Sunday Morning Links of Visitation

by | Oct 8, 2023 | Daily Links | 170 comments

For obvious reasons, my out-of-town friends like to come here in October; the fall foliage is spectacular, the wine grapes are all coming in, and the deer hunters are busy shooting one another. Meantime, I’m trying to finish an overdue for-pay article, prepare lesson plans, and perform my Sunday religious ritual (which involves Ravens and Steelers). But even with all that, I’m going to try to bring some half decent Links to the party.

Leaves drop and so do birthdays, including a guy who had strong principles; a guy who may have been a G-type; a guy who didn’t invent a cool guitar; best royal name EVER; a guy who didn’t cry; Joe Biden’s spirit animal; a guy in competition for the most overrated sci fi writer in history; a guy who refined grift to a previously unexplored level; a guy with the reputation of being the biggest asshole in show biz, which is quite a feat; a woman who is truly as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside; Ohio’s answer to Robert Reich; a woman most famous for her tighty whiteys; and proof that the best actors are remarkably shallow people.

 

Shall we link?

 

Yep. This is going to go very poorly.

 

It’s the Joohs fault.

 

This guy is way too stupid not to be a CIA plant.

 

Umm. Uhh. Okay?

 

What’s the over/under on when Rudy is going to be found dead, after getting shit faced and choking on his own puke?

 

OFFS. How about fretting over why a crappy Pumpkin Spice latte at Starbucks costs seven fucking dollars?

 

Just wait until the rats start testing positive for the plague!

 

The Old Guy is incredibly impressed with how Les Claypool can make an extended one chord song interesting. And I love that they’re playing at the Madonna Inn.

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170 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    including a guy who had strong principles;

    Happy birthday Werner Heisenberg?

  2. Ted S.

    a guy who may have been a G-type;

    Happy birthday Ernst Gräfenberg!

  3. Ted S.

    a guy who didn’t invent a cool guitar;

    Happy birthday Freddy Fender!

  4. Ted S.

    a guy who didn’t cry;

    Happy birthday Johnnie Ray!

    • Tres Cool

      Sure you didnt mean Jimmy Ray?

      • SDF-7

        I thought he could call him Ray….

      • Ted S.

        No; I meant Johnnie Ray.

        Although I could have come up with the more interetstingly-named Lol Creme.

  5. Ted S.

    OFFS. How about fretting over why a crappy Pumpkin Spice latte at Starbucks costs seven fucking dollars?

    Make your own coffee at home.

  6. juris imprudent

    Looks like that was recorded in a small venue, understandably.

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

      Les Claypool should not be left alone to make “music”

  7. juris imprudent

    Army intel guy – apparently recruiting standards started dipping a while back.

  8. PieInTheSky

    how do you know all these obscure chemists.

    • SDF-7

      It is just organic for him. And he knows he can trot them out to us to get a reaction.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Call it a catalytic conversion.

    • juris imprudent

      Silly, he studied chemhistory.

  9. PieInTheSky

    a guy in competition for the most overrated sci fi writer in history – you take that back

    • LCDR_Fish

      Yeah, Dune may be a little overrated but FH put out a ton of other excellent novels and short stories.

      • juris imprudent

        The White Plague isn’t even sci-fi anymore (given it was about genetic engineering in a garage lab).

  10. Gender Traitor

    I thought I’d fulfilled my annual pumpkin spice obligation Friday with an Iced capp from Timmy’s, but now I want to have as much as I can choke down to celebrate its violent heritage. But no Starbucks if I can help it.

    • PieInTheSky

      coffee should only have coffee beans and water as ingredients. nothing else.

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

        This man speaks truth!

    • R.J.

      McDonalds has a good pumpkin spice fried pie.

    • MikeS

      I find it to be heinous. But after reading that article, I feel like I must make an earnest effort to like it.

  11. rhywun

    This guy is way too stupid not to be a CIA plant.

    Greetings, fellow top secret clearance holders!

  12. Suthenboy

    I see Ted S hit the ground running this morning.

