Monday Afternoon Links of Preview

by | May 2, 2022 | Daily Links, Things to Come | 283 comments

 

Things are a bit more in flux than in past, around here. Therefore, I have decided to add a bit of the “Things To Come” that we used to run on Sunday evenings to my already … sparse postings.

Tonight – Yusef brings us fire, cleansing fire…oh, wait. I mean fire related art. Don’t try this at home. Or work. Or school.

Tuesday – The Other Kevin reports on a Sled Hockey Weekend. R.J. gives us another fun “Glib Car”.

Wednesday – SugarFree…’nuff said. Zwak chimes in on how to while away the miles when driving (hint: it’s audio books).

Thursday – A new story starts up, from UCS (a 2 parter). Nephilium fills in for R.J. for movie night!

Friday – The Daily Stoic, and Tulip gives us another thing to mull over at 1900.

Weekend – Mex, Not Adahn and Chafed keep us cruising along.

Links each day. Or so we hope.

 

OK, enough of that. Here be the Links o’ the Day:

  • A story full of “wait…wut?”
  • Regrets….I’ve had a few.
  • Things do not go well…in Africa.
  • I am shocked, shocked to find fraud!

 

UPDATE: I have been reminded… The Comments are all yours.

About The Author

Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

283 Comments

  1. Hyperion

    “Links each day. Or so we hope.”

    I can’t wait for CPRM’s rendition of the ‘put the cocaine back in the Coke’.

    • Hyperion

      I’m a just make a note here, the firster has failed again, for like the ninety eleventyith time.

      • Tundra

        He’s playing the long game, dude.

        Have faith.

      • Hyperion

        “the ninety eleventyith time.”

        In a row…

      • SDF-7

        The First That Will Change Everything (or whatever he calls it in Bro-meme-speak) is swelling, a tumescent outcropping of his skull, compressing his eyebrows until his very scowl holds pregnant anticipation. Which keeps him from seeing his keyboard to actually post or something.

        (Why yes, I am re-reading Donaldson… why do you so inquire, groveler?)

      • Tulip

        He sure lives in your head.

      • Brochettaward

        Part of being The First Of All Firsters is that some people go crazy over you. Gay men and straight women, I have had more than few obsessive fans. As gay as Hyperion is, he really can’t help his attraction.

    • Rat on a train

      False advertising!

      • Hyperion

        I hope not.

  2. UnCivilServant

    Things do not go well…in Africa.

    Absent context, that is all to common a headline.

    Examining the context, I expect the UN Head to be ignored.

    • UnCivilServant

      reminded the world to deliver on “climate emergency” promises.

      Fuck you, there’s no climate emergency.

    • Hyperion

      “to deliver on “climate emergency”

      Uh huh, if it gets any cooler it will be snowing in June in the Mid-Atlantic. I want my climate emergency back! Who took away my climate emergency!?

      • Fourscore

        A few flakes in the air this morning again…

    • Rat on a train

      Send in the UN rape squads.

    • Atanarjuat

      Jihadist insurgency in the Sahel which has fought hard to make territorial gains: “Oh, some suit wearing douchebag I’ve never heard of said to give up power? Ok, cool.”

    • SDF-7

      But at least they can bless the rains and all.

    • TARDis

      The largest grifting operation in the history of mankind. With some international rape action to boot. If I were emperor king of America that would be the third thing I’d end, right behind NATO and Foreign Aid.

  3. Sensei

    “Regrets….I’ve had a few.”

    Thanks for the shout out! I haven’t listened to that for a number of years until I posted it this morning.

  4. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • Hyperion

      The sky! Prices on everything! Derp!

      • Tres Cool

        Hey- I had a productive day n̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ off so far. Got the grass cut, trimmed, edged, and purtied-up before we get rained on the next 2 days.
        Got under my POS truck to try and find the front-end mystery CLUNK sound when she’s under way (doesn’t seem to do it in reverse, even at speed- axe me how I know). No dice. Even changed wheels w/the spare in case that was it.

        And Im only now on MediumCans™ (16 oz) No #3

      • Bobarian LMD

        My clunk in my ’72 ford Ranchero was a bad bushing in the upper control arm.

        Same type of symptoms.

      • Tres Cool

        Noted, and thanks for the pointer. This turd (that I adore) has nearly 200K, so at this point it could be anything.
        Ive already got upper/lower ball joints that I need to install. Pretty sure those are shot.
        Just doesnt seem like a wheel bearing (yet).

      • SDF-7

        Very minor compared to yours — but I went to change out the trunk interior lamp on my car over the weekend. Got a nice LED replacement from Autozone… and then determined that as far as I can tell, they superglued the original bulb in the plastic assembly. (Either that or the other one when it blew managed to melt the interior plastic and somehow fuse to it… but not leave less, hence I think it is glue). Luckily you can still buy the whole assembly (given it is a 2003, that’s no guarantee) — we’ll see if the new one comes that way and GM decided to make that their factory spec. Grumble. (Then I have to figure out what looks like a tiny, tiny plastic tab or something to unhook the wiring harness… can’t have something clear and obvious, after all…)

      • R.J.

        No car repairs today, but post return from camping my car smells like feet and chicken grease. I may need a Febreeze grenade.

  5. Tundra

    Thanks, Swissy!

    I missed GlibFit yesterday (ironically, I was at our neighborhood tap house staying hydrated), but I just want to say thanks to Chafed and all of you who generate these features every week. Best site on the planet.

    Thank You.

