Saturday Morning Winter’s Here Links

by | Oct 24, 2020 | Daily Links | 213 comments

Winter seems to have hit our area hard and suddenly. Holy shit it was only 93 degrees today, so a blizzard was a distinct possibility. Not that this would keep me away from my weekend Links duty, one of the funnest things to do.

Speaking of fun, there’s birthdays to celebrate including a guy who was admittedly a bit bugs; one of the most fun of the bluesmen; a guy who was admittedly a bit bats; an absolutely brilliant cartoonist and auteur; the once and former dimmest bulb in Congress, a difficult feat; and a guy whose best role ever was in The Big Chill.

Now news.

 

A few more Californians and it’s done.

 

Definitely not antisemitic.

 

Tough negotiator.

 

Rich people with lawyers and nothing to do. Hijinx ensue.

 

“It’s no big deal. Really!”

 

I really have hope when I see politicians working so hard to destroy any shreds of respect for government.

 

Old Guy Music is a guaranteed hate for you kids, but kinda encapsulates how I’m feeling. Great playing, with a sheep singing lead.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

213 Comments

  1. The Late P Brooks

    Like its larger neighbors, Arizona and Utah, Idaho benefits from a growing, internationally minded population, which has surged 6.2% to 1.8 million since the end of 2016, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

    aka refugees, from festering shitholes like Portland and San Francisco.

    • Rhywun

      Hey, they could soon be as internationally-minded as New York and get to experience our kind of explosive economic growth! They should be so lucky.

    • R C Dean

      Arizona and Idaho are neighbors?

      • juris imprudent

        Nevada does have a lot of ghost-towns.

    • Aloysious

      Washington, Oregon, and California are in the top five, if I remember correctly.

  2. Rhywun

    A red state with red-hot growth increasingly relies on trade with Asia. When will it turn purple?

    LOL, try to contain your pleasure.

  3. l0b0t

    I, for one, am enjoying the Hell out of the morning music. Thanks, OMWC. Good morning everyone.

    • Sean

      Mornin

    • Grummun

      I, for one, am enjoying the Hell out of the morning music. Thanks, OMWC.

      Not his worst. He wasn’t kidding about the sheep, tho.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Even though Idaho is still Trump country, Republicans will find the state increasingly going the way of purple Arizona. Whose fault will it be when that happens?

    Wut?

    • Rhywun

      Forget it, it’s Bloomberg-town.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        You can practically hear the author Toobin in the background while they write this.

  5. Rhywun

    Old Guy Music is a guaranteed hate for you kids

    Nailed it.

    • Sean

      I made it 25 seconds.

      • The Gunslinger

        As soon as he opened his mouth I was out. And I ain’t no youth.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Haha same here

      • Chafed

        At first I thought it was a joke. Then I realized he’s serious.

    • Ted S.

      It’s nice to see I’m not the only person whose music links are hated. 🙂

  6. l0b0t

    For anyone who needs such a thing, Best Buy has 12Tb WD Easystore external hard drives on sale for $200. I’m picking mine up when the store opens at 10. Then, a day full of file transfers awaits.

    • Sean

      No one needs that many Tb. ?

      • SDF-7

        My NAS sure does for backups. I’m down to only 7Tb free out of 90 at the moment. And my two iTunes drives off of the Mac mini are getting close to full — so that’s almost 20Tb there.

        Wish folks making 12 to 16 drive bay cases hadn’t moved completely to rack servers these days.

      • UnCivilServant

        Rack users routinely buy more storage.

        People without rackspace are a smaller market.

    • Rhywun

      Heh, you and your files. 😉

      That reminds me, for no particular reason, that I still need to finish The Expanse S04.

    • CPRM

      I was reading some of the Questions to see if it needs external power or is powered via the USB (external it appears) and I came across this gem:

      Q: QuestionWill the NSA monitor the Word documents that I store on this drive? I’m a writer and am told the NSA records every keystroke? Can I turn off the Internet from my computer box thing somehow? How does one turn off internet without turning off house’s power?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s one way to guarantee the NSA will monitor your keystrokes.

