Saturday morning gentile links

by | Oct 2, 2021 | Daily Links | 188 comments

How did that work out for us? They now apparently run the world.

Yeah, OMWC is otherwise detained this weekend, so I guess I’ll do some stale links for him. And for the record, I was baptized Protestant, but to this day, I still don’t know what that means.

 

Apropos.

 

In the end, this is a pretty funny story. I’m sure the taunting is merciless.

 

Mulatto horses rule.

 

Oh noes…

 

All you have to do is piss on the camera.

 

This is some pretty cool shit.

 

This has to be causing some angst and confusion in the union boss circles.

 

Damn it. I just used up a bunch of material I needed for tomorrow afternoon. Maybe I’ll luck out and there will be a major catastrophe overnight.

Happy thoughts!

I had the good fortune to able to see Pete Fountain live as a kid. It was a small, outdoor venue in the Napa Valley.

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188 Comments

  1. Sean

    Ninja attacks? It’s more likely than you think!

    • Chipping Pioneer

      What we need is common-sense katana control.

      • mock-star

        Its the deregulation what caused it!

    • Walford

      When I was stationed.at Fort Campbell we had a sword wielding attacker charge people while we were forming up for morning PT. He was shot and killed by the MPs.

  2. The Late P Brooks

    INFILTRAITORS!

    Just one Oath Keeper serving in a police or sheriff’s department is too many, said Daryl Johnson, a security consultant and former senior analyst for domestic terrorism at the Department of Homeland Security.

    ā€œThe Oath Keepers subscribe to anti-government conspiracy theories, so the fact that officers belong to an organization that believes in this type of stuff really calls into question their discretion and their ability to make sound judgments,ā€ Johnson said.

    Overwrought terrified screeching about Oath Keeper White Supremacist Nazi plot to enslave America.

    Take your meds, dude.

    • Sean

      Great. Now do BLM activists. I’ll wait.

      • Plinker762

        But a Eco-terrorist as the head of the BLM is just fine.

        PS I’m talking about the government run BLM.
        PPS I guess I need to be clearer, I’m referring to the Bureau of Land Management

    • Chipping Pioneer

      so the fact that officers belong to an organization that believes in this type of stuff really calls into question their discretion and their ability to make sound judgments

      Yes, because the last thing you want is officers using their judgement and discretion to not enforce laws they believe are unconstitutional.

      • Sean

        Australia.

    • Cy Esquire

      Let no narrative go checked and let no Karen go unheard!

    • Loveconstitution1789

      What if Lefties are all upset that they self-outed themselves with Trump as President, so they need to make sure all dissenters in govt are outed.

  3. limey

    Good morning, Glibronis. I’ve already finished my nine hour workday. Weeeeee.

    • Sean

      Time for a drink (or two)!

  4. The Late P Brooks

    ps- USA Toady website is shitty web design on steroids.

    • limey

      One expects it to be a slight improvement over USA Yesterday, but has high hopes for USA Tomorrow.

      • TARDis

        What the USA Tomorrow hopes to be?

  5. Tres Cool

    ” Iā€™m sure the taunting is merciless.”

    At my old office, which was a row of office/warehouse spaces, the cops came knocking one day. Seems the night before, they’d chased down someone in a stolen car, and when he bolted he tossed the keys, which may have landed on the buildings roof. The cops asked if I had a roof access and I said, “no but I have a ladder and Ive always wondered whats up there”. So me and a cop climbed up and walked around while cop #2 looked around behind the building. He didnt find anything, so we went to climb down, and cop #1 was VERY apprehensive about approaching the ladder (from a flat roof). I said “are you OK?” and he replied “yeah, I really dont like heights, and Im just not sure how to…” as he was stepping back & forth, twisting his hips, picking up a leg, and looking really confused.
    I said, “look- I have my phone. Need me to call the fire department?” He looked panicked and said “Oh, fu*k no! Ill never hear the end of it!”

  6. Old Man With Candy

    Pete was delightful.

