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WTFO??
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:26 AM (ex2Cx) 2
Seconded
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 13, 2022 07:27 AM (i0slg) 3
The nuclear PSA from NYC sounds like just another attempt to lock people in their homes.
Posted by: DaveX64 at July 13, 2022 07:27 AM (CJtyX) Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:28 AM (ex2Cx) 5
Boom!
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2022 07:28 AM (BFigT) 6
Have you hugged your Huma today?
Posted by: Badly Pooper at July 13, 2022 07:29 AM (sn5EN) 7
Graphics look like a game though I don't recognize it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:29 AM (b2nrj) 8
Thanks
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:30 AM (1n+EO) 9
Remember, in the event of a nuclear attack, go inside your nearest bogeda and enjoy a nice latinx...I mean taco. -- Dr. Doctor Jill Biden, Dr.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 07:30 AM (GYIa4) 10
That $4M in interest is not very much sadly.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:31 AM (b2nrj) 11
When did the unions take over education policy anyway? Isn't that your job?
The day they were formed! By the time NEA celebrated its 50th birthday in 1907, the Association had grown to represent 5,044 educators across the nation. Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:32 AM (ex2Cx) 12
Twitter staffers say company is 's***show internally' after Musk ends deal
____________ Gee, what a shock. Who'd a thunk that a company run by lefty lunatic liars would be a gigantic mess? Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 07:32 AM (MvHI3) 13
uhuh, I'm SO sure grubhub will be operating as usual after a nuclear attack, LOL ! but on the evidence, commie dupes will believe anything as long as it comes from a trusted source ...
G'mornin' Horde ! Another beautiful summer day ! Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 13, 2022 07:33 AM (a82Er) 14
"Gee, what a shock. Who'd a thunk that a company run by lefty lunatic liars would be a gigantic mess?"
Boggles the mind, don't it? Now let's do Leftist run Cities and government. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:34 AM (1n+EO) 15
I will be glad to see Oberlin lose its shirt, although I think they will delay paying endlessly. They were/are terrible to the owners of that Bakery/Shop. The founders of Oberlin, one of which or both-were Christian ministers-would be appalled at what that school has become.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 07:34 AM (FZ2cV) 16
"So there’s been a nuclear attack. Don’t ask me how or why, just know that the big one has hit. Ok?"
White supremacists no doubt. I'll bet the FBI is tracking some militia at Joe's Bar and Grill that is working on a nuke. Posted by: Ripley at July 13, 2022 07:35 AM (MxEKc) 17
Thanks for the Morning Report, CBD.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 07:35 AM (FZ2cV) 18
So there’s been a nuclear attack.
It reads exactly like something one would recommend in case of a down wind volcano eruption. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 07:36 AM (AHeqJ) 19
a $100 billion dollar annual budget? No surprise, I guess, that city government attracts so many criminals. Willie Sutton effect.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:36 AM (d3lyb) 20
Police Use of 'Keyword Warrants' to Monitor Americans' Online Search Queries Comes Under Increasing Scrutiny
Back when I was in college I took a course in computer ethics. It was, of course, filled with dire predictions about how Republicans were going to strip away your digital rights (lol) but that had one bit I recall where they suggested that everyone use a specific phrase in all their emails. It was carefully crafted to use every trigger word the author could think of. Obviously, computer power has gone up and they'd be able to parse this sort of thing now, and it's the left that's stripping away your digital rights (so that's probably okay). Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 07:36 AM (GYIa4) 21
thats real fucking scary right there
As Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says, “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.” Thats denying about 1000 years of Western Liberalism. Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:36 AM (ex2Cx) 22
There outta be a rule that if a former colony goes bankrupt they have to change their name back to their former colonial name.....since the native smooth brained savages mismanaged the place so woefully Shit Lanka will now be known as Ceylon again.
Free Bodega Al! Never Give Up Your Guns! Rootin For Putin! Free Buffalo Guy! More coffee... Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 13, 2022 07:36 AM (vvzla) 23
I think they did some research after Hiroshima which showed there was a 'sweet spot' just outside of the blast area where life expectancy actually rose above the norm. So stop worrying and love the bomb. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 07:37 AM (dQvv7) 24
The NYC nuke info is really beyond ridiculous. Assuming it was seriously aimed at a target audience, well, God help us all.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 07:38 AM (ks05J) 25
That $4M in interest is not very much sadly.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:31 AM (b2nrj) That's on top of the principal. What I really want is for Oberlin to go bankrupt. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:38 AM (XIJ/X) 26
"As Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says, “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.”"
They do tend to telegraph their long term intentions, don't they? Bu hey...bestest and brightest. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (1n+EO) 27
22 There outta be a rule that if a former colony goes bankrupt they have to change their name back to their former colonial name.....since the native smooth brained savages mismanaged the place so woefully Shit Lanka will now be known as Ceylon again.
Free Bodega Al! Never Give Up Your Guns! Rootin For Putin! Free Buffalo Guy! More coffee... Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 13, 2022 07:36 AM (vvzla) So guess we're going to be the 13 colonies + New Spain? Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (b2nrj) 28
The nuclear PSA from NYC sounds like just another attempt to lock people in their homes.
You would think with all of the running gun fire in the streets that no PSA would be necessary Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (AHeqJ) 29
The TX article about the dad shooting the carjackers:
"four gunshots can be heard along with the lamentation and wailing sobs of the alleged perpetrators." LOL Posted by: frode at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (renyk) 30
I'd like to know who thought a nuclear attack PSA would be needed at this particular point in time. The pitch meeting must have been lit. I'd also bet good money whomever thought this up is getting paid 6 figures to fear monger.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (BFigT) 31
oh, okay, that was a cob's additional punchline. never mind.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (a82Er) 32
The nuclear PSA from NYC sounds like just another attempt to lock people in their homes.
Posted by: DaveX64 at July 13, 2022 07:27 AM (CJtyX) Pfizer is working on a vaccine but, in the meantime, wear a mask and stay 6 feet from others...unless you're engaged in homosexual congress in which case yolo. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (GYIa4) 33
25 That $4M in interest is not very much sadly.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:31 AM (b2nrj) That's on top of the principal. What I really want is for Oberlin to go bankrupt. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:38 AM (XIJ/X) The effective interest rate is so low though that they could basically treat it as a loan and invest the money instead. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:40 AM (b2nrj) 34
10 That $4M in interest is not very much sadly.
___________ When you add it to the $25 million that Oberlin owes the Gibsons, it adds up to a nice piece of change. And given that Oberlin severely damaged the Gibsons' business, they surely could use it. Oberlin is near the end of its appeals, and will have to pay the Gibsons eventually. Meanwhile, the interest meter keeps running. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 07:40 AM (MvHI3) 35
there is only one JJ. Thanks for filling in!
Posted by: IanDeal at July 13, 2022 07:40 AM (MGjjz) 36
I would like to know what the Endowment Stash is that Oberlin is sitting on.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 07:40 AM (ks05J) 37
That $4M in interest is not very much sadly.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:31 AM (b2nrj) Hiding behind their legal organizational status. It's why you form corp., LLC's, non-profits, etc. To protect the individuals involved. I'm sure their lawyers told them to ignore it, they can't put you in jail. Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 07:40 AM (qH6FZ) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:41 AM (1n+EO) 39
The NYC nuke info is really beyond ridiculous. Assuming it was seriously aimed at a target audience, well, God help us all.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 07:38 AM (ks05J) An office full of 20-something idiots with nothing to do. That's how this sort of blather is created. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:41 AM (XIJ/X) 40
They forgot to tell everyone to duct tape all the windows shut so the nuclear cooties don't get in.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 13, 2022 07:41 AM (Rcp6g) 41
"As Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says, “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.”"
Magic Eight Ball "Justice" is the best we can hope for given that this person has revealed they have no core values, respect no institution, she is amoral and without any humanity. So basically she will be a vessel for demons to work through. I think Google's and Meta's AI systems have more human character and decency than this sorry specimen. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 07:43 AM (AHeqJ) 42
Generation Baby is spot on, and barely touches the surface of what's been wrong with American adults for at least the last couple of generations. I've made mental notes for a long time at just how unbelievably childish adults have become. Just one glance at modern TV commercials should clue you in. They're nearly all geared toward the silly. Adults trying to be funny, in "funny" situations, looking like buffoons or acting childish. They make me harken back to what I saw as a kid on Saturday morning kid shows. But they're for adults now. It's just a general demise of adulthood, responsibility, rationality, duty, and it's been declining for a long time. Adults today, in America, are an utter embarrassment.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (sVtYq) 43
"I want to set Israel on fire with my own hands & watch it burn to ashes along with every Israeli in it,"
Cori Bush is foul for many reasons, but aclosely ssociating with this person is among the worst. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (d3lyb) 44
Texas Dad was firing through the rear window. Not bad under the circumstances.
Of course in NYC he'd be charged with attempted murder, and there'd be a $5M GoFundMe campaign for the perps. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (vcv8B) 45
Hiding behind their legal organizational status. It's why you form corp., LLC's, non-profits, etc. To protect the individuals involved. I'm sure their lawyers told them to ignore it, they can't put you in jail.
____________ Oberlin had to buy an appeal bond for the entire amount of the judgment. They will pay the Gibsons, one way or another. The only question is when they will pay, not whether. And since Oberlin is approaching the end of the appeals process, it will likely be sooner rather than later. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (MvHI3) 46
The effective interest rate is so low though that they could basically treat it as a loan and invest the money instead.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:40 AM (b2nrj) They will be punished by the court. I think they are going to get smacked again and my hope is for a summary judgement from the Ohio Supreme Court. And are you assuming that Oberlin even has the money? That's a big chunk of change for a struggling liberal arts college. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (XIJ/X) 47
Regarding Texas marksmanship, when I, a decidedly average pistol shot, can consistently out-shoot everyone at the range I frequented in rural Texas... yeah, maybe some marksmanship training is in order. It was one of the more surprising things I found when I lived there.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 13, 2022 07:45 AM (KYKwc) 48
Xavier Becerra
Education Stanford University (BA, JD) Occupation Lawyer politician I am not a doctor but I play 1 on TV! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:45 AM (ex2Cx) 49
I think it was 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the US was within 24 hours of ordering the evacuation of New York City. Apparently 'shelter in place' is the new strategy. Your shelter might be under twenty feet of nuclear rubble, but them's the plan. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 07:45 AM (dQvv7) 50
They forgot to tell everyone to duct tape all the windows shut so the nuclear cooties don't get in.
I thought we were supposed to self-incarcerate, mask up and keep six feet away from the windows and wait for Pfizer to come up with millions of doses of radiation vaxx. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 07:45 AM (AHeqJ) 51
"Magic Eight Ball "Justice" is the best we can hope for given that this person has revealed they have no core values, respect no institution, she is amoral and without any humanity.
So basically she will be a vessel for demons to work through. " Mah Sistah, from a different Mistah! Posted by: Hunter B. at July 13, 2022 07:45 AM (1n+EO) 52
Apparently 'shelter in place' is the new strategy. Your shelter might be under twenty feet of nuclear rubble, but them's the plan.
Saves on burial costs. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 07:46 AM (AHeqJ) 53
Just order from.GrubHub
Lol Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 13, 2022 07:46 AM (kf6Ak) 54
I think no matter how bad it gets, the Democrats Propaganda Ministry won't be first or 100th place to get information
Good morning horde Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM (4Kp75) 55
Maybe so, but I don't think just showering or washing your hair with your bottle of Suave would do much to negate radioactive contamination. I mean, did you see what Karen Silkwood went through? They scrubbed her skin off with stiff brushes. And she still set off the detectors.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM (sVtYq) 56
As Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says, “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.”
Thats denying about 1000 years of Western Liberalism. ___________ Not to mention the U.S. constitution. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM (MvHI3) 57
Twitter staffers say company is 's***show internally' after Musk ends deal
**** *wipes tears of laughter * Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM (kf6Ak) 58
They will be punished by the court. I think they are going to get smacked again and my hope is for a summary judgement from the Ohio Supreme Court.
And are you assuming that Oberlin even has the money? That's a big chunk of change for a struggling liberal arts college. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (XIJ/X) Looking it up, their endowment was $936M in 2020. Another article indicates it passed $1B in 2021. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM (b2nrj) 59
Looking to be another humid day today.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:48 AM (1n+EO) 60
40 They forgot to tell everyone to duct tape all the windows shut so the nuclear cooties don't get in.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 13, 2022 07:41 AM (Rcp6g) ------------------------- Also failed to mention masking and social distancing. Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 13, 2022 07:48 AM (CAJOC) 61
Hump Day!
Posted by: Squid at July 13, 2022 07:48 AM (kx5Be) 62
Ketanji Brown Jackson says, “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.”
Is it racist to point out natural rights are the entire basis for our national existence? This response to Senator Cruz should have been disqualifying. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:49 AM (d3lyb) 63
Thank you, CBD.
I much appreciate your work here. Posted by: Democrats: Raping The Children We Can't Kill Since 1973! at July 13, 2022 07:49 AM (jV+aN) 64
Oberlin won't be able to delay much longer. They had to get a bond from Zurich. If Oberlin don't pay, Zurich will pay and take ownership of chunks of the Oberlin campus which was no doubt put up as collateral.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (vcv8B) 65
And are you assuming that Oberlin even has the money? That's a big chunk of change for a struggling liberal arts college.
____________ Oberlin has assets that are more than enough to cover the judgment, but it's not really an issue, since the court required Oberlin to purchase an appeal bond for the full amount of the judgment before going forward with the appeals. The Gibsons will get their money. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (MvHI3) 66
As the Jan. 6 hearings have progressed, a cadre of young, female, former Trump aides have created an informal support network to support it.
They were so proud to see her at that hearing telling all of the gossip they had spread among themselves. It has to be true because they all heard the same stories from each other! Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (KNJGg) 67
And are you assuming that Oberlin even has the money? That's a big chunk of change for a struggling liberal arts college.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (XIJ/X) ================= Oberlin already produced the money. It secures the Zurich surety bond. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (d3lyb) 68
That Ketanji broad just might be the worst justice for SCOTUS America has ever seen. I don't ever expect to see anything remotely upholding the true Constitutional rights of Americans coming out of that POS.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (sVtYq) 69
"Maybe so, but I don't think just showering or washing your hair with your bottle of Suave would do much to negate radioactive contamination. "
Back in a former life, where I often drilled on wearing taped up rain gear, and going outside the skin of the ship, one of the first steps was water/soap based decontamination. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (1n+EO) 70
Oberline isn't struggling, either. Aplications are doing very well and the endowment is large.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:51 AM (d3lyb) 71
62 Ketanji Brown Jackson says, “I do not hold a position on whether individuals possess natural rights.”
Is it racist to point out natural rights are the entire basis for our national existence? This response to Senator Cruz should have been disqualifying. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:49 AM (d3lyb) ----------------------------- Of course it's racist. Anything less than complete agreement always is. Posted by: No One of Consequence at July 13, 2022 07:51 AM (CAJOC) 72
Oregon slashes financial penalties given to baker who refused to do wedding cake for lesbian couple in 2013.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 07:51 AM (yikp0) 73
Maybe so, but I don't think just showering or washing your hair with your bottle of Suave would do much to negate radioactive contamination. I mean, did you see what Karen Silkwood went through? They scrubbed her skin off with stiff brushes. And she still set off the detectors.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM (sVtYq) Stiff brushes abrade the flesh providing spots for contamination to remain. Assuming just general ash type fallout, a shower would remove most of it. Remaining in the area would lead to exposure so it's not an increased risk. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 07:52 AM (GYIa4) 74
So, was Musk's plan all along to dick with the Twitterites and have them implode? They never did come clean on the number of bot accounts either, at least from what I can tell.
I don't think there have been any real lessons learned here. The corporate infrastructure at Twitter remains mostly untouched as does their censoring apparatus. The company is a wreck, but it was always a wreck. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2022 07:52 AM (BFigT) 75
VIA, thanks. I stand corrected.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 07:52 AM (sVtYq) 76
Is it racist to point out natural rights are the entire basis for our national existence? This response to Senator Cruz should have been disqualifying.
I thought that was so obvious it didn't need pointing out. OTOH, the Republic is dead and while we are in the midst of an interregnum and the current kakistocracy is trying on permanent Without Rule of Law, she might be the junta's perfect "justice". Imagine a "Justice" system that is staffed specifically to not be capable of justice. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 07:52 AM (AHeqJ) 77
Looking it up, their endowment was $936M in 2020. Another article indicates it passed $1B in 2021.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic and like everyone's 401k under FLB, it's back to $700M. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (vcv8B) 78
*FJB
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (vcv8B) 79
Imagine a "Justice" system that is staffed specifically to not be capable of justice.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 07:52 AM (AHeqJ) I think the Left has been prototyping that in colleges for a while. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (b2nrj) 80
Willowed: I just opened a dispute with my credit card company over a small charge. The vendor apparently shipped the item, but FedEx has tried twice to deliver (they say) and report "Incorrect Street Address." When I called them, they said they can't update the record or give my instructions to the driver unless the vendor gives permission (?!). Vendor, Encompass Supply Chain Solutions, hasn't gotten back to me -- no pickup on the phone, and no response to my emails. So, dispute time.
It's only $32 for water filters for my coffeemaker. But if the vendor can't move to straighten this out, well, maybe a nice chargeback will wake them up. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (txdEq) 81
Maybe so, but I don't think just showering or washing your hair with your bottle of Suave would do much to negate radioactive contamination. I mean, did you see what Karen Silkwood went through? They scrubbed her skin off with stiff brushes. And she still set off the detectors. Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM I think it was in Pennsylvania, been a while since I read the article, but some guy had just gotten some radioactive implant, got stopped by the State Police. He had to prove he actually had the implant. I don't know how sensitive the detectors are, but that's a little indication. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (dQvv7) 82
Shelter In Place instead of running to where the big shots are.
Posted by: davidt at July 13, 2022 07:54 AM (oTZbj) 83
And since Oberlin is approaching the end of the appeals process, it will likely be sooner rather than later.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 07:44 AM (MvHI3) And if they don't? People seem to live in some fantasy world where judgements are paid and plaintiffs get justice. It doesn't work that way. I'm sure Oberlin is using this time to bury assets and moving money around so the Gibson's get squat. And there won't much the courts can do about it. Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 07:54 AM (qH6FZ) 84
"VIA, thanks."
The follow on comment about abrasive brushes on human skin is also important. Possibly the worse thing they could have done was abrade away the outer layer of skin, and create areas for physical fallout to remain or enter the body. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:54 AM (1n+EO) 85
Yay. I managed to get blood drawn as a walk in to the staff. My hat off to the staff - worked really efficiently.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 13, 2022 07:55 AM (kf6Ak) 86
Murkowski is running third in her re-election race, according to the definitive source on Alaskan polling, New York Magazine. But Alaska installed ranked choice voting, so she has a chance if she can pull enough Democrat voters to go along with gullible Republicans who vote on name recognition only.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:55 AM (d3lyb) 87
Tried to expalin to a Centrist type friend that the US House never flips in a Prez election year. Only when IKE won in 1952.
