Saturday Morning Spring Is Here Links

by | Dec 11, 2021 | Daily Links | 205 comments

The schools here are finishing up and lots of folks are on break. So no Tales From The Woke. I did, however, have some touching moments, including making breakfast for the owner of the local bar (200 whiskeys available). And I want to take this occasion to thank you kids for subsidizing me- I had an ER visit a few weeks back with an MRI. Received the bill. After Medicare coverage, we owed… $12. I am now firmly in favor of this program.

Birthdays today include a guy who refused to sign the constitution; a guy who knew how to play the angles; a guy whose work was fantastic; a ruiner of millions of taste buds, eh?; a guy who got those darn nuclei to stop rattling around so we could concentrate on the electrons; the guy who taught Koop how to grow a beard; a woman who loved to be in America; a guy who did what we all wanted to do; the butler for the Addams Family; and our first clue about the direction Reason was going to go.

Let’s Link.

 

Will someone tell John Hinckley that our governor is fucking Jody Foster?

 

So the important question: will he get rid of the insanely unconstitutional 100-mile border zone? 

 

It’s amusing that the article carefully avoids mentioning the source of this scary, scary PowerPoint. I’ll bet it was Kyle Rittenhouse!

 

“I’d be raising Willie Brown’s lovechild if I didn’t have these critical constitutional rights.”

 

Sometimes you have to destroy the village in order to save it.

 

Work accident.

 

Buying votes the old-fashioned way, using taxpayer money. It’s like they’re sitting around saying, “What else can we do to tank the economy?”

 

Amazon order placed.

 

When you let SugarFree write the news.

 

Old Guy Music was a favorite of mine as a callow youth. I particularly liked the vocal-through-Leslie effect, and the title seems appropriate. BTW, though I am usually cynical about “remasters,” the Steven Wilson ones are solid.

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Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

205 Comments

  1. The Late P Brooks

    “Obviously, we want to get to a point where we’re turning to a version of normalcy for everybody, right,” Psaki told reporters. “Where you’re not sending your kids backpack with 7 extra masks, right, or you’re not adding two hats so that they’re warm outside for a snack. There’s no question that’s the case.”

    “Abby something. Abby… Normal.”

    • Old Man With Candy

      I was searching for a strawberry joke, but came up dry.

      • Chafed

        So did she.

  2. Ted S.

    Will someone tell John Hinckley that our governor is fucking Jody Foster?

    And nobody in the supine, sycophantic media even has the thought of asking her why the mask mandate will work *this time* when it didn’t work the other times.

    • rhywun

      Also, I don’t think Kathy swings that way.

      • Not Adahn

        It depends on your donation size.

    • Drake

      They are just fucking with people now. Wear the masks through Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, just because we told you too (and they hate you).

  3. The Late P Brooks

    Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack a PowerPoint recommending Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to return himself to the presidency.

    The select committee is certain there was at least some coordination between the Trump White House and the organizers of the 6 January rally.
    Capitol attack committee issues new subpoenas to two ex-Trump aides

    The fact that Meadows was in possession of a PowerPoint the day before the Capitol attack that detailed ways to stage a coup suggests he was at least aware of efforts by Trump and his allies to stop Joe Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January.

    A Powerpoint? That’s perilously close to “comfy chair” territory. Alert the U N Human Rights Commission.

    For some reason I think they might have been throwing a lot of options at the wall. If I thought that was real, I’d be curious where that fell on the ranked list.

    • rhywun

      They’ve got him now!

    • Old Man With Candy

      But the PP wasn’t even identified as an internal document, only that it was “in his email.” Shit, one of US could have written it as a gag and sent it.

      I dearly hope his browser history doesn’t have Hat and Hair in it.

      • Rat on a train

        Where is Preet?

  4. The Late P Brooks

    The select committee is certain there was at least some coordination between the Trump White House and the organizers of the 6 January rally.

    The vast right wing conspiracy is real!

  5. The Late P Brooks

    The recommendations in the PowerPoint for both Trump and Pence were based on wild and unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, including that “the Chinese systematically gained control over our election system” in eight key battleground states.

