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Banjos

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

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  1. The Late P Brooks

    Land of the free, they said.

    Home of the brave, they said.

    Despite Tuesday’s massive reopening of the California economy and the loosening of COVID-19 rules that have been in place for more than a year, many people continued to wear masks in public, saying they felt it was better to be safe than sorry.

    At Charlie’s Best Burgers in East Los Angeles, patrons and the staff treated California’s reopening day like any other.

    The burger and Mexican food chain still required customers to wear masks and maintain social distancing. The restaurant marked three of its seven booths unusable and capped capacity at 20 customers.

    “Right now, there are just too many unvaccinated people to not ask our customers to wear masks,” said restaurant general manager Jorge Jimenez, 35. “If you look at the area, it’s been hit hard by COVID-19. It doesn’t make sense right now to change.”

    ——-

    “We’re not able to tell who is vaccinated and who is not, so this is the best thing to do,” Jimenez said.

    When his restaurant first implemented a mask mandate last spring, Jimenez said several customers refused and left. Since then, however, the community has generally accepted the protocol.

    There were no complaints from customers Tuesday.

    Friends Albert Ramon, Kenneth Ruiz and Yerson Henriquez, all 19, had pulled down their surgical and cloth masks as they dined on burger, fries, pancakes and a chorizo burrito.

    “Honestly, I still think it’s way too early,” Ramon said of lifting the mask mandate. “I was surprised that the change was made.”

    Part of what has made Charlie’s Best Burger appealing, Henriquez said, is that the restaurant still enforces a mask mandate.

    “It’s just weird to walk around and see people without masks because we still need to get vaccination numbers up,” he said.

    This is what we have become.

    • blackjack

      This is very widespread here. These people are now refusing to admit that covid is receding. It’s crazy to watch. There’s still people out strolling around alone wearing masks and everything. They seem addicted to panic.

      • WTF

        I live in a NYC suburb, and even though stores no longer require masks, whenever I go shopping there’s maybe only one or two people besides me not wearing masks, while everyone else is masked up. It’s really pathetic.

      • Atanarjuat

        It really lines up with political beliefs almost perfectly. I live in a college town and there are still stores asking people to wear them. But I went to Alabama for a week and no one said a word about my uncovered face.

      • Nephilium

        The great lands of the flyover are very different. I’ve had to wear a mask three times in the past week. Once for a doctor’s office, for going into get blood drawn, and when visiting the girlfriend’s grandmother and aunt. Other then that, I don’t even carry a mask with me. While out shopping, you usually will see a handful of people still wearing their new fashion accessory/team signaling. But people are willing to sit down next to people at bars, chat with strangers, and (most of) the bartenders look much better without covering half of their face.

      • Drake

        I find that it lines with politics. The rich liberal inner suburbs are masked up. In the more conservative working class exurbs, you see very few masks.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yes and no. Vienna is about as wealthy as NoVa burbclaves come, and mask usage in public is down to a bare handful.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m rather surprised by that. Talked to some friends in Chantilly last night and it sounded like Fairfax and points east were very masked.

      • Rat on a train

        I have to head up to Fairfax later this month. Hopefully it is saner than my last visit.

      • EvilSheldon

        They’re still out there, but in far smaller numbers than two months ago.

        I need to find out what the status is with my gym…

      • invisible finger

        It’s hip to be a victim.

    • AlexinCT

      I think you spell that “Banana Republic”….

    • waffles

      Pathetic.

      • rhywun

        The biggest lesson of 2020… propaganda works.

      • waffles

        Yeah. But the human animal is unpredictable. Propaganda can work too well or have unintended effects. Ant the truth is, even glibs, are not immune to propaganda. Doom.

    • rhywun

      It’s a good thing restaurant owners are made of money. Who needs customers, right?

    • Banjos

      “We”? It’s the complete opposite in MAGAland Texas.

      • ignoreLander

        “We”? It’s the complete opposite in MAGAland Texas.

        May God bless Texas.

      • Suthenboy

        Same here. People barely wore them to start with but now everyone is just ignoring mask wearing.

      • Gadfly

        I was going to say the same. I went to a Rangers game the other day, where mask usage was “encouraged, but not required” and there were only about 5% of the people wearing masks and no social distancing whatsoever.

      • Unreconstructed

        I spent most of last week camping in a state park. In 6 days I saw 3 masks. And every evening people were congregated at the dance floor and dancing in fairly crowded conditions. It was nice.

  2. UnCivilServant

    Judge stops Biden Admin from blocking new oil and gas leases.

    Louisiana Judge on Hawaiian vacation?

    • Festus

      I chuckled. “Circuit Courts. How do they work?”

  3. The Late P Brooks

    “It’s incredible, it’s incredible,” he said. “They can have their gathering in the Sky Palace, and yet a pastor who gathers for church outside is being arrested. Because the rules certainly don’t apply to everyone equally, and they’re not enforced to everyone equally. Like, why is it pastors that keep getting arrested from this?”

    You’re a subject, bub. Not a citizen.

  4. WTF

    And if the races were reversed this is all the corporate media would be talking about.

    Pretty sure pointing that out makes you a racist.

    • Tonio

      Look, he was just the victim of generations of systemic racism. He wasn’t shooting for himself, he was shooting for all his enslaved and oppressed ancestors. Kind of like reparations.

    • Drake

      Meanwhile Merrick Garland will be hunting down white supremists – this nation’s greatest threat.

      • WTF

        I’m certain the shooter acted because of white supremacy.

  5. Festus

    Whomever linked that toddler hearing his Dad’s voice for the first time yesterday needs to be hunted down in the streets and shot for a traitor! My tears are my own, Dagnabbit!

  6. Trigger Hippie

    “A police helicopter was deployed to search for and detect this gathering, and to collect evidence against Pastor Stephens of non-compliance with public health restrictions,” …

    When Stephens said Christ commanded his followers to gather together, the officer interrupted him, saying, “And he also told us wherever two or three are gathered, there he is in the midst of us, so we don’t need a huge gathering.” Stephens responded by implying the officer was taking the verse from Matthew 18 out of context.

    After blaming the pastor for creating the unpleasant situation, the officer later suggested that obeying Alberta’s lockdown order was like when Jesus said Jews should pay taxes to the Roman government. “Even God said, you know, ‘Give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s,’ right? So we’re not getting into this philosophical debate,” he argued.

    “And the gathering of the church is not Caesar’s,” Stephens retorted. “So that’s why we’re gathering.”

    *nudges Christ*

    What assholes, right?

    Seriously, WTF is wrong with Canada?

    • rhywun

      Yeah, I think Canada has lost the plot.

      Leave Christ out of it and it’s still grotesque all the stories we’re hearing out of there.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I just finding astonishing that they’re using taxpayer money on police helicopter flights to “hunt” peacefully assembled gatherings…

        Creepy as fuck.

      • Not Adahn

        No kidding. And so unsafe! Don’t they know that white supremacist christofacists shoot down police helicopters with .50 Barrets?

        /Chipman

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If only they would.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s C-eh, N-eh, D-eh, right?

    • wdalasio

      WTF is wrong with Canada?

      I’m trying to imagine how exactly it is that the cop could go home at night and look in the mirror. I mean, seriously, how in God’s creation do you count yourself a hero for stopping people from the horrible, earth-shattering crime of….praying in the woods. Nevermind bringing helicopters to hunt down the villainous wrongdoers.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a matter of spite at this point. Those filthy christians are being noncompliant, dammit!

