No. This is not your normal Friday morning links.
In local news, I think I’ve got an idea as to why they did it.
Continuing in local news. This was a tragedy, this change would not have made a difference.
That’s some fine police work there.
I’d like to wish Mr. Chubb the best of luck down there. He deserves it.
There was some excitement in the middle east last night.
This really seems tone deaf when released the same week as this.
At least some members of the Democrat party have some self awareness when it comes to Senator LoneWhacko.
How about a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War?
When you’ve lost Al Jazeera…
But this is why it’s different than those obviously racist southern rednecks flying a stars and bars.
It took them this long?
I had not heard of Rockey’s Liqueur until yesterday, when they announced they’re coming to Ohio. Anyone out there try it? I’m interested in it, as it seems a good accent for tropical, tiki, or rum based drinks. And since these are my links, I’ll ask you, the greatest collection of commenters on a political website.
It’s a Friday morning, but I’ll still give you something to tide you over through the day:
Pompier
- 3 parts (1.5 oz) dry vermouth
- 1 part (0.5 oz) creme de cassis
- 4 parts (2 oz) soda water
Grab a tall, narrow glass (aka a highball glass), fill it with ice, and pour in the first two ingredients. Give them a stir, and while gently stirring, top with the soda water. Garnish with a lemon wheel if you would like.
I hope that you lot have better plans than this for the weekend.
Ohio is warm enough for flamingos?
It all started with a local show making jokes about the people of Parma. Over time, like most jabs of this nature, it became embraced and adopted.
So, the horror started with Ernie Anderson?
Why doesn’t that surprise me.
I demand escape lanes for when I am stuck in I-95 traffic.
I like that! I’m in.
“Continuing in local news. This was a tragedy, this change would not have made a difference.”
Stupid shit like this is how you get Starbucks also offering hand jobs, and Fuddruckers turning into ButtFuckers.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
this change would not have made a difference
But it will add costs on businesses. Good luck to those that are hemmed in.
“Prosecutors say Duty can be heard on the recording asking the woman several times to have sex. She declined but did perform oral sex on Duty, prosecutors say. He paid the woman $20 and then talked about meeting with her later.”
So same as downtown?
HEY BABY, WANNA GO OUT??
At least he was paying and wasn’t coercing them for freebies. That’s probably why they arrested him, he was setting a bad precedent.
Don’t we all pay for it? One way or another…
Speaking of chess and computers, there was one point growing up where we realized we had both an old Atari with a chess game and an NES with Battle Chess, and wanted to know what would happen if we pitted the two against each other.
So we set up the game and entered each machine’s moves into the other system.
The NES won the match.
Now we have to run ChatGPT against NES Battle Chess and see if it’s a case of rock paper scissors, or if ChatGPT just sucks at chess.
ChatGPT doesn’t just suck at chess…it cheats. Because it doesn’t understand the rules.
It will just make a random “checkmate” move at any given time during the game. The Gothamchess youtube channel did a tournament with AI chess. It was ugly.
There should be a “chastize the AI” button for when it does crap like that.
“Bad computer! Wrong!”
I remember some of the earlier PC chess games I had did difficulty by hard limiting how long the computer had to evaluate moves. Lowest difficulty, something like 5 minutes; medium, something like 15 minutes; hard, something like 120 minutes; with some having a no limit at the highest difficulty level (which would usually crash before returning a move).
🤷♂️
I’m the guy who managed (at different times) to both stalemate much better players, and stumble onto a fool’s mate as the fool.
It’s been a while since I’ve played, but I’d rather play against a human I know than hop on one of the available online fora.
Decades ago, I’d play chess every day at recess against this kid. On a regular game he won 100% of the time. When he got tired of winning we’d play a variant where the Queen’s side of the board was removed. I won those games 100% of the time.
I’m sure this means something about how my brain works, but I have no idea what.
I taught my kids to play chess. Soon they were kicking my butt every time so I quit. Better than being a loser. I’m glad I didn’t each them to play poker.
All:
I can play chess, but I’m not a big fan of the current meta of the game. I dislike the concept of memorizing openings and mid games and prefer to play the game as it unfolds. Unfortunately, that is a sub-optimal strategy for chess (which is why it’s out of fashion). I do like abstract strategy games that have not had so much time and ink spilled on trying to solve them.
Onitama is a good one, as are Patchwork and Blokus. You can also add a little randomness with things like Castles of Burgundy, but the randomness takes it out of the realm of a pure abstract.
Mr Ilium, sounds like my approach.
I honestly have never chased the meta for any game I’ve played, it’s not fun to me. I’d sooner have a good time and lose than not have fun but win.
UCS:
For any games that get updates, following the meta is a requirement to stay “good”. In some games, it’s basic strategies that become more popular until a counter is found (static board games: Splendor, Power Grid, Seven Wonders, etc.), in others, it’s keeping up with rule changes and nerfs (online games, M:TG).
Neph, openings have been around since Capablanca’s time, and mid games are just how it plays out, albeit they are named as they tend to fall into the same patterns.
You assume being “good” is my goal.
ZWAK:
I’m aware. It’s just a style of game meta that doesn’t appeal to me. You see something similar in Diplomacy, where there’s standard openings, and names for some of the common strategies, but with more players (and negotiation), it allows for more breaks from the non-scripted (but close enough to be predicted) mid-games. I respect the game, and those who put in the work to be good in it, just doesn’t match my gaming preferences.
Neph:
I have yet to beat my 9 year old son (who’s likes reading chess strategy books) in onitama
-dumb dad 🤪
I haven’t done an update on my chess progress in a while (2 years, I believe), but I hit 1514 on chess.com rapid in early January. That was 97.4 percentile, I think. There are lots of really bad players on chess.com. So 97.4 percentile isn’t nearly as good as it sounds. I classify myself as solidly intermediate now.
After hitting that high, I immediately tanked back below 1400 and ground myself back up to 1513 last week, before tanking hard again. I seem to have stabilized in the mid 14s this time, at 1449 at the present (96.3 percentile).
The key to playing online is to turn off chat. Sometimes it would be nice to say good game or whatever, but the negatives far outweigh the positives.
I can play chess, but I’m not particularly great at it nor do I particularly like it. I like the idea of being good at it, but I don’t like having to kick my brain into high gear just to play a game at a middling level. I like Games that are relaxing and enjoyable. Like yall, I despise the idea of memorizing all the openings.
Oh, and chess puzzles are entirely opaque to me. There are unwritten rules applied to them that I just don’t know.
Depending how good you are, that doesn’t matter. You can get to my level without learning openings, plenty of people do. I have learned some, because I enjoy that part of the game.
My rule of thumb on how deep to learn an opening (if you even bother) is N = (ELO -700) /1000
A 1000 Elo player would need to know about 3 moves deep…which isn’t even memorizing really. The reason, as I learned from experience, is at that level, by move 3 your opponent has gone “off book” anyway.
Robc, I used to play nationally ranked pool players, and hold my own. Now, they were ranked at the 175-200 position, so that isn’t really saying much, as a lot of really good players don’t bother with going to Vegas for the nationals.
So, yeah, same thing with chess rankings.
My nephew was somewhere in the 1600s ELO last time I talked to him. I can’t even give him a good game of chess anymore. Fortunately I can still felt him at poker…
““I don’t have the legal qualifications to specify what happened, but there were acts of mistreatment,” André said Tuesday.”
So you are talking out of your ass.
She was mocked. When will the ICC issue a warrant?
Sounds like Andre is no mental giant.
Spoiled brats often perceive being told no as abuse. It’s kind of at the core of being spoiled.
I should clean around the house.
I have to do laundry.
I want to play video games.
Theoretically, I could do all three, but the first and third tend to compete for attention.