    Preposterous. Only the Russians have that power.

    • rhywun

      Wild AND unsubstantiated?

      OK, then.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Gentlemen, start your models!

    Early data show that one person who catches omicron is currently going on to infect two to four other people — that’s at least twice as many as someone who gets the delta variant. The statistics come from countries like the U.K, Denmark and South Africa — all of which have robust surveillance systems in place for tracking coronavirus variants.

    And some experts believe omicron is spreading even faster than that.

    ——-

    Although omicron infections only make up a small portion of the overall cases in the U.K., the forecasts are sobering. The country’s health agency is warning that omicron infections are doubling every few days – and could make up half of all cases there by mid-December.

    “The quick steady spread is just a very clear signal that this variant can spread exponentially even in highly vaccinated populations,” says Jeffrey Barrett, director of the Genomics Initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, which tracks variants in the U.K.

    And the U.S. should take note: What the virus does in Europe, says Barrett, often foreshadows where the pandemic is headed on the other side of the Atlantic. “By next week, we will see clear evidence of an omicron wave in European countries, and I suspect the U.S. is at most a week behind that,” he predicts.

    By Easter, humanity will be wiped out.

    • limey

      By rising sea levels, I think, or something, so don’t worry about that.

      • Ghostpatzer

        “Omicron vs. Climate Change”

        Coming to theaters in January.

      • Sean

        “Better than Sharknado 4!”

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Omicron vs. Queen Karen; this time it’s real!

    • Rat on a train

      Computer, if we assume infections double every day, half of infections require hospitalization, and half of hospitalizations result in death, how long will it take to spread to everyone and how many will die?

      It will take a month and 1 in 4 will die.

      Hmm, what if we assume enacting authoritarian measures will reduce hospitalization to 1 in 10 and deaths to 1 in 10 of those?

      1 in 100 will die.

      There you have it. SCIENCE has told us the path we must take.

      • SDF-7

        Assume a spherical infectious cow….

  7. Ghostpatzer

    Celebrating the birthdays of white supremacists again?

    He also wanted an immediate end to the slave trade

    Wait, this must be fake news.

  8. Fourscore

    Medicare will never go away until we have Universal Med Care, at which time care will be rationed and old folks will not have a ration card. I ran up a sizeable bill last spring and did an Alfred E. Newman impression. I do believe, however, that some things are discouraged even today so hospital vacations are minimized as much as possible.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Yeah, people don’t realize that Medicare floats on top of the private heath care system. It sets very low rates, and everybody else negotiates rates in multiples of what Medicare will pay. You can’t just “put everybody on Medicare” and expect it to cost the same without some serious rationing of care.

      • juris imprudent

        They have to break the AMA lock on medical school enrollments to increase the supply of doctors willing to work for less than the current average compensation.

      • Fourscore

        Just start passing out No Fail med school grades. “Wanna be a doctor? Got low grades (no grades)? Enroll on line at the University of Low Expectations and you too can graduate in the top 10 % of your class”

      • juris imprudent

        We are not well served by the AMA cartel – particularly considering the number of people that die annually from medical mistakes.

      • Sensei

        Can we do the Bar Association next?

      • juris imprudent

        I mean heck, why not have every industry guild put a stranglehold on admissions to the relevant programs? WCPGW?

      • rhywun

        You’ll be happy to know that only about 12% of practicing (non-resident) physicians belong nowadays.

      • Tundra

        Yeah, I don’t think the AMA is as big of a problem as the giant corporate interests pushing docs to churn and burn patients to make the numbers work. Add in a completely fucked up insurance environment and you get modern medicine.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s the real problem – there isn’t some simple fix.

      • Shpip

        Wanna be a doctor? Got low grades (no grades)?

        I see you’ve heard of Caribbean medical schools.

        When Mrs. Shpip is evaluating med students for her residency program, Caribbean (and other third world) medical students are moved waaaaaaay down the rank list. This is borne of hard-learned lessons.

