First, I’d just like to thank whoever had the Morning Links today for forgetting in solidarity with me last Thursday. I hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July weekend, especially here in ‘Murca. I went up to visit some of my wife’s family in North Florida. Monday we gave the younger two boys the full North Florida experience. We went down to some family property on the creek, tubed and swam. Got stuck in the sand coming out and had to have a cousin’s husband pull us out with tow strap. Now, the Carnival is a fine van, but it lacks tow hooks on the back. Lemme tell you, you get a bonafide redneck exactly four beers in, and he’ll figure out a damn way. It’s probably the Balmer Peak for redneckgineering. Loose enough to be creative, functional enough to execute. Didn’t even tear up the van. So now my younger boys understand what a redneck is good for.
Also, my wife’s aunt has the same power that our late founder had on boys. She didn’t even have to raise her voice to get them in line. Just a hint of disappointment was enough. I will never have that power, but I sure appreciate it.
Okay, let’s do some linking!
I’m not usually a fan of the insanity defense, but I’ll allow it in this case. “Doc, it felt like my dick was on fire”
Starting to think that these weird Dem candidates are like a reverse underpants gnomes thing…
- raise a shitton of money
- lose the race
- …
- Power!
… and now, appearing straight from Hell, John McCain singing “bomb Iran“. Hmm, that joke’s like 20 years old. Need to work on it.
Apparently, making death threats to your ex is “just what girls do” to Florida Woman. I mean, yeah, pretty much.
They had one of these at The Henry Ford Museum when I was a contractor. I’d love to see the Big Boy in action.
Music selection in memorium
Disappointing women is a learned skill. With practice it becomes easier and easier.
I’m not so sure it’s a learned skill. Apparently I was pretty good at it with little training
Indeed, some of us are naturals.
What a prick.
Yup, that’s a dick move.
It’s a cock-eyed way to get an arson charge.
They’re gonna lock him in a padded room with no knob.
Guy completely misinterpreted the John Wick movies.
He’s from Fort Wayne. Checks out.
I don’t remember that part of the song.
You cannot say he’s not ballsy
Something tells me he is gonna get the sack at work.
Self mutilation certainly qualifies to cop an insanity plea. There’s stories of jealous wives/girlfriends cutting off penises but that seems like two losers, both parties in the discussion.
My Cars & Bids BMW from this morning was “bid to” $11,600 (reserve not met). It looked like a good daily driver.
I’m not surprised.
A decent paint job is probably $20,000 anymore.
Ana Lopez helped Talarico craft three major firearm restriction bills that he rolled out in the state legislature in 2019, all of which failed to pass.
Of *course* they failed to pass. This is still Texas we’re talking about.
I still can’t figure out how these creepy weirdoes (the consultants, not the legislators) eke out a living, but they’re a goddamn infestation in every state capital city in the union.
DoublyQuintuply so in D.C.It’s not so much the consultant as the politician being so damned dumb he/she can’t figure out what they’re against so they can be pass a law outlawing something.
The same way all half-bright aristocrats get work… they’re part of the financing package.
Sounds similar to NGOs and Harvard grads…
Didn’t we ostensibly destroy their entire air defenses back when gas still under $3 a gallon?
MANPADs on a guy’s shoulder counts, right?
When we’re really serious, just turning on your AD radar will get you a wild weasel right up the shit pipe.
choking on clouds of thick black smoke
The Trump administration is proposing changes to what it calls “unnecessary and unworkable” Biden-era environmental rules designed to cut pollution from heavy-duty vehicles, including buses and large trucks.
The proposal — part of a series of deregulatory actions by the Trump administration that have rolled back emissions standards for new vehicles — includes changes that are welcomed by trucking organizations and denounced by environmental groups.
Specifically, the proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency would scale back and postpone two provisions designed to make sure emissions-reducing technology keeps working while a vehicle is in use; one related to warranties, and another related to the useful life of emissions technology.
Old people and families hardest hit.
I remember the dark days of 2022 when the bodies of children dead of black lung were stacked up by the side of the road like cordwood.
Thats African American lung, shitlord!
“Lung of Color”
“increase ozone-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from heavy duty trucks by 4.2% in 2030 and by 11.6% by 2055”
Somehow, I’m not concerned.
DEF and DPF need to go.
The Big Boy would be pretty cool to see. Dosent look like it’s going to get anywhere near me.
Does it live in Cheyanne?
Saw it go through Valley Forge on Tuesday. Awesome mechanical beast.
Somebody has to take this bait, so I guess it may as well be me: “Are we not doing phrasing anymore?”
We’ll have a gay old time!
Everyone here likes trains!
Wait, wait, wait. I’m not a big fan of trans.
Something, something, “making the trains run on time”
Well, someone has to pull ’em!
AP: US and Iran exchange more attacks across the Mideast, threatening ceasefire deal
You think so?
Its a cease-ceasefire?
Double secret probation?
I don’t think fire ever ceased.
CA third worst state and NJ didn’t make the bottom 10. I call bullshit.
The best states to move to in 2026
I want to argue with them, but I’m not moving anywhere in the bottom 5 except rural CA if Jersey is my other option. I’ll probably take expatriation ahead of NJ if that’s an option, but if not…
Iowa is 12. 2nd in affordability behind S Dakota. 6th for safety. Why else would anyone live in Iowa. 🙂
If you’re afraid of sharks, Iowa is the place to be!
Oklahoma and Arkansas are nice places. I don’t get the safe place rankings for them.
Probably few earthquakes.
Oklahoma and Arkansas are nice places. I don’t get the safe place rankings for them.
Its tough to date in those places if you don’t already have family there, for one thing.
Maizophiliac?
