Monday Afternoon Continuing-Vid Links

by | Dec 5, 2022 | Daily Links | 187 comments

I spent a week in booth 4

 

Well, this has been a fun 6 days. While still testing positive, and not fully back to normal, I have stopped injecting bleach and snorting ivermectin. I hope to rejoin the world this coming Sunday.

But that isn’t why you are here. You are here for Links. OK, the comments section after the Links. It’s all good.

  • I hope she wins. Note, she is suing the cop in his individual capacity.
  • Kurdistan + doodoo + whirling metal blades?
  • Fortunately, I do not work in the mining sector…

Music: Coming to Europe again … soon.

 

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Swiss Servator

Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

187 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I have stopped injecting bleach

    Why would you stop?

    /mainlinesclorox

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      I picked the wrong day to quit injecting bleach.

  2. DEG

    I hope to rejoin the world this coming Sunday.

    Good.

    The complaint also claims Staab did no additional police work to independently verify whether the phone and other stolen items were inside Johnson’s home.

    Did the procedures say he had to do that? Was he trained to know he had to do that? Huh? Huh? Totality of circs. HTH.

    “The rule of law requires that there not be one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless; one rule for the rich and another for the poor,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time.

    Now do Hunter Biden.

    • SDF-7

      I know it would never happen (because of the first rule of Judge Club and all) — but I wish she had a shot against the idiot judge who signed off on the warrant as well. It shouldn’t be too much to ask that a warrant that consists of “citizen said he strenuously believes stolen items at this address due to Find My Phone” be looked at critically.

      • Spartacus

        This is why, whenever I encounter a “Should Judge X be retained in office?”, I vote NO. And will continue to vote NO until judges start to do their friggin’ jobs.

  3. SDF-7

    With PPP and his lunatic State Dept. morons pushing WWIII at us, I expected this Europe again.

    Glad to hear you’re on the mend, Swiss.

    Was busy actually working and didn’t read the story (last post) yet — so if y’all have already discussed the gorram Stupid Party being Extra Extra Stupid my apologies.

    • pistoffnick

      I expected this Europe again.

      *was not disappointed*
      *hums as that worm digs deeper into my ear*

  4. kinnath

    Sorry to hear you were laid low by the Vid.

  5. Rebel Scum

    The marriage of convenience between Iraqi Kurdistan’s political dynasties is on the rocks.

    While the dominant Barzani and Talabani clans have long been at loggerheads over power and resources in a region rich in oil and gas, power-sharing governments have largely kept a lid on mistrust since the two sides fought a civil war in the 1990s.

    But the lingering acrimony has spilled into the open with a vengeance since a rare assassination in the city of Erbil, and the fallout is putting the uneasy alliance through one of its stiffest tests since the war, diplomats and analysts say.

    The Kurds will have to carefully whey their options.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      There’s a lot of cheese tin the Kurdish oil trade to fight over.

    • SDF-7

      Are you saying that the rancid turn of relations has Kurdled their political options?

      • Spudalicious

        You have spoiled this whole thread.

      • Spartacus

        Now you’ve gone whey too far.

      • Aloysious

        SD, you’re a slice off the old block.

  6. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Nothing will happen to the cops. Honest mistake, have to be allowed to do their jobs, qualified immunity, why do you love criminals, etc.

    • Tonio

      You left out “totality of circs.”

      And a big “fuck you” to Dunphy, wherever he is. Smooches.

      • DEG

        Smooches

        I knew I forgot something.

      • rhywun

        hth

      • DEG

        Right, it should have been lower case.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Morgan Fairchild says hello.

    • The Last American Hero

      I think the only way reform happens is if judges start paying a price.

      A couple of them get tossed off the bench and the others start scrutinizing the warrants. Added bonus, there is no judges union.

      • SDF-7

        Yup, agreed (above)… Even less likely than Congress cutting down on their insider trading, though… from what I’ve seen over the years — they don’t need a union, they protect their privileges quite zealously and revel in the petty tyranny of their courtrooms.

      • Tonio

        They’re going to have to face jail time in the general population for it to make a difference. Sure, they lose status when they get sacked, but they always land on their feet at a university, law firm, or foundation.

        Alcee Hastings was a federal judge in Florida and he got caught taking bribes in a sting operation and was subsequently impeached. Once the SOB got out of jail he was elected to congress. So not only must they be removed, they must be barred from ever holding a government job again.

