Sunday Morning Empathetic Links

by | Feb 15, 2026 | Daily Links | 159 comments

I feel for you. For each and every one of you. I feel your pain, your sadness, but also your joy, and your happiness.

What am I saying? The only thing I feel is horny. And greedy.

While Spud is gallivanting around Hawaii on his honeymoon, Prime and I decided to trash his house for Valentine’s Day. Which we proceeded to do in the process of making a couple of pizzas and killing a couple bottles of wine. But I do feel sorry for him. Not because of his fun in Hawaii, but because of what he’ll find when he comes back to the Gulch.

I am not sorry for birthdays, which today include the favorite of every science crank; the guy who found the key; a guy who made sure you paid your utilities; some chick who made tokens for the Baltimore subway; Bertie Russell’s pardner; the only one and true Joker; a guy who helped us get rid of the piece of shit Carter (but enabled the piece of shit Reagan); the best territorial attorney general ever; a cartoonist who really ought to be better known; another one who showed us that life really is Hell; and another victim of the Funny Fat Guy Curse.

I am a bit sorry for Links, which give me pain and angst. Do you feel that?

On the one hand, yeah, it’s good that he’ll be gone. On the other hand, their substitute will be worse. Gripping hand, we’re fucked.

Rallies in Los Angeles are, I’m sure, making the mullahs quake in their boots. Uh huh.

They act like this is something negative. How will the green-haired freaks share grifting opportunities???

Get ready for the Cuban famine agitprop as the Left pivots from Gaza, just as they did from Ukraine.

Once again, we have disappointed Him.

Huh, it really IS a communist plot.

“We are shocked, SHOCKED, that Hamas is conducting operations in our hospital!”

This seems like a really, really bad idea.

On the one hand, it’s typical that TSA is hilariously incompetent. On the other hand, how are you going to use this to take down an airplane? Gripping hand: eliminate TSA and the rest of DHS.

$15MM to protect a useless bureaucrat? Nothing left to cut!

Just make sure it’s not yellow.

This group is rapidly becoming the Old Guy’s favorite indy-rock band. Clever lyrics, complex key and time shifts, and perfect vocals. This particular song has something like a Steely Dan vibe, but (IMO) with much more interesting structure.

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Old Man With Candy

Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

159 Comments

  1. Tonio

    “what he’ll find when he comes back to the Gulch”

    You left him an upper-decker?

    Glad to see the website back to normal, at least for this article.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Valentine’s Day: Sometimes the burn sticks with you, other times, its just a UTI.

    • (((Jarflax

      For values of normal, normally considered far from normal normatively.

      • juris imprudent

        He was only talking formatting, not content.

    • Gender Traitor

      Glad to see the website back to normal…

      It’s a Valentine’s Day Presidents’ Day Day-Between-Two-Overhyped-Phony-Baloney*-Holidays miracle!

      *I will grant that Valentine’s Day has some historical basis, as it’s mentioned in Ophelia’s “Mad Speech” in Hamlet.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Interestingly, it goes back to Chaucer and A Parliament of Foules.

      • Gender Traitor

        [Insert thumbs-up emoji I can’t figure out how to produce with Linux Mint]

  2. Ownbestenemy

    Happy rainy day. Wish it were snow, but it will do.

    We got us a killer deal on the Vegas house refresh (paint/carpet) that undercut all our other quotes. Probably end up shittier than before, but we can legal say ‘new paint and carpets’ now.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Yeah, I am about to put my rental up on the market, not looking forward that cost.

      Oh well, it do be like that, Mr. OBE.

    • Tonio

      Congrats. Hope it moves quickly. I understand lots of Californians are moving to NV to flee Newsom.

    • juris imprudent

      No more snow! The rain here is finally going to wash out the snow still on the ground.

      • Tres Cool

        With the snow gone and the ground frozen, my backyard has become a quagmire of mud and dog shit.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yep. The mud is something else right now.

      • Threedoor

        I’m deep in mud season too.

        Got
        My pickup stuck last week, popped a tire off the backhoe trying to get the pickup unstuck. Got the pickup out with the loader. Turned it into mud soup.

    • Gender Traitor

      Wish it were snow

      Bite your tongue! I’m jealous of our neighbor across the street, whose front yard is mostly clear of that local-record-breaking snowfall, while our NW-facing front yard is still almost completely covered with it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        We’re still in the honeymoon phase GT! So forgive the desire.

