James Varney: Should You Believe Biden's Crank Figures on Crime, Or Your Own Lyin' Eyes?

Americans can be forgiven for suffering from whiplash regarding law and order.
In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics to argue that America is becoming a safer place.
"Right now, with 2023 figures and early 2024, the trends are all pointing down, in a positive direction," Jeff Asher, whose New Orleans-based AH Datalytics is developing his own "Real-Time Crime Index," told RealClearInvestigations.
Conservative outlets, including City Journal and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, assert that minor declines in headline grabbers like homicides fail to capture
From 2017 to 2019, the U.S. had an average of 16,641 homicides a year. In 2021 and 2022, however, the country saw considerably more bloodshed, with an average of more than 22,000 annual homicides. Even if the 2023 number drops slightly, it will still represent a large increase over the recent past, before the pandemic and racial upheaval set in motion in 2020.
Many criminologists say this illlustrates one of the problems with the official numbers that are at the center of public debate: They give a distorted impression of true levels of crime. They note that crime stats have become notoriously incomplete in recent years. In some years many big cities did not report their numbers to the FBI, and there are such wide discrepancies in these tallies that the picture they provide has more blur than clarity.

As Varney will report in a bit, the FBI actually gave cities the go-ahead to not report crime.

...
But the FBI statistics aren't what they used to be, according to several criminologists who pointed to gaps in coverage and apparent errors. The problem began in 1988 when the bureau began to move toward a complex new system of reporting -- the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). It promised to provide more comprehensive detail and enable authorities to pinpoint high-crime areas, criminals, and victims more accurately.

But the transition proved to be a herculean task, so much so that the FBI allowed departments to delay their full adherence to the program even after the feds doled out $120 million to agencies to assist with compliance. Still, in 2020, 2021 and 2022, either all or some of the biggest police forces in the U.S. -- New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles -- did not provide data.
There have also been problems with the data that was submitted, including the news in 2022 of major problems with the St. Louis Police Department data, and more recent revelations that figures for sexual crimes provided by the New Orleans Police Department were wrong.
In Baltimore, the Police Department and various news reports put the total for 2022 homicides between 332 and 336, but the FBI's dataset puts the number at 272. Baltimore police officials did not reply to RCI's inquiries about the wide spread in the reported numbers, and if anyone in the city's police department had brought the matter to the FBI's attention.
The Baltimore department acknowledges its numbers may not be the same as those it submits to the FBI, but states on its website that "any comparisons are strictly prohibited."
Similarly, the police departments in Milwaukee and Nashville did not respond to questions about divergences between their stats on robberies and those from the federal bureau. Milwaukee police reported a 7 percent increase in robberies in 2023, but the FBI recorded a 13 percent decline.
An FBI spokesperson told RCI, "It is the responsibility of each state UCR [Uniform Crime Reports] program or contributing law enforcement agency to submit accurate statistics and correct existing data that are in error."

Yes, and I'm sure the blue states which have chosen a deadly decarceration agenda -- setting the criminals free to brutalize the law-abiding -- will get right on correcting their incomplete data.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

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1 Oh, hell no.

Posted by: huerfano at May 17, 2024 06:30 PM (VGOMa)

2 Try it yourself first

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at May 17, 2024 06:32 PM (as3uC)

3 Live across from Detroit.

I would not go there for anything....

Shithole...

Posted by: Stateless at May 17, 2024 06:32 PM (jvJvP)

4 The murder ration is down from 4.9 per 100,000 to 7.8!

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 06:33 PM (lX8VI)

5 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2024 06:33 PM (3SlSH)

6 No really.

Crime isn't a problem.

As long as you live on an island, surrounded by unfriendly sea life (whatever is indigenous to your area), steep cliffs, a 40 foot rock wall with turrets and a trebuchet for the flaming oil balls.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (YyqoW)

7 i would think faking homicide stats would be kind of hard

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (B1FKF)

8 If a crime isn't reported, did it really happen?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (BpYfr)

9 My Mother grew up in Detroit. White flight in the 80's when that subhuman Coleman Young was mayor.

House turned into a drug den. Now torn down.

Deroit is an unsafe Democratic shithole.

For those that missed it the first time.

Posted by: Stateless at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (jvJvP)

10 Violent crime is down down down and profits are up up up!!

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (lX8VI)

11 A tractor was heisted out of a pasture just a couple miles up the road

Grateful for pipe and cable fencing, dogs and shotguns.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:35 PM (EoJ7M)

12 All government "statistics" are designed to get more in the budget, employ more layabouts to vote for same, get the sheeple to run from one corner of their enclosure to the other and are just pure shit.

Pure. Shit.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 17, 2024 06:36 PM (R/m4+)

13 i would think faking homicide stats would be kind of hard
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (B1FKF)

Hello there!

Posted by: Covid Stats at May 17, 2024 06:36 PM (dGCAG)

14 Last year had the highest number of homicides but this year that record is .05% lower. Crime, specifically murder is on the down slide.

Se also inflation. Joefredo is doing a hell of a job and you just don't appreciate him.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 17, 2024 06:37 PM (17s+e)

15 Just The News: Houston Police chief resigns, mayor 'shocked' by latest investigation’s revelation

https://tinyurl.com/n7v3kxpf

"In February, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner first announced that the Houston Police Department dropped 264,000 crime reports, including violent crimes and sexual assaults, which weren’t investigated because a “lack of personnel” code was assigned to them, The Center Square reported.

(Snip...)

The lack of violent crime investigations and dropping crime reports, Whitmire has said, likely skewed crime data, meaning the crime rate for the city was actually higher than reported. The previous mayor and Finner had claimed crime in the state’s largest city was declining despite daily news reports indicating the opposite."

