Saturday evening, socked in links

by | Dec 4, 2021 | Daily Links | 213 comments

Not exactly conducive to pheasant hunting.

Yep, the winter inversion has arrived. I’m ready for some storms to blow this stuff out.

 

Prog harder, Oregon.

 

“Put it all on black!”

 

It’s been awhile since we’ve had a world war. I think we’re probably due.

 

Pornhub channel to follow.

 

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that this is happening in the south.

 

Just go ahead and make the switch already, Joe.

 

Peace out, Glibbies! Enjoy your evening.

 

*I dumped the music link out of an abundance of caution.*

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Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

213 Comments

  1. Not Adahn

    Unfortunately it thawed at the dog park, turning the ground into friable mud.

    Also unfortunately, it thawed and refroze at the club, so tomorrow’s match has been called on account of “nobody wants to die.”

  2. Nephilium

    Damn man. Your links caused my browser to throw up two NoScript warnings for cross site scripting to YouTube.

      • LCDR_Fish

        me 3

      • LCDR_Fish

        looks like a broken youtube link. video (if there) isn’t showing up on my browser.

      • Spudalicious

        Which one?

      • Spudalicious

        Weird. I copied that right off of YouTube.

      • The Hyperbole

        You have credentials! I haven’t been given any credentials, this is an outrage!

      • Nephilium

        Hyperbole:

        Specifically for you…

        Outrage!

      • The Hyperbole

        That better not be Ska Punk.

      • Nephilium

        Hyperbole:

        It’s third wave ska… but I wouldn’t call it punk.

    • Spudalicious

      I have no idea what you just said.

      • Spudalicious

        They work just fine for me. I think it’s you.

      • Nephilium

        Technology… old man… you done broke some shit…

      • Spudalicious

        They work just fine on my eight year old Samsung laptop.

    • Nephilium

      I generally respect the 30 minute window before posting the link. But I will be hosting tonight. Look for the link in about 15 minutes, with the Zoom to kick off at about 20:00 Eastern.

      • Q Continuum

        Suggestion: Zoom karaoke.

        Consider.

      • Q Continuum

        I wanna hear that beautiful Upstate NY singing voice.

      • UnCivilServant

        *monotone* Singing in the rain. I’m singing in the rain. */monotone*

      • The Hyperbole

        DB graced us with a rendition of “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” last week.

      • db

        It wasn’t complete, but I could do the whole song.

        In fact, if people donate $500 (in total) to the Glibertarian Foundation, I’ll do the whole song.

      • db

        I love it

  3. Gender Traitor

    Well, my first half-hearted venture at Christmas shopping was a bust. Didn’t see anything at the little clothing boutique that excited me as potential gifts for my sisters, and when I pulled up to the little new & used book store, I saw the sign on the door that said “Mask required to shop.”

    Nope.

    So I came home & took a nap.

    • The Gunslinger

      Naps are good

      • Yusef the Unclean

        Hey Gunslinger, I did go see the Sequoia, 5 minutes from home, I did a pictorial, maybe TPTB will set it free. A very nice Botanical park, and pleasants views, Thanks for the tip!

      • The Gunslinger

        Awesome! I’ll watch for it.

    • Fourscore

      You made good use of your extra time, GT.

      Do you need a mask if you are “just looking”

      “Oh, I’m not shopping, I’m killing time ’til my car is ready at the oil change place”

      • J. Frank Parnell

        “I promise I won’t buy anything”

    • DEG

      I also would not have spent money at that place.

      A nap is a better use of time.

  4. The Gunslinger

    Alabama has a DB with first name of Kool-Aid?

  5. Nephilium

    It’s a Saturday, I’m home and upright, while the girlfriend is still under quarantine protocols. So here’s the Zoom/Happy Hour/Q distracting link that I’ll kick off at 20:00 Eastern.

