Saturday Morning Links and/or Open Post

by | Sep 30, 2023 | Daily Links | 81 comments

This one is my fault.  I should’ve had this ready.  I got home rather late and didn’t remember to put together the links.

Lets see what Professor Glen Reynolds has on hand for us…

Rolls Royce tapped to build the most luxurious nuclear reactors on the moon.

Wouldn’t being a wannabe dictator imply the Oranj man was never a dictator?

This is bad news for Harry Doyle calling Cleveland Indians games.

RFK has a death wish.

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81 Comments

  1. Nephilium

    The Cleveland who now?

    I feel a Brockmire (amazingly NSFW language) reference would have worked as well.

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s a Cricket Team founded by H1B tech workers.

  2. Beau Knott

    RFK has a death wish? It runs in the family.

    • Robonerfherder

      Whatever you think of him otherwise, you have to admit the guy’s got surgical steel balls.

      • Chafed

        I don’t like him but admire his persistence. It’s shameful Biden hasn’t given him Secret Service protection.

      • The Last American Hero

        Because they did such a great job with the last Kennedy.

  3. mexican sharpshooter

    BRING OUT YOUR LINKS
    month python

    BRING OUT YOUR LINKS

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m not linked yet!

      • mexican sharpshooter

        👏 Golf 👏 Clap 👏

      • Robonerfherder

        You will be very soon, you’re very ill.

  4. mexican sharpshooter

    You heard me. I said

    BRING OUT YOUR LINKS
    plague

  5. Common Tater

    “Oregon middle school refuses to say if hulking bully filmed pulverizing much smaller girl to floor on hallway is transgender, after sickening clip triggered bomb threat

    The incident happened at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin last week, with school spokesperson Traci Rose telling The Oregonian that federal law barred them from discussing a student’s gender identity.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12578365/Oregon-school-bully-attack-transgender.html

    No one in Middle School is old enough to be transgender. And blurring out the person’s face doesn’t help.

    • Common Tater

      “Bomb threats were made against the homes of school and district staffers and city officials the day after the clip was shared.

      Hazelbrook Middle School was forced to evacuate its staff and students after threats were also made about a school shooting. The intimidating messages came via social media and email.”

    • Homple

      “…federal law barred them from discussing a student’s gender identity.”

      If there is such a law, I’m … annoyed.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I can understand such a law that bans discussing it with the general public. If it bans discussing it with the parents that’s a different story.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The attack was so violent it left the victim in floods of tears

      🙄

      Do note how no one in the crowd intervenes but at least one person filmed and uploaded it.

      • prolefeed

        Would you in that situation physically intervene and possibly get beat up also, on behalf of someone who is not your friend?

        The filming might result in consequences for the aggressor. Seems like a rational assessment of risks versus benefits.

      • Robonerfherder

        The filming might result in your instagram account becoming immensely popular too.

      • Chafed

        Good to see charges were filed.

    • Chafed

      Am I the only one who thinks the outrage is the bigger kid attacked the smaller kid and wasn’t punished for it? Tranny or not, the bigger kid initiated violence. That’s the problem.

      • Robonerfherder

        Dude, we cannot evaluate guilt without considering the historical oppression factors.

      • Chafed

        I guess I’m old fashioned.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Looks like I picked the right Saturday to sleep in.

  7. Gustave Lytton

    Jesus H.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2023/09/i-have-so-many-opportunities-in-front-of-me.html

    Free money. $40k/home for at best $10-15k/home worth of “improvements”. Social and climate Justice arble-garble.

    Prediction: won’t deliver on even that, will not achieve the state goals, and will suck even more money or collapse entirely as a scam. Every fucking prog delusion gets promoted like some grand Young Pioneers glorious effort and they all end up as DMV or Madoff.

    • prolefeed

      It’s almost like, when spending other people’s money, that cost-effectiveness is ignored. The revealed preference of the people who own the houses is: this stuff ain’t worth the money.

    • Chafed

      This is straight out of the Obama administration. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.

    • Suthenboy

      Hmmmm. I wonder how that happened.

    • Homple

      ““It’s mainly due to the movement of people, populations traveling, the fact that people stay in short-term accommodation and bring back bedbugs in their suitcases or luggage,” Johanna Fite from the Anses department of risk assessment told CNN.

      Bedbugs are one of the lesser nuisances of “populations traveling” in France.

    • UnCivilServant

      Unfun fact – you are most likely to find bedbugs in large cities with international travellers, but they can show up anywhere humans live.

