Thursday Morning Sloopy Birthday Links

by | Aug 5, 2021 | Daily Links | 516 comments

Good morning My Glibs and Gliberinas and what an absolutely fantastic day it is as today’s is my Sloopy’s Birthday! He shares his birthday with the greatest of all time Neil Armstrong, actress Maureen McCormick, and musician Adam Yauch.

 

GOAT

 

Can this guy be an even bigger piece of shit?

 

Two Texas Texas House Democrats who abscond to DC are now vacationing in Portugal.

 

I’m sure the Fed’s answer to this will be to print even more.

 

The IRS seized $1.2 billion in crypto this fiscal year.

CUNT

 

Pandemic theatre.

 

Jennifer Aniston’s friends no longer have to put up with her.

 

I don’t think the Olympics tanking is a reflection of the politics as much as it is cord-cutting.

 

That’s all I got for today.  I’ll leave you with a party song and go get Sloopy a birthday cake.

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Banjos

Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

516 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    BROCHETTA IS WEAK JABRONI
    I WILL HUMBLE HIM!

    ‘suh, Banjos

    • Count Potato

      You know, wrestling pigs into the abyss and all that.

      • OBJ FRANKELSON

        You become the shit?

      • Agent Cooper

        That car is shit = that car is terrible and sucks
        That car is the shit = that car is the best and awesome

      • ignoreLander

        A long way to go, but relevant?

  2. AlexinCT

    HAPPY B-DAY SLOOP!

    You share it with one of my ex-brother in laws, and he is not a bad guy, so you must rock as well…

  3. sloopyinca

    Thanks for the birthday wishes, dear wife. And I apologize to Neil for those mailboxes.

    • db

      Happy Birthday, box-crusher!

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Happy Birthday Sloop!
      Covfefe!

    • Count Potato

      Happy Birthday!

    • waffles

      Happy Birthday

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Happy Birthday!

      Going once, going twice….

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Going what, 51 or 52 times now?

    • Professional Beach Bum

      Happy Birthday!

    • mindyourbusiness

      Hava happy, Sloop.

    • Annoyed Nomad

      Happy Birthday Sloopy! And go Buckeyes!

    • Bones

      Happy birthday!

    • Bobarian LMD

      Happy B-Day!

    • Cowboy

      Happy birthday amigo

  4. UnCivilServant

    Good Morning, Banjos.

    Happy Birthday Sloopy.

    • juris imprudent

      UCS, that’s awfully efficient for a bureaucrat. I second both sentiments.

  5. waffles

    How does one forget that they appeared on Chinese state propaganda? I’m starting to agree with those who say the federal and some state governments are utterly infiltrated top to bottom by CCP influence.

    Good morning! Fortunately my life is not as yet dominated by the CCP.

    • AlexinCT

      How much more evidence of CCP cock gobbling do you need before you conclude that our top men are practically without exception all CCP owned whores?

      • waffles

        It’s all very depressing. I can’t do anything about it. So that’s why I ignore it until it’s right in my face. Something is very wrong and we often just put our heads down and try to get through the day rather than say anything.

      • AlexinCT

        But RUSSIA!, KUNG FLU!, RACISM!, PARTIARCHY!….

        In the mean time, Wall Street, the political & academic class, and the entertainment and psyops masquerading as news entities have all been coopted by US dollars sent to China so the CCP could then turn around and make these people it’s virtual bitches by lavishing them with that cash. So many people have become massively rich selling us out to China. These are the same people that now see nothing wrong with a global order with China on top as long as they get to run the U.S. mandarinate for Beijing. Fucking evil. I am hoping the CCP keeps fucking up and the CHinese people kill them all sooner than later out of general principle so there can be a reckoning for those that sold America out too.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sooner would be preferrable to later.

        Later covers a lot of time.

      • WTF

        It certainly helps to explain their hysteria against Trump, who was taking steps to curtail China’s influence.

      • Count Potato

        If you were to lift up the Cathedral, on the bottom it would read “Made in China”.

      • juris imprudent

        It may not be that they are owned by the CCP, but they are beguiled by the power the CCP has in China, and dream of having that here.

      • WTF

        I would bet most of them are on the CCP payroll in some form or another, which makes them vulnerable to CCP influence in multiple ways.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I doubt Swalwell is the only one with Chinese honeypots. As with him, they’re clearly targeting low level politicians and up and comers. Maybe I should run for the school board and see if the Confucius Institute will send over some coeds?

      • l0b0t

        There are plenty of Chinese honeypots on Tinder, but they seem to be exclusively focusing on FOREX scams.

  6. AlexinCT

    Can this guy be an even bigger piece of shit?

    If he was then they would be giving him an even more powerful/important job. Like the one they gave Merick Garland, for example.

    • juris imprudent

      Isn’t it an old trick to put up a really bad nominee so you can pull him (or her) and replace with a just-slightly-less-bad one?

  7. robodruid

    Happy Bday Sloopy. May the kids take care of you for the day. Keep up the good fight.

  8. db

    Jennifer Aniston’s friends no longer have to put up with her.

    Worst news so far today. Aniston’s always been one of my very few celebrity crushes.

    • blackjack

      Meh, hot chicks have never really been the first choice for who ought to make serious decisions about policies. It’s only rarely that one has decent political instincts.

      • Count Potato

        I think it’s more of a matter of actresses, models, etc. who have good opinions also have the sense to keep them to themselves.

      • Bobarian LMD

        ding, ding ding!!!

      • juris imprudent

        Women who go far in politics don’t do it on their looks.

    • AlexinCT

      Can’t you just hit it and quit it? It’s not like you need to marry her….

      • Drake

        Everyone else in Hollywood already has…

      • juris imprudent

        Hi-yo!

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      Show me a beautiful woman…

      …And I will show you a man sick of her shit.

  9. blackjack

    Ah, the good ole’ days, when we had to fight for the right to party! Now, I’m fighting for my right to refuse experimental drugs that I don’t need and the ability to keep my personal health information private from my employer. A serious and stressful fight with the biggest powerbroker in Los Angeles. Not a party, at all.

    • sloopyinca

      Solid Adam Yauch tie-in.

    • Tonio

      I wish you strength, resolve, and luck.

    • Ghostpatzer

      You’re fighting the good fight. My brother is in the same situation, works for NYC. I told him last night to start hanging out here, an oasis of sanity in a crazy world.

      • Festus

        We are so few and they are so many.

    • PutridMeat

      It’s easy to say Fight the Good Fight (resists urge to link to Triumph) from the sidelines as it is basically empty virtue signalling. I hope, if/when it comes time, I have the resolve and strength to do the right thing. And some of that resolve comes from seeing others doing the right thing. Please hang in there do what’s right to the best of your ability and knowledge.

    • Necron 99

      I work for a private company in Texas but the home office is in New York.

      The pressure to get the jab, both officially and un, is immense.

  10. Sean

    Happy Birthday Sloopy.

  11. Ghostpatzer

    Mornin’, all. Happy birthday sloppy, enjoy that cake!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Autocorrect FTW!

      • AlexinCT

        He might be sloppy by day’s end celebrating his b-day… If I recall correctly from my married days it is also one of the two days (b-days & anniversaries) where a guy might get lucky…

      • Rat on a train

        … and be allowed some rest?

      • Suthenboy

        Ha ha ha. You win this time…

      • Rat on a train

        My wife asked what I wanted for my birthday. I said I wanted the house to myself for the day.

  12. Tres Cool

    Happy B-Day homes. I may order Skyline in your honor. Getting old sucks,

    Hang on.

    • Suthenboy

      Getting old beats the alternative.

      • AlexinCT

        Somedays I wonder if it doesn’t however considering the shit you put up with…..

        Then I pour myself a drink and go looking for some young ladies to remind me of why the world keeps going round..

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        This, it beats the alternative,
        Cheers!

      • Chipwooder

        As my late grandfather used to say, “The only thing worse than growing old is not growing old” He lived to be 96. Hope I inherit that longevity.

    • sloopyinca

      I made Cincinnati chili night before last. Had a humongous bowl of it and two coneys. It was awesome.

      • Festus

        Blue Flamers incoming!

      • Bobarian LMD

        If it has pasta in it, it is not chili.

        Skyline serves hamburger helper.

      • Akira

        Haha yea, it’s unfortunate that they named it chili and gave everyone doomed expectations. It’s a Macedonian-Greek style meat sauce.

        My theory is that they had to call it that because much of the American public in the ’20s was not too hot on “ethnic” cuisine, so they had to pass it off as a variant of a familiar American dish.

        I make a version of it (less sweet and more oregano and hot peppers) and it’s pretty good on pasta. I even put it on roasted eggplant slices and topped with mozzarella one time; that came out awesome.

  13. blackjack

    Happy B-day, Sloop.

  14. AlexinCT

    Two Texas Texas House Democrats who abscond to DC are now vacationing in Portugal.

    Queue some moron on the usual psyops channels masquerading as news outlets claiming to be an expert peddling a tall tale that going to Portugal is one of the ways to permanently cure yourself of Kung Flu, and telling you to believe how great these assholes are for taking that journey!….

    • blackjack

      It seems a bit odd that members of a group know to have a high infection rate for the ‘vid should then travel internationally, knowing that they might be passing out ‘vid germs to other people from all around the world. I had to double quarantine because I went to Florida and then my kid tested positive. Pretty sure they would not allow me to go to Europe.

      • AlexinCT

        You are a fucking serf class non entity. They are the top men. That’s the logic you should understand peasant. Now shut up and do as you are told before they cancel you to put you in your place.

      • Akira

        It seems a bit odd that members of a group know to have a high infection rate for the ‘vid should then travel internationally, knowing that they might be passing out ‘vid germs to other people from all around the world.

        A relative of mine is one of the biggest proponents of COVID restrictions I know – still wears a mask regularly, believes everything the government/NYT says, and bemoans that there’s no national vaccine passport system. His job is remote, so he spent most of this year bouncing around from one city to another staying at AirBNBs. The official CDC guidance was that “travelling increases your risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19”.

        It’s truly a religion, and like all religions, it has adherents who loudly denounce the unbelievers and apostates while granting themselves a giant exemption to do whatever the hell they want.

      • juris imprudent

        Once you are one of the elect, you only have to worry about charges of heresy.

    • Festus

      That terrible selfie that they took looks like every teacher’s lounge.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They look exactly as I expected.

  15. Ghostpatzer

    Mortgage applications decreased 1.7 percent from last week

    Of course they did. Why buy a home when you can live rent-free?

    • waffles

      I’m super-pissed about the CDC moratorium and its outsize influence on the housing market. Government makes things so expensive for honest people that we all fall into the trap. It must be by design. This is the moral hazard, chump dilemma, gassed up as far as it has ever been.

