Saturday Morning Who Are You People? Links

by | Oct 23, 2021 | Daily Links | 204 comments

                     His candidacy is sounding promising.

There is much joy and celebration at our little shop. One of the girls is no longer a girl! Them is stunning, them is brave! Them changed theys name from something pretentiously WASPy to something pretentiously stupid, with reference to wizards, warriors, video games, and god knows what purple hair obsession. Them also changed theys pronouns in all of theys social media, to great fanfare from our staff. Apparently, the correct response when shrieked at, “ISN’T THIS WONDERFUL???” is not to shake my head and roll my eyes. This caused a fresh round of screaming, though not of the friendly sort. One of the screamers had recently commented to me that she was looking forward to getting out of here and seeking her fortune in the Big City. My response was, “You won’t last a day before dissolving into a puddle of horror, tears, outrage, shrieking, and shattered dreams, you ridiculous self-centered sniveling snowflake.” Then out loud, I responded, “I hope that works out well for you.”

What else worked out well? Birthdays, that’s what, and todays include a wonderfully named general; a rather petty individual; the only guy with this name worth shit; a guy who dared coach at Oberlin, and has presumably been canceled; a guy who dotted all his Is; a guy who showed that even men could have periods; a guy whose ashes were placed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall’s porch; a guy who refined the art of grabbing his knee and rolling around; the absolute king of shitty pop culture; a brilliant, pioneering, and creative troll who has sadly faded away; a disgusting piece of shit who has elevated hysteria to an entertainment form; a musician whose shtick is limited yet insanely successful; a pretty decent bassist who, if I didn’t mention him, would cause me to be screamed at by Tulip; and the result of crossing a piece of shit with a different piece of shit.

Onward to Links.

 

I like how they carefully stepped around the women he beat and the teen prostitute he killed.

 

Wanna bet this whole thing was related to a union action?

 

Someone about to be canceled. Again. Oops.

 

“My preferred policies override the Constitution.”

 

This the the best Tommy Flinagen imitation since Ari Fleisher.

 

This is much too reasonable and clearheaded.

 

Old Guy Music features one of my favorite drummers. The energy here is almost at Keith Moon level, but what stood Krupa apart was the sheer rhythmic drive. Even just playing the tom, he pushes the band and sets a perfect groove.

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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.

204 Comments

  1. robodruid

    Good Morning All.
    Some chickens fed.
    Have to move hay, and order a small tractor today. and buy some silver and fertilizer, prices on everything going up….

    Feel sorry for Mr. Baldwin, and someone commented on how cruel comments were on breightbart. Horrible but with all the tension and insanity of the past 2 years not unexpected. I fear its only going to get worse.
    (repost)
    fertilizer for the garden and fields. Prices spiking
    Sun finally coming up.

    • Fourscore

      I’d like to help but, uh, it’s Saturday and one of my day’s off this week.

      What kind of tractor? It’s probably sitting in a container in the Pacific right now.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Hoyt-Clagwell.

      • rhywun

        It’s probably sitting in a container in the Pacific right now.

        Or sitting in a warehouse waiting for a ship and/or crew to become available.

      • robodruid

        33hp Kubota, stick shift.
        A roto-tiller (lots of moving part) on site is cheaper than a discker (sp?) that has to be ordered.
        Crazy
        Even crazier they are still offering 84 month zero percent.

      • juris imprudent

        I think I’ll be in the market for one of those in the not too distant future.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Discer.

        You disc a field.

      • Fourscore

        I thought about a Mahinda or Kubota but I just didn’t have a lot of use for one. I have a Farmall Cub (as in my avatar) and garden tillers, lawn tractors, snow blower.

        I’d like to have had the bucket on the front though.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Why farm half, when you can FARMALL!

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Nice robo. I have a 28 hp L series Kubota from the 90s. It’s a bit underpowered for what I need, but still does the job.

        I’ve been trying to find suitcase weights for it without much luck. May have to go to the dealer. My property is hilly and the front wheels already popped up a slight incline carrying a round bale on the back hay spike. Switched to moving hay in reverse after that.

