Sunday Morning Links of Frigidity

by | Jan 21, 2024 | Daily Links | 192 comments

The news is full of stories about polar vortices, how “climate change” is making winter colder, how unprecedented the weather is… let’s get real, IT’S JANUARY. And here in Glibs Gulch, we’re pretty far north and in the hills. Surprise surprise, it’s cold as shit and it’s been snowing continuously. I don’t need to make things up.

And I don’t need to make up birthdays either, which include a guy who furnished several American victories; the Ron Jeremy of his day; a guy who loved you, baby; a poor man’s Red Skelton; a guy who was to sword-and-sandals what Clint Eastwood was the spaghetti westerns; a singer-songwriter with a million dollar smile; easily the most dishonest AG since John Mitchell; and the true star of Buffalo Bill.

Yes, it’s cold, but the Links are pre-warmed.

 

What could possibly go wrong? I was amused to note two things- first, the buried admission that the 6 foot thing was indeed absolute bullshit, and secondly the quiet change from viruses to bacteria and viruses to just bacteria. You’re not supposed to notice that.

 

I guess I’m fortunate that we don’t have a law school here. This does tell you much about the UC system.

 

Remember how intensely badly Stacy Abrams wanted to be Biden’s VP pick in 2020? Many laughs from that. This time around, things are different and the same.

 

I am sincerely confused by the “race-based violence” claim here. 

 

My old buddy Los Doyers is down there at the moment. Hope his wife is keeping him on a tight leash.

 

The Gruniad never disappoints. Sorry to keep linking them, but their pants-wetting is always amusing.

 

I like watching the Chiefs, and I would normally want to see a KC-Ravens AFC championship, but this constant shit truly makes me want them to lose so I can go a few weeks without more of it.

 

The Old Man sends this one out to (Houston-area based) Sloopy. I do like how they adapted the old Baltimore Colts marching band tune. May the Irsays burn in Hell, all of them.

 

About The Author

Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

192 Comments

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I like the campiness of the Boney M version, it’s like the seventies was distilled down to its essence.

      • Chafed

        So true. That performance screams the 70s.

  1. juris imprudent

    May the Irsays burn in Hell

    Now do Art Modell.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Last time I was in Cleveland (a couple months ago), I went to the stadium and saw… The Browns.

      Art Modell is a god among men.

      • juris imprudent

        Modell didn’t just give up the name willingly you know. Couple of choice quotes out of different articles.

        One of the most outspoken owners against the Colts moving to Indy was, you guessed it, Art Modell. Modell also voted against Al Davis being allowed to move Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles. But when it came to saving his own ass, loyalty didn’t apply to Modell.

        But perhaps no quote better encapsulates the rage Cleveland residents felt at the time than this offering from one Browns fan who purchased Modell’s toilet at an auction: “I wanted to see where Art Modell made all of his bad business decisions,” the fan said.

        Old Man, you’re like a Los Angeles fan of the Chargers.

      • Old Man With Candy

        You are not decreasing my admiration of this wonderful man.

      • juris imprudent

        The only decent owners of any NFL franchise ever – Green Bay.

      • slumbrew

        The Krafts never sucked up tax dollars for their stadium. So that’s a huge point in their favor (all 3 major Boston area stadia are privately owned and funded).

      • Chafed

        I have to give Kraft credit. It’s amazing in a state that loves it some government, that it happened that way.

      • The Last American Hero

        That toilet used to be on display in a bar in Cleveland, with an Art Modell mannequin sitting on it.

    • CatchTheCarp

      I would have no issue with Stan Kronke and the Bidwell clan being used for kindling.

      • Chafed

        What’s the knock on Kronke?

      • CatchTheCarp

        Moved the Rams back to LA.

      • juris imprudent

        See, they could’ve gone back to Cleveland, where they started.

      • CatchTheCarp

        We lost the Cardinals, now known in this city as the Desert Rats, because taxpayers balked at paying for a new stadium for Bidwell. The Rams were different, there was political support and funding was approved to build a new stadium for Kronke. He left anyway. Fuck them both. On the plus side – taxpayer funds were not spent building a billionaire a new stadium and the city was able to extract $790 million from Kronke for leaving. The minus is not having a home team to root for. Again.

