This is it, the last Hebraic links before some fat dude slides down your chimney and raids your bar while you’re sleeping. My healing continues apace, SP is doing the preps for our Christmas dinner (four kinds of tamales), and I’m gleefully going through a massive gift from one of our IRL Glib friends- a collection of old 45s and 78s, the thick pre-LP shellac types. It’s a hilarious mix of material ranging from Verdi to Frank Sinatra to Lawrence Welk.
So many birthdays today, I’m going to be forced to leave out a lot of good ones, but will manage to cite a guy who was known for self-consistency; the one and true TV mom; a guy who really could be differentiated; the inspiration for yesterday’s birthday boy Frank Zappa; a frequent recipient of tossed batteries; and a guy who has pretty much disappeared until 2024.
So, news.
“You expect me to actually believe my own bullshit? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!”
I will not smoke it in the train, I will not smoke it on the plane.
She’s right. He’s not a third generation DC leech.
“We surrender, retroactively!”
I took a survey at our house and got a different result.
So wait, you want to collect welfare while you’re in college? Fuck you, get a job.
For Old Guy Music today, I figured go ancient or go home. I was inspired by my Christmas gift. And sure, it’s ironic, but fuck, that’s some impressive playing.
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Nobody needs 4 different kinds of tamales! (now I’m hungry for tamales)
Tamales and eggs covered in green chili sauce was my favorite breakfast back in Texas.
Great, I just ate breakfast and now I’m hungry again (and no, it wasn’t leftover Chinese).
Fromm the SNAP article.
“ They shouldn’t be punished for not being able to find steady employment in the economy that we are in today.”
You mean the Economy with the historically low unemployment ?
Get a job, got two jobs, don’t be a bum.
Correction, get two jobs.
“ They shouldn’t be punished for not wanting to find any employment” Fixed
Look, unless it has paid paternity leave, a defined benefit pension plan, 4 weeks of vacation, and zero dollar health insurance, it’s not a real job.
… or not having any marketable skills, and no foresight to see that a cut-and-paste, pop Marxism “[identity] studies” degree might not be worth even wasting three or four years on even if in some universe it was “free”.
^^
My son drives for Uber Eats and PostMates while in college. It’s pretty much the perfect job for a student because he can set his own hours.
OMWC,
The music link brings me back to my Grandfathers house in Sunday’s.
To people of Polish decent he was “one of them”. He never missed a show and made the whole family watch it with him.
My grandfather was also a professional musician before he gave it up to go back to working in the mines.
What I should have mentioned, but forgot, was that the selection was dedicated to CPRM. He’s videoed quite a few polka bands, and really, they’re fun.
I’ve seen many a polka band in my day. Up until a few years ago you could still watch Locals polka dancing on tv on sat night. I’m a fan.
You betcha!
Here is one of the local favorites.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P2qPahHPaLo
Here is the weekly show.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWdgwJXHy74
Nanticoke. I said to myself, “I know where that is”, then I said to myself, “It’s not where you’re thinking, that’s a different NEPA town. Check the map.” I checked the map. Yep, I was thinking of another town and put Nanticoke on the wrong place on the map.
You’re down near Philly right? I just sent e-mail off to some Philly area folks about meeting up while I’m down for Christmas. If you want to join, SP can send you my e-mail address and we can coordinate.
The crowds at the Chmielewski Funtime Bands parties are still there but thinning out as the polka generation moves into retirement homes. Not so many replacements coming up through the ranks. Polka music transcended all the language/ethnic barriers in the iron mining communities of yesteryear
I found Tejano when I lived in TX. It seems to be real American amalgam. Polish/Czeck Texan, and Mexican music.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4tXhAYl173U
Just in case you didn’t know the name… the king of polka Frankie Yankovic (no relation to Al).
Don’t forget Whoopee John, The Deutschmeisters, and The Six Fat Dutchmen.
The D-meisters did the “Honey Bee Waltz” . Would be one of my favs now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujdSYkI7fpM
My brain kept trying to autocorrect ‘tamale’ to ‘talmud’.
Coffee, stat.
On a related note, happy Chanukah to all! (slightly early)
We’re jumping the gun a bit and doing Chanukah lunch today, then presents.
Then, since both my wife and sister in law married goys, everyone heads out for Christmas.
Mixed marriages are nice in the sense you only have to fight over where you do Thanksgiving. The downside is we have to travel for every single holiday :-/
I tink da vun Talmud is qvite enough.
