Saturday Morning Busting Out Links

by | Jun 4, 2022 | Daily Links | 206 comments

Summer came upon us in a rush,  like the end of a Peter North action sequence. The snow has given way, and we have gone from brown to lush green in just two weeks. The local Democratic Party Committee has approached WebDom about running for mayor (this, several weeks after the Republican Party Committee did the same thing). I get the feeling that the incumbent is doing a bipartisan job of alienating everyone. The college girls remaining in town have taken to wearing greatly abbreviated clothing, and at least one dirty old man heartily approves.

Birthdays today include a guy who was more libertarian than 45/46ths of our presidents; a guy with a bad case of the shakes; a guy who always had a touch of evil about him; a woman whose pussy became a Sam Kinison routine; the most influential guy in jazz unknown to the general public; a guy who got hired when Anthony Perkins was too expensive; easily the most beautiful woman in pop music history; and some crazy chick with big lips.

Which is our cue to toss out some Links for your consumption.

 

Did he have a cell phone? With a Dunkin Donuts app?

 

Why is any of this our business?

 

Team Red chooses an anti-Second Amendment drug warrior. As they will do.

 

In local news, lede gets buried. If it were my daughter, there would be a shotgun and a preacher involved.

 

She may be the absolute dumbest person in the Senate.

 

Amoral self-promotor self-promotes amorally.

 

This seems somehow like… bullshit.

 

Old Guy Music is from one of the birthday boys, an absolute classic piece with an insane lineup playing.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

206 Comments

  1. Spudalicious

    Wham, Bam! Spud in for the first comment of the day, for Li.ks of Busting Out.

    Yeah, baby! This evenings links are really going to suck.

      • Spudalicious

        Uh…that was a joke…

      • UnCivilServant

        So, the evening links will be of average quality?

      • Spudalicious

        That’s the bar I’ve set for myself.

      • DrOtto

        To be fair, given what you have to work with, it’s not your fault. The news is the news.

    • Old Man With Candy

      You’re drunk. Go home.

      • Spudalicious

        Yes I’m drunk. And I’m home. It’s a beautiful sunrise.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I like the nightlife/ I love to boogie ?

        Hey, Hillsdale ad with VDH.

      • Ted S.

        At least in the morning, he’ll be sober.

  2. Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

    Summer? What is this that you speak of? Here, in the land of Ory-gun, we are back to late winter, as the rains keep tumbling down.

    Seriously, my wife is going crazy from the lack of sunshine. I am happy as a pig in shit though!

    • Gustave Lytton

      It was over 80 on Thursday! More rain and cooler than usual but June has never been a summer month here. July, August, and September and often a thunderstorm or two in the middle. Last couple of years have been atypical.

  3. Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

    Also, the dumbest person in the senate may not be who you are thinking of.

    /bad link.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Fuck. Fixed. Thanks.

      • Fourscore

        I knew who it was without clicking, then I started thinking. Holy shit! That’s a toughie, do I get a dozen answers?

        Good intro, always interesting, entertaining and educational, OM, thanks

  4. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, Old Man!

    Old Man Music rules today. Nelson brought out the best of everyone on that recording (especially Hubbard) and that Is really something.

    “Bipartisan group calls on PA to release bullet that killed Abu Akleh”

    Oh, FFS. It wasn’t a bullet that laid him to rest.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGorIWYz-A

  5. cavalier973

    The American political struggle isn’t Republicans versus Democrats, or even conservatives versus liberals.

    It’s North versus South versus West, and always has been.

  6. Tonio

    The “dumbest person in the US Senate” link goes to the Hornell school search article.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Zwak beat you to it. Story of your life.

  7. Sean

    I didn’t choose that fuckstick.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Which brand of fuckstick do you prefer? Hitachi?

      • DEG

        I think she’d make a better Senator than the other two.

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t think any of them deserve my vote. Fucking clown show.

