Thursday Afternoon Fungal Links

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Daily Links | 179 comments

A folkie while you’re waiting for the fungus to kick in.

 

 

AND YOU THOUGHT THE FETTERLUMP WAS MERE FICTION: Reportage on the emerging discoveries of fungi within tumors from labroots, and nocamels. And don’t forget about the Cordyceps fungi that invade the brains of ants.

 

 

AOC HECKLED AT OWN TOWN HALL MEETING BY ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS: “Congresswoman, none of this matters unless there’s a nuclear war which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine,” one of the protesters shouted.

 

 

IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT, PART DCLXVI: Joe Wolf, head political consultant, for AZ gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs caught on video with AR-15 in car for “crowd control.” Hobbs is a non-debater and advocate for “common sense gun reform.” Reportage by indispensable 2A advocate Colion Noir.

 

 

ANTI-CCP PROTESTS FUEL FEARS OF ANOTHER LOCKDOWN: You could say that the population is afraid of being shanghai-ed.

 

 

POST-BRUEN TEST CASE? Utica, NY woman caught with ghost gun during traffic stop. No word on the basis for the stop.

 

Bonus club track for you to enjoy in your fungal haze.

About The Author

Tonio

Tonio

Tonio is a Glibs shitposter, linkstar (Thursday PM, yo), author, and editor. He is also a GlibZoom personality and prankster. Tonio is a big fan of pic-a-nic baskets. His hobbies include salmon fishing, territorial displays, dumpster diving, and posing for wildlife photographers.

179 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    Quite a fungible set of links

    • UnCivilServant

      Quite a few Morels of information to chew on

  2. The Other Kevin

    You preemptively started a pun thread. I’m not sure how I feel about that.

    • Tonio

      It’s my links and I can pun if I want to.

      • SDF-7

        We can lichen it to some of the best link posts of the past…

      • Pope Jimbo

        No restrictions?

        No linky caps?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Maitake, dont lose your mind,

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Amanita narrowed gaze over here.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Tonio has no morels.

      • Animal

        Are you kidding? Tonio’s a fungi. When they made him they broke the mold.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Spore little Kevin…Trying to be a fun guy.

  3. EvilSheldon

    Not just an AR-15, but likely an unregistered NFA weapon (circa the latest BATFE regulations on pistol braces.)

    Shame.

    • Tonio

      Good catch.

    • Drake

      Hard to tell with the gun half-covered. That barrel looks less than 16″?

      • EvilSheldon

        Judging by the other stuff in the photo, I think it’s a 10.3″ Daniel Defense upper on a no-name lower. The lower has an SBA3 adjustable pistol brace and a Law Tactical folding stock adapter.

        It’s 100% for-certain a sub-16″ barrel.

      • Drake

        Damn – bows to the expert.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Nice!

      Dumbass

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      (circa the latest BATFE regulations on pistol braces.)

      The leaked regulations planned for release in December, right? I think pistol braces are still kosher for now unless I missed something.

  4. Drake

    Joe Wolf – it’s a crowd-control weapon. Sure, if you are into Boston Massacre style crowd control.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Of all the stupid things to say, that had to be near the top.

    • EvilSheldon

      This caught my eye as well. Does this complete muppet think he’s gonna mag-dump into a crowd, even a hostile one, and end up anywhere other than Arizona pound-me-in-the-ass prison?

      • Count Potato

        Prison is for the little people.

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

        Dip shit thinks he can just wave it around, methinks.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Want to bet that he has a round chambered too?

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      In the 70s they wanted to put soot on the ice caps because we were going into a new Ice Age, idiots

      • Drake

        Now we have a story in the links about how they plan to cause one.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      We’re bleaching the sun.

    • Pat

      Once they fuck up the planet implementing a goofy plot line from The Matrix, will they fix it with the goofy plot line from Sunshine?

  5. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Not only a gun but a ghost gun, the scariest kind of gun. Boo!!!

    • SDF-7

      It raises the specter of armed citizen militias…. wooooooo….

    • Rebel Scum

      Can I name my ghost gun “Casper”?

      • Tundra

        I’d go with “Marley.”

    • Nephilium

      It’s just seasonal for Samhain.

  6. SDF-7

    Re: New York girl — how do you repeatedly look nervously towards a bag strapped to your chest, anyway? For all the cop knew, her bra was uncomfortable… sounds more than a little fishy to me.

