Friday Morning Links

by | Sep 9, 2022 | Daily Links | 370 comments

It wasn’t pretty for the Rams.

The Rams got battered by the Bills in the NFL season opener. The Wimbledon women final is all set. The EPL has suspended play for the weekend (which means Liverpool can’t disappoint me for a little while). And that’s pretty much it for sports.

God save the queen. The queen is dead. God save the king, this jug-eared buffoon is gonna fuck shit up like nobody ever dreamed.

Reggie heads to Balmoral.

The fascist regime. This person will help determine, among other things, what is personal out of those 15 boxes. Since it wasn’t all even alleged to be classified.

They made you a moron. How could anybody not take precautions? This shit’s been literally all over the news for months now.

A potential H-bomb. Sounds like the guy took the lesson Qaddafi didn’t.

Those migrants dodged a bullet.

Get a load of these fuckheads. I’m sorry you’re dealing with an influx over the last month that Laredo sees in a day. I hope you manage to survive the “invasion,” you stupid assholes.

This will be interesting. I’m curious how much higher they’ll go. Also, does anybody have ARMs anymore? If so, what will happen when they see go into effect?

I wonder how “voluntary” this was. Or are we not gonna discuss that based on principals?

That’s how markets work, pal. Although I’m sure your sob story will get the local government to violate the private property rights of the owner. Or at least try to.

Oh, sweet Jesus. Are fans simply not allowed to try and razz (am I dating myself with that word?) anymore? Or are we gonna call anything we don’t like racist because there are no repercussions for false accusations anymore? This has been commonplace in high school sports since forever. And the race of the players is almost never the cause for the fans actions.

Enjoy this rocking song. They started with such promise. And then it all came crashing down. Everything after was just terrible. And I don’t even think opinions vary. Everyone knows it.

Anyway, that’s it for the links. Go have a great Friday and an even better weekend, dear friends.

 

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  1. Count Potato

    “God, this jug-eared buffoon is gonna fuck shit up like nobody ever dreamed.”

    Does he even have that much power?

    • SDF-7

      They really should have taken the opportunity to switch to cats like Mark Twain suggested.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Hadn’t seen that before.

        (Shpip, your avatar cracks me so consistently up. I hope that’s your own cat.)

    • Grummun

      He can fuck up the one thing that the monarchy is still good for. It serves (can serve, at least) as a non-political, above-the-fray, point of national pride and identity, tradition, etc, that Brits of all stripes can rally around. Charles can drag the monarchy into explicitly political, contentious issues like climate change that will place the crown in direct opposition to a large chunk of the British people.

      • ron73440

        Charles can drag the monarchy into explicitly political, contentious issues like climate change that will place the crown in direct opposition to a large chunk of the British people.

        Why not, he can help all of the governments that want us to be turned back into medieval peasants.

  2. Shpip

    Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser declared the busing of migrants to the nation’s capital a public emergency Thursday as over 9,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in the district since April.

    Asylum seekers, or economic migrants? Or are the terms interchangeable now?

    • Pine_Tree

      They’ve repeated that lie long enough that the low-intelligence crowd basically doesn’t see a distinction. Which was the whole point.

    • R C Dean

      There are lots of NGOs south of the border that train migrants in how to claim asylum, avoid deportation, etc. Under our laws, these NGOs are a criminal conspiracy. Which goes completely uninvestigated as they go about their work of colluding in millions of violations of US immigration law per year.

    • Count Potato

      That tweet is going to bomb.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The comments are a minefield.

      • SDF-7

        Nowadays they’re just keeping things laser focused so their followers don’t go ballistic anymore.

      • sloopyinca

        I just see people droning on and on.

    • SDF-7

      I don’t really want to think about QEII being a beacon.

      • Not Adahn

        I am very happy you were able to find that clip.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Makes sense within the context of the British system maybe.

  3. Stinky Wizzleteats

    North Korea and their nukes: We’ll yeah, the’s guy is not stupid.
    Wizzleteats’ Faith in Asians status: Restored.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The State Department probably views this as a win. They seem to thrive on strife.

      • Lackadaisical

        +1 bigger budget

  4. Count Potato

    “The behaviors exhibited in the video footage viewed are not in line with the values of our district.”

    At least its on video, and not just what one person claimed they heard.

    • Count Potato

      “In a Facebook post, Jennifer Gardner Price, a mother of two Black volleyball players, claimed that students cheering for the opposite team repeatedly yelled the N-word at her daughters.”

      (shit that happened) (this)

    • Count Potato

      “in response to the incident, BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe told USA TODAY Sports that the student section would be removed from behind the opponents’ bench at volleyball games for the foreseeable future and changes to their fan code of conduct would be implemented.”

      What incident?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They need to prevent the that didn’t happen from not happening or happening again. How are people getting away with all these racial epithets in a place covered by cameras and mics and surrounded by people who’d tell them to cut it out?

      • Lackadaisical

        You just don’t realize how racist and colonialist our society is, the video and audio shut off as soon as they tried to record the racists.

    • sloopyinca

      Yeah, but the likelihood it was racist is very low. They used to make “ooh-ooh” monkey noises at high school games when I played regardless the race of the played shooting free thrown or pitching or whatever. It’s because it’s an easy noise to make that’s fairly loud.

      • Not Adahn

        We had a group of Mexican students who would sit at the basket and heckle Spanish-speaking opposing players.

      • banginglc1

        I see a future in sports with no cheering or yelling, as it could be construed as hurtful or triggering. Only Jazz hands will be allowed. Maybe quiet snapping for a championship.

      • Not Adahn

        They can have holographic fans. This allows better sponsorship opportunities, boosts the self-esteem of both teams, enhances the experience for the broadcast audience and reduces technical fouls! Win-win-win-win! And covid showed that synthetic fans are completely plausible.

      • The Last American Hero

        Oh, so going back to the COVID cardboard cut outs, piped in noise, and CGI fans.

      • Nephilium

        Uptwinkles only.

      • Count Potato

        The thing is whether they made the same noises at the white players.

      • juris imprudent

        Well if they really want a silent stadium they can always go to a WNBA game.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        *golf clap*

  5. Not Adahn

    this jug-eared buffoon is gonna fuck shit up like nobody ever dreamed.

