Sunday Morning Recycle Links

by | Jan 22, 2023 | Daily Links | 256 comments

The Dean wanted to see me. “Dr. Candy, we need you to take charge of all the glass recycling research projects here. Sustainability is at the center of our school’s mission, and we haven’t been able to have a unified and focused management. You’re the person to do it. It’s a 30% increase in pay…”

My first question was, “Why is glass recycling important? Are we running out of sand?”

Then out loud I said, “Thanks, Dean, I’d love to do it,” while running the compensation numbers through my head. The fact that NPR females love themselves some recycling eco awareness also did not escape my attention.

Speaking of recycling, birthdays today including the guy who invented the cigarette coupon; William Shakespeare; the original relentless self-promoter; a real hottie; the quintessentially American filmmaker; a piece of shit who was the architect of American socialism; a physicist who was actually an interesting person (and I still have a well-thumbed copy of his quantum mechanics book); a piece of shit who is a disgrace to pieces of shit; one of SP’s heroes; the guy who made first contact with alien intelligence; the Nobelist who wasn’t a nudist; a pioneer of slow and plodding movies; and a chick who got famous for sticking a crucifix in her twat.

And speaking of twats, here’s some Links.

 

Invest in popcorn futures.

 

Just in time for me hitting the dating world.

 

Or here’s another idea, Ray: go fuck yourself.

 

This is impossible because California has common sense laws. Must be fake news.

 

Again, impossible, since violence is a right wing MAGA thing.

 

We may be seeing the last of Beetlejuice. Not that anyone else will be better. That city is a fucking basket case.

 

Who would have thought that nutbags would say nutty shit?

 

Bottom line: much more pork.

 

One of the wonderful things about YouTube is the resurrection of old concert footage that we would never have seen otherwise. Like this rock classic. Old Man is happy.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

256 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    First you do the recycling, then you get the money, then you get the women.

  2. SDF-7

    After probably way too many times watching Upstart Crow I:

    a) Expected Marlowe
    b) Read that as “William Shakespeare, the original relentless self-promoter”

    Neither of which feels wrong to me. 😉

    Kind of curious now, OMWC — from everything I’ve heard – glass recycling is wonky because the energy requirements don’t work out. Still true? Something we’re missing? Doesn’t matter because of the NPR Lady cache so shut up already? Good morning in any event.

    • Old Man With Candy

      The economics of glass recycling are highly attractive relative to production from raw materials, once you figure in the subsidies.

      I said that with a straight face. This is progress.

  3. The Late P Brooks

    I know of a municipal glass recycling project which was a huge money sink. And they couldn’t find anybody to take the crushed glass. I guess it would be considered a raging success in public finance circles.

    • SDF-7

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      • SDF-7

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      • Grummun

        That’s a big negative ghostrider.

    • creech

      I could swear I just saw a tv show where they highlighted some dudes who were turning glass back into sand to use for beach erosion! Coals to Newcastle sort of stuff at 20x the price?

  4. Count Potato

    “Families across America have experienced major losses from climate change, starting most prominently with Hurricane Katrina in 2001, until recently, with continuous summers of fire devastating our western coast.”

    I was told Katrina was due to racism.

    • Count Potato

      “Print, electronic, and social media should be used creatively to reinforce these messages and efforts.”

      “used creatively”

    • SDF-7

      Ignoring climate change is more racist — therefore we’ll get more Katrinas… or some such bullpucky.

    • rhywun

      Do better, America.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Katrina was 2005, also let people clear out the underbrush and Cali won’t burn annually ya damned idjit.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Forget it; he’s rolling.

    • Ted S.

      I remember the 2001 Hurricane Katrina well.

    • Rat on a train

      I thought it was Darth Cheney’s weather control device.

    • Rebel Scum

      Hurricanes never happened before climate change. It is known.

  5. SDF-7

    Or here’s another idea, Ray: go fuck yourself.

    If only there was a very energy dense energy production method with over 70 years of research and actual facilities where the waste can be contained and potentially recycled and with by products useful for medicine and space travel.

    If only.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    The fact that NPR females love themselves some recycling eco awareness also did not escape my attention.

    They also love (or so I have heard) mottled glass trinkets such as tiny animals and jewelry. Get thee to the Art Department.

  7. rhywun

    his major climate change legislation — the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — through a highly polarized Congress. Given our deeply divided Congress

    They write this with a straight face. SMDH.

    • Count Potato

      Surprise Anal Sex Act

      • SDF-7

        Well, they couldn’t be honest and call it the “Lipstick on the Green New Deal Pig Act”, could they?

      • juris imprudent

        So Green Ham instead of eggs?

      • Plinker762

        That’s what you get after they ban refrigeration.

    • Rebel Scum

      The inflation creation act is the climate change of legislation.

  8. SDF-7

    Again, impossible, since violence is a right wing MAGA thing.

