Inflation Increases, So Biden Celebrates

Although the month-to-month inflation rate popped up 0.5, much higher than the 0.1 rate of November and December which he previously celebrated as "zero percent inflation." (Spoiler: 0.1% inflation is not, in fact, "zero percent inflation.")

So inflation rose. But an even worse month of inflation (last January) dropped out of the annual figure, thus resulting in what appears to be a lower annual average rate.

So Biden's celebrating inflation actually going up, because he can point to the annual average rate and claim it's gone down.

Monthly inflation rose 0.5 percent from December to January, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a higher increase than the 0.1 rise in November and December. However, annual inflation slowed to 6.4, continuing a seven-month decline from its peak of 9.1 percent in June.
Although annual inflation is still significantly higher than the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target, Biden celebrated the report as an economic win for the country, calling it "good news" for both families and businesses.
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While annual inflation continued to cool, monthly inflation climbed significantly. January's inflation rose by 0.5 percent, an increase attributed to the rise in food, shelter and energy costs, according to the Labor Bureau. The increase outpaced expectations of economists surveyed by Dow Jones, which expected to see a 0.4 percent increase in January's inflation, CNBC reported.

Meanwhile, you can expect food and egg prices to rise, as the toxic cloud in Ohio kills livestock. At least, if this woman's experience is a guide:

10 miles east of Palestine Ohio, she finds her chickens all dead.
What caused the train derailment? pic.twitter.com/VjMZ9eVrvX
— Bushels Per Acre (@BushelsPerAcre) February 14, 2023

I don't think commercial chicken farms are any better protected against airborne toxins.

PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7
They blew up Nordstream releasing 400 000 tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
They blew up the train in Ohio causing a massive disaster and huge cloud of toxic chemicals.
Weird how the climate change fanatics are all quiet about this [Thinking Face emoji]

And what was Mayor Butt talking about yesterday? Well, he was talking about WHITE PEOPLE taking all of the super-high-salary, high-prestige construction jobs.

And then he cracked jokes about how hard he's had it as Transportation Secretary -- without mentioning the train derailment in Ohio.

Pete Buttigieg fails to address the Ohio train crash, but manages to talk about how there are too many white people working on transportation projects pic.twitter.com/DminOwu9iy
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) February 13, 2023

This is no laughing matter Alfred E. Neuman ~ ~ Pete Buttigieg jokes about his failures on the job: "We've faced issues from container shipping to airline cancellations. Now we got balloons. *laughs* Credit: @RNCResearch pic.twitter.com/diK2x0WJKA
— Mary (@matjendav4) February 14, 2023

Tucker exposes SHOCKING train wreck in Ohio as MASSIVE toxic spill goes up in FLAMES, giant mushroom cloud seen from space— SABOTAGE?!

pic.twitter.com/Ye2wBhEfC3
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 14, 2023

Rep. Byron Donalds says the only reason Pete Buttigieg is Transportation Secretary is because of his "intersectionality" and attacks him for taking parental leave pic.twitter.com/vlwPJZAq8V
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 14, 2023

Pete Buttigieg's long list of crises
👇 pic.twitter.com/WwiTEgLEdK
— .*Funkytown™*. (@Funkytown_01) February 14, 2023

The toxic cloud is crossing Kentucky and will enter West Virginia. I'm not reporting, I'm speculating, but a 200 mile radius affected area is going to cover a lot of pig and chicken farms.

Posted by: Ace at 05:46 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:48 PM (bzzlh)

2 Way to go! We will make it in volume.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 14, 2023 05:49 PM (uNylN)

3 Greta and the Buttmaster in one post. I'm going to be sick I tell you...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 14, 2023 05:49 PM (Dgmar)

4 Chip Diller called

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (NW9xb)

5 Two posts in a row that deal with numbers? Some people are going to be upset.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (a3Q+t)

6 Boom!

Posted by: Max Power at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (Hucnr)

7 The Little Platoon on YouTube had a fun line in his Avatar 2 review: I love watching people fail, it's delicious.

I'm going to start adopting that attitude. It may be the key to enjoying the end of civilization.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (bzzlh)

8 As a econ professor once said: it's increasing at a decreasing rate.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (NW9xb)

9 Not a word out of Biden either on the train disaster

Posted by: It's me donna at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (bs+z0)

10 too many moving parts

Posted by: REDACTED at February 14, 2023 05:52 PM (us2H3)

11 And I don't trust those inflation numbers. It doesn't match the rise in prices.

Oh and no one else believes it either, not the ones in power: they're all laying people off and banking cash.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:52 PM (bzzlh)

12 Great news everyone there is more money in the American economy than every before....

bad news everyone it buys less than it did three years ago!

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:53 PM (Lzpvj)

13 I propose that a federal investigation of Big Egg is in order.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:53 PM (guGkK)

14 9 he can’t come up with a story on how he stopped a train from exploding in 1903.

Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2023 05:53 PM (ZdaMQ)

15 OT: Just finished a lovely chocolate fondue with the spouse and kids (along with some beef kielbasa). I hope everyone had a chance to share a pleasant moment with their loved ones today.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2023 05:53 PM (exHjb)

16 You feed a Swedish girl on bananas and white bread she turns into a goober.

Feed her salmon and beef, and she turns into a heavy metal singer with fierce eyes and big tits.

(Recycled my own joke. I know what's popular guys.)

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (44ww/)

17 11 Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:52 PM (bzzlh)

American cash in large volumes still holds value internationally because of the petro dollar.

Once we lose that our economy collapses, 20 years if we are lucky....five or less if we are not.

Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (Lzpvj)

18 Good news, comrades - the chocolate ration has been increased from 20g to 15g.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (Rl7KJ)

19 They also adjusted Nov & Dec up

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (NW9xb)

20 BREAKING: JT Marlin upgrades ACME Wheelbarrow Co. to STRONG BUY

Posted by: JT Marlin at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (guGkK)

21 No worries, Joe will just order NORAD to shoot down the cloud.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (u73oe)

22 The Little Platoon on YouTube had a fun line in his Avatar 2 review: I love watching people fail, it's delicious.

I'm going to start adopting that attitude. It may be the key to enjoying the end of civilization.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 14, 2023 05:50 PM (bzzlh)

I'm still getting over the fall of West Rome in 476.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (eoQWY)

23 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 05:55 PM (T4tVD)

24 Say... isn't that weirddave dude from Baltimore??? He does like bewbs, not sure how that's related...

Posted by: lin-duh at February 14, 2023 05:55 PM (UUBmN)

25 If the crash had happened in Baltimore or Memphis, coverage would be 24/7 and truckloads of cash would be on the way to combat racism. As it stands, these are people the Junta want to see dead, especially since they no longer will serve as cannon fodder for their pig asses.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 05:56 PM (KSNKu)

26 What's the chocolate ration up to now?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2023 05:56 PM (63Dwl)

27 Did Greta cut the crust off of her bread ?

Horrifying waste of resources

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2023 05:56 PM (bSGeu)

28 Sure we got inflation. How do you think all these balloons got inflated? I mean it. I'm serious. Not a joke.

Posted by: My word as a Biden at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (VE9wS)

29 The last 12 months of inflation numbers were adjusted upward. Weird.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (SAX5G)

30 Buy rump roasts,marinate in a bottle of Guinness and cook long and slow. Cheapest cut of meat.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (xc8mL)

31 Dead Republicans is never a concern for Democrats.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (TGv/1)

32 And not a peep from Shit In His Pants President.

I think he is still recovering from the SOTU.

