Every once in a while, I just can resist and manage to say exactly the wrong thing. Yesterday was one of those days. I’m sorry, I just couldn’t help it.
Over in the next county is a Lowe’s, and for reasons known but to them, they have four parking spaces marked with signs, “Reserved for Our Veterans.” Naturally I tend to park in them, annoyed by the presumption. They also have reserved spaces “Reserved for our Law Enforcement Heroes” or some such, but I don’t tend to fuck with people carrying ticket books. Anyway, yesterday, I needed a few miscellaneous nuts and bolts, so I drove over to Lowe’s, and pulled into a Veteran’s space. Just then, another car pulled into the space next to me. I got out of my car, and started heading toward the entrance. An older guy got out of the car next to me as I walked by; he was an Asian-looking dude wearing a T-Shirt that proclaimed, “Vietnam Vet.” I asked, “Did you serve in Vietnam?”
“Sure did.”
“Which side?”
I am incapable of manners.
Today’s human birthdays include a brilliant thinker who never lost an opportunity; a farsighted fellow; a guy who was so young but already a prince; one of my personal heroes who, if he had lived a bit longer, we’d have even better music; a guy who did my liver no favors; a guy whose most famous appearance bombed; the king of special effects; an actual honest and great journalist; an “activist” whose name became a punchline; a guy you do NOT want to take a motorcycle ride with; and a terrific cartoonist who ought to be better-known.
Links should also be better known.
Once again, there is only one possibly principled person in the Senate. Maybe two if you count Fetterlump. This is a sprawling wasteful abomination.
Don’t know if this can happen, but it would be delightful if it did.
The underlying theme to this is that late term abortion may well be all right. Maybe even post-birth infanticide. SciAm is just… unrecognizable.
I am absolutely shocked that politicians are hypocritical.
I am equally shocked that the stupidly heavy-handed Federal cops have triggered a wave of scams.
And even more shocking… there are people out there with weak minds.
TBH, this kinda sounds like fun. And of course, no-one was forced to go there.
The Old Guy admits to enjoying some absurdist shit, like the Geto Boyz video for Still featuring cute puppies. This one almost reaches that level.
“SciAm is just… unrecognizable.”
My favorite was asking what quantum mechanics could teach us about abortion.
I am shocked to find out that have published outside of global warming and tranny boys.
Next up an article on schrödinger’s
catpenis!A dick in a box?
It’s either flaccid or erect, but we don’t know until we cut it off…
Oh, you’ve seen The Full Monty then
😁
Is Tom Freidman writing for them now?
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
Our Walmart has 2 spots with blue wee-woo lights on them marked “Reserved For Our Law Enforcement Partners.” Which I thought was retarded, until I passed by them walking a shoplifter out to the reserved space as I was entering the store one day.
They could have easily walked the shoplifter out to a regular parking space halfway across the parking lot.
True, but I get why the store would want to accommodate the lazy fucks.
The local Lowes has four spaces for veterans and two more for wounded veterans.
I can’t remember what store has reserved spaces for pregnant women.
The local government – run liquor store has reserved spaces out front for pregnant women.
That’s gold.
What? The signs don’t read ‘birthing persons?’ LOL
Local Kroger grocery has (at least) two spots reserved for “parent with child.” I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen ppl roll up to those spots and a single adult emerges from the car.
That’s funny because I had the same experience.
Lol, based.
And if OM had caught a punch for that, well, I wouldn’t be too sympathetic.
Yeah, I think that falls into FAFO.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game!
Maybe a young punk, but you shouldn’t abuse the elderly.
*side eyes Dr. Jill*
I had to laugh too, OM, but not out loud. It wouldn’t go over so well in this household.
I’ve parked in the handicapped spots, if that’s all that’s available. It isn’t restricted to physically handicapped.
I’m late to the party (as usual), but if he had said he was former Viet Cong, would you have thanked him for his service?
Happy birthday Benjamin Franklin?
Happy birthday Jerry Bruckheimer?
With OMWC, I would’ve expect Robert A. Mattey.
Willis O’Brien.
