I am the jaws that protect the realms of Joe. I am Commander.
Snuffle the crotch of Finnegan. She is well. I move on. I must make my patrol.
Strange hand touches my ears before I can smell it. Growl. Forest of hands. Some must be bitten.
Tall man takes my collar. Growl. I pee a little as warning. Chomp. His hand juice tastes of iron.
I am good dog. Joe is safe. I love Joe. His skin tastes like corn chips. I love corn chips.
“Commander!” woman says as I smell her. She is in heat. She must breed soon to have a litter this season. She pushes me away. I must see Joe. I run.
I bark and scratch door until I am let in. Must smell all. Karine is cocoa butter. Mama Jill is Scotchgard. Hunter smells bad. I growl at Hunter and then run to Joe. Joe smells good.
“And then I accept my plea deal and it all goes away,” Hunter says. I understand none of his words. He smells like nieces.
“My boy, my beautiful boy,” Joe says.
“What’s this about your lawyers trying to suppress evidence?” Karine asks. I whine and put my head in Joe’s lap. He rubs ears.
“Tell the press whatever you want,” Hunter says. “I’ll send the judge a painting after it is all over.”
“You can’t do that,” Mama Jill says. I can smell her anger.
“I’m a famous artist,” Hunter says. “Who wouldn’t want one of my paintings?”
I pad silently over to Karine and lick her leg. She giggles.
“It’s bribery, Dad,” Finnegan says. I bark in agreement.
“When is my vacation?” Joe asks no one. “I feel like I’ve been at work all summer.”
“Soon, dear,” Mama Jill says.
“You’re so good to me, Nelia,” Joe says. I whine. Too many words. I pick a fresh turn of the Oval and urinate loudly.
“Nelia was your first wife,” Finnegan says. “This is Jill.”
“Who’s Jill?” Joe asks. I whine. Fear and corn chips.
“Your second wife,” Hunter says.
“What happened to Nelia?” Joe asks. I go to stand beside him. I love him.
“She died, Joe,” Mama Jill says.
“What?” Joe asks. Crying. I stand up on the arm of his chair to taste the tears.
“There was a car accident,” Hunter says. He smells worse than before. I want him to leave. I growl.
Mama Jill hugs Joe. I bark bork bark bark.
“I don’t know who you are,” Joe says. “But you smell nice.”
“Mama Jill is Scotchgard. ”
Which does smell a lot like astroglide.
I’d ask how you know, but…
It’s like a pee stream of consciousness.
☝️
Looks like Hunter won’t be accepting his plea deal today. Maybe the ham-handed interference with the court clerk was too much. Or maybe those in charge are ready to get rid of this particular crime family. I’ll wait for better Kremlinologists to explain.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/hunter-plea-deal-falls-apart-no-deal-according/
A judge that thought about the plea? *faints*
I didn’t see this coming. Maybe, just maybe, there is one person involved who is concerned with how bad this all looks.
It will be interesting to see how they spin this. They were depending on riding “Hunter was investigated and has paid for his crimes” through the next election.
Corrupt MAGA judge persecuting the children of his political enemies. All Republicans will be required to denounce this, or else their own children will be considered fair game.
First white pill in some time.
+1 pirin tablet
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115685/quotes/?item=qt0337511
Clearly the gov’t is weaponized against Hunter Biden.
Wellity wellity wellity well…
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/hunter-biden-tax-charges-hearing/index.html
Prosecutors and defense agree to revised plea deal for Hunter Biden
The Hunter Biden plea proceedings have restarted and the president’s son has agreed to a limited agreement that covers 2014 to 2019 and only includes conduct related to tax offenses, drug use and gun possession.
President Joe Biden’s son will still plead guilty to the tax misdemeanors for 2017 and 2018, but the agreement will also cover his tax-related conduct for the three years prior.
The two sides have agreed that this deal does not shield him from potential future charges.