Yeah. I need to put up a massive glass white board in my office to finish my remodel. And I must do my regular work. But I would rather play cards or read. Or blab here.
Laundry is my favorite chore. It takes minutes to start the washer and switch to the dryer, and I can fold while I watch TV. As I fold I stack things by which drawer they go in, and I put them away on commercials. Easy.
I can do laundry while doing any number of other tasks. The biggest risk for me is forgetting it’s in the machine and leaving it for hours until I go “Wait, wasn’t I doing laundry?”
Why are you doing orphan’s work?
#thisisnothowyouglib
But this is why it’s different…
One southern heritage or another.
“Ever since Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion and gradually infused its brand with his grotesque visage”
grotesque visage!
“something to rival the vise grip Republican-aligned media has on digital airwaves”
This asshole is nuts.
Also, the rest of the article is paywalled.
https://archive.is/ZC1Kl
Luke Winkie
Sounds more like a Bee story subject.
Count yourself lucky.
I heard Visage was more of a horror game than grotesque.
I saw them when they opened for Tool in ’98.
They must have renamed after Midge Ure left?
“grotesque visage!”
These fuckers are truly against anyone being able to hold any kind of opinion or belief they do not like without them being able to punish those they disagree with. That’s all this shit is.
I guess I’m part of that “grotesque visage”. I got back on after Musk bought it.
I guess there goes the theory that Israel did it without Trump’s blessing.
My link!
Troof
I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to “just do it,” but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come – And they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliner’s spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse! There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end. Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!
Has anyone ever seen Spudalicious and Trump in the same place at the same time?
I have seen Spud, and his follicular product is completely different that OMB’s
Spud wasn’t blessed with The Hair?
So, Spud looks like a potato?
“We remain committed to a Diplomatic Resolution to the Iran Nuclear Issue! My entire Administration has been directed to negotiate with Iran. They could be a Great Country, but they first must completely give up hopes of obtaining a Nuclear Weapon. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.
Either:
1. Trump was lying and just lost his credibility
2. Israel didn’t tell him and left him out there negotiating like the patsy Japanese negotiators in DC on the eve of Pearl Harbor
Terrible look either way.
There is a 3rd option…
The assholes running Iran told everyone fuck off, we are building a bomb, and Death to America and Israel…
And yes, that did happen.
Meh. The carrot looks especially tasty when the stick is actually being used.
I am completely unbothered by a successful use of the “let’s you and him fight” tactic, other than the actual bothering of the implementation that happens when it occurs.
Doesn’t read that way to me.
“My administration” (the US) “remains committed to a negoatiated solution” Can easily be true.
And one does not spill the war plans of an ally on social media.
It was clear years ago that A: Iran was never going to negotiate in good faith or follow through on any promises made, and B: Israel was never going to let Iran go Nuclear.
I can see someone whose self image is built around being a deal maker wanting to negotiate a solution, where one is not forthcoming.
My read is “We talked, the Iranians were never willing to budge, boomity.”
Trump gave Iran a 2 month deadline that ended yesterday. It’s clear that Trump gave the greenlight to Israel once the deadline had expired. That’s the point of deadlines. You lose credibility by setting meaningless deadlines that are forever extended.
It’s what should have been done a very long time ago. Zero US military involvement, and the US stops muzzling Israel.
-1 red line in Syria
Wasn’t there a UN report that “Yup. Iran’s been in violation for the last ten years” released this week. That smacks of vastly more competent statecraft than Obama/Biden/Clinton.
And yet Iran says they weren’t building a bomb and our Director of National Intelligence agrees. If they dug up Colin Powell and had him give a WMDs speech, I’d be more likely to believe it.
https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-iran-nuclear-weapon-2051523
I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Slight damage from a Mexican naval strike, but otherwise functional.
Iran would be stupid to not have a nuclear capability if they can. That is the only thing that deters OUR stupidity.
Iran was basically working on being able to build 10 bombs all at once, and all in a weeks time. Couple that with their massive order for precursors for solid and liquid ballistic missile fuel placed to the CCP’s China a month ago that would allow them to build some 2k new ones – after Israel wrecked their supplies & ballistic missile facilities in the last cycle of attacks – and the drawing is on the board.
I would not be happy to hear Taiwan or Italy saying they want nukes and working towards that, cause while more nuke armed countries is a real bad thing, none of those actors have an agenda that involves destroying the US that is consistently and constantly articulated by their unelected rulers.
Now Gabbard is lying for saying we shouldn’t start another neo-con war?
Drake – I’m just saying that believing Iran wasn’t working towards nuclear armament strikes me as particularly gullible.
Whether or not any particular course of action is called for is open to debate.
10 bombs all at once? Seriously buying this propaganda after doubting all the other stuff we’re fed that’s been proven nonsense?
It’s like cold-fusion, Iran is always months away from having a giant nuke stockpile.
Our intel agencies say they aren’t. I’ve heard plenty of form intel people say they aren’t. Only the ardent warmongers claim they are.
“Now Gabbard is lying for saying we shouldn’t start another neo-con war?:Now Gabbard is lying for saying we shouldn’t start another neo-con war?”
Israel is attacking Iran. We have told Iran not to escalate or else, which is not the same as getting involved. And Iran had a real easy option to avoid this, but didn’t want that at all. But you think it is our war?
A lot of shit.
I don’t believe a single self-serving iota of what comes out of those organizations.
“10 bombs all at once? ”
That has been the goal ever since the days that idiot Obama was played. They need 2 for Israel, 3 or 4 to smuggle into the US and hold us hostage, and the others for contingencies, while they then use this new deterrent to ramp up their numbers for their global war.
“Seriously buying this propaganda after doubting all the other stuff we’re fed that’s been proven nonsense?”
Propaganda? Methinks you do not know the meaning of that word. The fucking asshat with the turban tied too tightly around his nogging that has been torturing and murdering his own people, has on multiple occasions pointed out Iran has a right to nukes, and that the 10 bomb strategy was the way they could overcome resistance to that effort.
I mention again: what is the reaction to these attacks from the rest of the Arab world? Especially from those that let Israel use their airspace to conduct this attack.
^^^ The target of the fear-mongering.
I don’t actually believe the chain of people that extends from “someone who might actually know” to “somene who’s opinion might make its way to me” is reliable wrt truth.
I remember not that long ago when every single source you brought up to prove (((they))) were committing war crimes/genocide was originally sourced from HAMAS. I don’t know if your information hygiene has improved any since then.
I probably do this as well, because it sure seems universal, but stating as demonstrated fact things you have no first, or even reliable second hand information about is not persuasive. No one with actual first or second hand knowledge of Iran’s nuclear capacity, progress, or intentions is posting that information here, and everyone here knows it.
Of course I don’t have any first hand knowledge either way. Nobody here does.
I also don’t really care. Israel, Pakistan, North Korea, and India all have lots of nukes. Unfortunately that genie is out of the bottle.
@Alex – you somehow believe this isn’t/won’t turn into our war?
“Intel sources say”:
This is a good time to remember the two questions:
Who wants me to believe this? Why do they want me to believe this? There’s plenty of conflicting agendas in the ME – hang Israel out to dry, ramp up another war, and I’m sure some bright spark has thought up, ramp up another war by leaving Israel out to dry so it gets attacked.
I think the most efficient explanation for Iran’s nuclear activities is that they want nuclear weapons. For what – Pure deterrence? Killing Jews? – who knows?
“@Alex – you somehow believe this isn’t/won’t turn into our war?”
Yes, I do.
“I think the most efficient explanation for Iran’s nuclear activities is that they want nuclear weapons. For what – Pure deterrence? Killing Jews? – who knows?”
I tend to take people that tell me they want to do me harm, and even kill me, very seriously. Especially when they have in the past proven they would do so if the opportunity presented itself.
