The Old Man is otherwise occupied, so you’re stuck with me this morning.
I have no idea how this is controversial.
Have they checked in the couch cushions?
Gamification has gone too far.
No idea why this would have any bearing on a [checks notes] antitrust trial.
I think at a minimum, a beating is deserved.
Anyone out there still have a shocked face?
I think I can get behind disbarment for lawyers who use AI LLM to write papers and don’t review them.
It’s breakfast time for most of us, and my initial reaction to this is to recoil; however, I’ve had some quite good bacon washed drinks.
This on the other hand, is a flat no.
At this point, I think they’re getting desperate.
Just because it’s a Saturday morning, doesn’t mean I can’t give you an appropriate cocktail. I’m going to go deep here for a strange twist on the classic Bloody Mary (or its less known relative the Red Snapper).
Bloody Bull
- 4 parts (2 oz) vodka
- 4 parts (2 oz) prepared beef bouillon.
- 4 parts (2 oz) tomato juice
- 1 part (0.5 oz) lemon juice
- 3 dashes Worcestershire sauce
- 2 dashes Tabasco
- 1 pinch kosher salt
- 1 pinch coarsely ground black pepper
For this drink, everything goes into a shaker with ice, shake to combine and chill, and then strain into a Collins glass with fresh ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge, celery stalk, grilled cheese sandwich, some BBQ shrimp, and a pony bottle of beer (or don’t).
With all that, I hope the lack of birthdays doesn’t bring you down too much today.
whaddup doh’
Grilled cheese sandwich is a garnish now?
🤯
Maybe to something served in a tankard?
Anything is a garnish if you cut it small enough and put it on the rim of a glass, I expect.
As an example:
The Mother Mary
27 oz homemade bloody mary mix & vodka served in a huge beer stein garnished with celery, fried pickle, jalapeno popper, breakfast pierogi, hardboiled egg, grilled cheese with bacon, cucumber, tomato, and olive. Served with a pony miller high life beer, hand-cut potato chips & tomato aioli
::peruses list of “garnishes”:: I think I’ll just…let it be.
That drink doesn’t find you in times of trouble?
Ahh, the classic ‘get drunk again’ hangover cure…
They asked me to turn off my ad blocker, which is extremely controversial.
I open all links by default by right click – open in Private Window… it oddly seems to make the paywall complaints lesser and I hope/presume it means I don’t keep their arbitrary cookies and whatnot.
I mention this because they didn’t complain at me when I did that.
I have no idea how this is controversial.
Greedy shits think the Cleveland Clinic is sitting on a big pile of money, and they want that money. (Or, at least, they want to use the power of the state to bully the Cleveland Clinic because they’re jealous of that perceived pile of money.)
Whycome I haz to pay up front? I pinky promise I will pay later
I don’t pay to listen to the Mormon missionaries who come knocking on my front door, and journalists provide substantially less value.
I was referencing the article not your entirely understandable unwillingness to pay to read propaganda
Good morning, Mr. Ilium (and homey!) When called upon to grace us with links of a weekend morning, shouldn’t you post a recipe for a hangover cure? (Or is the offering above effective hair-of-the-dog?)
Obligatory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In9Un2m4pdQ
Also obligatory
Don’t drink too much and you won’t have a hangover.
The three things that prevent hangovers:
Moderation
Hydration
Genetics
Besides, isn’t the Bloody Mary considered a cromulent hair of the dog answer for those who do get hangovers?
I have found alcohol abstinence to be the best preventive measure.
Age
Noun or verb?
From AI
Jeeves Hangover Cure Recipe
Jeeves’ hangover cure, as mentioned in P. G. Wodehouse’s works, mainly consists of Worcestershire sauce for color, a raw egg for nutrition, and red pepper for a spicy kick. In one of the stories, Jeeves describes the preparation as “the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite”.