      • SDF-7

        Part of me wonders just how crappy his opponent was… the other part of me figures they just saw it as proving he was qualified for the job and all… Pbbbtt.

  7. Rebel Scum

    “The rule of law requires that there not be one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless; one rule for the rich and another for the poor,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time.

    The powerful never shy away from shafting the powerless.

  8. Rebel Scum

    I have stopped injecting bleach and snorting ivermectin.

    This place is too clean for that kind of horsing around.

    • R.J.

      Gotta be careful. Pun too much and he’ll paste you on the chin.

    • SDF-7

      The depressing part is that I had to click through to confirm it was in relation to Ukraine — there are so many other options for such a story at this time.

  9. robc

    I have joked that when my daughter asked me where babies came from I would tell her the truth: “A lab in Nashville.” (for those unaware, she if a test tube baby [cooler sounding than IVF]).

    It happened this weekend. She was asking questions about when we met and got married and etc. Then this (as much of a quote as I can remember):

    Her: When did I appear in Mommy’s belly?
    Me: May 2015.
    Her: And how did I appear in Mommy’s belly?
    Me: We went to a lab in Nashville and a doctor put you in her.
    Her: I don’t believe you.

    • robc

      I have mentioned in the past that she spent 4 months in a freezer, but I don’t think she quite got that part.

    • SDF-7

      “Mommy could never score a high class Chad like a doctor!”

      (Apologies to your wife, Robc — just couldn’t resist the joke… no actual aspersions. 😉 )

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I told my daughter that my wife and I went to BabysRUs and picked her out. I got the same “I don’t believe you.” She now knows that she came from the hospital but for some reason has concluded she grew from my wife’s liver.

      I’m reminded of Calvin and Hobbes.
      https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/04/18

      • robc

        On a related note to that…shortly before she was born our pastor mentioned during the sermon the updated figure on the avg cost to raise a child to 18. I turned to my wife and said “We don’t have to pay PMI, we put 20% down”.

        IVF aint cheap.

      • slumbrew
  10. Rebel Scum

    This claim is ultra-retarded.

    We all eat them — ultraprocessed foods such as frozen pizza and ready-to-eat meals make our busy lives much easier. Besides, they are just darn tasty — who isn’t susceptible to hot dogs, sausages, burgers, french fries, sodas, cookies, cakes, candy, doughnuts and ice cream, to name just a few?

    If more than 20% of your daily calorie intake is ultraprocessed foods, however, you may be raising your risk for cognitive decline, a new study found.

    You can have my burgers/fries/etc. from my greasy, dead hands.

    • kinnath

      Get off my lawn.

      Now where did I leave my car keys?

      • Fourscore

        Oh-oh

        /Stops reading the microwave instructions on the box

      • R.J.

        Wut

        Tryna eat my burger over here.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Aren’t these the same people who just told us to eat Froot Loops?

      • SDF-7

        Are froot loops, I’d buy….

      • The Other Kevin

        No, they’re the ones who say we should eat artificial, manufactured meat.

    • SDF-7

      Must be what caused MAGA to become ULTRA MAGA… or Biden just knows that the Trump wing will never use the Matrix of Leadership correctly…. (“Arise… RonDeSantis Prime!”)

    • Sean

      Eat more steak.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It’s just as likely due to the experts’ advice to eat carbs instead of fats and to avoid cholesterol.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I’m missing how burgers (I guess the buns?) and fries make that list.

      • Sean

        Shitty fast food burgers, condiments, buns…

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      Burgers and fries are completely unprocessed. It’s just cooked meat and vegetables.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its not bugs and that is what you shall eat…is the only conclusion I can come up with.

    • Penguin

      Right? Do not fuck with my Totino’s Pizza crackers.

  11. Tonio

    Corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Why, I never.

    (Pssst… I know a guy.)

    • SDF-7

      “Your winnings, sir?”

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Now if we could only settle corruption cases in Chicago.

  12. Rebel Scum

    But Chinese labor camps and Indonesian sweat shops are fine.

    Nike has officially cut ties with Kyrie Irving, the company said Monday.

    The Brooklyn Nets star is no longer under contract with the footwear giant after he tweeted a link to a movie that has been described as antisemitic and then refused for a time to say he was against antisemitism. …

    “At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech and we condemn any form of antisemitism,” the company said in a statement at the time.