The proceedings are ongoing
12 min ago
Hunter Biden tells court about foreign companies he worked for
The judge is asking Hunter Biden a series of questions about the facts that are included in the charging documents.
The judge asked Biden for the names of the foreign companies where he has worked.
“The Ukrainian energy company was Burisma,” Biden said. Biden has also mentioned his work for a Chinese energy company, CEFC. His ties to that company have come under intense scrutiny by House Republicans.
The judge asked Biden, “You did know that you owed tax money, right?”
Biden said, “Yes, your honor.”
Damn. A new sweetheart deal hammered out in a few minutes. I’m sure I’d get the same treatment.
sounds like the gun charge is still part of the deal
And just like that my problem was solved.
This is important. Important to maintain the façade that he could, maybe actually face more serious charges.
Yeah, this is starting to look like theater.
And the prosecutor has pinky sworn that there are more investigations that can’t be revealed.
Now, how serious those charges are also can’t be revealed…
It’s all stupid. On principle, shit should be resolved with these plea deals. They are obviously bad deals, but someone shouldn’t face the specter of endless investigations and charge after charge.
Trump nods his head.
Here’s the inside scoop.
Commander covered the check.
The deal is on!
Joe had the Secret Service cover Hunter’s hookers, so why the hell not?
Now wondering if his admissions in court can be used against him for other charges?
“can” or “will”?
Remember when the worst thing some president’s kids did were underaged smoking and drinking?
Im done.
He smells like nieces.
Dude.
I snort-choked on that one.
This one was kind of depressing and disturbing. But still seems very real.
Sug’s cocaine scare is over; he’s back to recording and reporting.
One of my favorites from The Far Side
He’s a naughty boy
“The Committee did not think continuing to bank NF [Nigel Farage] was compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation,” the minutes added.
“This was not a political decision but one centred around inclusivity and Purpose.”
Nothing says inclusivity like de-banking those you disagree with.
Tolerant people don’t tolerate the intolerant.
Much inclusive.
And non-political.
Exclusion in the name of inclusion. Alison Rose managed to cram her entire head up her ass.
Skin-suited since at least 2000, if not ’69 or 1919, per Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coutts,_440_Strand,_July_2022.jpg
And of course, they apologized about leaking a false and defamatory story about Farage to the BBC– but insist on their righteousness about the debanking itself.
Horseshit. It was absolutely political.
Besides which, it doesn’t matter. A bank is not a baker.
“She will be a loss, having worked her way up the ranks and championed diversity and inclusion in the sector with a huge focus on getting more women in financial services.”
Not sure that a bank CEO who bans a customer for his political views and talks about his account with the national media is much of a loss.
“Sadly Missed”
He smells like nieces.
Huh
“Snuffle the crotch of Finnegan. She is well. I move on. I must make my patrol.”
Shades of “A Boy and His Dog.”
After Commander is retired I demand a crossover with Subaru Horror Theater Dog.
Aha!
President Joe Biden ‘s dog Commander bit or otherwise attacked Secret Service personnel at least 10 times between October 2022 and January, including one incident that required a hospital visit by the injured law enforcement officer, according to records from the Department of Homeland Security.
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Tuesday released nearly 200 pages of Secret Service records that it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The group said it filed suit after the agency, a division of DHS, “failed to respond adequately” to its request last December for records about biting incidents involving the purebred German shepherd. The group said it filed the request after receiving a tip about Commander’s behavior.
Commander is the second dog of Biden’s to behave aggressively, including biting Secret Service personnel and White House staff. They eventually sent the dog, a German shepherd named Major, to live with friends in Delaware after those incidents.
The puzzle pieces fall into place.
When I got bit by a dog, the owner’s insurance company paid my emergency room bill. I could have held out for pain and suffering or some such thing, but I’m not litigious. Anyway, is Biden’s insurance policy paying for these dog bites, or are the taxpayers? I’m betting on the latter.
Worker’s comp?
We are his insurance policy.
m
puzzle pieceslive with friends in Delaware
Euphemism.
