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-Great Cultural Revolution
Kid Rock Shoots Up Cases of Bud Light in Response to Dylan Mulvaney Deal (video)
With a gun, not a needle.
[Breitbart] Kid Rock has posted of video of himself shooting up cases of Bud Light in an apparent response to the beer brand’s hiring of transgender social media personality Dylan Mulvaney as its newest spokesperson.

"Fuck Bud Light. And fuck Anheuser-Busch. Have a terrific day," Kid Rock said in the video, flashing his middle finger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 00:12 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some lefty will be saying or writing it's a death threat against trans "poeple" in the crooked media any minute now.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2023 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  It's fitting some trans freak would be a spokesthing for a light beer. Totally agree--[screw] Anheuser-Busch.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/05/2023 7:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Have to get in line with 'Double D' on this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  RE #1 A parkland shooting victims parents are already bitching about it.
Posted by: Chris || 04/05/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Terrible waste of ammo. Should have taken an axe or blade to it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2023 9:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Light a fire under it and watch it blow up.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/05/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm not the first to note:

Bud Light pretending to be beer is the perfect tranny product.

I don't get it. Other than virtue signaling the bent knee to Woke for free corporate image advertising, why? Right at the beginning of Baseball season and winter sports playoffs?

Corporate sponsored humiliation sessions I guess. When the beerman walks the aisles you have to pass, leave the game, get in line, get back to your seat, the whole shuffle - or be a gayballz and suck the head off of Bud Light.

"Oh I"m sure its a limited market release."
As Kid Rock just mentioned, so such thing anymore. All you get is piles of tranny can trash left over from the Seattle liquor store robberies.

And The Gayz, are they supposed to show support by drinking disgusting product and virtue posting? I can see getting like halfway through a can, "Its like seltzer, but for The Qwerties.", cut scene, throw out the remaining 5 1/2 cans.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/05/2023 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8  [Bee] Scientists At Budweiser Attempt To Discover How Many Beers It Would Take For Dylan Mulvaney To Pass As A Woman
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2023 11:15 Comments || Top||

#9  "After drinking a Bud Light, I like sucking my poo off of another guy's D to get the taste out of my mouth."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/05/2023 11:17 Comments || Top||

#10  Way back when, AB published a corporate history entitled, "Making Friends is our Business." It was a very sensible business strategy.

What their business is now I couldn't tell you. And I suspect neither could they.
Posted by: Tom || 04/05/2023 12:41 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Moment two men are charged by huge MOOSE in Montana after taunting the beast and ignoring warnings: Local brands them 'the dumbest people I've ever met in my life'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 00:01 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Darwin at work
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2023 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Eeny meany, chili beany, the moose is about to charge.
Is it a friendly moose?
Friendly? You dumbass!
Posted by: SteveS || 04/05/2023 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  They kept asking if it's name was Bullwinkle...
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/05/2023 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  wasnt really that big of a moose, looks like a 2 yr old
Posted by: 746 || 04/05/2023 11:27 Comments || Top||

#5  What 746 said.

I wouldn't call it charging either. Those dudes got in its space with one slapping its butt.

Thought I heard somewhere that moose are the #1 killer of humans concerning North American Wildlife.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/05/2023 12:42 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Probably. All their mass is at car windshield height
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2023 13:02 Comments || Top||

#7  “Hey Rocky, wanna see me pull a tourist offa my rack?”
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/05/2023 13:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Hold my beer...
Posted by: Shonter Thoting6421 || 04/05/2023 14:36 Comments || Top||


Kandahar Movie Trailer
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
April Blizzard Warnings: 800 mile path
[MSN] After the powerful coast-to-coast storm moved out of the Rockies, the low pressure system became better organized over the central Plains starting Tuesday morning and has started to produce intense snowfall across South Dakota and portions of North Dakota and Minnesota.

More than 1.2 million people in the Plains and Midwest are currently under Blizzard Warnings that stretch more than 800 miles from Wyoming to Minnesota.
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Over 30" already fallen in parts of Utah and WY from this storm. Alta, UT will likely reach 850" season snow fall by Wednesday eve.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another rain day.
Just about finished the spring planting of usuals.

Trying for a crop of peanuts as a nitrogen fixing protein source this year. Thought I'd brew and distill a batch. Got a nice collection of wild sage from last fall. Don't know that drinking sage flavored peanut spirits will catch on.