    • The Last American Hero

      But Fidel Castro is totes cool.

  13. Rebel Scum

    Interessting that this is now being feverishly reported.

    Yet another wave of viral illness is crashing on a health system already stretched to a breaking point by COVID-19 and, more recently, RSV.

    Driving the news: The worst flu outbreak in more than a decade has left nearly every state with high or very high levels of flu activity, underscoring how pandemic precautions may have left us more vulnerable to seasonal respiratory diseases.

    The big picture: Flu-connected hospital admissions over Thanksgiving week almost doubled over the previous week and were the highest seen for that period since the 2010-2011 season, per the CDC.

    You mean keeping people indoors, injecting experimental drugs into them and dissuading the use of vitamins to boost immune systems has a downside?

    • R C Dean

      “the highest seen for that period since the 2010-2011 season“

      So, not really all that unusual.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We have noticed you are not putting out the proper amount of fear in your online posting, please report immediately to your local political officer for education camp assignment.

      • slumbrew

        political officer

        I like zampolit better – really captures the spirit of the thing.

        (замполит?)

      • slumbrew

        Le sigh. Tag fail.

  14. DEG

    Surprise, surprise

    Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its intent to extend the REAL ID full enforcement date by 24 months, from May 3, 2023 to May 7, 2025. Under the new regulations published to execute this change, states will now have additional time to ensure their residents have driver’s licenses and identification cards that meet the security standards established by the REAL ID Act. As required by the law, following the enforcement deadline, federal agencies, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), will be prohibited from accepting driver’s licenses and identification cards that do not meet these federal standards.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Interesting we don’t hear how this is racist and will deny people the ability to travel via air because they don’t have an ID…that they can’t get to vote…and the requirements for a RealID is insane.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I got a passport card just to avoid the drivers license bs.

      • Sensei

        Same.

        Figured I renew the driver’s license when it expired and have it be REAL ID compliant at the point. No need to renew early.

      • Ted S.

        Won’t you need your birth certificate and whatever to get the REAL ID?

      • Sensei

        Yes. You need that for a the renewal regardless. The reason NJ driver’s licenses were noncompliant was back office by the state of NJ, It had nothing to do with the identity requirements.

      • kinnath

        It was easier for my wife to renew a passport that expired 15 years ago than it is to get a Real ID driver’s license (which she can get now with the passport, but hasn’t yet).

      • kinnath

        Passport card won’t get you on an airplane. So it doesn’t replace the Real ID DL for that purpose.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Really? I just used it for such.

      • Fatty Bolger

        When they start requiring it, which will now be 2025 unless they move it again (and they will).

      • kinnath

        I may be misremembering.

        I definitely remember that you cannot us the passport card to fly out of the country. They are only useful for ground travel to exit the country.

        So, I may be wrong regarding its usefulness for domestic air travel.

      • kinnath

        Probably ok for boat travel as well.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m just using it for domestic air travel. I figured the full passport would be necessary for international.

      • Fatty Bolger

        OK, I looked it up. The passport card will be compatible for domestic flights even after the Real ID requirement kicks in. It can be used internationally, but only for limited ground and sea crossings (like driving into Canada). International flights always require a full passport book.

      • grrizzly

        That’s not what the government says.

      • Sensei

        Passport card is REAL ID compliant for domestic travel. And auto and ship to Canada and Mexico.

        It can’t be used for international air travel.

      • kinnath

        Anyone else want to pile on?

      • Spudalicious

        I just got the read ID was was done with it.

      • Fatty Bolger

        It’s usually just one more proof of address than usual, and nothing fancy. Just a utility bill with your name and address will do.

      • pistoffnick

        I just want to be free to gambol…

      • kinnath

        Proof of identity and American citizenship

        Birth certification (maiden name) + Drivers license (married name) != proof of identity and American citizenship.

        My wife was told to bring a copy of the marriage certificate (more than forty years after we were married). It was a massive roadblock.

        Divorcees see similar problems.

      • Pat

        I changed my name by court order to correct a typo in my middle name and take my step-dad’s surname, so I have to go through the same rigmarole. To be fair, it was the same story before RealID. I actually got “upgraded” on my last license renewal without realizing it, because the documents the state required me to provide were sufficient for the RealID standard anyway.

