ZARDOZ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON LINKS OF CLEANSING

by | Jul 12, 2023 | Cryptids, Daily Links | 168 comments

AVAILABLE SOON, AT FINER SHOPPING ESTABLISHMENTS.

 

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW THE WRITINGS OF THE FREE OF SUGAR CHOSEN ONE. HOWEVER, THE CHOSEN ONES HAVE DONE WELL IN SNARKING AT THE BRUTALS WHO PLAGUE THE EARTH, AND DESERVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK.

A QUICK REMINDER – THE GUN IS GOOD, THE PENIS IS EVIL.

  1.  THE BRUTALS OF RUSSIA AND UKRAINE KEEP IT UP, BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ZARDOZ’S TASTE! AT LEAST GRAIN WAS MENTIONED, SO ZARDOZ IS SLIGHTLY PLEASED.
  2. NOT INTENTIONAL CLEANSING, BUT ZARDOZ DOES NOTE THE DISASTER(S). THIS SEEMS TO BE A RECURRING EVENT AMONGST THE BRUTALS LATELY.
  3. ZARDOZ CAN ONLY ENCOURAGE THINGS LIKE THIS. IT COULD LEAD TO SOME SPECTACULAR ACCIDENTS, TRUE? PERHAPS THE CHOSEN ONES WHO ARE KNOWN AS MEXICAN SHARPSHOOTER AND OWNBESTENEMY CAN RESPOND.
  4. ZARDOZ MUST CONFESS THAT DESPITE THIS NOT INVOLVING THE CLEANSING OF A SINGLE BRUTAL, THIS STORY CAUSES HIS CIRCUITS TO RESPOND IN AN AMUSED MANNER.

GO FORTH AND COMMENT!

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

About The Author

ZARDOZ

ZARDOZ

SERVANT OF THE TABERNACLE, THE ETERNALS OF THE VORTEX. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZhKGgmoUI

168 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “Thieves have stolen the lighting system for one of the runways at Nigeria’s busiest airport just months after it was installed, an airport authority spokesman has confirmed to the BBC.”

    Wow. How much of a market is there for hot used airport lighting?

    • kinnath

      I assume it’s the copper wiring and the metal infrastructure that is valuable.

      • SDF-7

        Heh. Exactly what I expected.

        And I’m with kinnath — copper thieves.

  2. Common Tater

    “THIS STORY CAUSES HIS CIRCUITS TO RESPOND IN AN AMUSED MANNER”

    I’m thinking was just drunk off his ass, and “I was drugged” is just an excuse.

    • R C Dean

      “A Long Island man accused of slugging a one-legged man and dancing naked on a Las Vegas poker table”

      Somebody’s seen The Hangover too many times.

      The one-legged man is a nice touch, though.

  3. Common Tater

    ““Every minute counts if we’re to find these more than 300 people alive who are in three Senegalese pirogues which have disappeared in the Atlantic,” Maleno tweeted on Tuesday, referring to a long wooden canoe-like vessel.”

    So not the Polish dumplings.

    • Common Tater

      “The three missing boats are believed to have left the coast of Senegal in recent weeks, according to Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras which helps migrant boats in distress.”

      That does sound nicer than “facilitates smuggling”.

    • SDF-7

      I blame Thor Heyerdahl.

    • Homple

      Those things are made to be poled down a bayou.

      Goodbye Joe indeed.

  4. Warty

    Las Vegas police said Brian Danilczyk allegedly slugged a one-legged man at the Bird Bar at the Flamingo Hotel around 11:20 p.m. Sunday, then fled out onto the Strip.

    He stripped off his clothes and walked naked into Harrah’s Hotel and Casino, where he is seen on surveillance footage “flaunting his genitalia while gyrating” on top of a poker table, police said.

    We’ve all been there, bro.

    • CPRM

      “No, dear, of course I would never do such a thing…I…I was drugged! Yeah that’s it! By…by…white supremacists shouting…um…we’re gonna tranny beat you for voting for Biden! Yeah, that’s the ticket!”

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Dude, Pride Month ended already.

