Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Jan 26, 2023 | Daily Links | 267 comments

IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT: Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to bus illegal immigrants out of Arizona, won’t say where they are going. “We’re interested in focusing on the humanitarian aspects of this and just putting people on a bus as a political stunt and sending them to Martha’s Vineyard or wherever they went is not providing any help or any solution to the actual issue.”

YOUR LIVING STANDARDS HAVE DECLINED DRAMATICALLY: An explainer from ZeroHedge about how we got into this mess.

LAWYERS HATE COMPETITION, SHUT DOWN AI LAWBOT: “Multiple state bar associations have threatened us,” Browder said. “One even said a referral to the district attorney’s office and prosecution and prison time would be possible.”

FEDERAL COURT HALTS CALIFORNIA LAW PUNISHING DOCTORS FOR COVID ‘MISINFORMATION:’ A federal court has issued a temporary stay against a California law that would punish doctors for providing alleged “misinformation” about COVID-19 — though even experts have been wrong about the pandemic.

PAGING DIANA MOON GLAMPERS: Philadelphia Parks and Rec recruits non-swimmers for lifeguard positions at city pools.

LEADING-EDGE EROSION ON WIND TURBINE BLADES: This problem is well-known in aircraft propellers. The turbine blades only have to last as long as their warranty.

TOO-LOCAL NEWS: A big shout-out to all the Glibs contributing writers. We have content set well into February. Well done, people. But don’t think you lot can slack off, and spend your days gamboling across the fields and plains. Keep that content coming!

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.

267 Comments

  1. Urthona

    Foisted

    • Tres Cool

      whaddup doh’

    • Rat on a train

      Stop foisting your values on us.

    • Brochettaward

      This comment is offensive, reprehensible, and just plain in bad taste.

      • Urthona

        Foisted up by my own petard.

      • Shirley Knott

        Self referential statements are fun.

      • rhywun

        Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

      • MikeS

        Are you new here?

  2. Bobarian LMD

    LAWYERS HATE COMPETITION, SHUT DOWN AI LAWBOT

    Everybody needs to be able to wet their beak in a criminal organization.

    • Urthona

      They have a serious issue here since the robots are so much more human and likable.

  3. Certified Public Asshat

    Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs to bus illegal immigrants out of Arizona, won’t say where they are going. “We’re interested in focusing on the humanitarian aspects of this and just putting people on a bus as a political stunt and sending them to Martha’s Vineyard or wherever they went is not providing any help or any solution to the actual issue.”

    Would you rather, get on a bus to Martha’s vineyard or a bus to an unknown destination?

    • Urthona

      I feel like bus to an unknown destination makes for a much better metaphor so of course the latter.

      • R.J.

        It will be San Antonio.

      • Urthona

        Working on the chorus as we speak.

        What rhymes with San antonio?

      • R.J.

        Boy, not a whole lot. Unless you end every chorus with “Tonio.”

        Controneo
        Petronio
        Dantonio

      • R.J.

        Damn Folio

      • Bobarian LMD

        There was a bear named Tonio?

      • R.J.

        Cornholio!

      • R.J.

        Polio

      • Bobarian LMD

        We’re all getting on the bus to Abilene.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Ban Tonio?

      • Rat on a train

        Saint Louis would be appropriate for another Voyage of the Damned?

      • R.J.

        Heh. She’s taking them to Canada.

    • Tonio

      Magical Mystery Tour! Mystery tours were apparently an actual thing back in the day. People would sign up for bus tours to unknown destinations. Retailers would also offer “grab bags” with random undisclosed contents, generally items which didn’t sell well.

      • R.J.

        “Denture cream, diaper powder and an old banana.”

      • Sean

        “What’s in Biden’s underwear, Alex?”

      • rhywun

        “Hey-yo!”

      • Fourscore

        I laughed, ’cause I thought everyone was laughing, some laughed last

      • Nephilium

        The big candy store near me every once in a while will have out $5 grab bags by the cash registers. My nephews love them, they get random candy which they can then argue over the quality of and trade back and forth.