Fuck Dems. They are lazy, incompetent and evil.

And fuck the people who vote for this trash.

Im out.

Posted by: Czech Chick at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (iKvcM)

33 Seeing the fecklessness of Biden and Buttiplug really makes it obvious that they're only window dressing for someone else in charge.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (roH4R)

34 American cash in large volumes still holds value internationally because of the petro dollar.

Once we lose that our economy collapses, 20 years if we are lucky....five or less if we are not.
Posted by: sven at February 14, 2023 05:54 PM (Lzpvj)

Petro Dollar dying is closer to 5 year than any. Its funny how confiscations without due process of Russian bux is not only harming opposition to Putin there, but driving the rest of the world into finding other places and ways to do business and store money less suited to whimsical confiscation. I'm sure paying for our inflation is another reason to convert to other means.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

35 Sodomites and half-wits are in charge. Are you not entertained?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (SAX5G)

36 this just in: president biden's i q is not falling as fast as it had been in the previous 18 months.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (kFrCu)

37 If this poison gas thing goes on much longer Ohio will be ripe for invasion by Indiana.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (guGkK)

38 What's the chocolate ration up to now?

.5g

Up from .7g.

Where's your mask citizen?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (Q4IgG)

39 Even if all the critters survive, they're gonna be all declared contaminated, halal and not fit to slaughter or serve. So, *bang!* and into the ditch they'll go.

Right along with the farmer's savings, investments and years of toil and sweat.

Its an op. Imagine this toxic cloud taking out a hatchery with a quarter million hens inside. Bet you won't have to imagine it, and "which one" simply depend on the winds.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (e6UQI)

40 Seeing the fecklessness of Biden and Buttiplug really makes it obvious that they're only window dressing for someone else in charge.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (roH4R)

Unfortunately the powers behind the throne are equally feckless if in different ways.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (eoQWY)

41 When you've lost Geraldo .... nah

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (StQQf)

42 what - Jerry Rivers is critical of a demorat?

Posted by: kallisto at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (4m54e)

43 Seeing the fecklessness of Biden and Buttiplug really makes it obvious that they're only window dressing for someone else in charge.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 05:57 PM (roH4R)

"Admiral" Levine?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 05:58 PM (guGkK)

44 why are all these whites here? the slo-mo invasion of america is to make them the minority and then zimbabwe them.

good job going along with it.

you will be commended in history for not being mean

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 14, 2023 05:59 PM (MLrvz)

45 So who was responsible for maintaining the wheel bearings on the train car that caused the derailment?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2023 05:59 PM (sWM8x)

46 There does seem to be a concerted effort to destroy food, water, energy, and transportation.

Those who are responsible should be treated as though they are mass murderers, because that is EXACTLY their end goal. The perpetrators are organizing massive death tolls as a result of their actions.

Hunt them down, capture them, and make their executions as public and painful as humanly possible.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 05:59 PM (BpYfr)

47 A pipeline would have prevented all of this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 05:59 PM (u82oZ)

48 That girl in the picture looks like Darlene from the Roseanne show.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (oiNtH)

49 Do we know the cause of the derailment? Was it the brakes or were they driving too fast?

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (eyxn4)

50 No, there is no such thing as a "greenhouse gas" since nothing can induce the atmosphere to act like a greenhouse, which it isn't.

And assuming a train derailment (4-5 day average, for decades) is "SABOTAGE!!!!" is ..... well, par for the course.

But he failed to QUESTION THE TIMING!!!! here. Isn't that part of the standard formula?

Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (OTzUX)

51 If I didn't know better, I'd think there was some kind of plan to kill us off.
But that would require intelligence.
More likely that affirmative action hires in action will cause the world to go up in flames.
Didn't I read that some airlines are considering some affirmative action hires?
Why not... they're already on the air traffic control towers.

Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (cPGH3)

52 "Transportation secretaryin' is hard."

-- Lactatin' Pete Buttplug

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (guGkK)

53 lin-duh, I have a load of horseshit for WeirdDave if he wants it
All the ammonia is leached out.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (xc8mL)

54 re 47: and we were told that carrying petroleum by rail was safer than through a pipeline, weren't we?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (kFrCu)

55
:: searches for egg recipes that remove the poly vinyl chloride ::

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2023 06:01 PM (enJYY)

56 The gov can always have falling or level inflation, after all they can eliminate from the calculations any item that increases in price.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 14, 2023 06:01 PM (Dgmar)

57 37
'Ohio will be ripe for invasion by Indiana.'
Ohio has always been historically part of Indiana.

I'm ready!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 06:01 PM (roH4R)

58 Who might benefit from a massive chemical train disaster, convincing millions more Americans that it's just "too dangerous" to have a domestic chemical industry, and that we'd just be better off offshoring all that nasty, industrial production?

Posted by: Zek at February 14, 2023 06:01 PM (5FPX4)

59 Do we know the cause of the derailment? Was it the brakes or were they driving too fast?
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (eyxn4)

Someone pulled the red rope.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (guGkK)

60 Which domestic terrorism is worse: those evil people who caused the train derailment in eastern Ohio, or the Biden Junta taking a sledgehammer to economic policy?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (WwX2Z)

61 The question I have is where are the SESers that really run the bureaucracy?

Hard to believe they can be more incompetent that the Sec. of Transportation.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (u82oZ)

62 49 Do we know the cause of the derailment? Was it the brakes or were they driving too fast?
---
Reportedly, failed wheel bearings on one car.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (sWM8x)

63 What is it with all the pictures of this little twerp on trains eating breakfast? I've seen at least 2, which qualifies as a lot because I never wanted to see 1.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (ppBhU)

64 "Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States right now according to most Republicans."--Mitch McConnell. Until the good folks of Palestine can fill envelops with green, there won't be a peep about them.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (KSNKu)

65 Wasn't paying attention to Ohio, should have

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (xhxe8)

66 You know who made tremendous use of trains?

Posted by: Just Sayin' at February 14, 2023 06:03 PM (VE9wS)

67 > Seeing the fecklessness of Biden and Buttiplug really makes it obvious that they're only window dressing for someone else in charge.

It's mostly the IC and administrative state taking cues from academia. Some of it's institutional momentum.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 06:03 PM (eyxn4)

68
what - Jerry Rivers is critical of a demorat?
Posted by: kallisto

He's an FNC Democrat. He criticizes one every once in a while. Quota.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2023 06:03 PM (63Dwl)

69 I look at inflation this way..

The average cost of a bag of groceries went from 20-25 dollars to 40-50 dollars.