    • Tres Cool

      To me that almost sounds like praise.

    • Chafed

      I was wondering what happened to you.

      • Tundra

        My best friend is in town, so I had to be social!

      • Tres Cool

        You still look like a Cabela’s ad.

  6. grrizzly

    I definitely heard about Hitler’s Jewish roots when I was a kid. The rumor was there. I couldn’t find any confirmation though when I searched for it.

    • Hyperion

      There’s something in the water in that area where he was born. Look at how close him and Klaus where born from each other, decades apart, I mean it’s like only 50 miles. Someone put evul water in the water. In fact if I rememember correctly, that town Klaus was born in was the scene of another Holocaust before the holocaust. I don’t want to look it up right now, but it’s pretty easy to find. Creepy as hell shit. Makes me wonder what other supervillains are from the same area. We’ll probably soon find that the guy who will replace Putin was born there, then I’ll be asking you if there is any real estate for sale in Willow.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I heard the same thing. Also that he was into Cleveland Steamers.

      Nobody wants to own Adolf, everybody wants him to be from somebody else’s ethnicity. It’s par for the course in our new improved version of historical collective guilt.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Austria’s biggest accomplishment is convincing the world that Hitler was German and Mozart was Austrian.

      • Ted S.

        You mean Beethoven (born in Bonn). Mozart was born in Salzburg.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        His father was German.

  7. Hyperion

    So, is this a thread about nothing? You know, the ones where people can just say anything they want, even things that people might not like? *looks nervously around the chatroom*

    • Brett L

      30 Minute Rule on beef/cheesecake holds

      • db

        What about cheese/beefcake?

      • Swiss Servator

        Cheese is non-stop here, no stopping it…

      • Animal

        That’s gouda.

      • Brett L

        This is not ‘Nam, db. This is a hobby website. There are rules!
        **pulls gun**

      • db

        OK, you crazy fuck…

      • Hyperion

        That doesn’t count in threads about nothing, why I was asking.

    • Swiss Servator

      Oh yeah, I should have mentioned that – Comments are all yours.

      • Raven Nation

        Swiss: I’m not trying for a palace coup or anything and I don’t pretend to know how Glibs works on the inside, BUT, if you need someone to help out, as of the end of May, I can probably handle links once a week (probably afternoons). You have my e-addy I believe.

      • Swiss Servator

        Thanks…I will see who, if anyone, needs a break/relief.

    • Lackadaisical

      Why? Do you have a lazy Twitter to link?

      • Count Potato

        I never got that argument.

      • Lackadaisical

        Me neither. Seemed a reasonable request, that people were perfectly capable of ignoring without making a stink. (And mostly did)

        I just like bugging swiss.

    • Rat on a train

      I hate the new expense site. So many fields, so few instructions. I guess I can submit and see what happens. The irony is, under the old system I would have only claimed the hotel, but the new system forces me to create an itinerary that automatically adds per diem.

  8. The Other Kevin

    Hey look, that’s me! In the daytime spot that I like!
    :: winks and nods to Swiss ::

  9. db

    Burkina Faso? I know just the guy.

    • Brett L

      You sat in with him at the Fillmore?

      • Tres Cool

        I thought they opened for Velvet Underground once.

    • Tonio

      Beat me to it, db. High-five!

  10. db

    UN chief calls on juntas in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali to hand power back to civilians

    Will he send them a strongly worded letter?

    • Hyperion

      Draws red line.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s a line we will never cross.

  11. Shpip

    UN chief Antonio Guterres called Sunday for the military juntas in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali to ensure a swift return to civilian rule
    Does it matter to the average schlub in those countries if the corrupt Big Man and his clan wear military uniforms or not?

    and reminded the world to deliver on “climate emergency” promises.
    Poor people in rich countries “giving” billions of confiscated dollars to rich people in poor countries.

    • Rat on a train

      We “elect” our oppressors.

  12. Necron 99

    Also Wednesday – Necron99 adds another grandchild to the family. 🙂

    • Brett L

      Congrats.

    • Atanarjuat

      Fuck yeah. Congrats.

    • Tundra

      Woot! How many is that now?

      • Necron 99

        He will be the second, first was a boy as well.

      • Tundra

        Congrats! A third of the way to your own hockey line!

      • Hyperion

        Congrats! And a bonus, you get spared from getting the real test of sanity since it will not be a girl. Even then,you would be OK for about 12 years, and then…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

        Ask me how I know….

      • Hyperion

        You were once a teenage girl before the transition?

      • Bobarian LMD

        After.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Got it in one.

      • Necron 99

        I had one, she was hell for ages 3-15 then suddenly became mellow. Now she’s producing grandchildren so I guess it was worth it.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Awesome! Congratulations! That’s my daughter’s 5th birthday, too!

      I can’t believe that I posted a picture of her toddling around at 18 months old in an article here 3.5 years ago. Time flies!

    • Tres Cool

      Christmas just got more expensive.

      Congrats.

      • Rat on a train

        There are costs in renting children, but it is still cheaper than owning.

      • Tres Cool

        Tres Ver 2.0 is 15.
        I know.

      • Hyperion

        Especially if you can get a good day’s labor out of em, it might even be profitable. Unfortunately, the pool of kids who can even beat into working is in very short supply. Used to be, you’d have those little buggers pushing crack and fentanyl on the playground in the first hour!

    • db

      Congratulations

    • Sean

      Congrats.

    • slumbrew

      Mazel tov!

    • Count Potato

      Congrats!

