All Star Cryptid Morning Links

by | May 28, 2023 | Cryptids, Daily Links | 137 comments

*ring* … *ring* …*ring*

“Yes? Hi Mex… of course Old Man is too busy with an NPR Lady to do links. I can do them. What do you mean with the Cryptids?! Are you fooking crazy?”

“Yes, I know I haven’t done any in a while, and neither have they. Fine.”

One these days I am going to escape the snares and traps Mexican Sharpshooter lays in the Glibs work schedule for me. But today is not that day.

*Ahem*

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, to Sunday Morning All Star Cryptid Links! I am your host, Swiss Servator. Why don’t we check in with our Chief Cascadia Correspondent, STEVE SMITH. STEVE, what do you have for us this morning?

NEED LINKS!

HI CHEESE PERSON! STEVE SMITH WORK VERY HARD FREE CASCADIA. HIM KEEP UP ON NEWS THERE. HIM SHARE LINK FROM PORTLAND. THINGS VERY BAD THERE. TOO MANY HOBO, BUM, SOAK, RUMMY AND DRUGGIE. MAYBE THEM CLEAN UP CITY A LITTLE?  STEVE SMITH PREFER STAY IN WOODS. CAMPER HE SAY HI TO NOT METH BUMS. BY SAY HI TO, MEAN RAPE.

FREE CASCADIA!

Well….thanks for updating us on the area, STEVE. Next we will turn to our Senior CLEANSING CORRESPONDENT, ZARDOZ. What news for us, ZARDOZ?

VOTE ZARDOZ!

ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. AFTER LONG CONSIDERATION, ZARDOZ HAS DECIDED TO RUN AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE COUNTY BOARD. ZARDOZ KNOWS THAT WITH THE BACKING OF THE TABERNACLE, HE CAN MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS FOR WEBSTER COUNTY, IOWA…AND TO MAKE SURE ITS BRUTAL RESIDENTS ARE CLEANSED. ZARDOZ SHARES A LINK THAT SHOWS HOPE FOR MORE CLEANSING OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS!

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.

Well, we at Glibs certainly wish you good luck with your election, Big Z. Make sure you get all those Brutal Exterminators registered! and finally, we now hear from our Martime Mayhem Correspondent, SEA SMITH. SEA, what news have you?

NICE DAY FOR A WALK!

SEA SMITH HAPPY HE BE HERE! HE LIKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS. FIRST, HE WANT SAY THAT THIS NOT SEA SMITH FAULT! SEA SMITH NOT GO LAKE ERIE FOR LONG TIME! FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS MAY NOT KNOW, SEA SMITH STUDY BUSINESS! HIM WANT LEARN ALL THINGS, SO HE KNOW WHERE SHIP GO. SO HIM READ THIS, AND WORRY SHIP SLOW DOWN, NOT SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY SAY HI SHIP, HI CREW! BY SAY HI, MEAN RAPE.

COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!

Who knew our Cryptids were expanding their horizons so broadly? Now, time for to get the heck out of here, as STEVE SMITH is trying the armored studio door handle again… the comments are all yours.

 

P.S. Read this stuff.

About The Author

Swiss Servator

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.

137 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    L’Chaim!

  2. Fourscore

    Morning Swissie,

    Give the Old Guy a break, he may have been up late last night doing things. Good to see you out and about.

  3. Fourscore

    Mosquitos are horrendous this year. Like Mary Ann, all day, all night.

    If a person got lost in the woods and couldn’t make a fire a night’s survival would be tough.

    • Homple

      How about the wood ticks? I suppose it’s a still a bit early for the horse flies and deer flies and gnats.

      • Fourscore

        I’ve picked off a few crawling but not too many. I avoid the woods until Sept. The grass around the yard is getting a little long and the wood ticks become grass ticks unless I keep it down. Gnats and black flies are out but not bad, no deer flies yet and horse flies are never serious, never many.