Two ways to get lower crime rates. Aggressive enforcement OR do it the democrat way, cup your hands over your eyes and pretend it's not happening.

Posted by: Robert at May 17, 2024 06:37 PM (3SlSH)

16 What does this have to do with eating bugs?

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 06:37 PM (v0R5T)

17 I’m sure we can trust the govt to accurately report statistics that make them look bad.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 17, 2024 06:37 PM (b4o9z)

18 in 2020, 2021 and 2022, either all or some of the biggest police forces in the U.S. -- New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles -- did not provide data.

We're supposed to be surprised that the FBI is colluding with Blue cities?

I shan't believe it!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 17, 2024 06:38 PM (ub4bN)

19 Everyone is a criminal nowadays. It's just a matter of degrees.

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 06:38 PM (vFG9F)

20 A couple of weeks ago I saw a Nextdoor post by a woman about a break in on her block. How awful it is and what’s going on, where is this crime coming from all of a sudden? Etc.

Every 2nd post by her is about how amazing Biden is.

They’ll never get it.

Posted by: Montec at May 17, 2024 06:38 PM (+i6Dt)

21 I know this isn't particularly shocking but I had dealings with a police department that wrote up their own legit crime stats for 2001 in a detailed book. When the book was complete after 5 months of tireless research and preparation, the mayor forbid the book from being released and it was binned and forgotten.

So I guess crime was down there too.

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 06:39 PM (lX8VI)

22 If a crime happens in the city and no one reports it, did it happen?

Posted by: Skip at May 17, 2024 06:39 PM (fwDg9)

23 surrounded by unfriendly sea life (whatever is indigenous to your area), steep cliffs, a 40 foot rock wall with turrets and a trebuchet for the flaming oil balls.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I so want to visit your island!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 17, 2024 06:39 PM (ub4bN)

24 All Government numbers are now fake.

Even simple things like the Temperature records, are now fake, because they have not sited Temp Recording stations properly, as cities have grown around them.

And don't even get me started on economic data... or the amount the DOD has flat out LOST in recent decades (can't pass even internal audits).

The Government now only reports, what politicians want you to hear... not actual data so we can have an informed electorate.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 17, 2024 06:39 PM (xaFKb)

25 in 2020, 2021 and 2022, either all or some of the biggest police forces in the U.S. -- New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles -- did not provide data.

It’s like the blue city/state education model.
Too many blacks failing? Easy solution. Stop testing blacks then no more fails.

Posted by: Montec at May 17, 2024 06:39 PM (+i6Dt)

26 Homie cides here in Charlotte are up 31% from last year. At some point you'd think the issue would self correct.

Posted by: nckate at May 17, 2024 06:39 PM (4bYb7)

27 You're so safe we can't tell how safe.

Posted by: eleven at May 17, 2024 06:40 PM (fV+MH)

28 Everyday seeing crimes that the perpetrator is let go

Posted by: Skip at May 17, 2024 06:40 PM (fwDg9)

29 Lol

Homie cides...

Posted by: Stateless at May 17, 2024 06:41 PM (jvJvP)

30 Believe nothing you hear and quarter of what you see.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:41 PM (EoJ7M)

31 If a crime isn't reported, did it really happen?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (BpYfr)

Demonize the cops, people stop calling the cops for help.

Not a great plan.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2024 06:41 PM (dGCAG)

32 "What does this have to do with eating bugs?"

Or Godzilla?

Posted by: eleven at May 17, 2024 06:41 PM (fV+MH)

33 nckate........

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 06:42 PM (lX8VI)

34 Homicides have always been bad in ‘New Orleans, but except for a few exceptions, it largely confined to one demographic. Apparently the dems that run this place don’t give a shit about them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 17, 2024 06:42 PM (b4o9z)

35 i would think faking homicide stats would be kind of hard
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 17, 2024 06:34 PM (B1FKF)

Not really, I suspect the individual reporting sites, outside of the cities and counties themselves, all go through a central database. If you can corrupt that database then all the peripherals match and there is no reason to doubt the numbers after some "cross checking"

I would check the PD's reported "call out for homicide reports" against the homicide reporting from the state or the feds and see what looks interesting.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2024 06:42 PM (D7oie)

36 Crime is down! Cut the budget.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:42 PM (EoJ7M)

37 The FBI 's intention is to make crime statistics opaque and unusable.

Posted by: katt williams at May 17, 2024 06:43 PM (rJ48h)

38 32 "What does this have to do with eating bugs?"

Or Godzilla?
Posted by: eleven at May 17, 2024 06:41 PM (fV+MH)

Or Godzilla eating Bugs? I THINK NOT!

Posted by: Mothra at May 17, 2024 06:43 PM (xaFKb)

39 If you don't arrest and punish people committing crimes, do people bother reporting them?

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 17, 2024 06:43 PM (nLFEI)

40 Homie cides here in Charlotte are up 31% from last year. At some point you'd think the issue would self correct.
Posted by: nckate

The Libs/Dems have to have the people in fear so you have both the Northern and Southern lines in the sand vs. real borders.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 17, 2024 06:43 PM (ub4bN)

41 Easier to change the statistics than change the underlying numbers.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 17, 2024 06:43 PM (nLFEI)

42 Remember this?

Crime Rate Down While Imprisonments Are Up

Experts Baffled!

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 06:44 PM (lX8VI)

43 Such a lefty thing - it's not reality that is the problem, it is your viewpoint, which we will adjust....

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 17, 2024 06:44 PM (nLFEI)

44 >>Homicides have always been bad in ‘New Orleans, but except for a few exceptions, it largely confined to one demographic. Apparently the dems that run this place don’t give a shit about them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 17, 2024 06:42 PM

Well, they vote for dems whether living or dead or imaginary.

