Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – RETVRN

by | Jun 1, 2022 | Daily Links | 245 comments

Biden keeps repeating false Second Amendment claim, despite repeated fact checks

President Biden has revived a pro-gun control talking point in the wake of the Uvalde mass school shooting that has been repeatedly debunked throughout the years.

Biden told reporters on Memorial Day that the Second Amendment didn’t allow for the ownership of cannons when it was adopted as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791.

“The Second Amendment was never absolute,” he said Monday, according to a White House transcript. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”

Biden has repeated the claim at least five times during his presidency, despite it earning him “Four Pinocchios” from the Washington Post in 2021 and a “False” label from Politifact on three separate occasions dating back to May 2020.

Biden made the claim again just last week after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.

“The Second Amendment is not absolute,” he said during a signing of his police reform executive order. “When it was passed, you couldn’t own a — you couldn’t own a cannon, you couldn’t own certain kinds of weapons. It’s just — there’s always been limitations.”

“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own,” he said in June 2021, White House transcripts show. “You couldn’t buy a cannon.”

The Second Amendment as it is written does not limit who can “keep and bear arms” or what kind of arms people can keep and bear.

Federal gun regulation didn’t come until 1934, decades after the Second Amendment was introduced, according to Politifact.

Listen here, fat. I was the highest rated Constitutional Scholar in the Naval Academy when, when, when the 2nd Admendment was written in to the thing with, you know, those pens that have whatdoyacall it, a feather on the end of it. You don’t tell me what they wrote with, I know what the wrote with. What? Did you think it was a ball point pen?!? Let’s arm rassle if I don’t believe you!


 

Woman bites her sister’s eye off in drunken fight, police say

A woman bit her sister’s eye while in a drunken argument on Friday night.

According to arresting documents, 26-year-old Ashleigh Mason was intoxicated when she and her sister got into a fight while in a car.

Mason grabbed her sister’s hair, pulled her in, and bit her left eye, causing part of the eye to be ripped out.

Police said that Mason fled about a block and hid in a yard.

Mason was “extremely intoxicated” and screaming loud enough for neighbors to hear when they found her.

She had two bottles of vodka and a can of White Claw.

According to paramedics, the sister’s eye would need to be worked on by a plastic surgeon. Police believe the tear duct was ripped out but couldn’t tell because of the blood.

When will we finally have a serious national conversation about common sense White Claw control?


 


Woman who is sexually attracted to planes wants to marry toy Boeing

A woman in love with a plane insists her desire is not a flight of fancy.

Sarah Rodo, 23, even refers to the Boeing 737 as her boyfriend.

She flies on the aircraft as often as possible and has 50 replica models of the plane at home.

Sarah calls the Boeing Dicki and hopes to wed one day, even though it is illegal in Germany.

The Dortmund resident identifies as an Objectum Sexual, meaning that she is sexually attracted to inanimate objects.

She said past romances with men didn’t get her flying high.

She has also been in love with a train.

Sarah said: “My plane is called Dicki.

“I love everything about him, but particularly his face, wings and engine — they’re so sexy to me.

Asked for comment, the L and B and G said “Please leave the fuck out of this.”


 

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245 Comments

  1. DEG

    A woman bit her sister’s eye while in a drunken argument on Friday night.

    Hmm.

    Not a Florida woman. Ohio?

    /checks article

    Utah?

    WOW!

    • creech

      No, Ohio woman was in Yellowstone wrassling a bison.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        As they are wont to do.

  2. Count Potato

    “Federal gun regulation didn’t come until 1934, decades after the Second Amendment was introduced, according to Politifact.”

    Decades? I guess that’s technically correct.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Technically it was also minutes after as well…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      No doubt, also dinosaurs roamed the earth decades ago.

      • Animal

        Dinosaurs still roam the earth today. There are more species of dinosaur alive today than there are species of mammals.

        We call them birds.

      • Shpip
      • rhywun

        Mmm… tastes like pterodactyl.

      • Animal

        …pterodactyl.

        Which were neither dinosaurs or birds. /pedant

      • UnCivilServant

        By your own evidence, as birds are dinosaurs, clearly anything that is not a dinosaur can’t be a bird.

      • Animal

        You are correct. It would be more accurate to say “Which were not dinosaurs,” or “Which were neither non-avian dinosaurs nor birds.”

  3. SDF-7

    I think we’d all tend to be patient with a woman with a whip. At least I would hope so.