    • Drake

      Why strap the gun to her chest – the one place the cop was sure to stare?

    • Sensei

      STOP.

      They frisked her first and made up the story after.

      Who are you going to believe? Our tireless public protectors or some random twitchy girl with an illegal gun?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Oops… our camera must have been malfunctioning.

    • EvilSheldon

      If that was the bag in the attached photo? The black nylon one with all the MOLLE webbing? The cop figured there was a gun in there because he had two brain cells to rub together.

      If you’re gonna roll dirty, you need to put a little more thought into it…

      • The Other Kevin

        I have friends that have gotten into concerts with booze concealed in their bra, and onto planes with joints concealed in tampons. It takes creativity.

      • EvilSheldon

        The tampon concealment is clever. I’ve used Chapstick and dental floss containers to smuggle similar contraband.

      • The Other Kevin

        She concealed it in the applicator, resealed the package, and put it back in a full box. It was clever.

      • Bobarian LMD

        put it back in a full box

        Phrasing?

      • Nephilium

        That’s a small amount, you need to think bigger!

      • Bobarian LMD

        Cop said he saw the outline of the gun thru the bag… which is a total lie.

      • EvilSheldon

        Of course it was. The surprising thing is that the cop even bothered to lie. He sees a black nylon tactical bag that’s obviously intended to hold a gun, does a Terry frisk, and surprise!

  7. Rebel Scum

    Cepeda was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm and other traffic violations.

    Two weapons charges on one count because fuck you, that’s why.

  8. Rebel Scum

    Oh, Tulsi.

    I’m honored to be endorsed by @TulsiGabbard! Tulsi is leading the political realignment to put our families & our nation 1st. This movement is about our common love for our nation, not political labels. Join us & lets take our nation back!

    • Tundra

      What about the guns, toots?

      Just fucking come out and say you were a hysterical idiot and you will the belle of the ball.

      • EvilSheldon

        A politician who can publicly admit that their previous policy position was wrong, would be a jewel to be preserved…

    • The Other Kevin

      I wouldn’t mind being endorsed by Tulsi, IYKWIM.

      • Pope Jimbo

        SInce she has already engorged you, I’m sure it won’t be that hard to be endorsed too

  9. Tundra

    Actually, those fungus/tumor links are pretty interesting.

    The second manuscript (Hohlman et al) identified fungi in head-neck, lung, rectum, colon, stomach, breast, esophageal, and brain cancer samples. Specifically, researchers found fungus from the species Candida enriched in gastrointestinal cancers, and the presence of this fungi predicted poor survival. These findings also suggest that the presence of fungi in cancer could be used as a biomarker to predict prognosis or inform treatment planning.

    Neat. It would be interesting to know if destroying the Candida first has any appreciable effect on survival.

    Thanks, Tonio!

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Fun fact about killing about candida (gut yeast). It releases toxins upon death that instigate mild to severe psychotic behavior.

      Ask me how I know.

      • Tundra

        Holy shit!

        Man, the gut microbiome is a strange and mysterious thing.

        Wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn that it the driver of pretty much every health issue.

    • Tonio

      All kidding aside, this is interesting. Of course covariance does not equal causality. Maybe it will turn out to be a nothingburger; maybe it will get us better outcomes for cancer patients. It’s certainly going to generate a lot of grant proposals.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m hiding those articles from Mrs. Holiness.

      In 2000, my dad came down with Guillane-Barre disease after a weekend we spent picking morel mushrooms. In Wife Land, there is a complete and total causal link between mushroom picking and viral infections that cause paralysis now. So don’t even mention going mushroom hunting around her.

      Doesn’t matter that the six other people who were right next to my dad didn’t have any issues. Or that two different doctors pooh-poohed her “theory”. She knows.

  10. Sensei

    Putting grandpa in jail will stop this kind of thing from happening again!

    Florida grandfather charged after rental car employee discovers toddler left behind in vehicle

    However, I’m not sure what you do here. Assuming he is competent – he’s just not accustomed to having a kid with him – and he is an unfamiliar situation and made a big mistake. Sounds like he was remorseful an cooperative. I’m guessing he gets no jail time, but may never be allowed to be unsupervised with his grandchild.

    • Tulip

      Children left in the car is the canonical example of a law’s unintended consequences. Nobody forgot the baby in the front seat.

