Sorry to post and run, but I have to post and run. Prime has a professional meeting (with an emphasis on childhood vaccination, a hot topic recently) in our lovely capital, and since she already had a room there, I thought I’d tag along and hang out before the festivities start. So my usual wit and incisive commentary will be largely absent from the comments. Please feel free (as if you didn’t already) to heap unanswered abuse on my reputation, my person, and my overall morals.
Birthdays today include some dead white slaveholder who needs to be canceled; a guy who must have been a Catholic priest in an earlier life; the answer to “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”; a fellow who had a rather acid approach to life; the best of the early SNL personnel; a murderer blandly described as a “soldier, lawyer, and politician” (and we sure dodged a bullet with this one!); a terrific but forgotten pitcher; the best ever mayor of Portland; and a guy who now swims with the fishes.
Now let’s swim with the Links.
This might disrupt our trip a bit…
Team Red’s version of the Washington Monument shutdowns. Stop pretending that there’s any difference between the Teams.
If you have to use lawsuits to suppress it, that’s not “following the science.” And here’s the thing we’re not supposed to see.
This is like that old joke about Confession. “I got ten Our Fathers, five Hail Marys, and three great leads!”
Even more and better data to hack. And we do love our facial recognition, don’t we?
“Well, he caught that one.” Insert obligatory joke about the cap hit.
Fuck around and find out. Lovely symbolism.
A bittersweet interview with the best part of Jethro Tull (and it’s not Ian Anderson).
With all due respect to my mackerel-snapper friends and family, this is fucking creepy.
The Old Guy loves pickin’ and grinnin’, and there’s plenty of both here. Yee-haw!
I’m thinking pediatricians are the worst doctors because children are so resilient.
I have noticed that “good pediatrician” equals good bedside manner. The guy in our area with the reputation for being the best is great at putting mom and child at ease.
But
He couldnt recognize Lyme disease in our sone, even after we told him what it was and pointed out the exact (textbook) symptoms he had.
I really like the guy, but he was completely incurious when hoofbeats turned out to be zebras (here in south Florida where Lyme is not present). It really shocked me at the time.
The same office offered up a homeopathic sample from a drug rep to help with Molluscum. I went so far as to call in the senior partners of the practice to read them the riot act on that one.
So… yeah. I agree.
Are they though?
Children resilient? If they weren’t they would die more often.
“Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Friday that Congress is sure to challenge the new tariffs and signaled confidence that the levies “will be defeated.””
Oh, it’s a person. I thought they were prognosticating with actual bacon.
whaddup doh’
/posting from Waffle House again
Any good fight videos?
Please be careful out there!
A little snow for some upstate NYers? Barely an inconvenience.
“a guy who now swims with the fishes”
Kanye West?
Abe Vigoda.
On the R’s….
Jesus what a worthless bunch of spineless shits. The lot of them should be caned once per hour until Obamacare is repealed and voter id is required.
I guess the Turtle drew the short straw this time.
Hear hear!
So tired of those useless asshats. What do we expect, though? Nobody actually represents average people in politics. There’s no money in it.
Is anybody surprised by this? Democrats have been laundering tax dollars to themselves for many decades.
I posted about it months ago. Who is going to do anything about it in California?
“A San Diego groomer is giving doggies more tail than they’ll ever need.
Logan Rago is shaping up doggie butts using a procedure mimicking a Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) at his two salons.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/21/us-news/san-diego-groomer-giving-dogs-brazilains-bls-for-rich-owners/
No.
OK, groomer.
Let me guess: North Park.
OBE, I have non-emergent questions about grooming from the client end, if the missus is available.
No pug intended. 🙄
“Benjamin L. Feltz snuck into the Wisconsin Rapids ambulance while the two paramedics were loading a patient into the back of the vehicle Tuesday, according to arrest records.
The medical workers heard a door close as they tended to their patient and saw a naked man in the driver’s seat….
