Monday Morning Links

by | Sep 25, 2023 | Daily Links | 198 comments

Suck it, Holtz!

Ohio State got a hell of a win at Notre Dame. Max cruised to a win at Suzuka. The Stillers got a win at Vegas. Liverpool got a nice win. The Wallabies are all but dead at the RWC. And even though the Springboks lost, I think I may have witnessed one of the best rugby matches in a generation.  Oh, and the Astros are in freefall and are in a bad place with a week left in the regular season.  And that’s it for sports.

“Heil Hi….”
“shhh, Justin. Don’t say the quiet part out loud.”

Canadian Nazis. I hate Canadian Nazis. Seriously, how the holy fuck did this happen? Do these people not know who fought against the Russians during WW2, or do they just not care anymore?

Man, I was hoping this would never end. Damn it.

The next Ukraine is right around the corner. I wish our “leaders” would hurry up and decide who is to blame so I can prepare myself for the endless revelations that their kids just so happen to work fort a bunch of companies there.

Christ, what an asshole. How the hell was this chain of events even possible?

This is fine. ::sips coffee:: I still don’t think he makes it till next year’s election. But I sure hope he does.

Neat!

This is pretty cool. I wonder how the agency will make it about trans people or empowering women or something else that has nothing to do with their mission.

Does anybody know the details of this? I’m not seeing any details about the shooting aside from the skin color of the victim. I’m curious why both sides are digging their heels in so hard.

He’s suing the wrong people. But I suppose this will get him the attention he needs to get the school to recant their policy. Hell, I don’t know enough about it to form an opinion. But I’m already pretty sure I want to dislike everybody involved.

Here’s a freaking awesome song. Just awesome. And the video brings back memories. So does this one. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.

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198 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    Man, I was hoping this would never end. Damn it.

    I can still hope something goes wrong, and this shit goes wrong again, can’t I?

    Please, please, please!

  2. AlexinCT

    This is pretty cool. I wonder how the agency will make it about trans people or empowering women or something else that has nothing to do with their mission.

    Andromeda Strain, Andromeda Strain!

    • Raven Nation

      Hah! That was my first thought as well.

  3. AlexinCT

    He’s suing the wrong people. But I suppose this will get him the attention he needs to get the school to recant their policy. Hell, I don’t know enough about it to form an opinion. But I’m already pretty sure I want to dislike everybody involved.

    Agreed they should all lose. On a lighter note, I am laughing my ass off at idiots like this being surprised grifting entities grift. It’s a good sign that this shit always self immolates. That having been said, this guy is right and will be attacked for it..

    • WTF

      Dreadlocks are not originally a black thing:

      Some of the earliest known possible depictions of dreadlocks date back as far as 1600–1500 BCE in the Minoan Civilization, centred in Crete (now part of Greece).[4] Frescoes discovered on the Aegean island of Thera (modern Santorini, Greece) depict individuals with long braided hair or long dreadlocks.[3][4]

      They’re a white thing.

      • DrOtto

        They were Greek – it’s a LGBTQ+× thing.

      • R C Dean

        See also, the Celtic Gauls,

  4. AlexinCT

    This is fine. ::sips coffee:: I still don’t think he makes it till next year’s election. But I sure hope he does.

    The gatekeepers read his racist mind but found that he didn’t mean wrong despite definitely doing racism.

    • The Gunslinger

      Biden is not going anywhere. He will live into his 90s and serve as president for another full term. Hell, Jimmy Carter is 98 and I bet he could get re-elected. These people have constant 24/7/365 medical monitoring. Black pill morning.

      • SDF-7

        Given that Carter at this point would be deemed an improvement over Biden, don’t give them ideas, man.

      • Nephilium

        Carter could then roll back the only good things he did for the country!

      • Suthenboy

        He did good things?

      • pistoffnick

        Home brewing was illegal until Jimmy Carter – America’s teetotaling 39th President – signed H.R. 1337 and essentially lifted 50 years of prohibition regulations on home brewing that made it possible for hobbyist to legally brew at home.

      • pistoffnick

        Why is home distilling still illegal?

      • Suthenboy

        Because Billy made beer, not whiskey.

      • kinnath

        Home brew

      • Nephilium

        Legalized home brewing, deregulated airlines and trucking.

      • Sensei

        Banking deregulation as well.

