hey kids. Sloopy and Banjos are experiencing the joys of no internet so please excuse the hurried links.
Ah yes. Pollution is the problem with giant AI data centers.
Minneapolis has also been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated.
Greenland has been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated.
Sorry no music. I’m tired of fighting the WordPress editor on my phone.
Why does the AI data center link go to the Anthrax serial?
🤔
I think I see the answer.
Tiamat is just a sneaky enemy… she redirected his links.
you need to do that on occasion to keep the commenter on their toes
I don’t think the commenter is a they/them.
Use UCS’ Pronouns bigot!
UCS isn’t wearing his pronoun gloves.
Don’t eat the anthrax cereal, buy the Anthrax cereal! Scott Ian is on the box!
Greenland has been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated. – look just focus on Canadia and leave Greeny alone. Greeny does not belong to you. You were not vikings and shit.
Careful… the Minnesodans may not take too kindly to that.
“You were not vikings and shit.”
Well, not all of us, but I’m repping for OBE.
The fuck we aren’t! Nearly everybody’s ancestry up here is Finnish, Danish, or Norwegian.
You forgot the minority Latvians…
/Hides the honey…
According to 23 and Me I am.
The Viking, or the shit?
Both.
Can someone liberate my state?
Raise an army and overthrow the state government yourself.
You don’t have to become a Rat King to do it.
He can rouse the populace after visiting a tattoo parlor… everyone knows you need a good martial rat-a-tat-tat to get the blood flowing.
Thankfully we have 49 chances to hopefully land in a better one.
Hey, on that note – any VA Glibs going to be attending Rally Day down in Richmond on Monday? We should figure out a way to meet up.
You’re going to wind up on a list.
Interesting how all those khaki-clad “protest” groups suddenly disappeared over the past year.
I live just outside Richmond. I’m probably not up for the rally, but could certainly meet up afterwards for early dinner. Maybe coordinate this on the Glibs forum?
I’m already on a list. So many lists.
I’ll stick a post on the forum when I have a moment.
Thanks.
Brett L is like that substitute teacher that just comes in and does the bare minimum.
“Here are these worksheets. Do them, or not. I don’t care. Keep quiet so the Principal doesn’t check in and everyone goes home happy.”
“Watch this movie and shut up.”
“Who wants to turn the film strip?”
But he was on time. I was hoping no teacher by 0815 so I can call it a day.
I once had an “instructor” in college who insisted that because he was a “full professor” we should wait the whole class period for him to show up.
I wish I had told him “You’re a full professor – you should have learned how to arrive on time to class by now.”
Did that make it onto your evaluation? Did he insist on being called “Doctor”?
His instructor was Jill Biden?
In Romanian there is an expression „sfertul academic” which translates as the academic quarter hour. It is one of those things that currently is used in the opposite of the original meaning. Originally it meant arrive 15 minutes early in order not to be late. Now people use it in the sense of its okay to be late as long as it is not moire than 15 minutes.
Then there is the military where a 0800 post formation means showing up at 0630 so each echelon can be sure not to be late to the next …
Be 15 minutes early for the 15 minute early formation.
God I hated that crap.
The people that did that never had a real job.
I just assume the difference is in the age of the kids… Sloopy and Banjos’s are old enough they can find some time to do links…. Brett’s are too often running near the swamp and at risk of gators for him to be distracted for long.
Brett’s have tamed the ‘gators and are riding them to battle because he got stuck in that recursive link.
(((Jarflax:
That’s why he needs to keep an eye on them. Some day, one of his boys will ride the gator to the house and challenge Brett for the head of the household role. You need to see that coming, no one wants to be blindsided by a gator.
I assumed he’d be challenged on the back streets.
An alley gator contest.
Has Shpip just hacked everyone’s account?
My greatest fear, RC.
Wow, that pic of the TeeVee show on this post brings back them old days..
Minneapolis has also been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated. – at this point would it not be easier to just nuke it from orbit? would anyone really miss it?
I have an ex girlfriend there that is desperately trying to get back with me, so I might not…
Well, we could, but then we wouldn’t have a tarpit to drag the enemy forces into.
Fight them in St. Paul so we don’t have to fight them here?
Well yeah, they hop in their Subarus and drive from here to there, and either they get busted or I don’t have to deal with them here while they protest.
Or did you mean the islamists who need to be [redacted]?
As long as Matt’s Bar still stands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jucy_Lucy
“Minneapolis has also been occupied by socialists and needs to be liberated.”
This will not stop as long as they need cover for the known massive fraud in that state by team blue not making it to the news..
Have some patience – the “sure, this is happening and it’s a good thing phase” is soon to be underway. The cover-up-and-find-a-distraction will be over by then.
