Sunday Morning Asking Again Why I’m Here Links

by | Sep 5, 2021 | Daily Links | 219 comments

The new chez SP and OMWC is, as we’ve mentioned, in a college town. Actually, two colleges and a liberal arts university. It’s the last which provides 80% of our entertainment, per Pareto. This weekend’s entertainment was a sudden visit from a University committee, who were taking a group of “ethnically diverse” students from business to business to determine which businesses were “safe” for the students, a racism audit, if you will. They had heard dark rumors that the previous management was racist, apparently stemming from some recurring incidents of dine-and-dash at the restaurant across the street, and wanted to see if we were woke enough to allow students to come. “Our diverse students need to feel that this is a safe space.” We hid WebDom away since she’s so white, she glows, then put our trans, flamboyantly gay, and swarthier employees in the front. The old Jew, of course, was banished from the building. We will find out the Politburo’s judgement sometime this week.

In the meantime, let’s mention some birthdays, like the guy who invented the cow; another prolific author whose books badly needed editing; an old school redistributionist; a guy who might be the most responsible for how shitty TV is; a guy who was last in his class until he met Adolph Zukor; a great fraud and apologist for evil; a guy whose death was commemorated with 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence; a guy who woke up to Suzanne Pleshette; a slightly more refined version of L. Ron Hubbard; a guy who is most generously thought of as a child abuser; a woman who… I’ll be in my bunk; a guy who impregnated several of my teenage fantasies; a guy whose last words were, reputedly, “Mama mia, let me go!“; a guy who is often interesting and rarely correct; and a chick famous for being nuts.

We now leave our safe space to see what horrible shit has happened.

 

The Original Ronald McDonald has had his last fry.

 

You mean other than figuring out where $3,500,000,000,000 is going to come from?

 

OK, no problem, I will forego sex with Bette Midler. And Lena Dunham as a bonus.

 

Australia getting crazy-stupid? New Zealand says, “Hold my beer!

 

Damn, I always love reading stuff from honest scientists. There are so few left, alas.

 

So stunning. Much brave. Many props for photo-ops.

 

Old Guy Music has continuity from yesterday.

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Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

219 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Actually, two colleges and a liberal arts university. ”

    So the students are a bit old for you?

  2. trshmnstr the terrible

    OK, no problem, I will forego sex with Bette Midler. And Lena Dunham as a bonus.

    Being married to a conservative woman has its perks sometimes.

    *buffs nails*

    • Old Man With Candy

      Dude, I married a libertarian.

    • Q Continuum

      I’ll take politically apathetic with a fantastic rack.

  3. Sean

    WELLINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – New Zealand supermarket group Countdown said on Saturday it has removed knives and scissors from its shelves, a day after a man the authorities called an Islamist extremist stabbed six people in one of the company’s stores.

    🙄

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Perfectly befitting of a nation of emasculated sheepbangers. They’re worse than the Scots.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I wonder how much having generations of their non-emasculated men wiped out during WWI and WWII have contributed to the absurdities we’re seeing in the UK and Australia/NZ today.

      • TARDis

        I was thinking exactly he same thing. Moreover, who stayed home and diddled the hard working Rosies? I would also add, the American coddling/suppression of countries like England, Germany, Italy, and Japan contributed to the emasculation of their menfolk.

      • EvilSheldon

        It sounds like we should investigate the correlation between shagging sheep and the wimpy progressive slave mindset.

        Maybe I should apply for a grant.

      • Sean

        You need to work in “and how cocaine affects their behavior.”

        If you’re gonna have a sweet grant, you’re gonna need some easy access to coke.

      • DEG

        I like the way Sean thinks.

    • Ted S.

      a man the authorities called an Islamist extremist

      Note the circumlocution. We don’t get it with groups the left/media want to demonize.

    • Gender Traitor

      Common sense cooking and sewing control.

      • ElspethFlashman

        And knitting, yard work, etc. etc. I mean I can easily use the bypass loppers to do a number of crimes.

      • Gender Traitor

        YOU CAN PRY MY KNITTING NEEDLES FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!!101110111

        But here’s my weed whacker. No – really! You can have it! That little piece of spinning plastic line is much too deadly to be in the hands of civilians.

      • ElspethFlashman

        Last time I used one the line came loose and smacked me in the head /face. It hurt a ton but left no scar !

