Saturday Morning Protest Links

by | Sep 17, 2022 | Daily Links | 273 comments

 

You may recall my link to this story. My take at the time was, wait, how can distributing pamphlets be illegal??? Are we back in the Schenck Universe? What was even more amazing was the the university president here- in a different town and a different county- felt it important to make an official statement and set up counseling for frightened and traumatized students. Holy shit.

Well, here we are several months later, and the Hillel house in our town decided to sponsor a rally and a march to make sure everyone knows that we are OUTRAGED and are coming together as a community to stamp out Hate.

In July 2022, Neo-Nazi literature (with skull and swastika emblems) was distributed to three houses of worship in Hornell targeting a Roman Catholic church, a predominantly black congregation church, and a Jewish synagogue.

• What is our response?
To march in unity to each of the three targeted houses of worship and rededicate them to their sacred purpose of worship.

• Why should you participate?
This is an opportunity for us, who are opposed to religious and racial intimidation, to encourage one another by coming out and lending our presence and voice. By participating, you will be saying that Neo-Nazi intimidation is not okay in our community.

“Not okay.” Thank god they cleared THAT up. The march was supposed to start at one of the churches, proceed to the next church, and then end at the synagogue. As you might expect, I’d be more inclined to contribute to a First Amendment defense fund than engage in a moral preening display validating the fright and intimidation caused by these three insignificant trailer park losers dangerous desperados.

During our weekly Shabbat get-together, everyone started planning and arranging transportation and signage. I stayed silent, not wanting to go out of my way to alienate what few Jews we have here, not to mention getting a personally and professionally destructive reputation as a “Nazi sympathizer.” Of course, the questions began. “Why aren’t you going? Don’t you want to protest?” Much ducking, dodging, and in the end, lying. I’ll have to make sure that neither I nor my car are seen around here next weekend since I, ahem, am unfortunately traveling.

I also will not protest today’s birthdays which include my kinda guy; one of our intellectual forefathers; a guy who was a bit of a space cadet; an early victim of police violence; a truly forgettable Chief Justice named after a truly ineffective DA; an exception to the “dynasties suck” rule; Daryl Dragon’s spirit guide;  a guy whose career peaked in a monkey suit; an astronaut who didn’t punch anyone– that we know about; a woman who fucked Dustin Hoffman; one more argument in favor of term limits; a mediocrity famous for something or other, maybe hanging out with actual talents; a guy who had more wood than Peter North; and another truly forgettable Supreme.

Let’s move on to Links.

 

Now do the CIA black sites in Ukraine.

 

Man, I truly picked the wrong area of science to work in.

 

I hope they have a Unity March.

 

It’s wonderful to see politicians working so hard to convince the citizenry that our government is a corrupt and retarded enterprise. This is how libertarians are created.

 

It’s wonderful to see politicians working so hard to… oh wait. God, I love this woman. Along with MTG and Boebert, she has succeeded in so many ways where we have failed.

 

If there were human sacrifice involved, this story would be complete.

 

One more reason I avoid Atlanta as the plague that it is.

 

Old Man Music features one of our birthday boys playing with his organ. And to be fair, this is a song that, every time I pick up my flute, I can’t help but start to play.

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Old Man With Candy

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

273 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    MMMMmmmmmm Burger.

  2. DEG

    As you might expect, I’d be more inclined to contribute to a First Amendment defense fund than engage in a moral preening display validating the fright and intimidation caused by these three insignificant trailer park losers dangerous desperados.

    Trailer park losers. Heh. A relative of mine was friends with some actual KKK members (i.e. not Fed plants). They were trailer park losers.

    • rhywun

      What a horrible situation to be put in – these people are truly awful. The totalitarian, conformist future is now, and it sucks ass.

  3. Count Potato

    “Enhanced visualization of female squirting”

    Then all those pixel squares ruined it.

    • robodruid

      Reproduction of results is a key component of science.

      • Old Man With Candy

        “Reproduction.” What you reified was optically observed.

    • DrOtto

      “which was videotaped…” they can still find videocassettes?

      • Count Potato

        Maybe in Japan?

  4. DEG

    When Wagner was initially asked about the clip flagged by Snapchat, she denied making the video, but instead claimed that “someone” had sent it to her. She subsequently said her account was “hacked and or taken over by a man that lives in Jamaica that was ‘pimping her.’”

    Needs more believable lies.

  5. SDF-7

    everyone started planning and arranging transportation and signage

    Wait, that sounds awfully like *work* to me…. Some Pharisees must be having the vapors about now. 😉

  6. Gender Traitor

    You play the flute?? 😃 Wait a minute! Is this one of those euphemisms I keep hearing about? ::squints suspiciously::

    • Sensei

      I’m sorry learning Japanese was last night.

      尺八
      しゃくはち
      1. shakuhachi – end-blown fippleless bamboo flute
      Common Noun

      2. blow job, fellatio
      Common Noun Slang Vulgar

      • Gender Traitor

        I just learned what a “fipple” is!

        Glad to get that out of the way early. Now I don’t have to learn anything else for the rest of the day! 😊

  7. Count Potato

    “God, I love this woman. Along with MTG and Boebert, she has succeeded in so many ways where we have failed.”

    The Republicans should run much better looking women.

  8. Sean

    I do not want to be peed on.

    • SDF-7

      Duly noted.

  9. Sensei

    If there were human sacrifice involved, this story would be complete.

    I’m at a loss.

    • Seguin

      I…I don’t believe in capital punishment, but I if I did….hang by the neck until dead. There’s just no coming back from that.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    rededicate them to their sacred purpose of worship.

    What in the everloving fuck is that even supposed to mean?