Posted by: huerfano at May 17, 2024 06:44 PM (VGOMa)

45 All Government numbers are now fake.

Even simple things like the Temperature records, are now fake, because they have not sited Temp Recording stations properly, as cities have grown around them.

And don't even get me started on economic data... or the amount the DOD has flat out LOST in recent decades (can't pass even internal audits).

The Government now only reports, what politicians want you to hear... not actual data so we can have an informed electorate.
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 17, 2024 06:39 PM (xaFKb)

Everything's written on FBI form 302.

What could possibly go wrong.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2024 06:45 PM (dGCAG)

46 I don't believe any of the numbers coming out of this administration including jobs, consumer confidence and inflation

Posted by: It's me donna at May 17, 2024 06:46 PM (Akjoo)

47 39 If you don't arrest and punish people committing crimes, do people bother reporting them?
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law

That is exactly what has happened in Seattle. The local neighborhood blogs report all the break ins and shoplifting and porch pirates. Very little of this is reported to the SPD because, why? Even when they catch the perps RED HANDED, they are let go on the same day. I'm just waiting for people to start fighting back. I already have and will continue to do so.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 17, 2024 06:47 PM (YyqoW)

48 Leftists lie with the ease you breath

Posted by: Skip at May 17, 2024 06:47 PM (fwDg9)

49 Coallation>collusion> corruption.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:48 PM (EoJ7M)

50 ... written in 2B pencil on Form 302

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 17, 2024 06:48 PM (tQtDb)

51 * sends sock_rat a hug*

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:49 PM (EoJ7M)

52 @31
Demonize the cops, people stop calling the cops for help.

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Alternately, implement programs that have the criminals back out on the streets before the cops finish the paperwork, cops stop bothering to arrest.

Posted by: junior at May 17, 2024 06:49 PM (sTBLq)

53 But the transition proved to be a herculean task, so much so that the FBI allowed departments to delay their full adherence to the program even after the feds doled out $120 million to agencies to assist with compliance. Still, in 2020, 2021 and 2022, either all or some of the biggest police forces in the U.S. -- New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles -- did not provide data.

Houston
Dallas
Ft Worth
I think Orlando and Tampa too

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 17, 2024 06:50 PM (ENQN6)

54 either all or some of the biggest police forces in the U.S. -- New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles -- did not provide data.
________________

But crime stats from Mayberry show crime is down, so there's that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 17, 2024 06:50 PM (YqDXo)

55 In recent weeks the Biden administration and many news outlets, including USA Today and The Hill, have touted declines in violent crime statistics to argue that America is becoming a safer place.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Oh stop it!
*wipes tear*
You're killing me here!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2024 06:51 PM (W/lyH)

56 Incarceration is expensive, man. Cuts into the budget for social welfare.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:52 PM (EoJ7M)

57
RIP Dabney Coleman. He was 92.

Just watched a Columbo where he was the guest murderer, a crooked lawyer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 17, 2024 06:52 PM (w6EFb)

58 enable authorities to pinpoint high-crime areas
_______________

Yeah, that's pretty tough to do. Have you ever tried to find MLK Blvd. on a map?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 17, 2024 06:53 PM (YqDXo)

59 Alternately, implement programs that have the criminals back out on the streets before the cops finish the paperwork, cops stop bothering to arrest.

Posted by: junior at May 17, 2024 06:49 PM (sTBLq)
_______________

Prosecute cops for looking cross-eyed at a favored demographic and cops just roll through certain neighborhoods at high speed with their windows rolled up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 17, 2024 06:55 PM (YqDXo)

60 Whatever the Biden Administration and the DeepState Organs tell us, the opposite is true.

As in:

Inflation has gone waaaay down
I (Biden) support Israel
No crisis at the border
I (Biden) will shut-down the border if the House passes the bill
Ukraine will win
Global Warming will kill us unless we immediately do X, Y, and Z
I (Biden) love all black people

Posted by: Gref at May 17, 2024 06:55 PM (5fDan)

61 Gosh, do you really think the same people who lied to us about Covid and vaccine data and environmental data and economic data are also lying to us about crime data?!?

Posted by: Slow Learner at May 17, 2024 06:55 PM (1sjiP)

62 I missed the thread, but our Betters should absolutely know:

You never thought deer would go extinct, but they easily could if the WEF plans come to fruition.

Same as rabbits, squirrels, songbirds, etc,

Mass extinction events, and no one would care because they'd be feeding their families.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 06:56 PM (u3bSM)

63 That is exactly what has happened in Seattle. The local neighborhood blogs report all the break ins and shoplifting and porch pirates. Very little of this is reported to the SPD because, why? Even when they catch the perps RED HANDED, they are let go on the same day. I'm just waiting for people to start fighting back. I already have and will continue to do so.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 17, 2024 06:47 PM (YyqoW)

When the perps start disappearing, the others will quickly get the idea. Some issues in my little ville, but they didn't last long.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2024 06:56 PM (W/lyH)

64 RIP Dabney Coleman. He was 92.
......

Wow. He lived a long life.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 06:57 PM (v0R5T)

65 Another look at lark on toast?

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 06:57 PM (vFG9F)

66 Rendition, what is it good for? Absolutely everything.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:58 PM (EoJ7M)

67 Gosh, do you really think the same people who lied to us about Covid and vaccine data and environmental data and economic data are also lying to us about crime data?!?
Posted by: Slow Learner at May 17, 2024 06:55 PM (1sjiP)

You don't think they'd lie about the precious vote count though do you?