      • Robonerfherder

        If only he had gotten rid of the Bank Secrecy Act, a misnomer if there ever were one.

      • R.J.

        Cheers to your black pill, which is correct. He will rage, hold people ransom with whatever dirt he knows, and run for the white house. And probably win it by theft again.

  5. AlexinCT

    Canadian Nazis. I hate Canadian Nazis. Seriously, how the holy fuck did this happen? Do these people not know who fought against the Russians during WW2, or do they just not care anymore?

    I suspect that they know damned well what the history of WWII was, but the agenda is to keep marxism and its evils hidden from the serfs. Especially in the globalist age.

  6. SDF-7

    Canadian Nazis. I hate Canadian Nazis. Seriously, how the holy fuck did this happen? Do these people not know who fought against the Russians during WW2, or do they just not care anymore?

    “History? That’s for those who can’t see the glorious future, Comrades!” (More likely, they’re just fucking incompetent idiots).

    Max cruised to a win at Suzuka.

    Sigh. So much for hoping Red Bull might actually have an issue and the rest of the teams could fight for the front. At least McLaren had a good day and avoided the bumper cars the rest of the field decided to engage in (honorary points to Perez for seemingly being determined to wipe out the back markers all by his lonesome for a while there…).

    Man, I was hoping this would never end. I was hoping it would end with the whole lot of them fired and some fresh blood brought in by necessity so maybe the circle-jerk of liberal love me scripts would stop for a while. Damn it, indeed.

    Morning, Glibs.

  7. Drake

    Sports – Bryson DeChambeau shot a 63 for another come-from-behind win in the LIV Chicago tournament. He shot a 58 last month in Greenbrier to win there.

    Now he’s headed home to watch the Ryder cup on tv.

  8. R.J.

    I was hoping the writers’ strike never ended too.

  9. R.J.

    “I wonder how the agency will make it about trans people or empowering women or something else that has nothing to do with their mission.”

    ^This. It is going from climate change to false firsts of DIE. When, oh when, will we stop having lectures inserted in every new article?

    • Nephilium

      A regional band used to do a bit in their live sets touting their WWJD bracelets. So they could let you know that in the dark, they would ask themselves the difficult question: What Would Journey Do?

  10. R.J.

    Regarding hair length: That policy has been in effect in Texas schools for over 60 years. I had to deal with it when I was in high school. Learning to look professional in high school is good for you. My sympathy is very limited. This is not due to race, every boy must comply.

    • UnCivilServant

      The key is to find the right judge. They’ll rule against anything to spite the enemy.

      • R.J.

        I get that everyone wants total freedom starting in Junior High. I see that. At least in the 70s and 80s Texas schools made a serious effort to push employment-ready high school seniors out the door. Part of that was dress code, another part was a class on home economics that taught you how to handle yourself in the world of bills, bank accounts, etc… I don’t know how much of that is relevant anymore, but that dress code has been around longer than I have.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have heard it claimed that dress codes and hair restrictions were employed to give students something harmless to rebel against so they weren’t inclined to break the ‘real’ rules more.

        Not sure the veracity of that assertion, nor the effectiveness of such an approach.

  11. Drake

    The DOJ is finally kicking out some illegal immigrants!

    An immigration judge initially granted the family’s application for asylum. The U.S. Department of Justice appealed the decision, and the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals revoked the family’s asylum status, documents show.

    I wonder what makes this family such a special case?

    • R.J.

      Oh that’s hilarious. Well done.

    • SDF-7

      They didn’t walk through the Mexican border (okay, okay… they’re of the naughty Caucasian persuasion and not into government indoctrination of their kids… aka less likely to be Evil Party voters… so we can’t have people like them around!)

      • Robonerfherder

        I’m wondering what the DOJ could do to be even more partisan, other than jailing people for simply registering Republican.

      • WTF

        Don’t give them any ideas.

    • rhywun

      Lack of roofing skills?

  12. rhywun

    ‘By the way that boy – that man’s got biceps bigger than my thighs.’

    LOL. I heard they have great thighs too and that’s why the black is the better ath-a-lete.

    • sloopyinca

      I’m shocked he didn’t mention blacks having an extra leg muscle.

      • Tres Cool

        I thought it was an extra bone in the foot?

      • sloopyinca

        Wait, maybe it’s the double-Achilles tendon.

  13. SDF-7

    Today’s treatment for your low blood pressure. That it happened is less maddening than the complete lack of consequences for any of these psychopathic shitheels.

