Friday Morning Links

by | Jan 10, 2025 | Daily Links | 244 comments

That Notre Dame-Penn State game sure was an interesting one. Allar really screwed the pooch. Anyway, the big one is tonight. Hopefully the final is an all-midwest affair. The NFL has moved the Rams-Vikings playoff game to Phoenix, wisely. And that’s it for sports.

When is this gonna end? My guess is when people stop deliberately setting these fires.

Look at the balls on this fucking guy. What an asshole.

This seems like it’s not really within the scope of the department’s duties. Does saying that make me a bigot? Oh wait, I don’t care.

Wonder what the sentence will be. I’m sure it will be designed to humiliate the man rather than to make the “victim” whole. Oh wait, there was no victim.

This is not what I expected. Did the prosecutor not know the skin color of the people involved? Or are they no longer playing that game after the Penny verdict?

Why are these people not taking care of business themselves? Especially after it was clear the government did not care? What a sad state of affairs.

Hat & Hair…meet The Lump. SugarFree is gonna have a field day for the next four years.

This could have been so much worse. Fortunately not many people took the idiots in charge seriously, although had they been wrong the other way it could have been bad. They are not doing much right out there, and I hope the entire country notices.

They may as well just send the kids home. It’s clear they have no idea how to run schools and judging by their test scores, the kids will learn more watching TikTok videos anyway.

Here’s some good old-fashioned rock and roll. Nobody can find this objectionable. Not unless they’re an insane person. And there ain’t nobody here that crazy. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends. I’m on my way to Dallas for the big game. Go Bucks!

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244 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    That Notre Dame-Penn State game sure was an interesting one. – I lost one dollar because of you.

    • PieInTheSky

      the big one is tonight – that’s what she.. never mind

      • AlexinCT

        I hear that every Friday night… The bog one, before some Glibroni tells me the never mind crap..

      • SDF-7

        Dude — if she’s talking about your bog one… maybe some more showering before hand?

      • AlexinCT

        I thought bog was bigger than big…

        Anyway, that typo should provide us some fun.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Speaking of which, didn’t you have some big date thing last week?

  2. PieInTheSky

    This seems like it’s not really within the scope of the department’s duties. Does that make me a bigot? Oh wait, I don’t care. – that is counting pennies at this point. Not real money.

  3. PieInTheSky

    Look at the balls on this fucking guy. What an asshole. – the bruised ego of a movie star deserves ample compensation.

    • AlexinCT

      If there is any justice, he gets his compensation in grains of lead.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        Or an involuntarily Big Bird costume at the very least.

    • ron73440

      Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer, was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when it discharged, killing Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.

      I hadn’t paid too much attention to this, but do modern revolvers work like that?

      The only revolver I own is my Grandad’s 22lr Hi-Standard with a 9 round cylinder and it doesn’t work that way.

  4. SDF-7

    Wonder what the sentence will be

    “I hereby order that he resign the Presidency of the United States.”

    Why not? Merchan’s done so many ridiculous things over the course of this case — what’s one more completely unreasonable thing? Then he can let the appeals process fight it out.

    • sloopyinca

      I want him to put Trump on house arrest for 9 days. And then I want to see the press conference as Trump walks out of the courtroom.

  5. PieInTheSky

    Why are these people not taking care of business themselves? – as I wrote in my posts on Romania, I guess you can destroy the spirit of of people with sufficient time of grinding them down

    • sloopyinca

      That’s what I assumed happened in these cases. I’d like to think this wouldn’t happen in America.

      • PieInTheSky

        I would say don’t give yup you guns but that would be superfluous round these parts.

      • SDF-7

        2021 unfortunately is a data point against you there, Sloopy. And given the love of totalitarianism and censorship the polling shows for the younger generations (thank a teacher!), I doubt it will improve over the next couple of decades. Maybe the EU as a counter-example will wake folks up.. I don’t know.

      • Rat on a train

        “I would have hidden Jews from the Nazis.”

        “Police, my neighbors have friends visiting in violation of COVID restrictions.”

      • juris imprudent

        Yep, I hate the authoritarians just slightly less than those who gleefully go along with them.

      • Ed Wuncler

        I hope so too but COVID sort of showed us that many people would gleefully help the authoritarians out.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        There are always people who will help the authoritarians out. Both sides of the aisle.

        You just need to have a core of people who would not do that no matter the circumstances.

    • Drake

      Perhaps. Something like that here would result in a stack of dead bodies, including cops if they took the wrong side.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh you mean like in Uvalde?

      • Tonio

        JI from the top rope…

    • rhywun

      Also, some of them tried and were arrested.

  6. Shpip

    Gripping footage of the violent encounter on a 7 train on Dec. 22 shows the victim sleeping on the train shortly before 12:30 a.m. when two of the brutes — identified by prosecutors as Stalin Moya and Oswaldo Walter — grab one of the man’s bags and take it into a second car.