    I forgot to mention- I have a superb bottle of wine with your name on it. Well, had. Remember that girlfriend of yours who drank our last bottle of Monteillet St-Joseph Blanc? This was similar,

    • Ted S.

      Spudalicious Wine?

      There is, however, a Zardoz wine.

      And unfortunately, I couldn’t find the clip from Cactus Flower of Ingrid Bergman getting drunk on Idaho champagne.

      • Nephilium

        And if you’re really looking for a wine to let you down, Cleveland Browns wine .

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Sotomayor rejected the emergency request without providing an explanation or directing the request to the full court for review.

    OBEY

    • rhywun

      without providing an explanation

      Because there isn’t one.

      I’m going to hold my tongue now because what I want to say isn’t very nice.

      • Gender Traitor

        ā€œIf you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.ā€
        ā€• Alice Roosevelt Longworth

      • TARDis

        *plops down next to Red*

      • rhywun

        “This is an annoying pop-up box.”

        Yes, it is.

        *closes tab in anger without reading any further*

      • Gender Traitor

        Oh, Despair.com is awesome! Particularly so if you’ve been (over)exposed to the “Successories” line of “motivational” products.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      It appears that roberts, Breyer, sotomayer, and kagan are trying to protect democrat tyranny.

      The other justices appear to be making sure as many Americans are negatively impacted by this democrat tyranny. This way once the tipping point number of pissed off Americans are reached, then the pitchforks come out.

      Either way, they are all violating their oaths of office to support and defend the Us constitution.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Case in point election 2020. It was in the national interest to make sure the election was conducted according to the rules and the constitution. States brought a fraud claim before the SCOTUS and not even 4 justices agreed to hear the dispute.

  8. Gender Traitor

    ā€œThere are worse things that could be running around Upper Marlboro ā€” like alligators.ā€

    Obligatory.

    • Tres Cool

      Never smile at a crocodile ?

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Crazy talk

    Scores of former Trump political appointees gathered at a GOP social club Wednesday night to hear Steve Bannon detail how they could help the next Republican president reconfigure government.

    “If youā€™re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately,” Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News. “I gave ’em fire and brimstone.”

    Bannon, who ran former President Donald Trump’s first campaign and later worked as a top adviser in the White House, said that Trump’s agenda was delayed by the challenges of quickly filling roughly 4,000 slots for presidential appointees at federal agencies and the steep learning curve for political officials who were new to Washington.

    ——-

    “There are so many statutes and regulations as well as agency and departmental policies, it can be very overwhelming when you first come in,” said Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a former Broadcasting Board of Governors official who is one of the organizers of the group. “This is an organization that has a very narrow, clear and much-needed purpose, and, once it is operational, I think it could do a lot of good not just for the Republican Party but for the country.”

    Trump often railed publicly about career civil servants and Obama administration political appointee holdovers whom he saw as obstacles to his agenda, referring to them collectively as the “deep state.”

    There is no such thing as the Deep State. There are, however, thousands of federal government employees who are devoted to making America a better, more just, and equitable place and using every tool in their possession to do so. Including slow-walking white supremacy.

      • rhywun

        avoidable deaths

        *sigh*

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Interesting article. Thanks

      • EvilSheldon

        After reading the article (and the comments, yeek!) and doing some thinking, I keep getting this image in my head. Headline, April 12 2022. Donald Trump Assassanated During Campaign Rally. Local AntiFa Activist Charged with Murder…

      • CPRM

        Haha! Charges? Medal of Honor!

      • Loveconstitution1789

        We now have a massive bureaucracy that use checks and balances to block any outsider from dismantling the bureaucracy.

      • LCDR_Fish

        It might be possible to do an end run, but it depends on how much time you have. As the head of the executive branch (esp if you can work *well* with folks in Senate or House (Trump lost out on this since he wanted to fight with McConnell)) – you might be able to cut funding down enough to strangle some agencies and force layoffs – or at the very minimum force congress to vote on things (and veto them) – and get congress to take public stands on stuff their constituents need to consider in the future.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        As your article points out, we have one party that is fully supportive of the bureaucratic state and is coordinating with them and another that just doesn’t want to poke the bear and will play the role of loyal opposition.

