I see: "Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Democrats’ Effort to Reinstate New Voting Map/State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters" — NYT, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/supreme-court-virginia-redistricting.html?smid=url-share
Well, since the VA Speaker appealed the VA Supreme Court decision to the VA Supreme Court on the header; it seemed the effort was theater. What was SCOTUS to do?
So an interesting detail about a new crime drama in peacock set in miami, mia well theres a cameo by eduard james olmos Lt castillo from miami vice so long ago
Ciso, Olmos is one of the reasons I've been binging BSG 2004. Whatever you may think of the rest of the show, surely his performance alone makes it worth watching. CC, JSM
Texas children Hospital it has to pay over 10 million dollars for committing fraud, and also fireball of its child mutilation grifter doctors after retaliating against the two whistleblowers.
I remember very well when our own Pefo Fredo and groomer gadfly tboth threw an absolute fit over the fact they that texas no longer allowed the hospital to engage in child abuse.
So the Virginia Democrats lost out for now. All they have to do is submit the redrawn map again without violating the "consitutional admending process".
They violated it this current time by passing the new map after 1.3 million votes had been cast through early voting.
VA constitution requires Admendment be passed before general election. this gives voters a chance to vote out people who supported/opposed the admendment.
So, in a way the case wasnt even about the merits/consitutionality of the new election map. It was about the process of admending the VA constituion. Even more reason for the SCOTUS not to care.
BTW, Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia are appointed directly by the Virginia General Assembly. The state legislature elects the seven justices to serve renewable 12-year terms. So maybe, the D's will stack the court too.
Googling the SCOTUS decision and who pops up? Nina Totenberg! Good God, I thought she was dead. Man, these people NPR/PBS just stay on forever. She was around in 1987 and the Bork Hearing!
She's 82. I can remember when Boomers were demanding all "the old people" get out the way and give young people a chance. but once they got in, they're not leaving unless its feet first.
Our federal judges are bad enough with their insane "I can do anything - I'm a lawyer in a black robe". But the Currrent UK crop outdo them. It literally knocked me for a loop. Per the UK Guardian:
"Four Palestine Action activists convicted after a retrial over a violent protest at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s UK site face being sentenced as terrorists despite the jury not being told this.
In an unprecedented move in a criminal damage case, the judge, Mr Justice Johnson, ruled before the first trial that there appeared to be a “terrorist connection” to the offences – even though the protest took place before Palestine Action was proscribed – but this could not be told to the jury. The finding and the restriction on telling the jury continued for the retrial.
The terrorism connection ruling can now be revealed after reporting restrictions were lifted on Tuesday. At sentencing, a separate determination will be made based on the criminal standard of proof of whether there was a terrorism connection.
If the court finds there was, it would mean the four would have to serve their whole sentence in prison, Non-terrorist prisoners usually serve 40% of their sentence."
Don't even undertand who this can be legal. Shouldn't the jury have known that a guilty verdict could lead to a terrorism charage?
CNN reports that before he joined the Trump administration last year, Dr. Brian Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants. He has little public health experience and a history of far-right commentary and promoting conspiracy theories. He’s said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany, and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.
He once hosted a YouTube show called “Erection Connection,” a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.
So now we know that those infected rats on the high seas are suffering from erectile dysfunction,
"I can remember when Boomers were demanding all "the old people" get out the way and give young people a chance. but once they got in, they're not leaving unless its feet first."
Here’s a link to Kamala’s latest speech. Put on mute if you want. Mar-a-Lago face with Nancy Pelosi eyebrows. In fact is this Kamala Harris? Shades of Jennifer Grey. Her face looks a lot lighter too. Chick needs to get a refund. https://x.com/patadams96/status/2054923866758099369?s=46
I mean, didn't the COVID pandemic lead to significantly expanded government surveillance and control? You could argue over whether it was a "plot," but recall that it's the same team who declared that one should never let a crisis go to waste.
And it certainly seems to me that it was (a) the widespread natural immunity in the community because COVID was so very transmissible and so relatively survivable unless you were vulnerable (old, sick, obese) and (b) the normal viral mutation of COVID into the Omicron variant, much less dangerous even to the vulnerable, that ended the pandemic qua pandemic. Not the "vaccines" that didn't prevent transmission, didn't prevent contracting COVID, and caused some still-unknown (because not permitted to be reported on our studied) frequency of serious vaccine injuries.
As for the comparison of the Biden administration to Nazi Germany, I'm figuring goose, gander.
I know very little about Dr. Christine. But you'll have to do better than these "critiques," CNN.
I was born in 1946, the first year of the Boom, and I’ve been retired for more than a decade. In defense of my generation somebody#/i> has to get the work done. It’s not as though you’ll find anything resembling a work ethic in your average Gen-X or Millennial. Yes, there are people here and there who understand what it means to commit themselves to seeing a job through, but on average those who came after us are a waste of O2 molecules.
