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Banjos

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

321 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    I would be willing to pay to watch this

    I hope these inept fucks that are doing this get it in the ass and we all get to see how corrupt they are.

    • waffles

      I thought Alex Jones was there telling people it was a trap and to not go in to the capitol. What did Alex Jones know? Well, everything it appears.

  2. PieInTheSky

    Only 3 Out Of 10 Americans Say The Country Is Doing ‘Well’ Under Biden – racism seems to be alive and well in the US of A

    • AlexinCT

      In every fucking poll I have ever seen about 25% of the people will make you wonder what the fuck they are thinking or is wrong with them. You do a poll on the freakiest and nastiestly stupid shit, and 25% will be all for it. That’s what explains this poll..

      • RBS

        It’s people like my dependa cousin. She is completely divorced from reality. She has literally never had a job other than working retail during college that my step-dad paid for after my uncle died. After college she married a VMI grad who commissioned in the Army. Since then she’s lived in France, Germany, California and now NYC. No kids, no job, no responsibilities, completely in the tank for every dumbass “progressive” policy since as long as I can remember.

      • AlexinCT

        Sounds like VMI sure as hell went downhill after I was there if her husband puts up with that shit.

      • Rebel Scum

        There she stands, persisting like a stone wall…

      • Threedoor

        Dependa and officer was all you needed to say.
        Academy educated tend to be even further to the left than regular officers.

    • Fourscore

      My son complained that Reagan was taking too many vacations, I was complaining he wasn’t taking enough. Biden needs to stop working so hard and relax more.

  3. Not Adahn

    And the worst part is, they didn’t even keep Cruz out of the school-to-prison pipeline.

    Now that they’ve gotten settlements with the local, state, and fedgov, do they sue the UN next?

  4. Rebel Scum

    The House select committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot subpoenaed Roger Stone, whom former President Trump pardoned, and radio host Alex Jones, along with a few others involved in the rally. …

    “The Select Committee is seeking information about the rallies and subsequent march to the Capitol that escalated into a violent mob attacking the Capitol and threatening our democracy,” Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said Monday in a statement, the news outlet reported.

    “We need to know who organized, planned, paid for, and received funds related to those events, as well as what communications organizers had with officials in the White House and Congress,” he added.

    “We believe the witnesses we subpoenaed today have relevant information and we expect them to cooperate fully with our effort to get answers for the American people about the violence of January 6th,” Thompson said.

    Stone wasn’t there and Jones is on camera explicitly calling for a peaceful demonstration. But dissent from the regime will not be tolerated.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s about finding something, anything, related or otherwise, to punish people that fight them. The process IS the punishment. But these fools are constantly failing to realize some people can fight back and then they are the ones that lose regardless of all the work from their propaganda arm (old media).

    • rhywun

      We will not stand for these Un-American Activities!

  5. AlexinCT

    Kyle Rittenhouse accuses Biden of ‘malice’ and of ‘defaming him’ with ‘white supremacist’ label

    I hope that’s cause they will be suing Brandon whom said these things while he was not in office (and thus lacks protection from being a lying fuck). And I hope he sues the shit out of the old media as well. He and Sandman should own CNN/MSNBC and tell them what their programming will be going forward. And Stelter and Reid should be turned into their chauffeur/house mad. Of course, Stelter should be the maid in a French maid’s uniform cause Reid would freak me the fuck out with that fugly.

  6. PieInTheSky

    Parkland families of school shooting victims reach $130 million settlement with DOJ – tha’s is a lot for poor DOJ employees to pay out of their wages

    • AlexinCT

      That’s the problem. When you sue the government, tax payers pay the bill for the fucking evil assholes. These lawsuits should hold the people in charge of these organizations personally liable as well to make them really hurt.

      • Tonio

        Government employees enjoy various levels of immunity from wrongdoing in their official capacities. Changing this has long been a libertarian wet-dream. While it might have gained some traction with the right, consistency would also require scaling back immunity for cops which is a BLM goal.

      • AlexinCT

        Immunity should be limited, and have a way of being revoked when abused. Without that, the immunity is guaranteed to be abused.

      • dbleagle

        Cops should have only limited immunity. They are nothing more than “civilians” hired by their fellow “civilians” to be the watchman. If I was ever on the jury for a shooting by a cop I wouldn’t give a FF what the Supremes have ruled about a reasonable cop and their fear. My criteria to convict would be- If a random person such as me shot somebody in the same circumstances would I be acquitted on self defense grounds? If yes, the cop walks. If no, the cop does hard time.

      • DEG

        There was an attempt by a group of Democrat and Republican legislators (one of the Republicans being a former member of the LPNH) to end qualified immunity for state/local government employees in NH.

        Another group of Republicans led the charge to kill it with the battle cry, “BACK THE BLUE!”. I don’t remember why the Democrats that opposed the bill opposed were in opposition.

        There wasn’t enough votes to pass the bill.

  7. Rebel Scum

    Kyle Rittenhouse accuses Biden of ‘malice’ and of ‘defaming him’ with ‘white supremacist’ label

    Specific terms for a defamation lawsuit.

  8. Suthenboy

    Uh…who are these three idiots?

    • Not Adahn

      The same ones that think chanting “black lives matter!” erases your serial rapes and transform you into a paragon of heroic righteousness.

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

  9. Not Adahn

    Bossman had his wife bake his underlings (us) apple pie. It’s pretty tasty.

    • AlexinCT

      Apple pie always needs either a scoop of vanilla or a slice of Gouda & a spoon full of peanut butter to make it really rock.

      • Not Adahn

        In this case, I only had a mug of Death wish, but it was acceptable.

  10. Shpip

    Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 students and faculty members and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018. The lawsuit claims the FBI had received tips about Cruz’s large purchase of firearms, mental instability, and violent behavior, but did not intervene.

    Silly plaintiffs! The FBI only intervenes when they’re the ones who hatched the plot to begin with!

    On a more serious note, how does “local kid is acting weird and talking about shooting up a school” a federal issue? Or do the feds just have deeper pockets than the local sheriff, so they get the suit?

    • Not Adahn

      Shooting = firearms = ATF. Shooting a school = terrorisms = Feebs.

      But yeah, deep pockets are the real reason. I’m amazed that they didn’t incant “Sovereign Immunity” and make the suit go away tho.

    • Suthenboy

      Oh Shpip it is a lot more fucked up than that. The locals got fed money if they reduced juvenile crime so they simply stopped arresting criminal juveniles to make it appear that they had reduced crime.
      The local cops had been out to Cruz’s home several times on complaints that Cruz was violent to his family, had pointed guns at them etc. They knew very well he was a very bad egg.
      There were numerous complaints about Cruz from many disparate parties. He was a ticking time bomb but it was in every LEO organization to ignore him.
      BTW, many of these very same factors led to the Trayvon Martin debacle. Martin was well known to the local cops…another ticking time bomb emboldened by lack of credibility for his previous behavior.

