Saturday Morning No Kings Links

by | Mar 28, 2026 | Daily Links, First Amendment, Penises | 158 comments

Our little village is having a No Kings protest today at our traffic light. As usual, I will show up with drinks and snacks to hand out. And as usual, I will be painfully aware that these people are actually just fine with kings, they just want King Obama back in one guise or another rather than King OMB. It sucks to be this scornful of my friends and neighbors, but… Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht Anders. I will of course truthfully say that I am there to support their First Amendment right of free speech and protest, but at the same time, I will be cynically amused that their audience is the Progressive monoculture of Glibs Gulch and that the demonstration is nothing but moral preening. My big curiosity is if they’ve changed flags. Originally, everyone waved Ukraine flags, then suddenly, those were all traded in for Gaza flags. I am expecting IRGC flags this time, but we’ll see.

Birthdays today include a prince with a wonderful cognomen; a guy who said “Fuck that shit!”; a guy who was a real square; a religious guy I got to meet a few times, and had he not been Biden-senile, he would have hated me; one of the grand figures of my early childhood; a Polack joke with an unfunny punchline; one of the three most talented brothers in American music; the woman who put BPA on the map and caused us to move to Texas; a total piece of shit who left behind a smaller turd; and another asswipe who stuck us with his idiot progeny; an actual intellectual in academia; and a guy whose TV role was problematic.

Links are always problematic.

The stupidity is national. And very coordinated. In case you wanted to peek behind the paywall at Pooja’s dribblings.

I have a solution for this…

The main lesson of Gaza is, “Don’t fuck with the Jews.” Some people are too retarded to get it.

How about we just shut this abomination down completely? Fucking idiot son Bush’s lasting gift to us.

The party of small government and private property rights.

Could this be the best headline ever?

“If we look behind the sofa cushions of those evil billionaires, I’m sure we can make this work.”

It was a stupid idea, it is a stupid idea, and will always be a stupid idea.

He’s often called black, but at his heart, he’s still Asian.

Here’s a preview of medical care in the US circa 2030.

Buffalo Punk circa 1981. A young SP’s favorite band. The Old Guy met and chatted with their singer/harmonica/rhythm guitar player some years ago when we were living in Texas- he played regular gigs at one of my favorite spots. True to his ethnic heritage, he had become an accountant. Ahhh, punk!

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Old Man With Candy

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158 Comments

    • The Last American Hero

      I’m not convinced he crashed the car. I believe he flipped it over in a fit of roid rage. Have you seen the arms on that guy lately?

  1. Drake

    Reporting “injured” U.S. servicemen is really starting to annoy me. They didn’t sprain ankles in the base softball game.

    They were WOUNDED in combat in this stupid war. They better get the Purple Hearts and benefits they deserve.

    • The Last American Hero

      Definitely worse than getting a splinter while riding around on a swift boat.

  2. Drake

    How has Tiger Woods not hired a driver yet?

    • rhywun

      Seriously. How is he even allowed to drive.

      • Common Tater

        This is his fourth crash.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Woods, drivers, we’re missing a putter.

  3. Ted S.

    Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht Anders.

    I bet the Gay Glibs would be happy to do Anders.

  4. Common Tater

    “Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht Anders”

    Splitters!

  5. Common Tater

    “I am expecting IRGC flags this time”

    Can (((you))) show up with an Israeli flag?

    The good Persians have a flag with a lion.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I can, if I wish to have my business boycotted.

      • juris imprudent

        There are economic benefits to broken windows!

      • (((Jarflax

        JI outs himself as the glazier in OMWC’s town.

      • juris imprudent

        I cannot lie, I love me some Big Glass.

    • The Last American Hero

      Team Red is trying to organize a No Kings rally to protest the commie governor. We’ll see if more than a dozen show up.

  6. Ted S.

    a guy who was a real square

    Happy birthday Paul Lynde!

  7. Ted S.

    one of the three most talented brothers in American music

    Happy birthday Shaun Cassidy!

  8. Common Tater

    “The stupidity is national. And very coordinated.”

