Tuesday Afternoon Links

More adventures in the World Cup. Colombia couldn’t overcome a very early intentional handball to stop a clear goal. Japan won 2-1, and the 1 for Colombia was a gift from the ref. I missed the Senegal v. Poland, but I hear there was some controversy on one of the goals. Russia came out of the 2nd half and are just destroying Egypt, although the VAR official gifted Egypt a penalty kick. Also, Egypt is playing dirty as fuck. Not much going on here at the home front. I’m reliving a bit of the past as an Azure deployment runs over an hour. That is how I started reading the internet in the first place. **Pours out one for the Slashdot of 15 years ago**

Tesla builds tent for ad hoc assembly line, ars technica creams their jeans. They’re probably lining up to lynch Musk’s “saboteur”.

In the never-ending philosophical debate over whether consciousness is material and emergent or universal and existing, one scientist-philosopher brings in brain scans from multiple-personality disorder patients to make a complex and interesting case for and ideal and universal consciousness that can be experienced differently by different beings.

Now THIS is a nice gun collection.

Allowing people to form their own associations to buy insurance is obviously sabotage and racist, tovarisch.

Fuck Cancer! But please don’t treat John McCain until he agrees to retire.

Alcohol makes your heart toughen up. Apparently, there’s a maximum effective dose, so go easy.

 

And I was thinking of one of our passed on bag-piping friends when I saw this — so I’ll share it with everyone.

Comments

463 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”

  1. A king size helping of king size tits to help you make Jesus cry.

    http://archive.is/lrVqg

    All I’m asking for is a foursome with 4, 6 and 15. That’s not much is it?

    1. And at least get to 32 before you make Jesus cry.

      1. Jarflax

        These euphemisms are getting blasphemously out of control.

      2. SoberPhobic

        71, 33

    2. SandMan

      WTF 38, “They’re always after me Lucky Charms”.

    3. pan fried wylie

      #10, hits like such a girl the other girl is laughing

    4. J. Frank Parnell

      80 is the new glibs mascot.

      1. Rasilio

        Good trigger discipline and everything

      2. I think I’ve mentioned it before on here: at my previous job, one of my coworkers had a picture on his desk of his wife in lingerie with an AR. There were a ton of other problems with that office, but the fact that that never got any complaints is a major check in the win column.

    5. I can’t believe no one in this crowd has commented on 47.

    6. Spudalicious

      2, 8, 27.

  2. Suthenboy

    “and ideal and universal consciousness that can be experienced differently by different beings.”

    I have heard of this Aether trick before.

  3. And I was thinking of one of our passed on bag-piping friends when I saw this

    Bagpipes are a violation of the NAP.

      1. Count Potato

        I thought it was going to be this:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Op1Mng4oY

      2. Chafed

        That’s what I was hoping for.

  4. commodious spittoon

    DON’T ANY OF YOU PEOPLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON LINKS!?

  5. Count Potato

    “Apparently, there’s a maximum effective dose, so go easy.”

    Nice try.

  6. kinnath

    The girls blowing the pipes has been going around facebook for some time. And I watch it every time is shows up.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      Any girl who likes blowing the pipes is alright with me.

      1. As long it’s not toothy.

        1. But Enough About Me

          Oh, I dunno — there’s a certain frisson of fear that can be quite thrilling when that happens. 8^>

  7. CPRM

    That multiple personality disorder article uses the phrase “by one of us” several times to describe peers. Does the author have multiple personalities?

    1. Suthenboy

      The theory certainly does

    2. Negroni Please

      the author is Tulpa

      1. Jarflax

        So in this theology is Tulpa the oversoul? or just Legion.

        1. SugarFree

          Tulpa only exists in the liminal space between being and dipshit.

  8. Suthenboy

    “Allowing people to form their own associations to buy insurance” would cut the govt slugs out of the loop making insurance massively cheaper and more efficient. This cannot be allowed.
    Obamacare and as far as I can tell all other govt mandated medical insurance schemes are nothing more than a fleecing of American citizens.

    1. Hyperion

      They’re more than that. A eugenics program, since more well off people are obviously going to get private insurance. The poor can eat cake, they just can’t get that surgery they need in time. And it’s good you know, because peasants will obviously start poaching the King’s game.

  9. Sean

    I usually scoff at the “arsenal seized” stories, but that one…damn!

    1. Suthenboy

      Looking at the guns…he has some interesting stuff there. It doesnt look like he was planning on arming any militias, but I’d bet there are more than a few stolen guns there.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        I saw a lot of cheap surplus stuff, (Moisens, SKS, Mausers) that probably took a lot of years to assemble. Somebody with the collector bug.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Guns that were all available at one time for less than $100 at one time.

          Who wants to guess his previous felony charge had something to do with a CA weapons charge?

    2. Count Potato

      I wonder what his motive was. If he was selling them, it doesn’t make sense to tie up that much money in inventory. Unless he was buying them in huge lots.

    3. Not Adahn

      lots of them were the harmless wooden kind, so I don’t see what the big deal is.

  10. Gustave Lytton

    I’m predicting that the sex video Q posted in the last story will be outed as a fake.

  11. Tundra

    Fuck Cancer!

    Damn. A buddy was just buried last week after that got him. Just a few days more than two months from diagnosis to funeral.

    That treatment looks pretty good.

    1. Deplorableme

      Yeah, Fuck Cancer! Of my three brothers and sisters, One died of cancer (Burkitt’s lymphoma) @ 31, one is going through stage 4 colon cancer (Age 55), and one (Age 56) is going through stage 4 oral/throat cancer. I expect both those two to leave this mortal coil soon. So far, I’m clean – but wouldn’t be surprised if a future diagnostic comes for me. They all lived pretty clean, just a bad set of genes I suppose. My poor mother is still around. No parent should ever have to watch their kids go through that, let alone three times.

      1. invisible finger

        This is the only time a glib comment teared me up.

        1. Sensei

          There have been a few for me. This, sadly, is one of those times.

      2. Tundra

        Shit, I’m sorry man. That’s awful. Take care of Mom.

      3. Yikes….sorry man. That is awful. Do keep vigilant on your own condition…

      4. KibbledKristen

        Jeezus, man. So sorry about that.

        Hope you continue to stay clean get checked on the regular!

      5. Deplorableme

        Thanks everyone, I do what I can, expect the worse and hope for the best – and do my best to appreciate what I’ve got so far. That is why I run and keep myself in shape, although if cancer has your number, not much you can do about it. As I’ve often said, mother nature is always looking for new ways to kill you, you’ll only be able to out run her for so long. I’m often amazed where medicine is now, but at the same time think we should be way ahead in what we know.

        BTW, I want you to give a big thanks to all you for creating this site and populating it with such awesome and creative wit. This is by far my favorite site. I use to (before this place) frequent TOS way back before they were inflicted by a bad case of TDS and I’m so glad this place came along to take its place.

        1. Waterfall Insurance

          Sorry

      6. Count Potato

        Sorry.

      7. Tulip

        Sorry

  12. Drake

    Now that is a hell of a collection. Seems mostly military bolt-actions and hunting rifles.

    Usually when the cops do the junk on the bunk show of an “arsenal” I scoff at the puny bunch.

  13. Playa Manhattan

    Telsa is the new Chipotle.

    1. Negroni Please

      Tesla serves tasty carnitas with a side of norovirus now? How long is the waitlist fot that?

      1. Playa Manhattan

        You’ll be able to buy at a huge discount in a few years.

      2. Bobarian LMD

        Yuo have to put $1000 down and wait a year and a half to be served.

    2. Chipwooder

      It gives you the shits as well as killing you?

      Has there ever been a restaurant chain as overrated as Chipotle?

      1. In n Out Burger.

        1. Mad Scientist

          Them’s fightin’ words!