    • SDF-7

      Dammit, spoilers! Now we now where Paul from Animal’s story ends up!

    • Tundra

      “Was that wrong? Was I not supposed to do that?”

    • Bobarian LMD

      “flaunting his genitalia while gyrating”

      We call that “Doing the Windmill”

  5. Animal

    Fishing story submitted. Schedule in good health.

    • SDF-7

      “Walk into stream…. swat salmon onto bank… Enjoy!”

      • Animal

        You read it already?

  6. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Dude’s got serious game.

    https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1679122048524640265

    NY principal used Snapchat to try to lure a 16-year-old girl to meet him in a remote location for sex, bringing with him condoms, chicken nuggets and a Grimace milkshake from McDonald’s, authorities said.

    Grimace gets you the goods!

    • Sensei

      Experience pays dividends!

      • rhywun

        Service guarantees citizenship!

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Innocent bystander

    Ray Epps, the Arizona man that conspiracy theorists falsely claim led an FBI plot to orchestrate the January 6 insurrection, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Fox News, accusing the right-wing channel and former host Tucker Carlson of defamation.

    “In the aftermath of the events of January 6th, Fox News searched for a scapegoat to blame other than Donald Trump or the Republican Party,” the lawsuit said. “Eventually, they turned on one of their own.”

    Spokespeople for Fox News did not immediately return a request for comment. Neither did Carlson.

    The lawsuit from Epps comes after his lawyer demanded a retraction in March over the “fanciful notion” Carlson advanced on his show.

    In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, conspiracy theorists baselessly suggested that the assault was a so-called “false flag” operation staged by the federal government to make supporters of then-President Donald Trump look bad.

    As part of that conspiracy theory, some right-wing figures falsely claimed Epps was part of a secret FBI plot to orchestrate the attack.

    He wun’t doin’ nuthun.

    Pay no attention to the hundreds of people the government has spared no expense to drag into court.

    • kinnath

      Can you say “Discovery”?

      • Chafed

        That’s going to be interesting.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        No, because Fox is controlled by its shareholders, the largest of which is Blackrock.

        They will settle immediately with no fight. They’re the very definition of controlled opposition at this point.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        And it furthers the narrative that Epps is not a plant. Win-win for the establishment.

      • kinnath

        Thanks for stomping on my hopes.

      • Chafed

        Rupert Murdoch and his children would like a word.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        His children? Or do you mean his children’s NY socialite wives?

        I’ll be shocked if this goes to court. SHOCKED, I SAY!

      • rhywun

        This.

        Fox will fold like a cheap suit, just like it did with the Dominion thing.

      • Gustave Lytton

        They already canned Carlson. Who will they take off after this suit?

      • creech

        Was Carlson sued individually? If so, maybe he doesn’t settle and gets to discover.

      • juris imprudent

        How’s that working out for Steyn?

      • SDF-7

        Nope. I refuse to recognize anything after Enterprise.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Discovery where they release all sorts of private communications to try to embarrass and undermine their talent?

    • Gustave Lytton

      conspiracy theorists falsely claim led an FBI plot

      Steal those bases.

      • R C Dean

        Glad they snuck that in. Back in the day, that kind of conclusory writing would have gotten a reporter’s ass kicked by his editor. These days, its probably the editor who put it in.

    • Common Tater

      “Missed it by this much”

  8. The Late P Brooks

    “Fox’s lies about Epps reached hundreds of millions of people and caused enormous harm to Epps,” the lawsuit said, accusing the network of running a “years-long campaign spreading falsehoods” about him that “destroyed” his life.

    He should take it on the lam to Peru. He can hang out with the Bud Light gargoyle.

    • rhywun

      LOL he’s on camera instigating shit; which is more than you can say for the DC gulag residents.

      This is just the administration rubbing our nose in it, yet again.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Epps’ lawsuit said he was a “poorly cast villain” for Fox News and Carlson, describing him as a former Trump-voting Marine who “was an avid and loyal Fox viewer and fan of Mr. Carlson’s.” In fact, the lawsuit indicated Epps was at the US Capitol on January 6 because he was “persuaded by the lies broadcast by Fox asserting the election had been stolen.”

