¡Enlaces mexicanos, martes por la tarde!

by | Mar 9, 2021 | Daily Links | 396 comments

Screwy week already.  Why are people talking about this Oprah interview?  Sure the 90’s never really ended and she’s a billionaire narcissist but there has to be somebody else out there that can interview people I have no interest in?

Nice, they’re making Spaetzle on Food Network…

 

Internaciónal Die de los Mujeres protest in Mexico City turns violent.  Relations between feminists leaders and government officials are a bit edgy as of late due to a gubernatorial candidate from the Morena party, accused of being a Cuomo.  I’m sure tear gas and beatings will improve the situation.

I can’t decide if my distaste for protectionism or the drug prohibition is going to rule the day on this one:

The government has tried introducing alternative crops, like timber and fruit orchards, in poppy-growing areas, but López Obrador clearly suggested the new study was in addition to those efforts.

He said farmers in remote mountain communities in Mexico had lost income because traffickers are switching to buying fentanyl from Asia, rather than paying people to grow poppies and harvest poppy gum needed to process heroin.

“We are in the stage of analysis and reflection about what will most benefit Mexico,” he said. “There are now unparalleled conditions to do what most benefits Mexico and our people, because the current government is completely free, it is not subordinated to any foreign government.”

Venezuelan refugees allowed to stay, for now.  It might explain why I got this on LinkedIn.

Sure you are just looking at my profile, professionally.

Apparently, you can buy plots of rainforest land on Facebook.

Brazilian Trump wants you to stop whining about COVID….he has a point.

That should do it.  Have some tunes!

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396 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    Baby don’t First me…Don’t First me…no mo.

    • Flawgic

      Firsting is easy. Try being last! It’s nearly impossible. Oh wait, look at me!

  2. Certified Public Asshat

    Venezuelan refugees allowed to stay, for now.

    Haven’t they suffered enough inflation?

  3. Rat on a train

    Some feature satellite images and GPS co-ordinates. Many of the sellers admit to not being able to prove legal ownership.

    Is there fine print that states “You are only buying this satellite image not the land.”?

  4. Ownbestenemy

    So since we have put in our new airspace procedures here in the Vegas Metroplex area, we have had two incidents in which two fast, large objects almost met with disastrous effect. Both involved a commercial airliner and a GA. Luckily TCAS was utilized because we would be cleaning up wreckage still.

    One instance, as I watched the replay, a controller was messing around with his airspace and functions on the automation system. It will be interesting to see the outcome of that one. Another, a seasoned controller neglected to display a future handoff to a controller and it was forgotten as it transitioned airspace.

    When I do the playbacks, I get to see and hear everything that happens and they were both bad. I like my counterparts, but wake the fuck up.

  5. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    Spaetzle?

    It’s just gnarly egg noodles, mang. (Good ones, I might add . . . )

    • TARDis

      And so very good with Schnitzel and pork gravy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And some blaukraut on the side for good measure.

      • TARDis

        Sounds good to me. Unfortunately no one but me likes it around here. Normally, we have my mom’s German cucumber salad.

        My son is starting to come around to enjoying my mother’s sauerkraut recipe though, so maybe it won’t die with me.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I try to expose my kids (now teens) to all types of foods. They have their likes and dislikes because they tasted and didn’t like, not because I didn’t like.

      • Agent Cooper

        I hated sauerkraut until about 5 years ago. I’m old.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Try it with murgh makhani (Indian Butter Chicken). Life-changing. Basmati’s low-rent in comparison.

      • Tonio

        Whoa. That sounds awesome. Thanks.

      • Ted S.

        Or with Weißwurst.

      • DEG

        Yes.

    • Not Adahn

      These guys sell at the local farmer’s market. So flipping good. They’ve got a pre- or par-cooked product that you just heat in a skillet with butter.

      Hmmm. And I did just buy some smoked pork chops. Guess I should go buy a red cabbage.

    • westernsloper

      I don’t know what it is but I knew it was better than watching whatever is being interviewed by Oprah.

  6. grrizzly

    It seems like Bolsonaro has been much more consistent than Trump in his opposition to lockdowns and social distancing but he cannot prevail.

    Brazil’s surging second wave has triggered new restrictions in its capital, Brasilia, and its largest city, Sao Paulo. Tourist mecca Rio de Janeiro on Thursday announced a city-wide curfew and early closing time for restaurants.

    • rhywun

      Casedemic! We haven’t licked this virus yet!1!

    • Swiss Servator

      Curfews are the damned dumbest thing you can do if you are trying to keep people spread out … “Hey, lets reduce the time people can do things. This will make sure they spread out and have no contact with each other!”

  7. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Everyone wish me luck. I’m getting ready to sit in on a professional engineering discussion on neural networks and auditory processing.

    I haven’t worked on this type of stuff for decades but I’m trying to introduce my son to the topic since he has interest.

    I’m going to try really hard not to look stupid, mostly by keeping my yapper shut and nodding.

    • R C Dean

      Shake your cane, and talk about the onion on your belt.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I’m going to try really hard not to look stupid, mostly by keeping my yapper shut and nodding.

      Solid strategy. I’m amazed how many people could come to the utterly erroneous conclusion that I’m smaht based on me doing exactly the same thing.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Flip the table. FLIP THE TABLE.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What is the saying? Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt? Yeah, just smile and wave

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Almost forgot…

      *removes Heather Thomas bikini poster from wall behind self*

      • Count Potato

        LOL

      • TARDis

        Why is it behind you? What good is that?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Very cool! I don’t really encounter the auditory processing side of ML very often.

  8. The Other Kevin

    I’ve seen Lenny Kravitz multiple times, mostly when he had the long dreads. That guy can teach a class on how to put on a rock show.

    • Ownbestenemy

      ^^ Entertain me. I know you know how to play the guitar, but can you entertain.

    • The Other Kevin

      Also: I was at the concert where they filmed the video for “Can’t Get You Off My Mind”. The show ended, he came out and said they were filming the video, he lip synced to a few takes, then told the audience which hotel he was staying that night.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        The invitation probably wasn’t meant for you.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Don’t be so hasty. TOK was probably quite the studmuffin back in the day.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        As were we all, I’m sure, but I didn’t think Kravitz swung that way.

      • The Other Kevin

        He clearly stated, “Anyone who wants to party, we’re staying at the Ritz.”

    • Agent Cooper

      Well, were you gonna go his way?

      (I know, the song is about Jesus)

  9. Tundra

    Thanks, Señor!

    Free the poppies, free the weed, get the fuck out of the way and let the poor people prosper.

    It’s not that fucking complicated.

    Lenny’s drummer? Would.

    • BakedPenguin

      Lenny’s drummer? Would.

      Wait, you’d fuck Philthy Phil Taylor?

      …Oh, wait, you wrote Lenny’s drummer.

      Never mind.

      • Chafed

        Easy mistake to make.

  10. Rebel Scum

    Pepe Le Woke.

    Warner Bros. will not include Pepé Le Pew in any of its future projects amid leftist claims that the popular Looney Toons character “normalized rape culture.”

