Capping off an interesting week looking at the fracture mechanics of chemically strengthened glass. It’s a glamorous life. It helps that I’m in a lab with the guy who invented the process, and we had some fun creating demonstration pieces. One was a wine glass that could be dropped six feet onto the concrete floor and not break, just bounce. I observed that this would be a terrific way to troll a Jewish wedding, but only got puzzled looks. Ah well.
Birthdays today include a woman renowned for her horsemanship; the most reviled human by the oh-no-we’re-not-antisemitic Left; a piece of shit who embodied the old saying about small minds; the bane of Snoopy’s existence; the guy who ruined my generation; the patron saint of Spudalicious and me; a guy who played in the best version of my favorite rock band; a guy who truly sucks; and a guy who played in my least favorite version of one of my other favorite bands.
With that out of the way, here’s Links.
It’s because they’re all dead.
I feel sorry for her, but this is really sketchy.
When I think of workers’ rights, the first thing that comes to mind is Palestinian Arabs. Right?
“We waited a decent interval.”
I am shocked by this (literally). They are the opposite.
I am also shocked (figuratively) that this incredibly dishonest grifter whose path to riches by making the stupid even stupider is being given a voice by the Trump administration. Then again, RFK, Jr. I gave him the benefit of the doubt in the beginning, but at this point, nope.
Puts our cafeteria food in perspective.
We had the same stupid rumors here, too, but unlike this dolt, we knew that they were bullshit.
More taxes and regulation, that’s what we voted for.
Can’t fool the Old Guy, this is C Jam Blues. Short but wonderful. This is for you, Mojeaux. Happy Friday.
I observed that this would be a terrific way to troll a Jewish wedding, but only got puzzled looks
I thought they stomp on the glass, not drop it from the chuppah.
(hums) “What do you say to a chemist in the lab… who fractures every glass and reworks every fab?”
Tradition?
Tradition!
You got any more information in a format accessable to non-chemists? I made it through Chem 101 but since I was in Software Engineering, I didn’t need higher level Chem courses. However, materials sciences are fascinating.
The wikipedia entry on “chemically strengthened glass” is a good start. The basic principle is replacing the sodium ions near the surface with (larger) potassium ions. This forms a surface compression layer and puts the interior into tension.
Thank you.
Is this why Kazakh Potassium is much better than other country’s Potassium, as Borat sang about?
No, he was being a Boron.
Public radio/TV is rarely what the public wants.
Its propaganda and psy ops is what it is.
I should have gotten another cup of coffee before coming for the morning links — I read that as Sloopy and was more than a bit puzzled for a moment…. At least Banjos hasn’t put him in the doghouse that we know of.
Obligatory.
Yeah, I almost wished Jim Harbaugh a happy birthday.
Could’ve been John Cooper (the coach with the fewest wins against Michigan).
Me too LOL
the guy who ruined my generation
Happy birthday Pete Townshend!
I didn’t know he played in Green Day.
I didn’t know about that cover. All I know is that they’re loved by critics for their Bush hatred.
There is no sex in their violence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps317u9Rhl0
I was thinking Neil Young. What a prick that guy is. Also, he gave us Green Day.
Still, OMWC is correct about that son of a bitch Spock.
Come to think of it the world is full of evil bastards and always has been.
“Cry me a fucking river.”
DEFUND THE FAKE NEWS!
What’s dishonest and stupid about Vani Hari? Seen her on a couple of podcasts and she seemed to make sense.
I suggest wrapping your head in something to keep the brain from escaping, but here. One illuminating excerpt from the Food Retard:
That’s not even the dumbest thing she’s said.
… But the whole reason ears pop is because even pressurized, the plane is at lower pressure than ground level.
I wonder what her take on submarines and diving looks like…
Is she talking about airplanes needing to pressurize the cabins at high altitude? She should have talked about taking a dump or farting in a large enclosed metal tube with no circulation. That’s a big problem…
Everything. Absolutely everything.
Here’s a gem about the dangers of being in an airplane:
When your body is in the air, at a seriously high altitude, your body under goes some serious pressure. Just think about it – Airplanes thrive in places we don’t. You are traveling in a pressurized cabin, and when your body is pressurized, it gets really compressed!
Compression leads to all sorts of issues. First off your body’s digestive organs start to shrink, taxing your ability to digest large quantities of food. Secondly, this compression reduces the ability for your body to normally circulate blood through your blood vessels…
The air you are breathing on an airplane is recycled from directly outside of your window. That means you are breathing everything that the airplanes gives off and is flying through. The air that is pumped in isn’t pure oxygen either, it’s mixed with nitrogen, sometimes almost at 50%. To pump a greater amount of oxygen in costs money in terms of fuel and the airlines know this! The nitrogen may affect the times and dosages of medications, make you feel bloated and cause your ankles and joints swell.
She cited some of my research in one of her anti-plastics screeds. Misrepresented it, of course. It was highly embarrassing.
Oops, Neph got there first.
