Good morning one and all to another magical day!
Gabbard Says ‘New Intelligence’ Shows Iran Nuclear Facilities Destroyed
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in first public statement since ceasefires his country ‘victorious’
NATO allies agree to higher 5% defense spending target
Former Biden Aide Does Not Know Who Ordered President Autopen Signatures
Jill Biden’s Senior Adviser Refuses To Testify In House Oversight Investigation Into Biden Decline
Treasury sanctions 3 banks over alleged cartel money laundering
New Home Sales Plunge in May as High Interest Rates Weigh on Affordability
Supreme Court to Consider If Prisoners May Sue Officials Over Religious Rights
This Sheriff’s Office Might Be Running the Biggest Vehicle Theft Ring in the State
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
It’ll buff right out.
““The Islamic Republic was victorious and, in retaliation, delivered a hand slap to America’s face,”
This guy is worse than a Patriots fan after the Giants beat them in the Super Bowl.
He’s still no Baghdad Bob.
“Former Biden Aide Does Not Know Who Ordered President Autopen Signatures”
Well, we know who didn’t.
One would assume that this would render Biden’s EOs and pardons null and void, but we would have to be living in a nation of laws for that to actually happen.
Federal judges will be all over this, too.
Iran, Israel and US agree…
Why does three governments in agreement raise my suspicions more than if they disagreed?
If all three agree about damage, the bombs probably interacted with Zaphod’s shipdrive to miraculously enrich the uranium the rest of the way, form it into a dozen fully functional nukes, but simultaneously convert Iran to militant Judaism.
If I was Iran I’d agree, “Yeah, yeah, all has been destroyed. It’ll take many, many years, even if we wanted to start again, which we don’t, to get back to where we were”
They all agree it was Kabuki Theater.
Putting the community in Intel community?
If Annie, Winger, and Abed all agreed, that would be putting the Community in Intel Community.
As an intellectual exercise, is there anything that would alleviate your suspicions?.
One honest broker?
Drugs? 😉
One honest broker?
You might as well have said “unicorn farts”.
Fine, then I’m with Gdragon.
One honest broker= unicorn farts = dragons= 0
Iran, Israel and the US certainly all have incentives to say Iran gots no mo nukes, that much I think we can all agree on.
You sure about that? I would think Israel would want to keep saying Iran has nukes (or at least nuclear capability) to warrant further action against the regime. They’ve been trying to get us to overthrow the Iranians since the 90s
But Israel also needs to keep the USA happy in order to keep the gravy train going.
I highly suspect that Israel is the ultimate source of all the leaks to CNN.
“Oh, nice try, but you just bought us a few months… time to escalate”
And the USA is happy when we have a bogey-man to fear/attack.
How about we trust the “Institute for Science and International Security”?
They have both security and science in the name so they are doubly good!
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/attacks-effectively-destroyed-irans-program-5ac3f991?st=bNMiv5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
When I see a name with multiple “positive” association words in the name, I immediately assume that their actual mission probably involves raping puppies to death with kittens, or something similar.
Society for Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Management?
That’s the name of my self-serve BDSM dungeon.
Since when do we take the word of ISIS on anything in the Middle East?
R C Dean – Good point!
When it confirms our biases.
Civil asset forfeiture is even more theft than taxation.
Without a criminal conviction and a second jury trial determining that the assets are the result of the criminal actiivty for which the defendant has been convicted, there should be no forfeiture. AND the assets should not go to anyone involved in the process.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
Why do you hate our heroes in blue and love the filthy drug dealers?
Because a drug dealer would be put on trial if he killed me (or my dog)?
He could take his skid steer down to police HQs to inquire about his property.
Because the filthy drug dealers sell me drugs, of course. Have you ever had any luck buying drugs from a cop?
No, but my father bought a few machine guns from one.
Drugs should be legal in the first place. Then we wouldn’t have all of these no-knock raids, contradictory finance laws, prohibitions on regular shit such as ephedrine and iodine, judicial bottleneck, massive prison population, etc.
I can see other criminals besides drug dealers for whome criminal asset forfeiture should apply – fraudsters, conmen, professional fences of stolen goods, etc… Run a ponzi scheme or MLM, definately need to lose it.
The cops stealing shit for themselves isn’t the same as giving it back to its rightful owners.
Dude, I addressed that. Neither the cops nor the courts should get it.
If you can’t identify the rightful owners, it certainly doesn’t go to the cops.
This is the problem when you get rid of Kings and try to keep perquisites of the crown.
“Anthony Bernal, senior adviser to Jill Biden, has refused to testify in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.”
Sounds like we need some forest law.
Was he subpoenaed? He can invoke the 5th in front of them, but he has to appear.
The usual way it’s done is first they invite someone to appear, and then if they refuse the subpoena gets issued.
And then the subpoena gets ignored, and everybody can issue their huffy press releases and get on with their lives.
And then the subpoena gets ignored, and everybody can issue their huffy press releases and get on with their lives.
Unless it’s a Republican official ignoring a Democrat committee subpoena. Then we’re talking prosecution.
They need to start J6ing these motherfuckers. Arrest them for contempt, let them not get charged for a year and a half, then throw the book at them in a federal court in Oklahoma.
How much time did Steve Bannon do?
4 months, I think.