        Unless Congress asserts its authority in combination with an amenable executive, this won’t be solved without total collapse, which will involve a fair amount of violence. I’m not optimistic.

        I don’t think the judicial branch even matters at this point. When push comes to shove, they’ll just sign on to the victor’s side.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I cant tell you right now that when civil war 2.0 is resolved and the commies are deported or the bloodletting stops, anyone who didnt fight for America and the constitution wont get to vote for Americas future.

        The founders felt that unless you have skin in the game, you dont get to determine the future path of america.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Trump worked okay with mcconnell but mcconnell just didnt want to give too many wins that would change the DC environment forever.

        Trump getting his way and cutting federal budgets by 20%+ would take power away from washington. DC politicians know much of their power comes from funneling tax revenue through congress and then passing it out in exchange for votes and support.

        Its why I crack up when Lefties get pissed off when Americans advocate massive government cuts while still collecting social security/VA benefits/some other govt benefit. According to Lefties, once your on the govt teat, youre insane to want to limit government. It just doesnt compute.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Almost no ā€˜conservativesā€™ in the UK understand this rule, why ā€˜reformā€™ is so extremely hard, and what to do about it. There is almost no public discussion in conventional UK media about how power actually works in the British state and this seems to be roughly the same in the US.

        Civics education could be replaced with just rewatching Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister. But people would still miss the accuracy.

      • EvilSheldon

        From the article:

        “Liberalism had become a habit with Oblonsky and he enjoyed his newspaper, as he did his after-dinner cigar, for the slight haze it produced in his brain.”

        Heh.

  10. CPRM

    Is it really smart for a union of Theatre Employees to go on strike? It’s not like people with Theatre Degrees are in short supply to scab. *points to self*

    • Tres Cool

      ex-Ms. Tres Cool has an MFA in ‘Theatre Education’. Never short on melodrama, Id tell people “remember when I said she has a degree in drama? She literally has one.”

      Fun fact- anytime, anywhere, if called to do so she could immediately make herself cry

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That is a terrifying woman to be in a relationship with.

      • Tres Cool

        It began innocently enough.

        How do I know she possess an MFA in ‘Theatre Education’ ? Oh, I paid for it.

        /glad Im not bitter

      • Cy Esquire

        I’d like to think I can put up with a lot. I’d nope right out of that shit.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Hmm, are you sure you want to work in such horrible conditions? And you know what happens to scabs??? Oh wait, this is not Teamsters, never mind.

    • rhywun

      Is there any supposedly private industry more in the clutches of union hacks than Hollywood? Blech. I can’t imagine dealing with those… people.

  11. Ghostpatzer

    “We require breaks during the workday, sleep, food, a safe trip home and a little time with family or away from the job.

    The demands of the industry must be balanced with the health and wellness of its members. The changes we seek are modest and manageable. What we seek is simply fairness.”

    This was a pretty long article. You’d think that there would be some details. If I’m reading this right, the poor dears

    – get no breaks during the workday. I’m sure OSHA would like a word.
    – get no sleep
    – are starving from lack of food
    – are being raped and murdered on their way home from the job. Actually, this is LA, so maybe.
    – haven’t seen their families since they started these jobs.

    Inquiring minds would like to know what the actual demands are.

    • Tres Cool

      Not OSHA. I think you meant DOL.
      However, under the General Duties Clause‘ breaks may fit in.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Ah, I gets confused, been a long time since I worked in HR.

        ‘sup, doh.

      • Tres Cool

        Not to malign the good name of HR people everywhere, admin people have no business acting as ‘safety’ personnel.

      • Tres Cool

        Thats nearly as bad as when I worked in the environmental dept. of a steel mill

      • Ghostpatzer

        First they came for the frogs, and I did not speak out.
        Then they came for the steelworkers…

      • Ghostpatzer

        That is da bomb. Much like your avatar.

      • Ted S.

        They used to be Men Without Hats; now, they’re Men Without Jobs!

