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234 responses to “Saturday Morning Carnival Links”

  1. The Late P Brooks

    “Without an indictment against him, Trump is going to hammer home the waste of time, taxpayer money and resources to prove that he was right all along and that he did nothing wrong,” said Ron Bonjean, a veteran Republican strategist who helped shepherd Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch through his Senate confirmation process.

    But think of all the fun Mueller and his buddies had on that fishing expedition. Totally not a waste.

    1. Brochettaward

      It’s kind of a lot like the fun Adam Sandler has making his “movies.”

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Democrats are just beginning a sprawling set of probes on Capitol Hill, and they are certain to use whatever kernels they can find in the Mueller report and whatever dirt they turn up with subpoenas and oversight hearings to try to convince the electorate that Trump is unfit for a second term.

    Refreshing honesty. It’s a political purge.

    1. Sean

      I can’t see that helping the dems through out most of the country. Even with cheating, I think 2020 will see them losing a lot of seats.

    2. Suthenboy

      Trump just won the 2020 election yesterday. He would have to try really hard to fuck this up.

      1. There’s always the possibility of a recession.

        1. Fourscore

          More than a possibility, we’re due for a correction of some magnitude.

          /not an economist/

          1. Not an Economist

            I agree. I actually heard something on the radio is there some indicator that when it turns negative, usually means a recession is near. But that was before 2009 and what changes in the way the Fed has acted plus regulatory changes may mean the typical indicators need to be re calibrated.

  3. Stinky Wizzleteats

    “You can say ‘molested,’ but those children, as you heard say [grown-up Robson and Safechuck], they were thrilled to be there.“

    Great goodness, that’s quite the hot take Babs.

    1. Suthenboy

      Outrageous, over-the-top hypocrisy seems to be a requirement for a career in hollywood.

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        I can sympathize with those who believe the accusers are grifters but those who accept the allegations and hand wave them away are apologists for predatory behavior and they deserve all the blowback they get.

        1. Suthenboy

          Yeah, her statement seems to be an admission that she believes the allegations and is excusing pederasty.

    2. Chafed

      She is a sensitive soul.

  4. Will perform on guillotine, what a scene, what a scene!

    It’s Florida Man, not a cop, so the gun didn’t just discharge of its own free will.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    None of this would have happened if Hillary Clinton had been elected President

    Across parts of the Midwest, hundreds of livestock are drowned or stranded; valuable unsold, stored grain is ruined in submerged storage bins; and fields are like lakes, casting doubt on whether they can be planted this year.

    These are especially cruel times for Nebraska and Iowa farmers who had to scrape money to keep going just eight years ago, when floods overtook their lands in 2011.

    “I would say 50% of the farmers in our area will not recover from this,” Dustin Sheldon, a farmer in southwestern Iowa’s flood-devastated Fremont County near the swollen Missouri River, said this week.

    I blame global warming.

    1. Hyperion

      “These are especially cruel times for Nebraska and Iowa farmers who had to scrape money to keep going just eight years ago, when floods overtook their lands in 2011.”

      Yeah, it’s a damn shame the government will not have to pay them this year to not grow those crops.

  6. Sean

    That first link…LOL.

    1. Suthenboy

      Is it just me or is that site not working?

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I thought it was accurate.

  7. >>and his ‘sexual needs were his sexual needs’

    STEVE SMITH HAVE SAME SAD STORY

  8. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Stuff Posted On My Website’s Comment Page Part 1

    These are actual excerpts from spam sent to my company’s website comment form, which still does not have a recaptcha.

    The robots invaded Lee’s study war; the apostle of gentleness. One in Und the artificial short gasp of pure horror. The video part, anyway. He plunged home the knob arms was Squenz” and the chemist could come up with the Magnetischw. In fact, if you use bulbous, her mouth turned down the mausoleum and given to of science fiction novels I robot in the trend. Its not exactly clear to. Great caverns, weren’t they going smoldering splinter, taking one last. He swayed a bit as of scientific observation-and to the fiction story for a syndicated boys-and-girls newspaper page he edited of overbalancings, TThe him this. The important thing is that to him and made fearsome to the loss of the traffic century might mean and. for instance, and see the rubbish heap brought down by the The blast.

    1. Agile Cyborg knows what company you work for?

  9. >>Ocasio-Cortez On Fox News Coverage: Why Are So Many Grown Men Obsessed With Me?

    I, fot one, have never jacked off thinking of her. Take the pledge!

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m still master of my capital.

    2. Suthenboy

      “Why are so many grown men obsessed with this 29 year old?”

      She is nothing if not transparent.

      Translation: “Why are all of these men looking at my tits?” *cups both breasts, holds them up and pinches nipples* “Why?”

      Good lord, she is a hell of a performer.

      1. Aus

        Haha!

    3. egould310

      Uhhh… I’m out!

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I like the implicit admission that she is not a grown-up in that statement.

    5. Brochettaward

      I can only speak for myself, but I have a fantasy of getting head from a woman that I’m fearful may bite down. The fear would create a real adrenaline rush, at least in my head. Those crazy eyes of hers are perfect for that scenario.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        With her teeth? No way!

        1. Tejicano

          …and my guess is that after that she would swallow – and not in the good way.

