HOUSEKEEPING: Swiss will be returning to both links and scheduling duty on Monday, July 6. I’m incredibly relieved, particularly about the scheduling part which I suck at, and therefore hate. Here’s some on-topic, on-point music for you. Right. Now.
BELOVED STATE BROADCASTER NOW JUST MAKING SHIT UP: The Beeb thought the Houston skyline was just too bland for their FIFA coverage, so green-screened in some mountains. A so-called “news” organization that would engage in image manipulation this blatant and easily-debunked would of course have no trouble manipulating news coverage so as not to embarrass the government of whom they are part.
BUT NOBODY ASKED WHY SHE WAS ABLE TO KEEP DOING THIS: [F]ormer Florida Department of Juvenile Justice employee who was terminated in 2022 after a battery arrest has been hit with 113 felony counts after allegedly exploiting her still-active access to the state’s Comprehensive Case Information System (CCIS) to warn members of a drug trafficking organization about impending arrests. The real story here is why her access was never terminated. Was that part of a broader conspiracy? How much did she make from doing this?
RIOTING ISN’T THE RIGHT WAY; IT’S THE ONLY WAY: The mainstream response regarding the protests and rioting in Belfast and elsewhere throughout Britain has been, as you might imagine, negative. The Left is forcing the Right to reconcile their usual stance in opposition to protest and political violence with the fact the radicals on their side have adopted it for themselves. A tidy little think-piece in which the author struggles with the political right’s traditional aversion to political violence. [Edited to include missing link.]
ANOTHER ‘SACRED LAND’ GRIFT: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board voted to close the Minnehaha Off-Leash Dog Park because it is on Indigenous sacred land. Don’t worry, Minneapolitans, in five years you won’t even be allowed to have dogs in public at all. The meeting saw repeated disruptions, including from [appropriately-named] attendee Erica Crazy Hawk, who moved through the audience while speaking and at times shouted over proceedings.
GWAR YOU KIDDING ME? Band says it was contacted by the Secret Service for holding a mock execution of President Trump onstage. Anyone familiar with Gwar knows that the band is famous for its often grotesque, shocking, and bizarre stage shows. A staple of those performances for decades has been the gratuitous mock killing of public figures. Their victims have included former President Barack Obama, former President Joe Biden, Queen Elizabeth, Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton, and Kanye West, among others. I can’t say any of this surprises me. The Secret Service is doubtlessly doing due diligence, and GWAR is being GWAR. No such thing as bad publicity, amirite guys? Disclaimer: Back in the day I met RVA-based GWAR at the birthday party of a mutual friend who was in one of their videos.
RESHAPING LANGUAGE TO PREVENT THOUGHT CRIME: “Trans” is out; AMAB and AFAB are in. Historically, terms like MTF (male-to-female) and FTM (female-to-male) were used in transgender discussions. However, these have been reassessed due to their implications that transgender people change from one gender to another. You see, it’s not enough that you must pretend that the person with a five o’clock shadow swinging his dick her shenis in your daughter’s locker room is a woman; you must now accept that he she has always been a woman, you bigot, and one victimized by the medical establishment at that. I hate this performative bullshit so very much.
TRIBE OF PARASITES VIRTUE-SIGNALS ABOUT OVERSEAS WORKS, IGNORES PROBLEMS OUTSIDE THEIR GATES: The Royal Family is touting its efforts to curb sexual violence in Africa and the Middle East. The comment section is bordering on regicide.
JWST FINDS SALTY SURPRISE ON [IN]FAMOUS ‘PINK PLANET’: Someone had entirely too much fun writing that lede, but it is awesome what they can determine about these far-away objects. [The] Pink Planet may not be a planet at all despite its moniker. It may instead be a brown dwarf, a failed star that formed like a star but was unable to gather enough mass to achieve the nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium in its core. Thus, astronomers refer to it as a “planetary-mass companion,” which means a planet-size object orbiting a parent star.
Ain’t no link, but if there was, I’m guessing it would be this.it would be this
In response to the migroid atrocity du jour, one often hears Americans ask ‘why haven’t British men done anything?’, to which Americans will flatteringly reply to themselves, ‘It’s because those BRITCUCKS have gone SOFT, they gave up their GUNS like little BITCHES, but you won’t see anyone trying THAT in a SMALL TOWN.’ Which conveniently elides the awkward detail that American men, armed to the teeth as no other people on Earth, have allowed themselves to be pushed around this way and that since the sleep of the good Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior (PBUH) was disturbed by his little dream.
Even if it wasn’t Tonio’s link, it’s still worth your time.
Thanks. Fixed.
And thanks for your link.
I have often said that once an insurgency actually kicks off, getting weapons and material is the easy part.
The hard part is setting up C³I networks that don’t get instantly penetrated by the authorities. This isn’t easy to do, and the American Right absolutely sucks at it.
First step is to be completely and immediately vicious on anyone you suspect of being a mole.
Yup. The Green Book was very explicit on this subject.
