Saturday evening, the day after links!

by | Dec 26, 2020 | Daily Links | 191 comments

Rough night with the Christmas catnip.

 

I hope everyone had a good day, whether you celebrated the occasion, or not. I am currently celebrating the last day of my Sister In Laws visit.

 

Merry effing Christmas!

 

Nothing to see here.

 

How is it Georgia is threatening to go blue in two weeks?

 

We wish you a Merry..BOOM!

 

Something a little jaunty today.

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191 Comments

  1. Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

    Black Christmas,

    • Ted S.

      I gave you my heart,

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        and it was tasty! thanks!

      • Mojeaux

        Did you scroll down that tweet stream? Good gravy.

    • Count Potato

      Margot Kidder?

      would

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Would not. She even had nekkid pictures in Playboy and it was, like, eww.

      • Chafed

        It’s time for a trip to the optometrist BH.

      • Festus

        Yep. She resembled my Ex.

      • Festus

        “Thsput! Thsput! Now I understand where Bill The Cat’s dialogue originated. She was smoking hot and it was the 70’s.

      • rhywun

        Tragic life. I couldn’t imagine all that drama.

  2. hayeksplosives

    How is it Georgia is threatening to go blue in two weeks?

    I will give you one guess.

    Hint: 2-3 million GA voters have already cast mail in ballots.

    As is tradition..:

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      If you extend Fulton county into Jacksonville you tend to do better. See all of the residents of Lake Michigan that voted Kennedy in 1960 for reference.

    • mrfamous

      This mail-in balloting stuff isn’t going to stop. Once the foot is in the door, you have to chop the foot off to get the door to close again. Republicans will eventually join in (to the extent they haven’t already) and you’ll wind up with even more ridiculous incumbency rates than we currently have.

      Folks will notice the two parties competing with one another to conjure up as many fraudulent votes as possible, further disincentivizng, you know, actual voters from voting. Soviet elections, American style.

      • hayeksplosives

        The UN should come oversee our elections.

        They don’t have a political agenda, do they?

        Bwahaahahahaha!

  3. dbleagle

    While I would love to see the existing gun laws rolled back I am expecting many a pre-Harris administration executive orders trying to gut the 2A. Penaltax Roberts will vote with the blue wing of the Supremes, will the Thomas wing stand for the 2A?

    • hayeksplosives

      The Thomas wing will, but I don’t know about the new chick. Will she feel political pressure to show she’s “independent”, or will she cave?

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        She according to most accounts, is as much of an originalist as is possible with the current convoluted jurisprudence will allow. I am considerably more worried about Kavenagh. His record indicates that he is far more of a Roberts-lite squish than Barret.

      • Gustave Lytton

        “I still like statism”

      • Lachowsky

        Kavanaugh was one of the principal authors of the patriot.

        Everytime a TSA employee gropes you, you can thank him and his ilk.

      • Homple

        My impression of Kavenaugh that he is the eternal frat boy who looks on his confirmation hearings as a rough hazing party that admitted him to the world’s most exclusive house. He’s one of them now, and will follow the post-FDR traditions.

    • DEG

      Roberts will flip his vote to eviscerate any opinion overturning gun control laws.

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      2, 9 & 19. Nineteen looks like she wants you to completely defile her.

      • Q Continuum

        TBF I would defile any and all of them.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        I agree, but I was just gauging the level of enthusiasm in said defilement.

      • Bobarian LMD

        TBF, who you would defile is probably a low bar.

        But there are no wrong answers in this bunch.

    • DEG

      Face diaper. Fuck. Done. Garbage.

      • rhywun

        I rarely click a titslink – go figure – but I am curious what’s going on in the head of the masked-up gals. Maybe they are severely overestimating the number of people into that…?

      • DEG

        I don’t know.

        It’s as close to a complete turn-off for me as can be. The only possible exceptions are for women that have to wear them as part of work (i.e. bar staff, gym staff).

      • Chafed

        I’m guessing they think it adds an air of mystery.

        I have the same question about ladies with significant amounts of ink. Look at 12 in this spread. An otherwise gorgeous woman with a self-inflicted wound.

      • DEG

        Or maybe virtue signalling.

      • Chafed

        A definite possibility.

      • rhywun

        I’m guessing they think it adds an air of mystery.

        Was it a Niven universe where the ladies wore masks but kept their tits bare because exposing the face had become taboo?

        I did look at this batch and yes, #12 is something else – esp. if the twins are real (if not, it’s a good job).

        I didn’t go past #13, who seems ideal to me. If I was into chicks, I’d be into that chick.

