That picture of s playground in the article reminded me of the safety changes to the Tot Lot at Metro Beach (now Lake St. Clair Metro park). They took out the tire swing which the kids loved, but even in the days when we were taking out daughter there the swing was an obvious danger requiring adult supervision to prevent toddlers from toddling into the swing's path. Elsewhere, platform walkaways have been lower to a foot or two above the ground, slides lowered, and everything else where a kid could get more than four feet above the ground. The Tot Lot used to be fun for every one from tots to tweens but now it just seems fun for tots. I'm all for better safety for table saws, and power tools in general but it just seems like Metro Beach has taken the fun out of play.
Oh boy, it’s always something. Making a run to the vet hospital 25 miles away, because that’s the closest one that could get me in, and I’m gonna have to admit her to have her seen. Little Alice has had diarrhea for a few days, and this morning she added vomiting to her repertoire. Good thoughts, please.
Can't say I LOVE the kids I don't have--I like 'em okay, but I'm kinda over it. I have an electric stove anyway (because it came with the condo, but I'll claim credit for the choice).
I do, however, love-Love-LOVE my cats. If I had any money I'd bet $$$ that the electric stove makes their little respiratory systems work a little easier too.
Thanks for your attention to this matter, Lord Dok of Zoom. ✌🏿🖖🏿✊🏾
Completely unsurprising that the Mad King who fucks up his foundation constantly—girl please!—has an administration and governmental organs which are humorless and thoughtless. But the right thinks cruelty and spite are godly and god-given virtues hence they have the heaven-sent right to impose that on We The People🤦🏼♂️😤
"Governmental organs" was not on the bingo card. As to the foundation, it's possible that somebody's approach here is to not bring it up and let his appearance really go downhill to a 25th finish line.
“Lord Dok of Zoom”? This moment will go down in Wonk annals as the one in which the evil arch-villain was born… Do not ask me why is that the adjectival specificity is required, just following protocol here.
You do you, protocol-wise. Been calling all of our talented writers here at Wonkette, and many commenters with the "Lord/Lady X(given name) of Z(family name) for over a decade now inna commentz. No offense taken nor implied, yo!😎
"All's fair in love and war."😉 May all the godz bless you and keep you, good day!🫡 As you were, comrades ✊🏾
Gas stoves were made obsolete by induction burners. Those ranges are HELLA safer, and achieve exact same boil water times and whole pot heating that gas stove enthusiasts claim makes it the superior method of cooking to an electric range.
Induction single burners are inexpensive and portable, just like a single hot point gas Bunson burner, and can augment an electric range or be a nice full separate range unit like they have in fancy houses with double wall ovens. (Those cost $$$$ though.)
You need pans with enough iron to attract the magnet supplied with my portable induction unit, basically a good fridge magnet. The cast iron dutch oven was fine. My stainless pan with the aluminum insert (from a camping resale shop in Alaska) not so much. New compatible pans are marked, but there's no harm in carrying a fridge magnet safely away from fragile items on your person.
The longest power failure I’ve ever seen around here lasted about six weeks. That was a tough start to a winter, and a lot of people had their plumbing freeze up, even though it was really early in the winter, and it wasn’t even that cold.Those who know what they’re looking at can identify birch trees that were bent over by the early snow that year.
Technology Connections actually starts out that video with exactly that concern. "Oh no, the power has gone out! How unfortunate that I was about to cook dinner on my induction range! But look, what is this?! My old portable camping stove that runs on propane! Hooray, dinner is saved!"
“Oh no, the power has gone out! How unfortunate… But look, what is this? My old propane range, right here where I left it…”
I think these things have to be contextualized. There are some places where the combination of circumstances is going to temper your decision. Even if something’s right in 95% of the applications, it could still be all wrong in the other 5%. If my power goes out for a long time, I can still wash my hair and bathe by heating water up on the stove, wash dishes, etc.
Furthermore, power outages are usually caused by storms or excessive snow, which means that I could be snowed in as well for a while. At times like that, you hunker down and make do.
I think it also may be less of a concern if you pair the modern stove tech with a solar power source. Even if that power source is usually just augmenting your house to reduce the power bill in winter, in the event of a total outage, you'd still be able to run a single induction burner off the weak winter light. (Won't help on a cloudy or very snowy day, though.)