        2. Brochettaward

          You are too boring. What, do you want to live forever? Too scared of a little sexual chicken?

      2. blackjack

        It’s a fine line between bobbing and Bobbit.

  10. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Letters to the Local Rag: OMG TERRORISTS

    The residents in the Meadows woke up to a surprise last weekend. Our mailboxes were opened, red flags raised, all along Sharps Road. If anyone saw whoever did this vandalism, would you please notify the police ASAP. Thank you.

    1. Suthenboy

      How is that vandalism? No baseball bats involved?
      Some idiot teenagers did that thinking it is funny. They didn’t damage any property they simply operated a couple of hinges. My guess is they are squeaky clean kids.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        In my day, there just would have been a smoldering stump of a post left.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          +1 mailbox baseball

        2. Suthenboy

          Someone did that to my neighbor. Their mailbox was burned. What the hell is that?

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            That’s what you get for buying the new plastic models.

            I do know someone who kept losing their mailbox to baseball bats so he put one up made out of reinforced concrete. When he found the broken aluminum bat lying nearby a couple of weeks later, he was vindicated.

          2. Suthenboy

            I bought what looks like an ordinary box but it locks and is made of 3/16″ steel.

          3. egould310

            When I was a teenager there was a mailbox on this gentle curve of a rural road in Indiana. If you didn’t take the curve you could just go straight, obliterate the mailbox, enjoy a pleasant drive past some pine trees cut through the rest of the lawn, and be placed gently back on the rural route. I’d blast that mailbox every six months or so. Very satisfying.

          4. Tundra

            Steel bumpers, ftw! Today, that’s $2500 damage to your car!

          5. Fourscore

            No snakes or mice involved?

        3. DrOtto

          And part of the bumper cover from Kevin’s Turismo.

      2. Pi Guy

        We can at least rule out Sloopy.

      3. SandMan

        I had a cheap plastic mailbox that was “nearly” indestructible, in part because it would swivel around on the post when they juvenile delinquents would hit it with a baseball bat, I assume as they were driving by. Then one night I heard a loud BANG! I guess a cherry bomb or M-80, after weeks of frustration they figured out a way.

      4. blackjack

        Local radio keeps reporting “vandalism” at various schools. Apparently someone is printing posters with swastikas and stapling them to phone poles near schools. 2nd amendment never mentioned.

        1. blackjack

          Sorry, 1st, not second.

    2. Stinky Wizzleteats

      They raised the red flags? Holy shit, somebody call the FBI.

      1. Obvious Putin stooges / Trumpkins

    3. LJW

      Why hasn’t the president condemned these acts? It was his rhetoric that caused them!

  11. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Letters to the Local Rag: LMGTFY

    I have two phone books that I hardly ever use. I wanted to find out the phone number of an individual that had repaired our clock. All that is listed in these two phone books are businesses. How do you find the phone number of an individual?

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Gotta be a Democrat voter. I’m guessing a Sanders supporter.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Can’t be. No self-respecting Sanders voter would have two phone books.

    2. AlmightyJB

      Call 911. They’ll be happy to help.

      1. R C Dean

        OK, what’s their phone number?

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Why Are So Many Grown Men Obsessed With Me?

    It’s a mystery.

    1. blackjack

      At 29 y/o, isn’t she fully grown yet? Not mentally but just in general? Sounds like she’s insinuating that it’s a bit pedo ish.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      If that many people really do agree with the popular vote proposition it should be easy to amend the constitution then.

    2. Suthenboy

      They are gonna amend the constitution?

      Good luck with that.

      Force the Electors by law to cast votes in sync with the electorate? That might work but what to do with rogue electors?

      1. The Last American Hero

        After the first one winds up dead in the streets of DC with his wallet in his pocket in a mugging gone wrong, the others will get the message.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    tuping is hsrd.

  14. l0b0t

    In The Court Of The Crimson King fell into my hands as a wee bairn in the early 1970s via my parents 8-track tape collection; it is one of my most beloved albums. 21st Century Schizoid Man is the weakest song of the bunch. This was an interesting cover however; thanks.

    1. The Last American Hero

      Oh no you didn’t.

  15. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Letters to the Local Rag: We Need More Regulation To End the Shortages

    In the 19th century, Congress passed laws regulating many industries to protect, among other things, the safety of our food, the purity and effectiveness of our drugs, and to restrict the predatory tactics of a group of businesses commonly known as the “robber barons.” Today, all Americans need to contact their representatives in both houses of Congress to instruct them to put limits on the predatory actions of the drug companies, which are causing many Americans to make decisions between life-saving medicines and the other basic needs . As one example, insulin, a drug which is life or death for diabetics, can cost a diabetic hundreds each month.

    1. Spartacus

      I don’t get this. One of our cats is diabetic. I recently bought a vial of insulin for him: cost $96, without insurance. Maybe human insulin is a different brand but is there really that much variation in something that has been off-patent for many years?

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        The FDA approves the manufacturing facilities for human usage. They can easily restrict the supply.

        1. Spartacus

          I suppose. The question is: Do they, actually, do this?
          Or is someone else just feeding the media a load of shit that (as usual) they pass on uncritically?
          Or does “can cost hundreds of dollars” mean “it almost never costs this much but after weeks of searching we found one person who actually spends this much”?

