Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Jul 20, 2023 | Daily Links | 235 comments

This perky little tune is how I feel today.

 

PROJECT BLUE BOOK, THE SEQUEL: Senator Chuck Schumer (D, NY) has proposed legislation to create an independent nine-member agency to collect, review and declassify records of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), which is the governments new term for what used to be called UFOs. The headline and article make it sound like they think the government is about to reveal something big, but never discount the Democrats’ desire to distract the public from the shitshow of the Biden administration, and the ongoing effort for more bigger government.

HOW YOU ARE PROGRAMMED TO BE POOR: “In today’s society, many people unknowingly carry certain beliefs and habits that hinder their financial progress. From the educational system to cultural norms, a series of influences subtly steer people towards fiscal behaviors and decisions that often result in financial struggles rather than prosperity.”

WHAT DO THE FRENCH RIOTS MEAN? Mathieu Bock-Côté explains it all to you (and, deliciously, to a certain NY newspaper) over at at The American Conservative.

ACTIVIST ACTRESS ANGSTILY ASKS TO AXE GUNS FROM ACTION FILM: “…Because [in the original script], she finds guns, and there’s a gunfight and all that sort of stuff. So we changed it.” Why do I hear vocal fry in my head when I read that?

VENEZUELA JOINS COMMIE MOONBASE INITIATIVE: Venezuela has signed a memorandum of cooperation with China to participate in the International Lunar Research Station. Money quote: “Venezuela will make its satellite control ground station infrastructure available for lunar missions.” So, Venezuela will maybe get to send an astronaut to the base in exchange for the CCP getting a satellite dish farm in Venezuela.

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Tonio

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235 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Nice! I used to love that show.

    • rhywun

      UFO, if I am not mistaken? Want to see. It’s an earlier effort from the Space: 1999 team.

      • R C Dean

        I believe so, yes. It was on our UHF channel when I was a kid. Our fuzzy, fuzzy UHF channel. I never missed an ep. Black and white, so I didn’t know the chicks’ hair was purple until much later.

  2. Common Tater

    “Take us to your leader.”

    “OK, here’s Joe.”

    *spaceship leaves*

  3. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Maggie’s impulse to leave guns out of the movie in order to force more creative solutions is fine. The ridiculousness of her being opposed to guns after her multitude of gun movies is just dull.

    • Sean

      And it’s still looking to be violent…

    • Drake

      “The sister of the bride, Maggie Q’s Tess, is a hardened Iraqi war veteran and skilled combatant who’s not going down without a fight.”

      That’s a hard “no”. I’ve seen enough movies of 100 lb chicks beating up 200 lb dudes for this lifetime. I’ve also met my share of women Iraqi vets – none of whom could beat me up.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        You really shouldn’t be beating up all those female vets.

      • R.J.

        I just sit on them.

      • Drake

        More like watching them take 3 trips to carry their gear into the barracks. Same gear all the guys carried in a single trip.

      • Pope Jimbo

        none of whom could beat me up.

        But could they beat you off?

    • R C Dean

      That was my take. Saying “Hey, this movie would be better without guns” is one thing (and her reasoning is not terrible).

      Saying “Now that I’ve made my millions from movies with guns, we should get guns out of movies” is stupid.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      I think the story writing reason to leave out guns is a good one. The political reason is stupid.

    • DrOtto

      I’d like to see Keanu Reeves suggest this for John Wick 5.

      • Common Tater

        LOL

  4. Sensei

    From an early age, many of us are encouraged to prioritize subjects like math, science, and literature over financial literacy. This societal programming suggests that financial education isn’t as necessary or valuable as these traditional areas of study. As a result, many people enter adulthood without a firm grasp on crucial financial concepts like budgeting, investing, or understanding credit. This lack of financial knowledge makes it harder to make informed money decisions, leading many to avoidable financial difficulties. Understanding money – how to manage it, invest it, and grow it – is fundamental to achieving financial security and wealth.