    Cut off the foreign money.

  9. Common Tater

    Does Congress ever do anything besides argue over money?

    • Fourscore

      It’s not the spending, it’s the recipients that cause the problem.

  10. Fourscore

    Good morning, OM

    I’m wondering if the King’s Event will be over by this evening when I take Mrs F out for dinner to celebrate putting up with me for the last 52 years..

    It could be rather raucous downtown Podunkville.

      • Beau Knott

        +1

    • slumbrew

      Spectacular! Congrats to you crazy kids.

      • Fourscore

        Thanks to all!

    • Old Man With Candy

      I’ll have to be Sixscore to catch up.

      • Fourscore

        Be careful what you wish for…

  11. DEG

    “Many MAID providers act in good faith,” Dr. Ramona Coelho

    Considering Canada today…. I smell bullshit.

    • R C Dean

      Which is an admission that the Canadian government is paying people to kill other people in bad faith.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Most doctors are independent contractors, though their businesses are tightly controlled by the government and the government is their only customer. Typically they are paid a fee for service for MAID.

      • juris imprudent

        Ah, so medical NGOs so to speak.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        And in this case the total fee would be about $1200. Canadian dollars.

  12. R C Dean

    I am expecting IRGC flags this time, but we’ll see.

    I hope you report back.

    Every time I think the Protestor-American community can’t sink any lower, they prove me wrong. Supporting the theocracy in Iran when it violates every single one of their soi-disant moral principles, just, wow.

    • Fourscore

      Trump has run into the Law of Unintended Consequences in Iran.

      I seem to recall the brouhaha in Iraq, something like “This ain’t the jungle” in reference to the 20 year surprise in Viet Nam.

      The Iranians just don’t know what’s best for themselves.

      • Ted S.

        Oh, they’ll just pivot immediately to Vance being more evil than Trump, and treat this as though it were the most obvious and natural thing.

        Look at how American communists were anti-Nazi up until the Molotov-von Ribbentrop pact, and immediately did a volte-face until June 1941, and then acted like they were the Cassandras speaking about the Nazi menace.

    • Common Tater

      Because Palestinians are so feminist and LGBT?

    • rhywun

      I don’t think the professional left has much interest Iran, except some of them when they are finding it useful to pretend to be anti-war but they seem conflicted. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      If anything, I’ve heard of more anti-regime protesting going on.

      No, it’s still going to be all keffiyehs and Pali flags today.

  13. Common Tater

    ““We just say to trans people, well, unless you’re in dire need, and these are the words from the statute, ‘of defecating or urinating,’ stay out. Figure out some other way,” state Sen. James D. Ruchti (D) said during debate on Friday. “This isn’t how we treat people in our society.””

    So it’s retarded socon virtue signalling twice over.

  14. juris imprudent

    He is unpure!

    Since 1998, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has annually given one person the Mark Twain Prize, named for that giant of American comedy. This year’s choice of Bill Maher has left many people asking, “Really?”

    I’m so clever, stealing Maher’s signature call out. JFC

    • Chafed

      That dinner with Trump must have gone really well.

  15. R C Dean

    You’d think the House would say “We’re not even taking up your stupid DHS funding bill until you pass the SAVE Act.” And Trump would say the same thing – the next bill I sign will be the SAVE Act.

    The fact that Nobody Who Matters is putting pressure on the Senate to clean up voting speaks volumes.

    And these clowns want me to vote for them in November. Give me a reason. And “I’m not a Democrat” doesn’t count.

    • Old Man With Candy

      The fact that Nobody Who Matters is putting pressure on the Senate to get rid of this useless agency speaks volumes.

      • juris imprudent

        Let’s ask Reagan’s ghost about the Dept of Education.

      • Old Man With Candy

        Remember when Trump said that he was getting rid of that stupid and destructive money-suck? Good times.

      • DEG

        Remember when Trump said that he was getting rid of that stupid and destructive money-suck? Good times.

        I detect insufficient levels of plan trusting. Secretary McMahon’s moving around of programs is setting the stage to end the Department. Report for re-education.

