Saturday Morning Shuffling Off Links

by | Oct 29, 2022 | Daily Links | 259 comments

Well, maybe not (((everyone))), especially if they’ve ever read any Jewsdays. I’m heading up to Buffalo again- last time I was there, I met the Mayor-For-Life. Where do I go from there? And yes, another inside joke to that photo. Ask me in about a month.

Speaking of months, there are, of course, birthdays today, including a less horrible Barbra Streisand; a more horrible Jen Psaki; the sci-fi version of SugarFree; a less horrible Herblock; a guy whose work was pretty cute; the greatest hypnotist of all time; the greatest Jewish rock guitarist of all time (and I could argue dropping “Jewish” as a limitation); a guy who, if it weren’t for What About Bob, would be a sure-fire guarantee of an awful movie; a leech who is likely a Packers fan; a guy whose voice is his fortune; and an exceptionally hot Jewess.

On to Links, and then I’m on the road.

 

Useless quack leads Pus Purse.

 

Someone broke Roseanne Barr’s record for Worst National Anthem Performance.

 

I have a date today. I sent her this link in advance.

 

Wait for it… wait for it…. there it is: Trump’s fault. Whew.

 

We’re all gonna die and there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves! It’s always just a few years away.

 

But Clouds!

 

Hilarious. The grifters don’t even try to pretend.

 

Old Guy Music features a composition by a birthday boy and a lesson on how drums should be played.

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Old Man With Candy

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259 Comments

  1. Pat

    a guy who, if it weren’t for What About Bob, would be a sure-fire guarantee of an awful movie

    Close Encounters is overrated, but I wouldn’t go as far as awful.

    • The Hyperbole

      I haven’t watched it in years but I remember ‘Who’s Life is it Anyways” being pretty good, and with a libertarian message to boot.

  2. Pat

    Justin Fields, 38, and his girlfriend Tammy Bailey, 52

    May-December romances never work.

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

      “Baby, I’ll stay with you ’til the money runs out…”

  3. Pat

    We’re all gonna die and there’s nothing we can do to save ourselves!

    This is the really weird part I don’t get about the climate religion. It has all of the features of a religion with the sole exception of any possibility of salvation or absolution. If you want to join a death cult, at least pick one with entertaining drugs and sexual practices.

    • Fourscore

      “Turn up the heat, Ma, there’s still gas in the tank. We’re gonna die anyway!”

    • juris imprudent

      It appears they can recycle that headline every few years and suffer no damage to their credibility.

    • Chafed

      That’s advice I can use.

  4. Fourscore

    Enjoy Buffalo, OM (wink, wink)

    Just don’t Sugarfree us when you get back

  5. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  6. Pat

    Hilarious. The grifters don’t even try to pretend.

    I’m fully in favor tbh. I’ll probably outlive the USD as currently constituted in any case. Give them their 40 acres and a mule. One condition: After that, you shut the everloving fuck up about any conceivable grievance you imagine is tied to your race for the rest of eternity. First and only violation punishable by public beheading.

    • rhywun

      There isn’t enough popcorn in the world to keep up with watching this play out.

      • hayeksplosives

        I like the part where the interviewee says of her children “They won’t have to be robbing Peter to pay Paul.”

        Umm…that’s exactly what is being proposed here.

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

      The last reparation, Affirmative Action, sure didn’t make the grifters shut up, no reason to thing this one will.

  7. Gender Traitor

    the greatest hypnotist of all time

    As I’ve mentioned before, I served time in Muncie, IN, in a “past life” (mostly with the Rev. GT) and knew a gal who worked at Ball State’s PBS station. She swore Bob the Arteest really was that way IRL. Now, as befitting the season, THAT’S creepy.

    • Ted S.

      Creepy little trees?

  8. Timeloose

    Morning all.

    “Reparations ‘would mean better for our children,’ one person told MarketWatch, while others say it would be ‘a game changer’ for paying debts, buying homes and building generational wealth”

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FRZN7IzvCVs

    • WTF

      Sounds like the welfare state. Which oddly enough has had the opposite effect.