Some variations of the recipe include adding Tabasco sauce and salt, and some suggest including a dollop of liquor like brandy or cognac for a “hair of the dog” effect. However, the exact recipe remains a mystery, as Jeeves is known to keep the details to himself.
The effectiveness of the cure is debated; while some believe it can alleviate hangover symptoms due to the nutritional content of the raw egg, others argue that it has not been scientifically proven to treat hangover symptoms.
Jeeves’ Hangover Cure: Mainly Worcestershire sauce, raw egg, and red pepper, with optional additions like Tabasco sauce, salt, and liquor.
The recipe is often discussed in fan communities and literary circles, with enthusiasts experimenting with different variations to achieve the best results.
It’s a trial by ordeal to see if you make it through the Bloody Bull without projectile vomiting
I can’t believe no one posted this
https://youtu.be/Ef2SLZdhNrY?si=N2lsBYjjsrNsvV1A
I’m betting he’s off being a jive turkey.
Luckily we’re months away from Thanksgiving.
As opposed to Winston’s mom, who is beating off a jive turkey.
He has to pay extra for the basting, though.
Legal challenge to that in 3… 2… 1…
So what happens if they don’t pay? No med treatment?
I’m semi-sure that Medicaid can’t require a premium because of the restrictions on income to be eligible. It was always intended to cover only people below the poverty line (though I have read that 20% of Americans are enrolled in it – maybe that’s been bolstered by covering illegals).
This was how you knew that Bernie/AOC didn’t know what they were talking about when they said they wanted Medicare for all at the same time as they said no premiums or co-pays. What they were really saying was Medicaid for all (but it isn’t as generous as Medicare).
There is never any patient payment of any kind on Medicaid. Medicaid was expanded bigly by OCare – to maybe 140% of poverty? Of course, in the ED you can’t require any payment upfront at all. Even talking about billing is risky under EMTALA.
Paying copays when you walk in has been standard for decades.
What the scumbag didn’t say is the freeze doesn’t start for another fiscal year. The actual budget includes increased payments for next year.
Something something Taylor Swift…
Taylor ham is New Jersey’s sad answer to goetta, scrapple, and the like.
She knows places to hiiiiii-hi-hi-hide the ham?
They’re worried Vance fucked the couch or something… (wasn’t that the story?)
More seriously — yeah, good luck with that Gavin. That pittance of a premium from the illegals you just got done welcoming in and promising the world isn’t going to cover it. I don’t think the OMB Administration is going to match funds with you (I’m honestly thinking they’re going to end up prosecuting you and the whole state if you don’t knock it off… may not succeed, but seriously — this is mass aiding and abetting in the commission of a crime here) and even setting the MediCal aside, you’ve done nothing but continue the “soak the well off minority to buy the votes of the majority” on steroids… forgetting that the minority can move, letting said minorities houses burn down due to incompetence and making it hard to rebuild… and now gearing up for $9/gal gasoline due to your dog shit stupid energy crap. Try to pivot back to the center, buddy… no one’s buying it… and the state budget is progressively screwed.
Fuck yo couch
How on Earth are the illegals costing them anything? I’ve been assured by TOS that unfettered immigration is a huge net benefit to society. California should be the envy of the country and have a surplus large enough to finish their train.
That sack of shit is doing everything he can to screw this state.
Nope. Too bad Hur can’t mass sue for defamation and damage to professional reputation (well maybe he can.. I just don’t expect he’d get anywhere these days…)
I don’t recall anyone running hard over him, after all, he played ball – Biden’s a nice, old, sympathetic man. It’s not like he said he didn’t do exactly what everyone knows he did – dragging along classified material with him as he left office.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/17/here-are-some-of-the-people-who-owe-special-counsel-robert-hur-an-apology-n2657207
Oh, you mean the people that objected to the entire investigation in the first place. Who the fuck listened to them anyway? There isn’t one of them I don’t wish for an immediate end to their “public service” by any means necessary.
