Friday Night Open Thread

How’s this for a gripe? Saw this in the comments section of a news story about how sucky San Francisco has become:

The name “$100,000 Bar” was better than “100 Grand.” We used to have a lot more candy companies. Curtiss produced Butterfinger and Baby Ruth before being bought out by the big boys. Peter Paul produced Mounds and Almond Joy. Hollywood produced Payday and a host of others. Now we get endless varieties of Reeces, M&Ms, and Snickers but Hershey and Nestle have the market.

I completely agree. But any pollsters better stay off my lawn.

Just Say No. No No No.

NASCAR Beer Prices for Chicago Race Are Going Viral for All the Wrong Reasons
Penn Live | 28 June 2023 | Brian Linder

When beer prices are making news at an event, it’s never a good thing . . .

A six-pack of Busch Light or Michelob Ultra will run you $63. That’s about five times the price of a 12-pack of cans outside the event.

Brutal.

Good news is, if you just want a single beer, that will only cost you $10.50 … or about the price of a 12-pack.

We definitely have a race problem.

Hopelessly Incompetent

Why hasn’t the D.O.J. raided me yet for promoting and spreading mockery of the U.S. political and judicial system?

I’m surprised that isn’t already a charge enShrinered in the U.S. Code.

Well, I see this as a radiant example of their incompetence — think Motor Vehicles Department — not as a result of any mitigation of their evil anti-First-Amendment gestapoism. If I ranted against trans-gay storyteller homo castration-recruiting groomers, I would have been long, long gone by now. They just lack the motivation and that ol’ 9-to-5 will.

What the heck am I saying? Go after Walrus, first, feds! He’s the ringleader! He made me do it!

They got Harvey. That’s all I’m saying.

It’s Official: I Have Absolutely Lost Track of Whatever the Heck Is Going On in the World

Iraqi man fills a Koran with bacon and burns it outside a Stockholm mosque after police allowed protest, enraging Turkey which holds sway over Sweden’s bid to join NATO
DailyMail.com | 6/28/2023 | Chris Jewers

An Iraqi man filled a Koran with bacon and burned it in Stockholm on Wednesday, an event that has angered Turkey as Sweden bids to join NATO.

The inflammatory stunt was carried out by two men outside the city’s main mosque on the first day of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday.

Um… the author should be careful about what assignments he gets in the Muslim world….

Sigh.

I’m embarrassed, as an American, to admit to our Canadian brothers and sisters that we, as a country, are not exactly perfect.

Atlanta Plans To Blow $230 Million on 2-Mile Extension of Useless Streetcar
Reason | 6/26/23 | Eric Boehm

What is already arguably America’s worst public transit project is about to get a whole lot more expensive.

Big surprise.

That’s like saying the death toll in Chicago from gang shootings is about to get a lot worse.

The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is moving ahead with plans to build a 2-mile extension to the city’s 2.7-mile streetcar line, with an estimated price tag of $230 million.

“For starters.” — Tony Soprano.

The Center Square reports that the first batch of that new spending—an $11.5 million contract awarded to a firm that will design the extension—was doled out last week.

To design. I could have drawn a design on a map for a couple of bucks.

The project is being funded by a half-cent increase in the Atlanta sales tax, and the extension is scheduled to open in 2028.

And this tax will go away when the project is . . . ? ah, forget it. I don’t want to sound stupid.

Even if the extension doesn’t go over budget, . . .

{cough} California high-speed rail {cough}

$230 million for two miles of new streetcar track works out to a slobber-knocking total of $21,700 per foot.

“slobber-knocking”?

And that only covers the construction costs. If the current Atlanta Streetcar is any indication, most of the operating costs for the extension will be covered by people who never ride it.

Including people who pay federal taxes in Florida, Massachusetts, Denver, . . .

The existing 2.7-mile loop through downtown Atlanta gets about 158,000 riders per year. Even if all of them pay the $1 per ride fare—and there is ample evidence that many do not—

New York decided that it’s racist to prosecute stile-jumpers. Because only one race does it, I guess, is their logic.

that wouldn’t come close to covering the system’s $5 million annual operating cost.

. . . minus ten percent for the Big Guy.

Sorry, Canadians. Moving to the U.S. is no solution to your socialist problems. It would be like moving to Nazi Germany to escape Soviet Russia.

Please Let There Be Film at 11!

SPD: Homeowner Uses Samurai Sword To Stab Suspected Burglar Armed With a Pitchfork
fox13 | 06/28/23 | Franque Thompson

SEATTLE – Police say a suspected burglar attacked a homeowner with a pitchfork in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, but the man fought back with a samurai sword.

Straight Line of the Day: In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man…

Welcome to IMAO! Let’s Face It — We’re Experiencing Information Overload

P.S. — No decorations allowed on walls.

Friday Classic Funny

“Hi there Mr. Walrus.”

“Hello Miss Cates. A nice surprise but where is Miss Derek?”

“She’s out searching for more Farside sources so she sent me with some classic Monty Python skits.”

“I’m sure the cobs won’t mind.”