    • Common Tater

      I still don’t get why the GOP is against the SAVE act.

      • Common Tater

        That can’t be the argument they are making, even internally.

      • DEG

        See the Uniparty.

  16. Common Tater

    Article doesn’t say what the Rooney Rule is. Is that the one where teams have to waste the time of some black guy to hire a white guy?

    • Old Man With Candy

      Yes. And the black guys are pretty annoyed about the whole thing.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s why they need benevolent white folks, looking out for them.

    • Drake

      Yes. You could be promoting your assistant coach and you still have to find a random black guy to interview.

      • The Last American Hero

        It would be funny if they did that. The candidates are – 1) the offensive coordinator 2) coach that just got fired from a different team looking for his 4th coaching job in the league 3) red hot college coach looking to step up to the big stage 4) a local salesman from the Ford dealership, who happens to be black and watches the team on Sundays if he isn’t working.

    • (((Jarflax

      This is the law of Rooney:

      Thou shalt signal virtue and love for thy dark skinned brethren in this fashion.

      Shoudst thou find thyself in need of a General Manager, he who is charged by the Lord with the selection of the Head Coach and Lesser Coaches, and with the selection of kine in the annual distribution of kine, thou shalt meet face to face with no less than two candidates who are either of the descendants of Ham, or of the people of Sinim and not of thy house, or should none of the darker men meet your fancy, you may meet this obligation by meeting in person with women, not of your house.

      Shoudst thou find thyself in need of a Head Coach, he who is charged by the lord with selection of kine for the disporting upon the Sunday field, and with the selection of the Lesser Coaches, and with the arrangement of kine in each play of the disporting upon the Sunday field, thou shalt meet face to face with no less than two candidates who are either of the descendants of Ham, or of the people of Sinim, and not of thy house, or should none of the darker men meet your fancy, you may meet this obligation by meeting in person with women, not of your house.

      Shoudst thou find thyself in need of a Coordinator of the assault, or of the defense, or of the special actions, those who serve under the Head Coach and are charged with the arrangement of the kine in the principle units of the herd, and instruction to the kine of the required movements in the disporting upon the Sunday field, thou shalt interview no less than two candidates who are either of the descendants of Ham, or of the people of Sinim, or should none of the darker men meet your fancy, you may meet this obligation by meeting in person with women.

      Shoudst thou find thyself in need of a Lesser Coach in charge of the senior kine who throwest the prolate spheroid, or another Lesser Coach of similar status, thou shalt interview at least one candidate who is either of the descendants of Ham, or of the people of Sinim, or should none of the darker men meet your fancy, you may meet this obligation by meeting in person with a woman.

      Thus was the law given by the Great Rooney in the Days of His White Guilt at the confluence of the Rivers!

      • Gender Traitor

        ::bows head in reverence::

    • Chipping Pioneer

      I don’t understand why teams don’t call in the black janitor, ask him if he’d like a 10% raise, and be done with it.

  17. rhywun

    Probably gay and injured new Supreme Leader should identify as transgender – xe would be the toast of the town.

  18. Common Tater

    “Lancaster had a fractured sacrum, a break in a bone at the base of the spine that’s connected to the pelvis. She and her daughter, Jordan Weaver, allege that, while still in the emergency department, a young doctor at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) raised the option of a medically assisted death.”

    Over a broken bone?

    • Old Man With Candy

      They shoot horses, don’t they?

    • Fourscore

      Glad I’m not Canadian…

  19. UnCivilServant

    Responding to the overnight

    Not Adahn on March 28, 2026 at 6:48 am

    How are you old enough to know Remington Steele?

    I had parents and grew up in a one-TV household.

    Chafed on March 27, 2026 at 11:10 pm

    This was your first Bond flick, UCS?

    No, I said Goldeneye was.

  20. rhywun

    more fiscal frustration for a mayor who ran on making New Yorkers’ lives more affordable through expanded government programming

    😂🤣

    I feel like we’ve been down this road before. I wonder how that worked out.

