¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Apr 12, 2022 | Daily Links | 262 comments

There’s been a bit of kerfuffle in the LP in the last week or so.  Apparently, Tom Woods was accused of grooming his wife.  This was really just a smear but given his history of being as milquetoast a child predator can possibly be, it warranted a response. So I’ll let Dave speak for himself.

TL/DR:  the LP is full of petty assholes.

 

¡Here’s a few enlaces!

A gunman kills a family of 8 in a town north of Mexico City.  Which is welcome news since oral arguments to sue US gun manufacturers is scheduled for this week.

Gov. Abbott implements measures to search in response to Team Brandon lifting Title 42 over the weekend.  Truckers crossing the border forced to slow down considerably as a result, leading to Mexican truckers to block the crossing going south.

“We oppose any state-level action that results in an inspection process that duplicates the inspections already performed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” Britton Mullen said in her statement.

So does that mean the Feds are still searching the trucks?  Can anybody do anything without stepping on their own dicks?

El Presidente Dude Bro spitting HOT FIRE.

What a fucking nightmare, never give up your guns.

I never thought I’d read a story about an Argentine that fled to Israel, but here we are.

 

Here’s a good tune.  Have a great Tuesday!

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262 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “Apparently, Tom Woods was accused of grooming his wife.”

    That doesn’t even make sense.

    • UnCivilServant

      Combed and braided her hair?

    • Count Potato

      Also, where’s the link to what Dave Smith said?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I think it’s the image on the right.

        Obligatory

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      She was 19 when they got married. He knew her family when she was a teenager and he was in his twenties.

      Totally the same as teaching kindergartners about what weirdo adults like to do with their junk and encouraging self-mutilation through hormones and surgery.

      This is the Loser Brigade of the LP lashing out because they’re about to get their asses handed to them in Reno.

      • EvilSheldon

        He knew her family when she was a teenager and he was in his twenties.

        According to Reddit, that’s basically rape. Of course, Reddit…

        One of my bucket list items is to bang a girl who’s younger than one of my children. Ideally when I’m in my 80s…

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I have noticed a generation gap in the divide. Younger folks are going straight to grooming.

      • Compelled Speechless

        They want to be in relationships with people they can emotionally identify with.

      • EvilSheldon

        Probably some truth to this…

  2. Not Adahn

    It’s not enough to not have sex with children. You must not have sex with anyone who ever has been a child.

    • Tonio

      So, masturbation is a crime?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Father O’Malley was right all along!

      • Sean

        When it’s done right…

      • Pope Jimbo

        5 Finger Discounts are illegal

      • Ghostpatzer

        Not if the right palms are greased.

      • Fourscore

        But some guys are left-handed.

    • pistoffnick

      Find a queen without a king
      They say she plays guitar and cries and sings, la-la-la-la
      Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
      Tryin’ to find a woman who’s never, never, never been born

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

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’d never thought to interpret this that way. It is fair to point out that Zeppelin and many other bands of this time were serial pedophiles. Almost Famous acknowledges this and then brushes it aside. It’s not just famous musicians either. Rich pedophile worship is a corner stone of boomer culture.

  3. Count Potato

    “”The border is porous,” he said. “People – it could even be old women and men – walk or drive across the border on a daily basis and can amass a stockpile that would rival any Texas gun show. It’s easy to get a gun or rifle in Mexico.””

    Wouldn’t that be the fault of the Mexican government?

    • Count Potato

      “Mexico is home to exactly one gun shop, a fortress-like structure in a Mexico City military complex that requires buyers to provide mountains of paperwork and submit to exhaustive background checks that can take months.

      Extremely restrictive gun laws require guns to be registered with the federal government and limits their type and calibre”

      How is that working out for you?

      “But north of the border, getting a gun is far easier. Mexican officials believe that a large portion of southern-bound weapons are bought legally by ‘straw buyers’, who then unlawfully pass them to criminals.”

      Which is already illegal.

      • Compelled Speechless

        One place is almost impossible to get a gun legally, the other is incredibly easy (by modern standards in the rest of the world. One is a peaceful and prosperous first world example to the rest of the world, one is a third world perpetual warzone. Guess which ones are which and then tell me about the effectiveness of gun control.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s easy to get a gun or rifle in Mexico.

      Because we’re funneling guns to them real fast and furious?

    • Count Potato

      “And the vast quantity of firearms already in Mexico may mean that little can be done to stem the violence, said Alejandro Hope, a former Mexican intelligence official.

      “There are already maybe 15 million small arms in private hands in Mexico,” he said. “Even if tomorrow we completely stopped the flow of arms, there’s already enough guns around to maintain a high level of violence.”

      “I’m very sceptical that this can be controlled on the supply side,” Mr Hope said. “I doubt there would be any short-term impact.”

      But, at least, he said, “it shows the cost that weapons trafficking has on Mexico”.”

