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Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

367 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    People don’t play real instruments like the Olden Times……

    • AlexinCT

      I play the stereo!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I’m the only one know that even owns a real stereo, it’s that bad,

    • blackjack

      I wear my war wounds like a crown too.

      • Swiss Servator

        So you have stripped your sleeve, showed your scars and recounted what you did on St. Crispin’s Day?

  2. Animal

    No Waffle Houses in Alaska. And Granny B’s in Anchorage, the home of the best blueberry pancakes in the known universe, has closed down, a victim of the Kung Flu panic.

    Such is 2020.

    • l0b0t

      That’s terrible. The lost value and opportunities (financial, but also cultural and spiritual) will be replaced eventually but will never truly come back.

      Also, I’m double sad because I really, really want to try those pancakes and see how they stack up (tee hee) against the ur-blueberry pancake from the long gone Schoffield’s Wooden Spoon in Marathon, Florida.

      • Q Continuum

        Silly l0b0t. Our elite betters ensure me that starting and stopping a business is like flipping a light switch. As soon as the omnipotent “authorities” give permission the lost businesses will simply reappear as if nothing happened.

        That’s what they teach you at Harvard Business School after all.

      • juris imprudent

        Yes our “betters” who keep preaching follow the science, follow the science.

        Oh no, not THAT science.

        The conclusion is not that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare. Forget even Fauci’s previous suggestion that asymptomatic transmission exists but not does drive the spread. Replace all that with: never. At least not in this study for 10,000,000.

      • Not Adahn

        This morning NPR said “we know” that most cases of the ‘vid are spread assymptomatically.

      • juris imprudent

        assymptomatically

        The HM signal, you lit it.

      • Not Adahn

        Assuredly.

      • Tundra

        Tucker has done a world class job during this fiasco.

        If that study is accurate, I’m spectacularly pissed.

      • Fourscore

        Regardless of the accuracy of the study, I’m pissed.

        Freedom means more than 50 kinds of cereal at Walmart. It has to, it just has to.

    • DEG

      And Granny B’s in Anchorage, the home of the best blueberry pancakes in the known universe, has closed down, a victim of the Kung Flu panic.

      Fuck.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Well obviously the foreskin can be used to fashion the new man/lady vagina.

  3. trshmnstr the terrible

    Local Walmart had some toilet paper, but had a limit of 1 pack per person. I got 2 packs because they were out of the big packs, and the self checkout let me do it. I may stop in again today and pick up a couple more if we’re gonna be going through this shit again.

    • rhywun

      this shit again

      ?

      • Swiss Servator

        You are awarded one “Get Out Of Narrowed Gaze” for that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        this shit again

        That’s just how I roll

      • juris imprudent

        So there’s no hope of wiping up this mess?

      • pistoffnick

        You are awarded 6 tickets to the shit show. Keep them dry and use them wisely.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I’ve been slowly building a stockpile over the past several months. Things like adding a Costco sized pack of TP, canned tuna, canned chicken, and peanut butter to every order I make. Same with rice and beans from Aldis and frozen veggies for the deep freeze from the grocery store.

      I’d estimate we have a year of tp and food stockpiled now, not counting beef on the hoof. We’ll eat through the tuna, pb, and veggies since these are household staples. I’ll be very happy if I end up throwing out the extra rice and beans in 30 years.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m starting the bulk buying again. We had a small stock (3 months or so) back at the old place, but we gave it away when we moved.

        Our biggest impediment right now is space. I have 100lbs of flour and 50lbs of rice sitting in the middle of the garage floor with no place to go, and our fridge and freezer are packed to the gills just with Thanksgiving stuff. I miss having a basement.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Yeah, I can understand that. I still need to work out some kind of shelving system for our basement. There’s stuff scattered across a few different rooms in the meantime.

      • Suthenboy

        Suggestion: Buy galvanized garbage cans, line with garbage bags then stack your flour/rice in them. If you need them sealed put the lids on. and use duct tape to seal them.

        You should do that right away before mice discover your horde. Don’t use the plastic garbage cans as they will deform over time and mice can chew their way into them.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I have some airtight, stackable pet food containers. I toss in a handful of oxygen absorbers and seal ’em up. Supposedly, in that configuration, they’re good for the better part of a decade.

      • Plinker762

        30 years? The Twenty Five Thousanders will have collected your rice long before then.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m going to need more ammo.

    • Tulip

      I have a year’s supply or mod of tp due to my mistake in trying to change an Amazon subscription. I thought I was changing the frequency, but added another instead. I definitely have it fixed now, but I also have a lot (seriously, a lot) of tp. Oh well, it’s not like it will spoil.

      I’m also stocked up on pet food, my freezer is full and I have cleaning supplies, yeast and flour.

      • leon

        That’s a TP Flex right there.

      • AlexinCT

        That stuff will be like gold.. After civilization collapses people with TP will be the new masters…

  4. Q Continuum

    The comments on the Hill article are comedy gold. It’s amazing that ostensible adults write that stuff; it’s less coherent than a bathroom stall. At least the bathroom stall tells me where I can find a good time.

    • Fourscore

      Look at Mr Ritzy here. Goes to high class places where the bathrooms have stalls (for privacy). If you have stalls you ain’t country.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Fancy pants probably wipes his ass with glossy magazine pages too.

  5. Q Continuum

    “being at war is now the default and needs no defense”

    Dood, have you been in a coma for the last 60 years or something?

    • Fourscore

      After 60 years of defense maybe try a little offense. Vikings are obviously not at war.

  6. Not Adahn

    Yup. Wholesle club out of TP and paper towels.

  7. juris imprudent

    Powell is aspiring to be the next Alan Dershowitz?

    • Swiss Servator

      Did she even know Epstein?

  8. Q Continuum

    “The liberal Democrat is now exploring whether state legislators who met with Donald Trump this week are guilty of criminal conduct”

    “Liberal” – You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    • WTF

      So, meeting with the president is criminal conduct? Novel legal theory, unless of course it’s a banana republic.

      • Not Adahn

        Duh. The meeting is prima facie evidence of a criminal conspiracy. And you know it’s serious because de minimus no curat lex. Res ipsa loquitur. Dolce et decorum est pro patria mori et cetera.

      • Q Continuum

        He’s using Latin so he must know what he’s talking about!

      • Not Adahn

        My law school was right next door to the prestigious Beverly Hils Upstairs Medical College.

      • l0b0t

        30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney is a graduate of The Royal Tampa Academy of Dramatic Tricks – https://youtu.be/e2LRemtvWGk

      • robc

        Wasn’t her character based off of Amy Poehler?

      • robc

        “No one who speaks German could be an evil man.”

  9. juris imprudent

    I provide this link only to show the terrifying prophetic powers of SugarFree.

    The byline – Astra Taylor.

    • Q Continuum

      Alternate headline:

      “How the Biden administration can bail out wealthy idiots’ poor decisions by stealing from poor people”

      • Fourscore

        Get what you pay for in education

        /Looks at public schools

      • Mad Scientist

        I like: “How the Biden administration can fool American taxpayers into forking over a trillion dollars to banks and universities.”

      • Akira

        The pharmacists at my work were positively giddy about the possibility of their student loans being partially forgiven due to COVID.

        I don’t think most people realize that “student loan forgiveness” is going to be, in many cases, taxing uneducated, low-income workers more so they can throw a handout to professionals making six figures.

  10. Rebel Scum

    The corrupt corporate media spins and lies.

    I thought the Trump team said she was not on the payroll in the first place.

    • Jerms

      She has been at the pressers with crazy Rudy, did she jyst come uninvited?