Aren’t all of Kamala’s bad ideas old bad ideas? No matter,, when all the strategists are out of gas and they’ve resorted to crowdsourcing how to game the system I think that’s a bery good sign…
Big Mike, as a Gen Xer, I have been exposed to lots of Boomers with no work ethic. Maybe they thought they worked hard the first part of their careers, so they could coast for the rest, and I just happened to meet them at that stage of their lives. But "that stage of their lives" was their 40s. I was never allowed to coast in my 40s, because those Boomers were gone and someone had to do the work. 40 is the new 16, in that your job sucks and is precarious to boot.
To be fair to everyone, there are different types of Boomers and GenXers. Boomers who were raised by working class WW2ers to be working class for the most part have the same ethic as the WW2ers. They're the guys who are still in crew cuts and black-framed glasses in pictures from 1969. Boomers who were raised by upper-middle-class WW2ers to be upper-middle-class often do not have the same work ethic.
It's not a plug-and-crank equation, though: plenty of Archie and Edith types thought the Depression and war were rackets, that FDR just flat out lied to them, and that you should game the system to get the best deal possible for yourself. And they passed that on to their Boomer kids.
And in the 80s Army, I met plenty of Vietnam vets who were basically hippies with CIBs. They might have had a work ethic outside the wire 20 years before I met them, but that had dissipated in the Cold War and they were just treating the military like a socialist gimme program.
So the two types of Boomers gave birth to two types of Xers. Modified somewhat by what we Xers had to go through as the Boomers first hung on to all their jobs, then all jumped ship at once. And what we've been going through as technology accelerates: if your working career was from 1970-2010, tech still wasn't integrated into every single thing you did. If your working career started in 1990, holy crap, strap in.
I'm in the relatively small group of Xers with WW2 parents, so I have a non-standard perspective on all this. I never considered the Boomers to be parental figures - just my weirdo older cousins.
Anyway, thank you for helping keep the country going. Seriously. CC, JSM
The NYT news division has been vewy, vewy silent about the dog-raping allegations in its editorial pages.
Meanwhile, the whole damn paper is getting roundly mocked by everyone. It's almost like it was a bad idea to fire James Bennet from the editorial pages. I don't know what dog-hater replaced him, but dogs can't rape people. Right? Jews are smart, but they can't do the impossible. Damn anti-Semites hate the Jews and simultaneously give them super-powers.
Breaking: The New York Times reveals that Israel has successfully trained a dog to take over Nakatomi Plaza and steal $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds
I hate to say it, NYT, but you screwed the pooch. Which is possible, by the way, for any of you journalists interested in factual reality.
The Pulitzer prizes now have to go out with asterisks.
Walter Duranty (not his Stalin stuff) Nicholas Kristof (not his dog raping fantasies)
Oh, here's an anecdote of Boomers with no work ethic or sense of responsibility for others: the Boomer union members who helped wreck American industry by turning the UAW and suchlike into obstacles to innovation, and then, as they retired, into Ponzi schemes for the retired members rather than advocates for the working members. I watched this happen when I lived in the Detroit area. None of it was hidden. Even pro-union media just matter-of-factly reported each contract giving more to retirees and less to new hires.
That's not a work ethic or any kind of brotherhood among tradesmen. CC, JSM
That's how you know you fucked up, NYT. RCOcean is like, "I think Israel is being falsely accused."
Tucker Carlson? No comment. Candace Owens? No comment. If you can't get actual anti-Zionists to repeat your anti-Semitic, dog-raping fantasies, maybe you ought to, I don't know, retract the stupid. Or hire Candace Owens and improve the quality of your conspiracy horseshit!
Ocean: "Shouldn't the jury have known that a guilty verdict could lead to a terrorism charage?"
Technically, no, both here and in England. Sentencing is an issue for the judge once the trial is over. The types of factors that go into sentencing are often excluded from the trial because they have no value in proving or disproving the issue being tried: guilt/innocence for one specific act. Defense attorneys aren't even allowed to go in depth at closing arguments as to what the consequences for their client would be. The finder of fact is supposed to be a dispassionate truth machine.
The jury is presumed to know in general what the penalties for various offenses are, under what's increasingly becoming a legal fiction: that we all know the entire criminal code and so can be held responsible for any violation of it.
I also can't resist: did you complain when the anti-immigrant tweeters were given disproportionate sentences after Southport? CC, JSM
Oh, here's an anecdote of Boomers with no work ethic or sense of responsibility for others: the Boomer union members who helped wreck American industry by turning the UAW and suchlike into obstacles to innovation, and then, as they retired, into Ponzi schemes for the retired members rather than advocates for the working members.
I don't think this is different than any other generation.
Most people in the world support slavery. They want other people to do stuff for them. Most other countries are honest about this.
It is really only an anglo-saxon cultural norm to value personal work and individual virtue.
we let too many continental europeans into the mix.
He’s said the Covid pandemic [was part of] a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany, and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.
