Saturday Morning Links- Watersports Edition

by | Jun 3, 2023 | Daily Links | 182 comments

An odd commonality I’m seeing in various NPR Ladies is a fetish for kayaking. I wanted to attribute this to Eskimo cosplay, but none of them wear mukluks or practice the wife-sharing customs. Anyway, I feel less bad about mocking their world views now that they’ve had the opportunity to mock my boating skills- apparently, the sight of a fat elderly Jew trying to get himself in and out of a kayak is vastly amusing to Women of Government Radio, especially when aforesaid Jew does a Biden-plant into the lake.

Let me move onto happier things : Birthdays today include a true rock star; a guy whose partition is applicated; a guy whose fodder is yanda; a guy whose work was a howling success and couldn’t be beat; the bestest CIA assassin ever; a writer whose best work wasn’t literary; a baseball legend for a very odd reason; the Ironside of soul singers; arguably the hottest female rocker; and someone who absolutely, positively is a doctor. 

And Doctor’s orders include Links b.i.d.

 

 “We are VERY unhappy about having marginally less control over your life. It forces us to lie and to invoke the Boogieman.”

 

Local news. VERY local. If it helps, Kaiser takes a dump in front of the Confucius Institute every morning when we walk to the cafe for breakfast.

 

Stick with old doctors.

 

So, leaving pamphlets and stickers gets you 10-20 years? How can that possibly be constitutional?

 

“So, get prepared to send us more money and more toys.”

 

I’m not saying it’s the Jews, but…. it’s the Jews.

 

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it turns out that the ink is carcinogenic? 

 

I admit that I’m not much of a fan of soul, R&B, Motown, whatever. But there are a few songs in that genre that get me nodding and enjoying. This is one from a Birthday Boy that always delights the Old Man.

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182 Comments

  1. Sean

    “True rock star”
    “Hottest female rocker”

    #fakenews

  2. TARDis

    10 counts of 1st-degree Aggravated Harassment

    “Show me where the pamphlets touched you.”

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Why plead guilty if they’re just going to nail your ass to the wall anyway? Must’ve had terrible lawyers.

      • TARDis

        Good question. His lawyers must be proggies. Or he didn’t have enough money.

      • DrOtto

        They probably didn’t hire the best (((representation))) due to ideological differences.

    • DrOtto

      I like the part in the link where it gives the name of the group and then says they’re the only 3 members of the group.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        3? So are there one or two Feds in this group?

      • juris imprudent

        One guy charged? Two Feds. That’s three.

  3. LCDR_Fish

    Nice links OMwC – the China Show (formerly ADV China) has been doing a lot of good ongoing coverage on China – as is their wont. Always a good watch on YouTube (or listen). Good to have folks who know their material and the source language/background.

    • R.J.

      I forgot about them. Thanks for the reminder.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I haven’t watched those guys in a while. They aren’t still living in China are they? The climate for too much criticism seems unfriendly there, especially for foreigners.

      • LCDR_Fish

        They “escaped” from China in 2018 or 2019 – a little before the coof. They lived in CA for a while and moved back to C-Milks family area in rural PA. From their vids after leaving it sounds like they were pretty close to getting picked up right before they left. As a result of not broadcasting from behind the great firewall, they’ve been able to pit out a lot of footage and info they couldn’t share before.

  4. Fourscore

    As an ex-smoker I was never worried about the labels on the cigarette packs. As a cheap.., oops thrifty, guy I was more concerned about the price.

    “I’m not paying a quarter a pack just to ruin my health”.

    Canada’s medical health programs have time to dream up nonsense since they do their best to avoid seeing patients.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      That last line. THIS.

    • DrOtto

      This job would be great if it wasn’t for the customers.

  5. Ted S.

    a true rock star;

    He was quite enjoyable in Walk, Don’t Run and died much too young.

  6. Ted S.

    arguably the hottest female rocker;

    You stumbled into this one, didn’t you?

    • Gender Traitor

      That which was done by you was seen by me.

  7. Ted S.

    Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it turns out that the ink is carcinogenic?

    Good luck fitting the Prop 65 warnings on them.

    • Rat on a train

      Isn’t that on everything in CA?