GOP will win House in 2022 and keep it no matter the result in 2024. No way does a vain pretty boy like Newsome run for POTUS knowing he is handcuffed from day one Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 07:55 AM (WY8d2) 88
What I really want is for Oberlin to go bankrupt.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire So you can buy them ? Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 07:56 AM (T4tVD) 89
Oberlin already produced the money. It secures the Zurich surety bond.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (d3lyb) I thought they would have to pay some % of the total for that bond. They had to post the entire thing? Then what's the point? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:56 AM (XIJ/X) 90
I think it was in Pennsylvania, been a while since I read the article, but some guy had just gotten some radioactive implant, got stopped by the State Police. He had to prove he actually had the implant.
I don't know how sensitive the detectors are, but that's a little indication. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (dQvv7) That's interesting, had no idea we had state police on the lookout for radioactive substances. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (b2nrj) 91
KBK. The first Critical Race Theorist and Marxist on the Supreme Court
God help us Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (4Kp75) 92
Read any of the liberal SCOTUS justices' dissents. None of them give a sh*t about individual rights, natural or constitutional (to the extent they may differ).
They're big on unnatural rights though. E.g. the right of criminals to keep criminaling. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (vcv8B) 93
86. Always the same argument with GOPe on Murk.she helps organize GOP Senate yada yada. she is awful and maybe we just have to take a hit to get rid of her
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (WY8d2) 94
ok
In a story that wasn’t widely reported at the time, a Democrat state representative in Ohio, Janine Boyd, proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 23 called “Exemption for African-American Women” that would have exempted black women from the heartbeat law—in other words, black babies with a detectable heartbeat could be indiscriminately killed by abortionists, but not white babies. Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (ex2Cx) 95
So you can buy them ?
Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 07:56 AM (T4tVD) I have about $75 in my wallet. That's about what it's worth.... Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (XIJ/X) 96
Ballistic shields arrived at 11:52 a.m. and 12:04 p.m., along with other officers armed with rifles, bulletproof vests, helmets and other tactical gear.
At 12:21 p.m., officers walked down the hallway to position themselves closer to the classroom doorway. At 12:30, an officer can be seen walking over to a hand sanitizer dispenser and disinfecting his hands. The classroom door was finally breached at 12:50 p.m., 74 minutes after the first officers entered the school. Posted by: DB at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (geLO8) 97
"I think it was in Pennsylvania, been a while since I read the article, but some guy had just gotten some radioactive implant, got stopped by the State Police. He had to prove he actually had the implant.
" I don't know if this particular case involved this, but one treatment for prostate cancer is a treatment known as 'seeding'. The placing of small particles of radioactive material at very specific locations with the prostate, in order to kill the cancer cells. That MIGHT have been the issue. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (1n+EO) 98
54 I think no matter how bad it gets, the Democrats Propaganda Ministry won't be first or 100th place to get information
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 07:47 AM (4Kp75) Me, too. Posted by: m at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (QPyqx) Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 07:58 AM (T4tVD) 100
91. the marxist who quoted her belief in God to get confirmed
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 07:58 AM (WY8d2) 101
They're big on unnatural rights though. E.g. the right of criminals to keep criminaling.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (vcv8B) --- And the "right" to murder babies, of course... Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2022 07:58 AM (YIVH2) 102
What I really want is for Oberlin to go bankrupt.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire So you can buy them ? Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 07:56 AM (T4tVD) He's planning on opening a restaurant called CBD's House of Sous Vide. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 07:58 AM (GYIa4) Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 13, 2022 07:58 AM (RctME) 104
looks like concept art from Fallout 4. I think the railing made it into the game in Boston Common.
Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at July 13, 2022 07:58 AM (PbwT0) 105
>>>And if they don't? People seem to live in some fantasy world where judgements are paid and plaintiffs get justice. It doesn't work that way.
============== It does here. Oberlin has a SECURED surety bond in place. If the Ohio Supreme Court takes a pass on the case, as is probable, the bond pays. If the Gibson motion to force Zurich to pay is decided even before the Supreme Court decides, then the money flows. Gibsons is in the final lap. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (d3lyb) 106
"Sans Sefton" in Hungarian would be "JJ-tlen"
Posted by: Miklos, with yer Mornin' Magyar at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (4EQhA) 107
Inflation number for June coming in a half hour. Buckle up
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (WY8d2) 108
From Tucker
(1) Biden’s total lack of any meaningful follow-up on intelligence analysts’ conclusion that they could not rule out that the CCP created COVID-19 as a bioweapon and intentionally released it internationally (killing 6.35 million worldwide) Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (ex2Cx) 109
Will there be a delivery charge if you order from Grubhub during a nuclear holocaust??
More coffee. Posted by: dantesed at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (88xKn) 110
(2) Biden’s termination of the Trump era counterespionage “China Initiative” whereby the DOJ and FBI endeavored to interdict CCP theft of American intelligence and technology
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (ex2Cx) 111
They were so proud to see her at that hearing telling all of the gossip they had spread among themselves. It has to be true because they all heard the same stories from each other!
===== I want to know who sponsored these people. White House jobs and internships don't grow on trees for just anyone to inhabit. Posted by: mustbequantum at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (MIKMs) 112
J6 vice-chairman says Donald Trump attempted to contact a witness.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (yikp0) 113
I think it was in Pennsylvania, been a while since I read the article, but some guy had just gotten some radioactive implant, got stopped by the State Police. He had to prove he actually had the implant.
I don't know how sensitive the detectors are, but that's a little indication. Posted by: Divide by Zero Prostate cancer treatment. The put two little radioactive pills in you. "Here guys. Let me rub one out. It glows in the dark" Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (fAMHd) 114
89 Oberlin already produced the money. It secures the Zurich surety bond.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:50 AM (d3lyb) I thought they would have to pay some % of the total for that bond. They had to post the entire thing? Then what's the point? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:56 AM (XIJ/X) Lock in interest rate maybe? It does create a third-party custodian for the money. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (b2nrj) 115
(3) Biden’s destruction of the fossil fuel industry in favor of China-dominated wind and solar, effecting an enormous wealth transfer from America to China
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (ex2Cx) 116
And if they don't? People seem to live in some fantasy world where judgements are paid and plaintiffs get justice. It doesn't work that way. I'm sure Oberlin is using this time to bury assets and moving money around so the Gibson's get squat. And there won't much the courts can do about it.
__________ You don't understand how appeal bonds work. It's basically an insurance contract. Oberlin was required to purchase the insurance contract from Zurich, the bonding company, to guarantee the payment of the Gibsons' judgment (with accrued interest) at the end of the appeals process. Zurich will pay, as soon as the court orders it to pay. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (MvHI3) 117
oh, okay, that was a cob's additional punchline. never mind.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 13, 2022 07:39 AM (a82Er) ===== This world has gotten so amazingly stupid that even if you're paying close attention, it's hard to tell the real headlines from the jokes. It's hard to make up something that is more ridiculous than what is really happening in the world right now. Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (dr4Q1) 118
Murkowski is running third in her re-election race, according to the definitive source on Alaskan polling, New York Magazine. But Alaska installed ranked choice voting, so she has a chance if she can pull enough Democrat voters to go along with gullible Republicans who vote on name recognition only.
-- The situation was a little different before, but I seem to recall she was also running behind when she successfully won as a write-in. Misspellings were counted in her favor also, as I remember. If that bat-faced witch wins again, it will be a tragedy. Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (sVtYq) 119
Hiya CBD ! (I knew it would be you !)
Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (T4tVD) 120
Step 4 after a nuclear attack: Don't look in the mirror.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (NpAcC) Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (ex2Cx) 122
CBD, not bad for a not a morning guy type. Thanks for the links.
Posted by: From about that time at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (4780s) 123
Always the same argument with GOPe on Murk.she helps organize GOP Senate yada yada. she is awful and maybe we just have to take a hit to get rid of her
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (WY8d2) There's 50 of the assholes. They've all got staff. How much organizing does she need to do? What they mean is that she supplies the coke at the bi-weekly strategy session and orgy. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (GYIa4) Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (T4tVD) 125
Sadly, the Ukrainians are getting their ass kicked. Putin gloating
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (WY8d2) 126
Well, well, would you look at this. Seems destruction of Dutch agriculture is a feature, not a bug:
The World Economic Forum Vows to Buy Up Dutch Farmers’ Lands https://tinyurl.com/mur2se45 Posted by: IrishEi at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (VhE0u) 127
Hiya
Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 08:01 AM (T4tVD) Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:01 AM (WWh8n) 129
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (ex2Cx)
Oops! She said the quiet part out loud! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:01 AM (XIJ/X) 130
He's planning on opening a restaurant called CBD's House of Sous Vide.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic I'll stick with Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses Posted by: Miklos, recalling SCTV at July 13, 2022 08:01 AM (4EQhA) 131
107 Inflation number for June coming in a half hour. Buckle up
__________ No need! It's old news, from weeks ago! It has no relevance to now. Posted by: Biden Spokes-idiot at July 13, 2022 08:01 AM (MvHI3) 132
At 12:30, an officer can be seen walking over to a hand sanitizer dispenser and disinfecting his hands.
------------------- They had to wait 77 minutes for the hazmat suits. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0) 133
Step 4 after a nuclear attack: Don't look in the mirror.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 08:00 AM (NpAcC) --- Step 5: Watch out for radscorpions, radroaches, and molerats! Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2022 08:02 AM (YIVH2) Posted by: naturalfake at July 13, 2022 08:02 AM (5NkmN) 135
Hiya Mannix !
Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 08:02 AM (T4tVD) 136
>>>J6 vice-chairman says Donald Trump attempted to contact a witness.
================== I saw this and am struggling to understand the issue here. It isn't a criminal case. "Witness tampering" seems like just more propaganda. Is that wrong? Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:02 AM (d3lyb) 137
I lost my mind when Murkowski voted against Kav in 2018. and her support of late term abortion is awful
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:02 AM (WY8d2) 138
"That's interesting, had no idea we had state police on the lookout for radioactive substances."
As citizens, we typically have absolutely no idea what systems are in place and used to search for or seek out things or individuals along our highways and by-ways, or just simple normal life. Radiation detectors at truck stops and choke points are probably very common. License Plate readers at tolls and major tunnel entrances are common along the I-95 corridor as well. I would suspect that if you own an EZ-Pass, or some other form of RFID based toll payment system, that there are locations on our highways that ping and record the movement of your devise, besides the normal toll paying process. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (1n+EO) 139
It's hard to make up something that is more ridiculous than what is really happening in the world right now.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 13, 2022 07:59 AM (dr4Q1) Moar Brawndo! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (ex2Cx) 140
So, was Musk's plan all along to dick with the Twitterites and have them implode?
Posted by: Martini Farmer Nah. It was all cover for him to sell Tesla stock. He needed an excuse so he wouldn't tank the price. I said this from the start. Musk has a long history of these cunning stunts. He has always gotten away with it in the past, which is why he no doubt thought he could get away with it this time. I am hoping the Delaware courts stick it to him, but not holding my breath. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (vcv8B) 141
@ rhennigantx
Are you suggesting that Biden and his puppetmasters are treasonous fucks hell bent on the destruction of the USA? Posted by: Ignoramus at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (i0slg) Posted by: DB at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (geLO8) 143
You should stay inside, but those noble Uber drivers will drive through the devastated feral streets of NYC to bring the finest of diverse cuisines, even at 2 0'clock in the morning!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (hOUT3) 144
116. And if they don't? People seem to live in some fantasy world where judgements are paid and plaintiffs get justice.
===== The legal system is fucked. If you are over fifty, chances are you'll never live to see resolution, what with delays, appeals, and all sorts of other legal fucking shenanigans. Posted by: From about that time at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (4780s) 145
Good morning everyone. Thank you CBD.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2022 08:04 AM (Msys3) 146
Is that top pic from one of the Fallout games? Looks like it. I have the theme from the first game running through my head.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 13, 2022 08:04 AM (Hudry) Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at July 13, 2022 08:04 AM (89T5c) 148
136 >>>J6 vice-chairman says Donald Trump attempted to contact a witness.
================== I saw this and am struggling to understand the issue here. It isn't a criminal case. "Witness tampering" seems like just more propaganda. Is that wrong? Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:02 AM (d3lyb) Does sound like propaganda. Witness to what? The implication they want to make is that Trump was meddling with testimony, but does the timing of events even line up with that? Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:04 AM (b2nrj) 149
Best way for conservatives in Alaska to get rid of Murk, is to start a rumor that she will switch parties if she wins another 6 year term
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:04 AM (WY8d2) 150
141 @ rhennigantx
Are you suggesting that Biden and his puppetmasters are treasonous fucks hell bent on the destruction of the USA? Posted by: Ignoramus at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (i0slg) And throw in about 13 or 14 (R) senators. Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:05 AM (ex2Cx) 151
Kunta Kinte Brown Jackson is going to spend a lot of time on the bench saying things like "Oh noes he din int!" and "Knows what Is bees sayin" while ruling against Y-T and moving her head from side to side.
And she's there for the rest of her natural life. More coffee... Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 13, 2022 08:05 AM (vvzla) 152
That was weird...my internet at work just stroked out there for a second...and we're back online!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2022 08:05 AM (YIVH2) 153
Meal Team Six
Posted by: DB Thanks for posting this for informational purposes, but I fear I will have a serious rage stroke if I watch it, so no way! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:05 AM (hOUT3) 154
Mexico agrees to invest $1.5-billion in 'smart' border technology during meeting with U.S. President Biden. [Right; they were talking to Joe directly, I'm sure.]
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:05 AM (yikp0) 155
Moar Brawndo!
Posted by: rhennigantx The US imports 98% of its electrolytes and shit from China. Posted by: Miklos, knowing what plants crave at July 13, 2022 08:05 AM (4EQhA) 156
LOL.
"Is he the real President, or just a jackleg? How come everyone who voted for your dad's dead?" Funny. All in all, a solid diss track, it makes fun of all the details in the newest Biden white trash scandal, and he wrote it real quickly behind the story breaking. I give it an A. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (Zhwz2) 157
“Step two: stay inside. Shut all doors and windows. Have a basement? Head there. If you don’t have one, get as far into the middle of the building as possible,” she continues. “If you were outside after the blast, get clean immediately. Remove and bag all outer clothing to keep radioactive dust or ash away from your body.”
++++ Actually, this is solid advice - and we've known it since the 40s. The premise of the PSA is stupid - there is little time to react when you see the flash, and if you're not in a building already then you're not going to have time to get to one. Get away from glass and under something solid. Turns out "duck and cover" wasn't actually dumb, it was good advice. If you're in the impact zone then there's no saving you - but if you're not, you're more likely to die from flying debris than anything else. Fallout is a problem for 30 minutes from now. Protecting yourself from high-speed shrapnel is a problem for right GD now. Whatever you do, don't gawp out the window to look for the source of the flash. Take cover as soon as you the flash. At worst, you look like a fool who slid under a table for no reason. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (WWh8n) 158
Stratford, Conn. May 10th, 2012, where he works as firefighter. Apatow, who had a radioactive stress test Wednesday, was pulled over later in the day, in Newtown, by a state police trooper after a radioactivity detector in the trooper's car was set off when Apatow passed. The detectors are used to help identify potential terror threats. Apatow was not on duty at the time.
I'll put up link in a minute... Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (dQvv7) 159
Is that top pic from one of the Fallout games? Looks like it. I have the theme from the first game running through my head.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 13, 2022 08:04 AM (Hudry) --- "War never changes." Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (YIVH2) 160
94 ok
In a story that wasn’t widely reported at the time, a Democrat state representative in Ohio, Janine Boyd, proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 23 called “Exemption for African-American Women” that would have exempted black women from the heartbeat law—in other words, black babies with a detectable heartbeat could be indiscriminately killed by abortionists, but not white babies. Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (ex2Cx) That is so hot! Posted by: Margaret Sanger at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (PiwSw) 161
“Step two: stay inside. Shut all doors and windows. Have a basement? Head there. If you don’t have one, get as far into the middle of the building as possible, Don't worry that cute little Thai restaurant will be open a 3AM just like always, and you can get your Guac Teow for a late night snack when the radiation goes to sleep. Posted by: naturalfake at July 13, 2022 08:07 AM (5NkmN) 162
In a story that wasn’t widely reported at the time, a Democrat state representative in Ohio, Janine Boyd, proposed an amendment to Senate Bill 23 called “Exemption for African-American Women” that would have exempted black women from the heartbeat law—in other words, black babies with a detectable heartbeat could be indiscriminately killed by abortionists, but not white babies.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 07:57 AM (ex2Cx) ++++ The thing I find astonishing is that the left has never really hidden the fact that abortion is *really* about black people, and they keep getting away with not hiding that. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:07 AM (WWh8n) Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 08:07 AM (dQvv7) 164
Well, well, would you look at this. Seems destruction of Dutch agriculture is a feature, not a bug:
The World Economic Forum Vows to Buy Up Dutch Farmers’ Lands So leverage government to destroy the market value of land, then swoop in and buy it for pennies on the dollar. Happens all the time. Government corruption 101 Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:07 AM (AHeqJ) 165
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:07 AM (Zz0t1) 166
Musk has a long history of these cunning stunts. He has always gotten away with it in the past, which is why he no doubt thought he could get away with it this time. I am hoping the Delaware courts stick it to him, but not holding my breath.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (vcv8B) OTOH, Twitter will likely have to actually be forthcoming about the bot issue during discovery. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:08 AM (GYIa4) 167
I can't watch any of that Uvalde video without my BP spiking.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 13, 2022 08:08 AM (89T5c) 168
Just saw this on my feed
Larry Correia linked to the gfm for a kid of an old schoolmate 7yo needs chemo for Neurofibromatosis type one on his spine I'm sire prayers would also be appreciated gofundme.com/f/reesies-medical-expenses Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 13, 2022 08:08 AM (kf6Ak) 169
140. Musk is brilliant in how sees how the wind will blow. almost like he owns one of those seeing stones from Lord of the Rings.
1. Bails on California 2. Starts endorsing the GOP, knowing they will take power etc... Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:08 AM (WY8d2) 170
Dozens killed in gang battles in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
I guess the cultural mission from Chicago landed safely a week ago. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:09 AM (yikp0) 171
The NY nuclear attack PSA only raises one question for me: why now? This is common civil defense stuff that we used to teach actively and then stopped working on after the USSR fell. Granted, that means we now have an entire generation (a bit more than one) who has never had this information and it has thus been lost, but the timing is weird.
Are they trying to gin up more Russia fear without saying the R-word? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:09 AM (WWh8n) 172
Musk has a long history of these cunning stunts. He has always gotten away with it in the past, which is why he no doubt thought he could get away with it this time. I am hoping the Delaware courts stick it to him, but not holding my breath.
Posted by: quantum mechanic If Twat misrepresented their numbers, he and all the other shareholders will win big in a fraud case. And that's what it looks like it's shaping up to be. Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:09 AM (fAMHd) 173
"And if you are hungry, just order from GrubHub...don't go out."