        The fastest way to piss off a cop is to not obey.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Herein lies the problem with thinking that the police will be allies in the fight against tyranny.

      • WTF

        Yeah, people seem to forget that they are literally the government’s enforcers against the public.

      • PutridMeat

        How could the Stasi informer go home at night and look in the mirror? How could the Auschwitz guard go home at night and look in the mirror? NKVD? Perhaps I need a disclaimer that “sure this is a bit hyperbolic” but is it really? These are the same people psychologically (and see the ward councilor below). In the Soviet Union, in Nazi Germany, in East Germany, China, this cop and the ward councilor would be part of the establishment that sent people to their deaths daily with a clean conscience. The human animal is capable of great evil and is able to justify it internally very well. Despite recurrent naivete, that can’t be programmed out in the short term. We are still capable of terrible things. We. These particular humans are just the current obvious manifestation of that and we’d be remiss not to recognize that, while arresting a pastor is not the same as sending someone to their death, it is a manifestation of the same mentality and can/will seamlessly transition to that if unchecked. And finding glee in it is a bit closer.

      • Festus

        Precisely this.

      • db

        Yes. The current situation (regarding religious expression and public health) only serves to muddle the discussion, but at the core, this is about the tendency toward evil, and humans’ ability to find justification for awful acts in an imagined moral high ground. In other circumstances, these very acts could be justified by religious believers against nonbelievers, or by any powerful group and those wishing to be adjacent to power against weaker groups.

      • wdalasio

        Of course, you’re right, and I’ve commented on it before. I just wonder what the hell has happened that someone could comment that they look at this sort of action as “good”. I could see, “Well, it was unfortunate, but one of those things we had to do for the greater good…” But, “Yay, I arrested a reverend!” seems like it’s outside of the bounds of something someone would act to rationalize.

      • UnCivilServant

        They’re not thinking “I arrested a reverend” they’re thinking “this defiant son of a bitch is still not doing what we told him to do” The original context has gone from their minds it is all about winning rather than being right. It had to escalate to get there, but they’re not seeing some beseiged chergyman, they’re seeing an antagonist.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Would they arrest the leader of a left-acceptable identity group for the same?

        I think not.

      • UnCivilServant

        The ones preaching “Obey, obey, obey”?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Those religious people are troglodytes that believe in hocus-pocus. We are simply defending ourselves from the threat that they pose to the collective.

        For decades I’ve heard the talk about the War on Christianity, but I think it actually arrived in 2020.

      • PutridMeat

        I really don’t think this is a reflection of disdain of religious people, though there is plenty of that out there. This is simply cracking down on those who don’t obey, who don’t comply. It’s just a bit more likely in this particular context that the the religious will be more likely to defy the state in this one area. They are not being persecuted because they are religious, they are being persecuted because they are defying the “experts” and being willfully non-compliant.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        But would they dare to go after a victimhood identity group for the same? I don’t think so.

        Just look at the examples in the US of COVID “experts” simultaneously condemning religious gatherings and praising BLM marches as necessary for public health.

        They are being targeted because there is not enough popular support among the majority to defend the religious against this persecution.

      • PutridMeat

        @Scruffy, below “reply” threshold.

        I see your point. But it’s probably less about being religious in the current moment and more about “not enough popular support”. *Why* religious people have little enough popular – actually maybe more accurately “elite” – support to allow this to happen is an interesting question, and probably speaks to trshmnstr’s “what 40 [t]ears of postmodern Marxism gets you”.

        Nonetheless, while I don’t think the proximate cause is the religious nature of the gathering, but rather the disobedience (and the same persecution would be applied to any non-approved group), I see the argument that the upstream cause is the fact that the religious fall in to a group that it is acceptable to persecute these days. Either way, not a good sign.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I really don’t think this is a reflection of disdain of religious people

        Whether, in their heart of hearts, these people are acting out of malice against Christians is, in some ways, irrelevant. Personally, I’m seeing a very fast shift in a direction where making my faith known publicly is a liability. Most acutely in the career space. Is that out of malice against the faith or because of associations they make between the faith and worldview? Dunno.

        More and more of my Christian friends and community members are openly talking about and planning for the coming era where we are hated. It’s coming and it’s coming soon.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        they look at this sort of action as “good”

        It’s what 40 tears of postmodern Marxism gets you.

        When you flip everything on its head, from ethics to art to education, and you infiltrate every institution to bend it to your will, the result is a large proportion of the populace having their natural conscience reprogrammed to serve TPTB. Any time you hear the word “deconstruction”, understand that it’s not the target being deconstructed, it’s a little part of your soul.

    • SDF-7

      This is the quote that gets me:

      Opposition to Stephens and other recalcitrant pastors nevertheless remains prevalent in Calgary. “It’s very satisfying to arrest the leaders of these congregations,” Calgary Ward 9 Councillor Gian-Carlo Carra told Global News regarding Stephens’ arrest.

      “It is soooo satisfying to press the boot down on the necks of these people…. I’m POWERFUL and I want RESPECT!”

      • wdalasio

        It’s very satisfying to arrest the leaders of these congregations,

        Let me guess, Gian-Carlo, you also get your rocks off kicking puppies, taking lollipops from children and tying young women to the railroad tracks.

      • db

        Those are the words of a monster whose mask has slipped.

      • ignoreLander

        ‘GREAT RECREATION MAKES GREAT CITIZENS’

        Creepy as all fuck.

      • rhywun

        I would not like to know more.

      • ignoreLander

        Holy shit, whatever you do don’t click on the “newsletter” on that loser’s website.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That was the quote that got me too.

        It is horrible to think that some people might think that, but to say it out loud? To a reporter?

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      They could start feeding them to the lions again. I suppose moose would be a more Canadian way to go.

      • Surly Knott

        + 1 Zim!

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Oogaboogah!

    As US states lift more coronavirus restrictions, experts are worried people who aren’t fully vaccinated could contribute to further spread of the virus.

    The Delta variant, first reported in India, currently accounts for nearly 10% of coronavirus cases in the US, according to the CDC.
    With concerns it could become the dominant strain soon, medical experts are underscoring the importance of full vaccination.
    “I’m worried about those who are unvaccinated,” US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told CNN Tuesday, noting the Delta variant “is rapidly increasing here in the United States.”

    The CDC has determined the Delta variant is a “variant of concern,” a designation given to strains of the virus that scientists believe are more transmissible or can cause more severe disease.
    The Delta variant “appears to be significantly more transmissible than even the Alpha variant or the UK variant, which is now dominant in the United States,” Murthy told CNN.

    First thing we do, let’s kill all the public health experts.

    • WTF

      Well, yeah, respiratory viruses typically mutate to become more transmissible and less dangerous. Which is why pandemics peter out on their own even without any vaccines. We’ve known this for a very long time.

      • UnCivilServant

        The more lethal the disease, the quicker it will ‘burn out’.

    • blackjack

      The delta variant is slower and more acoustic. The Chicago variant is electrified and fast/loud. I’m more of the Chicago school on this.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Delta man, myself. Too much electricity in the Chicago variant for my tastes.

      • Not Adahn

        Fauci went to the crossroads and made a deal with the Devil for fame, power and a cure for COVID.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Don’t be sad, cuz two out three ain’t bad.