      • Homple

        Sounds like Northern Minnesota. Agreed, September is the month for trips to the woods.

    • Ownbestenemy

      No mosquitos here in the desert. Haven’t seen much critters. We’ve had an increase in field crickets, which is abnormal since our cricket population has normally been regular old house crickets. The field ones are meaty and aggressive.

    • R.J.

      Boy howdy. Mosquitos so thick right now it looks like I’m wearing a black fur coat. Lots even in the garage. I have to enact counter measures.

      • Count Potato

        Bat boxes?

  4. Sensei

    SEA SMITH HAPPY HE BE HERE! HE LIKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS. FIRST, HE WANT SAY THAT THIS NOT SEA SMITH FAULT!

    With Gordon Lightfoot’s passing there will be no one to immortalize its demise.

    • Grosspatzer

      “Wreck of the Cuyahoga” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.

      • Tres Cool

        I always preferred “Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald”.

  5. juris imprudent

    I can offer no quarter whatsoever to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. He was a pompous, vain, pseudo-intellectual (truly a progressive if there ever was one) – or to use the phrase he employed, a man of fashion.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      You obviously have not been properly tempered by that particular form of suffering visited upon young and middle early age men by their betters for the benefit of the elites. Otherwise, you would see its many fruits as he does.

      • juris imprudent

        I can almost forgive some of his language and thought, after all, Churchill too believed war was utterly natural.

        What I found most contemptible in that speech, was the desire for attention (be it glory or wealth) and the fact that other humans would give it so freely. Don’t admire your fellow man so easily, and don’t let him have power over you because of that!

    • Ted S.

      He was a fourth-generation imbecile.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        *opera clap*

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Save us, Zardoz!

    • Sean

      At least barf up some rifles…

  7. Ownbestenemy

    Morning from the West Coast…ugh it’s 530…coffee time

    • Ted S.

      Any time is coffee time.

      • Ownbestenemy

        *Grandma nods*

    • Sean

      “We’ve secretly replaced OBE’S coffee with Folger’s crystals…”

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      While she was recovering from the surgery, she also met her now-husband, Caleb Willingham.

      They got engaged in October 2022 and tied the knot one month later during an intimate ceremony surrounded by friends and family.

      Sorry Tres apparently she’s taken.

      • Ted S.

        There’s enough of her for two men.

      • Q Continuum

        More than that. I mean, 5 or 6 guys could simultaneously fuck the fleshy folds of her body since there’s little chance of finding her actual introitus.

      • Tres Cool

        Before I look, I want to know if “introitus” is a real word.

      • Tres Cool

        By G_d, I learned something today even when I didnt want to.
        It is.

      • Shpip

        Not so fast!

        Apparently Tres has a chance once again.

      • Tres Cool

        Hope springs eternal.

      • R C Dean

        And if it doesn’t, they make pills for that.

    • Q Continuum

      Now why would she need oxygen therapy? I thought we were healthy at any size?

  8. Homple

    49 Fahrenheits and cloudy near Sodom on the Sound.

    • juris imprudent

      Does that make Portland Gomorrah of the Gorge?

  9. The Late P Brooks
    • R.J.

      Link Wray is always good.

    • DEG

      That’s great. Thanks!

    • juris imprudent

      “A bit of traffic”? Holy shit!

    • whiz

      Neat. Now do 1955.

  10. Ownbestenemy

    The CEO is going to pen another letter right about how it is the QUILTBAGs that are the true threat to their employess and not suburban moms disgusted by their clothing lines?

    • Ted S.

      I think the true threat to their employees is bad links.

      • Sensei

        Which may or may not be real and/or a false flag.

      • Ted S.

        Dollars to donuts they’re false flag threats.

      • R C Dean

        Could be. The political wing of the QUILTBAG is perfectly willing to go after companies that show the slightest hesitation – AB-InBev got their DEI score reduced for not vociferously supporting their disastrous female impersonator campaign. The QUILTBAG doesn’t really have a history of violence, though.

