Good morning one and all to another fantastic day!
Trump Announces Ceasefire Between Israel And Iran
Iran’s foreign minister says no ceasefire agreement, but will stop missile strikes after Israel does
Trump Tells Israel to Hold Fire As Cease-Fire Falters
Biden Let Thousands Of Iranians Into Homeland
SCOTUS Clears Runway for Rapid Deportations to Alternative Nations
ICE Raid Uncovers ‘Massive Identity Theft’ Scheme by Illegal Aliens with over 100 American Victims
FDA, CDC advisers say lost pregnancies higher than expected following early mRNA vaccination
More Than $100 Trillion to Be Handed Down From Elderly to Heirs, Study Predicts
NYC biz leaders left shaking over prospect of Zohran Mamdani mayoral win: ‘It would be disastrous’
Florida Officials Announce Rescue Of 60 Children In Recovery Operation
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
“Trump Announces Ceasefire Between Israel And Iran”
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!
Perfect analogy.
He’s trying to do the whole Animal House “run to the front of the parade, yoink the baton, and lead the marching band into an alley” trick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1v0jB3OswM
It won’t work. Unless he wears aviator sunglasses and a trench coat…
Sounds like there might not be much of a ceasefire after all.
Whiplash
I thought the cease fire would not go into effect until sometime in the PM our time today, and both sides were trying to get their last few licks in before that, with one side doing that well and the other basically doing some PR stunt attack?
I’m just going to assume that like most Trumpian pronouncements, it wasn’t ever meant to last longer than the breath that issued it.
Wouldn’t we at least have to wait until we are past that time and something happens to say it was broken? Or does that not matter in the attempts to grandstand and bitch?
This is why we need to use UTC more.
Tax collectors begin salivating.
Democrats will donate their inheritance to the government because wealth is evil.
No no, it’s only evil if the wrong people have it, that’s why they need to steal it so it can be used “correctly”.
That’s a strange way to spell Berkshire Hathaway.
NYC biz leaders left shaking over prospect of Zohran Mamdani mayoral win: ‘It would be disastrous’
I have no doubt the lunatics in NYC will make this happen.
Thanks… I’ve got about 3 more years of working there.
Not if Zohran has anything to do with it. He will abolish your evil capitalist employer and give you a universal income that will allow you to pursue a career in art in his socialist utopia.
Everyone should be free to pursue their dreams without worrying about how they will pay for a middle class lifestyle.
How much more disastrous can it get?
Form of the destroyer disastrous?
There are multiple cities competing to find out.
Eventually there’ll be no escape, unless you’re a snake.
“We gotta get rid of Governor Cuomo! This Hochul lady has gotta be an improvement!”
NYC to LA – “Hold my beer!”
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/los-angeles-hotel-minimum-wage-a1fa6871?st=y7nXpQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The 70s and 80s wave Hi.
They already reenacted the “It’s only crime if we put someone in jail for it” policy from the 70s, while simultaneously stirring up racial tensions. NYC is headed straight back to 1970s crime levels.
The Stay Puff Marshmallow man in giant form running around destroying the city a la Gojirra?
That’s fine. That’s back when the city had character, before Guiliani came along and ruined everything.
I don’t know how to make cities less “progressive”, but it’s a huge problem across the country.
Execute anyone who held elective office or managed elections. Disqualify from voting anyone getting payments from the government. Delete the municipal regulations.
There is no way except letting things bottom out. We are about halfway through another cycle of overspending and coddling criminals. It will get much worse before it gets better.
One of Mamdani’s people-pleasing planks is a promise to raise New York City’s minimum wage to $30 an hour by 2030.
That’s not enough to live on. It should be “$54.40 or fight”.
So far, that’s only in Vancouver — and the rest of Canuckistan is Sitka their shit.
I will LMFAO.
lol Of course he is.
“…a prominent Marxist scholar at Columbia University…”
That such a person exists is reason enough to shutter that joint.
One of the dead giveaways our colleges and universities are indoctrination machines is that you can take scores of humanities studies with marxist bend and praxis, but and this is if you are lucky, only get one or two courses on Lock, Mises, or any other anti marxist economics classes.
Think about that. Between 60 and 100 classes peddling marxism, but none to a couple teaching the contrary. and we wonder why the products of the Ivy league are such degenerate and stupid evil fucks?
If only people studied socialism the way doctors study cancer.
It is telling that marxist tend to be the people that clam to have read the drivel produced by marxist writers, whether for real, or by just doing crib notes. It is also telling that anti-marxist are the people that understood the marxist writings and how they would really work in real life.
Okay, kudos. Now how many were a) unaccompanied minors of 16 or 17 who were just juvenile illegal aliens, or b) kids living with non-custodial parents, versus c) Taken-style victims of “human trafficking?”
The AG and feds seem too busy crowing and patting themselves on the back to give us this info.
I nearly drove off the road out of shock when I heard Soleimani had been killed. Later, back in my NSA section, the chief compared it to the death of Yamamoto and that we should work extra hard to find any intel related to retaliation.
So then Iran launched a bunch of missiles at the main US base in Iraq and called it a “powerful slap” in the face of the evil Americans. They telegraphed that strike too by alerting the Iraqis, and the casualties were minimal.
So basically propaganda for local consumption so the people of Iran don’t realize the scumbags in charge are fucking stupid and evil?
They know, but they also have pride. Hence the need for the face-saving, toothless attack.
Ever looked at Khamenei’s robes? The lapels have the same pattern as Arafat’s keffiyeh. This is meant to show his solidarity with Palestine, something no Arab leader does in a similar fashion, pun intended.
Interestingly enough, that pattern is from Iraq, not Palestine. Arafat started wearing the Iraqi “colors” to ingratiate himself with Saddam. He tried to stop the looming Gulf War back in the 70s:
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some circles within the US State Department viewed Arafat as an able diplomat and negotiator who could get support from many Arab governments at once. An example of that, we find in March 1973 that Arafat tried to arrange for a meeting between the President of Iraq and the Emir of Kuwait in order to resolve their disputes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat
In the middle east too much is for show, and the only thing respected is strength. And how goats and camels react when you come at them…
Remember too that most Soviet people were well aware of their government’s crimes, yet very spoke out, and often not out of fear of punishment.
At least the Iranians have protested theocracy in great numbers.
2022: Iranians knock turbans off clerics’ heads in a show of contempt amid hijab protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W4jrYL_1OE
The worst, most racist diplomat of the 1800s could have gotten a lasting win-win agreement out of that crisis.
Strength is respected everywhere, but so are courage, cunning, and virtue.
It is grave mistake to only rely on one of those tools.
Had stayed in the Army, my plan was to go back to DLI and re-lang to Farsi. It’s an easy lay-up from Arabic. I guess I can still teach it to myself if I want.
“That’s the Democrats’ job!”
It’s only lawlessness when democrats accuse you of it?
“The lower court exceeded its authority but it was for a good cause.”
Did she manage to specify which law was being violated?
Can anyone explain this contrived farcical Kabuki theater of a war?
We clearly scuttled the negotiations after Witkoff worked out deal with the Iranians. So everyone except the Iranians knew there was a war coming. Did the Israelis overestimate how much damage they would do on the first day?
Trump’s crazy talk and tweets did some permanent damage to his credibility. He tossed Gabbard, Vance, and Hegseth under the bus last week while looking like an ass.
400kg of enriched uranium is unaccounted for and Iran is now out of the NPT so no more inspections. If the Iranians are smart, they will sign a mutual defense pact with Russia and / or China when the dust settles.
We and the Israelis ran through $billions in interceptor missiles – some of which worked.
Yeah team, we won?
It’s a shameful clusterfuck all around. Iran itself did minimal damage to Israel. There was no need to use MOPs (straffinrun on the recent zoom asked about that acronym).