    I don’t say it enough — so thanks to all the squirrel wranglers, not just at times like this.

    And ‘member when we didn’t celebrate the loonies like the woman for whom Boeing goes Boing? Pepperidge Farm remembers….

    (And now I have to attend Yet Another Stupid Process Meeting… just glad to see the links).

    • Ted S.

      I think we’d all tend to be patient with a woman with a whip.

      Unfortunately, the song scene from Forty Guns mentioning Barbara Stanwyck as the “woman with a whip” (sung by men taking baths in barrels!) is not on Youtube, so you just get a screencap of Stanwyck (with, I believe, Barry Sullivan) instead.

  4. UnCivilServant

    I ended up having to rope in the server administrators at our hosting company, and they said, “this is strange…”

    Not something you want to hear from your sysadmins!!

    Oh, come on, it gets some of my favorite reactions.

    /Sysadmin

    • UnCivilServant

      I am now in a bit of a sad quandry. The protein I’d intended to have for dinner tonight is too far into the questionable category. Also, they’ve torn up the street outside my house (I presume to repave it at some point in the next year or two), so I don’t want to hassle delivery persons, but I haven’t been to the grocery store this week, and I am running short of real food.

      I won’t starve, there’s food left, I’m just not enthusiastic about it. /First World Problems.

      • Count Potato

        “The protein I’d intended to have for dinner tonight is too far into the questionable category.”

        This seems to happen to you often.

      • UnCivilServant

        I get tempted by all the offerings at the butcher’s counter and expect I’ll cook through them faster than I do. Thus I forget to freeze them.

        Yes, I suck at planning food.

      • Nephilium

        I have plenty of stuff in the freezer, but I have yet to impress upon the girlfriend the importance of rotating stock. Anytime she puts anything away in the basement chest freezer, it just goes on the top. Every once in a while I spend some time to dig out some vacuum sealed roast/steaks/pork loins for dinner later in the week.

      • Count Potato

        I write dates on everything.

      • Bobarian LMD

        too far into the questionable category

        Dry aged beef is considered a delicacy! Live a little!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep we rotate from deep freezer to regular freezer to fridge. Gotta rotate.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I failed to seal and freeze 1.5 lbs of beef…..that was a $5.50 mistake.

      • Count Potato

        It’s at least $15 now.

      • rhywun

        I took a frozen package of bacon out of the freezer the other day and you could tell the package wasn’t sealed properly after I defrosted it. That was about ten bucks these days into the garbage.

        I would say FoodSaver that shit but I took a FoodSavered burger out recently and that was loose and obviously compromised too. ?

      • juris imprudent

        Yes, I suck at planning food.

        The ONLY reason I suck less at food planning is my absolute self-loathing at wasting food. Wanting to avoid that is the key to better planning.

  5. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Woman who is sexually attracted to planes wants to marry toy Boeing

    Not cool writing about one of our own.

    • Tonio

      I have to admit I was relieved when I read that it was a German national named Sarah.

      • Bobarian LMD

        And I thought KK was a little older than that.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s a narrowbody, so it wasn’t going to be Tres.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Harsh, but fair.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The new-ish avatar looks . . . rakish and high-tech.

  6. DEG

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    Thanks WebDom!

  7. Count Potato

    “I am working on building a new website (in all my spare time) that will be more stable, and crash less. Please be patient with me.”

    No problem. Your work here is much appreciated.

    • Gadfly

      Seconded.

      • Tundra

        Thirded.

      • Surly Knott

        Fourthed.

      • MikeS

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      • Sean

        +1

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

        And I eight it.

      • whiz

        NIne! (That’s the number, not German.)

  8. R.J.

    Bless you WebDom, and all you do. I have zero computer skills and cannot help. All I can do is provide snark and articles. And monetary donations, if needed.

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

      Yes, ditto. I too have no luck with the VooDoo porn box, and am suitably impressed.

    • Grummun

      And monetary donations, if needed.

      This. Seriously, if a few bucks would advance the project, I’m happy to chip in.

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

        Hey, Grummun, did you say you taught at Dickenson, or just lived in the area?

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

        Er, I mean Denison.

  9. Rebel Scum

    The Second Amendment was never absolute

    The amendments are absolute but the lying about the meaning and intention interpretation seems to vary.

    You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.

