Links of the evening for this Saturday

by | Apr 22, 2023 | Daily Links | 138 comments

Yeah, I know. “Duh”.

Here we are again dear friends, easing into a Saturday evening. I hope you all are doing enjoyable weekend type things.

 

Shall we link?

 

I’m sure we’re headed full tilt in the same direction.

 

I’m sure this will go well.

 

My knees don’t ski. But if they did, I would stay the hell off of glaciers.

 

Methuselah has a sad.

 

I’ll keep my feet on the ground, thank you.

 

I can’t believe this fat gasbag is going to try it again.

 

Okay, time for cocktails on the patio. Enjoy the evening!

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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…

138 Comments

  1. slumbrew

    An ironic tune for cocktails but I’ll drink to that.

    • DEG

      Yes

  2. Pat

    Newsom sending National Guard to SF to help with fentanyl crisis

    Just so long as he doesn’t send them to the southern border…

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      And they did so well during the Rodney King riots!

  3. Pat

    My knees don’t ski. But if they did, I would stay the hell off of glaciers.

    Don’t worry, all the glaciers will be gone by 2020 2021 2022 2024!

  4. Pat

    By contrast, the exact location of Methuselah is kept a secret.

    It’s a good job the subject matter is so fucking boring or else the 4chan autists would have found it and defaced it by now.

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      It’s all Rip Van Bull-Winkle.

  5. Pat

    Chris Christie boasts he’s the only Republican who can take down Trump

    A far more important task than, you know, winning the presidency.

    • Michael Malaise

      He could probably take down Trump with some kind of Rikishi move.

    • Brochettaward

      Trump ruined Chris Christie so badly the last go around that I thought he had just scurried off to hide in his local Krispy Kreme never to be seen again.

      • Chafed

        So true. That fat bastard is worse than Trump. He was the first to endorse him and then had his hand out for a job. When Trump stiffed him, he slinked (slunk?) away. Also, I’ll never forget the photo of that land whale on a closed NJ beach with his family. He is loathsome.

  6. Not Adahn

    I hope you all are doing enjoyable weekend type things.

    It was a glorious day, and I spend a lot of it shooting. It was great. A stage I was happy with, a stage I was satisfied with, a stage I was happy with how I recovered when the plan went to shit. Only one stage I’d call “regrettable.” I impressed some punk kids. I DQ’d a club trustee. The geezer gentleman of ancientness running an OG Hi-power out of an Uncle Mike’s holster with rubber band retention? He dropped it. I was upset I could only DQ him once for dropping that gun onto gravel.

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      You should have confiscated it, not struck threw him.

    • EvilSheldon

      Is ‘rubber band retention’ as horrible as I think it is?

      • rhywun

        Rubber Band Retention was one of my earlier chiptune tracks.

  7. Pat

    French startup Zephalto announced it will offer a six-hour trip up to the stratosphere or the top of Earth in a space balloon named Celeste for a fine-dining dinner with “unparalleled views”. […] The only catch is it costs about $131,716 USD for a ticket which includes the flight, and two gourmet meals. aperitifs drinks, winetasting, and stratigraphic photography, per Zephalto.

    If I were idle rich I’d pay that in a heartbeat. Also, make no mistake about it, this WILL be a challenge on MasterChef Australia 2025.

  8. Shirley Knott

    The only way Chris Christie could take down Trump would be to trip and fall on him, and I’m sure Trump’s security detail would shuffle him out of the way. There might be, who am I kidding, there would be, a splatter zone though,
    What’s he going to do, insist his last name be pronounced Christ-ee? Sheesh. It was funny on Mom, but it’s a ‘funny once’.

    • rhywun

      splatter zone

      “One thin waffer.”

  9. Tonio

    Neph is out tonight and I have something to do during the early part of the evening, but never fear, Zoomsters! Neph has setup a self-hosting Zoom. Traditional start time is 8:00 PM Eastern, but the thing is open now and will keep running throughout the weekend.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Thank you, Nephonio!

