So I picked up my oldest later than usual yesterday. He went to a seminar put on by the current school marching band drum major on what is needed to be selected as drum major at his high school.
Only three kids showed up, so he has a real shot at this. The process is a panel interview and interestingly requires no “audition” with any of the three brass instruments he plays, but he does have to demonstrate he can conduct a piece of his choice. Today’s music link is one of the songs he’s considering below. I asked him if there was a push up/pull up event during the selection. Sadly, there is none.
¡enlaces!
They’re always in the last place you look.
Once again we are reminded FARC is somehow still a thing.
$6 Billion seems oddly high, unless you consider we are discussing VooDoo Economics.
Argentina asks the pirates to leave the Malvinas Islands. Interestingly, “pirate” is a Spanish slur for the English, due to the number of galleons that were attacked by English privateers during the days of yore.
The song my son is considering. Enjoy your Tuesday!
Can’t we just make the Falklands independant? Remove it from both squabbling countries entirely.
I just find it odd that Milei started this crap right now.
#metoo
Maybe he wants to play tuffgai for his detractors.
I’m wondering how much the average Argintinian cares about some islands with a few hundred Brits and a few thousand sheep on it.
Or was there oil found in the sea nearby that I forgot about?
Looks like this has been a plan as far back as 2024 with Milei.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce43zv3qln9o
It’s nuts. The population is largely British. They don’t want anything to do with Argentina that I know of. Britain is obviously a shadow of even its 80s self but I doubt Argentina can take them.
The only thing I can think is that there is a serious threat of Britain causing mayhem on the shores of Argentina from the Falkands. They are filthy commies after all. They could undermine Milei easily from the Falklands and allow sanctuary to agitators.
Britain might fleece Argentina. Or pull the wool over their eyes.
The threat is the UK cozying up enough with China they don’t defend the islands at all if China starts sending merchant fishing vessels around the horn and begin encroaching on Argentina the way they are doing with Chile.
UCS – at least according to Google, yes the Falklands have untapped oil reserves. 1.7 billion barrels worth.
It’s untapped, though. Legal threats from Argentina have kept it from being tapped along with some environmental challenges…supposedly. Production is apparently set to begin for 2027.
The drop in oil prices under Trump 1.0 combined with the legal threats kept people away.
I see what ewe did there, GT.
The natives are restless tonight sir…
Roughly 30% of Gautam’s hotel staff in Florida are Haitians who are TPS holders
Yes, the “jobs Americans won’t do,” at least not for eight bucks an hour.
That is a lot of sob-story to convey the obvious situation that the guy took advantage of cheap, compliant labor. NTTIAWWT but at least be honest about it.
There was a piece I read in the last week or so that pointed out the framing in those stories. Leaving out that the reason that the employers had so much leverage was the fact that the employees were ILLEGAL AND COULD BE DEPORTED WITH A CALL!
Deport them all.
And all the ones that Amazon hired.
Notice how many Amazon vans are wrecked to shit?
Not around here. I wonder who they’re hiring in this area.
Are you suggesting they’re hiring Asian women?
And once again I will point out that the left, such as CNN writers, could not care less about American jobs because they prefer them not working but being dependent on the government.
It is a main reason you can’t have an honest discussion with them about this stuff.
@rhy – Spin Time: The Left is *protecting* those worker-imports from whatever dangers they fled from; The gov needs to be monitoring this to prevent slavery; the jobs are so important only the gov can properly, w/o greed, run them; no one wants to raise their own kids, yuck.
The fate of Gautam’s staff and that of more than 350,000 other Haitian immigrants rests in the hands of the Supreme Court justices
Nearly 190,000 Haitian TPS holders were employed in early 2025
What’s going on with the other 160,000?
They contribute an estimated $5.9 billion to the US economy
And what do they cost in U.S. taxpayer funding? Schools (Haitians cost extra ’cause nearly all of them are ‘Special Ed’), food and housing assistance, higher auto insurance rates, plus the knock-on effects of the taxpayer supporting our native low-value workers who lose jobs to illiterate peasants.
Just giving me numbers without context is suspiciously like telling me the warm stuff running down my leg is merely rain.
It’s impossible to find unbiased answers to these questions because everyone has an agenda. The sources I trust “more” tell me exactly what I suspect which is that they cost us way more than they contribute.
Those numbers mean that the average Haitian refugee is contributing $16,857.14 to the U.S. economy. I find that…unlikely.
Of course, being pulled out of someone’s ass, they don’t specify whether that’s per annum or a lifetime total.
$6 billion divided by 350,000 gives a little over $17,000 per capita. US per capita GDP is $88,000. So another way to phrase it is that Haitian per capita GDP is less than 20% of average.
The code related to TPS unequivocally states that the decision is entirely in the hands of the executive branch and specifically the head of Homeland Security.