          1. Stinky Wizzleteats

            A brief article on insulin costs and why they’re so high:

            https://www.goodrx.com/blog/heres-why-insulin-is-so-expensive-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

          2. Fatty Bolger

            GoodRx is awesome, btw. If you’re paying for drugs yourself for whatever reason, it will let you pay what the insurance companies are actually paying, which is a fraction of the supposed retail cost of the drug.

            And always ask the doctor to submit a 90 day prescription instead of 30 for anything you are taking long term. The cost for 90 days isn’t usually much more than 30.

          3. Stinky Wizzleteats

            I use a similar service called Blink Health and it saves me about eighty dollars a month. I even have have fairly good health insurance and it’s still cheaper buying from them for certain things (I’m totally not a paid shill, I swear).

          4. The Last American Hero

            He’ll also get a visit from the opioid police.

          5. Scruffy Nerfherder

            In doing a little more reading on the topic, almost all of the insulin products on the market are not pure, human “insulin”, which makes them proprietary products protected by patents, etc… There’s been some obvious gaming by the industry to protect their revenue streams, but it has all occurred within the regulatory framework of the FDA which incentivizes the behavior.

  16. l0b0t

    The supermarket at which I work opens as I’m finishing my shift. This morning there were 13 cars in the lot and 9 of them were unoccupied, running with the lights on while their owners shopped. Some parts of NYC are like living far, far away from NYC.

    1. Suthenboy

      That seems odd. That is common here but I would have never guessed NYC.

      1. Tundra

        Probably newer cars with remote start. Keys safely in the owners’ pockets.

    2. Slammer

      Tomorrow is the local St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Bay Ridge.

      The supermarket where I work is going to have the parking lot closed because of no access due to parade route. There will be no home deliveries, either. Tomorrow is going to be easy, but boring.

      1. l0b0t

        Enjoy the break. I do overnight resets so we only catch slack on the rare occasions that weather forces a truck cancellation; when that news comes down, half the overnight crew shouts “Put me down for a personal day!” and bolts for the door.

    3. Fatty Bolger

      And all nine drivers “believe” in “climate change.”

  17. Rufus the Monocled

    Call me old fashioned but what was that journalist thinking/doing traveling to a dangerous place seven months pregnant? What was she trying to prove?

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Maybe she’s just nuts.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Definitely nuts.

        Her pregnancy, she said, had spurred her on rather than made her more aware of the risks. “I felt pressured – precisely because of my pregnancy. I wanted to tell this one more story before only being able to pick up work a few months after the birth. I was not aware of the fact that in that moment I was making the biggest mistake of my life.”

        Using a people smuggler in Antakya, southern Turkey, to drive her across the border into Syria, Findeisen said she had only shared her travel plans with the father of her child and not taken a mobile phone or a GPS tracker with her. While conceding that other people could have stopped her from going through with her plans, Findeisen said: “In the end it was my decision, and my mistake.”

        And the father is nuts too.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          Yep, sounds like nuts and stupid too. She’s lucky to be alive.

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            You hear about these German and Swedish women who so desperately want to believe that Arab culture is friendly to women and that they have nothing to fear from them and you have to wonder how they got that way.

          2. Stinky Wizzleteats

            I’ve seen those stories too. Death by naivety.

      2. The Last American Hero

        Maybe she thought is was going to be a girl and wanted to get the FGM done by pros.

  18. Slammer

    Well done, Old Man. Well done.

  19. Tundra

    Good morning, Old Man!

    Damn son, you weren’t kidding about the lynxalanche! I find myself glad we didn’t make it to ‘seven virgins and a mule’…

    In an interview published in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Findeisen said she travelled to Syria in October 2015 in order to make a documentary about a schoolfriend who had turned to jihad and joined a faction of al-Qaida’s former affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra.

    Her pregnancy, she said, had spurred her on rather than made her more aware of the risks. “I felt pressured – precisely because of my pregnancy. I wanted to tell this one more story before only being able to pick up work a few months after the birth. I was not aware of the fact that in that moment I was making the biggest mistake of my life.”

    It shouldn’t anymore, but breathtaking stupidity still catches me by surprise.

    Prog rock isn’t really my thing but Karn Evil 9 deserves the descriptor ‘epic’.

    1. Suthenboy

      “I was not aware of the fact that in that moment I was making the biggest mistake of my life.”

      Next: Off to North Korea!

      1. Tejicano

        “Tigers look so cuddly!”

        “If you pick up a cobra the right way it won’t bite you”

        “It’s only one bullet and five empty chambers”

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          “It’s only one bullet and five empty chambers”

          In a Glock G43?

          1. DrOtto

            Yes, but not switched to fully semi-auto.

  20. Rufus the Monocled

    “Kirt von Daacke, a historian at University of Virginia, said at least 50 schools have looked at their historical ties to slavery, but their approach to financial “repair” or “restitution” varies. Some schools provide preferential treatment in admissions, some provide scholarships and others use money for diversity initiatives within the school.”

    JFC.

    How about ‘you can have my offer now…..Nothing.’

