Saturday Morning Dropping of Eaves Links

by | May 13, 2023 | Daily Links | 156 comments

Overheard conversations at nearby tables when I’m having my morning coffee is often the highlight of the day. Usually it’s some banal shit about half-understood politics or well-understood partying. Yesterday morning’s was wonderful. “…but the picture on the box showed her using it on the back of her neck.”

Today is a weak birthday day, but I should still point out a guy whose motto was, “At your cervix!”; a guy who might have taught Tyson a lesson or two; a guy of no particular principles beyond attention-seeking; a walking advertisement for Kool-Aid; a guy who got mistaken for a baseball; an honored sci fi writer who, let’s be honest, was more than a bit dull; a backbone of Fleetwood Mac when it was still good; Ray Charles’s seeing eye dog; the quintessential piece of shit “moderate”; a guy who made fame and fortune in comedy by not being the least bit funny; and a chick you really don’t want to see naked but she’ll show you anyway.

Oh yeah, links.

 

“The Three Stooges Plan. We’ll eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse!”

 

Eating their own.

 

I hope these lawyers get his so hard with sanctions that their testicles descend.

 

“Did you see how she was dressed? She’s just asking for it!”

 

Tres Cool nods.

 

“It’s become my identity.”

 

How this can possibly be constitutional is beyond me.

 

This is the band that I’m going to see tonight. They are quite the deal.

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Old Man With Candy

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156 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    ““…but the picture on the box showed her using it on the back of her neck.”

    I see.

  2. Count Potato

    “The families of the victims in the Buffalo supermarket shooting from last May have sued more than half a dozen Big Tech companies alleging that they gave the shooter a platform to take in racist and violent views before committing the shooting.”

    OFFS!!

    • Count Potato

      “Diona Patterson, Barbara Mapps and Shawanda Rogers, whose loved ones were killed in the shooting, and survivor Latisha Rogers filed the lawsuit in New York Supreme Court in Erie County on Friday against social media companies like Meta, Facebook’s parent company; Snap, Inc., which runs Snapchat; Discord; Amazon, which owns Twitch; and Reddit.

      The lawsuit also names Google, the dark web messaging site 4chan, the body armor company RMA Armament, the firearm company Vintage Firearms and the shooter’s parents.”

      Why not Krogers? Merke? British Petroleum?

  3. Count Potato

    ““Did you see how she was dressed? She’s just asking for it!”

    I’m seeing a trend here. Maybe Heinlein was right.

  4. Sean

    “As anticipated, the state’s budget hole deepened from the estimated $22.5-billion shortfall announced in January and marks a dramatic turn from last summer, when Newsom touted a $100-billion surplus.”

    😲

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The surplus was just an accounting trick in order to delay the deficit news. I forget the details, but they front loaded the income.

      • Sean

        Ah, ok.

      • Ted S.

        I thought it was from the FedGov bailout. Governors like Cuomo were in charge of bankrupt states, so kept pushing the coronavirus emergency to try to get Biden elected since Trump wouldn’t sign a bailout for the states.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The $100B included about $26B in FedGov stimulus.

        It isn’t much of a trick. California was/is using cash based accounting instead of accrual so they could ignore their long term debt obligations.

      • juris imprudent

        No. The progressivity of the CA income tax means huge revenues in good years and big gaps in down years. Oddly enough, high incomes tend to be rather volatile – not that idiots on the left get that in the slightest.

    • Grumbletarian

      With tax collection expected to fall short of the money allocated for programs essential to millions of Californians, Newsom is taking a more conservative spending approach while trying to protect his marquee programs. The shortfall projections indicate that the abundance of Newsom’s first term is over, and the need to downshift in his second term could have implications for Democrats in the state Legislature and his own political legacy.

      “We’ve driven away more cash cows to Texas than anticipated.”

      • juris imprudent

        There is that too, but this is really just a natural and entirely predictable consequence of the rate structure and year to year income variability.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It’s one of the arguments they use to try to repeal Prop 13.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “essential”

  5. Count Potato

    “In the Village of Cuba Zoning Law, Chapter 200, Article XII. Sign Regulations 200-70.1 Murals and Painted Signs passed into law on 3/12/2018 it states”

    There are regulations like that in almost every town in the country.

