Happy Hump Day, everybody. Feel more like I’m taking than giving on this particular one. But hey, sometimes you’re STEVE SMITH, other days, the hiker. We’re going to get straight to the links because, well, Mrs. L told me I need to go to the store.
So we can attribute this to a woman, and break the streak of angry young men shooting up schools?
When the commies come to seize 24M privately held ARs and find out there’s more like 30M. Um, I wonder if they’re counting all the home builds. Still, rookie numbers. let’s aim for 50!
Something about not as far to fall and not as high to climb probably applies here.
The Grauniad continues to beat dead horse after it has rotted away.
This is how you write a muck-raking headline.
A little mellow grunge for you this afternoon.
…. so you could check her out?
Must have been a sale, his pants were half off.
Cigarettes an a gallon of milk?
“sometimes you’re STEVE SMITH, other days, the hiker”
That’s a quality observation, right there, that is.
And, coming from Tonio, it Bears repeating.
Tonio usually warns us when things are going to get rough though — “Here’s Ur Sign…”
Only if you’re an inane Nazgul.
Said it before here, sure folks are sick of hearing it from me — but taking people with mental conditions (and sorry, Tater… I think any sort of body dysphoria is a mental condition and we need to have the mind accept reality instead of trying to bend reality to self image) and pumping them full of hormones is a very very bad terrible idea that’s going to lead to crap like this. Or them shooting those who “treated” them… but what they fixate on as the maker of their pain is going to be hard to predict.
I did see in this article, he had offed his 39 year old mother, not sure how the father got away ( I can guess, a long ago cigarette run?) So not all misplaced fury.
The mother IS the father! Einhorn is Finkle!
They ran the horse down to the glue factory before it rotted — because they keep trying to make things stick.
Huh… I figured with the story floating around the ‘Net this morning, you would Love some Cobain reminiscing.
I love that album.
His death, like Brad Del’s, makes me very sad.
Edit: Delp
Thirty-two million is a big number. Journalists reporting on gun control proposals in the states or in Washington, D.C., should recognize just how commonly owned these firearms are and that precedent demonstrates entire classes of commonly owned firearms cannot be banned. Truthfully reporting to readers and audiences just how popular they are is critical to ensure Second Amendment rights are not infringed by gun control activists using scare tactics and lies.
“Journalists” and “truthfully reporting”. Huh.
I would have to do a complete audit to know how many ARs I own. If you count .22LR clones and stripped lowers, it’s probably close to twenty. That’s really too many though, the number that I regularly shoot is more like five.
I’m doing my part!!!
Someone wants to be Captain of Volunteers in their raised regiment, it seems.
Not remotely. But I am a big believer in having plenty of spares.
Throw away reloads?
Damn. Looks like I’ve been slacking a bit.
Better than being stuck using MS Teams.
My company just announced that slack is no longer the preferred IM client and to move to teams. 🔥🔥💥
Suggest bringing back pneumatic message tubes.
I’m not sure if that would just suck or maybe just blow….
Sucking is just blowing backwards.
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I bet you have over 500 round of ammunition too!
Arsenal and Old Lace….
I’m bad at stockpiling ammunition. I tend to shoot it up too quickly.
But yes.
I don’t own an AR, but we have two Tavors. If you add in other types of .223/5.56 mag-fed semi-autos, I wonder what the total would be.
Before the boating accident I had 3.
1 in .556
1 in .204 Ruger
1 in 6.5 Grendel
Four and a receiver.
Not sure.
“When the commies come to seize 24M privately held ARs…”
I think we’re a while away from seize, but only a little. We’re now in the make ’em illegal and try to intimidate lawful gun owners into unloading.
When they outlaw possession of them, as VA is about to do, I think we are to the seizure stage. At that point, it’s a matter of tactics. Anyone who law enforcement discovers has an AR will get it seized.
At what point do we start seeing people take Solzhenitsyn’s advice?
Two possibilities, neither one appealing.
