Sinner and Joker into the semis yesterday. Women’s semis today, and I see Sabalenka and Swiatak advancing, which kind of returns the women’s draw to form at the end. The Astros got swept by the Indians at home after doing to same to the Dodgers. The roller coaster is back in Houston. This ain’t good. And I’m still in a bot of shock at the firing of the most successful TP in the history of Formula 1 in the middle of the season. I also see red in his future. That’s all for sports.
Guess you’ll have to find somewhere else to mutilate kids. Because heaven forbid you get them mental health care instead of chemically castrating them.
Yeah, that’s how an appropriation works. Which is what the left demanded be done, IIRC.
We need to ban this shit. And all other Pubsec unions for that matter.
“They’re escaping violence and just want to come here and work.” Sure thing.
I’m not one to gossip, but… I’m convinced this woman is constitutionally illiterate.
Why would they do this? I wonder if perhaps there’s more to the story that the paper is not telling us.
I guess that’s one way to spin a headline. Another way would be to say that woke assholes all but destroyed comedy.
What an odd decision. You know, they can always attend mass legally where they came from.
Just like Charles Bronson. Glad they’re ok. Also, will this will put the tunnel on the same schedule as the HSR project?
I’m getting sick and tired of fake news. Whoever did this deserves to have the 3-2-1 method used on them.
Let’s get those toes tapping. So good. Now get up out of that chair. What a wonderful band. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.
“We need to ban this shit. And all other Pubsec unions for that matter.”
Yes, but I don’t see how?
Just pass a law banning public sector unions. It would be constitutional.
Under the commerce clause? What if it’s a local union?
Just ban unions for anybody employed by a federal, state, or local government. See what the courts say.
Under the commerce clause? What if it’s a local union?
Wickard v. Filburn says hi.
There would definitely be legal challenges, not that congress would ever vote for it in the first place.
No it wouldn’t.
What can be done is reverse the laws and EOs requiring collective bargaining.
What can be done is reverse the laws and EOs requiring collective bargaining.
Yep. Can’t really ban public employees from gathering in their spare time and forming some sort of association, but that association should be not be recognized by the employer (the government) as representative of those employees in any way. Non-employee union personnel should be banned from the property just like other unauthorized persons, nobody will be employed as the in-house “collective bargaining agent”, and no company time or resources should be allowed to be used for unionizing purposes. Striking employees would just be handled under normal disciplinary policies as a no-call no-show. Maybe bring in some RICO charges if the employees’ self-created organization is systematically enacting violence against any replacement workers (as unions have a history of doing).
You can fit 30-50 of them in a Chinook, depending on how fat they are.
So, you are saying we should drop the unions?
I am saying we should lift them up to heights they have never seen, and help them learn to fly over a beautiful ocean.
My favorite bit is they pay that shrieking commie Jew-hating lunatic over $400,000 a year.
It’s amazing how rich you can get commying.
The richest you can get commying is as the Supreme Leader after the revolution, but that’s only on an individual basis, and over time your fortune wanes. If you want widespread, sustainable commying wealth you need to be doing your commying in a capitalist society. It’s an important balancing act all parasitic organisms struggle with, how do you keep the host at the ideal state of infestation for maximum benefit to the parasites.
“Whoever did this deserves to have the 3-2-1 method used on them.”
TIL…
I’m from New Jersey and even I know that’s ridiculous.
Better than the number 6.
Or worse, the number 6 dance afterwards.
“The San Bernardino diocese told the National Catholic Reporter that immigration agents carried out detentions on two of its properties in June.”
Fucked up if true. Let’s stick to “the worst of the worst”.
It brings up a real question for the Catholic Church. What’s more important, rule of man or rule of God?
On the other hand, the local diocese (who is not alone I’m sure) is about 50/50 on giving dispensation for eating meat when St. Patrick’s Day falls on a fast day during Lent.
I want to know more about the specific Catholic Diocese of San Diego properties where the detentions occurred. Did ICE agents burst in to a church during mass, or was this in some ancillary property? NPR’s vagueness is conspicuous here.
If it was at a church, it would have been the lede on every news show in the country.
Probably at some halfway house they own where convicts and/or junkies live.
Or some of their rental units.
FTA that article linked to:
At St. Adelaide Parish in Highland, agents chased several men into the church parking lot, where they were detained. Separately, a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes in Montclair was picked up on church property, Andrews said. Andrews said he did not have more details and he did not provide the names or family contacts for those detained.
This isn’t a playground game of tag. Church parking lots are not home base where you can’t be caught if you run onto one.
sloopy:
But there is a long standing tradition of Churches offering sanctuary, but it doesn’t seem that was the case here. Now, if the Diocese wants to go that route, it would at least be in keeping with the Church’s tradition and faith.
I don’t disagree. However, sanctuary is asked for and granted in a case by case basis. You don’t get to paint “HOME BASE” on your parking lot and then have the guys on the opposing team just stop chasing people who happen to get a foot on it before they’re caught.
sloopy:
Agreed, the Diocese could offer blanket sanctuary, but the people would need to be in the properties, and the Churches would need to ask the agents to leave. Doing that would likely lead to some punishments for the priests, clergy, and staff involved, but that’s part of the roles they chose. If you don’t have the faith to accept the punishment for following the rules of God, why should I follow your God?
Churches can offer sanctuary all they want, but this gets to the heart of the Church/State argument in that the state does not have to give a rats ass about it.
The thing is that this entirely misrepresents the concept of sanctuary. Yes, a felon could take refuge in a sanctuary (holy place), but he couldn’t just stay there indefinitely. Once in the sanctuary he had two choices, submit to trial, or confess his crime to the coroner (coroner’s original meaning was as the local representative of the crown) and swear to leave the kingdom and not return without the king’s permission formally known as abjuration of the realm.
So, even if we recognized the law of sanctuary (we don’t) that very law actually requires self deportation!
