Sunday Morning of Destruction Links

by | Feb 13, 2022 | Daily Links | 191 comments

OK, I’ll admit to being a bit more depressed than usual, but still, I feel the need to hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. Or more aptly, feeding a woodchipper. The Teams have an iron grip, and changing from one to the other won’t change a damn thing other than giving an illusion of change (what was the increase in debt from 2017-2021? Do we still have Obamacare? Has there been any slowdown in the growth of DHS, NSA, DEA, FBI,?). We’re just fucked. Gord has it right, and I pray that we’re not too far gone to really shake shit up. But I don’t think it’s going to happen, we’re far and away most likely to be past the point of no return. But at least the Canadians have shown that you can engender at least a minor degree of hesitancy, and you can show unambiguously the corruption, evil, and stupidity of our “leaders.” So we got that goin’ for us. Which is nice.

Speaking of nice, the inevitable birthdays include a guy who always makes me hungry when I read his stuff; someone whose example should have been followed by every First Lady; the greatest American artist, in both senses of that phrase; a mixed bag, but generally a good guy on the Supreme Court (who, in his favor, despised Hugo Black); a guy who, before he went coocoo for Cocoa Puffs, was solid; a guy who fit right in to the Chicago mayoral traditions; a guy who provided fodder for Tom Wolfe; one of the few women who didn’t fuck Captain Kirk; a musician whose lionization I still don’t understand; a pitcher who took losing very seriously; a guy who is famous because… actually, it escapes me; and a decent wide receiver, but no Jerry Rice.

Whatever, there’s Links.

 

I am making a prediction about the next sudden and mysterious accidental death.

 

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— for ever.”

 

Moving-not-moving.

 

And in that vein, here’s an all-out pathos attack, complete with “food insecurity” slogans.

 

That is one enormous fucking sixth grader.

 

My next business venture- chicken masks.

 

Every once in a while, Rand Paul says something that pleases me.

 

Old Guy Music is nuts. An all-star band from 1975, here doing Chick Corea’s Spain, with Chick at the piano and Bill Watrous on trombone, not to mention Stanley Clarke, Hubert Laws, George Benson, and Lennie White. Watrous was SP’s favorite (she’s a trombonist) and a surefire guarantee that you weren’t going to be the dorkiest looking person on the stage.

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191 Comments

  1. Not Adahn

    Peter Gabriel >> Henry Rollins

    • Tres Cool

      Peter Murphy > Peter Gabriel

      • Sean

        That really cuts me up.

    • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

      Bruno Mars > Peter Gabriel. Hell, Billie Ilish >>>> Peter Gabriel.

      Contemplate that on the tree of woe.

  2. CPRM

    I would like to thank Dana Snyder for graciously viewing our fine site and saying some words after I paid him. Glibertarian to the core, he is.

    • Tres Cool

      If he enjoys our little group its must be genuine. I doubt you paid extra for false accolades.

    • Not Adahn

      whores provide valuable services!

      • Chafed

        Damn straight!

    • R.J.

      I missed last night’s post due to a late party. Thanks for everything you do! I lurked for about three years before I finally commented, then contributed by posting. Seeing all the effort you and others put into the site made me want to post.

      • Chafed

        Keep it up RJ. I would never have seen The Hebrew Hammer if it wasn’t for you.

      • DEG

        Yes.

      • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

        One of my wife’s and I’s first dates was a Halloween party, where I went as the Hebrew Hammer.

      • Chafed

        ?

      • Tonio

        Thank you for all your work for the site, RJ. You Glibs know him through GlibFit but he’s working on some behind-the-scenes editorial things as well. Much appreciated.

  3. Not Adahn

    Ah so that’s where DHS got their “reports” of truckers blockading the super bowl.

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Among the accusations leveled at that time was that suspicious DNS lookups by Russian-affiliated IP addresses “demonstrated Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations,” the motion reportedly said.

    The Putin Party Line!

  5. Ted S.

    someone whose example should have been followed by every First Lady;

    Happy birthday Budd Dwyer?

    • Not Adahn

      Nah, Mrs. Hartman.

  6. Not Adahn

    My next business venture- chicken masks.

    I think SIV is already on that gig. Ballgags count as masks, right?

    • Chafed

      We need a ruling from Creosote Achilles.

    • CPRM

      Damn straight. But it was an errant whistle they said, and that ended the play. There was a play somewhere this season that went the opposite way, the ref accidently blew his whistle and the defense stopped, but they counted the resulting touchdown. Proffesionals.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Pulleeeeeeeeeeeaze.

        Grandaddy Victim of all bad calls Nate Wright laughs at your pitiful whining. Not only did Nate get pushed from behind by the coward Drew Pearson, he also got jobbed the play before where they said the receiver would have come down in bounds on a fourth down play.

        * The Hail Mary fiasco scarred a young Jimbo who still believed in the Vikes back in ’75.

      • Fourscore

        Roger Staubach says Hello., PJ. I saw that game on my 14 ” RCA TV, first TV of color I had. I lived in TX at the time but was a pseudo Vikings fan.

