Tuesday Morning Links

by | Jul 11, 2023 | Daily Links | 320 comments

Northwestern fired Pat Fitzgerald. That’s gonna get litigated. Joker won. The top 4 seeded women all made the quarterfinals. I have no ideas what this will do for sports in the future. But it might be bad for biological women. And the Home Run Derby was last night and that means tonight is the All-Star Game.  And that’s it for sports.

They’re our responsibility now.

America has adopted another dependent. Do we get to claim them on our taxes, or no?

This headline isn’t biased at all. I’ll give them an alternate lede: “Europe To Decide Whether To Financially Commit Suicide.” It’s at least as honest as theirs.

What a mean, mean man. How dare he express his feelings to the woman he’s with. ::SMDH::

The voice of reason

Say stupid things. Win stupid prizes.

I actually believe their answer. They never know about anything that’s reported about their actions.

Now this is bizarre. And he might want to prepare himself for a long stay in prison.

Even this is too much. But it’s better than the alternative, I guess.

This will be interesting. It can’t possibly be as bad as what they’ve been doing, but I’m curious how it will work out.

Here’s a great track. And an early one from the catalog. And here’s one from much later. And it’s an absolute masterpiece.  Enjoy it.

And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.

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320 Comments

  1. SDF-7

    Joker won

    Damn — I assume the Batmobile also lost a wheel then?

    Morning, Sloopy.

  2. AlexinCT

    America has adopted another dependent. Do we get to claim them on our taxes, or no?

    We only get to give them free shit.

    • Rat on a train

      There will be a claim on your taxes.

  3. SDF-7

    Once Sweden finally joins NATO, it will bolster Biden’s reputation as a US leader who reinvigorated and expanded the bloc. Finland – which decided to sign up, like Sweden, after the invasion of Ukraine – has already added hundreds of miles of NATO territory on Russia’s border. Biden’s lifeline of arms and ammunition for Ukraine and leadership of the alliance has made him the most significant president in transatlantic affairs at least since George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany.

    Ugh… sorry, I tapped out after that much knob-gobbling by the reporter.

    This.

    Is.

    CNN.

    • rhywun

      I tapped out 14 words into that first sentence. Just laughable.

      • Rat on a train

        Only Biden could go to Sweden …

    • juris imprudent

      has already added hundreds of miles of NATO territory on Russia’s border

      Which of course is absolutely no reason for the Russians to be concerned because NATO is PURELY DEFENSIVE (according to NATO).

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      So the goal of NATO is continued expansion?

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Continued destruction

      • Lachowsky

        The goal of NATO is to continue to get money from the taxpayers. Self licking ice cream cone and all.

  4. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Olympic runner Caster Semenya wins appeal on testosterone rules

    She can cast her semen as much as she wishes?

    • SDF-7

      Only in international waters.

      • rhywun

        It’s getting so that you have to pause and wonder if everyone involved is actually a woman.

      • Not Adahn

        Oddly enough, Barbra Banda’s wikipedia page has no photo of her.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s a man baby.

      • Not Adahn

        I wonder if it would be possible to start a rumor that Rapinoe kept transwomen off of the USWNT. Surely there are transwymxn that like playing assosciation football.

  5. UnCivilServant

    Why is the middle kid pushing the other two off the trampoline?

    • SDF-7

      “Equity” seems to be the answer these days.

  6. AlexinCT

    This headline isn’t biased at all. I’ll give them an alternate lede: “Europe To Decide Whether To Financially Commit Suicide.” It’s at least as honest as theirs.

    The anti-humanist marxists want to go back to a feudal system where they no longer have to be interrupted or bothered by the serfs when they are doing their thing. This means public transportation, no more airline flights or vacations, renting instead of owning, and eating bugs for the serfs. The elite will then be able to stand out and feel elite because they will get to own personal vehicles, boats, and even planes, eat steak, caviar, and lobster, all while drinking champagne, and collect the rental bounty from the serf class.

    The moment they have us all back into serfdom, well, the half billion or so they will keep around to do their menial shit, this nonsense about saving Gaia goes away.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      They’re going to go broke anyway. Their bank balance sheets are fucked beyond all recognition.

      What they desperately want is something to blame it on that doesn’t involve their heads on pikes. Climate change fits the bill nicely.

      If they can reassert aristocratic control at the same time and get rid of the middle class, then that’s all great by their estimation.

      • AlexinCT

        I hope this plays out like the French revolution did for them all.

      • R C Dean

        If the Dutch elections are any indication, I don’t think blamin g the economic collapse of the continent on bad weather is going to keep their heads off pikes.

        I’m somewhat depressed at how often, these days, I think “there’s no fixing that without killing [some loudmouth or person in power].” If the Euros do finally drop a testicle and start stringing up their rulers, I can’t say I will shed a tear.

      • AlexinCT

        The Dutch government collapsed because the Dutch people are not OK with the EU immigration policy Brussels has imposed on the Netherlands. Unfortunately for the Dutch, the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels will just double down and get their way anyway, cause the Netherlands would never actually leave the EU. The people that want to go back to a feudal system will win in Europe. Well, unless the migrants of Islamic extraction don’t turn those countries into Islamic republics first. Either way, the regular people are gonna end up being whored out.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        I’m somewhat heartened by the pushback. It means the narrative control is failing.

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

        We are seeing how much the ruling class survives off of censorship, and as that falls brick by brick, they are loosing their control.

    • Drake

      Erdogan may have been better off going with BRICS instead of the EU. But they’ve been trying to get into the EU for so long, probably couldn’t help themselves.

      • UnCivilServant

        The two conditions for entry should be giving up Islam and the return of Byzantium to Greece.

        The EU would never do that, and Erdogan would never accept, but we need to punt Turkey away as the liability they are. Their cold war utility is gone.

      • Drake

        Making peace in Syria and Iraq, and doing trade deals to the east is probably in the Turks’ best interest too.

      • The Last American Hero

        Especially now that Ukraine is an honorary EU member. We can park our nukes there.

  7. SDF-7

    Now this is bizarre. And he might want to prepare himself for a long stay in prison.

    Football tickets cost actual money and he was too busy being a superfan to get an actual job, is my first thought…

    Should have gone into politics so he could steal without consequences.

  8. AlexinCT

    What a mean, mean man. How dare he express his feelings to the woman he’s with. ::SMDH::

    If she had done this to him and he had leaked it to the media, they would be calling her a heroine for being forthcoming & strong and him a douche for making it public.

    Jonah, this girl is someone you should avoid. The crazy is too high to even bother with.

    • SDF-7

      I dare say he figured that out — that’s why she’s pissed at him.

      • AlexinCT

        The scary thing is that I have seen this shit be normalized and happening a lot with younger people. It seems that women are encouraged to make sure men know they are independent, have expectations, and will not accept people that don’t comply, while men are being told to just shut the fuck up and be a cuck. I made sure my kid would never tolerate this shit from a girlfriend where she gets to make demands and he just has to comply. If it is not a back and forth, walk away.

      • Lackadaisical

        Exactly right.

      • R.J.