      • Gender Traitor

        Owwwww! ? See what I mean??? It’s a public safety issue! You have no constitutional right to trim or edge!

    • rhywun

      Ardern said the attacker had been under surveillance since 2016 because of his support for a violent ideology inspired by the Islamic State.

      They said the dude knew he was being watched. Imagine plotting jihad 24/7 for five or six years straight with that over your head.

      • Surly Knott

        And just look at how effective that surveillance was! She must be so proud.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Still impressed the dude managed to stab 6 folks in <60 seconds while being physically tailed.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Next up: rocks, paper.

  4. Tres Cool

    “Bette Midler calls on women to refuse sex to protest Texas abortion law.”

    Preparing for her next role as Lysistrata I suppose.

    • Tres Cool

      Addendum: I wonder if Bette realizes that her idea is quite Victorian. Women tend to set the moral tone of a community. By not having sex (that risks reproduction) until they’re married or in a committed relationship would likely result in less absentee Fathers, and not so many rugrats all over the place. Perhaps less of a social programs bill, too.
      I know its hypocritical, since we all need to get laid.

      Bonus track.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        How about this one? Gets right to the point and doesn’t beat around the bush:

        https://youtu.be/NYp9x_u930M

      • Tres Cool

        + Luke Skyywalker

        This describes me better.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I didn’t get the point of this “threat” the last time the lunatics somehow managed to get it printed in the media. It’s like they’re making conservatives’ point for them.

      • ElspethFlashman

        It’ll help get rid of so many social programs !

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    I’m digging in to the Curry piece, thanks OMWC!
    Hola!

  6. Count Potato

    So when the Muslims start stoning people, New Zealand will have to ban rocks?

    • Tres Cool

      Look, fat- you should already know that everybody must get stoned.

  7. Ted S.

    another prolific author whose books badly needed editing;

    Is he as bad as his cousin Lev?

  8. mock-star

    I apologize for going OT so soon, but its past my bedtime and I have to tell someone about this. So PA governor Tom Wolf has imposed vaccine mandates or daily testing for state workers. I work for the dept of corrections and was checking out the policy that goes into effect this coming week. I got the J&J shot, so Im exempt, but I was curious about the testing. Workers coming in have to spit in a vial that gets sent for testing, then they go to work. The results of the test come back in a week. And somehow this isnt just theater.

    • Sean

      Oh, ffs. Temp screening was lame, but at least that shit had some semblance of “science!” .

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What, you don’t want to know which of your coworkers had Covid a week ago?

    • Old Man With Candy

      At least it’s the spit test (from ASU, if memory serves) and not the brain swab.

    • blackjack

      Yeah we have the same stupidity, but our tests come back the next day. They stopped testing at the beginning of the year. They are still “negotiating” with my shitty union over what punishment people get for not getting the shot. I’m applying for a religious exemption based on my strongly held belief that I should not have to take a shot for political reasons. We’ll see how that goes. I doubt they are going to actually fire anybody. Every single person who gets punished in any way is going to sue. Imagine inviting a thousand lawsuits or 2 or 3? They can’t be serious.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Every single person who gets punished in any way is going to sue. Imagine inviting a thousand lawsuits or 2 or 3? They can’t be serious.

        I don’t know. I can easily see Biden issuing a public safety EO that prevents any lawsuits from employees against an employer for Covid-related safety measures. Or the CDC dong the same. Or a Hawaii judge issues a nationwide injunction. Or word is just quietly spread throughout the courts to not allow if the gov doesn’t want it widely proclaimed. It’s clearly unconstitutional, but so was the eviction hold bullshit.

        I’m growing increasingly pessimistic, especially seeing the banana republic style abduction and political trials of Jan 6 protestors. I think the rules are being fundamentally changed as we watch and courts will be of little recourse.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Not to harsh your plan BlackJack. I’m just not seeing a positive end to what’s happening.

      • blackjack

        I get it. It’s depressing to see nobody seeming to care about this shit. The next time I hear “safe and effective” I’m going to make sure that the speaker if effectively unsafe. A nation of liars and pussies with respect for neither reason nor morality. It came on gradually and then suddenly, too.

  9. Tonio

    I got a Nielsen survey thing in the mail the other day. Knowing what it was, I opened it to harvest the dollar, dollar bill, yo, and threw away the rest.

    • Tres Cool

      “Cream. Get the money. Dolla dolla bill ya’all.”

