Hey guys, sorry about last week. I was totally meaning to do the links except I thought it was Wednesday until 5:30. Oooops. Like Steve Martin suggested you tell the IRS: “I forgot.” Anyhow, welcome to September. August was fucking nuts, so if Ninethmonth could just dial it down to plain nuts, it would be much appreciated.
Sorry for the Twatter link, but this has recently come to my attention. The original fight started when Paul Graham (old school VC, runs ycombinator, I often stop to read what he writes about technology and business) called Palmer Luckey (basically Tony Stark – a military-industrial technology billionaire) a hypocrite because Luckey recently applied for 3-4 H-1B visas although his company has a policy of hiring Americans first). It led to analogies about the US space program and German scientists. As in, the US did not expect to scale up their space program by hiring more German scientists in the 50s and 60s. I think the linked take is interesting, and possibly true.
“That [otter], sir! It has big, pointy teeth!”
Those don’t look like ancient artifacts, they look like the local commune’s bong shelf in a head shop.
Is this really what my interstate looks like? 2 Infinitis, a Beemer and a Corolla?
I forgot about this one. Ninetiestalgia today
Otters in Nevada. Beavers in Maryland. The wildlife insurrection has begun.
Wild pigs and ring tails in Idaho, oh my!
To be honest, there’s a few pigs in Magic Valley.
HOA and city council members?
That song is still a banger.
I have been doing everything to take a cue from Brett, and forget that Crapper existed.
A St. Petersburg man died after he was struck by four cars on Interstate 275 on Wednesday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The man, who was 39, was walking in the inside travel lane of the interstate near milepost 25 about 9 p.m. He was “within the path of the oncoming vehicles for unknown reason,” the Highway Patrol said in a news release.
Walking in travel lanes at night probably in dark clothes.
The first to hit him was an Infiniti QX60, followed by a BMW 320i, a Toyota Corolla and an Infiniti G37, the news release states.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
What’s the DeathRace score for that?
Unfortunatly,Florida Man(tm) is not worth that many points. And it looks like you need to split the points among four contestants.
First one to hit him is 50 points, all of the others deduct 10 for lack of originality.
Partial credit: The *third* car hittin’ ‘im is hitting a bouncing puck.
That counts for extra, height of near-corpse gets higher marks.
“Women: Would you rather be stuck in a lake with a man or an otter?”🦦
How does one get stuck in a lake 🤔?
Get in the way of the mafia?
Well, if your mother has post-partum psychosis… probably with a boat anchor around your tiny neck.
In neither of those scenarios does it matter who your aquatic companions are.
The amphibious rodent is not the point, Donnie!
Not be able to crack the cement.
We know who avoids boats… because of the implications.
In the movies, your feet are encased in a bucket filled with concrete and your body being tightly wrapped in chain link.
When the lake is covered with ice/snow getting stuff may be easy. That’s why roads are kept plowed on some lakes here in the winter.
If there’s not much snow 4W drive may not be much of a help either.
Doesn’t matter.
Once the lady gets stuck in the lake the fish will end up smelling bad.
Yeah, but a watery tart, waving a sword around, is a pretty good thing!
Don’t dislocate your shoulder patting yourself on the back there HSI. And a nice job deploying the self-licking ice cream cone. You see, because “trafficking antiquities” (aka free trade) is a crime, then everyone involved is part of a criminal network.
WFLA is conspicuously incurious and vague about the alleged funding of terrorist activity.
The collectors often do a better job at preserving and securing antiquities than the academic/museum complex (looking at you, Louvre and British Museum). I imagine that wealthy collectors would have no trouble granting supervised access to academics if that access didn’t come with the risk of being ratted out to the government and risking confiscation and criminal charges.
So, about those conflict zones. Yeah, the Bamiyan Buddhas weren’t destroyed by traffickers; they were deliberately destroyed by the Taliban who were the recognized government of Afghanistan. Collectors preserve antiquities; rogue regimes and unvetted third-world museum guards destroy antiquities or melt them down to sell for their precious metal value.
So sayeth the unabashed tomb raider.
Whatever culture tossed something in the ground, assuming it even still exists, loses it’s ownership interest once the last shovelful of dirt goes on the tomb. Whoever digs it up after that is the rightful owner.
*jaw drops*
Gif Genie returns…
Nah, ES, an unabashed Tooma Raida has bigger jugs!
I’m upset because this is America!
Why are they trafficking in European, African and Asian artifacts when we have perfectly good Native American graves to plunder right here?