      • Fourscore

        Doesn’t work very well with books though. People are just too damned choosy

      • Nephilium

        I think those are now called little free libraries.

    • Shpip

      Tell the economic migrants asylum seekers that they’re going to Puerto Libertad and hope that they’re as ignorant of geography as your average American student.

    • Drake

      Can she bus them to Mexico City?

    • Compelled Speechless

      She’s bussing them to the DMV for voter registration. No ID cards, though. It’s racist to assume they’re capable of figuring out how to get one.

    • Plisade

      So she’s admitting that sanctuary cities and lib ‘hoods are not “providing any help”?

    • R C Dean

      She isn’t sending them to any lefty/Dem cities, you can bet on that. I’m guessing Texas.

    • Tonio

      Awesome! Thanks.

    • Tundra

      That’s hilarious!

    • slumbrew

      What, you think all bears know each other?

    • rhywun

      They all look alike to me.

    • grrizzly

      Some pics look like the bear knew what it was doing.

  4. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “We aren’t giving up our gas stoves. We aren’t going to eat bugs. And we aren’t going to give up our birthright to freedom just because a bunch of partying clowns in Davos tell us we have to.”

    Yeah, that’s all well and good but whacha gonna do about it? Be mindful of the answer, the FBI’s watching…

  5. Ownbestenemy

    The city will provide free swimming lessons at Lincoln High School in Mayfair to anybody who doesn’t know how to swim, assuming they are committed to testing into the lifeguard program this summer.

    I am not sure if I want a 6 month or less experienced swimmer to be watching over my kids. I also assume the testing will be absolutely dumbed down to accept all these new swimmers.

    • Brochettaward

      You are just a racist opposed to diversity in lifeguarding.

      • juris imprudent

        Swimming is able-ism?

    • R.J.

      Idiocracy is real.

    • Urthona

      Idea: don’t shut down all the pools and parks because of covid anymore. Dipshits.

      • rhywun

        I’m guessing also that the pay is shit and after two years of sitting around on the couch nobody wants to work for shit pay anymore.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      5 months or less*, but still probably possible to be a decent swimmer by then. Not hard to see most candidates not following through on training though.

      At least it’s a pool and not the beach.

      • Urthona

        Also let’s be honest. You can walk everywhere in most public pools. You mainly have to be trained to recognize and save drowners.

        But I’m amused at them having this problem since it’s entirely caused by shutting down pools and simultaneously the lifeguard training apparatus during covid. Imminently predictable.

  6. Bobarian LMD

    Parks and Rec recruits non-swimmers for lifeguard positions at city pools

    We don’t really want you to save anyone, because of the litigation implications.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Title doesn’t really match the story but yeah…its still bad.

    • Rat on a train

      Like guards you are there to document events.

      • Michael Malaise

        Ooh. Likeguards. They keep you from liking dumb shit on social media?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Hopefully they’ll be equipped with shark hooks and a very strong length of twine.

      • Fourscore

        Bike chains and leg hair

      • Bobarian LMD

        Corn Pop was a bad dude!

  7. The Other Kevin

    That California misinformation law, among a few other things, seems to me like they are trying to stick to their original plan while ignoring that the truth is coming out, and people are fed up with that crap. If they still had control of the narrative it would make sense. But now it just seems like they’re trying to relive 2021.

    • Urthona

      Yeah bad timing since we know so many of the original narrative disputers were right.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, it smells like desperation to put out blatantly unconstitutional stuff like that. I mean, even more blatantly unconstitutional than usual.

      • juris imprudent

        They got to push it farther than they expected, so now they need to keep testing the limits.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      My Mom’s doctor advised her against getting the booster even though, or maybe because, she’s 92. She said it wasn’t worth it because even the basic side effects, e.g. the fatigue, wouldn’t be worth it. I was surprised that she stuck her neck out like that in light of that stupid law.

      • Count Potato

        They wouldn’t let my mom into rehab unless she got the booster.

  8. Brochettaward

    LAWYERS HATE COMPETITION, SHUT DOWN AI LAWBOT: “Multiple state bar associations have threatened us,” Browder said. “One even said a referral to the district attorney’s office and prosecution and prison time would be possible.”