Looks like neither a Major or a Commander can be trusted.
Dump ’em, Joe, get a General and see if he/she will screw up.
Damn. A new sweetheart deal hammered out in a few minutes. I’m sure I’d get the same treatment.
“Let’s not bicker about ‘oo swindled ‘oo.”
When the police knock on your door:
https://packaged-media.redd.it/v97imekhi6eb1/pb/m2-res_720p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1690394400&s=bf07b24c071c4026a110352ed8f47cc6ee6d5cba#t=0
Nice!
Lol. Well played.
I love the BANG! BANG! BANG! “OPEN UP, POLICE!!!!”
Really doesn’t sound like ‘we just want to talk’, sounds like a hopped up goon trying to use an implied threat to coerce compliance. Good the dude kept his thinking brain in charge of his simian brain.
Obligatory
Not sure that a bank CEO who bans a customer for his political views and talks about his account with the national media is much of a loss.
Women make better managerial decisions than men. Everybody knows that.
Retro
Police in Billings, Montana, are investigating after a musician who performs with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band said he found a noose hanging from a light pole near the group’s tour bus.
Band member Charles Rose, who is White, said he found the noose Sunday morning, ahead of the group’s performance in the city that night.
The multi-racial band, led by the Grammy-winning Lovett, is currently on a summer tour, according to its website.
“I just went back out to our bus to get something and saw this hanging a few feet from the bus door. I don’t recall seeing it when we first arrived this morning,” Rose said in a Facebook post that included a picture of a noose. “Scary. Needless to say, I took it down.”
Was he literally shaking?
Sure he did…uh huh…now let’s pull the camera footage and shoot down this likely publicity stunt.
That sure looks like it is attached to some kind of latch or switch. He may have just disadvantaged a short person who needed that pull rope.
That was for any audience member that was bored to suicide after another boring Lyle Lovett concert.
We’re capitalizing “white” now? I thought we only capitalized Black.
Why does it cost $60k to transport a body to from CA to VA?
Assuming it doesn’t really cost $60k it also pisses me off of all the shit FedGov spends money this particular spending it has discretion over.
Family forced to pay to ship body of Marine killed after Pentagon policy change: ‘Egregious injustice’
1. Yes, that is outrageous. And the government, who caused her death, should pay for it.
2. The cost is too damn high. I can move that coffin cross country in the Mega Jeep for $5,000, and pocket $4,500 profit.
We need to do a modern version of Smokey and the Bandit.
This time with a body and some family member with just enough time left who wants to see their loved one in Arlington.
Johnny Knoxville kinda did it already.
Weekend an Sensei’s?
That is kind of baffling. Mrs. Animal’s Grandmom died in Denver; there was a viewing there, then the body was shipped to Baltimore, where Grandmom had a plot waiting next to one of her husbands. Mrs. Animal doesn’t remember the exact cost but thinks it was under a grand.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/hunter-biden-expected-plead-guilty-criminal-tax-case-rcna96232
July 26, 2023, 4:00 AM CDT / Updated July 26, 2023, 12:18 PM CDT
By Phil McCausland and Tom Winter
WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to federal charges Wednesday, a surprise development after a disagreement arose with prosecutors over a gun charge.
The president’s son had been expected to plead guilty to two tax charges under a deal with the government, but the judge did not agree to that plea deal and is seeking additional information. The parties will reconvene at a future date.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/hunter-biden-tax-charges-hearing/index.html
19 min ago
JUST IN: Hearing ends with Hunter Biden plea deal on hold
From CNN’s Tierney Sneed, Marshall Cohen, Kara Scannell, Holmes Lybrand
US District Judge Maryellen Noreika said she was not ready to accept the plea deal, and the hearing ended with Hunter Biden pleading not guilty for the time being.
The judge asked the sides to file additional briefs explaining the plea deal’s legal structuring.
Kicking the can down the road hoping people are distracted by something else when she has to revisit it.