      Let the feds touch something and it turns to shit.

      • rhywun

        The locals got fed money if they reduced juvenile crime so they simply stopped arresting criminal juveniles to make it appear that they had reduced crime.

        Oh, right I forgot about that charming incentive.

        Much like the schools here doing the same with both grades and suspensions.

      • Fourscore

        “the schools here doing the same with both grades and suspensions”

        Do you live in Lake Wobegon? All the kids are in the upper third of their class.

      • rhywun

        Deblasio has been touting miraculously increasing graduation rates for 8 years. It would laughable if it wasn’t such obvious bullshit.

      • DrOtto

        Right after the Covid bullshit started, our local schools went to a “Pass/Fail” grading system. I had bumper stickers made that say “My child is a straight P student at [REDACTED] High School.”

    • juris imprudent

      Oddly enough, the DoJ had filed that the action was legally-speaking frivolous. Then I’m sure someone at the political level decided to settle rather than fight (which would have been a slam dunk for the govt).

      • Gustave Lytton

        See also, lawsuits against the EPA by enviros, and every other action that governments big and small welcome.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    How many of those people who “strongly disapprove” of Biden’s performance are angry because he hasn’t declared martial law and rounded up all the Republicans?

    • AlexinCT

      About 25%.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Only 3 Out Of 10 Americans Say The Country Is Doing ‘Well’ Under Biden

    C’mon, man. My presidency has been all about the, uh, you know the thing.

    If you look at my presidency so far, it’s a jobs presidency and it’s a small business presidency.

    In a sense, sure. But you are missing the word “destroying” jobs/small business.

    • AlexinCT

      He has been a small business & jobs presidency… Nobody has fucked small businesses and the job market as hard as his administration has…

      At least in my lifetime.

    • Trigger Hippie

      I seem to recall an article stating that almost half the small businesses in this country have shutterred up since the lockdowns began.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      I initially read that as “a JABS presidency”

  13. CPRM

    Five Killed in Waukesha Christmas Parade Massacre Identified

    All covid deaths. Only White Supremacists Dog Whistle otherwise.

  14. Tres Cool

    Jesus….its Tuesday?
    Im more than 2/3 my beer supply. They really need to stop giving me nights off.

    • AlexinCT

      Someone is being impacted by the current bare shelf crisis…

    • Sean

      Your poor kidneys.

      • CPRM

        But his liver is rich and fatty.

      • Festus

        And tasty good!

      • pistoffnick

        +1 dish of fava beans and a nice chianti

  15. Rebel Scum

    Introducing the Aussie First Reich.

    Australian defense force called in to haul positive #COVID19 cases and close contacts to quarantine centers.

    • LCDR_Fish

      I was seeing one guy on twitter (from the region I think) commenting that the area in question is actually a lot of really small communities in the middle of nowhere – without a lot of resources/facilities in the best of times – and most of them didn’t have access to any real medical treatment.

      Take that for what you will. I still retweeted Massie’s comment.

      • PieInTheSky

        If they don’t want to leave, it makes little difference what access they had to real medical treatment, which in the case of covid is not always what is should be

      • CPRM

        If they are in the middle of nowhere aren’t they already quarantined?

    • PieInTheSky

      Look a lot of those people are them backwards Native Australians that don’t know no better and need the enlightened white man to save them

      • rhywun

        I don’t think they’re isolated like Brazilian or Papuan tribes, are they?

        They should have the same resilience as the rest of us so I’m doubting the “absolutely devastating” bit.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Well, one of the things I was getting from the comments is that the clinics there are minimal at best and for any *significant* medical treatment requirements, a central location is more efficient.

      • Swiss Servator

        A concentrated location?

      • rhywun

        Happy camps!

      • PieInTheSky

        that regional context is irrelevant so it does not much matter if it gets lost

      • PieInTheSky

        Ridley Scott blames millenials for The Last Duel’s box office performance: “What it boils down to [are] the audiences who were brought up on cell phones. The millennian, [who] do not ever want to be taught anything unless you told it on the cell phone.”

        https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1462879946204921858

        I blame the half helmet

      • PieInTheSky

        goddamnit this should not have been a reply

      • CPRM

        It couldn’t be that there was no marketing (I never heard of it) or that the 2 ‘stars’ in that pic aren’t exactly known for stellar performances and Ridley Scott was the less talented of his family.

      • The Last American Hero

        Um Damon was nominated for an Oscar for Good Will Hunting (9 noms, he won for screenplay) and a Golden Globe for The Martian. While nobody will argue his Bourne films are cinematic gold, they sure as shit brought in a lot of dollars.

        Driver was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Marriage Story. While the writing and direction of the Star Wars abominations rightfully get slagged, the dude can act in the right situation. And as for box office draw, those films made bank.

      • CPRM

        Nicholas Cage won an Oscar to.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        “Lock them up in concentration camps or let them die.. There is nothing in between”

  16. Not Adahn

    Strange things are afoot at the fab cafeteria.

    This site requires masking for al, has not come down with mandavax order. The cafeteria shut down self-serve options (buffets, grab & go, coffee refills, etc) when the panic started back in 2019. Today they’re putting those option back out there. And not requiring the wearing of gloves!

  17. PieInTheSky

    Dutch police beat him with their batons until he completely stopped moving.

    It’s for your Health and Safety.

    https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1462910439143219205

    I am starting to think it is not only US police that engages in brutality…

    • Not Adahn

      Not anymore, not since wypipo brought racism and violence to the peaceful European PoCs. But before the American imperiocapitalist colonizers came, the world was a place of peaceful LGBTIQ2SAQ+ multiracial harmony, where carceral violence never occured nor was needed. Simple Restorative Justice was all that was required if someone accidentally microagressed against their comrade.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Cut and paste propaganda

    The AMA, arguing in support of Biden’s policy, told the court that transmission of Covid in the workplace has played a major role in spreading the virus, pointing to outbreaks in industries ranging from meat-processing and transportation to hospitality and construction.

    The doctors’ association said Covid vaccines are safe and highly effective, and provide the most effective way to protect workers from infection. The AMA argued that vaccine requirements are “critical” to curb or eradicate infectious diseases, citing past vaccine mandates for measles and smallpox.

    “The more workers who get vaccinated, the closer we are to slowing the spread of the virus and creating a safer environment,” the doctors’ association told the court. The AMA filed as a friend of the court to provide its expertise, saying it has “an interest in providing evidence-based guidance on public health issues.”

    “Immediate, widespread vaccination against COVID-19 is the surest way to protect the U.S. workforce and the public and to end this costly pandemic,” the group said.

    ——-

    The Biden administration has said the court-ordered pause “would likely cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day” as the virus spreads.