These people definitely want to kill Jews. But the Jews are the immediate target because they are close bye, and tiny Israel has continuously embarrassed them on the world stage. But I do not miss the point that their agenda has always been to kill ALL those preventing them from governing everyone with their wacko religion, and we – America – are at the top of that list.
The threat from Iran to you (us) isn’t credible. It would be even LESS credible if we stopped waving our collective dick in their faces.
Asymmetrical threats are a thing….
The real, demonstrated, and unaddressed Muslim terror threat in this country is all based on Wahhabi Sunni Islam, not Shia.
Libya gave up their nuclear ambitions and their leader got sodomized in the street after the US launched a coup.
-Iranians
Pompier
3 parts (1.5 oz) dry vermouth
1 part (0.5 oz) creme de cassis
4 parts (2 oz) soda water
gaaaaayyyyyyyy
It’s early in the morning over here, so I went with a low ABV drink.
Besides, I’m secure enough in my manhood that I will drink lavender drinks, frozen drinks, and pink drinks with a little paper umbrella in them.
I didn’t have any vermouth, or creme de cassis, or soda water, so I replaced it with rectified spirits.
Man, you gave us a stiff drink for supposedly low ABV.
I need to buy mixers for this half-finished bottle of Pimm’s #1 in my fridge.
Not Adahn:
A traditional Pimm’s Cup is Pimm’s #1 and [British] lemonade. Why did I specify British? Because like too many things, lemonade means something different over there. I will generally buy the sparkling lemonades or Italian sodas, and mix with it to get something quick and easy for the summer.
I should actually do my reviews of the five bottles of Gin I horrifically impulse bought.
I don’t drink Gin. Why did I buy five bottles?
I generally prefer just club soda (I like my drinks cold and bitter, like my soul) but occasionally I will go the ginger ale route.
France also has the same meaning for “lemonade.”
How much you want for them?
I don’t know, I haven’t tried them yet.
I don’t know that it’s considered lemonade, but when we went to Greece a couple years ago, the lemon Fanta was phenomenal. Also, the orange Fanta was superior to the stuff we get in the states. I don’t drink soda, but couldn’t get enough of it. Tried it when I got back here and was disappointed.
The problem with putting lavender into anything you drink isn’t the de facto lack of manhood. It is that lavender tastes terrible.
That is all.
Same with grape Fanta in Japan.
Extend that to all floral flavors.
“I don’t drink Gin. Why did I buy five bottles?”
You thought my wife might come over?
Pre market is not down as much as I thought. Oil is up. No surprise there.
I had to check out of that Slate article. The prose was too tediously delusional and refused to come to a point.
I thought this was pretty funny:
Sorry, I was stretched a bit thin on links today. I had to save some good ones for the afternoon links.
Isn’t the last line the point?
Bluesky has crystallized the Democrats as they are currently perceived. And no one wants to hang out with them.
But goddamn Iran’s army is less than competent…
The most entertaining rumor I’ve encountered is that Israel haXx0red Iran’s Civil Defense systems to play “Hava Nagila.”
The airline’s chief executive, Campbell Wilson, had just taken off on another Air India 787 Dreamliner bound for Paris, where he was to attend an industry gathering.
Wilson’s flight was still over India when word of the crash came. About an hour into the flight, it made a U-turn back to New Delhi so the CEO could respond to the accident.
“We are sorry ladies and gentleman, but we turning our flight around because a VIP aboard has PR crisis he needs to deal with back in India. You’ll lose a day, get a crappy hotel, crappy food voucher and wait in line for hours both at the airport and on the phone. Have a nice day and thanks for flying with Air India.”
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/air-india-flight-171-final-moments-1b692829?st=gSKTMi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
On a serious note the one survivor lost his brother on the same flight. Can you imagine that poor family? Both happy about the survivor and dealing with the loss of the other brother.
Ben Rhodes
@brhodes
This is all so unnecessary. All of it. Everywhere.
https://x.com/brhodes/status/1933318318951166195
nihilists dude fuck me
Nihilism has the great advantage over all other atheistic metaphysics in that it might actually be true.
That asshole is just pissed all the evil he and Obama did is not being rolled back, even if it is at too slow a pace to really make me happy about it.
Because if he couldn’t have trapped her in the drive through, there would have been nowhere else to do it and he would have turned nice and peaceful.
I get that it was horrible, but this “We must do something!” attitude is not going to help.
So in the Air India crash we have one lone survivor that looks fairly unscathed and one woman who missed the plane by 10 minutes, was stuck in traffic.
So Unbreakable and Final Destination mashup?
We’ll find out in the next couple of weeks…
It looks from early reports that the pilots missed the step to put out their flaps & slats, and thus lacked the amount of lift needed when taking off at regular air speed. That plane was doomed the second they spooled up their engines and started the take off run without realizing they needed at least 30 knots more of speed and 3 kilometers of extra runway.
Well, this flabbers my gasts.
Poor training?
Complacency?
Improper procedures?
Whatever the reason, it will be pilot error for sure if the reports are correct.
pilots missed the step to put out their flaps & slats
That seems very unlikely. Without considering the pre-flight checklists and warnings/notifications – would a 787 even let you take off without a take off flap setting? – everything looked pretty normal to my untrained eye at rotation (other than taking almost the entire runway as evidenced by the dust kick-up). The problem looks to have started at roughly the point that gear should be retracted. If it was pilot error, a more likely scenario seems to be that, when the pilot called for gear up, the co-pilot got the flaps control instead. That sort of fits the videos I’ve seen. As a total loss of both engines would, but there’s nothing to indicate that happened.
Of course, at this point it’s just a bunch of rando-internet speculation. The CVR and FDR should tell the tale.
(other than taking almost the entire runway as evidenced by the dust kick-up).
That’s exactly what I’d expect to see if flaps were misconfigured. Nothing wrong with the plane except that they can’t get it off the ground until the very end of the runway.
That’s exactly what I’d expect to see if flaps were misconfigured.
(always with the context of internet rando so take with grain of salt, etc.)
From what I understand from a few sources, that runway does not have a full taxi to the end of the runway. You enter the runway at the mid point, taxi back down the runway to a turn around (still short of the full runway length) and start the takeoff. Given the weight of the plane and the temperature, at the normal turn around they would have been using most of the runway anyway. You rotate when you hit your rotate speed, nothing to do with the flaps. And at that point, it looked like a normal rotate to me (see above caveat). Things only seem to go cross-eyed where you’d normally see gear retraction.
You rotate when you hit your rotate speed, nothing to do with the flaps.
Rotate speed is calculated based, in part, on flaps level.
I have no idea if that is what happened here, but it wouldn’t be the first time this happened.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1141
Rotate speed is calculated based, in part, on flaps level.
True. Could be they used a ‘wrong’ setting for the conditions and weight, so ended rotating at the end of runway
because… they were at the end of the runway rather than because they hit rotate speed. But what I saw of the transmitted telemetry, they were in the range of reasonable rotate velocity for conditions. And the initial climb out looked nominal. Seemed to lose it right around where you’d call for gear up. Given the condition of the tail section, it will hopefully be clear pretty quickly what happened from the data recorders, so we will see.
Gotcha, yeah I haven’t seen the video yet, but the speculation I saw was that they might have hit flaps up instead of gear up by accident. That is a pretty profound blunder, if true.
I’m thinking more of a really dark rom-com.
“At least some members of the Democrat party . . . .”
What heaping pile of gibberish that was.
Addison Rae performing “Headphones On” in London!
https://x.com/concertleaks/status/1932592606279778799
Oh, this must be a day ending with a “y”.
They will go to their graves trying to protect the operation they ran to get the American people to buy that J6 was an insurrection and that anyone not a die hard commie fuckwad democrat is a domestic terrorist.