      • Gender Traitor

        Can confirm.

        Married, divorced, married again (not to the same guy,) changing last name upon each marriage (but not after divorce.) I have a copy of the divorce paperwork…somewhere, but no copies of either marriage license.

        They can postpone that Real ID deadline just as long as they like. I have no plans to fly commercially in the foreseeable future.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        My mother changed her name at some point, to a name she had been using pretty much since birth. But when i went to get a DL in this state, they required my birth certificate, so I sent off for one. Well, they called me to double check the name, as everything matched but that first name.

        Serious pain in the ass, dead naming her.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      – Captain Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck… maybe even a “recreational vehicle.” And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
      – Marko Ramius: I suppose.
      – Captain Borodin: No papers?
      – Marko Ramius: No papers, state to state.

      This is scene isn’t aging well is it? At least we can still drive from state to state without our internal passport.

      • Penguin

        “No fighting in the war room!”

  15. DEG

    Feds drop some charges in the Crypto 6 case

    Ian Freeman got an early Christmas gift from federal prosecutors as 17 of the 25 felony charges against him were dropped days before his trial was set to begin.

    “While I am happy to see the bulk of the charges in my case go away, I’m sad for my friends who were intimidated into wrongful convictions for victimless ‘crimes’ on charges that would likely have been dropped anyway,” Freeman said on his blog over the weekend.

    Freeman is the last of the so-called ‘Crypto 6’ defendants. Four of his co-defendants took plea deals. The fifth had all charges dropped. His trial is set to begin this week in the United States District Court in Concord, with jury selection starting Tuesday morning. Freeman’s attorney, Mark Sisti, told NHJournal he hopes to give his opening arguments in the case Tuesday afternoon.

  16. DEG

    Train Wreck Part One and Part Two.

    From Part Two:

    Disgraced New Hampshire Democrat Rep. Stacie Laughton (D-Nashua) will remain in jail on Wednesday rather than participate in Organization Day, giving the GOP more breathing room as it hopes to hold the majority.

    In an email to Secretary of State David Scanlan, Laughton’s attorney, public defender Elliot Friedman, said the incarcerated state representative will not be executing her duties for some time to come.

    “I am writing at the request of Rep. Stacie-Marie Laughton to let you know she will be unable to undertake her normal legislative activities for the next couple of months.”

    This is not new for Laughton, who has been elected by the voters of Nashua three times to represent them in the House but, due to her legal troubles, has only actually served one full term.

    Republicans currently have a 201-198 majority in the House, with one seat still unfilled due to a tie vote. Multiple House sources tell NHJournal they expect to have 100 percent attendance or very close to it on Organization Day. Laughton’s decision not to exercise her right to show up means it is even more likely Republicans will have the votes needed to elect a speaker. It also helps Scanlan, who took over the secretary of state job in January when Bill Gardner retired, in Scanlan’s bid to win his first election to the position.

  17. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    How does one snort Ivermectin? It sounds like your just putting putty in a hole. It might be more effective if you butt chug it.

  18. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “Disturbing” is a mild word.

    McCullough referenced an article of his where he cited a study by Helene Banoun showing that lipid nanoparticles that carry the mRNA spread throughout the body and “have been shown to be able to be excreted through body fluids (sweat, sputum, breast milk) and to pass the transplacental barrier.”

    “And in a paper by Fertig and Colleagues, the messenger RNA is found circulating in blood for at least two weeks” (here), the physician told Gaw. “And the curves were not going down. That’s as long as they looked.”

    He stated another paper “found messenger RNA in the vaccinated in lymph nodes for months. It looks like the body’s not clearing it out.”

    Finally, another study “from Hanna and colleagues in JAMA showed that the messenger RNA is in the breast milk of ill-advised women who took the vaccine during pregnancy or afterwards,” he said.

    Summarizing these thoughts, McCullough proposed the rhetorical question: “Could you actually take a vaccine inadvertently by close contact, kissing, sexual contact, [or] breastfeeding? It looks like the answer is ‘yes.’”

    Furthermore, he explained that the mRNA has “never been demonstrated to actually leave the body. They look like they’re permanent, as well as the spike protein that’s produced after them. This is very disturbing.”