  2. Ted S.

    a guy who loved you, baby

    Happy birthday Frankie Valli!

  3. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “Race based”: But aren’t the Somalis the white folks of Africa? *checks google* No, no they are not.

    • Spartacus

      From the comments: “They were fighting over whose Black life mattered more.”
      Honestly, I looked at the photos and wypipo seem to be strangely absent, so I’m not sure why the school says it’s race-based despite the actual pugilists saying it was no such thing.
      Bonus hilarity: adults with active warrants making bad decisions. Again.
      There is so much to parse in this story.

      • rhywun

        “They were fighting over whose Black life mattered more.”

        That is as concise a description of the U.S. swirling down the drain as I have seen lately.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Native born black Africans are often racist as fuck against African Americans due to their “impure blood”…”mud people” I believe is the common colloquial term.

    • DrOtto

      My few experiences with Somali’s in conversational settings has devolved into their racial tirades against blacks born here. The Somali’s I have met hate them like few white people I have ever known. They don’t just use the N-word, they use it with an inventiveness I’ve not experienced when I’ve heard it said in the past. They seem eager to let white people know they are not like American born blacks.

      • Pope Jimbo

        See my comment below. Their ancestors were never slaves.

        The retort, I’ve heard from the black American kids is “Yeah, but your ancestors were the losers in the civil war and that is why you are here.”

      • Chafed

        And they say kids aren’t learning history.

  4. juris imprudent

    I thought you went to Columbia for the hookers and blow, not Tinder dating.

    • rhywun

      The strange would have to be pretty damn spectacular to get me to set foot in that shithole.

      • Spartacus

        I saw an article headline recently about Medellin being a hot tourist destination.
        Made me do a spit-take.
        No, I did not read the article.

      • rhywun

        I heard the food truck scene is lit.

      • The Last American Hero

        It’s a shame. I’ve watched a couple of documentary shows on the country and it is a beautiful place. Unfortunately the corrupt narco state is a deterrent for me.

    • Evan from Evansville

      I stayed in Colombia for a week with a former colleague who found a uni gig there.

      Certainly not my first encounter in the States, but (after shadowing once) I purchased blow on my own in Medellin. It was Remarkably/ predictably chill. My mom went two years ago with her Spanish-learning friends on a group tour. They had a great time, though significantly different than mine.

      Especially in Asia, not-so in Europe, tourists are remarkably cared for. You’re white (well, I am) NOT a local, an American (well, I am), and ya have money. Tourist money runs much of southern Asian countries’ economies. The State doesn’t want that faucet meddled with. Fuck with a foreigner and the cops will go out of their way to help. “APB, whitey down.” Can’t tarnish a national image. People may cancel their flights. And yep, those fuck-Os w weird kinks/fetishes? Same concept. Blind eye turned by many/most/all. Too much money at stake.

      • Evan from Evansville

        Predictable and revealing.

  5. Gender Traitor

    ‘Make Taylor Swift cry.’

    Yeah, I’m sure Tay Tay (do the kids call her that?) is crying all the way to the bank. 🙄

    • Evan from Evansville

      I like three of her songs. (Shake It Off is a legit pop classic already. Blank Space and Bad Blood (<– Anthony Rizzo's music as a Cub)). Smart businesswoman and works her ass off. Looked up her tour dates: IIRC over six months, five continents, 7-8? countries, ~60 shows, and napkin research +math, ticket sales for just the in-person shows, let alone the BS she pulled of getting folk to pay to see her live concerts in theaters near you!… is around $1.5B. She apparently is worth $1.1B already. (I can do that but I don't wanna.)

      We're about the same age. I bet I'd impress her.

      • Gender Traitor

        How would you do that? 🤨

      • Lackadaisical

        Unbridled confidence, and the aforementioned blow?

  6. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Seems like blasting UV lights all over the place would lead to lots of cataracts and skin cancer and is maybe not the best idea.

    • DrOtto

      On the upside, it’ll repress all of our immune systems.

    • The Last American Hero

      Did we learn nothing from the Brawndo experiment?

      • Brawndo

        Excuse me?

  7. rhywun

    This does tell you much about the UC system.