Trump is supposed to be the great deal maker. Well, he really stuck his dick in the mashed potatoes this time. Maybe another garish military vehicle parade will make him feel better.
The tanks can drive back and forth in front of the White House like the guards in The Wizard of Oz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjBrkfX_XHw
The conventional wisdom on Iran, which I think is bullshit, goes something like this:
Iran wants a nuke to destroy Israel, so they can’t be allowed to get one.
Recent history has shown that Iran would rather make token strikes than go all in. They could have killed way more Israelis than the October 7th attacks had they decided to fire all their missiles and drones at once.
They also could have joined in with Hezbollah in their war with Israel in 2006, but they didn’t, even though the Israelis would have been easily overwhelmed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War
Actions speak louder than words. Iran barks but rarely bites. If you throw a barking dog a bone or two, it will be quiet.
Can they fire all their missiles at once? I don’t think they have the launchers for that do they?
Actions speak louder than words. Iran barks but rarely bites. If you throw a barking dog a bone or two, it will be quiet.
A dog that bites is quiet once you put it down. Oct 7 was the bite. The whole nuclear weapons thing is a distraction.
My wife’s cousin had a vicious Belgian Malinois. The fucker barked a lot and bit a lot of people. They all just swept in under the rug and threw the dog bones. We stopped attending events on her side because she didn’t want to deal with the fallout from me putting it down on the spot when it inevitably went after my family.
Emptying your arsenal is generally not a good tactic unless you are extremely confident it will win the war for you in one stroke, so firing all your missiles and drones in a single strike would be inadvisable.
How exactly would Iran have joined Hezbollah in 2006 in sufficient force to overwhelm Israel? Sent regular army units through Iraq and/or Syria and Lebanon?
If you throw a barking dog a bone, you are training it to bark, and showing it that whoever the alpha is, it ain’t you.
Can they fire all their missiles at once? I don’t think they have the launchers for that do they?
They could but then they would explode into space.
@ Jarflax
Iran has both solid fuel and liquid fuel missiles along with drones. The fact they did not fire them all at the same time is intriguing.
@ RC
Firing all of your guns at once, literally or metaphorically, is a standard tactic.
Iran could have fired its missiles at Israel at the same time as Hezbollah. Hezbollah got almost all its rockets, missiles, and drones from Iran. They hardly make any of their own stuff.
Assuming that killing or avoiding the dog is not an option, all that’s left is throwing it bones and brandishing a stick. We make fun of cops here for shooting dogs when other options were more sane and humane.
Israel has proven itself very safe from missiles and drones. They also do well against conventional forces. A surprise mob of guys with AKs, not so much.
On a side note, I bet Hezbollah’s exploding pagers all came from Motorola. I wonder if they know that’s an American company. Huh, huge order to Beirut? Nothing suspicious about that, no siree…
The exploding pagers came from a company in Taiwan.
“Firing all of your guns at once, literally or metaphorically, is a standard tactic.”
There is a difference between firing a broadside and emptying your arsenal/strategic reserves.
“Israel has proven itself very safe from missiles and drones.”
Not counting the ones that get though and hit, say, hospitals. Preferable not to have anyone shooting at you at all. This notion that getting mugged only every now and then is OK, I just don’t get it.
OK, slightly more intelligent than I thought.
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an Israeli attack nicknamed Operation Grim Beeper.
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That’s gold, Jerry. Gold!
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The exploding pagers were the AR924 model by the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, which met Hezbollah’s requirements for devices capable of operating for months without needing to be recharged. The devices could be recharged with a cable.[61][29][62] This model is not available for sale in Taiwan nor the United States,[63] and the ministry’s figures recorded no direct exports of any Gold Apollo-manufactured pagers from Taiwan to Lebanon during the same period. Indirect exports via third parties could not be ruled out.[64]
Gold Apollo denied making the pagers, explaining that they were made and sold by Budapest-based BAC Consulting Kft.,[65][66] which had a licensing agreement with Gold Apollo for the previous three years.[67][68] Gold Apollo founder Hsu Ching-Kuang said BAC’s payments were “very strange”, arriving via the Middle East.[69] Taiwanese police opened an investigation into Gold Apollo’s involvement,[70] searched four locations in Taipei and New Taipei City, and questioned two individuals. Both Economic Minister J.W. Kuo and Premier Cho Jung-tai denied the pagers were made in Taiwan.[71] German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) visited BAC’s official address in Budapest but found only a sheet of paper on the door with the company name; the doorbell was not answered. DW cited the New York Times, which reported that BAC and at least two other shell companies were part of an Israeli front, intended to obscure links to Israeli intelligence officers.[72] The CEO of BAC Consultancy said they were intermediaries, not involved in manufacturing the devices.[73]
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I think only the Israelis were involved in the manufacture of the pagers. They just scaled up the operation they used to kill Ayyash (booby trapped cellphone).
Another analogy courtesy of Sam Harris: he knew a guy who had studied martial arts for years, won kickboxing tournaments, etc. So this macho man gets the bright idea to walk through Central Park in the middle of the night and quickly gets jabbed with a syringe in a hit and run attack. So now macho man had to wait a couple months hoping he didn’t get infected with HIV.
Should Central Park be as safe as Japan at night? Yeah, but that’s not going to happen.
There’s no such thing as perfect safety and sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Assuming that killing or avoiding the dog is not an option, all that’s left is throwing it bones and brandishing a stick. We make fun of cops here for shooting dogs when other options were more sane and humane.
We make fun of cops who shoot restrained, friendly dogs that have either caused no harm or are defending their humans from aggressors.
Putting down dogs that repeatedly bite people, especially children, in public places is both the sane and humane course of action.
“We clearly scuttled the negotiations after Witkoff worked out deal with the Iranians.
You mean the deal Iran completely ignored, from the get go, as it worked to build a fortified facility to avoid attacks while it enriched uranium past the maximum 10% you would need for any kind of peaceful purpose, with money the various Obama administrations send them?
So everyone except the Iranians knew there was a war coming
After more than a decade and a half of getting away with their nuclear weapon program, they basically assumed it would be business as usual. after all, they saw the rest of the world as a bunch of soft idiots that preferred to pretend the negotiations where in good faith, while they clearly were working to get themselves in the position to eventually assemble a dozen bombs all at once and tell the world to suck it as they fired them off (they repeatedly said they would).
Trump’s crazy talk and tweets did some permanent damage to his credibility.
I hear this a lot from people that actually end the ones with their credibility ruined.
400kg of enriched uranium is unaccounted for
According to whom? Because I am certain no reliable source was able to make that assertion since they would not get access to this from the Iranians.
Yeah team, we won?
Iran is not getting a nuke any time soon, so yes.
And for those that claim that someone will give Iran a nuke, let me point out the CCP will never allow that. If that happens “someone” can give Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, or even Ukraine nukes. And then all their plans go up in smoke.
Trump tore up the Obama deal with Iran in 2017, so there was no deal to ignore. They allowed IAEA inspections – whatever your opinion of those are. As signatories to the NPT, they are guaranteed the right to use nuclear technology for civilian purposes. Which is why his “no enrichment at all” demand was crazy – it means the Treaty is worthless.
China needs Iran more than vice-versa. Keep that in mind. Also, trying to cripple Iran’s economy with strikes on their oil infrastructure will send gas prices soaring, which is the last thing the US and its allies want.
“Trump tore up the Obama deal with Iran in 2017”
Actually Iran did that before the ink on the paper was dry, and they laughed about it as Obama gave them the very money they used to build out the capability, but you seem hell bent to skip past that all to blame Trump. Trump just came in in 2017, pointed out Iran and Obama had played us all, which was absolutely accurate, and then told Iran’s mullahs they were NOT going to be allowed to get a nuke. He kept that word.