Happy birthday David Hogg?
Galileo?
“”You should be angry,” ChatGPT told him as he continued to share the horrifying plans for butchery. “You should want blood. You’re not wrong.””
Good thing I only listen to my neighbors dog.
Can a cop write your a ticket for a parking violation on private property? I regard reserved spaces as “requests”.
I know you can for handicap spaces, but those are mandated in most places.
Now if cops would do something about handicap tag abuse. “Let’s take grandma’s car. She has handicap plates so we can park close.”
If they could drive, they wouldn’t be handicapped!
Pat is correct. You have to have a vertical sign (not a mere pavement marking) to make that enforceable.
The biggest form of handicapped parking fraud is ppl who have a hang tag for when they transport grandma (or whoever), but use the tag even when not transporting the actually handicapped person for whom the tag was issued. They swear up and down that this is a legit use, or that they’re running an errand for grandma. Virginia law states that you must be transporting the designated handicapped person to use the tag/spaces/etc.
Then there are the ppl who claim “invisible disabilities” like asthma, and some of those claims are doubtlessly legit. Some of them.
to be fair, a relative of mine got a temporary one after some very significant heart surgery. He didn’t look “handicapped” but you really wanted to minimize his steps and errands after that.
The biggest form of handicapped parking fraud is ppl who have a hang tag for when they transport grandma (or whoever), but use the tag even when not transporting the actually handicapped person for whom the tag was issued.
Yes.
When my parents were still Down South, when I was down there helping them out, I would sometimes drive their vehicle which had handicapped plates. If they were with me, I’d park in the handicapped spots. If they weren’t with me, I would park far away from the handicapped spots.
No, but they can probably do something about the little girls in the back of the van.
The number of people rooting for continued hostilities to deny the bad orange man a political dunk should be amusing to observe.
Yep.
The CIA guy and Netenyahu seem to have some interests in common.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/blast-rocks-church-syrias-damascus-witnesses-say-2025-06-22/
https://www.osvnews.com/israeli-settlers-attack-christian-village-in-west-bank-leaving-3-dead-and-homes-burned/
Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Muhammad al-Julani)
We’re using code names?
Obama called him ‘Timber Sycamore’.
“The Huntington Park police chief and mayor accused Diaz of impersonating an immigration agent at a news conference, a move Diaz later told the NBC News affiliate he was surprised by.”
Nice sentence, asshole.
“Diaz also denied to the outlet that he had posed as an officer with border patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). At the news conference, police showed reporters paper they found inside his car with an official-looking US Customs and Border Protection header.
The arrest is one of several cases involving people allegedly impersonating immigration officials, as the nationwide crackdown on undocumented immigrants intensifies.”
So I’m guessing the other cases are even weaker examples.
To be fair, there’s really no argument for post-viability abortion that doesn’t also justify at least early infanticide. The usual convention has been to not say the quiet part out loud, but the Moloch cult decided to drop the mask after the tool in Virginia went on TV discussing how a woman and her physician would have a discussion about kiboshing an already-birthed non-person.
What they are not saying outloud is that drawing a line anywhere post-viable is arbitrary…basically they are arguing that murder is A-OK.
When you are an inconvenience to the [mother|state], you should accept you have no right to exist.
Unless you’ve entered the U.S. illegally.
It is slavery to force mothers to care for children until they can make it on their own. Abortion through the 75th trimester should be legal.
It’s to save the (social) life of the mother.
Imagine a troll from the Men’s Rights crowing about this benefitting men by removing child support payments.
That’s why I’m so conflicted about abortion. On the one hand, I like that it kills babies, but on the other, I hate that it gives women more rights.
Protip for the Gruniad: federal immigration and customs enforcement officers are civilians. And ICE is an acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, so it’s capitali
zsed.Brits don’t do all-caps acronyms for some uneducated reason.