Orange Juice is another barometer, top shelf orange juice is now 10 dollars a gallon at Acme, sometimes you can get it for 8.50 on sale.

You used to be able to get it for 6 bucks.

ARMADA. OF. INDUSTRIAL. WOOD. CHIPPERS.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2023 06:03 PM (up/3i)

70 Devastating cuts: x is increased by 13% instead of 14%

DeWine needs to be on the list.

Posted by: micky at February 14, 2023 06:03 PM (3byMq)

71 know who made tremendous use of trains?
Posted by: Just Sayin' at February 14, 2023 06:

He is permanently derailed

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2023 06:03 PM (bSGeu)

72 Biden has senile dementia and is nothing more than a hollow puppet regurgitating what his handlers write for him. What's Buttgig's excuse?

Posted by: Both idiotic shit-spewers at February 14, 2023 06:03 PM (7b+Kq)

73 OT

Here's a theory.
Maybe the US government was going on about UFOs and aliens recently because they wanted the public to look out and report any sightings, but they didn't want to say that it was because we were being invaded by the chinese ballons and drones.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:04 PM (eYjq8)

74 They are simply rubbing our noses in it now;

Biden
Buttigig
Levin
Blinken
Milley
and on and on and on.

If it goes hot, they truly will look at each other and wonder what happened.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2023 06:04 PM (qoGsy)

75 re that pic of greta, will be eating both bananas or... hush.

and now that i think of it, i saved this the other day:

"The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions, by Greta Thunberg.

By Greta Thunberg (Penguin Press, nonfiction)

What it's about: One of the world's top climate change activists gathers information from over 100 experts including meteorologists, engineers, oceanographers and historians to make the case that there’s still hope to prevent climate catastrophe.

The buzz: A starred Kirkus review calls it "vital reading for anyone who cares about the planet."

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:04 PM (kFrCu)

76 De rails, boss, de rails!

Posted by: zombie herve villachaize at February 14, 2023 06:04 PM (ppBhU)

77 "Biden has senile dementia and is nothing more than a hollow puppet regurgitating what his handlers write for him. What's Buttgig's excuse?"

Monkeypox encephalitis.

Posted by: Zek at February 14, 2023 06:04 PM (5FPX4)

78 If this poison gas thing goes on much longer Ohio will be ripe for invasion by Indiana.

The residents of Gary have spent decades acclimating themselves to poisonous air

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2023 06:04 PM (0hOvj)

79 What is it with all the pictures of this little twerp on trains eating breakfast? I've seen at least 2, which qualifies as a lot because I never wanted to see 1.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (ppBhU)

Quite a comedown from her personal carbon yacht trip to NY in her heyday. Over the hill and done before 20.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:04 PM (eoQWY)

80 As somebody who knows lefty environmentists, no way in hell would they do this. Sure burn down car dealerships and some suburban sprawl and the railroad spike in the trees, this is on a whole new level of evil. This was a state actor(s) calling the shots and executing them.

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:05 PM (glyOI)

81 lin-duh, I have a load of horseshit for WeirdDave if he wants it
All the ammonia is leached out.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM

Whoa! You're talking about the real thing, the stuff that's been authentically processed by actual horses, and not spewed by our Uniparty elites, aren't you?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 06:05 PM (a3Q+t)

82 There's a concerted effort to hamper and destroy the real energy industry, which of course is the vital center of any modern economy. And it's open and systematic, and reflected in policies, not a couple of stunts or incidents.

Oddly, this also ties in (actually mostly accounts for) the hyper-inflation.

If only the country had an opposition party, and an electorate that wasn't self-destructively stupid.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2023 06:05 PM (OTzUX)

83 If this poison gas thing goes on much longer Ohio will be ripe for invasion by Indiana.
Posted by: Cicero

They'll never make it past Toledo.

Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (FhXTo)

84 I have a friend who works for a rail sensor company. Supposedly these remote sensors can spot hot axles as they go by.
I do not believe every rail company is NOT required to have them, and likely any car with hot axles is required to be immediately sidelined, or the train slowed.
This ain't accidental.

Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (cPGH3)

85 61
'Hard to believe they can be more incompetent that the Sec. of Transportation.'

That always seemed like a hard job to f up. Maybe open a few roads, negotiate a transport strike and the rest of the 4 years no one even knows who you are.

People know who Buttiplug is though.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (roH4R)

86 I invite the entire climate change crowd to take action first. Be the Vanguard showing us the way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (u82oZ)

87 This ain't accidental.
Posted by: MkY

OR.. the affirmative action hire was working the monitor.

Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (cPGH3)

88 Is it sabotage? Yes.
Who did it? Our government.
Whose fault is it? Ours.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (MF3yS)

89 2 Biden has senile dementia and is nothing more than a hollow puppet regurgitating what his handlers write for him. What's Buttgig's excuse?
Posted by: Both idiotic shit-spewers

Many have had their hand up his ass also over the years.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (qoGsy)

90 We don't hear anything from the climate cultists about either Nordstream or East Palestine. Leads me in my paranoia to believe there is a lot more going on and the cult has been told to shut up.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (StQQf)

91 Not a word out of Biden either on the train disaster
Posted by: It's me donna

Especially since he is a train aficionado and has rode the Acela line a gazillion times. He also got to ride up with the Engineers so he says. You'd have thought with all of that vast knowledge he would jump in and save the day. Actually, I'd like him to really jump in to a toxic cloud but that's a story for another day.

Posted by: Cheri at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (oiNtH)

92 8 As a econ professor once said: it's increasing at a decreasing rate.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 14, 2023 05:51 PM (NW9xb)

The 2nd derivative of the rate of inflation is negative! Winning!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 14, 2023 06:07 PM (VGRuw)

93 If this poison gas thing goes on much longer Ohio will be ripe for invasion by Indiana.
Posted by: Cicero

They'll never make it past Toledo.
Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (FhXTo)

That's where Mad Anthony Wayne took out the Injuns as the illegal British invaders locked them out of their fort.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:07 PM (eoQWY)

94 Do we know the cause of the derailment? Was it the brakes or were they driving too fast?
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM

It's never the latter.

Posted by: zombie Casey Jones at February 14, 2023 06:07 PM (a3Q+t)

95
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions, by Greta Thunberg.

----

The fact is, Scoldilocks' face makes me want to puke, and the solution is to put it behind an iron mask and lock her in a bricked up tower.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2023 06:07 PM (oINRc)

96 Everybody keeps telling me that all those food processing plants catching fire or experiencing some other sort of disaster was totally nothing to worry about and not the result of anything nefarious.

Uh huh.

