Sunday Morning Major Regrets Links

by | Dec 29, 2024 | Daily Links | 170 comments

OK, maybe we shouldn’t have had that last bottle. I mean, sometimes I have to recognize the passage of years and my less-than-optimal condition. But that just didn’t enter the picture when the corks started popping and the bottomless glasses started filling. And now, facing the crack of dawn and a day of manual labor, I have… regrets.

It’s a mixed bag whether to celebrate or regret people born on this date, who include a lady with (presumably) big hair; a guy famous for being tired; a guy who got high and paid the price for being right; a guy who actually did deserve to be hanged; the guy who could take credit for what Los Angeles is today; a guy who proved that no hypothesis is too outlandish for the Leftist nutcases; someone famous for throwing her hat in the ring; a guy who didn’t get ass-raped by mountain men; a guy who really and truly hated Larry David; my favorite TV cop; and a deeply weird person who can’t wait for you to tell her.

Links before I have to make another run to the bathroom.

This does change my travel plans a bit for this year.

I will be mightily pissed if even one tax dollar is spent rescuing these morons from their own stupidity.

“Maybe we can reduce it to ‘heck to pay.'”

Clown show. “So after we tossed Tulsi and Kyrsten out of the party, the remaining chicks are morons?”

They’re STILL flogging that “OMG PROJECT 2025!!!” shit. Because it worked so well for them in November.

Too soon for “Asian driver” jokes?

And you wonder why Europe has ceased being a center for innovation.

I have to admit that I’m tempted, just because I’ve pretty much run out of room for things at my regular house.

STEVE SMITH ELUSIVE.

This was a song from the Mahavishnu Orchestra that I always loved- contemplative, moody, and with subtle timing complexities. So I spotted this cover and clicked it to have a listen. Wait… that’s Victor Fucking Wooten on bass! Just a bonus. This is absolutely delightful, and nearly 2/3 of it passes before McLaughlin remembers that he’s supposed to shred at a speed that others can only dream of.

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Old Man With Candy

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170 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    a guy who actually did deserve to be hanged

    Happy birthday Julius Rosenberg?

    • rhywun

      [long list of known commie activities before the war]

      Great vetting there, Los Alamos.

  2. R.J.

    “ The crash site smelled of aviation fuel and blood…”

    Fantastic line for a journalist.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Korea used to smell like kerosene and kimchi. A lot.

      It was because every shop, house and building was heated by a portable kerosene heater. I don’t know what happened to the kimchi smell, but as Korea got rich they started adding built in floor heating.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        One summer I sublet my college apartment to some Koreans. When I returned it stank of cigarettes and kimchi. It took weeks to get rid of the smell.

  3. Ted S.

    my favorite TV cop;

    Happy birthday Angie Dickinson? Rawr.

  4. Yusef drives a Kia

    Needs more Runway,
    Cheers!

  5. Ted S.

    a guy who didn’t get ass-raped by mountain men

    Happy birthday Spud!

    Or are you saying he did get ass-raped by mountain men?

  6. SDF-7

    who include a lady with (presumably) big hair

    Alternate take: A woman whom Moffat definitely wanted to sit on her toffet….

    Morning, OMWC. I’d have more sympathy for the hangover… but as noted before, not a drinker so haven’t been there.

    Morning Ted, morning the rest of y’all.

    • Pat

      Alternate take: A woman whom Moffat definitely wanted to sit on her toffet….

      Ngl, if Madame de Pompadour really looked like that, it’s a snog I’d write home about as well.

    • R C Dean

      Gotta love a woman who can be the official chief mistress of the king, and not alienate the queen.

      • Suthenboy

        I think the nature of man/woman relationships have varied greatly over time and place and thus the language describing it have as well.
        I have no idea what ‘chief mistress to the king of France in mid-18th century’ means.

      • Pat

        I have no idea what ‘chief mistress to the king of France in mid-18th century’ means.

        I believe the modern parlance is bottom bitch.

      • R C Dean

        The great thing is, this was an official position. In Catholic France, even.

        And of course, “chief” mistress implies there were sub-mistresses, as well.

        I guess it really is good to be the king.

      • Pat

        The great thing is, this was an official position. In Catholic France, even.

        To be fair, it wasn’t without Biblical precedent. Although God seems to have stopped making exceptions for important men by the time Christ appeared.

      • Grummun

        Although the men purporting to speak with the voice of God seems to have stopped making exceptions for important men by the time Christ appeared.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Is that some sort of clever wordplay?