    Public health officials are worried that the U.S faces another wave of infection as Americans head indoors to escape the winter cold and gather with families over the holidays. The U.S. is recording more than 92,000 infections on average per day, up 16% from last week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

    ——-

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which polices workplace safety for the Labor Department, issued the rules under its emergency authority established by Congress. OSHA can shortcut the normal rulemaking process, which can take years, if the Labor secretary determines a new workplace safety standard is necessary to protect workers from a grave danger.

    I wonder how many of these paragraphs match word for word if you were to do an analysis of a broad selection of panicdemic journalisming.

    • CPRM

      But we wear masks at work, stay six feet apart and use disinfectant wipes. They assured me that worked!

    • rhywun

      The Biden administration has said the court-ordered pause “would likely cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day” as the virus spreads.

      Oh, go fuck yourself.

    • Festus

      We are in complete and total agreement on this one, JI.

    • The Last American Hero

      1) I watched Man vs History on the Hamilton Burr duel. That hidden hair trigger really tells you a lot about Hamilton’s character.

      2) The greatest magic act of the 21st century isn’t something done by Chris Angel, David Copperfield or Penn and Teller. It was convincing a bunch of NPR-listening, right-thinker, IFLS, Rick Steves-watching progressives that the USA’s first Proto-Neocon is a heroic figure.

      • CPRM

        Well, the Conservatives have played that footsie to, relying muchly on the Federalist Papers. Propaganda sells, who’da thunk?

      • juris imprudent

        Hamilton was a great advocate of Top.Men, so you can see the appeal. The weird part is that it is Jefferson’s party that has embraced that.

  19. Festus

    “It’s the Grannies! Somebody hates the Grannies!”

    • Festus

      Joking aside, that asshole ran over a bunch of little children as well.

      • Homple

        I’m surprised that DA Chisholm hasn’t been decorated with tar and feathers and escorted out of town on a fence rail.

    • Not Adahn

      You mean like Barbarella?

      • PieInTheSky

        or get young women who look like a young Jane Fonda and have them stand naked in city halls.

      • Festus

        They’d better be dancing or there will be hell to pay!

      • AlexinCT

        Shake that phat ass, baby!

    • Rebel Scum

      The cultural revolution continues apace.

    • CPRM

      Like Aunt Jamima, Uncle Ben and the Land’O’Lakes girl.

      • Tres Cool

        Im sure Ive posted this previously, but what about Uncle Jemima ?

    • Festus

      I say make them functional, like Golems! What say you, OMWC?

    • Suthenboy

      It is the mentality of primitive cultures. Depictiobns of living things contain spirits of those living things. Graven images are a blasphemy.
      We should do as the primitives do and only allow geometric, abstract design.

      • Tres Cool

        guess they never saw his pr0n video

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I could possibly understand Floyd as Mary Magdalene, but that is beyond stupid and an insult to their own religion.

      • Festus

        Okay. I’m an atheist and that is an insult to every religion on Earth. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

      • Festus

        Ya know, the reason that certain cultures have those norms is so that they can draw Dick pics with abandon, right?

    • PieInTheSky

      “Thomas Jefferson’s credo of ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’ has inspired Americans for centuries, but the philosophy that inspired Jefferson’s words actually deprives people of freedom.”

      https://twitter.com/MattWelch/status/1462991675366727682

      It seems in the end Jefferson is responsible for Rittenhouse

      • invisible finger

        TOS on the “freedom is slavery” bandwagon, I see.

      • Festus

        The Editors of that site should be ashamed of themselves.

      • PieInTheSky

        I think he retweeted the thing critically not in agreement

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m going to ignore the philosophical gibberish that Welch is generating and focus instead on a claim of fact that he makes.

        Rittenhouse, who was 17 at the time, travelled across state lines with an illegally obtained AR-15-style rifle that he did not have a license to carry because he said he wanted to protect property and businesses during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin that erupted following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by Kenosha police officers.

        These facts are not even up for debate, and the only controversy related to the facts that preceded Rittenhouse’s unwarranted and deadly presence in Kenosha pertain to his friend Dominick Black. Since Rittenhouse was only 17, he was not old enough to buy his gun therefore he gave Black money and had him buy the gun instead. Black now faces felony charges for distributing a gun to a minor.

        Absolutely false and indicates that Welch is too far gone to even consider debating.

      • Festus

        All facts since disproven. Fuck you Welch, you lying turd-burgler!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ah I see, Welch didn’t write that.

        I can’t figure out if Welch is mocking it or agreeing with the claim.

      • CPRM

        Since Rittenhouse was only 17, he was not old enough to buy his gun therefore he gave Black money and had him buy the gun instead. Black now faces felony charges for distributing a gun to a minor.

        *Countless midwest dads go to prison for ‘Christmas gifts’*

      • Gustave Lytton

        Your dads collect the money for your own Xmas gifts? Slavedrivers.

      • PieInTheSky

        Welch did not write the article dude. he retweeted it to make fun of it

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m seeing that now.

        My expectations of the cosmos are so low that I assumed for a moment.

      • Rebel Scum

        These facts are not even up for debate

        Oh, they absolutely are.

      • Winston

        The thing that gets me is that is that Commie university profs have been saying this stuff for decades. And they were very open about it too, not trying to hide it merely by complaining about Cops, the CSA or Jim Crow for example.

        Matt Welch and his ilk of course assumed it would not reach the mainstream and that actual politicians would try to implement them or that he himself would have to deal with accusations of being an apologist for racism, colonialism and slavery rather than some rightwingers.

      • Mojeaux

        I’d been taught (Baptist private school) in the 80s that it WOULD reach the mainstream because it was easy and people are tempted by easy.I may resent that school for a few reasons, but everything they said would happen has happened, including critical race theory (it wasn’t called that then). I think people in my chirch saw it coming too, but they banged a more generic drum.

        So I have a hard time believing a conservative who is also a church goer (which I think Welsh is because he’s always touted some evangelical concepts) didn’t see this coming and know that it would be accepted mainstream.

      • Winston

        which I think Welsh is because he’s always touted some evangelical concepts

        Explain, please?

      • Mojeaux

        My bad. Wrong Matt. I need to figure out who I was thinking of.

      • juris imprudent

        That is quite an oopsie.

      • Mojeaux

        *red face a-bloomin*

      • l0b0t

        I’m glad I’m not the only one who constantly confuses them for one another.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m glad I’m not the only one who constantly confuses them for one another.

        Now I don’t feel so awful. I really cannot remember which is which.

      • Winston

        To be fair Welch and Walsh do come from Welsh…

  20. The Late P Brooks

    And:

    The AMA argued that the requirements are “appropriately structured to strongly encourage vaccination.”

    I can’t help thinking the AMA is a bunch of authoritarian quacks.