“China needs Iran more than vice-versa. Keep that in mind”
The CCP needs a criminal Iranian government to help them keep the middle east destabilized because that all helps them by having the world waste ammunition on these idiots, while the CCP gets to buy a large amount of of illicit oil & gas from Iran, because of the sanctions. However, they do not deed Iran enough to give them a nuke when that can spectacularly backfire on them (or their proxy if they have Pakistan give it to them).
“Illicit”? Because we say so?
China is planning a railway through India and Pakistan to Iran. We are mad that they’ll be able to trade without sail past the U.S. Navy.
We could just compete in the world economy instead of rigging it.
““Illicit”? Because we say so?”
Yes? Yes!
Israel has nukes for some 4 decades or more, but I have never heard anyone that claims it is an existential problem for them. You notice we all shook our heads at when India and Pakistan got nukes, but nobody declared that a serious dilemma? Heck even when the Norks got theirs, we all worried somewhat and agreed they would now blackmail us for more free shit, but we could go with that. But Iran somehow we had to stay fuck that. What the hell was different there? Let me help you “DEATH TO AMERICA!!!” for more than 40 years.
“China is planning a railway through India and Pakistan to Iran. We are mad that they’ll be able to trade without sail past the U.S. Navy.”
China is planning a lot of things I pretty sure they are not gonna get because the CCP is a criminal enterprise and their economic situation is the only one worse than ours but hidden because nobody gets to audit them.
“We could just compete in the world economy instead of rigging it.”
If only everyone else also would do that instead of trying to rig it too…..
Yeah, if I’m planning a supply line that I want to count on for critical materials if things go upside-down, running a railroad through Pakistan and India would be at the top of my list.
Show me in the Constitution where our government is so empowered. Otherwise, you’re just another proggie saying fuck that old piece of paper.
“Show me in the Constitution where our government is so empowered.”
National defense.
I’m quite sympathetic to the Spoonerite view that that old piece of paper hasn’t exactly been doing us a lot of good.
National defense.
Ah, the old pre-emptive attack under the lie we are protecting ourselves from imminent harm. Iran didn’t even have an operational nuke, let alone one they could deliver inter-continentally, but sure – this falls under defending the nation.
We better kill everyone on the planet, just to be sure.
I like Spooner’s critique as well – it applies to every form and element of government.
I just haven’t seen a better alternative.
For there to be an alternative, there would have to be other forms of government. I would submit that there are not. All goverments are oligarchies, and things like Democracy, Communism, Fascism, Republicanism, are all simply the window-dressing that keeps the peasants more or less under control.
Cynical, me?
“Ah, the old pre-emptive attack under the lie we are protecting ourselves from imminent harm.”
So you thought they were just cracking jokes every time they kept saying “Death to America”, and every time they attacked and killed Americans, it was just joshing?
OK…
Sheldon, I’m with you. Sympathetic as I might be to ol’ kbolino‘s sentiments, the problem is we humans organize, and once organized, we suffer under oligarchy.
But the bigger problem is that most people are perfectly happy being told what to do. That’s another of those human problems.
every time they attacked and killed Americans
Got a list? I don’t recall them attacking and killing Americans here or much of anywhere outside of Iran (and how many actually within Iran?). I do recall a bunch of Wahhabi wackjobs on board with that.
But sure, let’s really fight over some retards words.
The only solution, and it’s a very imperfect one, is to cultivate the ability to discourage those that would tell others what to do.
Iran itself did minimal damage to Israel.
Counting from what date? October 7 was Iran; everything coming from Hamas and Hezbollah is Iran.
Hezbollah has been Iran’s main proxy for decades. Yeah, they have ties with Hamas, but not nearly as close. The Iranians spent way more blood and treasure trying to prop up Assad (their #2 proxy) for 14 years than they ever spent on Hamas.
Israel also funds Hamas (and I’m not referring to humanitarian aid to Palestine).
So Israel was throwing bones to the barking dog in Gaza?
For a while, Israel tried to pit Hamas and the PLO against each other.
…running into the Iron Law of MENA – My brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against the world.
“so no more inspections”
There were not any before. The Iran deal had no teeth.
They always allowed IAEA inspections. The war hawks say they’re not enough, I have way to judge.
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/iran-agrees-to-increased-iaea-inspections/
“no” way
Allowing inspections, except at some facilities, is not really a good way to generate confidence that you are not working on a bomb.
Maybe. Now we have no inspections anywhere.
If Iran wanted a bomb, they’d have one by now. Maybe they do, hard to prove a negative.
As Matt Bracken points out, they could probably put together a Hiroshima uranium gun bomb in a month or 2. It would weigh 5 tons and require a bomber to drop – then a hundred hydrogen bombs are dropped on Iran.
“If Iran wanted a bomb, they’d have one by now. Maybe they do, hard to prove a negative.”
Iran wanted the bomb, and their allies and even Iran admitted they will not be dissuaded by this attack from that course, already, Iran didn’t spend all that money to build Fordow for kicks. That infrastructure was built so that when they had it all set, they could break out with 10 bombs plus, at once.
But for some weird reason you won’t even take the Iranian leadership’s claim they will build that bomb and are not dissuaded by this seriously.
From the website of Redefining Refuge, one of the NGOs tied to recovery of the 60 children. So, not like they have an incentive or anything.
Motives as pure as the driven snow.
You don’t mess with the Zohran.
Someone please, please mess with the Zohran.
This AM’s long form WSJ. Pretty typical. What was “news” in the article is Gloria Allred apparently drives a Porsche 928!?! The maroon Karen mask is nice touch, however.
Middle of the article: Lawyers Market Big #MeToo Verdicts, but Their Clients Struggle to Collect
https://www.wsj.com/business/sexual-harassment-verdicts-lawyers-collections-caa6d644?st=UNRhWf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In other news, “water is wet”.
Lawyers Market Big #MeToo Verdicts, but Their Clients Struggle to Collect
“We found a sympathetic jury but the appeals aren’t going so well.”
Or in this case he’s not a US citizen and most of the money is offshore.
Somebody around New Jersey needs to go here and report back:
https://diggerlandusa.com/
I was just telling some about those dude sandboxes last week.
A little too far for me, sadly.
I’m at a loss. It’s close to my wife’s family, but somebody else is going to have to make the report. Sean?
No.
A Fifth Column was just talking about the NYC race; Zohran is an Obama candidacy – clean, articulate, credentialed and absolutely zero track record to hold against him. Plus, free shit.
His current claim to why he’ll do great as mayor? “Look how well my campaign has been run!”
Top Man.
Is he also a better speechwriter than his speechwriters and knows more about policies than his policy directors?
AND PEOPLE WILL VOTE FOR HIM.
There will be an outbreak of swooning followed by anger when capitalists block the road to utopia.
I think it says more about the Dem’s bench than anything else. You get the corrupt a-hole groper that was run out of government or the communist.
Hochul has waved (waived?) her magic wand and said “make it happen”.
Its NYS so there will be no graft or litigation to stall this for decades.
New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/new-york-to-build-one-of-first-u-s-nuclear-power-plants-in-generation-271cfd33?st=wxoWP6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They never should have closed Indian Point.
Therefore, zero credit to them.
Aren’t they still paying for the last nuclear power plant they built on Long Island, tested, then decommissioned?
Here in Florida, we’re reaping the many benefits of nuclear gators and crocs:
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Florida’s native crocodiles have found an unexpected sanctuary in the cooling canals at Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant. This fortunate happenstance, along with tireless conservation efforts, are helping these once endangered predators make a remarkable comeback.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPeT3LMU_BQ
I see American Meth Gator Godzilla in our future…
Bonkers. The base is dead-set against nuclear.
Which is the single best piece of evidence that they are mentally defective. Anyone who simultaneously thinks carbon emissions are dooming the planet and opposes nuclear power has demonstrated a level of stupidity that justifies a guardianship.