    • Sensei

      Congratulations!

    • wdalasio

      Congratulations! That’s terrific news!

    • TARDis

      Congratulations.

    • guy in the back row

      Congratulations!

    • Animal

      Good news! Conga-rats.

  13. trshmnstr the terrible

    Ughhhh, today is a rare 2 coffee day. I could crawl into bed right now.

    • Hyperion

      I had one of those moments earlier today, and like always, that triggers my boss to call me.

    • Tundra

      Yeah, I had insomnia last night and have felt like hammered shit all day. I just got done lifting – I hit all my reps but every fucking one of them was miserable.

      Sleep is good.

  14. Drake

    Gonzalo Lira: How does Russia make sure the US does not enter the war?
    By making the Russian mode of war BORING.

    I think he’s saying we have short attention spans. That made me really angry and I was going to post a strongly-worded reply. Then I got distracted.

    I hope he isn’t underestimating the determination of our globalist / neo-con overlords to start WWIII.

    • Atanarjuat

      Americans ABHOR losers.

      Well, he’s not contradicting Patton.

      • Rat on a train

        I can say I never shoveled shit in Louisiana.

  15. Atanarjuat

    Comments are a free for all? Ok here goes. Obama: a disgusting war criminal, but apparently he had limits. His generals were trying escalate tensions in Ukraine and he resisted.

    Obama defied political pressure from hawks in Congress and the military to provide lethal assistance to the Ukrainian government, fearing that doing so would increase the bloodshed and provide Russian President Vladimir Putin with the justification for deeper incursions into the country.

    Breedlove, during briefings to Congress, notably contradicted the Obama administration regarding the situation in Ukraine, leading to news stories about conflict between the general and Obama.

    But the leaked emails provide an even more dramatic picture of the intense back-channel lobbying for the Obama administration to begin a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

    (source: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/01/nato-general-emails/)

    • Hyperion

      Yeah, the Biden admin totally want to get us into a nuclear war and are sparing no amount of effort to do do. Economy? What? We have to provoke Russian into WW3, it’s for your own good! All that debris from the explosions will hurl dust high into the atmosphere and fix the warming!

    • Not Adahn

      I cannot believe those racists at The Intercept.

      • Not Adahn

        Oh wait, it’s about how Obama is the wise ruler and the general a warmonger.

        To be fair though, Breedlove has the punctuation skillz of a 14 year old.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Definitely some professional grammaring on display there.

    • Drake

      When the hell did starting wars and conducting foreign policy make it into job description of a General? Breedlove should have been relieved on the spot for suggesting that bullshit.

      Now that Dementia Joe is “in charge” these kinds of dangerously stupid assholes are doing whatever they want.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Breedlove, testifying before Congress earlier in February of this year, called Russia “a long-term existential threat to the United States and to our European allies.”

      Fluoridation…

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      It appears we ducked a bullet ICBM when Wesley Clark’s political career fizzled.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I’d say the ducking began when the Brits told him to get stuffed in Bosnia.

  16. SDF-7

    I have a podcast that I’m 2 years behind on that I hope to catch up on driving back East (and back again) this summer. It is really fun since they’re just a couple months into the whole COVID mess at this point… half of my outbursts are “Just wait!” the other half are guffaws of incredulous laughter at what they don’t think is coming down the pike or how they think Fauci is giving good advice, etc.

    • SDF-7

      Sigh. How the hell did I screw up that blockquote tag? That was in reply to Swiss mentioning Zwak pitching audiobooks obviously. Try to respond to the links and original post… see what I get. 😛

      *EDIT FAIRY WANDERS OFF*

  17. Count Potato

    “Nephilium fills in for R.J. for movie night!”

    What’s the movie?

    • Timeloose

      I’m hoping for Sgt. Kabuki Man NYPD!!

    • Tonio

      A reliable source told me it was this.

      • Count Potato

        OK, thanks.

    • Tundra

      Though the police report says Guarini told officers the crash was caused by inexperience with a manual transmission, the Ford GT owner told Road & Track over the phone that there was more to the event. Guarini claims old tires, muddy pavement, and a fresh detailing were all factors causing the 550-horsepower supercar to swing out and hit a tree. The driver also told R&T the crash occurred as he shifted up into second gear from first, not while downshifting, as the official report says.

      \

      Riiiiiight.

      Guarini was issued a citation for driving with a suspended license and a warning for operating an unregistered vehicle. The 50-year-old claims his license suspension was due to an unrelated department of motor vehicles “clerical error.”

      Oh.

      What a complete and utter dipshit. Love the paint scheme, though.

      • slumbrew

        It’s the Gulf livery from 1968 & 1969 LeMans.

      • Sensei

        Popular GT40 option.

        Old tires can definitely be an issue for rarely driven exotics.

        But as Tundra notes this is more than 99% the dipshit behind the wheel.

      • B.P.

        So he lied to the cop?

        I was picking up the wife’s Toyota at the shop over the weekend and, while the lot guy was bringing the vehicle around, the sales technician (or whatever they’re called) regaled me with stories of stupid Toyota owners. There was the girl whose parents bought her a new Corolla for college, and they brought it back complaining that the engine seized up at 48K miles. She’d never had the oil changed. But the real kicker was a guy who decided to test the brake assist feature on his new Tacoma and rammed it through the garage door. He was pissed off, and they had to explain that it only works at certain speeds. That’s the sort of thing I’d keep to myself if I did it.

      • Sensei

        The amount of non car buyer, iDouche, CA people that buy Tesla, crack them up after expecting the car to prevent it are amazing.