Indeed, giving a rats ass about a church offering sanctuary would seem to raise separation of church and state issues.
“Catholic leaders across the country say they’re witnessing steep decreases in Mass attendance in response to immigration actions taken by the Trump administration.”
I wonder how much of that is because they just went home?
Time to watch Alfred Hitchcock’s “I Confess” again.
R C Dean:
I’m also curious how much of the drop off is due to the issues with the Church and the leadership.
Very interesting. I too always thought “sanctuary” was just another get out of jail free card.
Based on Highlander, it’s OK so long as blood is not spilled on Holy ground.
I could care less if it is at a church. Illegals be illegal.
Not sure if that’s depraved or just retarded.
Why would it be either? I don’t go to church, and don’t give a shit about whatever they do. They don’t have protections written into law, outside any other protections given to everyone else.
Gotta say, I’m with the brain science guy on this one.
couldn’t
If legal technicalities outweigh morality, why not toss in a flash-bang grenade and set a baby on fire?
I’d like to see the numbers in comparison to previous administrations.
I mean, Obama wasn’t called “deporter in chief” for nothing and the Dems largely didn’t complain too much.
There is no technicality about sanctuary. The church gets the same protections as everyone else. The morality is in the law, and you can see if your personal morality agrees or not, and if it doesn’t, you can pay the price for going against it.
The morality of the church is no different.
Wooosh!
In all seriousness, help me out here, Tater.
I’m just not seeing that arresting illegals subject to deportation orders is a legal technicality.
I’m also not seeing a sort of general moral imperative behind churches having the power to give sanctuary to criminals, to tell you the truth.
Or am I just missing a joke?
I’m not saying anything about sanctuary. I don’t have a problem with arresting people who ran onto a church parking lot.
Being subject to deportation orders is a legal technicality, and is often arbitrary. People here illegally technically aren’t “criminals”. Immigration court is under the executive branch, they don’t try crimes.
Biden having open borders was very wrong. So was tax funding NGO’s to facilitate illegal immigration. So I can understand the zealous reaction to it.
That doesn’t mean that it can’t be done in a civil manner with regard to the “common good”. There is no need to disrupt churches, schools, hospitals, etc. Especially in CA when there are city blocks in LA if not whole barrios run by alien violent criminals. Go after those assholes, not people peacefully praying.
“Being subject to deportation orders is a legal technicality, and is often arbitrary. People here illegally technically aren’t “criminals”.”
Some are criminals, some aren’t. Crossing the border illegally is a crime. Overstaying a visa is a civil offense. The millions who crossed illegally under Biden, and were subsequently given “refugee” visas, are criminals who have essentially had their prosecution and deportation stayed pending resolution of their refugee status.
Having a deportation order on you is no more (or less) a legal technicality than a no-trespassing order or an arrest warrant.
How and when the orders are enforced should be done with an element of, I guess, civility. That said, I am not particularly comfortable saying that when an illegal is known to be on church, hospital, school property, they should be immune from arrest. I don’t see why an arrest warrant for deportation should be treated any different than any other arrest warrant.
Fair enough but the left uses the exact same argument when they really mean “don’t go after anyone at all” and it gets obnoxious.
And who says they’re not going after those assholes too?
” I don’t see why an arrest warrant for deportation should be treated any different than any other arrest warrant.”
The difference is a regular arrest warrant is for an actual crime.
Entering the U.S. illegally is an actual crime.
Tater,
Cross any other country’s border and see if it’s a crime to do so without the proper paperwork.
Sorry Tater, that is bullshit reasoning. They are here illegally, and thus subject for removal from any point in the US. Just going after those that are deemed worse doesn’t make a difference, they should be removed the same time as every other illegal.
Make it hard on all of them, and that might move the needle for anyone of them to leave of their own volition. But they all have to go. And picking the low hanging fruit first, to make both a point to the voting citizens of how serious this is, and to the illegals to show how much they mean business, is something I have no issue with morally. The law, duly voted in and found constitutional, is the moral authority.
Picking and choosing is the morally repugnant position.
You could convince me that she was functionally illiterate.
You’d struggle to convince me otherwise at this point.
That article is paywalled.
Article?
It means a thing.
I thought of you Sloopy when I saw this headline:
Was the Guardians’ intentional balk an indication Houston is back to its sign-stealing ways?
A runner on second base catching signs is nothing new.
Either way, the Indians swept them, so if they were stealing signs from second, they didn’t get enough guys on base for it to have mattered.
They mention in the article that it would be completely legal for the runner on second to steal signs as well. I have a certain level of respect for MLBs… lax approach to quite a few rules. I mean, what sport would ever have a player crawling through ventilation shafts to steal back equipment before it could be tested?
The real kicker for the Astros is that this was the Indians coming off a huge losing streak.
a weather related balk
Link paywalled
“The ugly gossip in Washington about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson… as she’s rebuked by Supreme Court peers on both the right AND left: MARK HALPERIN”
https://archive.is/GTqwd
Yeah. What a shame.
Summary: “She’s an idiot”
Excellent, takedown of KBJ.
Remember when those two black girls won the debate championship by basically ignoring the rules, and raping some BS response to their truth, or sumsuch? And the left went crazy, saying this is the best thing ever?
This is where that ends up.
She’s exposing the left’s “jurisprudence” for what it really is, that’s why they’re upset with her.
She is both constitutionally and legally illiterate. How she passed the bar is anyone’s guess. But “It’s not fair, this is how we have been doing it” is not a legal argument, which is what her dissents have all been saying in faux legalese. I would have more respect for her if she could at least parse together a flawed legal theory in her dissents, which seems above her skill level.
That’s some John-o, Zwak. :-p
Rapping or raping, either one works actually.
They raped my ears when I watched a video of it, so I think the word used is fair.
“Au currant”?