      • AlexinCT

        Have no doubt this is part of the economic reset plan these fuckers are running…

        Nothing good comes from this. They are teaching a bunch of already whiney entitled asshats to be even more dependent on government for free shit, while causing punishing damage to small operation mom & pop entities renting out a room or a house or two they have, while helping the big entities like Black Rock gobble up real-estate. The amount of evil/stupid shit going on, and all of it leading to the same disastrous concept of making the masses serfs dependent on their government masters, should be freaking out people, but most of them are either blind, distracted or complicit.

      • Akira

        while helping the big entities like Black Rock gobble up real-estate. The amount of evil/stupid shit going on, and all of it leading to the same disastrous concept of making the masses serfs dependent on their government masters, should be freaking out people, but most of them are either blind, distracted or complicit.

        If it were my goal to make the poor poorer and the rich richer, I couldn’t think of a better plan than this whole COVID regime.

      • Suthenboy

        They are trying to destroy two things: private property and contracts. The contracts not suspendible are those of the banks and other large industries that have poured cash through lobbying. Funny that. If those idiots think that will last forever they deserve what they get.
        Well, it seems to be idiots all around….when the sociopathic pols get around to the large industries they will be cutting off their own water.

  16. Drake

    The Olympics tanking is a mix. There are many events i would watch if the coverage was for the whole event, not a 3 minute check in with 2 commercial interruptions. Maybe other NBC channels have it – but I cut back to the most basic cable.

    • Rat on a train

      Lets check back in on the game. Yep, it is still going. Now back to an in depth look at what it took to put on the Olympics.

      • db

        This is the primary reason I no longer watch the Olympics. I’m not much of a sports fan in general, but I do appreciate the effort and am impressed by the accomplishments of the athletes. I don’t care about their back story, I want to see them compete and do amazing physical feats.

        The sports I do take part in are largely individual competition/effort rather than team sports. For some reason, the Olympic coverage just can’t acknowledge that the interesting thing is the activity itself and the personal triumph of being able to do it. To compete against oneself, constantly pushing to get better, is what interests me most, secondarily to the actual feat of achievement.

        The content of the “coverage” is what drove me away.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        ^^ This. I used the analogy of salt on a steak in a previous thread. If you add a little bit of human interest salt to the sport steak, it improves the experience. When you sprinkle ribbons of sport steak on top of a human interest salt lick, it’s impossible to consume.

        The NBC channel coverage has been way too salty, with a heaping helping of wokeness and covid back-patting.

        We haven’t watched much on Peacock, but supposedly it’s better, at least in this regard. Wife doesn’t care for the lower quality commentators, but I appreciate the focus on the sport.

      • db

        The salt/steak analogy is very good.

      • Tulip

        Exactly. I quit watching when they were showing women’s figure skating practice instead of an actual competition in something else.

      • ignoreLander

        For some reason, the Olympic coverage just can’t acknowledge that the interesting thing is the activity itself and the personal triumph of being able to do it.

        See, Obama, Barack and Biden, Joe, cross reference with Suburban Pseudo-Intellectual Soccer Mom, White.

      • CPRM

        Like NFL pre-season coverage where they interview a ‘Star’ player and you miss a great catch by a guy fighting for his job.

      • Rat on a train

        We need to cut from action on the field so we can show you the two guys who are supposed to be calling the action talk about something else.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Can this guy be an even bigger piece of shit?

    He is almost like a cartoon villain.

    • Suthenboy

      There seems to be an abundance of those around today.

      • rhywun

        Biden sure has a knack for finding them and appointing them to high positions.

      • Count Potato

        To be fair, Trump, or any of his recent predecessors, didn’t appoint the best people either.

      • rhywun

        Trump had some good ones, like DeVos.

        Biden’s have been universally “the worst person you could possibly imagine in that position”.

      • UnCivilServant

        So why don’t I have a cabient post then?!

      • Ghostpatzer

        Speling s a requirement?

      • UnCivilServant

        Not if you’v seen the stuf political appointees put out.

        Besides, they gets secretaries executive assistants to proofread, if they actually have sense enough to make use of their assistance.

      • Sean

        Because you don’t haggle.

      • CPRM

        Some of them, I believe, were good people. You could even say, and some even do, there are good people on both sides.

  18. Cy Esquire

    Happy Birthday to the sloop!

    I see there is a full court blitz going on in the Democrat’s propaganda wing against De Santis.

    • Suthenboy

      We will see but he keeps knocking it out of the park and they keep swinging and missing.

      • AlexinCT

        I saw some info yesterday pointing out that the problem team Biden has is that their campaign to tell people they were the ones that saved America from the Kung Flu can only work if there isn’t a successful opposite to be compared to. Neither Texas nor Florida went along with the destructive and idiotic shit that the WH pushed on everyone else, and yet – especially in the case of Florida, which has a disproportionately high number of elderly and should have had orders of magnitude higher deaths if the line peddled by the Branch Covidians about not locking down being equivalent to killing granny that team Biden peddles was accurate – they are doing far better than most of the places that complied and destroyed their economy.

        It’s a desperate attempt at a preemptive takedown so they can peddle their lies without opposition that is destined to failure, because DeSantis is not going to roll over and play dead, but actually will go at them and call them out on their bullshit. It seems that the fucking globalist marxist cabal has not figured out that after people saw Trump not committing the usual act of Seppuku other republicans did when the left made up charges about them and then kicking them in the balls, many of those not too spineless will start doing the same. And DeSantis is not one of the people that is afraid to take them behind the shed and show them who their daddy is…

      • waffles

        Thanks for the white pill.

  19. Tonio

    Happy Birthday, you little hooligan.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Wel now, that was quite handy, thanks Drake,
      Covfefe! to you Sir,

    • Ghostpatzer

      LOL. Reminds me of my days in banking, where we were subjected to quarterly fraud detection training. Basically a master class in money laundering, if you were interested in such things.

      • db

        The CIA used to operate a web site that was basically a how-to on building a backwoods facility to refine cocaine and/or crack from coca leaves. I wonder if it’s still up?

    • AlexinCT

      For those not in the know, both my kid & I got an electronic communication from the medical provider I have as well as the location we took the vaccine at yesterday, within hours from each other, telling us they had an electronic record of it and were working on a way to share it with us so we could produce it on demand. This shit is frightening to me because it means that behind the scenes they are compiling a list of those that have and have not taken the fucking stupid thing. People that do not want it shouldn’t be getting fucked over by assholes in power.

      • Drake

        RIP HIPAA

      • AlexinCT

        That’s exactly what I though when I saw that… I remember being lectured on how important it was for our systems to be secure back in the days I worked for a health insurer and how scared they were of any liability. Now we have our own government pissing all over HIPAA….

      • R C Dean

        HIPAA has nothing to do with it. It’s not being violated, didn’t need to be waived or amended.

        Every single dose of the vaccine is registered by the manufacturer, as required by the EUA. The notion that those three databases haven’t been consolidated by the feds is ludicrous. Of course they have a list.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep, as do the health insurance companies, which is why they have my family’s covid vaxx status sitting on the front page of their portal.

        There is no lying our way out of this to avoid conflict. It’s gonna be a fight.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        One of the big problems re HIPPA is that it was sold as a privacy catch-all, and as you well know it really isn’t. And so people are legitimately going WTF? with all the quick turn-around to give up so many aspects of your medical privacy, which were in fact never covered by HIPPA.

      • db

        Nothing more secure than an e-mail sent in the clear.

    • rhywun

      What law?

      Law is made by legislators, not executive diktats.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Once upon a time, in the land of Eden…

      • db

        Old times there away are speedin’?

      • Nephilium

        Biden is LAW!

    • Rebel Scum

      I will definitely not be sharing this information with everyone I know.

    • Penguin

      I used to work at a college where you had to buy a daily parking pass. I somehow got ahold of slips that looked an awful lot like them. I stopped doing that when they noticed one I put up was a week ahead of time and got a $110 ticket.

      Oops.

      These carry a potential 10 year sentence, so not worth it.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Mentioned last night that my barber had her card out on display. Such information as vaccine lot number, tech name, and store ID were um, memorized.

      “I dont understand why it’s the same. I guess the tech at CVS messed up or my SSN was stolen. No I did not provide insurance information because they said you didnt need it to get the shot”

    • EvilSheldon

      I sat in on an ATF class for firearms dealers, on the various regulations concerning NFA weapons and what an 01 FFL can and cannot do with them.

      Towards the end of the class:

      ATF Firearms Branch agent (passing around handouts): “This is an AR-15 drop-in auto sear kit. If you see an AR with one of these installed, and it doesn’t have a tax stamp, it’s an illegal machine gun and you can’t take it for sale or service. This is really serious, if you get caught with one of these we consider it dealing in unregistered machine guns, and it’s a federal felony. Any questions?”

      Gunsmith at the back: “Are these drawings to scale?”

      • Sean

        Heh.

      • Ozymandias

        There’s always one guy (at least).

    • Gustave Lytton

      The FBI is misrepresenting the law and lying their ass off. As usual. Not that it would stop them or a Preet.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Their vacation does not affect the lack of quorum that the House has in Austin that prevents the chamber from passing an elections bill. But it is at odds with Democrats’ insistence that they would use their time away to advocate for federal voting rights legislation in the nation’s capital.

    Being present for a vote (i.e. doing their job) is super stressful.

  21. Rebel Scum

    Pandemic theatre.

    It has been since the beginning.

    • waffles

      I think since Pelosi went to Chinatown it’s been nothing but theatre.

      • Rat on a train

        Hug a Chinese

      • Rebel Scum

        You’ll just want another hug an hour later.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        you’re on a roll this Mornin’

      • AlexinCT

        I am pretty sure it started a lot earlier than that…

  22. Rebel Scum

    Jennifer Aniston’s friends no longer have to put up with her.

    She may be an ignorant biotch but I’d still give her an injection, considering she is so fond of them.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Consider for a moment how much Botox she’s shot into her face over the years. It’s no wonder she’d be fine with an experimental vax.

    • Suthenboy

      I wouldn’t waste the time or touch her. She is an ignorant, arrogant and insufferable bitch. My time is better spent around the good people I know.

      • Festus

        What if she offered you a blowy behind the Piggly Wiggly? Still made of such stern stuff?

      • Suthenboy

        Ten bucks says some of that makeup is covering up blisters around her lips, so….yeah, I am.

      • Festus

        Understood.

  23. Jerms

    Happy birthday Sloopy thanks for all the work you and Banjos do to make my mornings better.

  24. robc

    John Olerud, Carl Crawford, Nelson Briles, Rick Mahler, Mark Mulder, and Bernie Carbo.

    All recent. You had to go to #12 to find someone born before WW2.

    • robc

      And I realize I date myself by calling someone who retired in 1978 “recent”.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’ve been listening to books about the stone and bronze ages.

        1978 is recent even though it predates me.

      • robc

        Context matters. The stone age is recent when talking age of universe.

      • PieInTheSky

        6000 years is not that long in itself

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought you were only 400-500

      • waffles

        6 months is a pretty long time to my goldfish brain.