    The news, first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, follows Warner Bros. cutting the French skunk’s appearance from the upcoming movie Space Jam: A New Legacy. The cut scene reportedly served as a “spoof of the 1942 classic Casablanca that features Pepe in the role of a bartender” who flirts with a woman, though he ultimately takes it too far

    I think it showed how not to treat women.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Or how women can defend such crass advances. #IgrewuparapistbecauseIwatchedpepelepew

    • leon

      I can’t believe all your Rape apologists.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “Well, we are all dudes, so . . . {shrug}”

    • juris imprudent

      Can’t we just cancel French men instead?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Oi! That’s hurtful!
        (Besides, that LePew’s probably a filthy layabout Parisian . . . {spits})

      • TARDis

        But I like some French wine now and then. And maybe a Cognac too.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Suddenly I’m thirsty.

    • R C Dean

      Sexual Harassment Training: shows video clips of women being treated inappropriately. Yay!

      Cartoon: shows fictional female animals being treated inappropriately. Boo!

    • Agent Cooper

      Never succeeded, got his comeuppance. It’s actually very anti-rape.

  11. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    That is my favorite Enlaces picture.

  12. Shpip

    Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the government is studying what to do about growers of opium poppies who have been hit by competition from synthetic opioids, suggesting that some sort of legalization scheme might be possible.

    Let the market sort it out. Do consumers want organic, fair trade laudanum, or that icky stuff made from chemicals? Only time will tell.

  13. Rebel Scum

    Adam Smith is canceled.

    Adam Smith’s gravesite and statue in Scotland were included in a list of monuments linked to “slavery and colonialism” by a city council review panel and could be slated for removal.

    Smith, known by many as the “Father of Capitalism,” was an 18th-century philosopher and economist who authored the highly influential book, The Wealth of Nations. But now, Smith’s gravestone and statue located in the Canongate Kirkyard on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile could be removed in response to last year’s Black Lives Matter protests in the Scottish city.

    A review group created in response to the protests set out to identify statues and monuments in the city with close links to slavery and would “consider all options” with those that are identified, including the “removal of statues.”

    Though Smith was not a slave owner, the group justified his inclusion on the list due to the fact that he “argued that slavery was ubiquitous and inevitable but that it was not as profitable as free labour.”

    Smith was the first economic philosopher to advocate for a free market system of economics, arguing that people working toward their own self-interest would more efficiently advance the public good.

    The city council’s Slavery and Colonialism Legacy Review Group will now determine which identified monuments should be removed, with recommendations expected by December.

    • grrizzly

      The Dark Ages are here.

    • Shpip

      Though Smith was not a slave owner, the group justified his inclusion on the list due to the fact that he “argued that slavery was ubiquitous and inevitable but that it was not as profitable as free labour.”

      History seems to have borne that out.

      • Rat on a train

        Facts are no defense.

      • Ed Wuncler

        History is the construct of the white patriarchy that exists to keep us down everyday.

    • Ed Wuncler

      What?

      This was one of the reasons why the removal of Confederate statues felt uncomfortable because the complainers bloodlust could never ever be satiated. These people have a need to always be fighting against something and will always be looking for an enemy.

      • Mojeaux

        Some people have way too much time on their hands.

      • Rat on a train

        As my wife says, “first world problems”.

      • TARDis

        All fine and dandy until you are no longer first world.

      • Suthenboy

        “…the complainers bloodlust could never ever be satiated. These people have a need to always be fighting against something and will always be looking for an enemy.”

        Bingo.

        +1 Hoffer

    • hayeksplosives

      Them’s fightin’ words.

    • rhywun

      As if we needed more proof that “Black Lives Matter” is really a Marxist front group.

      • Suthenboy

        All you have to do is visit their website where they explicitly say “We are a Marixist front group.”

    • Chafed

      Justified is the operative word.

    • Agent Cooper

      ” Black Lives Matter protests in the Scottish city.”

      Does not compute.

      • Gadfly

        Well, 0.5% of the Scottish population is black, but I’d bet that most of their BLM protesters are white (like often seems to be the case here in the much more diverse USA).

  14. DEG

    Brazil has the world’s second-highest death toll over the past year, after the United States.

    “How to lie with numbers”. When I sort this chart by per capita deaths, the Czech Republic is number one. USA is number nine. Brazil is number 21.

    Good song choice.

    • Suthenboy

      We have no idea as everyone has politicized the cootie bugs and are lying their asses off about cases and deaths.

    • Gadfly

      But as long as Brazil has Brazilian Trump, them being the 6th most populous nation won’t matter when it can be touted that they have the second-highest death toll. Five of the top 10 death toll countries also happen to be in the top 10 most populous countries, but that doesn’t fit a narrative.

  15. kinnath

    The jury box, the ballot box, and the ammo box.

  16. Certified Public Asshat

    There’s always a tweet:

    Don't vote for anyone you wouldn't trust with your dog.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 19, 2021

    • Ownbestenemy

      That should turn around and bite her in the ass but I am sure it will be buried like a bone.

      • juris imprudent

        “Bitch set me up”.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      So I’m guessing that the dog was sniffing a woman’s butt. The woman swatted at the dog thinking it was Joe, and the dog bit.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      In my wife’s dialect “psaci” is the adjectival form of dog. It makes me wonder if that’s what Jen Psaki’s name means. If so, Biden still has one dog in the White House.

      • Rat on a train

        Which dialect?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Zahoracky

      • grrizzly

        Is there sound ř in this dialect?

      • Rat on a train

        Czech and Slovak. Where you can have words like “prst”. Pat will let you buy a vowel, but it will cost you dearly.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Strc prst z krk. A full sentence without a vowel, though it is grammatically incorrect.

      • Animal

        I was in the Army with a guy who had one of those 38-letter Eastern European names with no vowels. They actually had to reduce the font size on his name tape to make it fit.

        Since nobody could pronounce his name, we all called him “Eyechart.”

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Had a buddy in Uni with a family name like that. His take on it was “If you say it real fast, it sounds a lot like ‘Smith’. “

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Thankfully no.

      • Animal

        Woof woof.

      • BakedPenguin

        Does your dog circle back?

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        That is not my dog.

  17. grrizzly

    Fauci shares stage with top CCP official, endorses China’s COVID-19 propaganda

    This past week, Dr. Anthony Fauci shared a platform with a Chinese Communist Party “health expert,” and it went largely unreported by any Western media outlets. Chinese state media, on the other hand, could not get enough of it, because Fauci delivered a propaganda coup for the communist regime in Beijing. Virtually every major outlet and CCP official praised the co-panelists for endorsing anti-American propaganda and demanding more draconian restrictions in order to “combat” COVID-19.

    • Suthenboy

      I will say it again – buckle up and keep your powder dry.

      • Ed Wuncler

        Trying to get a FOID card but there’s a “backlog” here in Illinois because of a lack of staff to deal with the requests.

    • TARDis

      Did the oath of enlistment change? Hellooooo? “…enemies foreign and domestic…” This is both of them right there.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Unity/healing/etc.

    Capehart said, “One of the ways to get the president’s agenda passed is to do away with the filibuster rule, which would make it possible for things to get passed by a simple majority. How will you convince President Biden to go along with that tactic?”