    I see a lot of accusations from that person without any, you know, examples or seemingly any curiosity as whether same exists. I know that is the Nu Journalism but FFS.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Might not be true but plausible, the whole Mughal thing-arguably the deadliest conquest in the history of ever-really soured the Hindus on Mohammed.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        But, yeah, them serving in Israel’s military is a silly claim.

      • rhywun

        It is hard to believe.

      • nw

        You have to be Jewish, or have a Jewish parent or grandparent, to enlist
        in the IDF. I imagine a very thorough search could turn up a Hindu
        with a jewish parent or grandparent butI can’t imagine there’s
        enough of them to be of any significance whatsoever.

      • nw

        I think what I looked up applies to foreigners looking to enlist.
        I think any citizen can volunteer, but haven’t looked into it
        specifically.

      • Chafed

        That never stops a propagandist.

  8. Ted S.

    easily the most dishonest AG since John Mitchell;

    Not so easy. Merrick Garland.

    • Chafed

      He is on his way to earning the title.

  9. Ted S.

    May the Irsays burn in Hell, all of them.

    Never forget that the Irsays left in the middle of the night because earlier that day Maryland had voted on a bill to seize the Colts by eminent domain.

    The government was the root cause of those moving pictures, and the media always overlook that.

      • Gender Traitor

        “Welcome to the Hotel (Hot l?) Baltimore. You can check out any time but…”

  10. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’
    yo whats goody yo

  11. rhywun

    This time around, things are different and the same.

    I kind of like her attack-dog role and it’s out of NY state of all places.

    • Ted S.

      Why do you think I kept saying I thought the Democrats were going to try to split her district out of existence during redistricting?

      • rhywun

        She won’t go quietly, that’s for sure.

  12. Fourscore

    What a world we live in. Hindus fighting Muslims, Somali-black race fights in a heavily Jewish neighborhood, cold in NY, gonna get warm (relatively speaking) in MN for at least the next 10 days.

    I still laugh at Benny Hill and Mr Bean though as the Palestinians are finally getting a chance to watch porn. Life is good

    Good way to start a Sunday morning

  13. rhywun

    I am sincerely confused by the “race-based violence” claim here. 

    Because not-whites are involved. Therefore, it must be race-based.

    When everything is race-based etc. etc.

  14. I. B. McGinty

    “a residential development in rural Kentucky as a haven for fellow rightwingers.”

    Uh, I think rural Kentucky is mostly right leaning folks?

  15. juris imprudent

    You thought that Gruniad piece was dumb?

    The whole world revolves around Trump!

    • juris imprudent

      Oh but wait, there’s more!

      Huge swaths of the country have turned into ‘news deserts’, lacking credible journalism. I fear for the Baltimore Sun

      • Fourscore

        Local weekly shopper announced their Going Out of Business (GOOB) this week. What an I going to do for free firestarter? And journalism?
        Hope the internet doesn’t get cancelled. I’d never be able to get a Cal score…

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘Huge swaths of the country have turned into ‘news deserts’, lacking credible journalism’

        You mean the whole country?

        Because I don’t trust any of the Journalos any further than I could throw them.

      • juris imprudent

        Particularly the ones writing that kind of drivel.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Paranoid stupidity all the way down but, hey man, it’s the Guardian.

    • rhywun

      It is hilarious how afraid of him they are. And how incapable of defining the word “fascism” they are.

  16. rhywun

    The Gruniad never disappoints.

    Not to be pendantic asshole on the level of a Guardian writer, but it’s Grauniad. 🙂

    • Don escaped Texas

      just don’t be a pendantic Tedros Ghebreyesus’s Diseased Cakehole

      went to bed and woke up to that

      NewWife knows to not ask what I’m laughing about when the laptop is out

  17. rhywun

    this constant shit truly makes me want them to lose so I can go a few weeks without more of it.

    Seriously.

    Even if they weren’t playing the Bills.

    • juris imprudent

      I’m all for KC disintegrating like the Eagles did. Love them short-lived dynasties.

      • rhywun

        I saw my first Josh Allen commercial the other day. I don’t think he’ll be taking over the airways like various Chiefs characters.

      • Trigger Hippie

        The Eagles are not, nor have ever been anything resembling a dynasty. The Chiefs are the closest thing to one without yet being one. Just one one more SB win and they surpass the 90’s Cowboys. It’s going to happen. If not this year, soon. Deal with it. 😉

      • Trigger Hippie

        And yes, I know that only ties them with three SB wins but the overall body of work would be slightly more impressive.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s okay, being a fan means being at least a little delusional.

