Howdy there friends. Back with another addition of links. I think one of my kids has strep throat, another had it this weekend. Luckily, I am already on antibiotics because I had a cracked tooth extracted on Friday, so I ain’t scairt. Grumpy, and trying to figure out how to find someone to drive one of those tooth implant posts for cheaper than $1000. I figured I steal a tank of laughing gas, and anything I don’t use, whoever installs the hardware can keep. Surely, I could buy a whole 3D printer and some sort of anti-biofilm, mouth safe resin for what the dentist would charge, right?
Anyhow, on to the links…
Florida Reptile on lam after cattle strike.
Scorpions are already cyborgs
Looks like Democrats will have to cheat to win the old fashioned way as racial-based districting falls to Supreme Court.
This is becoming the dog bites man story of the 21st century
Goddam, this song is 20 years old? Fuuck, I’m getting old.
At least she was divorced.
It’s positively wholesome compared to the usual stories.
They had a vote to determine if they should fire the teacher banging the kid, how is that even a thing and not a forgone conclusion that she should be fired?
Off the top of my head, they are following some published procedure to protect themselves against a possible lawsuit.
Teachers represent the single largest group of diddlers, statistically speaking, so it’s probably built into the union contracts.
In NYC they just stick them in a “rubber room” where they get paid for doing nothing until they retire with a nice pension.
NYSUT needs to be dissolved.
*puts ‘Were I Omnipotent Hat’ on* (It looks fabulous, and I am. All things.): That’d be my basic punishment for folk who need retirin’. Ya gettcher paycheck, no fuss. But you report to a cubicle. (Be lovely to have whole office floors, buildings full of these damned) And you’re disallowed from doing anything related to ‘work.’ If you do, ya get fully fired with cause. Ya can read, write, follow sports, whatever. (Serious charges may include a permanent internet ban and no phone+.) But no work.
Ya get your lunch. You have basic shit possibly to do, like log on so We can make sure no funny business, and likely a timesheet. Lawyers’ll figure out NDA’s involved when we can.
It all has to be as officially By the Book as possible. They just can’t work. (As work is done to eliminate their positions.) So if someone wanted to keep their salary, they could for as long as they were willing to subject themselves to 8hrs of ‘nothing’ for five days/wk. No new hires. Age’ll kill off the Deep State! He *always* wins!
*takes ‘Were I Omnipotent Hat’ off (I still look fabulous)*
My, my. This soup is delicious.
A Florida conservation area has been temporarily closed after an alligator attacked a cow and inflicted injuries so severe that authorities had to euthanize the animal, Lake County government officials said.
Left unanswered: what are livestock doing wandering around conservation areas?
Damned shame either way. I’m not bullish on the gator’s chances.
Those robo-scorpions were annoying.
As if those things weren’t terrifying enough.
If you step on one it will rock you like a hurricane.
I’m game, if you’re not overly hung up on things like licensure and relevant education/training.
I know in Houston, there were illegal immigrant dentists working out of garages. Haven’t seen that in the Austin area, but I would suspect it goes on here too.
Alligator my ass. It was chupacabra and the government is trying to cover it up. Wake up sheeple!
Chupathingy strikes again!
In the 6-3 decision, Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. The court held that the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to draw a second majority-minority district.
And guess who was waiting with a nice, geographically compact map of new congressional districts in his state?
Emperor Rhywun tosses that racist trash on Day One of his reign.
find someone to drive one of those tooth implant posts for cheaper than $1000.
Something like this, in stainless steel, should work. Try Fastenal.
Look, medically approved torque wrenches are expensive.
I read that Touque wrenches. I figured it was how Canukistanis attached their hats.
“This is becoming the dog bites man story of the 21st century”
It’s probably selection bias, but is it all women doing this now?
We’re striving towards equality here, Kevin. Women can diddle kids just as much as men can. Now all they need is that 30% raise and we should be all set.
On the one hand, it’s nice to see it blow up in the faces of the race-obsessed. On the other, the VRA is a goddamn joke that should be overturned nearly in its entirety, and this kind of thing should probably just be a state issue.
Innovative thinking
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin have been at loggerheads over how to close New York City’s multibillion-dollar budget gap.
Mamdani has maintained the deep deficit can only be plugged if the state raises taxes on millionaires and large corporations. Menin has countered that the gap can be addressed by trimming municipal bloat — a proposal Mamdani panned as “unrealistic” just weeks ago.
