Good morning one and all to another thrilling day!
‘Red tape’: Trump admin unleashes DOGE-aligned process to fire federal workers for misconduct
Trump admin asks SCOTUS to allow it to move forward with plans to slash federal workforce
Romanian Man Pleads Guilty to ‘Swatting’ US Officials, Including a Former US President
Bongino: FBI “Closing In” on J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect After Years of Silence
No Deductions to Social Security to Offset Defaulted Student Loans: Education Department
$16 Billion In Health Savings Discovered By HHS Inspector General
Corporations Pull Back on Pride Month Sponsorships
‘King of the Hill’ Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Shot Dead Following Argument with Neighbor
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Conservative fiscal hawks in the Senate are warning that President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” may be dead on arrival in the upper chamber if the GOP conference does not agree to incorporate steeper spending cuts.”
I thought Conservative fiscal hawks were extinct, like leprechauns.
Leprechauns are real. Conservative fiscal hawks are the fictional beings.
I thought I saw a conservative fiscal hawk once.
It turned out to be only a chicken.
That was one of Mike Tyson’s pigeons.
:polite applause for Cavalier973: Well done sir… well done.
“Now kith.”
Mike Tyson’s pigeons
I miss Norm.
Apparently there are a few of the fiscal hawk species alive. Good. We need more of ’em.
Does it strike you that Rand Paul is being Cato to Trump’s Caesar?
Does anyone actually know what this fucking bill is? JFC it is like Pelosi is still running things.
It’s a fuck you to the taxpayers, clearly.
That much is obvious from the omnibus format.
Perspective…
The system is designed to prevent cuts.
Yes, recissions are the only way to claw back money already earmarked. And that means Congress has to have the balls to do it. There are some recissions bills in the works. We’ll have to see if it amounts to much of anything. It does seem however that the public is starting to get behind it and then Congress will be more inclined to act.
“It’s not going to add to the debt,” Johnson told NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Sunday. “We are going to spur on tremendous economic growth here. And so you’re going to have a higher job participation numbers in the economy, you’re going to have higher wages, more jobs provided.”
Guys, this time for real we will outgrow the spending. For real, this time.
Looks like Jonathan Joss had some other problems as well.
I have a wee bit of difficulty believing a homophobic hate crime in San Antonio. Not as much difficulty as the Austin Whole Foods writing “fag” on a cake, but close.
Much less then believing that an actor, even a voice actor, might blame everybody else for his own problems…
“A Romanian national pleaded guilty on Monday to charges related to his role in a “swatting” ring that targeted dozens of public officials, including a former US president.
Going by the aliases “Plank,” “Jonah” and “Cypher,” 26-year-old Thomasz Szabo took part in a years-long conspiracy to place bogus 911 calls, claiming emergencies were taking place at the homes of top government officials, and make bomb threats against government buildings and houses of worship, according to Justice Department.
Szabo and a co-conspirator, 21-year-old Serbian national Nemanja Radovanovic, allegedly targeted about 100 people, including members of Congress, governors, cabinet-level executive branch officials and state officials.”
So everyone in this story is an asshole.
Remove all of their fingers and then nuts. Be sure to video and post that in the hacker’s favorite forum.
So, why should I care about the pipe bomb story, when there seem to be more important matters that could be investigated?
If they find, for example, that FBI agents actually planted the pipe bomb, do all the j6 political prisoners get automatically exonerated? Does the FBI have to open all its files to the public?
I expect that the result will be that a press release will say some guy no one has ever heard of was responsible, and he was severely reprimanded with a three weeks paid vacation.
Nothing will exhonerate them in the eyes of hard core leftists. BUT, if they are innocent of what they are accused of, then they should be let go, no matter the pipe dreams.
Isn’t it fairly well established that the bombs were dummies?
Not everyone has the funding to go for smart bombs.
It doesn’t matter to the hard progressive left if they were real or not, because they will never check and will never let anything interfere with their “facts”.
“Video footage reportedly shows a suspect wearing a gray hoodie placing the bombs.”
Then that should be easy if he hasn’t changed his shirt in four years.
Romanian Man Pleads Guilty to ‘Swatting’ US Officials, Including a Former US President
It was a setup. A Romanian would never do something like this. That was no true Romanian!!!
So, what were you doing on January 6th, 2021, Pie? If that is your real name!
He was bitching about the need to obtain a visa to enter the US.
“They said I only needed American Express!”
So it was the Scots?
Thomas Szabo, aged 26
THAT IS A HUNGARIAN NAME!!!!
Szabo is a Hungarian name anyway, isn’t it?
yes, except for former runner Gabriela Szabo only when she won races, then it was sufficiently Romanian.
Not if it happened during the day.
The name looks more Hungarian than Romanian.