    It appears John Rocker was right about the 7 train.

    Four dudes between 26 and 35, all with names suggesting a certain (ahem) ethnic background. Any word on their legal status in the country?

    • rhywun

      Any word on their legal status in the country?

      Not in Sanctuary.

    • Tonio

      Stalin Moya. Stalin Moya.

      Who names a kid Stalin, anyway?

      • juris imprudent

        Someone who wants that kid to die?

      • AlexinCT

        Or be a top man in the globalist marxist movement?

      • juris imprudent

        Alex, my supposition was the accurate one.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Someone named Adolfo?

      • rhywun

        The parents of this guy, maybe?

      • AlexinCT

        Alex, my supposition was the accurate one.

        JI, I was not arguing with your assessment being the most likely outcome here, but with the parent’s motivation for going there. After all, I am sure that this is not a boy named Sue scenario, as much as stupidity at its highest.

      • Shpip

        Who names a kid Stalin, anyway?

        Parents who want him to ski the K-12, of course.

      • Translucent Chum

        The father of the ski team captain.

    • R C Dean

      Who names their kid Stalin, anyway?

      • R C Dean

        Dammit!

      • Translucent Chum

        Lane Meyer had no comment.

  7. PieInTheSky

    the kids will learn more watching TikTok videos anyway. – school is not about learning.

    • AlexinCT

      School is about creating prog idiot drones these days..

  8. AlexinCT

    This seems like it’s not really within the scope of the department’s duties. Does saying that make me a bigot? Oh wait, I don’t care.

    Burn it all down, and lock up everyone involved.

    • rhywun

      They were just following Joe’s orders. He literally said to implement racism (and sexism) as the top priority in every agency on day one. And that is exactly what they did. It helps that that is exactly what they wanted to do.

      • AlexinCT

        I think the orders came from Obama through his people. I am certain Biden has not been playing with a full deck since the first year, after the same crooks in the machine the Obama admin weaponized by loading the top management with democrat crime syndicate bosses, created 81 million ballots to claim he won the 2020 election and then installed him.

        This has ALWAYS been about protecting Obama’s legacy. They selected Joe specifically because it was obvious he was dirty as fuck to be their candidate against the orange menace. That way they could then blame him for shit after the fac. But have no doubt that the attack on Trump, meaning the attack on those of us that that wanted Trump to end the Obama admin’s effort to “fundamentally change America” now that it no longer was disputable that the change Obama meant was into a marxist third world shithole, was to protect Obama’s legacy and agenda.

        When we no longer have the current cabal of blockers to protect it, we will start finding out how criminal the Obama admin was during it’s 8 years. And the fingers will always point towards the top leaders of the democrat crime syndicate – Clinton, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and so on – but primarily, be shit done by the Hildebeast and Barack. Biden is their patsy.

  9. Shpip

    HISD Chief of Public Affairs Alexandra Elizondo took center stage outside HISD on Wednesday, a blistery cold morning, to explain to parents how to dress their kids for the cold, including what to wear inside the school as temperatures hover at uncomfortable levels.

    Next up: just in time for hurricane season, school officials will explain to parents that it’s best to teach their kids to come inside when it’s raining.

    • Ownbestenemy

      We as a species are doing our best to beat out one of our defining traits, adaptability.

      • Tonio

        Yes. And a corollary to that is that the people who push hardest for the teaching of evolution in public schools do their darndest to thwart evolution in all their other public policies.

    • The Gunslinger

      I’m curious if the residents could initiate a campaign to claw back Mr. HISD idiot’s $126k bonus from last year? That would help pay for some HVAC service work.

    • R C Dean

      Reminds me of one of things about local news that drives me nuts. They constantly are telling us what we need to do to “stay safe” (a phrase which now gives me an eye twitch). If it’s hot, drink plenty of water. If its going to rain, if its cold, if you have a swimming pool, blah blah fucking blah.

      It gives them a way to burn up the broadcast time while avoiding reporting on any news, like, say, what the fuck happened to the $150MM plus that went messing from the universities books, anyway?

      • Jarflax

        The modern world needs to hear the story of the boy who cried wolf. If you constantly warn people about nonsensical threats you end up with two bad effects. One is people simply ignoring any warning because so many have been nonsense. The other is people convinced that if they were not warned about something then it must be safe. “Oh, the park rangers have to tell you not to pet the fluffy cows cause everyone is a pussy, but I am sure it’ll be ok” or “If it was dangerous on this cliff there’d be a sign and a fence”

      • mindyourbusiness

        Are people being encouraged to accept whatever they’re told at face value? And if so, what does that say about people in general and our education (?) system in particular?

  10. Grummun

    Wonder what the sentence will be

    Over/under on how long it takes Trump’s lawyers to file the appeal once the sentence is handed down? 10 minutes?