      • Lackadaisical

        I think that is how the Bengals got here, or something.

        But yeah, top notch officiating.

    • MikeS

      The Packers lost. Get over it.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    Since these independent grocers tend to have fewer resources and smaller budgets, they’re more affected by changes in price, which increase as supply dwindles. They’re also often in suburban, rural or Indigenous communities in Canada where they serve as one of the few or only sources of groceries.

    “Independent grocers tend to be in communities where many times there’s not a chain retailer, they’re the only game in town, so when there are supply chain issues, it becomes more acute,” said Gary Sands, senior vice president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, or CFIG. “It can quickly become an issue of food security.”

    Something something if they can’t cut it they don’t deserve to be in business. They should sell out to a megagrocer with the proper resources.

    • Not Adahn

      I had no idea you wrote for the Washington Post.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    The trucker convoy blockade on the Ambassador Bridge is exacerbating an already tenuous situation for the roughly 6,900 independent grocers that exist across Canada, according to the CFIG. It’s yet another blow to an industry already under strain from the ongoing pandemic and broader supply chain issues.

    It’s different when the government shuts them down. It’s for their own good.

    • CPRM

      The Government is doing it for your own good, the ‘Truckers’ (Russian Spies!) are doing it because Putin! But they are all unskilled, and unneeded, so them not doing their job doesn’t really matter, because reasons.

      “You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain.” – Ivan The Terrible

  9. The Late P Brooks

    You know- morons

    The United States denied Moscow’s claim Saturday that an American submarine was conducting operations in Russian territorial waters, breaking international law as tensions are high amid a possible invasion of Ukraine.

    “There is no truth to the Russian claims of our operations in their territorial waters,” U.S. Navy Capt. Kyle Raines, a spokesperson for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said, according to Reuters. “I will not comment on the precise location of our submarines but we do fly, sail, and operate safely in international waters.”

    Vladimir Putin’s government claimed the submarine ignored commands from the Russian navy via sonar to surface near the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean early Saturday, forcing it to chase the U.S. vessel away using unnamed “appropriate means,” the Navy Times reported.

    Keep it up. Keep pushing.

    • CPRM

      *Pushes up Navy Issued Glasses* Well, acshully…

    • R C Dean

      “we do fly, sail, and operate safely”

      Sometimes, anyway.

      • Mustang

        *glares at 7th Fleet*

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      There is no truth to the Russian claims of our operations in their territorial waters,”

      “Our sub was near the Chishima Islands in Japanese waters.”

  10. Mustang

    Yes, it’s all the truckers’ fault those poor indigenous grocers can’t stock their shelves. They’re just doing it out of hate. When government does it, it’s out of love.

    I can’t seem to stop rolling my eyes. Help!

    • DEG

      Sounds like you need to visit MiniLuv.

  11. Fourscore

    “Independent grocers tend to be in communities where …..”

    See, Malthus was right, just for the wrong reason. Not even Jeff Bezos can solve the problem. Society has grown to be so complex and the government can get it screwed up in a heartbeat.

  12. The Late P Brooks

    “we do fly, sail, and operate safely”

    We mostly only ram our own ships. Mostly. And the Kamikaze landings…

    • CPRM

      It takes BILLIONS in research to crash as cool as the F-35.

    • The Gunslinger

      And burn them up in port…

    • westernsloper

      BGAAAAAAK!

      • Pope Jimbo

        ? I thought we were supposed to be sea lions or something?

      • Fourscore

        See lions? You’ve got to be kidding. Bobcats, maybe?

        Pour me one of those, Jimbo, out of the big bottle. No, the other one, the brown stuff.

      • Penguin

        Sea Lions? I’m offended.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Climatepocalypse

    The current record for the highest temperature during a Super Bowl is 84 degrees set in 1973, a game that was also played in Los Angeles. However, it looks like this year’s game might pull off a quarterback sneak past that mark.
    The forecast high temperature for Los Angeles on Sunday is 84 degrees. In Inglewood, the site of the Super Bowl, the forecast high temperature is 82 degrees. This means cracking the top 3 hottest Super Bowls on record is almost a certainty.

    REPENT. The end is nigh.

    • Old Man With Candy

      If the trend continues and the Super Bowl ends up being played in June after a 27 week season plus two extra rounds of wild cards (i.e., losers), that record is definitely going to fall.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        The 1973 Super Bowl was 1 full month earlier than this one, yet that appears nowhere in the article. That’s some real journalism by CNN.

    • CPRM

      The Super Bowl played the latest in the year in a warm location may be in the TOP 3 HOTTEST! #CLIMATEDISASTER!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe they should have asked Punxatawny Phil

    State officials said at a news conference Friday that now is not the time to remove Oregon’s masking mandate given the current levels of coronavirus transmission, test positivity rates and hospitalizations.

    But they said they are comfortable with their previously announced plan to lift the indoor masking mandate by the end of March because of current disease trends and modeling that predicts lifting the mandate at that time will not lead to significant outbreaks.