Best practice is to escort them out the runway and supply them with the glue, then continue operations as usual.
Agreed. Glue ‘em down somewhere, take their earplugs, button up security, and carry on as usual. Maybe check back in on ‘em the next day.
Post a sign on the runway “Bumps ahead. proceed slowly”
FOD issues. Just load them on a plane to somewhere really hot and glue them to the closest blacktop surface, then leave
I think a really cold place might work better. Too hot and the glue may melt.
I think baking to death is more agonizing than freezing, we can pick a heat resistant glue
Best practice is to make them work on an oil rig for a few months.
It’s not. I already do the same.
If my workplace mandatory trainings are accurate — it is only going to get worse. They think the next wave / next big AI thing is “Agentic AI” (which is just what the name implies… AI agents acting autonomously or semi-autonomously). So in the future the lawyers won’t even see the arguments / papers.. the AI will just spawn them and send them off to the Judge’s agent AIs… to be rebutted by the defense agent AIs….
I suppose the justice system will be faster — the judge AI will decide our fate in a microsecond…
The company I work for is pushing “AI” for call centers. To say most of the techs are less than enthused would be an understatement.
Actual Indians?
We have an “AI” assistant for live chat at the company I work for – we do all the digital communication for auto dealers and turn inquiries into leads, essentially. Our bot still can’t differentiate between service inquiries and sales inquiries, and routinely collects contact information for leads that we would otherwise automatically disqualify, producing shit loads of redundancy for our pending leads team, since we have to submit the information and have them shitcan it.
I’ll be more concerned about this when copilot can accurately pull out a simple provision from files in my one drive without 15 minutes of prompt engineering.
The creative stuff I have had AI (ChatGPT, Llama, Copilot) do is not ready for prime time. Its not able to do much more than a surface level drive by.
Same experience yesterday: “Find me the registration email from this organization whose conference I’m going to next week”. No luck. I ended up finding it through brute force searching.
The number of AI-written scripts I’ve generated, that I haven’t had to debug using traditional methods, stands at zero.
https://youtu.be/pj_y0fX–gM
Everyone knows beer flavored cheese should be Old Milwaukee after all.
Probably a good choice — as I understand it, Red Snapper is very tasty….
UHF should have won an Oscar tbqh.
Well, Google’s tracking caught up with me. I was talking with a friend in Japan about “bubble tea” and its rise in popularity and YouTube served me this:
How Boba Shops Really Make Money
It’s quite long, but I especially liked the first owner interview. She is quite the business person.
Question for you flyover people, how familiar are you with the product and what is availability like? My experience here is that on more rural areas of even NJ there is really low penetration compared to something like Starbucks.
It would seem like you’d do better moving elsewhere than competing in such densely packed competition of major cities.
Here there’s several shops that specialize in boba (usually paired with crepes, waffles, and/or some frozen dairy treat). There’s also ready to make boba kits in the freezer sections in even the mid-range grocery stores.
I listen to Radio Taiwan International and they talk a lot about it, but I don’t go out to eat much so am not the right person to ask how common it is around these parts.
Boba market penetration in Taiwan is approaching coffee shop level in the U.S.
I’d never even heard the word ’til now. I checked and apparently the Twin City area has some shops. Unless there is some lutefisk/lefse sides it won’t work in the woods.
We don’t have a boba place in our town of 7500, but the next town over (9000) has one. I’m sure there are multiple in Springfield proper, but I haven’t gone looking for them.
There are a couple shops for it nearby in small town Oregon.
It is taking the place of coffee houses as a place for the youths to hang. Meat space is still a thing, despite the rumors of our deaths.
There’s also a chain of boba carts (Bobablastic in red trailers). Many/most Asian restaurants (sushi, Thai, etc) have boba on their menu now.
We apparently (I had to check Google) have one in town. I’ve never been, but it’s got a 4.7 rating with hundreds of reviews. 🤷🏼♂️
The sugar level on most drinks there will be off the chart.