    I remember writing on Reason how lawyers would always have job security. A bunch of lawyers, presumably with no interest in seeing their field further flood with grifters, said this wasn’t true because the AI bots were coming. The lawyers predominately write the laws. They will never allow bots to take their place no matter how effective they are.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      There’s your protection against the AI revolution.

  9. Tundra

    Excellent lynx today, Tonio!

    The more I learn of wind turbines the more angry I get. What a fucking joke.

    And then there’s this: https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/de-icing-wind-turbine.jpg

    Retards.

    AI seems perfect for law and medicine. Not surprising that the guilds are freaking out.

    And yes, my standard of living is declining dramatically. I’m more worried about how badly we are messing up our kids’ chances. I’m not even sure what the solution is at this point.

    • R.J.

      Next time I head to Amarillo I will take pictures of the blade graveyards alongside the road.

      • Urthona

        Everyone talks about how they are “renewable”. But are they? How often does shit need to be replaced?

        What about solar panels? are they renewable?

      • Tonio

        Don’t talk about windmill fires. Don’t talk about birds. Don’t talk about noise. Don’t talk about the wind not always blowing.

        Don’t talk about desert tortoise habitat. Don’t talk about the manufacturing footprint of solar cells. Don’t talk about nights and cloudy days.

        And don’t you dare mention nuclear because PpL WiLl DiE JuSt LiKe FuKuShImA, ChErNoByL and ThReE MiLe IsLaNd!!!1!eleventy

      • juris imprudent

        The blades are spectacularly un-recyclable and they don’t breakdown – you could call them the forever-chemicals of wind power.

      • R.J.

        A lot. A whole lot. Every time I pass Amarillo there is a giant truck carrying some blades. I always see busted ones. And piles of discards are starting to build up and litter the countryside. Granted that the land surrounding Amarillo is fairly featureless, but at least it didn’t have building-high piles of rotting blades here and there. Solar cells require replacement every six years, I think? And they are not really recyclable.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Solar cells can last much longer. It’s the batteries that go to shit every seven years.

      • kinnath

        20ish years on the panels. Batteries have a shit lifespan. Which is why every vehicle in America needs to switch to batteries.

      • Tres Cool

        + George Strait

      • Tundra

        MikeS has one near him in ND. Waiting for “recycling.”

      • pistoffnick

        They actually build windmill blades in Grand Farks.

      • MikeS

        Yup. For 6+ years now.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I’ve driven through Ohio wind country many times. It always amazed me to see how many of the turbines were out of commission.

      • Tres Cool

        We have such a thing? Tell me its up by the lake.

      • Fatty Bolger

        All that flat land NW of Columbus, and between Columbus and Cincy.

      • BigT

        Never saw it, but along I-65 in Indiana there are hundreds of the damned things

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, but he offered no music – what’s up with that? In honor of the bounty of content I suggest.

      • Brochettaward

        Who do people think are getting the contracts to build the parts to these windmills and put them together? The ones with the best product, or the ones with the most political connections?

  10. R.J.

    More content coming from me. Just as I committed to more random stuff, work shot up to 60 hours a week.

      • R.J.

        I will look for it. Sounds oddly familiar. I remember a Bollywood sci fi film about cell phones rebelling against their owners that had a truncated acronym name like that.

      • R C Dean

        It’s on NetFlix. I watched the trailer, and there was just something about it that made me pass. A lot of Bollywood has that effect on me, can’t really say why. Maybe I’ll give it a try.

      • slumbrew

        Not to get to doxx-y, but we acquired a company not long ago and once the kimono was opened – oh, boy. Fix-able, but it’s always balancing act between eliminating technical debt and expanding features.

      • Michael Malaise

        RRR was awesome, but a bit overrated. Leave your disbelief in another room.

    • Tonio

      Thanks. But remember, this site should be the absolute lowest priority in your life.

      • Brochettaward

        Do you know how much dedication I have to bringing the First into all of your lives? I expect no less from the rest of you.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Don’t strain too hard. You’ll get hemorrhoids.