Tuesday brought a major deescalation: The two leaders joined forces to call on Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers to scale back a tax credit largely benefitting millionaires. Doing so would generate $1 billion in new revenue for the city, a windfall that could go a long way in helping the city balance its books, Menin and Mamdani said at a joint press conference.
Win-win! It’ll be painless (for them).
The word to watch here is “could”. Sure, it “could” help balance the books, but you can guarantee it will be used on new spending.
Same thing with Bernie and Warren pushing the wealth tax. It “could” be used to provide health care to millions of people. But it definitely won’t.
How about we stop all spending and do a forensic accounting of where the money is going.
I guarantee you it’s mostly being wasted and embezzled.
I had this discussion with Tundra yesterday. I think 50% of all government spending is fraudulent. He’s guessing 90%.
You could pull a Twitter on the government and improve citizen outcomes.
Including waste, fraud, and crap the government should not be doing, 90% is a low estimate.
I’m trying to figure out how to get rid of the ballasts/old fluorescent tubes that we were encouraged to change. I want to save the earth as much as the next guy but there seems to be little help from the government.
My fingerprints are all over the evidence, seems like there should be some sort of free collection point.
Any millionaire stupid enough to continue living in New York has this coming to them, quite honestly.
I’m going to call bullshit on this without any special knowledge but just because these claims are *always* bullshit.
Even though she’s probably reading the tea leaves and caving to save her skin, such language is still surprising coming from a NYC Democrat. I guarantee you the rest of the Dems in that sordid chamber are almost all full-on communists. Some of them are even honest about it.
Hochul, who’s still grappling with a state budget that’s now nearly a month late, immediately threw cold water on the new push from Mamdani and Menin.
“It’s not happening. We’re not changing the PTET,” Hochul told reporters in Albany later in the day, using an acronym for the Pass-Through Entity Tax credit.
In slamming the door on the proposal, Hochul is leaving Menin and Mamdani without a clear path forward on how to fill the city’s budget hole.
Whatever happens, “government bloat” won’t be cut, because there is no such thing.
We need a steering committee to do an investigation to determine the amount of bloat and proposals on how to eliminate it.
Three years, 17 M budget, winter investigations in Hawaii, should produce some recommendations like reduce hours for the library, etc.
She’ll cave. It is virtually guaranteed. It’s not she won’t be re-elected.
The now-fired teacher was under a multi-month investigation after the boy’s parents alerted the Brevard Sheriff’s Office to the alleged inappropriate relationship.
My money is on it being the mother, not the father.
In the interlude the young man was just piling up new evidence…
Multi-month investigation? Sounds like they alerted the Brevard Voyeurs Office.
“OK, now this time we need you to wear this and tell her that you are a bad boy. Justice is not the only thing that is gonna come after that…”
The war with Iran has cost about $25 billion so far. Give a suitcase full of money to the right guy, and we could have killed anyone there.
Pervez Musharraf, the former president of Afghanistan, said that a suitcase full of money to the right guy would have gotten Osama bin Laden killed in a day. He should know. Bin Laden gave him a suitcase full of money to hide him in Abbottabad.
This war, like most others, is a colossal waste of money and lives.
I saw a clip from Pakistani TV where the guest, a general, said that during the war with the USSR, America was paying to defeat Russia, but in the war with America, America was paying to defeat America. Everybody in studio laughed at that.
It’s like that Dilbert comic where the French bomb Elbonia, and its GDP triples from selling the bomb fragments as scrap metal, so Elbonia tries to provoke another war with France.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/dilbert/images/0/0d/Dt940128dhc0.gif/revision/latest?cb=20160727225801
The one thing Trump had going for him was being the first president in my lifetime now to start a major new conflict. I’m not sad to see the goat fucking leadership structure in Iran wiped off the face of the earth, but it should have been left to Israel and the Saudis, at their own expense.
Agreed.
Oh, there will be a new pool and cabana at Stately R.J. Manor. If it is done by August 14th, you and your plus one are invited over.
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nownotAlso, of all the presidents who should have drawn a principled line on FISA/702 extension… If you can’t get Trump, who was put through the FISA wringer unlike any other single individual since it was passed, to relinquish the power, what does that tell you about how it’s being used and abused?
He’s also a cunt for not pardoning Snowden.
Ayo! Keep me posted for sure.