    • rhywun

      “Look at me!”

      You’re welcome.

    • Seguin

      Trust us, it’s not a cult!

  11. UnCivilServant

    Good Morning, Glibs. This seems too early for links. I’m clearly in the wrong time zone.

    • Gender Traitor

      Good morning, U! How are you today?

      • UnCivilServant

        Sluggish in the waking up department, though I did have some story ideas that I just emailed to you.

      • Gender Traitor

        Got it. Don’t rush the whole “waking up” thing – you’re on vacation!

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s laundry day. I gotta wash clothes if I want to be clean for the remainder of that vacation. So, that’s what I’m off to do.

    • rhywun

      I feel like I’m in the wrong time zone in my own house.

      That’s what I get for staying up late.

      • Count Potato

        Cocaine is a helluva drug.

  12. Cowboy

    Bom dia and happy saturday, everyone.

    No f1 means I have to keep the toddler entertained in other ways this morning. Time to listen to the same 5 songs over and over again while frying up some bacon. It is/was Hatch Season at HEB, so delicious thick cut hatch chili bacon will be done soon. On the song front, I will say the quality and variety of childrens songs is streets ahead of when I was a babe.

    Anyone else getting tired of the left getting the absolute vapors about “using human lives for a political stunt”? I frequent reddit a lot, and its just everywhere, how Abbott and DeSantis are literal monsters and traffickers and playing games with peoples lives! The hypocrisy and lack of critical thinking are palpable and rage inducing.

    • Gender Traitor

      On the song front, I will say the quality and variety of children’s songs is streets ahead of when I was a babe.

      As always, I highly recommend the book and music collections of greeting card artist/children’s (and others’) book author Sandra Boynton. Dog Train is an all-time favorite!

      • Cowboy

        Thanks for the recommendation. She has some big names singing so its bound to be good. I’ll qeueueueue some up in youtubemusic and check it out.

        We go to a music class every week called KinderMusik that has a bunch of fun little ear worm songs. Hes also hooked on Songs for Littles and super simple songs. Weve been lucky to avoid cocomelon and baby shark.

      • Gender Traitor

        If your little is a typical toddler and doesn’t want to lie down midday even when getting cranky, this stirring anthem is absolutely a must! (I love this one SO MUCH!!)

    • SDF-7

      Could always subscribe to F1TV and go through an archive. The 2016 season is always fun to watch again.

    • rhywun

      “using human lives for a political stunt”

      Pay no attention to the practices of the Democratic party for the last 75 years or so behind the curtain.

    • SDF-7

      And re: the “human trafficking” — unless these same people were complaining about the Biden Midnight Flights to Georgia (and every other state) sprinkling illegal immigrants through rural and suburb communities, I’ll immediately tune them out. Since most of the instances of this I’ve seen have them denying Biden did any such thing and ignoring the plethora of coverage even from the Lefty side, I dismiss them as the Hordes of Landru they are.

      • The Hyperbole

        Honest question when Biden etal were shipping migrants/illegals did they simply dump them off at the airport or bus depot or were they sent to places with resources to get them settled, find housing, get work etc. If so isn’t that a bit of an important distinction.

        As for the lefts hypocrisy, just because they too use people for political stunts doesn’t mean they’re wrong about DeSantis and Abbot.

      • SDF-7

        https://news.yahoo.com/psaki-confirms-illegal-immigrants-being-185839952.html implies they were sent to places with known relatives or sponsors, so not simply dumped off.

        Politicians doing political stunts? Yeah… ducks also swim in water. If the reports are true and these folks are signing consent forms and know exactly where they’re going and agreed to it and all, I don’t really have a problem with their destinations serving a political purpose as well for DeSantis and Abbot.

      • Count Potato

        They sent kids to people without even checking their identity.

      • SDF-7

        Which they? If the current round did, that’s certainly a good reason to call for them doing better, sure.

      • Count Potato

        The current administration hired a security company to do it.

      • Chafed

        I think misses the point DeSantis and Abbott are making (though it does capture the stupid online debate). The governors’ point is they are being overrun. They don’t want the illegal immigrants and want the feds to enforce the law. Since there are jurisdictions that openly flaunt the law and claim to welcome the illegal immigrants, they are sending them where they are welcome.

      • Sensei

        That’s the way I interpret it.

        These are places flaunting the law and saying welcome.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        psst!: flout

        sorry…

      • Sensei

        Yes… but thinking about it still works.

      • Mojeaux

        Glad somebody said it before I had to.

    • Seguin

      It’s awesome he/she likes F1. I hope when/if we have ours he/she likes Paris-Dakar.

  13. DEG

    I overslept. It’s time for the gym. I wonder if the contractor working on the siding of my house will show up?

    Oktoberfest celebrations later. Opening day in Munich.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    The DeSantis campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital, but Christina Pushaw, rapid response director for the campaign, tweeted “Thirst post all you want. You’re not getting those U-Hauls back.”

    Nice.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “For the most part, people didn’t need lawyers and years of processing to come to this US until immigration became a racialized issue.”

    “We’ll take the niggers and the chinks. But we don’t want the Irish!”

  16. Grumbletarian

    Of course, the questions began. “Why aren’t you going? Don’t you want to protest?” Much ducking, dodging, and in the end, lying. I’ll have to make sure that neither I nor my car are seen around here next weekend since I, ahem, am unfortunately traveling.

    “Because I believe the First Amendment applies to even the scummiest people on earth. I don’t condone their message whatsoever, but the Constitution guarantees them a right to it.”

    • SDF-7

      I would go with “Personally, I don’t believe a few simpletons’ idiocy in any way diminishes a place of worship or any community. It is obvious no one is actually intimidated, so why give them any of the attention they obviously seek?”