          1. Playa Manhattan

            IIRC, Q likes some weird foods. Anything he says can be safely disregarded.

          2. Liver deep fried in bacon grease is not weird!

          3. Mad Scientist

            I would eat that.

          4. Tundra

            Damn. Me too.

          5. Especially if its been freshly extracted from an antelope and on your plate later that night.

          6. But Enough About Me

            “Would”

        2. Chipwooder

          Gonna have to disagree with you there, Bob. They might be a bit overhyped but they are excellent burgers.

          Lousy fries, though.

          1. Playa Manhattan

            Lunch is $3.45.

            Can’t beat that.

            If you insist on fries, get them animal style. Topped with melted cheese and burger spread. So the top layer is good; the rest is throw away.

          2. AlexinCT

            Lunch is $3.45.

            Can’t beat that.

            WTF is that? A lizard burger?

          3. Playa Manhattan

            Double Double menu price: $3.45

          4. Chipwooder

            Cook Out trays get you either a burger/sandwich and 2 sides or two burgers and a drink for $5.

          5. Mad Scientist

            Well now I’m hungry again.

          6. Rufus the Monocled

            Why can’t both buns of a hamburger be rounded tops? Why the flatter one where the burger rests?

          7. Mad Scientist

            One side is flat because they’re baked and that’s the side in the pan. Then they cut it in half and put the burger in between.

          8. Rufus the Monocled

            Getta load of Larry Literal over there.

        3. Mustang

          Q, just keep posting boobs. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

          1. But Enough About Me

            This is cheating. My eyes were trying to focus on the burger and boobs at the same time. OWIE!

        4. Spudalicious

          Shut your whore mouth.

      2. Negroni Please

        Five Guys

      3. Brett L

        Notice that no one says Whataburger. The superior burger franchise.

        1. Negroni Please

          Dude I could go for some Whataburger right now. Damn it Tampa.

          1. Just make a weekend trip to ABQ. Load up on superior Messican food and Whataburger.

          2. Brett L

            Nearest one is Tallahassee. You can be there and back in under 10 hours

          3. Negroni Please

            That’s a bit too much commitment to satisfy my drunken 3am cravings for Whataburger taquitos.

            As a side note, I recently learned that Fort Collins has a Torchy’s. I am ecstatic.

          4. Not Adahn

            What, like Torchy’s Torchy’s? Home of the best Democrat ever?

        2. Chipwooder

          One of the few things I miss from Pensacola, other than the beach and inexpensive seafood, is Whataburger.

        3. Waterfall Insurance

          B bops was my favorite chain from wher I grew up.

    3. Mad Scientist

      But they have a big tent!

    4. mexican sharpshooter

      I finally saw a Model 3 today. I had to go to Whole Foods to see it.

      1. Drake

        I saw one earlier this week. It looks a lot like my Mazda that costs 1/3 as much.

    5. Hyperion

      “Telsa is the new Chipotle.”

      So, you use your Tesla engine to rewarm your chipotle on some foil, you get food poisoning, and then your car bursts into flames?

  14. Chipwooder

    That’s conservatively about a quarter-million worth of firearms. Probably more. Dude obviously wasn’t married.

    1. Drake

      I see a Mauser Broomhandle. That’s probably $2,500 right there.

      Now it’ll disappear into some cop’s safe.

  15. “A tip from a neighbor”

    Tall fences make for good neighbors.

    Corollary: Inviting in neighbors is almost as dangerous as inviting in cops. (this may explain my hermit-like isolation…)

  16. Tundra

    Tesla builds tent for ad hoc assembly line, ars technica creams their jeans.

    Bad timing for all this shit.

    Competition is here.

    And I’m pretty sure these aren’t built in a fucking tent.

    1. Negroni Please

      Is this the headshot we’ve all been waiting for to finally euthanize Tesla? God I hope so.

      1. Tundra

        Audi/VW is next. Everyone is working on EVs now.

        Tesla fucked up big time. No amount of hope/hype turns a niche product into an iphone. They should have doubled down on the high-end hand built S and X – fixed all the chintzy shit and just kept improving them.

        1. kinnath

          Tesla was shit right from the beginning.

          1. Tundra

            Not the point. There was clearly a business opportunity there. Plenty of people willing to pay up for the geewhizbang shiny toy that enabled them to (briefly) go fast and signal like no other watermelons in history.

          2. kinnath

            Never give a sucker an even break.

          3. fried

            They way he talks about saving humanity by going to Mars and such, I kinda got the impression that Musk is more interested in getting people to drive electric cars than getting people to drive his electric cars. If nothing else, for better or worse, I think Tesla has spurred the auto industry as a whole to move further and faster toward making electric cars a reality than it otherwise would have.

          4. Mad Scientist

            Yes. What the word needs is even more vehicles powered by coal.

          5. fried

            So worse…

          6. Tundra

            Are you aware that electric cars were among the first ever built? And they were soundly rejected by the car buying public because there were better and more practical alternatives. Absent government subsidies and interference, electric cars would have remained a minuscule niche.

            Musk thinks he’s Buckaroo Banzai. I couldn’t give a fuck except I get the feeling I will be helping bail him out. Also there is a nontrivial number of watermelons who want to flat out ban ICEs.

            I can’t go for that.

          7. fried

            I guess I’m just saying that if you evaluate him as an electric car zealot instead of as a businessman, his track record with Tesla makes a bit more sense.

          8. Rufus the Monocled

            That’s the official position of investment managers. Tesla probably will fail but Musk will have achieved his end goal: More EVs.

            Not sure I agree but that’s what they’re going with. Long on EVs.

          9. Mad Scientist

            Exactly. They complained about pollution until the industry found a way to make the air coming out the tailpipe cleaner than the air going into the engine. Now they’ve re-defined CO2 as pollution. And I guarantee if they manage to kill the ICE they’ll suddenly realize how polluting it is make all those batteries and how inefficient it is to charge them. They won’t be happy until progress is stopped and everyone is dead.

          10. Bobarian LMD

            An important part of the Tesla business model is selling carbon offsets, since CA knows that CO2 is a pollutant. Government kick backs and ‘dirty’ industries buying indulgences were actually profitable as a boutique company, but the investor mania made expansion too tempting.

          11. Mustang

            These batteries are going to become a fucking nightmare real quick. Aside from the toxic dump they become when they’re destroyed, securing the materials is going to be a strategic nightmare. At least with oil we can take care of ourselves. I’m convinced the reason we are ramping up military adventurism in Africa is to secure the materials needed for stuff like this from the Chinese, who are beating us out hand over fist there (I think…).

      2. Muskiepoo will probably get a big, fat government bailout.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          Well…. he already is.

          You know who decides to open up a giant factory in California?

          Someone who’s getting bribed, that’s who.

    2. Count Potato

      It just doesn’t look Jaguar to me.

    3. Brett L

      I’m supposed to buy a British electrical vehicle? Err… call me old-fashioned, but I’m not sure about that.

      1. Negroni Please

        Don’t sweat it. They’re owned by Indians now. What could go wrong?

      2. Suthenboy

        I am

        Electric car: dumb idea. British made electric car: dumbest idea ever.

        1. Mad Scientist

          The mind boggles. Jaguar’s reliability may have improved from atrocious to merely horrible, but I hope the purchase price includes a Platinum AAA membership.

        2. Gustave Lytton

          Make Lucas great again!

          1. Mad Scientist

            Q: Do you know why Brits drink warm beer?

            A: Lucas makes their refrigerators.

          2. kinnath

            Because cellar temperature is the proper serving temperature for a lot of styles perhaps.

          3. mikey

            The Brits never built computers ’cause the couldn’t figure out how to have them lead oi.

          4. mikey

            LEAK oil

          5. Tundra

            AKA British Rustproofing!

          6. mikey

            The only parts of a Healey that don’t rust are the frame members just behind (ie downstream) of the rear engine oil seal.
            “Oil seal” is only the name of the part, it does not describe what it does.

