Well, the wedding has come and gone. It was quite an experience. It poured rain all day, until God gave us a five hour window to get it done. And then the skies opened up to a torrential downpour to make up for it. All in all, it was an exceptional wedding and everyone had a marvelous time. Now to get the newlyweds ready to move to the Gulch and work in our dungeons. They will be a breath of fresh air after several years of incompetent employees.
Links?
Um. No. And you can tell he’s a New York “Republican”.
Ima chalk it up to “message sent”.
Hakeem continues to beclown himself as he tries to remain relevant.
Okay, that’s it for me. I have a bunch of nuthin’ to do this afternoon and it’s time to get to it. Peace out, Glibbies.
Brett suggested the music.
First? Wow
You should celebrate by setting a potato on fire.
Put one in the microwave for 20 minutes.
Hey!
Lifehack – wrap it in foil and set it on fire in 30 seconds.
Prosecutors claimed the demonstrators were part of “antifa” and filed a broad terrorism charge against them, allowing the Trump administration to claim they had successfully convicted antifa terrorists. The actual terrorism charge the government got a conviction on, however, is not connected to ideology.
Who knew that shooting a federal law enforcement officer in furtherance of leftist ideology wasn’t connected to ideology?
I don’t give a fuck. But thankfully, I am not a citizen of that country.
Were I any of those that are in the groups wanting to get into the US I’d be doing my damnedest to do whatever it takes.
I probably couldn’t pass as a Haitian. Chinese or Mexican but I could learn to wash dishes or whatever.
It used to be easy. Just walk over the border.
They don’t have to go home, but they can’t stay here.
Is that a lyric…?
Wait till closing time and ask again.
It was a saying before it was a lyric.
Dammit I should have caught that.
Something did tickle the grey cells, at least.
@rhy: Tickle harder or it gets the hose again.
Has anyone gotten Rumble videos to embed in WordPress? I tried several ways on my drone article and it’s not worked.
Oh, since I dropped the notice to TPTB on the ded thread – the Drone article can go anywhere in the schedule where an article is needed it’s standalone.
I don’t use Rumble, so I don’t know. Are you using the insert block / video / insert from URL?
I tried that – WP just said “LOL, Video Not Found at URL”
Okay. That’s not something I can fix. The only work-around I can think of is to upload the videos to YouTube.
We don’t have the storage to host videos in our WP Media Library.
I put a link in the article, it’s not vital that it be embedded, I just figured it’d look better if it were.
“Of the 350,000+ lawful Haitian TPS holders, roughly one-third work in our healthcare system,” he continued. “Immediately shutting off TPS will create a crisis in our hospitals, nursing homes, and in the I/DD [intellectual and developmental disabilities] community.”
We have plenty of low-value workers sitting idle. They’ll take up the slack. It’s not like you need years of training to be a bedpan jockey.
^This.
And the departure of the Haitians will also free up housing that could be occupied by those healthcare workers moving to Springfield for jobs.
I can rent a cargo van, but we’ll need a couple volunteers to throw them in.
Won’t anyone think of the orphans?
What will happen to them when the newbies arrive?
Another dire life-and-death need.
You’ve got expensive tastes, Mo.
Especially for someone who I swear has claimed to be a basic bitch on at least one occasion.
I thought she was a COBOL bitch.
At least it wasn’t FORTRAN
I like pretty things. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1048921613/recycled-vintage-aqua-mason-jar-glass
You can have pretty things that don’t cost as much as a small house or large truck.
C++ actually.
That Etsy item is more like it. In fact, I like it better than the bracelet.👍
lol C++ was the first language book I picked up when I decided to pursue that career in the late 90s.
A buddy said “Don’t” and I’m glad I listened.
I think I still my C++ barf bag somewhere. Seems the link is dead in the airsickness bag museum so no pic tonight.
Boodles. I made the mistake of looking at Patek Phillippe watches.
Did you not see “Boodles” before you clicked on the watches? 🤣
My wife and I long ago decided we want polygamy to be legal so we can marry a sugar spouse.
Someone wearing such a beautiful piece of jewelrey, and yet the most grandma Hollie Hobby blouse.
whathelldamnguy!
I had no idea the situation had become that dire in South Korea. Maybe we should give them Temporary Protected Status.
Poor Hakeem. Your party is just not that into you anymore.
In the dead thred, someone posted a link about Scott Weiner getting kicked out of the SF trans meet up. In a tweet within that link, Weiner is referred to politically as “center right”. LO, fucking L
Makes sense as I never see anyone vaguely right wing referred as anything but “far right”.
Left bottom.