      • l0b0t

        I’ve quickly gone from muh sacred civic duty to vote defensively to I will not legitimize the farce by participating in it.

  8. rhywun

    Amoral self-promotor self-promotes amorally.

    That’s quite the tongue-bath.

    No mention of the scandal that’s actually far worse than Watergate, I see. I am shocked.

  9. Grosspatzer

    Marcus allegedly personally searched at least 10 female students between the ages of 13 and 16, and it was the nature of the searches and how they were handled that led to the charges, Baker said.

    Hey, someone had to search those girls. There are never any women around in a school when you need them.

    • Fourscore

      “…and how they were fondled that led to the charges…”

      • Grosspatzer

        Good catch. I hate it when someone is misquoted.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    “Watergate taught us that rule-breakers are accountable,” Dean said. “Today, rule-breakers are not being held accountable.”

    Lock her up!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Horse shit. Watergate was the exception. Rule breakers in DC are not held accountable, never have been.

  11. Spudalicious

    Oliver Nelson rocked. And what a fucking lineup.

  12. DrOtto

    The dumb senator article is a repeat of the pervy school admins article. Also, Dr. Oz, seriously? Mittens isn’t enough for us to have to endure?

    • Old Man With Candy

      And then drugs fell out of his ass.

      Actually, that may have happened.

      • DrOtto

        Prison wallet

  13. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    l’chaim !

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Dean may not be the hero America deserves but the one it needs. In the past few years, he has become a touchstone for political morality, an imperfect figure in uncertain times.

    Right.

    • Fourscore

      In other words, Dean got caught. I watched the Watergate hearings unfold on TV. 10 years later I read at least a dozen cop out biographies of most of the participants. Good times

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        And ten years after that those books were still siting on the shelves of used book stores, unloved, unwanted.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Pretty sure I read Chuck Colson’s autobiography through in full – but him and Prison Fellowship were the only ones I was interested in way back when….surprisingly brought on by reading this as a lad (I didn’t get a lot of comic books overseas).

        There were a handful of books like these and the Christian Archie books that were easy for Southern Baptists (like my relatives) to find on the shelves and mail to us.

      • LCDR_Fish

        That was a traditional Marvel one – but yeah, there were a few others the big 2 put out like that in the before-times

  15. Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

    Speaking of music with strong ensemble casts, Joe Henry had an album – Scar – that had an intense set of musicians on it: Marc Ribot, Meshell Ndegeocello, Brian Blades, Brad Mehldau, and, of course, Ornette Coleman.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaoDLcqo9I

  16. DrOtto

    To make schools safer, we could clump students together in small groups or “cells”. Then we could house them in cell blocks. Maybe have guards roaming these cell blocks. That’ll keep them safe.

    • Ted S.

      I would suggest concentrating them in camps where only responsible, government-vetted adults would look after them.

    • DEG

      I thought public schools already were prisons?

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Federal programs intended to keep schools secure, such as the Student, Teachers and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act which provided more than $125 million in grants to schools, are in place across the country.

    Mission accomplished.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      ?

    • juris imprudent

      Criminals and crazies are always really impressed with clever Congressional acronyms.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    “Can we understand political behavior by looking solely at the brain? The answer is a fairly resounding ‘yes,’” says study co-author Skyler Cranmer, the Phillips and Henry Professor of Political Science at Ohio State, in a university release. “The results suggest that the biological and neurological roots of political behavior run much deeper than we previously thought.”

    Progressivism is a disease?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    But did he get their pronouns right?

  20. Count Potato

    Give every child a .22 revolver.

    • DEG

      I’m thinking the cops shot some of the kids.

      I’ve seen that speculation elsewhere. I think it’s true.

    • juris imprudent

      Reavers dude – this is how you get reavers.

    • Cannoli

      “The professor added: We don’t understand this system as well as we thought we did.”

      We seem to be seeing a lot of that from The SCIENCE.

      • slumbrew

        Seeing it a lot but it’s refreshing to actually hear it said by a scientist.