Can we stop providing First Ladies with advisory staff? I’m not trying to be petty here, they can have household staff, but advisory staff implies assistance in forming policy, and they shouldn’t be doing any of that ever.
I’ll be petty. They have no official role, they get no official staff.
When AOC becomes President the Hat’s blood will be on your hands…
Can you imagine what the White House would have smelled like if any first lady since maybe Barbara Bush was in charge of taking care of it? No, household staff is ok.
In the case of the previous president the spouse could use the current staff, since they weren’t busy with the president
(((Jarflax:
I’m not living there, and I don’t have to deal with the mess. No household staff. They can hire one out of their own pocket if they want to.
It’s not her house. The government owns it, so they should take care of it.
Would the hat would morph into a ceremonial sombrero that would sit on a shelf until Cinco de Mayo or would it morph into a Che-style beret?
Meanwhile, in Germany…
https://rmx.news/article/german-police-launch-nationwide-house-raids-against-170-citizens-over-hate-speech-and-insults-against-politicians/
It’s not like they have a history of authoritarianism.
You know who else…oh, screw it.
There’s a Substack I’ve been following that’s been talking about the free speech and political prosecutions going on in Germany (he started talking about ‘vid stuff originally).
Coming soon to Trump’s America!
/s Current Progs
Also /progs – if Trump doesn’t do it like we say he will, then by god, the next Democrat in the White House will!!!
Hate speech is not free speech blah blah blah who could have seen this coming? Or better question, did it ever really go away? By my standards Euroweenies have always been authoritarian shitheads. Too many people, too little space. This is what you get.
They never outgrew the aristocratic habit. We only temporarily discarded it.
There’s an interesting and deep conversation to be had there, JI –
about whether the problem is with “aristocracy” per se, or whether it’s just that the aristocracy themselves fall so far short of their obligations.
IOW, once you get past surface slogans, there’s a critical question about hierarchy and our assumptions around it.
Not everyone IS created equal and the leveling impulse of various ideologies, be it communism, its softer, seductive cousin socialism, or even modern, neo-liberal Christianity, asserts that we’re all “equal” (…in moral dignity), but the last part has largely been ignored and instead we’ve gotten this tabula rasa presumption about human abilities that is clearly bullshit. It underlies the entire liberal experiment of importing large swaths of human biomass because, ultimately, we’ll just replace whitey with new voters. Their votes are all the same!
It boils down to our nature as herd animals Ozzy. What produces people who need to be led and what produces people who refuse to be led? Why do we always have people who insist on dominating others?
Europe is lost, and apparently Germany wants to lead the way. Sad!
The better speed up if they want to catch the UK.
7% mortgage rates are not particularly high by historical standards. We are so addicted to artificially cheap money we not only cheer the unholy government-banking alliance, we get angry when it takes a break from stealing all our wealth through inflation of the money supply.
When I bought my house in 1999, my mortgage rate was 7.5%, which was considered a good rate at the time. I later refinanced when rates dropped precipitously.
I bought at 8.25 a year earlier. My dad “anything under 10% and you’re doing good.”
Because too many people are leveraged to the hilt, and need the rates to stay where they are to avoid financial ruin?
Meanwhile, I’d like for my savings to at least keep pace with inflation at some point.
Need to keep up with inflation plus the taxes on the inflated amount, just to stay even.
You don’t avoid financial ruin by having the vampire suck just slowly enough that you don’t die.
This is the truth. We’re pulling all the levers we can at the societal level to keep the average Joe from noticing that his standard of living is dropping.
At some point, though, you run out of levers to pull.
you run out of levers to pull
There’s a Toobin joke in there but I don’t want to touch it.
It?
WTF:
I was expecting this.
I had an 8.5% FHA on my first house, 1975, they knocked it down a 1/4% to deduct it from my checking account. OTOH it did give me an incentive to pay it off as quickly as possible. 8 years and free at last!
So like 8.5% on a $10k purchase?
25K
The other point conveniently ignored is that when rates drop house prices go up. So a buyer isn’t in any better position. But NAR just wants transactions by churning inventory.
I assume real estate transactions for the sake of real estate transactions positively affects the phoney baloney GDP numbers.
If you look at the historical rates since WWII, we are fine.
Civil asset forfeiture and the income tax….I know, potato potahto…. should go entirely. They have wildly abused a power they were entrusted with, just as they always do, so it should be taken from them.
Property tax seems worse than income tax.
Income tax completely guts any concept of privacy, it inherently allows the Government the right to continuously demand accurate information about your private dealings and possessions. Income tax is far and away the worst tax.
Property taxes are a wealth tax. You need to pay the tax on what you own out of your income so it’s a round about income tax. Or if it’s too much of your income you need to sell your property. So you don’t ever really own your home.
Can’t we all agree taxation, in all its forms, is theft?
So does property tax.
The issue with income tax demanding so much information is that it is so complicated, not that it taxes income.
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Can’t we all agree taxation, in all its forms, is theft?
No Taxation is Extortion
I prefer rhyme to alliteration in this case as it’s more accurate.
I’m with the half-Jew Jar))) that income tax is the worst. I think there’s some good historical and legal evidence to suggest that the Founders thought so, too.
For those that are curious, we got the 16th Amendment because in 1895 a 5-4 SCOTUS ruled that an attempted income tax was unconstitutional.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/157/429/
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429 (1895)
If you can parse it, you’ll get a lot of history on how odious taxation used to be viewed in this country.
