Monday Afternoon Links

by | Nov 23, 2020 | Daily Links | 290 comments

 

Waiting for ‘vid test results – which is a farce, as I was not feeling well for a week, and today I am getting better. But without the magic approval, no visiting and helping my parents. “Independent living” indeed.

So I am in a cow-butting mood. Don’t push me, ’cause I’m close to the (OG) edge.

See you soon!

The world is a mess. Want evidence?

  • “I learned it from you, American TSA! From you!”
  • Least important “news” of the day.
  • Fine…this is good advice, but a 25K Loonie fine?

Maybe I should just go find SEA SMITH to watch the comments?

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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.

290 Comments

  1. pistoffnick

    A moose once bit my sistre…

    • Jarflax

      Do you still play it? Ancient instruments are pretty interesting.

      • pistoffnick

        You are just jealous you weren’t first! /am I doing this right? (this might be my first first, I’m so nervous, are you comfortable?)

    • Tonio

      Ha!

      Also, I liked your woodchipper piece the other day.

      • pistoffnick

        Danke

    • Pope Jimbo

      My mother and sister have both shot a moose. Maybe your sister got bit as payback.

    • Mad Scientist

      M00se bites can be pretty nasti!

      • Bobarian LMD

        We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

        Llamas!

  2. leon

    Least important “news” of the day.

    So there is only 1 degree of seperation between the Pope and Dear Leader Kim Jung Un?

    • Fourscore

      I have a lot of compassion for the NBA players. At least P. Frank cares, for that I’m grateful.

      /Smirks

  3. Rebel Scum

    Waiting for ‘vid test results

    Well, you have it (or some other cold) or you don’t. But I would not rely on the test.

  4. leon

    Moose Licking Cars -> Eponymous Album Name?

    • SEA SMITH

      IT CAR LICKING MOOSESES!

  5. KOVIDKristen

    Perfect song choice

    • SEA SMITH

      CHEESE PERSON FORGET – HE DEDICATE TO FESTUS.

  6. Yusef drives a Kia

    I bit a Moose once,
    it hurt……

  7. leon

    But without the magic approval,

    Subject Citizen our sarcasmotron has detected deceitful thought, please report to education block 101, for reconditioning.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Pope Francis meets with NBA players to talk inequality, injustice

    A gathering of fabulously wealthy people to discuss that?

    • Claypoolsreservoir

      Truly they are just comparing gilded accessories.

      Sup Frank, lemme see that Ice around your neck. Where did you pick it up?

      The Siege of Antioch.

      • leon

        Hehehe.

    • Urthona

      This will be the first time Pope Francis was ever the smartest guy in the room.

      • Fourscore

        Three NBA players walk into the Vatican, see…

    • leon

      “Guns have no place in shopping malls or other places in which crowds of people gather. Mayfair has a strict no-gun policy. If the shooter had complied with that policy, no one would have been hurt (Friday).”

      I think this is trying to edge out “If only Comrade Stalin knew about this”…

      • prolefeed

        I thought at first that quote was from the Bee. Only one small step away from, “To prevent any future shootings, we will require all No Gun Zone signs to have 50% larger print.”

    • Rebel Scum

      Mayfair has a strict no-gun policy. If the shooter had complied with that policy, no one would have been hurt (Friday).

      Someone intent on injuring/killing people was not deterred by a sign/policy? 0_o

      • Mad Scientist

        Someone intent on injuring/killing people might actively seek out that sign/policy?

      • Fourscore

        But, but, but he was only 15, maybe he hadn’t learned to read yet. C’mon man. he’s a kid, why would he know he couldn’t randomly shoot people.?

      • Trigger Hippie

        If only we had raised taxes and spent more on education…it’s all our fault, really.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      After my first time at a gun range, I wondered how many shootings take place at ranges?
      I assume since there are loaded guns everywhere, there must be multiple examples of gun range massacres.

      • Drake

        Easy to kill one person there (Chris Kyle). After that the going gets real tough.

      • prolefeed

        Easy to kill two people, assuming you count the shooter as human.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Obviously there have have been murders and suicides. Chris Kyle is probably the most famous example. No mass shootings that I can think of, though.

      • blackjack

        When I lived in Pheonix, there was a roadside range up north on the freeway. A guy I went school with went there with some friends. Some random dude in a jeep pulled up, whipped out a pistol and shot two people who were standing at the line. He got back in the jeep and trundled off into the desert. The cops came and my buddy got into their 4×4 and went with them to go get the guy, I guess for ID. They went out about 5 miles into the brush and calmly arrested the guy. I was incredulous. I asked why, if everyone had a loaded gun in their hand, nobody shot the killer. He said they were just dumbfounded and he wasn’t sure who the bad guy was. If someone walks up and shoots a person, right next to me as I am holding a gun, I will shoot them post haste. There’s not a lot of absolute reasons to do this, but that’s clearly one.

      • EvilSheldon

        It’s not unheard of. Those two assholes who banged it out with the FBI down in Dade County back in 1986, acquired at least some of their weapons by bushwacking a guy target shooting at a rural Florida range.

    • Suthenboy

      If I were planning a mass shooting would I choose a cop bar? A police station? A gun show? A ‘gun free zone’?

      Decisions, decisions….

  9. leon

    Some of the women were Australian and the issue has sparked outrage in Australia. Qatari officials said the searches were conducted in order to locate the mother of a new-born child found abandoned in a garbage bin in an airport bathroom.

    Those women should count themselves lucky. Here we let our cops shoot Australian women out of the blue.

  10. Rebel Scum

    ‘Do not let moose lick your car’

    Do you get a choice in the matter?

    • Jarflax

      Depends how salty you are feeling.

    • Tonio

      ^This. They are the STEVE SMITHs of car-licking.