  6. Fourscore

    Every time I see Fauci et al I hear this in the back ground

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEzfhclKO8Q

    Take this mask and shove it…I ain’t wearin’ it no more. I think rural MN has finally figured it out. Saw of my friends/classmates today who used to wear a mask and a shield. She was mingling today, sans mask, with a couple hundred other non maskers at a funeral today. Only saw 1 mask, a younger woman.

    • hayeksplosives

      I was expecting Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King

      The fact that newer TV commercials depict “normal” people maskless gives me hip that advertisers sense that people really want to go back to normal and that seeing masked faces does not put us in a good mood and in fact connects their product to negative connotations.

      • Ted S.

        I would have guessed Fucik’s Entry of the Gladiators.

      • hayeksplosives

        Lol.

      • rhywun

        Almost the only commercials I see with masks are either vax propaganda or selling masks. I think one of the drug store chains has them too. One or two others that I can’t remember what they were selling. All the advertisers have known all along not to depict reality.

      • hayeksplosives

        2020 had a lot of commercials showing “happy” families masked up and enjoying the new normal.

        I hated the propaganda. Nobody wanted this to become the new normal.

      • rhywun

        It’s possible I blocked all of that from my mind.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I went to a memorial this summer for a guy who died at the height of the original Rona panic. Back when the lockdowns prevented anyone from having an actual funeral.

      Anyhow, I went to the service and some young gal came around and started asking all the people there to “put on a mask for safety” and passing out fancy black masks. I’m no longer a local back there but you could tell that this gal was from the Big City by the way she acted and dressed.

      You could watch everyone she talked to get a look on their face like the were ready to tell her to go fuck herself. Then the small town folks had the second thought that they didn’t want to create a scene and take away from the rememberances f the guy who had passed away, so they put on the mask.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        You dont have to make a scene by saying something, just ignore those mask tyrants.

        Honestly, I dont see how you people did what the tyrants wanted.

        Georgia didnt have lockdowns or mask mandates. Most businesses that demanded masks lost massive business and caved to “mask recommended” within a few months. I dont have a mask, dont wear a mask, and am just saddened by people who cave to tyranny.

        I get that you have to do what you need to but there is strength in numbers. The more Americans tell the mask/vax tyrants to fuck off or ignore them the quicker the tyrants cave.

    • hayeksplosives

      Resign immediately and then seek counseling to find out why you’re subconsciously trying to destroy your life.

      If you need excitement, take up sky diving.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      but I’m a happily married woman and straight.

      hot

      We’re going to a conference together soon and it feels inevitable we’ll end up having sex.

      I’m scared I’ll wreck my marriage

      Invite your husband along and tell him he can watch.

  7. l0b0t

    The onion story is completely unsurprising, they should visit the tomato plantations of Immokalee, Florida.

    • Q Continuum

      Does this mean that we can say Biden is enabling a trans-national slave trade?

    • Fourscore

      “some were allegedly forced to dig for onions with their bare hands”

      While others wore cheap cotton gloves to pull the onions out of the ground. Onions, it is known, are surface growing vegetables and quite easy to harvest, except for the constant bending over, which is consistent with most garden products.

      • rhywun

        Is there any reason a machine can’t do it?

      • Spudalicious

        Machines are expensive.

      • UnCivilServant

        Only in the short term.

      • EvilSheldon

        Maintenance is a thing. Also, setup costs.

      • UnCivilServant

        Same problems with slave labor. In the long run, you get more onions with machines than trafficked laborers.

      • Spudalicious

        You have to change them out now and then, like your orphans.

      • Suthenboy

        I am thinking that may be imaginary.

      • Spudalicious

        It was on Drudge, Suthen. It has to be true.

  8. Ghostpatzer

    Modern-day slavery uncovered in South Georgia

    Twenty-four accused members and associates of the criminal enterprise that perpetuated the exploitation now face a slew of felony charges, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia.