    ——-

    Peter Graven, lead data scientist at Oregon Health and Science University, released his weekly COVID modeling update Thursday. It forecasts coronavirus hospitalizations declining to about 400 in seven weeks. His early projections of omicron’s peak hospitalization proved wildly inaccurate – nearly three times the actual peak – though he subsequently revised them sharply downward and said Oregonians’ behavior and compliance with COVID protocols had significantly reduced the surge.

    The projections released Thursday showed that if Oregon were to lift the mask mandate, hospitalization numbers would go back up to 1,127. But that forecast appeared to be out of date already, as actual hospitalizations have already fallen well below the starting point of that projection.

    “If not for us and our beneficent good judgement, you’d all be dead.”

    • rhywun

      When you’re authorianisming harder than New York, you know something’s off.

      • rhywun

        *insert missing syllable or two*

      • Chafed

        Sounds right to me.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      His progjections have been off many times throughout and none of the local media will nail his and OHA’s ass to the wall. When it’s been wrong, they just go oh, it’s just for planning purposes, it’s not intended to be predictive.

      The state “epidemiologist” is a pediatrician. This joker is a “health economist”.

      https://ohsu-psu-sph.org/faculty-directory/name/peter-graven/

      • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

        Yeah, I was driving around the capital, Salem, yesterday and doing various business transactions, no one gave a shit I was unmasked, most people wearing them pulled them down below the nose, etc. The whole thing is a joke at this point, gov. Clown is nowhere to be seen, even in Portland it’s no longer freakout worthy to be without one. Corvallis will be the last to fall, right after downtown Eugene.

  15. rhywun

    Ottawa is a small city, with about one million residents, and has a police force to match, with fewer than 1,500 officers. That comes to one officer for every 667 residents, a far cry from New York City, with one officer for every 233 people.

    Translation: Don’t get any fancy ideas, New Yorkers.

    • CPRM

      How Many Correctional Officers Does It Take to Staff Jails?

      As of the most recent census in 2005, BJS estimated the ratio of inmates to correctional officers in state prisons nationwide was 4.9 to 1, or about 10 officers for every 49 inmates. For federal prisons, BJS put the ratio at 10.3 to 1.

      • rhywun

        If they get serious about “fully up-to-date” with jabs, they might just do that.

        A lot of people are noping right out of the boosters, it seems.

    • Tonio

      So that’s a municipal police force. If they are anything like DC there are also various specialized federal police forces, ie Capitol Police, Supreme Court Police, etc.

      Also, there must be an RCMP unit assigned to that area, and there may also be provincial police.

  16. Trigger Hippie

    “This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution.”

    Possibly, Donny. Then nothing else happened.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    “Rights”

    Immunocompromised kids have a right to stay safe at school. That’s the argument in a new filing asking a federal judge to block Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s order to lose masks in the classroom, claiming it violates students’ civil rights.

    The ACLU of Virginia is asking a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order against the governor’s order to lift the mask mandate, arguing it keeps schools from complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    Two of the immunocompromised kids behind the ACLU’s federal lawsuit live in Loudoun and Fairfax counties and are hoping for a ruling in their favor.

    “Our clients, who all wear masks regularly, need other people around them to wear masks as well in order to keep them protected,” said Kaitlin Banner, who is on the legal team guiding the ACLU of Virginia.

    I’ve been thinking. It’s not fair that blind people can’t get driver’s licenses. They have rights, too.

    • CPRM

      People allergic to daylight have rights to. That candle maker guy might have been on to something…

    • Pope Jimbo

      What about students in wheelchairs and their right to make the varsity basketball team? Has anyone thought about them?

      Our clients, who all spend their entire day in a wheelchair, need other basketball players around them to be in a wheelchair as well in order to make them competitive.

      • The Last American Hero

        What about students of average height and mediocre athletic ability?

    • rhywun

      JFC.

    • Tonio

      Glenn Youngkin’s order to lose masks in the classroom…

      IIRC the executive order was to lift the mask mandates that many government schools had imposed, and allow parents to make their own choices about masks.

    • Lackadaisical

      Put all the bubble babies into one classroom. Problem solved.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Couldn’t the immunocompromised kids wear N95 masks?

      • Chafed

        How will that help smash the patriarchy?

    • EvilSheldon

      If your immune system is that damaged, then you need to be in clinical care.

  18. CPRM

    If anyone is willing to host Glibserbowl Zoom tonight, I’m down. We’re switching our schedule structure at work to accommodate for being low staffed, because Joe Biden’s Economy is Amazeballs; so I found out only 2 days ago I have today off.

  19. Don escaped Texas

    I don’t know TPTB structure; I don’t know who was there or who is in charge of Glib history. The best things at TOS suddenly went away, and someone was kind enough to point me here soon after. Suddenly, most things were better, and it’s been an oasis on good days and tolerable on bad.

    The Teams have an iron grip, and changing from one to the other won’t change a damn thing other than giving an illusion of change (what was the increase in debt from 2017-2021? Do we still have Obamacare? Has there been any slowdown in the growth of DHS, NSA, DEA, FBI,?).

