Saturday Morning Florida Man Links

by | Feb 26, 2022 | Daily Links | 228 comments

Last weekend OMWC was cleaning the van, this weekend he said he was making his special candy recipe. When I asked who’s recipe he was using, he said, “Shuglin”. Hey, I respect the hustle. He has to get ready for Spring. Here at the L household, we are 5 weeks away from boy #4 being full-term. It is the time of nesting, and I am throwing away perfectly good shit and putting together not only a new crib, but random other furniture that has been deemed “mission critical” by Mrs. L. This is my fourth rodeo, so I don’t even put up a fight. A pregnant woman will murder you now and cry about it 10 minutes later. It’s cool. I got snipped. 4th boy is last boy. And you better believe I showed up to the follow up appointment to make sure all the swimmers are out of the pool.

Speaking of useful chemical synthesis

Florida Woman caught literally stealing cupcakes from a kid.

This one may be, uh, too local, but I love me some oysters. It would be great if they didn’t have to fly them in.

Meat is LIFE. h/t FdA

Let’s all appreciate Ann Wilson with special appearance by Disco Luke Skywalker on lead electric guitar

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

228 Comments

  1. Swiss Servator

    Excellent. I will up the meat consumption levels around here. “I am following the SCIENCE.”

    • Sean

    • TARDis

      Dammit, I’m confused. Didn’t we just recently learn from some broad with an Indoctrinate degree that eating meat is white supremacy?

      • Nephilium

        So what does that make BBQ joints?

      • TARDis

        KKK sleeper cells?

      • Aloysious

        Church?

  2. Don escaped Texas

    They also discovered that the compound appears to kill bacteria by disrupting their cell membranes.

    The line between killing one kind of cell and killing another…..like my cells…..is a thin one.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      What could possibly go wrong?

    • westernsloper

      Ya no shit. Because you can do it does not mean you should do it.

    • Ghostpatzer

      All bacteriocidal antibiotics kill one kind of cell (bacteria) while not killing mine. The ones in common use have been thoroughly tested and the side effects are well known.

      Bacteria over time have developed resistance to many of these antibiotics, so I’m all in favor of new treatments; however that thin line does exist so there needs to be a lot more research and testing for this (or any other) one. Rush to market is a bad idea unless you own stock in certain Big Pharma corporations.

      • westernsloper

        Are the side effects well known? In my latest audio book listening binge I listened to Super Gut. In the book Dr Davis argues if you have ever taken an antibiotic you have fucked your gut biome but it can be repaired in most cases. I am a yogurt making fiend now. Today some kefir is going to be keefed. I don’t think antibiotics are so selective that they only kill the “bad” bacteria.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Yeah, they do fuck your gut up because they kill the friendly bacteria, this is known. They also knock out some very bad infections which left untreated will fuck you up much worse. But they should not be used unless they are needed; doctors have for a long time been prescribing antibiotics for viral infections like cold and flu and this causes all kinds of issues.

      • DrOtto

        They did a study and most of this over-prescribing has been due to doctors wanting to appear to be “doing something” for an ailment that just takes time to get better.

      • hayeksplosives

        My husband used to suffer from diverticulitis, having to miss a few days of work about once a month. The doctors wanted to cut 8 inches of his large intestine out.

        I (being an observant kinda gal) had noticed his pain seemed worse with a lot of dairy products. So I put him on OTC probiotics, including lactic acidophilus.

        He was CURED miraculously by taking them every day since. That simple medicine works wonders and changes life for the better.

        When he was hospitalized last year and on extreme IV antibiotics for his strep blood infection, the doctors allowed and even endorsed me giving him a daily probiotic pill. They freely acknowledged that it was a great thing, but that the hospital and AMA didn’t endorse it so they officially couldn’t prescribe it.

  3. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Morning all carpe diem

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Fish diddlers?

      • juris imprudent

        A fish a day.

  4. Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

    That book, PIHNAL, is always popping up on Amazon. I thought it was some kind of religious thing.

    • Brett L

      It is a sort of bible to certain subcultures.

  5. Ted S.

    Meat is LIFE. h/t FdA

    I thought live was life.

  6. Gender Traitor

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’d give my left tit to sing like Ann Wilson.

    Thanks, Brett, and congrats on the impending arrival!

    • Tres Cool

      Could I see the tit 1st before I call Ann ?

  7. Ted S.

    Here at the L household, we are 5 weeks away from boy #4 being full-term.

    I didn’t realize you knocked up Mrs. L. again. Congratulations!

    • Brett L

      Thanks.

      • Ted S.

        Or, as I said when Sloopy and Banjos had their first kid, nine minutes of passion for you, nine months of work for Mrs. L.

      • slumbrew

        Nine minutes?! Braggart.

