Link of Saturday Morning

by | Mar 12, 2022 | Daily Links | 289 comments

Good Saturday morning, Glibs. Now that OMWC has posted about SP, I don’t have to keep the schtick up, which is good because I was running out of ideas. I’ll spend today installing a crib and dresser. Baby is just about fully baked. Looks like he’s going to be another big one. I’m going to be surrounded by giants. Which will be great when I need furniture moved, I guess.

I’m sure the aliens will be pleased we don’t just have phallic spacecraft. Sure, it takes 11 times as long to assemble, and there’s no guarantee it will get off, but other than that, what’s the problem?

Who’s gonna complain about giving the guy who ran Moderna $1B when he leaves? Not the shareholders.

I’m giving this round to DeSantis.

Texan’s Watson gets happy ending.

 

I just can’t figure out what I liked about this song at 11…

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

289 Comments

  1. Trigger Hippie

    “We want to restore gender equality to the cosmos,” said the group.

    “We dare to change the status quo in space travel: new shapes in space will revolutionize our thinking, our actions and everything we have thought to be true.”

    I want out of this clown car.

    • WTF

      Those people are mentally ill.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If only it were constrained to non-serious things like spaceship aesthetics.

        It’s the constant need for an enemy that is scaring the shit out of me. They’re too stupid to not pick one who can annihilate the planet.

      • Trigger Hippie

        In the name of equality, I demand the creation of more vulva shaped edge weapons.

      • UnCivilServant

        How dare you promote violence against women

      • Trigger Hippie

        I JUST CAN’T WIN WITH YOU PEOPLE!

      • juris imprudent

        How dare you promote violence againstwith women

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The penis is the more aerodynamically sound genital and form follows function on this one.

    • Ted S.

      “We want to restore gender equality to the cosmos,” said the group.

      Talk to the J’naii, honey.

    • PieInTheSky

      that has to be trolling

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      The question is; will it break down and start leaking fuel in 28 days?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Good form old chap, good form

  2. Grumbletarian

    Aliens: Greetings, human. Why does your vessel look like it does?

    Human: Because we feel it’s important to have representation of both of our types of reproductive organs on display.

    Aliens: … Goodbye, humans.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Why not an ear or an asshole? Everybody has those.

      • Tres Cool

        Contrary to the popular saying, opinions are NOT like assholes.
        You cant cram your dick into an opinion.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Au contraire. Twitter seems to be the place where cramming your dick into an opinion is elevated to an artform.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        … and shutting ‘er down, Boss. This one wins the innertubes for the day.

    • rhywun

      LOL

  3. rhywun

    Who’s gonna complain about giving the guy who ran Moderna $1B when he leaves?

    Now that is how you grift.

    *takes notes*

  4. Trigger Hippie

    *reads Disney article*

    Why are so many adults in such a goddamn hurry to destroy the innocence of children? A seven year old shouldn’t be considering their inherent sexuality, especially during school hours. This push to make them do so is creepy as fuck.

    • Sean

      Grooming.

      • Trigger Hippie

        *shudders*

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Why are so many adults in such a goddamn hurry to destroy the innocence of children?

      Because there is a large segment of the population so thoroughly corrupted that they’ve been convinced that pangs from their conscience mean “keep going”.

      • Don escaped Texas

        outrage is the wall to wall carpeting of our times

    • rhywun

      GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY GAY ???️‍?

      /witty twitter retort

      • Trigger Hippie

        Simmer down, Luke.

        Seriously; gay, bi, straight, let’s just leave the kids be.

      • rhywun

        h8r

      • Trigger Hippie

        Ha!

        Ya, I pretty much hate everything nowadays.

      • hayeksplosives

        “Let the kids be”

        That’s what seems like it should be completely self-evident. Most kids, while they do recognize that boys and girls are “different”, don’t know what sex, as in copulation. Is until puberty looms directly ahead, and they don’t need to know details of all the different ways people “do it” when they are in 2nd grade.

        This is sick.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        I remember learning the word Fuck when I was 6-7 years old. We knew it was a “bad” word, but we couldn’t figure out what it meant. And when an older friend’s older brother tried to explain it to us, it when completely over our heads.

    • Chafed

      I very much doubt most critics even know what the law says. They picked up the meme from some ill informed proggies and ran with it.

      • juris imprudent

        Nor supporters for that matter. Facts aren’t important to either side – stoking outrage is the game.

    • PutridMeat

      Why are so many adults in such a goddamn hurry to destroy the innocence of children?

      At the risk of seeing a commie under every bed, I think this it it intentional on the part of the neo-marxists/cultural marxists. In many cases, explicitly intentional. It’s a means of separating children from their parents and making parents enemies. Thus resulting in more young people more amenable to the revolution.

      Yes, I’ve been listening to James Lindsay’s New Discourses…. Here’s one; he’s got a whole sequence on ‘critical education’ that I’m slowly, very slowly, catching up on. Boy can talk…

  5. rhywun

    I’m giving this round to DeSantis.

    No mention of the actual contents of the bill. I wonder how that happened.

    • Chafed

      Reading is hard. See above.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      The left doesn’t want to debate the contents of the bill, they want to vilify it.

  6. Sean

    Mornin peeps.

  7. PieInTheSky

    Baby is just about fully baked. – well here’s hoping he does not inherit a nuclear wasteland

    • Surly Knott

      Fervently

    • Sean

      My Geiger counter is in the shop.

      • UnCivilServant

        Filthy Synth-loving scum!

        *opens fire*

      • Surly Knott
  8. Sean

    I ordered a G19 barrel from the internet. They shipped me a threaded barrel.

    Good excuse to get a suppressor?

    • PieInTheSky

      why do you need a suppressor?