I had one of these climate alarmists get all pissed at me when I told them all Noah had to do instead of building that ark back when was tax the shit out of everyone and anything, going full marxist, and the flood would not have happened.
Mentally defective? Checks out.
Euro watermelons pose naked on glacier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RVp8Q6H9e0
Treehuggers cry and scream over logging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
This video seems like an edge case of an already unlikely event:
If You Imagine Yourself a Gunfighter | Black Swan Events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkXb_5fCjzA
My experience in facing multiple attackers taught me that getting my weapon out first was the key move.
I saw an article about the famous gunfighters during the Wild West era. I can’t remember which one they were talking about (maybe Wyatt Earp), but he apparently didn’t worry about quickdraw shooters, because they were generally inaccurate. He took careful aim, as in, in one gunfight, putting the barrel across his forearm, and made sure his first shot counted. Which wasn’t what I expected.
Of course, the faster you can get off the first shot that counts, the better. I’ve seen some guys at GunSite who are extremely fast out of the holster and on target. That would be nice. Which reminds me, I need to start practicing for my class this fall.
I would caution against believing *anything* from the Old West regarding pistolcraft. Especially anything involving Wyatt Earp, who in fact only ever was involved in two gunfights, both of which were straight-up assassinations from ambush. Which is certainly the best way to win a gunfight, but doesn’t have a whole lot of relevance to modern defensive gunfighting for a private citizen.
What if you try to rig the pistol with a hair trigger, but then it accidentally fires before you can take aim?
Do that and you will wind up dead. Good news – they will make a musical about your life.
Why It Pays to Be a Double Major in College
Correlation versus causation, what that’s the difference WSJ?
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/college-double-majors-earnings-salary-090e7ea1?st=NVUznZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Aerospace and Electrical Unjineering for the win!
https://x.com/ElectionWiz/status/1937468476513484987
Truth.
Impeach Trump for using a bad word!
Is that real or AI?
seems to be real:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-drops-f-bomb-israel-iran-face-accusations-ceasefire-violations-rcna214698
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-lashes-out-israel-iran-profanity-breaking-ceasefire
President Donald Trump expressed deep frustration with both Israel and Iran on Tuesday, saying the two countries “don’t know what the **** they’re doing.”
And this, in a nutshell, is why despite having serious reservations about his fiscal policy (ok, I think it’s fucking stupid and incoherent), I voted for him.
If profanity stops a war, 3 cheers for it.
George Carlin cheer:
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But here’s a little cheer, a lot of people like it, it goes like this, rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat. 69 assholes tied in a knot. Hurrah, lizard shit! Fuck!
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Imagine how Disney will render the future Trumpbot family friendly…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZEio9pet4
Kiwi Pride
I have….
Nothing.
Oh FFS! What the hell,
FloridaCuba Man?A Walmart employee has been tracked down after allegedly using his phone to look under the dress of a 77-year-old Villager.
Juan Carlos Noa, 65, was arrested this past week on a Sumter County warrant charging him with voyeurism.
Five will get you ten that the guy is an ex-Marielito. I’m guessing he took The Villages’ reputation for superannuated kinkiness a bit too seriously.
Can we get the pic of the lady he was trying to get the under dress pic of?
That’s what got the guy in trouble.
Come on man! Don’t you want to know the thinking process behind this act? I mean was she a stunning looker, or is this guy int blue/pink/green haired and whales, and taking this sort of ludicrous risk makes em a danger to society?
You’d think this would drive down engineered lumber prices, but it sure doesn’t seem that I’ve read anything about that.
America’s Top Logger Bets It Can Make Money Off Small, Crooked Trees
https://www.wsj.com/business/americas-top-logger-bets-it-can-make-money-off-small-crooked-trees-cd6c9668?st=n4HnzK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I thought Home Depot had already bought up all the crooked trees to make their 2x4s?
It was Lowes…
https://i.imgur.com/0DUdJwl.jpg
Israel could easily shrug off the vast majority of attacks against it, and they have been doing it on a small scale for decades. They generally don’t shoot at the kids throwing rocks or even the young men throwing Molotov cocktails. Why? Because it’s unnecessary, and to do otherwise makes them look cruel and stupid.
It’s like letting the Wookiee win, but in reverse. People who feel aggrieved, rightly or wrongly, will retaliate anyway they can, and if they’re not a threat, the best move is to just let them huff and puff.
On the other hand allowing kids to throw rocks and young men to throw Molotov cocktails has a couple of adverse effects as well. One, it emboldens them to believe that you are too weak to stop them rather than too civilized and worried about looking cruel (assuming for the sake of argument that this is not in fact a form of weakness). Two, it means you have to accept living in a situation that includes periodically arson and rock throwing. This is an odd aspect of modernism to me. The idea that because your enemy has poor weapons you should just accept the harm those poor weapons inflict on your citizens doesn’t make sense to me. A rock will kill you, a Molotov will burn a car or building, if someone attacks you, do what is necessary to stop them.
This. They should put a stop to it. Everyone hates them anyway so there is no downside.
“This. They should put a stop to it. Everyone hates them anyway so there is no downside.”
I suspect after Oct 7 they are so there…
Yeah, and the police will bust their asses to stop looting and flash mob smash and grabs. No need for roof Koreans…
There are costs to taking the same attitude to rock throwing that Team Blue cities take to crime, yet there is a certain logic to it.
Here in Florida, millions of people choose to live in the path of hurricanes because having to rebuild occasionally is a small price to pay for the advantages of beachfront living. I think those people are insane, hence my inland domicile.
The British thought they could wear down the Irish whom they perceived as a vastly weaker adversary. Guess what? They regained their independence in 1920 and paralyzed London in various terrorist attacks.
Like the Israelis, the British, at least in the 20th century, were not keen on Mongol tactics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0-JJO7Ue8
The Irish were careful not to engage in wanton slaughter. That helped their cause a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCenYr2VOMk
Sorry guys, terrorism works. Try flying somewhere if you don’t believe me.
Aren’t you arguing exactly the opposite of your point above?
We could put a stop to terrorism if we really wanted to. It generally takes a lot of dead bodies, though. Which many nations don’t have the stomach for.
“There are costs to taking the same attitude to rock throwing that Team Blue cities take to crime, yet there is a certain logic to it.”
This is true, unfortunately. The logic mostly is that the sacrifice of the little people caught up in terrorism and crime is acceptable to the rulers, in exchange for the benefits that the rulers indirectly get.
“We could put a stop to terrorism if we really wanted to. It generally takes a lot of dead bodies, though. Which many nations don’t have the stomach for.”
During the time of the British empire, when they still had balls, there were terroristic uprising by the usual crowds every few decades. The British army would march a few troops in, kill everyone involved, and the whole thing would die off, and you would have peace for a few decades.
Contrary to the bullshit that violence never stops anything, history is full of examples of well applied and overwhelming violence working quite well. The Romans showed us how to handle pesky enemies with how they dealt with Cartage.
I don’t see a contradiction between saying IRA-style terrorism works and also that it’s best to ignore rock throwing if you’re inside a tank.
When that punk punched me in the face last year when I was substitute teaching, I could have easily thrown him on the ground and stomped his guts out. However, doing so would have left me in a much worse position. Better to keep the moral high ground and shrug off the minor injuries he inflicted.
Same deal when I got jumped by those 3 guys and bashed in the head with a club. I already had my knife out and could have turned them all into human sushi, but again, better to get some distance and call 911. Trust me, if you advance on someone with a knife, they will back up fast unless they have a gun.
As an aside, this:
“…Two, it means you have to accept living in a situation that includes periodically arson and rock throwing.”
is a huge aspect of modern urban liberalism. And it is something that that those who do not subscribe to it just cannot get their heads around. It isn’t everyone living in the cities, but it is a huge chunk of the progressive mindset which has infected the political class of those areas. I know I could not stand it when I lived in the Bay Area.