      • Not Adahn

        She showed up in a suit with a nice briefcase, and everyone just assumed she belonged there.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’ve read they need to make a legal distinction since she may be making charges that are at odds with what Trump campaign funds can be used for (such as implicating some GOP along with Dems).

        Who knows. I do think it’s interesting that the brief statement Powell released this morning noted she has never billed the Trump campaign for any expenses or fees. That’s kind of an odd statement to make unless you are trying to make the distinction very clear besides distancing.

    • PieInTheSky

      Changes in the Prevalence and Correlates of Weight-Control Behaviors and Weight Perception in Adolescents in the UK, 1986-2015

      https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.4746

      Findings This study, which used data from a total of 22 503 adolescents in 3 UK cohorts spanning 30 years, found that the prevalence of behaviors aimed at achieving weight loss increased in 2015 compared with both 2005 and 1986 and that this change was not explained by known changes in body mass index alone. Weight-control behaviors increased more in boys than in girls, but among the latter, these behaviors were associated with greater depressive symptoms in 2015 compared with 2005 and 1986.

      Meaning These findings suggest that an increased societal and public health focus on obesity could have had unintended consequences related to weight-control behaviors and poor mental health; thus, public health campaigns around the prevention of obesity should include prevention of disordered eating behaviors and be sensitive to adverse outcomes such as poor mental health.

      • Fourscore

        My kids are not fat! Just short for their weight…

  11. Rebel Scum

    Michigan AG Nessel and others are suggesting that Republicans who oppose certification or even meet with President Trump on the issue could be criminally investigated or charged. Once again, the media is silent on this abusive use of the criminal code.

    But Trump is a fascist, especially since he is using the legal system. It’s a total coup.

    • leon

      You have to stoop to the Nazis tactics to beat the Nazis!

    • Drake

      The way she’s gripping that mic – frightening.

  12. Q Continuum

    Mammary Monday kicks off a short week with two big squishy bangs!

    https://archive.li/R7tmT

    NB: Mrs. Q is up yet another bra size, approaching cartoon territory. She always did have a rather improbable body shape to begin with and it’s been turned up to 11. Me likey.

    • prolefeed

      #54 was my fav. She appears to be a chubby girl using cropping and the water to hide thickness in her arms and thighs. Ginormous natural tits are made out of fat – embrace that it will be distributed elsewhere.

    • DEG

      I really want to like #2. I looked at her iChive gallery. I saw the face diaper picture. Disqualified.

  13. PieInTheSky

    An illustrated thread on masks:

    Many people are still totally devoted to the idea that ‘the science’ proves that masks are effective. They relentlessly share reports, research, data & pictures of people urinating on one another to prove their point. Let’s pretend they’re right.

    https://twitter.com/bobscartoons/status/1330562373917274113

  14. Rebel Scum

    We are proceeding to prepare our lawsuit and plan to file it this week. It will be epic. We will not allow this great Republic to be stolen by communists from without and within or our votes altered or manipulated by foreign actors

    Stop teasing me!

    • Not Adahn

      Huh. That’s how my son was conceived.

      • PieInTheSky

        You had sex with your wife’s younger sister? Damn

      • Not Adahn

        Ex-girlfriend. She only did it to spite her older sister. Never have a kid with someone that hates you, it will not go well.

    • AlexinCT

      UNCLE-DADDY!

    • AlexinCT

      Once you go dead, you never go….

      I got nutthing…

      • prolefeed

        He got nutting.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Trump got the entirety of corporate media behind “Akshully Troops in Afghanistan & Iraq are good”

    “He is like totally abandoning our allies!”

    • Drake

      Being a 2020 Democrat means you are in favor of meaningless foreign wars, censorship by tech oligarchs, medical dictatorship, and crushing the working class and small businesses.

      • Suthenboy

        And we are supposed to believe they won this election.

      • Drake

        I’ll never believe it.

    • Drake

      Senator Mike Braun, 66, of Indiana was among the 21 GOP senators named by Bernstein

      Under a photo of Lou Holtz – that’s funny.

      Donald Trump is an outsider who, despite lots of flaws, represents normal Americans. They despise him because they despise us.

      • juris imprudent

        I was watching something on YT, and there was a McCain vid captioned with “don’t insult my intelligence” and it was about his confrontation with the Obama Admin Secty of the Air Force. He was ragging on the A-10 retirement plans, and she mentioned the aircraft that had conducted close air support recently. That included the B-1 and McCain was incredulous; then the USAF 4-star told him how many sorties that the B-1 (and F-15) had flown in Afghanistan. Did McCain stand corrected? Of course not. What a shitstain that guy was.

        Anyway, all of that to affirm, yes they do think that little of all of us.

      • Jarflax

        I’d be incredulous of a claim that the B1 was a close support platform as well.

      • Plinker762

        Long loiter time plus precision guided weapons makes for good close support.

      • Jarflax

        That’s the Air Force refrain, but I remain skeptical. I will defer to those who actually served though.

      • juris imprudent

        If the Afghanis had been driving Russian tanks, then the A-10 would’ve been indispensable, since that is what the damn thing was designed to kill.

      • Plinker762

        It works when the enemy has limited air defense but a bunch of orbiting bombers would be dead meat otherwise

      • Drake

        Thank you however this was calling Murphy a dick. I’ll do the same if I ever meet him.

      • Jarflax

        “If the Afghanis had been driving Russian tanks, then the A-10 would’ve been indispensable, since that is what the damn thing was designed to kill.”

        Maybe I am misinterpreting you here, but it seems as though you are saying that the A 10 is unsuited for the role because the enemy was not in tanks and the A 10 was developed as a tank killer? The B1 was developed as a strategic nuclear bomber. I admit I have no personal experience of combat, but I think if I were crouched behind a wall under fire I’d rather have the guy providing close support be at treetop level not 70,000 feet up.

      • Swiss Servator

        When the A-10s were nearby, NOBODY bothered us. Nothing busts up a mud brick compound or an ambush like a Warthog.

      • Drake

        They used them because of the range and because they weren’t going to get shot down. No way would they do that in a war against a real adversary.

      • Jarflax

        I know they have used them for close support. I am questioning the wisdom. They are expensive and ill suited for the role. The Air Force has a long history of wanting the cool shiny faster, higher, bigger toy, even when the need is for cheaper and uglier. The fact that McCain was a shitstain doesn’t invalidate every word he ever uttered.

      • l0b0t

        Agreed, and as mentioned above, against an adversary with aircraft and/or ADA, those bombers are rather vulnerable (that’s the sort of target we Vulcan/Stinger guys dream about). As a former beneficiary of CAS, I would love to see the A10 moved over to an organic Army unit, but USAF will never let that happen.

      • prolefeed

        The reality is that you have to gain full air superiority – aka the other side can’t put any aircraft up without it getting shot down – to dare to use B-1 bombers extensively, because they are so damned expensive. Same with slow close air support craft like the A-10, for a different reason – they are vulnerable to modern fighter jets, but in the absence of that, they can do their role with deadly efficiency.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s a key thing about A-10s – they’re demons to what is on the ground and sitting ducks to anything above them. That’s why the USAF hates them – because the fighter mafia want to fight (and kill) other pilots.

      • Agent Cooper

        The A-10 is the plane they couldn’t kill.

  16. PieInTheSky

    French peer-reviewed study of 160 countries: no assoc btwn stringency of govt lockdowns/restrictions & Covid-19 mortality

    “Inherent factors predetermined mortality: improve prevention strategies by incr popn resilience—better physical fitness & immunity”

    https://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1330556945946849288

    • Q Continuum

      Silly researchers still assuming that the lockdowns have anything at all to do with the virus!

      • robc

        Shorter version: rich, old, fat, in a temperate climate.

      • Jarflax

        Those factors have a strong tendency to coexist.