      • Sean

        Because I have a threaded barrel. Do try to keep up, Pie…

      • PieInTheSky

        well if you had a bayonet lug would you get one?

      • Sean

        I do and I want a plum ak bayo, but the prices were retarded last time I looked.

      • Sean

        To add, I already own several rifles with bayonets.

      • Don escaped Texas

        thread of the year

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Yes sir. Sounds like a great excuse.

      In somewhat related news, I just ordered one of these.

      • Sean

        Let me know how you like it. I’ve had my eye on that one.

    • Ted S.

      Does it have the thing that goes up?

  9. PieInTheSky

    after 3 days of all restriction being lifted in Romania, about 10-15% of people on the streets still wear masks; 20-25% in stores still wear masks. and 40% in the subway. My eyeball estimates

    • UnCivilServant

      Those aren’t masks, they’re paintball targets.

      Thusfar, you’ve hit 0% of targets. Do better.

    • rhywun

      In NYC it varies greatly by neighborhood and ethnicity, but our percentages are much higher than that. Especially on the subway where Biden is still following the science™.

      • Ted S.

        Nobody in the Stewart’s shop was wearing a mask when I went in this past Thursday; a substantial (but lower than previously) percentage were still masked at Hannaford.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Hey rhywun, I am going to be in Brooklyn in a couple of weeks, what is the standard there? Do I need to carry a mask in my pocket just in case, do I need to show vax status? What can I do, or not do?

      • rhywun

        There are no longer any mandated restrictions anywhere except for the federally-imposed ones in all forms of public transportation and for pre-school children because that makes sense.

        If someone says otherwise just go next door.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Sounds good, and thank you Sir!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So the more crowded the place the more masks. It’ll take some people a bit of time to let their guard down and put away their talismans but it’ll happen.

  10. PieInTheSky

    “The computer models would have said Russia wins in 72 to 96 hours,” said Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger. They “cannot explain why Ukraine is still hanging on. Why is that?”

    https://twitter.com/HoansSolo/status/1502346783334318085

    • Don escaped Texas

      is this like that bumblebee the Germans have had in a windtunnel for 30 years?

      • Chafed

        Lol. It’s identical.

    • UnCivilServant

      If you knew anything about computer models, you’ll know it’s because they’re worthless when it comes to complex systems on the scale of war or climate, if your goal is accurate prediction of outcomes.

      • Don escaped Texas

        computer models

        What is the best way to get my assumptions sent back to me by a supercomputer, Alex ?

        I’ll take automotive engineering for $400

        That’s the Daily Double…..what do you wager?
        I’ll be it all!
        Okay:

        WIND TUNNEL

        What is a $50million box that determines if the $250k/y fluid mechanics PhD is paid too much?

        yes, yes!!! and Don takes the lead

        let’s take a break for these special announcements from our sponsor…..in two minutes we’ll be right back with more of our special Expensive and Frivolous Shit Corporations Spend Money On Week!!!!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      This is retconning, the initial estimates were a month to six weeks from what I remember seeing. It’d be very difficult to conquer a nation the size of Ukraine in three to four days with zero fighting back. This is people talking up those plucky Ukrainians to further the narrative that fuels public demand for weapons shipments and, worse, direct intervention.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ?

    • juris imprudent

      Oh the computer was programmed by Rumsfeld? I’m surprised it didn’t announce they would be greeted as liberators.

      • DrOtto

        “Mission Accomplished” end communication.

  11. Tres Cool

    “Baby is just about fully baked”

    You know who else ran an oven and baked things ?

    • Don escaped Texas

      the Pillsbury Doughboy ?

    • Sean

      Hasbro?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The witch from Hansel and Gretl?

    • Trigger Hippie

      Shiho Kanzaki?

    • Grumbletarian

      The muffin man on Drury Lane?

      • The Hyperbole

        Some people like cupcakes better. I for one care less for them.

    • Aloysious

      Marie Callander’s?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Andrew Carnegie?

    • Ghostpatzer

      Henry Bessemer?

    • Don escaped Texas

      fully baked

      whatever happened to BP?

    • Don escaped Texas

      Morristown Hospital

      * scratches head *

      okay, I’ll bite: why not Easton or at least Allentown?

      • Sean

        Level 1 trauma center?

      • Don escaped Texas

        I thought the same thing (was married to a CCRN TICU badass for over 20 years once upon a time)

        but St Luke’s is Level 1

    • Urthona

      In their defense, the house came out of nowhere.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      When I was in high school, someone did that two doors down from me. Except they turned it into a hit-and-run.

      Oh, and no one was hurt.

  12. Brochettaward

    These pretzels are making me thirsty.

    • slumbrew

      Huh, me too. I had a long jump video suggested out of nowhere.

      Good bot.

    • Ted S.

      What women’s sports videos? I’m not getting them.

      Well, I assume I’ll start getting them now for having clicked your link.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Hey, I got that one too! Eyebrows for the win.

      • slumbrew

        I didn’t notice she has eyebrows

    • KSuellington

      I thought it was me too from the lynx I learned by watching this site. Now I’m a huge fan of Italian women’s pole vaulting.

      • Sean

        #TeamGherca

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Maltese. So, weirder than Corsica, not as violent as Sisily.

  13. Trigger Hippie

    *sigh*

    Time to get ready for work. Have fun, kiddos. Or not, I’m not your sheep dog.

    • Brochettaward

      YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISER.

    • Don escaped Texas

      Lita’s in the Fort Worth stockyards was a lunch burger. The old broad started it after the war and worked it by herself until her death maybe ten years ago.

      You yelled your order at her as you came in, then went over to one of those deep coolers to get a soda or beer, and then sat down.