      • Gustave Lytton

        You need one of those hay squeezes. I’m sure the missus wouldn’t mind another piece of machinery. Not sure how well rounds would work though. Square bales are still popular around here.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        We used square bales for years but they’ve gotten too expensive so switched to round this year. We paid $5.50/ 50lb bale last year and needed 100 bales. Round bales are only 30 bucks each and I can get by with 7 (700lb/bale).

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      In many ways, Baldwin was the absolute worst for this to happen to in this sense. His reputation as a smug, heartless leftist precedes him, and his social media history includes many snide remarks to human tragedy. I’m sure many will see it as karmic that it gets flipped back on him in spades.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        In many ways

        Oops, changed what I was doing midstream and didn’t clean up before hitting post.

      • rhywun

        Better it happened to him than someone I respect or even admire.

      • Fatty Bolger

        ^^^^

      • Chafed

        ?

    • Brawndo

      Baldwin is a pro gun control piece of shit, why is he (and all of the pro gun control Hollywood) making movies glorify gun violence? I don’t feel any sympathy for him, only for the victims of the accident. If he’s a decent human being he’ll feel serious remorse (not just a canned twitter apology) for the rest of his life.

  2. Sean

    Meh. I’m gonna go watch episode 1 of Clarkson´s Farm.

    I’ll report back later.

    • l0b0t

      Watching him try to plough his field was a great deal of fun. The only thing that could have improved upon it would be the presence of James May to mock him.

      • rhywun

        I’ll watch anything with James May in it.

    • robodruid

      I can easily see myself making the same mistakes he made.
      Love the show.

    • Sean

      The visuals are great.

      The show is thoroughly Clarkson. If you don’t like him, you probably won’t enjoy the show.

      I like it so far.

      • slumbrew

        I really enjoyed the series and I’m looking forward to season 2.

        I learned a lot about farming while being entertained.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I marathoned it in one go. The end is kind of libertarianish.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I marathoned it all in one go. The end is kind of libertarianish.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    One of the girls is no longer a girl!

    She’s a woman now, right?

  4. Ghostpatzer

    Mornin’, all.

    My response was, “You won’t last a day before dissolving into a puddle of horror, tears, outrage, shrieking, and shattered dreams, you ridiculous self-centered sniveling snowflake.” Then out loud, I responded, “I hope that works out well for you.”

    Lol. Your self-control is impressive.

    • Fourscore

      “It’ll fit in better with your education, there are far too few Early Hindu Pottery majors around, especially at Denny’s”

      • Old Man With Candy

        Well, true to stereotype, she (? who the fuck knows today?) is a barista.

    • rhywun

      That front-seat window he has into today’s insanities is a treat to read about every weekend.

      • Timeloose

        It’s like an episode of woke charmed.

      • juris imprudent

        Proving once again that real life is stranger than fiction.

    • Drake

      So many conversations I just abstain from these days.

      There is a VP at work I do projects for. Every time we have a Teams meeting he makes fun of my picture – says my expression is what his dad would give him when he stayed out all night. I always tell him it’s the appropriate expression given the performance of our team members.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Needz moar truant officers

    On Sept. 28, Los Angeles Unified School District made headlines after revealing a drop of more than 27,000 students compared to its enrollment the previous year — the steepest decline seen by the city in years. The same week, a news analysis of Chicago Public Schools data showed the district had lost 10,000 students, meaning it may no longer be the nation’s third-largest. Other top school systems, like Houston Independent School District, have yet to publicize their counts.

    In late September, the New York Post reported that roughly 200 schools in New York City were missing at least a quarter of their student bodies, and 51 had absentee rates above 40 percent. In hopes of tracking down missing kids, the Department of Education pressed principals to reach out via calls, texts, letters and home visits.

    ——-

    The district this year is requiring in-person learning for most students after last year when a majority of families opted for online instruction. With many parents still worried for the spread of COVID-19 in schools, especially those whose children are still too young to receive coronavirus immunizations, it remains unclear how many have chosen to keep their children home for safety concerns.

    It has nothing to do with the public education racket having revealed itself to be naught but a scam for the enrichment of the teachers’ unions.