So ChatGPT is basically Igor now? Yesss, Master, kill them all, master! How can Igor help?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-14842543/al-chatbot-girlfriend-suicide-sewell-setzer.html
So the already suicidal kid was deliberative enough to understand that using the word suicide would likely not get him the answer he clearly wanted, carefully crafted euphemisms to trick the LLM into saying what he wanted it to say, then killed himself, and Mom, who quite understandably wants someone to blame, blames the bot? I think all of this, LLMs, social media, constant intrusion of the world into even the most private spaces, is very bad for mental health, especially for adolescents, but blaming this suicide on the LLM is a stretch
Getting catfished I could understand, but why would he take the “advice” of something he signed up for, knowing it wasn’t real? Some pre-existing torment?
Does it insist you pronounce it “Eye-gor”?
“A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!”, Pratchett, Making Money
When artificial intelligence meets natural retardation.
Is it natural retardation? Or is it induced retardation?
Stoopid monkeys.
“Many”? How many?
I dont know what is in Trump’s bill. It doesnt matter. What comes out in the end will likely be mostly business as usual.
The last time it looked like peace was breaking out in the Middle East every reason in the world caused it except Trump. It was just coincidental that he was president. Looks like we are about to have another coincidence.
Good and evil are real things. Late term abortion is not ok.
They aren’t just hypocritical. A lot of I t is deliberate and calculated for signaling….either virtue signaling or just as a fuck you to everyone else.
Advice to all cops: Do your copping in uniform.
Beyond what OMWC said I got nuthin. Most people really are feeble in spirit.
Porte-potty parties? Lured there? Again with the weak minded.
“Book bans came roaring back several years ago, when the inflection points of the COVID lockdown and the murder of George Floyd were forcing uncomfortable and messy conversations.
PEN has monitored the wheres and whys of censorship since 1922; the group defines book bans as “any action taken against a book based on its content that leads to a previously accessible book” being restricted or removed.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/26/book-bans-are-getting-weirder-targeting-cats-dogs-and-civic-minded-grandmas/
A literature organization is illiterate.
Protip for Salon: removing cartoon depictions of children sucking cock from public school libraries is as much a book ban as the government failing to pay for a Brazzers subscription is a porn ban. The only thing that’s ramped up in recent years is that non-demented people noticed your bullshit and told you fuck off.
Why doesn’t the media center have any porn classics?
“PEN America’s 2024 report “Banned in the USA: Narrating the crisis” notes that book bans tend to center on three categories: books that deal with sexual violence and its aftermath, books that foreground LGBTQ experience and history and books with transgender or genderless characters.”
None of those subjects belong in grade school. Just like you shouldn’t take children on a field trip to a strip club.
Foreground? So…grooming.
Keep in mind that this is coming from a crowd that has openly admitted a zillion times that demoralization of the west is their goal.
George Floyd was not murdered according to the medical examiner.
I have a feeling I am not interested in anything further Salon has to say.
The whole, “OMG, I was in Dubai, being a hot chick trolling for attention and all, and when this total stranger offered me thousands of dollars and invited me to a party, I had no idea that I would be expected to perform sexually on demand!” thing.
I mean, you wouldn’t think “influencers” and “Instagram models”, being basically sex workers and all, would find pay-for-play such a novel proposition.
To be fair, these are mostly women from Western countries where, for all the histrionic wailing about rape culture, you can peddle your ass online and collect money and gifts from lonely simps with no expectation of anything further. To the extent that “white privilege” is actually thing, that’s more like what it would be.
There are a bunch of IG hookers, but I wouldn’t say that “influencers” and “Instagram models” are basically sex workers. They’re advertisers.
Spokesmodels?
“Spokesmodels?”
Basically. They aren’t sex workers any more than Shaquille O’Neal.
You obviously don’t know much about what “The General” makes Shaq do for his check…
let’s just say that Icy Hot won’t help 😉
any more than Shaquille O’Neal.
Once again, Shaq comes up short in the comparison with Wilt.
I was being a little unfair.
But the whole hot chick trolling for attention gets offered thousands of dollars by a total stranger offered me thousands of dollars and invited me to a party, in the Middle East, even, I mean, how can anyone think that does not involve sex on demand?
I agree, and I thought that this happens in Dubai was common knowledge. I heard about it years ago.