All the GrubHub drivers? They're expendable. Sure, they have to go out into the radioactive wasteland, but goddamn it you need your cauliflower-crust vegan pizza (with extra artichokes). After all, you can't eat gluten. What, do they expect you to starve? Posted by: Bram Stoker's Chocula at July 13, 2022 08:09 AM (4L/TR) 174
"Apatow, who had a radioactive stress test Wednesday, was pulled over later in the day,"
That would make sense. Oddly enough, one of our cats was treated for a thyroid condition with radioactive stuff to basically kill the thyroid. His litter box droppings actually had to be treated as radioactive waste for disposal purposes for a certain period of time. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (1n+EO) 175
The legal system is fucked. If you are over fifty, chances are you'll never live to see resolution, what with delays, appeals, and all sorts of other legal fucking shenanigans.
Posted by: From about that time I say again, Will Shakespeare was prescient: 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the *liberal* lawyers'. ~ Henry VI, Part 2 *This quote may have been augmented for accuracy! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (hOUT3) 176
167 I can't watch any of that Uvalde video without my BP spiking.
____________ It is enraging to see the cops checking their phones and disinfecting their hands, especially since we now know that one of the teachers and at least one of the kids were on the floor, bleeding out, as the cops were doing that shit. Posted by: Biden Spokes-idiot at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (MvHI3) 177
151. Bye Felicia. I bought that Hair
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (WY8d2) 178
video from inside the school during the shooting
https://tinyurl.com/ycktfhn6 Meal Team Six Posted by: DB at July 13, 2022 08:03 AM (geLO Shots fired!!! We're running away back down the hallway. Dear heavens. And then there is the moron using hand sanitizer. I'm speechless. Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (EpDzw) 179
169 140. Musk is brilliant in how sees how the wind will blow. almost like he owns one of those seeing stones from Lord of the Rings.
1. Bails on California 2. Starts endorsing the GOP, knowing they will take power etc... Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:08 AM (WY8d2) "To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence." Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (b2nrj) 180
Paris court sentences some Hutu dick to 20 years for complicity in Rwandan genocide of the Tutsis.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (yikp0) Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 08:10 AM (T4tVD) 182
At worst, you look like a fool who slid under a table for no reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (WWh8n) I AM NOT DRUNK! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (XIJ/X) 183
The thing I find astonishing is that the left has never really hidden the fact that abortion is *really* about black people, and they keep getting away with not hiding that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:07 AM (WWh8n) --- It's always been about racial genocide by other means. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (YIVH2) 184
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (Zhwz2)
++++ What is that in reference to? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (WWh8n) 185
His litter box droppings actually had to be treated as radioactive waste for disposal purposes for a certain period of time.
------------------------ No shit?? Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (yikp0) 186
"Inflation number for June coming in a half hour. Buckle up"
I've been told it won't be that bad because once you remove volatile food and gas core inflation it is only 4-5%. And who spend much money on food and gas? Posted by: Ripley at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (MxEKc) 187
Mexico agrees to invest $1.5-billion in 'smart' border technology during meeting with U.S. President Biden.
-- What, are they building a conveyor belt straight through Mehico to the TX border? Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (sVtYq) 188
Are they trying to gin up more Russia fear without saying the R-word?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) Laying groundwork for additional graft in Ukraine: "We need to fight the Russkies there, not here!" Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (hOUT3) 189
154 Mexico agrees to invest $1.5-billion in 'smart' border technology during meeting with U.S. President Biden. [Right; they were talking to Joe directly, I'm sure.]
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:05 AM (yikp0) Can we tag illegal with a chip that sends them back home when they miss their court date of they are one of the 99.8% that gets their refugee status revoked? Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (ex2Cx) 190
Oberlin missed it's last appeal date with Ohio Supreme Court.
The bond (for the entire amount) has been, for lack of the correct term, called due. The Olsen's filed to get the bond money released/paid. Now Oberlin and Zurich are trying to get the Ohio Supreme to extend their appeal date (because they screwed up and missed the date). Gibson is still trying to get the entire judgement award instead of the Ohio limit, but, that is after the bond money is surrendered to the Gibsons. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (qXBtJ) 191
Elon Musk - hero, or villain? However I view him, it will not be based on the opinion of another man.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (ks05J) 192
Are they trying to gin up more Russia fear without saying the R-word?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:09 AM (WWh8n) Probably on some level, but I think it is mostly what I mentioned earlier...a bunch of underworked 20-something idiots. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (XIJ/X) 193
The World Economic Forum is made up of sons and daughters of their father, Satan. I pray to God every morning for the frustration of their evil plans .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 08:13 AM (vJUMU) 194
I thought they would have to pay some % of the total for that bond. They had to post the entire thing? Then what's the point?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 07:56 AM (XIJ/X ================ Before Oberlin (or any loser at trial) is allowed to waste court time on pointless appeals they have to prove they can pay the original award. But Oberlin did not want to hand over money to the Gibsons, for obvious reasons, to the surety bond is acceptable as a compromise by the court. Gibsons is exploiting a twist in the Appeals Court ruling pretty adroitly, according to Bill Jacobson. I really hope it ends soon and the family gets their money. Their business is devastated. Oberlin is destroying it. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:13 AM (tzjtn) 195
"At worst, you look like a fool who slid under a table for no reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (WWh8n) I AM NOT DRUNK!" *Looks up from under table* Hey!!! Who wants gum? Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:13 AM (1n+EO) 196
I AM NOT DRUNK!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (XIJ/X) I was just looking for my....lost contact lens. Yeah, that's it. That's the ticket! Posted by: Tommy Flanagan at July 13, 2022 08:13 AM (PiwSw) 197
I AM NOT DRUNK!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (XIJ/X) ++++ I should hope not, unless it's a long tail from last night's bender. It's a bit early to be freshly drunk... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:13 AM (WWh8n) 198
The Ministry of Plenty has announced chocolate ration prices have gone down in the past month from $10 to $12
Posted by: Ripley at July 13, 2022 08:13 AM (MxEKc) 199
Can we tag illegal with a chip that sends them back home when they miss their court date of they are one of the 99.8% that gets their refugee status revoked?
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (ex2Cx) Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (XIJ/X) 200
Inflation number for June coming in a half hour. Buckle up __________ No need! It's old news, from weeks ago! It has no relevance to now. Posted by: Biden Spokes-idiot at July 13, 2022 08:01 AM Inflation during 'Pride Month'? Not news. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (dQvv7) 201
I've been told it won't be that bad because once you remove volatile food and gas core inflation it is only 4-5%. And who spend much money on food and gas?
-- They can say whatever they want. You can't repeatedly be hit with tidal wave after tidal wave and believe the gov't when they tell you you aren't getting wet. Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (sVtYq) 202
183 The thing I find astonishing is that the left has never really hidden the fact that abortion is *really* about black people, and they keep getting away with not hiding that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:07 AM (WWh8n) --- It's always been about racial genocide by other means. Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (YIVH2) It about people we do not need more of! Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (ex2Cx) 203
George Orwell fully understood and perfectly illustrated in 1984 how the past exists only to justify the left’s current and future policies. If the past isn’t helpful, it must be ignored or rewritten. What this means is that leftists cannot learn from the past. All they can do, rather like cross a raging river on the backs of alligators, is just keep erasing their mistakes and assuring a beleaguered population that the newly rewritten past fully justifies their future plans. This technique lasts for only so long; then you get hungry, desperate Sri Lankans storming the president’s palace.
Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (81mQl) 204
This will end well.
"Group of 181 Afghan refugees arrive in the Netherlands on a charter flight from Pakistan." BTW, Michael Yon claims the Dutch government is threatening legislation to allow Mayors to forcibly lodge refugee-types in underutilized housing. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0) 205
At worst, you look like a fool who slid under a table for no reason.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 I AM NOT DRUNK! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo "One more drink and I'll be under CBD and the table"" Posted by: Dorothy Parker, about to go all Algonquin at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (4EQhA) Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (T4tVD) 207
Elon Musk - hero, or villain?
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (ks05J) My guess would be, like most of us, neither. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:15 AM (GYIa4) 208
"Can we tag illegal with a
*Suggested edit Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:15 AM (1n+EO) 209
off sox
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:15 AM (ex2Cx) 210
204 This will end well.
"Group of 181 Afghan refugees arrive in the Netherlands on a charter flight from Pakistan." BTW, Michael Yon claims the Dutch government is threatening legislation to allow Mayors to forcibly lodge refugee-types in underutilized housing. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0) Underutilized housing eh? Nice living room you've got there. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:15 AM (b2nrj) 211
1-b
Remember whe we all said 'Buy a firearm, learn to use it, carry it always.'? 1-c Why didn't you leave when you could? Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2022 08:15 AM (gktX6) 212
Their business is devastated. Oberlin is destroying it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:13 AM (tzjtn) Father and son are both dead. But...the family will have some vindication and will be set for life. They did a brave and good thing...going after Oberlin. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (XIJ/X) 213
Thank you CBD for the great links!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (tzjtn) 214
184 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 08:06 AM (Zhwz2)
++++ What is that in reference to? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:11 AM (WWh8n) Rap song in the right-hand sidebar. Posted by: m at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (QPyqx) 215
*hic*
Posted by: Hillary! at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (89T5c) 216
203 George Orwell fully understood and perfectly illustrated in 1984 how the past exists only to justify the left’s current and future policies. If the past isn’t helpful, it must be ignored or rewritten. What this means is that leftists cannot learn from the past. All they can do, rather like cross a raging river on the backs of alligators, is just keep erasing their mistakes and assuring a beleaguered population that the newly rewritten past fully justifies their future plans. This technique lasts for only so long; then you get hungry, desperate Sri Lankans storming the president’s palace.
Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (81mQl) Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (ex2Cx) 217
George Orwell fully understood and perfectly illustrated in 1984 how the past exists only to justify the left’s current and future policies. If the past isn’t helpful, it must be ignored or rewritten. What this means is that leftists cannot learn from the past. All they can do, rather like cross a raging river on the backs of alligators, is just keep erasing their mistakes and assuring a beleaguered population that the newly rewritten past fully justifies their future plans. This technique lasts for only so long; then you get hungry, desperate Sri Lankans storming the president’s palace.
Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (81mQl) ++++ Right, which is why Orwell posited the second point: destroying the means of expression so that such actions cannot manifest. In my opinion, his appendix on "The Principles of Newspeak" was the most valuable part of the book. It lays out the premise for destroying the ability to express opinions quite nicely and it remains a haunting read to this day - especially when you consider how much the typical in-use vocabulary has shrunk over the past fifty or so years. Nuance is gone. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (WWh8n) 218
The World Economic Forum is made up of sons and daughters of their father, Satan. I pray to God every morning for the frustration of their evil plans .
-- I do too, Fen. I pray they will face justice on this earth before it's too late for the rest of us who have to live with their utter destruction. Posted by: Lady in Black at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (sVtYq) 219
I should hope not, unless it's a long tail from last night's bender. It's a bit early to be freshly drunk...
Posted by: Joe Mannix Hair of the *urp* doggie. Nice doggie Posted by: Foster Miklos-Brooks at July 13, 2022 08:17 AM (4EQhA) 220
I stopped buying the dip in the markets at this point.
Usually a bullish optimist, but with Biden around for almost 2 1/2 years, hard to see a recovery with $5 gas here to stay. Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:17 AM (WY8d2) 221
Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2022 08:15 AM (gktX6)
Talk to Nurse Ratched...she has an interesting take on that. It boils down to: "Fvck you. This is my home, and I'm not leaving." Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:17 AM (XIJ/X) 222
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:14 AM (XIJ/X)
Food riots, exploding collars...coming this fall to NBC "The Running Man". Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:17 AM (GYIa4) Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:17 AM (WWh8n) 224
Breitbart has a story about F. Joe: When he hears "Hail to the Chief," he wonders, 'Where is the president?" https://tinyurl.com/4tt8hwtc
We know where the president is. He's in Mar-al-Lago w/ Melania. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:17 AM (txdEq) 225
3 The nuclear PSA from NYC sounds like just another attempt to lock people in their homes.
Posted by: DaveX64 at July 13, 2022 07:27 AM (CJtyX) The can just turn on the Purge sirens. The city is just about ready for it. Posted by: Roy at July 13, 2022 08:17 AM (39OkX) 226
Gibson is still trying to get the entire judgement award instead of the Ohio limit, but, that is after the bond money is surrendered to the Gibsons.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 08:12 AM (qXBtJ) This story would make the perfect movie of the little guy fighting a villainous behemoth that liberals used to love, but a story Hollywood would never touch and will never be made. Posted by: Ordinary American at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (H8QX8) 227
OTOH, Twitter will likely have to actually be forthcoming about the bot issue during discovery.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society They will, but I suspect it's not a real issue. It's just an excuse for Musk to back out. It will muddy the litigation waters though. Hopefully not enough for the courts not to order performance/compensation. If Musk was smart (and he *is* smart, but prone to doing stupid shit when high), he would have hedged against a decline in the Twitter price (or at least the market) after he announced the offer. If he did, and is therefore still more-or-less whole even with the Twitter price decline, then he's looking to pocket his hedging gains and avoid the Twitter losses. Since he has nothing to lose by this strategy, he may as well pursue it. If he didn't hedge, then he stands to lose more than he gained from the sale of his Tesla stock if the Twitter sale is forced through, and that's gotta sting. So again, he would try to get out of it. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (vcv8B) 228
They did a brave and good thing...going after Oberlin.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (XIJ/X) ===================== Very brave. I admire them. Standing up for your reputation is tough stuff, especially when everyone no doubt encouraged them to swallow hard and compromise. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (tzjtn) 229
I despise Warren Buffett, but have conservative friends who love him. Endorsed Obama, gave big $$$ to Hillary, and is pro abortion
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (WY8d2) 230
"BTW, Michael Yon claims the Dutch government is threatening legislation to allow Mayors to forcibly lodge refugee-types in underutilized housing"
Another look at the government taking over vacation homes owned by the wealthy, and using them for illegals? After all, who really needs a second home, that just set there empty most of the year. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (1n+EO) 231
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:16 AM (tzjtn)
You are very welcome! J.J. Sefton has a process, but the sheer volume of his links is amazing. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (XIJ/X) 232
Underutilized housing eh? Nice living room you've got there.
---------------------------- Free room and board claimed too, although maybe the government will reimburse homeowners for that?? Not that that would make everything cool obviously. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:19 AM (yikp0) 233
If Musk was smart (and he *is* smart, but prone to doing stupid shit when high), he would have hedged against a decline in the Twitter price (or at least the market) after he announced the offer.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (vcv8B) This would be illegal. Insider trading and market manipulation violations. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:19 AM (b2nrj) 234
Breaking!! 1.5 billion check from Mexico has bounced
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:20 AM (WY8d2) 235
Regarding endowments, my understanding is that they are given with the directive in most cases of how they are to be used. I.E. new music building, scholarships etc. Oberlin does not have a giant piggy bank at their disposal to do what they want with the endowments. Same with Harvard and all colleges sitting on major endowments.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 13, 2022 08:20 AM (5NKRC) 236
After all, who really needs a second home, that just set there empty most of the year.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice *spits organic carrot juice* Posted by: Bernie Sandersnista at July 13, 2022 08:20 AM (4EQhA) 237
The Government inflation rate is never the same as the real inflation rate. Because the Government lies, they can't help themselves.
Posted by: Case at July 13, 2022 08:20 AM (tmQgQ) 238
The Berkeley law professor who appeared before Senator Hawley yesterday is literally insane.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 13, 2022 08:20 AM (H8QX8) 239
"The can just turn on the Purge sirens. The city is just about ready for it."
It's Philly....but yeh. Just about ready to cook-off. https://tinyurl.com/7t37ep5f Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:22 AM (1n+EO) 240
Orwell's genius is more apparent with every passing day. "Some animals are more equal than others" should be carved above the front door of the DOJ.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:22 AM (IMBwW) 241
The Declaration of Independence has a thing about housing troops in the homes of colonists.
Posted by: davidt at July 13, 2022 08:22 AM (oTZbj) 242
The Berkeley law professor who appeared before Senator Hawley yesterday is literally insane.
Posted by: Ordinary American She and reality are separated, waiting on final divorce papers. Posted by: Mornin' Miklos in the mornin' at July 13, 2022 08:22 AM (4EQhA) 243
This would be illegal. Insider trading and market manipulation violations.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:19 AM (b2nrj) He is smart, too smart to have done that. Posted by: Ordinary American at July 13, 2022 08:22 AM (H8QX8) 244
235 Regarding endowments, my understanding is that they are given with the directive in most cases of how they are to be used. I.E. new music building, scholarships etc. Oberlin does not have a giant piggy bank at their disposal to do what they want with the endowments. Same with Harvard and all colleges sitting on major endowments.
Posted by: Jen the original at July 13, 2022 08:20 AM (5NKRC) A lot of what they have in investments is sufficiently broad that they can use it pretty freely. Not much of very restrictive endowments tend to be kept and invested. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:22 AM (b2nrj) 245
Fire-breaks credited with saving giant sequoias in Yosemite Sam N.P.
Whens I says "Whoas!". I means "Whoas!" Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:22 AM (yikp0) 246
229 I despise Warren Buffett, but have conservative friends who love him. Endorsed Obama, gave big $$$ to Hillary, and is pro abortion
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (WY8d2) And tends to fuck his secretaries more than his wife! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (ex2Cx) 247
I'm ambivalent about 'natural rights' being anything more than a useful legal construct, or fiction. I've spent quite a bit of time in locales where you have whatever 'rights' you're willing, and able, to kill to keep. I'm not sure that makes them 'natural' or not.
I have a 'natural right' to defend myself? Okay... sure, but it seems like if they were actually 'natural' other people would recognize them, which most human societies really do not. So, probably a useful fiction of America, but it's way better than other places, believe me. Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (U11/V) 248
Nuclear attack on NYC?
Aside from the hot dog carts, would you really be losing much? Posted by: Broken Apple at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (PC5Ge) 249
Avoid self-checkouts, lawyer warns (NY Post): https://tinyurl.com/49vf743c
Yet another reason to skip the damn things. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (txdEq) 250
This would be illegal. Insider trading and market manipulation violations.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! Are you sure? AFAIK he is free to hedge against market declines any time he wishes. There's rules about how much you can *buy* of a company before announcing your takeover intentions - and Musk kinda violated those but not egregiously. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (vcv8B) 251
"BTW, Michael Yon claims the Dutch government is threatening legislation to allow Mayors to forcibly lodge refugee-types in underutilized housing" ...
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (1n+EO) ++++ It *might* be vacation homes, but I doubt it. When these schemes are floating in this country (usually places like Portland, where I see it come up fairly frequently), it's about regular apartments that are idle, not some rich guy's pied-à-terre or lake house. In other words, speculative holdings. If they do it, goodbye property market. Investors exit the market and the price support they offer vanishes. This might be a good thing on balance (housing prices will certainly decline, and the market will chill quickly) because more people can buy, but it's a destruction of property rights that will have dramatic - and almost certainly bad - long-term consequences. But it is in keeping (domestically, anyway) with the left's general thesis, which is that speculators destroy affordable housing and the problem of vagrancy is, as my lib friend in Portland puts it, a "houselessness" problem. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:24 AM (WWh8n) 252
The lame WWII nuke used on Hiroshima killed 70,000 people instantly, and destroyed everything within one mile. Modern H-bombs are literally 1000 times that powerful. There wouldn't be enough left of NYC to identify that it had once been a city. The firestorm would burn for days.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 13, 2022 08:24 AM (ZEHVO) 253
he Berkeley law professor who appeared before Senator Hawley yesterday is literally insane.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 13, 2022 08:20 AM (H8QX ============= I thought so too, and she illustrates Ace's point about people who live on twitter being so shocked by real life. When people like that Berkeley babe are forced to step away from thier computer screens and talk their usual nonsense to real, live, thinking opponents, they are shocked by the responses they get. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:25 AM (IMBwW) 254
240 Orwell's genius is more apparent with every passing day. "Some animals are more equal than others" should be carved above the front door of the DOJ.