      • SEA SMITH

        SHOULD COUSIN STEVE SMITH HELP? MAYBE HIM SHOULD RAPE MOOSESES WHO LICK CARS?

    • Spartacus

      In Soviet Russia, car licks moose!

    • Ted S.

      That was my thought, too.

  11. db

    FOR SALE: 1999 Honda CR-V. One Owner, Only Driven at Night

    • leon

      Sounds intriguing. What about the merchandise in the back? is that included?

      • db

        Of course it is. Who the hell wants a bunch of chimeric taxidermies and a sack of sex-lube-filled water balloons?

        Man, I drank soooooo much last night.

  12. Lachowsky

    Pope Francis meets with NBA players to talk inequality, injustice.

    Nobody has ever been treated as unfairly as a bunch millionaires who play play basketball.

  13. DEG

    “Moose and cars are not a good mix. If you hit the moose with your car, you take the legs out from under it and it’s going through your windshield,” Young said.

    Braking for moose is a good idea.

    • leon

      Moose are possibly the most terrifying of Large NA animals. Bears will leave you alone if you don’t fuck around with them, and wolves are so uncommon. Really a fight between them and cougars.

      In short. Don’t fuck around with Moose.

      • Jarflax

        Moose haven’t been the most dangerous since 1912. It’s the asses you have to worry about most these days.

      • SEA SMITH

        BULL!

      • Rebel Scum

        It is the squirrels that you really have to worry about.

      • SEA SMITH

        HAHAHAHAHAHA! GOOD ONE, LAND HOOMAN!

  14. DEG

    Gauleiter Cooper orders North Carolina to do ineffective thing harder

    North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced Monday he is signing an executive order aimed at strengthening the state’s mandate involving face masks.

    Executive Order No. 180 goes into effect on Wednesday, November 25, and runs through Friday, December 11.

    “I have a stark warning for North Carolinians today: We are in danger,” Governor Cooper said. “This is a pivotal moment in our fight against the coronavirus. Our actions now will determine the fate of many.”

    “Our statewide mask requirement has been in effect since June and it is still our best weapon in this fight,” Cooper said during a press conference. “Today’s executive order will further tighten that mandate, making it clear that everyone needs to wear a mask whenever you are with someone you don’t live with.”

    • leon

      Why do their stark warnings always feel like threats?!

    • Agent Cooper

      “Our statewide mask requirement has been in effect since June and it is still our best weapon in this fight”

      Working so well …

    • CatchTheCarp

      Man that was enjoyable to watch….

    • leon

      I love the “We the science community after looking through all of the science”

      • prolefeed

        That was fucking hilarious!

    • SEA SMITH

      WAIT…? THAT NOT REAL?

      SEA SMITH NOT RUN FOR GOVERNOR NOW.

      🙁

    • Gdragon

      So funny and so well executed!

    • Tonio

      Clearly there is a mole…

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      #1 is rather cute. He may come over chez moi (I know, stock photo).

    • Threedoor

      Making fun of Bronys. That’s harsh.

  15. Count Potato

    I wonder if anyone has ever done a Yes and Furious Five mash-up.

  16. Lachowsky

    If a moose wants to lick your vehicle, there is very little you can do about it.

  17. Pope Jimbo

    Please tell me that there is footage of the Pope playing INQUISITION with the NBA players like Obama and Clark Kellogg.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Newsom Sucks.

    And I am pretty sure the Gretch is trying to steal Christmas.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Oregon Governor is asshole.

    As the nation cracks down on group activities so close to the Thanksgiving holiday, Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, has told Oregon’s residents to call the cops if they see coronavirus violations.

    “This is no different than what happens if there’s a party down the street and it’s keeping everyone awake,” Brown said in an interview Friday. “What do neighbors do [in that case]? They call law enforcement because it’s too noisy. This is just like that. It’s like a violation of a noise ordinance.” …

    Violators could face up to 30 days in jail, up to $1,250 in fines, or both, the Oregonian reported. Brown said she would work with state police and local law enforcement to encourage Oregonians to comply with her mandate.

    The order does allow faith-based gatherings of up to 25 people indoors and 50 people outdoors.

    • Mad Scientist

      Violators could face up to 30 days in jail, up to $1,250 in fines, or both

      Alternatively, if you want to go to downtown Portland and set everything on fire, you’ll be released in a few hours.

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        With your bail posted by the VP Elect to Be.

    • leon

      Violators could face up to 30 days in jail, up to $1,250 in fines

      That’s a hell of a noise ordinance. What will you face for attempting to burn down a Federal Courthouse?

    • SEA SMITH

      NOW DO RIOT IN PORTLAND. COUSIN STEVE SMITH NOT ABLE GET VOODOO DONUTS SINCE SUMMER!

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Wow, there’s a bigger cunte than Gov Wolf out there.

      • leon

        It’s like they are all fighting over eachother to see who will be a good Primary Challenger to Harris in 2024.

        Meanwhile it should be clear that (of the current slate of GOP governors) Christy Nome is the only acceptable option.

      • rhywun

        Shouldn’t we wait see if all her constituents have not dropped dead before declaring her suitable for the candidacy?

      • blackjack

        Um, you do realize that the official title of the most recent lockdown in Los Angeles county is, no shit, it’s ” outline to reopen the economy” They’re closing everything and calling it a path to reopening. Luckily, it looks like it might be fairly universally ignored. Of course, if you have a business license, you have no real choice, however.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Remember, “If Democrats understood economics they wouldn’t be Democrats.”

  20. leon

    Not to get into Politics, but i’m looking at the GA runoff election for the special election… Warnock got 32% of the vote, with the rest being split between two GOP candidates… Now common sense to me would indicate that he’s screwed. If he could only get 32% of the vote, am i wrong in thinking that? Unless he hopes that all the GOPers who voted for the other guy sit out,

    • Urthona

      He probably will be although Republicans are doing no favors telling each other their votes won’t matter

      This election is more important than the presidential one.