      • Festus

        Yup. I’m lucky to get 15 minutes.

      • Rat on a train

        The stone age still exists in parts of the world.

      • Jarflax

        Hey say whatever it takes to get yourself to agree to the date.

    • Jerms

      Used to draft Crawford in fantasy every year. This is gonna be the year!

  25. Nephilium

    Reposting for the morning folks, but it looks like the trademark battle between the Cleveland Guardians (men’s roller derby) and the Cleveland Indians Guardians (MLB) is heating up. The team in the majors filled a trademark application, which got followed up by a counterclaim by the team on skates. The team on skates also went full press with listing all sorts of merch, sending images of initial runs, and opening an online store to sell merch.

    They may wind up the richest men’s roller derby team in the world.

    • robc

      I cannot explain the failure to return to the Cleveland Spiders. Awesome name, even if the old Spiders were historically bad.

      • Gustave Lytton

        It’s not a superhero tie in. The more this goes on, the more I’m convinced that was the reasoning.

      • Agent Cooper

        It’s not the same franchise. The Spiders were a different team, technically.

        It would be like the Baltimore Ravens becoming the Baltimore Colts. They are truly the old Browns.

        I like Guardians and the actual Guardian statues are pretty cool looking.

    • robc

      “They may wind up the richest men’s roller derby team in the world.”

      So…$2?

    • PieInTheSky

      men’s roller derby – gay?

      • Gustave Lytton

        James Caan? Maybe. Gene Kelly? Never.

    • The Other Kevin

      This is awesome. My wife and many other people I know play roller derby. Every team is basically DIY, they form their own team, deal with the fundraising, schedule the games, etc. They are almost always short on cash. Hope these guys succeed.

      • Nephilium

        I know I’m looking at buying some merch, and have started passing the word around to my friends who are Indians fans.

      • Penguin

        Ooh – get some Guardians merch, and have them change there name? That stuff’ll be near priceless.

        But I guess that’s what you’re thinking.

      • Nephilium

        Nope. To support the roller derby team, apply pressure to the baseball team to keep the Indians name, and to have some low grade trolling clothing to wear next year. The baseball team isn’t selling Guardians merch yet, and official merch isn’t expected until winter. Unofficial merch is all over the place for the baseball team, but I’ve only met a handful of people who like the new name.

      • Agent Cooper

        They’re not keeping Indians. That ship has sailed.

        The reason the team is even named the Indians is kind of dumb anyways. The 1913 Boston Braves were awful, and then in 1914 they won it all. Inspired by another team, the name was chosen by fans in a newspaper poll for 1915.

        Sockalexis is a corollary, not a reason.

  26. Festus

    HBD Sloopster! Hug and kiss that beautiful family of yours!

    • Drake

      Speaking of ratings tanking….

    • Festus

      Didn’t watch before but will double-dutch it now.

    • Chipwooder

      There is no such thing as a “black national anthem”.

      I protest – where are the guido and mick national anthems? In honor of my ancestors, I am boycotting the NFL until Danny Boy and That’s Amore are played before every game.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fuck that.

        Just dissolve professional sports in acid.

      • Rat on a train

        I am part German. I am boycotting until they play Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
        before each game.

    • Rebel Scum

      Where is this nation of “Black” and why should we play its anthem?

    • The Last American Hero

      I skipped last year, was debating about following the NFL this year.

      I’m out.

  27. PieInTheSky

    absolutely fantastic day it is as today’s is my Sloopy’s Birthday – the inevitable passage of time is nothing to celebrate.

    That being said, Happy birthday. Although it is not yet the weekend and so one should not consume intoxicating substances, I think you can have a small glass of bubbly

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      “not yet the weekend and so one should not consume intoxicating substances” Are you kidding me?
      Wake and Bake
      Days that end in Y
      Those are the Days you can imbibe,
      /Wierdo

    • AlexinCT

      Euphemism?

  28. PieInTheSky

    Katie Herzog
    @kittypurrzog
    Yes! Thought this was such a good idea I found a woman panhandling outside the Kroger and lectured her on how to start a podcast for 40 minutes

    https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1423142472457150466

    is trolling Ibram X. Kendi a form of critical racism?

    • db

      As SugarFree said yesterday, podcasting is a step down from *anything*. Panhandling to Podcast? Step down.

      • PieInTheSky

        I disagree. Tim Dillons podcast cracks me up-

      • AlexinCT

        Where is HM to tell us the real deal is Chaturbating?

      • l0b0t

        Thank you for turning me on to him. Here he is, talking about the Olympics (absolutely NSFW) – https://youtu.be/CNjshw48R94

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      To celebrate the 40th birthday of my friend Meghan Markle, The Duchess of Sussex, I’m donating 40 minutes of mentorship time to a woman reentering the workforce. Will you join me? #40×40 #CompassionInAction

      How magnanimous of him.

      And people take this shit seriously.

      • The Last American Hero

        Is she still the Duchess? I thought they stepped back from that.

      • CPRM

        I thought they stepped back got kicked out from that.

  29. PieInTheSky

    This extremely hot summer cannot be good for wine production.

    • Nephilium

      It’s been surprisingly mild and wet this summer locally.

      • waffles

        It was hot until it wasn’t. Last week it felt like autumn coming on early, summer returns today and stays for the weekend.

      • Penguin

        Been mild here in FL, too. I don’t think it’s been hotter than 95 all year, which is wild hearing the temps they’re dealing with in the Pacific North West.

      • Chipwooder

        We had some brutal heat in late June – mid July, but it cooled off after that. Early this morning was downright chilly – 57 degrees according to my thermometer. Yesterday’s high was only 80, and today’s is supposed to be 84.

    • CPRM

      Extremely hot? Has it even crossed triple digits there?

      • PieInTheSky

        Well I am talking about civilized lands

    • PieInTheSky

      I think I got overheated today and felt ill for about an hour until I took a cold shower and lied down a little. I think my mistake was going into my basement room to squat and deadlift. I have no Ac there and while it was not that hot- 25C it was kind of humid and when I was done I was sweating like coming out of a sauna. After I cooled a little I went again outside to go to a store in the 37C weather and when I came back I was already starting to feel strange. Anyhoo

      • AlexinCT

        Make sure you are properly hydrated…. Virgin blood I hear makes a vampire feel centuries younger…

      • robc

        Hmmm…basements in the US stay at roughly cave temperature year round.

        My old basement stayed at perfect ale fermentation temp.

      • PieInTheSky

        that is weird. I mean just through the open window warm air comes in in summer so if it is 38 for several days outside the basement gets to 2. Never saw it above 25.5 though.

      • robc

        My basement hovered around 68F year round. That is 293.15 in proper metric units.

      • robc

        Just to clarify, there are only two acceptable temperature units, F and K.

        Celcius and Rankine can fuck off.

      • PieInTheSky

        I am always fascinated how people defend a silly scale like F

      • Suthenboy

        Pie, it is like musical taste. Whatever you learn or listen to in your formative years becomes ‘good’ or ‘right’.

        Any scale works as long as it is consistent.

        I learned in calories: 1 calorie raises one CC of water 1 degree F. Wait…wut?

      • Nephilium

        Suthenboy:

        And to further confuse the matter, a calorie in energy is different then the Calories printed on your food labels. The ones on the food labels are actually kcals

      • robc

        F is 0-100 in normal human range. Perfect for describing weather.

        Kelvin is good for science because 0 is at, well, 0.

        C has neither going for it.

      • PieInTheSky

        F is 0-100 in normal human range. Perfect for describing weather. -utter horseshit

      • Jarflax

        Do not give in to the Frog’s decimal fetishism. There is nothing especially easy about working with decimal scales. Now duodecimal scales actually do make sense as the most common fractions 1/2 1/3 and 1/4 work out to integers! Or go for broke and use the really old fashioned one and go sexagesimal! Sum like a Sumerian!

      • PieInTheSky

        the decimal thing does not really apply to temperature

      • waffles

        The decimal thing does apply to temperature. A metric degree is just too large, forcing you to add a decimals place to really understand the thermometer. That’s unacceptable, praise Fahrenheit.

      • PieInTheSky

        The decimal thing does apply to temperature. – no. the decimal thing is about converting units. You use fractions of a degree but that is not the same thing. there are fractions used for F as well when reportin the hottest temperature eva was just broken by .1 F.

        A metric degree is just too large, forcing you to add a decimals – not really. People don’t usually care about the decimals. 35 vs 35.4 C is the same damn temp

        That’s unacceptable – it is equally arbitrary anyways

      • Tulip

        Is your basement below ground?

      • PieInTheSky

        half bellow ground

      • PieInTheSky

        we call it “demisol” in Romanian which literally means half bellow ground.

      • kinnath

        My brewing room peaks out at about 68F in late Aug to early Sep. It bottoms out at about 62F in Apr/May time frame.

        Although we had one brutal winter and my brewing room dropped to 58. So Alt Bier time.

      • robc

        My garage would hold lager fermentation temps in the winter and saison fermentation temps in June.

        I just had to watch the weather carefully for both.

      • Rat on a train

        It partly depends on the type of basement. Daylight basements don’t stay as cool, especially if the open side faces the sun. And the crazy, above ground basement thing probably doesn’t do much.

  30. Penguin

    Hey, Sloopy – here ya go.

  31. juris imprudent

    No mention of Kaylieburrow, Astr[whatever] or the other one – this may be fake news.

    A group of the Democratic Party’s most influential women met for dinner at a home in the nation’s capital last month to game out how to defend Vice President Kamala Harris and her chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, against a torrent of bad press.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Including one “Kiki McLean”

      It’s ripped straight from Joemala.

    • Drake

      Avoid speaking in public?

      • Suthenboy

        Bingo. Worst ever.

        She was chosen because the VP is just a life insurance policy for the President.

      • Festus

        Yep. That vapid Milfy one would have been a better choice. Sarah Palin, our lonely hearts turn to you…

      • The Last American Hero

        Normally yes, Suthen, but given Joe’s age, failing health, and mental state, this VP pick was more important than Clinton Gore, or Obama Biden.

  32. db

    I wish I could find a link to the old WDVE Confucius’ Birthday Song.

  33. juris imprudent

    Oh what the hell, have some raw red meat to chew on.

    But over the next 3½ hours, he and other Democrats, along with their handpicked Republican panelists and police witnesses, never mentioned the most lethal act committed that day — the fatal Capitol Police shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. It was the only shot fired during the entire riot.

    • CPRM

      But some of the Trumpists had guns [in their cars]!

      • juris imprudent

        had guns [in their cars] maybe, allegedly – but absolutely asserted without evidence.

      • Rat on a train

        Cars parked in lots well away from the site?

      • CPRM

        Cars parked 1,000 miles away in the garage, but they still had GUNS!

      • Lord Humungus

        “hold on just for a moment”.