I see it as a stall tactic until the uniparty can again rig the midterms and get rid of this man that has been thwarting their globalist agenda of selling us out to the marxist agenda of killing off 80% of humanity and starting a new feudal system with them as the selected elite as the new permanent aristocracy…
Of course you do.
Today in YouTube recommends useful things for every day life
How to skin and butcher a beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TREg1WAUr3E
Seems simpler to just ask her to shave before your next tryst.
Off Topic – I think I’ve worn out the cheap speakers I use in my car. I’m looking for recommendations for a replacement.
It has to be less than 6 inches in the longest dimension. It has to not have a tendency to rock or roll physically (playing rock and roll is fine). The speaker(s) have to be able to sit in an indent in my dash and not self-eject when the car moves.
It needs to take a 3.5mm audio line input. The audio source only has that as output.
It needs to be powered by either USB or a cigarette lighter adapter. These are the power sources available in the car. Passive power from the audio signal will not be loud enough for the car.
I’d prefer no fancy electronics – at most a built in amplifier. Don’t need bluetooth, radio, wifi, esp, satellite, tinfoil telemetry, etc.
Since these live permanantly in a car the temperature will range from below freezing to over a hundred over the course of a year, and the speakers will have to not break instantly when subjected to these conditions.
Ultimately, I’m asking for recommendations because otherwise it’s blindly buy something off the internet and hope it works.
Buy a new car with a premium sound system. Preferably a Tesla.
Why?
Driving gloves are being replaced with dueling gloves as I type this.
because that causes more business for the automotive semiconductor industry which is essential in these hard times.
There’s less loss if you just ask for cash directly.
What happened to the speakers in the car?
Left in a car 24/7/365 and used for 6-8 years?
I mean for Chinesium, they lasted longer than expected.
Or did you mean the ones the car came with? No Aux in. Can’t use them with my walkman, which carries my audiobooks.
Yes, the ones in the car.
I was wondering why a fm transmitter wouldn’t solve your problems.
https://www.crutchfield.com/S-7M2ji34vL7B/p_142BTFM3SG/Scosche-BTFreq-Pro.html
Replace you walkman with a bluetooth device that hold audio books.
That would be the easiest/cheapest solution.
I am looking for a Wired solution.
@Zwak – you are wrong about it being cheap or easy. Bluetooth has done nothing but fail whenever I’ve tried it. I’d have to replace more of my devices than just the speakers, and I’d have to develop a new workflow.
That’s crazy talk, Zwak. CRAZY.
I belt this in the passenger seat of the dumptruck when I take it places. https://www.toolnut.com/products/milwaukee-2890-20-m18-jobsite-radio-promo?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=&utm_content=&utm_term=&matchtype=&network=x&device=m&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20066806022&gbraid=0AAAAADpIxU3k1m-akxUJpl87LZWnFYZ_R&gclid=CjwKCAiA4KfLBhB0EiwAUY7GAT0elnjet7TdxEleqxiEcz-B4ejfEpkDFCmB84Ankq5FgLAmdFfp9RoCr_AQAvD_BwE
The feds should start confiscating and selling every vehicle used to block legal law enforcement in Minnesoda. I bet you this will put a dent in the money that the clowns financing these pretend organic riots unless they start stealing or buying cars to give these Karens.
I am opposed to civil asset forfeiture.
Convict them of crimes and do criminal asset forfeiture.
Curious libertarian argument for more federal power?
Assumes Alex is a libertarian.
An acquaintance of mine once asked me if I, “…considered myself a Christian.” I don’t, and I’m not, but I definitely respect the way he asked.
Being a Christian for most people is just about assigning themselves a label. Few really believe, and fewer still really do.
Hun. What was I talking about, again?
“Assumes Alex is a libertarian.”
Exactly.
Hmm, was thinking the common theme here was libertarianish ideas. Guess not.
“Hmm, was thinking the common theme here was libertarianish ideas. Guess not.
Define libertarian ideas and provide details…
/gets popcorn..
Don’t choke on your popcorn, but libertarians don’t trust overweening govt power, like stealing people’s property.
“Being a Christian for most people is just about assigning themselves a label. Few really believe, and fewer still really do.”
You have graduated from mind reading, to soul reading?
Not much demand for salt rusted vehicles.
A simple tow bill would break most of those people.
The political compass according to people in each quadrant of the political compass…
Source unknown.
https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/2011907235505717303
Well, it’s not wrong.
The yellow one is lol
It’s dangerous to hold up a mirror to your self like that…
Apparently, Sen. Hooker-boots was no exaggeration.
I thought she was a lesbian.
I thought she was bi.
Well, she is bye now.
I thought she was a lesbian.
No gold star.
Well she wasn’t the one cheating on her spouse. Not a bad looking plumper though.
Sleeping with people you know are married is just as sleazy
Sleazy no doubt but I wouldn’t say as sleazy. He betrayed a trust with his wife while she betrayed a stranger.