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 06:58 PM (lX8VI)

68 Prosecute cops for looking cross-eyed at a favored demographic and cops just roll through certain neighborhoods at high speed with their windows rolled up.
-

Aren't we already there?

No one would've done a thing if that golfer had been Tiger, would they? I assume they knew it was fine to jump on the car because the driver was white.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 06:58 PM (u3bSM)

69 Incarceration is expensive, man. Cuts into the budget for social welfare.
Posted by: Ben Had

Maybe we should hire El Salvador to run our prisons?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 17, 2024 06:58 PM (ub4bN)

70 I wonder if Dabney lived so long by eating bugs.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 06:58 PM (v0R5T)

71 Demonize the cops, people stop calling the cops for help.

--------

Alternately, implement programs that have the criminals back out on the streets before the cops finish the paperwork, cops stop bothering to arrest.
Posted by: junior at May 17, 2024 06:49 PM (sTBLq)

I don't think any of this is unintentional. There's nobody anywhere arguing that crime can be reduced by having fewer arrests, fewer convictions.

Cops aren't being trained to engage in de-escalations, to avoid crimes in the first place, to offer diversion options, to keep prison out of the mix for "petty" crimes.

The worst KKK loving fiend couldn't do more harm to "the inner cities" than Democrat politicians are doing.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2024 06:59 PM (dGCAG)

72 I will reiterate: If you live in a medium or large city or in the immediate suburbs of those cities, get out if you can.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 06:59 PM (2QA3G)

73 Red wing blackbirds, Robin's and meadowlark all edible.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:59 PM (EoJ7M)

74 Hey Vern! Crime is down.

Posted by: The other James Varney at May 17, 2024 07:00 PM (63Dwl)

75 The Eff Bee Eye needs to be cleaned out, 2 - 0 vs Republican Presidents, now they are the Gestapo lite

Posted by: Skip at May 17, 2024 07:00 PM (fwDg9)

76 America is becoming a safer place
.......

except for the bugs, they are what's for dinner!

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:00 PM (v0R5T)

77 I personally know an old man who remembers eating robins because his family was dirt poor

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 07:00 PM (u3bSM)

78 I don't think any of this is unintentional. There's nobody anywhere arguing that crime can be reduced by having fewer arrests, fewer convictions.
__________________

Criminals are a key Democrat constituency.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 17, 2024 07:00 PM (YqDXo)

79 Don't ask questions.
Eat bugs.
Cut balls off. (They say it for sex change, it'll make you more domesticated like an old fat cat.)
Experiment with millions of children.
Wars for the fuck.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 17, 2024 07:01 PM (J8LnB)

80 They finally got Dabney?

You bastards!

Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2024 07:01 PM (dGCAG)

81 Red wing blackbirds, Robin's and meadowlark all edible.
Posted by: Ben Had

Audubon said grackles tasted fine.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 17, 2024 07:01 PM (ub4bN)

82 Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

Posted by: zombie Euell Gibbons at May 17, 2024 07:02 PM (v0R5T)

83 The worst KKK loving fiend couldn't do more harm to "the inner cities" than Democrat politicians are doing.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 17, 2024 06:59 PM (dGCAG)

What if I told you..........

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 07:02 PM (lX8VI)

84 Places like Chicago where dozens of people are shot every week never run out of victims. I would have thought that would be impossible.

Posted by: Math Averse at May 17, 2024 07:02 PM (V5BDR)

85 *sends a hug right back to Ben Had!*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 17, 2024 07:02 PM (tQtDb)

86 AZ deplorable, that is an excellent idea.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:02 PM (EoJ7M)

87 Lark pie

Pluck, singe, and flatten the backs of two or three dozen larks, draw them, throw away the gizzards, and pound the trail [the intestines] in a mortar with scraped bacon and mixed herbs; fill the larks with this, and wrap each one in a slice of bacon. Line a plain mould with paste, fill it with the larks, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, spread a thick layer of butter over them, add two or three laurel leaves, and a pinch of mixed spice; cover with paste, and bake for two hours and a half. Turn out of the mould, and serve cold.

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:03 PM (vFG9F)

88 I personally know an old man who remembers eating robins because his family was dirt poor
Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 07:00 PM (u3bSM)

Grandpa Aspirin Factory did not wish to eat ground hog anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:03 PM (2QA3G)

89 Bugs lives matter too!

Posted by: A dude in MI at May 17, 2024 07:04 PM (/6GbT)

90 >RIP Dabney Coleman. He was 92.

SNL back in the day, Coleman was the guest host. He played a Boy Scout leader in a sketch, leader and scouts out camping.

"Tell us a scary story, Mr Colman."

"I'll tell you about the scariest thing ever. The Wife! Horrible!! But she didn't start out like that. At first she was The Girlfriend. Beautiful, loving, caring, she would do anything for you. But then one day, after a special ritual, she... Changed."

Posted by: davidt at May 17, 2024 07:04 PM (SYTee)

91 Or Godzilla eating Bugs? I THINK NOT!

He does bite the tail stinger off of one.
While dodging black hole gun fire.

Because what's the second thing you do with a black hole gun. Put it on a satellite and shoot at Godzilla of course.

Posted by: DaveA at May 17, 2024 07:04 PM (FhXTo)

92 Even when the sing a song, they lie.
Rock the free World.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 17, 2024 07:04 PM (J8LnB)

93 AZ deplorable, I have never had grackel. The others I have eaten.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:04 PM (EoJ7M)

94 Gophers are probably edible if I could just catch the damn things.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:05 PM (v0R5T)

95 Harvesting any songbird is a federal crime, of course. Even possession of a feather I assume.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 07:05 PM (u3bSM)

96 Gophers are probably edible if I could just catch the damn things.
Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:05 PM (v0R5T)

Choot 'em.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:05 PM (2QA3G)

97 Just screw up your tax returns and see how quick they get "right" numbers.

Posted by: DaveA at May 17, 2024 07:06 PM (FhXTo)

98 Attorney General Andrew Bailey @AGAndrewBailey May 16
BREAKING: My office is demanding accountability after
@KansasCity doxxed @buttkicker7 last night for daring to express his religious beliefs.