  7. Sean

    HOA fines for social media posts? GTFO.

    • C. Anacreon

      I read about ten paragraphs down in that article and still couldn’t find exactly what the issue was. Talk about burying the lede.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Last night, I watched Invasion, USA (1952).

    What a weird movie. It was like a super-infomercial for the military industrial complex. “See what happens if you don’t give us everything we want? The commies will walk all over us.”

    They must have cornered the market on stock war footage. WWII, Korea, they had all kinds of stuff blowing up.

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh, man. I was hoping someone filmed the Dick Francis book “Whip Hand.”

      • The Gunslinger

        Dick and whip hand in the same sentence. Really?

    • CPRM

      The 80s proved all we need is Chuck Norris.

  9. Rhywun

    Definitely not antisemitic.

    Well, we wouldn’t have this problem if (((they))) gave up their troublesome habit of gathering in groups.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Ten is a minyan, which I’m sure the jackboots know.

      • Rhywun

        Silly rituals. Why do they hate the rest of us?

      • C. Anacreon

        That’s a word I didn’t know until now, thanks!

        Now I’m putting lyrics together for my coming hit song, “Minyan in a Minivan.”

    • Grosspatzer

      You should see them on Saturday afternoon. Walking along the road in groups, as if they were a community or something. Horrors!

  10. Gender Traitor

    Kevin Kline was the one redeeming feature of the film A Prairie Home Companion, and I loved his scenes with Charles Grodin in Dave. Kline’s mania with Grodin’s deadpan. Wonderful.

    • juris imprudent

      I think he’s confused – Kline was actually in The Big Chill, it was Costner’s scenes that were all cut.

      And everyone knows that Kline’s best role ever was Otto in A Fish Called Wanda.

      • zwak

        Costner was the dead guy. And Kline’s best work is in Bob’s Burgers – Mr. Fishoder.

      • Rhywun

        He is very good in that.

      • Mad Scientist

        Asshooooooole!

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Pressed during Thursday’s debate why he can’t close a deal on a stimulus package, Trump immediately pointed his finger at Pelosi, whom he accused of playing politics with the victims of the pandemic.

    Playing politics? Nancy?

    Inconceivable!

    • Ted S.

      It’s the job of Congress to pass bills, and the President to sign or veto them. Tell both houses to pass a bill.

      And hearing *uck Schumer present a laundry list of groups whose beaks he wanted to wet with the bill was nauseating.

      • Fourscore

        Every bill passed costs tax payer money so let’s veto every bill.

      • Spartacus

        You know, you don’t have to * out Schm.

      • Ayn Random Variation

        When the moderator, like a child, said ” but you’re the President” I yelled at the TV like she was Daniel Jones with a pass rusher on his heels.

    • Rhywun

      But there is still a wide chasm between Democrats and Republicans on two critical aspects of the package: emergency funding for cities and states, and liability protections demanded by McConnell.

      Hm… no mention of Nancy’s liberal wish-list items like changing election laws and others which have nothing to do with the ‘Vid. Imagine that.

  12. Gender Traitor

    with a sheep singing lead

    Stevie Nicks’s big brother?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *golf clap*

  13. Grosspatzer

    Old Guy Music is a guaranteed hate for you kids

    Guaranteed hate for another old guy as well. That was baaad.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Family was not only wonderful, they were the foundation of Blind Faith.

      • Grosspatzer

        Tundra nailed it. That vocalist was awful.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Racial justice!

    Whites surpassed African Americans in Mississippi’s overall reported Covid-19 death toll around September 21 for the first time since the state health department started publishing data by race in June.
    The same happened with total Covid-19 cases around October 14. Both categories, then, are aligning closer to the state’s overall population: 59.1% White and 37.8% Black.