    You could do both of those things.

    limited the type of people who could own a gun

    Those people were the criminally insane and slaves. Feel free to continue with that messaging.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Joe clearly wants a cannon but Jill won’t let him have one.

      • SDF-7

        I’ll grant you that he’s got boom boom in his briefs at least.

  10. SugarFree

    The best part is that we don’t even pay WebDom!

    • MikeS

      That comment works splendidly with your avatar.

      • MikeS

        The other avatar.

  11. Drake

    The Militia of the Sea – Privateering in the American Revolution and the War of 1812

    I loved reading this kind of stuff (like Kenneth Roberts novels) when I was a kid.

  12. Pine_Tree

    Look, “off” is just the wrong word for the eye headline. Eyes are in, not on. So you don’t bite them “off”. You do whatever you do and the last word is “out”.

    That seems completely obvious to me. How can you have a headline-writing job and not know that?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I’m still trying to understand the mechanics of it all. Are her teeth pointing forward? Does she have one of those little alien heads in her mouth? How does one contort themselves to bite an eyeball?

      • hayeksplosives

        I think it wasn’t the eyeball (which is what the sensational headline implies) but the skin around her eye. They specified that the tear duct might have been “bitten off” but that’s probably more of a ripping action.

        Still….does make me wonder both how and why.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Maybe she was buck-toofed? She could eat an apple thru a picket fence?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Jacinda Ardern.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Marty Feldman looms large.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Seda-give!?!

      • rhywun

        That’s where my brain went too.

  13. Drake

    When I was in high school, was part of a group that did Revolutionary War reenactments. An friend’s grandad (and WWII Marine) owned a pretty good-sized cannon. Had a great time blasting of muskets and the cannon. He would even got to a quarry and shoot concrete filled milk jugs out of it at targets.

  14. Stinky Wizzleteats

    The cannon line: He’s full of shit but that’s irrelevant. He’s throwing red meat to his base, a vast group of people that know fuckall about guns, and it sounds good to them AND they’ll never ever seek the truth of the matter. Mission accomplished as they say.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yep and continuing to say it regardless as even the favorable media outlets screaming to stop saying it cause you’re full of shit on this one Joe.

      • Fatty Bolger

        He obviously can’t remember that he’s not supposed to say it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Ding! Ding!

    • Tonio

      It’s canon to them, alright.

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

        Indeed. It is what they mortar their walls with.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Woman who is sexually attracted to planes wants to marry toy Boeing

    Pan Am-sexual.

    • Translucent Chum

      /standing ovation

      • SDF-7

        Boooo (urns)

    • Ownbestenemy

      The bigger story is the media who cries to the Supreme Court that they should be allowed in the court rooms under the 1st Amendment are crying that independent media should not be allowed to.

    • Count Potato

      “How Johnny Depp plowed through $600m Hollywood fortune: Star spent $75m on 14 fully-staffed homes, bought 45 cars, paid $5m to blast Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes from cannon and spent $10,000-A-DAY on security

      He also spent $100,000 per month for an addiction doctor, and $300,000 per month for a full-time staff. ”

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10871351/Johnny-Depp-600m-ended-debt.html

      So you can get a cannon.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Bipolar?

      • Tonio

        Damn, I didn’t know he financed the scattering of HST’s ashes — respect.

      • Nephilium

        IIRC, they became friends during the filming of Fear and Loathing.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The depp of this trial has been incredible.

      • Fourscore

        That’s what I heard.

      • The Gunslinger

        I Heard it’s been a circus.

      • SDF-7

        Hopefully still acceptable to throw some Quordle scores out there. Not that these are anything to write home about.
        Daily Quordle 128
        3️⃣7️⃣
        8️⃣5️⃣

      • SDF-7

        Mega Threading Fail… ACTIVATE!

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

      I Heard they sunk to new Depps in this settlement.

  16. Gender Traitor

    A woman bit her sister’s eye while in a drunken argument on Friday night.

    “You have beautiful eyes,” she said, “They look delicious.

    • Tres Cool

      Ill keep an eye out for you !

      • C. Anacreon

        My father always claimed he had a friend in his youth with a glass eye, who would at times drop it into his cocktail before toasting “here’s looking at you”.

  17. Rebel Scum

    I ended up having to rope in the server administrators at our hosting company, and they said, “this is strange…”

    The Feds are on to us.

    • R.J.