      No, it shows the cost that drug prohibition has on Mexico. You don’t see Modelo and Dos Equis shooting each other.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      It should be easy. It is in the Mexican constitution.

      • Tonio

        Zwak, a funny, funny man. Give him a big hand, folks. He’s here all week. Try your server, tip the veal.

      • DEG

        Heh

        Article 10
        The inhabitants of the United Mexican States have the right to keep arms at home,
        for their protection and legitimate defense, with the exception of those prohibited
        by the Federal Law and those reserved for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy, Air
        Force and National Guard. Federal Law will state the cases, conditions, requirements
        and places where inhabitants can be authorized to carry weapons.

      • Tonio

        “Right.”

        Riiiiiiiiiiiiggggghhhhht….

      • Rat on a train

        Loopholes big enough to drive a black market through.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It’s easy to get a gun or rifle in Mexico.

      I’ve been doing it all wrong. I’d just bring back vanilla or Japonese cachutes or Carlos V bars.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        But no drugs? You’re definitely doing it wrong.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        lol

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      My neighbor has gone hunting in Mexico and says they get pulled over by the Federales all the time and searched. It ain’t Abuelita dealing weapons from the US. Maybe they ought to see what weapons the Mexican Army is selling to the cartels first.

  4. DEG

    Sergio Uribarri was sentenced to eight years in prison for acts committed while he was governor of Entre Ríos province from 2007 to 2015, though he can remain free pending a series of possible appeals.

    Uribarri, who apparently still was in Israel, said on Twitter that the verdict “is a clear example of arbitrariness, injustice and abuse of the state of law.”

    Remaining free, being in Israel, I suspect he will never see in the inside of a Argentinian jail.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Looks like AP has a squirrel infestation. Or was the repetition of 3 paragraphs done for emphasis?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *puts electron microscope back in desk drawer*

    • Count Potato

      Thanks 🙂

      So even if Woods was dating a 15-year-old when they were both teenagers, I don’t see that as wrong.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        By his own telling, he wasn’t.

      • Count Potato

        I meant, hypothetically, if the accusation were true, so what?

      • Gustave Lytton

        High school sweethearts are now verboten, not endearing.

      • The Last American Hero

        They weren’t In high school together. He was in his 20’s. He also waited to court until she was of age.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Thank you

  5. Shpip

    They are among almost 13,000 former Farc guerrillas who have joined the Colombian government’s process of reincorporation into civilian society.

    Coffee growers are typically above the cloud line. And here I thought that “Guerrillas in the mist” was just a saying.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Swiss is going to go ape over that one.

    • Sean

      Boooo.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Well, north of the Mason -Dixon line, its just “rednecks in the mist.”

      • mexican sharpshooter

        They’ll come for us all, eventually.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Guerillas just want to have fun.

  6. Count Potato

    Didn’t the Democrats defend MS-13?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Aristocrats?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Obviously…NSFW

      • Rat on a train

        So NSFW you can’t link.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pssh…thats the punch line now isn’t it?

      • slumbrew

        A link so unsafe it censored itself.

      • Sensei

        If only.

        That was an enjoyable film and educational. I never knew about that bit until it came out.

      • juris imprudent

        Well it is the comedians version of Glibs humor.

    • Sensei

      Damn…

    • Count Potato

      R.I.P. 🙁

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Oh no!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Adios, Gilbert. This world needs more laughs.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Explains all the recent podcast reruns.

      • slumbrew

        Excellent!

      • l0b0t

        Brilliant. Thanks for sharing that.

    • Tundra

      That sucks.

      Malice just posted this.

      Jada needs to thank God it was only Chris Rock up there.

      • ron73440

        That was hilarious.

        My favorite Godfrey bit was on the Roast of Anne Frank, he was Hitler.

        Host says to him “You look nervous.”

        Godfrey, “I think I left the oven on.”

        He killed it from that point on.

    • Not Adahn

      Yeah, the way he turned a hostile crowd (from a too-soon 9/11 joke) by busting out The Aristocrats was a master class.

      • DrOtto

        My flight had a stopover at the Empire State building

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Chinese system of disappearing them for a few months to a labor camp may be preferable.

      • Tonio

        I believe the Brits invented the concentration camp, although it was not as brutal as later implementations of the concept by other nations.

      • DEG

        Yes. Second Boer War.

      • l0b0t

        “We caught them. And we shot them, Under Rule 303!”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Used in a similar fashion in the Malay Emergency too, I believe.

    • Ted S.

      Neil Ferguson was worse (Johnson’s epidemiologist who violated lockdown rules to have an affair with his mistress), but didn’t get subject to the criticism Johnson did because the political class liked him.

      • Sensei

        When you need a quickie, you need a quickie. People understand.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’m mixed on this. I like the comeuppance but the government should not be subservient to the police.

      • EvilSheldon

        To misquote Faulkner, “Between nothing and the police, I’ll take the police.”

