Saturday Morning Just Gettin’ Better Links

by | Sep 26, 2020 | Daily Links | 155 comments

Shit’s too funny. I mean, really. I go look for links and have to check every goddamn one of them to see if it’s a parody site. Poe’s Law is an iron law.

Birthdays abound, though, including a guy who makes Francisco d’Anconia jealous; an expert in peaches; a pioneer of method acting; Hillary Clinton’s spirit animal; a guy who always made me laugh, though it was unlikely to be intentional; a former politico who, though an advocate of horrible policies, is actually funny and genuine; a corpse worth pissing on; and Lurch’s love child.

And, most importantly, it’s #9 for Wonder Dog.

Now here’s the funny shit posing as news.

 

Well, color me surprised. Shocked. Or maybe not. OK, drugs fell out of her ass.

 

This fire is making me hungry.

 

Mattingly is a murderer, a total scumbag, and a fucking coward.

 

“Hey, fellow kids!”

 

Ben Crump is Gloria Allred’s natural successor.

 

The thing about Trump is, he won’t pander. Oh, wait…

 

Old Guy Music is one I’ve used before, but hey, it’s Wonder Dog’s birthday, and I think this is the greatest music video EVER.

 

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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.

155 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    more job offers= Better, ‘Morning all!

    • Sean

      Mornin.

  2. Ted S.

    an expert in peaches;

    I was hoping Herb Fame, but his birthday isn’t until this coming Thursday.

      • Gender Traitor

        Was expecting one of those to be this.

      • Ted S.

        Not this?

      • Ted S.

        Or this?

      • Gender Traitor

        Excellent choices both, but no Peaches & Herb?

  3. Shpip

    Growers are wary of leaving the plants vulnerable to flames or thieves. Each farm has crops worth half a million dollars or more and many are within days or weeks of harvest.

    Plants at the peak of their maturity is something that will resinate with people.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I see the Flower of your logic,
      /inhale

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Dude..

      • Shpip

        Economists say that unwillingness to leave one’s livelihood behind is indica of financial insecurity.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Fuck it, Wake and Bake!

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        If only they had “free” health care paid by the wealthy who need to pay their fair share.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Have you tried CBD oil for ophthalmological treatment?

  4. Ted S.

    Mattingly is a murderer, a total scumbag, and a fucking coward.

    Why people think he belongs in the Hall of Fame is a mystery. Probably just butthurt Yankee fans.

    • ruodberht

      Fucker wouldn’t shave those sideburns either

    • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

      I don’t know what baseball has to do wit one of NASA’s heroes who brought Apollo 13 home through sheer determination and sleepless nights.

  5. Yusef drives a Kia

    “Edison’s equipment started the fire”
    How does that work?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      It didn’t, in spite of what he said about direct current.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        +1 Nikola

    • Agent Cooper

      Ask Billy Joel.

  6. Rhywun

    a guy who always made me laugh, though it was unlikely to be intentional

    Ha. I recently changed my cable box to not start up on my local news (NY1) because of course the local news shows are horrible, so I chose MeTV as what I thought of as the least offensive option. So now in the morning I frequently get Dragnet and after work I usually get Adam 12 when I turn it on. Every time I look up it’s reefer madness and junkies. Man, that Jack Webb was like a one-man War on Drugs. At least Emergency! is kind of fun. I had never seen any of these shows in the before times.

    Oh… so yeah, Kent there is kind of purdy but otherwise that show… ugh.

    • Ted S.

      They always rip open the men’s shirts to do defibrillation, but they never rip open the women’s shirts. 🙁

      • Rhywun

        It’s not like any of the men are the ones you want to see them rip their shirts open.

      • Rhywun

        I’ll keep an eye open for it.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Hah, my brother and I loved Adam-12 and Emergency! when we were kids. Definitely liked Emergency! the most, though.

      When my kid was in Cub Scouts we visited the local fire station, and they had the alarm system set to use the one from the show. They turned it on, and all the Dads were smiling.

      • Ted S.

        You probably perved on Julie London, didn’t you? 😉

      • Fatty Bolger

        Nah, I was just a little kid when I watched those shows. First TV crush I can remember was Erin Gray in Buck Rogers.

      • DrOtto

        /\ this guy gets it.

