Took a short road trip with my family. Figured best to do so now while we can still afford to. We came across this Banjos-level tourist trap and we just had to see it.
Its glorious.
Now for the links!
Mexico expected to slip further into recession slower growth by IMF.
I have never heard of this dish. All jokes are welcome.
You gotta see this to believe it, …Most jokes are welcome.
More frivolous lawsuits!
Venezuelans experience more bad luck.
UN deciding whether or not its time to send more US Marines to Haiti.
These guys really were better when the singer was on heroin.
Reverse what?
Cowgirl?
Lrigwoc.
There, ya happy?
Is that a giant pistachio?
On our way back from hunting this year, we stopped in Steele, NoDak to gas up. Also to see The World’s Largest Sandhill Crane.
The big bonus was that there was a wild plum tree in the little park next to the statue. We filled up with plums and were heroes to the wimmenfolx when we returned.
I’m going to have to make a pilgrimage to the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota at some point on general principle.
My wife actually mocks Minnesoda for having some hokey World’s Biggest statue in every town. She thinks the Loon in Vergas, the Pelican in Pelican Rapids and the Turkey in Frazee are just dumb.
If you do go to Darwin, Minnesoda to see the twine, make sure you don’t go there during rush hour. The traffic tie ups there are notoriously bad.
Are you saying that it’s a tangle?
The stress of traffic will cause your guts to knot up for sure.
We should probably knot go down this thread.
Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we post without refreshing first
Swiss will have a gordian solution!
Sounds like a real goat rope.
*narrows gaze*
I love it.
Is that a giant alien egg?
Is that … a giant pistachio?!
size queen!
We saw this several years ago on a road trip thru New Mexico.
Had to stop and take a pic.
She’s no Vaniity.
So is Maria Clemente saying she doesn’t stay bought?
The only honest politician.
After posting sexually explicit content of herself in social media, Mexican transgender MP, María Clemente, says that her second job is being a wh*re.
I remember the adage that politics is Hollywood for ugly people, but c’mon, man… that thing is Bella Abzug with a dick.
🤢🤮
Buried lede: Most of the reporters interviewing her* are wearing masks.
*sure, whatever
Hawt.
Man, just as I brought up that twitter vid, Pearl Necklace (ZZ Top) started up on my Spotify. Creepy.
I thought being a whore was Job 1 for a politician.
It’s kind of a bi-polar thing.
Is that a giant pistachio?
I think it’s a giant pistachio.
Huh, I think it looks like a pistachio of unusual size.
The POUS?
I don’t think they exist.
“Insects, their eggs and larvae have been a part of Mexico’s cuisine for hundreds or thousands of years. Edday Farfán, an entomologist at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, said there are more than 430 species of edible insects in Mexico.”
¡No!
And then they got rich(er) and enjoy real food.
No sh*t. Caviar my ass.
Btw, you can trim down you Amazon links.
Anyway, that 10″ 1080 looks pretty neat.
You must teach me this.
Instead of this: https://www.amazon.com/Tyler-Portable-Widescreen-Detachable-Antennas/dp/B07S95CPS7/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1DCWRYZF47CVZ&keywords=tyler+tv&qid=1664669946&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjU0IiwicXNhIjoiMi45MiIsInFzcCI6IjIuNTEifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=tyler+tv%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.f5122f16-c3e8-4386-bf32-63e904010ad0
Trim it down to this: https://www.amazon.com/Tyler-Portable-Widescreen-Detachable-Antennas/dp/B07S95CPS7
I see. Thank you for the instructions!
To paraphrase a steak-loving friend – “Bugs aren’t food. Bugs are what food eats.”
Unless you’re eating shrimp, lobster, etc.
The point stands. 🤮
That Haitian has perfect
triggerdriftwood discipline.I went back to that picture trying to figure out if it was a homemade gun or what. Nope – just a piece of driftwood.
Somebody finally killed JB Fletcher. 🙁
About time. She must have been one of the world’s most prolific serial killers.