        Wait, wrong genre.

      • Atanarjuat

        Pretty sure Fauci would make the trade to eliminate a cure for Covid and keep himself in the news forever.

      • Breet Pharara

        Citation: Hydroxychloroquine

      • Tres Cool

        What you did there. It was noted in an ocular capacity.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Eye sore it 2.

    • Not Adahn

      Since the shutdown criteria were arbitrary used to further a governor’s political career, so to are the re-opening.

      VT opened when 80% had been fully vaccinated .

      NY did when 70% had their first shot. And Cuomo is crowing about how this proves that everything he did was right (shhh. He’s rolling). So “public health officials” can go pound sand, their opinions are no longer relevant.

    • Trigger Hippie

      So…are any of the current commie cough shots designed to combat this particular mutation? If not, what good would getting those shots actually accomplish?

      /Not a doctor

      • Nephilium

        I’ve seen at least one blurb go through my news feed that the current vaccination regime provides “significant” protection against the Delta variant. Of course, I didn’t bother clicking through to read the article.

        /waits for the Omega variant

      • Atanarjuat

        Yeah I’m not sure of the mechanism but maybe the variants haven’t had enough time to evolve to be different enough from the original lab creation. Their biochemistry is still similar enough that the antibodies work on them, apparently.

      • SDF-7

        I would expect that to be more of a strain….

      • rhywun

        The entire theater is going to start from scratch again in the fall so it doesn’t really matter. Enjoy a bit of freedom while it lasts, America.

    • Tres Cool

      How did we get to the Delta variant by skipping the Gamma ?

      • rhywun

        I’m glad I’m not a Gamma. They’re frightfully dull and lazy. And don’t get me started on the Deltas. *shudder*

        /Beta

      • Not Adahn

        -Epsilon Minus semi-moron.

      • Rat on a train

        What about the Lambdas?

      • UnCivilServant

        They only have half a life.

      • PutridMeat

        Very subtle, but seen it was! Nice.

      • Bobarian LMD

        And don’t get me started on the Deltas. *shudder*

        Double secret probation.

      • Agent Cooper

        Delta Delta Delta How Can I help ya help ya help ya?

    • rhywun

      But they are concerned. Concerned!

  8. AlexinCT

    Is it a big step to go from ignoring stories you don’t like, embellishing the language of those you like, creating outright lies from “anonymous sources” and then deciding that you need some sources, so you then threaten people to be those sources and say what you want (regardless of if they tell the truth)?

    • Rat on a train

      Why bother with named sources? They aren’t as reliable as the brave people who have to remain anonymous.

      • AlexinCT

        Even the most woke of idiots has now started worrying that when sources are unnamed, they run the risk of having someone hit their proggy boner with a hammer later when the story turns out to be made the fuck up, and so the media is now responding to that reality by forcing people to say what their narrative wants…

  9. Tonio

    FOX 26 sales coordinator Jennifer Bourgeois admitted on tape that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is influencing stations, including the local outlet, due to the amount of money funneled into ad campaigns.

    That’s a smoking gun. Unfortunately, nothing ever comes of these things.

    • Sean

      Maybe more people will boycott Fox. Fox news has been banned in my home since November.

      Down 37% since last year.

      I still watch some CBS (the least bad major network, imo) and, of course, channel 69 news.

      • Tres Cool

        Channel 69 ? How can you hear the TV ?

    • rhywun

      the amount of money funneled into ad campaigns

      As in, every other commercial is some goddamn variant of ‘rona propaganda?

      • Rat on a train

        This commercial was made before the coranapocalypse. Please wear a mask.

  10. Trigger Hippie

    ‘”It really strikes me,” Gaetz continued, “the extent to which there is now no line between advocacy and journalism. You know, we wanted to believe that there was sort of, you know, opinion journalism, and then there was fact-based journalism. And then there are people who rightly go exercise their First Amendment rights to participate in direct advocacy.’

    Oh, bless your silly, naive little heart.

    • Not Adahn

      Steve Inskeep on NPR was ranting about how Trump’s emails proved he was “determined to crush democracy.”

    • Festus

      I’ve no doubt that Gaetz is a scumbag of the first order but that shit is beyond the pale.

  11. waffles

    Good Morning! The weather is even more perfect here today. Days like this make me wonder why I ever wanted to live in California. Maybe having 4 seasons ain’t so bad after all?

    • UnCivilServant

      I think the monotony is why so many Californians are high. That, and it lets them ignore the boot.

    • Not Adahn

      There are four seasons here, but one of them (spring) kind of sucks.

      Still vastly better than Houston which has four seasons, there of which are summer and the fourth is “not-summer.”

    • Festus

      Thunderstorms and cool temps for yet another summer here. No complaints TBH.

    • Rat on a train

      California has four seasons: fire, flood, quake, riot

    • WTF

      New Jersey has two seasons: winter, and construction.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Propaganda machine beeps and clicks

    One after another, some of the most conservative members of the House of Representatives took to the stage at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to denounce Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to President Biden, and to air other pandemic-related grievances.

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who was introducing a bill to reduce Fauci’s salary to $0 and have him account for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, led the attacks. The proposed legislation, called the Fire Fauci Act, stands no chance of passage in a House controlled by Democrats.

    Nevertheless, the highly vituperative affair — replete with reminders that Fauci was an “unelected bureaucrat” — was indicative of how the bespectacled, Brooklyn-born immunologist continues to be at the center of every ongoing debate related to the coronavirus, including the economic costs of lockdowns (low, says a new study, though there are, of course, social and psychic costs to isolation) and the efficacy of wearing masks (exceptionally high, the discomfort of masking aside).

    ——-

    Firing him would be difficult, since Fauci is a senior public servant, not an appointed official. Nor are congressional Democrats, or the president, bound to take personnel advice from the most radical members of the opposition party, some of whom called into question Biden’s legitimate victory in last November’s election.

    How dare those rabid lunatics defame Saint Foochy?

    How dare they politicize the worst most terrifyingest threat to humanity’s survival since the Great Flood?

    • Not Adahn

      The economic cost of the lockdowns is low? Compared to orbital bombardment, I guess.

      • Tres Cool

        Well, depending on your role in society, getting all those checks from the state and Uncle Sugar for not working enhanced finances for some.
        Also, a lot of fraudsters cleaned up, too.

      • Agent Cooper

        If you’re a Governor, there’s like, no effects at all.

    • Breet Pharara

      Low economic cost? They aren’t even trying to make their lies believable anymore.

      • Breet Pharara

        Okay, God I hate journalists. That’s not what your own link says you moron (directed to the writer). The study they link to says that stricter lockdown states did better economically than looser ones. Even if that’s true, I’m not looking into it, that does NOT mean the cost of the lockdowns in general were low. How do these people even look themselves in the mirror with all the BS they spew.

      • Tres Cool

        “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

      • Nephilium

        You know… I’ve heard multiple experts on this very site state that the economic cost of the lockdown were low. Why would you question the consensus?

        /looks up at Breet Pahara and Not Adahn’s comments to help the joke land.

    • rhywun

      Firing him would be difficult, since Fauci is a senior public servant

      What is that I can’t even.

      Somebody fucking appointed him.

  13. Festus

    Yes. Yes Canada has become a shit-hole country. Something happened South of the 49th in 2016. Wonder what that was?

