The Frankish Reich

Yep. These are the alt news sources they follow.

Our April 2023 leader in the clubhouse: a narcissistic damn fool named Jack Teixeira. https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/13/bear-versus-pig-on-the-thug-shaker-but-not-a-fascist-recruiting-site/ Let’s let a 21 year old Massachusetts Air National Guard loser view some of our country’s most sensitive strategic national defense documents! This guy sounds like a younger, better looking Deranged Rhino.

I’d set it at an even 70. That would discourage the 67 year olds from running for Senate/Pres/VP because they’d necessarily be one termers only. But even 72 or 75 would be better than what we have now. It is long forgotten, but when Reagan’s age became an issue he committed to taking periodic mental acuity tests if elected. I guess he forgot to schedule those tests.

Why is “War” in quotes?

I think everyone (well, everyone except those who work for tips) hates the Tipping Economy. Tips solicited and given for all kinds of things that were just ordinary service, like orders at counter-service restaurants. I imagine that credit card tips must be accounted for and tax withheld on distribution. But what about all those valets and bellhops who still get cash tips? Why wouldn’t we want them to disclose the value and pay tax on it?

Hilarious take! Congrats. Now I’ll ruin it all by commenting: true. Maybin really didn’t like playing football. When I was a kid I imagined everyone out there fit the cliche: “I still can’t believe they’re paying me millions for playing a kid’s game I would play for free.” But no. Some guys are pure mercenaries out there. Part of all this draft stuff (the interviews, background checks, etc) is just figuring out who really fits the cliche and who is Aaron Maybin 2.0. Good for Maybin if he invested wisely and just walked away. Bad for the Bills, but good for Maybin.

Swanson TV dinner heir frustrates by small size of his peach cobbler.

I couldn’t agree more. On a related point: the only reason WWII in Europe went on so long was the bullheaded insistence of Churchill and FDR to keep fighting the fight the French/Dutch/Belgians gave up on, to the detriment of their fine countries. On another related point: the only reason the Cold War went on so long was the mulish devotion of men like Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and Reagan who didn’t see the wisdom in simply letting the Soviet Union have all of Eastern Europe, thereby depriving hose fine people of the brilliance of their Russian overlords. Thank you for this remarkable insight. You may have just brought us peace in our day.

He did. Same old Latavius. Melvin Gordon: 3.5 YPC Murray: 4.3 Bad offense, productive back.

I thought B-Man approved of a good bit##, err, teacher slapping! I got a few of those administered by some mean nuns. It probably made me a law abiding adult. I mean, “studies show” that.

Correct. A draft pick backup QB is a depreciating asset UNLESS the starter gets injured and he plays really well over the course of at least 4 games or so. (Think Brock Purdy if he’d been a high pick.) So you would be gambling on Allen getting hurt, Hooker stepping in (which he probably couldn’t do until next season) and playing well, and then turning Pick 27 in 2023 into, say, Pick 15 (none of the best dozen or so teams will be looking for a QB) in 2025. And by then Hooker would only be under team control for 2-3 more years, so that would depress his trade value. So let’s summarize: - minimal value for Pick 27 over the next two years in exchange for slightly better value come 2025 - and that slightly better value only comes if Allen gets hurt in at least one of the next two years Sounds like a great plan! Can’t believe I didn’t see it before given that it’s so obvious now.

Lauren Boebert disagrees. https://www.westword.com/news/lauren-boebert-son-car-wreck-injured-friend-16586981 Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the New Trailer Trash Republican Party and one of its rising stars. Like mother, like son. On September 17, 2022, Representative Lauren Boebert's eldest son, Tyler, was issued a "careless driving causing bodily injury" ticket in connection with a late-night car crash in which he flipped his father's SUV into a Garfield County creekbed. Noble D'Amato, a nineteen-year-old friend of Tyler's who was riding shotgun, wound up hospitalized with multiple concussions and a severely lacerated hand. "I still have problems with my hand," D'Amato says. "My thumb almost got cut off. It prevented me from getting a welding job, because I can't hold a TIG torch anymore. I'm a personal-care provider now." **** Records show that Lauren Boebert, who was first elected to Congress in 2020 and fought off Adam Frisch in the 3rd Congressional District House race last November, has received a summons or been arrested at least four times in the past decade. The 2016 careless driving incident resulted in her being tossed in jail for approximately 100 minutes for failing to appear in court, according to the Denver Post. A plea deal later led to the careless driving charge being dropped and only the unsafe-vehicle charge stuck, according to records. Boebert's record also includes a charge of disorderly conduct for verbal altercations and dog code violations related to the alleged harassment of a neighbor and her dogs. Jayson, meanwhile, was charged in 2004 for public indecency and lewd exposure for showing his penis to two women at the Fireside Lane bowling alley in Rifle.

Umm, no. I suggest you read up on what is now called classical liberalism. Because you just got a D- on this “discuss the origins of liberal thought in political theory” assignment. Chat GPT would do a lot better.

