I spent this past week on travel, visiting one of my clients. Since I was near Cincinnati, there was a further obligation and privilege.
As a Muslim, one is expected to make a Hajj to Mecca. And if you can swing it in the same trip, Medina. A religious Jew will make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. But a practitioner of the culinary arts must, at least once in his life, pay tribute to Jungle Jim’s. Which I did. And exercising the utmost restraint possible for me, I still dropped $300 there. The largest single ticket item was a pint container of some beautiful fresh morels. The largest expenditure category was a tie between wine and cheese. And no, I didn’t ride the train.
I would caution against taking hallucinogens before entering.
Speaking of rides, there are birthdays today, which include un homme qui est anulleé; a guy who never gave up; another fucking uplifter; a fantastically underrated cartoonist who mastered essentialism; an excellent third baseman who is only forgotten because of who he mentored; the masturbatory fantasy of every young male in the mid ’60s; a guy who really knew how to have a ball; my favorite rock drummer, who was known for his calm and conservative approach to life and music; a woman for whom lampposts and woodchippers were seemingly designed; and a guy who was a constant inspiration to me.
And with that, we dive into Links.
The important question is if they went through his panties drawer.
He’s just butthurt that someone else was actually assaulted by a Subway sandwich.
The tone of disappointment in this article is palpable.
“If you don’t hate Jews enough, I quit.”
Let’s call it “The Anti-IKEA Act.”
More Team Blue desperation. It would be nice to have effective opposition to Team Red, but they will not be the source of it.
I’m With Her (pre-dating and not related to The Hildebeast’s campaign slogan) dropped a new album recently, and I finally got a chance to listen to it all the way through. One thing that always strikes me when I hear them is not just how good their voices are, but the seamless way they blend them- think of the Beatles in that respect. In any case, this song in particular grabbed the Old Guy by the nugs, and one image in particular has stuck in his decrepit (((mind))). I have tickets to see them on this tour as part of my campaign to wean Prime off her love of Bruce Springsteen.
I have never managed to leave Jungle Jim’s having spent less than $200, no matter how sincerely I promised myself I was only going to buy a couple of specific items. It’s one of the best things about living in this area.
The girlfriend didn’t understand why I was so excited to go to a grocery store until I took her there.
I’m jealous of the people who live in those neighborhoods right nearby and can do their weekly shopping there if they want… Although like Jarflax, my budget goes out the fucking window as soon as I walk in, so probably for the best.
I’m sick of the Wellness Company.
Never heard of it, but then I’m no practitioner of the culinary arts.
To give you some idea of the depth and breadth of the inventory, they have a hot sauce department.
I highly recommend a trip to anyone in the area…but I don’t recommend going during the weekend.
Imagine a department store sized supermarket, with an imported foods section the size of an ordinary supermarket, with aisles sorted by nationality. The cheese section, meat section, bakery, deli, seafood, wine etc. sections are all basically as well stocked as a high end specialty store. If there is a candy, soft drink, vegetable or cheese you tasted once on a vacation abroad and crave, they have it.
🤤!
When I was there, before the Rona Panic, they also had a fireworks section, a honey section, a cooking school, and a walk-in humidor in addition to everything Jarflax and Gender Traitor have said.
Happy birthday Phyllis Schlafly?
At least you didn’t say “Henry Kissenger”, I suppose.
My dad was the spitting image of Henry Kissinger.
Fortunately, my mother’s genes can override damn near anything.
Happy birthday Frank Gerow?
Happy birthday Lance Armstrong?
Happy birthday Phyllis Schlafly?
Nah, happy birthday Anita Bryant!
Can’t possibly imagine why they’d indulge a fantasy of a knockout who only wanted to marry you, keep up your house… oh, and could grant unlimited wishes.
Nope… no ideas there… though now I’m picturing Ms. Sweeney in a remake….
though now I’m picturing Ms. Sweeney in a remake….
