Saturday Morning Links

by | Apr 23, 2022 | Daily Links | 145 comments

Our weather has been absolutely gorgeous for the last week or so. Mid-80s for highs with about zero humidity, mid-60s at night. I think this might be the last weekend of it, but with the humidity gone it has been amazing. I understand why people come visit. Kids have started making daily use of the pool, it’s great.

I can only imagine the kind of crazy MTG can generate in 3 hours of talking.

If law enforcement is not a profession, then it must be a skilled trade?

I assume the Secret Service is hiring prostitutes and protecting themselves.

Well this crazy nutter definitely saved the taxpayers some trial and imprisonment money.

 

My kids watched Sing 2 and this song has been stuck in my head for a week.

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.

145 Comments

  1. Shpip

    Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Stephen Hopkins disagreed, ruling that, “Historically, law enforcement has not been thought of as a ‘profession.’ ”

    Not sure why this would surprise anyone. LEOs (and public schoolteachers, for that matter) are low-level bureaucrats, albeit with exceptional PR and an overwrought sense of entitlement.

    • Sean

      Shit ruling.

    • Rat on a train

      Clearly the only profession is being a professor.

      • DrOtto

        What about the oldest profession?

      • TARDis

        You leave Winston’s mom and the VP out of this.

    • R C Dean

      I’ve always had a couple-three criteria for a profession:

      Licensed, with some kind of peer/guild membership and disciplinary body, and personal liability for fuckups. Theoretically, the latter is true of everybody, but professionals can buy insurance specific to their professional liability. Cops and teachers fall out on one or two of those, so no.

      • db

        Would you consider engineering a profession? While professional licensure exists for engineers, it is by no means necessary for practicing engineering. While it’s more common in disciplines like civil engineering or the parts of other disciplines when the product is for public use such as roads or buildings, it’s not required at all. Most chemical engineers have no need for a PE, even though we have the ability to get a license in the discipline.

        Usually only engineers that interact with or produce work product for governmental bodies in some way, bother to get the PE.

      • Raven Nation

        I’d argue you with, but I’m too busy working at my trade this morning.

    • Brawndo

      The article didn’t go into detail (shocker, I know) with the ruling, it seems like pretty twisted logic. But I don’t particularly mind seeing cops getting their panties in a bunch because a judge insulted them. Fuck cops.

  2. Ted S.

    I assume the Secret Service is hiring prostitutes and protecting themselves.

    They’ve got Rosemary Woods on the payroll.

  3. Fourscore

    Poor Ol’ Joe, can’t even get a week end off without the nosy neighbors wanting to watch.

    No one seems to pay much attention when he’s doing the people’s business, why would we care in he’s trying to catch up on his homework on week ends?

    • Sean

      Let’s go Brandon.

  4. Rat on a train

    I recall Obama’s pledge to keep a public record of all visits to the White House followed by setting up meetings away from the White House.

  5. UnCivilServant

    Our weather has been absolutely gorgeous for the last week or so. Mid-80s for highs with about zero humidity, mid-60s at night

    That sounds awful. It’s 40 here and I just opened the windows to air out the house after winter.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    The candidacy challenge was initiated by a group of Georgia voters, who are working with a coalition of liberal activists and constitutional scholars. They face an uphill climb to remove Greene from the ballot, and the judge on Friday appeared skeptical of some of their arguments.

    Their lawyers grilled Greene about her ties to the far-right provocateurs and extremist groups who fueled the carnage at the Capitol. But her testimony did not establish that she had been aware of plans for violence or that she had coordinated with any rioters — and she deflected many questions about her activities before January 6 by saying more than 50 times that she couldn’t remember.

    “I was asking people to come for a peaceful march, which is what everyone is entitled to do under their First Amendment, but I was not asking them to actively engage in violence or any type of action,” Greene testified, pushing back on the assertion that she had aided the insurrection.

    Burn the witch.

    • R.J.

      I seem to remember- wasn’t there footage of her inside the building tellling people to be peaceful and leave? I think she had jumped right out into the crowd to try to get them to go back outside. Was it her or another person?

      • Count Potato

        WTF??

      • Rat on a train

        The defense should have responded.

      • Rat on a train

        The violence started in 1775.

      • Not an Economist

        Accurately stating history is hate speech. Report yourself to the local BLM for reprogramming.

    • rhywun

      So if she and Orange are “responsible” for the “insurrection”, that means they can let out those hundreds of political prisoners they locked up, right?