      • Plinker762

        Off think

      • l0b0t

        Randolph Mantooth FTW!!! Also, I squealed with delight when Kevin Tighe showed up as a baddie on Lost.

      • l0b0t

        You have no idea how much I love that film. “You see anything Tinker?” “Polar bear fell on me.”

      • Tundra

        And yes, Emergency! was one of my favorite shows, as well.

    • blackjack

      SQUAAAAK! Squad 51, station 51, see the man!

    • Agent Cooper

      Cable box? … Luddite.

  7. The Hyperbole

    “to accuse an innocent person of a crime is inherently defamatory.”…saying he knows police “did the legal, moral and ethical thing” the night of the shooting.

    Other than being entirely wrong the murderous piece of shit makes some good points.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Well, unfortunately David French is right in that it’s both a completely lawful judgement and a very unjust one – this is on the states/cities/etc.

      If we get ACB on the court, there’s certainly a better chance of QI and other things being reversed.

  8. Rhywun

    “Hey, fellow kids!”

    Because it’s totally not racist to expect certain specifically-pigmented people to have an opinion on this matter.

    • l0b0t

      Wow! Thanks for sharing this. I’m now engrossed in a topic I had never even considered before. This is fascinating stuff.

  9. Fatty Bolger

    McMurtry posted a 44-second video on Twitter Thursday of Mattingly after he was shot by Walker. The footage appears to show Mattingly being put in the back of a vehicle before being taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries.

    Oh, look, it’s bodycam footage. So they *do* have bodycams, eh? So why hasn’t the footage showing them announcing themselves before busting down the door been released?

  10. l0b0t

    Good morning everyone. A very happy birthday to Wonderdog; I hope a pizza pie is involved.

    I am adamantly opposed to making Juneteenth a holiday anywhere but Texas. Come up with your own holidays you G/d cursed, carpet-bagging, Yankee devils. Lee surrendered, I did not! (a very common bumpersticker in my youth).

    Regarding the Beta article, how does this –
    The DIY ethos O’Rourke had first encountered in the punk scene informed some of his later political decisions, such as his Senate campaign’s pledge not to accept financial contributions from PACs (political action committees).
    Square with this – “In 2019, O’Rourke set up a hybrid PAC that works like a super PAC and a traditional PAC“?

    Oh, here is more evidence of Beta’s punk rock, DIY ethos –

    O’Rourke returned to El Paso in 1998. At first, he was working with computers as an inventory tracker at his mother’s upscale furniture store and living in an apartment building owned by his father.[15] O’Rourke said he wanted to address “brain-drain”, or the exodus of youth caused by lack of opportunity. In 2000, he co-founded Stanton Street Technology Group, an Internet services and software company. With O’Rourke himself unable to obtain a loan, his father took out a $20,000 loan on his behalf. The company’s first client was O’Rourke’s mother’s furniture store. O’Rourke’s wife, Amy, operated the business until June 2017. For a few years, the company also published an online newspaper, also called Stanton Street; the paper was a mix of arts and entertainment reviews, restaurant reviews and opinion columns that O’Rourke modeled on alternative periodicals like The Village Voice and New York Press. In a 1998 interview with the El Paso Times, O’Rourke stated that his web designs paid “the bills”, but his heart was in StantonStreet.com even though it lost money. The company made a co-marketing agreement with local TV station, KTSM-TV, allowing StantonStreet.Com and the station’s Internet site to share content and TV ads. KTSM’s then news director, Eric Pearson, was O’Rourke’s brother-in-law.

    • Tulip

      Wow, he’s such a self made man.

    • Gdragon

      “he was working with computers ”
      ————————-

      My ex-wife and I used to joke that this is the generic “I don’t really know what my child actually does for their job” response. “Johnny is doing great now, he graduated from State a couple of years ago and now he… works with computers”

  11. The Late P Brooks

    The shit-flinging howler monkeys are at it again

    Combined with Trump’s relentless disinformation campaign, celebration of violence against journalists, and incitement of armed militias, historians and election experts warn that the president is mirroring the behavior of despots that the US generally leads the way in condemning before the world.

    “I’ve been an election observer in broken authoritarian countries, and let me tell you: Trump’s behavior would be swiftly and unequivocally condemned by all international election monitors if it was happening elsewhere. He is behaving like the despots past presidents condemned,” Brian Klaas, a political scientist at the University College London, tweeted on Friday.

