Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 8, 2026 [Doof]

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Sunday night ONT is here! Did you enjoy your extra hour of daylight? Or are you in one of those non-conformist areas that stays on standard time all year? Didn't President Trump say he was going to do away with the bi-annual clock changes? Or is is semi-annual? Doesn't bi-annual mean twice a year OR every other year? I'm so confused! Anyway - what are your thoughts on Daylight Savings Time? Keep doing it? Stay on Daylight Time perpetually? Stay on Standard Time perpetually? Why do I ask so many questions? Do you hear me? Do you care?

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Gun Thread: March 2/5 Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Second March Edition? Seems like only last week it was the First March Edition!

I am out of town which means two things; a) this will be a lower than usual effort on my part, and 2) I probably won't be around much in the comments tonight. Please be nice to each other!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Quiet, Young Dog!

Plain old Hush Puppies! I used to eat them... a lot...at a good southern-influenced restaurant in NYC, and of course I order them whenever I see them on the menu in the real South!

But making them? Yup, it's easy, but I can't remember the last time I tried.

Well...tonight that changes!

But I think I will make an interesting dipping sauce, just to be difficult. Maybe Tahini-based, or even Chipotle-honey!

Or butter. Plain old butter!

Am I overthinking this?

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First World Problems...

Interesting issue...did the grease gun shrink with disuse, or has the industry standard canister gotten bigger?

Either way, my best course of action is to raze the garage, and rebuild it with an integrated grease delivery system.

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Tucker Carlson: Lord Haw Haw With A Bow Tie

Listening to Tucker Carlson's increasingly unhinged blather about America's absolutely justified war against the Islamic Republic occupying Iran is reminiscent of Tokyo Rose or Lord Haw Haw during the Second World War.

Tucker is spouting unbelievable nonsense that directly contradicts empirical evidence, yet he continues to be platformed by social media and the compliant dinosaur media because his message is in part rabid criticism of Donald Trump and American Hegemony.

And what's the other part? Well, foaming-at-the-mouth Jew-hate, in the guise of blaming the Israeli government for manipulating Donald Trump into going to war against Iran, suggesting disloyalty on the part of American Jewry, and further claiming that there is no Iranian intransigence...that it is entirely caused by American and Israeli aggression.

The supposed plot to kill President Trump and other officials? DISINFORMATION!

Tucker Carlson sarcastically floats nuking Iran if they actually try killing Trump in fiery clash with Ted Cruz over Israel conflict

Except...

Pakistani man found guilty in Iran-backed plot to kill US politicians

A Pakistani man with ties to Iran has been found guilty of plotting to assassinate US politicians and officials.

Asif Merchant, 47, hired a hitman in New York to kill prominent American officials and targeted US President Donald Trump in 2024.

And here's the NYT link.

Oops!

Tucker Carlson is nothing more than a paid propagandist, trying to undermine his own country at the behest of his masters in Tehran and Qatar. Although he seems to be working for the Mullahs for free, because they are otherwise engaged and probably don't have the cash to pay him anyway. I guess it's just a labor of love for him.

At least Lord Haw Haw had the decency to leave Great Britain and go to Germany during World War II. Tucker insists upon enjoying the advantages of being an American citizen in America while simultaneously working to injure the country and strengthen its existential enemies in Iran and elsewhere. He is also viciously critical of "Christian Zionists," whom he claims are deluded, and have misinterpreted the Gospels. And we all know what an amazing scholar of the Bible Tucker is, so I guess we should take him seriously.

Curiously unmentioned in his rants are the facts of 47 years of Iranian warfare against America and the West. Also unmentioned are the many thousands of innocents murdered by Iranian proxies in the Middle East and in other parts of the world, and that is right out of the Goebbels Handbook!

Optimistically, Tucker Carlson's influence is going to wane, as his obvious partisanship and even more obvious stupidity begins to eclipse his measured and calm demeanor.

My personal theory: Tucker Carlson is dumber than a rock, but for many years at media outlets with writers and editors and producers and executives controlling his stupidity and hatred, his idiocy was hidden.