        Some first time poster always runs to Reddit posts a story of stupidity and gets slammed.

        Similarly, me I’d be embarrassed to say I was trying to watch the car autopark and I knew it was getting close to the wall, but I let it continue until it scraped all the paint of the door.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        I bet he’s the guy who calls the cops when his dealer sells him shitty weed.

      • Sensei

        Better still what are the odds he has this properly insured?

      • Sensei

        From the article.

        Though police say the car was not registered or insured when the crash occurred, Guarini claims the car was covered under an umbrella policy and that he just didn’t have the documentation available when the crash happened.

        Good luck with that. It is true some primary policies will temporarily add new vehicles, but usually you only have a week. Also policy limits…

      • slumbrew

        The auction was April 9th

        He’s boned.

      • R.J.

        Sounds like he normally drives a Jaaaaaag.

    • Chafed

      What a moron.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      His tool shed matches the vehicle nicely.

    • Atanarjuat

      Guarini then told a nearby security worker that he did not have his phone and needed a ride back to his house, where he spoke to authorities via landline after leaving the vehicle unattended

      I’m not saying alcohol was involved, but if it was, this is exactly how he would have acted.

    • l0b0t

      Jeepers! Is that car made of glass? That seems like an astounding amount of damage for a low-speed, single vehicle crash?

      • Lackadaisical

        I think there’s ample reason to doubt his recollection of events, including the speed. So, so many excuses.

    • Shpip

      If I had to guess, he was simply piloting a notoriously twitchy car with old tires (the same thing that likely killed Paul Walker).

      I would posit that he goosed it, kicking the back end out, then he hooked up again when he got off the gas, by which time he was aimed at the tree.

      I once had a father and son team bring his-and-his Vipers to Sebring. Dad munched his the very first session, son put his into the tire wall later that morning. Moral of the story, treat non-nannied supercars with a heaping helping of respect.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Also, it’s a mid-engine. And while I have never driven that configuration, from what I have heard that they are great until they let go, and then it is a whole ‘nother world.

  18. Raven Nation

    Daily Quordle 98
    7️⃣5️⃣
    6️⃣4️⃣

  19. Atanarjuat

    More comments of unbridledness: Here’s a Twitter account where they present bad Russian memes, roughly translated into English.

    Russian Memes United @RussianMemesLtd · Apr 28

    me: *detecting the smell of fried potatoes when I’m walking past someone’s windows*

    me after 7 seconds:

    being excited

    • Ted S.

      I thought only Ukraine was corrupt.

    • B.P.

      I can’t wait until seized Russian yachts start turning up more embarrassing Hunter Biden debris.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ew

      • Ted S.

        I don’t think Hunter Biden is capable of embarrassment.

  20. Count Potato

    “The Federal Communications Commission has said it won’t interfere with Elon Musk’s $44billion Twitter deal, saying it would be un-American for any arm of government to block the sale.

    Trump-appointed FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington issued a press release on Monday dismissing requests for the agency to stop Elon Musk from acquiring Twitter.

    ‘The FCC cannot, and should not, block this sale. We should instead applaud Mr. Musk for doing something about a serious problem that government has so far failed to address,’ Simingtong wrote.

    He continued: ‘…I am particularly troubled by arguments that the federal government must act with the purpose of stopping Mr. Musk from enshrining free expression on Twitter. The only merit in such proposals is their candor in proposing something so blatantly illegal.

    ‘It would be not only unconstitutional, but plainly un-American, for any arm of the government to act against Twitter or Mr. Musk for such a purpose.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10775891/FCC-says-does-not-right-interfere-Elon-Musks-44-billion-Twitter-takeover.html

    That’s adorable.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *adds Simington to deadpool*

    • rhywun

      How is it that Biden didn’t get around to installing one of his flunkies in that position?

      • The Other Kevin

        They were too busy patting themselves on the back for Rachel Levine and the other commies. Someone is kicking themselves for overlooking that one.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        There are four commissioners right now (one vacant position) and they all have set terms. He doesn’t term out until ’26. Two are R’s, two D’s.

    • creech

      Needs to keep looking over his shoulder as he walks about D.C. Lots of “muggings” going down.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Don’t get in the hot tub and don’t fly in a small plane.

    • Hyperion

      “The Federal Communications Commission has said it won’t interfere with Elon Musk’s $44billion Twitter deal, saying it would be un-American for any arm of government to block the sale.”

      Which just confirms for us what we already knew, the Biden admin was pushing them hard to do just that.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Bad boys, bad boys….

      • Ted S.

        +1 Dannemora

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        -1 Tea Leoni.

    • TARDis

      Classy.

      Is there a Chad somewhere getting paid to rate vulva?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Rate?

      I want Fitzgerald-worthy prose.

      • Compelled Speechless

        “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
        ― F. Scott Fitzgerald – replying to picture of snatch.

    • Hyperion

      pass

  21. Swiss Servator

    Hurrah! Got the property tax bill…going up $300. 17 lines there, including 8 pensions. Screw them…why am I paying property tax to pay for some other schlub’s retirement? Nobody pays for mine. Bastards.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      17 lines there

      Wait, do they break it out?

      • Swiss Servator

        Yup. Every taxing body…. X, X pension. Y, Y pension.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Every taxing body

        Wow. I just get the county property tax broken into land and improvements. I hadn’t considered multiple taxing authorities all getting in on the action.