    • Robonerfherder

      They’ve known this from the beginning, but it was an impediment to pushing the vaccines.

      So they denied it and let people die.

      • Robonerfherder

        And JAMA acknowledged the potential for further investigation the day after the 2020 election.

        This was after they decried HCQ as fishtank cleaner months earlier when Trump mentioned it.

        And their tiny retraction was on page 16 of their monthly.

        Fuck all of these people. They deserve the boats.

  14. rhywun

    But I’m already pretty sure I want to dislike everybody involved.

    I’m pretty sure there’s more to this story than the narrative they have constructed for us.

    the dress code, which requires that boys keep their hair from growing beyond their eyebrows and earlobes

    Wat? That sounds implausible.
    And we’re supposed to believe that white boys don’t often wear their hair “beyond their eyebrows and earlobes”? Or they just get away with it because white??

    • rhywun

      OK, RJ corrects me above.

      We had nothing like that in my schools.

      • Nephilium

        Catholic schools here routinely have a rule that men’s hair must not touch their collars.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, sheet, what do they do about the Sicilians? Do they have to shave their upper back and shoulders?

    • Suthenboy

      More evidence that if they can’t eat it or fuck it they will just shit on it.

    • rhywun

      I’m afraid to ask what the ring on the left is supposed to signify.

      • Sean

        It’s clearly a cockring.

      • AlexinCT

        Glory holes…

      • Not Adahn

        Asexuals.

        Because not wanting to fuck is a special snowflake gendersexuality.

      • AlexinCT

        Every April 15th I wish i was asekshual right before I need to mail that check to the IRS that has been fucking me in the ass all year long…

      • Mojeaux

        Meh, if you have heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, you can have asexual. I mean, it’s a legit orientation, unlike “genderqueer” and “trans” [where they leave off the “sexual” because it’s mean or whatnot, but it’s not an orientation anyway].

        Speaking of trans, I follow an increasing number of terf/LGB(minus)TQ/pro-Rowling Twitter accounts and that segment is growing. The LGBs are finally starting to figure out that tomboys, lesbians, and gay boys should be left alone to deal with their sexuality without being told they’re actually the opposite sex.

      • Not Adahn

        Asexual is a sexuality in the same way as atheism is a religion. And it is vastly less persecuted than the latter.

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

        The worm Ouroboros?

      • sloopyinca

        I have no idea who that is.

  15. PieInTheSky

    Comrade Soya
    @olasoyamilk
    Imagine identifying as a communist while simultaneously saying that a vast majority of workers in North America can’t achieve socialism…

    because they commited the ‘crime’ of being born in a place where it’s bourgeoisie has benefited from colonialism.

    https://twitter.com/olasoyamilk/status/1705979369221472462

    commie fight!

    • PieInTheSky

      Lucanamarca Maoist
      @WesternBolshevk
      Thread: Why Marxism-Leninism-Maoist is a objective advancement of Marxism and the only anti-revisionist ideology in the current era

      This has been a common debate among the ICM so I feel it is time to make a thread detailing the advancements of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

      https://twitter.com/WesternBolshevk/status/1705699091618144346

      • Robonerfherder

        I have no interest in crawling up their buttholes along with them.

        Commies are so tedious.

      • rhywun

        This.

    • Suthenboy

      Goddamned. What a bunch of gibberish.

      • R.J.

        I am taking your word for it, because I too and tired of commie verbal diarrhea.

    • Fatty Bolger

      “Imagine identifying as a communist”

      I’ve tried, but then I feel an almost irresistible urge to throw myself into a woodchipper.

    • Tundra

      Goldens are the best.

      Thanks, Holiness!

  16. Aloysious

    Journey is a fine choice for a Monday morning. I have a soft spot in my cold black heart for Feeling That Way.

  17. Sean

    Daily Quordle 609
    4️⃣8️⃣
    9️⃣6️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle/

    https://squaredle.com 09/25:
    22/22 words (+12 bonus words)
    📖 In the top 1% by bonus words

      • rhywun

        Hmph.

        https://squaredle.com 09/25:
        22/22 words (+4 bonus words)
        🎯 In the top 28% by accuracy

    • kinnath

      Daily Quordle 609
      5️⃣8️⃣
      4️⃣9️⃣

      fuck the upper right.