    It is likely my inner (small c) conservative coming to the fore… but given how these cosplaying commie / anarchists (I believe they have both and are really just useful idiot brownshirts for the Progressives in any event) have effectively declared war on civil society in general and the state / city governments in particular, they’re pretty lucky I’m not either mayor of Atlanta or the Georgia governor. I’d be declaring them a literal insurrection, calling out the state National Guard regiments and giving them one shot to surrender or be shot as armed combatants.

    Which is probably what they want / think will spark their uprising or some stupidity. I think they’re wrong and that it is way past time for society to defend itself.

    Which is also probably stupid given the rest of me is black pilled regarding government and especially Federal “police” actions, I know… but this one seems much more clear cut. And since I have no power and no influence on the situation, I don’t think it hurts to indulge my thoughts just a tad….

    • Ted S.

      And unsurprising how much that article takes the protesters’ side as the gospel truth.

      • R C Dean

        Starting with “environmental activist”.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of old film comedies…I have this bad habit of falling asleep with the teevee on. This morning (the bedroom teevee is pretty much permanently tuned to the old movie channel) I awoke to Return to Peyton Place. Wow. Talk about your cartoonish stereotypes.

    • SDF-7

      I started falling asleep with the TV on around the same time Drachinifel started getting up to 2 part, 4 hours each Drydock Q&A sections on the weekends. The man has a very soothing voice and that’s just too much obscure naval history even for me.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You don’t want to hear about boiler maintenance in English monitors circa 1873? What kind of naval history aficionado are you?

  10. Gender Traitor

    ***Applauds Old Man Music***

    You know, angelic-voiced Alison Krauss covered that in a fairly obscure recording that’s quite lovely. Just sayin’.

    • Tres Cool

      Alison sings like a bird, but always had a face like a mud fence. Pretty sure she had some work done with her money- she dont look like the same girl as her Union Station days.

    • Grosspatzer

      Seconded. My rendition of that tune was quite popular with the coeds back in my college days.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    They write this with a straight face. SMDH.

    It’s the Swiss Army Knife of legislation.

  12. Ted S.

    Sustainability is at the center of our school’s mission

    Then get rid of the DIE department, as they’re nothing more than a resource suck.

  13. Tres Cool

    Im trying to think of a joke about a jew running out of sand…..but I got nuthin’.
    Workin’ on beer while watching the snow fall and the boxer puppy playing in it.

    • SDF-7

      Just don’t make any jokes about Israel deciding to make more glass or parking lots. We’ll flash back to early 2002.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        OT: I envy your ability to grow fingernails.

      • Gender Traitor

        It’s a gift. And a calling.

      • Tres Cool

        She’s even more adorable and nerdy in person than you can imagine.
        I saw TARDIS and Dalek figurines on her table.

      • Gender Traitor

        That’s a salt and pepper shaker set! 😃 Too bad we haven’t eaten at that table in years.

      • SDF-7

        Heh.. I’m suspicious that’s the same set my wife got me a few years back. I don’t use it for the intended purpose either.

      • SDF-7

        Eldrad MUST live.

      • Sean

        👆
        👏👏

      • Grosspatzer

        GT SMITH?

  14. Ted S.

    the guy who invented the cigarette coupon;

    Played by Vincent Price.

  15. westernsloper

    A new super-strain of gonorrhea that is resistant to 5 antibiotics has been detected in US patients, health officials say

    Vaccine side affect?
    And LOL @ Dr Candy.

    • Tres Cool

      Sounds as bad as Super AIDS.

      • Rat on a train

        The context message adds to the comedy.

  16. Ted S.

    a physicist who was actually an interesting person

    Happy birthday Richard Feynman?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      +1 strip joint sketch book

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just pick up some NyQuil flu and stroke, you’ll be fine.

      • Nephilium

        You joke, but

      • Rebel Scum

        Interesting.

        “They are sugar free and alcohol free.”

        Lame.

      • Rat on a train

        How long is the incubation period for stroke? Should I get tested?

      • Ted S.

        How long is the refractory period?

  17. Count Potato

    “These Walmart locations — in Colorado, Connecticut and New York — join Walmart stores in Maine, New Jersey and Vermont, where single-use bags have already been eliminated for shoppers at checkout registers, or those picking up online orders. (Single-use paper bags are still the default for delivery orders in most of these states, and plastic bags remain available “as needed” in the produce and meat sections, to prevent cross-contamination.)

    “Eliminating single-use bags in Connecticut is part of our effort to reduce waste,” said Jane Ewing, senior vice president of Walmart Sustainability, in a statement provided to CT-based WTNH. “Our customers want to be engaged on this journey, and we remain committed to making the sustainable choice the everyday choice.””

    https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/3819867-walmart-stores-in-6-states-no-longer-provide-single-use-bags-at-checkout-which-states-are-next/

    No mention that paper bags are worse for the environment.

    • Old Man With Candy

      It’s the journey that’s important.

      • juris imprudent

        Virtue relies not on logic!

    • rhywun

      Our customers want to be engaged on this journey

      Keep telling yourself that. And keep talking like an alien – people love that.