My back is killing me this morning and I’m not sure why.
And I’m supposed to sit thru service because my son is accompanying the choir. My wife wants me to videotape the whole thing, because we don’t have video of every other service he’s done for the last decade….
grumble….
Take a sick day.
LOL he’s still running with that?
If he was Pinocchio, he’d be giving John Holmes a serious case of envy.
He really thinks we’re that stupid.
Yeah, that’s the part that makes me want to rearrange his face with my fist.
I don’t know who it is even though everyone knows that the media had already exposed his name. I’ll tell you what. That is one thing that has made this stink real bad. The lengths the Dems have gone to pretend that Eric Ciaremella doesn’t exist. They can’t have it be known that he’s part of the CIA because at best it feeds the narrative of the
Deep state.
They’re using the Clinton playbook. Deny deny deny lie lie lie and never ever ever admit anything even though everyone knows what’s up.
That, and he can only proffer second or third hand hearsay and office gossip.
One of my favorite talking points is that the Republicans can’t defend against the actions of trump so they just attack the process. Like the process is irrelevant to everything. Due process is clearly dead and Get Orangeman is the cry of the day.
I’m not trying to jump into a pool of whataboutism but I find it difficult to see that Trump was doing anything out of the ordinary than an act which passes for diplomacy in this day and age. Had Biden been somehow defined as the one true possible DNC candidate this would somehow possibly be made into a case of Trump using his office for political means. However, as Biden is only one of many and not a particularly strong opponent anyway I just don’t buy it.
Question for Democrats:. Would Trump’s actions have been fine if Biden wasn’t running? If not, why not? If so, is just running a shield against investigation?
If, _that_ is so, I have further questions regarding Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Biden doesn’t get a get-out-of-jail-free card even if he’s the only candidate running. That whole angle is bullshit.
Meh, Trump is a lot of things, but he is not stupid, Biden was polling as a front runner even before he officially entered the race, and he was the one who beat Trump by the most (the only one) in head to head polls. To say Trump couldn’t be sure that Biden would be his competition so he obviously wasn’t looking for an edge, is a stretch. Trump takes shots at almost all the D’s running, just because they haven’t chosen one yet are those digs and jabs, not political gamesmanship?
I guess part of my assessment here is that, were I Trump I would pray that Biden was the one they put up against me. He’s probably the one who Trump would be able to mock/troll without having to think about the feminist/minority angle. Heck, Biden even shoots himself in the foot rather frequently.
I don’t know that he thinks we’re stupid. He just knows that the media won’t be curious about it. Almost like they’ve been told to stay away.
No one suggested cutting administrators jobs to fund the university’s own food assistance program? Or cutting the cost of tuition?
You’re kidding, of course, about cutting administrative jobs though, right? We need a cabinet position, Secretary of Food Assistance Programs for College Students. Way too big a responsibility for the Ed Sec or Housing Sec. We can just add it on to a military spending bill.
At my university, over the past five years, the number of faculty has increased by 37 (7%), while the number of administrative & professional staff has increased by 198 (50%).
Got to soak up those federally guaranteed student loans somehow
And let’s just forget about the piles of financial aid out there which is intended to cover room and board.
No, no. Financial aid covers books, tuition, room and board, booze and outlandish spring break trips, but not groceries.
Hello, I’d just like to remind everyone that I live in a country in which women are not expected to pay for their own tampons.
Try making the obvious economic and moral arguments against that without being called a mysogynist/fascist/nazi/toxic masculinitinist (?)/tory scum/biologically priveleged shitlord 🙂
A Pinnacle of sexism is believing that women are incapable of providing for there own needs with out a man’s help.
…outlandish spring break trips…
Ah, yes, the “Study Abroad” program.
Heh, Heh. Yea there’s that, but I was thinking more of conversations I overheard in which a student said their aid amount was too large, so they went to Italy or some other overseas spot for a long vacation.
No one suggested cutting administrators jobs to fund the university’s own food assistance program? Or cutting the cost of tuition?
Crazy talk! Do you want those administrators to starve?!?!
OFFS
He didn’t put anyone on double secret probation?
From the pile of Schiff: “I would hope that if this were Barack Obama and he had committed half these acts that I would be out there urging his impeachment.”
Bullshit, you were nodding your head along with the rest of Team Blue when President Drone Strike said he could kill anyone he wanted to.