Started cutting the grass yesterday.
Rotation takes about a week, one sector a day.
Seeded clippings go to the horses, other to flower beds as mulch.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Central MN - not much precip but what there was seemed to be ice and hail, backed by 35-40mph wind - more fallen branches last night than the rest of the winter.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/05/2023 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Snowbird and Alta in Utah received over 60" from this storm. Reports not complete in WY but Casper has apparently had its biggest snowfall ever.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/05/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  AlGore (and WaPo, NYT, BBC, al-Guardian, etc.): "Snowfall is a thing of the past"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2023 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I went to Utah Sunday night. Originally I was going to Snowbird but the road up the canyon closed at 10:00pm, just after my flight landed (It is still closed). Expecting this, thanks to a local with good info, I diverted to Park City. Two days of great skiing. Very very fortunate to have the financial and physical ability to do it. Powder up to my thighs at times. And it was whiteout conditions at the airport as I was leaving last night. Not sure where spring is hiding, but it was a ton of fun. I shall be on an Advil-rich diet for the next few days.
Posted by: Remoteman || 04/05/2023 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  from
NWS Salt Lake City
@NWSSaltLakeCity
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🏆Record for daily low maximum temperature set yesterday for the SLC Airport: 33F.

The last time we had a maximum temperature of <=33F in April was 4/9/1922. That's 101 years ago!
Posted by: lord garth || 04/05/2023 15:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Lord Garth, obviously caused by global warming!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/05/2023 15:20 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Washington Post blasted over editorial that suggested cutting veterans' disability benefits
[Task & Purpose] Veterans groups are venting their frustration over a Washington Post editorial that calls on Congress to more closely scrutinize veterans’ disability benefits claims as a way to cut costs.

The April 3 editorial suggests that one reason the Department of Veterans Affairs’ budget has rocketed from $45 billion in 2001 to more than $300 billion in 2023 is that the post-9/11 wars have higher disability rates when compared with all veterans due to "improved battlefield medicine and a broader understanding of the array of service-connected injuries and disabilities."

In other words, many veterans who were wounded in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere suffer from lifelong injuries and other ailments that would have killed them in previous wars.

Noticeably absent from the editorial was any mention of how 20 years of war — the longest period of sustained conflict in U.S. history — may have contributed to the increase in the number of disabled veterans.

But the real problem, according to the editorial, is that the VA has not significantly revised its disability ratings system since 1945, when most veterans worked jobs that required physical labor, whereas most jobs in today’s information and service economy require a different set of skills.

Noting that "disability payments based on those ratings go to veterans tax-free and continue, with some exceptions, for the entirety of a veteran’s life," the editorial argues that Congress needs to modernize the disability ratings system. It also cites a December 2022 report from the Congressional Budget Office — which has also been widely criticized by veterans — that suggested phasing out veterans’ disability benefits as they earn higher salaries.

"The Congressional Budget Office estimates limiting payments for veterans who earn more than $170,000 a year would save $253 billion over the next decade," the editorial says. "Congress could alternatively tax the benefits, or some portion of them, particularly for new recipients with high incomes."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 07:43 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's a ready source of taxes. How about a small Federal fee ?

Surprise, surprise: Migrant remittances to Mexico and Central America are soaring
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  ..IIRC a prior president recommended a tax on that to fund the Wall.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2023 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Washington Post blasted over editorial that suggested cutting veterans' disability benefits

...It. Is. Coming. This is the same way they let us know thirty years ago that we and our dependents weren't entitled to medical care no matter what the recruiting brochures said, and who you gonna believe - us or your lyin' eyes?

They will go after the military retirements after that, though I'm sure the GS retirements and disabilities will be quite off limits.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/05/2023 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  since 1945, when most veterans worked jobs that required physical labor, So they can get computer jobs, right. The premise here is the disability is to augment paychecks. It says nothing about what it costs to be disabled in America. While America is the most disabled friendly country in the world, The costs for the disabled is staggering. Just get a vet thats missing a leg to explain taking a shower, or a crap. Then listen to him, or her, explain how they deal with leg maintenance, bone infections, etc...

Maybe we should tax reporters that drivel stupid shit int the papers. Of fine them for their lies. UGH...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/05/2023 9:38 Comments || Top||

#5  And the Bastids in Washington tax 85% of my Social Security and have screwed me on how much mortgage insurance I can deduct. I don't remember the exact amount but if I pay less than that I can n o longer deduct it. It was raised from last year. I also now pay more medicare from Social Security.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/05/2023 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 04/05/2023 11:59 Comments || Top||

#7  You know, I take hatred from some quarters as a badge of honor.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2023 12:03 Comments || Top||

#8 
#7 You know, I take hatred from some quarters as a badge of honor.
Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-04-05 12:03



..Hear, hear.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/05/2023 12:04 Comments || Top||