Is that… a transsexual alien egg self-identifying as a pistachio?
😉
Maybe…
https://imgur.com/gallery/2Qw4O
alien
So maybe the fact that the giant transexual genitals are green is not cause for alarm? That is just the way martians roll?
Well, if they give it 68 more tries…
Florida man fingered for robbery.
According to investigators, Paul James Sinclair, 56, entered a Chase branch in Seminole around 1:25 PM Monday and approached teller Desiree Stefanik.
“With his hand under his shirt,” cops charge, Sinclair “made the shape of a gun with his finger” and demanded that Stefanik hand over cash. Sinclair also “advised her not to push any buttons as he waited for her to open her drawer.”
That sounds like cruel and unusual punishment.
I have a gub!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8g24ml5cPc
So hand-robbery not armed robbery?
Jesus, that guy comes within 25 feet of me I’m pressing all the buttons. That mugshot.
Pretty sure that’s a giant fake pistachio.
Ceci n’est pas une pestache géante
The featured image has potential.
The judge ruled Mexico’s claims did not overcome the broad protection provided to gun manufacturers by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act passed in 2005.
Why do I think this will happen with the second lawsuit?
The United Nations Security Council on Monday was evaluating options including the immediate activation of foreign troops to help free Haiti from the grip of gangs that has caused a scarcity of fuel, water and other basic supplies.
UN troops in Haiti again? Hasn’t Haiti suffered enough?
Coming soon to multiple American cities.
That nut needs a sponsor.
The brand I see most often is Wonderful
It would make me giggle to see a banner that said, ‘Wonderful Nuts’.
My next project.
That rules!
I don’t think any other project I’ve done this year will measure up to that.
“Smirking ‘Green Goblin’ is freed WITHOUT bail in NYC after handing herself in as another member of vicious female gang is charged with battering and robbing two teen girls inside NYC subway train – leaving three left to catch”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11302631/Suspected-member-Green-Goblin-gang-terrorized-two-women-subway-train-arrested.html
WTF???
Nothing surprises me in current year.
Really going for the 70’s vibe in NYC. It’s like The Warriors 2022.
Similar to yesterday’s thread on involuntary commitment, I have mixed opinions on cashless bail. You are considered innocent until proven guilty (or in John Brennan’s formulation, until accused). Police are fallible and can arrest the wrong people. If you miss work because you are in jail, the harm is considerable. On the other hand, it seems that some of these people keep getting out just to be arrested again. If you keep getting arrested, maybe you need to post some bail. And whatever happened to a speedy trial?
I agree. I have no problem with cashless bail in many circumstances. But if you get arrested again while on cashless bail, then maybe we need to up the ante.
And the courts being so slow is a huge part of the problem, when not being able to make bail means spending many months or even years in jail waiting for something to happen. Even minor crimes take forever to process.
RE: speedy trials. My nephew’s attacker’s trial has been put off until after Thanksgiving. This is the 2nd delay.
I don’t see any alternative in an environment where one is not allowed to defend oneself.
And there’s the asymmetry in application as well. Cash-less bail? Make the argument, can convince me; in fact, I’m probably already there at least until we wipe out 90 percent of the crap that’s considered a crime off the books. When what bail you get depends on what your political outlook is, well I’d say bail or lack thereof is the least of our worries.
“USCF professor of medicine calls for American Academy of Pediatrics to be DISSOLVED after its ‘hypocrite’ leaders were filmed unmasked at huge gathering while pushing face-coverings on two-year-olds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11303597/USCF-professor-medicine-calls-American-Academy-Pediatrics-DISSOLVED.html
Everything is “for the children”, yet school teachers and pediatricians are somehow terrible.
That’s the least of what they’re pushing these days.
The AAP got masks wrong, but we can trust them when it comes to gender transitions. – Jon Stewart, probably.
I wasn’t listening anyway.