      • juris imprudent

        Well when results don’t match intentions, it’s time to double-down! /progs

      • rhywun

        That wasn’t real welfare.

  9. WTF

    The Pelosi attack is Trump’s fault, because Trump gave a Nuremberg-style speech in Philadelphia demonizing political opponents as enemies of the state. Oh, wait…

    • Count Potato

      Based on CNN all night yesterday, it’s Trump fault because, January 6 is Trump’s fault, and one of the Jan 6 insurekkktionists asked “Where’s Nancy?”, and this guy also asked “Where’s Nancy?”

      • WTF

        It’s disturbing that there are still a lot of people who lap that up without question.

      • juris imprudent

        You’ve met my ex I see.

    • juris imprudent

      Eventually the Seattle WTO riots will be Trump’s fault too.

      • Count Potato

        They aren’t already?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Him and Musk have become the scapegoats, the left’s Jews. Well, along with the Jews that is.

  10. rhywun

    Someone broke Roseanne Barr’s record for Worst National Anthem Performance.

    My biggest pet peeve besides the warbling they always put into the notes now is everyone drags the thing out for like five minutes. I don’t care if they fuck up the words if they just wrap it up.

    • Atreides

      They need all that time to show their hand gestures of moving up and down the scale in a way that absolutely nobody asked for.

  11. Ted S.

    California reparations push could give Black residents hundreds of thousands of dollars — here’s what they say they would do with it

    Colt 45?

    • WTF

      Hey, let’s steal millions from people who never practiced or supported slavery and give it to people who never suffered from slavery. What could go wrong? It’s not like this is just a cynical attempt to buy back the black votes that the Democrats are starting to lose.

  12. Shiny Nerfherder

    This means something.

  13. Count Potato

    “an exceptionally hot Jewess”

    I’ve met her. She’s very cute. Far from the (((hottest))) I’ve met though.

    • Timeloose

      She was definitely my type back in the 80-90’s.

      • Timeloose

        Yowza!

      • hayeksplosives

        She was lovely as “Esther”, and way more than the usual 2-D female character in Biblical epics of the time.

      • Pat

        Emmy Rossum if you ask me. Natalie Portman running close 2nd.

      • Ozymandias

        Emmy Rossum if you ask me.

        False!

        Natalie Portman running close 2nd.

        This we’ll allow. She’s not my thing, but there’s not question she’s smokin’.

      • Ozymandias

        I love it when you live up to your handle without even trying.

      • slumbrew

        He’d have to switch to The Contrarian

      • l0b0t

        I’ll side with Soleil Moon Frye.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeah, cute not hot but there’s nothing wrong with that.

      • Pat

        Cute > hot every day and twice on Sundays.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I completely agree with young Sophia Loren being the exception.

      • slumbrew

        I have long argued that.

        Lower maintenance plus cute lasts longer than hot.

        *eyes Holly Hunter*

      • Tres Cool

        /adds Terri Garr to the list

    • Timeloose

      It’s Enrico Pallatzo!!!

      • juris imprudent

        I think OM was attempting to head off the Leslie West contingent.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Marty Friedman or GTFO.

  14. deadhead

    Javelina Jundred starts at 9am Eastern (i.e., soon). There’s live tracking and live streaming links on the main web page: https://aravaiparunning.com/network/javelinajundred/ It’s a fucked up sport for fucked up people, but this race is a hell of a party. I’m bib 59.

    • Pat

      Sounds like Burning Man for fit people. Best of luck.

    • EvilSheldon

      Cool, have a good race!

    • Count Potato

      Good luck!

    • l0b0t

      Thanks for the link; I’m glued to the livestream. Have a great time.

    • l0b0t

      The costumes are fun and I’m really struck by the difference in sunlight between the Javelina Jeadquarters (bright and sunny) and the first bit of the course on the other side of the hill (still nighttime).

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

      May your feet retain their strength, and carry you to the finish!

    • DEG

      Good luck!

  15. EvilSheldon

    Wakes up

    Staggers out into kitchen

    Sees the remains of the martini pitcher left out of the counter

    “Ahh. This explains some things.”