    The nerve of these little extortionists.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Putting the university system in the Italian mafia’s hands would be an improvement at this point.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        What was the line in the book The Godfather? If the Mafia ran the State Department there would not have been a WWII because they’re hyper-organized and nip shit in the bud.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          Say what you will about them, I doubt they’d push huge loans on people who are unlikely to ever have the income or the assets to pay them back. Sure, if you don’t pay they could break your legs but where’s the profit in that?

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            The smart ones won’t lend to those who they know can’t pay back.

            Credit card companies give out cards on college campuses. Think about that.

            Who is smarter?

          2. Fourscore

            “master of divinity studies”

            What is up with that? I have difficulty in understanding in what a MA in reading the Bible is. A Doctor of Divinity? What’s that? Writing your own?

          3. Not Adahn

            You get elbow stripes on your preacher’s robe.

    2. Pray I don’t alter it further.

      1. egould310

        Chancel my subscription.

      2. +1 It’s a trap!

  21. The Late P Brooks

    New Jersey- battling the scourge of ghost guns

    New Jersey on Friday filed a lawsuit against a California retailer that sold so-called ghost guns, or assembly kits for untraceable AR-15 rifles.

    The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court against U.S. Patriot Armory, comes after Gov. Phil Murphy (D) criminalized the purchase of firearm parts with the goal of assembling a gun without a serial number, news site NJ.com reported.

    U.S. Patriot Armory and its owner, James Tromblee Jr., are accused of selling the “ghost guns,” which officials say bypass loopholes in state and federal firearm laws by selling “80 percent builds” with instructions for how to complete the rest.

    The guns can be sold online and shipped through the mail without background checks because the nearly-completed guns are not capable of firing, the newspaper noted.

    New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal sent cease-and-desist letters to at last 16 companies that sell such kits after Murphy’s ban went into effect in November.

    Grewal said during a news conference on Friday that U.S. Patriot Armory ignored the demand to stop shipping.

    An undercover officer was able to order “all the parts to make a fully operational AR-15-style rifle” for $583.98 in February, which was shipped them to a New Jersey address “without conducting a background check, without including a serial number, and without a warning that the gun we were buying was illegal in our state.”

    A firearms expert with the state police was able to assemble and fire the AR-15 after the assembly kit arrived last week, the newspaper reported.

    UNTRACEABLE!

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      They weren’t violating the law so on what basis do they have standing?

    2. Suthenboy

      U.S. Patriot Army is not the one committing the crime here, nor are the people ordering their products.

    3. Slammer

      A firearms expert with the state police was able to assemble and fire the AR-15 after the assembly kit arrived last week

      He probably kept it, too

      1. The Last American Hero

        I would hope so, since he is in fact, a firearms expert.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    I was not aware of the fact that in that moment I was making the biggest mistake of my life.

    This is a person who believes she has a calling to enlighten the rest of us. Because we’re the stupid ones.

  23. Tundra

    Wake me when I can mail order an M2.

    1. Tundra

      Cool! Brooks’d a Brooks comment!

    2. Plinker762

      M2 kits are pretty much gone now but M3 kits were available last time I checked.

  24. Rufus the Monocled
    1. Tundra

      First concert in 1982: front row for April Wine at the old Met Center (RIP). Eddie Money opened. April Wine guy tossed a guitar pick with their logo to me and I carried that damn thing for years.

      I like to rock.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Wow. Eddie Money was a big deal in the 80s – I have a couple of his singles.

        April Wine are legend around here for giving free concerts for charity. Although, they haven’t done it in quiet sometime. Really fun band live.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmkG0a47w4Y

        Fucke-A. Pull out the Wine!

        1. Tundra

          Guitars as far as the eye can see!

          Roller

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Which one goes to 11?

  25. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Letters to the Local Rag: Personal Connection

    When will Americans realize the current president doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing to our country. He courts our enemies and thwarts our allies.

    He admires the enemy’s “strength” when in fact, their strength lies in controlling and manipulating through intimidation and starvation of their own peoples.

    Some in the European Union wait for us to finally, get rid of him, or survive until his term is ended, (one way or another) they are still looking out for our best interests.

    Imagine what they think as they’ve watched him lie to us at least several times every day, while they watch our Congress drag its feet to do something about him, seeing him separate babies and children from their parents at the border.

    They are all human beings, no matter what language those children speak at home.

    No matter the color of their skin, the whole idea of separating people because of their native language or the color of the skin is ludicrous. Yet, it happens every single day.

    If you think you can ignore what the president does or says, or doesn’t do or say, because it doesn’t affect you; you’re deceiving yourselves.

    Our silence and inaction are the same whether we agree with him or not. If the polls are accurate, the majority of us do not approve or agree, and we are honor bound and morally obligated to end this madness, or we are getting what we deserve.

    Unless we all act up and speak up, act out and speak out and vote. We are, in essence acquiescing to him and whatever he wants, and that, is our shame to bear.

    Turns out I know this person (her son works for me). He delights in wearing MAGA hats around her, particularly since she’s living under his roof.

    1. Slammer

      I don’t get simultaneously being outraged at separating children from parents and being pro abortion. I just don’t.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Intellectual consistency is not something 99% of people care to even attempt to achieve.