      I mean — from a First Amendment perspective, they had their say — the marchers are having theirs, there isn’t a repression per se, just a rejection of the message. Said rejection is hugely overblown and elevates the stupidity of the first message far beyond its merit, is all. :shrug:

      • Old Man With Candy

        That is almost exactly my take. Why give them power that they don’t otherwise have? Laughter is more appropriate.

    • Q Continuum

      Didn’t you get the memo? 1A is racist, transphobic and colonialist or something.

      • SDF-7

        Part of me really, really wishes that hyperdimensional theory and alternate timelines were true and that we could develop a transdimensional viewer just to show these morons the world that no Western Civilization would look like. I strongly suspect their Utopia of communal living with no punctuality or work ethic or whatever else they subscribe to evil European influence wouldn’t be at all a pretty sight.

        My first guess would be Chinese hegemony — but honestly, China usually doesn’t give a crap as long as the rest of the world kowtows to it. I doubt they’d really bother (much like the Treasure Fleet ended up). The Americas wouldn’t be very pretty at a guess.

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

      I see that this is your first time visiting a small college town.

    • Homple

      “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
      …H. L. Mencken

  17. PudPaisley

    I went down the youtube rabbit hole listening to Kirk after one of your links to him last year. That’s when I realized I had been listening to a cover of one of Kirk’s songs for years and didn’t know it. It turns out one of my favorite guitar players, Derek Trucks, was heavily influenced by Kirk and other jazz musicians of the time. He recorded it on one of his early albums.

    Here’s a live version of the Kirk song from a show I was at a couple years ago. I think this show was the night before I almost met the legendary SP and yourself. The whole show is fantastic. They were on fire that night. Song 13 if it doesn’t pop up in the link. Also some nice flute playing in song 15. I love Bonnie’s cover of this song, but I think Susan does it better.

    https://archive.org/details/ttb2018-01-26.cm33/ttb2018-01-26chicago.cm33t13.flac

    • Old Man With Candy

      Nice show!

    • rhywun

      This is exactly how I wound up “defending a clinic” one summer when Operation Rescue was busy in Buffalo.

      I felt really stupid there because really I didn’t give a damn one way or the other.

      • Brawndo

        Before clicking the link, I assumed you meant abortion clinic and I was confused why a gay man would do that when the only reason men go to those is to get laid.

      • rhywun

        Even in the early nineties the gay “community” was just assumed to be on board with every lefty topic. Not to mention the “college student” community.

  18. Q Continuum

    “Sexual stimulation was provided to facilitate squirting, which was videotaped and verified”

    Where might we get our hands on these recordings? For science.

    • Brawndo

      Amazing that they’ve managed to turn pissing yourself into something cool and exotic.

      I guess Billy Madison was ahead of his time.

  19. Q Continuum

    “A judge has barred Wagner and her spouse–who has not been charged–from having any contact with the children”

    If he’s not being charged, why is the husband not allowed to see the children?

    Despicable story tho.

    • Sensei

      Probably some deal that allows child services to investigate and make a recommendation with no charges.

      I assume it’s got some kinds of limits and language that state regularly ignores.

  20. SDF-7

    And speaking of simpletons and idiocy — ‘Orning ‘Ordle of Pain (for me, anyway)…. first round was decent enough, which must have lulled me into a false sense of security — because Chumptown, your Dictator For Life is back in town!

    Daily Duotrigordle #199
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 05:51.46
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 236
    4️⃣🟥
    6️⃣🟥
    quordle.com

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 236
      5️⃣🟥
      3️⃣8️⃣

      Junior Henchman of Chumptown reporting for duty.

      • robc

        Daily Quordle 236
        4️⃣8️⃣
        6️⃣5️⃣
        quordle.com

        UR was a bit tricky.

      • Penguin

        Daily Quordle 236
        5️⃣8️⃣
        7️⃣6️⃣
        quordle.com

    • The Hyperbole

      Daily Duotrigordle #199
      Guesses: X/37
      Time: 05:26.67

      Failure, but al least I didn’t chump in quordle.

      Daily Quordle 236
      5️⃣6️⃣
      3️⃣8️⃣

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 236
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      3️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

    • rhywun

      Top-left is baffling the shit out of me.

      • rhywun

        Ugh finally

        Daily Quordle 236
        7️⃣5️⃣
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    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 236
      7️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 236
      6️⃣7️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣

      A couple wags that actually went my way!

    • Grosspatzer

      /rant on
      Apparently morphine does not enhance quordle skillz. Just got back from the ER armed with an oxycodone prescription to use when the morphine wears off, I have a 5mm stone lodged somewhere between left kidney and egress. Another one in the right kidney, which will be fun when it starts to move. Fuck me.
      /rant off

      Daily Quordle 236
      5️⃣9️⃣
      3️⃣🟥
      quordle.com

      • Count Potato

        Hope you are feeling better.

    • Mojeaux

      I do Wordle and Quordle every night around midnight. They are usually difficult for me, being tired and half asleep. My scores, if I don’t chump, are usually very high, so I don’t post them. I’m supposed to be able to work magic with words, but word games like these and Scrabble are totally beyond me. I don’t know why they’re so difficukt, but they are.

      And then Wordle does shit like “rarer” and I realize the puzzle makers are asshoe.

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 236
      5️⃣7️⃣
      3️⃣6️⃣

  21. The Late P Brooks

    It is a good thing that Atlanta exists. It is also good that I am far away from it.

    • SDF-7

      Meh…. I much preferred the communities along GA 400 *before* Atlanta metastasized up along it. I doubt I’ll retire where I planned to unless my parents make it to my retirement (which seems statistically unlikely), rather will probably seek something in NE Alabaman or something to try to stay away from Atlanta, Chattanooga and Birmingham as best I can.

