Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Secret tapes and coerced payments: Top 10 Biden-Burisma bombshells from FBI informant memo
Burisma Execs Questioned Hunter Biden’s Intelligence, FBI Docs Show
Democrats try to halt RFK Jr. testimony during censorship hearing
Congress will not reinstate pilots fired over Biden’s vaccine mandate amid massive pilot shortage
Moving to Texas from New York can save some Americans $250,000
Fox News and CNN Suffer Brutal Ratings Collapse
Stanford University President Resigns After Failing to Correct Flaws in Academic Papers He Authored
$2B Disneyland-sized theme park planned for Oklahoma along Route 66
Scott Horton’s 12 and half hour long comprehensive podcast on Waco. Highly recommend.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with some songs and move along with my day.
Zlochevsky made some comment that although Hunter Biden was stupid, and his (Zlochevsky’s) dog was smarter,” Zlochevsky needed to keep Hunter Biden (on the board) “so everything will be okay
I am looking forward to the addition of a talking dog to the H&H universe.
Talking dog with Ukrainian accent. Something along the lines of Triumph the insult comic dog.
Hau! Hau!
What breed would that dog be? Husky? Dachshund to favor all them Uke nazis? Inquiring minds want to know!
If I’m reading this right, гав, гав (hau, hau) is what normal sized dogs say, and the Ukrainian equivalent of “yip yip” is дзяв, дзяв (dzyau, dzyau).
I may not be reading that right.
Also, why are they using gamma to make a “h” sound?
Dafuq Cyril?
Russian/Ukranian doesn’t have an “h”. They use “g” as an approximate. Hitler -> Гитлер (Gitler). Ukranian has two Gs with one being closer to “h”. Also В is “v” not “u” so “gav” and “dzyav”. It would be гау for “gau”.
Chortai?
It’ll be a pug: a dog with no purpose that constantly annoys you but you still pour a ton of money into it in order to keep it alive.
BAZINGA!
Pugs also look like their high as fuck on blow.
“They’re”
I’m not high as fuck, just need more coffee.
Hau hau hau!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vppbdf-qtGU
Will the dog also be using cocaine?
That’s Champ. The Biden family German Shepard that kept biting everyone cause he needed to protect its stash.
Just realized – Champ is also the name of the dog in the Postal series of videogames. And Hunter Biden is the closest thing we have to the Postal Dude.
I leave the details up to the talents of SugarFree.
And nothing will happen.
At the right time, Joe will be replaced by Newsome.
Koh-moh-loh will have had a tragic wine related accident and is now pushing up daisies.. And none of the team blue lemmings will care much…
Dear god no.
Prepare your loins. It’s coming.
Prepare your
loinsanusFTFY
My loins can’t take it prepared or not.
Silver lining: it almost certainly means Kamala won’t be on the ticket. In fact, it’s probably about the only way to keep her off the ticket (short of an unfortunate accident), which will be a big point in Newsom’s favor when the power brokers get together to pick our next President.
It’s the smokiest gun we’ve ever seen. Basically a note saying “we’re giving you this money so your dad, the VP, will do what we want”. And the media won’t touch it. No mention whatsoever.
“It has all the earmarks of Russian disinformation.”
The real disinformation is that the legacy media claims to be unbiased but totally acts as a propaganda apparatus of the unelected corruptocracy’s bureaucratic machine that is selling America to marcists.
“No reasonable prosecutor would touch it.”
Oh that was some of the actual statements “Seems some of the translation was lost from Russian to English” in reference to the CI’s notes on the FBI report thing.
Actually, the excuse I’ve been seeing is that this is “unverified”.
Huh. I thought that information printed on FBI paper was the ultimate truth and it was a felony to disagree with what was written.
Russian collusion / election interference however…
Look… Hunter is SMAHT! SUPER SMAHT!
S-M-R-T …
That spells Hunter smart…
On the contrary, I’m sure the noted items are good for another five or six indictments on Trump.
Your joke makes me want to cry because by now, after a slew of these events, this is exactly how revelations like this play out,,,,
Congress will not reinstate pilots fired over Biden’s vaccine mandate amid massive pilot shortage
The airlines are barred by federal law or regulation from rehiring such pilots on their own?
This – sounds like the bill would have forced airlines to reinstate. No reason the airlines can’t just hire them back once they get over their covid power trips.
…get over their covid power trips.
No bureaucracy has ever been known to relinquish power once it’s gained.
Are the pilots looking to get back into the jobs they were fired from for not complying? I know I really started my job hunt for a new role when my exemption was denied (which then became moot, but I didn’t exactly have much good will left for the company at that point).
That was my thought
extended version
Dammit, I like NE OK.
Bartlesville!
It’s been a couple of decades since I’ve been there. Last time that particular town was too clear-cut for my tastes. It did make navigating the OSU campus easier with no obstructions to your line of sight.
Make that three decades. Plenty of time to grow some decent trees.
I visited family there as late at the 80’s. All I recall is it was flat, treeless, and didn’t have much to do. I did get to experience my first severe thunderstorm.
Ah, you were there on a day ending in a Y.
Srsly, we used to sit on the porch swing and watch the lightning.
*adjusts onion*
That is what Mt. Rushmore is to me. It ruined the SoDak badlands by attracting hordes of stupid touristas.
A Manhattan resident earning $650,000 would save as much as $258,212 in Austin, the findings show.
Not for long. That is the demographic which continues to vote into office the grifters who run/ruin NYC. Itinerant arsonists.
I’m actually curious to look back in 10-15 years and see what’s happened with wages with the massive shift to WFH. The local tax discount is just part of it, why pay someone Silicon Valley wages when you can get a comparable person in South Dakota to do the same job? The overseas expansion I think is already been built in (at least in the IT and call center worlds).