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dr-mccullough-mrna-from-covid-vax-transfers-from-jabbed-to-unjabbed-changing-human-genome/

    There are opposing viewpoints which posit that the mRNA vaccine don’t work at all and the side-effects we’re seeing are a result of the immune system reacting to the lipid nano-particles. However, what I’m not seeing is any data which suggests that usage of these shots has any benefit or even a lack of bad consequences. The questions right now are “How bad?” and “How long?”

    It’s absolutely insane.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It’s my understanding that for many years mRNA was considered infeasible because mRNA doesn’t last very long in the body. If that still holds, then maybe the lipid nanoparticles are doing a very good job of protecting the mRNA, but that would also mean that those particles and the accompanying mRNA are not being absorbed into cells. It does seem likely that some percentage would not be absorbed, but the amount is extremely small. I’m picturing a graph with time on the x-axis and remaining lipid nanoparticles on the y-axis and a line asymptotically approaching zero.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The dataset sucks and the government is adamantly opposed to gathering the basics. We’re trying to extrapolate a black box without fully understanding the underlying processes.

      • Ozymandias

        That was the original operating theory. The fly in the ointment, so to speak, was the FDA requirement to show “efficacy and safety” – or for vaccines, “potency, purity, and sterility” – depending upon which you want to classify them under the FDCA. Antibody levels in response to administration has traditionally been a suitable correlate for immunity or immune response, but that’s because you were dealing with “traditional” vaccines. So the gene therapies got reclassified as biologics and they upped the amount in order to produce an “effect.” So far, studies continue to find spike protein in people’s bodies for as long as they continue to test. i.e. The longest I’ve seen is 6 months, but that’s the longest anyone has seem to be interested in learning if there’s still spike protein being delivered by the vaccines.
        Synthetic mRNA – which is what this is – seems to not disappear within days as was originally claimed. Go figure. From such a reputable company like Pfizer.

  19. Rebel Scum

    US weapons trafficking leads to a dark place.

    Weapons supplied to Ukraine from Western countries are “starting to flow” into the Lake Chad basin region, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari warned this week.

    Addressing the heads of states from neighboring states participating in the Lake Chad Basin Commission on Tuesday in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the president said, “Regrettably, the situation in the Sahel and the raging war in Ukraine serve as major sources of weapons and fighters that bolster the ranks of the terrorists in the region.”

    Buhari then urged his counterparts to increase security cooperation in order to confront the issue of arms smuggling.

    The Nigerian president agreed to step up military coordination in their countries’ war against Boko Haram and ISIS terrorists, who are now apparently receiving weapons from Ukraine, alongside the leaders of Benin, Chad, Niger, and the Central African Republic.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Destabilizing the world seems to be our MO.

    • The Other Kevin

      File under “I don’t care how may people die, as long as one life is saved.”

  20. The Other Kevin

    Thanks Swiss for doing links duty even while sick. Hope you’re better soon.

  21. UnCivilServant

    I ruined my local DNS installation trying to do an upgrade.

    Now I’m doing kernal patches to get the required libraries in place in hopes of fixing it.

    Always read the documentation, folks.

    • UnCivilServant

      Note, I’m commenting using Time WarnerSpectrum‘s DNS, which lets more things lookup than I like.

      • UnCivilServant

        To be fair, I should have done the kernal patches on time instead of procrastinating. I’ll stop procrastinating.

      • R C Dean

        Perfect.

    • robc

      RTFM

    • Pat

      DNS? Just type the IP addresses manually.

    • UnCivilServant

      I got back from bowling and fixed my DNS.

      I’m good.

  22. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Where’s Pat?

    Pi-Hole or AdGuard?

    • UnCivilServant

      pihole. I had to be very careful with my phrasing, knowing you lot and your filthy minds.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They both appear to do the same thing. What’s the rationale?

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m blocking OS telemetry, facebook, and some other trackers.

    • Pat

      Late in replying, but I personally use Pi-Hole. No esoteric reason, really. Pi-Hole was better documented for my use case at the time, has a little bit more robust handling of third party and custom blocklists, and I generally stick to non-commercial software. As you said, they do basically the same thing. Whichever one is easiest for you to set up and maintain is fine.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Thanks. I’ll probably try Adguard in a Docker container first. The less management for me, the better. Too many tasks already.

  23. Tundra

    You are a beast!

    Thanks, Swissy.

