!Enlaces mexicanos! ¡Martes por la tarde!

by | Jul 20, 2021 | Daily Links | 274 comments

My wife’s iPad has reached its memory capacity.  So she is offloading songs on her iTunes to the iCloud to free up some space.  Which means she is playing every iSong on her iPlaylist for about 38 seconds.  Did I mention most of my house is tile floor?

Anyhow…

El Presidente and 50 others within his inner circle had personal telephone information compromised in a security breach.  I’m sure its just metadata.

I assume this has more to do with inflating the Dollar than the strength of the Peso.

Mexico decided they will issue permits for pot, which I assume means there probably won’t be any pot tourism.  Fools.

The new Haitian president was installed.

Its not about the embargo.”  The corporate press is getting close, but not quite getting it.

Speaking of communists:  Ex-FARC rebels now giving guided tours of the Columbian jungle. Sounds like a grand ol’ time—NOT.

For the activist investors among us.

Last week Bolsonaro went to the hospital after having hiccups—for 10 days.  He left yesterday after an emergency surgery for an intestinal issue—an injury related to being stabbed in 2018.

Bolsonaro
Here’s a tune stuck in my head now.  Enjoy the (((Reggae guy))).

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274 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “You thought I would be late I presume? ”

    Two minutes late is early.

  2. mexican sharpshooter

    What? No first?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Damnit

      • waffles

        Is firsting your own links even allowed? To some it might be unseemly. But I’m a guest here so hey.

      • Swiss Servator

        I think he was lamenting the lack of comments – but the Noble Tater got one in.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        No. I am am anti-firsting conspiracist.

      • Chafed

        I don’t even get upset with Brochettaward anymore because I keep reading it as fisting.

  3. Scruffy Nerfherder

    LOL. I can just imagine some hipsters signing up for an authentic communist rebel guided jungle tour.

    • Tonio

      Don’t forget old commie symps! The boomer parlor pinks, campus revolutionary wannabees, comfortable Volvo-driving professors of grievance studies.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Hopefully with an authentic ‘kidnapping experience’ as a capper at the end.

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

    • R C Dean

      Its honest work. I gots no problem with it.

  4. Count Potato

    “Mexico decided they will issue permits for pot, which I assume means there probably won’t be any pot tourism”

    I assume it means there will be plenty of corruption.

    Mexico used to, or maybe still does, have ridiculous penalties for possession, where American tourists would get 20 years or something for a joint.

    • Swiss Servator

      Why should Mexico be any different than here? Crony it up, sell influence, whee!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      It did occur to me it might work the way they do auto insurance there. I go to a website, pay the fee and they give me a printable insurance card good for the duration of my trip.

    • KSuellington

      The last time I was caught with it in Mexico we negotiated the fine down to 20 bucks. Handily it was payable to the cops immediately so we didn’t need the hassle with the larger legal bureaucracy. Granted that was mid 90’s so I am sure inflation has increased that somewhat.

  5. Nephilium

    The (((Reggae Guy)))? King Django waves from New York.

    • B.P.

      Reggae/klezmer? Huh.

    • Tonio

      Dude! [coughs]

    • mexican sharpshooter

      What the hell is that?

      • Nephilium

        King Django. He does do more traditional Reggae as well, and for a while was part of Skinnerbox.

  6. Rebel Scum

    Welcome to the United Soviet States of America.

    Prior to being sentenced, Hodgkins addressed the court to express regret for his actions, saying that he traveled to D.C. “with the intention of supporting the president I loved.” He said went there to participate in a march on Pennsylvania Avenue but never anticipated joining in the storming of Capitol.

    “I wish to state that I completely acknowledge and accept that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is rightfully and respectfully the president of the United States,” Hodgkins said. “To put things in short, I allowed myself to put passion before my principles, which resulted in me violating the law for the first time in my life — a thing which I definitely feel shame for, and something that I vow never to let happen again.”

    Hodgkins pleaded with Judge Moss not to sentence him to time in prison, saying he feared it would mean he would lose his job just before he’s set to receive a promotion, and make it difficult for him to find a temporary home for his two cats.

    “If there is still a debt that I owe society then I hope that I may be able to pay that debt in a way that affords me the ability to continue to be an otherwise law-abiding, working class and taxpaying citizen, rather than becoming a drain on society,” Hodgkins said.

    The judge, however, said that Jan. 6 was more than just a simple riot.

    “There were people who were swarming into the halls of the Capitol saying, ‘Where’s Nancy?’ The chambers of Congress were emptied during the most solemn act in a democracy of certifying who the next president is going to be by an angry mob,” Moss said. “That is not an exercise of First Amendment rights by any measure.”

    All hail the king. Praised be his name and long may he reign.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yep, I think we’re done here.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Referring to judges and woodchippers can be problematic…

        cough*preet*cough

    • Tonio

      seen in videos entering the Senate chamber and taking selfies

      Wait, I thought it was “the people’s house?”

      • rhywun

        In time. In time.

    • B.P.

      I would say “never apologize,” but I’m not the one who has been sitting in a federal prison for six months and is about to go back for some more.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Despite my snark below. I don’t blame him one bit for doing so. You pick your battles.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      “I wish to state that I completely acknowledge and accept that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is rightfully and respectfully the president of the United States,” Hodgkins said.

      I also love Big Brother.

      • The Other Kevin

        “I also did not commit suicide in jail.”

      • R C Dean

        I might have left out the “rightfully and respectfully”. Maybe gone with “legally”.