With that tiny fix every one of those can be seen as absolutely true. Numerous examples of each abound. A huge international effort to silence dissent was enacted under cover of the fake pandemic. Alex Berenson just got the admission. The other two are too easy.
Gadfly did nail it in his boomer comment at 9:47pm so credit where it’s due.
Herbert matthews (cuba) halberstam (vietnam) sy hersh (israel and chile) its a shorter list of who was good shirley christian, abe rosenthal l, john corry sy schamberg (cambodia) Fox butterfield on china
Remember when the Venezuelan operation was abut drug trafficking? Hs the street price of drugs gone up? You would think that somebody would get that story. Or is this the story:
No, there is no evidence that the January 3, 2026 U.S. military operation in Venezuela (airstrikes and capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, framed in part as a counter-narcotics action against alleged "narco-terrorism" and the so-called Cartel de los Soles) has had a measurable, sustained impact on street/retail prices of illicit drugs—particularly cocaine, the drug most relevant to Venezuelan transit routes.
Trump doesn't even talk about it anymore; he never talks about what a great thing he did stopping drug traffic, he just talks about how we got control of their oil, and stopped sending it to China. It's almost as if as soon as they get their military action, the justifications that they sell us are thrown out the window, rinse, repeat. And like the panfish at the end of the dock that keeps biting and getting caught, we just accept it.
Lem, awesome link at 10:44. She's like a young Camille Paglia, hitting me with intellectual bullets, rapid fire, boom boom boom.
It's insane that they're not studying literature in the literature department at Columbia. What a waste of time and money! It's almost like you could sue them for fraud. No novels, no books? What the fuck?
Trump doesn't even talk about it anymore; he never talks about what a great thing he did stopping drug traffic, he just talks about how we got control of their oil, and stopped sending it to China. It's almost as if as soon as they get their military action, the justifications that they sell us are thrown out the window, rinse, repeat. And like the panfish at the end of the dock that keeps biting and getting caught, we just accept it.
LOL!
Tim is on the case! He figured it out everyone. Trump captured Maduro and installed a US friendly regime in Venezuela to counter China!
Trump is an evil demon actually trying to make America wealthier!
You really do need to just leave and go to Europe.
Does anyone know what professional experience botfly has other than providing far-left radical progressive commentary? Lack of experience has never stopped botfly from proclaiming he knows how to solve problems that were already solved by the very solution he provides.
On the other hand, a MD has proven credentials in healthcare, which only comes after an acceptable amount of professional experience is obtained.
Porsche bricked all of its cars that were in Russia due to sanctions, why does that matter? Well, why would China buy 200 aircraft from Boeing in this environment? Russia's Boeing aircraft were all denied parts, so effectively grounded, Russia's US Treasuries were "frozen" so China slowly but surely backs out of US Treasuries.
We have weaponized our strongest advantages on the world stage, and therefore neutered them.
It's not "treason" to point out that our policies are self defeating in the long run. Sanctions are just tariffs imposed from the outside, forcing the target countries to develop their home grown industries, like jet engines. What made us think that Russia and China could not develop aircraft engines themselves if we forced them to?
Maybe China really will buy those 200 aircraft, like Trump said, but Boeing stock went up $5 on his announcement, and then dropped by $10 an hour later... So maybe the deal isn't exactly sewn up.
Incidentally, Joe Biden was all in on these stupid sanctions first. He sanctioned SWIFT, thinking that it would kill Russia, but SWIFT is outdated, and the system that Russia and China developed from scratch already has 5% of the world market, from zero.
It would be so much better if our business leaders could go to China and make deals, Exxon had a huge Arctic energy deal with Russia that got killed by sanctions, it would be nice if we could make deals without all of this other crap hanging in the air, that's what I thought that Trump was going to be about.
Ex-cop who tackled shoplifter is charged with ‘serious assault’ – after he was sacked over arrest of knife-wielding teen
Come for the George Michael look-alike pic of the ex-cop in a sleeveless hoodie on top of the shoplifter - stay for the video of him on top of the knife-wielding teen, telling him to "stop screaming like a bitch."
Pull quote: "A misconduct panel said PC Castle made the boy feel 'frightened and intimidated.”'"
Article does not mention it, but PC Castle does not look 100% indigenous English. Might be biracial or part Mediterranean? Only thing worse than a proactive white cop is a brown cop that refuses to get woke....CC, JSM
"Technically, no, both here and in England. Sentencing is an issue for the judge once the trial is over."
Damn it went right over your head didn't it? The jury didn't know they were finding the protestors guilty of "Terrorism". Its like a jury finding someone guilty for assault, and then finding after the verdict that the Judge secretely has decided its a hate crime and can tack on 20 years.
Didn't go over my head. I am quite aware of this phenomenon. I had a lot of fraud cases where a guy pleads to or gets convicted of one count worth a few K, but then at sentencing the judge gets to bring in related acts, not covered at all in the trial, to bump up the loss, and hence the sentencing calculation, to many times that.