The complexity is made available by the broad nature of income. Property taxes, assuming we are still talking about real property taxes don’t have that, they are just taxes assessed based on already, and necessarily, publicly identifiable property, personal property taxes do hit the same breadth issues created by income taxes.
I get that something about being taxed on land brings home the fact that ownership is infringed, but all taxes do that same thing. The income tax imposes that infringement directly on self ownership, and does it in a way that positively begs for adding complications and confusions that erode every personal right. There’s a reason direct taxes, other than a straight dollar amount per person, were prohibited by the Constitution, they necessarily, and without limit, invite the government into the most personal spheres.
A tax on your time and effort, a direct violation of your right to self ownership, is absolutely the worst tax.
“already, and necessarily, publicly identifiable property”
Well, except for the information on the buildings on property, and the livestock on property. None of that has any reason to be actually public, aside from government meddling.
I also think it’s weird to focus on privacy in regards to taxes. I care much more about how I have to plan my life around those taxes. Income tax makes me work more in a given year for my pay and includes an annoying bureaucratic element. Property tax means I need to plan my future and my legacy to generate enough guaranteed income that I don’t lose the property to government foreclosure. Income tax is worse in the short term. Property tax is worse in the long term.
The privacy focus is because income taxes bring in things like mandatory reporting by your financial institutions, and your business of every customer’s information above some very low thresholds, as well as being the underlying justification for the various money laundering reporting rules which make it almost impossible to pay cash for items. Income taxes are also the justification for limitations on, and back door bans on, foreign accounts. Also, property taxes are exclusively local and State taxes so they don’t actually enter into this discussion except in a sort of odd sideways way because their existence spoils fantasies of being completely off the grid with no debts (which income taxes also do unless you plan to live on a pile of cash you keep in a box).
And buildings on property are inherently public, unless constructed entirely under ground, which is getting pretty theoretical, and live stock are persona property, not real, which I agreed above has the same issues as income taxation.
Tyrants do tyrant things. It’s not surprising that income tax is used as an excuse to enact oppressive, invasive legislation, but it is not a “but for” sort of causation. If not income tax, it would be justified under counterterrorism, if not that, drug war, if not that, human trafficking, if not that, antitrust, if not that, antifraud. If the 16th were repealed today, all the privacy violating stuff would continue chugging along without a hiccup.
Regarding the livestock, I have to report them for my real property taxes for them to determine how much of my property should be classed as ag versus residential. It’s highly invasive. Regarding the buildings, there’s a difference between observable (one’s income is observable, too, if the government is doing the observing) and public. Somebody can drive by and observe the shed I put up, but it is not publicly available information aside from property taxes.
Setting aside the federalism issues, property taxes are worse because they’re less avoidable. I can make less (or no) income and reduce or eliminate my income tax. I can structure my life so that my costs are low and my income meets those costs. I can barter and trade to reduce my income. OTOH, I have to live somewhere, and aside from living somewhere with less property tax, I have no control over how much property tax I pay. If I live on family land, I have no way of meaningfully adjusting my tax amount.
Disconnect taxes from everything save government spending.
Once a year, on April 15th, each citizen cuts a check to the Treasury Department for (that FY federal budget / the number of citizens circa the most recent census).
Taxes on time arethe worst.
I can theoretically make more marginal dollars. I can’t make more marginal time.
aside from living somewhere with less property tax, I have no control over how much property tax I pay
That’s a pretty big aside, especially when your argument also includes claims that you can structure your life to have no income and thus avoid income taxes. I don’t know that being potentially avoidable is really a deciding factor to me in any case. I’m not an AnCap, so I’m forced to accept that we will have some form of taxation, but the amount of intrusion we just accept because it happens behind the scenes, automatically, from the income tax is bizarre to me. Property taxes don’t require hundreds of hours of uncompensated work reporting on your own, and employee’s actions to the government.
That is a lot of talking and a lot of good points brought up.
Here is my take: We collectively say “Fuck you, keep your hands off of my property”
If taxes are unavoidable then collect them in the least intrusive, least coercive way: Sales tax. Taxation limited to end-point sales tax only and some limited percentage prescribed by law.
“pretty big aside”
1) moving is substantially more impactful than changing jobs.
2) moving can adjust your property taxes somewhat, but it’s within a relatively small range. I can substantially reduce my income tax burden in any of thousands of ways.
The administrative burden is a huge difference right now, but not one inherent to income tax. If property taxes were the primary driver of federal receipts, we’d have just as convoluted of a system built out to precisely measure the value added by replacing light bulbs or painting the walls.
“Longest-serving Miss. death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan thankful for ‘humane’ execution”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/longest-serving-miss-death-row-inmate-richard-gerald-jordan-thankful-for-humane-execution/
These pageants are getting out of hand.
How do they know? Did they have a seance after?
He assumed that the injection would be humane.
We know how to kill someone instantly without pain. We do it in slaughterhouses all day long. All this nonsense is because we want to kill people without mess. It’s stupid.
Miss. death row inmate Richard Gerald Jordan
Why the abbreviation of Mississippi? Those of us with reading challenges all thought that Richard Gerald Jordan was the winner of some pageant and was traipsing around death row in a sash and tiara.