    My degrees are in finance and I work in finance. I generally find explaining financial concepts to people that studied math and science easier than literature… That said there intentionally financially illiterate people with PhDs in every field under the sun.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      But I want it now and I heard a rumor

      *invests everything in leveraged triple short orange juice futures ETF*

      • Nephilium

        What’s this “credited investor” bullshit!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The problem isn’t prioritizing math, science and literature over financial literacy. It’s prioritizing victimization, DIE, and self-esteem over financial literacy.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        ^This, especially the math part.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        We all know financial literacy is not taught in schools for a reason, and it is not because they need more time for math and science.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Because no one who understands financial literacy would be caught dead teaching in high school?

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, there’s a point in there (“we should teach financial literacy”). It’s just about cancelled out by the gibberish.

    • juris imprudent

      You have no agency – you are only making decisions based on external influences. Oh fuck off.

    • Zwak , “There is infinite amount of hope in the universe… just not for us.”

      I had one semester of ECON in HS, and it was mostly Macro. And most of the “smart” kids did poorly in it. I thought it was the easyist class I took, certainly easier than Metalwork II.

  5. Common Tater

    “Schools educate people to become employees and teach them that higher education is the only path. Schools are selling their product of education. Degrees that only provide jobs for teaching the subject are not career paths; they are Ponzi schemes.”

    Well, that’s true for degrees in [whatever] studies.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      I’ve been down this road. Most school boards want nothing to do with pushing vocational work even though a motivated 18 year old can make $60k right out of high school.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Advocating For Job Security Over Entrepreneurship

        We don’t want these young trademen thinking they can start their own businesses.

    • rhywun

      Degrees that only provide jobs for teaching the subject are not career paths; they are Ponzi schemes.

      Yeah, that’s complete bullshit.

      Teaching is not a career? Fuck off.

      • Grumbletarian

        If the only thing you can do with your degree is get a job teaching others how to get the same degree, then your degree is a waste of paper.

      • Social Justice is Neither

        Victim studies beg to differ. The coursework only qualifies you to teach that mindrot to others, the HR and consulting are mutations of necessity.

  6. Nephilium

    Did they replace the guns with walkie-talkies in the movie?

    • R.J.

      With a water balloon fight.

      • Gender Traitor

        Not pillows?

      • R.J.

        Ooo! Pillow fight to the death.

      • kinnath

        With tee shirts

      • R.J.

        She’s 100 pounds. Needs to go eat some hamburgers first.

    • Common Tater

      I think going back and re-editing a movie after it was released is bullshit.

      • CPRM

        It depends on the reason. Unrated or Director’s cut are usually better than the theatrical release.

      • Common Tater

        That’s adding another version, not making the original unavailable.

  7. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Project Bluebook II: I’m going to go with they’re laying the groundwork for a canceled election due to a national security threat posed by “aliens.” Sure, it sounds nuts but why not, the American public will believe fucking anything.

    • Brochettaward

      It’s an alien invasion, and only Joe Biden can save us would be a pretty tough sell even to the Dems.

      I just had my bluest of blue Democratic mother and Aunt admit that the guy is feeble.

      • Sensei

        But still way better than any single Republican.

      • Brochettaward

        That’s a given. They would NEVER vote for bad orange man.

      • B.P.

        The choice is clear, really. A guy who sometimes stumbles over his words vs. someone who is going to liquidate entire classes of vulnerable/victims/whatevers.

    • Drake

      Not the first time I’ve heard that theory.

  8. Rebel Scum

    According to Schumer, “the sheer number and variety” of UFO-related claims “led some in Congress to believe that the [U.S. government] was concealing important information regarding UAPs over broad periods of time.” Moreover, as noted in the legislation, “credible evidence and testimony indicates that Federal Government [UFO] records exist that have not been declassified” as required by law.

    Nonsense. Government would never conceal information from the tax cattle citizens.

  9. The Other Kevin

    “HOW YOU ARE PROGRAMMED TO BE POOR”
    This was a good read. There is a set of business writers who concentrate on this (James Altucher, Tim Ferriss to name a few). It’s nice to have a little confirmation now that we’re opening a business. We’ve had some pushback from a few friends and relatives, and encouragement from others.

    • DrOtto

      My own dad pushed back when I told him I was quitting a good paying job in the mutual fund industry to be a mechanic with my own business. The mutual fund industry actually taught me how to run a business, and let me save enough to strike out on my own, so I was thankful for that opportunity, but I’m quite satisfied with my chosen field and it’s been rewarding both personally and financially.