      • leon

        I’m interested to see with Ossoff too. Wasn’t the the guy that ran a failed bid several years ago. Another Beto Orurke/ Stacy Abrams type. Hyped up by the media, got Millions in out of state funds, etc.

      • one true athena

        yeah, he got millions and millions for his congressional run and lost.

        But hey, he can probably join Biden’s cabinet like Beto and Kerry and probably Abrams if we get extra lucky in Losers-elevated-to-cabinet-positions-for-Reasons

      • leon

        I think its funny. The DNC is stacking itself with people who have “failed their way up”. Mostly it seems, driven by Media chatter around these people. I doubt Abrams would have even been a name considered if it hadn’t been for CNN et al pounding the drum for her. Same with Beto.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I want to see how many dummies leave their elected seats to take a position in his administration.

        Keep hearing that Bernie wants to be Sec of Labor. Why? What could he really do there in 4 years (and maybe less if Harris takes over), to justify giving up his seat in the Senate?

      • one true athena

        The way all the Senators were talking on the campaign trail (“on day one as president I will do this and this and this” ) they all think they are completely helpless as senators and being president is like being the emperor. So therefore it’s still better/more powerful to be the monarch’s cabinet than something useless like senator.

      • leon

        I dearly dearly dearly hope he takes Mitt Romney into his cabinet.

        PLEASE BIDEN deliver us from the scourge that is Mittens.

      • Drake

        I notice that exactly zero never-Trump Republican Finns have been selected.

      • wdalasio

        I notice that exactly zero never-Trump Republican Finns have been selected.

        Why would they? They’ve served their purpose. And they’ve already established themselves as disloyal. Why pick someone you know has a record of stabbing people in the back?

      • The Hyperbole

        Disloyal to whom? If they have always been never-Trumpers who exactly did they stab in the back?

      • Not Adahn

        Disloyal to whom?

        Republicans in general and every down-ballot Republican they campaigned against in particular? Because saying “I’m a Republican, but 538 Democrats in congress is a small price to pay to hurt Trump” is completely indistinguishable from being a Democrat?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Normally, I’d say yes. But I’m worried that voter fraud might rear its ugly head again.

      I really haven’t paid any attention to the GA recounts, so I don’t know how likely fraud played a big part in the recent election. I’m just assuming that if the Dems got away with lots of fraud once why not do it again?

      • cyto

        If they ever get around to verifying signatures on mail ballots, the totals are likely to flip. If that happens, get ready for all hell to break loose.

        For some reason the GOP has been really slow to insist on this. They should have had lawyers on site the whole time to insist on a transparent process. Unringing this bell is almost impossible.

        But the margin is so close and the ballot rejections are historically low… By an order of magnitude. They could flip the election with less than half of the historical rejection rate.

    • Chafed

      I haven’t seen any polling after November voting. As Urthona said, this votes don’t matter stuff could get Republicans to screw themselves.

    • prolefeed

      Nope. There were nineteen candidates, and Democrats took 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 14th, and 15th places.

      I’m guessing there will be precious little splitting of the ballots, as Democrats know or should know that if they win both seats, and Biden gets inaugurated, they could ram through damn near any legislation where no Democratic senators defect.

      This is for all the marbles.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. coquettish smile.

    • leon

      John Kerry is such a prick.

      That is all

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yeah, I am with you on that one. No idea why anyone listens to him.

        For some reason he just irritates me whenever I see him flapping his gums.

      • KOVIDKristen

        One day I was entering the main state Dept building to go to the cafeteria. John Kerry had just been appointed. I was standing there waiting for my colleagues to come through the turnstile, and I saw Kerry walking by. Rather than smile or say hello, he stuck his phone to his ear.

    • DEG

      The US has had more czars than Russia.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Wouldn’t Yellen be a czarina?

        Or is it cxar? Or czarinx?

      • Jarflax

        I don’t know, and I am not going to lift that skirt to check. You can feel free.

      • leon

        tszar is the only culturally sensitive form.

        Kaiser is just out.

    • Mad Scientist

      For colluding with the Russian climate.

    • kinnath

      At least it’s not Warren.

    • Rebel Scum

      It is curious that Dems refer to advisors as “czars”.

      • zwak

        Yeah, I would have thought they would go for Commissar.

      • prolefeed

        Or comrade.

      • leon

        I thought it was a thing that took up during Obama’s tenure, where the GOP started calling them that, because he was trying to get around the senate by appointing people during a “Recess”. They were not deemed legitimate members of the cabinent by the GOP.

        But maybe i’m crazy.

      • SEA SMITH

        THAT GO BACK AT LEAST REAGAN BEING PEZZIDENT. HIM HAVE “DRUG CZAR”. WHY, CAESAR DO DRUGS?

      • The Hyperbole

        Wiki link Been around since FDR but GWB really kicked it into high gear.

      • kbolino

        It goes back quite a bit farther than that. There’s not been a consistent meaning to the term, but nowadays it seems to mean someone appointed outside the usual hierarchy and power structure.

        That the Democrats in particular are fond of these kind of appointments reflects their need to meet the competing interests of cronies, technocrats, grievance mongers, and government fetishists, rather than any communist or Russian affinity.

        And, after all, the title czar holds no respect among communists, anyway. They did away with the monarchy, in Russia’s case quite violently.

      • leon

        Well all the people y’all named were president before i was born, so i don’t even know if it really existed.

        (Ok besideds GWB, but i wasn’t politically aware).

        I’M NOT WRONG!!

    • rhywun

      Kerry?! OFFS.

      Does Al Gore need to cut a bitch?