In yesterday's thread about police chases, we talked about the opposite phenomenon, where bail-setting judges deliberately ignore the defendant's related conduct to set low or no bail.
"Officer Todd Parmentier spotted the car and ran its plate through the state’s CJIS/GCIC network, which showed the vehicle was allegedly uninsured. Sims insisted she had insurance through USAA, but before she could show proof — and even before she learned why she had been stopped — Parmentier had already called a tow truck to impound her car.
"“He just left us out there on the side of the road like we were bags of trash,” said Debra Mobley-Sadler Sims, 71.
"Since the incident, USAA has confirmed in writing that there was no lapse in Sims’ coverage, and it was active at the time of the traffic stop. Sims had shown Parmentier during the stop she is registered as a co-owner of the car, and the insurance was in her name."
Luckily they are old and disabled, so they didn't miss work for not having the car. CC, JSM
I'll just repeat what happened (summary per Google) in UK Legal system:
The Case: Four activists (Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani) were tried for non-violent property damage at an Elbit Systems UK arms facility in Bristol. The "Secret" Charge: Before the trial, the judge made a preparatory ruling invoking the Terrorism Act 2000. He determined their actions had a "terrorist connection" because their goal was to restrict weapons and influence the Israeli government. Jury in the Dark: The jury only deliberated on and convicted the defendants of criminal damage, completely unaware the judge could legally apply a terrorism-related penalty during sentencing.
As the Guardian stated this behavior is unprecedented in the British legal history.
Oh bloody Christ, Infinite X. The WH has always had a medical facility and 24/7 docs on site. AF1 has always publicly boasted about how they can do surgery on board if need be. This has nothing to do with any given POTUS.
Here's a scoop: West Wing offices have huge monitors because Trump can't read small print! CC, JSM
Ocean, that is a day ending in -y in the Anglo-American legal system. Lots of pretrial activity the jury never gets to hear about. Completely legal. Doesn't even violate Muh Norms, because it is the norm.
I think you're just butthurt because it's being used against Arabists for once.
What did you think about the Southport tweeters' sentences? CC, JSM
Now if you want potential jurors in general to have more education about the legal system and what happens to the people they convict, so that maybe once in a while they'll do jury nullification, which is also supposed to be one of Muh Norms, then I am all for that. CC, JSM
No, Infinite Ex, it's a fort so they can hold out the next time your Antifa blackshirts surround the place and your Dem mayor refuses to take any action. CC, JSM
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I see: "Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Democrats’ Effort to Reinstate New Voting Map/State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters" — NYT, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/supreme-court-virginia-redistricting.html?smid=url-share
If I saw that before I put up this "café," I'd have made a separate post for it, but, really, it's not a big deal. There was nothing for the Supreme Court to do here. It's a state law case. I note that no one dissented. Normality prevailed.
The third pic is really striking
I note that no one dissented. Normality prevailed.
…well, that’s unusual…
Well, since the VA Speaker appealed the VA Supreme Court decision to the VA Supreme Court on the header; it seemed the effort was theater. What was SCOTUS to do?
Light tap dancd
Another beneficiary
The Terrorists Who Cite Francesca Albanese - UN Watch https://share.google/OYnG8DN41zrrIQtkR
Of the robed activists
More Spencer Pratt...
https://x.com/its_The_Dr/status/2055236918778999071?s=20
So an interesting detail about a new crime drama in peacock set in miami, mia well theres a cameo by eduard james olmos
Lt castillo from miami vice so long ago
Of course that series portrayed my home town not in the best light i think behind the shiny venour
That third picture is particularly good. Brava, Althouse.
Ciso, Olmos is one of the reasons I've been binging BSG 2004. Whatever you may think of the rest of the show, surely his performance alone makes it worth watching. CC, JSM
He was one of the better elements that was less neurotic than the rest of the cast but in terms of the message of the show i defer to the original
Point of personal privilege even though kate del castillo dors a good kingpin could we have fewer roles of this type
Tina peters to be paroled
Texas children Hospital it has to pay over 10 million dollars for committing fraud, and also fireball of its child mutilation grifter doctors after retaliating against the two whistleblowers.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4570291/texas-childrens-hospital-create-detransition-clinic-settlement-ken-paxton/
I remember very well when our own Pefo Fredo and groomer gadfly tboth threw an absolute fit over the fact they that texas no longer allowed the hospital to engage in child abuse.
Pepperidge farm remembers when they tried to put ethan hain in jail for revealing these atrocities
They tried to impeach paxton on bogus charges to prevent this settlement from happening
Among many other projects
The bigger picture
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2055458286967931001
I even liked the third one. You win me over when you disguise the bling to look like an early morning ‘blast off’ at The Cape.
Starship set to go Tuesday!
So the Virginia Democrats lost out for now. All they have to do is submit the redrawn map again without violating the "consitutional admending process".
They violated it this current time by passing the new map after 1.3 million votes had been cast through early voting.