    Hirono said, “When Mitch McConnell gets his way and decides to be an obstructionist, every major bill that President Biden wants, I think there will be a growing reality and recognition that we’re going to need to do filibuster reform. And I am open to it because if we’re going to continue to require 60 votes, you can bet that Mitch McConnell is going to do everything he can to obstruct every major bill that Joe Biden wants to get done. Mitch McConnell’s goal is to retake the Senate. That is, has goals. That’s where he’s going. We Democrats should be very clear-eyed about what we need to do. So filibuster reform, yes, that will come. That’s what I believe.”

    Nothing says bipartisan cooperation like ramming through shit legislation on a party-line vote and by a single vote.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nothing says separation of powers with the Executive driving the Legislature.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Sen. Hirono (D-HI) expelled from senate 51-49 on party line vote.

      //Possible headline from 2023

      • Hank

        Now, wait a minute, that particular 2/3 rule is good for democracy!

      • Ed Wuncler

        I know the death of the filibuster is near but I hope the GOP if they ever win the Senate again, wreak havoc on the Dems and make them eat their fucking words.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I also have a bridge to sell if you are interested.

      • Agent Cooper

        HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

        Oh, that’s a good one.

      • rhywun

        It’s hard to believe the GOP can’t come up with someone as venal and unprincipled as Chuck Schumer but here we are.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        To be fair, Chuck’s like a power drunkard — the result of decades and decades of practise. If your GOP wants someone like that in the future, they’re gonna have to start grooming the youngest generation of Congresscritters and Senators starting immediately.

        It’s all about the long game, doncha know.

      • Gadfly

        That’s why issue number one is election “reform”. If they kill the filibuster, the GOP can actually do anything that 51 GOP Senators want. The last time the GOP had a filibuster-proof Senate majority was in the 1920s, whereas the last time the Dems had it was in 2008. The Dems are protected far more by the filibuster than the Republicans are.

      • dbleagle

        It is cruel to play with my expectations that way. Xhe is such a dumb, racist and sexist piece of shit that woodchippering is too good for xir. I say let the KGB method used on double agents would be more appropriate. (Dear FBI monitor. These statements were examples of political hyperbole and in no way or matter approve of violence against any member of the US Congress.)

      • Suthenboy

        You mean any other member of the US Congress

        Hirono really is a piece of work.

    • Chafed

      Seems like there is a decent chance they will push Team Blue too far left too fast.

      • R C Dean

        To what, win elections?

        See above re election “reform”.

  19. KromulentKristen

    I finally got around to watching Unhinged.

    It was all I could do to stop myself from screaming “WHY DOES NO ONE IN THIS MOVIE HAVE A GUN?????”

    • Ownbestenemy

      I like Russell all chubby. Seems more likeable. I need to watch that.

      • KromulentKristen

        Just be prepared for ZERO backstory on the antagonist. Just sit back & enjoy the ride. And the hilariously ridiculous climactic scene & one-liner.

      • Brochettaward

        A sweaty, overweight, heaving Russell Crowe beating a small child and woman was worth the admission price alone.

      • KromulentKristen

        “There’s your courtesy tap”

        DED.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Nice avatar KK,

      • Pope Jimbo

        You know who else likes Chubby Russell?

        This cute little blonde.

        That story would wreck Glib Fit. “Whycome I got to work out? I could just be like chubster there and have hotties hanging off my gut”

      • DEG

        Money and fame are a hell of a drug.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah she is cute. Ill be back later.

      • TARDis

        Virtual sloppy seconds? Ewww.

    • Suthenboy

      I say that all of the time. Movies, TV shows…all of these people victimized and terrorized because they are unable to defend themselves.
      Anyone remember the article I submitted where the desperado was hiding in the woods behind my house? He did not try to break into any of the houses here. He knew he would have his ass shot off. Everyone here is armed. An armed society is…well, you know.

      • Pope Jimbo

        A bunch of racists?

        Transphobes?

        Bigots?

        I’m sure one of those was the right answer. What do I win?

      • BakedPenguin

        You win a date with Brochettaward. You can get out of it by sending me bitcoin.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nah its a challenging situation

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Don’t forget to put “kinetic” in there somewhere.

    • Rat on a train

      Does anyone have the necessary Tetris skills to fit them all in the cages?

    • Chafed

      At least the foreign press is paying attention.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Thomas Sowell is canceled.

    The cancel culture is apparently flirting with canceling a Thomas Sowell book.

    If you go to Amazon right now and try to buy Thomas Sowell’s “The Vision of the Anointed” on Kindle you will find that you cannot do so. “The item is under review.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      That there is so far out there that even the Bee wouldn’t have dared write something like that.

      What can the possible explanation be for canceling Sowell?

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      His hardcover and paperback versions are still available on Amazon.ca, so I have no idea what the Kindle kerfuffle is.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I would pay through the nose to watch Thomas Sowell debate the entire SJW crowd at Amazon about the merits of his book.

      Vegas would be offering odds on how long it would take for one of the Amazon hacks to call him an Uncle Tom. How long before one of the Amazonians broke down in tears because of Sowell’s mean words.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There’s always the Milton Friedman/Michael Moore “debate” where Milt DESTROYED MOORE WITH FACTS AND LOGIC if you need some entertainment.

      • Chafed

        What? I didn’t know that exists. Link?

    • LJW

      It’s funny because when they cancel books the writer ends up selling more.

      • Suthenboy

        I think once upon a time you could buy his books directly from his web site. What I wish is that I had a complete Sowell collection bound in leather.

    • Suthenboy

      Too late. I have two copies already.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        As of “right now,” Amazon Canada still shows the Kindle edition as “Under review” for some reason.

      • The Hyperbole

        Sorrey but I couldn’t give a flying fuck aboot the Canuck’s version of Eh-mazon.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Since it’s the same as the U.S. version with different pointers to the same servers and the same stock conditions, sure, whatever.

        Aaaaand the U.S. Amazon website also says “Item under review” as of right now.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Ignorance vs superstition

    Rudy Rosales, the director of LULAC Texas, said Abbott has put business owners and employees “in charge of their own welfare” with the announcement that he would lift mask mandates and remove capacity limits on businesses at the same time.

    The Republican governor last week said “it is now time to open Texas 100%,” adding that “Texas is in a far better position now” to ease restrictions because of the increase in COVID-19 vaccinations and decrease in hospitalization rates.

    But with local jurisdictions no longer having the ability to enforce face mask restrictions or fines, Texas businesses are facing the obstacle of how to keep workers safe — from both the coronavirus and furious customers — when the mandate is lifted on Wednesday.

    ——-

    Monica Richards, co-owner of the Houston-based Mexican restaurant, told The Washington Post that the business received hateful messages from people, including some who threatened to report employees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    “It was just horrific,” Richards told the Washington Post. “People don’t understand unless you’re in our business what it felt like, how hard it was to go through everything we went through during covid. For people to be negative toward us for trying to remain safe, so that this doesn’t continue to happen, just makes zero sense to us.”