        Or maybe I wouldn’t play games with a vindictive federal judge out to make a public example of me while he’s enjoying himself handing out a grossly disproportionate sentence.

      • prolefeed

        He’d already done 6 months out of the 8 handed down, so 2 months to go. Versus 18 months if he doesn’t grovel, thus 12 months to go.

        You’d be hard pressed to find a lawyer that wouldn’t strongly advise their client to take the first approach, sickening as it might be.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Was he blinking in morse code?

    • Gadfly

      Since Washington was mentioned in the last article, I think it bears comparing the reaction his administration had to an actual insurrection (the Whiskey Rebellion) versus the reaction our present administration had to the Jan 6 riot. Not only did the Washington administration propose no new laws or infringements in response, Washington himself pardoned the only two men convicted in federal court for participating in the insurrection.

      “The misled have abandoned their errors. For though I shall always think it a sacred duty to exercise with firmness and energy the constitutional powers with which I am vested, yet it appears to me no less consistent with the public good than it is with my personal feelings to mingle in the operations of Government every degree of moderation and tenderness which the national justice, dignity, and safety may permit”

      As an aside, the whiskey tax that led to the rebellion was repealed within eight years of the rebellion due to shifting political winds, which I think is a good reminder that things are not set in stone.

      • Suthenboy

        Washington was no Mao. This is a court-set struggle session, plain and simple. I am surprised they did not strip him, put a dunce cap on him and make him run a gauntlet.

      • Rebel Scum

        Washington himself pardoned the only two men convicted in federal court for participating in the insurrection.

        As I understand Hamilton wanted to hang everyone involved.

    • Suthenboy

      That is sickening.

    • grrizzly

      I do not consider Biden a legitimate US president. He is nothing but the senile figurehead of a criminal junta ruling the country. Of course, the presidential election in 2020 was illegitimate.

      • Suthenboy

        This, but I would expand that to include the entire FedGov. When we have high ranking generals lying and undermining the Commander in Chief, bragging about on national TV and walking Scott free we are well over the line between legitimacy and criminality.

    • limey

      “swarming”
      “angry mob”
      “most solemn act of democracy”

      Hmm.

      “Where’s Nancy?”

      That was a good question, if anyone did say that, because I imagine she was watching all this unfold with glee.

      • Tonio

        “most solemn act of democracy”

        Two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner?

      • limey

        If we’re being glib, which we are, then yes, but in this particular instance it is not this particular “most solemn act” to which we necessarily have universal objection, if we accept codifying the transfer of executive power in such a way that is compatible with…

        Eh. I might have another drink before I do any of that fancy typing.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I can’t keep it straight: voting is…protesting is…dissenting is…impeachment is…most solemn act of democracy.

        I am sure I have heard a few others over my years.

      • limey

        Looting, arson, other large-scale vandalism of private and public property, beating people senseless, summary executions, burning down a Federal courthouse with people inside, burning down a police precinct… boy it’s hard to keep up with all the solemn acts these days.

    • juris imprudent

      supporting the president I loved

      This is the fucking pathology that is killing this country the last 12 years. If you need to worship god, get your ass to church and stay the fuck away from politics.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Shh. Questions like that lead to misinformation, and misinformation leads to lists. You know who else made lists?

      • Tonio

        Spouses everywhere before sending their husbands to the grocery store?

      • Suthenboy

        I was just typing….damn.

      • Gadfly

        Spouses everywhere before sending their husbands to the grocery store?

        The way you gendered your sentence had me thinking that lesbians, and only lesbians, must either not need lists or not go to grocery stores.

      • Tonio

        You people…

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Santa Claus?

      • juris imprudent

        Cosmopolitan?

      • Agent Cooper

        A Nazi like Oskar Schindler?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Better question: did they actually get the vaccine or was that just heroin?

      • Drake

        Is that a choice?

        I’d rather have straight covid injected into my arm than either.

    • The Other Kevin

      So it’s the Delta variant. I guess to be safe we should go back to lockdowns until they develop a vaccine for that strain.

      • Rebel Scum

        In a slight breach of decorum the virus may skip to the Triple Dog Delta-plus variant.

      • Suthenboy

        Not all the way to the Sooper extra Triple Dog Delta-plus? Why screw around? Let’s just go nuclear.

      • rhywun

        Now that we know the vaccine isn’t 100% perfect maybe they’ll go back to calling it Trump’s vaccine and refuse to take it.

    • Rebel Scum

      are they sick,

      Probably not. What we are experiencing is a casedemic, and even the numbers for that are bullshit because the test is bullshit and it is not a “case” if you have no symptoms and are not actually diagnosed.

  7. Count Potato

    “Juul paid $51,000 to a scientific journal so that it would devote its entire bi-monthly issue to 11 studies that claimed the brand helped smoker kick their addiction to regular cigarettes.

    The May/June issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior is subtitled ‘Special Issue on Juul.’

    Of the $51,000 that Juul paid AJHB to print the issue, $6,500 was paid to have the edition be accessible to the public for free. The 44-year-old journal is a subscription-based publication which normally charges readers a fee.

    Three editorial board members of the AJHB resigned in protest over the arrangement, according to The New York Times.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9807461/Juul-paid-51k-entire-science-journal-article-said-vaping-helps-smokers-quit.html

    So unethical, but still right?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now do Pfizer.

      • Bobarian LMD

        They publish their own journals.