      You no Swissy will say no whey

  7. SDF-7

    a guy famous for being tired;

    Blinks….

    Blinks again…

    BOOOOOOO!!!! 😉

    (One of those “I really should have seen that but was thinking something completely different… ” well done, Old Man.)

  8. juris imprudent

    Sorry for the condition of your head today, but mine is finally almost back to normal. Four days of a freakin’ sinus infection; you only have to suffer today.

  9. Pat

    a guy who got high and paid the price for being right

    Happy birthday Timothy Leary?

    • Pat

      the guy who could take credit for what Los Angeles is today

      Happy birthday Daryl Gates?

      • Pat

        a guy who proved that no hypothesis is too outlandish for the Leftist nutcases

        Happy birthday Trofim Lysenko?

  10. Pat

    Outgoing president Salome Zourabichvili refused to step down on Sunday, saying she was the “only legitimate president”.

    JUST LIKE DRUMPF!

  11. R C Dean

    “Nate Snyder, a former Department of Homeland Security official who is both Latino and Jewish”

    Doesn’t being Jewish cancel out the Latino, as far as whether he qualifies as a “candidate of color”? And do you really want COC as the acronym for your diversity hires?

    • juris imprudent

      Considering how flexible both Jewish and Latino are, he could be called a double-white (as opposed to the OM‘s proposed getaway).

    • Don escaped Memphis

      about ten minutes in Harris gets Yglesias to largely concede that race-baiting has only ever served as a distraction….race is almost necessarily a distraction

      Suddenly Yglesias is circumspect, almost repentant, of some of his nonsense. Harris dispassionately leads him through a review of some recent news, and Yglesias confesses evolution and regret: he knows his bullshit is partly responsible for supporting an unprincipled, half-baked platform and an unhinged culture where the very people he claimed to care about are now worse off than if he had kept his stupid maw shut

  12. Pat

    The race for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair is shaping up to be a field of largely white men — a notable development for a party that has long touted diversity within its ranks.

    After Biden’s loss, it turned out that a substantial number of their ranks were not, in fact, black.

    • robodruid

      It does not make sense to put a wall on a runway.

      • LCDR_Fish

        I’ve seen lots of runways that had hard stop walls and/or berms at the extreme end to prevent hitting highways or housing areas, etc.

      • Pat

        There’s literally just a chain link fence and some gravel between Eastern Ave in Las Vegas and the far end of the LAS runways. When I first moved there it was somewhat jarring driving down the street and having planes landing right overhead (or right next to you, on Sunset).

      • Don escaped Memphis

        I drove within yards of the Delta 191 crash site for years…on the very road where cars had been clipped.

    • DrOtto

      It’s a classic for a reason. Graduates of the Ron Burgundy school of broadcasting.

      • LCDR_Fish

        You don’t see them down. NYT and other links suggested a bird hit caused it…which seems weird (survivor reported explosion in one engine similar to bird strike)….but also not having the flaps down. Might have just been a lot of simultaneous distractions causing a chain.

  13. Pat

    And you wonder why Europe has ceased being a center for innovation.

    Meh. There’s a lot of reasons, but this probably isn’t near the top of the list. Proprietary charging interfaces are a business strategy, not a tech innovation.

    • Homple

      “Proprietary charging interfaces are a business strategy, not a tech innovation.”

      Agreed. Innovation didn’t stop when wall outlets were standardized.

  14. DEG

    At the time of its approval, the commission said the law was expected to save at least 200 million euros ($208 million) per year and cut more than a thousand tonnes of EU electronic waste every year.

    Why do I smell bullshit?

    • R C Dean

      A thousand tons is 2 million pounds. Let’s say you get a new gizmo that doesn’t fit the charger plug on your old charger, so you toss out the old charger, which probably weighs 2 – 4 ounces. That would have to happen 8 – 16 million times a year to get to a thousand tons.

      • R C Dean

        To attribute the savings to a standardized charging port/plug, the only discarded chargers you can count are the ones tossed because your old one doesn’t fit your new gizmo’s charging port. Not the ones you toss because a new charger came in the box with your new gizmo.

      • Pat

        Not the ones you toss because a new charger came in the box with your new gizmo.

        Ahh, but…

        As part of their “green” initiatives, all of the major cell phone manufacturers stopped including chargers ages ago. And that’s “green” as in “greenbacks,” naturally.