      • The Other Kevin

        Preach. This winter was financially brutal for us. We had $1900 utility bills at the gym, and some days we paid $700 to plow the parking lot.

      • Ted S.

        People will burn more calories working out in the cold and shoveling the snow themselves.

        /sarcasm

    • Threedoor

      I won’t do paint and carpet in my place when I sell for exactly that reason.

      Let the new owners put in what they want without paying for it twice.

  3. Ted S.

    which today include the favorite of every science crank

    Happy birthday Bill Nye!

    • Chafed

      Ain’t that the truth.

  4. Ted S.

    the guy who found the key

    Happy birthday Melanie Safka!

    • Old Man With Candy

      Although I sadly did not have the opportunity to confirm, all evidence is that she was decidedly not a guy.

  5. Ted S.

    Huh, it really IS a communist plot.

    Note the date on that article: 2½ weeks before October 7.

    • Ownbestenemy

      That was some article

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      “So we end up with irrational forms of production as a result: we get massive production of things such as SUVs, mansions and fast fashion, because these things are highly profitable to capital, but chronic underproduction of obviously necessary things like affordable housing and public transit, because these are much less profitable to capital, or not profitable at all”

      And these are also the first people to cry about “attacks” on democracy. What’s wrong with getting out of the way and letting the people get what they want?

      • PieInTheSky

        The people are a bunch of rubes. They dont kbow whats good for them.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They’re rubes until the choice/vote goes their way, then it’s sacrosanct. They want an oligarchy with them being the oligarchs.

      • rhywun

        underproduction of obviously necessary things like affordable housing and public transit

        Funny how the production of obviously necessary things wasn’t an issue before the government assumed primary responsibility for the poors.

      • R C Dean

        I’m not sure how public transit is underproduced, when, outside of a few cities, it gets very little use.

      • Ownbestenemy

        These asshats would be gleeful to see us like the fake cities of China with whole infrastructure just existing even if completely unused.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Think of it less as an assertion and more of an expression of dogma and you’ll get it RC, except for those who’ll rake in the money from a rigged market who’ll say such things due to good old greed.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The asshats here have taken away street parking around the hospital and added bicycle lanes, which get one oldster riding an ebike a week worth of use. Which, because I live two blocks away, makes everyone park in front of my house. And, as this is an old neighborhood, there isn’t off street parking for every car.

      • Grumbletarian

        Why won’t those money-grubbing profiteers throw money away for my benefit?!

      • Threedoor

        My stupid home town stsrted a bus system using an Obama welfare grant.

        Ten years ago it cost over $600,000 a year to run plus medical and retirement for the drivers. I have never seen more than three people in any of their busses.

        It killed the private system which would pick up little old ladies in their driveway.

        It would cost less to buy every rider a used car.

        Bike lanes are as bad or worse.

    • Ownbestenemy

      After all, we are the producers of the goods, the services, the technologies. It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose.

      So their solution is to tell people what to produce directed by the correct Top Men, not the wrong Top Men

      • Ted S.

        Then start your own goddamn business and give the profits to The Poors.

      • R C Dean

        It occurs to me that there is a gap between “the planet’s resources”, “our labor”, and the production of goods, services, and technologies.

        It takes more than empty hands and undeveloped wilderness to produce, say, an iPhone.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I thought consumers decided what thing they needed, and that its demand for this thing that decides how much of the thing is produced.

        Shame on us demanding things we don’t need.

    • Suthenboy

      “The rest of us are doing the producing”

      No, you aren’t.

      I spend exactly zero time thinking about how other people ‘should’ live. I am just not as qualified as these two wet farts to decide such things.

  6. Tres Cool

    “Meanwhile, the TSA employee responsible for the incident remains employed and has received additional training.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      You expected something else?

    • DrOtto

      That’s all well and good, but I want Swiss’s input on this statement from the article “TSA officers are highly trained to use cutting-edge technology…”

    • Fourscore

      “This is my cleaver, this is my gun,

      One is for fighting, the other for fun”

      Decisions, decisions

    • Chafed

      I have a former client who is a TSA officer. I can assure everyone they are as dumb and inept as you believe.