Are wine bottles and beer cans considered artifacts?
Ancient North American Indian artifacts FourScore.
Everytime I find a pull tab on the beach I tell my wife I found an Indian artifact.
A ton of that stuff in the picture can and is held by private people.
The Roman stuff gets no protection unless it’s super big or a museum wants it.
Why?
Mostly because the Roman’s are white.
I’ve got Roman coins, a legionaries whistle, and a Roman anchor stock.
The anchor stock was brought over to the US in the 60s when none of that stuff was prohibited for export import.
Dear TPTB,
I found this list of things to try to fix the WordPress missed schedule error:
https://teamupdraft.com/documentation/updraftplus/topics/general/troubleshooting/how-to-fix-the-wordpress-missed-schedule-error/
I offer it in the hope it contains something you haven’t tried yet.
THANK YOU, RICHARD. I’ve passed that along to WebDom.
Jerry Sandusky to move appeal from PA court to Federal court
Jerry Sandusky has instructed his attorneys to seek cancellation of a Tuesday hearing in which one of his accusers was expected to recant his sexual assault accusation, opting instead to take his appeal for a new trial to federal court, according to a spokesperson and investigator representing the former Penn State football assistant coach.
Frank Parlato Jr., an investigator who has been looking into Sandusky’s case for three years and who encouraged accuser Ryan Rittmeyer to formalize his recantation in court, told ESPN that attorneys for the 82-year-old would file paperwork this week to withdraw from the Tuesday hearing and instead seek a federal court remedy.
An attorney for Sandusky did not respond to ESPN’s request for comment.
Fun fact- the lead singer for Cracker was also part of Camper Van Beethoven
Yes, David Lowery. Talented guy.
I was going to add that I like CVB more but I didn’t want to be a downer.
Esp. “Key Lime Pie”, what a great album.
Take the Skinheads Bowling?
I’ll tell you what. Sometimes dead money comes back to life with a vengeance. It’s a damn good thing I never got around to cleaning that nearly worthless General Electric stock out of my account.
Shocking?
Wish I had bought more GE.
When it went to regular ge to gebernova I thought it was nuts when it went to $300. Hell I should have bought more there.
My landlord bought more GE… every single appliance in my new apartment is GE – I thought that was odd.
Be glad it’s not Frigidaire.
“Preserving cultural heritage is not only a matter of law enforcement, but also a commitment to history and humanity,” said HSI Tampa acting Special Agent in Charge Micah McCombs. “The trafficking of cultural property not only robs civilizations of their heritage, but also channels money into transnational criminal organizations, results in international financial crimes and, in some cases, even funds terrorist activities.”
Wheeeeee!
If you have title to the land then whatever is found should be yours to dispose of as you wish. You want the dinosaur fossils from my land? Show me your bid. Human artifacts? The same.
And fuck the Taliban and ISIS for destroying Buddhist, Roman, and Phonecian artifacts because of their fucked up religious/political beliefs.
Yep.
“trafficking of cultural property not only robs civilizations of their heritage”
Welp, there it is. Collectivism and statism at its finest. “Cultural property” is an almost-clever way of saying that certain items cannot be owned by individuals, only by cultures or civilizations (government and their approved institutions).
TOG lives, loves youse, still too busy and disabled to talk. No replies, please. Oh yeah, and Yusef Bobbo remains himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySGSb3pCUEM
Drunken stork.
Oh, Juleigh. How I wish wish wish he were in Michigan or WA or …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxJNZMyn-4
One holdout
After the jury was sent to resume their work, defense attorney Kevin Reddington was allowed to present his argument from the podium.
“The court has an instruction from the foreperson of that jury, who’s been working for a week now, saying that there’s one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you’ve given him or her on reasonable doubt,” Reddington said. “And I suggest respectfully that the soft instruction that you gave them saying at the sidebar, ‘Can you listen to the law as I instruct you?’ does not focus on the issue. The question is not sufficient enough; it does not allow any foundation for a motion to remove the juror who refuses to accept your instructions on the law on reasonable doubt.”
Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague, however, argued the judge’s instruction was appropriate under legal precedent.
If the defense is objecting to the instructions, it seems to imply that they actually think the rest are on board with letting her off.
This shit is crazy regardless.
The FAA I feel is in 1999 mode right now but it’s 2026 and let’s ignore all of that era.
Craze is AI of course.
We need a common system between centers and terminal environments and the proposal is…
Put it on AWS!
All of it. No physical boxes anywhere.