  8. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The latest episode of Tom Woods is interesting. The guest ties the food pyramid and vegans to an inflationary monetary policy.

    His solution was buy Bitcoin, eat meat.

  9. Ghostpatzer

    Thanks for the lynx, Brett. Some interesting chemicals there:

    HOT-2
    HOT-7
    HOT-17

    How exactly do these alter brain chemistry? Asking for a friend.

    And congrats on #4, get some sleep now before the arrival.

    • slumbrew

      I’m pretty sure we’re on yet another list for clicking that link.

  10. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  11. commodious spittoon

    “It was a lot of effort. We’ve been working on it off and on for a couple of weeks now,” said Tharp.

    Give her a break, that’s several months in Florida Woman time.

    • juris imprudent

      If expanding NATO was a good idea, Clinton, et al would’ve invited in Yeltsin-era Russia. After all, we don’t really mind autocrat/dictator types, *cough* Turkey *cough*.

      • kbolino

        This is the biggest tell that something else is afoot. Yeltsin was no Putin. There was no explicable reason to reject even the possibility of admitting Russia to NATO.

        SLD: NATO should have been abolished

      • Count Potato

        “There was no explicable reason to reject even the possibility of admitting Russia to NATO.”

        Isn’t the whole point of NATO to defend Western Europe against Russia?

      • kbolino

        No, NATO was formed to oppose the USSR (which later formed its own rival, the Warsaw Pact). Russia is not the USSR. Russia in the 90s was the reeling capital province of a collapsed empire. Keeping post-Soviet Russia out of the anti-Soviet league was an intentional snub.

      • kbolino

        That having been said, and thinking on how Thatcher opposed German reunification, perhaps there was a concern that if the former Soviet states were admitted to the circle of friends too soon, they’d all form a revanchist bloc against the West. This at least is a facially plausible justification for keeping Russia out at the time but when you consider the Balkan Wars, the apparent enmity of the U.S. towards post-Soviet Russia is hard to deny.

      • Count Potato

        “No, NATO was formed to oppose the USSR (which later formed its own rival, the Warsaw Pact). Russia is not the USSR.”

        Granted there were fourteen of so other countries, many of which are still strong allies, it’s pretty much the same military power under a different government.

        To put it another way, what’s the point of having Russia etc. join NATO? To defend against China?

      • kbolino

        It’s 1992, and every communist government in Europe is gone. The entire purpose of NATO has just spontaneously and peacefully (bullet to Ceaușescu’s head notwithstanding) disappeared. Russia is on a path to liberalism and democracy. The West won the Cold War, and decisively so. Either NATO dissolves or else reimagines its purpose.

        Why reimagine its purpose as anti-Russian?

      • slumbrew

        Because the Cold Warriors in charge at the time stuck with what they knew.

      • MikeS

        Why reimagine its purpose as anti-Russian?

        Fast forward to 2014. Were they wrong?

        That being said, I agree NATO should have been dissolved.

      • Count Potato

        “Russia is on a path to liberalism and democracy. ”

        Looks like they took a detour.

      • kbolino

        Fast forward to 2014. Were they wrong?

        Not necessarily, though that’s arguably a self-fulfilling prophecy, but by excluding them from your circle of friends, they have every right to act the part of adversary. If you dislike them, even for “rational” reasons, their response is going to be mutual.

      • kbolino

        Looks like they took a detour.

        Their democracy seems just as real and liberal as Canada or Australia’s right now.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Because they wanted to alienate Russia in order to keep it as a useful foil against Europe, which they wanted to keep in line. There were plenty of foreign policy realists, some of the most influential statesmen over the previous few decades included, who predicted in the 90’s that preserving and expanding NATO would lead directly to the situation we are seeing today. They were roundly ignored in favor of the burgeoning American hegemony.

        Add to that, the NATO bureaucracy is its own lobby. They didn’t want to claim victory and go home. They wanted to keep their grift going.

        Rothbard was right. Running around the globe fighting the commies in every hellhole would create a massive bureaucracy in our own country that would never cede its power willingly. Everything since the fall of the Soviet Union has been about creating new justifications for the federal security apparatus that the Cold War birthed.

      • kbolino

        I think if we could have won a decisive early victory against communism, things would have turned out quite differently. The length of the Cold War created the opportunities for graft and lobbying. But we foreclosed our own possibility at a decisive victory by relying heavily on the Soviets to keep the Eastern Front meat-grinder going. And the Soviets, quite understandably, were not about to give up what they had fought so hard and so bloodily to obtain. We outlasted the Soviet version of communism, but not the Maoist version, and now also we are discovering that we may have been conquered ourselves, not by without per se but from within.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        NATO charter

        The Parties to this Treaty reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments.
        They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law. They seek to promote stability and well-being in the North Atlantic area.
        They are resolved to unite their efforts for collective defence and for the preservation of peace and security. They therefore agree to this North Atlantic Treaty :[….]