    • Not Adahn

      Russians got their puppet Trump to spread White Supremacy?

      • Tres Cool

        Are Russians white now ? Kinda like the micks and eye-ties ?

        I cant keep up.

      • Not Adahn

        IIRC, there are both White and Black Russians.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Emperor Zoolander the First, King Beyond the Wall?

      • WTF

        The Twink in the North!

  14. CPRM

    Looks like the fuckin Canucks murdered my Red Dog! It no longer appears on the MolsenCoorsMillerHammsFostersKeystone website! It was there last fall when it first dissapeared from the shelves, but now it’s gone! THEY MURDERED IT!

    • Sean

      Another Covid victim. Sad!

    • Tres Cool

      I feel your pain. Over the past nearly 2 weeks Ive noticed an acute shortage of my swill, Milwaukee’s Diet Beast. 4 grocery stores (chains) and 2 gas stations were out.
      On my last trip to the store, I saw the distributor’s merchandiser stocking and asked him what was going on. Evidently, Miller/Coors/InBev/SAB (whoever the fuck they are this week) are ending the “Milwaukees Beast” line of all flavors, including Diet. So I switch to Miller Lite ($19.99/24 vs $16.00/30 for my MBL)
      The store is out of that, too.

      • CPRM

        I’ve switched to Hamms, they have a light. Bland and generic, but cheap and non-offensive.

    • Not Adahn

      If you miss Red Dog, you can always just buy Miller High Life and paint the cans white.

      • CPRM

        Not at all the same. I now know you have an unrefined palate.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If you like Miller High Life, you can just drink Budweiser and filter it thru your kidneys.

  15. Timeloose

    Holy crap it is nice out this morning. I feel for the poor bastards out west.

    I saw 104 as the high in Sheridan WY yesterday.

    • Tres Cool

      Brokeback Thermometer ?

      • Timeloose

        The Climate Game?

      • Not Adahn

        Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?

      • Timeloose

        Jackson’s hot hole?

        Sorry, I apologize that went too far.

      • CPRM

        that went too far.

        I know not these foreign words.

      • Tres Cool

        Wait until you have your 1st prostate exam.

    • Animal

      61 here in the Great Land today.

    • Endless Mike

      109 in Miles City, MT yesterday.

  16. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    Gee, who would’ve thunk that telling people over and over that white men are the root of their problems, that someone would believe it? Oh, that’s right – almost everyone.

    What the fuck, Canada? I understand why the shithole blue states allow their tyrants to run roughshod over them, but Alberta? Sad days.

    Great song, though! Filmed at Le Studio, I believe, just like this gem. The German Shepherd is in both videos, which makes them just that much more awesome.

    I hope y’all have a great day!

    • Tres Cool

      April Wine for some reason made me think of…..Billy Thorpe.

    • Festus

      I’m a Myles fan, meself. He can write pussy songs.

      • Tres Cool

        Larry Flynt published a Hustler with a scratch & sniff centerfold, as I recall.

      • Festus

        I perused that one. It didn’t smell like pussy. Maybe it had been worn out by that time.

    • Festus

      Ahhh fuck…

    • PieInTheSky

      If Biden had taken out a shiv and assassinated Putin o the spot would would the reaction be I wonder

      • UnCivilServant

        KGB Colonel versus senile child groper? Even if Joe had been armed, Vlad would have won any contest.

      • Festus

        “C’mon Man! Don’t stab me! I thought you liked me!”

      • Rat on a train

        Even push ups?

  17. UnCivilServant

    I have been reading through public comments on the ATF’s proposed arm brace rule, and so far not a single person has commented in support of the STF nonsense.

    Odds on them ignoring the public comment and banning AR pistols as SBRs?

    • CPRM

      10000000000%

    • Tres Cool

      See also, EPA’s public comments on implementing Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel. Cummins, Detroit, and Caterpillar (as memory serves at the moment) sent a letter to the committee establishing that “our engines were never designed to operate on sulfur that low.”

      EPA said, “cram it”.

      • Sensei

        Those cultured Europeans have low sulfur diesel so we in the US need to have it too.

    • PieInTheSky

      do you really need an arm bracer?

      • UnCivilServant

        What’s ‘Need’ got to do with anything?

      • PieInTheSky

        Look anything besides sleeping in a pod and eating bugs while doing your job in a cubicle should be on a need basis and require prior aproval from your betters

    • Sean

      I’m trying to not worry about it.

      People more motivated than me are working on it.

  18. trshmnstr the terrible

    “Here’s a template, please don’t feel obligated to migrate your document over to the template, but you can use the template to make sure your document answers all relevant questions.”

    “Sounds good, I’ll migrate to the template like you suggested”

    ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Didn’t you get the memo about the format of your TPS reports?

      • Tres Cool

        + PC Load Letter

    • Nephilium

      It’s better then the usual where you ask three questions, and only get a partial answer to the first question.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    “we do not prosecute people for their beliefs”

    Garland also committed Tuesday to reconvening the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee, originally created by former Attorney General Janet Reno after the Oklahoma City bombing as a way to facilitate information sharing among agencies.

    This new strategy also includes a focus on better ways to screen and vet federal government employees, law enforcement and service members who might pose a domestic terror threat from inside critical positions.

    The Defense Department will incorporate training for retiring or separating servicemembers in order to help them identify extremists’ attempts to target and mobilize them for their skills.

    A review of attorney statements, military service records and court documents obtained by CBS News found that at least 51 of those arrested stemming from their participation in the January 6 rioting at the Capitol are current or former military members. Of those, one is an active-duty service member, four are current part-time troops in the Army Reserve or National Guard, and 45 previously served in the military.

    Similarly, CBS News has learned that at least 12 of those arrested were either former police officers or were employed as law enforcement officers at the time of the riot, according to court documents and employment records. Prosecutors also charged at least one current firefighter and one retired firefighter.

    A senior administration official told reporters in a briefing Monday that the Office of Professional Management, the human resources division for the federal government, will review and consider updating hiring forms to improve the vetting and weed out applicants who could be domestic terrorists or potentially pose an insider threat. The Departments of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security are also looking at steps to improve their vetting procedures for personnel.

    Maybe they should have them sign a loyalty oath.

    • EvilSheldon

      They already do, but up until now it’s been to the Constitution.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        A belief in the validity of the Constitution is only held by extremists, this is known.

      • AlexinCT

        The problem is that those that fancy themselves the elite and in charge are pissed with the people because the people are not smart enough to see how wise and great they are. More importantly, the unwashed masses have this insane belief that if their ruling elite do things that hurt them but enrich the ruling elite, that they should be able to replace the ruling elite with people that remember that they rule by the will and mandate of the unwashed masses…

    • Rat on a train

      They really put their military and police expertise to maximum use. Maybe they were all clerks.

    • leon

      They already have half the officer corps. Why do they want to control the enlisted ranks?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Because the officer corps aren’t the ones that will be required to point a gun at their fellow citizens.

    • Agent Cooper

      “might pose a domestic terror threat from inside critical positions.”

      Yes, those white supremes have been running rampant in the Department of Energy.

  20. Festus

    Heya Banjos! That is one of my favorite Rush songs and even if I’ve heard it literally hundreds of times, it still holds up! It came out when I was in high school. I still dig it to this very day. Thanks! And ‘mornin’…

  21. PieInTheSky

    Question: if I get hardened dead skin on my heels from lots of walking, is it unmanly to use one of those electric rotating devices to remove it (I mean the ones dedicate for cosmetics not an angle grinder)

    • db

      A real man chews it off.