    • CPRM

      get no breaks during the workday.

      When your workday is putting on stage production, there really isn’t time for random break.

      Peter Pan hangs on the rigging high above Wendy, “Uh, yeah, Wendy…Look…I’m still flying!”
      Where the fly operator should be to lower Peter sits a sign. ‘On Break. Back in 30 minutes’.

      • Tres Cool

        Clearly you’ve never worked with Teamsters, or any flavor of AFL-CIO.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Lol

      • rhywun

        Yeah, all kinds of jobs don’t have defined breaks. Somehow people deal with it.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Its like the contract crane operator when I’m waiting to load ammo on my warship for a deployment.

        3 cranes prestige, 1 operator (union since its WA – so, breaks, etc). Lucky I could get my magazines filled – for an FFG before we had to leave. Absolutely nuts. Could have done it in less than 1/2 the time with a second dude.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Pre-staged not prestige.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Say his name three times while looking in the mirror

    McAuliffe twice called Youngkin, a former CEO of the private equity giant Carlyle Group, a Trump ā€œwannabe.ā€ He noted that his rival had made ā€œelection integrityā€ ā€” a phrase Republicans often use to appeal to those who strongly but falsely believe the last election was stolen from Trump ā€” a top priority during the GOP primary.

    ā€œHe wants to bring Trump-style politics to Virginia,ā€ McAuliffe said, ā€œand weā€™re not going to allow it.ā€

    Youngkin offered a relatively tepid response when moderator Chuck Todd of NBC News asked if he would back Trump for president in 2024, saying only that he would support Trump if heā€™s the GOP nominee. Youngkin also mocked McAuliffeā€™s fixation on Trump, observing halfway through the hourlong debate that he had already mentioned the former presidentā€™s name more than 10 times.

    ā€œThe only person invoking Trump,ā€ Youngkin charged, ā€œis you.ā€

    It’s all Terry’s got to hang his hat on. Democrats will be running as the Not-Trump Party for the next fifty years.

    • rhywun

      I guess we’ve conveniently forgotten that Democrats claimed for four years, without evidence, that Trump “stole the election”.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        W bush ā€œstole the electionā€.

        Brian kemp ā€œstole the electionā€.

        Democrats use American indifference to election rules to get as many illegal ballots into the vote count.
        Republicans win when they can beat the democrat fraud spread.

  13. Scruffy Nerfherder

    About 30 minutes later came a second call via 911: ā€œ26 spec op military members doing training at the airport,ā€ the log states. ā€œHunkered down in a hangar wondering where help is.ā€

    The best of the best.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Oath Keepers:

    Some of them people had the unmitigated gall to go to the seat of the federal government and petition for redress of grievances. Who said they could do that?

    • Tres Cool

      AOC should make a trip there to insure kids arent in cages.

      • Sean

        I’d contribute to a one way trip gofundme.

    • TARDis

      It’s not illegal if the government says so. At this point the government is a criminal enterprise, end to end.

      /Tits not calm.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        The only people that I personally know that are still Democrats work in a field that requires a political party ignore constitutional limits and protections or need politicians to do illegal stuff.

        Ex Union president
        Contractor for NSA
        Persons okay with nuking the economy , mask/vax mandates, and tyrannical gov mandates because of Kung-flu.
        Sheriffs deputy
        Military officer

  15. The Late P Brooks

    After an Axios story last weekend paraphrased Youngkin as saying Bidenā€™s victory over Trump was legitimate but declining to say if he would have voted to certify the election results as a member of Congress, McAuliffe aides and allies treated it as a major scandal.

    The story in itself illustrated Youngkinā€™s playing-both-sides strategy. The next day, he clarified in an interview with WTKR Channel 3 in Norfolk that he would have voted to certify the 2020 election.

    Democrats seized on another moment when Youngkin spoke imprecisely. After he said during the recent debate that traditional vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella ā€œcan be mandatoryā€ ā€” even though he opposes mandates for the Covid-19 vaccine ā€” Democrats cast it as a refusal to support the long-running requirement for schoolchildren to receive those other inoculations.