        ::runs two miles to grab gun in trunk::

      • Seguin

        Those wax-paper capacitors are why the Bendix electronic fuel injection was pulled from the 1957 AMC Rebel at the last minute.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Cool

    • PieInTheSky

      Elon does nothing because he adds no value to spacex and also billionaires are bad and also his father was exploiting South Africa or something / prog

      • Suthenboy

        And now the progs want apartheid here. I cant keep up…

        Soon we will have the NWFL and the NBFL along with segregated schools and signs over water fountains saying ‘Whites Only’.

    • db

      Yeah, baby!

    • db

      Pretty cool, they have a bunch of TPS installed on the starship

      • UnCivilServant

        Dammit, now someone’s going to have to write those reports.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        They are stacking it, checking it out, then pull, it back down and finish it.
        the S20 I mean,

  34. Rebel Scum

    That’s because they are not, in fact, “liberal”: Liberals Hate That You Have Rights

    The bizarre contortions that the libs are going through to blame you for the virus because you selfishly refused to submit to their fussy commands illustrates, for the umpteenth time, an undeniable fact about these fascist-curious creeps. They hate hate hate the idea of rights, particularly yours. In fact, when they refer to rights, they often insist on encasing the word in quotation marks, as if it was some bizarre and alien concept those Jesus-gun-truck-cisnormative people from Iowabamaho invented under the influence of moonshine and the Holy Spirit.

    Rights, they realize, are an intolerable obstacle to the things they want to do – especially when it’s inferiors like yourself asserting said rights. In this case, what they want to do is inject you, regardless of your choice, with a medicine that works intermittently but they want to inject you with it because it is not preventing the virus and therefore they need to prevent the virus and my head hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts. And they also want to wrap your face in a towel because that is the only thing that can protect them, despite the fact their faces are wrapped in towels already and that should protect them, and now my head really hurts.

    It goes without saying that no one has a right to stick junk into your arm unless you give a thumbs up. I did, because I chose to. You should if you choose to, and you shouldn’t if you choose not to. See, it’s your right. Which means lib sissies with nothing better to do than fret about what you’re doing don’t have a say.

    • Festus

      “Rights? What are those?” *Supreme Courts join hands ands gambol off into the distance*

    • Suthenboy

      “Rights, they realize, are an intolerable obstacle to the things they want to do…”

      That sums it up nicely. They want their boot on your neck so they can take your wallet. I cant help but think there is some ulterior motive for wanting everyone vaccinated. I cant put my finger on it but the absurd conflicting arguments they make and their vehement insistence really raises a flag for me.

    • wdalasio

      He’s not wrong. That’s why, try as I might, I can’t fully buy into the “a curse on both their houses” line of thinking. Conservatives are wrong. Progressives are at odds with libertarians. You can possibly correct one. The other sees ruining you as a feature. At core, conservatives at least understand the notion of individual rights. That’s at least the basis for a dialog in some common language.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I think looking at it as “two houses” is unrealistic. At this point, I’ve come around to concluding the eGOP (Romney, McConnell, Cheney, etc) are part of the same group as the Dems. They’re playing the role of controlled opposition to push through the same agenda. it’s one party with two different faces playing the American people.

        There are some in the GOP who are not compromised. But they are few and not in the leadership.

      • waffles

        This is correct. That is why I think utterly destroying the Neocon GOP makes sense. The lie of the controlled opposition needs to come down.

      • wdalasio

        The eGOP (great reference, BTW) is the Washington Generals to the progressives Harlem Globetrotters. They’re there to provide the foil. The funny thing is I see as much contempt for the eGOP from conservatives as I do for conservatives from a lot of libertarians. I’ve made a joke to conservatives that judging libertarianism by the libertarian establishment is like judging conservatism by David Brooks, Jen Rubin, and, yeah, Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney. But, it works the other way, too. I think a lot of libertarians judge conservatism by those guys.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I agree with you that the GOP isn’t representatives of conservatives. Same as big L Libertarian versus little l libertarian. When I hear “a curses on both houses”, I usually take it mean voting for neither the GOP or the Democrats. And I think the GOP is solidly in the compromised camp with few exceptions.

        Up until recently, I would have said the same thing about liberals and democrats… that the democrats are not representative of liberals in this country. Wow was I wrong. Pretty much every liberal I know has jumped wholeheartedly into the most rabidly progressive parts of the Dem agenda.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Blackfoot, Idaho. The employees at Walmart are wearing masks.

    I want to pretend there will be some sort of reckoning for the Foochys and Osterholms of the world, but I don’t honestly see it happening. They will go down in history as heroes, without whom tens of millions of lives might have been lost.

    I am broadcasting from the comfort of of a Best Western not far from the banks of the Snek River. It took me one hundred and fifty per cent longer to get here with the truck and trailer than with the Racing Honda. 6 hours vs 4! I’m going to scope out some properties, and maybe get the haircut I so desperately need.

    • waffles

      Enjoy! I wish I was back out west.

    • PieInTheSky

      Blackfoot – racist?

      • Festus

        Every Native tribe called the other ones disparaging names. Just like they all engaged in rape, murder and slavery. Fuck them. Fuck them to death.

      • PieInTheSky

        Fuck them to death- what is you get syphilis?

  36. Count Potato

    “A man was arrested Wednesday for storming the US Capitol dressed in a George Washington costume during the January 6 insurrection.

    Isaac Yoder, a locksmith from Nevada, Missouri, earlier admitted that he entered and exited the Capitol through a ‘west facing door’.

    Federal agents used phone tracking and facial recognition to arrest Yoder following the riot on January 6. In an affidavit seen by Huffington Post, the FBI said that they received an anonymous tip on February 26 from someone who claimed an employee of Yoder Lock and Key was involved in the January 6 riot.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9864089/FBI-use-phone-tracking-facial-recognition-arrest-man-dressed-George-Washington-Jan-6.html

    “Squad member Cori Bush, who was with BLM trespassers on gun-toting St.Louis couple’s property, slams their pardon and says their ‘day will come'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9862091/Cori-Bush-threatens-Mark-McCloskeys-day-come-explosive-interview-couples-pardon.html

    So you have one person walking around a public building, and another person trespassing on private property.

    • Suthenboy

      They are this close *thumb and index about 1/4″ apart*

    • Ownbestenemy

      It is known that if the G. Washington LARPer were to have made it into the chambers, that he would have reincarnated to the real G. Washington and slavery would again be law of the land.

    • Rebel Scum

      A man was arrested Wednesday for storming the US Capitol dressed in a George Washington

      Looks like he was cooperating with law enforcement (who probably let him in…) and generally being peaceful.

      Send this terrorist to Gitmo.

  37. Count Potato

    “The Biden administration is developing a plan to require nearly all foreign visitors to the United States to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

    The move would be part of eventually lifting travel restrictions that bar much of the world from entering the United States, a White House official told Reuters on Wednesday.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9862411/White-House-developing-plan-require-foreign-visitors-prove-theyre-vaccinated.html

    That seems impossible to enforce.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I guess those coming across the southern borders aren’t visitors.

      • Penguin

        Nope. Residents , with full voting rights.

    • R C Dean

      *Not applicable to visitors crossing the southern border.

    • Plinker762

      Because that is totally not a restriction on travel.

    • Rebel Scum

      And what of the people at the southern border who the admin is shipping around the country? ///rhetorical

  38. PieInTheSky

    I purchased a bottle of Irish whisky I never tried before but I think it is to hot for liquor. I never understood westerns where there were saloons in obviously hot climates like summertime arizona or something where people drank whisky. No air conditioning no ice no nothing. How the hell did they do it? Or maybe it is one of those inaccuracies in Hollywood movies, and they were in fact mostly drinking lemonade.

    • waffles

      From my experience partying in the desert you typically want light beer for the daytime and bourbon at night.

    • Drake

      All the old westerns were filmed in Southern CA where it is hot and dusty. Much of the real “Old West” was in the northern plains and mountains where there were 4 seasons.

      • Chipwooder

        A lot of it wasn’t even what we would consider “the West” today – a lot of cow towns of the 1800s were in places like Nebraska and Kansas.

      • UnCivilServant

        *looks at Dodge City*

        No argument here.

      • PieInTheSky

        Do Nebraska and Kansas ever get a tad warm in summer? Because if yes my point stands.

      • pistoffnick

        “Do Nebraska and Kansas ever get a tad warm…”

        Yes, Wichita had month-long stretches of triple digit temperatures.

      • Gustave Lytton

        [Old] Northwest = northwest of the Ohio River

      • PieInTheSky

        emphasis on the “the”?

      • db

        That would be the Olentangy River

      • PieInTheSky

        I did not know there was more than one river in that area

      • Agent Cooper

        THE OLD AND DINGY!

      • Drake

        Deadwood and Teddy Roosevelt’s western adventures were in the Dakotas.

      • Jarflax

        I was in Deadwood the last week of April this year. It was snowing heavily. I was also there in early October last year and the morning temperature was below freezing. So my anecdotal evidence calls into question the idea of 4 seasons. Near as I can tell Dakota weather is 7 months winter, 3 months summer, and maybe, if you are lucky, a month each of spring and fall.

      • Agent Cooper

        John Ford shot a lot in Monument Valley and The Searchers has prominent snow scenes.

        See also Silverado, Outlaw Josey Wales, etc.

        The funniest ones are MASH in the hills of Topanga and the Dukes of Hazzard driving around rural SoCal.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Booze keeps better in the brutal heat.

    • Suthenboy

      Everything you have seen in western movies is bullshit. It is a mythical place that never existed.

      • PieInTheSky

        You are just saying that because you cannot head-shot a dude with a revolver at 100 yards while on a galloping horse like people in the old west were able to

      • Chipwooder

        Or shoot a gun out of a villain’s hand.

      • Animal

        Somewhere around here (may still be in a box) I have an old Gun Digest with an article from a guy who tried to duplicate some of those old Western shooting stunts from pulp novels and movies. Needless to say, none of them really worked, and as he pointed out, he was using modern carbines and revolvers with modern manufacturing tolerances and good, consistent ammo.

      • Drake

        Paul Harrell tries shooting a knife out of a moving hand target. He does a lot better than I would.
        https://youtu.be/Mq_XzqWsG3w

    • wdalasio

      To be fair, a lot of the folks in the Old West immigrated there from the American South, where it was still hot, although a lot more humid than arid, and whiskey was pretty popular. And my guess is that a lot of the folks in those towns would drink whiskey because alcohol is a disinfectant. If the water is of dubious quality, you’re going to want something to make it potable.

      • Agent Cooper

        Tom Destry, Jr. drank milk!

    • PieInTheSky

      I remember that Hell on Wheels tv show about building the first transcontinental railroad people would get drunk on whiskey sleep a few hours on the saloon floor and then the next day would work with pickaxes and shovels in the heat hungover, and there was no shade, it was in the sun. Dunno if accurate but I cannot even imagine the headache

    • Swiss Servator

      “Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don’t need any characters around to give the joint “atmosphere”. Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        ?