      • Chafed

        Can you lose your gay card for having good taste in women?

      • rhywun

        Nah. Good taste is prized.

      • Nephilium

        If the ink is well done, it can be additive. Unfortunately, it’s really easy to get a lot of poorly done ink.

    • J. Frank Parnell

      I like the first three.

      • Tejicano

        …and you had to wash up after that point.

      • Festus

        Lemon juice.

    • But Enough About My "Essential Retiree" Status

      Yikes. Imagine having a Hot Toddy at the bar and then having that roll in on you.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Good thing indoor dining was not allowed. Thank you, governor of whatever state that’s in.

      • Ted S.

        New York.

        Catskill Mountains.

      • C. Anacreon

        Dogs ruin carpets, but Catskill Mountains.

      • Chafed

        Boo! Boo! I say boo, sir.

    • pan fried wylie

      Matt Spillane
      Times Herald-Record

    • OBJ FRANKELSON

      Global cooling/warming/change/Gaia hates humans!

    • Sensei

      LOL.

    • straffinrun

      上級国民 was my slave name.

      • Sensei

        Top. Man.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Are there koreisha stickers on your mamachari?

  4. Nephilium

    It is a Saturday, although it’s the day after Christmas, I’ll still set up and run the Zoom/Happy Hour/storytelling lecture starting at 20:00 Eastern.

    • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

      Maybe I won’t drain my battery tonight,

      • R C Dean

        Euphemism CONFIRMED.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Toobin confirmed.

      • Yusef Escaped the AZCA Corridor!

        Hey now, no Toobin, that’s gross,

    • Tulip

      Thanks Neph!

  5. R C Dean

    “How is it Georgia is threatening to go blue in two weeks?”

    They done went blue once this year. Why not?

    • TARDis

      The hell we did!

      *Stomps off*

    • prolefeed

      If you’ve ever strolled around Atlanta, and considered that African-Americans currently vote 90%+ Democratic, GA going lite purple isn’t that much of a stretch.

      After factoring in massive fraud, of course.

      • Chafed

        I think metro Atlanta is majority Black/African-American/POC/whatevertherighttermistoday. I don’t think fraud is needed to make the state purple.

  6. Lachowsky

    Not only did Clyde win his civil asset forfeiture case against the IRS, but he got Congress to pass a law last year so the IRS could never do it again.

    “That entire ordeal really showed me that one person who is persistent and tenacious and just doesn’t give up can actually make a difference,” Clyde, 57, told Fox News in an interview.

    We need 350 million clydes…

    • hayeksplosives

      Unfortunately I just saw a clip of Prez Elect Joe saying that 167 million Americans have died of COVID-19, so we probably won’t be able to find 350 million Clydes.

      • Francisco d'Anconia

        I’m assuming the media ran with this as they did with Obama’s 57 states…

      • Chafed

        Obama wouldn’t lie and he was never wrong. Just ask him.

  7. Lachowsky

    was graded as the top running back in the Pac-12 by Pro Football Focus.

    So, like 50th overall.

    • egould310

      Pretty much.

      • egould310

        Not to minimize the tragic death of the young man. RIP.

  8. blackjack

    As a Steppenwolf fan, I woulda went with this one.

    When I started junior high school, I got busted for weed. They confiscated it and in the bag was my two tickets to see Steppenwolf and Iron Butterfly at the Oxnard civic auditorium. They gave me an IQ test and decided that I should be in High school and kicked me out of school. The next year, I started at Hueneme high school. Never got to see Steppenwolf or Iron Butterfly. In the course of resolving the case, I saw my bag of stuff. Damn, I was pissed! Partly, it was because I was dating the principal’s daughter. He wanted me out of that school bad. I was the youngest kid in 10th grade, at 14.

    • Sensei

      On the plus side Iron Butterfly only has one song. On the other hand I would like to have seen Steppenwolf.

      • C. Anacreon

        Don’t step in dog shit, Steppenwolf.

      • DEG

        Iron Butterfly has more than one song.

      • Sensei

        I kid, I kid.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        IGdV wasn’t even their best album.

        Iron Butterfly were the headliners on the very first concert I ever went to, ca. 1968.

        Saw Steppenwolf at least twice. In the middle of Monster the lead guitarist broke a string. So they stopped the whole show while he replaced the string and re-tuned. Then they started again where they had left off.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        On the plus side Iron Butterfly only has one song.

        Right, but it’s like 3 hours long.

  9. rhywun

    If you’re German, do yourself a favor and don’t turn on the World Juniors Hockey tournament.