      Ten minutes later she brought you a burger medium all the way no matter how you ordered it.

      When you were done, you went to the till and threw your money in and made your own change.

      I never saw her so much as look up from the oven.

    • slumbrew

      That video satisfies someone’s fetish, I’m sure.

  14. hayeksplosives

    “ there’s no guarantee it will get off”

    LOL

    • Tres Cool

      Clearly a woman.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    “Speaking to you, reading your messages, and meeting with you have helped me better understand how painful our silence was,” Chapek wrote. “It is clear that this is not just an issue about a bill in Florida, but instead yet another challenge to basic human rights. You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down. I am sorry.”

    Basic human rights. Like the right to make 99.5% of the population cater to your delusional psychoses.

  16. Don escaped Texas

    here’s my new health insurance card
    you have new insurance?

    yes, that’s why I checked the little new insurance box on your sign-in form there
    oh, good * scans card and hands back*

    * gets bill showing where they filed with my old insurance who, not surprisingly, refused to pay *
    * calls billing off *
    the voicemail for the number you have called is full…click!

    Hey, sorry to call the clinic, but the billing office’s VM was full
    no problem, I’ll take down your info
    * thinks to self: the info in my file that the receptionist “took” two weeks ago? * thanks, bye

    * gets bill showing where they filed with my old insurance who, not surprisingly, refused to pay *

    • hayeksplosives

      Back in the day, doctors showed up to your house and you paid them in cash, cheque, or chickens/canned goods.

      Nobody else was involved except a nurse or midwife.

      Good times, good times.

      • hayeksplosives

        Also, modern medical billing was significantly better a mere 13 years ago.

        What was that monumental thing that happened in 2009? Hmm…

        I guess we’re “finding out what was in it”.

      • Don escaped Texas

        that monumental thing

        in my world it’s very hard to tell if something is going/gone to shit or it’s just a bad case of the Memphis (we can fuck up a Chick-fil-A)

      • hayeksplosives

        It’s bad everywhere due to the bizarre group insurance / employer group negotiations etc. Healthcare is one of the few potentially MAJOR financial obligations where you cannot get any kind of estimate before you commit to treatment, whether it’s elective surgery, medicine, therapy, etc. Of course in emergencies you don’t have much choice, but in the other cases, no one knows what it’s going to cost until the bill comes 2 months later.

        When my husband’s invoice came in from his heart surgery, aneurism surgery, hospitalization at Scripps for weeks, etc, it was just over one million dollars. But there was that all important “insurance negotiation/discount” that brought it down to a mere $1200 that we personally had to pay.

        Now, I don’t doubt that it did cost a million bucks: many nurses, doctors, anesthetists, orderlies, etc. spent many hours caring for him, and lots of equipment, IV bags, medicine, food went into the man. But how the heck does it balance out with the insurance companies?

        And do the Saudi sheiks who come to Scripps for their open heart surgery just write the check out for their million dollars?

      • R C Dean

        We give out of pocket estimates every day. What’s not predictable, for what we do, is exactly what your course will be.

        Cardiology/cardiac surgery has good margins. It didn’t cost a million dollars; that’s an artifact of the anachronistic “charge master” prices, which nobody really uses or pays. Trust me, the doctors and hospital did just fine. As did the insurance company on whatever group your husband is part of on their books.

      • hayeksplosives

        I had one doc who was treating my (badly) broken leg back in 2003. When it was finally time to get out of the last cast after the surgery to remove the syndesmotic screw, I needed a brace while my shriveled muscles strengthened up.

        It was a fairly simple thing made of aluminum, plastic, foam, and velcro. The doc said, “You know what this costs to make?” I guessed $40. He said “Pretty much. You know what they are going to charge for it? $480. That’s because your insurance says that the max cost they will cover for a recovery brace is $480.”

        He liked to get on a soapbox about medical insurance sleight of hand.

      • juris imprudent

        It’s funny, but I know what I’ll pay for dental care. I can even get options on treatments for my animals. But get a firm quote on what some medical treatment for myself is going to cost me? What do you think we are – auto mechanics?

      • Ghostpatzer

        Back in the day, doctors showed up to your house

        Can confirm. Apparently I was a very sickly young lad, and Dr. Stiller was a frequent house guest. I believe the standard fee was “pay what you can” which was not much in Mom’s case /cue Winston’s Mom jokes.

      • hayeksplosives

        That’s cool that it was still that way in your lifetime. And nobody had to advertise on TV to get your mom to ask the megaclinic if neomoxiclan is right for her son. She just “called the doctor”.

      • Tres Cool

        Working all night, I listen to one of our local talk radio stations. Seems “house calls” are making a comeback, with at least 2 doctors advertising that they’re available for that service. I dont know how/if insurance would reconcile payment.

        For a time when I was un-insured and not on VA status, when I saw my family doc Id tell him upfront “Im self-pay so go easy on me”. More often than not I was just charged for the office visit. He would waive lab charges under “professional courtesy”. I really miss that guy- he retired.

      • hayeksplosives

        When Obama blessed the nation with the Affordable Care Act, one of its requirements was that all medical records had to be computerized, not kept in physical file folders. (presumably for easier government snooping.)

        One rogue reporter covered the story of a rural doctor way out somewhere where she was the only doctor for hundreds of miles, so she took care of everyone in the greater area. It was just her and a part-time nurse/receptionist. The doc was 55 years old and not particularly computer savvy, nor did she have the money to contract out the setting up of a computer system to handle the records.

        So she was forced by law to retire. All of her former patients now have to travel for hours to bigger clinics or forego care altogether.

        I hope she reopened as a black market doc, working for cash or trade.