Huh. That’s a remake I might be interested in.
“President Trump said on Friday that Intel, the troubled Silicon Valley chipmaker, had agreed to sell the U.S. government a 10 percent stake in its business, worth $8.9 billion, in one of the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.”
That does sound retarded.
And their chips are all fucked up?
I mean, it took 10 years, but he’s finally doing something that’s actually fascist.
#winning!
I know I’m old fashioned but wouldn’t Congress need to appropriate money for the purchase?
Intel is apparently doing this as a swap for a CHIPS grant vice this being any kind of open market transaction.
https://nypost.com/cover/august-23-2025/
LOL
Doubt anything will come of it, but goddamn would it be fun to see that warmongering chickenhawk sack of projectile diarrhea rot in prison for his twilight years.
Just imagine if he got to room with Schiff. That’d be nice.
I’m certainly not going to dispute you on that — because after all, if there’s one thing governments in general know… and our government in particular — it is how to streamline and return a business to profitability. Just look at the USPS.
And interesting that the article barring a throwaway line of using some of the CHIPS (CHIPs? Ponch and John Memorial Fund?) Act money… which is about 8 billion short.. there’s zero mention of just where Congress has appropriated any funds for this purchase, approved it or anything else…
But yeah — we’ve moved from the trains running on time to the front side message passing buses keeping up their clocks, I suppose. And Intel will be stronger in bundles (of sticks) or something. Yay.
Yeah, this whole “fedgov invests directly in businesses” thing is a line that, now crossed, opens the door to truly vast horizons of corruption.
New life flows through the veins of Nancy Pelosi.
Now, if we could get the Feds out of the real estate business…
As policy, the government investing in businesses is rife with moral hazards, moves in a direction I find deeply troubling, and is the first thing Trump has done which can properly be called fascist.
As an investment, Intel has been losing market share, money and reputation.
This is bad.
But this is the good kind of fascism, a la Obama and GM. So the left isn’t going to protest.
Anyone remember when conservatives were aghast when Obama bought in to GM? Principals not principles.
But GM is now a business dynamo.
/sarc off
Looking over the links after hearing the leftist propagandists giving a tongue bath to St. John Bolton on the teevee. Wow.
Printing money is like communism – it always seems like a good idea if you dont think about it.
Imitate R’s? “We are sociopaths and have no idea how to appeal to humans. Watch that guy over there and copy what he does.”
The comment yesterday was that it would be his wife Senator Graham’s drawer of drawers…. which was amusing enough to recant here, I think.
No one’s going to believe much of anything at this point, I think. We’re in for another century of conspiracies to rival the JFK assassination.
“Here Bill Clinton moves up… and to the right. Up… and to the right…”
Back, and to the left.
Since the younger generations can barely afford an apartment — they can just use cardboard boxes for furniture anyway.
Isn’t that most of Team Red itself? Oh wait… you did say effective, true…
“I don’t belong to any organized political party. I’m a Republican.”
“The release includes documentation from a two-day interview conducted on 24 and 25 July. The materials comprise redacted transcripts for both days, along with multiple audio recordings – seven separate parts plus test recordings for day one, and four parts plus test recordings for day two.”
If they stop protecting the names of the victims, then maybe they’ll come forward about who victimized them.
“Maxwell also said she did not remember Trump having been in Epstein’s 50th birthday book, which she assembled.
The Wall Street Journal reported in July that the book’s collection of letters included one with Trump’s name on it. The president has repeatedly denied writing the note and filed a lawsuit accusing the Journal of libel.”
Still not even a picture of it.
What is it with this memory problem? I could understand it if everyone was a certain age but most of those are safely in a sheltered environment.
Yeah, those poor bewildered Democrats who were writing hagiographies about David Axelrod’s permanent Democratic majority, calling Agenda 2020 a conspiracy theory, and funneling taxpayer cash through USAID to keep an entire left wing media complex alive just can’t keep up with the machinations of that evil orange man.