Thank you
Jackson is doing exactly what she was selected to do – be a reliable hard-left vote on everything.
True, but she could try to make it a little less obvious.
That would require enough intelligence to be subtle.
“Jackson is doing exactly what she was selected to do – be a reliable hard-left vote on everything.
It goes beyond that. I expect that she is the lead entry to make the SCOTUS into a wrestling court like the one in the movie Ideocracy as fast as possible…
It is gonna be lit.
Don’t forget she has to also be the “sassy black girl” who knows more than the others.
Just another reason to say this, “Fuck you biden!”
“Criticizing Justice Brown-Jackson is racist!”
-Ken White (probably).
2050 SCOTUS RULING ON CONSTITUTION: “They all look retarded and talk like they are fags – LOOK AT THEM GAY WIGS! – so we rule against them..”
Don’t care even if that were true.
Being a gangster is hard work.
Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
There it is.
“Don’t care even if that were true.”
It is not even close to true. The vast majority of people coming to America are economic migrants, and in the 4 Obama 3.0 years, they came for the massive free shit they were promised to wreck the electoral system and put globalist permanently in power.
Silly savages, the best BBQ town in California, nay, the country, is Santa Maria.
Tri-tip for the win, limp briskit is for the losers.
Santa Maria has a few good spots. And tri tip, when done right, can be edible.
But there’s a dozen towns in Texas with a population below 10k that put it to shame. And not just for brisket.
Edible? Listening to you, you probably think ribs are edible. Which makes you wrong.
The Santa Maria Grange is the best BBQ in the world.
ZWAK:
As ribs are from a pig, they are by definition edible. Hell, some people think chitlins are edible.
I can only think Zwak has been discarding the meat and trying to eat the bones in some sort of comedic misunderstanding.
I made four racks of ribs on the 4th. And pulled pork in addition to some jalapeño smoked sausage, and 3 gallons of my quasi-famous beans. Los Doyers and his family were there and can attest that all in attendance, many of which have spent a good part of their adult lives in California, said it was the best bbq they’ve had in ages.
Again, I’ve got nothing against tri tip. But it’s a rookie cut of meat.
Sigh.
Pork is a breakfast meat*. And you don’t have ribs for breakfast (or anytime, for that matter) So chops, bacon or sausage are all good, carnitas if you go south of the border.
Thus it was written.
*Chicken is for lunch, beef for dinner. As a food person, I am surprised you don’t know this.
Zwak, give me that shovel. You’re supposed to Stop digging.
Beans? Wait, are you one of those “people” who think chili has beans in it, Sloopy? Texas makes chili, knowing they cannot even remotely compete with Santa Maria style pinquito beans.
Good, more ribs for me. It may have something to do with our childhood.
I like liver, too.
::pushes away plate of steak and eggs::
I disagree.
Beans? Wait, are you one of those “people” who think chili has beans in it, Sloopy?
I never said chili. I said beans. And there are more than a few glibs who I’ve given a version (but not the version) of my recipe to for their own cooking. They all said they’re either rhe best or close to the best beans they’ve ever had.
Those Santa Maria beans are, to repeat what I said about their tri tip, edible. But so is dog food if one is hungry enough.
What kind of beans?
Pinto beans are the core ingredient.
This seems like a good time to point out that Canadian bacon and pizza make a damn fine pizza topping combo.
Canadian bacon and pineapple, that is.
That’s a good choice for side-order beans.
Again, sigh. Anchovies, jalapenos, pineapple.
And, for Neph, you can eat it on Friday!
As far as steak and eggs, I love steak. I love eggs. I do not love steak and eggs, said ZWAK I am. They just don’t work well together, its a balance issue.
Jocko’s is fucking amazing. Way better than your Texas picnic food.
My steak and egg breakfast burrito refutes ZWAK thus!
As ribs are from a pig,
There are beef ribs too. They’re pretty good too.
Jocko’s is fucking amazing. Way better than your Texas picnic food.
My need for an engine to be installed and other race prep preclude me from giving my honest feedback to this comment.
Also, you don’t even eat cheese!
Suck it ZWAK. Pork is the best anytime.
The best BBQ I have ever had was in Tennessee, cooked by an ancient shriveled up black dude in a smoker he’d obviously made himself, by the side of the road.
I’ve never had bad BBQ. I am generally not a picky eater. I know the cook has done the best that they know how to do.
Food is best in a social gathering as opposed to eating alone.
What Forescore said.
There used to be a shack near Memphis State that had the best BBQ (and cheapest) in town. It was gone when I went back years later. It is a shame. I don’t remember this joint from when I was going to school there, but it looks good.
The guy running the bbq shack was an old black guy too. He was interviewed for the school newspaper once and he was telling them that he would check the wind in the morning to decide what to make. If it blew out of the south, it would draw from his chimney more and he could get a hotter pit.
Place was just a window to order from. Once you got your food you wandered away to find a place to sit and eat.
I will continue to state that the fact that Rodney Scott (and that dude in TN too, probably) don’t have a Michelin star or three is proof that the Michelin system is bunk.
Michelin Stars favor French Cuisine establishments. The further from baseline Parisian, the lower the score they give.
Michelin guides are by city – he’s not in a covered city. That’s also why there are no Michelin starred restaurants in Boston.
Michelin Stars favor French Cuisine establishments. The further from baseline Parisian, the lower the score they give.
That hasn’t been true in forever. If anything, they lean Asian these days.
Michelin hasn’t got to Hemingway, SC yet?
But more seriously, how are they not in Charleston (or Boston)?
Expense, I guess – there aren’t really that many Michelin inspectors and it takes a fair amount to become one. Each place is visited, incognito, multiple times, paid out of pocket, etc.
There are forever rumors over which city they’ll expand to next.
The best ribs in the country are from Pappy’s in St. Louis.
The best brisket may be from Texas but we have some great ones here in Stl like Salt and Smoke.