First, when it’s a choice between fighting and dying in the street.
Second, when there’s a chance that you might win.
FIL is freaked out about his guns in WA and how he’ll transfer them to kids and grandkids when it’s time.
I keep telling him to not worry and just do it.
It’s odd how so many ‘conservatives’ kowtow to garbage laws.
“When the commies come to seize 24M privately held ARs…”
I’m sure they have no interest in my classic, walnut-stocked varmint rifle that also shoots .223/5.56.
Shoot. I forgot I have one of those too.
Camps, sterilization, firing squads…?
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-voters-to-decide-on-population-cap-and-civilian-service-reform/90927378
They could throw everyone for a loop and invade Austria to ship off the excess.
Start small with Liechtenstein.
Ship the excess off to Greenland?
Oh, it’s an immigration thing. Not a births thing.
The population is rising 1% a year according to wikipedia, which does seem high. And I’m sure the natives are not reproducing at replacement rates.
Back to Syria one would home.
Sometimes
Sometimes
Severely moderate.
Air traffic controller’s failure led to serious injuries on Newark-bound flight, feds say
Help me Team Blue! Mind you I bet pensions aren’t in this.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-social-security-savings-us-workers/
I find that extraordinarily difficult to believe. I don’t recall the numbers from when I was a fiduciary for the hospital’s retirement plans, but our participation rate was north of 80%, and the average and median balance was definitely north (as in multiples) of $1,000. And we had a good number of employees who weren’t particularly well paid.
Me too. The fidelity stuff seems more realistic, but I’m assuming they source data from plans they custody or manage.
https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/average-retirement-savings
Also note this is mean and not median. That may play into the large gap.
Yikes, those numbers are terrifying too.
RC, if they participate median was $40k.
I would not be surprised if half or more of Americans have *nothing* saved. They think they will be living off SS.
They deserve to starve.
Disagree.
They’re stupid, to be sure, but it’s hard to blame a population that has been thoroughly propagandized on a subject for their entire lives for believing said propaganda.
Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, they said. This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. The climate would also be very different to the benign conditions of the past 11,000 years, during which the whole of human civilisation developed.
COULD. Or, you know.. could NOT.
At 3-4C, “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it”, scientists said last week
According to our model.
Fuck you and the model you rode in on.
It’s life Jim… but not as we know it.
(It’s worse than that… it’s physics Jim!)
Since it’s other EV was a CUV I’d call this its first EV SUV.
We Got Hands-On With the 2027 Toyota Highlander EV. It’s Toyota’s Most Important Electric SUV Yet
I can’t see the demand for a EV primary family hauler that’s used on long haul with planning for charging. If you only haul local, maybe.
Well thank goodness they didn’t decide on Sports Utility Model for their acronym then.
And yeah — a range of only 287 miles and having to plan charging around that would certainly be a deal killer in my book. But I always worry about trips across NM/AZ or WY/CO and like the 450+ I get with my older gas coupe.
The greenies already have a Rivian or Lucid three row.
I assume most of these are going to CA.
“Most important electric SUV yet.”
Whoa.
No watts to freedom. No care.
Amazing how the press builds this up. A year from now:
“Toyota discontinues electric SUV and takes 300 million dollar write down.”
If only it was that small of a write down.
It is also likely that carbon dioxide levels are the highest they have been in at least 2m years.
Science journalisming is all about hard facts.
It would be kind of cool if humanity had actually gone down the all of knowledge at your fingertips route with this internet thing rather than everyone lying louder than everyone else to drown each other out route, but human nature is what it is.
THAT’S NOT TRUE!
“Likely”
Black fourth graders in Mississippi are on average better readers than those in Massachusetts, which is often thought to have the best public school system in the country (and one that spends twice as much per pupil).
The “southern schools are rubbish” trope has always been, well, rubbish. Average scores on, say the SAT / ACT were always lower because southern states have a disproportionate number of minorities.