    • Festus

      Yep, your human rights aren’t being abandoned, they’re running toward freedom…

    • invisible finger

      I interviewed at their HQ 30 years ago. And that is exactly what I thought of them after 5 minutes. They can only have gotten worse.

      Funny thing about the interview… several of my co-workers had also been interviewed around the same time for the position. The one they eventually hired was the worst member of out staff – we were all excited when he gave his resignation and most of us got our suspicions about the uselessness of the AMA confirmed when he told us where he was going to work.

    • rhywun

      The AMA has become such a woke joke that only about 12% of docs belong any more.

      But TMITE still treat them like gods.

  21. Rebel Scum

    More right-wing terrorist violence from J-6.

    Oh, wait. Never mind.

    My God @CapitolPolice were beating Rosanne Boyland and they told us all she died of a drug overdose. They won’t even let her family have access to complete autopsy. What is
    @January6thCmte doing to investigate her death? Nothing.

    • Drake

      The Capital Police beat a woman to death and nothing else will happen.

      • juris imprudent

        Beat, shoot – what difference does it make now?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Cynical, or just plain stupid?

    Germany’s health minister has issued a stark warning to the country’s public, telling citizens that vaccination was the key to their survival.

    “Some would say this is cynical but probably by the end of this winter, pretty much everyone in Germany will be vaccinated, recovered or dead … That’s the reality,” Jens Spahn told a press conference in Berlin on Monday.

    Bodies piled in the streets.

    The wages of sin is DEATH.

    • Festus

      We all gotta go sometime. Fuck Off Slaver! Judi needs her second dose of venom before Friday. She fought so hard and yet here we are. Mine is scheduled for the end of January.

      • CPRM

        We all gotta go sometime.

        My dad smoked from like 15 on, survived his car getting hit by a train, having a tractor roll over on him, an airplane explosion…He died of a UTI. You never know.

    • rhywun

      I would go with “mendacious” and “evil”.

    • pistoffnick

      “…will be vaccinated, recovered or dead…”

      That sounds like a threat, Herr Doktor!

      • CPRM

        That’s what I thought as well.

  23. Rebel Scum

    When in doubt pinky out double down.

    Host Dana Bash asked O’Rourke to give his take on the Rittenhouse “not guilty” verdict. O’Rourke answered:

    “This entire tragedy makes the case that we should not allow our fellow Americans to own and use weapons that were originally designed for battlefield use. That AR-15, that AK-47, has one single, solitary purpose, and that is killing people as effectively, as efficiently, and in as great a number in as little time as possible.”

    He added, “We saw that in Kenosha, we saw that in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were murdered by someone with an AK-47 just in a matter of minutes.”

    O’Rourke then circled back to his gubernatorial run in Texas, where he says he wants to “protect the Second Amendment” and increase gun control at the same time.

    That’s an interesting strategy, Cotton.

    • Festus

      That Cunte? He’s still around?

      • juris imprudent

        He sucks up Dem donor money like a sponge, so I think it’s great he’s going to get his ass handed to him again.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Had to hover to make sure it wasn’t PJ.

    • EvilSheldon

      “That AR-15, that AK-47, has one single, solitary purpose, and that is killing people as effectively, as efficiently, and in as great a number in as little time as possible.”

      That is precisely why I own mine.

      It’s a good thing that Kyle Rittenhouse had an effective, efficient tool for defending himself, or else he probably would have been beaten to death by a bunch of rioting criminals.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      If I were his opponent in TX I would just be playing his ‘Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15’ video on repeat.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMVhL6OOuR0

    • Suthenboy

      Without a FFL you cannot buy, purchase or possess an AK-47. The AR-15 is not a rifle designed for battlefield use.
      Gun grabbers lie. Every word calculated to deceive. Whatever. They cant have my guns.

      • CPRM

        The AR-15 is not a rifle designed for battlefield use.

        BUT IT’S SCARY AND BLACK!

      • DEG

        Without a FFL you cannot buy, purchase or possess an AK-47.

        ??!?!?!

        The AR-15 is not a rifle designed for battlefield use.

        Uhhh… It was. Under the 1955-1959 tab:

        Army officials asked Armalite to develop a smaller version of the AR-10 in 1956 as a potential replacement for the M1 Garand. The ensuing rifle was called the AR-15 and was produced with aircraft grade aluminum receivers, weighing less than seven pounds.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Cut and paste gibberish

    Covid-19 cases in children are up 32% from two weeks ago, according to new numbers published Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

    For the week ending November 18, there were at least 141,905 new cases among children, with children making up a disproportionate share of the cases, representing more than a quarter of all new Covid-19 cases for the past week. Children account for 22% of the US population. When the virus first became a known problem in the US in early 2020, kids accounted for fewer than 3% of confirmed cases. Since the start of the pandemic, more than 6.8 million children have tested positive for Covid-19.

    Obviously, all the children in America will be dead by Christmas. Save your money. They won’t be needing those presents.

    • Festus

      *Stingy Grandfather steeples his fingers* “Excellent!”

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Cut to Foochy:

    “We have a lot of virus circulating around,” Fauci told anchor Dana Bash.

    With millions of people still unvaccinated, that “results in the dynamic of virus in the community that not only is dangerous and makes people who are unvaccinated vulnerable, but it also spills over into the vaccinated people because no vaccine is 100% effective,” Fauci said.

    STFU you blathering nincompoop.

    • juris imprudent

      +1 CT nursing home with 87 fully vaccinated and COVID-positive residents

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Given the assailant’s criminal record, it raises the question of why he was on the street and if he wasn’t bad enough to keep incarcerated, then who the hell is in there, Charlie Manson?

      • Drake

        Who paid his bail? Seems an important question.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s one of those places run by libs that felt bail was mean to the poors and allowed people to avoid that, right?

  26. Rebel Scum

    Way to axe any semblance of equality under the law.

    Thomas “Tas” Alexander Starks, 31, of Lisbon, N.D., was filmed on CCTV trying to break inside the office of Sen. John Hoeven’s in Fargo on Dec. 21, 2020, using an axe. In April, he pleaded guilty to a charge of destruction of government property. Federal sentencing guidelines suggested 10–16 months in prison but he was only sentenced to probation and fined $2,784 for restitution.

    According to court documents, Starks’ colleague said he was “politically open and motivated,” left-leaning and “very active in protests.”

    Recently Starks has taken to Facebook to brag about getting his axe back from the FBI.

    • Shpip

      Yeah, but see… that was just going after a congresscritter somewhere in flyover country, not a direct attack on our sanctum sanctorum of democracy.

    • Festus

      ^^^ This is when you know that the bully is just fucking with you. “Nice set of wings little Fly, shame if something ever happened to them”.

    • Dakotain

      My sister knows this idiot. Use to work with him until he got fired. Said he was a hard core lefty. Wanted the union to pay for him to go to the Floyd protests.