“why pay someone Silicon Valley wages when you can get a comparable person in South Dakota to do the same job”
It’s a crime against humanity not to pay what’s required to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world to everyone, regardless of where they live.
It’s also inhumane to expect people who move to a place they like a lot better than crowded cities to sacrifice a single nickel of their pay in order to live there.
Something that always stuck with me since I was younger was reading the stories about how X item cost only $Y amount (usually in relation to some new tech gadget, but it holds true across the board). Usually the stories were from CA or NY, and it took me a while to realize that the reason $Y was only to them, while seeming extravagant to me was that it represented a much smaller percentage of their pay.
The reality
The competent Indians move here. The offshore “talent” tends to be questionable in my experience.
I have been told that advancement in India is less about competence and more about bribes.
My experience matches this. There’s also the time zone issues, cultural issues, holiday mismatches, and the like.
The competent and the wealthy are the ones who get here. Having very rich parents has gotten a lot of less talented Indians a work visa here.
The trick is figuring out which one is which when hiring.
I had one Indian reporting to me who was a C- developer, but had hired his own offshore developer to help him with his tasks. Daddy paid for those costs, so I didn’t actually mind.
Oh sure, the cheaper labor isn’t really comparable but tell that to HR – they still haven’t figured it out after what, a couple decades now?
I think that there are still enough cultural differences between offshore and American workers that the SoDak guy will still be way better of an investment.
My experience with offshore workers (I’m including Euro-weenies in here too) is that they never really produce as much as the typical American. There are a few exceptions but the reality never works out like the spreadsheet says it will.
My experience over the last few decades is similar.
We still have lots of Indian employees but, for some reason, the most productive workers are here. Lots of empire-building there, too; managers there seem pathologically unable to graciously grow the size of their teams. (Guess where most of the layoffs were in the last RIF?)
I think we’ve halted future hiring in Poland – seemed promising but didn’t really work out. (And why so surly?)
The positions that would have been in Poland are mostly going to Costa Rica these days – those guys are (mostly) great. They may end up being the exception to rule in terms of where the most productive employees are.
Yeah, the Costa Ricans I’ve worked with have been great. Both the current and previous company also have been expanding in the Philippines, which has also gone well.
SoDak guy a better investment, sure. But not a NoDak guy, right? That’d be a bridge too far.
No shit. Nothing good has ever come out of the desolate plains of NoDak.
One for each of you
🖕🏻🖕🏻
Awww, two thumbs up! Bless your heart!!
North Dakota doesn’t exist.
My company has various locations classified and if you move from A to B, you might be looking at a pay adjustment. I’m fine with that.
So far, all I’m aware of is that Charleston, SC would not be a pay cut vs. Boston.
I think I _would_ take a haircut if I moved to NH (have to double-check that).
Good point. Though, after wage normalization, one would still be better off outside of the big cities. Aside from taxes, the biggest issue here in the NYC metro is the cost of housing thanks to rent control and other idiotic policies creating an artificial shortage. And why stop at housing? The cost of everything else is about to spike due to “congestion pricing”.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/07/17/is-a-15-toll-the-political-sweet-spot-for-congestion-pricing
Glad I’m getting out before that clusterfuck begins.
^This. Also as companies flee progressive states, they may well shed progressive HR standards and culture.
Those proggy beliefs are a function of class, not geography. Still, can’t hurt.
A function of class/caste.
Within bounds. Two things:
1. Those moving to red states and finding work there, are turning more red. It’s a thing. It’s not all of them, but it is a lot of them. The hardcore leftists just return to blue states after a while and sulk.
2. Businesses that realize they cannot survive in California are moving to other states, many of which are anti-DEI and are actively pushing legislation to remove it. This will continue to grow and have an effect.
I wonder how they arrive at this conclusion – it sounds preposterous.
State and local taxes, cost of housing, and price of food, fuel, insurance, and what it costs to keep a vehicle parked…start with just those and I’d be willing to bet you’re 2/3 of the way there already.
^this
Those reasons, and your $20 might be the same as downtown, or it goes a lot further, IYKWIMAITYD…
Math. The article mentions a 45% effective rate in NYC. I did not know there were jurisdictions with a 0% effective rate, however.
There aren’t. I suspect they are egging the costs up, you know, like that $4,000 median rent that nobody on that salary actually pays, $500 a month for parking when 80% of folks on that salary don’t drive, the cost of children when most of them are childless, etc. etc.
You gotta compare apples to apples though. The fact that few people in NYC on that salary have kids or cars is largely a result of the cost of those things being so astronomically high in NYC and the fact that they’d drive their rents even higher because they could no longer live in a 600SF 1BR.
By “600SF,” I mean 300SF.
I’d rather see the comparison to a larger city like Houston rather than Austin. Especially since it’s a lot cheaper to live in the former.
But everyone in Houston is a redneck; you can’t expect them NewYawkers to jump in with both feet.
And they’re not even comparing NYC to an average city in Texas, they’re comparing it to the most expensive city.
You can do that for shits and giggles but it doesn’t match reality on the ground. The average family with two kids and three cars is not even looking at NYC as an option.
I get what you’re saying, but I’d reckon much of their decision to not have kids or cars is based on the high cost of living.
The alternative explanation is that New Yorkers specifically don’t share the same basic human needs and desires as pretty much everybody else in the country and are generally happy about it.
That’s hard for me to believe with it being the most populous city in the country and the fact that New Yorkers used to reproduce at levels on par with the rest of the country.
I’m mainly talking about non-natives.
NYC does not attract families with kids. It attracts singles and especially singles who don’t want kids.
NYC does not attract families with kids. It attracts singles and especially singles who don’t want kids.