        Nobody seriously believed there were any actual bombs, so it’s not true as far as that goes. Were the threats from a normie or a socon, or a QUILTBAGger? Currently unknown, but I’d bet QUILTBAGger.

      • Q Continuum

        “The QUILTBAG doesn’t really have a history of violence, though”

        https://www.newsweek.com/audrey-hales-manifesto-details-monthslong-plan-commit-shooting-1792317

        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-shooting/transgender-teen-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-deadly-colorado-school-shooting-idUSKCN24Q00D

        Maybe not the LGBs in the original fight for civil liberties but the TQs are much more radical and have the backing of an establishment that likens disagreement to violence.

      • Tres Cool

        BLM has been exposed as a fraud and huge grift- Soros needs other avenues to sow discord.

      • Brochettaward

        Did anyone else here that the guy who killed the jogger recently did it because he wanted to look like her? I’m too lazy to confirm that one.

      • Ted S.

        Yeah, that’s what I meant; the bomb threat most likely came from a T supporter.

      • Brochettaward

        The company is one of several that have been recently targeted by conservative groups for supporting the LGBTQ+ community

        Perfectly accurate description of the controversy.

      • Ted S.

        Never mind all those people who may be L or G and don’t feel themselves a part of some “community” with all those other letters.

      • Tres Cool

        Cause I know if Im going to bomb a place, Ill be sure an send an email.

    • Brochettaward

      We won’t stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down.

      I can hear the pick-ups full of roving rednecks on my street right now hunting up the gays, queers, otherkin, pansexuals, and trans.

      • Sean

        And the furries. They’re easier to catch, as the costumes slow them down.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        I hear they are most active on snowy nights in Chicago.

  11. Old Man With Candy

    I’m going to blink once for yes, twice for no.

    • Sensei

      Designing a tube based phono preamp?

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Somebody forgot their safe word.

      • juris imprudent

        She locked the gag on and won’t take it off?

      • Tres Cool

        It was in Hebrew. She didnt understand.

  12. DEG

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the offer after talks with his Somali counterpart Abshir Omar Jama in Moscow.

    I think this implies that Somalia has roads now.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      How is he supposed to get to Moscow?
      Air Somalia?

      • Tres Cool

        Well, Air America has been done already.

      • Tres Cool

        HEY YUFUS!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Sup Tres!
        Cans! They are Tall!

  13. Shpip

    KOIN 6 News asked Commissioner Ryan, as an elected official, how he plans to turn the concerns he heard Thursday into action.

    “We have no more time for just slogans, and we have no more time to just keep pointing fingers. It’s time for us to build, build treatment centers, build safe rest villages, build places where people can heal and become whole and move forward,” he said.

    And when the urban outdoorsmen turn down these services because, due to mental illness and/or addiction, they prefer the tent life with its drinking and drug use… well, there’s always jail.

    • Grosspatzer

      I don’t understand why they don’t claim to be asylum seekers. Does Portland not have an equivalent of NYC’s Roosevelt Hotel set aside for the housing of these poor unfortunate souls?

      • Gustave Lytton

        No, they just stay with friends, family, or get housing arranged by their new employer or agent. The state is awash with illegals but not so much asylum seekers.

      • Grosspatzer

        Plenty of similar illegals here, mostly working hard just like previous generations of immigrants. “Asylum seekers” are another story, and NYC has plenty, just ask Mayor Adams.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Pretty much, except there’s much much less assimilation than past immigrants

      • Grosspatzer

        “Lord, there is a lot of bullshit to shovel out of there.”

        Turns out Obama was on to something.

    • Bob Boberson

      “Look, mom, it’s Pride, look! They’re going to celebrate me!’

      Sure xer said that, sure xer did.

      • Bob Boberson

        “ …she will no longer be able to bring her child to Target because she fears they will be upset to see the collection moved.”