    Rosales told KSAT that he is “very upset” about those threats — and the possibility of further attacks that may come out of the lifting of the mandate.

    “If anything, god forbid, were to happen, we would call for the governor and others to reconsider the fact that they have put, indirectly or directly … these businesses basically in charge of their own welfare,” he said. “We can’t control ignorance.”

    Something something you’ve made your bed, now lie in it.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “We can’t control ignorance.” That is all pig, that is all.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Not nearly as terrifying as “these businesses basically in charge of their own welfare”

        The horror, the horror.

    • grrizzly

      the business received hateful messages from people

      Not enough. I hope she goes out of business if most people refuse to patronize it.

      • Sean

        I hope she goes out of business if most people refuse to patronize it.

        And ends up giving masked handjobs for cash?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        That’s an oddly specific alternative you’ve zeroed in on there.

    • Suthenboy

      The people bitching about the end of cootie bug panic are just pissed they didnt get more subsidies. Trust me, it’s always about the money.

  22. Pope Jimbo

    It follows a BBC investigation, which revealed plots as large as 1,000 football pitches listed among the platform’s Marketplace classified ads.

    Silly limeys! You pitch in baseball. In football you throw the ball. You don’t pitch a football.

    Uffda.

    • pistoffnick

      I can (still) pitch a tent.

      • TARDis

        Do you have a Heather Thomas poster too?

        /rimshot

      • pistoffnick

        I did! I had it taped to my ceiling so she was the first thing I saw when I woke up.

      • TARDis

        We used to drink beer in the dorm room of a guy at college. We didn’t really like him, but he had that poster on the wall.

        The poster I had on my ceiling back in the day was *sigh* Joan Jett.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yeah, but these days it is a pup tent. Not the “sleeps 12” tent from when you were 18.

      • Suthenboy

        I am well into my 50’s and I can still cut glass.

    • Suthenboy

      How to own land in Brazil: 1. Hire thugs with guns. 2. Stake out your land. 3. Send thugs to shoot anyone that trespasses.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Like here, Brazil is generally unsafe in the big cities, with little to worry about in terms of violent crime elsewhere.

        But their big cities are far worse than ours.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I went to the grocery store earlier. There were a few other customers and at least one employee unmasked. When I got to the checkout, the cashier said, “You can’t wear a mask, right?”

    “Right.”

    She kind of mumbled something along the lines of, “That’s what we’re supposed to ask, now.”

    Our public health experts have spun an intricate web of lies, and it is unraveling.

    • Pope Jimbo

      My favorite bartender always has to ask for a name and phone number when you grab a table. (anyone who joins later doesn’t have to cough up any info).

      He makes sure to let you know that you don’t have to show any ID and they will never call the number, but his boss says he’s gotta get the info.

      So I tell him I’m Tim Walz and the phone number is 612-555-1212 and he laughs and laughs.

  24. Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

    “Abbott has put business owners and employees “in charge of their own welfare”” Oh, no. We can’t have that.

    “the business received hateful messages from people”. That’s stupid. Don’t do that. If you have a problem, take your business elsewhere.

  25. Ownbestenemy

    SpaceX already has SN11 on the pad…I think these are still the old test vehicles as SN15 and beyond have the major improvements. I think. I don’t pay attention to detail.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTA0GTgFn5E

  26. The Late P Brooks

    “Being in charge of your own welfare” is scary.

    Nobody should be forced into such a position.

  27. Count Potato

    “New: The federal stimulus package will erase the majority of San Francisco’s projected $650 million budget deficit over the next two years, saving City Hall from having to make painful service cuts and layoffs. For now. ”

    https://twitter.com/TrishaThadani/status/1369084199576080386

    • TARDis

      Of all this bullshit in the stimulus packages, this enrages me the most.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I have read numerous articles about how this new stimulus is so much better because it doesn’t have to be spent on people, it can be used to make up for state budget shortfalls. How great is that?!

        The most significant change contained in the pending bill, dubbed the American Rescue Plan, is a provision that states and local governments, as well as tribal governments, can use the new federal dollars to make up for lost revenue from the recession caused by the pandemic. Minnesota has seen two consecutive economic forecasts with improving numbers but is still expecting to collect $450 million less than it was projecting before the pandemic began.

        So Minnesota doesn’t have a budget, but still gets to throw that money into its coffers. And Minnesoda didn’t cut any jobs to get that surplus so all our new found extra money will do is create new programs that need to be funded forever.

    • Suthenboy

      Biden voters and TDS sufferers have no idea what they have done.

      • Suthenboy

        Who? What’s that got to do with anything. Someone else fucked up so we can now fuck up with impunity?

        Someone else committed a theft so that makes theft ok?

      • The Hyperbole

        You brought up Biden voters and TDS in regards to a article about spending ourselves in to oblivion, I assumed you meant that had people just voted for Trump instead of Biden we wouldn’t be spending ourselves into oblivion. So I showed that Trump was spending us into oblivion. Granted, I did assume your meaning so that’s on me, but enlighten me, what exactly did you mean if not that?

      • Suthenboy

        I was pleased with much of what Trump did but I was deeply disappointed in Trump’s spending. What I meant was that the Dems are doing everything wrong whereas Trump got some things right. So far this administration is a complete disaster. I should have been more explicit. I wasn’t referring only to the issue of money.
        Getting some things right is saying a lot when it comes to politicians.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      No kidding. Look who he chose to be VP.

    • Chafed

      She seems like a particularly bad choice.

  28. Rebel Scum

    Not a good way to get ahead in life.

    A 13-year-old Muslim student in France has admitted that she fabricated the story that lead to a school teacher being beheaded last year.
    The student claimed that her teacher Samuel Paty had showed an image of Muhammed during a lesson on free speech, which he had asked the Muslim students to leave the room for.

    Once her tall tale made it online, an outrage mob ensued and the teacher began to receive death threats.

    “She lied because she felt trapped in a spiral because her classmates had asked her to be a spokesperson,” her lawyer Mbeko Tabula said, according to a report from the Daily Mail.

    The teacher was beheaded in the street in the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine by an 18-year-old Chechen terrorist.

    The student has been charged with slander, but her father and an Islamist preacher have been charged with being complicit in the murder.

    • Chafed

      I don’t normally wish ill on a 13 year old for being stupid. I might make an exception here.

  29. Ownbestenemy

    Speaking of Spaetzle…I have a brisket on the smoker as we speak. No? Not the same thing? Don’t care. The flat of that brisket is in the brine for Saint Its Okay to Stereotype the Irish day. Four chickens thawing that I need to break down and use the food sealer on. Not easy working from home these days.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    So I tell him I’m Tim Walz and the phone number is 612-555-1212 and he laughs and laughs.

    Nice.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That is how you convey sexy. Beautiful shot.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Thanks, mang!

      • DEG

        Seconded.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Thanks, appreciate the props.

      • TARDis

        Thirded.

        I was going to say I need to see an eye, which is not really visible in your avatar. But in the picture, it’s (she’s) perfect.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yeah, 160 x 160 avatars are a little difficult to bring out subtleties . . .