        Exactly this.
        What I have found interesting is the sharp rise in shows appealing to single older women, discussing the exciting lives of single older women. Indicates there is a sizable and growing pool of such people. They are single because nobody wants to put up with that. Good news is this will die out in a generation or two as they will not marry and reproduce.

      • juris imprudent

        I read recently that the number of 40 year olds who have never married has reached something like 25% of the demographic group. Twenty years ago is was more like 10%.

      • AlexinCT

        As someone that joined the dating pool again a decade ago after 23 years of marriage, I can tell you that when you find a decent looking single woman, she is that way for a reason. They either never got married because they simply were too problematic for any guy to bother with (but it is always everyone else’s fault) or they ended up divorced because the guy got tired of their shit. The amount of crazy with them is just flabbergasting to me. Practically all of them tell you they are single and independent but are in financial dire straights and need help (they are the ones wanting government to take care of them). Those with kids want you to financially take care of their kids, even if you have your own to take care of already.

        I know I am no catch. I am a crotchety dude, set in my ways, but always straight forward with women. I tell them as soon as we meet that I will never marry again because my only reason for wanting a girlfriend is sex and company as long as that company doesn’t become a drag. I can do all the other stuff myself. I will treat them with the same respect and difference they show me. And I will leave as soon as I have had too much of the crazy. And believe me, unless they were just recently widowed, they are where they are because of the crazy.

      • R.J.

        “I am a crotchety dude”
        Say it ain’t so!

        Pretty sure that is a Glib prerequisite.

      • Nephilium

        /raises hand

        There’s two of them living in this house, and I know quite a few more.

      • Sean

        Same (unmarried). Though 40 is in the rear view mirror…and getting smaller.

    • Not Adahn

      Meh.

      If you start dating a surfing instructor then demand:

      a) She not surf with other dudes without him and
      b) Not have pics of her in a bathing suit online

      Then yeah, you’re kind of a douche.

      • sloopyinca

        He didn’t make those demands. He just said he was not ok with them and that if they brought her happiness she should continue doing them but that he wouldn’t be in a relationship with her.

        It’s perfectly normal for someone in a relationship to tell their partner what their requirements are for the relationship to progress. And I dare say he was quite cordial in his framing of it.

      • Not Adahn

        *eyeroll*

        “I totally dig you except your lifestyle and vocation so if you wanna be with rich, famous me you’ve gotta stop all of that. Pretty please. I mean, I really think you’re hot.”

        Yes everyone has different thresholds for relationships, but this is just the distaff version of “your friends are gross and I don’t want you to hang out with them anymore. I need to come first in your priorities”

        It’s like starting a relationship with a massage therapist and then saying “I’m not really comfortable with you touching partially-clothed dudes.” It’s not illegal or even immoral, but WTF did you think you were getting into? Why do you think you’re so important they need to change for you?

      • Pope Jimbo

        It would be one thing if she was a massage therapist and he asked her not to surf with other dudes and not to post pics of her in a swimsuit.

        But yeah, starting a relationship with a person and then demanding that they stop doing the thing they make their money from is silly.

        Did she demand he stop making crappy movies?

      • sloopyinca

        She posted one snippet of what was undoubtedly a longer exchange of messages and part of an ongoing conversation as their relationship got more serious. Nobody knows what was said prior to that to give it context.

      • R C Dean

        I neither know, nor care, about either of them. I long’ long ago adopted the view that you don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in other people’s relationships, so you probably shouldn’t even have an opinion about it. This has worked out well enough for me.

      • Not Adahn

        It is entirely possible that Hollywood actors and Instathots may both be entitled jerks.

      • AlexinCT

        Anyone that would share private conversations in a relationship with the world out of spite is a fucking cunte.

      • Not Adahn

        Social media does attract a certain type of oversharing personality.

        NPR did a piece on “whycome are there no more movie stars” and even they postulated that one of the reasons Tom Cruise is still bankable is he stays the fuck off of the ‘gram unless he’s promoting a film.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “Never complain, never explain.” Well, that’s for royalty, but still applicable.

      • Mojeaux

        Meh.

        If you start dating a surfing instructor then demand:

        a) She not surf with other dudes without him and
        b) Not have pics of her in a bathing suit online

        Then yeah, you’re kind of a douche.

        QFT.

        I don’t like the therapy-speak, either, and the flippant way in which “gaslighting” is used across the web is maddening. But I’ll tell you— Any dude who starts dating you with an eyeball toward changing you is an asshole. You don’t want to date women who want to change you? Women don’t want to date dudes who find them in contempt but still want to bang them AND THEN tell them what they can and can’t do in public.

  9. AlexinCT

    MSNBC op-ed is slammed online for claiming that working out is linked to far-right politics and says that exercising at home is just the latest fascist trend that glamorizes hypermasculinity.

    Life’s losers are emboldened to demand those that make them look bad be punished under the new marxist system where success, successful systems, or any form of meritocracy has been deemed to be evil and thus acting white/patriarchally.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Paglia has a few things to say about that topic.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3-KIesYRE

      It’s well worth the watch just to see her dismantle the transgender nutjobs and foretell their inevitable doom.

      • AlexinCT

        I live in a society and time where the stupid, ugly, and insane people make the rules, and they demand I lower my standards, communication skills, and my productivity, amongst many things, while going around acting as if it is my fault the world they are running is a giant failure, so they can not feel hurt for being cuntes.

      • SDF-7

        Hey — we don’t all get to make the rules!

      • The Last American Hero

        Inevitable. Ha!

        We’ve gone from don’t ask/don’t tell to hang the flag or be deplatformed and don’t you dare talk about those kids pretty quickly.

    • AlexinCT

      It’s going to hurt the serfs. But that is plan of the reset.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        All the serfs have to do is say no and force loan renegotiations. If even 5% of them stand up and demand it, the jig is up, the banks will have no choice.

      • SDF-7

        What, no option for the Crown to re-appropriate the land for better usage by the nation or whatnot?

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Well, I suppose they could go medieval but I don’t know how that would work out for them. So much of what they do is made possible by perception and narrative. Busting it wide open would probably have some bad repercussions for them.

      • R C Dean

        The banks would have their ass in a crack, since they have to cover their cost of capital, too. Even if they wanted to, they couldn’t loan money at the rates everybody seems to think is normal, natural, and by god their right to receive.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Somebody is going to have to take the haircut on the bad loans they made. It doesn’t always have to be the borrowers, unless we’re going back to debtors prisons.

    • sloopyinca

      Does anybody but the ultra rich ever pay a mortgage off over there?
      Also, what is their property tax structure like?

      • Not Adahn

        Their whole system of property is kind of fucked up what with having nobility and all.

    • The Last American Hero

      They can just bank at those Muslim banks that don’t charge interest.

      Or they impute interest and call it a service fee or something to avoid the wrath of Allah.

  10. rhywun

    But it might be bad for biological women.

    Well, biological women who weren’t born with abby normal levels of testosterone. Bad enough for them they’re losing to biological men, but now these folks too?

    • Raven Nation

      Yeah, the Semayana case is complicated. She has a legit condition that means her body produces higher than normal testosterone. Not sure how you deal with that, but it’s very different to things like the Lia Thomas shit.