/flexes
I left you all the “eating yoga mats” points you wanted to hit her with. She’s another idiot Fauci who proclaims SCIENCE! about things that don’t even make sense.
Sounds like lesbian workout sessions….
No, it was some idiocy where a substance used in food processing was also used in the manufacture of foam. It’s edible but idiots be idiots and shrieked that the processed foods contained yoga mat material.
Almost 50% nitrogen huh? Man, those airlines even steal from the air.
UCS:
The substance in question?
Cellulose.
@Mr Illium – I knew it was something harmless, I had just forgotten the exact details.
Jarflax: She obviously wants all air to be dephlogisticated.
The substance in question?
Cellulose.
Azodicarbonamide is a cellulose?
CPA:
Not sure about that one, but here’s her own site with a tag for cellulose.
she seemed to make sense
Did you go to the box, and feel shame?
No, the things she was saying, such as don’t get fat and get diabetes, were sensible. No idea if food dyes cause illness.
That was the accuracy of a broken clock.
When the headline said “small parcels” I was thinking land. But yes, I did vote for forcing Temu and Shien to stop selling us slave labor garbage that breaks in five minutes.
Stock up on disposable consumer goods while you can.
We should deport Temu Obama back too… Hakeem Jeffries must go!
The phrase they used to throw around was “decoupling” from China, and I’m fine with that.
Hmmm… he’d better hope no one tries shattering him with that name…
“We had the same stupid rumors here, too, but unlike this dolt, we knew that they were bullshit.”
You can find a convention of these freaks practically every night at some hotel across the country that also has a convention facility. And you can smell the funk of bad sex on these freaks from a mile away.. Comes from all that costume humping.
Given that we are now having drag queen story hour, can you blame people about a furry panic?
Yeah — you would think theirs would have rated higher on the scales.
Some cook added a runaway snake too late to the cooking process of the snake stew?
Their budget was constricted.
I don’t have to worry about lunch room snakes anymore, but margarita snakes?
We need a large Federal program to prevent this bull shit!
Or we can learn from the bar’s owner and take a chill pill.
I could see a bar becoming a landmark because every night a snake is randomly dropped from the ceiling.
“Both Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dustin Burrows have backed the “Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education (F.U.R.R.I.E.S) Act,” which would prohibit any “non-human behavior” by a student, including wearing animal ears or barking, meowing or hissing. ”
That’s OK, but where do they get the “S”? They should have to do each letter, because science.
Yo yo yo… they’re down with the Educations, man!
“The cow says…”
“It’s illegal for us to imitate animals, Miss Kindergartenteacher”
Semi-Obligatory (not entirely… but one of my favorites of theirs… )
Ha!
You’re not assuming a spherical cow, are you?
…mMOOOooo…
Does a cow have the Buddhist nature?
Mu.
Muh.
The bad implementation of acronymming makes me furrious.
No need to get your dander up.
You gave the answer, just add science to name
Forbidding Unlawful Representation or Roleplaying In Education Science
The S is for savings.
Science denier!
Mascots hit hardest!
Burn them. Burn them all!
Oh my, where did the mascot touch you?
They were probably chased away by the clowns at the edge of the forest.
Your harem of NPR ladies will be cranky this weekend!
We have a strong tendency to fill in blanks in our knowledge with magical bullshit, especially things that scare us.
Grifters are more than happy to take advantage of that weakness.
No, you cant make your pecker work like it used to, you cant get younger, shrink your prostate, lose weight while you sleep or get rid of chronic pain with a magnet. There are no such things as smart pills. Women aren’t going to fall in love with you because of your perfume.
In this morning’s case there is no magical diet that will make. you into superman or make you immortal, no secret food that cures hangnails.
These ‘food experts’ kill me. Worse, the people that listen to them. I know a lot of people that have diets that are beyond weird. One guy, 85 years old has eaten nothing but milk for the last 20 years. WTF is that? An 85 yo infant? Jeebus.
How about eat what you like in moderation and physical exercise?
Oh wait, I forgot. We live in a society where face tattoos are not uncommon. Never mind.
“Regret your face tattoos? Click here for this one easy trick everyone in your state is trying!”
Banning employment discrimination based on a lack of professional appearance?
SDF-7: Now that is funny.
One of the fitness people on Instagram said something similar, and listed this the other day:
Limit the number of calories you eat
Don’t eat junk food
Walk as much as possible
Lift weight 3-4 times a week
Get adequate sleep
That’s really it. Simple, but not easy for everyone.
I saw a clip where Piers Morgan said something like that to a couple of overweight women.
The instant anger and shrieking of “ARE YOU A MEDICAL DR.?” was hilarious.
tangential, but having seen the clip so many times on Drinker videos, I finally saw the source of the Nagan “Really?!” clip and it’s great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-vFKttgsE8
That is hilarious.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday that orders Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to increase the provision of “military and national security assets” to local law enforcement officials and “determine how military and national security assets” could “most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.”
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2025/04/trump-orders-hegseth-bondi-to-consider-use-of-military-for-domestic-operations/
Roundin’ ‘em up, and shipping ‘em to Gitmo.
