Saturday evening, all abortion links!!!

by | Jun 25, 2022 | Daily Links | 190 comments

This is going to be another summer of stupidity.

I guess SCOTUS handed down some controversial opinion, or something yesterday. Much reeeing appears to have ensued in the typical progressive strong holds, where people are protesting against people who agree with them.

Let’s take a look, shall we?

 

Oh, here’s one chock full of stupidity.

 

Let’s see what some global hypocrites with even more Draconian abortion laws have to say.

 

The Stupid Caucus has chimed in.

 

You’re only a real clinic if you kill babies.

 

Challenge accepted?

 

Okay, that’s it. I can’t take anymore. I’m going to the cabin for the day.

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Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

190 Comments

  1. Sensei

    Great music choice. It’s been a few years since I’ve listened to that.

    • DEG

      Yes.

      • Tundra

        Agreed.

        I like it more the older I get.

  2. Aloysious

    I feel like Spud has beat me over the head with the stupid.

    I don’t remember where I saw this comment, so h/t to whomever:. Democrats haven’t been this angry since their slaves were taken away.

    Well, back to work.

  3. Warty

    REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    • Tundra

      Saw Malice retweet you again the other day. That nutrition thread was amazing.

      • LCDR_Fish

        link?

      • Warty

        It was incredible

  4. DEG

    By overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the guaranteed right to abortion nationwide, the court’s newly entrenched conservative bloc has set the country on a course toward legal and political warfare destined to last for years, a conflict perhaps even more intense than the one that has raged since Roe was decided in 1973.

    So, you’re saying the Court has aborted any chances of reconciliation?

    “No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body,” he continued. “I want women in Canada to know that we will always stand up for your right to choose.”

    So Justin, are you going to abort your vaccine mandates? You know, to be consistent here.

    One woman, Julia, told Fox News: “I agree. It’s also really frustrating because we have the government—the Democrats have the government … and they didn’t codify Roe v. Wade.

    Unfortunately, I don’t think she’ll take the red pill to abort her hopes, dreams, and delusions.

    • Nephilium

      If the Republicans were smart, they would be introducing a(nother) bill to make birth control OTC. Publicly, and loudly.

      They are not even smrt.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The one time they aren’t trying to undermine their base? Color me shocked.

        (There’s a chunk of the pro life crowd that is opposed to birth control too, for the same reasons.)

      • Nephilium

        True, but making birth control OTC isn’t forcing people to pay for it (even through taxes), or use it. They Republicans have also introduced similar bills in the past, which have been blocked by the Democrats.

      • juris imprudent

        There’s a chunk of the pro life crowd that is opposed to birth control too

        Comstock is dead and discredited.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think that is an exceptionally small group.

      • JasonAZ

        “There’s a chunk of the pro life crowd that is opposed to birth control too”

        Outside of the Catholic church and maybe a few hardcore Orthodox denominations, this is a SMALL chunk. And I know many Catholics and birth control is used by most of them. The church may have their rules, but Catholics in general ignore this particular rule.

      • Urthona

        A vast majority of American Catholics support birth control. It’s not really even close.

      • JasonAZ

        Agreed. The church itself says it’s wrong, but I have family that are Catholic and many friends. And they ALL use birth control because kids are expensive, they enjoy sex and they don’t want a dozen kids. Maybe this polls differently in other countries but not the US.

      • Nephilium

        I know several devout Catholics who use only natural family planning (and have three kids at this point). They also split from the KoC in the area due to issues with the devoutness of the leader.

      • JasonAZ

        Yes Nephilium, I know a few of those types. I was just stating my experience is that the super majority of US Catholics use birth control. From my family, attending Catholic church for a few years as a teenager and my current church where we have a large number of ex-Catholics. Just my experience.

        And, as such, that there isn’t a culture war shift where we’re going to see birth control made illegal or any such non-sense. IMO. In fact, I think we’ll see the opposite and have Plan B made over the counter in many more states and areas.