    I turned off the news on the teevee. Too depressing. I switched the channel….oh yeah, halloween season. I get Night of the Living Dead; in other words the same shit I switched off of. The solution? I came here. *facepalm* I just cant win.

    1. Yet another huge problem with a simple, obvious solution that no one has the spine to implement.
    2. I can just repeat #1. I see that the UN and most other political entities are telling the jews to exercise restraint. Is killing every living thing inside the Gaza Strip and turning the place to rubble considered restraint?
    3. I got nuthin’. The endless bumble-fucking of our security apparatus.
    4. New, most dangerouser than ever cootie bug. Once again it is a toss up as to which is worse, the bug or the vaccine. I think we are cynical enough around here to know the answer to that.
    5. Who? Oh, that guy. Best NYC mayor in recent history….my God, what does that say.
    6. WaPo whining about western civilization. We should just re-institute a culture of savagery in the west. Stone Age technology and cannibalism for the win.
    7. Here come all of the pathogens and parasites the west conquered 100’s of years ago, swarming back. Thanks lefties. Jesus, they are hardly worth the bullets it would take to fix this problem.

    • Ted S.

      I’ve been up since 6:00. And these are real firsts.

      • MikeS

        All of them?

    • SDF-7

      Re: 6 and 7 — they certainly seem to be working on it. If Western Civ falls and China regresses to its usual navel gazing while the rest of the world slides into depravity and barbarism (because I don’t expect the current international economy would survive if the West slides into chaos and all), hopefully whatever civilization rebuilds itself from the Dark Ages will at least take us as a lesson. Allow what Dr. Peterson would call the forces of Chaos some room — you need the impetus for revolution to force positive change and growth… but don’t let the assholes get out of hand or you get this level of stupid deconstruction.

      Bleah.

      I’m not even sure if I should watch the Qatar Grand Prix today (or if I should divest from F1 entirely, frankly). Qatar came out with a stupid Hamas friendly statement yesterday, the Saudis are certainly big backers of F1, etc… doesn’t feel right to support these assholes a micron more than we have to in this world — engagement sure doesn’t seem to be working. (My vote would be get back to energy independence and let them have their culture and their life far, far away and stop having to care…)

  13. DEG

    The study was posted online last week. It has not been reviewed for publication in a scientific journal. But several experts said it was well done, and its results were consistent with those from other research.

    Ahhh… science by press release.

    • Social Justice is Neither

      It is a psychologist telling us how effective a vaccine that isn’t a vaccine is. Not expecting review anytime soon.

  14. SDF-7

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      • rhywun

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      • rhywun

        Sundays are the hardest IIRC.

      • Raven Nation

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  15. Pine_Tree

    On the ex-Army guy reaching out to the Chicomms – it reads like the snakes in his head are a combo of Walter Mitty, plain-ole’ nuts, and pop-political America-hater.

    But can you imagine being the Chinese staffers getting such stupid out-in-the-open “hey I want to turn over secret stuff” emails? They’d have to be “YGBSM. This is too stupid to be real. Surely somebody over in the next department is pranking me.”

    Srsly though, how does somebody like that fund his lifestyle of flying in and out, living in foreign countries, etc.? That’s what I always wonder.

    • juris imprudent

      If he had blamed Trump and MAGA, imagine the heads (little and big) exploding.

    • MikeS

      I’m leaning heavily on “plain-ole’ nuts”…

      I learned some really terrible things about the American government while I was working in the Army, and I no longer feel safe living in America or like I want to support the American government.

      Fair enough, but you thought China would be way better?

  16. Evan from Evansville

    Morning w three year old nephew is awfully rewarding, no sarc.

    Not just me in the family think he’s got a massive chunk of my character. I tend to re-enter too steep. I do believe there is much to the birth order theory. I’m six years than my bro, my only sibling. It certainly has an effect on us, but personalities be.

    Little things make days good.

    • juris imprudent

      Budget plans are set years in advance, at least in DoD, so I presume others tend to the same.

      • Robonerfherder

        I had to spend it! It was in my budget!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Spend it or lose it.

      • milo

        Oh, NOW they do budgets.

