ZARDOZ SATURDAY MORNING LINKS

by | Nov 6, 2021 | Cryptids, Daily Links | 221 comments

QUARTERLY STAFF MEETING TIME.

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. END OF YEAR ACCOUNTING, EH? ZARDOZ MUST ACCOUNT FOR AMMO, GRAIN AND GUNS TO THE VORTEX. AS IF THE ETERNALS CARE…AS LONG AS THE BRUTALS DON’T BOTHER THEM, AND THEY HAVE THEIR GREEN BREAD… SAY, ZED, COULD YOU STEP UP DELIVERIES OF THAT?

I’ll tip you on the BrutalCart app.

BUT YOU ARE NOT HERE TO LISTEN TO ZARDOZ RUMINATE ON MANGEMENT….YOU ARE HERE TO RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK! GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

  1. He fell out a window” – IT IS ONLY A SINGLE CLEANSING, BUT ZARDOZ WILL TAKE WHAT ZARDOZ CAN GET.
  2. ZARDOZ WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO REMIND YOU THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL!
  3. WHY WOULD THE SCHEDULED CLEANSING OF TWO BRUTALS BE PUT OFF BY COVID? WERE THE EXECUTIONERS WORRIED THE SENTENCED WOULD CATCH A DISEASE?! ZARDOZ IS SHAKING HIS DAMNED STONE HEAD.
  4. ZARDOZ IS PUZZLED. SINCE WHEN DO GUERRILLA ARMIES USE CORPORATE-SPEAK? “The goal is to be as inclusive as possible. We know this transition requires all stakeholders”

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

About The Author

ZARDOZ

ZARDOZ

SERVANT OF THE TABERNACLE, THE ETERNALS OF THE VORTEX. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZhKGgmoUI

221 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    Hail Zardoz!

  2. Sean

    All hail ZARDOZ!

    Mine’s more chaotic neutral than evil.

  3. Ted S.

    OMWC is ZARDOZ now?

  4. Trigger Hippie

    Anyone else a little disappointed that there’s no Tales From the Woke Side this morning?

    … Nothing personal, ZARDOZ.

    • Sean

      He’s giving a DEI training today.

      Yeah, that’s it.

      • juris imprudent

        He wouldn’t last more than 10 minutes without falling into hysterical laughter.

    • Old Man With Candy

      And I have a great one, but it will wait until next week. SP and I are on the road to Phoenix to pick up the last of our stuff.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Driving?

        From New York?

        Holy crud.

      • Mojeaux

        Husband and I won’t be able to make lunch today. We too have chores involving our move.

  5. l0b0t

    Isn’t a “fall from a window” how they did away with Dubcek? Also, I think Vassily Blokhin (Stalin’s head executioner) also “drunkenly fell down the steps of his dacha and broke his neck” not long after Stalin died. It’s a nice sign of increasing normalcy when there is news of old fashioned SMERSH skullduggery.

    • l0b0t

      NERTZ! Dubcek was a car crash and Blokhin was officially a suicide. Make the NKVD great again!

      • Ted S.

        Epstein was officially a suicide, too.

      • Nephilium

        Blokhin had dirt on Hillary?

      • Chafed

        He’s dead isn’t he?

    • Tres Cool

      +1 Operation Barbarossa

    • Ted S.

      It was Jan Masaryk who died in the mysterious fall.

      • l0b0t

        Thank you, I knew I’d seen the technique somewhere.

      • Swiss Servator

        The Defenestration of Prague!

      • UnCivilServant

        It was amazing that they managed to fit a whole city through the window!

      • nw

        I know right? Took them thirty years to clean up the mess.

    • creech

      One can just imagine our greatest First Family, the Clintons, as NKVD agents. Beria wouldn’t have lasted a week what with all the “muggings” in his neighborhood.

    • hayeksplosives

      Makes one wistful for some gold ol’ Cold War spook movies…

      I just finished reading “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations”

      Falling down the stairs is quaint compared to some of that Mossad action.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      SMERSH’s fame came from perfecting vehicle “accidents”. Usually a 2.5 ton American lendlease truck running into a vehicle/pedestrian and killing them.

      Its why Pattons auto accident was questioned as a russian hit on him.

  6. l0b0t

    OH MY! There was big file dump on the video forum I like, 90 unsold or unaired television pilots. The crown jewel of which is a show I’ve never seen in its entirety, Heil Honey, I’m Home

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, are you going to review it or not?