    • The Hyperbole

      The scientists shared images of the genetically modified hamsters going at it in their cages

      Very misleading caption.

    • DEG

      What could possibly go wrong?

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I know some educational drag; it’s called Monty Python.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    A sky black with vultures

    A Uvalde, Texas, educator has filed a court petition to investigate the gun manufacturer whose AR 15-style rifle was used in the May 24 mass shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

    ——-

    The confusion added to the trauma that Marin, who was not physically harmed in the shooting, has endured, Flanary said.

    “She is not well psychologically. She is a wreck,” he said. “She’s been to her doctor and she’s continuing to receive treatment. It’s going to be a long road ahead, as it is for so many other people.”

    Her filing appears to be the first court action in the massacre. It is not officially a lawsuit, but rather a pre-suit petition that seeks to determine if the gunmaker can be sued for how it markets its weapons. The state of Texas gives parties broad power to investigate potential claims prior to the filing of a lawsuit under a unique provision called Rule 202.

    It will take years and years and millions and millions of dollars to soothe these unharmed people.

    Someone must pay.

    • juris imprudent

      Muh holy victimhood!

    • Brawndo

      It’s amazing what gets standing and what doesnt get standing in this country.

    • Sean

      🙄

    • Gustave Lytton

      And who exactly is bankrolling this fishing expedition? Surely just this educator that is so overcome with grief and confusion that they’re intimately familiar with judicial procedures and marched right into the clerk’s office to file paperwork. I know I feel like looking up legal procedures and filling out forms when I’m upset.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “Everybody knows that school shootings are happening. It’s an epidemic. So we want to know, what are they doing to change their marketing practices?” Flanary said.

    Specifically, he added, when it comes to the Uvalde gunman, “we’re trying to investigate, did they market to this person? Did they do something that caused him to want to buy the gun, when he just shouldn’t have? And that’s what we’re really concerned about.”

    The filing bears similarities to the landmark $73 million settlement obtained in February by relatives of some of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

    If only there were a way to hang this around Trump’s neck.

    • Negroni Please

      I bet pfizer could make a vaccine for this epidemic. Just ask em

    • EvilSheldon

      “Did they do something that caused him to want to buy the gun, when he just shouldn’t have?”

      Does this guy even listen to himself?

    • Gustave Lytton

      The Sandy Hook settlement will be seen as a complete mistake in years to come. Understand why they’d do it but that won’t stop the gungrabbers. And fuck those weasels who somehow were able to sue Alex Jones for expressing protected speech.

  23. trshmnstr the terrible

    Rough

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  24. The Late P Brooks

    Please stand by, as we fine tune the messaging

    President Joe Biden’s planned visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel later this month have been postponed until July, several officials told NBC News on Friday.

    The White House is now planning a broader trip to the Middle East next month, sources said.

    ——-

    Biden’s plans to visit Saudi Arabia came under swift scrutiny given the country’s human rights record and the president’s own past comments about the oil-rich country. On the campaign trail, Biden promised to treat as a “pariah” following the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. The CIA concluded in 2018 that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, had ordered Khashoggi’s killing. The crown prince has denied any personal involvement in his death.

    A group of relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks wrote to Biden this week saying that if he travels to the kingdom, he must raise issues of “accountability” over alleged ties between some of the 9/11 hijackers and Saudi officials.

    We need to make sure we have the hierarchy of grievances squared away.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Dumb…

      Trump was an idiot, but he had the brains to let folks work on the basic diplomacy issues – and now we have actual relations between Israel and the gulf states – including SA. Didn’t even require giving anything up (compared to Clancy’s “Sum of All Fears” – which obviously was pre-Intifada 1 & 2).

    • Gustave Lytton

      Trying to figure out how the Putin unpersoning & Russian pariahing won’t be seen by any other national leaders as foreshadowing.

