Monday Afternoon Links

by | Dec 11, 2023 | Daily Links | 153 comments

These guys win the ugly sweater contest every year!

Reminder:

GLIBZOOM TACKY HOLIDAY ATTIRE CONTEST: KK will hold a tacky holiday attire contest on the GlibZoom on Saturday, Dec 16. The winner will receive a $20 Amazon gift card and bragging rights for a year. Bring out your ugly sweaters and tacky headgear. The winner will be chosen by popular vote. No voting for yourself. KK not eligible to win. You must be on camera at 9:00pm Glibs time to be eligible to win. You don’t have to show your face but you do have to show us your tacky garment. Big Glibs thanks to KK for coming up with this and donating the prize.

So we are now in the proper holiday spirit.

Let us see what kind of mood is out there in the rest of the world.

  • *Smells smoke, picks up fiddle, begins playing*
  • Oh, this should be fun.
  • Huh, hadn’t heard about this one.

No news worth anything from Switzerland. Im Schweiz nicht neues.

Christmas Music. No, it is neither Wham! nor Mariah Carey.

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Swiss Servator

Currently serving at the pleasure of a Swiss multinational. Previously a Soldier, rugby player, lawyer, bouncer, bartender, substitute teacher, risk manager, and cubicle mushroom. Will work for raclette.

153 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “So we are now in the proper holiday spirit.”

    drunk?

  2. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    Prize is $40 now!! Thanks to Daddy Westernbucks for the double-down

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      Also, it’s 10pm ET

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘Daddy Westernbucks’

      *Waggles eyebrows*

    • Tonio

      “Daddy Westernbucks” for the win.

      Thanks, DW. It’s like a Glibs Xmas Carol.

      • The Other Kevin

        Speaking of which, I have some edits to make to last year’s story.

      • Tonio

        Glibmail sent

  3. Common Tater

    “For the rest of the holiday season, the iconic department store will display one of the world’s priciest electric cars – a Lucid Air Sapphire which accelerates to 60 mph in less than 2 seconds and is outfitted with massage seats and 21 speakers.”

    And it can travel 75 miles before the battery runs out?

    • Common Tater

      “We are really trying to pivot away from being a store to buy goods,” he said. “We want to be at the crossroads of art and fashion.”

      Is there any money in that?

      • R.J.

        No.

      • Lackadaisical

        “It’s a great way to funnel money to our political supporters though.”

      • Pope Jimbo

        That would be at least something.

        My guess is that it is more about a bunch of midlevel and junior marketing “whizzes” wanting to have more street cred with the other drones in the marketing world. Writing ads for a place that does something as mundane as selling stuff is boring and lame. No, you want to quit focusing on selling stuff and work more on your “brand”. Who cares if you sell less stuff? Your brand will be LIT!

        And when you go drinking with the other dumb marketeers, they will be so jelly.

    • The Other Kevin

      75 if it’s warm outside.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    New Bud Light commercial:

    Famous athlete walks into a bar and says, “Hey, buddy, can I buy you a Bud Light? No homo.”

    • Fourscore

      Caitlin? Caitlin? Is that you?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Icky Homo = “Behold the Tranny”?

  5. Shpip

    For the rest of the holiday season, the iconic department store will display one of the world’s priciest electric cars – a Lucid Air Sapphire which accelerates to 60 mph in less than 2 seconds and is outfitted with massage seats and 21 speakers.

    Does the Air Sapphire completely delete the (non-) engine noise? ‘Cause I rather like Silent Lucidity.

    • Derpetologist

      I saw some article touting an electric car charging station in California. Go ahead, guess where the electricity for it comes from.

      That’s right: a bunch of big diesel generators hidden behind some bushes. Scratch that, the generators are hidden under camo netting like fucking Afrikakorps
      panzers.

      ***
      The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger station is an impressive beast. With 98 charging bays, the facility in Coalinga, California, is the largest charging station in the world. But to provide that kind of power takes something solar can’t provide — diesel generators.
      ***

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        Harris Ranch? I would have thought methane would be powering everything for a least a 20 mile radius.