          7. pan fried wylie

            “Oil seal” is only the name of the part, it does not describe what it does.

            You got tricked by British Englishe again. “Oil Seal” over there is a pinnaped-shaped lubricant dispenser.

      3. Tundra

        *jumps up to object – considers ground issues in Spitfire taillights – sits down again*

        1. mikey

          Lucas invented the intermittent wiper – unintentionally.

          1. Tundra

            As an aside, I got caught in the rain the other day and was overjoyed to find out that my wipers work!

          2. Mad Scientist

            Pneumatic?

          3. Tundra

            That’s Q.

            Just electric. One speed – slooooooow.

        2. Mad Scientist

          Lucas made a vacuum once. It was the only thing they ever made that didn’t suck.

        3. mikey

          A gentleman shouldn’t be out motoring after dark anyway.

    4. Mad Scientist

      An all electric British vehicle…

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        Yes, but Tesla made us all used to the idea that electric cars should randomly catch fire.

        1. Playa Manhattan

          Topical.

          I can’t find the original on TMZ anymore.

          1. Mad Scientist

            Tesla called the incident “an extraordinarily unusual occurrence.”

            Normally it catches fire in your garage and takes your house with it.

          2. Tundra

            Good video here.

            Lol. She was offered a Bolt instead.

          3. Playa Manhattan

            I don’t see any video of her.

          4. Mad Scientist

            Out of the frying pan…

    5. Drake

      Is there really that big a market for golf carts luxury electric vehicles.

      1. Tundra

        No. This is signalling for the car companies, as well as way to game the CAFE bullshit.

        1. mexican sharpshooter

          Agreed. If I am buying a Jag, it’s going to be the F-Type.

          1. Tundra

            I LOVE that car. Sounds good, looks good, goes fast.

          2. Mustang

            Beautiful car. I had the privilege of watching the taillights of one get farther away from me on track.

  17. Ed Wuncler

    OT: Thanks for the comments and advice on the Morning Links. I felt depressed after reading that email but you guys are right and I am feeling a lot better about my decision to put in my two weeks at my job.

    1. Never let “being polite” trump doing what’s right for yourself when it comes to employment.

    2. Suthenboy

      When you walk out of that door, feel the wind in your face. Feel the weight lifted. Feel the endless possibility for a bright future for you and yours.

      1. Ed Wuncler

        The weight was lifted when I left work yesterday and was given two weeks of paid time off (since I was done with all of my projects). But that email sent me into a funk and put some of that weight back on me but I’m not going to let it bother me or take up free space in my mind. If someone chooses to be salty because I made the right decision for myself, then it is what it is.

        I think the best part is that I told other people this and they had the same reactions as you guys did.

        1. Jarflax

          Speaking as someone who has wasted a lot of his life letting fear of the new and loyalty to the old stand in the way of the pursuit of happiness let me chime in and say you made the right choice. Libertarian rants aside, we owe a moral debt to our children without explicitly contracting for it, and to no one else. All other obligations come from explicit promises. You did not promise your employer that you would work for them for all time forsaking all others. You promised that to your wife. Live your life, it is short and you can never reclaim time you give to someone else. If you can make your lawyer friend understand why you have left, all well and good, don’t throw away a friendship without trying, but if not move on for your family and yourself and never look back.

    3. Tundra

      I’m happy for you, man! Nothing better than movin’ on and up!

      1. To a deeeeee-luxe apartment in the sky?

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Weezy!

        2. Ed Wuncler

          That show represents the ultimate American Dream. A poor black dude from Harlem builds a chain of cleaners and eventually moves to a high rise in Manhattan.

          1. Actually, he was living in Queens next door to Archie Bunker, wasn’t he?

          2. Ed Wuncler

            He was but before that I believe George Jefferson was orignially from Harlem.

          3. Tundra

            Until the spinoff. That’s when they moved (on up). His relationship evolution with Archie was a great part of All In The Family.

          4. Tundra

            In fact, he and Archie were really quite similar assholes.

          5. Rufus the Monocled

            My father loved George Jefferson and would giggle his ass off watching him. Probably because he shared into his bitterness.

            ‘Guarda, guarda a George Jefferson!’

          6. Rufus the Monocled

            Come to think of it. He also loved JJ.

      2. Ed Wuncler

        Thanks! This new place will be blessed with my Protestant work ethic.

        1. DAMN STRAIGHT! Good on ya, Ed!

    4. Rufus the Monocled

      I missed it but I would have said sleep with the boss’s wife and then throw away her clothes.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        I read your post.

        Fuck them.

        They’d do the exact same thing. My closest buddy is aways going on about why I do this and why I did that and later on he always ends up doing the same thing. Worse, when I call him out on it (I call people out all the time now) he plays the ‘you did?’ card. Drives me fricken bananas.

        People will do what’s best for them and Ed ain’t gonna figure into that equation. Loyalty is just a word. If he’s your buddy he’d understand.

        1. Ed Wuncler

          That was what really bothered me about the lawyer’s friend email. I can understand being disappointed that someone you considered a friend left without telling you, but to sit there and say that I lacked loyalty and had some sort of character deficiency for doing what’s best for me and my family is down right tone deaf. Considering that he makes six figures a year he should understand my need to have a job that has a better salary and benefits. It’s at the the end of the day selfish. He knows I just bought a house in a fancy ass suburb in Chicago and my wife and I are trying to have children, but I should sacrifice all of that because of his feelings and ideas about loyalty. Fuck that shit.

          I gave him an olive branch and said that if he wanted to talk, we can do so but if he was anyone else, I would have given told him to go and eat a bag of dicks.

          1. Ed Wuncler

            The odd part is that my actual boss was taken aback but was fine with my decision because he understood why I looked for another job. But my lawyer friend who we share the suite with wasn’t gonna be affected by my leaving at all.

          2. Mad Scientist

            This sounds like a variation of the old adage: If you loan a friend $20 and never see him again, it was worth it.

    5. Deplorableme

      Hi Ed. The way I figure it is, your time and knowledge is money – a value which equates to what the market will bear. So, if company 2 is willing to compensate you X more than company 1, then if you were to continue to work for company 1, you’d actually would be throwing away the X dollars for the pleasure of working for company 1. Of course, there are other factors to consider like quality of work life, your compensation package, etc, but in pure dollar and cents, you made the right choice, and as others have said, if the company need to lay you off, they wouldn’t hesitate. Business is business.

    6. Ed – I work in Schaumburg and live in Northern Kane County. We need to get a beer some night – no, I need to buy YOU a beer some night. E-mail me at swissservator-at-gmail.com, if such takes your fancy.

      1. Sensei

        Given your other hints about your work and workplace I’ve a pretty good idea which place you work. I have good buddy I worked with for about 5 years at the same place now.

        Just let the Glibs here know if you start feeling like you want to end it all so we can try to talk you down… Is there something in the water there?

  18. The Other Kevin

    Allowing people to form their own associations to buy insurance is obviously sabotage and racist, tovarisch.

    I have waited SO LONG for this. GW Bush had the opportunity to do this back when I was self employed. The idea was that as a member of NFIB, I could form an insurance group with other NFIB members. But Bush and his Republican majority did nothing, and because I had no way to get health insurance, I had to close down the business and go to work for someone else.

    This is too late for me right now, but it will help a lot of small businesses stay competitive by offering health insurance just like bigger companies. I fail to see how this will make costs go up.

    1. Tundra

      Yep. I can’t believe how much I’ve spent over the years. This is yuuuuuuge!

      1. robc

        Yes it is. My plan when self-employed was pretty decent (pre-Obamacare). But with a group, that would possibly make and even bigger difference.