    In a private deposition with the House committee that investigated January 6, Epps denied that he ever worked for the FBI or for federal law enforcement, according to a transcript of his interview. He told the committee he supported Trump in 2020 and attended the DC protest because he was concerned about widespread voter fraud.

    These denials from Epps are meaningful because it’s a crime to lie to Congress.

    They offered him immunity due to his invaluable assistance?

    • The Other Kevin

      They searched phone records for anyone even near DC on that day. Name one other person that close to the capitol that day who was let off completely.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “denied that he ever worked for the FBI or for federal law enforcement”
      He’s parsing…how about “cooperated with” or “provided information to?”

      • SDF-7

        I’m sure there are parts of the Intelligence Community which aren’t “federal law enforcement”.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That too no doubt.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Or he works for a contractor or just received money but isn’t formally employed, etc etc.

      • R C Dean

        Technically, the intelligence agencies aren’t law enforcement at all.

  10. CPRM

    These denials from Epps are meaningful because it’s a crime to lie to Congress.

    The only dignified response.

    • R C Dean

      I love the implication that, because it’s a crime to lie to Congress, we must take him at his word.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)
    • The Other Kevin

      Make Ray Epps a millionaire by settling with Fox?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’s the bully from every ‘80s comedy but I kinda like the guy.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Stupid freak deserves to be harassed.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Sweet Tapdancing Jesus, we really do need to revisit nuthouses. I mean damn…

    • rhywun

      Not clicking.

  11. Common Tater

    “CNN is under fire for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney as “he” and “him” in a segment about the “culture war” being waged over the transgender influencer’s partnership with Bud Light.

    Correspondent Ryan Young failed to use the 26-year-old influencer’s preferred pronouns in a short segment about the backlash against the beer giant that has led to plummeting sales.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/cnn-under-fire-for-misgendering-dylan-mulvaney/

    It might not be misgendering because the whole thing seems like a LARP.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      “Failed to use”. I really hate that phrasing.

      • rhywun

        “Failed to submit to his insanity” works for me.

        This shit is getting really tiresome. And dangerously wicked.

        “But [trans activists] didn’t like how Bud Light didn’t stand by him after all this,” Young said, again failing to use the influencer’s preferred “they.”

        So he failed to read Mr. Mulvaney’s mind?

        PS. Watching the NY Post turn into Vox is pretty fucking sad.

  12. KSuellington

    | Las Vegas police said Brian Danilczyk allegedly slugged a one-legged man at the Bird Bar at the Flamingo Hotel around 11:20 p.m. Sunday, then fled out onto the Strip.

    He stripped off his clothes and walked naked into Harrah’s Hotel and Casino, where he is seen on surveillance footage “flaunting his genitalia while gyrating” on top of a poker table, police said

    I can completely believe the guy’s story that he was drugged. I’ve been roofied before with a buddy and another girl and just before oblivion set in he was taking off her shirt on a couch and I jumped on them and started wrestling them both. Then we all looked over at the two chicks that drugged us and they were laughing their asses off at us. Just before I blacked out I remember trying to get up to push them out the apartment as I was realizing what was happening. I failed to make it off the couch.

    • pistoffnick

      My life has been so tame. I want to party like KSwell.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I read that as you wanting to party with Swalwell. That would be one kink I’d have to shame.

      • juris imprudent

        Like you’ve never been to a Chinese buffet?

      • KSuellington

        That was Rio late 90’s. Now I’m boring with kids. I spent my 20’s and early 30’s. working and traveling in South America and Europe and looking for any adventure I could get my hands and other parts on and in. Thankfully I survived to tell some tales.

      • Mojeaux

        Once again I am reminded that I wasted my youth.

    • KSuellington

      I know three other people, one a great friend, who have been roofied at different times in the SF Bay Area. It’s frightey common.

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

        I was never roofied, but I did smoke some laced pot. PCP, I think, but obvs not sure. Went from a pot haze to tripping balls in seconds. It’s one of the reasons I dislike pot, too shaky with how it used to come around.