      • robc

        As the chart I posted shows, Yes, yes, they do.

        Even the latitude one, although that is the weakest correlation between the factors.

        Also strongly correlating is the biggest negative factor, infectious disease death rate. That makes sense, of course, as its hard to have a high life expectancy if lots are dying of infectious disease. Covid picks off those that survive the other infections.

      • prolefeed

        Covid picks off those that survive the other infections.

        Or, C19 is blamed for the deaths from other infections. Unless you believe that the flu death rate miraculously plummeted by 98% since C19 for no apparent reason.

      • Fourscore

        Whew!. Safe at last, safe at last.

  17. Tundra

    Good morning Banjos!

    Great song. The perfect antidote to all the bullshit in the lynx. I’m trying to decide if things are really this insane across the country or if I’ve just got the lockdown blues.

    I’m seeing more and more pushback, so that’s encouraging.

    Get out there and give ’em hell, kids!

  18. Rebel Scum

    The next leader of the free world needs a staffer to call on a predetermined list of reporters who the campaign apparently feels won’t press their guy too hard.

    The worse part is seeing staffers provide his pudding cup and checking his diaper.

    • Jarflax

      There is a free world? How do I get there?

      • prolefeed

        Drive to South Dakota, or fly to Sweden. Dress warm.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Toilet paper aisles are emptying again as COVID-19 curfews and shutdowns in states from California to New York send pandemic-weary shoppers on a new scramble for essentials.

    I don’t get people.

    • juris imprudent

      Keep banging on people’s irrationality and then act surprised when people act irrationally? The science, it is a mystery.

    • prolefeed

      If you believe it is not out of the question that authoritarian shites like Newsom might order a hard lockdown – like, nobody gets to leave the house for any reason whatsoever without being arrested – then stocking up might be the rational response.

    • Mad Scientist

      Recent events have led me to believe that if I don’t stockpile at least a little, when everyone else starts doing it, there won’t be any to be found for months.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Waffle House’s Stand Against Lockdowns Is Exactly What America Needs

    So the *insert locality* Waffle House militia is being called up?

  21. The Other Kevin

    Today I turn 49. So far it’s as 2020 a birthday as it can be. I won’t be seeing the usual people today, nor will I see my side of the family or half of my in laws on Thanksgiving due to their fears of Covid. Hockey practice has been cancelled indefinitely. And I’m struggling with marriage issues.

    But, I am pretty healthy and I have the whole week off. And I have Glibs wishing me a glorious morning.

    • Q Continuum

      You can at least get drunk right?

      • The Other Kevin

        Oh for sure.

    • The Gunslinger

      Happy birthday ?

    • Tundra

      Happy birthday, Kevin!

      I hope your troubles are short-lived. Try to enjoy your week off!

    • Sean

      Happy Birthday!

    • Jerms

      Happy birthday, try and enjoy the day. And good luck with the marriage.

      • Fourscore

        Happy Birthday K. Marriage is always tough, sometimes it’s worth it though.

      • The Other Kevin

        Amen.

    • PieInTheSky

      Happy birthday

    • straffinrun

      Crazy to think back to childhood and thinking, “Man, I’m gonna be old when the the new millennium starts.” Happy Birthday.

      • The Other Kevin

        One of my kids was born in 2000. I keep telling her she’s going to brag about being born at the turn of the century when she’s old.

      • robc

        My daughter was born in 2016. Its weird to think that the 20th century is going to be ancient history to her, like WW2 is to me.

      • straffinrun

        Too bad you weren’t born a couple years earlier. I love writing 69 in the YOB.

      • robc

        #metoo

      • Dakotain

        #methree

      • rhywun

        #mefour

      • Old Man With Candy

        That was the year my son was born. Let’s talk about a Glibertarians breeding program.

      • juris imprudent

        Are you suggesting SP is a Bene Gesserit?

    • Surly Knott

      Happy birthday!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Today I turn 49

      If there is a silver lining to getting another year older it is that you won’t have your doc tell you that you need to get a colonoscopy in 2020. You can wait until next year when this nonsense is over.

      Happy B-day though!

    • Festus' Mustache's tits have become Tsunami

      Happy Bd!

    • Jarflax

      Happy Birthday!

    • l0b0t

      Happy birthday Kevin! The no hockey thing mystifies me; one would think that exercise should be a higher priority if one is concerned about health.

      • The Other Kevin

        Illinois government will have its way. Rinks in Indiana are open, they’re just booked so I can’t find ice time.

      • l0b0t

        Wow! Indiana supplies all of Chicago’s MurderDeathGuns AND they still have time to open hockey rinks municipal infection palaces? What a State.

      • The Other Kevin

        Don’t forget the fireworks!

    • Trigger Hippie

      Happy birthday!

    • Mojeaux

      Happy birthday!

      I don’t give advice much, particularly on marriage, but ask yourself if love is there and if so, review your common history and common goals. If the goals have diverged, try to get them converged.

    • mrfamous

      Welcome to the age 49 club! You’re three months younger than me.

    • Claypoolsreservoir

      HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I think this will be a good week. I got deer on Friday so grilled tenderloins are now on the menu for Thanksgiving. And additionally, the sun has not yet gone red giant so we are all still here.

      • Fourscore

        Got one last Monday and another on Friday. Local meat guy is doing the work so all I’ll have to do is eat. Mrs F says “No Thanks”, breaks my heart, (Pass that platter down, would ya?”)

        Good shooting, Claypool

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        Used to have a place nearby that did the processing for cheap, but my buddy lent and hand and we got two deer processed in a few hours… would have been much less had we not rebuilt the gear-motor on his grinder.

        For anyone curious, this is the best recipe I’ve found for the less tasty cuts of wild game meat.

        https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/deer-hunting/2009/10/how-cook-venison-pumpkin-curry/

        I usually substitute the pumpkin for something more readily available like acorn squash.

    • DEG

      Happy Birthday!

    • C. Anacreon

      Happy birthday, youngin’

    • SP

      Happy birthday, KevIn. You still have all of us to hang with. (That’s either a feature or a bug.) ????

    • Jarflax

      Welcome to the UK, where the police will stand by in confusion as a man with a machete hacks his way through a crowd, but will set the dogs on dancers. The new crop of Great Leaders give us all the tyranny but none of the trains run on time.

  22. The Gunslinger

    Sorry to go OT already but my Monday is not off to a great start. I’m off work all week but just got a text from my 18 year old daughter that she is pregnant. She’s pretty much been living at her boyfriend’s family’s house so it’s not exactly shocking and he is a good guy. Just not really ready to deal with this.

    I just wanted to share this somewhere because I can’t really tell anyone else yet. She even asked me not to tell her Mom. They don’t get along very well.

    • Festus' Mustache's tits have become Tsunami

      Ouch. Sorry Pal. Grandma will be fine once the gelfling arrives.

      • The Gunslinger

        Thanks. I hope so

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Mazel tov! It may not be under the circumstances that you’d choose for her in the moment, but all that’s gonna be water under the bridge in a few years. I’m sure there will be rough times as they figure out what being an adult and being a parent means in parallel, but with a dad who cares, she has a leg up.

      Is boyfriend gonna be able to step up and provide for his new family?

      • The Gunslinger

        It seems like he is. He has a pretty much full time job and when I asked my daughter how he’s doing she said ‘okay’. Time will tell.

      • zwak

        This is pretty much the best advice I have heard yet for someone in this spot.

    • Not Adahn

      Congratulations Gramps!

      At least you know the kid has good parents and will have poor impulse control, so you can work on that.

    • leon

      I know it’s not under optimal circumstances, but congratulations on the new grand baby.

    • Tundra

      Congrats, man!

      There may never be a perfect time, but you are gonna be great at being a gramps!