    2. fried

      “drive up health insurance premiums for millions in the law’s insurance markets”

      The claim seems to be that it will drive up premiums specifically for people still buying insurance from the O-care exchanges, not premiums in general. It very well might, which is likely intentional.

      1. kinnath

        Thanks to O-care, my 60 year old wife (who had her uterus removed more than 20 years ago) is entitled to free contraceptives (free meaning the cost is buried in our premiums).

        The O-care insurance markets and restrictions on employer-provided plans can’t die quick enough (much like John McCain).

      2. The Other Kevin

        So basically, moving people out of the exchanges and into group plans will result in fewer people in the exchanges, and therefore higher prices for those who remain? Tough shit.

        The whole point is that businesses without enough employees to form an insurance group can get together to form one big group, which will function just like a large company’s insurance group. That big group would have a lot of leverage and should be able to negotiate a good deal with an insurance company and lower costs for each individual. Hopefully they will extend this option to clubs and religious organizations like Knights of Columbus. That will provide a lot of people with affordable insurance.

        But then again, we would have fewer individuals making big financial sacrifices for the good of “society”. And we can’t have that.

        1. fried

          I didn’t say raising prices on the exchanges was a bad thing; the Democrats complaining about the rule change are saying that, because, like removing the individual mandate, this is another piecemeal way of dismantling the whole scheme, which obviously they don’t like.

        2. The Other Kevin

          I’m ok with all of it. If it undermines Obamacare, and it makes the exchanges too expensive to be usable, good.

        3. Mustang

          Oh, that makes sense.

          *Homer woohoo!*

    3. Florida Man

      Cost go up for people that weren’t paying in the first place.

    4. Mustang

      Is it really that big? I really don’t know and haven’t really grasped the details yet. It seems like a good idea.

      1. kinnath

        It is something that makes actual sense; it should have been done decades ago; it will hurt the government run exchanges.

        So win, win, win.

      2. The Other Kevin

        Hopefully it will work the way I’ve heard it described. The fact that NFIB is behind it is encouraging.

  19. Drake

    New “tent” assembly line is “way better” than conventional factory

    The same way living in a Quonset hut in Camp Pendleton was “better” than a real barracks.

  20. “New “tent” assembly line is “way better” than conventional factory”

    Good news comrades! The chocolate ration has been increased from 10 to 5 ounces!

    1. Chipwooder

      *raises a glass of Victory Gin*

    2. Suthenboy

      The govt money spigot is drying up and the tesla scam cant support itself. That is all this is.

  21. robc

    Is anyone surprised that there is a hormesis effect with alcohol?

    1. The Other Kevin

      What doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        hormesis?

        Does that mean that wine will make you gay?

        NTTAWWT.

        But ick, wine.

  22. Dr. Fronkensteen

    Are the Russians tired of winning yet?

    1. Suthenboy

      I thought they were out there gleefully tearing crying children from their mothers arms.

      1. Dr. Fronkensteen

        That’s the after game celebration.

        1. Drake

          Do they spike the kids during the victory dance?

      2. Hyperion

        I thought they were hacking some democracy, somewhere.

    2. grrizzly

      The first qualification for Russia/Soviet Union to the World Cup knockout stage since 1986.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        That long? I still remember that group because Canada was in it along with France and Hungary.

        We lost all three for a combined 5-0 scoreline.

        Team Canada captain Bruce Wilson presented me with an MVP that year at a tournament.

        1. grrizzly

          Yes, that long. I got tired of hate-rooting for them and expected to root for the USMNT this time. LOL.

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            It’s crazy. It’s not like Russia didn’t have a decent enough soccer pedigree to go on for so long without progressing. Come to think of it, the 80s were the last great period for Soviet soccer just before the collapse. Ever since then it has struggled to develop. It’s not a particularly strong team but to get out of the group is fantastic. Egypt is a perennial African power and that was the game they had to win and they did.

  23. robc

    The burger comments above reminded me of lunch today and a statement I think is probably not literally true but very close:

    Culver’s: The worst cheese curds in the state of Wisconsin and the best ones outside the state.

    1. Negroni Please

      mmmmm cheese curds. Culver’s is also of critical importance on the fast food landscape, because they (like Whataburger) will give me gravy for my fries.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Zaxby’s has decent cheese curds.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      You’re right. I watched more than I planned on. Fuck you.

      1. robc

        ???

        misplaced response?

        1. Bobarian LMD

          He’s just mad at robc.

          1. Rufus the Monocled

            I don’t get mad.

            I get stabby.

        2. Rufus the Monocled

          When I said I wouldn’t watch the World Cup you said I would. At least….I think it was you! Lol.

  24. Rufus the Monocled

    They had me at…

    “Trump’s new health insurance rules expected to hurt Obamacare”

    1. This means they pulled his clearance; probably for leaking. His FBI career is toast.

      Not to worry though, CNN has already set aside the 6-7 timeslot for his new show.

    2. Playa Manhattan

      Huh. Why isn’t that on the front page of CNN’s website?

      1. Brett L

        I’m sure they’re just lining up their sources and getting the whole story.

        1. Chipwooder

          “According to a source familiar with Strzok’s thinking….”

          1. Bobarian LMD

            Which is anyone working at CNN, apparently.

    3. Gustave Lytton

      “Escorted out of the building” is code for perp walked in cuffs out the front door with the media tipped off, right?

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Depends on who we’re talking about.

        I’m sure there was plenty of professional courtesy here, and he’s at home destroying evidence right now.

    4. The Other Kevin

      Headline: Strzok sent to concentration camp with children of immigrants.

    5. Hyperion

      “So long, Pete. We hardly knew ya.”

      Yeah, you fuckhead, you’re supposed to plot against presidential campaigns of people we don’t like without getting caught. And your GF, gumby, she ugly, you embarrass us!

    6. JaimeRoberto

      I just found CNN’s headline: “FBI agent torn from the arms of loving coworkers”

      1. This Machine

        *falls out of chair, limps up to begin standing ovation*

    7. The Last American Hero

      He was not, or will ever be the star of a perp walk, so no biggy.

    1. kinnath

      Have you heard about they guy that was circumcised with pinking shears?

      He had a frilly dilly. /dad-joke

    2. The Other Kevin

      Did you hear about the baby who was born without eyelids? In the first surgery of its kind, they used the foreskin from his circumcision to fix the problem. He’s doing fine, but he is a little cockeyed.

      1. AlmightyJB

        + Eye jam.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      The….. dog barked at a black woman?

    2. Chipwooder

      Dog privilege is the worst.

      1. Rasilio

        Dog privilege, is that being able to lick your own balls?

        1. …because he can.

    3. AlmightyJB

      Only white people can be racist is something brainwashed college students actually believe.

      1. You have to beat the stupid out of them.

    4. Heroic Mulatto

      God, I hate that fucking dog. I hope he gets snout cancer and dies.

    1. creech

      Germany used the Iron Cross in WWI (if not earlier). Yes, AH was awarded the Iron Cross in WWI but that doesn’t make it a Nazi symbol either.

      1. I think in the Prussian Army it went back to the early 19th century. I’m sure Orange County Choppers and everyone else using the design likes being called a nazi as well.

    2. commodious spittoon

      Jesus tupping Christ. You would think it might occur to this munchkin to put down the crayons for a moment and think about how effing unlikely it is, even if you think Trump is LITERAL HITLER, that someone with ICE sports an Iron Cross. Even if you have the grade school intellect required to think that Nazis are infecting everything like HYDRA, maybe that’s a little too on-the-nose. Maybe there’s some other, much more credible explanation.

      Ace puts it better:

      We’re now down to the point where retarded actors and reporters cannot even recognize very basic shapes apart, shapes we see weekly (in the case of the Florian cross, given that just about every firetruck and fire helmet is emblazoned with them) or every once in a while in movies about WWII or WWI.

      I realize you mental defectives cannot read written words. Can you at least learn the difference between common shapes, you malignant, lunatic obsessive retards?

