Sunday Morning Outta There Links

by | Oct 9, 2022 | Daily Links | 168 comments

Rough night last night. Spud came over with some particularly thujone-laden absinthe and all of the accoutrements thereunto appertaining. He knew I had a hiking date today and he was gleeful at the idea of destroying me in advance.

If it is true that one is the average of one’s five closest friends, I’m fucked.

That said, let’s do birthdays, which include a guy fond of zoos and organs; a guy who was into projection; a guy who was (((accused))); a guy whose birth was an event on the horizon; an OG drug dealer; a guy whose work was nothing to Bragg about; the only Scrooge who mattered; the first link in the chain that finished off Nixon; a pretty excellent woodwind player; half of the greatest songwriting duo in history; proof that shit floats to the top; arguably the best bass player in rock; and the NFLer who carried on the tradition of Mantan Moreland.

And lest we forget, Links.

 

“Stalled” meaning “It was all bullshit. Oops.”

 

Horrors. Hey, Team Blue, you have Congress and the White House, how about, I dunno, changing the laws? It couldn’t be because your biggest donors, unions, don’t want you to, right? Because you have principles, right?

 

Totally not like professional wrestling.

 

Dutch efficiency. Pity, this really was an excellent airport. Was.

 

The real pity here is that SugarFree had already outlined the story arc for The Hoodie And The Neck Lump.

 

So you hire failed and spoiled academics and are then surprised that they’re whiners.

 

Old Guy Music is a spritely thing from a spirited artist. Some will understand.

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Old Man With Candy

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168 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    I never tried it.

    • Count Potato

      Although if you served at Camp Thujone you may be entitled to substantial compensation.

  2. Grumbletarian

    The Matt Gaetz link: “If all of our witnesses weren’t probably lying, this case would be a slam dunk.”

    • R C Dean

      “The prosecution’s star witness — Greenberg, Gaetz’s onetime friend and a disgraced elected tax official — pleaded guilty last year to six federal crimes. Those included a stalking charge for falsely smearing a political rival as a pedophile, identity theft and sex trafficking the same 17-year-old who is the alleged victim in the Gaetz case. A prosecutor in the case has labeled Greenberg a “prolific criminal.””

      *outright, prolonged laughter*

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        So what are the odds that a US Attorney offered a reduction in charges in return for making accusations against Gaetz?

      • R C Dean

        A complete and utter certainty?

      • Atanarjuat

        The segment of the left that still thinks Russia “hacked” the election in 2016 and that Fauci is right about everything will call Gaetz a pedo forever.

      • cavalier973

        Right before they go on and on about how important small children get puberty blockers and have body parts chopped off.

      • Atanarjuat

        My lefty FB friends never touch that stuff, maybe they know how bad it looks. But several of them still post about Trump almost every day.

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

        Are they still wearing masks?

        Do they think the Beatles were the best band ever?

      • Atanarjuat

        I don’t think any of them still wear masks.

        And maybe they do sort of virtue signal the trans stuff by occasionally posting something very vague, like “love is love”, but they definitely don’t bring up the particulars.

  3. Shiny Nerfherder

    t took a while, but Republicans are finally coming home for Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, putting him squarely in striking distance of Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) in the state’s Senate contest.

    As per usual, the pollsters lie, lie, lie, then try to shift at the last second to save their reputations.

    • Count Potato

      They both seem like total ass clowns.

      • SDF-7

        Yeah, if ever a race really looked like Giant Douche versus Turd Sandwich….

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Giant douches and turd sandwiches need representation too.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        I’m not disputing that. I’m just observing that their last minute shifts in polling seem to follow a distinct pattern.

      • Count Potato

        OK. Polling is hearsay expressed in numbers.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        There’s a theory that the media manipulates the polls as a way to induce more ad spending from the candidates.

    • creech

      Funny, I know a couple of progs who always decried Trump’s I presidential demeanor who now excuse Fetterman’s thug like appearance and tuff gai vocabulary.

      • DEG

        THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!!111!!!11!

      • Ted S.

        Fetterman isn’t running for president.

      • creech

        Not yet.

      • Chafed

        What about the neck lump?

  4. SDF-7

    Re: Arizona — maybe it is staged drama, but I think the Dem candidate is just a nut, personally. She has pretty obvious serious issues and the Team Stupid lady is more than happy to troll the hell out of her. Given every article I read about it mentions Telemundo and Mexican soap stars, I’ll grant that she does seem to want to clinch the Drama Queen belt.

