Whoops. Almost put 3 ks in the title. Don’t want to get us on the SPLC (or whatever they migrate the assets to after the lawsuits) radar. So.. the elementary school my older kids attend have a government Pre-K class (and a 3 year olds class that my youngest attends. Lots of kids spend 8 years at a K-5 school, right?) Anyhow, they are having a Pre-K graduation tonight, which I’m sure will be unbearably cute, but what’s the point here? Congratulations on learning not to eat crayons? Good luck learning not to eat paste in Kindergarten? I have to tell you guys this, because if I tell my wife that I’m not interested in attending a graduation unless they held someone back, she’ll get all bitchy about how I’m a grinch.
Lol. Louisiana is going to have special punishments for smoking pot within 2000 feet of a school. That’s more than 1/3 of a mile. I live 200 yards from a school. Maybe less if you measure to the sidewalk. I’ll bet sex offenders can hang out closer than dope smokers.
Jeez, we’re not even trying any more. Raul Castro indicted in US. It’s like the end of The Godfather in the Americas, with Rubio playing Michael. I guess Vance better hope Marco’s mom doesn’t pass. “Nobody touches Fredo while my mother is alive.”
Oh no, the local panopticon suffers a technological setback. Lets be fair, though, those big metal water bottles would make excellent bludgeons.
Sociopath wants only naturally-born sociopaths in her club. Go convince their constituents.
This came up in a random playlist at the gym, and it took me a minute to place it. Good show, especially the first 2 seasons.
what’s the point here? Congratulations on keeping your new gender a secret from your parents?
Jian Yangs hotdog app
Information from the district did not say if any weapons were found, but reported that the system alerted to things like large water bottles, metal frames and tool kits for art classes, large shears for costume design courses, and even the position of a student’s backpack as they passed through the detectors.
Hey! Those can be weapons!
In fact, anything can be a weapon.
Oh shit, I probably gave them ideas.
The only difference between a tool and a weapon is how you hold it.
I don’t think line cooks change their grip before their tool becomes a weapon.
This is my rifle. This is my gun.
That’s what she said.
Security guards really don’t like it when you point out how a pen, a knitting needle, or the like can be used as weapons when they’re confiscating a Utili-Key for its quarter inch blade.
This is my water bottle
It’s full, you better run.
Guy I worked with in a previous job had a code over who killed a duty with a Thermos, whacked him on the top of the head with the bottom edge of the thermos. Lights out.
Information from the district did not say if any weapons were found, but reported that the system alerted to things like large water bottles, metal frames and tool kits for art classes, large shears for costume design courses, and even the position of a student’s backpack as they passed through the detectors.
Astonishingly cynical, even for local government, to put their weapons detection program in the lily-white* college prep school in the tony part of the county.
*assuming, like the schools do, that east Asians are “white” when it comes to the high achievers
Those are the dual enrollment high schools on community college campuses. So even worse than you imagine. They’ve already screened for poor impulse control.
Astonishing
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history.
Just this week, we found out that in the first quarter of the year, Trump made more than 3,700 financial trades, worth tens of millions of dollars. That averages out to 59 trades a day and nine trades per hour.
The conflicts of interest and personal corruption are simply astonishing. Many of the companies do business with the federal government. In fact, Trump allegedly bought stock in Amazon and Microsoft months before the Pentagon announced agreements with both companies.
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“Neither President Trump, his family, nor The Trump Organization plays any role in selecting, directing, or approving specific investments,” the Trump Organization said in a statement. “They receive no advance notice of trading activity and provide no input regarding investment decisions or portfolio management of any kind.”
Even if it’s true that Trump is not involved in these stock purchases, the mere appearance of a conflict of interest is why, in the past, presidents have avoided day trading while in office. But not Trump.
I can’t believe Michael Cohen has not yet swallowed his tongue and died in an apoplectic fit, which in his case would also qualify as autoerotic asphyxia.
He needs to consult Pelosi to get those profits up.
Vance had a great comeback. Trump is not sitting at his desk on Robinhood.
Everybody knows his assets are in blond trusts. But no clicks for that.
Err blind. Blond trusts lose money.
Even a blond hog can find an acorn once in a while.
Funny how if he so corrupt the only time has been charged for corruption (that I am aware of in the last couple of decades) was when theyliterally created a case out of thin air, using a law whereby the state can declare a transaction a crime if they so deem, using a Federal law he had not been charged with with violating, that was so over the top that the governor had to reassure the world that the case was a one-off.
See from my work PC I always password protect the Bundt Cake pdf or zip file. At least make them work for it.
Sorry for the early OT.
DOJ charges ex-prosecutor with stealing Trump documents case report prepared by Jack Smith
Should have named it “50 Shades – Pirated.pdf”. No one is going to believe your bundt cake recipe is 3mb
What a silly bundt.
Have you seen modern recipes? There’s a gods damned novella detailing the author’s love and connection to the dish before you get to the ingredient list.
@Neph I hate that so much. I don’t care if Nana used to make this for you on your trips to the country as a child. Just show me how to make the damn cake.