      • Brochettaward

        The ass is barely involved in the Firsting process. It’s more of a pelvic movement. A thrust, but involving the full body. It’s a body and mind workout, for sure.

      • Tundra

        Ok, that was funny.

      • Nephilium

        So… Riff Raff, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Brad, or the guy with no fucking neck?

      • Sean

        There we go.

      • juris imprudent

        See untz-untz-untz makes me think techno, but the Bro is more dubstep, I think.

      • R.J.

        Talking to kids with blue hair and vintage look punk tshirts is my lowest priority in life.

        That and eating fake meat products.

    • slumbrew

      Three full time pieces of shits to check on chimney smoke

      That’s a hurtful way to refer to Tres.

      • Tres Cool

        I love reminding people that “love getting to nature” just how many air emissions come from an (uncontrolled) wood fire. CO and NOx being the least of them.
        At my last house, a guy down the road had a coal stove and on cold mornings on my way into work it was chugging black smoke into the country side. I wanted to drop off my B&W Steam handbook and see if he could lean a thing or two about efficient combustion.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I dunno. How many BTUs does the book produce?

      • Tres Cool

        Newsprint yields around 7,975 BTU/lb according to a quick search

        According to Amazon, my 41st edition weighs 8.68 lbs

    • Tonio

      Surely that would hit the poors the hardest?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Around here the “Spare the Air” days always coincide with the coldest weather, because those are the days the wind doesn’t blow to clear out the smoke.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Hopefully they’ll be equipped with shark hooks and a very strong length of twine.

    Harpoons.

  12. Certified Public Asshat

    This is the right call. Like it or not, President Trump is one of the country’s leading political figures and the public has a strong interest in hearing his speech.
    https://t.co/PbY8AevFDy— ACLU (@ACLU) January 26, 2023

    Whoah.

    • Rat on a train

      The ban served its purpose and can now be lifted.

    • R.J.

      Been a longtime since those jokers said anything good.

      • Sensei

        Stopped clock… twice a day.

    • R.J.

      The comments are peak clown world! I enjoyed reading those.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        You going to pay for all the medical bills with the aftermath of him having access to these platforms? Let me send you my bills..

        I’m an emotional invalid!

        When does the culling of the weak and decrepit begin? I’m getting impatient.

      • Tres Cool

        Given the site’s recent content on assisted suicide and sociopaths, Id be willing to put a needle in their arm to end the misery.

    • Compelled Speechless

      So while the number crunchers were figuring out who’s redundant and needs to be fired, they also ran the numbers on the amount of advertising dollars they were losing from the butterfly effect of booting him?

  13. The Other Kevin

    The House is looking into Hunter Biden’s money laundering operation, er, art career. The art dealer is about as nauseating as anything SF has written.

    “I represent Hunter Biden because I feel that not only his art merits my representation, but because his personal narrative, which gives birth to his art, is very much needed in the world,” Bergès continued. “His is a story of perseverance; Hunter’s story reflects what I believe is the beauty of humanity, judged not by the fall, but by having the strength to rise up, by having the character required to change and the courage to do it. Hunter Biden’s art reflects all of that and more. His art gives us hope; it reminds us that tomorrow brings a new day, a new beginning, a new possibility.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-bidens-art-dealer-praises-first-son-perspective-much-needed-probes-heat-up

    • Brochettaward

      If only we could all have the strength to be the privileged children of politicians who sell our last name getting lucrative business deal even faster than we snort them up our nose (or blow wads into high dollar escorts).

      • The Other Kevin

        As he said, that takes a lot of character and courage.

      • creech

        I think Ivana could do pretty well selling her “pictures.”

    • juris imprudent

      Now THAT person should be Biden’s Press Secretary – it’s all bullshit, but it’s far more poetic.

      • The Other Kevin

        LOL. You know he’s covering his own ass as well as Hunter’s, but it’s impressive he’s coming up with this under pressure.

    • R.J.

      Does anyone have a link to examples of his art? The art dealer who represented him has pulled down his site. Not sketchy at all.