    I wonder who these miscreants might be? The Journal-Constitution doesn’t say, but I’m sure they are white supremacists. Wait, there’s this…

    https://www.walb.com/2021/11/22/south-ga-residents-among-24-indicted-human-smuggling-labor-trafficking-operation/?outputType=apps

    Hmmm…

    Maria Leticia Patricio
    Daniel Mendoza
    Nery Rene Carrillo-Najarro
    Antonio Chavez Ramos

    I sense a pattern here. I vaguely remember something similar WRT the African slave trade, but I’m getting old.

    • hayeksplosives

      Must be white hispanics, like George Zimmerman.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      The DoJ is just a cesspool of corruption. Rule of law is a joke to these corrupt Lefty bureaucrats.

  9. hayeksplosives

    OMG. I just figured out that the sheriff on the “Fansville” Dr Pepper commercials is Brian Bosworth.

    He looked familiar but I couldn’t quite place it, since I was thinking of what he must have been in as a younger “actor.”

    Nice to see he has work.

    • slumbrew

      One of the great little jokes of those commercials.

      The doctor is Eddie George.

  10. Brochettaward

    Sometimes I wonder why I put myself through everything. The Firsting. The carrying of The First That Will Change Everything. Why do this all for such an ungrateful world?

    • EvilSheldon

      If you have to ask this, then you’re not the man for the job.

      • Brochettaward

        Remember that even in the Bible Jesus had his moment of doubt in his pain.

    • hayeksplosives

      I’m sure Planned Parenthood would be happy to rid you of that non-viable tissue mass for a small fee.

    • Nephilium

      So you can see your name in a byline?

      • J. Frank Parnell

        GAH

      • Fourscore

        Please, no more of that, I just had my dinner

      • Pope Jimbo

        And you are lactose intolerant?

      • Fourscore

        Whoa there, Big Guy!

        /Runs to the bathroom

  11. I. B. McGinty

    With a lot of us facing an uncertain job future, maybe the answer is to start our own company?

    1. Quit job in glorious fashion and go work for Glibs Worldwide, Inc.
    2.
    3.
    4. Profit!

    Does anyone know how to business?

    • Q Continuum

      I hear there’s a lot of money in porn.

      Job 1: Find some women…

      • Ted S.

        Or hate birds.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I figure your wimmen rolling around in Fourscore’s honey pit and we are halfway to profitability.

    • Yusef the Unclean

      2. Sell Weed

      • I. B. McGinty

        I think you’re on to something there Yusef.

      • Yusef the Unclean

        GWI’s largest export I figure, heh,

      • ElspethFlashman

        So many weed outlets in MI now.

      • Yusef the Unclean

        We have 5 in my little town, overkill? yes

      • UnCivilServant

        There’s no kill like overkill.

      • Fourscore

        Like the Sports Card shops of yesteryear. Apparently one was overkill in a lot of smaller towns

    • hayeksplosives

      Richard Branson offered this advice on Hoe to Become a Millionaire:

      1) Become a billionaire
      2) Purchase an airline

      • Yusef the Unclean

        That is Funny,

      • Sensei

        It’s an old joke on Wall St.

        Doesn’t make it less funny, however.

      • Mojeaux

        Q: How do you make a small fortune in publishing?

        A: Start with a large fortune.

    • Nephilium

      1) Exploit the poor lower class people.
      2) ???
      3) PROFIT!

    • Yusef the Unclean

      3. begin lucrative career in boating accident retrieval

    • rhywun

      3. Win an elected office, the higher the better.

      Leads to lots of 4, almost can’t possibly be fired, and you don’t have to follow any of Joe and friends’ pesky rules.

    • Fourscore

      Discount high end clothing and accessories sales

      Cost of goods minimal , mostly evening work, unlimited opportunities. Require spending time away from family on occasion

    • Grumbletarian

      Become a competitor of the Babylon Bee. On the one hand, it’s hard to parody the left. On the other hand, they give you so many opportunities to try.