        Get me, I’m givin’ out wings!

  39. Rebel Scum

    Thought complete, I don’t need it: Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Think you don’t want to get vaccinated? Think again

    Eight months ago, while I was waiting for my turn to get the shot, the headlines were about the surging numbers of cases, hospitals buckling under pressure, dire predictions for more of the same in the months to come, and the politics of mask wearing.

    Today, I’m heartbroken to read the same headlines: case numbers climbing, hospitals in some places inundated with patients, predictions of “the worst is yet to come,” and cries against mask mandates. And this time, vaccine mandates, too.

    I want to be clear: This was not inevitable. Even without vaccines, the country became far sicker than it should have. The vaccines were supposed to wrap us with near-impenetrable armor and provide longer lasting protection. Of course, armor only works if you wear it, and the same is true of vaccines. …

    One of the most common questions about the vaccine: What if I previously had Covid-19? It is a very fair question, and there is plenty of evidence showing that natural infection can provide good immunity. I want to be clear before I continue: By now you must realize that achieving immunity by naturally getting infected is a terrible idea and could land you in the hospital or worse. Vaccination is an exponentially safer way to achieve immunity. But, the question you are likely asking is more nuanced: Do you still need a vaccine if you already had Covid-19?

    The official guidance from the CDC is yes. And, here is why. Existing data provides evidence that the vaccine will provide more durable immunity, and may also be protective against future variants.

    These are always critically important metrics, and even more so now, as we deal with the Delta variant. Again, this isn’t dismissing the immunity from a previous Covid-19 infection, but making the case that adding a vaccine will provide better protection going forward. While the United States recommends a full two-dose course of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, some countries have recommended getting at least one shot in those with previously known Covid infections. The rationale is the original infection provided the same initial immunity as the first shot of a vaccine, and then a second shot would act as a powerful booster.

    Way to ignore all prior research in virology.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Existing data provides evidence that the vaccine will provide more durable immunity, and may also be protective against future variants.”

      This is a straight up lie.

      https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/309762

      Coronavirus patients who recovered from the virus were far less likely to become infected during the latest wave of the pandemic than people who were vaccinated against COVID, according to numbers presented to the Israeli Health Ministry.

      Health Ministry data on the wave of COVID outbreaks which began this May show that Israelis with immunity from natural infection were far less likely to become infected again in comparison to Israelis who only had immunity via vaccination.

      More than 7,700 new cases of the virus have been detected during the most recent wave starting in May, but just 72 of the confirmed cases were reported in people who were known to have been infected previously – that is, less than 1% of the new cases.

      • Nephilium

        But if you take more boosters you get MOR immunity!

        Unless you’re taking them from developing countries:

        Now, the spread of the highly-transmissible delta variant has countries with vaccine access considering third doses before much of the world has had access to one.

        The WHO’s position on boosters is still taking shape. WHO officials said Wednesday that they do not necessarily oppose giving additional doses to certain populations who are not protected by standard doses.

    • EvilSheldon

      And it was nonsense then, and it’s nonsense now. Just how many times do you need to be lied to before you can recognize it?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Lick my balls, Sanjay.

    • Suthenboy

      “The vaccines were supposed to wrap us with near-impenetrable armor”

      I was supposed to be born a billionaire.

      Notice the careful nebulous wording of almost all of his claims. ‘supposed to’, ‘may’ , the rationale is, etc.
      The other claims are outright false

      I dont know what they could do to make me more suspicious.

    • R C Dean

      case numbers climbing,

      Irrelevant to whether there is a public health crisis.

      hospitals in some places inundated with patients,

      Outside of perhaps one or two localities, ‘Vid patients are not putting noticable strain on hospitals.

      predictions of “the worst is yet to come,”

      One, the boy is crying wolf again?

      and cries against mask mandates.

      Perhaps because they have been conclusively proven to fail?

      And this time, vaccine mandates, too.

      Gosh, an experimental vaccine now showing a material number of breakthrough infections, being flogged as part of the “worst is yet to come” narrative. You and the other panicmongers own, in every particular, the public health failures you are trying to blame the public for.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    maybe it is one of those inaccuracies in Hollywood movies, and they were in fact mostly drinking lemonade.

    I don’t think there were any lemon groves in Tombstone.

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean archeology still has a long way to go maybe in time they will find some

    • R C Dean

      Probably not, but citrus grows quite well around here, if you irrigate it.

  41. PieInTheSky

    In local controversies, the government published a sample of a new form of national ID which replaced the word sex with the word gen. Now I don’t care all that much but it always was sex and it should stay that way if at all on the id.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Is “Undead” an option?

      • UnCivilServant

        Too many characters. To save space in the database they made the field one bit long. You’re either a 0 or a 1

    • Rat on a train

      I’m Gen X

  42. EvilSheldon

    Happy Birthday, Sloppy!

    • EvilSheldon

      Arrrrgh. I hate this keyboard.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Way to ignore all prior research in virology.

    They’re just making shit up.

    • R C Dean

      Virology, immunology, epidemiology, pretty much any scientific field related to viral disease.

      Why, its almost like the public health insiders knew it was an engineered virus that the old rules might not apply to, and threw out the old playbook. Which conveniently cleared the way for them to implement their wet dream of micromanaging every aspect of people’s lives.

  44. PieInTheSky

    Slovenia lost in the Olympic basketball. And here I was sort of rooting for them although I had no idea when the game was. Maybe if I was more active in my rooting it would have helped.

    • Penguin

      So long as the US WNT lost in football, the world is right.

      • Rebel Scum

        They got bronze.

      • Swiss Servator

        At least they won’t have to kneel for the Star Spangled Banner.

      • Penguin
      • R C Dean

        I didn’t know football was an Olympic sport.

      • Rat on a train

        Rugby is close.

      • R C Dean

        I am seriously thinking about switching to rugby from football.

      • CPRM

        I find rugby interesting until they all lay in a pile and start humping eachother for minutes on end.

      • Lord Humungus

        STEVE SMITH SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER

  45. Rebel Scum

    A true public menace.

    In a new offensive against federal health authorities on Wednesday, DeSantis slammed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advice that kids — including those under 12 who cannot be yet vaccinated — should wear masks in class. DeSantis has previously threatened to withhold funding for schools that require masks for students, vowing to defend the rights of parents to decide on masking for their own kids. It’s a stance that effectively allows individuals to decide whether to fight the virus, a position at odds with experience showing community action is the only way to stop the spread.

    Taking his rhetoric up a notch, DeSantis also accused New York City, which is requiring proof of vaccination for entry to bars or restaurants, of creating a “bio-medical security state” that infringed the values of a free society.

    “Joe Biden suggests if you don’t do locked down policies then you should ‘get out of the way.’ But let me tell you this, if you are coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way,” said DeSantis, who has also accused the media of drumming up “hysteria” about his state’s plight. The comments, which ignited yet another politicized controversy over the pandemic, may be interpreted by critics as a new attempt by the governor to distract from bad news in his state.

    But the worsening picture has not budged DeSantis from a consistent position that has made him a hero among conservatives who view mask guidance and pro-vaccine campaigns as infringing on individual civil liberties.

    By choosing to stress the rights of parents over schools that want to impose mask requirements, and by signing an executive order to outlaw “vaccine passports,” DeSantis has made decisions through a political prism that downplays guidance by public health experts and the science of epidemiology.

    Unquestioningly trust the experts. It’s the American way.

    • wdalasio

      Wait, there’s still a Florida? I thought everyone in the state died as a result of the last time DeSantis didn’t blindly follow the orders of his betters. Or was it the time before that? Or the time before that?

      • Rat on a train

        They are all dead and underwater.

    • Suthenboy

      What bad news, specifically? They never say.

      The same kind of nebulous bullshit they threw at Trump.

    • WTF

      experience showing community action is the only way to stop the spread

      Another lie. There has never been a successful attempt to stop the spread of a respiratory virus through “community action”.

      • Lord Humungus

        short of us all living on farms miles away from our neighbors, communicable diseases are going to spread in a city or even a suburb, not matter what lockdowns are taken.

        – this reminds me of the Civil War when farm boys were the ones who got sick versus the city conscripts, the latter who were exposed to multiple diseases all the time.

  46. Festus

    I’m tapping out dear friends. I just can’t take the Derp no more. Hope that you all have a chubby one (esp. you, Sloop!) We’ll talk tomorrow.

  47. wdalasio

    Happy Birthday, Sloop!

  48. The Other Kevin

    Happy birthday Sloop! We are all very lucky to have you here.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Something something now let them enforce it

    Under intense pressure from liberal Democratic lawmakers and activists, Biden announced Tuesday that a revamped version of the eviction ban that expired on July 31 would be re-imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a pandemic mitigation measure. His reversal came after senior administration officials had said for a week that such a move would be fruitless and perhaps unlawful as a result of a Supreme Court ruling in June.

    One striking part of Biden’s announcement was his candor that the policy might well be illegal.

    “The bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it’s not likely to pass constitutional muster,” the president told reporters, before adding: “But there are several key scholars who think that it may and it’s worth the effort.”

    It’s not illegal when the President does it.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      SCOTUS needs to get off its ass and defend its turf because we’re headed to a very bad place.

      • Chipwooder

        But then the Washington Post will say mean things about John Roberts, and Lord knows he can’t endure that, the poor thing.

    • R C Dean

      Any District Court in the country could issue a one page opinion citing SCOTUS and overturning the moratorium. What are they waiting for?

  50. The Late P Brooks

    It’s a stance that effectively allows individuals to decide whether to fight the virus, a position at odds with experience showing community action is the only way to stop the spread.

    Really? The virus doesn’t appear to give a fuck about your communitarian wet dreams.

    • Suthenboy

      It’s always ‘It takes a village so get on board or else’ with these collectivist shitbirds.

  51. Rebel Scum

    Jabs now! JABS FOREVER!

    On Tuesday, the Swedish Public Health Agency announced that a third vaccine dose would likely be available to the public next year. However, vaccine expert Matti Sällberg has stated that people could need as many as five doses in the coming months and years.

    “We do not know how long the vaccines will protect against serious illness and death. This means that we would rather be safe than uncertain,” he told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. …

    “On the one hand, we know that the virus will not disappear, and the Public Health Agency of Sweden has already flagged a third dose for at-risk groups,” Sällberg said.

    “After receiving the second dose, the immune response slowly subsides. Within a year, it may be that many have lost their protection. We don’t know that yet, but if you get a third dose, it’s going to be activated again,” he added.

    Maybe this is what happens when you try to “vaccinate” for a virus that mutates constantly and do so with something that is not an actual vaccine.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Yes, of course, let’s compound any unknown long-term effects from the vaccines before we fully understand them.

      Bonkers. Makes me want to move to a country with no access to the vaccines just to get away from these lunatics.

    • Sean

      The elixir of life! You’ll never get sick again.

      Now take this poison vaccine or we’ll crush you.