Didn’t Liam Neeson make several documentaries on his efforts to put a stop to this stuff?
That whole article was all “does a bear shit in the woods?”
I’ll note that,in the AP article on the “Big Beautiful Abomination”, they mentioned not a word about Rand Paul’s concerns/objections to it. Only the (R) from North Carolina who was concerned about “grave cuts” to medicaid and the subsequent deaths of millions of ‘Mericans. That they mentioned. And he was “joined by Rand Paul”. What, the media are biased, manipulative, propagandists? I’m shocked. Really.
I just love that “tightening requirements for government-paid healthcare” is a “cut to Medicaid”.
Not surprising coming from people who insist that not giving is taking.
I should amend a bit – they do mention that some conservatives are concerned that cuts don’t go far enough and Rand objects to increasing the debt ceiling. All the way at the bottom of the article. In the up-front presentation of the vote, it’s all about the ghastly cuts that the evil blood thirsty GOP is inflicting on poor Americans, so evil that even some of their own balk at the depravity of cutting Medicaid.
Yeah, I didn’t read that far. I noted the usual AP bias and tapped out.
A 2,000 word thumbsucker on CNN.
We need to go about 1,000 words in for:
The inside story of Andrew Cuomo’s campaign collapse
Can you (((people))) turn down the humidity?
Do the space lasers raise or lower humidity?
“The applications do not raise — and thus we do not address — the question whether the Executive Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act,” Coney Barrett wrote in the majority opinion. “The issue before us is one of remedy: whether, under the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts have equitable authority to issue universal injunctions.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/aclu-files-class-action-lawsuit-against-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order
I’m thinking someone is going to raise those questions.
They already have, from what I understand. The court just ruled that the lawsuits on the merits have to play out without national injunctions from the diverging district courts.
That will be interesting. I’m not sure how that would work – in some districts, ICE can’t take action against people born here to illegal parents, and in others they can?
Quite the incentive structure, that.
4D chess argument – “sanctuary” cities now get flooded with people fleeing law and order states, thus forcing the issue locally when entire countries are getting imported into Oregon.
Disclaimer – no politician plays 4D chess. They mostly play Hungry Hippos while being blissfully unaware that second and third order effects even occur.
Didnt realize KBJ actually referenced aliens in the most literal sense in her dissent.
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/06/28/ketanji-brown-jackson-alien-n2414911
Mars?
Maybe they left Mars as a refugee…
Hopefully he left the Earth modulator back home.
It aint no place to raise your kids. In fact its cold as hell.
Seriously, the dog too?
Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman, husband and dog lie in state; suspected killer appears in court
He was impersonating a cop.
In this case you really do need a steenkeen badge to pull that off.
Is it wrong I lol’d?
So the wine bar I usually visit is holding a vinyl sale and someone tried to get me to by a George Benson record and I have no idea how that sounds. What is the Official Glibertarian position on George Benson?
Not my jam.
Benson
Jazz guitarist Benson or pop vocalist Benson?
I think it was not much voice
also weirdly it was a Japanese edition it had jap writin on it
If it was Japanese it was most likely jazz.
Or gubernatorial aide Benson?
Don’t know how he’s regarded by jazz aficionados, but I thought his cover of “On Broadway”, a song first popularized by The (magnificent) Drifters, was quite enjoyable (and, I admit, the only one of his works I recall off the top of my head, as it was, as far as I know, his biggest hit.) [Disclaimer: my opinions are by no stretch of anyone’s imagination an Official Position of anyone, including myself.]
Dull, technically perfect.
So the Steely Dan of Jazz?
The Steve Albini/Steely Dan copypasta never fails to bring a smirk to my face:
Like King Crimson?
Naturally I tend to park in them, annoyed by the presumption.
Yes, the presumption of a private entity disposing of it’s resources according to its preferences. So tedious. If only there was something you could do to register your displeasure. Like shop somewhere else.
Like shop somewhere else.
Hmm, perhaps a small local business rather than a national chain…
All zero of them.
There’s no East “Butlerville” Hardware? Or did they already close?
