I don’t remember how long I did the afternoon links weekdays when this site kicked off, but it felt like a really long time. That was, I believe before sons 3 & 4, so the memories of how to do it are lost to those BC days. I had to ask the editorial staff what time the links go up. But I won’t go for a cheap Mexican joke and move them a couple of minutes. They’ll probably post on Tuesday instead.
Happy belated Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there. You’d have thought I was making my sons muck cattle stalls at a veterinary clinic for intestinal diseases they way they reacted to being taken around to have their dad buy them things to give to their mom. Every time I get annoyed at how spoiled they are, I consider whether I am too far to one side of the line between good-parenting and abuse. I heard a dad say to his kid after cautioning the child that the playground equipment was too slippery and the kid denying it: “If you fall and you cry, I’m gonna whup you”. That’s pretty much perfect parenting to me.
Part of me is glad the FBI is doing its job. Another part of me is wondering how long they were sitting on all of these known child sex traffickers.
I mean, on the one hand you have AOC and on the other hand you have residents from the Bronx and Queens. I’m rooting for SMOD.
Superwood. Stronger than steel, and probably a lot more expensive too. *Appears to be a wood-based product, not actually wood.
Cancel all my long-term holdings, the universe is only going to be around for 10^78 years.
Superwood caused a line from this to bounce around my head, its already doing incalculable damage!
Heh, he said wood, heh
STEVE SMITH PROMINENT SUPERWOOD LAWYER… ALWAYS STRONGER THAN STEEL. NOT MORE EXPENSIVE, THOUGH. STEVE GIVE YOU DISCOUNT. GIVE DISCOUNT GOOD AND HARD.
I think I saw Superwood open up for Lords of Acid back in the day.
Kara Zor-El won’t attend their concerts… she insists her legs just start showing more and more cellulose.
Mother’s day?
Momma’s Boys.
Momma, you say?
ji:
Mama say?
Curiosity got me, so I listened to the Kayne song. Edgy 6th grader lyrics aside, it sounds like generic autotune slop from the last decade. I’m now skeptical of anyone who calls it a banger.
The only thing he’s ever put out that was tolerable was whichever album it was where he just blatantly ripped off the first two Death Grips records.
Beware of Death Grips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqcTVVUFnKQ
You’ll appreciate this.
I was actually just listening to Exmilitary the other day for the first time in a long while. I lost my taste for hip hop in middle school, but that’s my one exception.
We better hope the current AI is evolving to Multivac so we can get working on reversing Entropy then…
I’m thinking of buying a car and finance it, ’til the end of time. Keep the payments low.
Hmm… I was expecting you to be a little freaky about it.
Frustration with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reached a breaking point on her home turf, with fed up Queens and Bronx constituents telling The Post they’re sick and tired of being second fiddle to the jet-setting socialist’s primary focus — herself.
Her district offices in the Bronx and Queens offer little to justify the $1.9 million the congresswoman gets to run them — one is only open a single weekday and the other is closed on Fridays, with phones that go unanswered and constituents urged to discuss their problems “by appointment only.”
Isn’t that how she beat her predecessor? Accusing him of ignoring his constituents?
The important thing is her friends and family get paid to work in those offices.
At least it isn’t her brothers and husbands, I suppose….
I would be happy if our local elected officials did nothing.
If Walz went fishing every day Minnesoda would be a better place. Klobuchar et al don’t add much positivity either.
Yup — I’d be much happier if SacTown stopped trying to stick their Weiner into everyone’s business. Especially the kids.
Her predecessor was an old white guy and therefore had to go. I mean, she said so herself.
My Congressman is Swalwell. He comes back to the district often. My advice to the people in Bronx and Queens, be careful what you wish for.
Those Chinese honeypots can’t be fucked remotely.
I have the congesshottie who introduced a bill revoking the Patriot Act. She’s a shiny wrapper on a box of rocks, but she’s not evil
One can only assume they decided they couldn’t be turned or otherwise utilized. That’s the FBI MO, isn’t it? (Unspoken… rather like the Stasi… It Really Makes You Think ™ )
Could’ve stayed with boring, old, effective (as in getting the pork home) Joe Crowley, but NY-14 decided to vote on demographics instead. Maybe they’ll think a little harder next time*.
*They won’t think any harder next time
Think before voting! Now that would be a campaign slogan.
“The Citi Field Park has been redistricted out of my district,” she said. “I have respectfully made my position on this known to folks who are weighing in on it. I don’t really have anything to do on that besides making my position known.”
She scrupulously sticks to her own lane, never poking her prominent proboscis where it doesn’t belong.
