grüezi mitenand
After a much needed break, I am back. Links, editing, the whole thing – thank you Tonio, Nephilium and the rest of the people who did all that while I touched grass.
But, you are here for the links comments. So here you go;
- Are you kidding me?
- I don’t think the streets are “bustling”. Not anymore, anyways.
- NYC is on a hot streak.
- Bang.
This song was originally going to be NBC’s 1980 Summer Olympic theme…oops.
Comments are open and all yours.
Good to see you back, Swiss.
So say we all!
Indeed. I was glad to fill-in (along with Neph, and others), but glad Swiss is back as Monday PM linkster, and managing editor.
Grumman, are you making a squint innuendo right off the bat?
welcome home Swiss
+1
Indeed.
Glad you’re here, Mr Swiss
I hope this is pun free to give the Swissmeister a break after his sojourn.
Tomorrow, however, may be different.
England midfielder Jordan Henderson suffers freak injury
Meh, it’s just his hand. Shouldn’t interfere with playing soccer. Might hurt his being able to really sell a flop, though.
Crutches?
Might interfere with his wanking, though.
One of these days, even though it’s not really my game, I’m going to attend the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival.
Welcome back! Hopefully you weren’t touching grass because you were sheltering from a tornado or passed out from the heat.
At its centre stands a basilica church overlooking one of the city’s main streets.
“Basilica” is a term with a specific definition — not that anyone writing for The Mail would know that.
I find it a bit unlikely that the Church of Rome was operating in western Egypt in the fifth century, but I could be wrong.
That’s before Islam. Would the Coptic Church have been in that area?
From the article:
Although Egypt is best known for its pharaohs and pyramids, it also spent more than 250 years as part of the Byzantine Empire.
During this period, from the late fourth to the mid-seventh century AD, Christianity became the dominant religion, towns expanded across the country and Egypt served as one of the empire’s richest provinces.
The newly uncovered settlement dates to this era, offering a rare snapshot of life at a time when Roman traditions, Christian beliefs and Egyptian culture overlapped.
So Christian. Probably what would turn into what we know today as Coptic or Orthodox. Coptic split I think the 5th Century, though I’ve seen come claims of the Coptic going back further.
For Shpip, nowadays Basilica in the Roman Catholic Church refers to a church with special privileges or powers. It used to refer to any Christian church that was built in the form of a Roman basilica. The Daily Fail could be using that earlier form.
A church that raises cruciferous vegetables?
Hey, Jesus could talk when he was up there.
Welcome back.
Conor Zilisch fell off the top of his car and broke his collarbone celebrating a win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK81Ej5hm8s
Believe all women?
Platner Reassesses Maine Senate Bid, Denies Sexual-Assault Allegation
ZOMG Defamation!!!
Look, he denied it. All is well. #BelievePlatner.
Have they pulled the “claimed without evidence” phrase yet?
She should claim he assaulted her in a downtown Bangor department store in 1996. He’ll have to sell the oyster farm, etc. to pay the damages that an impartial jury is sure to award her.
She probably MAGAT
“Believe all women?”
Especially the ones who dress up as girls to beat the shit out of real girls. A particularly trustworthy bunch, those.
“The 2026 Swiss Federal Shooting Festival in Graubünden came to an end on Sunday. The major month-long event, centred on the city of Chur, was attended by 35,000 shooters and 100,000 visitors.”
I’ve taken a shit in Chur. Didn’t have to shoot my way out. (Well. I suppose I did in a vague, metaphorical way.) Was studying in Freiburg, Germany and my friends and I took a trip. We were also in St. Moritz for a spell, but we didn’t stay the night in that ‘far fancier than any of us’ destination. That part of the world is spectacularly gorgeous *and* expensive. I could be a wealthy woman’s purse-puppet for a weekend or more. *dresses nice, monocle affixed, hands out flyers*
You strike me more as the narrator of “Eurotrash Girl,” than the gigolo from “The Night Porter.”
I don’t know either character. I’m more like Kramer, a comical oddball with the “Kavorka,” but also the ability to seamlessly blend into multiple roles for my e̵m̵p̵l̵o̵y̵e̵r̵’̵s̵ lover’s convenience. My spy-shroud conceals me and I’m frequently l̵o̵s̵t̵ busy on m̵i̵s̵s̵i̵o̵n̵s̵ errands.
I infrequently get to say this, but I think the ladies of Moritz can afford me. (Look at how good I look in this shirt. See that? Wrinkle. Free.)
Wiki of “Eurotrash Girl” led me to a book I kinda really wanna read, written by Jack Black (but not the modern one):
“You Can’t Win is an autobiography by burglar and hobo Jack Black, written in the early to mid-1920s and first published in 1926. It describes Black’s life on the road, in prison and his various criminal capers in the American and Canadian west from the late 1880s to early 20th century. The book was a major influence upon William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers.