    • Tonio

      They probably have it already written, printed, and ready to walk into the clerk’s office. Also, probably have motions to a higher court for stay of sentence in case it calls for incarceration before or during Trump’s presidency.

      • R C Dean

        The judge has already said he’s not going to hand down any prison time.

      • AlexinCT

        And we should trust that lying evil fuck on that pronouncement? I wouldn’t. These people are not just vindictive, but evil.

      • Tonio

        Ah, and I had actually read that. I’m only a quarter cup of coffee awake. Urk.

      • PutridMeat

        The judge has already said he’s not going to hand down any prison time.

        Rats, I was looking forward to a shoot-out between the secret service and NY state troopers.

    • AlexinCT

      The people that turned several criminals – George Floyd, Michael Brown, and the democrat crime syndicate – into heroes, is now hoping to influence people by accusing Trump of being a convicted felon. As the brothers from other mothers would say: “I already like the guy, you don’t need to make him even more likable”….

  11. AlexinCT

    So, concerning that multiculturalism in Great Britain, where their elite chose to hide from the rabble that some of the people they were importing to replace them with were blatantly and violently abuse those most in need of society’s protection, even going so far as using the very authorities that were supposed to protect thee people to stomp them into silence, do people need more evidence that the progressive globalist left really is evil and hates humanity outside their circles? BTW, that is Soros’ motivation: hate of humanity. These people all made deals with the devil.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      The source of a lot of the complete irrational madness seems to come from Germany or the UK.

      Canada is in bad shape but we’re not the UK. Yet anyway.

      Trudeau did a lot to expedite and import a lot of this crap.

      • Don escaped Memphis

        the Domino Theory for western social decay:

        France gives on to Europe in general, Germany in particular, then the UK, then Canada, then California, then the US in general, and then finally American cities even in flyover country…..

        leaving the truckdrivers and other hillbillies uninfected; you gotta hand it to the deplorables: they always called this one right

      • AlexinCT

        I trace all this evil shit right back to the WEF people and their globalist agenda to kill off most of humanity and start a new feudal marxist age (guaranteeing misery for all the serfs, to keep them docile). Governments in alignment with that goal all eventually end up producing so much devastation that it is unavoidable. In Argentina the financial chaos led to Milei. In Eastern Europe the EU abuse is now also being pushed back. GB, Germany, and Canada are now waking up to that reality after they saw the US tell the globalists cabal to fuck off in an election the machine could simply not rig without that being easily provable.

        I have told several lefttards that questioned this shit that there was a LOT of cheating in 2024 as well by the usual suspects (team blue and their cabal), but they lacked the ability to control the narrative and the screen provided by the Kung Flu scandemic to hide their massive cheating from 2020, so the vote went red DESPITE all their efforts. If you doubt this, take a look at all the blue states that desperately kept counting votes hoping to steal and reduce team red margin in Congress. Shit, California counted votes (they “found” somewhere) for weeks to steal a bunch of House seats (and we let it happen).

        The reason we don’t have all the rioting and other anti-society things going on is that this event totally broke and demoralized the criminal globalist cabal. But they are not just going to give up now that it is obvious that they are facing a scenario where it no longer is about waiting out the American voters now that people in their countries stand up to their evil shit.

      • AlexinCT

        Soros is an anti-humanist. His mission is to fuck over humanity as a whole. That makes him anti-everything but helping kill people. That mission doesn’t stop him from temporarily allying himself with the communists on the way to his end goal, since they by default produce a better environment for his dream of offing us all off.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I beg to differ about California. Their laws precedes ours. We copy them. I believe the origins are more Germany than France. Progressivism, Marxism etc. all Germany.

      • juris imprudent

        Progressivism is as American as apple pie. We eventually grafted on some other stupid shit to it, but Wilson (as an example) believed that it was America’s mission in life to redeem the world.

    • The Gunslinger

      Ask yourselves this. Are the “grooming gangs” grooming girls just for themselves? Or are there other powerful clients that are enjoying the groomed girls?

      • AlexinCT

        You can bet that the second scenario is why they are fighting investigations instead of just throwing some low level people under the bus. The globalist movement seems obsessed with legalizing sex, and the most perverse kind of sex, with minors.

      • Ed Wuncler

        Ding ding ding! We have a winner.

      • PieInTheSky

        there was a 15 year old girl caught sucking a guys dick in a car and was sanctioned for prostitution, the guy being a judge at the very courthouse that sanctioned her and did not get even a reprimand.

        That being said the worst stuff was by Muslims for Muslims. Not that the western elite does not engage in casual pedophilia here and there.

        But my view is: you will have local pedos, just stop importing additional ones.

      • R C Dean

        They were absolutely trafficking the girls, driving them from city to city, etc.