  18. Nephilium

    For those who want a really blinged out USB hub these guys had some that were designed to look like mini cigarette vending machines, coke machines, and change machines. They also have completely playable mini cabinets.

    It was very tempting to pick up some of their stuff at the Cleveland Gaming Classic.

    • PieInTheSky

      but why.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Why not? I’d buy one if only they’d spelled “Kools” right.

      • Nephilium

        My guess is they got hit with a trademark/copyright suit about that. The girlfriend was excited about the mini ski ball game they had, but it was just a prototype and was still having issues consistently recording the balls going through the holes (as the balls were light).

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Trademark, surely.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What Neph said. (Refresh!)

    • Sean

      *points to avatar*

      Neat stuff. Dig the mini boom boxes.

      • Nephilium

        They went to great details to make the stuff look and feel authentic. They even had little miniature replica quarters to put in the slots for the cabinets.

  19. Sensei

    Did you know that virtue signaling has a cost? Our leaders don’t seem to think so…

    Taxpayers Stuck Paying the Bills for Oligarchs’ Seized Yachts and Mansions
    Assets taken from sanctioned Russian billionaires are costly to maintain as legal hurdles hold up sales; $28,000 a week to keep mold out of the Alfa Nero

    https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/taxpayers-stuck-paying-the-bills-for-oligarchs-seized-yachts-and-mansions-afd442e4?st=chmygbzj1tq7qm9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    Anyone with even the slightest bit of knowledge and common sense either knows this or could have inferred it.

      • AlexinCT

        Was that a buttplug?

      • Robonerfherder

        Kong treat holder.

        Or a buttplug if you’re into that sort of thing.

      • pistoffnick

        Anything is a butt plug if you are daring enough…

      • AlexinCT

        Had an IT coworker about 15 years ag that became convinced all IT jobs would be outsourced to India and he would not be able to make a living unless he changed careers. So after a lot of research and agonizing, he went out to get himself a nursing degree. The stories we heard from him every Monday after he worked the ER for the weekend…

        We ended up giving him the title “Hotdog Extractor” after one of the harrowing stories. It was a close one between “Beer Bottle”, “Kielbasa”, and “Powertool” extractor…

      • Mojeaux

        “I slipped in the shower, Doc, honest!”

      • UnCivilServant

        “Why were you showering with a Gnome Statue?”

      • AlexinCT

        My garden hose was not sufficient to clean up the poo on the gnome from the last excursion?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It was a million to one shot doc. I mean woof…

  20. Pope Jimbo

    I figured the Canadian Nazi thing was because Trudeau had a really cool Nazi uniform he was dying to wear.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      He almost certainly has some Boss in the closet.

  21. Robonerfherder

    I get auction notices for business liquidations.

    Let’s just say that the quantity and pace of them has picked up dramatically.

    • Sean

      Any trends on the types of businesses?

      • Robonerfherder

        Restaurants, gyms, and home furnishings seem to constitute the majority.

    • PieInTheSky

      any good bargains to be had?

      • Robonerfherder

        If you need major appliances and are willing to take a risk, yes.

    • Tundra

      I’ve been getting a lot of industrial (mostly machining) ones. But so what? The economy is GREAT!

  22. Rat on a train

    I’m getting server errors so no link but the Telegraph reports the guy tried to ram his way out of a police block.

    • sloopyinca

      So much for “unarmed.”

      • Not Adahn

        With 15 minute cities, police will no longer be able to use the excuse of “he was driving at me” as a pretext for genociding BIPOCs.

        /HRM’s Government

  23. PieInTheSky

    The Polish way of rebuilding
    Let’s make Coventry medieval again

    https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-polish-way-of-rebuilding?utm_medium=email&r=28xloi

    I’m in Warsaw …

    Fifteen months after its Jewish ghetto rose up in a last ditch attempt to avoid annihilation, the people of the city carried out one final act of defiance against Nazi occupation in August 1944.

    The Polish Army and resistance fought bravely – some 20,000 Germans were killed or wounded – but at huge cost. As many as 200,000 Poles, most civilians, were killed in the battle and over 80% of the city destroyed – worse destruction than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. And so the Nazis had carried out their plan to erase the Polish capital — yet this was something the Poles refused to accept, even after 1944

    Today the Old Town is as beautiful as it ever was, and visitors from around the world come to walk its streets – witnesses to perhaps the most remarkable ever story of urban rebirth.