      Check any hotel bed for signs before using it.

  8. Robonerfherder

    So if you haven’t heard, the latest term of art is “healing myocardial injury.”

    https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-persistence-of-the-people-showing

    They looked harder at the people with modmRNA in their heart. They found ‘healing myocardial injury’ (dense scar formation) in 3/3 of the people where they found modmRNA in the heart, but in only 2/9 of the people where they didn’t find modmRNA in the heart. They tied this scarring to macrophage infiltration, but not to other wound healing factors, which I find… ‘interesting’.

    • Chafed

      One more emerging scandal from those untested vaccines.

  9. Common Tater

    “Anthropology groups shut down sex discussion to protect transgender people

    American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society play the eugenics card to silence academics previously targeted for cancellation but won’t say how many members complained about their sex panel.

    North America’s largest annual gathering of anthropologists won’t get to hear why sex remains a “necessary analytic category in anthropology,” not replaceable by gender identity, because the idea is comparable to eugenics and would “cause harm” to everyone in the discipline.

    That was the explanation the American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society gave for canceling the session “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby” scheduled for their November joint conference in Toronto…

    In perhaps the most incendiary comparison, the boards claimed that gender-critical scholarship serves the same function as race science, “to advance a ‘scientific’ reason to question the humanity of already marginalized groups.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/race-science-anthropology-groups-shut-down-sex-discussion-protect-transgender

    That’s retarded.

    • Robonerfherder

      North America’s largest annual gathering of anthropologists

      Anthropologists are almost always hardcore leftists. Dropping a thermobaric device on that gathering would be a net benefit to humanity,

    • Chafed

      That’s so sciencey. No wonder they aren’t taken seriously.

    • Suthenboy

      We cant have rational, fact based fields of study derailing our push to demoralize and destroy western civilization.

  10. Common Tater

    “AWOL mystery: Democrat leaders departed Arizona during Biden visit, leaving Republican in charge

    “Either something very strange is going on, or every top Dem in the state just fled rather than getting their photo taken [with] Biden,” said radio show co-host Sam Stone.

    Arizona’s top Democratic leadership left the state while President Joe Biden stopped by for a visit, leaving the Republican state treasurer as acting governor for a brief period….

    “.@JoeBiden arrived in Arizona last night,” the Kari Lake War Room account posted. “@katiehobbs, @Adrian_Fontes, & @krismayes all arranged to be out of town during his visit, forcing the Republican Treasurer to assume control of our state. Why did our entire illegitimate state government leave town at the same time?””

    https://justthenews.com/government/arizona-democratic-leaders-were-absent-state-amid-president-bidens-arrival

    WTF?

    • Robonerfherder

      Biden is out. Newsom is in.

      They all know it. It’s just a question of when.

      • Fourscore

        Kamala resigns, Newsom appoints Kamala Senator. (Honors his WOC pledge)

        Biden chooses Newsom as VP. At that point it doesn’t matter if Biden keels over or chooses not to run. Newsom is the acceptable

      • Common Tater

        But then it would be two straight white men.

      • prolefeed

        Why would Biden appoint a VP who is gunning to replace him forthwith? Senile dementia, sure, but it seems the ability to discern your enemies would be one of the last cognitive functions to go.

      • Fourscore

        DNC can’t take chances, Biden’s got to go. Chooses to ‘retire’ and enjoy his family, can’t take a chance on impeachment/Hunter.

    • Chafed

      They obviously didn’t want to be photographed with Biden.

    • prolefeed

      It’s a soft version of the memory holing of recently deceased leaders during Stalin’s reign of terror. They don’t cut the unperson out of photos, they just don’t have the unperson in photos in the first place.

  11. The Other Kevin

    I’m watching this series The Zoo. In this episode they got 100 venomous snakes from a hoarder. They’re moving the snakes from one Tupperware container to another. Big fat nope.

    • UnCivilServant

      Best precaution for snakes is to get them cold and lethargic before moving them.

      And hell no, I’m not handling venomous snakes.

    • The Other Kevin

      They had those long hooks and it was one at a time, but they still mentioned “in case of a bite”. 😬

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I worked at an animal lab in college. It contained a collection of venomous snakes, mostly rattlers. To clean tanks, the idiot researchers would don shin guards, put the inhabited aquarium on the floor on it’s side facing an empty one similarly positioned, and try to shoo the rattler from tank to the other.