_____________ I bet that's a sentiment that Ketanji "I'm Not a Biologist" Whatshername would have no problem endorsing. Unlike the constitutionally-enshrined notion that Americans have certain God-given rights. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 08:25 AM (MvHI3) 255
So, is it now CBD's birthday since he's taking over for JJ?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1) 256
BTW, Michael Yon claims the Dutch government is threatening legislation to allow Mayors to forcibly lodge refugee-types in underutilized housing" ...
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:18 AM (1n+EO) ++++ "Underutilized housing" Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:25 AM (IMBwW) 257
Ugh. I meant "in the short term" in 251, not "on balance"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:26 AM (WWh8n) 258
86 Murkowski is running third in her re-election race, according to the definitive source on Alaskan polling, New York Magazine. But Alaska installed ranked choice voting, so she has a chance if she can pull enough Democrat voters to go along with gullible Republicans who vote on name recognition only.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 07:55 AM (d3lyb) Mitch COULD stop this in it's tracks he swaps thngs like stopping Garland, which any other senator coulds done, for things like suportting Murk, something only a few would ever do. Mitch despises at least 1/2 of his caucus Murk aint one of them Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 08:26 AM (us2H3) 259
So, is it now CBD's birthday since he's taking over for JJ?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1) ++++ Nope, nothing has changed. JJ will enter his second millennium while in transit to the midwest. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:26 AM (WWh8n) Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 13, 2022 08:26 AM (C1rbv) 261
The WEF is basically an organization made up of rich, politically connected people with a lot of time on their hands. How many divisions do they have?
Seems like they're responsible for a lot of angst in the world. Hunting them down one-by-one oughta' be a priority. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2022 08:27 AM (BFigT) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 13, 2022 08:27 AM (SWi3y) 263
250 This would be illegal. Insider trading and market manipulation violations.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! Are you sure? AFAIK he is free to hedge against market declines any time he wishes. There's rules about how much you can *buy* of a company before announcing your takeover intentions - and Musk kinda violated those but not egregiously. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (vcv8B) A broader market decline he could hedge against, but any extraneous activity regarding a company he has offered to purchase is a huge red flag. It's hard to defend shorting Twitter, offering to buy it(making the price go way up), and then cancelling the offer(which looks like hoping for the price to crash below the shorting point). Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:27 AM (b2nrj) 264
I remember 1962 and the Cuban Missile crisis. My Dad was in civil defense for our little town. He told me that the warning for nuclear exchange was a three minute siren, not the usual one minute. The very next day the town tested the three minute siren. I still have PTSD - post test stress disorder. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 08:27 AM (dQvv7) 265
The UC Berkeley law professor has crazy eyes.
Posted by: m at July 13, 2022 08:28 AM (QPyqx) 266
Greedy cartels are holding migrants for $10K ransom in stash houses after crossing
https://tinyurl.com/4beum8b9 Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 08:28 AM (NpAcC) 267
The WEF is basically an organization made up of rich, politically connected people with a lot of time on their hands. How many divisions do they have?
Seems like they're responsible for a lot of angst in the world. Hunting them down one-by-one oughta' be a priority. Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2022 08:27 AM (BFigT) ++++ They have many divisions. They have the US armed forces as a starter, plus most of Europe's (relatively poor) forces, and whether the CCP would help them out in a theater of mutual benefit is an open question. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:28 AM (WWh8n) 268
Avoid self-checkouts, lawyer warns (NY Post): https://tinyurl.com/49vf743c
Yet another reason to skip the damn things. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (txdEq) I think the bigger story there is at the bottom of the page: Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1) 269
yep
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:29 AM (WY8d2) 270
NUKEMAP
It defaults to NYC, but play with the adjustable parameters and see exactly what the results are when the Left blithely discusses nuking something. And no Bob From the NSA, , this is not a suggestion to consider taking action against anybody https://tinyurl.com/yc42evhc Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:29 AM (1n+EO) 271
I thought so too, and she illustrates Ace's point about people who live on twitter being so shocked by real life. When people like that Berkeley babe are forced to step away from thier computer screens and talk their usual nonsense to real, live, thinking opponents, they are shocked by the responses they get.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:25 AM (IMBwW) One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:29 AM (ex2Cx) 272
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin.
WTAF?!?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden They hold hands on the way to the roller skate rink. Posted by: As Miklos understands at July 13, 2022 08:30 AM (4EQhA) 273
Yet another reason to skip the damn things.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (txdEq) I read that...it's mostly nonsense. Just clickbait. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:30 AM (XIJ/X) 274
New York releases new nuclear attack PSA
-------- At least Berkeley is safe from a nuclear attack since they declared themselves a nuclear-free zone decade ago. Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 13, 2022 08:30 AM (QbCrG) 275
A few days old now but... Freaking AP/CP wire services...
"Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca as the annual hajj pilgrimage continues." Still waiting for the MSM to use 'Holy' to describe any Christian site in the world; or, for a head-on comparison, use "the Prophet Joseph Smith" [or even "the Mormons' Prophet, Joseph Smith"] as often as they use "the Prophet Mohammad". Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0) 276
Well, this Latino guy is disgusted with NYC DA Alvin Bragg's progressive policies. NY Post letter to the editor:
https://tinyurl.com/3u9rrncd Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 08:30 AM (qEX9y) 277
Greedy cartels are holding migrants for $10K ransom in stash houses after crossing
https://tinyurl.com/4beum8b9 Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 08:28 AM (NpAcC) ++++ That is greedy. The normal scheme is to hold the family back home ransom for the transit fee, to be provided over time by remittances. I strongly suspect this play is being run against cash buyers. If the alien has the money to pay the coyote without going into debt to the cartel operators, they probably have more. So take the money and then double the price later. Just a guess. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:31 AM (WWh8n) 278
A broader market decline he could hedge against, but any extraneous activity regarding a company he has offered to purchase is a huge red flag.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! Right. Which is why I hedged (pun intended): "he would have hedged against a decline in the Twitter price (or at least the market)" Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:31 AM (vcv8B) 279
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (U11/V)
=============== as a practical matter you pretty much cover the issue of "why governments are instituted among men". Jefferson went on from your start to argue that if those governments fail to ensure natural rights (like self defense and the pursuit of happiness), citizens can and should change governments. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:31 AM (4eAMv) 280
I remember living on Barksdale AFB during the Cuban Crisis, as my father was Air Force at the time.
Yeh, sirens, drills and fall-out shelters were a thing. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (1n+EO) Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (ex2Cx) 282
CBD is probably the 2nd hardest worker on the internet
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (4Kp75) 283
BTW, Michael Yon claims the Dutch government is threatening legislation to allow Mayors to forcibly lodge refugee-types in underutilized housing" ...
____________ First the government seizes your "underutilized housing" for more deserving types (muzzie or Guatemalan refugees). Then they seize the "underutilized cash" from your IRA's and 401(k)'s, to pay for the refugees' living expenses (hey, those repairs/upgrades to your ex-house aren't going to pay for themselves, are they, and we can't expect our "refugee" friends to live in squalor, now can we?) Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (MvHI3) 284
Farmers and producers hedge in the commodity market all the time. That's its purpose.
Posted by: Halfhand at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (fNk/Q) 285
g'mornin', 'rons working in the office is stupid, frustrating, counter-productive, off-pissing, and stupid Posted by: AltonJackson at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (4bdw+) 286
CBD @ 221-
I'm with y'all, brother. Regardless, You have a place in Texas if and when. Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (gktX6) 287
Avoid self-checkouts, lawyer warns (NY Post): https://tinyurl.com/49vf743c
Yet another reason to skip the damn things. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius She's so full of shit I can smell her from here. Wal Mart is so afraid of a bad stop and the resulting illegal detention that their loss prevention people make, that they routinely write $2500 checks to make the problem go away. Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (fAMHd) 288
Mitch despises at least 1/2 of his caucus
Murk aint one of them Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 08:26 AM (us2H3) Remember when Mitch spent loads of NRSC money to help Murkowski after she lost the Republican Primaries? Good times. Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (qH6FZ) 289
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin.
WTAF?!?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden DSLs for the win! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (ex2Cx) 290
And probably sleeps less keeping maple syrup away before the crack of dawn
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (4Kp75) 291
One can't believe impossible things.' I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:29 AM (ex2Cx) =================== Great quote. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (4eAMv) 292
There wouldn't be enough left of NYC to identify that it had once been a city.
------------------------------------- Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... we finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! Posted by: george taylor at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (yikp0) 293
The WEF is basically an organization made up of rich, politically connected people with a lot of time on their hands. How many divisions do they have?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2022 08:27 AM (BFigT) And yet, they continue to get their plans enacted. For some reason, rich, politically connected people seem to have influence beyond the rational. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:34 AM (GYIa4) 294
"At least Berkeley is safe from a nuclear attack since they declared themselves a nuclear-free zone decade ago."
To this day, North Charles St. in Baltimore, going southbound from the county to the city has one of those official 'Nuclear Free Zone' signs right at the city/county line. I guess the fireball stops right there. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:34 AM (1n+EO) 295
A few days old now but... Freaking AP/CP wire services...
"Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba in the holy city of Mecca as the annual hajj pilgrimage continues." Still waiting for the MSM to use 'Holy' to describe any Christian site in the world; or, for a head-on comparison, use "the Prophet Joseph Smith" [or even "the Mormons' Prophet, Joseph Smith"] as often as they use "the Prophet Mohammad". Posted by: andycanuck Over/under on the annual stampede death? Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:34 AM (fAMHd) 296
I saw NUKEMAP open for Bomb Squad at the Dallas Club Dada in 1999.
Posted by: rhennigantx Not the B-52s? Posted by: As Miklos might misremember at July 13, 2022 08:34 AM (4EQhA) Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 13, 2022 08:34 AM (4p7Em) 298
Posted by: george taylor at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (yikp0)
At least you had Nova to comfort you. Posted by: dantesed at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (88xKn) 299
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin.
WTAF?!?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden You missed last night's discussion. "Bear with asymmetrical balls" had the best take: it's a power move. He's dating even the grossly undesirable woman just to show us normies there's nothing for us. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (vcv8B) 300
Inflation 9.1%. Awful
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2) 301
Its perfectly legal in TX to carry a pistol in your car, to cause the lamentations of high jackers. Plus, as a Constitutional carry state, you can carry one concealed on your person without getting state permission.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (ZEHVO) 302
CBD, thanks for all the cobbing you do.Yuge amount of werk, much appreciated.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (kf6Ak) 303
But it is in keeping (domestically, anyway) with the left's general thesis, which is that speculators destroy affordable housing and the problem of vagrancy is, as my lib friend in Portland puts it, a "houselessness" problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) Went to my county Board of Supervisors open mike meeting last night. Could not believe that several speakers were extoling the need for more (high-diversity, equitable, and inclusive, of course) housing* so we can accept even more people demanding more services that the current taxpayers will have to pony up for! *To their credit, they refrained from using the term "public"! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:36 AM (hOUT3) 304
"Underutilized housing"
-------------------------------- Yeah; I'm the only one living in a 4-bedroom house although a nephew and a brother use it as a mailing address so I can pretend three live here when it comes to Toronto. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:36 AM (yikp0) 305
*Sans Sefton
Isn't that a font? If not, it should be. Posted by: RedMindBlueState It's an alias for dingbat. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (vcv8B) 306
Avoid self-checkouts, lawyer warns (NY Post): https://tinyurl.com/49vf743c
Yet another reason to skip the damn things. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (txdEq) I read that and it's trash. No store, even a big box store, is going to do an inventory check, find they are off one, go through video, and say 'Aha, it is you!' Then off to court and jail we go. It would have to be a big ticket item and they better have more proof than video. It better show your receipt and clearly that it wasn't some mistake. Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (EpDzw) 307
Clearly JJ set a nuke bomb in NYC.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (8Sqzu) 308
Mortgage app's down 2%
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (WY8d2) 309
And yet, they continue to get their plans enacted. For some reason, rich, politically connected people seem to have influence beyond the rational.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:34 AM (GYIa4) Well for one they can get a meeting with people who make big decisions and participate in the echo chamber of elite consensus. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (b2nrj) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (hOUT3) 311
Sure know I wouldn't touch Hildabeast cast offs
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (4Kp75) 312
Nah. It was all cover for him to sell Tesla stock. He needed an excuse so he wouldn't tank the price. I said this from the start.
Dammit. Now I am going to have to war game this out. Its sort of like biometrics, trying to figure out what Musk would do. In biometrics you don't have the fingerprints, iris or face, rather you have digital templates that are similar to a hash or a geohash (the lengthier the hash the more precise the location) such where when performing a match you don't find the exact match, you just identify templates that have more points/features in common than others. This idea that Twitter was a ruse and the theater that went around it for a Tesla sell-off has a lot of points/features that match over other explanations. A number of points still don't match, but far many do. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (AHeqJ) 313
Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... we finally really did it.
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! Posted by: george taylor at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (yikp0) George you had a beautiful MUTE woman and the world as your oyster! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (ex2Cx) 314
305 *Sans Sefton
Isn't that a font? If not, it should be. Posted by: RedMindBlueState It's an alias for dingbat. -------------------- I thought Sans Sefton was a brand of crotchless hooker stockings that Jill loves so well. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:38 AM (8Sqzu) 315
The UC Berkeley Law School professor IS crazy with a big dose of snark on top.
Posted by: Ziba at July 13, 2022 08:38 AM (4h9M3) 316
300 Inflation 9.1%. Awful
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2) Double it and add 2%. I know people worth 50 to 100 M bitching about prices! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (ex2Cx) 317
146 Is that top pic from one of the Fallout games? Looks like it. I have the theme from the first game running through my head.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 13, 2022 08:04 AM (Hudry) Car styling looks wrong for that to me. Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (8C7+r) Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (AHeqJ) 319
"Isn't that a font? If not, it should be.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState It's an alias for dingbat. " It's a floor wax. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (1n+EO) 320
The Berkeley law professor who appeared before Senator Hawley yesterday is literally insane.
Posted by: Ordinary American Well of course. Berkeley (sorry CBD), Law, Professor Therefore, Insane QED Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (Msys3) 321
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (kf6Ak)
My pleasure! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (XIJ/X) Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 13, 2022 08:40 AM (KNJGg) 323
This idea that Twitter was a ruse and the theater that went around it for a Tesla sell-off has a lot of points/features that match over other explanations.
A number of points still don't match, but far many do. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (AHeqJ) The main counterargument is that there are ways to do this that wouldn't much impact Tesla's price. It's not really a Musk unique problem and other founders don't rely on elaborate ruses to sell. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:40 AM (b2nrj) 324
315 The UC Berkeley Law School professor IS crazy with a big dose of snark on top.
Posted by: Ziba at July 13, 2022 08:38 AM (4h9M3) Now do this time 1000 at every major college or uni across the USA. These people spend an hour before breakfast thinking impossible things! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:40 AM (ex2Cx) 325
At least you had Nova to comfort you.
------------------------------ Then he made the mistake of teaching her how to talk. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:40 AM (yikp0) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (1n+EO) 327
Serve it up!' Defiant Bannon taunts J6 committee, vows to go 'medieval on these people'
https://tinyurl.com/bdfv767c Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC) 328
At least Berkeley is safe from a nuclear attack since they declared themselves a nuclear-free zone decade ago. Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 13, 2022 08:30 AM (QbCrG) _________ If your locality declares itself a "nuclear-free zone", go to every council meeting to ask if any nuclear weapons have been found recently. Also make sure to say that hospitals shouldn't have radiological tracers. Dat stuff dangerous! Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (/U27+) 329
She's so full of shit I can smell her from here. Wal Mart is so afraid of a bad stop and the resulting illegal detention that their loss prevention people make, that they routinely write $2500 checks to make the problem go away.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:33 AM (fAMHd) Concur. Hot blonde beyotch is dumb. She should stick to porn and not practice law. More coffee... Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (vvzla) 330
Sure know I wouldn't touch Hildabeast cast offs Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM What are you afraid of? Posted by: Herpes, Syphilis, Gone urea at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (dQvv7) 331
320 The Berkeley law professor who appeared before Senator Hawley yesterday is literally insane.
Posted by: Ordinary American Well of course. Berkeley (sorry CBD), Law, Professor Therefore, Insane QED ____________ The multiple nose rings were also a clue. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (MvHI3) 332
New York releases new nuclear attack PSA
Go home. Go directly home. Do not stop at a bodega to grab a few supplies. Do not shoot your neighbor to take their supplies. Remove your clothes and dispose of them outside. Shower & scrub vigorously. Pop a frozen pizza into the microwave, tune in your cable tv and radio for further instructions. Keep your phone charged for text alerts. Limit your phone calls to 2 - Mom&Dad and a sibling or a trusted neighbor. Relax and wait for further instructions from the civil authorities *cue civil command bunker scene of chaos from the movie Threads* Posted by: Count de Monet at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (4I/2K) 333
You’ve got this,” the host adds.
I really hate this. Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 13, 2022 08:40 AM (KNJGg) What, you don't like smug condescension? Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (kf6Ak) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (Zz0t1) 335
286 CBD @ 221-
I'm with y'all, brother. Regardless, You have a place in Texas if and when. Posted by: Eromero I understand the future City-State of Corsicana is no longer taking Citizenship applications! So glad I got mine in and approved early! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (hOUT3) 336
306 Avoid self-checkouts, lawyer warns (NY Post): https://tinyurl.com/49vf743c
Yet another reason to skip the damn things. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (txdEq) I read that and it's trash. No store, even a big box store, is going to do an inventory check, find they are off one, go through video, and say 'Aha, it is you!' Then off to court and jail we go. It would have to be a big ticket item and they better have more proof than video. It better show your receipt and clearly that it wasn't some mistake. Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (EpDzw) Inventory is off all the time. The accounting term is shrinkage. Much of the recording process by staff can be half-hearted at best. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (b2nrj) 337
The main counterargument is that there are ways to do this that wouldn't much impact Tesla's price. It's not really a Musk unique problem and other founders don't rely on elaborate ruses to sell.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! It is a Musk-unique problem in that Tesla's gross overvaluation is primarily driven by the cult-of-Musk. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (vcv8B) Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (KNJGg) 339
You’ve got this,” the host adds.
I really hate this. Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 13, 2022 08:40 AM (KNJGg) Balancing a family AND a budget? That's TOO HAHD!!! Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (Zz0t1) 340
Could not believe that several speakers were extoling the need for more (high-diversity, equitable, and inclusive, of course) housing* so we can accept even more people demanding more services that the current taxpayers will have to pony up for!