Why does it cost $60k to transport a body to from CA to VA?
Did they transport the body in a B2?
Broandria thrived this morning. You are welcome.
Last!
Darn I need to post that at 2:59. Premature Lasting.
My little Russian cross stitch designers aren’t so fluent in English, but still hilarious. I wonder what her neighbor did to make her create that.
hahaha!
Snuffled the sausage, sounds like.
I never liked her much, but RIP Sinead.
She had many issues. I’m assuming this was self inflicted…?
Confirmed as a hoax by random, unidentified source. Yay!
https://en.mediamass.net/people/sinead-o-connor/deathhoax.html
At the bottom of the page:
“ TV show tricks 13-year-old girl into thinking she will meet her long-lost mother”
https://celebrity.red/buzz/tv-show-tricks-13-year-old-girl
Introduces her to cross dressing comedian instead. Whoever green lighted that shit needs to be keelhauled.
And by keelhauled mean SEA SMITH KEELHAUL YOU!!!
I hate being so cynical but I can see a publicist doing something like this to get their client’s name in the papers.
My client is dead. Nevermind, my client is still living. Come to the nearest state fair to see them perform their one hit.
Looks like it.
Good lord.
What a sad story. RIP.
So she didn’t want to be the only Irish singer to go out on their own terms huh?
Next up Joe explains how he created pre-sliced bread.
Biden falsely claims ‘we ended cancer’ in latest bizarre gaffe
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1684245996132245504
Wow. Projecting much?
Hasan is a special kind of stupid.
You have to pay someone to be that stupid. Definitely a schill.
Or merely dishonest.
/looks at CNN, MSNBC, NPR, etc.
So… which one is the Conservative/Republican nationwide messaging apparatus?
All of them, its a vast right wing conspiracy /dusts off HRC
(sound of Velcro separating)
Nooo!!!!
Though I must say your alias is appropriate for the comment.
I sometimes wish I had such a blissful lack of self-awareness but he’s just a lying pig.
In reply to Mehdi:
Wow. How far left do you have to be to believe shit like this? Wow.
They have to fuck at 90 degree angles.
Love the “etc.” because literally the only examples they have are AM radio and a cable news channel.
I’m more fascinated by the guy with the doo rag sitting next to her.
https://twitter.com/UAPJames/status/1684229139400626177
This shit is so ridiculous. If you needed more proof that politicians are nothing more than hired actors…
And the replies of the people eating it up that shit like it’s chocolate mousse…
*starts searching for shacks in Montana*
“There’s an easily startled, confused creature in the White House prone to fits of anger. There is also a German Shepherd.”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1684153424852447232
Syphilis Emergency Looms in the US as Drugs Run Low
Oh look:
Once you see how this works, it is really quite impressive.
That reminds me. I gotta pee. I hope it doesn’t burn.
Is that you Frank? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmbxinvLONE
Oh sweet yeezus, what the fuck is this fresh hell?
https://twitter.com/StarTrek/status/1682857446036086784
*starts searching for shacks in Montana*
They’re officially out of ideas, well good ones anyway.
When they say “prepare” I’m thinking I might want some lube.
At least they did it in a plot-relevant way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0mfBt3mhtc
Dammit, Jerome.
Fuckhead.
Meh. Wake me up when we get to the 1980s again.
I’m okay with this. Crush the Brits and Germans, drive them before you, hear the lamentations of their
womenpensions.Exactly. This is how you clear out malinvestment . A few dozen banks over exposed on CRE can die (and I’m willing to bet most of those bankers supported lockdowns). If we’re smart, dozens of new banks can be established. The birth-death model applies to financial institutions as much as any other business.
Why? I mean why “dammit”, “Fuckhead”?
I’ve thought of interest rates as being way too low and discouraging saving and encouraging living in debt, both at the government and personal level. Admittedly, I have the selfish benefit of getting return on cash reserves rather than being forced to spend spend spend or throw cash into an overvalued stock market to avoid it just bleeding away via the inflation tax.