Of course, I'm coming at this from the perspective of the US south, where the most likely time our power goes out is in the summer or fall from a hurricane, or from a short lived ice storm in the winter. Actual long duration snowfall is very rare in Georgia! We went about 20 hours without power a few weeks ago after a nasty wind storm took out the power at 1500 sites across the state.
The last time I had a multi-day outage the sump pit filled and ran off to the floor drain in the basement, as poured. I did see a leak from further down the wall also run to the drain. I spent the rest of that year raising the grade outside that wall and rerouting/extending that downspout extension more directly away from the house. The pump barely cycles these days.
I haven't had an outage in cold winter weather. Six weeks is brutal.
I knew some people who cooked and lit their house with propane, and they had some car batteries that they used for things that needed electricity. They bought them at JCPenney‘s, at which time they had a guarantee that if your battery went dead, you could charge it up for free at the store. So they would use up a charge, then go get it charged up again over and over and over again. They were pretty much not impacted at all.
I just had my propane bottle topped off. It’s been two years since I filled it, and it was only about half empty, which means that is gonna last me quite a while. My oven has an electric fired thermostat so I couldn’t use that in an outage but the range works just fine. My water is trucked in, and I have it set up so I can draw off of it in the event of a power failure. I have enough firewood to get me through till spring if I have to heat with just that. I have a couple of oil lamps. Plenty of musical instruments, art, supplies, books, and cats. I’m not dependent upon durable medical equipment that needs power to function in order to stay alive. Wouldn’t be fun, but people are adaptable.
Once, when I was a young fukui, maybe eleven years old, I'd go play with my friend Kev in The Woods.
The Woods was where no adults would fuck with you and you could do whatever you wanted. Including being exceptionally stupid.
Me and my Raleigh Boxer were kick ass. Me and my bike could do anything. I could slide it, jump it, even do a bunny hop.
There was this bit in the woods where there was a sheer drop and then a slope down. It was mostly sand, I think. The drop was at least five feet. You see where this is going. Nobody was stupid enough to ride their bike off the drop.
Until one. I took a run up. I didn't want to go too fast because otherwise I might have hurt my face with branches on the run up. I launched. I'm in the sky. I tried to do a stunt where I plied my bike sideways in the air but really all that meant was I was going to hurt myself more when I hit the ground. I hit the ground, laughed, and walked off like a boss. Wait, no, that's not how it happened, I hit the ground, bounced, sand was fucking everywhere, my leg was tangled in my bike, I hit my head hard and we're sliding down the hill as a stupid cartoon bike-kid mess.
Eventually it stops and I'm still alive with a bike on top of me and somehow I haven't broken anything and Kev is yelling "FUCKING HELL DO THAT AGAIN!" at me but I don't really want to do that.
Because stairs, amirite? I slipped on my stairs a few months ago, and felt myself going down and thought, “this is gonna be bad…“. Fortunately, I broke a bracket on the handrail, instead of my leg. I’m a lot more careful now.
Warmed up: hard stretching, legs, pre & post. 100 plank glute-leg extensions *slow* & lifts. 50reps arm babby-weights. About 8 more sets to go, maybe 10, over the day.
I dare you to go swim for an hour, today. It'll be a great wake-up!
The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite new world screwworm has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday.
The case, related to a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, was confirmed to be screwworm by the CDC on Aug. 4, HHS spokesman Andrew G. Nixon confirmed to Reuters, who first reported the story...
La Vida Loca, YouTube's daily mini cruise show, always has a segment near the end telling people to get up and dance for at least a minute. I believe his audience is mostly retirees, but I love that he's responded to requests to omit the dance break with "NO."
Because it's no fun without some cruelty or retribution. For what, exactly? No one knows because the president HAS ADVANCED DEMENTIA.
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿-𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗟𝗶𝗽-𝗕𝘂 𝗧𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 — The Truth Social post, the White House meeting, the deal: How the struggling chip company managed a two-week roller-coaster ride
“Trump loves meetings with CEOs,” even those whom he has attacked publicly, according to people with knowledge of the conversations.
The next day, Tan met with Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the Oval Office. He sought to convince the president that he wasn’t a Chinese spy and that the U.S. government has a long-term interest in bolstering Intel, one of the only homegrown manufacturers of the computer chips that power the modern economy. "
The "rich" (greedy fucks) control our government. I love reading in print how obvious it is.
