Monday Morning Links

by | Feb 14, 2022 | Daily Links | 383 comments

Oh well.

I think the refs put the screw job on the Bengals last night. You simply can’t call the game a certain way for 58 minutes and then go completely in the opposite direction the last 2.  It was a decent game though.Liverpool won a sloppy affair across the pond while Spuds are going to shit and suffered their third straight loss.  We get UCL round of 16 games this week! And that’s sports.

Sadly, I think a lot of people are cheering this on. Not just the musical selection, but the concept of the government testing disgruntled citizens like shit.  And I believe all those people once called themselves liberals.

What a fucking dump.

Meanwhile, in a backwards shithole this happened. And remember kids, we’re sending this country money for weapons.

I have an alternate headline. How about: “city throws money in the toilet while many adults who pay little to nothing in taxes cheer”.

Put it straight into my veins. Also, this wasn’t mentioned at all from the first three places I got links from. Not at all.

Hypocrisy. Not that any of us should have expected something different.

Then now would be a perfect time to attack. Not that I condone attacks, but at least it might cause some good.

A legend.

A sad day in the world of comedy. May he Rest In Peace.

That’s some funny timing. Also, the commercial was ass. Mexican avocados in Ancient Rome? Whoever came up with that should be pelted with unripe tree fruit.

Enjoy a fantastic song. And just in case I played that recently (I’m a bit groggy this morning), here’s another great one. And in case I played that recently as well, here’s one I know I haven’t played in forever. Enjoy them all, friends.

And enjoy the start of another week.

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383 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh

  2. Not Adahn

    Early!

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    Present!

    • Rat on a train

      Accounted for!

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      I don’t FEEL tardy.

    • slumbrew

      Greetings from RSW!

  4. Surly Knott

    The Hillary news has been on the Google News aggregator this morning.
    I wonder how much of this attention is part of an attempt to pre-empt her possible run for 2024. And/or to diminish her influence by painting the Dems as “we’ve moved past all that, we’re new and improved.”

    • Nephilium

      Yeah, saw the story pop up in my news feed as well.

    • waffles

      That story is insane. I remember in, uhm 2018 when the mueller report came out and every news media was in disbelief that they had nothing. If only we knew how deep the rabbit hole goes and how little anyone would really care.

      • Fatty Bolger

        If you read it carefully, the Mueller report is full of evidence that the DNC “hack” was fake, and that it was almost certainly a DNC employee with inside access who took the emails that eventually ended up with Wikileaks.

      • waffles

        The problem is that it gets reported and then nothing else happens. The idea that the truth coming out means the powerful will be held to account is just a fairy tale.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, the problem is that some people are immune to consequences, and while most of them are part of the powerful, there are plenty of powerful that won’t get away with criminal behavior. The great divider here isn’t just power, but being connected to the deep state.

    • AlexinCT

      If they give it attention it will be to control the damage and dismiss it. The fuckers that spent 4 years lying about how Russia and Trump-Putin were the problem have no desire other than to do damage control to protect the fucking assholes that tell them what programming to present the lemming idiots and themselves. Anyone that by now doesn’t know that the democrat political establishment is a fucking crime syndicate and that the weaponized 3 letter bureaucracies of the Obama era are now all manned by capos from that political machine again, and taking their direction from these criminal cartel members, is a fucking moron.

    • R C Dean

      It’s pretty much been an open secret for years. The Obama faction must be purging the Clinton faction for it to suddenly be news.

      • AlexinCT

        They must be trying hard to keep her away from the 2024 election where she now is likely to run as a Cthulhu party candidate instead.

  5. Evan from Evansville

    OT: sorry it’s late here. Contract ends March 1. Boss is being silly about a legal severance payment of one month’s salary. But! She is wanting Mr to stay on for a bit. I expected this and am actually looking forward to it. I told her I’d work 2-4 more weeks til she can find someone new.

    Training someone else is fine and I’d get to mostly watch rather than teach.

    Visa expires in April so have to bounce before then. Working through Feb is actually pretty perfect.

    Worried about working and establishing myself in Indy. Another fun adventure to add to the list. No sarc. Hard, but rewarding.

    Will likely have to go through legal battles to get all my earnings. The extra work may specifically help an aspect of that. Conditions will apply and I’ll be recording all conversations with her.

    The game…is officially afoot.

    • UnCivilServant

      Indy as in Indianapolis, or India?

      • Fourscore

        “working and establishing myself in Indy”

        The newly proposed trans system will need employees.

        Welcome Back, Evan.

        If only there was some fitting music….

      • sloopyinca

        The newly proposed trans system will need employees.

        You want them to pay Evan to cut peoples dicks off?

      • Not Adahn

        Does he get to pick the dick vics?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Evansville, Get it?

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s just where he originated, no necessarily where he’s headed next.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        He said as much in a previous comment, guess you had to be there
        /snark O matic off

    • Evan from Evansville

      UcS” Indianapolis, darling. ^^

      4×20: ‘trans” or “transportation ” system?…much confusion. I guess both work…but for the former…I require FAR more than the $20 downtown…

      UCS: born in Bluefield,WV! Named and then was moved to Eville when I was 6 months old. Absolute coincidence. Dad didn’t get the new job for the paper til after I was named.

      • Fourscore

        I think the trans system is already filled but the newly generated transportation proposal will be needing employees.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Unsubtle

    “We’re not going to go into the gutter,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said of his party, an unsubtle reference to the Kavanaugh debate. “We’re not going to engage in personal slurs and slander.”

    What an egregious mischaracterization. Noble Democrats made a valiant effort to defend DEMOCRACY! from that racist thug Kavanaugh, but were thwarted by the Party of Misogyny and their frat boy rape camps.

    • Fourscore

      Cruz has been busy lately, making himself visible. Could there be some ulterior motives? Nah, no way.

    • WTF

      And that’s why the Dems feel comfortable going into the gutter with personal slurs and slander, they know the Republicans won’t retaliate in kind.

  7. Certified Public Asshat

    I think the refs put the screw job on the Bengals last night.

    The defensive holding was weak, but twisting Ramsey’s helmet on the Higgins touchdown was not. Hard to be too outraged.

    Spuds are going to shit and suffered their third straight loss.

    *sobs into pillow*

  8. Fourscore

    The Indianapolis proposal will insure that the low income people stay where they are. No reason to want to move on up to the East Side.

    • banginglc1

      This bus line is going in right by my old house. I won’t say I sold because I knew the bus was coming, but it did play a factor in my decision.

  9. Rat on a train

    city throws money in the toilet while many adults who pay little to nothing in taxes cheer
    At least it is BRT. Light rail would cost at least ten times as much.