    When asked whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power earlier this week, Trump suggested ballots would be thrown away.

    ——-

    Trump has given the country myriad signs that he will not concede under any circumstances, placing the US on the precipice of a political crisis the likes of which it has never experienced before. The president has repeatedly pushed the bogus assertion that the expanded access to mail-in voting for the 2020 election — a move designed to protect vulnerable people amid a pandemic — will lead to widespread voter fraud.

    Top experts on democracy have been warning for years that Trump exhibits authoritarian tendencies. But their consternation appears to have ramped up significantly as Election Day draws closer and Trump essentially signals that he plans to do whatever it takes to stay in power.

    ——-

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a New York University historian who’s written extensively on Mussolini, agrees with Beschloss that Trump’s behavior mirrors that of the Italian fascist dictator. She noted that Mussolini was not immediately a dictator, but gradually consolidated power.

    And so forth.

    Get back to me when he suspends habeus corpus, or nationalizes the steel industry. Or burns down Congress.

    • Rhywun

      Top experts on democracy

      lolwut

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I laughed at that one

      • blackjack

        Do we get to vote on who the top experts are, or is that a self appointed position?

    • Grosspatzer

      Or burns down Congress.

      Not a chance. Antifa called dibs on that.

    • Charlie Suet

      “political scientist” – not a thing.
      “Top experts on democracy” – how exactly do you become a top expert in such a thing? What professional ramifications are there for being wrong?

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of the authoritarian shithole which is Trump’s America

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he is lifting all restrictions on businesses statewide that were imposed to control the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. Most significantly, that means restaurants and bars in the state can now operate at full capacity.

    Up to now, restaurants and bars in Florida could serve customers indoors at 50% of legal occupancy. DeSantis said his new executive order lifts that restriction statewide, though local governments can keep additional limits in place if they’re justified for health or economic reasons.

    “Every business has the right to operate,” DeSantis said. “Some of the locals can do reasonable regulations. But you can’t just say no.”

    DeSantis also said his order would stop cities and counties from fining people for not wearing mandated face coverings. He said fines and other penalties imposed so far would be suspended.

    Usurping the authority of public health experts. Letting the animals out of their cages, just so businesses can operate and make money. If that isn’t fascism, what is?

    • Grosspatzer

      So happy to live in NJ where the horrors of free public assembly are not permitted to run amok. I’m certain that Floridians will soon be arriving here in droves to escape their dystopia.

      • l0b0t

        The Pine Barrens make a fine substitute for my beloved pine and palmetto scrubland. Sure, you can’t hunt turkey and you are far more likely to trip over a mob victim in an impromptu cemetery than you are a gator, and the weather is subpar, and NJ has no real beaches (just sandbars infested with Snookis and Situations) but it’s all good in the Garden State. Seriously though, I’ve worked some jobs out in The Oranges and was shocked at how nice NJ can be.

    • Shpip

      Here in Florida Big College Town, the locals are acting like DeSantis just sentenced them all to Death by Plague.

      At least one local eatery has already stated on their FB page that they’ll continue to mandate masks for staff and customers, to general approval (at least of the folks who like the place on Facebook).

      I suspect that the joint is about to learn a lesson in stated vs revealed preferences.

      • l0b0t

        Tallahassee or Gainesville? If Tally, was it Hopkins Eatery? I love their sammiches but if I had to guess a place that would keep on keepin’ on with the fear, it would be them.

      • Shpip

        The one on I-75, not 10.

        FWIW, the joint is Loosey’s downtown.

  13. Fourscore

    So Trump is now The Black Panderer and the movement’s acronym will be BEEP(P)

    Orangeman goes Black and ain’t never comin’ back!

  14. The Late P Brooks

    They should at least wear brown polo shirts

    Governor Kate Brown on Friday declared a weekend state of emergency for Oregon’s biggest city, saying “white supremacist groups” were travelling from out of state to attend an event the Proud Boys say was organized to “end domestic terrorism.”

    The self-declared “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys have publicized the protest on Facebook for weeks, despite the social network’s pledge to block such pages, according to images provided by the Tech Transparency Project seen by Reuters. Facebook said on Friday that it had removed the pages.