    At least they make a pretense of debate, unlike “Am I even running? Who can tell… and what does it matter, the machine will generate any needed votes!” Newsom. Bleck.

    Re: The Dutch airport — can’t help but keep thinking that the Lears and Gulfstreams are likely flying just fine, thank you with minimal problems. No, no regular people… we’re not trying to make mobility more difficult for you via “green” agendas… no, of course not… now go own nothing and be happy already!

    Hope you still make your hike, OMWC. Thanks for the links.

      • SDF-7

        Looks…. acts….

      • Count Potato

        She’s no Mexican soap star.

      • R C Dean

        Hobbs is the Soros-funded Secretary of State that ran Arizona’s elections. An election that massively failed an audit, I might add.

        Ask far as I know, her opponent isn’t making that an issue, which puzzles me. Just like I can’t figure out why Kelly isn’t getting slammed for being a radical gun controller in the Senate race. Why wouldn’t Republicans run on election integrity and gun rights?

        It’s the kind of “oversight” you would expect to see in a one-party state, a uniparty, if you will, where the uniparty just wants certain issues to go away so they can get on with their agenda of keeping the door locked against interlopers and looting the treasury. But that can’t be it. It’s a mystery,

  5. l0b0t

    Sorry I missed the absinthe. Because the previous tenants (the folk who squatted and are being sought by the courts for the 18 months rent they owe) absconded with the stove. I spent my afternoon/evening trying (fruitlessly) to find the fitting I need to connect a 3/4″ gas line to a 1/2″ input on our new stove. Local hardware store, semi-local hardware store, and Lowes had none.

    I hope everyone is having a wonderful morning.

    • SDF-7

      So absinthe makes the heart grow fonder?

      And griping about “Man about the house jobs” — burned some “company rah rah” points and got a pellet smoker. Assembled it on Friday, figured I’d test it out on Saturday and start a pork shoulder smoking this morning for 12 hours. But yesterday went to do the first start checks… and the auger wouldn’t turn. Ended up disassembling most of the control module thinking there was a burr in the channel or something catching… but no, as far as I can tell, the auger motor just doesn’t turn. Yay. Love quality control these days. Emailed the company, we’ll see what they say. Just annoying when you have the whole weekend planned out, let me tell you.

      • Tundra

        We had a repair guy out Friday for an inoperable ice maker in a brand new fridge. Turns out the fucking thing was installed improperly at the factory.

        He just rolled his eyes and said he’s seen it dozens of times lately.

      • Ted S.

        Let’s go Brandon!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      In weird tenant stories…

      We have some friends who allowed some missionaries to stay in their house rent free while my friends were in Germany for a couple of years. When they came back, the tenants had changed all the doorknobs.

      Of course, they also wrecked a bunch of stuff, but who changes all the doorknobs?

      • SDF-7

        Obvious answer: Aunt Clara.

        I’d bet Chris Lowe has some really weird tennant stories….

    • Count Potato

      They stole the stove?

      Anyway, in many places the gas company will hook up a stove for free, or at least, they did.

      • l0b0t

        That’s the gas policy with which I’m familiar from prior homes, but here the gas co. won’t touch anything inside the house. This wouldn’t even be an issue if it weren’t for the area not having many hardware purveyors. I’m sure a 2 hour round trip to Rochester will solve the issue; I’m just annoyed about having to make the trip for a wee piece of brass.

      • Count Potato

        If you can wait, you could buy it off the internet. Overnight shipping might even be cheaper than two hours of gas.

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

      L0b0t, try an appliance dealer. If there is one locally who deals in used appliances, so much the better. They will at least direct you to the answer, as they deal with crap like this all the time.

  6. Gender Traitor

    “My last three shifts I’ve cried,” said one barista.

    First responders and medical care workers nod sympathetically sarcastically.

    “We’re not in the business of filling bellies,” he told Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” in 2006. “We’re in the business of filling souls.”

    ::eyes roll back far enough to give clear view of brain stem::

    I’ve decided to hate everyone involved.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      That seems to be the appropriate response.

    • SDF-7

      Sounds like someone’s really channeling their failed artistic aspirations into…. making overpriced milkshakes.

      Agreed that sarcastic dismissal (per the Nerfherder above) seems the best option.

      Probably too hard to wrangle up a flock of geese to invade the whiners’ workplaces anyway…. Hate Birds for the Hated.