Theoretically.
Or – a Bradley in your front yard when they arrive to serve a warrant for a misdemeanor.
I said knock down the door not the house. Oh well, search the rubble.
That is totally inappropriate.
They’re supposed to use a Stryker.
Using a Bradley is a two-fer – you get the broken windows AND broken roads!
Multiplier effect!
Singapore-based fast-fashion giant Shein sought to reassure customers in a post on its U.S. Instagram account on Thursday, saying: “Some products may be priced differently than before, but the majority of our collections remain as affordable as ever.” Shein sells clothes mostly manufactured in China, and the U.S. is its biggest market.
Reports just a few days ago had the company jacking up its prices.
Either way, it’s going to…
(doffs sunglasses)
…Take the Shein off their business model.
YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!
*narrows gaze*
“Prices Skyrocket by Up to 377%”
So now their swimsuits are going for $6 ?
Huh. I don’t recall any 377% tariffs.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My son played tee ball when he was around 5.
He would chase butterflies in the outfield and try to get the center fielder to race him.
He would also “rev up” before he ran the bases by running in place for a few seconds. He thought he was in a cartoon I guess.
Going to his games was like going to a comedy show.
All three of the Altar Kids played at least tee ball.
As you said, it is amusing to all the parents watching. You giggle at the silliness of the other kids and then you watch in horror as your kids starts running the wrong way on the base paths.
Or as one Altar Kid did, he ran all the way to the dugout to put his bat away before running to first. The best part is that he was still safe because the other team had yet to actually pick up the ball.
🤬
Who forced those kids to be there if none of them wanted to play the game?
UCS:
The kids want to play. The problem is that they have the attention span of a gnat. They also don’t have a good grasp on the rules (or the concept of rules).
I once had a theory that the perception of time is relative to the amount of used memory in a person’s brain. When you’re little, every day is an eternity because there’s so little other time to compare against. As you get older years become short.
I just need some amnesiacs to act as a control to see how it stands up.
If you ignore ethical considerations, you can induce amnesia surgically.
He loved playing, but like the Pope said, his attention span was short and he didn’t care if they won or lost.
He had fun though, and we sure as hell had fun watching.
I don’t get it…
Does not compute.
I always thought time seemed to speed up because not much new happens as you age.
Then I had a year where I retired from the Marine Corps got ajob, moved, got a different job, and moved again.
Even with all that “new” stuff happening to me, the year flew by.
I find it fascinating that, even for isolated Amazonian tribes, the elders report the same thing – time goes by more quickly as you age.
It’s not “the western lifestyle” or anything like that.
“Steve Smith sued under ‘homewrecker law’ for alleged affair with man’s wife”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/01/sports/steve-smith-sued-under-homewrecker-law-for-alleged-affair-with-mans-wife/
BY AFFAIR MEAN….
STEVE SMITH WRECK HOME TOO???
I heard that STEVE SMITH’s affair caused the guy to use up all his anti-acids.
STEVE SMITH HOME WRECK TUMS!
WRECK TUMS? STEVE SMITH NEARLY KILLED ‘EM.
OMG you guys have me laughing like a crazy person today.
Glascock
Speaking of trolling…
Yah know, there are times my wife is very, very grateful that I have a nice last name.
First name Iona?
Mulva?
“The victimized driver didn’t report the poop-filled fracas, but the disgusting act was videotaped by a bystander and posted on Instagram.
The footage shows a woman hop out of her vehicle, storm over to the other car, pull down her pants and squat on the grill of the other car — quickly ripping loose in just a matter of seconds as the other driver honked.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/02/us-news/pennsylvania-woman-christina-solometo-defecated-on-car-during-road-rage-dispute/
At least she’s getting enough fiber.
That really should’ve been in Cleveland, even as shitty as Philly is.
I keep telling y’all we are just a bunch of monkeys. I am surprised she didnt shit in her hand and throw it at the driver.
I feel like we’re devolving at this point.
I saw this happen in Brooklyn back in 1998. I knew at that moment everything that I saw on TV about the Big Apple (don’t mind the maggots) was probably not made up but based on somebody’s personal experiences.
If you gotta go, you gotta go!
Cloud of Doom and Gloom. I hate every single person in this story.
From the racist pos who raised $100K to move, to all the politicians who are calling for someone to be jailed because she said racist shit at a playground. And of course all the politicians who have been using this kerfuffle to push their own agenda.
Especially finding out that we have this law:
First off, hate crimes are bullshit to begin with. Secondly why is there a special hate crime category just for politicians?
Because they write the laws?
Fuck the reporter for capitalizing “Black” but not “White”.
STEVE SMITH ONLY DO LOVE CRIME!
Racism is the literal worst thing a human can do so it’s imperative to commit more resources to finding it everywhere.
Does anyone, at this point, believe that any of these hate crimes are genuine and not false flags?
How is that not protected by the first amendment?
Oh, yeah, the FUTY clause.