      • rhywun

        I’d be terrified to do any drugs nowadays – and I did a shit-ton in the past.

        You don’t know what you’re getting anymore.

      • B.P.

        Same. Five people in my town dropped dead from snorting cocaine that was laced with fentanyl. Wiped out a decent chunk of a family.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      “ a one-legged man at the Bird Bar”

      If I had a nickel…

      • pistoffnick

        Busier than a one=legged man in a ass kicking contest…

  13. The Late P Brooks

    404 not available

    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pressed House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to push the FBI for information about the origin of COVID-19 ahead of the committee’s Wednesday hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray.

    Paul, who had previously requested meetings with the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate to discuss its investigation into the origins of COVID-19, said he was writing to “notify” Jordan that FBI leadership was refusing to meet with Congress on the topic.

    “The FBI’s refusal to meet with elected representatives to discuss their work on SARS-CoV-2 is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated,” he said in the letter Tuesday.

    “FBI leadership appears to want to prevent Congress and the American people from learning additional information underlying its conclusion that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a lab incident in Wuhan,” Paul added.

    That’s need-to-know stuff. We’ll decide what you need to know.

  14. Tundra

    I have to admit, regardless of where the truth lies in this war, I’m gonna need to stop watching the hi res videos from the front.

    No bueno.

    • Sensei

      Can confirm.

      Regardless of your view most Russian conscripts don’t want to be there either.

      • Homple

        Can confirm. Most conscripts and many volunteers don’t want to be where they might get killed.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sure, but nuanced a certain way I bet. Chinese capacity is both civil and military shipbuilding and combatant ships seems to be a large enough category to obscure comparisons. Note that average per ship tonnage is lower than the US implying that their fleet is mostly smaller boats, but is presented as two different charts of total numbers and total tonnage.

      Reminds me of past freak outs like the missile gap.

    • juris imprudent

      Son, that is intel intended to deceive Congress, and no one else.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      My congresscritteer will be all over it. He loves lobbying for more mobile ocean targets.

    • MikeS

      When Jim Acosta shouted at the president, he was lauded as a hero.

      • Common Tater

        Jim Acosta pees sitting down.

      • pistoffnick

        Jim Acosta wears footy pajamas.

      • MikeS

        Jim Acosta has Helen Thomas in his spank bank.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Damn man, that’s cold.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        So’s Helen Thomas.

      • Pope Jimbo
  15. creech

    Zardoz says “penis is evil.”. What did Zardoz think of all his Chosen Ones admitting to and bragging about engaging in car sex? Maybe the one who violated a preacher’s kid gets indulgence for corrupting a Brutal’s heretical anti-Zardoz teachings, but what about the rest of you guys?

    • juris imprudent

      AT FINER SHOPPING ESTABLISHMENTS

      Glib-mart?

    • pistoffnick

      Pastor Rick’s daughter was wild….

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Well, fiddlesticks. The clutch plate in the 914 has apparently bonded itself to the flywheel. This is an occupational hazard in cars which sit undriven for prolonged periods. Previously, starting it in gear and then gassing it with the clutch pedal held down has sufficed to break it free. Not today, even on pavement. I really don’t want to drop the motor and gearbox out of this thing. Not unless I’m going to put a different (and water cooled) motor in it. Also, as I recall, clutch parts are ridiculously expensive and I don’t think I can get away with using that pressure plate again. There is a real possibility the pressure plate is the culprit, like maybe the release fingers on the spring have failed somehow. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

    Drat and double drat.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Ooooo…. fun

      That should be a full engine pull. Always find other things to fix in those situations.

      • Tundra

        Fuck. I think I agree.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        If it is anything like a Corvair it should be easy. One motor mount forward and the rear one was easily accessible from the engine compartment. Four bolts per side for the axles and the whole assembly comes out with a floor jack.

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

        And a corvair engine, or Porche six, would be an appropriat replacement.

        A Wasserboxer would throw off the handling, unless you massively reengineered it.

      • R C Dean

        “Well, while it’s out ,we might as well . . . .”