        I was telling Mrs. Dean last night during the news – we don’t have nearly enough political violence for a healthy society. The ruling class doesn’t feel nearly enough fear.

      • AlexinCT

        we don’t have nearly enough political violence for a healthy society. The ruling class doesn’t feel nearly enough fear.

        So much this.

        We have gotten here because we allowed these monsters to basically make it so they are never be held accountable. They plead incompetence rather than malicious intent, and we just shrug and let them keep on keeping on. There have to be brutal consequences to remind them they are going to pay if they are evil.

      • EvilSheldon

        I sometimes wonder if the lack of reaction among the British upper-middle class might have something to do with the decades of institutional pederasty in the British ‘Public’ school system?

        “Hey, I got buggered by the prefects when I was a kid, and I turned out fine. What are these wankers complaining about?”

    • invisible finger

      This shit isn’t limited to the UK. Same shit happening in Germany, France, Sweden, Holland, Minnesota…

      • AlexinCT

        When you realize that the globalists for some reason want to normalize sex with minors, including the nastiest shit you could imagine, you come to understand why shit like this keeps happening everywhere they are in charge…..

  12. Rufus the Monocled

    Merry New Year everybody!

      • Not Adahn

        I didn’t realize today was Canadian New Year.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I thought Canadian New Year came after China’s New Year.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Canadian Orthodox New Year.

    • Tonio

      Happy New Year, Rufus. Good to hear from you.

      “Canadian New Year…” I snickered.

    • Tundra

      Happy New Year, Rufus!

    • Rufus the Monocled

      You people are impossible.

      • Gender Traitor

        Not impossible, just highly unlikely.

  13. Shpip

    And new blazes have continued to crop up. On Thursday afternoon, the Kenneth Fire started in the San Fernando Valley just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from a school serving as a shelter for evacuees from another fire. It moved into neighboring Ventura County, but a large and aggressive response by firefighters stopped the flames from spreading.

    Ventura County must have better lesbians in charge of their fire department.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      For the first time in my life, I will be rooting for TexSuX.

      • juris imprudent

        “Alright, alright, alriiiiiiiiight” – yeah, can’t do that.

  14. Don escaped Memphis

    Nobody can find this objectionable

    needz moar Elliot Easton

    One of the best things to happen in the 70s was his Les Paul. For tone, for taste, whether fitting in or stepping out, fuzzed rock or clean rockabilly, Easton easily ranked amongst the top ten of Top40 guitarists of that decade and is certainly a top 100 guitarist of any stripe for that century.

  15. Grumbletarian

    Wonder what the sentence will be. I’m sure it will be designed to humiliate the man rather than to make the “victim” whole. Oh wait, there was no victim.

    The victim is America because this awful man is president again, you bigot!

    • Rat on a train

      Repeatedly from CSPAN call in show:
      “I don’t understand how someone who led an insurrection can become president in violation of the 14th Amendment.”

  16. Not Adahn

    Assuming as reported that the punishment for OMB’s 34 felony convictions is nothing.

    If the just punishment for 34 convictions is nothing, the punishment for one count is also nothing.

    If the just punishment for being guilty of a “felony” is nothing, how in the everloving fuck is the act a felony?

    • R.J.

      The whole idea of a felony has been so distorted that it applies to damn near everything now. I think I read that this country started with maybe 11 things that were a felony, and now we have close to ten thousand.

    • dbleagle

      OMB. That’s the reason it’s a felony. OMB

      • juris imprudent

        In a sense, it is perfectly consistent with a view that symbol is everything and substance is nothing.

      • Jarflax

        If substance matters verbal facility becomes less important. If symbol alone matters verbal facility rules the world. Which view would you expect academia to gravitate toward?

    • Rat on a train

      “We’re not here to rescue oppressors.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ya know, one of the now 10 dead persons families could use that as evidence that the LAFD allowed someone to die because ‘they got themselves in the wrong place’.

      • Drake

        ‘the wrong place’ = Los Angeles. Any city is California probably.

      • ron73440

        Ya know, one of the now 10 dead persons families could use that as evidence that the LAFD allowed someone to die because ‘they got themselves in the wrong place’.</blockquote

        If the police don't have a duty to protect, the firemen probably don't have a duty to rescue.

    • AlexinCT

      DEI isn’t about justice of any kind: it is about giving cover for life’s losers to be rewarded while doing nothing of worth or merit. Basically marxism’s “nobody works cause it is stupid to do so” at work.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nice

      • Tundra

        Just about to link it. Fantastic as usual.

        most individuals can see how crazy this is, but groups cannot. they impose uniformity through relentless attack and censorship and accusation. they repeat and flood every channel and topic with the same propaganda and produce the abilene paradox of a room full of people who all know something is crazy all pretending it’s sane because they think that’s what everyone else thinks.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or just quote Men In Black to condense that down Tundra.