      • Swiss Servator

        County, township, township ROADZ district, city, school district, forest preserve district, community College district, library district, and all their pensions, then the water reclamation district.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My business real estate gets hit with a “stormwater management fee” that started off pretty small a couple of decades ago, but now exceeds the property taxes.

        The localities like it because it’s easier for them to stick it to businesses than homeowners. There’s less chance of getting run out of office for it.

      • Rat on a train

        At least Virginia doesn’t have a rain tax like Maryland.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I got hit with the stormwater management fee in Norfolk as part of the water bill. It’s been a long time, but I recall it being quite a bit higher than the water usage part.

        It’s nice being on well water now.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If I’m not mistaken, that’s the HRSD fee which I pay as well. You pay to get the water, you pay to get rid of it.

        The SMF is based on plot acreage.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m pretty sure it was stormwater fee. Here’s what I found on Norfolk’s website:

        Owners of developed land, both residential and non-residential, are applied a monthly stormwater fee based on an Equivalent Residential Unit (ERU). Fees cover services costs for the collection, treatment and discharge of stormwater runoff.

        It looks like the residential stormwater fee is capped at a flat fee per residence, but nonresidential is based on plot acreage. I recall though being charged more during the summer rainstorms, so I’m not sure if the flat fee is a new thing.

      • Rat on a train

        Only the water is metered so you pay to get the water and you pay again even if you don’t get rid of the water.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Though we did the pay the HRSD fee too. Maybe that’s what I’m thinking was higher than the actual water usage fee. But there is the stormwater one too. No matter how you slice it, it’s way too many fees.

      • db

        At our old house, we got hit with a stormwater management fee because a new development was built up the hill from us and they needed to upgrade the storm sewers. Of which there are none on that street, because there is a stream adjacent to it and all the runoff flows directly to the creek.

        So, build a new development of shitbox cookie cutter homes, go cheap on the storm sewer system, and then put everyone else in the area on the hook for upgrading the existing system to meet your needs. That reeks of the “planning commission” getting a hand-job from the developer.

      • Rat on a train

        The SOP here is developers offering commercial property in lieu of cash for improvements. They say the taxes from the commercial property will be greater than cash proffers. Of course there is no enforcement of the commercial development and a glut of commercial property even if there were. So improvements are slow and paid for by everyone.

      • MikeS

        That’s fucking ridiculous. Get out of Illinois.

      • Rat on a train

        Virginia prefers to obfuscate who gets your money.

      • Compelled Speechless

        That makes them unique to which government exactly?

    • The Other Kevin

      My increase is on the way. Just got a new assessment in the mail, and my house’s value is $50k more.

      • TARDis

        $50k more

        Blue state? In a year? We got cash rich assholes rolling in and driving up ‘values’ $15K-30K per month now. I always expected to get taxed out of my house, just not this soon. The word, for what little it’s worth, is that speculators are buying up whole subdivisions long before they are built out. I guess I’m going to ride the crash out.

      • Rat on a train

        Assessment is up but the rate went down from 0.8094% to 0.7377%.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Zwak chimes in on how to while away the miles when driving (hint: it’s audio books).

    Not scary grungy hitchhikers?

    • slumbrew

      Do not pick up any dudes who look like Rutger Hauer

      • Rat on a train

        -1 tractor pull

      • rhywun

        Do not pick up anyone dudes who look like Rutger Hauer

        FTFY

      • TARDis

        It’s sad we have to be this way, but yeah, you are correct.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I spent the early afternoon doing fly-bys on houses I don’t want to buy. What fun.

    • Tulip

      When I was house hunting, I called it the parade of ugly homes.

    • Hyperion

      lol, science!

    • TARDis

      You talk like that, you’re above 0.16. But yeah, also my future.

    • Sean

      Heh.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    The impromptu meeting did little to ease concerns among Twitter staffers wary of Musk’s leadership, one worker told Reuters.

    “The PR-speak is not landing. They told us don’t leak and do a job you are proud of, but there is no clear incentive for employees to do this,” the employee said.

    No incentive to do a job you’re proud of? That guy needs to be on the “dead wood” list.

    • SDF-7

      “Personal Integrity? That’s someone’s old Acura, right?”

      • TARDis

        I must be old. I don’t understand this.

      • rhywun

        My response if I were Elon.

    • Hyperion

      “possession of an instrument of crime”

      First time I’ver heard of that one, but sounds like your typical law enforcement BS. I tried looking it up in the Consitution and I got nothing, go figure.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        instrument of crime

        My second album

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Somebody must have heard me practicing on the recorder in 3rd grade.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    UPDATE: I have been reminded… The Comments are all yours.

    your input is not completely unappreciated.

    • Swiss Servator

      I usually mention that at the end of my posts, but THINGS TO COME, threw me off. No time limits, OT perfectly acceptable when I do links.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    Another black guy ventures off the plantation and gets pilloried.

    Royce may be crazy, I don’t know. But it is always fun when a black guy _has_ to think certain things or he is a traitor.

    Until recently, White was known for his battle with the NBA over mental health policy. In 2013, he asked for accommodations for his generalized anxiety disorder, and the dispute essentially ended his career after he appeared in only a handful of games. Then, after the murder of George Floyd in his hometown of Minneapolis, White led several large-scale protests against police brutality. He was hailed as an emerging civil rights activist.