Lizzo spoke about her meteoric career ascendance as well as the notion of black singers appealing to white listeners.
“That is probably the biggest criticism I’ve received, and it is such a critical conversation when it comes to Black [sic] artists,” she said. “When Black people see a lot of white people in the audience, they think, Well this isn’t for me, this is for them. The thing is, when a Black artist reaches a certain level of popularity, it’s going to be a predominantly white crowd.”
She added: “This has happened to so many Black artists: Diana Ross, Whitney, Beyoncé.… Rap artists now, those audiences are overwhelmingly white. I am not making music for white people. I am a Black woman, I am making music from my Black experience, for me to heal myself [from] the experience we call life.”
Because your life is so oppressed and difficult and it is all the fault of whitey.
“Those audiences are predominantly white.” Whites are 70% of the population, though that number includes Hispanx and skews older, but still. And when you factor in who is more likely to be able to afford high ticket prices for concerts, it’s likely to skew whiter.
Dear Lizzo: Once the work leaves your hands and goes out into the world, it is no longer yours and you cannot dictate its audience, its destiny. It now belongs to everyone else and becomes part of the soundtrack of their lives. Your experience has become their experience. Congratulations. You made it.
Otherwise, just fuck right off.
Didn’t she just play the flute for a bunch of white people or something?
The whitest instrument? Maybe.
or the oboe.
The French horn
Confession: I liked Lizzo when she first broke out. I am now very ashamed.
I just recently heard of this person. I do not listen top forty.
“People have been calling me fat my entire life,” she told the magazine. “And if one person says it, then another person says it, it multiplies like a fucking virus. If enough people on the internet start echoing sentiments about you, it becomes part of your public persona and it’s out of your control.”
You’re not fat because people say you’re fat. It’s more the other way around.
We call this reverse causation in the field. Someone notices two things are correlated and mixes up which causes which.
Hey, a mrfamous sighting!
Rarer than STEVE SMITH
My guess is that this is her response to people accusing her of “selling out” and catering to white audiences. Which is fucking stupid, of course, but there are people who do that.
She’s not the lightest person to ever get accused of selling out to a different audience from the one that built them. Say hi, Faith Hill and Taylor Swift.
Every rock band whose second album is a commercial success.
Valid.
“Biden’s ‘quiet’ 80th birthday: White House wants to downplay milestone to prevent attacks from Republicans and more questions about his fitness for office when he becomes first president to reach landmark next month”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11303977/White-House-wants-downplay-Bidens-80th-birthday.html
Yeah, that will work.
No one wants to be pounced on, on their 80th birthday.
So hiding him will squash the rumors of his mental decline? Bold move Cotton
To be fair, that’s probably their best option.
Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt . . . . . .
None of his handlers want him anywhere near an open flame while the cameras are running.
It appears to be… naw, that’s just nuts.
“The World’s Largest Pistachio Nut was… blessed by a priest from nearby La Luz.”
Good to know.
It’s important to get your nuts blessed by a priest.
There is a Catholic joke in there somewhere
I saw that last visit to New Mexico. I missed the exit to get there. Now I have regrets.
You aren’t qualified to be president either.
“All my buddies either became a firefighter, a cop, or a priest. I wasn’t qualified for any of them, so here I am.”
“I had nothing to contribute so I chose politics.”
How convenient.
This week, the vaccine maker officially announced it has developed a ‘cure’ for the tyrannical medical-industrial complex’s latest manufactured health crisis. In the wake of all of the cardiac-related death and sickness caused by the first iterations of the experimental mRNA vaccine, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel revealed the company’s new treatment for heart attacks – another mRNA injection! This time, however, instead of going into your arm, it will be shot directly into the heart muscle… For maximum damage effect, of course. …
Speaking with SkyNews Australia Business Weekend, Bancel detailed Moderna’s new experimental mRNA injection, which he says will “grow back new blood vessels and revascularize the heart.” Naturally, the multi-millionaire Big Pharma executive whose company made billions and counting by conducting illegal gene therapy experimentation on billions of unsuspecting people touted the developments as “super exciting,” before clarifying the treatment would “inject mRNA in people’s heart[s].”