        And I wonder how much they pay to, say for instance, the NYT?

        The advertising costs of Pfizer totaled approximately 1.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2020

      • limey

        I fell asleep half-paying attention to an old EconTalk with Marcia Angell on such topics last night. Very interesting. So interesting, in fact, I may have to listen to it again and pay full attention.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      That’s surprisingly cheap.

    • Tonio

      I’ll just point out that the public health nannies have been opposed to harm reduction since day one. And they ganked plenty of money from taxpayers for anti-vaping ads.

      • Nephilium

        But… vape juice can contain toxins and trace amounts of heavy metals!

        That’s obviously worse then tobacco smoke, which contains toxins and trace amounts of heavy metals (guessing on this part).

    • Ted S.

      Government-funded studies call for more government, and somehow that’s *never* unethical.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I doubt this is true. Any researcher can approach most peer-reviewed journals with ideas for special issues. There’s nothing inherently shady about a tobacco company doing it. Almost every journal out there allows the authors to pay for Open Access to allow free accessibility of their article for readers. $51,000 sounds dead-on for purchasing Open Access for 11 articles, and I bet the Daily Mail intentionally distorted this. There is no publisher of any journal that would make 11 articles open access for $6,500.

      Many journals will not touch any articles funded by Tobacco. I could see Juul looking at a special issue as their only option to get research published.

    • rhywun

      Or… just ask any Juul user.

      I haven’t smoked a cigarette in almost two years.

      So Big Medicine can either prove that vaping is equally bad as smoking or STFU.

      • juris imprudent

        It isn’t even Big Medicine – it’s Big Nanny disapproving of your filthy nicotine addiction in any form you degenerate.

  8. Fatty Bolger

    Cuba has been run by a Communist government, with a strong grip on society, for over six decades. Though the government has received praise for its ability to offer primary care to its population, it also determines many aspects of people’s lives, including wages, food and internet prices, as well as their freedom of assembly, expression and the ability to choose a president that does not belong to the Communist Party of Cuba.

    “Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.” – John Derbyshire

    Never fails, does it?

    • R C Dean

      Though the government has received praise for its ability to offer primary care to its population

      I remain unconvinced that the Cuban government offers anything that a developed country would consider “primary care” to its population.

      • Gadfly

        But they say they offer it, and it’s the thought that counts. I’m pretty sure that’s how universal healthcare works.

      • juris imprudent

        We don’t care about results, just intentions. /progs

    • Tonio

      That can never be repeated enough.

    • zwak

      I had dinner with a doctor who was Puerto Rican once, and although he was very liberal, he had been to Cuba and seen the health care first hand. He thought it was abominable.

      • The Hyperbole

        a doctor who was Puerto Rican once

        What was he the rest of the time?

  9. Count Potato

    “‘Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 where you claimed the NIH [National Institutes of Health] never funded gain of function research in Wuhan?’ Paul asked of the nation’s top immunologist and Joe Biden’s top COVID advisor.

    ‘Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement,’ Fauci shot back in the heated exchange on Capitol Hill during a Senate Health Committee hearing.

    When Paul asked Fauci if taking an animal virus and increasing its transmissibility to humans is not the definition of ‘gain of function’, Fauci said: ‘That is correct.’

    ‘And Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially – You do not know what you are talking about,’ Fauci lambasted as the two began talking over each other in front of the hearing room.

    ‘You won’t admit the truth,’ Paul rebutted.

    ‘You are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individual (sic). I totally resent that,’ Fauci said.

    ‘And it could have been,’ Paul interjected.

    ‘If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you,’ Fauci said as he grabbed hold of the microphone and pointed at the Kentucky senator.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9806899/If-anyones-lying-Fauci-hits-Paul-saying-lied-gain-function-research.html

    I’m no virologist, but it’s obvious that Fauci is lying.

    • Sean

      SHUT UP AND PUT YOUR MASK BACK ON, PROLE!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      He’s panicking.

      I think it’s morbidly interesting that he’s willing to burn it down in order to save his skin.

      • juris imprudent

        He is KING BUREAUCRAT in public health – when will these peasants recognize what the media has seem in him?

    • Suthenboy

      I am also not a virologist but I did spend a lot of time sitting in micro classes and labs. Fauci is lying and nothing he has said so far makes any sense.

    • Gadfly

      Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress

      Great way to double down. Not that I think he’s going to be held to account, but if he was he just added another crime to his list. And unnecessarily, I might add. I’m pretty sure the Congressional testimony is conducted under oath (which would be why it’s a crime to lie), which means all assertions of honesty after the oath are unnecessary and merely another opportunity to impugn yourself.

  10. Tres Cool

    If that wasnt Matisyahu I was going to link this anyhow.

    • slumbrew

      That’s a jam.

      I really like the live at Stubb’s version.

      • Agent Cooper

        This is the correct version.

  11. Dr. Fronkensteen

    “The Bank of Mexico, or Banxico, targets an inflation rate of 3% with a tolerance threshold of one percentage point above and below that level.”

    Inflation, Keynes (poor) answer to a demurrage currency, a hidden tax, and a way to cut wages (supposedly to increase employment) What’s not to love?

  12. Rebel Scum

    Rand Paul gets WRECKED by FACTS and SCIENCE.

    WATCH: Complete exchange between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Senator @RandPaul. Dr. Fauci: “Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about.”

    …or a complete non-argument…

    But it was forceful and therefor convincing. All hail the Saint Dr. Fauci.