  31. Certified Public Asshat

    WAPO: Biden stimulus showers money on Americans, sharply cutting poverty and favoring individuals over businesses

    Hasn’t even officially passed yet but has already cut poverty.

    The latest stimulus will reduce poverty by a third, lifting nearly 13 million Americans out of it, according to an analysis by Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy. Black Americans, Hispanic Americans and poor families with children are set to benefit the most. Child poverty would be reduced by more than half, the researchers predict.

    The magnitude of aid, especially combined with last year’s relief, is much greater than the U.S. government has responded to other economic crises. The response to the Great Recession was about $1.8 trillion over several years and the most optimistic estimates are that about 6 million Americans were kept out of poverty in 2009 because of efforts by Congress at the time.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Do they link to the study? It is paywalled.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Another “analysis.” Any bets on how many computer models were involved?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Whatever happened to “without evidence”?

    • Suthenboy

      WaPo is an alternative spelling for ‘complete horseshit’

      How in the fuckity fuck do they stay in business?

    • KSuellington

      It is a complete impossibility that this welfare money will lift a single person out of poverty. The government does not count welfare payments or tax rebates in its calculations as money earned. That’s one reason the poverty rate has remained pretty much the same for decades.

      • Ownbestenemy

        SHHHHH you will ruin the propaganda! /WAPO, CNN, NYT

  32. Brochettaward

    The Bro is NOT pleased. Work promised a promotion with a pay bump. Pay bump is now off the table because of new wage guidelines, but I can still get a new title with new responsibilities. Like a sucker.

    Do these people even know who I am?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Try a little less firsting and a little more working.

      Now I have to get back to making snarky comments.

      • Chafed

        *mic drop*

    • Ted S.

      Yes, which is why you didn’t get the raise.

    • Tundra

      Sorry, dude.

      • Sean

    • Chafed

      Why do they think you would want that?

      • Brochettaward

        It’s not my supervisor or even their supervisor. But essentially HR won’t approve a bay bump for that position anymore. Which begs the question as to why the position still exists.

    • TARDis

      So you’re not getting $15/hr??? That sucks.

      J/K that sucks. Sorry.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m going to need you people to step up and start paying me for my Firsts.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Stop volunteering them. Know the value of your work! Only First if we agree to pay you!

        (Narrator: Nobody agreed to pay Bro.)

  33. Ownbestenemy

    “The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning,” the queen added. “While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.”

    “Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members,” Queen Elizabeth II concluded.

    In American “Bless their hearts, well not Archie, he is cute as a button”.

    • hayeksplosives

      I couldn’t help myself and went ahead and read some of the interview schlock.

      One of Meghan’s gripes was that the Queen “refused” to make Archie a prince.

      Idiot girl; only the sons and grandsons of a Pribve of Wales (Charles, first born son of the Monarch) and his sons William and Harry (and William’s sons George and whatever the youngest is) get to be princes. The rest are automatically Earls and might get elevated to Duke if the sovereign chooses.

      That’s been the written law or “letters patent” for longer than Meghan has been around.

      She even said he’s the only prince “of color” (barf) and they won’t let him be a prince!! Whaaaaaah!

      • Suthenboy

        Watching the British Royals implode makes me snicker. There is a good reason we shot as many of them as we could and sent the rest packing.

      • hayeksplosives

        What I find amusing now is that an American married into the Royals without apparently doing a cursory Google search to see how the laws and traditions work, then gets all bent out of shape that she isn’t getting to play dress up process all the time.

      • Suthenboy

        I forgot that she is American. Good. She needs to keep pissing in their cornflakes.

    • KromulentKristen

      He ain’t wrong

      • Tundra

        Did you watch the Carlin video?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Tundra your avatar builds rage in me cause I had a Chiefs jersey, given to me on my 18th b-day that was tossed out by my no good, druggie ex wife; along with every jersey I owned and played in since I was 10. Where is my scotch.

      • Tundra

        Sorry, OBE.

        Life lessons suck. At least you got a better wife out of the deal!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Such is life. I think I need to watch Slapshot tonight. What a great movie.

      • BakedPenguin

        Where is my scotch.

        She stole it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well make my day sadder BP…what a downer.

      • BakedPenguin

        Yeah, but you have Slapshot to watch tonight.

        And if you buy more booze, well… booze!

      • Ownbestenemy

        One day Ill be able to say “Ill never smoke weed with BakedPenguin again”

      • BakedPenguin

        Well, you can always say it, man.

        We’ll see it if you miss out on the purple Kush, dude. Purple. Purple.

      • BakedPenguin

        If I was wrong, OBE, my apologies.

        I don’t have Slapshot (though it’s a great movie) on DVD or streaming, but I do have the original Westworld (not the TV show) and the entire series of Veep.

        And I have plenty of booze for the night.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nah I am just typing away. There is not much in this world that brings me down anymore.

  34. Pope Jimbo

    No one has pointed out the absurdity of FB selling Amazon? Shouldn’t Bezos be selling that?

  35. LCDR_Fish

    Great article earlier Ozy. Didn’t see you mention it, but the marine squad did just get formally updated with the assistant squad leader and the new drone operator spot.

    MTOE is also an interesting concept. At my previous reserve unit, we had 7 formal Battalion size units spread across the country, but only 3 full sets of TOE (deployable equipment sets) all in one massive warehouse that would need to get shipped out. Not sure what we would do when the “balloon goes up” – whether renting equipment at the overseas location[s] or just “making do”, etc.

    Also….the world is a big place….if all our ships stayed in US homeports until they were needed…that could lead to a lot more issues. Having carrier groups and Amphibious groups afloat does add flexibility for decisionmakers – for a price. A lot of tradeoffs in the big picture.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I am okay with Navies

      • LCDR_Fish

        We defend the trades

      • TARDis

        How very constitutional of you.

        “Off with his ‘ead!”

    • Pope Jimbo

      The carrier Admirals are as out of step as the battleship Admirals were before WWII.

      They won’t accept the fact that carriers are huge floating targets that can be taken out by swarms of cheap drones and/or missiles. I agree that they are very good at projecting force when not actually at war. The problem is that as soon as a real war starts in the South China Sea, the CCP is going to sink them in the first half hour by sending waves and waves of guided missiles at them.

      Maybe I’ll be wrong. Maybe our defense technology is way better than I think it is.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Things are changing, but it’s very hard to put a price on access to 4 square acres of US sovereign territory wherever you need it worldwide. That capability and functionality (esp nuclear fueled) is extremely valuable.

        I’m concerned about a lot of the new ASCMs as well (focus where I work), but we haven’t yet seen a real full-scale scenario play out either.

      • Pope Jimbo

        To be fair, I also think that drones will make fighter pilots obsolete.

        When WWII started, no one had seen a real full-scale scenario with air craft carriers play out. The battleship admirals didn’t want to even think about a new way of war where battle wagons were basically there to support invading Marines.

        Dan Carlin had a pod cast where he talks about how admirals remember ships that they served on as midshipmen and just can’t bring themselves to admit that they are now obsolete. Human nature.

        Like I said, I agree that before a full scale war breaks out, carriers are awesome at projecting power. At some point though, when your adversary decides to go all in, I’m worried about their survivability.