The book tells of Black’s experiences in the hobo underworld, freight-hopping around the western United States and Canada, with the majority of events taking place from the late 1880s to around 1910. He tells of becoming a thief, burglar, and member of the yegg (safe-cracking) subculture, exploring the topics of crime, criminal justice, vice, addictions, penology, and human folly from various viewpoints, from observer to consumer to supplier, and from victim to perpetrator.”
That sounds tremendously fun.
Chur you did, Chur.
Is it sunny in Chur?
Its always sunny in Churadelphia!
You haven’t been to Switzerland unless you’ve been to Zug.
I have to add to this. The Zug station is the first and only time in my life I’ve seen a dead body. It was a naked woman (they tented the body but the wind kept blowing the flap open. She was not waxed we shall say) I don’t think she met a grisly fate with a train but perhaps was electrocuted?
Wild that in all of my other mostly-US travels the only dead person outside of a wake I’ve seen was in Switzerland.
You need to pump up those dead body numbers.
Admiral Ackbar was the Honorary Grand Marshal for the trap events.
So here is what the European political elite is planting in sympathetic MSM.
Putin May See an Opportunity to Destroy NATO – Even a small incursion could doom the alliance if it lacks the political will to respond with force.
Sure why not 🙄
NATO is already at war with Russia 🤷♂️
Pfft, Unz suggested Russia blow up NATO HQ with a hypersonic missile after giving them a few hours to evacuate, and that proposal was widely discussed in Russian media.
Think you can shoot down a hypersonic missile with a Patriot? OK, prove it.
https://www.unz.com/runz/how-russia-can-defeat-ukraine-and-nato/
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The idea is a simple one. Russia should publicly declare that it now considered NATO a co-belligerent in the Ukraine war and that Russia would therefore retaliate against the Western alliance. But instead of any lethal attack against NATO armed forces, the retaliation would initially take the form of a live demonstration of superior Russian strategic military power.
The Russians could announce their plans for a hypersonic missile strike against the NATO headquarters building in Brussels, Belgium, with the attack scheduled for 12 noon in three days’ time.
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Given the intent of the operation, the Russians could publicly suggest that NATO defend its HQ by ringing it with all of its best anti-missile defense systems, thereby allowing a real-life test of the two competing technologies. NATO leaders and highly paid military contractors who had spent years or decades boasting of the great effectiveness of their enormously expensive anti-missile systems could prove the sincerity of their convictions by courageously locating themselves in the targeted HQ building at the time of the attack.
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Missile chicken! Who’s gonna swerve first?
Welcome back Swiss
+1
+2
Can’t even beat a Cokehead throwing teenagers into a grist mill and they think they’ll scare NATO?
Fact check says he likes coffee, not coke:
https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-drug-addict-putin-ally-claims-1993996
In any case, we did our part and then some. We can’t prop them up forever. Should have just let the pro-Russian stooge stay in power. Ukraine would be sovereign and at peace. And much blood and treasure would have been saved.
a woman he was romantically involved with publicly alleged that he sexually assaulted her, an allegation he denied.
Just horsing around.
He was dating Sarah Jessica Parker?
Here we go again:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-july-4-white-supremacist-march-exposes-an-uncomfortable-truth-about-our-country/ar-AA27kyje
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(RNS) — It should be a contradiction that the Confederate flag was marched alongside the Betsy Ross flag through the streets near the U.S. Capitol on Independence Day.
The rebel banner was brought to the Capitol by hundreds of masked agents associated with Patriot Front, a white supremacist hate group founded after the 2017 showdown over a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia. It waved in the wind alongside the flag of the 13 colonies and upside-down U.S. flags — a symbol of national distress — seeming to imply they were calling a nation in peril back to, or closer to, the exclusionary democratic vision of its founders. They echoed this in their chants to “reclaim America.”
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One of the hardest parts about witnessing Patriot Front march the streets is knowing that they’re not entirely wrong. The United States was founded by racists and constructed through an unfathomable amount of racial violence, and its future continues to move forward on the tracks of racial discourse established by its founders. Just as they chanted in Charlottesville that they will not be replaced, and as they intruded upon the edited official story that officials would like to tell in the Capitol on America’s 250th birthday, Patriot Front stood in for all white supremacist groups saying they will not be erased from the story of how the U.S. became “great.”
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Patriot Front is making quite a splash despite breaking no windows, setting no fires, and only having about 500 members.
If a handful of ornery rednecks took potshots at the Capitol, all the Team Blue congress critters would flee the country. But there’d probably be a downside.