      • The Other Kevin

        As I’ve said before, if it seems like a sketchy conspiracy, then not only is it true, but it’s 100 times worse than it looks.

      • kinnath

        I’ve seen some of his work. It’s passably good modern art. But it wouldn’t be selling for 5 or 6 figures without the Biden name attached to it.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I liked some of what I saw.

      • Compelled Speechless

        What I’d really like to see is some footage of him actually producing any of this art. I’m definitely not an expert, but that doesn’t look like it’s even all the same artist to me.

      • tripacer

        Ghost painter

      • R C Dean

        Ya know, that makes a lot of sense. Art is such an ideal front for money laundering, I can easily see the Biden crime family setting this up using a starving (but suddenly better compensated) artist. Ideally, they would have some blackmail material on him, too.

      • Brochettaward

        My first thought was that I kind of actually liked it.

        I didn’t consider a ghost painter. I am fairly certain Hunter has seen some crazy shit on his many, many trips.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      He sounds like an art dealer should, which is to say he sounds like a first-class bullshitter.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Exactly

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Now, to the critical question. How was all this accomplished, this massive increase in taxation by surreptitious means? Please understand: this was accomplished not by Putin or greedy corporations but by the Federal Reserve. They have the legal power to counterfeit. They do it by buying government debt with money that had not previously existed. This new money makes it way through the economy, watering down the value of existing money.

    Full faith and credit, baby.

    • juris imprudent

      It does not matter that the dollar can buy more foreign currencies than ever. That has nothing to do with anything.

      My hands? Yes, I’m waving them – so?

      • R C Dean

        My take: the dollar is a floater in a toilet full of sinkers. But they’re all still turds.

      • juris imprudent

        Now that’s more legit than what he was pushing.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Is that where you think this movement is headed?

      • Sensei

        That the I’m seeing protestors’ signs with “racism” here was rather telling and interesting.

        I’m still mighty upset that police accountability has been completely co-opted by the everything is racism is movement.

      • Compelled Speechless

        This one really is the libertarian’s fault. We were trying to think of principled and just solutions. If we would have been thinking about how to maximize the grift, we really could have made some headway. Ya know, grifting wise. Definitely not meaningful reform wise.

      • slumbrew

        “the black face of white supremacy”, obs.

      • creech

        Bunch of Amish gangbangers.

  15. juris imprudent

    No more the Ohio State University!

    • slumbrew

      It’s the insistence on the definite article that most annoys me about an Ohio State University alums

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      That sounds like something the retarded would say.

    • R.J.

      “The French”
      Priceless.

      • rhywun

        Yes, because it’s “all right”.

        /pet peeve

      • slumbrew

        “There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the Dutch.”

    • Brochettaward

      There is something to be said of brevity. Modern writers and journalists seem to think the more words they can vomit on the page the more they’re saying.

      • MikeS

        You get paid for your NFL screeds?

      • slumbrew

        Shots fired!

      • slumbrew

        (I like his NFL commentary – I enjoy all of his non-schtick comments)

    • Sensei

      Will make my Japanese friends ecstatic.

      (The) Japanese language has no articles and learning them in English very difficult for them. Even my most fluent friend makes mistakes using them.

    • Urthona

      Not everyone gets a happy ending

      • Zwak says Your Husband is a Polar Bear, Skinny.

        Winner.

      • Tundra

        Yes, we need the applause gif for that.

  16. Pope Jimbo

    Nice schooling job Lou

    A kid that was supposed to be the next big professional athlete from Minneapolis was shot and killed last year. His murderer was just convicted today. In the summary, I learned something new:

    Hill was shot and killed on Feb. 9, 2022, when students were encouraged to leave school early and attend a demonstration following the police killing of Amir Locke. Hill had left school, and prosecutors say surveillance video shows Fohrenkam walk past him moments before gun shots rang out.

    Earlier this month, Minneapolis Public Schools agreed to a $500,000 settlement with Hill’s family.

    Nice job teachers!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Gun shots rang out. All on their own.

  17. grrizzly

    Wow. My gas bill is $271.40 for the last month.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Yikes! Is that in December 2022 dollars or January 2023 dollars?