    Give him and Camilla their own wing of Buckingham Palace, toss in cocaine, sidenafil, scotch, paddles and strapons and he’ll be occupied for the rest of his life.

    • banginglc1

      I didn’t know Hunter was part of the royal family.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Find out in next week’s Joemala.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Don’t forget the tampons.

  6. rhywun

    Although I’m sure your sob story will get the local government to violate the private property rights of the owner.

    They’ve done it before.

  7. Not Adahn

    NPR was reporting that the feebs seized 11,000 pages, of which 120-something were classified and over 500 were (by their own interpretation) privileged. Isn’t this prima facie evidence that they exceeded the scope of the warrant?

    • SDF-7

      I don’t think they could exceed the scope of the warrant since it was effectively “Every document possibly produced during the Trump administration”. In a just world, that judge would be disciplined for signing off on such a ludicrously over-broad warrant… but TANJ isn’t just a Larry Niven thing anymore.

  8. Shpip

    Both incidents are reminiscent of threats and racial slurs 19-year-old Duke volleyball player Rachel Richardson was subjected to during a recent match between the Blue Devils and Brigham Young University.

    They asserted, without evidence.

    • banginglc1

      Whatever happened to just bitching back. They’re mormons. Talk about an easy target.

    • Not Adahn

      Mea culpa. I should have waited for that.

    • rhywun

      She is so fucking loathsome. Cuomo knew what he was doing when he picked that one.

    • sloopyinca

      Why do you want to kill grandma, you fascist?

      • EvilSheldon

        Have you ever met my grandma?

  9. The Late P Brooks

    If we purchased the building, we could turn it into a true collective where [the vendors] would all be part of the profits, and the store could keep everyone together,” Lenker told SFGATE by phone on Tuesday.

    But that may be impossible. Lenker said on Friday, Murphy told them they could either purchase the building at the end of their lease for $10 million — almost double what he paid for it seven years ago — or rent it out for $900,000 a year, a 200% percent increase from what they are currently paying.

    ——-

    “It’s a community gathering space,” Lenker said. “Some people come here every day. … I can’t emphasize to you enough that Stuff has a soul just like the city does.”

    You can’t put a price on that.

    Halp, Big Nanny!

    • SDF-7

      What puzzles me about that story is that the investor / landlord thinks property values have gone up in San Francisco. Maybe they’re right — but it certainly is counterintuitive given all the businesses leaving, the downtown crumbling and all. But markets often make zero sense to me, and I’m obviously not rich… so what do I know.

      • Rat on a train

        The government needs to intervene to prevent property owners from making bad decisions.

      • PieInTheSky

        I assume it is up from 7 years ago… But ii makes sense to overcharge a customer who would have a difficult time leaving

      • rhywun

        FWIW, residential rents in Manhattan are breaking all records. Despite the supposed “exodus” that the media keep going on about.

      • sloopyinca

        And they’re going to continue their rise with mortgage rates going up.

      • rhywun

        Whee!

      • Gender Traitor

        property values prices have gone up in San Francisco

        FTF…well, you know.

      • Pine_Tree

        No, he doesn’t really think it’s gone up. It’s just part of the negotiation – “Art of the Deal” and all that.

      • KSuellington

        Property values in SF have gone massively up in the last seven years. There has been a dip since the mortgage rates went up and prices are now back to levels last seen in about October 2021.

    • WTF

      It’s a community gathering space

      Well then let the community pay for it if it’s really so important to them.

      • rhywun

        Where “community” means “everyone but us”.

    • sloopyinca

      “It’s a community gathering space,” Lenker said. “Some people come here every day.

      Yeah. They’re called employees.

      • Sean

        LOL

    • Not Adahn

      I can’t emphasize to you enough that Stuff has a soul

      I was assured that stuff is completely replaceable by insurance and that’s why arson is a totes legit form of peaceful protest.

    • juris imprudent

      has a soul just like the city does

      $10 says this is another IFLS kind of person.

    • Seguin

      noting that looking for another location is also out of the question.

      I’m going to guess that’s for one of two reasons: the landlord is either giving you a market price and you can’t find anywhere else, OR you’re a stubborn whiny bitch that refuses to look and is expecting big daddy government to bust his balls for you.

  10. Brawndo

    The Queen is dead, Hoppe has a sad.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      All hail The Woke King!

  11. PieInTheSky

    I think we can blame the NHS for the queen’s untimely death

    • Rat on a train

      If only everyone was fully boosted and wore a mask.

      • Not Adahn

        She died immediately after that Tory bitch was ALONE in a room with her! Why is nobody questioning her?!?

      • Lackadaisical

        I pointed out yesterday that truss was a proponent of republicanism as well.

  12. PieInTheSky

    If i come as a turist to the US i do not get free travel by bus to visit different cities that is unfair

    • Drake

      That depends on your port of entry.

    • Rat on a train

      Don’t forget free food and accommodations.

    • SDF-7

      Hauling that coffin around is hard work, man… have to pay the bus lines for that.

    • Not Adahn

      You can totally get black sombreros with red satin lining, you know.

      • Lackadaisical

        And that’ll help keep the sun off, 2 birds, one stone.

      • WTF

        Kind of reminds me of the Battle of the Bulge. Didn’t end well for the attackers.

      • Drake

        Heh – It does seem crazy to pour more men into that gap without making it a lot bigger.

      • SDF-7

        That’s what she said….

      • Drake

        I have no idea what to think. If that 4th map is accurate, it sure looks like they are reenacting the Battle of the Bulge.

      • R C Dean

        The Bulge turned into a loss for the Germans because they had too far to go and not enough to get there. Fronts don’t move evenly back and forth across their entire length. Every successful offensive is a breakthrough that looks like, yes, a salient, a bulge in the lines. It’s the defenders who want to consolidate their front, and the attackers who want to disrupt the front.

        Can the Ukes sustain and consolidate this offensive? Is this a clever Russian trap? Who knows?

      • Swiss Servator

        Because the Russians are notably flexible, quick responding, adaptive, and just knew where the Ukes would attack!

        This 1917 is turning into 1918… ugh. The winner is the funeral home industry.