        The one thing she looks for besides medical school reputation? Having had a job outside of school. People who have done paid work for an actual employer have learned things like how to show up for a shift on time, etc. The folks who have done nothing but fill out forms and take tests from the age of 5 to 26 aren’t nearly as good at that.

    • Tundra

      Holy shit!

      Horrible.

      • ron73440

        That is unreal.

        I couldn’t imagine how that would feel.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Friend-of-the-Working-Man-in-Chief

    President Joe Biden said Friday that he was “deeply troubled” by reports of Kellogg’s plan to permanently replace striking plant workers as the union haggles for a new contract involving 1,400 employees.

    “I am deeply troubled by reports of Kellogg’s plans to permanently replace striking workers from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International during their ongoing collective bargaining negotiations,” Biden said in a statement. “Collective bargaining is an essential tool to protect the rights of workers that should be free from threats and intimidation from employers.”

    “Permanently replacing striking workers is an existential attack on the union and its members’ jobs and livelihoods,” he added. “And such action undermines the critical role collective bargaining plays in providing workers a voice and the opportunity to improve their lives while contributing fully to their employer’s success.”

    We wouldn’t have this problem if wages and prices were set by the Ministry of Plenty.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Collective bargaining is an essential tool to protect the rights of workers

      Fuck off, commie.

      • Count Potato

        I think unions for blue collar workers for private business are OK. It’s public sector unions that need to be nuked from orbit.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I think they’re okay in the abstract. The idea that collective bargaining is some fundamental part of market capitalism is commie dreck.

      • Grummun

        Unions as an expression of free association, workers organizing to improve their bargaining position, I’m fine with. But for the company to want to bargain with the union, the union must provide some value: guarantee a level of competence, or productivity, or something. If hiring union workers had enough value, the company would willingly say “we’re only hiring members of this union.” But leftists have put the unions in a position where they don’t have to provide any particular value, and companies don’t have a choice but to use union labor. So even blue collar unions do more harm than good.

    • Grumbletarian

      It should be illegal for businesses to not agree to the collective bargaining of a union. After all, it’s a bargain!

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        There is a reason you never take the lowest bid for a contract…

      • rhywun

        A lot of public infrastructure is required to take the lowest bid, isn’t it? And they still go way over budget in addition to doing a shitty job.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I have no problem with voluntarily collective bargaining, but bargaining implies the parties are at the table. Striking workers should know the consequences.

  10. Ghostpatzer

    A Florida man angry over his neighbors’ parking habits sprayed fire from a commercial flamethrower toward a car with three teenagers inside, police said

    There’s hope for NJ after all. I don’t think flamethrowers are covered in gun control laws.

    • Sean

      “There’s hope for NJ after all.”

      Lol, no. Put down the crack pipe.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Any attempt to take my crack pipe will be met with the flamethrower of doom! Until Murphy implements common sense flamethrower control.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Cigarette lighters hardest hit.

  11. Fourscore

    “a woman who loved to be in America”

    Rita was super but Natalie and I had something in common. We were the same age and in spite of this, she still ignores me and always will. Damn that Robert Wagner!

    • Old Man With Candy

      She’s all washed up.

      • Fourscore

        Don’t make waves

    • Count Potato

      Movie should have had a lesbian sex scene.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    But the PP wasn’t even identified as an internal document, only that it was “in his email.” Shit, one of US could have written it as a gag and sent it.

    I think we could have come up with something better than that.

    And- It was “in his e-mail” like the fifty mail order Viagra ads? Ads which conclusively prove his connection to the the teen sex slavery trade.

    • juris imprudent

      Overthrow the govt with this one simple trick – click here!

      • Rat on a train

        10 ways to overthrow the government. Number 7 will surprise you.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Weirdest ways to overthrow the government, don’t let your wife see you browsing this list

  13. Grummun

    Re: top of page pic, please please please tell me that’s one of OMWC’s coworkers.

    • Sean

      Doorways must be a bitch.

      Also, riding in cars with no sunroof.