  10. hayeksplosives

    One of my FB friends just wrote on her timeline;

    HIM: Your Single? Why?

    ME: You’re*

    • straffinrun

      He was being a little possessive.

    • Sensei

      Perhaps he didn’t like her chart topping song?

    • Tres Cool

      So you have Ted’s on your FB ?

      • hayeksplosives

        Nope. He’s too much of a pedant.

        Jk

        I am FB friends with only 1 of the lot of ya, and that person is one of the MLW.

      • Mojeaux

        ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

      • Ted S.

        Hateful.®

        This is why you’re not my friend on antisocial networking.

        OK, seriously, I don’t do Facebook, so I can’t have any of you as my friend there.

    • C. Anacreon

      Always amusing when woke white women believe they are also part of the oppressed minorities.
      I don’t think they’ll find the world they want to create is going to be particularly favorable towards them.
      “Wait, we’re on your side!” *smash*

      • Chafed

        She’s the only one who doesn’t see it coming.

    • Fourscore

      Well, she is a doctor…

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        a PhD in what?

    • Count Potato

      Well, her name has those dots above a vowel, so she is obviously some kind of nazi.

      • rhywun

        Fun fact: Russian (well, for learners) has an ë. German does not.

      • Chafed

        Or a Mötley Crüe groupie.

    • rhywun

      It’s a cost worth paying.

      I’m not diving into that world of derp to find out why, but I am curious if she has some sort of figure in her head of the number of corpses she’s willing to accept in pursuit of… whatever that is.

      • Sensei

        Remember when the internet was going to bring humanity closer together?

      • mrfamous

        It’s performance art. She really wants to run some crazy-ass woke shit up the flagpole a couple times a week to let everyone know she’s one of them. In-group/out-group bullshit that perpetual adolescents like to obsess over. To be as old as she is and to not have grown up very much is kinda sad. I’m hardly one to talk but at least I know I’m a lot more mature than I was 10 years ago, much less 20.

        I mean if it makes her happy, well okay then. But I doubt it does.

    • Sensei

      Well Asian men… Not sure about gaijin men however.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Leaving aside how lyingly false her claim is, her solution to wrongs is to wrong others. Obviously the correct response to the Holocaust would have been to keep the death camps running after the war and just send ordinary Germans to them.

      • rhywun

        Obvious JP tearing it up.

    • hayeksplosives

      Oh my.

      I don’t have Instagram. I didn’t know it was Zuckerberg owned either, so I imagine FB has some pretty heinous terms too.

      Funny video though.

  11. DEG

    According to a news release shared with Fox News, Kevin won the jackpot from an International Game Technology Megabucks slot machine Thursday afternoon around 12:30 p.m. He reportedly put only $40 into the machine before his monumental win.

    And he won $15.5 million? Wow.

    He campaigned on the “complete elimination” of the background check system established by the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.

    I’m going out on a limb here. This will go nowhere.

    • LJW

      A while back I talked to a guy who managed security for a casino. He said it’s a regular occurrence that someone shits themselves playing slots because they refuse to get up from a machine they think is gonna get hot. I guess the $15.5 million winner had a good excuse to shit his pants.

      • Urthona

        I was actually at a blackjack table where an Asian dude next to me had clearly shit his pants. He was like in a stupor just burning through money.

        had to get up and leave.

        Anyway I currently design video slot games for a living. I hope everyone realizes they do not get hot or cold. They are random.

      • Ted S.

        Pseudorandom, not random.

      • Urthona

        Disagree.

      • Ted S.

        I’m not saying the machines are designed to be hot or cold, but that whatever method the machines use to obtain “random” numbers isn’t *truly* random.

      • Urthona

        That’s a popular take, but I’m on the other side on it.

        I think the word ‘random’ in general use simply means ‘unpredictable’.

        The whole “computers can’t generate a truly random number” is philosophical nonsense

        I mean I suppose if you want to get into it, I could modify it to “random from the player’s perspective 100% of the time”.

        Perhaps nothing in the universe is ‘truly’ random anyway, but it is to you.

      • Chafed

        Put the smack down on him Urthona.

      • Urthona

        Heh

      • Chafed

        What is casino etiquette when the person next to you has crapped their pants?

      • Urthona

        They did nothing. There was a dealer too and she did nothing. Disturbing.

      • Chafed

        *barf*. I hope the cost of clean up made it worthwhile.

      • Ted S.

        It depends on whether that’s your kink.

      • Francisco d'Anconia

        Are you allowed to play your own machines?