I had a coworker (Szlagi) escape from Romanian during the Cold War. She was adamant that she NOT be considered Romanian. She was Hungarian!
Did she study with an excellent dialectician and grammarian?
She was a fair lady.
Everyone escaping communist country is hungrian.
Sounds like a white nationalist, probably on an FBI watch list.
She sounds pretty.
Pretty, witty, and bright.
We know you are The One True Romanian.
$16 Billion In Health Savings Discovered By HHS Inspector General
To comment like the actual alt-right would on the interwebs, great 8 billion for Israel and 8 billion for Ukraine
You got it.
So far I’ve noticed way less rainbow shit this year.
same here – Hulu has a (non-rainbow colored) link announcing “We have pride” and you click on that for gay porn or whatever.
So same as any Hulu link?
Jonathan Joss Gonzales[1] (December 22, 1965 – June 1, 2025) was an American actor and musician of Native American ancestry – what percentage?
A bit more than Iron Eyes Cody.
Probably more than a certain Senator.
Trump admin asks SCOTUS to allow it to move forward with plans to slash federal workforce
Why? The judiciary has no authority in the matter, the disposition of the executive branch work force is under the Article 2 powers of the president.
That was my thought. Don’t ask, do. You have the power, use it.
“The right-to-die activist who was arrested after an American woman died in the first-ever use of Sarco suicide pod has taken his own life.
Florian Willet, 47, was arrested last year after the 64-year-old woman’s death on charges of aiding and abetting suicide — as well as accusations of strangulation, which were later found to be untrue, leading to his release.
However, the arrest left Willet a “changed man” and he took his own life last month, revealed Dr. Philip Nitschke, the director of the Sarco pods company Exit International.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/03/world-news/euthanasia-campaigner-florian-willet-arrested-over-first-sarco-suicide-pod-death-has-now-taken-his-own-life/
He died doing what he loved.
Full marks for consistency.
“Harvard’s 2025 commencement speaker, “Luanna” Yurong Jiang, worked for a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entity with extensive ties to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Jiang, who graduated from the Kennedy School on May 29 and appeared to take a swipe at the Trump administration during her speech, was a volunteer for the International Department of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) prior to attending Harvard between at least 2018 and 2022, according to a DCNF translation of Chinese state media. The organization is controlled by the CCP and has signed a cooperative agreement with a Chinese military arm, according to CBCGDF announcements.
Furthermore, CBCGDF also hosts a branch of a Chinese influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), to which many of its leaders belong, including its secretary-general who reportedly wrote a recommendation letter for Jiang to Harvard, according to a DCNF translation of Chinese state media.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/02/exclusive-harvard-commencement-speaker-org-tied-chinese-military/
The Ivy league, working for America’s enemies since at least the 1950s.
So Harvard has decided to stop pretending it isn’t an arm of the CCP?
Hey! They’re also an arm of Islamic Jihad!
Multi-cultural!
They really are diverse!
Harvard isn’t a branch of some Johnny come lately watered down communism! Harvard holds true to their values as established under the auspices of the Comintern!
Sorry, Jar, that was Old Harvard. Old Harvard is dead and gone.
To be fair, China has so many military and intel networks (often working at cross purposes) that you could say this about pretty much anyone with any connections to the mainland.
Was she sleeping with Eric Swalwell too?
“Brooklyn Democratic Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forres even wrote an op-ed for USA Today last month arguing the chemicals used to coat non-stick cookware pose health risks.
“As a nurse, this concerns me, and it’s why I’m in support of getting these chemicals out of our cookware and other products, and ensuring safer alternatives are used,” said Souffrant Forres, a member of the Democratic Socialists of American.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/02/us-news/nys-lawmakers-want-to-ban-nonstick-cookware-over-chemical-that-feds-say-isnt-dangerous/
CWAC
real men use cast/iron / carbon steel none of that notstick crap…
And a lot of butter
Then we couldn’t have this clickbait article.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14771959/tiktok-influencer-cucumber-cooking-hack-oil-fried-egg.html
Marlon Brando used a lot of butter too.
It wasn’t dangerous when Biden was president.
As a nurse, this concerns me,
And how is it, exactly, that being a nurse means I should hold your opinion with respect to coatings on cooking surfaces in any higher regard than anyone else?
She learned chemistry from a reputable internet influencer.
Because if she said “as a socialist” no one at all would be fooled?
She’s practically a first responders which puts her near the hierarchy of America’s heros – First Responders, Soldiers and Single Moms!
If a Democratic Socialist argues that Earth is a globe, I’m seriously considering flat Earth.
The FDA website notes that nonstick applications on pots and pans are an authorized use under federal guidelines. One Westchester Assemblyman against the measure noted the FDA’s longstanding stance.
What am I supposed to do with this information.