    • Count Potato

      The dead hooker in the bathroom?

      • EvilSheldon

        Of course not, officer. She left with her friend around 10pm.

        sound of a power washer in the background

      • Pat

        And also my brackets, apparently.

    • slumbrew

      I’m doing Sober October and yet I still feel hungover this morning.

      WTF, body?

      • Tres Cool

        You do sober October.
        Ill try to remember in November.

      • slumbrew

        Looking forward to a nice glass of something on Tuesday.

        Meeting old friends at “our” old bar on Friday; I’m gonna have to beg the bartenders not to kill me with the heavy pours.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    “The fear and hatred that is dividing us, pitting us against each other in this country, is a real and present danger to our democracy,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) told CNN Friday.

    Deplorable.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What isn’t a real and present danger to democracy in their eyes? If it’s so fragile and always on the precipice it’s done for anyway. Also, not a democracy and thank god for that.

  17. Count Potato

    “Biden links Paul Pelosi attack to Jan 6 and blames Republican ‘lies’ for influencing the attacker who ‘may not be so well balanced’: Demands people ‘stand up’ – despite failing to condemn Kavanaugh gunman

    ‘It was intended to be an attack on the house Nancy Pelosi lives in – the third ranking person the United States in line to be president,’ said Biden.

    ‘You know, it’s reported that the same chant was used by this guy they have in custody that was used on January 6 in the attacks on the US Capitol.

    ‘I’m not making this up. This has just been reported. I can’t guarantee it. I can tell you what’s been reported

    ‘The chant was, ‘Where’s Nancy, where’s, Nancy, where’s Nancy.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11367599/Biden-links-Paul-Pelosi-attack-Jan-6-blames-Republican-lies-influencing-attacker.html

    • rhywun

      This is the worst October Surprise evar.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They desperately want to grab ahold of this as the October surprise and it won’t work. If anything it’ll be counterproductive because it’s so transparently nonsense to all but the true believers.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Yeah, “Do to our policies, SF is now such a dangerous, crime ridden shithole that even the wealthiest, most well connected of our citizens aren’t safe in their own homes!” isn’t the winning talking point some seem to think it is.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Due.

        Whatever.

        *staggers away to get coffee*

      • juris imprudent

        STOP QUESTIONING THE NARRATIVE YOU FUCKING BIGOT!!!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He seems more confused than anything with a mix of fringe right and left wing stuff. Looks like just another borderline psychotic and violent nut bar with a disordered political bent to me.

      • juris imprudent

        In other words, a completely typical Bay Area resident?

    • WTF

      Brandon the uniter is at it again.

    • mindyourbusiness

      I want to see them try to turn a hammer into an AR-15. They’ll probably try.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The UK has been pretty successful with that approach.

    • Fourscore

      As terrible as the Pelosi attack was, I couldn’t help but think of all the young men and women that went off to fight Miss Nancy’s wars and came home in a bag or minus a few extremities. I speak from a personal point of view, my great nephew wears a plastic skull over 1/2 his head and is 100% disabled. Thanks, Miss Nancy.

      Can we talk?

  18. The Late P Brooks

    “This incident makes one thing clear: Violent political rhetoric has consequences, and unfortunately, this is not the first time we are seeing those consequences play out,” said Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), a member of the Intelligence Committee.

    It’s like yelling fire in a crowded theater.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sounds like it’s time to start threatening Musk’s business ventures again. This speech shit is dangerous.

    • WTF

      So then he called for Biden and other Democrats to stop doing it?

      • Tres Cool

        He’s hawt.

    • R C Dean

      Now do Rand Paul, Steve Scalise, Bret Kavanaugh . . . .

      • WTF

        The kid that got run down and murdered for being a Republican…

      • R C Dean

        The campaign worker who got beat up . . . .

  19. Brawndo

    Re: black reparations. It was funnier when Chappelle did it.

    • Trigger Hippie

      “I’ve got enough menthol cigarettes to last me and my family for life. I’M RICH, BITCH!!!”

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I like how that reparations program will require a vast non profit support bureaucracy to teach the recipients how to spend the money.