      -Wu Tang

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Just $1? I’ve got those before, with five crisp ones (and I did fill out the booklet).

  10. Tres Cool

    bettemidler
    @BetteMidler
    ·
    Sep 2
    The cruelty of the #GOP is endless. We are suffering COVID-19, hurricanes, apocalyptic flooding, wildfires from hell, joblessness, homelessness, evictions, racial strife, and they pick this hideous time to pile on yet another shock to women, by taking away their right to choose.

    YOURE TAKING AWAY ALL OUR FUN !

    • rhywun

      Funny how all of those things are either acts of nature or are human conditions greatly exacerbated by the policies her Team espouses.

    • Ozymandias

      You dare to sully Raquel Welch’s birthday with pics of that tubby trollop?!? You go too far, sir…. too far.

      • TARDis

        You insult trollops, good sir. Trollops are useful, as they provide actual physical services which would be of use to men. At best, this woman is an overpaid artificial prick tease appealing to those who like their ladies deformed.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. Soft glam

  11. Ozymandias

    Thanks for the links, OMWC!

    1. Raquel Welch is the smokin’-est smokeshow that ever set young men’s hearts a pitter-patter and their loins aflame. And she kept it up well into her 60s. None of the rest before or since come close. In the famous poster from 1,000,000 BC she had already had two kids.
    2. This is the smartest, sanest thing written about “public health” since the scamdemic started.
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/mandatory-vaccination-the-greater-evil-of-society_3955901.html?utm_campaign=socialshare_linkedin&utm_source=linkedin.com
    3. The NZ thing brings me back to a point about all of this authoritarianism (and it probably deserves an article, but I’m kinda full-up right now). My mom always hated the public school teacher phenomenon of punishing the whole class when one or two kids were misbehaving. As in, the teacher hears some talking while he/she is at the board, so the whole class gets detention. That happened to me a few times and my mom went down to the school to tear someone a new one. She hated that shit and I do, too. It’s the very definition of injustice. Look around the world and what the “progressive” political leaders are doing is essentially the same thing writ large, whether it’s the “unvaxxed” bullshit, the targeting of large groups of people for wrongthink, gun control, the democrats soft-racism, and on and on. It’s a complete lack of ability to discriminate an individual from generalizations (that may or may not apply to that individual) as a result of their membership in a group. In short, they don’t see individuals – their minds are only capable of placing people into groups and then judging them by that group association. (Yes, this is the mental failure that is at the heart of racism).
    4. Raquel Welch – oof.

    • Old Man With Candy

      The idea is, I think, related to Marine discipline- incentivize the troops to police their own. Soap, sock, you know.

      • Ozymandias

        Well, yes. And in a (supposedly or formerly) free society, that’s evil – as you well know.
        Your example gets right to the heart of what’s going on: the military is a perfect socialist system. Every position down to the lowest snuffy is reflected on a Table of Organization and Equipment; every person has a defined role; there is a small aristocracy that carries out the dictates from on high and punishes those who don’t comply, etc. And it requires tons of other people’s money because it does nothing productive and is good only for destroying shit and killing people.

  12. Gender Traitor

    Erhard is a quitter as a cult leader. Eckankar is still going strong and running commercials on late night TV!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Via Wiki: “the teachings go even further back to Gakko, a spiritual essence that traveled from the city of Retz on the planet Venus to Earth six million years ago ”

      Sounds legit, where do I sign up?

  13. Count Potato

    Is it just me, or are the up & down arrows broke?

    • mock-star

      Not working for me either

    • Old Man With Candy

      They are disabled while SP fixes some more serious issues. She’s been a bit occupied recently, so we’re way behind on site maintenance.

      • Count Potato

        OK, I also notice posters with blue handles linking to websites.

    • blackjack

      Broken Arrow?

  14. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Insomnia kept me up until 4am, and now it’s 8:30 and I’m awake again.

    Anyway, the point is, Twitter was ? last night, between Oklahoma hospitals vs. Rolling Stone; and a US Army LTG misidendtifying a pile of Brit soldiers as American.

    I feel like this is my finest Tweet ever.

    https://pasteboard.co/Kjc7Ecl.jpg

    • Count Potato

      Insomnia sucks 🙁

      • rhywun

        I just assumed Rogan got a false positive. I hear that happens.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        With his for all practical purposes unlimited resources he probably got a confirmatory test. He also was actually sick for a couple of days.