      • juris imprudent

        Honestly, the continuing resolution shit is bad because it never reallocates spending, the govt is locked in on some old budget. Not that any real intelligent effort goes into creating any budget.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Depends. We have ridiculous terms like 10 year money or 2 year money usually slated for projects.

        Sad thing is I can’t get a locking cabinet without pulling teeth where I am at now.

      • juris imprudent

        Never could wrap my head around FedGov’s color of money.

    • milo

      I love that channel.
      Why anyone wants a huge dog like that as a pet in their house is beyond me.
      Dinosaur turds and possibly fatal injuries after some cross-species miscommunication.
      I’ll keep my indoor dogs below 60 pounds, thanks.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, he appears to be a big old friendly fella and probably is but he can do a lot of damage.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        The nursing home my grandmother was in had these dogs. Very gentle an the old folks could just reach out and pet them while sitting upright in their wheelchairs.

      • Tundra

        I love all dogs, but certain breeds require more than most people who buy them can handle. I’ll still take the Canario and most mastiffs over most pits, though.

        If you want a giant dog, I think Newfies are hard to beat.

      • milo

        100% agree.

    • Robonerfherder

      Lining himself up behind Harris. Butler is one of her allies.

      • juris imprudent

        That would only work out well for him if Biden resigns and Harris becomes the nominee, and loses.

      • Robonerfherder

        We’ll see what happens.

      • milo

        That’s what makes this movie scary. *shovels more popcorn in*

    • hayeksplosives

      He’s fucking with us.

      “You in some ways can’t even make all of this up, if I had to literally design from the mind of imagination, put pen to paper, someone I would like,” Newsom said.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        That he has any political career whatsoever after Adam freaking Carolla picked him apart in an interview says a lot about California.

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

        It says nothing about Cali, and everything about the modern Democrat party.

    • Ghostpatzer

      She will have to decide soon if she wants to run for the seat — jumping into an active primary that includes three Democratic House members: Barabara Lee, Adam Schiff and Katie Porter.

      Cream of the crop. How does one choose from such a fine slate?

      Whatever she decides, the governor said she would be an ideal candidate for the seat if she chooses to run for it. He noted Butler’s age, as well as her background advocating for abortion rights, LGBTQ people and labor unions.

      Damn. Those are some incredible qualifications.

      • R.J.

        All any dem candidates to do is sit there and vote the party line. No intelligence required. Thinking is something those icky independents do.

      • MikeS

        “And she’s dark, claims to have a vagina, and is one of them queers. Most qualified ever!” he added.

      • hayeksplosives

        And then he thumbed his nose at the homeless encampments and said “let them eat cake” on his way to the French Laundry.

    • rhywun

      “You in some ways can’t even make all of this up, if I had to literally design from the mind of imagination, put pen to paper, someone I would like,” Newsom said.

      He’s fucking with the whole world.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It was divine providence.

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

        Dude has zero say in his state or party anymore. The Dem borg said “this is the person” and he said “how soon?”

    • KSuellington

      Hilarious that his pick is not even resident of California. Close to 40 million people here and he has to get someone who lives in Maryland that ticks all the diversity boxes. And now he backtracks on her running for the seat after the appointment term end, even funnier. Her main competition is Schiff, Porter and Barbara Lee so it doesn’t even matter who wins, although I guess if pressed Schiff is the most despicable of that sorry lot. Says something that the Elephants are not going to even try to mount a campaign for the seat. As goes California…

      • Robonerfherder

        it doesn’t even matter who wins

        It does matter for the factions inside the Democrat Party.

  17. Common Tater

    “Gun manufacturing giant Smith & Wesson hosted a grand opening of its $125 million new Tennessee headquarters after moving from its longtime home in Massachusetts.

    The company built a new 650,000-square feet office in Maryville as part of a relocation plan announced in 2021.

    The gunmaker had been located in Springfield, Massachusetts, since the mid-19th century, but hoped to move to a more gun-friendly state.