    Exactly…except I caught a lot of grief from some Glibs for pointing out just this. No matter the alternatives, Trump proved he was a clown daily and in every way. I was told that part of the Glib movement was to escape TDS at TOS….okay, could be, I can’t write that history, but I didn’t vote for Hillary or Biden either: it’s okay to yell when a clown gets his face grease on you. I remember Juvenile Bluster trying to reconcile it all and giving up and going away: there was nothing to reconcile, JB; you’re not a bad guy for not sucking that glorious Trump cock. Assertive conservatarians get their say, but, like at Boy Scouts or church, they act like they own the place and everyone who says they’re wrong is paving the way for Stalin to cross the Rio Grande. Funny, on some occasions I have been told here that left/right isn’t helping….uh, yeah: I’ve known that (and written about that) instinctively from a much younger age than most; I would never make that point. We’re fucked, but the Republican fucking is better! Could be, but they’re still a shortbus full of unprincipled opportunists, same as the others.

    We’re just fucked. Yes, let’s just stick with and agree on this. Happy birthday, Glibs.

    • Trigger Hippie

      Great rant! I gave up on the Republican party in 2006 and haven’t voted for either major party since. We all know what colors our states shades in particular areas. Our votes means fuck all. Even if they did it has become abundantly clear over the last few years that our elected representatives are just window dressing for a cabal of competing crime syndicates acting under the guise of legality.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Any support I had for Trump was driven mainly by the actions of the Dems and Media to bring him down.

      I agree wholeheartedly that the man is a clown. Still he was an elected clown.

      But yeah, I do agree that we are fucked. Even if there was some sort of major defeat for the Deep State, the $30T national debt is absolutely going to hamstring any small govt reformers who might get some power. And when things get shitty because of the reforms you know who will get the blame.

    • R C Dean

      I would say Trump proved ineffective at his main purpose – “draining the swamp”. But I think he may have proven its impossible to do so – its too big and too powerful, because it’s not just pubsecs within the precincts of DC, it’s the crony capitalists, the Tech Lords, the dominant media/entertainment complex, academia, etc.

      So, yeah, we’re fucked. Real reform isn’t possible, so that leaves, collapse/revolution.

      • Fourscore

        “draining the swamp”

        Jesse Ventura learned quickly.

        Let’s have light rail and more money for schools. Both ideas have proved to be what we needed.

        /sarc

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Maybe a person here and there standing up does make an impact.

        We would never had the best president in US history, Donald Trump, without one of the worst Presidents, Obama.

        Guess what will happen after America became a banana republic and el presidente Biden was installed in the White House? I bet we get Presidents that are even more on the side of America.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      The world doesn’t have to be so black and white. I’m in the camp of one-party rule with most of the GOP playing the role of controlled opposition. I don’t need “suck glorious Trump cock” to recognize that the elites didn’t consider Trump part of their insider club and to enjoy when he pissed them off. It doesn’t make Trump a libertarian savior, but he was also different in that McCain, McConnell, etc. is no different than Hilary or Biden.

      JB hurled nasty insults at several Glibs, and left with his panties in a twist when anyone dared disagreed with his position that all true libertarians believe X.

      • Raven Nation

        TBF, there was personal stuff going on with JB that he talked about when he briefly returned. No one should have been surprised when he left again. I’m not defending nor attacking JB, just saying there were other factors .

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I agree with that. Just pointing out to Don that his characterization of JB being driven away by the horde of Glib trump lovers is, to put generously, idealistic at best.

      • KSuellington

        This ^^^

        Trump served a purpose and he indeed ultimately failed at most of what he claimed he wanted to do. I think almost everyone here realized he was no savior. Some were more taken by his being a symbolic middle finger to the existing power structure. For me, he was an improvement on the Bush, McCain, Romney Republicanism, which isn’t saying much, but at least is a step or two in a couple right directions. It took a long time to build up the existing power structure, and Trump’s greatest triumph was his ability to see this deep current of dissatisfaction and harness it. Now it’s up to others to take up the next battles.

      • Gustave Lytton ????

        Trump’s greatest triumph was his ability to see this deep current of dissatisfaction and harness it

        He also had or seemed to have actual pride in this country and wasn’t ashamed of it. How much of it was his blustering showmanship is debatable, but there again, he seemed to understand that being president was a role to be played as well. I’d say most in my lifetime think of it as just an achievement and once they had the title, they can sit back and cruise.

      • KSuellington

        There seemed to me to be a pretty wide cross-section of opinion among the Glibs on TDog. From Don, OMWC, and others who had no use for him and viewed him as a carnival barker who didn’t deliver any reduction at all in the Federal leviathan to others who also viewed him as a loudmouth showman but that was moving some things in the right direction. It seemed like most, myself included, fell somewhere in the middle of those two opinions of him. I want absolutely no part of him running for any elected office (outside the mayorship of Palm Beach maybe), but at least will give him credit for pushing Team Red in a different direction. I don’t view any politicians as saviors , but I’d much rather see someone like DeSantis as the leading contender for the Republicans than fucking Mittens.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Trump got out there and did something about the wrong direction he felt America was headed. He sacrificed his time and health to shake up the status quo in D.C.