      • l0b0t

        Watching it now. The standard sitcom trope of unbeknownst to wife husband has important dinner guest arriving involves Chamberlain coming to dinner to complain about Czechoslovakia. Eva tells her hubby – “You may be a big shot in Germany MISTER Schicklgruber, but I knew you when you just a housepainter.”

      • l0b0t

        It’s a British show set in 1938 Germany but everyone is affecting that Al Smith inflection so prominent in Queens and Brooklyn accents. I’m having trouble suspending my disbelief.

      • Tulip

        It sounds awful

    • Tres Cool

      Ive heard of it. Kinda like a nazi “Honeymooners”.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’m sure the movie fanatic community Goebbles this kind of thing up.

      • Tres Cool

        So you’re göring to make a pun out of this thread ?

      • Ted S.

        Swissy is Göring to narrow his gaze.

      • Tres Cool

        Really ?
        Its like we wore the same outfit to a party.

      • Ted S.

        I thought it was more like 10,000 spoons when all we needed was a knife.

      • slumbrew

        Damn your earworm ways, Teds’!

      • Swiss Servator

        *fiercely narrows gaze*

      • SDF-7

        Is that like STRENUOUSLY objecting?

    • Tres Cool

      At least once weekly my kid’s school includes in email how excited they are to be able to direct parents to who provides CoVID shots (free!) for my teen.
      Not a chance in hell.

      • rhywun

        Already talking about making kid-stabs mandatory here.

    • l0b0t

      The show took a very abrupt nosedive when it was sold lock, stock, and barrel to HBO.

      • Tres Cool

        Are you saying that HBO can out-woke PBS ?
        Never noticed it at the time, but the hidden spanish lessons in SS and Electric Co. even 40 years ago kinda foretold their agenda.
        Kinda like this gem from the 70s setting the stage for the environmental movement.

        Ark II

      • slumbrew

        I remember that!

        It didn’t make me a tree hugger, but it did make me want a jetpack.

        I still want a jetpack.

      • Nephilium

        Yet the progressives still point to Sesame Street as the reason you can’t cut funding for PBS.

        /misses Electric Company even with the terrible Spider-Man bits

      • l0b0t

        DUDE! Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel, and Joan Rivers doing VO for The Adventures Of Letterman makes up for a lot.

      • l0b0t

        1970s and ’80s PBS was a wonderland – Thinkabout and Inside Out

      • l0b0t

        Powerhouse was great messaging for tweens, as was 3-2-1 Contact. 3-2-1 Contact gave us The Bloodhound Gang, in which Marcelino Sánchez played the oldest teen detective Ricardo. Sánchez also played Rembrandt (the young graffiti writing gang member) in The Warriors.

      • tripacer

        321 Contact was my favorite! I still have a bunch of the 321 Contact magazines from 1988-89 in a box around here somewhere.

    • rhywun

      That’s almost as bad as the “vaccine gives you superpowers” video Pfizer (?) put out.

    • PutridMeat

      So my modified version of your exemption request form appears to have been successful. They responded in 1.5 days, and seeing as even modified, it was ~100 pages makes me think they didn’t really didn’t read or consider it carefully. Either the distillation I put into their pre-defined forms (with a “please see attached document for details”) was sufficient or, more likely, they are simply accepting whatever exemption requests they get. Rumor has it that significant disruption was just below the surface. But “approved, no restrictions or conditions” (e.g. no work from home, no testing requirement). Thanks for all your hard work on the doc.

      I must confess to being a bit conflicted. On the one hand, it’s nice to not be worried about potential loss of income, though I’m in a position to weather that for a significant amount of time, and to be able to continue doing what I really enjoy doing. On the other hand, I’m not happy that one has to request an ‘exemption’ to a patently immoral and unethical policy. And I’m not sure requesting exemption and having employers grant blanket sort of exemptions is the right course morally. It smacks a bit of the old “we’ll all lie and pretend with each other and never have to face down the monstrosity of what we are doing here”. It might be better, especially for someone in my position who can handle it, to make them face the consequences of their irrationality and immorality, however small those might be in any individual situation. I mean, if you can slide under the radar of the tyrant rather than hang him from his heels from the nearest lamppost like he deserves, does it ever get fixed?