    While several factors may be at play, the state health officer suggests one in particular: He thinks large segments of the White population aren’t social distancing and wearing masks as wholeheartedly as much of the Black community has been recently.
    “As far as the case trends, we have had really pretty good uptake by a lot of folks in the Black community with masking and social distancing,” state health officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs told reporters October 16, when asked about an uptick in White cases. “We’ve worked very aggressively to make sure that the Black community understands where the risks are and what can be done to prevent that.
    “And I just will say … I think big parts of the White community, especially in areas that maybe weren’t as hard-affected (previously), have not been as compliant or engaged actively with social distancing and masking. And I think that does make a difference.”

    Asked about this Thursday, Dobbs told CNN he’s relying somewhat on anecdotal evidence, but also “looking at how schools are operating. We are seeing a lot more enthusiastic compliance with … masking in public” and social distancing “in the Black community.”

    This comes as the country’s seven-day average of new daily cases surpassed 63,000 Friday — an 84% increase since the average started ticking back up in mid-September, according to Johns Hopkins University data

    SCIENCE!

    • Rhywun

      I just watched a live Aussie football match with 30,000 folks in attendance and not a mask in sight. This in the same country that was recently all-but locking poor people in their pubsec housing in another state and which state is still verboten for events like this.

      I’ve given up trying to make any sense of this.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      So long story short, if black people get covid at higher rates than whites, it’s due to systemic racism. If whites get it more often it’s because they don’t wear masks.
      This is the most sentient virus ever, from knowing which events to attack to only infecting bar patrons who stand.

  15. Jerms

    Serious question–Are these peace deals Trump has brokered really a big deal?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Yes. It’s not just peace (they weren’t directly at war), it’s the opening of relations, trade, and ending support for a particular set of terrorists. The Middle East is undergoing some profound changes, but expect that President Biden will fuck it up and return it to a state of simmering and worsening conflicts.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s undermining the basis of a de facto permanent state of war between Israel and the rest of the Middle East. And by doing so, isolating Hamas and its backers.

      • Drake

        It’s also creating a coalition that includes Israel to limit Iranian influence and terrorism (without the U.S. going to war). It’s a big deal and hopefully means no more Americans fighting endless wars there.

  16. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    24 brisk degrees here, on the way to a balmy 29. Too early for this shit.

    …a guy whose best role ever was in The Big Chill. I would say Silverado. Lucky fucker married Phoebe Cates, regardless. Winner.

    Wow, that video of the cops is infuriating. You think those fuckers won’t come for your guns if ordered? I’m gonna re-link this essay from yesterday. Pigs.

    Cocaine Mitch probably took a tumble. He’s old and likely doesn’t lift.

    Ok, so Family is Jethro Tull with a terrible singer? Because with a different vocalist, that would be a kick ass song.

    Happy Saturday, people! Get out there and get some!

    • Ted S.

      Pie thinks 29 is hot.

      Q thinks both 29 and 24 are hot, as well as everyone in between.

      • PieInTheSky

        Well as a coincidence it was 24 here today… did some sunbathing

      • Ted S.

        A vampire doing sunbathing???

      • Tulip

        You didn’t burst into flames?

      • UnCivilServant

        He wore an aluminum suit.

      • Ted S.

        Pie being European, it was probably made of aluminium.

      • peachy rex

        Maybe he’s one of those sparkly vampires.

    • CPRM

      I would say Silverado.

      This.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        In And Out was Kline’s greatest performance.

        Fight me.

      • Rhywun

        All of you spelled A Fish Called Wanda wrong.

    • Homple

      The article you linked is well worth reading. I showed it to some conservative police fans I know. It rattled them.

    • Chafed

      I didn’t see it yesterday. Thanks for reposting.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “Covid-19 exposed glaring health disparities in the African American community, and as a result the African American community are paying the price,” Berhie said in a phone interview Thursday.
    He says he has no data to back Dobbs’ claim that African Americans in Mississippi are more readily social distancing and wearing masks than large numbers of White people — but he suspects Dobbs is correct, in part because of what he’s seen in Jackson, Mississippi’s most populous city in a county that is 73% Black.