      • rhywun

        reality denial as lifestyle

        About sums up the last fifty years or so.

      • Jarflax

        Reality is inconvenient for the desired narrative.

      • PutridMeat

        Fantastic as usual

        Indeed, lots of good content. His – yes I’m assuming gender and preferred pronouns – writing style often causes involuntary eye twitches though.

        The short, single sentence paragraphs.

        With a declarative statement.

        Some times overly grandiose declarative statements.

        Of course this is coming from someone who turns a simple concept into a multi-headed beast of interconnected ideas and caveats, and from there into a run-on-complex-too-many-ideas paragraph long sentence. I’m sure there’s a happy median in there somewhere; and given that his ideas and productivity are generally outpacing mine on both fronts, I can’t complain too much.

      • PieInTheSky

        “the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy is always accurate, reality is often wrong”. That was satire back in the day. It aint no more.

    • EvilSheldon

      In every possible way, you are own your own. Act accordingly.

    • AlexinCT

      So you saying they are pissed that we have decided to stop them from looting the coffers, and in a revenge rage have decided to just burn it all up to spite us? Who would’ve seen that coming?

  17. PieInTheSky

    Santa Monica warden issuing parking tickets in the middle of a fire. Unbelievable.

    Like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred.

    https://x.com/GraduatedBen/status/1877211937349455935

    • AlexinCT

      Government people doing what they exist for: keeping the machine alive, growing, and with it’s boot firmly on the neck of the rabble?

    • Rat on a train

      Real dedication would be going through burning neighborhoods giving tickets to smoldering cars.

  18. PieInTheSky

    The Thrill Of Word-Policing

    https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2024/01/the-thrill-of-word-policing.html

    Come, dear reader. Let us visit the publication now laughingly referred to as Scientific American. In particular, an “analysis” piece by Juan P Madrid, in which we’re told,
    The language of astronomy is needlessly violent and inaccurate.

    The kindness, but also the accuracy, of the language my student used was in sharp contrast to the standard description we use in astronomy to explain the final destiny of Andromeda and the Milky Way: “a collision.” A galactic hug is scientifically truthful, and it’s led me to believe that astronomers should reconsider the language we use. Referees, editors, and editorial boards can step up to… stop the use of violent, misogynistic language that is now pervasive. Valuable efforts to provide opportunities for women and minorities to succeed in astronomy have been created. However, by many metrics, the progress made towards gender equality and true diversity has been painfully slow.

  19. juris imprudent

    When it comes to delusion, I must defer to MSNBC.

    Joe Biden says he could’ve beaten Donald Trump. That’s a delusional claim.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That reads like Jarvis DeBerry is hoping Kamala will slip into his DMs

    • AlexinCT

      Well, I will remind you that Biden’s frame of thinking is that they did manufacture 81 million ballots to pull him over the finish line in 2020, so he/they should be able to do the same in 2024. The guy was never sharp, and I am sure he (well his wife) really thinks he won in 2020 and would repeat that act, despite the destruction foisted on the country by the Obama people running things for the last 4 years on the country, and the fact there was not a fake pandemic to give them cover to print ballots for team blue.

      • juris imprudent

        Poor George, believing that someone is in charge. Never occurred to him that shit just happens, that chaos is what really rules.

    • Grummun

      That’s a Bernzomatic MAPP gas cylinder. I have one for sweating copper pipe, although these days I mostly use it for … starting fires: shop wood stove, brush piles, etc.

    • Suthenboy

      The climate change scammers are starting to have defectors. In the end they will all hope it quietly goes away and pretend they had nothing to do with it but it wont. They drug us into a dark age revival and it will be a black mark on science until the end of time.

  20. PieInTheSky

    Stephen Fry and Britain’s Failure to Take Child Abuse Seriously. Our headlines are dominated by the scandal of institutions that refused to protect girls for fear of seeming “racist”. My latest article suggests Stephen Fry’s knighthood is from the same copybook.

    https://x.com/TwisterFilm/status/1877507186147864801

    • ron73440

      Wow, I should not have read that.

      What the hell is wrong with him?

      • Suthenboy

        My best explanation is that people who have horrible experiences in their formative years blame the entire culture they were raised in. They spend the rest of their lives trying to destroy that culture and thus celebrate and revel in evil. Oikophobia is a serious personality disorder causing untold cost and damage then perpetuates itself down through generations.
        That is the best I have got.

    • PieInTheSky

      Indirectly, it did.

      • Ted S.

        Meow.

      • Not Adahn

        Nah, legit. I fucked up.

    • AlexinCT

      Black Hos, brown dwarfs, and yellow sons all are raciss things!

      And why are those things flying around in space called Hemorrhoids?

      • Rat on a train

        They’re racistly delicious.