      • UnCivilServant

        I can see a circumstance where such a person provides unofficial diagnosis and lay treatment for free, but has many friends who give gifts whenever they see her.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Im self-pay so go easy on me

        My youngest sees a neurologist for migraines. He’s on my wife’s insurance, and when that changed we found out that the neurologist did not take that insurance. We settled on a flat fee of $100 (he goes twice a year), which seems reasonable. I don’t want to know what the insurance company pays.

      • DrOtto

        I had a guy like that when in my late teens/early 20s. Had an ingrown nail taken off/out – a handful of painkiller samples from a shoebox was my pain med prescription.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, I’ve been the beneficiary of the “free pharma samples” in my yoot as well.

        It’s like docs invested all that time in studying and training in order to help people.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Myself and siblings were pay as you can pregnancies for my mom.

      • Don escaped Texas

        chickens/canned goods

        yup: potatoes and firewood

      • hayeksplosives

        LOL. That was cool, The swedish subtitles were a nice bit of nostalgia for me, too.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Life or limb for insurance otherwise we try to pay cash for everything else

    • Chafed

      That may be the worst part of using health insurance.

    • Don escaped Texas

      so many questions

      turn on the gas

      what? why?

      geothermal pool

      I see: no way to melt the snow

    • Tres Cool

      ” Cross-country skiing is one of the activities she enjoys.”

      I doubt she has many options.

  17. Sean

    4 9
    6 7

    • Grumbletarian

      7 5
      3 4

      Good day

      • Ownbestenemy

        I’m still thinking this is Russian code breaking

    • PieInTheSky

      gay

  18. hayeksplosives

    Had my first encounter with Nevada politics last night, quite by accident.

    The spousal unit and I were heading home after errands at around 5:45 or so and decided to stop by for a drink at our neighborhood bar, which is attached to the gas station/minimart. The parking lot was PACKED with cars, and dudes in suits were standing around talking in clusters outside. I rolled the windows down and asked if it was a private event, and they said, no, the Bar is open, but there is a ticketed banquet starting in a while. He told us it was a political event, and we bristled, but then my husband asked “Republican?” and they cautiously said yes, so then everyone relaxed and I let the volunteers direct the car to a parking spot out back.

    We went in, and the place had a celebratory atmosphere. Apparently it’s a Nevada “thing” to throw a few of these county cluster banquets where ALL the GOP candidates, from US Senator, Governor, AG, state assembly, county sheriff, various other roles get together, raise money and glad-hand the constituents.

    It was pretty cool; even though I quit the GOP years ago, I know it’s our best chance in Nye county to keep out the creeping Blue takeover. The audience. including candidates, included dot indians, feather Indians, black folk, hispanic folk, chicago folk, young, old, LGBT. They were handing out pocket constitutions and every candidate talked about reversing government overreach and butting out of everyone else’s lives. Seriously, Nye county Republicans are libertarians without realizing it.

    I love Pahrump.

    • Ted S.

      Nye County, the science county!

      • rhywun

        I suspect that my county fucking loves science more than hers.

      • hayeksplosives

        lol.

        Probably. But my county has a ratio of gun stores to residents that is likely higher than yours. In fact, since it’s Saturday morning, the VFW is having its weekly swap meet this morning; should probably pop over and buy some more ammo.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Do they throw one of those banquets at the local cathouse?

      • hayeksplosives

        I wouldn’t rule out that possibility.

    • tripacer

      and they cautiously said yes, so then everyone relaxed

      Was it at the Group W bar?

      • hayeksplosives

        Coyote Corner on Kellog Blvd.

        There’s a meeting at GOP headquarters this morning at 10 AM, also on this side of town. I might go…

      • Don escaped Texas

        Arlo did okay for a guy whose grandfather was a klansman and whose grandmother was so crazy that she stood out even in Oklahoma as needing to be locked up

        oh wait…that’s pretty much me as well

      • tripacer

        He turned out to be a flyin’, singin’, writin’, weirdo freak.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Moral clarity

    Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg responded after the Russian government action with a tweeted statement saying that the company aimed to protect rights to speech as an expression of self-defense reacting to the invasion of Ukraine and that the policy only applied to Ukraine.

    “If we applied our standard content policies without any adjustments we would now be removing content from ordinary Ukrainians expressing their resistance and fury at the invading military forces, which would rightly be viewed as unacceptable,” Clegg wrote.

    “We have no quarrel with the Russian people. There is no change at all in our policies on hate speech as far as the Russian people are concerned,” he added.

    Two weeks into Russia’s war in Ukraine, a Meta spokesperson said on Thursday the company had temporarily altered its rules for political speech, allowing posts such as “death to the Russian invaders,” although it would not allow calls for violence against Russian civilians.

    Meta said the temporary change aimed to allow for forms of political expression that would normally violate its rules.

    Everybody hates those guys, so it’s okay. Just don’t express violent hatred against people we like.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    The audience. including candidates, included dot indians, feather Indians, black folk, hispanic folk, chicago folk, young, old, LGBT.

    Fake news.

    • hayeksplosives

      The dot Indian woman was a former Chicago cop who fled that city 3 years ago, and is making the ending of civil asset forfeiture a key piece of her campaign for Nye county sheriff. She looks exactly as you would expect: short, beautiful, with silky black hair styled in a bob, wearing a matching set of sapphire & diamond earrings, necklace, and bracelet that her husband, a tall cowboy she pointed out to me across the room, gave her as a gift when she decided to run for office. They were both straight out of central casting.

  21. Tundra

    Goos morning, y’all!

    What’s shakin’?

    Other than Lita, I mean.

    • UnCivilServant

      The cutover is looking like another fiasco.

      *sigh*

      There goes my weekend.

    • Mojeaux

      Studying! I’m a day or two behind where I want to be.

