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Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

406 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    South Carolina braces for Ian’s second coming

    It sure pounded Fla like a sex crazed meathead pounds his $2 ho…

    Good luck NC.

    • WTF

      There’s gotta be a STEVE SMITH joke in there somewhere.

      • Swiss Servator

        WHYCOME THERE NO HURRICANE STEVE?

      • AlexinCT

        And just like that anthropologists and rapepologists discover that a branch of the cryptid line they had long thought extinct was not at all… And the screaming, running, and crying drowned out the howling wind…

      • Lackadaisical

        SKUNK SMITH, ONCE YOU SMELL ALREADY TOO LATE.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        HURRICANE LE PEU, MERCI BEAU COUP!

      • SDF-7

        HURRICANE LE PEU PREFER OTHER SIDE OF GULF, MONSIEUR. OOH, LA LA….

      • WTF

        HURRICANE STEVE HAVE HUGE STORM SURGE!!

      • SDF-7

        STORM SMITH NOT CARE WHAT YOU CALL HIM, HE JUST KEEPS COMING.

      • Bobarian LMD

        STEVE’S STORM ONLY HAVE ONE EYE… AND IT AM BLIND.

  2. AlexinCT

    4th Leak Reported on Nord Stream Pipelines in Baltic Sea

    So can we now assume this is just the usual Russian maintenance folly that was common during the days of the heady progressive USSR?

      • AlexinCT

        I will tell you right now that my first take on the original story was that no sane and competent special forces command would EVER have accepted a task to sabotage anything that required them to do things 17 hours apart and basically risk getting caught, but I kept my mouth shut because in these days of woke military shit, I lack enough visibility in both the intelligence of the people involved with the decision making and the actual doing in most militaries, both NATO and Russian, but especially ours, to accurately make that call.

        After this latest shit, I am sure this is now far more likely to just be a coincidence tied to the usual poor maintenance of anything when it comes to the morons that usually end up in charge.

      • hayeksplosives

        UUVs could do it.

      • AlexinCT

        Not without risking being picked up by undersea monitoring early warning networks in that area, and again, what nation wants to hang out for 17 hrs to complete such a mission even w/ UUVs.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Possible that the first was sabotage, and the remainder are due to cascading failures.

      • Atanarjuat

        A plausible theory, but doesn’t really explain the 2nd explosion 17 hours later. Also it’s a bit heavy on “Russians are idiots”.

      • AlexinCT

        They are not idiots: they are lazy. It’s a thig that plagues everything Russian even today. You should see the trouble they have with every single industry, state owned or otherwise…

      • Atanarjuat

        For years, Americans bought rides to the ISS on the reliable Russian Soyuz, having lost the ability to get astronauts there themselves.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, that program was plagued with a shit ton of problems that were quickly buried to not damage the whole thing…

      • Lackadaisical

        Potential cause:

        They were trying to pack the line with gas and went over safe pressure levels (or close enough with some defects).

      • UnCivilServant

        This prompts the question – why overpressurize the line when they didn’t have the replacement pumping turbines that were stuck on a German dock due to sanctions and the Germans weren’t accepting incoming gas?

      • Lackadaisical

        It is a method of storing gas during low demand, so you can sell it later, rather than having to burn it off.

        Not sure about the turbines side as I’m no pipeline expert.

      • AlexinCT

        Someone pointed out it was eco terrorism. Greta Thunberg and her frog monkey Spec Force team sabotaged the thing to save Gaia!

      • Lackadaisical

        Ha!

        I entertained that idea for about 3 seconds before realizing they’d kill themselves before they got remotely close to getting tot he pipeline.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Thank you. A good article with solid information.

      • slumbrew

        That was very interesting and entirely plausible

    • Drake

      Two separate pipelines. One literally brand new and pressurized but not in use. The other that had been in use for a few years, now in standby mode. Germany about to run out of power this winter and already tempted to turn one or both pipelines back on – effectively breaking with the U.S. in the war in the Ukraine.

      Now both pipelines blow up on the same day because of unrelated maintenance issues (taking away the Germans’ temptation to make up with Russia)? That is stretching credibility way past the breaking point. Even western media outlets that would love to blame it on Russian stupidity aren’t trying.

      • Homple

        First, they tried to tell us that the Russians blew holes in their own pipelines because…profit? That was absurd on its face, and was pretty much laughed off by sane peopke

        So now they’ve switched to “the pipelines are blowing up on their own because Russians are incompetent as proven by..Soviet Union!”

        It just has to be Russia! Russia! Russia! once again.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Yeah, coincidences don’t add up this fast.

  3. AlexinCT

    US Army’s first trans officer, wife indicted for passing military medical info to Russians

    Now do the massive amount of them doing this for the CCP…. Cause those are the ones really screwing us over.

    • hayeksplosives

      Yup. Chinese applications to acquire stakes in US companies DOUBLED in 2021 compared to prior years.

      The “Biden” administration released a cautionary note yesterday (or at least recently) to the effect that China is acquiring stakes in US companies in an attempt to get access to sensitive if not classified information.

      Chinese nationals (or naturalized US citizens born in China) employed by the US National labs are a weak point as well.

    • Drake

      Didn’t we just get a link the other day about how much stronger the woke military is?

      • UnCivilServant

        It is one of our enemies’ finest assets.

      • AlexinCT

        The CCP is taking full advantage of the election they won in 2020?

  4. AlexinCT

    FBI allegedly engaging in ‘purge’ of conservative employees, retaliating against whistleblowers

    This was the primary purpose of the Obama administration when they told us they were going to fundamentally change things.

    Obama’s goal was to make America like every other banana republic that gives leftists scumbags a hardon.

  5. AlexinCT

    Biden Admin Names White House Chief Of Staff’s Wife As Ambassador For Plants And Animals

    Which US 3 letter agency makes sure that the plants & animals don’t engage in misinformation?

    • Atanarjuat

      2028: President Hunter Biden appoints his horse to the Senate.

      • SDF-7

        Post-midterms 2022, Biden appoints a house plant VP after forcing Harris out. The world rejoices.

      • Bobarian LMD

        He already appointed one houseplant for VP.

      • AlexinCT

        Caligula claps.

      • Bobarian LMD

        There is probably a greasy fist joke in this somewhere, butt I’m too lazy to fish it out.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Bureau of Animal Security BAS

      • hayeksplosives

        Run by sheep, I presume.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        No that’s the Bureau of Animal Administration BAA

      • SDF-7

        I thought that merged with the Cricket Control Authority and is now BAA-HUMBUG.

    • Drake

      Even in Massachusetts and New Jersey when connected pols got their family members lucrative no-show jobs, they at least had plausible titles and job descriptions.

      • UnCivilServant

        “So about this job.”
        “Yeah?”
        “What did you do as the Director of Rural Outreach for Upper Manhattan?”
        “Sometimes I’d visit Central Park and see if it was still there.”
        “And as Tristate Coordinator of Rural Outreach?”
        “I’d inspect the ski resorts in Vermont, or the beaches on Martha’s Vinyard.”

  6. UnCivilServant

    FBI allegedly engaging in ‘purge’ of conservative employees, retaliating against whistleblowers

    So, we can safely indict everyone who works there now under RICO?

    • WTF

      Merrick Garland will get right on that.

      • UnCivilServant

        He’s on the list of people to be indicted. We’ll have to have someone else do it.

      • WTF

        I’ll take “Things that will never happen” for $500, Alex.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not with that attitude, Mister!

      • juris imprudent

        It sounds best in the original German: Glauben Sie mir, es werden Köpfe rollen.

  7. Atanarjuat

    Fauci’s net worth jumping during the crisis he created is unsurprising. What is surprising is the piss-ant stakes they are playing for. $12.5M? $400k/yr? I bet a dude who owns a chain of 3 CVSes or a handful of McDonalds or a small car dealership is worth more. Like dude you killed gays, tortured dogs, and ruined the economy just to be less rich than the guy who sells trucks to farmers outside of town? Maybe Fauci has other assets offshore.

    • UnCivilServant

      You see, the guy who built the business had to work for his money.

      That Gnome Fauci only had to lie and let people die.