Of course he had to sit quietly at his desk – if he stood up everyone would’ve seen his jizz stain.
My grandmother’s tip to get a get jizz stain out of a nice pair of slacks is to mix equal parts of white vinegar and more jizz (trust me).
Soak a cotton ball in the 50/50 vinegar/jizz and dab – not rub! – the mixture onto the stain.
Thanks, Nonna!
It’s like the telephone game, I told your grandma to use club soda, not vinegar.
So where does she get the…
Never mind.
At the racist vinegar store, obviously.
Or when he said he didn’t need Congress to start a war in Syria?
Vice President Biden did exactly what you think Trump has done, and you did nothing.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton violated both the Espionage Act and the Federal Records Act, most probably to cover up actions very similar to what you think Trump has done, and you did nothing.
Lois Lerner weaponized the IRS against her political opponents, and you did nothing.
Susan Rice abused the intelligence process for the political benefit of her party and bosses, and you did nothing.
You are worse than useless.
“As long as a student is at least half-time, they are not considered an [able-bodied adult without dependents] subject to SNAP work requirements, so that new rule would not impact them,” says Kathryn Larin, director of the Education Workforce and Income Security Team at the Government Accountability Office. “The group that it would impact would be students enrolled less than half-time.”
“We just lump them in with the rest of the developmentally disabled.”
So if they are part time students, they have plenty of time to work, they?
My question is, why can full time students gets welfare?
Well, they aren’t working. Can’t qualify for unemployment ’cause they’ve never had a job.
“I would hope that if this were Barack Obama and he had committed half these acts that I would be out there urging his impeachment.”
Thank goodness that business of using federal intelligence resources to spy on a political opponent’s campaign isn’t the sort of thing which might trigger impeachment.
Looking forward to who supplied him the phone logs and the ensuing discussion of how many laws/policies were violated in the process.
Financial aid covers books, tuition, room and board, booze and outlandish spring break trips, but not groceries.
What sort of puritanical busybody would expect those
kidsyoung adults to divert their beer money to groceries?In look back at college and realize I was a dope. I didn’t party. I scheduled my classes so that I could be at work every other day. If I had known that I could have just partied with other people’s money, that would have been way easier.
Related to the bar raiding comment.
I like the drumming bear.
“No matter if they’re full time, part time, half time, even taking one class, [students] are taking the initiative to really better themselves and grow and further their academic career,” Gilkesson says. “They shouldn’t be punished for not being able to find steady employment in the economy that we are in today.”
Que?
That basket weaving course is tough, man.
I couldn’t possibly do that and flip burgers on the side.
The ideas that you could be less than part time and not work full time is laughable.
I had 0 marketably differentiable skills till I was graduated. But they’re were still plenty of jobs that paid decent considering I was an unskilled laborer.
I was a full time student and only worked summers during college, but at least I sought out assistant positions within the department that usually covered some tuition.
If I had to do it over again, I would have more aggressively gone after paid positions within the university system.
There are tons of programs available. I graduated a year behind in undergrad and 6 months behind in law school, both because I was working on the side. I graduated undergrad with 1.5 years work experience as a software engineer from a co-op program and graduated law school with almost 3 years’ experience as a patent agent while attending school part time. Oh, and this was all this decade.
I’m not gonna pretend that sacrifices weren’t made, or that it was easy, or even that it saved us a bunch of money (*glares at law school bill*) but I have zero sympathy for people who assume they have no option but to spend zillions of dollars getting a shit degree and partying it up 5 nights a week.
I went to Northeastern where co-op is (was?) an internal part of the schooling.
6 months of school, 6 months of work (after the freshman year), a 5 year program.
I graduated with 2 years of real work experience.
Not nearly as fun as having summers off, and multiple breaks during the year, but I was under the foolish impression I was supposed to do more than just party.
I don’t understand why that sort of co-op program isn’t more widespread (I looked at Drexel too). Co-op was the best thing I did with my young life.
I remember interviewing some Northeastern grads.
The Co-op program is a good thing.
Schiffs comments are also why I don’t think a Senate trial will actually punish the send
Dems. No one will go to jail for fraud, no one will testify about what the GOP wants them to talk about.
It would be funny if a whistleblower from the Dems appeared and to see how they reacted.
*clack, clack, !BOOM!*
What whistleblower?