VA constitution requires Admendment be passed before general election. this gives voters a chance to vote out people who supported/opposed the admendment.
TMZ is for people who have the attention span of squirrels. Harvey Levin and his sidekick Tonto are just worthless human beings.
So, in a way the case wasnt even about the merits/consitutionality of the new election map. It was about the process of admending the VA constituion. Even more reason for the SCOTUS not to care.
BTW, Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia are appointed directly by the Virginia General Assembly. The state legislature elects the seven justices to serve renewable 12-year terms. So maybe, the D's will stack the court too.
Googling the SCOTUS decision and who pops up? Nina Totenberg! Good God, I thought she was dead. Man, these people NPR/PBS just stay on forever. She was around in 1987 and the Bork Hearing!
She's 82. I can remember when Boomers were demanding all "the old people" get out the way and give young people a chance. but once they got in, they're not leaving unless its feet first.
Dude- she's not a boomer.
RC hates seniors. At 82, Totenberg continues to do her job, which is more than Trump can claim at 79.
Totenberg is 82. She's born 1944. That's boomer. She was 24 in 1968. Quibbling is absurd.
Nina does do her job. Being a Leftwing partisan hack and giving NPR audiences what they want.
"Totenberg is 82. She's born 1944. That's boomer."
Boomers are from 1946-1964. 1944 is not a boomer.
"Quibbling is absurd."
Says the guy who's wrong. But go ahead- blame your failings on "The Joooos". You know you want to.
The generation preceding the Baby Boomers is known as the Silent Generation, which includes individuals born from 1928 to 1945.
Our federal judges are bad enough with their insane "I can do anything - I'm a lawyer in a black robe". But the Currrent UK crop outdo them. It literally knocked me for a loop. Per the UK Guardian:
"Four Palestine Action activists convicted after a retrial over a violent protest at an Israeli arms manufacturer’s UK site face being sentenced as terrorists despite the jury not being told this.
In an unprecedented move in a criminal damage case, the judge, Mr Justice Johnson, ruled before the first trial that there appeared to be a “terrorist connection” to the offences – even though the protest took place before Palestine Action was proscribed – but this could not be told to the jury. The finding and the restriction on telling the jury continued for the retrial.
The terrorism connection ruling can now be revealed after reporting restrictions were lifted on Tuesday. At sentencing, a separate determination will be made based on the criminal standard of proof of whether there was a terrorism connection.
If the court finds there was, it would mean the four would have to serve their whole sentence in prison, Non-terrorist prisoners usually serve 40% of their sentence."
Don't even undertand who this can be legal. Shouldn't the jury have known that a guilty verdict could lead to a terrorism charage?
Gadfly good for you. Techically, she's not a boomer. She missed it by 2 years. Go celebrate!
“At 82, Totenberg continues to do her job,”
Her “job” required the wearing of kneepads during Clinton’s two terms.
CNN reports that before he joined the Trump administration last year, Dr. Brian Christine was an Alabama-based urologist who specialized in penile implants. He has little public health experience and a history of far-right commentary and promoting conspiracy theories. He’s said the Covid pandemic led to a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany, and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.
He once hosted a YouTube show called “Erection Connection,” a professional YouTube series on erectile dysfunction for fellow urologists.
So now we know that those infected rats on the high seas are suffering from erectile dysfunction,
"I can remember when Boomers were demanding all "the old people" get out the way and give young people a chance. but once they got in, they're not leaving unless its feet first."
Same as it ever was.
RC - We, the Silent Generation folks, have to protect our territory.
Ok, then.
The first video is about a book that foretold what is described in the second video.
YouTube: The Camp of the Saints "(honest book review)"
YouTube:
Why English Departments Hate Literature
"The third pic is really striking"
Agreed.
Here’s a link to Kamala’s latest speech. Put on mute if you want. Mar-a-Lago face with Nancy Pelosi eyebrows. In fact is this Kamala Harris? Shades of Jennifer Grey. Her face looks a lot lighter too.
Chick needs to get a refund.
https://x.com/patadams96/status/2054923866758099369?s=46
Plus what is a “good old fashioned ‘No Bad Ideas Brainstorm.’”
I know what a good Old Fashioned is. Can’t help with the rest.
I mean, didn't the COVID pandemic lead to significantly expanded government surveillance and control? You could argue over whether it was a "plot," but recall that it's the same team who declared that one should never let a crisis go to waste.
And it certainly seems to me that it was (a) the widespread natural immunity in the community because COVID was so very transmissible and so relatively survivable unless you were vulnerable (old, sick, obese) and (b) the normal viral mutation of COVID into the Omicron variant, much less dangerous even to the vulnerable, that ended the pandemic qua pandemic. Not the "vaccines" that didn't prevent transmission, didn't prevent contracting COVID, and caused some still-unknown (because not permitted to be reported on our studied) frequency of serious vaccine injuries.
As for the comparison of the Biden administration to Nazi Germany, I'm figuring goose, gander.