    The pro-Trump, pro-gun rights Proud Boys publicly denounce violence, but members wearing trademark black and yellow polo shirts often brawl with left-wing opponents at rallies.

    Portland has become a magnet for right-wing counter protesters following four months of anti-fascist and Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police violence and racism.

    ——-

    The men-only Proud Boys group describes itself as a fraternal organization that is “anti-racism” and “anti-political correctness.”

    Civil rights group The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) classifies the Proud Boys as a hate group, citing its members’ anti-Muslim and misogynist rhetoric.

    That’s all anybody needs to know. Round them all up and charge them with domestic terrorism.

    • EvilSheldon

      Sheesh. Thinking that western secular liberalism is a superior culture? I’d consider that view to be only very slightly outside the political mainstream…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Unless you’re self-loathing, you’re racist.

      • EvilSheldon

        Damn, that’s pretty much it, in one sentence. T-shirt material?

      • Tejicano

        How about I loathe everybody equally?

    • Suthenboy

      Does the SPLC list anyone that is a real no-shit hate group?
      I am beginning to think they only have two stamps: COMMIE and NOT COMMIE

      • prolefeed

        The biggest SPLC category of “hate groups” is “black separatists”. Seriously. My wife gets their newsletter.

      • Not an Economist

        Well, they are not willing to meekly take their well deserved beatings so yes, they are a hate group.

        /sarc

  15. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    And happy birthday to the Wonder Dog!

    I’m a little surprised Trump didn’t nominate the Cuban chick. But maybe he just couldn’t devote the time to the vetting process, what with creating the Platinum Plan and all.

    That video is waaaaaay better with the sound muted. The GSDs being terrorized by the little lab is hilarious!

    I hope all y’all have a wonderful day. Kind of overcast and gloomy here today, but no snow!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m laughing hysterically at the “Platinum Plan”.

      That is underbody coating level marketing.

      • Tundra

        This is why he presents such problems for the Establishment. The guy has zero shame. He’s fucking proud of his Platinum Plan and he knows it will sell.

    • Gender Traitor

      I’m a little surprised Trump didn’t nominate the Cuban chick.

      Could she be a Plan B, if the Dems somehow manage to drive Barrett to withdraw or somehow get the votes to deny her confirmation? Once, they might manage, but twice?

      • LCDR_Fish

        Of course adoption (esp trans-racial adoption) is evil and all kids would be better off in 3rd world orphanages or the foster care system.

      • Tundra

        Sure, maybe. The donks hate Barrett, so maybe it’s the old rope-a-dope.

        At the end of the day, they will get one of these chicks and we can get on with cataloging our diminishing liberties. 😉

  16. westernsloper

    Happy birthday Wonder Dog!

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Worser than slavery

    Terri Prunty Kay has worked as a cashier at Walmart in Sonoma county, California since 2011. She had never cried at work because of treatment from customers before the pandemic.

    “It’s been a nightmare,” she said. “The first three months there were item limits. Everyone was angry and combative. Now it’s the masks.”

    Prunty Kay has asthma and wears a mask at work, but not all customers follow the mask policy. The heat in the store and through the summer has made it unbearable to work and she said her store is understaffed with long lines at the registers.

    “It’s exhausting, mentally, emotionally and physically,” she added.

    Punty Kay is just one of the millions of essential jobs around the US reporting burnout, fatigue, stress and anxiety while continuing to work through Covid-19.

    ——-
    \
    In interviews with the Guardian, essential workers reported burnout caused by increased workloads, understaffing, stress associated with fears over coronavirus and struggles in enforcing social distancing and safety protocols.

    Jennifer Sims, an advocate and housing coordinator for a domestic violence nonprofit in Pendleton, Oregon, has been dealing with a 30% increase in calls during the pandemic. At the same time coronavirus safety protocols have halted transportation of clients and the ability to respond to sexual assault victims at local hospitals. The pandemic has also made it increasingly difficult to help victims find housing and its attendant recession has left many concerned with how they will afford rent.

    I blame Trump.

    • Grumbletarian

      If Trump had listened to the EKSPERTZ the virus would have shriveled up in terror and died away. 200 million lives would have been saved!