    • Sean

      *lights a candle in his honor*

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Got some good thunder going on outside. I hope it signifies rain.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Armageddon.

  14. Shpip

    …of the $715 billion in global impact-focused assets, LatAm represents only around 0.5% of that total.

    Governments’ strategies and policies play a considerable role.

    Ya think?!

    Capital goes where it’s appreciated.

  15. Count Potato

    “Deaf-blind Paralympic swimmer Becca Meyers, 26, quits after being told she couldn’t bring her care assistant mom to Tokyo because of COVID restrictions

    Multiple Team USA members have already been forced to withdraw from the Games after testing positive for COVID-19, despite being fully vaccinated. There are now fears the event may be canceled altogether.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9806493/Deaf-blind-Paralympic-swimmer-Becca-Meyers-quits-bring-mom-Tokyo-carer.html

    Sad!

    • Sean

      There are now fears the event may be canceled altogether.”

      Too bad, so sad.

      *points & laughs*

    • rhywun

      Japan should just cut their losses now and stop the shit-show before it goes on any longer.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      All those candy-ass bitches that quit the Tour dee France so they could be fresh for the Olympics. Nobody gives a flying fuck about Olympic cycling.*

      *Some sass-mouth Glib: “nobody gives a flying fuck about the TdF, either!”

      • juris imprudent

        Slovenia cares (about the TdF).

    • Tulip

      You have people with serious disabilities – aka blind, deaf – coming to an event specifically for them, in a foreign locale, and you don’t make arrangements for their support people?! the response is, oh they’ll just have to make do with someone they probably don’t know well. Fuck that, good for her!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Wait, I thought it was “the people’s house?”

    That doesn’t mean YOU PEOPLE.

    • prolefeed

      It’s the house of the people who got elected, peon.

    • juris imprudent

      The house of the people’s republic.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      1.5M members for 10B? That’s kind of a bargain.

      What exactly would they be doing? Hopefully offing themselves to cut down on CO2 emissions.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        The 10B is a down payment. Think of it like a balloon mortgage.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Flavor-Aid must have gone up in price?

      • The Other Kevin

        Yep, they just put on a uniform and march off a cliff.

      • Tulip

        Wrong. They’ll march you off a cliff.

      • juris imprudent

        How about just matching Nike sneakers?

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Do we get snappy uniforms? Something designed by Hugo Boss maybe?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Probably something more appropriate for a drum circle instead.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I meant, she went 3/4th the way, just call it the Civilian Climate Corp Program so everyone knows their true goal.

    • Rebel Scum

      pushes for a Civilian Climate Corps

      Make sure they have sharp outfits.

    • rhywun

      She has to just be trolling us at this point.

  17. Count Potato

    “EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden was arranging for VP Joe to quit politics and start a DC ‘swamp’ consultancy firm together, raising MORE questions over President’s claim that he has never discussed business with his son”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9780397/Hunter-Biden-planning-Joe-quit-politics-join-DC-swamp-lobbying-firm.html

    “Who’s gone rogue at WaPo?! Left-wing Washington Post FINALLY addresses Hunter Biden’s ethical scandals in scathing Op-Ed – but is immediately slammed for ‘too little too late'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9806897/Washington-Post-op-ed-mocking-Hunter-Bidens-art-ethical-scandals-backfires.html

    Imagine if Hunter was one of Trump’s kids.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      “Imagine if Hunter was one of Trump’s kids.” That’s just Whataboutism. /derp

    • Rebel Scum

      Imagine if Hunter was one of Trump’s kids.

      Something something leftists something something double-standards…

      But to be fair, Don Jr. does often seem like he is on something. Dude is way too hyped up.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Adderall and Paxil would be my guess. Either that or he has mania.

      • Ted S.

        Good things don’t end in -eum; they end in -teria or -mania!

  18. Rebel Scum

    Censoring a sitting representative is totally fine.

    Twitter suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday for violating its policy against posting “misleading information” related to the coronavirus pandemic.

    A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Post that Greene’s personal account would be in “read-only mode” for 12 hours. According to the social media giant’s COVID-19 vaccine misinformation policy unveiled in March, 12-hour suspensions are doled out for second and third violations. A fourth violation results in a week’s suspension, while a fifth strike would lead to a ban.

    I can’t find where she said anything egregiously incorrect, not that it should really matter. We should be free to debate things.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Thou shalt not thwart Big Pharma.

      • Gustave Lytton

        This message approved by Biogen.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      The only one that might be wrong is the one about 6000 deaths, but that’s not a reason to suspend her. Vaccines are basically the Trolley Problem. You know some people are going to have side effects and in a large enough group it will be easy to find some. The vaccine pushers would be better off just acknowledging that.

    • R C Dean

      What boggles my mind is that they are overtly exceeding their Section 230 immunity, which only covers them if they block “offensive” posts, not “misleading information”. Their loss of immunity should be a laydown win for a defamation plaintiff. If he can get in front of an honest judge.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Somebody believes in unicorns.

      • limey

        They know* there will never be anyone who will hold them accountable in any kind of position to do so ever again.

        *sheer hubris, we hope

      • prolefeed

        They find posts with “misleading information” to be offensive.

        Honest judge, with rare exceptions, is an oxymoron.

      • R C Dean

        Let’s just jump to the end already:

        “I’m offended by people who disagree with me! Ban them!”

