Tuesday Afternoon Links of On-Timeness

by | Jul 21, 2020 | Daily Links | 315 comments

Should you find yourself in Lausanne, buy one.

 

So…today I have managed to not be untimely. The worst Swiss sin since having something visible stuck in your teeth after lunch!

And one special shout out – today, some years back…the heavens were rent, the Ghost of H.P. Lovecraft was seen wailing across Boston Common, portents of great fear were seen everywhere. Yes, SugarFree was born. Happy Birthday, Author Extraordinaire!

With that, it is on to the links:

  • Folgen! The Swiss can be quite the rules sticklers…when they see it in their self-interest.
  • Hey?! The Americans burned through a whole boatload of money…we can too! The Free Shit Army has conquered the world.

    Actual footage

  • THIS is how you do it, and maintain a measure of privacy.
  • You know who else wanted to acquire a chunk of the Austrian Air Force?

Comment away. Don’t Comment. Whichever…I am not your supervisor.

 

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

315 Comments

  1. Rebel Scum

    I choose to post first before Brochetta not because it is easy, but because it is fun.

      • Rebel Scum

        Punctuality centers whiteness. It is far easier for white men to get to work on time than Black people who are having to change their hair to fit the workplace’s professionalism standards. Nonwhite people have to spend significantly more time than their white counterparts on molding themselves to a white Western lifestyle before work.

        Hm. Seems to me that having different expectations for different melanin content is what is racists.

      • R C Dean

        It is far easier for white men to get to work on time than Black people who are having to change their hair to fit the workplace’s professionalism standards.

        These people are straight-up lunatics. To the point where you don’t even know where to start in pointing out how wrong they are.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I got into an argument during orientation over that. A retailer like Wal-Mart not having a nappy hair specific hair product apparently, is racist and cannot be interpreted in any other way.

        My pointing out the hair product I use being marketed to Mexicans and not available at Wal-Mart does not change that fact. Some people want to feel oppressed.

      • Surly Knott

        It gives them an external focus as the reason for whatever isn’t perfect in their lives.
        They’ve done their part, they’re done, everything is now on other people.

      • one true athena

        I’m pretty sure I saw exactly the same “argument” in Jezebel that said punctuality is “patriarchy” because women take longer to dress/style their hair for men, and thus it’s oppression to expect both style and punctuality from the women.

      • Mad Scientist

        What a crock. Men don’t give a damn how women dress or do their hair. Women do that shit for other women.

      • kinnath

        My three co-workers from Africa seem to have any problem getting to work on time or maintaining a business casual look. In fact, one of them routinely puts me to shame on how well dressed he is.

      • kinnath

        DON’T seem to have any problem . . .

      • hayeksplosives

        That’s because the ancestors of your coworkers from Africa were sold as slaves centuries ago by black Africans, whereas the ancestors of an African-American were sold centuries ago by white Americans.

      • juris imprudent

        Uh, the ancestors of his co-workers are the ones that sold the slaves to be shipped to America?

  2. Negroni Please

    Austria has an air force? Huh.

    • Not Adahn

      Indonesia’s defense minister, Prabowo Subianto, wrote a letter to his Austrian counterpart, Klaudia Tanner, seeking to initiate negotiations to buy all 15 Typhoons belonging to the Austrian Air Force.

      This means we’re selling new fighters to Austria, right?

      • peachy rex

        I’d bet the Austrians would go for a trans-sonic advanced trainer/light fighter crossover like the M-346, or maybe the T-50 or T-7. All of those would be ample for national air defence when you’re surrounded by friendly countries, at a fraction the acquisition and operating cost of a first-line fighter. Why they bought Typhoon in the first place is a puzzlement.

      • Gadfly

        This means we’re selling new fighters to Austria, right?

        Maybe, maybe not. The Typhoon is a Euro-made plane, after all.

    • Hyperion

      “Austria has an air force?”

      One of these days it’s going to fly right over the Alps, I tell you!

      • Jarflax

        They can’t count on the winged hussars to save them again.

      • peachy rex

        Please, huzar. The Imperialists and Germans did 90% of the fighting – the Poles showed up just in time to bogart the glory. And Sobieski’s pursuit was such a fucking fiasco that Lothringen took over command of the army.

      • Jarflax

        The French did most of the fighting in WWI, Pershing’s boys did the winning. Don’t disrespect the Hussars!

    • Spartacus

      Well, if they didn’t, the carrier fleet would be kind of pointless, now wouldn’t, smarty-pants?

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    it’s 1:01

  4. kinnath

    That gif demands the Onion.

    • Mad Scientist

      I love the money fires!

  5. leon

    Sorry to be OT so early, i just want to post this from the last thread if other people want to see it.

    Here is the link to chart i made on the polling differential movements between Biden and Trump.

    tl;dr: Trump is worse off now after May than he was before May.

    https://pasteboard.co/JiIPtu6.png

    • Negroni Please

      My entire life has taught me that polls are bullshit. Polls in the post Obama era appear to go beyond bullshit, past propaganda and fully into gibberish territory

      • leon

        Meh unless you believe they are complete fabrications, the movements can give you some information.

      • kinnath

        Yes, I believe the polls are complete fabrications at this point. Major media outlets don’t even bother to make it look like they are trying to get realistic data.

      • EvilSheldon

        The media lies about everything I’m personally knowledgeable about. It’s a safe bet that they’re lying about everything else, too.

      • Mad Scientist

        Murray Gell-Mann agrees.

      • Not Adahn

        Yup. The thing that pushed me into the anti-death penalty camp is I can never be certain that a person did what the media tells me they supposedly did to deserve it.

        *stands on side of road waggling fingers at passersby*

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        they don’t have to be complete fabrications. what if they simply use the latest rendition of a political affiliation poll to inform the weightings of another poll? now you have gibberish.

    • Drake

      All I see is a bunch of lines.

      • leon

        Green is the differential, yellow is the 10 poll Moving Average of the differential between Biden and Trump. the numbers at Top are the weeks the poll was taken in (10th week through 29th week of the year). Some weeks are reported because some weeks had more polling than others. Looking at that you can see that there was a slide in Trumps Polling starting at the beginning of may and going down till the end of June.

      • hayeksplosives

        But what does Scott Adams say? He was right once.

      • Jarflax

        The polls in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia matter. The national polls don’t.

  6. Sean

    Happy Birthday SugarFree.

  7. leon

    THIS is how you do it, and maintain a measure of privacy.

    Did they change the terms of the agreement on him when he did that?

    • Plisade

      They did, cuz his bank couldn’t cash a check of that magnitude.

      • Grumbletarian

        He found their lack of funds disturbing.

  8. leon

    With new figures showing less than half of those who arrive from high-risk countries actually enter quarantine, Switzerland has announced it will randomly check whether people are complying with the rule.

    Geeze. They sound like real nazis about this.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’ll probably help you store your valuables while you are detained too.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        They are Kookoo for Kügeraands!

    • Pope Jimbo

      My old neighbors were from Switzerland and they were great people, but I can’t see them “randomly” doing anything. I’m sure that there will be an entire process set up, documented and tested to select the people for random inspections.

    • Agent Cooper

      The hills are alive with the sound of Covid!

  9. Plinker762

    It is heartening to see the races come together to shovel our great-great grandchildren’s money.