  25. Obamacare was a house of cards. All Trump’s doing is removing the chewing gum holding it together.

    I would have greatly preferred a straight repeal, but I’m happy Trump’s doing what he can without exceeding his constitutional authority.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      I just wish I could be in the room watching Barry squirm in bed – and by squirm I don’t mean because Michelle is giving him a hand job with her DewaltMan hands. I mean about his legacy melting before his eyes because of Donnie.

      1. Sean

        Ole Donnie 2 scoops, getting shit done.

        1. pan fried wylie

          Fresh Cakes, it’s the Donnie Difference.

    2. Tundra

      I’m still pissed. Roberts could have killed this fucking mess a long time ago.

      1. Suthenboy

        Roberts and the other establishment types were sure the ratchet would never be loosened so why not get on with the winning team. He had no problem selling out his principles, assuming he had any, and the American cattle.

        You know who else was just certain they were embarking on a thousand year reign?

        1. “Roberts and the other establishment types were sure the ratchet would never be loosened so why not get on with the winning team.”

          Likely true. I’m still not 100% convinced they didn’t have some kind of dirt on him though.

          1. mikey

            I’ve about come to the conclusion NSA has something on everyone in DC I see FBI/NSA and I think Varys.

          2. Dr. Fronkensteen

            Asexual eunuchs?

          3. mikey

            Let’s see. Clapper? Bannon?
            Yep

        2. Dr. Fronkensteen

          Pharaoh?

        3. Gustave Lytton
      2. Hyperion

        “I’m still pissed. Roberts could have killed this fucking mess a long time ago.”

        Could be that Penaltax has lost his private island for life after he retires. It’s not like the people he was dealing with are honest or anything.

  26. Q: Well you degenerates, today is a good day.

    Degenerates: Why is today a good day Q?

    Q: Today is the day I actually read the BS regulations required to be posted in the break room and found out that the Minimum Wage is Rule 34 of the Colorado Employment Code. Let the jokes begin!

    1. Mad Scientist

      So what’s the minimum wage for a Rule 34 joke? Asian guys, I’ll wager.

      1. I would have said $69 a day.

    2. Bobarian LMD

      Pull your pants up in the break room!

      1. The Last American Hero

        It’s the break room at Hooters. Where do you think Q gets all those pics?

  27. Mad Scientist

    Spook who leaks CIA data is suddenly found to have tens of thousands of child porn images on his computer. Seems convenient.

    1. Suthenboy

      “…thousands of technical documents that were “said to be internal CIA guides on how to create and use cyber-spying tools — from turning smart TVs into bugs to designing customized USB drives to extract information from computers.”

      To planting child pornography on computers remotely.

    2. Raven Nation

      So, The X-Files movie was instructional?

    3. Don Escaped Texas

      I found some stuff on a drive recently that my son obviously saved to a family desk top well over a decade ago; I had been copy/pasting whole drives for years to keep up with everything. No telling what else is on there that I am guilty of possessing.

      This is just another reason to be on juries: so you can nullify BS “evidence.” They find two hemp seeds in your back yard and suddenly your house is confiscated? I don’t think so: not guilty.

  28. I doubt this is a direct result of their recent stupidity, but I’ll never pass up an opportunity to enjoy some schadenfreude at Starbucks’ expense.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-19/starbucks-pumps-the-brakes-in-its-home-market

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Below that: U.S. quits human rights council; too anti-Israel.

      Good.

  29. Tundra

    I linked it this morning, but it’s good enough for an encore:

    The Swamp

    Serial documentary about Washington corruption from the viewpoints of several congressritters. The filmmaker sent requests to a bunch of them, but only a handful of Repubs agreed. They also happen to be Freedom Caucus members, too. Shocking, I know.

    Episodes 1-3 are available and Thomas Massie is featured in the 3rd. Good but slightly nauseating stuff.

    1. KibbledKristen

      I’ve lived in the DC area for 28 years. I try to tell non-DC folks about how awful, corrupt, sociopathic, and hateful the people are here. About how Congressional staffers make fun of their own constituents at happy hour every fucking day. The utter contempt Congress and bureaucrats have for them.

      No one ever believes me. They all think their guy is A-OK. And that bureaucrats, as a whole, are good folk.

      No, they hate you and think your tax money belongs to them.

      1. Tundra

        Massie’s description of how to buy your way on to a committee – not to mention which committees are considered desirable or not – was amazingly honest.

        Look for some dirt on him appearing very soon. I get the feeling telling stories out of school is a bad career move.

        1. Ed Wuncler

          That part was fucked up. Corruption like that exists as a result of the expansion of the power of the state.

        2. Mad Scientist

          That reminds me of the plot in Used Cars: Kurt Russell needs to come up with 10 grand to buy his way into the state senate. Hi-jinks ensue.

          1. Tundra

            Underrated movie, but it was supposed to be fiction!

          2. Blu-Ray is worth it!

        3. Suthenboy

          I have heard the same from others. The fedgov has organized on a model after the Mafia. Consequently they behave like the Mafia.

      2. Ed Wuncler

        VEEP is probably the most accurate show about DC politicians. A bunch of sociopaths trying to grab the rings of power.

        1. Suthenboy

          You forgot the word ‘incompetent’.

        2. Chafed

          I always had the sense it is too close to the truth.

      3. Suthenboy

        KK, I have heard the same thing in stronger language from a number of people, Mark Levin being one. People dont like his sometimes sharp tone but I suspect many of those people would be worse having experienced what he has, me being one.

    2. Ed Wuncler

      I watched that two weeks ago and was fucking horrified. I’ve always had an inkling that our Congressmen had some contempt for the American people, but holy shit, the corruption is worst than I thought.

      I had a couple fo friends who worked on Capitol Hill and they all had this belief that their boss’ constituents were idiots and they needed to be told what to do. I also always tried to get one of them to let me come to their Christmas parties on the Hill but they would immediately tell me no because they knew about a couple of drinks I would either yell “statist asshole”, or start a brawl.

      1. Tundra

        Yeah, I’m gonna start sending that around.

        I’m surprised Facebook hasn’t shitcanned it.

    3. KibbledKristen

      Where is CO 4th district? I might could move there when I retire or get a full-time offsite gig, depending on what part of the state it’s in.

      1. Eastern Plains.

    4. Yusef drives a Kia

      How about a non FB link/ I don’t FB………..
      Howdy!

      1. Yusef drives a Kia
  30. KibbledKristen

    My male colleagues were intrigued, yet terrified, by this woman.

    The chick chugging the foul ball beer was more their speed.

    1. AlmightyJB

      I’ve got a bobcat. In my pants.

      1. Suthenboy

        You want her to squeeze the life out of it?

        Now there is a euphemism for you.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Chokin’ the bobcat?

    2. Suthenboy

      Bobcats are not deadly. They can whip your ass, but not really deadly. Still, I am surprised she came out on top. On second thought I want to see this bobcat.

      1. Mad Scientist

        Probably bigger than this one.

      2. KibbledKristen

        IIRC, rabies is not curable (other stories indicate the cat was rabid, and its behavior indicates that too)

        1. Suthenboy

          It is curable if you catch it quick. The problem is that it doesnt show symptoms until it is too late, thus the prophylactic treatment if you have been scratched or bitten by certain critters most likely to have it, bats being the worst.
          Learning to hunt bobcats you will be told by those in the know never to call one too close. If they sneak up too close to what they think is a wounded rabbit and are surprised to find a goofball with a call they are very likely to jump on you. Shoot ’em before 20 or 30 yards which is easier said than done.
          It is not unlikely that this woman and cat had such a surprise meeting which could account for its behavior. Still, take no chances.

        2. Gustave Lytton

          Louis Pasteur sez “What?”

      3. OneOut

        How could her arms not be ripped to shreds, especially by the hind claws ?