    • Pope Jimbo

      How about this recent case in Minnesoda?

      The Minnesota Supreme Court has overturned a conviction for secretly recording a teen in a bathroom, a decision that could prompt action from lawmakers next year.

      In 2018, a 15-year-old boy in Bloomington stopped at a fitness center to use the bathroom in the locker room. While in the bathroom, the teen saw a cellphone’s camera lens pointed at him. He reported it to management and his parents then filed a police report against the suspect, according to court documents.

      Court documents state that man argued that he believed it was his friend, who he was trying to get back for doing something similar in the past. He also denied knowing the victim was a minor, which he also argued prevented him from being charged with the felony, saying state law requires proof that he knew the victim was a minor.

      Court overturned it on a technicality (aka the prosecutor fucked up). I would like to know if there was any validity to his assertion that he was trying to get back at his buddy.

  11. Rebel Scum

    You are going to get a nuclear winter or a solar winter.

    The White House is coordinating a five-year research plan to study ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to temper the effects of global warming, a process sometimes called solar geoengineering or sunlight reflection.

    The research plan will assess climate interventions, including spraying aerosols into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight back into space, and should include goals for research, what’s necessary to analyze the atmosphere, and what impact these kinds of climate interventions may have on the Earth, according to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Congress directed the research plan be produced in its spending plan for 2022, which President Joe Biden signed in March.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      I’ve seen this movie.

      • Bobarian LMD

        We’re gonna need a bigger boat?

    • Count Potato

      Simpsons did it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ahem. OBE did it.

      • Count Potato

        You don’t remember the episode when Mr. Burns tried to block out the sun?

      • Bobarian LMD

        The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy says “Hold mah beer!”

  12. DEG

    Reportage by indispensable 2A advocate Colion Noir.

    Who is reporting on a video from Project Veritas Action.

    Such a bold act of protest is highly unusual in China, particularly before a politically sensitive event, and would certainly draw ire from the top leaders and end in heavy punishment for the protesters. The police have pulled out all the stops in a “100-day operation” to thwart any potential social unrest that could disrupt a smooth transition of power in the leadership reshuffle at the 20th party congress.

    I remember thinking during the early days of the Lil Rona Panic that, in whole or in part, China’s lockdowns were cover for disappearing dissidents. I still think that.

    A Utica woman is facing gun possession charges after police say she was found with a ghost gun during a traffic stop.

    I predict the NRA will have nothing to do with this. Maybe another gun rights org will be interested.

    The “Mushroom Song” is good.

  13. Count Potato

    Wait, they had actual Chinese people back when Marlene Dietrich made movies?

    • SDF-7

      Her mocking smile says it all.

    • Tonio

      Anna May Wong should have had a better acting career.

      • Animal

        I tried to call her, but was told I had the Wong number.

      • R.J.

        Technically, she said you May have the Wong number. There’s still a chance!

    • Rat on a train

      No. That is why whites had to play the parts.

      • Count Potato

        Anna May Wong was born Wong Liu-tsong to Wong Sam-sing, owner of the Sam Kee Laundry, and his second wife Lee Gon-toy.

  14. Shpip

    Dunno if this was covered earlier— if so, apologies. Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz spared the death penalty by a south Florida jury.

    I certainly understand the outrage at the jury’s recommendation, but I think that they may have inadvertently meted out justice more swiftly than would otherwise be done. If Cruz got the death penalty, he’d be around for decades as appeals wound their way through the state and federal courts. I’m of the mind that he, like Jeffrey Dahmer, won’t be tolerated by his fellow inmates, and that his life expectancy in general population of a place like the Florida State Prison would be measured in months, if not weeks.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      As long as life in prison is actually life in prison, then I’m ok with that. And in Florida, that may be the case, unlike here in California.

      • Shpip

        In Florida, the only two sentences available upon a conviction for first degree murder are life w/o parole or death. And when you have seventeen convictions… suffice it to say, the only way Nik Cruz is leaving prison is in a hearse.

    • Spartacus

      Yeah, he’s not gonna make a lot of friends in Starke.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Honk Honk.

    Biden: “If Republicans win, inflation is going to get worse. It’s that simple.”

    • The Other Kevin

      No see what he MEANT to say was…

      • Bobarian LMD

        If Republicans win, inflation is going to get worse. It’s that simple.”