      • rhywun

        He also was actually sick for a couple of days.

        Ah, OK.

      • Count Potato

        Wow.

    • Tulip

      Hah! Nice.

    • Ted S.

      I got “image not found”. I assume you’re not tweeting at all?

    • Tres Cool

      Nice work.

      O-H….!

    • Ted S.

      For what it’s worth, this is probably my finest Tweet.

      • Tulip

        Context?

      • Ted S.

        It was those nurses recreating The Last Supper during the beginning of the coronapanic, and some nurse claiming her fellow nurses had no knowledge of how people would interpret it and were just being whimsical. I notice the nurse’s tweet was removed.

        Foreseeable consequences are not unintentional, of course.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Oklahoma hospitals? Context, once again?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Oh: nebber mind.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        KFOR is an NBC affiliate, FWIW.

    • Ted S.

      Is there some joke I’m missing? Because I’ve now tried multiple browsers on multiple platforms (PC, tablet, and smartphone), and gotten “Image not found” on all of them.

      • Chafed

        You’re not the only one.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We’re ancoms man, down with the government unless they’re trying to force you to take an administration of substances into your body that you don’t want to take. If it wasn’t so unreasonably stupid it’d be funny.

    • PieInTheSky

      why not phrase it the far left group?

      • Ted S.

        See my comment above about the New Zealand story.

    • PieInTheSky

      I would think that is the point of such a festival… ad hoc and screw the rules. but that was before it became cool I suppose

  15. PieInTheSky

    In the balance of things, fuck wasps

    • PieInTheSky

      I am not sure the words I typed mean in english what they mean in my head

      • Steve

        After waging my own private war with two nests earlier this summer, I think the literal and metaphorical meaning both apply. They deserve a little STEVE SMITH treatment.

      • PieInTheSky

        on one of the wood boards on my mom’s porch a knot fell out of the wood and the fuckers built a nest

      • Steve

        I found two ground nests the hard way while mowing in June. One of the little demons actually left a small scar above my ankle. Two cans of Black Flag and about a half gallon of gasoline later, I feel like I got them better than they got me.

      • PieInTheSky

        i need some wood putty or something to fill the holes there are several I think where knots fell out

      • Steve

        Carpenter bees are a nuisance in my area. Brown caulk works well if the holes are in places that are relatively out of sight.

      • Gender Traitor
      • PieInTheSky

        I doubt that is available in Romania but something similar probably is

      • The Gunslinger

        I was cleaning the condenser coil yesterday and got stung. But it was one of those big fuzzy bees.

      • TARDis

        Bumblebee? At least they don’t have barbs, do they?

        I hate killing Carpenter Bees because they are supposedly great pollinators, but damn are they destructive.

      • The Gunslinger

        I don’t think their were barbs. It didn’t even form a bump on my skin and after about an hour I didn’t even notice it anymore. They must have a nest out there though. I noticed one buzzing around when I started but when I was almost finished I noticed about 6 of them close to the ground. I think the one that stung me got in my shirtsleeve.

    • Ozymandias

      Fuck WASPs? ‘Cuz there are certainly some WASPy chicks who are alright… they’re no Raquel Welch, though, eh, Pie?

      • PieInTheSky

        when it comes to me and chicks beggars can’t be choosers

    • PieInTheSky

      I think I meant all things considered

  16. Ghostpatzer

    Thanks for the Judith Curry link, she is a treasure. From the article:

    “The issue of greatest concern to me is when scientists filter research results and their public statements of facts with an eye to downstream political use. Governments exacerbate this by funding a narrow range of projects that support their preferred policies.”

    I wonder if this applies to any issues other than climate change.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Huh, I wonder, wonder…

      • Translucent Chum

        Who wrote the book of love?

      • blackjack

        Everyday, I write the book.

      • ElspethFlashman

        Who ? who wrote the book of loooove? (sorry, couldn’t resist).

      • Old Man With Candy

        The book of love is long and boring.

        No one can lift the damn thing.

      • rhywun

        Pages from my book of love.

  17. LCDR_Fish

    OMWC – curious on your opinion on VDH. I’ve enjoyed his classical studies books. Are his “wrong” opinions the neocon elements in his NRO/editorials or something else?

    Haven’t checked in recently to see whether he finally sold his family almond farm….