    With the city a pile of rubble and corpses, the post-war communist authorities considered moving the capital elsewhere, and some suggested that the remains of Warsaw be left as a memorial to war, but the civic leaders insisted otherwise – the city would rise again

  24. DrOtto

    Re: the Hollywood “writer’s strike” – How hard is it to re-write old Shakespeare just swapping race/gender. Kid and Play did it back in the day.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good catch, I wrote my PhD dissertation on the familial string that runs through Titus Andronicus and House Party II.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Jeez, just one loaded out attack helicopter and there wouldn’t be enough virgins in Heaven for all of those guys.

    • Sensei

      That will help subsidize Toyota’s EV production. Toyoda says, “Hurray!”

    • Drake

      So al-Qaeda are the good guys now?

      • PieInTheSky

        who says there are good guys?

      • Drake

        They are fighting Wagner…

      • UnCivilServant

        Religious Fanatics versus Penal Legionnaires.

        Not the match-up I had on my bingo card for the month.

    • Rat on a train

      Have all the other automakers sent their armies?

      • UnCivilServant

        There were no EV charging stations in Mali, so they haven’t been able to reach the fight.

      • Rat on a train

        I blame Congress for not including more funding for charging stations in the Inflation Reduction Act.

    • Tundra

      Funny how AQ always shows up just when we need them.

      Funny.

    • MikeS

      agnomen
      @4thSpoliaOpima

      Every A10 warthog pilot who ever lived gets erect watching this video.

  25. Robonerfherder

    EU bonds are under pressure this morning. It’s getting spicy.

  26. PieInTheSky

    ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content

    https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

    An investigation uncovers a web of influence in the powerful coalition aligned behind the European Commission’s proposal to scan for child sexual abuse material online, a proposal leading experts say puts rights at risk and will introduce new vulnerabilities by undermining encryption.

    The regulation would obligate digital platforms – from Facebook to Telegram, Signal to Snapchat, TikTok to clouds and online gaming websites – to detect and report any trace of child sexual abuse material, CSAM, on their systems and in their users’ private chats.

    It would introduce a complex legal architecture reliant on AI tools for detecting images, videos and speech – so-called ‘client-side scanning’ – containing sexual abuse against minors and attempts to groom children.

    Welcomed by some child welfare organisations, the regulation has nevertheless been met with alarm from privacy advocates and tech specialists who say it will unleash a massive new surveillance system and threaten the use of end-to-end encryption, currently the ultimate way to secure digital communications from prying eyes.

    • AlexinCT

      Reminds me of that movie Porky’s where the school superintendent made sure everyone knew how angry he was because he sat through the porn flick they took from the kids – twice – to make sure he caught all the smut…

      • sloopyinca

        You mean Porky’s II: The Next Day. Although it wasn’t set the following day and Porky never even made an appearance.

      • AlexinCT

        Look at you going all precise on me, Sloop..

        I stand corrected.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Listen pervert, if you’re not doing anything wrong etc.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    How hard is it to re-write old Shakespeare just swapping race/gender. Kid and Play did it back in the day.

    It’s all Aesop’s “The Dog in the Manger”, these days.

    • Robonerfherder

      I figured it was The Monkey and the Dolphin

      • UnCivilServant

        Not The Marquis and the Dauphin?

    • Rat on a train

      Who knew there would be so many economic migrants?

      • Suthenboy

        Invaders are always ‘economic migrants’.

    • AlexinCT

      Running from BooBoo…

    • Ownbestenemy

      “You are required to present your SSN”
      -followed by-
      “No services will be rendered without your SSN”

    • sloopyinca

      The SEC Wants to Spy on Your Portfolio

      It Just Means More.

  28. Ownbestenemy

    I lied. I wanna go home.

    Just kidding. First day of work off to a normal start. Digging through the system and already see I need to pull out my nukes.

    • UnCivilServant

      Look on the bright side, I think she’s actually a woman.

    • Rat on a train

      The winner is white and a woman? That’s double plus ungood.

    • Grumbletarian

      That’s the bad kind of inclusivity!

    • rhywun

      Hilarious.