    Data? we don’ need no steenkin data. We are devout followers of teh SCIENCE.

    • Tundra

      Oooh, can we talk about Type 2 diabetes next?

      • Ted S.

        Tundra has the diabeetus?

  18. PieInTheSky

    My mom recieved as a gift a jar of Manuka Honey to prevent colds/flu/covid from a relative. Is there any actual evidence for this thing?

    • Gender Traitor

      to prevent colds/flu/covid from a relative

      Will it also prevent infection from a friend, acquaintance, or stranger?

      • PieInTheSky

        Oh just add a comma

      • Ted S.

        What’s stranger than a friend or acquaintance?

      • Gender Traitor

        A fellow Glib?

    • Tundra

      I’ve looked and there isn’t much in the way of “real” evidence. However, honey has been touted for a long time as immune system friendly and, since it’s cheap and tasty, what’s the harm?

      • PieInTheSky

        Manuka is not really cheap… like the one my mom got is 45 USD per 250 grams

      • Tundra

        I’m told that local honey is best, anyway.

        I get mine from Fourscore…

      • UnCivilServant

        Honey’s composition can prevent bacterial growth, so it was used as an antiseptic as far back as ancient egypt. Folklore adding anti-disease properties beyond that isn’t much of a stretch.

      • Gender Traitor

        Is that why it doesn’t spoil?

    • UnCivilServant

      Do you have to select the relative before using it?

    • R C Dean

      Probably not, but

      (a) it’s honey, which is delicious.

      (b) it was a nice thought.

      So who cares?

    • PieInTheSky

      I am sure he is devastated

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Reason has become a haven for libertine intellectual lightweights.

    • Tundra

      *yawn*

      Pipe down, sugar-tits. The adults are talking.

    • Drake

      But Joe Biden is.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    David Frum- crazier every day

    The man the Founders dreaded entered the high office they created—and proceeded to abuse that office in just the ways they feared. Now that man is seeking a second term, which would be even more abusive and dangerous. Trump’s election strategy is to weaponize the Electoral College to re-secure the presidency of the United States over the opposition of the majority of the people who live and vote there. If he can activate the fears of enough white people in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, he could succeed—defeating the much larger number of Americans who want him gone. Every plausible scenario of Electoral College success implies a popular-vote defeat even more lopsided than the 2.9 million votes he lost by in 2016.

    It’s a trick of authoritarian populists like Trump to proclaim themselves leaders of “the people,” even as large majorities of the electorate reject them. The authoritarian populist defines “the people” to exclude anyone who thinks differently. Only his followers count as legitimate citizens.

    Yet that does not mean the authoritarian populist respects his followers. He is exploiting their prejudices for his own benefit, not theirs. Trump uses power to enrich himself and weaken any institution of law or ethics that gets in the way of his self-enrichment. He holds power by inflaming resentments and hatreds. A second term will mean more stealing, more institution-wrecking, more incitement of bigotry.

    I just want to know if David Frum will douse himself with gasoline and self-immolate if Dastardly Orange Autocrat wins the election.

    • Ted S.

      Don’t get our hopes up.

    • Spartacus

      Unprecedented!! Nobody has ever adopted a strategy of maximizing EC votes before!

      JHTFC. This is reason #21,873 why I am seriously considering a media blackout until the election is over.

    • Charlie Suet

      Amazing. It’s like metropolitan dipshit bingo. Does he mention Russia later in the article?

      “The man the Founders dreaded entered the high office they created—and proceeded to abuse that office in just the ways they feared.”

      Most of the Presidents “experts” rate most highly were the men the Founders dreaded.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Tragic loss

    “I hate to acknowledge it, because that’s my industry — at least partially — but the public will have no faith. No confidence. Right now, the biggest issue is the trust deficit,” Luntz said in response to Baier asking how pollsters will fare if they are wrong in predicting the 2020 presidential election. “Pollsters did not do a good job in 2016. So, if Donald Trump surprises people, if Joe Biden had a 5- or 6-point lead, my profession is done.”

    Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Well…. bye

  21. The Late P Brooks

    In And Out was Kline’s greatest performance.

    You people are nuts. What about that fish movie?

  22. hayeksplosives

    Coincidentally, The Big Chill was also Kevin Costner’s best film role.

    Or at least his best performance.

    • CPRM

      To this I would also answer Silverado.

      • The Hyperbole

        Your obsession with Silverado is getting a bit weird.

        also Tin Cup is Costner’s best film.

      • The Gunslinger

        I think you spelled The Highwaymen wrong.

      • Tundra

        I think it was Bull Durham.

      • Crusty Juggler

        It’s obviously JFK.

      • Cy

        You’re all idiots. Waterworld. Full stop. Get cultured.

      • l0b0t

        Hell yeah! Jeanne Tripplehorn before she got sucked into plural marriage with that jerk from Juniper Creek.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Wait what?

      • l0b0t

        Tee hee… I’m in the middle of binge watching Big Love; I’m a sucker for anything with Bill Paxton.

        https://youtu.be/H1dTb1z04QQ

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You mean Chet, greatest big brother of all time.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Still wrong, sadly. Coster’s best performance was The Postman

      • Cy

        It’s a close second. Angels in the Outfield a distant third.

  23. hayeksplosives

    Thomas Massie, the lone congresscritter worth a damn, addresses mandatory COVID vaccination.

    Someone has plans to make the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine mandatory. There’s no other reason that explains why they are testing it on children right now.

    Every person running for office needs to be asked whether they would make a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for children or adults.

    I’m a No.

    Furthermore, testing the experimental mRNA vaccine (no form of which has ever been approved for human use for any disease) on children before it’s approved for adults is NOT ethical.

    Why would we expose children to risk of injury in medical experiments when we already know this virus presents less risk to them than the flu?

    “Pfizer announced Monday that the FDA granted permission to extend the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials to children ages 12-15.”

    https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/10/16/cincinnati-childrens-hospital-covid-19-pfizer-vaccine-trial-adolescents/3676850001/

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      We all knew this was coming.

      And the parties that approve of this are the same ones who claim to hate Big Pharma.

      • Spartacus

        They don’t object to forcing people to take drugs, just to paying for them.

    • Tundra

      I met our Republican candidate for my district house seat yesterday. Good guy, no mask, shook my hand like a goddamn man. No fucking fist bump (or worse, the elbow bump).

      I hope the push back is coming, because a mandatory vaccine is horrifying.

      • Homple

        I was around when people got polio from some batches of incorrectly manufactured Salk vaccine. And given today’s general incompetence and the political push to hurry up a Wuhan vaccine, I expect a rerun on a bigger scale.

      • peachy rex

        I predict a hot market in counterfeit vaccine certificates.

    • Rhywun

      make a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory

      If we thought things were “interesting” now… just wait.

  24. leon

    That Idaho article makes me deeply sad.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Why? Do you live there?

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Unprecedented!! Nobody has ever adopted a strategy of maximizing EC votes before!

    Seriously. Focusing on the practical mechanics of the electoral system as it exists = “weaponizing” loopholes!

    NOT FAIR!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I feel better when I see articles like that because It means that even the mentally handicapped can still find employment.

    • Tejicano

      For Trump or any opponent of the DNC to do this would be to apply logical thought to a problem and then follow through with a strategy which might not feel like what you want it to be – two things the left seems to be allergic to.

  26. UnCivilServant

    I stepped on the scale at the doctor’s and found I weighed less than I feared. Then I came back for a follow up and was down four pounds. Stepped on my home scale, and was down another four pounds. Stepped on it again this morning as I was down three pounds from that.

    If I keep stepping on scales, pretty soon I’ll float away.

    • Gender Traitor

      Set the scale on something about a foot off the floor and you may lose weight even faster!

      • UnCivilServant

        😛

        I did leave off the fact that there was a week between those doctor visits, a four pound miscalibration between my home scale and the doctor’s scale, and that the three pound difference was between mid-afternoon and first thing in the morning. Most of the data points are not comperable because the conditions and measuring device changed.