  12. DEG

    Though the Oregon Health Authority lifted the state’s outdoor mask mandate last week, “separate mask rules for indoor spaces, schools and healthcare settings all remain in place,” writes KGW8. And with that requirement soon expiring, leaders are working to switch to what’s being called a permanent mandate before then.

    The Oregon Health Authority can go fuck itself.

    As tensions mount between Washington and Moscow over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, U.S. intelligence has found the Kremlin is planning a multi-front offensive as soon as early next year involving up to 175,000 troops, according to U.S. officials and an intelligence document obtained by The Washington Post.

    Biden needs to distract from his other failures.

    Victims include over one hundred laborers smuggled from Mexico and Central America into “brutal” and “inhumane” working conditions. Under the threat of gun violence, some were allegedly forced to dig for onions with their bare hands, earning only 20 cents for each bucket harvested. At least two people died on the job. Another was allegedly repeatedly raped.

    Why do I think this is bullshit?

    • EvilSheldon

      Because they use the phrase, ‘…threat of gun violence,’.

      Proggie tropes poison everything they touch.

      • Q Continuum

        Everyone knows gun violence is so much worse than regular violence.

        If you’re killed by a gun, you go to ultrasoopermega hell and if you’re killed by regular violence you go you 100%24/7orgasm heaven.

        Ergo: guns must be banned.

    • Suthenboy

      Because it has all the qualities of bullshit? That would be my guess.

    • pistoffnick

      Once a day whether I need it or not, twice on Sundays.

      Once an hour…your in blister town, friend.

      • pistoffnick

        *you are*

  13. kinnath

    Goodbye Chris

    CNN said Saturday that anchor Chris Cuomo has been “terminated” by the network, “effective immediately.”

    • rhywun

      Does it strike anyone as odd that CNN got Potatohead to throw him under the bus? And to claim he had “misgivings” the whole time?!

      • Fourscore

        I laughed at that too. Irony, how I love you.

  14. DEG

    Some folks on the previous thread asked about no-vax job boards and how to bring up lack of vaccination status.

    Folks recommended redballoon and gab’s no-vax job board. Both have good resources but weren’t able to help me.

    For lack of vaccination status, with the two recruiters I worked with, I brought up that I’m not going to get the vaccine because I had Covid and have the paperwork to prove it. One recruiter said nothing about it. The other started talking about how he thinks the government is overstepping its bounds. This one is the one that got me the leads which led to two competing job offers.

    With both companies, I explained to the hiring managers, as part of the offer process, that I had Covid and I won’t get the vaccine. The recruiter knew I was talking to the hiring managers about this. One hiring manager understand and had no problems with my decision, but he warned me that his company might require it. At the time he and I talked, there was no mandate but he was worried one was coming down the line. The other hiring manager said, “I’m not sure it’s legal for us to ask you about whether or not you’re vaccinated”. I didn’t say anything about it actually is legal. Anyways, he and I talked, and he also had no problem with my decision and was clear that it would not be a problem with that company. That company is the one I went with.

    My advice, based on what I’ve done, is get the job first. Then as part of the offer negotiations, talk about whether or not a vaccine is required for the job.

    • Yusef the Unclean

      Job first, and great work D!

  15. Not an Economist

    Looks like College Football Playoff is going to be a mess. With less than 2 minutes left, Alabama is up by 2 touchdowns over Georgia.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Yay, another year with 2 SEC teams in the playoff and deserving 1 loss teams on the sideline. ???

      Wife and I agree, college football stops being fun after Thanksgiving weekend.

  16. Trigger Hippie

    Well, just found out about something pretty fucked up. A couple months ago I finally got a capable assistant to help me on my projects. For over a month he showed up on time, didn’t call in, followed instructions, did things well if not quickly but overall the dude was working out.