Or moved away. The city’s poplation dropped 41% since the given year that history started (1970).
That pic is amazing. Every leftist hobby horse in one shot. The commies, the pro-Hamas, the envious, you name it.
Retarded Gay Transgendered Palestinian Black Socialist Migrants unite!
Never Nudes?
Let’s stop for a moment and notice there aren’t any “Patriot Front” types there, people aren’t being mass arrested, and for that matter, people are able to discuss this stuff on social media without being banned. But yeah, we live in a fascist country.
What excuse for banning a candidate will the Democracy folks come up with this time?
lol I haven’t heard that one before.
*faints*
ultranationalist – anyone not bending the knee and kissing the ass of the globalist aristocracy?
I think it just means patriot at this point
Jan 8, I was planning a funeral. Today, the Glue Factory is for sale and Mom and I are going road tripping like she said she would never do again.
🥳
Road Trip!
Read that as “round tripper” and thought your mom made a helluva recovery and was back to playing baseball.
That’s awesome!
Glad you get to enjoy your time together after the scare earlier.
Are you planning on heading down to Memphis to get real BBQ?
I can see how that would entice your mother to break her promise.
She was a road tripper,
Friday driver yeah.
It took me so long
To find out, but I found out.
Fantastic. Sometimes things work out better than we expect, thankfully.
Fantastic!
Chaos! Tumult!
I tapped out from boredom at the ridiculous freakouts but I wonder if “Unprecedented!” made it in there. Maybe “Inconceivable!”
“Shiloh Hendricks, a Rochester, Minnesota, mother, has raised over $220,000 through a GiveSendGo fundraiser to protect her family after a vicious online witch hunt.
The now-deleted viral video shows Hendricks being confronted by a man who accused her of using the “N-word” in reference to a five-year-old child who she says stole a diaper bag from her 18-month-old son.
The man recording the video, who is now accused by Hendricks of stalking and doxxing her, demands to know why she used the “N-word” in her confrontation.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/i-called-kid-what-he-was-mom-who/
This whole story stinks.
Do the drugs stink?
““Luigi the Musical,” billed as “A story of love, murder and hash browns,” is due to open in June at the Taylor Street Theatre, formerly the Exit Theatre.
The show is described as a “wildly irreverent, razor-sharp comedy that imagines the true story of Luigi Mangione, the alleged corporate assassin turned accidental folk hero.” The film features other famous characters, including convicted crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, and former rap mogul, turned accused sex trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs….
“Bold, campy, and unafraid, Luigi: the Musical is both laugh-out-loud funny and surprisingly thoughtful,” according to the play’s production company. “If you like your comedy smart and your show tunes with a criminal record, Luigi is your new favorite felony.””
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/luigi-the-musical-about-accused-unitedhealthcare-ceo-killer-to-debut-in-sf/
Is it a film or a play?
With leftists in the end it always comes down to violence and a celebration of murder.
It’s a play. Like Springtime for Hitler.
What the hell does “imagines the true story” mean?
“We made shit up.”
Walz’s new gig!
He really is like a never-ending comedy routine.
The show about nothing is a perfect reference too.
Their entire party is like that. It truly is something to behold.
The depressing part is that they’re probably going to take the House back in another year.
You would think he’d be here deep in negotiations with the Legislature. The session is nearly over and no budget deal seems to be ready.
Of course, he probably doesn’t want to be associated with anything that might remind voters that his administration went from a $17B surplus to a projected $6B deficit.
Ooof.
That’s some serious turd polishing.
No chemical optimization required for these titties.
https://archive.is/yH4qK
Friday Funbags.
Yet another whitey King Walz fails to win over
If you shoot, shoot to kill.
Awww, puppy!
They don’t fuck around in Svalbard.
I have a question: The leftists protests are all obviously organized and funded. Why does no one ever look into who is doing that?
Who had the signs printed up/ Who bought the pallets of bricks that were delivered? Is no one curious? It isn’t like it would difficult to discover.
Why do you want to know you white-supremacist, patriarchal cis-shit-lord?
Possibly us. I’m guessing USAID was funding a lot of this. There’s no doubt that the USAID money was being cleaned through NGOs and repurposed to leftist causes.
I am confident that this is true but I want names and faces. It is impossible that what they are doing is not a criminal act.
Suthen has it right. Screw DOGE just “stopping” the flow. There are people that signed off on this shit, and they need to be held accountable. Then we should take it up with our Congress-critters – why didn’t you KNOW this was happening, and if you did, WHY should I vote for you?
Enh, most of the money comes from Soros and like-minded friends and yes while some of the money is laundered through government-funded non-government orgs, I doubt all of it is and there is no reason that all of the funding couldn’t go straight to the antifa orgs planning these events.
I figure it must be hard to do because we usually find out nothing.
Also, with a few exceptions, conservatives very much lack investigate journalists who are any good.
In other substack news.
I really love that last sentence.
The worst part of this is that it is not currently a criminal offense to solicit children in California.