You’d think there’d be more anger about US politicians, officials, and celebrities being routinely surveilled (and set up for coercion/blackmail) by NSA, but strangely, no.
You’d think there’d be more anger about 99% of the shit that the government does – all unconstitutional – but the voters just don’t give a shit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
After the Snowden leaks, Stossel had a good list of things that bother him more than NSA mass surveillance. The top two items were the income tax and the war on drugs.
Around the 3:14 minute mark, an extemporaneous use of “tricknology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG9kt8Ud9TY
I thought that word was just a joke.
I mean, everything associated with NoI is a joke.
I must look this up in my dictionary.
Who will think of the poor protesters?
Meh. As unsympathetic as the Portland chucklefucks are, “Yeah, maybe it went too far, but…” isn’t my favorite to set regarding federal law enforcement. When a Democrat inevitably ends up on the throne we’re going to get about a dozen new Wacos and Ruby Ridges under these kinds of precedents.
Headline: “Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Abortion Group”
I can’t be bothered to read through and decipher what horrific hate crimes are involved.
Probably white supremacists.
Join the Regressive Party. It’s against abortion, but in favor of killing babies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOCf8sL0xgE
Down with women’s rights! Up with infanticide!
TOO LOCAL NEWS: NH property tax cap drama
Opponents of a GOP plan to allow voters to pass a local property tax cap every two years say the legislation will undermine local control and “circumvent the democratic process.”
It is an argument that left prime sponsor Rep. Ross Berry befuddled during a hearing Tuesday before the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee.
“Local control? This is local control,” Berry told the committee. “Local control is not 15 percent of people showing up, or 5 percent or 3 percent of people showing up in a meeting and sitting there for 12 hours. That’s not local control. This is local control: If the local voters don’t want it, the local voters don’t have to have it.”
The bill, HB 1300, would establish a biennial school district local tax cap question and related limitations on central office administrative expenses in school districts.
The “five percent” and “12 hours” are references to the current town and school committee meeting process. Meetings are often held during the week, last for hours, and can have extremely low voter participation. Placing the property tax question on the ballot during the regular November election makes participation much higher.
“What HB 1300 does is it places on the November ballot a question to voters: ‘Shall your school district adopt a property tax cap and a spending constraint on administrative spending — SAU spending of 6 percent of the school budget?’” Berry told the committee.
Look at Mr. Fascist McFascy-face over here.
All I want is to get a storm door replaced (the existing one is damaged). I ended up having to schedule an appointment with Lowe’s, because I was getting fed up with “we don’t do that” or “we stopped doing that”. Your website says you do 😣
I’m sure there are still local people who do it, but I was sick of looking.
I just want a door that isn’t falling apart.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: NH Car inspection drama continues with a win for the state government
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion by Gordon-Darby Holdings, the company suing New Hampshire for ending mandatory annual inspections for cars and trucks, seeking for the state to be held in contempt of court and fined.
In March, attorneys for Gordon-Darby Holdings said state officials have violated a six-week-old ruling from federal judge Landya McCafferty to reinstate car inspections. Earlier this year, McCafferty issued a preliminary injunction, concluding the state was in violation of the federal Clean Air Act by unilaterally ending inspections without federal approval.
State officials developed and issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) asking for proposals to reinstate mandatory car and truck inspections, while continuing their appeal of McCafferty’s order to bring back the inspection program immediately.
The RFP was made in response to McCafferty’s decision to deny the state’s request that her ruling be suspended during the appeals process, state officials said.
On Wednesday McCafferty denied the contempt request, saying the state issuing an RFP constitutes “diligent efforts amounting to substantial compliance with this court’s preliminary injunction.”
America’s foremost humorist
Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at President Trump once again Tuesday, as their ongoing feud heats up.
During an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC, the host had his audience watch a clip of Trump speaking earlier in the day at an event with King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the White House.
The president referenced that his mother and father — Mary Anne MacLeod and Fred Trump — were married for 63 years. He then turned to his wife, first lady Melania Trump, and quipped, “That’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling.”
“I’m sorry. It’s just not going to work out that way,” the 79-year-old president told his spouse of 21 years.
Kimmel then said, “Wait a minute. Did he just make a joke about his death? My god. He should be fired for that,” to roaring applause.
My god I’m laughing so hard right now.
I just realized Itsy Bitsy Spider has the same tune as Hail to the Chief.