      • kinnath

        One of my all time favorite songs.

        The cover’s not bad.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Chris Isaak is panty-dropier

      • Ownbestenemy

        Highschool OBE confirms

      • rhywun

        Yeah but I’d hit either one in a heartbeat.

      • Mojeaux

        Pretender.

  10. UnCivilServant

    I have recieved more confirmation that you should, in fact, not thin your paints.

    • Not Adahn

      Repaint! And thin no more!

      • Shirley Knott

        ALOL

      • R C Dean

        Oh, that is top shelf. Well done, NA.

      • UnCivilServant

        I think I’ve figured out how I’m going to clean up the mess.

        I’m going to rebase it with dark steel, lay down a two-stage zenithal using steel and aluminum, then hit it with a less-thinned blue to try to get the proper even coat I was going for the first time around.

        Thankfully, this is just a random model I had laying around and not something for the tabletop.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Tiger blood.

    • UnCivilServant

      Anyone interested in an article about me futzing about trying to learn how to use an airbrush?

      No? Too bad, I’ve already written it and shipped it off to the Editors.

      • Brochettaward

        I wouldn’t even second on that.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    “Two truths can co-exist at the same time: San Francisco’s violent crime rate is below comparably sized cities like Jacksonville and Fort Worth — and there is also more we must do to address public safety concerns, especially the fentanyl crisis,” he said in a news release. “We’re taking action. Through this new collaborative partnership, we are providing more law enforcement resources and personnel to crack down on crime linked to the fentanyl crisis, holding the poison peddlers accountable, and increasing law enforcement presence to improve public safety and public confidence in San Francisco.”

    A social worker in every pot!

    • juris imprudent

      C’mon, it’s San Francisco – a social worker with a Mexican buttload of pot.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    I went to Harbor Freight and bought a little air compressor fot fiddy bucks. It should air up tires and manage light air tool work until I get the real compressor up and running. I wouldn’t try to port cylinder heads with it, but it’s got to be better than nothing at all.

    • Mojeaux

      I got a Porter Cable pancake with nailers for $80, I think. Love that thing.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Me too. But with the nailers. Has held up well other than needing a $20 wear kit recently to fix the pressure regulator.

  13. Penguin

    Hi everybody. Just a FYI Glengarry Glen Ross is free on YoutTube right now.

    • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

      That will kill them!

      • rhywun

        Alec Baldwin is best when playing himself.

      • juris imprudent

        These are not incompatible statements.

      • Penguin

        Exactly.

        Damn that is a good movie.

        Rhywun – how to make a splash with 5 minutes of screen time or less.

      • Shirley Knott

        His interview with Gene Wilder should forgive many sins. He was sensitive, insightful, and all around did a great job. Wilder had not yet revealed his Alzheimer’s, but it was becoming obvious. Tragic, but Baldwin stepped up and treated him with great respect, as he deserved.

      • rhywun

        My go-to line is always, “You see this watch? This watch cost more than your car.”

      • Sensei

        Gold Rolex versus Hyundai.

        I’m sure Hyundai was thrilled.

      • UnCivilServant

        Fuck them, they make cars with insufficient visibility. I couldn’t see shit the last time I drove one.

      • Sensei

        Thanks to everybody driving tanks those wide far A pillars and high belt line are the cheapest and sometimes only way to get a small car to get good insurance crash ratings.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not being able to see what’s going on around me is a good way to get into a crash.

      • UnCivilServant

        “That says far more about how pathetic you are than anything about me.”

    • cavalier973

      Levine could totally have pushed off Spacey’s accusation of stealing the leads (or whatever they were). There was no real proof until Levine cracked (as I recall). Also, SPOILERS!

      Al Pacino was fun in that movie. As was the dude from “Brazil”. That guy played alongside both Pacino and De Niro.

  14. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    A massive crevasse? Thicc?