    • Old Man With Candy

      “Defense” policy for sure. Immigration, ditto.

      • limey

        Have you checked in with him in the last few years? He makes a lot more sense now.

  18. PieInTheSky

    On the outdoor channel I sometimes watch the guy fishes and catches pike and walleye and google tells me ” walleye also called the yellow pike”. The guy clearly prefers the walleye as food to the pike / pickerel he catches so my question is does the color yellow affect the taste so much? He sometimes catches lake trout and I think that may be preferred to both.

    • The Hyperbole

      Walleye are Perch not Pike, so different fishes altogether.

      • Count Potato

        I’ve heard people say “walleye pike”, though. Like they call pronghorn “antelope”.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        That’s a nice one! Somewhere in MI?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        the big Lake, right down the street,

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Manistee MI
        Lake Michigan

      • ElspethFlashman

        wow!

    • Chipping Pioneer

      I’ve never heard walleye referred to as “yellow pike”. Around here, they’re sometimes called “pickerel”, or “yellow pickerel”. I think that walleye is the American term, whereas pickerel is used more commonly in Canada. There is also a closely-related species named sauger, which is less common around here. I’ve never eaten sauger, so I can’t comment on whether colour makes a difference.

      Walleye are a nice eating fish, and pike are slimy and bony bastards, so no doubt he prefers walleye.

      I prefer fishing for lake trout, but I might prefer eating walleye.

      • PieInTheSky

        I think trout is fattier than pike anyways so probably gives more calories and better nutrients, fat in necessary and sometimes wild fish / wild game can be very lean

      • ElspethFlashman

        I had an uncle who fished in Saginaw Bay on a regular basis. He had two stand up freezers full of perch. But the best was going and catching it, then eating the fresh ones the same day for dinner. We also went home with more fish. He was a good uncle.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        When I was a kid back in the Toronto, Ontario area, we used to go north and/or northwest for fishing trips in the summer (either to the Haliburton Highlands or much further north and west to the Kenora area [near Lake of the Woods/Manitoba border]). The only word I ever heard used for those fish was “walleye.” Other names for ’em just confuse me to this day.

  19. Count Potato

    “Comedian Fuquan Johnson is among three dead from ‘cocaine-laced fentanyl overdose’ at party in LA: Model and comedian Kate Quiqley is in critical condition

    According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 83,000 people lost their lives to drug-related overdoses in the 12-month period ending in July 2020, a significant increase from 2019, when more than 70,000 people died of overdoses. The preliminary data also indicated there was a 26 percent increase in the number of cocaine-related overdose deaths, with fentanyl being the most likely driver of these fatalities. Fentanyl was involved in more than 60 percent of the overdose deaths last year, CDC data suggests. Last week, six residents on Long Island died from what authorities said were overdoses of fentanyl-laced cocaine.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9959319/Comedian-Fuquan-Johnson-three-people-dead-suspected-overdose-party-LA.html

    I can understand dealers putting fentanyl in dope, but why are they putting it in coke? That makes no sense.

    • Tres Cool

      It’s like you never speedballed before, brah.

      • Count Potato

        No one sells speedball as speedball.

    • blackjack

      Man, that fucking stupid assed sidebar. If you don’t manage to overdose, we’ll give you life in prison! It’s not like the OD numbers went way up when they basically outlawed relatively safe pills of known strength or anything. The whole stupid and evil approach seems pretty bipartisan, as always. Drugs will screw up your life, and if they don’t, we will.

    • Q Continuum

      The fact that Austin still has a job shows how corrupt the apparatus is at the top.

  20. Steve

    Not sure if this is drugs out of my ass territory, but it was new information to me last night. Apparently, in countries that haven’t completely abandoned reason, there is evidence that natural immunity is still more effective than a vaccine. Trigger warning: The Hill.

    https://youtu.be/6v5VrpgXPm4

  21. westernsloper

    The old Jew, of course, was banished from the building.

    Probably the best thing to do in any given situation.

  22. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Yesterday was Brian “Tater” Stelter’s birthday. Care to guess his age, without resorting to Wikipedia? I would have guessed ~45.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Because the question was even asked I’ll say mid 30s.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Draftee militaries have their share of functional issues too. Maybe the underlying problem is an enormous standing military, along with all that flows from it, of any sort.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Both of my links point to the same problem, no accountability at the top, while the Officers get pounded for any error at all, and the leadership ends up killing Soldiers needlessly,

      • TARDis

        ^^^Hammers need nails. Lots and lots of nails.