You are aware that buying actors and shills to lobby for an interest that wants to have public funding, loan guarantees, subsidized infrastructure and swift permit approvals for multi-million dollar projects is common practice. Right? Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (AHeqJ) 341
Well for one they can get a meeting with people who make big decisions and participate in the echo chamber of elite consensus.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (b2nrj) At least half of the Presidents/PMs of the "western democracies" are members. They don't need to get meetings with decision makers. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (GYIa4) 342
Over/under on the annual stampede death?
Posted by: rickb223 Vuvuzelas for Hadjis Please give generously. Posted by: Not-for-Profit Miklos at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (4EQhA) 343
"I understand the future City-State of Corsicana is no longer taking Citizenship applications! So glad I got mine in and approved early!"
I'm still holding out hope that my application to Alextopia will be accepted. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO) 344
"Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind."
Philippians 2:1-2 Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (VpIIl) 345
It is cute that they think notify.nyc will still work, or any of their employees will make it a priority to come to work and push updates.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 13, 2022 08:44 AM (KNJGg) 346
It is a Musk-unique problem in that Tesla's gross overvaluation is primarily driven by the cult-of-Musk.
Agreed. Hence the circus. Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:44 AM (AHeqJ) 347
Inflation 9.1%. Awful
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2) Double it and add 2%. I know people worth 50 to 100 M bitching about prices! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (ex2Cx) Electric bill last summer was $190 - $220 Tx summer is a bit hotter this year, however, electric bill last month was $350 and we're expecting $450 this month. Fuck Joe Biden. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1) 348
Inflation 9.1%. Awful
Posted by: Jonah at July 13, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2) Double it and add 2%. I know people worth 50 to 100 M bitching about prices! Posted by: rhennigantx at July 13, 2022 08:39 AM (ex2Cx) Fortunately for me, my company looks at the "price of labor" over a three year rolling period rather than "cost of living" where we're located. They're baffled why people keep leaving. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:45 AM (GYIa4) 349
Over/under on the annual stampede death? ___________ The MSM would say it's another reason why Christianity is dangerous. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2022 08:45 AM (/U27+) 350
What to do in the event of a nuclear attack on NYC:
Become a mole person toot sweet and tunnel to Pennsylvania. Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (fAMHd) 351
If in New Your during a nuclear attack, your best move is to place your head firmly between your thighs and kiss your unfortunate ass goodbye. Cause ain't nobody in New York capable of saving their own stupid ass, much less yourn.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (QSjkU) 352
Oh wait...I CAN have grubHub bring me stuff after the GlowBall Warming event.
https://tinyurl.com/2cd8b9uj Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (1n+EO) 353
>>Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
Yeah, dude could probably land an out and out dime piece, but instead hooks up with Hillarie's beard? Nauseating to say the least. Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (n/8Ck) 354
The WEF is basically an organization made up of rich, politically connected people with a lot of time on their hands. How many divisions do they have?
[snip] ++++ They have many divisions. They have the US armed forces as a starter, plus most of Europe's (relatively poor) forces, and whether the CCP would help them out in a theater of mutual benefit is an open question. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:28 AM (WWh8n) ------- Fascism historically was government takeover & control of corporations. The WEF/Great Reset cabal (possibly with an assist from the CCP as you mention is fascism flipped on its head: corporate takeover & control (see Blackrock, Vanguard, et. al.) of governments -- and they've been very open about & successful at it. If only they didn't have virtually total control of the MDM-MSM, people might have been made aware of and been alarmed years ago to have nipped it in the bud. But the systemic corruption you wrote about recently is, well, pretty systemic throughout the West. Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (QbCrG) 355
If your locality declares itself a "nuclear-free zone", go to every council meeting to ask if any nuclear weapons have been found recently. Also make sure to say that hospitals shouldn't have radiological tracers. Dat stuff dangerous!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (/U27+) Take a banana into a city council meeting. Fun fact...they're radioactive. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (GYIa4) 356
Inventory is off all the time. The accounting term is shrinkage. Much of the recording process by staff can be half-hearted at best.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (b2nrj) Yeah, which is why her scenario is idiotic. Big ticket items have anti-theft tags. So, you would have to explain how that didn't go off. Smaller items they would just write-off. Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 13, 2022 08:47 AM (EpDzw) 357
Step Four: Try to tune out the horror of bodies strewn through the streets, the survivors screaming in pain from radiation burns and ignore the Grub Hub guys car that has been tossed like a toy into the fifth floor of your apartment building. Oh yeah, and head for the river. Because all bridges and tunnels will be structurally unsound, and probably unusable...
Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2022 08:47 AM (VpIIl) 358
Shaping up to be a spectacular day on the markets this morning. Imma guessing Dr Jill's Taco Speech is causing the stampede. Its good to be short.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:48 AM (8Sqzu) 359
Take a banana into a city council meeting. Fun fact...they're radioactive. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (GYIa4) You asked for it....... https://youtu.be/niYtMuhvDU8 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1) 360
341 Well for one they can get a meeting with people who make big decisions and participate in the echo chamber of elite consensus.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:37 AM (b2nrj) At least half of the Presidents/PMs of the "western democracies" are members. They don't need to get meetings with decision makers. Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (GYIa4) Not really that sort of org. The Presidents/PMs aren't members. Countries have delegates and Presidents/PMs will show up to some of their events as speakers or attendees, but Presidents and PMs will show up at a number of venues. Members for the WEF are large companies. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:48 AM (b2nrj) 361
Electric bill last summer was $190 - $220
Tx summer is a bit hotter this year, however, electric bill last month was $350 and we're expecting $450 this month. Fuck Joe Biden. Posted by: Sponge Just got my first electric bill for the new house. Granted, it's just using electric when the final construction workers are there, but it was $33.54. 115 kWh @ .1137/hr. Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:48 AM (fAMHd) 362
Inventory is off all the time. The accounting term is shrinkage. Much of the recording process by staff can be half-hearted at best.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (b2nrj) Inventory fell in the pool? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1) 363
356 Inventory is off all the time. The accounting term is shrinkage. Much of the recording process by staff can be half-hearted at best.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (b2nrj) ----------------- This is the main reason drug stores stopped selling cigarettes. Dittos grocery stores. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:49 AM (8Sqzu) 364
Depending on where you are related to the blast radius, securing alcohol and getting drunk should be a top priority.
Posted by: SH (Roe Overturned) at July 13, 2022 08:49 AM (sX1BW) 365
Cooper and Abedin? Trolling, the both of them.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:49 AM (ks05J) 366
New Christian school in Va receives thousands of applicants as people flee public school in droves. From "The Geller Report"
https://tinyurl.com/mvtaax44 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 08:49 AM (v7gKw) 367
You are aware that buying actors and shills to lobby for an interest that wants to have public funding, loan guarantees, subsidized infrastructure and swift permit approvals for multi-million dollar projects is common practice.
Right? Posted by: Reuben Hick But they seemed so nice and sincere. One "father" was hoping his son would be able to get a job with the county popo and find "affordable" housing in the county so he could move out of Dad's house. Surely that was legit! Best part is that a later speaker referenced this very dilemma, so the coordination was almost blatant! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:50 AM (hOUT3) Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 13, 2022 08:50 AM (89T5c) 369
Time to read "Hiroshima" again?
Posted by: Ziba at July 13, 2022 08:50 AM (4h9M3) 370
"Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind."
Philippians 2:1-2 Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (VpIIl) Sounds an awful lot like the original, "Go ahead, make my day." Posted by: Count de Monet at July 13, 2022 08:50 AM (4I/2K) 371
Cooper and Abedin? Trolling, the both of them.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:49 AM (ks05J) I think it shows just how much D.C. spends time in hollywood courting 'the stars' to do their bidding. Hillary is running and Cooper will be her primary spokesbitch. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1) 372
Obviously Professor of Marxist Rhetoric. Wish Hawley made her name 1 male to give birth
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 08:51 AM (4Kp75) 373
You are aware that buying actors and shills to lobby for an interest that wants to have public funding, loan guarantees, subsidized infrastructure and swift permit approvals for multi-million dollar projects is common practice.
Right? Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:43 AM (AHeqJ) This is basically what the WEF is. Chamber of Commerce International edition. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:51 AM (b2nrj) 374
"securing alcohol and getting drunk should be a top priority."
Remember to wash any fallout from the tops of sealed alcohol containers before opening. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:51 AM (1n+EO) 375
Couple Towed Trailer Behind $80,000 Electric Truck, Had to Stop Every 100 Miles on 2,700-Mile Trip
https://bit.ly/3RGfw3g Oh, and if you are in NYC when a nuke pops off, good luck getting the electronics to work. Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:51 AM (fAMHd) 376
353 >>Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
Yeah, dude could probably land an out and out dime piece, but instead hooks up with Hillarie's beard? Nauseating to say the least. ------------------------ Bradley is cock curious. He wonders what Anthony Weiner's weiner taste like. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:51 AM (8Sqzu) 377
371 Cooper and Abedin? Trolling, the both of them.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:49 AM (ks05J) I think it shows just how much D.C. spends time in hollywood courting 'the stars' to do their bidding. Hillary is running and Cooper will be her primary spokesbitch. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1) You may be prescient. Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (ks05J) 378
If your locality declares itself a "nuclear-free zone", go to every council meeting to ask if any nuclear weapons have been found recently. Also make sure to say that hospitals shouldn't have radiological tracers. Dat stuff dangerous!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2022 08:41 AM (/U27+) ++++ Heh. Absolutely. No high-tech modern medicine in a nuclear-free zone. I loved it when BYC (Bloomberg, maybe, but possible DeBlasio) declared the city a "Nuclear Free Zone" and then the Navy canceled Fleet Week. He backed down toot sweet. I wish the Navy hadn't back-tracked. Shoulda gone to Boston or Baltimore that year. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (WWh8n) 379
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices"
-Adam Smith Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (b2nrj) 380
Oddly enough, Sri Lanka's P.M. declares state of emergency after the President flees to the
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (yikp0) 381
Meant "applications" not "applicants"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (v7gKw) 382
I always tell them to get F'd.
The receipt means it is my property, by definition. The sale, has been completed. They want to do this, because they have problems with collusion between crooked checkout clerks and thieves. It you want to check out the check out, be my guest. After that? Get F'd. Your problem. Don't treat ME like a criminal because YOU hired criminals, and don't want to offend them, or something. Posted by: Common Tater at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (ZPUJH) 383
Oh yeah, and head for the river. Because all bridges and tunnels will be structurally unsound, and probably unusable...
Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2022 08:47 AM (VpIIl) And full of zombies and chuds. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (4I/2K) 384
The main counterargument is that there are ways to do this that wouldn't much impact Tesla's price. It's not really a Musk unique problem and other founders don't rely on elaborate ruses to sell.
Didn't Musk trying playing the "Should I Sell Game" on Twitter, after getting into a slap fight with that harridan Senator Warren, where he polled Twitter fans to vote on whether he should sell? I think that stunt cost him an SEC investigation. The dude is under a microscope, and he does love attention so naturally, Twitter is his Go-To for the next stunt. Twitter is like a bug zapper to a lot of people, they are attracted to its light and then... Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (AHeqJ) 385
@347 Sponge-$350-$450 a month for power in Texas!!! Now I know why Californians are moving to Texas. I know people here in the Bay Area that haven’t paid under a $1,000 a month power bill for the past two years.
Posted by: JROD at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (NR4EH) 386
Big city infrastructure is extremely vulnerable. I expect 100 knowledgeable people with 50 pounds of high explosive could bring New York to it's knees. And the "leadership" would run in circles and scream.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (QSjkU) 387
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
Yeah, dude could probably land an out and out dime piece, but instead hooks up with Hillarie's beard? Nauseating to say the least. Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (n/8Ck) ******* Remember, Bradley Cooper is all in on being Howard Stern's running mate. Looks like he's putting all the pieces into play. Was thinking this was a joke, but maybe it isn't. Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC) 388
The Ukes are getting their butts kicked is why we are sending all that money but for the wrong reason.
It's part of the plan that they lose and all that money disappears in the aftermath. Posted by: pawn at July 13, 2022 08:53 AM (wsHtO) 389
Oh, and if you are in NYC when a nuke pops off, good luck getting the electronics to work.
---------------- That is also true of gas and diesal cars manufactured in the last 30 years. If you have a tube radio in your car it will likely work. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:53 AM (8Sqzu) 390
Because all bridges and tunnels will be structurally unsound, and probably unusable...
Posted by: Marcus T ... and NYC subways are still more dangerous than nuclear fallout... Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:53 AM (vcv8B) 391
I remember 1962 and the Cuban Missile crisis. My Dad was in civil defense for our little town. He told me that the warning for nuclear exchange was a three minute siren, not the usual one minute.
The very next day the town tested the three minute siren. I still have PTSD - post test stress disorder. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 *** I remember nothing about the actual crisis -- I was 9, but I paid no attention to news, and my mother and teachers never talked about it. But there was a Civil Defense siren near my house and another near my school. They used to test them every day at noon when I was in grammar school. By college, 1974 or so, they were no longer being sounded. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:53 AM (txdEq) 392
About the Nuke attack PSA:
1. Not many buildings would be left standing after a thermonuclear detonation in NYC. 2. How would you decontaminate ash from your body without the water system working? 3. How would you "stay tuned" for news and updates since electronics would be fried from the EMP. Stupid, stupid, stupid government. Posted by: Archer at July 13, 2022 08:53 AM (gmo/4) Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 08:54 AM (us2H3) 394
It's part of the plan that they lose and all that money disappears in the aftermath.
- ----------- Then Biden retires. Grift plus pension from China is all he needs. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:54 AM (8Sqzu) 395
You know what's hilarious? It is kind of an interesting historical event that we have a female first Lady.... and yet she sucks so robustly that nobody even gives a damn anymore!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 13, 2022 08:54 AM (7LCqz) 396
370-Thanks very much, Marcus
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 08:54 AM (v7gKw) 397
Remember, Bradley Cooper is all in on being Howard Stern's running mate. Looks like he's putting all the pieces into play.
Was thinking this was a joke, but maybe it isn't. ----------------- I thought actors were supposed to have good timing. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:55 AM (8Sqzu) Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 13, 2022 08:55 AM (7LCqz) Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (VpIIl) 400
It's part of the plan that they lose and all that money disappears in the aftermath.
Posted by: pawn What money? Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (hOUT3) 401
I don't know how sensitive the detectors are, but that's a little indication.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (dQvv7) That's interesting, had no idea we had state police on the lookout for radioactive substances. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy it's a homeland security grant of $ to the state level LEO for the detectors. it's worked through the department of transportation as a 'safety' issue for the highways. it's really just grift/graft funding fir politicians and maybe inly 1:10 vehicles have the mobile detectors. the weigh stations have the more sensitive detectors for the trucks. don't ask me how i know Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (MrZQl) 402
"Shoulda gone to Boston or Baltimore that year."
Baltimore does indeed have its very own Fleet Week. And 'The Block' is within walking distance of the inner harbor. While in uniform, we once stood adjacent to an empty spot along the harbor wall where a small trail of bubble would occasionally rise to the surface. As folks would ask what we were doing, and what ship, etc, we told them that our sub was sitting on the bottom there, and came up every two hours for tours. Then we walked away. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (1n+EO) 403
If in New Your during a nuclear attack, your best move is to place your head firmly between your thighs and kiss your unfortunate ass goodbye. Cause ain't nobody in New York capable of saving their own stupid ass, much less yourn.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 13, 2022 08:46 AM (QSjkU) ++++ I strongly suspect most of the death toll in a NYC nuclear hit will be post-blast. It always is (the shrapnel and debris problem) but it will be compounded in NYC because it's a tough place to evacuate. There are a lot of choke points and it's hard to get out. The population that survives will find it difficult to leave, and the problem will get worse and worse. Hell, it took me six hours to make it from Queens to northern New Jersey one Labor Day weekend, and that was just heavy vacation traffic. Even making the city exit-only and opening everything on both sides of the road and suspending tolls won't make *that* much of a difference - especially if a couple of bridges are gone or the approaches are destroyed. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (WWh8n) 404
You know what's hilarious? It is kind of an interesting historical event that we have a female first Lady.... and yet she sucks so robustly that nobody even gives a damn anymore!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 13, 2022 08:54 AM (7LCqz) Other than the Obama years, haven't we always had a female First Lady? Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (GYIa4) 405
Cooper is an object lesson as to why I put almost no stock in holding up actors or entertainment figures as role models/ moral authorites. They. Are. Actors. They role play.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (ks05J) 406
You may be prescient.
----------------------------- I am the Prescient!!! Shtrump robbed me!!! It was my turn, dammit!!! MY TURN!!! Posted by: hillary (')(.) at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (yikp0) 407
We were sent home and told to fill the bath tub cuz water would be scarce. Good thing I lived a block and half from school.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (8Sqzu) 408
I remember doing duck and cover drills in elementary school.
In Jr. High, my school had a fallout shelter. I was down there once for some reason and they had stacks of civil defense rations and cans of water with civil defense stickers on them. Posted by: Archer at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (gmo/4) 409
I entertained some fantasies about what use those nose rings on the Beserkley Professor could be put to.
Posted by: Ziba at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (4h9M3) 410
The self-checkout story may be trash, but the companies are still using our labor without compensation. And at least one WM in my area, the one with the stupidest employees imaginable, won't take cash at the self-checkouts. No thanks.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (txdEq) 411
Bradley Cooper went from Jennifer Esposito to some young hot Russian model to Lady Gaga to Huma. With probably a hundred eastern European prostitutes in between.
He's Hunter Biden with a better publicist. Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (qH6FZ) 412
Huh. Huma is dating a movie star, and not a politician? She's either moved on from Clintonworld, or Clinton is running, I guess. She wouldn't be carrying on with a commoner unless she's given up on ambitions in the court. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (Zhwz2) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (hOUT3) 414
About the Nuke attack PSA:
We would tell you to take shelter in the subways, but you'll be attacked. We would tell you to stock up on supplies from the local stores (bogodas), but we're arresting the operators. You were pretty much fucked before Mr. Nuke made the rubble bounce. Posted by: "Start spreadin the fallout" at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (cY9wR) 415
Couple Towed Trailer Behind $80,000 Electric Truck, Had to Stop Every 100 Miles on 2,700-Mile Trip
https://bit.ly/3RGfw3g Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 08:51 AM (fAMHd) They mentioned the lack of fast chargers. Those degrade your batteries at a faster pace. They'll enjoy their non-towing 75 mile range in a couple of years. Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (EpDzw) 416
Other than the Obama years, haven't we always had a female First Lady?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (GYIa4) I know, i know, i suck... Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (7LCqz) Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (Zhwz2) 418
@347 Sponge-$350-$450 a month for power in Texas!!! Now I know why Californians are moving to Texas. I know people here in the Bay Area that haven’t paid under a $1,000 a month power bill for the past two years.
Posted by: JROD at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (NR4EH) *googly eyes of shock* Holy kilowatts, batman! My last bill for the period mid-May to mid-June was $142 for about 1380 KwH. NW Houston area, where the sun shines most of the time. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (4I/2K) 419
$350-$450 a month for power in Texas!!! Now I know why Californians are moving to Texas. I know people here in the Bay Area that haven’t paid under a $1,000 a month power bill for the past two years.