        “I’m still President, no matter who wins.”

      • R.J.

        “If Republicans win, we have ways of making inflation worse.”

    • SDF-7

      “I’ll make sure of that!” ?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Hmm, we do know they won’t cut spending.

    • Rat on a train

      Are you threatening me?

    • Chafed

      I’m sure Jesse can make an introduction.

      • SDF-7

        “Hey baby… what’s ur sine?”

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That joke was grizzly.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Now you’re just panda…ring to the pun gods.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Polarizing for sure.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Please. I’ll take Tonio as my wingman any day.

    • Tonio

      Nice.

    • Animal

      I’m reminded of the story of the local cop who saw a guy driving along in a convertible with a bear riding shotgun. He pulls the guy over and asks what’s up with the bear.

      “Oh, I trap them in the mountains,” the guy says. “I don’t kill ’em. I just catch ’em.”

      “Well, you should take that one to the zoo,” the cop says.

      “Yeah. Good idea. I’ll do that.”

      The next day the cop sees the guy driving his convertible with the same bear riding shotgun, so pulls him over again.

      “I thought you were going to take that bear to the zoo?”

      “I did. Today we’re going to the movies.”

  16. Nephilium

    Sean:

    Package arrived, just in time to make some spicy sauerkraut.

    • Sean

      Yay!

  17. Fatty Bolger

    This ghost gun shit is nonsense. Serial numbers don’t do squat to prevent or solve crimes.

    • pistoffnick

      She could have written “S/N: 1″in permanent marker on the gun…

      That would stop it from being a bad gun.

    • Rat on a train

      In 2001, a former Hooters waitress filed a lawsuit against the restaurant after she said she was promised a new Toyota for winning a beer sales contest. However, she was given a toy Yoda — the “Star Wars” character — instead.
      This isn’t the prize you are looking for.

      • Drake

        There was an old Opie and Anthony gag where they awarded a winner a 100 Grand bar.

    • Bobarian LMD

      We said “keys” to a new Ford Truck.

    • Nephilium

      A local brewery sets up a little putting green with a ridge in it during their big events. For every beer ticket, you get a shot at sinking a putt. If you win that, you get to come back later and shoot for a $1 tab for a year (each day you stop in, your tab will be $1… I think they have a $100-$200 limit per day on it in the fine print). The real challenge is that you have to be there to win the big prize, and well… you’re sitting around in a beer garden waiting…

    • The Hyperbole

      now Morrilton Country Club and Jay Hodge Ford of Morrilton want to crawfish out of the deal

      I’ve never heard that called ‘crawfishing’ before, must be a southern thing.

    • Spartacus

      Smarter than the average bear.

      • Grosspatzer

        More adaptable than the average greenie.

  18. Ed Wuncler

    It’s official, I’m leaving the People’s Republic of Illinois in November and moving to the Cleveland area. Unfortunately, my father in law was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia and my mothers in law needs a lot of help and emotional support so that’s what prompted this move. We’re trying to buy a house in either Cleveland Heights or Shaker Heights and we ran into something called the Point of Sale or POS. In Shaker, if you’re found with code violations you’ll have to give the village 150 percent in escrow of the violations charges to the village and won’t get that money back until you fix their list of violations. It’s the most ass backwards thing ever and I lived in the Chicago area my whole life

    • Count Potato

      Sorry about the FIL.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Sorry about the family situation.

      What about Bay Village or Lakewood?

      • Ed Wuncler

        My wife’s parents are in Cleveland Heights so she wants be as close as possible in case there are any emergencies.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I don’t know why I thought Shaker Heights was on the west side

    • rhywun

      Sorry.

      Long time no see.

      • Ed Wuncler

        It’s been a hectic two months. We had the shareholders of the firm in town in September so of course they wanted financials and along with trying to pack and move to another state, I haven’t had as much time to shoot the shit with my fellow glibs.

    • Grosspatzer

      Sorry to hear about your FIL. Cleveland area might be OK, although Ohio is infested with glibs, so I hear.

    • Nephilium

      Sorry about the reason for the move. Shaker has all sorts of fun things like that, and don’t want easy access to the freeways. If you need anyone on the ground to check things out for you, feel free to reach out at my handle at the Google.

      • Ed Wuncler

        Thanks Neph! I’ll definitely ask a lot of questions.