Right now? "Ignore it, pretend it never happened, insist it doesn't affect anything now anyway, and hope it all goes away," is how we've always handled everything.
Bury it in the sand, and a decade later when the child is in therapy and has cut off all contact with the relatives who knew it was happening, wail and gnash the teeth. (That's my poor niece. I'm surrogate mom now that her own mom isn't getting in the way.)
𝗭𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹, 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀. "When we come to a stage when you have to sign documents, we would need a very clear understanding by everybody that the person who is signing is legitimate, and ... Mr. Zelensky is not," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Soooo Zelensky followed the constitution and is somehow illegitimate because he didn't hold an unconstitutional election. Right. You know, martial law is pretty extreme, but being invaded is an appropriate reason for it.
Trump threatens Chris Christie after ABC News interview: 'For the sake of justice'
"I just watched Sloppy Chris Christie be interviewed on a ratings challenged “News” Show, “This Week With George Slopadopolus,” on ABC Fake News," Trump's post began.
Can anyone believe anything that Sloppy Chris says?" Trump's post reads. "Do you remember the way he lied about the dangerous and deadly closure of the George Washington Bridge in order to stay out of prison, at the same time sacrificing people who worked for him, including a young mother, who spent years trying to fight off the vicious charges against her."
Chris refused to take responsibility for these criminal acts. For the sake of JUSTICE, perhaps we should start looking at that very serious situation again? NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!" the post adds."
That picture of s playground in the article reminded me of the safety changes to the Tot Lot at Metro Beach (now Lake St. Clair Metro park). They took out the tire swing which the kids loved, but even in the days when we were taking out daughter there the swing was an obvious danger requiring adult supervision to prevent toddlers from toddling into the swing's path. Elsewhere, platform walkaways have been lower to a foot or two above the ground, slides lowered, and everything else where a kid could get more than four feet above the ground. The Tot Lot used to be fun for every one from tots to tweens but now it just seems fun for tots. I'm all for better safety for table saws, and power tools in general but it just seems like Metro Beach has taken the fun out of play.
Oh boy, it’s always something. Making a run to the vet hospital 25 miles away, because that’s the closest one that could get me in, and I’m gonna have to admit her to have her seen. Little Alice has had diarrhea for a few days, and this morning she added vomiting to her repertoire. Good thoughts, please.
Can't say I LOVE the kids I don't have--I like 'em okay, but I'm kinda over it. I have an electric stove anyway (because it came with the condo, but I'll claim credit for the choice).
I do, however, love-Love-LOVE my cats. If I had any money I'd bet $$$ that the electric stove makes their little respiratory systems work a little easier too.
Thanks for your attention to this matter, Lord Dok of Zoom. ✌🏿🖖🏿✊🏾
Completely unsurprising that the Mad King who fucks up his foundation constantly—girl please!—has an administration and governmental organs which are humorless and thoughtless. But the right thinks cruelty and spite are godly and god-given virtues hence they have the heaven-sent right to impose that on We The People🤦🏼♂️😤
"Governmental organs" was not on the bingo card. As to the foundation, it's possible that somebody's approach here is to not bring it up and let his appearance really go downhill to a 25th finish line.
[tire screech sound fx] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel_series)
“Lord Dok of Zoom”? This moment will go down in Wonk annals as the one in which the evil arch-villain was born… Do not ask me why is that the adjectival specificity is required, just following protocol here.
"Adjectival"? Bravo and/or brava!!! 👏🏼🙇♂️🤣
You do you, protocol-wise. Been calling all of our talented writers here at Wonkette, and many commenters with the "Lord/Lady X(given name) of Z(family name) for over a decade now inna commentz. No offense taken nor implied, yo!😎
"All's fair in love and war."😉 May all the godz bless you and keep you, good day!🫡 As you were, comrades ✊🏾
Gas stoves were made obsolete by induction burners. Those ranges are HELLA safer, and achieve exact same boil water times and whole pot heating that gas stove enthusiasts claim makes it the superior method of cooking to an electric range.
Induction single burners are inexpensive and portable, just like a single hot point gas Bunson burner, and can augment an electric range or be a nice full separate range unit like they have in fancy houses with double wall ovens. (Those cost $$$$ though.)
I defer to Technology Connections, which I believe should be required viewing on the regular for anyone who does technology regulation, because he explains the tech in simple enough terms for middle school students. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzJKxUCKOBg&ab_channel=TechnologyConnections
Do you need entirely new cookware?