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Who defamed whom?

    “The DOJ will not defend me in the E. Jean Carroll civil case, which is all part of the political Witch Hunt, lawyered up by apolitical operative who I just beat in another case, financed by a big political funder, and ‘judged’ by a Clinton appointee who truly hates ‘TRUMP,’” he wrote on his social media site.

    “The Carroll civil case against me is a Miscarriage of Justice and a total Scam,” Trump added.

    The DOJ’s move Tuesday was the latest in a series of bad news for Trump in connection with Carroll, who has two civil suits against him in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

    Both cases relate to alleged defamatory statements Trump made at different times about Carroll while denying her claim that he raped her in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of a New York department store.

    The second of Carroll’s suits went to trial this spring. A jury in May awarded Carroll $5 million in damages from Trump after finding that he was liable for sexually abusing her and defaming her in statements he made about her in late 2022, when he was a private citizen. The jury did not find Trump liable for rape.

    How the fuck have these thirty year old accusations even made it in front of a judge?

    • Common Tater

      The same assholes lobbied to change that law?

    • SDF-7

      Wasn’t it “She lobbied for a special law in the New York Assembly which they passed expressly with the aspects of her case” or something? I mean, not a targeted political attack at all or anything.

      • juris imprudent

        A number of states have revised statute of limitations on sex crimes, due to #MeToo, the Catholic Church, and others.

      • SDF-7

        A number of states didn’t have the plantiff in a suit (and her lawyer) flat out say they worked to get it changed just so they could sue and have the law only last one year to give them a window.

        Revise statue of limitations on sex crimes? Fine… but “Only if you file suit during this brief period”? Come on.

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, I imagine there were a lot of legislators in a real bind on that. There’s no way they wanted an open-ended statute on sex crimes – hell, a lot of them probably threw parties when the statute ran on something they did. But take a shot at Trump? Hell yeah.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, look. Pelican Parts offers clutch kits fora mere ~$550.

    • rhywun

      All I got is “Biden calls Zelensky ‘Vladimir’ during NATO remarks in latest gaffe”.

      Um….

  19. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    HA HA!

    Sales of Michelob Ultra fell by 4.3 percent in the week that ended on July 1, as compared with the previous year, and Busch Light took an 8.5 percent hit in sales, according to Bump Williams Consulting citing NielsenIQ data. Bud Light’s sales dropped 28.5 percent for the week ending July 1, or slightly worse than the 27.5 percent decline during the previous week, while Budweiser’s sales dropped 10.2 percent.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-just-bud-light-anheuser-buschs-other-beers-are-also-suffering

    • Common Tater

      That’s not good when lawnmower beer sales go down in the Summer.

      • MikeS

        I agree.

        /takes sip of Keystone Light

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Turf battle

    A federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., has ordered a halt to construction on a section of an interstate pipeline backed prominently by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and fast-tracked by Congress.

    In a Monday ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit granted a stay sought by The Wilderness Society to halt construction on a segment of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which would carry natural gas through parts of West Virginia and Virginia.

    The section includes 3 miles of the planned pipeline that would pass through the Jefferson National Forest in the Appalachian Mountains.

    The law enacted last month to raise the federal debt limit included a provision paving the way for the project. It also removed the 4th Circuit’s jurisdiction, saying instead any cases over its constitutionality should be heard by an appeals court in Washington, D.C.

    The filing by the environmental organization called that provision a violation of constitutional separation of powers. The one-page temporary stay will only apply pending a more substantive ruling on merit.

    Manchin, who has long been one of the most vocal backers of the project in the Senate, tweeted that the court’s stay was “unlawful” and said “regardless of your position on MVP, it should alarm every American when a court ignores the law.”

    Why do I think they all just want to get their own way, and the law be damned?

    • juris imprudent

      filing by the environmental organization

      WITH NO FUCKING STANDING

  21. UnCivilServant

    How is it I still can’t figure out what the flavor of sumac is so I can decide how best to use the spice? I mean, I seasoned that chicken thigh with nothing but sumac, and having finished it, am drawing a blank as to the taste. Is sumac just the null spice?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    That should be a full engine pull. Always find other things to fix in those situations.