No it is, but it is a misdemeanor if the child is over 15 (and obviously under 18). The Democrat who wrote the bill, and the Republicans, want to close that two-year loophole, since soliciting a child (15 or younger) under the current law is a felony.
Then it’s not a discussion about whether “the legislature should criminalize the solicitation…” it’s a discussion of the penalties for an already criminalized act.
Words have meaning.
Also amusing: After leadership gutted the original bill, the bill’s sponsor proposed an amendment restoring the original language.
This was deemed to be a “hostile amendment”.
I’m curious: why, exactly, is the CA Dem leadership fighting this tooth and nail?
Either they or their actual constituency are engaged in the actions to be punshed?
That kerfuffle just popped up in several substacks I subscribe to as well (including the piece that JI referenced). My favorite part is when the Democrats both told a gay Republican that making soliciting teenagers a felony was anti-LBTQ and when they said the bill (written by a Democrat) was Republican hate mongering.
Because being able to fuck a 16 year-old prostitute and have it only be a misdemeanor is a HUMAN RIGHT.
Q Continuum:
It’s even worse than that. Actually having sex with a 16-18 year old is a felony regardless (statutory rape). The complaint here is that if you hire a prostitute, and get popped before you actually committed the deed (or even after if you both deny it and there’s no evidence), it falls to a misdemeanor, which were generally not prosecuted. This bill makes the act of hiring the underage prostitute a felony.
Forget it, RC. It’s Pedofornia.
I have concluded that Trump broke the entire progressive movement’s mind/sanity as well as a bunch of people outside of that sphere. The left had it easy for too long because they never needed to actually successfully debate any topic of concern. All they had to do was accuse the opposition of racism, homophobia, misogyny, and other such phobias, and the opposition was silenced. These words denouncing others as bad people had magical power, and it allowed the progressive movement to run amok. But they also lost the need and practice of actually debating.
Then Trump came along and showed people you didn’t need to just accept them labeling you – practically and obviously always falsely – and that the best retort was to call them fake, losers, and scum. To make fun of them and their stupidity. That broke these idiots. Especially those that stopped thinking and went all cult.
The idiots have now made “Trump” the new magic word. If you are in the cult it immediately triggers you. The sad thing is they can’t stop, because without this dumb shit they have no means to control the masses.
I was watching Tim Pool last night, and he showed that the leading podcasters/YouTubers were a couple of progressive guys that do nothing but put out 4-5 videos about Trump every day. Millions of views, and $700k revenue per month for this. The entire Democrat party has no ideas, no plans, no visions, just opposition to Trump.
Exhibit B: Kennedy announced a plan to look into the sources of autism. Besides the general argument against government spending, there’s really no reason to oppose this. Yet on FB people are nitpicking his speech and saying he’s “against autistic people” and insulting them by saying they can’t work (he was clearly referring to severe autistic people). His big sin of course was being hired by Trump.
Cult’s have agendas. They never make any sense, but since you get offed if you question shit, they have no problem pulling this stuff out. What really scares me is the amount of people that would rather keep living with lies and obvious falsehoods rather than decide you need to bail on the cult.
“$700k revenue per month for this”
Probably lots of robots.
Trump broke the entire progressive movement’s mind/sanity
I beg to differ. Those fuckers were nuts to begin with, it’s just that Trump makes them go public with it.
It’s the sexual-orientation version of the “BIPOCs hardest hit” argument to which Dems always resort.
“Woke Maine teacher calls for Trump and ALL his supporters to be killed – as she dares bosses to fire her”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14665291/maine-teacher-calls-trump-killed-st-germain.html
CWAC
How did she ever graduate from special education?
No child left behind.
Mental disorders are a bonus in a cult that feels the oppressed should win the day.
See my comment above. Always with the violence.
I didnt waste my time watching it but Yootoob presented me with a video yesterday entitled “Why did the soldiers kill the guards at Dachau?”
To save the cost of a trial later?
I normally take no pleasure in people getting worked over by the pigs, but when this one gets frog-marched out of school by the Secret Service, I might allow myself a chuckle or two…
lol The pic doesn’t disappoint – exactly what I expected.
A million years ago there was a restaurant down in the Beni. By ‘there was a restaurant’ I mean there was only one restaurant and it was way the fuck and gone out in the middle of the jungle. Ok, there was Trinidad but we weren’t there.
We go to this Chinaman’s restaurant and I ordered chicken. I was amazed that chicken was even on the menu. Chicken on rice.
When the plate appeared in front of me I didnt even have to taste it. Chicken, my ass. I instantly knew it was snake. He had chopped it up finely in an attempt to disguise it.
Fuck. I didnt go in there to eat the same shit I had been eating for the last 6 months.
LOL!
If I were Jewish, my mother would have done that to me. This is the woman who put trick candles on the cake for my fourth birthday.
Why do you have to troll a (((wedding))) anyhow?
Couldn’t you anchor nearby and cast into it with slip bobbers? Or even just cast into it with a Rappala lure?
Say Wut??? You mean to tell me that systems that do not police graft, waste, and incompetence, lead to more graft, waste, and incompetence??? NO WAY!!