      • Not Adahn

        So, go long on trench-digging suppliers?

      • Lackadaisical

        More like 1919.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The winner is the funeral home industry.

        Don’t forget the Western politicians who laundered 40 billion dollars from American taxpayers through their graft collectors.

      • juris imprudent

        +1 Dopey Joe grin

      • Swiss Servator

        40? It is well above that now!

      • Lackadaisical

        Hard to say, looks like they have the river to their front already, so that would make the offensive a bit more stable, harder to pin them in place.

      • Seguin

        They’d already tested the HIMARs uses in Kherson for bridge interdiction. That might be the plan.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m glad to see at least that MoA is calling it a disaster for the Russian side. It gives me more confidence that their take on battles is objective. Contrast that with something like the Institute of Study of War or the MSM where victory is always around the corner for the Kiev government… just need to throw more Ukrainian slaves conscripts at the entrenched Russian artillery.

      • Fatty Bolger

        You have to wonder how bad morale is on the Russian side. It can’t be good.

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘Many of the units must also have had night vision equipment as they did not stop even after sunset. There are also reports of strong foreign elements but those are hard to verify.’

        Heh, just some military advisors.
        *USA tries to look innocent*

      • Swiss Servator

        Chechens? Syrians? Wagner Group?

  13. Brawndo

    The wife and I took our a loan from the local credit union a year ago to finish the wiring in the house. The loan officer was going over the two options: a fixed rate loan for a fixed amount, or a equity line of credit at an adjustable rate if we needed more money in the near future. She was trying to sell us on the latter, that’s what she had and rates were low so it’s great!

    I had to steer my wife away from that, I saw the writing on the wall.

    One thing that I’ll be interested to see is how/if prices fall for things like cars and homes when rates continue to climb. People don’t typically buy based on total cost, but on what monthly payment they can afford. Sellers still gotta sell, at least at a certain point, and there’s going to be much less people buying homes and cars at current prices at double current rates.

    • juris imprudent

      Imma just sit over here and snicker while I sip my coffee; bought my first property with a 14% mortgage, so ya’ll let me know when mortgage rates top that.

      • Brawndo

        That’s partly my point though. In the past rates were much higher, but it also made sense to save money, and the cost of homes were affordable in line with how much interest you were paying.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, but your house probably cost 20k, so the comparison is just silly.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The auto loan market is collapsing as we speak.

      • Brawndo

        As in nobody can afford the cars at current rates/prices?

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “We’re pretty incensed by it all,” said Lenker. “And the staff is heartbroken. They’re not doing this for fun. They’re doing this to survive. It’s going to be a big loss.”

    Lindsey Anderson, who has been employed at Stuff for the past eight years, said she is a single mom with a 12-year-old daughter and is worried about whether they would still be able to afford to live in San Francisco if the store closed.

    “It’s a tough situation, and it’s so sad to think about what this loss means for the amazing people who make up this business. A lot of people are going to be displaced,” Anderson told SFGATE during her shift on Thursday morning. “To go through COVID and then this … it’s just crazy.”

    Foochy meant well. That other guy is just an evil profiteer, out to make a buck.

    And- once again, progressives show their utter aversion to change.

  15. PieInTheSky

    A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan

    “One thing that we have learned during the pandemic is that we can dramatically change our way of life overnight – look at the way we started working from home, bought fewer things, flew and ate out less. We proved that working less was friendlier to the environment and gave people a better life. But now capitalism is trying to bring us back to a ‘normal’ way of life.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Is it really captivating them?

      • Swiss Servator

        Yes, it will make them captives.

    • Brawndo

      Yea not everyone got to work from home

    • juris imprudent

      I know the Japanese stress politeness, but they must have a way of saying entitled, pretentious asshole.

      • Brawndo

        Gaijin?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The commie morons are rearing their heads lately.

    • Sensei

      Fucking Toudai.

      Treat him the way you would any US Ivy League professor.

    • rhywun

      Never change, The Guardian.

    • ron73440

      We proved that working less was friendlier to the environment and gave people a better life.

      By what metrics?

      I despise people that think everyone has a phony baloney job like they do.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        👆👆👆

      • ron73440

        I say that as a person with a phony baloney job.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    What puzzles me about that story is that the investor / landlord thinks property values have gone up in San Francisco. Maybe they’re right — but it certainly is counterintuitive given all the businesses leaving, the downtown crumbling and all. But markets often make zero sense to me, and I’m obviously not rich… so what do I know.

    I wondered about that, too. Maybe he’s planning to find the next greater fool and bug out, and figgers it will be easier to offload the place without a bunch of hippy scrap dealers attached.

    • Brawndo

      Property values are a general guide for land lords. He can still charge whatever he wants regardless of what everyone else in “the market” is doing around him.

      • banginglc1

        Or maybe he wants them out. They may be shitty tenants. In fact, based off their bitching, they likely are.

  17. Rat on a train

    When are you enlisting Pie?

    A Romanian Navy dredger hit a drifting mine it was trying to defuse in bad weather on Thursday, but the crew of 75 were unharmed by the explosion, the defence ministry said.

    Mines began floating in the Black Sea after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, and Romanian, Bulgarian and Turkish military diving teams have been defusing those drifting in their waters.

    • ron73440

      Apparently, in his fictitious example, there is no option to allow the beer companies to grow and harvest more hops.

      Just like expanding current power generation is not an option, but we get told by the government, “They are doing everything they can”.

      • SDF-7

        Preaching to the choir here — but dang skippy sir.

      • Nephilium

        It’s also leaving out that hops are an agricultural product with fluctuations in harvest every year. There was a massive hop shortage back in 2007/2008 that hit a lot of craft brewers. Most of them had been doing spot pricing, with very few (usually very large) doing futures contracts on their hops. The harvest was so low that year that several future contracts couldn’t be filled, and entire harvests were already spoken for with contracts.

        After that, most of the mid sized breweries either got themselves future contracts, or partnered up with other regional breweries to try to smooth out bumps like that in the future. There was also a push for more hop farms to be planted.