The best bbq chicken may be from the Carolinas with that Alabama white sauce on it.
The ol’ 3-2-1 at Great American Ballpark is $3 beer, $2 hotdogs, $1 ice cream.
Only on tuesdays.
CA bbq: I suppose it is possible…they have a lot of Mexican culture there. Cooking is one thing Mexicans do very well. As far as ‘better than’ I am gonna have to say that is going too far.
The laws of physics don’t change just because the lunatics set the laws of man. You can cook anywhere.
You have not been to England?
I have, and as long as you stick to pub food they actually can cook pretty well. But their failures are not due to physics, they are due to a cultural distrust of pleasure.
I had great food in England two years ago.
Like “bad teeth” it’s a dated and fading stereotype.
I haven’t been since 2012.
The worst food I had was in the airport (unsurprisingly). Full disclosure, I ate mostly at the (4-star) hotel, and once at Warhammer World (the food there was pretty good for a company that makes plastic crack)
In the interest of truth, I should also mention that we got food poisoning there 🙂
(Breakfast buffet at the slightly janky wedding venue, we suspect)
The breakfast buffet at the hotel had all the ingredients to have a Full English. I declined to have roast tomatos or baked beans with my breakfasts.
Worst food I ever had was at a Korean restaurant in Pohang. My brother-in-law ordered raw sea urchin. It looked like orange snot, but didn’t taste as good.
I am not a picky eater by any means, but that got spit out immediately.
It is Spanish in origin, going back to the ranchero days, before the US was a country.
By the way, have they even discovered fire yet in Louisiana?
Haven’t they banned it in California?
Have you heard of Cajun cooking?
Don’t you just put the pots out in the sun and let them get boiling from the solar rays?
Don’t you just put the pots out in the sun and let them get boiling from the solar rays?
Water vapor is a greenhouse gas you Gaia hating science denier! Do you put California compliant warning labels on the steam you callously release into the atmosphere?
Bugs aren’t food.
Maybe the BBQ thing was literal. Like as in when the residents turn your literal city into a BBQ like with the protesters?
Floyd George 4 star recommendation
How bad was that Inmam that the Biden administration was willing to have him deported? Also, he was part of a group called Ignite Peace. They sound fiery, but mostly peaceful.
The imam told Dr. Jill she looked like a dude, and that Harris’ brown ass was hotter…
So she had his imam ass deported..
The most important part of bbq isn’t the piece of meat you choose. Anybody can find an otherwise sketchy cut and smoke it to perfection. No, my friends. The key is the smoked sausage that goes with it and the quality of the sides. And in that respect, Texas cannot be touched.
And I’ve lived in California, Georgia (on the SC state line), Virginia (almost on the NC state line), and Texas. Texas wins hands down.
With apologies to people in Kansas City for not including them in this harangue. Their ketchup-based sauces preclude them from serious consideration.
lulz
You trying to wake Moj from a sound sleep?
PREACH!
KC burnt ends is some of the best brisket you’ve ever had. I don’t even add sauce to mine.
Last year when I was in TX for the eclipse, my brother to me took a BBQ place. I had been to TX before and had great BBQ. I don’t remember the name, but the BBQ was amazing. Maybe the best I’ve ever had.
The people called Romans they go a house?
The people called Romans they go a house?
GLOL
You haven’t lived until you’ve had one of my smoked pork steaks. Pork is the OG BBQ…Texans just added beef to cheat.
Today, in right-wing derp.
“Epstein followers in shambles as their conspiracies are falling apart”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/opinion/epstein-followers-in-shambles-as-their-conspiracies-are-falling-apart/
One silver lining is that if Bongino and Patel are this bad at lying it indicates they are generally honest.
I don’t give a damn about Jeffrey Epstein.
I don’t much care for the powerful people he mingled with, either, though of course I think all are owed the presumption of innocence.
I do care about democracy.
And right now, there are few threats to democracy as insidious and toxic as the tragically fashionable belief that we are ruled by devils and there is nothing we can do about it.
I mean, wow.
We are provably ruled by devils and there is nothing we can do about it. If that fact is a threat to democracy, then perhaps that’s an indictment of democracy. What can be destroyed by the truth, should be.
Still amused that he of all people believes anything the crooks at DOJ or FBI say.
““Epstein followers in shambles as their conspiracies are falling apart””
The horrible side effect of us finding out that so many of those things we knew were wrong and were dismissed by the machine as conspiracy theories is that when those that are that invested in a conspiracy theory find out their conspiracy theory is not working out to validate them – yet again – they will not be able to accept anything. They can die, go to heaven, ask god about Epstein, get told he killed himself, and then will say “This pedo shit goes WAAAAYYY higher than I even thought”..
“Whatever happened to America?”
/Eric Idle
lol Has he taken a look at his own country?
There was a much longer article on the same story here:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/monty-python-comedian-says-trump-emboldened-people-laugh-again-after-woke-activists-ruined-comedy
But I’d already done a link from there. It goes into detail on what Gilliam was actually trying to get across: that wokeism had all but ruined comedy and now people can laugh again.
He’s concerned that the US declines to arrest people for unapproved speech like the UK does.
He needs to re enact that scene from the Meaning of Life where he is ridiculed for wanting to be a woman.
“During a gathering with several West African leaders at the White House on Wednesday, Trump zeroed in on Liberian president Joseph Boakai to commend his command of the English language.
Trump told Boakai with a broad smile: ‘Such good English.’
He then proceeded to ask: ‘Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated?’
Boakai, a seasoned politician and university graduate who speaks English as his first language, appeared taken aback by the comment but answered that he had been educated in Liberia.
The country is one of a few African countries whose official language is English.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14892389/VERY-awkward-Donald-Trump-Liberian-president-English-language.html
LOL
Having heard vernacular Englishes that are virtually unintelligable, it’s not an unreasonable question.