      • Count Potato

        Maybe they are telescopic like old portable TV antennas.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Makes it easier to pull the reins IYKWIM

    • juris imprudent

      Yeah, isn’t that appropriation of kabuki? She doesn’t look very Japanese.

    • Not Adahn

      That looks like a hairnet violation to me.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    “Nice flame job. Lemme give you a little touch-up.”

    • Sean

      I do hope he yells “flame on!” when pulling the trigger.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      +1 White Knight

  15. Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

    The Guardian, the Frank Booth’s oxygen tank of news.

    • Sean

      The one in the hospital…wtf?

      • Q Continuum

        Just had her tits done.

      • Chafed

        ?

    • creech

      I shudder to think what most of them will look like when they are 70.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        A bag of bones with lopsided tits.

        The battle scars will be sad.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Repeat as necessary

    A spokesperson for the governor told the outlet it was an “extremely disappointing” ruling and encouraged schools to keep masking despite the lifted health order.

    ​​“The administration’s top priority from the beginning of this pandemic has been and remains protecting public health and safety, including students and staff, to ensure in-person learning continues,” spokesperson Beth Rementer said, according to the Inquirer.

    Masking is a proven and simple way to keep kids in school without interruption and participate in sports and other extracurricular activities,” she added.

    Simple, anyway. They could try wearing one pink sock and one green sock, too. Just in case.

    • Q Continuum

      IMO, the masking shit is even more insulting and illogical than the vaxxing shit. At least the vaxx seems to do *something* in some limited way for high-risk populations. Masks do jack shit; proven in labs to decades before the world fell apart and proven empirically over the past 18 months of stupidity. Desperately clinging to masks is literally worshipping a golden calf in hopes of being spared by angry virus gods.

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Masks are the religious fetish of the chattering class.

        Nothing more, nothing less.

        “WEAR THE MASK! KNOW YOUR PLACE!!!!

  17. Gender Traitor

    Hailing Tres Cool, if you’re still awake. Come in, homey! From your comments in the last thread it sounds as if you’re in bad shape. Need for me to pick up some sustenance that is NOT BEER and leave it on your front porch? Case o’ chicken soup from Sam’s maybe?

    • Festus

      If he’s anything like me (and he is) it’s hard to differentiate between “Sick” and actual sick. Don’t panic.

  18. Q Continuum

    “It’s like they’re sitting around saying, ‘What else can we do to tank the economy?'”

    I’m usually first in line to claim incompetence instead of malice but my likelihood of accepting previously outrageous conspiracy theories has increased a lot in the past 18 months. To wit: I’m beginning to genuinely think that “they” are trying to oversee a controlled collapse of the economy. Maybe they think a collapse is inevitable so they think they can soften the landing or, more likely, they are finally just seizing their opportunity to turn everyone into serfs. The bottom line is that their actions are leading to said collapse regardless of motive.

    Buy ammo.

    • Sean

      Buy ammo. ☑

    • rhywun

      Ask yourself what would they be doing differently if they intended to tank the economy.

    • Tundra

      I get tired of watching the commies run roughshod while smart people bitch about ‘incompetent leadership’. They aren’t incompetent, they are amazingly effective. FFS, the WEF comes right out and tells us what they plan to do and people still call it conspiracy theory.

      My question is, after playing the long game since the late 19th century, why the push now? Are they seeing their window closing?

      • rhywun

        Opportunity knocks.

      • Tundra

        Sure, but there’s a frantic quality to it that seems odd.

      • ron73440

        As ineffective as Trump was, maybe he spooked them?

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Spooked? He got them to jump back under their white sheets!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They see the imminent collapse and want the house in order beforehand so they come out on top and not hanging from a rope.

      • Not Adahn

        What are you doing here? Sit your butt down on the couch and start watching The Expanse!

      • rhywun

        That’s an idea.

        Watching Liverpool now.

      • rhywun

        Heh. I’m cooking, too.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        why the push now? Are they seeing their window closing?

        No, they’re seeing the window opening. You can’t force things on an unwilling populace. At the very least, they have to be ambivalent. In reality, you need a substantial number of loyal lackeys and a plurality of ambivalent and/or sympathetic normies.