    • Tulip

      They are so afraid, they won’t hep rape victims. Fuck them

      • Tulip

        Help

  18. The Late P Brooks

    At Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, a worker for a contractor in the food service halls on the military base said many of the marines on base have not taken the coronavirus seriously, including not wearing masks or social distancing, and management has increased pressure for staff to keep up with workloads among staff shortages. They requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.

    Oh

    my

    GOD!

    • l0b0t

      …keep up with workloads among staff shortages.

      WTF?!? Do they no longer have KP duty? My 1st Sgt. was always happy to dragoon a few sadsacks to spend the day cracking eggs, peeling potatoes, and washing giant stock pots.

      • Tulip

        Nope, and they no longer use soldiers to mow or any of that. Much cheaper to contract than use military for that stuff.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Which is hard to understand since we always had plenty of “extra duty” folks to mow or wax. Etc

        When I got back from Iraq in 06, the food contractors were replaced by active duty folks- shorter hours, crappies food and service.

        Good to see at my current command all the junior holdovers are being put to good use weeding, painting, etc while waiting to class up or transfer.

    • Gender Traitor

      many of the marines on base have not taken the coronavirus seriously

      Because we want Marines who are terrified of a variation on a common cold virus that’s rarely serious for those without comorbidities, which Marines shouldn’t have anyway.

      • prolefeed

        I’m thinking people who’ll voluntarily go into war zones and get shot at have a different risk assessment criteria than civilians.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    The realtor who was supposed to call me back Thursday afternoon still hasn’t called. Stuff like that really pisses me off.

    • l0b0t

      Ugh… so unprofessional, and so enraging to the customer. One would think a position like realtor depends a great deal upon reputation and word of mouth from satisfied clients.

      • Tundra

        It’s an epidemic of bad service lately. I referred a contractor to a friend and the fucking guy ghosted him. I myself called four companies (referred by my irrigation guy) to inquire about some landscaping work. Three never returned my call, one guy came out and I never saw a fucking bid.

        Sack up and say no, fuckers.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        No,

      • Fourscore

        Same-same with the concrete guys I was looking at, 1 return call (too busy) , another asked for pictures (which I sent) and 4-5 dismissed me apparently.

        Need to start looking around Xmas time, unless they’re all in FL.

  20. Gender Traitor

    Yo! Happy Birthday, Dub-dog!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    White supremacist does white supremacist stuff, gets what white supremacist deserves

    A white supremacist was killed in a shootout with deputies in Templeton, California, according to a San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Office news release Friday.
    The shooting took place Thursday morning when deputies at first tried to conduct a traffic stop on Christopher Michael Straub, 38, near a cemetery. Straub got out of his vehicle and ran through the vineyards of the cemetery, the release said.

    ——-

    Authorities searched Straub’s residence, where they discovered he was illegally manufacturing weapons parts.
    “Straub was a wanted felon and it is illegal for felons to possess any weapons,” the sheriff’s office said.
    The sheriff’s office said Straub was a known member of a white supremacist gang and the Sheriff’s Gang Task Force was already conducting an investigation before Thursday’s shooting.

    Straub “had a significant criminal history having been booked 28 times into jails all across California including two incarcerations in state prison,” the sheriff’s office said in the release.

    Did we mention he’s a white supremacist?

    • Tres Cool

      “Straub got out of his vehicle and ran through the vineyards of the cemetery, the release said.”

      Their cemeteries have vineyards? Pretty posh.

      • BakedPenguin

        Gives a new meaning to “dead drunk”

  22. Suthenboy

    NYT won’t let me see the article. I got as far as “…kick off a furious and unprecedented…something confirmation”, which is complete bullshit. There are many precedents, one justice even confirmed on the same day he was nominated.

    I think there was a movie about some dope growers in that region and in the end all of the dope burned up.
    Oh wait, it always does, doesn’t it?

    These police shootings have become so highly politicized that I am abstaining from making a call on them unless I am there. and see it in person.

    Harris…it is really hard to make a call on ‘worst pol’ but if she isn’t she would be in the running.

    Pander away Donnie Two Scoops. If they buy it it will be the second time they have been freed, only this time they will be freeing themselves.

    • Tejicano

      To somewhat paraphrase from No Country for Old Men : “If Harris isn’t the worst pol ever she’ll do until the worst one gets here”

  23. EvilSheldon

    Good morning, Gliberati!

    It is still morning, right?

