Hello good people. And Glibs. Mostly Glibs. How are you all doing this fine afternoon? I am prepping a brisket for barbecuing this weekend, along with some beef ribs. Also, my mother is making seafood paella this weekend and invited us. That’s one of my absolute favorite dishes. And one I don’t attempt. I think it would just taste like disappointment if I made it. Okay, here we go, let’s link some links.
Well, she seems smarter than the average collaborator with FBI informants. She at least googled how long she’d go to prison for. I don’t usually root for ISIS, but this one has me on the fence.
Man bites dog story: Portland jury finds $0 in damages for business owner who shot a burglar. And threw a cup of urine in the burglar’s face. Who among us hasn’t wanted to throw our piss cup in a bum’s face?
I believe Eric Swalwell may end up in prison.
Uh oh, Lil Big Kim is getting uppity. He’s shooting missiles again.
This news is going to be “too local”, but they might as well call this the Bum Express. Atlanta/Warner Robbins/Valdosta/Gainesville/Tampa/St. Pete? Who the hell is poor enough to take the bus from Atlanta to Tampa, but has legitimate business there? I mean, its great for UF students from Tampa, St. Pete, assuming Greyhound didn’t already do that route.
Was picking up my older kids from the movies this weekend, and this came on the dad rock channel.
“Dad, can you turn it down?”
::Turns it up::
“Dad, turn it down!”
::Turns it up::
Me: “It won’t go any louder!”
whaddup doh’
You know that plagiarism scandal that ended up with a professor committing suicide?
Well, academia has responded. The professor who exposed the fraud has been suspended, and says he will surely be fired.
His boss began the last academic year with an epic defense of academic freedom.
Today? She(he) says that academic freedom has its limits. (And presumably being entirely correct is not a defense)
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/2090530183761875142
Best comment:
“ Why is there a picture of Howard Stern? What does this have to do with him?”
How dare he call out plagiarism!
Being consistent is celebrating misogyny and racism.
Yeah… I didn’t think this link would keep until tomorrow.
That is some excellent weaseling right there.
Academia is basically a freak show and I suspect that anyone with actual academic standards is kind of an outlier these days.
Also the creep is a fucking gynecologist. I don’t want to delve into the psyche of that sort of freak.
Perfect.
Had to double check that it was in Portland, OR.
I’m legitimately astonished a Portland jury didn’t award him the full $10M he asked for.
Outstanding musical selection, Brett. And good job punking the kids.
I am gratified that Brett continues the tradition of keeping Thursday Afternoon links the best PM links.
Psst… its Tonio’s 31st birthday! All hail the Editor!
No way! Is that why he hasn’t answered my emails?
Happy Birthday Tonio!
31? That means he is half way to 62.
HBD Tonio!
Only 31? Damn…
Happy birthday young man!
Happy Birthday Tonio!
I hope you get something nice from the tight, black and stiff collection.
Happy Birthday Tonio!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
I, uh… am surprised! Sorry, but not only did I think you were much older – and that’s good, cuz like, wisdom and stuff – but I kinda thought I was among the younger folk here. Borderline ‘youngest.’
We should party, apparently. Kinda party hardy, cuz it’s a prime number b-day. Those are ‘special,’ for special reasons.
He’s a pup!
Mazel tov! I assume 31 is some kind of inside joke, as I’m confident Tonio is older than that. Either that or he was like 13 when I first encountered him at TOS.
I used to do the same thing to my youngest and then exclaim “if it’s too loud, you’re too old.” Never failed to get a rise out of her.
I believe Eric Swalwell may end up in prison.
I sure hope so. Scott Adams used to call him a “designated liar”. They’d put him on the news when they needed someone to blatantly lie to your face.
Boy, the democrat go-to for destroying a non-compliant politician is always secual assault.
Dont drop out when we say? You are getting a sex scandal.
You gotta admit, it is easy when they are all guilty of it.
Me, too. But you know how this will be spun.
OMB MADE him rape?
Yeah he is one of the worst.
How did they choose between so many great options?
Bowie had allegedly discussed her plans with FBI informants and spent weeks doing surveillance of the Capitol, including taking pictures from various vantage points, including an “observation hall nearby,” the criminal complaint said.