It didn’t used to be this way. Did the high cost of living drive families away or did they leave anyway for other reasons? I’m genuinely curious.
Based on these stats, I’m not so sure this isn’t a phenomenon that’s happened in the last ten years.
https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/austin_tx/new_york_ny/people
They other problem is that a family of 4 might spend the same amount on housing in Austin as in NYC, just have a much bigger place.
That reality is a grape to grapefruit comparison (I thought that was a nice analogy to the housing size difference).
“Fox News and CNN Suffer Brutal Ratings Collapse”
So is this caused by more and more people realizing legacy media only does propaganda and deep state programming, which means constantly lying to protect that criminal class, and checking out, or is it something else?
My guess is people are tired of blatantly one-sided reporting, and right now there aren’t any stars like Tucker who draw a big audience.
I must say, watching hollow man Hannity get exposed as having zip, zero, nada value has been a pleasure.
Yeah, when I did watch Tucker I could not change the channel fast enough at 10:00. Hannity is just so awful in every way, it’s unbelievable he’s still there.
Local news/talk radio station has bumped Hannity’s 5-6 segment to 7 pm in favor of a local non-political “fun guy.”
Yep, I enjoyed watching Tucker even when I completely disagreed with him, and I can barely tolerate Hannity during the few times we’re in lock-step.
“Stanford University President Resigns After Failing to Correct Flaws in Academic Papers He Authored”
One in a million of the crooked fucks politicizing the scientific process finally faces consequences.
As I understand it, he was allowed to stay on the faculty.
A very soft landing
He has some research to fix.
“Democrats try to halt RFK Jr. testimony during censorship hearing”
The lying fucks that tell you they are the good guys sure as hell constantly need to demand censorship so others don’t expose them as lying fucks….
But so many believe that they are the good guys.
At what point do normal people realize that as the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” implies, what we have is a bunch of people that justify real evil of all sorts because they tell you their end goal is good and noble one worthy of any and all means.
“Congress will not reinstate pilots fired over Biden’s vaccine mandate amid massive pilot shortage”
I am not surprised. The current agenda by our elite is to make travel, whether it is by personal car or by airline flight, not available to the serfs anymore. In a world where only flying private signals your elite status, too may of the elite feel the solution to this expensive behavior is to just stop the serfs from being able to fly. Nearly killing the airline industry would go a long way towards allowing government to come in and restrict air travel to only the elite.
What does it take with this Biden corruption? In three months it will have been three years. Is it just too many guilty parties? Are so many complicit that no one is?
Sorry for the questions. But man, this is some all-time dirt. Historical. And no one cares.
“What does it take with this Biden corruption?”
Deweaponizing the shit the Obama admin created so they could completely politicize and criminalize the unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic machine.
I used to think the people talking about “all the shit Obama did” were kind of nuts because it didn’t appear that he did anything. I was wrong. I didn’t know. How could I know?
Best get used to it because it’s not going to change. Welcome to Corruptistan.
We’re all Chicagoans now.
My theory is that everyone had their hand in the cookie jar. Any attempt to call out someone for the corruption will just end up with them calling you out for all the cookie crumbs on your face.
Everyone in the DC mob wants this shit to just go away.
Not sure if I should cheer these idiots on, or laugh at them for being idiots…
No off duty-cop there to draw down on the chick with the turning fork?
Yeah. I decided they are assholes. At least they are starting to annoy the right people. I expect those arrests for trespassing will stick and nobody will hear from that group for a while.
There weren’t any hawt protestors.
No one is going to pretend to care about your cause if you don’t control the good looking gal vote.
Management: “Today the course has been temporarily converted into a paintball arena. Free admission.”
Question for the law glibs (relevant to the lynx as NE OK has got the capitol of the Cherokee Nation as well as Osage and Muscogee land)
How much leeway do the tribes have wrt legalizing stuff? Obviously they have casinos and untaxed tobacco and alcohol. Could they go full-bore libertine and create their own theme park with blackjack and hookers and cocaine?
You trying to look for new investment opportunities?
…maybe?
I thought the gov of Oklahoma got into a snit with a tribe WRT language of gambling doc?
Have not hear of anything about that lately, but i am seriously out of the local loop.
Many moons ago, when I was being taught OK History (by a Choctaw!) she was emphatic that there were NO reservations in OK. According to online maps, that has (somehow) changed.
I also learned that the Chickasaws are the Jews of the Injuns.
I’m not sure they’re reservations in the sense that the federal government has boundaries them by an official treaty. But for all intents and purposes, they’re self-governed “nations” that operate with their own services. But they do have representation in state government apportioned the same way as any other part of the state.
It’s kind of a gray area. I believe state law supersedes any local ordinances or tribal law but they pretty much leave them to their own devices. Were they to take a sharp turn against state laws IRT drug legalization or something else, I think it would result in a state constitutional crisis that would result in them becoming full-fledged reservations under federal jurisdiction or they’d end up abolishing the quasi-independence they now enjoy.
I don’t think they’d rock the boat because the current arrangement seems like it satisfies everybody better than either of those extremes would.
by a Choctaw
Related
I know the tribes in NY told the state regulatory groups to fuck off with licensed dispensaries and sales tax when it came to recreational marijuana. I don’t think any of them want to push too strongly against the Fed Gov though… they may have some tribal memories about the last time that happened.
I think they have quite a bit of leeway.
I’ve always said they should build nukes and refineries. Think of the advantage they’d have being able to skip all the FedGov regulations.
According to the local papers, you can kidnap women and they won’t even investigate it, which is somehow the paleface’s fault.