  22. Count Potato

    “Tucker Carlson on Friday night mocked the residents of Martha’s Vineyard for their response to the arrival of 50 Venezuelan migrants, and pointed out that the $43,000 raised in a GoFundMe was not even going directly to those affected…

    ‘An update on the fundraising page reveals that the funds will instead go toward, ”building up a reserve to assist situations like this in the future, rather than directly helping this group of migrants in their situation.”'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11221605/GoFundMe-Marthas-Vineyard-migrants-sent-cash-16m-local-non-profit-instead.html

    Never let a grift go to waste.

    • Brawndo

      I heard the migrants we’re “voluntarily relocated to a nearby army base” after the good people of MV got their photo op of handing out water.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        It was even better than that. They called up 125 guardsmen to deal with 50 migrants.

      • Count Potato

        Also hugging them before they got on the bus. CNN kept playing that.

      • R C Dean

        They were patting them down to make sure they hadn’t stolen any of the silverware.

      • Count Potato

        LOL, but I’m sure none of them would let them in their homes.

    • Chafed

      I support your cause.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    What was even more amazing was the the university president here- in a different town and a different county- felt it important to make an official statement and set up counseling for frightened and traumatized students. Holy shit.

    Anything other than, “C’mon, show a little backbone, willya?” is just plain wrong.

  24. Count Potato

    “Facebook has reversed a decision to ban advertising of a Holocaust film entitled Beautiful Blue Eyes – having initially argued that the title violated their policy on racially-offensive names.

    The title refers to the eye color of a child who died at the hands of the Nazis, and invokes a key scene in the movie.

    Yet Facebook in early September banned the showing of the trailer on their site, saying it ran contrary to their policy against content that ‘includes direct or indirect assertions or implications about a person’s race,’ among other personal attributes.

    It is still unclear how the film’s title violated the race policy, given that blue eyes are not exclusive to only one race.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11221099/Facebook-BANS-ads-promoting-Roy-Scheider-Holocaust-movie-violates-race-policy.html

    • Chafed

      They are just making it up as they go along.

      • Count Potato

        Yes, they have a hundred times more rules than when they started.

  25. Count Potato

    Today, in shithole hews

    “Moment terrified Portland mom finds homeless person in her child’s BED and calls cops – but woke DA lets intruder go the very next day with bail set at $0”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11221529/Portland-mother-finds-homeless-woman-KIDS-BED-startled-intruder-throws-ottomon-homeowner.html

    “New Orleans overtakes St. Louis to become the MURDER CAPITAL of America: Homicide rate up 141% from 2019 and carjackings rise 210% – as city’s police staffing drops to lowest level in modern history”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11220737/New-Orleans-overtakes-St-Louis-murder-capital-America.html

    • Chafed

      It looks like the good people of Portland are getting what 77% of them voted for.

    • The Last American Hero

      Good. More of this please.

      I don’t wish harm on anyone, but that city is so far off the rails, it won’t contemplate a course correction until a few people get raped or killed. And by a few I mean people close to or in the Party Members. Once this stuff starts happening more frequently and once the “wrong sorts” of people are victimized then change can occur.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Taking money under false pretenses

    If you ask Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt about the federal dollars he’s received over the last few years to help make his land more sustainable, it’s clear he’s a big fan.

    “It works out really well in our operation,” says Ewoldt, who farms corn and soybeans on “just shy of 2,000 acres” near Davenport, Iowa. “We see tremendous benefits in conservation, water quality and carbon sequestration.”

    —–

    The government’s conservation programs are meant to bolster farmers’ response to climate change, as Ewoldt and others like him are forced to confront worsening droughts on the one hand, and unprecedented rainfall and flooding on the other. But even with billions more in federal assistance on the way, there is little sign the massive infusion of money from Democrats’ recently passed Inflation Reduction Act will reshape politics in the solidly Republican state of Iowa, nor move the dial for farmers in other rural areas where the GOP maintains a seemingly irreversible foothold.

    Those filthy whores. That’s just like stealing.

    • rhywun

      Buy votes harder.

  27. PieInTheSky

    Now do the CIA black sites in Ukraine. – I think some of these were rumored to be in Romania as well 10 years ago but I am sure not any more

    • The Last American Hero

      Well, they are rather hard to see. It’s not like they put sign out front.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Ewoldt, who accepts climate change and says farmers “need to do things to mitigate it,” acknowledges that his farming practices have “allowed my soil to hold more water during drought conditions.”

    The additional government funding is a good thing, he says. But Ewoldt’s congressional representative, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, sided with her fellow Republicans in unanimously rejecting the Inflation Reduction Act. “Now is not the time to pass a $740 billion spending bill, let alone one filled with partisan priorities,” she said in a statement.

    Ewoldt plans to vote for her anyway.

    “I know her,” he says. “And there’s other things that come into it besides the economics.”

    But if you’re not with us, you’re against us. They should require those farmers to bring in proof they voted Democrat as part of the application process.

    • Chafed

      Give it time.

    • rhywun

      Who will write the rousing gospel number memorializing Parmvir Singh?

      Good question.

    • Grumbletarian

      Shit like that affirms for me that there is still a place for the death penalty.

    • Count Potato

      I don’t even know how to pronounce that name.