      • PieInTheSky

        Being a nimby expert in england kristian knows producing more is not an option

  18. SDF-7

    Warmup round was a cluster frak (cluster *frak*, RaytheonTech… stop trying to sell me cluster munitions!):

    Daily Duotrigordle #191
    Guesses: X/37
    Time: 07:34.15
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Not going to include the ST:TOS computer panel, but -2 is the effective score.

    Quordle then proceeded to taunt me with my Anti-seed words… just no idea for the first three words. But fortunately they did end up eliminating enough letters that the few possibilities left became clear before I saw the borders of Chumptown.

    Daily Quordle 228
    7️⃣8️⃣
    6️⃣5️⃣
    quordle.com

    • The Hyperbole

      I thought I was going to break 4minutes, had 5 seconds to go with one word left and then total brain freeze, kicked quordle’s ass though, so that was nice.

      Daily Duotrigordle #191
      Guesses: 37/37
      Time: 04:32.73

      Daily Quordle 228
      2️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣5️⃣

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 228
      6️⃣5️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣

    • robc

      Daily Quordle 228
      5️⃣3️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 228
      4️⃣7️⃣
      5️⃣6️⃣

      Back to the line. Finally.

    • Grummun

      5 3
      7 9

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 228
      4️⃣5️⃣
      6️⃣8️⃣

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 228
      4️⃣5️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

  19. The Late P Brooks

    The Justice Department said there was absolutely no question that the classified documents the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago belonged to the U.S. government.

    “The classification markings establish on the face of the documents that they are government records, not Plaintiff’s personal records,” the government wrote. “The government’s review of those records does not raise any plausible attorney-client privilege claims because such classified records do not contain communications between Plaintiff and his private attorneys. And for several reasons, no potential assertion of executive privilege could justify restricting the Executive Branch’s review and use of the classified records at issue here.”

    Isn’t this just a bait and switch? “Because some of those papers are marked Top Secret none of them should be subject to review by a special master.”

    Isn’t the job of the special master to pre-sort the materials into piles which are and are not subject to scrutiny by the investigators?

    • juris imprudent

      The special master hasn’t had the magic fairynational security dust sprinkled on him, therefore he cannot see what is not allowed to see. And even if allowed, he doesn’t have a need to know.

      • R C Dean

        And how many FBI/DOJ types with access to the classified stuff have clearances? Hell, does the judge?

      • juris imprudent

        Hush you!

    • DrOtto

      And they’re so top secret, a special master can’t see them, yet they’ve been leak to the WaPo.

    • Not Adahn

      Prison changes a woman.

      Also, Green Mountain Coffee is pretty good. They used to serve it here before Mazzone got the concession.

      • SDF-7

        Prison changes a woman.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or hanging out with that naer do well Snoop Dogg.

      • Tres Cool

        Im going to bet he wrecked her “pink-sink”.
        That thing prolly looks like a stroke victim.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        dude….

      • EvilSheldon

        Since when? Seriously, as long as I’ve known about them, Green Mountain Coffee has been gas-station level. Did something change?

      • Count Potato

        It’s literally sold at gas stations. Although, if I remember their insulated mugs were made by Aladdin.

      • Not Adahn

        2011?

        IDK what the gas stations are doing, but the stuff that was in the coffee supply cabinets brewed up great.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      If we are judging on a curve for an 81 year old, not bad at all.

      • banginglc1

        Would. Not due to any attraction to her. Mostly just to tell my friends. And hopefully my mediocre skills are enough for her to marry me without a prenup. She has to be worth quite a but with all that insider trading and stuff.

      • Nephilium

        Well, and you would have the chance to meet Snoop Dogg.

      • banginglc1

        Threesome Fo’ Shizzle!

      • Lackadaisical

        You guys are a riot. She looks amazing for 81.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Old people have sex too. If you’re lucky some day you’ll get to experience it.

      • Count Potato

        Maybe, but no one wants to see it.

      • hayeksplosives

        LOL.

      • Nephilium

        Rule 34 disagrees.

      • Not Adahn

        Ain’t no party like a Lemon Party!

      • Tres Cool

        Thats why I warn people that Im likely a sex offender. Sex with me has to be pretty offensive.

    • Pine_Tree

      It’s a good ad. It starts with the “natural beauty” thing, and a double-entendre is one of the very best things any advertising can have. So yeah.

    • juris imprudent

      Green Mountain, Green Lumber…

  20. The Late P Brooks

    “jug-eared buffoon”

    You forgot “inbred”.

    • Rat on a train

      I’d say false.
      “http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http://
      SCHEME://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/PATH/?QUERY#FRAGMENT
      “//http:” port must be a number

      • Rat on a train

        I can’t find a good ABNF for the HTTP scheme. If it is somehow valid format it will fail DNS lookup.

  21. Count Potato

    “Residents of Portland, Oregon with physical disabilities have filed a lawsuit accusing the city of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to clear homeless encampments from city sidewalks.

    The federal class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday says that Portland has failed to keep the sidewalks accessible to people with mobility issues by allowing encampments to proliferate unchecked.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11195971/Suit-accuses-Portland-violating-ADA-allowing-homeless-camps-block-sidewalks.html

    What a shithole. Why can’t they just ban tents? There are places that don’t even allow camping on private property (not that I agree with that).

    • Not Adahn

      LET THEM FIGHT!

    • SDF-7

      I’m not usually in favor of the Lawyer Perpetual Funding Act of 1990 *cough* I mean the ADA…. but in this case, go for it. Something has to make these cretins actually provide the infrastructure they’re supposed to be managing. I would prefer it was their tax base either leaving or refusing to pay — but this will do in a pinch.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Fuck the ADA and fuck the broke dick activists using that law to force millions in unnecessary or downright unsafe “upgrades”.

        None of this will be used to clear sidewalks of bums. It will be used to justify spending far more to subsidize grifting organizations that purport to help the unhoused.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Why can’t they just ban tents?

      Thank the 9th Circus and the City of Boise for that.

    • juris imprudent

      That reminds of the conflict between the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act out that way; the sea lions were parking there asses under the Dalles Dam to scarf up the salmon trying to get up the fish ladder.

    • Lackadaisical

      Nice, retard vs cripple fight.

      • Count Potato

        Dude.

      • Lackadaisical

        That might have been a bit overboard, my bad.