      • Rebel Scum

        That’s my take as well. But I say If she is still otherwise a biological woman, she should compete against women.

      • rhywun

        I’m not sure either but something something rare cases something bad law.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        She’s XX. So she should be able to compete.

        Is anyone here going to argue that Mike Tyson and Bo Jackson weren’t freaks of nature too?

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Well in that case, she’s not really a she.

      • rhywun

        Geez, way to leave out the lede, every MSM outlet.

      • prolefeed

        They are reporting as if HE has elevated testosterone – compared to women. No duh, Sherlock.

        Now, if he has low testosterone compared to other men, that might explain his genitalia, since an XY fetus requires massive doses of testerone during development to develop standard male genitalia.

        But once a prog abandons biology (party of Science!) and accepts the notion that XY individuals are women and can thus compete in sports against women, they’ve got to contort themselves logically to defend the inevitable outcome of XY individuals curb stomping the XX competition.

  11. Fourscore

    Those barbells aren’t going to lift themselves

    • Pope Jimbo

      All my cheap friends get alligator arms when the bar maid puts the barbell on the table.

  12. Rebel Scum

    Once Sweden finally joins NATO, it will bolster Biden’s reputation as a US leader who reinvigorated and expanded the bloc. Finland – which decided to sign up, like Sweden, after the invasion of Ukraine – has already added hundreds of miles of NATO territory on Russia’s border.

    Clearly what we need to do is continue provoking Russia. Go ahead and induct Ukraine and let the missiles fly.

    • AlexinCT

      The way to see this is that these people want power so bad that they would rather tell lies and encourage things that could end humanity.

      • juris imprudent

        Isn’t there something about better rule in hell than serve in heaven.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah well, if the nukes fly the people who got us into this mess will be the first to go not that that’s much conciliation.

  13. Rebel Scum

    “For the next five years we have to care a lot about our industrial base. You have to care a lot about competitiveness in the European Union. So we have to manage the big changes needed in a way that we don’t lose economic power,”

    These five year plans have a long history of success, obviously.

    • R C Dean

      Especially when they involve gutting critical infrastructure, like, you know, the electrical grid.

  14. rhywun

    It’s at least as honest as theirs.

    Much more honest, actually. The “climate crisis” is a hoax. They know this and therefore one can only conclude that the rush to impoverish the west is deliberate. Curious that the rest of world cannot build coal plants and such fast enough.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Jonah hill perfectly illustrates how patriarchy adapts and the millennial iteration relies on emotional abuse and gaslighting.

    Maybe the bitch was crazy and that made him crazy.

  16. Drake

    Community service – that guy already did some.

    • AlexinCT

      I was going to make a joke that they sentenced him to washing more stinky homeless people with his water hose…

  17. Rebel Scum

    MSNBC op-ed is slammed online for claiming that working out is linked to far-right politics and says that exercising at home is just the latest fascist trend that glamorizes hypermasculinity

    The actual fascists have been attempting to redefine “nazi” and “fascist” forever at this point. Now free speech, armed citizens, and attempting to be healthy are “fascist”.

    • AlexinCT

      Nazi and fascist today just mean people the insane progressive cult doesn’t like.

      • SDF-7

        Well, the racist card was getting weak, so…..

      • R.J.

        Fascist has been mis-used since the 60s. I just eyeroll when I hear it now. All that crap is so tiring.
        It’s gotten so bad the liberals have to invent nazis to have a boogeyman.

      • dbleagle

        Yep. The 1970s Illinois nazis were at least actual posers. Today? Nope.

  18. AlexinCT

    This will be interesting. It can’t possibly be as bad as what they’ve been doing, but I’m curious how it will work out.

    Saboteurs will make sure this fails. The left needs to keep the indoctrination and dumbing down of the normies that is happening in the public school system going to get them to accept marxism, so they will not allow a system to come online that would break that monopoly they need.

  19. Rebel Scum

    “All I will tell you is that the United States and the Biden administration strongly support press freedom, media freedom and would support no steps that would be taken to undermine that,” Sullivan added — despite the White House facing a litany of press-freedom complaints.

    The press is free to unquestioningly parrot the administrations propaganda.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Sullivan is a Hillary acolyte. You’d be a fool to trust a single word that came out that psychopath’s mouth.

      • AlexinCT

        Shorter progressive evil fucks: You serfs have the “freedom” to be told what to believe….

    • SDF-7

      Really, Biden Admin? I mean this is just coming out and adding to the substantial pile.

      Oh… you’re lying and gaslighting. Modus operandi. Carry on.

    • The Other Kevin

      The latest attempt at gaslighting is the claim that someone disagreeing with you suppresses your free speech.

  20. Not Adahn

    home fitness trends to expand its decade-plus radicalization of physical mixed martial arts (MMA) and combat sports spaces.’

    Wait, there are mental MMAs out there? Why did nobody tell me I could be psychic?

    Actually, I can totally imagine a “martial art” based on whining and guilt-tripping your way to victory.

    • AlexinCT

      Will their business model be to make you pay to avoid having to view/experience this shit?

      • Not Adahn

        It’ll probably be marketed as “business leadership.”

      • juris imprudent

        Too late, it’s called The View.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Their future home on ESPN?

    • SDF-7

      The Mule is dominating anyway.

  21. rhywun

    In January, SF Mayor London Breed said she felt “frustration” when she watched the video and that it reminded her of Black Americans’ civil rights struggles in the South during the 1960s, CBS News reported.

    OFFS!!

    Does she really want to invite that comparison, to reeking bums that hang out and destroy your business and/or ruin your home life?

    • MikeS

      That jumped out at me, too. She’s comparing civil rights marchers to mentally deranged homeless people. And because of the color of her skin, there will be no outrage.

    • Tundra

      Awesome. What a boss!

      • Fourscore

        Future politician

      • Tundra

        Apparently 😉

  22. Rebel Scum

    A San Francisco art gallery owner who sprayed an unhoused woman with a hose in January won’t face any criminal charges and will complete community service hours instead, officials said.

    A what? Oh, right. We have to change the sounds we use to describe things without changing the meaning because of delicate, modern sensibilities.

    • RBS

      The City DEI officer actually sent out a memo to us and PD telling us to stop referring to homeless people as homeless and instead refer to them as “unhoused.”

      • R.J.

        Housing-challenged?
        Tent-dwelling brothers and sisters?

  23. Not Adahn

    noting how Hitler encouraged boxing and jujitsu.

    She actiually did the meme.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Oh it’s Miller-Idriss. That idiot has been around DC for a while now. She’s basically funded to provide rationalizations for the expanded security state and acts as a more “dignified” version of the SPLC.

      She shows up in front of Congress and warns them how the far-right extremist incels are going to invade Manhattan.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Dr. Miller-Idriss’ research has been funded by grants and fellowships from the National Science
        Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German
        Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) and
        the Goethe Institute, among others. From 2009-2012 she was a nominated fellow in the Teagle
        Foundation’s National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education. She has received several
        research and teaching awards, including the 2019 D.C. Sociological Society’s Morris Rosenberg
        Award and a 2013-14 global fellowship from the Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies at
        the Universität zu Köln, Germany. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Analysis on the
        Radical Right (CARR) and an active member of the American Sociological Association, the
        Council for European Studies, and the Comparative and International Education Society.