  23. Drake

    In my college town, you behaved yourself at the local establishments unless you wanted to get beat up by the local French-Canadian mill workers.

    • db

      Thanks Yusef, I’ll be having that on while I rivet today.

  24. Brochettaward

    The anticipation and build-up behind this First is like that of a mother about to give birth to the savior. A virginal birth pure and untouched by the uncleanliness of the male reproductive organ. The birthing process will be painful, but the rewards will be well worth it.

  25. ElspethFlashman

    Weekend fun chez Lord H and Elspeth F : watching the animals in the house chase a mouse (greyhounds are faster than cats); weeding the crap out of the yard to make room for new landscaping; seeing how tipsy I can be without passing out (so far so good); accidentally leaving the pipe out in the rain; taking a last afternoon at the pool. . . Life is good !

    • Old Man With Candy

      Please pass my best to LH. Wish you guys weren’t so far away.

      Our weekend isn’t much different. I got the front lawn mowed yesterday for the first time since we got here. I won’t say the grass was high, but I found the Lindbergh baby. The back will be a challenge, but our rains have started up again. Wonder Dog is still infuriated by the deer and badly wants to give chase despite the weight of her years.

      • ElspethFlashman

        Will do – nice to come and comment and snark with you all in a virtual way.

        At least someone found the Lindbergh baby.

        The heir can now do the back lawn (the front is still Lord H’s job or mine), and he is a champion weed puller.

        I found a mulberry tree trying to re-establish itself which is the off shoot of a 30-foot mulberry we had taken out 5 years ago. Those things never die.

        The plan is to use napalm, some dynamite, or whatever, wreck the deck, and build a hot tub & Sauna there.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Yeah, we’re starting the yard rebuild ourselves. Had an arborist take out a near-dead 60′ spruce that was threatening the house, and a few apple trees that wouldn’t have caught Eve’s attention. We’re looking to extend the solarium a bit and put in a new cover for the grilling/wokking/wood-burning oven center- the squirrels wrecked the existing plastic one by dropping pinecones on it from 80 feet up.

        Funny how our priorities changed when we actually bought a house…

      • Tulip

        Mmm, the arborist.

      • Gender Traitor

        You crave arborists?

  26. Ghostpatzer

    https://www.nj.com/news/2021/09/we-asked-climate-and-weather-experts-what-the-hell-is-happening-in-nj-heres-what-they-said.html

    “We have a society we’ve built around a really stable climate, and we’re entering a period where the climate is changing really rapidly,” she said. “We need to be thinking about our infrastructure. Not only how do we mitigate climate change … but also how do we adapt our current infrastructure?”

    Stable climate? This, from a “professor of environmental science at Rowan University”.

    The remnants of Floyd in 1999 had similar impacts on this region, and there will be more in the future. Flood prone areas flood, this is not news.

    • westernsloper

      Whatever denier.

    • Ted S.

      Yeah; we lost power for three days during Floyd.

      I remember taking one of my parents’ dogs out on the back woodlot to check the damage. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something moving that was too light-colored to be a bear, and not moving the way a deer does (and too low to the ground). Probably the first time I’d been that close to a coyote.

    • rhywun

      how do we mitigate climate change

      Narrator: You don’t. Gaia does what she wants.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Rowan U? Never heard of it.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I hear they have a really strong crew team.

  27. hayeksplosives

    Old man, that is funny as shit.

    They had heard dark rumors that the previous management was racist, apparently stemming from some recurring incidents of dine-and-dash at the restaurant across the street, and wanted to see if we were woke enough to allow students to come.

    On the other hand, if we as a nation ever need to rise up and physically defend ourselves against an invading horde, we are fucked.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Outside of the coddled students, the folks here are tough. And like me, amused at the goofiness of woke-osity.

    • TARDis

      Maybe put a sign out like this?

      • Gender Traitor

        But be sure to stock up on menu ingredients and coffee beans beforehand and increase staff, ’cause you could get swamped by the locals.

    • rhywun

      recurring incidents of dine-and-dash at the restaurant

      Isn’t that what eventually led to shaming Starbucks into opening its bathrooms to the homeless? I wonder how that policy worked out.