  22. PieInTheSky

    I am the very model of a Russian Major-General,
    My APC just got blowed up by a farmer through a reticle

    https://twitter.com/foster_type/status/1502309935866163207

    I liked this reply

    “To lose one major general may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.”

    • juris imprudent

      If the Russian ranks are as bloated as our own, that hasn’t even made a dent.

      • Don escaped Texas

        more number two men than ISIS

    • hayeksplosives

      That’s pretty good. Both the tweet and the reply.

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Just went to breakfast at a local restaurant where we’ve become friends with the wait staff.

    The owner is still making them wear masks which aggravates the shit out of us so we’re giving them a call to complain later today.

    But that wasn’t the worst of it. Our waitress, who is about my age, just got back from California. She was headed out there to visit her 26 year old twin sons. But one of them died in his room inexplicably while she and her husband were traveling. No known previous health issues and I don’t think it was an OD.

    Horrible.

    • hayeksplosives

      Myocarditis. Another tragic death, totally preventable but foisted upon him by our beneficent elites.

      I just read a legit and heretofore suppressed medical study indicating that within 24-48 hours of getting the Covid 19 Vax, a small percentage of it has taken up permanent residence in the ovaries. Worse, 16% of the vax (!!) moves into the liver. My liver is already compromised, so by getting vaxxed and boosted, i’ve likely kicked off my slow suicide by painful disease.

      Fauci can rot in hell. So can all his co-conspirators.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        An interesting accusation from Steve Kirsch this morning:

        In 2021, the CDC changed the instructions given to the contractors that they employ to look for safety signals.

        It used to be “protect the patient.” So if you find anything that looks suspicious, you bring it up.

        In 2021, they changed it to “protect the vaccine.” So if you find anything that looks suspicious, you ignore it.

        They made a small change. Changed “patient” to “vaccine” in their policy.

        In short, people were paid to review the reports and only bring up the most egregious examples where the death was impossible to explain any other way. Then the CDC would slow roll the investigation.

        How do I know this? Because a friend of a friend is a contractor for the CDC who does this.

    • KSuellington

      Damn that’s terrible.

      Last week my wife was given her religious exemption that she had to resort to when they wouldn’t take a medical exemption for a booster requirement at her work. A good bit of stress was removed from the Suell household with that. She took the original two shots and after the second her glands were swollen for over a month. I had her go to her doctor at the time to check it out and document it as I knew even then (May 2021) that they would be requiring boosters sooner or later. Her doctor told her that it was indeed a side effect of the vaxx but that she was essentially forbidden from granting medical exemptions to it even in cases of severe reaction from it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        essentially forbidden from granting medical exemptions to it even in cases of severe reaction from it

        I take it the doctor is part of a large chain or hospital?

      • KSuellington

        Exactamente. The orders came from the top. She basically said if it was up to her that she would give a medical exemption, but that the only way she was allowed was if there was a specific allergy to a specific component of the vaxx that could cause potential death.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      Fuuuuck. That sucks

  24. The Late P Brooks

    CNN, on a white charger, in a suit of armor

    The question of sending fighter jets to Ukraine, which hung over Harris’ first stop, illustrated the constraints the United States and NATO are operating under as they work to protect civilian lives in Ukraine.

    When Biden called up Harris on her airplane as she was making her way to Poland, his administration was arriving at a decision to put a stake in the entire prospect of sending Polish planes to Ukraine, a signal of how intent the President is on avoiding direct conflict with Russia.

    The announcement blunted some of the potential awkwardness for Harris when she arrived at the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw for talks with Duda. Greeting each other under a bright blue sky, the pair shook hands for more than a minute. Inside, they had what one official described as a “tête-à-tête” to talk privately before bringing in their delegations.

    Polish officials had privately been annoyed at the impression they were holding up the jet transfers. When Blinken appeared on television Sunday giving Poland a “green light” to transfer the jets, it appeared to some like the United States was shirking off responsibility for what could be viewed as an escalation onto a country within easy striking distance of Moscow.

    Our diplomacy is in the best of hands. The President knows what he’s doing.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Blinken is an incompetent ass. For that matter, the entirety of the State Department is full of hubris and corruption.

    • Ted S.

      CNN, in the conservatory, with a wrench.

    • Gustave Lytton

      the President is on avoiding direct conflict with Russia

      We are already in direct conflict with Russia. Thankfully they have been restrained from acting upon it. We wouldn’t, and haven’t, if the shoe was on the other foot.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    “To lose one major general may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.”

    Most highly bitchin’.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    It used to be “protect the patient.” So if you find anything that looks suspicious, you bring it up.

    In 2021, they changed it to “protect the vaccine.” So if you find anything that looks suspicious, you ignore it.

    I find this to be completely credible.

    *no joke

    • rhywun

      I don’t know what to think any more.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I’ve gotten to the point I question vaccines for my dogs…

  27. The Late P Brooks

    There were no signs of the need dissipating this week. Even Harris appeared taken aback by the gruesome level of atrocities taking place in Ukraine, growing most impassioned when condemning the bombing of a maternity hospital.

    “It is painful to watch what is happening to innocent people in Ukraine who just want to live in their own country and have pride in themselves as Ukrainians, who want to be home speaking the language they know, going to the church that they know, raising their children in the community where their families have lived for generations,” she said, “And by the millions, now, are having to flee with nothing but a backpack.”

    “People who just want to lives their lives without the yoke of oppressive government being thrust upon them.” Where have I heard that before?

    • Gustave Lytton

      It is painful to watch what is happening to innocent people in Ukraine who just want to live in their own country and have pride in themselves as Ukrainians, who want to be home speaking the language they know, going to the church that they know, raising their children in the community where their families have lived for generations,”

      Russian puppet expressing support for those in Donbas.