  27. db

    Day 2 of db’s lap-topless work day. Maybe IT will get a hold of me to reset my password (apparently my account has some sort of security lock that requires them to escalate about 3 levels to find anyone with authorization to make changes to my account) before lunch time.

  28. Rebel Scum

    “Fentanyl Floyd”, “Jesus”. “Tomayto”, “tomahto”.

    Paintings depicting George Floyd as Jesus Christ hang in both The Catholic University of America’s campus ministry office and its law school, The Daily Signal has learned.

    Catholic University appeared to shrug off responsibility for the painting Monday, telling The Daily Signal that artist Kelly Latimore’s painting “Mama” depicts “the Virgin Mary supporting the body of the dead Christ”—although the artist has indicated repeatedly that his painting depicts both Floyd and Jesus.

    “You can identify Jesus by the marks in the halo,” said Karna Lozoya, vice president for university communications. Lozoya would not further address the matter with The Daily Signal.

    I thought Catholics were against idol worship.

    • Drake

      You’re thinking of Protestants.

  29. PieInTheSky

    “Semen would appear, both from the smell and taste, to be a mawkish kind of substance; but when held some time in the mouth, it produces a warmth similar to spices, which lasts some time.”

    – Surgeon & anatomist, John Hunter (1728-93)

    https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1462811098198028299

    • AlexinCT

      Cock gobblers, rejoyce!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      This is how you research.

      In 1767 John Hunter took the yellowish penile discharge of a man he believed to have gonorrhea and rubbed it into a wound he’d created in his own penis.

      He believed that gonorrhea and syphilis were two forms of the same disease. He was wrong.

      https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1462807790154661895

      • Festus

        At least it was a fun experiment for both of them.

  30. Sean
    • AlexinCT

      Adam Corolla is a fucking national treasure. I love how he calls Kimmel a cunte these days.

    • AlexinCT

      You mean like this?

  31. Fourscore

    8 AM, just got a package delivery. What’s up with that? Left it on my front step but I doubt that there will be any one stealing it.

    • AlexinCT

      Make sure it doesn’t make a ticking sound Fourscore!

      • CPRM

        but he ordered a new egg timer!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I sent one of these to my BIL years ago. It went off in the box before he opened it.

        I got many lulz from the incident.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQy22pkhlK4

      • AlexinCT

        Did he demand you buy him some new underwear and pants after the fright was over?

        My favorite is still the lady that got pulled aside by the TSA cause the vibrator in her bag was making noises. Once they found it they waved it around for everyone to see… The look on her face was priceless.

      • CPRM

        “We use the indefinite article ‘a dildo’, not ‘your dildo’.”

    • rhywun

      I got one delivered at 1pm on Sunday, something I ordered Friday evening. I was floored. First, that it was Sunday, and second, that it was in the afternoon instead of the usual end-of-the-route 9 or 10pm.

    • Festus

      It’s the supply chain, 4×20. We’ve been getting Sunday deliveries for months. The poor guys can’t keep up.

    • Rebel Scum

      I got a chest freezer delivered at about 630am a couple months ago. Was surprised.

    • PieInTheSky

      The whole leaving packages outside the door is not a thing here. Probably would all get stolen. All packages are delivered directly to the recipient.

      • Sean

        UPS will leave whole cases of ammo on my door step.

        No worries here.

      • CPRM

        I’m usually asleep when the UPS guy comes…or masturbating. Either way I don’t want to be interrupted.

        My UPS guy even tries to put packages on an elevated surface (my porch is ground level) when it’s wet out. If you can see my front porch you’re trespassing, so I got no worries.

      • Not Adahn

        Same here. However, the pup goes ballistic when they arrive, so I’m awakened and can go get it.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation showed that two-thirds of parents want to wait and see, or are refusing to vaccinate their children.

    Vaccine experts Dr. Paul Offit and Dr. Jeffrey Gerber have been urging parents to get their children vaccinated, arguing that without vaccination, almost all young children will get infected in an editorial published last week in Science..

    “Make no mistake—COVID-19 is a childhood illness,” they wrote. “Although it is true that most children experience asymptomatic or mild disease, some will get quite sick, and a small number will die. It’s why children are vaccinated against influenza, meningitis, chickenpox, and hepatitis—none of which, even before vaccines were available, killed as many as SARS-CoV-2 per year.”

    Some will get quite sick.

    Like the ones with leukemia and other assorted cancers and severe immunocompromising diseases?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It would not bother me to see both of those Mengele-wannabes hanging from the gallows.

    • rhywun

      none of which, even before vaccines were available, killed as many (children?) as SARS-CoV-2 per year

      Bullshit.

    • Rebel Scum

      Actually, no. The kids need to have a covid party and then they will be fine.

      • Q Continuum

        Is that like a key party?

    • PieInTheSky

      The kids only need 7 unlike adults who need 9

  33. PieInTheSky

    So I got my pixel 5a. As it was only released in US, Canada and Japan I did not know where the store gets it from, but it seems Japan. I also got a Japanese style plug for the charger, and funnily the store included an adapter for Romanian plugs. Anyway should I ever travel to Nihon I have the right charger.

    The phone looks good so far… Battery, photos, fast physical fingerprint sensor and fast basic functions. I care not for gaming or shit like that that requires the latest processor. . Although I probably could have squeezed another year out of the galaxy S8 to be thrifty…

    • AlexinCT

      Wait until the adapter fails and you can’t charge you phone unless you fly to Japan for it!

      • PieInTheSky

        I actually use my old Samsung adapter because it is the same usb-c smart guy

    • Gustave Lytton

      Same plugs work in USA and Canada. You can still come here and charge your phone.

      • db

        Same in Japan too. NEMA 1-15 (two prong ungrounded) or NEMA 5-15 (three prong grounded).

      • PieInTheSky

        this one has 2 prongs

      • Gustave Lytton

        That will work in all three countries (and elsewhere that use the same standard). Only real difference in the physical Japanese plug is the blade is solid instead of small holes at the end.

    • Sensei

      良かったです。

      自分のPixel 5aが好きえです。

  34. Festus

    Damn. I pulled a Tres this morning. Tuesdays are dangerous. It used to be “Thirsty Thursday” but seems to have ratcheted ahead somewhat. Anyhow, all the best to you!

    • AlexinCT

      Sleep it off Festus.

  35. Q Continuum

    If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it, if you’re happy and you know it blow a load.

    https://archive.md/JFTXq

    Titty Tuesday.

  36. PieInTheSky

    I ordered a bottle of Woodford Reserve Rye and one of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked for 65$ for the pair. Is this a reasonable deal?

    • CPRM

      As long as they aren’t airplane bottles.

    • AlexinCT

      Send them to me. I will drink them and let you know.

    • l0b0t

      The Reserve Rye goes for around $45 per bottle here in NYC; sounds like a sweet deal.