        That’s where we are anyway. Might as well make it official

      • blackjack

        Pretty sure 230 lets them ban anything else they deem offensive. It has a vague and general clause at the end that gets used as a catchall for whatever they want. Then the government tells them what else they should want to censor, but it’s a private corp doing it, so it’s totes legit.

      • R C Dean

        Exactly. They can ban “offensive” content. But they can’t ban “misleading” content. But they are out and proud that is what they are doing, and it exceeds even the broadest reading of 230. “Misleading” is far broader than “offensive”, but that’s the term they use in their own policy.

      • blackjack

        “Any content they deem otherwise offensive” covers…anything. Misleading or otherwise. I believe they are hiding behind the idea that the info they are banning could lead to violence or be dangerous to “public health.” At least, that’s what they’ll say. Somehow, it only benefits one party. Always.

      • The Hyperbole

        “But they can’t ban “misleading” content”

        Why not?

      • blackjack

        Because in a free society, the government and it’s agents are not allowed to be the arbiters of what is or is not misleading. In this case, you are right, because they can just claim that they find it offensive. Which is why 230 is such a shitty rule.

      • The Hyperbole

        AFAIK 230 protects TPTB here at Glibs from any of the stupid shit that Westernsloper posts in the comments, it says nothing about whether they can/should or must* ban him. I’m not seeing the shittiness there.

        *In slopers case I’m fine with can and should, but must is a bridge too far.

      • westernsloper

        ?

        Wait, are we talking misleading or stupid?

        Didn’t Psaki admit recently that the White House is directing Facebook on who are the most egregious offenders? Private company my stupid ass.

  19. Suthenboy

    “The corporate press is getting close, but not quite getting it.”

    That is their job, isn’t it?

  20. Shpip

    Went to a Carib-Indian joint for dinner last night. Had the lobster.

    Me: This drawn butter is really good!
    Waiter: Actually, it’s ghee.
    Me: Ah… thanks for clarifying.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      He spat in your drink. I guarantee it.

      • Sensei

        Should’ve have greased him.

    • The Other Kevin

      Since we’re doing dad jokes…
      My neighbor knocked on my door at 3am last night. Can you believe it? Luckily I was still up playing the drums.

      • limey

        That has a Mitch Hedberg flavor to it. Nice.

      • Tres Cool

        These boots I have on I bought from a drug-dealer. I dont know what they’re laced with, but Ive been tripping all day.

      • Jerms

        I went to the doctor yesterday. He told me “You really need to stop masturbating.” I say “Why doc?”
        He says “Because im trying to examine you.”

    • limey

      ?

    • R C Dean

      thanks for clarifying

      Bravo. That was quick thinking.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Judge is assho.

    A federal judge has blocked a challenge to Indiana University’s requirement that students get vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to campus this fall. Indiana University is one of hundreds of colleges mandating COVID-19 vaccinations this year.

    According to university policy, students and staff must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they qualify for a medical, religious or ethical exemption, or unless a student is attending a fully online program. Students who qualify for an exemption will need to take extra-precautionary measures on campus by wearing masks, taking additional coronavirus tests and either heading home or quarantining in the case of an outbreak.

    Students who refuse the vaccine and don’t qualify for an exemption can have their classes canceled and access to online university systems revoked.

    I guess “my body, my choice” only applies to one thing.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      It doesn’t matter. I have a feeling classes are going to be online again this year, at least in California.

      • Ted S.

        That decision will be made only after the recall results.

    • R C Dean

      See, this is what they should be suing on:

      Students who qualify for an exemption will need to take extra-precautionary measures on campus by wearing masks, taking additional coronavirus tests and either heading home or quarantining in the case of an outbreak.

      You are very lmited in what you can do to someone claiming one of those exemptions, which come from the ADA and the civil rights laws. You can’t impose an undue burden on people because of their medical conditions or religious beliefs. Masks will probably pass muster (they have been required for people who are exempt from “mandatory” flu shots) but the rest? If you can find an honest judge, those should be good claims.

      • R C Dean

        or unless a student is attending a fully online program

        There’s an invitation to score some points about the ugly history of “separate but equal” education.

      • rhywun

        The civil rights laws should make this a slam dunk. Just point out that proportionally fewer blacks are stabbed-up than whites. Doesn’t matter why.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The governor should fire the president of the university system and put someone place that disagrees with this policy. Work down to the night janitors if necessary. Do you know who else forced others to take experimental treatments against their will?

      • blackjack

        Bill Cosby?

    • Raven Nation

      Interesting: our campus will have extra requirements (e.g. masking) for the non-vaccinated. But we’ve been told very clearly that (1) there will be no requirement to get vaccinated and (2) under no circumstances can we enquire about someone’s vaccination status.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        For now. If this ruling stands, I imagine that it will change.

      • blackjack

        That’s allegedly the rule where I work, but there’s a few things that can happen where you have to inform them. I just travelled to FLA and had to inform them that I was quarantined for 10 days, only required for the unvaccinated. Now, I’m on one more list.

  22. Count Potato

    “Black women are demanding OUR right to vote! We’re marching to the Senate to send a strong message. Raised fist #OurPowerOurMessage”

    https://twitter.com/RepBeatty/status/1415756898167623682

    Because black women aren’t allowed to vote?

    • R C Dean

      Raised fist

      I do appreciate them signalling their allegiance to the hard left.

    • Tonio

      Capitol Insurrection!!1!eleventy

    • rhywun

      *rubs eyes*

      What century is this?