    • Brawndo

      “carnage at the capital”

      Lol

      • l0b0t

        Donnybrook in The Dome?

      • Rat on a train

        Hullabaloo in the House?

      • Grumbletarian

        The Damn-near Death of Democracy in DC!

      • slumbrew

        Rumble in the Rotunda?

      • KSuellington

        *puts on echoey monster truck rally loudspeaker voice*

        ONE DAY ONLY!!! THE EVENT THAT WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD!!!
        CARNAGE AT THE CAPITOL!!!!

  7. cavalier973

    Trump’s “Truth Social” seems to be live, now.

    Does glibertarians have an account? Even if it lasts for a shorter time than CNN+, I think glibertarians should have a presence.

    • Ted S.

      [waits for Swiss to post the “Truth Social Challenge”]

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’ll be surprised if that survives. After what gab had to do in order to keep going, I doubt Trump has the patience or the initiative to do the same.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    The outcome in the case could have national implications, because liberal attorneys have said they will mount a similar challenge against Trump if he runs again for president in 2024.

    Without direct evidence linking Greene to any rioters, the challengers focused on her rhetoric and how her calls to action in the weeks before January 6 had potentially inspired the insurrection.

    “She was one of several leaders who gathered the kindling, who created the conditions, who made it possible for there to be an explosion of violence at the Capitol on January 6. And then, she dropped the match,” Andrew Celli, lawyer for the challengers, said in his closing arguments. “Now, she comes into this courtroom and says she’s surprised and appalled that a fire burned.”

    Without direct evidence, they will rely on smears and innuendo.

    • Q Continuum

      Process = punishment.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Her attorney, James Bopp Jr., called the hearing a “political show trial” and said the affair was a massive violation of her constitutional rights. When the challengers questioned Greene, Bopp repeatedly interrupted with objections — and the judge agreed on several key occasions, leading him to rein in the challengers and telling them at one point, “You are pushing the envelope.”

    He objected, and the judge agreed? The fix is in. Next stop, fascist tyranny.

    Who will weep for DEMOCRACY! when the Nazis take over?

    • Chafed

      Putin?

    • R.J.

      Good point. Any conviction for reckless driving involving a death should warrant the same treatment. Drag racing on a public street, etc…

      • Chafed

        This makes more sense but you can’t showboat for MADD with it.

    • Rat on a train

      Janet Hinds hit and killed Galinger while he was inspecting an overflowing manhole on Hamill Road in Chattanooga. A jury convicted Hinds of vehicular homicide by intoxication, reckless driving and leaving the scene of a crash in September 2021, and a judge later sentenced her to 11 years in prison.

      Under this bill, if a defendant is convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication or aggravated vehicular homicide, and the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child, then the sentencing court must order the defendant to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim’s children until each child reaches 18 years of age and has graduated from high school, or the class of which the child is a member when the child reached 18 years of age has graduated.

      How much do prisoners earn?

    • SDF-7

      Probably just “easy target” is the answer, but a really good point. It would be interesting if places with gang violence like Chicago or whatnot implemented this for any manslaughter or homicide of a parent.

      Of course — then my brain kicks in a bit after my emotions and I start wondering — just how do they determine the level of child support? As if the payer was the parent (in other words, as much as they think they can milk them for?) An amount as if the *deceased* were still alive? Is it left to family court as a follow on to a criminal proceeding? And how does this tie in with the ever-more ridiculous lowering of what is “DUI” these days? (Anything above 0.0 including no mouthwash seems to be the trend..)

      Will desperate but enterprising parents lurk outside of golf / country clubs to pay their kids’ college tuition? Am I channeling Judge Nap for some reason? Where is Task Force 34? The world wonders….

      • Brawndo

        My mind went there too. Have a bunch of kids, then go playing in the street outside of a night club. Profit.

  10. SDF-7

    Hope the Brett-lings enjoyed Sing 2 — we watched it here the other day. Thought it was okay, not as good as the first (other than Wrath of Khan, few sequels are…) — especially thought the songs were better integrated in the first one.. here they seemed to just throw them in the background except for the big numbers at the end.

    The GA judge should have never even started up the trial — AZ had more sense.

    Not my shining moment for Quordle today. Grumble…

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    • Grumbletarian

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      I have been at 22 for a few days now.

    • rhywun

      back in the saddle

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    • Ted S.