I would view it as a dessert treat and not an everyday thing.
Market in NYC is young women. My friend in Japan had similar observations.
Quite a few in Big U town – not surprising given the composition of the student body.
By “composition”, I assume you are referring to BMI?
You said penatration
Thank you. I was not disappointed!
Huh. Never noticed a boba shop here in Tucson, which means nothing. Checking the ‘tubes, though, we have a bunch of them. Sounds like it’s basically Starbucks for tea (+many sugar and milk), only with tapioca.
You got it.
Think coffee chain in the US for what these are in Taiwan. They spread across Asia and came to the U.S. in areas with high Asian populations.
I wanted to see what all the hype was about with the small Boba shop that opened in our town, so I got some kind of coconut matcha thing. You can specify the sugar level, which I set at 25%. It was pretty good – just not something that I’d pay $8 for when I can just brew a cup of good loose-leaf tea at home and add whatever milk and sugar I want for probably under $2.
Costal elite douchebag, multiple boba places within walking distance.
My one and only experience was a hard ‘nope’ from me. The tapioca pearls are wildly off putting, never mind the sweetness.
*le sigh*
I can’t tag this morning. Strike, not em.
It’s probably no more error prone than the slackass paralegals employed at some of your less savory firms.
“Gamification has gone too far.”
I hate rambling articles like that.
Old Guy Music
I, uh… yeah… I think I prefer skibidi ohio over that.
My son sent me that yesterday, I don’t know why.
I’ll just leave this here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radsTxo06oM
A future LtGov (1979-1983) of California.
I’d rather listen to Up With People. G-d that was bad.
“I think at a minimum, a beating is deserved.”
Life without petroleum.
This, ship them off to Amish country and see how they like the lifestyle.
Don’t do that to the Amish.
Make them… work for their food??? CRUEL and unusual!!!
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 05/17:
*20/20 words (+10 bonus words)
📖 In the top 1% by bonus words
I played https://squaredle.com 05/17:
*63/63 words (+16 bonus words)
📖 In the top 3% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 682
Free the Southport speech criminals
And nothing she said was actually untrue.
I can’t imagine living there without making immediate plans to get the hell out. It is not going to go well for the British.
“A 27-year-old Canadian woman wrapped up a marathon nine days of explosive testimony this week in a high-profile sex-assault trial involving five professional hockey players — as a jury was sent packing for a second time in yet another dramatic twist in the proceedings.
The accuser, whose name is protected by a court-ordered publication ban, told a court that a naked Cal Foote — who played for the New Jersey Devils last year — performed “the splits” over her face, an apparent “party trick,” while others filmed in a hotel room.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/world-news/hockey-players-sexual-assault-trial-takes-another-dramatic-turn/
Keeping the accusers name secret is bullshit.
That is one sloppily-run court room. Third trial’s the charm…?
Was she being restrained while under said hockey player?
“Major crime rose by an eye-popping 70% in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Bronx and Queens district since the ‘defund the police’ socialist lawmaker took office in 2019 — more than double the citywide increase of 30% over that same span, a Post analysis of NYPD data shows.
The 110th Precinct in Queens, which covers part of the infamous “Market of Sweethearts” human-trafficking and prostitution mecca on Roosevelt Avenue, saw a 105% surge, the highest increase of any NYC precinct in that period.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/us-news/major-crimes-rose-by-more-than-double-citywide-average-in-aocs-district/
Those are some unusually well-fed hookers.
Appealing to certain tourists from Ohio perhaps?
What did you expect?
Whiskey soaked pork roll sounds better than the pork roll infused whiskey.
Good morning Glibs!
Talon ham on a hoagie roll with egg is great.
Great fill in for the Old man in Constantinople Neph!