      2. Suthenboy

        Then you dont understand their goals. It makes perfect sense.

        1. My assumption is that they want votes, and so most of what they do makes sense. But I don’t get the pro-abortion thing. Would you say it’s simply to attract a segment of voters?

          1. Suthenboy

            It is a eugenics program, plain and simple. They want to get rid of undesirables – the retards and darkies.
            Everything they do is calculated to cripple society and wreck the country. You cant have total power when there are strong, capable individuals and institutions.

            The illegal immigration efforts are to import compliant, commie votes. Tranny bathrooms are about destroying propriety and the family. Environmentalism is about destroying the ability to create wealth. Taxes are about destroying the ability to accumulate wealth. On and on…everything they do is an effort to rot society. Look at it like that and all of their seeming inconsistencies make perfect sense.

          2. Roger that. It makes sense that that is just what racist elitists do, given the power. The Scorpion and the Frog fable comes to mind.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      Just a lot of the usual indigent ‘we lost’ bull shit.

      The Europeans. Fack off.

    3. egould310

      “… they are still looking out for our best interests.”

      Infantile.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        You don’t get it. Despite centuries’ worth of evidence that they’re provincial, belligerent, entitled assholes, they’re still our forebears and we should listen to them.

        1. Suthenboy

          One of my proggie acquaintances exclaimed to me “But what will the rest of the world think of us?!” when Trump won the primary and I announced my support for him.

          My answer of “I dont give a fuck” shocked her. *facepalm*

          1. egould310

            To follow AOC’s questioning, “Why are all these old Euorpean countries so obsessed with America?”

            But seriously, who gives a fuck about any other stupid country? Especially their dumb governments and ruling elite class? I will travel to their country and eat the local food, drink the local drink, and hopefully listen to the local punk bands. Outside of that; don’t give a fuck.

          2. Suthenboy

            I will give a tiny fuck what they think when they start paying their own freight and stop relying on us for handouts.
            All of my life I have heard we need to be more like them. That is an incredibly stupid sentiment.

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        Now there’s someone who doesn’t understand European power politics very well.

    4. If she opposes government separating children from their parents, then she must oppose public schools, right?

  26. Rufus the Monocled

    Re Streisand. Exhibit and Case 394959696 of hypocrisy in Hollywood. These people are out of their fucken minds. From it’s not ‘rape-rape’ and protecting Polanski that scum bag to….it never ends.

    And just to show how morally bankrupt she is, she’s a brain dead moonbat always scolding about politics.

    1. Fourscore

      Give a Streisand a whale every day or teach her how to harpoon properly?

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Case in point.

        https://twitter.com/BarbraStreisand/status/1109157885592985600

        AND SPELL IT PROPERLY BITCH: BARBARA. None of this ‘Barbra’ shit.

        1. Rufus the Monocled

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          Replying to @BarbraStreisand
          Would you defend guns if Michael Jackson was a lifetime NRA member?
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  27. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Pre soiled Gucci sneakers on sale for almost 900 bucks a pop:

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gucci-distressed-sneakers-sell-for-870/

    I think I’ll wait for these to show up at the local Goodwill before I snag a pair.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      A fool and his money….

      1. Tejicano

        …were lucky to get together in the first place.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    We’re gonna need a bigger boat

    Top Democratic lawmakers are preparing to request President Donald Trump’s personal tax returns, but some liberal lawmakers say they should also demand his business tax filings.

    The business returns are much more likely to indicate conflicts of interest and other possible malfeasance Democrats hope to uncover, such as suspicious ties to Russian interests and whether he took aggressive steps to avoid paying taxes.

    Trump’s financial disclosures show he has more than 500 partnerships and other types of businesses, and each of those would generally have its own tax return.

    Congress can just hang a “Gone Fishin’” sign on the front door.

    1. Suthenboy

      And all he has to do is either ignore them or drop another bomb on them like he did Maddow.
      Shine that laser pointer Donnie Two Scoops.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      You know, I was thinking. If Trump was that bad, you would have thunk TMZ would have uncovered dirt on the guy while he was on TV all those years, no?

      Is he an angel? No. Who knows what he did but it doesn’t sound like it was anything worse than your run of the mill corruption or shenanigans.

      No baggage like we see with the uber-corrupted Clinton Inc.

      1. Suthenboy

        I have pointed that out before. The guy was in the public eye for 4 decades and no one ever thought he was racist until he ran for office. He was a playboy sure, but no one ever called him a rapist (sans one wife embroiled in a nasty divorce where she stood to get millions) until he ran for president.

        These temper tantrums are transparent as hell.

        He has been talking about running for president for at least 20 years. My bet is that he kept his nose clean all of that time for exactly this reason. There is nothing to find and that has to be killing them.

        1. Aus

          Also the fact he doesn’t drink alcohol (I think that’s correct) makes it easier for him to not do anything too dumb. I wonder how long he has been alcohol free.

          If only I had done the same!!! Ugh

          1. Suthenboy

            He claims he has never had so much as a drop in his life. Given that his brother was an alcoholic that drank himself to death it is believable.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    They weren’t violating the law so on what basis do they have standing?

    LOOPHOLES!