    • AlexinCT

      Over and under on them basically passing a new law with some different wording doing the same shit, and just resetting the clock on another challenge? here in the People’s Republic of Connecticut where they have a similar law, the AG said there was nothing to worry about, because everybody loved this restriction on gun owner’s rights.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    A hand in every pocket

    As the Wall Street Journal reports, the new law from the IRS is requiring ticket sellers like Ticketmaster and Stubhub to fork over information if they made more than $600 reselling tickets this year. Ticketing websites previously had to send 1099-K forms to a user who made more than $20,000 through 200 or more transactions in a year. The updated law, which is a part of the American Rescue Plan Act, lowers that amount to $600 regardless of the number of sales, and sellers will only need to pay taxes on profit. This is the latest in the Biden administration’s attempts to reign in the Wild West of ticket sales—the White House previously hosted ticketing execs this summer for a dialogue on increasing transparency around hidden fees that customers are slapped with during checkout.

    “Payment apps and online marketplaces are required to file a Form 1099-K if the gross payments to you for goods and services are over $600,” the IRS said in a fact sheet. “The $600 reporting threshold started with tax year 2023. There are no changes to what counts as income or how tax is calculated.”

    The Journal reports that the average price for tickets to Swift’s The Eras Tour was a massive $1,095, citing figures from StubHub, which specializes in resale tickets. Similarly, the average prices for Beyonce’s and Harry Styles’ respective tours hit $380 and $400. Concerts are not the only offenders, however, as tickets to Inter Miami CF soccer matches ballooned to $250 from $30 after Lionel Messi joined Major League Soccer. StubHub also apparently told WSJ that there was an unusually high number of resellers this year, likely a result of the live event industry still rebounding after covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021.

    Inflation reduction at work. This is all about the wild west of people trying to make a little scratch on the side.

    • The Other Kevin

      Thankfully they’re only going after millionaires.

      • AlexinCT

        Millionaires have lawyers & accountants. Serfs don’t so you can easily rob them.

    • PieInTheSky

      it’s for the children

    • Not Adahn

      If you can’t beat ’em, ban ’em.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I could see that happening if Brand is convicted but I doubt it’ll happen just yet. They’re full of shit though, I guarandamntee you that there are scores of lunatics and outright convicted criminals among the YouTube creators-hell, Brand’s still there but he just can’t monetize his content.

    • R.J.

      That has been the idea for a while. Remember Parler? The elites figured closing that would be good enough. We are in round 2 right now.

    • Seguin

      Yeah…it’s economic Anfal. Concentrate, encircle, destroy.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    The SEC Wants to Spy on Your Portfolio

    How else will they track your unrealized gains?

  31. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    What the fuck is it with the Serbs? They already got their world war. Lighten the fuck up, boys.

    Those songs definitely bring back some memories. I wonder how VQ holds up. Probably not well, but it sure had a terrific soundtrack!

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090270/soundtrack/

    • Robonerfherder

      Serbia is Russia aligned. That’s enough for them.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Look at the bright side. Serbia and Azerbaijan are practice runs for the purges and mass relocations which will be required here when the crackup happens.

  33. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “Do these people not know who fought against the Russians during WW2?”

    We’ve always been at war with Eurasia and Russia.

  34. Tundra

    Biden admin moves to give federal IDs to illegal immigrants

    In appearance, they looks like drivers licenses or non-driver IDs. ICE has stressed, however, that they “will not be an official form of federal identification,” simply acting as a more modern alternative to the paper documents issued to those who make the crossing into the United States. Many Democrat-run cities have also offered ID cards to illegal immigrants, and some cities have even tried to push through the ability for illegal immigrants to vote.

    This is fine.

    • The Other Kevin

      That was never the plan all along, you conspiracy theorist.

  35. Gender Traitor

    Just got done going through almost two weeks’ worth of emails and an extended discussion with my boss about what’s been going on while I was on vacation. Second best news: this month’s Board meeting was cancelled for lack of a quorum, so no minutes to write. Best news: (OK, a mixed blessing:) we’re probably not switching Professional Employer Orgs before our insurance benefits renewal date, so October and November might not be nightmares!

    • UnCivilServant

      Glad it wasn’t catastrophe.

      How did your Boss cope with your absense?

      • Gender Traitor

        Well enough, as far as I can tell. His most immediate concern, though, was the abdominal pain he was having all weekend, which he’s afraid might be kidney stones or his gall bladder. (No appendix.) He left to try to work from home before going to the doctor this afternoon. 😟

      • UnCivilServant

        The location and pressure sensitivity can tell you what caused it. Gall bladder will be right along the bottom of the rib cage with pressure sensitivity on the right side of the front at that region (ie where the liver and gall bladder are located) Kidney stones will be lower and not prone to pressure sensitivity. Gall Bladder is also often correlated to acid reflux. (2/2 people I know who had to have theirs out had serious reflux issues leading up to it)

        Of course, it could also just be a pulled muscle.