    • Gadfly

      The first response is someone asking “This is you, yes??? I’m very confused.” above a screenshot of an old tweet that self-same Congresswoman posted with a picture of her voting. Sometimes Twitter is awesome.

  23. prolefeed

    Q, from the morning links:

    “This is a guy who’s a literal Prince and could have any woman on Earth. Why in G-d’s name he chose that harridan is beyond me. She must and absolute animal in the sack.”

    Devil’s Advocate:

    She’s drop dead gorgeous. Some men find dark features like hers attractive. He’s from an inbred line of royals, and a woman with a genome pretty much guaranteed to counteract that inbreeding might be really attractive on a primal level, as in, she smells good to him. He’s one of the most privileged men on earth, and men who have spent their lives surrounded by submissive underlings often have an emotional need to submit to a powerful woman, as any dominatrix could tell you.

    And he might actually be deeply in love with her, and find the things you consider faults to be endearing.

    • limey

      Perhaps if she had bigger norks…

    • slumbrew

      She’s physically attractive. I’d even say extremely so.

      But that personality…

      • DrOtto

        Exactly, I used to find Angelina Jolie attractive, then started listening to her. Crazy is a big turn off.

    • Gadfly

      And he might actually be deeply in love with her, and find the things you consider faults to be endearing.

      This. Sometimes the heart wants what it wants, even when the head tells you that objectively the heart is being a stupid ass.

      • creech

        Yes; consider the Duke of Windsor and Wallis. Or Charles and Camilla.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If by nice, you mean deranged. Sure.

    • Necron 99

      For the uh… prenatal care, yeah that’s it, prenatal care. They have mammogram machines there and everything.

    • Fatty Bolger

      “It’s always cancer.” – WebMD

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or pregnant. I think I have arrived at that conclusion a few times somehow.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Congratulations! It’s a 5 lb. bouncing baby tumor!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Pfizer…

      Where have I heard that name before? Sounds familiar…

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Oh for fuck’s sake.

      I’ve been on the Chantix a couple times. Was considering asking my doc for another round of it.

      Great. Super.

      • Ghostpatzer

        I quit the cancer sticks with Chantix in the early aughts, was back puffing in about 3 years. Then took up the pipe. I am in agreement with Zappa on this one.

        Reporter, to Frank: “What’s your favorite vegetable?”
        Frank: “Tobacco”

      • blackjack

        Just ask any vegetable, why is it something to hide?

  24. Sensei

    One of the things I miss about going to my office is being unable to go to my ramen joint. Real restaurant quality ramen is a day long process to make the broth plus lots of prep for the other ingredients.

    This looks like a good compromise between instant and something you can make without spending all day in the kitchen. This may be my weekend project.

    3 Dollar Ramen But Cheaper

    • Ownbestenemy

      I found that making a mushroom stock adds an earthy aroma. So I usually do half chicken/mushroom stock.

      • Sensei

        I’ll keep that in mind for “round 2”.

    • Tulip

      I may need to make that.

    • The Hyperbole

      That looks good but Jesus Christ is that dude annoying, if you haven’t watched it yet and are tempted to my advice is to do so with the sound off, even then some of the video effects are going to be cringe-worthy but it’ll be better than listening to that hipster douchebag.

      • Sensei

        Yes. If I had no interest in the recipe I would have stopped after 30 seconds.

      • rhywun

        Yikes. I barely made it 10.

    • westernsloper

      I would have thought butter in Ramen was sacrilege. I was on a bone broth and sliced pork ramen kick some weeks ago. I have moved on to sliced pork laden Caesar salad. Too hot for soup here for the foreseeable future.

  25. Michael Bluth

    I made of series of mistakes today: 1- I went on Twitter; 2- I clicked on “JK Rowling” on trending topics; and 3- I watched this video about the awfulness of fatphobia in the Harry Potter universe.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AziZgoi3q0

    I like Harry Potter and its been mostly fun to have my girls (11 and 8) read and enjoy them as well. And given the amount of butt hurt that happens over JK Rowling and Harry Potter, I might just like them more, but when did everything in society have to be so “problematic.” It’s all so tiresome.

    • Ownbestenemy

      When people realized they can monetize those “problematic issues” on near global scale thanks to the intertoobs?

      • rhywun

        And the internet greatly distorts the “voices” of the most awful people. I suppose we should have seen it coming.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    “AOC calls for a ‘wartime mobilization’ to defeat climate change and pushes for a Civilian Climate Corps with 1.5million members that could cost taxpayers $10billion”

    If we gave each of them $20,000 to whoop it up in Vegas (or wherever) for a weekend and then snuff it, it might be worth a try.

    • limey

      If she keeps her seat next go around (noone is going to primary her and her district won’t elect a Republican) I’d not be surprised if she started showing up for work wearing fatigues. It might be kinda hot, in a very wrong sort of way.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They would have to be the dungaree olive-drab type, no camo pattern and she needs aviators and her hair….okay I am going into some weird fantasy here.

      • limey

        inorite?

        *starts thinking intensely about baseball*

      • blackjack

        Pokey’s. She better have pokey’s.

    • R C Dean

      If you’re serious about a wartime mobilization to fight climate change, you get the biggest bang for your buck shutting down coal plants.

      So I guess bombing China it is, then!

      China has been the world’s largest carbon emitter for 20 years. It’s been responsible for 28% of the world’s carbon emissions for the past decade. That number hasn’t budged, despite rapid growth of China’s renewable energy and clean tech industries.

