Dang ! Big shake up at Racket News and there will no longer be a podcast with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn. Whiffs of conflict in today's abbreviated and clearly unscripted podcast with Matt. It's very unfortunate this era has concluded.
"A private Bay Area Catholic high school is dealing with an outbreak of tuberculosis, according to city health officials and multiple media reports.
As of last week, there have been three active cases of the airborne bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, with the first case at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco reported in November, KTLA’s sister station KRON reported.
Officials with the San Francisco Department of Public Health issued a Jan. 29 alert about the outbreak and said that more than 50 people in the school community have tested positive for latent TB.
A person with active tuberculosis experiences symptoms and can spread the infection to others. With latent TB, a person does not develop symptoms and is not infectious to others. Latent TB, however, can turn active at any time.
Health department officials urged health care providers seeing patients connected to the outbreak to look for signs of the infection.
In an email obtained by SFGATE, school officials announced last week that in-person classes would be suspended and that students would study remotely through Feb. 9 with a transition model lasting through Feb. 20. Staff and students who test negative after that date will be allowed on campus, and only those who have tested negative will be able to attend indoor off-campus activities, including sports events."
Jamie, prayers to your medical team for your safe and successful surgery. Good luck.
pray(v.)
early 13c., preien, "ask earnestly, beg (someone)," also (c. 1300) in a religious sense, "pray to a god or saint," from Old French preier "to pray" (c. 900, Modern French prier), from Vulgar Latin *precare (also source of Italian pregare), from Latin precari "ask earnestly, beg, entreat," from *prex (plural preces, genitive precis) "prayer, request, entreaty,"
I enjoyed something special today: my older one sent me a text that as she was driving with my nearly three-year-old grandson, he asked what song she was playing in the car because he really like it!! First time he’s expressed anything like that, and, as she and I share the same taste in music, we were both having a fit! It’s the little things… :)
The song was ‘Sweet and Low’ by Tedeschi Trucks Band.
We live in an amazing time when once crazy idea surgeries were rare but thankfully now are no longer so. Best wishes for a smooth recovery from your surgery, Jamie. We’ll be here as always, ready to keep you distracted from that PT…;).
Jamie- Prayers for you, and remember, knees, hips, etc Doctors today do procedures like that thousands of times, I'm sure yours will go well, and you will be two stepping in no time.
Lots of prayers going out. Room for you too, Jamie.
Found out my college roommate maybe saying goodbye to his dad. My wife’s stepdad was just diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. I’m really hoping to hear some good health news.
Original Mike - I’m guessing you’re on your way to NZ now for your celestial observations - I just got back from Auckland last night myself. Whereabouts do you camp out for your dark sky observations?
No such thing as minor surgery. Once they open you, they can get some bad things out - but - other things can creep in. Knees are tricky from a result/relief POV but excellent from a safe POV. Best of luck. Don’t baby it post-op. Move it to the max allowed by your doc.
So China has decided that it wants to get out of the business of lending us money to build the military to attack it, and at the same time, leave it's money as a hostage to be seized when we decide we are mad at them.
Of course the press is blaming Trump, but it has been going on for a while with their sovereign debt, and now the warning has been extended to private banks, and it was Joe Biden and the Europeans who seized Russia's sovereign debt in a fit of pique.
It's amazing to read the propaganda being put out regarding a decision by China that makes eminent good sense, from their point of view. Propaganda that talks about everything but the elephant in the room.
I just saw English translation of lyrics of songs performed by bad bunny. Deviancy is free-fall. Also learned the NFL contracts with Jay Z to provide all SB halftime shows.
"The Abu Dhabi deal, reported by the Journal last week, marked the first time a foreign government official had taken a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president’s company. And Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, provided crucial backing for a new World Liberty product around the time that Zhao sought a presidential pardon for his 2023 conviction for failing to maintain internal money-laundering controls, the Journal has reported."
How a Billionaire Felon Boosted Trump’s Crypto Company en Route to a Pardon ~ WSJ "Binance facilitated $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology; clemency for Changpeng Zhao surprised some in administration" https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-trump-crypto-pardon-cz-changpeng-zhao-1007fde9?mod=article_inline
Long overdue expose of this slimy bunch of crypto shysters, keep it up WSJ.
But, but Hunter sold art. The “Biden crime family” is like child’s play compared to the Trump family.
But what about Hunter's laptop?? Just kidding... how could you explain to MAGA that this degree of corruption and nepotism has never been seen in history. Grifters gonna grift, I guess.
In hindsight, it was a genius move by the Republican Party to abandon everyone with an IQ above room temperature. Their voters are literally incapable of evaluating evidence and distinguishing between reality and dopey conspiracy theories.
One of Chinas economic problems is the collapse of foreign investment. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?locations=CN A lot of Chinese policy moves derive from that. At the same time their rate of capital flight, always bad, seems to have accelerated.