What takes more callousness, screwing over a family member that you have relational issues with, or blowing up a random family to get your jollies?
I agree that the married cheater has done the scummier thing, but I think the knowing mistress is the more depraved mind.
Bisexual.
Missionary with the lights on is ‘boring’.
Psychedelic experiences.
God damn, girl, where were you in high school when I needed you?
I met her shortly after she was first elected Senator. Definitely a looker, although even then you could tell she would be aging out shortly.
A bit old to shop in the juniors department.
“prolly would”
He suffers from PTSD?
No. He likes that tax free VA cash.
In things that make me hate current job even more, a product owner confirmed that they never considered how to support a product they designed. Which they’re still rolling out in it’s fucked up and broken state.
You mean they didn’t explore the potential revenue of selling support contracts?
Oh no. They sell support contracts, and I’m supposed to support this bullshit.
I’ve found my red line.
Is this a government-owned project?
Nope.
Agile at its finest!
All your user base belong to us!
Microsoft?
Germany’s Chancellor Merz says it was a ‘serious strategic mistake to phase out nuclear energy’.
https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/2011884192075038998
In hindsight sure but how could they have known that abolishing nuclear energy was a bad idea while removing coal and importing gas from Russia…
That giant anemic egg head of his must contain no common sense at all.
lol Dumbasses.
Someone get him to leave a message on Kathy Hochul’s answering machine, please.
It’s still full-steam ahead with the move to unicorn farts in New York.
Actually she’s proposing to build 5GW of nuke power. I imagine as a way of discarding blame when tings get bad. Also, that all AI companies wanting to move into the state must provide their own power.
And it will be ready in 20 years and with enough energy to run Colonie or Cohoes. Yay!
Well no shit Fritz.
What exactly was the Net Zero objection to carbon-free baseline power, anyway?
Germany has been full-on anti-nukes for decades, far longer than our blue states even.
Something, something, China Syndrome, something, something.
It doesn’t result in increased human sufferingRADIATION!Blah blah Fukushima. Just don’t build your reactors on the coast in an earthquake zone with emergency generators below ground level and you’re good.
Radiation to the progressive is much like COVID and libertarians. They can’t see it, and don’t understand it, so they’re irrationally terrified of it.
Mrs. Hero got really pissed when I called her out on this a decade ago. Note to self – just let enviro’s rant. There is no convincing them with logic. It is a religion and you will only offend their sensibilities.
I wasn’t afraid of covid. I was afraid of what the government was going to do about the overblown threat.
“Blah blah Fukushima. Just don’t build your reactors on the coast in an earthquake zone with emergency generators below ground level and you’re good.”
Diablo Canyon kicks pebble while walking away.
But, in all reality, everywhere has problems, and everything has problems. All of Japan is an earthquake zone at some level, as is the entire west coast of the USA. And Chernobyl isn’t. At a certain point, you just have to go for it, and enforce good safety protocols.
ZWAK, you can never be too safe!
Every time I see that guy I think of Mr. Mackey from South Park.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ua6Oeyu9XWM
Look at the size of that man’s heed!
“Like an orange on a toothpick.”
Special editor shout-out to Brett for doing the links. I’m not brave enough to attempt wrangling WP editing from a phone.
I can barely post a comment on the phone without wanting to toss the thing out a window in frustration.
This is me, and I will look across the room and the wife is writing white papers on hers.
Plug a keyboard and mouse into the USB port on the bottom of the phone – you now have vastly improved the functionality.
Admittedly it takes me an adapter to plug two devices into the singular USB-C port, but it’s worth it.
I did it once. When the tornado passed through.
My first year posting I did that a few times. You press a function key in WordPress, wait and sip coffee, then press the next one… Then type, then not be able to find the submit button…
It sucks. Kudos to Brett!
Lord Indra arriving on the Ganges in his chariot, before slaughtering 6 million dasyu aboriginals, 1600 BC (colourised).
https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/1827716309947162668
LOL!
Heh, he’s having almost as much fun as the dogs are.
Not what I expected.
The opposite of a snow Mexican.
I would encourage Russia/China to dump money into Greenland. It would be like a Somali Day Care Center.
China probably aint that stupid
A timely piece on ICE and tyranny, from the worthies at Open Source Defense. To quiote the greatest action movie of all time, “It may sting a bit, but it’s for your own growth.”
https://opensourcedefense.substack.com/p/osd-360-the-tyranny-ratchet-revisited
Well, there goes five minutes and fifty brain cells.
They’re conflating unconstitutional anti 2A actions with actions against people who have committed offenses inherent in the fact that they’re here illegally. I’m not thrilled about federal power but it’s a disingenuous argument.
I don’t find that argument disingenuous at all. It might not be correct according to your values.