  10. Rebel Scum

    While strong in symbolism, the deal came at the cost of cuts to proposed investment in climate-friendly funds and did not set conditions for disbursements to countries, such as Hungary and Poland, seen as breaching democratic values.

    Hungary and Poland, who have been funding the beast that is the EU are certainly unworthy of getting any of their money back.

    • leon

      such as Hungary and Poland, seen as breaching democratic values.

      Now i’m not hip to what is going on in Hungary and Poland, but that is reason enough for me to say they should “GET OUT” while they can. Also, why is it that i suspect a hint of “You’re democratically elected officials are breaching democracy”. Once again we see that “Democracy” is a word for “Stuff I like”

      • Viking1865

        Yeah in the past four years it’s become very clear that “Democracy” just means “The personal political preferences of the educated leftist, whatever those happen to be at the time.”

        When the ZOMG REPUBLICANS are in charge, the purest form of democracy is found in the bureaucrats, who are the true guardians of the people.

    • grrizzly

      Both Hungary and Poland are net recipients of EU funds. They are staying in the EU for the money.

      • Gadfly

        Which would explain why the EU did not set conditions on doling out cash, as they would lose face if anyone else follows the UK out the door.

  11. Not Adahn

    So, lemme see if I’ve got this straight:

    The EU takes a bunch of money from the EU, gives most of it to the EU, lends the rest of it to the EU in order to offset the economic damage to the EU that was caused buy the reaction to the ‘vid by the EU.

    Am I missing something?

    Why don’t they do something more effective, like randomly reassign all the member countries names?

    • kbolino

      They’re pining after the fjords U.S. federal government’s redistribution power play.

  12. DEG

    SugarFree was born. Happy Birthday, Author Extraordinaire!

    Happy Birthday!

    Based on official numbers, the newspaper calculated that some 6,000 people arrived from countries at risk in recent weeks. But only 2,328 reported their return to cantonal health authorities and complied with the quarantine requirement.

    Lack of compliance is beautiful.

    Leaders hope the 750 billion euro ($857.33 billion) recovery fund and its related 1.1 trillion euro 2021-2027 budget will help repair the continent’s deepest recession since World War Two after the coronavirus outbreak shut down economies.

    Those amounts are tiny. I’m disappointed in the EU. They should learn from the USA!

    A Jamaican man wanted to be in a galaxy far, far away after winning a jackpot of more than $650,000 in local currency.

    The publicity-shy winner — identified only as W. Brown — emerged briefly from the Dark Side, dressed as Darth Vader, to collect the loot, the Gleaner daily of Jamaica reported.

    Smart man.

    • Not Adahn

      Seems like a poor month to be wearing a full-body plastic suit in Jamaica.

      • Count Potato

        Is there a good month?

  13. Animal

    Should you find yourself in Lausanne, buy one.

    Do they make pocket watches? I can’t abide anything on my fingers or wrists. No rings, watches, etc. – not even really a fan of long-sleeve shirts unless weather demands.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Well now we know you’re not Liberace.

      • Animal

        Indeed.

    • Negroni Please

      Agreed. I don’t even wear a wedding ring.

    • R C Dean

      Do they make pocket watches?

      Do they ever. You should Bing it, or however you introduce your data to the data harvesters.

      See, I can’t stand things in my pockets, so I go wristwatch.

      • Animal

        ‘Every cat its own rat,’ as my Grandpa used to say.

  14. Shpip

    Indonesia’s interest in the fleet comes two weeks after the surprise announcement that the U.S. State Department cleared the country to buy the Bell-Boeing MV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft.

    Does Indonesia have a bunch of spare pilots that they need to kill off, or have all the bugs finally been wrung out of the Osprey?

    • dbleagle

      The bugs are pretty well out. The Marines have only “hard landed” two in Hawaii since I moved here in 2012. Hard Landing= crash at low enough speed that the troops can escape the crash and the plane burns up completely.

      However there remains the problem that a human can’t fly the aircraft through transitional flight if the computers go out. Note: you can’t land it unless the wings are vertical. Soooo not exactly a pilot friendly A/C.

  15. DEG

    CT State lab finds that 90 Lil Rona positive tests actually were false positives

    The department said the state public health laboratory uncovered a flaw in one of the testing systems it uses to test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and 90 of 144 people tested between June 15 and July 17 received a false positive COVID test report. Many are nursing home residents.

    State officials said the flaw has been reported to the manufacturer and the federal Food and Drug Administration and DPH has taken immediate steps to make sure the patients are notified.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “However, the State will continue to count those numbers in the positive column”

  16. juris imprudent

    As if furthproof were neededded, 2020 is the strangest year ever.

    • Not Adahn

      Obviously the tasters were drunk.

    • Spudalicious

      I’m on the hunt.

    • Ted S.

      HM would probably like a word with you.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So long as they maintain an ability to communicate a specific, relatively unambiguous thought.

      That should be the goal of English departments everywhere, instead of the Stanley Fish deconstructionist critical theory bullshit.

      • EvilSheldon

        Lol.

        They would have to have specific unambiguous thoughts before they could communicate them.

    • Not Adahn

      Under a so-called critical grammar pedagogy, “This approach challenges the familiar dogma that writing instruction should limit emphasis on grammar/sentence-level issues so as to not put students from multilingual, non-standard ‘academic’ English backgrounds at a disadvantage,” the email states.

      “Instead, it encourages students to develop a critical awareness of the variety of choices available to them w/ regard to micro-level issues in order to empower them and equip them to push against biases based on ‘written’ accents.”

      “that’s not what euphemism means. And it’s not spelled with a ‘y'”

      “How DARE you microaggress against my written accent! Pack your shit, you’ll be fired after I’m done talking to HR!”

      • Pope Jimbo

        So minorities are mad that the rules of the corporate rat race are skewed toward white culture. Now we are going to refuse to teach them the basics of that culture.

        You’d think that if you were an aggrieved minority you would want to learn all the rules that go into fitting in so you could climb that ladder. But no, I guess it is the duty of everyone to change their behavior to convenience the whiners.

      • Mad Scientist

        But no, I guess it is the duty of everyone to change their behavior to convenience the whiners.

        And so shall it always be.

      • EvilSheldon

        But no, I guess it is the duty of everyone to change their behavior to convenience the whiners.

        That’s pretty much social justice in a nutshell.

      • C. Anacreon

        A couple years back our company had a required meeting about ‘working with Millennials”. In it we were taught Millennials don’t like to have to come to work at a specific time, and also feel that they shouldn’t have to respect those with more experience or expertise in an area, that instead their opinions should be considered to be equally valuable. Instead of talking about ways to coach these individuals into a traditional work structure, we were told we’d have to change our ways of doing things to accommodate them.

        Fortunately, once this consultant lecturing us was done, everything from the meeting was essentially forgotten, and I don’t recall any of these recommendations ever being put into place. And all the millennials at our company pretty much turned out to be good colleagues, never demonstrating any of these qualities.

        I can only assume all the Millennials on this site are pretty cool people too, as are the majority of younger people in this cohort I’ve met (I haven’t encountered any Antifa, for the record). What a strange class that was.

    • Chafed

      There are a lot of cover letters from their graduates that will go straight into the garbage.