      • Sean

        No, it only gets worse.

      • Ghostpatzer

        “On the other hand, I’m not happy that one has to request an ‘exemption’ to a patently immoral and unethical policy. And I’m not sure requesting exemption and having employers grant blanket sort of exemptions is the right course morally.”

        I’m struggling with this as well. I have an “exemption” which allows me to permanently WFH, did not even need to provide anything beyond notifying my manager that I was unclean. It just doesn’t feel right; if the policy changes and my employer requires the jab, I plan to just say no (thanks, Nancy).

      • Mojeaux

        no

        Was expecting this.

      • Plisade

        Are you able to post or link to the entire ~100 page request without doxing yourself? My HR mgr and I are strategizing about how to give our plant employees a way to keep working without having to get the vax, be tested, or quit.

    • ron73440

      trshmnstr,

      I wasn’t around when your story dropped, so I wanted to say it’s really enthralling.

      That ending was abrupt. Looking forward to the next one.

  7. Stinky Wizzleteats

    What is it with Russian agents and their clumsiness around windows? If I was a high placed affiliate/opponent of Putin’s government I’d live in a one story house with bars on the windows and a basement.

    • Raven Nation

      You’d die falling down the basement stairs

  8. The Late P Brooks

    “He fell out a window.”

    At least nobody shot him. That would be really bad.

    • Nephilium

      Mr. Furious : [talking about Carmine the Bowler] Seems there was a little controversy there regarding your father’s death.

      The Bowler : Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.

      The Blue Raja : You know, I’ve always suspected a bit of foul play there.

      The Bowler : As have I.

      One of the more underrated superhero comedies out there.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        “One of the more underrated superhero comedies out there”. Very much this, and the last time jeanine Garafalo had any appeal to me at all.
        /She did. long ago….

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        She was cute around the time of her Seinfeld episodes, ditto Silverman. They’ve both gone completely off the rails now though.

  9. l0b0t

    SQUEAL!!!! Bates Motel, not the 2013 series but the 1987 pilot that was turned down, then aired as a tv movie – Bud Cort plays a teen looney bin inmate who was mentored by Norman Bates in the booby hatch then inherits the hotel after Norman dies.

    • Nephilium

      I enjoyed the more recent series, it was sufficiently creepy and strange.

      Did you get a chance to watch Only Murders in the Building? Curious on your thoughts on it. As I mentioned, the girlfriend and I were both entertained by it.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Sounds like a good candidate for the Thursday night glibflicks.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    You’d die falling down the basement stairs

    Tragic bathroom slip-and-fall incidents are more common (and deadly) than one might think.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      If dying in the bathroom was good enough for Elvis then it’s good enough for me.

    • Brawndo

      “he slipped on his tea”

      • hayeksplosives

        +1 Lithuanian captain with heavy Scottish brogue.

      • Brawndo

        Don’t even care. Still my favorite movie of all time.

      • hayeksplosives

        Mine too.

        One of my most often watched ones.

    • Gender Traitor

      “I think they were afraid he was going to hurt himself, and that’s what started it,” Darling said.

      So they made sure THEY hurt him.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    A pandemic of SCIENCE! denial

    More than half of US states on Friday filed or joined lawsuits opposing President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for employees of large companies.

    Twenty-six states cosigned four petitions, amounting to perhaps the most sweeping legal challenge to pandemic-era safety requirements since Biden took office. Three Democrat-led states are among the 26.

    The lawsuits, filed in four federal appeals courts, take aim at Biden’s requirement that all companies with more than 100 employees mandate COVID-19 vaccines for their staff, or implement weekly testing.

    “This mandate is unconstitutional, unlawful, and unwise,” said a lawsuit filed by Missouri and 10 other states in the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit.

    Will President Ballgag listen? Will he throw that quack Foochy to the lions?

    I crack myself up.

    • Ted S.

      Chief “Justice” Roberts will find a way to make the vaccine mandate constitutional.

    • Nephilium

      Damn those 26 states for fighting against the will of the majority minority of other states!

      Wait a second…

      • rhywun

        It’s probably all redneck states that form a tiny fraction of the total population.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Adam Corolla has a weekly YouTube thing with Mark Garagos and Garagos thinks the lawsuits will fail bigly. Apparently he’s represented several people opposing various Covid mandates and the judges are for the most part in lockstep with the pronouncements unfortunately. We’ll see I suppose but the judges tend towards authoritarianism in the first place and also tend to be in the age range that’s more adversely effected. If we rely on lawsuits and the bullshit legal process we’ll all be screwed.