Bancel did not specify when Moderna will have the new ‘therapy’ ready for consumer use, but the process is presumably far along, as he said it is currently being tested in a clinical setting.
Sign me up.
By clinical setting they mean 12 mice.
Shot to the heart
And you’re to blame
You give vax a bad name
I’m getting to this late, but JR wins the internet for today (and maybe a lot longer).
Bestest cure for the mRNA mess is to summarily execute everyone who forced it on someone else.
BWAahahahahaha
Which one is preferable?
Thousands of Nantuckians heave a sigh of relief.
Some cop better lose their job over this! Everyone knows that asking someone about their immigration status is a firing offense
So he got fired for asking if the suspect was here illegally, before the suspect was detained due to his illegal status?
Pre-Floyd Minneapolis was a much different place.
Lots of woke “sanctuary” cities have made that illegal. Must keep up appearances.
Classic case of the airport that cried Latinx.
The Bee gets out in front of SugarFree.
🤮
Agreed.
What happened to boots?
From the sidebar: “After Divorce Settlement, Gisele Expected To Own At Least 3 Times As Many Super Bowl Rings As Aaron Rodgers”
“At publishing time, Democrats announced plans to celebrate the Speaker of the House’s return to the top of the hot list with the 2023 Nancy Pelosi Commemorative Swimsuit Calendar.”
I’d rather not know what day it is.
Hold on there Cochise! I’m gonna need to see Nancy and Hillary go head to head on the pole on the main stage before I can choose who gets that title.
You are a disgusting man.
I may be. But around here, that puts me in the top quintile of decency.
But what did Mr. Jaworski do to deserve that?
True, true . . . {holds out bar shaker and Old Fashioned glass}
Cocktail?
Is that a giant Pistacia vera seed?
I found out Tulsi Gabbard has a substack. The only post goes into more detail about her leaving the Democrat Party. She ends by saying she plans to write more on all the reasons over the course of the next few weeks.
It’s an odd decision. I don’t understand how her leaving the Democratic Party advances Putin’s efforts to manipulate the next US presidential election.
You’re going to need to get that world’s biggest ball of twine to map this out.
Thanks, I was hoping for that.
Today’s Democratic Party does not believe in our constitutionally protected right to bear arms. Our founders passed the Second Amendment out of a recognition that every one of us has a right to defend ourselves and our loved ones, and to serve as a check on a tyrannical government seeking to take away our God-given freedoms. The Democratic Party’s hatred of the Second Amendment and their increasing authoritarian instincts pose a serious threat to our freedoms. “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” Beto O’Rourke said at a debate when he was running for president. Our founders intentionally passed the Second Amendment right after the First Amendment. The majority ruling from the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down New York’s law that barred people from concealed carry firearms summarized very clearly why Democrats are wrong to try to take away our rights: “Just as we do not need to seek a permit to stand on the street corner and exercise our right to free speech, we shouldn’t have to seek permission for a law abiding citizen to carry their firearm. We as a society don’t get to pick and choose which of our rights in the constitution are more worthy of protecting than another.” Protecting our freedom to defend ourselves and those we love, and protecting our rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution against a tyrannical power is exactly why we must ensure our right to bear arms “shall not be infringed.”
That is new for her.
Maybe she was spouting the gun control line before because she expected it to sell within the party?
Saw this after I posted – “I expected it would sell well” isn’t a sufficient reason to trust her on this front. That would also explain her current stance.
Oh, you’re expecting a politician to have… [duh-duh-duh] p r i n c i p l e s???
[thunder crashes and Vincent Price laughter peels off the walls]
Now I am infatuated.
I’d really need a convincing explanation from her on what prompted her changing views on guns – it’d need to be something substantial before I’d trust her on that front.