      • Hyperion

        Not when we all woke. My cover letter go like this:

        Listen muthafucka! I needz a job and if I don’t get it, I goan come down there and burn that shit down!

        Nothing could possibly go wrong here.

    • The Hyperbole

      Did we do this song and dance thirty years ago? or did I imagine Ebonics?

      • C. Anacreon

        Who was the first Ebonics transsexual?

        Susan Be Anthony.

    • Hyperion

      The problem now is that whitey has become so blatantly racist, and there’s no cure for it, because the whitey is such a creature of subconscious race based bias, that we have to move back to segregation to protect the minorities. Men are such rape monsters also, that we have to go back to separate schools and other safe places for females to protect them.

      Except for bathrooms and we must all use the same bathroom, just one big bathroom for everyone.

      Progress and equality!

      • creech

        Wait a week or two and you’ll see a movement for segregated bathrooms. No self-respecting black person (i.e. a black person who votes for Biden) will want to take a piss or a crap where white supremacists are.

    • Fourscore

      MORE: Scholars defend Ebonics, slang, improper grammar

      Scholars ain’t scholin’ no more.

      I wasted a lot of time in school, shoulda been a scholar a-scholin’

    • Grosspatzer

      LOL. Makes me proud to have flunked out of that fine institution.

    • Grumbletarian

      “To is or not to was: that are being the question.”

      • Mojeaux

        That depends on what the definition of is is.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Australia — Indonesia has expressed interest in acquiring Austria’s fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets, in yet another surprise defense procurement plan from the southeast Asian country.

    Do they have a negative relationship with the Chinese?

    • juris imprudent

      Just all of that local-to-them, far-from-China South Chinese Sea that China seems to think is their territorial water. What possible concern could that be to oil-rich Indonesia?

    • Gadfly

      Do they have a negative relationship with the Chinese?

      Other than North Korea, which of China’s neighbors doesn’t have a negative relationship with China?

      (There might be some others, but it sure seems like China is not exactly a good neighbor to have)

  18. Raven Nation

    I made this when I was a kid so when I hear about a Typhoon military aircraft I’m always 80 years out of date.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Comment away. Don’t Comment. Whichever…I am not your supervisor.

    Now I don’t know what to do. Halp!

    • SDF-7

      Schrodinger’s Glib — in your comment box maybe.

    • I'm Here To Help

      Type in a comment but don’t post it?

  20. Rebel Scum

    I wonder what the NBA has to say about this.

    The New York Times reports that China is using what amounts to slave labor to manufacture face masks.

    As the coronavirus pandemic continues to drive demand for personal protective equipment, Chinese companies are rushing to manufacture the gear for domestic and global consumption. A New York Times visual investigation has found that some of those companies are using Uighur labor through a contentious government-sponsored program that experts say often puts people to work against their will.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “made by slave labor” on the back of an NBA jersey might not read well for their fan base, but its no longer about them; its about the Chinese market and they don’t care about their slave population. They are the freest, non-colonial power in the world I heard.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder
    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      “I think we just found our new supplier” is what the NBA likely has to say.

    • R C Dean

      I wonder what the NBA has to say about this.

      “Did the check clear?”

  21. The Late P Brooks

    My entire life has taught me that polls are bullshit. Polls in the post Obama era appear to go beyond bullshit, past propaganda and fully into gibberish territory

    Where did the headless chicken land?

  22. Pope Jimbo

    Maybe some good news? Probably more like false hope, but there are some interesting numbers coming out of the race for Minnesoda’s CD5 (aka Omar’s district)

    Meanwhile, a breakdown of fundraising numbers provided by Melton-Meaux campaign showed that the campaign has outraised Omar in CD5 and in Minnesota donors. In Q2, Melton-Meaux raised $237K from within CD5 and Omar raised $8K. For Minnesota, Melton-Meaux raised $323K and Omar raised $11K. This combined with Omar’s “burn rate” of money suggests that at least in one category the challenger has momentum.

    Recently there have been some big DFL guns coming out to try to support Omar. That and those numbers make me think that her opponent might actually have a chance. She’s totes cooked if the progressives realize that her opponent is also a black immigrant and that the local Somalis seem to be backing him instead of Omar.

    • Viking1865

      Hes a commie, but hes a commie who doesn’t absolutely hate America, so that’s an improvement over Omar.

    • R C Dean

      the local Somalis seem to be backing him instead of Omar

      I’m sure the DFL will make sure the votes are counted correctly.

      Besides, I thought Omar had a crew of goons to make sure her district didn’t give her any trouble.

  23. Sensei

    Swissy – I hate to break this to you, but I believe the watch on the left is a bit of A. Lange & Söhne clone.

    https://www.alange-soehne.com/en/timepieces/family-lange1

    I’ve been out of the modern watch game for a while so I can’t tell you what brand it is. Since I don’t have the resources I don’t have to make the hard decision between a Lange 1 or Patek.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      If you’re not spending any time in a corporate board room, only one out of a thousand people will know.

  24. Drake

    Stopped in at the local death merchant today. He laughed when I inquired about 9mm. He did, however, sell me a brick of Aguila standard velocity .22lr which made me happy.

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah. I’m going to have to show up at club meeting and see if any of the reloaders are willing to sell to me.

      • Drake

        I’ll be doing that too if we ever have an in-person meeting again.

      • Not Adahn

        We are actually holding a meeting this Friday. Outside in the pavillion. Chairs 6′ apart. First 50 people to show up can get in, then the gate gets dropped.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I’ve had luck at sgammo and bulkammo for 9 mm and shotgun shells. Just need to keep checking as they update supply. I’ve seen 223 in stock at sgammo, but I’m not quite low enough to stomach the new prices.

  25. grrizzly

    Why did an Australian outlet report on Austria? They are confusing already. I should have visited the zoo in Vienna, then I could say that I’ve seen kangaroos in Austria.

    • DEG

      A now-defunct Austrian restaurant that I liked had a sign up which said, “We don’t know what Australian food is like, but we are sure it is very good.”

    • Not Adahn

      Because Aussies are interested in Indonesia.

      • Raven Nation

        Ding ding ding!

        People I knew in the military years ago said that, even during the Cold War, most Australian defense plans revolved around preventing or damaging an Indonesian invasion.

      • grrizzly

        Okay, okay.

        The only time* I noticed Indonesia was covered in the news was when I watched TV in Australia.

        *Natural disasters excluded.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Ron Paul calls your bullshit.

    Motorcycle accidents ruled Covid deaths? In the rush to paint Florida as the epicenter of the “second wave” of the coronavirus outbreak, government officials and their allies in the mainstream media have stooped to ridiculous depths to maximize the death count. A television station this weekend looked into two highly unusual Covid deaths among victims in their 20s, and when they asked about co-morbidities they were told one victim had none, because his Covid death came in the form of a fatal motorcycle accident.

    Sadly, this is not an isolated incident. In fact the “spike” that has dominated the mainstream for the last couple of weeks is full of examples of such trickery.

    Washington state last week revised its Covid death numbers downward when it was revealed that anyone who passed away for any reason whatsoever who also had coronavirus was listed as a “Covid-19 death” even if the cause of death had nothing to do with Covid-19.

  27. mexican sharpshooter

    I like how Swiss posted a German watch brand…

    …Lange is choice, though.