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      Ditto for me, I had two choices on both the 4 and the 8 and got them wrong the first time.

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    • Sean

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      Tricky one today.

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  11. The Late P Brooks

    The burden of proof is on the challengers to show by a “more likely than not” standard that January 6 was legally an insurrection and Greene actively aided the insurrectionists.

    Beaudrot, the judge, said the legal questions at play were “deadly serious” and repeatedly tried to maintain some level of order during the circus-like hearing.

    Keep those kangaroos in line.

    • rhywun

      “more likely than not”

      Throw her in the sea and see if she “more likely than not” sinks.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    The Secret Service is not a travel agency, or an office management firm. Why would they keep tabs on who is permitted past them?

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Joe likes it in Delaware. He can retreat to his unassuming little ancestral shanty, kick off his shoes and relax. You know, be himself.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Saving the planet

    President Joe Biden signed an executive order during his visit to Seattle Friday that aims to safeguard mature and old growth forests on federal land, step up forest maintenance and tree planting projects across the country, and combat global climate change by increasing diplomatic efforts to fight aggressive logging in the Amazon, Africa and Southeast Asia.

    Among other things, the order directs the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to define and inventory mature and old growth forests within a year and develop policies to protect them from climate change and wildfire risks.

    “We’ve reached the point where the crisis on the environment has become so obvious, with the notable exception of the former president, that we really have an opportunity to do things we couldn’t have done two, five, ten years ago,” Biden said before sitting down to sign the order in Seattle’s Seward Park.

    As if any of that will matter when the ICBMs start flying.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “combat global climate change by increasing diplomatic efforts to fight aggressive logging in the Amazon, Africa and Southeast Asia.”

      The earth was perfect before icky humans set out to despoil it. Greenies have a modest proposal which will finally provide a solution and restore Gaia to its’ pristine state

      • rhywun

        I wonder if it will make the news when Brazil, Africa, and Southeast Asia (why only the Southeast?) laugh in his face and refuse to lower their standard of living to satisfy smug American progressives.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That won’t stop them from cashing the checks.

    • rhywun

      Or the gas lines make their reappearance.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Pick one

      1) inventory is actually completed, because everything is throw in that designation

      2) one year stretches out to 20, meanwhile no logging permits/contracts are grants because the inventory isn’t done

    • Drake

      Thank goodness he flew 3,000 miles in his personal 747 to give us that lecture.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    But the order to inventory and protect “mature forests” is welcomed by environmental groups, who say the biggest threat to forests and the climate still comes from chainsaws, not wildfire. They are cautiously optimistic the order will establish long-sought policy guardrails on what can and can’t be cut, stopping the agencies from gradually whittling away what old growth still exists and establishing protections for maturing trees that are crucial for storing carbon.

    “It’s not enough to just protect the remnant ancient forests,” said Steve Pedery, conservation director at Oregon Wild. “It’s the trees that are growing, these 80-plus year-old stands, that are a big deal. We’re thrilled to see them include these mature forests in the order.”

    Just admit it. You want the complete cessation of natural resource extraction. We can all sit around our buffalo-dung fires eating bugs and singing Woody Guthrie songs.

    • Ghostpatzer

      “singing Woody Guthrie songs”

      No love for kumbaya?

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Biden’s executive order does not ban logging mature or old growth trees, or provide any new protections for them. But the agencies are ordered to produce the inventory in an expedited time frame, put it out for public comment and develop “science-based” policies that address the threats from wildfire and climate impacts.

    When is a ban not a ban?

  17. Ghostpatzer

    Thanks for the links, Brett. And the song – I love the Dionne Warwick version, never heard Aretha’s take before. Very nice.

    • TARDis

      Wasn’t there something recent about a woman needing it at least 3 times a day? Seems like a match could be made.

  18. Ghostpatzer

    “The US Secret Service has dubiously claimed to The Post that it has “no records” of visitors to President Biden’s two Delaware residences and therefore cannot divulge that information in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.”

    They dont’t have records, but surely they have some metadata?

    FFS, the 3-letter agencies have detailed information on the comings and goings of pretty much everyone in the US if not the world. Except, apparently, POTUS.

    • TARDis

      That info is for Klaus and friends only, plebe.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Saving the planet, cont’d

    A coalition of small-town mayors in the Kansas City area banded together to figure out ways their governments could take action against climate change and make their towns more livable and environmentally friendly.