I will enforce the Missouri Human Rights Act to ensure Missourians are not targeted for their free exercise of religion.

Stay tuned.

DC_Draino @DC_Draino May 16
Yesterday the official Kansas City X account published the area where Harrison Butker lives

They wanted people to show up to his house to intimidate and possibly assault him

Today the Missouri Attorney General announced they will be investigating the person that did this

FAFO!

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 17, 2024 07:06 PM (ZdexC)

99 Because what's the second thing you do with a black hole gun. Put it on a satellite and shoot at Godzilla of course.
Posted by: DaveA at May 17, 2024 07:04 PM (FhXTo)

What is the first thing you do with a black hole gun?

Posted by: A dude in MI at May 17, 2024 07:06 PM (Y2JiK)

100 Robin's stewed and served with polenta. Better than shrimp and grits.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:06 PM (EoJ7M)

101 *sends a hug right back to Ben Had!*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 17, 2024 07:02 PM (tQtDb)
......

why on earth did I read that as "bug"?

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:07 PM (v0R5T)

102 People will eat most anything rather than go hungry. And I mean most anything that walks, crawls, creeps, swims, flys, or just lays there.

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:07 PM (vFG9F)

103 Or Godzilla?
Posted by: eleven at May 17, 2024 06:41 PM (fV+MH)

Hey! Leave me outta this.

I got enough to do with these Japs who scream bug eyed as I look in on them.

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them...

Posted by: Godzilla, Jap Eater and Egg Fertilizer at May 17, 2024 07:07 PM (R/m4+)

104 Interesting that homicides shot up right after the vaccine rollout.

Posted by: Max Power at May 17, 2024 07:07 PM (Hucnr)

105 People will eat most anything rather than go hungry. And I mean most anything that walks, crawls, creeps, swims, flys, or just lays there.

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:07 PM

Walk through the open air market in Hong Kong and you will get an education on what people will eat.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 17, 2024 07:08 PM (QNSds)

106
Dabney could play the sleazeball weasel type very well. I didn't know this, but in his old age, he played in Yellowstone, and had morphed very well into the old wizened Wild West look.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 17, 2024 07:08 PM (w6EFb)

107 Yesterday the official Kansas City X account published the area where Harrison Butker lives
They wanted people to show up to his house to intimidate and possibly assault him
Today the Missouri Attorney General announced they will be investigating the person that did this
FAFO!
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 17, 2024 07:06 PM (ZdexC)

Wow! This is how you do it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 17, 2024 07:08 PM (R/m4+)

108 97, just what I was thinkin'

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 17, 2024 07:08 PM (tQtDb)

109 What is the first thing you do with a black hole gun?

Test fire it at an abandoned institute and let the infant stage of the giant flying wasp thru from pre-historic times.

All 3 firings are NOT away from Earth which would've been my first targeting concern.

Posted by: DaveA at May 17, 2024 07:09 PM (FhXTo)

110 History shows again and again
How Nature points up the folly of Man
Godzilla!

Posted by: John Drake Nearing the Caspian Sea at May 17, 2024 07:09 PM (u/Zei)

111 Trump set a date for the South Bronx Rally.

Next Thursday, 5/23 at 6:00pm. Crotona Park.

Scary neighborhood.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 17, 2024 07:09 PM (3ImbR)

112 The other distortion is race based crime statistics.

Seems Juan Geraldo Lopez and Jesus Miguel Rodriguez turn out to be white in a number of reporting jurisdictions.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2024 07:10 PM (eEFMX)

113 Yes, and I'm sure the blue states which have chosen a deadly decarceration agenda -- setting the criminals free to brutalize the law-abiding -- will get right on correcting their incomplete data.

==

Terrible that 70-80 million Jews voted for this. Just terrible.

Posted by: runner at May 17, 2024 07:11 PM (V13WU)

114 They shot 21 Colombian ground squirrels at our church the last couple of days. Sautéed or roasted I'm thinking.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 17, 2024 07:11 PM (2NHgQ)

115 Evenin', everyone. I had to be downtown in KCMO this week as I have my first full-time job in over 20 years. I lived downtown in my younger days, and once walked from the Greyhound station to the River Market area by myself as a woman in my 20s. Holy crap I would not do that now. I have to walk four blocks to the parking garage from work and I'll be taking the same route every single time to avoid the homeless sleeping on the sidewalk and the colorful characters at the bus stop, I'll be believing my eyes, thank you.

Posted by: Catherine at May 17, 2024 07:11 PM (ZSsrh)

116 IrishEi, I look forward to seeing the attendance numbers.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:11 PM (EoJ7M)

117 I mostly remember Dabney Coleman from 9 to 5, a movie I watched approximately 1,284 times as a small child in the early 1980s.

Posted by: It Holds Up at May 17, 2024 07:11 PM (Nl9o+)

118 neverenoughcaffeine, pan fried so you can make gravy.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:13 PM (EoJ7M)

119 Amazing that my dad loved 9 to 5 but hated Hanoi Jane more than his worst enemy.

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 07:13 PM (lX8VI)

120 The other distortion is race based crime statistics.
Seems Juan Geraldo Lopez and Jesus Miguel Rodriguez turn out to be white in a number of reporting jurisdictions.
Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2024 07:10 PM (eEFMX)

Yup...like South Africa under apartheid, the US has race classifications for this and race classifications for that, depending on the need.