Democrats can’t speak of the pompatus of love.
But a practitioner of the culinary arts must, at least once in his life, pay tribute to Jungle Jim’s.
Oh yeah. Jungle Jim’s is a great place.
The release includes documentation from a two-day interview conducted on 24 and 25 July. The materials comprise redacted transcripts for both days, along with multiple audio recordings – seven separate parts plus test recordings for day one, and four parts plus test recordings for day two.
If you want to look at the transcripts yourself, they are hier.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/08/23/03/101475585-15025725-Social_media_users_believe_the_fate_of_Cracker_Barrel_rests_in_S-a-3_1755917106757.jpg
LOL
“Actress Christine Baranski and singer King Princess sparked dating dating rumors this week.
Fans online speculated that the 73-year-old Gilded Age star — who criticized Gayle King and Katy Perry days ago — and 26-year-old singer were in a May-December lesbian romance after the two were spotted holding hands during two red carpet appearances.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15023723/Gilded-Age-Christine-Baranski-sparks-dating-rumors-lesbian-pop-singer-red-carpet-appearances.html
Lesbians get an age gap pass for some reason.
I am trying to think of something less interesting to me than the love lives of show people. I am coming up empty.
How about the taxonomy of Genders in today’s University environment? I think that manages to be less interesting than celebrities screwing, but I admit it’s close.
What I keep hearing from lefties is “Trump is just doing this to us because we did it to him! No fair!”
Cry me a fuckin’ river.
Good morning, all. Powerline goodness.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/the-week-in-pictures-cracker-barrel-edition.php
“Bride furious after groomsman’s girlfriend hijacks bouquet toss with surprise proposal: ‘I feel robbed’
During the bouquet toss, one of the groomsman’s girlfriends snagged the flowers — and promptly popped the question.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/lifestyle/bride-feels-robbed-after-surprise-proposal-during-bouquet-toss/
That’s a pick six.
🙄️ How dare someone else be happy when I’m trying to be happy!
While you’re down there…
“An NYC real estate honcho claims she was left “permanently traumatized” after biting into a chicken wrap that contained a human fingertip — nail included….
Smith went to a walk-in medical clinic afterwards, and brought the fingertip with her…
Menna said he’s presented them with photos of the fingertip as well as a forensic report showing it came from a woman.
“They’re arguing there were no female employees on duty that day,” Menna said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/fingertip-discovered-in-nyc-restaurants-chicken-wrap-lawsuit/
Some woman chopped off a fingertip and didn’t notice?
Having recently rewatched the original Naked Gun, I’m guessing this happened where the chicken was processed.
It was a cooked fingertip?
If only they had a finger print that they could use to track down the person responsible.
Now, now, they may not have been the person responsible. Maybe they pissed off the person responsible and got disappeared using the machinery at the meat processing plant.
Holy shit.
Handmade Process of Watanabe Wheels, 2 Year Wait
The TLDW.
This is Japan, but the factory looks no different than the same thing in Vietnam. OSHA would flip out with the lack of PPE and risk of fire. It’s about as far away from a Toyota factory as possible.
These are hand sand cast MAGNESIUM wheels. The were absolutely THE wheel to run on a Mini and similar small cars. Demand is much lower now.
I’d love to own a set, but I’d never run them as the cool factor of the magnesium doesn’t outweigh the fire risk on my ride.
I’m just shocked this is in Japan. It would be shut down in the U.S. inside of a week after ICE raided all the Mexicans.
The sand casting process for making engine blocks is still pretty messy. It’s massivly automated now though. Closest thing I have seen in the US is playground equipment. This isn’t the video I was looking for, miracle rec had a new video up but I couldn’t find it. And it’s more sanitary than watanabe’s shop. So much manufacturing starts super dirty. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-pDaH7J9fXk&pp=ygUZU2FuZCBjYXN0aW5nIHNwcmluZyByaWRlcg%3D%3D
Oh goody, I really want to be Atlantic-splained what’s wrong with the Dems with my coffee.