Why do I get the feeling that those FBI informants were setting her up?
That would be a shocking development with absolutely no precident.
I mean, if she hadn’t gotten their encouragement, advice, and support, she would have just been another angry person saying they wished someone would blow up the capitol building in Albany. You can’t arrest people for that. But seriously, ISIS in 2025/26 is a good indication that it’s the FBI.
The only time the feebs EVER foil a terrorist plot is if it’s one they’ve constructed themselves.
Flix and three or four others run a dozen buses a day between Ithaca and NYC and yeah it’s mostly students.
Remember the Fun Wah buses? I never took one but they were everywhere in Chinatown through I-95 corridor. Then they started catching on fire and crashing…
Fung Wah.
A former coworker took it once. He said he thought the driver was going to roll the bus on the on/off ramps. At some point along the trip the driver pulled off on the side of the interstate, got out, pissed, got back on, and started driving.
Yup took them to Boston a couple times. Classic case of “you get what you pay for”.
Ya know, if you’re conducting surveillance on a sensitive site in the United States, the full abaya+niqab+gloves getup probably isn’t your best choice of attire…
Maybe if you had it in a woodland forest BDU print?
I’m going with brush strokes.
Are you kidding? She probably figured it’d be a get out of jail free card in New York.
Caption on a photo in the the article “Woman arrested for allegedly plotting New York state Capitol attack”.
I saw that too
I may have listened to this song at full volume more than a few times in my youth.
The James Gang is always on 11
This is what I told the boys. Some songs can only be enjoyed at full volume.
It’s a great tune.
$0 in damages
He got reimbursed for his fees and expenses, right?
Right?
Sadly, the article has a partial paywall – because I wish to know more. Like, why was there a cup of urine close at hand?
My first thought upon reading the headline was, “A Portland jury?” I’m sure y’all can relate.
The owner was sleeping in his business to save money, and I guess had a piss cup because he didn’t want to get up and walk all the way from the office to the pisser?
Been there done that.
Weirder part isn’t just that he had a piss cup, but that he had it in his hand when the bum came in. Like his first thought when he heard someone breaking in was grab the pee.
I suppose maybe the bum entered right as he was filling it, but seems less likely.
See below. Piss jugs remain in close reach. Otherwise, their purpose is defeated. This ain’t complicated, guys.
In this March 24, 2015, file photo, sheets of one dollar bills run through the printing press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, D.C.
Taken with a state of the art high speed camera, presumably.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Veto Day round-up
If Gov. Kelly Ayotte launched a veto war by rejecting a record 33 bills passed by her fellow Republicans, then Veto Day was “The Legislature Strikes Back.”
Republican majorities overrode seven of Ayotte’s vetoes, the most overrides of a governor by a legislature controlled by the same party in at least 100 years. And they did so by margins that were either impressive or embarrassing, depending on one’s perspective.
For example, when Ayotte’s veto of the state’s 10-year highway plan reached the House floor, just 25 Republicans voted to sustain it. In the Senate, not a single Republican stuck with Ayotte. The veto was overridden 24-0.
Some of the other override votes drew as few as six House votes in support of Ayotte’s position.
For Republicans, the votes were not only about ensuring conservative legislation became law. They also sent a signal to a first-term governor that it was time to collaborate more closely with party leaders.
Why exactly is a Republican governor basically telling her own party to fuck off that many times? I see one of the more high profile one was trannie bathroom shit.
Is it just an example of people in New Hampshire mostly needing a R next to their name to win, and that the party basically consists of Rino’s and then more conservative types and the governor is the latter?
Ayotte is GOP Establishment. Very similar to the previous governor, Chris Sununu, except somehow managing to be friendlier than him to law enforcement probably due to her background as a prosecutor.
Libertarians have been making in-roads in the state Republican party thanks to the Free State Project, people bailing on the LPNH, and several strong liberty lobbying groups (the NHLA being the biggest and strongest). It’s easy to get elected to the State House of Representatives. There is roughly one representative per 3100 people (400 representatives for a state of roughly 1.3 million people). There are 102 state representatives with an A or higher rating from the NHLA. It’s less easy to get elected to the State Senate. There are 24 senators. The senate tends to be friendlier to the major party establishments and lobbyists. However, we have two NHLA A rated senators with four being A- rated.