    • DEG

      Sorry about your Father-in-Law.

    • Sean

      Sorry, dude.

    • wdalasio

      I’m sorry to hear about your father-in-law.

    • Ed Wuncler

      Thank for all of your well wishes. It’s sad because he’s probably one of the smartest but also most generous people I’ve ever met. The only time I saw him get angry was years ago when he went to a McDonalds after his mother’s funeral and they didn’t have the shake machine working. He said, “I’ve had a long day and all I want is an effing strawberry milkshake from here.”

    • Animal

      Sorry to hear about the father-in-law, Ed. Hope the move goes as smoothly as possible in spite of the code issues.

    • Drake

      Good luck with the move and all. Moving is stressful even without the family situation. Stay stoic.

    • Pat

      Condolences. I’ve got some MLS searches set up around that area, so that’s good information to be aware of.

  19. Tulip

    TIL: Very Lamar developed frequency hopping. Art Garfunkel is ABD in mathematics.

    • Tulip

      Hedy.

      • Grosspatzer

        Hedley!

      • rhywun

        Lamarr?

    • Count Potato

      That was on an episode of I Shit You Not.

    • Nephilium

      Because of that, she’s responsible for Bluetooth.

    • Pat

      Brian May of Queen has a PhD in astronomy, and Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo/Elephant 6 collective has a PhD in mathematics and is now an assistant professor. He developed a non-Pythagorean scale with frequencies corresponding to the natural logarithms of successive whole numbers.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Hedy’s desiccated corpse is mine. You can’t have her.

      • Animal

        That’s Hedley!

  20. Grosspatzer

    IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT, PART DCLXVI

    An AR-15 in the hands of a beast is downright evil.

    • The Other Kevin

      In the video is she wearing the same outfit as she is today?

    • grrizzly

      Looks like they were really scared. Too bad it doesn’t happen more frequently.

    • Rebel Scum

      It was all so fake from the very beginning.

    • creech

      I’ll bet she wasn’t near as sacred of being raped like AOC was.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        At her age she was probably hoping for it.

        For some reason I’m thinking of Velcro again.

      • Pat

        Barfman to the white courtesy phone…

    • rhywun

      I wonder if it crossed their minds that the cops were just waving them in.

  21. Count Potato

    “RANKED: Alaska and Florida are America’s most Covid-proof states and Montana and Michigan its most vulnerable, says study which scores Democrat-led areas MUCH higher than Republican counterparts

    States were scored on their rates of coronavirus transmission, positive tests, hospitalizations, deaths and vaccinations. Democrat-leaning states fared better than their Republican counterparts”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11311921/RANKED-Alaska-Florida-Covid-proof-states-Montana-Michigan-vulnerable.html

    Looks awfully random to me, even if you ignore the bullshit scoring.

    • Spartacus

      Higher score is better?

      • Count Potato

        Yes

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      If you are going to do this some index like this, the only measures that matter are hospitalizations and deaths. Even better would be a measurement of excess deaths or life-years lost. Then to say that blue states did better because their average rank is higher is stupid. If you are going to do a comparison you do a weighted average of their scores based on population.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That said, it’s funny that FL is #2 and TX #8, ahead of CA and NY. Even GA, which according to the media was practicing human sacrifice by opening its schools, came in ahead of NY.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        Age adjusted mortality

        The more complex the rating, the more it’s bullshit

  22. Count Potato

    “An Alabama pediatrician has been accused of glorifying the suicide of a tormented transgender teenager by telling a top conference the 16 year-old’s decision to end her life was ‘bold.’

    Dr. Morissa Ladinsky twice used the word while describing the 2014 death of Leelah Alcorn, who stepped in front of a tractor-trailer in Ohio while battling mental health issues she says were linked to her transition from male to female.

    Speaking at the American Academy of Pediatrics conference at Anaheim on October 11, she said: ‘And in the final days of 2014… a local 16-year-old lady, Leelah Alcorn, of trans experience, stepped boldly in front of a tractor-trailer, ending her life.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11311859/Woke-doctor-blasted-hailing-transgender-teens-BOLD-suicide.html

    CWAC

    • db

      No mention of the anguish the truck driver likely experienced

    • wdalasio

      Between this story and this one, I have to ask, what the living hell has gotten into doctors? A significant number of them are starting to sound like outright ghouls.