  21. Ayn Random Variation

    Wrt to the malicious over compliance suggestion from the other thread, here is PA’s rat site if anyone is interested.

    – Amanda Hugankiss

  22. Count Potato

    “Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein lists 21 GOP senators who have ‘privately’ expressed their ‘extreme contempt’ for Donald Trump

    ‘Many if not most of these individuals, from what I have been told, were happy to see Donald Trump defeated in this election as long as the Senate could be controlled by the Republicans,’ Bernstein said during an appearance on CNN.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8976975/Watergate-reporter-Carl-Bernstein-lists-21-GOP-senators.html

    From what you’ve been told?

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      From sources familiar with the Senators’ thinking.

    • leon

      I’m not suprised at all that the Senate GOP is full of people who hate trump. Many of them were last elected when Trump was elected, and are part of the Never Trump GOP coalition.

      Some are Mitt Romeney.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      It speaks volumes that the GOP senators had been regularly receiving intelligence briefings that the Russia scandal had zero substance and said nothing to counteract Schiff’s outright lies about the substance of those briefings.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Yes. DC is full of lying scum.

  23. Rebel Scum

    An administration of firsts.

    President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced the members of his foreign policy and national security team.

    Alejandro Mayorkas has been nominated to be Biden’s secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and would be the first Latino to head the agency. Mayorkas, a former deputy secretary at DHS, will be tasked with rebuilding the department that the Trump administration used to enforce its draconian border policy, including family separation at the US-Mexico border.
    Avril Haines, a former top CIA official and deputy national security adviser, has been nominated for director of national intelligence and would be the first woman to hold the powerful post.
    Biden will tap former US Secretary of State John Kerry as a special presidential envoy on climate. Kerry is a champion of the Paris climate agreement, which Trump formally withdrew from. Kerry was Biden’s pick to co-chair a “unity task force” on climate change with allies of Sen. Bernie Sanders after the Democratic presidential primary.

    The transition team also confirmed in a release CNN’s previous reporting that Biden will pick Antony Blinken to be secretary of state, Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be ambassador to the United Nations and Jake Sullivan as national security adviser.

    And we elected the first known dementia patient to the highest office in the land.

    • rhywun

      tasked with rebuilding the department that the Trump administration used to enforce its draconian border policy

      LOL never change, CNN.

  24. Pope Jimbo

    Uh oh. Local outrage will hit 11 because Mike Lindell (My Pillow guy) gave big to raise bail for Kyle Rittenhouse.

    How dare someone help that Junior Nazi? What if Rittenhouse gets acquitted?

    * Also Ricky Schroeder contributed so I hope none of you liked him as an actor because you won’t be seeing him anytime soon.

    • Mad Scientist

      Has Ricky done anything since that half season of NYPD Blue where he was found rolled up in a carpet several episodes later?

      • The Hyperbole

        IMDB has his last job as a 2016 appearance on a Dolly Parton Xmas special, so I can only imagine that his careers second (third?) life was just about ready to takeoff before this.

      • Count Potato

        Dolly Parton is a national treasure.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Dolly Parton is a big fake!!!!

        One year Dolly played at the WeFest (a giant country music festival in my hometown). The locals were excited because Dolly wanted a choir to sing along on a few of her songs and asked the locals to put one together.

        So my mom and a bunch of other local women joined up and put in a ton of practice. Then when the big day came, they cut the mics of the local choir and piped in professional singers.

        Mom wasn’t so pissed that they piped in music as she was about all the time they wasted practicing. “If it was just a PR gag, why not let us in on it so we didn’t waste our time?”

      • rhywun

        Sad!

    • leon

      What ever happened to the McCloskies?

      Did the Gov ever pardon them? or is he going to let them be torn to shreds by the “Justice” system first?

  25. Count Potato

    “Antiracism Icon Robin DiAngelo Paid More Than Black Woman for Same Job

    DiAngelo rakes in 70 percent more for University of Wisconsin speaking gig”

    https://freebeacon.com/culture/antiracism-icon-robin-diangelo-paid-more-than-black-woman-for-same-job/

    “There ain’t no grift like the social justice grift.

    The best part of this is that the women have the same agent. It’s all an endless crock.”

    https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1330935018651217921

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Imagine how much she’d get paid if she identified as a white man.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The best part was this

      And while DiAngelo has made her name demanding that white people stop avoiding difficult conversations, she did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the Free Beacon.

      “I didn’t mean ME!”

    • db

      I read that as “University of Wisconsin spanking gig.”

      • SEA SMITH

        GO ON…

    • leon

      The best part of this is that the women have the same agent

      I see a fall guy for this.

  26. Rebel Scum

    Mad Maxine is at it again.

    “Well, I certainly would support investigating the president of the United States. What he has done in the four years that he has served as president is simply unconscionable, I think criminal in some cases. He’s placed this country in danger. And the president of the United States is supposed to be about making sure that the country is safe and secure, and he has done everything possible to undermine our democracy. I don’t think that can be overlooked.”

    She added, “I don’t know what Biden would do. I know Biden wants to move on. He does not want to be bogged down in investigations, but I think that the president of the United States should be investigated. And we should send a message across the world that we will not tolerate the undermining of our democracy in the way this president has done. So again, I don’t know what President-elect Biden would do, but I certainly would support investigating the president.”

    Investigate Trump for, um, something after he is out of office. But Trump is the “fascist”.

    • one true athena

      I tried to vote her out, but sadly I am but one person in a great sea of dark blue.

    • leon

      If i had any confidence that the next GOP would play turnabout, i would be fine with them setting this precident. Investigate Trump, whatever, Then we get to charge Biden, Obama, Bush et al with war crimes.

      • B.P.

        When the GOP takes the House in 2022, they need to file impeachment proceedings against whoever occupies the White House. The flimsier the evidence, the better. These are the new rules.