    Two weeks ago he no called, no showed. My boss and I thought that he probably decided to go work with his buddy since that was his side gig. After trying to reach him for a couple days we thought fuck it. He’s gone, see him on payday. We’ll after two paydays passing he still hasn’t reached us. So my boss does some checking on FB. The dude and his wife apparently commented frequently there. Two weeks ago they went silent. So he starts checking crime and accident reports around the city. Sure enough, a young couple died in an automobile accident right around the area he lived two weeks ago. We can’t be sure it’s them because the families didn’t release the names to the public but the couple described also had a few children. That dude had three.

    It really makes you wonder.

    • Nephilium

      Shit man… sorry.

    • DEG

      Yikes, sorry.

    • Fourscore

      I had a similar experience, back in the day. I hired a likeable guy, not exceptional but for the pay he was adequate The he didn’t show up, didn’t call in.
      A month later he came in, ready for work, I tried to pin his down but he said he was sick and in the hospital. Dawned on me, he’d been gone exactly 30 days in the “hospital”. I’d already replaced him so I let him go.

      A couple weeks later I’m watching the local news and Jim shows up, as the head of a native American group, on tax payer money. He had a better job with less work, I’m sure, and no one to hold him accountable.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Failing up, The American Dream!

    • Sensei

      Damn…

    • hayeksplosives

      Man. That is harsh.

      Seems like if you told the local police dept that you hadn’t heard from this employee for a while, they could at least give you a “yes” or “no”.

      On the other hand

      1) An inquiry could trigger a police welfare checks, which don’t necessarily go well
      2) If no one has posted condolences to their FB page, it’s less likely it’s them.

      Have you checked http://www.legacy.com? National database of obituaries.

      • Trigger Hippie

        1) Never speak to the police. Especially when you’re somebody of my yolk and ESPECIALLY about a missing person. I’m no hardened or even really a practicing criminal at this point but I consider cops to be the most immediate threat to my life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

        2) This is a good point. He claimed he saw somebody on his FB page online for awhile but no comments or posts. Nothing after that day. Could have been a family of member, could have been him. No idea…

        Please keep in mind I didn’t do any checking myself. This is all second hand reports from what my boss told me. He’s the kind of dude who would spend his spare time digging into this shit but for all I know he’s talking out his ass and trying to pocket the labor. Neither would shock me.

        3) I never got the dude’s last name. We just exchanged numbers for work purposes…if he wanted his fetti I’m sure he would have texted me. I didn’t block him or anything. It’s just weird that a guy who recently moved from the rural areas just East of the Mississippi with a young growing family would ghost a business that owed him near grand.

    • Pope Jimbo

      At my last company we had a developer who was a fun guy but had a problem with drugs and booze.

      He had already gotten kicked out of the Coast Guard Academy for some drug stuff. When he worked he did fine. For the most part he showed up on time and was no problems. Everyone liked him.

      One Monday he didn’t show up and no one knew where he was. Same thing Tuesday. Since he had some code that was needed for an upcoming demo another manager and I started calling around trying to get a hold of him. Called his parents, called hospitals, jails, the whole bit. His parents finally called us back and told us they had found him in the Cook County jail.

      Apparently he had gone on a bender, gotten robbed by his new “friends”. Then the bar called the cops since he had no money and was too drunk/high to make any sense. So the cops put him in the detox tank When he sobered up he didn’t want anyone to know what had happened so he decided to stay in jail until his court date rather than try to get bailed out.

      He had to do a drug test (which he passed) for HR, but then lasted another month or so before he got a new job (with better pay).

      • Fourscore

        Same here, different guy, only his brother called early Monday morning, explained that Todd was in the slammer on a DWI, begged me not to fire Todd. Todd was a good employee, got some bad jail time but was allowed to come to work week days but spend nights and week ends in jail, ’til his time was up. Went on to become the manager of a store. Pissed off the other employees that had to fill in the late/weekend shifts though.