/DNC
Oh no!! Our volunteer was killed in a mugging gone wrong, where none of his stuff was taken.
Forget the mythical “whistleblower” whose third-hand hearsay we’re impeaching the President over, or the suspicious circumstances around various peoples’ deaths, and just look at how they treat Assange. He’s not even a U.S. citizen and he didn’t even have direct access to anything. But by exposing so much dirty laundry, they want to crucify him.
At Hyperion: Been mostly lurking here lately, as in every couple days read the accumulated links and then get back to my to do list.
Currently in Miami getting ready to do a Caribbean cruise
Keep your hands clean and hope the skipper isn’t drinking,
In a December 5 tweet, the president claimed “We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is.” Schiff rejected the idea of himself testifying before the Senate as a fact witness as “absurd.”
I am above the law.
Defense should have the Ability to cross examine accusers. Schiffs staff, in as much as they have helped coordinate whistleblower are witnesses and accusers.
Macron is a shithead.
“These are people who have had conversations, in the case of the senators, with thepresident about Ukraine, about withholding of military aid. And we didn’t seek to call them in the House Intelligence Committee. We didn’t want to make a circus out of it. Of course, the president’s interest is in the circus,” Schiff added.
*nods slowly*
I don’t know who the whistleblower is, so I don’t add much value in terms of the whistleblower. The reason they want the whistleblower on their witness list is they want to out the whistleblower. They want to punish the whistleblower. And in so doing they will endanger the whistleblower.
Bailiff, call the Ouija Board to the stand. After lunch, we’ll hear from the Magic Eight Ball.
“The reason they want the whistleblower on their witness list is they want to out the whistleblower.”
If the original accuser refuses to testify then I’d vote to acquit.
“No matter if they’re full time, part time, half time, even taking one class, [students] are taking the initiative to really better themselves and grow and further their academic career,” Gilkesson says. “They shouldn’t be punished for not being able to find steady employment in the economy that we are in today.”
Either they live in an alternate reality or they’re just plain ignorant and stupid.
It’s like they just get up and claim any reality they choose. Economy demonstrably doing well? Not to them. The follow up question should have been “what do you mean by ‘the economy we are in today’?”
Maybe they mean: the economy is so good that going to college is not the normal choice as they could make money, so we need to subsidize people going to school or else they will drop out to just work.
A for effort.
The follow up question should have been “what do you mean by ‘the economy we are in today’?”
In an economy like this, that student, if s/he isn’t careful, might end up being offered a job at an income which would render them ineligible for food stamps. Possibly a full time job which would eliminate the need to even be in school. Won’t somebody think of the diversity officers?
Good morning, Old Man!
And a good morning to all of you shiny, happy people!
Man, who would have thought legalization was so complicated? I love how it’s OK in the backyard, but verboten on the front porch. Idiots.
Still, we can’t even to manage that level of legalization. Sad when you lag fucking IL.
Moar accordion!
No Vikings today, so I’ll be rooting for your favorite team!
Have a great day, peeps!
Hiya Tundra!
“…we can’t even to manage that level of legalization. Sad when you lag fucking IL.”
I guess you kinda got to expect it when you think of how far behind they were on concealed carry.
I guess.
I was pleased that, although I still had to jump through hoops, the new sheriff here turned around my permit renewal in less than a week. MN sucks on many levels, but guns are still OK.
Not trying to be glib, (ok, a little) but when any HP or deputy can do a criminal background check on the side of the road during a traffic stop, it needing to be mailed in at all is BS.
Need to beat the Packers tomorrow night.
Euphemism confirmed.
*double checks* Confirmation is confirmed.
Thanks to the Joo I get gifts in a few days!
Tim Allen Was the Jordan Peterson of the ’90s
Tim Allen, man.
Tim Allen movies, ranked:
Galaxy Quest
Toy Story movies, I guess
AND THAT’S IT
Gosh I love anachronisms. Soyboys are a product of 2010’s culture of men chasing liberal tail. There was no concept of soyboys in the 90’s
Yeah I interpreted the first milk scene as him not wanting to play along and giving the girl an excuse. So the next year she leaves soy milk, which in the 90’s tasted like shit.
Its an inelegant joke, but a joke nonetheless.
Tim Allen Santa Claus related and funny too:
https://youtu.be/dPWuylyR9v4
Huh?