      • Chafed

        Yes

  8. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Stick with old doctors.”
    What, you don’t approve of learning on the fly for the medical professions?

  9. Brawndo

    Just an FYI Old Man, “watersports” has a very different meaning these days. But if you’re dating solely NPR ladies, it might be fine.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s a dual meaning. Waterskiing and the like if you’re a normal person and the other stuff if you’re a sick fuck.

      • TARDis

        Sick stuff for mentally sick people. It’s what they deserve.

    • Old Man With Candy

      The double entendre is intentional.

      • The Gunslinger

        Do you know who else allegedly enjoyed watersports?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Marco Polo?

      • Brawndo

        Hitler right? Oh, orange Hitler

      • DrOtto

        Ted Kennedy?

  10. R.J.

    “If it helps, Kaiser takes a dump in front of the Confucius Institute every morning when we walk to the cafe for breakfast.”

    Yes it does.

  11. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    The Steuben County District Attorney’s Office announced that Ryan Mulhollen, 28, was convicted on 10 counts of 1st-degree Aggravated Harassment and nine counts of 4th-degree Criminal Mischief as a Hate Crime. All the charges are class-E felonies.

    Is it the law or is it a game of D&D? He obviously failed his roll to save.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The right rules the meme world but they’re going to nominate Trump and lose to a senescent asshole. Go figure…

      • Homple

        Might as well have Trump lose, some Republican will. The Democrats have not forgotten how to rig an election.

      • Rebel Scum

        Exactly. Define “lose.”

      • Homple

        Yup.

    • R.J.

      “Immanuel Kant
      But at least Immanuel tried”

  12. juris imprudent

    I do recall a Hollywood type being involved in the production of the J6 hearings.

    In at least two instances identified by Just the News, the panel’s sizzle reel that aired live and on C-SPAN last June failed to identify that it had overdubbed audio from another, unidentified source onto the silent footage. Multiple current and former Capitol Police officials as well as key lawmakers and congressional aides confirmed that the closed-circuit cameras that captured the video do not record sound and that it was added afterwards.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      All propaganda, all the time

    • Count Potato

      Just like they edit 911 calls.

    • DrOtto

      No Wilhelm Scream? I has a disappoint.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    A Hornell man is now the third person guilty in connection to a string of hateful symbols and pamphlets that appeared in local houses of worship and on City property last summer.

    The Steuben County District Attorney’s Office announced that Ryan Mulhollen, 28, was convicted on 10 counts of 1st-degree Aggravated Harassment and nine counts of 4th-degree Criminal Mischief as a Hate Crime. All the charges are class-E felonies.

    Conjuring evil spirits. Don’t they do burning at the stake anymore?

  14. Penguin

    I only heard of Suzi Q through Brit rock magazines I bought as a teen. She was cute back in the day.

    I liked the rock star pun, especially since I came close to minoring in Geology as a student.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “Hornell proved infertile ground for racial extremists,” the DA’s release said.

    I’m not so certain about that.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He has and he has been. All the stuff with the shots and his base being very much opposed to them and he hasn’t learned a damn thing and would do it again if a similar situation arose. What’s worse, his base hasn’t learned a damn thing either.

    • Q Continuum

      He’s pretty much the only person in the Pachyderm field that would lose to Biden, so that means of course he’ll get the nomination.

    • Brawndo

      Shooting from the hip as always.

      • juris imprudent

        And hitting his feet really. But he’ll ignore that and so will his devoted following.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s worse than ignoring it, they tie themselves into pretzels making excuses for it on everything from the jab to not pardoning Assange. Not that it’s unique to the right but it’s a cult.

      • Q Continuum

        They’re the mirror image to the wokester greens. The primary difference being that the wokists have captured the information dissemination architecture, justice system and much of Wall Street so they exert massively disproportionate power to fuck up our lives.

      • juris imprudent

        Dammit, I can fuck up my life on my own – I don’t need anyone’s help.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Well that’s dumb

    • Rebel Scum

      Speaking of blind spots… His ego keeps getting in his way.

  16. Q Continuum

    “So, leaving pamphlets and stickers gets you 10-20 years? How can that possibly be constitutional?”