        Hell I can’t even play around with my cat without bleeding and he professes to love me.

        1. Suthenboy

          It is a cat. He doesnt love you.

          Typical cat kill is grasp with the front, clamp the throat with teeth and kick the hind feet to disembowel. Bobcats are not big enough to kill a human like that. You can keep them off of your throat but good luck with your arms and hands.

          1. OneOut

            My sentiments exactly hence I say he professes to love me.

            I don’t believe it for a second. I have told my wife that if he was twice his size he would have already killed us in our sleep.

            I don’t doubt that a bobcat could kill against the right victim who let it get it rear claws too close to its throat.

  31. “Michal, another former employee, said she and her husband left the organization with $20,000 in debt, having spent $150,000 combined on OneTaste’s costly classes and retreats”

    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/onetaste-orgasmic-meditation-sexual-daedone-nicole-13004804.php

    $160,000?! You know what they say about a fool and his money…

    1. 150,000. Dammit.

      1. Dr. Fronkensteen

        $10,000.00 here $10,000.00 there what’s the difference. It’s chump change /Nancy Pelosi.

    2. KibbledKristen

      So, Sexual Scientology, basically

  32. l0b0t

    Am I the only one for whom Monocle has stopped working?

  33. Hyperion

    “Russia came out of the 2nd half and are just destroying Egypt”

    The Russians hacked our football!!! RUSSIANS RUSSIANS RUSSIANS! GET MUELLER ON IT!

  34. Hyperion

    “Fuck Cancer! But please don’t treat John McCain until he agrees to retire.”

    People obviously have no right to try this experimental treatment. And the fact that Trump wants to let them proves that he wants to eat immigrant children alive while roasting them on a spit.

    1. SP

      Are you trying to give The Late P Brooks a run for his non-threading champion title?

      Having met the man, and being suitably impressed by his diligence (not to mention facial hair), you will never displace him! He is seriously committed to being the One True Non-Threader.

  35. mikey

    “Germany used the Iron Cross in WWI (if not earlier). Yes, AH was awarded the Iron Cross in WWI but that doesn’t make it a Nazi symbol either.”
    Secret Nazi aircraft at secret Nazi airbase.
    https://goo.gl/images/heB7fB

    1. tarran

      Ah yes, the F-104. I think it’s third after the P-47 and P-51 in the number of confirmed kills of German pilots by US made aircraft.

      1. *opera applause*

      2. But Enough About Me

        Yep. Canadian pilots used to call it “The Widowmaker” and/or “The Flying Coffin.” I knew a CF pilot who flew them low over the Italian Alps during the 60s (IIRC), and he told me that out of his entire training group, only he and one other d00d were actually still alive (this was back around ’76). The single engine had a bad habit of flaming out over said Alps when they were doing radar evasion exercises. You don’t have a lot of time to correct in a stubby-winged airframe when you’re only a thousand feet or so above a ridge.

      3. Not an Economist

        I like airplanes where the leading edge is sharp you can cut your hand.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Secret Nazi airbase? Denver’s new airport?

  36. Lackadaisical

    Just got my BIF box… lots of nice stuff in there. Thanks Yusef! 🙂

    *feeling thirsty*

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      I Hope you like them, 🙂

      1. Lackadaisical

        I’m sure I will.

  37. Heroic Mulatto

    @trshmnstr

    Hey, we have something in common! My daily razor is a circa 1940’s Gillette Milord that I inherited from my step-dad, who in turn, inherited from his grandfather. Combined with Astra blades, it’s an excellent shave.

    1. trshmnstr

      Nice! I love the lineage stories that come with so many of those razors. Unfortunately, if I were to inherit a razor, it would be a crusty old Trac II from the 70s

    1. Suthenboy

      What the hell? The Pope has been doing that for 2000 years. They cant catch him? Must be that slippery Pope-mobile.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        But does the Pope have a baby alligator and what his relationship with Stevie the Alien?

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Jesus HM! at least make it a link i don’t have to click!

    3. Mad Scientist

      “I do not care what the police say. The tickets are solid gold. And it was Jesus who gave them to me behind the KFC and told me to sell them so I could get me some money to go to outer space. I met an alien named Stevie, who said if I got the cash together he would take me and my wife on a flying saucer to his planet that is made entirely of drugs. You should arrest Jesus because he is the one that gave me the golden tickets. I am willing to wear a wire and set Jesus up.”

      That just can’t be real…..can it?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        It don’t want to live any longer if it isn’t.

      2. Suthenboy

        I worked in a mental hospital for ten years. Actually that sounds pretty plausible next to some of the stuff I have heard.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Worked at? hmmmm, you do hang out here………………

          1. Suthenboy

            My wife was a department head for 30 years. A couple of years after our marriage she asked me to volunteer, so I did. That is when the state workers discovered that I was the One-eyed King. They couldn’t hire me fast enough.

          2. Yusef drives a Kia

            I Larfed!
            Cheers!……

    4. AlmightyJB

      Police confiscated over 10k. Who are the bad guys again?

      1. Suthenboy

        You cant confiscate what already belongs to you. Mr. Crazyman forgot to ask permission to keep some for himself.

    5. That’s putatively a Kenyan newspaper and there’s no US source?

  38. Hyperion

    This is pure fucking gold.

    Viva la Revolucion!

    Any bets on how long this lasts before they start blaming it on state capitalism?

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      They. Never. Learn.

    2. Suthenboy

      Again, no way to offer feedback.
      Every time one of these pinko shitweasels comes along they start singing his praises and how we are all going to see this time. Yes, then it is wreckers and kulaks and hoarders and finally…state capitalism. For the 1097th time he wasn’t the right one after all.
      I think we should hurry up with that wall business.

    3. AlmightyJB

      Aka Why the Left Wants an Ooen Boarder to the South.

      1. Suthenboy

        Bingo.

    4. Gustave Lytton

      MXN$90M (~$4.5M USD at current rates) for an election twenty years ago? And someone just happened to show up with a box of the bribe receipts? BS.

      Like Europe, it’s the choice between the leftist candidate and the even more leftist candidate. And once again, our politicians can’t help but weigh in. How is any Mexican government a national security threat? The last time the Mexicans were an actual threat was a hundred years ago when Pancho Villa was crossing the border and killing Americans. Our current armed forces are powerless against that? And that’s a plausible scenario?

      1. They could send the drug gangs north.

      2. Suthenboy

        “How is any Mexican government a national security threat?”

        They aren’t. The swarms of starving commies pouring over the border will be. By the time it gets to that who knows who be running the government? The Democrats would love nothing better than to import millions of commie votes.

    5. Drake

      Let’s see him nationalize the drug cartels.

  39. Unreconstructed

    Since the shaving thread has died…any of y’all have recommendations for good (aggressive) blades? I bought a Merkur 33C, and loved the blade that came with it. Every other blade I’ve put in that thing has just been awful – as in, just kinda waves at my whiskers as it goes by.

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      Feather.

      1. KSuellington

        I will second Feather and I also like Shark blades.

        1. Stinky Wizzleteats

          Thirded, Feathers are as sharp as it gets.

          1. Tundra

            Fourthed. I tried probably a dozen different blades before settling on the Feathers.

    2. trshmnstr

      If you want, send me your address to zr9jcra46wey@opayq.com

      I’ll toss a couple packs of feathers in the mail for you to try.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Astra, I find them to be smoother than Feather.

  40. Yusef drives a Kia

    I missed the Shaving thread, Great job BTW, I use off the rack 2 blades in the shower, Sentitive skin shave cream, and Hair conditioner on my Head.
    But I use a Diamond Sharpening stone, and whet the blades before use, always sharp and last through half a dozen shaves for like 25 cents.