    • l0b0t

      Tee hee… If I let my true feelings about the wokeness of my cow orkers and my utter disdain of modernity be known, half of the staff would likely quit in protest. At the risk of jumbling up metaphors, I’m a ideological bull in a china shop trying to walk on eggshells. I just want to provide delicious, fast, consistent, product to every customer. I have no interest in the private lives of the staff.

      • SDF-7

        I’m sure like punctuality or other work ethics — that’s now White Supremacy and Systemic Racism somehow. Or the Patriarchy.

  7. rhywun

    Totally not like professional wrestling.

    Funny… Gov. Kathy Accident is also refusing to debate her Republican opponent. I can’t imagine why.

    • SDF-7

      “Oh no! The jig is up!”

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        He shouldn’t have been tapping that ass so hard.

      • Don escaped Texas

        ** wink and fingergun emoji **

    • Ted S.

      How do you think Bored of the Dance became so popular?

    • Rat on a train

      There is a world of Irish dance?
      The first rule of Irish Dance …

      • Gender Traitor

        …is never move your arms? (Seriously – what’s up with that?)

      • Atanarjuat

        There is a story of dubious veracity where in olden times religious authorities banned dancing but the tradition was kept up, albeit only with the part of the body that can’t easily be seen through a window.

      • SDF-7

        So torso-bound but foot-loose? I think I saw a dramatic reenactment of that story…

    • Grosspatzer

      We dodged a bullet. Youngest Patzer had 8 years of dance lessons (ballet, tap, jazz) here in Bergen County. One of his grammar school classmates was the son of the owner of the big Irish dance outfit, who wanted my son to join their troupe. He was not interested, thank $deity.

    • DEG

      There is a world of Irish dance?

      Yes.

      A local Irish dance troup holds an annual fundraiser at a local Irish pub the Sunday before St. Patrick’s Day. The fundraiser is to offset the costs for them to go to some sort of competition, I think in Ireland.

  8. Count Potato

    “Creepy NYC female teachers exposed: One ‘sent students photo of her privates, another flashed boobs at kindergartners, third sent 5,500 sexts to boy and fourth held weed-fueled sleepovers

    One teacher removed her pants in front of a student and told him to ‘Eat my a**’ while also sending photos of herself nude and in underwear to students”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11295403/Sleazy-teachers-exposed-One-flashed-boobs-kindergartners-held-sleepovers-home.html

    WTF is wrong with teachers?

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      They’re batshit crazy?

    • Q Continuum

      “Danielle Medellin, then 24, was accused of exchanging 5,500 ‘sexual-tension’ filled texts with an 11th-grade student in her math class[…]she now works as a data analyst with the New York Times”

      Best. Timeline. EVER.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Obsessive headcase confirmed

      • Atanarjuat

        Puffiest eyelids ever.

    • Ted S.

      How long does it take to sent 5500 sexts?

    • whiz

      At the time of writing, Zak works as a private tutor.

      So she went into prostitution?

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

        I think she is keeping her head down.

  9. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles: Preliminary is a little worse than it should have been — guessed MANNA because I didn’t see a G-out-of-place and thought I didn’t have a G. But ah well.

    Main event — not great, but I’ll take it. My seed words did not set me up for the Theme Letter Of The Day, so after the Guess 3 gimme in LR, burned a bit on the uppers because I wasn’t taking the bait on LL where I had 4/5 letters but the first had several options. I’m sure y’all will have better seeds and smoke my result… As Mayor of Chumptown, I am content to be a backbencher in the wider Ordle Order. 😉

    Daily Duotrigordle #221
    Guesses: 37/37
    Time: 05:19.48
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 258
    7️⃣8️⃣
    6️⃣3️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I didn’t chump, so there’s that.

      Daily Quordle 258
      8️⃣9️⃣
      7️⃣4️⃣

    • The Hyperbole

      Daily Duotrigordle #221
      Guesses: 37/37
      Time: 03:19.49
      New personal best time.

      Daily Quordle 258
      6️⃣7️⃣
      8️⃣🟥
      Good god.

    • rhywun

      G.I.G.O.

      Daily Quordle 258
      7️⃣9️⃣
      8️⃣4️⃣

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 258
      8️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣🟥

      Chumptown, fuck.

    • Ted S.

      I haven’t done Quordle in a while, but did well today:

      Daily Quordle 258
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣3️⃣
      quordle.com
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
      🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
      🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
      🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

      ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
      ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

      • Ted S.