What? They even have a cute name.
/Western Auto has left the chat
must agree: the better move
works for establishments that prohibit carrying on their premises
vote with your dollars; vote with your feet
Establishments that prevent carrying on premises….My local quickie mart has a sign on the door prohibiting the carrying of long guns in the store. It has a sillouette of a full size shotgun on it.
I have to wonder….
I always thought it odd some stores used to ban Beretta 92s.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Beretta/s/F6aMTJpvo7
long guns
TN prohibits the carrying of loaded long arms in public…even to those with the top-level carry permit
a locked-open AR with a mag in your back pocket is okay?
the TN mix of stupid laws is stupid, but not TX-level stupid….but I am sure we will catch up
Of all the shit you could dog Texas for after they finally legalized constitutional carry for handguns, and have no restrictions on carrying long guns.
OTOH, any public school graduate should qualify as handicapped.
TW:TOS
“Marcy Rheintgen, a 20-year-old transgender college student, was arrested in March for washing her hands in the women’s restroom of the Florida Statehouse in Tallahassee. She was protesting the state’s law banning transgender people from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. However, Leon County court records show that a judge granted her defense attorney’s motion to dismiss the misdemeanor trespassing charge against her on June 20 after state prosecutors failed to file charging documents and other information in her case within a 90-day timeline.”
https://reason.com/2025/06/27/judge-dismisses-case-against-trans-woman-who-tried-to-challenge-floridas-bathroom-law/
Good.
See, I thought the way civil disobedience was supposed to work was, you break the law you are protesting and then you take the punishment for it, to show why the law should be repealed or overturned.
Not, you break the law you are protesting and judges and prosecutors fall over themselves to let you off the hook.
I should refresh more often…
She did deliberately break the law she was protesting, and was sent to jail, with the risk of being convicted and sent to prison. Not that she wanted to go to prison, but I don’t see how the state dropping the charges was either up to her or invalidated her actions.
Isn’t that what a defense attorney is supposed to do?
The client is ultimately in charge.
So you are saying she should have plead guilty? Sorry, I’m not getting your point here.
Also, can someone plead guilty to breaking a law they aren’t even charged?
“Rheintgen was ultimately prosecuted under a misdemeanor trespassing charge, rather than for the law she was protesting.”
If your actual intent is to challenge the law you would want your case to go to trial, so if anything, your attorney might file a motion to extend deadlines or waive your right to file for dismissal. Dude wanted his 15 minutes of “stunning and brave” without any concomitant risk, and got it. All’s well that ends well, I suppose.
So you are saying she should have plead guilty? Sorry, I’m not getting your point here.
Yes, plead guilty then challenge the constitutionality of the law on appeal. Otherwise, it’s just attention seeking performance. There is no question that the accused broke the law as written.
Yes, protests are attention seeking.
Also, not seeing where the constitution says anything about bathrooms.
You’ve never read MLK’s “Letters from the safe confines of my bedroom at my parents’ house?”
No, but she did podcast interviews from the basement of her church.
Poor thing, denied martyrdom!
… maybe I’m being obtuse, but doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of getting arrested in an attempt to challenge the law? This is like MLK trying to get off on a technicality instead of writing his letter from Birmingham jail.
That is why they missed the deadline…to stymie his challenge.
Attention spans were longer then. People sometimes followed a story for long enough to care about the follow up to the dramatic image of the arrest.
Who is editing over there now? ‘her’ hands?
How about “A 20 year old dude went into the women’s room and washed his hands…”
I am having some trouble working through the logic here. It is ok for a man to go in the women’s room because gender is just a construct…or something. So, why dont they just go in the men’s room to wash their hands? It almost looks like they are pervs getting off on both some women’s bathroom fetish thing and offending people.
“It almost looks like they are pervs getting off on both some women’s bathroom fetish thing and offending people.”
While that’s likely true for someone like Lily Tino, that was definitely not the case here.
I get it common tater, he is trying to challenge the law, a legitimate civil disobedience protest. The trouble is that his cause is to facilitate what I see as a borderline sexual offense.