I know very little about Dr. Christine. But you'll have to do better than these "critiques," CNN.
Usually you can just stop reading after "CNN reports . . . ".
Lemme Vibe Bandit @10:44 PM...
Weird, dude. I just watched both those videos last night. Synchronicity.
I was born in 1946, the first year of the Boom, and I’ve been retired for more than a decade. In defense of my generation somebody#/i> has to get the work done. It’s not as though you’ll find anything resembling a work ethic in your average Gen-X or Millennial. Yes, there are people here and there who understand what it means to commit themselves to seeing a job through, but on average those who came after us are a waste of O2 molecules.
Shit.
Aren’t all of Kamala’s bad ideas old bad ideas? No matter,, when all the strategists are out of gas and they’ve resorted to crowdsourcing how to game the system I think that’s a bery good sign…
I’ll guarantee most of the crowd-sourced ideas will involve physical confrontation- murder, violence, drugging, kidnapping, misc threats…
Big Mike, as a Gen Xer, I have been exposed to lots of Boomers with no work ethic. Maybe they thought they worked hard the first part of their careers, so they could coast for the rest, and I just happened to meet them at that stage of their lives. But "that stage of their lives" was their 40s. I was never allowed to coast in my 40s, because those Boomers were gone and someone had to do the work. 40 is the new 16, in that your job sucks and is precarious to boot.
To be fair to everyone, there are different types of Boomers and GenXers. Boomers who were raised by working class WW2ers to be working class for the most part have the same ethic as the WW2ers. They're the guys who are still in crew cuts and black-framed glasses in pictures from 1969. Boomers who were raised by upper-middle-class WW2ers to be upper-middle-class often do not have the same work ethic.
It's not a plug-and-crank equation, though: plenty of Archie and Edith types thought the Depression and war were rackets, that FDR just flat out lied to them, and that you should game the system to get the best deal possible for yourself. And they passed that on to their Boomer kids.
And in the 80s Army, I met plenty of Vietnam vets who were basically hippies with CIBs. They might have had a work ethic outside the wire 20 years before I met them, but that had dissipated in the Cold War and they were just treating the military like a socialist gimme program.
So the two types of Boomers gave birth to two types of Xers. Modified somewhat by what we Xers had to go through as the Boomers first hung on to all their jobs, then all jumped ship at once. And what we've been going through as technology accelerates: if your working career was from 1970-2010, tech still wasn't integrated into every single thing you did. If your working career started in 1990, holy crap, strap in.
I'm in the relatively small group of Xers with WW2 parents, so I have a non-standard perspective on all this. I never considered the Boomers to be parental figures - just my weirdo older cousins.
Anyway, thank you for helping keep the country going. Seriously. CC, JSM
Aktually her sister is a pretty sensible judge
Yes cnn the networks that sought the psycho doctor was a woman
The NYT news division has been vewy, vewy silent about the dog-raping allegations in its editorial pages.
Meanwhile, the whole damn paper is getting roundly mocked by everyone. It's almost like it was a bad idea to fire James Bennet from the editorial pages. I don't know what dog-hater replaced him, but dogs can't rape people. Right? Jews are smart, but they can't do the impossible. Damn anti-Semites hate the Jews and simultaneously give them super-powers.
Breaking: The New York Times reveals that Israel has successfully trained a dog to take over Nakatomi Plaza and steal $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds
I hate to say it, NYT, but you screwed the pooch. Which is possible, by the way, for any of you journalists interested in factual reality.
The Pulitzer prizes now have to go out with asterisks.
Walter Duranty (not his Stalin stuff)
Nicholas Kristof (not his dog raping fantasies)
Oh, here's an anecdote of Boomers with no work ethic or sense of responsibility for others: the Boomer union members who helped wreck American industry by turning the UAW and suchlike into obstacles to innovation, and then, as they retired, into Ponzi schemes for the retired members rather than advocates for the working members. I watched this happen when I lived in the Detroit area. None of it was hidden. Even pro-union media just matter-of-factly reported each contract giving more to retirees and less to new hires.
That's not a work ethic or any kind of brotherhood among tradesmen. CC, JSM
The real tell is that RCOcean II is not on board.
That's how you know you fucked up, NYT. RCOcean is like, "I think Israel is being falsely accused."
Tucker Carlson? No comment. Candace Owens? No comment. If you can't get actual anti-Zionists to repeat your anti-Semitic, dog-raping fantasies, maybe you ought to, I don't know, retract the stupid. Or hire Candace Owens and improve the quality of your conspiracy horseshit!
Ocean: "Shouldn't the jury have known that a guilty verdict could lead to a terrorism charage?"
Technically, no, both here and in England. Sentencing is an issue for the judge once the trial is over. The types of factors that go into sentencing are often excluded from the trial because they have no value in proving or disproving the issue being tried: guilt/innocence for one specific act. Defense attorneys aren't even allowed to go in depth at closing arguments as to what the consequences for their client would be. The finder of fact is supposed to be a dispassionate truth machine.