So they unexpectedly decided to do runway construction, right? And in no way was this construction communicated to the airlines when they made their schedules, right?
Delays continue Friday at Newark Liberty due to construction, staffing issues
According to the FAA, more than 400 flights were delayed Thursday afternoon and more than 200 were canceled.
https://newjersey.news12.com/hundreds-of-flights-delayed-at-newark-liberty-due-to-construction-staffing-issues
No one who is important flies fron Newark Liberty
veryone knows there are two seasons in New Jersey: winter, and construction.
Maryland laughs and says winter is no obstacle to construction. I-695 is a perpetual make-work site.
Maryland is practically a southern state. They don’t have winter.
She seems nice.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/30/us-news/new-jersey-screaming-banshee-charged-in-fatal-dui-of-elderly-boston-moped-rider/
I think one can gey a wild 10 minutes in the sack there… Though what comes after who can tell
one can gey a wild 10 minutes in the sack
Euphemism?
Regret, regret comes after.
What comes after? Your funeral.
what comes after
A course of antibiotics?
Pretty much bog standard metro NYC. I noticed her prior notable run in was in Hoboken, NJ.
I wonder what she did to get past the ethical requirements to be allowed to sit the Bar exam? Or is that no longer a thing?
Surely you are joking.
The only way you really get booted out of the guild is stealing from trust accounts. I find that hysterical.
Booted out is different from allowed in. The background check to be allowed to sit the exam is, or at least was when I did it, pretty serious.
I thought the requirement was that you were an unprosecuted criminal.
Ahh got it. If it was NJ where she sat I wouldn’t be shocked…
Although I wouldn’t be shocked if the requirements are standardized nationally.
Elie Mystal wasn’t allowed. Now he’s a Ken White certified legal genius and MSNBC commentator.
Entitled member of the broken system.
See above.
Maybe I need to reconsider my views on educational beatings by the police.
Does stomping on wine glass at Jewish wedding have any religious symbolism or is it just a silly tradition like smashing the wedding cake into the groom’s face?
No
Yep, reminder of the fragility of joy, the night is dark and full of terrors, etc.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/breaking-the-glass-at-a-jewish-wedding/
Sounds like post-hoc rationalization by someone who’d done something stupid and tried to talk their way out of the awkward aftermath.
Also the breaking of the hymen.
Y’know for a different era pre-OnlyFans.
Indeed, mentioned in there:
“For centuries breaking the glass implicitly symbolized breaking the hymen, which is why it was so important that the groom succeed.”
I, of course, got it in one go.
Granted, it was really a lightbulb (which is common these days?) and my wife, well, she wore white but…
“she wore white but…”
You and the best man had finger-cuffed her the night before?
Dude… no.
This is a family friendly site!
I dont know why but there is something so pleasant about just floating on the water in a kayac and having a beer doing nothing…
Had some nice grilled lamb with a can sauvignon marselan blend for lunch… With goose fat roast poatoes and a salad… It is a decent day
How did you fit that grill on a kayak?
Well i am an engineer
Floating grills..
Screenshotting this as proof that you drink wine from cans.
Well damn. It looks like MANCAN (based out of Cleveland) got acquired and no longer have their own website for me to lean into the joke.
Sanitation or train?
Nature. It’s nature.
That is a good way to
wastespend a day.When I was in the Galapagos last month, I tried out sea kayaking for the first time. It was indeed nice. Had a green sea turtle surface about a foot from my kayak.
Save the turtles!
No, Sean, you’re supposed to Shave the turtles. the hobo beards have to go before the film crew shows up.
Drugz
Starting Friday, American shoppers will be paying import duties of up to 145% on their orders from China, as the U.S. government ends a legal loophole that once exempted tariffs on low-value packages shipped from China.
The Trump administration says the move is to counter fentanyl trafficking. “President Trump is targeting deceptive shipping practices by Chinese-based shippers, many of whom hide illicit substances, including synthetic opioids, in low-value packages to exploit the de minimis exemption,” the White House said in an executive order mandating the new levies.
I wonder why I haven’t heard that before.
Because China ships their fentanyl (or precursors?) to Mexico, not the US?
Wait. The price of fentanyl is going up?
I’m out on China tariffs.
Why would you tell your mom about this?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/my-daughter-sleeping-sugar-daddy-34926940
She is proud of being a whore and wants mommy to enable that?
I was thinking she is breaking the ice cuz the dude asked for a mom/daughter threesome.
Bragging?
Is his name John? At some point you’re just a prostitute, do like respectable golddiggers do and get him to buy you stuff for god’s sake.
There is a white egret who is staring at me like what is your problem man
You better hope it doesn’t want to grill you…
Egrets are nice and all, but I heard PT Barnam had a great Egress.
Egrets?
I’ve had a few.
But then again, too few to mention.
Kinky.
For almost a century, U.S. law carved out a duty exemption for small packages.