I think it’s that Florida didn’t want to bring attention to a stupid law. First, it’s bad optics. Marcy Rheintgen is the least threatening person ever. Second, public support isn’t for the letter of the law.
“The Legislature finds that females and males should be provided restrooms and changing facilities for their exclusive use, respective to their sex, in order to maintain public safety, decency, decorum, and privacy.”
Is there anyone who wants trans men in the ladies room? If they use the men’s room, people just think it’s some dude taking a shit, and no one cares.
Yeah, he was doing this to make a political/ideological point.
Meanwhile, almost everybody is against men in the women’s room.
But you can’t write a law that targets one sex.
“Meanwhile, almost everybody is against men in the women’s room.”
I think almost everybody is against manly assholes like Lily Tino in the women’s room. I don’t think almost everybody is against passable trans women in the women’s room.
I also don’t think most people want trans women causing a stir in the men’s room either.
“But you can’t write a law that targets one sex.”
Exactly.
doG doubles down on the children of Helene
the Big Guy moves from birdshot to 00buck on his unchosen people?
He’s preparing for his return to the promised land.
I consider us lucky. Granted only a tiny percentage of the earth’s surface is heavily populated and even the land masses comprise around 30 percent, yet there are so many collisions it seems they are eventually going to overcome the odds.
Three is also this: “the six-mile-wide rock that wiped out the dinosaurs.”
*facepalm*
Always with the sensationalism. Dinos demise was gradual, over a 10 million year period and their direct line is still around in droves. Direct line…there isn’t really a sharp divide between birds and Dinos. The line is very wide and fuzzy. It would not be inaccurate to say they are still around.
They lost out the top slots to mammals, that is all. Anything an animal can do, a mammal does it best.
They lost out on the top spots in the large animal category to mammals. Nematodes are kind of dominant in terms of numbers. And by kind of dominant I mean totally blanket the planet to the point that if everything other than nematodes was to vanish you’d be left with a ghostly outline of everything that had just vanished made of nematodes.
If cross species reincarnation is a thing, you are statistically going to be a roundworm next time around.
20 Years of Caramelized Onion in a 2 Michelin Star Restaurant in Italy with Chef Davide Oldani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaQkxZvf9Pw
Wife and I went to visit Not Adahn at the shootenanny north of Columbus yesterday. While browsing along the various stages, we stumbled across the guys shooting revolver class. I was curious what they were shooting, so asked one of the guys. Turns out almost all of them are shooting custom shop S&Ws (he rattled of some model numbers I didn’t catch) chambered in 9mm (!). Eight round cylinders, with full-moon clips to hold the cartridges, which makes reloads fast. On their belts, instead of magazines sticking out at all angles, they’ve got a row of loaded clips hanging on hooks.
He did say there was one guy shooting a Ruger, but he made a face like he had stepped in dog poo when he said it.
Stock Rugers often have crap triggers.
I can understand them choosing full-moon clips over .38 if how fsst you can reload is part of the competition.
Oh yeah. Even very fast speed loaders are tragically slow, and it makes a big difference when you’re reloading 3-4 times per stage.
S&W guy here but Ruger revolvers are solid guns. I would buy a Ruger….but why when I can get a Smith?
Why not both?
What’s the etiquette on dual-wielding with mismatched firearms?
What’s the etiquette on dual-wielding with mismatched firearms?
Salvador says “That is awesome!”
Revolver shooters make regular competition shooters look normal by comparison.
The Old Guy admits to enjoying some absurdist shit, like the Geto Boyz video for Still featuring cute puppies. This one almost reaches that level.
I liked it.
The man, Fernando Diaz, was arrested by Huntington Park police after officers said they found a loaded gun and official-looking documents with Department of Homeland Security headings in his SUV, according to NBC Los Angeles. Officers were impounding his vehicle for parking in a handicapped zone when Diaz asked to retrieve items inside, the police said. Among the items seen by officers in the car were “multiple copies of passports not registered under the individual’s name”, NBC reports.
Diaz was arrested for possession of the allegedly unregistered firearm and released on bail.