  6. Sean

    “the CNN CEO reportedly told staffers, adding that making news “is our job.””

    Wut?

    • rhywun

      Nothing we didn’t already know.

    • R C Dean

      How are you going to manufacture consent unless you make the news first?

  7. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Not me. I’m hungover.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Two ibuprofen and a beer should fix you right up.

  8. Sensei

    For another customer, Jessie Latin, 25, the shop offers sweet treats she can still enjoy while maintaining her gluten-free, dairy-free, low-sugar, low-soy diet, designed to help with her endometriosis symptoms.

    • EvilSheldon

      Indeed.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Just eat a steak

      • Sean

        Message approved.

        I got 4 lbs of strips to grill tomorrow.

  9. Gender Traitor

    That is indeed a kick-ass band! ::searches for their tour schedule:: Now if they would just wander a wee bit further south and west in Ohio…

    • Grummun

      I do like a lively bass solo.

  10. Ted S.

    “I think of people who go out and spend $20 on a vodka soda at the clubs every weekend,” she said. “I’d rather pay $18 for a smoothie that’s going to fuel my body and give me nutrients in lieu of having a $20 drink.”

    I’ll drink at home, thank you very much. And if I drank smoothies, I’d make them at home, too.

    • rhywun

      But then how do you see and be seen by the right people??

      • juris imprudent

        ^^^ This is why I don’t like humans all that much.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Are you implying that we’re not the right people?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Why not have both? A daiquiri’s practically a smoothie anyway.
      Also, twenty bucks for a vodka and soda?

      • EvilSheldon

        That’s literally what a bottle of Tito’s runs in VA. If you’re paying an 800% markup on your drinks, you’re not really paying for the drink…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, you can get a 1.75 of Sobieski for that here. If drinks cost that much I’ll sneak in a flask.

      • Sean

        Pinnacle is decent at the same price point/size.

    • Q Continuum

      That’s like 4 bottles of Mad Dog 20/20.

    • Michael Malaise

      I’ll cut this person slack because we all make choices about what we consume and why. If the market can support her choices, then fine.

    • Shirley Knott

      Then you remember ‘fist’ can be a verb

      • Shirley Knott
      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Intriguing but at least Kelly has her feet on the ground. Theron’s a head case.

  11. Count Potato

    ““Apparently cows do not want suspected criminals loitering in their pasture and quickly assisted our officers by leading them directly to where the suspect was hiding,” police said in a press release. “The cows communicated with the officers as best they could and finally just had the officers follow them to the suspect’s location.”

    The department said that, as it examines the “obvious next steps of incorporating a Bovine Tracking Unit” into its law enforcement capabilities, there are several factors to consider.

    This includes whether cows are adaptable to a variety of police work or if they are limited to finding hiding suspects, whether cows are more cost-effective than K-9 dogs, how cows will be transported to crime scenes and if doing so would be compatible with the town’s sustainability goals regarding types of vehicles needed and if there are methane issues, and how much it would cost to fund the cows’ training, veterinary care, ballistic vets and other expenses.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/05/13/herd-of-cows-aid-north-carolina-police-pursuit-leading-them-directly-to-suspect/

    That’s udderly ridiculous.

    • rhywun

      I didn’t know the Bee was contributing articles to the NY Post now.

    • Sean

      Don’t play with your food.

      • Ted S.

        Q: What’s the difference between the Rolling Stones and the Scottish?

        A: The Rolling Stones sang, “Hey, you, get off of my cloud” while the Scottish say, “Hey, MacLeod, get off of my ewe!”

    • EvilSheldon

      While I don’t generally like cops, it does make me a bit happy when cops publicly display a sense of humor.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      That’s going to lead to Major Beef.

    • Shpip

      I’m glad the critters were able to steer the police towards their suspect.

      Of course, from the perp’s point of view, the story must seem positively calfkaesque.