Ghislaine Maxwell may well be evil. Trump was probably right in that. I bet though when she was younger she was a hot item. Not, however, a girl you could bring home to mother.
The bad bunny BS is interesting in a way. From a Puerto Rican POV its an insane left rant, demanding, pretty much, PR independence. An exercise in illogical resentment, because the PR population, very logically, doesnt want independence, as it will then be left as an isolated Caribbean island with no way to make a living. Much as my own goals require that PR be returned to Spain, its going to be a very hard sell in Spain. No economic upside to compensate for those millions of useless mouths.
Trump is out to rip-off Canada by somehow blocking the opening of the new Gordie Howe Bridge between Detroit and Windsor - a bridge entirely paid for by Canada. Somehow Trump thinks that the U.S. is entitled to share in the tolls collected by Canada and no opening will happen until such time "the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve.”
The Ambassador Bridge that is now in use is privately owned by a Detroit trucking industry billionaire and his family, the Morouns which collects $300 million in cross-border tolls everyday.
From the Miami Herald: In July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein’s activities with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and Palm Beach.
“Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told Reiter, according to a 2019 FBI interview with Reiter contained in the Justice Department’s Epstein case files.
Someone is a sick pervert, but it’s not this lady:
https://apple.news/AT089WIINQRSPX1WFSuOuqQ
“Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler” The Guardian
Basically she wrote a book about an adult woman and man having a daddy/little girl fetish relationship. And she was convicted under Australian child porn law.
Thanks Gad, for posting the truth that Trump was the whistle blower on Epstein in 2006, whilst Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and the rest of the crew maintained their friendships although they knew what he was up to, too.
@Jamie It’s been 6 months since my second knee replacement. Best medical decision I’ve ever made. No pain, no issues! Praying for your speedy recovery.
Maybe it's the issue of direct investment in China, that fell off o cliff from the pandemic on, or maybe it's because the US is using the money to build the weapons to attack China in the future, but China just did another thing, which suggests that they are getting a little fed up with US military adventurism, they have published high resolution satellite images of US bases in the ME that anybody can go get, including people in Tehran.
Remember that the US is providing targeting data inside of Russia to Ukraine, before you get too worked up at the perfidy of it. Apparently it's not an act of war.
One of the impediments to war with China that the Rand Corporation, a US think tank, identified, was the economic interdependence between the US and China, and it makes sense, if what we are seeking, is an eventual kinetic showdown with China, that we would put a brake on Western investment there, with cover flown by propagandists to hide the true reasons. It would make sense, is all I am saying.
Check the charts. China FDI peaked in 2021, probably due to covid recovery. Then in 2022 to 2024 it crashed from 344Billion to 18.5Billion - @94 %. FDI mean from 2010-2019 was @230Billion. This is a fundamental economic change.
That is, net FDI, from all sources, most of which was not from the US. " maybe it's because the US is using the money to build the weapons to attack China in the future" This is just silly. What people invest in China (or what foreigners/Chinese disinvest in China) has nothing to do with the US defense budget.
Businesses are fleeing Newsome’s California for a variety of reasons, mostly the tax structure.
Boomer Esiason is now suggesting the NFL never play the Super Bowl in the golden state again. Each Seattle player earned $178,000 for winning the big game. Unfortunately for their QB Sam Darnold his tax bill for CA will be $249,000. Why? The jock tax, which is based on how many days you “work” in Newsome’s paradise, from the beginning of the season.
If there is anything positive to come from the Nancy Guthrie alleged kidnapping, it’s revealed how many retired FBI agents, and retired detectives have made it big on the networks. Every day it’s a new expert. Yesterday it was a new law enforcement branch tapped - a retired ATF agent.
john mosby, IANAL (certainly not Down Under) but my understanding is that child pron possession laws are often written very broadly given that with some effort in selection of models and staging such images can be created even though everybody in the photo is over the age of consent, plus the difficulty in locating the subjects to actually verify age, and it's even more likely now that Photoshop has given way to AI generation with no actual people invovled. Maybe some prosecutorial discretion should have been exercised but I'm not overly bothered. Given the current 'pedo' freak-out over Epstein in particular, and the general angst evident any time a man appears to violate the 'half your age plus 7' rule even with a woman obviously over the age of consent, applying the new rules uniformly seems reasonable.
3.5 million records of Epstein files released, so you’d think they’d mention me at least once, but NOOOO! Yet Sabine Hossenfelder gets multiple mentions. (I shoulda taken more physics classes.)
@Christopher B: the general angst evident any time a man appears to violate the 'half your age plus 7' rule even with a woman obviously over the age of consent
In the wealthy class that standard flies out the window. In high-end communities such as Carmel-by-the-Sea, one routinely spots retired men with their twenty-something trophy wives. You'd think they were daughters until sitting next to one in a restaurant.