    • Suthenboy

      I saw ‘Scientific American’ and knew where it was going. I am not reading that. Dont even use that shit for.a bird cage liner. The bird may look down and accidentally read some of it.

      • AlexinCT

        I quit Scientific American back in 1993 when they came out with the most ludicrous obviously politically biased Climate change shit article I had ever read. Never looked back.

      • Suthenboy

        Are you sure you aren’t me? That is the same year I finally admitted to myself what I was seeing and cancelled my prescription. I cancelled the half dozen prescriptions I had in various scientific periodicals because I could see it in all of them.

      • ron73440

        Are you sure you aren’t me? That is the same year I finally admitted to myself what I was seeing and cancelled my prescription. I cancelled the half dozen prescriptions I had in various scientific periodicals because I could see it in all of them.

        I was unaware you had to go to the pharmacy to get magazines.

        You are correct though, all of them are tainted.

        I used to get National Geographic DVD’s mailed to my hous for my kids and me to watch.

        They were fantastic until “GLOBAL WARMING” became an overriding theme, so I cancelled.

        Makes me sad, my boys would be excited when a new one showed up.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Nat Geo was such a fascinating magazine when I was growing up. The world brought to your home. Also was great for school projects if I remember correctly. I am sure it is like you said, tainted.

    • Ownbestenemy

      This is why these people will never believe it will be them against the wall at the end of the day.

    • PieInTheSky

      the comment I saw on the X was ” This is what real leadership looks like”

    • rhywun

      Do “recovery costs” include rebuilding in a region with a semi-arid climate and insufficient infrastructure to deal with the frequent wildfires, I wonder?

      • PieInTheSky

        rebuilding – I hope with better taste some of that architecture was ug lee

      • R C Dean

        Sure, if they rebuilt a city below sea level in a hurricane zone, why not?

      • Suthenboy

        What Pie says. The fire has cleansed many architectural abominations.

    • Suthenboy

      What does Maui look like today? What did those people get?

      • AlexinCT

        Fucked over by the big money progressive cabal that basically ripped them off. You don’t hear about that because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      When western NC becomes home to big Dem donors, I’m sure it will get the help it needs.

  21. The Gunslinger

    I’ll be rooting for tosu to win out. Then Ryan Day can get a much deserved contract extension.

    And big brother to the North can continue dragging the Buckeyes up and down the gridiron for a few more years.

    Go Buckeyes!!

    • PieInTheSky

      I’ll be rooting for tosu to win out – If I lose another dollar sloopy will get a piece of my mind.

  22. PieInTheSky

    This boils down to “Muslims are the real victims of the rape gangs”. No sense of concern for the victims of Muslim rapists, only that it reflects badly on the community and it means people give them a hard time, not that raping English girls is wrong. Demented ethics.

    https://x.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/1877504643565007265

    • Jarflax

      They have conflated observation with prejudice and prejudice with bigotry and defined bigotry as the greatest evil in the hierarchy. All evils committed by members of a protected group are therefore less evil than any dislike of that group such evils inspire. The fight against bigotry becomes necessarily a fight against observation.

      • rhywun

        “The problem isn’t the problem; the problem is complaining about the problem.”

        /somebody

    • Suthenboy

      I have to wonder – muslims invading Europe in the centuries past, were they also enabled by the same kinds of evil quisling European leaders they have today? I suspect the answer is yes but somehow that did not make it into the history books.

      • R C Dean

        I doubt it, for the most part, just because during those centuries past the rulers were (or at least to pretend to be) seriously Christian. Facilitating the invasion of Muslims would have been way beyond the pale. Allowing Muslims to commit mass rape of your population would have been the end of your dynasty.

      • Suthenboy

        I say that because it seems to be a rule that cultures collapse from within the great majority of the time. Vigorous, self-interested cultures are nearly invincible.

      • PieInTheSky

        In the romanian principalities most definitly

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Invaders often, or maybe always, have help from locals. Ukrainians helped the Nazis. Lots of locals helped Cortez beat the Aztecs.

    • Suthenboy

      As for Mohammed Hijab, when are you going to start doing that?

    • ron73440

      This is Norm Macdonald talking about Bill Cosby all over again.

      When someone said that the worst thing about Cosby drugging and raping women was the hypocrisy, Norm responded with, “I think it was the rapes!”

    • Rat on a train

      They are doing a community service by saving what would be destroyed if the house burned.

    • R C Dean

      The “local resident” she interviews is just a parody of a California wine mom.

    • Suthenboy

      What was that lunatic doing out of prison?

      • Sean

        Making his last bad decision.

  23. Ownbestenemy

    “Defendant’s disdain for the Third Branch of government, whether state or federal, in New York or elsewhere, is a matter of public record,” Merchan wrote. “Indeed, Defendant has gone to great lengths to broadcast on social media and other forums his lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system as a whole.”

    Ah, so you are flexing your Judiciary dick so to speak.