  7. Sensei

    Once again people are about to get an education on how modern supply chains work and how thanks to McKinsey and Crew they can be disrupted readily,

    Baby formula shortages hit stores across US with some rationing supplies

    The nationwide shortage in baby formula comes two months after a huge manufacturer recall which occurred as a result of illnesses and deaths among infants.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I guess it’s time for the boobies to come out.

      • Sensei

        For those that can still lactate. OTH, job creation for wet nurses…

      • Rat on a train

        You can always fall back on milking the cat.

      • slumbrew

        I’m not familiar with that euphemism.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        You can milk anything with nipples.

      • MikeS

        I have nipples JR. Can you milk me?

      • Nephilium

        And then you can make cheese out of it.

      • pistoffnick

        have nipples JR. Can you milk me?

        GET A ROOM, YOU TOO!

      • Tonio

        Well, the weather in Virginia did turn warm this week.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        You don’t need to summon Q. Q will arrive shortly on his own.

    • The Other Kevin

      I have a feeling that’s just the first of many.

    • Tonio

      This will be spun as entirely about corporate greed.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Wonderful. It was already a financial hardship for young couples to feed and clothe babies, now this? Next up: the same vermin whose policies brought this on will step up to save the day with subsidies. Heroes!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I know! Expand WIC to everyone!

      • Tonio

        They have already started providing free school lunches to all children to erase the stigma for poor kids at the register.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It went further and we ignored it, but they gave out debit cards to my teens, without our knowledge, cause of school year 2020 ‘covid’ lockdowns and the inability to get free lunches.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I wonder if part of the reason is that no one is buying the whole grain 600 calorie meals. That’s a lot of contracts and greased palms that would suddenly be empty and unnecessary if no kids took any meals.

        I remember my high school cafeteria offered pizza and fries or nachos and fries as meal options every day. It wasn’t the best… but how good do nachos or pizza and fries have to be for teenagers. Regular price was only 95 cents, although at least half my school got free meals.

      • Ted S.

        I had a bran muffin with peanut butter chips and a cup of black coffee from the high school cafeteria most days.

      • l0b0t

        NYC schools give free breakfasts and lunches to all students so as to eliminate the stigmatism. The Board of Ed. also provides free bagged breakfasts and lunches all summer long to any student who shows up to a schoolhouse and asks. As far as wasteful ends to which tax dollars are put, this is pretty far down the list for me. YMMV.

      • Not an Economist

        As the great Uncle to an amazing grand niece and grandnephew, this concerns me.

      • Necron 99

        My daughter is to be induced May 4th, I sent her the link with suggestions to get her lactation on, or stock up now.

      • Tonio

        Hoping for the best for all concerned.

      • Necron 99

        Thank you, 1st grandchild was formula fed, she had a hard time producing milk. Hope this one works out for her but I have my doubts since my wife had the same problems.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Hoping for the best. My oldest was premature and alimentum (one of the recalled products) was the only thing his undeveloped digestive system could tolerate. Would have been very difficult if it had been unavailable.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Early Warty Wednesday post, but babies should not be guzzling seed oils…unless they don’t want to be a Chad.

  8. mikey

    “You can’t have a cannon.!”
    In doing some genealogy research I found this advertisement for the ship that carried one of my ancestors from Europe in 1742.
    “The Ship Francis and Elizabeth, 350 Tons, mounted with Eight Guns.”
    This seems to have been viewed as a point in the ship’s favor.

    • slumbrew

      white canon privilege!

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Just in the Nick of time…

      • Animal

        When we lived in Colorado, we knew a guy who had a beautiful country place along a creek, with high ridgelines to east and west and a beautiful view of a big basin in front of the house.

        He had canyon privilege.

    • Rat on a train

      “You can’t have a cannon.!”
      Nikon approved.

    • Sensei

      Yeah, I mentioned in the last thread some cheap ass aftermarket magazine likely saved some lives.

    • DEG

      “Philly-rented”

      If they had just mandated masks earlier, this wouldn’t have happened.

      That’s how those things work, right?

    • The Hyperbole

      Netflix is responsible for a Swedish film being released in cinemas in the UK?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Not seeing the issue. All adults? All willing? Cool lets see what their sex-lives are like.

      • The Hyperbole

        Also it’s fiction.

      • TARDis

        Does Netflix own part of some Porn sites and want to promote some premium packages?

      • The Hyperbole

        I have no idea, and if so what does that have to do with this movie that Netflix didn’t produce and isn’t streaming.

      • l0b0t

        I read the article several times and I’m still not clear what point they are trying to make. I’ll go back to getting humiliated at the UNO table by my card-sharp son.

      • TARDis

        Nothing. It has nothing to do with Netflix. RIF.