    Since that summer, White, 31, has publicly rebranded himself as a far-right populist. He has embraced conspiracy theories ranging from the origins of the coronavirus to the integrity of the 2020 presidential election and satanic influences in the federal government. He has appeared on Bannon’s programs at least 25 times, and he considers the former Trump strategist — who is under indictment for refusing to cooperate with the Jan. 6 Commission — a “friend, a mentor and an American hero,” he said. White has, in turn, been warmly embraced by figures on the far right, from Tim Pool to Alex Jones, who appear to find his backstory useful to their causes.

    In February, White announced that he would run as a Republican in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, a Democratic stronghold held by Rep. Ilhan Omar since 2019. In his opening campaign video, he said his “problem” with Omar was “not that she’s not an American or that she’s not from Minnesota” but that “she’s in on it; she’s a globalist.”

    The odds against White unseating Omar are overwhelming: The district hasn’t elected a Republican since 1960. But the radical shift in White’s rhetoric has left some former teammates, coaches, friends and family stumped — and saddened.

    “It’s all f—ed up,” said one former coach, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he hoped to salvage a relationship with White. “I think — I hope — he’s doing it because no one on the left is going to give him that platform that he’s getting on the right. He’s smart enough to realize the power of this platform even though deep down inside he knows that the people he’s associating with are despicable. They’ve said things about his race that are despicable. He’s not an idiot.”

    The guy actually sounds sort of Glibbish. Maybe a bit heavy on the conspiracy stuff, but he doesn’t like the cops or the Feds and thinks race hustlers are not helping.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      “conspiracy theories ranging from the origins of the coronavirus…”

      Like how it likely started in a lab?

      “to the integrity of the 2020 presidential election…”

      Do tell.

      “and satanic influences in the federal government”

      Satanic may be a little over the top, but something is certainly messed up.

    • rhywun

      They’ve said things about his race that are despicable.

      To be sure.

    • Count Potato

      “figures on the far right, from Tim Pool”

      LOL

  27. The Late P Brooks

    I called it the parade of ugly homes.

    I am narrowly focused on utility. I can live with ugly if it’s necessary(although I would prefer the ugly in question not to take the form of a “trailer house”).

    • Hyperion

      Difference between my wife and I, she just wants a pretty house. I’ll sleep on the ground for a while in exchange for more terra.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Ditto. She wants a nice house in a neighborhood. I want 50 acres of good land.

      • TARDis

        My wife wants chickens.

      • Hyperion

        Wish my wife did, I can accomodate her with all my acerage.

      • TARDis

        The county changed the law to allow it, but the HOA covenants forbid it. I told her to fight the fight and try to get it changed. She said she’d rather move. Meh. How bad do you want it?

      • Hyperion

        Move to a place like WV. Every real estate agent I have talked to there has told me the exact same thing:

        Me: HOA?

        them: Yeah, but it doesn’t matter, people here do whatever they want and there’s nothing you do, so you can just ignore that.

        I’d rather there wasn’t one, but when I see super low fees and no compliance, that is the next best thing. Haven’t seen any that don’t allow chickens anyway.

      • Hyperion

        And of course, pretty much none of the ones with aceage have those anyway.

    • Rat on a train

      Two single-wides redneck-engineered into a double-wide.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Put that on a lake and you got the best of all three worlds!

    • Tulip

      I think a chandelier in the shower affects utility. Also an added on garage, where they didn’t remove the dining room window. So, you could look at your car while you eat. I’m sure some people think that’s a bonus.

      • Rat on a train

        I have seen a “house” built as an addition to a trailer.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      The Loser’s Anthem.

  28. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda. Talk about perverse incentives. The article details how our wonderful King Walz spent $500M that he was given by the Feds.

    After the most recent legislative session, Gov. Tim Walz was given permission to decide how a chunk of that money, $500 million, would be spent to address immediate needs during the pandemic.

    Much of the funding went towards organizations working on income inequality, housing crises, a lack of access to reliable transportation, poor access to education and food insecurity, all factors which heighten the pandemic’s impacts on people experiencing systemic disparities.

    – Education: $88M
    – Higher Education: $38M
    – Minnesoda Dept of Health: $40M (+ an additional $12M for a vax incentive program).

    So basically the people who screwed the pooch in responding to the Rona have been richly rewarded by the guy who led them.

    • Count Potato

      “Much of the funding went towards organizations working on income inequality, housing crises, a lack of access to reliable transportation, poor access to education and food insecurity”

      OFFS!

      • rhywun

        Long-winded way to say “vote buying”.

    • creech

      The Boro of West Chester, PA bought a $250,000 street sweeper with some of their loot. Presumably to finally clean up all the bodies left over from Trump’s policies and
      his mishandling of COVID. The Boro is a “nuclear free community” so at least it is safe from any warmongering bringing on WWIII.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Wrecked Ford GT:

    From the police report, it’s unclear if speed played a role in the crash.

    Vehicle speed, or wheel speed?

  30. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘Important scheduling announcement’ Edition)
    #97
    Champs
    Bobarian LMD 18
    whiz 18

    Grumbletarian 20
    rhywun 20
    Scruffy Nerfherder 20
    Tulip 20
    grrizzly 22
    l0b0t 22
    Raven Nation 22
    Sean 22
    TARDis 22
    Ted S. 22
    Grummun 23
    Rat on a train 23
    SDF-7 23
    The Hyperbole 23
    Name’s BEAM, James BEAM 24
    kinnath 25
    Not Adahn 25
    trshmnstr the terrible 25
    Tundra 26
    MikeS 27
    Ozymandias 27

    Chumps
    Ghostpatzer 118

    24 players, 26.54166667 average 12/12 split on the Tundra line, 34 SSS. kinnath, Sean and I take our unprecedented no-chump streak to 20, who will be the first to stumble?. Lastly unless the nerds at the nerd store get my laptop cloned by Thursday I will be unable to update the DQR this Friday thru Monday, It’s possible I could give one of you other jerks the ability to access the database and enter the scores/post results, I’ll keep you posted.