      • The Other Kevin

        It’s not bad for the environment if you can’t see it.

  6. Common Tater

    “Lennick has identified the religious group involved as Israelis for Christ”

    Sounds like a small group.

  7. Common Tater

    “Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt was among those who criticized Musk for unbanning Jones.

    “We disagree profoundly with the decision to reinstate Alex Jones’ X account. Put plainly: you’re not restricting free speech when you keep someone from yelling “fire” in a crowded theater,” said Greenblatt.

    “Similarly, @X wasn’t limiting free speech when it refused to provide Jones a platform for his slanderous lies and dangerous conspiracy theories, which spark paranoia and incite violence,” he added.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/business/vivek-ramaswamy-caught-on-hot-mic-using-bathroom-during-wild-elon-musk-alex-jones-x-livestream/

    CWAA

    • Shpip

      “We disagree profoundly with the decision to reinstate Alex Jones’ X account. Put plainly: you’re not restricting free speech when you keep someone from yelling “fire” in a crowded theater,” said Greenblatt.

      X should freeze Greenblatt’s account for “spreading disinformation,” or at least misusing that dullard Holmes’s quote. The lulz (and butthurt) would be epic.

      • robc

        Wasnt the Holmes quote from a case about spreading communist pamphlets or something?

    • The Other Kevin

      “As of Monday, the X Spaces event had drawn more than 9.1 million listeners, according to the site’s data.”
      “The decision to reinstate Jones’ account could further inflame tensions with corporate advertisers…”

      Corporate advertisers sound like dipshits.

    • The Other Kevin

      I so much hate that “fire in a crowded theater” thing. It’s just a lazy and dishonest way to say “Stuff I don’t like should be banned.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Wait. Vivek has to pee sometimes? Totes disqualifying for the Presidency!!!!

      • DrOtto

        More dignified to shit yourself, just ask Biden.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of fairytale solutions

    Inland Empire officials are touting the Brightline West bullet train project linking Southern Nevada and Southern California as a “catalyst” for the region’s economy.

    Officials from the City of Rancho Cucamonga, Metrolink, Omnitrans and others gathered Monday at Cucamonga Station – the southernmost terminus for the train – to give further details about the project, which is expected to break ground in 2024.

    “This will support an estimated 11,000 jobs for construction of the high-speed rail line,” Rancho Cucamonga Assistant City Manager Elisa Cox said. “This is just a piece of the much larger collaborative effort to make the Inland Empire a global connection point.”

    The line will connect more than 200 miles between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga and will take about two hours to travel.

    Are they going to build an asylum for insane gamblers?

    • Rat on a train

      Rancho Cucamonga is going to give Fresno competition for all the HSR related jobs.

    • Tonio

      “Officials from the City of Rancho Cucamonga…”

      The home of RK Maroon Pictures.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Connecting Las Vegas and Southern California by high-speed rail will create tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs, boost our Southern Nevada tourism economy, and finally help us cut down on I-15 traffic,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto after Biden’s announcement.

    Cortez Masto says the project could eliminate about 3 million cars from Interstate 15 every year, while creating about 35,000 “good-paying union jobs.”

    White House officials say should be finished in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

    *guffaws, slaps knee*

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      🎵 Mono–d’oh!

    • creech

      I wonder how many shares of stock she is buying in the project? Restricted, of course; she can’t sell for 10 years which should be enough time to tell if it’s a hit or a bust.

  10. Shpip

    Indeed, the idea is to lure more of the thousands of holiday visitors — who for generations have thronged outside the Fifth Avenue store to take in Saks’ legendary themed windows and holiday light display — inside the store, according to Baker.

    They want to lure me inside, they should offer an Exhibition Grade official Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot Range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.

    Of course, I could just wait until the pro-Hamas crew comes to protest inside the jewelry department and store security (who do not screw around) starts whack-a-moling them. If there’s anything that gets me into the holiday spirit, it’s Saks and violence.

    • KK, Plump & Unfiltered

      If there’s anything that gets me into the holiday spirit, it’s Saks and violence.

      Phrasing!!