      • Mojeaux

        Reminds me of last year when I was suing Cunty Aunt Susie and she appeared to believe reality didn’t apply to her. Like, is she stupid? Delusional? Used to bullying her way through people to get what she wants? Yes.

        However, I finally realized that she hadn’t spoken to me in 15 years, but I never noticed because I thought we had nothing in common and also, she’s stupid.

        Anyway, at one point, I called my lawyer just sobbing in rage and frustration, asking him if I could sue her in a separate action for delay of game.

  7. rhywun

    Do any of the elites at these Euro confabs realize that the likes of Gavin and Sandy are not, in fact, national figures?

    I bet if it weren’t for the fact that our Dems are 100% in lockstep with their authoritarian fantasies, they would normally be laughing them off the stage. Can you imagine Massie or DeSantis getting any attention there?!

  8. rhywun

    If someone told me there was a “massive rally” in an American city focused on Iran I would be hard-pressed to guess whether it was pro- or anti-regime.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      How can you tell a protest is being held overseas? They’re flying their own national flag. If you see a mishmash you know it’s the US.

      • juris imprudent

        Don’t try that in merry olde England.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Point taken, it’s more the English speaking nations for whatever reason.

  9. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Re: Newsome vis a vis Europe
    Rubio actually gave a fairly inspiring speech (yes, really) in Munich last month regarding Western civilization and the place of Europe and Western culture in the world (22 min):
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYftS2BTFwM

    Newsome seems intent on encouraging Europe to go quietly into that good night and so an alternative is being offered and I hope they and we seize it. I’d like to see a less belligerent set of policies to achieve the vision but at least the ultimate common goal is there.

  10. rhywun

    other sponsors had to be dropped after it introduced an “ethical sponsorship” policy last year, following some LGBTQ+ groups’ protests against sponsors’ links to Israel and the fossil fuel industry

    LOLOL

    It’s almost like all of these “pride” outfits are just fronts for far-left agitprop.

  11. rhywun

    Get ready for the Cuban famine agitprop as the Left pivots from Gaza, just as they did from Ukraine.

    I’ll eat my hat if all the Hamas fans around here swap their flags out in support of the Cuban regime.

    Among the verdant gardens of Havana’s diplomatic quarter herpity derpity tongue bath

    Taps out in the first sentence…. JFC tone it down, The Guardian.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We really should get out of the way in Cuba and let them wallow in their own self-imposed economic misery. It’d take away most of the misguided excuse making.

    • Ted S.

      Send your hat to Cuba since they need something to eat down there.

  12. PieInTheSky

    rossville union 6 bottled in bond rye is actually pretty decent

  13. Suthenboy

    “Meanwhile, the TSA employee responsible for the incident remains employed and has received additional training.”

    I, for one, will breath easy now.

  14. Ownbestenemy

    Just a mere 5 years ago the complaint was judges aren’t doctors.

    Now they are cheered.

    “This is a clear and present danger to public health”

    • Suthenboy

      I dont know why we need a legislative or executive branch.
      Who warned us about a judicial tyranny? Was it Adams? I am pretty sure it was Adams. These fuckers need to be put on a leash (Looking at you SCOTUS – police your own before we have to)

    • R C Dean

      I remember being told our government was composed of three co-equal branches.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Co-equal was a misnomer.

        Congress was always the more powerful branch that withered and died a long time ago.

        So now the other two have been vying for the power for over a century.

      • Threedoor

        Congress died by its own hand, the 17th amendment.

      • Threedoor

        Which also empowered the judicial branch.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      He’s only weighing it. I’m sure he’ll let judicial temperance and empirical evidence be his guide.

    • Threedoor

      “The plaintiffs, which also include several women who say changes under Kennedy have prevented them from receiving vaccines”

      Lies.

  15. Common Tater

    It looks like last night’s post is broken.

    • Ted S.

      It’s not real broken, it’s just broketrending.

      • Common Tater

        Was it working yesterday?

      • slumbrew

        It’s pining for the fjords.

      • slumbrew

        Mexi’s post was equally broken, then Tonio did some triage, then the scheduled night post hit and was broken in the same way but TPTB were, rightfully, enjoying their night.

        So we just will pretend that post never happened and never speak of it again.