      • rhywun

        The Bills all the way.

        What!?

      • rhywun

        LOL I’ve never seen that honest

      • slumbrew

        Hanging with old friends last night and we’re all in agreement – go Bills!

        You poor people were terrorized by the Pats for 20 years, you deserve a break.

        (Same situation for the Jets, but fuck those guys)

      • Lackadaisical

        Yup, but as soon as we got any good, the Chiefs got amazing out of no where.

        Conflicted on whether to even watch because it is guaranteed to be another heartbreaking loss.

      • Trigger Hippie

        What can I say? In Andy, Pat, and Spags I trust.

      • juris imprudent

        I cheered for the Chargers when Schottenheimer was coach. I know delusional.

      • Chafed

        Schottenheimer was handicapped by the Spanos clan owning the team, Philip Rivers being his quarterback, and his own inability to close the deal. He was the least of his problems.

      • Mojeaux

        What, no Matt Nagy?! 🥴

      • Mojeaux

        Marty is fondly remembered here.

      • juris imprudent

        He was the least of his problems.

        He had a 14-2 team with first round bye, and he was completely out-coached by Bellichek, despite Tomlinson running all over the Patriots. And there was nothing wrong with Rivers in that game.

      • Trigger Hippie

        Mo! Did you hear the terrible news? Hi-Boy no longer sells onion rings due to their supplier going under and the inability to find a replacement who provides equal/similar quality ingredients.

        I’m beside myself.

      • Mojeaux

        As far as I know there are only two, one in Sugar Creek-ish and one in Raytown. I’ve never been to a Hi-Boy *I don’t think*. But also, Sonic will do.

        So I grew up very near Truman and Fremont, and there is?/was a drive-in called Teresa’s (Yelp says they’re still open). Best. Onion. Rings. Ever. My dad liked their deep-fried pork sandwiches. Then there was a root beer float drive in (can’t remember the name) (Black Cow?) on Winner and Independence Ave. THEN on Truman across from Independence Sanitarium (well, it was called that when I was born) was a little diner called Waid’s (they tried to go national). BUT on the subject of little diners, in Englewood was a Englewood Cafe we used to go to for breakfast (same block as the Ben Franklin, across the street from that little concert venue/movie theater where I saw Stryper). (Google maps tells me it’s still there.)

        Anyway, little trip down memory lane. Thanks!

  18. DEG

    He appeared to indicate the community would seek local political influence and use that as a blueprint for state-level power. “The aspiration is that long-term down the road, 20 years from today, we continue to do this. We’re regionally focused; we can expand from there to states,” he said.

    Free State Project for Kentucky. Nice.

    • juris imprudent

      “This time they have a plan.”

      • rhywun

        Hot female toasters?

  19. Suthenboy

    yeah, it is an effective disinfectant but it will just give them the opportunity to screech about ozone, lung, eye and skin damage etc.
    The professional protest crowd is going to protest. Hell, they would protest water if they ran out of everything else to bitch about.

    I understand the hindu attitude but the truth is that their culture is not a whole lot better.

    Race based, my ass. Violence is culture based. If you have a barbaric culture you will have barbarism.

    Darwin awards warranted.

    Surrounded by razor wire and machine gun towers? No? I will stay where I am then.

  20. Trigger Hippie

    ‘a guy who loved you, baby’

    Ya know, for years I used to envision OMWC as Telly Savalas in my mind’s eye only to later learn he looks more like Vermin Supreme.

  21. DrOtto

    Serious question, has there ever been a decent AG? They all seem to be picked for their ability to check behind the penumbras to see what rights the forefathers left out for only them to find.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Robert Kennedy maybe. Went after the mob. Wasn’t in office long enough to do real damage.

      • DrOtto

        Good point, it’s why he had to be taken out I guess.

      • Chafed

        MLK, Jr. has a few thoughts about that.

    • juris imprudent

      This would seem to go with how short the list of decent Presidents is.

  22. juris imprudent

    JFC, wife has CBS Sunday Morning on and they are repeating the Matthew Shepard bullshit of homophobic murder.