The exemption started as a cost-cutting measure, to avoid taxes that cost the government more to collect than the tax itself. The loophole was called de minimis, which is Latin for something trivial and insignificant. Over time, the de minimis exemption also came to be used by small businesses in the U.S., to import small volumes of items without having to pay tariffs.
In the last decade, this little exemption became huge business because of online shopping. That is where Shein and Temu came in, along with TikTok Shop and Amazon’s many Chinese sellers.
About a decade ago, Congress expanded the exemption to packages worth under $800. Any package, from clothes to kitchenware, under that price point would come in duty-free and pass inspection faster. Online sellers realized this was a big advantage.
We must close this loophole and force all commerce to be conducted by giant retailers like Walmart.
Good luck Texas. Although given the quality of CDL drivers in that area…
The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/business/first-driverless-semis-started-regular-routes
I wish I could buy stock in whichever law firm is going to handle the case for the first fatalities from this thing.
Are they programmed to run rolling road blocks like human truckers?
“While most shipments contain legitimate goods, many contain fake or dangerous products that can put American consumers and businesses at serious risk,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) warned in a new video this week.
Now, those ordering small packages from China will be charged either a flat tax per item in the package, or duties of 120-145%, depending on how the package is shipped.
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She points out that with the new customs duties on low-value packages from China, importers will now need to fill out information where every small package is coming from and what is inside them. It means a lot more work for brokers and for American customs officials.
“But they’re going to have so much more information in their system that will help them figure out which container has the illicit packages,” Murphy says, of CBP.
The magic of paperwork.
Extortion racket
The DOJ on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change. On Thursday, the DOJ sued New York and Vermont, challenging their climate superfund laws that would force fossil fuel companies to pay into state-based funds based on previous greenhouse gas emissions.
“These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement, noting the office hopes to stop “these illegitimate impediments to the production of affordable, reliable energy that Americans deserve.”
The DOJ lawsuits, which legal experts called unprecedented, mark the latest of the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental work and raises concern over states’ abilities to retain the power to take climate action without federal opposition.
These lawsuits are unprecedented. The federal government has no business telling the states what to do.
states’ abilities to retain the power to take climate action without federal opposition
Really? Would that also mean states have the power to refrain from acting on nonsensical fears about the climate if they so choose? Fucking rat journalists.
When burned, fossil fuels release emissions such as carbon dioxide that warm the planet.
Kneel before the egghead consensus.
Not “cooking” the planet? Keep up with the proper scare tactics, The Associated Press.
“Only a man could turn his own selfish acts of betrayal into the fault of the people who would be most hurt if they came to light — in this case, his family[…]I take full responsibility for my own indiscretions[…]even if our marriage was distant and sexless, it still wouldn’t be his fault that I stray. It’s a choice I make despite knowing that if he or Abigail, 18, were ever to find out, it would break their hearts”
https://archive.is/ldqdx
I believe this is what those in the “manosphere” call The Rationalization Hamster. How about just admitting you’re a deceitful cunt and stop making yourself into some kind of Female Empowerment™ heoine?
“I do”
Those are not supposed to be just words.
I dont see a bright future for this horrible woman.
*I think all of these prurient, sensational stories are complete fabrications.
I’m a filthy whore, but I am a woman, so I am always good. If her husband was unfaithful, even once, I am gonna bet this bitch would freak out.
I love the “women cheat too” trope. Yes they do, and it’s just as despicable.
“I take full responsibility for my own indiscretions” followed by a list of reasons why it’s really his fault.
Drunk DUI ‘Screaming Banshee’: Batshit crazy. Batshit crazy is a real thing. The expression comes from mining guano from caves where miners were exposed to high levels of ammonia.
She is in late stage alcoholism. Her liver is failing which causes ammonia to build up in her system. Ammonia is a very potent poison….100 micro moles/ liter and you show symptoms. 200 micro moles and you are in a coma.
Symptoms – Radical personality change, confusion and disorientation, loss of equilibrium, tremors, coma.
Going to prison is going to save her life. She is going to have a tough time because when she recovers, and she will recover 100%, she will realize what she has done and has to live with that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic_encephalopathy
I am surprised that woman’s photo is not included in that article.
“We demand a 10 minute break to kill Jews every 2 hours, plus a 45 minute Jew-killing break for every 8 hour shift. Also, free rockets in the breakroom.” /Hamas Union
Yesterday I saw some kind of question/answer/discussion Trump was involved in. Someone asked him about a problem he was not very familiar with. He asked them “Are people being hurt? Has anyone been killed?”
I remember Trump #1 when he bombed the Ruskies in syria. He called them and told them to get out of the way cuz the bombs were on the way. Asked why he did that he said “They had to be punished for what they did but they didnt kill anyone so I wasn’t going to kill them.”
I have heard him talk like that many times now.
Question: Has anyone heard top democrats express concern about people being harmed or killed? As far as I can tell from everything they do and have done is that they are the party that celebrates evil and have no problem with people being killed. In fact finding examples of progressives explicitly calling for or celebrating murder is damned easy.