The only recipes I like that are done that way are the ones that explain why certain choices were made. “We tried using all purpose flour, but it ended up not rising enough, so we highly recommend cake flour” and the like.
Agreed. Drives me nuts. I just want to know how to make the fancy sausage rolls. I don’t want to scroll down a mountain of verbal diarrhea to find your recipe.
Yeah… only Germans might want to eat sausage after a bunch of diarrhea.
Copyright reasons.
I can’t say the letter c.
That Cohen thing also mentioned the YUUUUGE number of trades. Guess what. If you’re buying five million dollars’ worth of Amalgamated Kickback, you don’t get it in one chunk.
No, no. You announce to everybody you are going to buy and the time you will be buying.
They didn’t have those excessive graduations for my kids, but my little nieces and nephews have them. They are indeed unbearably cute. But they really don’t need to be a “graduation”. They can be an end of school performance. Mostly the kids just sing and recite stuff anyway.
It’s not for the kids. Its for the moms and teachers.
Yep even HD grad is not for the kids anymore and they know it.
Oldest opted out to walk and we had our own party that WAS for him.
Other two wanted to do it for the lulz
*HS
At my kid’s school (both were there since they were 3 – one graduated last year) they had the sense to understand that “graduating” has a specific connotation, and instead opted to call the lower (elementary) school and middle school ceremonies “Moving Up Ceremonies” instead of graduations.
Only the HS has a graduation.
Party of sloth and envy
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani fired back on Wednesday at Jeff Bezos after the Amazon
founder and executive chairman questioned whether raising taxes on billionaires would do anything to help working-class New Yorkers.
“You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you,” Bezos said in an interview on CNBC earlier Wednesday.
Mamdani responded on X: “I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.”
Bezos, meanwhile, pushed for tax cuts for low-income Americans.
The nail which sticks up must be hammered down.
That clip is going around X. Someone pointed out that confiscating every dollar from every billionaire would fund the federal government for 13 months. And then you’d have a crashed economy. I did the math myself months ago and it lines up with that.
At this point, I would have expected 13 weeks, honestly.
And NYC craphead leaves out that it will benefit 7 layers of administration way before it gets anywhere near Ms. Queens in the classroom. Much like the perpetual property tax / bond initiatives always “needed for the schools” every damned election.
One of the new lefty trends is to list all the things a wealth tax could pay for. X number of people could have food or health care or whatever.
The key word is “could”, because anyone with a brain knows that throwing any amount of money into the gaping maw of government won’t provide any of that.
All of the numbers I’ve seen indicate 8-9 months if every penny were confiscated.
Oh, dammit, I was next on the list for healthcare when the billionaire tax ran out of money. I wish they’d have gone with a $999 millionaire person tax. Then I could have gotten the cosmetic surgery I need when I open my Facebook account.
That teacher in Queens is already helping herself to as many tax dollars as she pleases because her union has complete control over city politics.
Try harder, commie.
Vermont Man needs to talk to Florida Man about how to do it right
Federal authorities say a Vermont man is at the center of a gun trafficking network that spanned from New Hampshire to violent organized crime in Canada. Five people have already pleaded guilty, and eight more have been indicted as part of a scheme the feds say involved smuggling through a northern new york Indian reservation.
A total of 13 people have been charged in connection with the international gun trafficking conspiracy that authorities say originated in New Hampshire and Vermont.
“This began with tracing of a signal casing,” said Erin Creegan, U.S. attorney for the New Hampshire District.
The shell casing led to 51 guns that authorities say were smuggled into Canada through the Akwesasne Reservation in Northern New York.
Paging Richard to the scary black courtesy phone!
Good catch. I never would have caught that and I’ve seen the episode it appeared in at least 3 times.
[Bezos] called for eliminating federal income taxes on the bottom half of earners, telling CNBC’s Andrew Sorkin on “Squawk Box,” that the top 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all tax revenue, while the bottom half pay 3%.
“I don’t think it should be 3%,” Bezos said. “I think it should be zero.”
That’s not going to win him any friends at H&R Block.
“I don’t think it should be 3%,” Bezos said. “I think it should be zero.”
Because people who don’t have a personal stake in a thing are known for treating that thing with the utmost of respect and honor. They definitely don’t squeeze it for what it’s got and vandalize the husk for the fun of it. Nosiree.
“I also think people should have one vote per dollar paid in taxes.”
I’ve often said that the only ethical way to fund a democratic government is to auction off votes.
It’s not, because then you use those votes to grant yourself back the money to buy the votes for the next election on everyone else’s dime…
*even if there is no tax power, there are any number of ways to use such a system to lock out others.
I believe most if not all of the bottom half of earners get an Earned Income Tax Credit that more than compensates for the 3% tax they pay. So either Bezos is bullshitting (my take) or he is asking that the bottom earners give up their EITC.
Flat tax.
Everyone pays.
The end.
Amen. Skin in the game is essential
No income tax.
National sales tax.