        All you need to know about her. She’s a propaganda tool for the system.

      • The Other Kevin

        She’s paid to find stuff, and you’re damn sure she’s going to.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Brooke Jenkins 謝安宜
      @BrookeJenkinsSF

      What a tone deaf pandering retard.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Fuck. Wasn’t supposed to be a reply.

    • Spartacus

      If there really are enough feral cats to kill 2 billion critters every year, then the numbers of kills cited for these machines is negligible.
      50 cats is a normal weekend for a lot of TNR groups, who do use traps. If I were the paranoid type, I would say the whole thing sounds like a cover story for weapons tests.

      And the first time one of these things shoots someone’s toddler, the lawsuit will be epic.

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s Australia. They will sit down, shut up, and do as they’re told.

      • R.J.

        Well, other predators will eat the dead cats. Let the panic and unintended consequences ensue.

  24. Rebel Scum

    I guess Mexico must be a veritable desert wasteland.

    An NBC meteorologist raised concerns Sunday that extreme heat could make the southern United States uninhabitable for humans, and that the doomsday scenario is “probably closer than you might think.”

    Network meteorologist Angie Lassman cited a controversial 2022 United Nations climate report that says rising heat in the U.S. will make parts of Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana “less suitable” for human beings by 2070.

    “The human body simply can’t handle these levels of heat and will go into heat stress,” guest host Joe Fryer said on NBC’s “Sunday Today” magazine show. “With much of the country and the world experiencing these record temps, at what point do certain areas just simply become uninhabitable for humans?”

    • Not Adahn

      It’s true. Nobody lives in extremely hot places like the Kalahari, the Sahara or the Australian outback.

      • Nephilium

        I never really thought of Kalahari as that hot.

      • Rat on a train

        They plan to build one in Spotsyltucky.

    • sloopyinca

      “Less suitable”
      What, like Phoenix?

      • R C Dean

        I was gonna go with “What, like Houston?”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its a hard push to validate claims we are ‘past the point of no return’

    • Spartacus

      It is well-known that there are no humans in the southern hemisphere because no one can survive the equatorial heat long enough to make a crossing.

    • Michael Malaise

      NBC News is actually worse than CNN but people rarely notice.

  25. Richard

    Greetings from waterlogged Vermont. As far as I know the small town in which I live is OK except that a neighbor who was clearing out a riverside camping/picnic area had his picnic table flooded away. Here’s the NWS total storm precipitation forecast. I uploaded it to the Glibs server because there’s no permanent link to NWS stuff like this:

    https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023-07-11_rain.jpg

    As is usual lately the south is getting brunt of it. Montpelier may be in a spot of trouble:

    https://vtdigger.org/2023/07/11/montpelier-warns-that-wrightsville-dam-could-spill-over-imperiling-city/

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. That was supposed to be a reply to Rebel below and his treasure hunting activities.

      • R.J.

        Brooks would be proud.

    • rhywun

      Jersey coworkers would talking about floods yesterday.

      We didn’t get much of anything in NYC but whatever went by it, knocked the dew point down into the 50s for which I am very grateful.

    • R.J.

      Glad you are doing OK. There was talk of you potentially being flooded.

      • Richard

        My property is high enough above the Missisquoi River that flooding isn’t a concern. My worst problem was that both of my cabin’s skylights leaked.

        Here in town the river is a raging torrent, the best I’ve seen outside of when an ice jam breaks in the early Spring. If there’s flooding it’ll be farther downriver.

      • Richard

        Oh dear. The state capitol’s been shut down. What am I going to do?

  26. Rebel Scum

    That’s quite a bit of loose change.

    A Kentucky man got the surprise of his life while digging in his field earlier this year: a cache of over 700 coins from the American Civil War era.

    The “Great Kentucky Hoard” includes hundreds of U.S. gold pieces dating to between 1840 and 1863, in addition to a handful of silver coins. In a short video, the man who discovered the hoard — whose identity and specific location have not been revealed to the public — says, “This is the most insane thing ever: Those are all $1 gold coins, $20 gold coins, $10 gold coins,” as he aims his camera at the artifacts tumbling out of the dirt.

    All I have ever found is a few quarters between the cushions.

    • Not Adahn

      Those all belong to the government citizen! Possession of those is a crime!

      • R.J.

        Totally. He needs to shut up and secretly sell them on eBay.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Dude! 🤫 🤐

      • Sean

        RIght?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        🤦‍♂️ 🤦‍♀️

      • Lackadaisical

        Right?

        Sorry to hear that he lost all those coins.

    • Lachowsky

      Dude, STFU.

  27. Pope Jimbo

    Minnesoda Crook meets an untimely end

    BIWABIK, Minn. (AP) — A man found dead in a freezer in Minnesota last month was hiding from police, investigators said in a preliminary report.

    The body of 34-year-old Brandon Lee Buschman of Babbitt, Minnesota, was found in a chest freezer in the basement of an unoccupied home in the town of Biwabik on June 26.

    The freezer was an older model that could not be opened from the inside, according to police. The house had no electricity and the freezer was not running when Buschman’s body was found.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m surprised that there are still locking chest freezers around.

      • AlexinCT

        This one deserves a medal it sounds like.

  28. Evan from Evansville

    OT RANT and I apologize. This should be an article. Pretty urgent: Yesterday was my first intake session. Today is the second and (likely) last. Just finding a place that can handle detox and epilepsy and the other shit going on with me. My gout moved up to my left knee. Loanshark Louie gave me a firm whack to know he was serious. Feels like three or four fractures on my knee cap. And my throat has been hurting for a while. Uh. I would not be surprised if I have something cancerous.

    Saying that, going to the ER is likely the best option. I feel goofy walking in and asking for treatment, when I’m likely gonna be walking by people in gurneys and obvious, visible issues.

    This is not going to be pleasant.

    ADVICE TIME: I want to do this MY way. (W/O getting whacked in the Philippines.) I was clean for 6 months coming to the US. I replaced booze w/ weed. It worked. It was EASY. I know it worked. I trust it. (Independence is what caused my relapse. As soon as I got my own place.) I bought edibles that look like pills, or can pass from a foot away. I am thinking of putting them in one of the legit 7 Rx bottles I’ve got. It will be a moral and psychological victory, providing the escapism i need. (“My thoughts were so loud/I couldn’t hear my mouth…”)

    ^^Hrm. Is there another way to smuggle this in? Mixing it in with bags of candy/etc is the alternative so far, as they might check all my pills. It really is necessary for that psychological medal. I will get (probably mild this time) DTs, add that and being locked in w/o escape, is gonna amplify my stress and epileptic episodes.

    “I’m doing this seven-day detox inpatient. I’m fucked. Just fuck me out of it. Activan, phenobarbital, whatever ya got. This is gonna be a rough ride.” <– Any medical way of just saying that? Straight-honesty the best play?