    • creech

      Fights on the Capitol steps aren’t new. In 1859, the Dem congressman who represented the county where I now live, got into a fist fight with a pro-slavery congressman from Virginia. Along comes the Vice President of the United States to break it up. It ended with all three of them throwing punches as they rolled down the Capitol steps. I think we could retire the national debt if we sold tickets to an AOC vs. Tulsi fight.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    “Instead, it encourages students to develop a critical awareness of the variety of choices available to them w/ regard to micro-level issues in order to empower them and equip them to push against biases based on ‘written’ accents.”

    “What’s your major?”

    “Gibberish.”

      • Ted S.

        Oh stewardess, I speak jive.

      • Ted S.

        Whoops, I didn’t realize you posted a Youtube link. The CSS is acting up and I didn’t get the nice blue and red links.

    • Hyperion

      How to sound smart when everyone listening is stupid 101.

    • Animal

      I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter!

  29. Derpetologist

    Another trip around the sun, done…for Sugarfree that is.

    Some wise words on aging from the great philosopher Dave Barry

    ***
    There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is: age 11.

    You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
    ***

    Perry Bible Fellowship on birthdays: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/todays-my-birthday/

  30. The Late P Brooks

    one victim had none, because his Covid death came in the form of a fatal motorcycle accident.

    He lost control when he sneezed. What is it with you people?

    • Mad Scientist

      I figured someone with the virus made a left turn in front of him.

    • Drake

      Craziest people in Rally racing:

      3. The Drivers
      2. The sap who sits next the driver
      1. The fans who watch the race outside the apex of a corner

  31. Rebel Scum

    Progjection.

    JOY REID: Are you concerned based on Donald Trump’s behavior about his — you know, his needling Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities, are you concerned about Donald Trump’s?

    HILLARY CLINTON: I think anybody who has watched him over the last four years has to be concerned and particularly watched his total absence of leadership with respect to the pandemic. If you were really looking for somebody to try to help our country get through this terrible virus that has cost jobs and lives and disrupted our society and economy, clearly he has failed. He’s failed at the most fundamental job of being a president. And so yes, I am concerned. I’m concerned because he does not seem up to the job, he doesn’t seem capable of having the attention, the concentration, the focus, the discipline to stay with a problem like the pandemic poses. He seems to be, unfortunately, impulsive on what he said and does, which confuses a lot of people, governors, mayors, others who are trying to figure out how to save lives and save jobs. I think every American who has seen him over the the last four years — particularly over the last months with respect to the pandemic — should be concerned about him.

    • creech

      Let me guess; Hillary didn’t offer what she would have done to combat the pandemic. Testing 330 million Americans, all at noon on March 15, with results known instantaneous, and locking up everyone who tested positive for 15 days was really not a option.

  32. Derpetologist

    Amish build barn in 10 hours, 3 minute montage
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTB0HnM6WM

    “Aye, tis a fine barn but tis no pool, English.”

    “D’oh-eth!”

    needs more Hoedown from Copeland

    • hayeksplosives

      I have that album. For realz.

      • Not Adahn

        Fascinating. I’m on a couple of recordings of that. 7th chair violist. See if you can pick me out.

      • hayeksplosives

        I have the “Copland Conducts Copland” with the London Symphony orchestra, and a pice with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra

        Sound right?

    • Hyperion

      My neighbors, Mennonite, built a damn barn in less time than that. I went to work one morning and there was no barn there and when I came back, there was a completely built barn. There were like 20 RVs and 20 pickup trucks parked over there the night before and I was wondering what was up. Apparently a barn building with all their extended family from all over.

    • The Last American Hero

      In part I of the video, Harrison Ford gets frisky with the farmer’s daughter while protecting her from a killer.

  33. Derpetologist

    Cars fly on the Fourth of July – Alaskan town celebrates by driving cars off a cliff
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbMYzMUu06Q

    I hope they got to celebrate as normal this year.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    HILLARY CLINTON: I think anybody who has watched him over the last four years has to be concerned and particularly watched his total absence of leadership with respect to the pandemic. If you were really looking for somebody to try to help our country get through this terrible virus that has cost jobs and lives and disrupted our society and economy, clearly he has failed. He’s failed at the most fundamental job of being a president.

    I have serious doubts about the mental capacity of anybody who thinks the President of the United States is or should be an omnipotent savior. That’s straitjacket talk.

    • Hyperion

      “cost jobs and lives and disrupted our society and economy”

      Democrats don’t need any stanking virus to accomplish all of that!

      • salted earth

        It must be nice to be able to blame someone else (in this case a virus) for every decision you make. It wasn’t the politicians’ fault, the virus shut down the economy.

    • EvilSheldon

      On the one hand, we have, “n0T mY PrEzideNT!!!”. On the other hand, we have, “FaILurE oV lEadErSHip!!!”.

      The never-ending trick bags are just tiresome.

    • Hyperion

      When you have a bad case of TDS on top of your BDS, you’re all fucked up.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Guardian journalists can’t get over being called sissies in grade school.

    • Hyperion

      “Five black guys in Wyoming?”

      When you know the media is lying. Wait…

    • Timeloose

      “Kanye ‘crossed a line’ by airing private family matters.“

      Said Kim, who has spent the last 10 years doing exactly that for money.

      • Derpetologist

        Ah…..didn’t she get famous from a sex tape?

    • Raven Nation

      I think they mean it as in Stasi-type secret police because, apparently, people are being seized off the streets and thrown into unmarked vans. Maybe they’re then being taken to black helicopters.

      If that’s happening, I’d be worried too. If Trump wants to send the Feds in, he should have them guard federal buildings and do it overtly.

      • Viking1865

        As I said the other day, if the media was interested in speaking truth to power, they’d be taking the names of people that Antifa is reporting got arrested, and then scouring the court records, working their sources in the justice system, demanding answers from politicians. But emoting on Twitter is way easier.

        1. People get arrested by cops in unmarked cars.

        2. People get arraigned on rather boring and nonpolitical charges of vandalism and destruction of government property.

        3. People either plead out or go to trial.

        Are 2 and 3 happening? Or are they just not being covered by the media? How long does it usually take between an arrest and a hearing? How about these people’s friends and family? Have they been in contact?

        Like, that dude that got arrested, and put in the minivan, his friends got his name and were talking about the National Lawyers Guild. So….has the NLG been in contact?

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        Getting names from Antifa would assume that 1) they have a membership list and 2) they’d be willing to cooperate. We’ve been told that Antifa isn’t an organization, so there wouldn’t be a membership list. They wouldn’t lie, would they?

      • Ted S.

        And he should tweet that various mayors are actively encouraging people to destroy FedGov property and instructing cops to let the rioters get away with it.

        Even if it’s not quite true, it puts the mayors on the defensive.

  35. I. B. McGinty

    Akira –

    I would buy quality but inexpensive tools and upgrade as you need/want to. I bought a cheap saw and it dulled fairly quickly and now I don’t use it. Also, spend countless hours watching videos on YouTube. That’s how I learned a lot of handy tricks and techniques.