        It is in an interesting thing to think about. My worry is that the Pentagon is worrying about their diversity and equity presentations far more than figuring out how carriers can survive in the next war.

      • Ted S.

        As opposed to non-square acres?

      • Not Adahn

        Aren’t acres generally rectangular?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Dunno about other places, but in rural Alberta, a “section” is 640 acres, which is contained in a square of land 1 x 1 miles (surrounded on all four sides [usually] by an access road of gravel), further subdivided into “quarter-sections” (½ x ½ miles, or 160 acres) and then finally into 40-acre-plots (of “40 acres and a mule” fame, and sometimes referred to as a “homestead”), and on a map, they all look pretty square to me.

        ???

      • Not Adahn

        Right, 40 acres are square, but since 40 isn’t a perfect square, it implies that an acre isn’t either.

      • Ted S.

        They don’t have to be. An acre is a unit of area (43,560 square feet), not length. You can have a circle that’s one acre, with a radius of about 117′ 9″.

      • Not Adahn

        Circles tesselate for shit.

      • Ted S.

        Sure, but the point is that plots of land can be any shape, and are still measured in acres.

      • Not Adahn

        Can, but it’s not a good way to get regular divisions.

        A square mile is 640 acres, which can be divided in to four squares of 160 acres each
        Which can be divided into four squares of 40 acres each
        Which can be divided into four squares of 10 acres each.

        And then you divide it into ten 1 acre plots of 1/16 x 1/40 of a mile.

      • Ted S.

        The plot our house is on has a protrusion so that the driveway can meet the road, and there’s at least one other property on the road that has a similar protrusion.

        Our woodlot runs down the hill to the creek, so the boundary along the creek is definitely not straight.

        And the state land boundary has some decidedly non-90° angles.

  36. Yusef drives a Kia

    We hit 59 today, so I hit the Disc course after work, 2 groups were already playing, and then I met the Parks director. After some discussion, I will be helping build our new, 18 hole course at the big park, being an Ambassador for the sport opens doors, and it’s great fun,
    /Winter ain’t done….

    • hayeksplosives

      Wow! What a great project to be taking in!

      Lots of room for creativity, meeting people—sounds awesome!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        having skin in the game makes it all worthwhile, Thanks! HE!

    • Tundra

      Awesome, Yusef!

      Congrats!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Life is getting better, meeting people, the Job is fantastic, and I hope to be a member of the local community, Altruism is fine if it’s freely given,
        and of course, a new place to play!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yusef, I am sure you know, but it is always awesome to hear this good news.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I do appreciate it OBE, it’s been a long climb up from the Darkness, as it were,

      • Suthenboy

        It pleases me to hear that Yusef. I am very glad that you are doing well.

        “…Altruism is fine if it’s freely given…”

        Yesterday I was putting groceries in my jeep when I heard ‘click click click’. A very feeble old man and his wife were trying to start their car but the battery was dead. More likely the battery connections were corroded.

        “Sir, if you will give me one minute to finish here I have some cables and I will jump you off.”
        He seemed surprised that anyone would step up like that.

        I never go anywhere without a pistol, a fire extinguisher and jumper cables. That reminds me, I need to put the first aid kit back in the car.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I roll with a MI survival kit at all times, tow strap, cables, 7 day survival food, it’s then that you can help others, I do it whenever I can,

      • Ownbestenemy

        You are doing shit-lord incorrectly. You are to scoff at the man and hit on his wife.

        People genuinely are surprised when you stop and help, not for money or praise, just to help out your fellow man cause, well, we have all been there.

      • Suthenboy

        “…we have all been there…”

        Exactly. More than a few times. I know how inconvenient and frustrating it can be and what a relief it is when someone steps up and tows you out of the mud or jumps your dead battery.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And Thanks Suthen, good to that from you,
        #Respect

      • TARDis

        I need to put the first aid kit back in the car

        It’s very kind of you to give aid to your attackers. After you drop them.

  37. Pope Jimbo

    For all you Osterholmies out there.

    Michael Osterholm has spent the past year as afraid of getting Covid as anyone else. “You know how many times I’ve woken up in the morning and said, I wonder if today’s the day I could get infected?” One of the world’s leading epidemiologists, he is reassured by the fact that he doesn’t go anywhere—“I’m the guy who has the same tank of gas in his car that he had three months ago”—but he, too, is desperate to be done with the pandemic.

    “I miss my grandkids,” he told Intelligencer from his Minneapolis-area home, his assured voice turning wistful. “My God, I miss my grandkids.”

    • Tundra

      Freak. He’s been Chicken Littling for 30 years.

      • hayeksplosives

        Some people prefer to wear the scent of burning martyr to embracing an actual solution.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What a sad sad existence. With his knowledge as being an epidemiologist, you would think he would understand the likelihood (or unlikelihood) of contracting any virus.

      • Hank

        Well, if your focus is on all the diseases out there and what the worse-case scenarios can be, I can see how you can get a bit nervous.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I actually know a Ph.D. in Epidemiology, and nothing could be further from the truth. They’re statisticians more than anything else, with no special expertise in most of the epidemic phenomena they study and attempt to model.

      • Tundra

        And still ZERO discussion of obesity/vitamin D/Type 2.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Dude, the Karens can badger us into wearing masks.

        No way that even they can force us chubbies into eating right, getting outside and losing weight.

      • hayeksplosives

        On the contrary, we must close gyms and prevent people from walking outside briskly without masks.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        But smoking weed with your friends on a Golf course is totally fine….
        /Morons…

      • Pope Jimbo

        He spent a ton of time working for the Minnesoda Dept of Health screaming about the coming pandemic. He was always running to the press and telling them that the state was going to rue the day they didn’t give him more money to prepare for the next pandemic. They finally put him out to pasture and he ended up working for the U of M-Duluth (not even the big prestigious campus).

        Then when there was finally a pandemic, it was a) not as lethal as the ones he predicted and b) (worst of all) was during a GOP administration so he had to watch while Fauci got all the screen time. That had to kill him. Now with Biden, he finally has a chance to get some of that media time and he isn’t going to waste his chance. Nope, he is all in on more panic pr0n.

    • grrizzly

      The true believers are worse than hypocrites.

    • Plinker762

      I hope he put some stabilizer in his fuel tank.

      • Sean

        I hear sugar is a environmentally conscious alternative.

    • Suthenboy

      I wish all of these assholes would shut up and crawl back under their beds.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    a provision that states and local governments, as well as tribal governments, can use the new federal dollars to make up for lost revenue from the recession caused by the pandemic.

    This is so infuriating. The recession was caused by the government, based on nonsensical computer models produced by “public health experts”.

  39. Pope Jimbo

    His hair-raising, accurate prediction made him something of a Dr. Doom whose expertise was sought after by everyone from CNN to Joe Rogan. Last fall he earned a spot as an adviser for the Biden transition team, where he controversially floated the potential need for a nationwide lockdown.