        On the plus side, I compared to my diet spreadsheet from 2017, and I’m starting from some forty pounds below where I started that one. That attempt stalled out in the 270s, so maybe this one will stall in the 230s. 😉

      • Gender Traitor

        I suspect the walks you’ve mentioned recently are having a beneficial effect.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Have you run over any gypsies with your car lately?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not that I’m aware of.

      • The Gunslinger

        Have you been touched by an old gypsy with no nose that said something like Thinner?

      • UnCivilServant

        Granny Schnozless was just looking for turpentine.

      • The Gunslinger

        Just to be safe if a gypsy gives you a pie do not eat it.

  27. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Yep, hate the music.

  28. 61North

    Hey all, it’s been a minute. I had dinner with Animal and his lovely bride earlier this month and plan to again next month as part of his move up here.

    Fortunately for Animal, the mayor where he’s moving didn’t have to resign due to dubious texts sent to a nutjob reporter. Berkowitz was a disaster for this city and I’m glad his ass is out of offce.

      • The Hyperbole

        Hilarious, thanks for that.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Hell hath no fury…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s a lot of crazy in one package.

      • 61North

        We punch above our weight.

      • Rhywun

        Well, I am not so reckless as to claim this whole plot was set in motion by the vengeful anti-mask Kriner’s Diner mafia, but I guess I’m reckless enough to consider the idea out loud

        Now that’s how you journalism.

      • The Hyperbole

        I like that the most reasonable person in the story is the call girl.

  29. Crusty Juggler

    “a guy whose best role ever was in The Big Chill”

    The Big Chill > A Fish Called Wanda?

    Boomers are trash.

    • Cy

      They did give us the Big Lebowski. It almost makes up for all o the debt, government expansion and foreign wars.

  30. Drake

    I started watching the Netflix series “Barbarians”. Not bad. Historically inaccurate of course – the Romans were actually trying be nice and make alliances with the Germans which is how they were suckered into a trap. But the sound is really bad. The actors playing Germans are clearly speaking English, however the dialogue is still dubbed over like a 70s Kung Fu movie.

    • UnCivilServant

      So they stop talking and the voiceover keeps going?

      I watched a few documentaries where they had german speakers dubbed in english, and you could tell how much longer it took to day the same thing in german from how long they kept speaking after the dubbing stopped.

      • Drake

        Hard to explain, its just very obvious that the vocals were recorded in a studio rather than around a campfire in the woods. Even though they are mouthing the words in English, it’s obvious you aren’t hearing them.

      • Gender Traitor

        This is why Wagner’s Ring cycle is so long. Even longer than the spin cycle of my washing machine.

      • peachy rex

        Singing makes everything take longer – opera plots are astonishingly thin because it takes so damn ling to say anything.

        Also, he needed an editor in the worst way.

    • l0b0t

      To be honest, the only time I’ve seen foreign languages handled well on television is the old British sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo. Characters adopt an overly broad accent to indicate they are speaking in a language other than their primary.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I just started watching it last night. They just HAD to go with the fierce ass kicking 90 pound woman but at least she’s hot and showed boobs.
      I’m enjoying it so far. I don’t know about what really happened so thanks for that info.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      I heard on a documentary that the dialogue we heard in those king fu movies was just made up to approximate the moving mouths. We weren’t listening to actual translations. “Xiang Pao, you eat oatmeal so dumb” “you insult my honor!”….fight ensues

    • Ayn Random Variation

      What did I just hear/see?

      • KOVIDKristen

        Old Man’s music selection reminded me of the magnificence of Mark Gormley

    • Ownbestenemy

      Interesting…new rabbit hole to venture.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Via dead tree Indpls Star (bylined from USA Toady):

    511, 373 additional deaths at the end of February, unless we elect Joe Biden.

    *I leapt to that conclusion, based on the context of the article. Who else will bring us a national lockdown with all masks all the time?

    Trump is killing us!