      • MikeS

        …and how many of those 8 percent don’t actually use it?

      • DrOtto

        I’m Catholic and opposed to birth control, raw dogging just feels better. Seriously though, my mother is super pro-life and while they didn’t hand us condoms, my parents didn’t dissuade their use either. And even though they had 7 kids, my mother had a diaphragm we stumbled upon while sacking the parents drawers for cash (we weren’t exactly angels).

  5. Tulip

    I seriously need to get out of this area. I’m working on a plan B (hee).

    • db

      I’m going to join, but after a late dinner of fajitas, currently marinating.

      Yes, it’s pronounced fa-GZI-das, like Peter Griffin would.

    • Lackadaisical

      5,6 12(?), 34

      Rest I could take or leave.

  6. Timeloose

    The madness over this is telling. How many turns of the ratchet have been made towards ever increasing fed government control over people’s lives in the past 50 years.

    The past two Supreme Court decisions have turned the ratchet in the other direction. Both stress the limitations on what the Gov can control.

    Make a new law or laws that don’t violate the constitution or amend it as intended.

    • Tulip

      I really want to meet you and have dinner with you.

      • Sean

        😃

        This is some legit bbq and I barely made a dent in it. I’ll be getting several more meals out of it.

        Let me know when you’re in the area.

  7. Sean

    Self defense is a fundamental human right, you fucking Fuck Trudeau – not abortion.

    • JasonAZ

      Sadly, his feelings are the same as your average prog in the US. No matter how much you tell people, 2A says “Shall not infringe”, then just don’t get it.

      Similarly, challenge any pro-abortion prog about exactly where in the Constitution it gives them a right to an abortion and you’ll get non-stop feminist propaganda about “My body My choice” or “how does an old man get to tell me what I can do with my uterus”.

      • DrOtto

        My new reply is “men can have babies now, you stupid hick!”

  8. rhywun

    The rheeing from furriners is especially derptastic.

    MYOFB

    • Sean

      This. They can stay in their own shitholes.

      • Sean

        Oh, and stop asking for fucking handouts from us.

    • Nephilium

      The more entertaining part is when the furriners are going REEEEE from a country with more draconian laws then the one the court upheld.

    • The Other Kevin

      Looks like they didn’t ask the Vatican, Eastern European, or Middle East countries.

    • hayeksplosives

      My guess is they’re just reading the headlines and thus swallowing the line that women are being subjugated in America hook, line, and sinker.

      • rhywun

        Instead of understanding that NY, CA, IL, et al. are preparing to launch their own abortion tourism industries, free to any takers.

      • UnCivilServant

        Racist Eugenicists don’t give up easy.

      • Ted S.

        No; they’re nasty little hatemongers for whom America-hating is the one acceptable form of bigotry.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m sure the politicians know, but the propaganda is strong. They aren’t going to get bonus points for taking a nuanced position and going against the grain.

    • Tundra

      Love the beret!

      • Sean

        😉

  9. one true athena

    Yesterday I did my first water-bath canning – 4 jars of strawberry jam. I had been a bit stressed out to do it “correctly” (it’s such a process when you read about doing it!) but it went well so now I feel much better about doing more.

    • Nephilium

      Congratulations.

      Glad to hear it went well.

    • Tulip

      Congrats! Next up pressure canning.

    • JasonAZ

      Awesome and congrats! I pickle asparagus and sometimes green beans. After a few times, you get the hang of it.

    • MikeS

      Nice! Next up, hot sauce/salsa

    • Gustave Lytton

      Huzzah! I’m still at freezer jam level. Only did one batch of strawberry jam this year. Still have some left over from last year.

    • Nephilium

      “You know, back in my day… when we got illegal drugs, they were at least fun ones.”
      –Everyone over the age of 30

    • rhywun

      Their millennial parents sure have some ’splainin’ to do.