      • Derpetologist

        ***
        The real-life dreamer from Hammond served in the U.S. Army in World War II, where he reportedly developed his disdain for authority…
        ***

        Knock me over with a feather.

      • The Other Kevin

        Mrs. TOK played roller derby at the Jean Shepherd Community Center in Hammond. They called the town Hohman in the story. Hohman Avenue is a main street in Hammond. And now you know.

    • Nephilium

      Here you go!

    • rhywun

      Will you be here next week?

    • Suthenboy

      I am pretty sure you are going to hell for that.

  11. Common Tater

    “Dubble Bubble is being removed because it contains BHT, or butylated hydroxytoluene, which studies show can promote tumor growth and impair blood clotting.

    UK officials were also cracking down on Mountain Dew because it contains calcium disodium EDTA, which is linked to cancer.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12850721/us-candy-cancer-chemicals-seized-uk.html

    BHT and EDTA are actually good for you.

    • The Other Kevin

      There are a lot of things known to cause cancer in the state of California. That’s one reason I avoid going there.

    • Urthona

      I hope that Mountain Dew thing isn’t true because that’s my software developer drink of choice.

  12. Common Tater

    “Chinese hackers are positioning themselves inside critical US infrastructure by targeting careless office workers in a bid to cause ‘societal chaos’ from within should war break out.

    Beijing’s military have burrowed into more than 20 major suppliers in the last year alone including a water utility in Hawaii, a major West Coast port and at least one oil and gas pipeline, analysts have revealed.

    They have bypassed elaborate cyber security systems by intercepting passwords and log-ins unguarded by junior employees, leaving China ‘sitting on a stockpile of strategic’ vulnerabilities.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850109/china-hacking-taiwan-power-infrastructure-passwords.html

    Maybe all that shit shouldn’t be on the internet in the first place?

    • The Other Kevin

      There’s got to be thousands of agents in the US at this point. All they’d have to do is walk up and pull the plug.

  13. Common Tater

    “‘I’m at Disneyland and this person just heard me speaking Spanish and she said, “Great, you’re a f***ing Mexican, right?” Repeat what you just said,’ Ramirez demands. ‘You have a problem with people that speak Spanish in your country, right?’

    The young woman responds: ‘Yeah, but it’s America. It’s America. You don’t speak Spanish in America. It’s an English-speaking country.’

    ‘Your comment is racist, and it has nothing to do with using the restroom,’ Ramirez retorts.

    ‘I don’t care. I hate Mexicans, it’s true. There it is,’ the young woman says.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850355/Woman-Disneyland-bathroom-racist-hate-Mexicans-Eva-Ramirez.html

    CWAC

    • Sean

      *lights the Tres signal*

      • Tres Cool

        If you’re referencing the thicc latina….hells to the yeah

    • Ted S.

      Did this really happen?

      • rhywun

        I very much doubt it.

      • Common Tater

        There is a video.

      • rhywun

        I can’t be bothered with videos.

    • Derpetologist

      Mexican isn’t a race.
      The US has no official language.
      If merely hearing foreign languages bothers you, you need to take a chill pill.
      If free speech means anything at all, it means people should be free to speak whatever language they want.
      Honesty is good; hatred is not.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ¡¿Se habla español en Anaheim?! 😱

      • Derpetologist

        ‘Member that dogshit sci-fi movie with Matt Daaaaaaamon? It was the one with space Mexicans trying to reach the magic tanning beds. Elysium was the name of it.

        Anyway, it turns out that the LA of the future is dirty, crowded, and everyone speaks Spanish. You know, because that’s totally different from the real LA.

      • rhywun

        lol

        I could not make it more than a half hour through that turgid crap.

      • UnCivilServant

        The US has no official language.

        Time to fix that.

        Pre-Norman English Only, now folks.

      • Derpetologist

        “I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt.”

        -John Cheke, 1561

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        “Thayt Chevski, hye is ane rottah. I liketh him notte ande blayme hyme gretely. Lette hym bee beyten withe stikkes.”

        — Chaucer

      • Derpetologist

        I shan’t make *that* mistake again.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        It is a hamas sandwich world.