      • Festus

        A 4real man gets the cat to do that chore, pussy.

    • Tres Cool

      Oxy-Acetylene is the only manly way to do it.

    • Festus

      A real man wouldn’t ask, he’d just carve it away.

      • rhywun

        Or get his old lady to do it for him.

        (Memories of childhood…)

    • UnCivilServant

      If you keep walking, you’ll wear through it without needing to worry.

      Prepmting the natural process is just going to make your feet weak.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      My wife occasionally bothers me about that. I tell her that having soft feet used to be a professional liability for me, so callused they will stay.

  22. Sensei

    Kim Jong Un Says North Korea Faces Food Crisis Due to Flooding

    SEOUL— Kim Jong Un said his country’s food situation is getting tense, an acknowledgment of the continuing challenges inside North Korea following a year of major flood damage, pandemic shutdowns and ongoing sanctions.

    So does anybody know what the missile launch / inspection playbook is here? Do you become more aggressive so you attract attention and agree to some kind of limits so that you get some of the US taxpayer subsidized food aid? Normally it also causes problems as starving people sneak into China. So that will also be interesting.

    • PieInTheSky

      How was the food situation before the flooding?

      • Sensei

        Well, Kim Jong-un doesn’t seem to be having much trouble finding food.

      • Surly Knott

        He dines on roast peasant under glass.

    • Sean

      “The agricultural sector failed to fulfill its grain production plan,” Mr. Kim was quoted as saying.

      Those damn grain slaves!

      • Sensei

        A few Top. Men will be executed and new ones will replace them.

    • Bobarian LMD

      The playbook was recently updated. You have to check if the US President has one of these == (D).

      If (D), then actually attack South Korean assets; receive US aid.

  23. PieInTheSky

    Double digit inflation? – if you want to go triple digit I am sure Romania can offer advice to our valued ally the US

    • Festus

      I’d go look but it’s gonna be 99 Luftballons, isn’t it?

      • Tres Cool

        /flashes back to Nena’s hairy arm pits
        /shakes fist @ Festus

  24. Certified Public Asshat

    That was fast: Jon Stewart’s rant is a reminder: Don’t rely on celebrities for covid-19 theories

    This theory has become associated with conservatives trying to prove that former president Donald Trump was right about everything. Yet Stewart apparently thinks it’s the only plausible explanation for the source of the virus.

    This provides an important lesson about celebrities: You shouldn’t get your political opinions from them, or your scientific opinions either.

    I know what you’re going to say: “That’s just because this time a liberal celebrity is taking a position you don’t like!”

    But it’s not that. On the lab leak question, I’m agnostic. Might that be where the virus came from? Sure. Or maybe not. But it matters only for the historical record and questions like “What should international virology lab safety standards require?” As a political question, it’s pretty much irrelevant.

    They are done with you Jon.

    • WTF

      As a political question, the relevance is the hysterical denial and censoring of any mention of the possibility in order to protect the leftist narrative and hurt Trump.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      It’s ok to say the virus leaked from a lab. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia

    • Q Continuum

      “That’s just because this time a liberal celebrity is taking a position you don’t like!”

      That is exactly what I’m going to say. I’ll also say that I think you doth protest too much.

      • The Other Kevin

        “But it’s not that.”

        Yes, it is 100% that.

    • leon

      “But it matters only for the historical record and questions like “What should international virology lab safety standards require?” As a political question, it’s pretty much irrelevant”

      “At this point what difference does it make”, isn’t a dodge, it’s an ideology.

    • Spartacus

      People tend to forget that Stewart has never had any respect for journalism. As much as I disagree with him 90% of the time, he was one of the ones who early on pegged modern MSM as the repeaters-of-talking-points that they have become, and he is rightly convinced that their actual research/investigative skills are basically zero.

  25. Q Continuum

    “officers showed up at Stephens’ home to arrest him for allegedly violating a court order by leading an outdoor church service with hundreds of other Christians on June 6[…]’A police helicopter was deployed to search for and detect this gathering, and to collect evidence against Pastor Stephens of non-compliance with public health restrictions'”

    The term “Canuckistan” has never been more appropriate.

    • Festus

      I weep for my Nation.

    • Drake

      In several ways.

      I bet mosques aren’t being shut down by paratroopers.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    I think the Minneapolis movers and shakers are worried. The last few weeks I have seen countless stories in the local paper about new stores opening in downtown and how workers are coming back.

    The local paper might not give a shit about protesters burning shit down, or Ilhan Omar marrying her brother and filing fraudulent tax returns, but they sure do want a vibrant downtown where there offices are located.

    To me it stinks of a PR blitz. Opening a bar where you throw axes doesn’t seem like the kind of economic activity that would be going on in a place where people were clamoring to go.

    The same sort of planted stories also goes on when we talk about solar power. Tons of fluff about all the great jobs building solar farms, but never a peep about how much they are getting subsidized.

    • Tundra

      News that Target Corp. is giving up 1 million square feet of its downtown office space in City Center added a level of fear that business would not ramp up quickly.

      A reasonable fear. Remember when City Center was shithole central? I do.

      • Nephilium

        But once an area has been gentrified, it can never go to a shithole again.

        /looks at the third gentrification of the East Bank of the CLE Flats in my lifetime.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I worked at a Radio Shack in City Center when it was a shithole. Yeah, I remember all to well.

      • Tres Cool

        +1 Tandy Electronics

    • Q Continuum

      I thought insurance companies were refusing policies on businesses in places like Downtown Portland and Minneapolis?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There are generally civil unrest exclusions in inland marine policies.

      • Sensei

        Inland marine – when you need to insure that bridge.

      • Sensei

        Redling is verboten. OTH, you can raise rates within limits and require detailed loss control inspections.

        That said lots of this stuff was non-standard anyhow so relatively easy to non-renew or decline.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Why wouldn’t they want to insure downtown Minneapolis businesses? Did they read too much into the letter that the city sent to businesses before the Chauvin trial telling them that the cops wouldn’t be protecting them from looters and they should hire their own security (properly licensed of course)?

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Progressive agenda

    The White House plans to name progressive tech critic Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, according to a source familiar with the matter. The news came just hours after she was confirmed by the Senate to be a commissioner of the agency on Tuesday.

    ——-

    As chair, Khan will have the ability to steer the direction of the agency to a greater extent than she would as a commissioner. That makes the announcement a significant statement on President Joe Biden’s intended direction for the commission, suggesting he wants to see a progressive agenda.

    ——-

    Khan’s confirmation signals a bipartisan desire to impose more regulations on Big Tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet and Apple. She received the support of several Republicans, including Commerce Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., who participated in her confirmation hearing.

    Still, others like Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, opposed her confirmation. Lee has tended to be cautious about certain types of regulation despite concerns about tech companies’ influence and previously expressed apprehension about Khan’s experience.

    Khan became a well-known figure in antitrust circles after writing “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox” for the Yale Law Review in 2017, while a student at the university. The paper made the case for using a different framework for evaluating competitive harm than the popular consumer welfare standard. That standard essentially says that antitrust law violations can be determined based on harm to consumers, which is often measured based on prices.