Hell, one guy putting his feet up on Pelosi’s desk nearly toppled the government, at least so we’re told.
Feebs probably earn time and a half on holidays.
The leader appears to be the real deal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rousseau
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Rousseau was a graphics editor of his high school newspaper, The Sidekick, where he wrote columns calling for banning transgender bathrooms and promoting guns on college campuses.[3] Rousseau was a Boy Scout.[4] He has also been on an FBI watchlist since he was in high school.[5][6] In an interview with ProPublica, Rousseau’s classmates said, “He seemed Republican, but he didn’t seem crazy”, and most people who knew Rousseau personally in Grapevine expressed surprise that he founded and leads a white-supremacist group.[7]
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It’s pretty easy to get on an FBI watch list these days.
The one scraggly groomed guy of the whole bunch. And the only one not masked up. Totally legit.
Trump is in office now, so are these guys feds? Are they an actual group? If so, why didn’t the Biden admin make an example of of them? I’m confused.
the Confederate flag was marched alongside the Betsy Ross flag
That settles it, that one flag is proof that every “patriotic” person is a white supremacist, and the only way forward is to tear down the whole racist country and rebuild a socialist paradise.
Is there grass in Switzerland?
I imagine the country is covered in gold coins and chocolate.
clocks made of cheese?
Only a rat would dream that big.
In Switzerland, the Rats always run on time!
“hundreds of masked agents”
They claimed, without evidence.
Totally different from those fine upstanding Antifa folks.
People who are proud of what they’re doing don’t wear masks. KKK, armed robbers, etc.
The CIA needs to stay anonymous.
I’ll give them a pass, but like every agency borne of the Cold War, it should have been downsized by at least half in 1991. NASA, NSA, USAID, Peace Corps, etc, take a bow. We won. No need to dance in the endzone.
China? They gave up on the economic part of communism, so we basically beat them too. If you need a reminder, look on the bottom of almost anything sold at Wal-Mart.
It was amusing when they flicked Biden in the ear with a literal trial balloon. But that’s about as far as they’ll go, just like making Obama exit the ass of Air Force One like a turd.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/04/barack-obama-deliberately-snubbed-by-chinese-in-chaotic-arrival-at-g20
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Bill Bishop, a China expert whose Sinocism newsletter tracks the country’s political scene, agreed that Obama’s welcome looked suspiciously like a deliberate slight intended “to make the Americans look diminished and weak”.
“It sure looks like a straight-up snub,” Bishop said. “This clearly plays very much into the [idea]: ‘Look, we can make the American president go out of the ass of the plane.’”
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Xi knows that if he tries that shit with Trump, he’s going to give a Pooh bear plushy on camera.
The world is run by overgrown middle school bullies.
U.S. soccer fans (you know, wannabe Europoors who call every athletic contest “sportsball”) are rooting for the Euro team tonight, because Trump.
OFFS Donald didn’t make it happen.
Of course, FIFA screwed up by overturning their own rules about not allowing appeals. And, to make it worse, they didn’t rescind the red card. So, they basically said, we think the red card was valid but we’re not enforcing the penalty because, well, reasons. Not surprisingly, England is now going to appeal a red card: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cz0jjz830g3o
That England red card was BS as well. FIFA should do itself a favor and just call an across-the-board reset (I believe they were already planning to do-so at the quarter-finals).
FIFA should do itself a favor and fire all the refs.
Pretty much the only thing I like about sports is that it’s about the purest meritocracy there is. Politics is sports for people who don’t care about sports.
What was the most watched congressional hearing about? Not terrorism, the national debt, or abortion.
Oh no, it was steroids in baseball. Won’t somebody *please* think of the children?!
They were going to root against the US regardless.
It’s like the Yankees. Ya see a country win, and win and win again, and just be better than yours, and naturally, they’re jealous. Why would a non-American wanna root for the country most likely to win (in everything other than soccer)?
We landed on the moon. Why flaunt our big dick energy? Especially since we lost to the Taliban.
I hope these Israelis are studying the playbooks of Vietnam and Afghanistan, because that’s the only way they’ll survive long-term. US support will gradually wane as demographics change. See NYC for a sneak preview.
Israel needs to win every time. Its enemies only need to win once. There are no undefeated nations.
Maybe we can get revenge on Belgium for destroying our precious beer:
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Belgian customs authorities recently destroyed over 2,300 cans of Miller High Life beer after intercepting them in Antwerp, Belgium, en route to Germany. The shipment was rejected because the beer’s slogan — “The Champagne of Beers” — was deemed to infringe on the protected designation of origin (PDO) for Champagne.