Simply selfish.
My business is affected by CRE activity. A shit ton of paper is coming due. No way these owners are gonna refinance and it’s gonna throw that world into turmoil. Not to mention what it will do to the regionals who hold the paper.
I get it. But was it going to be any different in CRE with or without that quarter point?
LaGarde, on the other hand, is definitely cursing Jerry today. She’s got very little balance sheet left to suppress yields. The Bundesbank is functionally bankrupt and all financial hell is about to break loose in Europe.
I expect my business is going to take a beating as well. Construction doesn’t fare well in a credit crisis.
Probably not. But this is looking like it’s gonna continue which will necessarily slow development.
But who knows – with all the insanity this may be the least of our troubles.
If Powell is successful, we’ll be the recipient of capital fleeing the EU and the US will reindustrialize.
The transition is going to be painful though.
Here’s hoping.
Sure. We’ve been through the shit before and bounced back. But at 55 I am conditioned to expect (and prepare for) the worst.
So painful the streets of San Francisco will lose most of their junkies.
There’s no saving San Francisco.
Or Baltimore, or New Orleans, or probably Philadelphia, they’re all fucked.
Can you please explain, briefly? I’m being serious. This is one of those areas I’m not well-versed in. What would you predict to happen and why (brief)?
The simplest way to explain it is that all of the central banks look like shit on their balance sheets.
Up until recently, the Fed was coordinating policy with the ECB and BOJ in order to not collapse each other.
Powell hated the policy and wanted to end it earlier but COVID happened and he was forced to monetize the federal debt, thus injecting more trillions more into the system and propping up European banks in the process and giving them political cover to print as well.
Now Powell is ramping rates in order to attract capital and drain the offshore dollar markets (which are draining anyway because of DC’s idiotic weaponization of the financial system). The trick is to absorb all of those dollars coming home before they push us into hyperinflation.
As a secondary effect, the ECB has to raise rates in order to compete with the Fed or capital flees their system for higher returns in the US. It’s pushing their banks over the edge and they are much closer to the edge than we are.
Functionally, somebody’s banks and currency have to fail now and Powell is attempting to make sure it isn’t us. We will lose banks, it’s unavoidable, but the objective is to not lose the whole financial system.
Europe is staring at full economic collapse.
I’m not gonna pretend to grok all of that, but thanks. I think I get some of it.
There’s a bunch of central banks on a deserted island and they’re running out of
foodcapital.Thoughts of cannibalism and murder are setting in.
Slightly OT, but I love how many people think office towers can easily be converted to apartments.
The next step of companies embracing WFH. LAO (Live At Office)!
We’ll just add a kitchenette per floor, and add showers to the existing restrooms. It’ll be a breeze! Who wouldn’t want to sleep safely ensconced in their cubicle walls?
Wait, people actually think that?
I suppose you’re right, politicians really are untermensch.
4. The less you know about something, the easier it looks.
One of my favorite Iron Laws
Nope. Seen those projects go haywire multiple times.
Gotcha – hope you weather it well. I suspect bad things were coming down the pike for commercial real estate regardless of interest rates, though those can certainly hasten/magnify any extant issues.
I’m with you. I see this as a necessary thing. Powell is a fucking hero. (OK, maybe that goes too far.)
He is a hero. He is making it too costly for DC to go to war. He’s crushing the Davos crowd. He’s trying to save the dollar against the wishes of the Biden administration.
We’re watching our central bank waging a financial war with our corrupt political leadership.
This was telegraphed about as much as humanly possible by the Fed.
They sure seem dead-set on clinging to that 2% inflation goal come Hell or high water. (We’ll probably get both.)
Let’s not forget the additional never mandated by Congress contradictory “full employment” mandate.
This Schabusiness trial is wild.
Imagine if liberals or the Dems had a nationwide messaging apparatus, an actual propaganda arm, which pumped out Jared Kushner’s name and alleged misdeeds daily, 100s of times.