    So I am right this minute, being sorely tempted by pure, unadulterated gun lust. The only thing stopping me, is the sad fact that my local range only goes out to 300 yards, and is paper-only. Shooting a 6.5 Creedmoor at 300 yards is like jerking off before sex.

    Hmm. So maybe a backup Glock 17? Something to think on…

    • Sean

      Follow through on the fantasy. What would you put on it for optics and a mount?

      • Sean

        Mount=rings

      • EvilSheldon

        There are so many good options. But probably a Kahles K525i in a Spuhr mount.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Fighting words

    Tamika Mallory, the co-founder of the Women’s March, has harshly criticized Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, comparing him to ‘sell-out N**roes’ who participated in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

    Mallory spoke at a press conference in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday, where she blasted Cameron over a grand jury’s decision not to directly charge officers in Breonna Taylor’s killing.

    ‘Daniel Cameron is no different than the sell-out N**roes that sold our people into slavery and helped white men capture our people to abuse them and to traffic them,’ she said. ‘That is who you are Daniel Cameron.

    So what she’s saying is she is she doesn’t consider him authentically black?

    Also- “N**roes”?

    Seriously?

    • Tundra

      I heard this lovely phrase in regard to him:

      “He’s skin-folk, but not kin-folk.”

      The people are beyond parody.

    • prolefeed

      Technically, the Africans who sold other Africans into slavery were all too authentically black. It’s not like she made some over the top assertion that his actions made him white.

    • Ted S.

      She actually says “enstarstarroes”.

    • Suthenboy

      Uh….I dont think whites actually captured any blacks. Whites just bought from the Tuaregs and various Arabic and Turkish people.

      In the end this kind of caustic hyperbole is not going to have the effect intended.

    • Suthenboy

      Being black or being a negro is inherently bad so you aren’t allowed to point it out.

      If only such lack of self awareness were excruciatingly painful.

  25. prolefeed

    Dunno about prosecuting members of Antifa who commit acts of violence as members of a terrorist organization is “pandering”. Assuming that’s what that part of Trump’s proposal is really about.

    The Black Platinum Plan, sure.

  26. Tulip

    Happy birthday to wonder dog

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Virtual Literal idiocy

    The family of a boy suspended from school for having an unloaded BB gun in the background of his at-home video feed called the situation an “injustice.”

    Nine-year-old Ka Mauri Harrison was taking a test virtually when he saw his teacher rush to get his attention after she spotted the BB gun in his room, a New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU reported.

    Ka Mauri’s parents chose to start the school year off remotely, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

    The incident resulted in the fourth grader being expelled from his school. However, his punishment was reduced to a suspension this week.

    Harrison’s family called the punishment a mistake, adding that it threatens their son’s academic future.

    “This is an injustice. It’s a systemic failure,” Chelsea Cusimano, the family’s attorney, told The Washington Post on Friday. “They’re applying on-campus rules to these children, even though they’re learning virtually in their own homes.”

    The boy’s father, Nyron Harrison said, “They are treating it as if he brought a weapon to school,” according to The New Orleans Advocate. “They told me he would be facing expulsion.”

    Good grief.

    Let’s just kill all the degreed educators.

    • Urthona

      I actually started my life of crime after seeing some kid’s bb gun.

      True story.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      The NRA should be bankrolling personal civil suits against the teacher, principal, vice principal, superintendent as well as the school itself in every single one of the instances. The only way to get this nonsense to stop is to make the process as painful as possible.

  28. westernsloper

    After the Gov here killed the economy based on bullshit we now have a Reboot the economy campaign. Lacking in the website is where it is getting it’s funding. I have long thought these sorts of things are funded by taxpayers and the money goes to well connected people to talk about fixing what the Government has fucked up. In this case we are supposed to buy beer and coffee from local businesses. Well, the ones still in business anyways.

  29. But Enough About My Weird Culinary Fantasies

    Happy Birthday, Wonder Dog!

    (It was my pup’s fifth birthday a few days ago . . . )

  30. The Late P Brooks

    I’m thinking people who’ll voluntarily go into war zones and get shot at have a different risk assessment criteria than civilians.

    Maybe they’re so busy doing Marine stuff they don’t have time to watch CNN and MSNBC to find out how much real danger they’re in from the WuFlu.