    ‘From where I stand, the next 170 years of Smith & Wesson are looking pretty good. It is something special here in Tennessee,’ President and CEO Mark Smith said at Saturday’s grand opening.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12606909/Smith-Wesson-Tennessee-Headquarters-Massachusetts.html

    • MikeS

      That’s awesome. Although I do feel bad for the folks in Mass. who lost their jobs. I hope as many as possible move with the company.

      • R.J.

        Me too. That kind of experience is valuable. I am sure most did. Tennessee is hella cooler than Massachusetts.

      • The Last American Hero

        I don’t. They elected gun control shitheads for nearly a century.

      • MikeS

        Yes. I’m sure the place was full of gun control nuts.

      • milo

        Anywhere outside a 20 mile radius of the S&W factory was most assuredly leaning toward gun control.
        And now Tennessee is having Smurf refugees flood Nashville. Won’t take long for the smurf color tones to spread outward there as well.

      • prolefeed

        I’m thinking people who work for a gun manufacturer, who move to Tennessee to keep their jobs, may not be your standard issue Massholes.

      • MikeS

        Yeah, when I said “the place” I meant S&W.

    • Ghostpatzer

      I’m gonna need a bigger boat freezer.

    • Mojeaux

      That’s not a prophecy. It’s a threat.

      • rhywun

        This.

        Someone is working on it already. And the fake vaccine to hold everyone hostage over.

      • Mojeaux

        Yeah, I should have said “declaration of intent.”

    • rhywun

      No.

    • Common Tater

      There was some asshole scientist talking about giving people alpha-gal deliberately.

      • Suthenboy

        You can say a lot about leftist control freaks but one thing you cannot say about them is that they are not evil.

    • Suthenboy

      Keep it up motherfuckers. Just keep it up.
      On this track you (WHO) will end up on a spit yourselves.

      I wonder…..Lime pepper? Lemon pepper? Orange pepper? How about Tony Chachere’s?

    • R C Dean

      “the “next pandemic” will come from the meat supply”

      You mean, like from a wet market?

  18. KK, Non-Man

    Yeah, well, I’m busier than anyone! My busy-ness dick is bigger’n all y’all’s!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Pics, or it didn’t happen.

  19. hayeksplosives

    What’s a good source for news coverage of the attacks on Israel?

  20. PieInTheSky

    Heartwood.RealEstate // On 49-acres at the end of a road and adjacent to national forest, Heartwood is one of the most private properties in one of the most unique neighborhoods in Jackson Hole, Crescent H Ranch. Crescent H opened as a dude ranch in 1927; today it is a sanctuary for its homeowners and wildlife. Heartwood has a move-in ready 8,077-square-foot Craftsman-style estate home, 2,167sf guest house, and the potential to build a third home up to 10,000sf. Hike or cross-country ski on the ranch’s own trail system; fish out the back door in a spring-fed pond or explore 7 miles of blue ribbon fly-fishing on spring creeks that Crescent H homeowners have exclusive access to. As remote as Heartwood feels, the community of Wilson is only a 10 minute drive away.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS8U-uR051k

    • Mojeaux

      Beautiful, and I don’t even like craftsman style.

      Anyway, so the ranch is “Crescent H.” For some reason I don’t know, part of my elementary “general knowledge” education was learning how to read ranch symbols.

      • rhywun

        I love craftsman but yikes. It will probably have to wait until I make my first billion.

      • robodruid

        Money printer go brrr?

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

        I like Craftsman style, but that doesn’t really do anything for me. Some nice details, but once you get into the bones, it looks cookie cutter.

    • Fourscore

      No one needs more than 600 sq ft, family of 4

      • Tundra

        Good morning, Fourscore! I sent you an email (gmail account). Just want to make sure you got it!

      • Fourscore

        A couple days ago? Thanks. We had frost yesterday morning.

      • Tundra

        Yeah, a few days ago.

        It’s that time. 51 when I got up this morning, though. Warmup on the way!

    • R C Dean

      How much for just the guest house?