For those hungover
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nqHybn2iT48
I admit that I’m low class enough to enjoy nearly all of the left over scraps of pork made into breakfast meat my poor people that I’ve tried (Taylor ham/pork roll, goetta, scrapple, chopped ham…)
“Former FBI Director James Comey was escorted from his home to be interviewed by the Secret Service about a social media post that Republicans insisted was a call for violence against President Donald Trump.
CNN showed video of Comey, 64, leaving his house in his suburban Virginia and heading to the Secret Service’s Washington field office just before 6pm.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14721485/james-comey-secret-service-Instagram-post-trump-assassination.html
So no 6 AM no-knock flash-bang SWAT raid?
No, just the attention he craves as part of the rEsIsTaNcE.
CWAA
I know, right?
I guess his underwear drawer was safe too.
They only reserve that for some Presidents suspected of taking home sensitive documents.
“Trans activist Samuel T. Cain has been denied bond after being arrested for threatening on social media to assassinate US Representative Nancy Mace. Cain, who uses the alias “Roxie,” was booked on Thursday into the Greenville County Detention Center on the charge of threatening the life of a public official.
A post allegedly made by Cain stated in all caps, “I’m going to assassinate Representative Nancy Mace with a gun and I’m being 100% dead a**.” The US Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina declined to prosecute. Cain, who stands at 6’3″ and 220 lbs, was taken into custody by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED).”
https://thepostmillennial.com/south-carolina-trans-activist-cries-as-bond-denied-after-arrest-for-threatening-to-kill-rep-nancy-mace
How is that person trans?
Same as every other one – not right in the head.
I know you all keep saying that, but how come actual trans people make way more sense than these insane non-trans “trans activists”?
Because their dysphoria is significantly less dangerous than the activist’s malignant narcissism. I can’t speak for others on this, but when I say that being trans is a mental illness I am not dismissing it or them, or trying to denigrate them. I am stating what appears to me to be a plain fact.
The genuine trans (i.e., had surgery and make an effort to pass) just want to live their lives. The activists want to raise hell.
Middle picture suggests he’s confusing goth for trans.
In all seriousness: “because they say they are”.
That’s where we are with that.
Yes, self-ID is retarded.
Yes, self-ID is retarded
You keep saying that, but I don’t see why. Since it is a completely psychological issue (to my mind anyway) with no agreed physiological/biological diagnoses, how can any case be anything other than self-ID?
Because it lumps people seeking attention in with people suffering a specific delusion? And doing that makes it harder to get at the actual causes and potential treatment. It also confuses the issue by grouping people who are acting with malice in with people who are suffering an illness.
Because it lumps people seeking attention in with people suffering a specific delusion?
Sure, but I have yet to identify a specific set of criterion to differentiate those 2 cases.
“You keep saying that, but I don’t see why. Since it is a completely psychological issue”
It isn’t. You could argue gender dysphoria is “a completely psychological issue”, but transitioning isn’t. Transitioning involves physical (eg. hormones, surgery) and behavioral changes.
I can’t think of any other area of human existence where someone is something just because they say they are.
but transitioning isn’t. Transitioning involves physical (eg. hormones, surgery) and behavioral changes.
True; but transition is downstream from the mental issue. Just like wanting to cut off a healthy limb is a physical act – but it’s downstream from the mental disorder. Wanting to ‘transition’ (an impossibility) is a physical act downstream of a mental disorder – it doesn’t make the diagnose an objective physiological diagnoses – it’s large a self-ID.
If I walk into Dr. Tater, PCP’s office and say “I’m a women trapped in a mans body”; what tests are you going to order to differentiate me from the next guy? I’m self ID’ing here. How do you define self-ID against a ‘true’ mental illness?
If your diagnostic criteria is whether I’m willing to start hormones or removing body parts, that’s not objective – that simply means I’m pretty damn sick, self-ID’ing to the point of physical harm. There could very well be a spectrum of mental illness from “I want to present as a woman but don’t really want to go further than that” through to “I want to present as a woman and start chopping stuff off and injecting hormones” – I don’t see an objective criteria to say one is ‘real’ and the other is ‘opportunistic’ self-ID. They are both self-ID just with a range of degrees of action we are willing to go through. I don’t know how to differentiate between them.