      • Sensei

        Is it just you or do you have other mechanics too?

        I’m assuming you’ve got office help or you’d never have time to wrench.

  10. R.J.

    Commies on the moon has already been done.

    “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” discusses the end game.

    I’ve been told music links are important:

    youtube.com/watch?v=zLsckvMkg7c

    • R.J.

      Complete link fail.
      youtube.com/watch?v=zLsckvMkg7c

    • Nephilium

      Rocket Ship Galileo has Nazis on the moon, not Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

      • R.J.

        Acktually I said nothing of Nazis. I said Commies. So there!

      • Nephilium

        I’m just conflating National Socialists with International Socialists, it’s really just a matter of degree.

        Moon is a Harsh Mistress had them throwing rocks at commies though.

      • R.J.

        I’ll take that small victory.

    • PutridMeat

      Them’s crazy eyes…

      • R.J.

        Yeah. That new smoking jacket makes me look fat too. I need to post my old picture.

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s not the smoking jacket…?

  11. Rebel Scum

    WHAT DO THE FRENCH RIOTS MEAN?

    Just another day in France?

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Eau de Auto Flambe

      It’s the latest perfume craze

    • SDF-7

      Frankly, from the way it reads a slow rolling invasion. A flavor of reconquista, as it were.

  12. Pine_Tree

    LIterally never, ever heard of Maggie Q before this link.

    And on the France thing – every bit of the spirit of it is exactly transferrable to the US-ian situation.

    • kinnath

      I know of her. She’s been in many action shows.

    • Common Tater

      She was in one of the Die Hard sequels.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Timothy Olyphant’s psycho girlfriend in Live Free or Die Hard.

        Bruce Willis dropped an SUV on her.

      • DrOtto

        Could have been worse, she could have died of gun violence. An SUV is much more civil.

    • one true athena

      She was the lead on the NIKITA show, which was what I know her from mostly.

    • rhywun

      every bit of the spirit of it is exactly transferrable to the US-ian situation

      Pretty much. We’re not quite as far gone down the deep end here, thank goodness. I’m not sure the situation there is recoverable.

  13. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “Why do I hear vocal fry in my head when I read that?”

    I think she’s part Cambodian, so I hear my coworker’s horrible Cambodian accent.

    • Common Tater

      Half Vietnamese, half Polish-Irish.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Porishnamese

        I should have guessed

    • Common Tater

      That’s totally fucked.

    • CPRM

      Garnet tragically passed away on May 22, 2023, due to a bleeding stroke caused by lifelong diabetes.

      Shitty.

    • PutridMeat

      Sadly, the brainwashing worked too well on some people and they take pleasure in watching unvaccinated people die. Sorryantivaxxer.com has over 6,000 comments on the post about Garnet’s death. Disgusting, tragic and sad.

      Anyone who thinks things like the holocaust, holodomor, killing field, great leap forward, etc. “can’t happen here/now” needs to think long and hard about this.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        We were just smarter apes then and that’s what we are now, not much has changed I’m afraid.

      • Lord John Nerferder

        *flings poo at Stinky*

  14. Tundra

    Thanks, Tonio!

    Both for the perky song and the perky space minx!

    More space goodness.

  15. Shpip

    Venezuela becomes one of the first countries to join the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). The initiative is seen as a China-led, parallel project to the NASA-led Artemis Program.

    If Venezuela has done to their aerospace industry what they’ve done to their oil drilling / refining industry, I don’t think they’ll be providing a lot of technical expertise.

    Besides, my money’s on Musk to beat both China and Artemis to the moon.

  16. Drake

    Amateur in the lead after Day 1 of British Open.

    • Tundra

      Is his name Happy?

  17. Rebel Scum

    What?

    BIDEN, rambling: “We announced the first ever offshore wind sale in the Gulf of Mexico. We’re goin to the Gulf! You think I’m kidding? Heh. You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

    Oh, you want to build wind farms in the gulf so they can be destroyed by hurricanes.

    • Pine_Tree

      Well, yeah.

      The point is grifting. Some of it comes in the first round of making windmills, and every time a hurricane happens, you get to grift it again!

      • The Other Kevin

        The grift that keeps on grifting!

      • Bobarian LMD

        49% for the Big Guy!