Going back to phonics instead of relying on whatever Ed School fad is current has done wonders for the kids.
And how do the women at UMiss stack up against the women from UMass?
Less mass, more miss
I’d volunteer to perform a field study but I suspect my wife wouldn’t be terribly fond of the career change or areas of interest.
Amble through The Grove on a warm September Saturday morning before a football game. Every twenty seconds you’ll spy a lass that’d make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
Hooked on phonics is better than hooking by phony chicks?
Now do NYC which probably spends twice as much as Massachusetts. (It was up to something like $49K per pupil the last I heard.)
Education spending has been a kickback scheme for D coffers as long as I can remember. And them just getting greedier doesn’t make a difference.
Leering centers are just the tip of the ice berg.
the best public school system in the country
That’s “tallest midget” territory. Anyone who can afford to send their kids to private school does so.
Especially politicians who cheer public education the loudest.
Scientists warned in 2018 of the prospect of a hothouse Earth. In this scenario, global temperature stays significantly above the 4C rise of current worst-case climate scenarios for thousands of years, driving a huge rise in sea level that drowns coastal cities.
There goes Zuckerberg’s new house.
He cools it with the blood of
virginssexually abused persons of what should be virginal ages.Other than the one in Uvalde, the only school shooting that immediately comes to mind is when the troon (was/were) went off in Nashville.
It’s probably because spree shootings are starting to become passe.
Believe it or not, there are trends among murdery types. Back in the 70s is was serial killers. Now, it’s folks wanting to go out with a bang, so to speak.
Maybe we could make it cool to take each other out and just get Mortal Kombat.
#Duelingiscool
“I apologize for calling your wife a bloated warthog, and I bid you good day!”
The 70’s also had a noticeable uptick in bombings.
But I doubt that many of our modern spree killers could build a functioning IED, even without FBI assistance. That’s probably a good thing.
I assume bombings are next once many of these court decisions from appeals courts all over the country affirming Trump’s agenda almost across the board filter through.
Murderers today lack the patience and long term thinking for serial killing. Running down to the nearest soft target and randomly blazing away is more in tune with the instant gratification and short attention spans of today.
I blame the video games.
+1 Tipper Gore.
Kids today just don’t want to put in the work.
It’s almost like media obsessions correlate with these various trends.
I think I need a shower after
readingskimming that trash.Maybe we could make it cool to take each other out and just get Mortal Kombat.
Bring back shooting shot glasses off people’s heads in bars.
Murderers today lack the patience and long term thinking for serial killing. Running down to the nearest soft target and randomly blazing away is more in tune with the instant gratification and short attention spans of today.
Where’s the fun in being a serial killer? Nobody even knows your name.
So they really want some Cheers?
You have to have a name that makes a good abbreviation.
My boy will likely be one a serial killer due to his initials.
MKB has a nice ring to it.
Politico headline:
US debt forecast to hit $64T in a decade as Trump policies widen deficit
IT’S ALL TRUMP’S FAULT!
Better elect Democrats to tame the budget again.
A Democrat President with a Republican Congress. Seems to work the best in reducing spending.
Put out the Newt Gingrich signal.
Step 1A. Dump every illegal in their home country.
Step 1B. Audit every tax payout for the last 5 years screening specifically for fraud. Arrest and prosecute anyone involved.
Step 2. Cut off every NGO and non-profit from receiving taxbux.
Then we can see what happens with the debt.
Step 3. Pull out of NATO. Evacuate every military base on foreign soil. taking all military assets with us. Let the Navy continue to patrol the oceans and trade routes, but only to protect ships flying the US flag.
Fair.
I’ve been watching monthly Treasury reports for the past year or so. I haven’t checked to see if February’s is available. If it is not out, it should be out soon.
Spending has been going up under Trump. The Treasury is projecting for FY2026 an increase in revenue, which is more than what can be explained by tariffs, such that even with the increased the spending the annual deficit goes down from something like $1.7 trillion to $1.6 trillion. Which means the debt goes up.