Now, without that advantage, the true Tucker Carlson emerges, and wow...he is a f*cking idiot!

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 3-8-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (test results not guaranteed). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, especially if you are wearing these pants...(HT: Piper, who wore these to the TXMOME last year.)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, set your clocks forward an hour or three, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 8 March 2026

Top Story

• Look to the skies: For the first time a spacecraft has diverted the orbit of an asteroid. (Science News)
  
  Two asteroids, in fact, the pair Dimorphos, which was the direct target, and Didymos, around which it orbits.
  
  The deliberate impact not only shortened the orbital period of Dimorphos by half an hour from its original twelve, but slowed the orbit of the pair around the Sun by... 10 micrometers per second.
  
  The experiment was four years ago; it took a while for the difference to add up to enough to detect.
  
  
  
• Don't bother looking to the skies: Astronomers have found a galaxy that is estimated to be made of 99.9% dark matter. (CNN)
  
  If it's dark, you ask, how did they find it?
  
  With extreme difficulty. With extreme difficulty and three telescopes.

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Saturday Night Club ONT - March 7, 2026 [2 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

CSA (Club Service Announcement) - Daylight Savings Time will cause us to lose one hour of Club time tonight. Adjust your partying timeline accordingly!

[Top photo: Ocean Beach Brewery, courtesy of San Diego Magazine]

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 3/7/2026

The Oscars

A couple of years ago, I went through all of the Best Picture winners and wrote about the whole experience over the course of about a year. I've been revisiting the whole exercise recently with an eye towards this year's ceremony, and I think I've come away with new thoughts.

Firstly, I think One Battle After Another will win the big award. Why? Well, I still haven't seen it (that'll change if it wins, it's on HBO Max), but it won the Golden Globe, the PGA, and the DGA awards. It's historically unusual for a movie to win that much (the different organizations have a lot of overlapping voters) and lose. I don't really care. I've only seen Frankenstein, F1, Train Dreams, and Sinners from the list of nominees (I'd vote for Frankenstein out of the three I've seen).

However, the point of this is to wonder...why the hell should anyone care?

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Hobby Thread - March 7, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) a spin and it landed on paper cutting.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 7

Courtesy Terry Glenn

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, March 7

Happy first Saturday in March! Don't forget to Spring Forward!

Sometimes the professionals do a good job with landscaping. What can we learn?

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These Mullahs are serious!

NO! Now is not the time for resignation!

Yesterday, Ace mentioned reports of visits to the UK for certain medical procedures by the apparent favorite of the Mullahs to be the new Supreme Leader of Iran.

He is said to be an avid gardener when not planning the massacre of protesters or celebrating terrorism. Harmless, yet "ten times as dangerous as his father", as some have called him.

I, myself, am kind of wondering why the UK would not be just a little bit uneasy about this guy owning SEVERAL luxury properties in London. And why Spain would have been happy about his recently deceased father owning property there.

Tim Orr studied Islam in London. He wrote a piece that was published in Substack and elsewhere: The Iranian Revolution and the Failure of the Secularization Thesis

History occasionally produces events that overturn the intellectual frameworks used to interpret the modern world. The French Revolution did this in 1789 by demonstrating the political power of mass mobilization, and the Russian Revolution did it again in 1917 by introducing an ideological state built on Marxism. Yet the Iranian Revolution of 1979 posed a challenge even more unsettling to modern assumptions. It had become a modernizing state that many believed was steadily moving toward secular development, given Peter Burger’s at that time on the secularization thesis, which he later rejected. It argued that as societies modernize, religion gradually loses social, political, and cultural influence.

Yet, suddenly, Iran produced a theocratic government led by clerics. For many scholars and policymakers, the outcome seemed almost inconceivable beforehand, given its shift to a more secularized government. The shock was not simply political; it was intellectual as well. The Iranian Revolution revealed a blind spot in modern political theory: the enduring political power of religion.

Prior to the revolution of 1979, most academic work, led by Burger, which was built upon the work of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, assumed that modernization caused religion to retreat from politics as secular regimes rose to power. Industrialization, urbanization, and advances in education pushed religion away from the public sphere and toward private life. Indeed, Iran appeared to be heading in this direction under the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah, whose regime was committed to economic modernization and an alliance with the West. . .