      • Gender Traitor

        It’s pressure sensitive – bumps on the road as he drove in were paining him – but I thought he indicated it was on his left side. He mentioned some nausea, so seems to be more than a pulled muscle.

      • UnCivilServant

        At this point, my recommendation is consult a medical professional. That combination is bad news.

  36. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    “I wonder how the agency will make it about trans people or empowering women or something else that has nothing to do with their mission.”

    My daughter has been working on an astrobiology project at NASA where they have been looking at meteors that have fallen in Antarctica. Maybe she will be empowered by the asteroid research too.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Creeping fascism

    Hillary Clinton warned Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election.

    “I fear that the Russians have proved themselves to be quite adept at interfering and if he has a chance, he’ll do it again,” the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee said on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”

    Clinton said that U.S. does not talk about Russian interference in the nation’s elections enough, claiming that Putin has “a lot of apologists and enablers in our own country.”

    She said some Americans do not see the “danger” of Putin, while cautioning that some even agree with him on certain issues, such as the invasion of Ukraine. Clinton warned that fascism and authoritarianism may be growing in the U.S. and urged voters to “reject” that kind of thinking.

    “And part of the challenge is to continue to explain to the American public that you know, the kind of leader Putin is, this authoritarian dictator who literally kills his opposition, kills journalists, poisons people who disagree with him, invades other country, interferes with our election,” she said.

    “That is part of the alternative we have to reject in this election,” she continued. “We have to reject authoritarianism. We have to reject a kind of creeping fascism almost, of people who are really ready to turn over their thinking, their votes to wannabe dictators, and we can’t allow that to proceed.”

    Creeping? I’s say we’re at a full gallop.

    Also- Putin Putin Putin!

    • kinnath

      Putin on the Ritz

    • Rat on a train

      kills his opposition, kills journalists, poisons people who disagree with him, invades other country, interferes with our election
      Who are we talking about again?

    • MikeS

      That she can say all those things with a straight face is truly impressive. What a wretched human.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    The intelligence community found that Russia’s interference in the 2020 election was intended to harm Clinton as the Democratic nominee and that it preferred the election of Republican Donald Trump. The Senate Intelligence Committee later reaffirmed those findings.

    Clinton said the reason Putin worked so hard against her campaign was because “he didn’t think that he wanted me in the White House.”

    You can’t be WRONG all the time, either.

    *2020 election? That’s some quality journalisming.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    I guess the imperial executive is only bad when Republicans want it

    Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry’s bill to require safety drivers on autonomous trucks was heavily backed by the Teamsters and received widespread support from lawmakers. It passed the Legislature with more than two-thirds approval in each house.

    Newsom in his veto message called the bill unnecessary and said the regulation of autonomous vehicles should be left to the DMV.

    The legislature should stick to toothless social signalling and let the administrative state make the rules.

    *rules which will be slavishly adopted by half the states in typical monkey-see-monkey-do fashion.

    • Sensei

      Perfect.

      • Tundra

        But wait! There’s more!

        “Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setback”

        LOL.

      • Fourscore

        Coal miners need good paying jobs too. Unions, John L. Lewis, coal miners’ daughters, what’s not to like

    • kinnath
    • R.J.

      Heh. Stupidity thrives in darkness. The world needs a lot more articles like this.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    A 15-pound lithium-ion battery holds about the same amount of energy as a pound of oil. To make that battery requires 7,000 pounds of rock and dirt to get the minerals that go into that battery. The average EV battery weighs around 1,000 pounds.

    All of that mining and factory processing produces a lot more carbon dioxide emissions than a gas-powered car, so EVs have to be driven around 50,000 to 60,000 miles before there’s a net reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

    Pay no attention to the physicist behind that curtain.

    • UnCivilServant

      You left off the part where those batteries will need to be replaced…

    • kinnath

      That continues to ignore the mountains of toxic waste that are also produced.

      • R.J.

        That problem will be solved when Coca Cola releases the new soda flavors! “Heavy Coke” will be a hit, solve the population problem, AND get rid of toxic waste!