    • Suthenboy

      The person showing disdain for the judiciary is Merchan. That guy really needs to be off of the bench. I would have him never show up in court again except as a defendant.

    • Suthenboy

      Also, since no one knows what crime he committed how can he be sentenced? Isn’t the sentence defined in the statute that was broken? Merchan is just going to pull something out of his ass?

      • Rat on a train

        Don’t get caught up in details. We know he is guilty of something and must be punished.

    • rhywun

      “Respect mah authoritah!”

      CWAA

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      If I’m not mistaken his administration lost lots of court battles. I don’t remember him ignoring them the way Biden does.

      • ron73440

        For being the second coming of Hitler, he wasn’t a very good dictator.

  24. pan fried wylie

    I missed the argument over JCPenny’s new name in yesterdays morning links, Forever Penny/Penny 21/JC21.

    Contemporaneous to that thread I was learning about the Del Taco “bun taco” from a youtube video. Where was the certified naming professional for that product? “Bun taco” is just terrible, it sounds bad coming out of your mouth, and there’s two painfully obvious options for a tacomeat sloppy joe that work way better:

    The Taco Joe or The Sloppy Jose. Like, fucken duh.

  25. Suthenboy

    The only place other than in my head where I have seen mentioned possible terror attack was here, I dont remember who. However, terrorists tend to take credit. So far that hasn’t happened. Likely the initial fire was from a power line but I thought the utility had turned those off with expectation of the winds. I would say the chances of at least some of these not being deliberate is zero.
    Looking back at the Maui fire, how it was handled and how things turned out might be worth doing.

    I am not clear on how that shitweasel got out of going to prison.

    They are never going to let racism die. It’s ugly and evil and their bread and butter.

    No victim? There was also no crime. How do you sentence someone without a statute violation that gives the parameters of the sentence?

    Subway stabbing: All involved are homeless but no mention of immigration status.

    There is a chance, I dont know how much, that England will collapse over the muslim invader rape thing. Everyone who facilitated it should never breath a breath of free air again nor see the sun shine.

    Letterman blows my mind. He turns out to be the most sensible democrat and appears to be the least corrupt. Whodathunkit?

    Get rid of public sector unions and state education. Period.

    • R C Dean

      What a cutie. She can present her findings to me any time.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Stepping in on OMWC’s territory?

      • AlexinCT

        Especially if she is giving Irish head?

      • Not Adahn

        Isn’t “Irish Head” just using a hollowed-out potato?

      • PutridMeat

        Isn’t “Irish Head” just using a hollowed-out potato?

        You must have really big potatoes where you’re from. Or… Never mind.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Are you saying the Scottish are Irish?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Consorting with the enemy

    He was speaking to a reporter when he was asked about a viral video of the two presidents chatting during President Jimmy Carter’s funeral Thursday.

    “I didn’t realize how friendly it looked,” said Trump from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

    “I said, ‘Boy, they look like two people that like each other.’ And we probably do,” Trump said. “We have a little different philosophies, right? But we probably do. I don’t know. We just got along. But I got along with just about everybody.”

    An adviser to Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night.

    He hates black people. Especially the smart successful ones.

    • Suthenboy

      As usual he turns lemons to lemonade. It was obvious that everyone there were having petulant tantrums watching those two yuk it up together.

  27. AlexinCT

    WEH WEH WEH WEEEEHHHH

    Now they can call him felon, and expect the people that didn’t see the left make saints out of real criminals to take that to heart..

    Or something…

    • Suthenboy

      What they have done is make certain no one takes the court seriously anymore.

    • Rat on a train

      So when are you visiting?

      • PieInTheSky

        I dunno man there are no good seasons in America. Too hot too cold or fire or hurricane…

        Maybe during a glib meetup. Or in summer when it is ridiculously hot in romania if there is a place in the US not that hot

      • PieInTheSky

        Anyway what prevented me from visiting was not the 180$ visa but the estimated 7-10k cost of the trip.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You could always take the long road through South America for a nominal fee to a coyote

      • PieInTheSky

        Also your steakhouses have no grass fed beef 😀

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ya plenty of grass-fed steakhouses, especially ones that are true farm to table in the most perfect sense.

      • Gender Traitor

        Honey Harvest! Central Minnesota, third Sunday in September (the 21st in 2025.)

    • Grummun

      So when are you visiting?

  28. The Late P Brooks

    foreign influencer

    The world’s richest man has shown particular interest in Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, where he opened Tesla’s (TSLA.O), opens new tab first European plant in 2022.
    Musk introduced the AfD’s chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, whose party is second in polls but has almost no chance of forming a government due to other parties’ refusal to work with it, as “the leading candidate to run Germany.”
    In a conversation punctured by giggles from both parties, the two agreed that Germany was hamstrung by a “crazy” energy policy, excessive bureaucracy and uncontrolled immigration.
    “People really need to get behind AfD, otherwise things are going to get very, very much worse in Germany,” he said. “I think Alice Weidel is a very reasonable person. Nothing outrageous is being proposed.”
    Musk was doubling down on his endorsement last month of the AfD, an anti-immigration, anti-Islamic party labeled as right-wing-extremist by German security services, which has caused consternation in Berlin.