#9  The person who desperately wants Iran to nuke Israel, wiping out six million Jews (plus the unmentioned tens of millions of Arabs, etc. who live among them and downwind), and who claims to have lived in our midst for years on the profits of sales to American customers because his homeland is too corrupt and violent to remain there once he could afford to leave

Yes, the conglomerate using that name really is too f-ing stupid. Or possibly upset because they reached senility sooner than planned
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2023 12:27 Comments || Top||

#10  @#2 - And I believe that same prior president wanted to overhaul the VA and make it easier to fire the lazy and incompetent chumps who "work" there.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/05/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#11  This was explained to me in very simple terms. They don’t hate the military- they hate us who have served in the military.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 04/05/2023 17:09 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: ACA JOE || 04/05/2023 20:32 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ ChatGPT, is that you?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/05/2023 20:45 Comments || Top||

#14  ACA JOE, you got your de-fib handy
Posted by: 746 || 04/05/2023 21:15 Comments || Top||

#15  Dammit, I miss all the good stuff. Serves me right for sleeping. Speaking of coffee...

OldBlack Joe (Mills Brothers)
Posted by: Blackbeard Brown3830 || 04/05/2023 22:12 Comments || Top||


Americans will need to wait more than FOUR MONTHS for passport renewals as backlog grows due to 'pent up wanderlust'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Vacationer, expatriate or migrant surges expected?
  • The State Department has put the wait time between 10 and 13 weeks

  • Those who apply by mail could wait an additional four weeks

  • Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called the demand 'unprecedented'

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 07:24 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No passport needed (yet) for travel to NC, SC, FL, Indiana, or Kentucky.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  State Dept is as broken as any now days. If it takes an American 4 months to get a passport, imagine how many years it would take if you were from another country trying to get a visa..
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/05/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Global Covid disrupted Digital Nomads and Three Flag Theorists.
Posted by: mossomo || 04/05/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  But be prepared to pay $50 tourist fee to visit Hawaii. Only thing worth going for is to pay respects (again) at Arizona and Ford Island.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/05/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  This is a concern to me. My wife and I are planning a cruise to Hawaii in June. On the return trip, the ship makes a stop in Mexico.
Unfortunately, her passport is expired. We sent in the renewal request in February, paying extra for "expedited" service. They cashed the check March 7. I really hope it arrives in time, or we will have wasted $3,000.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/05/2023 14:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Also, the main reason I am going is to see the USS Arizona memorial.
On the other hand, I haven't been to sea since 1974, so the voyage should be interesting.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/05/2023 14:06 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Over 300 LAPD officers working on undercover investigations SUE the city for 'endangering' their lives when watchdog posted their images online
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • 321 cops are suing over website called 'Watch the Watchers' that posted photos

  • Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
    ...sounds like the work of Antifa...
    posted more than 9,300 officers' information

  • It comes a week after an LAPD union announced a lawsuit against a different site called killercop.com, claiming it put bounties on officers' heads after their pictures and personal details were released to the public
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 07:18 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day Has a B-1 Flyover... With The Retractable Roof Closed
I love shit like this - complete with video goodness!
[OutKick] Milwaukee Brewers fans have waited five months to see their favorite team back at American Family Field, and they finally got their chance with Monday’s home opener against the New York Mets.

One thing they couldn’t see? The pregame flyover.

Potential inclement weather in Milwaukee led the team to close the retractable roof. That kept everyone inside from looking up at a B-1 Bomber fly over the stadium.
Posted by: Raj || 04/05/2023 00:03 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wait...that roof opens? Thought it was just a rumor; a sales pitch to double the tax break?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/05/2023 10:44 Comments || Top||


Economy
Delta Airlines Is Giving Up on Atlanta These 17 Cities
[The Street] Recently, the Federal Aviation Administration urged airlines to cut back on the amount of flights they offer by up to 10% at some of the nation’s busiest airports due to a lack of in air-traffic controllers.
Air-Traffic Control school 'be hard.' VERY hard.
Thanks to a lack of pilots and other airport workers, a casualty of the buyouts and early retirements that airlines offered employees during the pandemic, there was an unusually high number of delays and cancellations last year. In an effort to prevent that from happening this summer, and as a way to ease overall congestion, the FAA has been urging airlines to cut back a bit.

Now, Delta (DAL) - Get Free Report has announced that it has removed two more cities from its schedule of flights, bringing its total number of cut flights to 17.

Starting on June 5, Delta will no longer fly to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and State College, Pennsylvania. At the moment, as noted by The Point Guy, the airline offers once-daily flights between Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP) and La Crosse Regional Airport (LSE), as well as twice-daily flights from LaGuardia Airport (LGA) to University Park Airport (SCE) near State College.