        The big reason why that was important to maybe saving America from bloodletting Civil War 2.0 is that most people are Sheeple and follow others. Trump became the rallying point and showed Americans that was can still peacefully defeat the Commie Democrats. That window is closing and it requires effort by many more Americans to stop the Democrats.

        Honestly, the people who don’t like what Trump did in 4 years just reinforces that he did a good job. I dont trust those people’s opinions because their criticisms lack support to convince anyone else.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Trump didnt claim that he only wanted to do 1 thing. Trump is the best US President in history for multiple reasons.

        Trump did multiple things including expose how corrupt Democrats are to so many Americans that a tide has turned. Either its enough to scale back the Communists trying to destroy America or we can finally get this Civil War 2.0 over with.

        RINOs like McConnell are fine with stealing from American taxpayers and spending his career in Congress. They think that they can contain Communism in America and all will be fine.

        One of Trump’s goals was to cause Commies in American govt to out themselves as Communists. Trump still needed Americans to wake up and do something about it. They are.

    • Tonio

      Thanks, Don, and everyone else, for being here and commenting. And extra big thanks to everyone who contributes articles, fiction, artwork, etc.

      Here is a synopsis of the founding of Glibs.

      • Fourscore

        Thanks Tonio, it’s good to be reminded of the history of the Glibs. I was lurker at TOS for a couple years, having grown up (glib style) as a long time Reason Magazine subscriber. It was a disappointment to see them moving away from what I had learned and believed in. I lurked here for a long time too.

  20. Pope Jimbo

    Local proggie web site has jaw dropping story about the VAERS system. The reason it is so amazing is that it complains about rubes getting too worked up the numbers in VAERS with regards to the vax using the same arguments that people have used in regards to Rona deaths!

    While VAERS reports are publicly available for anyone to read, they really aren’t designed for consumption by the masses.

    One of the biggest problems for regular people trying to make sense of VAERS data is mistaking correlation (two events that have something in common – such as happening to the same person within a certain timeframe) with causation (the idea that one of the events caused the other).

    Just because someone has a heart attack or gets into a car crash after going to the Mall of America doesn’t mean their health event or crash happened because they went to the Mall of America, said Dan Huff, assistant MDH commissioner, in last week’s committee hearing.

    Likewise, when something happens after a vaccine, it’s hard to know whether or not it was because they got the vaccine.

    A certain number of people across the population are likely to get a fever, have a heart attack or die every day. Complex data analysis done by the CDC and other researchers — far beyond what the average citizen looking at VAERS reports can do – is required to determine whether incidents of these things happening post-vaccine rise to a level higher than what would be expected to happen at a baseline level in the population.

    “What we have to see is, is there a link between the vaccine [and the event] or is it just something that would have happened anyway,” Huff said.

    Another way to think about it: Out of the U.S. population of roughly 330 million people, an average of 3 million or so people are expected to die every year, said Gorski — of old age, in car crashes, of disease or of other causes. That’s about 8,000 people per day. So if 1,000 people were reported to have died within 30 days post-vaccination, that would be significantly lower than the number expected by natural chances alone.

    “A few months ago, [some people] were claiming that 20,000 died after the vaccine. That’s actually a small number compared to the baseline,” Gorski said.

    In Minnesota, roughly 45,000 people died in 2019. VAERS has 435 reports of death in people who had received a COVID-19 vaccination, half which were reported in people in their 80s and up, a population that is statistically more likely to die on any given day.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Sorry about that wall of text, but I just couldn’t cut any of it out. It was all too good.

      Don’t worry, though, the writer has some good advice for you.

      Because of the many limitations of VAERS, experts caution against lay people using it to draw any conclusions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.

      Instead, it’s better to think of VAERS as an effort to collect data widely about potential vaccine side-effects as part of a bigger effort by experts to understand vaccine safety.

      A much more reliable source of vaccine safety information is the CDC’s page on “serious adverse events of interest,” which lists potential side effects of the COVID-19 under investigation, including rare instances of blood clots with the J&J vaccine and cases of myocarditis (also rare, and more common with COVID-19 infection than with the vaccine).

      • westernsloper

        The only thing you need to know about VAERS is that it was proven to only catch 1% of adverse events. The CDC was offered a better system to track adverse events and they declined.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

        It is intentionally deficient so that they can justify ignoring the data it does collect.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Yep, VAERS is unreliable, but it’s unreliable because it significantly underreports actual adverse events.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The absolutely enraging part of this is the CDC and FDA’s steadfast refusal to perform any analysis on the data. They pretend it doesn’t exist or that it’s meaningless, in which case they’re not in compliance with the law because VAERS is a legally required component of the vaccine program.

      Not will they debate anyone on the data and what it means. It is simply argument by assertion and go fuck yourselves.