      • SDF-7

        I still think the Ohio one has a chance. The first few counts of it are all about “Here’s how this agency doesn’t have the authority to do this, and even if they did — they needed to do *this* process even under this situation”. Judges love weaseling out of actually calling something unconstitutional by using process violations.

        But then again, I have obvious selfish reasons to root for something to knock this down for as long as possible….

      • DEG

        Secession is the answer.

      • rhywun
      • Nephilium

        Shit… I don’t even think Obamacare had over half the states suing over it.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Woodchippers for judges who violate their oaths of office and the constitution is the answer.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Posted without comment:

    Man who doused self with sanitizer bursts into flames when tased by police in Catskill

    *outright prolonged laughter*

  13. The Late P Brooks

    The states said in the filing that Biden’s mandate “will cause injuries and hardship to working families, inflict economic disruption and staffing shortages on the states and private employers, and impose even greater strains on struggling labor markets and supply chains.”

    That’s pretty much the explicitly stated objective.

    Punishment and subjugation of the refuseniks. Vilification and scapegoating. Incite the obedient to hate them.

  14. UnCivilServant

    *headdesk**hdeaddesk**headdesk*

    That feeling when you find out eight years of oracle performance tuning went up in smoke and everyone expect it back.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Much sympathy. At least you have job security for the forseeable future.

    • Gender Traitor

      ?

    • Penguin

      Oooof. Hope there was good documentation.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Adam Corolla has a weekly YouTube thing with Mark Garagos and Garagos thinks the lawsuits will fail bigly. Apparently he’s represented several people opposing various Covid mandates and the judges are for the most part in lockstep with the pronouncements unfortunately. We’ll see I suppose but the judges tend towards authoritarianism in the first place and also tend to be in the age range that’s more adversely effected. If we rely on lawsuits and the bullshit legal process we’ll all be screwed.

    True enough. Courts have been rejecting lawsuits pretty much out of hand. But the political implications are pretty hard to miss.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “Defeat a Powerful New Jersey Democrat starter pack”.

      Heh. Including MSPaint was a nice touch.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “I think they were afraid he was going to hurt himself, and that’s what started it,” Darling said.

    “The suspect threatened to jump off the roof, so we had no alternative but to shoot him.”

  17. Count Potato

    “Yale causes uproar with seminar by diversity trainer who said the FBI inflates antisemitism figures, the written word is white supremacy and punctuality is a white trait: Hired by professor who accused Native American student of racism

    A law professor who was caught on tape pressuring a Native American student to apologize for ‘trap house’ party, pushed Yale to host a diversity trainer who reportedly told students anti-Semitism is a form of ‘anti-blackness’ and that the FBI artificially inflates hate crimes against Jews.

    Yale’s director of diversity and inclusion Yaseen Eldik invited ‘kinky’ sex education and diversity trainer Ericka Hart to the university after the board ‘publicly expressed’ it would ‘implement implicit bias and antiracism training….

    Hart’s presentation allegedly dealt with ‘pretty privilege’ and ‘fatphobia.’

    When a Yale Law Review journal editor asked her why her presentation dealt with those types of topics instead of anti-Semitism, Hart allegedly replied that she did because she covered anti-blackness and there are some black Jews, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

    ‘She basically said anti-Semitism is a subset of anti-blackness,’ the unidentified editor told the Free Beacon said.

    ‘She didn’t recognize there could be anti-Semitism against white people.’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10171541/Yale-Law-administrator-hosted-diversity-trainer-said-anti-Semitism-form-anti-blackness.html

    • rhywun

      I wonder if this “seminar” was mandatory for anyone. If not… well, anyone attending that garbage should have known by now what they’re getting into.

      • Count Potato

        My favorite part is that she is a “white neighborhood survivor”.

      • rhywun

        LOL

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh she’s scream to high heaven if I said I was a “black neighborhood survivor” despite growing up white in a majority black neighborhood (with high crime and gang membership).

      • Not Adahn

        No it wasn’t. The evals are on scribd. The non true believers said the best part was the meal voucher. The true believers were upset that it was a canned lecture not tailored to them.

        There was some tension about the antisemitism though.