      • kbolino

        Pretty words, which like the preamble to the U.S. constitution, have little relationship to the state of the organization today.

        Moreover, liberal democracy has beclowned itself over the past few years, so I see no reason why it must be defended as such.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I dont think the charter is the problem. Its more that all/most EU countries are Socialist/Communist and they would rather gear up their govt and military to enforce mask mandates than have a small/medium but well trained and deadly military to defend against real threats.

        Putin or Chinese communists ruling the World would be much worse. It could also be much better than the current state of govts.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Russia started the first war in Europe in almost 30 years.

      It seems like a good idea to defend the rest of Europe FROM Russia.

      Russia didnt have to attack Ukraine. NATO does not have a track record of attacking another nation that didnt attack a NATO member first. NATO is not a reasonable first strike threat to Russia. Honestly, the time to wipe Russia off the map was in 1990 when the USSR fell apart. I understand their nuclear missile and air defense readiness was in horrible shape.

      Russia tends to be paranoid about threats that are not there and underestimate actual threats to Russia. See Nazi Germany.

      • R C Dean

        The EU is more than capable of handling Russia. If it has the will. The EU has more than three times the population and ten times the economy, not to mention nuclear weapons. Europe is in a worse situation w/r/t Russia because of NATO – it allowed them to get flabby and unprepared in the false belief that the US could (never mind would) stop the Russian military.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Trump was right that they should contribute what each member nation promised. Its good for them to defend themselves from threats. As you said, their bureaucracy is the problem and grift is probably a big thing.

        The more important thing was to get rid of Trump and nuke the EU economy over the Kungflu.

        Im sure the EU will sally forth to Socialism bliss!

      • Gustave Lytton

        And there’s also NATO antipiracy operations off Africa.

        To say that NATO is strictly and merely a defensive alliance and not a general purpose military alliance is ridiculous.

      • The Last American Hero

        So preventing or deterring piracy is being a military aggressor?

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Thats why I didnt say that NATO “never” goes outside what most people consider as a defense org. I looked up NATO ops and saw a few that were questionable or outrageous.

        The breakup of Yugoslavia caused refugees to flood into NATO member territory and NATOs mission was “peacekeeping”.

        The NATO antipiracy operations off Africa could also have a nexus because NATO member ships were being attacked.

        The NATO charter is vague enough, it can be shoehorned into almost any situation. The Founders did warn of foreign alliances with that in mind.

        While NATO is not perfect and it probably pretty corrupt, an alternative might be worse or not work. Some NATO members have been in a long time, so ending NATO and starting a new alliance might bring a new set of problems. If because of NATO, Europe has only had two wars (Yugoslavia and Ukraine) that is a pretty good track record for an alliance.

  12. PieInTheSky

    7 Fuentes Tinto. D.O. Valle de la Orotava is not bad wine at all

    • PieInTheSky

      Vacation is not good for my liver. Or my waistline

      • commodious spittoon

        Visiting Tuscany this year?

      • Sean

        There were no rentals available.

      • Tres Cool

        What you did there was noted in an ocular capacity.

  13. Sean

    Late to the party, because [redacted].

    Great article from last night, UCS.

  14. Fourscore

    Brett, you’ll have a starting 4 but you really need a full team. Congrats on the 80% though, you done good.

    With 4 boys your job as referee is going to be busy.

    • Drake

      I truly hope they aren’t stupid enough to fight that way. Russia will have pinched off and encircled all of eastern Ukraine very soon. Then they can squeeze until the government gives in to all their demands.

    • Count Potato

      The U.S. government should give away grenades and machine guns so we can protect ourselves against Canadian truckers.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe that woman stole the globe because she wanted to know where the Ukraine is.

    • Tres Cool

      She saw the foil and thought “most awesome meth pipe ever”

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      I’m looking for something that makes a good sniper’s nest.

  16. The Hyperbole

    “I’m hoping it was just an accident and that they would see this is my son’s science fair project and would return it,”

    How could one accidently steal a globe shaped solar oven?

    • Ghostpatzer

      How could one accidently steal a globe shaped solar oven?

      It’s Florida. All things are possible.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      You go Greta it.

  17. Count Potato

    “A pregnant woman will murder you now and cry about it 10 minutes later. It’s cool. I got snipped. 4th boy is last boy. And you better believe I showed up to the follow up appointment to make sure all the swimmers are out of the pool.”

    https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/274495936.html

    • commodious spittoon

      This is why I don’t ever fuck. All we do is hand stuff and sometimes if she’s lucky, mouth stuff.

      rollsafe.gif

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Anal, unless you’re worried about having a lawyer.