Difficult choice, faceless bureaucrats or moron elected to office.
“Trump admin asks SCOTUS to allow it to move forward with plans to slash federal workforce”
BRING IN THE BOBS!!
What would you say you do here?
I maintain the scheduler that allows automated processes to run that allow you to not have to hire dozen and dozens of people to do the processes manually.
Now, what do you do here and why are we paying you?
What do you mean you have people skills?
I talk to the clients so the engineers don’t have to!
I said PeopleSoft, the ERP software you spent millions on and can’t stop using without spending millions more to migrate off.
[ Q misreads comment and enters the chat ]
https://nypost.com/2025/06/03/us-news/trans-athlete-scandals-that-rocked-high-school-sports-this-year/
SSPTFITB
South Saint Paul, Totally Factual, Is The Bomb?
Some shitty person to fuck in the butt?
They could help end this insanity by not calling them “transgenders” which just feeds into their narcissism.
There was at least one of them. That tall pretty passing post-op volleyball player. But Lia Thomas and that basketball player with facial hair? GTFO
Although it’s irrelevant. Sports are segregated by sex not gender.
Also not entirely accurate because it’s not like there is an issue with girls transitioning and dominating the boys.
The conviction of Hamit Coskun for burning a Koran is an outrage on a point of liberal principle.
But the reasoning in the judgement is also plain old demented.
The judge said Coskun was clearly guilty of disorder *because* an offended passerby attacked him with a knife.
https://x.com/Tom_Slater_/status/1929611852587380765
If England falls I will miss the beer
The Judge is clearly guilty of judicial malfeasance and shal by slowly flensed in a public square.
The kife attacker shall be stabbed repeatedly with his own implement.
Coskun is free to go, he did nothing wrong.
Is there even a brown ale coming out of that benighted island anymore? Newcastle has been dead and buried for years.
Speckled Hen? Or something along those lines? It’s yummy.
I like the pale ales, the cask ones…
But even the standard ones are pretty good.
I miss Dead Pony Club no longer for sale in Romania it seems.
NA:
Old Speckled Hen is considered an old ale or a stock ale (IIRC). It’s the American craft breweries that are keeping the old styles alive.
PieInTheSky:
That would be BrewDog’s, I don’t think I’ve seen that around recently either. They’ve been pivoting and pushing their N/A line (AF) hard the past couple of years.
If England falls I will miss the beer
England has already fallen, we’re just listening to the death rattles.
Well, I have been testing my Stoicism.
Wednesday night I had blood in my stool, and went to the emergency room Thursday.
They sent me home with antibiotics and told me to eat soup for 24 hours which I did.
Saturday I felt 100% normal, flew to Cleveland to buy a 2004 Saab 9-5 Aero Wagon.
I bought it from a lurker Violent K’s son Allen.
Had a great lunch with Nephililium, Violent K and Allen, then drove 8 1/2 hours home.
I LOVE THAT CAR! Stupid comfortable and so much fun to drive.
Sunday night I felt really odd, and had so much blood my poo was all blood.
Almost passed out and my wife was in the middle of calling an Mulan e when I started to feel able to walk downstairs and back to the ER we went.
Been in the hospital since and on a clear diet, broth jello and apple juice.
Was feeling better, but this morning had more blood and lightheadedness again.
Not nearly as severe as the last time, but still not good.
Oh man. Sending good thoughts your way.
Dang, Ron… Hope you are getting help and get better bro…
Ron, we need you at HH. The greenhorn always gets the stickiest job. Hope you’re feeling better and on the mend.
Love that autocorrect.
Hope it goes well. Mixing of the inside and outside like that is never particularly good. Have they given you any hint of suspected root cause?
Said it was diverticulosis, pockets in the colon wall get inflammed and start bleeding.
Root cause of that? Don’t know.
Ugh I had that, and then it got worse.
Hope they fix it before that.
Do they know what caused it?
IIRC I don’t think the condition has a specific cause that can be prevented.
Usually diverticulitis occurs because you are not getting enough fiber to drag all the stuff out. I got that diagnosis more than 10 years ago and started getting more fiber, and have not had any issue after the fact.
Wow. That’s not good news (aside from the Glib meetup and happy replacement car)!
Feel better! “Odaijini” お大事に
Get better.
Damn, hope you feel better Ron.
Thanks everyone, on the bright side, here is my car in my driveway
https://imgur.com/gallery/e4nvzHr
She’s so purty.
Long roofs for the win!
Be warned that you might be doxing yourself.
Are you getting enough iron to replace the blood you’re losing?
I don’t know, but they just took me on a walk around the halls for a few minutes and it winded me
Hopefully you keep improving and get back on your feet.
if you called Mulan maybe it would have helped 🙂
As I am not a great believer in diagnosing over the internet, get well soon is all I can contribute.