    • slumbrew

      Huh – $123.31. Last year for this month: $123.90.

  18. R C Dean

    Honest Katie Hobbs headline:

    Gov. Hobbs Joins Cartel Human Trafficking Networks, Provides “Last Mile” Service

  19. Pope Jimbo

    Hey, Colorado, sometimes you get Minnesoda’s best, other times you get Tundra.

    • Tundra

      What a stud. My kids have done a bunch, but never more than two in a day. Bloomington guy is insane.

      We drove to the top of Mount Evans and that was pretty cool. 14K feet is an amazing view

      • B.P.

        I’ve done a bunch. And I see people running them. I had a guy pass me going up one, then he passed me going down, then he passed me going up again. He said he was doing four laps.

      • Tundra

        Fucking overachievers!

        Mountain runners are a special breed.

      • Raven Nation

        I’ve never been anywhere near fit enough to run mountains, but one of the funniest outdoor activities I ever did was a night-time bike up (and back down) Going-to-the-Sun Road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going-to-the-Sun_Road

      • Tundra

        Damn. That’s legit. Why night-time? The views there are absurd!

  20. Yusef drives a Kia

    Yusef is going deaf,
    He bought some hearing aids,
    Holy Fuck!
    I can hear again!
    Tall Cans🍻

    • juris imprudent

      happy clinking

    • Tundra

      Cheers!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        The world is very noisy, it takes getting used to I suppose.

      • Tundra

        I’ll bet!

        I have hearing loss in one ear. It’s only a matter of time until I’ll have to go that route.

      • Tres Cool

        huh?

        /Im going to bed

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I bought 5 star Amazon for 50$ just using one right now, they are cheap enough to try. Noise cancellation, bla bla, pretty cool.

      • Tundra

        So the cartel finally lost, huh? That’s excellent!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Fuck the guilds, technology FTW!

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, hearing aids became available OTC sometime in the last year. For what I want/need, the OTC ones aren’t there. But the HSA is!

      • Tundra

        That should spur some innovation. Hell, my earbuds have ANC that works beautifully.

      • rhywun

        Hah a variety pack of readers from Amazon was just delivered. Time to see if any of them work for long hours of computer looking-at.

      • Count Potato

        You can buy prescription glasses online. Way way less expensive than an eyeglass store.

      • rhywun

        I’ve never been able to walk out of the eye doctor with just a prescription.

        Anyway, yeah I just learned that readers are not what I need. I tried five different ones, it was like five different immediate headaches.

      • Count Potato

        “’Ive never been able to walk out of the eye doctor with just a prescription.”

        Huh. Maybe NY has some stupid law?

        “it was like five different immediate headaches”

        Yikes!

        You can also go to a pharmacy and try on glasses. Although, it sounds like maybe you should see an eye doctor. You can’t afford to lose your eyesight. You’re a white guy who can’t sing.

      • rhywun

        I’ve never asked – just assumed I would get the run-around and I don’t like drama.

        These are pharmacy glasses, just in a variety of strengths so I could test them. Under 20 bucks, down the drain. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        My problem is that my current (older) pair work fine for distance, and the newer pair that I left at the office I haven’t visited in a year and a half are “progressives” that are not pleasant to use for any distance.

        I need a separate pair for computer work, which is where I spend the vast majority of my time it seems.

      • Count Potato

        “I need a separate pair for computer work, which is where I spend the vast majority of my time it seems.”

        I use prescription reading glasses with blue light blocking for my laptop. However, they also make computer glasses that are for a distance a bit farther than readers.

      • MikeS

        The Count speaks the truth. I just got a pair of bifocals, spring temples, with magnetic “clip-on” shades for $48 shipped. They are actually pretty decent glasses. Just call the doc and ask for your prescription (or check if they have an online system, mine did)

      • MikeS

        Taking money away from my Audiologist daughter!

    • mikey

      Great! Waited too long to get mine. Got home afterwards and the first thing I noticed was the door hinges all squeaked!