      • Count Potato

        Yes. Maybe having to go along with covid nonsense broke their minds.

    • Shiny Nerfherder

      Names are being taken

  23. Aloysious

    Since Tonio brought up spores, molds, and funguses… I’m rooting for a Phallus impudicus to spring out of Federlumps neck in the next issue of Joemala.

    • Bobarian LMD

      As far as I can tell, that’s already whats growing out of it.

  24. mikey

    Pumpkin spice?
    Forget it. The latest weekly-special latte flavor at our coffee shack is. – Lucky Charms!
    Is this some Gen Whatever thing?
    I don’t think I’ll try it.

  25. DEG

    I didn’t know NH Dems were still at this lawsuit.

    The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to take the appeal made by Democratic lawmakers suing state House Speaker Sherman Packard over the legislature’s COVID-19 restrictions.

    The high court rejected the petition for appeal this week as the Democratic lawmakers sought to overturn the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that held Packard (R-Londonderry) is protected by legislative immunity when making House rules, including rules about what COVID precautions to institute.’

    Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Granite State Democratic legislators have aggressively pushed restrictions, including mask mandates and a demand to allow remote voting. And Democrats have continued that push even after a vaccine became widely available and the data showed mitigation efforts did little to stop the spread of the novel virus and its variants.

    After the First Circuit Court ruled against the Democrats earlier this year, their legal team filed the appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court and prepared a new complaint in the lawsuit at the federal court in Concord.

    Packard’s office said Wednesday he is reviewing his options after the development with the U.S. Supreme Court noting, “Speaker Packard is reviewing the latest details of this ongoing litigation case with his legal team.”/em>

    • Rat on a train

      House Minority Leader Rep. David Cote (D-Nashua) … has missed at least two years of votes in the House.
      As long as he gets paid.

      • DEG

        $100/year + expenses.

        $125/year + expenses if you’re in a leadership position.

  26. creech

    Damn, I can’t wait for the election. Living in a large metro area, I’m inundated with tv and radio ads for congressional candidates plus the PA governor and senate races. And virtually every ad is just full of cliches promising good times, or half truth, spin doctored attacks on the opponent. One scores her opponent for having 77% of the locations on her company website are out of the country, implying jobs have been moved from America. Turns out these are sales offices overseas that generate export sales for the American factories. Now, Dr. Oz is being hammered for killing puppies in his pharmaceutical research lab, causing horrendous suffering. What’s the suggested remedy, becoming a vegan and throwing away all your medicines? It’s no wonder good qualified people are afraid to run even with squeaky clean backgrounds. The spin doctors will make you a villain no matter what. Take someone like Jesus: “He threw the local bakers, fishermen, and wine makers out of work by outsourcing supplies to his Father.” “He practiced medicine without a proper license.” “one of his Father’s spokesmen advocated scrapping the military, leaving them with no weapons to defend against our enemies.”

    • Rat on a train

      I have inferred, based on campaign ads, that Virginia has a lot of pregnancies caused by rape.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Huh. I would have thought incest would be more prevalent in a southern state like Virginia.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, abortion is not up for debate in NY but strangely enough that is the only thing the Dem candidates want to talk about.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s bound to happen, what with all those slave owners walking around.

    • Drake

      When it’s over, J.J. Walker will be on to tell you about open enrollment.

      • Shiny Nerfherder

        DYN-O-MITE!

      • rhywun

        I was just informed that Medicaid enrollment is “open” again, until December something.

        Um… dude, it doesn’t “close” anymore.

  27. Rebel Scum

    Here we go again…

    “The Raleigh Police Department is currently on the scene of an active shooting in the area of the Neuse River Greenway near Osprey Cove Drive and Bay Harbor Drive.”

    “Residents in that area are advised to remain in their homes.” Raleigh Police Department said at 5:55 pm ET. …

    Update: 1 off duty cop has been killed and four others are injured.

    “A high-level city official has confirmed with WRAL News that an off-duty officer was killed. Wake Med confirms they have received four patients at their trauma center related to the shooting. There’s no word on their conditions.” – WRAL reported.

    Sources told WRAL that “multiple people are dead from the shooting.”

    Hopefully someone shoots back.

  28. grrizzly

    The power of tipping. $2 and for the next glass they opened a bottle of champagne for me at the lounge.