Wonder how many Octoroons were murdered last year...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 17, 2024 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

121 I'm one of the few people in our bunch that still hunts squirrels and rabbits. Almost everyone seems to have moved towards trophies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 07:14 PM (u3bSM)

122 Out- bird feeders
In- squirrel feeders

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:15 PM (EoJ7M)

123 Spent all day without the TV, internet, e-mail and texting until five minutes ago . On the one hand I enjoyed reading but on the other hand I felt lost that I didn't know what was happening in the world.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2024 07:15 PM (eEFMX)

124 Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton 8h
Ahmed Alid, a Moroccan "asylum seeker" (where it is so safe 610,000 Brits go on holiday every year), murdered 70-year-old Terence Carney [andy: in England] in a "revenge" attack over Israel.

Importing 100,000s of men with ethnic and religious grievances over foreign wars can only be disastrous.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 17, 2024 07:15 PM (ZdexC)

125 I always enjoyed small game hunting. Just a nice time to be outside.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:16 PM (2QA3G)

126 Believe nothing you hear and quarter of what you see.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 06:41 PM (EoJ7M)

When I was a yute, we used to hang out in front of a candy store. A woman and her 7ish yr old son walked up and he said "Mom can I have a quarter ?"

She said "a QUARTER ? Do ya think I f**k for a living ?"

Posted by: JT at May 17, 2024 07:16 PM (T4tVD)

127 Why hunt squirrel ? Not to eat it ?!

Posted by: runner at May 17, 2024 07:16 PM (V13WU)

128 Crank you say -? Who's been holding out on me??

Posted by: Hunter! at May 17, 2024 07:16 PM (gKWVE)

129 polynikes, sounded like a perfect painting opportunity.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:17 PM (EoJ7M)