      • Derpetologist

        It would be very easy to just kill all their higher ups. Wouldn’t even require drone strikes. If the Israelis know where they are, they can just send someone to smother the sons of bitches with a pillow. They’ve done it before. Of course, do that too often and those posh gulf states won’t spend their sweet oil kaching on good ol’ Murican firepower. That and once Israeli agents have been exposed on such a mission, they can’t really risk another.

        ***
        The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (Arabic: محمود المبحوح, Maḥmūd al-Mabḥūḥ; 14 February 1961 – 19 January 2010) took place on 19 January 2010, in a hotel room in Dubai. Al-Mabhouh—a co-founder of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas—was wanted by the Israeli government for the kidnapping and murder of two Israeli soldiers in 1989 as well as purchasing arms from Iran for use in Gaza; these have been cited as a possible motive for the assassination.[1]

        His assassination attracted international attention in part due to allegations that it was ordered by the Israeli government and carried out by Mossad agents holding fake or fraudulently obtained passports from several European countries and Australia.

        The photographs of the 26 suspects and their aliases were subsequently placed on Interpol’s most-wanted list. The Dubai police found that 12 of the suspects used British passports, along with six Irish, four French, one German, and three Australian passports.[2][3][4][5][6] Interpol and the Dubai police believed that the suspects stole the identities of real people, mostly Israeli dual citizens.[2][7] Two Palestinians, believed by Hamas to be former Fatah security officers and current employees of a senior Fatah official, were taken into custody in Dubai, on suspicions that one of them provided logistical assistance to the hit team. Despite Hamas’s claim, Dubai would not comment on the incident or identify the two Palestinian suspects.

        According to initial reports, Al-Mabhouh was drugged,[8] then electrocuted and suffocated.[4] Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim of the Dubai Police Force said the suspects tracked Al-Mabhouh to Dubai from Damascus, Syria. They arrived from different European destinations and stayed at different hotels, presumably to avoid being detected and, with the exception of three of its members suspected of “helping to facilitate” who had left on a ferry for Iran several months before the assassination, departed after the assassination to different countries.[9][4] Dubai’s police chief said that he was “99% certain” that the assassination was the work of Israel’s Mossad. On 1 March 2010, he stated that he was “sure” that all of the suspects are hiding in Israel.[
        ***

    • SDF-7

      Oh noes…. someone is an idiot on planet Earth… it must be international news!

      And of course they doxxed her and showed up in a mob outside her house. Because that’s a logical reaction designed not to make her hate you more.

      TL;DR: People suck.

    • R.J.

      Looks like a crazy libtard potato chick who did the yelling. Just an observation.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Proving once again that the most fascinating animals at the zoo are the fat people.

    • Brochettaward

      I’m really tired of the bullshit where “racism” is considered the worst sin a person can commit.

    • Derpetologist

      ***
      Her Instagram bio once read: ‘A dark old soul with a big hear in a cruel world.’
      ***

      I’m guessing she meant “heart”. Good lord, fat, dumb and pretentious is no way to go through life.

      The only thing dark about her soul is the shadow cast by her fat ass.

      At least she didn’t describe herself as sarcastic. I’m so tired of seeing that on dating profiles.

      And those lip rings look idiotic.

      And, and, and, and…

  14. bacon-magic

    Swiss cheese is tasty yet similar to plastic in texture. There. I said it.

    • R.J.

      The grocery store stuff sure is.

    • SDF-7

      I despise most cheeses — Blue and Swiss in particular. Probably anything “strong” or sharp at a guess… just not my thing.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have never had a ‘sharp’ or ‘strong’ swiss cheese. Every one I’ve found is very mellow.

        Blue “Cheese” is just contaminated, and shouldn’t be eaten.

        But I love cheeses that are not contaminated with mold, insects, or other inappropriate materials.

      • bacon-magic

        *adds more seasoning

      • R.J.

        Goat cheese is great in all its forms.

      • Nephilium

        A couple places around here have a sharp Swiss cheese. While good, I haven’t really found it worth the extra money when there are better options at those locations.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The best cheese I ever had smelled like a rotting possom stuffed inside Dennis Rodman’s dirty gym sock. It was like the opposite of pipe tobacco: Smelled terrible but tasted great.