    • EvilSheldon

      “We do not know how long the vaccines will protect against serious illness and death…”

      How ’bout you get back to me when you do?

      • R C Dean

        Exactly. Somehow the burden of proof has gotten flipped. It used to be that the people proposing a mandate, or even a recommendation, had to show how and why it was justified. Now, its the people who are skeptical about such things who have to prove something.

        I had this conversation at work: “If we are going back to mandating masks, shouldn’t we show the evidence that they work?” The response was, essentially “No, the CDC ‘recommends’ it.” Experts speaking ex cathedra negate any need for evidence, and in fact mean that looking at the evidence is unmutual, or something.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    By choosing to stress the rights of parents over schools that want to impose mask requirements, and by signing an executive order to outlaw “vaccine passports,” DeSantis has made decisions through a political prism that downplays guidance by public health experts and the science of epidemiology.

    Or, if you look at it another way, it harkens back to an old American citizens’ tradition of saying, in the face of government overreach, “I don’t work for you. You work for me.”

    • R C Dean

      the science of epidemiology

      That would be the science that has shown masks don’t work, am I correct?

  53. Gustave Lytton

    today’s is my Sloopy’s Birthday!

    I can’t believe no one said this yet. Too local! Also, happy birthday Sloppy Inca!

    He shares his birthday with the greatest of all time Neil Armstrong

    This explains everything.

  54. Rebel Scum

    I’d imagine that there are a great many things you do not understand.

    Cooper said, “Yesterday, President Biden made a plea to some Republican governors. He said, ‘I say to these governors, please help, but if you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way for people to do the right thing. Use your power to save lives.’ When you look at the state of Florida that is experiencing such a surge right now, the governor there signed an executive order that threatened to pull funding from schools that implement mask mandates. Does that make sense to you, especially for children under 12 years old?”

    Gates said, “I’ve never understood being against masks as strongly as some people are. If you look at all the measures where there’s a certain cost to every one of these measures, and there’s a certain benefit in terms of saving lives and preventing diseases, I think wearing masks is one of the lowest cost and highest benefit things in this whole picture. ”

    There are no negative mental or physical consequences to keeping one’s face covered with a cloth that is inundated with warm, moist air such that it functions like a bacteria incubator. It is known.

    • Chipwooder

      There is virtually no benefit to wearing a cloth mask.

    • Gustave Lytton

      a cloth that is inundated with warm, moist air such that it functions like a bacteria incubator

      If you don’t want to wear underwear and socks, that’s your business. Normal people take baths and put on clean clothing at least once a day.

    • WTF

      There is absolutely zero actual data showing that masks have been effective in stopping or even slowing the spread of the virus.
      But let’s all pretend this has something to do with SCIENCE! and SAVING LIVES!

      • Suthenboy

        We have 100 years of studies exclusively showing they do not work, if anything can make things worse. That we have been doing so many studies for so long makes me think that many are desperate for the magic security blanket to work if only we wish harder one more time.

  55. Count Potato

    “”EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit Filed Against Wake Forest University Over Coach Who Killed Man With One Punch

    Despite Sandor’s blood on his hands, Jones was only charged and convicted of a misdemeanor: Three years of probation, 1,500 hours of community service, and a $1,000 fine were the full extent of his punishment.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/exclusive-lawsuit-filed-wake-forest-university-coach-killed-man-one-punch/

    Killing someone is only a misdemeanor?

    • Surly Knott

      Jock privilege.

      • Count Potato

        I don’t think that’s it.

      • WTF

        Nah, the killer is a black guy and he only killed a white guy, so no big deal.

    • R C Dean

      On direct examination, Jones had admitted chasing Szabo and punching him in the face near the opposite corner of the street, even as Szabo appeared to be backing up

      I don’t see that as anything short of a confession to second-degree murder. How the fuck did he get off?

      Oh. Black privilege, I guess.

      • slumbrew

        The underlying story is from Feb, 2020 – dunno why she’s churning this up now.

        “The mother has been fighting current policy in New York City that treats one-punch deaths as third degree assaults, a misdemeanor crime.”

        Perhaps it’s a shitty policy, but the sentence seems to be in-line with 3rd-degree assault.

        I hope the mother prevails against NYC.

        However, trying to put the arm on Wake Forest is shitty & I hope she loses. Even her “they should have known he was violent” claim is contradicted by they guy saying he had never been arrested before (if that was a lie, the WPIX didn’t follow up on it).

    • Agent Cooper

      The Real One Punch Man!

  56. The Late P Brooks

    Gates said, “I’ve never understood being against masks as strongly as some people are. If you look at all the measures where there’s a certain cost to every one of these measures, and there’s a certain benefit in terms of saving lives and preventing diseases, I think wearing masks is one of the lowest cost and highest benefit things in this whole picture. ”

    Dear Bill-

    If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?

    xoxo

    Seriously, every part of that statement reveals a mindboggling credulity and incuriousness.

    • EvilSheldon

      ‘Noted autist doesn’t mind losing ability to read facial expressions’. Wow. I’m just shocked.

    • R C Dean

      there’s a certain benefit in terms of saving lives and preventing diseases

      There is absolutely no evidence that cloth or surgical masks do any such thing.

  57. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    And a happy birthday to Sloopy! I should have known that someone with such exceptional taste in women and music was a Leo.

    The bitcoin story is disturbing and confusing. How the hell do the Feds get access to the wallets?

    I think you are correct that cord-cutting plays a part, but I still think a lot of former sports fanatics are burned out.

    For Sloop!

  58. juris imprudent

    OK I know this is going to be a shock, but David Brooks wrote something worth reading.

    I got a lot wrong about the bobos. I didn’t anticipate how aggressively we would move to assert our cultural dominance, the way we would seek to impose elite values through speech and thought codes. I underestimated the way the creative class would successfully raise barriers around itself to protect its economic privilege—not just through schooling, but through zoning regulations that keep home values high, professional-certification structures that keep doctors’ and lawyers’ incomes high while blocking competition from nurses and paralegals, and more. And I underestimated our intolerance of ideological diversity. Over the past five decades, the number of working-class and conservative voices in universities, the mainstream media, and other institutions of elite culture has shrunk to a sprinkling.

    When you tell a large chunk of the country that their voices are not worth hearing, they are going to react badly—and they have.

    • PieInTheSky

      I have a feeling of deja vu on that one

      • juris imprudent

        So I missed it here and saw it over at RCP. Besides you couldn’t be as shocked as I am that Brooks wrote something intelligent.

    • Suthenboy

      Defending oneself against aggressors is not ‘acting badly’.

      • Agent Cooper

        Agreed. He’s still a shitstain.

  59. wdalasio

    If I were dictator for a day, I’d impose a constitutional amendment – Any law that initiates coercion against the individual must include a provision mandating that every legislator who voted for it personally accepts legal financial liability for any consequences of the law. Similarly, any regulation that initiates coercion against the individual is assumed to carry personal legal financial liability for the senior leadership of the department or agency issuing the regulation.

    • PieInTheSky

      If I were dictator for a day, I’d impose a constitutional amendment that if I point at a chick she has to bang me

      • AlexinCT

        This guy get what power is for…

      • Rat on a train

        It normally goes “If I were dictator for a day, I would pass a constitutional amendment making me dictator for life.”

    • R C Dean

      My amendment would be a little different. Any legislator who votes for a law, and any governor or President who signs a law, is strictly liable, as a felony, for violating that law. And a private criminal action can be brought by any citizen against that legislator or executive. Any dismissal of such an action by a judge is subject to review by a panel of citizens who are not licensed attorneys. If the citizens overturn the judge’s decision, the judge is removed.

      • UnCivilServant

        I would recommend a refinement – a felony on top of the penalty for violating the law.

        Otherwise it’d be a nice loophole to reduce murder and treason charges to mere felonies.

      • UnCivilServant

        *I know both are felonies, but they do get harsher penalties in of themselves than the average stock of felonious behaviour.

      • R C Dean

        Amendment accepted. Motion is hereby amended. Any further discussion? No? Then I request that the Chairman call for a vote.

  60. Count Potato

    “Wife of Jan. 6 Political Prisoner Outraged Over Double Standard: Why Are Black Lives Matter Protesters Paid $70K After Being Banned From Capitol?

    As hundreds of Trump supporters sit in DC jails cells for allegedly walking into the Capitol building while protesting results of the fraud-ridden 2020 election, Black Lives Matter activists will be awarded $70,000 after getting banned from the Iowa state capitol and fighting police officers.

    BLM activists protested at the Iowa State Capitol last July against a law barring convicted felons from voting when they started attacking law enforcement officials. Following the altercation, Des Moines police arrested 17 of the protesters on charges of disorderly conduct or assault.

    Citing a trespassing statute in state law, the Iowa State Patrol sent the protesters who were apprehended a letter banning them from setting foot on the Capitol grounds for up to a year…”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/wife-jan-6-political-prisoner-outraged-double-standard-black-lives-matter-protesters-paid-70k-banned-capitol/

    A bit of a misleading headline, but still.

  61. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Paging Ozy

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33113270/

    Aims of the study: Patient comprehension is a critical part of meeting medical ethics standards of informed consent in study designs. The aim of the study was to determine if sufficient literature exists to require clinicians to disclose the specific risk that COVID-19 vaccines could worsen disease upon exposure to challenge or circulating virus.

    Methods used to conduct the study: Published literature was reviewed to identify preclinical and clinical evidence that COVID-19 vaccines could worsen disease upon exposure to challenge or circulating virus. Clinical trial protocols for COVID-19 vaccines were reviewed to determine if risks were properly disclosed.

    Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID-19 disease via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.

    Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent.

    • Tundra

      Mengele is in awe.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s from December of 2020.

        In other words, they were aware of potential risks and chose NOT to pass those on to the vaccinees.

    • Suthenboy

      Ok, earlier I said I didnt know what they could do to make me trust them less. Now I know. Informed consent it out.
      They really do think of us as cattle.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        “I never said actors were cattle. What I said was that they should be treated like cattle.”

      • R C Dean

        Informed consent left the building when employers started mandating the vacks.

    • Ozymandias

      *YAWN*
      Oh, what’s that, you say? That they knew and didn’t give a fuck and gave it to the public anyway?
      Oh no. Not that. Tell me it’s not true. I can’t believe it. Unpossible.
      (How’s that?)

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        wilderwonka.jpg

  62. Toxteth O'Grady

    Bonne anniversaire, Monsieur Inca! ? ? ?

    • Rat on a train

      Maligayang kaarawan!

  63. Lord Humungus

    I’m sure this was covered yesterday or before?

    Buried in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: In-Car Breathalyzers

    Amid the 2,702-page bipartisan infrastructure plan that could get a vote by the week’s end is a series of safety requirements for the vehicles set to travel on all those new and improved roads. The feds are set to make it more difficult to get behind the wheel drunk, requiring automakers to install technology in new cars to prevent drunk driving that could take the form of passive monitors for drivers’ breath, eye scans to check focus or even infrared touch tests on ignition buttons.