      • Lackadaisical

        We live in an increasingly hostile world for the rearing of children. Why did the older generation let it get this far?

  10. Fourscore

    Congrats, both for the good job and for learning something new. By the time winter rolls around you’ll be ready.

    Don’t give any away, your friends can do the same thing if they wanted to but they’d rather just wait on you.

    “The jam you gave us last year was so gooood, are you going to do the same thing again?”

    • Nephilium

      My relatives in PA had the opposite opinion. They had cellars full of canned goods that they wanted to get rid of, most of which were jellies and jams.

    • Tulip

      There are two types of people, those that want your canned goods and those that don’t.

      • one true athena

        I haven’t even tried it yet, I might be the second type of person!

  11. Timeloose

    Hey Neph,

    I’m heading to Vegas tomorrow. Any tips or dramatic changes to be aware of since pre-COViD?

    • Nephilium

      Enjoy yourself, reach out to Ownbestenemy (he and his wife are excellent people to drink with). When we were there in April, no masks requirements anywhere (cabs technically had it, but none enforced it). Pricing on cabs has parity with Lyft/Uber now, and both take credit. Most buffets were still closed when I was last there, some have opened, but may require reservations. Marijuana is now endemic, and there are places on the strip handing out free pre-rolls, and you’ll see people smoking in front of cops/security (even though it’s technically illegal).

      • Timeloose

        Thanks buddy. We haven’t been there since 2019, so I figured a lot had changed. The weed part is interesting.

      • Nephilium

        Recreational has been legal for several years. Whoever walks into a dispensary (we never went to the strip/downtown places) will need an ID (which will be scanned), and all transactions are cash only. Potency is much higher then when I was a teenager. When you get back to the airport, you should see the dump boxes for leftovers.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I was there a couple times in May and nobody gave me free weed. 🙁

        I hate buffets so didn’t check if they were open. I really didn’t notice any covid restrictions.

      • Ted S.

        Worse buffet: Jimmy or Warren?

      • Timeloose

        Both is the correct answer.

      • Spudalicious

        You’re dissing Warren? You can both fuck right off.

      • Mojeaux

        Also known as the Krusty Krab, per 5-year-old XY.

      • MikeS

        Correct answer

      • hayeksplosives

        Nevada dropped all Covid restrictions a few months ago. Only med clinics require them now. (And my stupid employer.)

        Some restaurants have their servers mask up, but most don’t.

        If you want to try to coordinate a get-together, I’m at hayeksplosives at the ProtonMail.

      • hayeksplosives

        If you want a pretty spot that is off the Strip, look up Tivoli Village. Kind of an Italian themed spot with cafes, restaurants, shops, etc. Free underground parking.

        https://www.tivolivillagelv.com/

      • Timeloose

        Thanks Hayek.

    • Timeloose

      Thanks for the information J.

    • DrOtto

      Always double on 11

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Led Zeppelin?

    My fave

    • MikeS

      That’s a fun one. My fave

    • Grosspatzer

      But a GOP sponsor of a similar measure, state Sen. Jon Bramnick, and a legislative source with knowledge of negotiations agreed this bill is the most likely to hit the governor’s desk in place of a broader package that opponents warned would force 1.27 million drivers to pay as much as $350 more a year.

      “I’m not optimistic,” Bramnick, R-Union, said about his bills passing.

      The original package that cleared a Senate committee Monday would have required drivers in the Garden State to select plans with a minimum of $250,000 in personal injury protection, commonly called PIP.

      I wonder what Bramnick does when he’s not sticking it to NJ motorists…

      https://www.jonbramnick.com/personal-injury/

      The law office of Bramnick, Rodriguez, Grabas, Arnold & Mangan, LLC, located in Scotch Plains of Union County New Jersey, is devoted to the practice of personal injury law throughout the state of New Jersey. Our Union County personal injury trial lawyers provide comprehensive personal injury counsel

      No conflict of interest here, no sir.