  28. Tonio

    GlibFlick Feature Announcement for Thu, Sep 9: “Kung Fu Zombie,” click here to stream free (with commercials) on tubitv.

    • Count Potato

      Did anyone comment on the last movie?

    • db

      Bummer; Thursday nights are no good for me–it’s gun and dinner night.

    • rhywun

      at a time when the Delta variant represents a serious threat to children, their families and the public

      And… I’m out. 2nd paragraph.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      But perhaps the most common, misguided and dangerous reason is that mask mandates for school children violate ill-defined, but allegedly comprehensive and paramount, “parental rights.”

      When it comes to society’s interest in protecting children, the legal precedent is unambiguous: The rights of their parents come second.

      I took a break for a while, but I guess it’s time to start stocking up on ammo again.

      • Sean

        Reminder: Midwayusa gives a discount the week before and after your birthday on one order. This includes ammo.

        I got a good deal in July.

    • blackjack

      “The Dangerous Legal Illusion of ‘Parental Rights’”

    • Suthenboy

      “Opinion by KYLE B. BROTHERS, ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON and MARK A. ROTHSTEIN”

      I dont have rights? Then neither do you motherfuckers.

    • Suthenboy

      Cant help but wonder…*scratches head, tugs chin*…could it be? No, surely not. Nah, that cant be it.

    • TARDis

      Six times a day???

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      The arancino looks delizioso.

    • Q Continuum

      Democrats say:

      “You know what, I like the new Taliban. They’ve got some good ideas!”

  29. westernsloper

    I skipped dinner last night so this morning steak and eggs are on the menu.

    • ElspethFlashman

      Good thinking.

    • Gender Traitor

      Quite possibly a better use for all those vials than their original purpose.

    • hayeksplosives

      “I realized I wanted to do something with light because I just felt like it’s been such a dark and challenging year for so many people that like the idea of bringing a light to this,” she said.

      Then maybe don’t play into the fucking horrific fiction that is ripping society in shreds? Would that be performance art, you fucking twat?

      • TARDis

        I like you when you’re angry.

        Of course, I’m a safely outside the blast radius.

      • hayeksplosives

        Thanks. I guess….

        I do recognize that I woke up loaded for bear today.

        Come on punk. Make my day.

    • db

      Something, something biohazardous waste disposal regulations, something.

  30. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And good morning to all you wonderful people!

    Man, I didn’t know anything about Koestler except that Darkness at Noon is a fantastic book. What an absolute piece of shit human being though.

    There’s a lot of that going around.

    Except here. This is a good place.

  31. db

    I was hoping you were going to say that you required all employees to open carry within the business property that day.

    • db

      With whatever weapons they thought were appropriate for themselves, of course…you wouldn’t want anyone to be uncomfortable. For the woke among them, perhaps they could carry their poetry journal in a belt holster.

    • Plinker762

      Just have this playing on a loop in the background.

      • db

        #winning

  32. db

    This weekend’s entertainment was a sudden visit from a University committee, who were taking a group of “ethnically diverse” students from business to business to determine which businesses were “safe” for the students, a racism audit, if you will. They had heard dark rumors that the previous management was racist, apparently stemming from some recurring incidents of dine-and-dash at the restaurant across the street, and wanted to see if we were woke enough to allow students to come. “Our diverse students need to feel that this is a safe space.”

    Quite frankly, this sounds terrifying, and yet probably completely predictable.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Is the Safe Space illustration from the aforementioned uni?

      • db

        I was surprised that it included such a triggering and oppressive word as “owners.”

    • rhywun

      I wonder if they ordered anything.

      • Gender Traitor

        …and if so, did they pay for it?

    • db

      I guess it’s worth a try

  33. KSuellington

    I had linked this article this past week late in the evening, but it’s worth another link. Since the beginning of the Vid panic I haven’t been able to not notice how very much the world has followed the will and path of the CCP. This article does a pretty deep dive on the very thing. It’s been obvious to most here, but this is not something I think that most in this country have considered. Well worth a gander.

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/masked-ball-cowardice

    • db

      I started reading that the other night, then paused, then my browser crashed and I forgot about it. thanks for reposting.

      • KSuellington

        Cheers, I thought it a very good piece. It has been terrifying to me how much of the world has quickly adopted a communist model for dealing with a contagious respiratory disease.