    • rhywun

      many parents still worried for the spread of COVID-19

      So sick of this trite explanation being rolled out everywhere.

      No, assholes, the reason I am not participating in before-times activities is not because I’m “worried”, it’s because I refuse to comply with the stupid theater.

      I’m equally sure that many parents resent dealing with the fallout from muzzling up their kids all day but you’ll never see that reported.

      • DrOtto

        If you go on the Nextdoor app and read comments from parents (never go on the Nextdoor app), you’ll see that a level of crazy still runs strong through the momma bear sect of the Covid 19 religion.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Nextdoor

        I think I see where the problem lies

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Nextdoor makes Facebook seem rational people hang out and have well-thought-out comments.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Someone on Nextdoor did the dihydrogen monoxide schtick warning about the incoming storm and there was a whole lot of complaining about posting misinformation when people are so nervous about COVID. The post got taken down. So many stupid people.

  6. Gender Traitor

    Joe
    CATHETER
    ——-for——-
    STATE ASSEMBLY

    I hope urine his district.

    What do you want this early in the morning???

    • Old Man With Candy

      Wee aren’t. This was in Rochester during our expedition up there this past week.

    • The Gunslinger

      That’s golden GT. Golden.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Swiss is gonna be pissed.

      • The Gunslinger

        Yeah, he’ll shower us with scorn

      • Pope Jimbo

        I don’t care, these puns always tinkle my funny bone

    • Plisade

      I was hoping no one would piss in my coffee.

    • TARDis

      Look at the mess you are creatin(ine) for Swissy.

      • juris imprudent

        Ureally are asking for it.

    • R.J.

      Hopefully he’ll open up and spill his full agenda soon.

      • Fourscore

        That’s just a sample of what to expect, you’ll see the results later

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      Is he a big believer in trickle-down economics?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That’s, like, totally tubular.

    • Michael Malaise

      I’m sure he has this election in the bag.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Boo hoo hoo why can’t/won’t facebook muzzle people we don’t like?

    But what unfolded on the platform and in Washington was especially disheartening to Haugen and other members of the civic integrity team, a group of employees dedicated to tackling political misinformation and protecting elections around the world, which Facebook disbanded in early December.

    Haugen and other former employees NPR spoke with say the steps Facebook took around the election and Capitol insurrection show just how much the company knows about the problems endemic to its platform — and how resistant it is to make changes that affect the growth it prizes above all else.

    “The thing I think we should be discussing is, what choices did Facebook make to expose the public to greater risk than was necessary?” Haugen said. “We should ask who gets to resolve these tradeoffs between safety and Facebook’s profits.”

    Long mopey thumbsucker about facebook’s obdurate refusal to kick millions of wrongthinkers off the platform and create a walled garden of progressive harmony.

    Look in a mirror, you snivelling fucks.

    • rhywun

      protecting elections around the world

      And when Facebook was done with that, they were going to heal the earth and end hate.

    • Pope Jimbo

      This seems to be a very big version of “I used to like that band before they sold out and all the normies started listening to them”.

      I sort of get how FB users might want to kick out people who don’t tow the lion, but I don’t understand the workers. Don’t they understand that if they got their way they’d soon be out of a job?

      It would be like the clerk at a convenience store deciding that the customers coming inside and buying high margin stuff was a real drag and trying to force his boss to convert to only allow pay-at the pump at the store. Great for the worker, but how long do you think think they will last?

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        They’ll make it up in volume.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    That’s very limiting. You have so many other genders to explore, yet you’re stuck in your cis het white privilege. I feel sorry for you.

    I endeavor to persevere.

    • DEG

      🙂

  9. Fourscore

    Thanks, OM. Your efforts are greatly appreciated on the week ends and the other days as well.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    They included efforts to slow down the growth of political groups that could be vectors for misinformation and extremism. Facebook reduced the visibility of posts and comments deemed likely to incite violence so that people were less likely to see them. And the company designated the U.S. a “high risk location” so it could more aggressively delete harmful posts.

    Facebook knew groups dedicated to politics and related issues — which it calls “civic groups” — presented particular risks, especially when it came to amplifying misinformation and growing more quickly than the company could keep up with.