    “It’s not that we don’t believe those people are smart enough to do the Right Things…

    • juris imprudent

      Never let a good grift go to waste!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      What happens when the money goes poof and the next generation demands more because that’s exactly what’d happen.

      • WTF

        Yup. People aren’t poor because of their skin color or ethnicity, they’re poor because of their behavior and the choices they make.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yep, you could confiscate all the wealth in the world, distribute it equally, and mostly the same people would be sitting at the top of the heap again within a year.

      • Count Potato

        I agree that people aren’t poor because of their skin color or ethnicity, and their behavior and the choices they make matter, but both genetics and the social-economic status of their parents make a huge difference.

    • rhywun

      And a big pile of grift to calculate who gets the next round of grift. It’s like a perpetual money machine.

    • Grosspatzer

      Keith Richards grins wickedly.

      • WTF

        At some point we’re going to have to think about what kind of world we’re leaving behind for Keith Richards.

      • Tres Cool

        At least we still have Lou Reed.

      • Evan from Evansville

        No joke, I wrote the beginning set up of a bit about how I’m of the same line as Richards. Eerily so, in some (mostly cool) ways.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I don’t have any twelve year old cousins to marry that will extend my life.

    • rhywun

      I’m relieved to hear that she was “flaunting” something.

    • Pat

      Hard to get my head around the fact that she’s 41. I’m surprised she looks that good considering her lifestyle. She should give Lindsay Lohan the number of her cosmetic surgeon.

      • Count Potato

        Afaik, Paris was never like Lindsay as far as drugs go.

      • Pat

        She got arrested for coke possession, but the dose makes the poison and all that.

      • Tres Cool

        + booger sugar

      • Count Potato

        Lindsay was smoking meth.

    • Atreides

      Amen!
      I can’t imagine that I would like Paris Hilton, should I ever meet her, but good heavens, she sure is something to look at. 🤩

  21. PieInTheSky

    Officials of bodybuilding’s two premier federations have been sexually exploiting female athletes for decades — pressuring them to pose for nude photographs, posting those photos to soft-core pornography sites, and, at times, manipulating contest results in favor of cooperative competitors, a Washington Post investigation has found.

    For more than 15 years, J.M. Manion, whose father, Jim, has been running amateur and professional bodybuilding contests for decades, shot the photos and operated a network of paid soft-core pornography websites that at one point advertised “over 30,000 images” of competitors in the sport. A Post review of website archives identified more than 200 female athletes in photos ranging from casual bikini shots to graphic, sexual images, including those of nude women together in beds, bathtubs and showers. One of J.M.’s sites, Fitness Divas, bluntly stated: “Your Favorite Fitness Athletes …Naked!”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/women-bodybuilding-ifbb-pro-porn/

    • Pat

      Perhaps it’s just me, but female bodybuilders are the last thing I would want to see porn of.

      • PieInTheSky

        well you are a neanderthal obviously with you backwards vies of beauty. women should either be bodybuilders or morbidly obese. so they do not attracted the male gaze of people like you. be better

      • Tres Cool

        Perhaps you should peruse pr0nhub’s selection of Chyna’s material.

      • Pat

        I’ve been victimized by the cruel rickroll before. I assure you it will never happen again.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    We have a class of people completely divorced from reality who are pushing the world toward a new (and quite possibly final) European war, but global warming is the existential threat.

    • juris imprudent

      It won’t be if we kill off a few billion people and destroy the industrialized world!

  23. Grosspatzer

    Mornin’, reprobates. OMWC never disappoints.

    “Birthday boy ‘stabs girlfriend 100 times and beheads her because she refused to have sex'”

    A good way to set the mood. Make sure she knows.you will go to any lengths to get a little head.

    • WTF

      Well, he’s just an excitable boy.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    A Post review of website archives identified more than 200 female athletes in photos ranging from casual bikini shots to graphic, sexual images, including those of nude women together in beds, bathtubs and showers. One of J.M.’s sites, Fitness Divas, bluntly stated: “Your Favorite Fitness Athletes …Naked!”