130 IrishEi, I look forward to seeing the attendance numbers.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:11 PM (EoJ7M)
~~~~~

It's not a huge park--maybe 6 city blocks square--but it does have an amphitheater. It won't be like Wildwood last week, but 20-30,000 people wouldn't surprise me.

Posted by: IrishEi at May 17, 2024 07:17 PM (3ImbR)

131 Amazing that my dad loved 9 to 5 but hated Hanoi Jane more than his worst enemy.
Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 07:13 PM (lX8VI)
.......

Did he ever see Barbarella?

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:17 PM (v0R5T)

132 runner. Absolutely yes to eat.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:18 PM (EoJ7M)

133 When I was a yute, we used to hang out in front of a candy store. A woman and her 7ish yr old son walked up and he said "Mom can I have a quarter ?"

She said "a QUARTER ? Do ya think I f**k for a living ?"
Posted by: JT at May 17, 2024 07:16 PM (T4tVD)

Mom of the Year candidate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:18 PM (2QA3G)

134 Hello! We have had an exciting afternoon. Huge lightening storm and we saw the transformer explode with 3 big bangs and blue arcs. They got us up and running again in about an hour!

Posted by: Piper at May 17, 2024 07:18 PM (QzINz)

135 Duncan Dee @duncandee 8h
‼️‼️‼️from @IvisonJ : "China’s alleged links to Canadian anti-Israel protests fit a subversive pattern"

"The National Contagion Research Institute, an independent body that identifies cyber threats to civil society, says that a number of left-wing organizations that have united under the Shut It Down for Palestine (SID4P) banner are linked to Beijing through Communist Party associates, Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans."

"The New York Times identified Singham, a U.S. tech multi-millionaire who sold his software business and now lives in Shanghai, as controlling a financial network that uses North American non-profit organizations to push Chinese talking points worldwide. (Singham has responded by saying he does not work for, nor take instruction from, Beijing)."

nationalpost.com/opinion/chi…

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 17, 2024 07:19 PM (ZdexC)

136 Dabney Coleman was in the tear jerker Where the Red Fern Grows.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2024 07:19 PM (eEFMX)

137 People will eat most anything rather than go hungry. And I mean most anything that walks, crawls, creeps, swims, flys, or just lays there.
Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:07 PM (vFG9F)
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** Donner Party has entered the chat... **

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024 07:19 PM (BpYfr)

138 in England] in a "revenge" attack over Israel.

-

How does that work exactly? Didn't the Palis attack Isreal first?

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 07:19 PM (u3bSM)

139 Soviet government statistics were also uniformly false.

Like our employment and inflation statistics. ALL LIES.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (RIvkX)

140 Amazing that my dad loved 9 to 5 but hated Hanoi Jane more than his worst enemy.
Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 07:13 PM (lX8VI)
.......

Did he ever see Barbarella?
Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:17 PM (v0R5T)

---------------

Barbarella was during her marriage to Roger Vadim. Once she hooked up with Hayden he unleashed her inner communist.

Posted by: Decaf at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (unUNN)

141 Colombian ground squirrels? They're the richest kind!

Posted by: Mrs Olson at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (SYTee)

142 In the case of Colombian ground squirrels you hunt the little bastards because they're destructive. Been tearing up the cemetery for years. It's my goal in life to poison, gas, shoot, trap and annihilate the little bastards.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (2NHgQ)

143 Hello! We have had an exciting afternoon. Huge lightening storm and we saw the transformer explode with 3 big bangs and blue arcs. They got us up and running again in about an hour!
Posted by: Piper at May 17, 2024 07:18 PM (QzINz)
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Hmmm. Can you incorporate that into your normal training regimen? Would make your exercise programs that much more enjoyable...or heart-stopping.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (BpYfr)

144 Dabney Coleman was in the tear jerker Where the Red Fern Grows.
Posted by: polynikes

Loved him as Tom Hanks' father in "You've Got Mail"

Posted by: Tuna at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (oaGWv)

145 Out- bird feeders
In- squirrel feeders
Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:15 PM (EoJ7M)
.......

Yeah, I didn't think I'd be spending so much money on squirrel food.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (v0R5T)

146 Amazing that my dad loved 9 to 5 but hated Hanoi Jane more than his worst enemy.
Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 07:13 PM (lX8VI)
.......

Family member was a POW for many years. We all hated Hanoi Jane.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2024 07:21 PM (W/lyH)

147 141, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 17, 2024 07:21 PM (tQtDb)

148 Squirrels are rodents , you are not supposed to eat them.

Posted by: runner at May 17, 2024 07:21 PM (V13WU)

149 When I was a yute, we used to hang out in front of a candy store. A woman and her 7ish yr old son walked up and he said "Mom can I have a quarter ?"

She said "a QUARTER ? Do ya think I f**k for a living ?"
Posted by: JT at May 17, 2024 07:16 PM (T4tVD)

Mom of the Year candidate.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:18 PM (2QA3G)
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Probably a good thing he didn't ask for $20.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024 07:22 PM (BpYfr)

150 I was a crime victim this week.

My correctly addressed package of gifts was stolen in the UPS warehouse and sent to another town, never to be seen by me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 17, 2024 07:22 PM (u82oZ)

151 In the case of Colombian ground squirrels you hunt the little bastards because they're destructive. Been tearing up the cemetery for years. It's my goal in life to poison, gas, shoot, trap and annihilate the little bastards.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 17, 2024 07:20 PM (2NHgQ)

Do you wear a fishing hat and work at a golf course?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:22 PM (2QA3G)

152 Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt 18h
Wow! I have never seen a Democrat call out Antifa before, let alone acknowledge their existence as a group.

Thank you, Rep. Leavitt!

mari leavitt @RepLeavitt 19h
Antifa and their supporters have lost their damn minds. I'm calling on UW to hold these folks accountable and remove them from campus. These aren't students - they are antagonists with no ideology beyond creating chaos. Students and the public have a right to be safe. @uw

Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt May 16
#BREAKING: Antifa militants armed with weapons harass and assault press at @UW Gaza camp.

They shined green lasers in his eyes which can cause permanent blindness.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 17, 2024 07:23 PM (ZdexC)

153 polynikes, sounded like a perfect painting opportunity.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:17 PM (EoJ7M)

Hah. It was for a few hours. Luckily I was one of the fortunate who still had electricity. My house is phone charger central for my neighbors right now.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2024 07:23 PM (eEFMX)

154 Runner, cut the head and feet off and they look just like a small rabbit.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:23 PM (EoJ7M)

155 She said "a QUARTER ? Do ya think I f**k for a living ?"
Posted by: JT at May 17, 2024 07:16 PM (T4tVD)

Mom of the Year candidate.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:18 PM (2QA3G)
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Probably a good thing he didn't ask for $20.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024 07:22 PM (BpYfr)
***

2 bits.
Same as in town.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2024 07:23 PM (W/lyH)

156
Did he ever see Barbarella?"

This may be a rumor but I heard that Sydney Sweeny is starring in a remake called "boobarella"

Posted by: Outside of Life at May 17, 2024 07:24 PM (89Sog)

157 Squirrels are rodents , you are not supposed to eat them.
Posted by: runner

Nobody informed my grandparents of this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:25 PM (2QA3G)

158 The demographic in question kept voting for George Wallace because he had a d after his name.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at May 17, 2024 07:25 PM (xTinh)

159 So antifa is on the "throw gay people off of buildings and oppress women" side this election.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 07:25 PM (u3bSM)