From her campaign:
#metoo
She claims she’ll be writing more in the next few weeks. We’ll see.
But why? Is she running for anything?
She’s out of Hawaii. One of the bluest of blue states. Maybe she thinks she can turn it purple?
It’s weird timing to go carpetbagging. Maybe she’s a politician that actually believes what she says????
Stop laughing, it could happen.
If it appears to be a sincere change of heart, good on her. Especially if she acknowledges what she said before about guns, and rebukes that thinking.
Someone admitting they were wrong about something politically is rare enough that it is kinda startling.
Garbage house on sale for $209K in Minnesoda
I hope that cabin comes with a lot of acres to justify that price tag
I don’t hate it. I just don’t $209,000 love it.
but wait…
The cabin sits on over 5 acres of land overlooking the lake and the buyer of the property will also gain half ownership of a lake lot with over 350 feet of sandy beach shoreline.
Possibly worth it just for the land.
There is no election fraud
United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election for orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.
COOL LINK BRO!
And no link… but cute that it stops juuuust before the 2020 election. That one is pure as the driven snow, after all. (Washed clean in the water from the broken pipes in Fulton County, no less…)
Or… go here.
Where’s my shocked face.
I’m still around 2 years behind listening to my favorite podcast. They just got through the election and the vax rollouts are being announced. “90% effective!” says Pfizer… “95%” says Moderna! Oh wait… those were early numbers… we meant 95% as well, responds Pfizer…
And no red flags that “They’re f’ing lying through their teeth” are being raised yet… it is troubling to look back on — and to think that there’s a good chunk of the country that still buys this happy horsecrap.
Yeah, I saw some recording on my DVR recently from early 2020. It was jarring to watch the crazy unfolding.
The claim doesn’t make any sense though.
Why would they need to specially study it? They have the data on who gets sick and who doesn’t.
In fact I was in the Pfizer study and had to record whether I was sick or healthy on my phone every day.
Did they do contact tracing? They need to know who you gave it to.
Yes I see what you’re saying.
“prevent transmission” to others.
However, they would’ve been able to tell that there was no difference in the likelihood of getting sick in the control vs recipient groups. (because it turns out there isn’t)
So, they could easily have nipped the early myth in the bud. It obviously could not have stopped transmission since it didn’t stop getting the virus.
For Juan Hernández, a farmer from San Cristóbal Nezquipayac, cultivating and collecting the tiny insect eggs known as “ahuautle”
Sounds too much like Cuitlacoche
“Cuitlacoche is a black fungus that infects corn fields, making the kernels bulbous and swollen as they fill with spores. It also goes by the name Huitlacoche. If you’re having trouble with the pronounciation, it’s: Cuitlacoche (kweet-lah-KOH-chay) or Huitlacoche (dat-sfuckin-NAS-tee).
It’s safe to say this is the first time I’ve ever paid for an infection. I am, of course, not counting the one I got from your mother. (YES! You walked right into that.)
I’ve read that U.S. farmers consider it a disease and destroy it. Farmers in Mexico put it in cans and sell it as a delicacy. I travelled far and wide to find my own precious can of Cuitlacoche. Okay, it was at my supermarket, but I had to drive like two miles to get there and got stuck at a couple of lights.”
Citation: http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/
It’s a World Economic Forum cornucopia!
So Steve Smith is behind it all?
THE BIGFOOT COVID CONSPIRACY: How the World’s Most Infamous Creature Caused the World’s Most Infamous Pandemic
STEVE SMITH LAUGH UPROARIOUSLY. WHEN HE WANT TO FUCK UP THE WORLD, YOU WILL KNOW.
Maybe they should work on fixing their refereeing first?
I would have thought that poling locations would have been determined well before now. We’re only about a month away from the midterms.
Look fats… you can’t expect these small towns in flyover country to know where to vote. We’ll just mail in ballots for you.
Yeah, the mailer with my polling place came several days ago.