What is amazing is that they stretched “Communism isn’t that popular in the US” into a whole article.
With a little “we must continue to take the high road.”
Totally not delusional.
Here is all the words:
https://www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-something-i-said
Sounds like their entire vocabulary.
Looks like “unhoused” is going away. Now they can use my term “experiencing houselessness”.
Shelterly challenged.
That is hilarious. It is already obvious they have no ideas. Without this junk what is there to even talk about?
Question for any scheduler types around this morning:
I threw another random thoughts collection into the queue (“Submit for Review”, listed as “pending”). In retrospect, I think one of the items is a bit long and would be better as a stand alone article so I’d like to pull that out as a separate submission and add one more short item – the rules are Random Thoughts needs 3 items and I’m all about following the rules.
It looks like I can still edit it; is there any thing extra I need to do to restructure and re-submit as two items when it’s already in ‘Pending’?
I normally edit it and hit submit again just for good measure. It’s always gotten through.
If it’s in Pending, you should be able to switch it back to a Draft to avoid it getting scheduled, but nothing I’m aware of.
Copy, thanks. I’ll go much about and hopefully not throw things in a state of General Disarray.
Oh thank God… I thought you were looking at core balancing in your thread scheduling or something for I/O interrrupts. I didn’t want to think about that on a Saturday morning.
scheduler types
I/O interrupts
Looks more closely. Shakes head and walks away with a mixture of disgust and admiration etched on my face.
As a kid we’d pick several 5 gallon buckets of morels every spring.
Then we’d invite friends over and pig out. Morels cooked in butter on toast.
We tried shipping them to relatives once but no bueno.
This spring we had a couple morels pop up in my front yard.
Guess I’m saying we are lousy with morels in Sunny Minnesota.
You hide your lousy morels behind a veneer of nice!
I hope OMWC doesn’t figure out we have more morels than bikes here.
Last thing we need here is an amoral morel thief
“Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump’s political power grab”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/23/cities-led-by-black-women-are-the-first-targets-of-trumps-political-power-grab/
Must be racism, as there could be no other explanation.
Imagining a progressive version of Donald Trump’s far-right-hand man is hard enough
A hateful bigoted progressive? No such thing exists.
CNN: “Examining Melania Trump’s relative absence from Washington”
Uh. She has no role in government and has no reason to be there if she doesn’t want to. I’d hate being constantly*in* that shit show.
The desire for a Miller Lite reveals Democrats’ misunderstanding of their own problem. Democrats are facing a political challenge, as they struggle to communicate their goals to voters in an appealing way.
Possibly because their goals suck, but we can’t be sure.
No, it’s definitely not that. They just need better messaging.
They need to stop being so nice and polite and really go bare-knuckles.
Another word that needs to be added to the liberal list is “misinformation”.
It used to be used for legitimate wrong information, but it can mean that or any data that disputes liberal orthodoxy.
Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory
TW Ars.
“(Trump calls them “windmills”—a climate denier trope.)”
Because it’s relevant they don’t mill grain?
So if the generated electricity is used to power a mill…
And oddly wiki at the moment is ok with wind powered pumps and electricity generation being called windmills.
I guess it’s like the word “retarded”.
“Public opposition has also been fed by health scares, such as “wind turbine syndrome.” Labeled a “non-disease” and non-existent by medical experts, it continued to circulate for years.”
So one possible conspiracy theory.
Completely different than the people who claim to be wireless or EM sensitive.
Spend a few night in a wind farm.
Awful.
“”Especially like in Washington, you walk down the street, a guy comes up and slugs you. He’s got a he’s got a pistol in his hand. You can be tough. You can be in great shape. You can be a powerful person, or you can be a guy that weighs 100 pounds with a gun in your hand. And I’ll bet on the guy with a gun 100% of the time, right? So you need protection. So I’m a Second Amendment person.”