      • commodious spittoon

        By my age, my dad had two kids and a very angry ex.

        I don’t regret the couple of kids he has obvs but this ex of his sounds like a real bitch

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeesh.

    • slumbrew

      That story is up there with woke six year old stories. “And then everyone applauded”.

      • Count Potato

        It could be fake, but accurate.

    • TARDis

      I love that story. I printed it out and gave it the “kid” on my crew.

      I said, “All the best stories start with, ‘I got a vasectomy’.”

      Good thing he did.

  18. LCDR_Fish

    Well, got my “free” coof tests in the mail – only a month plus after I ordered them. Better late than never… “Made in China” of course…guess I’ll hold on and see if they are mandated for any travel in the next few months.

    • Sean

      Covid is over. Joe’s moving on to cure cancer.

      • Plinker762

        Just wear your mask.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        I cant wait for the mass firings if you dont take the cancer “cure”.

    • Nephilium

      Make sure to follow directions.

  19. Sean

    Will other Euro countries ease up on gun control in light of the Ukraine invasion?

    • Plinker762

      No

      • LCDR_Fish

        Maybe relative to proximity to Russia. Finland has always been pretty good. Think Baltics are a little laxer too.

      • kbolino

        Not only no, but they’ll go the opposite direction. Some of those Ukrainian guns will find themselves westward before too long.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The Czechs, Poles, and various Baltics should think about handing them out en masse. It’s not needed in the short term but in the mid to long…who knows?

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Some reporter lady was real nervous and upset the Ukrainian govt was giving out fully auto rifles and teaching Ukrainians how to make and use molotov cocktails.

      If they start giving out anti-tank rockets, Im buying a ticket. 1 for Russian tank, 1 for me….

  20. The Late P Brooks

    There’s science, and then there’s SCIENCE!

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new COVID-19 guidance on Friday, but it’s not going to have an immediate impact on Oregon.

    The director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, says the country is “in a stronger place” and is able to loosen some of the COVID-19 protocols in place. This new framework greatly impacts who needs to mask inside.

    ——-

    More than half of Oregon is in the low and medium categories; still, the Oregon Health Authority will not immediately lift the indoor mask mandate in place.

    In an email from Rudy Owens, a public affairs specialist with OHA, on Friday, Owens said OHA is sticking with the decision to lift the indoor mask mandate in Oregon mid-March.

    “OHA is reviewing the latest guidance that is being shared today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),” Owens said over email. “We know many people will have questions about what the latest CDC guidance means for Oregon. Based on declining COVID-19 hospitalizations, Oregon will lift indoor masking and school masking requirements on March 19.”

    I guess they want to follow the science at a safe distance.

    Meanwhile, some jackass “doctor” was on my teevee this morning (until I could shut it off) saying to keep wearing a mask because it protects you from the unmasked people around you. They are incapable of any sort of rational consistency. They just say whatever pops into their heads.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      I still say there’s a deep seated religious reason based in human psychology. It’s a fear of collective divine punishment that’s caused by people committing public sins. Those public sins involve not following the proper rituals. Avoiding taboos and the like.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        This is exactly it. Same with Climate Hysteria. In the absence of God, people find a new way to self-flagellate themselves.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Walking around Oregon yesterday, it’s pretty much over. Several companies I deal with who were hard markers don’t seem to care, although if you go to downtown Portland or Eugene it is still mask season. Fucking sad.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Took the wife to VRC last night, people with no masks or masks pulled down. No one seemed to care.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Glad to hear that but Georgia has been maskless and all businesses open as normal for almost 2 years.

        We dont get much media attention because of it.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Munchausen by proxy

    For Amber Briggle, raising her 14-year-old trans son in Texas means packing lunches, coordinating rides to extracurriculars and planning sleepovers. Usually, it’s just like raising any other kid in America — except for when it’s a legislative year.

    Legislative sessions in the state, which can last up to 140 days every two years, can be exhausting, she told NPR.

    “It’s emotionally traumatizing,” Briggle said. “I’ve been seeing a therapist for years so I don’t cry in front of my kids over things that they shouldn’t have to worry about.”

    Anti-trans rhetoric in Texas has grown louder in the past few weeks. Attorney General Ken Paxton — who broke bread with Briggle’s family years back — issued an opinion that likened gender-affirming surgery — a procedure that gives transgender people a body that aligns with their gender identity — to child abuse.