    I hope Ruby wins, too. My adopted state is shockingly bad, cop-wise

    That song is amazing! I’ve never heard of them, but this is fucking great:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE

    • Penguin

      Tubdra, usually I’m onboard with you musical takes – but this one, ah…no.

      I had to escape to this. (To be fair, I love the cynicism in the lyrics.)

      • Tundra

        I’m not an electronica guy, but the Spitfire song is terrific! Love the footage!

      • Penguin

        “Spitfire” was the better one. I wouldn’t seek it out, but might dance like a dork if I heard it in a club 15 years ago, and was suitably inebriated.

      • Pat

        I know not what level of inebriation it would take to get me to dance, but I know I have yet to reach it.

  24. Mojeaux

    Music: Coming to Europe again … soon.

    +1 Victory Garden

    • UnCivilServant

      That used to be part of the weekend PBS lineup with “This Old House”, “The New Yankee Workshop” and that woodworker who only used old style hand tools. I don’t remember if the joy of painting was in that block of programming too.

      *adjusts bunny ears on RCA CRT TV*

      • The Other Kevin

        Now you’ve got me all nostalgic for Saturdays past. Yan Can Cook was around that time too.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh yeah, after the home improvement block it went into the lunchtime cooking shows.

    • Fourscore

      A lot of Victory gardens in our neighborhood in Mpls, circa WW2. We had one, hand spaded. We had several trees that shaded the garden so the production was very limited, maybe zero. In my mind I seem to remember free government seeds. There were empty lots on our block, some folks had nice big gardens.

      • Animal

        My Grandma always maintained a big vegetable garden throughout the Depression (they raised six kids on a small farm in the Depression) and then through WW2.

        In 1946, Grandma announced that henceforth they would buy all their vegetables in town and that she would now grow only flowers. Then she did so, until she died in 1987. We still have some of her irises that made the journey from Iowa to Colorado to Alaska.

      • Tundra

        I wish my grandma took that approach. I helped her with massive gardens for many, many years!

        How’s the weather there?

      • Animal

        Above zero! But we’re supposed to get 8 inches of snow in the next 48 hours.

    • robodruid

      I lived near WGBH, in the projects.
      I was able to eat tomatoes @ Crockets Victory Garden.

      For me, a kid in the 70’s, bussed all around Boston, good times.

      • Gender Traitor

        bussed all around Boston

        Court-ordered?

      • robodruid

        The very same.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Arthur_Garrity_Jr.

        People don’t get the Boston I grew up in. It was worse than black and white.
        It was Irish vs. Italian.
        Vietnamese vs. Chinese.
        Black vs. Puerto Rican.

        Its equal opportunity hate.

  25. Count Potato

    Get well soon!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Booze flask, spiked dog bowl, champagne glasses, candles burning to set the mood, bondage bear, kid who appears face down drunk or drugged; Shit is fucked, yo.

      • Tundra

        Machine gun these freaks.

      • R C Dean

        Heartily concur. I fear we will be revisiting the notion that a people’s continued existence has any value, at this point.

      • R C Dean

        Err, a person. Not quite feeling genocidal. Yet.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was just discussing the topic on another forum. I’ve reached the conclusion that the loss of social shunning for sexual deviancy has had highly undesirable consequences.

        We’re all too afraid of being directly confrontational across a full range of moral questions (excluding the pet issues of the Left, whatever they may be on that day). I’m not concerned about the mental health of MAPs. I don’t care if your non-binary person who wants to teach kids about sexual positions gets shunned to the point of them committing suicide. We’ve gone way too far from very long-standing cultural norms towards a nihilistic moral relativism that is tearing society apart.

      • MikeS

        Even your girl, Salma? 👇🏻

      • Tundra

        Shit.

        No. No. No.

        OK, no more heros.

      • one true athena

        the kid’s shoes and the bear being the same color is to me the worst part. Linking the two. On purpose. Despicable.

      • DEG

        Fuck

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        JFC

      • Tundra

        Jesus.

      • Penguin

        Goddammit. How do you remove this from society?

      • kinnath

        At least Epstein just wanted to fuck teenaged girls.

  26. Hyperion

    Gaaaahhhhh!!!!!

    WTF? Right out of a SF’s worst nightmare post! Unspeakable horrors!

    • Tundra

      Cunt.

    • rhywun

      WTF is she morphing into there?

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Nyalathrotep.

    • R C Dean

      Damn. That’s a hard, what, 80?