Certainly not a power bottom.
I corpse-fucked the thread with that same reaction.
Wiener is toast (((because))).
Hakeem is toast because not commie enough.
And Schumer… holy shit he needs to head for ze hills.
His better days, if he had any, are way behind him now.
Politicians just never want to give up, most pro athletes have a bad year and they realize they’re fading and decide to go out on top.
Schumer
Shumer is starting to smell like Ceaușescu.
Well he is both Jewish and not commie enough so he does not fit into today’s Party at all.
Schumer graduated from Harvard Law School in 1974; immediate ran for the NYS Assembly; went from there to the US House in the 1982 election, and from there to the Senate in the 1998 election. Hasn’t had a real job in the productive sector in his life.
I don’t know all the details of what’s going on in NY, but Schumer strikes me as one of absolute worst people in America. So, zero sympathy for him.
Only because he has been flapping his gums in front of a camera for decades. Sure, he’s terrible but the next generation of Dems are way, way worse.
Apparently his big sin is sponsoring a bill last year to require schools to teach that antisemitism is bad.
Being a fan of public gay sex was A-OK but insufficiently anti-Israel is beyond the pale.
From the Virginia gun case.
“Gun violence is the key driver of violent crime in this commonwealth and nation”
That’s called a tautology. What a retard.
Taking place in the Chattahoochee River, a fish kill was triggered by an oxygen-depleted water overflow from the combined sewer system in Atlanta, reads a Georgia Department of Natural Resources report.
What a crappie outcome.
I’m not gonna carp about it but you won’t sucker me into reading it. I’m bullheaded like that.
Whoever screwed up is going to find himself in quite a pickerel. He’ll have to make things right if he doesn’t want his head on a pike.
I think I offended my Oklahoma Reddit Cliche. She texted me the other night all panicky about a situation and she did not like the advice I gave. She did not want advice. She wanted me to say she was totally justified in feeling the way she was feeling. I told her we could talk about that when we got her crisis solved. You have two bad choices. Choice 2 is marginally more wise than Choice 1. This was, apparently, not the correct answer.
Look, little girl. Don’t ask me to help you solve a crisis, then go off on a tangent and expect me to follow just because you don’t like the curtain pulled back on reality.
Reality bites.
🤨
Tres’ response.
Chefs kiss.
Yeah… hon, you need to stop trying to fix strangers.
Many strangers should be fixed. En mass.
Help control the pest population – remember to have your strangers spayed or neutered.
At the very least the Haitian and Somali ones.
This sounds like every conversation my wife has with her sister.
DenverJ and Threedoor, if you are out there, from the dedthred on the Free State Project.
Full disclosure: I moved to NH in the late 90s before Jason Sorens wrote his Free State Project essay for The Libertarian Enterprise. I helped out the LPNH for a few years, then got away from politics. I took the FSP pledge, and when the vote came, voted for states other than NH. I stayed away from politics other than signing ballot access petitions, reading reason. Then the Rona Panic (see the Too Local News stories) happened
The original pledge to move to a state the project votes on and work to build a freer society activated when 20K people signed it. That was in 2016 if I remember. To my knowledge the FSP only claims 6,000 have moved to NH. The new FSP Executive Director, Eric Brakey (full disclosure: I’ve met him twice, I’m not sure he would remember me, and I like what he’s doing), has started an initiative to find supporters that have moved to use them as a marketing tool for the FSP.
NH won the voting for the state to move to. The vote was in 2003 if I remember correctly. I think Wyoming was in second place.
The movers I know are a mixed bunch from all over the country.
Libertarians in NH moving into the Republican party started at about the time Sorens wrote his essay. In 2016, when the pledge activated, I wasn’t very involved with politics so I don’t know how many libertarians were masquerading as Republicans in the state legislature at that time; however, I know it was a number greater than zero with some of them having lived in the state at the time Sorens wrote his essay.
NH was one big advantage for making political change: Ease of getting elected to the state House of Representatives combined with almost every bill in the legislature getting a vote before the full chamber (i.e. killing in committee is very, very rare). There are 400 state representatives for a state of roughly 1.3 million (roughly one state representative per 3200 people). I am active in politics nowadays but not hugely active (in other words, there are people far, far more active than I am). I am on a first name basis with a few state representatives.
I’ll say the plan is working better than I originally thought it would (see my disclosures). There is still a lot of work to do, but at this point, if I’m going to be on the East Coast, I’ll be in NH, FL (I was a DeSantis supporter in 2024), or PA (family reasons).
I appreciate the work but TBH politics is (obviously, for those who know me) not why I live where I do.