    • AlexinCT

      Fauci’s net worth jumping during the crisis he created is unsurprising.

      This is a distraction. The crooks have made this asshole their fall guy. EVERYONE involved with the criminal Kung Flu political attack to help the global reset team, made out like bandits. They stole or destroyed trillions of dollars, affecting hundreds of millions. These scumbags are always talking about how the rich stole from the unwashed poor under capitalist systems, to peddle their wealth redistribution rackets, but then show without any doubt that they are the real crooks and that they really hate the middle classes.

      • hayeksplosives

        I’m reading The Great Reser by Marc Marano.

        Depressing.

    • SDF-7

      Yeah — that was my thought when I read it yesterday. I figured with Pharma kickbacks, royalties and insider trading he would have pulled at least a couple hundred million over the last couple of years. Slacker.

    • Sean

      I haven’t been adding $1m+ annually to my net worth for the past 6 years…

      • Count Potato

        Slacker.

      • Rat on a train

        Most people have trouble adding $1 million to their net worth over their life.

      • ElspethFlashman

        Start now, Sean – with an onlyfans page 🙂

      • SDF-7

        STEVE SMITH NOT PAY TO SEE THE DOCTOR — MAKE HOUSE CALL AND WILL COME IN.

      • Atanarjuat

        Me either, but my parents’ net worth and income are about the same as Fauci’s, and they didn’t have to leave an international swathe of destruction behind them. They just own a business with two locations in town.

      • SDF-7

        Ah — kulaks and wreckers then, to be sure.

      • Atanarjuat

        Almost certainly to be the target of the wrath of some of the 80,000 new IRS field agents.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Unreported stock in Pfizer?

    • B.P.

      Exactly my thoughts. And he’s been on the job for around 200 years.

  8. UnCivilServant

    Major government unions lose over 200,000 members after Supreme Court’s workers’ rights ruling

    It would have been higher, but the unions have made exercising your Janus rights absurdly difficult. They’ll probably get sued again over it.

    • Atanarjuat

      That’s a huge Daily Ray of Sunshine right there.

    • Rat on a train

      You have to opt out annually during open enrollment. The form is 20 pages long and will be rejected for any mistake.

      • AlexinCT

        If not, they would be saying that the losses would be north of the 80% number, I am sure.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought there wereone or two more steps.

      • Rat on a train

        Prove to our satisfaction that you don’t want to be part of our union.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        You need five character witness’s.

      • Not Adahn

        And the passwords to all your social media accounts and a drug-free urinalysis.

      • Bobarian LMD

        You have to set up a retainer with an amount equal to one year’s worth of union dues to ensure that any mistakes are covered.

        It’s for your own good.

  9. AlexinCT

    Major government unions lose over 200,000 members after Supreme Court’s workers’ rights ruling

    A headline more reflective of reality would be “Democrat money stealing racket loses 200k people that are too smart to remain stooges being fleeced to help buy votes for a political party that hates them for not bending the knee”…

  10. AlexinCT

    Meta freezes hiring as CEO Mark Zuckerberg blames economy

    My product is an evil thing that sucks ass, but that’s not the problem for why the lemmings are not ponying up fucking cash?

    • hayeksplosives

      Suck can eat a bag of dicks. He did everything in his power to get Biden elected.

      Enjoy the consequences, asshole.

      • hayeksplosives

        Zuck, not Suck. Although…

      • SDF-7

        Yeah, I assumed you meant it as a denigrating nickname. Roll with it, HS. 😉

      • R.J.

        I thought is was quite appropriate.

  11. Rebel Scum

    South Carolina braces for Ian’s second coming

    It’s sure to create quite a mess…

    • AlexinCT

      Too much blowing and sucking?

    • SDF-7

      STORM SMITH SAY SORRY, NOT SORRY.

      • juris imprudent

        Leaves a really big wet spot.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      So, hurricane bukake?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Sounds like a sticky situation.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Ambassador to plants and animals? Did they defund the Dept of Agriculture?

  13. Rebel Scum

    A fourth leak on the Nord Stream pipelines has been reported off southern Sweden, the Swedish coast guard said Thursday.

    “We have leakage at two positions” off Sweden, coast guard spokesperson Mattias Lindholm. There are two more off Denmark, he said.

    This is fine.

    • Atanarjuat

      Governments really care about climate change, they promise.

  14. Rebel Scum

    US Army’s first trans officer, wife indicted for passing military medical info to Russians

    I believe it was technically passed to the fbi.

  15. Atanarjuat

    Is this a sign that the age of woke is ending?

    Viewing figures were typically around 1.5 million for each episode during Stewart’s tenure and rose as high as 2.5 million in 2013.

    Nine years on, and viewing figures for the week of September 19-25 showed The Daily Show pulled in an audience of just 363,000, according to television and film ratings site ShowbuzzDaily.com – a drop partially attributed to the rising popularity of YouTube and streaming platforms versus legacy media, but also associated with the show’s increasing political bias and perceived tilt towards embracing ‘woke’ ideology.

    All of those things, and add that Noah is less funny and charismatic than Stewart (of course even if he were Stewart’s equal woke sucks the fun out of a room). No, the age of woke isn’t ending, it just doesn’t sell well. It will still be used as a bludgeon to virtue signal and for amoral unimpressive people to illegitimately raise their position in hierarchies.

    • Homple

      Noah is less funny than a scream coming from the basement of an abandoned house.

  16. AlexinCT

    GM Delays Return-to-Work Plans to 2023

    Most employers are realizing that if they embrace the practice for employees that don’t need to be on site to perform their duties (keyboard jockeys, being the big example) they can save a lot of money as long as they put some minimal monitoring to verify performance does not degrade. You fire a couple of slackers every 6 months, and the others will keep productivity high.

    I have repeatedly told management types that you hand out work w/ a deadline and you leave your work horse alone to deliver. As soon as all you want to do is micro manage so you can suck more effort out of people, you can kiss productivity goodbye.

    • ElspethFlashman

      True. We had a guy leave this year – productivity not the issue- because one year of family law only burned him out. Now the bosses are making sure everyone else isn’t burned out. We have little micro management & high level of trust in the firm so I’m happy.

      • UnCivilServant

        From what I’ve heard of Family Law, that is.. uh.. a… somewhat stressful field to work in.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        because one year of family law only burned him out

        It wouldn’t take me even a year to get there. I’d get way too wrapped up emotionally in my clients’ outcomes and would burn out very quickly.

      • AlexinCT

        I know people that have paid their lawyers tens of thousands of dollars to prevent their ex spouse from getting something worth a couple of hundreds of dollars. I get spending a fortune and going on for ever if you are fighting over the kids or to prevent getting fucked in the ass when you have a lot of property/equity that was not equally obtained, but when you fight just to get revenge, you are not being too bright. Especially if your costs will be higher than your rewards. But people are people.

        I got lucky that my ex knew I would accept a equitable divorce in order to get it over with quickly, since I had made it very clear to her that I would go scorched earth on her ass if she tried to get the upper hand like her lawyer sister was telling her to do to fuck me over even though the divorce was all hers. So we settled quickly on that she kept hers, I kept mine, and I would give her half the value of the house and kept that. Most important was that we did equal time w/ my kid who decided to stick w/ me after he became of adult age (and moved back in now that the Kung Flu destroyed his ability to find roommates that are financially reliable in todays climate). it was all over in record time.

        I feel bad for people that drag these things out for whatever reason.

      • UnCivilServant

        The reward is not monetary, it’s spite. They have decided that thousands in legal fees is acceptable if it spites their ex.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s my problem the: I prefer to not lose financially, or for that matter in any sense, just for a short lived and sad emotional win. Then again, this is one of the main reasons women end up mad at me: appeals to emotion fall on deaf ears.

      • Lackadaisical

        My brother went through the opposite… everything got dragged out… the only thing of value that they could have fought over was the kids and who would get how much of their debt. fun times for him I’m sure.

  17. Count Potato

    “Is this a sign that the age of woke is ending?”

    I don’t see how. I never saw him or many of the replacement late-night hosts either.

    • Rat on a train

      The show went downhill after Craig Kilborn left.

      • MikeS

        Kilby was great.