    • Jerms

      Main thing is that he is a good guy, thats something to be happy about. Imagine how youd feel if he was an asshole.

      • Fourscore

        I went through that but my daughter finally made the right decision after 30 years. Some kids take longer to grow up than others.

        Regardless of the circumstances we will always love our own and their kids too. It does take a re-thinking of your little girl is now a grown up lady and soon will be having new responsibilities of her own. Plans will change, of course and adjustments will be made but somethings never change. The love of a father for his daughters and grandchildren.

        It’s tough but you’ll make it and be as proud as you can be.

      • The Gunslinger

        Thanks 4×20. A lot I don’t know yet about how it will go but I pray it all works out.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Would it cheer you up grannyfucker if we all chipped in and bought you a subscription to Granny Gash?

      Congrats for real though.

      • The Gunslinger

        Thanks but I’ll pass on the subscription.

    • The Other Kevin

      My SIL has her daughter under not optimal circumstances. She is an adult with a job but she’s raising her kid on her own. It was pretty traumatic when she found out, but her daughter is the light of our life and such a blessing. Things tend to turn out that way.

    • Sean

      Congrats gramps!

    • l0b0t

      Mazel tov! I don’t think anyone is really ready for their first, but it’s a wonderful joyous event regardless.

    • PieInTheSky

      Hyperbaric oxygen therapy increases telomere length and decreases immunosenescence in isolated blood cells : a prospective trial

      https://www.aging-us.com/article/202188

      Also get on the anti aging train buy yourself a Hyperbaric chamber as a present… or wait for 50 cause those things are pricey

      • PieInTheSky

        shit this was supposed to go to the birthday thread

      • Jarflax

        Just think of the results if you start anti-aging before birth!

    • Mojeaux

      “Then I’m happy and sad for you.” —Lazlo Hollyfeld

      • The Gunslinger

        Thanks Mo

    • pistoffnick

      My mom had me when she was 17.

      We both turned alright (if I do say so myself) eventually.

      Congratulations.

      • The Gunslinger

        Thanks Nick. They are going to have to grow up fast but through most of human history 18 is not that young to be having babies.

      • The Gunslinger

        Fuckin 2020 though just keeps on giving.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I’m off work all week but just got a text from my 18 year old daughter that she is pregnant.

      I have an alibi.

      • The Gunslinger

        I hope it’s airtight

      • DEG

        I see what you did there.

    • DEG

      Congratulations on having a grandkid. If the boyfriend is a good guy, I think it will work out.

  23. Not Adahn
    • leon

      But no such skill yet with closing HTML tags?

    • Not Adahn

      Unfortunately the part of my brain that is responsible for HTML-ing properly is underdeveloped.

    • PieInTheSky

      I saw some of his videos back in the day. They were not entertaining enough to keep watching.

      • Not Adahn

        Not even the Pirate ones?

      • Pine_Tree

        Watch the coffee one then.

        Lots of them are fun. Even ones like the US-Canada border ones.

        And Glibs should love “rules for rulers”

    • Tejicano

      From people I know in the SpecOps community I have heard that real world expert handgun shooters come in two varieties: a) those who can hit a fixed target with absolute precision, and b) those who can snap shoot a moving target very well. The “a)” types can hit out to greater distances and more precisely but only on non-moving targets. The “b)” types are not so good at hitting fixed targets but are phenomenal at hitting a moving target without using careful aim. From what I am told pistol shooters are either one type or the other.

      Maybe you are naturally a “b)” type?

      • Suthenboy

        A special kind of near sightedness gives one really good accuracy. I dunno about moving targets. In top form I could put 5 .45 slugs through the same hole at 50 feet…hit a one inch spot was like wiping my nose. I could also hit clays with my pistol 4 out of 5 times if they were going straight away from me. That was when I was younger, stronger, in better practice and had good eyes.

        I. guess I was half of each kind. I did ok but there were always those guys, 2 or 3 of them, that I never could beat. Thiiiiiiis close….but never could beat them.

    • Suthenboy

      There are many factors involved. Eyesight…different from one day to the next, reflexes different from one day to the next, eye-hand coordination…all of these vary to varying degrees depending on weather, how hydrated you are, how well rested, frame of mind etc.
      This is why with shooting you have good days where it seems like luck, and bad days. All of those variables vary to varying degrees each and so it is impossible to predict what kind of day you are going to have.

      Been there many times.

      • Not Adahn

        Oh yeah, luck is a thing, and the mental game is just about everything. By the end of the day when it’s hot and I’m all brain-melted and I”m just “fuck the stage plan, I just want to finish the day and not get DQ’d”

        It’s just having the experience of thinking the gun went off accidentally and starting to freak out about my trigger discipline… and realize that I’m hearing steel ringing and the plates are falling is just weird.

        It probably WAS me just being insalnely lucky witha a couple of NDs, but it’s also the stuff superstitions are made of.

  24. PieInTheSky

    Metabolic Effects of Late Dinner in Healthy Volunteers—A Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial

    https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/105/8/2789/5855227

    Conclusion

    LD induces nocturnal glucose intolerance, and reduces fatty acid oxidation and mobilization, particularly in earlier sleepers. These effects might promote obesity if they recur chronically.

  25. Rebel Scum

    Pwnd.

    Sorry Liz, can’t accept the results of an election with hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes cast, enough to easily flip the Election. You’re just unhappy that I’m bringing the troops back home where they belong!

  26. The Other Kevin

    A guy I used to work with used to sing Levon to me. But he’d change it it Kev-on.

    • Not Adahn

      Did you at least give him a pity fuck?

    • Not Adahn

      That seems to be far too many factors to get a legitimate result.

      • AlexinCT

        They were also feeding the kids tons of sugar… Why not claim that was what helped them stop the sick?

  27. Festus' Mustache's tits have become Tsunami

    I’m stepping away from commenting for awhile. I’m breaking apart. I’m on a very short fuse lately. Keep catching myself swearing like a logger and not taking much of anything in stride. I need to tone down on the drinking for good measure. I’ll be lurking but everything is blowing up right now and maybe it’s best if I just sat and listened for a bit. You guys are the best but life is overwhelming me.

    • Tulip

      I sympathize. I hope you feel better soon.

    • Not Adahn

      Keep the moustache clean and groomed, and everyting else will fall into place.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Good luck on the tit calming exercise. A few days of being unplugged will do you wonders, I’m sure. I have a feeling that I’ll be following you down that path in a week or two. Sometimes a good solid detox is just what the doctor ordered.

    • Sean

      Sorry Festus. May your tits find the calmness they deserve.

    • Jerms

      I’ll definitely miss your comments. Feel better.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda. Hang in there Festus.

      I spent almost 10 days pretty much offline during deer hunting and it was fantastic for the mental health.

      • juris imprudent

        I was offline for our fall travels thru New England, that kind of break is heartily recommended.

    • Drake

      I’m with you – I’ve been stress-testing my arteries the last month or so. The gym is my release, but I hit it so hard I fucked up an ankle and both shoulders so now I’m frustrated there too.

      I’ve taken to listening to classical music instead of the news.

    • straffinrun

      Share a parking lot beer with me if you got time. Seems to cool my jets. Take it easy, Fest.

    • leon

      I took a week or so off from even reading here. You guys are great, but still a tie to Politics, and every once in a while you just have to cut all politics out. Hope things turn aorund Festus.

    • Tejicano

      Dude, take the time away if it feels necessary.

      Thanks for letting us know so we don’t have to worry what happened. I will look forward to seeing you around here once you find your center – or at least something resembling a better place for you.

    • l0b0t

      Brother Festus, you are a treasure and I hope you feel better soon. Feel free to drop me a line (l0b0tnik at that don’t be evil email place).