  25. whiz

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    BTW, Trashy, I found the complete wordle list, and did my frequency analysis on it. The main change was that there was a lack of plurals, so S is much less likely to be in the 5th position, and it prefers the 1st position. Therefore LOINS is not quite as good as before (but still not bad). Also, CRATE is better than CARET, so CRATE/LOINS/DUMPY is overall pretty strong, but I found another combo that has the best direct hits and pretty good on overall hits, SLATE/CRONY/HUMID. I’ll be trying it out; so far I’ve gotten two 18’s with it.

    • Cannoli

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      I’ve been using DARES/TONIC/LUMPY. I’ll be curious to give SLATE/CRONY/HUMID a try.

      • Ted S.

        I use RATED and SONIC and go from there.

      • Negroni Please

        Steam, churn, and doily get you all vowels and all high frequency consonants.

      • l0b0t

        I like what y’all have been using. I’ve been using FRUIT and BEACH, sometimes AUDIO or RAYON.

      • SDF-7

        I’ll probably just keep using DEATH/MUSIC because it amuses me. Not like I don’t suck anyway.

    • Sean

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    • Grumbletarian

      I have been starting with SNARE and PILOT lately.

    • The Hyperbole

      I’m tempted to change up my seed words but I just know the day I do my old words will be the answer.

      • MikeS

        I need access to this week’s spreadsheet. Pitter patter.

      • The Hyperbole

        On it.

        *note to self – Find competent help*

      • MikeS

        I don’t get paid enough to do this shit.

      • The Hyperbole

        I’m too old for this shit.

    • JG43

      I use ALIVE and TRUMP

    • Grummun

      5 6
      3 7

      I’ve been using JUICE and OVARY, hits all the vowels plus Y. However, I’m consistently mid-20s, so maybe I should be picking up more consonants early.

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  26. Count Potato

    “The end of Korean BBQ in L.A.? What the gas stove ban means for your fave restaurants

    “The tabletop gas grill is an important part of our Korean food culture,” said Ryan Park, general manager of Park’s BBQ. “It’s connected to the taste of the food and how we grill the meat.”

    All that may change by 2023 — at least in new Los Angeles buildings. The L.A. City Council last week passed a motion that would ban most gas appliances in new residential and commercial construction in the city, citing an effort to combat climate change.”

    https://archive.ph/1nRQk#selection-1949.171-1969.1

    I’ve never seen a restaurant that used an electric stove.

    • slumbrew

      Some restaurants have gone to induction, but it’s not common.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Effort in one hand…

    • rhywun

      At least Angelenos will have the satisfaction of having healed the earth while they’re asking for more porridge, please.

      • juris imprudent

        Until the power goes out because of those high-demand electric appliances.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Beyond stupid, it’s willful self-annihilation

    • KSuellington

      Well, at least we know that the electricity in California is always delivered reliably, especially in the summer. It will likely be even more reliable when we switch over millions and millions of vehicles to the electric grid.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Something tells me there is going to be a lot of… exceptions… to that rule. Depending, of course, on political donations or somesuch.

      • KSuellington

        At this point I’d say the environmental lobby is probably the most destructive (and successful) of the bunch. If they get their way our way of life is going to be a fond remembrance in another decade or so.

  27. The Other Kevin

    Hockey in Minnesota is ok but not as fun as usual. In two games we out scored our opponents 17-1. We’re actively trying not to score goals at this point. We’re for sure in the wrong division.

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      That’s a shot across the bow.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    She left him for another woman?

    Two college students were shot to death Thursday evening in a church parking lot in Ames, Iowa, police said, before the shooter fatally turned his gun on himself.

    The shooting at the Cornerstone Church was the result of a “domestic situation” between the shooter, a 33-year-old man from the city of Boone, and one of the women, said Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald at a news conference Friday.

    Both women, ages 22 and 21, were students at nearby Iowa State University, he said.

    They’re going to have to tear the church down and turn it into a transgender theme park. It’s the only way to honor the victims properly.