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Correction on Number 3. Go fishing. The book can be read later.]

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Grantsburg)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Be excellent, don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects? Sure, go ahead, ER doc needs to get braces on that love child.
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 7 March 2026

Top Story

• New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has killed the Exploration Upper Stage project for the SLS and will be open to bids for a replacement that might actually exist some day. (Ars Technica)
  
  Development of the Exploration Upper Stage has been in progress since 2016, with the initial launch date set for 2021. It's five years behind schedule and with $3.5 billion spent so far - nearly ten times the initial estimate - is no close to reality.
  
  The lead contractor for the project was Boeing, for what it's worth.

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In The Kingdom Of The Blind, The One-Eyed ONT Is King

Hello everyone! Welcome to Friday. What kind of a day are y'all having?

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Friday Cafe

Griffith Observatory, LA
Brandon Yoshizawa

Jumping into Friday like...

Some cats just want to watch the world burn.

2026 explaining to 2004 why Iranians are dancing to YMCA.

Golden retrievers help mom raise the baby.

Netflix crime "documentaries" are fake and gay and follow a rote script.

Speaking of fake and gay: Fake Star Trek writers aren't sending their best.

Border collie is now in middle-level management.

Monument Valley.

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The Week in Woke

Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes

Everyone needs to be aware of this

Journalist Avery Daye exposes the history of Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar

"Ilhan Omar -- I figured not enough people know about her family's history, so let's recap:

Her dad and her grandfather were both high-ranking military officials in the Barre regime, which killed over 200,000 people. They're most famous for the Isaaq genocide -- it was the worst of the worst: aerial bombings, executions, man-made famine.

People massively suffered under this regime, with the help of people like Ilhan Omar's family who supported the regime and carried out this, this horror.

-- They have family ties to this guy known as the Butcher of Hargeisa, and his whole shtick was "kill all but the crows.""

"So the suffering of the people of Somalia was so bad that there was a civil war and the regime was overthrown. Her family fled first to Kenya and then Minnesota, claiming they're like these asylum seekers.

These poor, poor people. No, no, no, no. They were fleeing to escape being held accountable for what they did. She was not oppressed. Her family, they were the oppressors."

"So for the Democratic Party to have her as a representative is insane to me -- and the way that they've like rebranded her as all this poor refugee? No, no. She wasn't a refugee of war. Her family created the war."

Video here.

The Retard with the Hero Worship Complex found a new hero to worship, retardedly:

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
@FmrRepMTG

Mar 5

Tucker would beat Trump if he ran for President and Trump tried to violate the constitution and tried to run again for a third term.

What a complicated, retarded way to say "Me like Tucker now, me no like Trump no more."

President DEI had a hissyfit.

In Canada, you have a higher chance of being killed by the Euthanasia Police than an American has of being killed by gunfire.

In 2009, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin created a sensation when she claimed that government-run healthcare would inevitably lead to the creation of bureaucratic boards responsible for deciding who should and shouldn't receive treatment.

It's from this charge that we got the term "death panel," which became a near constant reference during the congressional debate over the passage of the Affordable Care Act.

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Palin was called a loon and a crank.

Even today, a simple search on Microsoft's Copilot for the date when the former governor coined the term "death panel" carefully notes that her accusation quickly became a viral talking point despite "being widely debunked as a myth."

Fifteen years after Palin's remark, disability advocate Krista Carr testified before members of the Canadian parliament that her organization receives weekly reports of medical assistance in dying (MAID) services being suggested unprompted to disabled individuals during routine, non-terminal care visits.

Who could have predicted that government-controlled healthcare, combined with legalized euthanasia, would eventually lead to the sick and uncomfortable being told to kill themselves?

Where does Palin go for her apology?

Canada, whose lawmakers, celebrities, and influencers often boast about their "free" healthcare and stringent anti-gun laws, recorded an astonishing 16,499 MAID suicides, or legalized doctor-assisted suicides, in 2024, following 22,535 such requests that year.