To paraphrase Clay Martin, ‘Real covert organizations don’t protect themselves with non-disclosure agreements. They protect themselves by cutting your throat if they think you’re a leak.’
If you haven’t been butchered live on stage by Gwar, are you really anybody worth knowing?
Sheldon gets it. It’s like getting a wall-walk cameo in the sixties Batman live action TV show.
One of my favorite little bits of the bizarre is that through Green Jello, there is a direct connection between Gwar and Tool. Gwar and Green Jello were friends (and I’ve read that Gwar helped Green Jello build their on stage costumes, and Maynard Keenan was a member of Green Jello.
If you ever wondered why a 90’s Hollywood comedy rock band had such majorly heavy guitars…that’s why.
That website is something else. They really should just ditch all the letters but Q. Because it’s “queer” everything and given that “queer” is just a synonym for “leftist asshole” it would be more honest.
But if they did that, they would lose the smoke screen of being in a “protected” group.
The real story here is why her access was never terminated.
Well, it obviously would have been a violation of her First Amendment rights.
I bet it’s something like they were letting her juice a pension.
American men, armed to the teeth as no other people on Earth
Pass.
You people need to get used to the fact that the state’s guns belong to the victim classes now. Not fun when the shoe is on the other foot, huh?
Is there a piece of land in the entirety of the United States that some tribe can’t claim was sacred to them?
It was all so sacred that their ancestors ceded most of it. Over and over again. Sometimes for beards, sometimes for fire water.
something something you can’t criticize those who hold power over you\
Britain is finding this out and now we are too.
“Minnesota dog park DECOMMISSIONED”
Sandy, pick up the white courtesy phone please, You have an emergency phone call
But I’ve never been to MN. How can I have taken a shit there?
Three Dog Night – “Never Been To Spain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8zGryHWZE0
Honey Harvest in the third Sundee in September, Evan. Then you can say you’ve been.
Anyone familiar with Gwar knows that the band is famous for its often grotesque, shocking, and bizarre stage shows.
Alice Cooper cover band? Never hoid of um.
Slaughterama
Can we just keep things simple and go back to “chicks with dicks”?
I thought dudes with boobs was usually more accurate.
Well, there is gynecomastia, just ask Chuck Schumer.
Chick with a dick, man with a clam.
Yeah, nothing new here. Secret Service had a talk with Suicidal Tendencies back in the day for saying “I Shot Reagan” in a song.
It’s not new, but can we just say it’s ridiculous and at least “chills” free speech to some degree? Like Kathy Griffin wasn’t a real threat yet there the Secret Service was. I don’t think it’s really a responsible use of resources to go digging every time some celebrity pops off like that. This is the same agency that apparently couldn’t foil a teenager with a rifle’s plan to take out Trump and let him get his shots off. A case we will know almost nothing about.
Real threats fly under the radar but they want to give a rectal exam over a dumb vitriolic tweet.
All Are Bastards?
Damn tags
All Males Are Bastards?
All Females Are Bastards?
has Swiss stored up enough narrow gazes for the puns we’ve brandished in his absense? I hope we don’t trigger a relapse.
Thats better than triggering a prolapse.
Ew.
Crazy times at my house. My son-in-law is racking up quite the credit card bill while he’s on shore in Florida. Hotels, bars, strip clubs, he’s literally a drunken sailor. If my kid cuts him off, he can cut her off from his paycheck because they’re “separated”, which is different from the other branches.
What’s the full story here? Is he partying and cheating on her while away or are they having issues?
I think you missed a part. He’s still on deployment, and 2 weeks ago he texted her that he wants a divorce. This was right as she was moving their stuff from the west coast to the east coast. They agreed to come up with a plan once he’s back next month, but now he’s running up all kinds of bills while he parties in port.
Yea. I figured it had been discussed prior and I just haven’t been around as much.
Spouses do hold some power over service members in my experience, though it wasn’t Navy. Don’t know what she’s looked into or who she has talked to. Army wives know Army wives and they talk and they know how to work the system. The chain of command usually doesn’t want to be involved and if they end up involved they can and will make that guy’s life hell from what I saw. Though I’m no lawyer. Divorce attorney’s around bases also know which buttons to push to accomplish these things.
Military relationships in general are nothing like they get depicted. It’s young people who often end up separated for long periods of time who married too young/too soon. I can only imagine Navy personnel trying to maintain a relationship with the various temptations they run into months on end while on ‘deployment.’
Ugh, sorry to hear, TOK.
My wife was in this situation with her Navy ex. A sailor absolutely cannot cut off support for separated dependents or will be in serious trouble under ucmj.
That long separation is very difficult. They were married at 19, and that does often work out, but in this case I think he’s hanging out with single guys and never sowed his wild oats before now. Thankfully they have no kids, one car, and few assets. The trick is where they will file, in Indiana it can be over in 60 days, in Virginia there are complications like a 6 month waiting period. Meanwhile the situation is difficult. His family is pretty upset with his behavior as well.