They have gotten so used to controlling the narrative and can’t handle the internet videos that easily contradict them.
Same goes for Walz the other day trying to refute the gestapo claims, and Senator Fuckface attacking Noem.
Freddie’s Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon, is experiencing below average levels of activity for a Thursday at 9:24pm ET
https://x.com/PenPizzaReport/status/1933334951287521307
news you can use
Not exactly walking distance from the Pentagon.
Has anyone checked the Crystal City Restaurant down the street?
Kim Jong Un Claims His Capsized Warship is Fixed
Sure it is. Just drain the seawater out of the engines and put in fresh oil. It’ll be ready in a jiffy!
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/kim-jong-un-claims-his-capsized-warship-is-fixed-cde2b721?st=nBKzDN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They currently have it in a very large container of rice.
No such luck, rice very rare, very valuable.
Used stones instead.
“…granted, rocks aren’t the best material for making a boat…”
standing ovation
They righted the vessel, and I am sure that since they were told they better have that ship completely fixed in a month’s time, or they would face the same fate as the people that were in charge of the vessel’s launch did (death by AAA firing squad), they decided it was better to tell Kim it was all fixed and hope he would not inspect the ship than to just say what Kim wanted was not possible and then face 20mm shells to the body.
Any law named after a woman’s first name should be immediately deemed unconstitutionally dumb.
I can agree with that statement..
Any law named after anyone should be immediately deemed unconstitutionally dumb.
Being dumb is not something which renders a law unconsitutional.
How about Allen, Allen, Allen, and Allen?
Never change warmongering WSJ!
“Israel’s Nuclear Good Deed Against Iran
The Jewish state deserves U.S. support as its campaign against the nuclear program continues.”
Yes please get us involved directly in this. Everything else we’ve done in the Mideast has worked great!
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/israel-strike-iran-nuclear-attack-netanyahu-trump-c344199b?st=8qAjPr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I want to make sure we do not lose sight of the fact that Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria all are letting Israel fly through their air space. That none of them, and also Qatar, UAE, Iraq, Egypt, and so on have remained quiet on the attack.
Political reality is that if the world lets Iran get a nuke, there is no way all those rich Arab nations will have nukes in less than a year, if not earlier. that is because they understand Iran’s leadership is definitely the evil fuck it tells us al it is.
Every fucking country there hates everyone else, to one degree or another. That doesn’t make any of them our friend/ally except as a convenience.
ALL allies are of convenience. We forget that at our own peril…
Likewise countries (or better, peoples without a country) forget that about us at their peril.
True dat.
I’m fine with not getting in Israel’s way. But I expect the Navy directly out there running cover for them in 3,2,1…
Hope you’re wrong, but I suspect you’re right. It depends on how long this goes. There is one carrier group there. I haven’t heard that my son-in-law will be moved there yet.
Were the first kings of Poland actually from Scotland? New DNA evidence unsettles a nation’s founding myth
https://theconversation.com/were-the-first-kings-of-poland-actually-from-scotland-new-dna-evidence-unsettles-a-nations-founding-myth-258579
The male skeletons almost all carry a single, rare group of genetic variants on the Y chromosome (which is only carried and passed down by males). This group is today found mainly in Britain. The closest known match belongs to a Pict buried in eastern Scotland in the 5th or 6th century.
These results imply that the dynasty’s paternal line arrived from the vicinity of the North Atlantic, not nearby.
But “how many Scotsmen does it take to change a lightbulb “ isn’t a funny.
One.
It takes 1.2 Irishmen to change a lightbulb.
Oi!
Them’s Fightin’ Werds.
https://pagesix.com/2025/06/12/style/jason-kelce-reacts-to-fans-naughty-pin-up-style-eagles-tattoo/
Eagles fans are gay.
From a Redskin’s fan, I would concur,
I am surprised you would join a fandom that requires you to like Washington in any context.
I was 7 when I saw my first live games in the stands, and in my family the options were them or Green Bay, so I picked them. I am a fan for life. Not a fair whether fan like Patriots, Giants, Jersey, or Buffalo fans are. I stopped watching when that asshat Snyder let the woke crowd change the name, anyway.
‘Buffalo fans’
Maybe people outside the city, but buffalonians never stopped supporting the Bills, even through getting thrashed by the Patriots for 10 years straight.
Lackadaisical:
Yeah. There’s no beef here with Buffalo fans. Quite a few Browns fans picked them up when Modell *spits* stole our team. There’s a pizza shop around the corner from me that hangs a big Bills flag in their shop every year.
They’re far better people than Stillers or (even worse) Ravens *spits* fans.
I was referring to the fair whether fans of teams here in the People’s Republic of Connecticut, formerly Lack.
Hey now!
I thought we made peace over the fact we all hated the Ravens!
ron:
Pittsburghian Stillers fans are one thing, the real vitriol is saved for Stillers fans from the Cleveland area. We understand that the Yinzers have been damaged from years of Iron City beer, Ohio valley pizza, putting fries on salads, chipped chopped ham, and idiotic alcohol laws. The fans from Ohio have no excuses.
I could see how a Steeler fan from Cleveland would be wrong on so many levels.
Never liked Iron City beer, but I am not from the city.
It’s not fries on salads, it’s fries on sandwiches, and they are delicious: https://primantibros.com/
Chipped ham with BBQ sauce is a great sandwich also.
I have no defense for the idiotic alcohol laws.
I always like to remind everyone that Pennsylvania is still paying the TEMPORARY Johnstown Relief Tax on liquor from 1936.
I missed the Ohio Valley Pizza in my rebuttal.
That is when they cook the pizza with the sauce and meats and after it comes out of the oven then the cheese gets put on.
I think it’s weird, but when I’m home I always go to Di Carlo’s for a little nostalgia.
ron:
I wasn’t talking about fries on sandwiches, which we have here as well, I was referring specifically to the Pittsburgh Salad.
And I do have a soft spot for chipped chopped ham sandwiches. Mom used to buy the chipped chopped ham at the grocery store about once a month.
Fair weather fans are terrible! Tribal loyalty is all important! The less important the context of the tribal loyalty, and the less control an individual has over the tribal destiny the more important it is to be a true, orthodox tribe member!
The players can kneel for the anthem, rape to their heart’s content, drive city streets at 150 mph drunk, and refuse to honor their contract if they think they deserve more. The owners can blackmail their fans, and anyone else who happens to live in the region to get massive subsidies to their hugely profitable business paid by taxes on people struggling to survive, and then pull up stakes and leave the moment they think it will benefit them. But somehow it is a stain on a person’s honor if they dare to change teams, or cease to be a fan at all? I suppose I am just ranting against human nature, but our essential tribalism, and its poor fit for our modern world is at the root of an awful lot of our problems.
Jarflax:
The meaningless tribalism is one of the reasons I think professional sports is important. It provides an outlet for those impulses in ways that are (in general) low risk, non-violent, and mutual. I’d like it more if the governments weren’t underwriting the costs for the stadiums and the like, but the teams, leagues, and games I feel are a healthy outlet.
I have no defense for the idiotic alcohol laws.
People asked when I first moved here why, and my reply was, I can break the PA liquor laws with impunity but MD gun laws would put me in prison.
The players can … The owners can blackmail … and then pull up stakes and leave the moment they think it will benefit them.
Oh, a Raiders fan eh?
Neph, I’d agree if I thought tribalism was a finite impulse that could be used up by channeling it into harmless diversions. I think it just as likely that our capacity for it grows the more you indulge it. I freely admit that I don’t think there is a solution. It is so central to human nature I don’t think we could get rid of it and survive, but speaking as someone who is really bad at tribe loyalty it sucks.