    • Brochettaward

      I wonder what sort of dirt the Quordle Fascist has on his laptop? He seems like the sort of guy that would be into granny porn. I bet it’s granny porn and bondage.

      • TARDis

        Just using basic math, you could be a granny at 40 and a great-granny at 60. I wish my wife and I were 40.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My Wife was 39, I was 44, it turned out quite fun, and she got to enjoy them before the Time.

      • TARDis

        Like the silly song goes, I wish I knew then what I know now. Still sorry about your Time. Too bad my kids never got to know my parents.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Wendy was a grammy for 12 years so that’s something.
        Life goes on……

      • Rat on a train

        Doing basic math you could be a grandparent at 11.

      • TARDis

        I clicked on the link and tapped out. People should die for that shit.

      • Rat on a train

        Death is too good.

    • db

      8 3
      7 6

      = 24

    • kinnath

      I did not chump

      • The Hyperbole

        Right. You, Sean, and I share the current no-chump streak record at 20 games with no chumps.

    • MikeS

      I’m your Huckleberry.

  31. Evan from Evansville

    Folk around?

    Seizure yesterday had a new flavor to it. It’s the first (I remember) to involve tactile sensation. It wasn’t the fire/brimstone olfactory hallucination, but instead my entire body just felt incredibly hot. Not painful, but incredibly concerning. Stress is what is causing this. Lady, an angel, her halo deserved, was here to help me. It lasted about 10 minutes and afterwards I felt *fantastic.* It was profoundly unpleasant as it occurred. I’m gonna see if the doc will up my dosage and add more anti-anxiety meds.

    I want the fuck out. I must wear patience as armor and wield it as a weapon.

    • Ted S.

      So you’re having hot flashes.

      /ducking

      • Evan from Evansville

        Hot flashes? DUH. Women come up to me and show me their tits all the time.

        Arousal comes. And so do they.

      • Ted S.

        Two Evans were sitting on a park bench when suddenly a woman ran by and flashed her titties at them.

        One of the Evans had a stroke.

        The other one couldn’t reach that far.

      • Brochettaward

        Every women you have ever touched has been tainted for life by your fecal matter covered hands. You are a monster.

      • Evan from Evansville

        See, bro. There’s a bit of a trick. I learned it when I was 6 or so. You should do the same:

        Learn to properly wipe your ass. With improvement, you won’t get your hands covered in shit every time you do it. You’re failing at this about 2-3 times a day. That’s a profoundly negative sight and smell. It might take you a bit of practice. Monitor your progress carefully. Keep a log book. *badoom-crsh*

      • Ted S.

        Still, it would be nice to have a bidet.

      • Hyperion

        My wife wants one, lol. Spoiled brat.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Thailand has it the best. They have a hose with some pretty good velocity. It’s right there on the toilet. Just pick up, spray your ass, and then the toilet paper is just to dry up.

        Korea has the best showers. My sis-in-law, when she and bro visited, took pics and videos of the show. High pressure and a know to visually set the temperature to whatever temp (in Celsius…sigh). Shower will fuck you up with how awesome it is. I’m gonna be in it soon.

        But the Thais win with the pooper hose. It’s fucking brilliant.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Based on the incredible competence they have displayed over the past two years

    For Gates, one lesson from the Covid pandemic so far is that preemptive planning and protective measures could help the world better manage future pandemics. It’s the core concept of his upcoming book, “How to Prevent the Next Pandemic,” set to publish later this year.

    One proposal, he says, is for the World Health Organization to launch a global surveillance team, consisting of experts who can quickly spot new health threats around the world and rapidly coordinate with global governments to prevent future illnesses from growing into pandemics.

    Gates, who has labeled his proposed task force the “Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization” (GERM) initiative, told the Financial Times that the idea would require significant financial investment from WHO and its member countries in order to create a global team of experts, including epidemiologists and virologists, and give them the tools they need to proactively identify and contain future outbreaks.

    Sure, Bill.

    • Brochettaward

      I’m curious how some more bureaucrats stationed in Geneva would have been able to spot the development of covid in China any sooner than the people on the ground did.

      Maybe, and call me crazy here, but maybe they shouldn’t be funding gain of function research in shitty third world labs in the first place?

    • rhywun

      Because the WHO doesn’t already have an army of “experts” doing this? What the fuck have we been paying them for all these years?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        give them the tools they need to proactively identify and contain future outbreaks

        The current WHO “experts” are armchair academics. I’m guess the new experts will advise on tools that will include mandates, lockdowns, and curfews. The globalists have correctly identified that “public health” is their lever to exert power and control over populations.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

      I say we start with executing everyone even remotely associated with WIV. That’s guaranteed to remove a few engineered viruses from the possibilities.

    • Hyperion

      Better plan is if Bildo take a flying leap off something really tall without a parachute.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Suicide

    A body inside a barrel was found over the weekend on the the newly exposed bottom of Nevada’s Lake Mead as drought depletes one of the largest U.S. reservoirs — and officials predicted the discovery could be just the first of more grim finds.

    “I would say there is a very good chance as the water level drops that we are going to find additional human remains,” Las Vegas police Lt. Ray Spencer told KLAS-TV on Monday.