      One of the central reasons is coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. Coal accounted for 58% of China’s total primary energy consumption as recently as 2019 – even as coal use was collapsing elsewhere. China currently operates 1,058 coal plants, roughly half of all coal plants worldwide. To meet even its modest climate goals, it will have to shut down more than half of them, according to a recent analysis by TransitionZero, a U.S.-based thinktank.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    I’d not be surprised if she started showing up for work wearing fatigues.

    With her underwear on the outside?

    • limey

      Maybe, and velcro for her combat boots, because laces.

      • Tulip

        Hiss

  28. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    All kinds of surveyors out in the complex today, and just got a formal notice of the condo closing next year!!!

    https://pasteboard.co/Kc6jFB7.gif

    • Tundra

      Congrats! As a currently homeless dude, I salute you!

    • Ted S.

      They’re shutting down your building and you’re going to have to move?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Yep! Finally!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Is the big RV plan a reality yet?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Going to take a look at one on the 31st

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        As Airforceprod95 would say “ro-taht-ay”

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Fucking hell. Airforceproud95

        I suppose prod works

      • Gustave Lytton

        “The triple 7 is my favorite plane. Ever! Honestly I’ve never been on one in real life.”

        ?‍♂️

        Still enjoy it.

  29. wdalasio

    Big question, are they sick, or did the test just find the virus up their nose?

    Or did they not bother getting the actual vaccine. Sorry, the data I’m seeing (granted, mostly from government sources) seems to suggest that WuFlu II – Electric Boogaloo is mostly prevented by vaccines. Somehow, it seems this one feature of the virus is somehow negated in the less than one percent of our population who just happen to be in the high political class.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    I can’t find where she said anything egregiously incorrect, not that it should really matter. We should be free to debate things.

    Marjorie Taylor Greene is a blasphemer and a heretic. She cannot be permitted to spread her vile filth.

    • juris imprudent

      I’ll bring some marshmallows when they burn her at the stake. Until then, oh noes, social media continues to be a human sewage system, what shall we ever do.

  31. Count Potato

    “Pentagon contractor investigating ‘extremism’ says BLM web search raises concerns about White supremacy

    The Pentagon is reportedly working with an extremism analysis company that considers the web search “the truth about Black Lives Matter” and others to be signs of interest in or engagement with White supremacism.

    According to Defense One, the contractor Moonshot CVE, which has ties to the Obama Foundation, is working on data that would identify which military bases and branches have the most troops searching for domestic extremist content. While that particular project’s contours are unclear, the company previously released a June report, in conjunction with the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League, on purported “White supremacy trends in the United States.”

    In it, the U.K.-based company said it “monitored a list of almost 1,600 indicators of interest in or engagement with White supremacism, focused specifically on anti-Black and anti-Semitic narratives being used by extremist groups.”

    As examples, it listed the search phrases “George Floyd deserved to die,” “Jews will not replace us” and “the truth about black lives matter.”

    For “the truth about black lives matter,” the group said: “This search suggests that the BLM movement has nefarious motives, and is a disinformation narrative perpetuated by White supremacist groups to weaponize anti-BLM sentiment.”

    It adds: “While the search phrase appears innocuous, several books include it in their title and allege that the BLM movement is ‘joined with Antifa burning and looting.’ These sources echo White supremacist disinformation narratives alleging that BLM protesters are trying to ‘overthrow the republic’ and ‘harm American citizens in a Marxist coup,’ as a means of delegitimizing it. Multiple videos on YouTube also promote these narratives – in particular the criminalization of BLM – using the identical phrase.””

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/pentagon-moonshot-black-lives-matter

    disinformation?

    • rhywun

      So… the Pentagon is actively supporting open Marxists.

      It feels like we’ve lost the plot somewhere.

      • juris imprudent

        The call, it’s coming from INSIDE the house!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Obama Foundation

      Now there’s a guy I wouldn’t seeing that he had a massive coronary and/or stroke.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      To be fair, if you are looking this stuff up on a government computer or on a government installation, you deserve what you get for being dumb.

    • Gadfly

      This search suggests that the BLM movement has nefarious motives

      The organization BLM, which was one of the earliest promoters of the BLM movement, has admitted to nefarious motives, so it is not at all unreasonable to be suspicious of the movement it is related to.

      • rhywun

        ?

    • R C Dean

      While the search phrase appears innocuous

      Indeed it does.

      several books include it in their title and allege that the BLM movement is ‘joined with Antifa burning and looting. These sources echo White supremacist disinformation narratives alleging that BLM protesters are trying to ‘overthrow the republic’ and ‘harm American citizens in a Marxist coup,’ as a means of delegitimizing it.

      The validity of these claims is apparently of no interest. Even though BLM is quite overtly Marxist.

      The idea that somebody could have heard good and bad about BLM and be genuinely interested in finding the truth, is not considered at all. Or perhaps it was considered, and the conclusion is that they want to purge everyone who doesn’t reflexively tow the party lion.

      The rot runs very deep. There will be no easy excision of it. Institutions either need to be completely closed down, or need to be thoroughly purged.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        White supremacist disinformation narratives alleging that BLM protesters are trying to ‘overthrow the republic’ and ‘harm American citizens in a Marxist coup

        They’re doing the same thing with QAnon. Point out BLM is a Marxist front or Antifa is destroying cities and you’re smeared as a white supremacist/racist. Point out the election night fortification, Hunter’s laptop, or Hilary’s bodycount and your smeared as a QAnon believer.