  15. kinnath

    EPA to Propose Strict Carbon Limits for Power Plants

    The Biden administration is planning to announce strict carbon limits on existing and future power plants for the first time — plants which currently generate 60 percent of America’s electricity.

    Three people briefed on the administration’s plans told the New York Times that under the EPA’s new rules, almost all coal and gas-fired power plants would have to cut or capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. At present, fewer than 20 of the nation’s 3,400 coal and gas-powered plants capture emissions from their smokestacks.

    They want us all to die.

    • kinnath

      Carbon capture would not be mandated, but the strict caps on pollution rates would require plants to adopt some other technology if not that. In the case of gas plants specifically, plants could switch to a fuel source that doesn’t emit carbon like green hydrogen.

      Magic. It’s all fucking magic.

    • Sean

      I don’t want to be like France or Germany. 😞

      • DEG

        Could we move the real Oktoberfest here before Germany collapses?

        American Oktoberfest celebrations, while some are fun, just aren’t quite right.

      • rhywun

        I got to go to the real thing when I was 17.

        American alcohol laws are just too retarded to accept the spirit of a real Oktoberfest. They have encouraged “underaged” binge drinking instead of responsible drinking that a sane attitude towards alcohol would have achieved.

      • Sensei

        The American way on many things.

      • Sensei

        From memory France is over 80% nuclear.

        Instead the nearly had a recent blackout because of a union work stoppage.

        Perfectly French.

    • rhywun

      JFC is there anything this evil fucking administration is NOT plotting?

      • juris imprudent

        Nor liberty.

      • Chafed

        Both correct

    • Ted S.

      Nuclear power for the win!

      • kinnath

        Darkness. All you get is darkness.

      • kinnath

        That was uncalled for.

        Go to your corner and contemplate the darkness.

      • kinnath

        Thank you for that one.

      • Sean

        Yo, I’ve got this bridge for sale…

    • Brochettaward

      But Trump is just as bad as the Democrats!

      Seriously, this is why I get tiresome of the people who straddle the fence and just say fuck Trump. Often times because it’s fashionable. In the ’90’s when you were arguing over tax rates, you could shrug it off. The Democrats are walking the entire country off the cliff as a party.

      • Chafed

        How about if I hate the Democrats and want someone other than Trump?

      • rhywun

        You’re in luck! Chris Christie has your number.

      • Chafed

        NFW. See my comment above.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m more objecting to the pox on both houses nonsense that gets passed around, especially in libertarian circles. The shit sandwiches are not equally shitty.

      • Chafed

        OK. I agree with that.

    • Chafed

      This is suicidal. My only consolation is it is going to buy the administration a lawsuit. The current Supreme Court appears is likely to find this an overreach by the administrative state.

  16. kinnath

    Belgium destroys shipment of American beer after taking issue with ‘Champagne of Beer’ slogan

    Belgium has destroyed a shipment of American beer after taking exception to its maker’s slogan that it was “The Champagne of Beers.”

    Belgian customs crushed the 2,352 cans of Miller High Life beer earlier this week, reasoning that they were improperly labeled as Champagne.

    The move came after a trade association for the Champagne industry complained that the term should be used only on bottles of sparkling wine, made using a traditional method in Champagne, France.

    By convention, true Champagne — as in, the French sparkling wine — can only be made using Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier grapes.

    The Comité Champagne, a joint trade association for the Champagne industry, requested the destruction of the American beers, arguing that the label “The Champagne of Beers” infringed on the protected designation of “Champagne”.

    • rhywun

      Not the Bee?!

    • Rat on a train

      Champagne sucks.

  17. Ownbestenemy

    Taco night at casa de OBE. Some asada, barracho beans and grilled corn.

    Got the rear latch on the 4runner repaired. Amateur tip, reset any computer components if they are present. That took a minute to figure out why with new latch and button it wasn’t working. Happy Saturday evening you scallywags

  18. Brochettaward

    Seconders don’t surf.