    Now, Osterholm has a new prediction: More virulent variants, particularly B.1.1.7 first identified in the UK, will likely kick off a surge in cases and deaths in the U.S. in a matter of weeks—just as most states lift restrictions. He’s staking his credibility on being right, and potentially his health, by delaying his own second vaccine shot, which he says should be done across the country in order to make more first shots available to as many people as possible, offering some protection before the wave crests yet again.

    Nice journalism there, Lou. Osterholm made that prediction in mid February. Since he made the prediction all trends have been going down. But I’m sure he will be right this time.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda, that was a pile on to my previous link to Dr Doom’s hagiography.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Ah, he must be the source of all the “4th wave” talk I heard on the news today.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Can’t believe I took that guy seriously at first

      • grrizzly

        He used to say sensible things.

        Dr. Osterholm’s position has changed since he was hired by the Biden campaign. Initially, he thought masks were worthless, and believed in herd immunity.

        As the initial lockdowns were starting Osterholm did an interview on the Joe Rogan podcast. Below is a clip of Osterholm not only saying masks are useless in stopping the coronavirus but cites scientific studies as to why. Osterholm went on the record and said, “trying to stop coronaviruses is like trying to stop the wind.” His biggest concern was people overweight aged 55 over older.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Keep to what you believe and miss the Fauci limelight-effect?

  40. The Late P Brooks

    He’s staking his credibility on being right

    *guffaws, slaps knee*

    • Brochettaward

      We never got a fair shot to prove our worth.

      I think they had years to do that before the sale.

      • Chafed

        That point sailed over their heads.

    • Rat on a train

      In total, 47 employees were laid off, the company reported. This equates to nearly 30% of HuffPost’s union, which slammed the decision in a statement. … These layoffs reiterate the importance of forming a union and advocating for our colleagues.

      Uh…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL

        I just got off a video conference with some very intelligent people, the kind you have to try to not appear dumb around because they’re very perceptive and quick.

        I can’t imagine what it would be like working with those idiots.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Indispensable brain trust there.

      • TARDis

        Heh.

        *warms up Frank Sinatra voice*

        “It sucks to be yoooou.”

      • Rat on a train

        Following through to twitter, there were repeated suggestions to learn coding or solar panel installation.

      • Chafed

        That’s perfect.

  41. Ownbestenemy

    We have radar data that we send to the military and they are such fucking crap technicians. Which is sad for me to say because they are what I was 15 years ago. Too much time learning what is woke and not how to fix shit.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh, sorry for all the vulgar words. They piss me off to no end.

  42. Toxteth O'Grady

    Pepé le Pew is plainly a parody of Charles Boyer. Sheesh!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Obvious is obvious…. Just Say’n

    • Rat on a train

      That hit what I believe is a major driver of tensions. Some people aren’t happy unless you validate them.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Worse, all the wrong people are laughing and having a good time goofing on this.

        SEXUALITY IS SERIOUS AND SHOULDN’T BE TAKEN LIGHTLY!!!!!!!

    • Count Potato

      They paid good money for that law.

    • DEG

      Fuck

      • Mojeaux

        So, an Ayn Rand acolyte I knew once jumped on me for something because I wasn’t adequately Objectivist about it.

        Fast forward a couple of years. Taylor Swift and Spotify went round about payment, and this person, I swear to heaven, threw a ginormous Twitter tantrum about how this was wrong! How dare Swift not give her work away!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not really the point of the snark, but you do you Hype

      • DEG

        Yep

      • Brochettaward

        There’s no contradiction in believing in property rights and also criticizing the cowards and fucking commies canceling works that are decades old at the instigation of the woke mob. The suggestion is one of the dumber arguments put forth by The Hyperbole. Which is saying something.

      • Brochettaward

        Why ask a question when you could just get to whatever inane point you are going to try and make? The woke mob bitched about Dr. Seuss for years, Dr. Seuss’ estate caved and stopped printing certain books. Disney is restricting access to certain older cartoons which already had ridiculous content warnings before hand.

        Those are the two topics you picked for your little meme.

      • The Hyperbole

        So nothing has been canceled?

      • Brochettaward

        Yes. Yes things have been canceled. I don’t know how you are trying to define canceled, but stopping the printing of books would qualify for everyone else here.

      • Not Adahn

        I believe you have every right to shit in your living room.

        I also think you’re disgusting for doing so.

        These statements are not in conflict in any way.

      • The Hyperbole

        Hey, Buddy! Stop doing that.

      • Not Adahn

        I mean, for heaven’s sake, at least put a vent fan in there!

      • straffinrun

        Literally binary thinking.

      • zwak

        At a base level, you are right. Ish…

        All of those actors involved; the Seuss estate, eBay are deciding to end the sales of something in a way that they have agency in. This is a business decision that happens every day with all sorts of products, so nothing special there. But, at the same time, there is, via social media, a serious attempt to force the market to remove said objects from everyone’s view. And that is the very definition of canceling. Which is not a business decision, but an attempt at a moral decision. Which is the heart of the matter here.

      • The Hyperbole

        “ish” good enough for me, going in the book.

  43. Vacuous

    I’m confused. What does the president of Germany have to do with Oprah?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re both communists pretending to be something else?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        or Lesbians, NTTAWWT

      • Rat on a train

        Except when it’s Merkel and Oprah. Enjoy the nightmares.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Jesus dude….

      • Ownbestenemy

        It wouldn’t be half bad

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I see what you did there, Winning!

      • Chafed

        Where is my trigger warning?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Your trigger warning is when you log into the internet. No further notification should ever be required.

    • creech

      There’s got to be more to this story. A family with a missing kid usually pesters the hell out of the cops, for years, to find the kid. Upon finding the body after three years, the cops would be going back over missing person cases to try to find a connection. Wasn’t it possible to do dna thirty years ago? In any case, maybe dental work or identification of the clothing would help.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      How many man hours did they put into coming up with that feint?

      • Ownbestenemy

        A little under two weeks.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Gosh, those countries sound like real shit holes.

  44. Hank

    Message discipline, people!

    “Los Angeles teachers have been warned to not share spring break vacation photos on social media as their union continues to hold out on returning to in-person learning a year into the pandemic amid negotiations with the school district.

    “A leaked screenshot from a private Facebook group called UTLA FB Group – Members Only, which has about 5,700 members, displays a note that reads: ‘Friendly reminder: If you are planning any trips for Spring Break, please keep it off of Social Media. It is hard to argue that it is unsafe for in-person instruction, if parents and the public see vacation photos and international travel.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9342405/LA-teachers-union-Facebook-group-warns-members-NOT-share-spring-break-photos-social-media.html

    • Ownbestenemy

      Their excuse is even better “we don’t control that group…” Sure Jan. I am guessing you are realizing that the plebes are starting to get restless, even those originally resistant to your willy ways.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s not that hard when the politicians succumb without a fight anyway.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Mask, unmasked, those Fucks

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Sharing those photos would just give fodder to the white supremacists who want teachers to return to school.

      /UTLA Rep

  45. Hyperion

    “Brazilian Trump wants you to stop whining about COVID….he has a point.”

    Fala Ingles, homen!