        Not celebrating is violence.

      • Tres Cool

        +1 FWEEDOM

    • Grosspatzer

      Oh, FFS. Non-binary seven year old?

      • DrOtto

        Mental illness doesn’t tend to skip a generation.

      • hayeksplosives

        As someone remarked on Twitter, “A non-binary 7 year old is like a vegan cat. We all know who is really calling the shots.”

      • Tres Cool

        The veterinarian ?

    • Rebel Scum

      This mom is abusing her child.

  14. Count Potato

    “A member of far-right group Patriot Front has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges stemming from his arrest protesting a pride event last year.

    Jared Boyce, 28, faces 30 years behind bars after confessing to nine felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, as well as sending a picture of his genitals to a 16-year-old girl.

    The pedophile was one of 31 Patriot Front members who were arrested last year on their way to intercepting a gay pride event in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12131883/Patriot-member-pleads-guilty-child-pornography-charges-Utah-faces-30-years-prison.html

    Curious.

    • Bob Boberson

      The glowies aren’t sending their best.

    • Tres Cool

      Pete Townshend said he was “just doing research”.
      Maybe Jared should try that defense.

    • Rebel Scum

      IOW Patriot Front is definitely an FBI operation.

    • DrOtto

      Marlin is a run down little town, but they have a fried chicken place that is second to none.

    • R C Dean

      “We hold firm to our belief that every student in Marlin ISD can and will achieve their potential.”

      Maybe they already have?

    • creech

      Screw the five who met the requirements, eh?

  15. Shpip

    Random military / Disney fact:

    Robert B. Sherman enlisted in the army at 17. On April 12, 1945, less than a month before the war in Europe ended, Sherman was shot in the knee, forcing him to use a cane for the rest of his life.

    After the war, he collaborated with his brother to write songs for many Disney scores, including Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Charlotte’s Web. Their best-known work, however, remains the theme park song “It’s a Small World (After All)”.

    Now try getting that tune out of your head for the rest of the day.

    • Tres Cool

      So he was a gay ?

    • Rebel Scum

      The Buick…idk how anyone can be that incompetent behind the wheel.

      • DEG

        I see you don’t drive in New England.

  16. Count Potato

    “They’re scared of being reported to Child Protective Services. They’re scared that if they don’t affirm their child, that their kid is going to commit suicide and do self-harm—which is a lie. And they’re intimidated by these doctors that are on the side of their kid and have a lot of power. They could report them and then their child could be taken away from them.”

    https://www.city-journal.org/article/texas-childrens-hospital-whistleblower-speaks-out

    • Rebel Scum

      If anyone should be against the gender-bending trans kid crap it’s doctors. It’s concerning that so many participate in it.

  17. Gustave Lytton

    MAYBE THEM CLEAN UP CITY A LITTLE?

    That was tried but back in early winter and it worked briefly, but wasn’t sustainable.

    Here’s what needs to be done to fix it
    1) fuck the city of Boise and the 9th Circuit’s idiotic ruling. I’ve bitched about it before, but Boise city politics fucked the entire circuit
    2) deport the hateful dyke governor. She was instrumental in ramping through legislation to force cities and counties to replace no camping ordinances with “objectively reasonable”, which permanently allows squatters with exceptions
    3) stop taxpayer funded support services, including giving away camping supplies or funding/operating shelters
    4) end nonsensical housing first specifically and public housing generally
    5) end treatment industrial complex, specifically the peer counselor bullshit
    6) enforce no camping rules period. It’s not up to society to figure out how the bums will survive, that their job to figure out to camp lawfully and if not, buh bye
    7) change in general public’s beliefs that being compassionate requires them to just accept the outdoor shitpile

    Non libertarian steps
    Prosecute for property theft all of stolen property in their possession
    Enforce and prosecute quality of life issues, including graffiti and public urination/defecation
    End failed drug decriminalization and normalization
    Forced mental treatment of those in custody, continuing on after sentencing (and end grifters Disability Rights Oregon’s current campaign to have a revolving door in the state nuthouse to move as many bodies through regardless of actual treatment)

    And the indefensible
    Towel shampoos for the uppity ones who think they own the city
    Hang graffiti arrests from the nearest lampposts with their trigger fingers chopped off and a rattle can showed down their gullet

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Jeez….