When the ambulance began driving, the other paramedic jumped out of the vehicle and left the patient inside, the arrest records stated…
Feltz allegedly led police on an over 40-minute, 18-mile-long chase, reaching speeds of over 90 miles per hour as the ailing passenger in the back feared for her life.
“I’m dying from kidney disease,” she reportedly screamed….
Feltz appeared intoxicated, slurring his words, and confessed to drinking half a bottle of Fabuloso chemical cleaner and claimed he had some “pot” in his system, according to the arrest records…
He is charged with four felonies and six misdemeanors, including 1st degree reckless endangering safety and is being held on a $100,000 bond, Fox 6 reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/21/us-news/naked-wisconsin-man-hijacks-ambulance-with-dying-patient-inside-police/
Did he think he was in Florida?
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashcams/s/ydGFphqax2
That’ll buff out, maybe.
Woke up to Ellie In Space at the top of my YouTube feed. Looks like they are going to have to roll the SLS back to the VAB yet again, postponing Atemis II even further.
https://youtu.be/cQVImF9hZ2I
Amazing that $4.5 billion per launch, and over $30 billion so far for a rocket built from spare parts doesnt get any better reliability than this.
“The unhinged ex-CUNY professor who savagely held a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter now has a permanent, taxpayer-funded art installation in the Bronx.
The NYC Department of Cultural Affairs ignored Shellyne Rodriguez’s infamous past by green-lighting a $407,000 budget for her 23-foot-tall brick, steel and terracotta Marxist monstrosity called “Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the People of the Bronx.”
…
“If abolition is not solely about what we dismantle, but also about what we build in its stead, then what monuments or points of gathering will we, the collective body of the dispossessed who make life on the periphery of empire, make for ourselves as stewards of our own histories and futures,” she told Hyperallergic in November.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/us-news/nutty-professor-shellyne-rodriguez-who-held-machete-to-post-reporters-neck-tapped-by-nyc-agency-for-407000-art-installation/
If you think that’s gibberish, get a load of this:
https://www.shellynerodriguez.com/about
If only.
That’s as far as I got before I called the whole thing off.
Subjugation – only getting $400K for your inane work.
Look like site is adding extra carriage returns?
It has to reset the platen
Wait… I can finally take my old carriages back??
I didn’t know if it was just me or my custom CSS but I’m having trouble selecting text and clicking links. The targets are sometimes indeed a couple lines below where they should be.
“Conservatives are furious that JPMorgan Chase closed Donald Trump’s personal and business bank accounts following the January 6 attack on the Capitol in 2021.
Chase, America’s largest bank by assets, was forced to admit closing the accounts after Trump launched a $5 billion lawsuit last month against the bank and its CEO, Jamie Dimon.”
Documents released Friday as part of the discovery process showed that Chase sent Trump two letters on February 19, 2021, informing him that they were closing dozens of his accounts.
The letters did not mention any specific reason why the accounts were being shut down, only that sometimes ‘we may determine that a client’s interests are no longer served by maintaining a relationship with J.P. Morgan Private Bank’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15581419/jpmorgan-chase-bank-closed-trump-accounts-january-capitol-riot.html
Operation Choke Point has had long-lasting effects. I have not seen anyone recent stories of debanking or denial of services by ISP or hosting services.
I wonder if that is a change, or a dearth of coverage?
At a party last night I was told that some emails were uncovered regarding the arest and prosecution of Trump that showed communication from Biden about it months before, putting a lie to the entire Garland speech about “this was solely my decision”.
Anyone know anything about that?
Maybe this story?
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/fbi-memo-confirms-jtn-2022-reporting-biden-involvement-raid-trumps-mar
Stop pretending that there’s any difference between the Teams.
Partially true, certainly true in some aspects of playing the political game (this story).