Posted by: JROD at July 13, 2022 08:52 AM (NR4EH) ++++ $1k a month for electricity? In the Bay Area, which isn't (comparatively) all that hot or cold? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (WWh8n) 420
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (WWh8n)
Whenever I have to venture into a major metropolitan area I feel like a trapped rat. Because I am a trapped rat. Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (QSjkU) 421
412
Huh. Huma is dating a movie star, and not a politician? She's either moved on from Clintonworld, or Clinton is running, I guess. She wouldn't be carrying on with a commoner unless she's given up on ambitions in the court. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (Zhwz2) The actor could be scouted to run. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (b2nrj) 422
405 Cooper is an object lesson as to why I put almost no stock in holding up actors or entertainment figures as role models/ moral authorites. They. Are. Actors. They role play.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (ks05J) *starts to cry* Murph! Posted by: Matthew McConaughey at July 13, 2022 08:59 AM (PiwSw) 423
The gangs of cannibalistic raiders will be busy decorating the cities with pieces of corpses on hooks. Heads on sharp metal poles. Intestines hung with great care. It will be just like Christmas.
Posted by: Wednesday Adams at July 13, 2022 08:59 AM (ya802) 424
Other than the Obama years, haven't we always had a female First Lady?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society Well done! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 08:59 AM (hOUT3) 425
You have a place in Texas if and when.
Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (gktX6) Can I bring my Sous Vide system? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 09:00 AM (XIJ/X) 426
RNC Research
@RNCResearch 11m At 9.1% year-over-year, new inflation data is "MUCH hotter than expected." "November 1981 is the last time that we have seen an inflationary number this high." https://tinyurl.com/yc26bmvh Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 09:00 AM (NpAcC) 427
I entertained some fantasies about what use those nose rings on the Beserkley Professor could be put to.
Posted by: Ziba 9v battery tester. Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2022 09:00 AM (fAMHd) 428
Cooper is an object lesson as to why I put almost no stock in holding up actors or entertainment figures as role models/ moral authorites. They. Are. Actors. They role play.
Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (ks05J) Damn straight! We're the worst sort. Posted by: John Wilkes Booth at July 13, 2022 09:00 AM (4I/2K) 429
"And yet, you seemed so nice..."
Who....me? I AM a nice guy. I just have an evil sense of humor. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:00 AM (1n+EO) 430
I remember doing duck and cover drills in elementary school.
In Jr. High, my school had a fallout shelter. I was down there once for some reason and they had stacks of civil defense rations and cans of water with civil defense stickers on them. Posted by: Archer at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (gmo/4) Duck and cover was never meant for a direct hit. It was for locations that were far enough away to avoid the initial blast. Someone pointed out a school in Russia where it worked well when that meteor exploded. The teacher had the kids follow the drill and they avoided the flying glass. Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 13, 2022 09:00 AM (EpDzw) 431
First Lady?
Vice president i meant. Wow. Great heat stroke. Posted by: Warai-otoko -------------------------------------- Dat's okay. We knew what you meant. Posted by: 'Mike' Obama at July 13, 2022 09:01 AM (yikp0) 432
The actor could be scouted to run. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM (b2nrj) Might as well. Kinda perfect, actually. They're all highly compromisable meatheads who are used to taking direction. He'd make a great President. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:01 AM (Zhwz2) 433
Just order tacos from GrubHub.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2022 09:01 AM (HtXMO) 434
It always is (the shrapnel and debris problem) but it will be compounded in NYC because it's a tough place to evacuate. There are a lot of choke points and it's hard to get out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) I've been told ad nauseum that NYC is the greatest city on earth. Why, even post apocalypse, would the believers want to leave? Small town PA, or NJ doesn't have a fusion (HA! get it?) Thai/TexMex/Scandi place that serves until 0300. Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2022 09:01 AM (Msys3) 435
I just have an evil sense of humor.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice you been heah fouwah hour, you go now! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (hOUT3) 436
You have a place in Texas if and when.
Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2022 08:32 AM (gktX6) Can I bring my Sous Vide system? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo Better hope the electricity is flowing, and not at some stupidly high price/kilowatt. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (w8jy4) 437
Hey, US Inflation Quickens to 9.1%. Hey. Its good to be short.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (8Sqzu) 438
Larry Storch was GREAT. And F Troop was GREAT. Just silly, usually innocent, humor. Where can you find that now?
I love F Troop and those characters. Only two seasons and you can still find them airing episodes (on one of those sub-channel broadcasts). Of course - F Troop was killed off in the “rural purge” because the Hollywierd execs couldn’t stand the programming middle America actually enjoyed. So, it was all canceled - F Troop; Green Acres; Gomer Pyle. Replaced by “relevant” (leftist) programming like All in the Family. Posted by: Jake Speed at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (Vu1jV) 439
If you are in the city, you are fucked.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (KNJGg) Oh yes. 9/11 showed the vulnerability of NYC (and probably other dense cities). Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (XIJ/X) 440
You have a place in Texas if and when.
Posted by: Eromero Can I bring my Sous Vide system? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire Uh Oh. I see this argument is coming to a boil. Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (Msys3) Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (C1rbv) 442
*******
Remember, Bradley Cooper is all in on being Howard Stern's running mate. Looks like he's putting all the pieces into play. Was thinking this was a joke, but maybe it isn't. Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC) The Fart Joke / Plastic Personality ticket. Just what we need to send this bitch over the edge and destroy Earth completely. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (Zz0t1) 443
CPI 9.1
the Fed is pissing in a hurricane they need to do a couple of points at the end of the month if they are serious about even slowing this train down stopping it is out of question not until they get interest rates above the inflation rate we are a long way from that happening Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (us2H3) Posted by: R. Reagan at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (4EQhA) 445
Just order tacos from GrubHub.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2022 09:01 AM (HtXMO) I'm more than just taco. Posted by: Beto O'Rourke at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (Zz0t1) 446
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (8Sqzu) 447
440 You have a place in Texas if and when.
Posted by: Eromero Can I bring my Sous Vide system? Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire Uh Oh. I see this argument is coming to a boil. Posted by: Tonypete a Slowly, things are heating up! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (hOUT3) 448
Our old house in B'More sets across from an Elementary school.
With a civil Defense Siren still up on the roof. It's decommissioned, but the structure is still there. And if one were to get bored, use the search engine of your choice, and search for NIKE Missile sites surrounding our cities during the cold war. Hard to believe just how many sites there were on the east coast, and their location. Like...Ft Meade. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:04 AM (1n+EO) 449
385 @347 Sponge-$350-$450 a month for power in Texas!!! Now I know why Californians are moving to Texas. I know people here in the Bay Area that haven’t paid under a $1,000 a month power bill for the past two years.
____________ And here I am in Arizona bitching about my $150 electric bill last month. LOL. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 09:04 AM (MvHI3) 450
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore? Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (8Sqzu) No. He hasn't been culturally relevant in many years. He will never be President. The end. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:04 AM (Zhwz2) 451
Can I bring my Sous Vide system?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire Uh Oh. I see this argument is coming to a boil. Posted by: Tonypete Been simmering for a while. Posted by: Chef Miklos at July 13, 2022 09:04 AM (4EQhA) 452
they need to do a couple of points at the end of the month if they are serious about even slowing this train down
----------------- If the slow the train Biden's approval numbers will hit 12%. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:04 AM (8Sqzu) 453
@RNCResearch
11m At 9.1% year-over-year, new inflation data is "MUCH hotter than expected." ---------- This is crazy. The FED is going to have to crash the economy. They have no other choice. Thanks Biden and Powell. Posted by: WisRich at July 13, 2022 09:04 AM (G0vdT) 454
247 I'm ambivalent about 'natural rights' being anything more than a useful legal construct, or fiction. I've spent quite a bit of time in locales where you have whatever 'rights' you're willing, and able, to kill to keep. I'm not sure that makes them 'natural' or not.
I have a 'natural right' to defend myself? Okay... sure, but it seems like if they were actually 'natural' other people would recognize them, which most human societies really do not. So, probably a useful fiction of America, but it's way better than other places, believe me. Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (U11/V) In the end, either the Biggest Killer wins, or the person who can sociopathically manipulate the Biggest Killer to kill for them wins. Were it wasn't so... Posted by: Allie at July 13, 2022 09:05 AM (sm6Pk) 455
444 They. Are. Actors. They role play.
Posted by: kraken Well, there he goes again. Posted by: R. Reagan at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (4EQhA) Heh. The one exception. I'll give you that. Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 09:05 AM (ks05J) 456
450
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore? Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (8Sqzu) No. He hasn't been culturally relevant in many years. He will never be President. The end. ---------------------- Yeah, that's what I thought. I guess Larry Fink is carrying him as a 'strategic asset' or something. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:05 AM (8Sqzu) 457
CNBC: "Biden heads to Saudi Arabia for embarrassing climbdown"
---------------------- Eat a bag of dicks, Brandon. Start now. Posted by: Crown Prince, channelling ZOD at July 13, 2022 09:05 AM (vqVEJ) 458
The main counterargument is that there are ways to do this that wouldn't much impact Tesla's price. It's not really a Musk unique problem and other founders don't rely on elaborate ruses to sell.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! It is a Musk-unique problem in that Tesla's gross overvaluation is primarily driven by the cult-of-Musk. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 08:42 AM (vcv8B) Always stick with the simple explanation. Musk wanted to buy Twat because he thought he could run it better. Also just because he could afford it. Trying to complicate it is mental masterbation. Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (Qhnrt) 459
BLS CPI publication came.
CPI-U all items: +9.1% Food at home: +12.2% !!! Food away from home: +7.7% All Energy: +41.6% !!! Electricity: +13.7% Nat gas: +38.4% !!! CPI-U "core" (all items less food and energy): +5.9% Brutal. Absolutely brutal print. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (WWh8n) 460
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (8Sqzu) ******* He's creepy.. He makes my skin crawl. Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC) 461
I just saved tens of thousands of dollars. I made a 'bucket list' of places I wanted to visit in an around-the-world tour when I retired: Ceylon, Burma, and Zaire to name a few. All gone. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (dQvv7) 462
Gotta sous vide those tacos.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (HtXMO) 463
401 I don't know how sensitive the detectors are, but that's a little indication.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 07:53 AM (dQvv7) That's interesting, had no idea we had state police on the lookout for radioactive substances. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy I'll tell you a story. We had DHS contact us about a high radiation reading where I work and since I worked in nuclear power they called me to go meet them. I meet them in the parking lot and they had a DHS SUV full of instruments. They showed me the readings that they were getting. I had never seen instruments that read that low of levels of radiation and I think they had individual gamma energy detection for isotope identification. Long story short, but we determined they had detected a radiography source that we had on site. While it was still in it's lead shielded box. It hadn't even been pulled out yet. Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (UuD2k) Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (us2H3) 465
Bradley Cooper went from Jennifer Esposito to some young hot Russian model to Lady Gaga to Huma. With probably a hundred eastern European prostitutes in between.
He's Hunter Biden with a better publicist. Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 08:57 AM (qH6FZ) So, basically, like Jennifer Aniston, he dates whomever he costars with because they're ALL whores, but now he's got political aspirations, so he thinks the HILLARY train is where he needs to attach his caboose? Fuck that guy. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 09:07 AM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Karine Chef Menteur at July 13, 2022 09:07 AM (4EQhA) 467
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead Never started so I can safely say hell no. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:07 AM (w8jy4) 468
All Energy: +41.6% !!!
_________ Thanks ever so much, idiot Biden voters. Sure was worth being bankrupted to get rid of that vulgar Trump, right? Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 09:07 AM (MvHI3) 469
"Duck and cover was never meant for a direct hit. It was for locations that were far enough away to avoid the initial blast"
That is where that NUKEMAP site I linked to can come in handy. Play with the settings and see what the various yield levels do to your survival rate. It may surprise you as to how survivable some of those things can be, if the wind is right, and you don't see the flash. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (1n+EO) 470
++++ $1k a month for electricity? In the Bay Area, which isn't (comparatively) all that hot or cold? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:58 AM Two words... grow lamps. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (dQvv7) 471
467 Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead Never started so I can safely say hell no. --------------- He was here in DC when I was stationed at Quantico. No one listened to him cuz we had the Grease Man. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (8Sqzu) Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (vqVEJ) 473
"Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?"
Does anyone watch Bradley Cooper movies anymore? "The Hangover" was well over a decade ago, and he wasn't the star of that. Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (qH6FZ) 474
Food at home: +12.2% !!! ------- Horseshit. It's much higher than this. I don't know how they're massaging that to be so low, but it's laughable. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (Zhwz2) 475
It may surprise you as to how survivable some of those things can be, if the wind is right, and you don't see the flash.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (1n+EO) All you need is a refrigerator made in the 40's and you're good to go. Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 13, 2022 09:09 AM (QSjkU) 476
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (8Sqzu) ******* He's creepy.. He makes my skin crawl. Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC) Agreed, but he's banked over 1/2 a BILLION from Sirius over the last few years, so he thinks he can just buy his way in. Bloomberg taught no one anything on the left. I just hope Stern is serious, gets in, goes bankrupt and we NEVER FUCKING HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1) 477
NYT says the dims are up in the generic
lying is all they know maybe a limited strike wouldn't be a bad thing Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (us2H3) 478
Those inflation numbers are bullshit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (89T5c) 479
Of course - F Troop was killed off in the “rural purge” because the Hollywierd execs couldn’t stand the programming middle America actually enjoyed. So, it was all canceled - F Troop; Green Acres; Gomer Pyle. Replaced by “relevant” (leftist) programming like All in the Family.
Posted by: Jake Speed at July 13, 2022 *** I forget who said it -- perhaps Pat Buttram, "Mr. Haney" on Green Acres -- but the story goes that "If it had a tree in it, it got canceled." Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (txdEq) 480
Food at home: +12.2% !!!
------- Horseshit. It's much higher than this. I don't know how they're massaging that to be so low, but it's laughable. ____________ Yep, grocery prices have gone up 20 -40% in most places. Their number is bullshit. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (MvHI3) 481
247 I'm ambivalent about 'natural rights' being anything more than a useful legal construct, or fiction. I've spent quite a bit of time in locales where you have whatever 'rights' you're willing, and able, to kill to keep. I'm not sure that makes them 'natural' or not.
I have a 'natural right' to defend myself? Okay... sure, but it seems like if they were actually 'natural' other people would recognize them, which most human societies really do not. So, probably a useful fiction of America, but it's way better than other places, believe me. Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2022 08:23 AM (U11/V) It's philosophical and has to do with just cause. Just cause, or at least selective enmity, is very important for humans. It does not assert that it is impossible to violate these rights, it asserts that it is proper, and consequently not a war on society(unlike say shooting your neighbor for plunder or fun), to act in their defense. They are referred to as natural because of the logical process by which the set was derived. It is commonly expected among mankind that we will defend our own possessions, or our own lives, for instance(more complicated than this though). Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (b2nrj) 482
I wonder what food is being surveyed, to only get a 12.2% increase
Food no one eats? Posted by: Huck Follywood Yup you're probably right they checked plant based crap. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (w8jy4) 483
Something you don't usually hear discussed in relation to a nuke attack is the wildfires that fire departments won't be stopping or containing because there won't be any fire departments after a nuke attack.
Posted by: davidt at July 13, 2022 09:11 AM (oTZbj) 484
... they need to do a couple of points at the end of the month if they are serious about even slowing this train down ...
Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:02 AM (us2H3) ++++ I suspect they're going to keep boosting it 0.75 points every meeting for a while. They won't do a big, single-shot, multi-point increase unless they're truly cornered - and they aren't truly cornered yet. That might happen by Autumn because the credit cards will be maxed out, but not yet. The Fed balance sheet is - very slowly - declining. They haven't disclosed that they are draining assets and so it is probably natural roll-off, but that will accelerate and they can start selling for a month or two before anyone will notice (assuming they don't fudge the numbers and hide it). As that trend accelerates (which it will, in the absence of QE), money supply will shrink. They might be banking on significant but manageable interest rates hikes while the balance sheet does the heavy lifting. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:11 AM (WWh8n) 485
Yup you're probably right they checked plant based crap.
________ Beyond Meat burgers and oat milk. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 09:11 AM (MvHI3) 486
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead I listened to him decades ago, when his act was edgy, and made fun of the remaining older acts and the formulaic radio programming (ex: 'morning zoos). Apparently, there were dozens of them. He did stupid, often crude gags, and won ratings wars by getting people to listen in as to what he would do next. The rating wars in radio don't really matter to most people anymore, therefore, he doesn't. Posted by: Blue Hen at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (cY9wR) 487
Is that a nuclear mutant in the picture? Doesn't look quite right.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (ESjRY) 488
Yup you're probably right they checked plant based crap.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (w8jy4) One day I am going to buy some of that crap and do a taste test for the Food Thread. But I am afraid...I really don't want to put that stuff in my mouth! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (XIJ/X) Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (1n+EO) 490
They just say "food at home." I guess they are surveying the prices of people who live mostly on food they hunt, farm themselves, or who are cannibals. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (Zhwz2) 491
Dailytimewaster maybe last week had a guy who did z 10 minute 10,000 mile review of his electric truck, out west somewhere, true believer and was doing long range towing.
Want to see his 100,000 mile review Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (4Kp75) Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (us2H3) 493
Stop whining about inflation. You got your Covid Cash checks.
Posted by: The Gubmint at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (HtXMO) 494
Fun fact: John Wilkes Booth, on the morning of Lincoln's assassination, was banging the daughter of a New Hampshire Senator. The Senator, John Parker Hale, was one of the leading abolitionists in the Senate and was sending his daughter, Lucy Hale, over the pond to the continent.
That afternoon, said daughter also "entertained" Robert Todd Lincoln, the President's son. Lucy was a society belle enjoying the carousel. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (4I/2K) 495
Always stick with the simple explanation. Musk wanted to buy Twat because he thought he could run it better. Also just because he could afford it.
Trying to complicate it is mental masterbation. Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons Yet now he doesn't want it. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (vcv8B) 496
How are the Dutch and Sri Lankans doing this morning? Until Dutch and EU reps find themselves hanging from lampposts I don't think much will change. Sadly, its Mussolini time again.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (8Sqzu) 497
One day I am going to buy some of that crap and do a taste test for the Food Thread.
But I am afraid...I really don't want to put that stuff in my mouth! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo You sir are a brave man. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (w8jy4) 498
They are referred to as natural because of the logical process by which the set was derived.
I've always thought of them as endowed by our Creator. Posted by: grammie winger at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (45fpk) 499
Call GrubHub? So, while they're all cowering in their basements after a nuclear attack, restaurants will be operating as usual?