    • salted earth

      Hello Mr. McGinty,
      I need a dresser, but they all seem to have “safety” features that do not allow the drawers to fully extend. Do you know if there is an easy hack to get them to extend? Is replacing the slides/rails hard to do?
      Thanks 🙂

      • I. B. McGinty

        If the dresser has drawer slides on the side of the drawer you can just replace those. If it has a center slide made out of wood this is a little more difficult. Chances are there is a little plastic tab on the back that keeps it in place. To remove the plastic piece you would need to remove the backing of the dresser.

      • salted earth

        Thanks

      • Ted S.

        How do you remove the drawers to make moving the dresser easier?

      • I. B. McGinty

        Some drawers come out and some don’t. It depends on the slides. If they are on the side then they will come out. If it’s a center slide as described above it is a little more difficult.

    • The Hyperbole

      This, and prepare to learn how to sharpen your tools, sharp chisels and planes are essential for hand tool woodworking.

      • Derpetologist

        an apocryphal quote attributed to Lincoln:

        “If I had 3 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend 2 hours sharpening my ax.”

  36. Gadfly

    The Free Shit Army has conquered the world.

    In fairness, the Free Shit Army has always been dominant. Whether it is poor societies plundering their neighbors or rich societies plundering themselves (and often their neighbors as well), it’s always been popular to take without earning.

    • hayeksplosives

      Where mah bread and circuses, yo?

    • Derpetologist

      The Aztecs lived on land with no minerals that could only support a few crops. Since they had nothing of value to trade, the only way to get more was to steal it. By an extraordinary coincidence, their religion taught that never-ending war was not only normal, but just. If they didn’t sacrifice enough captives to the sun god, the world would end and everyone would die!

      But they were a silly, ignorant people. Humanity has developed far past that point.

      • Suthenboy

        ‘Sacrifice’

        Is that what they are calling it?
        This past fall I ‘sacrificed’ a wild hog.

    • AlmightyJB

      Lol

    • Mojeaux

      Okay, that was funny.

  37. salted earth

    The Jamaican Darth Vader story had a link at the end to a story about a body being found in a pawn shop that was burned down during a protest. I had not seen that story before, is that new news?

    • The Other Kevin

      I just saw it today too, so I think it’s new.

      • salted earth

        Thanks. The story is a bit odd, I’m not sure why it took 2 months to find a body at the site of arson and it’s sad and weird that no one knew/reported a missing person.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Because the authorities are too busy whipping up a mob to get the evil pawn shop owner who shot a rioter at his store.

        Police and prosecutors are turning to the public for help in deciding whether to charge a Lake Street pawnshop owner who allegedly shot and killed a man during rioting in the wake of George Floyd’s death in late May.

        The plea issued Tuesday comes one day after civil rights attorney Ben Crump announced he is representing the family of the man who was killed and joining in the call for charges to be filed. Crump is also the attorney for Floyd’s immediate survivors, who are plaintiffs in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Police Department and others.

        Calvin Horton was shot on May 27 outside Cadillac Pawn by John Rieple after two days of arson, looting and protesting that followed Floyd’s killing by police on May 25. The storefront suffered significant damage and was looted that night.

        I think that the authorities are simply asking for help from any witnesses, but in this day and age who can tell? Nice work journalos.

  38. Derpetologist

    GoPro: Wingsuit Flight Through 2 Meter Cave
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C_jPcUkVrM

    “I used to bull’s-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They’re not much bigger than two meters.”
    ―Luke Skywalker

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nope

      • Derpetologist

        AH-64, Afghanistan

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtyUTLeW1g

        What a maroon.

        My brother has told me stories of John McCain type antics…

        I have more respect for Launchpad McQuack than McCain as far as flying goes.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Apparently youtube pulled it, but the one in Emerald Bay where Navy pilots dipped their helo into the lake was amazing to watch

      • Derpetologist

        I only have a little flying experience – about 5 hours at the controls.

        Around 2007, I went on a flying lesson in Morgantown, WV. It was a cloudy day, but the tower let us take off anyway. I flew through a cloud, because given the weather, it was hard not to. When I came out, the river was in front of me and the sky was behind me. This is a situation which pilots call “bad”. So, I did a hard pull-up. The instructor was very chill. His name was Roman and I think he was from Russia. When I recovered, I gave him the controls.

        In 2012, I went flying with my brother in Alaska. He let me fly so he could point out the sights and the wildlife. “Look! A moose” he’d say. Well, after a while, I was struggling so I said “I think you should fly now.”

        Him: I have the controls?

        Me: What?

        Him: You need to say ‘you have the controls’.

        Me: You have the controls.

        Him: I *do* have the controls.

        And we went on our merry way. For a while, when we were in our teens, I refused to ride in a car with my brother because he drove dangerously. He was very happy when I trusted him enough to fly with him.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *chuckle*

        I’ve had a pinch of the seat between my buns a couple of times. It’s part of the process. My instructor was a certified acrobatics pilot and had been flying since WW2. He didn’t flinch, ever.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ok, that was nuts.

        My scoutmaster was an Apache test pilot. Dude was hard as nails.

  39. Evan from Evansville

    A while ago I posted about getting on a bike for the first time since The Incident. It was boringly smooth and simple. That’s good. Glad I did it. Win!

    I did something “new” today! I drove on public roads for the first time in god-knows how long. I haven’t owned a car in…uh…close to 12 years? Living in Asia tends to do that, I suppose. I even used to be a delivery driver for Jimmy Johns. I was also the (sole) Driver in college for our smoke cruises. I’m very careful about spacing and making my ride both comfortable for myself and passengers, and also I learned long ago to always watch out for the fuzz. Get in the car with me, you know you’re gonna be safe and ain’t gonna get pulled over.

    I’m ‘technically’ not supposed to drive but I have a valid license and have the know-how. I only did about 6 miles total to the pharmacy and back. Boring. Smooth. Simple. Safe. Blah!

    But I did it. And I take my victories wherever I can. It’s like the SJWokesters and their hilarious (and dangerous) obsession with racism/sexism/whatever. If you are focused on seeing whatever you want to see, you see it all the time. I focus on my victories. However tiny they are. I don’t give a shit. To prove that I can still do it is just flying the W. That’s the point. Knowing that you’re not afraid, and fear never once entered my brain.

    Apparently people think I’m ‘supposed’ to be afraid of cars. If you want to see fear everywhere then you’ll find things and reasons to be afraid. I ain’t. And I ain’t gonna. There’s a reason. It’s called recovery. It’s hard to explain to people during this ‘pandemic’ (!!!). People trying to force me to ‘be afraid’ of nonsense is incredibly unhealthy and it’s difficult to express in print how pissed off it makes me and how oppressed I feel, being forced to kowtow to the fears the OTHER people have. They don’t realize how much it damages others. I doubt they would care even if they could ‘understand.’ This is why suicide and addiction rates are up. They don’t give a shit.

    They can fuck off with their desires of me. (Unless they’re Q-Quality hot…I’ll accept that, please!) I got my win today! No matter how small, it means a lot. Focus on the positive. Never the negative. Otherwise you’ll sink into darkness.

    *Raises glass* Thanks, everyone. You’re all the best. Clink with me. Time to celebrate a tad!

    • Derpetologist

      I have the utmost respect for you. You’re as hardcore as can be.