      • Fourscore

        Never happened when Spud was on week end duty. The guy takes a Saturday night off and all hell breaks loose.

  16. PieInTheSky

    It is warm for february an raining hard… But in a way i like sitting on the balcony sipping whisky and watching the rain… Though i would rather walk about town.

    • Grumbletarian

      Deport them all to Enceladus.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      University campuses undermine community trust, makes much of the wider community feel targeted, and further damages America’s standing by reinforcing the view that we are complicit in the turn towards retardation.

  17. Common Tater

    “Some school districts in the US dropped plans for class pictures after widespread social media posts linked a billionaire with ties to Jeffrey Epstein to the photography giant Lifetouch, which on Friday called the claims “completely false.”

    The disruption to school picture plans in Texas and elsewhere began after online posts linked Lifetouch, which photographs millions of students each year, to the investment fund manager Apollo Global Management.

    Apollo’s former CEO is billionaire investor Leon Black, who met regularly with Epstein and was advised by Epstein on financial matters.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/02/15/us-news/us-schools-cancel-class-pictures-after-online-claims-surrounding-epstein/

    Moral panic?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well the monopoly alone that LifeTouch enjoys should have been the real uproar.

      • Fourscore

        “Checks Epstein papers…Whew, my name doesn’t appear”

        /Happy in Podunkville

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        You’re just a nobody Fourscore. All the important people are in the files but, strangely enough, most of them were just on the island for the snorkeling.

      • Tres Cool

        Yeah but did you check the Ashley Madison hacked list?

  18. Common Tater

    “In the wake of two horrifying killings of legal observers in Minnesota, on top of the abduction of countless immigrant community members, the country has reached a turning point. Backlash against ICE’s lawlessness and aggression has reverberated so loudly that even Trump has heard it. But the effects on ordinary Americans contemplating what they would do if they lived in Minneapolis or St Paul is perhaps even more profound.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/15/defeat-trump-mass-non-cooperation

    legal observers?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They’re spinning it as a victory. What it comes down to is the feds and the state made an agreement and the local cops have to some degree gotten their asses in gear.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh but mayor said no deal was made!

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I’m very tired of this “legal observers” and “immigrant community members” bullshitization of what they actually are.

      • dbleagle

        I am also tired of seeing “abducted” used as well. No, these people were arrested.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yep. More fucking word games.

        Legal observers are in danger when they watch the Gestapo abduct immigrant community members!

        The people are fucking bots.

    • rhywun

      JFC how many times can they keep writing the exact same opinion piece pretending it’s “news”?

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Former President Obama argued in an interview published Saturday that American politics has become a “clown show” under the second Trump administration, suggesting that many Americans dislike the rhetoric coming out of the White House in recent months.

    That’s nice.

    • R.J.

      The clown show started way before Trump. Best not look in the mirror.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Somewhere right around the 2nd presidency if I recall.

      • R.J.

        Agreed.

    • Suthenboy

      Says the guy whose three admins were freak shows right out of a cheap carnival.
      Always projection with them.

  20. Common Tater

    “The plaintiffs—Fridley Public Schools, Duluth Public Schools, and Education Minnesota—argue that the administration’s decision to rescind a decades-old “sensitive locations” policy has disrupted school operations across the Twin Cities region.

    They contend that enforcement activity near school grounds has reduced attendance, forced districts to expand remote learning, and diverted administrative resources…..

    Just days after the lawsuit, thousands of high school students across the country—including students in several Minnesota districts involved in the litigation—staged walkouts to protest ICE and call for the agency’s abolition.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/teachers-union-school-districts-sue-trump-administration-ice/

    Protesting reduced attendance with walkouts?

    • Ownbestenemy

      They were for back to the classrooms after Rona and this has given them the boon they desired. Paid and get to social signal yet again while not doing their job.

      Abolish the public education system

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This.

        Lexington has missed 11 of the last 15 school days because of local government incompetency to clear up the ice and snow. And on Thursday and Friday there were walkout protests at various local high schools, none of which have higher than 31% of their students proficient in anything.

        They can’t read anything more complex than “Look at Spot. See Spot run”, and any math more advanced than 2+2 eludes them, but, by golly, they understand Justice and Fairness.™️

      • Threedoor

        More than half of my property taxes, sales and income at the state level go to government schools.

        End them.