There was one point during one of the debates that really got me. They asked what “victory” in Ukraine would look like, and he just said something like, enough people have died, and people not killing each other is a victory. He’s still the only person in the room saying that.
Laboratory glassware is weird stuff. Some days it seems that just looking at it wrong will cause it to shatter. Other times I’ve seen a quartz glass nozzle dropped from 12’ onto concrete and it bounced.
I once dropped 1 liter of concentrated hydrochloric acid in a volumetric flask onto a concrete floor. It did not win me the employee of the day award.
I suppose creating a clean spot in the floor wasn’t so well-recieved.
The looming collapse of civil society
In a few short years, the U.S. helped establish and lead the United Nations, NATO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The U.S. helped rebuild Europe with assistance funneled through the Marshall Plan, and it also funded the reconstruction of Japan.
Democratic and Republican presidents supported these institutions for generations. They sometimes grumbled at the cost, yet they believed the institutions ultimately strengthened the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower.
But 100 days into his second term, President Trump is moving aggressively to scale back the United States’ role in the world, based on his “America First” agenda. Trump sees this web of alliances, treaties and soft power as expensive, outdated relics that restrain America’s ability to act decisively on its own.
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Eighty years after the U.S. established the modern global order, foreign policy analysts wage nonstop debates about how it should be updated. The discussion often centers on whether the U.S. is still able and willing to shoulder the burden it has since World War II. But, Brands said, if the U.S. abandons that role, no other country can replace it.
“If the United States says that it’s going to stop being a global public goods provider and simply take benefits out of the system, I don’t know how long that system is going to last,” Brands said.
Trump seems determined to find out.
Trump is the Doomsday Machine.
Go away, National Propaganda Radio.
The civilized world cannot exist without the generous support of American taxpayers. Why do you hate civilization?
If the ‘civilized world’ would get it’s hand out of my pocket, I’d hate it a lot less.
Well maybe your bullshit “modern global order” hasn’t been working so well lately?
“simply take benefits out of the system”
Remind me again what those are? The opportunity to spend blood and treasure all over the world?
See, as the man says, it’s America’s responsibility to foot the bill for the system. If America decides to take benefits out of the system that it initially put into the system…
Actually, I don’t know what the fuck this guy is talking about.
Awesome.
It’s almost like Trump is the first pres in decades to notice that those institutions have been actively working against the interests of the US.
Including NPR lol
“In a few short years, the U.S. helped establish and lead the United Nations, NATO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”
An almost unparalleled record of disaster?
Oh, wait, they’re saying we should be proud of that?
Those institutions have become completely corrupt and are actively acting against the US by looting and destroying it. Kill them all.
Harry loses appeal for automatic security detail when in the UK
Grift harder dude.
I liked him better when he was a drunken military guy who occasionally wore Nazi outfits instead of a cucked has been. The English will never retake Brittany from the Frogs with people like him in charge.
Harry won’t be. Too many people ahead of him in the order of succession.
Outright prolonged laughter
The United Nations is considering a massive overhaul that would merge major departments and shift resources across the globe, according to an internal memo prepared by senior officials tasked with reforming the world body.
The high-level review comes as U.N. agencies scramble to cope with the fallout from U.S. foreign aid cuts under President Donald Trump that have gutted humanitarian agencies.
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But the language of the internal self-assessment appears to confirm what both supporters and critics of the global body have long said: that the U.N. needs streamlining. In a series of observations, the memo refers to “overlapping mandates”, “inefficient use of resources”, “fragmentation and duplication” and notes a bloating of senior positions.
It describes “systemic challenges” the U.N. faces, problems exacerbated as the General Assembly continues to add missions and programmes. “Increased mandates, often without clear exit strategies, and complexities have led to significant overlaps, inefficiencies and increased costs,” the document said.
The memo was prepared by a task force appointed in March by Secretary General António Guterres, who said at the time the body needed to make itself more cost-effective.
The task force, considering long-term structural changes, is in addition to shorter-term cost-cutting efforts. Some diplomats have described the effort as a proactive step to help forestall deeper U.S. cuts.
Trump has derailed the gravy train.
The task force memo does not mention any country by name, but notes starkly that “geopolitical shifts and substantial reductions in foreign aid budget are challenging the legitimacy and effectiveness of the Organization”.
Among the impacts: the U.N. humanitarian office, which faces a $58 million shortfall, has cut 20% of its staff. UNICEF projects its budget will shrink by 20% and the U.N. migration agency expects a 30% budget drop, affecting 6,000 jobs.
The cuts are “having an immediate, devastating impact”, Bob Rae, the Canadian ambassador and president of the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council, said on Monday.
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Hundreds of U.N. staff protested against job losses in Geneva on May 1.
A tragedy of epic scale. What would we do without the UN and its vast army of pencilpushing globetrotters and socialites?
Nothing says “cost conscious” like setting up in Geneva.
Is this solely because of the U.S.?
If so, I might have to give more praise to Elon than I’ve currently been giving.
Tariffs 101…