    Damien Boley, mayor of Smithville, Mo., has a vision for a walkable community with abundant green space. It may seem risky to go all-in on climate action in a conservative-leaning county, but Boley says there’s plenty of room to make real change.

    Mike Kelly, the mayor of Roeland Park, Kan., agrees. “One of the things we heard on the doorsteps during our campaigns is this existential dread,” Kelly says. “Like, we have 10 years to save the planet, and nobody’s doing anything about it.”

    They spent all their time talking to junior high students?

    • rhywun

      Um… there is a reason that “walkable communities” tend not to have much “abundant green space”.

      Except in buzzword salad world.

      • l0b0t

        Have you seen Utopia? If not, check it out. https://youtu.be/pCzCJzwrB_c

        Also, thank you very much for that live New Model Army video. I too am very, very fond of them.

      • slumbrew

        That looks great! Like “The I.T. Crowd” but in a QUANGO.

      • rhywun

        Nerd-com. Nice.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    The bravest of the brave

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming are among this year’s recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award for the “courage they’ve shown protecting democracy in the United States and abroad.”

    Michigan Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Arizona Republican House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Fulton County, Georgia, election worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss are also being honored with the award this year, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Thursday.

    ——-

    The Profile in Courage Award, created in 1989, is presented to “public servants who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences.”

    Past recipients of the award include Presidents Barack Obama and George H. W Bush, Sens. Mitt Romney and the late John McCain, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the late US Rep. John Lewis.

    Totally apolitical.

    • TARDis

      Totally a banana republic.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Corrupt bloodthirsty totalitarians are sort of brave.

    • Brawndo

      The Michigan secretary of state and the Georgia election worker are being honored for helping fortify the election.

      /didn’t read the article

  21. Q Continuum

    “Principled Loserdom[…]is to be part of a controlled opposition that cheerfully accepts inveterate losing, as long as the Washington uniparty still passes some neoliberal consensus policies that redound to ruling class interests”

    https://www.newsweek.com/against-principled-loserdom-opinion-1699917

    George Will frantically looks for his fainting couch.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      He ain’t wrong.

    • Grumbletarian

      If you’re going to be frog-marched to the wrongthink gulags, at least you can say you took the high road.

  22. Count Potato

    What about all the Democrats who actually incited violence or bailed out arsonists?

    • Grumbletarian

      That was all done to save democracy, terrorist!

  23. db

    X 9
    8 3

    boo

    • rhywun

      L.O.L.

    • TARDis

      Who is the dude with his arm around Gates I wonder.

  24. Count Potato

    “A California man threatened to bomb Merriam-Webster’s HQ over the dictionary’s definition of the word female as ‘a gender identity that is the opposite of male.’

    Jeremy David Hanson, 34, of Rossmoor, California, faces a federal charge of interstate communication of threats to commit violence.

    Hanson’s alleged antics forced the firm to shutter its offices for five days.

    He could now face up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000, and is also said to have been upset over the firm’s definitions of the words girl and woman.

    Woman is defined by the site as ‘an adult female person,’ while a girl is described as ‘a female child from birth to adulthood’ or ‘a person whose gender identity is female.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10745443/Man-charged-threatening-BOMB-Merriam-Websters-HQ-definition-girl-woman.html

    • db

      could be harboring 32 species of bacteria and 28 types of fungi,

      OK, so what you’re saying is that Cardi B is actually an infectious threat to her fingernails?

  25. The Bearded Hobbit

    Greetings from Evacuation Central.

    I got the call about 4PM that a wildfire had started just SE of the house. I was alone and had to scramble to get my meds and some spare clothes. Of course I missed some of the wife’s essentials. Very strong winds yesterday, up to 50MPH blew the fire up quickly. We are in ABQ at a hotel and are going to try to get back in today, at least for some more supplies.

    • Tundra

      Oh man. We were a mile from the New Year’s fire evac zone. Of course we were traveling and I got to text with my neighbor while wondering if we were gonna come back to nothing.

      Prayers for a safe ending.

    • db

      Wow. I hope the winds are favorable to you and the firefighters get control of the fire before anyone gets hurt or has property loss. Good luck to you and Mrs. Hobbit.

    • l0b0t

      Oy! That’s awful. G/d bless the both of you. I hope the fire is tackled quickly.

    • Brawndo

      Glad you’re safe. Hope it steers clear of the property

    • Sensei

      Be well!