The women get a pretty good deal: Have a kid or two (maybe), wait for hubby to die, inheirit $$$$$$$$$$, drive an aging luxury car for decades, and rattle around in a mansion like Norma Desmond.
The abandoned aging wives (e.g., Ivana Trump) don't suffer much either, as they enjoy $$$$$$$$$ and the same lifestyle after the divorce and before hubby dies.
…to add Seattle players pay no tax in WA while Patriots will get a credit in MA for their CA tax, meanwhile the owners usually write down the players contracts so quickly they can look like they have no income and usually avoid the big state tax hits. Continuing to spitball, Kraft et al prolly avoid getting nicked and Seahawks are in some trust arrangement since Paul died and Debbie is trustee, likely based somewhere favorable like WA
I’ve paid California income taxes for the work I used to do on the ground there, even for a quick twenty hour site visit. And the companies are very methodical about tracking and reporting such. I guess that’s what happens when a state has more than a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities…
Good morning Jamie! You’ll have a tough day today, I won’t lie. But it is the best day of the week for your surgeon and nurses. They’ll be on top of their game, and they will aim to make your tomorrow better than yesterday. Know that. Embrace that. You’ll be ok. They got you!
@Beasts of England on California's out-of-state tax tracking.
I used to have a bank account that was opened in Calfornia. I moved away. On at least two occasions the state attempted to harvest retirement/pension taxes from those who EVER earned income in California. This was stopped, but I closed my account.
Do not give the kleptos a paper trail. As they now drive the billionaries away with business and wealth taxes, the Wil-e-Coyote accountants are bound to look down and fall. California, Greece, and Turkiye have Mediterranean climates and good weather. They all have broken economies too.
“ People love the “China will dump Treasuries” idea—but in practice: • Large sales would: • Push Treasury prices down (hurting China’s remaining holdings) • Strengthen the yuan (hurting exports) • Signal financial stress
If there was any such thing as moral justice, this Guthrie saga on cable news TV would be permanently deconstructing the famous Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, conceived by Michael Crichton.
For over a week, the news is always the same: No body, no sign of the missing person, no suspects, no new information. But for 24 hours a day, we get to hear the latest updates: No body, no sign, no suspects, no new information, but here is a retired FBI agent/sheriff/cop/lawyer/doctor/scientist/weatherman/barber with some exciting information on what might be going on. Next: An update from our live drone on what might be happening as the pool boy cleans the skimmer and the septic tank is pumped out, but first: No body, no sign, no suspects, no new information. And now, a word from our sponsors.
Another few days of this, and you would think that nobody, nobody can listen to another minute of this blather and believe there could be even a shred of credibility attached to any of it, ever again. Gell-Mann, gone.
The Chicoms are commies, which means they would rather rule a steaming crap pile than be out of power in a thriving nation. Like our lefties, they don’t really believe in the pieties they recite about improving the workers’ lot.
So the CCP could very conceivably shoot a hole right through their own wallet if they thought it necessary for party survival. Certainly Xi’s generation will gladly downsize to slightly nicer Mao suits and Chinese-built limos if it means they stay out of prison camps and off lampposts.
Only hope is that maybe enough of the gun-holding elites like having hard currency and western goods enough to turn the guns around on Xi. CC, JSM
’On at least two occasions the state attempted to harvest retirement/pension taxes from those who EVER earned income in California.’
I’m not surprised at all!! I had one fiscal year when I was out there on various trips totaling about six weeks, and they dinged me enough to try to get it back - which I did - but what a hassle.
I try to forgive the state because it does have very good wines and some incredible golf courses, but…
IMO, Barack Obama is the most destructive American ever to live.
Obama brought Frankfurt School style Marxism to life in the USA, created more division and hate between demographic groups than at any other time in the past 50 years, and purposely reignited racism at a time when it was on life support.
He is a vile man who hates the USA, and his wife hates the USA even more.
All that is true, except that he’s only one of the most destructive. In 250 years we’ve had a lot of very destructive people: Woodrow Wilson introducing segregation into the federal government, Nathan Bedford Forrest founding the KKK after the Civil War, etc. But Obama has to be up there.
"Next: An update from our live drone on what might be happening as the pool boy cleans the skimmer and the septic tank is pumped out, but first: No body, no sign, no suspects, no new information. And now, a word from our sponsors."
’Hey Beasts--your grandson has great taste in music. Does that mean you get to skip the Raffi phase?’
I had to search Raffi, bb!
But, yes - we’ll make sure he skips all the kid stuff and gets a steady diet of Tedeschi, Panic, Billy Strings, and even some Phish to stimulate his little musical brain…
Interesting election results from Japan. Now, that's a mandate. I expect in the next couple of years all Pakistanis will be ejected from Japan and they'll rewrite their constitution and rearm.
Gad Saad @GadSaad · Things more intellectual than @JasmineForUS: 1) sand 2) rocks 3) my elliptical 4) Ebola Daily Wire @realDailyWire Jasmine Crockett: “I’ve always been someone who has been intellectual.”