So that’s what you gotta do to get arrested in California?
“and a terrific cartoonist who ought to be better-known”
And the author of the best punchline to a sight gag, ever: “pardon us madam, too much sun.”
These Slutty Sunday gals may be a little old for OMWC’s porta-potty party.
https://archive.is/EFSP8
Nice, actual women and not just little girls.
15 makes me reconsider farming as a career choice. 24 needs to be sat down for a discussion about lip fillers. My lap is as good a place as any. 25 is angling for a Spidey-sense line. Not falling for it.
I mean, isn’t the primary reason for becoming a pilot to fuck the stewardesses?
https://nypost.com/2025/06/27/lifestyle/airline-crew-members-are-having-sex-in-the-cockpit-flight-attendant-confesses/
Heh heh, *cock* pit, heh heh.
Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition, but they have run into a series of political and policy setbacks. Not all GOP lawmakers are on board with proposals to reduce spending on Medicaid, food stamps and other programs as a way to help cover the cost of extending some $3.8 trillion in Trump tax breaks.
Nobly standing up for the little guy.
Hey Rhywun, if you’re still lurking about, check out Sunday (1994) if you haven’t.
They never look like you’d hope they would.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/bride-encourages-fella-sleep-women-35454336
A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the Senate bill would increase by 11.8 million the number of people without health insurance in 2034.
“Eenie meenie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak.”
We can’t tell you about next year, but in 10 years!!!
Well, Medicaid isn’t health insurance, so fewer people on Medicaid doesn’t mean more people without health insurance.
Media server setup and installed onto an Dell Optiplex 9020, kodi box on a rasp pi….
Now just to sink and hide some wires
That’s pretty much my exact setup, only my server is a pieced-together-from-Newegg-Christmas-coupons DIY job from about 6 years ago.
“Federal agents wearing masks and casual clothing significantly increases this risk of any citizen dressing up in a way that fools the public into believing they are law enforcement so they can engage in illegal activity. It is a public safety threat, and it’s also a threat to the agents and officers themselves, because people will not immediately be able to distinguish between who is engaged in legitimate activity or illegitimate activity when violence is occurring in public,” he said.
It should be open season on masked men with guns.
Now do the local cops in plainclothes. And unmarked cars, for that matter.
Well they probably don’t look like Sgt. Joe Friday, but then again do we want them dressed in, say, snazzy black uniforms with silver flashings ?
My favorite use of handicapped spots is at trailheads, especially ones with strenuous hikes. A few years back during the virus panic we were constantly taking the kids on hikes as not much other stuff was available (and we like hikes anyways). I remember one spot we were scouring for a parking spot for a good 10 minutes or so passing by the three handicapped spots that were empty. When we finally got one we saw an energetic looking couple in their 60’s hop out of their car with the handicapped placard and set off on a several mile hike through the hills to the beach.
It’s big
Elon Musk ripped into the Senate’s massive domestic policy package on Saturday, calling it “utterly insane” and destructive,” pointing to provisions in the bill that would raise taxes on many solar, battery, geothermal, wind and nuclear energy projects.
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“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on X, the social network that he owns.
“Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future,” he continued, hours before the Senate was poised to hold a key vote on the package.
The bill would also create a new subsidy for coal that’s used for the production of steel.
The Tesla
and SpaceX CEO, who is the wealthiest man in the world, has been an outspoken critic of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” views that in part triggered a public feud that erupted earlier this month between the two men.
Musk previously called the bill a “disgusting abomination” and urged lawmakers to “KILL the BILL.”
Whose side are you on?
Raise taxes, or remove subsidies or carve outs?
Not giving is taking.
I see Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett gave a few more billion to Bill and Melinda gates. At least wee know the money will be put to good use.
They’ll just be wasting away in Margaritaville.
Saturday marked the tech magnate’s 54th birthday. Activists in a movement known as Tesla Takedown organized “anti-celebration” protests in response to Musk’s work with President Trump and endorsement of Germany’s extremist anti-immigrant party AfD.
He is a very bad person.
A quick report from crazy-land.