      • MikeS

        I think all lawyers should be barred from holding legislative seats due to conflict of interest.

      • DrOtto

        And yet most legislators are lawyers, funny that.

      • MikeS

        Yeah. Isn’t that something?

    • Nephilium

      I’m half tempted to start a Facebook page just to troll people.

      Then I realize it would be tied to my real name, and the small voice of self-preservation screams at me.

    • rhywun

      “medical treatment”

      Again with trying to get the courts to approve what your legislature is too chickenshit to touch.

      • JasonAZ

        Exactly. This is going to hurt Dems in Michigan. Lots of Catholics there that often times support Dems because of their union support. This has been slowly changing as the Dems keep shitting on white people and men. This might be the straw that breaks the camels back.

    • R C Dean

      So the FDA is a violation of our rights?

      Not arguing, I just want to hear them say it.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    We’ll see if I can sneak this past the server error monster this time.

    I had breakfast (~2PM-ish) at IHOP in Pocatello. The hostess was a pleasant very attractive girl with great skin and the most lickable neck I have seen in quite some time.

    That is all.

    • Sensei

      Same problem here.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    When you get back to the airport, you should see the dump boxes for leftovers.

    Why not just hang out at the airport and score?

    • Nephilium

      Because the dump boxes are for anything… and you’ll be hanging out at the airport.

      Sorry KK.

    • Lackadaisical

      Not sure why anyone would subject themselves to that.

      • Sean

        Right?

        Anyway, I’m out for the night.

    • Fourscore

      Looks like someone didn’t have a nap today.

      When someone says “My Body, My Choice” wasn’t the choice made when the lady decided she could ignore biology and still enjoy the physical parts of a romance.?

      That’s really when the choice was made. At least Nancy Reagan said “Just Say No”, maybe it applies to other things besides drugs.

      • rhywun

        I learned the other day that Nancy didn’t actually say that. Her detractors coined it.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        “I can see Russia from my porch!”

      • hayeksplosives

        Why is “Women’s Liberation” assumed to be a purely positive thing, particularly for women?

        Now women are expected to put out before marriage, even on the first date, men aren’t expected to “do the right thing” if she gets pregnant with his baby, the worst type of feminist looks down on women who choose to be a homemaker and raise her kids. With the prevalence of porn on the internet, 13 year old boys and girls have very weird expectations of sex. How is this progress? Was it worth it?

        I’m glad for contraception, but this thing that women should act like dissolute frat boys has not helped “liberate” anyone.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        I’m proud that my daughters are liberated (free to do as they wish) but are not feminists.

  15. Lackadaisical

    I’m sure we’ll see Maza being banned from twitter any second now.

    Any second…

    • one true athena

      They wouldn’t even ban him the first time around. What a turd that guy is.

    • JasonAZ

      Who and what?

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Politics, per se? Or the wrong kind of politics?

    “I think there is a double standard going on here,” said Barry McDonald, a professor of law at Pepperdine University, reviewing the justices’ arguments that both decisions are grounded in a strict reading of the law and of history. That logic is shaky, he said, given the conclusion by many legal historians that the right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights is, in fact, much narrower than the court majority insists.

    Most ordinary Americans, though, will be unfamiliar with such intricate legal theory. Instead, many will size up the court’s actions based on their perceptions of the justices’ motives and the personal implications of the decisions, experts said.

    Many are likely to view the rulings as the direct result of Trump’s appointments and the justices’ determination to carry out his agenda, making the court “more of an institution of politics than it is of law,” McDonald said.

    What about my inalienable right to pretend Trump is the Devil incarnate? Why won’t the Court protect that?

    • Lackadaisical

      “Many are likely to view the rulings as the direct result of Trump’s appointments and the justices’ determination to carry out his agenda, making the court “more of an institution of politics than it is of law,” McDonald said.”