        On the other hand, I sucked at Worldle:

        #Worldle #261 5/6 (100%)
        🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬅️
        🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜➡️
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↘️
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↖️
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
        https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

      • rhywun

        I haven’t played that in forever.

        Ugh… looks like another impossible one. Pass!

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 258
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com

    • kinnath

      Daily Quordle 258
      7️⃣6️⃣
      5️⃣3️⃣

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 258
      6️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣2️⃣
      quordle.com

      Good start, then hit two 50/50s on the first try at the end. Worst it could have been was a 20.

    • Grummun

      7 4
      5 3

    • cavalier973

      Daily Quordle 258
      6️⃣5️⃣
      4️⃣7️⃣
      quordle.com
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
      🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜
      🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
      ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜
      ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    • R C Dean

      “But my partner freaked out and insisted the baby couldn’t be his.

      I don’t know where he got this idea from.”

      ‘Tis a mystery.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I wonder how attractive she’ll be when the Type 2 kicks in and she needs a walker at 35. Fat positivity is stupid, they shouldn’t be vilified but celebration is worse.

    • EvilSheldon

      Pierce, that’s a butt plug. You don’t suck it.

  10. Lord Humungus

    Friend of mine – just recently boosted for the fifth time – came down with Covid for the firs time. As did his recently boosted mom and dad.

    My parents – who also dodged COVID – came down with it. My mom, I believe, was recently “boosted” while my dad decided to forgo.

    And my neighbors – who I play cards with – also came down with COVID two weeks ago. They had also dodged it until now. Both had “vaccinations” that were up to date.

    I’m wondering why – law of averages? The actual booster? Science will apparently never be able to tell us 🙂

    • Count Potato

      Worst vaccine ever.

    • Ted S.

      Tests that produce lots of false positives?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The virus has mutated since the original strain. It shouldn’t be a surprise it’s not so effective anymore.

  11. Count Potato

    Drinking coffee while watching football is weird.

    • Ted S.

      Every man wants to be a porn star??

      • Atanarjuat

        Well, a lot of teen boys probably think they do, when they’re just lustily considering the upside and unaware of the myriad downsides.

  12. Tundra

    There is nothing better for a hangover than hiking. Painful, yes, but after a few miles everything is better. And then you are ready to get after it again!

    • Atanarjuat

      Second best is a big greasy hamburger.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Either the grease helps or you upchuck…win-win. Morning PT in the military also is good.

      • Grosspatzer

        Cold pizza and warm beer FTW /ex frat boy

    • Fourscore

      Alone in a duck blind, in the rain. Time to contemplate life’s mysteries

    • EvilSheldon

      The best hangover cure is vigorous ball-slapping sex.

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

      Ice cold Coca-Cola from the fountain. Seriously, nothing is better.

      • Urthona

        Other than Mr. Pibb.

  13. Count Potato

    The endzone reads “END RACISM”.

    • rhywun

      Englandball games, they’re still kneeling at the beginning.

      This shit is never going to end.

  14. Grosspatzer

    This might be a good defense for that cop who shot the kid at McDonald’s.

    “While attending a ceremony relocating Zola’s ashes to the PanthĂŠon on 4 June 1908, Dreyfus was wounded in the arm by a gunshot from a right-wing journalist, Louis GrĂŠgori [fr], who was trying to assassinate him. GrĂŠgori was acquitted by the Parisian court which accepted his defense that he had not meant to kill Dreyfus, meaning merely to graze him.”

  15. Atanarjuat

    The beleaguered airport — the world’s third busiest for international passenger numbers in 2021 — has continued to cut flight capacity, infuriating airlines such as KLM, the national carrier of the Netherlands whose hub is at Schiphol. The latest round of cuts asked airlines to implement reductions up to 22% for the winter season — a “hopeless situation, lacking any perspective,” KLM said in a release.

    During the course of the conference, Schiphol was hit with yet another hurdle when the Dutch parliament announced that it seeks to further limit the airport’s yearly maximum number of flight moments from 500,000 to 440,000 to reduce emissions and noise pollution.

    “If you’re now working at a supermarket, you can make much more money than being a security employee at Schiphol Airport,” Joost said. “They probably now need to come back with what we saw on emergency measures, but also make sure they do everything they can to implement sustainable… structural changes to improve jobs at Schiphol Airport.”