    • Gustave Lytton

      Oh, round up all of the bums and put them in a rural camp where they’re forced to work for their room and board. That’s another popular solution with those actually fed up with the mess.

      • Ted S.

        I would have suggested putting them in helicopters.

    • Bob Boberson

      After thrice times having my truck windows smashed and the interior looted in Spokane I’ve developed a new appreciation of Old Testament law and in the case of the homeless Sharia law; I don’t think I could muster up an objection to the guilty loosing an appendage.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Harshness of the law doesn’t arise in a vacuum.

      • Bob Boberson

        I really want to find some pity in my heart but I don’t think I can. They feel entitled to whatever they take. I just can’t square that with Christian charity and mercy when there is zero contrition or humility.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Oh, round up all of the bums and put them in a rural camp where they’re forced to work for their room and board. That’s another popular solution with those actually fed up with the mess.

    Poor farms existed for a reason.

  19. Brochettaward

    Sports writer/glorified news aggregator Mike Florio (I’m sure most of you don’t care about him) makes a funny:

    Roseman then pivoted to this: “If I was making a list of top five conspiracy theorists around the National Football League, you would be — I don’t know that you would be one, I don’t want to appoint you as one — but you would definitely be top five.”

    He was deflecting. I told him that. He also was making a classic ad hominem attack, where instead of addressing the argument the response focuses in some way on the person making it, usually with some sort of an insult.

    It became a thing for some of the sports blogs that apparently had nothing better to write about (and that apparently prefer unanswered questions to remain unanswered), and for some Eagles fans who viewed Roseman’s refusal to address the subject as stuffing me in a locker, or however else they described it.

    Some in the media act as if they hear none of the noise. Some do it not to show they’re thick skinned but to create the subtle (or not) impression that they’re above paying attention to what the fans might have to say. I pay attention to plenty of it. Sometimes, people make good points. Lurking among the periodic crap can be constructive criticism that can help me do this job a little better, or perhaps not as badly.

    And, yes, the whole “conspiracy theory” thing bothered me. It bothered me primarily because, in recent years, the term has become associated with some of the most unhinged, over-the-top, detached-from-reality, cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs narratives that have poisoned many minds and created much chaos in every segment of our society.

    See, in sports journalisming he is a truth seeker and calls the NFL and its teams out on their lies. But in politics, people who noticed that guys like Fauci were lying every time they opened their mouths had their minds poisoned. People who think Joe Biden and his entire family are corrupt, and probably beholden to foreign interests after years of taking money from them? Nutjobs (don’t ask Florio about Russiagate).

    The real truth seekers are out there pondering the deep mystery of how the NFL let two teams settle their own beef over tampering over some executive employee no fan gives a fuck about.

    • Ted S.

      Mike Florio kicks cancer lady in the nuts and doubles down when called out on it.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    FYI:

    I watched (unexpurgated) Blazing Saddles on Tubi a couple of nights ago. Leaving soon.

    “Here, boy. Take this shovel and put ‘er to good use.”

  21. The Late P Brooks

    The Buick…idk how anyone can be that incompetent behind the wheel.

    Maybe it was the mother in law’s car.

  22. The Other Kevin

    Good morning all, hope you’re having a great weekend. The kid’s grad party went great yesterday, perfect weather and lots of people we haven’t seen in a while. Today we have the roller derby girls over for our annual sausage fest. Looks like more of the same weather.