Kushner is small potatoes. They’re too busy doing that with TRUMP!
Why? I mean why “dammit”, “Fuckhead”?
It might have something to do with house hunting.
My neighbors who are trying to sell their house are certainly not going to like this.
And the drop in BTC over the past week seems to have foreshadowed the decision.
I don’t know if you can get 550,000 for a horder’s house in Colorado I’d say housing prices do need to come down a bit.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/29577-Loomis-Way-Golden-CO-80403/13678429_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare&fbclid=IwAR0Tx8UmSPhLqllOXwhLgrcz7WqDhZOfZNB8tgsdDjxZSVIXgxKVgeNSdjU
The photos are a nice touch.
Tear down and massive cleanup for $550,000k…
“Tour with a buyer’s agent
We’ll find a local expert to take you on a private tour of 29577 Loomis Way.”
I might have to head over there just to hear the all-time greatest realtor fibs. Comes furnished! Retro kitchen! Move-in ready! Perfect for creative types!
A bit hard to hear the realtor’s spiel through the Haz Mat suit. But do it. And write a post on it.
Oh dear, a sad untold story in there.
Best touch?
$30 HOA fee.
I wonder what kind of service they provide?
Mine is $20 a month. You get lawn service for the neighborhood entrance, 2 maintained hiking trails in the community forest, and seasonal banners hung from the streetlights.
1.9 acres in Golden?
You might be getting the house for “free”.
Looked at map, its well outside of Golden. So ignore my comment.
No, that’s still Golden, believe it or not.
It’s up Coal Creek Canyon. Nice area. You can find lots and older houses for a lot less than the metro.
Not really. I signed another lease and I have a bunch of cash. As I say above, it’s mostly business.
Thats why our near future is: rent to the teens the NV house while we shack up in a cheap apartment in KY for a bit unless something amazing rolls by
And before anybody asks…
“Roughly 25 out 2,857 vehicles on the ship were electric.”
Ship carrying 3,000 cars ablaze off Dutch coast, crew member dead
Why are EV fires so hard to extinguish?
Because the batteries can self-ignite and self-oxidize. They don’t need external inputs once the reaction kicks off.
Wet-cell batteries
Once they start to break down, it quickly becomes a catastrophic event. Add water to the mix and it gets even more exciting.
One of the reasons is they are self oxidizing.
What else was on the ship?
I mean, there’s plenty flammable on a ship before the cargo is loaded, but was it only carrying cars?
175,000 boxes of strike anywhere matches.
I blame Magic City.
I am not worthy, oh Trivia Master!
This is just somewhat local to me (and at a previous job when I had to go into the office, I would swing by a couple of breweries in Barberton). It’s depressing at times to look back and see how bustling and industrious the rust belt was, especially when you compare it to what it looks like today.
NSFW
Magic City! https://www.magiccity.com/
NSFW
Yeah, that fire’s not going to be out for a while.
Why are boats carrying cars suddenly bursting into flame?
Because it’s too hard for a car to carry multiple boats?
The Great Boat-Car War begun it has.
They’ve done it before EVs, but that gets less clicks.
Same reason everything bad that happens with the weather is now “climate change”.
FTA:
Yes. That was local to me.
If they can conclusively prove that EVs are causing statistically more fires on ships I’m all all in on safeguards and prevention. But I read this stuff fairly closely and haven’t seen it.
They are taking more precautions with them including lower charge levels.
Just prepping the battlespace for getting rid of personal use EVs after they’ve banned all the ICE ones.
Natural causes, sometimes
peopleships just explode.They have information on Hillary Clinton.
Why are boats carrying cars suddenly bursting into flame?
Climate change.
Well maybe Climate change hysteria.
There were probably tons of coal below deck that were going to the electricity plants in order to fuel the cars.
Climate Change.
This was telegraphed about as much as humanly possible by the Fed.
It definitely seemed like a foregone conclusion. I can’t imagine very many people were actually surprised. Other than Elizabeth Warren, maybe. She told them not to.