    Skokie branch of the ACLU unavailable for comment.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Principles are for old people and suckers apparently.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Academic navel gazing. How riveting.

  18. juris imprudent

    This was a fun read.

    Despite often being obscured by doom and gloom in the media, and risks of potential future hardships, the most important trends in human well-being still tell a story of progress.

    • Brawndo

      Life expectancy is up, literacy is up, “climate related deaths” are down. I’m willing to cede that life in third world and developing countries is getting better, but from where I’m standing, I see that we may have cooler stuff and more convenience than our parents, we’ve also suffered family, cultural, economic, and moral degradation, a lot of it seeming to be by design.

      • juris imprudent

        True, they aren’t accounting for our own cultural degeneracy. But who’s to blame for that? We are.

      • Brawndo

        Voting won’t fix it. It seems clear to me that humans are programmed to put up with a lot of bullshit when we’re comfortable.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Back on the straight and narrow

    When debt ceiling negotiations reached a fever pitch, President Biden made a crucial mistake. To steal a word coined by former President George W. Bush, he severely misunderestimated the strategic prowess of Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Calif.).

    In doing so, Biden inadvertently paved the way for McCarthy and the Republican Congress to achieve remarkable conservative victories that will have a lasting impact on the nation.

    House Republicans’ shrewd maneuvering resulted in the largest reduction in spending in history — a rollback of nondefense spending to fiscal 2022 levels, the implementation of work requirements for government benefit programs and the successful clawback of billions in unspent funds from COVID-19 programs.

    These accomplishments became possible even though Biden and his administration had maintained for months that they would never negotiate on the debt ceiling.

    ——-

    McCarthy just orchestrated the largest spending reduction in U.S. history, including substantial cuts across various sectors of government expenditure. This feat not only demonstrates Republican commitment to fiscal responsibility but also highlights his ability to galvanize support and achieve tangible results.

    If you say so.

    • juris imprudent

      Cuts? This guy better not be allowed around anything sharp lest they really hurt himself.

      Matt Mowers is the former senior White House adviser in the U.S. Department of State under former President Trump.

      Hahahaha, support for the stable genius. And part of the admin that signed off on spiking spending by almost $2T. No wonder we’re fucked.

    • Q Continuum

      Fiscal 2022 levels?!? I mean, that’s not just cut to the bone, it’s practically amputated! Grandma won’t just be rolled off a cliff; she’ll be doused in kerosene, set on fire and dragged behind a truck for miles before she’s strapped to a rocket and launched into the Grand Canyon!

      • Rebel Scum

        If fedgov doesn’t spend 50% more than it takes in indefinitely we will all die. It is known.

    • Rebel Scum

      There was no rollback. A rollback would be to mid 1990s spending.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Finally, the success in clawing back billions of unspent funds from COVID programs highlights a commitment to fiscal accountability. McCarthy recognized the need to scrutinize the distribution and utilization of COVID funds and fought to reclaim unspent dollars. This action not only safeguards taxpayer money, but also ensures that these resources are allocated efficiently and effectively to address the ongoing challenges of the pandemic.

    God bless America.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Local governments: Quick spend all the remaining money on stupid stuff. Preferably using contractors connected to our useless family members.

    • Brawndo

      Reclaimed all that money just in time to send Ukraine a bunch of toys that our own citizens aren’t legally allowed to own.

    • Rebel Scum

      Now there is more cash to send to Ukraine to save democracy.

  21. Rufus the Monocled

    I’ve never been more embarrassed, ashamed and disgusted with Canada.

    What a fucking retarded place this is.

    And it appears to be filled with treasonous and treacherous gutless cockwombles in Parliament.

    • juris imprudent

      Rufus, you sure do talk purty.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I hope you read me in Earl Camembert’s voice.

    • Sean

      *Points to my state senator – Fetterlump*

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Ok. That’s bad. Lol.

        America. is surely giving us a run for our money.

      • TARDis

        Well I have Pajama Boy and Wife-Beater. So I win lose.