        They haven’t really had that until recently.

  19. Festus

    Just popping in for a second to give thanks for all of the BD well-wishes yesterday. It really made my day! I love you Glibs! Even Pope Jimbo. Judi has left for the weekend but she left plenty of steak, spuds, jumbo shrimp and Greek salad to tide me over. She also bought me a sport head-set and switched up our provider so that I can finally listen to podcasts of the conspiracy theories and terrible music that I’m so fond of. Life is good! 20 down, 13 to go…

    • Sean

      Festus! Have a great day or night or whatever weird metric thing y’all do up there.

      • Festus

        Thanks Sean! My clientele seem to really love me and it’s a bonus when they are fetching young women. I could complain about a lot but I’ll never complain about that!

      • Fourscore

        I know it’s still dark chez vous but put on your dancing shoes and come out for a snow ball fight. Enjoy the day after…

    • Tres Cool

      Greek salad? You need something totally not gay to counter-act that.

      • Festus

        Hah! to you both.

  20. ron73440

    I hate people.

    They took me to get an ultrasound and it was the same lady who did it on Wednesday.

    On Wednesday we had argued about me needing a mask. I get sinus headaches if I cover my nose. I asked why it was necessarysince I just had a negative COVID test. You can probably guess her answer: “It’s our policy”. Eventually she pretended my nose was covered and did my scan.

    For some reason today that’s not an option. So I am back in my room without a scan.

    Waiting to see what happens next, but I’m not risking a severe headache to make these people feel better. How do they live outside?

    Here are some quotes:

    You have to wear it to protect me.

    You might catch something

    The mask doesn’t work 100%

    These were all used to rebut whatever point I was trying to make at the time. I don’t know how you can not see the total lack of logic.

    Her favorite argument: “It’s hospital policy!”

    • Q Continuum

      “You can probably guess her answer: ‘It’s our policy'” “I’m just following orders”

      FIFT.

    • Festus

      Jesus, Ron! Sorry about your balls blowing up! In all honesty, care descends with age. When I was a strapping young feller the nurses were attentive. Now that I’m of a certain age, they treat me like Finnigan changing Joe’s Depends. It was shocking to me.

      • ron73440

        Sorry about your balls blowing up!

        Thanks?

        Nothing has exploded yet, but that’s funny!

    • juris imprudent

      Oh, you have a policy – guess what, I have a policy too!

    • ron73440

      Nurse says I can wear a really loose mask, but not covering my nose is not an option, because it defeats the purpose of the mask.

      Wouldn’t wearing a really loose one also defeat the purpose?

      I said no, not risking a headache.

      • ron73440

        WOOHOO!!

        Sometimes being an old stubborn bastard pays off.

        Dr. came and talked to me, looked at my exploded balls and asked if I wanted to leave today.

        I get to go home after lunch.

        I am so tired of being here.

      • Sensei

        Congrats!

      • Gender Traitor

        That’s great! Besides being happy to get out of there, how are you feeling?

      • ron73440

        Sore and I have to be really careful about moving around.

  21. Q Continuum

    “Abrams frequently sprayed the flamethrower to scare off guests at her home”

    Back in my day, teens wouldn’t have run off, they’d want to hang out with that guy.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Her favorite argument: “It’s hospital policy!”

    Orders were followed.

  23. Count Potato

    Darn it. I want to see Blaire White on Joe Rogan, but I can’t find it anywhere, and don’t want to join Spotify.

    • TARDis

      Ewww, Phrasing, dammit!

      • PieInTheSky

        transphobe

  24. CPRM

    Holland calls the animal a “f—— t—“.

    MadLibs cussing.

    • Q Continuum

      Fabulous tits?

      /you knew I was going there

  25. Tres Cool

    No doubt Psaki is a complete cunte. But I totally would.

    • Festus

      She’s the clonal embodiment of my first clingy girlfriend. Wouldn’t give it up for me but after I broke it off (with much drama) she turns up the next year as a “Teen Mom”. Named her first born “Darryl” which juuuust happens to be my first name. Awkward.