    Days later, Gov. Greg Abbott doubled down with a letter calling on professionals, including teachers and doctors, to report parents who give their children gender-affirming care. The letter added that there would be similar reporting requirements for the general public, and consequences for those who don’t report

    By all means, parade your psychotic delusions around for the enlightenment of the masses. Use your kids as stage props.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      General Ken Paxton — who broke bread with Briggle’s family years back — issued an opinion that likened gender-affirming surgery — a procedure that gives transgender people a body that aligns with their gender identity — to child abuse.

      It’s not like child abuse. It is child abuse.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

    • Count Potato

      “to report parents who give their children gender-affirming care”

      I’m against children medically transitioning, but even if I were for it, the parents should know. Parents should know about any medical care their children receive.

      • R C Dean

        So, if I’m following, minors can’t consent to getting a tattoo, but should be allowed to consent to getting their genitalia surgically altered?

      • kbolino

        That logic trap won’t last long. They’ll just make it legal for children to get tattoos.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sure, just like they should be able to get an abortion or inoculations without parental approval. Maybe they should be able to use parental bank accounts or credit cards without permission as well.

      • slumbrew

        Stop giving them ideas.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Clown world, dude. Clown world. Just roll with it.

      • Nephilium

        We can’t trust teenagers to purchase nicotine (raised to 21+ here for nicotine) or alcohol, to get piercings or tattoos, participate in state sanctioned gambling, take out loans, sign contracts with private organizations… but student loans, hormone therapy, and specific other surgeries are OK. You just need to follow the SCIENCE.

      • MikeS

        Many of the very same people who think 16 year-olds should be able to vote, think they shouldn’t be able to vape until their 21. Fucking craziness.

      • kbolino

        They don’t think anyone should be able to vape, but they’re compromising on an age limit instead.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “140 days every two years”
      So less than two days per week, a lot less. That’s exhausting?

    • rhywun

      gender-affirming surgery

      This might be the most repugnant euphemism the NPR set has come up with yet.

      • TARDis

        Typical feminization of the English language. Or is it de-masculination? *shrugs*

        Mutilation. The word is mutilation.

      • Count Potato

        It some cases it’s accurate. In other cases it isn’t. If someone is a child, there is no good way to know.

  22. Count Potato

    “A retired Tampa police captain who gunned down a 43-year-old father after confronting the man over texting in a movie theater was cleared of second-degree murder and aggravated battery charges Friday night.

    A jury declined to convict Curtis Reeves, 79, who in 2014 fatally shot Chad Oulson, 43, during the argument over the dad messaging his babysitter on his phone during the movie previews. Reeves sat impassively as the verdicts were returned, and hugged his lawyer after he was officially cleared on all counts.

    The disagreement escalated and Oulson threw his popcorn at Reeves who shot him in the chest inside the Grove 16 movie theater in Wesley Chapel, a suburb of Tampa.

    After the jury decision on Friday, Reeves smiled and joked with the press as he stopped for interviews outside the courthouse.

    He also expressed regret for killing Oulson.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10553911/Retired-cop-Curtis-Reeves-killed-moviegoer-texting-film-CLEARED-murder.html

    WTF??

      • juris imprudent

        I seem to remember him being convicted – was that overturned and a new trial granted?

      • DrOtto

        They turned him down in his “stand your ground” hearing, which is a separate legal procedure. Had he succeeded there, he wouldn’t have had a full blown trial.

      • The Hyperbole

        Cop claims the guy threw his phone in the cops face and was coming over the chair back at him, I’d imagine in a theater there would be some eye witnesses but I haven’t seen any discussion of the actual testimony in the case just he said/she said type stuff.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Kinda why speedy trial is important…eye witnesses from 8 years ago are no good.

        On that alone, he should have been not even tried. If the State can’t get their shit together…hopefully family of dude that was shot sues the State for fucking this one up.

      • The Hyperbole

        Ah, I didn’t catch the date, that’s nuts.

    • DrOtto

      Dude almost half the old guys age coming over the chair on top him. I think both parties chose poorly that day. Also, I’m siding with the old man because theater texting.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I still say there’s a deep seated religious reason based in human psychology. It’s a fear of collective divine punishment that’s caused by people committing public sins. Those public sins involve not following the proper rituals. Avoiding taboos and the like.

    It’s a doomsday cult. The scariest part is how eager they are to put teh childrun on the sacrificial altar.

    • juris imprudent

      For Amber Briggle…

      Some parents have no difficulty sacrificing their children.

  24. Count Potato

    “Tulsi Gabbard crosses party lines and goes after the ‘power elite’ in CPAC speech where she earns standing ovation for praising the Durham probe into ‘Clinton corruption’ and blasting FISA courts

    She went after both Democrats and Republicans in Congress ‘who talk a good game about civil liberties, but when it comes time to cast that vote on things like getting rid of secret FISA courts and protecting our fourth amendment rights to privacy, they vote on the side of the power elite and against liberty.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10553733/Tulsi-Gabbard-earns-standing-ovation-CPAC-praises-Durham-probe.html

    • Chafed

      Stop it. I can only get so erect.