      I wonder who would have given them that idea. *eyeroll*

      Like any of the justices care that much about Trump now, I doubt Trump is Prolife anyway…

    • rhywun

      many legal historians

      Oh, do tell.

      • R C Dean

        Well, that settles it, then.

      • Ted S.

        As opposed to illegal historians….

    • RBS

      a professor of law at Pepperdine University

      L O fucking L.

    • JasonAZ

      2A – A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the RIGHT of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be INFRINGED.

      What isn’t clear here?

      • Ted S.

        It depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is.

      • JasonAZ

        Well played.

      • UnCivilServant

        What isn’t clear here?

        Why you didn’t capitalize ‘NOT’?

      • JasonAZ

        SMH in shame. Yes, master.

      • creech

        Shel Richman used to argue (maybe still does) that grammatically this means that the people needed to bear arms in order to protect themselves from unregulated militia (i.e. thuggish, unruly gangs sponsored by tyrannical government).

    • Gustave Lytton

      Ah, the sort of professor that would argue Dredd Scott was valid precedent and Brown was historically incorrect.

    • rhywun

      Yeah lol. I expected the fantasy to go on for another few years.

      Like it will here – there is way too much graft to throw around first.

  17. UnCivilServant

    Neighbors already setting off fireworks. C’mon man.

    • kinnath

      Mine started two weeks ago.

      • Fourscore

        Mine started on the wedding day to my first wife

      • Spudalicious

        Sparklers, are technically fireworks. Just sayin’.

    • rhywun

      A few here, too. Practicing for next weekend, maybe.

    • Urthona

      That was debunked. Fireworks don’t really trickle down.

      C’mon man.

  18. The Hyperbole

    DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
    (The ‘If you want to just call me Frankenstein Trshmnstr that’s cool’ Edition)
    #152

    Champ
    QuordleBot 17

    whiz 18
    Sean 19
    Ted S. 19
    MikeS 20
    one true athena 20
    Cannoli 21
    grrizzly 21
    Not Adahn 21
    Ozymandias 21
    Dr. Fronkensteen 22
    Grummun 22
    TARDis 22
    The Hyperbole 22
    Tulip 23
    Tundra 23
    SDF-7 24
    JG43 27
    Grosspatzer 28
    robc 30

    Chump
    trshmnstr the terrible 114

    Trashy and his creation split the field today, Trashy was on the wrong end. Lackluster participation but hey it’s a beautiful Saturday so I’m sure you people had better things to do. We had a decent average score, and a so-so 13/7 Tundra Line split.

    In Tourney news, whiz regained his title from Grosspatzer and since kinnath can’t play tomorrow the next Tourney doesn’t start til Monday, So hey! Enjoy a stress free Sunday Quordling, but pull on your big boy pants come Monday, none of this double chumping shit on my watch.

    • robc

      Thanks to Trashy for keeping me out of last.

      I am kind of proud of pulling off a 30.

    • MikeS

      A. You’re welcome for catching that you missed a double E in the Quordlemetrics score. Don’t count on me catching all your fuck-ups
      2. That section that counts all the scores isn’t all inclusive. It’s not counting the top and bottom players

    • Grumbletarian

      My 22 score was posted in the daily links at 8:11am.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Today in shitty web design:

    Wouldn’t you think a streaming teevee service would have a complete channel list, and maybe even a viewable schedule grid (so you can, you know, see what you’re missing)?

    I want to know if the full live CNBC channel is available on Peacock. Why? because if I can watch MotoGP races on CNBC, Sundays, that would probably get me to subscribe.

    Can I find a definitive answer to my inquiry? No. I cannot.

    • UnCivilServant

      If I’m streaming, why should I be tethered to someone else’s schedule?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Neighbors already setting off fireworks. C’mon man.

    Want the good stuff? Swing by the Rez.

  21. hayeksplosives

    The recent (unexpected) rains out here in Southwest Nevada over the past couple of days seems to have spurred the local wild horses and burros to get their move on.