On the trannie stuff: A similar bathroom bill has passed before and been vetoed by Sununu. I forget how many times Sununu vetoed it. On the other hand, Sununu signed legislation prohibiting transing minors and signed legislation requiring all kids (I think restricted to public schools only but can’t remember) compete in sports based on sex on their birth certificate.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Opinion piece on the end of car inspections in NH. They haven’t been gone more than a year as inspections ended in late January. Otherwise, I agree with the author.
As a member of the House Transportation Committee, I spent years trying to make this system reasonable, even before I was elected. We did not start out trying to throw the whole thing in the trash. We sat down with stakeholders and asked simple questions: How can we make this fair? How can we stop predatory practices while keeping people safe?
Instead of working with us, the special interests dug in their heels and refused to negotiate. When they ran out of actual evidence, they defaulted to the worst kind of fearmongering. They told us that if we got rid of the mandatory inspection sticker requirement, “people were going to die” on our roads.
Well, the mandatory inspection sticker requirement has been gone for more than a year now, and guess what? The sky has not fallen. The fearmongers could not point to a single accident, let alone a fatality, caused by the end of mandatory inspection stickers. Not one.
Anyone that uses the word “stakeholders” with a straight face deserves every terrible thing that could possibly happen to them.
Hard Disagree.
I’m with Threedoor on this one. Use the term shareholders if you’re referring to the people with a stake in the business. Everyone else is either an employee, customer, or vendor.
Shareholder is a specific subcategory of stakeholder who is a partial owner of a business. It only applies in the context of a joint stock corporation, and is not fit for purpose in other contexts.
You are a shareholder, with legitimate interest and ownership or you are not part of the equation at all.
Stakeholder is like using the Marxist language of class.
In those cases, substitute “owner” or “proprietor.” The punters are still just customers, the employees are still just an operating expense, and the vendors are still just suppliers. If you don’t have money or property on the line, you have no stake.
Stakeholder means someone who wants to stick their dick in your business even though they have no position or role to do so.
In classic Newspeak, a stakeholder is someone with no stake in whatever they want to stick their dick.
Okay, you’re all correct, people with a direct stake in the success of an institution but no shares are irrelevant and should be ignored at all times.
The people you’re describing defintionally have, at best, an indirect stake. That doesn’t mean their concerns aren’t worthy of consideration, only that we shouldn’t make a category error in describing them. When the company I work for lays off its entire human workforce in the next 5 years once our LLM is sufficiently developed I’ll be affected by it, but that doesn’t make me a stakeholder.
Why discard the taxonomy?
In the world I came from, stakeholder was used frequently for projects. Generally as a term for “interested parties” or “groups using the new software daily”. As an example, a change in call center software, or big call flow change would have the following people as stakeholders:
Call center manager
Supervisors over teams being impacted (depending on the size of the change)
Lead Implementer
Support representative (who will need to support the new process/software)
Business representative (who will be impacted by changes to flows/processes/software)
They don’t have a stake in it.
They have a hustle.
They have a grift that relies on the government continuing that particular program.
Those that have a true share in the process are the taxpayers and those negatively impacted by the hustle.
UnCiv, you will note that I left room for people who aren’t owners/shareholders.
“Stakeholder” is a catchall term for people who aren’t employees, customers, etc. People who have no role or relationship with the business, but claim some secondary impact/“externality” entitles them to dictate terms.
When these people are middle-aged women, we call them Karens or possibly AWFLs.
I would like to elaborate – The term itself is not an issue.
The question is of context. In the operation of an institution, you have to factor in additional categotires, you talk as if you want to ban the discussion of one of those categories by eliminating the word.
Do stakeholders get to say whether a business changes direction or sheds dead weight? No
Should we get rid of the term and categroy? No.
Ehh… I just think there’s more precise language that better defines the categories. A broad view of “stakeholder” is how you end up with union contracts that assume fixed market conditions over a multi-decade period, or “interstate commerce” being affected by Roscoe Filburn failing to export his wheat beyond his farm.