I only clicked the link to see if the pageant was because of Trump. Just extending his Miss America pageant. Or if it was some sort of tranny thing celebrating a guy who claimed to be a woman and got sent to the female death row.
What a gyp!
Dude… If you are trying to rub one out to pics from Miss Death Row pageants…
… I am sad because I had the same thought as Jimbo.
I must go clean my brain.
I’m thinking Miss Death Row is going to have WAAAAAAY too many tats. 😣
Jarsy:
I’m offended! Trying to rub one out?
There is no try, only doing!
“Who is Rama Duwaji? Wife of NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani whom he met on Hinge ”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/who-is-rama-duwaji/
I would have guessed Grindr.
Great. She should have tea with Hilaria Baldwin. They could pretend to be foreigners who can’t remember common English words
She got hit in the head and woke up Syrian. Happens all the time.
She got hit with the ugly stick.
Is there room at that tea for Barry Obama (the one who claimed to be Kenyan when preparing his book jacket bio)?
I wonder if any intrepid journalo will do some digging and find out all the stuff she got by claiming to be Syrian?
Without knowing a thing except for that quote above, I’m guessing she got a couple scholarships and some other bennies because she claimed to be a native Syrian from Damascus.
And why not, she is just emulating other powerful women like Elizabeth Warren.
How?
One thing I learned from Seinfeld is that looks don’t matter when you’re hooking up with someone you find in “The Daily Worker”.
Europe seems to be learning that Trump is compliant if you stroke his ego.
How ‘Daddy’ Trump Learned to Love NATO
https://www.wsj.com/world/how-daddy-trump-learned-to-love-nato-64f4910e?st=2fVsGK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Like they all agreed to up their defense spending to 5% of GDP as Trump wanted. Will they ever actually live up to that agreement?
Magic 8-ball says “unlikely”.
Precisely. However, prior to this they refused to even give it so much as lip service.
The funny thing is Japan pulled out of some recent defense conference (possibly this one) because they knew they were going to be castigated over their lack of defense spending.
Now, never say never, it’s almost certain that at some point their economic and energy policies will shrink their GDP enough that their defense spending will be 5% of it. They can’t really cut much more without exposing politically important people to the multi-cultural utopia they have created for the citizens, so it will get there eventually.
““They’re motivated by a fear of a multiracial and multicultural democracy. A fear that freedom of coequal citizens living as their authentic selves with pride. Out of fear, they have a fear of accountability,” Simon said. “We must name this conversation today for what it truly is. It is a bigotry, it is a hypocrisy. Republicans, like I’ve said before, will quote Dr. King all day, will bring forth Lincoln and talk about Frederick Douglass in the same breath that they are gutting civil rights offices in our governments.””
https://dailycaller.com/2025/06/25/keep-dr-kings-name-out-of-your-mouth-lateefah-simon-blows-her-top-at-gop-witnesses-for-quoting-iconic-american/
Judge people not by their character, but because they’re white.
No Kings
She learned all the right lessons.
All Frederick Douglass wanted from the government for the freed slaves was to be left alone.
He started vocational schools to help teach them skills.
This was done in opposition to the ones that wanted special programs and “help”.
It would have been a much better future for them if Douglass’s view had prevailed.
There’s a reason our schools spend most of their Black History time on people like Dubois (and to an extent King, he was not as libertarian friendly as it has become popular to pretend) and not on Washington and Douglass. The Frederick Douglass to Booker Washington strand of campaigning for civil rights understood and embraced the fact that rights and personal responsibility are faces of the same coin. Self ownership means responsibility for your own actions, and responsibility for meeting your own needs. Anyone talking about government grants, support, benefits, or reparations as an aspect of rights is selling slavery
That, (((Jarflax, is as succinctly put as I have ever seen.
Racebaiting grifters are as much a permanent feature of society as the poor.
Get Jackson off the $20 and put Douglass on.
“The Frederick Douglass to Booker Washington strand of campaigning for civil rights understood and embraced the fact that rights and personal responsibility are faces of the same coin. Self-ownership means responsibility for your own actions, and responsibility for meeting your own needs.”
Fuckin’ right! It’s easier to win elections and gain power by telling them that the reason why things aren’t going so well for them is because of some outside force keeping you down and not because of your choices. The concepts of accountability and personal responsibility are an anathema for a statist because it denies them ability to have power and take your money.
Every “African American History Month” I see displays all over Norfolk Naval Station.
Always listed: MLK, Obama, Oprah, and Rosa Parks
Never listed: Frederick Douglass (one of the all time impressive people) and Clarence Thomas.
ron: So, commie month. I wonder why the did not choose May. Too obvious?
Living people should not be on those kinds of displays.
One of my Marines would always complain that it was February because it was the shortest month.
“Black man got short changed again!”
That dude was hilarious.
He was 6’4 and at least 220 pounds of pure muscle, but he was one of the nicest guys I ever knew.
You got 28.25 days more than I do.
“Simon told the witnesses to keep King’s name “out of their mouth[s]”
I would have looked her right in the eye and quoted as much of the “I Have a Dream” speech as I could.
People ‘living their authentic selves’ leads to a world of filthy slums, privation, and misery. Fuck being authentic.
Love that rhetorical trick.
It’s how they call you a bigot if you object to the enshittification that is plain for all to see and which has precisely *nothing* to do with “race”.