"I don't wanna go to school, " Tom said to his mommy "You know you have to go to school, " Mom said back to Tommy "No one likes me there, " said Tom, he hid beneath the covers "I'd rather stay in bed, " he said. "Grow up, " said Tommy's mother Only little boys and girls Ever act like you do Now sit up and dry your eyes Get dressed and tie your shoes "I don't wanna go to school, " Tom said to his mommy "You know you have to go to school, " Mom said back to Tommy Tom ducked his head beneath the sheets and kicked his feet about His mother heard him whimpering and told him not to pout "I just can't face another day, the children are not nice" She wiped his cheek and told him to follow her advice "I don't wanna go to school, " Tom said to his mommy "You know you have to go to school, " Mom said back to Tommy "But people laugh at me at school, " Tom told his mom again "The teachers will not talk to me, I don't have any friends" "Now Tom get up, " said Tommy's mom, she hoped he was convincible "You've got to go to school, " she said, "because you are the Principal"
Our 20 month old grandson’s new (to him) fave is “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, with grandpa asking the question and little man providing the “who who who who who”.
"Original Mike - I’m guessing you’re on your way to NZ now for your celestial observations - I just got back from Auckland last night myself. Whereabouts do you camp out for your dark sky observations?"
Whiskeybum - Sorry for the slow response. Just got off a 17hr plane flight.
We will be two places for the next two dark windows, both centrally located on the South Island. The first window is at an Airbnb near Twizel and the second window on a sheep station 15 minutes north of Fairlie. Both very dark.
Right now the telescope is stuck in shipping. Hope to get it soon.
Beasts…..your grandson is off to a great start in music. All the years I spent in the car with my youngest son (now 22) playing the Grateful Dead, Phish, Tedeschi Trucks, Goose, Infamous Stringdusters paid off as we frequently go to shows together! I hope his interest continues to grow!
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Sabine Hossenfelder is in the Epstein Files!
Sabine Hossenfelder is in the Epstein Files!
A perplexing correlation of equity and inclusion.
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/2020941564688675152?s=20
The fourth picture is best
Very curious
https://substack.com/@scrivorium/p-186856245
Particularly because no one else had put this together
Tomorrow my left knee gets replaced, so I'll have a matched set! Will any who pray please pray for the competence and attention of my surgical team?
There have been rumors before
"Sabine Hossenfelder is in the Epstein Files!"
A classic Sabine rant.
Dang ! Big shake up at Racket News and there will no longer be a podcast with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn. Whiffs of conflict in today's abbreviated and clearly unscripted podcast with Matt. It's very unfortunate this era has concluded.
Everyone will be in The Epstein Files for fifteen minutes.
Hey, I flew over you when you were taking these photos.
@Jamie I hope everything goes swimmingly with your knee replacement and that you are back playing hockey in no time !
Prayers for you
"Will any who pray please pray for the competence and attention of my surgical team?"
I'd be happy to, but I'm a non-believer. So, if he's a vengeful God, well, best I just stay out of it.
Godspeed, Jamie!
Officials warn of tuberculosis outbreak at California high school
"A private Bay Area Catholic high school is dealing with an outbreak of tuberculosis, according to city health officials and multiple media reports.
As of last week, there have been three active cases of the airborne bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, with the first case at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco reported in November, KTLA’s sister station KRON reported.
Officials with the San Francisco Department of Public Health issued a Jan. 29 alert about the outbreak and said that more than 50 people in the school community have tested positive for latent TB.
A person with active tuberculosis experiences symptoms and can spread the infection to others. With latent TB, a person does not develop symptoms and is not infectious to others. Latent TB, however, can turn active at any time.
Health department officials urged health care providers seeing patients connected to the outbreak to look for signs of the infection.
In an email obtained by SFGATE, school officials announced last week that in-person classes would be suspended and that students would study remotely through Feb. 9 with a transition model lasting through Feb. 20. Staff and students who test negative after that date will be allowed on campus, and only those who have tested negative will be able to attend indoor off-campus activities, including sports events."
Jamie, may the Master Healer guide the surgeons hands tmrrw. I will lift you up in my daily office of prayer.
Fetterman switched sides. He can't see any reason why voters shouldn't show ID.
https://x.com/chriswithans/status/2020909387934810455?
Fetterman must not be in on the graft.
Jamie, prayers to your medical team for your safe and successful surgery. Good luck.
pray(v.)
early 13c., preien, "ask earnestly, beg (someone)," also (c. 1300) in a religious sense, "pray to a god or saint," from Old French preier "to pray" (c. 900, Modern French prier), from Vulgar Latin *precare (also source of Italian pregare), from Latin precari "ask earnestly, beg, entreat," from *prex (plural preces, genitive precis) "prayer, request, entreaty,"
Jamie, I know everything will go well with your surgery. CC, JSM
Best thoughts, Jamie.