    This is needed. I don't trust myself on my own. I need eyes on me. My best-friendship with (maybe new) Lady elevated last night. SHE called ME last midnight and we talked for four hours. She implicitly said she is seeing how we can work together and even said we were "soulmates." She likely will be a big mental inspiration for me to get my shit together.

    It absolutely cost me my job at the paper. I resigned cuz I knew I was fucking up more and more, just as I was getting better and better. Several factors led to the stress that loaded massive issues, but the hooch was the trigger.

    I woke up early today and am going to try and get some more rest. I'm going to leave here around 1pm for my 2pm appt. I'll certainly be around before I depart, but I might be napping for a bit.

    Another adventure. Me and my life are just about every adjective in Webster's. "Boring" is a lonely exception. It sleeps with "Uneventful."

    Another medal to be won. Their jingle-jangle is meaningful. I've gotta pick up a few I've dropped. Keeping 'em on is tricksy.

    I've got this. I just hate waiting in the on-deck circle. Just one more session and tomorrow is gonna be the day. Any advice for the My (successfully tested) Way of smuggling in my edibles, and for how to insist on getting phenobarbital/etc to take away risks of DTs+seizures appreciated. Just saying that should be enough, honestly.

    Stop typing, Ev. Try and get some rest. Thanks, y'all. I should be somewhat around.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Slip it into your suitcase lining? They’re probably skilled at ferreting out contraband, unfortunately.

    • R.J.

      Good luck sir. Worry less about smuggling in edibles ad more about handing yourself over to people you can trust. Take this day by day.

      • Nephilium

        This right here. If you’re going in for recovery, work the program.

      • Tundra

        Agreed. You can do this, Evan.

    • R C Dean

      “I was clean for 6 months coming to the US. I replaced booze w/ weed.”

      Not the way it works, Evan. You’ll be wasting your time and money if you got to detox and stay high the whole time.

  29. AlexinCT

    man, they are pissed. I am unfortunately not able to feel too much empathy for these people. They fell for an obvious lie about going to college and not studying something that would actually allow them to earn enough to cover the brutal cost of that idiotic experience.

    What we need is loan reform. Make the schools handing these things out like free drug needles/condoms responsible for anywhere from 25-75% of the loan should the person that they gave it to fail to graduate or end up with a useless degree and have to default. Not holding my breath, because making the college fiscally responsible would kill the “studies” shit and most of the liberal arts degrees that today are not just over priced, but useless.

    • R.J.

      I’ve been saying that for years. Charge higher interest rates due to default for useless degrees, and make the schools responsible for a portion. As far as charging higher interest, that fits in line with charging higher interest for used cars. Bigger risk.

      • rhywun

        The problem is that the State took over. These are no longer in any real sense “loans”, and we’re going to keep seeing these shenanigans until finally the voters are weary enough of it to accept the “free college” that was always the end goal.

      • rhywun

        I actually completely missed the State takeover of financial aid when it happened.

        It’s insane that the voters allowed that to happen – and they have no right to bitch about the problem of soaring tuition that it exacerbated.

      • Common Tater

        Thanks, Obama

      • Spartacus

        If you think there are too many people with useless degrees now, just wait until college is “free.”
        The real solution, IMO, is to stop guaranteeing loans. If an 18 year old went into a bank and asked for $50K to buy a car, the bank would laugh and throw them out.

      • rhywun

        We have neglected the fact that in other countries where higher education is “free”, it is rationed. And of course we have to ignore that because to do otherwise would be to hit the third rail of American politics.

      • Spartacus

        I had a fairly long conversation about this with my son a couple of weeks ago. He was pretty much unaware of the extent to which it is rationed in those countries that are supposedly far more enlightened than we are. I think he has somewhat changed his mind about that.

        Most people are completely unaware of the magnitude of the constraints “free” college would impose on who can get in. If governments had to pick up the full tuition cost that students are now paying, they would have to cut enrollments massively, and probably shut down a lot of campuses entirely.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Not only is it rationed, but the students still have to pay room and board, which for my kids at Cal State Universities is 2/3 of the cost.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yeah, most people have no idea how regimented the education system is in other countries. There are no second chances. And it’s much harder for people to “fall into” whatever it is that they do best.

    • creech

      Surely colleges and banks can join together to decide which majors and which students are eligible for loans – with the college and bank sharing the risk of default. If your kid wants to study his passion, MesoAmerican Pottery, then find a bank and college who will give a loan or pay for the degree out of your own pocket.

      • AlexinCT

        Today neither the higher ed system nor the bank have any incentive to not straddle an immature idiot that bought the propaganda about avoiding real work with overbearing and useless debt. That’s the problem with the system. But government wanted this because they needed to make higher ed indoctrination as well.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Smithsonian labels this “whiteness”

      • Spartacus

        Banks are quite capable of doing this now.
        What will happen if a freshman declares a major in engineering, receives a loan, and then two years later decides to change majors?
        Should the bank prosecute them for fraud? Call in the loan?

        This whole thing about only funding certain majors sounds great until you start to think through the details.

        A lot of states are now using performance funding models where part of a college’s funding is tied to retention and graduation rates.
        If you provide mass incentives for students to declare difficult majors like engineering, then a lot of unqualified or marginal students are going to start out in those majors, and will then flounder. If they cannot change majors, this leaves colleges with performance funding requirements the choice between:
        a) let them fail and suffer the budget hit, which would be $8-10 million for a medium-size college, or
        b) water down the curriculum to keep the performance numbers up.
        If they *can* change majors, this opens up a lot of difficult questions for any loan program that only makes loans for certain majors.

        Finally, a hypothetical. Suppose you are diagnosed with a disease, and the treatment requires a hospital stay that will cost $40K. You borrow the money from a bank (yes I know, banks don’t do that, but bear with me), and pay the hospital to get the treatment. If the treatment is unsuccessful or only partly successful, should the hospital be on the hook for part of your loan?

      • UnCivilServant

        As I recall, I had a separate loan for each academic period, so if someone changes to a non-viable major, the lending authority could simple stop issuing new loans to that person.

      • kinnath

        That’s how mine worked.

        Each year you had to progress towards your degree.

      • Not Adahn

        ^this.

    • Michael Malaise

      “Our customers are idiots (the other ones highlight this more than this particular one)” is quite the new pitchline.

  30. Lackadaisical

    Brady claimed in other posts that Hill was an “emotionally abusive partner.”

    This is such crap. You’re sharing his private messages to you (expressing what his expectations from the relationship are) and you want me to believe he’s the abusive one? Okay.

    “But many of them hate women and see women as competitors”

    Women are competitors, at least in the job market, dunno what else one should view them as – same as men.

    “Guenther and Nasir agreed that, in the text messages, the person who appears to be Hill is misusing the word “boundaries.” He is actually giving his partner an ultimatum in a bid to change her behavior”

    They’re correct, should men not have standards, or just not even try in relationships? What is the alternative to trying to change the behavior of your partner, of you find it unacceptable? It is unrealistic to expect someone to be perfect for you out of the box, whether male or female.