Every identity movement “poses the same danger of sliding into” a grievance movement, and every grievance movement eventually devolves into hate. But identities don’t have to be formed over grievances, and the slide should not be so well greased.
Or, to put it more succinctly, now do feminism/gender “affirmation”/fat acceptance/etc.
Lobster analogies?
We had Clint Eastwood.
a guy who has pretty much disappeared until 2024.
Nah, that Crowder guy has him on all the time.
I admit that I have no idea who that is.
He may be a not funny person who bashes the libs, or Raylan Jenning’s nemesis and sometimes friends.
He has his moments, typically its the into.
Givens.
shut up
Look Fat, If you aren’t corrected you’ll never learn.
Joe Pags has Cruz on his radio show on a regular basis as well.
But I agree with OMWC. Since Orange Man assumed the race of the “Rethuglican” Party ol’ Ted is ignored by the NPR crowd.
Tell Santa you want to be the only one on your block who has one
Bob Boberson: Thanks for starting that threads last night, and the following discussion. It was very helpful.
Merry Christmas.
Remember falling in love with Jennifer Beals?
Yes, yes I do
Yes
For me, it was the dinner scene
Hell yes.
I’ve never seen that movie.
lol of course not.
But I did love her in The Chicago Code which should have ran for more than 1 season.
Still tasty, too.
I never saw that movie, but I am now.
It is truly absurd and not very good but also it’s awesome.
I like that she popularized the Just Raped Look.
Big Trouble was pretty good.
Should have been a reply to Crusty about Tim Allen movies.
For a moment I thought you were referring to Nothing But Trouble and just straight-up shit-posting.
But, yes, Big Troublehad its moment
just straight-up shit-posting.
Moi?
In your case, that’s just called “posting”
^not satire
Monty Python’s Twit Olympics hit hardest.
What you can’t say about Star Wars.
https://youtu.be/0shyeFjvrP8
Lawrence Welk gave me a childhood flashback. Not sure it was a good one. I was more into Hee Haw.
I’m watching FOX because the local NBC tower has apparently been taken out by domestic terrorists. They were just yammering about election interferencing (Rooshunz, Yookrayniacs, whomever).
Until somebody can show me conclusive proof of election count manipulation by these shadowy furrin oligarrx (much the same as I’m still waiting for somebody to convince me each dollar spent converts directly to a vote in the ballot box), I will just shrug my shoulders and say, “Only an idiot would NOT have a rationally self-interested opinion on an American Presidential election.”
Just what a russian bot would say.
If you can’t prove foreign election interference didn’t occur to a meaningful degree you need to be quiet and listen to your betters. Just turn off your brain and eat what they feed you Brooks.
Get rid of your TV. One of the best choices I ever made, and even then I only had OTA channels.
The best counter to “Russian election interference” is to say “I don’t give a shit what the Russians think of our elections” and move on with your lives. Instead, Putin is living rent-free in more people’s heads than he ever could have influenced on his own.
In 2018, a local environmental group spent $75k on targeted Facebook ads in support of an initiative. It went down 60-40 in a deep blue state. Since half the Russian ads were pro-Clinton, they spent just as much as the Russians spent getting Trump elected nationally.
Information is very bad. If people know what they’re voting for, they might just do..well anything. Maybe elect Trump or something? That’s why we need to get the money out of politics.
$75K? That’s almost as much as the Russians spent on Facebook in the middle of a multi-billion dollar campaign.
Was it election interference when the Germans let Obama have his big rally in Berlin?
You know who else had a big rally in Berlin?
https://reason.com/2019/12/19/mccain-conservatives-are-rallying-behind-justin-amash/
Reason is touting this as some kinda libertarian moment. Look, I hope Amash convinces the McCain folk that libertarianism is the way and war is evil. But something tells me this is just about the impeachment.
If McCainites are getting behind Amash that just makes me wonder about Amash more than I already do.
Typical moral calculus of enemy of my enemy, etc.. And just about as deep.
What Stinky said.
Shouldn’t you feel disgusted and sleazy if anyone associated with McCain is around you?
Definition of oxymoron? “McCain Conservatives”
Oh c’mon, they even have a theme song – bomb, bomb, bomb… bomb, bomb Iran.
The average McCain supporter is in his 70’s and has no issues overrunning Iran and opening up a “Disney Persia” within their lifetimes.