    • Chafed

      Let’s hope it happens again.

    • juris imprudent

      BWAHahahahahaha

      My brother said the USAF kept their planes stored in close formation so they were easier to guard. This was at Hickam Field.

  21. Common Tater

    “Progressive Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is calling for illegal immigrants to be paid reparations over alleged trauma they sustained from the Trump administration’s crackdown and ICE operations across the US.

    Jayapal made the shocking revelation on Friday in front of a panel of “experts” during a hearing she hosted titled “Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Attack on Children.””

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/28/us-news/washington-rep-pramila-jayapal-calls-for-reparations-for-illegal-immigrants-traumatized-by-ice/

    CWAC

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Our stock of progressive politicians has to be one of the dumbest groups of people to ever walk the planet.

      • Common Tater

        To be fair, Republican Congress isn’t a bunch of geniuses either.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        No, they aren’t.

        But Jesus fucking Christ, this shit is just mind numbingly retarded.

      • juris imprudent

        Their devious plan is working, your mind going numb.

    • (((Jarflax

      I hereby Christen my bayonet “Reparations”

  22. Common Tater

    “The Venezuelan illegal immigrant accused of murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman is missing a part of his brain and has the “development of a child,” his lawyer said in court Friday.

    Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was held without bail by Chicago Judge D’Anthony Thedford after his defense attorney argued he’s cognitively challenged from a previous gunshot wound to the head, according to reports by Chicago Sun Times writer David Struett on X.

    Medina-Medina was shot in the head during a robbery when he was living with his mom in Colombia, where they fled in 2016 after the mother was allegedly raped by a government official, his defense attorney, Julie Koehler said.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/us-news/illegal-immigrant-accused-of-killing-sheridan-gorman-is-missing-brain-part-has-development-of-a-child-defense-lawyer-claims/

    No one is retarded on stolen land!

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Why are we responsible for taking in and caring for every retard who’s been shot in the head in their shithole country?

      • Old Man With Candy

        Ask Gabby Giffords.

      • rhywun

        (D)o you really need to ask?

    • Chafed

      It’s a shame the first shot didn’t finish the job.

  23. DrOtto

    King’s Hawaiian Bread is missing a real sponsorship opportunity today.

  24. Common Tater

    “Druski (real name Drew Desbordes) is a black comedian who is apparently obsessed with dressing up like white people…

    In his latest TikTok video titled ‘How Conservative Women in America Act,’ Druski sports a white pantsuit and glittering cross necklace while dancing amid sparklers. It’s an on-the-nose impersonation of Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.”

    https://archive.fo/kXL3R

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15685801/erika-kirk-druski-whiteface-KENNEDY.html

    His black preacher skit was pretty funny, but this is just cringe and sad.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I simply don’t get the compulsion the left has to go after Erika Kirk.

      They’re a bunch of sick fucks.

      • (((Jarflax

        Not just the left

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        That’s true. The counter-right (or whatever those looney toons are known as) are as bad or worse.

        And the shit I’m unhinged too.

      • Common Tater

        “America First” ?

      • Ted S.

        She is not of the body.

      • rhywun

        I’m still not sure the “groyper” thing isn’t just leftists stirring shit up.

      • Common Tater

        “I’m still not sure the “groyper” thing isn’t just leftists stirring shit up.”

        It isn’t. Fuentes has been at it for a long time.

      • juris imprudent

        Fuentes is still just a punk kid. His “movement” is neither old/established or destined to live long.

      • Common Tater

        His “movement” is almost as old as MAGA.

      • R C Dean

        Just because Fuentes has been at it for awhile doesn’t mean he isn’t fronting a psyop of some kind.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I simply don’t get the compulsion the left has to go after Erika Kirk.

        She’s white, blonde, and conservative.

        Beyond that, I think Owens started the whole “acktually Erika murdered Charlie” thing, and the left has glommed on to it to cast reasonable doubt and get a ‘not guilty’ verdict for their gay furry friend.

      • Common Tater

        Couldn’t you say that about anyone?