      • Tundra

        Minnesota boy. Of course he was.

      • MikeS

        That’s right. I wonder whatever happened to him. He quit the show to go be a movie star and then didn’t.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Wake me when it levels off at the universities, let alone subsides.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    passing military medical info to Russians

    Did they pass a list of known traitors vaccine refuseniks to the enemy?

    • AlexinCT

      Who was not doing enough trans treatments in the US military…

    • Grummun

      I wonder if the Russians would have even cared about the information they were trying to pass.

      “Uh, thank you for this valuable information, comrade … ” ::hucks papers into trash::

      • Bobarian LMD

        It would not surprise me in the least if the Russian Embassy didn’t just pass on the info to the FBI, rather than it being “intercepted”.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    President Joe Biden’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending tens of millions in tax dollars to bring fiber optic internet to rural southeast Alaska.

    As part of USDA’s “Reconnect Program,” it awarded a roughly $33 million grant to the Alaska Telephone Company (ATC), the agency announced last Thursday. Fiber will be delivered to 92 households and a total of 211 people and five businesses in two Alaska native villages called Skagway and Chilkat, according to a federal grant award listing.

    Worth every penny.

    • SDF-7

      Well, it is spent now — no sense blubbering about it, especially compared to the sink hole of Ukraine.

      • Atanarjuat

        I wonder if ATC considers their biggest spending customer (the USDA) a “whale”.

      • Count Potato

        Tens of millions is nothing.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It was only $150K per person.

        It’s an investment into the future!

    • Not Adahn

      Chill cat? Not hoopy frood?

    • juris imprudent

      Can’t we get Alaska to raise their own pigs instead of getting federal pork?

    • Lackadaisical

      Ask them if they all would have preferred $200k a head instead of internet access. Pretty sure they could get starlink or some shit.

      Also, why is your rural ass the fedgov’s responsibility?

      Just like people who don’t like the crime in cities should move, so too the rural if they dislike their lack of services.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I wonder how many of those people will then forgo installing their high-speed internet when ATC wants to charge them $50-$70 for access.

  20. Rebel Scum

    The FBI is allegedly engaging in a “purge” of employees with conservative viewpoints and retaliating against whistleblowers who have made protected disclosures to Congress by revoking security clearances, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan told Fox News Digital.

    Jordan, R-Ohio, said that more than a dozen FBI whistleblowers have come to him and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee with allegations of misconduct within the FBI.

    But MAGA Republicans are the fascists.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Ginni Thomas Shuts Down Misconduct Claims In Voluntary Testimony Before J6 Panel

    Dems hate her because she married a black man.

    • juris imprudent

      I was wondering why the absence of mainstream media accounts.

  22. Count Potato

    “Several members of Congress demanded Justice Thomas be forced to recuse himself from cases relevant to the 2020 election, resign, or even be impeached.”

    So what else is new?

    • Rat on a train

      Go ahead, try impeachment.

      • juris imprudent

        High tech lynching version 2.0?

  23. Rebel Scum

    Biden Admin Names White House Chief Of Staff’s Wife As Ambassador For Plants And Animals

    What the actual fuck is this shit? (Never mind the nepotism that the left would be shrieking about if this were an R…)

    • Count Potato

      “Medina and the department will crack down on “nature crime” such as illegal mining and logging, to promote biodiversity and keep water supplies clean, the department stated. The special envoy will also implement the White House’s water security plan and the Global Water Strategy, initiatives that seek to stop droughts across the globe without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

      Medina will continue to serve in her current role as the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs in addition to taking on her new responsibilities as special envoy, according to the announcement. The envoy will also represent the U.S. in global climate conferences like the 2023 United Nations (UN) Water Conference.”

      It’s more climate pork.

  24. Rebel Scum

    Smithfield Foods to Pay $75 Million in Pork Price-Fixing Settlement

    I stopped buying their stuff long ago.

    • Nephilium

      For the past couple of years, local stores have had their seasoned pork tenderloin packs for $4-$5 on sale. I’ve bought the hell out of those.

  25. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘Ordles report: Not ‘orrible… not fantastic either, but not ‘orrible. Main element of note was my current first two seed words did bupkis in Quordle — but came up with another to burn what letters were left and got enough to get going from there. So, tolerable.

    I will now doubtless be shamed by some 2-3-4-5 or something. 😉

    Daily Duotrigordle #212
    Guesses: 36/37
    Time: 06:21.81
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 249
    4️⃣7️⃣
    6️⃣5️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 249
      4️⃣6️⃣
      7️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 249
      5️⃣4️⃣
      3️⃣6️⃣

      A good day.

    • robc

      Daily Quordle 249
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 249
      5️⃣7️⃣
      6️⃣8️⃣

    • rhywun

      Ugh fifty-fiftied TL wrong. Still my best in a while.

      Daily Quordle 249
      6️⃣4️⃣
      3️⃣7️⃣

  26. hayeksplosives

    I’m up early sitting with my little kitty. He has an appointment this morning at 7:30 to get vaccinated, chipped, and neutered.

    Poor little guy has no idea what he’s in for.

    • SDF-7

      If he did, I strongly suspect he’d be under a bed where you couldn’t find him or something.

      Enjoy the next week of cone of shame — our youngest girl (a few months back now) was a real artist at slipping out of it.

    • R.J.

      Get the kitty some chicken afterwards. He’ll forget all about the ordeal.

    • Q Continuum

      Maybe he identifies as a eunuch and you’re just affirming his identity?

      • AlexinCT

        Now you are talking, Q!

    • AlexinCT

      YOU TOOK MY BALLZ!

      • Lackadaisical

        Hayek is your ex?

        😛

      • hayeksplosives

        My favorite Rick and Morty for sure.

        I had snowball as my avatar here for a while.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Pickle. Rick.

        And then the Vat of Acid.

        Snuffles was his slave name.

  27. Rebel Scum

    I wouldn’t expect the NY Times to be honest.

    Wow it takes 30 seconds to figure out that 9 years ago DeSantis actually identified the Sandy relief package contained spending into 2021. He didn’t oppose the idea of a bailout he opposed THAT specific stuff. What a horrific oppo party research dump dressed as news.

    • AlexinCT

      They would lie even if silence or telling the truth would benefit them more, because their nature is to gaslight the idiots that pay for their content.

      • WTF

        The purpose of the NYT is simply to confirm the world view of the sort of people who read the NYT.

  28. Shiny Nerfherder

    In case anyone thought we’d be stopping this insanity anytime soon.

    https://news.antiwar.com/2022/09/29/pentagon-to-set-up-a-new-command-for-arming-ukraine/

    The command would be led by a high-ranking US general and would carry out decisions made by the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a coalition of about 40 countries that was established after Russia’s invasion. Austin has led meetings of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where he’s secured more support for Ukraine.

    The command would be established in Wiesbaden, Germany, which is where most of the US training of Ukrainian troops has taken place. The command would also oversee other assistance to Ukraine that has been established elsewhere in Europe, including a mission in Poland where US troops help Ukraine maintain weapons remotely

    • The Other Kevin

      Great, all it needs is a three letter name and we’ll have it forever.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I propose FUA. There are lots of good options for what that stands for.

    • Rebel Scum

      And how is this not actual war against Russia?

      Ramstein Air Base in Germany

      Relevant.

    • Swiss Servator

      I read “Ukraine Defense Contact Group” as the “Ukraine Defense Contract Group”…

      • Bobarian LMD

        To-may-to, to-mah-to.

  29. Tres Cool

    “South Carolina braces for Ian’s second coming”

    You know who else came twice in 3 days?

      • Tres Cool

        At her age (mid 30s) she has an unlimited supply. Like when I was a teen.
        At my age, it can be a struggle to keep up.

      • Q Continuum

        Tadalafil, cabergoline, bremelanotide and oxytocin.

        You will cum so much you’ll think you’re going to damage it.

      • Rebel Scum

        Stay hydrated.

      • Mojeaux

        I remember my mid 30s. *le sigh*

    • UnCivilServant

      “Whycome you have an upsidedown dog that keeps staring at me?”

      • Ted S.

        How adorable!

      • Not Adahn

        That was the first night taking her home.