    • Michael Malaise

      Well, you’ve all milked this story for about all it’s worth.

    • DrOtto

      It’s a good thing consumers and manufacturers had a choice in if they wanted those airbags or not/s.

    • Pine_Tree

      I’d send it as “trads” and insist the “d” was really an “n”.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Send them the icing and a stencil.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      After writing about the incident on Facebook, she received responses in the comments from Publix’s Facebook account.

      ‘We are sorry that our associates did not handle your request appropriately. Please message us for more details, and we will gladly make the cake,’ the account wrote.

      She responded: ‘I appreciate the apology. I’m glad Publix does want to write, ‘Trans people deserve joy on a cake.’ But I think that their apology falls short of what we deserved in response to what happened.’

      Flasterstein added that she wanted the company ‘to be accountable’ to their policy for the confusion it caused and to make it so this doesn’t happen again.

      This is the problem. Publix openly seeks to rectify an issue, but it’s not enough. They’re supposed to do more. Fuck off. Take your fucking remade cake and shop elsewhere if you don’t like their perfectly good solution.

      • juris imprudent

        Grovel in order to feed my specialness!

    • Rebel Scum

      “Not taking a stance is just taking a stance against us and denying our existence.” – trans cult

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Well, Saint Peart once wrote, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”, so……

  12. Grumbletarian

    “I was invited to go to tryouts where the regional manager is kind of behind you watching you dance. And after class she told me, you are going be fantastic,” recalls Portnick.

    She just needed to do one more thing: Take a photo holding out her arms, parallel to the floor, which was then sent to the corporate office.

    What came back wasn’t a job offer, but a letter that read, in part, “you have all the all the qualifications for a potential trainee except for the fitness level required… Consequently, a Jazzercize applicant must have a higher muscle to fat ratio and look leaner than the public,” the letter continued.

    They expected a fitness trainer to look fitter than average?!

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Do as I say, not as I do or you’ll wind up like me. – Scared straight fitness.

      • DrOtto

        Scared Straight Fitness may just be a million dollar idea.

    • slumbrew

      Crazy talk!

      People want their instructors to be in much worse shape than themselves. It is known

      • DrOtto

        It’s literally the inverse of “never trust a skinny chef”.

    • CPRM

      I had all the qualifications to win Mr Universe, but they said I wasn’t fit enough. Imma sue!

    • EvilSheldon

      Joerg Sprave just suddenly sat bolt upright in bed. “Something has happened!”

  13. The Late P Brooks

    From Sensei’s link:

    “Air bag inflators that project metal fragments into vehicle occupants, rather than properly inflating the attached air bag, create an unreasonable risk of death and injury,” Stephen Ridella, director of NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation, wrote in a letter to ARC.

    I remember when people said putting a chunk of explosive in your steering wheel might not be the smartest idea ever. What a crazy thing to believe.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      No one wants a face full of shrapnel in a fender bender.

    • Ted S.

      And when it beheaded babies, FedGov blamed the parents and told the parents to put the babies in the back seat. Now we have parents forgetting their kids in the back seat and the kids broiling to death. It’s really a consequence of the passenger-side airbags, but the propaganda machine puts all the blame on the parents.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        👆👆👆

    • R C Dean

      I’ve been in two accidents. One a near head-on at combined speed of 100 mph, no airbag, 1990 Honda Civic, walked away, not even sore the next morning. The other a parking lot fender bender in a GMC pickup, airbag goes off, face cut up and bruised.

      Not a fan.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        My wife was in a head-on accident in 2019. Combined speed of about 80.

        Without the airbag she almost certainly would have been in far worse shape than a broken knee and a bruised body.

        The other lady, too stupid to even wear a seatbelt, was way fucked up.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    The agency contends that welding debris from the manufacturing process can block an “exit orifice” for gas that is released to fill the air bag in a crash. Any blockage can cause pressure to build in the inflator, blowing it apart and hurling metal fragments, Ridella’s letter says.

    i don’t want to be the guy welding the bomb in place.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Gold also writes that manufacturers must do recalls, not equipment manufacturers like ARC. NHTSA’s recall demand, he wrote, exceeds the agency’s legal authority.