I read an article quite a while ago about some tribe in NoDak or SoDak that was looking at using the sovereign status to set up a Cayman’s-style offshore tax shelter but in the interior of the US. Since it never happened, I believe the tribes get to get away with being sovereign when the right palms are greased and they stay within the acceptable areas like smokes and gambling.
Tony Bennett has now left his heart (and body) in San Fransisco. Can’t blame him though
RIP.
One of the first albums I ever had was “The Beat of My Heart.” Fantastic work. The giants among is are leaving.
Awww! 😞 A favorite duet: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uyEAhQIfw
RIP
Were there any Black Lives Matter so-called “protests” in Moscow, ID?
Between Moscow and Pullman I am sure there was something.
News you can use
Fires are burning longer, and hotter, around the world due to climate change. While firefighters are able to suppress 99% of them, the other 1% is what causes the most destruction. New mega-fires burn at an intensity of 100,000 kilowatts per meter, and while a 1,000-hectare fire was a big deal in the 1980s, blazes are now stretching to 30,000-hectares.
“100,000 kilowatts per meter”
How much is that in wind-up monkeys?
How many hotdogs can be cooked per meter?
Earlier this week, I saw something with its area described as x mils by y mm. Which I think is an ideal way of hybridizing/compromising between the correct and metric systems.
Was it British technology?
Make Whitworth Great Again
I have a customer who had a ’59 Rolls Royce. It took me awhile to figure out why neither metric and SAE tools didn’t quite fit. Now if you excuse me, I’m going to go curl up in a fetal position while I think about working on that car…
Oooo, even better, 55* screw threads! None of your bolt stock will work, and you need special parts even for that!
One of my best customers is a British car specialist. I keep a stock of A55 inserts just for him.
And if you want real fun, on British cycles, everything is done in BSC. Or, British Standard Cycle threads with are all, no matter the size of the bolt or screw, 26TPI. And even harder to find.
A bunch of meaningless numbers that sound really scary
Fires are burning longer, and hotter, around the world due to climate change.
What’s the physics of that? If you claim there are more because of ‘climate change’, I can understand that. I’ll disagree about a casual relation, but can understand. ‘longer, and hotter (and, presumably, uncut)” on the other hand; What’s the hypothesized casual connection here?
Climate change increased the burning temperature of dry grass.
It’s SCIENCE.
due to climate change…New mega-fires
You mean MAGA-fires.
intensity of 100,000 kilowatts per meter
How many joules?
How long were the flames on the hogshead?
Wouldn’t higher numbers indicate a greater amount of stuff available to burn rather than air temperature? Sounds like another way of saying that the fire suppression of the last 100+ years is catching up with us.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Love it. Haven’t I seen this before?
How do I know what kind of pr0n you look at?
Adorable!
I also learned that the Chickasaws are the Jews of the Injuns.
Medicine men, with plenty wampum?
That is the stereotype.
Circum…spect with money?
That is an incisive comment.
Definitely on the fore front of analysis.
It’s because 65% of the country claims to have Cherokee blood.
Secret tapes and coerced payments: Top 10 Biden-Burisma bombshells from FBI informant memo
The House Oversight Committee previously issued a subpoena to obtain the document, with which FBI Director Christopher Wray did not comply.
And nothing else happened.
Bullshit! I have it on good authority that Jordan’s going to fire off a moderately strongly worded letter over this development.
Unless you fire a slew of people, nobody is going to believe you’re actually repentant..
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/coutts-apologises-nigel-farage-after-bank-account-closure
Why should they be repentant? He’s the nazi!
The Great Fermentation War has begun.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/lesson-day-if-you-weaponize-dollar-and-confiscate-assets-expect-retaliation
“ Russia seized the local assets of Carlsberg beer and yogurt maker Danone.”
I think the best justice would be for Burisma to shake down the Bidens now. Get back all their money and then some.
Pay up or we release the tapes Mr Big Guy!
Then I really hope that after they extort Joe, they release the tapes anyhow.
The Congress should offer the Burisma guy (who seemed worried about the legality of the bribes) immunity in return for his testimony. They should also tell Zelensky that he will offer immunity too if he wants those $$ payments to keep on coming.
Why are you under the impression that Congress controls the purse strings to the Ukraine aid?
Sorry, lost my mind there for a bit. (Easy to lose something so small)
I’ve had the impression that the $$$ and hardware thrown at them for the war was plainly hush-money for just this.
The shakedown is going on right now. How many billions of our tax payer dollars have been pissed away over there in Ukraine so far?
Not sure if real, but funny…
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1682137444781633539
Make me a sammich.
Democrats try to halt RFK Jr. testimony during censorship hearing
Delicious irony.
Goor morning, Banjos!
Congress will not reinstate pilots fired over Biden’s vaccine mandate amid massive pilot shortage
AT least they are now admitting the shortage. For awhile now they have been insisting that things are peachy.
Which of course is complete bullshit.
I’ve been thinking about diving into Horton’s podcast but damn, that’s a lot of hours!
On a good note, it looks like the Vikings new rookie receiver really has some speed.
I was ranting about the stupidity of a rookie blowing a couple hundred K on a car to the Altar Boy yesterday. How stupid can you be as a rookie when you haven’t even really earned that money. Then he pointed out to me that a rookie was gay-rone-teed $13M. Now my rant is about how dumb the NFL is to pay unproven talent that much money.
Still smarter than Perrion Winfrey.
The team will pass along the labor costs to customers. I don’t know Vikings prices. Nose bleed, end zone seats are $35 for the Football Team.
What is it with Minnesota and racist cops? They never would have pulled him over if he was white.
If you threw that kind of money at me at that age I can guarantee that I would have done some stupid stuff.
If you threw that kind of money at me at my current age I can also guarantee some not well thought out behavior.