    • Q Continuum

      Any particular new reason or just general disgust with the continued decline of Western society?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        There are particular reasons. But that would be too long to get into here. Let’s just say the current government’s behaviour is shocking and appalling. It’s scandal after scandal after scandal. Worse, they react like sophomoric asshats to serious allegations like China threatening our politicians and doing nothing about it. That’s just scratching the surface. Never mind the sickening behaviour fit for a banana republic. Except Canada isn’t even a republic. It’s a colony.

        And yes, the general and persistent decline of the West included.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s what you get for being saddled up to the U.S. You never really have to, as a country, really define/defend your interests – because the U.S. keeps you on a short leash. Hell, WE aren’t a serious country, how can Canada be one?

      • rhywun

        Yeah, his description is exactly the same as what is happening in the US.

      • Rebel Scum

        I would say that you guys should have allowed the success of the US invasion in the War of 1812, but at this point it would not have made a difference.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He beheads them? Seems highly illegal.

  22. Gustave Lytton

    Displaying a noose here is now a crime, even though hanging people, particularly politicians, is a longtime tradition and form of expression/protest. Meanwhile, the state court’s expansive interpretation of right to expression under the state constitution protects stripping.

    • Gender Traitor

      So that great old time-filling classroom game is officially forbidden. Substitute teachers hardest hit.

      • Count Potato

        And bored unix administrators.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Hahahaha, support for the stable genius. And part of the admin that signed off on spiking spending by almost $2T. No wonder we’re fucked.

    Maybe he’s planting the seeds of a “Draft McCarthy” movement. Why the fuck not?

  24. Rufus the Monocled

    Re doctors skipping classes.

    That can’t be good for their bedside manners, eh?

    Speaking of Tardada (my mane for Canada), they’re about to go to war with alternative medicine demanding they provide ‘evidence for their advice to patients. Or something like that. Unlike, you know, health authorities needing to prove mRNA shots actually work through empirical evidence. And not shitty mathematical models. ‘The VAcKSheEENs saved eleventy million lives!”

    It’s all so stupid. We live in a stupid age led by really stupid people.

      • Count Potato

        These people were smart enough to get into med school.

      • rhywun

        Not necessarily.

      • Homple

        “Smart enough to get into med school” ain’t what it used to be.

      • Rebel Scum

        and to fight “White supremacy, colonialism [and] the gender binary.”

        You probably don’t want service from doctors that hate you for your lack of melanin and don’t understand basic human biology.

    • Rebel Scum

      Stupid or malevolent?

    • slumbrew

      “How do you know she’s a witch?”

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        She look’s like one.

      • Ted S.

        She abuses apostrophes.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Well what do you expect? She turned me into a newt.

    • R.J.

      *Adjusts tie
      “Hey baby, come here often?”

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Let’s face it. There are a lot of people in New York who miss Cuomo.

    • slumbrew

      That was definitely a “How could it be worse?” / “ Hold my beer” situation with the new governor.

      • Brawndo

        Always has been.

    • rhywun

      Mario, maybe.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      SF’s laptop was a gift from the Eldritich gods. It’s a different type of horror but one the hell forged instrument itself is immune to.

    • Pine_Tree

      Yeah, but Clippy’s annoying enough that I can’t feel sorry for him.

  26. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Local news. VERY local.

    Yikes! Not your department, I hope?

    “So, get prepared to send us more money and more toys.”

    Luckily, the Repubs went to bat for us taxpayers and removed any chance of restraint. Thanks, guys! WWIII is gonna be lit!

    More Curtis:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xatZALKiI8A

    • Old Man With Candy

      In a sense, very much my department. It’s complicated, but let’s say that I know all the players on a day-in-day-out basis.

  27. JG43

    Well crap. I just busted my Wordle streak of 259.

    Now I have to get back to work and finish putting the brakes on the wife’s car.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Rasputin Recovery

    Like Rasputin, the Biden economy refuses to die even as the Federal Reserve, Congress, and the nation’s bank executives try to club it to death. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, or BLS, reported Friday morning that 339,000 jobs were created in May. That’s pretty much in line with the average over the previous 12 months (341,000).

    Lick that asshole, New Republic. Lick it.

    • R C Dean

      Does anyone at all really believe @4MM new jobs have been created in the last year?