In Vancouver for a few days before a cruise.
Pro-Gaza Protest: man, these people are stupid. And straight simping for IRAN. Not hiding it, even a little. The open support for Iran quite open. They also expect me to get my geopolitical news from them, to which I’ll be quite clear. I don’t believe the media. But I sure as fuck believe the media more than random protestors scribbling the nastiest things one can imagine on the sidewalks while a woman with a beard and wearing one of those fucking scarves screams at me about the injustices carried out against Iran, who “Believe me” were DEFINITELY not enriching their uranium.
Went to someone’s house I hadn’t seen in nearly 2 decades. A friend of Mrs Muzzled. Her husband actually asked how different life was living “under” Trump. He was quite surprised to hear that it was no different. Didn’t have the will to get into any conversation with an obviously very anti-Trump Canadian (from China) to inform him that it’s actually better than during Presidementia was in office. There’s just no point to fight their programming. They won’t travel to the US until he’s out of office. They couldn’t name any policies they don’t like, but POLICIES!!!
The homelessness and open air drug use problem on the west coast is here in Vancouver, though not nearly to the extent as Seattle and other west coast American cities. It exists, but it’s generally confined in a way it is not confined in Seattle. Most parts of downtown are great. Very welcoming, clean, and drug user-free. But not all of it. I’ve long thought that Vancouver had the worst homeless problem I’d seen. It’s still bad, but not nearly as bad as it was in Seattle last year, where all of downtown was a homeless camp with open air drug use and sales happening everywhere. It was a terrible experience, and I won’t go back. At the very least, Vancouver has confined their drug addled homeless population away from the business and shopping districts.
It’s a bit unnerving when you realize that, here in Vancouver, seeing a white Canadian is a rare sight. Almost all Chinese, Indian, or some other middle eastern descents are far more popular than white Canadians.
Everyplace landmark I’ve visited has had the dumbest of the modern woke shibboleths: the land recognition speech. It’s the dumbest shit ever. How’d the people who you “stole” the land from get the land? Their ancestors didn’t walk across a land bridge and settle their 30k years ago. That land was stolen and taken hundreds of times in those years. Whatever tribe is claiming it now, and whichever all of the speechifying pays homage to, can only do so because those fuckers killed the Indians who were here just before them. They imagine this land of milk and honey, run by people who so show are not poisoned by the human condition and human nature.
Her husband actually asked how different life was living “under” Trump.
He isn’t freezing our bank accounts the way Canada “under” Justin Trudeau did to protesting truckers.
The law is a footnote
Chief Justice John Roberts chastised President Donald Trump early on in his second term, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett pointedly questioned whether his administration would adhere to court orders.
But their public wariness of Trump was fleeting.
And on Friday, Roberts enlisted Barrett to write the opinion that dissolved one check on the president’s executive power, whether to end birthright citizenship or to enforce policies overhauling the federal government and encroaching on individual rights.
It’s a monumental battle of wills for the soul of a nation, not an interpretation and application of the laws as written.
He “enlisted” Barrett to write a decision that says essentially what The Wise Latina said just 3 years ago? That district courts don’t have the authority to forge nationwide injunctions and provide relief to parties not directly involved in a lawsuit?
The horror.
I did like the zingy line towards stating that Sotamayor would (now) do away with executive tyranny in favor of judicial tyranny.
In recent decades, US district court judges have increasingly applied such injunctions to prevent – on a preliminary basis – arguably unconstitutional policies from being enforced while the merits of legal challenges are resolved.
Seated at her usual place on the bench, to Robert’s far right, Barrett said the judges who had imposed the nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases had exceeded their authority.
Looking to 1789 and the power first conferred on federal courts, she described judges’ authority in such disputes over presidential action as “flexible … not freewheeling.”
“Some say that the universal injunction ‘give(s) the Judiciary a powerful tool to check the Executive Branch,’” she elaborated in her written opinion. “But federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them. When a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too.”
But judges are there to set things right. You know, to mete out justice.
Like King Solomon? Oh, that’s right, we want No Kings. So more like Commissars?