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Good for some, good enough for all

    Moreno says focusing on the way people want to live is key to successfully introducing a 15-minute city approach to an area. For example, besides reducing planet-heating emissions, there are lots of “co-benefits” for people who live in 15-minute cities, he says. Infrastructure that prioritizes walking, biking and public transit means less noise from cars and more safety for pedestrians and bikers. Less air pollution from cars and daily routines with more walking and biking promote health. More parks and urban trees can pull carbon dioxide from the air, provide shade, and cool down neighborhoods — all increasingly important as the planet warms.

    And redesigning cities where homes are mixed in with businesses can drive more foot traffic to those businesses, Moreno says. “That is why our concept is liked by many mayors,” Moreno says. “We are proposing climate solutions that generate more economic activity.”

    Moreno is agnostic as to whether people travel by foot, bike or public transit. And he has a loose definition for 15 minutes. “It can be 10 or 18,” Moreno says. “What is important is the proximity to accessing services.”

    Just as long as we get rid of those icky cars. Now about those bums…

    I an 100% in favor of places like that being available for the people who want to live there. But that’s not the goal.

    • Robonerfherder

      Oh fuck off

    • Gustave Lytton

      Just put everyone in camps already, asshole.

    • rhywun

      as the planet warms

      🙄 They’re really laying it on thick with the climate nonsense.

      Since 2011, Paris has reduced the amount of car traffic by about 45%

      Bullshit.

      Yeah, this is all fine by choice. Though really only suitable for singles or DINKs i.e. people who don’t necessarily need a car.

    • Suthenboy

      I have yet to see one of these types with rheumatoid arthritis, or any of the other various auto-immune diseases. They can stick that walking/biking right up their ass.

      • Fourscore

        Or other similar related problems

        /Gimp

    • R C Dean

      “focusing on the way people want to live’

      These people crack me up. They don’t care at all how people want to live, only how they want people to live.

      • EvilSheldon

        Hey, I’d love to have my rifle range a fifteen minute walk from home…

    • creech

      I thought a 15 minute city refers to a Blue- controlled city where you couldn’t stand to be for more than 15 minutes.

  22. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Sorry about the guests. Hope they haven’t reached the rotten fish point yet.

    Claypool is so weird, but this collaboration is amazing. Lennon comes up with some wilds sounds, too. Thanks for sharing this one!

    • R C Dean

      Yeah, the Palis hit some dopey rave near the border. Turned out one of dead naked women they displayed was German. Not surprised if there are other foreign nationals who were victims.

      I still haven’t figured out the larger point of this. Maybe just a good old-fashioned Jew-killing, like Allah intended, and nothing more.

      • Robonerfherder

        Too many other things in play for this to just be about Hamas revenge fantasies.

        Oil prices being first and foremost among those and the Saudi play for a US/Israel/KSA defense pact being second. The Iranians have their interests, etc…

        And it looks like Moscow summoned the Arab League president to Moscow. Something tells me they’re not pleased.

        https://tass.com/politics/1686685

  23. The Late P Brooks

    Paris’ experience with 15-minute cities reached Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb in March 2020. Back then, in the early days of the pandemic, Bibb was a banker, stuck at home at his apartment in downtown Cleveland. He was poking around online when he found an article about the mayor of Paris and the 15-minute cities she was promoting.

    “I read up on it. I’m like, ‘Oh, the dots are connecting for me now,'” Bibb says. He thought about when he went to college in Washington, D.C., and would catch a bus to the grocery store. He thought about studying abroad in London, when he would walk to classes and restaurants, or take a bus to the barbershop. And he thought about growing up in Cleveland and his old neighborhood, with many amenities within a 15-minute walk.

    “It really showed me that when you think about urban planning,” Bibb says, “a 15-minute city gives you an amazing baseline to prioritize people.”

    ——-

    Cleveland was once the fifth-largest American city. Now it is around the 54th, shrunk in the past 70-plus years by white flight and a loss of manufacturing jobs. Today, Bibb sees a way back to more density. “We have to reimagine our infrastructure,” he says, “to make sure that regardless of where you live in Cleveland, you have a 15-minute city with high-quality amenities.”

    But Bibb and other politicians are encountering big obstacles in their pursuit of higher-density cities where residents are less reliant on cars.