I enjoyed something special today: my older one sent me a text that as she was driving with my nearly three-year-old grandson, he asked what song she was playing in the car because he really like it!! First time he’s expressed anything like that, and, as she and I share the same taste in music, we were both having a fit! It’s the little things… :)
The song was ‘Sweet and Low’ by Tedeschi Trucks Band.
https://youtu.be/XGMufdpQrU0
Prayers offered for you and your surgeon, Jamie.
Prayers for you, Jamie.
We live in an amazing time when once crazy idea surgeries were rare but thankfully now are no longer so. Best wishes for a smooth recovery from your surgery, Jamie. We’ll be here as always, ready to keep you distracted from that PT…;).
I’ll say a prayer for you, Jamie. You (and the surgical team) have got this!
…a can of corn now Jamie. Best wishes and good doctor juju…
Jamie- Prayers for you, and remember, knees, hips, etc Doctors today do procedures like that thousands of times, I'm sure yours will go well, and you will be two stepping in no time.
Lots of prayers going out. Room for you too, Jamie.
Found out my college roommate maybe saying goodbye to his dad. My wife’s stepdad was just diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. I’m really hoping to hear some good health news.
Xavier has a basketball player with the last name of Wright. His first name is All. Not Al; All.
All Wright.
Alright!
Jamie:
Piece of cake!
Bill Melugin FINISHES the Dem/Media's Desperate and Dishonest 'Non-Violent Illegal' Spin – Twitchy https://share.google/X4SrpV7P2luzLCkXz
Best wishes for tomorrow, Jamie. I hope your previous experience will serve you well with this procedure.
Original Mike - I’m guessing you’re on your way to NZ now for your celestial observations - I just got back from Auckland last night myself. Whereabouts do you camp out for your dark sky observations?
No such thing as minor surgery. Once they open you, they can get some bad things out - but - other things can creep in. Knees are tricky from a result/relief POV but excellent from a safe POV. Best of luck. Don’t baby it post-op. Move it to the max allowed by your doc.
So China has decided that it wants to get out of the business of lending us money to build the military to attack it, and at the same time, leave it's money as a hostage to be seized when we decide we are mad at them.
Of course the press is blaming Trump, but it has been going on for a while with their sovereign debt, and now the warning has been extended to private banks, and it was Joe Biden and the Europeans who seized Russia's sovereign debt in a fit of pique.
It's amazing to read the propaganda being put out regarding a decision by China that makes eminent good sense, from their point of view. Propaganda that talks about everything but the elephant in the room.
Propaganda by the US press, I mean, like Bloomberg, who uses it as another hook to bash Trump.
Sorry if already noted in other comments, today.
I just saw English translation of lyrics of songs performed by bad bunny. Deviancy is free-fall. Also learned the NFL contracts with Jay Z to provide all SB halftime shows.
IMPEACH Roger “The Rabbit” Goodel now!
I watched Sabine Hossenfelder's Epstein Files explanation, and understood everything but the science. And the math. But I admire her passion.
I think we're going to see a lot of this stuff.
Epstein seemed like such a nice boy on Welcome Back Kotter.
"The Abu Dhabi deal, reported by the Journal last week, marked the first time a foreign government official had taken a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president’s company. And Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, provided crucial backing for a new World Liberty product around the time that Zhao sought a presidential pardon for his 2023 conviction for failing to maintain internal money-laundering controls, the Journal has reported."
How a Billionaire Felon Boosted Trump’s Crypto Company en Route to a Pardon ~ WSJ
"Binance facilitated $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology; clemency for Changpeng Zhao surprised some in administration"
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/binance-trump-crypto-pardon-cz-changpeng-zhao-1007fde9?mod=article_inline
Long overdue expose of this slimy bunch of crypto shysters, keep it up WSJ.
But, but Hunter sold art. The “Biden crime family” is like child’s play compared to the Trump family.
But what about Hunter's laptop??
Just kidding... how could you explain to MAGA that this degree of corruption and nepotism has never been seen in history. Grifters gonna grift, I guess.
In hindsight, it was a genius move by the Republican Party to abandon everyone with an IQ above room temperature.
Their voters are literally incapable of evaluating evidence and distinguishing between reality and dopey conspiracy theories.
howdy
THIS a million times... THIS
One of Chinas economic problems is the collapse of foreign investment.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?locations=CN
A lot of Chinese policy moves derive from that.
At the same time their rate of capital flight, always bad, seems to have accelerated.
This link is for all the leftists out there - who know it all.
You know who you are.
bad bunny sux. horrible.
Ghislaine Maxwell may well be evil. Trump was probably right in that.
I bet though when she was younger she was a hot item.
Not, however, a girl you could bring home to mother.