      • Urthona

        In most configurations, the outcomes are driven by a server. Even when you play a “mechanical” slot it’s just secretly a PC in there and the math is driven from a central location.

        So it would not be possible to cheat in a traditional way.

      • Francisco d'Anconia

        *sigh*

      • Urthona

        In a few client driven locations, it would be possible. It would have to be something like the Superman III/Office Space scam. I couldn’t walk out with a jackpot and not be scrutinized.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        the outcomes are driven by a server

        Several years ago a guy won a million dollar jackpot at one of the Indian casinos here. The casino told him, “nope, it was a mistake. It was supposed to be a month-long campaign and this win was too soon.” He took them to court but, since it was a tribal court, of course he lost.

        Seems to me to be fraud on several levels. But it’s their game, their rules.

        I used to occasionally play the mechanical slots. With everything mechanical there is always the chance of a minor imperfection, perhaps a slightly winning edge. Then they went electronic and network I walked away for good.

      • Urthona

        Well, every game we put a disclaimer on that reads “malfunction voids all pays and plays”. It doesn’t always work and there are legal challenges, but yes they can have bugs that show the player too high of a reward.

        On the server, they will know what it was supposed to reward.

        That’s a my side thing. I do the games. And it has happened to me.

        But the “jackpot paid too soon” thing sounds like horseshit. It can go any time. In the LONG RUN it will benefit the casino, but it takes millions of plays to overcome standard deviation.

        We have this problem all the time where are games go in, someone wins big, and the casino operator has a panic attack. Yes the player can totally win. That’s what makes it fun. Doesn’t mean they’re broken.

      • Urthona

        One of my first rookie mistakes was I built an “attract” mode that showed the game play and simulated a big win to players walking by to show them the game play.

        Scammers would snap this with their phone, then play a bit, then went over and claimed they had this big win to the operators that the game didn’t properly pay. The none too bright operators would pay them out sometimes. This kept happening until I got some of these logs and screenshots sent over to me and finally figured it out.

        I learned to put the words “DEMO” or “Attract’’ prominently on the screen after that.

  12. Tres Cool

    I’m off to work, kids. Keep an eye on things while Im gone; keep a lid on things.

    /faces Zoom call, salutes, shakes ass @ KK

  13. hayeksplosives

    Raiders are starting to unravel…

    It’s still 13-13, but I think the Dolphins just put on their capes.

    • rhywun

      As a Bills fan, I have to root against the Dolphins even if it means rooting for the WhereAreTheyNow Raiders.

      • Nephilium

        I know the feeling. If the Browns win tomorrow, and the Colts lose, the Browns get a playoff game. But there’s no way that I can root for the Stillers.

        And we lost all of our wide receivers for the Jets game due to ‘vid exposure…

      • pistoffnick

        Also can’t root for Big Ben Rape-this-burger.

      • hayeksplosives

        Derek Carr is a good egg.

        But, yeah the Raiders is kind of the NFL clearlnghouse.

      • hayeksplosives

        Whoah.

        The fins put Ryan Nexkbeard in.

      • rhywun

        OFFS.

      • hayeksplosives

        So painful to watch.

        Gruden is going to burst an aneurysm in his brain.

    • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

      Every time the Raiders lose this Oakland native gets a time up his leg. Screw Al Davis and his idiot son.

      • Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)

        Tingle, not time.

      • Chafed

        You’re just jealous of his haircut.

    • rhywun

      LOL she is a piece of work.

      • hayeksplosives

        So much to have to keep track of when lying blatantly!

        Who am I kidding? The gaining media will never press her for details.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Fawning media”

      • LJW

        The same people who have been screaming about Trump’s lies will be silent about hers.

      • slumbrew

        That’s different because shut up.

      • Chafed

        I half hope she takes over for Biden. Her incompetence is so obvious it can’t be hidden. She can’t lie without doing it badly. It would be be something to behold.

      • MikeS

        But beholding it would require an honest media.

      • Chafed

        She is so bad, so obvious, and so insincere that it won’t take the MSM to point it out. I agree they are in the tank for Team Blue. The common folk know when a bald lie is being told. See if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.

        P.S. There is a footnote to tomorrow’s GlibFit for you.

      • rhywun

        I guess it’s possible; maybe she’s a red diaper baby?

      • Chafed

        I don’t think so. Her father called her out for lying during the Democrat primary. She appears to be a remorseless liar because it’s convenient.

      • rhywun

        Her father called her out for lying during the Democrat primary.