        I’m guessing almost all of us would be considered racist QAnoners.

      • blackjack

        To this moment, I am not clear on exactly what Qanon is, and I have tried to find this out. Imagine the mostly ignorant. Qanon is said to be highly organized and extremely dangerous. Antifa, OTH, is just an idea and no threat to anyone. Who doesn’t like the opposite of facism? Those protesters are mostly peaceful, not like the Q people with there insurrection and everything. It’s all so vague that they must just be hoping that nobody cares enough to try and figure any of it out. They just want to leave a mild stain and hope it sways the ignorant.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        QAnon is most likely disinformation from one or more of the intelligence agencies.

      • blackjack

        I gotta assume. If it were real, there’d be something, somewhere laying out just what it is. I’ve had people opine, but nothing real or tangible.

  32. Animal

    Well, this is great. The city is in the process of approving a four-story apartment building with an attached four-story parking garage, a block away from the house we’re selling. If that gets out to the general public, that’s going to fuck our sale price right in the keister.

    Fuck you, Aurora.

    • grrizzly

      A few years ago we sued the city, the zoning board of appeal and the developer who was preparing to build a very tall building right in front of our condo. That paused the construction for a year. We won the case, received a settlement, bought a new place elsewhere and then sold the condo right before the enormous size of the new building under construction became obvious to potential buyers.

      • westernsloper

        Was the zoning for the height of the building approved to be ok under existing zoning rules or did they change it to make one developer happy?

      • grrizzly

        The new building was in a clear breach of existing zoning rules. It required an exception.

  33. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Weather Channel: “after the break – Jeff Bezos’s historic flight”

    *shows video of Branson’s historic flight*

    Never change, Weather Channel

    • Ghostpatzer

      They all look alike. It’s white privilege all the way down.

  34. R C Dean

    In case you were wondering whether Dems and TMITE are on the same team:

    “Actually, there’s no recording,” one staffer responded. “We have a sign right there.”

    A person identified in the video as the congresswoman’s communications director then informed the tracker that the local press were recording the event.

    So, there’s no recording unless you are TMITE. Can’t have unedited videos of a Congresshole addressing the public out there. TMITE can be relied on to make sure any Dem gaffes are swept under the rug.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    I have spent the major part of the day working on a trailer plug for the Suburban, so I can tow the Airstream. Guess what- the Airstream is not wired in the “conventional” pattern. It’s idiosyncratic. I vaguely remember dealing with this previously. Fortunately, I’m the kind of guy who tests stuff before just slamming it all together. The best part would have been the trailer stabbing its brakes every time I hit the left turn signal.

    It worked when I plugged it into the truck, so I copied that. For now. Good times.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Race you! Class C vs. trailer; Ford vs. Chevy.

    • The Hyperbole

      So, you’re saying Mike Lindell isn’t any smarter than the Democrats?

      • Ted S.

        To be fair, Lindell is a showman, not an intellectual.

  36. Rebel Scum

    Meow.

    From now on, all Facebook posts will end with:

    “I’m Joe Biden, and I approve this message.”

    • Rebel Scum

      Internalized white-supremacy.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      OFFS

    • blackjack

      “Who can and cannot dine together from now on?”

      Two wolves and one sheep as long as the majority of them agree on what’s for dinner.

  37. Tulip

    I managed to kill my zucchini plant. So when a coworker asked who wants squash, I said “me!”. So much squash. Zucchini, patty pan, Crookneck, summer. I’ll be freezing it tomorrow night. Tonight I’m having zoodles with shrimp and pesto.

    • Ted S.

      Some people will be pleased you can’t foist any zucchini off on them.

      • Tulip

        Losers, who don’t appreciate my largesse, that’s who.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        The green bean pickles were good, though

      • Tulip

        Tomorrow I’ll make patty pan with pork sausage, then scallops with grilled squash. Yum.

    • rhywun

      “ethics”

      Ponder that one.

    • Breet Pharara

      They can jab me over my dead body…which I’m pretty sure defeats the whole point of the vaccine anyway.

    • blackjack

      I offered to snort a line of pure ‘vid in the very beginning, but I ain’t mainlining no secret assed, experimental bullshit to save me from something that won’t even harm me if I get it. Nope.

  38. westernsloper

    Loved the music link MS and Shirley someone in the comments made a comment positing where Israel got the NSAO software to sell to Mexico?

  39. leon

    I want to thank everyone for the nice comments on the book review this afternoon. Sorry i wasn’t able to jump on and comment with ya.

  40. Tundra

    Impulse bought a used .357 6″ revolver. Price and condition were excellent. After shooting it, I decided I need more revolvers.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I own a revolver, but never shot it. It’s way too much gun for me to handle.

      • Tundra

        This thing is so heavy, it’s easier to shoot than my carry gun.

      • blackjack

        What flavor? S&W?

      • Tundra

        Taurus 66.

      • blackjack

        Cool. I need another .357. I only have big stuff now.

      • Tundra

        Lol. I was just texting with my brother that I need a .44 now.

      • blackjack

        Yes, you do. Really. They are super fun.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        If you are ever in the market for a .410/.45…

      • blackjack

        We can’t have them here, behind the Patchouli curtain.

    • blackjack

      Everybody needs more revolvers. Especially me.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Sticks, Not Carrots: Vaccines Must Be Forced, Says Indiana University Health Chief

    It’s a good thing we tossed that Bad Orange Authoritarian overboard, so we can live like a free people.