glad it missed you. I wonder if that’s what’s headed to SW OH. 😳⛈️🌪️
Glad you are OK.
Technically he’s IN.
Wow – it’s actually leading the US news on Google News.
“Secret” just makes me grin every time. Perfect time and place memories.
All is well over here in South DFW.
Temptation
Can we gussy this thing up?
“…subsequently fitted with AMG-style bodywork, aftermarket lighting, and AMG 17″ alloy wheels”
Nice looking car, but $13,000?
Seems a little high, but I’m not a MB fan.
I do long a long-roof…
That’s a lot of miles, though.
There have been a couple of old diesel wagons pop up – those might be interesting.
Yes, long roofs are the cool.
Yes they are:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMl0k-zH2Vs5TouQzD4gs0-fqJdEzN7VxjPKJXK3-bQ5Np3c8ROJ5CzzeR2Z0fvEw?pli=1&key=bDhxb09jWjdIUzJwMmEzY1JjRFc2TzJqdWlNb1Jn
There’s a cherry 9-5 Aero wagon that’s often parked around here. I’m jelly.
I am thinking something like this
https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_20220604_141606-copy.jpg?quality=75&ssl=1
I’m not a fan of that mirror position. You get a smaller image, and they just look more vulnerable hanging out there.
Back in the day when I first got a few nickels to rub together, I told myself I wanted Victor Maitland’s car from Beverly Hills Cop (in diesel, for mileage) — the ultimate highway cruiser.
Then I realized the maintenance, expense, and pain-in-the-ass factor would be right up there with marrying a redheaded stripper and demurred.
I’m a lot less interested in AMG dress than I am in AMG under the hood.
Voting with their feet…
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exxon-eyes-texas-legal-home-101000725.html
Don’t know if the story mentions it but they are already pretty much “here,” it is just moving their incorporation.
Old guys from the northeast might remember the name — Matt Snell has passed away.
Might’ve lived longer if he wasn’t such a Boozer fan.
A name from back in the days when I really was a football fan.
Can we gussy this thing up?
I think it looks pretty good. As for mileage, at least you know it isn’t a garage queen. I’d rather have a car which has been used appropriately than something with no miles. That’s still in the million mile Mercedes years, I think.
I like the thing it just doesn’t need the “seasoning”.
I can’t figure out why we haven’t taken this thing out. However, the article does explain reasons…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/why-irans-vital-kharg-island-oil-hub-is-still-untouched-by-us-israel-bombers
Oh, yes, blow up a key infrastructure point that can be blockaded instead. Render it unusable by the hypothetically friendly puppet you want to have in place after the fighting.
Destroying the oil infrastructure would make it harder for a friendly puppet to maintain control by strangling their funds.
Sorry, that was a bit harshly sarcastic.
We’re keeping it intact because it’s part of the spoils.
That’s going to involve people going “hand to hand” so to speak.
It’s not going to play well with most of the media and much of Europe.
Mind you bombing will have the same result in opinions, but without “sending in the troops”.
If there’s two groups whose opinions the current administration clearly cares nothing about it’s the media and Europeans.
If you believe this fella, there are ample reasons. But he’s a lawyer (and a massive OMB apologist), so take with ample NaCl.
Note: the IRGC are the Revolutionary Guards, basically Iran’s version of the SS.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Iran allocates a third of all oil revenue directly to the IRGC. The IRGC shipped about 85,000 barrels a day to Syria, and sells the rest mostly to China through a so-called “shadow fleet” designed to avoid sanctions. By blowing up the IRGC’s own refinery, Trump wasn’t just hurting “Iran” in a general sense— he was trying to bankrupt the IRGC specifically, by collapsing its parallel economy.
Many folks are deeply confused about the significance of yesterday’s refinery strike. It didn’t damage Iran’s ability to export oil, since the refinery strike on Tondgouyan didn’t affect the country’s export facilities like Kharg Island (more on that in a moment). It was a refinery for domestic fuel. Hitting Tondgouyan hit the IRGC’s ability to keep its trucks and war machinery running, and undermined the regime’s social compact— selling fuel to its own population.
It was a precision strike on the IRGC’s economic oxygen, not reckless chaos.
Yup. Similar to the the other article.
Interesting angle on the THAAD system in South Korea we are currently disassembling to ship to the Middle East to replace the destroyed systems. Korea paid a big price with China when that was installed. Now we are yanking it out.
https://x.com/i/status/2031532764978373060
Nice looking car, but $13,000?
Seems a little high, but I’m not a MB fan.
BaT tax.
The prissy douchebag expert commenters are out in force on that one.
“prissy douchebag expert commenter” might be the best Glib handle ever.
It appears Indiana told Minnesota “hold my beer”.
Indiana became the nation’s hotbed of the booming autism therapy industry, home to nine of the top 10 providers by per-patient spending in 2023. A big part of that was because the state started reimbursing providers 40% of whatever they billed
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/autism-therapy-medicaid-payments-640aa435?st=VhoFw8&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
How long before there is an Indianapolis Learing Center?
“I don’t think Indiana really had any oversight, or not much,” said Mitchell, who bought a series of properties, including a $2.5 million home on Florida’s Sanibel Island and a $600,000 waterfront house on the Tippecanoe River in Indiana, while her company’s Medicaid billings soared.
Tundra and I text about this a lot. He and I own businesses and have had times when we thought we’d lose our house or file for bankruptcy. And then we read about stuff like this.
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Monday a win in his case against Lola Olivia, an online retailer based in New York City, for selling chest binders to young girls in Texas. A temporary restraining order has been granted, halting the company from selling or shipping such items into the state.
“I will never allow radical companies like Lola Olivia to abuse Texas children by ‘transitioning’ them,” Paxton said. “I have now secured an order that stops Lola Olivia from selling chest binders that hurt young girls in Texas. My office will continue to protect our state’s children against radical, sick corporations willing to harm kids with their dangerous agenda.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/judge-blocks-company-from-shipping-chest-binders-to-texas
“After more than 24 hours of nonstop debate, Democrats in the Washington State House on Tuesday pushed through a bill creating an income tax.
Senate Bill 6346 passed 51-46 after a marathon floor battle that stretched from Monday into Tuesday evening. Senate Bill 6346 imposes a 9.9 percent tax on annual household income above $1 million, a proposal Democrats have branded the “millionaire’s tax,” but critics have demonstrated can be expanded to tax every person living in Washington.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/wa-dems-ram-through-millionaire-tax-bill-after-24-hour-floor-fight
FYCS
9.9 percent
JFC.
Ten percent was too high!
A tithe to the state does seem appropriate for proggies (and their church).
I thought they had to amend their constitution first.
Maybe it doesn’t apply to millionaires.
Of course the constitution doesn’t apply to millionaires!
“CNN made a major flub while teasing a segment about the suspected ISIS-inspired bombing attempt near New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home over the weekend.
The clanger came on Tuesday’s CNN NewsNight, where host Abby Phillip falsely stated Mamdani was the strike’s intended target.
Suspects Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, actually hurled explosives at far-right protesters, who had gathered outside Gracie Mansion to protest what was framed as an ‘Islamic takeover of New York City.’ Mamdani, 34, is Muslim.
‘Up next, two Republicans say Muslims don’t belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor, Zohran Mamdani,’ Phillip said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15635753/cnn-abby-phillip-mistake-apology-new-york-bombing-mamdani.html
CWAC
Did she tell us who the “two Republicans” are?
I’m guessing she introduced them?
Yeah, they’re Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19.
From Pennsylvania weren’t they? Obviously Amish.
Rumspringga and root beer don’t mix well.