  29. Grosspatzer

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  30. The Late P Brooks

    In Iowa, authorities got a call of shots fired in the parking lot at 6:51 p.m., they said.

    The shooter arrived in a pickup truck “and the chaos began,” Fitzgerald said.

    How long, O Lord, until we are spared from the curse of pickup trucks?

  31. juris imprudent

    Now THAT is an amusing thought.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Youtube’s all seeing, all knowing algorithm has begun serving up to me videos from a smarmy, odious little douchebag whose channel is called “Not Just Bikes”. He’s a self-anointed urban planning expert who oozes disdain and revulsion for America and its evil “car culture”. We should all be living in three story 900 square foot row houses like those enlightened Amsterdammers, and carting our groceries around on streetcars in reusable macrame carriers.

    America should be carpetbombed.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      I’ve lived like that, briefly and voluntarily.

      • rhywun

        I still do, but I am single. Whatever floats one’s boat.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I know you do, and I still sort of do. Being able to walk to places is nice.

    • Ted S.

      Yeah; that’ll work for my dad and his broken hip.

      In a bit of good news, my sister and her husband came up from Texas and I found out they had mostly the same views on the idiocy of the corona panic. For both my BIL and me, visiting Dad at the rehab place was the first time we’d gotten tested. Nice to know I’m not alone.

    • juris imprudent

      Dude is Dutch-Canadian, so what can you expect?

    • Gustave Lytton

      *cue links to the Strong Towns leftist bullshit*

  33. DEG

    My alarm went off this morning. Instead of getting up and going to the gym, I shut the alarm off and went back to sleep.

    Oh well.

    Authorities have not said how Arredondo was communicating with other law enforcement officials at the scene, including the more than a dozen officers who were at one point waiting outside the classroom where the gunman was holed up.

    Semaphore flags? Carrier pigeons? Chiseling messages into rock tablets?

    Doctor and television host Mehmet Oz claimed the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat on Friday after Pennsylvania Republican primary opponent David McCormick conceded that he cannot win a recount.

    Fuck. I wanted Oz to lose.

    “Can we understand political behavior by looking solely at the brain? The answer is a fairly resounding ‘yes,’” says study co-author Skyler Cranmer, the Phillips and Henry Professor of Political Science at Ohio State, in a university release. “The results suggest that the biological and neurological roots of political behavior run much deeper than we previously thought.”

    Why do I smell bullshit?

    • Ted S.

      Because it’s coming from tOSU?

    • Tulip

      I wanted to sleep in a little this morning, but dog said no. I wanted to skip my exercise class and go back to bed, but I went and I’m glad.

      • slumbrew

        The dog’s schedule will not be denied.

        We’ll be a two-dog household for 5 days next week – I am certain that will translate to me having to join my wife for the morning walks. I’m also fairly certain I will still be solo for the nighttime walks.

        Perhaps I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Perhaps.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Some restaurants have gone to induction, but it’s not common.

    Lasers, man. It’s the 21st century.

  35. DEG

    Old Guy Music is good.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    I’ve lived like that, briefly and voluntarily.

    Lots of people do, and happily. Unlike youtube jackass, I’m not saying people should not be allowed to live in a manner or style which they prefer, however much I personally would dislike it. I can see clear benefits, in the right circumstances.

    This guy indulges himself in egregiously ass backwards reasoning, and lays everything wrong with American cities on cars. About the only thing I think he gets right is opposition to single use zoning, and even that, in his fevered imagination, is solely the fault of the automobile.

    • rhywun

      Zoning is the root of all evil. Remove it and let people sort themselves out.

      • Sean

        That’s bad for the bribery industry.

      • juris imprudent

        Won’t someone think of the govt grifters!?!

  37. l0b0t

    Oh, FFS! The only hero to come out Watergate was G. Gordon Liddy; never snitched, never betrayed his president, did his time like a man, then went on to a great guest appearance on Miami Vice.