    • CPRM

      What constitutes ‘self-control’? I’d say doing homework is a form of self-control, and that is a big predictor in academic performance.

      Some might say self-control is not drinking excessively, but if you drink excessively and still do your homework you’re good.

      Some might say self-control is not over-eating…but I fail to see how that affects academics.

    • AlexinCT

      How likely is this this just her imagination?

      • Not Adahn

        I’d leave him but I’ve got two cats and I adore them. I can’t leave them.

        The stakes at the office “what can we get them to believe” pool went up.

  37. Mojeaux

    Some time in the last couple of weeks, I pissed off my bestie. Mind you, my husband and I were discussing her (not complimentarily) within XX’s hearing, and XX spends quite a bit of time with her. Ican only deduce that XX shared this conversation, because yesterday she got OTT sarcastic with me, I didn’t catch it, and said the wrong thing that must have backed up this conversation. She may or may not get over it. It has cast a pall on my week.

    • db

      Tell XX that snitches get stitches.

      Seriously, though, that sucks. It’s usually best to just try not to say shit about people. Sometimes you need to blow off steam, and then say things you’d regret later. I have a couple of friends who annoy me in different ways, and I occasionally have to catch myself venting to mutual friends about it. Really nothing good cancome of it.

      I’m sorry you’re having trouble. Probably the best thing to do is to find out if XX did talk to her about it, explain to her that you wish you hadn’t said the things (assuming you do), and then just openly make an apology to your friend. Don’t let it fester if you value your friendship. You’ll feel terrible about it otherwise.

      • Mojeaux

        Well, the problem is that it’s an ongoing issue where she thinks she’s right and I think I’m right, which is how I mother my child.

        She came to live with us for 4 months about 3 years ago because she was about to be homeless and she was very ill (thoracic outlet syndrome). XX found her to be exciting (I mean, there’s a reason she’s my bestie, which is that she gets me and she has always seen the best in me), and soon after she moved in, she started telling me what I was doing wrong with XX. She wasn’t entirely wrong and I tried to change.

        But then things started going south because bestie was falling back into old habits that caused her to be homeless and sick in the first place. She DID get herself into a position to move out, but I didn’t want XX thinking her behavior was cool and bestie was increasingly coming between me and XX, so I got pissed and told her to mind her own business and stay away from my kid.

        That cooled over time (about a year) and she apologized. If they were conversing, I don’t know about it, but I think bestie respected my boundaries. This was about 2 years ago.

        So once XX turned 18, she’s been hanging with bestie. Things happened with XX. Because of those things, I thought bestie was falling back into old habits, griped to my husband (rather, husband griped to me and I concurred without hesitation), and this is likely what got back to bestie. She said, “Is this really what you think of me?” Well, um, yeah, kinda it is. I didn’t say that. I got a little defensive, but no, I didn’t say that. Anyway, that’s where we are.

        I call her my bestie because she and I have the kind of relationship where we can go years without talking to each other then pick up where we left off. I don’t have that with anybody else and she really is my only friend outside my husband.

        So either she’ll get over it or she won’t, but I’m not apologizing for thinking she’d fallen into old habits.

      • CPRM

        falling back into old habits that caused her to be homeless and sick in the first place.

        Thoracic outlet syndrome is a group of disorders that occur when blood vessels or nerves in the space between your collarbone and your first rib (thoracic outlet) are compressed.

        -Mayo Clinic

        I don’t see how habits can lead to that.

        I call her my bestie because she and I have the kind of relationship where we can go years without talking to each other then pick up where we left off.

        The best joke from Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing – his wife asks him about about his best friend, “Haven’t talked to him in years. Great guy.” TRUTH.

      • Mojeaux

        I know what thoracic outlet syndrome is.

        I don’t see how habits can lead to that.

        Long chain of events. Two docs concurred.

      • Mojeaux

        Oops. I meant that second sentence to be a quote. I should not post long things on my iPad.

      • db

        Ah, it sounds very complicated. Beyond my level of glib (and Glib) advice-giving skill.

        Wishing the you the best in repairing/maintaining your friendship. You do seem to care about her; maybe she’ll realize your opinion is founded in your concern amd appreciate it, eventually.

      • Mojeaux

        Thanks. I do care about her. I like to think the best of people (because it’s too much work to think the worst), but I don’t much pay attention. I like you. That’s all I need and I don’t need to know why. But I am also not blind to people’s faults. I just choose to ignore them until it becomes an issue. If I DON’T like you, there’s a reason and I don’t forget it.

        I love her and I would do a lot to help her, but things became an issue. That does not change my love for her. I hope this is a spat, but if it’s not, I get it and I’ll respect it.

  38. Evan from Evansville

    Still gushing over that date-like day with Julie during the eclipse. I find it interesting that my dad was 14 when JFK was assassinated and I was 14 during 9/11. Old enough to understand that something very big just happened and the world was changing around us. I’d count 9/11 and that stage of the Cold War as being quite equal in how they affected the world. In different ways, but yeah. An odd an interesting thought about the Joke/Truth/Reality that I, much more than my older brother, or at least in the opposite ways (he got the GOOD bits about being slightly autistic (which bro ain’t) and I got the bad bits (which I def am), am My Father’s Son.

    Couple of the five stitches worked their own way out of my finger with last night’s shower. Debating if I go to get them checked up tomorrow morning (no morning classes on Wed!) or if I go after I get off Friday afternoon. Think I’m tempted to take the full sleep-in day. Important day of the week. And my main-gig classes are fucking spectacular on Wed, so no problems lurking.

    Also picked up a new package of fun that’s hard as hell to get in Korea. This one is of higher quality. I’d say pretty solidly mids. Ain’t no dank but ain’t no schwag. I have my first online session with my new therapist on Friday. Just seems to be something I need to do. Things are mostly well, I am just frequently stupid. Falling down the stairs last Saturday wasn’t my best moment.

    Hope everyone is well!

  39. Rebel Scum

    Selfless public servant to retire.

    Nancy Pelosi just bought a 11,000 square foot $25 million mansion in Florida. Someone doesn’t want to pay exorbitant taxes in her home state she has ruined. Climate change and global warming thrown out the door.

    • CPRM

      Probably on former wetlands.

    • Gustave Lytton

      No pics of the ice cream freezer?

    • Sean

      I thought Florida was the home of white supremacy and filled with Covid.

      Seems like an odd choice based on those narratives.

      • AlexinCT

        Must be the same reason Obama bought that Martha’s Vineyard mansion on the water: Climate Change is gonna make it all Dune instead of Waterworld.

  40. PieInTheSky

    Bulgaria bus crash: Children among at least 46 killed

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59383852

    these long range buses can be fucking death traps. I remember taking an overnight one in Thailand that was speeding like a maniac. Also one in Romania that if I was not in the back I would have been terrified probably.