    Definitely not the right kind of body positivity.

    • Grosspatzer

      “A Post review of website archives…”

      I see Q has landed a lucrative gig.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    If I have to go through a background check next time I buy a hammer, it’ll be worth it, knowing the government is doing everything in its power to protect politicians from their constituents.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      “Nobody needs a 10 lb sledge”

  26. PieInTheSky

    so how is the baseball going? are the dodgers winning?

    • Grosspatzer

      October/November baseball is lame. Unless the Twins make it to the series, sub-freezing temperatures would add an interesting element.

    • Rat on a train

      The Dodgers haven’t lost a game in the last two weeks.

  27. PieInTheSky

    Russell Warfield
    @russellwarfield
    These children have barricaded themselves against diggers sent to rip out the pedestrianisation outside their school.

    It’s right to reduce traffic outside schools. It’s safer, healthier and better for the planet.

    These kids know it. They’re heroes.

    https://twitter.com/russellwarfield/status/1585634968339783680

    stunning and brave. but there are always vile assholes in the replies like this guy

    “1. That’s not a digger, it’s a forklift.
    2. Forklifts don’t rip up roads.
    3. Your argument loses credibility when you exaggerate.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Read that as pedarastination outside their school but it is England so who knows?

      • Tres Cool

        +1 Child Catcher

      • Tres Cool

        If I let this in the house, is it a house Digger?

    • Count Potato

      Digger, please.

      • Mojeaux

        LOL

      • Tres Cool

        Stop being a bigot. The proper term is Dig-groe.

      • Surly Knott

        Ahem. Excavating American please.

      • Ozymandias

        *Looks around* Applauds

    • PieInTheSky

      eh he had a good run

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Wild accusations

    Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that London said was false and designed to distract from Russian military failures in Ukraine.

    Russia did not give evidence for its claim that a leading NATO member had sabotaged critical Russian infrastructure amid the worst crisis in relations between the West and Russia since the depths of the Cold War.

    ——-

    “According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the planning, provision and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on September 26 this year – blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the ministry said.

    Britain denied the claim.

    They done it to stop global warming.

    • Grosspatzer

      “They done it to stop global warming.”

      Nuclear winter would do that.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Much more believable than claiming that the Russians did it to themselves which would have the stupidest foreign policy move since the start of Operation Barbarossa.

      • rhywun

        The US theory seems more plausible to me but yeah.

    • Fourscore

      They had no choice, to save humanity.

      /Little Greta

  29. Count Potato

    “A Musk-owned Twitter could be disastrous for women and marginalized communities already facing abuse and targeted harassment on the platform.”

    https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1586011002641973249

    “Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be Chaos

    The entrepreneur’s laundry list of ideas includes scrapping content moderation, charging subscription fees, and even branching out beyond social media”

    https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-deal-chaos/

    WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT!!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      And no one cared.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I wish that was the case but the ultracautious advertisers will and they will pressure Musk and his backers. Will he/they fold? That remains to be seen.

    • rhywun

      already facing abuse and targeted harassment on the platform

      Yeah, sure.

      scrapping content moderation

      Narrator: Musk is not going to “scrap content moderation”. There will be the same sort of policy you see anywhere else against “abuse” and “harassment”.

    • juris imprudent

      Whoa, what is Wired doing stepping on the NYT shtick?

      • Michael Malaise

        Wired has been ideologically captured for some time.

  30. Count Potato

    “Spot on, and that’s not just conjecture: I worked at Reddit.

    Reddit tried being the free speech platform, and then I and many other people had to spend years cleaning it up just to get women and advertisers to consider coming back.”

    https://twitter.com/evanhamilton/status/1586027145809121280

    CWAA

      • Tundra

        Stop fucking ruining the internet and turning it into yet another grey, corporate shopping mall where the only people who can speak are huge companies. You fucking cunts.

        I approve this message.

    • rhywun

      Truly the hero women and advertisers need in these trying times.

    • PieInTheSky

      LOL

    • Gender Traitor

      As Ligma bravely brandishes a copy of the Wookie’s autobio.