    • Fourscore

      Oh, let’s go with light rail then.

      • Rat on a train

        If you go light rail, it needs to be shared right-of-way like DC Streetcar for maximum stupidity.

      • Not Adahn

        Houston pedestrians say Hi-aaaaaugh!

      • banginglc1

        Indy tried to go light rail. The state legislature banned them from doing it without approval from the state.

  10. waffles

    The results of the employer asking our vaccine status is in: no mandate, due to overwhelming response masks are no longer required anywhere. I guess I got worked up for nothing. Still have little to no trust for anyone asking me about my vaccine status. I reiterate, miss me with that jab.

    • Lackadaisical

      Nice end result.

    • Brawndo

      Same, except we still have to wear masks at work. On the plus side, they stopped playing the “dear customers, please wear a mask while shopping here” announcement in between songs, so maybe its on its way out.

      • Fatty Bolger

        It’s going to take a while to get rid of them in customer facing jobs, because businesses don’t want to deal with the loudmouths that will complain about not wearing them, while maskless customers don’t really care that much either way.

      • Brawndo

        They scrapped the mask mandate for vaccinated employees between May and July of 2021. Of course I pretended to be vaccinated

      • waffles

        Looking around the office the only one still wearing a mask is the middle aged lady who gets up from her desk 4 times a day to smoke a cigarette. Nothing against smokers but the juxtaposition gives me a chuckle.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Members of both parties view the fraught Kavanaugh debate as the panel’s worst period in recent memory, even as they say most senators have moved on. Nevertheless, neither side holds back when asked about the handling of the justice’s confirmation.

    “I am one of the people that they consider having treated [Kavanaugh] horribly, and that is why Josh Hawley can go on Fox News and say: ‘Oh, I can only imagine what kind of a hearing we’re going to have with Sen. Hirono there,’” said Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii).

    Replying to Hawley, she quipped: “I just want to say, what the heck? You are an insurrectionist. Come on. Give me a break.”

    Hawley, who described the Judiciary Committee as his “most contentious” assignment in the Senate, responded: “I wish her well.”

    Bless her heart.

    • sloopyinca

      I can’t believe they elected that retard to the senate. Twice.

      • AlexinCT

        You must not have interactions with libs too often. Living in a blue state and seeing the stupid shit these people that believe they are smarter than the rubes that do real work believe often leaves me wondering if the fucking evil shits that say letting people vote is dumb might not have actually realized that there is a real problem when easily manipulated lemmings get to virtue signal with a vote.

      • rhywun

        She probably greases the right palms. That’s all that really matters.

      • sloopyinca

        Well, she hasn’t had a real job since she became a politician in 1981, so she must be a hell of a palm-greaser.

      • waffles

        a hell of a palm-greaser

        things that sound like euphemisms

      • Compelled Speechless

        Perhaps various-appendage-greaser is a little more accurate.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    City officials in Indianapolis hope a new bus line targeting the needs of low-income residents will be the catalyst that transforms an underinvested corridor through economic development.

    The Indianapolis Public Transit Corporation’s $188 million Purple Line, a 15-mile bus rapid transit, or BRT, system will eventually run from downtown to the neighboring city of Lawrence, providing access to jobs and healthcare for those who mainly depend on mass transit.

    City officials, however, have their fingers crossed that the project, scheduled to start construction this month, also will encourage developers to build retail space, offices and affordable housing along an eight-mile stretch of the East 38th Street bus route on the way downtown with the goal of transforming the area.

    And if that actually happens, the mob will protest gentrification and profiteering.

    • sloopyinca

      If that actually happens, it will be the first time in the history of city busing that it’s happened.

      • Bobarian LMD

        But next time we’ll try harder!

    • rhywun

      The political mob. There is research out there (I think City Journal had a story) demonstrating that the actual residents benefit. The media of course only print reactions from one side.

    • Contrarian P

      A damn bus line costs $188 million dollars?

      • AlexinCT

        Some $170 million of that money is bribes and payoffs to all the make work legal shit the regulatory state invented. The other $18 will actually be spent on things that materially create a bus line.

      • banginglc1

        For the “Red Line” they already put in, the buses needed replaced in the first year. The kiosks don’t work about 3/4 of the time (which means the bus is Free! while it’s broken). The center curb they put in the busy road was destroyed in the first two months from people driving over it (It was a rubber curb to keep people from turning in front of buses.) they replaced it with concrete.

      • banginglc1

        I rode it once on my way home from a brewing thing where I got really drunk. It was completely empty.

  13. AlexinCT

    OT: Only terrorists believe in or want freedom

    For many, freedom is a malleable term — one that’s open to interpretation.

    Yeah, like the ones that tell you “Freedom is slavery!”

    • SDF-7

      Ugh…

      “On the far right, [individual freedom] is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that’s trying to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination.”

      Yeah — freedom might just happen to have something to do with not being forced into thoughts and actions you don’t agree with. CBC radio definitely lumping everyone who is not of the body as “far right” in that article…

      • Not Adahn

        treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality,

        You’ve got to be a special kind of person to goodthink duckspeak like that.

      • Compelled Speechless

        This is an unintended benefit to living under overlords that don’t base their policies and tactics on real-world feedback or results. They continue to pour gobs of energy into propaganda against freedom believing themselves to be clever. In reality it’s actually turning more people off than it’s winning over. Outside of the woke zealots, most people still at least superficially regard freedom as a good thing, even if in practice they’re all too happy to use the strong arm of the state to achieve their preferences.

    • Grumbletarian

      The word has become common among far-right groups, experts say

      By contrast, what words are common among far left groups?

      Follow
      Listen
      Believe

      All of them written as commands. Huh, probably a coincidence.

      • Lackadaisical

        Equity and justice.

        And the terrifying concept of equity in justice.

        *Shudders*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      For many, freedom is a malleable term — one that’s open to interpretation.

      That flexibility, in part, has fuelled its growth among certain groups, said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the Oshawa-based Ontario Tech University.

      Babs sounds a lot a bioethicists trying to justify unethical actions.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Babs sounds a lot like a bioethicist trying to justify unethical actions.

        Fixed. Need more covfefe.

  14. SDF-7

    And remember kids, we’re sending this country money for weapons.

    I thought it was pretty much admitted that we’re sending them money to bribe them not to proliferate nukes at this point.

    • Lackadaisical

      Need to go Barbary states in them then.

  15. AlexinCT

    That’s some funny timing. Also, the commercial was ass. Mexican avocados in Ancient Rome? Whoever came up with that should be pelted with unripe tree fruit.