+1 Schwyzerdutsch
How intriguing that your capitol was named after an American president!
90% of the people who will make “Trump so stupid!” posts over this just learned about the national language of Liberia from this story.
While that’s true, it was still pretty dumb.
There’s a reason Liberians speak English.
Agreed, it was dumb (and I’m well aware that Liberians speak English and why).
What 4X20 said.
slumbrew, you say they just learned the national language is English…they probably also just learned that there is a country named Liberia.
This whole “gotcha” thing about trivia from foreign countries is getting really old.
So it was not Pidgin?
My junior year in high school we had a foreign exchange student from Liberia.
His “English” deserved scare quotes. His accent was super thick and everyone who met him asked him what his native language was. When he said English, most people didn’t believe him.
I’m betting he was still more articulate than, say, the average football player at Alabama or tOSU.
Ah, krio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pBOLdZZT6s
Easier to understand than Sheng.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3TNSCyLcMM
Boakai should have answered “I was educated in Guam before it tipped over.”
What could possibly go wrong?
UK and France Agree to First Ever Nuclear Weapons Pact to Fend Off Threat to Europe.
Oh it isn’t like those two have historic enmity like say India and Pakistan.
JFC they still think Pootie is gonna roll tanks into NATO?
Bless their hearts. Nice of them to shoulder some of the burden the US has been doing for decades.
They don’t think that. It’s all a grift.
Yeah, I was thinking the have their MIC’s to feed too.
I remember when there was talk of the two countries sharing aircraft carriers.
I heard those talks were scuttled.
Mers-el-Kabir looms large.
“Six members of the Secret Service have been suspended for failures related to last year’s assassination attempt against President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa.
The suspensions for the six agents ranged from 10 to 42 days, and they won’t be paid while on leave, Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn told CBS News on Wednesday.
The agents will not be fired, but upon return to work, they will be placed in roles with diminished operational responsibility.
“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” Quinn told the outlet. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/09/us-news/secret-service-suspends-6-agents-assigned-to-protect-trump-during-butler-assassination-attempt/
Sounds fair if it was typical government incompetence, and not deliberate negligence.
“We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”
Well, since the root cause includes DEI incompetence as well as negligence, possibly deliberate, firings need to happen.
Suspended from a rope?
“We aren’t going to fire our way out of this,” Quinn told the outlet. “We’re going to focus on the root cause and fix the deficiencies that put us in that situation.”
What if the root cause/deficiency is that the agents are incapable?
If you admit the agents are incompetent, you have to ask who hired them…
There’d be a lot of management fired as well.
I do not see the problem, but I suppose those managers might be worried.
My suspicion is that the real reason that the Secret Service seems competent 99% of the time is that 99% of the time no one is trying to assassinate the President.
A hyped up TSA. They really don’t prevent shit.
This is Obama’s doing. He went at the SS with an aggressive DEI policy deliberately hiring incompetents.
“A political cartoonist for Buffalo News spurred outrage for appearing to mock victims of the devastating flash floods in Texas on Monday with a cartoon depicting a drowning Trump supporter….
Buffalo News’ editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis seemed to clarify that this text was in reference to Trump supporters’ arguments for smaller government being “swept away” after the flood in an Instagram post.
“Tomorrow’s lines… that argument’s gone in a flash,” Zyglis wrote when posting his cartoon on Monday. He also included tags for “noaa,” “national weather service,” “doge,” “cuts” and “maga.””
https://nypost.com/2025/07/10/us-news/ny-papers-vile-political-cartoon-draws-outrage-for-appearing-to-mock-trump-voting-texas-flood-victims/
CWAA
So, the idiot thinks more bureaucracy would have stopped the flash flood, while NWS had extra personnel on just for the storm in question? He is a special kind of stupid.
Our biggest problem is the number of marxist indoctrinated idiots that believe government solves problem, and that more government will solve more problems. And they hold onto that belief despite massive evidence that government is the cause and the entity escalating practically of all or problems. No effort to fix things can get us fixed, until we deal with these idiots and this belief first.
Remember Tom Toles was at the same paper.
WTF, Buffalo News?
This is for Pie: I think what they’re doing with this in the Carpathians is really cool.
Now they should start releasing reconstructed aurochs and tarpans (oxen and horses backbred to resemble their wild ancestors) there as well.
My one objection to the video is the totally unnecessary addition of hundreds of snippets of wild creatures and habitats that are NOT Wisents. I even saw a chimp in one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk3Ar8Yoi-I
The internet as a whole is clogged with AI created content. Youtube is full of videos cobbled together from lots of snippets. I even found one musician with lots of their own songs, the catch being that that person does not exist and the music, though unique, is very generic in style and form and obviously a copy of the genre…I presume like the videos cobbled together from existing content.
Some of the content is accurate, some is not and a lot of it just pure fiction designed to appeal to human emotions and eye candy.
In a nutshell most of what you see on your computer is bullshit.
The trans kid shit is just mental illness all the way down.
The book American Psychosis tells of the dismantling of state mental hospitals by the federal plan of “proactive mental illness care” meaning diagnosing mental illness before it’s obvious and getting those people on meds as soon as possible.
As fucked up as that sounds, it was really only a matter of time that once money was being made with that scheme that the next logical step would be to create mentally ill patients.
Government once again filling a much-needed void.
There’s an Atlantic (the FUCKING ATLANTIC!) piece going through and dismantling the entire faux science behind the trans the kids movement.
“You can criticize Israel, object to the militarization of America’s police forces, and believe that climate change is real, and yet still not support irreversible, experimental, and unproven medical treatments for children.”
Not if you want to go to the cool parties.
I am not a fan of the American way of settling political disputes, by kicking them over to an escalating series of judges. But in the case of youth gender medicine, the legal system has provided clarity and disclosure that might otherwise not exist. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s oral questioning in Skrmetti and the discovery process in Alabama, we now have a clearer picture of how youth gender medicine has really been operating in the United States, and an uncomfortable insight into how advocacy groups and medical associations have tamped down their own concerns about its evidence base. Those of us who have been urging caution now know that many of our ostensible opponents had the same concerns. They just smothered them, for political reasons.