It states directly that it is NOT subject to judicial review and the decisions that have reversed the decisions are some of the most batshit insane ones issued by any judge under Trump’s reign of incompetence.
I’ve quoted it here before and elsewhere. Reasonable people can disagree on some things. They absolutely should not be doing so on this if the question is what the law actually says and allows for.
@Evilsheldon
You forgot the multiplier that they apply with their diversity. They enrich all of our lives and you can’t put an economic number on it, but if you must it’s times 1000000 at least.
Plus, their children vote blue.
How can you put a price tag on that?
LOL as if Democrats give a shit
That’s supposed to be an insult??
¡Asi se dice, pirata!
They haven’t had a winning season since 2018.
Like cracker is any better (worse?)…
Your son *should* conduct “We Built This City”.
*icy stare*
What the fuck’s wrong with you?
He has 2 minutes.
An old chum of mine was taking part in a high school symphonic band competition. One of the categories was sight reading, where the band members had five minutes or so to look over the sheet music, then played the piece in its entirety.
This was the piece.
Since it was the late 1970s, and since they were all geeks, dorks, and nerds, they recognized the musical selection immediately and played it perfectly — though the conductor had no idea why they were stifling giggles the entire time.
Conquistadors are *totally* different from pirates, you guys.
It’s interesting that the most successful pirate in history gets zero mentions in world history textbooks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao
The Brits did achieve the single most profitable capture in pirate history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganj-i-Sawai
Pirate history is a good way to get boys to read.
Are you now, or have you ever been…
In Chicago, several local labor unions and community groups, including the Chicago Teachers Union, SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana, Indivisible Chicago and the Chicago Federation of Labor, jointly announced an economic blackout for Chicago for 1 May.
“May Day has to become bigger in this moment,” said Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers. The unions have backed the economic blackout planned for May Day. “This is about building a more popular united front.”
“As educators, we feel a very real accountability to the young people in the families that we serve. Educators are institution builders that help to create the infrastructure for how Americans see the project of our American democracy,” said Davis Gates. “We want to connect people not just to the affordability crisis but the crisis of our institutions being marginalized in this moment and the impact on our young people.”
Jesus Hornblowing Christ.
Would it count as defying that particular “blackout” if I bought a Chicago-style pizza?
I hope they use the time off to plot ways to commie your kids even harder.
More south of the border news. I can’t wait for ZeroHedge to report we are attacking Cuba.
USS Nimitz Transits the Strait of Magellan
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9642781/uss-nimitz-transits-strait-magellan
That kid better have his phone out taking pix.
“That job sucks. I’d rather see you starve.”
Those are unrelated facts.
“The employees are Haitians with Temporary Protected Status, known as TPS.”
Goin’ up to SCOTUS, eh? Well, sir. We have those TPS reports for ya. The TPS reports have been properly filed. They got ’em. The TPS reports are accounted for. Now we know what the TPS reports are. I’m happy we’ll be discussing the TPS reports, and their importance.
If the Justices could just get around to lookin’ those over, and get back to me this week, that’d be greeaaaat.
Did they use the new cover sheet? There was a memo.
I asked him if there was a push up/pull up event during the selection.
What about high-stepping?
Not the video I was expecting, but it was fun.
I was expecting this.
That is some weird-ass shit. A foreign culture, even.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zwxl3k0o
The US Federal Communications Commission is ordering an early review of Disney’s television broadcast licences days after President Donald Trump called for the firing of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump had urged ABC – whose parent company is Disney – to pull Kimmel’s show after the comedian joked that Melania Trump had the glow of an “expectant widow”. Kimmel made the remarks days before a gunman fired shots at a gala attended by the Trumps.
totally legit.
Trump chasing another laser pointer. Kimmel and the rest of them love being the martyr, so long as it doesn’t actually cost them anything.
He has natural instincts with how to deal with critics that have served him well.
They have completely led him astray with the attack on late night hosts. He’s an old man and spends waaaayyy too much attention to what happens on TV in general but especially with those cunts. If it weren’t for Trump hysteria they’d probably have fewer than a million viewers. A shit ton of Youtubers get more than him.