The bad bunny BS is interesting in a way. From a Puerto Rican POV its an insane left rant, demanding, pretty much, PR independence. An exercise in illogical resentment, because the PR population, very logically, doesnt want independence, as it will then be left as an isolated Caribbean island with no way to make a living.
Much as my own goals require that PR be returned to Spain, its going to be a very hard sell in Spain. No economic upside to compensate for those millions of useless mouths.
YouTube: A truly thin thread and a confusing miasma LOL
Trump is out to rip-off Canada by somehow blocking the opening of the new Gordie Howe Bridge between Detroit and Windsor - a bridge entirely paid for by Canada. Somehow Trump thinks that the U.S. is entitled to share in the tolls collected by Canada and no opening will happen until such time "the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve.”
The Ambassador Bridge that is now in use is privately owned by a Detroit trucking industry billionaire and his family, the Morouns which collects $300 million in cross-border tolls everyday.
From the Miami Herald: In July 2006, just as Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case became public, Trump called then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter to tell him that Epstein’s activities with teenaged girls were well known in both New York and Palm Beach.
“Thank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing this,” Trump told Reiter, according to a 2019 FBI interview with Reiter contained in the Justice Department’s Epstein case files.
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I love how the White House account is literally just rage bait for liberals 😭😂
https://x.com/RealJessica/status/2021016346016768485?s=20
Super Bowl LXI will be played on February 14, 2027. I would "LOVE" for the halftime show to be in English!
Someone is a sick pervert, but it’s not this lady:
https://apple.news/AT089WIINQRSPX1WFSuOuqQ
“Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler”
The Guardian
Basically she wrote a book about an adult woman and man having a daddy/little girl fetish relationship. And she was convicted under Australian child porn law.
Wow. CC, JSM
Thanks Gad, for posting the truth that Trump was the whistle blower on Epstein in 2006, whilst Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and the rest of the crew maintained their friendships although they knew what he was up to, too.
Wendybar, when I saw the grass people, I thought of the Scottish Play: when Burnham Wood do come to Dunsinane! CC, JSM
@Jamie It’s been 6 months since my second knee replacement. Best medical decision I’ve ever made. No pain, no issues! Praying for your speedy recovery.
Maybe it's the issue of direct investment in China, that fell off o cliff from the pandemic on, or maybe it's because the US is using the money to build the weapons to attack China in the future, but China just did another thing, which suggests that they are getting a little fed up with US military adventurism, they have published high resolution satellite images of US bases in the ME that anybody can go get, including people in Tehran.
Remember that the US is providing targeting data inside of Russia to Ukraine, before you get too worked up at the perfidy of it. Apparently it's not an act of war.
WW3 is on simmer, at the very least.
One of the impediments to war with China that the Rand Corporation, a US think tank, identified, was the economic interdependence between the US and China, and it makes sense, if what we are seeking, is an eventual kinetic showdown with China, that we would put a brake on Western investment there, with cover flown by propagandists to hide the true reasons. It would make sense, is all I am saying.
Check the charts. China FDI peaked in 2021, probably due to covid recovery. Then in 2022 to 2024 it crashed from 344Billion to 18.5Billion - @94 %.
FDI mean from 2010-2019 was @230Billion.
This is a fundamental economic change.
Good luck with the knee surgery, Jamie. Hoping for the best!
That is, net FDI, from all sources, most of which was not from the US.
" maybe it's because the US is using the money to build the weapons to attack China in the future"
This is just silly. What people invest in China (or what foreigners/Chinese disinvest in China) has nothing to do with the US defense budget.
Businesses are fleeing Newsome’s California for a variety of reasons, mostly the tax structure.
Boomer Esiason is now suggesting the NFL never play the Super Bowl in the golden state again. Each Seattle player earned $178,000 for winning the big game. Unfortunately for their QB Sam Darnold his tax bill for CA will be $249,000. Why? The jock tax, which is based on how many days you “work” in Newsome’s paradise, from the beginning of the season.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/breaking-down-californias-insane-super-bowl-tax
I’m sure California can tighten up any loopholes before the 2028 Summer Olympics.
If there is anything positive to come from the Nancy Guthrie alleged kidnapping, it’s revealed how many retired FBI agents, and retired detectives have made it big on the networks. Every day it’s a new expert. Yesterday it was a new law enforcement branch tapped - a retired ATF agent.
john mosby, IANAL (certainly not Down Under) but my understanding is that child pron possession laws are often written very broadly given that with some effort in selection of models and staging such images can be created even though everybody in the photo is over the age of consent, plus the difficulty in locating the subjects to actually verify age, and it's even more likely now that Photoshop has given way to AI generation with no actual people invovled. Maybe some prosecutorial discretion should have been exercised but I'm not overly bothered. Given the current 'pedo' freak-out over Epstein in particular, and the general angst evident any time a man appears to violate the 'half your age plus 7' rule even with a woman obviously over the age of consent, applying the new rules uniformly seems reasonable.