      • Festus

        Oh yeah, I got to third base with her step-sister. Would have paid to see those fireworks! I was a wee shit-head but I don’t regret much of it. No harm, no foul.

      • ron73440

        I had a girlfriend like that in highschool.

        My friend compared her to the little teddy bear with spring loaded arms she had clipped to her pencil.

        But sometimes sticking it in crazy is fun.

      • limey

        I put one toe on the High Fidelity path of looking up old girlfriends several years ago. Only because facebook made it easy. One of them had a cool, funky hat and the others seemed to be settled down more or less. I left it there. I did consider sending a “howdy” to funky hat girl but I was a jerk back when I was 18 so I figured she wouldn’t want to hear from me.

      • ron73440

        Never had that thought, I got lucky and met my wife when I was 19.

      • Festus

        Amish meets?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Beat me too a witty punch Festus…damn you Canadians! Damn you to hell!

      • ron73440

        Nope, just a drunk Marine accidentally met a nice girl in 1990.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I dipped my toe on that path when I left the military. Had the fun I missed in highschool and immediately got out of town and changed my number.

      • Festus

        Ran into her a couple of times at reunions and such. She still carries the torch. Come on Girl, we were 14-15 years old! She’s done well. Still zeroes in on me every time we cross paths. It’s a little unnerving.

      • Festus

        She’s got like five sisters and at the last reunion they pissed off Judi to no end. “He’s so smart!” “Wouldn’t Darryl and Ashley have been so great together?” In front of my Wife. Again, awkward.

      • Festus

        That’s the same night that I happened to cut a rug with every other girl in the room except for Judi. At least I never fell down. Ah, God, the things you wish you could do over again… Ten year reunion with my Ex. Sitting next to a girl that I always carried a flame for. She starts massaging my thigh. In front of the Ex. Twenty years later, she does it again and rests her head on my shoulder. That was a bilious ride home. “Touchy” is the reason that I quit Facebook.

      • ron73440

        I’ve been watching a lot of true crime shows in here, and that sounds like the beginning of one.

      • Q Continuum

        Just give a ride on the Festus pole for old times’ sake.

      • Festus

        Ya know. If I didn’t have a soul I probably wood!

      • rhywun

        which juuuust happens to be my first name

        Head
        for
        the
        hills!

      • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

        Do you have another brother named Darryl? And one named Larry?

      • Gustave Lytton

        Wouldn’t give it up for me but after I broke it off (with much drama) she turns up the next year as a “Teen Mom”.

        Dodged a bulletshotgun blast there.

    • Brawndo

      I like red hair on women, but there’s nothing there for me. Plain face. Boring.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I’m usually first in line to claim incompetence instead of malice but my likelihood of accepting previously outrageous conspiracy theories has increased a lot in the past 18 months. To wit: I’m beginning to genuinely think that “they” are trying to oversee a controlled collapse of the economy. Maybe they think a collapse is inevitable so they think they can soften the landing or, more likely, they are finally just seizing their opportunity to turn everyone into serfs. The bottom line is that their actions are leading to said collapse regardless of motive.

    More helicopter money will stop inflation in its tracks. Is anybody really dumb enough to believe that?

  27. The Late P Brooks

    When you look at it, Biden is using the same argument used for college tuition. Costs are going up, so we’ll “help make it more affordable” via tuition assistance play money.

    • rhywun

      See also: public housing.

      Won’t it be great when everything is “affordable” again?

      • Fourscore

        We’ll get a grant from the infrastructure bill and get an outdoor swim pool, tennis courts and softball diamonds and have volunteers supervise them. We’ll put up non-discrimination signs and not charge for the use.

  28. CPRM

    Snow storm last night, drove most of the way home without issue, got stuck turning onto my own road. Fun. Luckily I got help from a passerby.

  29. Not Adahn

    Raining today. It’s not supposed to rain in December. Snow would be cool, I could take the dog out and let it romp. I do not want to deal with the aftermath of taking her to the park in the rain.