  17. LCDR_Fish

    Just heard via Radio Free California that Cato finally updated their site: https://www.freedominthe50states.org

    Again….still can’t figure out their metrics. Colorado is 12…Wyoming is 26….and Alaska is 24, Texas is 21….

    Granted weed isn’t legal in WY…and I guess they have some other factors in their metrics too:

    Retail raw milk sales were legalized in 2015. Cousin marriage is illegal, but blood tests and waiting periods are not required for marriage.

    Just some bizarre rationalizations IMO. I’ll need to take some time digging through the rest of the states – this is the first time the site has been updated since 2016.

    • LCDR_Fish

      And apparently there’s no reference to COVID at all – which may be why NH is still #1 for “freedom”.

      • DEG

        Sortof.

        The governor isn’t doing much with respect to Covid. However, attempts to push back resulted in some not-so-good changes to the relevant laws.

        Contrast with PA: Thanks to the constitutional amendments, PA is in better shape with respect to the relevant laws. On the other hand, the governor is still doing what he wants and I expect the state Supreme Court will side with him.

      • Sean

        This is mostly true. I can travel/shop/dine/work sans mask/vax/hassle.

        Stay out of Philly.

      • Q Continuum

        Main thing Colorado has going for it is the fact that the ski resorts own the legislature at the governor. They have the ability to make or break any politician and they have decreed no more restrictions. Which is why, in spite of his leftyhood, Reason’s-wet-dream hasn’t issued anything and has stayed very quiet.

    • Yusef the Unclean

      Michigan!
      We’re #7!

    • rhywun

      Like all these things, you need to ditch the overall ranking and look at the individual categories and decide which ones are most meaningful to you.

      New York has been the least free state in the country for a long time.

      Get out!

    • hayeksplosives

      Woo-hoo! Go Nevada!

      I imagine it’s starkly different in Las Vegas/Reno than in the vast emptiness in which I dwell.

      There’s a designated launchpad here for fireworks, open all year. Somebody had a good show going last night. There are a few Karens who complained, but everybody else says “The fireworks were here before you bought your house, so…that’s on you.”

    • Grumbletarian

      Nice to see NH still holding the top spot.

      • DEG

        NH slipped out of the top spot but is back in.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, was Florida before.

      • Lackadaisical

        One of the funny things they complain about is Florida not having enough jurisdictions, but a lot of areas are unincorporated, at least where I’ve been looking, which sounds better than having one extra level of government to submit to.

      • Suthenboy

        You mean ‘pay taxes to’.

        I liked much of Florida but the taxes…geez. Louisiana has the lowest property taxes in the Union and I want it to stay that way.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s part of it. Obviously this depends on your income and your home value, but Louisiana’s income tax rate would more than makeup for the difference in property taxes for me.

  18. ElspethFlashman

    I have two guitar amps right now. 1. Loaner from a neighbor 2. My bday present to myself. Both are fenders. Yay!

    • Yusef the Unclean

      I still roll a Fender twin and an Ampeg for me Bass rig,

  19. Nephilium

    For those who follow football and are entertained by retellings of Christmas stories.

    • Lackadaisical

      Never stick it in crazy.

      • creech

        Aren’t you usually sticking it in well before the crazy manifests?

      • Lackadaisical

        Hopefully, but I can’t help but notice women with many red flags and plenty of men willing to do the deed. I’ve never had the misfortune myself, so I figure I must have crazy-dar.

  20. Pope Jimbo

    Explain to me why it takes a lawsuit to force Fauci (a public servant) to release documents that he is claiming are classified, but the article about the invasion of The Ukraine has “unclassified photos” of the buildup?

    Seems like those pics of the Ruskies would be a biiiit more sensitive than the daily schedule of Fauci.

    • Fourscore

      Short of bombing Pearl Harbor would the US go to war again, under the present administration and all the economic and social problems in today’s America.? Would anyone think Latvia (besides me) or Taiwan is worth going to war with Russia/China? Could we? Are we willing to fight a protracted ground war after the Afghanistan excursion lasted 20 years?