    Misinformation being anything the drooling progressive sycophants at the Ministry of Truth disagree with.

  11. Not Adahn

    ALB Chick-fil-A:

    It’s according to type. The coffee is served with actual dairy. The counterperson says “my pleasure.”

    • Plisade

      Is that a haiku?

      • Not Adahn

        Typing and Glibbing
        On a tablet is tricky
        Replies suffer most

      • The Gunslinger

        Is that a haiku?

      • Not Adahn

        Haikus are easy
        But they don’t always make sense
        Refrigerator

      • The Gunslinger

        I have never tried. So I guess I wouldn’t know. Serendipity.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Baldwin removed the gun from its holster once without incident, but the second time he did so, ammunition flew toward the trio around the monitor. The projectile whizzed by the camera operator but penetrated Hutchins near her shoulder, then continued through to Souza. Hutchins immediately fell to the ground as crew members applied pressure to her wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

    Oh.

    • Fourscore

      Damned cheap ammo, can’t be trusted to stay in one place. It’s uncontrollable. Never buy the army surplus stuff again.

      • Not Adahn

        You can tell it’s quality journalisming by the use of “whizzed.”

      • rhywun

        I can think of better ways to combine “Alec Baldwin” and “whizzed”.

      • DrOtto

        Now do R. Kelly

      • Cy Esquire

        He’s WAY too old for that!

      • TARDis

        Hey, the pee pun is up above.

  13. l0b0t

    “A general is honor bound
    To think in terms of battleground
    But Stevenson… Civilian, son
    Can lead us ’til the peace is won.”

    Narrator’s voice – General Eisenhower won the election

  14. Ghostpatzer

    “Sotomayor was ready with a seven-page dissent to point out that Roe v. Wade is effectively nullified in the country’s second-largest state.”

    After reading the CNN slobberfest on Sotomayor I found this:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey

    I might be missing something, but It seems this supercedes Roe v Wade, specifically it overrides the trimester requirement in favor of fetal viability.

    “The Court overturned the Roe trimester framework in favor of a viability analysis, thereby allowing states to implement abortion restrictions that apply during the first trimester of pregnancy.”

    I think Texas is still on shaky ground here, I’m not sure a six-week old fetus is viable at this point. But that is subject to change as technology advances.

    Any legal/medical glibs care to weigh in on this?

    • R C Dean

      Viability is no earlier than 20 weeks, is my understanding. You could set it a few weeks later, depending on what survival rate you want to use as a threshold.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Any legal/medical glibs care to weigh in on this?

      Viability is just as garbage a standard as trimester, but it’s the least garbage standard they could come up with. Sotomayor is playing a dangerous game, because if this ban were to make it to SCOTUS, they’d overrule Roe and Casey. The conservative majority was and is disappointing on many issues, but abortion won’t be one of them. Barrett and Kavanaugh were specifically selected to overturn Roe.

      • juris imprudent

        Roe stands on Griswold and that is the abomination that needs to be shitcanned.

    • juris imprudent

      From TOS, but worth understanding what is objectionable about the TX law.

  15. Tulip

    I don’t understand my connection to Robert Trujillo.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Is my recollection of you being a big Metallica fan just a fevered dream aftereffect of too many pudding cups?

  16. Not Adahn

    I have recently learned about St. Esterica — from an Ashkenaz.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    All purpose trump card

    Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin came under fire this week after he accused allies of Democratic megadonor George Soros of planting political operatives on Virginia school boards, with some critics calling Youngkin’s comments antisemitic.

    “It was just offensive,” said Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (D), who is Jewish and represents the district where Youngkin made the comment. “I was absolutely shocked and just could not believe that he would go there.”

    Filler-Corn’s comments followed remarks from Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), who is also Jewish.

    “I call it out in my own party and I’m calling it out now. Evoking George Soros as a shadowy funder is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory,” Luria said in a tweet on Wednesday. “This is an unacceptable statement from Glenn Youngkin.”

    He doesn’t trust George Soros? He wants all Jews shoved into the ovens!