Meanwhile: Disney 2, DeSantis 1, Bottom of the 5th.

Interesting that the "Murdochs" of Succession all jetted off to Lake Placid for one of those Men Who Rule the World meetings. You know the kind of meeting: Davos, Aspen Institute, all those things are resident Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists claim to despise. Not to mention the weirdly homoerotic men-only Bohemian Grove retreat Thomas, Crow, and various other billionaires have gone on. They used a Lake Placid setting as a stand-in for Aspen, but still - art imitating life imitating art.

If you're saying some QB needy team will make us a great offer for Pick 27, well, that would certainly be nice. But its quite a different thing to say we should pick Hooker ourselves at 27, hoping that some other team will come out of the woodwork and all of a sudden offer great value for him. I would assume that if some other team really likes him, they'll be on the phone with Beane trying to make that trade for Pick 27.

For those who watch Succession (recommended!): "wealthy benefactor" Harlan Crow = Conor Roy.

Makes a fool out of me too. I'm no fan of his wife's political activities, which seem: (1) insane; (2) ridiculously ill-advised given her husband's job. But I have defended him as a Justice based on his adherence to a particular view of the law (even though its not my view) - an steadfast adherence that sometimes has led him to split ranks with the standard Republican position. And I also believed his thing about loving the common man's RVing, Walmart parking vacations instead of the wining and dining his colleagues get when they go to Europe to "teach" a summer class for 6 weeks. So much for the Last of The Regular Guys in Washington meme.

Well, I don't know if every single one is, but there sure are a lot. When I was a kid in a Catholic High School, they invited this guy to come talk to us about his mission rescuing NYC street kids: https://nypost.com/2018/09/13/this-nyc-priests-dramatic-downfall-was-just-the-beginning-of-perv-priest-scandals/ My friends and I joked about how he seemed like a perv. Oh.

Hendon Hooker: 25 years old Sam Darnold: 25 years old

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/matthew-kacsmaryk-mifepristone-medication-abortion-supreme-court.html It is probably impossible to count how many errors, exaggerations, and lies Kacsmaryk, a Donald Trump appointee, put in his decision. The judge appears to have largely copied and pasted the briefs filed by the anti-abortion group that filed the suit, the Alliance Defending Freedom, rephrasing their arguments as his own analysis. (This was predictable—Kacsmaryk himself is a staunch anti-abortion activist—and might be why ADF handpicked him specifically to hear the case for them.) His decision repeats the ridiculous and objectively false conspiracy theory about mifepristone—that the FDA illegally rushed its approval in 2000 at the behest of former President Bill Clinton, the pharmaceutical industry, and population control advocates. Kacsmaryk flyspecked the FDA’s assessment of the drug, concluding that its studies were insufficient and that the agency “acquiesced to the pressure to increase access to chemical abortion at the expense of women’s safety.” And he claimed that he had authority to revisit an FDA approval that occurred 23 years ago because the agency happens to have changed rules around the dispensation of the drug several times since. This is all completely absurd, an outrageous abuse of power that no judge has ever even attempted before. Challenges to agency actions have a six-year statute of limitations. That means plaintiffs get a full six years to file a lawsuit, after which point they’ve waited too long. It has, just to reiterate, been more than two decades since the FDA approved mifepristone. Kascmaryk ignored that limitation in his quest to block the drug because, he insisted, the agency hadn’t responded quickly enough to citizen petitions opposing the drug. That is not the law. Mark Joseph Stern is a journalist with a law degree. He sometimes overdoes it, but I read the decision itself and I gotta say: his summary nails it. This is one of the most poorly reasoned, purely result-oriented decisions I've ever seen. The Republicans are now beating the Democrats at their own game: filing lawsuits in federal district courts where they can get a favorable judge. But its even worse now since they can game their lawsuits by filing in a location where there is just one judge on the bench - Amarillo, Texas. That's right. A single anti-abortion Trump appointed judge in Amarillo, Texas is now running abortion policy nationwide. Obviously we need to change the rule: this decision should, at most, apply to this judge's district in Texas.

Chan Gailey as OC would make this offense historically great.

There is no such thing as "The Commissioner." There are 6 Commissioners, 3 from each party. Guess which party this guy is from. There is no such thing as a "key member." There are 6 Commissioners. You could call the Chairwoman a "key member" but that's not this guy. This is the kind of crap people cite here. A poorly researched article, grossly misunderstood by a poorly informed reader.

Game 17. Bears playing for draft position, meaning "we want to lose." Bears Nation turns its lonely eyes to Nathan Peterman. And Peterman delivers! He plays conservatively, not obviously looking like they're trying to throw the game, but certainly not trying to win the game. Mission Accomplished. That's why coaches like him.

Tyreek just turned 29. So allow me to interpret: “I will be 32 after the 2025 season, and it’s unlikely that a receiver who depends on speed and quickness will still be a valuable commodity at that age.”