  9. Count Potato

    Today in woke ass clownery:

    “English professor defends Indiana university’s SEGREGATED classes and slams white students who oppose it, telling them it’s not about their hurt feelings”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10711259/Professor-claims-white-students-fragile-not-wanting-racially-segregated-sessions.html

    “Family bakery at center of Oberlin College race row faces ruin as it continues to be boycotted by woke students for calling police on three black student shoplifters”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10711913/Family-bakery-nearly-destroyed-Oberlin-Colleges-lies-boycotted-students.html

    • slumbrew

      I dunno about “ruin” – the bakery is due a $33MM payout from the school.

      • Sensei

        I’m not sure if that was set aside pending the latest appeal.

        So they very well may still be struggling.

      • slumbrew

        AFAIK, the school just lost an appeal but are refusing to pay while they “consider their options” – those being, the state supreme court & then the supremes themselves.

        Probably trying to get the bakery to settle for a pittance so as to not drag it out any longer.

      • Sensei

        I’d love to see what in NJ would be the County Sheriff walking into the bursar’s office during business hours and empty out any cash from tills and safes.

        After that they just stay and keep collecting cash from the business.

      • creech

        In many non-woke counties in Penna. the sheriff would come on campus, slap confiscation stickers on $33 million worth of real estate and then hold a sheriff’s sale.

    • The Other Kevin

      At first glance, “Indiana university” looked like “Indiana University”. But it’s Anderson University.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Give her a few years. She’ll end up with tenure at a much better school. She’s a true believer.

        How did I know exactly what she was going to look like before I even clicked the link? I must have ESP.

  10. grrizzly

    BILD: Zelensky refuses to welcome the German President because the latter used to favor economic cooperation with Russia, was friendly with the Russian foreign minister and until recently favored Nord Stream 2.

    I have no idea why the actor in Kiev feels that he can behave like this wrt important friendly countries.

    • Sensei

      WTF is the President of Germany? Time to head to Wiki

      Under the 1949 constitution (Basic Law) Germany has a parliamentary system of government in which the chancellor (similar to a prime minister or minister president in other parliamentary democracies) is the head of government. The president has far-reaching ceremonial obligations, but also the right and duty to act politically.[3] They can give direction to general political and societal debates and have some important “reserve powers” in case of political instability (such as those provided for by Article 81 of the Basic Law).[4] The president also holds the prerogative to grant pardons on behalf of the federation. The German presidents, who can be elected to two consecutive five-year terms, have wide discretion about how they exercise their official duties.[5]

      Ahh, useless bureaucrat.

      • grrizzly

        This guy used to be a German foreign minister from SPD. Also, when it took a long time to form a ruling coalition in Germany in 2017-18, he was engaged in diplomacy by visiting foreign countries and meeting the likes of Putin.

      • Gustave Lytton

        You know which other German president was a useless bureaucrat while the chancellor was running things?

      • Animal

        At the time there were tremendous rumblings in Prussia.

        Although that may have had something to do with the sausages.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Probably the spooks whispering in the ear of president t shirt.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      How long before Germany says they’ve had enough of this shit?

    • TARDis

      :golf clap:

  11. Ownbestenemy

    Taking the teen out for sushi for b-day…Im gonna get raped in the wallet me thinks.

  12. Compelled Speechless

    “TL/DR: the LP is full of petty assholes.”

    That’s one interpretation. Another is that it’s full of controlled opposition.

    cough***Sarwark***cough

    • Ghostpatzer

      “All your children are belong to us”

      7 hours of daily incarceration isn’t doing the job, what else can we do to separate kids from their parents?

    • EvilSheldon

      And if they’re not mentally ill already, the therapy industry has plenty of ways to fix that…

  13. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©® goes live at 1am EAT, last call for scores.

    • MikeS

      You had a few at lunch again, didn’t you?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Eastern Appalachian Time?

    • The Hyperbole

      DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
      #78
      Men’s Division
      Champ(s)
      Not Adahn 15

      l0b0t 18
      TARDis 22
      Rat on a train 23
      The Other Kevin 24
      Tundra 25
      grrizzly 25
      Ted S. 26
      Bobarian LMD 27
      trshmnstr the terrible 29

      Chump(s)
      The Hyperbole 114
      Scruffy Nerfherder 117
      Grumbletarian 118
      Sean 118
      SDF-7 119
      Ghostpatzer 121
      kinnath 121
      Ownbestenemy 122
      MikeS 124

      Double Chump(s)
      Grummun 211
      rhywun 212
      Raven Nation 213
      Translucent Chum 214
      db 217

      Women’s Division
      Chaump(s)
      one true athena 114

      I knew mocking you people yesterday was going to bite me in the ass, but I am not deterred, at least I didn’t pull a MikeS. Not Adahn gets an improbable 15 (hints and spoilers are not cool, but I’m using the honor system here if NA feels he really got an unfair advantage then he can DQ hisself). Too many losers to mention again. One true athena becomes the first ever Champion Chump. Let’s all endeavor to persevere do better tomorrow. Are we the the smartest comment section on the intertubes or not?

      • rhywun

        All I can say in my defense is I hadn’t even had any coffee yet.