        Oh and thanks for the music link OMWC, loved it. I’m a huge fan of the upright bass and have always wanted to learn to play it. Whenever we finally get a decent sized house I may have to purchase one.

      • KSuellington

        The wife took the boys to hang out and swim with her Irish friend and her girls yesterday and today so I am in the rare position of having a quiet Sunday morning house. Went out yesterday to a sweet archery range with a buddy that had you hiking up and down a mountainside to take shots from 15 to 80 yards at animal targets. A ton of fun and good practice taking uphill and downhill shots. Finished it off with a couple pints at a local dive with an outdoor band playing. Fell asleep watching qualifying at the Dutch Grand Prix. Have the race taped and am going to watch it soon with breakfast. Mountain bike ride planned for afternoon with another friend. House is too quiet so had to blast this on vinyl.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W724jRLJSR8

    • rhywun

      Good stuff. Enraging. Will the world take notice?

      It’s going to get ugly either way.

      • KSuellington

        At this point I think not. The CCP unleashed a virus (unintentionally I think) that they soon realized how it could be used to their benefit and the media, elite, and bureaucrats saw to it that we followed their plan. We have made the wildest dreams come true of the upper echelons of the Chinese communists. Not only have they largely escaped blame, and certainly escaped any retribution, but we have enthusiastically adopted their model. And yes, to agree with you , I don’t think we have seen the last of lockdowns at all. When Newsom wins here in a week or so we will likely have more come this late fall/winter and never be rid of mask mandates.

      • rhywun

        My what-ifs lately are more about what happens if/when the world wakes up from its daze and realizes how they’ve been played for the last two, five, ten years or however long the elites manage to stretch this out. Or will things just go back to normal so slowly that people will “forget”?

      • KSuellington

        Yeah, I think it will be actively managed by the media and elites to make sure it goes back slowly and that lockdowns and masks are never examined too closely. It’s just the conspiracy theorists who don’t accept Teh Science!! At some point it will transition to full climate panic and they will use the same methods and tactics. We will see how that turns out.

  34. Lazer

    Anybody else wondering how in the world the people who actually believe in the covid theater are reacting to the full stadiums with very minimal mask wearing? I mean even the LSU v UCLA game had a full stadium with no masks. I thought Los Angles was still in theater mode?

    • rhywun

      That stadium in LA was probably vaccinated-only. As are a lot of college campuses nationwide.

      We’ve already transitioned to a two-tier society and almost nobody is raising any objection.

      • Sean

        I haven’t even noticed in my day to day life. Masks have been optional here since May.

        That included the resort we were just at.

      • rhywun

        Have you tried entering a college campus lately? Or boarded an airplane?

      • Sean

        Neither in 20+ years

  35. DEG

    Many key aspects of the package pertain to taxes. Democrats want to extend expansions of tax credits benefiting low- and middle-income households that were enacted under President Biden’s coronavirus relief law earlier this year. They also want to pay for their proposed spending and tax cuts — which focus on areas such as health care, child care and climate — through tax increases on corporations and high-income individuals.

    Oh boy, what could possibly go wrong? And I call bullshit on the claim that Democrats want to pay for their spending.

    Actress Bette Midler called for women to refuse to have sex to protest Texas’s recently enacted abortion law and suggested that Congress should guarantee abortion rights for women.

    Midler can go fuck herself.

    “Last night, we made the decision to temporarily remove all knives and scissors from our shelves while we consider whether we should continue to sell them,” said Kiri Hannifin, Countdown’s general manager for safety.

    What the fuck is wrong with you?

    Old Guy Music is great.

    • ruodberht

      I want to pay for my proposed spending with someone else’s money too!

    • rhywun

      Taxes on corporations which will in no way be passed down to every American.

      Who the fuck believes these lies?!

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Idiots, morons, witlings, half-wits, midwits and other such that make up the majority of voters in most Western nations.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Had exactly the same problem with our tomatillos this year. Still better than the alternative “less/no tomatillos.”

    • PieInTheSky

      be careful as I assume being American you can’t really handle spicy

      • Suthenboy

        *ahem*

        That depends on what part of America you are talking about.

  36. Animal

    This weekend’s entertainment was a sudden visit from a University committee, who were taking a group of “ethnically diverse” students from business to business to determine which businesses were “safe” for the students, a racism audit, if you will.

    It’s a good thing I don’t work in any general-public service capacity, because I would have told them to take a long running start and go fuck themselves.