    Exactly. Dropping the motor and gearbox is really pretty simple, in these things, but I just don’t want to do it. And I foresee coming down with a bad case of “As long as I’m in here”.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Before you know it, you’ll be machining the heads and installing custom anodized rockers with springs made from unobtanium.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t think I have ever heard of sumac being used as a flavoring. I would have guessed it to be poisonous.

    • Gender Traitor

      The latter is the only way I’ve ever heard of it – one of The Big Three the Camp Fire Girls manual warned us about, along with poison ivy and poison oak.

      • UnCivilServant

        There is a seasoning called sumac. I can only assume it comes from a non-poisonous variety.

        Then again if there were only the poison variety, would it need the descriptor?

      • Gender Traitor

        Maybe the “sumac” is just there to differentiate it from all the other poisons…

      • Gender Traitor

        So did you pick up any tartness in the chicken thighs so seasoned?

      • UnCivilServant

        If I did, I forgot about it.

      • Nephilium

        Sumac once served as the tart, acidic element in cooking prior to the introduction of lemons by the Romans. This tart, lemony red spice is harvested from shrubs in the Middle East and traditionally sun-dried. This version from Turkey is cured with salt to develop notes of sour cherry and cranberry. It is excellent on kebabs. Interestingly, its use gave rise to the tradition of pink lemonade in America. Sumac is a household staple in middleeastern countries, much like salt and pepper in the United States. The plant is actually a member of the cashew family, just like pink peppercorns are. This particular sumac is cured and comes from Turkey specifically. Instead of being dried, this sumac is chopped and packed in salt. This dark red powdered berry had a nutty texture with a tart, sour lemon with a slightly fermented taste. Sumac can be used as you would lemon and salt, in dishes from Chicken, fish, vegetables or hummus. Ingredients: Sumac, salt.

        Per The Spice House. If it’s been in the cupboard for several years (or the grocery store shelf), it may no longer have the flavor anymore.

      • blighted_non_millenial

        If you don’t taste it at all on chicken it is probably old. Persians use it to season kabob dishes, melt some butter on a plate of hot rice (they are prone to toss in a raw egg and grilled tomatoes as well), add a skewer or two of grilled meat, season liberally w/ sumac. Delish.

  24. R C Dean

    Good lord. I just saw an article about the Barbie movie (and I have enjoyed the various Barbie/Oppenheimer mashup memes). Just when I thought Hollywood couldn’t get any stupider, apparently they originally signed Amy Schumer to play Barbie.

    • SDF-7

      I have become Barbie, Destroyer of Worlds?

      I suppose….

      • Common Tater

        I think it was about nuking the Malibu house.

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

        So, it’s taking a dump?

        Ratings wise, I mean.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM

      Schumer, IIRC, dropped out of the part after she tried and failed to lose the requisite weight necessary to pull off the Barbie vibe. If she’d stuck with it and did the part, I can imagine it wouldn’t have been all that bad, actually.

      • Common Tater

        You have some imagination 🙂

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Just when I thought Hollywood couldn’t get any stupider, apparently they originally signed Amy Schumer to play Barbie.

    They just want to get their money’s worth.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Before you know it, you’ll be machining the heads and installing custom anodized rockers with springs made from unobtanium.

    Worse. A three liter Honda V6 adapted to a Subaru 5 speed transaxle. I just don’t know what the people who have been doing Subaru swaps use for half shafts and rear hubs. And then I’d have to do the five bolt wheel conversion, and those brakes would definitely have got to go…

  27. The Late P Brooks

    If it is anything like a Corvair it should be easy.

    It’s not. Engine and gearbox come out together. It’s actually not that bad, but as noted, it’s a can of worms I really don’t want to open right now.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    “Well, while it’s out ,we might as well . . . .”

    *points to nose*

  29. Pope Jimbo

    We moved up into the Top 5!

    Minnesota has vaulted into the Top 5 of CNBC’s “Top States for Business” rankings for 2023, bumping Texas out for the first time ever.