Although Washington, DC allows for concealed carry, the application and regulations around firearms are much more complex for the nation’s capital city.
Although most states have their own laws regulating concealed carry permits, National Concealed Carry laws have been proposed in Congress, where there would be reciprocity between states on concealed carry permits, similar to how driver’s licenses are recognized across state lines. ”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-trump-open-to-expanding-national-concealed-carry-to-dc-people-have-to-protect-themselves
I’m thinking blue states would still arrest people anyway.
The
fullpartial faith and credit clause being of no avail here, of course.Not against the power the states have to police!
Federalize concealed carry. That will never go wrong because Democrats will never hold power again.
I don’t think that’s what is being proposed.
Nose under the tent. Foreseeable consequences are not unforeseen.
“The Washington Court of Appeals ruled this week that Stuffy’s II Restaurant in Longview, owned by Glenda and Bud Duling under Duling Enterprises LLC, owes $936,000 in penalties, $18,000 for each of the 52 days it stayed open in violation of former Gov. Jay Inslee’s emergency order. Inslee held on to emergency powers for 975 days.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel determined that the restaurant’s willful defiance of the order posed serious risks by exposing employees to “a potentially deadly disease.” The court also rejected the Dulings’ argument that the fine was excessive because they could not afford to pay it.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-state-restaurant-forced-to-pay-1-million-fine-for-staying-open-during-covid-appeals-court
Did any of the employees die?
Like everyone else in the country during 2020 to 2022, some died several times.
Authoritarian judges backing authoritarian bureaucrats led by authoritarian governors… I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
And just about any disease is “potentially deadly”. Were the employees forced to come in at gunpoint? No? Just did to keep a livelihood or wanted to? Then maybe fuck off and let adults make health decisions, you totalitarian communistic fucks….. Sigh.
Woodchippers all around….and take a million bucks out of Inslee’s bank account and pay the Dulings.
Inslee held on to emergency powers for 975 days.
Now talk about an offense he should lose his head for.
$936,000 buys a lot of brass and lead.
AKA the EU.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-hearing-wellness-feature-3590326/
As fewer and fewer phones have an actual volume jack I’m curious how this is going to work. Bluetooth headphones have the actual sound pressure level determined by the manufacturer.
Amazingly restricted output never came to the U.S. I’m shocked.
In Germany, the academic Kevin Winter and colleagues found that belief in conspiracies had many times more influence on wind opposition than any demographic factor. Worryingly, presenting opponents with facts was not particularly successful.
“Look. Once they’re in place, the energy is totally free. FREE, I tell you. How can you be against that/’
Do they cite these facts?
The green energy scam counts on people’s woeful ignorance of physics to get away with their ridiculous shell game.
Let “Landman” explain it for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc
“During a political event this week, a liberal white woman held up a sign in protest of Sears that must be seen to be believed.
The sign reads:
Hey Winsome
If Trans Can’t Share
Your Bathroom
Then Blacks Can’t Share
My Water Fountain”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/liberal-white-woman-virginia-holds-up-vile-racist/
CWAC
Classy.
We dont have water fountains anymore….at least I haven’t seen one in years.
They are still in government buildings.
I see them everywhere in public buildings but with a nifty twist—a nifty motion-activated dispenser that fills your water bottle.
I was in Lowes the other day and they had Men, Women and Unisex bathrooms. I am guessing that’s not good enough.
Totally not racist.
That wheel video looks good. I’ll have to watch it later. I’m pretty hit or miss on Chen’s stuff.
Same. I’m not a “tuner” guy.
However, that’s the next generation’s interest in cars. Nothing wrong* with it just not my jam.
*Other than “stanced” vehicles. That’s just plain wrong…
Stanced cars, squated pickups.
