Good afternoon, my glibs and mythical glibettes. I hope this Wednesday afternoon finds y’all a bit less harried than it finds me. My company went live with my application as their main line of business application, and it has been about as good as one could hope, which means I have about 3 months worth of ticky-tack data migration issues and bullshit things to deal with. But seriously, working from home is great, because nobody is driving all the way across Pinellas county from Tampa to hold a torches and pitchfork tutorial with me as the guest of honor. Or if they did, they would be using said implements on some asshole driver long before they reached me. So at least I’ve got that going for me. I honestly feared it was going to be a lot worse, and honestly, much of the lack of uproar was the shittiness of our prior system. Anyhow, you deserve links, and I’ve got to get back to pretending I give a shit about why this person has to do “double work” on something.
Jesus Christ. Imagine if your city was too filthy for South American and European soccer fans. I’m also unsure whether this is now ridiculously clean, or just a decent start.
Its like the Iberico ham of long pig.
This is the cyberpunk future we deserve.
The Irish are now just like the French.
All right. You kids don’t have too much fun. I know I won’t.
The Irish are now just like the French.
Hey Now! I am offended.
Seriously. Don’t be comparing me to the fuckin’ potatoheads…
I found France to be a lovely place. Unfortunately, it is occupied by the French.
Honestly…I’ve found that most foreign criticisms of France and French people are accurate, if re-framed as criticisms of Paris and Parisians.
French people really are quite lovely, if you discount the inmates of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille. The rest of the country is just great. I imagine that the same is true of Ireland outside of Dublin.
I’ve only been in Paris briefly. I found it one of the coldest receptions that I got while on business travel.
I spent three weeks in downtown Toulouse on business travel. The French were not particularly helpful to a newbie visitor to the city. I pretty much gave up on French restaurants and spent most of my time frequenting Indian and Chinese restaurants. At least they would speak English to me.
I have extensive experience working with our French subsidiary company in Toulouse. The engineers from France drove me nuts. This definitely lead me to be biased against all French people. Probably unjustly so, but oh well.
I have never travelled to France on vacation. I recognize that I have not direct experience with ordinary French people.
I spent 5 years in France, in the rural areas. The country people were much the same as country folks here. Could not act as the Ugly American, without
losing your new French acquaintances.
I got mugged in Paris – only time in my life.
Beautiful city but unpleasant people overall.
The only people I’ve had problems with in France are the North Africans and the Quebecois.
I’ve been to Ireland. I have not been to France.
People in Dublin are so-so. People get much friendlier outside of Dublin.
The French expats to America that I’ve known were all good people.
Every time I’ve been in Quebec, if I at least stumble through a few words of French, people switch to English and have been good to me. And the women are hot.
I simply can’t understand why Americans can’t get along with the French. I’ve spent months in France–Paris and half a dozen places in Provence, business and vacation–and never had a bad moment with anybody there.
Maybe I’m insufficiently sensitive to slights.
I’d rather be a potato head than a white flag waver.
potato eating surrender monkeys?
Lawmakers were also scheduled to vote Tuesday on the fuel support package amounting to 505 million euros ($595 million) that Martin said will ease some cost-of-living pressures.
Sounds like they should just cut spending and taxes instead.
That’s just crazy-talk.
Our cities are as disgusting as any low-trust society’s and even more so as many of them have lost the will to “take out the trash”, so to speak because the country is paralyzed with fear over accusations of “racism” and “equity” so we largely let criminals roam free and mentally ill addicts live on sidewalks everywhere.
Thanks as always, Brett. Hope the launch goes as smooth as can be. Just found this and have to bounce, so I’ll add to the links:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme CourtJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders “scratch-paper musings” that can “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.” … She referred to [Trump’s emergency] orders, which often are issued with little or no explanation as “back-of-the-envelope, first-blush impressions of the merits of the legal issue.”
Worse still, she said, was that the court then insists that “those scratch-paper musings” be applied by lower courts in other cases.” …
The orders suffer from an additional problem, she said, a failure to acknowledge that real people are involved, making them “seem oblivious and thus ring hollow.”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-jackson-criticism-conservatives-trump-rulings-976a16d91953f42426818add77c7e3f2
I wish other Justices would go on the record for their concerns that Justice Action Jackson and her constitutional knowledge is remarkably inappropriate. I wish they’d say they’re ashamed, or better, yet embarrassed, to be lumped together with her. Impeachment for incompetence? Is that a thing? It should be a thing.
The left doesn’t find her embarrassing, because to them she’s perfect. Her legal reasoning usually boils down to “I feel like it should be this way”. Ideally they would pack the SC with such people.
Yeeeep. I’d like a social gauntlet thrown: “If you are upset about certain syllables ‘offending’ you, you will be treated as the child you’re acting like. No soup for you.”
It ain’t the fucking ‘N-Words W Attitude. Demonstrate you’re not to be taken seriously, *cough VOLDEMORT! *cough* you won’t be. Dismissed from Adult Conversation.
They absolutely won’t let that opportunity slip by again next time.
Wait, who has been issuing emergency orders? It seems to me the lefty judges have been issuing those to block Trump. Sometimes they may be warranted, but mostly they aren’t, IMO.
I wish other Justices would go on the record for their concerns that Justice Action Jackson and her constitutional knowledge is remarkably inappropriate. I wish they’d say they’re ashamed, or better, yet embarrassed, to be lumped together with her.
Not going to happen. The courts are big into collegiality. And, of course, any criticism of her, no matter how on-point, would be labeled as sexist and racist. The only person who could maybe get away with that is Justice Thomas, but he’s too classy to do that publicly at least while he’s still on the bench.
I’m hearing Ireland is swirling down the drain faster than Britain, and protests are arising from more than just “fuel costs”. Think unchecked migration of savages and two-tier justice and more.
No way. A Manhattan jury too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/livenation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-antitrust-trial-rcna273714
Hard to shed a tear here, however.
Auction the tickets.
You’ve got thousands of tickets. You could do a Dutch auction.
Hand out the tickets according to need, comrade.
The image looks like a slice of highly marbled flesh, reminiscent of a high-end steak with abundant fine-grained streaks of fat. But that’s not dinner.
Nah. Too much fat between the muscle and the skin, not enough intramuscular.
So here’s a thought: cut public transportation so that Sasqueetchia has to *walk* across her food desert to get her daily ration of chocolate pudding and salty snacks. At least she’ll get in some exercise before the Type II destroys her organs.
End the food and medical subsidies.
Let them eat themselves to death.
Please tell me they have a couple cloned Tommases ready to get out of the tank. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-reveals-he-has-multi-pick-scotus-plan-ready-retirement-speculation-heats-up
Paging Don Willett. Don Willet to the white courtesy phone, please.
“Judge Roy Bean”
Well that’s an ending.
And Vini is unsurprisingly acting like a prick.
Trump blockaded the blockade. Earlier today CNBC said Iran declared it stopped petrochemical exports.
So I guess there is nothing to blockade, right?
Now this.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-offers-proposal-allowing-ships-exit-oman-side-hormuz-free-attack-source-2026-04-15/
It’s interesting when the orange man is as crazy as the Iranians.
You have to love MSM framing. Here’s how much money the government is going to give you.
It’s Tax Day. Here’s how big the average tax refund is in 2026.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-refund-2026-average-irs-below-forecasts/
That’s what people actually believe, unfortunately.
Last refund I got was about 15 years ago when I got audited and they decided I over payed $235.
Make sure to do your part!