    • RBS

      It’s interesting how they use the word “boundaries” in Hill’s case since progressive “Instatherapy” boundaries are basically “give in to my demands or I will completely cut you off.”

    • Tundra

      No one cares. It’s disgusting.

      • The Last American Hero

        They are necessary sacrifices to appease Mother Gaia. Also conveniently located in a far away place that I can’t locate on a map and they don’t look like the people in my upscale suburb.

      • The Other Kevin

        It is disgusting. In our country people go on and on about racism and white supremacy, meanwhile children are working as slaves and destroying their own environment but it’s fine because they are poor brown and black people on the other side of the world.

    • Michael Malaise

      As far as I know, Tesla uses very minute amounts of cobalt, but not sure where it comes from. The others? Not sure.

  31. Rebel Scum

    They are probably just consultants.

    Government officials are investigating a mysterious company that has bought around 55,000 acres of dry farmland around a USAF base in California.

    Travis Air Force base, northeast of San Francisco, houses large transport aircraft used for refueling smaller planes and sending aid and munitions around the world.

    Starting in 2018, a company called Flannery Associates LLC has spent around $800million buying swathes of land around the base, leaving local, state and federal officials flummoxed as to who they are and what they want with it.

    An attorney representing Flannery told The Wall Street Journal the company is controlled by US citizens and that 97 percent of its capital comes from American investors – with the remaining investments coming from British and Irish citizens.

    Well, that settles it. Nothing to see here, move along.

    • Not Adahn

      Those investors have Wise Blood.

    • rhywun

      “Signed, Jimmy O’Xi”

      • Not Adahn

        They can transliterate that to be less overt: “O’sidhe”

      • milo

        Crap. I just snorted Kool-Aid out my nose. That was funny.

  32. AlexinCT

    LOL

    The dude admits this green shit is a racket and the fiduciary legal responsibilities is hampering the racket’s ability to force compliance that would be economically destructive.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry stated that green transition investment has been undercut by the fact that money managers “have a fiduciary responsibility, an obligation to the people they manage it for not to lose the money, but to produce returns on that investment.” And the fact that pension funds “are very careful about those investments in order to make certain they have the money to pay out to the pensioners who work for that money all their lives.” Kerry also said that he has urged those who manage large amounts of money that they have “got to help us create the structure” to spend on climate.

      If you’re owed a pension, you should be terrified by this statement. He’s telling you that they want to steal it to fund their scams.

    • Michael Malaise

      Shouldn’t he be retired by now?

  33. Rebel Scum

    I guess they think the problem has been solved.

    The Department of Justice erased content from its webpage on child sex trafficking that highlighted the plight of “international sex trafficking of minors” in late May.

    The stunning revision comes amidst scrutiny of President Joe Biden’s continued incitement of mass migration via America’s porous southern border – a prime avenue for child sex trafficking – and also coincides with the recent release of the film “The Sound of Freedom.”

    The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) webpage chronicling what constitutes child sex trafficking and how the department is combatting it underwent severe revisions on May 12th, 2023, including the erasure of the three sections: “International Sex Trafficking of Minors”; “Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors,” and “Child Victims of Prostitution.”

    • AlexinCT

      The Hillary Clinton defense? Destroy evidence and let some bureaucrat say they read your mind and you meant no ill?

    • rhywun

      Instead, Neighbors increases the possibility of racial profiling.

      Oh, fuck off. I should have guessed that was where this was leading.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

      What then, is the point of the damn things? They’re there for security purposes, not so you can just post footage of your Camry getting stolen out of your driveway to your Twitter for social points.

    • Not Adahn

      Derpy!

    • R.J.

      Watch lots of absurd porn. The government loves looking at that. Might get you hired.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Doin’ some datin’, I see.

    • Seguin

      Welp, I guess I’m on another list now.

    • Seguin

      I couldn’t read the hole thing (I have youtube blocked for my own sanity) – do you use your Raspi as a desktop replacement or for network monitoring?

      • Derpetologist

        My Raspi became my desktop replacement after I broke the power switch on my old laptop. The day the browser got unscrambled, I tried to overclock it to 6 GZ, which caused a kernel panic and I had to re-install the OS. When I rebooted, I saw a screen that said something about SSH being established. SSH stands for secure shell and means someone had established a link to my Raspi from which they could control it remotely.

        On a related note, about a month later, this basically happened to me in real life:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjoad6gcRzs

      • SDF-7

        Or it was sshd starting up. That could be a completely normal innocuous message you just noticed because you were watching the kernel boot (this is one of the reasons I really despise the graphical / non-verbose / “pretty” boot that’s taken over especially with systemd (partly because systemd init is so noisy for no reason) — folks need to know and follow what their startup is doing to catch things).

        Assuming Linux or a BSD variant, you’d want to check your /var/log/messages, /var/log/secure and maybe journalctl (if systemd) to see what ssh is doing. Connections should be logged.

        Yes, yes.. NSA… Yes if it really is them they’d almost certainly exploit something so they don’t leave traces — but then neither would it report the connection to the console, would it? 😉

      • Derpetologist

        That was the 1st time I have ever seen an SSH screen on any computer. And the only reason I know about SSH is because I’ve read NSA reports about them.

        The day after I called out NSA for spying on me, a gate guard asked me what I know about building computers. And the day after that, I rick-rolled them. Then 2 technicians came to my room and replaced the wifi gizmo on the ceiling of my barracks room. They said they were upgrading my internet just for me. My internet stopped working normally after that.

        So a lot of really weird things happened in quick succession and it kept getting weirder as time went on.

        The woman who came to meet me in the bar…I’d never seen her before in my life. Yet she correctly guessed my first name and middle initial and more strangely, knew what I looked like and where and when to find me. When I asked her if she worked for the government, she said “Ooh, are you paranoid? Do you think the government is spying on you?”

        She told me a decent joke and offered to buy me a beer. The joke was: What’s the difference between jelly and jam? You can’t jelly a dick in someone’s ass.

        I suspect penetration jokes are a thing with NSA cyber.

    • Fatty Bolger

      The command line screens popping up sometimes happens when there is an updater running. I’ve seen it mentioned as happening with Windows updates as well. It’s usually something in the task scheduler. They have triggers set, so sometimes a trigger can make a bunch run at once.

      • Derpetologist

        It would be easier for me to accept that explanation except for the fact that I’ve been handcuffed and interrogated by NSA special agents. That happened a few days before the spike in hits on my blog.

  34. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    The Kids are Alright, but my neighbor’s fucking dog barking at 5:30 isn’t. Not cool.

    That MSNBC op ed is getting dragged far and wide. The world need more, not less, hyper-masculinity and I hope my Glibs will do their part!

    • Lackadaisical

      More proof dogs are the worst. 😉

      • kinnath

        The dog isn’t the problem. The owner is the problem.

      • PutridMeat

        HOW DARE YOU!

    • R.J.

      He gets two years. What will happen to the BLM folks? Probably nothing.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Always out of SDNY too. Come to think of it, was Kerry off in foreign lands ‘making deals’ in the name of the US?

  35. Rufus the Monocled

    My daughter goes to the gym with her male and female companions.