    • R.J.

      Beaches full of fiberglass shards, film at 11.

      • Bobarian LMD

        There will be no film or reporting, Comrade.

    • Drake

      Like a sailing ship? Columbus and Cortes may have been there first.

      Or are they selling something like electricity? For a profit?

  18. CPRM

    “I mean, she’s definitely looking for a gun,” Q notes. “She’s trying to find her father’s weapons but it doesn’t happen for them. I said, ‘Let’s get a little more creative.’ If she finds her father’s guns, it’s game over. It’s not interesting.

    “The guys who are attacking them can’t use guns because they can’t make noise. I was trying to create something that was a little bit different and more creative in the way that they were meant to get out of their situation. Because [in the original script], she finds guns, and there’s a gunfight and all that sort of stuff. So we changed it.”

    In this instance it sounds like the correct choice.

    • kinnath

      The article made sense up to that point.

      Then they added that they don’t want to promote gun violence.

      • Bobarian LMD

        We’re here to promote domestic violence!

    • R C Dean

      Random connection:

      I was listening to Hardcore History about the Persian empire, and he made the point that it is extraordinarily difficult to kill someone with an edged weapon. It practically never happens since the introduction of guns. Even (modern) soldiers flinch at sticking a knife in someone’s gut. Guns with bayonets are generally used as clubs.

      So, while it’s plausible that a wine mom could shoot someone, it’s pretty much never gonna happen that she stabs him to death, much less beats him to death with a hammer or somesuch.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Have you ever tried to take away here wine?

      • Bobarian LMD

        her wine.

      • kinnath

        Medieval swords had a chisel edge down most of the blade and sharp edge at the tip. You broke their bones with a sword to disable them and them finished them with the point of the sword. {note there are exception and exception to exceptions and so on}

        With an axe, you could cleave someone in half. The dead guy was still dead, but the next guy over shits his pants.

      • Tundra

        Seems to be all the rage in England.

      • DrOtto

        Besides, women like drowning things.

  19. Brochettaward

    I’m past the point where I need the government to disclose anything on UFO’s. There is something there. Aliens or something stranger? Don’t know. But there is weird, unexplainable shit in the skies and it isn’t us (as in the US or a foreign power).

    • R.J.

      Aliens could be here, stranded and participating in this shitty planet’s economy and nobody would ever know it.

      • Ted S.

        They work at Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems?

      • Sensei

        Where ever you go, there you are. Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Yes on one, no on two.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Reminds me of the Coneheads

    • Sensei

      Given how long it took to scramble unarmed fighters over NYC during 9/11 I assume they are from other countries as we can’t police the sky despite claims otherwise.

      I’m expecting to see a Tu-95 over Manhattan any day now.

      • B.P.

        Hell, the Chinese are strapping surveillance equipment to 18th century aerial technology and sending it our way, and we’re using sidewinder missiles to shoot them down.

  20. CPRM

    First Blood wouldn’t be nearly as good if Rambo had the M60 from the start.

    • Drake

      It would suck if he never had it.

  21. Shpip

    Reading this morning’s links about Jason Aldean’s “controversial” song, I could only think back to when the nearby town of Williston (pop. 2800) decided to have their very own BLM march / protest / party. Everything was entirely peaceful.

    You’ll never guess what happened next.

    • Pine_Tree

      I missed this morning (work or something), and so I’m taking your comment as license to make the snarky remark that’s been bouncing around the internet for a day or so – really ticked off that the protests are putting me in the position of siding with Jason Aldean.

      So far every time that song’s come on, I’ve changed the station – he’s from Macon danggit, not a “small town” and I despise his fake-hick pretense. Never heard the whole thing through. Now I reckon I’ll have to.

      • R.J.

        Its on YouTube. Not a fantastic effort, certainly not controversial. I am in your boat. Don’t make me side with a mediocrity who makes music I wouldn’t normally want to listen to.

      • Tundra

        Fuck him. He’s a “guns are too easy to get” fuckface.

      • Pine_Tree

        OK it came on on my drive home, so now I can say I’ve heard it. OK song – better than most of his stuff. And it pisses off the right people.

  22. Rebel Scum

    Someone doesn’t want to be Clintoncided.