Tony Bennett, Crooner Who Bridged Genres and Generations, Dies at 96
In case you were wondering what Lech Walesa is up to now
https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1682175950115713029
At least he is not washing his dick in the sink…
The Rise and Fall of the Chief Diversity Officer
Sheds a tear in the style of Italian American Iron Eyes Cody.
they need to go back to college, get another loan, and get that second phd in nonsense
If only.
Ours strikes me as a grifter – maybe he’s a great guy, but I’m going to assume the worst. He and his 10 reports can hit the road and nobody would notice.
Your DEI person is already a rarity being male.
I’d say at least 75% of them women. Although more than would have predicted are white.
He’s an out POC so (checks spreadsheet) he’s got more diversity points that some white woman.
How many of those whites claim Indian heritage? They learned it from Lizzy.
Diversity has never been about replacing white c-suiters with POC c-suiters. It’s been about making white c-suiters feel smug about themselves. To my knowledge, not a single white exec has resigned their position so a POC could have it.
It’s more about replacing retiring whities. I’d guess at this stage a white guy has about a zero percent chance of breaking into the C-suite when a position opens up.
Ours is a bog-standard female POC.
They are real light on this stuff at my work… I’m not even sure she’s still employed, it’s been that long since the DEI beast has reared its ugly head in an email or whatnot.
If this is true, it’s a real cause for celebration.
It cannot be overstated how much damage this shit is causing.
Just so you know, Dracula had an account at Coutts &, as far as I’m aware, they never took it off him
https://twitter.com/MarkBowsherFilm/status/1681718159307407360
Nigel Farage is more eviler
Afroman being sued by officers after they raided his house
Somehow I don’t remember hearing about this whole thing. The cop wanting the pound cake… lmao.
I remember that.
Hopefully that gets tossed. They have no expectation of privacy in that situation. (Didn’t watch the video)
The video is entertaining. Afroman has also announced he’s running for president.
The video is great. Short on time or I would post a link. He did a long and short version with a new song. Hunt for it.
Didn’t realize Afroman was such a chill, cool dude.
So looks like September 24th is start date in Kentucky. Wife has half the house already packed. Teens were offered a rental deal with the house and they jumped on that. My current district manager sent a veiled ‘threat’ to my boss on “why are we even releasing him”. Well Mr. DM, I will make it easy if you stop my new job placement, I will just quit the FAA. Other than that, things moving nicely.
Set up an appointment with a realtor for next week/end while we visit for a bit of house hunting and get to know the areas.
“why are we even releasing him”
JFC. Even at a private company something like that would be grounds for a formal complaint. I gotta imagine even more so with the Feds.
We are in the jostling match portion of the whole FedGov thing. My boss can request not to release me for up to 6 months and did want me initially to stay through December. We have F1 coming to Vegas and about 3-4 projects that I was rolling on. I had no problem with that.
However, the Kentucky job has major projects also on their horizon and needed me 3 weeks ago so the compromise was late September. Gives me plenty of time to spin up a couple technicians on the projects.
Congrats, btw. Sounds like things are falling into place, especially with the boys renting the house.
Best of luck on the move and new job!
I can’t remember where you are ending up in KY. If you are heading to the ‘ville and need any inside info on various neighborhoods while house shopping, I can provide that.
If you are Lexington or NKy bound, I am useless.
On a semi-related issue, the house I sold in Louisville for $194k in 2014 just resold in June for $343k. Not a bad ROI.
Looking at pictures, she repainted the bedrooms, upgraded the kitchen appliances, and built a new deck on the back. Otherwise, it looked the same. The basement and living room were clearly not repainted since my day, and they were the same as when I bought the place in 2007, because I didnt repaint.
The crazy lady that bought it from me took good care of it, I like the new deck and the new appliances, the bedroom paint was kind of boring.
A blast from my past, if anyone cares:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/224-Bliss-Ave-Middletown-KY-40243/131836223_zpid/
Yea NKY, Hebron area
The dumbest flight I ever took was from CVG to SDF. The plane should have just taxied down I-71.
Just live in the Hotel Covington.
This is how a seal pup is introduced to water for the first time
[Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan:
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1682050847226642434
Did they club its ass to death right after?
Obligatory.
I just read the article about the FBI having had reliable proof of the Burisma bribes from the Burisma side for years.
The wife has NBC Today on.
You guys said “and nothing else happened”
How naive.
It doesn’t even exist. There is not one syllable about it on the network news.
We just learned that the very obvious quid pro quo of the bidens and Burisma has the only missing confirmation possible… that the otherwise illogical pressure to fire the prosecutor was indeed directly in response to the otherwise illogical payments to Junior.
Nobody has ever had this much proof of a bribery scheme. The have statements from Joe, Hunter, Birisma, and Hunter’s business partners confirming the bribery scheme. You really can’t get any more proof.
And not only did they sit on it…… the press is still actively suppressing the story.
Worse…. nobody loves Joe Biden. They never have. He is one of those “he is powerful because of longevity” guys…. like Mitch McConnell. Nobody is willing to take a bullet for the turtle. And nobody is doing this because Joe is Bill Clinton or even Barak Obama. He isn’t even George Bush.
Yet here we are. If you go to those Philly suburbs that delivered the presidency to Biden, none of thse soccer moms even know this story exists.
They aren’t even talking about JFK Jr being crazy or the dems trying to censor him. They are talking about cannoli with fruit dip as a superfood.
Leave the gun in a trash basket, take the cannoli?
Thousands of diversity-focused workers have been laid off since last year, and some companies are scaling back racial justice commitments.
The horror.
The HORROR.
Late Wednesday night the House of Representatives voted not to reinstate airline pilots who lost their jobs for refusing to comply with the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate.