    Fucking bizarre. Staffing shortages because they pay less than a high school job, and then government is going to cap the number of flights, which will harm business travel and the tourism industry.

    • Ted S.

      What’s the Dutch government going to do, shoot down the excess planes?

      • Atanarjuat

        I’m sure they have many types of leverage, like removing licensing for the airlines or having cops board the planes once they land. It’s such a strange, ham-handed decision. Noise pollution?

    • Fourscore

      A government run tourist industry, where a bureaucrat decides who goes where and when. Like socialized medicine.

      No one goes to Shithole airport anymore, it’s too crowded

    • rhywun

      Staffing shortages because they pay less than a high school job

      That high school job is probably unionized up the wazoo such that no HS age person can get one.

    • Gustave Lytton

      It may have been a great airport at one time but it’s been a line filled mess for a while. It’s both over capacity and a dated design. Last time I flew there, the EU entry lines were backed up into the corridor so badly that they had staff walking down calling out departure times for connecting flights and escort you to cut into it in a shorter line near the front.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Nose hole kisses!

    • Ted S.

      Hawt.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Get the antiseptic! Get some iodine!

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

      That is one hell of a selfie.

  16. Ownbestenemy

    White Russians are to be stricken from the “Drinks OBE can consume”. Getting ready to fly back to Vegas yesterday we stopped a bar on the Riverwalk area in Reno and I do not remember the Uber ride or getting through security.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Drinking White Russians is unpatriotic anyway. Slava Ukrania!

      • rhywun

        inorite? Plus it’s white.

        *remembers I have some kahlua in the fridge* 🤔

    • Ted S.

      Your wife spiked your drink.

    • R C Dean

      Are you missing any teeth? Did you get a facial tattoo?

      • Gender Traitor

        Are you missing any teeth internal organs?

        i.e. any suspicious scars on your back?

      • Homple

        “I’m an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
        …Raymond Chandler, “The King in Yellow”

  17. Count Potato

    “A Loudoun County school counselor last month pleaded guilty to having sex with a transgender student for years. The counselor gave him a pass to get out of class any time, he underwent the “physical & hormonal transition” process, & they engaged oral sex.

    The abuse was reported in May 2021, the same month of the notorious bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing teen, which played a role in the governor’s race. But the counselor was not arrested until November 3, the day after the election.

    This adds to the spotlight on school counselors after the head of the National Association of School Psychologists’ LGBTQI2-S Committee was found to be involved with a group that said it would provide money and new homes to gay students who didn’t like their parents”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-counselor-admits-to-sex-with-trans-student-in-virginia-district-rocked-by-bathroom-rape

    https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1578124006125080576

    • Count Potato

      “Amy Cannava is chair of [National Association of School Psychologists] LGBTQI2-S Committee and has provided training to other psychologists on LGBT issues. On NASP’s website, she suggested that school administrators should shield counselors who were in violation of a pending Virginia state policy saying that schools should not hide a student’s gender transition from parents.

      Cannava described the draft policy, which permits schools to call transgender students by new names and pronouns, but only with permission from parents, “horrific.”

      On a podcast called “Out, What Now?” Cannava said “I recognize that parental consent is a big deal, but when I’m doing anything LGBT, I don’t worry about that. … Let’s be honest, it’s an electronic permission slip. You type in a parent’s name and I’m like ‘oh that parent signed consent.’ There’s no actual signature.”

      “You have to sometimes break rules to do good for kids,” she said.

      Cannava, who said she is “queer” and attracted to “trans-masculine non-binary folx,” said “I had a record day where five kids came out to me. I said ‘this is amazing’ … Most of the time it’s like, ‘I think I’m trans,’ which really means ‘I am trans.’”

      She has the backing of the association.”

      CWAA

      • rhywun

        This is not going to end well and when that happens the left will just use it as justification to dig in deeper.

      • Count Potato

        Deeper how? They are already claiming unborn babies can know they are trans.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “trans-masculine non-binary folx”

        I have no idea what that means.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Jeez, take a bunch of Catholic priests hopped up on Viagra and turn them loose at Boystown and you’d still have less problems than our public school system seems to be having with all of this predator shit.

    • Ted S.

      Tie every TEAM BLUE member to this shit. Worked for Youngkin.

      • The Last American Hero

        Yep. Make them go on camera and say the words if they reject it.

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

      This whole alphabet soup bullshit is getting ridiculous.

  18. cavalier973

    Recently returned from Branson, MO.