      • The Last American Hero

        Of course, the fact that she wants to take your guns, has supported undeclared wars while in Congress and only got catty when HRC called her a traitor on Twitter is ignored.

      • R C Dean

        Gabbard had quit her post at the Democratic National Committee three years before to publicly support Sanders

        Yeah, no. I mean, its possible she’s having a change of heart that includes a comprehensive rejection of the lefties in her party, but she really seems pretty much an old-school lefty – pro-big government and pro-some civil rights (which are, of course, fundamentally inconsistent).

  25. Count Potato

    “62% of Americans think Putin WOULDN’T have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president, poll claims – and 59% say Biden’s weakness made Russia decide to declare war”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10554157/62-Americans-think-Putin-WOULDNT-invaded-Ukraine-Trump-president-poll-claims.html

    “Milla Jovovich says she’s ‘heartbroken’ by the Russian attack on her birthplace of Ukraine: ‘I am torn in two as I watch the horror unfolding'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10554175/Milla-Jovovich-says-shes-heartbroken-Russian-attack-birthplace-Ukraine.html

    You made Milla sad!

    • Raven Nation

      There are still Trump-Putin true believers. I was talking to someone yesterday who assured me that the groundwork for the invasion had been laid during trumps presidency

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        There’s plenty of stupid to go around.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Yeah, between 38 and 41 percent of America. Now, who could be roughly 40% of the US…

      • Don escaped Texas

        there’s always 1/3 of America for any idea no matter how bad or how good

        33/66 is the starting place of all things and the finishing place for more than half

      • kbolino

        As a wise sage once said

        Democracy is rule of the people, for the people, by the people.

        But the people are retarded.

        So, democracy is rule of the retarted, for the retarded, by the retarded.

      • Don escaped Texas

        Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard – H. L. Mencken

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        In general, that is a bit of a tautology.

        In this specific, the 40% had their brains rotted out by TDS.

      • kbolino

        Alternately, TDS filled their already-rotted brains.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        More this than anything else. They’re very credulous people, quickly and easily assimilating whatever narrative prevails. They aren’t necessarily the dumbest, but they’re the easily manipulable.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        I think they have so removed any dissenting voices, either outright dismissing them or calling them liars, that they had no idea that Obama was hated by a huge number of people, for very real concerns.

        2016 could have shown them this, but instead, they doubled down.

      • Ownbestenemy

        How surprised would they be if they opened their ears to learn 2008 and 2014 were actual years that we lived through.

    • slumbrew

      I volunteer to comfort her.

      • Nephilium

        Get in line!

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Back up! She’s my Fifth Element!

  26. The Late P Brooks

    As states pushed to criminalize gender-affirming care, the American Medical Association sent a letter to governors in April urging them to oppose state laws that would ban gender transition-related care. The American Academy of Pediatrics released a statement Thursday expressing its ongoing support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

    We have seen just how dedicated the pediatricians are to the physical health and emotional well-being of the children they ostensibly care for.

    • R C Dean

      It’s affirming, and its care. For the children. You’d have to be a monster to be opposed to it.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Amber Briggle noted that 2020 marked the onset of the pandemic in the U.S — it shut down schools, eliminated birthday parties and limited visits to grandparents, among other things.

    “And yet these anti transgender bills the Texas legislature was so hell-bent on passing was more detrimental to these kids’ health than a global pandemic,” she said.

    Right you are. Ride that hobbyhorse, Amber. Work yourself into an orgasmic lather.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Now Briggle’s eyes are on the federal Equality Act, which would expand Civil Rights Act protections to cover discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s a way for allies in blue states to help red states, she said. She urges transgender allies across the country to call their senators to get it passed.

    Whoa. That’s some powerful idiot-fu.

    • rhywun

      And there we have the answer to “Why the fuck doesn’t she move to a blue state where her daughter can hack off her tits no questions asked”.

      It’s always “we must force everyone to conform to our lunacy” with these types.

  29. hayeksplosives

    Babylon Bee video update.

    “Facebook says our posts go against their community standards.
    Mission accomplished.”

    “China has started arresting protesters and freezing their bank accounts—oh wait; that was Canada”

    https://youtu.be/95yDOSzTKGU

  30. The Late P Brooks

    NYT headline from google nooz:

    How U S energy independence has been “shaken” by Russia-Ukraine crisis.

    SRSLYWTF?

    What energy independence? Your doddering halfwit in the White House took care of that a year ago.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Lying liars gonna lie

      • hayeksplosives

        Ayup.