Posted by: McLurkerson at February 14, 2023 06:07 PM (wNDOJ)

97 We don't hear anything from the climate cultists about either Nordstream or East Palestine. Leads me in my paranoia to believe there is a lot more going on and the cult has been told to shut up.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2023 06:06 PM (StQQf)

it was never about climate for the cultists, not for a second.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:08 PM (eoQWY)

98 Today it's a quarter-million chickens. Tomorrow it could be a quarter-million humans.

And we don't even know what the long-term effects on the local human population. I expect to see a surge in cancers in the region over the next several years/decades.

You could be entitled to compensation!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:08 PM (BpYfr)

99 And Greta's fingers are abnormally long. They're like simian.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 06:08 PM (MF3yS)

100 Oh and Greta is still an ugly little goblin.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 06:08 PM (roH4R)

101 Duncanthrax, yep, the real deal. Veggies that can kick like a mule!

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (xc8mL)

102 Meanwhile the kids are reddit were up in arms this morning about deep sea mining.

Greenpeace released a follicular conflagration report about how "there have been no studies showing that the noise of deep sea mining is not harmful to cetaceans"
So the kids think it all needs to be banned. I guess. We don't need those minerals, right?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (eYjq8)

103 I'm thinking about buying a fiddle and learn how to play a sad song.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (BdMk6)

104 just noticed what is happening outside greta's window.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (kFrCu)

105 The Department of Transportation, Lung Cancer and Birth Defects.

On a side note, when little Greta is finished with her snack, she's going to slip into her PVC outfit and meter out some hard justice.

Posted by: Mr. Bone at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (Jg7EG)

106 And by lefty environmentalists, I mean yoga hippy moms and girls who used to be in (or orbiting) these extremist environmental groups before they got married and had kids.
Now they are tame kittens who just want to be appreciated 24/7/365 because nobody is grateful for women or moms 🙄

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (glyOI)

107 Gee, with the tight border security and the obvious complete surveillance of all the tracks and railway equipment, and the way we NEVER touched the Nordstream pipeline and ABSOLUTELY don't have anyone helping the Ukrainians, it's IMPOSSIBLE that foreign military special operators would do any anonymous sabotage. Silly, silly thinking. But balloons, now that's serious

Posted by: azjaeger at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (3/XaG)

108 So, in what is either normal per NORAD or not normal per our scrambling US military jets reaction, Russia had 4 military aircraft get mighty close to Alaska, but not quite over the "our airspace" line today...

Per Zerohedge...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (exHjb)

109 And Greta's fingers are abnormally long. They're like simian.
Posted by: Eromero

There is a joke there that I will leave on the floor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (u82oZ)

110 And Greta's fingers are abnormally long. They're like simian.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2023 06:08 PM (MF3yS)

possibly her head is shopped onto an adult for the picture.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (eoQWY)

111 Greta reminds me why Willy Wonka was such a breakthrough film. Genuinely unlikeable children.

Posted by: Zek at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (5FPX4)

112 Correction - it happened Feb 13, but we found out today...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (exHjb)

113 Greenpeace released a follicular conflagration report about how "there have been no studies showing that the noise of deep sea mining is not harmful to cetaceans"
So the kids think it all needs to be banned. I guess. We don't need those minerals, right?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (eYjq

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but they are totally cool with offshore windfarms, which could affect the sonar abilities of cetaceans and steer them off course...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:11 PM (BpYfr)

114 I just don't know if people care any more, it's depressing.

I think we need a really nasty recession to get people to wake up.

Right now, they just don't care that it costs $50 to go to the grocery store.

Ace had a great way to encapsulate it when he said the Democrat Party is like a high end luxury brand. People are willing to "pay" for the privilege.

The Left has found the perfect coalition of affluent whites, minorities, and actual poor people that just want some free shit.

Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 06:11 PM (cOFom)

115
know who made tremendous use of trains?
Posted by: Just Sayin'

Casey Jones

https://youtu.be/Hps6L5vS0sc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2023 06:11 PM (63Dwl)

116 Today it's a quarter-million chickens. Tomorrow it could be a quarter-million humans.

And we don't even know what the long-term effects on the local human population. I expect to see a surge in cancers in the region over the next several years/decades.

You could be entitled to compensation!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:08 PM (BpYfr)

You scare easily, don't you?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:11 PM (BdMk6)

117 https://tinyurl.com/7mt2mvuh
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Another very good one

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2023 06:11 PM (xhxe8)

118
You could be entitled to compensation!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:08 PM

You forget, 'You or a loved one". Important.

Posted by: Trial Lawyers of America at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (enJYY)

119 On a side note, when little Greta is finished with her snack, she's going to slip into her PVC outfit and meter out some hard justice.
Posted by: Mr. Bone at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM

Welp...there goes dinner.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (Wnv9h)

120 Greenpeace released a follicular conflagration report about how "there have been no studies showing that the noise of deep sea mining is not harmful to cetaceans"
So the kids think it all needs to be banned. I guess. We don't need those minerals, right?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM (eYjq

Cetaceans don't live in the deep sea on the floor. They have to go up and breathe.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (eoQWY)

121 111 Greta reminds me why Willy Wonka was such a breakthrough film. Genuinely unlikeable children.
Posted by: Zek at February 14, 2023 06:10 PM (5FPX4)

How Dare You!

Posted by: Veruca Salt at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (PiwSw)

122 I'm thinking about buying a fiddle and learn how to play a sad song.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:09 PM

About the Moron who told his Significant Other "You need to calm down."?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (a3Q+t)

123 Nova Local

Poland, not Alaska. They flew from the Kaliningrad Oblast enclave.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (u82oZ)

124 Birds are very sensitive to gases -- think of the canary in the coal mine.

Didn't the media go crazy over Bush's response to Katrina?

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (eCDO0)

125 think we need a really nasty recession to get people to wake up.

Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 06:11 PM (cOFom)

That happened three years ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:13 PM (eoQWY)

126 You scare easily, don't you?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:11 PM (BdMk6)
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No, not really. Tucker Carlson did lay out a very compelling case that *something* nefarious may be connecting all these disruptions in our food, water, energy, and infrastructure networks.

And yeah, I've read some terrifying science fiction that is eerily similar to what we are seeing right now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:13 PM (BpYfr)

127 re 102: are some saying the same thing about the whales by the nj coast being harmed by sonar (something to do with those off shore wind turbines that produce lots of electric from time to time)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:13 PM (kFrCu)

128 noise of deep sea mining

THINK OF THE SEA KITTENS!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 14, 2023 06:14 PM (kyD+t)

129 "Right along with the farmer's savings, investments and years of toil and sweat."

Don't worry, the Feds will be right along with subsidies to tide them over.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 14, 2023 06:14 PM (Lq2t5)

130 123 Nova Local

Poland, not Alaska. They flew from the Kaliningrad Oblast enclave.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (u82oZ)

No, Alaska...
https://www.zerohedge.com/military /air-force-jets-intercept-4-russian-aircraft-alaska-norad

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2023 06:14 PM (exHjb)

131 Unpopular opinion and I'll get flamed, but OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, Jen Psaki was the best at her job in my lifetime.
The way she was able to run cover for The Uniparty (traitorous Reps) and all Dems at the same time was impressive.