    • Count Potato

      “There were no rallies, marches, or protests in honor of Eliza Fletcher or Brianna Kupfer. No one bothered to organize a commemorative riot, or even host an honorary CVS looting in their names. No Target was ceremoniously burned to the ground in her honor. No one screamed “SAY HER NAME!” at a candlelight vigil attended by weeping mayors and city officials. No t-shirts were printed up with their faces on them. The President and Vice President stayed silent. Nancy Pelosi did not kneel for two minutes in silence in the halls of congress. No one held a press conference and said, “Brianna Kupfer looked like she could be my daughter.”

      Identity politics is pure poison. What evidence is there that the George Floyd incident was motivated by race?

      • The Last American Hero

        Um, the kneeler was white and Saint George wasn’t. Case closed.

    • Sensei

      That’s a nice kick in the bawls.

    • Tundra

      Kill him.

      This is getting out of control.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Isaac Wright, co-founder of the Rural Voter Institute, a progressive research firm, says to get there, Democrats need a lesson in how to talk to voters outside their urban base.

    “Our values are not the issue,” he insists. “It’s how we communicate and often how we fail to communicate.”

    The hicks are just too dumb to comprehend our sophisticated message. We need to talk down to them harder.

  30. PieInTheSky

    Pasta with Tomato Sauce: Fresh vs. Roasted (plus Extras) by Michelin Star Italian Chef Peppe Guida

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLz1TLRnD8k

    This guy may be sort of libertarian in that he has an unregistered organic farm as in does not need authority stamp on it

  31. Shpip

    One more reason I avoid Atlanta as the plague that it is.

    At the risk of sounding like John Derbyshire, is there a black-run city in the country that isn’t ineptly / corruptly governed?

    • Old Man With Candy

      I can’t think of any white-run large cities that aren’t ineptly and corruptly governed, either.

      • Chafed

        Sandy Springs, Georgia begs to differ.

      • Shpip

        Buckhead is trying to join Sandy Springs in its exodus from Atlanta. Whether they’ll succeed in seceding or not is anyone’s guess.

      • Seguin

        108k. Is that considered large?

      • Seguin

        Same. Seems to be the main correlating factor.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just steer clear of MLK Boulevard and your chances of being brutally murdered will drop by two thirds.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        That sounds ironic.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Unless MLK stands for Milk Boulevard.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Harvey Milk Boulevard? Artsiest street in the city, low violent crime, monkeypox vaccine highly recommended.

      • Q Continuum

        Not by three fifths?

      • SDF-7

        Avoid any Peachtree Street, Boulevard, Avenue, etc. and any street that intersects them and you’ll definitely be fine as well.

        And yeah, I’m with OMWC — San Diego used to seem at least semi-competently run, but they’ve gone down the crapper over the last few years I believe. I can’t think of any major metro area that doesn’t seem inept off the top of my head — and corruption is just a given.

      • Q Continuum

        I’ll give Phoenix a shout out because it’s the only large city with a mayor I’ve gotten to third base with.

      • Tundra

        Dude.

        She looks like Remy in drag. I hope you were wasted.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Kevin Faulconer was term-limited. My relatives and I did not vote for the current mayor.

      • Penguin

        Just steer clear of MLK Boulevard and your chances of being brutally murdered will drop by two thirds.

        Chris Rock on that.

    • Mustang

      Sir, we only discriminate based on politics ’round these parts, and we ain’t very good at that neither.

  32. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Atlanta makes Baltimore look like…what’s a nonshithole city? Are there any?

    • PieInTheSky

      the tre young dejonte murray pairing can have issues, it is true

    • PieInTheSky

      posted to early wanted to say you americans have too many fast food chains

      • SDF-7

        Ok, Bernie.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Zaxby’s is nasty. Ate there once and couldn’t even finish the sandwich.

      • SDF-7

        HERESY!!!

        Of course, I don’t usually do their sandwiches, but their wings and things combo both rolled in Tongue Torch is great. The closest one to us is in Utah, and yes — *that’s* what I periodically drive to SLC for to treat my wife by bringing back.

        Don’t you smack talk Zaxby’s man… them’s fighting words.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Whatever blows your colon out, dude.

    • Cowboy

      Whataburger a D? While I concede that its fallen off since dropping the A1 Thick and Hearty, it’s still leaps above the average burger chain.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Making Arby’s a B seems a bit optimistic.

      • Mustang

        Arby’s gives me the runs but for some reason I keep going back.

      • Seguin

        That’s all I need to hear to ignore the list. If In n’ Out is above Whataburger, I’ll just me mad all day. #$@#$ plasticky cheese slop and nasty special sauce.

    • DrOtto

      Taco Cabana is the shit. Reasonable prices for quality “fast food”. You actually see them grilling the fajitas on a grated grill and they make their tortillas fresh all day long. Sacks of rice and beans. They are actually making food, not reheating pre-packaged/pre-cooked food.

    • Mojeaux

      That chart is whack.

      Who said something about Long John Silver? We have one, paired with A&W. Nom nom nom. I love me some deep fried seafood, and also hush puppies, and also cole slaw. I don’t get it very often because I can’t eat much in one sitting and that kind of food is not good when it’s cold and it doesn’t warm well in the nuker.

      • The Last American Hero

        The last time I went to an LJS was 20 years ago, and I should have walked out. It was not clean, and the after party in my bathroom took a wicked turn.

      • mock-star

        Mojeaux, you are definitely a woman of refinement and good taste. Long Johns is awesome.

  33. Rufus the Monocled

    Newsome is tiresome. Go away Gavin Nuisance.

    I say rename Martha’s Vineyard.

    How about Karen’s Vineyard?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Don’t insult the future President like that.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        OMFG DON’T EVEN JOKE.

        And don’t you work?

        DOESN’T ANYONE WORK?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. It’s the wave of the future.