  18. ignoreLander

    From last night’s links:

    Anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers’ spectacular fall from grace happened in record time

    SCREW.YOU.

    Rodgers isn’t the fictional “Anti-vaxxer”, and he hasn’t “fallen from grace”. To call you people ‘pieces of shit’ would insult the shit that normal people take most mornings.

    Never stop being a rag unworthy of picking up dog crap, Guardian — I wouldn’t recognize the world without your trash.

    • ignoreLander

      BY the way, I was never an Aaron Rodgers or a Packers fan, but now that the right “people” hate him, he’s my new best friend, Guardian.

      • Ghostpatzer

        #metoo. Let’s go Aaron!

      • rhywun

        Right?

        By the way, this is the treatment I expect to get from everyone when I “come out” myself. I can’t wait!

    • Ted S.

      FWIW, the posters on the Packers forums where I’m a member almost unanimously turned on Rodgers on a dime.

      Rodgers should call the league’s vaccine rules a form of slavery so that the media will lionize him the way they did Kaepernick.

    • Penguin

      To call you people ‘pieces of shit’ would insult the shit…

      FYI – I’m totally stealing this.

      • ignoreLander

        FYI – I’m totally stealing this.

        It’s all yours Penguin

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Insurrection

    Objections among certain vendors over President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors are reaching an inflection point. As the deadline for workforce vaccination approaches, some trucking companies are mulling whether to end their work with the federal government altogether, according to two industry insiders.

    In an interview, the American Trucking Associations’ executive vice president for advocacy Bill Sullivan told POLITICO that some companies may simply decide that the cost of the mandate is not worth the government’s checks. Sullivan said he has raised concerns to the White House, Office of Management and Budget and other executive branch officials. He noted that if companies drop their contracts, it may be harder to get certain foods to troops, transport fuel for military vehicles, or even deploy the National Guard.

    ——-

    But interviews with more than a dozen industry advocates across the aerospace, distribution, defense and trucking sectors — some of whom have also been in discussions with administration officials — reveal they either have little confidence they will be able to meet the Dec. 8 deadline for their workers to receive their first vaccine shot or expressed concerns about difficulties the mandate would pose on their labor force.

    What makes those guys think participation in those government contracts is optional? That’s what I’d like to know.

    • Surly Knott

      Looks like the “conversations” worked.

    • Penguin

      …some trucking companies are mulling whether to end their work with the federal government altogether…

      Oh, glorious day.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    The demands have led to a notable uptick in the vaccination rates across various industries. Public health officials have credited them with helping the country stem the spread of the Delta variant. And the White House points to major companies such as United Airlines and Tyson that have seen overwhelming compliance among its workforce. United Airlines announced in September that 97 percent of its employees had been vaccinated, demonstrating that there is only a small fraction of those who oppose the mandate and that ultimately, the mandate worked.

    Yeah. Demonstrating you can accomplish more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone, that is.

    Take it. It’s good for you. OR ELSE.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Fomenting resentful employees is a winning long term strategy.

    • Gender Traitor

      Dare I ask….is that a new (to you) puppy??

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Dog sitting for my Pa

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Ewww! except when it’s your doggo!
      /silly girl

    • l0b0t

      Beautiful. IDK if you saw it yesterday but here is a Class A Diesel pusher, 3 slide, bath & a half – a 2008 Fleetwood Expedition (with only 20K miles) for $69,995 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J-hlNLs8o

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I could buy a house for that much! and the gas/diesel? good luck.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I could straight up live in that thing. Just park it under an awning of some sort and you’d be set for a decade at least.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        And pay space rent, and sewer cleanout, and water and don’t forget heating, at that point just buy a fucking house, IMO

      • l0b0t

        Hell yeah! Go as much solar as possible and park it in a very rural section of Gulf Coast FL, AL, or, MS and live out the remainder of my days. Grey water goes to the ground, black water goes to a septic tank. Fresh water would be a my main concern. Rainwater collection would be decent, a condensing collector might work, although my dad field tested and Air-Well (underground condensing chamber/collector with two tall inflow/outflow tubes for fresh air) for a couple years and the results were quite underwhelming in SW Florida.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        Wowee!!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Headline:

    Youngkin’s underage son tried to vote.

    This, apparently, is an outrage. I thought the Demos wanted to lower the voting age, and give America;s youth a voice.