      Why is anyone looking at the initial headline numbers, and not the revised ones? I’d rather be a fluffer for a Tijuana donkey show than the Biden administration, but you do you, NR.

      • Tundra

        Yes, plenty of people do. The number of people in this country who know that the BLS revises those fucking numbers down probably wouldn’t crack 1% of the population.

  29. juris imprudent

    Holy crap, Man City scores in the first minute. Also fuck ESPN.

    • rhywun

      What’d they do now, besides move the great majority of their soccer content to pay-more streams?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Cracks in the wall

    YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy put in place in the contentious weeks following the 2020 vote.

    The Google-owned video platform said in a blog post that it has taken down “tens of thousands” of videos questioning the integrity of past U.S. presidential elections since it created the policy in December 2020.

    But two and a half years later, the company said it “will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past U.S. Presidential elections” because things have changed. It said the decision was “carefully deliberated.”

    “In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm,” YouTube said.

    No kidding.

    • R C Dean

      “YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen”

      Of course, this policy change doesn’t apply to videos accurately claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen, so . . . .

    • slumbrew

      So you could even say there were errors or glitches?

      “It was a perfect election“ was the only acceptable story?

      Definitely not the sort of thing you see in a banana republic.

      • slumbrew

        “Only” not “even”

      • slumbrew

        JFC. Need some coffee:

        “You could not even say they were any errors or glitches”

    • The Last American Hero

      Thank you Elon. When YT starts losing clicks because the interesting stuff is happening at Twitter, it forces change.

    • KSuellington

      2020 was a perfect election, 2016 on the other hand was stolen.

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, did YouTube ever censor Russian collusion stories?

        Didn’t think so.

    • Rebel Scum

      Taxpayer property should not be adorned with political issues.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And police vehicles should be distinct, and visible, and uniform. Same with their actual uniforms.

      • Rebel Scum

        Yup. And undercover police vehicles should not be a thing either.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    The platform will continue to ban videos misleading voters about when, where, and how to vote, claims that discourage voting, and “content that encourages others to interfere with democratic processes.”

    Claims that discourage voting by Democrats, anyway.

  32. Rebel Scum

    While many Minnesotans may be ready to celebrate, many questions are still unanswered. Olmsted County Sheriff Kevin Torgerson said law enforcement won’t be ready for cannabis to legally hit the streets by August 1.

    “Over these next few years until there are legal dispensaries available, everybody that’s selling it that’s not a dispensary is considered illegal under the new law, do we charge that, do we turn a blind eye to it what’s the direction of the legal folks,” Torgerson said.

    Marijuana is a major blind spot for conservative types. Hopefully this can be weeded out in the future.

    • Tundra

      To be blunt, I don’t see it happening.

    • rhywun

      If NYC is any indication, they will have illegal “dispensaries” on every corner, the police will turn a blind eye to it, and you won’t be able to walk five minutes without getting a contact high from all the teenagers hanging around smoking.

  33. Count Potato

    “A Florida mother was busy shoplifting inside of a department store when her car suddenly burst into flames with her two children trapped inside, according to police.

    Alicia Moore, 24, parked her car outside the Dillard’s department store at the Oviedo Mall on May 26 with her two young kids inside who “could not care for themselves” according to a police report obtained by Fox Orlando.

    The Orlando native then went inside the store with a man, who has not been identified, and allegedly began stealing from the store, according to police…

    Moore was arrested on May 31 and charged with aggravated child neglect and arson as well as petty theft and battery charges. She is being held in Seminole County Jail on a $48,000 bond, jail records show.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/06/02/florida-woman-was-shoplifting-when-car-with-2-children-inside-burst-into-flames-cops/

    This is some top notch parenting.

    • The Gunslinger

      “The mother dropped all of the allegedly stolen items in the store and ran towards the vehicle, cops said.”

      If the items are still in the store are they really stolen?

      • R C Dean

        In fact, they can be, although it depends on the intent of the “shopper”. Merely picking something up with the intent to steal it counts as theft, technically, even if you don’’t keep it or remove it from the owner’s property.

  34. Rebel Scum

    Medical students aren’t showing up to class.

    Leftist political activism really cuts into the day.

    Stick with old doctors.

    But they might prescribe you horse paste.