    IMO, the best thing Rush Limbaugh ever did was playing a snippet of My Boy Lollipop as a musical stinger every time Lindsey Graham’s name was uttered on his show.

    OMWC – today’s music is perfect for this lazy, slightly hungover morning, thanks.

  38. Q Continuum

    Silicone Saturday proving once again that tits may not be the only things, but they are the most important things.

    https://archive.ph/VjrkR

  39. Tres Cool

    “Gutierrez said Friday that a Texas Department of Public Safety official told him that the Uvalde-area district attorney, Christina Mitchell Busbee, a REPUBLICAN, had directed the agency to not release more information about the shooting investigation to the senator or the public.”

    Well thats important to the story.

  40. hayeksplosives

    Reaction to links: What a screwy world we live in. Seriously, no radio for the cop? Also, I still don’t understand what “school district police” means.

    I’m gonna go to the Saturday swap meet at the VFW and stock up on some ammo. Need some cheap 9mm for practice, some .22 for the rifle and plinker gun. Wouldn’t hurt to get more 38 either.

    • juris imprudent

      Yes, can someone from Texas please explain what insanity led to school districts having their own police departments?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Not since Jesus was a dinosaur wrangler

    The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone—more than 50% higher than pre-industrial times—and is at levels not seen since millions of years ago when Earth was a hothouse ocean-inundated planet, federal scientists announced Friday.

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its long-time monitoring station at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, averaged 421 parts per million of carbon dioxide for the month of May, which is when the crucial greenhouse gas hits its yearly high. Before the industrial revolution in the late 19th century carbon dioxide levels were at 280 parts per million, scientists said, so humans have significantly changed the atmosphere. Some activists and scientists want a level of 350 parts per million. Industrial carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of coal, oil and gas.

    Levels of the gas continue to rise, when they need to be falling, scientists say. This year’s carbon dioxide level is nearly 1.9 ppm more than a year ago, a slightly bigger jump than from May 2020 to May 2021.

    “The world is trying to reduce emissions, and you just don’t see it. In other words, if you’re measuring the atmosphere, you’re not seeing anything happening right now in terms of change,” said NOAA climate scientist Pieter Tans, who tracks global greenhouse gas emissions for the agency.

    We’re all gonna die.

    • JG43

      I read that as feral scientists. Probably works better.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They never acknowledge that high CO2 levels may have been a product of warm temperatures and not the cause.

      • l0b0t

        Also never mentioned – CO2 is plant food.

    • juris imprudent

      Before the industrial revolution in the late 19th century carbon dioxide levels were at 280 parts per million

      Measured where and when?

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  43. The Late P Brooks

    Journalisming formulations which incense me, number 17,604

    Musk’s email comes at a time when stock markets have tumbled this year over fears the U.S. economy is headed to a recession as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates aggressively to fight high inflation.

    Inflation is not economically destructive, only the attempts to stop it. We should just make semiannual cost of living wage hikes mandatory. That will fix it. Party on!

  44. The Late P Brooks


    Other CEOs have recently expressed concerns about the economy, with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon this week predicting an economic hurricane.

    “Right now it’s kind of sunny, things are doing fine. Everyone thinks the Fed can handle this,” Dimon said at an investment conference. “That hurricane is right out there down the road coming our way.”

    They’re rooting for Middle Class Joe to fail, because they hate America.

    • Raven Nation

      “ Everyone thinks the Fed can handle this,”

      Who are the fools who think this?

    • Grummun

      I was thinking the preacher was for the burial service.

  45. R.J.

    Somewhere in my game collection, I have “Dr. Ruth’s Game of Good Sex.” It was a game that quizzes you on scientific topics related to sex, kind of like Trivial Pursuit but with sex science questions. Needless to say Q would bo doubt be the consistent winner should that game be played.

    https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7348/dr-ruths-game-good-sex

    • juris imprudent

      Are you kidding? His every answer would be boob.