    JUST NOW: Hillary Clinton’s Best Friend Anthony Weiner has UNHINGED Meltdown after being asked about the Clinton Body Count

    Reminder that this guy went to JAIL for sexting a 15-year-old:

    I didn’t know this dick was still doing public engagement.

    • Brochettaward

      In a non-clown world, he’d have dug into a hole to never be seen again. But because he’s connected and was a media darling, he’s still got some juice.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Yeah, he had Clinton’s emails in a folder named “life insurance” for no reason at all.

      We totally believe that.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Surprised to see him go on PBD’s podcast. Maybe I’ll listen tonight while mowing.

    • The Other Kevin

      Are you kidding? A guy like that with no morals and no shame is indispensable.

    • Aloysious

      Way to go, Carlos Danger. Remind everybody what a stoopid Weiner you are.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    But there was one seismic rewrite the 44-year-old actress requested: “No guns,” she tells us in a new interview.

    All she really needs is a pointed stick.

    • rhywun

      No idea who that is, but I can’t take that made-up name seriously.

    • Rebel Scum

      I have a stick for her.

  24. Common Tater

    “Why did it take three YEARS to halt funding to Wuhan? Trump said he’d seen evidence COVID leaked from lab in April 2020 and FBI thinks a research accident is ‘likely’ – yet taxpayer dollars were STILL being sent until this week”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12315685/Why-did-three-YEARS-halt-funding-Wuhan-Trump-said-hed-seen-evidence-Covid-leaked-lab-2020-FBI-thinks-research-accident-likely-taxpayer-dollars-funneled-Chinese-lab-WEEK.html

    Your tax dollars at work.

    • Brochettaward

      Everything with that lab and Fauci’s cover-up is enough to make a sane person wonder if they didn’t leak that shit intentionally.

      • The Other Kevin

        I noticed at the beginning of the pandemic the public health experts (Fauci especially) seemed practically giddy. This was finally their chance to try out all the things they’d been theorizing about for years. And they get to be seen as heroes, and be all over TV. So yeah, I wonder too.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        They are scumbags, but I doubt they are scumbags at that level. For now.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        You have to reduce Social Security and housing costs somehow. A disease that mostly affects the old and sick fits the bill.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      The continued funding was to keep the lab quiet for as long as possible.

  25. Common Tater

    “RELEASED: Bombshell FBI document detailing alleged $10M Biden bribery scheme: Burisma CEO said Hunter was ‘stupid’ but necessary to keep on board because ‘his dad’ could ‘protect’ them from ‘problems'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12320527/RELEASED-FBI-document-detailing-alleged-10M-Biden-bribery-scheme-publicized-Republicans-Burisma-CEO-Zlochevsky-called-Hunter-stupid-necessary-board-dad-Vice-President-Joe-Biden-protect-problems.html

    Trump would have been impeached seven times already.

    • The Other Kevin

      With all these bombshells dropping you’d think one might have exploded by now.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        When it comes, it will come fast.

      • Rebel Scum

        That’s what she said.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “As the actress said to the bishop.”

      • The Gunslinger

        Hate to have to break it to you, but nothing is going to happen to any of the Bidens.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Joe Biden makes Teflon look like seasoned cast iron. He needs a good bit of help but nothing will stick.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      All of this is not about the Bidens. It’s about the agencies that have protected them in order to implement their own agenda.

      If the Bidens go down, everyone who covered this shit up has to go too. And in DC, where everyone is a psychopath, once it starts crumbling, they’ll all rat on each other.

      • The Other Kevin

        I stand by this: There have to be people in those agencies, and in the press, who feel humiliated that they’re selling their soul to cover for these POS’s getting rich and living lavish lifestyles.

      • juris imprudent

        Exactly – the first report from that source was in 2018, long before anyone planned for Joe to make it to the White House. WTF was the FBI doing?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      To be fair, they did impeach him for this already.

      • Common Tater

        True.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    That finance article might have been worth reading. I’ll never know, since their multimedia extravaganza website slowed my computer to a crawl.

    • Brochettaward

      I don’t know how anyone could call this a “devastating” defeat for the West. It simply doesn’t matter if Ukraine loses parts of its territory. It’s irrelevant. We made Russia look weak for in its inability to steamroll a third-rate military. Ukraine isn’t going anywhere as a country now.