    I didn’t know she was an extremist. I have to put a stop to this. I-I can’t anymore. WHERE’S MY MASK?!

  36. Tundra

    Yeah! Fuck white culture!

    All that low time preference, stability and good choices. Assholes.

    Apparently this garbage is a handout at the Smithsonian. Sick fucks.

    • R.J.

      I like everything it says. Sadly it is somehow complaining about all these awesome things? Marxists have a long road to convince me any of those things are bad.
      Also bonus points for having the icon of a person be black, instead of white. What an oversight. Looks like a commie needs to fall out a window for that one.

      • Rebel Scum

        Agreed. Except the one about Christian lack of tolerance is ass backwards. And I don’t think most people want a wife to be subordinate.

        But the left seems to think that the things that make all people successful and fulfilled are white and therefore bad.

      • R.J.

        Yes. What you said.

      • AlexinCT

        If you have not yet caught on that the whole anti white supremacist movement is an anti meritocratic or anti competence/capability movement, you are not paying attention. It’s not an accident that the things that lead people to be successful, productive, and thus potentially happy, are all labeled as bad things. The losers are trying to get everyone else to drop to their level. Fuck them.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      “2.3 children is the ideal social unit”

      Because that happens to be the average? How fucking stupid are the people who come up with this shit?

      In other stats, five children by five fathers is the ideal black social unit.

      • robc

        And how many wife’s are homemakers? Was this written in 1952?

      • robc

        wife’s

        Gah, that is an abomination. I swear, I have some sort of education.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Look man, I get together with the other whiteys and we discuss how we can achieve the ideal social unit on average.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What’s 0.3, the dog? Two cats?

      • Tundra

        Slow kid. Good heart but not all there.

      • Nephilium

        But he tries 110%!

      • Rat on a train

        Abortions? Tracked like sandbags in spades.

      • rhywun

        Because that happens to be the average?

        Not anymore. We’re way below “replacement” birthin’ now.

      • Pine_Tree

        In my circles, the average number of kids is 5.

        Which, as it’s also my number, is “ideal” in my mind, of course.

        The future belongs to those who show up.

    • robc

      Seems at least 90% accurate.

      Its supposed to be selling it as an ideal, right?

      • Tundra

        Only if you want a solid chance at a pleasant life. Otherwise, ewwww!

      • robc

        The success sequence pisses people off:

        In America (not necessarily in some third world locale), you can avoid poverty thru 3 easy steps:

        1. Graduate HS
        2. Get a job
        3. Don’t have a kid until married

        If you do all 3 of those, the chances of ending up in poverty, regardless of where you started, is damn low.

      • kinnath

        I did, but by choice.

        We lived below the poverty line for three years while we were in college and had two kids.

        It was temporary and mostly mitigated by student loans. And it was necessary to get to a better life.

    • Lackadaisical

      So, we’re the best?

    • Common Tater

      Isn’t that from a couple of years ago?

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      YOU’RE KILLING GAIA

      • Tundra

        Raping. Killing comes later.

      • MikeS

        I mean, the killing could come first.

    • Rebel Scum

      “These non-tailpipe emissions are becoming an issue for two reasons,” said Heejung Jung, a professor at the University of California, Riverside.

      1) you need to push the climate / great reset agenda.
      2) you are a cunte.

    • whiz

      Auto racers have a sad.

    • The Last American Hero

      So now that people start buying electric cars and hybrids that have such low emissions you can’t detect them, we need a new excuse.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      No more burnouts, no more drifting Tokyo or otherwise, no more driving in general, no more fun. Environmental puritans are the worst.

      • Fourscore

        No more family Sunday drives, ending at a Dairy Queen with a blizzard. Those days are mostly gone

    • Lackadaisical

      Eh, I will say that using old cut up tires as mulch and in playgrounds is stupid as fuck. Let’s treat what is considered toxic waste as a landscaping material and exposure kids directly to it.

    • Mojeaux

      On we march towards WW3.

      Feature, not bug.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I think the only reason it’s being introduced is they know it’ll fail. They need a unanimous one and Hungary won’t do it, no way. Sad that they’re the lone voice of not complete insanity but there you go.

      • The Last American Hero

        Matt Welch has a sad.

        Smaller NATO and Hungary in the same sentence? He won’t be able to handle it.

      • Lachowsky

        cold war uber allies

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I bet they’d kick out Hungary to admit Ukraine.

    • rhywun

      Madness.

      Everybody knows Ukraine is not fit for membership even if they were not currently at war.

  37. The Other Kevin

    “She noted that a Maryland skinhead group once ran a gym to ‘recruit and train white supremacists in mixed martial arts'”

    They’re on to us. The only reason Mrs. TOK and I are opening our gym is to get our local Klan in shape for the race war. SMDH

    • R.J.

      *Government takes notes

      • Lachowsky

        Then joins klan and gets membership at TOK’s gym

      • The Other Kevin

        If I get a few hundred members who show up in khaki shorts and Ray-Bans I’ll gladly take their money.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Protesters and legislators converged on the European Union parliament Tuesday as the bloc prepared a cliffhanger vote on protecting its threatened nature and shielding it from disruptive environmental change, in a test of the EU’s global climate credentials.

    Are they going to declare war on the BRICs?

  39. The Late P Brooks

    The bill is a key part of the EU’s vaunted European Green Deal that seeks to establish the world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets and make the bloc the global point of reference on all climate issues. The plans proposed by the EU’s executive commission set binding restoration targets for specific habitats and species, with the aim by 2030 to cover at least 20% of the region’s land and sea areas.

    They/re not serious unless they find a way to reintroduce saber tooth tigers.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    For decades, scientists and health officials have warned drivers of the harmful pollutants coming from tailpipes. But as car exhaust systems have become cleaner, pollution linked to heart and lung disease has increased from a different source: tires and brakes.

    The Big Bad Wolf will always be with us.

  41. Common Tater

    From above:

    “As Dr. Leonard Sax has pointed out both on his website and in a scientific paper, if you limit the term intersex to its traditional meaning — to refer either to individuals who have XY chromosomes with predominantly female anatomy, XX chromosomes with predominantly male anatomy, or ambiguous or mixed genitalia (which is what Fausto-Sterling herself did in her 1993 essay “The Five Sexes”), then the rate of intersex births is just .018% — less than two out of every 10,000 people.

    The crazy thing about the Semenya case is that even though intersex births like Semenya’s are extremely rare it’s believed that all three of the medallists in the 2016 Olympic women’s 800 – Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui — are intersex.”

    https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-caster-semenya-she-has-xy-chromosomes/

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Huh, I bet that explains the basketball lady that got imprisoned by the Russians.

  42. CPRM

    “Whenever we use jargon in lay conversations, we are shifting the power dynamic whether we intend to or not,” said Israa Nasir, a therapist and mental health educator who has 153,000 followers on Instagram. “What happens in ‘therapy speak’ is there’s a little bit of this moralistic virtue signaling, right? Like I’m a little more informed, I’m more emotionally mature … and I’m telling you that you are harming me in this way.”

    The Clergy has spoken!