    • creech

      Was it suitable for 3rd graders???

  46. Trigger Hippie

    Broke a rib yesterday.

    This is… unpleasant.

    • Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

    • l0b0t

      Ouch! That sucks, I’m sorry.

    • MikeS

      Oh fuck. Sorry, man.

    • Old Man With Candy

      The best is the photo where you can see a black chunk caught between her front teeth.

      • slumbrew

        Rayciist!

    • creech

      Light the John signal.

  47. Grummun

    called for retired and former military members to step up to enhance security in schools

    Is that the stupidest thing ever? Clearly the special duty police are not doing any good, either as deterrent or on-scene response. I have to think the kind of officers that are going into those positions are more sedentary than average. The one example I have seen in person was overweight, clearly never left his chair in the school office, and spent all day chatting up the secretaries.

    If you’re going to post someone in the school to mitigate the risk of mass murder, would not someone who has faced live fire be a better choice? And getting rid of the cop removes law enforcement from school discipline, which, on the whole, is probably better.

    Standard libertarian disclaimer, shouldn’t be public schools, etc.

    • l0b0t

      Thinks back to all the drunken, pervy junior NCOs I’ve known… thinks back to own career as a drunken, pervy junior NCO… Looks askance at the scheme. 😉

      • Gustave Lytton

        Thinks about all the recruiters caught boning recruits..

    • EvilSheldon

      It’s easy to forget (thanks to the 24-hour news cycle and the internet) that spree killings are very rare, and school shootings are rarer still. A tiny real risk means that any real security and response measures will wither away on the vine, for lack of funding and sustainment practice. Competent armed security will be moved to areas of actual danger and replaced with fuckups, security doors start getting propped open for convenience, employee training goes from quarterly to annually to, “Fuck it, whenever…” Entropy always wins, unless you have someone with the authority to defeat it.

    • slumbrew

      I like how, simultaneously, all teachers are heroes and, also, can’t be trusted to carry in schools if they so choose.

      Instead, we should have some volunteers just hang out instead.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or conflating anything allowed must be mandatory.

      • slumbrew

        “Oh, so you’re just going to make every teacher carry a gun?!”

      • Gustave Lytton

        Somehow a profession so far up in its ass with licensing and yearly continuing education can’t envision becoming proficient with firearms and requiring reoccurring demonstration of that proficiency.

  48. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Clearly the special duty police are not doing any good, either as deterrent or on-scene response. I have to think the kind of officers that are going into those positions are more sedentary than average. The one example I have seen in person was overweight, clearly never left his chair in the school office, and spent all day chatting up the secretaries.

    We had at least one full time LEO in my high school in addition to many security guards. The LEO wasn’t there for deterrence, he was there for arrests. They would randomly fly into classrooms, have everyone stand up immediately with their hands out of pockets and of sight, and then begin searching every student and backpack. They would close off sections of the hallway and search every locker. And they would randomly set up checkpoints to search anyone out of class walking the halls, even if you had a signed hall pass.

    I think Otto’s description of cells, cellblocks, and roaming guards was meant facetiously, but that’s already a fairly apt description of many public schools including my own.

    • Gustave Lytton

      That must have made civics class and teaching about warrantless searches and limited government powers a real hoot.

    • Tundra

      Christ. Ours had a smoking area for students and we often went out for lunch.

      We’ve really lost our way – but it sure appears to be an effective way to create timid, compliant kids.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        My freshman year, we couldn’t go off campus for lunch but were allowed to eat outside. My friends and I spent pretty much every day possible outside getting some sunshine and enjoying being out of the building.

        Senior year brought a new principle who ran the school like a warden. No more eating outside. Everyone must eat inside the cafeteria. There was also to be no standing in the cafeteria… you got your seat and sat until being allowed to stand when lunch was over. This was enforced by roving security who patrolled while we ate.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        We had both the smoking area (senior gardens) and open campus for lunch. But, we also had a cop on grounds. She mostly answered questions, as this was a small college town that was tres pricey after the building moratorium.