    • Tundra

      Good plan. We’ll be here when you get back.

      Be well, dude.

    • Mojeaux

      Love you, Festus.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Good luck man. I’ve gotten thru my snitfit. Now I’m starting to read the Stoics again.

      • Akira

        Now I’m starting to read the Stoics again.

        A big thumbs up to the Stoics. I’m not sure where my mindset would be today if I hadn’t come across them and learned how to accept the things I can’t control.

        I’d also recommend meditation for anyone struggling with stress/anxiety/anger issues. It’s not all based on mysticism; the kind I do is a psychological exercise rather than anything religious in nature. And you don’t have to be exceptionally good at it to start getting some benefits – I felt better after the first time, and the more you learn to focus, the better it will work.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        One of the best parts about meditation (looking solely at the physiological aspects) is the silence. Your brain does a lot of self healing when it isn’t supporting active conscious thought.

        The one thing that got me through the night law school experience was meditation/quiet time. 30-45 minutes where I actively pushed any thought away and just immersed myself in nothingness (or in the sounds of nature). I, obviously, had an additional religious component attached, but the physiological benefits don’t go away if you ignore the religious part.

        The closest I’ve been able to get to meditation lately has been Bible reading. It’s a 5 minute devotional, and I try to wall off that time in the morning so there are no distractions. I could probably use more and more dedicated quiet time given my increasing anxiety and intemperateness, but you take what you can get.

    • Fourscore

      We all need a vacation once in awhile, Son, come home when you’re rested and ready. We’ll be waiting for you.

    • mrfamous

      Good luck. I have to agree that drinking while mad or depressed is probably unhelpful. It sounds cliche, but “counting your blessings” can help me sometimes when I go off the rails. Plenty of people in history (and the right now) have had things far worse than us.

    • Gdragon

      I understand completely. Do what you need to do and I hope you find peace and feel refreshed and repaired soon.

    • DEG

      Sorry Festus. You’ll be missed. I hope your time away helps you.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    All hear King Walz! He won’t be stopped by your puny logic or questions.

    Among the businesses shut down by Walz’s latest executive order are gyms. Life Time Fitness posted a press release seeking the data supporting this element of the shutdown yesterday afternoon during the press conference. Tom Hauser was the last reporter to get a question in and asked Walz about it. In his concluding remarks Walz seemed to have it in mind. “It’s not about numbers. It’s not about data. It’s about neighborliness,” he said. And here we thought it was about “the science.”

    Uffda. You think that in a just world that statement alone would allow businesses to challenge the lockdown edicts.

    • Tundra

      You think that in a just world that statement alone would allow businesses to challenge the lockdown edicts.

      Linked in the article is the request from LT’s general councel.

      Looks like they are getting ready to do just that. I had hopes that the CEO would flat out tell Walz to go fuck himself, but this may be a smarter play.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That doesn’t seem neighborly

      • Fourscore

        My opinions of the gov are well known so I don’t need to repeat them. Seems like every day more evidence is coming out about the stupidity of politics. MN is a case study of what not to do.

        I see Potlatch has sold its MN land holdings to a private company for conservation purposes and in 10 years (or so) will be given to the state.

        West of me is a rather extensive parcel of Potlatch. Overall price was 48M for 72K acres, about $650 an acre or so.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Don’t worry our Legacy Fund tax will pay to maintain that land. I am still puzzled about why it costs anything to maintain wild land.

      • prolefeed

        Because it is “wild” land. Actual wilderness just needs someone to keep hikers and whatnot from trashing the place and turning it into non-wilderness.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Minnesoda passed a special tax called the Legacy Fund. They use it to buy a lot of land for conservation. Then the DNR bitches about how much more money they need to maintain all that land.

        I know that there is some maintenance stuff that has to go on, but it irks me that they have done this.

      • Fourscore

        Seems funny, Potlatch has been doing controlled harvest and making the land pay for itself. They have been leasing out the land for hunting (I hEARD $10 AN ACRE, BUT IN BIG PLOTS LIKE 200 ACRES OR SO AT A WHACK, ENOUGH TO PAY THE TAXES ANYWAY.)

  29. robc

    Met with our church small group yesterday for the first time in a while…one of the women, who I would have guessed as the most likely to be liberal (she is an odd but interesting lady with conflicting views on things) went on a conspiracy filled election rant that was worthy of a colloidal silver drinking libertarian.

    Which, now that I think of it, I wouldn’t put past her (colloidal silver drinking, that is).

    Our church is a non-denominational protestant megachurch. She, in addition to attending it, also attends catholic mass. She isn’t going to stop being Catholic just because she is also Protestant (I actually respect that in some odd way).

    • Drake

      We are not Catholic but the last for real church service my wife and I went to was an All-Saints Mass at a Catholic High School. At least they have the balls to keep going, I’ve lost what little respect I had for the Presbyterian denomination.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I actually respect that in some odd way

      Same here. Interesting combination, but I think it’s a complementary one in many ways.

      • robc

        It primarily has to do with doing the right thing in her marriage. IMO, it is important for couples to worship together, whatever that is. So, since her husband wasn’t going to be Catholic, they found a church she was okay with, one good for their kids and etc and that they both like. But she continued to attend catholic mass on the side.

        My sister told her daughter something similar…the guy she is dating is catholic from a hardcore catholic family. He isn’t going to be converting. My sister told her that if they decide to get married, she may have to convert to Catholic.

  30. straffinrun

    You’d think with all this debt piling up that the Presidency would be like trying to hold a hot potato.

    • leon

      Debt? What we need is International Sovereign Debt Forgiveness!!!

      • straffinrun

        Of course partisans will always blame the other party when the crash comes. Tiring.

      • leon

        ^^^^

        If Hillary had been President, and the Coronavirus had, had the exact same course all the people saying Trump was personally responsible for the deaths of 200K would be talking about how Hillary did better than anyone else could.

        Never fail to exploit a crisis.

      • AlexinCT

        I bet there would have been no lockdowns and nobody would be able to find the number of casualties without a FOIA request.

      • prolefeed

        I bet there would have been no lockdowns

        Oh, there would have been lockdowns. Authoritarians love them some control. Anyone wanna guess when or if the mask mandates go away under Biden or Harris?

        Cause I’m going with “when we can keep our shoes on at airports, and not have to go thru a Surrender-A-Thon 3000 scanner.”

      • mrfamous

        Richard Reid’s flight will be 19 years ago next month. That’s right, we’ve been taking our shoes off for 19 years.

      • kbolino

        One of the big lies of the 2020 election was that Trump was responsible for the coronavirus deaths (whether most or all of them). There’s dozens of other countries that were or are in the same or similar situations and the U.S. was not at any point in the worst place globally. But the “fact checking” only goes one way and we all know it. It’s like the NPC meme vs. Russian bots; they’re parallel phenomena and grossly similar, but while one side gets to have their indulgences, the other side gets labels, trend manipulations, shadowbans, actual bans, etc.

  31. leon

    Did catch the ends of the Colts/Green Bay Game. Rivers and the O-Line did everything they could to give the game back to Green Bay, but at least the Defensive line was serious about winning.

    • Urthona

      yeah. I thought the Colts were fortunate.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    I’m stepping away from commenting for awhile. I’m breaking apart. I’m on a very short fuse lately.

    Commenting here is probably the only thing keeping me from going completely off the rails. It’s like Gaslight City out there.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      ?Take me down to Gaslight City where the grass is red and the non-binaries are pretty?

    • Gdragon

      Two articles just popped up in my feed with the headline “Why we’re not actually in Gaslight City and P Brooks fucks children”, J-List must work fast these days ?