        ? Wow.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Just like her childhood of oppression growing up in wealthy neighborhoods in Oakland and Canada.

      • rhywun

        In her memoir, “The Truths We Hold,” Harris wrote that the lesson “it was service to others that gave life purpose and meaning” that she inherited from her mother came from her grandmother Rajam, who had not completed high school but was a fiery protector of victims of domestic abuse.

        I can’t even with any of that.

      • Chafed

        Service = screwing Willie Brown.

      • C. Anacreon

        I asked my wife, who watches network national news every night (I don’t, which prevents our TV from getting smashed in anger), if they mentioned anything about Kamala and Kwanzaa. “Oh yes, they were very positive about her sharing family Kwanzaa memories in a tweet to the world.”

        And so while many of us know otherwise, the corporate media has defined it as truthful, multicultural, and so much better than anything OMB.

        Get ready for at least four years, if not eight or more, of being told what is true, don’t believe your lying eyes.

  14. Q Continuum

    Esther Perel is a plastic surgery gone wrong cautionary tale.

  15. hayeksplosives

    We all know the left co-opts words and redefines them all the time.

    I am trying to grasp the strategic importance of the word “access.”

    The activists talk about making sure everyone has “access” to healthcare, education etc.

    Since there are no longer actual bans in people due to race, religion, etc, I’m pretty sure access doesn’t just mean “it’s not banned.”

    I suspect that access means regardless of income level. In other words, I want not only to be able to apply to Harvard, I want someone else to pick up the tab.

    Access to birth control = free birth control.

    Am I crazy or is this an emerging pattern?

    • Chafed

      That’s exactly right.

    • rhywun

      You’re not crazy; “access” was redefined to “free” years ago. At least a decade.

    • LJW

      I think they redefine words for 2 reasons.

      1. To evoke emotion
      2. It’s a preemptive defense. Instead of having to argue about universal health care. They can come at you with “why don’t you want people to have access to healthcare?”

      • limey

        And it’s demoralizing to anyone attempting to argue otherwise. Their words can be constantly undermined by revisionist redefinition.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      You’re correct.

      The combination of this practice with the refusal to debate in good faith and use sloganeering and ad hominems instead has gutted any chance at actual compromise.

      Just look at what has happened to college debate. It’s not about trying to convince anyone anymore, it’s about obtaining their acquiescence by any means.

      • Festus

        So yelling fast is debate now? Supercaleallodocios! Or something. Fucking joke.

  16. slumbrew

    Just caught the end of the Dolphins/Raiders. Bananas.

    • slumbrew

      I think Steve Smith (NFL, not Cascadia) is drunk.

      • Chafed

        I have watched very little football this season. It’s been so insane, being drunk is the rational way to watch it.

      • rhywun

        being drunk is the rational way to watch it

        On it.

      • slumbrew

        Same same. Fit in an hour on the rowing machine, but drunk.

      • slumbrew

        Drunk *now*, not while rowing, TBC.

      • MikeS

        I can get on board with all of that. Except the watching the NFL part.

      • Chafed

        It helps to be blackout drunk.

      • slumbrew

        Tonight’s game was, indeed, insane.

        Smith is getting paid for his “commentary” but I don’t think being drunk is holding him back much.

  17. DenverJ

    I’ve been playing the computer at chess since I downloaded the app that people here were playing. Man had I gotten slack. Hadn’t played in decades, and the beginner level AI whooped me. I am now beating the intermediate AI about %40 of games. Gimme another week.

  18. Festus

    Only had to deal with one site last night. Ran through it in record time because I didn’t want to deal with anyone’s small talk. A task that usually takes about 3-1/2 hours was knocked down in two. I thought that I’d be lucky to done by 11 but I was finished by 10:15. Feeling it now, though.

  19. l0b0t

    Good morning all. Also, HUZZAH for (perhaps) the longest Zoomie yet. I bowed out at 6:30 but Baked Penguin and Straffinrun were still going strong. Thanks for doing these Neph.

    • Festus

      Yikes! If only I had known! We could have had FOUR ugly white guys with questionable facial hair interacting at the same time… Straff because he seems incapable of growing any facial hair at all, the rest of us for obvious reasons.

      • straffinrun

        Step in for second, Festus.

      • Festus

        You are my friend, Straff. I’m glad to have met you over these inter-webs. Happy Holidays!

  20. Tres Cool

    ‘sup ya’all

    • Trigger Hippie

      Hard-ons and helicopters

      • Festus

        Turkey and gravy. Hard-ons will have to wait.

      • Tres Cool

        …he’s fresh out of helicopters