160 Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt 18h
Wow! I have never seen a Democrat call out Antifa before, let alone acknowledge their existence as a group.

Thank you, Rep. Leavitt!
***

Must be an election coming.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2024 07:26 PM (W/lyH)

161 You get over the guttin and skinning part pretty fast.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 17, 2024 07:27 PM (EoJ7M)

162 Crime lies, economic lies, quality of life lies, political lies, educational lies, nutritional lies, financial lies, legal lies, product quality lies, ...

And those are just the actual lies. Even worse are the half lies, and the facts never disclosed.

Lies to the left, lies to right, and down the valley of life and sorrows we charge.

Posted by: mrp at May 17, 2024 07:27 PM (rj6Yv)

163 This may be a rumor but I heard that Sydney Sweeny is starring in a remake called "boobarella"

Posted by: Outside of Life

We're gonna need a bigger plastic bra.

Posted by: Makers of Boobarella at May 17, 2024 07:27 PM (v0R5T)

164 >>> 105 People will eat most anything rather than go hungry. And I mean most anything that walks, crawls, creeps, swims, flys, or just lays there.

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:07 PM

Walk through the open air market in Hong Kong and you will get an education on what people will eat.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 17, 2024 07:08 PM (QNSds)

My understanding is that the rest of CHYna side-eyes the Cantonese due to their... highly varied diet.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 17, 2024 07:27 PM (llON8)

165

Just saw this. New study shows those with "gender affirming surgery" have a 12x higher risk of suicide than those who don't.

The "live daughter or dead son" bullshit was a total lie and just the opposite of the truth.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 17, 2024 07:27 PM (w6EFb)

166 Jim Varney?

Know what I mean, Vern?

(Probably not the first time this joke has been made on this thread, but it’s the first thing that popped into my head upon seeing the headline. Apologies.)

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 17, 2024 07:28 PM (v6JzV)

167 summoning.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at May 17, 2024 07:28 PM (EF8U3)

168 Hunter say 'What?"

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts May 15
🚨#BREAKING: Capitol Police are investigating after a bag with cocaine with residue was found on the floor inside United States Capitol Police headquarters
📌#Washington | #DC
Currently Capitol Police are investigating a roughly one-inch by one-inch ziplock bag containing a small amount of a white powdery substance, which has tested positive for cocaine. The bag was discovered on the floor of a hallway inside the USCP headquarters, specifically on the second floor, an area designated as a staging spot for furniture and supplies. Officials note that this area is heavily trafficked by various contractors and employees, and the baggie was found in the middle of the floor USCP Investigations Division has opened an investigation which will include further testing including DNA testing of the baggie.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 17, 2024 07:28 PM (ZdexC)

169 Nobody informed my grandparents of this.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 17, 2024 07:25 PM (2QA3G)

yeah, too bad

Posted by: runner at May 17, 2024 07:28 PM (V13WU)

170 A quote from "The Curiosities Of Food":

"It appears evident to me that the common idea of the food of an animal determining the quality of its meat, is quite erroneous. Domestic poultry and pigs are the most unclean animals in their food, yet their flesh is most highly esteemed, while rats and squirrels, which eat only vegetable food, are in general disrepute."

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

171 I think it's Charlie Kirk who pointed out

Gender dysphoria is real. What they believe is not real.

That's really well done.

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at May 17, 2024 07:29 PM (u3bSM)

172 mrp

The Soviet Union had similar problems with lies at every level before it fell apart.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 17, 2024 07:29 PM (u82oZ)

173 Varney used to work for New Orleans Times Picayune ... I guess he is free lance now? Wonder if he is still in NOLA.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 17, 2024 07:30 PM (Cus5s)

174 143 Hmmm. Can you incorporate that into your normal training regimen? Would make your exercise programs that much more enjoyable...or heart-stopping.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024

Ha! I think I might just stick with my colored lights instead. We have specific colors we are supposed to use for each class per the franchise rule and regulations. The weight one is red, I call it Pure Hell (tm). Each of our class formats are called Pure (whatever the class is).

On topic, there was a weirdo just wondering around right as you turn into the section where I live, which is bizarre because we are a tiny town in the Deep South. Wonder how he fared in the storm that just came though.

Posted by: Piper at May 17, 2024 07:30 PM (QzINz)

175 "It appears evident to me that the common idea of the food of an animal determining the quality of its meat, is quite erroneous. Domestic poultry and pigs are the most unclean animals in their food, yet their flesh is most highly esteemed, while rats and squirrels, which eat only vegetable food, are in general disrepute."
Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:28 PM (vFG9F)
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So it's the pig slop that gives bacon its delicious flavor?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2024 07:31 PM (BpYfr)

176 Cafe is upstairs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 17, 2024 07:31 PM (u82oZ)

177 >>> 123 Spent all day without the TV, internet, e-mail and texting until five minutes ago . On the one hand I enjoyed reading but on the other hand I felt lost that I didn't know what was happening in the world.
Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2024 07:15 PM (eEFMX)

I have been thinking about taking a few weeks off the intertubes, just because.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 17, 2024 07:31 PM (llON8)

178 Peking Duck ! Delicious...

Posted by: runner at May 17, 2024 07:31 PM (V13WU)

179 "So it's the pig slop that gives bacon its delicious flavor?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel'

Nobody wants to know how the sausage is made.

Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:32 PM (vFG9F)

180 I'll never eat bugs!

Posted by: Say people who eat crawdads, shrimp, crabs, snails, and lobster at May 17, 2024 07:32 PM (Nl9o+)

181 "In Baltimore, the Police Department and various news reports put the total for 2022 homicides between 332 and 336, but the FBI's dataset puts the number at 272."

60 of them were murdered WITH Covid, so FBI counted them as Covid deaths.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 17, 2024 07:32 PM (Cus5s)

182 >>> 172 mrp

The Soviet Union had similar problems with lies at every level before it fell apart.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 17, 2024 07:29 PM (u82oZ)

That's only because they weren't doing Real Communism (tm).

Also, we totally didn't steal 202, let alone 2022, and both were totes fortified *tee hee* and turning off the smoke detector means the house can't catch on fire.

Aren't we SMAHHHHHRRRRT???

Posted by: leftists at May 17, 2024 07:33 PM (llON8)

183 164 My understanding is that the rest of CHYna side-eyes the Cantonese due to their... highly varied diet.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 17,

The racism among the Asians is something to behold, and I mean against each other. The Vietnamese will tell you in all seriousness the Chinese eat human babies.

Posted by: Piper at May 17, 2024 07:34 PM (QzINz)

184 A quote from "The Curiosities Of Food":

"It appears evident to me that the common idea of the food of an animal determining the quality of its meat, is quite erroneous. Domestic poultry and pigs are the most unclean animals in their food, yet their flesh is most highly esteemed, while rats and squirrels, which eat only vegetable food, are in general disrepute."
Posted by: fd at May 17, 2024 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

Rats and squirrels would gladly eat anything pigs and chickens eat. Hell, they'd gladly eat raw swine and poultry, except taking down Porky Pig and Foghorn Leghorn is a bit out of their weight class.

Posted by: mrp at May 17, 2024 07:36 PM (rj6Yv)

185 Did he ever see Barbarella?
Posted by: wth at May 17, 2024 07:17 PM (v0R5T)

Probably!

Posted by: ... at May 17, 2024 07:37 PM (lX8VI)

186 When the FBI tells you they broke up a pedo ring....sure, go ahead and believe a bunch of pedos.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at May 17, 2024 10:32 PM (FRT/w)

187 I pay a visit eаch day a few web sites and websites to read content, h᧐wever this website
gives feature based articles.

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