Normally I would suggest you drink more whiskey but just this time I won’t
WebMD says it’s lupus.
I didn’t catch the Mulan part, that was supposed to say calling an ambulance.
WebMD will convince you any symptoms you look up will be a terminal disease that will kill you within a week, when you actually have some relatively minor bullshit that’s easily treatable.
Don’t do WebMD.
It was fairly clear what it was supposed to say… language redundancy and whatnot
It was a pleasure meeting you.
But I deny all responsibility for you ending up in the hospital. 🙂
Hey buddy, stop doing that. [And get better quick.]
Damn dude.
Sorry.
Also I asked you people repeatedly to buy new electric cars to help Pie’s bonus but no one listens…
Look, That is a terribly inefficient way of getting money. The wastage on intermediate agents who don’t deserve money is astronomical, plus the constibuter has a toxic waste dump they have to dispose of in the end.
How about you just come over here and we slip you cash?
I hope you recover fully and soon!
Ok, I can’t resist…
Oh great another internet Saab story…
Keeping my fingers crossed for you Ron.
Ron, if the diagnosis is correct they’ll put you on a high-fiber diet.
Meantime, get outa there soon!
Hopefully this brings you some cheer, Ron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM
Wow that’s something. Sending prayers.
I failed my Cologuard test, and Monday I get my first colonoscopy as a follow up. I don’t have any symptoms, especially not like yours, so now I’m feeling a bit less stressed about it.
Ron, It was nice having lunch with you and Neph. Sorry to hear you’re not feeling well.
Sorry 🙁
Get well soon!
Last-minute ER run after shitting blood?
Damn. No idea how you were physically feeling, but the psych/ emotional toll of that must’ve been profound. (Esp for the misses. Plus-everything to Your Lady for her matching stoicism in time of need.
I hope this ordeal is as brief as possible on your way back to healthy shits ya kinda *want* people to see so they can feel inferior, motivating them to imitate your diet. (Religions have been started for less.)
Hope you get better quickly, Ron.
Oof. Bummer. Hopefully your docs are good. Pro tip – remember to get your iPad, earbuds, chargers, and a change of undies if you’re gonna be in the hospital for a while.
You might be amused to find that according to my heart doctor, peeing blood is worse than pooping blood. There are apparently a lot of reasons you can poop blood that just require some diet (or lifestyle – stay away from STEVE SMITH) changes to correct, but peeing blood almost always means surgical intervention. Who knew?
If you think about it, anything in the bladder had to come from the bladder itself, or most liekly the kidneys, which filters the blood stream. So either you have an ulcerated bladder, or kidney injury.
For the colon, anything that goes down your gob and doesn’t dissolve earlier on ends up there. So there’s many many more things that can cause bleeding, and can be eliminated as a factor before you get to innate problems with the intestines.
“but peeing blood almost always means surgical intervention”
That’s not true. I’ve peed blood. Many kidney injuries heal on their own.
Oof, speedy healing.
an X thread maybe it was covered… honestly I am not sure what to think… some private behaviors may tell one something about a person, but may not be relevant to professionalism. or they may be. who can tell…
Jason Whitlock
@WhitlockJason
Serious, thoughtful replies only: Can you separate Glenn Greenwald’s courageous journalism from his immoral, degenerate personal life?
Is there scripture to guide us here? Please share. Thanks.
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
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23h
Glenn is neither immoral nor degenerate, I’m proud to be his friend, have seen him display unusual courage and integrity countless times, and couldn’t admire him more.
Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕
@jeremykauffman
Can you elaborate on your definition of degenerate that doesn’t involve meth-fueled sex with prostitutes?
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
I don’t consider any kind of consensual sex any of my business. Obviously, you do.
Bennett’s Phylactery
@extradeadjcb
Other people’s sex lives have been made my business in increasingly aggressive & pervasive ways my entire life
https://x.com/extradeadjcb/status/1929669941009305822
I don’t consider using drugs degenerate as long as you don’t act like an asshole while you’re high.
I don’t consider sex with prostitutes degenerate as long as everyone involved consents, and you pay promptly and tip well.
Consent based morality seems a bit flimsy.
CPA:
In what way? Assuming no coercion, everyone agreed to participate to the level they were comfortable with. May not be my tastes, but there’s lots of things people do for enjoyment that I don’t get (like watching golf).
Wrong, it isn’t the sex life of Quiltbaggers that is the issue. You don’t really care what they do amongst consenting adults. It is the insistence on participating in the delusions publicly, and the crimes against children that are thr issues.
USA and Russia don’t park their strategic bombers like this out of complacency.
This is a requirement of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which was signed in 2010 between USA and Russia and extends to 4th February 2026.