Speaking of gay and Kelce, Travis and Taylor Swift were at the hockey game last night.
I am not sure why they went, every time the cameras showed them they were on their phones or talking.
It did lead to an awkward intermission when one of the hosts asked Wayne Gretzky if he liked her music, and he was trying to be polite, but had no idea about any of it.
From what I’ve heard of her music, I agree with Mike Portnoy(Dream Theater), “It sounds like Tokyo Disneyland music”.
Tits out for Chewy!
Ancient foid pump iron in bikini, meanwhile you go to PLANET FITNESS wearing GYM SHARK leggings…YOU ARE GAY!
https://x.com/Tom_Rowsell/status/1933145703666323490
This is gonna backfire when the 400lbs blue/green/pink haired wannabe shows up in a bikini to “work out”…
“A kind-hearted Arkansas teenage girl was mauled to death in a “horrific” dog attack as she attempted to feed multiple malnourished pups left in neglect by their owners.
Makayla Fortner, 15, was killed on the property of the home in Alexander — about 17 miles outside Little Rock — as she was trying to care for around 30 to 40 starving dogs on Wednesday, according to KATV.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/us-news/arkansas-teen-girl-mauled-to-death-while-trying-to-feed-neglected-pack-of-30-to-40-dogs-kindest-soul/
yikes!
That’s pretty high on the horrible ways to die list.
that is horrible.
I tells ya, I might throw some food over the fence but I wound not get into a yard with 30+ strange dogs.
PieInTheSky:
Yeah, at 30 animals, that’s not a bunch of strange dogs, that’s a pack of strange dogs. I’d potentially toss some food over, but I’d be calling animal control to deal with that. Bastards take my tax money, they can at least do the job.
This plus I’m not a big fan of them anyway.
If you go into a yard with 30 or so starving dogs, you’re the feed, not the feeder.
That’s when you call in Animal Cops, not do it yourself.
Apparently there was no local animal control.
But yeah, chuck over fence.
Yeah, and the animal abusers were not named in the article. Those shits should be named and shamed.
Dunno what you’d do about water. Toss over a big bowl then a block of ice?
Her mom didn’t warn her not to?
Just senseless.
‘Just senseless’
Not entirely senseless, at least they’re not hungry anymore.
Ooof.
JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran officially raises its Red Flag of Revenge.
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1933429418094965113
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It is Iranian tradition that the Red Flag of Revenge be raised shortly before doing absolutely nothing.
‘Women’s personal information at risk of being harvested by private firms running their own versions, report warns’
That’s OUR job! /Government
I liked this article>/a>, and especially this quote from it:
“Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, an immigrant from Colombia, echoed this sentiment Wednesday.
“I followed the process to come into this country legally, and by definition if you didn’t follow that process, if you cut the lines, you’ve broken our laws,” he told ABC News.
“If you’re in this country illegally, you need to go.”
There are “millions of people waiting in line to come to this country legally,” Moreno said — and the current system rewards those who skipped the line at their expense.”
The left wants the law breakers here looking for free shit over those that do it legally and would not qualify for government aid that would make them dependent lefty voters.
I heard yesterday that 75% of legal immigrants support a closed border and deportations. Not surprising, they did a lot of work to get here. Plus they left their country to escape the criminals that Biden allowed to walk right in.
I sponsored 2 Indian friends and will soon be sponsoring a daughter in law, so I know how freaking hard it is. One of the things you have to prove (in addition to checks to make sure you have neither a criminal record nor have come here illegally before) is that you have financial means to support yourself, not just until you get your residency and can work, but for a minimum of 5 years after. If you or your sponsor can’t do that, you are denied.
The legals have a great reason to be pissed, because the illegals are not just cutting the line, but are being given free tax payer provided benefits that legal immigrants are never allowed to get (and this is being done to buy their loyalty and vote for democrats). There is a reason democrats have freaked out about Medicare, Social security, and other government largesse, and especially state sponsored government largesse, being cut.
Baby kangaroo taking her first steps.
https://x.com/Yoda4ever/status/1933187543656452384
+1 Daily Ray of Sunshine
“BREAKING NEWS Urgent recall for fruit sold in multiple states that could kill if eaten”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14809727/Urgent-recall-fruit-sold-multiple-states-kill-eaten.html
People will die!
Have Jolly Rancher instead!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr7yjrnj89o
😱
It’s missing the label? For something people who are allergic already know is used on dried apricots?
This recent phenomenon of massive ‘highest level danger’ recalls over missing disclosures on packaging is amazingly stupid. You might die! Yes, if you have an incredibly rare sensitivity to a substance frequently, or in some cases universally found in the particular food stuff, and are also so amazingly stupid that you rely on the individual packages to tell you which foods you should avoid.
Calm down and have some ice-cream.
https://www.eatingwell.com/breyers-ice-cream-recalled-nationwide-11752942
I would never have known had the package of Walnuts I was eating from not told me.
Personally, I like the recalls that are due to lack of inspection. So the pencil pusher didn’t check the boxes, pretty sure the same standards were used in the production as the batches before and after.
There was also one for butter because it did not have the contains milk label.
Jarflax – the butter one was priceless!
So that butter was pareve?
so amazingly stupid
By our standards, not necessarily by any wide-spread standard.
@JI it is time to let natural selection sort some of that problem out.
Supposedly this happened two days ago. Why wasn’t it a big deal?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/12/us-news/nypd-vehicles-burned-in-suspected-arson-attack-in-brooklyn/
It was locally.
Didn’t they recently find posts by some Antifa tool claiming he had done it too?
“Antifa anarchist blog posts claim of responsibility for torching NYPD vehicles in Brooklyn”
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-claims-responsibility-for-torching-8-nypd-police-vehicles-in-brooklyn
Pound-me-in-the-ass-prison time.
Interesting post…
Boy is he in trouble come Saturday!
It’s okay, he was never crowned, and his title would be Shah anyway.
I want to show up to one of those No Kings protests with a picture of King Charles with an X through it.
Which Charles X?
Robert Walker Jr., of course.
Or Martin Luther King.
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Photos: Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station
https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/12/caltrain-employee-secret-apartment-burlingame-station-photos/
You’re making almost a quarter million not including benefits and this is how you want to live?
Did the tax payers pay for that apartment construction?
“To construct his apartment, Navarro conspired with TransAmerica Services Inc. station manager Seth Worden to circumvent oversight by keeping each invoice below $3,000 — within Worden’s spending authority — to avoid detection by Caltrain management, according to District Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe. ”
To the degree that the choo choo is subsidized.
The story is pretty clear on that front.
Thats just the stabbin cabin.
Is that the white room with black curtains at the station I’ve heard so much about?
We don’t have missing flamingos, but about a decade ago in the next town at a fireworks store there was a giant inflatable eagle, and someone stole the head off it. They displayed the eagle for years without its head, which was never found.
I hope that Iran thing is over quick. We don’t need to be involved in that mess. (I’m saying this because I have more skin in the game this time).
In too too local news, after many long and tedious conversations, Oldest Kid has decided to stay here. She was planning on moving back to the cult house, and they had promised to give her one of their cars. (Spoiler alert: they weren’t giving her a car). Youngest Kid and some of my in-laws spent some time with Middle Kid yesterday. She’s too thin, but her place is clean an her cat looks taken care of, but her boyfriend was there and was being a jerk.
I’m glad your oldest isn’t returning to that place.
The Big Boy closest to me has moved their statue onto the roof as it kept going walkabout.
Right when I was entering high school, one of the nearby suburbs’ McDonald’s had a giant inflatable Ronald on the roof. Some high schoolers managed to steal it. They were caught fairly quickly, as they had a giant inflatable Ronald McDonald they were trying to hide in their room.