Wisconsin isn’t sending their best and brightest.
No idea why the cops think a drug test for Patches is necessary.
“Patches Magickbeans”
I agree with the Cheese State, dolls, cats, and stuffed animals, shouldn’t be allowed to drive.
The best and brightest don’t want to go to Minnesota.
I suspect if your name is Patches Magicbeans you go where the fairies take you, and things like State lines, traffic laws, and probably open pits in the earth are not registering during the journey.
I wonder what that identifies as. On second thought, I don’t want to know.
At the risk of giving SF more material for his Wednesday posts….
SCIENCE!
There are pull quotes in that story that make me think that a Glibs wrote it.
No shit that people who react badly to semen have a nut allergy. That lady is lucky, she can just stop having sex with Brazilians.
Skin testing? Sorry, this sounds like some closeted gay guy trying to explain to his buddy why he had some cum on his ear lobe (ala Something About Mary).
Fatigue, brain fog, and muscle aches after sex are just the reminders of a good time…
“a woman with a Brazil nut allergy broke out in hives after sex”
——
I don’t know if I should bit I’m going to allow “She must have had a foot fetish” to slip through my filter here…
*but
He looks like a guy I saw on cops once that crashed trying to squeeze his car between 2 other cars where there obviously wasn’t room.
He told the cops he had been doing meth and hadn’t slept for 3 days.
He thought his car could fit because the other cars “looked fuzzy”.
Don’t do drugs kids.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Kid has everything done pat. Dirt on the hands, nose on the sleeve, slides into Second! He has learned well.
Thanks Jimbo
Looks like his hands are flipped and he’s swinging backhanded but I’m still smiling.
I like how the dog stares at him as he’s sliding into home.
“What are you doing? Hit the ball again!”
“”Let me remind y’all that Melania, the first lady, a model, and when I say model, I’m not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level, applied for and was given an EB-1 visa, and what that stands for is an Einstein Visa,” the congresswoman said during the hearing, adding, “Now, y’all that don’t know, let me tell you how you receive an Einstein Visa. You’re supposed to have some sort of significant achievement, like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist, or having other sustained extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics. Last time I checked, the First Lady had none of those accolades under her belt. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see that the math ain’t mathin’ here.””
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/06/25/jasmine-crockett-goes-after-melania-and-im-not-gonna-let-that-slide-n4941178
Mike is still upset an immigrant took her job.
EB stands for Excellent Butt in this case, and I vote we allow it.
Jasmine Crockett is Michelle Obama?
“being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist”
If that really was the requirement, we’d be issuing maybe one or two a year. I suspect it’s more than that.
actual requirements
Such major awards are only one way to get an EB-1.
So… she wants to go after questionable visas? I accept her offer.
EB-1 visa, and what that stands for is an Einstein Visa
Well, if we are making things up …
Einstein, Bert
Einstein, bitch!
The Jesse Pinkman bill 😉
Einstein and Bart
Melania speaks like 5 languages. Big Mike speaks 1. 2 if you count jive.
So it would seem Pope Jimbo’s Asia tour was not successful in Japan, but he had better luck in South Korea.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/south-korea-birthrate-surge
Just takes longer for the Japanese to release their numbers.
I hope all of you respect my work. You know how hard it is to raise an entire country’s birthrates? Especially after being snipped?
He was just comforting the women!
Nothing I fund funnier than DPRK propaganda photos. Shame the fog dampened the mood.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/north-korea-beach-resort-wonsan-kalma
Foggy day at Haeundae Beach in Busan. I’m going to give the edge to South Korea for hotels in the background.
Mrs. Holiness and I stayed at the super tall hotel on the right in this pic.
That second pic was also of Haeundae Beach. It is a close up of the hotel in the background of the first pic.
Interesting. All the pictures I searched for showed it relatively uncrowded and frequently foggy.
It’s like the exact opposite of the NJ shore.
Sensei:
Were you searching for Haeundae beach? Or the North Korean beach in your story?
We were at Haeundae beach in mid-February and it wasn’t exactly crowded because of the cold, but there were always a lot of people there.
Also the weather for the most part was great when we were there.
Haeundae beach – just a random image search that I looked at thumbnails.
I’m sure if you wanted you could find both crowds and sun. A similar search of the Jersey shore would result in blinding sun and crowds.
“Despite all of this, I just learned that Bibi has been summoned to Court on Monday for the continuation of this long running, (He has been going through this “Horror Show” since May of 2020 – Unheard of! This is the first time a sitting Israeli Prime Minister has ever been on trial.), politically motivated case, “concerning cigars, a Bugs Bunny doll, and numerous other unfair charges” in order to do him great harm.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/horror-show-president-trump-erupts-after-bibi-netanyahu/
Bugs Bunny doll?
I think it’s supposed to be some kind of life-size furry fetish sex doll, or something.
Bibi being a furry was *NOT* on my 2025 bingo card…
That’s all Folks!
Bugs Bunny dressed as a girl bunny?
Bugs Bunny dressed as a girl bunny?
I think when you’ve gotten to the banging cartoon rabbits level their cis/trans status is kind of irrelevant.
(((Jarflax:
Please refer to the flowchart.
I call this ‘EvilSheldon’s Rule of Compatible Fetishes’.
C’mon man! Bugs was an OG tranny!. He was always dressing up as a gal to trick Elmer and the other dunderheads.