The treaty demands both parties base ALL deployed strategic bombers equipped for nuclear armament at air bases where they are visible to National Technical Means of verification (satellite surveillance).
No hangers, no nets.
This is so the strategic deterrent systems can be counted and verified, by each counterparty.
Scant chance of New START being renewed after this weekends events, and both nation’s strategic infrastructure will be fully exposed to similar drone attacks for another 8 months before either party can secure them, unless both parties rescind the arms reduction treaty.
https://x.com/Object_Zero_/status/1929442327690350774
don;t know if true but I honestly did not think this could be a thing
That’ll teach Russia not to honor treaties, although that’s kind of like teaching the Irish to drink.
At this point, I am thinking Russia is more likely to honor treaties than the US.
Well, the US is basically at war with Russia so yeah, I don’t see any treaties being worth the paper they’re printed on at this point.
The conventional forces inspection treaty is dead. Strategic forces will be next. I’m surprised Russia still participates in the exchange of military information treaty.
Amusing aspects of using a local bank. My Bank appears to have (hopefully temporarily) lost their website. Nsbt.net
Helping Build Successful Businesses Since 1891
For over 130 years, North Side Bank & Trust Company has provided banking solutions to some of Greater Cincinnati’s most successful local companies. We offer resources and banking solutions to personal and commercial clients, which creates opportunity for growth of local businesses in our community. North Side Bank & Trust Company has served the Greater Cincinnati area since 1891, and remains privately held and family-oriented to ensure we know our clients and they know us. We pride ourselves on calling our customers, their families, and children by name when they walk through our doors. We have nine locations in Greater Cincinnati and our teams are incredibly invested in each of those communities.
that is what I get
No, they must have managed to get it restored while I was posting. It had been down all morning, someone forgot to pay the host lol.
Blame GT.
/ducking
Works for me. Are you running through a work VPN?
UIUC securitized Chinese international students in 2017.
They know ball.
https://x.com/felpix_/status/1929413770721267906
Good morning Glibs! I was away for the weekend to play in that Minnesota hockey tournament that I like so much. Last year our team was terrible, but this year we had one of our main guys back, and two very helpful players from Pittsburgh, so we went 3-1 and won the championship. The trophy this year was a carved battle ax. Besides the sword, this one was the coolest.
congrats
🥳🏒🏆
Congratulations!
Sounds like a great time.
Congratulations!
winning does not matter it is how you pl… never mind winning totes matter so go you
especially if the prize is a battle axe!
Winning mattered this time because we’ve been losing all year, and this is the last season the Blackhawks are letting us use their logo.
The battle axe is great. There are a lot of things I like about the tournament, and one of the fun things is that some guy makes hand-carved wooden trophies every year. There are different types of hockey and different divisions so he has to make a lot of them. They are all Viking-themed. We won a sword playing for Alaska, and with the Blackhawks we won a belt and the battle axe. I have also seen a chest piece and a helmet.
Congrats!
Congrats on the championship!
I’d be keen to read ’bout what your teammates have been through and what led them to sled hockey. The ‘burn’ to *do* physical things doesn’t die when your legs+ don’t work anymore.
Especially rewarding in victory. Well-played to all of ya!
People’s stories come out drip by drip usually. Some of the higher-level players are more public about their injuries or conditions. It took a few years before my best friend on the team told me all the details of his injury (he got hit by an IED while driving a truck).
Here is a good example. Travis joined our team a little before me. He was driving almost 2 hours each way to practice. He got really good really fast (probably because he’d been in the Paralympics for cross-country skiing). I remember when he first made the national team, he was a last-minute addition and I was so happy for him. Now he has 3(?) gold medals. Super nice guy, he came out during COVID lockdowns when we practiced outside, and gave me a lot of good hockey advice. Now he lives in Nashville but he sometimes plays for our Tier 1 team.
https://www.stripes.com/news/grenade-attack-shatters-tranquility-1.60773
awesome.
Ukraine strikes Kerch bridge in Crimea with underwater explosives
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/03/ukraine-strikes-kerch-bridge-in-crimea-with-underwater-explosives
I take it from their saying so 3 times above the fold, that the author considers the bridge illegal.
well it is euronews…
The operation, which took months to plan, was carried out by the SBU and took months to plan.
Apparently they want you to know it took months to plan
Japan develops universal artificial blood compatible with all blood types
https://x.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1929063005569810592
if it is like artificial meat meh…
Hmm, Japan recently announced that they can grow new teeth in adults with an injection, now suddenly they are coming up with artificial blood. Japan has accidentally unleashed Vampirism and is frantically trying to correct!
Article? Or should I just ask my dentist?
Here
No way. With no subsidies and there less than perfect substitution with ICE vehicles this is inconceivable.