        My homeschooled kids could go on a couple amazing educational trips for that kind of money.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Fucking A, this. Mine are in private school, but same. About 75% of ur property taxes fund government schools. They should all be shut down post haste.

  21. EvilSheldon

    Is that their Dad playing keyboard?

      • EvilSheldon

        I guess I shouldn’t snark, dude is pretty fucking good. But the age difference is worth a chuckle.

      • Old Man With Candy

        At my age, everybody looks like a kid. But these are superbly talented kids.

        The core band is the lead singer, the guitarist, and the drummer. They bring in other NY session players for tours and albums. Of note in this lineup is not only Jamie Lawrence, but the bass player, Almog Sharvit, who is also on the cutting edge of the NY jazz scene.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    We’ve been getting our meat from a local farm and given store prices, isn’t that much more and way more…meat flavored.

    • Ownbestenemy

      31, not bad looking…and you choose 17 year olds?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im beginning to think our public school system is a much bigger problem than Epstien….

      • Tres Cool

        To paraphrase Chris Rock- “I’m not saying that beating the shit out of your wife when you catch her fucking one of her students is right. But I understand.”

      • The Last American Hero

        Not bad looking? She wears glasses. Glasses. Let that sink in for a moment.

        /Generic Teen Movie Dudes before obviously smokin’ hot chick loses the glasses in a makeover scene

    • Common Tater

      “Based on the obtained evidence, Hughes was arrested and charged with five counts of Child Seduction related to the sexual relationship with the minor student.”

      Child Seduction?

  23. Suthenboy

    The hysteria we are seeing is because the importation of Stone Age cultures is the keystone to the democrat’s strategy for total power forever.
    They are overtly waging war on our culture and our republic and so many people seem indifferent towards that.
    Amazing.

    • Mojeaux

      So, I have an ebook client from Sierra Leone who’s a college professor in Boston. He’s Catholic. His particular interest is in hauling Africa out of the stone age by applying American educational practices, particularly nomads. He called me yesterday to tell me about his new project and I said, “Well, but why? If they’re happy, why not just leave them alone?” He said it was because they NEEDED the American system to stop being stone age nomads. This gives me the ick. So I say, “Yeah, but, why? You’re not going to change their culture.” We went around and around about that until he let it slip that Islam was spreading across Africa and “look at what is happening in Europe.” 🧐 I said, “So you’re trying to inoculate them against Islam.” After some prodding and my assurance I did not disagree, he finally said yes.

      • Threedoor

        The American educational system would speed the spread of Islam.

  24. Common Tater

    “An expert witness called in court for Planned Parenthood claimed that toddlers and infants may not feel pain or be “conscious beings” during court testimony, according to a report from Townhall.

    The court case—in which Planned Parenthood has sued the state of Missouri over a trigger law banning abortion after the Dobbs decision—Planned Parenthood expert witness, maternal fetal medicine doctor Dr. Steven Ralston, claimed that a one-year-old is unlikely to feel pain, and said that they may not be “conscious beings.”

    Ralston stated in court: “I don’t know that [a one-year-old experiences pain] because I don’t know that a one-year-old experiences consciousness.” Ralston also could not tell the court when consciousness begins, stating: “I think it’s different for different individuals,” per Townhall.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/planned-parenthood-expert-claims-infants-toddlers-may-not-be-conscious-beings-or-feel-pain-court-testimony

    CWAA

    • Tres Cool

      I don’t remember my circumcision but I know it had to hurt like hell.

      I couldn’t walk for a year.

      • Chafed

        He’ll be here all week folks!

    • Suthenboy

      Since a one year old reacts to pain inducing stimuli the same as Dr. Ralston does perhaps we can conclude that Dr. Ralston also does not feel pain nor is he conscious. I mean, I dont know that for sure.

      There is well-meaning but wrong. There is practicality. Then there is just plain evil. The Malthusian mindset is always the same: “People have to go because there are too many of them. Except me.”

    • Threedoor

      Automatic retroactive abortion for him.

    • Mojeaux

      They didn’t start using anesthesia on babies until the late 1980s because they thought they felt no pain. Then they realized this was a barbaric and totally baseless assumption.