      I don’t know what a “win” looks like here for the West. Toppling the Putin regime? That was never going to happen. Ukraine repelling the full might of Russia? Again, was never going to happen.

      That article is stupid neocon bullshit.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “I don’t know what a ‘win’ looks like here for the West. Toppling the Putin regime?”

        That is the goal. These people are really so stupid that they think they can achieve it and that Putin’s replacement will be better.

      • Brochettaward

        The stupidity of our foreign policy establishment can’t be doubted. If Ukraine making territorial concessions is seen as a defeat, then it’s only because you predictably instilled the wrong expectations in the general public from the start.

      • Lord John Nerferder

        It’s all about narrative and the most important narrative is the infallibility of our expert class.

      • Sensei

        And the brain drain and self inflicted damage to Russia is significant.

        There really are no winners here including the west.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The West has gone so stupidly all in that nothing less than Total Victory looks like a defeat and that’s what makes the situation so dangerous.

      • Lord John Nerferder

        The whole thing is a tragedy.

        But then again, so is Yemen and a dozen other hellholes we’ve helped create over the past three decades.

      • juris imprudent

        defeat for the West

        Substitute Wilsonianism adventuring for the West.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Does this mean we get to start World War III? You know to avoid a devastating defeat.

    • Rebel Scum

      Ukraine and the West are facing a devastating defeat

      The “west” is not at war and Ukraine was never going to win.

      The prospect of a failed counter-offensive and significant territorial concessions would only embolden Russia and China

      Give Russia the predominantly ethnically Russian regions of Ukraine that they have conquered as a result of western interference in Ukraine and Ukraine bombing said regions for years. The war that never had to happen can be over today.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    I’m sick of this fucking mess. Make it go away.

    You can’t end the war on drugs Russia. There’s too much money in it.

  28. Brochettaward

    The twist: The sister of the bride, Maggie Q’s Tess, is a hardened Iraqi war veteran and skilled combatant who’s not going down without a fight.

    This if offensively stupid. Far more so than the gun part.

    • R C Dean

      I’m thinking maybe “not going to go down” wasn’t the best phrasing.

      • Lord John Nerfherder

        It is a disappointing turn of phrase.

      • Nephilium

        Because of the implications…

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I have no comment to make on this one.

    • B.P.

      Impending dickshot aside, I see the ATF needs range time to fine-tune their WW II submachine gun skills.

  29. Rebel Scum

    What a wiener.

    To all those celebrating—happy National Hot Dog Day! May there be many more hot dogs served in our wonderful land.

    • DrOtto

      JFC – I like hot dogs, bit Mitt may have ruined that for me. Plus he slathered catsup all over that sombitch. Way to ruin a perfectly good tube steak.

      • slumbrew

        Yellow mustard would be way too spicy for Mittens.

    • MikeS

      Binders full of women and buns full of wieners.

  30. Lord John Nerferder

    They released some of Laughton’s texts. Dude is a seriously evil piece of shit.

    • Ted S.

      Charles Laughton was not evil.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ha, jinx.

  31. tarran

    A thought occurs.

    Biden might be merely a distraction. The progressives are advancing their political agenda, while their enemies are distracted by trying to take Biden out. The obvious corruption, the impunity all serve to magnify the importance of removing him from office to opponents of progressives. They are expending a great deal of energy and attention towards defeating him.

    Everyone knows that Biden is not in control. Everyone knows that he is essentially a figurehead while the government is run by his flunkies, probably acting under the soft direction of Obama.

    Biden could be the military equivalent of building a fortress that looks mighty and important, but that is designed as a lure to draw attacks from one’s enemies, thereby diverting offensive forces away from the things one really cares about defending.

    • juris imprudent

      while the government is run by his flunkies the permanent bureaucracy that only sees every administration as a temporary problem.

      • Lord John Nerferder

        This. Obama was the perfect PR agent for them.

        He perfectly delivered a line of feel good bullshit that the libs ate up while the agencies did whatever the hell they wanted.

        The only time he may have said no was when they wanted to arm Ukraine. They probably went along with his defiance because they thought they were going to get Clinton in a year and there would be no limits.