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • Shirley Knott

      A) You say that like it’s a bad thing
      B) Yeah, right. There are lots (and lots and lots) of guys who don’t pick sides, but pick from both side of the aisle.

      • Q Continuum

        Not a bad thing at all and the second comment is simply from my (limited) observation.

    • DrOtto

      Jason Ellis says “hi”.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’d concur with my limited observation too. Women dabble and experiment with bisexuality, then a few years later they’re a AWFL with 3 kids and a minivan. Seems like dudes go the other way.

  16. Rebel Scum

    The families of the victims in the Buffalo supermarket shooting from last May have sued more than half a dozen Big Tech companies alleging that they gave the shooter a platform to take in racist and violent views before committing the shooting.

    Fascinating angle here.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The lawyers who took the case should be, well Shakespeare was probably a little harsh, disbarred maybe.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      So if I shoot a bunch of people I can blame it on Kendi and his publisher “How To Be An Anti-racist”?

      That shit is filled with racism.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Tea and whim-wham

    Immigration skeptics do not need to join the immigrant rights movement to meaningfully advance its mission. They just need to be a bulwark against the cancer of white nationalism, resistant to its divisive tactics for political mobilization.

    In fact, policymaking on immigration would be far more likely if people were just less passionate about the issue altogether. We would do better to view it as a humdrum, managed process that ensured the country was attracting the best and the brightest, while staving off demographic aging. This wouldn’t mean technocracy without democracy, but rather an acknowledgment that — much like a favorite professional sports team — the country needs to recruit the most talented to compete.

    Never mind the facts, let’s talk about the perfect imaginary world in my head.

    It’s a long slog through sneering condescension.

    • rhywun

      Stop giving them free shit and this ends tomorrow.

    • Count Potato

      blah blah blah white nationalism

    • Rebel Scum

      Just enforce the current laws.

      the country needs to recruit the most talented to compete.

      Inviting in the diseased dregs of foreign societies that are not even literate in their own language must be the most talented then.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “the country needs to recruit the most talented to compete.”

      Isn’t that what Trump was proposing with his skills based immigration plan?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        No.

        Clearly he was proposing that we enslave all foreigners, and kill those who resist. He was also proposing the right of prima nocta. All white men should be able to sleep with any foreign woman so we can breed them out. It is known.

  18. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    My favorite Twitter genre. In this case asking a gay trans person what they know about being gay and/or trans. Other classics in the genre include telling a black gun owner he’s a white supremacist with a tiny cock.

    https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1657376367137243139

    • rhywun

      “This never happens!!1!”

      Uh huh.

  19. juris imprudent

    That’s okay, GOP voters are equally embarrassed by their office holders.

    • Rebel Scum

      “It was embarrassing,” Sununu told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki in an interview set to air Sunday.

      Your face is embarrassing.

      “The audience was absolutely filled with Trump supporters, so I wasn’t surprised to hear the support,” he said.

      The average R voter supports DJT, so…

      “But when you’re talking about a serious issue like that, and laughter and mocking and all that, it’s completely inappropriate, without a doubt.”

      It’s perfectly appropriate to mock false accusers and stacked, unserious juries.

      • DEG

        Sununu is petty, vindictive, and has national ambitions. He also has hated Trump. Sununu hinted that he voted for Biden in 2020.

        The last I checked any polls, he was polling at right around 1% for the Republican presidential nomination. So, I see this just as Sununu lashing out.

  20. DrOtto

    Flavor Aid, it was Flavor Aid for Christ’s sake – the Kool Aid marketing dept.

    • rhywun

      The “realistic muscle suit” is a nice touch. 🙄

    • cyto

      Dude wears a “realistic runner muscle suit”, but people think his 5 pound penis is real?

  21. The Late P Brooks

    In any outreach, immigration reform advocates will ultimately have to overlook many views that they would not personally endorse. Still, they must find new ways to connect and highlight commonalities rather than differences. They need to communicate that they recognize skeptics as stakeholders too — their virtue, their dignity, their rights.