    • B.P.

      I could use a few more details about these terrible criminal things Trump has committed that any other garden-variety president hasn’t also committed.

  27. Pope Jimbo

    Finally some right thinking person stopped waiting for the govt to do something to stop evil superspreader white guy

    As the restaurant industry faces unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it takes an industrial-strength level of heartlessness to steal from a chef.

    Just ask Thomas Boemer, chef/co-owner of Revival and Revival Smoked Meats and a skilled barbecue practitioner. Sometime over the weekend, his three-year-old, custom-built portable smoker, which is roughly the size of an SUV, was stolen from the parking lot of his former Corner Table restaurant in south Minneapolis.

    “It’s my most prized possession,” said Boemer. “It was a dream come true for me to get this smoker. To have this happen during all of this, it’s just too much. When I drove up and saw that it was gone, I just sat there. It’s gut-wrenching.”

    At capacity, it can handle 80 racks of ribs, or 60 briskets or whole pigs. An attached charbroiler is ideal for oysters and sweet corn, and a separate lower-temperature holding box is perfect for smoking salmon, 20 King fillets at a time. Next month, the plan was to smoke hundreds of Christmas hams.

    “It’s the most fun thing there is for cooking,” said Boemer. “You drive up, park it, fill the neighborhood with the most amazing smells and people line up.”

    Can you imagine that this asshole would invade a neighborhood to infect them with the Rona and to make them eat the dead flesh of innocent pigs and cows?

    • Chafed

      He’s white so he had it coming.

      /social justice warrior

      • Pope Jimbo

        He also wasn’t vegan.

        /Strike Two

    • Fatty Bolger

      Barbecue is a known carcinogen in the state of California.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    So a question for the effete Glib foodies.

    Are induction stoves worth the extra coin? Our range is pretty much done and we are looking at a new one. I’m agitating for one that has an induction cooktop. Wife isn’t sold because it costs more and we’d have to replace a few pots.

    Her take is that it isn’t worth the extra money. My take is that I’m tired of scraping the gunk off our current glass cooktop from all the spills/burnt food. I’ve been told that it isn’t that bad. My reply is that the reason that she feels that way is because it is always me who gets a wild hair up my ass to completely field day the stove.

    • robc

      I cant answer your question, I have considered them, but why not gas? Or is that not an option. 2 of my last 3 houses have been gas cooktops and that is my preference going forward.

      • Pope Jimbo

        We’d have to run a gas line over to where the stove is now. All of our stoves have always been electric.

      • leon

        The previous owners of my house removed the Gas Stove, Topped of the gas line, and replaced it with an electric stove…

      • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

        That’s unforgivable.

      • zwak

        Wait, my mom owned the house before you did?

      • pistoffnick

        I will never go back to electric if I can help it. Natural gas is where its at.

    • Ted S.

      Don’t they make metal plates that you can put on the induction burners for your non-magnetic cookware?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Maybe they do. Our current cookery isn’t the greatest, so I wouldn’t be crushed if we had to go out and buy nice stuff.

      • Count Potato

        Yes.

    • kinnath

      Stainless steel is non-magnetic and doesn’t work with induction. So, make sure your existing cookware will work before you buy.

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        Some stainless steel is non-magnetic (depends on the alloy). There are plenty of SS pots ‘n pans on the market that work just fine with induction (sometimes the entire pot is a magnetic alloy, sometimes it’s just a built-in disk at the base of the pot). Easiest way to tell whether the stuff you own now will work is to get a magnet and try to stick it to the bottom of your existing cookware.

        A bigger “hit” against induction (this info from my brother who bought one a few years ago) is that they need STONKIN’ HUGE AMOUNTS O’ CURRENT, possibly more than your existing 220/240V range plug/circuit can deliver.

        All flat-tops are easier to clean than coil or gas stoves.

    • Count Potato

      Glass cook tops are not that hard to keep clean if you just wipe it down with ammonia every night. Clean up spills and splatters before they burn.

      Cerabryte works on the tough stuff, but it’s expensive.

      Induction is very good for keeping a pot on a constant temperature. Although you can just buy an induction “5th burner” for that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Clean up spills and splatters before they burn.

        I agree, but the problem is that some people in my household have a hard time following such exacting protocols.

      • The Hyperbole

        I consider all that burnt on food stuff “extra flavoring” just like the grim on my BBQ grates.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You are cooking directly on the burners?

        Hard core dude!

      • Viking1865

        “Although you can just buy an induction “5th burner” for that.”

        That would be my recommendation.

        https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07GHWHBCF/tag=cioequippilot-20

        That’s the America’s Test Kitchen recommended one. Any pot or pan that a fridge magnet will stick to will work on an induction burner.

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        I’d recommend this solution as well.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Cerama Bryte is about $5-10 bottle depending on sale price. Only need a nickel to quarter size amount to clean and buff off any residue. Lasts us several months with essentially daily use.

        Use a razor blade for burnt on gunk.

    • Fatty Bolger

      My MIL had one and loved it.

    • Suthenboy

      We bought an induction cook-top. Worth every penny. It is to a gas stove what a gas stove is to an electric cook top.
      It boils water as fast as I can set the coffee cup/filter up. Temp control is very good and almost instant.

      Worth. Every. Penny.

      This from a guy who cooks a lot. (just finished canning some Meyer’s Lemon jelly)

      • R C Dean

        From what I can tell, if you are electric, go induction. Faster, better control (once you figure it out), safer, cleaner.

        Mrs. Dean cooks on gas. We looked at induction, but, flames.

  29. Pope Jimbo

    OK, here is another question.

    When I am looking up a cocktail recipe, why does any site even remotely associated with a distiller demand my birth date before they will give me the recipe? But general recipe sites don’t care?