      • Ted S.

        I did it at 4:30 in the morning, and I got all four words.

      • The Hyperbole

        3 things no one likes Ted S.

        Wet Toilet paper
        Warm Beer
        A braggart

      • Ted S.

        Everyone likes Ted S. They especially like the music links he posts.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I was a little busy today trying to understand all the contradictions in our HOA’s Bylaws and Restrictive Covenant, and how they related to various sections of Alberta’s Societies Act and its associated Regulations. We’re experiencing the joy of a Board member who believes it’s his duty to force people to only do what he wants them to do, ignoring the obvious intent of our Bylaws as well as the intentions of the Act. Took me 6 hours of reading and writing a missive to the Prez of the HOA.

        I have no idea how it’ll go. Fucking up Quordle would’ve been far preferable.

      • TARDis

        Double-double porn?

        That reminds me. Today’s lewdle word was kind of funny.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have no idea. People post these random things as if they make sense.

      • Tundra

        Yeah? We somehow ended up with three different versions of the bylaws.

        That was fun.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was on the board of our HOA in San Diego. I do not miss that shit.

        Particularly the one old guy who kept demanding that we move the speed bump because he constantly tripped over it when he came outside at night drunk. And the guy who kept suing us because FYTW. And the people who didn’t understand that we couldn’t continue to employ landscapers without getting liability insurance. And that other guy who..

      • TARDis

        I live across the street and one house down from the ACC prick. According to my neighbor, he drives around the neighborhood regularly to check for violations. I think I mentioned before that my neighbor caught him peeking over my fence to see what’s what in my back yard. “Yeah MFer, that shed was approved by your dumbass six years ago.”

        We got approval to cut down a cherry tree in our front yard from the HOA manager a year ago, but it didn’t get done until last week. I wonder if his bitch ass called them squalling about it.

      • Ted S.

        I live across the street and one house down from the ACC prick

        Mike Krzyzewski?

      • Tundra

        Stupid Quordle is the first site I hit now. I make coffee and then try to solve the fucker before I check out anything else.

      • MikeS

        I used to do it first thing, but I wasn’t doing very well. Now I play later in the morning and don’t do well.

      • Tundra

        Mornings are quiet and conducive to brain work.

        I also don’t like to see what others have done. Some of these fuckers are really good at it.

      • Grummun

        “Odder” can kiss my spotted pink behind.

  14. Sean

    I came home and put the ac on. Because I can.

    Gonna be warm tomorrow and Thursday too.

    • Tulip

      One of the joys of being a gainfully employed adult is I can set the thermostat any way I want. If I want to go from heat in the am to AC in the pm, I will.

      • Sean

        Preach it!

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Look, as long as you are in my house, and I’m paying the utility bill, that thermostat is mine. Keep your grubby hands off it.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Really? It’s snowing here.

      In April, for Christ’s sake!

      • Gustave Lytton

        This winter has been bizarre. One of the earliest snow storms of the season, a white Christmas, and now one of the latest.

      • Nephilium

        Last year we had snow on Mother’s Day.

      • juris imprudent

        It snowed on us this weekend down in SW VA; SemiSpartanDad, did you get any of that?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        It just missed us. I’m glad we are holding off on planting the garden until this weekend. Last year we planted the first week of April and a frost killed almost everything.

    • MikeS

      We are in the midst of Snowmageddon

      • Ownbestenemy

        We are just coming out of Windageddon out here in Vegas. I uselessly cleaned the front yard this weekend.

      • Tulip

        April has the worst snow and ice storms

      • MikeS

        For sure. Thankfully, no ice storm ahead of it, but the snow coming down now is very wet.

  15. Tulip

    Reminder: if you want to be included in April’s What Are We Reading, please message me through the forum, or post in the forum thread by April 16.

    • slumbrew

      Shit, did they really blow up the fuel depot like that?

  16. Winston

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10710547/amp/Manet-masterpiece-given-MISOGYNY-alert-male-gaze-Londons-Courtauld-gallery.html

    The new information panel both in the gallery and online states that the female subject’s ‘enigmatic expression is unsettling, especially as she appears to be interacting with a male customer’.

    Speaking to The Telegraph, art historian Ruth Millington branded the interpretation a ‘woke attempt to call out misogyny’ which ‘unwittingly centres the male gaze’ by shifting the viewer’s attention to the man.

    Another painting that bears a new label is Paul Gauguin’s 1897 work Nevermore. The updated panel says that the painting depicts ‘one of several teenagers that he took on as ‘wives”.

    It then adds that ‘the widespread racist fantasy of Tahitian girls as sexually precocious led to their unabashed exploitation.’

    Sensible people were supposed to set guard rails…

    At the Tate’s Hogarth exhibition, which runs until March, visitors are told in a label alongside the 18th century painter’s A Midnight Modern Conversation, that, whilst the picture is meant to be funny, the ‘punch they drink and the tobacco they smoke are material links to a wider world of commerce, exploitation and slavery.’