        The pet deposit was a necessity that time. This trip, they’re just needless expenses (I think/hope).

    • UnCivilServant

      “God is Smiting the Sinful!” /’the View’ Harpies

      • AlexinCT

        God</strike… Gaia.. we are talking about druid wannabees here, at best, and Aztec heart cutting priests under normal conditions, in that cult of death.

      • AlexinCT

        Damned HTML tags fail!

      • Rat on a train

        The god of HTML is fickle.

      • AlexinCT

        Xer identifies as a female, after all…

      • Rat on a train

        Don’t make Gaia angry.

      • Nephilium

        No… God smiting was the 700 club (or one of the other evangelical morning shows). This is GAIA smiting. Completely different.

    • Q Continuum

      Animists.

    • Atanarjuat

      Superstorm Sandy wasn’t the act of a vengeful Gaia, naturally.

    • rhywun

      I can’t believe The View isn’t some sort of performance art. It’s so over-the-top stupid and evil.

      • UnCivilServant

        I know plenty of people who are stupid evil. Once they’ve picked a side, it’s mendacity and vileness towards anyone who doesn’t agree enthusiastically and wholeheartedly.

    • Shpip

      The first Spanish attempt at a settlement in what is now Florida took place on August 15, 1559 when eleven ships and 1500 colonists sailed into Pensacola Bay. Five weeks later, on Saturday, September 19, a major hurricane struck the nascent colony, sinking six ships and damaging supplies to the extent that the fifty survivors eventually made their way back to Veracruz, Mexico.

      When latter-day lackwits try to point out some connection between Anthropogenic Climate Change and Florida getting whacked by the occasional tropical cyclone, I enlighten them about this nugget of state history.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Clearly Gaia was protecting the poor indigenous folx from the evil Colonizers!”

      • Atanarjuat

        Florida literally has indigenous palms and trees that have evolved over geologic time to become essentially hurricane-proof (namely Sabal palms and live oaks).

    • The Other Kevin

      I’ve seen clips of them saying “Oh now DeSantis wants government money! Isn’t that SOCIALISM! Hahaha!”

  30. Q Continuum

    Been watching “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”. The first 3 episodes were pretty good, if a little overdramatized. Starting with episode 4 it’s gone to hell mostly because it, like everything else made in the past 5+ years, can’t be content with telling a story, it has to align with THE MESSAGE.

    It’s now going on absurd diatribes about how he unconsciously selected his victims based on race and he wasn’t caught sooner because of “systemic racism” and that his crimes are just an expression of white supremacy and blah blah blah tedious proggy bullshit. AFAICT there is no evidence whatsoever that his crimes were motivated by race and the reason he wasn’t caught sooner was garden variety lousy police work + blind luck on Dahmer’s part. But what good is telling a story, especially a true story, if you can’t lie and twist it to fit your agenda?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      You wonder if they’re really that convinced of their arguments or if they’re just rubbing your nose in it because they can.

      • UnCivilServant

        There may be some true believers, but there is definately a culture of “Stay on Message or you’ll never work in this town again!”

    • AlexinCT

      This phenom plagues all content from Hollyweird nowadays. Some of it you can watch if you dismiss the dreck. Most of it is so bad however, that it costs IQ points. What really scares me is how the young people of today gobble this shit up. it tells me Ideocracy is here 500 years earlier than the movie predicted.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m going to need a citation on the gobbling of this content. All the data points to pathetic viewership and audience abandonment.

      • AlexinCT

        All the shit Disney puts out? Especially in the Star Wars universe?

      • UnCivilServant

        They burned through all the goodwill their recent numbers are abysmal.

        People were not going for The Message, and are turning away.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        What really scares me is how the young people of today gobble this shit up

        They get a full court press from media (traditional and social), school, and just about every other major institution. They had no chance.

    • rhywun

      Because “racism” is worse than all that other stuff now.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Dahmer’s real victim was *insert identity group here*.

        This is the pattern they use. The downplaying of the crime against the individual and the elevation of the crime against the “group.”

    • Atanarjuat
      • rhywun

        LOL

    • SDF-7

      Huh… I would have assumed you’d be watching this Monster, Q.

      • Atanarjuat

        I knew there had to be someone, somewhere who enjoyed fake boobs, but damn, wanting to lick the scars is kinda sick.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I’ve only seen through episode 4, so I am not sure what you are talking about. That episode was how he failed out of OSU, got kicked out of the army, and then kicked out of the bathhouses.

      • Q Continuum

        It’s episode 5 then, the one after that.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Ah okay. Overall in the episodes I have seen there is a huge effort being made to humanize him. Sure he is human after all, but seems a bit over the top for you know, a guy who ate people.

      • UnCivilServant

        He was a Humanitarian!

      • rhywun

        A humanophile, if you will.

      • juris imprudent

        He loved people food!

      • Bobarian LMD

        Dammit, he’s a people person!

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Also, he wasn’t caught because of homophobia? That’s implied in the episodes I have seen and also, a very reasonable take!

      • Q Continuum

        It changes from that to “hE gOeS aFtEr BlAcK pEePlE bEcUz He KnOwS hE wOn’T gEt CoT bEcUz ThE wOrLd DoEsN’t CaRe AbOuT bLaCk PeEpLe!!!111!!!”

    • Q Continuum

      Also, kinda funny I guess: Netflix originally had it in the LGBTQ+ category and had to remove it due to social media backlash. Now, I think that 90% of their categories are stupid anyway and the focus of the series is not the “gayness”. But, he was gay and his victims were largely other gay men he picked up at clubs, so if anything seems like it deserves to go in that category, it’s this. But we can’t allow a single unflattering portrayal of [insert protected group] because that goes against THE MESSAGE.

      • Count Potato

        Remember when lesbians protested Basic Instinct?

  31. Rebel Scum

    The west/NATO are going to make sure of it.

    “You see a crisis in every part of the world,” Vucic told the Serbian state broadcaster RTS.

    “I think realistic predictions ought to be even darker,” he added. “Our position is even worse, since the UN has been weakened and the great powers have taken over and practically destroyed the UN order over the past several decades.”

    The Serbian leader cautioned that the war between Russia and Ukraine had moved on to a far deadlier phase.

    “I assume that we’re leaving the phase of the special military operation and approaching a major armed conflict, and now the question becomes where is the line, and whether after a certain time – maybe a month or two, even – we will enter a great world conflict not seen since the Second World War,” he said.

  32. Shpip

    Smithfield Foods Inc has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit by consumers who accused the meat producer and several competitors of conspiring to inflate prices in the $20 billion-a-year U.S. pork market by limiting supply.

    Talk about a ham-handed attempt to make a quick buck…

    • Rebel Scum

      Seems like there was a lot at steak.

      • pistoffnick

        SOMEBODY needs to bring home the bacon.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    No motive

    A British defence source told Sky News the attack was probably premeditated and detonated from afar using underwater mines or other explosives.

    “Something big caused those explosions which means … Russia could do it. In theory, the United States could also do it but I don’t really see the motivation there,” Oliver Alexander, an open source intelligence analyst, told Reuters.

    The United States had long called for Europe to end its reliance on Russian gas, he said, but Washington had little obvious motivation to act now because Nord Stream was no longer pumping gas to Europe at the time the leaks were found, although the pipelines had gas under pressure inside them.

    “They already succeeded in stopping Nord Stream 2. It was already dead in the water, it wasn’t going anywhere,” he said.

    Case closed.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      It certainly had nothing to do with the protests in Germany demanding that they turn on the pipeline.

    • Atanarjuat

      Former CIA Director and famously scrupulous truth teller John Brennan has been going on CNN to promote the “it was Russians what dun it” theory, which pretty much confirms for me that it wasn’t an industrial accident.

      https://nitter.net/ggreenwald/status/1575556006561521664#m

      • Drake

        Baghdad Bob had more credibility.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        There’s plenty of motivation to go around.

        1. The Poles have vehemently opposed NordStream from the beginning and have attempted an attack against it before.
        2. US/NATO wants to keep Germany in line over the winter.
        3. Davos wants to create a full-blown crisis in pursuit of their unified EU commie dreams.
        4. Ukraine has its own obvious reasons.
        5. Not to mention the various financial interests at play in the LNG trade.