    • R C Dean

      So if Joe wins, he has exactly zero to do with any policy until the end of January. So he will save half a million lives in 5 weeks?

      Truly, he is a giant among men.

      • Mad Scientist

        Joe will save or create 500,000 lives!

      • Gender Traitor

        I do NOT want to think about how Joe will create lives. ::shudders::

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s just the secret army of clones… unfortunately, they’re Hunter clones.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t know about you, but it sure seems to me that the amount of stupid going around has gotten a lot larger.

      • Rhywun

        The good will that will spread across the land after Donald is finally put in his place will encourage everyone to mask up and seal themselves indoors without even having to wait for Joe to do it for them.

      • Ownbestenemy

        If the haunted corn maze/harvest festival I went to last night is any indication Las Vegas is tired of it. I would estimate 80% of all ages there (probably 500-750 people) did not wear masks. It was a slice of freedom.

      • Mojeaux the Melancholy

        Nobody in the stores I go to are defying orders. It’s disheartening.

      • Ownbestenemy

        What is sad is most of the anti-maskers dont care if you wear a mask they just don’t want it mandated.

        The maskers want Big Daddy to tell them what to do under threat of a proper spanking.

    • Drake

      Dark Winter!

      • Ted S.

        Sung to the tune of Cher’s “Dark Lady”.

  32. RAHeinlein

    I am looking forward to a time when there are no more television ads with geezers whining about “pre-existing conditions” (already covered by Medicare), and “deserving” social security, and insurance costs.

    Sadly, we’ll likely see a new round of these post-election as the push for socialized medicine and generational wealth transfer continues. AARP is an odious organization.

    • Fourscore

      Truth. I too am embarrassed by that sort of BS and why I’m not an AARPer.

      2 biggest worstest grifters

      Teacher’s unions
      AARP

      Rearrange to your own (dis)liking

  33. The Late P Brooks

    You can tell from the numerical precision that estimate was arrived at SCIENCE-tifically.

  34. Crusty Juggler

    Men: I want to install an amber rotating roof light on my leased aluminum body f250s – is the best option suction cups?

    • R C Dean

      I would say yes. We have suction cup fly rod holders we use on our fishing trips. They work fine. Pro tip: splash a little water on the roof before you put the suction cup on.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Geezus H. Fords making Super Dutys out of popcans now?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      You know, when they issue the amber alert, you probably shouldn’t draw attention to yourself that way.

    • Cy

      I’d recommend a heavy magnet or a bracket off a headache rack if you have one.

      • Tejicano

        “… heavy magnet …”

        On aluminum?

      • Cy

        Sorry. Missed that. Still wrapping m head around an F250 made out o aluminum.

    • Cy

      I’d recommend a heavy magnet or a bracket off a headache rack if you have one.

      • R C Dean

        If you have a rack, definitely the best place to mount it.

        If not, a magnet won’t work because aluminum, and your option is suction cups. Downside: you have to check and reset them probably every few days.

      • Cy

        I don’t think I’d ever trust suction cups. I’ve had/seen too many mishaps with items falling off vehicles in traffic to trust suctions cups.

        There seem to be a lot of roof racks out there. I’d mount them to that before I’d ever think about suction cups for something that could potentially fly off the vehicle.

      • R C Dean

        For a permanent mount, suction cups are not a good choice. For something you mount occasionally, they work probably OK.

  35. LJW

    Our neighboring city just approved $350k from the federal cares act to install cameras at a local soccer park so that people can watch their kids via livestream, thus preventing the spread of Covid.. The cameras won’t be installed until end of 2021. Clearly this is vital to stop the spread of the virus. Also $350k for cameras on 12 fields? I would love to meet the tech company ripping them off.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Remember that time we gave the Federal Gov’t the power to curtail our liberty temporarily, and they gave up that power after the “crisis” was over?

      This shit will never end will it?

      • Ayn Random Variation

        Guess I should have taken the word “federal” out of my morning whine.