    ā€œWe cannot allow Glenn and his right wing, anti-Covid safety agenda anywhere near the governorship,ā€ Gov. Ralph Northam, the term-limited outgoing Democrat, said on a call with reporters organized by the state Democratic Party.

    OMG unprecedented duplicity! Never before in the history of politics has a candidate tailored his message to the audience at hand!

    And he denies the One True SCIENCE! Cast him out!

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Haha, you brought an airsoft gun to a sword fight!

  17. PieInTheSky

    A followup to yesterdays lettuce washing question:

    when washing blueberries do you wash each individual one or sort of rinse them all together?

    • CPRM

      How thoroughly do you scrub your steaks while you are washing them? Do you use an SOS pad?

      • PieInTheSky

        I dont wash steaks they go on hot cast iron. I also don’t wash chicken I hear some people do that

      • limey

        Factory chickens are warshed out with chlorinated* water.

        If you kill your own chickens you gotta clean ’em real good.

        *As I understand it this doesn’t mean that the chicken itself is chlorinated

        ???

      • l0b0t

        I wash, scrape, dry, and age all my steaks. Working in a grocery, I see how food gets handled.

      • Brawndo

        I also work in a grocery store, meat department no less, and I don’t do any of that. Working in a grocery store also means I can’t afford steaks anymore.

      • l0b0t

        Many of our locations are offering buyouts to the cutters and going with all vacuum packed cuts, delivered from a central location. The deli folk went on strike last year for 3 days when the overlords started bragging about the deli in the flagship Amsterdam store. Their deli is completely automated; customers do not interact with a human at all. Touchscreens and robotic slicers/packers provide error free cold-cuts.

      • rhywun

        I bet the robots don’t even ignore you with their backs turned while you’re standing there patiently tapping your foot. I can’t even.

    • Fourscore

      Rinse them in the all together? You do you, I’m not judging.

      • Plinker762

        Just put everything in the dishwasher

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Works for baseball caps.

  18. Evan from Evansville

    You guys are awake!

    10pm here on Sat night…which is curfew time now…so no going out to the expat spots tonight. Currently watching MST3K, but am strongly encouraging myself to watch another Columbo or (Jeremy Brett) Holmes (<–he's hands-down the best of all time, in a wickedly fantastic fashion).

    I did absolutely nothing productive for the first day of my 3-day weekend. I think I'm going to go to my across-the-street Confucian…grow area? I'm not sure what it is, but they do have crops and tiny little shack structures. I'm trying to get my friend/Possible New Lady to join me but she has a bad ear infection. I'll see how that goes.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Today in weird youtube recommends

    Woodturning – Golden Rain Burl (The Most Beautiful Wood I Have Ever Turned)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coiln4jGOFc

    almost as weird as the hoof trimming stuff

      • PieInTheSky

        that is kinda cool

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        I just subscribed, thx Tulip!

    • Grummun

      My brother turns bowls, sells them at art shows. When I take a tree down, if I can get the root ball out, I’ll save it for him. It makes for some dramatic grain patterns.

  20. PieInTheSky

    The situation in Bucharest is getting fucking stupid again. Closing the damn restaurants. And most other things. And night curfew. Goddamnit

    • Ghostpatzer

      Nice. Forcing people to crowd together indoors is known to be the best way to deal with Covid. SCIENCE!

      • Plinker762

        The night curfews aren’t for protection against Covid

    • Sean

      ?ļøā€?

    • Loveconstitution1789

      I went to Romania in 1996 on my US Navy ship. I will never forget how Sovietesque Romania looked and about 100 people waiting in line for propane refills to cook their food.

      Everyone knew us Americans had money so they tried to sell us anything they could.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    We can’t end the drug plague war, there’s too much money in it

    A pill that could potentially treat Covid-19 is a “game-changer,” but experts are emphasizing that it’s not an alternative to vaccinations — which remain the most effective path to ending the coronavirus pandemic if enough people get their shots.