I have one small older aluminum pan that wouldn't pass muster, but most of my pots and pans are steel or cast iron.
You need pans with enough iron to attract the magnet supplied with my portable induction unit, basically a good fridge magnet. The cast iron dutch oven was fine. My stainless pan with the aluminum insert (from a camping resale shop in Alaska) not so much. New compatible pans are marked, but there's no harm in carrying a fridge magnet safely away from fragile items on your person.
The longest power failure I’ve ever seen around here lasted about six weeks. That was a tough start to a winter, and a lot of people had their plumbing freeze up, even though it was really early in the winter, and it wasn’t even that cold.Those who know what they’re looking at can identify birch trees that were bent over by the early snow that year.
That kind of thing leaves a few scars.
Technology Connections actually starts out that video with exactly that concern. "Oh no, the power has gone out! How unfortunate that I was about to cook dinner on my induction range! But look, what is this?! My old portable camping stove that runs on propane! Hooray, dinner is saved!"
“Oh no, the power has gone out! How unfortunate… But look, what is this? My old propane range, right here where I left it…”
I think these things have to be contextualized. There are some places where the combination of circumstances is going to temper your decision. Even if something’s right in 95% of the applications, it could still be all wrong in the other 5%. If my power goes out for a long time, I can still wash my hair and bathe by heating water up on the stove, wash dishes, etc.
Furthermore, power outages are usually caused by storms or excessive snow, which means that I could be snowed in as well for a while. At times like that, you hunker down and make do.
I think it also may be less of a concern if you pair the modern stove tech with a solar power source. Even if that power source is usually just augmenting your house to reduce the power bill in winter, in the event of a total outage, you'd still be able to run a single induction burner off the weak winter light. (Won't help on a cloudy or very snowy day, though.)
Of course, I'm coming at this from the perspective of the US south, where the most likely time our power goes out is in the summer or fall from a hurricane, or from a short lived ice storm in the winter. Actual long duration snowfall is very rare in Georgia! We went about 20 hours without power a few weeks ago after a nasty wind storm took out the power at 1500 sites across the state.
January 1, 11:29 AM. Cat basking in the sunshine. https://substack.com/profile/1687878-1d57a1d5931d/note/c-149363692?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
ETA: same day, 11 AM, and 1:44 PM, no cats. I took a lot of pictures that day because we hadn’t seen the sun for three weeks, so this was kind of significant. https://substack.com/profile/1687878-1d57a1d5931d/note/c-149366702
You have those lovely massive trees, and I can only imagine the damage they could do to a power grid, when they go down.
The last time I had a multi-day outage the sump pit filled and ran off to the floor drain in the basement, as poured. I did see a leak from further down the wall also run to the drain. I spent the rest of that year raising the grade outside that wall and rerouting/extending that downspout extension more directly away from the house. The pump barely cycles these days.
I haven't had an outage in cold winter weather. Six weeks is brutal.
I knew some people who cooked and lit their house with propane, and they had some car batteries that they used for things that needed electricity. They bought them at JCPenney‘s, at which time they had a guarantee that if your battery went dead, you could charge it up for free at the store. So they would use up a charge, then go get it charged up again over and over and over again. They were pretty much not impacted at all.
I just had my propane bottle topped off. It’s been two years since I filled it, and it was only about half empty, which means that is gonna last me quite a while. My oven has an electric fired thermostat so I couldn’t use that in an outage but the range works just fine. My water is trucked in, and I have it set up so I can draw off of it in the event of a power failure. I have enough firewood to get me through till spring if I have to heat with just that. I have a couple of oil lamps. Plenty of musical instruments, art, supplies, books, and cats. I’m not dependent upon durable medical equipment that needs power to function in order to stay alive. Wouldn’t be fun, but people are adaptable.
War hero asks,
Did Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, lie about getting a Bronze Star?” Trump asked.
Just asking questions!
Once, when I was a young fukui, maybe eleven years old, I'd go play with my friend Kev in The Woods.
The Woods was where no adults would fuck with you and you could do whatever you wanted. Including being exceptionally stupid.
Me and my Raleigh Boxer were kick ass. Me and my bike could do anything. I could slide it, jump it, even do a bunny hop.
There was this bit in the woods where there was a sheer drop and then a slope down. It was mostly sand, I think. The drop was at least five feet. You see where this is going. Nobody was stupid enough to ride their bike off the drop.