    • 61North

      I paid ~40k for NSA-level surveillance cameras and server to be installed in rural Alaska, and that included travel costs for two guys for a couple of days. That company is laughing all the way to the bank.

      • UnCivilServant

        is there an urban Alaska?

      • 61North

        Anchorage/Mat-Su, Fairbanks and Juneau. Although once you get outside of the Palmer/Wasilla area in the Mat-Su, it gets country right fast.

    • Cy

      $350k for 12 decent cameras, pan/tilt, plus having to run all of the cabling, possible trenching, overhead/man lift work, and install a server with online capabilities? That’s not bad. In some states/cities I’d call that a low bid.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Some of thay $350k is for the backdoor clause to allow the city to monitor I bet.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    you could tell how much longer it took to day the same thing in german from how long they kept speaking after the dubbing stopped.

    Something like this?

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Lol that is so racist but I can’t figure against who.

    • Rhywun

      Huh. From the “we haven’t aired these in decades” files, I presume.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    She may be a narcissistic sociopath, but at least she’s not a racist

    Dressed in a black suit and stilettos, she strutted out to Mary J. Blige’s “Work That,” beaming as she grabbed the mic. She delivered her remarks to a crowd of voters at a drive-in rally at the historically Black college, whose alumni include former NAACP president Julian Bond, Maynard Jackson Jr., the city’s first African-American mayor, Spike Lee and Samuel Jackson. (Not to mention, one time Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.)

    The setting was not lost on Harris, and she tailored her speech accordingly.

    “Coming to Atlanta, and especially if you are Black and hold elected office in America, coming to Atlanta is like coming back to the womb,” Harris said, alluding to the civil rights foundation of the city.

    “Atlanta is a place that has produced leaders who have been national leaders and international leaders, who have always understood that hope will fuel the fight, faith will be what grounds us in knowing what is possible.”

    Harris talked about the all-but-a-done-deal confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and in so doing, invoked Thurgood Marshall, the Court’s first Black justice. She talked about climate change, but made sure to drive home its impact on communities of color. And in discussing Democrats’ chances of taking control of the Senate, she reminded everyone she was the only Black woman to hold the post — and only the second to do so.

    Well, not a white supremacist racist, anyway. And that’s what matters.

    • 61North

      I cannot fathom anyone actually supporting her. I know she’s a product of the Cali Dem machine, but how can any non kool-aid drinker take an object look at her and not shudder in disgust? She’s objectively awful in every single aspect of her life and career.

      • Drake

        I thought Obama was annoying them I heard her. She manages to combine arrogance, contempt, stupidity, and ignorance into every sentence.

    • Rhywun

      I’d love to listen to her talk down to “her kind” about how wonderful it will be to triple your electricity bill and such, but I’m about to perform a root canal on myself.

      • Ted S.

        Get back to us when you finish that root canal.

  38. Ownbestenemy

    I can see that HOA crap coming to my neighborhood. Our past board that was elected out was a live and live mentality and upheld the public space (parks, sidewalks) for the most part but didnt bother with the nit-picky shit.

    Then a huge influx of CA infested us and they voted back in and I quote from my neighbor that has loved here for 10 years “the most vile, vindictive people you will ever meet.”

    That proved true with our trailer issue. Luckily one of my wife’s customers runs a storage place so we snagged a deal for $100/mo 24/7 access to park it.

    Im still working with a lawyer to battle their claim we cannot park it in front of our house. Just have to decide if $5000 is worth itn

  39. The Late P Brooks

    how can any non kool-aid drinker take an object look at her and not shudder in disgust?

    White suburbanite BLM koolaid-drinkers might not be the brightest candles in the chandelier, but how can they not perceive the monumental cognitive dissonance between advocating for “criminal justice reform” and voting for somebody with a clear track record of law-and-ORDER authoritarianism like Harris?

    • Rhywun

      She’s evolved. To what the people who run the party now are telling her.

  40. Aloysious

    Bacon report: The Baconarium’s Cherry Smoked wild boar bacon is amazeballs.