If we were talking about unconstitutional anti-2A actions versus actual aggression against other people or property, you would have a point. But calling illegal immigration a malum in se crime is a pretty big stretch.
How is tresspassing in a land you do not have permission to be in not criminal?
It’s an offense against the government. It’s not an offense against me. Like tax evasion.
You’re taking the anti-Bastiat position – that you don’t see the offense against you doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
It was a bit of a mess, I must agree with the others. The point was not well made.
Also nobody is aiming for 100% compliance with immigration laws. We were at close to zero and are trying to get to even 50%.
To use your terminology, if Trump didn’t build the structures for enhanced enforcement of federal (immigration) law, the Dems wouldn’t build the structures for enhanced enforcement of of federal (gun control) laws?
Sorry, just not buying it. The reason Trump can ramp up immigration enforcement is there is popular support for it, and the opposition is pretty narrow. While gun control isn’t unpopular, the math is different on support v opposition. The Dems have (as we have seen) and will do whatever they think they can get away with to attack gun ownership.
Now, the question of whether illegal immigration is malum in se is an interesting one. Is it inherently/morally wrong to cross a national border without permission? I think the propertarians here would say that trespassing on private property is malum in se (although whether it counts as “aggression” against property might be a stretch). How that maps over to illegal immigration, well, there’s arguments on both sides.
All laws are backed up by inertia and an generalized faith in gov’t, both positive and negative.
There are no morals, nationally, other than the law of the land, as seen in both abortion and gun control debates.
You misunderstand again. What I, and OSD, is saying is that the Left will use the structures that Trump has built.
I get where he’s coming from. A few thoughts, though:
The legitimacy of the law being enforced matters. Immigration laws are, IMO, a core function of government. Gun control laws are a Constitutional, if not human, rights violation.
The notion that, if Trump wasn’t pulling out the stops to enforce immigration law, the left wouldn’t pull out the stops to enforce gun control, strikes me as naive.
The scale of the problem also matters. We have tens of millions of illegals. I seriously doubt we have tens of millions of people violating (federal) gun control laws, although the number of convicted felons doing so is probably pretty substantial.
I think the fact that the previous administration was actively aiding and abetting the lawbreakers is relevant too.
It’s not a matter of the desire to enforce gun or immigration laws. It’s a matter of building structures that are going to be used against you.
Everyone should be violating the NFA.
“So the optimal compliance rate is less than 100%. What’s the right level then? It varies based on the specifics of each law and enforcement methods. The key to the decentralized American system of government is that no one entity decides unilaterally. Ultimately, the people impose their opinion — unless, of course, they can be persuaded not to.”
This is a bit vague and can easily become I only respect whatever laws I want and that does not seem functional.
“Apply that dynamic to the current situation. Imagine if the ATF was doing an enforcement push that was a fraction as heavy-handed as ICE’s. ” – thee two things do not seem similar to me.
“We all know 20 people who would be zeroing their .338 Lapua by now. ” – doubtful
“That spirit is naturally hostile to any sort of large-scale police roundup operation by any agency at any level for any reason.”
I guess this is an argument for open borders and it depends on your position on open borders.
“The key to the decentralized American system of government is that no one entity decides unilaterally.”
The states are subject to the federal Constitution, and their enforcement can be limited by the federal government. I don’t think the feds are subject to state restrictions on enforcement of federal laws. Passive non-cooperation, sure, but that’s not a restriction.
You’re describing reality here.
In a practical sense, there are ways to enforce federal immigration law, without handing the adversary the tools they can use to destroy you.
In a practical sense, there are ways to enforce federal immigration law, without handing the adversary the tools they can use to destroy you.
really? Like how? Some detail would be nice.
Sheldon I’ll take a strong ICE if we abolish the DEA, ATF and FBI (and of course all of the laws that they enforce).
If the states would comply with hold requests, ICE would have their hands full and wouldn’t be out going to homes and businesses. But they turn violent people loose, and here we go.
I’m with Evil on this:
I wish this wasn’t happening.
I also wish that the preconditions for it hadn’t happened. Since we had uncontrolled borders, sanctuary cities and states, and billions of dollars spent to flood the country with tens of millions of illegals, well, the preconditions happened. The question is, what do you do about it? Is there any realistic way to remigrate all these illegals other than what we are seeing?
I dont think many people wish it was happening
I also wish that someone handed me enough money to pay of the second house and my wife and I retire at n+1. The reality is that the country is made up of 300m + people all of whom want a say in how the country is governed. And that leads to less than optimal outcomes for me, but still one of the best outcomes internationally.
And, due in main or in part to that, I rather seriously doubt that anyone is pulling out a .338 Lapua* and chambering a round in prep for the ATF, as they would have done that during the Obama or Biden admins, both of which put massive pressure on gun owners/dealers.