Now everybody
Have you heard?
If you’re in the game
Then the stroke’s the word
Don’t take no rhythm
Don’t take no style
Got a thirst for killin’
Grab your vial, yeah
Woo!
https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1684262402664038405
Scruffy off the top rope!
Hundred bucks we get stories that he is too old and should resign in 5…4…3…2
*he is too old, they are all too old.
They are. But both parties are stuck with them. They can keep running incumbents who are guaranteed to win, or try to run someone younger and take the chance of losing. And so they all hold on to the job like a Pope.
We can trade one turtle for one lump and keep the current Senate balance.
Goddamit I wish all these old fuckers go home and try to act like normal humans and spoil their grandkids or something. Long past time for the Boomers to let go of the power levers.
They aren’t even Boomers. These are people born DURING WW2.
Good point. OK, the Boomers can go around with wheel chairs, pick up the Greatest Generation members, and they can all get the fuck out of DC. And be sure to take Joe and Donny with them.
The boomers cover 18 years. I am dead in the middle. At 66, I am still working full time and performing at a high level (according to my boss).
Nine years older than me, the first boomers, would be 75. There is solid chance that I will still be working full time nine years from now.
Nine years younger than me, the last boomers, would be 57. Few, if any, retire in the late 50s (and if they do, they generally start something else up somewhere else).
So, stop shitting on boomers. We’re not all decrepit.
Calm down, Boomer.
The ones born during the war are “the Silent Generation” except for these sleazeballs. My parents are of that generation. Known for working hard and not causing a fuss.
Certainly is time for some actual representation in government instead of these old grifters. A new generation of grifters is more likely.
Whatever the hell the generation is called, the septuagenarians and octogenarians need to go home and let the younger generations make the decisions. If they really must stay working like kinnath is going to, they can start yet another think tank and get their power trip there.
Yeah, it’s AOC’s turn!
That looks like a guy not long for this world.
Need a lotto on who goes first – Cocaine Mitch, Feinstein, Lump, or Biden.
Biden will go on until the Animatronic Engineers Union goes on strike.
o.O
looks like he sprung a leak
Like the tin-man, he just needs some oil in his joints.
US citizens will need to pay for a visa to travel to Europe starting in 2024
I figure we should calculate the amount that this costs divide it by the number of US service members permanently stationed there and charge it back to Europe on a per head basis.
Naw, just arrest the Eurocrats and annex the territory.
RJ banned from Europe in 3…2…1…
$8 for a three year visa. More of a nuisance than a real burden.
The ratchet goes one way.
The distance from no visa to a cheap visa is enormous. After that, each additional restriction is just one little click away.
Well, we started it, no?
Yeah, we did, with the ESTA system. This is probably their tit-for-tat response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjSYHob135E
I remember when France did away with US visas; 1989 IIRC, pour la Bicentenaire?
Looking at the list of countries involved, it’s only Schengen Zone countries plus some soon to join the Schengen Zone countries. The UK and Ireland are not in the Schengen Zone. Plus some Balkan countries (Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia).
I suspect this is payback for the US not extending Visa free travel to some soon-to-join the Schengen Zone countries (Romania, Bulgaria, and Cyprus).
Meh, just tell the customs guy to not be so racist and keep walking.
My business is affected by CRE activity. A shit ton of paper is coming due. No way these owners are gonna refinance and it’s gonna throw that world into turmoil. Not to mention what it will do to the regionals who hold the paper.
That is the inevitable result of fifteen years (or more) of
artificiallystupidly low interest rates. A lot of misdirected investment needs to get shaken out. That’s easy for me to say from my comfy couch.If they can conclusively prove that EVs are causing statistically more fires on ships I’m all all in on safeguards and prevention. But I read this stuff fairly closely and haven’t seen it.
They are taking more precautions with them including lower charge levels.