  43. The Late P Brooks

    If parliament rejects the plan Wednesday, it would be sent back to the drawing board and it’s unlikely anything would emerge ahead of the June EU parliament elections next year. And that would undermine the EU’s credibility abroad since it has put so much into its vaunted Green Deal.

    “This law is nothing less than the flagship initiative of the European Green Deal,” Sinkevicius said.

    Go on, pussy. You said you were going to slit your wrists. Let’s see you do it.

    • R.J.

      May it cause the dissolution of the EU grifting community.

    • sloopyinca

      Note to the EU: it’s down the road, not across the street.

    • rhywun

      undermine the EU’s credibility

      China, India, and other rapidly developing countries try to hold back the peals of laughter watching “the west” em-poor itself.

      • kinnath

        impoverish

    • Ownbestenemy

      Still waiting for the big fat guys to model their underwear

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      All I know is I’d hate to be her toilet

      • AlexinCT

        But you would be her boy toy?

  44. Common Tater

    “A bill in California backed by state Democrats could require judges to take race into account when they sentence a convicted criminal.

    Bill 852, which was introduced by Democratic Assembly Member Reggie Jones-Sawyer in February, aims to ‘rectify racial bias’ in the justice system.

    ‘It is the intent of the Legislature to rectify the racial bias that has historically permeated our criminal justice system as documented by the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans,’ the bill read.

    The piece of legislation – which would see judges weighing how persecuted minorities have been – passed in the California House in May.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12285465/New-bill-California-judges-consider-convicted-criminals-RACE-sentencing.html

    What could possibly go wrong?

    • AlexinCT

      So there in a nutshell is progressivism. Progressives see something they want to change, and are just going to assume if they demand it change human nature won’t play havoc with the idiotic crap.

    • Ownbestenemy

      So Hispanics will be given more lenient treatment right?

      • UnCivilServant

        That depends, are you a White Hispanic, or a Latinx?

    • rhywun

      Wow. Keep voting for racists, California. Utopia incoming!

    • AlexinCT

      I guess he never did any of those exercises where you fall back into someone’s arms and have that someone let your ass fall onto the ground?

    • R.J.

      That is hilarious!

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Floundering

    — Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., doubled-down on his belief that a white nationalist is simply “an American,” taking issue with a CNN host’s assertion that all white nationalists are, by definition, racist.

    Tuberville made the comments in an interview on CNN’s “The Source” with host Kaitlan Collins when asked to clarify remarks he made in a radio interview in May in which he appeared to defend white nationalists by suggesting they should not be barred from serving in the military.

    “First of all, I’m totally against any type of racist,” Tuberville said Monday, adding he was a football coach for 40 years and was around many people of color during that time.

    The senator accused Democratic lawmakers of engaging in “identity politics” by using the term “white nationalist” as “just another word that they want to use other than racism.”

    Collins, however, pressed Tuberville again on whether he believes white nationalists should be able to serve in the U.S. military.

    “If people think that a white nationalist is racist, I agree with that,” Tuberville said.

    “A white nationalist is someone who believes that the white race is superior to other races,” Collins replied.

    Tuberville took issue with her definition, saying it was just “some people’s opinion.”

    “My opinion of a white nationalist — if somebody wants to call them a white nationalist — to me, is an American. It’s an American,” he said. “Now, if that white nationalist is a racist, I’m totally against anything that they want to do, because I am 110% against racism.”

    Make them tell you exactly who and what a “white nationalist” is, and how many there are. If you concede to the broad white nationalist slur, you’re never going to get anywhere. Ask them if rabid Black Lives Matter racists should be allowed to serve.

    • rhywun

      he appeared to defend white nationalists by suggesting they should not be barred from serving in the military

      Senator Tuberville, when did you appear to stop beating your wife?

    • Tundra

      Lol. Who didn’t see that coming?

    • AlexinCT

      YOU WILL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE COPPERS!

  46. Common Tater

    “Pre-pubescent German boys practice fighting moves during a Hitler Youth training session”

    LOL

  47. The Late P Brooks

    Collins again stated that a white nationalist is racist.

    Like all those 100% lily white Oath Keepers?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      As long as *insert whatever race here* nationalists aren’t eliminationalist then I don’t have a problem with them having and voicing those views.

  48. Tundra

    I do feel bad for the young lady who had the highly shared psychotic break on the airplane, but damn are the memes good.

    • rhywun

      Brav-o.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Bounty hunters?

    A Russian military official who had commanded a submarine in the Black Sea and appeared on a Ukrainian blacklist of alleged war criminals has been shot dead by an unknown assassin while on his morning run.

    Russia’s top investigative body said Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was gunned down early on Monday in the southern city of Krasnodar.

    Rzhitsky’s address and personal details appeared on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets (Peacemaker), a vast unofficial database of people considered to be enemies of Ukraine.

    On Tuesday the word “Liquidated”, in red letters, had been superimposed on his photograph on the site.

    Anton Gerashchenko, a Ukrainian interior ministry adviser, tweeted that Russian media were pointing the finger at Ukraine but he did not comment on whether that suspicion was justified.

    “So far Russian police cannot find a single surveillance camera that would show the crime being committed. The search continues,” Gerashchenko said.

    That’s not something liable to spiral out of control.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Isn’t that the same list Rand Paul, Aaron Mate, and Glenn Greenwald are on?

    • Not Adahn

      Did you know that Kiev’s reservoir happens to sit on top of a previously-undiscovered polonium ore deposit? Wild, huh?

    • Tundra

      Baza, a Russian Telegram channel with links to the security services, said the killer could have tracked Rzhitsky’s movements in Krasnodar on an app where he posted details of his regular jogging route and how long he took to complete it.

      Gee, you think?

    • grrizzly

      According to Rzhitsky’s relatives, he didn’t participate in the latest part of the war that started in February 2022. He started the process of retiring in December 2021. Apparently, he was added to the Myrotvorets list because in 2014 he operated a sub that used to be Ukrainian before the annexation of Crimea.

      The suspected assassin has been arrested; he used to be the head of the Ukrainian karate federation.

  50. Ownbestenemy

    He is doing it wrong. You are supposed to call her ‘a lying, dog-faced pony soldier’ or ‘idiot’ or give her a nickname if you want to be president.

    • The Other Kevin

      It wasn’t long ago that the left would jump at the chance to ban any chemical made by a big corporation.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    Failure on a grand scale

    “These data reiterate that recovery will not be linear, easy, or quick and we cannot take our foot off the gas pedal,” Lewis said. “Disappointing as these results may be, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that things would likely be so much worse without the enduring work of educators and schools to support students in this moment.”

    The NWEA’s recommendations include using local data to help students continue to recover, intervening as needed and communicating important information with families in a timely way.

    The NWEA describes itself as a “pioneer in educational research and assessment methodology,” with over four decades of work.

    We must give our heroic schoolmarms more money!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ah Jennifer Rubin.

      Gotta love the prefix of MAGA now on anything.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Any article that includes the words “as explained by Lawrence Tribe” will inevitably be totalitarian in nature.

      That guy makes Krugman look evenhanded.