Heard the heed for more content. Many thoughts and a fun one nearly finished. For another, how would posting highly NSFW content work? Nothin’ sexy, sadly. (Into masked, gowned, gender-uncertain and largely unseen Thai surgeons? Well, then. I got somethin’ for ya.) My article on The Incident, which I can’t open in Dashboard for some reason (?) only had my clean skull pieces on a table and the scan of my brain with the golf ball-sized hemorrhage. This is far more. (I sent ‘em to Derp on FB but I haven’t heard from him. *shrug*)
My piece won’t be soppy, kinda the opposite, but my surgery pics need includin’. They’re fucking fascinating. UCS especially will be very interested in the rather complex bracketry keeping my skull together. It’s surprising. A few are my brain being worked on mid-op, the hemorrhage bein’… something done to it. Hands and many many forceps pictured. And gloved fingers on my brain. Not sure ya can get those pics if it were done stateside. I just asked ’em in Chiang Mai and I got ’em. *shrug*
Hayek’s passing kinda poked my little Legacy kick my brain’s been on. I want the nephews to know about me, and I’d rather have the official word on the life I’ve led. Along with my global travel map I’m working with bro to visually ‘realize,’ I think there’s an interesting project and opportunity here. My travel shit and more is interesting, but the pics are a beast of a hook. Mostly for nephews and myself, I don’t think this is a crazy idea. (Legacy Project, written in a way that’ll interest others. No, not writing it for $$. Personal project, but I’m not not thinking about that other bit for later. Having a project is a thing I should be more focused on.)
I’d like to write up my own Incident, but I’m not supposed to put anything online until the legal situation is settled.
Saw your pics and made a response. It reminded me of one of these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQC_GDTNkQQ
Guys, we’d love to have both your pieces “when the stars come right.”
Or anything anyone wants to bloviate about, really.
I’ve got a fun one I can finish pretty quickly. The ‘brain surgery’ one might take a sec. Really, I’m thinking of how I want to frame it. It won’t be a ‘Here’s my skull apart.’ ‘Here it’s bracketed.’ ‘Here’s them poking my brain.’ ‘Here’s the re-bracketed skull shards back inside my open head.’
Must be much more fun. Cuz it will be fun to write, though as meta as it can biologically get, but I haven’t really thought about a way to put it in the way I want it to be. Upbeat, is certainly key.
It will galvanize my cyborgian qualities for y’all. ‘Tis being pondered, perhaps especially today, which marks my 39th trip ’round on and through this blue-green dot. It’s been a rather cinematic journey. The bloody bit is a ‘perfect’ Act II nadir, but best to show it as it was. I’ve got like 20 pics mid-op.
I’m sorry, yes, The Villages is an interesting place, but I wouldn’t define as exclusively a place for swingers.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/pastor-known-marriage-advice-arrested-rumored-swingers-community-accused-having-multiple-wives
The true secret to happiness is to get older women to sit on party balloons until they pop.
He should be an expert then.
If one man can tolerate multiple wives, who are you to pass judgement?
This one time, at band camp…
People need to be easier on Ilhan Omar. Her teleprompter said WW II and she doesn’t know Roman numerals because she’s not Roman or anything and besides Somalia doesn’t have teacher’s unions to make sure the kids get instructed right.
She can totally define fascism and knows exactly what it means when she calls Trump and MAGA that.
Besides, she just lost millions of dollars, and a winery!
You were not Ist on this thread.
LOL. https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2049208884280062270
Quality trolling
I’ve grown weary of the trolling when everything he’s done has been a disaster. He almost disavowed the one thing he’s done that doesn’t suck outright because it’s uncouth to the people who would attend his would-be-ballroom.
Regardless, he’d get more points if he had said “Two Kangz.”
Not two kings
rhyrun,
My frenchie spelling this morning was correct.
But your spelling of “rhywun” isn’t. :-p
Man, that was a defensive struggle in Paris…
What’s a rhyrun?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/mediaviewer/rm430275328
‘Bout twenty bucks, same as downtown.
Was my joke too obtuse or are you punking me…?
I rhought the joke was you used the German names for the regions. If that wasnt it, I didnt get it.
My response was since PSG won, they remain French.
There’s still the return leg next Wednesday.
Is it just me, or is a planned attack on a target that fails kind of evidence that the security level isn’t a problem?
It seems whenever anything happens in this country, even when stopped by already existed precautions, it becomes a tool to demand more laws/security.
I mean yea things could be worse next time. Or you could have just deterred future would-be-attackers for that event.
It could just be evidence that the attacker was incompetent.
Multiple people pointed out that there was almost no security at that hotel until just outside the room where all the dignitaries were just sitting down. That seemed kind of odd to me.
I’m old enough to remember when 4Chan was vehemently anti-Bush and left wing and no one bothered to attack it as an autistic hive of scum and villainy even though it was.
The left has literally created most of their internet boogiemen. From the “incel” community to the 4chan autists. These are people who would have identified with Democrats as far back as 2010. Spending years and years alienating young men from your ideas will do that to ya.
“an autistic hive of scum and villainy”
AHEM!
Yeah, know your audience.
Spanish calling Brits pirates is like the French calling them Les Rosbifs. What’s a nickname for curries, doner kebab, and chicken tikka Marsala?
Dot Indian?
Rice & Spice?
I feel attacked.
Meant to go here: “an autistic hive of scum and villainy”
After 6 months of renewing my application, I finally got an job interview with Publix!