    A catalogue accompanying the painting says the men may be ‘queasily celebrating such manly misdemeanours – what we might today called ‘laddishness’.’

    Meanwhile, a self-portrait showing Hogarth sitting on a wooden chair while painting at an easel should also be seen within the context of slavery, according to the commentary accompanying the picture.

    Artist Sonia Barret claimed in the note that Hogarth’s chair was made from ‘timbers shipped from the colonies’ and asks if it could ‘stand in for all those unnamed black and brown people enabling the society that supports his vigorous creativity?’

    Note how concerns about slavery have quickly gone from “supported slavery or owned slaves” to “lived in a society in which slavery existed”.

    Dutch master Rembrandt’s Self-portrait At The Age Of 63 was bought from George Brodrick, who came from a slave-owning family.

    The gallery said the project aimed to ‘find out what links to slave ownership can be traced with the gallery and to what extent the profits from plantation slavery impacted our early history.’

    Labels beside the paintings were updated to reflect these links.

    Researchers found that John Constable’s famous work, The Hay Wain, was donated to the gallery by Edmund Higginson, who inherited money from an uncle who traded goods made by slaves in South Carolina.

    Constable’s The Cornfield was presented to the gallery in 1837 by several patrons including poet William Wordsworth, who once lived in a house in Dorset owned by a plantation holder.

    Titian’s An Allegory of Prudence was once owned by the Rothschild family, whose 19th-century global businesses brought them into connection with slave owners.

    But the family also arranged the £15 million loan that allowed the government to compensate plantation owners and abolish slavery in 1833.

    Ah so their crime is that these people who owned these paintings once had familial or social connections to slavery.

    • The Hyperbole

      Do they put up a warning that the paintings are shitty works of art to start with?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep, it’s usually a sign on the front door. It says “art museum”

    • creech

      Maybe they should go much farther. Investigate the genealogy of the person writing the labels: “The person responsible for writing this description is descended from a British sea captain who transported slaves to the Caribbean Islands in the 1700s, and to a person who held clerkship positions in the Foreign Office when India was being subjected to British colonial imperialism.”

      • Winston

        Wait till they find out about John Stuart Mill…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Who knew art critics could become even more worthless?

  17. Winston

    https://www.cato.org/commentary/cruz-cottons-attacks-ketanji-brown-jacksons-public-defender-record-prove-they-dont-get

    With Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation as an associate justice on the Supreme Court, all Americans can be proud that a Black woman will finally sit on the highest court in the land. For too long, the Supreme Court was made up of exclusively white men, and it matters that young Black girls will be able to look at the faces on the bench and, at last, see someone who resembles them.

    Cato explicitly embracing racial quotas and demands for “representation”.

    Perhaps if Jackson’s Republican detractors could take a step back from partisan grandstanding, they would see that a woman who has spent time fighting the government might be more understanding when hearing noncriminal cases that Republicans often have more sympathy for.

    Take Mike and Chantell Sackett, for example, a couple who have spent the last 15 years fighting the EPA for the right to build their house. The Sacketts’ property was declared part of the “waters of the United States,” even though the land has no surface water connection to any body of water. Ten years ago, they first fought their way to the Supreme Court to ask for the right to challenge the government’s classification of their property, winning unanimously. In the next term, the Court with Justice Jackson will hear the Sacketts’ case again, this time on the meaning of “waters of the United States.”

    The Sacketts’ story is not unlike that of a criminal defendant fighting for a fair process, and Jackson might see some parallels when she hears the case. Even if a criminal defendant and the Sacketts are both “guilty”—i.e., if the Sacketts’ land is a “water of the United States”—the process matters.

    He thinks she will rule against the EPA in this case why exactly?

    • creech

      A black man, Frederick Douglass, believed in natural rights. A black woman, now on SCOTUS, doesn’t. I suggest the “young black girls” admire the former and not the latter.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Jackson might see some parallels when she hears the case

      Yeah, and Obama may heal the divisions and slow the rise of the oceans…

      Fuck off, Cato
      /Drinker voice

    • juris imprudent

      …is not unlike that of a criminal defendant fighting for a fair process, and Jackson might see some parallels when she hears the case

      Or, regulatory matters might not look like criminal procedure at all and she, being an unabashed statist (oh Cato, look away) she sides with the government.

    • cavalier973

      “Aaaah! That person who resembles me is throwing me into prison for not getting a clot shot!”

      • Winston

        Pluralism and Tolerance!

  18. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    All political parties are nothing but stupid people chasing power and drama. Fuck them ALL.

    • ron73440

      Congrats on the RV, that thing looks sweet.

    • db

      Did you happen to see the towing links I posted in the a.m. thread?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I did – thank you!!

      • db

        Cool. Hope it’s useful.

  19. Winston

    Man, i Messed up those quotes functions today….