TW:TOS
“The company’s troubles—with or without the Old Timer—are reflected in its valuation. In April 2021, Cracker Barrel stock was selling for $175.09 a share, according to its market trajectory on TradingView. Earlier this month, prior to any logo drama, it was selling for $57.27—a plunge of more than two-thirds, which, by any standard, is pretty grim. That didn’t happen overnight, nor is it even Cracker Barrel’s nadir. The company has steadily sagged over the last several years, its value dipping as low as $37.33 per share last September.
The chain is not alone. In February, Denny’s announced that it would close up to 178 locations by the end of 2025. Not long before, TGI Fridays and Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy. All of these restaurants can be classified under the same general umbrella as Cracker Barrel, with the exception that people cannot fault a misplaced controversy over wokeness for their failures. The biscuits could not even save Red Lobster. The business landscape is changing. It’s rough out there.”
https://reason.com/2025/08/22/cracker-barrel-didnt-go-woke-it-just-went-broke/
I blame the lockdowns.
The business landscape is changing.
Ya’ dont say. I wonder what the cause of that is?
Eating habits are changing: I don’t think younger folks are hankering after things like Red Lobster, etc. Older generations who ate at those places getting fewer in number.
Plus, just more options in general.
And… again, miss the point.
Cracker Barrel (and that whole sector) was contracting, partly due to government action during COVID and partly because of changing market conditions. You can address that by rationally contracting, shoring up your core business and focusing on what made you successful. Instead, they brought in someone to fix it by going woke, thus likely ensuring the ultimate demise baring a course correction. No, you TOS-tards, going woke didn’t cause the problem, but going woke in response will hasten the downfall.
Surely this will draw in [critical-drinker-voice] the modern audience [/cdv].
I don’t really see this as an example of woke killing a company so much as yet another example of the CEO with ‘big ideas’ failing to understand the brand they are trying to impose their personal theory of marketing on. Sure it has ‘woke’ overtones, but those are secondary to the absolute idiocy of believing you can rebrand Cracker Barrel as modern and trendy.
Professional managerial business thinking versus proprietary business thinking is a cultural switch that got lost in the noise of our political polarization and the tech revolution, but it is probably more responsible for the state of the markets, off shoring, employee dissatisfaction etc. than anything else. When companies are almost exclusively run by hired guns, largely compensated based on short to intermediate term stock price gains, with no ties to the actual business you get this stuff, including the woke aspects.
“As of early 2025, the major stakeholders in Cracker Barrel include a significant presence of institutional investors. The Vanguard Group Inc. and BlackRock Inc. are among the largest institutional holders, reflecting their substantial portfolios that track market indices. Institutional ownership often exceeds 90% of outstanding shares, indicating a high level of investment by large financial entities. For example, as of March 30, 2024, Vanguard Group Inc. held approximately 11.23% of Cracker Barrel’s shares, and BlackRock Inc. held around 10.37%. These significant holdings by institutional investors directly influence company strategy and governance. These investors frequently engage with management on financial performance, capital allocation, and ESG practices.”
Utterly unprecedented in the annals of justice
Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe questioned the veracity of statements made by Ghislaine Maxwell during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche after transcripts were released on Friday.
“It‘s so suspicious. When you listen to the tapes, you get the sense that Ghislaine Maxwell went into that room knowing what information she had to deliver to get their attention and to get their approval and to get some sort of benefit that she is pursuing from the administration,” McCabe said during a Friday appearance on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
“And the administration, in the form of Todd Blanche, went into that room knowing what information he needed, which was what she was going to say about Donald Trump‘s involvement or non-involvement and both sides delivered to each other’s satisfaction,” he added.
This is not some grubby dealmaking process. We are seeking the truth.
If the wheels of justice aren’t grinding up Trump, then they aren’t turning at all!