    • PieInTheSky

      it is raining here as well. I blame global warming

      • juris imprudent

        We’re supposed to break a record high for this date, from 1897.

    • limey

      SCOTCHGARD™️ the dog.

      [insert ‘Roll Safe’ meme gif]

  30. The Late P Brooks

    At the same time, the economic rebound is facing headwinds as the Delta variant spreads through the nation. Some states with low vaccination rates are experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases that could dissuade people from taking service jobs in restaurants and other jobs that involve exposure to the public.

    Texas’ failure to stem the COVID-19 surge in its state has led to nearly 72,000 job losses and an annualized decline in output of more than $13 billion, a recent study found. Fear of contracting COVID-19 is also leading to job losses in Texas as workers opt to stay home or must stay home to care for family members with the illness, the study noted.

    Fucking Texas. If only they had forced everybody to wear a mask, things would be booming. Booming, I say. Like Michigan.

    • rhywun

      Fear of contracting COVID-19

      I wonder where that came from.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      the economic rebound is facing headwinds

      A textbook example of agenda-driving spin, right there. They’re trying to impress on the reader that we’re in a recovery, so how do they align that with sagging numbers? Oh, it’s “facing headwinds”. That’s not “it’s a farce”, that’s not “it’s illusory”, that’s trying to paint the picture of the Biden economy as the little engine that could. The recovery is truth, and inconvenient facts are just a challenge to the will of the truth, not evidence of the falsity of the claim.

  31. PieInTheSky

    Wild Rabbit Sauce Pappardelle (Tuscan Fresh Pasta): Original vs. Gourmet with Valeria Piccini**

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGr0lHV9tmc

    I am unsure rabbit tartare is what want on pasta

    • Not Adahn

      Especially wild-caught.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    IMO, the masking shit is even more insulting and illogical than the vaxxing shit.

    Ab-so-fekkin-lutely.

    • ron73440

      IMO, the masking shit is even more insulting and illogical than the vaxxing shit.

      See my post above.

      Jim Breuer and his COVID parakeet bit is 100% accurate.

  33. Count Potato

    “Lego can be a better investment than gold, art and financial securities, according to a study.

    It found that the secondary market for old Lego sets surges by 11 per cent annually, faster than bullion, stocks, bonds, stamps and wine.

    The study even claimed that the value of old sets was rising during the 2008 financial crash.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10298967/Market-second-hand-Lego-rises-11-annually-faster-stocks-bonds-study-shows.html

    • CPRM

      Better sell my pet rock, Beanie Baby, comic book, baseball card and stamp collections and start buying Lego!

  34. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    I’m happy you are getting a little springtime! Yesterday was really our first taste of cold since we landed here. Wind chill of 15. Sunny and cool today, but I’ll take it.

    Sorry to hear about the ER visit. I hope it was for an erection lasting more than 4 hours.

    I didn’t realize George Mason was such a badass. I may have to do some reading on the guy – anyone have any recommendations?

    I like the Old Guy Music today. A nice song for sitting in an easy chair, enjoying the sun and a cup of coffee.

    What’s everyone doing today?

    • Fourscore

      I’ll get your next coffee, Tundra, I’m on the second cup now.

      Another funeral today, kid 2 years behind me in school but small towns and all, everyone knows everyone

      • Tundra

        Sorry to hear it. What’s the snow situation up there?

      • Fourscore

        We had 6 inches last Sat but its settled down , about 2-3 on the ground. Lakes should be ready for fishing, maybe snowmobiles but not F-150s yet.

      • Tundra

        My brother is in Plymouth and he sent me a pic this morning. Looks like they got about 8.

        It’s winter!

      • Festus

        Sorry about that. My cohort’s parents have been dropping like flies, lately. It comes for all of us, eventually.

    • Tulip

      It’s going to be70 here

  35. Not Adahn

    The one good thing about being trapped inside for the next few hours is I could make Kentucky coffee with a clear conscience.