*blinks several times*
I would guess that 90% of the Trans movement is in reaction to the pollical climate changing in the US, and it bled abroad.
The other 10% is due to the LGB movement needing to find new mountains to climb.
Many of the most mentally ill are the parents who put a dress on their gay sons.
There are no gay or trans children: there are parents with severe mental disorders and left leaning cultist approval needs.
And that is because there is something seriously wrong with kids having any sexual impulses without some evil adult pushing that.
My kid at 7 watched Jurassic Park and wanted to be a velociraptor. He never whined about it, but he asked constantly if there was a way to make it happen. Imagine if I had decided to validate that crap and had sought him surgery to make him look like a raptor…
Alex, that’s shocking. You need to seek help for your kid. All normal kids at that age want to be Triceratops.
“Gay” is more than “sexual impulse” but that argument isn’t relevant to my point. Which is that many parents are trying to turn their kids who will turn out to be gay – if you can accept that wording – trans. Because the vast majority of “trans” who get therapy really wind up “gay”.
All of the leftists causes are insane. They are absurd on their face and deliberately so.
“If you can get people to believe absurdities you can get them to commit atrocities” I think is what we are looking at and the trans kid issue is an atrocity. Those people are monsters.
The left has mounted a full-on frontal assault on western civilization. It has to be countered or we will slide into naked barbarism.
I’ll share my beans recipe –
several rashers bacon.
green beans.
minced garlic.
Cut bacon into lardons.
In skillet, cook bacon until fat begins to render.
Add green beans and minced garlic.
Stir.
Heat until beans begin to release water.
Cover.
Periodically move beans and bacon around to prevent burning, re-cover.
When beans are cooked to taste, serve.
Mines similar, minus the beans and garlic.
Cook bacon.
Eat bacon.
Repeat as needed.
That is not a beans recipe, and will leave you with a shortage of fiber.
That’s what the lunchtime Cobb salad is for.
you should probably blanche the green beans first then put them in ice water
That’s roughly how I roll: Blanche, drain, add a bunch of good butter and salt to the pot and toss to combine. Easy and delicious.
My recipe is similar, I just use diced onions instead of garlic. You add the onions after the bacon has cooked a little.
That dish is always a crowd pleaser.
This also works in the oven as roasted green beans. Add salt & pepper.
Saw an interview yesterday with a cloud seeding expert from central Texas. Apparently there have been complaints that perhaps cloud seeding had contributed to the devastating flood. He said it did not. They are not allowed to cloud seed when there are flash flood warnings ini effect so they had not seeded for at least 3 days prior to the flood.
Get that? There was a flash flood warning in effect for three days prior.
Severe weather experts saw this lining up for over a week and issued proper warnings. There was no weather tomfoolery. The sad truth is that flood warnings get issued like candy on Halloween so people stop paying attention.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
#5 wouldn’t work around here, my neighbors would just take the whole box.
I gave the UPS driver a jar of honey for Xmas, later returned the jar, washed and ready for 2025.
A lot of good ones, Jimbo.
TW Ars Technica.
ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it
It’s interesting. It gave the company a way to attract more users, but it also may leave people blaming the company for a crappy product instead of the AI when it didn’t work.
It’ll be interesting when the first patent lawsuit related to false feature claims by an LLM puts a company in jeopardy.
My work has just released a ChatGPT help site… and are releasing it to the customer base.
I am not looking forward to the hallucinated features based on our shitty documentation that manages to be contradictory, incomplete, and out of date all at once!
So a dividend that usually pays on Friday showed up in my account today, and I Googled “Is the market closed tomorrow” to try to understand why:
AI gave me this
Yes, the US stock market will be closed tomorrow, July 11, 2025. It is closed on Saturdays and Sundays, and tomorrow is a Friday, so it will be closed for the weekend. Additionally, the market closes early on the day before Independence Day, which is today.
Here’s why:
Weekend Closure:
The US stock market, including the NYSE and Nasdaq, is closed on Saturdays and Sundays.
July 4th Holiday:
Tomorrow is July 11th, the day after July 10th, which is the day before Independence Day. The market closes early on the day before Independence Day.
I know if I wasn’t on vacation I’d be working Friday.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the AI might be wrong….
😂🤣
If AI is coming for your job, it’s coming slowly.
I awake, eyes bleary, and stumble to the window. Egads! The derp signal has been lit! But since it’s daytime, the derp cannon and flare have also been fired!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JtDHoK9KL8
debate champions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
the derp signal (audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vCD58dpxng
Ernest Borgnine went out swinging…
Stephen Ireland, now jailed for 24 years for raping an “extremely vulnerable” 12-year-old boy — referred to trans activist Peter Tatchell as an “inspiration.”
Tatchell, who argued for “intergenerational sex” and praised the “positive nature of child-adult sexual relationships” currently works as an advisor to the London Metropolitan Police in order to establish “collaboration and cooperation”.
Both men were in a leadership position with trans activist organization Educate and Celebrate, which advocated for halting children’s puberty.
“… He had had sex with a man when he was nine years old. He said it was his choice. Who am I, or you, to dispute it?”
https://x.com/WomenReadWomen/status/1943291492715336060
9 year olds, dude.
When the largest police department in your country has somebody whose job it is to establish collaboration and cooperation with people who like having sex with little boys . . . .