    Yet, the average number of people getting vaccinated — at 270,531 — is the lowest it’s been since August 15, according to Friday’s data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A little over 65% of the eligible population is fully vaccinated, the data shows.
    At the same time, the US hit a grim milestone Friday by surpassing 700,000 deaths from Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University’s data. The US tops the world for Covid-19 deaths, followed by Brazil with nearly 600,000 fatalities, according to the data.

    The news from Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics on Friday that they created an antiviral pill that can reduce Covid-19 hospitalization and death by 50% was hailed by health experts, although they cautioned it wasn’t a replacement for vaccinations.

    Magic bullets today, magic bullets tomorrow, magic bullets forever.

    EXPERTS have decreed it so.

    • Tulip

      The number getting vaccinated is lowest…. Isn’t that because so many are already vaccinated? Just such a weird thing to say in this article.

      • rhywun

        I won’t be when the mandatory boosters are ramped up.

      • rhywun

        ugh “It won’t be”

        can’t tipe

    • Ted S.

      Love how they keep using the term “grim milestone”.

      The CBC started this morning with “Doctors in the US are seeing the nation’s higest-ever mortality rate”, which is clearly bullshit if you look at a site like Worldometers. Apparently they were twisting words to mean that the US has more covid deaths than any other nation, but knowing fully well normal people would interpret it to mean that more people were dying from covid today than at any other point in the past 18 months.

      • Akira

        This whole episode is a stark reminder of the general public’s abysmal understanding of statistics.

        This entire time, the media has just been picking whichever statistic seems the worst… One week it’s the death rate, then the next week it will be the raw number of deaths, per capita deaths, hospitalization rate, ICU capacity, and I even heard “percentage of those hospitalized for COVID are under 40”.

        They’ve also been playing with definitions… Like how a “case” is a person who had some ‘Vid particles in their nose, but they would have you assume that it means a person who is laid up with the disease and hacking up clouds of contagion wherever they go… And of course, “COVID deaths” means a person who died after having a positive PCR test at some point in their lives. Ditto with “hospitalized for COVID”.

        You could illustrate every method of deceiving with statistics using the COVID hysteria.

        I’m decidedly not a math enthusiast, but it shouldn’t be hard to see through this bullshit, and I’m very disappointed and concerned that seemingly intelligent people are just listening to the corporate media fearmongering and immediately absorbing everything they’re told with no questioning whatsoever.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        As I say much too often, I was a B student in math and my schooling could have been better, but I still see through this crap. “Here’s where Cameron goes berserk.”

      • CPRM

        I’ve never been good at math, but that’s not because I don’t understand the concepts, it’s more that I forget what I’m doing in the middle of an equation.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Meanwhile, Louisiana reported Friday that a child at or under the age of four died from Covid-19. It was the state’s 17th pediatric death from the virus.

    “We owe it to ourselves, our children and everyone around us to take advantage of the best protection we have, and that is the vaccine and wearing a mask,” Louisiana State Health Officer Dr. Joseph Kanter said.

    How many children have died from choking, or drowning, or hospital-acquired infections?

    • Ted S.

      I assume the dead child had pediatric cancer or some other underlying condition conveniently not mentioned in the article.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    almost as weird as the hoof trimming stuff

    You kids and your euphemisms.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    The number getting vaccinated is lowestā€¦. Isnā€™t that because so many are already vaccinated? Just such a weird thing to say in this article.

    That’s just what a SCIENCE! denialist would say.

  25. ElspethFlashman

    Ireland – I am back to the states after a lovely week over there.

    • Sean

      Will you be sharing any pics of your trip?

      Welcome back.

      • ElspethFlashman

        Totes.

      • Sean

        ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Are you sufficiently pickled?

      • ElspethFlashman

        I actually drank less over there. Until the last two days.

    • KSuellington

      Wherdja go? And most importantly, were the pubs open?

  26. Evan from Evansville

    Anyone got a list of the original Iron Laws?

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Evan,

      Check the FAQs link at the top o’ the page

  27. Sean

    Don’t forget to get your Powerball tickets today.