Although I’ve visited NH a couple times and it’s nice there.
Less than zero desire to live in the current hot topics, FL or TX. PA… maybe.
I think PA is sliding downhill though I wouldn’t write it off yet.
I was surprised to learn about how large the NH house was a couple years ago. That certainly makes inroads easier.
6000 is a pretty big chunk of people. It would be interesting to know how many families and actual gross number of people that would be.
Wyoming would have sucked. The weather alone and the distance from major cities would have turned most away.
Idaho has a small house and like Wyoming the LDS control a sizable portion of the local and state politics. Likely less for Wyoming. Here in OD you’re never going to be governor without being LDS. They made damn sure Janice McGeechin was ran out of state politics, too conservative and Christian.
It would be interesting to know how many families and actual gross number of people that would be.
I don’t have number and I doubt the FSP has numbers.
I know FSP members sponsor family events every now and then. There are some with families, some of which with young kids. A handful have adult kids some of whom live in the state and are libertarian or libertarian friendly.
Lots of bills due in the Idaho house and senate in committee. I know Dan Forman. He’s one of the most conservative guys in the ID senate. The Boise ruling class is known for ignoring his bills. Again, conservative and Christian, he can’t call the southern ID reps and dems ‘Brother.’
Our population is larger than both NH and WY as well making positive change harder.
We’re also 2/3 state and fed owned land. And so many of the self described conservatives will fight tooth and nail to auction off a single acre of land. With the massive influx from the west side I’m pretty sure we’ll see even softer republicans and eventually a democrat mayor, the later population in the Boise area seems to be growing fast.
And part time legislature, ftw.
Every legislative session in NH we have about 1000 or so bills filed. The legislature is in session for a few months a year.
That certainly helps Spud.
Building up a group like the NH Liberty Alliance might help. If you think you might want to do that or know someone that does, contact me at thorby455 AT proton DOT me and I can put you in touch with some folks that can help.
There is the Magic Valley (twin falls area, 10 hour drive from me) Liberty Alliance. They bring out the hate. Looks like there is one up north but from what I can see of their FB page they are focused on being NIMBYs and not anything resembling Liberty minded ideas.
I’m out of the loop as I’m banned from the top two social media sites.
First time I drove to Boise, I saw Ralph Smeed’s billboard on I84 outside of Caldwell and was impressed. Sadly he’s passed and Idaho Free Foundation got skinsuited into a Republican fringe group.
Thanks for the update. I think I signed up, and then said “New Hampshire? No thanks. ” I hope it works, maybe I’ll still move
You’re welcome!
If you move, let me know. Contact information is above in a reply to Threedoor.
“a Fourth of July protest last year”
“protest” = “using fireworks to lure officers out and then try to murder them”
I’m no lawyer, but I do believe there’s a concept called “lying in wait” that guarantees premeditation and is considered a severe aggravating circumstance.
I could try to find a more dishonest article than that one and I’m sure I’d eventually be successful, but it would take a while.
Silicone Saturday once again!
https://archive.is/2UrYi
OFFS… I land on local cable news by accident and surprise – it’s a deep dive into being Queer at Kodak.
I hate the news media.
Good Lord.
My cable box is set to start on that channel and to land on it if I punch in a channel that doesn’t exist… it is without exception some woke BS and/or DNC talking point. The most common topics seem to be food insecurity and anti-data centers.
The rainbow flags bright colors,
Give us the gays of summers
Makes you think all the months’s a June day, oh yeah
Fun bit about S Korea still giving a fuck about their leaders NOT fucking ’round. (I’m not sure if the early ones deserved it. I’ve forgotten what I knew about Park Chung Hee, whose eldest daughter, President Park Geun-hye, was Prez when I was there. Much scandal.
The list ends much nicer than I thought. When I was first there only one had not been kicked out, one way or another.
Syngman Rhee (1948–1960): Ousted by popular uprising, died in exile. Oooh!
Yun Bo-seon (1960–1962): Ousted by military coup.
Park Chung Hee (1962–1979): Assassinated while in office.
Choi Kyu-hah (1979–1980): Ousted by military coup.
Chun Doo-hwan (1981–1988): Imprisoned for treason and corruption; pardoned.
Roh Tae-woo (1988–1993): Imprisoned for mutiny and corruption; pardoned.
Kim Young-sam (1993–1998): Completed term; unpunished. WOAH!
Kim Dae-jung (1998–2003): Completed term; unpunished. WOAH!
Roh Moo-hyun (2003–2008): Committed suicide during a corruption probe. …OH!