Ok. I am a free speech absolutist. No one believes we are going to put a federal judge into a woodchipper on the courthouse steps. Obvious hyperbole.
This one doesnt seem like hyperbole so I am not going to try and defend it.
“The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $30 an hour minimum wage hike for airport and hotel workers, which will be enacted by 2028 in time for the Olympics. City council members approved the measure in a 12-3 vote. While union officials praised the approval, those working in the hospitality industry vigorously opposed the legislation and warned that the pay increase could result in mass layoffs, increased costs for consumers, and hotels shutting down….
Last year, California raised its minimum wage to $20 per hour, which resulted in more than 10,000 layoffs for restaurant industry workers in a span of just a few months due to the pay increase. Conservative lawmakers and hospitality industry officials have historically warned against such pay increases.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/los-angeles-approves-30-minimum-wage-for-airport-hotel-workers
What could possibly go wrong?
LOL. More of those “California values” Gavin keeps bragging about.
I dont get it. California has the bestest, strongestest fantasticest economy in the world. They surely can pay their own bills.
“Camp Id-Ra-Ha-Je Association – whose name refers to the hymn “I’d Rather Have Jesus” – sued the leaders of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood and its Division of Early Learning Licensing and Administration to block new childcare licensing rules that force it to treat children by gender identity rather than sex in its camps.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/christian-camps-sue-colorado-gender-identity-rules-state-faces-scotus-trifecta
Ignoring there shouldn’t be any trans kids in the first place, it’s their camps.
See, Trump has been in office less than 4 months and they are already sending the trans to camps!
it’s their camps
But all of the childrens is wards (read that as property) of the State!
There aren’t but that isn’t going to stop the NHS from trying to create them.
The Telegraph article is paywalled. I don’t know how anyone can get to the facts about anything without having 37 subscriptions.
Fortunately there are few facts to be found on paywalled journo sites.
““There’s a famous Facebook experiment I read about that took place in 2012 and was published in 2014, where they announce that they’ve achieved, mass emotional contagion at scale,” Lemov told Rogan.
She explained how Facebook altered people’s newsfeeds without their knowledge or consent.
“Whenever you go on the platform, you agree to be tested or AB testing. So this experiment exposed a group to a more—their newsfeed was altered in a negative direction emotionally, as measured by word counting software,” she said…
Facebook’s data scientists had quietly manipulated the feeds of 689,003 users—removing either all the positive posts or all the negative ones to observe the emotional fallout…
The team behind the study, led by data scientist Adam Kramer, eventually published their findings in a scientific journal and spelled out the results in cold, clinical detail:
“When positive expressions were reduced, people produced fewer positive posts and more negative posts; when negative expressions were reduced, the opposite pattern occurred,” the paper said.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/joe-rogan-guest-reveals-facebooks-secret-experiment-that/
CWABOA
Morning, glibs.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/the-week-in-pictures-seashells-by-the-seashore-edition.php
Too much AI.
Data can’t do contractions.
It could if it stopped trying to get the transwoman to give birth.
Ripping the very heart out of civil society
As part of Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy and slash government spending, the president has issued a slew of executive orders aiming to eliminate many of the entities contacted by DOGE.
Trump’s topline 2026 budget proposal calls for the shuttering of nearly two dozen independent agencies, commissions and organizations, from the Marine Mammal Commission to the nonprofit Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation to regional federal-state collaborative partnerships like the Delta Regional Authority and the Denali Commission.
At other agencies, employees are waiting to see what comes of DOGE’s review. Following DOGE’s visits to Peace Corps headquarters in April, the agency that sends volunteers abroad has told staff to prepare for cuts.