    • rhywun

      I read a deep dive of that not long ago; forgot most of the details but IIRC the entire narrative is a fabrication.

      See also: Stonewall, Harvey Milk, and I’m sure a few others.

      One is simply not allowed to question certain narratives.

      • Q Continuum

        “the entire narrative is a fabrication”

        Yep. Don’t know if it’s the same deep dive, but there’s a talk radio host here who did a thorough investigation of the incident and convincingly demonstrates that the official story is total bullshit. It was drug-related, pure and simple.

      • Suthenboy

        You forgot George Floyd.

        The Shepard thing was a dope deal gone bad, wasn’t it?

      • rhywun

        Certainly, but I was sticking with narratives around The Gay.

      • Suthenboy

        It is amazing to me how many of the left’s narratives….well, all of them really….in no way whatsoever match reality.
        Yet, despite the evidence all around them every day, right in front of their eyes so many people buy into that nonsense.

      • rhywun

        It’s almost like they sit around waiting for stories which feed the narrative to fall into their lap – and since the narratives are mostly shit, the stories fall apart when you examine them.

      • juris imprudent

        It is what people do, belief trumps reality because reality isn’t comforting.

      • DrOtto

        Wasn’t Jim Jones behind Harvey Milk after a political falling out?

      • rhywun

        That scene was unbelievably sordid. I’ve read deep dives of that too and it’s easy to forget the details because the whole thing just beggars belief.

      • Suthenboy

        Most of the prominent pols now from SF were essentially installed by Jones. Feinstein, Brown, Pelosi, etc. Jones openly admitted a number of times he was not really a religious man at all but rather a communist. Rarely is any mention of that made.

        Sordid indeed. They are all scum of the earth.

    • Suthenboy

      Why, in the. name of God, would I want to know anything about that? The headline alone is TMI.

    • juris imprudent

      Howard Hughes’ corpse gets a chub?

    • Pope Jimbo

      She needs them nails to fight off Somali sneak attacks.

  23. Ted S.

    Just found out this morning that the local Sam’s Club is no longer open early on Sundays.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    I made it about two sentences into that Vox thing. One droplet. One. You need cullin’.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Kentucky story- I’d say somebody is trolling those Utopian nitwits in California.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Serious question, has there ever been a decent AG? They all seem to be picked for their ability to check behind the penumbras to see what rights the forefathers left out for only them to find.

    Self selection for Witch Finder General is not a pretty thing.

  27. Pope Jimbo

    The youngest Altar Boy has told me that the beef between the Somalis and the black kids has been over slavery. The Somalis are quick to tell the black kids that their ancestors had never been slaves. For some reason, that doesn’t go well with the black kids.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Obviously the Somali kids are going to do super well in life. Not only are they untainted by the legacy of slavery, but they can see themselves as mayor.

      Things have changed in St. Louis Park, that is for sure. It used to be nicknamed St. Jewish Park because of all of (((them))) who lived there. That suburb produced the Coen brothers, Al Franken and Tom Friedman. Now? Mohamed, Mohamed, Mohamed I guess.

      • Don escaped Texas

        https://www.theringer.com/2017/7/13/16077658/al-franken-pivoting-to-politics-larry-wilmore-podcast-45526136ac63

        One time early on in his foray into politics, Franken was in New Ulm, Minnesota, to give a speech beneath a monument to Hermann the German. But he couldn’t just throw out a joke the way he was used to.

        “[I’m] speaking to the DFL (Democratic Farmer-Labor) picnic, and I’m in the shadow of Hermann the German,” Franken said. “I’m from ‘St. Jewish Park,’ as some people call it. … I did comedy for 37 years professionally, so any self-respecting comedian would say, ‘You know, here I am in the shadow of Hermann the German. You know, in St. Louis Park, we also had a statue — Stu the Jew.’”

    • juris imprudent

      And of course the Somalis have the superior religion.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Should hope so because the black guys got the looks.

        You can pick out the Somalis pretty easy because they are ugly. Lots of overbites, bodies that are lanky and unmuscled often with pot bellies.

      • rhywun

        The black is the better ath-a-lete.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Eastern versus Western Africa?

      • Evan from Evansville

        Uh. That sounds (looks) like malnutrition. Or what I imagine is ‘eating too much after nearly starving.’ <– Not a doc, so I am positive my imagination is wildly incorrect, with a kernel of truth-ishness.