    I know the booze sites are trying to pretend that they won’t even tell underage kids the secret to mixing a rum and coke, but why? Is there some actual law? Or is it just that the booze mongers know that if they don’t pretend, they will get shafted by bureaucrats?

    • kbolino

      It is a well known fact that teenagers are too stupid to do math, apparently. Websites for M-rated video games, TV-MA–rated television shows, and R-rated movies often do the same thing. I’m not sure why it’s necessary over just a question: “are you old enough? yes/no” but I’d hazard the slightly higher level of effort carries some kind of legal weight.

    • mikey

      Short Tony looks older in that picture. The little shit is having the time of his life. The WuFlu is the best thing that has ever happened to him.

    • Jarflax

      Would also but:

      They also robbed a mobile phone from one of her friends

      Ok, Andy, they stole a phone, when they robbed one of her friends. This is not that complicated. The chattel is stolen. The victim is robbed.

    • Ayn Random Variation

      Truth:

      ?? Білий лицар – Pissd Off Purple ? Douche B0T
      ·
      3h
      Replying to
      @MrAndyNgo
      and
      @OmahaPolice
      If it escalated those same police would leave her out to dry.

    • The Hyperbole

      massive irregularities and… concerns about the validity of the count

      The only “concern” they do mention is out-of-balance counting boards in Wayne County. Which amounts to about 500 missing ballots, It’s not more people voting than live there or, dead people, or no postmarked or signed ballots (that was in PA). Out of 900,000 I wouldn’t call 500 “massive”.

      • robc

        I would. Its not enough to change the election, but enough to send someone(s) to jail for a long time.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s two or three votes per precinct, 70% of which were balanced. You want to throw someone in jail because the log book says 894 people signed in to vote but you only have 892 ballots? I don’t vote so I don’t know how far fetched the excuses are but I’ve heard it could be due to someone signing in and then leaving because it was taking to long, or a poll worker checking in a absentee ballot envelope but there is no ballot inside, people signing on the wrong line, people spoiling their ballot and the poll worker not correctly adjusting the books, etc etc. You got volunteers dealing with this shit once every few years, a handful of irregularities is expected not proof of widespread fraud. Start throwing people in jail because they miscounted 653 playing cards and you’re not going to find people willing to count the votes.

      • blackjack

        Look at mister “I trust the cheating lying government” over here.

      • The Hyperbole

        So “they” made up all the numbers for hundreds of precincts? I get being skeptical but if you flat out reject any data how do you even claim the “Data doesn’t make sense”.

      • blackjack

        I think when so many things are bizarre in only this one election, when the results defy all previous data in terms of expectations, when the party that “won” the presidential election has cheated lied and debased themselves over and over in an effort to overturn the LAST election, when the media has run interference so hard that they know they will never be held to account, much less by the FBI,CIA,DOJ, etc. who are all in the bag and willing to commit extreme crimes to help them win elections, I think when there’s all that and more, we’re being lied to about the results. Call me crazy, but I just gotta wonder…

      • The Hyperbole

        Okay, I gotta admit that’s a bad argument, I’m conflating my points, the argument that the numbers don’t add up is consistent with the argument that numbers are made up, my apologies to Blackjack, my problem is with the argument that the number were made up and “we” also know how the numbers should have been. If you reject out of hand any reporting of votes and voter roles, I don’t see how you can make any claims about the election, outside of your feelings that it should have gone one way or the other.

      • blackjack

        Thanks, man. I doubt the true results are knowable. But, nothing happens in a vacuum. This election is the result of the last four years. In that context, you’d be a fool to trust this result.

      • The Hyperbole

        Can you distill that down to the main charges, I’m not watching a 98 minute video (the first 3 were silly countdowns and graphics, I mean get to the point or put it in text)

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        You could start at around 28 minutes in. I’ll save you the time though and go ahead and add the disclaimer that you won’t accept this as evidence of election fraud.

      • The Hyperbole

        No that’s seems like a fair bitch, I’ll look into that.

      • The Hyperbole

        Looking at the results – the city of Detroit precincts didn’t put their absentee ballots in with the initial election day ballots, they look like this-

        City of Detroit, Precinct 1
        Election Day 114 15.16%
        AV Counting Board 0 0.00%
        Total 114 15.16%

        the very first non city of Detroit results look lie this-

        City of Allen Park, Precinct 1
        Election Day 425 28.00%
        AV Counting Board 626 41.24%
        Total 1,051 69.24%

        notice they are counting the AV CB where Detroit didn’t

        So when he carries on about the results at the end of the report that include the city of Detroit AVCB but don’t list register voters it because the register voters are listed in the initial report about the city of Detroit. If they added the register voters again it would double the register voters for those precincts, Admittedly its a strange way to report results but not unexplainable.

        Also I just noticed that there are 503 precincts in the first part where the City of Detroit reports no absentee ballots but only 134 city of Detroit AVCB (absentee counting boards) so each AVCB is probably counting the absentee ballots from 4 or 5 precincts which is why City of Detroit precincts 1 has only 752 registered voters (only 114 voted on election day) and city of Detroit AVCB 1 has 1508 ballots, more than precinct one has registered voters because they (ACVB 1) is (probably as I said this is just a surmise but it makes sense) counted more than precinct 1’s absentee ballots.

    • Drake

      Can they recount now? That’s where Michigan would get interesting as precincts with ballot / vote mismatches get disqualified.

  30. LCDR_Fish

    I know some folks here are more handy than others. Just curious if anyone here has experience with American Home Shield or other warranty services? I’m a little paranoid about some expenses now that I’m a homeowner and it seems to be taking a while to build up a good safety savings account for home emergencies. One of my buddies at work (former seabee) has had good experiences with it and recommends it. Looks like the prices where I live are a little higher than what he mentioned paying (but it might also have been cheaper if I had signed up at the time I bought the house – my town/county taxes are also higher so it figures).