      ***
      To be nobody but
      yourself in a world
      which is doing its best day and night to make you like
      everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
      which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

      ― e.e. cummings
      ***

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEpMQldbPJM

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Tall Cans! We take our victories where we can and move on….

    • Derpetologist

      fun fact: recover and recuperate both come from words that mean to get up again.

      The words insult, assault, and resilient, both comes from the word for jump. A resilient person jumps up from the ground after being knocked down.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODkVkpaVQA

      Hic Rhodus, Hic salta! is a Latin phrase that means “here is Rhodes, jump here!”

      ***
      The phrase arises from the Latin form of Aesop’s Fables (Gibbs 209; Perry 33; Chambry 51), as translated from Ancient Greek “Αὐτοῦ γὰρ καὶ Ῥόδος καὶ πήδημα” (literally) “Here is Rhodes, jump here!”. In the fable, a boastful athlete brags that he once achieved a stupendous long jump in competition on the island of Rhodes. A bystander challenges him to dispense with the reports of the witnesses and simply repeat his accomplishment on the spot: “Here is Rhodes, jump here!”
      ***

    • Fourscore

      Walk, then run, Evan. You’re doing great. Just don’t drive to Chicago…

    • hayeksplosives

      Great outlook!

      Awesome to hear from you.

    • Ownbestenemy

      If you can get out to “Star Wars” Canyon you can see some awesome sight of jets unknown

  40. The Late P Brooks

    an apocryphal quote attributed to Lincoln:

    “If I had 3 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend 2 hours sharpening my ax.”

    Most excellent.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    jet go-cart with afterburner

    Somewhere out there is film of a go kart powered by a hydrogen peroxide rocket.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    What a maroon.

    “Holy fuck,” indeed.

  43. Pope Jimbo

    Great, just got an email from my gym saying that they will begin implementing temp screening this weekend. This is against a background of plummeting deaths and stable (post peak) hospitalizations. WTF?

    Given that they have cut their hours drastically and reduced their amenities, I am seriously thinking about changing back to Snap Fitness.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Before or after workouts?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Sounds like they will be screening on the way in.

        For the protection of members and team members, all individuals entering our facilities will be screened for a fever and COVID-19 related symptoms. We appreciate your partnership as we implement this important safety measure.

        I’ve already sent them a reply asking them how many infections have been traced back to their gyms. My guess is that it is zero. I’m trying to decide if the impetus behind this is the govt or Karens.

    • Crusty Juggler

      You need to work on the at-home gym. Gyms are going to suck for the foreseeable future.

      • mrfamous

        I live on the 2nd floor of an 800 sqft condo. So deadlifting could be hilarious. Anyhow, the condo’s gym facilities are also closed due to Governor’s orders. I’m doing pushups and pullups in the park, while ignoring all the yellow tape they’ve wrapped around all the equipment to keep people from using it due to the coronavirus.

        I’m starting to suspect this stuff might be about something other than the safety and wellbeing of the public.

        The Governor’s last order expires this weekend, no word on whether new decrees will be forthcoming. My gym owner vows to be open on Monday

      • DEG

        I’m starting to suspect this stuff might be about something other than the safety and wellbeing of the public.

        Crazy talk.

      • R C Dean

        no word on whether new decrees will be forthcoming

        Spoiler alert: They will.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Obviously you would be limited with home gym options. Gosh.

        I am in a similar situation to you. I have dumbbells and I bought an air bike. I figure that will get me through for a bit.

      • Incentives Matter

        Gyms are going to suck for the foreseeable future.

        I figured this out twenty years ago. I’ve spent thousands on equipment for my home, which, as it turns out, is a small fraction of the amount of money I would’ve spent maintaining a gym membership. Totally worth it. The spousal unit’s benefited a lot from it as well.

  44. Gustave Lytton

    Extreme fire danger and maroon in front of me flicked his butt out the window.

    • Grosspatzer

      Did drugs fall out?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Nicotine is a drug…

      • Grosspatzer

        Actually, that is a really shitty thing to do at any time. Add fire danger… Dumbass.

    • Derpetologist

      During my big road trip last year, I stopped to get gas somewhere in Nebraska. I was shocked to see some people smoking a few feet from the pumps, which have very conspicuous no-smoking signs on them. I was tempted to care loudly at them, in the words of Leslie Knope, but I did not. I know from Myth Busters that a cigarette cannot light a pool of gasoline, but fumes? Why take a chance? Anyway, I bought gas and a cool knife and skedaddled.

      • creech

        These are rebels. “No one is going to tell me not to smoke around gas pumps.”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The last knock down drag out fight I saw in person was between a guy who was smoking around a gas pump and another guy who was very vocal about it and should have minded his own business. The non smoker got a ride to the hospital after it was all over with sans several teeth. It isn’t worth it but you’re right about it not being a good idea.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        See? very dangerous!

      • Suthenboy

        Gas pump fires are almost always caused by static sparks between person and car.
        Always ground yourself before starting to pump and always light your cigarette before pumping.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Wouldn’t want to risk a tragic gasoline fight accident.

      • Incentives Matter

        +1  Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

      • Surly Knott

        +1 Warm Leatherette

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I smoke and I Never flick butts out, Living in Socal will get you used to it,
      CWAA

  45. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. Why am I not surprised that Covid bullshit has found a way for me to dislike the Art Shanty Project in Minnesoda even more? It is bad enough that the local artists become so pretentious about having a fishhouse full of art (and it is a fishhouse or at worst a shack! Shanty is some fucking sissy NY word) out on the ice. Also pisses me off that the project gets so much govt money too. But now they manage to pussy out on this winter’s projects already. That is right, they are already canceling the project that was going to be run in Feb 2021 and done it with maximum condecension.

    “Frankly, we think it would be irresponsible to plan a public gathering for thousands of people per day,” says operations director Arlo Sombor. “Our festival relies on the interaction between people in small, enclosed structures that are not conducive to social distancing.”

    While we don’t know how bad the pandemic is going to be by this coming January, Art Shanty organizers would rather not waste anyone’s time, and have chosen to make a proactive plan.

    “We would not ask [the artists] to invest energy, materials, and their stipends toward a program that has a real probability of getting cancelled — nor would we ask them to risk their own health during the months-long building process that leads up to the event,” says artistic director Erin Lavelle.

    • hayeksplosives

      I didn’t expect Minnesota to go full prog quite so quickly. The violence was the most surprising, but Minnesota politicians at all levels need to bear in mind that people will only live in such a cold place as long as they can still enjoy living there.

      They could be on a real powder keg with Somalians making an extralegal entity of their own in Minneapolis, and the Eritreans, South and North Sudanese starting to encroach in one another’s territory,

      I am glad I sold my house there as the Islamification was spreading into Columbia Heights and Fridley, where I lived.

      C’mon, Minnesota! Get back to fairness and polite rule following!

    • dbleagle

      That was awesome. The elder gods celebrate SF as well.

      • Mad Scientist

        It is my belief that the elder gods make sacrifices to placate SugarFree.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    “Frankly, we think it would be irresponsible to plan a public gathering for thousands of people per day,” says operations director Arlo Sombor. “Our festival relies on the interaction between people in small, enclosed structures that are not conducive to social distancing.”

    Whatever. We’ll all be dead, by then.

  47. juris imprudent

    Holy shit, the Bee is just brutal!