  28. robc

    On a note related to the KY link, can someone tell me again why the FSP chose NH over WY?

    Wyoming was so much the fucking obvious choice. They should pack up and move today, its so obvious.

      • robc

        Yes, but Wyoming has 1) less people, making the impact stronger, and b) more libertarian adjacent natives.

      • robc

        Plus, wyoming is much more attractive as a destination, ignoring politics.

      • Lackadaisical

        NH is much more convenient if you want to stay connected with business and relatives.

      • Ted S.

        Not everyone likes wind.

      • juris imprudent

        See, it should’ve been an auction – that would be the true libertarian way.

    • rhywun

      Until it is not obvious any more.

    • DEG

      I voted for Wyoming and other western states. I had moved to NH maybe a year or two before the vote.

      My understanding from those who did vote for NH is a combination of NH being closer to jobs and the state legislature, specifically the state House of Representatives, being easier to influence.

      I remember some of the materials floated around FSP lists/newsgroups/etc. for the different states. The folks pushing NH definitely had a better marketing campaign.

      • DEG

        OH!

        NH also had the lowest per-capita tax burden of all the states considered.

  29. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    Sittin here waiting for the temps to go above freezing so I can wash dishes and myself

    • Suthenboy

      Ours thawed yesterday. The water pressure was super low, as in just a drizzle, until it started melting. That is when the ice in the pipes start letting go of the pipe walls and moving down the pipes to pile up and clog the pipe completely.
      I was only able to have a shower this morning.

    • rhywun

      I can’t remember the last time it was above freezing. At least a week ago? Looks like tomorrow’s the day.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    At the Bend development, where one half of the land’s original 170-acre, $1.03m lot will be divided into 50 small lots, the sellers will collect $2.05m if buyers meet the asking prices currently on the website. By comparing county land records to pricing on the Ridgerunner website, the Guardian determined that while the company paid around $6,011 an acre, buyers will pay up to the equivalent of $88,500 an acre for an unimproved lot, or up to fourteen times the rate HRP paid.

    At the Longhollow development, sellers will collect a total of at least $2.27m on 550 acres of land they paid $900,000 for 460 acres of (one parcel which is under contract no longer displays the asking price). Kentucky Ridge Runner paid just over $1950 an acre; asking prices are up to $10,327.30 an acre.

    Officials at Monroe county’s assessor’s office, county clerk’s office and chief judge’s office all said that there is no zoning or permitting required for land development in the county, and therefore developers pay none of the costs associated with those processes in other jurisdictions.

    The Cumberland county clerk, Bryan Morgan, said that the county similarly did not require or charge for zoning or permitting.

    Pulitzer worthy investigative journalism.

  31. Lackadaisical

    “I guess I’m fortunate that we don’t have a law school here. This does tell you much about the UC system.”

    Weird, wonder what could possibly cause some Hindus to hate Muslims? Must be white supremacy.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘could have done better just sitting at home for the year.’

      And Biden saw that.

    • Lackadaisical

      I can one-up you (from the same shitty outlet):

      “What the DeSantis campaign cost: 87,000 lives, $150 million and Ron’s dignity”

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56CYEb_Y3b0

      Have we reached peak derp yet? They’re so, so stupid/disingenuous.

    • rhywun

      I don’t know the answer to that but the MSM sure pushed that narrative relentlessly. That told me they are terrified of him.

    • Suthenboy

      Two words: What’s Aleppo?

      • The Last American Hero

        A gaffe that would have been forgiven if the candidate had a D by their name?

      • Suthenboy

        I dont think his effort rose to the level of being campaign. It was the most pathetic, lackluster campaign I have ever seen.

    • The Last American Hero

      Jeb! Had the pedigree, the experience, the establishment support and a nearly unlimited budget. I wasn’t a fan, but he was the best of the Bush family. And he got kneecapped by a reality game show host.

      • Homple

        Jeb’s pedigree was the first thing wrong with him. The country had plenty of experience with the Bush clan, much of it bad.

  32. Lackadaisical

    “Administrators at a Minneapolis area high school canceled classes Friday after a pair of allegedly “race-fueled” fights Thursday between African-American and Somali students that drew in parents and resulted in the arrests of two adults.”