        The obvious thing is that nobody gives a shit about the civilians here. No matter which explanation you take, barring the preposterous maintenance one, the psychopaths in charge are willing to the sacrifice the population to achieve their goals.

      • UnCivilServant

        Given the timetable of failures, IF (and I stress if) the pressure-storage scenario is accurate (and it is plausible on its face given what I’ve seen of the domestic glut the problem has caused and the issues of scaling production at the wells) then I’m leaning towards the maintenance stories. Even ignoring the soviets, the post-cold war track record for Russian infrastructure is not that great. And if it’s being abused even well maintaine dinfrastructure can fail.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Too many coincidences for me.

      • Atanarjuat

        Whoever sabotaged it certainly is willing to use the German people as a pawn. Not just them freezing this winter, but the job losses their industrial sector will have.

      • Count Potato

        “The Poles have vehemently opposed NordStream from the beginning and have attempted an attack against it before.”

        They have? Why were they opposed to it?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        A German/Russian alliance is anathema to Poland given both their histories of rolling over the Poles.

      • AlexinCT

        Euphemism?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I had forgotten about the incident in 2021 as it didn’t get much Western press at the time.

        On April 1 Kommersant of Moscow reported the detailed account of the Nord Stream spokesman Andrei Minin, who was first quoted by the state news agency, RIA Novosti. “ ‘We are talking about clearly planned and prepared provocations using both fishing vessels and warships, submarines and aircraft in order to hinder the implementation of an economic project. This is probably the first and unprecedented case of this kind in history,’ he told the agency. According to Mr. Minin, on March 28, an unidentified submarine surfaced in the security zone of the pipe-laying vessel Fortuna (a temporary restricted zone of 1.5 miles is being established for the duration of construction) at a distance of less than one mile. ‘Given that the anchor lines of the Fortuna are located at a distance of more than one mile, the actions of the submarine could disable the entire anchor-positioning system of the pipe- laying vessel and lead to a damage emergency to the pipeline,’ said Mr. Minin. As the representative of Nord Stream 2 AG adds, on March 29, a Polish Navy warship (tactical number 823) performed manoeuvers around the Fortuna. Because of this, the support vessel Lifeguard Karev had to go on a parallel course, accompanying the warship. According to open information, under this number in the Polish Navy is the military transport ship Cracow, built in 1990, which can also perform the functions of a mine-layer (based in Svinoustye as part of the 8th Coastal Defense flotilla).”

        http://johnhelmer.online/the-bornholm-bash-the-baltic-bluff-the-blinken-blink-the-retreat-of-force-from-war/

      • Count Potato

        Huh

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        They could lose transit fees from an existing pipeline that runs through Poland.

      • Atanarjuat

        To launder innuendo that Russia was behind the Nord Stream bombings, Western officials are going with the same CNN reporter they used to launder the Steele dossier scam; the Russian bounties scam; the Havana Syndrome scam; and the “Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation” scam.

        (Natasha Bertrand). Yeah, it smells about the same as Hunter’s laptop.

      • UnCivilServant

        Under no circumstance do I believe the Russions would intentionally damage the pipelines.

      • Lackadaisical

        Well, that confirms it, we did it.

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s not better but it’s different?

      • Nephilium

        we haven’t been intimate in months

        You mean it’s happening?

      • AlexinCT

        Her reason for their cold period seems dubious as fuck to me. They had a falling out because he stood bye a friend she didn’t like? Really? I bet there is something else that caused this falling out, but if she told you that, she wouldn’t be able to pretend victimhood here…

    • AlexinCT

      This seems to be a big problem w/ women….

      They feel that because they don’t feel like having sex – for whatever reason – their partner’s need for it is wrong…..

      But if the dude tells her that he doesn’t want to spend time listening to her bitch about her friends cause he isn’t getting enough poon-tang to make it worth the pain and mental anguish of hours of that same shit every fucking day, she feels justified to be mad at him and accusing him of rape.

      • Tres Cool

        Playboy once marketed a magazine to married men.
        It had the same centerfold month after month after month after month….

      • AlexinCT

        How many months did that magazine stay viable? I figure after about 6 months their would have been some kind of income problem, because all men would have seen the same thing twice in a row and decided to spend their cash on Shwank or Big Ones.

      • Tres Cool
      • AlexinCT

        So was my reply, man…

  34. Rebel Scum

    Freedom is slavery, etc.

    A professor at the University of North Carolina recently sent me an article on a “free speech event” held at the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy as part of the University’s 13th First Amendment Day celebration. What was striking about the free speech panel was not just that it was decidedly opposed to core free speech principles but it lacked a single panelist who spoke primarily in favor of free speech and against censorship. The panel, “Weaponizing First Amendment Rhetoric,” was clearly designed to offer the opposing view to traditional free speech and First Amendment values, but the lack of a dissenting voices allowed these views to go unchallenged. The panel could have served a more valuable purpose if they had allowed a single panelist to voice opposing views.Overall, the North Carolina “First Amendment Day” celebration seemed more like a condemnation event on the threat posed by free speech. Indeed, it often seemed like a collection of vegans assembled to “celebrate” meat-based diets. One professor even chaffed at the very purpose of the event in celebrating the First Amendment: “what about a Reconstruction Amendment Day? … Why is it that this particular amendment is what takes on outsize concern, both in our imagination on our campuses and in our rhetoric?”

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      They’re getting more brazen.

    • AlexinCT

      Popular speech doesn’t need protection. You only need speech protection for speech that would piss off people that then demand you be silenced from getting their fucking way.

      On another note, back in the 60-70s it was the left demanding freedom of speech so they could indoctrinate people with marxist pap. Now these people feel they have the upper hand and want to remove the very same protection that allowed them to get here to prevent their political enemies from using that tool against the campaign of lies the marxist cadre now needs to keep telling to protect their racket.

      • Plisade

        It’s never that they’re against their targets’ power itself – e.g. the patriarchy, white privilege, slave owners, capitalism, the wealthy – it’s that they’re envious and want that power for themselves. It’s not that The Woke are unprincipled or hypocrites: Power is the principle, neither freedom nor equality. They don’t seek to destroy power but to replace the powerful with themselves, culturally evidenced by the Hollywood Woke re-imagining existing hero characters into woke versions, rather than creating their own original heroes. It’s “Occupy Wall Street” not “Destroy Wall Street.” It’s ok to be racist, so long as you’re not white. Etc.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        When you remove objective truth and replace it with postmodernism, power is all you have left to settle disputes. There can be no compromise when there’s nothing to agree on.

      • Plisade

        Yup…

        “My dear friends, I think you are in big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon, together with all your affluence and freedoms, unless you start defending yourselves. . . . The driving force of this war has very little to do with natural aspirations of people for better lives and greater freedoms. If at all, these aspirations are being used and taken advantage of by the manipulators and progenitors of the war. The real driving force of this war of aggression is IDEOLOGY — something you cannot eat, wear or store for a “rainy day”. An integral part of this war of ideology is IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION — the process of changing the perception of reality in the minds of millions of peoples all over the world. The late comrade Andropov, the former head of the Soviet KGB called this war of Communist aggression, “the final struggle for the MINDS and hearts of the people”.”

        –Yuri Bezmenov

      • juris imprudent

        Funny how much credibility is given to a system that failed so spectacularly.

      • Plisade

        If you’re referring to the USSR, it did last nearly 70 years. And Marxism/Technocracy is still being tried and utilized in countries today. And it does appear that there is a worldwide struggle between freedom and Marxism/Technocracy, so I’d hardly say their system has failed. But I may be misunderstanding you.

      • Plisade

        If you’re referring to their “process of changing the perception of reality in the minds of millions of peoples,” well Commie China is still working on it…

        https://www.foxnews.com/video/6309696840112

      • juris imprudent

        Wow, 70 whole years! In all of human history has there ever been such comparable longevity? And Marxism is dead – it may have some strange offshoots, but the core is deader than that fucking Monty Python parrot.