      • Ghostpatzer

        The data analysis will commence once they have figured out how to massage the data to fit the proper conclusions. It’s not as if this hasn’t been done before.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Or as the DOD is demonstrating, they will just change it.

  21. rhywun

    “Fact check: The NYT isn’t reporting any scandal. Verdict: False.”

    • rhywun

      *sigh* That was a reply to Donald’s quote above.

      I think I need more sleep.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    A much more reliable source of vaccine safety information is the CDC’s page

    Stop it. You’re killing me.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Accept our conclusions. Do not question us.

      • rhywun

        We have models. Models!

      • DEG

        Better models.

      • The Last American Hero

        WTF 2021?

      • rhywun

        Yeah I had to suspect that Ghost stopped at 2013 for a reason.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I’ll point out again that Pfizer’s 6 month trials showed a greater difference in the mortality rate from cardiac arrest among the vaxed group vs. unvaxed than from Covid in the unvaxed vs. vaxed. I.e., more people are dying of cardiac arrest in the six months following vaccine administration (compared with the unvaxxed group) than unvaccinated people are dying from Covid.

  23. robodruid

    So, while i am not one to drive traffic to a particular website….

    https://www.huffpost.com/

    The image of Biden looking stern and Putin looking cowered is amusing.

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Putin looking cowered is amusing.’

      I interpreted that look as thinking: “How much longer must I suffer this senile puppet?”

  24. The Late P Brooks

    It’s just simple economics 101

    President Biden was delivered a blow this week amid the news that inflation is rising and showing no signs of slowing down.

    The consumer price index rose 7.5 percent annually by the end of January, the fastest rate since 1982.

    Consumer spending has returned to pre-pandemic levels, but the rush of demand, lack of supply, and labor shortages and shipping bottlenecks have caused high inflation to linger.

    Let’s blame the Canadian Nazi Party.

    • Urthona

      If only Republicans let him spend more.

    • SDF-7

      It isn’t like the modern economy isn’t heavily driven by the cost of energy and the burden of regulatory compliance and he made all of that dramatically worse or anything…. total coinky-dink….

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      “President Biden was delivered a blow”

      Poor guy. He’s the victim here.

  25. SDF-7

    Haven’t posted a lot (I know, not like I normally do) because I just haven’t felt like I had anything to contribute — but first, condolences on the passing of Wonder Dog. My last pup passed nigh unto 10 years ago now, I think… haven’t gotten a new one yet, but still miss her.

    From the Rand Paul article, love the completely-not-biased-at-all reporting:

    Paul’s feelings toward the trucker convoy are much different than his sentiments about Black Lives Matter protests in recent years. After a crowd of D.C. protesters in 2020 yelled at Paul to say the name of Breonna Taylor, who was shot by police in Louisville, the senator claimed his “life was in danger” and denounced Black Lives Matter demonstrators as a “crazed mob.”

    Funny, that’s not how I remember it being reported.
    And it isn’t like BLM and Antifa were actively beating people up at the time, like they hadn’t been assaulting political opponents since 2016 (*cough* looking at you, San Jose….), etc. It was just a polite group asking that he “say her name”… suuuure….

    And while I should probably thread it — a quick response to the whole teams thing and Don above (comment 21) — yeah, the Republicans suck… but at least they’re willing to mouth platitudes towards freedom and don’t seem as likely to empower the damned crazies on the left who have taken over the Donks over the last few years. I’d personally love *actual* freaking constitutional fiscal conservatives to come back — but they made damned sure to co-opt the Tea Party movement to prevent that from happening, and since then I’m pretty sure that this falls into the “the type of person who’d do that, sure as hell wouldn’t run these days” scenario.

    Regarding Trump — my personal opinion (and only that) is that it was nice to get a politician who was in the “Don’t apologize camp” and at least pretended to listen to the rest of the country outside the Coasts and the Bubbles. He apparently hired almost nothing but moles, crooks or deep state apparatchiks which hampered him a great deal (yes, I know — the type of people with “qualifications” for the jobs are already part of the system — frankly, I think forming a pool by plucking names out of a phone book and then interviewing them would have been better). And being a 90’s Donk at heart, he apparently was perfectly fine with throwing insane amounts of other generation’s money at things. I am not happy about the debt increases — nor was I happy when GWB did it at the time. Frankly, I’m more pleased about the Dems not having enough sense and savvy to wheedle more “bipartisan compromises” out of him that would have probably brought us “Build Back Better” four years early. I suspect that could have, if they fluffed his ego.

    • rhywun

      Paul’s feelings toward the trucker convoy are much different than his sentiments about Black Lives Matter protests in recent years.

      That’s pretty rich what with even the MSM beginning to show some interest in revealing what a scam BLM was the whole time.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Are the truckers’ asking for reparations?

    • Count Potato

      Didn’t Paul name a bill after Breonna Taylor?

    • Zwak, holding the spinal column of JFK wrapped in Marilyn Monroes neglegie

      You nail my opinion of Trump to a T. It isn’t about team red v. blue, it is about liberty, and dragging the country back to a foundation of that. We libertarians, big L or small l, can no longer sit on our high horses and bitch and moan about the country going to shit. We need to set the course, as much as possible, and right now the Right is at least sniffing around our back door. And, we also need to remember that the left, when the inevitable comes and is on the outs, will do the same thing.