    • straffinrun

      How many national level politicians have kids/relatives that are working basically as lobbyist go betweens? That the media doesn’t really touch that topic is pathetic. As if Hunter is the only one of those scumbags out there.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The fact that not one politician went after Hunter shows me that all of them are doing the same thing.

      • straffinrun

        Seriously, I don’t really care to see politicians’ tax returns. Show me their kids’ instead.

      • Not Adahn

        Not their youporn history?

    • leon

      I think the Corporate Lobbying is just as awful and terrible as the next guy, but consider this: Lobbyists at least effectively argue for Buisness/Economic interests. Sure they make sure they get their own, and i abhor that the government has the power to screw the little guy for the big guy, but if Warren and her ilk had her way All regulation would be made with no input from buisness and by unelected beurocrats with no real world experience. The dicta would be even less teathered from reality.

      The key to getting rid of cronyism is only and can only be defanging government so that their is nothing for big biz to buy.

      • Drake

        Corporate lobbyists used to spend all their time trying to get government out of their way. Now they just beg for government handouts, protection, and contracts.

      • leon

        There has been a shift in what is being lobbied for, I agree. I don’t like the revolving door.

        I also know that Warren is a snake, has made her fortune through Government and crafting expansive regulations for buisness while taking their money. I wouldn’t trust her or any proposal she has at face value.

      • kbolino

        The biggest lesson tech companies learned from the dot-com bubble bursting was to get in bed with government.

    • juris imprudent

      Don’t be silly. They don’t really mean trust; when they say that what they’re really saying is OBEDIENCE.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Metabolic Effects of Late Dinner in Healthy Volunteers—A Randomized Crossover Clinical Trial

    This agrees with my long term sample-of-one study.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    You’d think with all this debt piling up that the Presidency would be like trying to hold a hot potato.

    We owe it to ourselves!

    • Rebel Scum

      There is always Blackout Coffee.

      • Not Adahn

        My local coffee It brews up nicely on my home machine.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Eh, I get the guy’s point, but I’m sure BRC is getting tons of pressure from every company they rely on. Banks, distributors, payment processors, etc. They found the most milquetoast way to distance themselves from the kid without actually condemning him.

      Sure, it’d be nice if they were gung ho in support of him, but their response is textbook PR crisis management.

      /never have had BRC, no real opinion on the company

      • Not Adahn

        Meh, if your schtick is “Gunz! 2A! Politcally Incorrect and if you don’t like it cry moar libtards!” you don’t get to get to follow the textbook.

    • Tejicano

      I kinda wonder if BRC felt they were not helping Kyle by stepping into the situation. Possibly their lawyers or PR people heard from the WI state AG and figured it would be better for Rittenhouse if they backed out of the situation.

  35. Tundra
  36. l0b0t

    Norwegian Cruise Lines keeps sending me increasingly desperate sales pitches. I might just take a cruise to spend a few days in the bow mounted hot tub, away from other people.

  37. prolefeed

    Fox News, skinsuited, headline:

    Panic buying of toilet paper hits US stores again with new pandemic restrictions

    It’s not a fucking pandemic. That ending back in April/May. It is endemic – the huge bump in ICU use and deaths nationwide happened long ago. It’s gonna be with us forever, and everyone is gonna get it eventually, and then survive or not, overwhelmingly tilted toward survive.

    And they’re not “pandemic” restrictions. They’re * political * restrictions. They both start with “p”, but they are not the same fucking thing.

    • Urthona

      There have been some shortages in Texas too where there are no lockdowns and the government has announced there will be no more.

      Apparently at least some of it is people panicking.

      • Tundra

        Apparently.

        Appropriate.

      • kbolino

        Indeed, the panic buying is driven by fear of supply disruption which can come from many sources.

      • Jarflax

        I am not sure it is really ‘panic’ buying. If you know that other people are going to buy up the toilet paper, and you just went through a period where toilet paper was unavailable, with all the inconvenience that entailed, isn’t buying up a stockpile a rational move? Yes, a hypothetical outside observer sees an ‘irrational’ situation where the only reason for the shortage is fear of the shortage, but fear of the shortage is a real, and as we all saw in March, valid fear.

      • Urthona

        I think that’s a fair point.

        Also things like toilet paper take up the most shelf space per item and so eyeballs can indicate they are out of stock and start a run before they actually are.

      • l0b0t

        That has become a VERY BIG DEAL™ at the store. My paper goods shelves are to be kept looking full, even if often means building a wall of rolls only 1 row deep.

      • kbolino

        Panic buying is the recent, short-term demand shock. Stockpiling is a rational coping mechanism, but you don’t start building a stockpile after the panic buying has already started. In this particular case, the stockpile would already have been built up before the shelves got emptied again. Panic buying is very similar to a bank run; it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy very quickly.

      • Jarflax

        Again from an outside view you can say that the rational response would have been to build the stockpile in advance (although even that presupposes the decision reduces a single variable, people have varying amounts of space to store things and money t9o invest in things), but an outside view is Monday morning quarterbacking. If you do not have a massive stockpile, and you see a report of new lockdowns it is perfectly rational to think people will strip the shelves. And once you think that it is perfectly rational to grab some TP when you find yourself at the store, which, as you say, makes the prophecy self fulfilling. The point I am getting at is that the fact that the prophecy is self fulfilling does not make it wrong, nor does it make the participant foolish. When a bank run starts you are personally better off withdrawing your money, even if society as a whole would be better off if no one did.

        In other words refusing to participate in the panic may provide a warm feeling of wisdom and virtue, but it also leads to an unwiped ass.

      • kbolino

        If the inventory suddenly depletes due entirely to demand shock and not supply disruption then I think calling it panic buying is entirely appropriate, even if most of the participants are acting on rational motivations. Nobody wants to be a sucker, but in short-run finite-supply conditions the more you consume the more suckers you’re going to make.

      • Drake

        Are office workers back in their offices? A year ago, much of the population was spending half their waking hours at work and taking their dumps there.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Nope, and we won’t be going back. Some of these changes are permanent, especially now that companies are reaping the cost savings of shutting down their offices.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m pretty sure my company will consolidate about 8 properties down to maybe 2 or 3. They have figured out that a lot of the IT staff are just as effective working from home as when we were in the office. All that space can be used by the people who do need to be in the office.

        The only reason it won’t be 1 is because we do a lot of physical production as well as online stuff, so we need some of that infrastructure.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I have some extended family here in TX who are panicking again. Granted they’re the ones who have been in a near constant state of panic since March, but theyre still influencing the less panicked people. They look at me like I have 2 heads when they try to start a conversation with me about it.

        “Oh, is that still a thing? I hadn’t noticed. I don’t watch the news. Let me guess, cases are up, positive rate is up. Right?

        Am I still supposed to wear my mask? I should probably wash that thing.. It has been a few months.”

        ?

      • prolefeed

        The Texas Tribune’s Patrick Svitek and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff report that Abbott ruled out “any more lockdowns” as Texas begins to experience another spike in positive COVID-19 cases. The statewide mask mandate remains in place.

        The arsehole who caved and put a statewide mask mandate in place can be trusted to not do an about face if the political winds shift?

        I got an extra pack of both TP and paper towels the other day, despite having plenty already on hand, because Austin is full of panicky sheeple who believe whatever BS Dem politicians peddle.

      • mrfamous

        The president-elect has announced he plans on a nationwide lockdown when he takes office. I don’t think he’s going to be able to do that, but I could be wrong and I wouldn’t blame someone for thinking otherwise.

        It’s _all_ people panicking, but you can’t hardly blame them at this point. It may be wishful thinking, but I’m starting to sense some degree of significant pushback.

        We’ve completely altered our way of life over this thing. There’s going to be at least a significant portion of people who are not okay with that.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Endemic and pandemic are not synonyms.