*not the least of which that is also a very seriously expensive round, and anyone who is serious about shooting one knows just what could befall them if they crossed over that legal line.
Paris 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgVl6Yk4itw
A mesmerising film from 1900. A tram glides through Southampton High Street, pulling you into late Victorian life as it passes under the medieval Bargate and down the street.
https://x.com/HistoryGirlBW/status/2011697459245068769
Mojeaux to blue courtesy phone. Mojeaux to the blue courtesy phone
In the comments:
https://x.com/NatashaCL7/status/2011168316488851514
*lights Tres signal*
😑
Those ICE Agents can do so much better.
Now we know where SugarFree gets his ideas.
And from the replies: https://x.com/UllrRover/status/2011179271864402350
So Lauren Chen is still around.
She looked so much better before she got her caucasianoplasty.
I haven’t seen her lately.
She looked so much better before she got her caucasianoplasty.
*looks*
Oof, yes. Don’t do that.
Also for Mojeaux (perhaps).
She said something to the effect that she was at the theater, I do believe.
ZWAK:
This isn’t the movie, just the music played by an orchestra.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Never happened to me…
“An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent made a vile slur about Renee Nicole Good as he took a Minneapolis protester into custody, the demonstrator has claimed.
Patty O’Keefe, 36, and a friend were taken into ICE custody Sunday for ‘impeding operations’ after they followed officers who were driving around and making arrests.
The agents stopped in front of O’Keefe’s car, fired pepper spray through her windshield vent, smashed her windows and dragged her out of her car.
She was hurled into a federal vehicle with three ICE agents who she alleged ‘taunted, mocked’ and called her ‘ugly’ as they drove her to the B.H. Whipple federal detention center in nearby St Paul.
‘On that same ride, one of the agents said: “You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That’s why that lesbian b***h is dead,” she told Heartland Signal. The identity of the ICE agent who issued the remark has not been revealed….
She and her friend Brandon Sigüenza, who was also detained by agents, were let go by Sunday evening without charges.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15470179/ice-agent-lesbian-slur-renee-nicole-good.html
doubt
Cameras are everywhere – surely there’s video supporting this claim.
No?
Including in the hands of the people arrested.
It’s plausible, as in I can see cops doing that, but given the, shall we say, disconnect from reality of the ICE Watch types, I’m going to need corroboration.
My thought was less a disconnect from reality and more an incentive to fabricate.
RC: How dare you question the integrity of the heroic Legal Observers™️.
Totes legit.
🙄
What if Renee Good *was*, in fact, a lesbian bitch?
Not sure about her, her spouse however looked to be a real nasty piece of work.
I thought I had read she lost custody of some of her kids already.
She should totes submit that to Brother Keith’s new snitch line!
Looks like Minnesoda has hit the Big Time. We are now a 2 snitch line state
lol, after Minnesota refuses to cooperate with the Feds.
“Residents are asked not to report rumors, secondhand information that’s unverifiable, or social media posts of events they did not witness or experience.”
Well, that ends that.
Color me shocked, but here is Patty O’Keefe being quoted in a different story about how terrible ICE is. I wonder how just a common woman with no axe to grind could end up providing so many quotes that the journalos need?
Were they dragging their tin cups across the cell bars too?
When you’re getting high in an Irishman’s backyard what do you call the bits that fall out of his grinder?
Patty O’Keefe
I will see myself out.
I don’t recall “vile slurs” being illegal but WTF do I know.
Anything to further the nArRaTiVe I guess.
I see more oddities about how the Good action went down, such as the officer swearing after the shooting or where he was positioned in relation to the SUV, that the lefties seem to think totally make this whole thing illegal. When the reality is that she was in control of the car, and fleeing from a police stop when she hit the ICE man.
Nothing else really matters.
You mean the socialists are deflecting?
Where is my fainting couch?
I don’t recall any sob stories about the poor small businesses being forced to close during the Rona Lockdowns. All I read was how King Walz was saving us all by closing everything (except big box stores) down.
If govt bureaucrats were actually competent, they’d see this as an admission that Gonzalez was hiring illegal help. Then they’d audit his books for the last year. I’m going to bet that Gonzalez would have a hard time proving that he only hired people authorized to work here.
Then I’d fine him very publicly.
ZOMG his sister has to work the register!
World. Ending.
100% this.
if it was for the Common Goo it is in poor taste to have sob stories. It had to be done.
I do not support the Common Goo.
UCS:
You gelly of the Common Goo? Is that why you won’t support it?
Once it is out you will never be able to put it back in the Common Tube
“Terrified Dutch students made to live side-by-side with 125 refugees to aid their ‘integration’ were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, an investigation has reported.
Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis.
A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to ‘buddy up’ so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly.
But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15469725/Students-raped-forced-live-complex-alongside-125-refugees-aid-integration-Terrified-Dutch-youngsters-subjected-years-sex-assaults-violence.html
This is my surprised face.