As a teenager, in my room I had a road construction A-frame barricade complete with light, and the door from a VW bug. I was weird.
At least there were no human bodies or body parts like some people had…
TOK:
Several of my friends had construction lights (the blinking ones) from barrels/saw horses in their rooms. I also helped a friend carry a bumper out of a ravine because he thought it might match their car. We drove back with it across the laps of everyone in the back seat, and it hanging out of the windows, because it wouldn’t fit in the trunk.
You can’t leave us hanging like that.
Did it fit?
Apparently the game of forum shopping is bi-partisan. Wonder what the first universal injunction was, because it should’ve been slapped down hard and fast.
Even if there were a side that started out virtuous (spoiler alert, there isn’t in politics, ever) they’d inevitably adopt the effective evil tactics used against them (further spoiler alert, they also adopt the incredibly ineffective and stupid tactics used against them because tribal signaling rewards pettiness).
Yeah, you can’t win if you keep playing by the rules and the other side doesn’t. We got Trump precisely because of republicans following that idiot strategy for more than 30 years and losing every fucking time.
Same applies to the media. The number of republican idiots that thought if they treated the media well/fairly they would get a fair shake, baffled me.
“In the wake of yet another alleged sex crime perpetrated by non-natives, a city in Northern Ireland has been rocked by three consecutive nights of anti-immigration riots. In this case, two 14-year-olds arrested on Sunday stand accused of attempted oral rape of a teenage girl on the previous night. The ensuing wave of arson, vandalism and anti-police violence — which has left more than 32 officers injured — has spread from Ballymena to other towns, prompting authorities to deploy reinforcements from the area and to request 80 officers be dispatched from across the Irish Sea.
While there’s been no official announcement about the alleged perpetrators’ origins, their appearance in court was facilitated by a Romanian translator, and social media chatter indicates they’re Roma. “She was taken into a house and brutally sexually assaulted on Saturday evening,” a woman identified as a relative of the latest alleged victim told a social-media interviewer. “There was a mattress in the garage.” According to their conversation, this was the third incident in a fortnight, with at least one of the other incidents also involving a teenage girl.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sex-crimes-spark-three-nights-anti-immigration-riots-n-ireland
Took nine comments before blaming the Jews. Do better, Zerohedge.
The thing is, I understand Ireland still has a fair amount of the old IRA infrastructure around, which probably provided the organizational spark for this.
The mass participation is what you get when the government refuses to protect its people.
If it was a Traveller girl and Roma boys, that’s pretty much an intra-class dispute.
I like the ‘alleged victim’ wording.
Never see that around other crimes. Something stinks in the state of iremark.
‘three consecutive nights of anti-immigration riots.’
Ahem, I think they mean mostly peaceful protests.
Who’s More Likely to Say Yes to an Offer of Sex From a Stranger, Men or Women? The answer may surprise you!
Just kidding; it won’t.
https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1933284992005910793
I never got this… if a random attractive woman came to me on the street and said want to have sex my brain would go IT”S A TRAP. No way I am saying yes
What if it was during the day so you knew she wasn’t a vampire?
CHECK FOR SUN SCREEN LATHERED ON ONE INCH THICK!
came to me on the street
Now, in a bar on the other hand…
Yeah….that is a hard pass for me. Maybe once-upon-a-stupid I might have but given what I know about humans now – not a chance.
“I never thought this would happen to me but this one time it happened to my sister”
“There appears to be a new coordinated and funded effort to get online influencers to rally anti ICE sentiment and encourage leftists to oppose the efforts to enforce immigration law.”
https://modernity.news/2025/06/12/anti-ice-propaganda-being-spread-by-coordinated-influencers/
More commie astroturf.
They paid “influencers” to love on Kamala, so this is not at all surprising.
The question is why would they think it will work this time?
The same reason they thought it would work last time. The problem is the messaging, not the policy.
“The question is why would they think it will work this time?”
Because THIS TIME the right people will be in charge, will be doing it, and they have doubled or tripled the money they are throwing at it?
Give that man a cigar. UnCiv has been paying attention.
I for one have no problem with them smashing their heads into the brick wall of reality – with money flowing from the open wounds instead of blood.
Influencers is the stupidest thing that social media has spawned.
As an iPad owner, but Android phone user I’m not sure I agree, but this is an interesting take.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91349280/apple-just-turned-the-ipad-into-a-mac
I’ve tried Android tablets and I never found one I liked. However, that said, only old people and students use tablets. I want to know what happens when the current crop of young people get old and deal with presbyopia.
There are Android tables? Just kidding..
I use one in the garage, I keep my Factory Service Manual for the truck and my cars on it and use it to watch how to YouTube videos.
It is a little slow, but works great for that.
I have one in my video recording area that I used as a remote for my GoPro, but I’ve bought a new camera that doesn’t need that clunky interface, so I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it.
I had to nope out at the lament of the author over the changes.
I dislike the low UI, “hide everything from the user for the sake of clean appearance” approach that plagues a lot of devices.
Give me my ‘cluttered filesystem’ which I can arrange in a manner that suits my thought processes., show me as much of the inner workings of the machine and its operating system as I care to look at. Do not keep me in the dark for the sake of your aesthetic choices.
Hence why I use and Android phone.
OTH, with an iPad I use it mostly for web browsing or similar to a book.
OFFS what a whine.
You want full-screen apps? Press the maximize button. JFC.
Full screen on a phone is still pitifully inadequate for many purposes, compared to a tablet.
Israel went after Iran’s top military and nuclear decisions makers.
Seems the strategy was to cripple the response by killing the people directed to handle the response. In a rigid totalitarian system, this works well. None of the more junior people will step up to take command without permission, and that means they have a few days of chaos to wreck things. Not to mention that this will send the remaining leaders scurrying looking for cover to avoid the same fate.
This will allow strikes like this using deep penetrators against Natanz to go on for as long as needed.
From the video in the second link it looks like they are hitting the same spots repeatedly, probably looking to defeat whatever hardening the Iranians expect to protect the facility against bombing. It would be interesting to know if it worked.
Watch for new hits during tonight strikes.
I suspect they might need to hit the site a few times to get in good enough, as it is deep under the rock. And Israel lacks any platforms like we have (B-2a, B-1a, B-52a, and in a couple of years B-21s) able to carry more than one of the penetrators at a time (I believe their F-15E Strike Eagles can deliver the penetrators). My suspicion is that they started by striking the vents and the entry points to seal the place and make it a tomb. Then they will keep coming back to penetrated the facility itself and collapse it so the enrichment operations stop.
New list of targets for tonight’s IDF attacks..
My county’s public schools had a full day on Monday. The rest of the week has been 3 hour early dismissals.
they don’t need no education? Anyway who cares one week left till summer holiday.
My property taxes are paying to run buses for 4 days of early dimissals, so yeah I care a little.
That’s a most annoying schedule.
My local district normally has every Monday as a half day just to mess with people. Luckily the hurricanes made them cancel that this year.
Look pay your fair share and stop whining
Did anyone calculate the CO2 footprint of the Israely strike to check if they bought sufficient offsets?
https://www.atmosfair.de/en/offset/flight/
I used this calculator for a charter from Tel Aviv to Tehran and got the following
Climate impact 932 kg CO₂
Compensation amount € 28
They offset that by flying Greta back home is what I heard..
Friday Funbags has the Stevie Wonder braille nipples.
https://archive.is/p63ee
There better be no Khazar Milkers in there !!!!
Some of those look fake.
No, it can’t be . . . .
As AI gets better and better, that something is on video will no longer be proof.
One and done, and sadly it seems the inflation of a number of them affected their lips as much as their boobs.
The lip things is so gross. WTF is wrong with men(?) I assume someone must like this.
They could save money AND look better than they would have.