Reminder: The FBI has the world’s largest cache of child pornography. Ostensibly to use as a honey pot. All of the kiddie porn they confiscate from the baddies? Yeah, it gets saved, hashed, and indexed. Oh, and Google and Apple cross-check everything you upload to their servers against the hash values.
Since the dems will never allow a primary challenger to their little fundraising gilt, and these retards will never vote for a Republican or third party, looks like retarded stalemate.
Yeah, the latter part, that’s their problem.
I have the same problem in my district, the general election vote doesn’t matter, it’s all decided in the Republican primary.
Rock star? By what metric? Even by DC standards she is ‘The Monkeys’ of politicians. She is nothing more than a construction by party insiders, a complete fiction with great tits. There is nothing beyond that.
Let’s face it, the right wing press gives her more attention than she ever deserved.
The leading candidate in the Philippine senate election is Bong Go.
Duterte wins mayoral election in absentia
Will the ICC let him conduct official business remotely?
“Part of me is glad the FBI is doing its job. Another part of me is wondering how long they were sitting on all of these known child sex traffickers.”
Under new management. As evil as you think the Biden admin was, it was worse.
“Superwood”
Reminds me of my youth, when I had no idea what to do with it.
I had ideas, the problem was implementation of those ideas.
Probably a better assessment of the situation.
“As evil as you think the Biden administration was, it was worse.”
This. The Biden admin was the distillation of the Obama admin, the handlers and satellites ; distilled because they installed Biden to enact their preferred policies without having to take responsibility for that. Add to that list the media which knowingly, willingly helped facilitate that.
Another radical far-right populist provocateur
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced tighter British immigration rules, declaring an end to what he called a “squalid chapter” and a “failed experiment in open borders.”
In a speech Monday, Starmer vowed to “take back control” with new rules that make it harder to obtain work, family and student visas to the United Kingdom. Migrant rights advocates criticized his wording as being more typical of the far right than of his center-left Labour Party.
“The damage [immigration] has done to our country is incalculable,” the prime minister wrote in a policy paper.
No more Irish?
Yeah — saw that earlier. It screams to me that they’re worried because of the local election results so they’re trying to make nice to the electorate they’ve been shafting up until this point.
Since I also think they’re True Believers… if I were a Brit I’d very much not give them any benefit of the doubt. Only actual changes would matter — and honestly, I wouldn’t trust them not to backtrack like a German party who lied to get a slim majority anyway.
“Wait, you’re saying Muslim fundamentalists don’t actually support a modern woke Utopia, and the only thing they have in common with us is a seething hatred for the Jews?!”
Either that or things are just so bad even he cannot ignore them.
Their ruling class is hearing the rattle of pitchforks. That is the only thing people like that understand.
Has anyone checked if he’s been replaced a pod person…?
OT: I was too busy (doing actual work! gasp! shock!) to comment in the ded thread… but thanks slumbrew for pointing out that the current storyline is one of Animal’s actual books. For some reason I didn’t realize that — even though I’d actually bought both of them ages ago and promptly forgot to get around to them. On the minus side — I expect I’ll be ahead of the excerpts pretty quickly… but I’m looking forward to diving into the full version since I have it.
Data shows net migration to the U.K. has more than tripled in the past decade. Indians are the largest recipients of U.K. visas. And in recent months, Americans have been applying for British citizenship in record numbers.
Refugees from Trump’s Thousand Year Reich.
All I can think of in response.
Visas? Applications? What kind of insanity is this? Don’t they just let people swim across the English Channel, and immediately give them voting rights and benefits like a civilized country?
I demand stakeholder voting. The West has too much impact on the world to restrict voting to their citizens.
“Americans have been applying for British citizenship in record numbers.”
What do the youngsters say, “Feature, not a bug?”
Wouldn’t it be ironic if they were Americans from India?
They would be ironic if they were ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.
“10⁷⁸ years”
I’d like to be around to see that. I need to start eating better I guess.
RFK is on it.
I thought Trump was looking to appoint Gandalf — part of the Make America Immortal Again agenda…
Tbh, 70 or so years with contemporaries such as our modern world provides is plenty for me.
I’m only interested in taking on the ennui barrier if I’m slowly evolving into a nigh-invulnerable badass, like the Old Captains.
Gotta remember to eat, though.
Don’t let anti-Israel bigots pose as free-speech champions
Remember when this was common sense and went without saying?
Meh, that guy is not a citizen. I don’t let my guests trash the place, either.
And there is a difference between “free speech” and whipping up violence against you-know-who’s, blocking their access to class and study areas, etc.