DOGE staff met with Peace Corps officials as recently as May 9 to discuss staffing cuts and resignations, according to the two government employees not authorized to speak about DOGE’s operations.
How will we survive?
Among the dozens of organizations contacted by DOGE in recent weeks are several privately incorporated nonprofits that were created by Congress and receive federal funding but are not considered government agencies.
That includes the Legal Services Corporation, which funds legal aid for those who can’t afford it, the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, which operates under the name NeighborWorks America and provides grants, training, and assistance to community development groups, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to public radio and television stations.
Why should these organizations be accountable to anyone? Their work is essential.
CPB denied that request, citing federal law stating that the organization “will not be an agency or establishment of the United States Government.”
The laws creating the Legal Services Corporation and NeighborWorks America also say, in both cases, that “the corporation shall not be considered a department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government.”
That obviously means these groups must be immune from scrutiny and also be funded and maintained in perpetuity.
Slashing staff and budgets of smaller agencies is unlikely to make a big contribution towards DOGE’s stated goal of downsizing the federal government. Billionaire Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE, has already reduced his cost-cutting target from $2 trillion before Trump took office to $150 billion.
Chicken feed. Why even bother?
I like the implication that DOGE thinks there is only $150 billion of waste now, instead of what is really going on which is leftist judges are fighting them tooth and nail.
DOGE turned out to be a fantastic waste of time and effort. Elon and the boys literally didn’t know how things work and how to measure them. You want to shrink government? Reduce spending on Medicare, Medicaid, and defense. Anything else is crumbs.
It’s almost as if the establishmentarian press are terrified by the thought of someone like Musk pulling back the curtain. If the Corporation for Public broadcasting and Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation are not definitionally essential government services, what might be next?
Without the Marine Mammal Commission we’re all going to die.
So, it turns out some of Corelle’s current products are still made in the USA.
Infuriatingly, they try to hide which are which. I did find a set of bowls made in this country. But they really should be more up front with the country of manufacture. This needless secrecy on what should be a selling point makes me less inclined to risk buying from them lest I get the wrong source.
Under the microscope
But Qatar has a long history of playing both sides,” Pence said in the exclusive interview at his home in Indiana. “They support Hamas. They supported Al Qaeda. Qatar has actually financed pro-Hamas protests on American campuses across the United States.”
Pence added that accepting the plane as the next Air Force One “is inconsistent with our security, with our intelligence needs. And my hope is the president reconsiders it.”
“Others have observed, there are profound issues — the potential for intelligence gathering, the need to ensure the president of the United States is safe and secure as he travels around the world,” Pence said later. Some aviation experts have said it could take years to convert the jet into a new Air Force One, and could cost over $1 billion.
Maybe somebody should exhibit a similar level of interest into the Boeing Air Force 1 procurement process and het back to us on why is so late and over budget.
I am not happy with this administration playing footsie with any of those petro-shitholes.
They are not our friends.
We also don’t want them as enemies.
Needlessly antagonizing them would be stupid. So is crawling in bed with them.
“Children of all ages who believe they are transgender will be eligible for gender treatment on the NHS, including therapy and counselling. Previously, a minimum age limit of seven years old was to be introduced, yet this was scrapped following a consultation. An inside source at the health service close to the consultation process, revealed to The Telegraph that NHS England had “caved to the pressure” of transgender activists.
New guidance is now set to be unveiled, which will state that children of any age are eligible to be seen at its specialist gender clinics. While drugs such as puberty blockers are banned for children under the age of 18, nursery-age children will have access to therapy, along with their family. ”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2055391/trans-toddlers-be-given-nhs
https://www.gbnews.com/news/trans-news-toddlers-gender-treatment-nhs-activists
So it sounds like they’ve stopped doing medical interventions.
That does sound reasonable. But it seems to me that “activists” would be decrying mere “therapy” as “conversion”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You may be being overly optimistic about the intent of the therapy