    Ceremony Honoring Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 Response To Be Held At Now-Vacant Nursing Home

    Cuomo was awarded the United States Award for Disease Response Excellence by Dr. Anthony Fauci at the recently vacated venue.

    “We just had all this free space opened up,” said Cuomo. “This is a great new space to host all kinds of cool events. They’ve got a cafeteria, lots of available beds for a little shut-eye, and a room to play Bingo. I could get comfortable here.”

    • hayeksplosives

      HA!

      Pelosi came close when she tried to make high unemployment a feature, pointing out how people would have free time to pursue art.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, funemployment it was called.

    • The Last American Hero

      From the top turnbuckle.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That’s going to leave a mark.

    • DEG

      I think #35 is Angela White. Google image search on the archive images isn’t working as easily as it used to. Unfortunately, she jumped on the woke train with “transwomen are women”.

      I kinda like #29.

  48. hayeksplosives

    A restaurant that was and is part of the Oklahoma State University experience, Eskimo Joe’s, is being pressured to change their name and logo.

    I own my fair share of Eskimo Joe’s merch, and I’ve seen them in Rome, Sweden, London, and all over the USA.

    Please don’t cave, Eskimo Joe!
    https://eskimojoes.com/

    Hoping that the online petitions for changing it are worth the paper they’re printed on.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s nice to see the white saviors riding in on their white horses and saving the Eskimos’ honor even though I can’t say I’ve heard them complaining.

      • hayeksplosives

        It’s waaaayyy more about the White Saviors than it ever was about what indigenous people think.

        Eskimo Joe’s is bad if they don’t change, and they are pansies if they do change,

        Difference is, Their customer base, the one that pays the bill, are going to leave over a name and logo change, whereas the SJW will never support them enough to keep them afloat anyway.

        The logo on t-shirts is how they really make their money, not the restaurant itself.

        SJW are pretending to be sweet well-meaning things, but they just handed the owner a gun with a single bullet and walked out of the interrogation room so that they don;t silly their own hands directly.

      • Viking1865

        These cancel campaigns are always fueled by lies. It’s the same online nutjobs, but they make up whatever story hits close to the target.

        If it’s a restaurant, they all turn into “Lifelong loyal customers.”

        “I’m class of 92, my daughter starts in the fall, and I love Eskimo Joe’s, but it’s time to change the name, it’s 2020 blah blah”

        They never say “I’m a fucking loser who has nothing going for me in life, and I hadn’t even heard of Stillwater before yesterday, but all my loser leftist Twitter friends are talking about this, so here I am.”

        I saw, with my own eyes, last couple weeks dozens of “lifelong Redskins fans” talking about how it was “Time to change the name.” These people are the LOL SPORTSBALLL TYPES but when the Left orders them into action, they lie like dogs.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yup.

        Re: Redskins.

        I am convinced God took my Dad precisely when he did so that the good man never had to be alive when Redskins sold out.

    • Gustave Lytton

      My stepmom is from Oklahoma. I had an Eskimo Joe’s T-shirt as a kid.

      Alaska Airlines is next. Goodbye Chester.

  49. Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

    I have to wonder how much taxpayer money is funneled to these mostly peaceful protesters in the form of grants to NGOs. Furthermore, I wonder how much is funneled to them via settlements that private entities have made with the DOJ. I’d love to see some intrepid reporter dig into this.

    • Count Potato

      Intrepid indeed.

    • one true athena

      A lot. Just looking at the amount of “homeless” money in LA that gets spent on … achieving nothing – it’s all going to NGOs. And that’s just homeless “outreach” money. Then add various programs for “disadvantaged youth”, art, climate, immigration — all of those tend to get taxpayer money. And that’s not even including federal disbusements that end up with Open Society, Ford Foundation, and the like.

      I would guess that at least half of this “defund the police” nonsense is because those orgs see their chance for more money. It’s going to go to existing orgs, right? So if you can say you’re the Homeless Mental Health Outreach Org of, say, Portland – guess who’s going to get that money for theoretical intervention? It’s graft.

  50. Mojeaux

    Where is Rhywun?!

    His procedure was last Monday. He said he’d be there 3-5 days. It’s been 9. I’m getting worried.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      He was here Yesterday IIRC, I know in the last few days for sure, not 9

      • Mojeaux

        I just went and checked comments. The last time he commented was on the 14th, last Tuesday.

        *wrings hands*

      • commodious spittoon

        Don’t worry, it’s super unlikely he had anything on Clinton.

      • Mojeaux

        You never know, though!

      • grrizzly

        That’s what I remembered.

      • Incentives Matter

        Well, if it’s anything like the surgery I had on my abdomen ten years ago, his recovery may be proceeding more slowly than he was led to believe. Happens to the best of us. Also me.

      • DEG

        Hopefully his recovery taking longer is what is going on.

        Hopefully he gets back soon.

  51. Ownbestenemy

    Roger Stone should have said he was promoting Negro Terror

    • l0b0t

      Wow! A Skrewdriver cover no less. Bloody impressive.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Negro Terror is the embodiment of punk.

        Check out this
        https://youtu.be/0YjmThsuRUs

        Fucking telling the damn truth thay many need to hear today

      • Ownbestenemy

        Also this… Fuck em
        @ 4 min mark or so he talks about taking the Screwdriver song.

        People still want to fight

  52. R C Dean

    Long article written by very high-dollar lawyers (ask me how I know). Precis:

    A career attorney at the DOJ testified that Attorney General Barr’s personal bias against cannabis and his desire to slow the growth of the industry resulted in the issuance of burdensome subpoenas to merging cannabis companies. The whistleblower’s allegations expose the significant costs and dangers of the antitrust agencies’ unfettered investigational powers – which can be used against any industry. AG Barr’s positions—that Congress and the judicial branch should not substitute their judgment for that of the executive branch, that the executive branch’s motives should not be subject to review, and that agency records and decision making should be exempt from public disclosure—are also brought center stage.

    • Crusty Juggler

      How do you know?

      • R C Dean

        Because I pay their fucking bills, that’s how.

        Yes, there are lawyers that charge $1,000/hour. The sad thing is, they are connected with DOJ and CMS, so its worth it.

  53. Derpetologist

    When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong – Kind of

    I was waiting in line recently at mall pretzel stand. There was a sign that said “line starts here” but since no one followed it, I just got behind the next person in line. Later, someone else saw the sign and followed it, so the 2 of us were like a Y shape and the end of the line. Another guy and gal came in behind me. When the line moved, I looked at the person on the other side of the Y. She said go ahead. Well OK. I was in line before her. The guy behind me said “hey buddy” in such a way that he considered me anything except a buddy. I turned around. His gal pal said “he didn’t say nothing”. I got my pretzel without further incident. I didn’t want any trouble.

    Later, I thought if that guy and gal came behind me, then they thought the line started there too. So if I had led the person on the other side of the Y go first, they’d be waiting even longer.

    It should be noted that the gal on the other side of the Y and the 2 behind me were black and I am white. Maybe the guy thought I was cutting line out of racism or some such. But if so, why did he get behind me?

    Anyway, I’m glad it ended without incident. It’s easy to see how it could have been otherwise. I prefer to avoid unnecessary confrontation. None of this would have happened without the silly coronapalooza rules.