    Arrest them both, for the good of the state.

  29. Drake

    It’s snowing in South Carolina.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ours just about started too. Est went from 1-3″ to 2-6″ for us. That will make the pile on part of my driveway about 16″ of snow. I wanna dig a tunnel in it

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking in fluent English, Weidel expressed gratitude for Musk’s support, saying that the opportunity to speak with Musk was the first time in 10 years that she had been allowed a platform to say her piece without interruption from a media world that, she said, was biased against her.

    “People love to censor things they don’t agree with,” Musk agreed after the two compared the media and German politicians’ treatment of the AfD to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s treatment of pro-Jewish voices in the 1930s.
    Leaders across Europe have expressed alarm over Musk’s political activities. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez accused Musk of undermining democracy, without directly naming him, while France’s foreign minister urged the EU to use its laws more robustly to guard against outside interference.

    A democracy of subjects, not citizens.

      • Not Adahn

        Apparently two German states have decided to start disarming AfD members.

      • juris imprudent

        Just like the Weimar Republic passed laws to insure public order.

    • R.J.

      I am glad. She needs to be allowed to speak. I know nothing of her, and whatever she says will make or break her public image. Hiding her away just makes her opposition look like incompetent buffoons who can’t take competition.
      And yes, I know her opponents are buffoons, this most likely just verifies it. I doubt any Hitlerian stuff is going on.
      Is there a link to the interview yet? It is out?

      • rhywun

        Her opposition are certainly incompetent buffoons, and deliberately so. They are selected for exactly that characteristic, which includes their inability to see reality.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    I wanna dig a tunnel in it

    Make blocks and build an igloo.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Worst case scenario

    “Entirely foreseeable,” said Char Miller, a professor of environmental analysis and history at Pomona College.

    The fires have forced nearly 180,000 people to evacuate, cut power to nearly half a million customers and burned thousands of homes.

    “We have been building homes deep into the fire zones. We know they’re fire zones, we know they’re dangerous, and yet City Hall and county government has constantly greenlit development in places of greater and greater risks,” Miller said. “All of the factors you don’t want to see combined combined.”

    How do you like your so called freedom now?

    • rhywun

      Dude must have tenure.

  33. juris imprudent

    A ray of sunshine.

    This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days.

    • Not Adahn

      Didn’t Mann get a judgement against that dying Canadian guy?

      • juris imprudent

        Mostly because Steyn decided to be his own lawyer and snarked the court.

      • ron73440

        Mostly because Steyn decided to be his own lawyer and snarked the court.

        The worst thing you can do is ridicule those people.

        And to disrespect a court? A COURT OF LAW! How dare he!

      • rhywun

        He was probably under the delusion that the courts practice anything like justice.

    • Raven Nation

      So some science podcasts proclaimed that Mann’s libel win over Mark Steyn proved AGW was real. Does Mann’s loss now prove AGW is not real?

      • juris imprudent

        science podcasts

        Perhaps you meant sciLence? Or The SCIENCE(tm)?

    • rhywun

      Does this mean Americans are now allowed to call Mann a gigantic piece of shit?

  34. Ownbestenemy

    Toward the end of their statement, Harry and Meghan also urge residents to give back. “Open your home,” they wrote. “If a friend, loved one, or pet has to evacuate and you are able to offer them a safe haven in your home, please do. And be sure to check in with any disabled or elderly neighbors to see if they need help evacuating.”

    You first.

    • Ed Wuncler

      Harry really fumbled the bag. He had his life set up as a royal where all he would have had to do was cut ribbons, travel a little, and do shit that his older brother didn’t want to do while being paid by the British taxpayer. He must either be the dumbest man alive or his wife has some voodoo mind-altering power because that idiot threw it all away.

      • rhywun

        He wouldn’t be the first man to throw it all away for some hot snatch.

      • creech

        Calling the Duke of Windsor.

    • rhywun

      JFC. Fine, your renewal rate is $10,000,000.

      • Rat on a train

        More like, “Fine, we’re pulling out of the state.”

    • Rat on a train

      California has also mandated doctors can’t quit or retire in an effort to maintain stability in the health care market.

      • Sean

        o.O

    • PutridMeat

      Fur kids

      STOP SAYING THAT!

      • ron73440

        I hate the whole “fur babies” and “pet parents” thing.

        I love my dogs and get sad when they die, but they are not my kids, no matter how much my husky like to yell at me.

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