However, I also remember the COVID-19 times. Were I not in a nominally republican state that had outlawed vaccine mandates, I would be out of a job. Caught between the threat of the loss of filthy federal lucre and potential exposure to civil liability on the state level, my employer simply handed out exemptions like candy. I assure you, had state government been controlled by democrats at the time, I would have been fired.
And Florida, South Dakota, etc vs. New York, California etc. Is there really no difference between the Teams? Neither is libertarian, I’ll certainly grant that. And they are both populated with high-school-clique aficionados, power seekers, and political game players. But to assert that there is no difference in the face of concrete evidence to the contrary is wrong.
I’ll assert it again.
Team Blue: We want to take your money and give it to donor class A.
Team Red: We want to take your money and give it to donor class B.
Team Blue: We want to infringe civil liberties A, B, and C in the name of public good.
Team Red: We want to infringe civil liberties C, D, and E in the name of public good.
A distinction with no difference.
Sure, see ES’ formulation. But if we’re playing generalities:
Team Blue: Take this poison or we’ll have you fired, ostracized, and excluded from ‘polite’ society. Maybe take your kids away and make it impossible to have a job, period, since we control permission slips for employment for some reason.
Team Red: Don’t do that.
Question their motives. Question whether the roles will be reversed in some other situation (they will be). “A distinction with no difference” is (probably) correct in your formulation; if one disregards the what is actually happening on the right side of the equation – using the same words doesn’t make the situations identical. But in my real example, my lived experience if you will, “A distinction with no difference” is factually, empirically, manifestly nonsense.
I always tell people the most important election in my lifetime was for the WI Supreme Court seat held in April of 2019. It was only thing of any significance held in this off election, and the Conservative candidate barely won, keeping the court majority Conservative.
Had the liberal candidate won, WI would have been shut down for two years like MI, CA, etc. The WI governor, Tony Evers (formerly State Superintendent of Schools), passed a Covid law nearly identical to that of San Francisco to shut down the state. The conservative leaning WI Supreme Court overturned the law.
I’m not sure my business would have survived being shut down for two years. and it’s an outside job doing landscape maintenance! I would have been quarantined for two years. The liberal cities and college towns kept the schools closed for 1.5 years, while the smaller towns and rural areas reopened, at least partially, in fall of 2020.
“More than a hundred lawsuits were filed against the Trump administration over the past year by people and organizations to restore some of these rights. Among them are Fernando Viera Reyes, who says he was denied proper medical care in immigration detention; Zaya Perysian, who was denied a passport with her correct gender identity; Mohsen Mahdawi, who was detained by immigration officials over exercising his first amendment right to protest over the war in Gaza; and Jon Carlson, a pastor whose place of worship has become a target for immigration enforcement seeking to detain undocumented people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/people-suing-trump-profiles
CWABOA
Sure, Jan. 🙄
I don’t think that I get the government I deserve, but I’m starting to agree that a lot of other people do…
Guardian US fellow Briana Ellis-Gibbs should move to her employer’s home since she is so concerned about American civil liberties and already has all the correct thoughts that will keep her safe from the authoritarian goons over there. Win-win.
None of those are violations of anyone’s rights.
It’s not so much that there are no differences between the Teams; it’s more that both Teams are fucking awful in their own unique ways.
This particular issue, though, is more a demonstration of what a paste-eating retard Kristi Noem is.
Don-Don has a great opportunity here to fire her dumb ass, but I suspect he’s busy crying over the corpse of his tariff plan…
It looks like his tariffs are continuing for now.
It’s his “favorite word” or some shit. He’s not letting it die.
The new authority is limited to less than half a year, and is still an unconstitutional grant of power from Congress to the Executive.
“…both Teams are fucking awful in their own unique ways.”
Too much money and power attracts the worst kinds of people. Good luck undoing that. They will burn the world down to keep that from happening.
You don’t score on 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Yeah but that death putt can set you back a few strokes if you doink it.
“A confidential memo that has been uncovered related to the Palisades fires in California reveals that the Los Angeles Fire Department tried to protect LA Mayor Karen Bass’ reputation after the disaster struck last year.