      • Seguin

        I don’t know how to tell you this, Rufus…You’re the only one who works. On this planet. Your efforts are singlehandedly holding up all of civilization. So get back to it, we’re depending on you.

    • R C Dean

      I think Migrant’s Vineyard would be the way to go.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Saving the planet

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a sweeping package of climate legislation into law on Friday, aiming to accelerate the Golden State’s transition to clean energy.

    Among the long list of initiatives to receive gubernatorial approval were measures to cut air pollution by 60 percent and reduce state oil consumption by 91 percent over the next two decades, according to the governor’s office.

    Within the same time frame, the bills intend to save California $23 billion by avoiding damages caused by pollution, reduce fossil fuel use in buildings and transportation by 92 percent and slash refinery pollution by 94 percent.

    “We could talk about the way the world should be and protest it, or we can actually make demonstrable progress — and we took the latter approach here,” Newsom said at a press conference Friday morning on Mare Island, in Solano County northeast of San Francisco.

    ——-

    The advancement of the bills constitutes “an essential piece” of the governor’s California Climate Commitment — a $54 billion action plan that aims to create 4 million jobs, according to Newsom’s office.

    The governor described this step as “the most aggressive action on climate our nation has ever seen,” in a statement released ahead of the signing.

    I would like to be able to shrug my shoulders and say, “They’re getting what they voted for, good and hard” except California’s lunacy bleeds out into the rest of the country.

    Like gas cans you can barely get gasoline out of (or into), and all the idiots in all the states who outsource their auto regs to CARB.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      reduce state oil consumption by 91 percent over the next two decades

      It’s achievable if they reduce the population by 91%. I’d say they’re on track to meet the goals.

    • rhywun

      save California $23 billion

      My goodness, they’d be stupid NOT to vote for that. I mean, if there’s anything California is good for, it’s saving money.

  35. Dr. Fronkensteen

    OT: When does it stop being grave robbing and starts being archeology? Um, asking for a friend

    • PieInTheSky

      We only ever make love in the missionary position – this is nonsense. make the chick get in top and swat a little, you now split the work equitably.

      • PieInTheSky

        sweat goddamnit

      • Raven Nation

        Meh, the typo is funnier.

      • Q Continuum

        Related question: do the escorts in Romania do anal for extra cash?

      • PieInTheSky

        some do it in the standard price, some do it for extra, some not at all. also it depends on size

        also Q I was annoyed that when I posted the before and after pics you did not comment because I asked you if you want to see them

      • Q Continuum

        I missed them. I was out of town on work for a bit, do you remember what day/what post it was? I’ll go check them out.

      • PieInTheSky

        well no it was in some morning links

        I think you can search for “pectoral muscle” in the comments because I think I mentioned the procedure

      • PieInTheSky

        Wednesday Morning Links
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        2022/08/24 at 9:02 am

      • Q Continuum

        This week or earlier? I’ll find them. When it comes to tits, I don’t mess around.

      • Q Continuum

        Found.

        She’s got a pretty killer body in general, but the implants were a great move IMO (though you probably already knew that). Looks like they were done well, solid work.

      • PieInTheSky

        they feel pretty good too almost made me change my opinion on fake boobs… almost

      • Q Continuum

        That’s cause they were done sub-pectoral. The father of one of my childhood friends was a plastic surgeon and sub-pectoral is 100% the way to go. The “nerf-ball” look in which they look and feel comically fake is when they do on top of the muscle.

      • PieInTheSky

        anyway about $70 for one hour of her time

      • SDF-7

        Okay, Sir Galahad.

  36. Fatty Bolger

    A Telemundo reporter appearing on MSNBC appeared to throw cold water on the liberal argument that the migrants Gov. Ron DeSantis flew to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. are wholly upset at the Florida Republican.

    “I can tell you they are not angry at Ron DeSantis, they are actually thanking him for having brought them to Martha’s Vineyard, where they were very well-received,” she told Diaz-Balart, who is the brother of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla.

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/reporter-msnbc-immigrants-not-angry-desantis-thanking-marthas-vineyard-flight

    • rhywun

      Well, until Martha’s Vinyard booted them out.

      But really, the whole point is to be anywhere not south of the border. Why would that be any less happy in MV than Florida.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    S.B. 1020 will require 90 percent of California’s electricity to come from clean energy sources by 2035 and 95 percent by 2040 — interim targets toward a 100 percent goal for 2045.

    In addition, all electricity procured for state agencies will need to come from clean energy by 2035, according to the bill.

    “Clean” meaning the emissions and other toxic byproducts are displaced to another state or country.

  38. Shiny Nerfherder

    Zelensky says ‘torture chambers’ where civilians were abused found in Kharkiv region

    That was quick.

    • SDF-7

      Go fuck yourself?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        *gold clap*

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        gold… golf… whatever man

      • SDF-7

        I just figured you being Shiny and all….

    • Fatty Bolger

      Looks like the doll skipped leg day.

  39. PieInTheSky

    England Average floor space for private renters has fallen by 16% over past 20 years (from 43m² per person in 1997-2001 to 36m² in 2017-19). Collectively, this reduction in floor space amounts to 75km2 – the size of Nottingham. Av. floor space for homeowners rose by 10% over this period.
    Image

    https://twitter.com/resfoundation/status/1571057620496121857

    Romania’s 110 sq m per person seems like a lot

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      What are these eurotrash units of floor space of which you speak?

      Living space is meant to be measured in hp and beer cans.

      • Count Potato

        hp?

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I need more vroom.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I’m a manarchist.

      • Q Continuum

        ^^^ Doxxed as Tucker Max.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Unless it’s a communist monarchy. The Kim’s are horrible.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    When does it stop being grave robbing and starts being archeology? Um, asking for a friend

    When you’re wearing a pith helmet, it’s archaeology.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I suddenly want a pith helmet to wear while on the toilet.