      Be on the look out for men in new cargo shorts and polos…,

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

        So, Sean and EvilSheldon?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        “Hello, fellow Glibertarians . . . “

  18. trshmnstr the terrible

    I am working on building a new website (in all my spare time) that will be more stable, and crash less. Please be patient with me.

    Thanks for doing this! Reach out if you need help. There’s a wealth of talent in the glibertariat.

    I’ll align the client side stuff in Monocle to the new site once you get it deployed.

    • hayeksplosives

      I’ll add my thanks to that!

      I have noticed I haven’t gotten the “looks like you’ve already said that!” error every time I comment today…

    • Tonio

      Thanks, Trashy.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      texted Pornhub link to phone listed in his contacts as ‘Dad’

      “Dad, you should be proud of me. I’m taking care of Beau’s widow, just like you asked! “

      • MikeS

        ALOL!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      White pill: you can raise a complete fuckup and still become president?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Whiter pill: you can raise be a complete fuckup and still become president?

      • Nephilium

        Hunter 20XX?

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Bow-chicka-WOW-WOW Chicka-chicka-WOW-WOW

  19. Animal

    I am working on building a new website (in all my spare time) that will be more stable, and crash less. Please be patient with me.

    Hooray! Your efforts are deeply appreciated.

  20. Tres Cool

    | She had two bottles of vodka and a can of White Claw.

    NO LAWS WITH THE CLAWS!

    • Bobarian LMD

      White Claw — The Flakka of Wine Coolers.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Cue up the old french/italian war surplus jokes.

      “Near mint surplus Carcano, never fired, only dropped once!”

      “B1 tank, equipped with 7 reverse gears.”

      • Drake

        That stuff will be showing up on black-markets for years.

    • Swiss Servator

      The Russians can replace some their massive losses…

  21. Certified Public Asshat

    Big brain:

    Given the “What Is A Woman?” movie coming out I think it’s important to remember a conservative has never given me a good answer to that question either— Vaush ?? (@VaushV) May 31, 2022

    Obviously they default immediately to chromosomes or having a womb or whatever, but when you ask if women who have had hysterectomies or who have chromosomal abnormalities are still women they usually start blustering about exceptions.— Vaush ?? (@VaushV) May 31, 2022

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Of course, if their answer is that *most* women are XX and have wombs, that’s not inconsistent with the belief that trans women are women. I’ve had these conversations for hours, they just run in circles. Conservatives don’t know what a woman is.— Vaush ?? (@VaushV) May 31, 2022

      I’ve also never gotten an answer to how conservatives can randomly alternate between their definitions of men & women being pure biological essentialism and being faux-philosophical horseshit about the essence of gender— Vaush ?? (@VaushV) May 31, 2022

      I think that last tweet gives it away as a troll, but I could be wrong.

      • Count Potato

        His tits are bigger than Chuck Schumer’s

      • Gadfly

        Vaush is not (generally) a troll, he’s a known leftist streamer and influencer. His takes are usually sincere.

        He’s also known for an…unusual…fascination with horses, as documented by the inimitable Jinx here.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s… a bit off.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Ah, he’s a buddy of noted retard, Hasan Piker. That explains a few things.

    • Tonio

      You notice how they waltz right past chromosomes…

      • juris imprudent

        And they just fucking love science!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Can’t possibly be real

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Let’s start with what a woman isn’t. A woman doesn’t have a penis. A woman doesn’t have XY chromosomes.

      • C. Anacreon

        Well, women do have X, just no Y chromosome

  22. hayeksplosives

    Following up on the cannabis processing plant near my office and the resulting skunk smell, my boss said it’s so strong some days when he’s walking across the parking lot, he wonders if he’ll fail the next random drug test. (We work in different buildings.)

    The federal drug test guidelines say that 2nd hand exposure won’t trigger a positive test, but after 8 hours a day in my office, I dunno. I left early yesterday because I just started feeling weird in the afternoon.

    • Tres Cool

      I bet you feel fantastic.

      /heyohhhhhh!

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Hey, boss man, dude. What’s with all the deadlines and shit? You’re harshing my mellow.

    • UnCivilServant

      8:13 a.m. First, mail kept going missing, then the mailbox disappeared.

      1:15 p.m. A pile of mail for various names and addresses, along with a sheathed 10-inch long knife was found in the road.

      The mailbox turned into a knife?

      • Bobarian LMD

        It identified as a knife.

        I think that is how it works.

      • C. Anacreon

        A friend’s college fraternity had a cannon the used to blast trash around the neighborhood. They did lose their charter, though.