    ——-

    Personal items found inside the barrel indicated the person died more than 40 years ago in the 1980s, Spencer said.

    He declined to discuss a cause of death and declined to describe the items found, saying the investigation is ongoing.

    Police plan to reach out to experts at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to analyze when the barrel started eroding. The Clark County coroner’s office will try to determine the person’s identity.

    Boaters spotted the barrel Sunday afternoon. National Park Service rangers searched an area near the lake’s Hemenway Harbor and found the barrel containing skeletal remains.

    They can identify him by the inscription on the pinkie ring.

  34. Count Potato

    “ACLU helped draft article at heart of Depp v Heard case for $3.5m donation, court hears

    American Civil Liberties Union’s general counsel testifies that at least $500,000 came from fund connected to Elon Musk

    The ACLU helped Amber Heard draft the Washington Post article accusing Johnny Depp of abuse after the organization was promised a $3.5m donation from her divorce – though at least $500,000 of it eventually came from a fund connected to Tesla founder Elon Musk, jurors in the Depp-Heard defamation trial heard on Thursday.

    The American Civil Liberties Union’s general counsel, Terence Dougherty, testified that the organization decided to propose Heard as an ambassador for the group after Heard pledged the sizeable donation over 10 years.

    “Ms Heard spoke with such clarity and expertise on issues of gender-based violence that [ACLU representatives] decided she would be an appropriate person to ask to become an ACLU ambassador,” Dougherty testified.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/28/johnny-depp-amber-heard-libel-case-aclu

    TW: The Guardian

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LOL. What a shitshow.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Believe all women. And their checkbooks.

    • Ted S.

      What fund, and how is it related to Musk? Obviously, they’re using him as a bogey-man the way the Koch brothers used to be used, or the way people around here use Klaus Schwab and Black Rock.

      Unsurprisingly sloppy journalism from the Grauniad.

  35. l0b0t

    The History Guy had a fun episode today, about the NJ teens who used their HAM radio to keep people around the country in contact with their relations who were wintering over while building McMurdo in Antarctica during Operation: Deep Freeze 1 and 2. My maternal grandfather was there. He was loadmaster on C-47s for the USAF 152nd Troop Carrier Squadron “The Deep-Freeze Squadron”, out of Auckland, NZ. He spent most of 1956, ’57, and ’58 in Antarctica – he told me they had to wait until warmed up -50F before they could safely work outside.

    https://youtu.be/uaTm_LUifUI

    • Ownbestenemy

      Maybe unfortunate autocorrect. Elon will save us all with an edit button (before us!)

      • Hyperion

        I’m asking Elon to buy Glibs and make an edit button.

    • Hyperion

      They’re fucking retarded.

      Pedos, A-OK.

      Believers in free speech? Insurrectionists!

  36. Ownbestenemy

    Charred-chili marinade made for the chicken. Gonna grill it and toss on some tortilla for chicken taco night. Hopefully Kings show up to beat the Oilers.

  37. blackjack

    How ya’ll doing?

    Still no vax, but I am allowing them to test me once a week, on their dime and on their time. A few people have reported that their requests for exemptions have been denied, but I have no idea how true any of that is. I haven’t heard anything on my request, yet.

    Anyways, I just bought a really cool AR15. It’s a retro version of the 601. The very first version accepted by the US military. Super smooth sides and ultra simple. I like it. So I agree to meet the guy at an FFL halfway between here and Santa Barbara. We put it in gun jail for the mandatory 10 days. All of this is new to me, because the last time I transferred anything, there was none of this for long guns. I had to take a 30 question test ( which I barely made 100% on, only because they told me the ages were raised to 21 for long guns now.)

    SOOO, tomorrow would be my 10th day and I was planning on picking it up next weekend and taking my kid skating out at Camarillo skatepark. I get a call from the FFL and they told me that I was placed on “delayed” status. They said that I should call them on the thirtieth day if I don’t hear anything before then. I KNOW I have no disqualifying factors. I googled it and there’s a huge amount of people being given “delayed” status. There’s an open letter from a firearms attorney demanding that they stop unlawfully delaying people. I read the laws cited and they are only allowed to delay when there is evidence of possible prohibitions. I have none. Now, if they fail to act before the 30 days expire, then I’ll have to rush out to Camarillo and pick it up that very day or my background check will expire.

    I seem to get jacked up in every possible trap the government sets. I might just contact the law firm that wrote the demand letter and see if there’s a class action I can join and get that sweet 4 dollar check, once they settle. Welcome to my life.

    • Hyperion

      OMFG! It’s blackjack, uhhhh whhhaaaatrrrrreee uuuuu doin here? Did you get on the 5 and keep going, forever?

      • blackjack

        Nope. That would just get me to either Oregon or Mexico, both of which are (believe it or not) even worse.

      • Hyperion

        I’m not entirely sure that Mexico is worse. Cheaper for sure. Less progs for sure.

    • Rat on a train

      Since the Army is switching to a new rifle and cartridge, the AR-15 should no longer be a scary, military rifle that shouldn’t be owned by civilians, right?

      • Hyperion

        Yeah, right, just like the recent decline in temperatues mean we no long have to freak out about climate change.

  38. Hyperion

    It’s planting time. Just planted some jalapenos and more cherry maters, red, and yellow. Have a lot of orange cherries already on. Tomorrow, I might plant some cukes. So much to grow, so little time.

  39. MikeS

    test