The move comes as the United States’ aviation industry continues to suffer due in large part to a shortage of captains in cockpits.
Seems legit.
“The team of designers includes more than 20 former Disney Parks builders and Walt Disney Imagineers.”
Ruh-roh.
what are their preferred pronouns?
No clue, but odds are they want to fuck children?
In early morning golf news: American Brian Harman was -4, just 1 shot off the lead yesterday. Today he birdied 2-5, parred the rest thru 17 and then made an eagle on 18 to get to -10 and has a 5 shot lead in the Open Championship.
I am sure someone else will put up a score and close the gap, but he has put himself in a really good position for the weekend.
A course where accuracy is more important than distance. The guys who bomb their way through American courses and getting in trouble.
Stewart Cink is 50 and back up to T3 at -4. Thru 27 holes (9 today) he has 5 birdies and 1 bogey. He is playing par golf and taking his chances when they come.
Where are Jews safest in Europe?
Historically the West has been a place of sanctuary. Perhaps no longer
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/where-are-jews-safest-in-europe
Guessing because Eastern Europe is less “diverse”.
Is the median person’s quality of life better in the EU or the US, and where will it be be better in 2050?
https://twitter.com/NoahCarl90/status/1682356015923118081
EU now, obviously
Cause you serfs like being serfs?
Moving to Texas from New York can save some Americans $250,000
But I was told that TX was among the worst states in the union, along with several other GOP states, particularly because they are not fond of transing children, allowing rampant crime and taxing the population into poverty.
Look, not being able to get abortion on demand at 8 months is literally worse than Auschwitz.
$2B Disneyland-sized theme park planned for Oklahoma along Route 66
Disney loves losing money.
Dubbed the American Heartland Theme Park and Resort, the 1,000-acre development just west of Grand Lake on Route 66 will include a 125-acre theme park that the company says will offer a unique experience that rivals the world’s top resort destinations.
Should have clicked the link first. Good luck, I suppose.
They definitely have a chance. Tons of road travelers since lock down ended. People who just want to explore the country and see what they missed during their lives of working in a cubicle. This is a fine thing. People will go there. I think they should name it Twister Land though because that area gets a crazy amount of tornados. Better build that stuff tough!
Would if I was fortunate enough.
Vanna White has negotiated her deal with “Wheel of Fortune,” but only the celebrity version, not the syndicated show, and we’re told Sony has made it clear … they’re not receptive to her demands.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ, Vanna’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, negotiated Vanna’s deal for “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune.” Turns out that deal was up, but her contract for the syndicated show goes for another year, so first things first.
You cuntes were lucky to not die of lead poisoning.
We took over the wealthiest Hamptons golf course this morning. Here, they pay a MILLION dollar membership fee to play the world’s stupidest and most ecocidal game. It’s disgusting how the billionaires who destroy our planet for business come here and do it for pleasure.
Martyr Made sums it up.
Black pill. But he gets it right, as usual.
Look, if male gorillas can give birth, who are we to argue?
https://www.10tv.com/mobile/article/news/local/columbus-zoo-baby-gorilla/
For fuck’s sake
https://www.10tv.com/mobile/article/news/local/columbus-zoo-baby-gorilla/530-6c5b5cf3-8d9b-42d8-8ef4-555874e49f74
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“According to the zoo’s Facebook, the new mother of the infant, Sully, was believed to be a male gorilla before this surprise birth.
Sully, who has lived at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium with her mother and fellow troop members since 2019, was discovered holding the baby gorilla early Thursday.”
Bullshit. There is no way they didn’t know the sex of a gorilla. They would know that before they even got her.
He was playing with the pink ball in the pen, so they assumed he identified as female.
“Alabama inmate, 64, becomes first to be put to death in the state since lethal injections were paused over string of botched executions: Killer had last meal of hashbrowns and sausages after Supreme Court denied last minute stay”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12322927/Alabama-executes-man-2001-beating-death-woman-resuming-lethal-injections-review.html
But what was he wearing?
“Bisexual men are more masculine-sounding than both straight and gay men, a new study has claimed.
Researchers from the University of Sydney asked 70 Australians to guess the sexuality and rank the ‘femininity’ of 60 men reciting lines of the national anthem.
While participants could distinguish between gay and straight men’s voices with 62 per cent accuracy, they often struggled to identify bisexual men.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12323337/Bisexual-men-perceived-masculine-sounding-straight-men-study-finds.html
SCIENCE!!!
“Bisexual” is bullshit so makes sense.
How is bisexual bullshit?
Because every person I have ever met who claimed to be “bisexual” may have liked to play around but was in fact heterosexual in the end.
Even if someone is perfectly 50/50 bisexual, they are more likely to find someone of the opposite sex because the vast majority of potential partners are heterosexual.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/raise-your-threshold-for-accusing
As Henry Rollins said many years ago, think how cool that would be. You just walk in to a bar on a Friday night, look around and go “Oh Yeah!”
On the DEI officers, I have a friend who is a PhD in social justice. (Actually “alternative dispute resolution”). She pulls down 6 figures from the WHO or other affiliated NGOs – she moves around a lot.
She is the only actual racist I know. She flies around the world writing curriculums for kids in 3rd world countries and wartorn areas to help them deal with conflict.
It could be the dumbest thing I have ever heard of… An overeducated idiot (yes, an idiot) who doesn’t know anything of the people or language writing course materials to teach kids how to handle daddy getting killed in the war without resorting to violence.
It is a stupid job. She is paid way too much for the stupid job.
And it is still way better than these DEI asshats.
The entire social justice racket is just that: a means to provide people most older societies would consider burdens a means to now make bank fucking over societies.