      We don’t have anything like the numbers to get our preferred people into place on a grand scale, but we can, and should, work to getting our ideas being a greater norm.

  26. Yusef drives a Kia

    Raise a glass!
    My Wendy left this hellhole for better pastures 2 years ago today,
    And I’m still stuck here,

    • Trigger Hippie

      Cheers! Be well, Uncle Bob.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        I always loved the implications of being “Uncle Bob”
        /Cheers!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Prosit! To good memories!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Skol friend.

      At kveldi skal dag leyfa,
      konu, er brennd er,
      mæki, er reyndr er,
      mey, er gefin er,
      ís, er yfir kemr,
      öl, er drukkit er.

      Praise day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when ’tis crossed, and ale when ’tis drunk

  27. The Late P Brooks

    The Biden administration has argued for months that inflation isn’t here to stay, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki stressed again on Friday the they think “inflation will come down, will moderate over the course of the year.”

    When asked what the White House is doing to combat inflation, Psaki pointed to efforts to address supply chains, rebuild manufacturing infrastructure, implement the bipartisan infrastructure law and continue to promote competition.

    “Trust us. we’ll have the economy running like a we oiled machine, just as soon as we get compete control of it. We have a whole stable full of Top Men. And Women, too.”

    • rhywun

      continue to promote competition

      I can’t even.

    • R C Dean

      “address supply chains, rebuild manufacturing infrastructure, implement the bipartisan infrastructure law”

      That’s sure a long way around to “borrow and spend trillions”. A sure fire inflation antidote.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Somehow, none of that sounds like leaving us alone and letting voluntary individual transactions lead us out of this mess.

      • Fourscore

        As insidious as inflation is on a daily basis it’s also a destruction of savings. That rainy day fund depreciates at the same rate as the inflation.

        If I was saving for a new truck I’ll have to save the 7.5% I just lost all over again. It’s the depreciation of the money in your pocket

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Are the truckers’ asking for reparations?

    Are they firebombing courthouses?

  29. The Late P Brooks

    “address supply chains, rebuild manufacturing infrastructure, implement the bipartisan infrastructure law”

    These things are much too important to be left to the so-called free market.

    *Waiting eagerly for the triumphant return of the unironic use of the term “natural monopoly”.

  30. Ghostpatzer

    “Chicken producers warn about fast-spreading bird flu spreading across US”

    Well, let’s just vaccinate all the chickens against this flu. And while we’re at, throw in a COVID jab, can’t be too careful. Everybody eats chicken, so everyone will be vaxxed! Except for vegans, but who cares?

    • Fourscore

      Roosters get boosters!

      • Tundra

        Cocks get pricks?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Union-Man-in-Chief

    President Biden will travel to Cleveland and Lorain, Ohio, on Thursday, Feb. 17, to promote the bipartisan infrastructure law in the state, the White House announced Saturday.

    Biden plans to speak with Ohio constituents about how the law “delivers for the American people by rebuilding roads and bridges, upgrading water systems, cleaning up the environment, and creating good-paying, union jobs,” per the White House.

    This trip comes as Biden’s approval ratings sink and after his massive climate and social spending bill, the White House’s top legislative priority, was essentially killed in the Senate when Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) announced he would not vote for it.

    He should be delivering that message in a Starbucks.

  32. hayeksplosives

    Henry fucking Rollins in “He Never Died”.

    Do recommend.

    Kind of horror/comedy/drama.

  33. hayeksplosives

    I love Randy Moss. He sounds like a redneck when he talks about his love for going back to his redneck roots in West Virginia to go fishing.

    Also, he is spot on with his observations on football teams and what they are doing right and wrong.

    • Tundra

      Me too.

      He’s far and away my favorite receiver of all time.

    • Fourscore

      “Where are the vixens?”

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      What did I just watch?
      A billion views as well,

      • Ownbestenemy

        You never seen that? Oh God was that played constantly by my kids

    • Ghostpatzer

      Been a while since I heard that one. A red fox has taken up residence in the woods behind my house, if I’m up early enough I’m all see him (her?) running around. Has significantly culled the chipmunk population. Every time I see that fox, I get this earworm.

      • Ted S.

        Every time I see that red fox, I think of raunchy humor.

      • hayeksplosives

        Holy cow.

        I would never have expected such a terrible attempt at humor to exist. Now I must find the movie itself…

  34. Ownbestenemy

    Either the truckers aren’t numerous and are just a fringe section and articles like the hurting independent grocer is exaggerated bullshit or, they are lying just like their cuck daddies in the government.

  35. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Sorry you aren’t feeling it today.

    a guy who is famous because… actually, it escapes me

    He wrote an absolutely terrific essay on lifting.

    And Black Flag was good for awhile.

    All I got.

    • Count Potato

      Rollins Band was good too. So was his spoken word stuff.