Delta says the cuts are temporary, and that it will notify anyone affected by this change. It said they will be "accommodated accordingly."

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  lack of in air-traffic controllers.

Hey Pete, is this a work-from-home position?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 6:29 Comments || Top||


Walmart is axing 2,000 warehouse jobs weeks after retail chain announced store closures across the country
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The layoffs include over 1,000 roles at a Fort Worth warehouse

  • It comes after the announcement that workers were instructed to find new jobs
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Scamdemic is pretty much over.
People are getting out and shopping the stores. Not just the Big Box ones either. Consumers are squeezing pennies, for the best prices. Time after time I am see stupid ridiculously inflaed priced items in Wally World. Like eggs a $1+ more a dz than Aldi's or Lidl's. Item after Item selling for 80 to 100%+ more than a year ago. Like a carbon monoxide detect now "on sale" at $51.00 up from $24.95 a year ago.

Basically, our incomes have not kept pace with the ROI that greedy Corporations want and it is catching with them.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/05/2023 7:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Technically, its not that prices are up as much as the value of your money is worth less. Print a gazillion dollars and the dollars you have have less worth. In the old days of coinage, the people who minted the stuff would introduce 'base' metal into the silver or gold to increase the supply aka debasing. Today they just to it with printing more paper or just push some buttons on a computer.

If we still had silver coins, this is what their value would be -

https://www.coinstudy.com/silver-coin-values.html
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2023 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  If we still had copper pennies instead of whatever they make now...
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2023 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Zinc clad with copper.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Axing or asking? Wakandans want to know.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/05/2023 15:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Walmart is commiting business suicide by the newest generation of Harvard idiot management.

Crooks walk in with huge back packs, fill them with merchandise, then walk out the front door without paying a penny ALL DAY LONG in front of customers and staff, because of management policy to not stop shop lifters wearing back packs.. And the shop lifting criminals flaunt in the faces of others as they leave.

Every time I go in I see that happening, and everytime I complain that I pay but they allow others to not pay just to give them grief. Ask any Walmart Associate Manager about this and they will tell you it is true. Walmart willingly encourages the criminal culture wherever they have a store.
Posted by: Kojo Unolump9756 || 04/05/2023 15:56 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ So follow the shoplifters down the road and take them off. Who they gonna complain to, the cops?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2023 16:10 Comments || Top||

#8  ^^MM my Carolina reapers, sugar rush scorpions and assorted ghosts are in the ground

Posted by: Beavis || 04/05/2023 19:40 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^Beavis so are mine.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/05/2023 20:31 Comments || Top||

#10  DB I have an issue with ridiculously hot peppers. Glad others are obsessed
Posted by: Beavis || 04/05/2023 21:48 Comments || Top||


Sad Factory Orders Report for March 2023
[TradingEconomics] New orders for US manufactured goods fell by 0.7 percent from a month earlier in February 2023, following a revised 2.1 percent drop in January and compared with market expectations of a 0.5 percent contraction. It was the second consecutive month of decline in factory orders, as demand for transport equipment was down 2.8 percent mainly due to falling orders for civilian (-6.6 percent) and defense aircraft (-11.1 percent). Demand for machinery and furniture and related products was also down 0.6 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively. On the other hand, new orders rose for electrical equipment, appliances, and components (0.7 percent), fabricated metal products (0.2 percent), primary metals (0.1 percent), and computers and electronic products (0.1 percent).
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looks like Q1 of 2023 will have below 2% growth in GDP and the rest of the year looks even worse
The United States still has factories ?
Posted by: lord garth || 04/05/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  due to falling orders for civilian (-6.6 percent) and defense aircraft (-11.1 percent).

See Delta

I find it odd that defense aircraft, a subsidized procurement, falls in the manufactured goods report.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/05/2023 6:33 Comments || Top||



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  Clashes between armed groups in Syria's Aleppo lead to casualties
Tue 2023-04-04
  al-Qaeda commander dronezapped in Syria's Idlib
Mon 2023-04-03
  Car bombing rocks Syrian capital Damascus, state media says
Sun 2023-04-02
  ISWAP Terrorists Launch Midnight Attack On Nigerian Police Station In Borno State
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  California police union executive director ran fentanyl operation from home: feds
Fri 2023-03-31
  Gun control activists storm Tennessee State Capitol
Thu 2023-03-30
  Fort Campbell helicopter crash: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear confirms multiple fatalities expected
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  IEDs kill 10, injure 12 in Syria’s Hama
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