      Skepticism toward infant pain characterized much of 20th century research and clinical practice, with infant surgery routinely conducted with minimal or no anesthesia into the 1980s. This paper offers a historical exploration of how this view became common by reviewing and analyzing the experimental infant pain research of the 19th and early 20th centuries that contributed to the development of infant pain denial.

      Are these people not parents, particularly, are they not mothers? NOBODY can claim a baby/1yo/toddler doesn’t feel pain or have consciousness with a straight face unless they simply want to justify infanticide because they don’t like kids.

      • Threedoor

        They are 100% “pet parents.”

  25. Common Tater

    “An anti-ICE protest in Aurora, Illinois, turned violent on Friday after a student-led demonstration outside City Hall escalated into an assault on a Trump supporter.

    The man was seen unfurling a Trump flag and saying “Make America Great Again,” prompting some activists in the crowd to begin throwing rocks, water bottles, and shoes at him. The man was struck and kicked multiple times. After several minutes, volunteers helped him escape into a nearby bank.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/illinois-anti-ice-students-assault-throw-rocks-at-trump-supporter-in-the-street

    shoes?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      That’s a Middle East thing.

      Suthen is right. We’ve been exporting 3rd world savages by the literal plane load, and far too many have adopted their ways.

      • Suthenboy

        While that is true Muzzled a quick glance at history shows the leftists have always been quick to violence. Their arguments are primitive and irrational so dont hold water. Hence they always resort to the fist.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Yes, but I’m particularly referencing the “throwing shoes” thing.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      With the new liberal vocabulary, shouldn’t that be phrased as “ A legal observation gathering in Aurora, Illinois

    • rhywun

      “student-led”

      lol Horseshit.

      • Suthenboy

        Illinois…Minnesota…whatcha wanna bet there are some of the same faces in both crowds?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Incalculable losses

    When the Eaton Fire tore through Altadena, Calif., a historically Black community, it consumed the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. It was a place that shaped so many families’ relationships with nature, where community members — many of whom historically lacked access to outdoor spaces — gathered to connect kids with the natural world that sustains us. The Nature Center represented decades of community investment in our young people — all of it now reduced to ash.

    When we talk about what’s lost to climate disasters, we can’t only count structures and acres. We lose the infrastructure of care and connection for current and future generations.

    Instead of protecting us and our children from the climate crisis, the Trump administration is making climate denial official government policy. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is repealing its own scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare.

    For 15 years, the endangerment finding has affirmed what we can all see with our own eyes. Our government’s authority and obligation to address climate reality is a matter of irrefutable science and settled law which has been affirmed and re-affirmed by the Supreme Court.

    Fifteen years of performative left wing climate hysteria, wiped out with the stroke of a pen. oh, the humanity!

    • Ownbestenemy

      I lived in SoCal near that area for nearly 25 years and never heard of it

    • Common Tater

      “many of whom historically lacked access to outdoor spaces”

      ????

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        If they weren’t so dangerous, these kinds of liberals would be like court jesters.

      • Grumbletarian

        They mean the slaves whose work was done inside the plantation master’s house, you bigot.

    • Suthenboy

      It was a scientific finding was it? Huh.

      • Suthenboy

        Oh shit, it gets better from there.
        “…what we can all see with our own eyes…”
        “…climate reality is a matter of irrefutable science…:”
        What I see with my own eyes is a typical February in Louisiana. What I see with my own eyes are the numbers bearing out regular cycles in the weather over the last 100 years. What I see with my own eyes is a list pages and pages long of a 100% wrong predictions by the climate scammers.
        BTW, there is no such thing as irrefutable science. That would be religion, not science. The bedrock of science is forever questioning every ‘finding’. I really love the term ‘scientific fact’. No such things exist. There is data and there are theories. That’s it. Nothing is ever settled in science.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        And that’s why you’ll be first against the wall, Suthen. The priests of science have spoken.

  27. DEG

    Gadelmoula told authorities he brought the cleaver on board because he had gotten “a good deal” on it

    It’s not the worst excuse.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Probably an honest one too

  28. Evan from Evansville

    Fun hockey game last night, and all three boys paid attention, enjoyed festivities and even stayed awake. Breakfast now and soon the oldest will be skipped off for some rehearsal, but I’m on official Uncle Duty for the next 2-or-so hours. Not sure what we’ll do yet, but I’m ok with a mostly chill morning. Likely a walk with the puppy and a game. We also have a project documenting all my passport stamps and putting together a chronological order of my travels, so that may get a look.