        And who would be running this psyop?

        I don’t find it at all surprising that there could be young identitarians on the Right. Look at 4chan.

    • Beau Knott

      Odd how they seem to be entirely, and I would assert, willfully ignoring serum sodium levels.
      I have high BP. Mostly well controlled, but even when it’s not my blood level of sodium is low to below the lower level for “healthy.”
      It’s not how much you consume, it’s how your body processes it.
      On top of that, medical advice based on averages or “targets” for specific groups turns into ‘medicine by checklist’ which will play hell with your health unless you fall into the (narrowing) range at the center of the checklist expectations/definitions.

      • PutridMeat

        the (narrowing) range

        I think an important mis-understanding that people have with respect to these ranges is that they reflect the best “The Science” about what is healthy. Generally they don’t; they are population level averages (or worse, based on very crappy ‘the science’ with almost no real basis – looking at you LDL). Now in a generally healthy population, that’s OK, but we are increasingly not a generally healthy population. So, while I would pay attention – “do my own research” maybe – to being outside of the ranges, I wouldn’t take it as a sign, a priori, that it’s something to fix. Probably just the opposite if I’m being honest.

      • Beau Knott

        PM: oh, I agree, completely.
        Some of this behavior is down to what I call the “one right answer” people. They’ll grudgingly accept a range, but deep down they want one single ‘right answer’ they can apply across the board. Medicine by checklist is both a result and an ongoing driver of this approach.
        I’m peevish about salt/blood pressure because it’s led to the disappearance of salt shakers in restaurants, under-seasoned food, and the perpetual response to “I have high blood pressure” of “oh, you should cut down your salt intake!”
        My sodium levels get too low, I get migraines. 1/2 to 1 tsp of salt and the relief is moments away.

      • Common Tater

        It can’t be as simple as more salt, more blood pressure.

        I eat as much salt as I want, and I’ve been consistently 120/68 for decades.

      • PutridMeat

        more salt, more blood pressure.

        Salt is one of the worst. 0th order thinking, confusing chronic and acute elevation of blood pressure. If you stick to the recommended salt intake by the experts, you are hurting yourself with too little salt.

  25. Muzzled Woodchipper

    I’m curious as to how the American left will react to Europe saying enough is enough for migration, and how the European left might shift its framing of OMB and his illegal migrant stance.

    • juris imprudent

      Their left and ours share the hatred of western culture that all of these wonderful immigrants share. No loss of continuity detected.

    • rhywun

      Europe saying enough is enough

      I’ve heard some noises in that direction but is it really happening?

      The big cities I’ve looked into are around 1/4 to 1/2 vibrant now – I suspect even our left might blush at that level of austere scholarship in say NYC or LA.

      • R C Dean

        The little people? Sure, the ones that aren’t imports.

        The People Who Matter? Nope. They are still all in on migration-driven anarcho-tyranny.

      • Ted S.

        That’s because the social disruption affects the Icky Class, not the People Who Matter living in the leafy districts.

        I’ve argued on several occasions that one of the moments that really led to the second election of Donald Trump was when Texas Governor Abbott started putting immigrants at the border onto buses and sending them to sanctuary cities. It was a way in part to own the libs, but also to say, “Now do you see the disruption this is causing us?” The reponse was that TEAM BLUE knew fully well the issues it was causing and that those issues were the point, as long as it was affecting TEAM RED areas. Eric Adams was one of the few politicians to get an inkling of a clue about it, and look what happened to him: political prosecution, and being hounded out of office.

        British blogger David Thompson has written a lot about this in a British context, with one amusing example here. Follow the links in that post as well.

      • The Last American Hero

        He calls out certain political positions as “social jewelry”. I am stealing that.

  26. Common Tater

    “In the trial, 10 type 1 diabetics underwent transplantation of islet cells, tiny clusters of specialized cells scattered throughout the pancreas that produce hormones to regulate blood sugar.

    After just four weeks, all 10 achieved insulin independence, meaning their bodies were able to produce insulin on their own without costly supplemental injections.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15681835/type-1-diabetes-cured-islet-cell-transplant.html

    Hope the link works.