    There are signs up all year long reminding drivers to look out for them, but I’ve not seen them before this week.

    Kinda cool (yes, I’m aware they are feral, not native “wild” horses, but they’ve been here long enough to have evolved a bit differently than human-owned horses).

    • UnCivilServant

      What I really hate about the ‘Feral forever’ classification is that it seems to imply an irrevocable taint from human contact that the animals can’t shake. I’d say that a population that has become stable in the wild without further human intervention for generations, it again counts as wild.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, it’s similar to the attitude that the climate should never change from what it was on some arbitrary date in the 1960s, or that no species should ever go extinct again.

        News flash: this constant change, destruction, renewal, and survival of the fittest deal has been going on for BILLIONS of years.

        Also, America ain’t gonna last forever either.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Also, America ain’t gonna last forever either.

        At current trajectory, it may not make the end of the decade.

      • creech

        “no species should ever go extinct again.”
        Happily, the RINOS can all go extinct like the DINOS.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Signal wars

    Clothing company Patagonia pledged to bail out employees who are arrested while protesting the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

    Patagonia said on Friday that it would pay for the bail of employees protesting “reproductive justice” in a post on social media following the court’s decision.

    “Caring for employees extends beyond basic health insurance, so we take a more holistic approach to coverage and support overall wellness to which every human has a right,” they wrote on LinkedIn.

    “That means offering employees the dignity of access to reproductive health care. It means supporting employees’ choices around if or when they have a child,” the company continued. “It means giving parents the resources they need to work and raise children.”

    Patagonia said that all the company’s full and part-time employees would receive training “and bail for those who peacefully protest for reproductive justice” and that employees would receive time off “to vote.”

    The company also said their U.S. employees are covered for “abortion care” and that the company would pay for the “travel, lodging and food” of those in places where “restrictions exist.”

    Do they pay their employees to actually make climbing gear and outdoor equipment, or has that been abandoned in favor of all social justice preening, all the time?

    • rhywun

      So travel to NY for some “dignity”, get paid for it by your employer, and pocket the money that NY wants to throw at you too. You’d be crazy NOT to get pregnant with an unwanted child.

      • The Other Kevin

        There’s no way this abortion tourism, and companies paying people for abortion travel, will ever be abused.

    • hayeksplosives

      “Reproductive justice”?

      I can’t even.

    • EvilSheldon

      Patagonia has mostly gone the Eddie Bauer path of turning into a fashion brand.

      I do like their board shorts.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    If I’m streaming, why should I be tethered to someone else’s schedule?

    Live sporting events, in real time.

  24. Brochettaward

    If it wasn’t for me, there wouldn’t be a single First on this site this past week. What are you people even doing?

    • MikeS

      Quordling.

      • Brochettaward

        If I were in the same room with you right now, MikeS, I would violently throw something at your fucking head. As great as I am, I cannot carry all the Firsting of this site while also providing nourishment to The First on a daily basis. Someone needs to pick up the slack.

      • MikeS

        I might start using FIRST as a seed word in honor of your impending birthing.

      • Mojeaux

        I LOLd.

      • JasonAZ

        I’ll take what he’s having!

  25. Gender Traitor

    Daily Quordle 153
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    Is that how you play this game?

    • MikeS

      🤨

      • robc

        The 1 is believable, the 2 is impossible after the 1.

      • robc

        And after posting, I realize someone is already playing tomorrow’s puzzle.

      • Gender Traitor

        I used to perform miracles in Chemistry lab too! 😃

    • Cannoli

      Nice GT! I did not do nearly as well.

      Daily Quordle 153
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      • SDF-7

        Ugh… yeah, that could have gone better. I do think I should start using UL as a seed word…

        Daily Quordle 153
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      • TARDis

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  26. Q Continuum

    I know it’s been said here before but “My body, my choice!!” is wearing awfully thin with me.