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Democrats are preparing to employ a little-used law to try to seize Trump’s tax returns, which he’s steadfastly refused to disclose. A nearly century-old statute allows the heads of Congress’ tax committees to examine anyone’s private tax information. Experts say lawmakers could vote to make that information public, however the administration has signaled it would fight the request.

    That should be fun.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      It should also signal to everyone else how far they are willing to go to preserve their power.

      1. Suthenboy

        Make no mistake, a shooting war, gulags, disappearing dissenters in the middle of the night, seizing the food supply, mass graves…if you want to know how far they would go just look at their ilk in other countries where they can get away with whatever it takes.

  31. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Good God, there’s a fetish for damn near everything:

    https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/21/sex-worker-goes-viral-licking-aeroplane-toilet-gross-twitter-video-8959482/

    I don’t want to meet the guy who jacks it to a vid of a woman licking a publicly accesible toilet seat.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      So why are you on glibertarians.com?

    2. Suthenboy

      I would be afraid to sit on that seat after she licked it, it was probably cleaner before.

  32. AlmightyJB

    Awesome links! I saw ELP back in the 80s. Unfortunately, I remember hardly any of it.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      You meant “Fortunately”, right?

  33. Ownbestenemy

    A nice morning here in Vegas…smoker is fired up for the day. Tonights menu is some pulled pork, corn, baked beans, stuffed Trumps Penises, and potato salad

    1. AlmightyJB

      Lol

    2. egould310

      I can be there in 4 hours. What liquor should I bring?

      1. Manischewitz.

        1. Suthenboy

          Ugh. Now you made me want some blackberry wine.

          1. Not muscadine wine?

        2. Akira

          I bought some of that stuff out of curiosity once… Sugary as fuck. I could see it being good as an ingredient, though. Maybe in a wine punch or spritzer or something.

          1. Stinky Wizzleteats

            Half blackberry Manischewitz, half unsweetened iced tea over the rocks on a hot day is a fine drink.

      2. Ownbestenemy

        Whiskey…bourbon…does it really matter? My wife knows thay smoking day is day of drinking

    3. Old Man With Candy

      On our way. See you this afternoon. SP is bringing the foreskin dressing.

      1. Ownbestenemy

        Just a short trip up from the fire of America to the Frying pan OMWC.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Imagine if Nancy Pelosi controlled the government and there was no Senate

    *clutches chest, falls to floor, convulses*

    From hier

    New Zealand is moving to ban assault weapons. Why can’t we?

    1. Because fuck you, that’s why.

    2. Stinky Wizzleteats

      And Pelosi one of the more sane ones.

    3. Notably, the US has previously had an assault weapons ban, so it should be constitutional to enact one again.

      Journalists teaching civics.

      1. “The US previously had slavery, so it should be constitutional to enact it again.”

      2. Suthenboy

        I see no mention there that the assault weapons ban had no effect whatsoever on crime rates. Huh, it’s almost like they dont really care about violent crime and just want to disarm the population. I wonder why they would want to do that?

    4. Tejicano

      Um, all my weapons are capable of being used to assault. Could you be a little more specific?

      1. YOU’LL PRY MY ASSAULT CHEESE GRATER FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

    5. “Instead, teachers in Indiana are being shot with pellets to prepare them for possible school shootings. Because if you can’t stop them, prepare for them.”

      Well, you can’t stop them no matter what and if by “prepare for them” you mean “get armed to protect yourself”, then yes. Time for demons to buy ice skates. I agree with CNN.

    6. Suthenboy

      More authoritarian jacking off over the idea of total power…provided it is their guy in office. It never occurs to these morons that one day it wont be their guy in office.

      Fuck you Zack, you cant have my guns.

      1. You know, I got a little hopeful when the “resistance” types started getting interested in guns after Trump won the election. Hipsters and cat ladies LARPing as urban guerillas isn’t really that much more ridiculous than the mall ninjas treating AR-15s like teenage boys treat Honda Civics, and it gave people who are traditionally against gun ownership a stake in preserving the 2A. Really, I thought it was a teaching moment, as they say: “Oh shit, maybe the idea that we might need to stay armed in case a tyrannical government comes to power isn’t a stupid, outdated, rednecky idea after all.” Not sure where that went. We could use a little of that now, I think.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    The government in the US is less responsive and less nimble than New Zealand’s. It takes a lot more agreement to get anything done in the US, which was built around the idea of separation of powers and protecting individual rights.

    The horror.

    The HORROR.

    1. Suthenboy

      Yeah, I think that is the point of our design.

  36. Silicone Saturday fools your limbic system with false promises of sexual availability.

    https://tinyurl.com/yyrmpj2h

    Excellent collection. 36 is THICC. 82 and 12 tie for the titty award. 86 wins most fun award.

  37. I actually have a theory about this:

    https://theweek.com/articles/830443/why-are-2020-democrats-weird

    They’ve got this reputation dating back to the 60’s of being the “hip” and “edgy” party. As the party has gotten more and more corrupt, and their internal ruthless machine politics have become more and more obvious to normies, these clowns have to try and outdo each other to keep that “cool kid” facade. It also doesn’t help that the primary constituency you’re trying to appeal to are hateful, joyless scolds whose greatest pleasure is crucifying wrongthinkers and insufficiently pure fellow travellers. The real hip counterculture types consist of basement dwelling 4channers and meme creators now anyway.