The students should have quietly assassinated the migrants.
“I think he went back home”
Do they not have shovels over there?
That’s their culture. To complain about this is racist.
Indeed. No one wanted to be Frank about it.
Some people just don’t appreciate cultural enrichment.
You have to break some eggs to create a “good” society. Sorry folks, you were the eggs.
May I suggest this for when someone posts a drugs/ass story?
I got an error message. Was that the point?
Cloudfare seems to be pooping on X today.
Yeah, I’m getting Cloud Flare errors for all the X links now.
Just wait and revisit it when X is back. Worth your time.
X is not available on my laptop or phone. The apocalypse has begun.
Oh that is fantastic!
Legit ALOL.
You can’t do that
“It’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor of international politics at the University of Oslo and former state secretary in the foreign affairs ministry, told public broadcaster NRK on Friday.
She called Machado’s gesture “disrespectful” and “pathetic,” saying it undermined the value of the prize, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards annually.
Raymond Johansen, a Norwegian lawmaker for the center-left Labour Party and former governing mayor of Oslo, said in a Facebook post it was “incredibly embarrassing and damaging to one of the world’s most respected and important prizes,” according to a Google translation.
Their clown makeup is running.
Norway should invade to get it back.
Maybe everyone doesn’t love Raymond.
“disrespectful” and “pathetic,” saying it undermined the value of the prize
Now do Obama’s prize.
Or Arafat’s.
“A billionaire was once forced to rename his superyacht after coming to the horrifying realization of what it spells out when placed in front of a mirror.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison had just christened his new German-built yacht Izanami, blissfully unaware that reversing the name produces the phrase “I’m a Nazi.”
The 81-year-old reportedly selected the name from Japanese mythology, after the Shinto goddess associated with both creation and death.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/us-news/larry-ellison-scrambles-to-rename-yacht-after-coming-to-horrifying-realization-about-its-name/
LOL
Why not just change it to the Japanese script or better yet not give a damn?
I thought not giving a damn is why being rich is nice.
You do know the difference between Larry Ellison and God, don’t you?
God doesn’t think he is Larry Ellison.
I own that book, Zwak.
A 12-year-old would notice it in 2 seconds. So the dozens (at least) of people who were closely involved in the work of funding and building the thing all knew it the whole time, and nobody got the message up the ladder. Or they did, and somebody cut it off before it got to Ellison. Which means that aide is either deliberately sabotaging their boss or is a complete idiot. Or he was told and left it on there on purpose.
Yeah. There’s an old Better Davis movie (I think Fog Over Frisco) in which a key plot point is the bad guys flipping a sign on their boat 180° to change the name from NH SIMON to NO WISHN – – and nobody but the audience is bright enough to notice it.
Residents are asked not to report rumors, secondhand information that’s unverifiable, or social media posts of events they did not witness or experience.
This is how you defend the rule of law.
Don’t believe your own eyes and ears. Approved sources only.
Also don’t believe your own memory, only what you hear today.
We’ve investigated the situation and are confident if we don’t look into the allegations we can dismiss them.
Is this real?
“Why did you have real bullets?”
https://x.com/LauraPowellEsq/status/2010913250783772931
It very easy to make a fake video.
Fake but true? These idiots want to cosplay revolutionary and screech about Hitler, but if they really believed it, they would be in hiding not getting in the face of law enforcement. Then when that turns out to have consequences, they act surprised.
That audio was there when the video was initially released. I think it’s real.
Did she really think their guns were loaded with blanks?
Common Tater:
Or rubber bullets, or paintballs, or pepper balls, or pop out flags.
They didn’t really THINK, they just figured they were pretending, so was everyone else.
Wasn’t it a handgun?
Anyway, I read that substack article too. I just think it’s a bit of a stretch.
These people are really detached from reality, or do you doubt that too?
They have politics we think are crazy, but that doesn’t mean they are detached from physical reality.
Common Tater:
I take it you have not had to deal with an angry AWFL in the past decade?
Many of them expect no consequences regardless of what they do.
It’s all a performance to them.
You don’t allow real bullets at performances.
Mostly peaceful
What is unfolding in Minneapolis reflects a broader shift in how the federal government is asserting its authority during protests, relying on immigration agents and investigators to perform crowd-management roles traditionally handled by local police who often have more training in public order tactics and de-escalating large crowds.
*guffaws, slaps knee*
If only there were local police around.
Yeah, they are deliberately ordered to stay away from the riots.
Just like last time.
It’s almost like Frey and Walz want more violence and chaos.