It’s a minor caveat vis-a-vis immigration status, since that’s a lot more precarious than criminal proceedings. Nobody’s suggested charging the guy with anything, but you can lose your visa for a substantial number of things that are non-criminal. Nevertheless, supporting an idiot’s right to say idiotic things without supporting the idiotic things they say, and drawing the line at actual violence, used to be one of the few things that the majority of the left, right and libertarians agreed upon.
This happens at *every* such event. The left is apparently incapable of restraining itself to the practice of free speech without resorting to calls for violence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
some years back there was a documentary and book by a guy that traveled around the Middle East interviewing people whose parents and grandparents had helped Jews escape the nazis. Those same people now, because of social pressure tell their stories as them helping the nazis round up the jews.
I find that to be a very curious social phenomena.
Mahmoud Khalil did nothing of this kind.
The Tufts student from Turkey did nothing but co-authored an op-ed in a student newspaper that criticized Israel.
But worshipping Israel is the ultimate American value for right-wing boomers (yes, the support for Israel drastically declined recently among all other groups), so all principles and logic disappear when the most sacred thing is offended.
I don’t care about Mahmoud Khalil. He is a guest who made himself unwelcome. We have voluntarily infested our universities with thousands of public nuisances like him. Send the lot of them home.
Khalil was a leader of a group that called for and engaged in violence the violation of civil rights of other students. He should absolutely be kicked out.
I don’t know if that’s in reference to whipping up violence or blocking access to classes, but he definitely did the latter, and the group he’s a member of does the CAIR dance around their material support for Hamas. Just because you aren’t so keen on Israel and don’t like Republican pandering to ALIPAC doesn’t make the guy something other than a terrorist sympathizing shit head. He most definitely is. There’s an open question whether he *should* get his visa revoked for a relatively minor crime like trespass or unlawful demonstrating, but he technically *can*.
I see nobody is defending Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention. Apparently, she was released three days ago.
These free-speech champions, how many of them were all in on the censorship of ‘misinformation’, spying on citizens and disappearing what they had to say on social media?
I am just curious.
The DOJ shared that the 225 arrested are alleged to have committed a number of crimes, including “the production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material, online enticement and transportation of minors, and child sex trafficking.”
I wonder how many of those the FBI set up.
“All of them” is my bet.
Love the headline at Rolling Stone
Trump Gives In, Rolls Back China Tariffs
He didn’t win anything. He gave in.
Watching the Democratic party and fashionable left become the champions of globalist technocratic managed trade overseen by an international aristocracy has been funnier than shit to me, in light of the WTO riots when I was a kid.
TDS is a real affliction.
The leftist script I saw read, “Trump blinks”. I guess this is another variant.
Well, he didn’t win anything. He is just giving the CCP another fig leaf to continue business as usual.
I’d say he won on a couple fronts. A 90-day, temporary victory with strong upshot for a ‘more equal’ deal in the future. I don’t recall what their OG % was on us, but as I furthered below, China felt the pain and are now at the negotiation table.
“U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. agreed to drop the 145% tax Trump imposed last month to 30%. China agreed to lower its tariff rate on U.S. goods to 10% from 125%.”
Getting China to do such publicly is another positive, making the Great-Walled show weakness with its dependence on foreign markets. I agree the fig leaves will continue, as with all human affairs, and especially in politics, but I find the disruption in the ‘normal’ diplomatic routine to be an odd, and effective, curveball thrown into the mix.
Waste, fraud and abuse
The Trump administration spent at least $21 million transporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay on military aircraft between January 20 and April 8, according to figures provided to Congress by the U.S. military.
The naval base there currently holds 32 migrants, according to a defense official, a tiny fraction of the 30,000 that President Donald Trump promised. Guantanamo has held a total of just under 500 migrants since Trump announced the effort in January, and it has never held more than 200 at any one time. Many of the migrants flown there are believed to have been flown back to the U.S.
Democrats condemned the Guantanamo effort as a wasteful “political stunt” by Trump, who announced in late January that migrants would be held at the navy base, which houses the notorious detention facility. Two months after the effort began, administration officials acknowledged that it was logistically and legally flawed and beset by administration infighting.
Based on the flight figures provided to Congress, it has also proven costly. The average cost per flight hour for the military aircraft, for example, has been $26,277.
That doesn’t even count the money spent on lawyers.
It was cheeky of Trump to reopen Gitmo after Obama closed it on Day 1 of his first term, fulfilling a major campaign promise.
If you like your indefinite detainees you can keep your indefinite detainees.
Those thrifty Dems.
Kurdish PKK ends 40-year Turkey insurgency, bringing hope of regional stability
I didn’t realize Kurds were about 20% of the population of Turkey.