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Learn to fix it yourself, Man up! FFS! You tube is your friend,

      • Gustave Lytton

        I have to say there is a wealth of info for fixing stuff now. Always impresses my wife when I fix something without needing to call someone.

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        Indeed. ”Handy” is no longer required in many instances — you can just fire up the ol’ YouTube videos and learn how to do all kinds of things.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Handy can be developed too by experience and practice. Plus a little self confidence that hey, I can do this or I can at least take a look.

      • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

        Mos def.

        It’s quite liberating (and lucrative!) to discover that you can do most of the stuff around your home (or to your car) that you’ve heretofore paid someone else to do. We’ve saved hundreds of thousands over the last 20 years of our marriage, and have pocketed that difference every time we’ve sold our house/condo and moved on. Don’t regret it at all.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Just make sure it covers plumbing and water intrusion.

    • Jarflax

      My $.02 a third party extended warranty is like insurance. It will necessarily cost more than the average purchaser will realize in claims and therefore should only be considered for catastrophic losses. In the case of home warranties you are also restricting yourself to their approved service people. If you absolutely hate dealing with things and are willing to pay a bit extra to even out your budgeting it might make sense, but people have mixed reviews as to how prompt and satisfactory the service is so if you do opt for it shop carefully.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I’ll dig around a bit more. There’s a “systems” one and an “appliances” one and then a combo of both….

        I’ve also heard about paying for a payment of one year when you sell the house to avoid any complaints about stuff crapping out right after – make it easier for new folks to swallow.

        Guess we’ll see.

    • Mojeaux

      We had it for 14 years. We don’t now (long story) and I don’t like living without it).

      We paid $1,000 a year. The first year we had our house, it was free (it came with it) and I was warned by a friend NEVER to let it go. It was good advice. Not one year has that thing not paid off in spades.

      As Scruffy says, though, get the most coverage you can on water/plumbing.

      Well worth the money on our money pit.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Right now I can get it for about $500/yr which seems like a good deal on the whole. Also about to add $5/month to my power bill with Dominion’s special add-on coverage for water main to street.

    • blackjack

      And isn’t a seabee a fucking construction worker? Right there in the name, well the whole name anyway.

    • Raven Nation

      We have it right now for the second year. Went up after our intro offer.

      Two weeks ago our downstairs fridge crapped out. Tech turned up the day after I filed. AHS billed up the standard $110 for the visit. He called it in after working on it for an hour because the parts were going to be about $600. They offered us $1200 to buy a new fridge. So we’ll about break even if nothing else goes wrong this year.

      I’m definitely not a fix it guy. Just not my skill set.

      • Raven Nation

        Meant to add, wife researched these kinds of firms. Generally the advice from consumer groups was save money and use the savings to pay for repairs. But, if you go with one of these companies AHS is probably the best. We ended up buying it because we bought an older house a few years back and wanted some coverage. Also, there are some old appliances which we should get some kind of pro rated payment for if they go bust.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nothing to see here, move along

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      And yet there will still be calls for evidence that Dominion machines have this capability.. The fact that machines were being used that have this capability should immediately void the results in every instance. Doesn’t matter if a GOP or Dem won.

  31. Yusef drives a Kia

    Bella and I are eating home made burritos, like the Olden Times, they are good,

    • Mostly Peaceful JaimeRoberto

      Sounds like you are going to have a gassy dog.

    • Tulip

      My dog loves broccoli. My dog is not allowed to eat broccoli.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It raises the question of whether the child would be better in an orphanage than with a mentally ill parent of that nature who doesn’t really care about the child, they just care about what the image of the child signals to everyone else about themselves

      It’s pure narcissism.

      • Count Potato

        Even though there are people who have successfully transitioned as minors, I still think it should be an adult decision someone makes for themselves.

        Regardless, that toddlers could be transgender has absolutely no basis in science or culture.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Unfortunately, it’s got plenty of basis in the culture now.

      • blackjack

        That kid’s gonna grow up and figure out what his parents did to him one day. Kids are compliant and want to please their parents. One day, the kid will be old enough to exact revenge on them.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The saddest part of this is the silencing of those who have actually gone thru it and suffered. The media and the activists conspire to shut them down because it conflicts with their narrative.

      • Jarflax

        ^this is one of the most disturbing things human beings do. It is by no means exclusively a Left media phenomenon, no matter how much I want to blame all evil on the left. We are all prone to this. It is active confirmation bias. Not just overlooking counter examples and zeroing in on confirming examples, but actively dismissing, or silencing, or looking for reasons to discredit anyone or anything that conflicts with our beliefs. And since almost every issue is more complicated than the us v them distillation, even if your overall position is correct there will be counter examples.

      • Broswater

        We find it sad when old people die alone in old homes, and nobody to see them.

        Some of them deserves it.

      • creech

        Give it a few years and the state will be removing kids from homes where the parents won’t let them transition.

  32. Count Potato

    “The state of Pennsylvania is suspended alcohol sales starting Wednesday afternoon through the Thanksgiving holiday. Because of covid. Which means all alcohol in the state will be sold today and tomorrow. Seriously, all of these rules are absolute insanity.”

    https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1330963439196499972

    OFFS!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That will cause actual deaths. Either from withdrawal, poisoning, or domestic violence.

    • creech

      So the “home from college kids” will gather at private homes instead where masks and social distancing can’t be enforced by Karen.

    • rhywun

      They’re just punishing the cattle at this point.

      • Rebel Scum

        We are being conditioned to accept arbitrary regimentation for the sake of control by a globalist cabal. ///CovidCattle

        *adjust tinfoil*

    • Trigger Hippie

      Yeah….Sean, about that job….