      I had some acquaintances with collections of cobras and mambas. They would have peed themselves laughing while watching the animal lab scientists.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    “Congressional disruption”

    The fact that defense spending isn’t exempt from congressional disruption is a big deal in the D.C. region, particularly in Virginia, which receives the highest amount of federal defense spending on a per capita basis.

    The Pentagon is in Arlington, Va., and Northern Virginia is dotted with national security-related government facilities and defense contractors. There are 15 military installations further south in the Hampton Roads area, including Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base in the world. One estimate suggests that federal defense money directly or indirectly funds almost 900,000 jobs in Virginia.

    In NPRland, the unitary executive runs the government and Congress is nothing but a ceremonial rubber stamp, apparently.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The unitary executive independent of the president, at least when it’s potentially Trump in the seat.

    • Robonerfherder

      So NPR is now in favor of unconstrained military spending.

      My how things changed.

    • Chafed

      John Yoo nods.

  13. Ted S.

    Regarding the “Harry Doyle” link, using the state to bully people enjoying life in a way you disapprove of is far more problematic, amd *that’s* the thing of which we shouldn’t have positive media depictions.

    • Chafed

      But they’re scientists! Scientists!

  14. The Late P Brooks

    In D.C., there are plenty of well-paid white-collar government workers, but many other government workers are lower-wage earners. Everyone will be trying to make ends meet without an on-time paycheck — and that’s hard in a high-cost area like D.C.

    When shutdowns stretch for a long time, they cause real pain to government workers. People fall behind on rent and mortgage payments and struggle to pay for food and medicine. Previous shutdowns have resulted in long lines at local food pantries and unemployment offices.

    And even if this closure ends quickly, the fact that shutdowns are becoming a habit in Congress has serious consequences for the federal government’s reputation as a stable employer. The government is already struggling to attract top young talent, and it could also lose current federal workers sick of shutdown instability.

    *dabs tear*

    • Ted S.

      When FedGov workers [sic] start thanking those of us who pay their wages, I might start to have some sympathy for them.

      And after the way governments tried to destroy private sector workers through pandemic lockdowns, I’m fine with government+sector employees learning what it’s like.

  15. Common Tater

    “‘They/them’ Utah preschool teacher proudly comes out as furry called ‘Flint’

    “I began to reflect on myself and realized that I was probably a furry because I wanted one of the costumes.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/they-them-utah-preschool-teacher-proudly-comes-out-as-furry-called-flint

    “High school teacher knocked unconscious after female student hurls metal chair at her head in Flint, Michigan: source

    Flint schools superintendent referred to the incident as “a physical altercation between two scholars.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/teacher-knocked-unconscious-after-scholar-hurls-metal-chair-at-her-head-in-flint-michigan

    Between the grooming, constant fights, and political indoctrination, does anyone ever teach anything?

    • Beau Knott

      But were they austere scholars?

    • Chafed

      There is a reason school choice keeps gaining ground.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Aren’t furries supposed to identify with real animals? What the fuck is that thing?

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a person screaming “I wanna be a special snowflake!”

    • R.J.

      “Old Furry with Candy” has a nice ring to it.

      • Gender Traitor

        Beats hell out of “Old Candy with Fur.”

      • R.J.

        I came up with “Old Tranny with Theyby” while I was driving.

  16. Fourscore

    Well, Charley Brown is now Chairman, JCS.

    The Charliest Brown of all Chairman

  17. Chafed

    I don’t understand the artist’s rendition of the British nuke on the moon. Why does it have solar cells on top?

  18. UnCivilServant

    -.-

    I love the fine detail I can get with the resin printer, but hate the amount of work it takes.

    I love the ease of the filament printer, but hate its inability to capture fine details.

    When do we invent the best of both worlds 3D printer?

    • R.J.

      I give it five more years.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m more surprised that arrests were made.

      • R.J.

        The event was cancelled and moved because of his post. That’s serious. I hope he gets some time to think about it.

  19. R.J.

    Bro and Bratatoes:

    One of the California lurkers found an $18,000 toilet on Amazon.

    Toto MS901CUMFX#01 NEOREST NX2 – COTTON W/ACTILIGHT https://a.co/d/j4tXMqF

    • KK, Non-Man

      One of the California lurkers

      ?

      • R.J.

        There are many people I know who lurk here and do not have an account. They choose to be ghosts.

      • Gender Traitor

        Feds!!!

      • mexican sharpshooter

        ?

        You didn’t really think only about 100 people that comment routinely ever read this site did you? The lurkers are legion.