The jury is presumed to know in general what the penalties for various offenses are, under what's increasingly becoming a legal fiction: that we all know the entire criminal code and so can be held responsible for any violation of it.
I also can't resist: did you complain when the anti-immigrant tweeters were given disproportionate sentences after Southport? CC, JSM
If a dog calls you "bitch" while he's raping you, is it an insult? CC, JSM
John mosby said...
Oh, here's an anecdote of Boomers with no work ethic or sense of responsibility for others: the Boomer union members who helped wreck American industry by turning the UAW and suchlike into obstacles to innovation, and then, as they retired, into Ponzi schemes for the retired members rather than advocates for the working members.
I don't think this is different than any other generation.
Most people in the world support slavery. They want other people to do stuff for them. Most other countries are honest about this.
It is really only an anglo-saxon cultural norm to value personal work and individual virtue.
we let too many continental europeans into the mix.
LOL FIFY:
He’s said the Covid pandemic [was part of] a wider government plot to control people, compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany, and suggested the Covid vaccine had little effect in stopping the pandemic.
With that tiny fix every one of those can be seen as absolutely true. Numerous examples of each abound. A huge international effort to silence dissent was enacted under cover of the fake pandemic. Alex Berenson just got the admission. The other two are too easy.
Gadfly did nail it in his boomer comment at 9:47pm so credit where it’s due.
Herbert matthews (cuba) halberstam (vietnam) sy hersh (israel and chile) its a shorter list of who was good shirley christian, abe rosenthal l, john corry sy schamberg (cambodia)
Fox butterfield on china
Remember when the Venezuelan operation was abut drug trafficking? Hs the street price of drugs gone up? You would think that somebody would get that story. Or is this the story:
No, there is no evidence that the January 3, 2026 U.S. military operation in Venezuela (airstrikes and capture of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, framed in part as a counter-narcotics action against alleged "narco-terrorism" and the so-called Cartel de los Soles) has had a measurable, sustained impact on street/retail prices of illicit drugs—particularly cocaine, the drug most relevant to Venezuelan transit routes.
Trump doesn't even talk about it anymore; he never talks about what a great thing he did stopping drug traffic, he just talks about how we got control of their oil, and stopped sending it to China. It's almost as if as soon as they get their military action, the justifications that they sell us are thrown out the window, rinse, repeat. And like the panfish at the end of the dock that keeps biting and getting caught, we just accept it.
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Lem, awesome link at 10:44. She's like a young Camille Paglia, hitting me with intellectual bullets, rapid fire, boom boom boom.
It's insane that they're not studying literature in the literature department at Columbia. What a waste of time and money! It's almost like you could sue them for fraud. No novels, no books? What the fuck?
Were blowing them up dutchboy once a week
I am a first picture guy.
The lord mayor effendi khan defended terrorists like the transatlantic bomber
Nicholas kulich the wurst
imTay said...
Trump doesn't even talk about it anymore; he never talks about what a great thing he did stopping drug traffic, he just talks about how we got control of their oil, and stopped sending it to China. It's almost as if as soon as they get their military action, the justifications that they sell us are thrown out the window, rinse, repeat. And like the panfish at the end of the dock that keeps biting and getting caught, we just accept it.
LOL!
Tim is on the case! He figured it out everyone. Trump captured Maduro and installed a US friendly regime in Venezuela to counter China!
Trump is an evil demon actually trying to make America wealthier!
You really do need to just leave and go to Europe.
Why must I feel like that?
Why must I rape the rat
Nothin’ but the dog in me
Ruh roh hans gruber
Spencer Pratt
He got an Airstream trailer and a microphone
How the New York Times Laundered a Conspiracy
Does anyone know what professional experience botfly has other than providing far-left radical progressive commentary? Lack of experience has never stopped botfly from proclaiming he knows how to solve problems that were already solved by the very solution he provides.
On the other hand, a MD has proven credentials in healthcare, which only comes after an acceptable amount of professional experience is obtained.
Rin Tin Tin tries to strip his next victim
Porsche bricked all of its cars that were in Russia due to sanctions, why does that matter? Well, why would China buy 200 aircraft from Boeing in this environment? Russia's Boeing aircraft were all denied parts, so effectively grounded, Russia's US Treasuries were "frozen" so China slowly but surely backs out of US Treasuries.
We have weaponized our strongest advantages on the world stage, and therefore neutered them.
It's not "treason" to point out that our policies are self defeating in the long run. Sanctions are just tariffs imposed from the outside, forcing the target countries to develop their home grown industries, like jet engines. What made us think that Russia and China could not develop aircraft engines themselves if we forced them to?
Maybe China really will buy those 200 aircraft, like Trump said, but Boeing stock went up $5 on his announcement, and then dropped by $10 an hour later... So maybe the deal isn't exactly sewn up.