I may never fly again
What’s your take on commercial flights at Manassas?
You want me to tell you how many multihour outages were caused by AWS in a telephony company?
THICC babes of the top-heavy variety on THICC Thursday.
https://archive.is/kYEwJ
The question is not sufficient enough; it does not allow any foundation for a motion to remove the juror who refuses to accept your instructions on the law on reasonable doubt.
Nullification?
No one knows how the jury is voting.
The defense probably wants the trial to wrap up because Clancy has a civil suit pending against her doctors and hospitals. That civil suit is probably going nowhere fast until the criminal case is done. Also, there’s no guarantee a new jury in a new trial would be favorable to her. Finally, they can get working on appeals if they don’t like the verdict.
What? A juror is sticking to his/her beliefs? Does that juror think popular vote isn’t most important?
Put it on AWS!
All of it. No physical boxes anywhere.
Savings! Efficiency!
Meanwhile in more adventures of FL man.
Florida Walmart shopper won’t be charged for killing drugged-up Army vet after he threatened to ‘f— her s— up’
Bonus
“She engages with some of our civilian staff at our front record section, brandishes the firearm at that point. She remains in the lobby for a bit of time, a few minutes, when ultimately she does fire a round inside the lobby in the direction where some of our civilian staff were working,” he continued.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-woman-70-opens-fire-port-orange-police-department-lobby-chief-says
Fuck you cops.
You’re civilians too.
How fucked is NJ when you are willing to pay Philly wage taxes?
New Jersey clothing retailer Burlington will relocate its headquarters and 2,000 employees to Philadelphia
Well, that and a little grease. I loathe that “incentives” shit – more playing favorites.
https://www.reddit.com/r/roommateproblems/s/XmOjnHgxz8
😳🫢
Welp, there’s ninety seconds I’ll never get back.
Lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QR050E82BlA
I’ll apologize with some 🎶🎶
jangly – I like
Screw you reddit.
https://ibb.co/606YcnrT
Also, there’s no guarantee a new jury in a new trial would be favorable to her.
Knowing what I know about the case (ie, n0thing) I can only assume the jury is hung on the mental competence issue. A choive between prison and the nuthouse.
I’m pretty sure they’re not going to spring her.
I’m pretty sure they’re not going to spring her.
I agree. There is zero chance of a not guilty verdict given Clancy has admitted to killing her kids.
The question is will it be not guilty by reason of insanity or one of the guilty verdicts (first degree murder, second degree murder, or manslaughter). If I remember correctly, in MA a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict has a minimum time of commitment to a state hospital before doctors can say you are cured and can be released.
I expect a mistrial which will result in a new trial. I doubt that even in Massachusetts prosecutors would let this go.
What? A juror is sticking to his/her beliefs?
My dad told me he was on a jury (which I had not previously known). He said they were all pretty sure the guy had done what he was accused of (I don’t remember) but the DA had ridiculously over-charged the guy and left no option for a lesser charge. They ended up acquitting him.
Lend me your comb. I need help faster than I can ask for it. My kingdom for a forum (yes, I know it’s hard in upstate NY).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394041
Is this your life? Is that what you are telling me?
Another lend me your comb…
And since I’m thinking of combs:
“Nature has sometimes made a fool; but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.”
Tonight!
Dig up the corpse of Dean Martin and gird his loins!
This evening we watch “Murderers Row” as part of a Matt Helm marathon!!
I actually like Matt Helm movies. But apparent delay?
And it’s there now.
RJ-
Out There, if you’re ever looking for an oddball ’90s sci fi movie. Surprising supporting cast.
I think I already added that for you. It’s coming.
thx- wasn’t sure if you had seen it
Uh oh. Post is late.
Don’t they all have to be pushed now?
I already dug up the corpse of Dean Martin. Now what?
Make cocktails!
You know, I did think of that. On my second Old Fashioned!
If this keeps up, I’m gonna have to off one of the cunty aunts for Mojeaux.
On to my second bacardi and grapefruit. Did anyone i the U.S. drink those in the 60’s?
Anyway, tonight and last week are both perfect Thursday night movies 🙂
Thanks!
I actually wrote up all of the Matt Helm movies. To be acquired the rights to all of them. But I selected murderers row, because it really is fantastic. Some of the others I’ve seen a few too many times.
Swiss logged on from Europe. The post is live.
He’s such an international man of mystery.
Huck forgets to proofread.
https://x.com/govmikehuckabee/status/2095579592543064457