    • WTF

      It’s amazing that they can’t seem to imagine that their opponents might ever be in a position to decide which speech is legitimate and which speech is banned. Or maybe they just stupidly assume they will always be in charge.

      • Rat on a train

        Long term thinking is racist.

      • juris imprudent

        That is exactly what they [very stupidly] believe.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        “we’re on the right side of history!”

        They’re all civil rights larpers. They think they’re Rosa Parks.

      • The Other Kevin

        They’ve always been incredibly short sighted. Same thing with going after Trump. They gave up all due process. It’s easy to imagine the Republicans winning and them using the same anti-Trump tactics on Biden.

        They have no problem tearing down institutions to get what they want, and yes they assume it will never come back to haunt them.

      • Rebel Scum

        It’s easy to imagine the Republicans winning and them using the same anti-Trump tactics on Biden.

        They lack the stones and desire. The RINOs/Neocons do, anyway.

      • Drake

        I find that hard to imagine. The national Republicans don’t even seem to want to win, or at least not to win big.

        They’ll have some hearings, then pass another aid bill for the Ukraine and funding for the FBI.

      • Grumbletarian

        “We’ll get rid of the judicial filibuster so we can thwart Republican obstructionism and appoint the judges we want.”

        Years later…

        “How did all these conservative judges end up on SCOTUS?! We need to pack the court!”

        Years later…

        “Republicans adding ten more justices to SCOTUS have no respect for history or tradition!”

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Great Orange Whale, off the starboard bow

    New York Attorney General Leticia James’ office is pushing to take the Trump family to court before the end of 2023.

    According to the letter filed by James’ office on Thursday, her team is looking to move fast on its $250 million civil lawsuit against the Trump Organization.

    James filed a sprawling case against former President Donald Trump, his three eldest children, and his business on September 21. She has accused the former president of falsely inflating his net worth by billions of dollars and is also looking to bar the Trumps from conducting business in New York.

    The letter states that James’ office seeks “an expedited preliminary conference to set a trial date before the end of 2023.”

    To the ends of the earth.

    • WTF

      Banana. Republic.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      looking to bar the Trumps from conducting business in New York

      That’s a new one.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Gambino Family, OK; Trump family, absolutely not

      • Not Adahn

        They also want to ban him from conducting any real estate transaction. Not taking the chance he wants to move back, I guess. I had no idea states could 86 people. I learn something new every day.

      • Homple

        Bill of attainder? Corruption of blood?

    • Rebel Scum

      accused the former president of falsely inflating his net worth by billions of dollars

      Because he bloviates about it? Because of some property value assessment that is not his job to confirm?

      “This is not political. No one is above the law.” …

      • creech

        Half the Forbes 400 are probably guilty of inflating net worth. And the other half of deflating it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        But those guys ain’t orange.

        The NY AG is just racist against orange people.

    • juris imprudent

      before the end of 2023

      The grinding of the wheels of justice. You have a case, don’t you? Then you should be prepared to go to trial tomorrow. The defense may want more time, but not the plaintiff.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “Sprawling case”. For some reason that makes me think of a wall with lots of red string connecting the dots.

  36. Certified Public Asshat

    A lot of neurologists on the internet this morning after Tua’s concussion last night. No one knows what the protocol is, but the protocol is lacking!

    • SDF-7

      What’s a Tua? (Seriously… I have zero idea what you’re talking about, CPA…)

      • AlexinCT

        Dolphins QB.

      • SDF-7

        Thanks. Being football, I can continue in blissful ignorance.

        I’ll even spare y’all a snarky joke about it being hard to pass with those little flippers and all…

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Long story but, Dolphins QB took a hit Sunday before halftime. He gets up and stumbles, goes to locker room. He comes back after halftime with a “back injury” and continues playing, beats the Buffalo Bills (a good team) even! He did not have a concussion per the team, he passed the protocol*. The Dolphins have a short week and he plays last night in Cincinnati, takes another hit, this time is stretchered off with a concussion. Everyone is furious because they know for a fact he had a real concussion Sunday and should have been out last night. The protocol* is lacking!

        *None of these people know what the protocol is.

      • Count Potato

        Dan Marino didn’t need no protocol. He threw a million yards in a leather helmet.

      • Not Adahn

        “Laces out!”

      • Mojeaux

        The protocol is to see if he stays awake and doesn’t puke.

      • Sean
      • Certified Public Asshat

        Perhaps. It’s kind of a conundrum though. If concussions are so bad, why would it ever be advantageous to quickly get the guy who touches the ball back in on every play? Same guy calls the plays out too.

        I don’t know, I’m just an asshat.

      • Mojeaux

        I was being a bit facetious because I remember hitting my noggin at home one night and my dad keeping me up most of the night to see if I were going to fall asleep or puke. Well, dad, it’s way past my normal bedtime. How would you know?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Ah gotcha. I was mostly just irritated with all of the armchair neurology this morning (and for making me defend the NFL!).

        It looks horrible and I would 100% support Tua retiring if he came out today and said that (perhaps a bit rash). It’s also entirely possible nothing nefarious occurred and the guy just had a series of unfortunate incidents.

      • Tundra

        When I was a hockey coach we had a bunch of concussion training. Also, the kids did baseline neurological testing before the season started. And this was 10 years ago.

        No, they know he had a concussion and didn’t give a shit.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    “Given the fact that this action involves allegations of an ongoing scheme and conspiracy to obtain millions of dollars through fraudulent activity, and that defendants repeatedly have sought to delay the conclusion of OAG’s investigation, it is imperative that this case proceed quickly,” wrote Kevin Wallace, senior enforcement counsel and an investigator on the case.

    The letter argued for the retention of Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron as the case’s presiding judge, citing his familiarity with the probe. It also stated that the case should “remain before Justice Engoron and not be transferred to the Commercial Division in the interest of judicial economy.”

    Wallace’s letter came in response to a request filed by Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer, on Wednesday to move the case to the New York Supreme Court’s Commercial Division. She also accused the attorney general’s office of trying to prevent the case from being reassigned to another judge.

    We don’t want some openminded judge wrecking our show trial.

  38. AlexinCT

    I just heard a rumor that the reseters are hard at work stealing all the valuables, because a delegation of space alien ambassadors, upon meeting Kamala & Joe told them that if these morons were the leaders of this world, they felt all life in the universe was being insulted by the people that put them in charge, and that instead of sending an invitation committee to talk joining their federation, they are sending a space armada to cleanse the planet of that human rot… Attempts to point out they had “fortified” the election, fell on deaf ears because of the fact the aliens looked at the work of the checkers to find if that was true….

  39. The Late P Brooks

    They’re all civil rights larpers. They think they’re Rosa Parks.

    They think they are the French Resistance, bravely fighting to overcome Nazi propaganda and disinformatio in order to bring the truth to the people.

    • Drake

      In reality, they are the French Committee of Public Safety and can’t wait to go town to town with guillotines to prevent disinformation.

    • rhywun

      The hilarious part is they have nothing to “resist” – they already control everything.

      • juris imprudent

        They are fighting against any who resist.

  40. Penguin

    So I went through Ian, with nothing but a few brownouts. Winds blowing fiercely, rain coming down in a torrent. Nothing bad happened. My power stayed on. Then, while sitting here at my computer a few minutes ago, it goes out for no apparent reason.

    I guess Buck Murdock was right. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

    • Atanarjuat

      Any flooding in your area? I saw that people were wading out of Orlo Vista.

    • Nephilium

      Glad to hear you made it through safely.

      • Penguin

        Thx, Neph.

        Atanarjuat – no, nothing real bad. There’s a storm drain down the road that’s bubbling up water, but it’s near a hill, so there’s no pooling. There’s tree parts all over, but I haven’t seen any trees actually down. Also, got my power back. I’m a little surprised to hear about Orlo Vista, that’s (relatively) close by. OTOH, it’s a relatively flood prone area.

        I thought it’d be kind of meh around here, and was pretty much right. I hope it’s even more meh when it goes after KK, and any others in the Carolinas.

  41. The Other Kevin

    Good to know our selfless public servant, Dr. Fauci, is being rewarded for all the sacrifices he’s made.