  35. Rebel Scum

    So, leaving pamphlets and stickers gets you 10-20 years? How can that possibly be constitutional?

    How quaint.

  36. Rebel Scum

    Ukraine is ready to launch its long-awaited counteroffensive to recapture Russian-occupied territory, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview published on Saturday.

    The suspense is killing me.

    “So, get prepared to send us more money and more toys.”

    Russia needs to end it before our idiots in charge lead us into a nuclear holocaust.

  37. Count Potato

    “Ex-Anheuser-Busch exec reveals how lefty investment firms pressure companies to go woke

    He said BlackRock, Vanguard, and another firm, State Street, manage about $20 trillion in capital and use their clout to promote agenda politics being pushed on them by progressive lawmakers overseeing government pension funds that the companies profit from….”

    https://nypost.com/2023/06/03/lefty-investment-firms-doom-corporate-usa-bud-light/

    I don’t think raising interest rates would be enough.

    • R C Dean

      Oh, I seriously don’t think it’s the government pension funds driving this.

  38. Rebel Scum

    At a historic NASA briefing on UFOs — “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP) in government parlance — a key Defense Department official made a striking disclosure. Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of a new UAP analysis office, stated that U.S. military personnel are observing “metallic orbs” “all over the world.”

    Since when?

    • slumbrew

      A few years now

  39. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    whats goody yo

    TALL CANS!

  40. Rebel Scum

    Individual cigarettes in Canada will soon carry health warnings

    So you want to put ink on the ciggie paper… I’d call you retarded but that would be an insult to retarded people.

  41. Mojeaux

    So for the past 15 years, I have had a radical feminist client, single, stereotypically angry, but not wealthy by any stretch. Listens to NPR religiously. She and I get along quite well, even though through the years, she has tried other vendors when I was otherwise occupied, and they’ve all inexplicably fired her. It was just that I actually put up with her finicky bullshit. I didn’t tell her I knew why they fired her. Also, we vehemently agree on one issue (color us TERFs), so there’s that.

    Anyway, she lives in the wilds of Canada. On a lake. Where she goes kayaking.

  42. Rebel Scum

    Straws were grasped.

    An Atlanta-area investigation of alleged election interference by President Donald Trump and his allies has broadened to include activities in D.C. and several states, according to two people with knowledge of the probe — a fresh sign that prosecutors may be building a sprawling case under Georgia’s racketeering laws.

    Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) launched an investigation more than two years ago to examine efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his narrow 2020 defeat in Georgia. Along the way, she has signaled publicly that she may use Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute to allege that these efforts amounted to a far-reaching criminal scheme.

    In recent days, Willis has sought information related to the Trump campaign hiring two firms to find voter fraud across the United States and then burying their findings when they did not find it, allegations that reach beyond Georgia’s borders, said the two individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about the investigation. At least one of the firms has been subpoenaed by Fulton County investigators.

    I wonder how many other bullshit charges they will trump up.

    • rhywun

      The walls are closing in.

  43. Rebel Scum

    Land of the something something and home of the something something.

    The man who conducted the choir that day tells The Daily Signal that the Capitol Police’s claim is an outright lie.

    “I was shocked, I was dismayed, I was stunned,” David Rasbach, the founder and director of the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir, told The Daily Signal of the incident, which took place on Friday, May 26. “I couldn’t believe that was happening, that they would stop the national anthem of all songs.”

    Rasbach spoke with The Daily Signal on Friday, June 2, describing the events of one week back. He said that he had secured permission from three congressional offices for the choir to sing in the Capitol. He said South Carolina Republican Reps. William Timmons and Joe Wilson had provided documents giving permission, as had the office of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

    Micah Rea, founder and principal of The Rea Group and organizer of the trip, told The Daily Signal that a Wilson staffer called McCarthy’s office, confirming that the choir had permission to sing. Nonetheless, the Capitol Police interrupted the performance.

    Only white-supremacists sing the national anthem. These kids are practically Hitler youth.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Stopped them before 4th verse which we all know is a call for violent insurrection in the name of God

  44. R.J.

    First leg of the Colorado trip has begun. Six people in the Mega Jeep, luggage on roof. I am swimming in my shorts after loading all that luggage on the roof.