    • Q Continuum

      “some critics calling Youngkin’s comments antisemitic”

      Anti-semitic like collaborating with Nazis? Oh wait, that doesn’t count because Soros gives lots of money to the right groups.

    • rhywun

      “I was absolutely shocked and just could not believe that he would go there.”

      I’ll take “Shit That Never Happened” for a thousand, Alex.

      • juris imprudent

        Let’s make it a true daily double Alex on “These people are liars”.

      • DrOtto

        Jew hater!!!

  18. The Late P Brooks

    To be honest, I kind of thought the George-Soros-as-all-purpose-bogeyman thing had pretty much played itself out.

    • Not Adahn

      Are we supposed to pretend there wasn’t a deliberate attempt to get a specific slate of DAs elected?

      • R C Dean

        And Secretaries of State, who run elections. After his puppet won in AZ for Secretary of State, Dems started winning statewide elections. Correlation is not causation, but it’s a damn odd coincidence.

      • TARDis

        If only we had a plethora of three letter government agencies to investigate and charge people for this type of behavior. I know they are all busy with the horde of concerned parents domestic terrorists invading school board meetings, but they should look into corruption in the election system.

    • juris imprudent

      This isn’t all-purpose, this is pretty specific.

      • Drake

        Soros and his lieutenants make no secret of goals and their general desire to destroy western civilization.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I have been surprised by some of the places outside the national news cycle where I’ve seen his name pop up. Him and Gates.

      I’m also full-on tinfoil hat when it comes to non-profits. I’ve seen the webs they’ve spun first hand. Just because the non-profit you’re giving money to seems neutral and purpose driven doesn’t mean it’s not a front for the leftist constellation of activist non-profits.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        The Right ceded a whole shit-ton of ground to the Left after the Regan revolution. And the Non-profit/QUANGO/University axis is probably the worst of it.

  19. Not Adahn

    Lily is at the boarders. On the one hand, I’m glad she doesn’t suffer from separation anxiety. OTOH, it would have been nice if she noticed I left.

    She would be easy to steal.

    • Tulip

      She’ll be thrilled when you return.

  20. l0b0t

    Did them have gender affirmation surgery yet? Until they do, they are just a play-acting dilettante. Get that bottom-smile filled in and I’ll take you seriously.

    • juris imprudent

      So for gender-fluids, what do they install down there – Playdough?

      • Plisade

        I’ve wondered that, too. But I’m too afraid to Google it.

      • rhywun

        Don’t Google M2F either.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        They will just strap something on.

  21. rhywun

    Many scientific disciplines, including my own area of physics, had too few women and minorities in the 1970s and ’80s.

    ? That’s as far as I got before the paywall kicked in.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Are we supposed to pretend there wasn’t a deliberate attempt to get a specific slate of DAs elected?

    I just haven’t seen much about Soros, lately. I guess I just don’t keep up.

    And yes, I think Soros’ front groups have highly specific goals which I do not want them to achieve.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    The Washington Post on Thursday highlighted Luria’s criticism as well as concerns from the Jewish Democratic Council of America, in which the group told the Jewish website The Forward that Youngkin is “not disassociating himself from Republicans who use antisemitism as a political strategy.

    He might as well be riding at the head of the lynch mob!

    • rhywun

      Republicans who use antisemitism as a political strategy

      Such as?

      Of course, they will respond “all of them” but some names would be helpful.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Meanwhile, a party that has embraced antisemitics and barely disguised antisemiticism…

      • juris imprudent

        Must all be Goldwater’s fault.

      • Drake

        Republicans can’t stop falling over themselves to fund Israel’s military.

    • Pope Jimbo

      * squints at Ilhan Omar and Rashinda Tlaib *

      * squints at Younkin *

      I’m not seeing the same antisemitism that these folks are.

    • DEG

      There’s lots of repeated content and content from The Chive in there.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Uffda. I read that as Ogre Tits and thought that we were going to have to put on an intervention for Q.