  22. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Apparently the Pelosis have a streaming camera feed in their house (drunken antics and falling down the stairs ensue):
    https://youtu.be/U35XQlCyrUs

    Is this real and if “yes” what nut thought this was a good idea?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      OK, comments saying not them. Looks like I fell for Fake News.

    • Drake

      Does their nephew Gavin come over to join in the antics?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        All I know is the guy has very sturdy bones for his age.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Please be real, please be real, please be real…

  23. robc

    All previous odd numbered King Charles of England have been beheaded.

    • Rat on a train

      He could have blazed a new trail if he had gone with Phillip I. His son could be Louis I. His grandson could be Alexander I. It would make a firster proud.

      • Pine_Tree

        Well that would have been his first example of disappointing everybody as King. Phillip is way too European for a British King.

  24. Ted S.

    By the way, I think the Wimbledon final was set some time ago.

  25. Lackadaisical

    ‘The Rams got battered by the Bills in the NFL season opener’

    Woohoo 🎉🎉🎉🙌🙌🙌

    Number 1!!!!

    • rhywun

      • Lackadaisical

        Ha! I’m not ready to say anything like that yet.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Trump “does not and could not assert that he owns or has any possessory interest in classified records; that he has any right to have those government records returned to him; or that he can advance any plausible claims of attorney-client privilege as to such records that would bar the government from reviewing or using them,” DOJ wrote.

    And what about all the stuff not plainly “government property”? Likje tax files, for instance>

    Will the FBI just pledge on their honor to not pass random fascinating tidbits on to the Washington Post and New York Times?

    • Grummun

      You know any tax info has already been passed around to congressional Dems and New York prosecutors.

      • Tres Cool

        I dont get their fascination with Trump’s taxes, unless its just looking for amounts he spent thither & yon.
        With the weaponized IRS, Im sure the guy gets audited at least every quarter, and nothing makes the news.

  27. Lackadaisical

    ‘The fascist regime. This person will help determine, among other things, what is personal out of those 15 boxes. Since it wasn’t all even alleged to be classified.’

    This filling has to be to the benefit of the MSM because there is no way to make this make sense if you know the purpose of a special master. I’m sure the usual suspects are eating this literal shit right up.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      The FBI/DOJ is using a heavy media offense on this case. Just goes to show that they view the media as another tool to be used.

      • juris imprudent

        Joseph Goebbels sighs in hell.

  28. Not Adahn

    Giggity!

    Got an acknowledgement from SIG that my certificate was legit and they’ll ship my X5 Legion to my FFL.

    OTOH, it’ll cost me non-chump change in taxes. OTOH, I’ll have to spend more than that just on a holster and additional mags.

    • EvilSheldon

      Far out! Are you gonig to build it up as an Open blaster like we were talking about?

      • Not Adahn

        I was contemplating trading it in on a .40 TS2.

        However, it makes infinitely more sense to have it as a backup production gun.

        I’ll add classes once I get bored with Prod, or if I need a challenge. Just getting to B class in enough of one for me at the moment.

        Also, I can’t find it on youtube, but Magnus Krohn pulled a maneuver that I’m not entirely sure how it happened even though I was watching it.

        The end of stage 4 has a wall with a low port in it. There are three targets that have to be taken from there and three others that could. Instead of slowing down and dropping to a knee/squatting, he flung his feet forward, and landed on his butt, slamming into the wall with his feet and his gun already up. It didn’t actually help him out — he was 15th on that stage, but 11th overall for the match.

        Also also, I wonder what it must feel like to be a PCC GM and lose the overall to a CO guy.

      • EvilSheldon

        I once saw Daniel Horner do a full-on paintball slide into a rifle position at the Rocky Mountain 3-Gun. It was pretty amazing.

        And I refuse to develop empathy for PCC scum.

    • Sean

      Nice!

  29. Count Potato

    “NEW VIDEO: Revealing My INSANE Custom Gun Collection!!

    Someone said gun rights are trans rights, so I’ve collected and customized the world’s most insane arsenal!”

    https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1566893800068419584

    She shoots like a girl 🙂

    • waffles

      I hate unaimed fire. This really has something for everyone to get mad at.

      • Lackadaisical

        Those look like guns from a video game/water guns. Very arcade.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Intentional destabilization

      • ron73440

        Intentional destabilization

        it has to be intentional at this point, doesn’t it?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Yes. They’re stupid, but not that stupid.

    • Sensei

      Stupid video with a valid point.

      Guess they looked to NYS for pointers.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        What, you don’t like the sound effects?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Getting rid of cash bail may be a good thing. There have been innocent people, or people guilty of minor crimes, left to rot in jail for a long time (years in some cases) because they can’t make bail.

      Not being able to remove trespassers who refuse to leave is ridiculous.

      • EvilSheldon

        Those fire-extinguisher-sized cans of bear spray are likely to be a good investment going forward.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Rebrand it as Bum-B-Gone.

  30. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Does anyone get the feeling that Trump took some empty folders labeled top secret just because they looked cool. He would be the kind of Narcissistic asshole to do just that.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      That would be hilarious

      Just grab a sharpie and write TOPP SEKRET on a bunch of stuff.

      • Tres Cool

        Pretty sure CPRM included that (kinda) Easter egg in his last video.

  31. Gustave Lytton

    “Queen Consort”

    Fuck that dead bitch and her continuing stranglehold on not offending her memory.

    • Sensei

      Queen Comforter?

      On sale now…

    • Rat on a train

      Better status than Phillip the Prince Consort.

    • blighted_non_millenial

      Think that would be the living hanger on (Camilla).

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yes, but they won’t just call her queen and wouldn’t call her the princess of wales before that due to the dead POS.

      • Mojeaux

        the dead POS

        I am interested in hearing this opinion.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I feel the twinge of sympathy for her getting shafted into that position at an early age, however those are the breaks and she was an adult. She was whiny and attracted to popular whims like landmine bans. The perfect people’s Princess and a grade A dipshit. Should have sucked it up and kept her toys on the DL but both of them grew up in a culture of romantic marriages rather than what it was, a means for ensuring succession. And he’s a weak person.