      • kbolino

        I think that was the point

      • Gustave Lytton

        They’re not antonyms, I need more coffee.

        It’s quite possible for endemic diseases to have both epidemics and pandemics. Polio, until the vaccine, was an endemic disease in the developed world. From time to time there would be outbreaks (epidemics). Some of those outbreaks would be much larger than a local outbreak (pandemics).

    • KSuellington

      I really don’t get the tp hoarding. Doesn’t almost everyone have a left hand?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yes, but I don’t have hair on my palms, and I can’t make my wrist bend the right way to use the back of my hand.

      • KSuellington

        Heheh.

  38. Rebel Scum

    Alright, alright, alright.

    Actor Matthew McConaughey made news this week by indicating during an interview that he was open to the possibility of running for political office in Texas one day in the future …

    News that McConaughey may consider running for office in Texas, a Republican stronghold, was well received online as McConaughey is generally well liked by the public and has avoided making inflammatory remarks or getting involved in politics in the past.

    Remarks that he made in 2018 about the Second Amendment, however, could be problematic for him if he ever tries to run for office in Texas.

    Sounding like Beto O’Rourke, McConaughey said at a rally for the anti-gun March For Our Lives group in Austin, Texas, that law-abiding gun owners needed to “take one for the team” and give up some of their gun rights, including the ability to own semi-automatic long guns and magazines that have the ability to carry certain amounts of ammunition.

    Fuck off.

    • Urthona

      He would get 100% of the votes here so if that’s his attitude I hope he doesn’t run.

      Although previously he’s also said some stuff to indicate he’s not much of a Democrat either.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’ll bet he likes to keep his money.

    • Mojeaux

      I do not want to know this about Matthew McConauheeeeeeyyyyyyyy.

    • Tejicano

      I am in total support of that “March For Our Lives” group – to march their worthless butts all the way out of Texas to some place where they feel safer… or more welcome… or whatever. As long as they take themselves out of the state I’m good with that.

    • Akira

      that law-abiding gun owners needed to “take one for the team” and give up some of their gun rights, including the ability to own semi-automatic long guns

      “We’ll never ban your hunting guns! That’s just a crazy NRA conspiracy theory.”

      magazines that have the ability to carry certain amounts of ammunition.

      Very specific. Love it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nobody needs a magazine that holds over 700 rounds.

      • Fourscore

        Worth a chuckle, Stinky

      • leon

        Bolt Action only.

        And really, being able to own more than 10 rounds is silly. If you need 10 rounds of ammunition at your house, you’re a bad shot. You should only be able to shoot at Government Ordained shooting places where they supply the ammo, limited to 50 rounds per visit, one visit per month. And you have to store your weapon there, so we know it is stored safely.

        WHAT! We aren’t trying to take your gunz away, you can still own them (as long as you store them in a government controlled location)! You crazy rednecks! We ought to take your guns away for peddling in conspiratorial madness.

      • kbolino

        Ah, the Swiss model. Which lasted right up until the EU declared it was unfashionable and hurt the feelings of all those gun-free states that never see any gun violence, like France and Belgium.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        They’re not in the EU. They voted their own rights away (by what % I don’t know).

      • kbolino

        True, but if they voluntarily adopt the EU’s directives, their lack of membership in the EU is more of a technicality. There was the complicating factor of being in the Schengen Area, which likely would exert pressure on them to comply anyway.

      • Plinker762

        Weren’t they pressured by the EU?

        Found this: “Neutral Switzerland is not a member of the EU. However, the country is a member of the Schengen Area – a coalition of European countries that have abolished the border controls between their nations. As a member of the Schengen Area, the Swiss are obligated to comply with the EU’s firearms mandates.”

    • PieInTheSky

      in weird things Matty McC on the The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast was recommended to me by youtube. Maybe youtube is a gateway to the far right after all

    • Chipwooder

      I can’t see Wooderson running for office. Guy’s a goofball who lives in an Airsteam trailer so he can go surfing all over the place. I don’t think he’d actually want to give that up. This is probably a form of ego masturbation for him.

    • prolefeed

      including the ability to own semi-automatic long guns and magazines that have the ability to carry certain amounts of ammunition.

      So, all long guns except bolt action rifles, and all magazines? Does that arsehole even know what semi-automatic and magazine mean?

    • Suthenboy

      I have an idea. Shitbird gun grabbers can take one for the team instead. Sounds good to me.

  39. Ownbestenemy

    Im thinking our local Fox affiliate is giving our gov the Trump Admin treatment. No where on their site do they list our new ‘pause’ edicts. All the others have it splashed as top headlines.

    Interesting.

  40. prolefeed

    The closest House race still not called is 50.00% to 50.00% – Iowa 2. A 39 vote lead by the Republican.

    • kinnath

      I’ve been waiting on the official results for this one.

      It would be awesome if Miller-Meeks pulls this off. This is the third or fourth time she has run for this office.

    • creech

      I just checked the Assoc. Press website “updated yesterday” and they haven’t yet called 8 seats, including NY #11 where the Republican leads by more than 15% and the Dem conceded ten days ago.

      • prolefeed

        https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-house.html

        Yeah, funny how they’re reporting that are no contested races left where the Dem is ahead, despite several races being less than 2% apart. Meanwhile 4 of the 8 uncalled races have the Republican up between 14% to 23%, including some where the Democrat would have to get over 100% of the estimated remaining votes to win. Like NY 24:

        R 54.7%
        D 38.9%
        Other 3.7%

        92% of estimated votes reported.

        Hmmm, let’s do basic math – if the D got 200% of the estimated votes remaining, they’d eke out a win. Seriously?

      • Plinker762

        One never knows when more post dated absentee ballots may show up.

  41. Drake

    Thank you to whoever this was calling Murphy a dick. I’ll do the same if I ever meet him.

    • leon

      “Are you guys a little too drunk,” one of Murphy’s sons asked the women. “Can you put your mask on?”

      I see he’s raised his sons to be just like him.

      • Gustave Lytton

        These people are really fucking stupid. That lady doesn’t have a clue how much danger she and her fellow bureaucrats are creating for themselves because they’re pig ignorant of history.

      • Gdragon

        That was incredible. I need to change my underwear now.

    • l0b0t

      That put a huge smile on my face when I saw it. Also, his kids could use a good thrashing “Nice Trump phone case; Trump loves my dad!”

  42. Lackadaisical

    “Media and Democrats Decide They Love Forever War Now”

    Don’t get it wrong, they’ve always loved war. Sometimes they might have pretended otherwise, but only when it is useful for beating on the opposition.

    • kbolino

      When the DoD was full of conservatives, they wanted to defund it. Now that it’s full of limousine liberals, they feel differently.

      • l0b0t

        I seem to recall great wailing and gnashing of teeth during the Clinton/Bush the Lesser years about a cult of crypto-Christofascists was taking over the officer corps and was going to turn the DOD into a an army of religious zealots who would fight against those on the Right Side Of History™.

      • kbolino

        No doubt in 10-20 years, once the current crop of cops have been replaced with politically correct, racially and gender diverse, progressive-minded thugs instead, the institution of policing will once again be sacrosanct and its overpaid workforce be politically untouchable.

  43. Pope Jimbo
    • creech

      It just goes to show you the relationship between fees that virtual unknown Leftists can command vs. very prominent Libertarians. I once arranged a $100 fee for Murray Rothbard to speak, and got Ludwig von Mises to attend another libertarian conference for expenses only.

    • Chipwooder

      That bitch is truly repugnant.

  44. DEG

    Mornin’ Banjos.

    A study published in late October by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology linking a decrease in coronavirus hospitalizations to a face-mask mandate has been withdrawn following an increase in cases in the areas studied.