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:14 PM (glyOI)

132 noise of deep sea mining

THINK OF THE SEA KITTENS!!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 14, 2023 06:14 PM

And the sea otters!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2023 06:15 PM (a3Q+t)

133 Greta being swallowed by a rainforest python. brings me joy.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:15 PM (xc8mL)

134 So remember people.

0.000001 PPB NO2 from your gas stove is bad, but pay no attention to the dioxin rain our overseers just blessed you with.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:15 PM (eYjq8)

135 The way she was able to run cover for The Uniparty (traitorous Reps) and all Dems at the same time was impressive.
Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:14 PM (glyOI)

Nah, as you see now any one can do that job. The media doesn't care. Even with Trump they didn't care about what the WH actually said, they just wanted clips for their shows.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:16 PM (eoQWY)

136 Birds are very sensitive to gases --

^this.
Think: hot non stick frypan in kitchen kills parrot upstairs.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 14, 2023 06:16 PM (kyD+t)

137 124 Birds are very sensitive to gases -- think of the canary in the coal mine.

Didn't the media go crazy over Bush's response to Katrina?
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at February 14, 2023 06:12 PM (eCDO0)

Yes. Fish are the first to die off. That happened. Then birds. The respiratory systems are more sensitive to toxins. It is a really bad sign.

Imagine Idiocracy meets Chernobyl, and you are getting warm.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2023 06:16 PM (KSNKu)

138 "I do not believe every rail company is NOT required to have them, and likely any car with hot axles is required to be immediately sidelined, or the train slowed."

They've got schedules to keep and management isn't going to listen to any excuses for late arrivals. It messes up all the other schedules when anyone is even a minute late.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (Lq2t5)

139 So they’ve now weaponized FEMA as well. Red states will get no assistance. Hope the gulf coast is paying attention. Hurricane season isn’t that far off.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (u73oe)

140 Regarding inflation, we are now into the time period of year over year data being a comparison of most recent month and this time last year when we were heading into peak inflation. The number will be touted by the junta as a win but it's lies all the way down.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (iyVGU)

141 Oh dah Hooite Supreamacy~~!!! Darnz them!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (XF9Gj)

142 i think biden could show real leadership by flying around that huge cloud in east palestine and talking about how important it would be to have peace in the middle east if they stop fighting about jews and salems.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (kFrCu)

143 think we need a really nasty recession to get people to wake up.

Posted by: Blago

We never recovered for 2008 unless you were a Boomer or late Gen X, who had time and resources to accumulate assets our Overlords deemed worthy of a bailout.

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (glyOI)

144 127 re 102: are some saying the same thing about the whales by the nj coast being harmed by sonar (something to do with those off shore wind turbines that produce lots of electric from time to time)
Posted by: gnats local 678

I don't know what to believe here. I suspect the "elites" with shore homes are just making this shit up to prevent construction. The East Coast has a long history of opposition to offshore turbines marring their view.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (eYjq8)

145 I say, a flaming faggot should be showed up that creepy old man's ass.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (VdGjU)

146 Thanks Skip !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2023 06:18 PM (T4tVD)

147 They've got schedules to keep and management isn't going to listen to any excuses for late arrivals. It messes up all the other schedules when anyone is even a minute late.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (Lq2t5)
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I would think three derailments in a week (Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas) would be a severe disruption to schedules, but maybe that's just me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:19 PM (BpYfr)

148 FEMA and the Red Cross haven't shown up yet to help. The churches trying to help are not happy.
It's almost as if they hate certain people in that area or something

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:19 PM (glyOI)

149 Nova Local

Thanks. New stuff. Can't keep up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:19 PM (u82oZ)

150 145 I say, a flaming faggot should be showed up that creepy old man's ass.
Posted by: That Northern skulker at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (VdGjU)

He'd better buy me dinner first!

Posted by: Don LeMon at February 14, 2023 06:19 PM (PiwSw)

151 They've got schedules to keep and management isn't going to listen to any excuses for late arrivals. It messes up all the other schedules when anyone is even a minute late.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Yeah... our shop is 1/4 mile from a side rail, where trains pass. We've seen trains stop on the tracks (and crossings) for over three hours.
We are in an industrial area, with one other way out.

Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:19 PM (cPGH3)

152 oh re 132, speaking of zero hedge, story there from about an hour ago:

Not A Single Student Can Do Math At Grade Level In 53 Illinois Schools

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (kFrCu)

153 I expect the smoke plume from the CN derailment at Gainford, Alberta could have been seen from space, too, had anyone cared to look. It was visible for miles on land. I could see it from 20 miles south. A dear friend nearly got here house burned down by the radiant heat from the flames, despite a 4-lane highway separating her yard from the rail line, and the intervening open space.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (tkR6S)

154 I know what Gurta is gonna do with those bananas.

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (v0R5T)

155 "I do not believe every rail company is NOT required to have them, and likely any car with hot axles is required to be immediately sidelined, or the train slowed."

They've got schedules to keep and management isn't going to listen to any excuses for late arrivals. It messes up all the other schedules when anyone is even a minute late.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (Lq2t5)

The part in Atlas Shrugged about the disaster that destroys the rail tunnel in Colorado is a study in how unrealistic demands and administrative failures pile up in the face of reality. Even if you don't like the philosophy, that chapter is worth reading. The car factory built on from each according to his ability , to each according to need is another good part.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (eoQWY)

156 >>> his "intersectionality"

Rectum?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (eYjq8)

157 No, not really. Tucker Carlson did lay out a very compelling case that *something* nefarious may be connecting all these disruptions in our food, water, energy, and infrastructure networks.

And yeah, I've read some terrifying science fiction that is eerily similar to what we are seeing right now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:13 PM (BpYfr)

If this is just a hotbox that caused the wreck, then no big deal to me. BUT, if there's any hint there might be a lie to cover government sabotage, then we've got a very scary situation on our hands.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (BdMk6)

158 117
You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the Migrant social worker getting beaten to death by a migrant with acrowbar.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (roH4R)

159 So they’ve now weaponized FEMA as well. Red states will get no assistance. Hope the gulf coast is paying attention. Hurricane season isn’t that far off.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (u73oe)
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All the more reason for red states to wean themselves off the federal teat. They'd be better off forming a loose confederation amongst themselves to provide support in case of emergency. You know if there is a major disaster in the red states, citizens of other red states will flock to the disaster area to provide private support and charitable giving.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:21 PM (BpYfr)

160 The Very Model of a Capitol. Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral:

@WashTimes 3m

Clearing of homeless encampment at D.C.’s McPherson Square spurs protest

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2023 06:21 PM (XF9Gj)

161 If you live in the affected area(s), document everything, animal losses, water shortages, etc. Also document your health status so if or when it changes you can join a class action suit, and yes there will be multiple of those.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 14, 2023 06:21 PM (jTmQV)

162 oh re 132, speaking of zero hedge, story there from about an hour ago:

Not A Single Student Can Do Math At Grade Level In 53 Illinois Schools
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (kFrCu)

I knew Chicago could top Baltimore!