Their movement has apparently Kurdled.
No whey.
They should now take their rightful place among the elite of Turkish society.
The Kurds are, after all…
(dons sunglasses)
…The cream of the crop.
The wood thing. Very interesting.
The universe thing. Not so interesting. Stop trying to apply the narrative structure we use to understand things in our experience to the universe. It does not have a beginning, there was no Big Bang. It does not have a life, purpose, plot whatever. It does not have a death. There is no ‘edge’ of the universe.
It is just silly. The universe is not you.
No fun
The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world. Now, the festival has added a new stipulation: no nudity.
While nudity was never previously endorsed at the festival, Cannes updated its dress policy on the eve of its 78th edition to read that “nudity is prohibited on the red carpet, as well as in any other area of the festival.”
While a no-shirt-no-service policy is standard in places far less glamorous than Cannes, the policy tweak sparked widespread attention Monday because of the recent trend of sheer and “nude dresses, ” such as Bianca Censori’s Grammys appearance.
Asked for clarity on the policy, Cannes press officers said the festival “made explicit in its charter certain rules that have long been in effect.”
Most of them have nothing else to offer.
But nudity is so stunning and brave.
Flashing the goods at Cannes got hackneyed after Pia Zadora (who couldn’t act a lick, but who could sing like nobody’s business) did it forty-four years ago.
Mildly NSFW, in a cheeky fashion
Maybe when Elites do it. People at WalMart is another story.
But nudity is so stunning and brave.
Normies; PWND!
JFC!!!
Stop logging me out.
🤬🤬
“Jesus built my website.”
Its a thing of beauty,
Not your Hotrod?
The Man is logging you out.
I so love the classic Doctor Who streaming channel on Amazon.
Mary Tamm was hot.
Do they show more stories than Pluto? I don’t have Prime so it doesn’t really matter… just curious.
I don’t know. They do 1 through 7. With heavy rotation of 3 and 4. Full episodes, and will bounce around a bit.
Episodes? Not serials?
“Full” episodes. Complete stories.
I saw classic Who on Tubi.
I think Tubi mirrors Amazon programming.
Interesting, I can check out Tubi.
FWIW, Pluto seems to have around half (probably less) of the stories.
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This is just dead sexy:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64729959/automobili-mignatta-rina-italian-sports-car-details/
gorgeous
So say we all.
Rawr.
I swam 1200 yards today front crawl and saw a heron eat a fish. A couple asked me how I swim so fast, so I said I pretend to be a salmon. It made them laugh.
The way the sunlight shimmers off the Suwanee and filters through the trees is a sight to behold. All that bright green mixed with shadows is soothing.
EPA Proposes Rollback of ‘Hated’ Feature in New Cars
It works fine in a hybrid. I can imagine the issues with a regular car.
The tariff ploy seems to have ‘worked’ the way I predicted, and it’s no surprise MSM is describing Trump as ‘giving in’ or ‘blinked,’ etc. Literally every MSM Trump-headline has negativity written into it. Admin’s plan raised tariffs to high levels to wield the American econ market as a cudgel. Show global markets what they had to lose by whiffing on the largest-by-wealth consumers in the world.
Kind of a swift, ‘shock and awe’ market shock to other natn’s. And, ‘shocker,’ other countries *like* money and were swift to get to the negotiation tables. I don’t like the general idea of tariffs, but it’s flagrantly true the US has been most hampered by them on the intl scale. Trump’s game was a quick, jarring poke to other countries, showing them the consequences of fucking with the US’ econ. Speak loudly on trade, and carry a big econ stick, an effective and non-violent way to make other countries bend the knee. Quickly.
I gotta admit, I strongly approve. It’s the diplomatic equivalent of being the The Drop-dead Gorgeous Girl at The Party, one with a bit of a scheme in mind. She schmoozed with everyone, and *everyone* loves her, and even wants to *be* her! Other attendees did everything they could to woo her affection and praise, and got all worked-up in a lather over her.
Then she suddenly walks on out! All without inviting any of the kids who *thought* they were worthy of her! Who falsely thought themselves to be equal to her Hot Stuff value. (They thought they’d still get all her luv, despite ‘fashionably’ rejecting her in advance of even the $20 they slip their personal, possibly tranny, Lot Lizards for knob jobs in the intern parking lot. Whoops.) All to make the fools realize what they missed.
Look how fast China decided to play ball. The US *did* get a good deal out of it. (Certainly ‘better.’) It’s a great start and precedent to keep the ball rolling towards what seems the laudable and rational goal of reciprocal trade agreements. Clever, strong statesmanship.