  23. Count Potato

    “Throughout June, the USMC takes #Pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ service members. We remain committed to fostering an environment free from discrimination, and defend the values of treating all equally, with dignity and respect.

    #PrideMonth #USMC”

    https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1531994393950953472

    Rainbow bullets?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      They literally did the meme with no awareness.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s the USMC, they have no awareness.

    • UnCivilServant

      Whatever happened to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”?

      • Bobarian LMD

        If the military had ever been serious about that policy, they would have processed some Commanders out because they were asking.

        That ain’t how it worked though. Tellers got processed.

      • hayeksplosives

        I miss “Stay out of my bedroom!”

        Now it’s: “Look into my bedroom and celebrate what goes on in there!! CELEBRATE IT!”

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        It’s also, “Get into my kitchen because gas stoves are bad. And my car because gas is bad. And make me wear a mask. And go through my finances with a fine tooth comb.”

      • hayeksplosives

        I think it’s more “WE are going to get into YOUR kitchen because gas stoves are bad. And we’ll ban YOUR gas car! Now let me get back to my corporate jet so I can lecture you on global warming and equity.”

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Tracers of Pride.

  24. Gadfly

    Federal gun regulation didn’t come until 1934, decades after the Second Amendment was introduced, according to Politifact.

    A full hundred years after this was written in Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, which was for a time the definitive dissertation on the Constitution:

    The next amendment is: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

    The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.

    A similar provision in favour of protestants (for to them it is confined) is to be found in the bill of rights of 1688, it being declared, “that the subjects, which are protestants, may have arms for their defence suitable to their condition, and as allowed by law.” But under various pretences the effect of this provision has been greatly narrowed; and it is at present in England more nominal than real, as a defensive privilege.

    The purpose was clear, and the line about indifference proved prophetic.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Indeed. So was the usurpation of power by rulers.

  25. Cannoli

    Thanks for all your work on the site WebDom!

  26. Pope Jimbo

    What a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

    We spent one day out fishing along a riverbank. We had some success catching fish, but we really caught a lot of ticks. Then we went to a BBQ only to find out the next day that two people there had tested positive for the Rona the next day.

    So now the whole family is at home in quarantine waiting for lab results to tell us if we have…….

    Corona with Lyme

    • hayeksplosives

      Groan…

      (….aktually that was pretty good)

      • Pope Jimbo

        My wife is super phobic about ticks. When the kids were small she was constantly looking them over for ticks.

        So this weekend she was not happy about all the ticks we were finding. After we were back at the house, I thought I felt a tick crawling around under my shorts and then actually found one on my leg.

        I discreetly asked my wife to accompany me to the bathroom where she gave me a once over to make sure there weren’t any more ticks climbing around on me. Everything was good, but she was nervous.

        We went back into the living room where the kids were watching some TV show. One of them asked where we had been and my wife blurted out “I was giving you dad a tick inspection!” However, with her Korean accent she didn’t enunciate the “T” in “Tick Inspection” very well and it came out “Dick Inspection” to the horror of the kids and my everlasting amusement.

        After the kids erupted in a chorus of “MOM YOU CAN’T SAY THAT!!!!” she was confused because she knew what she had said and thought her enunciation was perfect.

        There were a lot of dick inspection jokes this weekend.

      • hayeksplosives

        LOL on the dick inspection!!

        “ I thought I felt a tick crawling around under my shorts and then actually found one on my leg.”

        I hate that feeling I have a bug on me when I’ve been around them, but it’s usually my imagination.

        Lyme is no joke. Good luck!

      • db

        Let me just say that you do NOT EVER WANT the concepts of Tick Inspection and Dick Inspection to intersect.

        I may or may not have personal experience with this.

        Twice.

      • hayeksplosives

        I’ve gone through leech inspection.

    • Bobarian LMD

      BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

      BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  27. The Other Kevin

    Tomorrow morning I’m off to Minnesota to spend money on gas and play hockey. I’m ready for a break after this weekend. We moved all the gym stuff to two 10×30 storage units (not that I did that much helping). Then yesterday I talked to my mom and she ripped me a new one for this “stupid” gym idea. Sigh.

    • Tundra

      It’s great to have supportive family, isn’t it?

      Good luck in Minne!

      • The Other Kevin

        Thanks, I will score a goal in your honor.