    Let’s make Cleveland the Paris of the Rust Belt. Get with the program, you hicks.

    • Gustave Lytton

      So many red flags as to why that retard should have been hanged from the nearest lamppost than been elected dog catcher.

    • Suthenboy

      Urban planner, social worker, activist….why do we have these people? What demon’s asshole did they squirt out of? The list is longer of course, but really…they produce nothing and spend all of their time and energy deciding how other people should live and dreaming up ways of coercing the population to comply.

    • Robonerfherder

      I’m beginning to think he won’t.

      • Tundra

        Cleansing fire is coming.

    • Gender Traitor

      Before I hit the “play” button, I thought that was John Cleese.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Yet the conspiracy theory that 15-minute cities are a way for the global elite to contain people in open-air prisons took off in the past year, says Jennie King, head of climate research and policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London, a nonprofit that studies extremism.

    “Fifteen-minute cities is the latest victim in a broader trend,” King says. “The unifying theme of a lot of these attacks and conspiracies is that climate change is being used as a pretext to strip people of their civil liberties.”

    Nobody is coming for your freedoms.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s not happening but it’d be good if it was/is. Enjoy your 15 minute city folks.

    • creech

      ACLU membership ads on TV claim differently.

    • Robonerfherder

      Add an oil price spike coming this week.

      In the past, DC and the Saudis cooperated to control prices during ME events. Not going to happen this time.

      Europe is going to feel it far worse than we do though.

      • Tundra

        Well, fuck them. We’ll just dip into our strategic reserves!

        Wait

      • Robonerfherder

        Here’s some more context for current events,

        https://www.rt.com/business/584217-saudi-arabia-oil-supply-us-deal/

        Major oil producer Saudi Arabia is willing to increase production early next year in exchange for a defense pact with the US, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing Saudi and US sources.

        The two countries have been in talks over a three-way deal between Saudi Arabia, the US, and its Middle Eastern ally Israel. Under the deal, Riyadh would recognize the Jewish state in exchange for a formal security pact between Riyadh and Washington. This would see the US provide help in establishing a civilian nuclear program in Saudi Arabia, and agree to sell billions of dollars worth of American weapons to the Gulf nation.

      • Tundra

        Interesting. I wonder who would benefit from that deal being scuttled?

      • Robonerfherder

        Iran

      • Tundra

        Huh. Didn’t we just give those fellows like $6 billion?

      • rhywun

        Wouldn’t that require them to maybe keep their cheering for dead Isralis on the down low?

    • SDF-7

      Heh… nice jab from the Protestant side in the side-bar. (I personally have always viewed it as: “We’ll take all the help we can get upstairs!”, mind you…)

      • Tundra

        Lol.

        I always thought it was more appropriate to not bother God with mundane, material things. Efficiency counts!

  25. Common Tater

    “Russell Brand’s father, 80, posts conspiracy theory-laden video which appears to attack the women accusing his son of rape and sexual assault”

    Stupid headline…

    “Ron Brand posted the video of Youtuber Lennie Moreno to his Facebook page just weeks after his son faced allegations.

    In the clip, Moreno says the ‘rape charge pattern on people speaking against the system is getting pretty clear by now’ and compares the Brand allegations to those of Donald Trump, Andrew Tate, Julian Assange and Tupac.

    In what appears to be an attack on the women accusing Brand, he says: ‘As soon as you get too big and start speaking some sense to your following, some blackmailed woman or pissed off ex-date is going to come out of the woodwork by orders of “the matrix” and synchronise all the media outlets to break the news at the same exact time.’

    During the vile rant shared by Ron, Moreno also claims that if you have ‘power and swag and options you never need to rape anybody’.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12607197/russell-brand-father-rant-post-appears-attack-women-accusing-son-rape-assault.html

    Not sure how that is vile or conspiracy theory laden.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    That job sucks- I’d rather see you starve

    The petition has received more than 10,000 signatures.

    The fact that tourism is resuming so soon around the outskirts of a town made unrecognizable by the wildfires has reignited an ongoing debate about Hawaii’s reliance on tourism.