    • Gender Traitor

      “Learn to do something other than code!”

      • Tres Cool

        According to Norm, there’s always Crack Whore.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Withering attack

    Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and former President Obama knocked GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s fitness for office at a rally Friday.

    Obama traveled to Georgia as one of several stops he is making ahead of the midterms with less than two weeks until Election Day. Warnock and Walker are locked in a tight race for the Senate seat in the state, but the incumbent senator and former president said at the rally that Walker has not put in the work necessary to serve in the role.

    “You actually have to know stuff to do this job,” Warnock said.

    Now do Diane Feinstein.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Odd. Just a few days ago I was assured that being a Senator was the easiest job in the world. Just mindlessly vote along the party line then go to the next hooker and coke orgy. What’s so difficult about that? Even Fetterman’s Monster can do it.

  32. Tundra

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    • rhywun

      I walk the line.

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    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I hate those motherfuckers so much. I guess they don’t have any issues with all of the myocarditis that’s been cropping up recently.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        They’re doing their job, which is to protect the medical-industrial complex.

        Any pretense that they were there to protect the consumer is long gone.

    • juris imprudent

      What kind of porn gig would’ve that been?

  33. DrOtto

    Paul Pelosi, Sr. sure seems to have a lot of trouble after dark when Nancy is out of town.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Obama compared the idea of electing Walker to the Senate to having Walker fly an airplane if someone sees him at an airport.

    “You’d probably want to know, ‘Does he know how to fly an airplane?’” he said.

    He said being a football player is not disqualifying for running for Senate, but players need to “put in the work.” He said there is little evidence that Walker has taken “any interest” in learning anything about public service or helping people.

    He’s not of the Body. He doesn’t know what we know. He doesn’t believe what we believe. He’s not part of the lifetime Mandarinocracy. He’s an up[start.

    That old-timey stuff about citizen legislators is just a bunch of crap.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’d rather have someone picked randomly out of the phone book than somebody with experience in that area. Walker will do just fine, or he won’t, just like everyone else.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I’ve had about enough of their “help”.

      • Ted S.

        I assume you’re talking about non-career candidates like Zelensky here.

    • Sensei

      But Fetterman is totally competent!

  35. DEG

    “Here’s what I think we have to fight about inflation, here, right now. That’s we need to fight about: inflation right now,” he said

    That schtick only works for Kamala.

    The climate crisis has reached a “really bleak moment”, one of the world’s leading climate scientists has said, after a slew of major reports laid bare how close the planet is to catastrophe.

    Collective action is needed by the world’s nations more now than at any point since the second world war to avoid climate tipping points, Prof Johan Rockström said, but geopolitical tensions are at a high.

    He said the world was coming “very, very close to irreversible changes … time is really running out very, very fast”.

    OH MY GOD WE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!11!1!1el!eventy!11!11

    Except we already died of acid rain, Y2K, lawn darts, Peak Oil, Lil Rona, Ebola, razor blades in candy, Swine flu, and probably some others I can’t remember.

    Old Guy Music is good.

    • Trigger Hippie

      If we don’t kill off billions of people via starvation and lack of energy billions could die via starvation and lack of energy!

    • Grumbletarian

      The end of Net Neutrality killed millions, and I’m sure the carnage from Musk buying Twitter will easily eclipse that slaughter.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Seems like a more relevant topping controversy over there would be grilled goat versus dates.

      • Trigger Hippie

        I could go for some grilled goat basted in a date marinade.

    • Pat

      I enjoy steak. I enjoy kiwi fruit. I do not put kiwi fruit on my steak. I feel the same about pizza and pineapples.

  36. Stinky Wizzleteats

    France’s Top 10 Ugliest Aircraft
    https://youtu.be/OEqdWGA1cE8

    Ugly and weird, yes, but still not as bizarre as a Citroen or as ridiculous as a LeCar.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Worse than treason

    Former US Capitol Police officer Michael Riley was found guilty of obstruction on Friday for deleting his own Facebook message telling another user to remove portions of a post that person made about entering the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

    But the jury in Washington, DC, couldn’t reach a verdict on a second obstruction count Riley faced for suggesting to the Facebook friend that he take down parts of his post, a move that federal prosecutors had alleged hampered their criminal investigation.