    1. trshmnstr

      There are some guys who do the same thing with the dual edge blades. Sometimes they get them to last 20+ shaves.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        I learned it from a friend, with higher end Razors, Diamond whetting can increase life about like you said, but Right now I’m a cheap Bastard.
        The Swamp is a real pisser, I suggest every one watch it and me pissed like me and Tundra and others,

        1. Suthenboy

          I hope they replay it in October. Play it now and let that sink in and stew in the backs of people’s minds. Then replay it mid-october to get them pissed off again.

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            I just finished Ep. 3, they screwed the Guy with the Young Girl child, you know, the one who was already pissed at what happened to Her Country, He’s done.

          2. Suthenboy

            I am not familiar with the story.

          3. If Citizens United had gone the other way, they wouldn’t be allowed to play it in October. Let that sink in.

            (Of course, everyone here already knew that.)

          4. Suthenboy

            Exactly why they have such a hard-on for Citizens United.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Q! I need Redheads! I need non Twiggys, Hep me Q Hep me!

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            TY!

      1. Lackadaisical

        Lil too skinny for me… though, I wouldn’t kick her out of bed.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        Those aren’t real, but damn….

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          they look fine to me, I think that’s a real Wimmin person

    1. Oh, they mean Sus scrofa, not the cops.

      1. (Technically, Sus scrofa domesticus.)

  41. Count Potato

    “Trump’s deputy chief of staff is out: Joe Hagin to leave White House after keeping North Korea summit secrets from Trump to stop him from tweeting – and revelations of links to sex cult”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5862869/Trumps-deputy-chief-staff-Joe-Hagin-leave-White-House.html

    1. Suthenboy

      Links to sex cult.

      Every time these knuckleheads fall out of favor someone reveals that they are also a secret pig fucker. Is that just sop these days? No more bowing out gracefully?

      1. Part of it is probably just smearing the wrongthinker. The process is the punishment.

        I remember a few years ago there was a report about a couple of the women in the Julian Assange case saying he had a small penis. There’s no newsworthiness to the story other than to try to humiliate Assange.

    2. AlmightyJB

      How is Bill Clinton not in this cult?

      1. Count Potato

        Not enough pedophilia and spirit cooking?

      2. Suthenboy

        What makes you think he is not? He is probably a card carrying member of a dozen of them.

  42. Late reader. Great shaving article Trash – I don’t mind the personal touch at the barber every now and then, but the only thing I hate more than shaving is [having] facial hair…so I’m happy to keep it cheap, and convenient. During [ship] deployments, if I could get a no-shave chit, I’d normally shave every other day to minimize irritation – being in the AC 24/7 really dries me out. Shaving in the field on the other hand was a first class PITA.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      “being in the AC 24/7 really dries me out”
      Maybe change the thermostat?

      1. Not an option on the ship. Too much equipment.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Sorry, a meme from this Morning, AC full time is bad on the Skin, this is known

  43. Pan Zagloba

    PM Zoolander’s dream is just a step from reality.

    Senate passes pot bill, paving way for legal weed in 8 to 12 weeks

    Senators have voted to pass the federal government’s bill legalizing recreational marijuana by a vote of 52 to 29, with two abstentions, paving the way for a fully legal cannabis market within eight to 12 weeks.

    “I’m feeling just great,” said Sen. Tony Dean, who sponsored the bill in the Senate. “We’ve just witnessed a historic vote for Canada. The end of 90 years of prohibition. Transformative social policy, I think. A brave move on the part of the government.”

    Now that the bill has passed, it’s up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet to choose the actual date when the legalization of recreational marijuana becomes law of the land. Bill C-45 comes with a provisional buffer period of eight to 12 weeks to give provinces time to prepare for actual sales of recreational marijuana.

    1. The Last American Hero

      Sure the Senators voted for it, but don’t the Maple Leafs and the Canucks have to have a vote before it becomes law?

      1. Pan Zagloba

        Not after this year’s performance!

        Voting is for winners.

        1. And it really should be Maple Leaves.

  44. KibbledKristen

    You guys. I adore my job. I fucking love it. And it’s government, for fuck’s sake!! I like my bosses, I like the work, I like my colleagues. It’s the perfect combo of independent work and teamwork. Sonofabitch.

    Our contract went for bid, and our office director stipulated that the current contract staff must be retained. So all the contractor sharks are trying to woo the ever-loving shit out of us. It’s awesome.

    1. AlmightyJB

      You’re Welcome. Jj:)

      1. KibbledKristen

        Rest assured, you’re getting your money’s worth. But thanks for the ski trips!

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          I pay for you, but I don’t get any Ski trips, too busy working…….
          /still love ya KK!

    1. RAHeinlein

      Interesting that TOS and Glibs are now on-board with this given the “Rethuglicans are lying b/c of course insurance crosses state lines” comments in the past. Ditto 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act.

  45. Yusef drives a Kia

    Stossel and Peterson, NVM Reason TV
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=jnJEEdp6W24

    1. AlmightyJB

      They’re like a cult. Made up of tantrum throwing toddlers.

    1. Suthenboy

      It cant be said enough but I haven’t heard much about it. Hamas is a proxy for Iran. Iran used the cash Obama gave them to finance this Hamas shit show. That missile that landed in the kindergarten play yard? Obama paid for that. There is no way that weaselly sack of lying shit didn’t know that would happen.

      1. Spudalicious

        If Obama is a closet Muslim, he’s Shi’a.

        1. Spudalicious

          And watch out for exploding condoms, that’ll fuck your shit up in more ways than one.

          1. Technically it’ll fuck up your piss and semen, not your shit.

          2. Spudalicious

            Depends on the amount of explosives.

          3. Bobarian LMD

            It would also depend on how the condom was being used.

        2. Suthenboy

          He is not a secret muslim. What he is is an enabler of the enemies of western civilization.

          1. Count Potato

            This.

        3. Count Potato

          He did go to school in a madrassa at one point, but I wouldn’t say he is a muslim, or leans particularly Sunni or Shiite as he also enabled Saudi extremists as well. What I would say is that he was anti-Israel.

          1. Suthenboy

            The only thing Obama and his ilk believe in is personal power.

          2. Spudalicious

            This.

          3. Count Potato

            To me he seemed clearly anti-Israel. And even tried to interfere with Netanyahu being elected.

          4. Suthenboy

            He was. He did. He is marinated in postmodernism, anti-colonialism and socialism. There is nothing in that recipe that adds up to a love for America or Israel.

          5. Suthenboy

            I forgot racism.

          6. Not an Economist

            And even tried to interfere with Netanyahu being elected.

            Interfering in other country’s elections is okay when the right people do it.

          7. Drake

            He’s anti-western civilization.

          8. Not an Economist

            Personally I think Obama is very religious. He sees his God every time he looks in the mirror.

      2. Count Potato

        The Iran deal was just so unbelievably bad. It wouldn’t surprise me how most of the media covered for it wasn’t a significant factor in getting Trump elected.

        1. Suthenboy

          Nearly the entirety of Obama’s legacy has been dismantled in less than two years. These riots, also part of his legacy, are about to be erased too. They are going to keep it up until the IDF starts shooting back in earnest.

          1. commodious spittoon

            Trump hadn’t even taken office before repealing Obama’s legacy of racial comity.

    2. Drake

      At some point in time the nation of Israel is going to stop tolerating this. Maybe it will be just the cumulative petty bullshit or they’ll get a 9-11 / Pearl Harbor. When they snap, everyone in Gaza is going to killed or expelled.

  46. Anyone post about the Colombian election yet? Lefty, former terrorist was doing decently till everyone remembered Venezuela next door. Previous president’s Nobel Peace Prize is gonna tarnish even faster than Obumbles from the looks of things. Duque sounds like a Uribe-esqe realist, but we’ll have to wait and see.

    1. Chafed

      From what I have read he is a lightweight, with little experience, and few obvious fixed principles. He is therefore orders of magnitude better than the socialist who lost.