      • Ted S.

        I assume it’s also “green” not to include working links.

      • Fourscore

        So by saving all the chargers in a drawer I’m saving the earth.

        /Greener than the Grinch

      • creech

        A pittance next to the 1 billion plastic straws that Europe throws into the ocean every day!

    • Fourscore

      Not a mention of Joe’s age related and readily apparent decline from the get go.

    • Sensei

      I posted that a few days ago. I had a few LOLs with that.

    • Gender Traitor

      Don’t mention the war.

    • Don escaped Memphis

      the eggstractor reminds me of my eight years at a German firm marked mostly by pointless investments that left me constantly gasping: you (Germans) do well so many things that should not be done at all

      • Old Man With Candy

        I actually have one of those.

      • Don escaped Memphis

        have one

        NTTAWWI, of course

        I was babbling: mine is a longer story (that would take an article in and of itself to make any sense) of my firm’s replacing perfectly good, time-tested mechanical automotive doodads with mech-elec components that are much more expensive, fairly impossible to troubleshoot, and only theoretically better at the intended purpose. Indeed, on one side of the firm there millions of D-marks being dropped on new spaces for new programs for new componentry that required new tooling and new staff and new infrastructure, while on the other side of the firm other millions were being spent to divine how to reduce overheads, improve recyclability, and reduce the environmental footprint.

      • Sensei

        The same Germans with 10 sizes of fasteners on a given part each precisely calculated to be sized for load.

        Or Toyota who uses 3 for the same part so as to ease assembly and service.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Hard boiled eggs are disgusting.

      A complete non-food.

  15. Grummun

    likely from exposure and being ill-prepared

    ill-prepared for being exposed to STEVE SMITH… and by exposed mean…

    • Old Man With Candy

      NO ONE PREPARED FOR STEVE SMITH.

  16. PieInTheSky

    This does change my travel plans a bit for this year.

    just like ehm 2020 the key to electoral fraud is if you catch it while it is happening, no point in protesting after.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Beware, this may mean that Romania has gone from #2 on my list to #1.

      • PieInTheSky

        I will inform the local wine industry

      • Sensei

        But isn’t Romania have its own set of governmental legitimacy issues?

        Sorry Pie…

      • Suthenboy

        Government legitimacy issues. That is a mouthful. Replace ‘Romania’ with ‘throw a dart at the globe’

      • Old Man With Candy

        But isn’t Romania have its own set of governmental legitimacy issues?

        Pie’s excellent article last week helped me put it all into historical and sociological perspective.

      • PieInTheSky

        the next one is a little more relevant to the current situation…

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “But there were many things that the administration was doing that were a bit under the radar, but were nevertheless negatively impacting millions of Americans and in many instances were unlawful. So Democracy Forward was founded in response to that reality, the threats to people in the United States, but also [threats] to our rule of law and [to highlight] the overall way that the government was functioning in a different nature, of extreme and unlawful activity.”

    Far too many to name.

    • Fourscore

      Well, Hunter gets a taxpayer funded vacation to the Virgin Islands as a going away gift.

      2028, Don Jr and Hunter go toe to toe. Will look like the Addams family.

    • R C Dean

      “But there were many things that the administration was doing that were a bit under the radar, but were nevertheless negatively impacting millions of Americans and in many instances were unlawful.”

      Sounds like the Biden administration, which is weird since “Democracy Forward” is apparently opposed to such things.

  18. Ownbestenemy

    Damn…that S. Korean airline crash…so many questions.

    • Fourscore

      “I wonder why he didn’t have the landing gear down?”

      A question for pilots

    • LCDR_Fish

      There are some video clips in the links I posted at the end of dedthread.

    • Sensei

      See my links above.

      It’s like you couldn’t have a culture less adapted to flying an airplane.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Joe Biden’s lonely battle to sell his vision of American democracy

    So precious.

    • Q Continuum

      He sold it, people just decided they wanted to return it for something better.

  20. Suthenboy

    Trouble ini the caucasus? Say it aint so.

    Taliban: “We have run out of hostages. Please send more.”

    The Hamas idiots seem unaware of what they are up against. Maybe I am wrong. We will see.

    When your ideology is based on stupid ideas you aren’t supposed to apply those ideas to your own. The point is to convince your opposition to apply them. Good lord.
    One uses useful idiots, not become them.