I’m done with Broadway, but this actually sounds interesting.
‘Here Lies Love’ Review: David Byrne’s Dictator Disco Party
A dupe, and a pawn, and a traitor to your hallowed family name
Democrats slammed Kennedy for his role in boosting Republicans’ allegations that companies are censoring content with a political bias.
“No matter what you may think, Mr. Kennedy — and I revere your name — you’re not here to propound your case for censorship. You are here for cynical reasons, to be used politically by that side of the aisle to embarrass the current president of the United States,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) said.
“You’re an enabler in that effort today. And it brings shame on a storied name that I revere. I began my political interest in your father. And it makes me profoundly sad to see where we have descended today in this hearing,” Connolly added.
Shame, sir, Shame, I say.
He was pretty good yesterday. He’s a good speaker and knows what he’s talking about, and he was pissed because he actually was censored. Every time they tried to smear him, he came back and called them out on their lies. My favorite was the Dem witness, who used to work for the ACLU. He reminded her that in 1977 the ACLU literally defended Nazis because they used to think free speech was important.
“And yet my president uncle, whose name you revere, wasn’t one-tenth the far left partisan hack you are, and would likely be drummed out of the party by people like you.”
to embarrass the current president of the United States
He does that himself.
allegations that companies are censoring content with a political bias.
They are.
Maya Wiley, the president and CEO at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, questioned why the House Republicans are trying to make it “more difficult for companies to keep racist, antisemitic, and scientifically baseless conspiracy theories off their platforms.”
“The cesspool of bigotry on social media has fueled a sharp rise in hate-motivated violence,” she testified during the hearing.
It’s a madhouse.
Maybe it’s because they know everything a Republican says is called “racist, antisemitic, and scientifically baseless conspiracy theories” by the Dems.
hate-motivated violence
But enough about Antifa…
trying to make it “more difficult for companies to keep racist, antisemitic, and scientifically baseless conspiracy theories off their platforms.”
Freedom of speech is especially for speech that is unpopular.
She also called out the decision by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, to limit the Biden administration’s communication with social media platforms.
“The federal district court’s opinion was so flawed that the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of appeals reversed the ruling and vacated the preliminary injunction,” Wiley said.
“That said, despite the policies these platforms claim to have, we have tracked a systematic failure to enforce them. And as detailed in my written statement, the platforms are in fact cutting staff in this area,” she added.
Democrats said the GOP is using the allegations of censorship to limit tech companies from moderating “harmful” content that helps Republicans politically.
You can’t just let people say any damn fool thing that pops into their head. People might start to lose faith in the government.
Chick gets beheaded by an illegal.
Judge says whoopsie!
Justice!
Crazy eyes, crazy hair, crazy expression…I’m sure the attendants at whatever mental facility he’s going to are not too thrilled right now.
It’s just a culture issue,
Our shining beacon of freedom and democracy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his ambassador to the United Kingdom on Friday.
The ambassador, Vadym Prystaiko, had criticized Zelensky over his reaction to recent remarks by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who had suggested Ukraine had not expressed sufficient “gratitude” for Western financial support.
Prystaiko said Zelensky’s response to Wallace amounted to “unhealthy” sarcasm.
A statement published Friday on the Ukrainian presidency’s website confirmed Prystaiko’s dismissal but did not provide a reason.
The tension began at a NATO summit in Lithuania earlier this month, when Wallace said that “whether we like it or not, people want to see gratitude for the West’s military contributions to Ukraine’s war effort.
“I said to the Ukrainians last June, when I drove 11 hours to be given a list – I’m not Amazon,” Wallace said.
When asked about those remarks by a reporter at the NATO summit, Zelensky was nonplussed.
“I just don’t know what he means. How else should we thank him? Well, let him write to me and tell me how I need to thank people so that we can be fully grateful. We can also wake up in the morning and thank the minister personally.”
Prystaiko was interviewed about the exchange the following day on Sky News, where he was asked whether there was a “hint of sarcasm” in Zelensky’s response to Wallace.
Prystaiko conceded there was “a little bit of sarcasm,” and went on to say: “I don’t believe this sarcasm is healthy.”
Off with his head!
Any time I’ve heard Zelensky express anything approaching gratitude, he immediately follows up it with “But it’s not enough. I…I mean we…need much more.”
Illegitimate
Ideally, improving judicial transparency would be a bipartisan cause. But the parties are mostly split on this issue. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a caustic critic of the current court, and has only Democratic co-sponsors. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has ridiculed Democrats on the Judiciary Committee for “trying to tell a coequal branch of government how to manage its internal operations, ostensibly to clean up its ‘ethics.’”
This criticism is rich coming from McConnell, who did more than anyone in recent memory to politicize the Supreme Court when he and his colleagues in 2016 shamefully refused to consider President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court.
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Questions about ethics aren’t the only or even the principal reason for dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court. It has sullied its reputation for being above politics with a series of politically charged decisions in which Republican appointees predictably lined up on one side and Democratic appointees on the other. The court’s image also has suffered, deservedly, because of its disastrous decision last year to overrule Roe vs. Wade and dismantle nearly half a century’s judicial protection for abortion rights.
Yet the lack of a binding ethics code and inadequate oversight of gifts and travel are also a blot on the court’s reputation. Congress must begin the process of enacting reforms that the court itself has refused to undertake.
This nation will never be safe from totalitarianism until there is a supermajority of justices appointed by Democrats.
Scruffy the Elite!
Which one are you?
Wrong link?
Nope. Scruffy is there.
Oh! I get it now. Cool!