      • SDF-7

        I presume it was fermented from the finest stinky wizzleteats for you.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’m not even sure what it was, I was drunk at a party thrown by a friend of a friend over a decade ago and she busted it out. It stunk up the whole room once they cut through the rind but it was crazy good.

      • Derpetologist

        Sounds like durian, another exotic food I’d like to try.

        ****
        The durian (/ˈdʊəriən/, /ˈdjʊəriən/)[2] is the edible fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio. There are 30 recognized Durio species, at least nine of which produce edible fruit.[3][4] Durio zibethinus, native to Borneo and Sumatra, is the only species available on the international market. It has over 300 named varieties in Thailand and 100 in Malaysia as of 1987.[3] Other species are sold in their local regions.[3]

        Named in some regions as the “king of fruits”,[4][5] the durian is distinctive for its large size, strong odour, and thorn-covered rind. The fruit can grow as large as 30 cm (12 in) long and 15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter, and it typically weighs 1 to 3 kg (2.2 to 6.6 lb). Its shape ranges from oblong to round, the colour of its husk from green to brown, and its flesh from pale yellow to red, depending on the species.

        Some people regard the durian as having a pleasantly sweet fragrance, whereas others find the aroma overpowering and unpleasant. The smell evokes reactions ranging from deep appreciation to intense disgust. The persistence of its odour, which may linger for several days, has led certain hotels and public transportation services in Southeast Asia to ban the fruit. The 19th-century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described its flesh as “a rich custard highly flavoured with almonds”. The flesh can be consumed at various stages of ripeness, and it is used to flavour a wide variety of savoury and sweet desserts in Southeast Asian cuisines. The seeds can also be eaten when cooked.

        Travel and food writer Richard Sterling says:

        its odor is best described as pig-excrement, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia.[55]

        Other comparisons have been made with the civet, sewage, stale vomit, skunk spray and used surgical swabs.
        ***

      • Derpetologist

        I’ve always wanted to try casu martzu. It wouldn’t be illegal unless it was good.

        ***
        Casu martzu[1] (Sardinian pronunciation: [ˈkazu ˈmaɾtsu]; lit. ’rotten/putrid cheese’), sometimes spelled casu marzu, and also called casu modde, casu cundídu and casu fràzigu in Sardinian, is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots).

        When consumed, the larvae can survive in the intestine, causing enteric myiasis.[5] Due to this danger, the cheese is outlawed in the European Union and other jurisdictions.

        Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed,[4][12] diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping. Some who eat the cheese prefer not to ingest the maggots. Those who do not wish to eat them place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a “pitter-patter” sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.[13][9]

        Because of European Union food hygiene-health regulations, the cheese has been outlawed, and offenders face heavy fines.[13] However, some Sardinians organized themselves in order to make casu martzu available on the black market, where it may be sold for double the price of an ordinary block of pecorino cheese.[11][9] As of 2019, the illegal production of this cheese was estimated as 100 tonnes (98 long tons; 110 short tons) per year, worth between €2–3 million.[16]
        ***

        [Homer voice]: Mmm…64 slices of black-market maggot cheese…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’d try it once maybe, the thought of eating maggots that stand a small chance of living in the intestine and boring through to the abdominal body cavity is offputting though.

      • bacon-magic

        Blue cheese is right smack in the middle of flavor town.

      • Not Adahn

        My godson, who is three, loves blue cheese. I am so proud of him.

      • Derpetologist

        Blue cheese can give you trippy dreams. The mold is a mild hallucinogen. Sweet dreams are made of cheese…

        ***
        There is no scientific evidence that blue cheese causes weird dreams or affects your dreams in any way. However, blue cheese and most highly-matured cheeses can contain tryptamine and tyramine, which are known to have psychoactive properties. Some people have reported having odd dreams after eating blue cheese. A study funded by the British Cheese Board in 2005 concluded that eating blue cheese causes vivid dreams, while cheddar makes people dream about celebrities.
        ***

      • Gender Traitor

        Sweet dreams are made of cheese…

        Who am I to dis a Brie?