In 2023, there were approximately 15,500 MAID suicides.

To put things into perspective, 2023's recorded figure gives us a per capita rate of 37 MAID suicides per 100,000 people. During the same year, the United States reported 17,927 firearm homicides, resulting in a per capita rate of five gun-related murders per 100,000 people.

In Spain: The Barcelona City Council has instructed its citizens that they may not dance nor play music during Ramadan, because it would offend the Muslims. They say that Spanish citizens must "adapt" to their Muslim neighbors' culture.

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Open Thread: It Took Three Years and Ton of Money, But Fireball Tools Turned Their Offices Into a Sci-Fi Starship Interior Out of Star Wars and Star Trek

So I'm putting up an open thread because it's been a busy week and I want to chillax.

I watched this over the weekend. It's pretty great. If you can't watch it today, come back to this post over the weekend and check it out.

There are nine parts and they're all worth the watch. Here's quick ten-minute recap of the whole project.

I don't know if I'd recommend that, though. If the subject interests you, I'd recommend just watching all nine parts so as not to spoil the final form of the remodel.

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War Powers Act Vote to Limit Iran Action Fails, Meaning This Is Now a Congressionally Approved War

Okay okay, that's kinda bullshit. But you will agree, this means that this is not a Congressionally disapproved war.

And because double negatives are effectively positives -- yes, Congress has voted affirmatively to not stop the war.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

The Senate rejected the war powers resolution to force the U.S. to cease operations in Iran in the middle of active combat. Only one Democrat, Sen. Fetterman, voted against the resolution despite some of these same senators supporting Obama in unilateral attacks on Libya...

...In the end, the Kaine resolution succeeded in having the opposite effect of voting against limiting the prosecution of the war. The Senate has now been consulted and voted against limits...

The Senate rejected the war powers resolution to force the U.S. to cease operations in Iran in the middle of active combat. Only one Democrat, Sen. Fetterman, voted against the resolution despite some of these same senators supporting Obama in unilateral attacks on Libya...

...In the end, the Kaine resolution succeeded in having the opposite effect of voting against limiting the prosecution of the war. The Senate has now been consulted and voted against limits...

...Notably, the resolution was more feckless given the exception for "imminent threats." With full combat operations on both sides, all threats are now imminent and all attacks responsive.

...What is interesting is that, ever after the Senate was notified, consulted, and voted, Democrats are still calling the war "illegal." The Senate just voted against limiting or blocking the use of force.

The Mullahs made semi-secret overtures through the CIA begging for an end to the war. Trump rejected these overtures.

He now says Iran has only one way out: Unconditional surrender.

President Donald Trump told NBC News that would be a "waste of time," adding on social media today that there would be no deal without Iran's "unconditional surrender."

In more Iran news: The leading candidate for Ayatollah is a limpdick.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the favorite to become the new Supreme Leader of Iran, was repeatedly treated for impotency at hospitals in the UK, according to a secret US intelligence document.

On Tuesday, Mojtaba, 56, was reportedly preparing to be named successor to his father Ali Khamenei, who was killed along with 48 other senior regime officials in America and Israel's ongoing Operation Epic Fury.

According to a classified briefing sent by the State Department to the US Embassy in London in 2008, and later released by WikiLeaks, Mojtaba was placed under pressure by his family to produce heirs.

It required four visits, including a final stay lasting two months, and he eventually had a son who was named 'Ali' after the baby's grandfather, the then Supreme Leader.

According to US intelligence, Mojtaba married relatively late in life in 2004. That was 'reportedly due to an impotency problem treated and eventually resolved during three extended visits to the UK.'

'Mojtaba was expected by his family to produce children quickly, but needed a fourth visit to the UK for medical treatment,' it said.

Not unexpected: Crown Prince Reza Pavlavi has announced that he will serve as a transitional leader while Iran constitutes a new government (and a whole new constitution).

The Conservative Party of Iran just declared itself and announced its principles. It's a pro-monarchy, secular conservative party. "Conservative" is not code here for "mullahs." It sounds like it wants to be what the UK Conservative Party should be, but is not.

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