    • Urthona

      “Stupid bastards”

    • Tejicano

      I can’t say how much the Marines might have changed in some ways from my time in the Corps, but I would wager a hefty sum that there are a number who think like me and, if living in a “mask required” area, when asked why they aren’t wearing a mask would reply “Oh, I’m wearing a mask. Do you want to see it?” – as they unbuckle their belt and begin to unzip…

  31. Fourscore

    Sure,it always starts like that. First its bb guns in the background, then it goes to assault rifles/ pistols and hand grenades in lunch boxes at school, being sold or traded for lunch money. The same story of mass murderers world wide. Nip it, nip it, only thing to do.

    /Seen on a crime show, Mayberry RFD

    • kinnath

      I knew exactly what that was.

  32. Urthona

    Although I’m sure Barrett is better than Ginsburg, how actually is she for libertarians?

    • kinnath

      As good as any conservative.

    • Suthenboy

      We are never going to get allodial title. The best we can hope for is to avoid empowering people for whom fear, poverty, dependency, rampant crime and the rule of man are considered excellent tools rather than scourges to be avoided.
      She is the best we are going to get.

    • The Last American Hero

      Mark my words, the smear campaign will be focused more on those around her than the judge herself. She will be accused of having racist friends or mentors and a rapist husband.

      • Agent Cooper

        They are attacking her adoption of differently-colored kids.

    • Gazunga B.

      TOS has a couple positive articles on her relating to 2A and qualified immunity.

      I’ve heard some other folks say she’d be a second Roberts, generally deferring to government. She had a recent decision generally upholding Illinois’ lockdown measures, so that sucks.

      Lagoa seemed to be the preferred pick amongst the libertarians I heard discussing it. She was compared a bit to Gorsuch.

  33. Gustave Lytton

    White supremacists continue to be the biggest threat, not the criminals violently rioting for the past three months. Also thrown in smears and allegations about vigilantes (while ignoring the many arrests for looting and other criminal activity in evacuation areas). Oh, and the reporter is one on the Antifa friendly google spreadsheet highlighted by Nancy Rommelmann.

    https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/09/fed-intelligence-sent-to-oregon-and-portland-indicates-right-wing-extremists-pose-biggest-lethal-threat.html

    • Urthona

      Isn’t that the place where an Antifa member must literally murderer someone?

      • Urthona

        *just murdered someone

    • Sean

      ????

    • l0b0t

      LOL… The redhead (2 squares below Cole) knows the score.

      • Suthenboy

        Sadly, she seems to be the only one.

    • Tejicano

      That’s rich. And it gives me hope for the future. I have to expect that there are a significant number like him who know the score and, if not willing to run up and drop a steaming pile on the doorstop of some woke school administration, at least know how full-of-shyte this SJW escapade is.

    • Suthenboy

      A movie every child should be required to see.

  34. Sean

    Another day, another lid.

    Poor Joe.

  35. Homple

    IIt’s George Gershwin’s birthday.

      • l0b0t

        I can’t even with her split ends. Trim a wee bit and use the cream-rinse.

    • Gender Traitor

      Perfect excuse to post my favorite, sung by George’s Aunt Rosie.

      • l0b0t

        Her tremelo makes me melt.

  36. KibbledKristen

    Bidding farewell to SD & freedom. Sigh.

  37. Ozymandias

    Re: Trump’s Pandering Platinum Plan

    Of course he’s pandering. THAT’S what democrats d-… wait- wha- Trump is a Republican now?
    Oh. Huh.
    We’re getting Bill Clinton-lite, with Trump being more open to using the word “God” in public, occasionally. Or we can have the kiddie-toucher with dementia and his Marxist authoritarian Veep who slept her way to the top of the ticket after being unable to win a single electoral vote.

    This puts me in mind of the joke I used to throw at my hardcore conservative friends after Obama got elected: “I’ll bet you never thought you’d see the day that you’d suck a dick to have Bill Clinton back in office, eh?” That’s right out of my bestseller, “How to Win Friends and Start Bar Fights.”

    • Tejicano

      OOh-fcuking-rah.

      “I’ll bet you never thought you’d see the day that you’d suck a dick to have Bill Clinton back in office, eh?”

      Only a Marine would say something like that…

  38. zwak

    So, where did you get the picture of Nikole Hanna-Jones?