    • westernsloper

      Ya, CO got rid of plastic bags cuz CA did. The Leg voted to do all things CA does. I hate this state.

      • Plinker762

        WA waves hello. For $0.08 each we can buy a plastic bag at check out.

      • westernsloper

        Some stores are selling them for $.10 (?) but most have just got rid of them.

      • Nephilium

        The state of Ohio banned cities and counties from banning plastic bags. The local press decried it as the Republican controlled legislature being in the pocket of big oil and big plastic bag. One chain (Giant Eagle), has stopped using single use plastic bags in the county I live in, so I’ve shifted my shopping accordingly. The upscale, organic, local chain (Heinen’s) was one of the retailers strongly against the plastic bag ban back when the county passed it (then put enforcement on hold due to the ‘vid).

      • rhywun

        And VA is copying CA’s dreamy EV laws.

        Copycat law is how all grift together.

      • juris imprudent

        The laboratories of democracy – all running the same experiments.

  18. Rebel Scum

    “FBI investigators on Friday found additional classified material while conducting a search of President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.”

    But his lawyers are cooperating. So it’s fine.

    • juris imprudent

      They did a crack of dawn raid with a SWAT squad, right? With TV crews in tow?

    • R C Dean

      After giving him and his lawyers days and days to sanitize the place, too.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Already, Democratic leaders are revving up their message that the new House GOP majority wants to put those programs on the chopping block.

    “From rising home costs, interest rates, cuts to Social Security, Medicare and more, it’s clear who will actually pay the price for gratuitous partisan politics: American families,” Schumer said in a statement.

    Newly elected House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) tweeted Friday: “Social Security is not negotiable.”

    Stay away from cliffs, Granny.

    • juris imprudent

      That’s Democrat speak for “this is what Republicans are going to do, and even if they don’t actually do it, we’ll blame them for it”.

    • Rebel Scum

      Republicans want an insufficient continuation or increase in government spending. They are basically anti-government terrorists.

    • rhywun

      “Social Security is not negotiable.”

      Until it is.

      • Grosspatzer

        “Social Security is not negotiable. bankrupt ”

        I start collecting in May. I wonder how long it will take for the tax cattle to get tired of subsidizing well-off boomers like me.

  20. Ted S.

    the Nobelist who wasn’t a nudist

    Relevant

    • Old Man With Candy

      I assumed (likely correctly) that this was a reference no-one would get.

      • Shirley Knott

        Born in my home town. Didn’t realize we’d had one.

      • Ted S.

        Shaker Heights or Cleveland Heights? IMDb lists the former, which is home to lots of famous people, while Wikipedia lists the latter, which is home to Travis Kelce (Mojeaux swoons) and Sean Young, at least according to Wikipedia.

      • Shirley Knott

        No, the Nobelist, so Sioux City. Airport code SUX. Site of one of, if not the, worst passenger airline disaster.

      • Ted S.

        It’s a lobby card from this Paul Newman movie, specifically the scene when he escapes into a meeting of Swedish nudists. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the scene on Youtube.

        The movie is one of those that’s more entertaining than good, with the main plot being Edward G. Robinson kidnapped and replaced by a doppelgänger and Newman trying to solve the mystery and save Robinson.

      • Penguin

        Ted – Depending on how important it is to you, you can check Odysee, Bitchute, Rumble, and Daily Motion, too.

  21. Rebel Scum

    “The UN has warned us all that we could see global temperatures rise by a catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius”

    How is this catastrophic?

    “with the IPCC advising that we have until 2030 to get this right.”

    This is how I know these cuntes are lying. That is far too little time on a geological scale. Besides we all died of global warming in 2012 like Al Gore said.

    • Rat on a train

      Only tyranny can save us.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh no, not just ANY tyranny – only OUR brand of tyranny! /progs

    • rhywun

      Translation: we have seven years of graft on a galactic scale to look forward to until the little people hang us from lamp posts.

    • Penguin

      “…and to achieve our climate goals, we’re going to tighten up Carbon emissions in Europe & North America, while totally ignoring it in the two largest contributors.”

      • Penguin

        Ah, you guys jumped to the end.

  22. Count Potato

    “EXCLUSIVE Parents of man, 26, ‘dating’ woman trapped in body of eight-year-old girl defend their son after he was branded a ‘creep’ and insist the pair are ‘just friends’

    Dan Swygart, 26, has been romantically linked to Shauna Rae Lesick, 23, after they featured on her reality TV show in the USA.

    The Briton has been accused of being a ‘creep’ and being attracted to 3ft 10in tall Shauna ‘because she looks like a kid’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11663157/EXCLUSIVE-Parents-man-dating-woman-trapped-body-eight-year-old-insist-friends.html

    Does she listen to NPR?

    • Gender Traitor

      She’s 23. Who the hell is she supposed to date? Eight-year-old boys?

      • Rat on a train

        Obviously she needs to find the rare 4′ adult male.