Fuck the IRS.
Southampton lose appeal: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn4p284ny2ko
Hilariously, Hull City are now contemplating an appeal if they lose because they have to prepare against a different opponent.
Even more hilariously, the Hull City owner declared “I am representing a big club.” No, no you’re not.
Golden Knights lose appeal of punishment for media violation
The Golden Knights are really leaning into the “We’re the assholes”.
Not only that, they’re not giving permission to other teams to talk to the coach they fired just before the end of the regular season, as he’s still under contract to them.
As long as they’re paying him, I don’t have a problem with that.
He might prefer to work rather than not.
Three year olds in the government school?
Damn. That’s terrible for mom and kids.
I don’t think mine would be ready emotionally to not spend all day with mom until about now. Eight. And when he’s out and about with me and away from his mom and sister he’s misses them terribly.
Probably the biggest reason for falling population numbers.
Government schools take your kids away from you and you end up not knowing or liking them.
Tim Hortons customer, 75, dead after rage-fuelled brawl over order
See what happens when Tim Hortons comes south. We don’t deserve its greatness.
Tim Horton’s has really gone in the shitter.
When I was a kid, I remember old ladies working there for socialization and spending money. Everything was baked in house, and every store had a case with cakes in it. They also used to have the best fast food coffee.
Now they’re all staffed by Indians, stuff is made offsite and reheated on prem, and it’s invariably 10-15 minutes to get your order, and it’s always a shitshow. And McDonald’s has better covfefe.
I’m surprised more incidents like this don’t happen.
Interesting… I seem to recall Dunkin the same way as a kid.
Chipping Pioneer:
Out of curiosity, was that around the time of the BK/Tim Horton’s acquisition?
By then, officers had responded to a 911 call involving an assault. But when they arrived, Grayson was reportedly unresponsive and efforts by emergency personnel kept her alive long enough to die in hospital.
I admit, I didn’t have “septuagenarian death by chimpout” on my bingo card for this week.
Bye, Felicia.
New Galaxy A57 arrived today to replace old Galaxy S23 FE. Meaningful downgrade?
Is there anything LGA can’t fuck up?
https://abc7ny.com/post/lga-delays-cancellations-sinkhole-shuts-down-laguardia-airports-runways/19138641/
If the right people are getting paid, it’s not fucked up.
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The Revenue Act of 1913 created a base “normal” tax of 1% on net income above $3,000 for a single person ($4,000 for a married couple), with a graduated surtax that topped out at 7% on income above $500,000. Those thresholds were high enough that fewer than 1% of Americans owed anything at all.
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https://legalclarity.org/a-history-of-u-s-federal-income-tax-brackets/
And then the rest of the camel came into the tent.
Nothing is as permanent as a temporary program.
Those taxes levied were supposed to help pay for WWEye.
So either Bezos is bullshitting (my take) or he is asking that the bottom earners give up their EITC.
My take from skimming a couple of articles about that interview is that he was basically making an efficiency argument. That’s a lot of fucking around for not much (relatively speaking) return. I could also be projecting.
Hrm. Contract will end May 26 but def the 27th. Went in to Meijer to get back on their schedule. Helpfully, someone grabbed me before I found who I was looking for about scheduling. We chatted. Seems they only have open hours for “Receiving.” Hrm. Scheduler -in-Chief will email me about possibilities tomorrow. Well. I’ll certainly take a few days and see, but ‘getting things off trucks’ is about the one thing I kinda really don’t think I should actually be doing.
Funnily enough, I just submitted a piece about me getting shuffled ’round non-gas stn Meijer. (They’re incredibly helpful and nice about it all, no snark.) So I’m being shuffled again! I was hoping to… well. No spoilers, I s’pose…
History Channel seems to be on a good track. Huh! (They’ve got back ‘n forth a few times, IIRC.) Just saw their American Food thing on Anheuser Busch. They were highly praising him for his industrial ‘creativity,’ esp with shipping and refrigeration. And pasteurization. “Why no one talks about Busch when talking about other late 19th, early 20th century industrialists baffles me.” They compared to Ford and Rockefeller. They had fun with cunt-hat Carrie Nation.
Early 2000s HC was pretty damn good. I’ve also talked about my 15 min fun w American Pickers and Pawn Stars. Very well-crafted ways to get folk who don’t care about history into it. Americana is also fun. Fuck people who don’t realize how/why this nation is (among?) the bestest. Any that’s remotely better are far, far, far smaller. (Kinda funny how that always makes sense…)
The pizza one’s now talking about Little Caesars starting up, really only cuz franchising. That’s fun economic food history.
On that: The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson is one of my favorite books. Very engagingly written, goes through how financial institutions came to be. I believe he’s changed, over the years, likely cuz of his ‘new’ wife. I could be wrong, cuz I was taken aback and ‘shocked’ when he turned into a raging wokie. He seemed like us! (I really could be misremembering a lot of this. His new wife was who I thought she was, but I thought she was a raging pro-Islamic, cutie Dutch Somalian.)