I prefer the term “motherfucker.” Replace stakeholder with motherfucker and read it again.
This may be the new “Christ, what an asshole” inasmuch as nearly any sentence affected by the substitution loses no value thereby.
Unfortunately, the term “stakeholder” is universally used to give those people a say.
RC, I think we run into the verbage in very different contexts. See Mr Ilium’s summary above. It’s always been a neutral term of people who should not be ignored in a project if you want success.
It’s been about three years since I first heard the term.
It’s 100% of the time been used as RC Dean has described it since I have been aware of the term.
Karen.
Grifter.
Blood sucking lawyer/envirowacko/SPLC types.
Jordan Salinas, involved in stopping the In-n-Out shooting in Idaho a little while ago, put together a video talking about what happened. The intro is a bit long, and the last ten minutes is information about the victims. The actual talk of the shooting is about ten or fifteen minutes in the middle.
Monkey County updating red light cameras to also catch speeders
Fuck. You.
Maybe some hope for Michigan Senate race?
https://www.themidwesterner.news/2026/08/watch-democrats-announce-support-for-republican-mike-rogers-in-hot-michigan-u-s-senate-race/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashcams/s/I2CTkD7hVL
Whoops!
“The I-75 corridor between Atlanta and Tampa Bay is exactly the kind of high-demand corridor where affordable, direct intercity bus service makes a real difference,” said Karina Frayter, head of communications for Flix North America, parent company of FlixBus.
Spirit Airlines’ loss is Flix’s gain.
Oh Lawd, tell me this isn’t people taking the bus to the cruise ship terminal.
Not Army wide, but at least one unit is offering a reenlistment package of all of 4 days off to play GTA 6 on release.
That commander knows his troops.
Like alls you have to do is not die.
I heard that said about cash bonuses during the Iraq War, but hey…same thing, right?
That is more than the Army offered me for my first reenlistment.
I would have taken something around $500,000 tax free, choice of duty station and a promotion for a four year reenlistment and I may have considered it.
Jury awards $0 to homeless burglar after owner throws cup of urine at his face, shoots him 3 times
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I’m remarkably surprised. Paywalled and couldn’t sneak around it, mostly out of ignorance, but I’m strongly guessin’ burglar Kenneth Voyles carried a bit of a reputation. A ‘polite’ way for ’em to silently bark a ‘FINALLY!’ or similar. If he wasn’t a semi-known troublemaker, I’d suspect more of a rally to ‘help’ the troubled, homelessnessed individual. But HE is white. Big problem for him, and negates everything else I said, sadly.
Here’s a positive: Pic of him as he “the positioning of his body when he was shot” reveals a suspicious(?) scar on his inner arm. Well, I, Evan, would cover that up unless it helped me. I presume public defender, but can’t verify, but they gave him a shower and gave him decent enough court clothes, probably a shave and a hair cut. (More than two bits. Damn inflation, Time.) That’s a really under-thought of ‘decency’ for American courts to ensure and provide for those who can’t get their own lawyer.
Not the biggest of things, but not at all meaningless. Good job, USA.
Should have put one more round in that bum.
If I recall, the burglar got out of rehab shortly before breaking in to the store. Either that or was ordered in to it. I forget the order of events.
I’m somewhat annoyed that there’s no good sanctions for lawyers who abet these frivolous lawsuits. You break in to some place and get yourself shot, you should know you won’t get a dime, and the lawyers should know 200% that they would suffer consequences for pursuing it.
Firefox has an extension to bypass news site paywalls. Seems to let me access it in full. There’s other workarounds with the paywall crap.
I get that news outlets need to make some money to keep themselves going at least in theory they serve a useful function, but it’s pretty fucking stupid to block people from reading your site at all. If people can’t see your content to judge it, they sure as fuck aren’t just going to start paying for it. And most of these ‘papers’ aren’t producing anything that’s so immediately interesting or compelling as to get people to cough up money for it period let alone just at a glance.
Nothing in that article even bothers to describe why the guy had a cup of pee. Which was my only real question.