    • PieInTheSky

      Buy one for me

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      635 million? I could get my roof fixed with that kind of coin.

      • Tulip

        I plan to get one. A ticket to dream.

      • KSuellington

        Exactly what it is, Iā€™ll probably pick one up today. Years ago the guy behind me made a snide comment about odds when I was buying a lotto ticket. I explained that I was paying the buck (at that time it was a buck) to be able to daydream the next day while bored at work. The price of that daydream was easily worth a buck to me. I spend a grand total of about $20 a year on lotto tickets. Itā€™s daydream material.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      I know people get more excited with the lottery being that large.

      They also changed the payout rules so instead of more people getting smaller payouts, less people get larger payouts.

  28. PieInTheSky

    People who aren’t terribly keen on climate hyper-alarmism are also “fascists”, obviously.
    And why are “fascists” drawn to climate scepticism? Because they’re afraid of freedom. The freedom from dependency on fossil fuels.

    Parody is dead.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1444296466936340482

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Funny how the remedies to these ginned up crises always happen to line up with authoritarian leftist political views. Itā€™s almost like theyā€™re really just a means to an end.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Panicking is a virtue.

  29. Toxteth O'Grady

    Which denomination, Spud?

  30. Stinky Wizzleteats

    ā€œPompeo: “No Apologies” For Alleged Plan To Kill Assangeā€

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pompeo-no-apologies-alleged-plan-kill-assange

    I swear, Trumpā€™s personnel selection ability is so piss poor I donā€™t know how he managed to make a single penny. Morality aside, killing Assange would have been a diplomatic disaster of truly epic proportions.

    • 61North (south of Animal, though)

      He completely misunderstood the nature of the bureaucracy and, I am guessing, conflated bureaucratic success with private sector success.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

        The bureaucracy has to be destroyed. It is not salvageable or convertible.

      • LCDR_Fish

        This!!! See the Dominic Cummings article I posted above.

    • CPRM

      A former spook willing to kill someone who is politically damaging to THE SYSTEM?! Inconceivable!

      (I do think what Assange did was illegal and detrimental to security and he should face some sort of retribution, but not death)

      • Gustave Lytton

        Conviction immediately followed by a pardon would be fine in my book. No wait, he’s not a citizen of the US nor did he actually commit a crime in the US afaik. Charges dismissed with prejudice.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      To be fair, Trump had to choose from a short list. Remember, Lefties put out the call to RESIST! Nobody can work for Trump.

      Pompeo and bolton were shit picks. Trump made a bunch of good picks.

  31. Donny Three-Fingers

    So I’m sitting here doing an Indiana Jones marathon. Wife is still in the lab with 4 reactors going. When she gets home, it’s off to Lowe’s to pick up some garden timber for the grill area, the 10’x20′ greenhouse, and a 2x8x8′ unfinished cedar board to glue up for a bass body blank.

    Then Monday I’ll get cracking on a rather long, picture-laden article series about the shop, the Incident, and the process of adaptation to a very changed life.

    • slumbrew

      pick up some garden timber for the grill area, the 10ā€™x20ā€² greenhouse, and a 2x8x8ā€² unfinished cedar board

      Powerball drawing isn’t until tonight – might want to wait on that purchase.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        If I ever play and win, I would drive 8 miles down the road and buy the guy out of black walnut slabs and burls. Live-edged mead hall dining tables for all!

    • KSuellington

      Damn. Iā€™m gonna take a wild guess. Table saw? Those things scare the shit out of me. I have a friend who chopped off two fingers (and got them reattached luckily) working for her dadā€™s cabinet shop.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        Yep. Used it as much after as before, though I will scrimp and save for a bandsaw before I do much more resawing. They tried, but I was clotting too much for it to take. Actually better this way as far as healing and adapting.

      • KSuellington

        Yeah, she had at least a year of PT to get some use back of her left hand. Sorry about your accident, look forward to the article. Your old handle was Three Door, right?