I guess he should have had the hoagie.
https://x.com/CrossingBroad/status/1933204578280906828
There is so much Philly and Jersey shore here that the explanations would be longer than the post.
That’s funny.
Sounds like an honest mistake, but that dude was wasted.
“Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has announced it will close its long-running Transyouth Health and Development program by July 22, citing mounting legal and financial pressure stemming from the Trump administration’s recent executive actions. The clinic has been run by Johanna Olson-Kennedy who has worked with thousands of patients on sex changes.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/los-angeles-childrens-hospital-to-shut-down-trans-youth-clinic
It should have never existed in the first place.
So, when are teh “doctors” who abused children there going to be prosecuted?
Any word on how the de-transition lawsuits are going? Once the lawyers smell money that whole racket is done.
For once vampires do something worthwhile.
“Matthew Mastronardi, a now-former Spanish teacher at Spokane’s West Valley High School, overheard students discussing the book, saying that they were instructed by another teacher to skip over the “n-word.” Mastronardi explained in a post on X that he disagreed with his students omitting the word, telling them that “it undermines the book’s historical context and disrespects the author’s intent to use accurate language.”
A girl asked me in front of the class, ‘Would you read the word?” he said, explaining to her, “Yes, I would read every word.” Mastronardi, who said he was “nervous but committed,” then chose to read a passage in front of his 30-student class as a “teachable moment about context and literary honesty in reading.”
Mastronardi was unaware that he was being recorded by a student while reading the passage, and a few days later, the principal gave Mastronardi a verbal warning that included an ultimatum: he could either resign or not have his contract renewed. Mastronardi refused to quit; therefore, the school did not renew his contract, the teacher said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/wa-teacher-fired-for-saying-n-word-while-reading-passage-from-to-kill-a-mockingbird-report
Everyone in this story is retarded.
I dunno. The teacher sounds like he actually did the right thing.
The sooner we get over the bizarre fetish around the word “nigger”, the better.
In this case, doing the right thing was retarded, even if it wasn’t an obvious trap.
I still don’t understand why we treat that one word like we are medieval peasants and that word has a magic curse built into it.
I would never call someone one, but every time I hear someone say “the N word”, it hurts my brain.
Negro is the polite term (well, was once).
Stone him! He said Jehovah!
Two generations of very public and severe punishment of anyone not black using the word. I agree with you that it’s an illogical taboo, but since failure to respect the taboo will get you physically assaulted, fired, shamed endlessly, and the punishments will be extended to anyone defending you, only a fool will violate it now. A plurality of the population regards ‘racism’ as the worst evil, and a large majority of the remainder agree that it is evil even if they don’t put it in first place.
In fact negro was Atticus’s nomenclature IIRC.
“The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details.”
My data likely has put me on a few legit lists. Likely ignored cuz my teaching, financial history. But still on the List. I was a bit worried w the flight to Colombia to see my friend who moved there.
Walmart has hotdogs and burgers in our break room today. Basic, simple, not at all special. (Walmart brand sauces.) I had a dog. First time for this and I don’t know the occasion.
I quite approve.
Good morning all.
Good God, that Slate article….
Someone here once posted something about two wokety woke AI’s attempting to have a conversation and in no time at all they ran into a wall agreeing that they could not discuss anything substantial at all. That is what I imagine Bluesky is like. Why go there?
“…every other post is about the sandwich someone is currently eating…”
Why the fuck would I want to know that?
BlueSky is God’s way of evaluating if his promise not to give us a second flood was a mistake as he is looking for another asteroid to throw at us.
“LA mayor once joined pro-Cuba communist group, now it’s part of CCP-linked network behind protests
Karen Bass’s radical Communist-linked past is coming back to haunt her as the pro-Cuban revolutionary group she was a member of in her youth has joined a Marxist financial network linked to the Los Angeles protests.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/pro-cuban-communist-org-karen-bass-joined-now-part-ccp-linked-finance-network-behind
This is my surprised face.
Wait Tater. Are you surprised that an elected democrat is a clear marxist?
Shit, Obama put Brennan, a hard core marxist, in charge of the CIA when he started FUNDAMENTALLY changing America. It has been commie fucks all the way down since then for democrats. Especially CCP ones since they sold us out to them.
This is not news. Karen Bass is a long time well known communist. The fact that she is mayor and is burning down the place is the least surprising development of the year. It also means I have zero sympathy for the people that voted for her. Enjoy your fires and riots.
Legit commies on the Democrats side isn’t even news anymore. I assume they all are until proven otherwise.
Dog bites man.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/were-married-bonk-people-its-35385930
Until she tells him she is leaving him for the group of guys that pulled a train on her the other night?
Half his stuff and all his dignity is a small price to pay for ???
As a man, why even get married then? Some people are just sick. Not sure why it’s news, but it did get me to click, so, success on their part.
“OUTRAGEOUS: Obama Judge Blocks President Trump’s Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote in Federal Elections”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/outrageous-obama-judge-blocks-president-trumps-executive-order/
That is one ugly judge.
And another democrat that wants to protect illegal voters & voting even when they tell us the illegals are not voting.
Obama has a type.
I think this is one of those ‘she has made her ruling…’ rulings.
No.
Some serious horse face going on, but not as bad as expected.
Anyway, clearly a dumb ruling,
“Is a Civil Conflict Looming? 1500 Protests Planned for Saturday in Support of Illegal Aliens”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/is-civil-conflict-looming-1500-protests-planned-saturday/
Totally not paid astroturf.
Are we ever going to actually cut off the government funding of these groups?
A few in surrounding communities, none in my town thankfully. The cops are going to be busy.
Our local Sheriff was on TV basically reading the riot act. They can stand around and wave signs, bit that’s it.
Ahh NYT.
Striking the Heart of the Iranian Regime, Netanyahu Looks to His Legacy
Israel has long fought a shadow war with Iran while avoiding all-out conflict. Now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is risking it all in pursuit of a conclusive victory.
The guy was completely noncontroversial and beloved before this…
Equal time
Overall, the $9.4 billion in savings is a drop in the bucket compared to the $2.4 trillion in new deficits that Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act would create, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Republicans are pushing to pass the larger bill through the Senate by July 4.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., slammed the rescission package as “reckless” and said it would “undermine America’s national security, hurt our ability to protect the American people.”
“Republicans want to rip billions of dollars away from America’s efforts to keep her people safe and secure to satisfy some extreme ideological crusade related to a deeply unpopular effort formerly led by Elon Musk to devastate the American way of life,” Jeffries said before the vote.
Cut spending? Nobody wants that.
If you don’t fight over the pennies how will you ever protect the Benjamins?
Don’t worry about fraud, waste, and abuse unless eliminating it eliminates the deficit.
AP News
Trump administration pulls US out of agreement to help restore salmon in the Columbia River
13 hours ago
By Gene Johnson
The New York Times
Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon
13 hours ago
By Chris Cameron
The Seattle Times
Trump cancels landmark Columbia River agreement with tribes, WA, OR
16 hours ago
By Lynda V. Mapes
Oregon Capital Chronicle
Trump breaks historic Columbia River deal between U.S. government, tribes, Northwest states
15 hours ago
By Alex Baumhardt
Bad. OMB. Bad.
I like salmon. Even the fake one you Americans sell us.
Come the PNW and have the good shit. Coho (silver) salmon fresh.
Reminds me I need to pick up some salmon collars for the hellhound. She’s been such a good girl lately.
Portland is the best food city in america after all… Though my manager was there and said the mexican food did not impress
The salmon from Eagle River on Fort Richardson was delicious.
‘Portland is the best food city in america’
Who told you that? Not even close to true, in my admittedly limited experiences with Portland.
Well that is obviously not the salmon the reached me.