“USAGM oversees several government-funded news media entities, including Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting.
As Gateway Pundit reported, Kari Lake exposed the agency and its grantees as nothing but a money laundering front for left-wing propaganda and foreign corruption with almost no oversight capabilities.
Lake revealed further revealed the waste, fraud, abuse, and rot in the organization, including “$75,000 spent for COVID study on how Mac computers can be used for social distancing, $100,000 in American taxpayer money to actually sponsor a Afghan Cricket team, $400,000 for quid pro quo payments to African VOA affiliates— and they actually wrote quid pro quo next to the budget item— $825,000 for a New York music show, and $6 million contract for consulting advice that was never even implemented.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/kill-it-president-trump-calls-leftwing-disaster-u/
They actually wrote quid pro quo next to the budget item?
While we’re on the topic of magick beans
New York state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, speaking with ABC News the day after achieving an upset in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, said that he believes his strategy that focused on affordability and economics could be a blueprint for Democrats across the country.
“I think there’s a question of how we return back to what made so many of us proud to be Democrats,” Mamdani told ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott in an interview on Wednesday.
“How do you do that?” Scott asked.
“I think it’s that focus on an economic agenda, on ensuring that people can do more than just struggle,” Mamdani replied.
What if we just steal from the rich and keep it?
Don’t worry; they’ll dribble enough to the poors to keep them quiet, dependent, and happy to keep voting for them and their friends.
Mamdani had focused his campaign on a progressive, economy-focused platform that included a rent freeze for rent-stabilized apartments and eliminating fares for New York City buses.
You can fool enough of the people enough of the time…
His plan is for the NYC to literally sell you your daily bread.
I hope he wins. Maybe when NYC becomes (more of) a shithole, people will wake up to the evils of socialism? And, if they don’t, then let’s not draw out the process of America’s decline into totalitarianism.
I feel like the crazy part is while NYC is reliably Blue, the GOP couldn’t find a decent Republican candidate for the general election? Curtis Silwa seems like an odd ball.
The party has given up on NYC, so whoever appears on the ballot under that line is just some local who has convinced themselves to give it a try, and not somebody that the party thinks can win.
This means you get anything from a self-funded contender claiming affiliation they don’t have (Nanny Bloomers) to someone with as much chances as the Libertarian party has at the presidency.
Yeah, Sliwa is a bit of a crank and probably unelectable. The party must be in a state of complete disarray. I think someone Trumpian might stand a chance especially there but… nobody seems interested.
Remember how low the city had sunk by the time Giuliani got elected? They haven’t sunk that low yet this time.
“Atlanta police arrested four teens early Tuesday morning who have been accused of defacing Pride flags outside of a popular LGBTQ bar in midtown. Authorities said the defendants may face hate crime charges, which could result in penalties including jail time. Two suspects remain at large, police said….
During a press conference, APD Sgt. Brandon Hayes stated that the department takes “this community very seriously, and we want to make sure residents feel safe.”
The arrested individuals have been identified as three teens from Dallas, Georgia – Geami McCarroll, 17, Logan Matthison, 18, and Ahmed Mechkouri, 18 – and a 16-year-old from Taylorsville, whose identity has not been released due to his age. All four of them were arrested on charges including obstruction, criminal damage to property, conspiracy, and prowling. Atlanta Police said hate crime charges were pending, according to a local news station. Additionally, the father of the 16-year-old suspect has been cited for failing to supervise his son.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/teens-face-hate-crime-charges-for-cutting-up-lgbtq-pride-flags-on-pride-crosswalk-in-atlanta
Everyone in this story is an asshole, including whoever decided to spend $200K to paint a rainbow crosswalk.
the father of the 16-year-old suspect has been cited for failing to supervise his son.
What about the mother? Seems like some straight up sexism to charge Dad but not Mom.
Petty theft and vandalism. Anything more is unconstitutional punishment of speech/thoughtcrime.
“A representative for the family of Karmelo Anthony, the 17-year-old indicted for murder in connection with the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, claimed on Tuesday that the case reflects the systemic racism that black people face in the US.
“Today, we were informed by the Collin County District Attorney that Karmelo Anthony has been indicted,” Minister Dominique Alexander wrote in a statement posted to X. “This case is yet another example of what it means to be Black in America, where even our self-defense is questioned, scrutinized, and politicized.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/rep-for-karmelo-anthonys-family-says-murder-indictment-is-yet-another-example-of-what-it-means-to-be-black-in-america
CWAA
What’s the world come to when a black boy can’t murder a white boy without getting oppressed?
Seriously, it should be considered self-defense every time a black kid murders a white kid for ‘disrespecting’ him. Otherwise it’s just straight up racism. Black kids can’t be expected to adhere to civilized standards, dontcha know.
Popcorn!
Trump administration sues all of Maryland’s federal judges over deportation order
TW – https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5445843/justice-department-maryland-judges-deportation
Keeping up with the times
US-based visitors to BBC.com will now have to pay $49.99 (£36) a year or $8.99 (£6.50) a month for access to most BBC News stories and features, and to stream the BBC News channel.
Those who do not pay will still have ad-supported access to selected global breaking news stories, BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, as well as its language services and some newsletters and podcasts.