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Hilarious. The French got the Belgians to keep American beer out of Germany. That’s a triple word score of fuck you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONlUeU14Cc
Somewhere, Tres is doing the Darth Vader “Nuh-Oooooh!”
The Champagne of Beers
Thank you for being honest about how much it sucks.
Miller High Life is not good.
Neither is champagne
I am a US soccer fan and I am not rooting for Belgium.
+🇺🇸
https://ibb.co/DDTmFHhp
At the bar already, rocking my vintage* tee
*Is 2010 vintage yet?
Nice. I’m still on a bus somewhere in central NJ. I’m bringing a fifth to my hotel room which I hope has a fridge.
Oopsy: UK PM also intervened with FIFA (not on a red card): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwgggp28dlo
It’s hysterical that Sepp fuckin Blatter felt the need to weigh in and is getting roasted in the replies
https://x.com/SeppBlatter/status/2074022159916130658
I suddenly feel bad for kids who go back to school after summer vacation. I only had a 3 day weekend and it was hard as hell to go back to work today.
Oh yeah – I have a job interview tomorrow at a brick factory. The got who took my application had a ZZ Top beard. I think I’ll fit in. Looks like blue collar redneck work is the way forward for me, at least for now. I’m sure the money’s good on Wall Street, but I hate wearing suits.
Short commute, exercise, hands on…I feel good about it. If I get it, I’ll be going back to work for the first time since December. I’m not firing on all cylinders anymore, but I want to work and be self-sufficient.
As a back-up plan, I’ll be talking to the VA later this month about getting a disability rating. I hope it doesn’t come to that, but I might have no other choice.
I thought about getting a job at Y12 or Oak Ridge. I’m qualified for some of the engineering jobs there. Better pay, longer commute. Not sure if it’s worth the trouble.
*fist bump x2*
Congrats! Talked to the Prez of Dominion today and he’s sending me an offer. Barring something unforeseen, this’ll be my next Big Step, and quite a doozy it’ll be. Me? Working in a ‘standard’ office? That’ll be a helluva first. Another person is starting as well, and Prez is gonna talk to his team about when we’d start. I suggested July 13 but said I could come in tomorrow if they wanted me to. The pay will land in the $17-$22/hr range. They were all impressed w me, and I’ll do my best to push for the higher end, which would be game changing.
Good luck on disability with the VA. I’m completely unaware of their system. I feel like I *am* firing on all cylinders, but last night I was working on an ‘introductory’ piece that includes some of the gory bits I shared w you. I’m framing its telling, and my routes since, with pics showing my skull being put back together.
I admit, it left me in an oddly sour mood. I also learned one of the pics ‘showing’ my brain damage is actually just the hematoma /clot they scraped out of me and dropped into a bowl. (To be fair, that’s a pretty clear ‘showing.’) I’m making it playful, and I had real ‘jailbreak’ moments in hospital, but it’s (kinda obviously) rough to look at.
Nail the interview tomorrow, Derp. *hi five*
For comparison, an in-law of mine has 100% disability by claiming PTSD from being a USAF weapons loader. Hey dingleberry, that’s what you signed up for. Did you think the bombs were full of candy?
Good luck on your interview and everything else. Thanks for the encouragement. As I’ve said before, if there’s anyone here who’s earned a free ride for life through injury, it’s you. TOK is also a role model for me (get it? sorry, couldn’t resist).
Whatever happens, I’ll get by somehow. I don’t worry much anymore.
USA/England final with a decisive USA win… one can dream.
And an asterisk claiming that Trump paid off FIFA
47 star
A couple days late, but the greatest 4th of July movie is on, Independence Day.
Greatest actors
Greateat fake president speech
Greatest special effects
And the crazy, yet best, Quiad in the business.
Team America: World Police still exists in the world.
This is the way.
I wonder if it is back from hiatus. It was going to be our July 4th film.
Certainly the best fake presidential speech: “Welcome to Erf!”
How many people are killed while forklift jousting each year?
Ask Klaus
He doesn’t keep those kind of records.
I don’t know about jousting, but no one died at any forklift rodeo I attended.
hardest medieval KO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlCQ2pBob5Q
OG heavy metal
Soccer is for pansies.
bull riding that’s-gotta-hurt-compilation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9RuDEea0o
Make military recruits spend 8 seconds on a bull. That’d separate the wheat from the chaff.
One time a state patrol car came hauling ass through my workplace while I was headed the opposite direction driving a 20,000 lb forklift with the forks about three feet off of the ground.
To this day I wish I had been in the same position three seconds sooner.
They would have dragged you the system regardless of your culpability
Killdozer 2: The Forkening
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/712LOr1U-EL.jpg