Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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“Gas Prices Lift US Inflation to 3.8 Percent, the Highest Level in Nearly 3 Years”
I still blame covid.
That’s 3.8 additional percent on top of the Covid inflation. It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pays off for the mid-terms.
We tend to forget that inflation is compounding. It never goes away
Rule of 72 keeps on keeping on
Kevin Warsh Cleared by Senate for 14‑Year Fed Board Seat
And idiots still want lower interest rates.
“The charge is in reference to a photograph of the meeting between Van Hollen and Abrego and Garcia showing alcoholic beverages. Van Hollen insisted at the time neither man touched the drinks, saying Salvadoran officials staged the photo by placing the glasses on the table mid-meeting in order to undermine the process.”
Official cocktail waitresses?
saying Salvadoran officials staged the photo by placing the glasses on the table mid-meeting in order to undermine the process
Projection, of course.
I’m fine with Patel’s responses – the default should be to treat those grandstanding pompous jack-holes with the disdain the deserve – but he missed an opportunity. “So you claim you were manipulated and lied about for political advantage – did it ever occur to you that the press and members of your own party might be doing the same to me? Probably not, because you’re just a pompous grandstanding asshole trying to score cheap political points.”
Is today a holiday?
Every day is a holiday if you set your standards low enough.
Fourscore is off work today.
Oh yeah?
“He [Makary] will not be missed by a single career person,” an anonymous FDA staffer told Politico on Friday
The career people need to think about their careers.
“We gotta make this job long enough ’til we can retire”
not be missed by a single career person
That’s not the condemnation that asshole thinks it is.
I don’t think so, the boss here is telling me I have stuff to do.
Tell Mrs. JI we say hi.
Well, it is World Cocktail Day.
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/jack-daniels-maker-brown-forman-rejects-15-billion-takeover-offer-from-sazerac-48296c0e?st=DL4vX1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
National Frog Jumping Day
Talk is cheap.
“A glamorous female prison warden has been busted for allegedly having a relationship with an inmate at a maximum-security prison dubbed the UK’s Guantánamo Bay.
Michelle Molver, 30, allegedly had a fling with lag Kemai Mathurine between Aug 1. and Sept. 5 last year while working as a prison employment lead at HMP Belmarsh – a London lockup that houses terrorists alongside murderers and rapists, the Sun reported.
Molver appeared in court Monday charged with misconduct in public office – an offense that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in the UK.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/world-news/glam-prison-warden-busted-for-alleged-fling-with-inmate-at-max-security-lockup-dubbed-uks-gitmo/
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15808095/female-prison-officer-inappropriate-relationship-HMP-Belmarsh.html
Glam is mid with make up.
You ever been to prison? She’s a prison 10+1 for not having a set of balls.
misconduct in public office – an offense that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment
Sounds good in theory, but I suspect it doesn’t work that way in practice.
It depends on the nature of the misconduct I suspect. Abetting the mass rape of young girls? A stern talking to! Miss-gendering the 6′ 3 pervert masturbating in a grade school girl’s rest room? Life imprisonment.
If you have legs like that, you should not wear skirts like that.
$30,000,000,000? That’s Zelensky’s money
Think of all the learing and hospices that could cover.
“Over 430 witnesses were also interviewed, who told terrifying tales of terrorists raping and mutilating women both alive and dead, humiliating them sexually, and executing women while violating them and then parading their bodies as trophies.
“The men pulled a woman from the vehicle … forcibly removed her clothing, and raped her … They repeatedly stabbed her, killing her … They continued to rape her after her death,” Nova music festival survivor Raz Cohen told the commission….
Some of the worst crimes described by survivors were labeled “kinocidal sexual violence” — which the commission described as “crimes deliberately aimed at torturing and destroying the family as a cohesive social and emotional unit.”
That included young women being threatened with marriage to their captors — and, unspeakably, family members held captive together being forced to commit sexual acts on each other.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/world-news/hamas-forced-sexual-torture-between-family-members-on-oct-7/
The Women’s March was unavailable for comment.
Antifa and friends are saying none of this happened and if it did they deserved it.
Today in no minds will be changed….
None of it happened, they deserved it anyways, and what about the (((dog))) rape story! BELIEVE THEM
#TeachDogsToRapeBitchesNotPalestinians
The chart is priceless.
The Average Student-Loan Defaulter Is Nearly 40 Years Old
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-average-student-loan-defaulter-is-nearly-40-years-old-3d25a7b5?st=Q4nffn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nothing broken about student loans or higher education pricing.
JFC.
No worries, they will just hang on until the next Democrat either puts it on hold again or just makes the debt go *poof*.