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Oh, well done! Opera clap.

      • Grumbletarian

        ALOL

        Well played.

      • Gender Traitor

        Thanks! Stole that fair and square (possibly from someone here…)

      • bacon-magic

        Limburger turns you into a serial killer.

      • Suthenboy

        There is something very wrong with you.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Why have you been eating plastic?

      • Nephilium

        Obviously to get to the Swiss cheese inside.

      • bacon-magic

        Wrappers seal in the flavor.

    • pistoffnick

      Swiss cheese is tasty yet similar to plastic in texture.

      The pale white holey Swiss cheese, yes, I agree.

      Now try Raclette or Gruyer

    • Pope Jimbo

      Not another holey crusade against Swiss Cheese

  15. Mojeaux, font of all evil

    Christmas Music

    A friend of mine and her daughter played this on cello and viola one Sunday. It was ethereal. Otherworldly. I sobbed my eyes out.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Genocide

    Draw your own conclusions.

    • rhywun

      I’ll draw the same conclusion I’ve been drawing a LOT in recent years: propaganda really fuckin’ works.

    • R.J.

      Good Lord. What fucking morons. Those employees probably cost that business owner his shop too, nobody is going to go there anymore. Also who would leave that graffiti up in the bathroom for days?

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        “Your neutrality/apathy is enabling genocide” scrawled on a diaper-changing station.

        Only politically correct baby shit.

      • creech

        “The bathroom graffiti had been up for weeks ” Seems like the owners didn’t care to dab it out with a little paint?
        It is hard to feel sympathy for anyone, if the story is reported correctly.

  17. rhywun

    Feverish in bed all day – gimme hints!

    I played https://squaredle.com/xp 12/11:
    20/20 words (+3 bonus words)
    🎯 Perfect accuracy

    I played https://squaredle.com 12/11:
    26/26 words (+5 bonus words)
    🎯 In the top 11% by accuracy
    🔥 Solve streak: 102

    • Ted S.

      I played https://squaredle.com 12/11:
      *26/26 words (+9 bonus words)
      📖 In the top 2% by bonus words
      🔥 Solve streak: 3

  18. The Late P Brooks

    I am about to have some Snow’s clam chowder with extra clams added. Seems appropriate for a somewhat snowy day.

  19. Pope Jimbo

    Sure this is more whiny farmer BS, but this story made me mad.

    Why? We had a $17B surplus and they could only find $150K to help pay for fences to protect the farmers’ feed stores?

    Jennifer Rickford would like to put a fence around her stored feed, but the size of the storage area makes a deer-proof fence cost prohibitive.

    “What doesn’t make sense to me is these are the state’s deer. If my cows are on somebody else’s ground and eating their crops, I’m responsible for that,” she said. “But these are the state’s deer and they’re coming in and doing damage, but it’s not (the state’s) problem.

    The DNR has a program to help farmers like Jennifer Rickford pay for fencing to keep deer out of their feed. Rickford applied several years ago but said she has not heard from the agency.

    McInenly acknowledged a backlog as a result of staffing shortages in the past few years, but said the agency is now catching up. She said the program is also underfunded with only about $150,000 to spread across the state each year.”

    Best option is $0 for fencing. But if you are going to establish a fund for fencing and you have more money than you know what to do with, put more than $150K in it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I would also be for letting the farmers shoot as many deer as they feel like around their feed.

    • Suthenboy

      The main driver of the climate crisis. Uh huh, citation needed.
      Yes, propaganda does work. Incredible to me how this undiluted bullshit has taken hold in the average person’s mind.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Am I the only one who saw that Peyton Manning Bud Light commercial yesterday?

    Did I hallucinate it?

    • B.P.

      I saw it during an NFL game. Emmit Smith, too. I guess they’re just going to keep shoveling money into a furnace.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’m $ure Manning ju$t love$ Bud Light.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    I would also be for letting the farmers shoot as many deer as they feel like around their feed.