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:21 PM (eoQWY)

163 Second hand smoke is lethal. Bullshit, I couldn't smoke enough cigarettes to kill off the parrots that I lived with.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:21 PM (xc8mL)

164 149 Nova Local

Thanks. New stuff. Can't keep up.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:19 PM (u82oZ)

No worries - thus, why I hope folks had some time to spend with their loved ones today. As I told the spouse, even if the world is spinning out of control, you have to enjoy the moments you do have and put faith in the One for His will to ultimately be done...since it's not like I can personally prevent anything right now...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (exHjb)

165 > OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, Jen Psaki was the best at her job in my lifetime.

Not even close. Both Sanders and McEnany were far more well spoken, capable of thinking on their feet, and actually answered questions directly with honesty.

Psucky Psucky deflected, answered a different question than the one asked, made ridiculous claims, and told people she'd "circle back" until that phrase became a meme.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (eyxn4)

166 Why did the chicken cross the road?

To escape the ethylhexyl acrylate cloud.

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (v0R5T)

167 156
'Rectum?'

Damn near killed him.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (roH4R)

168 53 lin-duh, I have a load of horseshit for WeirdDave if he wants it
All the ammonia is leached out.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:00 PM (xc8mL)

Ya know, I actually understood all that.

I'm gonna be the Cliff Clavin of the Horde one day

***waves to Ben Had***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (CCSxw)

169 117
You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at the Migrant social worker getting beaten to death by a migrant with acrowbar.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (roH4R)

I remember when the ban the police crowd wanted to replace them with Social Workers.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (eoQWY)

170 Second hand smoke is lethal. Bullshit, I couldn't smoke enough cigarettes to kill off the parrots that I lived with.
Posted by: Ben Had

God knows I've tried to kill off my cats...

Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (cPGH3)

171 If this is just a hotbox that caused the wreck, then no big deal to me. BUT, if there's any hint there might be a lie to cover government sabotage, then we've got a very scary situation on our hands.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (BdMk6)
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As Tucker pointed out in his show, there have been A LOT of train derailments in recent years. Way more than would be statistically possible even with the current state of the railways. Many of them are provably deliberate sabotage, as the saboteurs set up a system to "short out" the electrical systems of the train as they pass over the device.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:23 PM (BpYfr)

172 "there have been no studies showing that the noise of deep sea mining is not harmful to cetaceans"

I'm going to go out an a limb and guess that there are no studies that show deep sea mining ~is~ harmful to cetaceans.

If fact, I'm willing to be that there are no studies involving deep sea mining and cetaceans ~at all.~

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 14, 2023 06:23 PM (Lq2t5)

173 Why did the chicken cross the road?

To escape the ethylhexyl acrylate cloud.
Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (v0R5T)
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To bad it died halfway across...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2023 06:23 PM (BpYfr)

174
Buttgiggity is SecGay. Period. And that makes him "dreamy" to unmarried, acutely obese, and intersectional femnysts who believe that he, and other dreamboats like him, will do everything necessary to keep their fragile and hopeless asses secure for the remainder of their cat-filled lives.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2023 06:23 PM (pNxlR)

175 Second hand smoke is lethal. Bullshit, I couldn't smoke enough cigarettes to kill off the parrots that I lived with.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:21 PM (xc8mL)

A simple comparison of relative volumes should have ended that particular idiocy at the start.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:24 PM (eoQWY)

176 Is Gurta trying to make some kinda weird sandwich in that pic?
FAIL

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:24 PM (v0R5T)

177 Prolly nothing nefarious about the obvious predictive programming by Netflix who just released a movie called White Noise that is about a deadly chemical spill in Palestine Ohio.
Karma is the religion of non Christians. Evil tells you what they will do, and it's your job to stop it or it's your fault.
It's why Jesus Christ hates apathy.

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:24 PM (glyOI)

178 Second hand smoke is lethal. Bullshit, I couldn't smoke enough cigarettes to kill off the parrots that I lived with.
Posted by: Ben Had

God knows I've tried to kill off my cats...
Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (cPGH3)

Funny, my cats are all chain smoking now.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:24 PM (eoQWY)

179 We never recovered for 2008 unless you were a Boomer or late Gen X, who had time and resources to accumulate assets our Overlords deemed worthy of a bailout.
Posted by: Joker
__

Can you honestly say that though? I almost think we made too much of the 2008 recession. What I saw was a bunch of people that over paid for their house or rental property just threw the bank their keys and got another one.

The car companies that were going to go bankrupt anyway got bailed out, along with some Wall Street firms.

It really wasn't that bad, but it succeeded in giving Obama and Dems a blank check.

Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 06:25 PM (cOFom)

180 61 The question I have is where are the SESers that really run the bureaucracy?

Hard to believe they can be more incompetent that the Sec. of Transportation.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 06:02 PM (u82oZ)

Salty, I dealt with a few SESers that would give Buttplug a run for his money in an incompetence competition.

I hope you're doing well!

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2023 06:25 PM (AMIL/)

181 So who was responsible for maintaining the wheel bearings on the train car that caused the derailment?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2023 05:59 PM (sWM8x)

Do they still have trackside hotbox detectors, and if not, why not?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 06:26 PM (tkR6S)

182 They blew up the train in Ohio causing a massive disaster and huge cloud of toxic chemicals.
........

You know what would solve this problem?

A) High Speed Rail

B) black guys in hard hats

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM (v0R5T)

183 It really wasn't that bad, but it succeeded in giving Obama and Dems a blank check.

Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 06:25 PM (cOFom)

Europe seems to have handled it worse - I've heard one of the dirty secrets is that Eurobanks have loads of bad paper from then and they are teetering on insolvency with all the other dumbass stuff they have done ever since.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM (eoQWY)

184 Is Gurta trying to make some kinda weird sandwich in that pic?
FAIL
Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:24 PM

I can honestly say that I would expect Greta to have a complete inability make a decent sammich.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM (Wnv9h)

185 If these train derailments, food processing fires, et alia, were happening in war-time USA, do you think there would be this lack of interest?
Either the powers that be are complicit, or they're incompetent. Maybe both.
What I don't get is the silence of the insurers.

Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM (cPGH3)

186 If this is just a hotbox that caused the wreck, then no big deal to me. BUT, if there's any hint there might be a lie to cover government sabotage, then we've got a very scary situation on our hands.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I'm assuming that the cops arresting locals amd journalists trying to report and get answers might be a clue...
Back the Blue 💙

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM (glyOI)

187 I do not believe every rail company is NOT required to have them, and likely any car with hot axles is required to be immediately sidelined, or the train slowed."