Trump’s FY2027 budget proposal is overdue the last I checked, but I expect no cut in spending.
I’ll give this one to Politico.
even with the increased the spending
even with the increase in spending.
PROOFRAD!
As the CBO predicted last summer, the Republican megabill Trump signed into law in July will help boost economic growth this year. But that will be partially offset by the economic effects of Trump’s tariffs and increased immigration enforcement.
Let’s not forget the legal costs incurred in the attempt to eliminate government programs and jobs.
There is no way that 20M illegals with virtually no job skills in 5 years helps economic growth.
Never change, jouralismismas….
If there isn’t a job at the US in any given story, is it even journalism?
Nevermind that Canada has only 1/10 the population of the US.
Per capita does not exist.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/northampton-county/easton-area/man-charged-with-animal-cruelty-after-fishhooks-found-in-food-on-easton-sidewalks/article_202159a2-175c-403c-976e-e5530b07406c.html
Wow. That’s nuts.
Someone was tired of picking up dog shit in his yard.
Violent criminals in NYC get less – or no – bail.
I’ll give this one to Politico.
We were in great shape before Trump fucked everything up.
I think it has been pretty well established that Trump couldn’t cut spending even if he actually had any meaningful interest in doing so.
*spoiler alert- he doesn’t.
We were in great shape before Trump fucked everything up.
I’m not giving the guy that ran on “Drain the Swamp” a pass just because people before him were shitty too.
I suppose the inherent problem is that the system is designed such that 1 man, no matter how dedicated he may be (and I’m not saying Trump is), it still takes hundreds of others to agree and have the political will to get it done.
For Instance: We could send DEG to the WH, and about as much cutting would get done as has happened.
I know. If he actually does fire 500,000 government workers I’ll consider him effective at swamp draining.
He did just get a favorable judicial ruling to allow him to fire at will, anyone under the executive branch. He needs to go for it.
He did just get a favorable judicial ruling to allow him to fire at will, anyone under the executive branch. He needs to go for it.
I thought that it was only those subject to reclassification? I.e. many employees still have civil service protections.
We could send DEG to the WH, and about as much cutting would get done as has happened.
Probably. The big difference? I’d actually veto shit and not go to bat for things like the BBB.
Correctomundo DEG, those with civil service protections are not at will.
https://fedemploymentattorneys.com/legal-blog/at-will-employees/
I agree with he who chips wood. The Deep State is real, and 95% of Congress has zero intention to cut spending. And zero incentive, really. It’s awfully hard to raise campaign $$ on it.
Correctomundo DEG, those with civil service protections are not at will.
And to add on, this is something Trump tried late during his first term but it got slow rolled by the bureaucracy.
This time around, and certain people might need their fainting couches since I will say something good about Trump, he got on it right away and might actually get it done. Final rule issued and from the linked story, 30 days before anything can happen.
DOGE was so promising, and then, nothing.
Apparently, the Epstein “list” is more important to deficit hawks like Massie…
Apparently, the Epstein “list” is more important to deficit hawks like Massie…
I think he has continued to vote against spending.
Trump pretended to like the idea to get Elon’s money and continued to humor him a bit afterwards but it’s absolutely fucking clear that he doesn’t give a damn about spending or the deficit. We haven’t had a reasonable spender since, like it or not, Bill Clinton.
Walking talking and chewing gum at the same time is possible.
“Apparently, the Epstein “list” is more important to deficit hawks like Massie…”
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Yeah, he should offer amendments to stop the extra spending and/or vote against it. Oh wait…
What percentage of the budget is off-limits again? And how wasteful is it?
More than half is unassailable welfare spending.
I’m guessing half of that is fraud.
All of it is unconstitutional.
How do we know he’s not faking it again? https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/bud-cort-star-harold-maude-brewster-mccloud-21348152.php
RIP
There’s a mainframe problem.
Production control calls me.
I don’t handle mainframe problems.
*headdesk*