I can no longer go to San Fran, because when some asshat tried to rob me on my real late at night walk, with a knife, I broke his wrist, knee and jaw. Went to get the police, gave them the knife, but the guy was gone when we got back to Pier 39. They called me a couple of months later and demanded I pay up over $40K because the guy ended up in a hospital and they had to pay to patch him up. Fuck them all, but there are consequences.
When that punk punched me in the face last year when I was substitute teaching, I could have easily thrown him on the ground and stomped his guts out. However, doing so would have left me in a much worse position.
Yes, a worse position because we have decided to follow the course of allowing criminals to dictate the level of response to their initiation of violence. I think that is a stupid, counter-productive, immoral, and ultimately harmful even to the criminals, course of action. I’ll grant some leeway for dealing with actual children, you don’t want to be killing people for actions they have not had the chance to learn are forbidden, but if an adult throws a rock, shooting him has two salutary effects. First it removes the rock thrower, and second it teaches others that rock throwing will not be tolerated. Throwing a rock at someone is lethal force.
“Yes, a worse position because we have decided to follow the course of allowing criminals to dictate the level of response to their initiation of violence.”
So much this.
history is full of examples of well applied and overwhelming violence working quite well
Whenever I hear a lefty opine that “violence never solved anything” I like to respond “well, it solved the Holocaust”.
ZWAK:
I was just thinking about this the other day. I have lived in the suburbs of Cleveland my entire life, at no point in my life have I been mugged, my house broken into, or randomly assaulted walking down the street. I have had a smash and grab out of my car, once, where I lost a binder of CDs. The only time I’ve been at gun point was from the police (I was in the office, and someone had triggered the alarm). It is routine in the areas that I have lived to not lock your car or house doors. In my pool of local friends and acquaintances, I can think of one car jacking, two B&Es at apartments, and several smash and grabs (or cut and grabs in the case of a soft top Jeep).
It’s not like I was staying in the suburbs all the time either, and there are neighborhoods around where the expectations would be different, but even in some of the more… transitional… neighborhoods, people still would leave doors unlocked.
“Whenever I hear a lefty opine that “violence never solved anything” I like to respond “well, it solved the Holocaust”.
For a lot of lefties these days, that just means the real Final Solution was thwarted by violence. Capitalist violence, at that.
I guess Israel could have easily shrugged off the 10/7 attacks, too. No critical infrastructure was damaged, no ground taken and held, etc. Just bury the bodies and move on. Best for everyone.
OK, I’ll bite.
Hopefully we can agree that rocks thrown by boys and bullets fired by men merit different levels of retaliation?
Oh yeah, Israel has avenged their dead on Gaza about 30x over in the past year and 9 months, so maybe declare victory and leave already? They mowed the lawn.
Maybe Israel decided Gaza wasn’t so much a lawn to be mowed as a thistle patch that needed a good dose or two of RoundUp.
There are definitely lots of gradations and nuances. I don’t think we should carpet bomb cities because ICE is attacked when they round up illegals. I also think that there is a threshold past which “proportionate” response is nonsense, and the appropriate response is a more permanent solution.
Many years ago, I happened to see on broadcast TV the pilot for the apparently filmed but never shown Blazing Saddles TV series. The only snippet I remember is from a scene in which the local general store owner is trying to get the sheriff to come down hard on a little boy who was shoplifting. When the sheriff balks, the store owner declares (in a thick Swedish accent, IIRC) “If you hang them when they’re young, they won’t grow up to be criminals!”
According to the laugh track, it was meant as a joke, but…
“Influencer Ana Bárbara Buhr Buldrini dead at 31 after botched surgery hours after partying with doctor”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/24/world-news/influencer-ana-barbara-buhr-buldrini-dead-at-31-after-botched-surgery-hours-after-partying-with-doctor/
The tattoo situation is out of hand.
Everything in that story is out of hand.
Buldrini signed up to undergo a breast augmentation, liposuction and a nose job in return for promoting Tusa Hospital in Istanbul on social media
How’s that working out for everyone in involved now?
Well, everyone now has more information about the hospital, and it’s gone viral, so… good results for everyone not involved.
“And nothing of value was lost”
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Perhaps that’s a bit harsh. But still.
“Turkish anesthesiology team” sounds like some sort of insult.
Sounds like a Mars Volta EP.
“We tricked men into falling for us using dark psychology: Yes, it sounds a little evil, but these women swear by the manipulative mind games that turn ‘I’m not sure’ into ‘I do’: SEALED SECTION”
https://archive.is/MOs0q
Alternate headline: Why So Many Women Are Still Childless
Didn’t Will Smith star in a movie where he did that for guys to get the women of their dreams? Stich or some such thing.
Half of those are no brainers, half are nonsense.
https://www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-investigates/investigation-reveals-salt-lake-city-police-have-been-taking-electricity-for-years-without-paying
That’s wild.
No court has explicitly said we can’t do it.
Weird nutpunch when it is “stolen” electricity and not the fucking surveillance system itself that is the news.
“Fifty thousand volunteers. That is the latest estimate from the Mamdani campaign of how many of his supporters are knocking on doors, making cold calls, and handing out literature that highlights his agenda, which includes free childcare, free buses, and a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers. And they’re doing it all for free. During just one week in May, those volunteers knocked on nearly 100,000 doors, by one estimate. On Monday evening, a spokesperson for Mamdani’s campaign told me that it had “just passed” a total of “1.5 million doors knocked.”…
Even though it could take weeks to learn who won the Democratic primary, Mamdani’s Friday night walk had the feel of a victory lap. Everywhere he went, he was greeted as though he were already the mayor. Volunteers are still pouring in from across the country, including members of the Atlanta chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/mamdani-outhustled-cuomo-it-could-make-him-mayor-nyc-politics
JFC
It’s not FREE! It’s just paid for by OTHER PEOPLE!!
^^^^THIS^^^^
And the people voting for this shit now it, but don’t care…
Which is why I want to only allow people that are net tax payers to be allowed to vote for anything.
“Which is why I want to only allow people that are net tax payers to be allowed to vote for anything.”
That’s way too complicated to work. States can’t even enforce the simple voting rules they have now.
Ok, we will compromise. Only net taxpayers can vote but no voter verification.
JFC why? It does not take weeks to calculate that “ranked choice” nonsense.
They don’t know how many votes they need to manufacture before the election?
Ireland has an even more complicated ranked choice system with multiple member districts. At the last general election vote counting started first thing Saturday morning and concluded IIRC on Tuesday.
California’s rank choice voting system says “hold my beer”
It’s the same thing in Chicago. People being economically illiterate while also believing that the government should provide the essentials for the less fortunate is how you get the Progressive Utopia’s (Hellholes) we see in our major cities.
The worst part is the increases in prices, rise in crime, and the lack of decent services won’t deter the voters and will probably make them vote for a crazier socialist who promises to solve the issues that the less crazy socialist created. It’s stupid but deadly feedback loop that will eventually ingulf the major cities.
“We won’t use police, we will use Disruptors!”
We won’t need subway fees, we will use donations!
We won’t need money…
Trump cannot act as a mediator when he just bombed one of the belligerents. It’s time to get a disinterested party like Mexico to open negotiations.
There are times when I wish I had taken the foreign service exam after leaving the Peace Corps. Perhaps I could have done some good as a diplomat or at least tried to suggest helpful things before being shushed like Kif.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs38jr7ool8
But alas, I hate wearing suits and shoes.
I don’t recall any neutral mediators to end WWII?
True, but WW2 was an outlier as far as wars go. Teddy Roosevelt was able to get the Japanese and Russians to make peace because he did not involve the US in their war.
I didn’t realize before today that Roosevelt never attended any of the negotiations to end the war. But he collected a Nobel Peace Prize for getting the ball rolling.