Lee Myung-bak (2008–2013): Imprisoned for bribery and embezzlement; pardoned… oh?
Park Geun-hye (2013–2016): Impeached, removed, and imprisoned for corruption; pardoned. ….oh, really?
Moon Jae-in (2017–2022): Completed term; unpunished. Huh.
Yoon Suk Yeol (2022–2025): Impeached and removed after declaring martial law. Yeah. That was kinda fucking nuts.
Lee Jae-myung (2025–Present): Incumbent president.
So there ya have it. My take is modern Koreans, with their cultural (legit) patriarchy still in place, along with homogeneous unity – Took the Constitution seriously. If I recall, which I don’t, the early coups were against legit corruption of the executive. Now? Looks like they’ve softened.
And all of that is pretty “clean” by Asian standards.
Ridiculously clean! The culture and people demanded accountability. They didn’t excuse (much) of that bullshit. Remarkable, what they’ve accomplished in their 80 years as a nation. IIRC, the North was richer until the South until ~1979 cuz of the Ruskies. I got there in 2010, so the memory of that was fresh. Explains a lot of the hagwon, private academy, industry. (Not all, though.)
Kids dropping their phones off with the principal as they got to my last school (2021-’22) was blessed. No fuss. Kids just did it.
Grandparents much be… uh… no idea what they’re thinking, what with ‘modernity.’ “I USED to be with It! Then they changed what It was! Now what I’m WITH, isn’t It! And what’s IT is weird and scary! And it’ll happen to YOU!” <– Legit, Iron Rule territory, with that Truth.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: NH State legislators with big mileage reimbursements
The lawmakers who serve in New Hampshire’s all-volunteer state Legislature famously receive a nominal salary: just $100 per year. But that doesn’t account for the bulk of the public money these 424 elected officials get for doing their job.
State senators and representatives also receive mileage reimbursement to cover the cost of traveling to and from the State House in Concord. While their base pay has remained unchanged since 1889, their mileage rate has increased over time and now stands at 72.5 cents per mile, which can add up quickly.
In total, as of June 12, the Legislature had paid out $1.7 million in mileage to 417 lawmakers since the current two-year term began in December 2024, according to records analyzed by the Globe. While most had received about $3,300 or less in mileage, 24 had accumulated more than $10,000 apiece.
That’s called hiding a raise.
Kick in a couple bucks a month each towards their internet bill. There is no reason to be anywhere in person.
Remote sessions came up during the ‘Rona Panic.
The state senate went full remote.
The state house went remote for committee meetings and committee hearings on bills. The remote hearings turned into a bit of a shitshow. Session days were in person. The reason for in person session days? Cost for video conferencing software that would support 400 people plus allowing public viewing was more than the Legislature wanted to pay.
Since the panic ended, the Legislature went back to doing everything in person.
If the cost is less than paying for the mileage, do it.
In EvLand, I bought a suit at Nordstrom Rack today. (It won’t be worn as one.) Light grey. Kinda nice, up my style-alley. And shoes. And a shirt. (Oh, and socks! (But no tie!)) And other dark brown pants I quite like. I did fairly well, frankly. I’m a 36(S), I discovered. Suit $160, marked down from $400. (All? Ouch, but no stress purchases, at all.)
I also did something really dumb, in hindsight. Helped out crazy-ex. We’re also gonna watch a ballgame tomorrow at her place. I’ll not be pissed if that doesn’t happen. Gonna do more research and learnin’ for my Monday interview. Curious, curious. Will be strange leaving the house all dressed up.
Don’t stick it in crazy.
Lass dich nicht mit Verrückten ein.
Ne va pas te taper une folle.
Ontday ickstay it ino razycay.
Stick it in crazy, give her the wrong number, and leave
Do you normally leave the house in your birthday suit?
You don’t?
I don’t want the neighbors to point and laugh so I make sure I have underwear on at least.
Forza Österreich!
The biggest revelation of this World Cup is that Zlatan Ibrahimović has charisma and a sense of humor.
I always just thought he was a bigger asshole than the default player.
Spider Noir is quite fun.
I have to get back to it but, yes, quite fun.
You doing black-and-white or color I’ve been doing black-and-white.
Swapped between two…i wish it was actually shot in black and white
Holee shit. Did not have treasure valley flooding in the summer on my bingo card.
https://x.com/theglobenewt/status/2071026066555077114
My mom and dad talked about great storms in Boise 40-50 years ago….
Nothing new
But that local whose lived there a whole 25 years said it was abnormal!!
We shut down the reception at 9:15. Shit got real.
That is Gaia giving you a hint.