OK – half the state is the rez, with all the meth and violence that goes with it, plus Tulsa
AR – the diversity being our strength in the form of homicides in Little Rock and West Memphis
Maizophiliac?
I know its colloquially referred to as a “corn hole”, but the corn cob is supposed to stay on the outside. Unless you’re into that, I guess.
All of these types of listicles for best and worst states seem to end up about the inverse of actual preferences if you look at population and migration statistics. Every place sucks in its own special and unique ways. Pick the suck that best suits your preferences and budget.
Precisely. NY and NJ should be in any rational bottom 10.
You dont make decisions on where to work/live based on random bot made listicals?
Much worse, I relied on my own judgment.
NJ didn’t make the bottom 10.
They couldn’t find anyone who moved there to survey?
Possible.
LOL moving there in a few weeks. I’ll let you know.
Wut? Massachusetts at number 6? WTF?
Because taxes and the accent are amazing there.
+ How’s the chowder, Bobby
Is this the paragraph of the week from this paywalled NYT article?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/business/volkswagen-china-sales.html
Huh. The communists are urging unions to seize the means of production?
LOL reality laughs at commies.
So the commies are telling the workers to close the plant so the plant doesn’t close? Do I have that about right?
“I will kill you” and “I have a gun and a bullet with your name on it.”
Florida Pillow Talk. Needs to be on a Valentine’s Card.
I had an acquaintance who’s girlfriend tried to run him over in the parking lot of the police department where she was dropping him for his weekly alcohol test. Only the threat of copping a felony for lying to an investigating officer got him to admit she tried to run him down. “She don’t mean nothin’ by it” is the last story Florida Man tells his friends.
I just put “Your Name” on every bullet. Saves me the time of figuing out who’s who. Doesn’t matter, it’s got Your Name on it.
“I, state your name, …”
Cue the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects:
The airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, has officially been renamed after President Donald Trump, the first time an airport has been named after a sitting U.S. president.
Effective Thursday, the facility will be called the President Donald J. Trump International Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
To be fair, I’ve never been a fan of naming public things/places after living people much less people still “working” in the federal government.
Nice seeing you around Trigger
Same. I’m thinking dead people too.
I still call it Idlewild!
I still call the Central Scranton Expressway the Central Scranton Expressway.
Same with the Tappen Zee Bridge.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/09/donald-trump-graham-platner-mitch-mcconnell-iran-midterms-latest-news-updates
Maine says ‘no official withdrawal notice has yet been received’ from Graham Platner
Source tells the Guardian Platner intends to officially withdraw on Monday; Democrats have limited time to finalize an alternative Senate nominee in Maine
No need to rush into these things.
He’s got all the time in the world now to negotiate his best exit package.
+1 This thing is golden
Its gold.
1- Weasel the primary win
2 – hold the party hostage
3 – ???
4 – profit!
Why do i get the feeling this model will be widespread in 2028 and beyond.
Waiting to sign a bogus book deal first.
It’ll be worse than that. They’ll actually start getting these lunatics elected.
They’ll actually start getting these lunatics elected.
That’s definitely going to happen. They are in safe blue districts (vote blue no matter who!), and the commies use the threat of primarying anyone who gets in their way.
Maybe the Dems should just not run anyone against Collins? Offer her the deal: no opponent guarantees re-election, just change party affiliation after the election. That’s assuming, of course, that they can overlook the fact at the moment, she is literally Hitler.
The Dems don’t seem to have a problem with Maine Nazis.
Another Democrat nobody voted for. Bless their hearts.
They’ll come up with some super delegates or a pseudo primary. Rules are barely a nuisance to these people.
Oooh, shiny!
Jason Turner was cleaning up debris on Point St. George Beach when he picked up a “shiny, round object” that exploded in his hand.
The article doesn’t say what the object was, so we’re all stumped.
Handy point!
Wasn’t expecting a joke and then…BANG! there it was.
So far nobody has fingered the culprit who left the object.
Need a hand, there Fella?
Look you can’t give cops access to toys and not expect them to take you up on it!
‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/california-universities-military-equipment
Orrrr… they could have a heck of rifle team.
And of course, it’s the dark night of right wing fascism in the California public university system we have to be worried about vis-a-vis the stockpiling of surplus military equipment 🙄️
They’ll use them against the kulaks and hoarders.
Other way around. Kulaks and hoarders will break in, get them and use them against capitalists.
Mandahmi’s office accidently omitting the two largest ethnic groups in NYC that you know…built the city, is awesome.
“accidentally”
To be fair, everyone on his staff thinks history started in 2024.
Little Italy is almost an afterthought in reality.
Haitians and Somalians?
I thought Somalians were promised Minnesota 10,000 years ago?
The Great Firster in the sky promised the Firsters of the world Firstanistan, but it’s location is a tightly guarded secret. We don’t need the seconders to go and fortify it.
I thought Starship built the city.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Election monitors in NH for state primary
Voters in Manchester and Nashua who cast their ballots in the Sept. 8 primary will do so under the watchful eye of the U.S. Department of Justice.
“This coming primary season, the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, as it has done for decades, is this year sending election monitors into 15 different jurisdictions in six states,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Tuesday. Dhillon heads the civil rights division.
The six states are Arizona, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Virginia.
The news comes not long after New Hampshire beat back an attempt by the Trump DOJ to force the state to hand over its voter rolls, raising questions about the motives behind the move. New Hampshire has one of the highest voter participation rates and an Election Day that typically features swift ballot counting and few problems.
Someone remind me again why the government is involved at any level in partisan primary elections? The process shouldn’t be any different than any other large corporation electing its board of directors.
It’s crazy to me that we have a two party system where the two parties have basically written election laws that have made themselves quasi-state actors all of their own whose existence is basically enshrined into law.
As one, the commentariat went to dinner around 5:15 CST.