Morning! Slept in on my Friday ‘off,’ with Walmart a fading memory. I *did* however, miss out on a chance to say goodbye to Leonard from Lawn & Garden, my favorite person I’ve met in a long time, and I also intend to swing by in a few days for a last chance to swap info with Crush. I gave her my Peru Tribune business card w a note in Nov when I thought I’d found a new gig (that scam one I was wise to avoid and ask about here), but with me *really* going, it’d be a purposefully missed opportunity to not try again in some fashion, now that we’re no longer colleagues.
(Her not being there on Thursdays means I didn’t get to do it in a more natural way, but he isn’t there Thurs, either. Thinking I’ll swing by Monday (for supplies!) and see if I can run into her. Would help if I knew where she’d be scheduled, but meh?)
Hrm. Neurologist at 4pm (and an insurance bill to pay), and I suppose overall I’m awaiting my Jan 26 interview with IMPD and my voca rehab dude’s lead with Allied Solutions nearby. <– I hope that one has legs and I can soon meet with them.
Oddly, during my 2+ hours of outdoor duty yesterday, -3 out, as I was picking up loads of garbage, I apparently tweaked a muscle 'round my left hip. Not day-ending, but noticeably seized up. A weekend to settle some affairs, chill my jets, and then back on the horse. Hopefully a chance to talk to MN Munch today. The friendly loan I gave her will be mentioned. Hrm.
Sorry to hear about WMT. Hope you find an easier and warmer gig.
Could be another -14C night. You Americans couldnt handle such cold. You have to be tough to live in these parts.
Heh. You are hilarious.
We have 15 states that regularly endure those temperatures – 16 if you count Canada.
-16 C ? Wow must be cold
There was a heat wave – Fargo hit -12℃.
Oh, wait, you -14 was the nighttime temps? I was looking at daytime.
UCS daytime highs of -12 are ridiculous lets keep it real
It’s a balmy -2C right now.
It will hit around -18C here on Sunday.
And this is a temperate state.
It’s so cold in NoDak that the Glibs there can’t even get the bits to move through the internet.
Too cold to even drink whisky i assume. Just like Arizona is too hot to drink whisky.
PieInTheSky:
I… I don’t understand. Whisk(e)y gets better the colder it is outside.
Yes but maybe there is a point when that reverses.
It’s -6.7 C here now approaching noon
“There’s so much about what’s happening now that is not a traditional approach to immigration apprehensions,” said former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but “traditional” apprehensions were mostly carried out at the border, before we started allowing unauthorized immigrants to roam freely throughout the land.
There were green card raids in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Even Cheech and Chong spoofed it in a movie.
Shoot the moon!
Stinky Wizzleteats:
Shoot the moon!
“Traditional” also included picking up an offender at the local jail. Why aren’t we doing that anymore? /eye rolls
X has been filled lately with interviews of Clinton in the 90’s and Obama in his first term clearly stating that illegals had to go. If they had kids and families, that’s tragic but too bad.
Team Red needs to be running these as campaign ads in the fall, followed by “I stand with President Obama on this issue.”
Wasn’t Schumer tough on the border back then too?
Doesn’t really matter, the current thing is what matters. If the dopes can’t acknowledge reality in general, why bother with history.
I knew Schumer was scum when he wouldn’t answer my question in Middle School (I was in middle school, he already held some elective office). I don’t remember the question, but I remember the snub.
lol Perfect
I’ve seen his speechifying too.
It’s unbelievable how far left the window has shifted.
I knew Cuomo was scum when I rode up with him and some of his flunkies to my office in the elevator one day – he was still some sort of DA and their office was in the same building as my company.
The prickitude just rolled off him in massive waves.
Traditionally, there was no sanctuary bullshit, and the local authorities cooperated with the feds.
“But from all of his rhetoric and stunts, a clear narrative emerged: People of color constitute a threat that white liberals (mostly women) are too dumb to see. Therefore they need to be bullied and physically abused until they surrender to the right-wing truth.
As we’re seeing in Minneapolis, that view isn’t just wrong, it’s also self-contradictory. It wasn’t Latino or Black immigrants who killed Renee Nicole Good. It was a white male ICE officer named Jonathan Ross who was working for an agency claiming it’s here to “protect” white people from these imaginary threats.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/16/how-kristi-noem-turned-ice-into-the-proud-boys/
At least no one has compared ICE to Gamergate.
Actually, it’s about ethics in Political Journalism
Robert Rubin’s lack of self awareness here is absolutely hysterical.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-have-business-leaders-gone-silent-0a5a70ba?st=etZTGp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
DEI, Green New Deal, Trump lawfare, COVID responses. And that’s just off the top of my head.
He must be smoking the same thing as Amanda.
There were green card raids in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Even Cheech and Chong spoofed it in a movie.
But now they’re going house to house dragging people from their beds in the middle of the night!
Your house isn’t exactly a refuge when you run into it after assaulting a federal agent.
But they reached home base! They’re safe!
Don’t you know the rules?!?!?!ONE!?!?