But shooting a homeless man who is fleeing from you and kind of trapped isn’t exactly the picture perfect case for self-defense. Guy shouldn’t break in, and I’m not sympathetic if dumb shit happens, but firing bullets when he’s clearly trying to escape from you
“Nothing in that article even bothers to describe why the guy had a cup of pee. Which was my only real question.”
God dammit. We talked about this, or were you not here? I’m not the only one who has a piss jug. (Yes, I still do. But not the fancy schmancy one I had in the hospital.) Dude was likely there late, possibly sleeping for something early in the morning, and turning on all those lights, or walking around in TREACHEROUS, dimly lit aisles with fragile product at stake, uh. Don’t wander through it all! You’ll never get back to sleep. Fill your jug.
Then, burglar shows up and is ripping his way in! Well, I presume he had his weapon ‘near’ him, but ya know that piss didn’t go far. Use whatcha got.
Fuck him. He’s a burglar and a thief. Defense of property should justify lethal force.
I don’t argue with the notion that defending property justifies lethal force. I argue with the part where they are shot when they flee. In this case, the property is the business. He hadn’t taken anything, he hadn’t even done damage. Shooting him as he attempts to escape is kind of murder to me and seems to only have been protected by the law through castle doctrine (which applied because he was sleeping in his business).
It isn’t like he grabbed a piece of merchandise or cash and tried to run off with it. Whatever the bums intentions were, once he saw there was resistance he fled.
This is the same category as someone who is an altercation and the other person relents, but you continue to beat them for the fun of it.
This part is untrue, he damaged the structure to gain entry.
I skimmed the article, but he seemed to have gained entry through a dog door or some shit?
The linked article omits the details of his entry which involved removing a few panels. The doggie door was his first attempted egress, after which he picked up bolt cutters to attack a padlock. Also, he had picked up at least a tool bag and power drill with the intent of taking it with him prior to the initial confrontation – it is unclear when this was dropped or discarded. The shooting happened when the burglar was facing the owner with bolt cutters upraised. So he was in a posture easily seen as threatening.
Well, it is an orgiastic feast for the senses.
Apparently there’s either multiple guys using Family Guy characters to peddle conspiracies of various credibility. This is one I hadn’t heard of myself.
I had long had some idea that consolidation in the food industry was the result of government policy as it has been in most sectors (all the while the left cries about market failures and monopolies). Just hadn’t heard it connected directly to farms. This seems less deliberate though and more unintended consequences and small farms getting caught up in fuckery which left their land to be bought up by the big guys.
Most farms are small farms.
And most of them are corporations.
So many farmers lose it all by the third generation. Typically because they don’t upgrade equipment, don’t do maintenance on it, or spend like typical farmers (worse than drunken sailors) and buy dumb shit like alcohol and King Ranch F450s all the time. The cyclical debt so many of them get into is insane. So many of them live off of debt rather than being solvent and paying cash for their needs.
I think part of that probably comes from relying on credit to begin with.
Once you start, spending money you don’t have, it’s kind of hard to stop and think about tomorrow when the person who actually paid for it comes knocking.
Pretty much. It’s not as if the government swooped into an otherwise free market and tilted the playing field toward Big Business. More like farmers had already become welfare queens, the man paying the piper changed the tune, and the people who could only dance the waltz lost out to those who knew how to tango. The people who lost the farm to Big Ag probably would have lost it to a ruthless capitalist 50 years sooner in an actual free market.
The small farmers that don’t screw up become big Agg.
Top two welfare queens in farming in my county are Boyer farms and the NezPerce tribe.
Stakeholder is like using the Marxist language of class.
aka shakedown artists
Well, gird your loins and maybe we will get lucky!
One-Armed Executioner may or may not post at 7:00!
I don’t see it yet.
syas “Missed Schedule” 😕
Can I blame the government?
Not unless they mandated WordPress suck.
Not seeing it so far…
It’s been pushed to publish.
Thank you, sir.
It’s 5:04.
You have almost two hours.
It’s 8:07, you need to get your clock checked.
I’m in the best and most important time zone.
Well, since you admit you’re in Eastern time, you really need to fix your clock.