You can’t just set up a new one – also they are assigned. Who are they assigning to these places?
Why do I get the feeling this is another effort at “fortification”?
🙄
The Genius Behind PayPal’s Bad Idea
JP strikes again
I barely use them. I did take off my bank card. And I will find a different service to use. They can keep their grubby hands off.
Wow 96.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/entertainment/angela-lansbury-dead/index.html
Relevant geopolitical analysis from 2014.
Well, work is not going well. Most of this is my fault. My personality just doesn’t fit into it. Parts of it, I’m shockingly good at, for my inexperience. On the other hand…plenty of nuts and bolts I continue to fuck up.
Well. I’ll have to sort out soon if I even try to stay. First probation meeting was a couple of weeks ago. Hrm. I think it’s probably best if I do NOT stay. What would I do then, is a good question.
A bit more work to do. Onward and upward.
Treat it like GlibFit. That has good advice, even for work. What parts are you good at? Where do you need to focus energies? Why are you allowing emotions to get in the way of progress and paychecks? The last one was my problem for a long time.
If all else fails, pretend you are working Zardoz.
DELIVER MORE GREEN BREAD TO THE VORTEX
How to make a grown man almost cry on national television.
We don’t want you to know where your bag is.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/travel/lufthansa-apple-airtags-luggage.html
Knives are out for Elon Musk again. He’s being accused of having spoken with He Who Shall Not Be Named before tweeting out his suggestions for a peace treaty. He denies it, but even if true, I don’t see what the big deal is, unless you want the war to go on forever.
Ha! I was thinking about what to call Bad Evan. I purposefully started out by spelling my name backwards, but Nave doesn’t work for me nor Him. But Knave is perfect. So that gets said out loud (in private) to remind myself of His Badness trying to take over.
“Focus Pocus!” also sees daily use as a barking command to myself.
Onward, upward, always. I like my little open codes.
Accused by Ian Bremmer. I mean… not as bad as if it were Clapper or Comey, but HUGE grain of salt to be taken here.
I mean if yo’re talking about stopping a war, you want every diplomat on deck. And if you get Kim Jong Un dunking on Dennis Rodman where’s the harm?
France
Purge Night coming soon to a city near you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/travel/lufthansa-apple-airtags-luggage.html
Rules, rules MUST be followed. We are German.
I remember flying Lufthansa in the early 80s as a kid. Man, that was a dope airline! And even as a 11yo, I knew that there was something special about the stewardess’s.
Project Veritas Action’s latest:
SEEN BUT NOT HEARD: ‘I Don’t Want to Talk Politics to Anyone Who I Don’t Know’ Says Arizona Gubernatorial Candidate Katie Hobbs; Campaign Insiders Keep Her From Debate Stage
Which one of you used a ZARDOZ quote over at The Autopian?
I wonder how many cartel weapons are actually bought in the US, as opposed to being “acquired” from the Mexican security forces and police.
I thought it was the US government that was running guns in Mexico.
The Nueva Generacion cartel certainly looks like they are well provisioned in the armament departments.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/cartel-demonstrates-its-firepower/
Oh no 🙁 – I missed this.
Q Lazzarus, Elusive “Goodbye Horses” Musician, Dies at 61
Doing some clean-up of my iTunes library which involves some research and came across this. The docu mentioned in the article sounds interesting.
RIP
/Dons bathrobe, performs somber dance complete with tuck
That is such a great song. I’m curious to find out what other music she has done.
New Alberta Premier:
In the eyes of Alberta’s newly minted premier, Danielle Smith, unvaccinated people have faced an “extreme level” of inequity that is unparalleled and, she says, she plans to protect them under the province’s Human Rights Act.
“They have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime,” Smith said Tuesday during her first media availability as premier of Alberta.
Later in the article:
On Tuesday, Smith announced that she’d be getting rid of Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw, who helped lead the province through the worst months of the pandemic by advising Kenney and his cabinet.
lol that’s not going to go over well