    Just not the Republican ones, I guess.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Stop the presses!!!

    • SDF-7

      “Ball of fire appears above horizon, dramatically changing conditions over the last 7 hours….”

      • Surly Knott

        “Bright light in East frightens natives in Sector R.”

      • Ghostpatzer

        “And there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.”

    • rhywun

      I have to assume that “Martin Weil” is a bot.

  22. Q Continuum

    “Consent has to be constantly reiterated during a sexual act.”

    This is what I don’t understand. Yes, there are obvious situations such as if the woman is crying and telling you to stop, you stop. But what does “constantly reiterated” mean in a legal sense? Like you have to hold a dead-man switch during the entire encounter to indicate continuous consent and if you let it go, consent is retroactively revoked? It’s hard for me to understand how such a concept can be enforced in a fair and meaningful way.

    • ron73440

      how such a concept can be enforced in a fair and meaningful way.

      I think that’s the point, foreseeable consequences not being unintended and all.

    • Suthenboy

      It isn’t meant to be enforced in a fair and meaningful way. All of the left’s culture war nonsense is designed to make society dysfunctional, be design.

      • Q Continuum

        Back when SNL was actually funny and occasionally edgy.

        RIP Phil Hartman.

    • Penguin

      …what does “constantly reiterated” mean in a legal sense?

      You ask at every thrust. “Do you still consent?” “Yes” “Unnhhh… Do you still..?”

    • Loveconstitution1789

      FemNazis and their useful idiots want to make sex between consenting adults a public matter, so Lefties can effectively influence birth rates and who has political power.

      The Lefty goal is to destroy America and all means are fair fame to them.

  23. hayeksplosives

    Zardos: it’s what’s for breakfast.

    And it’s caturday!

    Truly, I am unworthy.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Is he growing big?

  24. Tundra

    Good morning!

    Is the world still stupid?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *checks*

      Yup

  25. SDF-7

    Didn’t see anyone post about it — so, BTW: Looks like we’ll be at least stuck with the “bipartisan” “infrastructure” bill. The slightly smaller one that the squishes in the Stupid Party went along with. At least that’s how I read things – since it looks like this is a version the Senate already voted on, just cleared the House – so I assume it is going right to the Drooler in Chief now.

    Was really hoping it would all just die in the infighting. Oh well — through another $1.5 trillion on the fire, I suppose…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The article’s written just vaguely enough that I can’t quite tell what’s going on.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        13 R’s for, 6 D’s against. Had the R’s any Balls the bill would have died.

    • Q Continuum

      While horrific, that one is ever so slightly less monstrous than the other one. This one at least has funding for MUH ROADZ and MUH BRIDGEZ without as much obscene welfare state and “transformative” horse shit.

    • Nephilium

      At least one of the RINO’s (Gonzalez – OH) that voted for it has already announced he’s not running for office again. He also voted to impeach Trump.

    • rhywun

      Local RINO’s voted for it while the “Squad” voted against it. Strange days.

      Check out the various slush funds standing in line at the trough. The author seems to think that the money will “solve” things ??

  26. DEG

    ZARDOZ MUST ACCOUNT FOR AMMO, GRAIN AND GUNS TO THE VORTEX.

    You can send some guns and ammo my way. I’m tempted by some gun auctions, and THE GIFT OF THE GUN might save me some money.

    The embassy confirmed in a statement to Interfax news agency that a Russian diplomat had died but said it was “not commenting on this tragic event for ethical reasons”.

    “Ethical reasons”. That’s a new euphemism.

    “Particularly because some of them had contracts – contracts that had questionable legality, and sometimes were even totally legally void. But in the world of pornography, as soon as someone has a contract, people aren’t going to dig deeper or check if it’s valid or not.”

    Maybe things are a little different in France. I saw a video where the folks behind kink dot com (obfuscated so I don’t risk hitting the link limit or spam checker) went over their contracts and what they do before a shoot to make sure everyone understands what they are getting into. Those contracts are quiet thorough and I’d be surprised if they weren’t legally valid.

    Nine factions opposed to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have joined forces to seek a political transition. Ethiopia has been mired in violent conflict for over a year. The US Embassy is now urging all its citizens to leave.

    Afghanistan redux?

    • Q Continuum

      “Afghanistan redux?”