Rebecca Glashow, CEO of BBC Studios Global Media & Streaming, described the move as a “major milestone” that would “unlock new opportunities for growth”.
Americans will be throwing money at them.
Where do I sign up!
OTH, we might be able to make do with Pidgin. One of my absolute favorite BBC services.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/topics/c0823e52dd0t
I have not checked out “BBC Pidgin” in years, thank you for the reminder.
I don’t know why but I enjoy that too. Who is that written for?
Why not? Look at how they shat upon BBC America along with Discovery before selling their name to AMC.
Oops
Weeks after a fire broke out aboard the Morning Midas, the ship has sunk. The vessel went down on Monday in international waters, approximately 450 miles (724 km) southwest of Adak, Alaska.
The United States Coast Guard said the ship capsized at around 5:35 pm, and then sank to a depth of approximately 16,400 feet (4,999 meters). The ship was carrying 3,048 vehicles including 681 hybrids and 70 EVs. The latter have been rumored as a possible source of the fire, although that’s not entirely clear.
When the ship went down, it had 350 metric tons of marine gas oil and 1,530 metric tons of very low sulfur fuel oil onboard. The Coast Guard says there haven’t been any reports of visible pollution, but they’re continuing to monitor the situation. Two salvage vessels also remain on the scene and have pollution response equipment onboard, if needed.
Maybe Greenpeace will sue them.
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the Morning Midas
“New concerns about firefighters health after LA fires” – headline on muted lobby tv
Really? New concerns?
Sounds like someone is about to go on a deep-pockets fishing expedition.
Sad Trombone.
The former Barclays chief executive subjected himself to two embarrassing weeks in court this spring, arguing against an earlier finding that he didn’t fully disclose the terms of his relationship with Epstein. The British press feasted on the hearings, which detailed the banker’s yearslong dealings with the late convicted sex offender.
I still can’t understand what hubris lead him to think that testifying and providing all kinds of his personal life details was worth “clearing” his name. Take your many, many millions and fade from view.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/jes-staley-loses-appeal-over-jeffrey-epstein-ban-39e809e8?st=4XEBGU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
People will die
The late spring and early summer are typically a time when the U.S. federal government prepares for hurricane season—the period from June 1 to November 30 that produces the biggest and most costly disasters in the United States. But this year is different.
President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem continue to argue that FEMA, the primary federal disaster response organization, should cease to exist. There is no Senate-confirmed FEMA administrator because the White House has not nominated someone who meets the congressionally mandated basic qualifications for the role. Acting Administrator David Richardson still has not produced a viable plan for how FEMA will manage the hurricane season. The agency’s most experienced leadership has left or been forced out—most recently Jeremy Greenberg, who coordinated whole-of-government storm response. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) remains understaffed to perform critical weather forecasting functions that allow emergency managers to anticipate extreme weather conditions and position themselves for disaster response.
All of this makes the arrival of hurricane season unusually concerning. But three striking trends threaten to jeopardize a system already under strain: a backlog in federal disaster response requests, an inability of states to fill the federal funding gap, and a shift of accountability to states. Taken together, these factors could suggest major problems not just for the coasts, but for the whole country.
Trump is ignoring his duty to the American people. It’s a crime against humanity.
Do some out of the box thinking here. Nominate King Walz. He has some innovative ideas when it comes to spending public money on disasters
It takes an uncommon mind to come up with such clever ways to spend other people’s money.
Quick response to disasters is what gets the economy going again. Parents can send kids back to school. People can go back to work. People can move back home. The delays this year are highly unusual, and we don’t yet know what the economic and social consequences will be of lagging federal recovery support. As they reimagine recovery in 2025, communities in the U.S. may have to start looking to other countries, where national governments do not provide significant levels of post-disaster support. This would mean more reliance on mutual aid, philanthropy, and corporations, with much less consistency across the country.
No FEMA Fairy to wave her magic wand and make everything better?
Does that mean Brazilians and Ugandans will be seeing American celebrities panhandling for American disaster relief on their teevees?
I seem to recall FEMA slowing down recovery in some areas recently…
Only with certain signage. The safety of FEMA employees is paramount.
For people who will live through disasters this hurricane season, the political climate that will shape their ability to recover is bad—and getting worse. FEMA’s strength has been in its capacity to spread out the risk of disasters across a big and rich country. In contrast, the administration’s proposal for FEMA aims to concentrate the cost of recovery in a small number of states that simply don’t have the ability to absorb those repeated and growing costs.
Muh democratic socialism.
People will die! #1,001
The New York Times
Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support
Axios
Proposed Medicaid cuts renew AIDS, HIV crisis fears
NPR
One of the cheapest ways to save a life is going away : The Indicator from Planet Money
USA Today
Elton John: We’ve made great progress on HIV/AIDS. Budget cuts threaten to set us back.
Then donate and raise the money if it’s so vital.
Why is government funding the only option?
ROADZZ
The amendment does away with a so-called “transfer tax” that would have added 2% to new car sales and 1% to purchases of used cars worth more than $10,000.
The tax has been scrapped in favor of ratcheting up a separate, existing tax for the “privilege” of selling cars in the state. The bill would increase that tax from 0.5% to 2.25%, and apply it to sales of used cars for the first time.