        I can handle my family not being supportive, it’s the angry yelling phone calls I can do without. I got the same routine when I got married, adopted each of our three kids, and started playing in Chicago.

      • pistoffnick

        I hope we both score this weekend!

        Good Luck, TOK

      • The Other Kevin

        Also, we’ve already planned our meals. We’re going to that breakfast place again.

      • Tundra

        Sweet!

        I have found that being 900+ miles away from the family has done wonders for our relationships.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The further away I am from my extended family, the better I like ’em.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Hey, TOK. Drop me an email with details about your trip/games.

      I’d love to meet up if possible.

      pope AT jimbo.church

      • The Other Kevin

        Message on the way.

    • Tres Cool

      You know who else was obsessed with trains ?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Gang Bang Annie?

      • pistoffnick

        Neil Young?

      • Ted S.

        Rev. Wilbert Awdry?

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

        Winston’s mom?

      • DrOtto

        Every socialist ever.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I read that as My Baby Thinks He’s Trans. It must be due to Pride Month.

  28. R C Dean

    I am working on building a new website (in all my spare time) that will be more stable, and crash less. Please be patient with me.

    Many thanks. Take your time. I suspect the Good Fast Cheap rule applies.

    • Nephilium

      It always does.

      • rhywun

        My work is leaning alarmingly towards Fast and Cheap this year.

        “Here’s another three massive projects that have to be completed by June. Err… let’s call it September.”

        /heard last week

        Who knows… maybe we’ll actually get the resources we need and help push it toward Good.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Should be an Iron Law, actually.

  29. pistoffnick

    I ended up having to rope in the server administrators at our hosting company…

    Kinky!

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Sometimes it’s the only way you can get those waterheads to do any work.

  30. The Other Kevin

    Thanks WebDom, we really do appreciate your hard work. Take your time, we will be ok!

  31. Count Potato

    “Reporter: Why didn’t you move quicker on the baby formula shortage?

    Biden: “I don’t think anyone anticipated the impact of the shutdown of Abbott facility.”

    Reporter: “Didn’t the CEOs just tell you they understood it would have a very big impact?”

    Biden:”They did but I didn’t””

    https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1532087224342298626

    OFFS!!

    • Ownbestenemy

      SMH. It is the greatest gaslighting of the human race and collective memories and no one save a few actually care.

  32. Yusef drives a Kia

    “I am working on building a new website (in all my spare time) that will be more stable, and crash less. Please be patient with me.”
    WD, thanks for everything y’allins have done with our little safe spot, keep up the good works!

    • Count Potato

      “The AR-15 is designed to blow targets apart. Its bullets travel with such velocity that they can decapitate an adult.

      Unfortunately, this Uvalde coroner has now seen first-hand what the weapon can do to children.”

      https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1531809312502333440

      Do you feel lucky, NPR?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I’m confused. That’s not what happens when I hunt pigs with a 30-06. Is there something magical about an AR-15?

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s powered by ignorance and Liberals’ fears.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That’s just a piddly .30 caliber round. We’re talking about a 5.56 hand cannon here! That’s like 15x more!

      • Rebel Scum

        can decapitate an adult. … seen first-hand what the weapon can do to children.

        You’re wrong on everything but at least make up your mind.

        *sigh*

        I went to the comments.

        I genuinely think that seeing photographs of gunshot wounds should be a required part of the purchasing process for any firearm (along with a number of other things).

        Owning a gun is a responsibility and if you can’t deal with seeing what they can do, you shouldn’t have one.

        Now do abortion.

      • EvilSheldon

        THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I don’t have an issue with that. Everyone should know what the weapon is capable of.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I would really like the see a demonstration that a .223 or 5.56 round can do this. Myth Busters, if they weren’t useless, would be making a killing in this climate.

        By their account, shouldn’t the shooter at the Repub softball game have blown off arms and hips blown clear of the bodies?

      • EvilSheldon

        It can, if you’re using the right ammo and shoot someone in the right spot. Terminal ballistics is not the most exact of sciences.

    • Pope Jimbo

      From the replies:

      I genuinely think that seeing photographs of gunshot wounds should be a required part of the purchasing process for any firearm (along with a number of other things).

      Owning a gun is a responsibility and if you can’t deal with seeing what they can do, you shouldn’t have one.

      Bets on whether this person has posted a Ukrainian flag at some point? Maybe all the twitter warriors should be required to view the aftermath of air strikes and artillery barrages?