    Ride the coasters at Silver Dollar City.

    Wildfire: premise is that some dude invented a new fuel (“Wildfire”), and you are on the test run. Rode this twice in a row. Fun, but pretty standard and it seemed shorter than the others.

    The Giant Barnswing: not a roller coaster, but you get a similar sensation. You fall dozens of feet forward, swing up, then fall dozens of feet backward.

    Outlaw Run: premise is that you are chasing outlaws. Waiting area plays a medley from the scores of “The Big Country” and “How the West Was Won”. A hybrid wooden roller coaster. This is my favorite coaster of any I have ever been on in my lifetime. A “wooden” roller coaster with loops. At one point you start to barrel-roll, but the track instead just runs sideways for a few yards. Near the end is a very tight double cork screw. I only got to ride it once this time, because the group wished to move on to something else. :/

    Powder Keg: premise is that you are in a carriage house when someone accidentally sets some explosives on fire. The outside decor has a track that bends straight up with mangled rails at t he end, some mangled rails stuck in the roof, and roller coaster carts also embedded in the roof. This was closed when we first got there, but opened up a few minutes later after they “worked some kinks out” of one of the carts. Rode this thrice in a row. The initial acceleration is intense, followed by a straight drop. Loops and whatnot. Very fun.

    Time Traveler: premise is that an inventor created a time machine. The carts swivel around as you move along the track. At the end, you face backward from how you started. Steampunk decor (I nearly purchased a top hat with goggles and gears on it in the gift shop outside the ride). This wasn’t as scary (“fun”) as it appears from watching it go. The swiveling makes it difficult to tell where you are on the tracks—“am I going up or down, now”? The second ride was better, since the first drink was backward.

    Thunderation: premise: it’s a rollercoaster done up to look like a train. It is a much milder coaster—there are no straight drops down. This was an unpleasant ride; it needed some bolts tightened, or something, because I felt beat up afterward.

    Fire in the Hole: premise is that you are part of a fire brigade trying to stop the Ozark KKK…er, “Baldknobbers”, who are engaged in acts of mass arson. A Dark ride with a lot of scenarios of buildings on fire and people trying to escape houses. Has exactly one drop, near the end, when your fire brigade wagon plays chicken with a train on a bridge, and veers off to fall in the river with a big splash.
    For the first time since I first visited SDC, I did not ride this coaster.

    • Mojeaux

      I love Fire in the Hole.

      • cavalier973

        I do, too, but I was eager to get to Outlaw Run, and was being petulant that the group wanted to wait a whole ten minutes to ride this. I wandered around the “fireman’s cemetery” instead.

      • PutridMeat

        The question is, are the fish biting this morning?

    • cavalier973

      What ranks Outlaw Run ahead of Powder Keg for me is that, with the former, there are no handholds. They buckle you in tightly (including braces around your shins) but there is nothing to hold on to while you are free falling and looping and spiraling.

  19. Atanarjuat

    By now y’all have probably seen this https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-team-involved-in-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-story-identified_4781643.html

    Meta, Facebook’s parent company, identified the team as the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), according to an updated complaint entered late on Oct. 6.

    The FITF was established by FBI Director Christopher Wray in 2017 “to identify and counteract malign foreign influence operations targeting the United States,” according to the bureau’s website. Such operations include covert actions by outside governments aimed at influencing the American political scene or discourse, the bureau has said.

    Feds are taxing us to pay for a RussiaGate team. Do not vote for any Republican who does not make abolishing this task force an explicit part of their platform.

    • Ted S.

      I got a paywall, so I didn’t really see it.

      • Atanarjuat

        Funny, me too. I deleted the ? and everything after it, as Tonio suggested we do when posting links. With all the extra junk, the link goes to a non-paywalled version. Anyway I think I clipped the important stuff out already.

  20. CPRM

    Listened to local sports talk all week. No mention that the Packer game was going to NFL Network. Woke up 4hrs early to watch the game only to find that it was not airing on the Fox I get out of Wausau, but is airing on the Fox I can’t get out of Green Bay. Spent half an hour finding a working stream and missed the first quarter.

    • Fourscore

      I had Door County Coffee this morning so I can skip the game. Thanks, CPRM

      • CPRM

        I hope the coffee was good. I don’t drink coffee so it was a blind guess on my part.

    • rhywun

      Blackout? It’s on ABC here.