      • Sean

        We’re living in crazy times.

      • TARDis

        More like violent times.

      • Sean

        You ain’t seen nothing yet. 2020 has been a warmup.*

        *Hopes to be very wrong.

      • Jarflax

        Between May 1618 and May 1648 an estimated 60% of the population of what is now Germany died either as a direct casualty, or from starvation and disease.

        7-12 million died duringthe Russian revolution, and somewhere between another 10 and 80 million died from actions of the Soviet government

        The Taiping rebellion killed 20 million

        The Mao v Nationalist Chinese war killed several million, with another 30 -100 million slated to die under various Maoist policies.

        WWI killed 40 million

        WWII killed 85 million

        the list goes on and on. We have lived in peace and prosperity all our lives. Even our wars have been comparatively safe (if you compare US casualty rates to historical rates, I do not mean to denigrate the sacrifices of those who died), and it has contributed to a lack of humility that I think will get corrected as such hubris usually does.

      • TARDis

        I’ve been trying to explain this to my wife and kids for years. They refuse to listen. The Republic is dead. It’s over. We are just enjoying it’s final days.

    • The Hyperbole

      Throw a coin or sommat in there for a sense of scale.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Now show gun pr0n!

      • UnCivilServant

        You see, the difference between your request and Hyperbole’s is that I was already thinking “I should have provided something for scale in the image”

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        9mmx19mm is useful to gauge scale.

      • UnCivilServant

        The dime was cheaper.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Too small for me. I’d get a headache working on that.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s actually hardest on my back, because of the posture I end up taking to get all the parts lined up.

      • Gender Traitor

        I see why you’re now glad to have received those magnifying lenses.

      • UnCivilServant

        There is no way I’d have been able to work on those sub milimeter buttons without them.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      nice work!

      • R C Dean

        I am blown away. Impressive.

      • UnCivilServant

        The worst part is, this is the cabin interior, so it’ll be really hard to see through the doors, even if you shine a light in there.

    • UnCivilServant

      Got the cockpit insturment panels done.

      Just have the turret control panel to do, but that has less than even the cabin displays.

  33. Rebel Scum

    Gf: Finally!

    Me: What?

    Gf: Trump conceded!

    Me: I seriously doubt that.

    *looks it up*

    The Trump administration will begin the formal transition process for the incoming administration of Democrat Joe Biden, according to a letter from the administration.

    The announcement from the General Services Administration comes after House Democrats demanded earlier in the day to be briefed on why the process had not already started.

    She is, again, a victim of fake news (or seriously misinterpreted this announcement, but idk what source sent her the notification).

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      To: Democratic Caucus
      From: GSA

      Because he is not the president-elect.

      Love,
      Helen Wifflesnap, SES-2

    • blackjack

      Doesn’t a modern transition consist of fabricating false claims of foreign collusion? How do we know Trump hasn’t already taken care of that?

      • mikey

        He needs to indight a member of Biden’s team too.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He could accuse Joe of collusion with Ukraine and China but that wouldn’t be fabrification.

      • blackjack

        That’s why that line of attack won’t work. Has to be pure bullshit.

  34. OBJ FRANKELSON

    {rageRant

    So my 18 y/o daughter is work at an assisted living facility and due to our Wise and Munificent Leaders, there is a dying resident’s family that has to watch her die via webcam. Words cannot describe my anger. It is positively inhuman.

    rageRant}

    • straffinrun

      Nope. That’s prison break time. If they won’t let you die the way a human should die, all counter measures are on the table.

      • juris imprudent

        No vote to convict from me.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      testes… heh heh… one, two, three

      • blackjack

        Wait, you have three?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I do…maybe I need to see a doctor though?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        No, that is an area where I have something in common with Hitler, other than the Germanic heritage.

      • Jarflax

        Story?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Not terribly exciting. One didn’t drop, I had surgery to get it out at 11-ish. Probably missed my first chance to get laid because I was so self-conscious about it. Anyhow, managed to sire a couple of kids despite the lack of redundant systems.

      • Jarflax

        Hmm, I think you should use artistic license. “I got sliced up when I was 11.” It’s technically true.

      • juris imprudent

        Testees was fucking hilarious, sadly, not on any outlet that I know of.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Brings a new angle to the aphorism, “Eat me.”

    • But Enough About My Wild Culinary Fantasies

      Faux long pig? I’d venture a “cheeky” white, myself.

    • juris imprudent

      It was a really good movie. And too fucking bad if I’m spoiling the ending for you.

    • Urthona

      Or buy a cow.

  35. DEG

    This makes me happy

    Seven Republican lawmakers say they have had enough of Governor Sununu’s use of emergency powers. They filed a legislative service request for a resolution authorizing the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether cause exists for his impeachment.

    “The mask mandate was the last straw,” Rep. Andrew Prout (R-Hudson) told NHJournal. “Governor Sununu has a newly-elected GOP legislature he should be working with, but instead he continues to rule by executive order without any legislative consultation.”

    Prout sponsored the impeachment investigation resolution, which he says opens a probe into the governor for causing undue hardships for Granite Staters, infringing on civil liberties, and undermining the state constitution.

    If passed, the resolution directs the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether grounds exist and report any resolutions or articles of impeachment to the House of Representatives. It grants subpoena and investigative powers to the committee as well.

    I think it will not go anywhere, but I’m going to bask in the moment anyways.

    • juris imprudent

      The glorious last act of defiance.

    • blackjack

      We have one too. It’s fun to angrily scribble your signature on it. Still can’t eat at a restaurant or do anything without a mask, but it’s something.

  36. TARDis

    Stepping out of my front door a few days ago, I saw four houses on my street with full Christmas ornamentation. OK Crackers, it’s on until Three Kings Day.

    *prays for snow*