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

        I don’t think that will do what they think it will. “So, this caliber does this kind of damage? Now, is that with a 16″ barrel, or just a 22″?”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Why stop at firearms? Hammer wounds, floating kids in pools and slomotion clip of Bloodsport’s best fight scenes when you want to take kickboxing classes.

      • Not Adahn

        So you only want sadists and psychopaths to own guns? That’s a helluva take.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ties neatly into the ‘video games’ made them do it rehash they are bringing out.

    • DEG

      🙂

  33. The Late P Brooks

    I succumbed to a craving for ice cream, and got a “pint” of Hagen Daas, which is now 14 0z. It has been a long time, so I have no idea if this is a recent shrinkflation event.

    *I don’t really care how it’s spelled.

    • rhywun

      They’ve been shrunk for a long time. I noticed another brand (Ben & Jerry’s?) even says “Still a pint!” on the label.

      • rhywun

        I don’t know if I’ve seen them. I don’t eat a lot of ice cream, maybe a couple pints a summer.

  34. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Thank you, WebDom

  35. The Late P Brooks

    That Sanford and Son link didn’t automatically open in a new tab.

    Not complaining, just reporting. I’ll have to try to remember.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    I hunt pigs with a 30-06.

    Phrasing!

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Hey baby, wanna see my barrel? It’s long and hard and firing hot.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Adapt

    Jacob Albarado was in his barber’s chair when both men got text messages about the shooting unfolding at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last week. “There’s an active shooter. Help. Love you,” Albarado’s wife Trisha said in three messages at 11:41 a.m.

    She’s a fourth grade teacher at the school, and their daughter is a student there.

    “I asked my barber if he had a gun,” Albarado, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent, told CBS News on Wednesday. He had attended an awards ceremony at the school earlier that morning and was off duty, with his weapon at home.

    The barber did have a gun. Albarado took it, a shotgun, and they rushed to the chaotic scene. Police officers were already there, and Albarado started helping.

    “Kids are coming out the windows,” he said.

    At least a lot of the teachers and kids were smart enough to not sit on their thumbs waiting for the cavalry.

    • Ownbestenemy

      We are going to hear and see a lot of heroism and cowardice. Guess which will be vilified.

    • rhywun

      [he] undermined the integrity of the entire medical profession

      *spit-take*

    • Ownbestenemy

      So he is going to prison for smuggling the drug not selling it under false pretenses? Not that anyone will read the article beyond here.

    • Count Potato

      “Staley pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle in 26 pounds of the powder from a Chinese supplier in a barrel marked “yam extract.””

      Idiot. Why didn’t he just write prescriptions?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Cause the state was already limiting it and an effective plan was set in motion that only Pharma has the answers?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

        If he was honest with his customers, the State can go get fucked.

    • Not Adahn

      MARKETING TO CHILDREN!

      • Ted S.

        I guess you’re no longer a well-dressed rat?

      • Rebel Scum

        He’s well-strapped.

      • Not Adahn

        I haven’t started searching for my avatar. Somehow it remembers this one tho.

      • Not Adahn

        This one is so old, it’s before the Valkrie died.

      • Sean

        What if we had drag queens giving range days for kids?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Cheer it on.

  38. Sean

    They moved the liquor store! Sneaky bastards!

  39. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘Thanks Web Dom and everyone else who keeps the site humming’ Edition)
    #128
    Champ
    Not Adahn 20

    Chump
    Ted S. 119

    Chances are I missed some entries* so I’m just going bare bones today. Ted, Trashy, and Tulip all blew their No-chump streaks today, Not a good day for the T’s. In Tourney news I tied Sean, who extended his No-chump streak to 50, so we will be battling tomorrow while the rest of you get a day off.

    Note to Sean – quick solves may be the tie breaker tomorrow so playing it safe just to keep your No-chump streak alive may hurt you in the tourney. Take chances and go for that 2!

    *I will endeavor to persevere get all the scores recorded, I just may have to wait ’til I’m sober -er – ish mañana.

    • kinnath

      I had 22

      • kinnath

        Of course, I posted this before clicking through to see you had the scores.

      • The Hyperbole

        I should have said that I searched for (and got) Tourney player scores, but probably missed some non-tourney scores.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Knew this would turn into an inside/outside groups issue.

      • The Hyperbole

        Sounds like something an outsider would say.

    • Not Adahn

      I beat the Quordle-solving machine!

      *lays down hammer and dies*