Your society is seriously into having sex with little boys.
make Fagging great again
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Burton theorized about the existence of a “Sotadic zone” in the closing essay of his English translation of The Arabian Nights (1885–1886).[74][75] He asserted that there exists a geographic-climatic zone in which sodomy and pederasty (sexual intimacy between older men and young pubescent/adolescent boys) are endemic,[74][75] prevalent,[74][75] and celebrated among the indigenous inhabitants and within their cultures.[75] The name derives from Sotades,[75] a 3rd-century BC Ancient Greek poet who was the chief representative of a group of Ancient Greek writers of obscene, and sometimes pederastic, satirical poetry; these homoerotic verses are preserved in the Greek Anthology, a collection of poems spanning the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature.
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Pederasty – it’s what’s for wajbat al-ashaa’!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsReWx9XdNs
England has lost its way Part MCMLXIX
British society IS seriously into having sex with little boys, and it has been for a long time. Have we never read about British public schools?
Milei update:
https://x.com/cafreiman/status/1943270119444033894
And 99% of the governments in the country will fight tooth and nail against any and every element of his program.
Why, its almost like governments don’t exist for the benefit of society as a whole, but for their own benefit!
Prosperity gives people options. This will not be tolerated by authoritarians.
Want to know why so much of humanity suffers poverty? Why even prosperous societies are only a fraction as prosperous as they could be?
There it is right there.
“Prosperity gives people options. This will not be tolerated by authoritarians.”
When you believe your job is to pick winners and losers – and that is what socialism is all about – you are not gonna want to give that power up..
NYT: “By creating incentives for professors & students to have and maintain certain political positions, such a policy would discourage curiosity & reward narrowness of thought.”
https://x.com/BradWilcoxIFS/status/1943261352006651933
https://archive.fo/Cl9bd
So close to getting it, but failing.
Sigh… I’ll say again that the answer is simply to stop discriminating.
The problem is that many (most?) academics don’t think they hold political positions, they think they hold the correct, truthful positions.
“The company blames a city ordinance, passed earlier this year, that imposes a permanent $26.40 minimum hourly wage for app-based delivery drivers, plus additional compensation for mileage. Seattle’s law, which went into effect in January, is part of the city’s broader efforts to treat gig workers like employees. But DoorDash says the unintended consequence is dramatically higher prices for customers, fewer orders for restaurants, and fewer opportunities for workers. “Extreme regulations like Seattle’s law are making it more expensive for consumers to get the food they love, harming local businesses and reducing opportunities for Dashers,” the company wrote.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/doordash-slams-politicians-extreme-regulations-making-seattle-the-most-expensive-market-to-operate-in
$26.40 seems oddly specific.
Critics warned that the added costs would be passed directly to consumers
Did Seattle forget to specify in the law that costs can’t be passed on to customers?
They could have at least followed the example from the link in the link:
I always hate that line – “businesses will just pass the costs on to the poor consumers!!”
That’s kind of what a business is: A way to get products made, and a way to pass the costs on to those who want the products.
If you want to give something away and eat the costs yourself, start a charity. Lots of people do.
Corrected for reality.
I agree 99.44%
VC sapper shows how it’s done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LqKwboKK0c
“This…is Han!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyIATgssVJw
“An antisemitic member of Washington State’s Human Rights Commissioner Han Tran, also a Northshore School Board member, took it upon herself to draft a resolution on antisemitism, which was approved by the agency…
Tran’s radicalism is not new. Her social media history includes posts from as early as 2021 calling for Israel’s destruction, sharing slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”—a well-known call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their ancestral homeland. She has participated in rallies where Israeli flags were burned and pro-Israel supporters were assaulted, while slogans like “Long live the Intifada” were chanted in celebration of terror.
After Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Hamas-led massacre of October 7, 2023—where over 1,200 Israeli civilians were brutally murdered, raped, and kidnapped, was eliminated in an Israeli strike, Tran mourned the terrorist by posting a quote glorifying resistance from Hamas-supporting poet Refaat Alareer, who compared Hamas’s atrocities to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising—a false and sickening moral equivalence between Jewish Holocaust victims and genocidal terrorists.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-antisemitic-school-board-member-wrote-washington-state-human-rights-commissions-resolution-on-antisemitism
CWAC
I’m guessing she is also a communist since these charming traits seem to go hand-in-hand especially if you’re not ethnically or religiously inclined towards the Jew-cleansing.
Yes, and I’m pretty sure “Tran” is a Vietnamese name.
At this point, Trump needs to go full Eisenhower, and National Guard these schools.
Expose them for being the neo-Klansmen they are.
Save the bipartisan consensus
President Donald Trump’s push for Republicans to bypass Democrats and claw back $9.4 billion in approved spending has ignited a new fight in Congress that could upend the normally bipartisan government funding process.
Ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to prevent a shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is laying down a marker by warning that Democrats won’t sign off on an agreement if the GOP follows through with Trump’s request.
“If Republicans cave to Donald Trump and gut these investments agreed to by both parties, that would be an affront — a huge affront — to the bipartisan appropriations process,” Schumer said. “It is absurd to expect Democrats to play along with funding the government if Republicans are just going to renege on a bipartisan agreement by concocting rescissions packages behind closed doors that can pass with only their votes, not the customary 60 votes required in the appropriation process.”
Always be spending.
“Investments”…
I caught that as well. 🙄
“Normally bipartisan” went completely out the window when Trump showed up.
“I will not write the check” seems to always be referred to as “clawed back”. Claws were used to forceable take money from someone. It’s like a violent mugging really.
lol
But it’s perfectly find when every single Dem “caves” to their radical base.
I would laugh my ass off if Dems decide to shut down the gov’t.
Turnabout is fair play.
Whatever else DOGE might have accomplished, I think they demonstrated just how little attention is paid to what actually happens to the money appropriated by Congress. The numbers are essentially unfathomable. Nine billion dollars seems like a lot to me, but apparently it’s just a drop in the bucket, hardly worth quibbling over. There are fine people who depend on those government handouts.
Didn’t some government agency just report that 90% of the money never got where it was supposed to go?
Most of them, I would guess.