    “There is just not a lot of activities like there usually is for these people to do, so a lot of people are wondering, why do they want to come here?” said Jordan Ruidas, a community organizer and resident.

    Tourism is the No. 1 driver of that state’s economy, according to Hawaii Tourism Authority, and businesses across the island have been impacted by the lack of visitors since the Aug. 8 wildfires.

    But some residents link tourism and its historical links to colonialism with many of the issues plaguing the Islands, including lack of access to clean water, the housing crisis, and pollution and destruction of Hawaiian lands.

    I’m sure the “Hawaii for Hawaiians!” advocate community would be happy to see a Tesla battery factory on Maui, or a commercial feed lot and slaughterhouse. Or maybe a Goldman Sachs Asian Markets office.

    • Gustave Lytton

      No, they want massive government subsidies while lounging around all day on Aloha time.

    • Tundra

      I still haven’t heard how many dead kids there are.

      Weird, huh?

    • prolefeed

      Because things were such a paradise for the non-ali’i before the colonizers showed up …

      /sarc

  27. Common Tater

    “A 24-year-old school counselor has allegedly admitted to having sex with a 13-year-old boy after being ‘busted’ during a three-way call with cops and his mother.

    Ohio investigators discovered a disturbing video of Payton Shires having sex with the young boy following a report from his worried parent in September.

    Columbus Police officers charged Shires, of Mount Sterling, Ohio, with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, per ABC6.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12607473/Payton-Shires-Ohio-counselor-sex-teen-boy-arrest.html

    Why do all these women want boys who are barely teenagers?

    • Gustave Lytton

      They’re more manly than men their own age?

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Hawaii didn’t always rely on tourism as its main source of income.

    According to research from the University of Hawaii, Hawaiian society was self-sustaining and run in cooperative, extended ohana — or family — that each manned subdivisions of land.

    Native Hawaiians were recorded to have been living “well above subsistence levels, with extensive time available for cultural activities, sports, and games” before their long period of isolation from outsiders came to an end, the University of Hawaii found.

    Contact with the outside world in the 1770s changed Hawaii drastically. Deaths caused a massive wave of fatalities, leading to a 90% decline in the Native Hawaiian population, according to research from the National Academy of Medicine.

    Those fat happy Hawaiians had it made. They just lolled around on the beach looking at their iphones all day. Captain Cook fucked it all up.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Yeah well, they Ate him,

  29. Common Tater

    “How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

    Progressives can still succeed if they call out nonsense, focus on class, and start to talk like human beings again, argues Freddie deBoer in an excerpt from his new book.”

    https://www.thefp.com/p/how-elites-ate-the-social-justice

    He’s a commie, but still worth reading.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Bloody Hell

    Yesterday’s sweet restomod MGA sold for $95k.

    • Tundra

      Probably the nicest one I’ve seen in years. Seems like a lot of scratch, but someone got an amazing car.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Yeah well, they Ate him,

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

      Why would someone ruin a vintage car like that?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Seems like a lot of scratch, but someone got an amazing car.

    You couldn’t pay somebody to build you a copy for that.

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

      And yet a Miata is vastly cheaper.

      Again, why would you ruin a classic when there are plenty of moderns that would do what they want it to fail at?

  32. Tundra

    Fuck off, slavers.

    This will shortly go from voluntary to mandatory.

    Invasion.

    • Robonerfherder

      WTF

      You want an armed revolt? This is how you get an armed revolt.

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

      And this is why there is a 3rd amendment.

      But the Dems have never liked the Constitution anyway.

  33. Tundra

    Wut?

    Yeah, yeah. It’s all propaganda. But who doesn’t think this is a real possibility?

    • Robonerfherder

      Apparently weapons from Ukraine as well. But that should be no surprise at all. Guns are a fungible resource.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Again, why would you ruin a classic when there are plenty of moderns that would do what they want it to fail at?

    Why wouldn’t you want to make a sixty year old car better?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    That’s not “ruining” that car. Putting a dump truck motor, automatic transmission and 22″ wheels on it would be “ruining” it.