Only 16% of U.S. adults report being “very likely” or “likely” to purchase a fully electric vehicle (EV) as their next car, the lowest percentage recorded of EV interest since 2019.
https://newsroom.aaa.com/2025/06/aaa-ev-survey/
Wait, so most people don’t want the less versatile, more expensive option? Shocking!
Lights the RJ signal!
Blood: The Last Vampire (2009 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood:_The_Last_Vampire_(2009_film)
Katana wielding vampire hunter. Naturally in a school sailor uniform.
That was supposed to under your post in response to Pie.
I’m not sure if WP or I managed to mess that one up.
I saw the anime… also blood+. I did not see the movie
The original anime was a mixed success for me.
I liked it enough to watch the series Blood+.
It’s only because of extreme right wing disinformation. They just need to come up with the right messaging and everyone will want one.
I’ve seen it. Was disappointed.
But ICE vehicles receive trillions in subsidies each year …
The word proof is used in the sense of showing that something is true or correct. The English government would test the amount of alcohol content in a liquor by soaking a gun pellet with it and attempting to light the wet pellet on fire. If the wet gunpowder could be lit, the alcohol was said to be a proof spirit and would therefore be taxed higher. This proofing method had a problem: the flammability of the liquor was dependent on its temperature. Since the temperature wasn’t kept consistent, this method for determining a proof spirit wasn’t accurate.
In 1816, England fixed this problem by standardizing its threshold for a proof spirit. A proof spirit was now a liquor with an alcohol level 12⁄13 the weight of an equal volume of distilled water at 11 °C (51 °F). This specific gravity corresponds to about 57.06% ABV. This standardization became incorporated in Great Britain’s 1952 Customs and Excise Tax.
England made the proofing system a bit confusing. When the alcohol industry took hold in the U.S., Americans took a different approach to the measurement system. Stateside, a liquor’s proof is two times the ABV. So this means that a beverage with 30% ABV is 60 proof. A “proof spirit” has to be at least 100 proof.
The simplest proof scale, however, is the one used in France, developed by French scientist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac in 1824. Gay-Lussac took 100% ABV to equal 100 proof and 100% water by volume to be 0 proof. This means that the ABV percentage number is the same as the proof number.
So, to compare the three proof scales: an alcohol with 45% ABV is about 78.9 proof in Great Britain, 90 proof in the U.S., and 45 proof in France.
Huh… I never knew british proof was different from american… I always thought proof = 2x abv. learn something every day
Signatory Vintage 100 Proof Edition are 57.1& abv…
Interesting. Smith & Cross rum (from England) is 57 proof. It’s one of my favorites.
I have an interview for a Girl Friday position today. It doesn’t pay as much as I’d like, but I only have to drive to Overland Park once a week. It’ll be much better than the 911 dispatcher position, which I’m still going to try for.
Good Luck.
I remember there was an ooold movie called His Girl Friday but I did not remember what Girl Friday meant and had to google.
But yeah good luck.
I still don’t know what it means, so I assume the worst.
Once a week sounds good – that’s a long drive for you, right?
Well, if it were more than once a week, it wouldn’t be a “Girl Friday” position, now would it?
Good luck, Moje!
Well, I mean, around here “long drive” is relative. My husband (from L.A.) scoffs at what we call “traffic” and “long drives” (where I believe “long drive” to him means taking 3 hours to get 5 miles).
I live in Liberty, so corner to corner diagonally is sorta tedious, I guess, but I commuted from Platte Woods to St Joe and back to south Overland Park daily way back in the 90s. This is not onerous.
Still no job postings for aspiring odalisques?
No. 😔
Eighteen years after the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the investigation has taken a fresh turn. German federal police are to search a reservoir close to where the British then-toddler went missing in southern Portugal in 2007. The search will take place from Tuesday to Friday this week.
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250603-portuguese-police-start-new-search-in-madeleine-mccann-case-1
Why are German Federal Police searching for a missing British kid in Portugal?
The chief suspect is a German citizen, in prison in Germany.
Ahh, that makes sense
Don’t you people know a joke when you hear one?
The acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was joking when he said he was not aware the U.S. had an official hurricane season, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which houses FEMA, said in a statement.
The response, delivered in a DHS statement, comes after Reuters reported that acting FEMA head David Richardson, who has been in the position since early May, baffled employees with the sentiment at a recent briefing.
The outlet said it was unclear to staff members whether the remark about the U.S. not having an official hurricane season was meant to be taken “literally, as a joke, or in some other context.”
Musk fired all the weatherpersons, so there is no more weather.
It’s like Deer season, only you hunt storms.
Get out there and shoot me some Cyclones.