    The mandate could all but eliminate the one-third of traffic-related deaths in the United States that involve impaired drivers. By the government’s own estimate, drunk driving accounts for one death every 52 minutes. Congress’ proposal is a major public-health move that basically says lawmakers are fine paying for the new roadways, but in exchange they want some safeguards that those new lanes won’t be packed with loaded drivers.

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!

    • Rat on a train

      There better be a mandate for COVID detection as well.

  64. Count Potato

    “What’s the best way to inform teenagers about porn? Should there be age-appropriate porn as has been suggested so they can learn about consent and what’s respectful and what’s not? What do you think? Email us your opinions”

    https://twitter.com/BBCWomansHour/status/1422474495122681898

    OFFS!!

    • Lord Humungus

      When I was a lad of 15 years porn certainly helped with my first sexual experience. At least I had _some_ idea of what to do. To bad she didn’t – the penis is not a windshield wiper. 😉

      • AlexinCT

        Depends on what the windshield you are wiping it against is, isn’t it?

      • Lord Humungus

        She had lovely breasts but sadly it was her idea of a handjob.

      • AlexinCT

        Ouch!

      • juris imprudent

        Really fast or was she set on intermittent?

      • Lord Humungus

        more like a half-hearted attempt. But she was, like me, only 15 and inexperienced. So ::shrugs::

      • Animal

        It’s amazing what you can learn by watching farm animals.

        I’m reminded of the story wherein a young farm lad was given a heifer on a lead, with instructions from his father to “take ‘er to the neighbor’s bull, get ‘er bred.” So he takes the heifer on over to the neighbor’s place, where he was embarassed to find that only the neighbor’s eighteen-year-old daughter was home.

        “I know what you’re here for,” the daughter tells him, and leads him to the bull’s pen back of the barn. They put the heifer in the pen, and sit on the rail fence watching as the bull commences operations.

        After a little bit the boy starts feeling pretty randy. Noticing him squirming, the girl asks him, “Something wrong?”

        He points at the bull and heifer. “I wish I was-a doing that!”

        The daughter replies, “Well, why not? It’s your heifer.”

      • AlexinCT

        Reminds me of the shipwrecked guy’s story…

        Ship goes down, he is the only survivor and manages to rescue a bunch of equipment and animals that were on board, including a heifer, and because he is handy, he builds himself a pretty good living on the island he is on. He builds himself some real cool shelter, with the ability to store food for prolonged time, builds pens for his animals, and lives the high but simple life.

        However, as time goes bye, he start feeling like he misses female companionship. And the more he thinks about it, the more he wants it. Talking to a freaking volleyball doesn’t make a dent in the need, so he starts noticing the heifer. He talks himself out of the idea for months before finally giving in to his lust. And that’s how the problems start…

        He walks up to the heifer, lines it up, and realizes he is too short. He hurries off and makes himself a bench to stand on, then hurries back to do the needful. Lines the bench up, gets on it, then the heifer walks off and he is left holding it in his hands with no satisfaction. He tries to pen the animal in, but fails miserable adding to his frustration..

        Weeks go bye as he unsuccessfully tries to do that act he craves and his failures are driving him mad. No matter what contraption he puts together in the end things fail and he feels like the coyote chasing the road runner. He is sitting there on the beach thinking up a possible solution when he notices a plane going down into the water less than a half mile away.

        As he pays attention he notices a survivor come up and scream for help and that she can’t swim. He doesn’t miss a beat and jumps in, swims out to her and pulls her to shore. When he gets here there he realizes that she is passed out and not breathing, so he quickly gives her CPR at which point she revives.

        The survivor turns out to be a young and stunningly beautiful woman and she realizes she owes her life to the guy. Grateful for his selfless act, she looks him in the eyes and tells him she will do anything, and she means anything, to thank him..

        He starts jumping up & down with joy at this revelation, then points at the heifer and tells the beautiful and willing woman to hold the dang thing while he gets his bench so he finally can do what he had been denied for months……

      • Lord Humungus

        No sheep available? /sheperd

      • Bobarian LMD

        the penis is not a windshield wiper.

        What if you set it to intermittent and liberally use the washer fluid?

        Hawt!

    • juris imprudent

      A pron thread with BBC and Woman in it. The jokes just write themselves.

  65. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Worth a listen It’s Byram Bridle talking about how the spike protein is escaping the shoulder vaccination site. It’s showing up in breastmilk as well.

    I’m also seeing spurious reports of potential long term capillary damage from the spike proteins in the vaccines. Nothing has been verified, but based on what we already know about the spike proteins, the mechanism for such damage certainly exists. In short, we are potentially setting ourselves up for a major increase in cardiovascular and heart disease over the long term by broadly administering these treatments.

    • juris imprudent

      Well, the people in charge best hope they die before that all comes to pass. Far better to have your grave desecrated than to be subjected to the boats.

    • Count Potato

      From what I’ve read the vaccines only make the spike proteins for a short period of time.

      Also, don’t all IM vaccines escape the muscle?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        1) Supposedly, the question is what damage is being done during that period and what are the long-term implications of such?

        2) No

      • Count Potato

        1) Supposedly, the question is what damage is being done during that period and what are the long-term implications of such?

        Fair enough.

        2) No

        Are you sure?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m not absolutely certain, I’m going off Steve Kirsch in this case. So yes, it deserves further inspection.

        But the mechanics are wholly different with mRNA vaccines. With traditional inactivated virus vaccines you receive a limited dose of the actual toxin that gets taken up by the capillaries and lymph nodes in the area of vaccination. Your body does not produce more of the toxin.

        One major concern from the beginning of this vaccine effort is that the mRNA vaccines are using lipid nano-particles (LNP) to deliver the MRNA to the cells. The problem is that LNP can travel almost anywhere in the body, potentially getting past even the blood-brain barrier.

        The mRNA then induces cells to start producing the spike protein, which we now know to be toxic by itself. But aside from that concern, the body’s immune system will attack the spike protein producing cells and kill them. This potentially creates a situation where the immune system targets cells you don’t want it to in sensitive areas (like nerves), leading to auto-immune problems down the road.

        The upshot is that we don’t have a fucking clue what the long-term effects are and there are definite and warranted concerns about specific mechanisms of damage. Those concerns are compounded by the tissue studies which validate that mRNA is going all over the place.

        Now we’re talking boosters, which would just amplify any of these issues that we don’t fully understand yet.

    • kinnath

      spike protein is escaping the shoulder vaccination site.

      It has to.

      The vaccine behaves like the virus in that the vaccine hijacks some number of cells to produce spike proteins. The spike protein circulates through the body. The immune system produces antibodies and T cells to fight the spike protein. The antibodies are temporary (months perhaps). The T Cells are forever (around for a very long time).

      Good idea? Bad idea? Who fucking knows?

      It should not be surprising in any way that the spike protein shows up throughout the body and in bodily excretions.

    • Lord Humungus

      Yikes is all I can say. Glad I haven’t vaxxed. EF and LH Jr. did though, the former for work reasons, the latter for school/summer camp. ::sigh::

    • Ghostpatzer

      Definitely was worth the listen, the potential of spike protein escaping is not good – it’s not clear how frequently this occurs, but it is certainly a risk that should be considered. Especially concerning to me is the ramifications for blood transfusions; I’m sure that the people berating us with incessant exhortations to get vaccinated for “the common good” are equally concerned about how blood containing spike proteins might affect surgical patients.

    • Rebel Scum

      Enough with the conspiracy theories, Alex Jones. ///jk

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Now they’re just straight up admitting it. Wow.

    • Suthenboy

      That woman is a complete lunatic. By that I mean she could probably be committed. She is clinically insane. This is our political class, ladies and gentlemen, a hodgepodge of the insane and personality disorders.

    • Penguin
  66. Lord Humungus

    Sen. Dick Durbin’s Bill Would Make Dietary Supplements Prescription Only

    If it slips through, Durbin’s bill will give enormous power to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to eliminate access to dietary supplements, which the agency has been trying to do for years.

    “Senator Durbin’s goal is to create a mandatory product listing with the FDA, which seems innocuous but is far from it,” warns ANH-USA.

    “The problem is that FDA is separately completing a process to eliminate every supplement from the market that doesn’t meet ‘new supplement’ notification requirements, which are akin to new drug requirements, and the FDA needs Sen. Durbin’s list to locate and pull and estimated 41,700 supplements from the market.”

    • Count Potato

      Prescription requirements should be eliminated entirely. It just makes medicine more expensive.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Wasn’t this or something similar tried in ’94?

      • Count Potato

        Probably.

      • l0b0t

        Yep, they also tried to make vitamins Rx only. IIRC, it was Sen. Orrin Hatch who did most of the heavy lifting needed to defeat the bill.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Sorry there’s too much Vitamin C in those oranges, you need a script.”

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        What about the WF/Sprouts voting bloc?

      • UnCivilServant

        Those are scheduled substances.

        You go to a rape cage for having any.

  67. Count Potato

    “The federal government gave at least $2.7 million in taxpayer money to researchers who sought out minority babies who had been aborted in order to harvest their organs, according to internal documents released Tuesday.

    The University of Pittsburgh targeted minorities in its request for infant organs—including those taken from full-term babies—to create a “pipeline” for fetal research. Researchers said they needed 50 percent of the donated fetuses to be minorities and specified that 25 percent must come from black women. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area is 85 percent white and 8 percent black. Researchers stressed the importance of maintaining organ blood flow in the request, which watchdogs say could violate federal law by asking doctors to illegally preserve organs during labor-inducing abortions.”

    https://freebeacon.com/policy/taxpayer-fund-aborted-babies-research/

    • Suthenboy

      As a young idiot I was tentatively pro choice. I was not aware at that age of the evil that men can do. These fucking ghouls…these days I have my feet pretty firmly planted on the other side of the fence.

      I would be shocked to learn that the money was not laundered through PP.

      • Mustang

        When people told me that kids would change me I was not prepared for the emotional onslaught. Now, when I read stuff like this, about kids killed in war zones, or similar stories I kind of go blind with anger. All those people were right.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Sounds pretty equitable, what’s the problem? /DEI council

    • juris imprudent

      Assistant federal public defender Attorney Alison M. Clark, who represents Machic-Xiap, had argued the illegal re-entry charge is unconstitutional because it violates the right to equal protection under the law.

      I know legal ethics demands a zealous representation for the client, but that just deserves a bitch slap from Portland OR to Portland ME.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Who’s going to bitch slap him? The legal establishment that largely agrees with that view?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Spare me the sanctimony, Your Honor.

    • rhywun

      OFFS!

      I have contempt for that court.