They've got schedules to keep and management isn't going to listen to any excuses for late arrivals. It messes up all the other schedules when anyone is even a minute late.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 14, 2023 06:17 PM (Lq2t5)

Your wrong. Hot boxes are full from the train as soon as physically possible. The railroads don't like derailments. If there's anything that cuts into the bottom line it's road and yard accidents, not late deliveries.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM (BdMk6)

188 176 Is Gurta trying to make some kinda weird sandwich in that pic?
FAIL
Posted by: wth
_____________

You want to see Greta and a sandwich that won't fail?!

Posted by: Teddy Kennedy and Christopher Dodd at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM (gf7Ez)

189 *hugs browndog*

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:28 PM (xc8mL)

190 You know what would solve this problem?

A) High Speed Rail

B) black guys in hard hats
Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM

C) Monorail!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 06:28 PM (Wnv9h)

191 A pipeline would have prevented all of this.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at February 14, 2023 05:59 PM (u82oZ)

Good luck getting approval to build a vinyl chloride pipeline...anywhere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 06:28 PM (tkR6S)

192 Full = pulled

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:28 PM (BdMk6)

193 Not even close. Both Sanders and McEnany were far more well spoken, capable of thinking on their feet, and actually answered questions directly with honesty.

Psucky Psucky deflected, answered a different question than the one asked, made ridiculous claims, and told people she'd "circle back" until that phrase became a meme.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 06:22 PM (eyxn4)

McEnany came in with folders full of actual receipts, and could give solid answers that were factual. Peppermint Patty was only good at deflecting and "circling around" if she couldn't think of a lie fast enough. And Cringey Pierre is straight up window-licking retarded. There's no fucking way she would pass law school if she was white. Hell, you'd have to explain a Bazooka Joe comic to her.

Posted by: clutch cargo | now with 100% autocorrect. at February 14, 2023 06:28 PM (zB/T/)

194 I am about an hour away from the site. Used to work a little closer to it, and probably had coworkers from that area. It is probably too late to do much as it has spread so far already.

Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2023 06:29 PM (szjaj)

195 You want to see Greta and a sandwich that won't fail?!
Posted by: Teddy Kennedy and Christopher Dodd at February 14, 2023 06:27 PM

Dude, not even with your decomposed dick.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2023 06:29 PM (Wnv9h)

196 Posted by: Blago

We never recovered. See Shadow Stats and the FED's balance sheets.

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:29 PM (glyOI)

197 Here's my pitch for a documentary, Netflix:

"American Chernobyl: The True Story of the Biden Death Cloud"

Call me!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2023 06:30 PM (KLPy8)

198 Too bad something like this didn't happen in D.C.

A man can dream.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 14, 2023 06:30 PM (R/m4+)

199 In the event of unwanted hotboxing, just roll the car window down.

Posted by: It's not that complicated at February 14, 2023 06:30 PM (7b+Kq)

200 Right. I forgot about Monorail! cuz that would never fly off the track.

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:30 PM (v0R5T)

201 B) black guys in hard hats
Posted by: wth

Go on...

Posted by: TruCons at February 14, 2023 06:31 PM (glyOI)

202 You just gotta have all the passengers lean into the turns.

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:31 PM (v0R5T)

203 1/2 of 1% drop in Bidens 400% increase in inflation...He claims Credit, and VICTORY!
You save a nickle on a $10 item, that cost $2 when he took office.

Posted by: birddog at February 14, 2023 06:32 PM (uAI4S)

204 (Spoiler: 0.1% inflation is not, in fact, "zero percent inflation.")

Spoiler spoiler: inflation going up by 0.0% is also not zero percent inflation. It just means inflation stayed exactly as bad as last month.

Posted by: t-bird at February 14, 2023 06:32 PM (Sv58p)

205 Do they still have trackside hotbox detectors, and if not, why not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It is hard to imagine not having bearing temp and vibration detection in this day and age.

I guess not that hard - over regulate, bail out losses, and set fire to accidents, then bail out their liability for claims due to poisoning. You end up with companies that due the minimum necessary for the regulators. Instead of designing for profit and reduced risk, they design to the book.

And the kiddie commies will scream that we need more regulations and more government.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:32 PM (eYjq8)

206 De-rail one of Buffets trains... THEN the shit gets serious.

Posted by: MkY at February 14, 2023 06:33 PM (cPGH3)

207 This was a state actor(s) calling the shots and executing them.
Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:05 PM (glyOI)

Or maybe just bad luck, compounded by unrealistic maintenance schedules performed by lackadaisical union workers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 06:34 PM (tkR6S)

208 Uh...

@UpwardNewsHQ 4m
🚨 BREAKING: Tucson Hazmat Team on scene of a toxic crash on I-10 in Arizona.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2023 06:34 PM (XF9Gj)

209 What was the carbon footprint of shipping those bananas 7000 miles from Brazil to Lapland, Greta? Eat local. Ever hear of it?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 14, 2023 06:35 PM (h4dxF)

210 54 re 47: and we were told that carrying petroleum by rail was safer than through a pipeline, weren't we?
Posted by: gnats local 678
____________

It is MUCH safer to transport petroleum by rail, for my wallet anyway.

Posted by: Warren Buffett, Always Happy For His Government Handouts at February 14, 2023 06:35 PM (gf7Ez)

211 What's Buttgig's excuse?
Posted by: Both idiotic shit-spewers

He has a double load of jizz inserted at both ends.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2023 06:35 PM (3CCua)

212 Do they still have trackside hotbox detectors, and if not, why not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Yes. They do. I may be wrong on this but I think they have sensors every 10 miles. They give an automatic radio report to the engineer after each one.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:37 PM (BdMk6)

213 211 What's Buttgig's excuse?
Posted by: Both idiotic shit-spewers

He has a double load of jizz inserted at both ends.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Guys get stupid when the osmotic pressure builds up. Just look at men around hot women.
Yet this moron is having that shit pumped in. It's a wonder he can still talk.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2023 06:38 PM (eYjq8)

214 Hot Dog! Here is some news you Must(hear)d! Time to ketchup! The cost of your 4th of July cookout has only gone up $3 this year! That is a decrease from last year's $3.50! Now that is good news we can all cool off to!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 14, 2023 06:38 PM (h4dxF)

215 Wheels on fire
Rolling down the road

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 14, 2023 06:39 PM (h4dxF)

216 In the event of unwanted hotboxing, just roll the car window down.
Posted by: It's not that complicated

About twenty years ago, I had a Siamese Tom Cat that would sleep under the blankets. I would hot box those blankets every night. At least until he figured out it was me and not Smash. There after, any noise from any squeak hole enabled a set of claws on my calf in retribution.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2023 06:39 PM (3CCua)

217 This was a state actor(s) calling the shots and executing them.
Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:05 PM (glyOI)

Or maybe just bad luck, compounded by unrealistic maintenance schedules performed by lackadaisical union workers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

They literally did the worst thing possible by blowing it all up after the wreck.
Also why are they arresting people trying to cover it and residents seeking answers?

Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:39 PM (glyOI)

218 Once is an occurrence twice is a questionable event three-times is eco'terrorism

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:40 PM (xc8mL)

219 Buttgig is making the American people afraid and uncertain. That's his job. That's every elected Democrat's job.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 14, 2023 06:40 PM (rh25V)

220 208 Uh...

@UpwardNewsHQ 4m
🚨 BREAKING: Tucson Hazmat Team on scene of a toxic crash on I-10 in Arizona.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
___________

The cause of the crash was Sarah Palin drawing a target on a map.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at February 14, 2023 06:40 PM (gf7Ez)

221 > Just look at men around hot women.

If there are hot women around, I'm not looking at the men.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 14, 2023 06:40 PM (eyxn4)

222 I like the wheel bearings on my vinyl chloride trains to not catch on fire.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 14, 2023 06:40 PM (h4dxF)

223 Joe Biden Ass Ho

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at February 14, 2023 06:41 PM (bmd+7)

224 Looks like Gurta cut the crusts off her bread and now is going to smear some kind of goop all over it.
The bananas are for dessert. *wink wink*

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:41 PM (v0R5T)

225 Trump's handling of covid lead to lapses in train maintenance. Therefore this train derailment is Trump's fault.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 14, 2023 06:42 PM (h4dxF)

226 ButtJizz got the job because they thought it was such a figurehead position that not even he could fuck it up.

Guess again.

As for white people taking all the construction jobs, every construction site I've seen in the last 20-25 years has been chock-full of obvious illegals.

Construction used to be a valid way for a man (at least, a young, healthy man) to provide a middle-class lifestyle for his family.

No more.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 06:43 PM (bW8dp)

227 https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=403166

Nood. Quickies

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 14, 2023 06:43 PM (3CCua)

228 Nood

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at February 14, 2023 06:43 PM (gf7Ez)

229 I like the wheel bearings on my vinyl chloride trains to not catch on fire.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire
.......

The basics, right? Maybe a lube job now and then. A little grease. Check the lug nuts and tire pressure.

Posted by: wth at February 14, 2023 06:43 PM (v0R5T)

230 Once is an occurrence twice is a questionable event three-times is eco'terrorism
Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:40 PM (xc8mL)

Derailments happen all the time and are non-discriminatory on which cars are affected. It's the nature of railroads.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2023 06:44 PM (BdMk6)

231 I'm wondering what authority and ability governors of the individual states have to foil and/or prosecute these sabotages. Can they harden vulnerable targets? Actually hunt down saboteurs? Infiltrate terrorist cells and prevent the sabotage? Deny federally-directed harmful actions? Arrest EPA people coming to poke a hole in a toxic waste container?

Posted by: Emmie at February 14, 2023 06:45 PM (Emce2)

232 Incompetence, what is it good for? Absolutely everything at this point

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2023 06:46 PM (xc8mL)

233 > And Cringey Pierre is straight up window-licking retarded.

At least Pskanki could lie with a straight face.
Race-swapped Raggedy Ann can't even perform that basic function of the job.

As I've said before, she lies like a four-year-old telling his mom that a band of pirates came in the kitchen and ate all the cookies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 14, 2023 06:46 PM (bW8dp)

234 200+ comments and no mention yet of impeaching hyper-incompetent, clueless and amazingly un-self-aware Mayor Pete?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2023 06:48 PM (fs1hN)

235 They literally did the worst thing possible by blowing it all up after the wreck.
Also why are they arresting people trying to cover it and residents seeking answers?
Posted by: Joker at February 14, 2023 06:39 PM (glyOI)

Burning off the vinyl chloride is bad, but not as bad as letting it seep out on its own, and then explode.

And as far as I know the only reporter arrested was some jackass black guy who would not shut up while officials from the
State were trying to deliver a press briefing.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 06:50 PM (tkR6S)

236 Not A Single Student Can Do Math At Grade Level In 53 Illinois Schools
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2023 06:20 PM (kFrCu)
______________

Next up: the Illinois school district will transfer one student who CAN do math at grade level to each of the 53 schools, so as to preclude this headline reappearing.

Of course, that one poor kid will probably not survive to the next testing season, but ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 14, 2023 06:53 PM (YqDXo)

237 And as far as I know the only reporter arrested was some jackass black guy who would not shut up while officials from the State were trying to deliver a press briefing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2023 06:50 PM (tkR6S)
______________

A close cousin of those who defy police officers' orders and/or try to wrestle them for their weapons. The idea of "maybe I should pull in my horns now" appears to be terra incognita.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 14, 2023 06:55 PM (YqDXo)

238 Even with the massive incompetence/evil displayed by this bunch of clowns and lunatics, there's still millions of "Americans" that would vote for them. Let that sink in...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 14, 2023 06:57 PM (S7une)

239 The world was a better place before globohomo was in charge.

Just sayin.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 14, 2023 06:57 PM (17s+e)

240 Max Baucus was a drunk who fucked around on his wife. Perfect for the Ambassadorship to China.

Posted by: Mr. Bone at February 14, 2023 07:02 PM (Jg7EG)

241 It really wasn't that bad, but it succeeded in giving Obama and Dems a blank check.
Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2023 06:25 PM (cOFom)

My homebuilding company shut down our division in '08. I had to go work in a completely differently industry and was layed off from that when they...shut down our division Found work in my field in 2012 but had to sell at a loss my dream home, leave my beloved southern California for freaking Virginia. Spent some bad quality time with the bottle. Have only just last year regained my salary of '08. That was pretty bad for me.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at February 14, 2023 07:16 PM (iyVGU)

242 >>> Race-swapped Raggedy Ann can't even perform that basic function of the job.
~~~~~

When she looks down or blinks, and you get the full effect of her light gold eyeshadow that covers her lids, she reminds me of a reverse Little Orphan Annie.

Posted by: IrishEi at February 14, 2023 07:48 PM (3ImbR)

243 In a single WEEK Biden authorized the US Military to unleash major weapons systems on Targets within the continental US, not in training, in anger.
FIVE TIMES in a week...ya, the media talks about the 4 balloons, but.
No one seems to mention that the intentional "detonation" of the tank cars in Ohio almost HAD to be done with a missile, rocket, artillery system, maybe a mortar...no one could just walk up and "Press the Red Button", the tank cars are double layer, impact protected, self sealing.
Nuther thang...who owns the tank cars? Warren Buffett? GE?
NSX doesn't list ANY tank cars in their fleet, railroads own very few if any anymore. Buffett and GE between them own more than half in the nation, as well as all but one of the manufacturing and maintenance shops for tank cars. Of the Big Four Tank car owners, Buffett, GE, BATX, Greenbriar(the rest to tiny to be of much notice)...nearly all are Chicago based. If the marking on the cars end in X? They are private not RR Owned.

Posted by: birddog at February 14, 2023 08:14 PM (uAI4S)

244 X = non-railroad owned car
Z = non-railroad owned trailer
U = non-railroad owned container

Posted by: birddog at February 14, 2023 08:15 PM (uAI4S)

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