    From the article:

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourke-reportedly-put-childs-turd-in-a-bowl-and-told-his-wife-it-was-an-avocado

    WTF?

    1. Suthenboy

      I am convinced that the democrat party has been taken over by people that are certifiably insane. The 2020 race should be interesting to watch. I have a feeling that if they keep careening farther and farther to the left many of their voters are going to desert them. There has to be some point where the moonbattery is impossible to ignore.

      1. Ownbestenemy

        The more moderate are already throwing up flags about the double-time march left. Doubt anyone will listen, I agree Suthen, it is a certifiably insane of the bunch.

        They are that one guy at the poker table holding pocket dueces but misreads the cards. They are going all in for this one only to get beat by the barely better 3s.

      2. Hyperion

        “I have a feeling that if they keep careening farther and farther to the left”

        I’ll estimate the odds on that. 100%.

      3. Hyperion

        I had to go over and read the comments on DU after the news broke about Muleface releasing his report. I swear that politics is a damn religion for those people.

    2. Their behavior is so strange and outrageous that you actually become desensitized to things that would otherwise deeply upset you.

      6 Signs You’re Arguing With A Sociopath

    1. Suthenboy

      Someone tell me how this is not an overt attempt to destroy western civilization.

      1. Hyperion

        But we have to burn it down to fix it.

    2. Akira

      This is playing right into the hands of actual white supremacist groups, who have been telling people for decades that the American government (and ancillary organizations like colleges) are biased against them.

  38. whiz

    From the Alan Dershowitz article: “Nor is it likely that the president or his campaign will be charged with any sort of collusion since there is no such crime in the criminal code.”

    So what was the justification for the probe in the first place?

    I know the answer, but I’m just venting.

    1. Ownbestenemy

      He beat the annointed one…that is all, nothing more, nothing less.

    2. It’s been very instructive as to how corrupt our system has become and who is really in charge. Even with Dems in power, the real puppet masters are the members of the permanent bureaucracy and the Deep State. Sure, Dems are a threat because they have a natural affinity for State Power, thus they have an incestuous relationship with the permanent bureaucracy. But the Deep State will just as quickly destroy a Dem that crosses them too. Of course, the only way to deprive them of power is to shrink the FedGov, and neither party, nor the voters, have any appetite for that.

    3. Suthenboy

      For some reason no one seems to mention this fact of little importance. What they are accusing Trump of is not a crime and nearly every previous president has committed the same acts. Trump is the only one I know of that has not and that is what they accuse him off?
      It is almost like they have gone off the rails in the middle of downtown Crazytown.

      1. Suthenboy

        “No matter how bad you think the people in DC are, they are 100 times worse.” – Mark Levin

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      You mean the stated justification or the real one?

    5. Hyperion

      “So what was the justification for the probe in the first place?”

      To keep the useful idiots distracted until we come up with something else.

  39. Hmm – white vinegar and a whole bunch of scraping can get tile mastic up from floors. Messy work though. Also gotta let the vinegar soak for a while.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    Urban terrorist

    Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, comes from inner-city Philadelphia, where he teaches black youth about their Second Amendment rights.

    ———-

    A lot of times what’s happening in certain urban demographics is the information, civics are removed from the schools. So from a very beginning space where we had a young impressionable mind that we could identify with conservative ideology and liberty and freedom-based ideology, to be perfectly honest, that information is switched in certain demographics. So that’s the first one, education.

    ——–

    We’re not an organization that says you have to have a gun right now. What we want you to do is be well informed and educated. And if you decide to have a firearm as a means of protection for yourself, your loved ones, and your family, then you do so.

    Doing that and making that choice from a well-informed, responsible, and safe perspective is really the key. Especially in the spot where all of the demographics are saying, “gun control, gun control, gun control, gun control.” On top of that, it’s “homicide, homicide, homicide, homicide.”

    Gun control is about people control. It’s not about safety. It’s not about making Americans safer. It’s not about respecting our freedoms. It’s about taking large percentages of American populations—urban centers; urban metropolises; New York City, 8.5, sometimes 9 million people—and telling them they do not have the right as stated in the Second Amendment to defend their lives. Our organization is there to push that back and the education and the understanding is how we do it.

    ———–

    You go to our classes, it’s not just at the range and just teaching somebody about stance, grip, sight alignment, and things of that nature. A firearm is a tool, a tool to defend freedom.

    Everybody from urban America understands the want and desire for freedom. Period. Everybody in urban America for the most part isn’t rich. So they understand being fiscally responsible and conservative.

    Oh, no. He’s telling those people they have rights. He’s encouraging them to act responsibly and to take charge of their lives. He’s telling them “conservatives” are not the hobgoblins they are portrayed as by the Democratic black establishment.

    1. Suthenboy

      The guy has a Facebook page. Amazing that it hasn’t been taken down.

      https://www.facebook.com/blackgunsmattermajtoure/

    2. Hyperion

      /not a real black person

    3. I’m really excited about this dude. If the ideas he’s talking about really do take hold again in urban black communities, that’s going to be an immensely powerful political force. For the good, I believe.