        I doubt the “Family” actually engineering her death. If they could do that, they would have done so when before they separated. And would definitely have whacked the washed up actress by now.

      • Mojeaux

        I can’t fault any of that, though I think I have more sympathy for her getting railroaded into that when she was so young. I didn’t know my ass from a hole in the ground when I was 19. Put me with a much-older man who was seemingly courting me? Sure, I’d be stupid too.

        The look on her face here is like, the bulb started flickering on.

      • ron73440

        I forgot what a goofy looking bastard he was.

        He actually looks more normal as an old man.

      • Mojeaux

        He actually looks more normal as an old man.

        Agreed. Camilla looks presentable and “fits” him.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I’m okay with a blanket POS covering any politician who acts against their subjects having the right to self-defense while being surrounded by their own armed bodyguards. City-level, country-level, monarch figure head, tyrant, or president. Equally applicable across the board.

      • hayeksplosives

        The Firm should have just let him marry Camilla in the first place. They are clearly perfect for each other, and in fact she has made him a better man.

        Camilla’s reputational rehab over the past dozen years has been a success. She’s OK in my book, and probably the only “Royal” I’d want to share a pint with.

      • Mojeaux

        probably the only “Royal” I’d want to share a pint with.

        I wouldn’t go that far, but you are right. However, as RC Dean pointed out yesterday, Diana was to bear the heir and the spare, and Camilla couldn’t do that.

      • Tundra

        probably the only “Royal” I’d want to share a pint with.

        Philip would have been my choice. Cool guy.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Maybe once William is invested, someone will sack up and name Kate as co-colonel-in-chief of the PWRR.

      • Not Adahn

        I mean, she would always be Queen Consort, since she’s not in line to inherit. No idea who the next potential Queen Regent would be.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yep. Diana would also have been Queen Consort, had they stayed married and she’d lived to now.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Kate, if William ascended the throne as their kids are still underage.

        Yes, technically queen consort but previous British spouses were called simply queen.

      • Not Adahn

        You don’t need to make a distinction until you abandon primogeniture. And I’m sure she’ll be style “Queen Camilla” just like “Prince (not Prince Consort) Phillip.”

      • Ted S.

        Technically, isn’t every wife of the sitting King a Queen Consort?

        Queens not by marriage are called Queen Regnant, and the widow of a king is Queen Dowager.

      • DEG

        I did a little digging.

        Since the 18th century, the monarch’s spouse is the “Royal Consort”. Occasionally “Queen Consort” for females. Never “Queen” or “King”.

        As for “Princess of Wales”… that’s something else.

  32. Gustave Lytton

    I’m sure not previous ex-presidents have or had any similar documents in their possession. 🙄

  33. juris imprudent

    Uh, Wimbledon? Really sloop?

    • rhywun

      Must have queen on the brain.

      • Nephilium

        Not based on the music links.

    • Raven Nation

      And, of course, football postpones all their matches but the tennis goes on. But dumbest decision goes to English cricket. Third match between England and South Africa was supposed to start on Thursday but it got rained out. They decided to cancel today’s play as a mark of respect. BUT, they’re going to start the game tomorrow and try and get a five-day game played in three days.

      • Shpip

        try and get a five-day game played in three days

        That should be quite a test.

      • juris imprudent

        Sticky old boy, very sticky.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Don’s got my vote.

    • rhywun

      The Dems are only interested in “defundings” which cause increased crime and chaos in their own jurisdictions.

    • DEG

      I prefer Bruce Fenton because Don Bolduc seemed a bit of a warmonger over Ukraine.

      I think Bolduc will win the primary but lose in the general. The Establishment will shank him.

    • banginglc1

      Why isn’t her column just called “Questions from Cucks and men who have no balls”

      • Fatty Bolger

        At least she gave good advice for once. It’s usually awful.

  34. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    God save the king, this jug-eared buffoon is gonna fuck shit up like nobody ever dreamed.

    Not to worry – he promised.

    But he promised not to meddle in controversial affairs once sovereign, saying he would operate within “the constitutional parameters.”

    Of course, earlier in the story:

    The United Kingdom does not have a codified constitution…

    Anyway, who gives a fuck. They will continue circling the drain until the winter does them in. Too bad, it used to be a nice place.

    • Lackadaisical

      In my experience, most women don’t fall for this.

    • Mojeaux

      Her face looks … not youthful.

  35. KSuellington

    “And that’s pretty much it for sports.”

    Sloopy, did you forget something? One of the best F1 races on the calendar starts free practice today at Monica for the Italian GP. It will be interesting to see if Red Bull and Verstappen can maintain their incredible pace that they showed in the last two races, which were both great, Spa especially so. Team Ferrari has had some excellent driving and flashes of a great car, but they have been making some serious head shaking decisions. Can they pull it together for the home crowd?

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Plainly obvious

    A former FBI official said former President Donald Trump may have wanted to keep top-secret documents about a foreign power because of the astronomical price that country — or its adversaries — might pay for such information.

    Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, was asked by the MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on Wednesday why Trump would have wanted to keep top-secret documents about a foreign country’s nuclear program at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Trump had such documents at his home.

    In response, Figliuzzi posited that the high price of these documents would make them attractive assets.

    “If I were to be asked what the highest price tag or highest value might be on what kind of classified US government information, certainly among the top of my answers would be: nuclear-related information,” he said.

    Trump was just waiting for all the foreign spies to arrive, so he could hold a big auction in the grand ballroom.

    • ron73440

      Trump is obviously desperate for money with absolutely no assets to sell, of course he is going to sell these documents.

      Every time I hear these people talk: FBI, Biden staff, cabinet secretaries, or media talking heads, I always have the same thought, “These are not serious people”.

      • blighted_non_millenial

        When they spout stuff like this, I figure it’s what they, the Clintons, Obamas and Bidens are up to.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Frank Figliuzzi

      That cunt is a Mueller acolyte and never came across a show of government force that he didn’t support.