    2025? It is true. You cant fix stupid. Their entire campaign was absurd fantasy. Remember, these are the people who think women have peckers.
    I encourage them to throw all of their efforts and resources into fighting project 2025.

    The video yesterday on the guys remotely hacking into and controlling the Jeep was very interesting.

    I wonder who is behind the mandate to freeze innovation? It wouldn’t happen to be the people making the contemporary stuff, would it? Regulatory capture is evil.
    Thank you very much Jeffery Imelt and Barack Fucking Obama. My expensive washing machine and refrigerator are shit.

    Looking at the property. There are no trees. Why are there no trees? WTH?

    • Fourscore

      Nice layout, room for a big metal building.

    • Pat

      Sometimes a Barrett M82 is just a Barrett M82.

    • rhywun

      The war on men, orchestrated by the extreme left, has suffered a serious setback with his election.

      Which setback will be entirely wiped out upon the election of the next president not named “Trump”.

    • Pat

      Ruby Jade, 24, a dancer with a side gig as a ‘professional girlfriend,’ enjoys being compensated for accompanying men on dates

      So… like an actual girlfriend?

      Also, I realize the media sensationalize shit like this for the clicks, but good god almighty has the internet skewed the game in favor of women. Not that this girl is grotesque or anything, but when I was a young lad, no one even in my pathetic friend group would have spent more than $20 on her, even if the happy ending was a sure thing.

    • Suthenboy

      The #MeToo debacle taught me that what a woman says today and what she may say decades later are different things. Some of the old fashioned ideas about men/women relations came about for reasons. It also taught me that avoiding women altogether is no defense.

      • Q Continuum

        Traditions are solutions to problems no one remembers. Dump the tradition and the problem will come roaring back.

      • Don escaped Memphis

        no one remembers

        +1 Chesterton’s fence

      • rhywun

        avoiding women altogether is no defense

        There are further steps one could take.

      • Pat

        avoiding women altogether is no defense.

        Even if you deny them your essence?

    • DrOtto

      I just had to look that up…

    • Suthenboy

      Is that little shithead screaming ‘WOLF!” again?

    • rhywun

      Goddammit you tricked me into clicking on a link to The Guardian.

    • juris imprudent

      Egan arrived by taxi, pulled up next to Alex – who was on an assignment at the time – at a stoplight and asked: “Are you even a US citizen? This is Trump’s America now! I’m a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”

      Uh huh. What is the taxi driver’s account of this?

    • Common Tater

      There were a bunch of Trump hate hoaxes four years ago.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Same shit, different bag?

    Losing to a twice-impeached convicted felon has left a small, but growing, number of Democrats wondering if their party brand is so toxic that they should shed the label — particularly in battleground and red states.

    ——-

    John Morgan, the Florida-based Biden fundraiser considering a gubernatorial run, said he may launch a bid under a new party called the “Capitalist Party.” Morgan changed his registration from Democratic to independent a few years ago because he objected to the party’s left flank and how some describe themselves as “Democratic socialists.”

    Morgan, who bankrolled an amendment in Florida to raise the minimum wage, said he would campaign as a “compassionate capitalist.” And Florida, he said, could be where a new third party germinates.

    “I don’t know if Trump is a stable genius, but he’s a fucking genius,” Morgan said. “He tapped into something the Republicans never saw, which was anger and populism on that side.”

    It’s all about the messaging.

    • Pat

      Morgan, who bankrolled an amendment in Florida to raise the minimum wage, said he would campaign as a “compassionate capitalist.”

      Perhaps sufficient time has elapsed that people won’t associate that with George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism.”

      • juris imprudent

        The time is now for compassionate fascism! For the good of all!!

    • Suthenboy

      “Losing to a twice-impeached convicted felon ”

      Excellent. Keep it up. Double down.

  22. Sensei

    Perfect AP headline.

    Abortions are up in the US. The data paints a complicated picture

    Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet.

    So despite the best intentions of the evil women killing Team Red more unborn are being killed. I’m confused. It almost like if you want the procedure you can find a way to have it.

    • Old Man With Candy

      The data PAINT a complicated picture

      Journalists no longer have to take English in college.

      • Sensei

        Or use datum.

      • R C Dean

        At least it wasn’t paint’s.

        Be grateful for the little things.

    • rhywun

      Love the accompanying shit-eating grins.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Where has it been banned?