      If a draft was necessary could it be carried out? Today is not 1930 or 1940. Could we fight from home (FFH)?

      If not, what are the alternatives?

      • UnCivilServant

        Send the Diversity Divisions to distract the enemy while we raise and train a real military and hope the time it takes the enemy to slaughter them is enough to build a fighting force from scratch.

      • Fourscore

        The uniforms wouldn’t be fashionable enough for the DDs and they would get dirty too. “And the food, OMG, what they feed us”

      • Pope Jimbo

        Boot Camp Lore Training:

        Both WW’s found the Marines hopelessly underarmed, understaffed and just not ready to fight.

        This period will surely become the new Gospel. “Civilians forced the Marines to care about pronouns”.

        Seriously. I remember some DI telling us that Marines had never surrendered. Some smartass asked about Wake Island and the DI without missing a beat told us that a Navy puke had surrendered and forced the Marines to surrender.

        *It made more sense during boot camp*

      • Yusef the Unclean

        Estonia yes but not the Latvians!

      • Fourscore

        Has anyone ever met an Estonian? See?

      • Yusef the Unclean

        I once read a story about Tallintown, does that count?
        /Sci fi too

    • rhywun

      Explain to me why it takes a lawsuit to force Fauci (a public servant) to release documents that he is claiming are classified

      Because he is arguably the most powerful government employee in the country right now?

    • Zwak, sensual panzer

      I was just thinking that the best way (for certain values of best) for a president to get out of the hole Smiling Joe Biden is in would be to go to war.

      And, lo and behold, Ukraine is being talked up. It ain’t China, who the D’s will not push on, but it is in the sphere of Russia…

      • Q Continuum

        You know what no one has ever tried before? A ground war with Russia! I mean, it definitely can’t be as tough as occupying Afghanistan…

      • Trigger Hippie

        I eagerly await the future U.S. military’s solar powered November advance.

      • Yusef the Unclean

        OK that was a good one!

      • grrizzly

        In the fall of 2001 with the news that the US and NATO forces were on the verge of entering Afghanistan, I was thinking: they couldn’t be so completely stupid. They were.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Something…something…land war Asia…something.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Something…something…land war Asia…something.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Something…something…land war Asia…something.

      • Zwak, sensual panzer

        Three somethings!

    • Lackadaisical

      A few head scratchers there, but otherwise quality.

  21. rhywun

    Tonight in grotesque if not libelous slander:

    Columbia stabbing puts spotlight on school’s poor crime, safety record

    Wherein we learn that a college is somehow “responsible” for crime that occurs outside its campus but apparently only crime against students.

    Columbia is at fault for the surrounding neighborhood turning into a gang-infested shithole over the last few decades. They should be required to pick up their facilities and relocate them to a nicer neighborhood.

    • rhywun

      Now with a link

    • Ted S.

      Don’t you know everything is the fault of wypipo?

    • Suthenboy

      I would say that having Marx/Engels adherents co-opt academia plays no small role in much of what we see in society today. Just sayin’

    • Trigger Hippie

      Nah, a two year old pitbull for every freshman. People will part for you like you’re Moses.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    but I’m a happily married woman and straight.

    Mostly straight.

  23. pistoffnick

    It’s been a good day, tater:
    I walked a couple of miles this morning.
    I did laundry.
    I watched my middle daughter sing at a hippie / vegan place.
    She sang a couple of Nora Jones songs that I introduced her to.
    I ate an amazing vegan meal at said hippie / vegan place. I mean, it was really good! I say this as a carnivore.
    I grilled a ribeye to atone for my sins at the vegan place.
    I made lunches for the next week.
    I shopped for groceries.
    I replaced the wiper blades on my truck.

    • PudPaisley

      Speaking of Nora Jones and hippies, she covers my 2 favorite Grateful Dead songs, Ripple and It Must Have Been the Roses.