    • Pat

      Bring me Solo and the wookie…

      • Sean

        L O L

      • MikeS

        hahaha. Yes.

      • rhywun

        Yikes, that’s where my mind went too but I didn’t want to be cruel.

      • MikeS

        Cruel? What difference, at this point, does it make?

      • Hyperion

        Y’all is some of them anti-Huttites.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Made me think of Velcro again.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        NONONONONONONONONONONOoooooo

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Now you’re thinking of it too. Welcome to my hell.

  27. Cowboy

    Not a single Ice 9 comment in the previous post? My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      I came here to say the same thing. No Cat’s Cradle reference?

      • The Hyperbole

        I tried rereading Vonnegut about ten years ago, I decided that once the novelty of his prose wears off he isn’t a very good writer.

      • Q Continuum

        Vonnegut is massively overrated.

      • The Hyperbole

        Frist time though he was great (on a superficial level) – doing whatever the book version of breaking the fourth wall is, telling you what was going to happen to character as soon as they were introduced, pictures of drawings of assholes, just insane characters (K. Trout). Now maybe it’s a case of – I’ve since read a bunch of shit that he inspired and thus he now seems trite – but I don’t think so. I remember thinking he was real smart and just using these ‘tricks’ to get his ideas out there. Now I find his “ideas” lacking.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        There were the bones 0f a great novel in Slaughterhouse 5, but he kept pulling his punches, making the whole thing a joke.

        Fuck that guy.

  28. Penguin

    Wow, the most horrific loss of life ever. They killed something like 25% of their population. I hate, hate, hate Soros, Schwab, and Gates so much, I don’t know if I could express it.

    Genocidal freaks wanting to destroy billions of human lives. Their allies squeal about Hitler, while they pave the way for the EXACT SAME THING. They’d be tedious moronic psychopaths, but they are so goddamn close to power now.

    • Penguin

      If anyone wants an intro – S 21.

      It’s dark- don’t check it out unless you’re emotionally ready.

    • R C Dean

      “Soros, Schwab, and Gates”

      I will cheer their deaths.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’ll be buying rounds at the bar.

      • Penguin

        I hate to say it, I really, really hate to say it – but yes, I also will be happy to hear of their demise.

  29. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    It’s raining.

    I think it’s time for me to turn the cab-over into a reading nook/opium den.

    • Count Potato

      Opium? noice.

      • R.J.

        A few throw pillows, some beaded curtains and you’ll have a whole new vibe!

      • Gender Traitor

        Something like this?

    • Penguin

      Just sayin’ – you can buy restaurant quantities of poppy seeds. If you want, tell them you have a fuckton of bagels you have to sell. And if you happen to get them wet, and a brown emulsion forms, you could possibly drink that. If not, you can take the wet seeds and toss than in the garden. You might get some pretty flowers. (Poppies have beautiful flowers). Unless you’re doing it on an industrial scale, nobody’ll be the wiser. And opium in its’ natural state is soooo much better than the processed shit. Like psilocybin. vs LSD. Much mellower ride.

      Not that I’ve ever bought a fuckton of poppy seeds, or anything. Except in Minecraft. Not that I’ve done this or anything.

      • MikeS

        Wait. So Penguin was Poppy all along?!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Jesus, what an absolute fucking moron.

      • Pat

        The best part is, only 1 reply out of the dozen or so I read before closing the page pointed out that the whooshing sound was the joke flying over his head. The rest were all attaboys from booty blasted lefties. And then they get pissed off when you call them NPCs.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Greenwald now has “Online Safety Expert!” in his bio, which cracks me up.

  30. juris imprudent

    So, interesting read here on what/how the Dems have done in PA, with the conclusion that Repubs should do the same.

    Pennsylvania’s mail-in voting has more fail-safes than traditional in-person voting. For fraud to occur with mail-in balloting, at a scale that can affect a statewide election, it must happen at two points: harvesters illegally obtaining lists of driver’s licenses or Social Security numbers to complete applications and cast ballots without voters’ knowledge; or Board of Elections workers conspiring to invalidate applications.

    As there is no evidence of either of these happening in Delaware County, how, exactly, were ballots harvested?

    • rhywun

      It saddens me that flyers and pestering from hacks “works”, and probably better than silly notions like “issues” or “facts”.

    • R C Dean

      Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.