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        Professional Beach Bum

      • KSuellington

        Iā€™d give you a thumbs up, but that might be construed as mocking. Seriously though, thatā€™s impressive that you immediately got back on the horse after that. Good on you.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        A “high three” works

      • slumbrew

        Ooof – I was on my phone before & missed the avatar. I’ll echo KSuellington:

        – table saws scare the crap out of me
        – congrats on getting right back on the horse

    • Gustave Lytton

      itā€™s off to Loweā€™s to pick up some garden timber for the grill area, the 10ā€™x20ā€² greenhouse, and a 2x8x8ā€² unfinished cedar board to glue up for a bass body blank

      Back on the horse already? I’d be using kerosene on the shop right about now.

      • Donny Three-Fingers

        It was a wake-up call, and I have things to make. Soldering is the next frustration to deal with. The Faux Paul needs assembly, setup, and intonation. ’67 P-bass needs new guts, a nut, and setup, and I need to build a lefty PJ bass so I can learn to play again.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    From LCDR Fish link:

    Trump could have taken another branching history in February 2020 and stomped on covid ā€” closed the borders (with the Democrats screaming ā€˜racistā€™), forced strict lockdowns, controlled the virus, and fired/appointed people to do vaccines at war-speed (with the Democrats screaming ā€˜fascistā€™). If he had he would have won.

    Aaaand done. Fuck off, stupid.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m not certain that was a moral judgement, just an observation. But it may have been.

    • KSuellington

      And then the virus wouldā€™ve been banished forever from our shores. Just like Iā€™m Australia where life is totally normal.

      • rhywun

        Someone’s going to be in the hot seat if/when they finally join the rest of the world again. Nobody wants to be that person ergo they will never re-open.

      • KSuellington

        Pretty easily foreseeable. I wonder how long they can keep it up. My kids mentioned visiting their aunt recently in Perth and I had to tell them that was likely not happening till they were adults. Iā€™ve never been to the Antipodes and at this point it looks like I never will (at least this bullshit is saving me some serious coin).

    • Ted S.

      Trump actually tried to do those things, trying to stop flights from Wuhan and suggesting a tighter lockdown for the NYC area. The Democrat governors and the Deep State blocked him.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And on the flip side in the closing days of the Trump admin, they were going to start reducing restrictions on international travel. Biden admin’s first acts was to cancel that and institute even further ones. Crickets.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        +100000

  33. The Late P Brooks

    If I had a horse, I’d name it “Grim Milestone” and enter it in the Kentucky Derby.

    • CPRM

      That horse won’t run in Kentucky.

  34. The Late P Brooks
    • CPRM

      Good gravy

      Suddenly I want some Country Fried Steak with White Gravy…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well hell..
        Now me too

  35. The Late P Brooks

    And then the virus wouldā€™ve been banished forever from our shores. Just like Iā€™m Australia where life is totally normal.

    Trump should have gotten up on his back legs, fired Foochy in the most public and humiliating way possible, and told the nation, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

    • CPRM

      ā€œThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself Government deciding every aspect of your life.ā€

    • KSuellington

      Trumpā€™s handling of the Vid was absolutely fucking dismal. He should have never panicked and closed off flights (The Best Move!!) and, yes, he should have fired Fauciā€™s decrepit ass in April of 2020.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Trump couldnt fire fauci. Fauci is The director of the NIAID and has been since the 1980s. He is a super bureaucrat.

        I think Trump should have not treated covid any different than the flu but democrats were never going to let that happen.

  36. Ownbestenemy

    Put on Eddie Izzard for chorin background noise. Laugh while you work

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Have you got a flag?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pears are asshole. They are ripe for 30 minutes and never when you go to get them. /obviously don’t have his timing

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ?? or ā˜ ļø?

    • CPRM

      I never really cared enough to look, but is his xer drag thing just for laughs, or is he xe really into that?

      Either way, The Riches was great.

      • Ownbestenemy

        He is and I believe he hates what his culture has become.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Not sure what to make of him these days; he sounds a bit confused. Went to see him a couple of years ago and it was unmemorable. I was expecting the “‘ciao!’ / wink / rev Vespa” iteration.