  20. Ownbestenemy

    Thoughts…both legal and ethical question. Obvious contractor isn’t coming back. Left 3 shovels, a tamper, angle grinder and cooler.

    Gonna move them into the garage for now but just take ownership? Either they blocked my number or ignoring it….

    • MikeS

      Ethical: Did you pay in full up front? They didn’t finish so I’d say you’re due some compensation

      Legal: There must be a time limit of some kind where after the items become “abandoned”, I’d think?

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      If he’s licensed, be wary of a mechanic’s lien. Including for remainder of the work. I’ve heard these can be difficult to fight, even with the evidence on your side.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not too worried about that. I paid for labor done it was the last of what we asked to complete and they probably just abandoned the rest. Bench, firepit and debris

    • The Hyperbole

      How long has it been? and what makes it obvious that he’s not coming back? It isn’t good business, and one should return calls promptly, but the reality is that shit happens and sometimes people get put off for a few days. I never do it, but lotsa people do and in this market where just getting someone to show up its much more common than it once was.

      • Ownbestenemy

        No show for 4 days and no calls back. We aren’t stealing the shit but cleaning up and securing their tools so to speak. He swings by he can have them

      • The Hyperbole

        Sounds about right, don’t be surprised if he doesn’t show up in a few days with an excuse (lame, or sob story, or completely believable) and finishes the job. It’s odd to me too, but it seems to be the new normal. I’ll call a sub for a quote or to look at a job and they’ll take two/three weeks to get back, if I call to see what’s going on they act like I’m putting them out. Problem is it’s hard to even get someone to look at the job these day, so you take what you can. Which is why I’m moving more and more into jobs that I can do entirely by myself or I don’t even bother with them.

      • db

        Take pictures before moving them, after moving them, and then tell him you’re cleaning up your yard and you expect him to pick up his property within X days after which it will be considered abandoned and you’ll dispose of it. X is probably 15 days or whatever might be appropriate in your state.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        And Norm

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        How did I not remember that? I think I was confusing him with Kevin Nealon.

    • Tundra

      Wow. What a great pic!

      Totally irrelevant, but a great story (that I’ve probably told before – sorry):

      I met Louie at MSP as my daughter and I were getting on a plane to fly to a gymnastics tournament. He was standing behind us in line and I turned around and said “Hi Louie!”

      He, of course, smiled and asked our names. When he heard my little girl was off to compete he asked her if she was nervous. She shyly said yes. He then proceeded to share with her that no matter how many times he got up in front of an audience or went on TV, he was always nervous. But then he told her that the nervousness meant that you cared enough to always give your very best. That it was fuel for excellence. The jetway was slow and we chatted the whole time while waiting to board.

      I’ll never forget the way he talked to her and how unbelievably kind and generous he was. Not every celebrity is a douchebag.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Similar experience, also on a jetway but waiting for bags. He took pictures with people and chatted with them, even invited the flight crew backstage at the venue he was performing at. Super nice guy and had a one of those supermarket reusuable bags as one of his carryons.

      • Tundra

        Awesome. The poor guy had all sorts of issues, but spent his life making people happy.

  21. Winston

    https://thepostmillennial.com/the-charter-has-not-stopped-canadas-slide-towards-tyranny

    It all sounds wonderful, of course. But section 1 of the Charter has proven repeatedly to be a rotting fly in the ointment of the intended civil liberties medicine. Section 1 permits politicians to trample on Canadians’ Charter rights as long as the government’s lawyers can concoct a justification which will thereafter persuade a court that the violation was “reasonable” in a free and democratic society. As the Judicial Freedom Index makes clear, some judges trust politicians and admire governments a great deal, while other judges are more sympathetic to individual freedom.

    Been saying this for years..

    It all sounds wonderful, of course. But the Soviet Constitution severely limited citizens’ rights “in accordance with the aims of building communism” (Article 51). The Constitution explained that the citizen of the classless communist society must be “moulded.” Article 39 specified: “Enjoyment by citizens of their rights and freedoms must not be to the detriment of the interests of society or the state” as determined by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Article 6).

    It’s not like Turdeau Sr. Or his (legal) son have a history of admiring Communist dictatorships…

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      I’ve always referred to Section 1 of the Charter as “the kill-switch of the Charter.” It completely negates everything that comes after it, essentially by design.

  22. Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

    Question for all the machinist/engineer types here; does anyone know a really good source for metric machine screws? I need a M0.9 10mm long oval head, preferably in blue/black and I cannot source one at any of the regular spots.

    If I need too I will make one, but I would prefer one finished in oxide of some sort.

    • Tundra

      McMaster doesn’t have it?!?

    • ron73440

      McMaster’s or Fastenal usually have any bolt you need.

      Maybe Grainger or TSC as a second option?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Try boltdepot.com

      I use them for some metric machine screws. There’s also metricscrew.us

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      So, McMaster doesn’t have one long enough, every metric specialist I found on the internet doesn’t list it, Brownell’s doesn’t seem to carry small metric screws.