Not any more. The average Mccain supporter around here is a kool-aid drinking blue team flag waver. Anyone who made any minor dent in Trump is venerated as a hero by these people.
This is it, the last Hebraic links before some fat dude slides down your chimney and raids your bar while you’re sleeping.
If he leaves a busty Jewess or two for me, that’s OK.
My healing continues apace, SP is doing the preps for our Christmas dinner (four kinds of tamales), and I’m gleefully going through a massive gift from one of our IRL Glib friends- a collection of old 45s and 78s, the thick pre-LP shellac types. It’s a hilarious mix of material ranging from Verdi to Frank Sinatra to Lawrence Welk.
All excellent news.
But Schiff noted there are “too many Republicans” willing to go along with anything Trump says, no matter how absurd. He specifically called out Senators Lindsey Graham and Ron Johnson, accusing them of purely doing Trump’s bidding.
Doing someone else’s bidding? Do I detect a little projection?
But a lot of weed use will remain illegal. Here is what you need to know below. All the Tribune’s marijuana coverage is here.
That’s a lot of restrictions. They don’t mention the Feds, though I can’t see a Chicago newspaper mentioning that even if marijuana use is legal in your state, the Feds consider illegal so that affects gun buying/owning. Though on the other hand, I’d rather have this than outright prohibition.
Some low-income college students are among the 688,000 food stamp recipients projected to lose benefits as a result of a Trump administration rule announced Dec. 4. While the rule explicitly targets “able-bodied adults without dependents,” it also limits food assistance for a share of college students at a time when campuses across the country are grappling with how to respond to food insecurity.
College students on food stamps? WTF?
Debbie Dingell is on, now. I take it all back. She’s a towering intellect and an American treasure.
Short off herself joining in, I think Biden is going to get the nomination. So what are we putting the odds on that Biden follows through and punches Trump? And does that hurt or help his campaign?
Its lke WWE smackdown. It appeals to the inner trash of us all.
Loser has to do push-ups.
Soshul Meeeedias! Bullying!
Weep for America.
Does the Movie Industry Need an Unsafe Space?
My God let’s protest.
College students on food stamps? WTF?
You can’t expect them to eat in the campus cafeteria can you? They might encounter an appropriated ban-mi.
That appropriation better be gluten free and locally sourced.
Huh. Juan Williams is still alive. And if I heard him correctly, he thinks an acquittal in the Senate would be nothing less than “jury nullification”.
I’m guessing jury nullification is being treated as a bad thing?
Will of the people!!11!!
I’ve seen that jury and it need nullifying.
The House gets to write its own laws and the Senate has to follow them?
Just like how the president has to comply without questioning with house demands or face obstruction charges.
My fave may be that going to court to ask if he has to comply with a subpoena is “obstruction”.
News from the 49th and best state:
It’s cold here: https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/First-official-50-below-recording-of-the-season-566409421.html
My car’s brake lines froze at -54 when I was out for a drive in the Fortymile Country last year. It’s only -3 according to my neighbor’s weather station here in Anchorage.
Throw some more money at the problem: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/lawless/2019/12/21/six-ways-to-fix-alaskas-law-enforcement-crisis/
ANCSA, while the least worst idea at the time, has been and remains a total failure. I’m not sure why the author thinks that communities who routinely fail to deliver basic infrastructure, health care, K-12 education and other modern provisions without massive state and federal subsidies will do any better when it comes to law enforcement. Of course, unlike the author, I’m not blatantly gunning for a Pulitzer Prize.
“News from the 49th and best state:”
If the state is so good, then why do you have a law enforcement crisis?
I would think ones brakes wouldn’t freeze in the “best” state. That is no fucking around cold right there.
The gas station clerk and I spent a good five minutes throwing various liquids up in the air to see what made for the best colored cloud.
Excuse me, the preferred term is African-American cloud.
Cloud of color. Get with it you’re waaay behind.
Because a crisis can be exploited for personal and institutional gain. Much harder to admit that attempting to prop up dysfunctional communities off the road system will always be a losing proposition.
Maybe that’s what makes it the best state?
Be careful what you wish for, Alaska, ’cause you might get it.
Consequences
Nothing is going to change except more dollars get wasted.
What else would they do with it? Write larger permanent dividend checks?
The PFD payout formula is in state statute.
These people want the big Fed Bux.
The taps right there. Help yourself AK! Unlimited flow of sweet sweet lucre!