    But Khan argued that standard could miss significant competitive harm in the modern economy, such as predatory pricing that lowers consumer prices in the short term but allows a company that can afford it to quickly gain market share. She also argued that both owning and selling on a marketplace, like Amazon does, could allow a business to exploit information across their ecosystem to undercut the competition.

    She can rewrite the rule book to ensure equity and inclusion.

    • Akira

      But Khan argued that standard could miss significant competitive harm in the modern economy, such as predatory pricing

      Is there a documented instance of “predatory pricing” happening and actually succeeding long-term at consolidating market share for one company?

    • ignoreLander

      3 times between the headline, the key points, and the first word of the article call this chick “progressive”. It’s used a half dozen times in this single piece.

      Yeah, this will end well.

    • Hyperion

      “suggesting he Obama wants to see a progressive agenda.” FIFY

      Biden doesn’t even know what day it is.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    Well, well, well. Interesting updates in the story of the guy who rammed into the protest and killed a woman.

    1) He is white. My speculation that he must not have been white or else the riots would be bigger was wrong.
    2) He is a drunk and looks like this wasn’t political.
    3) He has some great excuses
    4) Police are arresting people and removing barricades to prevent a second autonomous zone. I guess the victim (Deona Knajdek) should have had a more pronounceable name if she wanted a square named after her.
    5) The camera that would have captured the accident had been spray painted over by a protester who was there to support noted city light Winston Smith.

    Police haven’t said whether the crash was deliberate, but preliminary investigation indicates that the use of drugs or alcohol may have been a factor.

    Kraus has five convictions for driving while impaired dating back to a 2007 incident, according to online court records. Court records also show his driver’s license was canceled in 2013 because he was found to be “inimical to public safety.”

    Police said protesters pulled Kraus from his vehicle and that witnesses reported demonstrators began striking him. Kraus was arrested and treated for injuries at a hospital.

    A search warrant affidavit obtained by KARE-TV says Kraus admitted several times that he was the driver, without being asked, but when asked specific questions he gave illogical and irrelevant answers. Kraus told police his name was Jesus Christ and Tim Burton, that he had been a carpenter for 2,000 years, and that he wanted to get his children to the Super Bowl, the affidavit says.

    • Tres Cool

      Jesus H. Burton !

      • Not Adahn

        Anyone married to Jenna Elfman would react the same way.

    • waffles

      He just wanted to get his kids to the super bowl.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Court records also show his driver’s license was canceled in 2013 because he was found to be “inimical to public safety.”

    He’s a hazard to navigation.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    In the years since, Khan has become a recognized name among those in the field and a noted figure among progressives eager to see more expansive enforcement of antitrust laws. She participated in the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, helping to compile the report from Democratic staff that found each held monopoly power.

    The report recommended legislative reforms to reinvigorate competition in digital markets, which informed several recent proposals introduced by subcommittee members last week. Khan specifically worked on the Google section of the Democratic report. The company has since been sued on antitrust grounds by the Department of Justice and several states.

    ——-

    “Congress created the FTC to safeguard fair competition and protect consumers, workers, and honest businesses from unfair & deceptive practices,” Khan tweeted following the vote. “I look forward to upholding this mission with vigor and serving the American public.”

    We’re saved.

    • Sensei

      Find Capt. Kirk?

      • Tres Cool

        -1 USS Botany Bay

  31. OBJ FRANKELSON

    It would seem that the aides responsible for positioning Joe’s remains were sleeping on the job.

    • db

      I don’t know, what can you get from a single still photo?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        The body language is… interesting and I am not sure how a man with intact genitals can cross his legs that tight.

      • TARDis

        Maybe he forgot his diaper and is trying not to piss himself.

      • db

        I guess my point is that body language is hard to read when one or more of the people in the photo might be moving from pose to pose (not pose in the sense of “being posed” but in a natural act of motion), and a single frame won’t tell you much.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        That is true, although all of the photos I have seen of that particular event reflect the same dynamic.

      • rhywun

        I am *really* not interested in the state of Joe’s genitals.

      • EvilSheldon

        You’d be amazed at what contortions are possible when you’re desperately trying not to fill your Depends…

      • EvilSheldon

        Snoozed, lost. Ah well…

      • Gustave Lytton

        Crossing legs used to be common before everyone became fat or slobbish.

        https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/L_to_R%2C_British_Prime_Minister_Winston_Churchill%2C_President_Harry_S._Truman%2C_and_Soviet_leader_Josef_Stalin_in_the…_-_NARA_-_198958.jpg/736px-L_to_R%2C_British_Prime_Minister_Winston_Churchill%2C_President_Harry_S._Truman%2C_and_Soviet_leader_Josef_Stalin_in_the…_-_NARA_-_198958.jpg

        The real body language is Putin’s “I don’t give a fuck” slouch.

  32. Festus

    I’m out, Glibbies. Festus’ namesake needs his unguents. Have a great one if you can.

    • Tres Cool

      A Great One ?

      How am I going to have a Jackie Gleason ?

      • Swiss Servator

        To the Moon, Tres! To the Moon!

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Or a Wayne Gretzky?

    • DEG

      Bye Festus!

  33. DEG

    A federal judge in Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Biden administration from pausing new oil and gas leases on federal land.

    Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court in Monroe said the administration doesn’t have the legal right to stop leasing federal territory for oil-and-gas production without approval from Congress.

    Louisiana judges watched Hawaiian judges and felt left out.

    OK, OK, maybe this guy actually has a leg to stand on but I couldn’t help that snark.

    A Baptist pastor in Calgary, Alberta, was arrested a second time Monday after a police helicopter discovered where his church had been secretly gathering since authorities locked their building.

    It’s that old time Christianity coming back.

    “We can now return to life as we know it,” the governor said Tuesday.

    Fuck you Cuomo.

    Project Veritas released insider footage featuring an interview with suspended FOX 26 reporter Ivory Hecker, who blew the whistle on her own network during Monday’s live report, for what she says are acts of deception.

    I watched the video last night. I wasn’t overly impressed with the video. The bit about HCQ stories being spiked was interesting, but overall I wasn’t impressed.

    For Hype: About the bits of the video where the Project Veritas reporter interviews other Fox employees: I don’t know what Fox’s policies are, but at some companies it will not matter what they say. At some corporations I’ve worked for, if you haven’t received permission from the corporate press office to talk to the press, you are in deep shit. It won’t matter what you’ve said. Maybe Fox 26’s policies aren’t as strict as those companies, and so maybe those employees are in the clear.

    Appearing Tuesday on CNBC’s Squawk Box, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass estimated that the United States’ inflation rate is approximately 12 percent.

    Seems kinda low to me.

  34. Not Adahn

    Did my emergency vehicle operations course over the last couple of days.

    *well dressed rat raises hand* “Why is the 5% wedge in that pie chart bigger than the 8% and 13%?”

    Instructor: No idea, I get these slides form the State of New York.

    I did pass the practical this year, so I’ve got that going for me.

    I am a bit concerned with the ERT. Typically it’s been filled with various wrench-turners and tradesmen. But this class was me, a facilities tech and the rest were “EHS professionals,” all of whom were 20-something NY trailer trash. One of the two women was hot in way that not-over-the-hill-yet skanks can be and spent the entire time trying to get the instructor to bang her.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      …emergency vehicle operations course…

      So J-Turns, Pit maneuvers, and shooting through the windshield?