Iowa State has a sad
The report from Reuters prompted swift, concerned reactions from Democrats.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) responded to the Reuters report on Monday evening, writing on social platform X, “I’m unaware of why he hasn’t been fired yet.”
Others also weighed in.
“Trump’s FEMA chief is incompetent,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) wrote on X in a reply to the article. “People will die.”
Everybody dies. Ask your colleague, Senator Ernst, to explain it to you.
Democrats pounce!
I always figured them more as flouncers.
People will die.
For the children.
Protect our white women.
High cost of crime
Nearly 1 in 2 Americans has had an immediate family member incarcerated, with Black people being more likely than white and Hispanic people to experience this. That’s a problem, in part, because having a relative in prison is expensive.
According to a report released this week from FWD.us, an advocacy organization aimed at criminal justice reform, having a loved one in prison or jail is estimated to cost families across the country nearly $350 billion each year — about four times the amount the federal government estimates it costs taxpayers annually to operate the nation’s prisons and jails.
On average, people with a family member behind bars spend around $4,000 a year on their incarcerated loved ones, the report says.
It’s cheaper than college.
(1 in 2? That doesn’t reek of bullshit.)
I’m trying to think if any member of my extended family has been to prison.
No, they have not. That’s a rather large sample size, by their bullshit there should be at least one in the dozens to hundreds of cousins I’ve got.
Eh, my great-great grandfather did 20 years, but that is it.
My brother did an over night in the drunk tank, does that count?
Off the top of my head, based on stories my dad has told, he’s spent several nights in jail (non-consecutive) in CA from when he was with the USMC. Both him and I have been popped for DUIs, but those were weekend retreats. I’m 99.9% certain that several of my extended maternal family has spent time in jail, not so much on the paternal side (likely just possession and DUIs).
Oh, NPR. Never change.
The U.S. prison population is still ridiculous.
Sadly, the ‘1 in 2’ figure is likely ish-correct for black families.
The argument I’ve vocally used against the WoDrugs, to no real avail, is that it’s hands-down the most destructive domestic policy since slavery, and in many ways simply replaced. Got a start increasing police power to go after niggers and spics, what with their blues and jazzy ways. (I’m careful how I say that, also sadly.)
Combine that with Sowell’s (IMO correct) posit that fatherless black families exponentially grew once each kid came with a guaranteed Fed paycheck, and I can see the 1 in 2. What I *don’t* see, is how this is ignored when I point this blatant post-plantation was really just a *new* one. Well, I kinda know: People are set in their politically religious ways, nearly impossible to convince, let alone ‘convert.’
Yeah, we’re stuck in our ways. But, uh. We constantly rail on individual freedom and federal restraints. Not a bad moral track to be ‘stuck’ on.
All the way with LBJ! Now Trump has to do a re-do and make America(n Society) great again.
Peter Wagner, executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative, says specific numbers aren’t as important as simply the act of trying to quantify what incarceration does to families.
“The value of that number is that it’s a way to say that this matters,” he says. “That number is typically more than anyone would imagine, and it’s a number that, when you look at it in the context of poor families, is completely inappropriate … What you end up with is a very expensive, inefficient way to make poor people have a harder time to succeed.”
Yet some of the ways in which that happens are hard to quantify.
We should pay prisoners a fair wage.
I seem to be running out of empathy. What ever happened to “And let that be a lesson to you”?
That doesn’t feed the Narrative, bigot.
Maybe they can get work release at a Starbucks?
“Mike Tyson’s mom had sex with men as he lay sleeping in bed next to her… years later he asked an agonizing question
As Father’s Day gifts go, Mark Kriegel’s new book ‘Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson’ may not be the most obvious choice. After all, Tyson didn’t really know his dad growing up….
For, with Kirkpatrick largely absent, the mom of three got ‘caught up in the street life,’ while battling alcohol problems and drug addiction, as Tyson put it.
And growing up, whenever he was frightened and crawled into her bed, a young Tyson would hear Lorna, lying next to him, sleeping with ‘a lot’ of men who frequently abused her.”
https://archive.is/C3Se3
Mark Kriegel was on Adam Corolla yesterday.
“A fugitive who broke out of a New Orleans jail along with nine others has taunted police and pleaded for help from Donald Trump in a new video.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14775739/New-Orleans-fugitive-Antoine-Massey-Instagram-video.html
Yeah, good luck with that.
I just got a new Holosun IRIS-3 IR laser/illuminator for my night-fighting rifle. This thing is really cool – tiny, powerful laser, powerful illuminator, seems to be very well constructed, and under $900 to my door.
Gonna go try it out at Peacemaker at the May night shoot this weekend. Fun!
They make laser cartridges that make sighting in a laser much easier.
For the rifle that you thought was lost in an unfortunate boating accident?
Get out there and glue yourself to something
Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor of California, has devoted time to environmental causes since leaving political office in 2011.