Posted by: sydneyla at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (RPGAd) 500
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
Bradley Cooper could do better walking down any random street in the country. Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (ZEHVO) 501
But I am afraid...I really don't want to put that stuff in my mouth!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (XIJ/X) WARNING: Some is ok, most is pretty gross. The """cheeze""" is probably the worst of the lot. It's made from tapioca and... it shows. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (Zhwz2) 502
@415
>>They'll enjoy their non-towing 75 mile range in a couple of years. The idea you would buy any vehicle who's effective range declines every year until it has zero range is preposterous. The idea you would spend upwards of 100k on such a ridiculous and preposterous vehicle is doubly insane. Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (vgYvF) 503
I'M NOT DEAD, dammit! I'm relevant and people listen to and respect me!!!
Posted by: Howard Stearn at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (+S1Fy) 504
482 I wonder what food is being surveyed, to only get a 12.2% increase
Food no one eats? Posted by: Huck Follywood Yup you're probably right they checked plant based crap. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:10 AM (w8jy4) They have a Dierberg's grocery not too far away. I notice a large section devoted to plant based products, mostly all frozen. Because of the Biden Farm Famine Plan underway, the plant based fods are approaching the prices foundin the meat sections. This is NOT coincidental. Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (ks05J) 505
The left: We need a nuclear first strike to show Putin who's boss!
Also the left: Sure I live in NYC, why does that matter? Some Russian Missile Operator: Why yes, yes this missile is aimed at NYC and standing orders are to respond to an American first strike with an immediate response. But the Amerikanskis wouldn't be that dumb would they? Posted by: 18-1 at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (ESjRY) 506
RFDTV- Livstock and farm equipment, polka and country. Don't get more honest than that.
Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (gktX6) 507
I suspect they're going to keep boosting it 0.75 points every meeting for a while. They won't do a big, single-shot, multi-point increase unless they're truly cornered - and they aren't truly cornered yet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:11 AM (WWh8n) I think that if they signal a consistent policy it will go a long way to easing the uncertainty. But the current Federal Reserve hierarchy is so politicized that I doubt they have the capacity to understand anything other than the talking points of the Democrat party. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (XIJ/X) 508
I watched an original Hawaii Five-0 yesterday that had Murray Slaughter/Captain Stubbs as the psycho bad guy -- the Big Chicken -- in the State Pen, taken hostage along with McGarrett by a prisoner seeking prison reform [Gerald S. O'Loughlin].
One of the things he wanted reformed was keeping the homosexuals from raping the new, young inmates specifically and to stop drugs coming into the dilapidated prison as easily as his two semi-auto pistols [wrongly called "automatic"] and a zip-gun were smuggled in, in a garbage-can. https://www.imdb.com/title/ tt0598161/ Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (yikp0) 509
They just say "food at home." I guess they are surveying the prices of people who live mostly on food they hunt, farm themselves, or who are cannibals.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM (Zhwz2) ++++ And they say cannibals are under-represented in government statistics. Feh. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (WWh8n) 510
Looks like next deer season what qualifies as a shooter may change. Also, instead of my usual one buck, I might need to take the 5 animals I am allowed.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (QSjkU) 511
Does anyone watch Bradley Cooper movies anymore? "The Hangover" was well over a decade ago, and he wasn't the star of that.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 09:08 AM (qH6FZ) ------ He'll always have a job as the voice of an anthrpomorphic Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 13, 2022 09:15 AM (aaGzp) 512
Texas loves sous vide!
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 13, 2022 09:15 AM (sJHOI) 513
494 Fun fact: John Wilkes Booth, on the morning of Lincoln's assassination, was banging the daughter of a New Hampshire Senator. The Senator, John Parker Hale, was one of the leading abolitionists in the Senate and was sending his daughter, Lucy Hale, over the pond to the continent.
------------------- Hey, my great, great, great cousin was holding Booth's horse outside of Ford's Theater. He ran all the Confederate Spies in DC and Maryland. He also got Booth across the Potomac and then told Booth he was on his own. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:15 AM (8Sqzu) 514
FED painted themselves in a corner YEARS ago. Decades.
They raise interest rates to even historical norms of 4 to 6 per cent, the budget revenue is a HUGE GAPING CHEST WOUND and there isn't enough money for anything hardly, about half goes to simple debt servicing. I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess it's a secret now, especially anybody in the media, or Washington Posted by: Common Tater at July 13, 2022 09:15 AM (ZPUJH) 515
My grocery bill is 50% over 2020. But sure inflation is less then 10%.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 13, 2022 09:15 AM (ESjRY) 516
As I posted last night, the "progressives" of my age, used to *scorn* "Duck and Cover".
Now they tell you to stay away from the windows in a nuclear attack like it was a tornado and not something that can instantly melt glass and vaporize you. It is a symbol of their scorn for the common man. Posted by: Axeman at July 13, 2022 09:16 AM (krQz2) 517
Trying to complicate it is mental masterbation.
Yeah, but I can do that four times a day before five o clock. Posted by: Fourteen Year Old Who Likes Women With Horses at July 13, 2022 09:16 AM (AHeqJ) 518
" One day I am going to buy some of that crap and do a taste test for the Food Thread.
But I am afraid...I really don't want to put that stuff in my mouth! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo " Can't wait for the thread entitled 'Requiem for a Dildo' It would be epic. But I would rather just have CBD stay healthy. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:16 AM (1n+EO) 519
498 "They are referred to as natural because of the logical process by which the set was derived."
I've always thought of them as endowed by our Creator. Posted by: grammie winger at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (45fpk) That is the ultimate justification but not the process for deriving them. God never explicitly listed natural rights in the Bible for instance. Aquinas and others inferred natural law from God and nature. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2022 09:16 AM (b2nrj) 520
Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz AXIOS: "Democrats are becoming the party of upscale voters...Republicans are quietly building a multiracial coalition of working-class voters..." Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (NpAcC) 521
My grocery bill is 50% over 2020. ------- This is mostly consistent with my experience. I estimate +60%, but I live in a big faggy blue city. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (Zhwz2) 522
I see commercials for some product called just eggs, it's plant based. How do they get away with a name like that?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (Rcp6g) 523
My grocery bill is 50% over 2020. But sure inflation is less then 10%.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 13, 2022 09:15 AM (ESjRY) We eat much more sparingly in our house than we used to. Posted by: grammie winger at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (45fpk) 524
Those plant based burgers, I guess those plants don't require fertilizer to grow?
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (ZEHVO) 525
The Fed balance sheet is - very slowly - declining. They haven't disclosed that they are draining assets and so it is probably natural roll-off, but that will accelerate and they can start selling for a month or two before anyone will notice (assuming they don't fudge the numbers and hide it). As that trend accelerates (which it will, in the absence of QE), money supply will shrink. They might be banking on significant but manageable interest rates hikes while the balance sheet does the heavy lifting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:11 AM (WWh8n) Basically, their plan is "maybe the horse will learn to sing". Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (GYIa4) 526
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:11 AM (WWh8n)
the Fed is an arm of the dim party they got 2 choices raging inflation or a quasi deprssion looks like they will stick with the raging inflation until next year then they will tank the economy and blame it on the GOP Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (us2H3) 527
Can't wait for the thread entitled 'Requiem for a Dildo' Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice Or 'Requiem for a taste bud'? Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (w8jy4) 528
I suspect they're going to keep boosting it 0.75 points every meeting for a while.
------------------------------------ The Bank of Canada is raising rates here by 0.75 points today too. I've forgotten what current prime is. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (yikp0) 529
Limes are up 500% to me, that's a fucking problem Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:12 AM My wife loves lime daiquiris, rum and cokes with lime, lime on her chicken tacos, lime on her beef tacos, lime in her Modela. That's pretty much it. But Aldi's still has bags of lime at a reasonable price. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (dQvv7) 530
We eat much more sparingly in our house than we used to. Posted by: grammie winger at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (45fpk) I wish. I have an 11yo and a 13yo. They're like a biblical plague of locusts. The toddler grows hungrier by the day. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (Zhwz2) 531
Yet now he doesn't want it. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 09:13 AM (vcv8B) Only because it's not worth the paper it's charter was printed on. Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (Qhnrt) 532
Andrew Cuomo's Bail Reform has killed more New Yorkers than any nuclear bomb.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (lf83v) 533
That sound you hear will be a guy in New York's phone melting....
Posted by: Duke Nukem Swalwell at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (krQz2) 534
I think that if they signal a consistent policy it will go a long way to easing the uncertainty. But the current Federal Reserve hierarchy is so politicized that I doubt they have the capacity to understand anything other than the talking points of the Democrat party.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 09:14 AM (XIJ/X) ++++ They more or less have. Powell said to expect increases at every meeting for the foreseeable future. The worst thing he could do now would be to back off of that, and I suspect he knows it. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (WWh8n) 535
And if one were to get bored, use the search engine of your choice, and search for NIKE Missile sites surrounding our cities during the cold war.
Hard to believe just how many sites there were on the east coast, and their location. Like...Ft Meade. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice my 1st Army MOS was an electronics mechanic on that system. basically i was a warhead custodian and repairman. love that missile, faster than greased lightning and lethal as hell Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (MrZQl) 536
people who live mostly on food they hunt, farm themselves, or who are cannibals.
------------------------- You can't sous-vide him. He's a friar! Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (yikp0) 537
Place yer bets folks on the next WH BS:
1. Strongest economy 2. Putins' inflation 3. Every other country has higher inflation 4. Breakfast tacos are cheap. Posted by: Bullshit Bingo at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (cY9wR) 538
522 I see commercials for some product called just eggs, it's plant based. How do they get away with a name like that?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (Rcp6g) I think the deal is "eggs" is not patentable?? I think the dairy industry got a little salty about some cheese and butter plant based products. Posted by: kraken at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (ks05J) 539
I have an 11yo and a 13yo. They're like a biblical plague of locusts. The toddler grows hungrier by the day.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (Zhwz2) I hear you. Three grandchildren. It's like scorched earth. Posted by: grammie winger at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (45fpk) 540
I have an 11yo and a 13yo. They're like a biblical plague of locusts. The toddler grows hungrier by the day.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (Zhwz2) --- That has the cadence of a passage in a horror story. Posted by: Duke Nukem Swalwell at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (krQz2) 541
One day I am going to buy some of that crap and do a taste test for the Food Thread.
But I am afraid...I really don't want to put that stuff in my mouth! Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo __________ I used to eat Morning Star grillers occasionally, which are veggie burgers, because I was trying to lower my (borderline high) cholesterol so my doc would stop nagging me. They were okay, as in they wouldn't make you want to vomit, but they tasted nothing like meat. Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (MvHI3) 542
Limes are up 500%
to me, that's a fucking problem Posted by: REDACTED ------------------------- You own a coconut factory?? Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (yikp0) 543
White House says Israel-Saudi normalization would be a 'long process'
______________________________________________ Yes, it takes a long time to set up phony bank accounts and corporate fronts for money laundering to the Biden Crime Family and the Democrat Party. It will take a long time. Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (lf83v) Posted by: JT at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (T4tVD) 545
well, a big bottle of Tanqueray has stayed steady at a little less than 35 bucks
whats weird is that the Beefeater is more Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3) 546
457 CNBC: "Biden heads to Saudi Arabia for embarrassing climbdown"
---------------------- Eat a bag of dicks, Brandon. Start now. Posted by: Crown Prince, channelling ZOD at July 13, 2022 09:05 AM (vqVEJ) Can Brandon avoid publicly blurting out an insult to Jews or Arabs or both over the next several days? I'll go with 55/45 yes. Posted by: GLSD at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (AMIL/) 547
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead 90% of his shtick is getting porn stars to shoot Roman candles out of their snizz, and asking A-list actresses if they do anal. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (KYKwc) 548
Not to worry Yellin will save the day. Said no one.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (8Sqzu) 549
Only because it's not worth the paper it's charter was printed on.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons Yet he "could afford it and run it better". Nothing changed. There's always an angle with Musk. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 09:21 AM (vcv8B) 550
I know the billions to Ukraine are somewhat accounted for but I'm sure the graft has been lubricated by the pretext that there would be no way to investigate later. Somewhat like everyone assuming Hillary would win so they got somewhat sloppy and people found out. Not that it made any difference other than we know what happened as opposed to we wouldn't know shit about how Hillary cheated other than the deplorables found out.
Posted by: pawn at July 13, 2022 09:21 AM (wsHtO) 551
Yet my plant based beer of choice, Yuengling, has only gone from $17.98 to $18.48 at our local Walmart in the last two years.
Seems sort of odd. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:21 AM (1n+EO) 552
"This fool thinks that after a nuclear strike the cellular systems will be working? "
Exactly what I was thinking. So...the actress, "this fool," was just reading a script. Why would the writers/sponsors of the writers make such an egregious error? I have NO TRUST in tptb putting this stuff out. So again: WHY. Posted by: Flyover at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (Rbu5d) 553
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead --- I'm bored of that star. He's an aft. Posted by: Axeman at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (krQz2) 554
The Fed is trying to walk a fine line. They don't want to repeat what Strong did and take all the money out of circulation (twice!) by selling lots of their bonds at the start of the Depression.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (w8jy4) 555
528 I suspect they're going to keep boosting it 0.75 points every meeting for a while.
------------------------------------ The Bank of Canada is raising rates here by 0.75 points today too. I've forgotten what current prime is. Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 09:18 AM (yikp0) ----------- Futures markets are now predicting a full 1 point increase. Posted by: WisRich at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (G0vdT) 556
Little black kitten is in manic phase.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (aaGzp) 557
The FED "balance sheet" is stuffed to the gills with a bunch of Scheisse ; phony balogna "collateralized debt swaps" and a bunch of worthless crap offloaded by the banks, isn't it? You know, stuff nobody wanted to buy, because it's ... shit nobody wants to buy. They should know, because the banks are the ones who put the shit sandwich together.
To whom are they going to sell it to? LOL Posted by: Common Tater at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (ZPUJH) 558
542 Limes are up 500%
to me, that's a fucking problem Posted by: REDACTED ------------------------- You own a coconut factory?? Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 09:20 AM (yikp0) did you just assume my foibles ??? REEEEEEEEEEEEEE Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (us2H3) 559
This year at least one doe gets it.
Posted by: Eromero at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (gktX6) 560
I'll just stay home and watch my Hedy porn
Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:06 AM That's Hedley! Posted by: Hedley Lamar at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (4p7Em) 561
And if one were to get bored, use the search engine of your choice, and search for NIKE Missile sites surrounding our cities during the cold war.
Hard to believe just how many sites there were on the east coast, and their location. Like...Ft Meade. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice I saw one for sale a while back. You get your very own dilapidated underground bunker probably filled with lead paint and asbestos. But it would be cool to have my own underground bunker. Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (Y5qcH) 562
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
__________________________________________ Boldly going where no Weiner has gone before (except one). Posted by: Carlos Danger at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (lf83v) 563
As I posted last night, the "progressives" of my age, used to *scorn* "Duck and Cover". ...
Posted by: Axeman at July 13, 2022 09:16 AM (krQz2) ++++ It was (and remains) deliberate misunderstanding of the purpose of "duck and cover." It isn't to help you if you're inside the blast radius. *Nothing* is helping your ass if you're at ground zero. But if you're outside the blast radius - especially a half mile or more - it might well keep you alive. Most people who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki died due to flying debris (shrapnel), especially glass. This was compounded by people running to the window to see what that flash was, and being in the direct path of problem with no protection. We learned this by interviewing survivors. Those that hid survived a lot more often than those who went to see what that big flash of light was. The point of "duck and cover" is to train people to ignore that flash and get under something solid, and do it *fast* to hopefully avoid being killed by debris. Fallout is next hour's problem. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (WWh8n) 564
Limes are up 500%
to me, that's a fucking problem Posted by: REDACTED --- You could cut back on the Coronas. Posted by: Axeman at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (krQz2) 565
Futures markets are now predicting a full 1 point increase.
Posted by: WisRich at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (G0vdT) yeah, some smart ass predicted this on the blog the other day Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (us2H3) 566
They are referred to as natural because of the logical process by which the set was derived.
I've always thought of them as endowed by our Creator. Posted by: grammie winger You cheated and read the book. Those who cannot comprehend the requirement to have a benevolent transcendent personal deity as the basis for unalienable rights will imagine a mechanism that is without an uncaused cause. "Natural Rights" without God as its author is a logical fallacy. Especially if "natural rights" advocates are evolutionists, because at what point in the Goo To You processes does that clump of chemicals acquire enduring entitlements? Posted by: Fourteen Year Old Who Likes Women With Horses at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (AHeqJ) 567
@ElectionWiz
AXIOS: "Democrats are becoming the party of upscale voters...Republicans are quietly building a multiracial coalition of working-class voters..." Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (NpAcC) R's have always been the 'working class' rep. The only 'workers' the Dems have are UNION fucks. Because graft. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1) 568
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 1.3 percent in June on a
seasonally adjusted basis after rising 1.0 percent in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 9.1 percent before seasonal adjustment. The increase was broad-based, with the indexes for gasoline, shelter, and food being the largest contributors. The energy index rose 7.5 percent over the month and contributed nearly half of the all items increase, with the gasoline index rising 11.2 percent and the other major component indexes also rising. The food index rose 1.0 percent in June, as did the food at home index. The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.7 percent in June, after increasing 0.6 percent in the preceding two months. Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (RHGPo) 569
6 Have you hugged your Huma today?
Posted by: Badly Pooper at July 13, 2022 07:29 AM (sn5EN) Thank you, I needed the laugh. Posted by: Flyover at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (Rbu5d) 570
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
__________________________________________ Boldly going where no Weiner has gone before (except one). Posted by: Carlos Danger at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (lf83v) ------------ Wasn't there talk of him getting into politics? Maybe he took it too literally. Posted by: WisRich at July 13, 2022 09:24 AM (G0vdT) 571
We have a bunch of new constituents to ignore, lie to, and generally fuck over!!!
Posted by: GOP at July 13, 2022 09:24 AM (sJHOI) 572
Have you noticed that comments about gasoline prices have dropped off? The public is becoming inured to it, accepting.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 13, 2022 09:25 AM (K65pS) 573
Was a Stern listener in his beginning, caught NY at night when still played music, came to simulcast in Philadelphia. Dropped him after a few years
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 13, 2022 09:25 AM (4Kp75) 574
But I am afraid...I really don't want to put that stuff in my mouth!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo " ===== Local ads on broadcast TV are for the 'Hungry Root' brand of food delivery. Posted by: mustbequantum at July 13, 2022 09:25 AM (MIKMs) 575
I see commercials for some product called just eggs, it's plant based. How do they get away with a name like that?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (Rcp6g) ++++ It isn't called that. It's something like "Jus'Egg." Like how tapioca-based ersatz psuedo-cheese is called "cheeze" or similar. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:25 AM (WWh8n) 576
You could cut back on the Coronas.