    • slumbrew

      That’d be huge if it pans out.

    • Gdragon

      Fuckin’ A. After almost 40 years of managing my blood sugar I have gotten pretty good at it but it is a skill that I would definitely love to retire.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    I am there to support their First Amendment right of free speech

    Because we all know they would support you and your business’ rights if they got a whiff of your disagreement with them.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Like the earlier ones, the protests are not focused on any particular issue. Instead, they are meant to unite people who have various grievances about the federal government. In the past, that has included aggressive immigration enforcement voting rights and the costs of health care. On Saturday, the actions are likely to feature people speaking out about the war in Iran.

    The usual inchoate toddler shrieking.

  29. Common Tater

    “Of the sheer number of absurdist stories you may have missed in the news recently, one is that in public court filings slamming common-sense laws to prevent gun violence, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice refused to rule out nuclear weapons from the kinds of arms it claims the average citizen may be entitled to possess under the Second Amendment….

    n the past year, Trump’s DOJ has taken an extreme pro-gun-rights view of the Second Amendment, with its lawyers making clear their view that the public has a constitutional right to access an extraordinarily broad range of weapons for self-defense. Trump’s DOJ has taken a remarkable stance in recent court filings—including in attacking state assault weapon bans—that any arm that is simply in “common use” by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes cannot be regulated, regardless of how dangerous that arm is, or how unsuited to lawful self-defense.

    Now, to be clear, DOJ lawyers do not argue that nuclear weapons are currently protected by the Second Amendment. But that is based on the view that nukes could not become popular enough to be protected, not because of the unmistakable threat to public safety that civilian access to nuclear warheads would create. Under this dangerous logic, if nuclear weapons become more common, all bets are off: Civilians might then be constitutionally entitled to acquire and possess them. And though the Trump DOJ’s discussion of nuclear weapons may seem farfetched, the same logic would apply to a grenade launcher or bazooka.”

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/03/trump-doj-second-amendment-nuclear-weapons.html

    Be the first on your block to be a nuclear power.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      “Trump wants everyone to have tactical nukes!”

      Every time I think the left can’t make a dumber argument, m woefully proven wrong.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      It’s also the tell that they don’t really think Trump is a fascist Nazi bent on taking over the world.

      If they really believed that, they ought to be advocating for the 2A as a means to protect against that sort of tyranny.

    • rhywun

      I was gonna call Guardian but sometimes Slate brings the crazy too.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    HAGA coalition is crumbling!

    Joseph Bolick feels betrayed by President Donald Trump. And it’s because of the war in Iran.

    The 30-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran voted for Trump in 2024. But at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gathering this week he sported a hat emblazoned with “America First” — a slogan Trump championed during his campaign, along with the promise not to start new wars in foreign countries.

    “He’s lied about everything,” said Bolick. “If you go into a war where there’s no end game, how is it going to end? There’s no clear objective.”

    Bolick is part of a cohort of young MAGA loyalists who are increasingly frustrated with Trump over the war in Iran. While Trump’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran has rallied war hawks and his older supporters, it has alienated many of the young men who swung toward the GOP in 2024. That split is resonating among not only the rank-and-file, but also conservative media influencers and some corners of the White House.

    It’s curtains for Mad King Donald.

    • R C Dean

      There’s no clear objective.

      People keep parroting this, even though the administration announced its goals on Day One. Leaving aside, as sensible people must, Trump’s Truth Social droppings, they’ve been quite clear about what their goals are: no Iranian nukes, no Iranian missiles, no Iranian proxies, with a regime that isn’t still committed to those goals. The only real question isn’t “what are our goals”, its “can they be achieved through air power alone”.

      • Common Tater

        My question is how can unarmed people overthrow the regime?

      • juris imprudent

        Even that is a departure from what he pursued in his first term, and what he ran on for this one.