    • hayeksplosives

      Nice to have some accomplishments for the day, even the R&R accomplishments.

      I think I might be able to go vegetarian if I had to, but full vegan would be tough for me; I really love dairy products and the occasional boiled egg.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Ready torpedoes

    Ten people aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship approaching New Orleans have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Saturday night.

    The Norwegian Breakaway had departed New Orleans on Nov. 28 and is due to return this weekend, the Louisiana Department of Health said in a news release. Over the past week, the ship made stops in Belize, Honduras and Mexico.

    More than 3,200 people are on board the ship, officials said.

    According to the statement, Norwegian “has been adhering to appropriate quarantine and isolation protocols as new cases and exposures have been identified aboard this vessel.”

    Prior to disembarking in New Orleans, each person on board will be tested for the coronavirus. Anyone who tests positive will either go directly home or self-isolate in accommodations provided by the cruise line, officials said.

    Officials did not release any information about the conditions of those who have contracted the virus.

    It’s time to get serious. If we want to defeat this plague, we’re going to have to make some hard decisions.

    • R C Dean

      “Anyone who tests positive will either go directly home”

      On a plane?

      • hayeksplosives

        I assumed that the “other accommodations” would be for the cruise line to put them up locally in NO until they test negative. Anybody who can reasonably get home by car could just drive off.

    • grrizzly

      I could never understand the appeal of cruises.

      • Yusef the Unclean

        No kidding, Tom is Crazy and Nicole has resting Bitch face…. not to mention Uncle Ted

      • hayeksplosives

        You’re luck it’s too late for a narrowed gaze!

      • Yusef the Unclean

        heh

      • hayeksplosives

        I’m right there with you, grizzly. Being stuck on board one of those massive floating hotels with no option to cut it short and get out… no way.

      • Sean

        Three bad ideas I had in my younger days:

        Maybe take a cruise.
        Maybe take a train vacation.
        Maybe live in Philly.

        I never did any of those.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Horrific, unfathomable, grotesque, et c

    A U.S. congressman on Saturday posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appeared to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a shooting at a Michigan high school.

    “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo,” U.S. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky wrote on Twitter.A U.S. congressman on Saturday posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appeared to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a shooting at a Michigan high school.

    “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo,” U.S. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky wrote on Twitter.

    Ethan Crumbley, 15, on Tuesday carried out the deadliest U.S. school shooting this year, the latest in a decades-long series of mass shootings at U.S. schools. His parents were arrested on Saturday in connection with the slayings.

    Freedom of speech may make sense, in theory…

    • Spudalicious

      Good thing he didn’t show off a new SUV.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That’s officially been filed right next to that nutter that shot up the country concert incident from a few years ago.

    • rhywun

      How unseemly!

      • Sean

        Right? He should already have ammo!

  26. Yusef the Unclean

    I’m generating a solo act, it is more prep work than I thought, but that’s why it’s preperation, I may go out in the next few weeks, yippee!

  27. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody yo

  28. Fourscore

    Good morning, time to rise and, I’ll try that again, Good Morning, time to rise… OK,OK, maybe not but…

    Some fresh snow, more later. I’ll see if I’m up to running the snow blower. Have to have the driveway cleared Tuesday for the delivery truck with my new refrig from way, way, overseas. 2 days to learn Chinese, gotta get busy.

    PO Nick, I walked a mile on the treadmill yesterday, I took a month off for deer season, Mrs F went on vacation and I didn’t want to take a chance on falling down again but she’s home now so I need to try to get out a little. Good to see you are up and running (walking) again.

  29. Sean

    Mornin y’all.

  30. Sean

    Me: “Hey honey, know what you want for Christmas yet?”

    Gf: “No idea. Maybe a new gun.”

    *Points to avatar*

  31. Festus

    Gah. Day 14 and twenty left to go. I’m getting too old for this shit.

  32. Festus

    Have a great one, Glibs!