So the geniuses at CBO predicted an enrollment decline of 3.9m in Obamacare versus 1.4m. Good enough for government and MSM.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/obamacare-enrollment-enhanced-subsidies-healthcare-ac4056f0?st=QyY6Ww&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Thanks for all the gift links. I had let my subscription lapse.
“Fatberg the size of four buses likely birthed poo balls that closed Sydney beaches – and it can’t be cleared”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/17/fatberg-poo-balls-sydney-beaches-malabar-outfall-secret-report
STIJLTH
According to the article, it can, in fact, be cleared – they just don’t want the fallout of the required steps.
I was about to say, there are a lot of ways to get rid of it.
I prefer lots of fire personally. Would be dramatic to see all that fat and poo burn.
Any explosions would be a bonus.
It’s waterlogged and deoxygenated, it’ll be impossible to burn out in situ.
I say we have a bucket brigade of politicans scoop it out one gallon at a time, lay it out in front of their lesiglature to dry – then burn it.
Agreed.
Shit That Is Just Lying There Hot?
Perhaps most important, all business leaders—and leaders in all sectors—should ask themselves three questions. First, do Mr. Trump’s actions regarding the economy, the law, and use of the federal government cross a red line? Second, if not, what would? Third, what will I do differently if and when such a line is crossed?
The challenges of opposing authoritarianism can be great. But the ever greater consequences, if authoritarianism is left to continue, can be many times more severe.
Robert Rubin, taking potshots at the Redcoats from his comfy chair.
If Saturday Night Live were funny
That’ll never work
…health policy experts reached by CNBC said they were skeptical of the proposal.
“I do think it’s a bad idea,” said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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There would also have to be strong guardrails in place to dictate how people could spend their health-care funds, said Nick Fabrizio, a health policy expert and associate teaching professor at Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
“I feel very strongly that if you give people money, they will spend it on things other than health care unless it’s like a voucher,” Fabrizio said.
You can’t just give people money. They’ll spend it on the wrong things. They need the caring guidance of Top Men.
“Washington Dems propose bill to prevent cities from enforcing public camping laws
House Bill 2489 would prohibit local governments from enforcing ordinances against camping, sleeping, or similar activities on public land unless they can demonstrate that “adequate alternative shelter space” is available.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-dems-propose-bill-to-prevent-cities-from-enforcing-public-camping-laws
OFFS!!
Let them get their votes on record; won’t help Dems with mid-terms. In fact, the House Dems should be encouraged to get their votes on record for lots of things: reparations, men in women’s restroom and sports, etc.
The only explanation I can think is that they want more homeless.
“Defense attorneys in the murder case of Charlie Kirk have demanded that the Utah County Attorney’s Office be disqualified from working on the case, as one of the prosecutors on the team had an adult child who was present at the Utah Valley University event where Kirk was fatally shot.
Tyler Robinson’s defense team has argued that the prosecutor, because of the child’s experience at the event, has a conflict of interest in the case. In some criminal cases, where there is a conflict of interest for prosecution or defense, they may have to be removed from the case. However, some legal experts have disagreed with the defense’s motion to pull the prosecutor of Robinson’s case, as the shooting has been made very public with thousands of witnesses. Millions more also saw it online.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/tyler-robinsons-lawyers-try-to-disqualify-entire-utah-county-attorneys-office-from-prosecuting-case-because-one-lawyers-child-witnessed-charlie-kirk-shooting
Not seeing the conflict of interest.
The defendant’s legal team is doing their job and depriving him of an ineffective assistance of council argument when he’s convicted. They have to try. I doubt this motion will succeed, but I don’t think they have much chance of an acquittal. So they’re buying time.
“According to an internal email circulated to city attorneys on Thursday morning, the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office invited staff to a midday “healing circle” designed for “quiet, supportive connection,” followed by an appearance from therapy goats beginning at noon.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/beyond-parody-minneapolis-city-attorney-invites-staff-healing/
I feel sorry for the poor goats.
Aren’t most goats in U.S. a type imported (e.g. Nubian, Spanish, Alpine)? If so, I’d think they are terrorized by ICE as subject to deportation and wouldn’t be much help in therapy.
Were the goats provided or is this a Somalian therapy goat scam?
That’s the name of my new album.
Yesterday one of you linked to an article about our institutions becoming female dominated and now I’m seeing everything through that filter.
“The email was signed by City Attorney Kristyn Anderson, who, naturally, made sure to include her (She/Her) pronouns in her official government signature block.”
They hate her because she’s black
Can Crockett win? There’s no avoiding it: White liberal voters often dismiss qualified candidates of color, especially Black candidates, as unelectable.
This dynamic not only contributes to electoral losses, particularly in southern states, but also contradicts Democrats’ identity as a coalition dedicated to civil and human rights and true inclusiveness.
Totally qualified. A superstar.