    Never got the hate on avocado. It has it’s place in the culinary world. And what threat did they give the inspector? Turn a blind eye to the people hiding at the bottom of the avocado boxes? I thought that was already the norm.

    And everyone knows that history is whatever the people in charge tell you it is. Actually wanting things to be semi-accurate is a sign of white supremacy…

    • UnCivilServant

      My main objections to Avocados are the taste, and texture, and the smug they bring out in some people.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My only objection is when the Santa ana wind blows a large branch full of them off your tree in the front yard, quite the cleanup.

      • UnCivilServant

        Now I’m reminded of avocado fries and am slightly sick to my stomach. Those were not merely unpleasant, but outright gross.

        Don’t abuse the meat and cheese like that. They’re innocent.

      • Lackadaisical

        Huh, it has a nice creamy texture. You definitely have to use it in the right context, but seasoned appropriately it’s quite nice.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Avocados cannot be held responsible for the fact that their most vocal consumers happen to be smug assholes. I will not sit here and listen to the good name of guacamole be besmirched!

      • UnCivilServant

        It would need to have a good name first.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I know taste in food is subjective, but somehow you’ve managed to be objectively wrong here. Guacamole is what the gods themselves eat.

      • Tundra

        Yes.

      • UnCivilServant

        The ones locked away in pits of torment like the Titans, maybe.

        Or are you talking about the Aztec lords of the underworld?

      • Ownbestenemy

        As you continue your culinary awakening, you will come around.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Once you do come around, you will be asked to publicly apologize on your knees to an avocado with googly eyes glued on. And you’ll be happy to do it.

    • Not Adahn

      Mexican avocados in Ancient Rome?

      Umm, why do you think it’s called Latin America?

      /bluecheck twitter-based historian

    • robc

      They covered the spread.

  16. CatchTheCarp

    I was rooting for the Bengals because Stan Kroenke will always be a gaping asshole.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Eh, Mike Brown isn’t much better. Although I guess he is.

  17. AlexinCT

    I wish this shit was actually some 5D chess to know where all the people that have jumped the border are a for future action, but I bet it is simply the people that want to keep labor costs as low as possible for themselves and to encourage people that come to the US to be more about free shit than the American dream.

    • Rat on a train

      Where do I sign up? I assume no documentation is required.

    • Lackadaisical

      Good to see that they’re sticking to their namesakes legacy of shitty ideas.

      Interested to know why they choose to give the money to illegals.

      • Brawndo

        “Kellogg’s treatment”

        Genital mutilation of innocent infants?

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Potentially award winning science journalisming

    In the northeast of England, South Tyneside Council has been working on a project aiming to repurpose part of the area’s mining heritage.

    According to the council, the £7.7 million ($10.4 million) Hebburn Minewater Project will “draw geothermal energy from abandoned flooded mines in the former Hebburn Colliery.”

    The initiative aims to supply heat to several buildings that the council owns by using mine water from the old colliery, which opened in the late 18th century and shut down in 1932.

    The project is centered on the drilling of two boreholes. A water source heat pump will extract the mine water’s heat, after which it will be compressed to a far greater temperature. After being funneled to an energy center, a new network of pipes will be used for distribution.

    Compress water to make it hotter? Good luck.

    Not everybody can splatter that many words on paper and leave the reader more ignorant than when he started.

    • Not Adahn

      No no, they’re not compressing the water, they’re compressing the heat.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, I think I understand how geothermal heating works and I have no idea what they’re trying to say.

    • db

      facepalm

    • db

      Potentially award winning science journalisming

      A Darwin Award?

      • Not Adahn

        Not an Ig Nobel. You have to actually accomplish something for one of those.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Data-dependent

    The Federal Reserve should be measured in its path to raise interest rates, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said on Sunday.

    “It is obvious that we need to pull some of the accommodation out of the economy. But history tells us with Fed policy, that abrupt and aggressive action can actually have a destabilizing effect on the very growth and price stability we’re trying to achieve,” Daly said on CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

    “The most important thing is to be measured in our pace and, importantly, data-dependent,” Daly added.

    Keep a close eye on those Biden approval polls.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    she must be a hell of a palm-greaser.

    EEEWWWWWWWW!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    “Markets and households and all of my contacts in the business community that I speak to regularly, they understand that the Fed is moving on the policy path and adjusting it so that we get it right-sized for the economy,” Daly said.

    Yeah. Jamie Dimon and Ray Dalio have nothing but the best interests of the economy at heart.

  22. db

    What’s really kind of funny to me is that I still don’t even know who was playing against the Bengals yesterday.

    • robc

      As always, the Bengals lost a Super Bowl to a California team.

      • Lackadaisical

        It sucks, but a happy day for all two of the Ram’s fans.

  23. Not Adahn

    UnCiv:

    The local cowboy shooters have an annual swap meet/garage sale. This year it’s Feb 26 10:00-14:00 at KF&G. I don’t know how popular .45-70 is among them, but there might be some available.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’ll bear the timing in mind. Though I may be pre-emptively banned for putting a red dot on a Henry.

      I don’t have to worry about .45-70, since the lever gun is .45 Colt.

      • Not Adahn

        It’s not a shooting event, so you don’t need to bring the gun.

        You might be in luck. I have heard a stereotype that cowboy shooters start with .45 Colt, then eventually give up and switch to .38 like everyone else.

      • UnCivilServant

        I understand it’s not a shooting event.

        The only reason I’ve been thinking of getting a .38 is because I already have ammo for it.

        Don’t ask why I bought ammo for a gun I didn’t own yet.

      • Fourscore

        Good start, UCS

        I can see that you’ll be needing .30 Herrett and 6.5 X .223 ammo, I know where you can get some and then of course you’ll need to find a gun…

    • sloopyinca

      Roadsters are cheap relative to the gullwing, but they’re still retarded expensive.

      That’s definitely a car I’d like to drive. Even if the engine is on the wrong end.

    • kinnath

      thanks. I’ll need to read the whole series.

    • PieInTheSky

      Berliner Weisse – eewww gross

      • Lackadaisical

        ?

        Has to be one of the least offensive beer styles.

      • PieInTheSky

        all wheat beer sucks

    • DEG

      Lovely.

    • Sean

      The list is out there. I didn’t use my real name, but didn’t use a burner email either. 🙁

    • AlexinCT

      If he is considerate and does all those things she says, it means he puts up with all of your shit, so at least let him pound away to feel like that relationship is worth his effort woman…

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘The worst part is he seems completely unaware.’
      That’s on you baby doll

      ‘ He has a little fiddle, then simply jams it in.’