    • AlexinCT

      They should stop having bonfires inside the bus that distract the driver?

    • rhywun

      Busing through the Alps once was one of the most terrifying moments of my life.

    • Sensei

      Same thing in the mountains of Japan for me.

      I was in the back of the bus. That said, driver was really good.,

  41. l0b0t

    Great deal time! For those who need more drive space, Best Buy has the WD Easystore 14TB external drive for $199 (normally $419).

    • CPRM

      I’m already at 25 TB…but must consider this because the producer of the TV show I edit thinks more cameras shot shittily is better than fewer cameras that get good shots.

      • AlexinCT

        Fucking producers…

    • SDF-7

      Since I don’t know if I have a job after January 18, I’m not spending jack this year. Let’s Go Brandon.

      • rhywun

        Same.

      • CPRM

        I’ve got money saved up. I know how to live on the cheap. Que Sera Sera. I’m not planning my life around their bullshit.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, to be fair, I’m only putting off major purchases. Like the new PC I have my eye on.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        We have some set aside in a Christmas sinking fund, and I’m not going to compromise it. If I’m out a job in January, at least we have one last bit of fun before grinding it out for a span.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Eco-terrorist says eco-terrorist things.

    Canadian ‘environmental warrior’ David Suzuki over the weekend issued what many perceive as a terroristic threat to leaders.

    Suzuki said pipelines will be “blown up” if leaders don’t act on climate change.

    “We’re in deep, deep doo-doo,” said Suzuki Saturday, speaking at an Extinction Rebellion protest on Vancouver Island. “This is what we’re come to. The next stage after this, there are going to be pipelines blown up if our leaders don’t pay attention to what’s going on.”

    • CPRM

      He means ‘blown up’ like in a viral video sense, he’ll make them famous!

    • rhywun

      Dude.

      I hope prison agrees with you.

      • juris imprudent

        How much does an air-tight alibi go for these days? Asking for a friend.

    • CPRM

      I thought it was from the 08 recession. Whatever boogey man you want to blame works I guess. Couldn’t be that property taxes have gone up and cheap part-time labor has gone down.

      • RBS

        Yeah, the report I saw was basically the tree farmers didn’t plant as many trees at point that would be mature for this season.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I thought it was because tree farms in Oregon have been converted to marijuana farms. At least that’s what our local tree sellers told us the last couple years.

  43. DEG

    Mornin’

    But most of all, he was hoping for a ‘quiet stress-free life’.

    ‘And (to) be free of any intimidation or harassment and just go on with my life as a normal 18-year-old kid attending college,’ said Rittenhouse, who is currently studying nursing at Arizona State, and hoping to be able to attend in-person classes on campus.

    A quiet, stress free life isn’t going to happen. But on the other hand, ASU might be a good place for him.

    Good song.

    • Q Continuum

      As a U of A grad, I can say with certainty that that is one area in which ASU has us beat: ASU girls are hotter, sluttier and more experimental.

  44. Rebel Scum

    Indeed. They are coming after the middle class.

    Lauren Boebert

    To get a sense of how large Biden wants to grow our IRS.
    @ElonMusk’s Tesla has about 70,000 employees.
    @Apple has around 154,000 globally.
    Biden wants our IRS to have 170,000 employees.
    An increase of 87,000 supposedly to monitor the 614 billionaires in America.

    Elon Musk
    Replying to
    @laurenboebert

    The IRS already has dedicated audit teams for high net worth individuals.
    The doubling of staff is for everyone else.

    • rhywun

      Biden will deny it to your face but it’s not like they’re trying very hard to hide it. Some of them are even honest about it.

    • Ed Wuncler

      I remember watching this documentary about Cesar Chavez and what stuck out to me was that he hated illegal immigrants because they “took” the jobs away from his union members and the middle class because they would always try to ascend the economic ladder.

    • creech

      Let’s say 10 employees are assigned full time to each billionaire. That leaves 80,000 other new IRS employees to go after the rest of us.
      Yeah, we are only gonna tax the rich.

  45. Rebel Scum

    Go to hell you tyrannical, cunte garden gnome.

    If you and your family members are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, it’s OK for you to ditch the masks this holiday season when you’re around each other, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN Sunday.

    “That’s what I’m going to do with my family,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”

    However, the nation’s top infectious disease expert also noted if you are traveling or are unaware of the vaccination status of the people around you, then you should wear a mask in those situations.

    “Get vaccinated and you can enjoy the holidays very easily. And if you’re not, please be careful,” Fauci said. “Get tested if you need to get tested when you’re getting together, but that’s not a substitute for getting vaccinated. Get yourself vaccinated and you can continue to enjoy interactions with your family and others.”

    I am going to continue ignoring convid theater/tyranny as I have from the beginning of this farce.

    • rhywun

      Superspreader at Rebel’s house!

      • EvilSheldon

        Kinky!

    • CPRM

      Wait, didn’t he tell us just a few months ago still mask up around other vaccinated people!? It’s like bro doesn’t even #SCIENS!

    • Tulip

      I don’t need his permission.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        ^^ Hear, hear!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Get yourself vaccinated and you can continue to enjoy interactions with your family and others

      So explain to me why my office is closed for the rest of the week after a fully vaccinated employee (the only kind permitted to be on premises) tested positive for the “plague”. And kindly fuck off.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      What is the latest logic for why vaccinated people need to wear masks around unvaccinated?

      • ron73440

        What is the latest logic for why vaccinated people need to wear masks around unvaccinated?

        SCIENCE!

      • grrizzly

        Two ineffective protection measures are better than one. SCIENCE!

      • Sean

        *wildly sprays Lysol everywhere*

      • juris imprudent

        The biblically unclean of course.

    • Sensei

      Speaking of…

      Has anyone heard how Nephilium is feeling?

      • CPRM

        Hung-over?

      • Sensei

        I do know he was trying to drink whatever was making him sick away.

        Did he ever mention if he tested positive?

      • Nephilium

        Feeling fine, just a bit stuffed up and coughing. Still no real sense of smell or taste. I was going to get tested yesterday, but the line was wrapped back from the front of the parking lot (where the testing facility was) back behind the strip mall. Got going early today to get in line 10 minutes before they opened, and I was about the tenth car in line. They were doing both rapid and PCR tests. Rapid test came back negative for Covid, and I’ll get the PCR results in ~72 hours. Girlfriend is now coughing like mad, and called off of work (after originally saying she was going in no matter what). Most likely going to call my parents this afternoon and respectfully bow out of attending Thanksgiving.

      • DEG

        Get well soon!

      • Sensei

        Feel better!

    • CPRM

      I know I watched it, and I know I disagreed with his thesis. But I can’t remember what that disagreement was.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The commentary is interesting. The video production is aggravating and distracting.