    • juris imprudent

      The Russians aren’t promising to make the Ukrainians better people. If they had sold the invasion as for “their own good”, our proggies would be slurping it up.

      • Don escaped Texas

        it’s not oppression if it’s good for you !

  28. The Late P Brooks

    You’re not gonna fucking believe this

    Russia’s baseless claims about secret American biological warfare labs in Ukraine are taking root in the U.S. too, uniting COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, QAnon adherents and some supporters of ex-President Donald Trump.

    Despite rebuttals from independent scientists, Ukrainian leaders and officials at the White House and Pentagon, the online popularity of the claims suggests some Americans are willing to trust Kremlin propaganda over the U.S. media and government.

    *mops coffee off keyboard*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      over the U.S. media and government.

      I’m willing to trust the bum under the overpass over the US media and government. I trust my drug dealer over the US media and government. I trust the mafia over the US media and government.

      The US media and government are probably the least honest purveyors of information on the planet, perhaps excepting the CCP.

      • Surly Knott

        Distinction without a difference.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Speaking of which, YouTube hasn’t banned CGTN. Wonder if they’re going to delete CGTN’s videos. They’ve got a couple up about Ukrainian strikes on Doneskt. And several on biological weapons.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m disturbed enough.

        And there’s really nothing I can do about the current situation except hope that saner minds prevail.

    • rhywun

      It’s like they’re just playing Mad Libs with the last two years’ worth of plague articles.

    • hayeksplosives

      “The labs are not secret,” said Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at King’s College London, in an email to the Associated Press. “They are not being used in relation to bioweapons. This is all disinformation.”

      Kind of funny that she follows her own denials with the curt phrase “This is all disinformation.” Freudian slip?

    • DrOtto

      Jesus ABC, do try and keep up. They’ve already admitted that and are now suggesting the Russians are trying to capture them to weaponize them against the west. Do better.

  29. hayeksplosives

    Holy cow.

    As the guy says, is that really the US Vice President??

    https://youtu.be/eO8JlJ119ew

    Is she constantly high or just stupid?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      She’s in way over her head.

      • Gustave Lytton

        /nervous screeching laughter

      • Gustave Lytton

        Oh, shit that’s the video. Didn’t click on it first.

      • Surly Knott

        Pity, her head game was her best qualifying feature…

      • hayeksplosives

        Wah wah wah!

        He’ll be here all week, folks!

    • Timeloose

      She is both stupid and nervous at the same time. That is a laugh of someon who is in way over her head.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. She is used to easy fawning questions where she can toss a platitude salad while getting a tongue bath and the consequences are minimal.

      • hayeksplosives

        And it is extremely likely that she will become the president within the next 3 years.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Like any effective conspiracy theory, the Russian claim relies on some truths: Ukraine does maintain a network of biological labs dedicated to research into pathogens, and those labs have received funding and research support from the U.S.

    But the labs are owned and operated by Ukraine, and the work is not secret. It’s part of an initiative called the Biological Threat Reduction Program that aims to reduce the likelihood of deadly outbreaks, whether natural or manmade. The U.S. efforts date back to work in the 1990s to dismantle the former Soviet Union’s program for weapons of mass destruction.

    “The labs are not secret,” said Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at King’s College London, in an email to the Associated Press. “They are not being used in relation to bioweapons. This is all disinformation.”

    If they were SECRET, we wouldn’t be having this conversation, would we?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The labs are not secret,

      That’s why the US government initially denied they even existed.

      They are not being used in relation to bioweapons.

      That’s why we’re so worried about the Russians getting their hands on them.

      • rhywun

        They’re just studying bioweapons. Jeez, guys.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, like that gain of function research.

        Lighten up, Francis!

  31. PieInTheSky

    Ian’s Customs: Lage Max11A1/15 Light Machine Gun

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd5ruVyWqAI

    you guys talk a lot of guns but do you have half the stuff Gun Jesus has? probably not

  32. The Late P Brooks

    The day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an early version appeared on Twitter — in a thread espousing the idea that Russia’s offensive was targeting “US biolabs in Ukraine” — and was soon amplified by the conspiracy theory website Infowars. It has spread across mainstream and lower-profile social platforms, including Telegram and Gab, that are popular with far-right Americans, COVID-19 conspiracy theorists and adherents of QAnon, the baseless hoax that Satan-worshipping pedophiles secretly shape world events.

    Just throw it all at that wall. Something’s gotta stick.

    • Not Adahn

      Excellent! When you visit, you’ll already be able to speak Mexican!

  33. The Late P Brooks

    While the disinformation poses a threat on its own, the White House warned this week that the Kremlin’s latest conspiracy theory could be a prelude to a chemical or biological attack that Russia would blame on the U.S. or Ukraine.

    It’s not sensationalist disinfo when we do it.

    • rhywun

      I guess the narrative is set. Wonderful. ?

  34. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    The universe 100% unequivocally hates me. It’s literal fact.

    • PieInTheSky

      well you must of pissed it off somehow

    • Ownbestenemy

      The universe is a dick and we are it’s asshole. Like a bad tinder date, it will try to fuck us.

      Meh…sounded better in my head.

      • slumbrew

        Going for anal on the first date? That’s a bold move.

      • hayeksplosives

        Two variables, base 2 system. 4 possible combinations.

        AB

        00
        01
        10
        11

        0=good, 1=bad
        position A=event happening
        position B=person to whom it’s happening

        Why people tend to think that 11 is not a possible combo is beyond me. See: Corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs.

    • hayeksplosives

      You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?

      So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

      –Marcus Cole, Babylon 5

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bOrvlAyeQ

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I forgot about that line. It’s a good one.