      This one time, at band camp…

    • banginglc1

      Maybe he doens’t want to please her. Maybe he simply wants her to go away, but she won’t get the point.

      “I’d dump her, but I never have to see her. When she comes over I just kind of stick it in and cum. You’d think she’d get the idea. But I guess if she keeps coming back, at least I’m getting easy sex.”

    • PieInTheSky

      paying 1$ for onlyfans is not worth it

  24. Count Potato

    Speaking of avacados, has anyone seen Suthen?

    • db

      I have not. I miss his input here. His absence was discussed on a Zoom a few weeks ago and I think someone was going to reach out to him, but I never heard if there was a result.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, even though he hates avacados and is therefore mentally deranged I miss the folksiness.

  25. Lackadaisical

    Wifey just signed on as a consultant to a business (big money for the time investment) and with another company as a home health therapist.

    Things are looking up!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Woohooo! Grats to wife now go spend her money!

      • Lackadaisical

        Ha!

        That might be a little premature, but if she keeps it up maybe we could break even for this year, what with all the moving expenses.

    • Fourscore

      Good news is always good.

    • db

      I’ll be watching the coverage of this trial. It’s crazy that it has been delayed this long.

      What’s crazier is that he may actually get off, not because he’s a retired cop, but because FL’s self defense law allows for greater latitude in self defense justification for elderly people.
      The elderly can be considered more frail, and therefore have different thresholds for use of deadly force in self defense in FL. The deceased allegedly punched the shooter in the head with an object–possibly his cell phone in his hand.

      The whole situation is fucked up. At multiple points in the altercation, both parties (especially the shooter) could have defused the situation by simply moving to another seat, or leaving the theater.

      The facts in the case are nowhere near as simple as have been reported in the news media. CNN’s is particularly fucked.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Has CNN photoshopped some darker skin on the victim to really get their audience’s juices flowing?

        Two white guys shooting each other is like watching a pr0n video of a guy whacking it. Maybe a niche market for it, but most people are totes uninterested.

      • R C Dean

        That would explain the lack of traffic on my OnlyFans.

      • db

        Kinky!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Is that what you were doing? I thought you were just fumbling for some chapstick in your pocket.

      • Sensei

        That’s an interesting thought. Solo women certainly have an audience.

        For guys that go that way I wonder what the interest is for solo men.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Um, I’d suggest you ask Tonio.

      • creech

        Defusing is apparently tough for lots of people. Several weeks ago, in a nearby town, a guy trailed a woman to her home and shot her and another person. Why? She bumped into him in the supermarket and her apology apparently wasn’t sincere enough.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It’s going to get harder and harder as the rifts in society get wider.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I want to believe that there’s more to that story. I’m starting to see this sort of thing as a side effect of a society that has decided to openly encourage and celebrate mental illness. I can’t imagine that it would be very difficult to spot that level of crazy early and do something about it.

    • Lackadaisical

      While I dislike people using their phones at the theater, surely the pre-movie ads are an exception.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    Daily Ray of Sunshine

    OMWC & SP, I’m so sorry to hear about WD’s passing. Dogs are so much better than we are.

  27. PieInTheSky

    I payed 7.8 lei per liter of gas. this is getting silly.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I had no idea you could barter flowers for gas.

      • PieInTheSky

        droll

      • db

        The best part is he was able to unload them before they dried up.

    • Rat on a train

      The $3.33/gallon here is too high.

      • db

        $3.60 here in western PA because our Governor is a POS who has raised gas taxes to what are possibly the highest in the country.

        Prices are like $0.50 lower in Ohio, only 7 miles from here.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Why do you hate roads db?

      • UnCivilServant

        They get in the way of the chickens.

      • db

        I hate PA roads because the PA government takes money from gas taxes that is specifically supposed to go into road/bridge maintenance funds and slushes it into the general funds–and then our bridges collapse and taxes and bonds have to be raised to repair the damage that is supposed to be fixed by the taxes we are already paying.

        Sometimes this makes me upset enough to consider running for office.

      • PieInTheSky

        IT IS FOR THE CHILDREN YOU SCROOGE

      • Ownbestenemy

        Gas tax is one of the most beautiful long cons of our time.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Whoa, whoa, whoa.

        You may think that using gas tax money to build bike paths is a waste of money, but those bike paths will reduce congestion on the roads as more people begin using them for their daily commute. In winter. In Minnesoda.

        So yeah, you can thank your selfless urban planners for doing such a great job. Even if you are too ignorant or short sighted to see it.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, it used to be on road trips I’d wait until getting to pa to buy gas. Now it’s just the opposite. You know you done fucked up when new York has cheaper gas than you do.

      • DEG

        PA gas taxes were the highest in the country. If I remember correctly, California then raised its gas tax to take back the number one spot.

        However, despite all that, PA is now number three.

      • AlexinCT

        You trust Wikipedia for this sort of stuff?

      • DEG

        It was easy to find. The chart’s citation is the American Petroleum Institute. So, yeah, I’ll trust wikipedia here.

      • PieInTheSky

        Hey that is almost exactly half the price here. 6.77 per gallon. My friend in dutchland pays 8.9 USD per gallon.

  28. PieInTheSky

    Got another PCR test today. Hope this none is negative…

    • Ownbestenemy

      How many you have to take?

      • PieInTheSky

        Until I got the negative one to make sure it is negative. I need negative test to go back to the office (don’t want to do that) and maybe to fly to Spain (I hope the green pass thing is enough they won’t want test)

      • Ownbestenemy

        The world has lost its mind

      • PieInTheSky

        yes.

      • Rat on a train

        So you can WFH until you provide a negative test?

      • PieInTheSky

        it is still WFH at will anyways. But if I need for any reason to go to the office I need a negative.

        But I took it mostly so I know I don;t need to cancel my Spain accommodations

    • PieInTheSky

      Negative! Hopefully my company will reimburse me the 250 lei.

      • Not Adahn

        Can they just give you 35L of gas instead?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Glad to hear that you aren’t pegnant

  29. Ownbestenemy

    Ivan Reitman died (im carching up from news), my childhood memories will always involve his movies making me laugh and that one where I found out you can enjoy major boobage in cartoons.

  30. Scruffy Nerfherder

    The husband of one of my manager’s went to the hospital with chest pains this morning.

    Not a heart attack fortunately, so they’re checking him for myocarditis and “clots.”

    The constant refrain in the hospital is “COVID can cause heart issues, have you had COVID or been exposed? You might not even know COVID was doing that to you.”