From wiki
The chum salmon is the least commercially valuable salmon in North America. Despite being extremely plentiful in Alaska, commercial fishers and sport anglers often choose not to target them because of low market value due to the fact that the chum salmon is the least desirable salmon for human consumption. Recent market developments have increased the demand for chum salmon, due to new markets developed from 1984 to 1994 in Japan and Europe.[
We do get Scottish salmon/steelhead at the local fishmongers. Surprisingly good.
Eagle river is known for Chinook salmon.
Today must be the day for silly mental images.
“Rare, two-rotor heavy-lift salmon…”
They don’t attack you like the Apache salmon.
Good. Fuck those racist pseudo governments. Protect the salmon? You American citizens are subject to the same fishing regulations and limits as any other American citizen. No special carve outs based on national origin, which is a prohibited discrimination basis.
tl;dr- It’s complicated
Speaking to reporters later, Trump reiterated his belief that farmers were being harmed by his administration’s deportation regime.
“Farmers are being hurt badly … They have very good workers, they’ve worked for them for 20 years, they’re not citizens but they’ve turned out to be great,” Trump said.
“We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back,” he said, an apparent reference to the deportation of undocumented agricultural workers that his administration has pursued.
“You go into a farm and you look and people … they’ve been there for 20, 25, years, and they’ve worked great and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else,” Trump continued. “And then you’re supposed to throw them out.”
So Trump recognizes a distinction between good immigrants and bad immigrants? What a monster. Maybe if we hadn’t flooded the country indiscriminately for four years (or made an honest attempt to fix our immigration law) we wouldn’t be in this mess.
I think i heard a cicada noise…. Hmmmmm
Public Service Announcement for SW Ohio theme park visitors
Everyone visiting Cedar Point learns this pretty quickly during Canadian Soldier or mayfly season.
They are truly retarded bugs that fly straight into anything.
Look, People get Cicadas all wrong. They are underground dwelling critters who, in their waning days, realize they’ve been celibate for decades and launch themselves into the air with no understanding how things work in the aboveworld.
That noise isn’t them trying to find a mate, it’s their utter confusion at what is going on up in the vast voids above ground.
I remember getting pelted with cicadas on the Beast many years ago. It stings!
Muh scientific consensus!
One of the new vaccine advisers picked by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned thousands of dollars as an expert witness in litigation against Merck’s (MRK.N), opens new tab Gardasil vaccine, court records show.
Martin Kulldorff, a biostatistician and epidemiologist who publicly criticized COVID-era lockdowns, is one of eight new members named by Kennedy on Wednesday to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a highly influential panel that recommends which shots should be administered to the American public.
Kennedy fired the entire previous 17-member committee of expert vaccine advisers this week, claiming they were “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest” from financial ties to drugmakers. The departing experts say their work was subjected to rigorous vetting and rules for recusal for any conflict.
How will they rubber stamp vaccine approvals if Kennedy packs the board with doubters and naysayers?
‘their work was subjected to rigorous vetting and rules for recusal for any conflict.’
No way there would be any quid pro quo where you approve my vaccine and I approve yours.
A few years ago I would have been suspect of Kennedy firing all these people, but now I don’t even need to see the proof. I’ve seen enough.
This.
The people whining about Trump and his people have proven themselves so wildly corrupt and incompetent that someone I formerly thought of as a bit squirrelly (Kennedy) is starting to look sane.
Funny, I came across that same cocktail but without that name a month or two ago so now have it in the cupboard. Haven’t opened it yet but I do like chambord. Reminds me of kids cough syrup.
In Mrs GL news, still in the hospital and going to have more dead tissue removed today. Good spirits all around and good prognosis but going to have some permanent scarring. Don’t fuck around with abscesses, kiddies.
Hope she recovers quickly GL.
+1
Good news for a change, GL
Thank you all! Glibs has been a welcome distraction. Love you all.
Trump administration pulls US out of agreement to help restore salmon in the Columbia River
Save the dams!
Hydroelectric power might be a good idea, in theory, but clean safe power is not really a high priority.
Remove the dams. Build coal power plants were they stood.
Remove the dams. Build
coalnuclear power plants were they stood.You’ll make the river too warm if you use nuclear.
They should keep all the dams. Usually they only get decommissioned because the green weenies keep adding new requirements. Fish are just the method to remove the dams they want gone anyway.
“…make the river too warm…”
So, release these https://finnsfishingtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/iStock-462923349-1024×499.jpg
The watermelons’ mission is to impoverish everyone. They dont give two shits about ‘the environment’.
The Injuns just want money.
Need more casinos! I would never have believed that thrifty Minnesodas would throw their money into a machine. Boy, was I wrong.
Kulldorff gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020, which called on public health officials to roll back lockdowns, arguing they were causing irreparable harm. One of his co-authors was Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who now serves under Kennedy as National Institutes of Health director.
People will die!
TW TOS:
2-chili has a good piece on Trump & his opponents: https://reason.com/2025/06/13/the-trump-administration-needs-better-opposition/
I think he already has the opponents he needs. They are his best asset.
If the republicans had any balls the mid-terms would be a slam dunk. The dems have supplied them with an overabundance of campaign ads already.
First paragraph: Reagan nationalized the NG. That ship sailed a long time ago. Also sailed, Eisenhower deployed the 101st airborne to Little Rock. This is part of what I mean above. There are legitimate criticisms of Trump but so far everything I have heard makes me want to respond with STFU.
I do think we need a good opposition in this country. The alternative will be worse otherwise, if not under Trump, then under the next admin.
Democrats seem obstinately opposed to being normal so I’m not expecting much.
I am in agreement.
The Toochilly article is a milder example of the bluesky thingy in the links. ‘Bluesky is a failure because it isn’t like the old days when people talked about their sandwiches” No moron, being overly censorious to the point where people CANT talk about anything at all, including sandwiches, is why bluesky is a shitshow.
Saying Trump does dangerous things like nationalizing the guard to restore law and order seems pretty unaware and misidentifying the problem as well.
Yes, we need sane, reasonable opposition to every single policy position at all levels of govt. I just dont see much of it.
Speaking of which, the Israelis have stolen the democrat’s paid thugs spotlight. Have they started complaining about that yet?
I remember some time not long ago when the BLM rioters got started some actual important story popped up unexpectedly. BLM started screaming ‘racist!’ , ‘you cant steal the spotlight!’ etc. when people stopped paying attention to them.
People will starve
Canned foods make up a big part of 20-year-old Cale Johnson’s diet: tuna, corned beef hash, beans, chicken soup, Spam and fruit. They’re affordable and have a long shelf life, which is essential for many people in the US like Johnson, who earns a low income and works two part-time jobs in addition to being a full-time student in Omaha, Nebraska.
In the days after Donald Trump’s recent decision to double tariffs on steel and aluminum, Johnson says he’s worried.
“I know that some people have been resorting to stocking up only on non-perishable goods now before they get more expensive,” said Johnson, who has used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) to make ends meet. “There’s a feeling of panic and having to prepare in the coming months.”
One of Trump’s key campaign promises was to lower grocery costs for consumers who have had to contend with pandemic supply chain issues, rising food prices and inflation in recent years. But his new steel and aluminum tariffs, which took effect on 4 June, threaten to do just the opposite. The new 50% tariff rate could raise food prices in a matter of months, industry trade groups and supply chain experts warn.
Trump makes everything worse.
I hope I’m never seated next to Cale Johnson.
Dont worry, he will be in the hospital for scurvy soon.
I seem to remember a Doc Martin episode where some shut-in was living solely on canned food and couldn’t understand why his hair and teeth were falling out.
I’m supposed to believe there’s a wave of people on the dole who are in a price panic because they’ve extrapolated the impact of tariffs on the price of commodity inputs associated with canned foods?