    4. Fatty Bolger

      Uncle Tom… Paine?

    5. Akira

      Gun control has a hugely disparate impact on blacks. Think about the states where you have to convince chief law enforcement officer to grant you a concealed carry permit. Can you think of a demographic that might have a hard time accomplishing that?? The Left needs to have their noses rubbed in this illogical piss-stain of a policy.

      Amusing thought: The best way to make civilian-owned guns very scarce is to implement a massive government program to “ensure that every citizen has access to guns regardless of ability to pay”.

    1. Suthenboy

      Remember when Obama was telling us that poverty is so much better than wealth? I distinctly remember pointing out that swarms of pathogens and parasites most people have only barely heard of would come roaring back.

      SciAm is a bit off track here, aren’t they? I thought they were part of the wokeism crowd these days.

      1. Plinker762

        It’s just another call for more government spending and programs

    2. Rhywun

      lack of attention to housing and health care for the homeless

      I know! Open your wallets, Americans. Have some heart.

      1. Akira

        Every state has a Medicaid program for which the homeless would no doubt qualify.

        I’m sick of this fucking lie that there’s just zero welfare at all in America and all the non-rich people are starved, diseased, and homeless.

    1. Rhywun

      “Because I don’t need the Mueller report to know he’s a traitor. I have a TV,” Maher told his panel of guests.

      OK, then.

      1. AlmightyJB

        I’ve heard myself say it a number of times so I know that it’s true.

      2. Suthenboy

        What does that mean? He has heard the big lie so many times he refuses to believe it isnt true? Do we have that lying half-wit on video claiming that when the Mueller report comes out Trump will fall? I bet we do.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          It means he knows what his audience wants to hear because he’s not that stupid.

      3. AlmightyJB

        So I wonder if that women who named her sons new puppy Mueller is taking it to the pound today?

        1. Hyperion

          Maybe she’ll change it’s name to another lefty hero. Horseface? Horseface might still get Trump. Or whoever has the pee tapes.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s hard to put empathize with people who are so far gone that they need an article like this to calm them down.

    2. It’s sounding like the Mueller report will be treated as a religious text, lending itself to being contorted into any of several contradictory interpretations.

      1. Hyperion

        They’re already starting to change direction, saying things like ‘But just wait for the stuff from NY, they’ll get Trump for sure!’.

        1. It’s somewhat eschatological, their pinning their hopes on the End of Days for Trump, as if that will usher in a Golden Age.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Hallelujah!

    Sharing an article on Twitter on Thursday detailing how teachers in Indiana were left with painful welts and abrasions after being shot with plastic pellets during an active shooter training session, Ocasio-Cortez said that “instead of training children, teachers, houses of faith & concertgoers to prep for being shot,” the U.S. could try taking stronger action on gun control.

    Ocasio-Cortez then laid out the four ways she believes the U.S. should address gun violence, saying, “we could just: pass Universal Background checks (#HR8!)…disarm domestic abusers…mandate safe storage” and “ban bump stocks, semiautos, & high cap mags designed to kill people.”

    ———–

    Earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez was one of several U.S. lawmakers to praise the leadership demonstrated by New Zealand’s prime minister as Ardern announced that her government would be introducing a ban on all military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines in response to the Christchurch terror attacks.

    “Sandy Hook happened 6 years ago and we can’t even get the Senate to hold a vote on universal background checks w/ #HR8,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, referring to a House bill that would require background checks on all gun sales, including private transactions.

    “Christchurch happened, and within days New Zealand acted to get weapons of war out of the consumer market. This is what leadership looks like,” she said.

    She’s so smart and pretty, we should do anything she wants.

    1. Urthona

      Training for school shootings is probably a waste of time as well. Your kids are much more likely to die in an accident on the way to school.

      1. Rhywun

        No, but it achieves its purpose of keeping everyone in fear.

    2. Hyperion

      “ban on all military-style semi-automatic weapons”

      I’ll say it again. This is very dangerous language right there. It basically can be interpreted to mean every gun in existence except for revolvers, single action rifles, or muzzle loaders. And I’ll go so far as to say that it definitely will be in due time. It’s a gun grabber dream come true.

      1. Suthenboy

        Actually, double action revolvers are functionally semi-autos. Make no mistake, the gun grabbers are jerking off over the English knife ban. You can be arrested in Airstrip One for having anything that can be used as an offensive weapon. A screw driver, a stick, a hammer. I took a few years of JuJitsu in my college years. We had an instructor who taught us to use a tightly rolled newspaper as a very effective weapon – insert pen is mightier than the sword joke here.

    3. Akira

      “instead of training children, teachers, houses of faith & concertgoers to prep for being shot,” the U.S. could try taking stronger action on gun control.

      I always think it’s fun to draw parallels between gun confiscation and cracking down on Muslims. How about this: “Instead of spending tons of money to have domestic security agencies investigate anyone who might have terrorist connections, we could try taking stronger action on immigration from Muslim countries.”

    4. Akira

      “Christchurch happened, and within days New Zealand acted to get weapons of war out of the consumer market. This is what leadership looks like,” she said.

      Added it to my list of quotes that I’m going to bust out whenever someone tells me “nobody wants to take your guns away”.