    Uh… is that how race works? Guess I need to get more woke.

    ““Now the way they’re trying to make it look like we’re the bad guys. It had nothing to do with race,” the mother said. “I had nothing to do with anything. It was just trying to get to my daughter to make sure she’s OK.”

    Oh damn, they got the blacks afraid of being called racist up there. As if life wasn’t tough enough being cold all the time.

  33. Lackadaisical

    ‘far-right figures try to create Christian nationalist ‘haven’ in Kentucky’

    You mean it isn’t already? 😛

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Plus, wyoming is much more attractive as a destination, ignoring politics.

    That depends on what part of Wyoming you end up in.

    • rhywun

      Yeah, de gustibus and all that. I would have chosen NH myself.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Apparently Trump has cracked under the unrelenting pressure. He’ll be in a wheelchair with drool running down his chin in no time.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      He literally has ¡BLOOD on his HANDS!1!!

      • juris imprudent

        Not from his steak of course.

      • DrOtto

        That’s ketchup

    • rhywun

      This again? Same story pops up every few months. Imagine that.

      • Common Tater

        It’s got both pandemic and climate change.

      • Lackadaisical

        The next story will be about how they’re got a lab in Chengdu and are working on making the latest arctic virus better.

    • Homple

      The viruses come out with the methane released as the permafrost thaws. More global warming AND super killer diseases.

      Be very afraid.

  36. Don escaped Texas

    I hate successful businesses

    Dollar store backlash is happening all over the country. The stores are routinely blamed for gouging consumers, making it harder for stores selling healthier food to open nearby, and failing hundreds of government safety inspections, making the stores so unsafe even shareholders are concerned.

    I despise others doing what they want with their property. In the name of all that is holy, stop all these people from patronizing such a despicable business.

    • rhywun

      The village quickly racked up thousands in legal fees

      Congratulations – you’ve not only made groceries more expensive but you’ve raised everybody’s taxes too. You must be so proud of yourself.

      • Lackadaisical

        Lawyers and politicians tag teaming the rest of us? Quell surprise.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Chumponomics

    Millions of Americans are paying down their student loans for the first time in years but with more repayment options than before.

    Chief among them is President Biden’s new income-driven repayment plan – Saving on a Valuable Education plan, commonly known as SAVE – which ties monthly payments to earnings and family size. The White House estimates the plan could save the typical borrower $1,000 a year on payments because it reduces the amount of income used to calculate monthly bills. And some people enrolled in the plan will have their balances forgiven starting in February.

    ——-

    A little background: Income-driven plans cap monthly bills at a percentage of a borrower’s earnings and extend repayment periods from the standard 10 years to as long as 25 years, with the promise of forgiving the balance at the end of that term. Payments are based on a percentage of discretionary income, typically whatever a person earns above 150 percent of the federal poverty line.

    SAVE differs from the existing four IDR plans in a few key ways.

    It raises the amount of income shielded from the calculation of your payments from 150 percent to 225 percent of the federal poverty line. The plan also caps payments for undergraduate loans to 5 percent of income above that 225 percent threshold, instead of 10 percent. People with debt from undergraduate and graduate studies will pay a weighted average between 5 percent and 10 percent.

    What’s more, you can skip having to manually recertify your income under SAVE if you give approval for the department to automatically access your latest tax return from the Internal Revenue Service.

    Such a deal. What could possibly go wrong? It’s not like they are providing an incentive to remain poor and underemployed.

    Do they put anything toward principal in those purely performative “repayments”?

    • rhywun

      incentive to remain poor and underemployed

      The Democrats in a nutshell.

      “Gee, why is tuition so high?”

    • DrOtto

      This was my wife’s student loans when we had gotten married. She had .02 going towards principle every month. She didn’t understand that until I spelled it out for her.

      • The Last American Hero

        A college graduate show have enough math background to understand that.

  38. Common Tater

    “WHO prepares for potential global pandemic 20 times deadlier than COVID

    World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on countries to sign on to the health organization’s pandemic treaty so the world can prepare for “Disease X.”

    Ghebreyesus, speaking in front of an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, said that he hoped countries would reach a pandemic agreement by May to address this “common enemy.”