If 10% of the money did make it to where it was supposed to go, that’s probably the most efficient government agency around.
Some things never change. Mark Twain covered similar grift in his novel, “The Gilded Age,” back in 1872!
That $9.4BB is a fraction of what DOGE identified in a handful of agencies.
Now, nobody can say they weren’t told how bad it is. From here on out, you either (a) support drastic cuts, (b) are fine with hundreds of billions of dollars being stolen or wasted, or (c) support hundreds of billions of dollars being stolen or wasted.
The number of Representatives and Senators in category (a) can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
95% of the Republican Congress critters:
“Yes, we can clearly see that this program has failed to deliver the promised results, has ballooned in size, and appears to be funneling money to political causes we dislike, and someone should do something to reform it, but we can’t do anything reckless like eliminate an entire program! That would be rash! Let’s appoint a committee to study this.”
99% of Democrat Congress critters:
“We’re getting money, and everyone who works there votes for us, and who cares about results or costs anyway?”
Conservatives have criticized identity-based affirmative action because, they suggest, it imposes an expectation on students of color that they will represent what is presumed to be, say, the Black or Latino view on any given issue, which discourages freethinking. Admitting students for viewpoint diversity would turn the holding of conservative ideas into a quasi-identity, subject to some of the same concerns. Students admitted to help restore ideological balance would likely feel a responsibility to defend certain views, regardless of the force of opposing arguments they might encounter.
For professors hired for their political beliefs, the pressure to maintain those views would be even greater. If you had a tenure-track position, your salary, health insurance and career prospects would all depend on the inflexibility of your ideology. The smart thing to do in that situation would be to interact with other scholars who share your point of view and to read publications that reinforce what you already believe. Or you might simply engage with opposing ideas in bad faith, refusing even to consider their merits. This would create the sort of ideological echo chamber that proponents of viewpoint diversity have suggested, often with some justification, leads to closed-mindedness among left-leaning professors.
What a heaping helping of tendentious pettifoggery.
I criticize identity-based affirmative action because it is unjust discrimination.
Yup. STOP DOING IT.
This isn’t rocket surgery.
That’s an argument I’ve heard from Democrats who blame Republicans of thinking that all minorities think the same.
And I’m pretty sure any of the libertarian (or libertarian adjacent) people have a long experience in defending their ideas and views.
Blacks and Latinos have diversity of views unlike whites …
“For professors hired for their political beliefs, the pressure to maintain those views would be even greater. If you had a tenure-track position, your salary, health insurance and career prospects would all depend on the inflexibility of your ideology.”
It’s a good thing that isn’t happening already.
Why does Trump hate fairness?
The Trump administration filed another lawsuit Wednesday challenging state policies that allow transgender students to play on sports teams of their choice – this time against California.
The lawsuit against the state board of education and the state’s governing body for school sports, alleges that a state law violates Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal aid.
That state law, the Sex Equity in Education Act, prohibits California public schools from blocking transgender students who want to be on school teams aligning with their gender identity.
These rules are completely fair and nondiscriminatory. Why does Trump want to crush the dreams of all those transboy athletes out there eager to show us their innate superiority at playing linebacker?
Even CNN would not know what to make of this expression no more than 5 or 10 years ago.
Now you’re a troglodyte regressive to even question it.
Yep. It’s been amazing to watch how recent events have plainly revealed how much people like to be told what to believe.
The problem is that many (most?) academics don’t think they hold political positions, they think they hold the correct, truthful positions.
Reality curves to the left. That’s the plain truth of it.
Sure as the existence of gravity the orange man is bad.
Also vaccines…
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
We will drag the proletariat to utopia … in chains if necessary.
The fact that Owensboro mutton bbq is never in the discussion is a disgrace.
Personally, I dont care for it, but its very popular in a very small geographic area. And thus deserves to be included in the discussion. Way more than KC does (the one bbq point I agree with sloopy on).
Nobody has had it.
robc: would you be interested in a front range meet up?
I love lamb, but, come on. This is at best an afterthought in the BBQ fights.
It’s like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Anything to this story? Nothing in the media here…
| This California city is a better barbecue town than any in Texas, says ranking.
Im just surprised it wasn’t San Luis Obispo. Well, at least Texas still has better gun rights and state income taxes, although their higher property taxes negate some of that.
I am from SLO, and will readily admit that the shithole knows as Santa Maria is were the good stuff is at.
Prop 13 is a blessing, it is true.
I remember the same story except the headline was “This Connecticut city is a better pizza town than NYC, says ranking”. It’s almost like clickbait is a thing.
Spurious allegations
But for all the fanfare, Newsom’s visit laid bare, too, the early indications of what could become a drag on his likely campaign — a sense among some Democrats in South Carolina that California’s liberal reputation may hobble him.
“He’s a very articulate person, and clearly he’s charismatic,” said Jim Hodges, the most recent Democratic governor of South Carolina, a heavily-Republican state. “The larger concerns that he has to allay are related to California, and the feeling many have that California is not representative of the rest of the country in terms of its politics. He’s got to overcome that.”
If Kamala Harris, another Californian, was chiefly saddled in her 2024 campaign by her association with Joe Biden, Newsom’s difficulties appeared this week to be centered more in geography — and in California’s longtime place as a punchline for conservatives in the culture wars.
California is not some quagmire of egghead progressivism. And even if it is, Newsom has played no role whatsoever in shaping California’s political and economic environment. He’s a true blue moderate. Exactly what the country needs.
Boom. There it is.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/10/politics/birthright-citizenship-hearing-rhode-island
A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, while keeping intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened Thursday in New Hampshire.
Ruling from the bench, Laplante granted a request from immigration rights attorneys to certify a nationwide class that “will be comprised only of those deprived of citizenship” and issued a preliminary injunction indefinitely blocking Trump’s Day One order from being enforced against born and unborn babies who would be impacted by the policy.
what?