SugarFree is enduring an office move today. There are idiots touching his stuff, and moving his things, and such wondrous, rare, and fragile things they are. No matter how many warning labels he affixes, no matter how many instructions he gives, it always ends up like this.
You know you are old when the pop music of your salad days plays while you’re shopping in the big box store. This little ditty (radio version in the store; you ppl get the full treatment) played today when I was looking for cat box filler in an unfamiliar store.
VIRGINIA’S ICE MASK BAN BLOCKED: Virginia cannot enforce a newly passed law prohibiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from wearing masks, a federal judge ruled less than 12 hours before it would have taken effect.
SILLY OLD BOOMERS, THE SOVIET UNION IS DEAD: Axios understands their assignment, laughs at silly old boomers for rebooting a Red Scare, repeats the lie that Democratic Socialists are totally not communists. Absolutely nothing about the explicit anti-western, anti-American rhetoric of DSA-backed candidates; nothing about the actual violence and rioting committed by socialists, antifa, and outright communists.
NPR’S NINA TOTENBERG FORCED TO RETRACT STORY; DC MEDIA CIRCLES THE WAGONS: First, a hearty Nelson Muntz “ha, ha” that the doyenne of judicial press coverage had to apologize for doing a false story on the alleged retirement of Justice Alito. Rumor (h/t Sloopy) has it that this was a trap by Alito. The theory is that he told one person in confidence, the person he believes leaked the Dobbs decision, to see if the retirement story would leak as well. I’ve encountered Totenberg in the wild, and she’s comically imperious and undeservedly entitled.
EVERYONE LOVES A CLOWN SHOW: Kamala Harris pivots hard left. They don’t trust her; she is blatantly opportunistic. This is going to be fun.
WHY WON’T THEY EAT THE BUGS? Africa’s lucrative, nutritious grasshopper business runs into Western prejudice against eating insects. Remember, when we avoid certain foods it’s a “prejudice.”
FLORIDA MAN: Indicted for stealing Smokey the Bear signs then selling them online. I assure you that my art collection is totes legit.
NASA ADMIN JARED ISAACMAN SHOWS PROMISE: Wants to send backup Mars rover to the Moon. This rover is currently at the Mars Yard at JPL, and repurposing it is a smart move. Isaacman also announced other new robotic Lunar missions.
RIP VICTOR WILLIS: Better known as the motorcycle cop from iconic seventies disco act The Village People, Willis has gone to the big disco in the sky. Obligatory tribute.
The Moon, how terribly boring. There’s no aliens there or anything.
The Nazis killed them all. They have a problem with Star People.
I would have thought that the Moon Nazis had beef the Ferengi more than the Star People.
But we don’t really know until we start exploring the place. I admit that the more we find out about the long-term affects of low gravity on the human body, the less attractive the place seems for colonization or even long-term missions.
Amazon Women!
I thought they were on Phobos?
Though Phobos is a moon, so I guess technically correct.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Amazon Women on the Moon
These titles hearken back to the lurid covers and story titles from science fiction pulp magazines.
Maybe if we upped ICE’s budget, we could maybe address that issue?
There’s no aliens there or anything.
Space:1889’s Selenites haz a sad.
My co-worker just moved to Florida…and he doesn’t like Smokey the Bear.
So, maybe HE’S Smokie the Bandit!
no matter how many instructions he gives, it always ends up like this.
I was expecting the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I was expecting Hellraiser
Cool – my early link goes with one of yours very well.
It’s a pretty deep dive into the recent infighting there, explaining exactly how the commies have taken it over. This is going to be a very useful link to throw at the many, many MSM idiots claiming they are not communists.
Grazie!
This is a losing battle. The left has long ago taken control of manipulating the language.
Once again Scott Adams was right. He said never to get in an argument about the definition of something. You will never win, and it’s always a distraction.
VIRGINIA’S ICE MASK BAN BLOCKED
I was confused at first, I thought they were talking about some bougie cosmetic trend.
Axios understands their assignment
What you did there, was seen.
Rumor (h/t Sloopy) has it that this was a trap by Alito.
One of Kingpin’s guys did that on Daredevil this season.
Remember, when we avoid certain foods it’s a “prejudice.”
But when certain ethnic or religious groups avoid foods, it’s multiculturalism.
I thought an ICE mask was a banned product in Europe
It’s too soon to know if the message is working — but Trump and Republican strategists see an opening with voters old enough to remember Soviet-era nuclear drills and spy dramas.
Nice sleight of hand; “nuclear drills” and spy movies. Now do Mao and Pol Pot.
World’s greatest omelet makers!
Some people have socialized better than others, the rest of us are asocial or unsocial or Glibs or some combo of all three.
Social Democrats will have to wait until a better socialist comes along to lead them to the Promised Land.
She is certainly not alone. Kathy Hochul is pandering to that asshole too.
They still think they can control the mob huh?