3.5 million records of Epstein files released, so you’d think they’d mention me at least once, but NOOOO!
Yet Sabine Hossenfelder gets multiple mentions. (I shoulda taken more physics classes.)
@Christopher B: the general angst evident any time a man appears to violate the 'half your age plus 7' rule even with a woman obviously over the age of consent
In the wealthy class that standard flies out the window. In high-end communities such as Carmel-by-the-Sea, one routinely spots retired men with their twenty-something trophy wives. You'd think they were daughters until sitting next to one in a restaurant.
The women get a pretty good deal: Have a kid or two (maybe), wait for hubby to die, inheirit $$$$$$$$$$, drive an aging luxury car for decades, and rattle around in a mansion like Norma Desmond.
The abandoned aging wives (e.g., Ivana Trump) don't suffer much either, as they enjoy $$$$$$$$$ and the same lifestyle after the divorce and before hubby dies.
…to add Seattle players pay no tax in WA while Patriots will get a credit in MA for their CA tax, meanwhile the owners usually write down the players contracts so quickly they can look like they have no income and usually avoid the big state tax hits. Continuing to spitball, Kraft et al prolly avoid getting nicked and Seahawks are in some trust arrangement since Paul died and Debbie is trustee, likely based somewhere favorable like WA
I looked up Pete Hegseth’s bio - born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Synchronicity.
I’ve paid California income taxes for the work I used to do on the ground there, even for a quick twenty hour site visit. And the companies are very methodical about tracking and reporting such. I guess that’s what happens when a state has more than a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities…
sry, jody not deb..
Good morning Jamie! You’ll have a tough day today, I won’t lie. But it is the best day of the week for your surgeon and nurses. They’ll be on top of their game, and they will aim to make your tomorrow better than yesterday. Know that. Embrace that. You’ll be ok. They got you!
Also learned the NFL contracts with Jay Z to provide all SB halftime shows
Yah the NFL will come find you if you disseminate the game but golly gee we have no control over the halftime show so it’s totally not Roger’s fault.
@Beasts of England on California's out-of-state tax tracking.
I used to have a bank account that was opened in Calfornia. I moved away. On at least two occasions the state attempted to harvest retirement/pension taxes from those who EVER earned income in California. This was stopped, but I closed my account.
Do not give the kleptos a paper trail. As they now drive the billionaries away with business and wealth taxes, the Wil-e-Coyote accountants are bound to look down and fall. California, Greece, and Turkiye have Mediterranean climates and good weather. They all have broken economies too.
That U.S. debt is worth a whole lot more than those empty cities they built. And they don’t do themselves any good by depressing the value of it.
From ChatGPT:
“ People love the “China will dump Treasuries” idea—but in practice:
• Large sales would:
• Push Treasury prices down (hurting China’s remaining holdings)
• Strengthen the yuan (hurting exports)
• Signal financial stress
It would be a self-inflicted wound.”
If there was any such thing as moral justice, this Guthrie saga on cable news TV would be permanently deconstructing the famous Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, conceived by Michael Crichton.
For over a week, the news is always the same: No body, no sign of the missing person, no suspects, no new information. But for 24 hours a day, we get to hear the latest updates: No body, no sign, no suspects, no new information, but here is a retired FBI agent/sheriff/cop/lawyer/doctor/scientist/weatherman/barber with some exciting information on what might be going on. Next: An update from our live drone on what might be happening as the pool boy cleans the skimmer and the septic tank is pumped out, but first: No body, no sign, no suspects, no new information. And now, a word from our sponsors.
Another few days of this, and you would think that nobody, nobody can listen to another minute of this blather and believe there could be even a shred of credibility attached to any of it, ever again. Gell-Mann, gone.
The Chicoms are commies, which means they would rather rule a steaming crap pile than be out of power in a thriving nation. Like our lefties, they don’t really believe in the pieties they recite about improving the workers’ lot.
So the CCP could very conceivably shoot a hole right through their own wallet if they thought it necessary for party survival.
Certainly Xi’s generation will gladly downsize to slightly nicer Mao suits and Chinese-built limos if it means they stay out of prison camps and off lampposts.
Only hope is that maybe enough of the gun-holding elites like having hard currency and western goods enough to turn the guns around on Xi. CC, JSM
Chris B, this was a prose novel. No pics or videos involved. Just words. And the story was about two adults. Comes perilously close to thoughtcrime.
What’s next: political fiction prosecuted as treason? CC, JSM
I recall one NFL free agent signed in Florida because there was state income tax. Tyreek Hill?
’On at least two occasions the state attempted to harvest retirement/pension taxes from those who EVER earned income in California.’
I’m not surprised at all!! I had one fiscal year when I was out there on various trips totaling about six weeks, and they dinged me enough to try to get it back - which I did - but what a hassle.