    • kinnath

      Fuck them.

      A cudgel is not a shillelagh. I have both of them.

    • rhywun

      What is the excuse for banning “oversized liquids”? I don’t even recall whatever ridiculous reasoning they cooked up.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Golf clubs are considered weapons as well.

      Ask me how I know.

      Actually don’t, I’ll go on an hour long rant about TSA morons.

    • rhywun

      “I Know There’s Something Going On” just came up on my kitchen iPod and had me grooving as I was doing dishes.

  19. rhywun

    Huh. Pluto has ST:Picard. Not that I have any idea what is going on. Guess I’ll switch back to sportsball/puck.

    • Brochettaward

      If you are going to watch it, consensus seems to be at most only watch the third season.

      • rhywun

        I can’t fathom dropping into a series in the third season.

  20. DEG

    “Two truths can co-exist at the same time: San Francisco’s violent crime rate is below comparably sized cities like Jacksonville and Fort Worth — and there is also more we must do to address public safety concerns, especially the fentanyl crisis,” he said in a news release. “We’re taking action. Through this new collaborative partnership, we are providing more law enforcement resources and personnel to crack down on crime linked to the fentanyl crisis, holding the poison peddlers accountable, and increasing law enforcement presence to improve public safety and public confidence in San Francisco.”

    Yeah, Newsom is running for president.

    Stevie Ray Vaughn is good.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Yeah, but SF’s property crime rate is roughly double the others.

  21. DEG

    I received a flyer in the mail today from this organization.

  22. Gustave Lytton

    Continuing from the dead thred. Many of the longtime NW beers were rolled up into Olympia Brewing Co (Strohs) until the Tumwater brewery was closed. Longmire got me to pick up a pack of Rainier for the first time since that closed. Not bad lawnmower beer. Every time I go through or mention Rainier, OR, I hear it as Raaaiiii-neeeeee-eeeerrrrr.

  23. Brochettaward

    Firsting is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

  24. rhywun

    LOL, peak NYC.

    Mayor holds event in the ghetto about some woke nonsense he pretends to care about, and things go predictably awry.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Adams during a “Car-Free Earth Day” celebration he hosted in the South Bronx

      I’m sure Adams and all of his staffer and police walked to the event.

      I’d vote to acquit if that guy started wailing away at the NYP and DM’s website designers.

      • rhywun

        The 5 or 6 train is a straight run from his mansion.

    • Brochettaward

      She was disrespecting Earth Day and something to do with Hispanic culture.

    • Chafed

      Lol. What did he expect in the south Bronx?

  25. Brochettaward

    Someone needs to crunch the numbers and determine how many payroll hours corporate America has spent training their employees on how to treat trannies. Just to put things in perspective. I have spent exponentially more time being told how to treat a transgendered person than I will actually interacting with anyone who is transgendered over the next few years.

    • Gustave Lytton

      A) add in money saved from avoiding being sued (imaginary numbers are perfectly fine)

      B) money spent on diversity training is never a cost, unlike luxury frills like after sales support

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Let me guess: Celebrate the fuck out of it or you’re fired.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeah RIP, it’s sad seeing the last bunch of the WWII veterans go.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Mornin, Sean!

      • robodruid

        I wonder when shot/shovel/shutup will start to apply to criminals.

      • Sean

        ☕😀

      • Gender Traitor

        Good morning, TO’G, Sean, ‘bodru, Stinky, and Roat!

        Had a couple of friends over for dinner and cribbage last night. The guys kicked the gals’ butts at cribbage, but in our defense, both guys are much more experienced players than we are.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not good at all but in a nation of over 350,000,000 these kinds of incidents are going to happen.

      • robodruid

        Just “odd” how they are all showing up on our various news feeds.

    • Rat on a train

      Not as bad as “e-sports”.

      • Fourscore

        I can see the MN governor eating his heart out because NJ got a head start on this. His idea for Lutefisk Eating league never really took off.