“The researchers found that women who have abortions are more than twice as likely to end up hospitalized for psychiatric problems compared to women who carry their pregnancies to term. This isn’t some fringe finding; it’s based on a massive study tracking over 1.2 million pregnancies for up to 17 years. The numbers don’t lie: for every 10,000 person-years, 104 women who aborted ended up hospitalized for serious mental health issues like psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, and suicide attempts, while only 42 women who gave birth faced the same fate.
What’s even more striking is that the risk spikes with repeated abortions.
Women who had more than one abortion saw an even higher chance of mental health crises that required hospitalization. And don’t think this is a short-term blip — this risk hangs heavy for at least five years after the procedure. The study also factored in past mental health problems, so it’s not just women who had pre-existing conditions. This kind of clear connection between abortion and mental health isn’t new either. A 2023 study using Medicaid data found that women who had an abortion during their first pregnancy were significantly more likely to need inpatient mental health treatment afterward than those who instead chose to give birth.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/22/oh-this-must-be-why-liberal-women-are-bonkers-n4942955
Correlation is not causation.
Even if this was causation – is the therapeutic state any better when it is in different hands?
I don’t know what you mean.
The absurdity that everything is a mental health problem, not simply bad decision making or faulty morality. And consequently, since it is mental health – the state can facilitate the treatment of it.
I suspect the arrow of causation goes the other direction; if you are mentally unstable, you’re more likely to be in a position to ‘need’ and abortion, and more likely to be amenable to doing it. Not necessarily a casual link between the two observations, but a casual link from both back to a root ‘issue’ with the mental stability of the actor.
I don’t know what you mean
Presumably, even if casual, e.g. getting an abortion makes you cray-cray (as opposed to being cray-cray makes you more likely to get an abortion), that’s not an argument to provide therapy to the cray-cray by stopping them from having abortions?
This.
And JI, I have it on good authority that good decision making is white supremacy so we are having none of that.
Who would have thought that casually murdering a child would have negative psychological consequences?
After meeting with Blanche earlier this summer, Maxwell was moved to a federal prison in Texas that houses just over 600 inmates, most of whom are convicted of nonviolent crimes.
Some lawmakers have raised questions about the transfer following her interview with Justice Department officials amid Maxwell’s attempts to appeal her conviction with the Supreme Court.
Her presence in such a facility is inexplicable, what with her history of armed robbery and casual murder making Bonnie Parker look like Mother Theresa’s maiden aunt.
If not for Silicone Saturday, your life would be even more pointless.
https://archive.is/UqnYX
Making it up as she goes
“I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity.”
Those words of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came in a recent interview, wherein the justice explained how she felt liberated after becoming a member of the Supreme Court “to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues. And that’s what I try to do.”
Jackson’s sense of liberation has increasingly become the subject of consternation on the court itself, as she unloads on her colleagues in strikingly strident opinions.
The Supreme Court writes the laws as they hand down decisions.
Because SCOTUS rulings are all about feelings and not the Constitution and facts of the case.
Also: she is a walking example of the DEI disaster. If I were an intelligent and competent black lawyer/jurist, I would be utterly ashamed at her frolicking around as the standard-bearer for black jurists.
When you don’t hire for merit, even the meritorious get lumped in with the dimwits.
Story about those famous toilets at Jungle Jim’s…
My friend and I drove there (a little over an hour) and had to take a massive leak. We went into the bathroom, I took a urinal, and he took the second one away from me, leaving the proper buffer zone. There are like 9 urinals, keep in mind… Some guy strolls in, goes in the urinal right between us even though there were 6 other unoccupied urinals. He looks at the framed newspaper articles about the “best bathroom” award, then looks at both of us and says “Best bathrooms in America, huh??” and laughs.
We need PSAs about men’s room etiquette. It’s dying.
https://www.groominglounge.com/cdn/shop/articles/comedy-short-inspired-by-the-too-closeness-of-mens-urinals-steves-problem.jpg?v=1744835972
Inslee held on to emergency powers for 975 days.
The good kind of democracy, in action.