Also, Washington D.C.’s famed cherry trees were a gift from the Japanese government in recognition of the U.S.’s help in drawing the war to its conclusion.
Also also, Portsmouth NH has planted cherry trees descended from those in Washington at key sites of the negotiation process back in 1905.
The UN will go in, and we will soon hear stories of all the children they were porking?
He’s not acting as a mediator. He’s negotiating Iran’s conditional surrender.
That’s a very optimistic way of looking at it, but maybe it will pan out that way.
Please. Trump will brag, enjoy the dopamine hit, and move on.
My question is, surrender to whom? Israel? U.S.?
Apparently the assumption is the mullahs will abdicate and let a glorious liberal republic arise.
A well fitting suit is one of the most comfortable things you can were, and one of the most practical.
I wish I had more reasons to wear them, but people freak out here in Oregon when they see one.
Suddenly noticed by the WSJ because they care about this particular issue.
TikTok and the Decline of Congress
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tiktok-law-bytedance-china-congress-beabc46a?st=xNQQs6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It is just deferred action like DACA.
DAKA was KAKA.
ICE Raid Uncovers ‘Massive Identity Theft’ Scheme by Illegal Aliens with over 100 American Victims
A mere drop in the bucket.
No telling how many illegals have stolen identities. I’d be surprised if if it wasn’t well into the 7 figure range, though.
All of those “dead” SSNs that have contributions coming in.
I would put it closer to the eight figure range, myself.
2026 Ford Escape Won’t Be Sold In Six U.S. States
California, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Oregon, and Washington
I thought NJ bought into the CA craziness. Must only be on the EV non-mandate mandates.
https://fordauthority.com/2025/06/2026-ford-escape-wont-be-sold-in-six-u-s-states/
no one needs 20+ types of cars.
NYC biz leaders left shaking over prospect of Zohran Mamdani mayoral win: ‘It would be disastrous’
Some people are so averse of paying their fair share…
Watch him get elected, people shut down their businesses, and then the fuckheads that wrecked the city claim those that shut down their businesses did it because they are racists. That will be followed by even higher taxes and government stores Soviet style. But it will all be blamed on the Kulak and wreckers.
Melian Refugee
@escapefrommelos
is trump our first Ottoman president?
>gilded everything
>followers wear red hats
>retarded, constantly scheming sons
>a harem of slavic wives
>elaborate headgear
>never-ending entanglements with Persia
https://x.com/escapefrommelos/status/1937035780477890624
I’ve never seen Trump put his feet up on anything.
Stop denying my reality.
The one thing I have not heard anyone talk about is the reaction in the ME from the other Arab states to Iran’s ass being kicked. Think about it. Israel, with help from the US, wrecked the Iranian nuke program and has shamed Iran militarily on the world stage. Heck, even when Israel destroyed Osirak back in 1982 in Iraq, the Arab states where super pissed (at least publicly). This time they were in many cases completely ambivalent, if not publicly approving. That should tell all the people either waffling, or outright defending Iran’s nuke program, they read the situation quit wrong. Look at how Iran had to warn the Qataris, UAE, Oman, and even Iraq they planned to lob a few missiles at them, ahead of time, to avoid “erm, confusion and consequences”. And them not firing at anything in Saudi Arabia says a ton about how bad they are isolated.
The dynamic in the ME is changing, and doing so drastically. Everyone that isn’t compelled to defend this dark Iranian project or not willing to admit the Iranians knows Iran wanted nukes, is on board. Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and even Oman, UAE, and Qatar all stated they would get the bomb if Iran got it. Non negotiable. Now they have seen Iran finally stopped the hard way, and that tells them the Iranian shenanigans can be checked. And they could give a rats ass that it was the Jews that did a lot of it. That should be what people start focusing on.
the other Arab states
Iran is not Arab. That is a significant aspect of the willingness of the other Islamic states to stay on the sidelines for this.
I am well aware that Iran is not an Arab state (they are Aryan Persians). I should have pointed out that when I said other Arab states I meant those other than Pakistan, which grumbled because they are a CCP lackey and they were doing the CCP’s bidding. My bad.
I kind of feel mean doing this, but…
Pakistan is not Arab.
I think Iraq and Iran are the only Shiite countries?
(Pakistan is Sunni, but not Arab.)
There’s a sizeable Shia minority in Yemen also.
“Pakistan is not Arab.”
But they consider themselves to be so whenever the usual Israeli Arab shit goes down.
Saying Arab States is simple shorthand for saying The Muslim World.
“Saying Arab States is simple shorthand for saying The Muslim World.”
Indeed.
But I agree with those that made corrections precision might matter. My point however, stands despite the need for the corrections.
Their quietness is telling. Iran has been a pain in the ass to all those other countries, most of which just want to sell oil and get richer. A belligerent, nuclear armed Iran is bad for business.
“In a letter to the OCR, Parents Defending Education Vice President and Legal Fellow Sarah Parshall-Perry wrote, “Smith College is among the largest all-women’s colleges in the country. The college’s Equal Education Opportunity Policy indicates that it will follow Title IX and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in its federally funded programs. The very same policy, however, indicates that Smith interprets Title IX to prohibit ‘gender identity’ discrimination, despite federal case law and this Department’s guidance to the contrary.”…
The admission policy provision on “Gender Identity and Expression” states that “people who identify as women—cis, trans and nonbinary women—are eligible to apply for Smith.” For those who are not biological females and are seeking to apply to the school, they must only self-identify as a female.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/parents-rights-group-files-title-ix-complaint-against-smith-college-for-allowing-trans-identified-males-into-womens-only-school
It’s their school so they should admit who they want, but self-ID is retarded.
How is a women only school not in violation of federal law in the first place?
Now do women only prisons?
CAGED HEAT, baby!
Well, there are at least two men-only schools and I know they have some way to make it all kosher with the feds.
OK, follow up. The remaining single-gender colleges in the US are all private which, apparently, allows them to admit only men or women.
This is all convoluted nonsense. By the letter of the law, men should be admitted at Smith. Make them live the principles they so love.
“The Seven Sisters are a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women’s colleges. Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women’s colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College’s undergraduate functions were absorbed in 1999 by Harvard College, also continuing on as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.”
So it looks like there are women’s only colleges.
As private institutions they may set whatever policies they want and it should not be a federal matter.
Then they shouldn’t get any government money.
Thenthey shouldn’t get any government money.If we stop giving federal money to things that are not core federal responsibilities we can stop worrying about whether those things run themselves as they see fit, and just individually choose the ones we like.
Politics isn’t about what I do with my money, it is about making sure I get what I want with your money!
As private institutions they may set whatever policies they want and it should not be a federal matter.
And all wars should be declared by Congress. Until then, I just ask for the left’s institutions to be held to their own standards.
This is a big part of what is driving the left so crazy about Trump sticking his nose in Harvard’s business.
Leadership
As mayor, Mamdani would wield power over a $115 billion budget and more than 300,000 employees, run the nation’s largest police force and immediately be tasked with plowing snow and filling potholes. He would also occupy the greatest bully pulpit in the economic capital of the world’s largest economy, something he highlighted as the chief role of a mayor in a recent interview. That split, which at times frustrated Bill de Blasio when he became mayor, represents the tension between extreme ideology and mundane municipal tasks.
“It would be seismic,” said Grace Mausser, co-chair of the city’s chapter of the DSA, which plays a key role in Mamdani’s bid. “Having the largest city in the country have a socialist mayor would send an extremely powerful and hopefully empowering message to other socialists and politicians and groups fighting for working class interests across the country.”
Millions of Americans are out there waiting for New York’s permission to embrace socialism.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
When I want to get upset at politics or elections, I go back to this quote.
A mainstream publication called something on the left “extreme ideology”. Milestone!