  68. Lord Humungus

    Lawyer: Capitol Cop Who Shot Ashli Babbitt ‘Ambushed’ Her on Jan. 6 Without Warning

    But over the next 3½ hours, he and other Democrats, along with their handpicked Republican panelists and police witnesses, never mentioned the most lethal act committed that day — the fatal Capitol Police shooting of unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt. It was the only shot fired during the entire riot.

    This omission angered Babbitt’s family and a number of Republicans who maintain that the Select Committee and the Capitol Police are covering up the circumstances surrounding her death. Questions linger over the shooting, especially whether the officer who fired the fatal shot warned Babbitt to stop before he opened fire as she attempted to breach a barricaded door inside the Capitol Building.

    The officer’s lawyer insists his client not only issued such a command, but did so loudly and clearly. However, in an interview with RealClearInvestigations, Babbitt family attorney Terry Roberts said he has gathered evidence indicating the officer, a plainclothes police lieutenant, remained silent. Far from warning Babbitt he would shoot, Roberts said the officer “ambushed” her from the side where she could not see he had taken up position in a hall doorway and had trained his weapon on her.

    • Gustave Lytton

      If it had been a real mob bent on violence and murder, that would have been the point where every uniformed thug and their congressional lackeys were ripped limb from limb in a frenzy. But that didn’t happen. Because the unruly mob wasn’t interested in what the deep state alleges or the FBI instigators tried to push.

    • juris imprudent

      Eh, comment #36?

      • Lord Humungus

        I’m late to the party.

      • juris imprudent

        No worries, Pie humbled me on a different link.

      • Lord Humungus

        But I brought a $3 bottle of wine, and some $2 cheese on a plate!

  69. Zwak, jack off, all trades

    Sloopy gets to be Sloppy on the downhill Slope.

    Happy B-day Sir!

  70. Lord Humungus

    Yesterday I replaced the power supply capacitors in my 1946 radio. It looked as if someone else had already been in there and replaced all of the small caps, but not the main electrolytic cap. I mean that’s nice ‘n’ all but the hum was still there until I did my work on it.

    • Count Potato

      Did they even have poly caps in 1946? Mica and ceramic caps almost never go bad.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        But electrolytics, even from back then, frequently do.

        I’ve just finished re-capping a Sony “tabletop” radio from 1978, and every single electrolytic cap in it was bad (all 18 of ’em), as well as a couple of ceramics which had failed. There were two major failure modes for the elctros: either the actual capacitance was wildly outside of the stated range/value for the cap, or the ESR on the electro in question was far, far higher than it was supposed to be. The ceramics were acting like dead shorts.

        Works like a charm now.

      • Lord Humungus

        Usually paper or paper-in-oil caps. These can go bad and leak (ie, not block DC quite %100).

    • db

      Have you got it up to 88 mph yet?

    • PieInTheSky

      but why?

      • Lord Humungus

        because retro radios are cool with their bakelite shells? Also it’s fun to repair such old technology, making it good for another generation to enjoy.

        YMMV, of course. Some people like old cars, old computers, old houses, etc instead of the latest ‘n’ greatest.

      • UnCivilServant

        My biggest problem with retro radios – the lack of retro content for them.

      • Lord Humungus

        That’s what my brother says: (to paraphrase): “these look cool but it isn’t like you can turn them on and listen to ‘The Shadow'”

        There is a device one can buy so you can tune the radio to a certain band and listen to the audio outs of a cassette/CD/etc.

      • Gender Traitor

        Put a satellite radio in a retro shell and tune it to ’40s Junction! ::looks around for jitterbug partner, remembers she can’t dance::

      • R C Dean

        I would bet there’s a market for putting a bluetooth speaker in them, so the entire universe of online content can be played through them. Which includes no end of older music and radio shows.

        Keep the old guts of the radio, and include it along with the retro-mod so it can be restored if someone wants.

      • Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you

        Don’t even need to do that.

        Just for yucks, I bought a little $10.00 “puck” (Bluetooth speaker), gutted it and removed the PCB, then put it into an old Sony AM transistor radio and fed the output of the “puck” to the radio’s speaker via a selectable switch. Worked great. The next step was to push all of the Bluetooth controls off of the PCB and get ’em onto the exterior of the radio, but I ran out of time, as that was when we were moving away from the Lower Mainland. As (bad) luck would have it, the radio went missing during the move. Easy enough to replicate, but I have other more urgent projects awaiting my bench, including some interior work on our microwave to turn it into a death-ray alleviate some overheating problems we’re having with it.

      • Akira

        I’ve thought about taking the guts out of new electronics and making faux-antique “shells” for them (this is coming closer to reality as I continue to get better at woodworking).

        I think my first attempt will be speakers – not too difficult. Just a wooden box with brass corner brackets would give it a nice Victrola aesthetic.

  71. l0b0t

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SLOOPY!!!!

    Thank you, and thank you Banjos, for all your work around here.

    • PieInTheSky

      kind of plagiarize reality- were you drunk? otherwise that is unacceptable

      • CPRM

        were you drunk?

        clearly you haven’t been on enough zooms

      • Lord Humungus

        Where you can see EF and LH doing whiskey shots.

    • Tulip

      Yours was better

    • UnCivilServant

      No one is going to believe a black serial killer going around framing people for her murders.

    • l0b0t

      HOLY MACKEREL! That’s delicious. 2014 wasn’t ready for the woke potential; now is the time to pitch that idea. Or, hear me out, woke reboots of the Matlock/ Diagnosis Murder franchises?

      • UnCivilServant

        Where the NHS doctor kills scores of patients due to bureucratic incompetence and frames other people to avoid loss of public support?

      • l0b0t

        Now you’re on the trolley! It could even be a musical; punctuated with hospital staff ignoring their duties to make synchronized dancing videos for Tiky taky.

      • CPRM

        A combo idea, I Like IT! Strong Black Trans lead is a lawyer by day and doctor by night, solving all the murders done by white supremacists!

      • AlexinCT

        What? No love for the Asians?

      • CPRM

        This is a show a about diversity, asians have no place there.

      • AlexinCT

        Damn can’t you make an allotment? Maybe you have a gimp, dressed in full leather and caged in the basement of Asian descent that the hero can work out his frustrations on in the name of equity?

    • db

      They out to reboot The Fall Guy — instead of being a stunt man, he’s the guy at the studio responsible for deflecting accusations of sexual harrassment against the executives.

  72. waffles

    I work at a small manufacturer that requires a lot of manpower. Holy shit it’s hard to staff.

    • CPRM

      He’s just a dentist, not a real Doctor, he’s no expert.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Rand is just an optician. /spits

        Genuinely didn’t know about the DDS part.

      • creech

        You need to have a PhD in Education from some lower tier university to be considered a DOCTOR.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Dr. Cosby agrees!

      • rhywun

        That’s Dr. William H. Cosby Jr.

        (I remember that from the show credits)

      • CPRM

        At least he gave out [secret] prescriptions.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        HEY-o!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I think a doctor is anyone* who can prescribe: MD, DO, DDS/DMD, even DVM.

        *probably not NP, usually not Ph.D

      • Akira

        A doctor of psychology can prescribe certain meds in specific circumstances, also.

  73. Lord Humungus

    LH’s quick booze review: Old Crow bourbon

    Besides Blackburn, many American politicians have declared their love for Old Crow. It has been said that it was the drink of choice for American general and later 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.[5] An apocryphal story about Grant’s drinking has the general’s critics going to President Abraham Lincoln, charging the military man with being a drunk. Lincoln is supposed to have replied, “By the way, gentlemen, can either of you tell me where General Grant procures his whiskey? Because, if I can find out, I will send every general in the field a barrel of it!”[6]

    Confederate General Jubal Early was also a fan of Old Crow.

    Another famous politician who preferred Old Crow was Henry Clay, of Kentucky,[1] who was even featured in Old Crow advertisements.[7]

    World War II “triple ace” Bud Anderson named his P-51 Mustang Old Crow, after the whiskey.[8]

    This is a very “young” tasting bourbon; not so good for drinking neat or over the rocks. However, it is dirt cheap at $9.99 a fifth, and mixes well with Coca-Cola, hiding some of the rawer elements. It lacks the caramel or subtle flavors of Jack Daniels, and, being a brand owned by Jim Beam, feels like a rawer, less aged version of that drink. Of course the original distallation formula has changed since the original creator died. So a cheap swill useful for flavored or sugared mixed drinks where quality doesn’t matter as much as quantity.

  74. Ozymandias

    We know we have a/some Babylon Bee folks here, so at this point, I’m taking these as a compliment to the great humor of the Glib Hive Mind.

    https://notthebee.com/article/no-delta-is-not-a-streaming-service-nor-is-it-an-extra-legroom-seat-on-your-next-flight

    “Delta+ is not a streaming service nor is it an extra legroom seat on your next flight.”

    Ka-boom. Keep laughing and yucking it up, Glibbies! Even in the face of the shitshow. Our ability to laugh really is God’s work; it’s the ability to find humor (however dark it may be) in the midst of the collapse of our culture and civilization.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The gabbers and folk tellers will once again be revered around the burning barrel.

  75. The Bearded Hobbit

    Happy birthday, Sloopy!

    And happy anniversary to Mrs. Hobbit, putting up with me for 49 years.

    • Ghostpatzer

      Happy anniversary! Next up, the big five-oh!

    • CPRM

      Did you pin a medal on her chest?

      • Ghostpatzer

        At Casa Patzer, we prefer jewelry. Pearl necklace for that special occasion.

      • juris imprudent

        What you did there, nope, not seeing it, not at all, refusing to see anything…

      • Ownbestenemy

        Neither can she after that gift.

      • slumbrew

        Hey-oooo!

    • l0b0t

      WOW! Congratulations to the both of you.

    • Tundra

      Awesome! Happy anniversary to you and your lovely wife, Hobbit!

    • EvilSheldon

      That’s awesome. Congrats to the both of you!

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Thanks to all.

    • db

      Congratulations!

  76. Lord Humungus

    I was thinking – last night at 3AM – of writing a post about the “Death of Libertarianism”.

    Given the masses love of big daddy/mommy government, I think that individual rights. free speech, etc are dying on the vine, to be replaced by an acceptance of “socialism-lite” , or hell, pretty much communism-lite.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg1ISl2u5Lg

    • CPRM

      Matt Welch gets hard.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Wot, Blairism?

      So what if Dyson moves his factories to Malaysia?

    • R C Dean

      Less thinking, more writing.

      Wait, that didn’t come out right . . . .

  77. Ownbestenemy

    Made it through the interview. Given 45 minutes to answer 6 questions, answered them just shy of 40 minutes. Staring at people on Zoom is fucking weird. I would rather the silence that comes with a phone interview.

    • CPRM

      So, how drunk were you?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ha! Even my wife asked “How would they know!”

    • UnCivilServant

      And? What was your score?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wont know for a week and we don’t get scored. Its up to the selection official now. My guess, I wasn’t that clear on my management style which is make everyone better than me.

  78. westernsloper

    Happy Birthday Sloopy!!!!!