    • KSuellington

      Thanks for the essay link, good stuff indeed.

  36. DEG

    Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House in order to link Donald Trump to Russia, a bombshell new legal filing alleges.

    He should have wiped them with a cloth.

    The World Health Organization’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, said on Friday that the world was not yet at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as there would be more coronavirus variants.

    Fauci saw his shadow.

    Small grocery stores in Canada that depend on the United States for all kinds of foods, from fruits and vegetables to cereal, are starting to feel the strain of the trucker protest that has led to the partial blockade of a major border crossing between Canada and the United States.

    Given the border crossing rules for truckers, they’d probably feel a strain without the protests.

    Indiana on Wednesday reported highly pathogenic bird flu on a commercial turkey farm, leading China, South Korea and Mexico to ban poultry imports from the state. The outbreak put the US industry on edge at a time that labor shortages are fueling food inflation.

    LOCK EVERYTHING DOWN OR YOU WANT GRANDMA TO DIE!!!!1111!!!!

    Yet when Paul was asked about his thoughts on the convoy and the potential for it to spill over into Los Angeles, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl, or into Washington D.C., he said “it’d be great” if the anti-mandate demonstrators came to the United States to “clog things up.”

    Folks were talking about that on the trucker protest group I’m in. But it looks like nothing will happen until March in the US.

    • Ownbestenemy

      March is just too late. It will have been infiltrated and probably become a corporate movement by then.

      • Urthona

        It’s already too late to bother. I’m comfortable just letting the few places still locked down suffer.

        This should’ve happened a year ago.

      • rhywun

        Rally for Mandates?

      • KSuellington

        By May there will be a Disney movie out about a cute biracial kid who is out to find his dad who didn’t know he existed. His mother died and the kid was sent to terrible redneck foster parents who were only in it for the money. So he sets off on a cross country adventure that has him almost cross paths with his trucker father until the end where they meet at the trucker protest in DC. The final scene is him, his father and the President working out a deal to end the protest by giving everyone universal healthcare.

      • rhywun

        LOL that is terrifyingly plausible

      • KSuellington

        I’m still working on the treatment, but the working title so far is “Honk”. There will be gratuitous Canadian goose tie ins to help with the merchandising.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Make the boy transgender for a few more diversity points.

    • Gustave Lytton ????

      labor shortages are fueling food inflation

      Right…

      • Urthona

        Well I’m sure it’s a small part of it

      • Ownbestenemy

        Pin it on anything but government policy. TMITE

  37. Ownbestenemy

    Hahaha! I know what will convince our remaining 150 people who watch us, we will equate Joe Rogan and his use of “the N word” to Jan6.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/us/joe-rogan-n-word-blake-cec/index.html

    What desperate and screwed up minds those people have. It’s coffee time and prepping wings for later. Pulled pork dinished last night and it was good. Used Bobby Flays receipe but I did a whisky brine.

    • rhywun

      Rogan breached a civic norm that has held America together since World War II. It’s an unspoken agreement that we would never return to the kind of country we used to be.

      Literally worse than Hitler.

      • Plinker762

        Joe is putting them back into chains.

  38. kinnath

    Not Chick Corea, but I do like some George Benson.

    • kinnath
  39. Yusef drives a Kia

    My kitten has decided to chew on my speaker cables and other assorted wiring, I have never seen a cat do this,
    usually just doggos.

    • hoof_in_mouth

      My cat is a menace. USB cables and especially headphone wires, he’s probably into me for at least $100. Had to switch to armored stuff.

    • rhywun

      I am happy to know he can not do this to someone else

      Oh, hon…. Who’s going to tell her?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Prevented for a few hours?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      To be fair, they did get rid of the nut.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Nah, they were there yesterday.

      • Count Potato

        OK

  40. rhywun

    That is one enormous fucking sixth grader.

    Yeah, WTF is up with that?!

    • Fourscore

      Well, for a 19 year old that’s not so big

      • rhywun

        That gal is bigger than I am. I’d be terrified if I was 12 years old and had to be in a classroom with her.

  41. Aloysious

    Henry Rollins did quite well, I thought, in He Never Died, a slow paced drama about a social outcast type of dude who turns out to be [redacted] who [redacted] and surprisingly [redacted]. On a scale of one to ten, I gave it a seven.

    • hayeksplosives

      I looove that movie.

      Your comments are spot on.

  42. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    If I could go back in time and stop one person from existing, it would be Malthus.

    • Fourscore

      For every Malthus there is an anti-Malthus, just to prove the science. The gains in technology keep on coming , education, in spite of mis-education, can’t be ignored.

      Some things take a long time but truth will win. Iron laws are irrevocable.

      • Tundra

        Yes.

  43. Aloysious

    Chicken mask: Bruce Dickenson was ahead of his time.

  44. hayeksplosives

    Think I’ll go to Vince Neil’s bar here in Pahrump for the Stoopid Bowlz

    Lunch buffet, games, music and TB.

    Or I could save $200 by sitting on my ass at home. I do believe I have the biggest tv screen in town.