“The latest undercover video released by the O’Keefe Media Group features a senior New York Health Department lawyer, who revealed that Andrew Cuomo, when he was governor of the state, was “forced” into signing a nursing home bill into law due to “blackmail.” The video was released on the eve of New York City’s Democratic Mayoral Primary, in which Cuomo is neck and neck with socialist Zohran Mamdani…
He further questioned some of the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against Cuomo at the time, saying, “Some of the allegations are 100 percent fake, because those girls who are like, in the allegations, were sitting on his lap, taking selfies with him.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/andrew-cuomo-was-blackmailed-as-governor-some-sexual-allegations-were-100-percent-fake-omg-undercover-video
Let’s ignore he sent people with covid into nursing homes.
Behavioral economics is a machine for turning college students and marshmallows into journal articles and lucrative consulting gigs. It means nothing beyond that.
https://x.com/St_Rev/status/1937457046821179792
Carleton College & St. Olaf College
I might pick slightly different institutions for that title.
https://www.startribune.com/at-home-of-harvard-of-the-midwest-trumps-populist-war-against-higher-ed-hits-differently/601366981
My oldest daughter went to St. Olaf. She hated it.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
When I want to get upset at politics or elections, I go back to this quote.
Yes. It pairs nicely with this one:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
“Bernie one time quite famously said, ‘If we don’t plow the streets and fix the roads, the people aren’t going to put up with this socialism shit,’” said John Franco, who served in Sanders’ mayoral administration in Burlington, Vermont in the 1980s. “You have a lot of persuasion to do to say, ‘Look we’re not crazy. We have good ideas, and we can run things well.’”
For Mamdani and the DSA, the prize of City Hall would present another significance: beating a former governor with decades of political experience, universal name ID, the backing of the New York Democratic establishment and a super PAC that raised $25 million from billionaires like Bill Ackman and Michael Bloomberg.
Mamdani, who was elected to the state Assembly in 2020, has promised to freeze rents on 1 million regulated apartments, push for higher taxes on the rich to make buses free and create city-owned grocery stores.
Will the groceries be free?
I suspect Bernie learned pretty quickly that being a mayor exposes you to too much responsibility. It’s better to be in the legislature and just spout a lot of theoretical nonsense, like the ultimate blowhard debate club, the United States Senate.
“city-owned grocery stores”
What could possibly go wrong?
Literally everything.
This.
Corruption and skimming from day 1. Wouldn’t be a surprise if they literally poison people with their incompetence.
Someone has to fill the kormushka.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUS-A8kDiXw
Wait, this isn’t real, is it?
https://justthenews.com/
Look at the front page. The State of Colorado has a stupid LGBTWTF flag hanging behind the speaker.
That’s the Boulder County courthouse.
A courthouse should try to look more serious.
Next to a Playboy flag?
There’s a Playboy flag? Does it look like a mudflap girl?
“It said “almost all” mRNA doses were made by Pfizer, whose own 2021 report to the FDA – which the agency hid for 16 months until a court made it public – shows 44% of women in Pfizer’s clinical trial lost their pregnancies.”
WTF?
And it all comes down to “somebody else” pays. Funny how FedGov was omniscient before RFK Jr.
Paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/24/vaccines-access-rfk-cdc/
Force you to take them and force you to pay for them.
“BREAKING: Biden Judge DEFIES Supreme Court, Says His Order Barring Deportation of Illegal Aliens to South Sudan Remains in Effect – Stephen Miller Responds”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/just-biden-judge-sidesteps-supreme-court-says-his/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/expect-fireworks-today-stephen-miller-vows-trump-admin/
The whole thing is stupid.
He’s made his decision, now let him enforce it.
Murphy cited Sotomayor’s dissent
He does know that dissents aren’t binding?
Now tat’s some special trolling…
I don’t think people can read Truth Social unless they are on it.
I can read linked posts on my phone.
He gets it. Nearly everything you see and hear in the media is a bullshit distraction. The game has nothing to do with Jews or Allah, it is about resources and markets. Period.
In nature, where resources are scarce by the universe’s design, animals live by their instinctual rules. The strong live and kill. We may have invented civilization as apes that walk upright, but resource scarcity has always been the dominant factor in human interactions and conflicts. Every single time. From food, to women, to wealth, it is always about owning something. That is even more so today in our modern world.
As was mentioned above: everyone has an agenda. Not just us. But for some reason so many people only seem fixated with condemning us and acting as if we just didn’t do things that are bad but required to secure resources, the world would suddenly be all unicorns and cotton candy. It is not just naive but lame.
“We may have invented civilization…”
Like the English and the language they invented I am still waiting for the application of it.
Thousands protest across the Middle East in solidarity with Iran after Israeli attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QONWnTFC4Q
Oh yeah, a seismic shift against Iran any minute now…
I am sure those are all organic. And what are the majority doing?
Also note the places they saw the “pro Iranian protests” all where you find Iranian proxies. Yemen (Houthis), Beirut (Lebanon = Hezbollah), and so forth.
Far less credible. Show me Saudis or Turks marching for Iran and might rethink my opinion.
Old and North Korean news, but it makes my point:
Turkish President voices support for Iran amid anti-government protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp2HqjX9I
““The attack on the idea of community is exactly the point,” she said, pointing to the “right-wing outrage” over a teacher who quoted African-American author James Baldwin during a rally last year: “The children are always ours,” she said. “Every single one of them, all over the globe.”
“And what comes next is, ‘CTU, you think your children are its children,’” she said with a derisive sneer.
“Yes. Yes we do,” she said to applause. “We do. ‘CTU thinks all children belong to it, and their socialist conspiracy ideology,’” she said, lapsing into the sneer again.
“Well, I don’t know about all that, but we like children. We educate them, we nurture them, we protect them, we support them, we negotiate for them, we create space for them, we even have them in our homes.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/never-learn-teachers-union-official-brags-schools-children/
It takes a village to be an asshole.
Chicago reading and math scores:
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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) elementary school students achieved gains in both English Language Arts and math when compared to 2023. In spring 2023, 26% of Chicago third- through eighth-grade students could read at grade level, and only 18% were proficient in math.
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https://www.illinoispolicy.org/fewer-than-1-in-3-chicago-public-schools-students-read-at-grade-level/
“An F in English?! Bobby, you speak English!”
They haven’t gotten down to Baltimore public schools yet.
Gates doesn’t even send her kids to CPS. Most of the teachers from my high school (I am a graduate of CPS) either sent their children to the magnet schools or paid for them to go to private schools.
I also remember during the teacher strikes; I got into an argument with a girl who mother was a teacher at CPS. I asked how she could reconcile her mother being a teacher at CPS but yet sent her and her siblings to Nazareth Academy which is known for being incredibly expensive and selective. Her answer basically was that her parents had the means to send them to the best of schools so why shouldn’t they? It was wild that she didn’t even care that her ideology condemned students of lesser means to a shitty school system.
One of my comedy pals in Chicago was a teacher. He said it made no sense to link teacher pay to test scores because teachers don’t have much control over the outcome for various reasons. OK, if that’s the case, says I, why do they deserve regular raises and higher pay than most other teachers in the country?
My experience with teaching in the US was that it mostly boils down to fitting in with the bureaucracy and the low expectations. Busywork, grade inflation, social promotion, etc. Still, I miss being there for the students who liked me and wanted to learn.
I had some good teachers at CPS and I remember them constantly complaining that the bureaucracy on Clark Street and low parental involvement made their jobs difficult to do.
Gun fights on two different planets. See if you can spot the difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9majRX6bo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHG-ibZaKM
Fine motor control goes to hell as soon as adrenaline starts flowing.
It’s easy to stay calm when no one is shooting back.
For the untrained or poorly trained.
Trauma surgeons don’t lose the ability to suture just because they have someone’s life in their hands.