    • The Hyperbole

      Meh, problematic queuing has been around long before the ‘rona. And since you admit that you failed to follow the posted signage…

      • Derpetologist

        Yes, I ignored the signage that the 6 people in front of me did.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Moo?

    • C. Anacreon

      You should have remembered the new “Triple-A GC rule”, which is both a solution for White Fragility and BLM discussions, and solves queue problems at the same time.

      “African Americans Always Get Cuts”

      If you allow others to cut in front of you in line, you’ll never hear another ‘hey buddy’ again.

      • Derpetologist

        I count it is as a simple misunderstanding. For a while, there was a highway off ramp I frequented and many times when I turned left there, I’d get honked at even though I thought I was staying in my lane. I got the middle lane before the turn because I knew the right lane would become a left turn only lane. Anyway, it turns out the lanes were poorly marked in the turn and one day when said screw it, might as well swing wide, I was in the left most lane with no problem. So that’s what I do there now.

        My driving instruction was 2 rules: don’t hit anything and don’t let anything hit you. The rest are suggestions.

      • Derpetologist

        right most lane that is

    • Suthenboy

      I thought the appropriate response is “I am not your buddy, pal.”

      • Ownbestenemy

        No the proper response is “I am not your pal, friend”

    • Ownbestenemy

      At the height of all the craziness, well…beginning I guess, when supermarkets were queuing and metering their customers within the store, we ran into that problem. It appeared that a single line had formed naturally and we just funnel to the open register (by the way, this is the best possible way to do it). After time, others would naturally form lines in front of lanes, but that goes counter to the single queue that formed.

      Like derp, without incident because generally people aren’t assholes. In the long queue we laughed that we didn’t have anywhere else to be, so let the busy people get out of here.

      • Ted S.

        There should be one queue for the express lanes, and a second for the people with full carts.

        And fuck anybody who has more than 14 items in the express lanes.

      • Ownbestenemy

        My wife always seems baffled when we get ready to checkout. We can have 5 items and she looks at me like I am weird going to a checker lane. There is one person there paying, so it will be quicker than waiting for all the retards in the self-checkout lane that don’t know how to spell avocado because the barcode fell off of the item.

    • Spudalicious

      You cut in front of the woman from his point of view.

      • Derpetologist

        I saw that at the time, which is why I wasn’t too upset. I gave her a chance to go first even though she came after me. I got pretzels from there before virus and then the line was short and made sense.

        I need a goos-frah-bah song

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI

        I could always tell when my mom was mad at me when I came home from school, because there would be scented candles and Enya playing.

  54. Crusty Juggler

    Alleged Salas Family Assailant Previously Worked for US/Israeli Intelligence-Linked Firm

    The alleged gunmen who killed the son of Esther Salas, the judge recently assigned to the Epstein-Deutsche Bank case, worked for a company of corporate spies and mercenaries with ties to intelligence and also to Deutsche Bank.

    According to his website, Den Hollander once worked for Kroll Associates Moscow Office, where he “managed and upgraded Kroll’s delivery of intelligence and security in the former Soviet Union” from 1999 to 2000. A few years prior, Kroll had won a considerable bid from the Russian government to locate money allegedly “spirited out of the country by the directors of state enterprises when they realized that privatization was inevitable.” The Kroll executives in charge of the Russian portfolio prior to Den Hollander were E. Norbett Garrett, a former CIA station chief in Cairo and Kuwait, and Joseph Rosetti, former chief of security for IBM. During that period and prior to his hiring at Kroll, Den Hollender worked as a lawyer in Russia regarding “legal and business issues, including international financing and marketing” and married a Russian woman he met during his time there that he subsequently claimed was part of the “Russian mafia.”

    Founded by Jules Kroll in 1972, Kroll Associates would later become known as the “CIA of Wall Street” and “Wall Street’s Private Eye” and was alleged to be an actual front for the CIA by French intelligence agencies, according to theWashington Post. Part of the reason for this nickname, which was once a boasting point for top Kroll executives, owes to the fact that the firm frequently hired former CIA and FBI officers, as well as former members of MI6 and Mossad. K2 Intelligence, the successor to Kroll Associates founded by Jules Kroll and his son Jeremy in 2009, has similar hiring practices, counting former FBI and NSA officials among its ranks alongside former high-ranking members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency. Kroll also boasted ties to the Bush family, with Jonathan Bush (George Bush Sr.’s brother) serving on its corporate advisory board, and Kroll was also employed by Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign.

    Though it is mainly involved in corporate security and investigations, Kroll has also frequently investigated targets of Washington foreign policy, including Saddam Hussein, and was also the company tapped to “reorganize” Enron in 2002. Kroll Associates also has long been a subject of scrutiny for those that question the official narrative on the attacks of September 11, 2001, given that the company was put in charge of security for the World Trade Center complex from 1993 bombing up through the 2001 attacks and has no shortage of ties to companies and individuals that profited from the attacks. Kroll itself experienced a “surge in business” following the events of 9/11, a day when its top executives all avoided going to work despite ostensibly providing security for the complex.

    A similar “surge in business” for Kroll followed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq after the company’s investigations into Saddam Hussein’s and the Bath Party’s finances had been used as partial justification for the military incursion. Kroll became a major provider of mercenaries along with companies like Blackwater and DynCorp to the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation through its subsidiary Kroll Security International. Its clients included the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has long fronted for the CIA, and also provided mercenaries for the war in Afghanistan.

    Conspiracy Crusty is in.

    • hayeksplosives

      I’m going to have to paste that into a word document so I can read it without my eyes hating me.

      • juris imprudent

        You’ll just end up with your rational brain hating you for crawling through conspiracy gargbage.

      • Crusty Juggler

        Facts are facts.

        Prove us wrong!

  55. Incentives Matter

    Today the Afternoon links are Swiss Watch Precise!

    Meh. Call me when they’re Atomic-Clock-Precise, and we’ll talk.

  56. hayeksplosives

    I’ve just watched the first four minutes of the first Burn Notice.

    I might have to give this a try.

    • Crusty Juggler

      It’s fun in that 80s action-esque tv show way, like McGyver and the A-Team. Then for some reason it gets super dark, but before that it’s fun.

      • mrfamous

        Plus Bruce Campbell

      • hayeksplosives

        That just happened on screen. Time to pour a tasty beverage.

        (That’s Diet Coke for me. Sigh.)

    • hayeksplosives

      “Southern Nigeria is not my favorite place. It’s unstable, it’s corrupt, and the people eat a lot of terrible smelling preserved fish.”

      • C. Anacreon

        You’re sounding a bit like Roger Stone.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So confirming places are actually shit holes.

      • hayeksplosives

        If it’s on Burn Notice, it has to be true.

      • hayeksplosives

        Snort.

        That’s another series worth dusting off.

    • Mojeaux

      something else is lurking about him though

      World is CrazyTown. It wouldn’t surprise me if that IS the only thing.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Word

    • Oy the Billy-Bumbler

      Moral of the story? Don’t post any damn thing on fucking Twitter not fucking ever.

      • R C Dean

        Welp, I guess I’m . . . moral?

        That can’t be right.

    • hayeksplosives

      Awesome.

      Makes me a little ashamed.

      • dbleagle

        Mahalo Derp. Taxed and widely shared.