      • rhywun

        inorite?

        Woof – you go girl!

    • Tres Cool

      Point of order- she’s a midget* that looks like a late teen, and has a biological age of 23. I’m not seeing a problem unless he has a toddler RealDoll™ in his closet that he pumps on the DL.

      *Not long after I split from ex-Mrs Cool, I dated a midget. I was sad when we split up cause I was NUTS OVER HER!

      /sees myself out

    • Tonio

      And she doesn’t appear to have “the body of an 8-yo.” I see cleavage in one photo, plus muscle tone in her calf, and her face is the face of an adult.

  23. Rebel Scum

    “A protest turned violent in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an environmental activist who was killed this week after authorities said the 26-year-old activist shot a state trooper.”

    It was fiery but mostly peaceful.

    • SDF-7

      You only think you’re kidding.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Im trying to think of a joke about a jew running out of sand…..but I got nuthin’.

    How about selling sand to the A-rabs at ruinously high prices.

  25. Rebel Scum

    “Strategists and policy experts in both parties believe Democrats will have to come to the bargaining table soon to negotiate a debt ceiling deal that would avoid an economic catastrophe.”

    Fuck you, cut spending.

    • Rat on a train

      There’s nothing left to cut.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    an environmental activist who was killed this week after authorities said the 26-year-old activist shot a state trooper.

    Now we’re getting somewhere.

    • Rat on a train

      He was a trained protest medic just trying to help people by killing cops.

      • Nephilium

        I get really pissed off when assholes make me defend fucking cops. But… you shoot at a group of police, you should probably expect return fire.

      • Rat on a train

        I get annoyed when they try to use protest medical training as a shield like they are non-participants just there to treat injuries. You aren’t like military combat medics.

      • Tonio

        Oh, they think they are. There is an org called “veterans of domestic wars” where anti-fa punks can network about their glory days.

      • juris imprudent

        If I ever fire on a group of cops, I’m going to run a dog at them – and walk away without a scratch.

  27. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles of ‘orribleness. AKA, Boy I suck today.

    Daily Duotrigordle #326
    Guesses: 37/37
    Time: 05:07.42
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 363
    8️⃣5️⃣
    4️⃣🟥
    quordle.com

    • Penguin

      Daily Quordle 363
      7️⃣6️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣
      quordle.com I did about average.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

      Daily Quordle 363
      🟥3️⃣
      6️⃣5️⃣

    • Grosspatzer

      I’ll take it.

      Daily Quordle 363
      6️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 363
      9️⃣8️⃣
      4️⃣🟥

      Horrid.

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 363
      6️⃣7️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣

      Lineage.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    What we need is for President Biden to take a page from President Kennedy’s playbook and call for a Moonshot on climate change. It is imperative that he take control of the national narrative, and emphasize to the public the grandeur and scale of this obvious national security challenge.

    Grandeur?

    He should go full FDR and nationalize Big Oil and just shut it all down.

    People will be okay with burning sticks and dog shit to heat their homes, once he explains it to them properly.

    • Rebel Scum

      “take a page from President Kennedy’s playbook”

      Sounds like a massive headache.

      • juris imprudent

        Moonshot, not longshot.

      • Rat on a train

        Keep an open mind.

      • juris imprudent

        Would you really like a piece of my mind?

      • Rat on a train

        I’m busy with school books right now. Maybe later.

      • juris imprudent

        You sound very lonely.

      • R C Dean

        *Biden orders invasion of Cuba*

        “Not that page, dammit!”

      • Rat on a train

        Have numerous affairs arranged by a special assistant to the president?

      • R C Dean

        Maybe appoint his brother as Attorney General?

      • Grosspatzer

        “Ich bin ein Hamburger”

      • creech

        Don’t go to Dallas with Kammie?

    • westernsloper

      Cow shit burns much better than dog shit. Pointing that out for those who want to be prepared.

    • rhywun

      obvious national security challenge

      I guess it’s so obvious they never need to explain it.

  29. Tres Cool

    Fun fact about Linda Blair- she was “dating” Rick James and consequently got knocked-up. She aborted the child and didnt tell him. After he found out, he wrote the song “Cold Hearted”.

  30. PieInTheSky

    the original relentless self-promoter;

    “Who was Ron?

    Ron?

    Yes all those poems by Ron “

  31. PieInTheSky

    I Spent $79,000 On a Wasteland in Texas. What Is Wrong With Me?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6fl8dap5nk

    this seems one of those things where the dude will get bored fast of the passion project

    • Don escaped Texas

      the Big Bend is fascinating country; I’ve crawled every inch of it I could get my hands on and need to get back for another dose

      didn’t watch/don’t know if he got cool acreage, but if he sees pretty things all day and has peace, I get it

    • robodruid

      Maybe. I have seen this one before. I hope he is successful though. “Food Forests” or restoration of dry land is a fascinating thing for me to watch.