Countries that can’t broker a ceasefire between Israel and Iran:
https://tradingeconomics.com/iran/exports-by-country
https://tradingeconomics.com/israel/exports-by-country
So that leaves what? Switzerland? Great, they’re reliably neutral.
Another sob story
For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. Not getting shot in combat. Not the years battling post-traumatic stress disorder or addiction. Not prison. It was leaving the U.S., a country he called home for nearly five decades.
On Monday, Park, a green-card holder, self-deported to South Korea. His removal order was the result of charges related to drug possession and failure to appear in court from over 15 years ago — offenses that, he said, stemmed from years of untreated PTSD.
I hope he makes good in Korea.
So, non-citizen got arrested and then compounded by failing to show up for his court date – and loses his right to remain in the country… and I’m supposed to feel sorry for him?
A veteran and permanent resident who has been here for almost fifty years over a mere possession charge?
But he only skipped court because he was afraid he might get deported …
Yes.
@Common Tater – The inciting incident might have been mere possession, but ongoing behavior kept making things worse. I’d wager that in 2010 (or whichever the exact year was) had he simply struck a plea on possession, if simple possession, he could have avoided both jail time and immigration troubles.
A veteran and permanent resident who has been here for almost fifty years over a mere possession charge?
Yup. Be on your best behavior as a guest of our country. Violating laws (even stupid ones), skipping out on court dates, and being a fugitive for over a decade isn’t best behavior.
He served in our military. That’s more most Americans have done for our county.
Also, permanent residents are generally considered just that.
Don’t let the term ‘permanant’ fool you, it is still revokable.
Yes, but very rarely.
“Permanent” just means “indeterminate”, as in your visa doesn’t have set expiration date. It doesn’t mean “non-revocable”. I guess I would ask why he never went to the trouble to get naturalized as a citizen.
As an edge case, this isn’t a bad one. Much better than the MS13 human trafficker. I’m not sure how many karma points he should get, though, for serving in the military.
Y’all are supposed to be arguing over this. That was the whole point of the dem strategy. Flood the system with everyone from everywhere and the squabble about the details of each case.
The goal was to replace the electorate with left leaning people. Fuck that. We dont have the luxury to chase our tails. Put them out.
Fuck the democrats and fuck their strategy. Dont try to weaponize my empathy against me. The instant someone does that all of my empathy evaporates.
If they want a sob story, do US citizens born in the US being conscripted into S Korea’s slave army.
Pick a country for citizenship.
Although from memory I believe SK wouldn’t let those people it conscripted renounce their citizenship.
Let those without decades of crack addiction cast the first stone.
Low bar.
*picks up stone*
And the lamentations of their environmentalists
The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, including the largest old growth forest in the country, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced on Monday.
The announcement will be followed by a formal notice rescinding the “roadless rule”, a nickname for the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, in coming weeks, the Associated Press reports. The rule prohibits road building and logging on all national forest land without roads, accounting for about 59m acres (24m hectares) of US national forest land.
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“President Trump is removing absurd obstacles to commonsense management of our natural resources by rescinding the overly restrictive roadless rule,” said Rollins. “This move opens a new era of consistency and sustainability for our nation’s forests. It is abundantly clear that properly managing our forests preserves them from devastating fires and allows future generations of Americans to enjoy and reap the benefits of this great land.”
Republican lawmakers from western states celebrated the announcement while environmental groups expressed dismay.
Those trees and that dirt must be left right where the gods put them!
Otherwise people will die.
Sell off the land.
This. Sell off the land and quit competing against private timber with subsidized public timber.
Meanwhile, the Sierra Club’s forest campaign manager, Alex Craven, said in a statement: “Once again, the Trump administration is ignoring the voices of millions of Americans to pursue a corporate giveaway for his billionaire buddies. Stripping our national forests of roadless rule protections will put close to 60m acres of wildlands across the country on the chopping block. That means polluting our clean air and drinking water sources to pad the bottom lines of timber and mining companies – all while pursuing the same kind of mismanagement that increases wildfire severity.”
In its announcement, the US Department of Agriculture cited concerns about increasing wildfire risk as reasoning for constructing roads through national forest land: “Nearly 60% of forest service land in Utah is restricted from road development and is unable to be properly managed for fire risk. In Montana, it is 58%, and in Alaska’s Tongass national forest, the largest in the country, 92% is impacted.”
Journalist Ben Goldfarb, author of the book Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, questioned that logic on social media, writing: the “vast majority of fires occur near roads. They’re worsening risk”.
1) The timber harvested from those forests will just *poof!* disappear, magically making those evil capitalists even richer than before.
2) Apparently roads cause or attract lightning.
Listen to our millions of Americans not the ones that voted for you.
You can learn a lot from reading Youtube comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gMXptSUKlI
Lots of aloha snackbar talk…
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Oh God, grant our brothers victory against the Zionist enemy!
The real heroes are the men, women, and children of Gaza.
Those are Israeli occupation forces, not security forces.
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And so on…
I take Iran’s leader’s threats very seriously, because these fanatics have more than once made it clear they intend to bring on the end of times, which requires them to destroy Israel and the great satan, so that the Mahdi will come and settle the schism between Sunni and Shia, in their favor, once and for all.
Then you are a poor judge of Middle Eastern rhetoric. Ever watch an Arab talk show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DQIX0vLhbQ
They routinely trade insults, make ridiculous threats, and throw shoes at each other.
Persians do it too. Great Satan, Wounded Snake, blah blah blah.
They turn it on and off, like in 2013.
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News broke this week that Tehran’s municipal government had ordered the removal of some anti-U.S. billboards in the Iranian capital. The posters, which appear to criticize government nuclear negotiations with Washington, carry the slogan, “The U.S. Government Styles Honesty,” and feature an American and Iranian official at the negotiating table, with the American hiding an attack dog beneath the table.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/115373/tehran-removes-anti-us-posters
Better, but still still stupid and completely unnecessary.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/06/2025-audi-a5-and-s5-drive-the-fastback-needs-the-s-treatment-to-sizzle/
Why do I get the feeling that a car could be run with a mid-tier ARM SoC with an embedded GPU and some hardening?
Engine management requires some specialized A to D conversion.
If you just needed gauges and no infotainment or navigation with just phone screen mirroring you might be on to something.
All I think about is the shop video of the auto being totally disabled by back back up camera.
The architecture described above makes sense. But I don’t trust automotive engineers.
“If you just needed gauges and no infotainment or navigation with just phone screen mirroring you might be on to something.”
*raises hand*
I think that budget EV pickup that they are trying to launch is designed along these lines.
Enslavement
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday that lawmakers in his chamber will remain in Washington, D.C., until they pass President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“Senators return to Washington today and we will remain here until this bill is passed,” he wrote in an op-ed on Fox News.
Chain them to their desks.
Keep them there until the pass an enabling act? Some people have been fantasizing about one.
Yay, there’s a bunch of welding/fabrication businesses in same nearby town where I’ll be doing round 2 of welding school. Hopefully I won’t have to move again.
making this a true software-defined vehicle.
What the fuck is that even supposed to mean?
It is time to renew your subscription for the breaking service software!
[shit] braking service
Failing to stomp the guts out of ‘the subscription model’ is going to go down in history as one of humanities’ greatest mistakes.
See also EULAs as enforceable contracts despite only being given to the contracting party after payment…
Replacing custom circuits with general purpose processor and software is supposed to encourage reuse, simplify development, and reduce cost and schedule to deploy new products.
What it brings in practice is software defects and non-stop software updates providing shitting performance in products that used to be simple and reliable.
Sadly, those looking for driver engagement will not find much in the A5. Despite the improvements to the front suspension, there’s still very little in the way of feedback
Video games and simulators have “feedback”. Why not real cars? As long as you’re making driving a totally synthetic experience…
*selects piped-in engine noise option*