Yea. You really, really don’t want to piss off your wife when in the military, but a lot of guys learn that the hard way.
Sorry to read as well.
Dare we ask the limit on the credit card?
I’m not sure, but she pays it off every month, so in effect he’s blowing his paycheck. We told her to just pay the minimum, you can tell from the statements which charges are his so once the lawyers get involved they should be able to separate those out.
So SIL learned from Trump and Obama?
I stopped calling my daughter’s now ex husband “my SIL” many years before they were divorced. He was a Dunning-Kreuger poster boy. I referred to him as my daughter’s husband.
I still do that with the new husband as well.
I feel bad for her, but as far as mistakes go, this isn’t too bad. She’ll have a degree in accounting next year and she’ll be in much better shape.
I am sorry to hear all of that TOK, it sucks for your daughter who was trying so hard.
Thanks everyone. It’s tough now but we’ll come out the other side of it ok.
Sorry Kevin.
Talk me out of this. https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/tag/d/medical-lake-1971-chicago-coin-twin/7904935152.html
You don’t want to go to Seattle.
Posted in Seattle, outside of Spokane.
I hate when people post in a region they are not.
Been a long time (2020) since I was in Seattle. What a dump. It used to be OK and fun.
I’ve been to Spokane… once.
The only thing I could find to do was cross into Idaho and tour the Buck Knives factory.
Ryne Sandberg is from Spokane. Think about it.
…who?
$900 is really good. I had a friend who had one of those, it was fun. Took some time to repair it.
Huh. Got a call from FedEx about a Sr Operations Admin-1 gig I applied for. They want to set up a time for an in-person or possibly on the phone interview. Her boss isn’t working Monday so we’re gonna sort it out. It’s 3pm-9pm, Mon – Fri, so that’s strange on a few levels. Hrm. Don’t know pay yet, but have seen $17.63-$23.63.
On the other hand, saw an “escrow processor” gig at a nearby place, but now couldn’t find the listing. So I called into ask about it and she told me to email my stuff to the VP /lawyer. Huh. So I did. That one kinda sounds perfect. $20-$22 I’ve seen, which is about the baseline I need to be looking at.
Was a strangely productive day for someone who didn’t really wake up until 11. Also played paper airplanes with the nearly-6yo, which both he and his 11yo brother have taken a shine to, and he read some Calvin & Hobbes with me. I tried to pick the easy ones for him, but damn! Few are written ‘for’ children. (Wow. Highly productive on a few levels.) I’m quite certain the Cub will attempt to ruin my evening, especially after that last one against Toronto. (Yuck.)
Now, onto the links!
Is it a mere coincidence that Swiss and his gaze took off during Pride Month?
I told you before, his day job is actually at a swiss weight loss clinic for alphabet people – he constantly narrows gays.
You’re gonna be in trouble when Swiss gets back. He’s keeping records, ya know.
Always Watching?
It is a slippery slope in this Matter!
Boo! Boo this man.
I’m booing myself for not thinking of the pun first…
We know you aren’t really about that Firsting life Sheldon. We know.
I’d hate to be on the receiving end of a pent up narrowed gaze but y’all do y’all.
Swiss says he’ll be back in July. Hopefully these puns don’t queer the deal.
These puns are becoming a pain in the ass.
Chatter from the peanut gallery
Former national security adviser Susan Rice blasted the preliminary agreement between the Trump administration and Iran in an excusive interview Sunday, calling the war with Iran a “strategic blunder” and arguing that the United States has now made “so many concessions” that amount to “a very bad outcome.”
“It’s egregious, Jon, because so many concessions were granted up front in this flimsy, two-page memorandum of understanding that wouldn’t normally and shouldn’t have been granted until after there was not only a full comprehensive deal to at least deal with their nuclear program, but also that those provisions that were negotiated had been agreed,” Rice told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
That’s not how she would have done it. That’s everything we need to know.
This whole thing has been a gigantic clusterfuck, but that doesn’t mean I’d prefer to have the Obama brain trust involved.
My gf lost her laptop. More accurately, she apparently left it on the street when loading her car this morning. And it ain’t there this afternoon.
No way…
Hopefully passworded at the very least.
Karl asked Rice whether it’s better to have a deal rather than none: “Isn’t a weak peace agreement better than a resumption of a war, which I know you opposed from the start?”
“I oppose this war because it was a stupid war, and it was obvious that when you wage a stupid war that every prior president had the wisdom to avoid, that you were going to end up with either bad outcomes or worse outcomes,” Rice said. “It was obvious for decades that the only way to resolve this problem is through diplomacy. And now we’re back to diplomacy with a far weaker hand. Yes, their military has been degraded, but Iran has now figured out they can use the Strait of Hormuz to hold us and the global economy hostage anytime they want.”
Rice, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations before her tenure as national security adviser, said the war overall was a “strategic blunder.”
It’s so much smarter to allow this situation to fester and build pressure while diplomats attend their interminable tea parties and soirees and pat each other on the back and brag about how brilliant they are.