Until one. I took a run up. I didn't want to go too fast because otherwise I might have hurt my face with branches on the run up. I launched. I'm in the sky. I tried to do a stunt where I plied my bike sideways in the air but really all that meant was I was going to hurt myself more when I hit the ground. I hit the ground, laughed, and walked off like a boss. Wait, no, that's not how it happened, I hit the ground, bounced, sand was fucking everywhere, my leg was tangled in my bike, I hit my head hard and we're sliding down the hill as a stupid cartoon bike-kid mess.
Eventually it stops and I'm still alive with a bike on top of me and somehow I haven't broken anything and Kev is yelling "FUCKING HELL DO THAT AGAIN!" at me but I don't really want to do that.
BMX without a helmet.
I used to do stupid stuff like that. Now I won't go down stairs without a firm grasp on the handrail.
Because stairs, amirite? I slipped on my stairs a few months ago, and felt myself going down and thought, “this is gonna be bad…“. Fortunately, I broke a bracket on the handrail, instead of my leg. I’m a lot more careful now.
I was loitering in a downtown park a few weeks ago. It was evening, and I was enjoying an ice cream.
These two skateboard dudes (do they still call them thrashers?) rolled by, talking.
First guy is hyperbolically explaining why he's not going do A Thing - "I shattered my spine"
Response was "yeah, but you *made* it".
Not how I would define making it.
Kev was poached from Schwinn and is now Product Safety Manager for Cannondale UK.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ebayimg.com%2F00%2Fs%2FNjgxWDEwMjQ%3D%2Fz%2FyiQAAOSwBt5ZMWMA%2F%24_86.JPG&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=00e79386ec685b09743bb088d32ad4d80fd5fd58187623fc386038483190aaf3
Bad ass, right?
Kev’s right! And now that you’ve finished that bottle of Cab, go steal a bike…
Yeah, it's confirmed.
I'm your sister.
WTF is WRONG with us???
These are the days before cell phones.
Only I saw that from my POV, and only Kev saw me fly.
Warmed up: hard stretching, legs, pre & post. 100 plank glute-leg extensions *slow* & lifts. 50reps arm babby-weights. About 8 more sets to go, maybe 10, over the day.
I dare you to go swim for an hour, today. It'll be a great wake-up!
Raise your hand if you didn’t see it coming!
Mississippi declares public health emergency over rising infant deaths
So, if hand is up, I’m a Nigerian prince who owns a bridge in Brooklyn…
It gives me chills anymore when a Republican leader declares anything an "emergency"
Wonder who they will deport now
𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗵-𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦., 𝗛𝗛𝗦 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀
The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite new world screwworm has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday.
The case, related to a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador, was confirmed to be screwworm by the CDC on Aug. 4, HHS spokesman Andrew G. Nixon confirmed to Reuters, who first reported the story...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna226923
There's an appealing and illustrative photo! Not quite murder hornets or Mad Cows, but like they say, "If you have to leave 'em, leave 'em laughing...
Oh boy! Where’s that Kennedy fella?
The call is coming from inside his brain.
Was gonna ask if he went to visit the murder camp lately
Get up and dance. Or at least stretch, in a funky manner, and start working out.
Cage the Ele, 'Rainbow'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ovbnlE3wg
Said he wrote this after recovery from several years of medication-induced psychosis. I like this guy, he's resilient!
La Vida Loca, YouTube's daily mini cruise show, always has a segment near the end telling people to get up and dance for at least a minute. I believe his audience is mostly retirees, but I love that he's responded to requests to omit the dance break with "NO."
I shall get up and dance!
BosGlob:
𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦
𝐿𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑛, 𝑇.𝐹. 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛.
BDL: "What am I, chopped livah?"
PWM
, BXM we are forgotten too!
ORH not crowded.
Good point.. we used to fly out of orh a lot .. back before they built the fancy new terminal..
Nobody can pronounce it and runways small.
Because it's no fun without some cruelty or retribution. For what, exactly? No one knows because the president HAS ADVANCED DEMENTIA.
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿-𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗟𝗶𝗽-𝗕𝘂 𝗧𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 — The Truth Social post, the White House meeting, the deal: How the struggling chip company managed a two-week roller-coaster ride
https://www.wsj.com/tech/inside-intels-tricky-dance-with-trump-c03f729c?st=Bh9H4p&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Trump loves meetings with CEOs,” even those whom he has attacked publicly, according to people with knowledge of the conversations.