That’s what I wonder too, Kevin.
I notice a theme on illos today, is Rome burning?
Has it ever stopped?
We didn’t start the fire…
*Fiddles*
What they’re saying: “It’s a common electoral strategy for conservatives to attack liberals, progressives, democratic socialists as communists, and imply therefore that they are much more extreme than they actually are,” Kathryn Olmsted, a U.C. Davis distinguished professor of history, tells Axios.
But, she adds, “we’re definitely reaching a new fever pitch.”
Oh, no. A tut-tut-ing from an academic expert. I crumble beneath the unbearable weight of this chastisement.
Tell me professor, have you ever produced anything of value and sold it at fair market value?
Need to print that on a billboard outside every university.
Now do the fever pitch of hatred of OMB.
It’s a common electoral strategy for Democrats to hide the fact that they are much more extreme than they pretend. Unfortunately, it works.
Wow. There’s enough handwaving in that Axios thing to run a 10 megawatt wind generator.
[heh]
Hold on there Cochise!
Your 10 MW wind turbine can’t handle that much wind!
Do they dip the grasshoppers in chocolate? I hear that’s a thing.
One of my cats used to eat grasshoppers. He’d the back part, and leave the head and legs, resulting in partially eaten zombie grasshoppers wandering around my living room.
Jeebus. 😱
Are you sure it was the cat? Not some pervert praying mantis that was into interspecies sex?
So now I have Cheap Trick in my head. But not just plain Cheap Trick. A Chinese Cheap Trick cover band.
“The Dream Porice they get inside of your head, oh no!”
“Porice! Porice!”
Your momma’s arright
Your daddy’s arright
They just seem a rittre weird
Sullendel…
Cheap Trick – Surrender (from Budokan!)
https://youtu.be/ZbkypX1OhZ0?si=Y35KssVl4rW7ArOt
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It’s like the reverse. For whatever reason this tour was like the pinnacle of Cheap Trick. I never got it, but I only like a few of their songs.
https://thegaijinghost.com/blog/inside-nippon-budokan-tokyo-historic-music-martial-arts-venue
Beatles set it’s place in music history.
It’s a common electoral strategy for conservatives to attack liberals, progressives, democratic socialists as communists, and imply therefore that they are much more extreme than they actually are
Trump, on the other hand, really is an existential threat to democracy and the sworn enemy of peace and freedom. We calls ’em like we sees ’em.
It’s not an exaggeration to say he’s a fascist and just like Hitler.
Should I SBR and FRT all the things?
Asking for a friend.
Nice try Tulpa.
I’m on several lists already.
SBR? Maybe. 5.56mm SBRs are surprisingly capable at extend ranges with the right optics…but if I know I have to make a 500-yard shot I’m taking my 16″ Criterion-barreled AR if I have a choice.
Fart triggers are mostly a toy. A fun toy, but they break a lot and really don’t give you any useful small-unit capability unless they come with a belt feed and a squad of riflemen to work in coordination with. You can build a belt-fed AR with an FRT. It’ll cost somewhere in the mid four figures. For my money it’s more useful for a private citizen to spend that kind of money on a precision rifle, optics, and a lot of practice. Or a good drone package, or night vision.
Nods would be fantastic. I’d probably sit and watch the critters that came through the yard at night.
$169
https://www.opticsplanet.com/atrius-development-forced-reset-selector.html
If I were gonna get a fart trigger, that would be the one.
Either the bug URL is blank or my browser is broken.
Gee, another chick with poison-frog hair who doesn’t know how things work.
In this case, I think she’s conflating fast-growing companies who plow their profits into growth (thereby incurring no corporate income tax) with the individuals who founded those companies. Ergo, “billionaires don’t pay taxes,” QED.
Caleb Hammer is a somewhat more charismatic Millennial Dr. Laura. And I have no doubt that many of his guests are satisfying the same ego needs that Dr. Laura’s did – a deep subconscious desire to be publicly humiliated.
You’re being generous. These people literally believe that rich people don’t pay any taxes.
Yes, it is well known that the wealthy top 1% pays less in taxes than the minimum wage dude who is supposed to clean the toilets at Walmart.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/s/rETKW7UdIT
Thats unhinged.
Lots of inchoate shrieking about the cartoon villain’s financial disclosures.
It should be illegal for anyone who has private business interests outside the government to run for office.
Only the pure of spirit need apply.
It is all in blind trusts. It’s pure theater.
OTH, Pelosi and her husband aren’t. Studiously ignored during her tenure by MSM.
Also- “Income!” from crypto? Is that income in his pocket or unrealized gains?
You’d think the “business press” would make some sort of feeble attempt to specify and acknowledge the difference.
SCOTUS needs to get in on the game otherwise they will miss out on the power vacuum.
They need to come out and declare Congress is in serious need of reform. This way we get the three spiderman meme and I can drink another beer