      • LCDR_Fish

        HE – sent you another DM

      • hayeksplosives

        On ProtonMail?

        I’m not seeing it.

  31. Urthona

    How has Russia not taken Kyiv yet?

    I overestimated them.

    Honestly NATO could steamroll that little bitch pretty easily.

    • CPRM

      PAPER TIGER BANDWAGONER!

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Well, you’re certainly a paper tiger apologist.

        There paper siberian tigers and paper south china tigers too?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Wars take time.

      • Urthona

        And space.

      • Trigger Hippie

        And objects.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        And lives…

      • Count Potato

        And Summer Glau’s feet?

      • Trigger Hippie

        +1 Jubal Early

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Thats why George Lucas called it “Star Wars”. He wanted his war to take place in about 121 minutes.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Guessing RoE and propaganda fronts have them bogged down. I think they assumed if they shocked and awed Z would surrender. Now they have to tiptoe in the city or level it

    • R C Dean

      How has Russia not taken Kyiv yet?

      I thought they invaded Ukraine. Where’s Kyiv*?

      *pronounced Keye – uv

  32. CPRM

    When The Rock appeared at the Super Bowl I said it smelled of COLLUSION.

    • Grumbletarian

      I would almost cheer for the San Francisco 45ers.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    It’s only money

    The White House asked Congress on Friday for $6.4 billion to aid Ukraine as it fends off a Russian invasion, including $3.5 billion in Pentagon funding and $2.9 billion for foreign security and humanitarian assistance.

    Biden administration officials briefed congressional appropriations and leadership staff on the funding proposal, which is expected to “evolve” as the administration works with international partners to “assess on-the-ground needs,” according to a White House budget office official.

    Fetch us the Presidential pen and checkbook.

  34. Gustave Lytton

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-zealand-high-court-vaccine-mandate-not-demonstrably-justified-breach-of-rights_4301646.html

    Good on the Kiwis.

    Associate Professor Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccinologist at the University of Auckland told Stuff NZ that she was disappointed with the decision and that it legally and morally undermines the mandates.

    “It’s really disappointing. These are temporary mandates. They are for the benefit of our whole community. Communities have always depended on our people cooperating and working together – right through time since we camped outside the caves. It’s an essential component of a successful society,” Petousis-Harris said.

    “This isn’t working together. Right in the middle of a pandemic, it’s not in the spirit of trying to keep us all safe.”

    We’ll temporarily hang you from a lamppost, Prof Petousis-Harris. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      These are temporary mandates. They are for the benefit of our whole community. Communities have always depended on our people cooperating and working together – right through time since we camped outside the caves. It’s an essential component of a successful society

      Can you spot the stolen base?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s in accordance with what the German minister of health stated. Something along the lines of “If you submit to the mandate, then it’s voluntary.”

        To these ghouls, everything short of holding you down and sticking you while you’re kicking and screaming is voluntary.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You know there have been high level talks in the governments of the world that have discussed that very step.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Associate Professor Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccinologist at the University of Auckland told Stuff NZ that she was disappointed with the decision and that it legally and morally undermines the mandates.

    You know what REALLY morally undermines the mandates?

    • Trigger Hippie

      The salmon mousse?

  36. Count Potato

    “”The state leadership has said, ‘We would rather see dead children … instead of happy, loved, supported, thriving trans kids that are alive and well,’ ” Schelling told NPR.”

    The data doesn’t support that it saves lives. In fact, the data doesn’t support shit. The sample sizes are too small, and the definitions are too inconsistent.

    Regardless, I don’t see how not letting the parents know could prevent love and support.

    • rhywun

      We would rather see dead children

      Go fuck yourself.

  37. Tundra

    Good morning, peeps!

    Thanks for the lynx, Brett. It was fun to read the comments in the meat article. So many nutrition science experts.

    Fourth kid, huh? I was just telling my wife the other day that I wish we’d had one or two more. The older they get, the more fun they are to have around. Good luck with your projects!

    • slumbrew

      People have been told so many contradictory things about what is healthy eating, it is no wonder that confusion reigns.

      • Tundra

        Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf are on the latest Rogan. They wrote a terrific book called Sacred Cow. Meat is life. Full stop.

      • slumbrew

        In fact, nutrition advice over the years should have made everyone skeptical about pronouncements in the name of THE SCIENCE!

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        This.

        It is because of this information environment that so many charlatans can get away with spouting BS about nutrition. When you can’t trust the experts, you start trusting the cranks.

      • kbolino

        Are eggs a superfood or deadly poison?