    • R C Dean

      I’ve got them. Right ear is totally deaf since childhood; the ones I got are mostly to pick up sound on that side and transmit to the good ear. I’ve also got permanent tinnitus and have lost some high end hearing. I’m a fan of the hearing aids. I’m always amazed at the people who need them and don’t get them “because only old people have hearing aids”.

      • Animal

        I’ve got a fair amount of hearing loss and, like you, constant tinnitus. I’ve never really thought about hearing aids; I may have to look into it.

        Of course, then I won’t have any excuse for annoying people by pretending to be deaf.

  21. slumbrew

    Fuckin’ AARP, sending me membership cards.

    I’M NOT THAT OLD!

    (with apologies to those who are – I’ll get there, just not yet)

    (by “there”, I mean older – I’m not giving those grifters anything)

    • B.P.

      I got one in the mail on Tuesday.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Commie ratfucks is what they are.

      • juris imprudent

        Capitalist pigs comrade!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Just lie back and think of the discounts.

      • rhywun

        I used to snort inside at all the folks proudly displaying their AARP cards at the hotel front desk to get that whopping 10% discount off rack rates (i.e. the rates that only suckers pay).

    • Animal

      Fuck the AARP.

    • MikeS

      You must have recently turned 50? That’s when those communist cookie mouse asshole bastard fuckers started bothering me.

  22. Certified Public Asshat

    SHOCKING: @Pfizer Director Physically Assaults @JamesOKeefeIII & Veritas Staff; Destroys iPad Showing Undercover Recordings About “Mutating” Covid Virus; NYPD RESPONDS!“I’m just someone who’s working in a company that’s trying to literally help the public.”“You fu*ked up!” pic.twitter.com/83OWqlKd4t— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 26, 2023

    Something seems off about this.

    • Brochettaward

      There is a pattern of Project Veritas honeypotting gay men. That’s what you meant, right?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Gay men can be a bit theatrical.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Well, they do seem to be a bit more vain and eager to impress. That probably makes them easier marks.

      • Tundra

        Gay Honeypot is a terrible album name.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Not a bad porn name though.

    • PutridMeat

      “I’m feeling unsafe right now!”

      It’s like a caricature.

      Either Veritas is blowing whatever credibility they might have or someone from Pfizer is getting so fired. Or everyone ignores it and we go on to the next drama.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m pretty sure people get fired just about every time a new Veritas video drops and that’s where the panic comes from. I have the smallest, tiniest bit of sympathy for this guy because his life is ruined. He also is a piece of shit who works for a monstrous pharmaceutical company.

    • Brochettaward

      Also, I’m real tired of the mindless attacks on *everything* Veritas releases. NPC’s on Twitter saying the guy destroys his own credibility and that this looks staged (that reaction looks genuine to me).

      These same people take anonymous sources vaguely described as people “familiar” with another person’s thinking as gospel when it suits them, but dismiss actual investigative journalism where shit is caught on tape.

      There is a chance the guy was lying to make himself seem like a bigshot in the know. But judging from that panicked reaction, that looks like someone who realizes they just revealed shit that opens them up to liability on top of losing their job and probably being blacklisted in his field for poor judgement. It is still more credible than the shit that gets printed in the NYT’s and Washington Post ascribed to anonymous sources which have blown up their faces routinely, especially since the dawn of Trumpism.

      • Brochettaward

        And the media knows this shit. It’s the reason there is an almost universal blackout in the mainstream media on anything Veritas touches unless its a quiet debunking article. They put an embargo on actually covering the stories they then try to fact check (when they even bother with that).

    • rhywun

      He seems nice.

  23. juris imprudent

    Fauci gone, OIG is shocked to find lax oversight. Surely new procedures will keep this from ever happening again!

    Going forward, the OIG recommended that NIH enhance its monitoring and documentation requirements for foreign grant recipients and define what is considered to be “immediate notification.”

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Perhaps the House could subpoena Ralph Baric or Peter Daszak.

      Nah, that’s just crazy talk.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So he lied to Congress. Huh

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        What difference at this point does etc.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The question remains as to why the DOD was funding this.