      • Pat

        It’s pretty close here in Texas

  23. The Late P Brooks

    It’s a shithole

    It’s been a week since a woman died in a New York City subway car, allegedly set on fire by a homeless, undocumented man. She has yet to be identified and the man charged with her murder says he doesn’t even remember being there.

    The crime has renewed focus on a set of multilayered and inextricable issues felt almost daily in America’s biggest city: homelessness, crime and the nation’s broken immigration system.

    The killing’s gruesome details and videos from the scene spread quickly on social media, leaving lawmakers in New York to highlight the city’s failure to provide housing, address the ongoing mental health crisis and improve public safety.

    How did it get that way? The road to Hell is paved with “good intentions”.

    • Pat

      leaving lawmakers in New York to highlight the city’s failure to provide housing, address the ongoing mental health crisis

      If only the city had that one addition social worker taking home $400k a year in salary and benefits…

      • rhywun

        Because housing magically grants the ability to stop you from being a homicidal psychopath.

        Never change, CNN.

        PS. Why does it feel like this crime is being swept under the rug?

      • Ted S.

        Because fuck you, that’s why?

      • R C Dean

        I thought the illegal who set her on fire was staying in a hotel/shelter. IOW, the city’s had provided him with housing.

      • rhywun

        IOW, the city’s had provided him with housing

        They mean permanent housing. (Really.)

    • Suthenboy

      How did it get that way? By design, that is how.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Video calls 30 to 15 years ago? Ok then…

    • Chipping Pioneer

      Sadly, your child­hood trauma is likely still affecting your sex life.

      See? It’s totes not your fault that you’re a hoor.

    • Suthenboy

      Deidre would have a much bigger audience if she would post photos of the people who write in.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    While much of the focus has been on Zapeta-Calil’s immigration status and the graphic nature of the crime, homelessness advocates said the case also highlights the struggle by state and local government to provide housing and services to people in dire need of them.

    Dave Giffen, executive director for the Coalition for the Homeless, the country’s oldest homeless advocacy and service organization, told CNN the attack underscores how deeply entrenched the issue is in the city.

    “What is frustrating about all this is that when these horrible incidents happen and homeless people are victimized or in the rare instance that they are the perpetrator, they are used for political purposes rather than doing something to provide permanent housing and services,” Giffen said.

    Further proof of the acute nature of the nation’s homelessness crisis was outlined in a Department of Housing and Urban Development report released Friday, showing the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2024 as the highest ever recorded.

    Homelessness advocacy works. We have more than ever.

  25. Mojeaux

    Greetings from sunny, not-terribly-cold Kearney, Nebraska, where we somehow scored a sweet suite and are taking our time leaving, as it’s only 6 hours to home. I will be so glad to be home. This trip has been nothing but a disaster.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Ugh, been there, done that.

    • Pat

      You are now in Nebraska

      Sorry to hear the trip was disastrous. I’ve had a few of those. I suspect family trips with my dad are the reason I never developed an interest in traveling. Best of luck on the drive home, and congrats on the suite, at least.

    • Tundra

      Yikes, sounds like I missed a good story.

      Traveling the plains in winter is rarely without drama.

      • Mojeaux

        My uncle died. I love my uncle very much for many reasons. He was 93. My husband said, “You gonna go?” I was surprised. Didn’t really think about it. I wanted to go to my aunt’s funeral (his wife, my mom’s sister), but I was 7 months pregnant at the time, and it’s 16 hours to Orem, Utah from Kansas City, Missouri.

        An idea was born.

        And that was my first mistake.

        It all started in the middle of Wyoming in 55+ mph winds. The driving was hard. My shoulder was aching. I asked to switch with my husband. Sure, no problem. At the rest stop, the wind tore my wallet away from me and in the catching of it (long story), I pulled my right pectoral muscle, which feels like I cracked a rib. I also lost $226 in cash to the wind, but I did NOT lose the rest of my wallet, which would have really complicated my life. Anyway, this was more traumatic for me than it would be to normal people.

        So we get to Green River and I’m still upset. We stop for gas. It’s dark. I make plans to see a different aunt in Salt Lake for whenever after my uncle’s funeral. We get halfway to Evanston when the weather starts getting bad. Snow, ice. It’s so bad, it takes us 2 hours to get 60 miles.