    • Count Potato

      Hope everything is OK.

    • R.J.

      Hoping for the best. Fires suck.

    • TARDis

      Sorry to hear, stay safe.

    • SandMan

      Hope your home is safe, this has been a crappy April in NM.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Good luck, Hobbit.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Thanks, guys. Winds are forecast to be much lower and temps much cooler than yesterday. Dust storms were so bad that they closed the highway between Alb. and Santa Fe due to multiple wrecks.

      April is a terrible month in NM. Howling winds and dust storms that blot out the sun.

      • Fourscore

        Hoping for the best for you and the family, Hobbit.

        That’s why I never curse the rain

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Fetishists

    A liberal author is lecturing “selfish” Americans for opposing the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness policy, describing their disdain for it as “dark jealousy, bitterness and animosity.”

    In a Thursday op-ed for NBC, Christina Wyman praised the administration’s attempts to provide “much needed financial relief” to those burdened by student loans, but claimed that opposing the policy simply displayed “another manifestation of our country’s fetish for individualism.”

    Wheeeeee!

    • Brawndo

      Not wanting the government to tax the poor so they can bail out the rich is selfish

      • SandMan

        That is the correct response.

  28. LCDR_Fish

    Watched “Everything Everywhere All At Once” last night. A couple wokish moments, but mostly well integrated and/or suborned to traditional family values (although even with Michelle Yeoh – looking great for her age) it’ll never screen in China.

    A little long, but I’ll pick it up on BR. Definitely a good take on alternate dimensions handled in a pretty original way – some great performances and great to see Ke Huy Quan and James “Lo Pan” Wong back on the screen in some great roles. Very good action too – Jamie Lee Curtis was nuts.

    Sadly….even after just a couple weeks out, it’s already down to one theater/one screen locally – and will probably be gone by next week. Recommend checking it out – I’ll prob watch Dr Strange when it comes out, but even with Sam Raimi…I’m not sure it’ll top this one for weirdness.

    • Count Potato

      I don’t think it’s online yet.

    • whiz

      I hope to see it this weekend — it’s in our local theater now.

    • rhywun

      Never heard of it. Sounds up my alley.

    • l0b0t

      James Hong (Lo Pan) is an absolute workhorse; I love him. He currently has four projects in post-production, his first IMDB credit was in 1954, and he has at least one credit every single year since.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Yeah…maybe just me and my viewing habits, but I haven’t seen him in a lot of stuff the last few years.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    “It’s as if he thinks having a girlfriend is only about the sex.”

    What about the sammiches? You can’t forget the sammiches.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    She noted that not all were happy with the administration’s decision: “Perusing the social media comments on nearly every story about loan forgiveness reveals a dark jealousy, bitterness and animosity toward those being given a taste of much-needed financial relief.”

    “It’s selfish, it’s extreme, and it’s pure, unadulterated American,” Wyman said of the negative reaction. “The hotly contested student loan debate is merely another manifestation of our country’s fetish for individualism and the value it places on self-reliance and personal freedom above all else, demanding that we not look to the government for assistance of any kind.”

    Okay.

    • rhywun

      pure, unadulterated American

      If you hate it here so much, there’s the exit →

    • slumbrew

      People run up debts and don’t want to pay them back – not selfish.

      People pay off their own debts and then object to paying off other people’s debt – selfish.

      That’s not _quite_ woodchipper worthy. But close.

  31. LCDR_Fish

    Pls check the forum VA glibs – a couple posts there about a poss. Gourmeltz meetup in May and my proposal for a range day.

  32. Hyperion

    Morning, Glibs. Anyone know if that player RJ linked that video to last night, has any subtitle options? I couldn’t figure it out, I should probably try again, sober.

  33. Timeloose

    Happy Saturday Glibs.

    I hope everyone is having the best day they can today.

    I wanted to post a fun combination of two of my favorite things. Music and cooking.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SOTrHrGSeNM

    Only Neil Fallon could make a crab cake recipe into a decent tune.

    • LCDR_Fish

      Old one. But knew what you were linking as soon as you said crab cake ;p

      May have to try it sometime.

      • Timeloose

        I never tried a biscuit cutter as a mild before. Best I came up with was cutting the top and bottom off the can the crab came in.

  34. l0b0t

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    • Rat on a train

      So close to a 1.

    • db

      nice job! I guess we know one of your key words now