    As activists have promoted the mobility and achievements of immigrants these past few decades, skeptics have clung more tightly to American “heritage” because it renders them a sense of status. It’s true that some of the accompanying nostalgia may subconsciously yearn for the white supremacy in America’s past, but much of it just comforts people uncertain about the country’s future and their precarious position in it. They have bigger problems than undocumented immigrants, and advocates can help them see that.

    Go fuck yourself.

  22. Rebel Scum

    “I’m asking you to not be emotional,” the source paraphrased what Licht told Darcy at the meeting. Licht reportedly said that he wanted to see more objective coverage of all news outlets, not just CNN.

    Asking too much of proggies.

    CNN reporter Oliver Darcy was reportedly left “visibly shaken” after his boss, CEO Chris Licht, tore into the liberal journalist over his “emotional” coverage of the network’s town hall Wednesday night featuring former President Donald Trump.

    Cry about it.

    There was something disturbing to me in the way Anderson Cooper addressed the “issue” the following day. Seems like the establishment is gearing up to outright label any political opposition as domestic terrorists simply for disagreeing with any particular narrative or policy.

    • juris imprudent

      Most religions don’t treat heretics or infidels with respect, why should progressivism be any different?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Calling Darcy emotional is sexist.

  23. Rebel Scum

    Baltimore City is suing Hyundai and Kia in federal court for actions the city says are fueling a “vehicular crime wave.”

    The lawsuit, filed Thursday, claims the business decision by the automakers to not equip vehicles with anti-theft technology is behind the city’s massive spike in car thefts.

    “Well, they should have provided it. Everyone else seems to provide it,” said Hyundai owner John Simms.

    This is so mendacious and stupid. Sue the city for lack of enforcing the law.

    • R C Dean

      Next up: Charging homeowners who don’t have bars on their windows and security cameras.

  24. Rebel Scum

    “Walking into a job interview as a fat person, I’m already at a disadvantage,” said Victoria Abraham. “I know that whatever my qualifications are, my weight is a con.”

    But on Thursday, the New York City council passed a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against height and weight in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

    I guess Hooters in NYC will be going out of business.

    • rhywun

      I have yet to hear a single example of what they are trying to solve here.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        They’re not solving problems. They’re saving the world.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) criticized the Republican voters from his home state who appeared at CNN’s town hall with former President Trump for their reaction to his mocking of author E. Jean Carroll.

    “It was embarrassing,” Sununu told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki in an interview set to air Sunday.

    “The audience was absolutely filled with Trump supporters, so I wasn’t surprised to hear the support,” he said. “But when you’re talking about a serious issue like that, and laughter and mocking and all that, it’s completely inappropriate, without a doubt.”

    “Can you believe I have to suck up to those cretins?”

  26. DrOtto

    The Hyundai/Kia suit reminds me of a similar suit NJ filed against Nissan for making HID headlights standard on all Maximas, thus causing them to be targeted by thieves for the headlights, the state claimed. I don’t remember if they were successful or not in their overreach.

    • juris imprudent

      Criminals are never responsible for crime. It is known.

  27. Lackadaisical

    Olivia d’abo is crazy hot in Conan the destroyer, that’s all.

    • Raven Nation

      As opposed to just being crazy in L&O: Criminal Intent

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Unintended consequences

    Farm conditions for pigs don’t seem to have anything to do with states’ salvos in the hard-fought battle over abortion. But a new Supreme Court ruling in an animal welfare case could become a tool in states’ burgeoning efforts to restrict or expand abortion access even beyond their own borders.

    The case over the treatment of animals in factory farms splintered the justices Thursday, resulting in five separate opinions. The ultimate outcome was a victory for the right of California voters to dictate requirements for meat sold in their state, even if much of it is produced elsewhere.

    However, experts say the core issue in the case — the ability of states to take actions with clear impacts beyond their borders — is also central to the legal imbroglio over abortion. The decision could, for instance, embolden states to crack down on the mailing of abortion pills. States with strong prevailing views on abortion could even seek to restrict the sale of goods from states with contrary views.