The memo indicates that the fire department, although its official duties are to protect the people of LA from fires, was also trying to protect Bass from a PR standpoint, according to ABC 7. “It’s our goal to prepare and protect Mayor Bass, the City, and the LAFD from reputational harm associated with the upcoming public release of its AARR (after-action report) through a comprehensive strategy that includes risk assessment, proactive and reactive communications, and crisis response,” the memo read.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-la-fire-dept-worked-to-protect-mayor-bass-from-pr-crisis-after-palisades-fire
Does it include water in the hydrants?
Looking at the caliber of people in elected offices in CA, especially Bass, I am going to second what ES says above…an awful lot of people are getting what they voted for.
Can we just take the individual(s) responsible for that memo and burn them at the stake?
Not drop them into the next fire?
“The Secret Service shot and killed a man in his 20s on Sunday after that man broke through the secure perimeter of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The man appeared to carry a shotgun and a can of fuel….
“The incident, including the individual’s background, actions, potential motive, and the use of force, is under investigation by the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. In accordance with agency policy, the involved Secret Service agents will be placed on routine administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/man-shot-killed-during-unauthorized-entry-to-mar-a-lago-with-what-appeared-to-be-a-shotgun-and-a-fuel-can
https://nypost.com/2026/02/19/us-news/trump-admin-board-of-peace-economy-more/
Another hero martyr for the cause.
Legal observer, 2nd Amendment, herpety-doo!
US has no reason except for luck and goaltending to even take this to OT.
On Olympic OT…Gold medal game shouldn’t be 3 vs 3. Its absolutely terrible.
USA! USA!
Both golds and Stanley Cup where it belongs
No idea that was on.
*flips*
Oh, it’s over. Well, there’s the sum of my Olympics-watch for 2026.
3½ months until the World Cup.
Sure helps to have MVP level goaltending.
Regarding the George Washington wiki link, he
“opposed the perceived oppression of the American colonists by the British”
“Perceived”, fuck Wikipedia.
We are a weak culture
Real oppression would have been denying the Pilgrims’ chosen gender expressions and ways of knowing.
Honestly, their complaints back then pale to ours now, and who is to blame for that?
CANADA FAILS!!!
Snow mexicans aint what they used to be
BREAKING: Androgenic has his hat stolen by a stranger revealing his clapped bald hairline and exposing him as a FRAUDMAXXER. The hair was a lie he was wearing a wig. GENERATIONAL AURA LOSS. No recovery possible. Baldmogged
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/2025281656043786707
Why are these people famous what the fuck i hate humanity.
I fucking hate you for exposing me to that quote. I could’ve been blissfully ignorant and you just couldn’t let that happen.
Aparently he slipped from 2 to 30 on the looksmaxxers index
Never seen the show but ok LOL
https://x.com/LaNativePatriot/status/2024983512076746891?s=20
Oh, look. All my friends are here. And Pie as well.
What the hell are the plushies they are handing out after medals?
You have $20 to build the ideal socialist party 🌹🚩
https://x.com/bandtistbraden/status/2025099935566418285
That would only buy a cheap shovel to dig the grave to put the dead socialists in.
Cuba does not ‘routinely jail and disappear journalists’. Cuba has hundreds of self-styled journalists who spread opposition bullshit on social media freely.
The few in prison are there bc they called for literal US invasions of Cuba. And they deserve it. That’s called treason.
https://x.com/NukedUSA/status/2025280645300146235
Update:
“Austin Tucker Martin, 21, was holding a shotgun and a fuel can as he tried to enter Trump’s Palm Beach residence near the north side around 1.30am on Sunday, the Secret Service said….
The suspect, who investigators say is from North Carolina and was reported missing by his family a few days ago, put down the gas can but raised his gun into shooting position, prompting police to fire.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15582455/secret-service-mar-lago-man-shot-killed-trump.html