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Blossom Puzzle, July 21
Letters: D I P E R S T
My score: 335 points
My longest word: 11 letters
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Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 543
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m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, July 21
Letters: D I P E R S T
My score: 413 points
My longest word: 12 letters
💐 🌹 🌸 💮 🌷 🌺 🏵 🌻 🌼 💐 🌹 🌸
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
I was disappointed to find that “derpiest” was not acceptable.
We all know why
July will likely be Earth’s hottest month in hundreds if not thousands of years, Gavin Schmidt, the director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told reporters on Thursday, as a persistent heatwave baked swaths of the US south.
Schmidt made the announcement during a meeting at Nasa’s Washington headquarters that convened agency climate experts and other leaders, including Nasa administrator Bill Nelson and chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin.
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Experts at the meeting raised the alarm about the changes Earth is experiencing and said they are directly linked to greenhouse gas emissions, though they stopped short of naming the source of the majority of those emissions: fossil fuels.
“What we know from science is that human activity and principally greenhouse gas emissions are unavoidably causing the warming that we’re seeing on our planet,” said Calvin. “This is impacting people and ecosystems around the world.”
Get out there and block some traffic before it’s too late.
Alright Glibs, analyze this one:
We now know that the FBI and DOJ had ironclad proof that Biden was on the take to Burisma during the impeachment of Trump. They knew that bot Burisma and the Ukrainian president had confirmed the direct involvement of Joe Biden in a bribe to get the prosecutor fired, and that he was indeed fired because Joe Biden threatened to withhold US aid.
Trump was impeached for *asking* about that bribe.
People at the DOJ and FBI were involved in gathering information for that impeachment probe. They participated in efforts to remove the president, knowing that they had proof that Biden was actually on the take.
Exactly how is this any different than a coup?
They tried to remove him from office under false pretenses. They knew it was a lie. They had the proof in their hands and kept it secret.
How is this at all different from treason?
People are in jail for saying “I think Biden stole the election and we should do something about it” even though they did nothing and did not go to Washington on Jan 6. They are charged with a conspiracy to overthrow the government, even though nothing that even theoretically could have accomplished this happened, and they didn’t do any of the things that did happen.
So… How are the people who actually did try to overthrow the legitimate government in a way that almost succeeded able to skate, not only in the legal sense but in the moral responsibility and awareness sense?
It was obvious when the Biden campaign didn’t bring up Trump’s impeachment.
Some rightwing lawmakers are attempting to curtail funding to climate-related projects, including some of Nasa’s.
Nasa’s earth science division director Karen St Germain said the agency does not merely want to accelerate scientific discovery. It also wants to make sure new research boosts climate preparedness, “ranging from a farmer assessing what to do with a single field, to global leaders weighing decisions impacting the entire world”.
“Our goal is to put scientific information and understanding out in ways that help the public,” she said.
Science is the search for new ways to justify and promote your political goals.
So… How are the people who actually did try to overthrow the legitimate government in a way that almost succeeded able to skate, not only in the legal sense but in the moral responsibility and awareness sense?
They are true patriots who wanted to save us from an insane autocratic monster.
““Posing intersex characteristics as the sine qua non of harm to our environment is a move steeped in heteronormativity,” writes Anne Pollock, in a paper called Queering Endocrine Disruption. “[N]o one is celebrating the queer here. In this chapter, I want to suggest that we depathologize queer animals, even when that queerness is the product of human-produced toxins in the environment, and even when it inhibits animals’ reproductive capacity. Perhaps we even might find a perverse joy here.”
Anne Pollock must be a wacky random grad student right? No, she’s a professor of global health and social medicine at King’s College London. You have to read the piece on this movement in Compact magazine this week, where I’m getting this.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/nellie-bowles-tgif-swifties-save-the-economy
“For one more terrifying scientific take, there is a paper by an international group of scientists that argues that pregnant transmen (biological women on testosterone) should be able to keep taking testosterone even though we don’t know what it does to the fetus. Why? Because the desire to maximize a child’s health is “eugenicist.”
The scientists write: “Social justice activists, scholars, and the field of critical studies have made important strides to highlight how the desire to maximize the ‘fitness’ of offspring, and guard against development of conditions or human characteristics considered ‘unhealthy’ or less than ideal, may reflect troubling eugenicist and biomedical moralist underpinnings in ways that further harm already-socially-marginalized people.” Read the full piece in Colin Wright’s blog. So you take those T shots during pregnancy, and if you see a gay moose in your yard, you salute him, goddammit.”
Grade A narcissism. Even when you have a child, it’s still all about you.
“obsessed with this subreddit where people complain about recipes because of their own substitutions”
Funny.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ididnthaveeggs/
Back in ye olde days (15 years ago), there was a guy on some homebrew forums that had a very good Rye IPA recipe.
He kept telling people, the first time make it exactly as the recipe is, after that make adjustments if you want, but stop complaining about it if you don’t follow the recipe.
I made it, is was damn good, I also made alternate versions. But he was right, the big change is that people would sub out different hops. That was the key to the recipe, the chosen hops worked perfectly with the rye. Even when I altered it, I kept those hops involved.
That is my standard: first time, follow recipe exactly. No bitching if you go outside the lines from the get-go and don’t like the results.
It took a long while to get my wife on-board with that but she’s finally there as well.
Why is WordPress so flakey?
Researchers horrified, decry rise of ‘fascism’ as students send mocking responses to woke survey
One group of students has had enough.
“Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies”
I think we can safely ignore anything from that source.
I think this may be a sign that being woke has jumped the shark. The kids are starting to call bullshit.
Even my non-political son has had enough.
Quick! Get me a fainting couch!
😣
Academic researchers condemned students’ irreverent and offensive responses to an LGBTQ survey, claiming the pushback indicates “fascist ideologues” are “living ‘inside the house’ of engineering and computer science.”
Infidels!