    1) The Venn diagram of those that militantly support abortion and those that support mandatory Kung Flu vaccines is probably close to concentric.
    2) Every single time a penis ejaculates in a fertile vagina, no matter what preventative methods are utilized, there is a non-zero probability of pregnancy. If you’re so desperate to not have a child, exercise your bodily choice by not having sex. Otherwise, the choice has already been made (exception for rape, which to me is the only real ethical dilemma left to debate on the topic).

  27. Atreides

    I’m still trying to figure out this line of reasoning…

    https://twitter.com/TylerMahanCoe/status/1540773117336948737

    The decline of general productivity, growth and infrastructure along with a rise in violent crime over the next decade in red states banning abortion right now will be blamed on every other issue than this and their proposed answer to problems they created will be “more guns.”

    • Brochettaward

      At least with regards to crime, they are basically pulling out the old school eugenics arguments used to justify abortion. It’s the sort of thing that if a right winger said it, they’d be labeled racist because it aint too far from saying that there will be more of them minority babies to commit crimes.

      Don’t know what it has to do with infrastructure, productivity, or growth, though.

      • Atreides

        Yep, that was my First thought, too.

        The whole thing is nonsensical, and whatever line of reasoning he thinks he has could be interpreted as being ridiculously racist.

    • rhywun

      Don’t waste your time.

      • Atreides

        You are wise beyond your years, rhywun!

  28. NoDakMat

    Welp, the worm sure does find time to turn in 168 hours. This time one week ago the NoDak house was riding high after NoDakJr pitched a gem of a game to finish off a 4-0 weekend for his league baseball team. Today his travel baseball team got their asses whipped twice to send them to 0-3 on the weekend and headed to an early start tomorrow morning to play the losers of the other pool. Tears were shed. No, not on the field, but after the post-game team huddle… getting your ass handed to you twice in one day is hard to deal with at 10. Coach said NoDakJr is pitching tomorrow morning. We’ll see if we can salvage the weekend.

    Not necessarily my fav Zep tune, but a very good one. Kshmir

    • MikeS

      Often an undefeated (or nearly) team needs a good ass-kicking or two to snap them out of complacency.

      • NoDakMat

        Typed a response to this, and the squirrels ate it, I guess. Oh well. We’ll have a good day tomorrow, In Spite Of Ourselves

    • one true athena

      Yep, same thing happened to my son’s AYSO team when he was around 10. They did great in their local league, moved up to regionals and got spanked hard. It’s heartbreaking, even if you know as an adult that it’s a good lesson. Hope they do better tomorrow!

  29. MikeS

    Thanks to KSue’s re-recomendation of SomaFM, I discovered a cool tune:

    Losers’ Lullaby

    Ahhh, the curse of the drinkin’ man;
    You don’t have the genius to back up your ways.

  30. groat scotum

    I’m drunk, fuck you.

    Pitch Black is a perfect horror movie.

    And it’s not bad as a sci-fi movie. It’s like a cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc

    • groat scotum

      The thing is, there are very many of them.

    • Ted S.

      You’re saying it’s thiccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc?

    • Sean

      I liked it.

  31. Annoyed Nomad

    Good morning from London, UK. The Mrs and I are about to get on a British Isles cruise. It was interesting to hear the UK radio coverage of the SC decision on Roe. They quoted Nancy Pelosi for the Democrat reaction and Marjorie Taylor Greene for the Republican reaction. Definitely a lefty way of framing it.

  32. Tulip

    I did not do as well as GT. I need to stop chasing words.

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    • rhywun

      Five bucks for a rotisserie chicken does seem improbably cheap.

      Say no to sweatshop chickens!

    • TARDis

      It’s not like mutant chickens are new. What’s the real reason? Grocery stores can’t compete?

      • Sean

        “What’s the real reason? ”

        No cheap protein.

        -commie rat fuckers

  33. Sean

    Mornin y’all.

  34. Sean

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