      • Not Adahn

        Alas no. But our biggest fire truck (formerly of the Edina MN FD) Is so much easier to drive than the second largest (a 1983 GMC with the typical wire-thin bakelite steering wheel and an tachometer measured in x100 RPM)

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        x100 RPM

        That sounds… fun.

      • Not Adahn

        I didn’t have to worry about violating the course speed limit.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wait. Isn’t it supposed to be the lawyers chasing the ambulance?

  35. Pope Jimbo

    A new front in the Pizza Wars has opened and of course The Man is meddling in it.

    An Ohio restaurant seems to have found a use for the Brood X cicadas pestering parts of the Midwest. The Pizza Bandit in Dayton tested out a Spicy Thai Cicada Pie.

    Yes, that’s a pizza with cicadas on it.

    Before you get too excited — or repulsed — know that the restaurant is not selling cicada-topped pizzas. In a Facebook post showing off the new creation, the business noted, “We’re not even sure if we legally can sell you locally foraged Cicadas.”

    The restaurant did livestream a tasting panel trying out the pizza, which also featured miso hoisin sriracha sauce, mozzarella, provolone, mushrooms, cabbage, green onion, mango, cilantro and a spicy Thai sauce.

    I was skeptical but then I saw that they were “locally foraged” and am now on board. How dare the guvt not allow them to sell this masterpiece?

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      But are they artisnal locally sourced cicadas?

      • UnCivilServant

        No, they’re mass produced and faddish.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        *Dons trilby and walks off in a huff*

      • db

        I thought they were 17 year aged organic.

      • Tres Cool

        free-range, non-GMO, farm-to-table, cicada

    • Tres Cool

      Your ass….is it currently void of drugs ?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Well not anymore.

      • Pope Jimbo

        *sigh*

        I figured that this wouldn’t be brand new, but I’ve been busy lately and unable to keep up. I’ll do better in the future.

        But what is the official Glibs position? Is it an approved topping?

      • Swiss Servator

        Only if they are pineapple fed cicadas.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        On a Chicago-style pizza.

        *dives for nearest covered and concealed position*

  36. Not Adahn

    Currently taking “Preventing Workplace Harassment” training. You know the memes about how the left can’t meme which meme the meme by putting two thousands of words of text over the image? These slides are like that. Also literally every example presented is harassment, and they specifically called out that in CA, bullying is not illegal.

  37. Suthenboy

    Welp…looked over the links in both the article and the comments. I think we have arrived in USSR land. Biden is calling for people to rat out their own family members and choking off basic resources while the cootie bugs are being used to kill off nearly all private industry. Hell, I can’t even buy a lawn mower. Soon we will be standing in bread lines.

    At what point will the watermelons, with govt backing, demand that all of the farmland be returned to its ‘natural state’? When will land reform destroy private property rights?

    • Tres Cool

      “Soon we will be standing in bread lines.”

      Pretty sure that’s their goal.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        At least they’re equitable.

        /Bernie

      • Rat on a train

        Not for the gluten intolerant.

    • Surly Knott

      Calling for people to rat out family members (in the US) goes back at least to D.A.R.E. It was in the schools, and there was no shortage of newspaper reports lauding kids who busted a parent.

    • Not Adahn

      police cruiser who died at hospital

      That happened a lot in the early days of the AIDS crisis.

      • Tres Cool

        Village People hardest hit ?

        I noticed that in the writing, too.

        Watching the press conference I tuned in just in time to see the local NAACP president weigh-in.
        No doubt because the offending vehicle is mostly white.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        +1 Injun, Construction Worker and Cowboy

  38. Not Adahn

    Been taking Lily to the dog park a few days a week, and it’s got to be one of the best things for my soul that I’ve done for a long time. There is a Weimaraner there that has some kind of space-warping ability since it take five slow motion steps and travels 30 yards, all of the while his back remains straight and level. Then there are the border collies that are just speed personified. Lily is too shambling in the gait to be inspirational when she runs, but when she plays she just radiates pure joy.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Stop, you are giving me a case of the sqeeees.

      • Tres Cool

        “For squees lasting longer than 4 hours see your doctor. Or veterinarian.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      My favorite memories from trips to the dog park with the old mutt were watching the pack of dogs chasing a ball thrown by one owner. The main bunch would be labs that were all bumping and pushing each other while running. On the fringes would be the collies and whippets that had learned to use speed on the outside because they’d get rolled if they mixed it up with the labs.

  39. DEG

    I didn’t know Texas has an official state handgun.

    The Candrsenal Colt Walker episode mentions Texas having an official state handgun. I looked it up.

    Yep:

    Ah yes, another act of political theater has passed through the Texas legislature.

    In lieu of doing something constructive, Gov. Greg Abbott took it upon himself this weekend to name an “official handgun of Texas.”

    In any case, our official handgun is now the 1847 Colt Walker pistol, according to Abbott, who lauded the old gun used during the Mexican-American War.

    • UnCivilServant

      Of course it’s a gun they don’t make anymore.

      • Suthenboy

        You can still get’em. I think several companies still make them. I image all of their customers are re-enactors.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Really?! I would think that they would go with a Single Action Army.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, the Walker Colt was designed with input from a Texas Ranger. So they have a greater jingoistic attachment to that revolver over the SAA.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I suppose that makes some sort of sense.

      • ignoreLander

        Well, the Walker Colt was designed with input from a Texas Ranger.

        Was it Walker, Texas Ranger?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Why didn’t they just choose a flintlock?

    • Not Adahn

      In lieu of doing something constructive, Gov. Greg Abbott took it upon himself this weekend to name an “official handgun of Texas.”

      If only Cuomo would follow his example. And if he runs out of official state noun proclamations, surely there are shopping malls or gas stations he could cut the ribbon at.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      n lieu of doing something constructive

      I don’t mind lawmakers taking up their time with this. The alternative is them making laws and nobody needs that.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or they could repeal some laws too.

        *sticks hands in pockets and kicks at pebbles*

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        That would be the best case. However, as best-case does not seem to be in the cards for this timeline, I will settle for ceremonial nonsense.

    • Suthenboy

      Those things are terrible. They are huge and weigh a ton, slow to load and shoot about as hard as one of those surgical tube slingshots, but ok. Not my state, not my call.

  40. kinnath

    Kim Jong Un Attends Ivy League University To Learn New Brainwashing Techniques

    According to sources, beloved North Korean tyrant and lover of doughnuts Kim Jong Un is now attending Columbia University, a prestigious Ivy League school, to learn new brainwashing techniques for his regime.

    “I thought I knew all there was to know about communist indoctrination, but I was wrong,” said the ruthless dictator to reporters after sitting through a 2-hour lecture on why fidget spinners are a remnant of Western patriarchal oppression. “Your American college professors have this down to an art!”

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      I had to check to see if that was the Bee. Yep, that is where we are. Satire struggles to keep up with reality these days.

    • rhywun

      LOL at the pic.

      I assume this comes from the article I saw yesterday, I think it was the NY Post. They interviewed some chick whose family fled NK. She attended Columbia recently and said the propaganda was worse than Kim’s. Probably hyperbole but still.

    • Hyperion

      He could just watch CNN.

  41. Hyperion

    Come on Kids, Let’s do the Wokey Pokey!

    When a PBS station featured “Lil Miss Hot Mess” reading from the performer’s new book “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish”

    Come on, man, this shit ain’t real. This is a bad dream. *reaches again to try to find the switch to turn the matrix off*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The backlash to this is going to be unpleasant.