  42. Gustave Lytton

    Scott Brown carpentry, nice guy and fun videos, but totally a product of his country’s indoctrination. Unconsciously lists insane building regulation after insane building regulation and doesn’t bat an eye.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Was the Dolphns’ QB forced onto the field by the coaching staff? Did they pump him full of drugs to get him upright?

    I guess toughness and dedication are in the dustbin of history, along with the rest of western civilization.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      No one knows, yet everyone is asserting that they do know.

      As far as last night goes, if they didn’t think he was healthy enough I am not sure why they would risk him in a week 3 road game against the AFC Champions from last year. There are 17 games (ugh) so statistically they are likely to lose this one but need him healthy for the long run.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Are we talking about the NFL or the White House?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        We did force someone who has had brain surgery into the White House. Fair point.

      • creech

        LOL. Hope you are here all week.

  44. Rebel Scum

    Heil Brandon (or his handlers…) has zero self-awareness.

    Pres. Biden raised threats to global democracy last night — pointing to Italy.

    “You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election. You’re seeing what’s happening around the world. The reason I bother to say that is you can’t be sanguine about what’s happening here either”

    Seriously, read the speech. It’s amazing really.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      That’s pretty much the point. Gaslighting is their main tool until they solidify control and are willing to come right out and use the boot without any shame whatsoever.

    • hayeksplosives

      So the solution is to elect Democratic governors who will “run” their states and affect how votes are counted?

      Did they let Joe off the leash again? Much of the speech isn’t even in complete sentences.

    • Drake

      No house on the property, but that’s in a really nice part of the state.

      • Not Adahn

        Walhalla? Isn’t that noisy what with all the drunken berserkers fighting for all eternity?

      • UnCivilServant

        Nah, they’re far enough away that you don’t hear it.

      • Drake

        Browsing Google Maps, there are a bunch of cool-looking dive bars there for them to get riled up at.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election.

    That’s not democracy!

    • juris imprudent

      Bad democracy, bad!

  46. The Late P Brooks

    Seriously, read the speech. It’s amazing really.

    What a steaming bowl of incoherent nonsense.

  47. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos.

    Ans a good morning to the rest of you.

    That’s all I’ve got. I need a weekend.

    • The Other Kevin

      Good morning Tundra. I missed your comment last night about my hockey schedule. No, I don’t need to you yell at my coach. While part of me is disappointed I’m not playing up this year, another part was hoping I didn’t have to play this first tournament because there’s little chance our team will win any of the games. It will most likely get ugly. I intend on being great in the games I do play, and maybe by the end of the season I’ll move up.

      • Tundra

        That is a very good attitude.

        But I was pretty stoked to light up Coach!

        Good luck this season! I can’t wait until y’all make it out this way.

      • The Other Kevin

        For B team, we tried to start our own league last year, but that fell apart. However, for the rest of our A team trips, the hosts also have a B team, so both teams will travel so we can get games in. This means I should be in Denver early next year regardless of what team I’m playing for.

      • Tundra

        Nice!

        I’ll be there!

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Assuming risk is un-American

    Hundreds of thousands of Florida homes lie in flood-risk areas that are not designated as such by the federal government, leaving many homeowners vulnerable to massive out-of-pocket costs for damage after Hurricane Ian.

    Nearly 350,000 properties in the state face flood hazards but are not recognized as high risks in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, according to data by First Street Foundation, a nonprofit research group.

    More than half, about 186,000, are in hard-hit areas along Florida’s west coast, where residents were given mandatory evacuation orders.

    “Many very likely will not have flood insurance because they would not have been told they’re at risk for flooding,” said Matthew Eby, First Street Foundation’s CEO. “With a storm of this magnitude, the impacts of that are going to be catastrophic to those homeowners.”

    Ian is one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States. After making landfall Wednesday, the Category 4 hurricane decimated many areas, although the full scope of its destruction is still unknown.

    Nobody could have identified a hurricane risk to those properties in the absence of a government decree.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      decimated many areas

      THAT’S NOT WHAT IT MEANS!

      *autistic rant off*

      • UnCivilServant

        “By order of the Homeowner’s Association, all residents are required to meet at the ruins of the neighborhood. At this meeting, lots will be drawn and every tenth member will be beaten to death by the others for the overall failure of the association to prepare sufficiently for this incident.”

      • creech

        Patently unfair. First, MAGA supporters should be identified and then one of them chosen to be beaten to death. After all, the hurricane was Trump/DeSantis fault.

      • UnCivilServant

        Decimation is normally random, but thank your for volunteering to be beaten to death.

      • creech

        Sorry, not a MAGA supporter so I’d be o.k. Unless they beat the libertarians to death first ’cause we are responsible for all the bad things in the world.

      • SDF-7

        Shirley Jackson would like to inform you that you won the lottery!

    • Gustave Lytton

      Nearly 350,000 properties in the state face flood hazards but are not recognized as high risks in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps

      Not being marked high risk doesn’t mean there’s no risk, dumbass. Wonder what his angle is?
      Those properties aren’t eligible for the highest payout of fema lucre
      They aren’t paying into the high risk fund and subsidizing actual high risk properties
      Not subject to more stringent building codes restrictions or costs, or some other automatic tripwire for high risk designation

      • R C Dean

        “Wonder what his angle is?”

        Taxpayer funded bailout, of course.

    • Drake

      Now do the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard.

  49. UnCivilServant

    I love arguing the minutae of the installation architecture. /sarc

    We’re talking around each other.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    I’m sure you’ll all be pleased to know we are on track for a continuing resolution to rescue the government from penury and shame.

    My NPR link got server-errored twice.

    Like Nell Fenwick on the railroad tracks, we have been pulled to safety just in the nick of time.

  51. robc

    “Chess has infinite possibilities, and this is one of them.” — this is possibly the greatest youtube comment ever, because all the rest of them suck.

    It was on this video, if you want to watch really bad chess with good commentary. If you are a relative chess newbie, you can learn a lot from it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf7tSSZToIA

  52. Rebel Scum

    Their best quality: Cats are weird..

    • Tundra

      LOL!

      I wish my wife and I weren’t deathly allergic to the little weirdos. It would be entertaining as hell.

    • Gender Traitor

      Well, he caught it, didn’t he?? 😺

  53. Rebel Scum

    Based.

    Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack she still believes the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

    Thomas made the declaration during a four-hour interview with the committee’s members on Thursday.

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s got to be very frustrating to know there’s no way they could FORCE her to change her mind.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    Muh precious back yard!

    Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two laws Wednesday that would open up much of the state’s commercial land for residential development. It’s a long-sought victory for affordable housing advocates, who say such sites are ready-made for apartments because they are often near populated areas and come with ample parking.

    “This is a moment on a journey to reconcile the original sin of the state of California, and that’s the issue of housing and affordability,” Newsom said in San Francisco before signing the bills into law. “We need to all be a little bit more accountable to this crisis of affordability.”

    Local government officials say the laws undermine their authority and upend years of careful planning that reflect community preferences. But there’s also a financial consequence, they say, because stores generate more property taxes for local governments than homes do.

    “It’s a concern when state law is going to override these local decisions, particularly when these local decisions are made in a public process with the community as part of a larger housing plan,” said Jason Rhine, assistant director of legislative affairs for the League of California Cities.

    Not even Gavin Newsom can be wrong all the time.

    Fuck single use zoning. And planning boards.

    *I saw a couple of stories which talked about “conversion” which I took to mean some sort of remodel process, but this one sounds more like levelling the existing structure to build apartments from scratch. Whichever is fine with me.

    • Not Adahn

      reconcile the original sin of the state of California, and that’s the issue of housing and affordability

      Whaaa? The original sin of California is racism, just like everywhere else.

    • Homple

      Federal power > State power > what local people want.

    • R C Dean

      “levelling the existing structure to build apartments from scratch.”

      After it is taken by the state and given to a developer, of course.

  55. The Late P Brooks

    And-

    Are the planners going to turn the traditional “despoiling the neighborhood” argument on its head and claim letting people live in office parks will destroy the character of the area?

    • The Last American Hero

      People living in commercial and industrial areas is literally the definition of environmental racism. Unless he right thinking people promote it.

  56. Rebel Scum

    Amusing if true.