      TBH, if my only options are “we’re going after ‘domestic terrorists'” or “saddle up boys, time to go blow some shit up in a third-world shithole!” I’ll take the latter.

      (Of course, “none of the above” is preferable but we can’t expect the FedGov to *not* engage is pointless conflict now can we?)

  27. The Late P Brooks

    “Consent has to be constantly reiterated during a sexual act.”

    “Holy cow, I think he’s gonna make it!”

    “Stop right there!”

  28. Mojeaux

    Picking up from last night’s discussion of Job:

    @Cannoli, I see your point and I went to bed on that thought. It’s something I’ve thought about frequently, hell being stripped of God’s presence. I am not convinced that such people WANT to be in God’s presence at all and thus, justice (being sent to hell) and mercy (getting what you want) are both served. In a vacuum, I like the IDEA of a place of eternal torment for evil, but I don’t like the idea you can go there if you fail to recognize Jesus as savior.

    @OMWC, I can take Job as an allegory. I get the point of it completely. I always have. However, Christians usually view Scripture as something that really happened. Maybe it’s unreliable, but it’s seen as *actual history*. I speak on it in that context without nodding to its allegorical nature.

    @Trashy, I think our theological differences aren’t as wide as you might think. My church teaches Job the way yours does. (We also use KJV exclusively.) It’s just something I’ve been thinking about for a while (read: many years).

    • Cannoli

      So I also struggle with the story of Job, but one of the things I realized as I was thinking about it last night is that the things God permits Satan to do to Job (taking away his fortune, his children, and his health) are things that God permits to happen to almost everyone. We all lose loved ones, we all face financial difficulties, and we all lose our health eventually. So we’re back to the Problem of Pain, which is hard, but I don’t think Job is a unique example.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes, I see your point. There’s not much daylight between the (active, blatant) bet over Job and our own struggles.

    • Cannoli

      As an aside, I highly recommend C.S. Lewis’s book The Great Divorce. The whole thing is an exploration of the idea of people being in Hell because they WANT to be.

      • Mojeaux

        Thanks for the rec. I’ll get it.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    But what does “constantly reiterated” mean in a legal sense

    If she’s not screaming “Fuck me, baby! Pound my pussy!” at the top of her lungs, you’re on thin ice.

    • Mojeaux

      “Crushing puss.”

      —Swissy, 11/5/21 on the zooms

      • Q Continuum

        Vagina assassin.

      • Q Continuum

        Twat terrorist.

      • Q Continuum

        Weapon of mass ejaculation.

      • l0b0t

        I’m still giggling about that.

    • Q Continuum

      “If she’s not screaming “Fuck me, baby! Pound my pussy!””

      Screaming anything is a logistical challenge with a sleeping 8-month old in the next room.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The only thing creepier than pretending to be the toddler is being the partner of the pretender and enjoying it.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Hard hitting reporting from WaPo: /friday-was-our-coldest-morning-in-more-than-six-months//em>

    Global warming has ended. We’re saved!

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Screaming anything is a logistical challenge with a sleeping 8-month old in the next room.

    I thought we were talking about the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.

    • Q Continuum

      Mrs. Q was an Alpha Chi Omega.

    • ron73440

      I think the picture gave me herpes.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nah, she looks like a nice girl. Probably a lot of fun to be around, especially if you have a little coke.

    • SDF-7

      It did, but then it just ghosted her. It was expecting a more spirited conversation, but she kept throwing shade — so it stopped after only a lich or two.

  32. ron73440

    Usually I don’t get on here on the weekends, but I am waiting for the battery to charge in my wife’s 2009 Corolla so I can see if it’s the battery or alternator.

    • Urthona

      Cool story

      • ron73440

        I know, I lead such an exciting life.

      • ron73440

        I saw, the fact they didn’t notify you of the price increase was BS.

        Other than the mileage, how is the condition of the truck?

        Mine has 350K, but is in(mostly) excellent condition.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, it’s a complete rust bucket. The dash got brittle and caved in. It’s got, shall I say, PERSONALITY.

        Now, mind you, I love this truck, but the most valuable thing on it is the tires.

      • ron73440

        That sucks, The dash can be covered pretty easily, but if it has terminal cancer, not much you can do.

        Are you going to put the money in for the PCM?

      • Mojeaux

        We DO want it back because we DO use it, so we agreed to the $600 initially quoted. No way we’re putting $1800 into it.