  32. PieInTheSky

    Just in time for me hitting the dating world. – given my lifestyle keep that thing in the US, don’t export it like phylloxera

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Unquestioning adoration of authority made this nation great

    In the end, what’s truly irresponsible is for the government to allow the callous disregard of classified documents to continue. While we wait for the special counsel investigations to play out, it’s clear the system of safeguarding documents needs to be reformed.

    Regardless of the political implications for 2024, it’s worth remembering that these papers are not “cool keepsakes” or sports car manuals – they’re matters of national security.

    Blah blah blah OBEY.

    • SDF-7

      No, what’s truly irresponsible is the grotesque overclassification of government documents through lethargy or “cover your ass”-ness, drastically diminishing public oversight of government actions and feeding the belief that these people are our overseers and betters and that we can’t be trusted with truth.

      Yet Another Reason to salt the earth when it comes to the IC and the habits FedGov has gotten into since WWII.

      • Brochettaward

        To think – there was a time in this nation’s history when we didn’t even have classified material!

        Utter anarchy!

  34. PieInTheSky

    It’s time for a climate moonshot in America – I agree we need limitless cheap nuclear energy

    • Rat on a train

      Send all the climate alarmists to the moon?

      • Nephilium

        Only if we can use an Orion ship to get them there.

    • SDF-7

      “If only…”

  35. PieInTheSky

    I would as what everyone is driking but since most of us have exceeded the 6 drinks a week limit yesterday, I assume no one will touch alcohol till next Saturday

    • Nephilium

      Here in ‘merica we consider Sunday the start of the week.

      • Homple

        Which is odd because that puts the consecutive days of the weekend at opposite ends of the week.

      • Rat on a train

        They are the book-ends of the week?

    • Ted S.

      I’m drinking coffee right now.

  36. Timeloose

    I guess we will have to start calling you Old Man With Cullet.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Not far off. Sitting in front of me today, I have twenty buckets of cullet from 20 different facilities, and my current project is characterizing the differences and figuring out how to treat the melts so I get a consistent glass from them.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    So long, suckers!


    Ruja Ignatova strode onto the stage in a flowing burgundy ball gown adorned with black sparkles. Beams of light flashed, fireballs erupted and Alicia Keys’ “Girl on Fire” blared through the speakers.

    “Looks like a girl, but she’s a flame. So bright, she can burn your eyes – better look the other way,” the song crooned as a beaming Ignatova thanked the cheering crowd at London’s Wembley Arena.

    That was in June 2016, when cryptocurrency was an emerging buzzword and investors were scrambling to cash in. Ignatova called herself the “Cryptoqueen” and touted her company, OneCoin, as a lucrative rival to Bitcoin in the growing cryptocurrency market.

    “In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin anymore,” she said, as investors applauded and whistled.

    Sixteen months later, Ignatova boarded a plane in Sofia, Bulgaria, and vanished. She hasn’t been seen since.

    Authorities say OneCoin was a pyramid scheme that defrauded people out of more than $4 billion as Ignatova convinced investors in the US and around the globe to throw fistfuls of cash at her company. Federal prosecutors describe OneCoin as one of the largest international fraud schemes ever perpetrated.

    *outright prolonged laughter*

    Thanks for all the fish.

    • Brochettaward

      The ruling classes have completely co-opted crypto. People still investing in it are fools. You are not anonymous. It isn’t going to undo the system, but become another means of manipulation and control.

    • rhywun

      The comparison to Russia is neither provable nor relevant.

      They should be focusing on the fact that Britain is turning into an authoritarian nightmare.

      • Brochettaward

        It really wouldn’t surprise me if true, but yea…you can’t take numbers coming out of Russia or China on this sort of thing at face value.

        I will say that the things the Western countries go after you for are objectively more ridiculous.

      • Brochettaward

        I got a lot of shit for taking this line in the original thread, but oh well, the arrests made in the UK and Russia are for very different reasons. That definitely doesn’t make them good, but I think this comparison of 3300 vs 400 is misleading

        They really aren’t different and what the West is doing is objectively worse. It is more on the totalitarian side of things. They are using ideology, specifically ones that reject or attack objective reality, as proxies for overt political loyalty. What Russia does is basically just shitty authoritarianism.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Noted legal expert and exemplary human being weighs in

    Mickey Rourke vehemently defended Alec Baldwin after “The Departed” star was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

    The 70-year-old actor took to Instagram on Friday to share his thoughts after New Mexico prosecutors announced that Baldwin, 64, would face a criminal charge on Thursday. Hutchins, 42, was killed by a live round from a gun that Baldwin was holding while rehearsing a scene for the Western movie “Rust.”

    “I usually never put my 2 cents in about what happens on someone’s movie set,” the Academy Award nominee began the lengthy caption of his post, which featured a photo of Baldwin.

    Yeah, okay. Case closed.

    • Ted S.

      “Usually never”??

    • Rat on a train

      Most actors don’t know anything about guns

      That doesn’t stop them from telling us about gun safety and how only the government should have them.