    • The Last American Hero

      How in the hell did Plaxico Buress wind up on a security detail?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Tupng is hsrd.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    God’s panhandler

    Pope Leo on Saturday made a day trip to Monaco, a tax-free microstate on the French ⁠Riviera known as a haven for billionaires and their luxury yachts, and urged its residents to share their wealth and help those in need.

    “In God’s eyes, nothing is received in vain!” the pope told crowds waving yellow flags under a brilliant sun. “Every good placed in our hands… bears an intrinsic need not to be held back, but to be shared, so that everyone’s life may be better.”

    Leo ⁠is the first pope in nearly five centuries to visit ​the wealthy ⁠Mediterranean enclave. The Vatican said he wanted to show that small countries can make an outsized impact on the world stage.

    That’s where the money is.

  33. Common Tater

    On a related note, does eating cholesterol raise cholesterol?

    • PutridMeat

      No, not in general. You body creates cholesterol as it is a critical component of cell structure, brain function etc. Dietary intake of saturated fats and transfats correlates with serum cholesterol levels. Your liver creates 80% of the cholesterol you need; the remaining 20% or so is syntesized from dietary intake of saturated fats and transfats – that’s the ‘reason’ that the medical establishment has been so adamant about saturated fats; a completely unjustified focus on cholesterol levels. You need dietary sources of saturated fats to generate the total cholesterol levels you ABSOLUTELY need.

      BTW, the “No, not in general” points to another completely misunderstanding by the medical/”public health” community – they recommended/demanded that you don’t eat eggs, one to the most nutritionally dense and healthy sources of nutrition – because eggs are high in cholesterol. But not eating eggs DOES NOT reduce serum cholesterol. Didn’t stop them from demanding people not eat them even though they had no clue what they were talking about, resulting in actual no-shit harm to people.

      • Common Tater

        Mine went up a bit, and the nurse reporting my lab results told me to eat fewer egg yolks.

      • PutridMeat

        eat fewer egg yolks

        On this topic, your nurse doesn’t know what she’s – yes, I’m assuming the nurses gender, sue me – talking about. She’s repeating what she was taught/told, adding no value to your interaction with her.

        If you don’t like telling people to pound sand – I do enjoy it, only in the most polite way of course – simply remove/minimize saturated fat in your diet for the week prior to your test, practice a longer term fast/intermittent eating prior to the test, and have a bit more fiber. Should have a serum cholesterol level below their – bullshit – limits and be left alone.

        If you really want to piss em off, ask for LDL-P which measures the LDL particle size rather than total mass. The distribution of sizes is what really correlates with outcome NOT total LDL which is what they usually test, and it is often a computed quantity, not a measured quantity; again based on population level surveys of largely unhealthy people.

  34. Evan from Evansville

    Got (previously planned) pinch-hit work from 130-10 today, manning my register for the last time until NEXT Sat’s pinch-hit shift, my last.
    Meanwhile, Mom’s going to some No Kangz shit to get whatever social release that unlocks. (yeeeesh) It’s all exactly the same as going to church for these folk. They want the release and the social connections that come with it. So, get together! And shout! Or pray, whatevs.

    Gonna take work ‘seriously’ as usual, but much more spring in my step before a Sat shift. Hopefully, the day sails by more playfully with Dragon Lady. She’s actually a legit ‘fierce’ woman who barks to get the rook in line and on task, and remarkably intelligent. Oddly, she has a PhD in criminal psychology, an accounting degree and spends most days managing properties.

    Hope everyone has a productive or relaxing day in. (Or out.)
    Question: I’m working on a fun piece or two about it, and how’s the media library looking? I’ve got pics but I don’t wanna swamp the server, etc.

    • Common Tater

      I’d ask Tonio. He seems to be out illo tsar.

      • Common Tater

        *our

      • Evan from Evansville

        I’ve not seen it, yet. I really like his version of Jolene. He also has a kinda vinyl factory where people can more easily send their recordings and press ’em into records. Little throwback stuff like that, especially now, goes a long way for me artistically.

        I have no question he’s a better-than-you asshole in real life. Still. Would bowl with.

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