  47. Count Potato

    I just tried the worst vape juice humanly possible. It tasted like chewing stale bubblegum while huffing gasket remover out of a homeless guy’s ass.

    1. This Machine

      So, uh, still better than Bud Light Lime, yeah?

      1. Count Potato

        I never tried it. But fruit doesn’t belong in beer.

        1. Nephilium

          I used to think the same way Count Potato. But I have found some quite awesome fruit beers which have changed my mind. Especially sours, radlers, wheats, and some of the IPA’s.

          1. Count Potato

            I don’t like IPA. Even though I like hops in darker, heavier brews.

            Long Trail made a blackberry ale that wasn’t bad. And pumpkin ale is a traditional New England and upstate New York thing.

            But that’s different than shoving lime wedges in Mexican beer.

  48. straffinrun

    The face that launched a thousand emails. Pete’s judgement is a bit lacking.

    1. This Machine

      She better give really, and I mean really, truly, legendary good head.

      1. Tres Cool

        She’s got a forehead I could iron a suit on.

        1. KSuellington

          She has a vaguely alien appearance. I could picture her with a greenish hue and an anal probe.

          1. Tres Cool

            Or swallowing a live rat, like the Commander in “V” ?

          2. KSuellington

            Ha! I hadn’t thought about that show in a long time. That was some trippy ass shit to watch as a kid. Yes, anal probes and rat eating one to mind from that pic.

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LZYoAmZX4rI

          3. Chafed

            Mr. Lizard is going to be pissed you outed her.

    2. Drake

      She looks like Olive Oil but old.

      1. straffinrun

        Listen, I’m no looker either, but I can’t imagine an FBI agent cheating on her husband for me. These people are insane.

  49. Tres Cool

    Granted, I cant really find anyone in this story that I like. In fact, I wish the bowling-ball sized SMOD would have landed on everyone in that parking lot.
    But its the local King’s Men.
    Do NOT fuck with them.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Peagler said he hurt his foot and suffered road rash wrestling with Ronan, who recently contested the re-election of Congressman Steve Chabot in the May primary.

      Calhoun established that Ronan, a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserves, never put his hands on Peagler during the altercation

      Wrestled with the cop, causing road rash and foot injury, without using his hands? That’s Obi Wan Kwai Chang Caine right there.

      1. Tres Cool

        You had a perfect storm there, and its a miracle nobody got shot. You have the confrontational, abrasive d-bag that wasn’t complying (not that he should have to, but that’s neither here nor there), and the type-a cop messing his panties because because nobody is respectin’ his authoritah. Ronan was a CCW holder, so Im sure when the cop ran the license plate, that popped up. Everyone was yelling, and nobody was de-escalating.
        Its a good thing there werent stray dogs, or even someone walking their dog, cause you know those cops had total blue balls.

    2. Brutal autoplay on that link.

  50. Waterfall Insurance

    I don’t know if anyone else has watched it but the new Fahrenheit movie from HBO sucks.

    1. RAHeinlein

      +1

    2. commodious spittoon
      1. Waterfall Insurance

        That pretty much sums it up. It has next to nothing in common with the book and what they change and keep is stupid. Just watch Book of Eli instead.

    3. Bobarian LMD

      I thought the preview pretty well screamed that.

    4. CPRM

      Huh. Never would have seen that coming. I mean the leader on the left thinks 1984 is about learning to trust the people in power, so when that’s the powerhouse of thought I would surely think they would be able to make this a compelling and realistic narrative.

  51. straffinrun

    Just when you thought Adam Schiff couldn’t become any more ridiculous.

    “By releasing this Twitter data, we hope that researchers will continue their important work exposing any additional Russian operators who used similar tactics and themes, and provide the American people with additional information to protect our elections and political debate in the future,” Representative Adam Schiff of California, the House Intelligence panel’s ranking Democrat, said in a statement.

    1. Raven Nation

      Man, if I was ever elected to Congress, I’d be getting censured everyday when I responded to idiocy like that.

  52. commodious spittoon

    I’ve been watching the Dirk Gentley series on Hulu. Very fun, very madcap. Although I don’t recall Frodo being in the books. Great acting, especially the weirdos.

  53. Yusef drives a Kia

    Writing and Recording music is a Bitch! A ton of rewriting, rerecording, rearranging, tedious as fuck, but it’s worth it, I guess……
    /I’m that good

    1. CPRM

      Try doing it when you’re deaf and get back to me /Beethoven

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        60/40 how’s that?

  54. CPRM

    I’m going to change my preferred pronoun to ‘everyone’; that way anytime I’m quoted if they use a pronoun it will read “Everyone said”.

    1. CPRM

      “CPRM is an asshole. Everyone said “CPRM is the best, most wonderful person.” Everyone went on to say, “Libertarianism is the ideology to follow.” Everyone is an asshole.”

      1. Gustave Lytton

        I suppose it’s too late at night for one of the Glib staff to insert the Orson Wells clapping heartily gif here.

        1. CPRM

          To be sure. But that is Funky Dory with me.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            I think you mean “with everyone”.

          2. CPRM

            I’d have to arrest myself in Canada now.

          3. CPRM

            Damnit, did it again,! “Everyone would have to arrest everyone in Canada now.”

          4. Gustave Lytton

            Sweet dreams everyone!

          5. CPRM

            All everyone sees is a diabetic link.

          6. Gustave Lytton

            Dammit. I SF’d the link.

            Sweet Dreams

    2. straffinrun

      Everyone I know voted for Hillary.

      1. CPRM

        That is libel! Everyone voted for the idiot Gary Johnson!

    3. J. Frank Parnell

      I’m going with “sources”

      1. CPRM

        Everyone says that isn’t a pronoun.

        source
        sôrs/Submit
        noun
        plural noun: sources
        1. a place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.
        “mackerel is a good source of fish oil”
        synonyms: origin, birthplace, spring, fountainhead, fount, starting point, ground zero; More
        verb
        3rd person present: sources
        1. obtain from a particular source.
        “each type of coffee is sourced from one country”

        1. J. Frank Parnell

          Sources say it is a pronoun.

          1. CPRM

            Well, everyone disagrees with sources, so sources must be wrong.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      These people are completely unhinged. Conflating the internment of American citizens who did nothing and were detained indefinitely with illegal aliens who have violated the law and are awaiting processing in one form or another, usually due to their own actions.

      1. Just read an article on Quillette taking the “think of the children” side but in a thoughtful, coherent way. Sadly, it brought all the worst commenters out of the woodwork. There’s even a guy I recognize from the WaPo forums from years ago. But the best, as in made by intelligent people in good faith, responses seem to make the following points: a.) the “humane” policy of catch-and-release incentivizes illegal immigration, b.) these are not asylum-seekers by any reasonable definition, definitely not by the UNCHR standards, and c.) illegal entry is an actual crime, and bringing your kids with you shouldn’t be an absolute defense against it.

        I’m not an open borders guy, but I am an easy immigration guy. I’m also a national sovereignty guy, and I deeply resent the idea that people who are not from this country believe they should have some sort of say as to who we admit and who we bar. I’m also really, really suspicious of the Sarah McLaughlin puppies-in-a-cage approach that the pro-illegal immigrant side is taking here.

    2. CPRM

      Were his parents breaking any laws by being Japanese? No? Oh, then not the same…

    3. straffinrun

      We got Trump on this one. Chain link fences. Children crying. Brown Children crying. NAAAAAZI. If we get hysterical enough, we’ll take back the house.

  55. Yusef drives a Kia

    Hello!

    1. CPRM

      Everyone has to go to bed. But everyone is sure everyone will run into you again later this week.

    1. westernsloper

      Jesus. He and his girlfriend sure look like world class shit weasels. If there is one, that is one sex tape I hope never gets leaked.