      • hayeksplosives

        It is one of many excellent pieces of scriptwriting from that series.

        They don’t make ’em like they used to.

    • hayeksplosives

      “The universe 100% unequivocally hates me. It’s literal fact.”

      Do you wanna twalk about it?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    You have to concoct bioweapons before you can study them.

    But don’t worry your pretty little heads. There are protocols.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    And it is extremely likely that she will become the president within the next 3 years.

    What difference, at this point, would it make?

    • rhywun

      At least it won’t be Hillary.

      • hayeksplosives

        Ha! that was one of the scenarios i had in mind when I wrote my reply below.

      • KSuellington

        I seriously would not count out either Hillary or Michelle as possibilidades for 2024. There is very little chance that the Dems are gonna roll with Kammie for top billing. She has not exactly excelled in the VP roll and even with her fairly limited exposure she manages to poll lower than SloJoe.

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Cankles vs. Cackles.

        Hell comes to America.

      • Ownbestenemy

        That needs the movie guy voice applied

      • hayeksplosives

        I was thinking Monster Truck Rally guy voice, complete with echo.

    • hayeksplosives

      Excellent question.

      (pours vodka shot)

      I suppose the key question is, whom would “she” (i.e. the DNC puppet masters) appoint as the new Veep? Because her lifespan (or career lifespan) likely depends on that selection.

      • Festus

        The prettiest harpy.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Abrams

      • hayeksplosives

        Tulsi.

        (I crack myself up)

    • gbob

      The Biden administration may be an amazing blend of evil and incompetence, but credit where credit is due. Harris, amazingly, may save the Biden presidency. I would rather pretend the senile old man is in charge than run even the slightest risk of that woman being in charge of our country.

  37. Festus

    Well that’s great fucking news that hasn’t been reported. The Canadian government is trying to slip a bill through the Senate that would make Universal Basic Income into law. Who the fuck is going to keep the lights on you morons? I swear, they hate us all and want us dead.

    • Festus

      A nation of connected strivers and the “rest”. We’ll let Bill Gates sort them out.

      • hayeksplosives

        Morlocks and Eloi might be coming sooner than HG Wells imagined.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Come on man, why you hate free money. The promises of a UBI are no different than the street pusher offering just a nickel bag for free the first time

      • Festus

        They’ve herded the tribes for 150 years, why not expand? It’s just happening so fast.

      • hayeksplosives

        On that line, you might appreciate this very insightful column from your fellow Canuck, Mark Steyn on the effect of Canadian “compassion” on the Innu tribe.

        https://www.agriville.com/threads/4512-Mark-Steyn

        Consider the sums of money involved: $152 million for 700 people. That’s $217,142.85 for each man, woman or child. I’ve got a wife and three kids, so, had we been in Davis Inlet, that would have been $1,085,714.20 just for us. Imagine what you could do with that. Build a new house. Start a company. Hire some people. Invest in business opportunities. Get the kid an Ivy League education.

        But the Innu don’t have to do any of these things. They don’t need to work, because the “caring” government pays them to lie around the house all day. And they don’t need to buy a house because property rights is some racist whitey racket so all the homes are communally owned.

        The buildings were never the problem in Davis Inlet, only a symptom of it. There’s a reason why certain ways of life–those taught in residential schools a century ago, for example-spread around the world, and others–the Innu’s–didn’t. When you isolate people from the system that’s created the most prosperous, healthiest and longest-living communities in human history, when you insulate them from the impulses that drive most of us-to build a home, raise our children, live full lives-the result is the government-funded human landfill that is Indian Affairs.

      • hayeksplosives

        Admittedly, I’m on a Mark Steyn kick, but he is correct:

        “Work” and “purpose” are intimately connected: Researchers at the University of Michigan, for example, found that welfare payments make one unhappier than a modest income honestly earned and used to provide for one’s family. “It drains too much of the life from life,” said Charles Murray in a speech in 2009. “And that statement applies as much to the lives of janitors — even more to the lives of janitors — as it does to the lives of CEOs.” Self-reliance — “work” — is intimately connected to human dignity — “purpose.”

        From “The Post-Work Economy” https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/12/post-work-economy-mark-steyn/

      • Festus

        Yes. This is why I will soon perish. A man needs a reason to get up in the morning, slap some cold water on his face and greet the day.

      • Festus

        I lived it for nearly a decade, contracting out of reserve. Company got huge tax breaks but the white guys did all of the heavy lifting.

    • Gustave Lytton

      There better be a worthiness clause so Justin can punish those who dare to disobey their leaders.

      • Festus

        We’ve already seen that happen. It’s the social credit score writ large. “You bought too much beer last week, Citizen. Your ration has to be redirected.” It’s fucking terrifying.

      • Gustave Lytton

        I miss old timey totalitarianism where at least they let the alcohol and vices more or less flow free in order to satiate the masses. Theses new ones are religious true believers who only want is best for us. In their own opinion.

        CS Lewis was right.

      • Festus

        SOMA now, SOMA tomorrah, and SOMA Forevah!

  38. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Interesting observation from a Hungarian living in Canada. He’s not a particular fan of Ukraine because of their treatment of ethnic minorities.

    Why is it that every single Western nation is so completely and totally freaked out over Ukraine? What is the strategic value of an incredibly corrupt country on Russia’s border to them? Why have they steadfastly resisted any attempts to resolve this peaceably?

    Could it possibly be that a large percentage of Western politicians and other globalist leaders like Soros had their fingers in the cookie jar? That Hunter Biden was just the tip of a very large iceberg? And it is now very possible that a lot of them could be exposed?