  46. l0b0t

    Things no one but me cares about – I just got a complete run of B.J. And The Bear and I’m halfway through downloading The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo; prime 1970s trucker/chimp/incompetent lawman action awaits.

    • rhywun

      I… can’t even.

    • Sensei

      I’m assuming you already have “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams”.

      • l0b0t

        Why yes, yes I do. Also Kolchak The Night Stalker, Battlestar Galactica, Galactica 1980, Love American Style, ST;TOS, ST;TAS, ST;TNG, ST;DS9, Jason Of Star Command, et., ad nauseam. I’m a hoarder. However, I’ve mostly managed to channel those impulses into the digital realm. I may die alone, caught in one of my own booby traps, but I won’t be crushed by boxes of junk.

      • rhywun

        Hoarders had one woman on a while back who hoarded video tapes. She had TVs all over her house constantly taping shit, and dozens of coolers in her back yard full of tapes.
        ??

        Digital FTW

      • Surly Knott

        I have a friend who does that with DVDs. He rips multiple per day, many more than he could ever watch in a day, and he has done so for many years. I don’t get it; he can’t live long enough to watch them all, even if he stops ripping today. smdh
        He also hoards music gear, mostly but not exclusively effects pedals.

      • rhywun

        I have a smallish collection but I do want to rip them some day because I’m too lazy to walk over to the bookcase and pull them out when I want to watch something. And I have to remember which player to use because some of them won’t run in my all-regions player and some of them won’t run in my Xbox. Feh, digital is the way to go.

      • slumbrew

        I ripped all of mine not long ago, though the streaming versions of, say, The Wire is so much better than DVD-quality. But I will always have these versions (I packed up the DVDs & they’re in the basement)

      • Mojeaux

        I remember that Hoarders! (That was not the one where Matt Paxton says, “We’re all only 5 bad decisions away from shitting in a bucket.”)

        I’m ripping old Christmas music CDs right now. Typing in all the metadata is the annoying part.

        I, too, am a digital hoarder and physical object minimalist.

      • slumbrew

        I found this to help w/ metadata:

        https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

        Not going to find every disc, but it helped a lot.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, that’s interesting. I may try that with the next batch.

        I’m currently ripping an old collection of 60 songs on 3 CDs from 1984 that I remember listening to on my grandmother’s record player about that time. It’s a Reader’s Digest compilation and it’s heavy on Perry Como and Bing Crosby, so a lot of this is duplication of what I already have.

      • db

        If you use MediaMonkey it ties in with MusicBrainz and downloads the metadata when you load the CD. Often you get several versions of the metadata to choose from–usually capitalization differences, sometimes people have weird naming quirks.

      • Mojeaux

        I use MusicBee after Winamp went tits up. IIRC, MediaMonkey had too many bells and whistles for my taste.

      • Mojeaux

        So speaking of compilations:

        Last year, I finally could justify buying this, which is a compilation from my childhood. I could not find it anywhere and about six songs eluded individual capture. I put it on YouTube. My favorite song on it is “Jingo Jango”, which I have never seen anywhere else.

      • Raven Nation

        Kolchak was an awesome show.

    • CPRM

      My dad would have been so much cooler if he had a chimp in his truck.

      • CPRM

        Highwayman is a series stuck in my brain, without actually remembering. 80s trucker time travel show. All the things I loved as a kid.

      • l0b0t

        I loved that show. It had the Aussie guy who jumped around and said “OI!” in Energizer Battery commercials.

      • CPRM

        rewatching Ep 1 now youtube.

      • CPRM

        It was one of those shows no one I knew remembered. Made me feel crazy for remembering it.

      • Sean

        I remember it.

      • slumbrew

        Jacko!

      • slumbrew

        That was such a bananas show. Peak cocaine-fueled TV.

      • AlexinCT

        Left turn, Clyde..

    • slumbrew

      Ah, Stacks…

  47. Sean

    https://nj1015.com/one-time-nj-gun-owner-pardoned-by-christie-now-charged-with-attempted-murder/

    Huh.

    A former Mount Laurel resident who was at the center of a gun rights case a decade ago has now been accused of attempted murder in Colorado.

    Brian D. Aitken, 38, was criminally charged on Friday in Telluride, according to the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office and first reported in New Jersey by the Courier-Post.

    I’m sure some of you will recall the name.

    • DEG

      He was the guy that moved to NJ and got busted for the guns he was bringing into NJ?

      • Sean

        Yeah.

    • EvilSheldon

      Well this is interesting. Aitken didn’t strike me as a criminally-minded type of person.

      • ron73440

        He owned guns, eventually they corrupted him.

  48. Certified Public Asshat

    An indoor mask mandate is now in effect in Santa Cruz County and it covers private settings like a home. https://t.co/WVNohft7wC — ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) November 23, 2021

    This is fun.

    • Sean

      L O L

    • db

      like a home.

      Like, which home? I vote for the County Commissioner’s home.

    • B.P.

      Yep. My town is putting a mask mandate in effect tomorrow. I’m off to buy a month’s worth of supplies so that I don’t have to enter a single building. This will go on until all illnesses of all types are eradicated.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      My assumption is that Goldberg and Hayes already have a deal with some other outlet and this stuff is PR.

    • rhywun

      KDW is an interesting cat. Sometimes he’s spot-on, other times he’s way off the reservations. And in both cases it’s about a 50% chance that he’s being a total jackass while doing it.

  49. CPRM

    One of my best stories was when I was living in Las Vegas. I went with this beautiful blonde girl down to the Aladdin at 10pm, after sunset. Great looking girl. Tall blonde, could have been a model. And she looks up at the the fake blue sky projected on the ceiling and asks, “Is that the real sky?”

    • creech

      And the rest of the date went….?

      • CPRM

        Well, I’m 38 year old celibate virgin, so…

  50. trshmnstr the terrible

    Evidently Brave’s advertising system is taking off a bit. Between my phone and my laptop, I have $25 in BAT.

    • db

      how is that? You must surf like crazy, because I’ve only got about $6 in BAT so far since switching to Brave last year.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Not particularly. If anything, I’d expect my work laptop to have even more (maybe $15) because of the amount of time I’m on it. Most of the BAT was from the phone, and I often come back to the phone after a few hours with a few Brave ads stacked up in the notification bar. That may be the primary driver.

    • CPRM

      Shabazz, one of twins and one of six siblings, was born after their father was slain.

      Frozen sperm FTW?

      • kinnath

        Assuming death occurred after conception and before birth.

    • l0b0t

      At least Boss Tweed and his hoods did provide actual quality city services. Our recent residents in Gracie Mansion can’t even do that.

    • rhywun

      Outrageous. But totally in line with the radical city council.

    • Mojeaux

      Yes, but try to renounce it and go somewhere else, and you’ll pay a heft exit fee.