Incidentally, Joe Biden was all in on these stupid sanctions first. He sanctioned SWIFT, thinking that it would kill Russia, but SWIFT is outdated, and the system that Russia and China developed from scratch already has 5% of the world market, from zero.
It would be so much better if our business leaders could go to China and make deals, Exxon had a huge Arctic energy deal with Russia that got killed by sanctions, it would be nice if we could make deals without all of this other crap hanging in the air, that's what I thought that Trump was going to be about.
They stole military technology that led to the mig so there you are
Actually the brits sold them the engine oarts than made the mig
Quite a case of topsy-turvy two tier justice:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39125225/ex-cop-charged-assault-shoplifter-knife-wielding-teen/
Ex-cop who tackled shoplifter is charged with ‘serious assault’ – after he was sacked over arrest of knife-wielding teen
Come for the George Michael look-alike pic of the ex-cop in a sleeveless hoodie on top of the shoplifter - stay for the video of him on top of the knife-wielding teen, telling him to "stop screaming like a bitch."
Pull quote: "A misconduct panel said PC Castle made the boy feel 'frightened and intimidated.”'"
Article does not mention it, but PC Castle does not look 100% indigenous English. Might be biracial or part Mediterranean? Only thing worse than a proactive white cop is a brown cop that refuses to get woke....CC, JSM
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Next question
All three pix are great, but I'm partial to the second one.
It was no secret in the '40s that Rolls-Royce let the Sovs copy their jet engine under license.
"Technically, no, both here and in England. Sentencing is an issue for the judge once the trial is over."
Damn it went right over your head didn't it? The jury didn't know they were finding the protestors guilty of "Terrorism". Its like a jury finding someone guilty for assault, and then finding after the verdict that the Judge secretely has decided its a hate crime and can tack on 20 years.
Didn't go over my head. I am quite aware of this phenomenon. I had a lot of fraud cases where a guy pleads to or gets convicted of one count worth a few K, but then at sentencing the judge gets to bring in related acts, not covered at all in the trial, to bump up the loss, and hence the sentencing calculation, to many times that.
In yesterday's thread about police chases, we talked about the opposite phenomenon, where bail-setting judges deliberately ignore the defendant's related conduct to set low or no bail.
It's always been part of our system.
So what about the Southport tweeters? CC, JSM
This is a better real-life example than my Dope Man hypo from yesterday, of how traffic stops can go south for precarious people:
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/15/georgia-police-make-changes-after-older-disabled-couple-left-stranded-in-traffic-stop-but-is-it-enough/
"Officer Todd Parmentier spotted the car and ran its plate through the state’s CJIS/GCIC network, which showed the vehicle was allegedly uninsured. Sims insisted she had insurance through USAA, but before she could show proof — and even before she learned why she had been stopped — Parmentier had already called a tow truck to impound her car.
"“He just left us out there on the side of the road like we were bags of trash,” said Debra Mobley-Sadler Sims, 71.
"Since the incident, USAA has confirmed in writing that there was no lapse in Sims’ coverage, and it was active at the time of the traffic stop. Sims had shown Parmentier during the stop she is registered as a co-owner of the car, and the insurance was in her name."
Luckily they are old and disabled, so they didn't miss work for not having the car. CC, JSM
Construction of White House hospital for Trump raises new questions about Joe Biden's health.
I'll just repeat what happened (summary per Google) in UK Legal system:
The Case: Four activists (Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani) were tried for non-violent property damage at an Elbit Systems UK arms facility in Bristol.
The "Secret" Charge: Before the trial, the judge made a preparatory ruling invoking the Terrorism Act 2000. He determined their actions had a "terrorist connection" because their goal was to restrict weapons and influence the Israeli government.
Jury in the Dark: The jury only deliberated on and convicted the defendants of criminal damage, completely unaware the judge could legally apply a terrorism-related penalty during sentencing.
As the Guardian stated this behavior is unprecedented in the British legal history.
Oh bloody Christ, Infinite X. The WH has always had a medical facility and 24/7 docs on site. AF1 has always publicly boasted about how they can do surgery on board if need be. This has nothing to do with any given POTUS.
Here's a scoop: West Wing offices have huge monitors because Trump can't read small print! CC, JSM
It isn't a ballroom they intend to build -- it is a nursing home with a memory care unit.
Ocean, that is a day ending in -y in the Anglo-American legal system. Lots of pretrial activity the jury never gets to hear about. Completely legal. Doesn't even violate Muh Norms, because it is the norm.
I think you're just butthurt because it's being used against Arabists for once.
What did you think about the Southport tweeters' sentences? CC, JSM
Now if you want potential jurors in general to have more education about the legal system and what happens to the people they convict, so that maybe once in a while they'll do jury nullification, which is also supposed to be one of Muh Norms, then I am all for that. CC, JSM
No, Infinite Ex, it's a fort so they can hold out the next time your Antifa blackshirts surround the place and your Dem mayor refuses to take any action. CC, JSM
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