    • Tres Cool

      “I havent seen a blonde broad look that rough since Mickey Rourke was in The Wrestler”.

    • SDF-7

      None, obviously — she gave everyone blue balls.

      If they’re asking which ball was red when the clip started and turned to blue, that would be ball “1”.

    • Rat on a train

      1

    • Gender Traitor

      I think I’ll save this little gem for future use.

      • SDF-7

        They’ll just swap their Racist American Express for their Master Race Card once they have power.

    • slumbrew

      Le sigh. My rep. Exhibit #884,886 why my vote doesn’t matter around here.

      • rhywun

        Dear god… so sorry.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I guess Ayanna has a low IQ.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Or rather, that’s a funny way of saying that real blacks have low IQs.

      • Brochettaward

        If you look at the underlying ideas, it isn’t too far off from an argument that black brains somehow work differently than white brains…

      • Brochettaward

        Rather, it would be very reasonable for someone reading that statement to come to that conclusion about its author’s underlying assumption.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I read it as she’s a racist cunte.

    • Tres Cool

      When it was below zero here for a few days recently, after being outside I told Jugsy “My balls look like 2/3 of the Blue Man Group”.

    • MikeS

      Reminds me of that old Garret Morris and Julian Bond SNL skit

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Chilling

    She added that the legislation has a “chilling” effect on educators who will likely refuse to teach such things, erring on the side of caution in order to keep their jobs.

    “I don’t really see where the solution is. I mean, aside from the erosion of traditional public education, it just feels like there’s an erosion of democracy,” Vaughn told Insider. “When you’re choosing that teachers can’t teach history or can’t have inclusive classrooms that support all of their students or you don’t want anything taught that resembles socialism — even though that’s a basic form of government, you should be studying all of them — then I don’t really understand how that’s different than fascism,” she added.

    She sounds like an education major.

    • Rebel Scum

      “even though that’s a basic form of government”

      It’s a basic form of tyranny. But beyond that, maybe don’t teach kids to be racist towards each other.

      “then I don’t really understand how that’s different than fascism”

      I’d love to know how you define fascism.

      • juris imprudent

        I’d love to know how you define fascism.

        Anything that goes against what I want.

      • Mojeaux

        XX had a high school history teacher who taught socialism. Rather, he taught that its implementation had deliberately killed more people than the holocaust, and was an economic system of abject poverty, misery, and death.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        My sophomore year English teacher included Anthem in her curriculum

      • Mojeaux

        XX read Anthem on her own when she was 13-14. I mean, it was there in the family bookcase to read.

    • Brochettaward

      No one is banning about teaching about socialism. The goal is to prevent you from extolling its virtues and those of the Marxist offshoots like critical race theory in the classroom, you mendacious cunt.

    • rhywun

      I don’t really see where the solution is.

      You could, I dunno, stick with facts?

      can’t have inclusive classrooms that support all of their students

      Ugh just fuck off already.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Or rather, that’s a funny way of saying that real blacks have low IQs.

    Not being stupid is “acting white”.

    • Tres Cool

      That could be correct according to Chris Rock.

    • slumbrew

      Also, studying and doing well in school == acting white.

      A recipe for success.

      • Brochettaward

        It will be a success when they make more progress in their war against any form of merit based achievement..

      • juris imprudent

        Look how well it worked for the white people in Appalachia.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Why are you trying to be better than your upbringing boy?

  41. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    My neighbor seems to think I’m introverted because I’m afraid people won’t like me LOL

    I know I’m fucking charming & delightful

    • Mojeaux

      She don’t know you, do she?

    • Tres Cool

      Baby, if you was a biscuit Id sop you in some gravy.

  42. Brochettaward

    Other Democrats also think a bipartisan negotiation will take place, though they predict that Republicans won’t win the same steep spending cuts they got from Obama a decade ago.

    Slightly smaller increases in actual spending = steep spending cuts.

    Remy did a great video on how we live in a clown world. We are ruled by fundamentally unserious people with seriously serious amounts of power.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Hatred and bigotry

    Turkey has condemned the burning of a copy of the Quran during a protest in Sweden, describing it as a “vile act”.

    It said the Swedish government’s decision to allow the protest to go ahead was “completely unacceptable”.

    It comes amid growing diplomatic tension between the two countries.

    Turkey, which had appealed to Sweden to stop the protest, earlier called off a visit by Sweden’s Defence Minister, Pal Jonson, saying the trip had “lost its significance and meaning”.

    ——-

    Muslims consider the Quran the sacred word of God and view any intentional damage or show of disrespect towards it as deeply offensive.

    Turkey is a majority Muslim country. Its Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement denouncing the act, which it said happened despite “repeated warnings”.

    “Permitting this anti-Islam act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of ‘freedom of expression’ is completely unacceptable,” it said.

    It added that the burning of the Quran was another example of the “alarming” extent to which Islamophobia, racism and discrimination had reached Europe, and it called on the Swedish government to take “necessary measures”.

    Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Tobias Billstrom, called the act “appalling”.

    Like squabbling children.

    • Brochettaward

      If Firster’s can tolerate the burning of Firstonominomicons in the name of free speech, the Muslims can deal.

    • Mojeaux

      “Repeated warnings”

      Or what?

      • robodruid

        They wont be allowed to join NATO

    • slumbrew

      Where have you gone, Kemal Atatürk?

    • rhywun

      “If we call you Türkiye will you shut up about it?”

      • Penguin

        Same as the Ukes with “Keev”.

    • Rebel Scum

      “under the guise of ‘freedom of expression’”

      Go fuck yourself.

  44. Brochettaward

    After the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police prompted protests and civil unrest, including smashing of storefront windows and fires, Lightfoot ordered the city to raise drawbridges over the Chicago River in an attempt to block protesters from entering the downtown area. Some in the city saw it as elitist, a way of protecting upscale parts of the highly segregated city at the expense of neighborhoods with struggling business districts that also suffered serious damage.

    It’s interesting that the proggie media is capable of admitting there was violence involved when it comes to their internal squabbles, but what they criticize is the attempt to limit the violence’s scope (particularly keeping it out of the more upscale neighborhoods).

    • Brochettaward

      The mayor points to a record of achievements that include pushing through a $15 minimum wage that labor unions had sought for years and approval of a long-sought casino that’s expected to bring millions in revenue and thousands of jobs. She also has budgeted over $3 million to protect access to abortion, including for people who travel to Chicago from states where the procedure is illegal.

      If this is your record of achievements, you kind of failed. Oh, and she can own covid lockdowns which are probably still popular in Chicago. Crime? Up by any objective look at it. Corruption? Probably as rampant as ever. She’s playing the race card and the Trump cards against her opponents. She doesn’t have the support of two of the most influential public sector unions. She looks fucked to me.

      • rhywun

        “We could be the next Atlantic City!”

        Um… well, I guess there’s still abortion tourism. As long as they aren’t hungry afterwards and can’t find an open restaurant because all the low-skilled jobs disappeared.

      • Grosspatzer

        Next Atlanic City? As in, a gkeaming Casino district surrounded by a hellscape of bombed out buildings, gang violence and abject poverty? Sounds terrific.

  45. Count Potato

    “A six year old white boy in Virginia packs his mother’s 9mm Taurus pistol in his backpack, goes to school, and intentionally shoots his teacher.

    If he were Black, there would be demands for his parents to be arrested and various conversations about neglect and bad parenting.”

    https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1614309627465719809

    CWAA

    • Brochettaward

      People are calling for the parents to be arrested and various conversations about bad parenting, of course.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Turns out the kid is mentally disabled and one of the parents comes to school with him every day of the week (until that week.)

        Family is claiming the gun was secured and the kid got the gun safe open without their knowledge. He had come to school with bullets the week before and probably got a lot of peer attention for it which would encourage him to go further.

        None of this has been reported in the broader media of course.

    • Q Continuum

      The kid *is* black (or at least definitely not white).

    • Rebel Scum

      If he were black the MSM would ignore that story.

  46. Not Adahn

    Hello Ohio Glibs!

    I’ll be between Columbus and Cleveland from 6/20 – 6/22. Most of the time I’ll be insanely busy, but would be interested in meeting.

    Otherwise, restaurant recommendations in Marengo would be appreciated.

    • Not Adahn

      Make that 6/20 – 6/26

    • PieInTheSky

      There are no good restaurant in Ohio.

      • Not Adahn

        Now you’ve dun it.

      • Brochettaward

        I hear that Ohioans put ketchup on spaghetti and that they eat their own feces.

      • PieInTheSky

        Sounds credible

  47. Brochettaward

    What we need is for President Biden to take a page from President Kennedy’s playbook and call for a Moonshot on climate change. It is imperative that he take control of the national narrative, and emphasize to the public the grandeur and scale of this obvious national security challenge.

    Grandeur is a very interesting word to use. Very revealing for a guy who thinks there is some sort of initiative that would serve the strategic and symbolic significance of going to the Moon first during the Cold War. There is nothing about global warming policies that galvanizes even a majority of the country, let alone those opposed to it. There is nothing that will bring the two sides together because, you stupid cunt, we don’t want the government carrying out some grandiose mission to fundamentally change society in your twisted image. We don’t want a government with that power nor do we believe in your doomsday cult. Nothing productive or even symbolically meaningful will come out of anything your dimwitted mind.

    • Penguin

      What we need is for President Biden to take a page from President Kennedy’s playbook and…

      “uh, Mr. President, Miss Monroe’s dead, sir”

      • Q Continuum

        “…and that’s a couch cushion you’re currently penetrating.”

        Finnegan: “HOW DID HE SMUGGLE VIAGRA IN HERE AGAIN?!”