    “We could see anti-abortion states and even pro-choice states enact policies that have secondary effects in other states,” said Drexel University law professor David Cohen. “Just like California said, ‘We don’t allow pork raised in a way that goes against our ethics,’ you could see states saying, ‘We can’t do business with this state or that state’” because of their abortion policies, he added.

    We should just abolish the current federal government and let California make all policy decisions. Just get it over with.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      It’s all about the Fed. If Powell wins, Davos loses, and a shit-ton of money that was flowing to the vandals in the Democrat Party dries up.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    The only member of the Supreme Court who directly mentioned the possible impact of Thursday’s factory-farm ruling on the abortion fight was Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who said he would have allowed the pork producers’ suit against California to continue.

    Future state laws of this kind might not be confined to the pork industry,” Kavanaugh warned, before quoting from an amicus brief submitted by 26 conservative-leaning states. “What if a state law prohibits ‘the retail sale of goods from producers that do not pay for employees’ birth control or abortions’ (or alternatively, that do pay for employees’ birth control or abortions)?’”

    Kavanaugh, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said the country was sliding down a slippery slope that could effectively end the notion of the United States as a unified market.

    “California’s law thus may foreshadow a new era where States shutter their markets to goods produced in a way that offends their moral or policy preferences — and in doing so, effectively force other States to regulate in accordance with those idiosyncratic state demands. That is not the Constitution the Framers adopted in Philadelphia in 1787,” Kavanaugh declared in his solo opinion.

    What we need is an economy in which states can erect barriers to trade and engage in protectionism against other states.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m not crying that California voters decided to deprive themselves of bacon. This was an initiative, not legislation.

      • Grumbletarian

        The suppliers have to have the gumption to say “We don’t need to sell our products in CA anyway.”

      • juris imprudent

        Honestly – how is CA can check for compliance? With retailers? Wholesalers? When a shipment crosses the stateline? They sure as hell can’t go out and inspect hog farms in NC.

      • Gustave Lytton

        They sure as hell can’t go out and inspect hog farms in NC.

        Well…

      • juris imprudent

        Tell me how well that goes over with NC bureaucrats.

      • Grumbletarian

        Good question. Can some inspector from CA go onto a NC farmer’s land to inspect over the farmer’s objections?

      • juris imprudent

        Absolutely zero legal authority the minute he crosses over the CA state line.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This is the key. The farmers have to be willing to forego sales and force CA to reverse course, and CA need to be ready to pay a shit ton of money for what little pork there will be.

    • Rebel Scum

      I think that was addressed in a document written by white slave owners a couple hundred years ago.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Upside down world is in full effect.

  30. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Ray Charles’s seeing eye dog

    Brutal! But funny.

    Funny like CA trying to fix their finances. Gavin knows he only has to kick the can down the road a little farther – he has bigger economies to crater!

    Have fun at the show – very fetching and talented young lady!

  31. DEG

    but I should still point out a guy whose motto was, “At your cervix!”

    Not the guy I thought it would be.

    Diona Patterson, Barbara Mapps and Shawanda Rogers, whose loved ones were killed in the shooting, and survivor Latisha Rogers filed the lawsuit in New York Supreme Court in Erie County on Friday against social media companies like Meta, Facebook’s parent company; Snap, Inc., which runs Snapchat; Discord; Amazon, which owns Twitch; and Reddit.

    The lawsuit also names Google, the dark web messaging site 4chan, the body armor company RMA Armament, the firearm company Vintage Firearms and the shooter’s parents.

    Let’s throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.

    At the village board meeting on Monday, Trustee Mike Roeske, liaison to the planning board, told his fellows that the Wellsville Planning Board has indicated that it will suggest the village adopt the law initiated in the village of Cuba.

    Seems apropos to take this law from Cuba.

    Old Guy Music is good.

    • Raven Nation

      “Let’s throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.”

      I assume they’re hoping for some kind of settlement.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Let’s throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.