      • Sensei

        Good Lord.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Where there’s no accountability, you can guarantee it will attract pervs like flies to shit.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I mean….he aint wrong amirite? What a sick fuck that guy is.

    • Not Adahn

      The catholic church has a thousand year head start, but CNN is catching up!

  36. juris imprudent

    will he get rid of the insanely unconstitutional 100-mile border zone?

    Bureaucrat-in-question: [blinks] But SCotUS said we could. [returns to expression of serene incompetence]

  37. Ownbestenemy

    The economy is so robust that we need to send our stimulus money. The fact they can run both those articles side by side and a large amount of people will nod their heads shows where and what resourses we have on the Risk map.

    • juris imprudent

      Ten bucks says he’s doing gay porn.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Global warming strikes again

    A powerful winter storm that will blow into Western Washington this weekend is poised to dump between 2 to 4 feet of snow in the mountains this weekend while the lowlands will see rain and gusty winds that could fell trees and bring down power lines.

    KOMO News meteorologist Shannon O’Donnell said the storm could be one of the strongest systems in recent memory.

    “This will be one of the biggest winter storms we’ve had in some time,” she said. “There is so much snow on deck.”

    Wax your shovel.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    The Pinkertons have blocked all the roads out of town!

    “In special cases — for example in a “company town” where labor mobility is restricted and there are just one or two employers — a labor union can counteract the monopsony power of the employer(s), resulting in more efficient resource allocation and a net benefit to society.”

    Totally legit analysis.

    • Not Adahn

      In Libertopia, there’d be no roads to block.

  40. DrOtto

    So monkey lady had 22 disturbing photos/videos on her phone of monkey abuse, and they only highlighted 3 to the judge. Is the old peanut butter trick so milquetoast these days that just got glossed over?

    • Festus

      58 genders, now.

  41. Festus

    That girl with the horn-braids? Gives ya sumpin’ to hold on to!

  42. Festus

    Oh feck, I always forget in these trying times that I actually need to work, tomorrow. Scrubbing the mission. Will nobody rid me of this vexatious client?

  43. Festus

    OMWC? That is my favorite JT album. That is all.

  44. Tulip

    How are you doing Ron? Still scheduled for release tomorrow?

    • ron73440

      Thanks for asking, going home after lunch today!

      This COVID stuff is inhuman.

      • Tulip

        Congrats on getting sprung! Hope you’re feeling better.

      • Tonio

        Glad you’re getting sprung.

      • westernsloper

        #metoo

        Sorry about the exploded balls.

      • ron73440

        Not as sorry as I am.

      • westernsloper

        Wait……..Festus was serious?

      • ron73440

        Kind of surgery led to “significant swelling”

        I’ll just leave it at that.

      • ron73440

        There should be a comma after Kind of.

    • ron73440

      If we do Gourmeltz again, but not too soon,hope I can make it.

      • EvilSheldon

        Yes!

  45. Gustave Lytton

    Multnomah Co DA is finally taking down those dastardly thugs who terrorized Portland and brought violence to the streets.

    https://www.opb.org/article/2021/12/09/violent-extremist-swinney-expresses-solidarity-with-chauvin-from-portland-jail/

    Good news is that the increased crime is being recognized. Better news is it’s all gun violence causing it… so let’s push our gun control that the stupid left leaning voters will eat up, like bigger government and more taxes. Hey, it’s not as high as what we left behind in Califuckingshitholia, so it’s alright?

    https://katu.com/news/local/better-portland-rally-to-end-violence-to-collect-signatures-for-gun-control-ballot-measures

    • ron73440

      They just want a better Portland, it’s in the name and everything.

      What kind of bigot could be against a better Portland?

      Obviously you want it to be worse and you need education.

      Reminds me of a campaign ad where the guy said he voted for a cleaner and more prosperous Virginia, so I wondered why the Republicans voted for a dirtier and poorer Virginia.

  46. westernsloper

    I didn’t know Winston’s Mom lived in the UK.

    • slumbrew

      No fixed address – just hotel room after hotel room.