    • DEG

      🙂

    • Count Potato

      🙂

  23. Count Potato

    “Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid,” with Halle Bailey starring as Ariel and a diverse cast, “reeks of obligation and noble intentions,” Wesley Morris writes.

    “Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, kink — they’re missing.””

    https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1662464952324567040

    Kink?

    • Brochettaward

      Chinese state media called Disney out for their obsessive race swapping in children’s stories.

      The movie is 2 hours and 15 minutes and another lifeless, joyless cash grab that some percentage of parents will mistakenly take their kids to go see out of nostalgia. The good news is that the Disney brand has been so damaged over the last few years that the number of those parents is in fact shrinking.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Fuck you, that’s how

    Less than two months after he pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol, Texas resident Daniel Goodwyn appeared on Tucker Carlson’s then-Fox News show and promoted a website where supporters could donate money to Goodwyn and other rioters whom the site called “political prisoners.”

    The Justice Department now wants Goodwyn to give up more than $25,000 he raised — a clawback that is part of a growing effort by the government to prevent rioters from being able to personally profit from participating in the attack that shook the foundations of American democracy.

    An Associated Press review of court records shows that prosecutors in the more than 1,000 criminal cases from Jan. 6, 2021, are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters.

    Who cares if you need money to pay your legal bills and feed your kids because you lost your job. You should have thought of that before you committed your heinous acts of treasoninsolence and disrespect.

    • Rebel Scum

      “shook the foundations of American democracy”

      Go fuck yourself.

      “offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters.”

      I’d love to know the legal justification here.

  25. Aloysious

    Cryptids! Yay!

    Also: Lapham’s Quarterly is one of the best things out there.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Their fundraising success suggests that many people in the United States still view Jan. 6 rioters as patriots and cling to the baseless belief that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. The former president himself has fueled that idea, pledging to pardon rioters if he is elected.

    Next up- tracking down and prosecuting donors for aiding and abetting.

    • Q Continuum

      Don’t give them ideas…

    • Rebel Scum

      “baseless belief”

      Democrats have not accepted the result of a Republican victory in any presidential election of my lifetime.

      “tracking down and prosecuting donors for aiding and abetting.”

      This will come when they formerly declare the Republican Party to be a terrorist organization.

    • R.J.

      “Cling”
      “Baseless”

      Opinion much?

  27. The Late P Brooks

    A jury convicted romance novel cover model John Strand of storming the Capitol with Dr. Simone Gold, a California physician who is a leading figure in the anti-vaccine movement. Now prosecutors are seeking a $50,000 fine on top of a prison term for Strand when a judge sentences him on Thursday.

    The worst of the worst. Strip them of their citizenship and banish them. Set them adrift in the Pacific.

    • Rebel Scum

      “storming the Capitol”

      That’s a funny way to say “waived in by the police.”

  28. dbleagle

    Off to the boat soon for the final two days of the race. Who’d have thunk if you just keep making left turns around this island you’d end up where you started?

    Memorial Day moments will be at sea tomorrow.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    A message of hope and courage?

    Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney will give a graduation speech at her alma mater, an elite Colorado liberal arts college, amid questions about her political future and insistence that Donald Trump never become president again.https://news.yahoo.com/liz-cheney-colorado-college-graduation-053530071.html

    At Colorado College’s commencement on Sunday, the Wyoming Republican is expected to touch on themes similar to those she has promoted since leaving office in January: Addressing her work on the House January 6 Select Committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol insurrection and standing up to the threat she believes Trump poses to democracy.

    I can’t help wondering if the militant queers will try to shout her down.

    • creech

      Aren’t commencement speeches to congratulate and inspire the graduates, not blow your own horn about how “courageous” you were in stamping out “insurrections” and “preventing the end of democracy?”

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Zelenskyy just gave the Johns Hopkins commencement.

        One could argue that he’s been more successful at stamping out opposition.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Four grad tix for sale; 303-xxx-xxxx

      • R.J.

        Is that call a dollar a minute?