    • creech

      Sounds about what will be coming to cities and towns all over America once the “do something about gun violence” folks realize that turning America into a police state to confiscate firearms is about the only thing left to try as there is no fairy godmother who is going to come along, wave her magic wand, and disappear all firearms.

    • slumbrew

      The hell?! That’s crazy.

      Where and when was this?

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        early aughts in Hampton Roads

    • rhywun

      That’s enraging.

      Nothing like that in my day (late eighties).

      • slumbrew

        Same; we could leave campus for lunch as seniors.

      • rhywun

        We could not. It was safer inside anyway.

      • slumbrew

        Suburban Long Island. We’d drive to the pizza place, if you had a car. Or walk to the less-good pizza place if you didn’t.

      • rhywun

        Ghetto Rochester. Didn’t bother me as a kid but I probably wouldn’t walk around there today.

    • slumbrew

      JFC.

      If you want people to stop calling you ‘groomers’, stop acting like groomers.

      • slumbrew

        FkYouTwitur
        @FkTwitur· 18h

        Oh geeze, not again, I have to correct everyone. The PC term today is “Minor Attracted Paedophiles”

        😀

      • Ownbestenemy

        I believe correct term is kid fuckers

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      I would laugh my ass of if some kid got on that stage and pointed to everyone there and said “you are a bunch of perverts, groomers, and pedo’s”

  49. Count Potato

    “3-Day Recap!
    – 131 lbs. of Fentanyl
    – 26 lbs. of Heroin
    – 13 lbs. of Meth
    – 22 Water Rescues
    – 18 Large Groups, totaling 2,446 migrants
    – 10 Sex Offenders
    – 3 Gang Members
    – 1 Assassination Suspect
    – 1 Fugitive Wanted for Murder
    – 3 Agents Assaulted

    Extremely Proud!”

    https://twitter.com/USBPChief/status/1530215808567214083

    131 lbs. of fentanyl?

    • slumbrew

      “– 1 Assassination Suspect”

      ¿que?

      • LCDR_Fish

        Probably name hit match for suspect in Mexico or elsewhere.

    • l0b0t

      Jeepers! Are they including the weight of whatever the fentanyl was being concealed inside?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Recap of their recent team building retreat?

    • KSuellington

      That 131 pounds of fentanyl is probably accurate. It is currently selling in pill form in the Tenderloin in SF for 5 bucks a pill. I’m not sure of the dosage, they are the blue pills. Heroin is much harder to find there now, it is mostly fentanyl, oxy and meth from my observations. You can’t get a fucking Happy Meal for 5 bucks right now, but you can certainly get high as fuck.

      • slumbrew

        that’s about enough for 150 million 400 mcg pills, if my math is right. Which seems like a lot.

        Not 100% pure, I guess?

      • KSuellington

        Yeah, I’d imagine each pill would be mostly filler, fentanyl is highly potent.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        And two months ago a friend of mine from high school OD’d and died down there in the Tenderloin.

        It is fucking sad, that whole thing.

      • KSuellington

        Sorry to hear Zwak. North of 100k others as well last year. My youngest brother was one of them two years back. The virus panic just pushed those high numbers even higher. Just a terrible situation. I’m working in the TL once a week usually. It’s always been bad there, but it is way worse now. Just a collection of human misery.

  50. Ted S.

    Iga! Iga!

  51. Gustave Lytton

    I wonder, at this point does the FBI and associated government tendrils have more or less UC than the Stasi did, on both an absolute and per capita basis?

  52. robc

    Final Schadenfreude update: my last day at previous job was one year ago today. Stock closed at $42 and change.

    Friday it closed at $3.32.

    New company is private but is growing over 20% in revenue yoy. And was a billion dollar revenue company in 2021.

  53. one true athena

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