    See who pays us to go away.

  33. CPRM

    pulled pork I smoked last night keeping warm in the slow cooker, brats and hot dogs par boiled with beer and onions. Time to start a fire and get to barbequing.

      • CPRM

        Yep

    • cyto

      Weird.

      Matt Welch just did a hit piece on Tucker saying his Twitter announcement was “lies”.

      • cyto

        Also, when challenged on Twitter he pulled out a reason article about masks as proof that Reason was never muzzled. (And by extension nobody in the media was muzzled)

        Maybe this is why there is such antipathy for Tucker?

      • Tundra

        What a dumbshit. This blows over on a few days and Reason can go back to giving blowjobs for cash.

    • cyto

      From this article I learned about the Atlas Network.

      Perusing their homepage, they are raising money for the defense of Ukraine.

      I don’t know anything about them. Does everyone else use these guys as a libertarian source?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Very good article. Fuck Cosmotarians.

      We’ve just lived through the most Liberty crushing times since WW2, and probably the Civil War if we want to be really honest about it. And “leading” libertarians say quietly by, or even praised it. I don’t know if libertarians would have had any appreciable effect, I suspect not, but knowing that we weren’t alone in a world that suddenly turned very hostile towards every form of liberty would have been a great comfort. Instead, we had reason, and most other libertarians, carrying establishment water.

  34. The Bearded Hobbit

    but I should still point out a guy whose motto was, “At your cervix!”

    Rocky Rococo?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Today in sanctimonious posturing

    Officials in Missouri’s largest city approved a resolution Thursday to declare it a sanctuary for people seeking or providing gender-affirming care, defying state lawmakers who voted a day earlier to ban such care for minors and restrict it for some adults.

    Democratic Mayor Quinton Lucas praised the 12 to 1 vote, saying the city is committed to being a “welcoming, inclusive, and safe place for everyone, including our transgender and LGBTQ+ community.”

    Kansas City’s new, sanctuary status sets it apart as a Democratic-leaning city in a state with a Republican governor and GOP-controlled Legislature. Similar actions have been taken in cities that oppose state actions to restrict rights for transgender people, as in Austin, Texas.

    That’ll teach them rednecks a thing or two.

    • cyto

      I’m not sure how that status will help you in state court if you castrate a 12 year old to affirm his gender identity.

    • The Other Kevin

      Sanctuary cities for illegals are working out great so why not?

      • cyto

        I don’t think we can ship all our transgender folk to one city.

        Although…

        The fake “I am fleeing florida” post has become very popular of late.

        Dwayne Wade did it, even though he doesn’t live here. Some nasa engineer left for another job and proclaimed it was because she (?) Is trans.

        Yet somehow the state is growing so fast we cannot build new homes fast enough.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        So Miami Beach has been depopulated?

      • cyto

        There are also Videos circulating of empty construction sites, claiming that nobody is available to do construction because of “transporting illegals” law that had not yet gone into effect.

        Highly doubtful, construction is everywhere around here, and little interruption.

        Also… claims to be Mexican workers on a lot of them. Mexican labor is not big around South Florida, at least. There is (new) white a bit of Central America and South america…. but immigrants here are Haitian, Dominican, Brazilian, Argentinian, Venezuelan. … in addition to the Cubans.

        It might be changing with the last 2 years, but I haven’t seen it locally

    • Rebel Scum

      restrict rights for transgender people

      That wording…

      Was watching a movie called “A Man Called Otto” the other day. It was ok until the lead character became a hero/savior for a whiny, bitch trans teen. I don’t know why this shit has infected everything. Trans is not real. You cannot change your gender. You can only mutilate yourself and fuck up your hormones. These people need to be stopped and especially be kept away from children. This whole identity movement needs to go away.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Good question. Can some inspector from CA go onto a NC farmer’s land to inspect over the farmer’s objections?

    Remember when Bloomberg sent “investigators” to out of state gun shows trying to entrap sellers?

    • cyto

      If the US can arrest foreign nationals operating in foreign countries (Kim Dotcom?) I’d say all bets are off.