      • R C Dean

        Because gain-of-function research is dual purpose. It’s also bio-weapons research. I mean, its dual purpose unless bio-weapons is the only reason for it.

        The real question is, why was the DOD funding PLA bio-weapons research?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The real question is, why was the DOD funding PLA bio-weapons research?

        That was my whole question which I didn’t elaborate.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Screw the monitoring and documentation. The research shouldn’t have been funded in the first place.

      • Tundra

        This. GoF should be treated as an act of war. This idea that you can get out ahead of the virus is such absolute bullshit.

        Hang everyone involved. Not kidding.

      • R C Dean

        Yup. This should be regarded as colluding with a foreign power to develop WMDs. Hanging, beheading, firing squad, something old-school would be an appropriate response.

      • slumbrew

        “the boats”

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I know they justify GoF as a way to get ahead of the virus, but has there ever been an example where that they have been successful and it has paid off? It seems like a one in a billion shot.

      • slumbrew

        I was just thinking the same thing – where is the list of GoF wins, if the risk is worth it?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        My suspicion is that there is no such list, but the justification prevents most people from thinking it’s a bioweapons program. And it allows them to call doubters “conspiracy theorists”.

      • slumbrew

        You have a nasty, suspicious mind. And you’re almost certainly correct.

      • Tundra

        Never. It’s not how nature works.

        It’s bio weapons research. Full stop.

    • Gustave Lytton

      See also J Edgar; post death revelations and reassessment.

    • R.J.

      Was he Russian?

      • Count Potato

        Just hasty.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Now he’s Finnish.

      • Animal

        At least he’s not Hungary.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m not sure that’s German to the topic at hand.

      • Animal

        Well, he sure wasn’t Havana good time.

      • The Gunslinger

        It doesn’t really matter. He’s off to the nether lands now.

    • Brochettaward

      The internet already died when Trump took over the FCC and killed net neutrality.

      • rhywun

        I don’t know what it will actually accomplish but the array of people lined up in support of it is probably all I need to know.

      • slumbrew

        It will accomplish greater government control of the Internet, in the interest of “fairness”

      • R.J.

        Yep. And much higher prices for shittier service.

      • R.J.

        I hate everything about that article.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        At least it didn’t call her opponents homophobic.

      • rhywun

        ensuring a robust and competitive internet market

        Why am I extremely dubious of this claim? It can’t just be because all except “a handful” of Dems are pushing it.

  24. Count Potato

    “UNBELIEVABLY HEARTBREAKING J6 VIDEO! Exclusive CRYSTAL CLEAR Video of Rosanne Boyland as She DIED on Steps of US Capitol on January 6 – WHY WON’T THE POLITICIANS & MEDIA SAY HER NAME?

    In this poignant video that plays like a scene in a feature film, the unconscious body of Rosanne Boyland lay on the steps of the US Capitol as distraught Trump Supporters try in vain to save her, before finally carrying her lifeless body up to the mouth of the West Capitol Entrance and turning her over to the Metro Police Line- begging them for help after a police officer had just been seen beating Rosanne to a pulp with a stick. From there, the police dragged Rosanne down the tunnel by her feet like a sack of potatoes and she was never seen again….

    In this video, men are seen desperately trying to save the life of Rosanne as they attempt to perform CPR. They use tools from a CPR kit in someone’s backpack on the ground. A man in an aviator hat pumps on her chest. A protester in a tan jacket cuts Rosanne’s shirt off to perform CRP. Ronald McAbee, a Sheriff from Tennessee, unbuttons Boyland’s pants and removes her belt to access the femoral artery in her leg to take a pulse. (McAbee still sits in pre-trial detention for the January 6th crime of trying to save Rosanne and help police). The irony of the situation is that over a dozen men sit in pre-trial detention who were helping Rosanne or reacting to her death….”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/unbelievably-heartbreaking-j6-video-exclusive-crystal-clear-video-rosanne-boyland-died-steps-us-capitol-police-allegedly-killed-capitol-wont-politicians/

    • creech

      Not one GOP congressman can be found to make a stink about this?