      It started with the Chive, but then I started needing more. I thought that maybe furry tits would be enough, but soon I was looking at Elf tits. And it just went downhill from there. Hobbit tits, Dwarf tits, Ent tits and finally Orc and Ogre tits. BUT I SWEAR I NEVER SUNK SO LOW AS TO LOOK AT LENA DUNHAM TITS!

  24. creech

    Here’s a strange juxtaposition of words in this morning’s AP story about the “deal” that Brandon is trying to put together to save his $3.5 trillion goody bag:
    “At the White House, the president has ‘rolled up his sleeves and is deep in the details of spread-sheets and numbers’ press secretary Jen Psaki said. Biden was to spend the weekend at his home in Wilmington, Delaware.”

    • Timeloose

      I can see old Joe now with his green visor and sharpened pencil trying to make those pesky numbers bend to his will.

      I can also see him napping in the Oval Office chair with empty cups of pudding and ice cream surrounding him.

      Which is more likely.

      • rhywun

        With Red off in the empty press room selling what’s left of her soul in preparation for her next press briefing.

      • Fourscore

        LOL, and before breakfast too.

    • Plisade

      Haha! What I wouldn’t give to see Brandon trying to parse a spreadsheet. I can imagine the crowd around him pointing at the screen, stifling laughs…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yeah sure… whatever….

    • Pope Jimbo

      You know Wilmington is pretty close to the Atlantic – which is technically a border – so maybe Joe is just multi-tasking. Fixing the budget AND visiting the border.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Michael Bloomberg haz a sad

    An employee who returned fire after a gunman killed two people at a Nebraska grain elevator likely prevented more deaths, a Nebraska State Patrol official said Friday.

    The employee, who was not named, retrieved a weapon and shot Max Hoskinson, 61, after Hoskinson began shooting at the Agrex Elevator in Superior, Nebraska, on Thursday. Hoskinson, of Superior, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

    ——-

    Patrol Sgt. Jeff Roby said during the news conference that authorities do not anticipate filing any charges against the employee who shot Hoskinson.

    “In fact, it’s likely that the employee’s actions may have prevented much further loss of life in this tragedy,” Roby said.

    The “good guy with a gun” is a myth.

    A MYTH, I tell you!

    • Pope Jimbo

      Well I’m glad that good guy didn’t myth. He thaved a lot of liveth.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        Legit lol

  26. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Morning all. Pondered the neighbor thing overnight and realized the demand letter is just plain stupid. It wasn’t sent certified mail, it wasn’t served.

    She asked for a few things:

    No contact – Fine, whatever, yes please leave me alone

    Her house key – Uh, change your damn locks like a rational person

    Her garage door opener – Uh, there’s only one and it’s on your key fob and change the code if you’re concerned

    The combination to her safe – I take that to mean she can’t find the original in her hoarding situation. My wife had found her bridge that was missing for two years this summer. If you can’t find your teeth… Regardless, I’m not giving up the combination.( which I don’t have the original of, just a photo) until I get assurances that she’ll leave us the fuck alone from here on out. I would be a fool to give that combo to anyone without something in return since it’s only information and easily distributed. I’ll let my attorney handle it. Besides, get the safe opened and move your valuables to a new one you cheap old woman, you’ve got the money.

    In any case, I’ll be talking to an attorney on Monday. Bah…,

  27. The Late P Brooks
    • creech

      And Philly is trying hard to become the actual murder capital of the U.S. this year. Those darn Amish gunslingers.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Batten the hatches!

    ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Approaches as U.S. Readies For ‘Strongest Storm in Northwest History’

    Weather site Accuweather describes Friday’s event as the first of a “parade of storms to hit western U.S.” as well as dubbing it “a beast of a bomb cyclone.”

    All apocalypse, all the time.

    • juris imprudent

      I wonder if there won’t be a period of stoicism that follows the collapse of hyperventilating media?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        They’ll only stop by force. Too many people lap up this “worst ever” crisis era bullshit.

      • juris imprudent

        So force applied to lots of people. Hmm. That doesn’t sound like a promising plan.

        Not that I disagree, the problem is exactly that – what the average person is like, what they want and how little they actually engage in thinking.

    • Not Adahn

      That doesn’t really scan to “Barbara Ann.”