    [insert “okay” hand sign]

    • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

      There’s a walrus in that vid? I must have missed it.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Climate advocate and former US Vice President Al Gore said in a post on X the summit “is now on the verge of complete failure.”

    “The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word,” Gore said. “It is even worse than many had feared.”

    What will you replace them with? Will you travel to next year’s meeting on your saiboard?

    STFU you mendacious crook.

    • Suthenboy

      Al Gore said….
      That’s my cue to tap out.

    • Urthona

      Al Gore went on to mention that if we don’t do something right now the polar ice caps will have melted 10 years ago.

    • Not Adahn

      ISTR that Gore’s money came from a company called Occidental… something.

    • Raven Nation

      “Climate advocate”

      More language idiocy. What does that mean? Is he advocating that we should have a climate? That the climate should be one thing or another. Idiots. Idiots. Write out what you mean. If you have to put in parenthesis (hereafter Climate Advocate).

  23. Derpetologist

    ***
    President Biden referred to the presidential helicopter Marine One as “Air Force Helicopter One” Monday — while claiming that Ronald Reagan sent the chopper to take him from Delaware to the DC-area Walter Reed military hospital when Biden had a brain aneurysm in the 1980s.

    The 81-year-old’s anecdote is, like other biographical details he’s shared in public remarks, not supported by his own autobiography — or by Reagan’s daily presidential diary.

    “President Reagan was nice enough to send Air Force Helicopter One to take me down, but it couldn’t fly,” Biden told firefighters during a day-trip to Philadelphia, using an incorrect name for the aircraft.

    “And so my fire department came up, put me in the back and took me on heavy snow on the day I went down to Walter Reed,” added the president, whose stories often face withering fact-checks amid campaign-trail criticism of his mental acuity.

    The latter part of the story involving the local fire department is described in Biden’s 2007 book “Promises to Keep,” but Reagan offering or dispatching the presidential helicopter is not mentioned.
    ***

    At this point, Hunter might as well take over. Amazingly, the crackhead can speak more coherently.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’s a serial confabulator who no longer has the ability to discern the good lies from the easily refuted lies.

      • Derpetologist

        He reminds me more of Wilbur Cobb every day.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQDt-nE6V8c

        ***
        Wilbur Cobb is a demented, decaying, senile old man who is usually shown telling Ren and Stimpy wild stories. He first appears in “Stimpy’s Cartoon Show”, in which he is introduced as Stimpy’s idol, nicknamed “The Godfather of All Animation”. Wilbur Cobb would go on to reappear in later episodes, taking roles such as a museum worker, a reverend, and an escaped convict.
        ***

  24. Mojeaux, font of all evil

    52F on Christmas day. No snow. Global warming is fucking with my nostalgia boner.

    • Ted S.

      That’s not a real boner, hon.

    • Urthona

      It’s Christmas? My phone calendar is way screwed up.

      • Urthona

        That’s way too far out to be accurate. More than 8 days is as predictive statiatically as an almanac.

      • Suthenboy

        Like yesterday? No rain in the forecast Saturday. Blinding rain Sunday evening and all night.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s anti-Orthodox Christmas?

    • Suthenboy

      Meh, it is hit and miss around here. One year snow, none for a few years then 2 or 3 in a row with….

      • R.J.

        Christmas in shorts over here in DFW.

      • Zwak says the real is not governable, but self-governing.

        We will get snow at 11pm Christmas night. Just as I am driving home from a party.

    • Mojeaux, font of all evil

      I have very strict weather requirements that I want met.

      October: cool, dour, overcast, rainy
      November: coldish, dour, overcast, and rainy.
      December: cold, dour, overcast, and snowy/icy.
      January: spring
      February: spring
      March: spring
      April: spring
      May: spring
      June: spring
      July: summer
      August: summer
      September: fall

  25. The Late P Brooks

    52F on Christmas day.

    *bangs calendar on desk*

    Is this thing on?

  26. Brochettaward

    I bought a Firsting Flute. I was told it has the power to First in five different notes.

    • Beau Knott

      Nice. One for every time you’ve fisted.

  27. Common Tater

    “I am about to have some Snow’s clam chowder”

    I thought they stopped selling it.