    The guy is double vaxxed and boosted. He was exposed to Omicron but didn’t come down with it or it was very minor.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I would actually feel better if we found out there is a secret lair in a volcano with our world health ‘experts’ plotting the medical destruction of the human race.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I’d say that was the CDC, but there aren’t volcanos in Atlanta as far as I know.

    • db

      If this is as bad as some fear, there is no way it can remain hidden forever. But terrible damage will have been done.

      If it’s real but overblown, it can likely be swept under the rug. And Terrible Damage will have been done.

      If it’s not real, one hopes that eventually people talking about heart damage from the vaccines will be proven solidly, publicly wrong. And people will still have heart damage from COVID.

      The only way to turn any of this into a win is to encourage and ensure that Truth is known.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Based on the increasingly palpable fear that is emanating from the government, I’m inclined to believe that it is very bad and they are desperate to hide it.

      • Brawndo

        Not just that, but seeing lots of ads about getting HIV tests, or seeing that everything under the sun now causes heart issues. They’re laying the ground work

      • Sean

        ^^

        *passes roll of tin foil*

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sweet I don’t need to use mine. Thanks Sean!

    • Lackadaisical

      +1 COVID death.

      Obviously, hoping he recovers fully and they have no more issues

      Also, thanks for answering a question about that COVID antibody study a few days back.

    • Urthona

      Any RSV could cause myocarditis so it’s a perfectly convenient excuse. I would assume it would start when you have the actual disease though.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Absolutely. It’s just interesting that they don’t even mention the vaccines. They’re studiously avoiding any mention of them.

      • Urthona

        It’s almost convenient that everyone who gets vaccinated is still gonna get covid.

    • R C Dean

      COVID can cause heart issues,

      Other than the strain lack of oxygenation puts on your heart when you are really sick, is that true?

      • Count Potato

        The virus targets ACE receptors.

      • Urthona

        I’ve been reading articles on it from the beginning.

        But, it does seem mighty convenient that someone has mild covid and then months later has heart problems and it must’ve been that covid.

  31. UnCivilServant

    *headdesk*

    I am getting asked about what are plans are for remediating the out of support operating systemson servers we decommissioned back in 2013.

    Apparently no one updated any of the records during the datacenter consolidation.

    “We’re not doing jack about those boxes, they were deleted nine years ago.”

    • AlexinCT

      Not acceptable…

      You must have a plan for this..

    • robodruid

      I will take care of those…. its all i can work on from March 1 to March 28th.

  32. Pope Jimbo

    Altar Boy #2 and I watched the game together last night. We were thrilled at the Ram’s O Coordinator’s game calls. Since he will be our new coach next year, it is nice to know we can be assured that we won’t have to miss out on “establishing the run” no matter how idiotic it is. Been averaging less than 2 yds a carry? Keep at it!

    • Count Potato

      If they are called the Rams, they should have a running game. And a fullback.

      • Mojeaux

        By that logic, they should also have a climbing game.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        And a fullback.

        My man, C.J. Ham!

  33. Ownbestenemy

    Lol..gotta love FedGov.

    2019 – MS Win7 support ending
    2020 – FAA: only admin computers will update to Win10
    2022 – FAA: we have 3 days to get all laptops off Win7!!!

    • AlexinCT

      Wow, you guys are really, really waiting until the last moment to do this…

      • Ownbestenemy

        You have no idea…and I am just one line of business in just one agency.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Something tells me there will be a brief and painful honeymoon

    After decades of decline, U.S. unions have a new reason for hope: younger workers.

    Workers in their 20s – and even in their teens – are leading ongoing efforts to unionize companies large and small, from Starbucks and REI to local cannabis dispensaries. The Alphabet Workers Union, formed last year and now representing 800 Google employees, is run by five people who are under 35.

    Multiple polls show union approval is high among the youngest workers. And U.S. union membership levels are even ticking upward for workers between 25 and 34, even as they decline among other age groups.

    “Sit down and shut up, kid. You’ll get your participation trophy when you’ve been here forty years.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      Can we get some video of when the union reps explain the concept of seniority to the kids?

      You see, that Fortran guy has been here longer than you. So he gets to make more. That’s how this union idea works.

      • UnCivilServant

        “But he doesn’t Do anything!”

      • Pope Jimbo

        Exactly! That is what the union does for you!

        Sure you didn’t get the raise you are used to getting this year, but now you and your union brothers have job security.

      • Gustave Lytton ????

        Hah hah Jimbo, you’re so cute.

        “You and the Fortran guy are at the same scale. Want a raise, talk to your unionist.”

        “Company is doing a RIF. You’re underwater on the seniority chart. Your last day is February 28.”

        “No, we’re not going to pursue your grievance. The company is correct according to the contract.”

        “Good news! We’ve added horse insurance to the employee benefits this year. But you’ll no longer get a match to your 401k.”

        “The company wants to give you free cafeteria, dry cleaning, daycare, etc again. But they didn’t talk to us, so you don’t get those. Those are only for non-union employees.”

    • Not Adahn

      So this is what destroys Alphabet.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Please don’t get my hopes up like that. I don’t think I could take the disappointment.

  35. Count Potato

    “Hackers take down $8.6M GiveSendGo set up for Freedom Convoy, release names of donors and replace front page with clip from Disney’s Frozen as 30 truckers now face $100K fines after being arrested as Ambassador Bridge

    A Canadian court ordered the GiveSendGo funds to be frozen, but the website defied the order and said that the court did not have jurisdiction in the matter.

    The Daily Dot first reported that the site suffered a hack overnight Sunday and had its front page briefly replaced by a clip from the movie Frozen and a manifesto accusing it of supporting ‘an insurrection in Ottawa.’

    The leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS) claimed to have 30 megabytes of donor information from people who contributed to the Freedom Convoy, including names, email addresses, zip codes, and internet protocol addresses.

    DDoS said that, because the donor information contains sensitive personal information, it would not be making the data available publicly but will instead be offering it to ‘journalists and researchers.’

    DDoS describes itself as a non-profit devoted to enabling the free transmission of data in the public interest. The site frequently disclosed hacked information targeting supporters of right-wing movements.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10510955/Hackers-8-6M-GiveSendGo-set-Freedom-Convoy.html

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The hackers feel powerful, but they’re really not going to like what a neo-reactionary equivalent to them looks like.

      They’ll be lucky if they’re just doxxed and not hung from overpasses.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well it was probably helped by a three-letter agency….

      • Compelled Speechless

        My first thought when I read this. And by helped you mean entirely planned and executed by.