    • Count Potato

      Bon voyage!

      I checked out that Cocaine Shark trailer and it looks really bad, and not in a good way.

    • slumbrew

      I am swimming in my shorts after loading all that luggage on the roof.

      Not really the mental image I needed right now.

      But safe travels!

    • Tundra

      Safe travels!

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Peek a boo

    A trio of rare wolverine sightings in California has been verified by scientists, marking just the second time in a century the animal has been spotted in the Golden State.

    All three sightings were reported by different people last month in various parts of the Eastern Sierra Mountains.

    One was seen in Yosemite National Park and two in the Inyo National Forest, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday.

    Wolverines are members of the weasel family which resemble small bears and are typically found in Alaska and Canada, with some smaller populations in the Rocky and Cascade mountain ranges.

    Maybe the same one. There was a story in the Bozeman paper several years ago about a wolverine with a radio collar who was tracked doing a ridiculously long loop through Montana, Idaho and Washington and back; nine hundred miles or some crazy thing. He wanted to see the country, I guess.

  46. The Late P Brooks

    “I was shocked, I was dismayed, I was stunned,” David Rasbach, the founder and director of the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir, told The Daily Signal of the incident, which took place on Friday, May 26. “I couldn’t believe that was happening, that they would stop the national anthem of all songs.”

    Temple of Democracy.

    Lock them all up and throw away the key.

  47. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    RV repair guy is next door dealing with my…special…neighbor, replacing her awning (euphemism?). She’s a piece of work, and it’s hotter than hell outside. I almost feel bad for him. Almost.

    He is all sweaty, though. 🤤

    • slumbrew

      I’m now picturing KK in a gender-swapped Cool Hand Luke carwash scene.

      “Taking them off here, boss!”

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Some organization tweeted the other day about being “proud” of having an abortion and how women should be able to have one for any reason.

      A reply brought up an interesting point – what if genetic testing showed the child would be gay or trans and the mother decided to abortion based on those tests? Would they still think women can have an abortion for any reason?

      • Rebel Scum

        Since you are not allowed to offend the delicate sensibilities of the alphabet groomers, no. They would call it genocide.

    • Tundra

      I had an 85. Wonderful car.

  48. creech

    OMWC: falls into lake. NPR Lady: “Oh, dear. Let’s get you out of those wet clothes.”

  49. Mojeaux

    Okie dokie. I’ve got the next 4 weeks of Friday night posts scheduled, wherein Trey encounters a (very welcome) shotgun.

    • Tundra

      Lovely.

      An engine oil leak is visible in photos shown in the gallery.

      Feature, not bug.

  50. Bob Boberson

    Saturday Morning OT Rant: The hell of selling on FB Marketplace.

    I’m trying to sell my wife’s commuter car; well below book value. My days are wasted by idiots who can’t be bothered to read the description. People who appear earnest who then disappear from sight. People who arrange test drives and don’t show up.

    Is knowing you are wasting someones eases time some weird fetish I’m unaware of?

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, we sold a couple of small things on FB Marketplace. It was not a good experience, although the actual sales themselves went fine (I would meet the buyer in a public parking lot for the exchange). Some obviously not serious time-wasters, and some bizarro attempted scams. Blech.

    • R C Dean

      Oh, and if you’ll take less than book, why not take it to a dealer or used car joint? Or even the big online outfits?

      • Bob Boberson

        Below private party value. I’m guessing a deal is going to offer about half of that. It’s older and high mileage so I’m doubting they will be interested in giving me much for it.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    An engine oil leak is visible in photos shown in the gallery.

    Authenticity confirmed.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    Is knowing you are wasting someones eases time some weird fetish I’m unaware of?

    I have encountered that in the past. Apparently there are people who like to while away their Saturdays by going out and pissing car sellers off.

    • Bob Boberson

      I can’t get anyone to even ‘go out’. I had several people tell me they wanted to come see it today and when I try to set up a time they go radio silent; it’s just bizarre.

      “It’s still for sale, are you still interested in seeing it today?”

      “Yes, definitely, sometime after work”

      “Ok, about when will that be?”

      ….