Posted by: Axeman at July 13, 2022 09:23 AM (krQz2) no self respecting jackwagon drinks rona Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:25 AM (us2H3) 577
Can't wait for the thread entitled 'Requiem for a Dildo'
Who needs dildos when you have sailors, hobos, and Washington Monuments? Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 13, 2022 09:25 AM (ESjRY) Posted by: Ziba at July 13, 2022 09:25 AM (4h9M3) 579
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
Which puts him one snizz of separation from Hillary. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Posted by: Ian S. at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (ZGrMX) 580
"basically i was a warhead custodian and repairman. love that missile, faster than greased lightning and lethal as hell
" Oh how I wish I could buy you a beer, and listen to your history of that time! Just like my father, who went from Air Force to Western Union. And some of the systems that WU had in locations that my father to this day can not talk about. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (1n+EO) 581
574 But I am afraid...I really don't want to put that stuff in my mouth!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo follow it up with a natto chaser Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (us2H3) 582
Yet my plant based beer of choice, Yuengling, has only gone from $17.98 to $18.48 at our local Walmart in the last two years. Seems sort of odd. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:21 AM I live about 30 miles from the Yuengling factory and pay about $21.50. The National Socialist Devil who sits on my shoulder at times keeps whispering in my ear Pennsylvania needs an exit tax on this precious commodity. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (dQvv7) 583
I have an 11yo and a 13yo. They're like a biblical plague of locusts. The toddler grows hungrier by the day.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice Lemme guess - a gallon and a half of milk a day? When the kids moved out, it was like I received a huge raise. Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (Msys3) 584
AXIOS: "Democrats are becoming the party of upscale voters...Republicans are quietly building a multiracial coalition of working-class voters..."
Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (NpAcC) --- It's because the left is really becoming the new reactionaries. "Crumble the moral foundation of America" today, is now "REEEEE! Muh Democracy!!! REEEE!!!" Posted by: Axeman at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (krQz2) 585
Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!?
Which puts him one snizz of separation from Hillary. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Posted by: Ian S. at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (ZGrMX) You KNOW there's been a 3-some........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1) 586
It isn't called that. It's something like "Jus'Egg." ------- As you know - I do not believe it qualifies as food. The way it dries on pans, I think it's closer to an industrial-grade adhesive. It can't be healthful. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (Zhwz2) 587
NYTimes: Biden Aides Hint at ‘No Handshake’ Covid Policy as Saudi Meeting Nears
.. what ? No bowing ? Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (RHGPo) 588
did you just assume my foibles ???
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE Posted by: REDACTED ------------------------- Sorry, REDACTED; I didn't want to shake you all up! Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (yikp0) 589
I think the bigger story there is at the bottom of the page: Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin. WTAF?!?!? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 13, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1) There's no accounting for taste Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (AMIL/) 590
Now if you want a Cooper that's a Pooper Snooper, I'm your man!
Posted by: Sheldon Cooper at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (PiwSw) 591
Huma is honey-potting him. He's a patsy.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (lf83v) Posted by: B. Gates at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (4EQhA) 593
Re: the article about infantilization...
Personally, I think that the infantile part of that article was the author telling other grown-ass people what they're allowed to enjoy and do as grown-ass adults. This trend needs to stop. If going to theme parks and watching comic book movies makes you happy, then go for it. I don't personally like either, but who am I to tell another human what they're allowed to enjoy before they are considered adults? Conservatives like to pretend they're all about personal freedom, and so am I, but there's too many people on the conservative side that do the "yeah, personal freedom but only if you use it exactly as I prescribe" and it's absolute horse shit. Posted by: Goober at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (Hgvgt) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (ESjRY) 595
Exactly what I was thinking. So...the actress, "this fool," was just reading a script. Why would the writers/sponsors of the writers make such an egregious error? I have NO TRUST in tptb putting this stuff out. So again: WHY.
You ALWAYS ask the question: Why am I reading this article? Why is this article here, on this topic and at this time? Posted by: Fourteen Year Old Who Likes Women With Horses at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (AHeqJ) 596
The FED "balance sheet" is stuffed to the gills with a bunch of Scheisse ; phony balogna "collateralized debt swaps" and a bunch of worthless crap offloaded by the banks, isn't it? You know, stuff nobody wanted to buy, because it's ... shit nobody wants to buy. They should know, because the banks are the ones who put the shit sandwich together.
To whom are they going to sell it to? LOL Posted by: Common Tater at July 13, 2022 09:22 AM (ZPUJH) ++++ It isn't all trash by any means, especially not after QE II where the asset quality improved. Most of the old stuff that might have had a high proportion of trash has rolled off now, replaced through routine purchasing operations. They own so much stuff that hey can't sell without depressing the price and most of the balance sheet is probably under water, but they *can* sell it. They can't pull out as much as they pumped in, but they can pull quite a bit if they don't cause a total price crash in the asset classes they're trying to quietly unload. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:28 AM (WWh8n) 597
To whom are they going to sell it to? LOL
---------------- Sri Lanka, Ghana and Netherlands are out of the bidding. Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:28 AM (8Sqzu) 598
Lemme guess - a gallon and a half of milk a day?
----- Yup. And spooky quantities of lemonade. I'm pretty sure they're going to wake up one day soon with lemons for heads. Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2022 09:28 AM (Zhwz2) 599
If you stop giving billions to a Ukrainian celebrity, then you can stop having PSAs.
Nobody deserves the danger that they have created. Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 13, 2022 09:28 AM (44ww/) 600
We eat much more sparingly in our house than we used to.
Posted by: grammie winger at July 13, 2022 09:17 AM (45fpk) Plate lickers unite! Posted by: Count de Monet at July 13, 2022 09:28 AM (4I/2K) 601
NYTimes: Biden Aides Hint at ‘No Handshake’ Covid Policy as Saudi Meeting Nears
______________________________________________ It's okay, Joe. Just shake hands with your left hand. They'll appreciate the gesture. Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2022 09:29 AM (lf83v) 602
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 13, 2022 09:03 AM (8Sqzu) Ummmmmmm.....No. Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 13, 2022 09:29 AM (vvzla) 603
Spitballing here, but I believe June 2021 CPI was about 5%
So we're looking at close to 15% from June of 2020. Yikes Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 13, 2022 09:29 AM (NW9xb) Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 13, 2022 09:30 AM (sJHOI) 605
NYTimes: Biden Aides Hint at ‘No Handshake’ Covid Policy as Saudi Meeting Nears ...
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2022 09:29 AM (lf83v) ++++ Now they can have Biden execute a florid bow to the Saudi royal family without having a bunch of hoarders and wreckers back home question why. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:30 AM (WWh8n) Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 13, 2022 09:30 AM (ESjRY) 607
I have NO TRUST in tptb putting this stuff out. So again: WHY.
Posted by: Flyover wasn't it Eric Swallowswell that threatend to nuke us deplorables? these fuckers are telling us what they intend to do, and are warning their dumbass constituents to not panic about something over the horizon from them. this is not about NYC being nuked, it's about us being nuked and the nyc idiots not panicing Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at July 13, 2022 09:30 AM (MrZQl) 608
NYTimes: Biden Aides Hint at ‘No Handshake’ Covid Policy as Saudi Meeting Nears
______________________________________________ It's okay, Joe. Just shake hands with your left hand. They'll appreciate the gesture. Posted by: Adirondack Patriot I'm going to tell that prince guy to be nice to his falafels!!! Posted by: Dr. Jill Edith Biden at July 13, 2022 09:30 AM (cY9wR) 609
Nood still life
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 13, 2022 09:30 AM (w8jy4) Posted by: Barack Obama at July 13, 2022 09:30 AM (ESjRY) 611
"I live about 30 miles from the Yuengling factory and pay about $21.50. The National Socialist Devil who sits on my shoulder at times keeps whispering in my ear Pennsylvania needs an exit tax on this precious commodity"
Seems weird that they can bring it all the way down to South Carolina and sell it to me cheaper that right there at the brewery. But I'm guessing taxes are a huge part of it. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:31 AM (1n+EO) 612
When the kids moved out, it was like I received a huge raise.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 13, 2022 09:26 AM (Msys3) Tonypete's at the kitchen table sorting, counting and bundling his stacks from food and utility savings. Posted by: Count de Monet at July 13, 2022 09:31 AM (4I/2K) 613
It's okay, Joe. Just shake hands with your left hand. They'll appreciate the gesture.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2022 09:29 AM (lf83v) *snort* Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 13, 2022 09:31 AM (KYKwc) 614
I'm still puzzled why so many are scared shitless of 5-6% interest rates. That's where interest rates should have been all along. I bought a house back in the late 80's at 8%. Was able to make my payments and pay it all off with no sweat. Was even able to save.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 13, 2022 09:31 AM (Qhnrt) 615
Noodus gratia artis.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 13, 2022 09:31 AM (o8pZB) 616
The worst thing he could do now would be to back off of that, and I suspect he knows it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:19 AM (WWh8n) I hope you are correct, but I am not confident of anything coming out of the Fed. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...with righteous fire at July 13, 2022 09:32 AM (XIJ/X) 617
537
St. Pierre's understanding of 9.1% inflation: Don't worry. That's dated information. It could have been worse. Posted by: Ziba at July 13, 2022 09:32 AM (4h9M3) 618
Still no discussion by the BigBrains concerning the effect of raising the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour on inflation?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:32 AM (1n+EO) 619
There's nothing better than an ice-cold Corona when it's 95 degrees plus.
Fight me. Posted by: lowandslow at July 13, 2022 09:32 AM (qH6FZ) 620
Enviro/radicals killing a vital livelihood. Support for Dutch farmers ;
https://tinyurl.com/bmrsf2s8 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 13, 2022 09:33 AM (qBJMu) 621
Does anyone listen to Howard Stern anymore?
__________________________________________ Yeah, like I want to pay to listen a decrepit Jewish man complain about the government and talk about perverted sex. Not like I can get that for free anywhere in Borough Park or Boca Raton. Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2022 09:34 AM (lf83v) 622
A cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women the hardest, the World Economic Forum reported Wednesday, pointing to a widening gender gap in the global labor force.
.. is this 'women' or 'birthing persons' ? Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:34 AM (RHGPo) 623
The FED "balance sheet" is stuffed to the gills with a bunch of Scheisse ; phony balogna "collateralized debt swaps" and a bunch of worthless crap offloaded by the banks, isn't it?
Posted by: Common Tater It's mostly US treasuries and MBS (mortgage-backed securities). The Fed is hugely conflicted. Since those US treasuries were bought with US dollars "printed" (in fact, just a SQL statement) by the Fed itself, they couldn't care less about inflation. The federal govt OTOH loves inflation because they'll be repaying those treasuries with your future taxes on your inflated income. Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 13, 2022 09:35 AM (vcv8B) 624
Seems weird that they can bring it all the way down to South Carolina and sell it to me cheaper that right there at the brewery. But I'm guessing taxes are a huge part of it. Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:31 AM Yeah, taxes. Here in Pennsylvania it's the state flower, bird, tree, flag, and plant. Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2022 09:35 AM (dQvv7) 625
Wiki says there were approx. 265 Nike sites in the US. Those were some screaming looking birds.
Posted by: pawn at July 13, 2022 09:35 AM (wsHtO) 626
Tucker Carlson Concludes Hunter Biden Was Actually Right About Something: His “Vindictive Moron” Step-Monster
Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:35 AM (RHGPo) 627
NYTimes: Biden Aides Hint at ‘No Handshake’ Covid Policy as Saudi Meeting Nears
.. what ? No bowing ? Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:27 AM (RHGPo) =============== Maybe going right to "kiss the hem of my robe, and don;t worry where its been" Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 09:36 AM (pQD4/) 628
NYTimes: "As many as 100-200 Ukrainian soldiers have died every day since Russia shifted its military campaign in the spring to focus on eastern Ukraine. But overall, about 20,000 Russians have been killed. Injuries have taken about 60,000 more off the battlefield"
Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:36 AM (RHGPo) 629
Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says there's a "strong chance that we'll see a resurgence of the virus" later this year.
Biden campaigned on a promise to "shut down" the virus, but it was all a lie. Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:37 AM (RHGPo) 630
I'm still puzzled why so many are scared shitless of 5-6% interest rates. That's where interest rates should have been all along. I bought a house back in the late 80's at 8%. Was able to make my payments and pay it all off with no sweat. Was even able to save.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 13, 2022 09:31 AM (Qhnrt) ++++ Government debt. Right now, depending on security type, the US government is paying an average yield of between 0.7 and 3.1 percent. To service that is costing about $300 billion per year. Total revenue is around $4.05 trillion. So servicing interest as low as it has been is running at about 7.5% of total revenue. Doubling the interest rate means that servicing it it will hit around 15% of total revenue - but it gets worse because we don't have a balanced budget and we add *another* few hundred billion per year, assuming no more COVID spending or insane "infrastructure" bills. So the total debt load climbs as interest rates climb, and within a few years you're at a quarter of revenue going to interest payments and your ability to borrow more starts collapsing - which lands you in a full-blown fiscal crisis with existential implications. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:37 AM (WWh8n) 631
Today is the 852-nd Day of 15 Days to Slow The Spread, but who’s counting?
Posted by: SMOD at July 13, 2022 09:39 AM (RHGPo) 632
I just saved tens of thousands of dollars. I made a 'bucket list' of places I wanted to visit in an around-the-world tour when I retired: Ceylon, Burma, and Zaire to name a few.
All gone. Posted by: Divide by Zero at Upper Volta is glorious in the fall..... Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 13, 2022 09:39 AM (vvP4/) 633
Oh, not to mention that revenues are going to decline, too, because the economy is entering what will likely be a long recession. That means even with stable interest rates, the debt costs rise a proportion of total revenue even without growth in the total debt. So it is a three-way problem: interest costs more (raises servicing costs), there is more debt because we don't have a balanced budget at that this point actually *can't* have a balanced budget because of mandatory entitlements (raises servicing costs), and revenues decline because of the recession (raises total proportion of revenue needed for servicing).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:40 AM (WWh8n) 634
Doubling the interest rate means that servicing it it will hit around 15% of total revenue - but it gets worse because we don't have a balanced budget and we add *another* few hundred billion per year,
================= I think it will take some time for this impact to be fully felt, since (under Trump) the Treasury tried to stretch average duration. Neverthess, this is where we are headed and Social Security/Medicare/HHS welfare versus Defense spending is going to be a thing. Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 09:40 AM (pQD4/) 635
Yeah, I'm sure the Crown Prince believes that BS about handshakes and covid.
Posted by: Ziba at July 13, 2022 09:44 AM (4h9M3) 636
I think it will take some time for this impact to be fully felt, since (under Trump) the Treasury tried to stretch average duration. Neverthess, this is where we are headed and Social Security/Medicare/HHS welfare versus Defense spending is going to be a thing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 13, 2022 09:40 AM (pQD4/) ++++ They might have to get very creative on maturity duration and other means. It can probably be done, but it would require some actual patriotism and they've poisoned the well very thoroughly in that regard. Something akin to a war bond drive would work if there was participation. Go hat in hand to the people and ask them to buy special 30-year bonds at low interest to bail out the government (refinance a big chunk of the debt) in exchange for balanced budgets, government shrinkage and accountability and a whole lot of dirty officials going to prison. The government cleans up its act and we band together to keep the system from failing. Something like that might work, but in a zero-trust environment where people would have no expectation that the government keeps it's word, nothing like that can ever possibly happen. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 09:44 AM (WWh8n) 637
Still no discussion by the BigBrains concerning the effect of raising the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour on inflation?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 13, 2022 09:32 AM I've discussed a Living Wage(tm) many, many times. Pay attention! Posted by: Alexandria Occasional-Cortex at July 13, 2022 09:49 AM (a3Q+t) 638
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I strongly suspect most of the death toll in a NYC nuclear hit will be post-blast. It always is (the shrapnel and debris problem) but it will be compounded in NYC because it's a tough place to evacuate. There are a lot of choke points and it's hard to get out. The population that survives will find it difficult to leave, and the problem will get worse and worse. Hell, it took me six hours to make it from Queens to northern New Jersey one Labor Day weekend, and that was just heavy vacation traffic. Even making the city exit-only and opening everything on both sides of the road and suspending tolls won't make *that* much of a difference - especially if a couple of bridges are gone or the approaches are destroyed. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2022 08:56 AM (WWh8n) I was there for th great blackout of 2003? I think? It was impossible to get off Manhattan. Took me many many hours (at least to get to Millburn NJ (a rich suburb). I hadn't moved to Hoboken yet which would have helped, but to even cross the river took hours upon hours. Posted by: Rochelle, Rochelle (formerly Roxanne, Roxanne) at July 13, 2022 09:53 AM (szWS4) 639
With the continued sub par morning reports I am reluctantly forced to request a refund on that hefty subscription fee Ace charges
Posted by: Phineasphogg at July 13, 2022 09:55 AM (/6Xdu) 640
They want you to get the phone app so they can track you during the next Covid outbreak which will be happening around middle to late September.
Guess what that coincides with? Posted by: SteveF at July 13, 2022 10:39 AM (CQR2w) 641
At one point in October 1962 I was a very scared PFC out in the woods in Germany, providing security for a missile company setting up for a strike. For real.
All of us thought we were gone, Ivan knew where we were. the local communists saw to that.. It's doubtful that shoot and scoot would have been possible. Posted by: irongrampa at July 13, 2022 11:19 AM (KATBx) 642
After a nuke attack, if outside take a shower? I would expect water mains to be broken. I guess use water in the toilet tank? With modern low-flow toilets, not much there...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 13, 2022 11:30 AM (ynpvh) 643
And after a nuke attack, cell phones will be working? I'd expect cell towers to be down and their electronics fried, unless it was just a dirty bomb.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 13, 2022 11:32 AM (ynpvh) 644
20 Police Use of 'Keyword Warrants' to Monitor Americans' Online Search Queries Comes Under Increasing Scrutiny
Back when I was in college I took a course in computer ethics. It was, of course, filled with dire predictions about how Republicans were going to strip away your digital rights (lol) but that had one bit I recall where they suggested that everyone use a specific phrase in all their emails. It was carefully crafted to use every trigger word the author could think of. Obviously, computer power has gone up and they'd be able to parse this sort of thing now, and it's the left that's stripping away your digital rights (so that's probably okay). Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 13, 2022 07:36 AM (GYIa4) Their looking for insurrectionists (e.g. Constitutionalists). So if you look up 2nd Amendment and 1st Amendment rights, you're a threat. It's like being back in the days of Woodrow Wilson, where reading the Bill of Rights was enough to get you arrested, the Constitution be damned. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 13, 2022 11:38 AM (ynpvh) 645
All my early life I heard PSAs This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System This is only a test in case of an actual emergency tune to your local EBS station. Then in Hurricane Hugo hit and the EBS failed first. The landlines still worked.
Posted by: Tmitsss at July 13, 2022 12:05 PM (6ES0u) 646
Some of you may remember the $5.4 million verdict in the defamation suit by a former Clemson student on a claim of false accusations of sexual assault . On July 11 the judge decided the post trial motions. The judge threw out the conspiracy claim and upheld rest leaving judgments totaling $2.3M
Posted by: Tmitsss at July 13, 2022 12:12 PM (6ES0u) 647
Mannix & Huck
How 'bout for starters we cut the fed budget by 6%, & freeze the budget thereafter. Any new spending to be offset by real revenue coming in. I'm not especially a Paulist, but Rand Paul has proposed this. A federal hiring freeze would go far toward reaching the 6% budget cut, i.e., through attrition. And reducing the number of fed employees by 6% would be painless for all Americans, including civil servants, if it were done via attrition & not reductions in force. Posted by: mnw at July 13, 2022 01:47 PM (NLIak) Processing 0.09, elapsed 0.1089 seconds. |
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