    • db

      This shit needs to be turned around on leftist funders as well.

      Goddamned Marxist hackers…

      • limey

        Or how about just not hacking the things?

      • Urthona

        it’s dangerous though. The government will just wrist slap the left leaning ones. Anyone else is gonna get the full brunt of the law.

    • Lackadaisical

      Look, if you don’t want to be harassed by left wing nuts you should build your own planet.

      • db

        I’m sincerely thinking of taking Elon up on it.

      • Lackadaisical

        You realize they won’t stop bugging you just because you moved to Mars, right?

        They’ll probably complain that you’re ruining the native Mars climate my terraforming it and importing all sorts of invasive earth critters.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We have to first overthrow the robot population of Mars.

      • Fourscore

        You’re going to have to the exit tax in advance. What if everyone wants to leave?

      • Compelled Speechless

        You’re free to leave anytime you want. You will, however need to secure your own transportation.

  36. Pope Jimbo

    More fodder for the Truckers vs. Antifa argument.

    I heard absolutely nothing about this on the tv news this weekend. If Powerline hadn’t linked to it, I never would have known. Altar Boy #2 who is living near downtown had heard some rumors about this, but no real idea.

    If they hadn’t vandalized businesses, I would have said that their protest was OK. Yes it fucked up some people’s travel, but it doesn’t sound like they were surrounding cars and beating on them this time.

    • Count Potato

      Why don’t the cops do anything?

      • R C Dean

        Because MInneapolis is ruled by leftist CRT advocates. And cops follow orders.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Because the interim Chief is worried about her job. She was the one who let her goons go out on no-knock raids and they killed an innocent guy.

        No way she is going to let the goons get within 100 ft of the other goons. Nothing good would come out of that encounter.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘The group then confronted him and he produced some sort of weapon, saying he wasn’t going to let them “destroy the city”again’

      Heh, good thing the cops had the helicopter overhead so they could capture high quality images of the fun, then not release it to the defense attorneys.

      Sounds like no one got hurt at least. What was the point of their match of intimidation though?

      • Pope Jimbo

        They were marching to protest the killing of Amir Locke in a no-knock raid. The reason it was peaceful was because their hearts weren’t into it. Locke seems like a decent guy. His cousin (who was the target of the no-knock warrant) was a true thug, but Locke wasn’t. The Antifi/BLM types only seem to get jazzed up when the cops shoot a criminal.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Not that the criminals deserve to get shot, but it seems silly to create a saint out of a career criminal who left Texas because the rest of his family wanted nothing to do with him.

      • Fourscore

        Are we still talking about George Floyd?

    • Mojeaux

      Drew Barrymore looks like she needs to fire her stylist, like, yesterday.

      • AlexinCT

        Maybe the problem is that there isn’t much to work with there anymore?

      • Mojeaux

        Disagree. She’s still got a sweetheart look about her.

      • Fatty Bolger

        She looks like she’s wearing Hugh Hefner’s pajamas.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes. She could have rocked some beautifully fit palazzo trousers with an elegant top, but chose not to.

      • Mojeaux

        Alicia Silverstone’s dress was on point, though. Susan Sarandon’s boots were tres cute.

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Young workers say they see unions as the best way to combat wage inequality and poor working conditions. For some, personal heroes like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders – a vocal labor advocate – have piqued their interest in unions. Others say the coronavirus pandemic caused them to rethink what they deserve from their jobs.

    *outright, prolonged laughter*

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Based on the increasingly palpable fear that is emanating from the government, I’m inclined to believe that it is very bad and they are desperate to hide it.

    The obsessive refusal to allow any contemplation of adverse effects from the vaccines is a bad, bad, sign.

    I envision Osterholm in a padded cell one of these days, rocking and beating his head on the wall, muttering “safe and effective” over and over and over. It makes me smile.

    • Sean

      I saw a new PA tax payer funded ad over the weekend.

      The new language got my attention. Something about the vaxx being “as safe as other medicines”. Moving away from “100% safe & effective”.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        “as safe as other medicines”

        Which medicines would that be?

      • R C Dean

        Ivermectin?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I was thinking thalidomide.

      • db

        ooooooh, nice one.

        I saw an irritating ad on one of those stupid video screens on a gas pump with “Dr. Johnson, Physician General of PA” who assures the viewer that “We have made progress against COVID in P-A. That’s because the COVID vaccines are proven and safe.”

        That’s a pretty long stretch there, ma’am.

        Now they’re going to “as safe as other medicines,” eh?

  39. wdalasio

    But history tells us with Fed policy, that abrupt and aggressive action can actually have a destabilizing effect on the very growth and price stability we’re trying to achieve,” Daly said on CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

    You know, the funny thing is this sort of nonsense is actually making the need for an “abrupt and aggressive action” more likely. Inflation expectations are themselves a driver of inflation. The Fed basically signaling a dovish stance when there’s pretty obviously inflation happening right now only drives those expectations higher.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Haven’t you heard? The situation with Russia nd the Ukraine is causing price inflation.

      /actual headline

      • Fourscore

        I had a side bet on greedy capitalists.

  40. Sensei

    JFC… The Manhattan DA may actually have to do something here instead of catch and release.

    NYC stabbing victim Christina Yuna Lee remembered as ‘sweet’ creative producer

    Neighbors recalled hearing her screaming “Help me! Call 911!” before she was found in her bathtub “bleeding from multiple wounds to the body.” Cops believe the knife came from her own kitchen.

    The suspect — named by sources as homeless career criminal Assamad Nash, 25 — tried to flee on a fire escape before heading back inside and being found hiding under a bed, sources have said.

    • Not Adahn

      Sounds like he was in fact assmad.

    • PieInTheSky

      The guy was clearly fucked up in the head …

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      RIP to the poor girl. As for him he’s caught dead to rights, now the taxpayers get to take care of that asshole for the rest of his miserable life.

    • db

      Statistics* show that most stabbing victims are victims of their own knives being turned upon them.

      *n=1

  41. Tundra

    Good morning, Sloop!

    I thought the game was ok, the commercials sucked balls and I muted the halftime show within about 30 seconds.

    I think a zombie Clash show would have been much better.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Other than Snoop and Eminem, the other hip hop stars have gotten chubby.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Fifty Cent is in bad need of a diuretic.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Dre was fit but then again, a heart attack will do that. As I stated last night, that was Dr. Dre displaying his rap empire.

    • Count Potato

      No one made a big deal about the commercials this year.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Old(er) man yells at halftime show full of old men.

      • Tundra

        Fair enough. I yelled at the Who, Aerosmith, the Stones, Tom Petty and Springsteen, too.