      • SDF-7

        Better choice than Anakin Skywalker….

        Here I sith, broken hearted…

  41. Shiny Nerfherder

    Black politicians played hardball with the white power brokers in the ‘70s and ‘80s and ‘90s, making sure African Americans got a piece of the financial pie, from city contracts to the airport makeover to the ‘96 Olympics.

    Everybody wants to rule the grift.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of fast food… is Long John Silver’s still around? i was running around doing errands yesterday, and I thought, “I could go for some greasy fish and chips.”

    • Negroni Please

      Dude. No.

      • Sensei

        My first thought was Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

    • The Hyperbole

      We have one left. It’s usually fairly busy.

      • The Hyperbole

        We used to have an Arthur Treacher’s which I much preferred to LJS but it is long gone.

      • Mojeaux

        We had an Arthur Treachers when I was a kid, but we never went there. One, we were really too poor for fast food, but two, my dad only liked his seafood pickled.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Mmmmmm… tapeworms

      • Mojeaux

        🤢

        My dad served his LDS mission in Holland and got a taste for a lot of weird things, like mayo on French fries. That one’s okay, since I had street fries with homemade mayo in Belgium.

    • Sean

      Hush puppies.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Vegas has em usually combined with another fast food joint like KFC or a Taco Bell

      • Seguin

        The combined ones are the only LJSes I’ll eat at. The standalones seem to be run really poorly and as a rule, dirty.

  43. Negroni Please

    Is anyone other than warty watching adcc this weekend? Some great brackets. 77kg bracket is absolutely insane

    • SDF-7

      What is that? A vintage rock concert for dyslexics?

      • Negroni Please

        Worse. Sweaty men grabbing each other for fun and profit

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Too important to be left to the so-called market?

    The breakthrough in negotiations was announced by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who hosted talks between unions representing 115,000 railway workers and the country’s largest railroads. If the unions accept the deal, workers will get double-digit raises, more flexible attendance policies and other benefits. President Biden called the agreement a win for rail workers who worked through the pandemic “to ensure that America’s families and communities got deliveries of what have kept us going during these difficult years.”

    Those deliveries, however, are still not entirely back on track, despite an apparently receding pandemic. And it could be a long time before supply chains again run as smoothly as they did before the age of lockdowns and mask mandates.

    ——-

    Jason Furman, a Harvard professor who headed the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, says there’s room for optimism, but “we’re not out of the woods yet.”

    “[The] ports have mostly cleared themselves out. Trucking has mostly resolved itself. The cost of international shipping is way down. So there are definitely a lot of things that have gotten better,” he says.

    But in other key areas, there are still several fairly serious wrinkles, such as high fuel and food prices and a shortage of microchips for vehicles that aren’t likely to be resolved anytime soon, Furman says.

    The Ministry of Plenty will have things running smoothly in no time.

    • rhywun

      wrinkles, such as high fuel and food prices

      Which are about to get a lot higher with those nice “double-digit raises”.

  45. Raven Nation

    Just watched the clip of the Wolves player being sent off. Hilarious that he argued so much.

    • rhywun

      Oh, they’re back? Barely paying attention this year.

      Glad I fast-forwarded through the Collingwood match. Settled in for the last few minutes as I saw they were catching up. With less than one minute on the clock, the feed froze and then they switched to the next scheduled program.

      Thanks, Fox Sports.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    “Our supply chains are only as strong as our most congested link,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told NPR on Thursday. “And we’ve seen that throughout the pandemic period and the recovery from the worst days of it, whether it’s ships, trucks, warehouses or trains, all of these things need to be working well in order for our economy to thrive.”

    That’s why he gets paid the big bucks.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Haters beware

    U.S. President Joe Biden called on Americans to speak out against racism and extremism during a summit at the White House on Thursday, and said he would ask Congress to do more to hold social media companies accountable for spreading hate.

    “White supremacists will not have the last word,” Biden told the ‘United We Stand’ summit of bipartisan local leaders, experts and survivors.

    Biden said America had long experienced a “through line of hate” against minority groups, one that had been given “too much oxygen” by politics and the media in recent years.

    “It’s so important that we keep hollering,” he said. “It’s so important for people to know that’s not who we are.”

    The event also recognized communities that suffered hate-based attacks, including mass shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando in 2016 and at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket earlier this year, in which 10 Black people were gunned down by an avowed racist.

    Hate crimes in the United States hit a 12-year high in 2020, the last available data, the FBI said last year.

    “Extremism” is everywhere. It must be rooted out and silenced.

    Dissent is treason.

    • rhywun

      spreading hate

      Look in the mirror, asshole.

  48. R.J.

    Running late. That Politico article was a pile of verbal diarrhea that said everything except what the author intended:
    The rap moguls tend to be pro-business, pro-individual and fairly libertarian in their views. Damn near every rapper I have met ends up that way, although moat could care less about politics. How dare they not be Democrats!

    • Mojeaux

      Story that Big Boi got stopped in the airport by a white woman just after Obama’s win. She said how delighted he must be that “his” people won finally. He said, “Bitch, I voted for Gary Johnson.”

      • whiz

        I love (not really) how they don’t see how racist they are when they say things like that.

      • Mojeaux

        So my MIL and FIL and I were having a discussion on race, and they decided my point was racist (the preponderance of black athletes who have white wives). Okay, whatever. Not half an hour later, a segment about personal finance came on Good Morning America. My FIL took one look at the expert and yelled, “Hey, honey, come look at this black lady! She’s really smart!”