Fake news.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/as-climate-change-melts-alaskas-permafrost-roads-sink-homes-tilt-and-greenhouse-gases-release/
^klimate porn
I seem to remember a lot of trees in Alaska that grow in funny shapes as the permafrost thaws and freezes over the years.
I’m guessing jury nullification is being treated as a bad thing?
Nothing less than a repudiation of democracy.
Of course it’s Michigan.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/mysterious-green-slime-michigan-highway-identified
For 3 years the EPA has known about this business, and yet this chemical still leaked it’s way out of the basement. I’m shocked. Shocked! that the EPA allowed this to happen.
https://youtu.be/j3Uy9wsfkok
But of course…
Hexavalent chromium is the best chromium.
It killed a buddy’s dad and several folks who worked with him: They all died of a weird leukemia; no Erin Brockovich came to save them.
I continue to argue here that chemicals are terribly dangerous, a tragedy of the commons that fairly calls out for a rare if inefficient regulatory exception to my laissez faire ideals. The chemical situation is not angels on the head of a pin or something that can be easily handled after the fact in civil court: it’s something that may well disfigure or kill someone you love.
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/qarmat-ali/index.asp
Missed it by this much. Thank you Rumsfeld.
ICYMI:
Love the new handle/avatar combo.
And you’ve changed my thinking on the pollution deal. Some.
Fun fact- if you have (hard) trivalent chrome, Peroxide can drive it back to hexavalent.
Ax me how I know.
Harry Potter. Jewish Superhero.
https://mcucosmic.com/2019/12/21/daniel-radcliffe-rumored-to-be-considered-for-marc-spector-in-moon-knight/
Investment bankers are now waging the war on coal
I assume they are doing so because they care.
Something, something, Solyndra.
The better plan is to make everyone dig through the trash and separate it all out into different bins. Then we’ll double the amount of trash trucks to pick it all up separately. Then, when the trash hits the transfer station we’ll mix it all back together and finally bring it all to the dump in one huge heap. This will fix the climate catastrophe or whatever it’s called this week.
Pictured.
From another article talking about this story:
“However, it is important to note that shifting financial conditions of certain industries undercuts the significance of Goldman’s new policy. The coal industry is dying a slow but painful death; it’s not clear why major investment banks would want to get into that sector anyway. The same is true for Arctic oil. Royal Dutch Shell abandoned a major Arctic exploration program earlier this decade, and it wasn’t because of concerns about climate change.
Goldman can simply close the door on unprofitable financing ventures while also taking credit for “leading” on climate change. Notably, Goldman did not close the door on other forms of oil and gas, including oil sands and shale.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Is-Wall-Street-Turning-Its-Back-On-Fossil-Fuels.html
Side note: oilprice.com seems to have decent financial news commentary, I’ve been visiting it more frequently.
Don’t tell China or India.
Arctic oil has trouble competing with fracking on a cost basis. They can frame it as being green or eco-friendly or whatever, but it’s a dollars and cents issue.
And David Solomon, the bank’s chief executive, called for countries to put a price on greenhouse-gas emissions in an editorial in the Financial Times.
I’m long Corning Glass. I hear they’re developing a trash-can resistant glass for use in office buildings.
Big Trouble was pretty good.
That wasn’t Tim Allen, that was Kurt Russell.
You people…
Ah, I got to sleep late (7!), walked on the beach, and had a leisurely breakfast. Vacation is the best
Where are you vacationing? (Or do you live near the beach? I forget.)
Facebook, right wing propaganda machine
Peter Thiel is Big Tech’s most prominent Trump supporter. He is an unabashed enemy of the free press, having covertly funded a lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker three years ago. He has become one of the most vocal pro-monopoly advocates, taking a lonely stand in defense of Silicon Valley’s much-maligned megacorporations. He has channeled his immense wealth into projects that promise total surveillance of everyone and immortality for the superrich. And he has become Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted adviser during the most turbulent period in the social network’s history.
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Once quiet, Thiel’s influence over Facebook has grown louder as the company has tried to navigate a succession of scandals and seen its popularity plummet. His values are driving Facebook as the company doubles down on policies that empower demagogues and despots and disempower the rest of us.
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Last year, Facebook empowered former Republican Senator Jon Kyl to investigate the conservative claim that Facebook, like other Silicon Valley tech companies, was suppressing speech from the right. Like a similar partnership with the Heritage Foundation, the move may have been intended to bolster the company’s credibility with conservatives. But it backfired, with Kyl blasting the company for not taking conservatives’ concerns about speech seriously, even though those concerns had little to no basis.