    The Land of 10,000 Lakes moved from 9th to 5th in CNBC’s latest annual rankings, displacing the Lone Star State, which fell to 6th.

    A number of predominantly Republican states were hurt in the 2023 rankings, with the passage of abortion restrictions impacting states in the “Life, Health & Inclusion” category – for which Texas ranked dead last out of the 50 states.

    Suck it TexAss! Who wants to do business in a state where you can’t knock up your secretary and have her get a convenient abortion?

    Looking forward to the day that Planned Parenthood holds Minnesoda hostage for a publicly financed Aboratorium (?). “Hey if you want to be in the big time you gotta have a major league abortion team. We can always move the Minnesoda Maulers to LA”

    • rhywun

      abortion restrictions impacting states

      LOL they’re not even embarrassed at the cringe.

    • B.P.

      I would think ranking states in the business category would be measured by things like, I don’t know, sales tax receipts, number of businesses moving there, filings with the secretary of state, impact on the securities markets, etc. Maybe the rankings are now based on kombucha pop-ups and food trucks that only sell cupcakes.

  30. Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

    Guess who’s got a kidney stone?

    Whee!

    • Common Tater

      Congrats???

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Thank you!

        /trying desperately to be positive about it even though I know tonight is going to suck donkey balls/

    • Gender Traitor

      😖

    • SDF-7

      Better than ants in your gizzard — but hopefully this too, shall pass.

      • Mojeaux

        Not wrong.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Maybe it is ants in my gizzard, hmmm,….

  31. SDF-7

    Well, speaking of things that suck donkey balls.

    I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this wasn’t really “We don’t want to do the backend — let’s use Meta’s stock service! Don’t worry about reading the terms!”, but still a royal screw up.

    And yet another reason 99% of people should be able to use something like the 1040-EZ and not need to use a website, software, etc. But then there wouldn’t be all those lovely carveouts, kickbacks and bribes ^W lobbyists from the tax prep software firms…

    • Common Tater

      “The three companies tracked the information that users typed into their tax preparation websites using pixels, a common technology utilized on almost all websites for customer ad targeting on social media. Google and Meta, Facebook’s parent company, offer this tracking technology to website administrators. When users typed their information into the tax forms, the report says, pixel technology sent that data to Google and Facebook — including users’ approximate annual gross income, the amount of money they received as a tax refund, whether they are married and have children, and whether they ever clicked on a long list of tax forms that would reveal more about their income and life events.”

      That’s totally fucked.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      H&R Block is a giant bag of of assholes.

      They’re one of the biggest lobbyists against tax simplification reform.

  32. Common Tater

    “Carroll alleged in 2019 that Trump raped her in either 1995 or 1996 in a dressing room at Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman.”

    She doesn’t know what year?

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      And she still win her defamation case even though she was the one making allegations of criminal activity against him with no evidence at all.

      Justice is obviously prevailing

      • SDF-7

        NYC ? OMB == OK! $$$ : FU;

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        Just keep in mind that if some crazy bitch accuses you of rape with no evidence and you deny it, your defaming her.

      • Common Tater

        That’s just insane.

  33. Common Tater

    “Had this memo just been discovered, this might have been unfair. However, this Richmond office memo leaked out five months ago, which exposed it as a joint project with the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Richmond FBI office promulgated this advisory despite having no evidence that “radical traditional Catholics” had any connection to violence. The SPLC fed this to the FBI office on the claim to be protection “abortion rights,” which was nonsense on its face, as I explained after the main FBI office retreated immediately from the project”

    https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/07/12/jordans-brutal-beatdown-of-wray-what-defines-a-rad-trad-catholic-and-why-would-the-fbi-care-n564170

    I think it’s time Catholics open an unexpected line of inquiry.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      We’re going to need more comfy furnishings

    • Sensei

      No one expects the Inquisition.

    • rhywun

      As a Catholic, I’m stumped on both questions, and especially the latter.

      I’m not. The FBI is a fully-owned subsidiary of Leftism Inc. now, and is therefore pro-abortion.