    The judge declared a mistrial on the second charge.

    “Hey Jacob, I’m a Capitol Police officer who agrees with your political stance,” Riley wrote to Facebook friend, Jacob Hiles, on January 7, 2021. “Take down the part about being in the building they are currently investigating and everyone who was in the building is going to be charges. Just looking out!”

    Hang the turncoat.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Wherein deleting a Facebook post becomes a crime.

      • juris imprudent

        “Show me the man…”

      • Count Potato

        IANAL, but if it hadn’t been subpoenaed, how is it obstruction?

      • Ted S.

        Because fuck you, that’s how.

      • juris imprudent

        Preet would be happy to show you.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    After deliberating across four days, jurors told reporters they quickly agreed to convict on the one count, but there was one juror who would not convict on the other count. The holdout wasn’t sure about what Riley was thinking when he messaged Hiles.

    “We tried every argument to try to convince them otherwise,” one juror said. But they were unsuccessful.

    “C’mon man, you hafta vote to convict. You don’t want to disappoint the prosecutors, do you? They worked hard on this put-up job.”

  39. KSuellington

    Something is going on with the Paul Pelosi thing. I don’t know exactly what, but it is not what is being reported. The Daily Mail just got a hold of the 911 call from Pelosi and in it he is calling the guy by his name and that he is “a friend”. Also the window that he allegedly broke to get in was broken from the inside of the house! Seriously, that’s what it looks like from this video. Also, how in the everloving fuck is their security that bad? So any random weirdo can just quickly get in their house at night and have at least several minutes inside before being hauled away. Very suspect. Now I know that Paul has been a bad boy lately, but one thing for sure is that his wife is absolutely obsessed about security. I do work for a guy that has lots of connections to SF politics and has met her dozens of times. He made an offhand comment to me a couple years back that he has never encountered another politician who has as much and extensive security around them at all times. He jokingly said it made the President’s security look weak by comparison.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’ve seen some speculating that he was known and that this may have been a lover’s dustup but who knows? Could have been hired for odd jobs at times or something like that too.

      • KSuellington

        There are some very obvious discrepancies in the official story being presented. I wonder if they can keep up their story for long? They may have to change up some details to make it sound more believable. Currently it is not close.

    • Sensei

      That was my thinking too.

      We will, of course, never know. And even if we had the whole thing filmed who are you going to believe, the state or your lying eyes?

    • rhywun

      it is not what is being reported

      I am shocked.

      • KSuellington

        Heheh, that’s not shocking, but it will be interesting if they can keep up their story. I pass by that house all the time. It’s a pretty large wall to scale to get into their backyard. I’m sure they have cameras up that we will never see footage from, but there should be at least a few more from neighbors that would catch such an event. I’m highly curious to see if they can keep the story going.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

        Sounds like it’s already falling apart.

        I am fully expecting all mention of it to vanish from the MSM by Monday.

      • KSuellington

        I’ve noticed the Daily Mail has already dropped the story midway down their page. I would bet large amounts of money that we will never see video footage of hemp jewelry nutjob sauntering around Pac Heights in his tightie whities anytime soon. He’s gonna get a sweetheart plea to shut this story up. It’s laughably false.

      • Sean

        😐

    • Count Potato

      “the 911 call from Pelosi and in it he is calling the guy by his name and that he is “a friend”

      They are saying it was “code”.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Familiarity breeds contempt

    Lake, a longtime former TV news anchor, has emerged as a conservative hero ahead of this election, thanks largely to her outspoken support of Trump, her strident opposition to vaccine and mask mandates and, perhaps most of all, her combative approach to the news media.

    Makes you wonder, don’t it.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Something is going on with the Paul Pelosi thing. I don’t know exactly what, but it is not what is being reported.

    “Paul Pelosi didn’t kill himself!”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Does he have info that may lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?