Money from that increase would not go into the state’s Highway Trust Fund; it would be earmarked for a set of specific purposes. Those include helping pay for unfinished highway megaprojects such as the Rose Quarter expansion on Interstate 5 and the Abernethy Bridge seismic retrofit on Interstate 205, rebates on electric vehicle purchases and projects to make urban highways safer.
Democrats also appear to be reducing their ambitions around increasing the state’s current 40-cent-per-gallon gas tax.
The new amendment would increase the tax by 12 cents beginning next year. HB 2025 had formerly increased the tax by 15 cents, but phased that increase in over two steps.
The 155-page amendment also scraps a plan to index gas taxes to inflation in the future, a move that would have ensured they rise regularly without legislative approval.
The newly scaled-back proposals are a nod to political reality: As it passed out of committee Friday, the bill was on a path to failure.
Why would a bill to get car owners to pay their fair share fail? I’m just surprised there isn’t a mileage tax.
Only 40 cents? Prog harder Oregon.
“Since 2022, a federally funded suicide prevention hotline known as the 988 Lifeline has routed LGBTQ+ youth callers to The Trevor Project and other nonprofits to receive specialized support. Last Tuesday, the government announced that the hotline would, instead, serve anyone seeking help directly, through a single point of contact. The decision was met with howls of outrage….
In 2022, the Biden administration introduced a “Press 3” option to the hotline, directing LGBTQ+ youth callers to activist organizations for specialized counseling. Effective July 17, that prompt will be removed, and these organizations, including The Trevor Project, will no longer receive a collective $33 million in grant funding for participating in the federal partnership. (The 988 hotline isn’t losing this funding; it will repurpose the money for other uses.)
To be clear: The Trevor Project will continue to operate a suicide prevention hotline specifically for LGBTQ+ people that anyone who seeks specialized services can call. The 988 hotline will also continue to operate, and to offer services to anyone seeking help.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/press-3-for-moral-panic
The Trevor Project are a bunch of groomers.
Oh No! My pet NGO isn’t getting grift dollars!
That outfit is a major supporter of child sex changes and promoter of the false belief that kids need the snip-snip or else they’ll kill themselves. I applaud the decision to cut them off but you know the next Dem will just turn the spigot back on.
Round and round she goes.
So what you’re saying is we need to hope for extrajudicial punishments from unknown actors eliminating the people involved in this institutionalized abuse?
Also a major proponent of hiding it from parents. If I recall their webpage even had a button a child could hit to hide the page.
“Given this context, the Joe Biden administration’s obsession with stimulating illegal entry appears as an act of inexplicable cruelty. All the pathologies remained—the marginality, the exposure to violence and crime, the fear of the authorities. To this was now added complete dependence on a remote and arbitrary bureaucracy. A tacit promise, never actually articulated, hung in the air: that the old system had been magically abolished, and that everyone, from anywhere, was invited to cross into the promised land….
Here’s a common-sense proposition: Since we can’t invite the whole world inside our borders, let’s consider the matter as one of optimal limits. Once the need to restrain immigration is acknowledged, the next step should be to seek consensus on the practicalities—the maximum number the country can absorb each year, the skills we most urgently need to import, and, of course, the most transparent and fair process for those arriving, as I once did, on the shores of this fortunate land.
In other words, our attention must turn fully to legality, not illegality. That should be the content of the politics of immigration: devising rules and procedures for legal entry that are intuitive to Americans as well as to potential migrants. The current system, we should accept, is a soul-devouring labyrinth that deserves to be demolished in its entirety.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/what-both-sides-get-wrong-about-immigration
The problem is all the people who want illegal immigration — from the cartels to communist agitators to corporate interests.
Here’s my proposal – Leave under your own volition and we will forget about the illegal entry (but not any other crimes you might have committed against our citizens) Stay, and we air drop you in Atlantis.
That doesn’t fix the problem.
But we assigned the death squads to the groomers. There’s some overlap with the illegal importers, but we’ve only got so many…
Maybe you should read the article?
I’m in meetings, besides I’m a proponant of no immigration for at least the next century while we sort out the mess we’ve got at the moment.
They’re reusable. Just hang on a sec till they get done with kiddy diddlers and the race baiters.
Just when I thought AOC was the pinnacle of political theater ( https://headlineusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/aoc-damage-report-696×385.png ) along comes Jasmine Crockett and. her jive-ass routine.
She attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School and Rosati-Kain, an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis. She attended Rhodes college, a private liberal arts college. Then it was on to University of Houston law center.
While at Rhodes college there were some false flag racial incidents. She was up to her eyeballs in that…so race grifter before the gate. is open. Right out of the gate she is a member of a race based lawyer association and taking cases for BLM.
Always amazes me the psychology of commies being raised with a silver spoon in their mouths….upper middle to upper class kids. I have to say, her curated jive-ass comedy act really takes the cake. A plastic barbie doll has more of an authentic personality.
Those AOC photos…I imagine them going to the migrant center….shit we cant use that. Then they spot a random abandoned Home Depot that has been fenced in and stop there.
Maybe we should warn these girls = if you pretend to be something long enough you become that something. Look at Hillary Clinton and Tim Walz. Shelob and John Herbert.
Last sentence there was a Kafka reference but I guess the squirrels ate it.
There are plenty of videos from her past talking like a normal person.
That is a bit part of what makes it so bad. The Metamorphosis was a cautionary tale not an instruction manual.
A performative ideology requires endless performance.