    Bro is taking the boys to England in May, IIRC, where Bro studied for a year. Dad is *very* keen on driving them to the airport so he can see his grandkids get on a flight to another country/ continent. I want my passport map for myself, frankly, but it’s an easy future gift for Dad. He’s gettin’ all excited to see them go off to the formerly merry England, but seems like he’s ‘forgetting’ what *his* youngest has done.
    Perhaps in step with several here, I really cannot imagine going back to Europe right now. It just seems foolish. Though, perhaps Bro wants to get ’em in before the fan explodes from all the compounded shit clogged in it, but I can’t imagine that’s the reason. (I highly doubt that.)

    Special thanks to Tonio and TPTB at-large for their work righting the Glibship’s listing online bow. Appreciated beyond words.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Surprise

    Odermatt was asked about seeing a Brazilian on top of the Olympic podium and its significance: “For me, it doesn’t represent anything. He did his whole education in Norway. He just switched to Brazil now, so I don’t care about this. But he’s an amazing skier, and I have respect for him as an athlete.”

    But muh Olympic jingoism!

    • rhywun

      He’s fun-loving and dances the samba! That’s so Brazilian!!

      • Tres Cool

        I thought Brazilian these days meant engaging in home invasions, car jacking, and murder.

      • The Last American Hero

        I thought it mean going Marie Kondo on your pubic hair.

  30. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Stoking concerns is news that lack of fuel is hampering the UN World Food Programme’s efforts to relieve suffering from last year’s Hurricane Melissa.

    A literal Stone Age village 10k years ago would have recovered by now, yet the UN struggles just to make sure basic needs are met.

    Burn that incompetent nonsense to the ground.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    They can’t read anything more complex than “Look at Spot. See Spot run”, and any math more advanced than 2+2 eludes them, but, by golly, they understand Justice and Fairness.

    2+2=5

  32. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Then there are those leaning into the situation. A man in La Lisa neighbourhood in Havana is making cast aluminium and galvanised zinc burners for people to cook over wood. At $8 for a single burner and $15 for a double, his tools are proving popular.

    “My mother is going crazy with this cooking on charcoal,” said a woman in the rural mid-Cuban town of Sancti Spíritus, who then asked to remain anonymous because otherwise she would have to “make a will to bequeath the charcoal stove to my daughter as her only inheritance”.

    Yes. It’s the US embargo that’s the problem.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Retard melee

    Corey Lewandowski, a longtime controversial adviser to President Donald Trump, raised alarm inside the Department of Homeland Security last year when he sought approval to carry a federally-issued firearm while working for the agency, four current and former government officials familiar with the situation told MS NOW.

    Lewandowski’s pursuit of a weapon authorization became so contentious that a veteran attorney for Immigration and Customs Enforcement was escorted from the building after refusing to sign off on the request and clashing with leadership, two of the current and former government officials told MS NOW. They were granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation and due to fear of retribution.

    Kenneth Padilla, who was then working for ICE’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor, was asked whether Lewandowski could be issued a gun. Padilla said there was no legal basis for doing so and that it was not legally feasible for Lewandowski to be issued a gun as he is not law enforcement, two of the people said.

    Does that idiot “need” a gun? It seems unlikely. Make him take whatever training course the “real” coppers take.

    What a clown show.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    In a statement to MS NOW, Lewandowski denied ever seeking a federal firearm.

    “Never happened. I never sought, requested, asked for or even inquired about a federal firearm,” Lewandowski said in a text message. “So to be clear, I am NOT and have never carried a federal firearm.”

    It is practically unheard of for a temporary political appointee in a non-law-enforcement role to be allowed to carry a government-issued weapon, according to former DHS, ICE and FBI officials who spoke to MS NOW.

    Take a scary campfire story of a disgruntled anonymous backstabber and run with it, news agency formerly known as MSNBC.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I lament that it survived in any fashion, much less one that makes it essentially indistinguishable from its former self.

      Burn that place to the ground. There’s no way it makes any money, is almost assuredly kept afloat by the worst sort of people using the worst sorts of processes, and if you think mis, dis, or mal-information is bad, other organizations who promote it more could scarcely be found.

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