  46. Yusef drives a Kia

    the idiots in packaging decided to put an desk/computer setup, directly in front of my clearly marked Electrical panels, 2 safety guys and Myself told the Super to move that shit, no luck, told the Head of Safety, oh they are too busy, ever seen a panel arc? a 20 foot long blowtorch comes out and will incinerate you, but hey, Safety first!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just let them sit there and when they are done peeling off their skin, clothing, and other materials in the ER, you can say “told ya so”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I am the Responsible Operator, it’s my job, or I am Liable for Negligence, I told my boss just now, You fix it, or I will, I need to run a circuit in there tomorrow, live, and that’s when shit happens, And I won’t allow anyone to get hurt on my Jobsite,

      • Suthenboy

        “You fix it or I will” usually works. It works better if you are holding a hammer or pry bar when you say it.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Ha! my work buddy said just that!

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Although I think you’d cut a particularly persuasive figure holding an oxy-acetylene cutting torch while you said it.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Brazing your Face, ouch!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah I know. I was just highlighting what the scene would look like in the aftermath of why industry standards (fuck OSHA) exist. Cause it gets nasty and all it takes is electricity to think you are the quickest way to ground.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        and then Booom! your dead,

  47. Count Potato

    “Reporter: “We were promised a White House cat, what happened to that?”

    Psaki: “Where is the cat? Today is a good day for the cat. I don’t have any update on the cat. We know the cat will break the internet.””

    https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1369368524557348864

    National priorities.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh not the Bee. At least I have beer and I have hockey to watch. Wait…that seems familiar.

    • Lady Z

      Yeah…but now I want to see the cat.

      • hayeksplosives

        What about the goat?! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GOAT?!?!!

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Maybe Trump could go grab one for her.

      • TARDis

        Envisions Trump walking up to the WH gate with a flame tip orange cat. “Here you go. Enjoy.”

    • rhywun

      “Where’s Joe?”

      “Gotta go! Kthxbai!”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Lol….The University of Texas’ long-awaited report on….sure, everyone was on the edges of their seats for this report.

    • Agent Cooper

      Insert RON PAUL IT’S HAPPENING GIF here.

  48. Ownbestenemy

    In Too Local News – Political entity says he doesn’t want to give up power

    https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/jara-responds-to-efforts-to-break-up-ccsd-into-smaller-districts/article_0ac89ca0-7ec0-11eb-a92e-c7f951ca0874.html?block_id=1002214

    Clark County School District is the 5th largest in the nation. We moved to a whitebetter neighborhood to ensure access for our teens to a school within the district that was good. However, it is still dragged down because it is part of the district.

    • Suthenboy

      A billion Chinese stand and applaud.

    • grrizzly

      Even gay men who are not allowed to donate blood?

      • Not Adahn

        Back when Fauci was managing the AIDS crisis, he got everyone convinced that you could be infectious but undetectable for years. Huh. I guess he’s a long time fan of asymptomatic transmission.

    • Rat on a train

      … my cold, dead hands

    • Brochettaward

      She ends with a plea for the Biden administration to do something unspecified in the future.

      I’m sure sleepy Joe will get right on that. It’s on his foreign policy to-do list right after giving Iran another few pallets of cash.

    • Suthenboy

      I am surprised that Newsweek would take that position. I remember when Castro and Che were the darlings of the media. How long has it been since they were slobbering Chavez’s knob?
      I suppose they always love commies until they see what commies really are. They love the idea of communism but the reality is something else altogether.

  49. Not Adahn

    Last time I went to Oscar’s, my coworkers gave me so much shit for driving to Warrensburg and not buying some of their mustard. Well I bought some this time, and while I’m saving it for my trip to Houston, I am intrigued that it really might be something different, based on the ingredients list:

    Ground mustard
    Vinegar
    Sugar
    Eggs
    Butter
    Spices

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Will be expecting a culinary brief in the near future. Don’t let us down.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        (Though it kinda sounds like spicy-sweet mustardy mayonnaise . . . )

      • Ownbestenemy

        Honestly sounds like Chick-Fil-A’s sauce…so yeah…sweet mustard mayonnaise.

  50. Brochettaward

    So, this was pointed out to me today.

    On Netflix, the Matrix is listed as having been directed by a woman.

    Stop the ride. I want to get off it.

    • Suthenboy

      I dont get it. What am I missing?

      • Suthenboy

        Ok, I looked it up. The Matrix was not directed by a woman.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The The Wachowski brothers both transitioned…though much later than when the Matrix was directed.

      • Rat on a train

        Deadnaming!

      • Brochettaward

        The Matrix was directed by two brothers.

        One transitioned some years back well after the movie was made. They’re a tranny.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The Wachowski brothers became the Wachowski sisters.

        Not kidding…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      A very ugly woman

      • Suthenboy

        No, a dude in a dress.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “She sounds hideous.”
        “Well, she’s a dude, so . . . “

    • westernsloper

      Splain to me why I should give two fucks the gender of the person who directs a movie? Whether I like it or not, what in the wide world of fuck does that have to do with anygotdamnt thing about anything? I don’t even care if they transitioned to Boston Terriers why should I care?

      • Suthenboy

        ^This^

        The movies were entertaining. That is as far as my concern goes.
        Some tranny screaming “Look at me! Look at me!” is less interesting than chewing cardboard.

      • Suthenboy

        As a matter of fact the reason I like the movies is because it is an exploration of Descartes evil genius thought experiment. It is one of the few relatively original film projects in recent history. The last thing we need is another remake of Spiderman. I am going to puke if they put out another comic book movie.

    • Not Adahn

      Remember back when the decathlon was won by that Jenner chick?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I ‘member..

      • Suthenboy

        I remember….

        *chews Wheaties*

      • Trigger Hippie

        I remember the Wheaties campaign with the two decathlon athletes for the 1994(?) Summer Olympics. One fell flat on his ass, the other did okay(Silver or Bronze…I think)…and that Gymnastics girl from roughly the same era…I think her coach got convicted for being a kiddie diddler some years after that…fucking ChoMos.

    • Rat on a train

      IMDB has

      Directors: Lana Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers), Lilly Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers)

  51. Ownbestenemy

    Oh they both went that direction…huh.

  52. Ownbestenemy

    We were talking about gas masks and made me thing..has anyone seen T&T? Or is he just living life?

    • Brochettaward

      Who is T&T?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Trials And Tribulations…I think its tribulations..

      • Agent Cooper

        Trippelations. A pun on beer.

  53. Hank

    “Mayor Martin Walsh is pleading with Bostonians to avoid gathering around St. Patrick’s Day as the city sees an “uptick” in coronavirus cases….

    “Walsh reiterated that the cap on indoor gatherings is 10 people and outdoor gatherings are limited to 25 guests.

    ““There should be no large gatherings of any kind,” the mayor said. “I’m asking people not to have house parties — not to have parties with family members that are not your immediate family member or your immediate bubble.””

    https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/03/09/marty-walsh-asks-bostonians-to-avoid-st-patricks-day-gatherings/

  54. Suthenboy

    “…the cap on indoor gatherings…”

    There is no such thing. Any such cap is specifically forbidden by law. That is the contract you fuckers made and the one you will obey.