      • creech

        How does concealing it from parents “protect” the gender-confused child? Aren’t potentially violent parents going to be even more pissed off when it eventually comes out that authorities have hidden the facts and enabled the minor?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        As a parent, I’d be looking for some good-old fashioned street justice for all involved.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Michele had only found out about this claimed male identity the night her daughter disappeared. Yet Michele was willing to use any name or pronoun to bring her home. Sage later told her, Michele says, that Khan (court-appointed attorney) “told me to tell the judge my parents hit me, starved me.” Sage also told Michele that Khan “didn’t care how much [Sage] had to lie…but they were going to win this case” to remove Sage from her parents’ custody and place her in a Maryland foster home that would affirm her as male.

        Khan better be thankful it wasn’t my daughter.

      • R C Dean

        In a functional society, Khan would be fighting desperately to retain his law license.

        And the Bro has a point – this mentally ill teenager is probably not exactly a good source of truth.

      • Brochettaward

        I’d caution that Sage may not be the most reliable narrator.

      • MikeS

        Recently, reflecting back on her transgender identification, she told her mom: “I don’t know who I was. I’m a totally different person now. I never was a boy. Everybody was doing it, I just wanted to have friends.”

        So, a normal teenager. From the beginning of time, teenagers have been confused about everything. The vast majority of adults understand this. That vast majority needs to stand up and say “this has gone way too far and is stopping right now”.

    • Brochettaward

      atrophied genitals

      I don’t think I want to know what this means in a woman.

      • Brochettaward

        I also can’t help but notice that it was probably two white women who put the idea in her head as a teenager. First, her alcoholic and mentally ill mother and than his father’s partner.

      • Brochettaward

        They also had concerns about the lack of follow-up data, given “the experimental nature of the treatment and the profound impact that it has.”

        To hear modern progressives tell it, the science on this issue is completely settled and has been for decades similar to how we’ve always been at war with Eastasia or it has always been known that gas stoves are deadly to a child’s health.

      • Brochettaward

        Notably, a growing wave of girls has been seeking treatment for gender dysphoria. In 2009-10, 77 children were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service, 52% of whom were boys. That ratio started to reverse a few years later as the overall number of referrals soared. In England in 2018-19, 624 boys were referred and 1,740 girls, or 74% of the total.

        These numbers are perfectly normal. No, no….it definitely isn’t a sign of authority figures in search of a problem that only they in their infinite wisdom, with or without parental consent, can solve. And no one is making money off this.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The inevitable backlash to this is going to be violent.

        And I will not raise a finger to stop it.

      • Mojeaux

        The skin of your nethers gets thin and friable and it can get painful in various ways. Happens after menopause when you no longer have estrogen plumping everything up.

      • Brochettaward

        I’ll have to watch more GILF porn.

        I also started to see what I was living out was based on stereotypes, that I was trying to assume the narrow identity of “masculine guy.” It was all making less and less sense. I was also concerned about the effect my transition would have on my ability to find a sexual partner.

        I’ll give this person credit – they woke up at some point and started to ask themselves questions that most people with actual penises never even realize to ask themselves.

      • Mojeaux

        Have you noticed this whole thing is based on what people THINK is the “right” way to be and look male/female? Often it turns out to be a caricature (especially MtF).

      • Brochettaward

        Yes. It should be something feminists rale against. Anyone pushing the idea that gender is a social construct should take issue with people from the opposite sex transitioning to another sex and adopting hyper-stereotypical portrayals as their identity under the guise of this being a genuine depiction of their true inner self and the actual gender as a whole.

        The trannie thing undercuts everything feminists have traditionally argued.

      • Q Continuum

        That, along with safety issues associated with having bio-males in female locker rooms, prisons, etc., is one of the primary criticisms of trans-ideology by radfems.

      • Mojeaux

        Radfems are the only feminists screaming about it and they are dismissed and vilified as TERFs, which they embrace, but still is isolating enough to make them look like nutcases.

      • rhywun

        Why does trannying always lead to nose and/or lip rings, neck tatts, and the like.

    • Mojeaux

      That is a very sad read. I personally know a girl who wants to transition (her parents are “hard pass”, although they allow her to present as male just to keep some sort of equilibrium) , but she was messed up from the git-go. Her 3 siblings are all normal and she has other problems her parents have tried to deal with since she hit puberty. Her “gender dysphoria” is the lesser of their concerns with her. She’s 18 now, still in high school. Her parents have seriously thought about getting conservatorship over her, but getting out from under that is as hard for the conservator as it is for the trustee. She is one reason why I lean toward the “nature” side of the debate, but I’m sure there are plenty of people who can be a case study for the “nurture” side.

    • Tundra

      I don’t think He’ll be particularly merciful.

      What a horrible story.

      • MikeS

        And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

    • Penguin

      I had a AMC Grand Wagonneer once. It wasn’t that, but it was as close as I’m getting anytime soon.

    • Tundra

      I love it. Bid went from 8 to 12K in a single jump, though. Someone wants it bad

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      LOL, that grin