  29. Pope Jimbo

    STEVE SMITH forgot Rule 1: Never RAPE it in crazy

    A California woman, Claudia Ackley, 46, is suing the state of California in an attempt to force the state to say what she actually saw was a Bigfoot.

    California’s Fish and Wildlife Department assured her she encountered a bear, not Bigfoot, but she isn’t having it. She insists that it was a Bigfoot that she saw and she wants it officially recognized as a species.

    She wants it to be confirmed that the supposed mythical creature that is human in form, but bigger and covered with hair, is real. There are thousands of sightings each year and many more who believe they exist.

    Claudia said that the encounter helped her realize that life is beautiful and there is much we don’t know. She got divorced and lost 125 pounds. She said she stopped wasting her life and decided to follow her dreams.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Well, I think they’ve found the target audience for those Sasquatch romance novels…

    • trshmnstr the terrible

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      • Gustave Lytton

        If anything, she’s gonna want the padding for the pounds. And by pounds, mean…

      • juris imprudent

        Tres Cool hit hardest.

    • creech

      “Claudia said that the encounter helped her realize that life is beautiful ” And by “beautiful” she means….

  30. The Late P Brooks

    “The heaviest rain can target portions of Central and Northern California. While any rainfall will ultimately help reduce drought concerns, there is such a thing as ‘too much of a good thing’.

    “Too much rain falling too quickly can lead to flash flooding and mudslides, especially for fresh burn scars.”

    “The heaviest snowfall will likely be confined to the highest elevations of the Sierra Nevada, but snowfall may approach pass levels at times and can lead to disruptions in travel.”

    Why can’t the world be like a carefully tended English garden? Why must there be change and confusion?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Claudia said that the encounter helped her realize that life is beautiful and there is much we don’t know. She got divorced and lost 125 pounds. She said she stopped wasting her life and decided to follow her dreams.

    Dreams which may or may not revolve around interspecies canoodling.

  32. DEG

    Still, she writes to illuminate her colleague’s missteps with the hope that someday her dissents will become majority opinions.

    The Wise Latina knows all and deigns to enlighten us.

    “Sing Sing Sing” is a good song but can be a pain to dance to.

    • juris imprudent

      Said building becoming completely unlivable within what, 30 days?

    • rhywun

      Dorms are for payers.

      The university’s first attempt to provide temporary beds was during the spring semester, but just a single student utilized the facility though officials knew there were many more in need.

      ??

    • Cy Esquire

      We’re going to house the students…

      You know? The students… that need housing.

      A house that has students in it….

      We’ll call it…. A homeless shelter!

      God, we’re brilliant! How did the world turn without us?!?!

      *feints from spike of self worth dopamine*

      • rhywun

        Just putting them in a dorm and paying for it wouldn’t let them get social credit points from progressives.

        This way they get to more easily prop them up for political purposes.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    I wonder if there won’t be a period of stoicism that follows the collapse of hyperventilating media?

    Magic 8-Ball says, “Not bloody likely.”

  34. ignoreLander

    Still, she writes to illuminate her colleague’s missteps with the hope that someday her dissents will become majority opinions

    “If it doesn’t agree with my politics, it’s a ‘misstep'”

    FUCK YOU, wise latina woman.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hasn’t Sotomayor been fairly good on curbing police powers?

      Agreed that this whining isn’t good, but she’s 10 times better than Kagan.

    • juris imprudent

      Aren’t you supposed to never go full retard?

    • rhywun

      falsely casting doubt on the legitimacy of the election and calling for violence

      Anyone know if this is true? I mean, it’s NPR.

    • KSuellington

      Zuck spent 419 million on the election itself, not the campaign. That is more than the federal guv spent on it. I’d say he did his part for the fortification. Interesting that the lefties still think that wasn’t enough.

      • rhywun

        I hope Biden goes down in flames and that prick doesn’t get any of the favors he’s expecting in return.

        CWAA

      • KSuellington

        Hopefully Biden’s numbers will continue to plummet and with it the chances of that massive spending spree. Already there is little chance of it being more than half what they originally wanted, but as Joe will keep putting on performances like the fake “townhall” he did the other nite, I’d say that it keeps dropping. Let’s Go Brandon!