  42. Annoyed Nomad

    My step-daughter still receives mail at our house at times even though she hasn’t lived here in many years. Today she received a card from the Ohio Democratic Party with this on it: “OHIO VOTER RECORDS ARE PUBLIC. Who you vote for is private, but whether or not you vote will be part of those public records.”

    What’s the intention of this? To shame people who voted Democratic (my step-daughter most probably has) to go vote?

    • Pat

      I’ve gotten 3 of those so far this election cycle for the previous occupant of my place. He hasn’t lived here in about 9 years. I guess it’s a good thing they send them by mail instead of telling people by phone, because that’s a serious crime.

      • rhywun

        Well, for one side.

    • Count Potato

      “but whether or not you vote will be part of those public records”

      Is that even true?

      • Gender Traitor

        Well, I do have to present ID and sign in every time I go to vote.

      • Pat

        Depends on the state, but generally that information can be obtained.

      • Count Potato

        I looks like that’s for who is registered, not who votes.

      • Pat

        The “What information does the file contain?” column in the table shows “vote history” in the states where that data is available.

  43. rhywun

    This is bananas.

    “Our emissions must be cut by 60% in the next 10 years or so. If we fail, the fines are in the range of $150k a year. We will be required to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in investments to upgrade our systems.”

    I think Francis has it right at the end, though.

    “And meanwhile, the last thing Jane’s building should do is actually invest anything toward converting to electric heat. This whole mania will be long forgotten before these supposed fines kick in for them some time after 2030.”

    Reality has a habit of biting back.

    • Pat

      Converting to (electric) heat pumps will cost [the co-op] $2.5 to $3 million, which does not include finance charges.

      Saying nothing of the fact that a heat pump won’t even work in temps below freezing. Otherwise known as “winter” in New York.

  44. LCDR_Fish

    Wow. Exhausting couple of weeks.

    New Orleans for 5 days.
    Returned to Richmond, moved my car to reset parking, took a 2 hour nap.
    Off to Indiana for a family member’s wedding.
    Back to VA for 1/2 a day of laundry.
    Off to San Diego for another 5 days.
    Back late last night.

    May write an article on these trips – interesting inspections.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I think the fire and brimstone will be delivered via hypersonic cruise missile this time around.

  45. Count Potato

    “So we’re being told by Politico that two dudes were fighting over a hammer. The cops walked up knocked on the front door and a mystery someone just went past all of that and politely opened the door while all this was happening?”

    https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1586381738233561088

  46. juris imprudent

    DEG is holding out on us, probably thinking this is too local politics.

    “We literally cannot afford two more years of Chris Pappas being in office,” she told the crowd gathered at Saint Anslem College, referring to the record-high gas prices and skyrocketing inflation seen under Democrat rule. Leavitt labeled Pappas a “partisan problem creator,” flipping the script on Democrats’ efforts to cast her as the “extremist” in the race.

  47. Count Potato

    Good thread here:

    “The media are portraying the suspect in the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband as a man fundamentally driven by right-wing ideology. But it’s obvious to anyone who looks that what drove David DePape to violence was drug-induced paranoid psychosis…..”

    https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1586372835844333568

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Gee, they’ve never done that before.

      *insert Gabbie Giffords here*

    • KSuellington

      Yeah, even if you buy into the official storyline concocted, only the most radically partisan Dems would view this as a political attack. You have to be mainlining Dem propaganda to buy that. Most normies would likely see this as Shellenberger describes, a drug addled nutball, typical in SF, causes mayhem, this time with a member of the elite. It doesn’t help the Dem narrative at all.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    plays the keyboard with her PENIS

    That’s not how it works.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      According to Zelensky it is.

  49. Mojeaux

    I cannot find my springform pan.

    That is all.

    • Gender Traitor

      Oh, noes!! How you make cheezecake??? 😧

      • Mojeaux

        EGGSZACKLY!!!!!

      • Gender Traitor

        In my experience, the best way to find a lost possession is to buy its replacement.

      • Mojeaux

        Indeed, that is the plan. I’m told to get a 9″ pan, but experience has taught me I need a 10″ pan.

        Size matters.

      • Gender Traitor

        👍🏼👌🏼