I assume all of those cars, electric or internal combustion are shipped with batteries in place. Rough seas, a poorly bolted down battery, some other potential electrical short…
Realistically you get a manufacturing defect with separator in HV pack that doesn’t show up initially.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/f-150-lightning-fire-footage-growing-ev-risk.html
Yes. Millions upon millions of square meters of layered ignition devices.
All it takes is one insulator breakdown and the whole thing goes thermal.
Tesla got “burned” during its run of roadsters and is quite fire conscious. They utilize cylindrical cells encased in fire resistant foam. However, it has zero serviceability. So their defect rate has to be very low.
Many other OEMs use pouch cells with fire breaks between groups of cells. It’s cheaper and allows better density and serviceability. To my untrained non-engineer eye it would seem to have a much higher risk of a runaway thermal event.
Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.
I tried the 75 Hard challenge and was hospitalized for water poisoning
I’ve done it. Very effective, but the water thing is retarded. You need electrolytes. Period.
I knew that was the perfect Tundra clickbait!
Haha!
It is a fun thing to do if you need a kick in the ass (which most of us do periodically).
But did you add enough Borax?
Radithor
Sweet Jesus.
People are so unbelievably dumb.
Boron is good though. Our pal BEAM got me taking it and I think it’s a winner.
Nothing Boring About Boron:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4712861/
I just had some chocolate covered sugar free pecans from Bucky’s that my daughter bought me. Those promoted some serious weight loss. Probably 4 pounds so far.
Don’t worry. Joe’s going to wave his magic wand and convert all those empty office buildings into affordable housing.
Praise Brandon!
Brandon be praised
He gives us some freedoms when we are good
He punishes us when we disobey
“We’re not putting this f—er out. Look at it,” said one responding officer during the February F-150 Lightning fire.
First responders can be heard on video expressing concern about how much water is needed to put out EV fires and whether a special foam would be required. They also questioned the viability and safety of electric vehicles.
“They have to put like a whole f—ing lake on it to put them out,” the same officer said during the Feb. 4 event.
Nonsense. Round up the doubters.
In Ryan Reynolds news, in addition to ALF he is buying up Biker Mice from Mars.
https://retrododo.com/biker-mice-from-mars/
Why?
It’s like that scene in Top Gun, but for gynephiles:
https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1683116901927362560
Hawt.
Discovery here will be interesting.
Cigna accused of using an algorithm to reject patients’ health insurance claims
I doubt this is anything new, when I worked for an insurer that processed claims over 20 years ago, we already had an incredibly expensive software system that consolidated, paid, and reconciled bills, and identified claims for rejection for various reasons.
Yup. For example, an “algorithm” determined the claim falls outside the policy period.
In this case the criteria is medical and would appear to need to be signed off by a physician. Doesn’t mean the denial isn’t valid, just that it was determined by a machine and confirmed by a human.
Still not going to be fun from a PR process. And some of the expert systems are out to screw the policyholder.
https://www.millerandzois.com/car-accidents/insurance-claims-settlements/colossus/
If you want to know why “top” schools are going away from test scores, this explains it: https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1683460711312416769
The best way to only accept the very, very rich.
The big deal is that academic standards are pretty flat across the board (relative to test score). Non-academic standards are flat up to 90th percentile of income. Then they skyrocket. Its not even a marginal effect.
And this is why they don’t want to use “income” as a proxy to create diversity.
Since Neph is here:
This is called the ‘Blue Jellyfish Shot’
Pretty cool.
But how does it taste?
Stingy.
Probably awful.
Layered drinks have been around for a while. Other than bartenders showing off, and patrons being assholes, the only ones I regularly recall being ordered are slippery nipples and bloody brains.
We used to drink “oil slicks” which were just cheap harsh whiskey on top of ice cold water.
The water would chase away the burn/aftertaste that makes those whiskeys bad. If you used a hanky, you’d end up with a razor-sharp transition between the whiskey and water.
Anybody seen Hunter Biden?
‘Huffing’ may have led to Sturbridge car explosion, fire chief says