      • juris imprudent

        Credit to Obama for shutting down the GoF research Fauci wanted to fund in Wuhan. Fauci took advantage of the incompetence of Trump’s incoming admin to release that money.

      • Lord John Nerfherder

        This is why I’m becoming more receptive to Vivek.

        His stated number one priority is to eviscerate the bureaucracy and he’s named the laws he would use to do it. He’s doing the homework.

      • juris imprudent

        Without gutting the civil service laws, it isn’t going to happen. And too many people (R and D) actually believe the govt does necessary things and that the bureaucracy is peopled by decent people, and it would be mean to treat them so harshly. They may disagree about which departments this is more true of and which less so – but they don’t fundamentally disagree.

  32. Mojeaux

    Avoidance Of Discussing Money And Finances

    Money is often considered taboo, and many are programmed to avoid discussing it. This enforced silence can prevent us from seeking advice, learning from others’ experiences, and gaining valuable insights into money management. It also perpetuates a lack of financial literacy, as we’re denied opportunities to learn from each other’s successes and failures. Encouraging open and honest discussions about money can help break this cycle and promote better financial habits.

    Recently:

    Mom: We thought we taught you kids how to make good financial decisions.

    Me: LOLWUT?! Daddy wouldn’t countenance talk of money between you and us. It was “none of our business.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sounds very familiar. We kept only certain finances away from teens, but monthly bills such as utilities and nice to haves we folded them in around 12-13 years old.

      • Mojeaux

        My dad wouldn’t even countenance saying “We can’t afford it” because it bruised his ego. Fuck that. We told our kids, “We can’t afford that and this is why [usually the house or cars] …”

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      You weren’t inductively absorbing the general example they set for you? 🙀

  33. Lord John Nerfherder

    I’m in Manhattan for the first time in thirty years. Almost forgot what the big city feels like.

    • Lord John Nerfherder

      Hotel lobby is complete with obligatory gaggle of Japanese businessmen in suits

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Where are you and why?

      • Lord John Nerfherder

        Lotte in midtown

        Business/pleasure trip

    • Tundra

      I’ve been a lot of places, but NYC isn’t one of them.

      I really regret not visiting when it was groovy.

      • Lord John Nerfherder

        It really is a unique place. Seems pretty upbeat in this area right now, but it is Madison Ave.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Eat (and drink?) well, anyway.

      • Rebel Scum

        I’ve been twice. I don’t care for it. Or any city.

    • Mojeaux

      I really love NYC … for about 4 days.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        👍 🍕 🌉 🏙

      • SDF-7

        Every time I’ve done anything beyond driving through a city via interstates (conference or whatnot) my skin crawls. I just can’t wait to get the hell out of there… I’m just not a city person apparently.

      • juris imprudent

        I think I might have enjoyed living there for a year or two, when I was in my mid 20s.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Good time to be in any big city. Doesn’t matter so much if you’re broke.

      • Lord John Nerfherder

        Oh absolutely.

        There’s an anonymity in the crowd and always something new to see or do. It was the same when I was in London and Shanghai.

        But there’s no way I could live here now.

      • Lord John Nerfherder

        Sounds about right

    • Sensei

      And I just flatly left it 30 minutes ago.

      • Lord John Nerfherder

        *waves bye*

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Compose a trip report for publication here? 🤷‍♀️

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Waah


    Biden administration officials have grown increasingly concerned over recent months about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s measures along the Texas-Mexico border, which have disrupted US Border Patrol operations in the region and put migrants at risk.

    “It’s making our job harder,” one Homeland Security official told CNN.

    Not unless you see your job as enabling mass uncontrolled border crossings.

    • Rebel Scum

      which have disrupted US Border Patrol operations in the region and put migrants at risk.

      But enough about the Brandon regime’s border enforcement policy, or lack thereof.

    • Brochettaward

      I’m fairly certain if you talked to on-the-ground BP agents you’d hear a far different story.

      • The Other Kevin

        We have a friend who’s in border patrol. He says it’s way worse than you see on TV. They find a dead body every day. The migrants just walk right through people’s yards. And the cartels watch the border patrol. If one group is being detained, they send a bigger group somewhere else while border patrol is distracted.

      • Tundra

        How is this not an invasion?

        I used to scoff, but this is getting crazy.