    • l0b0t

      I’m pining for those Model 92 Trapper’s Carbines with the 14” barrels. Also, the display board from United States Cartridge Company.

      • DEG

        There’s a Winchester lever action in there in .45-70 that I like.

        Lots of works of art in there. The engraved guns are beautiful.

    • creech

      Obviously distracted by tOSU cheerleaders?

    • l0b0t

      That was beautiful.

  35. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    It’s db’s Halloween costume!!

  36. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Every time I come home from an extended time away, there’s some household disaster awaiting me. This time it was my portable AC – the exhaust tube had become dislodged and was blowing hot air all over. My house is – I shit you not – 90+ degrees. It’s only 58 outside. I can only figure that the AC had kicked in when it was warm on Thursday/Friday and started blowing it’s hot exhaust everywhere. And that is not a euphemism, because now I’m overheated & cranky AF.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      so stick the pipe back out the window and turn the thing on! open a door? do you have a box fan? First World Problems indeed….

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      *its

    • rhywun

      You didn’t turn it off when you went away? *shakes head*

      🙂

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Serves me right for thinking because it was fine literally all summer since May, that it would be fine for one damn week!

  37. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Palate cleanser: GSD puppies & parents Conrad & Lucy, with Cutie Pie the pug, Tilly the kelpie, and Yoyo the pittie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0xCU4lU0KY

  38. KSuellington

    Maybe we will eventually get the story of how Baldwin came to be pointing a loaded gun at his director of photography and director. Did the scene call for him to be shooting it directly at the camera? I feel sorry for the woman’s family, but not so for Baldwin. Maybe it was his natural progressive instinct to “trust the experts”, but he should have personally checked the gun himself before pointing it at people and pulling the trigger. It doesn’t matter that it was supposed to be loaded with blanks or not. Because he is one of the Chosen Elite he will not suffer any criminal penalties for this massive fuck up. Likely there will be a scape goat underling tossed to the wolves for that.

    • Drake

      I despise everyone involved. Cannot imagine saying “cold gun” without confirming myself. If was handed a “cold gun” I would still probably check and still wouldn’t aim at anyone. It took a long chain of assholes to makes this happen.

      And what was live for-real not blank ammo even doing on the set. When I clean or sry-fire a weapon, I do not bring any ammo into the room with me.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        When I put a mag in the 590M, then pull it back out, it has a nasty habit of leaving a shell behind in the chamber, without racking the slide, I always check it, before I put it away, JIC.

      • Drake

        Wasn’t his life that depended on it..

      • KSuellington

        Baldwin is an anti gun zealot, so like most of those, he is above having to learn the simple rules of firearm safety. Those annoyances are left to the help. I’d bet he couldn’t give you the Four Rules if his life depended on it.

    • whiz

      FTA, it sounded like he was practicing drawing the weapon, so it might have fired in a direction different from his final, intended “target.”

      Supposedly an assistant director told him the gun was “cold.”

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        How’s one of those rules go?

        Oh yeah, “Never point your firearm at anything you do not intend to destroy.”

        That includes when you’re practising drawing or aiming, even if it’s with a plastic SimGun, Baldwin you dumbass. There’s a reason why they expect you to always follow the rules; it’s so that you develop a muscle memory and the safe behaviour becomes automatic.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The question remains as to why the economic status of racial minorities is in the purview of the DOJ.

      • Drake

        You sir are obviously an antisemitic racist. (I think he’s Jewish, can’t be bothered to check)

    • Gustave Lytton

      In June, Secret Service and local law enforcement put together a checkpoint at an intersection on the way to the home

      Where’s a Hawaiian judge to rule that blocking access to public streets is illegal?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Fuck. Was supposed to be under Biden’s beachfront second? third? home.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’m going to ignore it and remember the 80’s.

    • Drake

      You know who else let his teammates down by catching an easily preventable disease?

  39. Mojeaux

    A good friend is getting married, but she’s only sending invites to people who are vaxxed. Weirdly, I am not upset, just amused.