    Disease X is a hypothetical “placeholder” virus that has not yet been formed, but scientists say it could be 20 times deadlier than COVID-19. ”

    https://nypost.com/2024/01/21/news/who-director-tedros-ghebreyesus-calls-for-world-pandemic-treaty-to-prepare-for-disease-x/

    No.

    • rhywun

      virus that has not yet been formed

      That’s a curious way to phrase that. You mean, they haven’t finished creating it yet?

    • Suthenboy

      If you get called on your bullshit the obvious strategy is to quadruple down on it.

  39. rhywun

    I played https://squaredle.com 01/21:
    *70/70 words (+11 bonus words)
    📖 In the top 43% by bonus words
    🔥 Solve streak: 9

    I played https://squaredle.com/xp 01/21:
    *20/20 words (+5 bonus words)
    📖 In the top 7% by bonus words

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Will SAVE affect the interest on my loans?

    Under other income-driven plans, if your monthly loan payment was not sufficient to cover the interest that had accrued on your debt, the unpaid portion would be added on to your remaining balance. But that would end under the SAVE plan.

    This is the only IDR plan that prevents negative amortization, one of the reasons borrowers can see their balances balloon over time.

    “As long as you pay what you owe under this plan, you’ll no longer see your loan balance grow because of unpaid interest,” Biden has said about the SAVE plan.

    It’s like “borrowing” money from Grandpa for an ice cream cone.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    You can apply on the Education Department’s website at: studentaid.gov/idr. People who are already enrolled in the REPAYE plan will be automatically switched to SAVE.

    The Education Department said it will take about 10 minutes to complete the application and roughly four weeks for student loan servicers to process it.

    *guffaws, slaps knee*

    • rhywun

      “We are combining the two plans into a new plan, FREESHIT.”

  42. Common Tater

    “BREAKING: Professor and Election Expert J. Halderman Hacks into Dominion Voting Machine in Court on Friday in Georgia in front of Judge Totenberg USING ONLY A PEN TO CHANGE VOTE TOTALS

    In June 2023, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia unsealed the 96-page Halderman Report – the Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices.

    Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had been hiding this report from the public for two years.

    University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman and Security Researcher and Assistant Professor at Auburn University Drew Sringall collaborated on the report where they discovered many exploitable vulnerabilities in the Dominion Voting Systems’ ImageCast X system.

    Far-left Judge Amy Totenberg sealed and covered up the results of the investigation of Dominion voting machines in Georgia and sat on the report until this week.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/breaking-professor-election-expert-j-halderman-hacks-dominion/

    • juris imprudent

      I got to admit – this kind of bullshit doesn’t inspire confidence in the source.

      As Americans Scramble to Protect Retirement Accounts With Physical Gold and Silver, A Faith-Based Company Shows Them How

  43. Don escaped Texas

    She watches Bill Maher because it’s interesting topics and there’s nothing else on. I don’t object.

    Gavin Newsom just handed Maher his ass in a bucket. Maher is an unprincipled man, a jumble of what-I’ve-been-offended-by-lately, the pox of these United States. So when the governor who is taller and more handsome and smoother runs circles around him, Maher can’t handle him; Newsom wins going away by ten lengths.

    Newsom: blah balh LGEDIOSJBT+
    Maher: you are so handsome; thanks for coming on the show

    If Maher were principled, he’d unload: bureaucracy destroying jobs, projects that don’t work, debt that our grandchildren will inherit. Maher is everyman, trapped in a morass of evolving perspective but anchored to nothing.

    This is what’s wrong with Republicans: they don’t care about small government or debt or bureaucracy any more; they care about how many hillbilly votes they can get. If the GOP could trot our some principled men, I might vote for them; as it is, there’s nothing to see here.

    • rhywun

      Nobody votes on debt.

      The idea is to scoop up enough rednecks who hopefully share some of those ideas.

    • juris imprudent

      Principled men might attract principled voters – all 5% of them.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Maher’s loyal to Biden too. 🤷‍♂️

  44. KK, Plump & Unfiltered

    I haz running water! AND hot water!!

    • Mojeaux

      YAY!!!!! Bathing ahoy!

    • Gender Traitor

      w00t! Welcome to the….ummmm…20th century! 😃🚿water

    • DEG

      Excellent!