    I certainly don’t buy that our leaders give a shit about average Ukrainians. They didn’t care about the residents of Donbas. They certainly don’t care about Yemenis and are willing to let them die by the hundreds of thousands. They starved out Iraqi children for years. Their motives have nothing to do with humanitarian leanings, so it has to be something else.

    • rhywun

      Could it possibly be that a large percentage of Western politicians and other globalist leaders like Soros had their fingers in the cookie jar?

      Yes. It’s the most obvious explanation if you haven’t swallowed the massive amounts of propaganda.

      I certainly don’t buy that our leaders give a shit about average Ukrainians.

      Nope, they don’t.

    • Festus

      I hate you just a little for bringing to mind the tip of Hunter Biden’s iceberg. The rest of your comment is spot on.

    • hayeksplosives

      Possible answers:

      1) Americans care more about whites than browns

      2) Americans want a reason to drop the Covid shit like a hot potato and “pivot” to something else

      3) What you said above about corruption

      Correct answer: 3, with answer 2 being an enabling method, and answer 1 being at least 10% of stupid tweets on the subject.

      • Gustave Lytton

        4) they want confrontation and conflict with Russia and this is just a convenient figleaf

      • Gustave Lytton

        They’ve been manufacturing a casus belli since Trump was running for office.

      • hayeksplosives

        Evil? Stupid? Bored? Greedy?

        I can’t figure it out.

    • hayeksplosives

      LOL.

      Did notice the sun was up WAAY too early this morning.

  39. Yusef drives a Kia

    I wake up late and see it’s only 15 degrees out! and that’s it for the day, 15.
    I’m sick of winter……..

    • Gustave Lytton

      42F and grass is growing. Did first mow of the season this morning.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        What is this grass you speak of?

    • Festus

      Just peeked outside and there is still snow on the Tacoma. Nope, not Spring yet.

    • hayeksplosives

      Does NJ allow Tesla drivers to plug in their own cars at supercharger stations?

    • rhywun

      Tell them they’ll probably get a discount for pumping their own gas and watch the numbers flip.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Fact is, there are plenty of reasons to preserve the self-service option: Nobody wants to leave a baby in the car while they get out to pump and pay.

      This is a serious person with serious ideas.

  40. Scruffy Nerfherder

    https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2022RS/bills/sb/sb0669f.pdf

    (H) THIS SECTION MAY NOT BE CONSTRUED TO AUTHORIZE ANY FORM OF
    23 INVESTIGATION OR PENALTY FOR A PERSON:
    24 (1) TERMINATING OR ATTEMPTING TO TERMINATE THE PERSON’S
    25 OWN PREGNANCY; OR
    26 (2) EXPERIENCING A MISCARRIAGE, PERINATAL DEATH RELATED TO
    27 A FAILURE TO ACT
    , OR STILLBIRTH.
    28 (I) A PERSON IS NOT SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES OR CIVIL DAMAGES
    29 FOR AIDING, INFORMING, OR IN ANY WAY ASSISTING A PREGNANT PERSON IN
    30 TERMINATING OR SEEKING TO TERMINATE THE PERSON’S PREGNANCY.
    SENATE BILL 669 3
    1 (J) A PERSON MAY BRING A CAUSE OF ACTION FOR DAMAGES IF THE
    2 PERSON WAS SUBJECT TO UNLAWFUL ARREST OR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION FOR A
    3 VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION AS A RESULT OF:
    4 (1) TERMINATING OR ATTEMPTING TO TERMINATE THE PERSON’S
    5 OWN PREGNANCY;
    6 (2) EXPERIENCING A MISCARRIAGE, STILLBIRTH, OR PERINATAL
    7 DEATH; OR
    8 (3) AIDING, INFORMING, OR IN ANY WAY ASSISTING A PREGNANT
    9 PERSON IN TERMINATING OR ATTEMPTING TO TERMINATE THE PERSON’S
    10 PREGNANCY.

    The ghouls are reaching for morally heinous laws that would allow the murder of children post-birth by abandonment and/or non-treatment. I’m trying not be reactionary about this, but it’s difficult.

    • hayeksplosives

      So if the baby comes out and isn’t breathing, and mom doesn’t slap its butt to get to breathe, that’s not a crime? Ok, maybe she doesn’t know how…

      If she just puts it on the ground and lets it freeze, that’s not a crime?

      If she doesn’t feed it and it starves, that’s not flat out murder?

      You are correct; ghouls. Molech worshipping ghouls.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yep, and that doesn’t even broach the topic of botched abortions where the baby is born alive but injured and the “doctor” tosses it into a tray and lets it thrash about until it wears itself out and dies.

      • hayeksplosives

        Kermit Gosnell concurs.

        Did you ever see that movie about Gosnell? It was crowdfunded, something like $2 million, had real actors (Dean Cain is the lead investigator), directors, and production values, but no US company would distribute it because, even though Gosnell was a criminal, no company wanted to be accused of suggesting that anything about abortion could be cast in a negative light.

        http://gosnellmovie.com/

    • R C Dean

      The deletion of “woman” for “pregnant person” is just precious.

      Much turns on how they define “perinatal”. Which isn’t defined in the bill. A typical definition is from viability to 2 – 4 weeks after birth. So throwing your newly delivered baby in the trash to scream it’s life out covered in garbage would not be a crime.

      • R C Dean

        On further review, that may be outside the immunity for “failure to act”. Leaving your baby in your hot car, or outside in freezing weather, though, or simply starving it to death, would almost certainly be immunized. And the immunity will be applied broadly because of the green light for civil damages.

  41. Festus

    Lita Ford! That tune was in heavy rotation while I pursued a girl way out my league. No worries, Festus tracked her down… Still don’t care for the tune but thanks for the memories!