The chart is priceless.
The interregnum.
It’s the opposite of a holiday, and I have to avoid excess aggravation right now, lest I murder a coworker.
Does your workplace have documented procedures regarding not murdering coworkers?
Holds bloody ax
“was that wrong? should I knot have done that? If I had known…”
Story from the startup days:
Our labs were only provided with a single point of egress. In order to highlight this problem the then manager put for requests for an axe, then power equipment in order to go through the walls in case that egress point was blocked by a fire.
They were denied.
Should have ordered one of those explosive breaching panels which have a shaped charge around the rim to punch out a doorway in the wall.
Hmmm. I wonder how EHS would react to submitting a MSDS for high explosives?
That’s why I quit corporate America 20 years ago.
Freelance murderin’ now?
Corporate America was a peach compared to American public sector.
subcontract killer
Who here hated patchouli?
https://www.dailymail.com/textbased/health/text-15811147/herb-perfumes-patchouli-oil-mosquito-repellent.html
Everyone.
🙂
↖️
The mosquitoes were repelled by the hippies, not the patchouli.
potato, potatoe
Do mosquitos enjoy blood with a little kick to it?
The TNR is concerned about damage Biden is going to do the elections.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-have-a-joe-biden-problem-again/ar-AA22Dn0e
Hardly a problem at all!
His arrogant insistence on running for re-election rather than making a dignified exit from office doomed his party and the country.
Totally overlooking the fact that Democrats spent four years covering up Biden’s condition.
😂🤣
“LGBTQ people”
I’m not under assault except by the Virginia Democrats.
Are these the same Virginia Democrats who want to eliminate all the judges on the state Supreme Court?
“A mural painted to honor Iryna Zarutska — the Ukrainian refugee who was murdered while riding a North Carolina train — is being taken down after outrage in Providence, Rhode Island.
On Tuesday, a construction crew was seen near the exterior of The Dark Lady, an LGBTQ+ club in downtown Providence, working to remove the partly finished mural….
The office of Mayor Brett Smiley told Fox News that he wanted the artwork taken down, saying that the art is “divisive and does not represent Providence.”
“The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating tragedy, but the misguided, isolating intent of those funding murals like the one across the county is divisive and does not represent Providence,” Smiley said in a statement.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/us-news/iryna-zarutska-mural-taken-down-in-providence-after-local-outrage/
It excludes people who want more crime.
“Outrage”
If only she was an overweight dude with a heart condition and high on fentanyl.
Now I am outraged! Why TF is this a federal case? NC doesn’t have a capital murder statute? Is Nifong back in office in NC?
And I don’t get the mayor ordering the art removed unless it was on city property.
https://www.dailymail.com/textbased/debate/text-15811897/supreme-court-justices-fury-exposed.html
KBJ, of course.
So she’s “combative” but more importantly she’s an idiot and a radical activist.
Yes, I have little problem with combative, especially in the face of institutions that have largely co-opted decorum and ‘institutional respect’ as a means of curbing and excluding dissent.
KJBs problem is she is completely unfit for the office she was appointed to.
Will she eventually go Tennessee-D during a session?
I believe she will.
??? 🤔
If she starts walking with a cane, you’ll know it’s on.
And in a perfect NYC moment two coworkers and I have all independently grabbed our earbuds to block out a jackhammer outside our office and 14 floor below. It’s been going on for the past half hour.
+1 Back to the Office!
+1 Team interaction!
And in football news we missed:
https://www.beinsports.com/en-us/soccer/articles/chaos-and-madness-in-the-prague-derby-pitch-invasion-injuries-and-an-early-ending-2026-05-10
I can’t imagine being hit in the face by a flare was particularly enjoyable.
This ain’t hockey – no checks!
Football news? The schedule isn’t getting released until tomorrow.
How are people there going to get married?
India Raises Gold, Silver Tariffs to Curb Imports
https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/india-raises-gold-silver-tariffs-to-curb-imports-7350aa4f?st=vQrEKc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Debasement and black market metals.
Does their gold not already come from Africa?
For the second time in 2 years the fiber optic internet feed to work has been severed by an overeager fella in a backhoe. No CAD, no sharing test data.
/what is the Cal score?
Before answering that question, I am required to inform you that the data in question is known to the state of california to cause cancer.
A local school lost their internet connection yesterday during state testing that requires the internet.
Fun in the Philippines!
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-senator-says-arrest-is-imminent-urges-public-not-allow-icc-transfer-2026-05-13/
The important thing is that the detective has no personal liability, her union no liability, but the CO taxpayers do!
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/misconduct-jury-verdict-parker-police-robert-dial/