Then, in October, Facebook launched a partnership with a number of news outlets. Facebook had become synonymous with the “fake news” problem, and its response was to empower legitimate outlets by launching Facebook News, a tab on its mobile app. But one of Facebook’s new partners was Breitbart, the alt-right hub that regularly publishes racist stories. As The Verge’s Casey Newton noted at the time, “Breitbart was included in the tab precisely for ideological reasons.… Certainly no one at Facebook seems to be suggesting that Breitbart is a reliable producer of high-quality journalism—the argument seems to be rather that it would be poor form to exclude them just because they once (for example) tagged relevant stories with the label ‘black crime.’”
“an unabashed enemy of the free press, having covertly funded a lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker three years ago”
I just love that one. People’s right to know! That fucktape was just like publishing the Pentagon Papers! The very survival of the Republic depended on getting that out there.
Serious journalism, for serious people.
lolwut
I must have missed the masses of Americans tossing their smartphones into the bonfire and proclaiming “Never again!”
Let’s not make any mention of why Gawker was being sued at all. Down the memory hole.
Free speech is being able to use illegally obtained video of people having sex for shits and giggles and profit. It is not being able to express a politically unpopular opinion without retribution or censorship.
AJ Daulero saying he would publish a child sex tape during his deposition has to be one of the greatest self-owns of this admittedly young century.
I *almost* feel bad for his lawyer.
Down the memory hole.
Just like the fact that everybody and their brother was reporting on Thiel’s “covert” funding of
… the lawsuit, and that it was Hogan’s suit and not Thiel’s to begin with.
(hit post too early)
But wait there’s more-
In October, Zuckerberg delivered a new manifesto for Facebook. While he continued to claim the company was about bringing people together, he also made a free-speech absolutist case in defense of his life’s work. “I am here today because I believe we must continue to stand for free expression,” he told an audience at Georgetown University. Facebook, in this telling, could not police its platform out of principle. It could not rid itself of hate speech and manipulative political advertisements aimed at promoting right-wing candidates, even if it wanted to. “I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians in a democracy,” he said.
*clutches chest, falls to floor*
All those undergrads probably retreated to their safe spaces afterwards and cried themselves to sleep.
WaPo headline:
1 in every 4 circuit judges is a Trump appointee
That’s okay. When he’s removed from office, all those judges will be kicked off the bench, sort of like a 21st century version of Suttee.
President Hillary will appoint replacements.
Thats not so many, think about it. The other choices are what? Obama and Bush? If you’ve been a circuit court judge for over 20 years, you probably need to retire, most those people have to be ~50 when they get the job. How many Clinton appointees are holding on and should quit? (probably a lot, I’m just saying, 1/4 of judges appointed by any given president makes sense)
The modus operandi is to find something completely ordinary and portray it as 1) The worst thing that has ever happened in American history, and 2) a direct consequence of Trump being president.
If the Ds picked 2/3 of the Senate in the above, I can see Trump’s appointees being impeached and vacated wholesale as stemming from an illegal presidency. Same with any administrative law coming out.
Their heroes
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Ghulam_Muhammad
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskander_Mirza
Those guys are special. But I guess they probably don’t even view the results as necessarily negative so…
Party of rationality, civility
“I’d like to see a bag of s**t right in his face,” De Niro said Friday during an appearance on the “Rumble” podcast of film director Michael Moore, another sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).
“Hit him right in the face like that and let the picture go all over the world,” De Niro said.
De Niro also said he hopes the candidate who wins the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination will try to humiliate Trump whenever they can.
The nominee has to “confront him and put him in his place because the people have to see that, to see him be humiliated,” the actor said.
The two-time Oscar winner has been blasting Trump since he won the presidency.
Whatever.
‘Look Fat’ the ancient actor went on to say, and challenged Trump to a boxing match.
I think Trump must have screwed DeNiro’s wife.
Fun fact- if you have (hard) trivalent chrome, Peroxide can drive it back to hexavalent.
Does that mean I can strip the chrome off my bumper (preferably without killing myself) so I can paint it?
There’s women who can do that in a much more environmentally friendly manner…
Winston’s Mom?
They’re all too busy with the golf ball/hose conundrum