        I thought Bruno Mars was pretty good – I had no idea who the hell he was.

  42. limey

    You ever offer to take someone somewhere and they say they will only be 15 minutes or so, so you wait in the car and then an hour later you’re still waiting in the car with not so much as a text message suggesting when they will be back?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If you see people with heavy garbage bags leaving the building, it’s time to go.

    • PieInTheSky

      I am not an uber driver myself

    • Ownbestenemy

      I have two teenage boys…I know this feeling completely.

      • Lackadaisical

        Go away, baitin’!

    • Lackadaisical

      Not in a long time. My brother gets notoriously late, so I’ve stopped doing things which rely on him being on time.

      I don’t know if this was a lady friend, but an hour is egregious and you should have left.

      • Fourscore

        ” so you wait in the car and then an hour later you’re still waiting in the car”

        With the engine running and the heater on to stay warm and the missus says “You can’t guess who I ran into in the store”

    • AlexinCT

      Nope. I leave after 15 mins if they don’t show up. Especially if thee are people close to you. That sort of uncourteous behavior should not be condoned.

      • R C Dean

        I’d probably give a 5 minute warning text before I left. Perhaps with an option that I will wait at the rate of, say, a dollar a minute.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Would be only once unless a good excuse emerged later.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That’s every time my wife want to stop at that store on the way home to buy 1 or 2 things and then she comes back with a full shopping cart.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    We can’t raise interest rates. We’re going to be borrowing a lot of money to pay for the war with Russia.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      Wife is convinced Russians won’t support an invasion of Ukraine because of the casualties.

  44. PieInTheSky

    So based on the footsballs game, if you had to choose to spend one year within the city limits of either LA or Cincinnati – could not exceed the official city limits at all that year, which would you chose? Would anyone choose Cincinnati? I mean LA has better climate, food, also beachfront.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      Does Pinks serve Skyline chili on their dogs?

      • PieInTheSky

        don'[t know what Skyline chili but a quick google leads to ewww gross

    • PieInTheSky

      Or if you got a 300k USD budged and anything left after the one year of living in the city you could keep, would that sway you to the I assume cheaper cost of living Cincinnati?

      • rhywun

        Well, I don’t like California in general. I hated the one year i lived in San Francisco. I doubt I would like Los Angeles any better.

      • PieInTheSky

        but they have the best tacos

      • Not Adahn

        LA is ugly. Much like Austin.

    • rhywun

      On my current salary? Cincinnati, in a heartbeat.

      • Lackadaisical

        Guessing the COVID policies are a little saner there.

        A lot may depend on how big Cincinnati’s actual borders are. Guessing LA is gigantic. I think Cincinnati would still win out, but that is a point in LA’s favor.

      • rhywun

        Pretty small in comparison. A lot would hinge on whether a decent supermarket is available.

      • Ownbestenemy

        The actual City of LA? Not that big. LA County on the other hand…

      • Lackadaisical

        Huh. I always thought the two were synonymous.

        Guess Cincy wins, just like they should have won the Superbowl.

        On a side note, apparently the trick to winning the Superbowl is to have it hosted in your stadium.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And refs that overlook holding, cause you know…its the Super Bowl.

      • Lackadaisical

        Yeah, there were some egregious non calls.

        Then they decided to call everything in the last 2 minutes of the game.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Who’s paying?

      • PieInTheSky

        let’s go with my comment on the 300k budget

      • Fatty Bolger

        Definitely Cincy in that case. Then I’d take the extra money and go someplace I like a lot more than L.A.

    • Ownbestenemy

      LA in 1980-2001, Cinci 2001-onward.

    • db

      Cincinnati–at least I could carry a gun there legally.

      • PieInTheSky

        why do you need to carry a gun if you have nothing to hide?

    • UnCivilServant

      You couldn’t pay me enough to go to LA.

    • PieInTheSky

      There was one of those answer the internet questions: If you got 1 billion cash tax free but could never leave the state of Ohio would you take it?

      • PieInTheSky

        shit this was supposed to be under the LA Cincinnati question

      • Fourscore

        Union shop, company furnishes the mattresses

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      That was…. unfortunate.

      • PieInTheSky

        apparently cheese warehouse so maybe the product was not damaged that much like glass would have been

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Getting crushed by cheese products is not how I would envision myself leaving this earth.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You don’t think he could cut the cheese and extricate himself?

      • AlexinCT

        With his ass in the air, and the air in his ass, he blew them away with that powerful gas?

      • PieInTheSky

        the guy was not too badly hurt… they got him out in one piece after a few hours

      • AlexinCT

        Trying to 69 with girl big enough to have her own zip code on top of him?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Must have been Swiss cheese that fell on him.

    • Not Adahn

      Considering how heavy a fork truck is, the amount of energy needed to shove it sideways like that…

  45. Tundra

    More from the Twink of the North.

    I wonder where this goes.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      He’s not going to concede. That fucker’s ego is massive and his entire political future is riding on this.

      He’s going to demonstrate just how much he loves the Canadian people by stomping on them.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Can’t the Canadian Parliament call for a vote of no confidence?

      Isn’t that one of the benefits of a parliamentary system? You don’t get stuck with a Biden for four years?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        One would think. The twats in Parliament are running scared that they’re going to have to actually pick sides.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The twats in Parliament are running scared that they’re going to have to actually pick sides.

        It’s not even that. The Conservatives are the only ones with any motivation to call for such a vote, and they don’t have enough votes to bring down the government. The NDs will never vote against the Liberals — they’re ideological kissing-cousins.

      • DEG

        Yes

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Can’t the Canadian Parliament call for a vote of “no confidence”?

        Any party can call for a vote of “no confidence,” but it’s an empty, futile gesture when the government has a minority that’s thoroughly propped-up by one of the other parties that together make a majority of votes. The Liberals are propped up by the socialist New Democrats, which means no soup for the rest of us.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Tundra you have your priorities all wrong, didn’t you hear that Snoop Dog smokes weed? Seriously, I see that story more than him playing Emperor Palpatine.

      • Tundra

        You know me, brother, always missing the salient news.

      • Tundra

        Good.

        Will the Twink blink, do you think?

      • Ownbestenemy

        He isn’t blinking. He is desperately trying to solidify his power

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ??

      • DEG

        Unfortunately, no.

        I think the Conservatives will have to push for a no-confidence vote.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I think the Conservatives will have to push for a no-confidence vote.