The next day, Tan met with Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the Oval Office. He sought to convince the president that he wasn’t a Chinese spy and that the U.S. government has a long-term interest in bolstering Intel, one of the only homegrown manufacturers of the computer chips that power the modern economy. "
The "rich" (greedy fucks) control our government. I love reading in print how obvious it is.
Yes, indeed, and there's a name for that. Wonder when or even if any of the major media will dare to use it..
This is where America is right now. [Non Sequitor]
https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/1b296fe05a33013eaef3005056a9545d
Right now? "Ignore it, pretend it never happened, insist it doesn't affect anything now anyway, and hope it all goes away," is how we've always handled everything.
Yep, at my age the countless "The company knew it was poisoning consumers" for X YEARS before doctors started raising the alarm seem numerous.
Now we don't trust doctors or experts.
See also almost any child who was abused, and how their family handled it.
Bury it in the sand, and a decade later when the child is in therapy and has cut off all contact with the relatives who knew it was happening, wail and gnash the teeth. (That's my poor niece. I'm surrogate mom now that her own mom isn't getting in the way.)
Were intelligent, world aware Americans (like us) watching the same things happening during the rise of Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s?
𝘡𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘬𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 2019. 𝘐𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 31, 2024, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘬𝘺'𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘺 20.
𝘕𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘈𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭, 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭-𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘦𝘣. 24, 2022.
𝗭𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹, 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝘀. "When we come to a stage when you have to sign documents, we would need a very clear understanding by everybody that the person who is signing is legitimate, and ... Mr. Zelensky is not," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-doesnt-have-legitimacy-to-sign-a-peace-deal-russias-top-diplomat-claims/?mc_cid=df95031770
Soooo Zelensky followed the constitution and is somehow illegitimate because he didn't hold an unconstitutional election. Right. You know, martial law is pretty extreme, but being invaded is an appropriate reason for it.
"Logic" for both Putin and Trump only means reasons and excuses for their inexcusable behavior.
https://i.imgflip.com/686adp.jpg
Sorry, is it Minister Laffoff or—???
"...we would need a very clear understanding by everybody that the person who is signing is legitimate, and ... Mr. Zelensky is not,"
So the bombing and terror campaign will continue until the Ukrainians install someone m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶p̶l̶i̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶ legitimate...
Which was supposed to happen in three weeks or less. They're still really pissed about that.
Lavrov is in dire need of a lightning bolt.
He's rewriting Ukrainian law.
Pretty rich, given how his boss gets "elected" ..
First day back with students today. Damn, but I hate getting up this early.
We've only got about 20 minutes with each class today, and I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with that.
Check for lice...
I'd recommend against watching porn, but then again I'm not a professional educator.
Maybe just the first day...
"Only on Day One"
Yeah, that never really entered my mind as an option.
Good luck! May the cootie vectors behave!
Trump threatens Chris Christie after ABC News interview: 'For the sake of justice'
"I just watched Sloppy Chris Christie be interviewed on a ratings challenged “News” Show, “This Week With George Slopadopolus,” on ABC Fake News," Trump's post began.
Can anyone believe anything that Sloppy Chris says?" Trump's post reads. "Do you remember the way he lied about the dangerous and deadly closure of the George Washington Bridge in order to stay out of prison, at the same time sacrificing people who worked for him, including a young mother, who spent years trying to fight off the vicious charges against her."
Chris refused to take responsibility for these criminal acts. For the sake of JUSTICE, perhaps we should start looking at that very serious situation again? NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!" the post adds."
Statute of limitations. Pound sand.
But on the other hand, fuck Chris Christie.
'No one is above the law' means nothing after the Supreme Court decided Presidents are, in fact, above the law.
You know who else failed to take responsibility for criminal acts?
every. damned. accusation.
Release the Epstein files, since you are suddenly so concerned about justice, you fucking convicted felon!
Sorry, the AI is still generating the Epstein files.
Maybe in two weeks.
Ugh, I thought of that yesterday during the random threats towards cities. It's probably a AI list of all the "Dem Cities" that included black mayor's
(Must be using Elno's Grok AI ... they have to redact the MechaHitler references)
Says the Oompa-Loompa who has never taken responsibility for anything in his entire life.