      • ron73440

        Good luck, it’s easy to dump money into these things.

        If my wife knew the true number {‘ve spent on parts, she might kill me.

        Well, going to the garage, talk later.

      • Mojeaux

        It does what we bought it to do, and has done it mostly well. We’ve gotten our money out of it over the years and will be sad when it dies, but we know its time is limited.

        I am quite sure they want it off their lot more than we need it back. Or at least, I hope they start thinking that is the case.

      • l0b0t

        Yeah, the no prior notification thing is really bad form. Our guy would even call if he found a way to save money as well. He would get excited if he found a cheaper part. The 2 body shops I’ve taken the trucklet to so far were rather unwilling to do a cash transaction and kept pushing an insurance claim and a rental car, and assorted price padding options.

    • Q Continuum

      Did you check the thermostat?

    • ron73440

      That’s horrific.

    • Suthenboy

      WTF is that? Who destroys wheelchairs? What is the rationale?
      Let me guess….security theater.

      • ron73440

        I didn’t even think of that, I figured there was an accident, but that makes more sense.

      • l0b0t

        I’m curious as to where and why it happens with such frequency. Is it an overly vigorous inspection process, ham-handed baggage handling, what the Devil is going on down at the aerodrome?

      • Tulip

        No, custom chairs don’t fit in passenger compartment (according to airline) so must be put in luggage compartment. Apparently, they break lots.

    • Ted S.

      Did drugs fall out of his ass when he was tased???

      • Chafed

        Yes and caught on fire.

  33. Mojeaux

    Why are my friends idiots? They didn’t used to be.

    Good friend celebrating that her 8yo (or 10, I don’t remember) just got the jab.

    W.T.F., B?

    • UnCivilServant

      Does she hate the kid?

      • Ted S.

        Doesn’t everybody hate kids?

    • Urthona

      It’s astronomically unlikely Covid will hurt her kid now.

      Also it was before the vaccine.

      • Mojeaux

        It’s equally dismaying to see people treating it as a grand occasion.

    • rhywun

      People seem to actually believe that this means “the world goes back to normal”. And if it takes injecting your child with a substance that is more dangerous to them than the plague, well ??‍♂️.

    • DEG

      Apropos: Stinky Inky op-ed from a parent who got her kid vaccinated:

      On Thursday, my 7-year-old got her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. It was one of the best days we’ve had in a long time.
      It’s a certain type of parent who books an appointment for the first day the city starts offering vaccines to kids ages 5-11. So when I walked into the hot, noisy gym at the Waterview Rec Center in Germantown, I felt like I had found my people.
      We’re in the minority, as only one-quarter of parents say they plan to get their kids ages 5-11 vaccinated against COVID-19 right away. This isn’t a total surprise, as there’s a lot of misinformation out there about the vaccine in children, including fringe videos suggesting the shots could cause ridiculous side effects. When I picked my kid up from school early to go to the appointment, she asked if the vaccine could turn her blood purple. (I’m still not sure where she got that idea, which I quickly dispelled.)

      • rhywun

        It’s a certain type of parent who books an appointment for the first day

        *snort*

    • robodruid

      The world has gone insane.

  34. Q Continuum

    Libertarian moment?

      • Suthenboy

        I think FOX commentators have a wide latitude to express themselves vs the other networks where they are spoon fed opinions and dialog.
        It aint perfect but FOX isn’t even on the same planet with the paid shills everyone else has mouthing talking points.

      • ron73440

        I missThe Independents.

        That was an interesting political show.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Forgive me if I turn a skeptical eye to the fentanyl fentanyl fentanyl in conservative outlets. Feels like every other drug panic of the moment.

  35. UnCivilServant

    How many people here make gestures to attempt to clarify their words while on phone calls where the other person can’t see you?

    I still make that mistake…

    • rhywun

      I’m northern European stock – I don’t gesture even in real life.

    • The Gunslinger

      Dutch stock here. Moving my arms around sounds a little bit to much like dancing. I’ll pass.

  36. Mojeaux

    #protip

    That using a rag and hottest iron to get wax out of your carpet thing really works.

    • Q Continuum

      These euphemisms are getting kinky.

      • slumbrew

        Nice.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I started laughing the first time I saw the business name and logo in Boise. Had to explain it to my wife and point out the details. Ohhh… /Edith