      Just read his own self-description from his speaker bio:

      Frank Figliuzzi was the “Keeper of the Code” at the FBI, charged with preserving and protecting its institutional core values and ensuring that every employee met the Bureau’s exacting standards. Drawing upon his best-seller, The FBI Way, Frank takes audiences inside the Code responsible for the Bureau’s extraordinary track record of excellence — from the training of new recruits in “The FBI Way” to the Bureau’s rigorous maintenance of its standards and values up and down the organization. Sharing the Bureau’s field-tested playbook for unlocking individual and organizational excellence with pulse-pounding examples from his career in the FBI, Figliuzzi shows audiences how to apply “The FBI Way” to improving both their individual lives and the success of any organization.

      • rhywun

        😂🤣

      • juris imprudent

        I read that as no one drank more Kool-aid than me!

    • The Other Kevin

      I hate this pattern. “IF this unproven thing turns out to be true, it could mean this completely fantastical other thing!”

      “IF it turns out Trump is an alien, it could mean he is planning an invasion of Earth!”

      So tedious.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Yeah, I’m sure countries are going to pay big money for information about their own nuclear programs. 🤡

      • juris imprudent

        But if they know what we know about what they know then everyone will know.

    • Raven Nation

      And then there’s this: “We have known for a long time that Prince Charles’ empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant.”

  37. Ozymandias

    Okay, I’ll be the guy who says I liked the second song, Sloop!
    I never got all the hype about Airplane, or Starship, or whatever Missouri aerial vehicle they were supposed to be, BUT…
    “Find Your Way Back” has one of the more iconic riffs from that early 80’s joyous explosion of fuzz-distorted guitars.
    (Billy Squier nods alongside Aldo Nova.)

    • Tres Cool

      Airplane, to some degree Jefferson Starship (not that aural miscarriage called Starship) had Grace Slick really working her pipes.
      Her voice belongs in the “female vocalist hall of fame” along side Aretha, Janis Joplin, and Elton John.

      Other nominees ?

      • ron73440

        Ann Wilson

      • Tres Cool

        Its a commie hippie sing-along, but I really like her voice.
        Kinda like Bobby Womack with Todd Rundgren.

      • Mojeaux

        Ann Wilson

      • Mojeaux

        Debbie Harry
        Stevie Nicks
        Karen Carpenter

        Wayne Newton

      • Q Continuum

        Ann Wilson

      • rhywun

        Lisa Gerrard

      • Tres Cool

        I was thinking hard-hittin’ pipes, but since you brought it up Ill throw in Fiona Apple.

      • juris imprudent

        Joni Mitchell [even without OMWC chiming in]

    • Drake

      I didn’t hate Starship until “We Built this City”.

      Used to like Ride the Tiger way back in the day.

    • Rat on a train

      Single-use? I use a lot of them more than once. They are great for cleaning the cat liter.

      • The Other Kevin

        I never just throw them away. I either save them up and recycle, or use them in place of a big trash bag.

      • Gender Traitor

        They are great for cleaning the cat lit[t]er.

        …if you can get any without holes, either from the groceries they were carrying or from manufacturing glitches. The clumping litter is too fine-textured to risk even the tiniest hole.

      • Rat on a train

        I guess the local stores provide quality bags.

      • Nephilium

        So is Giant Eagle.

        The county I’m in they already have, due to a ban that was passed a couple years back before being overridden by a state law. Entertainingly, the more expensive (leans organic heavily) local chain is still using them.

  38. Tundra

    And I don’t even think opinions vary. Everyone knows it.

    Yes.

    From the same awesome album.

    Groovy.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Aside from the value of the information, Figliuzzi noted that the files were at Mar-a-Lago, which Figliuzzi said had “some of the lowest security you can imagine,” with foreign nationals “traipsing in and out.”

    A hive of scum and villainy.

    • Rat on a train

      “some of the lowest security you can imagine,” with foreign nationals “traipsing in and out.”
      Almost like the bedrooms or cars of members of Congress.

      • The Other Kevin

        Um, isn’t the secret service in charge of security?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I think that foreign national is Melania.

      • R C Dean

        Not to mention the White House. Known foreign nationals, openly parading in and out, all day! Flaunting their foreignness!

    • Not Adahn

      with foreign nationals “traipsing in and out.”

      Like EWR, BOS, LAX, LGA…

  40. Sensei

    Supreme Court could echo photographer’s free speech victory over mandated LGBT support

    As that court wrote, “the government may not force singers or writers or photographers to articulate messages they don’t support. Because speech is categorically different under the federal Constitution, local laws must treat it differently, too.” After all, “The freedom of speech—especially for minority views—is a core premise of our democratic republic.”

    • Rat on a train

      The horror. Who will photograph my gay wedding cake?

    • Gustave Lytton

      But they can still be forced to bake a photograph, no?

  41. The Late P Brooks

    “These are not serious people”.

    Seriously deranged. They should be institutionalized as a danger to themselves and others.

    • Lackadaisical

      I would say this is definitely an undersold point about long term monogamy.

    • banginglc1

      Must be King Charles. And you people thought he would fuck everything up

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      However, Prof Christina Pagel, of University College London, criticised the move.

      “JCVI itself considered there to be a benefit to young children to be vaccinated – even if most of them had already been infected,” she said.

      Pagel seems to be very highly educated and exceedingly stupid.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Pagel

      Her research uses approaches from mathematical modelling, operational research and data sciences to help people within the health service make better decisions.

      Ah, there it is. Garbage in, garbage out.

      • ron73440

        Pagel seems to be very highly educated and exceedingly stupid

        Doesn’t that describe most “experts” these days?

      • EvilSheldon

        Scott Adams really nailed it when he said, “An expert is a person assigned to an expert’s job. No other qualifications are necessary.”

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        At least the ones who manage to get media adoration.

      • juris imprudent

        Physics, mathematical modeling… hmm, no biology, at all.

        Politicians and media quacks: SHE’S PERFECT!

    • Sensei

      Cost savings!

  42. Mojeaux

    Said it yesterday and will repeat: Charles is spineless and unwise.

    • rhywun

      He seems to be quiet lately but yeah, I remember lots of gibberish ideas coming out of his piehole a decade or two ago.

    • PieInTheSky

      He will be known in history as charles the simp

      • Mojeaux

        That’s fitting. But let me quote:

        He made me fully sensible of the virtues of his firm texture of limbs, his square shoulders, broad chest, compact hard muscles, in short a system of manliness, that might pass for no bad image of our ancient sturdy barons, whose race is now so thoroughly refined and frittered away into the more delicate and modern built frame of our pap-nerved softlings, who are as pale, as pretty, and almost as masculine as their sisters.