        I said nothing.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Participants gave Biden a standing ovation when he said he wanted Congress to “hold social media companies accountable for spreading hate.”

    “I’m calling on Congress to get rid of special immunity for social media companies and impose much stronger transparency requirements on all of them,” Biden said.

    Wasn’t that widely ridiculed in the media as a dumb idea not so very long ago?

    • Count Potato

      They’ll keep trying.

    • rhywun

      Participants gave Biden a standing ovation

      That’s an interesting way to say, “clapped like seals”.

      • Sensei

        Mr. President, thank you for unifying and inspiring a vision of a stronger, fairer, safer future for all – for our children. Your extraordinary leadership has made this glorious day possible. I – that’s an applause line.

      • Chafed

        Or went over the cliff like lemmings.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    Hush puppies.

    Sean gets it.

    • Sensei

      Yes. When my son applied to college we were informed about this multiple times in the application process.

    • Grosspatzer

      “The honest truth is that Congress created a subprime lending program unintentionally,” said Rachel Fishman of New America, the left-leaning think tank.

      Totally unintentional, it was.

      • Sensei

        How you feeling?

      • Grosspatzer

        Just read your post and watched the clip. Very nice, will recommend to #2 son who had been taking Japanese at college up until this semester but had to drop it due to excessive workload (he is taking several graduate courses and teaching CS2).

        High as a kite, the pain is tolerable for now. From past experience I will not be able to pass the stone and will be looking at a cystoscope in a few weeks. Worst part is I will be limited in my ability to run errands for my semi-invalid wife. No. 1 son will need to step up.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Ow, sorry dude. I’m way too familiar with that particular pain.

      • Mojeaux

        Kidney stones! OMG, ’Patzer, so sorry!

      • Sensei

        Feel better!

        My son decided to take Ancient Greek without talking to me. Having taken just that in high school I would have advised against it.

        He now has mentioned that he wishes he could have reconsidered.

      • Ted S.

        My dad had a 27mm stone in his bladder several years back. They had to use ultrasound to break and then go in with a catheter.

      • Grosspatzer

        27mm? Yikes!

      • DEG

        Sorry.

    • Fatty Bolger

      I love these. Wish it was longer.

    • DEG

      Nice

    • Sensei

      Cessna wanted to be a jetty?

  51. The Late P Brooks

    The White House event comes just weeks after Biden warned in a speech in Philadelphia that extremist Republicans are a threat to democracy.

    Biden addressed criticism that the speech was divisive on Thursday.

    “Silence is complicity, we can’t remain silent,” Biden said. “There are those that say we bring this up, we divide the country. Bringing it up we silence it.”

    Biden announced a $1 billion push by philanthropists to build bridges among Americans of different backgrounds, and an initiative supported by the foundations of former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford.

    Building bridges with forced labor, like the Japanese in that movie?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Silence is violence, words are violence….all I ever wanted, all I ever needed is you

  52. The Late P Brooks

    The President is not being divisive when he calls half the country extremists and implies they are all Nazis or worse. He’s begging them to return to the fold and be obedient members of his flock.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    Attorney General Merrick Garland told the summit that all 94 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices would work on a “United Against Hate” initiative over the next year, to increase community understanding and reporting of hate crimes, and build trust between law enforcement and communities.

    Big Brother has his ear to the ground.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Now we know how they’ll brand political dissidents.

  54. The Late P Brooks

    Falsifying public records

    Just hours after a Montana judge blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate, the Republican-run state on Thursday said it would defy the order.

    District Court Judge Michael Moses chided attorneys for the state during a hearing in Billings for circumventing his April order that temporarily blocked a 2021 Montana law that made it harder to change birth certificates.

    Moses said there was no question that state officials violated his earlier order by creating the new rule. Moses said his order reinstates a 2017 Department of Public Health and Human Services rule that allowed people to update the gender on their birth certificate by filing an affidavit with the department.

    However, the state said it would disregard the ruling.

    This is all so ridiculously fucking stupid. How many people in the state of Montana (or anywhere) are beating down the door of their local courthouse to amend the sex box on their birth certificate?

    • Ted S.

      I don’t seem to recall seeing the phrase “Democrat-run state” when reading about New York’s blatantly unconstitutional new gun confiscation laws.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The blessed utopian state-run is the usual moniker

  55. The Late P Brooks

    ACLU attorney Malita Picasso expressed dismay with the agency’s stance and said officials should immediately start processing requests for birth certificate changes.

    They’re neck deep in those requests, I’m sure.

    • R C Dean

      Start processing and finish processing are two very different things.

  56. Ownbestenemy

    New kitten has taken over my makeshift WFH desk

    She has given two shits about the dogs and stands her ground.

    • Gender Traitor

      SQUEEEE!!! Look at those magnificent ears! 😻

      • rhywun

        All the better to spy on your every word and movement.

    • UnCivilServant

      That expression says “What do you think you’re doing?”

      • Ownbestenemy

        She demands attention

  57. The Late P Brooks

    New kitten has taken over my makeshift WFH desk

    Nice.

    Do

    not

    disturb.

    Or else.

  58. Count Potato

    Did someone send Mexican Sharpshooter to Cape Cod?

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Technical issue, its been fixed.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I watched that the other day…well done and the ending….

  59. Ownbestenemy

    End of September is a great time in Vegas. Weather rivals San Diego with high 70s and light breezes and festivals!

    Beerfest….er Oktoberfest https://sevenohbrew.com/

    Greek Featival http://lvgff.com/

    I am going to be fat and happy

    • Ownbestenemy

      Also the Ren Fair. They offer camping but I would never at that park unless they had heavy security. Sunset Park is bum central

      http://www.lvrenfair.com/