        Which they will lose handily. The NDs don’t wanna give up their influence, and The Hair That Walks Like A Man™ has daddy issues which he has to work out on the remainder of the Canadian population.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      When you unleash your police and paramilitary forces to do whatever they damn well please with zero consequences for over-reach/fuck-ups, it goes no place good.

  46. PieInTheSky

    “Putin and much of the Russian population that supports him are pretty much like white folks in the South who are still pissed that the Confederacy lost …like Black folks in America, Ukrainians…have no interest in going back to Massa’s house.”

    https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1492991541689815040

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Easily one of the dumbest takes on foreign policy ever.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        It sounds like he wants black America to support Ukraine.

      • AlexinCT

        When the only issue you think matters is racism, then everything you see has to be explained in that mold. Hammer and nails or some such shit.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Yeah, a very inapt comparison.

    • Lackadaisical

      It’s actually nothing like that, but okay. Absolutely everything in the world can just be boiled down to American race relations. Once we solve that, everything else will follow.

      • kbolino

        America’s chief cultural export is its own historical narrative. Its elites and elite-aspirants believe their own propaganda. It appears the next great clash is going to be between those civilizations that have been conquered by this combination, and those that haven’t.

  47. Certified Public Asshat

    How does it happen that SoFI, a student loan re-financing company, could spend $625 million to put its name on the LA Rams football stadium when 45 million Americans are drowning in $1.8 trillion in student debt? Today would be a good day for the President to cancel student debt.— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 13, 2022

    What is 625M/1.8T?

    • kbolino

      Curiously, one Senator Biden (D-Delaware) was partly responsible for ensuring student loan debt was non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Whatever happened to that guy?

      • Count Potato

        He has no idea.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Was that before or after he headed the legislation to crank up the drug war and maximize the number of people living in cages for obscenely long sentences for the crime of getting high against daddy government’s wishes?

  48. Ownbestenemy

    Seeing non-NHL players play in the Olympics makes me jealous and happy. NHL/NBA/MLB players should not be playing in the Olympics.

    • PieInTheSky

      Did the NHL ever go on a break to allow players to go to the Olympics?

      • Ownbestenemy

        They went on a break but not for Olympics this year.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The intellectual rot is nearing completion. From ten years ago, this is Sam Harris relating an anecdote from the Obama administration.

      https://youtu.be/yqaHXKLRKzg?t=1731

    • Not Adahn

      Saab needs to sue her for trademark infringement.

  49. Count Potato

    “Valentine’s Day can still be fun even if you broke up. Do you have information about a former (or current) partner involved in illegal gun activity? Let us know, and we will make sure it’s a Valentine’s Day to remember! Call 1-888-ATF-TIPS or email ATFTips@atf (dot) gov.”

    https://twitter.com/ATFHQ/status/1493208813670965248

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The moral rot at the center of that tweet is disturbing to say the least.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not bad. ATF can suck my big toe

      • Not Adahn

        Ewwww. Why would you expose your big toe to that kind of filth?

      • Sensei

        Well done.

      • Pope Jimbo

        What about Hunter’s pistola that was thrown in the trash? Can that get reported?

    • Fourscore

      Bus station bathroom

      For a good time call Call 1-888-ATF-TIPS or email ATFTips@atf (dot) gov.

    • UnCivilServant

      There’s a group illegally collecting records on gun owners, calls itself BATFE.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Good God, that’s terrible.

  50. Not Adahn

    How I know I are noob:

    Rhino knockdown activates Holy-monkey.

    Some shooter want to translate that for me?

    • UnCivilServant

      Got any more context?

      • Not Adahn

        Stage description. Diorama shows two full-sized pepper poppers and a swinger, I’m assuming that there aren’t mini-Rhino knockdowns or Holy Monkeys available.

        If the diorama represented reality, I know how I’d shoot it. If there’s some kind of limiter, I’d have to shoot it les-efficiently.

      • UnCivilServant

        Part of me wants to say “No one reads this anyway, lets see how crazy the instructions can get before someone calls it out.”

      • Not Adahn

        The description is required to be read out loud verbatim prior to the walkthrough.

      • UnCivilServant

        Since you don’t recognize them as terms of art, they really need a definitions section.

    • Ownbestenemy

      This is an ATF sting isn’t it? I aint’ answering this

  51. Fatty Bolger

    Watching the commercials last night, you’d think most cars were electric, instead of about 3% of the market.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’d be shocked if it were 3%, that sounds high to me.

      • Fatty Bolger

        I think it’s around there, probably depends on whether you include hybrids or not. Most in the US are Tesla vehicles, obviously. I doubt anybody else has more than 10% of EV sales.

      • UnCivilServant

        If you can run it off of an ICE built into the vehicle, it’s not an EV.

    • Ownbestenemy

      You’d also think: Majority of people were gay/trans/black/mixed race couples/men are dumb and zero calorie beer was good.

      • Urthona

        As part of a mixed race couple with kids who play in a variety of activities, I’m pretty confident that mixed race couples are super common these days. Probably half my kids’ sports teams.

        This just proves America is not at all racist though.

      • Ed Wuncler

        Just you wait, one day we’ll see an article saying that mixed race relationships are a form of white supremacy.

      • Not Adahn

        That’s already happened. It’s

        -Exoticism
        -Fetishization
        -White sexual entitlement
        -Colonialism

      • Urthona

        According to the silly “one drop” logic the census bureau used to prove the elimination of the white majority, these kids ‘ progeny will forever after be non-white. But anyone who has kids knows this is horse shit and if they marry a white person their kids will be indistinguishable.

        I’m not convinced “white” is actually a thing anyway. My Armenian blood apparently some think is not “white” but others do .

      • Lackadaisical

        You’re not white, but you are Caucasian.

      • grrizzly

        Guess who was considered black in Russia before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Not Africans. I couldn’t stop laughing when I was told the first time the American meaning of the word Caucasian.

      • CPRM

        People who drank a Black Russian?

      • Lackadaisical

        One day?

        Pretty sure they wrote that back on 2003 or so.

        Since then, I see a lot more mixed race couples. Proving America is racist.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah wasn’t a dig on them, the first marriage was one and my kids are too. They are common, just not 100%

      • UnCivilServant

        Maybe they just congregate, because I haven’t seen one in real life since… my trip around the great lakes when I stopped in at Fourscore’s place.

      • CPRM

        Fourscore isn’t in a mixed race relationship, asians are wypipo now.

      • rhywun

        There’s one running lately with a black guy, a white guy, and a couple kids.

        I *think* they were not going for “random collection of people they pulled in off the street” but I could be wrong.

      • CPRM

        If one of the kids isn’t a Black trans in a wheel chair they are homophobic racist pieces of shit!