      • CPRM

        It’s bullshit. WTMJ in Milwaukee gets to air it. WLUK gets to air it in Green Bay, but I guess everyone else in the state is just fucked without NFL Network

        In Wisconsin, Green Bay and Milwaukee are considered the Packers’ home markets. That means a local station in those cities is allowed to carry the game. In Green Bay, WLUK-TV will broadcast the game. In Milwaukee, WTMJ will broadcast the game. Unfortunately, Wausau television stations are prohibited from broadcasting the game.

      • rhywun

        Oh, I’m a local market – duh.

    • Ted S.

      I’m listening to Wayne and Larry.

      • CPRM

        I don’t have a radio in the house. I tried to stream the Westwood 1 coverage, but they are blacked out because THEY consider me in the home market.

  21. DEG

    Tall Irish covfefe.

    In the time since, his former friend Joel Greenberg pleaded guilty to trafficking the same teen in exchange for helping the Justice Department’s investigation. Gaetz’s ex-girlfriend also struck a deal, obtaining immunity from federal prosecution in return for her testimony.

    All that and you can’t get a conviction? Yeah, the charges are bullshit.

    A pair of flights carrying migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last month, orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, may have exceeded the original scope of the state’s plan to transport undocumented individuals, according to records obtained by CNN.

    I might be willing to take this seriously as a point against DeSantis if CNN applied the same scrutiny to the Biden clan. As it is, CNN can fuck right off.

    Democrat Katie Hobbs won’t debate her opponent in Arizona’s race for governor, yet Republican Kari Lake tried to make it happen at a candidate town hall that organizers say she disrupted.

    Democrats being unwilling to debate their Republican opponents this election cycle is not limited to Arizona. Maggie Hassan in NH pulled out of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce sponsored US Senate candidates debate.

    At Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, labor shortages continue to fuel unprecedented chaos that began in the spring, prompting many travelers and aviation insiders to wonder what has happened to an airport long considered one of the most efficient and highly regarded in Europe — if not the world.

    “Began in the spring”…. hmm… Lil Rona Panic fall-out? Nahh….

    It’s a shame. I liked Schiphol.

    In survey after survey, Shapiro leads by double digits and is outspending the GOP nominee by a 60 to 1 margin on the airwaves, potentially creating a significant drag on Oz’s chances.

    I’ll bet some of that Shapiro money is coming from the GOP Establishment.

    • rhywun

      60 to 1?! That’s… something else.

      • DEG

        Mastriano’s campaign is on a shoe-string budget. Based on this article, just the campaigns themselves aren’t 60-1, but I think based on those numbers, once you include spending from PACs and such, I can see 60-1.

        Full disclosure: I have given some money to Mastriano’s campaign. I’m one of those small donors mentioned in the article.

        The Republican Governor’s Association made it clear when Mastriano won the primary that they would give him no assistance. The RNC hinted the same. I think if he pulled a Don Bolduc (i.e. flip-flopped on the 2020 election), Mastriano would suddenly get support from those groups. It worked for Bolduc. But, Mastriano is sticking to his guns.

        Mastriano is campaigning. He’s got a bus and is constantly touring Pennsylvania. He has a new campaign event just about every day. He livestreams them on facebook, which is probably the best he can do to get his name and message out to people. Though, I suspect those people are already interested in him.

      • DEG

        And I’m not doxing myself. The article includes a link to search the database of Mastriano donors, including small donors. My donation check was too late to be included in this reporting cycle.

      • rhywun

        Wow, I guess “big-tent conservatism” really is dead. Nice of the GOP to shit on PA voters like that.

      • creech

        A friend is a former PA state legislator (and now a registered and active Libertarian). He knows Mastriano and considers him a statist and a potential dictator. One PA gauleiter was enough.

  22. Mojeaux

    @OM, I was just hitting the button to leave the zooms last night when I saw your glass and thought, “Is he drinking absinthe?”

    • Spudalicious

      Yes. Yes he was.

  23. kinnath

    I used to travel through Schiphol regularly in the 90s and early 00s. I always like KLM and Schiphol.

    Too bad about the climate nuts ruining the place.

  24. DEG

    Time for another tall Irish Covfefe.

    • Count Potato

      I started with coffee then switched to guiness, so it’s Irish Aftercoffee.

    • rhywun

      *barf*

      Odd that they grow straight. I remember long ago it was some dude in India and they grew in curlicues. I think he was on “That’s Incredible!”

    • creech

      I hope it isn’t us taxpayers enabling this nut.