      • Rebel Scum

        *whispers*

        It’s an invasion.

      • Brochettaward

        But Abbot is getting in their way by deploying more resources (imagine that was typed in alternating capital letters like a retard).

  35. Tundra

    I’m gonna repost this a few more times until the emails start flying:

    Honey Harvest 2023 is right around the corner (Sunday, September 17).

    If you aren’t already on my Official List – but would like to be – drop me a note at minnetundra AT geemail. Updates and details galore!

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Internal discussions about legal action against Texas date back to last year, when Abbott began sending migrants to cities nationwide without alerting them and have continued with the deployment of buoys in the Rio Grande, which pose a potential drowning risk to migrants and now, concern over the treatment of migrants.

    He has boobytrapped the river with those impossible to detect giant bright orange balls.

    • Rebel Scum

      We should be using our natural border moat.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    I’m in Manhattan for the first time in thirty years. Almost forgot what the big city feels like.

    Try not to kill anybody.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    After reports of the mistreatment of migrants broke this week, State Department Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Brian Nichols, told Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Democrat, that the administration was concerned about Abbott’s actions with respect to human rights, Castro told CNN.

    Castro also raised concerns about the reports to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying in a statement: “I raised the issue of Governor Abbott’s barbarity at a dinner tonight with Secretary Blinken. I read him the title and first paragraph of the Express-News article and urged the Administration to intervene – and to remove the death traps Abbott has installed for the sake of human rights.”

    Barbarity.

    • Brochettaward

      Poll a majority of the country, and they’d agree with Abbot installing them.

      But the media will go on calling it “controversial.” While things like transitioning 7 year olds are normal and fully supported by the entirety of the medical community and always have been…

    • B.P.

      A barrier visible from hundreds of yards away is a death trap?

  39. Fourscore

    We started learning about financial matters in about 5th grade, integrated with math.

    “Mr Smith earns $60 a week, he budgets…. Mrs Smith is very careful to stay within the home budget, making home cooked meals for Mr Smith and their 3 children.”

    • slumbrew

      I can’t even with the patriarchy.

  40. Rebel Scum

    She’s lying but coherent.

    Can you help fact-check @KamalaHarris. She says, “In the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught enslaved people benefited from slavery”

    • Brochettaward

      +1 “Thank God my Granddaddy got on that boat!”

      If you Google that, the first thing that comes up is someone asking what it is he meant by that…

    • Rebel Scum

      Dogs eventually figure out when you didn’t really throw the ball. Hunter never figured out that one should not film illicit behavior and constantly lose the device that it is on.

    • Brochettaward

      Any news story is only as big as the mainstream media makes it out to be and they’ve already debunked this as being important. If it was important, the FBI surely would have investigated. Nothing more to see etc.

      People keep looking for them to turn on Biden or for him to get his comeuppance. You are dealing with people devoid of principles and there is no one to replace him. They aren’t trotting out Harris as his successor. It’s Biden for another go around unless he dies from all the amphetamines they pump him up with before his public appearances.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I think you’re right unfortunately. At least it won’t be Newsome this go around.

      • juris imprudent

        FWIW, CBS News has broken from the pack.

  41. Rebel Scum

    Stop blocking traffic, asshole.

    🥊 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Supporter Assaulted While Demanding No New Oil and Gas

    🦺 Daniel was assaulted while marching this morning, and remained nonviolent throughout. Disruption is difficult, but it’s necessary.

    Keep it up and your bodily integrity will be disrupted.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Fuck those people, entitled assholes all.

    • juris imprudent

      C’mon man, you didn’t see the red hat? That was MAGA country!

    • The Gunslinger

      Play in the street and you might get run over by a car. Looks like the guy doing the punching got out of the car that got smashed. You cause a guy’s car to get wrecked and he’s not going to be pleasant. I would be tempted to try and take out the whole line of them like a tackling dummy.

    • B.P.

      Attention local governments: If you do not enforce the public order, someone will. Eventually, a whole lot of someones. You don’t want that.

    • Ted S.

      I don’t see Kevin….

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Attention local governments: If you do not enforce the public order, someone will. Eventually, a whole lot of someones. You don’t want that.

    British motorists should carry a can of signal orange spray paint in their cars. For marking road hazards.