He said Tuesday he keeps hearing from environmentalists and policy experts lately who ask, “What is the point of fighting for a clean environment when the government of the United States says climate change is a hoax and coal and oil is the future?”
Schwarzenegger told the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, an event he helps organize, that he responds: “Stop whining and get to work.”
Cling to your religious fanaticism. Don’t let the evidence in front of you change your mind. Of course the seas are rising. There is no time to lose.
Google says: Immediate family generally refers to a person’s closest relatives by blood, marriage, or adoption, typically including parents, siblings, spouse, and children
Thus, either my wife or I should have a parent, sibling, spouse, or child in prison.
We must be the exception.
Isn’t marriage just like being in prison?
Closest I have is my dumb cousin in for statutory rape.
At least he wasn’t named Sue, that would really have made Mike tough
“I know that the people are sick and tired of the whining and the complaining and the doom and gloom,” Schwarzenegger said. “The only way we win the people’s hearts and minds is by showing them action that makes their lives better.”
Needs more rolling blackouts.
Making everything extraordinary more expensive is a good start!
Trump on Truth Social:
Rand Paul has very little understanding of the BBB, especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming. He loves voting “NO” on everything, he thinks it’s good politics, but it’s not. The BBB is a big WINNER!!!
I’m interested to see how quickly Rand Paul is proven right.
“Sir Ian McKellen will be introducing a UK performance of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” featuring a cast entirely of transgender and non-binary performers this summer.
The Trans What You Will theater group will soon be globally livestreaming their performance of a rehearsed reading of Shakespeare comedy “Twelfth Night” at The Space theater in London on July 25. ”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/30/entertainment/lord-of-the-rings-star-to-introduce-trans-non-binary-rendition-of-shakespeare/
No.
“July 26 – Future performances have been cancelled due to a loss of 41% of the cast to suicides.”
Ha!
*gales of laughter*
Are the actors any *good* at their jobs? I imagine the ones who ‘pass’ best are the finest actors available, but I highly suspect the ‘most obviously-NOT passing’ will be cast instead, for dubious reasons.
I imagine it’s to shove as *much* shit down our throats as possible, but why? Cuz it’s the best entertainment? To watch us squirm? To ‘incite’ violence? Probably. Then the more to shriek insults at ‘us’ and to prime further State interference (for The Right ppl.)
Hard pass.
+1 Linda Hunt
“Look at me.”
Pretty much it.
She was great in Kindergarten Cop!
Doin’ right ain’t got no end
The federal prosecutor who oversaw the Capitol riot investigation is speaking out about President Donald Trump’s mass pardon of Jan. 6 rioters and the Trump administration’s targeting of career law enforcement officials who worked cases against the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol.
Greg Rosen, who was the chief of the Capitol Siege Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, called the Justice Department’s handling of Jan. 6 cases appropriate, proportional and righteous, noting that hundreds of defendants convicted of misdemeanors ultimately were sentenced to probation.
“The concept that these defendants were railroaded or mistreated is belied by the actual facts,” Rosen said in an interview days after he resigned from the Justice Department. “The reality is every single case was treated with the utmost scrutiny, and every single case required the same level of due process, maximal due process afforded by the U.S. Constitution.”
He’d throw The Terrorist-in-Chief in the slammer, given half a chance. he is the sword arm of righteousness.
There’s someone whose professional opinion I really give a fuck about.
“The underlying message of the pardons and the expressive nature of the pardons is that political violence is acceptable, particularly if it’s done for a specific purpose,” Rosen said. “Political violence in an American society, in a constitutional republic, is essentially the brain rot of the republic. I think Benjamin Franklin once said, ‘It’s a republic if you can keep it.’ To have pardons … pardoned people who committed wrong, objectively speaking, and then to celebrate that is a message to the American people that the rule of law may not matter.”
OBEY
“I have no understanding of one of the bedrock principles of this country.”
CWAA
Rosen also spoke about the Trump administration’s pending settlement of a lawsuit filed by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a broken glass door in the building. Trump and his allies are also discussing potential settlements with Jan. 6 defendants. Rosen called the news “shocking” and said it was not supported by the evidence.
She needed killing. 100% good shoot.
The one time I heard Leftists declare that “procedures were followed” and “the important thing is that the officers went home safe”.
Rosen said he hopes the record created by the prosecutions of Jan. 6 defendants helps shape how the attack is perceived in history, even as political actors chip away at its reality.
“What I hope the takeaway will be to citizens of this country is that what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, was a national disgrace and then the prosecution that followed reaffirmed the principles of the rule of law and vindicated the rights and the bravery of law enforcement,” Rosen said.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
It’s really noble of NBC to give this guy such a big soapbox and bullhorn.