Democracy – my favorite brand of boot on your face, forever.
Pussy privilege.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/man-left-bloody-wife-twists-35735284
A guy doing something similar to a woman would be publicly pilloried and sent to the slammer.
It certainly wasn’t because of her looks.
Jackson has attacked her colleagues in opinions, shattering traditions of civility and restraint. Her colleagues have clearly had enough. She now regularly writes diatribes that neither of her fellow liberals — Justices Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan — are willing to sign on to. Indeed, she has raged against opinions that her liberal colleagues have joined.
Take Stanley v. City of Sanford. Justices Jackson and Neil Gorsuch took some fierce swings at each other in a case concerning a retired firefighter who wants to sue her former employer. The majority, including Kagan, rejected a ridiculous claim from a Florida firefighter who sued for discrimination for a position that she had neither held nor sought. The court ruled that the language of the statute clearly required plaintiffs to be “qualified” for a given position before they could claim to have been denied it due to discrimination. (Stanley has Parkinson’s disease and had taken a disability retirement at age 47 due to the progress of the disease.)
Jackson, however, was irate that Stanley could not sue for the denial of a position that she never sought, held, or was qualified to perform. Jackson accused the majority of once again showing how “pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as ‘textual’ inevitabilities.” It was not only deeply insulting, but perfectly bizarre, given that Kagan had joined in the majority opinion. Kagan is about as pure a textualist judge as she is a pure taxidermist.
[insert Joe Biden “I did this” image]
Today is National Cuban Sandwich Day, so celebrate accordingly.
And be sure to heat and press your sandwich thoroughly, lest you suffer from Castro-intestinal problems.
Castro-intestinal problems.
Also associated with gas station sushi and cevi-Ché.
Professional managerial business thinking versus proprietary business thinking is a cultural switch that got lost in the noise of our political polarization and the tech revolution, but it is probably more responsible for the state of the markets, off shoring, employee dissatisfaction etc. than anything else. When companies are almost exclusively run by hired guns, largely compensated based on short to intermediate term stock price gains, with no ties to the actual business you get this stuff, including the woke aspects.
Bringing in “sharp” people to run businesses whose products and markets are unknown to them (Harley Davidson springs to mind) is a recipe for disaster.
I’ve been trying to understand why eliminating de minimis is supposedly going to cut down on contraband. After all, all packages entering the US are subject to inspection and search. And the criminal types could care less about paying 15-30% of a bullshit stated value. What I think it’s really about is cratering any small parcel importation and getting those goods to either go away or go through large importers where customs agents can examine them by opening a cargo container instead of needing to open every single envelope. And the known/trusted importers work hand in glove on preventing contraband. Screw anyone who likes being able to order a product from another country that isn’t sold here, now that it’s easier than ever to do so via the web.
Fuck Stephen Miller. I hope his pimple head get caught in an elevator door and pops. His pretentious McLaughlin droning lacks any of the wit or charm of the original. Bye. Bye.
Numbers game
“My first question is, where are the receipts on these arrests?” says Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, deputy project director on policing at the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project. “There are still a lot of questions about what happens next to understand if they were valid arrests, if these were arrests where people’s rights were being violated and they shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.”
Criminal justice experts caution that it’s difficult to draw any conclusions about public safety from arrests. They aren’t necessarily an indicator of crime, and typically only a portion of arrests lead to criminal charges. An even smaller number lead to convictions.
Police experts often use the term “flooding the zone” for this type of law enforcement strategy, and they say it can lead to more arrests simply because officers are looking for people to arrest.
What about white collar crime? That’s the real problem.
What about white collar crime?
Nancy Pelosi gives Brooks the thousand yard stare.
Anti IKEA act.
Bought an American made Stickley couch.
Should have gone with ikea and saved a zero.
The stickly fabric couches are garbage. Just a heads up. Didn’t make it three years and it became a saggy broken down mess.