    Titled Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by the New York Times, Clinton believed that Trump was in cahoots with the Russians, planning a secret plot to poison her via a handshake.

    “Democrats found themselves almost perpetually disoriented by autumn. During preparations for the third debate, Clinton’s team was disrupted by a warning from the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, who said he had been told that Russians might try to poison Clinton through a handshake with Trump, to inflict a dramatic health episode during the debate,” author Maggie Haberman wrote.

    The alleged threat came from Richard Blum, the wealthy husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, claiming that the Russians wanted Clinton poisoned so that it would “inflict a dramatic health episode during the debate.”

  57. Tundra

    In other news, my new egg source came through for $5/dozen. Local ranch and damn fine eggs.

    So I’ve got that going for me.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      I should ask my neighbor if they have any extra. Granted, I think they only have one hen, so they probably don’t.

      • Tundra

        They don’t. But I guarantee someone close to you does. Hit a farm stand or market and ask around.

        It’s similar to scoring drugs in a new place.

  58. UnCivilServant

    Anyone got a lead on a remote job that pays six figures for an IT Manager low on morale to move into? I’ve got no skills of note, and am not particularly attractive, nor do I like people in general.

    • kinnath

      my company is hiring engineers. some onsite, some hybrid, some remote.

      • kinnath

        Not IT though. So you’d have to fake it.

      • Tundra

        That’s a tough one. I don’t know anything about trains.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        The great thing about trains is that you don’t have to know shit about them. You just have to say we need more of them.

      • juris imprudent

        That will get you a job in politics or punditry but not actually a job working with, you know, trains.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Train companies have PR departments and lobbyists, right?

      • Drake

        Hunter Biden got a job on the Amtrak board of directors because he rode the train – so it’s possible.

      • kinnath

        Not trains.

      • Not Adahn

        TRAINSPHOBE!

      • Mojeaux

        TRAINS!!!!

        My pronouns are “locomotive.”

      • Bobarian LMD

        I’m just a sweet Trainvestite, from Trainsexual, Trainsylvania?

        As sung by Train Curry.

      • Mojeaux

        LOL!!!!

    • Not Adahn

      Apparently we’re hiring managers. A former coworker got hired as manager of a process area that he has zero experience in.

      • Sean

        What could go wrong?

      • UnCivilServant

        They might hire me?

      • UnCivilServant

        You know, your company’s SEO sucks, I searched specifically for the company name and ‘careers’ and I had to scroll down before I found something from their actual site, and it was the employee referral program page. I don’t know where their career page ends up in the list.

      • Not Adahn

        Hmmm. Definitely put me down as your referral. I’ll kick back half the bounty to you.

      • Not Adahn

        FYI, SMTS is a pretty high level job title. Very hard to get promoted to.

      • UnCivilServant

        And I don’t meet most of the requirements for the job beyond having a BS in an appropriate technical field and Unix Scripting.

        🙁

  59. The Late P Brooks

    Whaaa? The original sin of California is racism, just like everywhere else.

    The place has been on the road to ruin ever since Sutter’s Mill.

    • juris imprudent

      Blaming the Swiss now are we?

  60. The Late P Brooks

    Lawmakers in the Democratic-controlled state Legislature introduce dozens of bills each year to try to increase housing production, but many of their boldest ideas often fail in the face of opposition from local governments, labor unions and neighborhood groups.

    How can DEMOCRACY! function if people disagree with us?

    • creech

      Put the proposals on the ballot if you want them passed. The dismal “bullet train” project won voter approval over the opposition of local governments and neighborhood groups.
      The voters in California seem up to agreeing to anything that comes out of Sacramento.

  61. Rebel Scum

    But right-wing terrorism is the biggest threat…

    In June, far-left pro-abortion terrorists firebombed a Compasscare pro-life crisis center in Buffalo, New York.

    Amherst police reportedly investigated the fire at CompassCare in Eggertsville as arson.

    Fire officials say the firebombing caused at least $150,000 worth of damage to the structure, Buffalo News reported.

    Jane’s Revenge also took responsibility for vandalizing a DC crisis pregnancy center around that same time.

    It has been months since the attack at the pro-life center. The FBI was given the security camera footage but is not investigating this political bombing. Paster James Harden asked for the FBI to return their security camera footage but the FBI refuses to turn it over to the pro-Life group.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Anarcho-tyranny

      Sam Francis’s term “anarcho-tyranny” refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law,[21] or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.[22][23]

    • R C Dean

      “Paster James Harden asked for the FBI to return their security camera footage but the FBI refuses to turn it over to the pro-Life group.”

      How stupid would you have to be to not keep a copy?

    • creech

      This must be fake news. The abortion terrorists are pro-life, right? Anyone see the new “Law & Order” last night? Pro-life Texas governor’s teen age daughter needs an abortion, can’t get one in Texas, is conducted to NYC by a do-gooder pro-abortion activist. Yada yada. Girl is murdered by her brother. Brave enabler testifies but is murdered on the courthouse steps by a gunman who steps out of the pro-life demonstration. Except for one cynical cop on L&O it is all wok all the time. At least “Blue Bloods” provides some balance.

      • UnCivilServant

        That show is still on the air?

  62. B.P.

    “US Army’s first trans officer, wife indicted for passing military medical info to Russians”

    Uh… thank you for your service? The wife is kinda fetching. I mean, except for the treachery and such.

  63. Certified Public Asshat

    BIOLOGICAL MALE IS STARTING TO DOMINATE WOMEN’S DISC GOLF, BUT COMPETITORS MOSTLY STAY QUIET

    As Kay points out, Ryan showed up to July’s Great Lakes Open in Milford, Mich., and took home $6,000 for a first-place performance. The event was supposed to be a major moment for equality in sports as disc golf had the same first-place prize money for men and women. Then two biological men won both divisions.

    Will a certain Glib come clean?

    • The Other Kevin

      If that kind of money’s involved, he might want to invest in a couple of skirts.

    • rhywun

      The event was supposed to be a major moment for equality in sports as disc golf had the same first-place prize money for men and women. Then two biological men won both divisions.

      🤣😂

      • Hyperion

        “Then two biological men won both divisions.”

        But it ain’t cause of that myth that men can throw things farther.

    • Hyperion

      Where’s Yusef?, he should be concerned. Not only does he need to worry now about Brandon draining the nation’s strategic maple syrup reserves stockpile, but the trannies are taking over the Disc courses and they refuse to wear the proper flannel and hats with furry ear flaps!

    • rhywun

      So not only do you have to use today’s correct pronouns, you have to keep an internal history of the correct pronouns by date.

      Sure why not

      • Mojeaux

        Why can’t they just use “he/her/they”? Covers all bases except “otherkin” and “kittenkin.”

      • Mojeaux

        Well played. I won’t even try for a cute riposte.

  64. The Late P Brooks

    Federal power > State power > what local people want.

    The “people” are an annoying impediment to our march toward a more perfect State.

  65. Sean

    https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2022/09/30/florida-officials-least-21-deaths-attributed-hurricane-ian/8133131001/

    Florida officials early Friday addressed the death toll from Hurricane Ian for the first time, saying there could be at least 21 fatalities from the powerful storm.

    Florida Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said 12 deaths in Charlotte County and eight in Collier County remain unconfirmed from the storm. But there is at least one death believed caused by the hurricane in Polk County.

    Oof.

    • juris imprudent

      Out of the number it would’ve been back before we could forecast/track them? Sad, but not that bad.

  66. R.J.

    Interesting. Ginnithomas.org reroutes to a Linux page.

    • slumbrew

      Eh, it’s probably just someone’s vanity domain & they have it misconfigured:

      Creation Date: 2011-01-10T19:08:13Z

  67. The Late P Brooks

    “If it’s not worth cheating for, it’s not worth having.”

    -W C Fields

  68. Hyperion

    “Meta freezes hiring as CEO Mark Zuckerberg blames economy”

    The Zuckerborg learned what should be a valuable lesson. We cannot hire any more wokesters because they are like North Korean missiles. They won’t work and you can’t fire them.

    But of course, he will not learn anything, Brandon, Klaus, and his CCP affiliated wife are demanding it.