      Looks like I am going to have to pull out some taps and drill rod.

      • Yusef rides a Bike

        R/C cars and planes use odd ball stuff, I own a .9mm allen wrench because of it.
        try Hobby King.com

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      If you’re looking for some exotic screw, I think you need to try Craigslist.

      • MikeS

        *snigger*

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      So, checking Euro sources, and this thread is not even common there. And of course I don’t have a die, because no one does. So, it looks like I need to set my lathe up for metric.

      Son of a bitch.

      • Count Potato

        Maybe it’s a difference between pipe and machine thread?

      • Mad Scientist

        M0.9 is teeny tiny. M0.9×10 has to be highly unusual. What’s this for?

      • Tundra

        Lol.

        Someone finally asks the best question.

        How’s the Spit, MS?

      • Mad Scientist

        Ugly. And wonderful. Now that I’ve refreshed the mechanical bits, it’s almost time to starting thinking about her paint.

      • Tundra

        Cool!

        I’ve gotten a few texts from the dude I sold mine to. He has been having a blast with it.

        I can’t remember if I shared, but he is also in the middle of a restoration. He and his wife wanted one to drive until his is ready. She was actually the one who found my ad.

        I love car people.

      • Mad Scientist

        So now he has two? Awesome! They guy I bought mine from had three. And I helped him pick up another after I bought mine. Car people, and airplane people, have their priorities right.

        A friend gave me a Spitfire supercharger he’s had sitting in his shed for 20 years. I’m going to build up a spare engine, rebuild the supercharger, and install it in the car. Should bring it up from 60 horses to a whopping 75!

  23. Winston

    https://unherd.com/thepost/what-francis-fukuyama-gets-wrong-about-liberalism/

    While Fukuyama lauds the opening up of immigration in post-1960s Anglo settler societies, he fails to appreciate that, apart from the removal of racial bans, this was not a piece of neutral procedural liberalism. Instead, it represented an attempt by western states to privilege a Left-modernist ideal in which diversity is not just tolerated but actively promoted.

    This subtle difference, between toleration and celebration, is in fact an enormous leap. Instead of sticking with the liberal principle of nations’ right to free association, with agnosticism about what form the nation might take or how it chooses new members, the new cosmopolitan-multicultural nationalism plumped for diversity and change over ethno-cultural continuity. This was rooted in earlier Left-modernist ideas of asymmetrical multiculturalism whereby established White Anglo-Protestant majorities were deemed boring and repressive compared to expressive, exotic and downtrodden ethnics (initially European immigrant groups).

    In order to enforce this ‘thick’ vision of the good life, the cultural impact of immigration policy was ruled off-limits as a taboo topic. In Canada, the 1971 Multiculturalism Act enshrined Left-modernism in law, compelling the government to ‘promote’ and ‘enhance’ difference as well as the idea that the country’s 20% non-British and non-French minority was an ‘invaluable resource’. The country’s British and Protestant heritage was essentially banished from the official narrative. This was an agenda of transformation, not neutral liberalism.

    Meanwhile, American liberalism started to move, after Lyndon Johnson’s Howard University speech of 1965, from an emphasis on equal civil rights to an ideological regime of enforcing equal outcomes: whether in the form of affirmative action or in the guise of the diversity industry, which boomed as early as the 1970s. The notion of an ethnic majority melting pot was ditched in favour of multiculturalism, diversity and, later, anti-whiteness.

    Over time, the Left-modernist ethos has grown increasingly strident in elite western circles. Progressive illiberalism began with affirmative action in the 70s, cooked up political correctness and speech codes in the 90s, and metastasised into cancel culture and anti-whiteness in the 2010s.

  24. Raven Nation

    Well, those were some, umm, interesting Champions’ League games this afternoon.

    • rhywun

      I’ll care after the Liverpool match tomorrow that I am not able to watch.

      • Ted S.

        Isn’t it on CBS broadcast (Channel 2 in NYC)? I did a search in the b0x guide yesterday for the CL matches, and that was the surprising result I got.

      • rhywun

        Huh. My source has CBS buried on a second page. The main page mentions a bunch of channels I’ve never heard of.

      • grrizzly

        LOL. How did you get the Nigerian version of the site?

      • grrizzly

        A work meeting? It’s on CBS.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, there is also work.

        I guess I can pop over to the living room once in a while.

  25. Hyperion

    HIPSTER JUICE!!!… errr, wait, that was me swilling the hipster juice, never mind…

    • MikeS

      You’re drinking hipster juice?!?11?!?!?

  26. Hyperion

    Gibberish Joe

    You know what really keeps me up at night? Worrying about tobacco and whores, I mean I just really cannot sleep because of this.

  27. Evan from Evansville

    Folk still around? I don’t want to pollute the Desk Pt 2. post with thoughts there. That is rude and immoral. I have some updates that are clear to talk about.