      • Hyperion

        But, but… if 3-8 year olds are old enough to decide to change their gender, they’re old enough to vote! /cuts to the chase

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Yep, it is as someone on TOS (can’t remember who) predicted: The activist will not stop with equality before the law, they will demand everyone’s enthusiastic affirmation and socially ostracise those who do not.

        I hear tell of some surveys where support for LGB support has been dropping. It might have been a UK survey. However, I would be surprised if US results were not trending downward as well.

      • Suthenboy

        I never had any problem with them. I never had feelings one way or the other until they starting rubbing our noses in that shit. It is part of the overall effort of the left to demoralize the culture.

        Now I hate them.
        Fuck. Them.

      • Agent Cooper

        Ratings are down.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Elon is just messing with us I think, the simulation needs a reboot. Probably will take forever to come back up, what with all the patches it will need to download.

  42. Suthenboy

    Uncivil, I will post a link to the Uberti site if the damned thing will ever load. Jeebus, they are slow.

    I have several of their Colt SAA reproductions. Honestly, they are better made than the originals. Excellent function, fit and finish.

      • Suthenboy

        And, just for fun, you can browse this. This site actually loads and they have VERY nice guns. Lots of historical interest to be had there.

        https://www.davide-pedersoli.com/en

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Huh. Loaded almost immediately for me. Your leg of the ‘Net might be having “issues” right now.

      • db

        me too. I’ve drooled over their web site many times. I’ve wanted a nickel plated SAA for a long time. Gunborker has none of the Engraved Cattleman from Uberti on offer though, sadly.

      • UnCivilServant

        Loaded just fine for me.

        I think my biggest issue with those designs is the lack of an upper tie bar for the frame above the cylinder. Just the bare top of the cylinder along the sighting bridge makes me instictively wary of the structure.

  43. Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

    Is this one of those shithole countries that Trump was talking about?

    Sadly, it appears to be. What’s even more galling about this is we’re probably around two weeks away from the lifting of all remaining ‘Vid restrictions. Kenny’s government is just flexing its muscles in a “respect muh authoritah!” move at this point.

    Oh, and it’s Calgary (where I used to live until around end-2014). The cops there are uniquely motivated to be authoritarian assholes for some reason, even going so far as to refuse to comply with a judge’s order to release detainees over the slightest technicality. The Edmonton ones have been a lot more relaxed and non-confrontational during the restrictions/lockdowns.

    • Suthenboy

      Ya’ think?
      The whole thing is such a transparent charade that it is embarrassing.

      • TARDis

        The fact the insurrectionists trespassers are still locked up and can’t talk to any news people tells me it’s likely true. What will be the their fate? A few accidental deaths here and there, followed by coerced confessions for the remaining conspirators? If this does not give pause to at least some of the lefties, we’re screwed.

      • Suthenboy

        Deplorables deserve what they get.

      • Agent Cooper

        I don’t own a tin-foil hat, but watching that Ashli Babbit breakdown video on Gab (or wherever it was), I might be in the market for one. It makes absolutely zero sense. Usually, when there’s a gunshot, people scramble or duck or hit the floor, not knowing who’s next. When she was shot, no one moves.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      But of course.

      Why not? The FBI has been encouraging functional retards to bomb buildings for a while now. Why wouldn’t they do this?

      The FBI is irredeemable and should be destroyed (legally of course, for our resident FBI agent, whoever that may be)

      • Rat on a train

        I thought everyone here was a government agent or informant.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    The real body language is Putin’s “I don’t give a fuck” slouch.

    “Why is this nobody talking to me? Why is he even here?”

    • WTF

      He knows it’s just a show for the cameras because he already had the real summit with the people who are really in charge and pulling Biden’s strings.

      • Suthenboy

        ^This^

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Outrage machine spools up

    The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 riots.

    Lawmakers approved the award for the Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. by a vote of 406-21. All the “no” votes came from Republicans.

    The 21 GOP lawmakers include ardent supporters of former President Donald Trump, some who have attempted to downplay the events of January 6 and others who have previously been linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory.

    After the vote, a number of the Republican “no” voters said they took issue with the language used in the bill, which described the rioters as “a mob of insurrectionists.”

    ——-

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she had voted against the bill because it referred to the Capitol as a “temple.”

    “I wouldn’t call it an insurrection,” Greene told Politico.

    Heroes. HEROES, I tell you. They put their lives on the line to defend the Sacred Temple of DEMOCRACY!

    • db

      “In recognition of their steadfast service and bravery in the face of violent opposition, the U.S. Congress hereby bestows the honor of the Congressional Gold Medal upon [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED].”

      • Rat on a train

        Thank you all for your service. Due to the defunding clause in the bill, you are now all fired.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If they were supposed to keep rioters out of the building, then they did a shit job of it.

    • Rat on a train

      Who knows what atrocities Ashley Babbitt would have committed if not for the bravery of an unnamed officer.

      • UnCivilServant

        On the conspiracy circuit, I’ve seen murmors that her shooter might have been a congresscritter (whose name eludes me), along with purported photographic evidence.

        I wasn’t convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, but it was an interesting idea.

      • db

        Wow, that’s the first I’d ever heard of that. Sounds pretty farfetched. That would require some pretty convincing evidence.

      • UnCivilServant

        The evidence was a bit slim. I’ll see if I can stumble onto it again.

      • CPRM

        I thought it was Covid what done it.

      • Rat on a train

        If only she had worn a mask.

    • rhywun

      O
      F
      F
      S

    • Homple

      “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said she had voted against the bill because it referred to the Capitol as a ‘temple’.”

      If the Capitol is a temple, we need Jesus 2.0 to come back with a scourge and drive out the liars, crooks and money changers currently infesting the place.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    A number of lawmakers expressed their outrage at the representatives who had voted against the motion.

    “How you can vote no to this is beyond me,” tweeted Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois who is an outspoken critic of Trump.

    “Then again, denying an insurrection is as well. To the brave Capitol (and DC metro PD) thank you. To the 21: they will continue to defend your right to vote no anyway.”

    Treason!

    • Suthenboy

      That fuckstick needs to resign, go home and get a job stocking groceries…you know, something actually beneficial to society.

    • Homple

      “To the 21: they will continue to defend your right to vote no anyway.”

      As the police have sworn to do and are paid to do.

  47. B.P.

    Biggest problem with the Jon Stewart lab-leak rant? It just wasn’t funny. Making goofy faces at the camera, saying the same thing 15-20 times in hopes of landing the joke… A lot of people seem pre-loaded with laughter when they go to live comedy events, and freely give laughter even if the comedy never takes place.

    Also, Stephen Colbert desperately needs a taint-punch.

    • db

      Making goofy faces at the camera, saying the same thing 15-20 times in hopes of landing the joke…

      I’ll try to do better on the next Zoom…

    • ron73440

      I thought the “outbreak of chocolaty goodness in Hershey Pennsylvania” was funny.

      • Rat on a train

        Because Hershey is to chocolate as …

      • CPRM

        Similes are fucking racist dude!

  48. CPRM

    Is it not Wednesday? Is it not after 11 AM Glib Standard Time? Did Hillary finally take Sugarfree out? Am I Judge Nap?

    • TARDis

      Ask, and ye shall receive.>