        Flip a coin and find out!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        An anecdote I had not heard until this week:

        https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/06/24/137400235/lbj-fights-inflation-one-egg-at-a-time

        Shoe prices went up, so LBJ slapped export controls on hides to increase the supply of leather. Reports that color television sets would sell at high prices came across the wire. Johnson told me to ask RCA’s David Sarnoff [RCA was then a major TV manufacturer] to hold them down. Domestic lamb prices rose. LBJ directed [Defense Secretary Robert] McNamara to buy cheaper lamb from New Zealand for the troops in Vietnam. … When egg prices rose in the spring of 1966 and Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman told him that not much could be done, Johnson had the Surgeon General issue alerts as to the hazards of cholesterol in eggs.

        It was scientific consensus!

      • kbolino

        The soul of the modern American left in a nutshell: they elect a President who gives them everything they want, and then backstab him.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Was that conversation while you were on the other side of the phone out of state, by any chance?

  38. The Late P Brooks

    WANT

    I wonder if an LS would fit. I’m pretty sure there’s not enough room for the twin cam heads on a Coyote.

    • Tundra

      Sweet!

    • Sensei

      Can’t you put an LS in anything? There is a reason they are so ubiquitous.

      I’m waiting for somebody to figure out how to put one in an BMW Isetta.

    • Don escaped Texas
    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      OK, here is where I draw the line.

      Putting an SBC in ANYTHING other than a Chevy is a crime against humanity. Putting that fucking boat anchor in a car that isn’t designed for anywhere near the weight, the firewall cutting needed, forcing a complete redesign of brakes and suspension, etc. Doing it to a car that is dwindling in numbers, blech.

      • Seguin

        Counterpoints-

        The aluminum block LS most likely weighs only a few pounds more than the iron lump that’s already in it. LSes weigh ~350 lbs..I’m not sure what the volvo 4 weighs but I doubt it’s much less – it doesn’t have modern metallurgy, casting, and design on its side. None of the redesign would be required per se, although probably a good idea, esp. the brakes due to the increase in power for even a stock LS.

        Even the original SBC isn’t a boat anchor. Thanks to thin-wall casting, it actually weighed less and produced more power than many of its existing contemporaries. There’s a reason Bizzarini (designer of many famous racing Ferraris) preferred it for his own designs.

        The 122s isn’t rare exactly. There are still quite a few sitting in fields, rusting away. If putting an LS in one brings the car back into service instead of back to the earth, it’s a positive.

      • Seguin

        Just to be clear, this one is in great shape, and I wouldn’t change a thing on it. If I want to go crazy, there’s tons of shells out there.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    A fool and his money

    I can’t believe that thing hasn’t been upside down yet.

    • SandMan

      I rolled a 73 Bronvo, lucky to be alive. 100K, laughable.

      • SandMan

        Bronco, not Bronvo

  40. The Late P Brooks

    I’m waiting for somebody to figure out how to put one in an BMW Isetta.

    No, no, no, silly. You put a Hyabusa in an Isetta. And turbo it.

    • kbolino

      The replies are something else.

      • TARDis

        Nice!

    • Loveconstitution1789

      I watched a few minutes of the Russian ambassador trying to justify attacking Ukraine while at the same time denying bombing inside Ukraine at all. The US Ambassador called him a liar and then proceeded to name all the other nations siding against Russia but are not on the Security Council. It was a long list.

  41. Count Potato

    “Lauren Witzke, the Delaware GOP’s candidate for Senate in 2020, has nothing but praise for Putin and “his Christian nationalist nation”: “I identify more with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden.”

    https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1496937857839153168

    Check out the video.

    • kbolino

      The mirror image of the Western liberal’s fairytale version of Ukraine exists the Western rightist’s fairytale version of Russia.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s false choices, all the way down.

      • R C Dean

        Early on 3 April 1982, Mills received a radio message from HMS Endurance relaying instructions from London that he should make only a token resistance to any Argentine violation of British territory. He allegedly replied “sod that, I’ll make their eyes water”,[1] a remark that became famous. Mills confirmed in subsequent interviews, that he in fact had never said this.

        I would have been mightily tempted to take credit for it, myself.

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Evidently all 13 Ukrainians are confirmed dead.

      Im glad Ukrainians are standing up for themselves.

  42. LCDR_Fish

    Hanging in gourmeltz with Rat and Ron.

    • Tonio

      Wish I could join you all. Have fun. Hopefully next time.

    • R C Dean

      Together with my friend @GoncharenkoUa
      getting ready for a tough night tonight.

      ITKWIMAITYD.

      Seriously, what worries me about all these Ukrainians getting handed AKs is the lack of training. Dunno what is being done, if anything, while the Russians dither around in the hinterlands, but it can’t be enough.

  43. Mojeaux

    @db, in case you remember our zoom discussion of Gayane Ballet and that CD I couldn’t find, I found it.