        The road from Evanston to Orem is Echo Canyon. It’s 90 miles all downhill, wind-y, windy, snowed/iced over, and in the dark. We just spent 60 miles doing 30 mph. NO WAY we are doing that. We get a hotel in Evanston. Shit falls off my bellhop cart, the snow is blowing, husband is trying to keep shit together. Lots of little irritations happening that wouldn’t be anything normally, but I hurt and I’ve lost $226 in cash, and not going to make our destination that night as planned.

        The funeral is the next day at 11. We can’t get there in time. I am distressed. We decide to watch it on Facebook Live. We decide to stay another night and go home in the morning. I call my other aunt in Salt Lake and tell her we aren’t coming and she says that’s wise because the benches and valley are getting hit pretty hard. Okay.

        Except, the funeral is NOT live because the funeral home had a glitch. I decide to work, so I go to the lobby where the “business center” is and it’s loud, echoey, gossipy, and the TV is blaring. The funeral is finally posted at 6p.

        All that time and effort and energy just to get stopped 90 miles from our destination AND to miss the live feed.

        My chest wall hurts like hell, so really, the only thing that happened after we left Evanston is that I’m in pain and can barely move. Lying down sucks. Moving sucks.

        Everything else has been fine.

        The last time I went through Evanston in the winter, headed for Twin Falls, Idaho, it was dry as a bone and my weather app lied to me.

        So there you go. On paper, it’s nothing, but after losing my money and pulling my pec, it’s just been awful.

      • Tundra

        Holy shit, Mo.

        That’s some epic disaster! Sorry you had to pull the eject handle, but I’m glad you guys didn’t wreck.

        Safe travels back to home base.

      • Common Tater

        Yikes! Sorry 🙁

        Get well soon 🙂

        If it makes you feel any better, $200 barely buys two bags of groceries.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh. I forgot about the car trouble we had in Laramie.

      • DEG

        Sorry Mojeaux.

        And I was one of the ones suggested you go. Sorry.

      • Mojeaux

        Oh, no! Not your contribution or anything.

        I had no inkling it would be like this. USUALLY, I get a feeling that I should or should not do something, but occasionally I chalk it up to my anxiety and do it anyway.

        I mean, I got to spend time with my husband and really SEE him for the first time in a long time and how I do take him for granted, so there’s that.

        I’m mostly blaming my weather app, to be honest.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Greetings from New Orleans where I’m learning the meaning of the word swampass. I don’t know how people survive summers here.

      • LCDR_Fish

        We had mosquitos biting in late Jan when I was there last year. Just nuts.

      • Mojeaux

        I love NO but it stinks.

    • KSuellington

      Damn that sucks. But like Tundra said, at least you didn’t wreck. Driving in severe winter conditions sucks. I’ve done a fair bit of it, despite living in SF as we are avid skiers and hit the Sierras as many times a winter as possible. We skied two days before Xmas and got up at 545am Christmas Eve morning to beat out a storm that was about to hit. We times it just about perfectly and it started up just as we were leaving the driveway. If we had waited just one more hour it would have been chain controls and way tougher driving conditions. For what it is worth I have found that wunderground.com has been the most accurate, down to the hour, weather forecast I have found. They have really nailed it on multiple winter trips for us. I always time drives now to make sure not to be doing mountain passes during bad conditions.

  26. Common Tater

    “Scientists have made a stark warning of an impending ‘Ultra-Intense Category 6’ storm hitting the US.

    The prediction comes from an international team of over 60 experts who found the burning of fossil fuels has poured the equivalent energy into the Earth’s systems, heralding a dark new era of ‘mega-hurricanes.’

    An ‘Ultra-​Intense Category 6’ storm would unleash winds of 192 miles per hour or higher and a rise in seawater exceeding 25 feet.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14210267/Scientists-warn-impending-Ultra-Intense-Category-6-storm.html

    Yet you can’t tell whether it’s going rain tomorrow.

    • Pat

      And when the predicted storm season fails to materialize, as it has since I first started seeing these stories about 20 years ago, they’ll double down like faithful Millerites after the “great disappointment.”

    • rhywun

      Sorry, I don’t believe in your religion.

    • Suthenboy

      When you are running a scam you aren’t supposed to make verifiable predictions. I guess no one told them. Doom should be always just around the next corner, shadowy and vague you dummies. People are still laughing at the “It’s too late! Antarctica is collapsing!” guy whose ship got stranded frozen in the ice in Antarctica.
      2005: ” We are going to have multiple Katrinas every year!”