I try to forgive the state because it does have very good wines and some incredible golf courses, but…
From X via Instapundit:
Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
IMO, Barack Obama is the most destructive American ever to live.
Obama brought Frankfurt School style Marxism to life in the USA, created more division and hate between demographic groups than at any other time in the past 50 years, and purposely reignited racism at a time when it was on life support.
He is a vile man who hates the USA, and his wife hates the USA even more.
All that is true, except that he’s only one of the most destructive. In 250 years we’ve had a lot of very destructive people: Woodrow Wilson introducing segregation into the federal government, Nathan Bedford Forrest founding the KKK after the Civil War, etc. But Obama has to be up there.
Hey Beasts--your grandson has great taste in music.
Does that mean you get to skip the Raffi phase?
"Next: An update from our live drone on what might be happening as the pool boy cleans the skimmer and the septic tank is pumped out, but first: No body, no sign, no suspects, no new information. And now, a word from our sponsors."
So... The Curse of Oak Island, then?
I'm late to the game, but prayers for you, Jamie.
’Hey Beasts--your grandson has great taste in music.
Does that mean you get to skip the Raffi phase?’
I had to search Raffi, bb!
But, yes - we’ll make sure he skips all the kid stuff and gets a steady diet of Tedeschi, Panic, Billy Strings, and even some Phish to stimulate his little musical brain…
Interesting election results from Japan. Now, that's a mandate. I expect in the next couple of years all Pakistanis will be ejected from Japan and they'll rewrite their constitution and rearm.
Japan: As with Europe, their WW2 war-crimes-penance-generation is nearly gone.
Back to same old same old Great Powers politics. Plus modern technology.
Beasts--Susan Tedeschi sounds uncannily like Bonnie Raitt.
Also--as toddler music goes, Raffi is top shelf.
Jamie.
"You'll be fine."
"What could possibly go wrong?"
"This won't hurt a bit!"
"Oh, good. You're awake."
Gad is rad!! Hilarious!
Gad Saad
@GadSaad
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Things more intellectual than @JasmineForUS:
1) sand
2) rocks
3) my elliptical
4) Ebola
Daily Wire
@realDailyWire
Jasmine Crockett: “I’ve always been someone who has been intellectual.”
😂😂😂
Yes - Jamie - prayers for a successful surgery.
Widespread Panic? Phish???
Lead him to the source, Beasts: Lowell George and Little Feat
boatbuilder said...
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Also--as toddler music goes, Raffi is top shelf..
Assume a boatbuilder favorite "Down by the Bay".
Also--as toddler music goes, Raffi is top shelf.
Back in the day, Barry Louis Polisar. Especially “The Underwear Song.”
“I Don’t Wanna Go to School” by Barry Louis Polisar:
"I don't wanna go to school, " Tom said to his mommy
"You know you have to go to school, " Mom said back to Tommy
"No one likes me there, " said Tom, he hid beneath the covers
"I'd rather stay in bed, " he said. "Grow up, " said Tommy's mother
Only little boys and girls
Ever act like you do
Now sit up and dry your eyes
Get dressed and tie your shoes
"I don't wanna go to school, " Tom said to his mommy
"You know you have to go to school, " Mom said back to Tommy
Tom ducked his head beneath the sheets and kicked his feet about
His mother heard him whimpering and told him not to pout
"I just can't face another day, the children are not nice"
She wiped his cheek and told him to follow her advice
"I don't wanna go to school, " Tom said to his mommy
"You know you have to go to school, " Mom said back to Tommy
"But people laugh at me at school, " Tom told his mom again
"The teachers will not talk to me, I don't have any friends"
"Now Tom get up, " said Tommy's mom, she hoped he was convincible
"You've got to go to school, " she said, "because you are the Principal"
Our 20 month old grandson’s new (to him) fave is “Who Let the Dogs Out?”, with grandpa asking the question and little man providing the “who who who who who”.
"Original Mike - I’m guessing you’re on your way to NZ now for your celestial observations - I just got back from Auckland last night myself. Whereabouts do you camp out for your dark sky observations?"
Whiskeybum - Sorry for the slow response. Just got off a 17hr plane flight.
We will be two places for the next two dark windows, both centrally located on the South Island. The first window is at an Airbnb near Twizel and the second window on a sheep station 15 minutes north of Fairlie. Both very dark.
Right now the telescope is stuck in shipping. Hope to get it soon.
’Beasts--Susan Tedeschi sounds uncannily like Bonnie Raitt.’
Very much the same vibe, and both voices are special, bb.
’Lead him to the source, Beasts: Lowell George and Little Feat’
I’m sure there’s some of that on the playlist!
Beasts…..your grandson is off to a great start in music. All the years I spent in the car with my youngest son (now 22) playing the Grateful Dead, Phish, Tedeschi Trucks, Goose, Infamous Stringdusters paid off as we frequently go to shows together! I hope his interest continues to grow!
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