        —John Cleland, Fanny Hill, 1748

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      He’s a WEF stooge

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Single-use? I use a lot of them more than once. They are great for cleaning the cat liter.

    Also very handy for getting a wet paint roller off the holder.

    • Mojeaux

      *ding ding ding*

      Very much so.

    • l0b0t

      Also, they make excellent disposable container liners for my paint sprayer.

  44. Timeloose

    My dad sent this to me last night. This is the voice I hear in my head when reading Joemala.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G_mbRiEooI

    Unfortunately Lloyd Bridges seems more self aware.

    My apologies if you have already seen this.

      • Timeloose

        Agreed, the video of all of the items he got shot off and replaced is really funny.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNvcysI4zwE

        “My god man be careful, this is all Corningware”.

    • ron73440

      Hadn’t seen that in a while.

      “They’re going to claim you’re incompetent”

      “I can prove that better than he can”

    • PieInTheSky

      Heh

    • Grummun

      One of my all-time favorite movies. The bit with the five presidents at the groundbreaking cracks me up every time.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    As I recall, King Chuckles is a big time global warming crybaby. He’s as ostentatiously terrified of the big meltdown as John Kerry, isn’t he?

    • Fatty Bolger

      Wasn’t he going off about gray, er, grey goo a while back?

      • Timeloose

        I think he was referring to his mum.

  46. Not Adahn

    Illinois to close highway for politicians>/s> venomous snakes

    • Shpip

      The annual Running of the Copperheads. Big tourist attraction. Yuge.

    • EvilSheldon

      Cool!

      Sadly it’s a little far for a visit.

      • EvilSheldon

        Excellent. I suspect the friendship was rather one-sided though.

        Was he loud? I’ve heard Bullsnakes going like leaky boilers.

      • Tundra

        He was really tiny, so no. I do like how they pretend to be hardass rattlers!

    • Grummun

      nope nope nopety-fucking-nope

  47. The Late P Brooks

    The battery in my mouse appears to have died, and I have no backup. It is… inconvenient.

    • PieInTheSky

      Doe the cat still have betteries?

      • PieInTheSky

        Does, batteries

      • Rat on a train

        I never got a cat.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Rebrand it as Bum-B-Gone.

    “BUMS AWAY!”

    • PieInTheSky

      In the suburbs they wont get shot?

  49. db

    Remember how the press paid attention to and amplified every threat Kim Jong Un made against the US just a few years ago, versus relegating it all to the back page in the last year and a half?

    • PieInTheSky

      We now have bigger things to worry about

  50. Shpip

    Where is my shocked face?

    After an intensive investigation, there is no evidence to corroborate the allegation that fans used racial slurs during the BYU-Duke volleyball match on Aug. 26, Brigham Young University said Friday morning in a news release.

    Rachel Richardson is the new Crystal Mangum, though less murder-y for now.

    • Grumbletarian

      I hope every team that refuses to play against BYU out of ‘safety’ concerns has to count the games as losses on their records.

  51. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    When I escaped DC, I didn’t expect to see helicopters and fighter jets overhead for a very long time. I was wrong.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      That’s one helo and 4 fighters so far this morning

      • db

        They’ve zeroed your location! Make a break for it!

      • Fatty Bolger

        Maybe they’re practicing more to be ready to fight the brave right-wing Americans.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Sound as a dollar

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday pledged to pursue tax increases for high-earning Americans in a bid to keep U.S. finances sound, as she gave a speech in Michigan on the Biden administration’s economic policies.

    “To ensure our long-term economic stability, we must keep our public finances on sound footing,” Yellen said, in remarks at the Ford F, -0.26% Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn.

    In a nod to Democrats’ recently enacted climate-and-tax law, Yellen said: “We will build on the momentum of the Inflation Reduction Act’s corporate tax reforms to advocate for additional reforms of our tax code and the global tax system. This includes closing loopholes and returning tax rates for high earners and corporations to historical norms.”

    Fuck you, cut spending.

    • PieInTheSky

      Which part of history? Sorry herstory… are these norms from

  53. juris imprudent

    Prolly already been linked, but the Bee is spot on, again.

    “Wow, this is really ultra-sensitive, risky material! Send it to The Washington Post immediately so everyone will know how super-duper classified it is,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “Gosh, it could have been disastrous if anyone found all this before us. They might have just left all this highly classified material sitting in the closet, instead of handing it over to the press to be plastered online. Close one!”

  54. Tundra
    • Not Adahn

      There was a pic of Chuckles and Nixon floating around. The 1970’s were Charlie 3’s natural environment.

  55. grrizzly

    How could anybody not take precautions?

    What precautions? Not having sex of any kind for months? According to the official information, one can get monkeypox from cuddling naked.

    • Not Adahn

      Sharing towels too!

    • R C Dean

      Not having group sex, or sex with somebody who does, doesn’t seem unreasonable and would reduce risk considerably(?).

      • grrizzly

        We don’t know if the individual in the article engaged in group sex. The article doesn’t say. There’s a big gap in what kind of sexual behavior is likely to lead to contracting monkeypox and what guarantees no real risk of infection. With HIV it was different. If you don’t engage in unprotected receptive anal sex, you won’t get HIV. This is not the case with monkeypox. At least as it stands now.

  56. The Late P Brooks

    NYT headline:

    “Oberlin agrees to pay bakery.”

    They just decided it would be a nice thing to do. Out of the goodness of their heart. You know, as a gesture to the community.

    • Sensei

      Much as I crap over the NYT the article headline I read.

      “After a Legal Fight, Oberlin Says It Will Pay $36.59 Million to a Local Bakery”

    • Shpip

      Goddamn Swedes are up to no good again.

    • ron73440

      At this point, if they don’t give a description, that’s pretty much describing a black man.

      • Seguin

        Oh come on now, it could be any number of protected groups. Trans, illegal, etc.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Much as I crap over the NYT the article headline I read.

    To be honest, that was the google news headline I saw, attributed to NYT. For what that’s worth.