    • Pat

      Perhaps the messages he chalked up to bantz were more revealing than he thought, and her suspicion was well founded. He did, after all, do what she suspected him of. Nevertheless, if you have that little trust, and apparently that little reason to have any, just save the thousand bucks for a lawyer and end it. Somehow I doubt her suspicion would have been assuaged regardless of the outcome of the “test.”

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Homelessness increased significantly across many of America’s biggest cities, driven by the affordable housing crisis, rising inflation and increased numbers of immigrants to the United States. Natural disasters also contributed, as well as the end of pandemic era homelessness prevention programs.

    Another trillion bucks or so, and we’ll have this situation under control.

  28. Common Tater

    “A missing Tennessee teen was found alive in the Louisiana woods after having been left by a man who she met on an online gaming platform days earlier.

    Alexander Materne, 28, allegedly drove the 14-year-old’s home in Tennessee before bringing her back to his home over 500 miles away in St. Rose, Louisiana.

    The pair then allegedly engaged in ‘sexual acts’ after which she disclosed her age to Materne, a statement by the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office reads.

    At some point later, the underage female left the St. Rose location and Materne bought her a tent, food and water before abandoning her in a wooded area in Tangipahoa Parish.

    Materne then traveled approximately 160 miles away, to Jennings, to celebrate Christmas with his family, leaving the girl stranded in the woods.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14233285/teen-woods-online-predator-Louisiana-Tennessee.html

    Is he a predator if he didn’t know she was 14?

    • Gender Traitor

      Jumping on a trampoline in platform boots or shoes strikes me as…ill-advised.

    • Pat

      She’s holding up like the Pantheon, but appears to have traded her sanity, dignity and adulthood for it.

    • Pat

      Bro, that 1/4″ of jawbone is literally the single and only thing standing in the way of these men’s success with women and their careers.

    • Evan from Evansville

      “For the surgery, doctors cut and reposition the mandible — the lower jaw — and then fix it in a new position using titanium plates and screws.”That sounds *shockingly* shitty. Um. What the fuck?! Here’s a Pro Tip: If ya think ya ‘look’ bad, especially if it’s easily visible, don’t take a damn hacksaw to it. Craziness + Money overwhelms reason and sense.

      I don’t really blame the surgeons, cuz what the hell, but what if something goes wrong? I’m sure that’s written down, somewhere. Kinda. Whatever it is, I highly doubt ‘it’ would/ could be followed internationally. Hrm. Could be an interesting flick: Someone desperate to make some physical change and goes to one of these clinics; [insert mangled mutilation here]; no justice system, revenge ensues.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    We wuz robbed

    President Biden privately regrets dropping out of this year’s presidential election and reportedly insists he could’ve beaten President-elect Trump if he wasn’t pushed out of the race by his own party.

    Biden and some of his aides have boasted to confidantes “in recent days” that the president should’ve stayed in the race and could’ve won a second term, the Washington Post reported Saturday citing multiple anonymous sources briefed on the conversations.

    “The people love me!”

    • KSuellington

      I’m giving the over/under at 2 years until Joe is completely hidden from all outside contact at his home In Delaware. I’d take the under on him being Schumaker’d from anyone not his immediate family.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    And Biden and his aides have also conceded the administration could’ve done a better job lifting Americans’ spirits during the pandemic.

    Fireside sing-alongs on the radio, like his hero, FDR?

    You know, the guy who immortalized the phrase, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”.

    • Tundra

      Neat!

      The comments are exactly what I expected.

  31. juris imprudent

    ManCity finally find a side they can claim all three points from – a team from next year’s Championship.

    • Don escaped Memphis

      who’s your side?

  32. The Late P Brooks

    An inspiration to us all

    After part of the iconic Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed into the ocean amid powerful waves on Monday, feathered culprits have been found to factor into the pier’s damage: seagulls.

    Specifically, environmental requirements meant to protect the birds during their nesting season delayed necessary repairs to the 110-year-old structure, the Mercury News first reported.

    A 2021 repair and maintenance plan for the wharf published by the California Coastal Commission states that repairs and maintenance are needed on the structure due to its “age, location, and construction material.” The plan also states that since seabirds like western gulls and pigeon guillemots are known to nest in the wooden columns that support the wharf, major repairs should take place outside of the birds’ nesting period, which occurs from mid-February to the start of September.

    That means major repairs — including the replacement of the pier’s wooden columns — must take place during what are generally the stormiest months of the year.

    What are the odds the Coastal Commission will allow the pier to be rebuilt?

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