    Heh. Not surprising.

    Walt Ehmer, the CEO of Waffle House, didn’t mince words when he explained his biggest problem with economic lockdowns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “None of the people who make the decisions to shut down businesses and impact people’s livelihoods ever have their own livelihood impacted,” Ehmer recently told Business Insider.

    I like him.

  45. Pope Jimbo

    Fourscore is totes an influencer!

    As the Minnesota firearms deer hunting season winds down, and the Wisconsin season cranks up, another color is dominating the woods other than orange.

    Gray.

    In 2000 there were 35,994 hunters age 65 or older in the Minnesota deer woods. By 2018 senior citizen hunters had nearly doubled to 69,728.

    A decent article about a real problem. My sons have been fawned over by game wardens in NW Minnesoda and western NoDak because the game wardens want more kids hunting. One game warden was particularly funny because he demanded to see my father’s and my hunting licenses, but when it came to the kids he asked them questions about how they liked hunting. Never even asked for a license.

    • Fourscore

      Anecdotally, I think the same thing is happening to snow mobilers/4 wheel operators. We are just seeing fewer. My take is that recreational money may be scarcer, kids grow up and move on and not so much fun as cabins tend to stay closed in the colder weather. Unless you were raised with a gun it’s way less likely you’ll have a chance to learn about hunting. Land availability is getting scarcer, etc.

  46. creech

    O.K. you statistics gurus: if the chicom-19 vaccines prove 95% effective, and every American (330 million) is forced to get vaccinated, does that still mean that 15 million folks will eventually come down with the virus (which is more folks that currently have tested positive)? The country will open up and will be dancing in the streets even though only less than half of those who will get the virus have already had it?

    • kinnath

      Herd immunity kicks in around 70% of the population being immune from either having survived the illness or being vaccinated. At herd immunity, if one person gets the illness, that person is unlikely to spread it.

      So if 95% of the population can’t spread it, it basically goes away except for a handful of cases.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Forced? how? point of a gun?

    • Jarflax

      That would be much more than is needed for herd immunity. The odds of any non-immune person contracting the virus go down to effectively zero because they can only catch it from other non-immune people, so after a little time has past it dies out in the populace as a whole. It is as if you add 19 water logged sticks for every one dry stick to a bonfire, then light it.

    • prolefeed

      and every American (330 million) is forced to get vaccinated

      If the feds try to force everyone to get vaccinated, I think the resulting civil war might be a more pressing issue than a not particularly deadly virus.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m just waiting for the “oops, it mutated” moment where the vaccine becomes worthless.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Call me skeptical. The feds and states already essentially force every single child in this country to get vaccinated. Some of which have an extremely safe risk profile with enormous benefits and others that have more dangerous side effects than the minimal risk of the condition they sometimes prevent.

        The default societal position is to label anyone an “anti vaxxer” who dares question the wisdom of this, including those who believe strongly in vaccinations but question the risk-benefit tradeoffs of certain ones. If even pathetic excuses for libertarians like Bailey subscribe to this, I don’t have much faith in the general population.

      • DEG

        Yep. There will be forced vaccinations.

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        It will be a cold day in hell before I’m vaccinated for the coof.

      • rhywun

        The government might not mandate it but I bet most employers will. Or they’ll just double the premiums for anyone who opts out. All kinds of ways this could go.

      • Tundra

        I don’t want the fucking thing, but I’m concerned about travel restrictions.

        Like everything, the state has a million ways to fuck with us.

      • Claypoolsreservoir

        Yeah nope. I’m not getting a novel MRNA vaccine with unknown long term autoimmune complications… for a virus that poses statistically no risk to me above a myriad of other communicable diseases for which I have not been inoculated. fuck. that. shit. I’ll live in the fucking woods like an animal before the state forces me to inject a foreign substance into my body.

      • pistoffnick

        The dosing schedule for Hepatitus B is 0, 1 to 2 months, and 4 to 6 months.

        How is Hepatitus B spread?

        Hepatitis B is spread when blood, semen, or other body fluids from a person infected with the virus enters the body of someone who is not infected. This can happen through sexual contact; sharing needles, syringes, or other drug-injection equipment; or from mother to baby at birth.

        Unless the mother has it, the kid is unlikely to contract it through sexual contact or sharing needles

    • Urthona

      I’m completely fine with opening up everything after the vaccine is released.

      also now. i’m fine opening things now as well.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Let me guess- needz moar central planning

    One of the most important long-term issues facing the United States was barely discussed during the presidential campaign: How do we insure the nation’s long-term growth and prosperity?

    Neither candidate defined their visions for creating a vibrant, resilient, innovative economy that provides fair economic benefits and a decent standard of living for all Americans as the core of a strong nation. Indeed, the economy is the primary issue of our future, as economic strength is necessary for a capable national security.

    Moreover, during the campaign, neither candidate presented a comprehensive, coherent strategy about how business, government and the nonprofit sector should cooperate to insure our growth prospects. To be sure, this long-term strategy is a necessary aspect of our future if we are to compete in the world economy.

    For too long, government and business have treated each other as enemies; yet, that model is outdated because it cannot lead to a better future for all people. Simply put, we are at a critical juncture and we ignore this at our peril. We need to compete in the world as it is, not how we would like it to be.

    We believe that President-elect Biden ought to appoint a national bipartisan commission whose mandate will be to analyze the economic forces and trends in the world and offer policy options where government, business and the nonprofit sector ought to work together more closely.

    Hahahahahahaha. That’s exactly what we need. Once we finish killing off all the small independent businesses in the country, our new fascist paradise will be with in our grasp.

    • Akira

      offer policy options where government, business and the nonprofit sector ought to work together more closely.

      That’s what we have right now. They work together to come up with solutions for how they can fuck over regular people and make themselves rich.

      • prolefeed

        I believe the technical term for the government and business working together more closely in the manner they imply (i.e. at the point of a gun) is “fascism”.

    • Chipwooder

      SFed the link

    • Agent Cooper

      MOAR TOP MEN.

    • rhywun

      Sic Antifa on them.

  48. leon

    Iraq War Veteran Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) on Trump’s Afghanistan and Iraq troop drawdown:

    “All of the military commanders have spoken up and said this is the wrong thing to do. We want our troops home, but let’s not bring them home in body bags.”

    If that’s the case then those Commanders should be brought up on charges of Insubordination. Ahh the Left, they took the return of the Prodigal Children, the Trotskyites very well.

    • Agent Cooper

      “but let’s not bring them home in body bags.”

      Logic not her strong suit, is it?

    • rhywun

      It’s pretty obvious they want to delay any action until Lightbringer Jr. is in office and can take credit for it.

  49. CatchTheCarp

    The county I live in mailed out annual real estate and personal property tax bills this week. The money goes to school districts and to fund all levels of county Govt. There is much consternation that many people will not be able to pay on time (12/31/2020) due to the Govt preventing people from working. One elected official floated out the idea that County should consider extending the due date this year or possibly forgiving a portion of the taxes due (gasp!).

    “In an interview, Fitch questioned the fairness of taxing businesses such as restaurants that were not allowed to function for parts of the year. And while many homeowners prepay their taxes into an escrow account, he said, some residents, including older residents who have paid off mortgages, typically write a check at the end of the year. In a year in which many people suffered financially, he said, taxing districts should not expect to collect every dollar. “We need to have this conversation,” he said.

    As you can imagine this setoff a shit storm amongst the public sector. Tax abatements, she said, “would most likely force the shutdown of all government entities and taxing authorities.”

    If only that were true. Along with the usual bluster that this would result in lay-offs and cutbacks and anyone who would suggest such a thing obviously doesn’t recognize the value these dedicated public servants provide.